(0)je uraitete tuM. JW." Volume XVII Ne. 89. LANCASTER, PA., rnJESDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1880 Price Twe Cnte. JOHX WAXAXAKEB'S STOJIE. THE HOLIDAYS AT JOHN WANAMAKER'S, CHESTNUT, THIRTEENTH AND MARKET STREETS, AND CITY HALL SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA. THE IIOLiDATS. . There is nowhere in Pliiladelnhiin varied a cuucciiuii ei ricu goeus us iicrc sucn as Jam cm, mothers, brothers, sitters levers, leek for a littic later. There is an end even of Gilts. Our collection is large- enough anil rich enough, one weulil snpneec, even f;r a less frugal city than Philadelphia. TIicfc poeds are are new at the height et theirglery. The choicest of tiieui are liens; ethers will come of course : hut the choicest are going. What is equally te the purpose, buyer aie new about as many us can he com'tertably (crvi'd, ami Hie throng will Imj denser every fulr day till Christmas. JOnX WAXAMAKEU. ri'OlLET PUItMSIIIXU. JL Sachets, tidie, lamp-shades. iiii-cuhieiis. boxes, in sat in ami luh, embroidered ami painted. JOHN WAXAMAKEU. First circle, southwest from the centre. T ACES. Li Duchesse v't with I'eiut medallions, $50 ; tlie Mime inav be seen elsewhere at $70. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Xitie counter, .southwest from tlie centre. .OCKt. J $1.3 35 te $130.00, all guaranteed. .)UH. IVA.VAJIAKhll. City-hall sq uare entrance. rpevs. X Xew room, new toys. JOHX WAXAJIAKKK. Outer circle, trance. west of the Cl'enlnut street en- IJOOK8. I J A catalogue et book may be had at the book counter. We want every reader te have it. The list of children's holiday books is cs itecially complete, JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Second counter, northeast from the centre. J A DIES' ULSTEUS. j Theitsaretwegencr.il styles, one closed at the back, the ether epen: the latter is known as coachman's style. I u detail el trimming there is great variety though there is also marked tdiiiplleity. Ureal variety in cloths tee. $5.50 te $25. Cloaks, foreign and home-made. Our collec tion is unprecedented, whether yen regard va riety, quantity or value. A lady who buys a cloak of any sort in Philadelphia without looking these ever misses the best assortment, perhups, in the whole country. $6.!0 te $-250. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Southeast corner of the building. ,.. , .... ... . ,..,. n- TISSES' COATh. ItA Misses' coats in mere than shapes and decoration beyond 70 cloths, counting. sizes a te in years. Ulstcrettes in 5 cloths, ulsters in 8 cloths and havelecks in cloths. Sizes C te lfi. JOHX WAXAMAKEi:. Southwest corner et the building. UXDEIiWEAU AXD HOSIER). Wc have the best goods the world affords, and the next best, and the next, and seen. There is no place anywhere, where you can t-ee se large a collection et t he dilfercnt grades et goods, all passing for what they are, ami nothing ter what it is net. cotton ler cotton. mixed for mixed, wool for wool, silk ter silk JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Outer circle. Chest nut st reef, cut ranee te Thirteenth street entrance. TVMIIUOIDEUIKS. .Ei Xew Embroideries are already in. Our sleck is new in tnc condition you expect te find it in at Xew Year's, , e. the spring novel ties are here. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Third circle, southwest from the centie. CARPETS. The elieiecut luxurious carpets; the iuet substantial earucts; the lowest prices: punc tual service. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Market street front, up stall's. s ILKS. Evening silks in the Arcade, cast side. Tlie same and many ether patterns are within. .IOIIK U'AVtUAkTII Next outer circle, southeast from the centre E 7MISROIDEUIES. s novelties in einbroi einbrei received; they usually clerics are just new come at Xew Year's. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Xexleuter circle. southwest from thecentre. LACES. Laces change daily. Our pales are large, our variety always large, ami but little of any one sort. Compare prices. A quarter below thc'imtrkct is net uncommon. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Nine counters, seuthwest from the centre. WUAPS, c. Such a stock of foreign cloaks as Phila delphia has net before seen, $10 te $350: shawls near by ; dresses up stairs. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Southeast corner et the building. I7UUS. ' Furs of all sorts arc going rast. They went last last year and ad vaucud in price as the sea son advanced. They ere going up again. We shall net raise prices till we have te" buy. Ex- Iiecl te 11ml here whatever you want, tram a jit el trimuiing up. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Thirteenth street entrance. C'lOATS AXD ULSTERS FOR CIIILDREX. i Xet se great variety as for ladies; but much larger than anywhere else here. Coats, 2 te 6 years: in thirty dinerciit mate rials, drab, blue and brown cords with fleecy black ; cellar and cuITj el plush ; also in ten camel's hair cloth, trimmed with seal-cloth. Coats, 4 te 16 years ; in thirty cloths, trim med with plain stitching, plush, seal cloth, chinchilla fur and velvet, $2 te $1G. Ulstcrettes, 0 te 10 years ; in flvc cloths, witli seal cloth cellar and culls. Ulsters, C te 10 years; in eight cloths, trim med with plush stitching, heed ami plush. Havelecks, 4 te 10 yearn : two styles, JOHX WAXAMAKEU. BOTS' CLOTIIIXU. Our trade is just what It ought te be for the faculties and advantages we enjoy. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. East of central aisle, near Market street. CHIXA AND ULASSWAUE. Tackloeng prcelain, plates only, for din ner or dessert, live patterns, $25 te $30 per dozen. Haviland dinner sets ; Camille pattern, $140 ; elsewhere. $200. Tressed, $140 ; elsewhere, $200. Trebsed with Moresque bonier and decoration or grasses and butterflies, $225; elsewhere, $275. The latter is In the Arcade, Chestnut street entrance, te-day. Table glassware, English, Strawberry-diamond cut : every article required for the table useful or ernamenial. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Northwest corner et the building. PLUSH HAXD-KAUS. And a great variety of ether kinds. Alse pocket books, embroidered leather curd cases, cigar cases, and everything in leather goods. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. ThScd circle northwest from centre. Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets, und City Hall square. JOHN WANAMAKER, Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market Streets, And City Hall Square, Philadelphia. MORS. C. LilLLEB, LADIES' HAIKDBE&SEU Manufacturer and Dealer in Hair Werk, Ladies and Ucnts' Wigs. Combings straightened ami node te order. Hair Jewelry of nil kinds made up. Alse. Kid Gloves and Feathers cleaned and dyed, at Nes. 225 and 227 Xerth Queen street. four doers above P. U. B. Depot. el-Siud PAINTING. All kinds ot.Heuso Painting and G mining done at the shortest notice und in the best pos sible style, wc have reduced our prices te L75 per day. Shep en Charlette street. eetKWma ALLEN GBTHUW: & S0SS. 1IFT.. JC Te buy Holiday llta early is geed ad vice : Tlie best trade la early ; and the best trade tarries oft" the best things. .JOHX WAXAMAKER. I LPKKD WUIGHT'S PEKFUM K8. J III3 Mary Stuart is probably" i he most lasting el all the agreeable perfumes; none or the foreign ones approach it. It is very rich, strong and full of lite; It lsagteeablc te mere persons, probably, than any ether perfume. Wild Olive is next in popularity ; this also is singularly powerful and lasting. White Ke-i; is delicate and lasting. We keep the preferred odors of all the llrst class.pcrlunicrs, such as Lubln. Bailey, Atkin son and Coudray ; but of Altkub Wriebt's we keep all. ISring an uiircrfiinicd handkerchief; and you shall hive a sample of any odor you wish. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. First circle, northwest from the center, 40I.OUED DUKSS GOODS. Vj The lollewlng. just received, are away down in prices : French Camera hair, 47 inch, $0.75 and .8.-1 ; French cheviot suiting, silk Rnd wool, 45 inch, $i').7."; French feule, all wool, 28 Inch, $0.23. l!y looking out for such opportunities a lady may often save half. JOHN WASAMAKEB. Xine counters, Thirteenth street entrance. . BLACK UOOD.S. A lady wanting any et the lollewlng will be obliged ler the mention of them; Silk and woel;tatin de Lyen, 8T cents; silk laced veleurs, $1 ; inetnie cloth, cents ; dainasse draii d' etc, $1.50 ; damage cashmere, $1.25. All thu prices except" the first arc probably In-low the cost id' manufacture, and even the llrst may be. JOHN WAXAMAKEU. Xcxt outer circle, southwest from the center. 'I'UIMMIXU FOR DUK8SES AND CLOAKS. L Our trade requires the largest and freshest stock of tln-fce goods, fringcs.pasacuicntcrie or er or liaments, girdles, tassels, spikes, rings, balls. buttons. We have nerelttas net te be found j anywhere else. I wu - n J. A M J IV E. It. Xexteutereirele, northwest from the center. CHAWLS,.c. O A few shawl are shown in the Arcade ; gentlemen's dressing gowns and smoking jackets in the same case. Mere are within. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. East eflhe Chestnut street entrance. I?UUS. . Our work-room is full of preparation, s lull that we cannot crowd It faster. We have ready, aUe, a large stock of finished garments, fur and fur lined. We have saccules and dolmans in sealskin dyed in Londen wc have none but London Lendon Londen dyed seal. We have them In great numbers, and, ofceur-e, in all sires including extremes. Prices, from $120 te $i0. Louden controls the seal market et the world 'there liare been two advances in price since our furs were bought. We shall net advance till wc havote buy again; we have net advanced at all, as yet. We iiave, at $1(S, seal sacques such as yen will leek in vain ter elsewhere at the price. Fur lined circulars and dolmans in very great vnriery. We use mostly Satin dc Lyen, gnw-graiu, armiirc and brocade silk and sicil ienne : ler mourning. Henrietta and Dran d'Elc. The latter-are made te order only. We have everything worth having in sets, trimmings, robe-, gloves, caps and the thou sand-aud-enc little tilings that are kept in the cempletest lists. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Thirteenth street en trance. CKIUTS. ik Felt, all colersaml variety of styles, 59c te $1.25; llanncl, black, blue, gray, brown and scarlet, $2.5 1 te $5.75 ; satin, black, $1.75 te $10.:) ; satin, bine, scarlet, brown and black, 12..M te $20 ; Italian cloth, black, $1.23 te $5. The vai lety is very great. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Southwest corner of the building. I)OYS' OVERCOATS. Xetice these two samples: lllue chinchilla sack, velvet cellar and de tachable cape, lined witli Farmer's satin, horn buttons. $8.30, Is there another such coat for $0.50 1 We have sold hundreds et them. llrown-red-and-eld-gold diagonal ulsterettn soft wool lining, sleeves lined with a durable silk-st raped fabric, horn buttons, $8,3 J. These are but but specimens of many. It I hey seem inviting, ethers inav be mere se. See them. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Central aisle, next te tlie outer circle, Mar ket street side. 1IltUOXS AXD MILL1XEUY. V Ribbons and Millinery, you knew, we have much mere of than nuv ether house. JOHX "WAXAMAKEU. Xerth of Thirteenth street en trailed. T IXEXS. J J A TCI very great variety et the finest linens. i very great variety et staple linens, and the lowest, prices in Philadelphia. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Outer circle, City Hall Square entrance. I IX EX HANDKERCHIEFS, j Xew goods just received from abroad. We have, without doubt, the richest and fullest stock en this side of the Atlantic We buy from makers, direct, knew the quality of our linen beyond question, and keep below the market besides. JOHN WAXAMAKEU. Second circle, southwest from the centre. QILKHAXDKEUCHIEFS. O The very linest English and French hand kerchiefs and Mufflers; handkerchiefs $1.25 te $2.50; miifllcrs, $1.50 te $1.50. Elsewhere they are sold for a q vartcr mere, at least. JOHX W AXAMAKEU. Second circle, southwest from the centre. UNDEUWEAU. Every individual article el Merine or Silk Underwear tliat we buy we examine te see whether the buttons are sewed en securely and whether the scams are right and properly lasteued. If anything is wrong, back the gar ment gees te the irukcr, or we right It at his expense. Such has been our practice for a year and a half. Is there another merchant In' Philadel phia who fines the fame, or who watches the interests et his customers in any similar way T Defects may escape us, lievcrthless. Yeu de us a favor, if you bring back the least Imper fection te be made geed. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Outer circle. Thirteenth street entrance. MUSLIN UNDEUWEAU. Our assortment of all muslin undergar ments is us lull as at any time of the year : and when the demand for such is net generally strong we arc often able te buy at unusual ad vantage. We have very nearly the same goods the year round : but prices vary mere or less. New, for example, probably, there is net te be found in this city or in New Yerk muslin un dergarments equal te our regular stock except at higher prices. We knew et no exception whatever. JOnN WAXAMAKEU. Southwest corner of the building. -pURIiEU OVKUUAUMENXS. J V De you knew, many are net of Uubbcr.at all, and are net waterproof? We sell as many as all Philadelphia besides ; real articles only; and guarantee them. JOHX WAXAMAKEU. Central aisie, near Market strcet entrance. EEMOVAL. MRS. M. A. EDWARDS has removed her Millinery Stere te Ne. 230 West King street, where she will be pleased te see all her old customers, lien net. Hats, Ribbons, Satins. Velvets, Feathers, Flowers, Ac, will be sold cheaper than ever before. Call and eee. nev23-lmd IV A CV BOOTS. SHOES AND LAST JjnOl made en a new principle, Ins ur ing comfort for the feet. Ki H YYQ ,"ist!,-,naUoteorder- tebU-tfd iS3 East King etreei DRY GOODS. BARGAINS! BARGAINS! In every department el Dry Goods, at FAHHESTOCK'S, Next Doer te the Court Heuse. SHAWLS, LADIES' CLOAKS, DRESS GOODS, Blankets, Comlerts, Quilts, all Suitable Girts for the HOLIDAYS, at LOW PRICES. FAHNESTOCK'S, Next Doer te tiie Court Heuse. Special Holiday Netice, M Girler, Bewers k tat, Ne. 25 EAST KING STREET. -:e:- In addition te the immense stock of Holiday Goods of all kinds that we new display wc will open te-day, 5 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11th, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13th, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14th, An immense stock of Holiday Novel ties, every article being useful and or namental. We call special attention te these goods, as they are all new and very desirable, and cannot be dupli cated this season. These goods will all be sold at . one-half the importer's cost. De net fail te sce them before making your Holiday Purchases. Givler, Bewers & Hurst, Ne. 25 East King Street, HOLIDAY GIFTS! HOLIDAY GIFTS! HOLIDAY GILTS! Wc are new showing a complete line et at tractive goods in every department. J. B. MARTIN & CO. If you want te give a Useful Present, we have just what you want. J. B. MAltTIN & CO. Nothing makes a better Present than a SILK UMBRELLA or aGOSSAMEK RUBBER GAR. MENT. We have n large line of both. SILK UMBRELLAS, with Ivery, Pearl. Walrus and Natural Stick Handles. Prices from $3 up. J. B. MAUTIN & CO. We have a large stock of GOSSAMER KUU BER GARMENTS, In all sizes, for Ladies and Gents. All our goods are fully warranted. J. B. MAUTIN Ss CO. We have the richest collection et SILK HANDKERCHIEFS. LIXEX HANDKER CHIEFS IN FANCY BOXES, FAXCT HAND KERCHIEFS of all kinds. J. B. MARTIN & CO. Wc have a. large variety of PERFUMERY and FANCY SOAPS, suitable ler Presents Presonts Presents Nevelties In PERFUMERY IN FANCY I10XES. J. B. MARTIN & CO. We are showing the largest Hue of FREXCn CHINA AND MAJOLICA WARE, IIAVI LAND'SCniNA FBU1T PLATES, PLAQUES, SOLITAIRE SETS, COFFEE and TEA CUP8, B. ft M. SETS, TEA SETS, ftc Large line of MAJOLICA and GLASSWARE. J. B. MARTIN & CO. A CRUMB CLOTH, FLOOR CLOTH, or FIXE BUG, makes a geed Present and a dura ble one, tee. We have them all sizes, and at very low prices. J. B. MARTIN & CO., Cor. West King and Prince Sts. LANCASTER PA. Eamastrr Intelligencer. TUESDAY EVENING, DEC. 14, 1E8). SIGNAL OFFICER Hffl A Man Who is Very Unpopular With Army Officers. THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. Vailed a Ceward and a Perjurer A Few Army Questions. Washington Correspondence of the Times. Let us leave politics just once and talk about the army. It is a subject that is very interesting here just new, for the "army circles" are powerful, select and active. The army and navy people, by whom I mean the families of the officers of both branches of the service, are the aristocracy of Washington. They find their way into nearly all the old families and it would astonish you were I -te tell you, as I may some day, of the ramifica tions of some of these families. Tlie boy who graduates from West Point next sum mer will be a brigadier general thirty years from new, and the Annapolis boy will be a commodore or an admiral. The boys will marry into an army or navy fam ily, and thus they become quite a power. Of course all the West Point aud Annapo lis boys can't marry in the army or uavy, but wherever they marry the family into which they go at once has a great interest in the service. And I am rather inclined te think that the service holds its head tee high sometimes. But let that pass. Just new "army circles" are stirred te their centre about the retirements aud promo tions. The greatest excitement is ever the ap pointment of Gen Ilazen te be chief sig nal officer. It is the grossest piece of fa voritism that has occurred in the army for many a year. Hazcn is very unpopular among the army officers, for the staunch fellows who go out en the plains, light In dians, live in tents and are short of rations and clothes new aud thep have a natural and a just aversion te the favored officer who happens te have lmluential political connections, who arc constantly getting him relieved from disagreeable assign ments and finding soft places for him. Ilazen is of this kind. He belongs te Ohie and married in an influential family there. He has had less hard or dangerous duty since the war than any officer of his grade, and he has had mere lavers than any three put together. His assignments have always been the best, whether he was quartered in a city or whether he was en duty traveling in the various countries abroad. He has always had mere leaves of absence than any ether officer and if by chance he happened te be sent te a disagreeable place he whined like a big baby until he was relieved. He has done a great deal of leafing about Washington, and is what is sometimes called a " lobby officer"-r-ene who will lobby te have him self sent te a pleasant pest. This among officers is thought te be dishonorable. It is certainly unmauly. These are net the worst points against Hazcn. It has been asserted aud pretty well established that he is a coward, which te a soldier should be regarded as the worst of all crimes. General Stanley, an officer of equal rank, has called hint te his face a coward aud a perjurer, and also in the newspapers and in official documents. It is said that at the battle of Shiloh, in April, 18G2, at about 10 o'clock in the morning, Hazeu "separated himself, get away or skulked" from his brigade and did net return until the evening. In the meantime his command had fought nobly, aud thought their commanding officer had been killed or wounded, and they searched the field for his body. He said his com mand had deserted him. General Stanley made the charge of cowardice and perjury openly against Hazeu and finally preferred charges against him aud asked for a court martial te establish them. Political in fluence stepped in, and our noble president decided that "the service would net be conserved by convening a general court martial te try you at this time." Ail this time Hazcn was resting under these terri ble charges aud never asking for a court himself. Reader, if he had been a high minded officer, with conscious honesty in his heart, would he net have begged for a court, and, failing in that, knocked his as sailant down ? But he did neither. Stan ley then wrote him a personal letter of the most insulting character, ending by calling him an imposter. This was done, no doubt, for the purpose of inducing him (ilazen) te bring charges and specifications against Stanley. It had the effect aud the two officers went into the military court. Gcn erel Hancock was president of the court. Stanley admitted nearly all the specifica tions and ilazen was most roughly treated. admonished in neutral orders bv the ccn- eral of the army." General Sherman in his order admonished Ilazen quite as much as he did Stanley, and ordered both back te their cemmauds. In the impeachment trial of General Belknap, Gccretaryef war, General Hazcn, unless my memory is geno, committed perjury. He wrote certain letters which contained facts that were fully established, aud he went en the staud aud swore te quite another thing. There was net a senator or a spectator present who did net leek upon him with contempt. He was confronted with his letters and next day he tried te fix up his testimony se that it would square with the facts. While Bel knap was in power he was writing flattering letters te him, but the minute Belknap get into trouble he became a willing wit ness against him, although a secret one. He went privately before the Clymer com mittee and told what he knew about pest traders and asked that the fact might be concealed. Was that like an officer and L gentleman? Anether charge against Hazen is that he charged noble old "Pap" Themas with falsehood in order te glorify himself. I have been shown a copy of a letter written by Hazcn te thu historian, Benjamin J. Lessiug. Ilazen, you under stand, was looking out for his place in history. General Themas, in his dis patches from Chattanooga after the battle of Mission Ridge, said that the Ridge had been carried simultaneously at six differ ent points. Hazen writes te Lessing: "Nothing can befartlierfrem truth," and then he proceeds te tell what wonderful things he did. I wonder hew the boys of the old Army of the Cumberland will like Hazens's comment. It seems that Hazen also asserted that he was the first te arrive en Mission Ridge, but he was flatly and pointedly contradicted by General Sheri dan under oath. Hazcn has been aptly termed a "glory filcher." When his name comes up in the Senate for confir mation as chief signal officer it is likely that some of the senators will call atten tion te the style of man he is and te the scene in the Senate chamber. General Sherman does net like him, Sheridan does net like him, and few officers of the army like him. There was no reason for his ap pointment. Mr. Hayes was guided no doubt by the fact that Hazen is from Ohie and that he has a strong political backing. There are seveval colonels who are his seniors who have had hard and con tinuous service since the war, while Hazen has been basking in the sunshine of royal favor abroad or parading his fat person in drawing rooms in the East. It is clear te see why he wants te be signal officer. There is no danger in that and he will have nothing te de but te leek handsome and draw his salary and quarters' cemmuta tien. His nomination as signal officer has had a marked effect en the weather al ready, but it will be a cold day when he is confirmed. . There is a geed deal. I fear, about army matters that you aud I, Mr. Editor, don't knew about, and that we shall never bear, but we may be allowed te comment en some things that leek strange te us. Fer instance, we may think it strange that Mr. Hayes did net fellow his civil service no tions he is always preaching, as he did in the case of General Drum for adjutant general, who is net only a noble officer, but a glorious gentleman. If the next in grada te the late General Mver in the sig nal office could net have been appointed, why net nave taken Colonel Gibben, Col onel Ruger or Colonel Getty all seniors te Hazen, and all better men, thank heaven ! And while asking questions. why was that grizzly old warrior, General Ord, retired ? I followed than stubby old white moustache of his for nearly three years in the Pennsylvania reserve corps, and the Pennsylvania boys have a great liking for him. Next te General McCall, he was the first commander of the reserve corps. He kuews nothing of parlor duty, of complimentary letters, European pres ents aud lobby duty. He has always been iu the field. He is about sixty years old ana is as robust and healthy as almost any officer in the army. He is a better man, physically, than Hazen. He is younger than General Sherman, General Meigs, General Marcy or General McDowell. Be sides, he is peer, while mauy of the ethers are rich. He was capable of many yeats of hard service and was the best officer in the army for the Mexicau frontier. Reader why was he discharged '.' He never asked for it aud he didn't want it. I'll tell you : His place was wanted for one who had powerful relatives aud political influence. Is it net a devilish outrage ? When the war closed Grant, Sherman, Sheridan aud Stanten get together te fix up the general officers of the army. Of course all the brave major generals and brigadier generals wanted te go into the regular army with major generals' or brig adier generals' commissions. This could net be arranged. Several were appointed with the understanding that they should go out at once and take asylum en the retired list. Of this number was General McDowell. He was the first commander of the army of the Potomac, and, if I mistake net, was the first briga dier general appointed in the regular army after the war broke out. However, when he was appointed major general in the regular army he premised te retire. Se did ethers, te get promotion, premise te retire, but they all forget it. McDowell has had mere parlor seryice and less field service than any general officer in the army. He has been about New Yerk and ether centres se much that he has made many powerful friends, while Ord, Creek and some ethers have been en the plains making acquaintance with hardship and deprivation. McDowell is also rich and can afford te take the half pay of a retired officer. Why should net he have been re tired instead of Ord, who was earning his money ? It is due te General Sherman te say that he protested, in a letter te the president, against Ord's retirement. Then if he didn't have it done, who did? Let tts see ; Colonel Nelsen A. Miles, a noble fellow and gallant soldier, is appointed in Ord's place, jumping Colonels Gibben, Stanley, Wilcox, Ruger and ethers, Colonel Miles married the niece of Jehn and General Sherman, and the lady-is also the sister of Senater Den Cameron's wife. There never was a better soldier than Miles. He had been en the plains ever since the war and everybody would be glad te see him prosperous, but he is young and General Ord ought net te aave been put out te make a place for him. By the way the general of the army was along age eligible for retirement. Why doesn't he letirc, and give General Sheridan a chance or General Grant? And, pray, why don't Meigs, and Marcy aud Barnes anil all ether ever sixty-two-year-old fellows get out and make room for the younger fellows? Waifs of New Yerk. Hew the Children 'sCrueltv Society Xcglcct the Keal SulTerers. Frem Je. Heward's Sunday Times Letter. Imagine me just this side of the ferry gate the gate which opens en the bridge te which a Jersey City ferry-beat is chained. The season winter, tlie time midnight. The dramatis pcrsoine are your humble servant and a black-eyed girl, about seven years old, Says she te mc : " Customer, buy a Telegram .?" Says I te her : "Ne, I thank you." She cries, I miss a beat and the lollewiug iollews : sn nrkfiun I hiive wmr ninnps u,Twv. ..j .... jv,i.. ;..1,v..r., rs, what will you ue?" "I'll go home?" " Where ?" " Sixty-five Christopher." "And get a geed supper aud a nice, warm bed?" "Igncss net, I don't get no supper and I sleep en the fleer." "Well, suppose I don't buy any of yenr papers whet then ?' ' "I'll stay till I de sell' im." " But what if no one buys them ?" "Then I'll get licked." "Honest?" " Honest." In ether words, while the Society for the Prevention (with a capital P) of Cruelty te Children is arresting well-dressed, well-fed, well-paid children en the stage of the Academy of Music, it permits little seven-year-old girls te be starved, exposed and outraged en the public streets at an hour when every philanthropist in the city is abed and asleep. Fer years I have en deavored te selve this little girl problem. Our streets are filled with them. Cut offices are infested by them. They sell papers, matches, apples, nuts aud oranges, and encounter net alone the pitiless hat of the summer and the fierce blasts' of the winter, but the terrible tempta tions of a city where wolves might be considered missionaries aud wilder beasts might pass for Christians. This humbug society with the long name has a suite of convenient offices luxureusly furnished and a list of repu table officers. It has patrons, a patronage and money enough te purchase palaces. But se far as I can discover it never touches a child in rags, it never succors a girl in distress, it never helps a boy in trouble. But it it is everlastingly sending meu te the back doers of theatres, always hauling up managers who hire and pay children by the week and never wearies in making happy children miserable. This society permits school exhibitions, for which cliil tren are tortured, and winks at academic Bhews, for which children are crammed, as ether geese for Christmas. But it never gees te Fulton ferry, where littic girls arc trained in the vices that our decks arc noted for ; where girls of tender years consort with drunken sailors and are the sportive companions of inebriated contra bands, and where language of which the hottest Hottentet never dreamed is the constant argot of the babies en that block. Seme of our writers make a great fuss because district messenger boys are util ized by bad men and vile women, but I den'c care for the beyp, especially at all events net in this letter. What I am call ing attention te just new are the little girls. Big girls can be bad if they wish te. They knew' what they're about. But isn't it a shame that these little girls should be steeped in vice and saturated with vulgarity befere they reach their teens ? We have all seen and beard bold, bad girls of sixteen, but here are little ones of seven, eight and ten who can discount the veriest loafer in language and are familiar with the lowest phases of semi-crime. It is useless te call the attention of the secietywith the long name te this abuse. Why? Because it requires patience, continuity in self-sac- niicc, daily vigils, nightly attention and would secure no publicity. The deviltries in which these little apple peddlers are versed would amuse the Christian women of the laud. The infamies practices to wards thee children by men and boys can net be exaggerated. De the girls object ? Net at all. But surely that will net be urged as an argument agaiust interference. That a child is steeped iu siu and finds pleasure in its commission is proof positive that she needs a strong arm te pull her from the pit and te protect her afterwards. Please don't put me down as a poser iu morals. I am simply an observer. I leve children aud would gladly help any one of these little girls te a plane as comfortable as that en which my own staud. I meet them every night cold, wretched, hungry, cheeky, dirty aud iu some respects repulsive. I don't bring them before the public in .any ehurchly sense. I take them by the hand and show them te you as fit subjects for this ridiculous society which ignores its proper field of duty aud seeks notoriety by inter fering with children who would be far better off if they were left alone. I de net envy the man who insults one of these girls. I don't care te smoke, drink. live or die with the cur who dares utter words te them he would never use in the presence of his own. That there is a Ged I never .doubted. Whether lie xeally takes cogni cegni zauce of us as individuals is an open ques tion. If He does He must regard with a peculiarly jelly eye the operations of the so se called charitable societies of Getham. Huger shams were never known. Gresser frauds were never exposed. Mere success ful beggars nevcr flourished. In this inclement season and heaven kuews it's cold enough te freeze the tail of a brass deg there are hundreds df boys and girls who literally sleep iu barrels and garbage boxes, behind bill-beards and in hallways, te whom one het meal a day would be an unheard-of luxury. As for warm stockings, whole shoes, undercloth ing or caps, of course little things like these arc net expected. Last night, as I came toddling down the square, 1 noticed half a dozen boys huddled together in the middle of the street, near the World office. Naturally I stepped a moment, and inves tigation showed that the group were gathered ever the steam escape from the press vaults under the street. The wind blew a hurricane and great clouds of dust filled all the air. The city hall clock showed half an hour after mid night, and there for hours yet would be that shivering, scant-clad gang, quietly taking turns ever the curling steam. I tell you, it made a shiver start from the outside of my heavy ulster, pierce its thick, double folds ; pierce its comfort able lining, pierce my double-breasted coat, pierce its vest, pierce my linen and undershirt and cuticle and stab the inner most cockle of my heart. 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