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ONE OF UNCLE SAM’S GREAT WATERWAY FEATS J ZjiOCttA ZU.V jSHD ffEADGATZa £ TUI: ■ o' i e Uaguca da u over the nuiefcsands oj the Colorado river In Arizona Is one of the blg Ct‘ •' rer accomplished ty the ‘United States government The dam Is nearly a mile long ar.-i. :■* i -*air<it#r" « !c!i> dOtMHO tons. The-<*anal frcjfc the dam ia to pass under the river near Yuma la i i pfcc-s l.M» feet long and 15 feet In diameter TELLS OF ESKIMOS 'SHARED FOOD WITH BIRDS j Newsboy’s Object Lesson Wasted on Hotel Loungers Who Watch Act From Window. Kansas City. Mo.—In Iront ot the Hotel Baltimore a newsboy shivered on a cold morning recently. One hand was busy making frequent trips to his mouth with a large “hamburger," from which he was taking hungry sized bites, "Poor little rat. He must be nearly frozen,” a traveling man remarked as he sat in a large leather chair look ing out upon the snow and ice. Just then some snow birds lighted a few feet away. They hopped about as if half frozen. The newsboy tossed them a piece of his sandwich. They pecked at it eagerly. Then he tossed the remainder down and watched the birds peck at it so eagerly. N'o. The traveling man didn’t go out and give the newsboy a dollar or buy him a new overcoaL He lighted another cigar. “I’d like to do something for that lad,” he remarked "But it's Just too cold to move." Head of Government Schools Gives Interesting Data. *f«i to Alaska *n 1890—Describes Espenemces in Oealng W.th Sup pcsediy Savage Tribes. Who Mew Raise Reindeer. W nL.ntton—A few days a so a rton atorhy man with a quiet man ner a si-iii browned by m-ich outdoor •lie and the steady eye of one used to looking across great distances, fame to Washington with such small f-« that It »as more than a week War the re|k>rters were aware of bia ungear* at all He is W. T. Lopp hr-4 of the government's school sys tem for Eskimos, and a man who has sprat moot of his life since 1890 in Alaska, seldom “coming out." as he calls a trip do* n to the states. Lepp was a Hoesier schoolmaster, a hoy )Ut oot of college, when the I ternmea* scat him and another y -ung was op to Cape Prince of Wales on Ileriag Strait to start an Eskimo school. He expected to re main only two years When te went up he and his part ner were the only white me® living in all at northern Alaska. They went aiooe into a district where the natives werw so dreaded that whalers Would not pal into port, even for hasten in "W* had seme trouble with them at fcr*. bat we insisted oa haring our »ay When they saw we werv abso lutely Jast u4 fair arith them, their attitude chanced “Tbat B-*t a inter at learned that to* tZstutnos want*-! •<> oan reindeer, bat that tb r>-» rwaa oAcers would »<** Hermit the importation Some of tt# eathe> «*« o«ned reindeer in the » t man herds serosa the straits And m s-eased a shame that they »•**■ Isrtilita to brine their property •cans* from Asia, so near rhat the A brrtao ! i«hu roold be seen over the water on rl«tr days. .. *•-*'-* “We spiraled to Washington tor t»rmt*sUm to at port reindeer. .Dut otter government agents-had preceded •js in this request. Before we had a reply from our letter that summer a revenue cutter put into port fr^th _ a shipment cf reindeer on board". We were overjoyed to know that the pro hibition of ^ he law had been removed and set about getting more.’ I “In 1892 came the first 'laTge Im portation. We brought in 1.200 that tear and from these grew the present he-d. scattered throughout Alaska and numbering over 35.000. “The reindeer policy was gradually evolved We impress upon the Lapps and Ksklmos that the reindeer are ex ciusively their property and care. For instance, they are not allowed to sell female reindeer to white men, so that the brood animals are to1 be^perpetu ally in the custody and qwnership of the natives. ’ “The herders are free to breed their animals and s'-ll khpir calves or stock | of any age or sex to the other natives. “Reindeer are food, -flotbing and j transportation to the natives.” FORETELLS DEATH OF MANY —*—: Tennessee Seer Predict* Volcanic Eruption in Pennsylvania That Will Rival Th*t of Martinique. . • Chattanooga, Tenn. — The Rev. Thomas Clark, a picturesque charac 1 ter who for years has wandered in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and ; Southwest Virginia, styling himself •be "Prophet of the Smokies." de ‘ dares that, he has Just had a vision i in which it wa«( revealed to him by ‘•a divine messenger that during the present year. 1912. a volcanic eruption equal to that of Martinique or Vesu vius will take place in the* state of Pennsylvania, and that, nearly 900.000 'C-uls will be plunged . into eternity without a moment's warning. .-He as serts he foretold he-assassination of President McKinley, the fire at Bal Tlmore and the San Francisco earth ^ quake jf . -4'Sleepy Tom..' .is he is called by mioy. tra vels-abouj the country with ^ no fixed placer of residence, and often sleeps In his buggy, drawn by an 111 fed horse. The vehicle Is plastered with quotations from the bible He sells nothing, nor does he beg. Me has a circuit, which he gets over about every three months, and each time he stops with a different family. He does not wait upon the formality of an invitation, but just drives up, unhitches hiB horse, unties I his dog from the rear of his Vehicle and walks in. Found in a Poorhouse Ashtabula, O.—While Albert Olson “was being taken to the poorhouse at Kingsville to spend the winter, a sis ter In Beloit, Wis., was seeking him to inform him that their father in Sweden had died, leaving him a third interest of his large estate He was located in the poorhouse through a letter sent the local postmaster by | the sister. He will go to Beloit and | later to Sweden to claim the estate SPLICE MAN’S. SPINAL CORD - K • * Accompl «»r Dedicate Opera t-o«i at Far Sapkaway on Ballet Victim. . _ Sri Turk.—James Brslul*. nine teen. is is St. Jurpk't bctpltai. Far K»tai«T. ha tine iSnltK a rerj rare sod dangerous surgical operation A MM which broke tao ot his wfii bras also severed his spiral cord. Or WUHas3 L Mclcfcaby. assisted by Or B T Thomas. house physician aad aaraaaia. aad Or Balter, a former in feros. hare spliced the ends of- the card. Thrjr said that, thanks to his pinnae S*r*aque. Kenzcls m. jr live lar pears, although he will alwajs be paralysed fraa the waist dean feeersita was shot bjr Joseph Feed la Facet'* grocery store at lewood. L. L Focd. arrested said two men entered aad he thoegtr he recognized <ss of ’hem as a re*afi»e of a ~Wiiiliiito~ he had rent to prison. Bo he opaaad fire d-mgeroasly sound Or Msicafcy sod tl* assistants tried | ° draw tbgettugi tbe end of Renzula's an^astiteh them, but they <^ild ,<sot do" so exactly. . So they r'-w 't^<> ends as closely as possifiie< ' od fixed them In place by suturBMp ' hens In the spinal canal. 10b.. TO- MOTHER. ONE BA$£ What New jffork Wigh School Girls Taking Course Ifi Housekeeping Wjll-Oo. New Vor!:.—(Jap "hundred girl stu dents In the W’adleigh high school i here who are taking course in bouse . keeping will adopts* baby and care lor the child as a part of the work ot j the course The pupils will take turns in washing and dressing the tntant. feeding it. singing it to sleep and •wheeling it In Us goqnrt. A special committee selected by *be class has picked out a baby !rom j a cumber of loundiings offered by •he State Charities Aid association. The students are now making prepara tions' for a "naming party," to be giv en in Its bo not. The name will be selected by' vctd jFJLES QUEER* EXPENSE BILL ^Candidate 85 Cents to Repair ! f His Gum Shoes—Total Expen i 1 vulture Was $10.37. * Sprlngflea,' Mass.—Such unusual ytems of campaign expenditure as shoe repairing and cost of canvas gloves are included In the statement filed with the county clerk by Councilman John J. Walsh of this city, who squeezed Into office a few days ago by a plurality of 32 votes. His total ex penditure was $10.70, and the items are dignified by a big letter caption: “How I Did It." He began with a contribution of $3 to the Republican city commttee. and later spent $4.75 for advertising. The remainder is accounted for as follows: “Paid ten cents for canvas gloves to protect my hands while knocking on doors, seeking votes. “Paid 85 cents for repairs to foot wear used in gum-shoe campaign." SENDS V ALUED WORKS TO U. S. (ZJWSjOOC Hoerisetiel Collection o' C«rici to St Taken to New York by Morgan Parts -TM World's Part* here— M Mir»M that J P Kcrtu bat dp riitd ’• take back anb him to Amer tea the HomucM ct Uection of Goth* «t?b end tuatli bought, t be the ether lay bp the knancler at an MUartrt -o*t ot C.M «M The col hcua* shirk Mcludea xae c! the ■or. rateable Kory earrings In the aeril h MB ta the home of the for ■err oaaar la Parts Though Mr Korean Is saM to hare MVatrt. while here, his Intention to rnMinTi ereetaally all of hlr principal on treesarao to the relied Stales from Uoto* aad Parts, bis friends he la eat likely to strip his houses their macniSeent adorn flner than In any in Kurope I'itisiately tdl) of the fi»sM of the Morgan tr anisa ~ns *MI had their *»j to the he ret»2:tn Museum of Art. When be raire to Paris from New ] York >lr. Morgan was accompanied iVV’ Francis'FT KfiffiTcutt *o( "X»tr i York and this fact gives rise anew to "he Query: Is Mr. Morgan in good health, and Is he thinking, of .Tctirinh from business? Apparently he was in good health while here and he got around In lively fashion. Further comment was caused by the action of the French government - in eepding . two.detectives ^with the {financier when hecftjfcged .Lhe .channel cn hls’way to London* ' ' * ' Hands Were Froaen to Bar. Lacrosse. Wis.—Jatpna Ratiel, Chl '-ag^l aged 18 rears, after a "ride of 49 miles, clingfhg to the handle of n Burlington passenger train with but a , few Inches of the lower step upon which to stand, was saved from freez ing when discovered fey the conductor at prescott. . HJs % bands were frozen to the Iron railing and ‘he was Unable . to release his hold. FIND LOG UNDER GROUND Farmer Encounters Walnut 350 Feet Below Surface—Was cn Lake That Covered Kansas. Topeka. Kan.—A walnut log In a fine state of preservation has been found 350 feet under the surface of the ground on a farm in McPherson county. C. W. Bachelor, a farmer, was drilling a well when the log was* encountered. The tree, more than a foot in diameter, is supposed to have grown on the banks of the big lake •that once covered centra’ Kansas. I The only part of this ake remain ing is the'-basin west of McPherson. ■The tree was not fossilized, but was : just as natural wood as if it had fallen recently. It must ha7e taken thou sands of years, local scientists say. for •the 350 feet of soil, sand and shale to ■accumulate above the log. Invents New Machine. Longmont.—Dr. W. H. Easter of ; Longmont, inventor of a flying ma ’chine, is working on a special deliv ery model for the stock. HOUGHTS are real forces—liv ing messengers of power. Love thoughts, even when brought to bear upon our pains and trials, transform them and make them educational. —Henry Woods. DISHES FOR PAPER BAG COOK ERY. _ ! Hitherto the vegetables of the ordi i nary cook have been a byword for ! all that is “flat, stale and unprofita j ble,” and so they have been robbed of the prestige which their food value ! entitles them. The mineral matter, salts and fla j vors are boiled out in the water and thrown away, the valuable constitu ents which are so necessary in the | blood. Now In cooking vegetables in bags i nothing is lost. The cooking is easier, no odor to penetrate the house, and the result is : a tasty, well-flavored dish. As the | evaporation is less in the closely con : fined bag. It is not necessary to add as much water when cooking. A pint of green peas and a cup of water with a head of lettuce, a tea spoonful of sugar and two tablespoon fuls of butter; mix together and place in a bag and cook for thirty minutes in a moderate oven. To cook asparagus, tie up and put into a greased bag with a quarter of a cup of water; cook for forty min utes in a hot oven. Onions cooked with a very little water, or none at all. and a cup of milk added to cook them in, season ing of salt and pepper and cook forty minutes on a hot oven. Potatoes, peel, halve and put suffi cient for the family into a bag with a few tablespoonfuls of water, a leaf of mint and a little sa’.t. Cook from thirty to forty minutes. Spinach is washed and put into the bag without further water for cook ing. Cook thirty to forty minutes and place the bag in a dish into which drain ofT the Juice by piercing with a fork. Cutlets.—Take a teaspoonful of ! salted flour, mix with it two table | spoonfuls of curry powder, grease a bag very thoroughly. Have ready a i few- cutlets, dust them with flour, put ! into the bag with a tablespoonful of minced onion and a cup of chicken stock, which may be made from the bones of a roasted fowl. Fold and seal the bag and cook for forty-five j minutes. Dish up on a hot platter and pour the sauce over the cutlets. _ j ‘ GRINDSTONfi that had not srit in it how lone would it tant* to snarpon an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man. —H. W. Beecher. PORK DISHES. Pork is not an aristocratic meat, al though it is the basis of an enormous industry. Ham and bacon are not without honor, but there are few cook books that mention the cooking of fresh pork, and rarely the preparation of salt pork, which is mainly used with baked beans. Cold roast pork is as appetizing as any meat, and makes • a most acceptable salad combined with celery, as one does In preparing chicken salad. It is only those who are privileged ! to raise and fatten their own pork who fully enjoy it. Country life and country occupations furnish the right | conditions for eatiag pork. Since the rise in the price of pork it has been ; regarded with greater esteem. The most important thing to be re membered in the cooking of pork is that it should be thoroughly done, j never served rare. Chopped salt pork, a cupful, added | to a homely fruit cake using dried \ | apple and molasses, makes a cake fit j for any epicure. Spare ribs with sour kraut is an other homely but well-liked dish of our grandmother’s. Bacon wrapped around an oyster and skewered with a toothpick, then boiled or baked In a hot oven is another ladylike dainty. A stuffed sparerib may be new to seme. Try. if possible, to buy one i that has a little meat left on the bones; fill with a stuffing well sea soned with onion or sage and put on top another sparerib. Place in a pan with a half cup of boiling water and I | roast an hour, basting often. The I J potatoes may be peeled and baked j around the sparerib. Pork in Paper Bag.—Cut up cold roast meat in slices, add a finely j chopped onion, a little tomato catsup and a bay leaf, salt and pepper. Put | into a buttered bag and bake on the rack in a hot oven for ten minutes. Serve in the bag so that the dish may be piping hot. Pork chops to be Juicy and at the same time well cooked, should be put i to cook in a very little water, letting \ It all boil away, then season and ' brown as usual. Sterilized Coat. Coal in the mine is one of tno things freest of germs. Old-time doctors used to notice coal miners' wounds healed fast, though begrimed and besmeared with coal dust. For a long time it has been thought that breathing in coal dust caused lung diseases in miners. Some experts find fresh coal is as good as sterilized, and say miners have lung trouble be cause they do not take the trouble to put off their damp and sweaty cloth ing before going from the mine to their homes, thus taking cold In the open air walk. Experts say our min ers ought to put on warm and dr; clothes at the mouth of the mine. But it seems the miners have minds of their own. and although the coal companies in some places fixed np hot and cold water baths and dress ing-rooms at the mouth of the mines the men would not use them, but went home to wash and dress, as bad been their custom *ft>r genera tions. O THAT which is assigned you and you cannot hope too much j or care too much. —Emerson. Fame is the scentless sunflower. With the gaudy crown of gold: But friendship is the breathing rose. With sweets in every fold. —Oliver W. Holmes. COOKERY REVIEWS. Here are a few savory mouthfuls to be served on different occasions: Take a good rich pastry, puff paste is the best, but the plain will do j nicely. Cut in three-inch squares and I put on each some cooked chicken, minced olives seasoned with butter and lemon juice. Use only a bit of the filling, fold over paste, pinch tight and bake. The nice things about these "bon bouches" is that so many different kinds of filling may be used, almost anything in the meat line. Ham shaved or chopped and mixed with finely sliced pickie; salmon and sour cucumber pickles chopped, and a little lemon juice or vinegar; roast mutton minced and mixed with cur rant jelly. For a change and an appetizing sandwich filling, scrape a well-fla vored apple, mix with French dress ing which has been mixed with two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, a dash of salt and pepper and a half tablespoon ful of lemon juice; spread on the but tered bread. Brown bread is espe cially good for this sandwich and one slice may be spread with cream cheese and the other with the apple. Pastry left-overs are easily con verted into toothsome mouthfuls like tarts, cheese straws and cakes to serve with tea. A delicious little ac companiment to salad is prepared by ! rolling the pastry, sprinkling thickly with grated rich cheese, fold and roll and sprinkle again, then cut in dia monds and bake. Serve either hot or cold with a salad. Delicious little tarts may be made of the merest scraps, and ‘after ba- ; king fill with any jelly or jam that is at hand. Pastry baked around the wooden molds and filled with sweetened, fla vored whipped cream is another nice dessert which may be prepared, all but the filling, and kept for several , days. O BE as good as our father? we must be better. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece In the new set had a crack in it. -Wendell Phillips. DINNER IN A PAPER BAG. For the roast, choose a rolled one season well and rub thickly with salt, slip into a bag which is large enough for the roast; grease the bag with ; suet, as butter burns more quickly, j A three-pound roast will take about forty-five minutes to roast. Slide the roast out on a heated platter, break the bag gently to allow the gravy to escape. Reheat the gravy and brown with flour. The one drawback in pa per bag cookery is that the gravy is never the rich brown of ordinary roasts. The flour to be added may be browned to overcome this defect, or “kitchen bouquet" may be added for coloring. A fowl roasted in a bag with a bunch of celery or an onion for stuf fing is not a dish to be lightly es teemed. Grease a bag and partly fill with small, even-sized onions, add a little water and cook until tender, the time depending upon the size of the onions. Remove the bag. puncture the bottom to let the liquor escape, season with : butter and cream or with a white sauce, as one likes. Potato straws are very attractive and quickly cooked. Peel the pota toes and slice on a vegetable cutler into straws, parboil for five minutes, drain, add butter, pepper and salt and put into a greased bag and bake for fifteen or twenty minutes. Serve around the roast as a garnish. Sweet potatoes are nice prepared In this way and sugar and butter added to them when put into the bag. Pies and baked puddings are much improved in texture if baked in bags. Cake to be used for puddings, that is a little stale, may be freshened nicely by putting for a few minutes into a bag and laying on the oven rack. For a small company chops are very nice cooked in the individual size and served piping hot in the bag to each guest. When our hotels and restau rants take up paper tag cookery in earnest we will not be served with cold chops or steaks. Youthful Logician. Having to explain the statement that the sun never sets on the British empire, a youthful essayist wrote as follows: "The sun sets in the west. Now the British empire lies in the north, south and east.”—Strand. City Hall and Statue, Washing! on Lincoln s Intuitive Knowledge of War eorge b. McClellan was 34 years of age when he was given command of if the Army of the Potomac after Bull Run had sent a frightened huddle of Union soldiers back to Washington. McClellan had fought and won bat tles in West Virginia, and the people in Washington, looking for a leader to replace the grave, superannuated, egotistical General Scott, selected Mc Clellan. Two weeks after his arrival in Washington, in a letter to his wife, he said: “I receive letter after letter, have conversation after conversation, calling on me to save the nation, al luding to the presidency, dictatorship, etc. As I hope one day to be united with you forever in heaven, I have no such aspiration. I would cheerfully take the dictatorship and agree to lay down my life when the country is saved. I am not spoiled in my unex pected new position.” On another oc casion he remarked: “My relations with Mr. Lincoln were generally very pleasant and I seldom had trouble with him when we could meet face to face. The difficulty always arose be hind my back. I believe that he liked me personally, and certainly he was always much influenced by me when we were together.” There is no denying the fact that he gave the raw, undisciplined troops ex actly the sort of setting-up exercises and battalion drill they needed. When the Army of the Potomac, which was his creature, came under the command of Grant, the war could have but one conclusion. There is justification for the statement of General Meade: "Had there been no McClellan there could have been no Grant, for the army made no essential improvement under any successors." McClellan repeatedly urged that the government should send him rein forcements for a decisive assault up on Richmond. "If I save this army now.” he said in a dispatch to the secretary of war. “I tell you- plainly that I owe no thanks to you or to any persons in Washington; you have done your best to sacrifice this army.” Lincoln’s answer of June 28 illus trates his sympathetic readiness to take the other man's point of view: "Save your army at all events. Will send reinforcements as fast as we can. . . I feel any misfortune to you and your army as keenly as you feel it yourself. . . On the 5th of November McClellan I was relieved of the command of the Army of the Potomac and Burnside was put in his place. On the 24th of February, after the Fredricksburg fiasco. Burnside was re moved from chief command and "Fighting Joe" Hooker put in his place. Lincoln wrote Hooker: “I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appears to me sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. *‘I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course. I like I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in your self. which is a valuable, if not indis pensable. quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. But I think that during General Burnside’s com mand of the army you have taken counsel of your ambition solely and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your saying that both the coun try and the army needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain success can set themselves up as dictators. What I ask of you is mili tary success, and I will risk the dicta torship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, wliich is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all its command ers. “I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him will now turn upon you. and I shall assist you as far as 1 can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in ft. **And now, beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. “Yours very truly, ■A. LINCOLN.' The disastrous defeat of Chancel lo^sville was due to Hooker's failure to use all his men, an error of judg ment against which Lincoln had warn ed him. When Hooker wanted to attack the Confederate rear at Fredericksburg. Lincoln dissuaded him in a graphic simile: “In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.” And he likewise vetoed the plan of ad vancing on Richmond at. this junc ture, reminding Hooker that “Lee’s army, and not Richmond, is your true objective point. . . . Fight him. too, when opportunity offers. If he stays where he is. fret him and fret him.” Lincoln, by a kind of intuition, di vined the right thing to do. He had no real military experience. When he was made captain of the Sangamon county company in the Black Hawk war, he did not know how to get his men (marching 20 abreast) through a gate, and he shouted: “This company is dismissed for two minutes, when it will fall in again on the other side of the gate.” When a member of the house of representatives,-Mr. Lincoln thus de scribed his military career in depre cating the efforts of General. Casa’s friends to make it appear that the latter was a great military hero. "By the way. Mr. Speaker, do you know I am a military hero? Yes, sir, in the days of the Black Hawk war I fought bled and came away. Speaking of General Cass’s career reminds me of my own. I was not at Stillman’s de feat, but I was about as near to it as Cass to Hull's surrender; and. like him, 1 saw the place very soon after ward. It is quite certain I did not break, but I bent my musket pretty break, but I bent by musket pretty badly on one occasion. ... If General Cass went in advance of me picking whortleberries, I guess I sur passed him in charging upon the wild onion. If he saw any live, fighting Indians, it was more than I did, but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes, and, although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say that I was often very hungry.’ Despite this slight experience, which he thus humorously burlesqued, of war’s alarms, Lincoln had the solu tions of a master strategist for prob lems which confounded the West Point men and the students of mili tary science. SAFETY OF CAPITAL FIRST Interesting Letter Written by Presi dent Lincoln Declining to Rein force Louisville. An Important historical letter signed by Abraham Lincoln while he was president, and addressed to Gov. O. P. Morton, was recently sold at auc tion in Philadelphia. It Is said to be unpublished, and IS Lincoln's refusal to reinforce Louisville, Ky., Gov. Mor j ton having requested him to do so. ! The letter is dated Executive Mansion. Washington, Sept. 29, 1861. In it Lin coln says: “As to Kentucky you do not esti mate that state as more important than I do. but I am compelled to watch all points. While I write this I am. if not in range, at least in hearing of cannon-shot, from an army of enemies more than a hundred thousand strong. I do not expect them to capture the city, but know they would, if I were to send the men and arms from here to defend Louisville, of which there is not a single armed soldier within forty miles, nor any force known to be moving upqn it from any distance. “It Is true the army in our front may make a half circle around south ward. and move on Louisville, but when they do we will make a half cir cle around northward, and meet them, and in the meantime we will get up what forces we can from other sources also to meet them. “I hope Zolli Koffer has left Cum berland Gap (through I fear he has not) because If he has, I rather infer he did it because of his dread of Camt Dick Robinson, reinforced from Cin clnnati. moving on him, than because of his intention to move on Louisville But if he does go around and reinforce Buckner, let Dick Robinson come around and reinforce Sherman, and the thing is substantially as it was when Zolli Koffer left Cumberland Gap. 1 state this as an illustration for in fact 1 think, if the Gap is left open to us Dick Robinson should take it. and bold It. while Indiana and the vicinity of Louisville in Kentucky can reinforce Sherman faster than Zolli Koffer can Buckner. "You requested that LL Col. Wood of the army should be appointed a brigadier general. I will only say that very fcrmidcKe objection has been made to this from Indiana.” if people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.—Samuel But ler.