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Show Ax Omaha paper, some weeks ago, published an intamouo Blander upon Eli Fork ins, to the f fleet that that gentleman had "rais'-d" a paw on the Union i'acific to include his wife, and bad alo for'd an ad'Wlion to tho game to carry nirn across the riv-v at Omaha. Our lo"l morning con-temporaryderived con-temporaryderived much pleasure Irom the pubneat en of the libel, to which it adde1 a good deal ofitscharao teristic naatinen. Eli FerkinB said notiiing about the afUir until forncof.lhe journals became excesivfly personal and vindiclivp, in their reference to tl(e occurrence, and now the ynll' rnao corurs out in a card in the New York Sn in which he denounce tho chargo ai "atroci-ou'ly "atroci-ou'ly untrue." He explains ti at ho werit over ibe road at tho invitation of the oflicers whod'nirnl bun to gain dome information in rrgird lo the dro;ght line sid to bn moving Wf st war' . fie 1 j a 1 on the trip H.driy Jhllon's paas for bimnf-lf and wife, g' od for l,0i;'i mild, arid n conrirmitiori of lii-i stat r(f?nt he sjidn the pais to the editor of the .S'h, 'J'ni con ltr tor 'I'pniioned the vali lily of tiie prt4t, and IUi I'irkiri4 paid the faro, a ifn.411 nirn, and thn id all tl , ti in to tho affair winch ling b'.fii turned inlo a vicious slai.dr-r. |