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Show OHANT PREPARING TO MAKE WAR. President Grant in an interview with a World correspondent, admitted that ho hud orderetl tho removal ot tho army from tho St. Lou id arsenals, adding: "Did not Buchanan fill the ardcuals of tho south dining tho last mouths of his administration? Well, 1 am noing to fill tho arsenals of the north during tho la-t inontha of rny torui." The proaident seemed to b. ia groat ear neat need, and thought the change a mutter ol proper public precaution. pre-caution. Whatever m.ty bo thought of tho ramoval of arms, tho remarks of tho president will ba regarded na exceedingly exceed-ingly imprudent and in bad taste. Thtre are no symptoms afloat of secession, se-cession, rebellion, or civil war. Tho people north and south are profoundly peaceful and tomporuto, and tho only prcpurtUio being mado for hostilities hostili-ties aro by tho government at Washington. Wash-ington. Tiie people of tho United States do not look upon the presidential presiden-tial dispute as one to be sottled by guns and bayonets, but by public opiuion aud moral force, which w;u Bo grandly exerted ut tho lato olec-tiou, olec-tiou, and is now being exhibited through the prosa and the great gatherings of tho people to protest against tho thieving operations of Uic |
