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MILLEDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST 1, 1870.
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4 SCENE IN BYRON'S tyANFRED.
Amidst tho cliffs of the mountain
o^the Jungfrau, stands a solitary
figure—far up in the cliff’s, and away-
out, and alone, upon the overhang
ing rocks. For a moment he ap
pears undecided :—now he looks
around him and his countenance tells
that he drinks in the scene,-now he is
wrapped in his thoughts. Is it that
Nature has laid upon him too, her
charm, and bade him desist from his
contemplated deed.—Who can resist
the pleadings of beautiful nature !—
and hero she has sculptured and ar
ranged her grandest picture.
“Tlie horrid crags, by toppling spires encrown'
ed, .
The inouutainmoas by scorching skies unbrown-
ed,
The nunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must
~'waep
The tender axuie of the unruffled deep,
The orange tints that gild the greenest bough,
i
The vine on htgii, the willow branch below,
PBigll
Mix’d in one mighty ecene, with varied beauty
glow.”
jjui irho is tho solitary man. By -
ron’s Manfred. Tho victim of a eour,
rancid misanthropy. “Minion of
,splendour shrinking from distress!”
4 .'f his scene ho had chosen, as the
«*
f
.'This scene ho had chosen, as
fittest in which to die—to die by
his own hands. Ho has been di
verted for a moment from his pur
pose by the glowing picture.—Now
an eagle attracts his attention, which
-^startled from his oyrie, rises above
the opposite cliffs and spans the aw
ful chasm, with his cloud cleaving
wings.
Manfred gazes—and soliloquizes :
“The bright eye of th* Universe,
That openeet over all. aud onto all
Art a delight—thou tdiin'et not on my heart.
And you. ye crags, upon whose extreme edge
' and on the torreut’s brink beneath
and he tall pines dwindled as to shrubs
1
— P"
. 7X.S8 of distance: when a leap,
lion, even a breath, would bring
ffb? i th!>in its rooky besom's bed
a! fte""8er—wherefore do I pause ?
| .. I feel the impulse—yet I do not plunge:
I see the peril - -yet do not recede:
■ i I And my bralr reels—and yet my foot is firm:
f ' There it a power upon me which withholds,
. And makes it my fatality to live.”
. One step yet, holds him from tho
11 the whirling current of the moun
‘i
WRITTEN FOR THE UNION k
THE CANTER PAPERS.
xro. 3.
The Influence of a Wandering
Spirit and a Demon in a
Rival Courtship#
BY VIVIAN SPRIGHTLY.
(Concluded.)
CHAPTER IY.
Night soon approached and after
taking a cup of tea Rastell walked
out into the open air to get relief
from the feverish excitement into
which the events of the last two days
Rad thrown him. He was a cultiva
ted man and by no means a bad one.
In Ingram, he felt that ho had a
formidable rival for Rosa Carlton’s
hand, and in a momentary fit of
jealousy, bitter and resistless, he had
committed the blunder which en
circled him with danger and dismay.
He did not coincide with Vincent in
his estimate of Ingram’s courage,
but deemed his persistent opposition
to a plan of settlement as inconsis
tent with his well established char
acter. He nover doubted for a mo
ment that he would yield to the so
licitation of mutual friends, to make,
at least an effort, to settle amicably
the existing fend. He had based his
hopes upon that opinion, and farth
er, his hope, of final success, upon
those kind attentions which both
Mrs. Stirling and Rosa had uniform
ly extended to him. In his estimate
of Ingram’s character he was not
mistaken, but he did not know that
Ned Canter was the secret and cloud-
incumbered spirit, who fed the flame
of Ingram’s passion and kept it at a
red heat by concocting poisonous
stories of the enormity of his guilt,
and the absolute necessity of settling
the matter by a deadly conflict of
arms. There is a power in wealth
and in bayonets, but there is a great
er power in words, when coined to
stir the fires of passion especially
when the prize of love is at stake,
and its coils are fastened around tho
soul. Canter possessed this power
and used it, and Ingram, under the
circumstances, was a puppet in his
hands. Rastell rested on a seat by
the way side,
“Beneath the golden stars of the clear azure
passed before he sought his- bed for
rest. He stretched his limbs for a
brief rest the few remaining hours
of the night, but all in vain. He spent
a sleepless night.
Vincent called after an early break
fast to take him to the place for pis',
tol practice, but found him feverish
and unable to go. Rastell, fearing
that he might imagine his symptoms
were the result cf unmanly weak
ness, detailed to him all the facts
connected with the visit of tho wan
dering spirit and frankly stated it
had so excited him he could not
sleep a moment during the entire
night
At tlfo conclusion of the statement
Vincent laughed outright. Rastell
raising his brows, eyed Vincent with
surprise.
“Why,” said he, “do you laugh at
what I have said ?”
“A spirit did you say, Rastell ! A
ghost! Within a montn you ridicul
ed the theory of ghosts, goblins and
the whole tribe of spirits, including
the spectral visits of one living per
son to another, and now you make a
mortal shade white as snow, dimly
seen at night, the foundation of a
wrought conviction of their positive
existence. Excuse me, I could hut
laugh at the suddenness and com
pleteness of the change.”
“My God, Vincent, would you have
me reject the evidence of my senses?”
“It was nothing more, Rastell,
than the creation of a distorted im
agination, a phantasmagorical noth
ing.”
“I was as wide awake, Vincent, as
I am now, in the full possession of
all my faculties. I saw it and heard
it as plainly as I now do you.”
“You are feverish, Rastell, that I
plainly see in your eyes and cheeks.
We will not pursue the subject at
present Try and get some restor
ing sleep. I will coll again at four
this afternoon and I trust will find
you better.”
r>
The wind was slightly up and his
spirit was in unison with the sigh
ing pines which towered, loftily, a
few paces from him.
Perhaps, thought he, “these mourn
ful sounds will soon reach my ears
no more, and my eyes will be closed
forever upon those azure realms be
gemmed with suns. Alas! more
piteous still, the darling Rosa may
be resting har shapely head upon
the breast of my rival and destroyer.”
While in this frame of
was Btartled by the approach of a fe-
£ B ure clothed in white, whose
head was bandaged with on em
broidered hankerchief as white as
snow, and whose face death oould
make no paler. It approached him
slowly and sorrowfully, and halted
a few paces from him.
“Who is she and what does it
mean ?" he thought to himself. He
did not believe in the appearance of
ghosts, and yet he had heard no
sound of footsteps; but, perhaps, the
audible beats of his heart had pre
vented his hearing them- Her long
dark tresses fell loosely over her
shoulders making a striking con
trast with the white turban-like ooif-
fare, and flowing dross which slight
ly trailed upon the earth. His first
impression was to retreat, but gal
lantry restrained him as the thought
arose that she might be in deep dis
tress and was wandering alone, at
night, in a state of mental aliena
tion. The moon had risen some
minutes before the appearance of this
spectral figure and in its pale light,
which shone fully in her face, ho saw
lier bright eyes immovably fixed up-
tain stream.
He ta. stopped to For >1^ew moments pot .
gaze and ponder.—Tho would-be
murderer distrusts his impulsa
i Beautiful nature has inspired him
!i with a purer passion, and strives
to expel the deadly purpose. He
dwells upon the beauty of the scene,
and thinks perhaps of Him, who
made these so.
t What issues hang upon the mo-
I mentavy indecision ! Out upon tho
giddy height of tho projecting cliff
the half mad man stands ; he seeks
) death. “A stir, a motion, even a
% breath will bring his breast npon the
* torrent’s rocky bosom’s bed to rest
ynorever.”
/ | How much hangs upon the pause.
ifOh! what will hold him a little longer,
£ until his head has time to grow cool
Gan beautiful nature entrance him !
He pauses—for a moment. Will
—nib;.,.* hold him ! No ? No—1
nothing hold him! No? No—not
even nature.—Passion, what a pow
er.—He withdraws his gaze, and
turns to his purpose.
Let n\nn once mount the chariot of
passion, and the untamed steeds
which draw the chariot will hurry
him to destruction.
But there is other help. Softly
stealing up the gorges, in the moun-
jjtain echoes, came a human voice. ’Tis
A he chamois hunter’s warning to
r fflvV t j‘ nfre d-
his Mu °, 1,1 id! have a care.
ates *-xt step may be fatalfor the love
orruw* £(%0girbo made you. stand not on that brink!’
gjeufiiRnbcrs 1 >bears not; he heeds not
^bile we m<3 is thoughts arc now
the best men tto"Y Jing farewell to God.
desir* the heavens!
4_c g,n<m .Spin Jbta reproachfully—
jSyafi?
gTVPfadvOvcr the precipice, and
* looks *belo\V-His brain reels. He
springs forward. Is lost.
The suicide had forgotten again
the passing world in the agony of
his purpose. Even tho glowing
mountain sc^f^ which, at first was
able to cbAeJgJf; Benses > was no
longer regartf
Absorbed in his purpose, tho
hunter's cautious approach was not
perceived, until the “Hold madman
End the sudden grasp of bis rescuer
told him, that his deed is stayed.
The scene thus closes, thdself-mur
dsrer’s deed, is hindered-Vand by
vrhom ? In the mercy of our God, a
soul tho’ lost to every tender^ influ-
“a fellow
may still be saved by
A scientific paper says “keep
mirrors away from the sun.’
4gsid pxxtidnp about daughters, w<
|yt»ing that the thing could nt
word was spoken; but soon Rastell
observed:
“Who art thou, and what dost
thou seek ? Perhaps you are ill, it
may be distressed. If my services
can avail to aid thee, please com
mand them.”
“I thank thee,” she answered “for
thy kind and disinterested offer to a
wandering spirit who has traversed
many lands and seas for many thou
sand years. I need no aid, but have
devoted my time, during countless
ages, to minister to the wants of en
dangered and suffering humanity.
The world and all its deeds are
spread out like a map before me. I
was standing by the ruins of the My-
cenaen Acropolis listening to a green
lizard’s chirp when an assisting
spirit suddenly appeared and called
my attention to the danger which
threatened yon. Man is but a
“Fragile blade of graaa
That springe th in tbe morn
And perishes ere noon.”
I wished to save you. Unfolding
these pinions, concealed beneath my
dress, I rose at once into the yield
ing air and floating in twilight shad
ows, and through the night, with its
glittering gems o’er head and the
yellow moon going its rounds, and
on the following day, in the light of
the clear bright sun, have already
come to tell thee that Atropos stands
ready to cut tbe thread of your ex
istence if you shall meet Ingram in
mortal combat The assisting spira
it, who came to me at Mycena, knows
you well, and deeply admires you,
though you know not and will never,
personally, know her. While you
may obtain the hand of Rosa Carl
ton, if your life is preserved, you
cannot obtain it in a conflict of ai ms,
because in that your life will be
lost Heed my words. You mast
see our sympathy for you in the ex
traordinary efforts, both of us have
made to foil the spirit of death which
is ready to smile over your lifeless
corpse. I wish thee safety, long life,
and happiness.”
These words the spirit uttered as
softly as vesper breezes blow upon
beds of violets, but so distinctly,
that not a single one was lost to
Raetell’s eager, listening ears. At
their conclusion, with a sweet smile
radiating her face, and tender syms
pathy melting in her bright eyes,
she suddenly vanished from his
sight. In vain did be call upon the
good spirit, in vain pursue for a tew
minutes, to ask some anxious ques
tions. She was gone never to ro
ll turn.
Retracing his steps he retired to
room and several weary hours
CHAPTER V.
Rastell was somewhat improved
when Vinoent called in the afternoon.
The latter thought it would bo pru
dent to postpone the practice nntil
the following morning and retired
after a brief interview.
Rastell had been .revolving in his
mind the propriety of making a
brief visit at Mrs. Stirling’s. The
controlling madness of love influenc
ed him to go. His affair with In
gram had been bruited about, and in
the torments of his spirit he was
anxious to know what impressions
existed there. He asked, first, to see
Mrs. Stirling.
She received him kindly, and vol
untarily opened the subject of his an
ticipated encounter with Ingram. If
sympathy could benefit him he re
ceived from her an ample supplv.
Rosa, she said, had h*e« »’ u tears
ever since sbe .learned that tho hos^
tile meeting was to occur.
In the fullness of his heart he re
lated to Mrs. Stirling the interview
between the wandering spirit and
himself. This made an unfavorable
impression upon her mind. She '
was a practical woman of strong,
common sense, without a particle of j
romance, or sentiment, and believed
about as much in ghosts and spirits
as she did in the gyascutus. She
took the same view of Rastell’s story
as Vincent had done, and secretly
feared that Rastell was under the
influence of an unmanly weakness
not to say cowardice. This stag
gered her faith for she had favored
Rastell’s attentions to her niece and
had fully commended him to her re
gard.
Scarcely had he finished his reci
tal of meeting the wandering spirit
when a servant, almost breathless
with terror, rushed into the room
followed by Rosa, and exclaimed:
“The Lor-gor-i mighty help us
Misstiss! the debil, or something
worse, is in the out-house that ole
man Jack died in about ten days
ago.”
“Mr. Rastell,” said Mrs. Stirling
jumping up from her seat, “have you
a pistol ?*’
“Not with me madam,” said he.
“Rosa where is your poor uncle’s
pistol;?”
“You loaned it, Auntie, to cousin
Tom Rogers a week ago, and he has
not returned it.”
“Bring me quick your uncle’s sword
that he used when in the militia ser
vice.”
Tho sword was soon brought.
“Here, Mr. Rastell, take this and
follow me. I will use the tongs.’’
Rastell hesitated a moment but
there was too much at stake to de
cline, and he followed the widow to
the outhouse.
“Look in, Mr. Rastell, and see if
the infernal thing is still there.
Why do you hesitate sir? Let me
push open the door.”
To the horror of both there stood
a daik skeleton-looking figure with
eyes like fire, a double row of strong
massive teeth, long flopping ears,
holding in his hand a terrible look
ing blade like a mower’s scythe. The
spectre immediately said:
“Fear not, Mrs. Stirling. I am
following up Hugh Rastell and shall
keep near him until the day after to
morrow at sunrise. Soon after that
he will belong to me. Ho slipped
off from home when I was off my
guard, and I thought at first, I had
better take him to night lest he
might in some way escape.”
“Rastell, frightened almost to
death, immediately fled to the widow’s
parlor, and left her alone—she has
tened there too. As she entered her
parlor Ingram stepped in and most
anxiously inquired what was the
cause of their extraordinary excite-
menk
Almost breathless, Mrs. Stirling
explained.
“Give me the sword,” said Ingram,
“I'll encounter the demon if it costs
me my life. Show me the house.”
Ingram entered the door and im
mediately assaulted the fiery-eyed
spectre. Mrs. Stirling, who had fol
lowed him at a little distance, was
frightened when she heard the clash
of swords and rushed to solicit Ras
tell s aid lest Ingram might fall in
the conflict with the infernal demon.
Rastell was prostrated by excitement
produced by tho sight of the phan
tom, for his nerves had been previ
ously shattered by causes heretofore
related, and he frankly declared his
inability to render any assistance
whatever. His excuse was not in
sincere, for shortly afterwards it was
necessary to convey him home in a
carriage which was sent for.
In the mean time the spectre hay
ing retreated through a back door
observed: “Good God! Ingram,
hold and listen to me, you are fight
ing your friend Canter, and I am
slightly wounded.”
“Gracious heaven! Canter, you
surprise me. I too am wounded in
my left arm. Why did you not in
form me at first.”
“I had no time to speak,” said
Canter. “Your attack was so sudden
and furious that my only hope was
to parry your terrible strokes to save
my life and avoid doing you a seri
ous harm. Besides, I was fearful
thaf some other one, near, might
hear my words and discover the
ruse I have practiced. Let me re
turn immediately; go back and re
port that you vanquished the demon,
escaping with only a slight wound.”
Ingram saw, at once the whole
scheme and in a short time after
wards, learned from Canter that the
“wandering spirit,” was no other
than Serena Dasher. When Ingram
was returning to tho parlor, Mrs.
Stirling met him in the most cordial
manner and was greatly distressed
upon learning that he had been
wounded. Ingram’s bravery excited
her highest admiration, and when he
declined her proffer to bind up his
wonnd, she insisted with so much
earnestness that it should be attend
ed to, at once, that he was forced to
yield to her solicitation. Rosa Carl
ton assisted in the surgical opera
tion. Mrs. Stirling washed the
blood from his arm, and Rosa ap
plied the lint and bandage of pure
white linen, to the small cut about
half an inch in length which had
gone through the skin, and to an
almost inappreciable depth into the
flesh, a couple of inches below the
elbow. Ingram averred that no sur
geon in America could have done it
as well, and that the proudest mo
ment of his life was that in which
Rosa and Mrs. Stirling were dress
ing and binding up the wound. Rosa
smiled and blushed like a rose, when
Ingram said to her, aside, he would
be far happier if she would bind up
the wound in his heart with her love.
All this was done in an adjoining
room while Rastell was lying pros
trate upon a sofa in the parlor.
Vincent came with the carriage to
take Rastell home and Ingram whis
pered to him before he left that he
would, cheerfully, not only withdraw
the challenge, but would freely be
reconciled to Rastell without the in
terposition of other parties.”
Vincent was pleased at his friend
ly offer, spoke a few words to Ras
tell, and he and Ingram shook hands
as friends, again, just before the car
riage drove off.
“I never intended,” said Canter to
Ingram, “that you and Rastell should
fight- I saw a good chance to in
dulge in a favorite pastime, and
Miss Da*2iei was kind enough to j
otter her valuable services. I did
not let you into the secret lest you
might object to play a part in Each
a drama.”
“I am glad,” said Ingram, “that
you did not, for I should have oppos
ed it, and now I desire that it shall
be kept a profound secret for all fu
ture time.”
Rastell felt that there was no
chance, under the circumstances, for :
him to win Rosa Carlton, and he re
tired from the rivalship.
It so happened that in a few weeks
the “Carlton” in Rosa’s name, was
changed to “Ingram.” These facts
did not leak out for several years.
When they did, Mrs. Stirling had
been followed to her grave by weep
ing relatives and friends, and Hugh
Rastell, years before had lost sight
of his former devotion to Rosa Carl
ton in another fair one’s tender love
and bewitching smiles.
OUR RADIX LETTER.
THE VIRTUOUS MAN.
Tbe virtuous man,
Who, great in bis humility as kings
Are little iu their grandeur; he who leads
Invincibly a life of resolute good,
And stands amid the silent dungeon-depths
More free and fearless than the trembling judge,
Who, clothed in venal power, vainly strove
To bind the impassive spirit—when he falls
His mild eye beams benevolence no more :
Withered the hand outstretched but to relieve;
Sunk reason's simple eloquence, that rolled
But to appal the guilty. Yes the gravd
Hath quenched that eye. and death’s relentless
frost —
Withered that arm, but the unfading fame
Which virtae hangs upon its votaries tomb;
The deathless memory of that man, whom kings
Call to their mind and tremble; the remem
brance
With which the happy spirit contemplates
It’s well-spent pilgrimage on earth,
Shall never pass away.
AN ANECDOTE OF FORREST.
The Same old Story—Effects of The
Heat—The Watering Places—
Feminine Surf Bathing—Chil
dren’s Excnrp'ons—Don Carlos—
Drowning of a Millionaire—Mat
ters in Philadelphia—Hotter Than
Brazil or India—The Centennial
Hospital—Affairs at The Mint—
Sorrows of The Gate Men—Stu
pidity and Adipose.
The little old theatre in Albany, N.
Y., has been made the scene of many
curious theatrical stories. On one
occasion Mr. Edwin Forrest, then a
young man, and more famous for his
muscle than his genius, gave a tre
mendous display of really powerful
acting. He was supposed to repre
sent a Roman warrior, and to be
attacked by six minions of a detest
ed tyrant. At the rehearsal Mr.
Forrest found great fault with the
supes who condescended to play the
minions. They were too tame. They
didn’t lay hold of him. They
wouldn’t go in a3 if it were a real fight
Mr. Forrest stormed and threatened;
the supes sulked and consulted. At
length tbe captain of the supes in
quired in his local slang, “Yet want
this to be a bally fight, eh?” “I do,”
replied Mr. Forrest- “All right,”
rejoined the captain, and the rehears
al quietly proceeded.
In the evening the little theatre \
was crowded, and Mr. Forrest wasen-1
thnsiastically received. When the j
fighting scene occurred the great
tragedian took the centre of the
stage, and six minions entered rap
idly and; deployed in skirmishing
/%«/l/M4 A 4 1-Iia /vivct 7n liim!” nno
minion assumed a pugilistic at
titude, and struck a blow straight
from the shoulder upon the promi
nent nose of the Roman hero; anoth
er raised him about eix inches from
the stage by a well-directed kick, and
the others made ready to rush in for
a decessive tassel. For a moment Mr.
Forrest stood astounded, his broad
chest heaving with rage, his great
eyes like flashing fire, his sturdy legs
planted like columns npon the stage.
Then came the few moments of pow
erful acting, at the end of which one
supe was seen Backing head foremost
in the bass dram in the orchestra,
four were having their wounds dress
ed in the green-room, and one, find
ing himself in the files, rushed oat
upon the roof of the theatre andshont-
ed ‘Fire!’ at the top of his voice; while
Mr. Forrest, called before the ear-
tain, bowed his thanks pantingly to
the applauding audience, who looked
upon the whole affair as part of the
piece, and “had never seen Forrest
sot so splendidly,"
[I* r07/1 Our Own Correspondent.J
New Yobk, July 21, 1876.
To the Editob of the Union &
Recobdeb.
No let up yet- Burning days and
sultry nights continue to follow each
other in monotonous and well-nigh
intolerable succession. Occasional
thunder-clouds and still more infre
quent showers give delusive promise
of the coolness which never comes.
The little rain we get is itself warm
and its only effect is to increase our
discomfort by saturating the muggy
air and, by stopping the evaporation
from our bodies, to cut off the one
poor means of relief which was left
us. The steady, pitiless heat has
continued so long that it has pene
trated the usually cool cellars and
the most carefully closed houses.
The walls of stone and brick having
no opportunity of cooling daring the
night are burning to the touch. The
pavements and roofs send np quiver
ing exhalations. Even Central Park
offers no refreshing. The great
boulders and masses of rock which
usually form the favoiite resting
places of the hundreds who resort
there in the evening, are turned into
huge radiators that fairly cook their
gasping occupants. The weak ones
among us are dying fast, and every
day saps more and more the vitality
of the strong. The heat bids fair
to rival in destructiveness the sever
est epidemic.
If this amount of suffering were
of men s infliction there would have
been a second revolntion inaugurated
here long before this. But against
the forces which now oppress us
there is no rebelling, sc that all
that is left to suffering humanity is
endurance and such alleviation as is
attainable. In the case of the rich,
this is considerable, as there are
plenty of places where one can keep
comfortable if he has the money and
the time for recreation. Foremost
among the neighboring water places
is of course old Long Branch, famed
for its presidential occupancy, and
the unceasing patronage of *New
York’s crane de la creme. Running
along a line of low bluff, overlooking
the ocean, the town—or rather col
lection of elegant hotels and cot
tages--is almost never without its
cool salt breeze, wfiieit cffostastHy
prevents the ardent sun from mak
ing a sultry atmosphere.
Next to Long Branch comes Fire
Island, a little sandy oasis some
eight miles out in the desert of wat
ers. Less gay and fashionable than
Long Branch, it is still very “high-
toned” and select, the guests there
being almost exclusively of the “F.
F. V.” order.
For the middle and lower classes,
whose purses are short and whose
opportunities for recreation are limi
ted to Sundays and an occasional
afternoon, the great resorts are
Coney Island and Rockaway on the
outer shore of Long Island. To
these places where the fares from*
town are but 20 and 25 cents re
spectively, the middle classes pour
in shoals and multitudes. They are
accessible both by rail and boat, the
latter mode of transportation being
very naturally the favorite one, ex
cept with those whose stomachs can
not stand even the slight agitation
of so short a voyage. To the former
place the trip is made entirely in
sheltered water, and the motion of
the boat is little or nothing; bat to
reach Rockaway the little steamers
have to struggle for an hour out in
the open sea, beyond the protecting
arm of Sandy Hook. The oppor
tunity thus afforded to get “rocked
in the cradle of the deep” is often a
good one and its effect on the bois
terous hilarity of the pleasure seek
ers is often quite marked. They will
come sailing down the bay on an
even keel, singing “A Life on the
Ocean Wave,” or something equally
festive, but as soon as the Narrows
are passed, the gentle ground swell
tilts up first one end of the boat and
then the other, till after ten or fifteen
minutes of loudly asserted enjoy
ment, songs and laughter begin to
get feeble, the sqnearmish ones edge
up to the rail and a subdued melan
choly begins to pervade the com
pany. But seasickness, though not
the pleasantest thing iu life, is not
very serious, and by the time their
destination is reached the excursion
ists are again ready for a good time,
all the better prepared by their late
experiences for stowing away the
roast clams for which Rockaway is
famous. Both here and at Coney Is
land the surf bathing is fine and is
daily-enjoyed to the utmost by thou
sands. The shelving beaches are
lined with apparently endless rows
of bathing houses—little coops hard
ly large enough to turn around in,
where the would-be bather divests
him or herself of all toggery and
dons the bideons bathing suit, pre
viously hired from the proprietors
A more complete transmogrification
than that of a fashionably dressed
young lady on such occasions, it
would be difficult to imagine. In
stead of following the true order,
going in a chrysalis to emerge a but
terfly, she disappears a butterfly to
reappear one of the most discouraged
looking chrysales that ever existed.
A coarse, baggy euit coming a little
below elbow and knee hangs shape
lessly on a form which may be Ven
us-like or the contrary, but which
certainly gets no flattery from its
present covering. Her false hair is
all gone and what little remains is
wonnd into a tight little ball on her
crown. This is covered by a large,
coarse, torn straw hat tied under the
chin. She evidently has a general
feeling that she is “all outdoors,” and
paddles down to the water, knees
and efoows in, blushing like a red,
red rose. With the first wetting
comes the crucial test. While the
dress is dry it does afford some
slight disgose, bat the moment it is
. soaked—good-bye concealment—
Clinging like the wearer's own skin
it pitilessly confesses every line and
angle, be it that of a statue or that
of a lath. However, bathing is heal
thy and refreshing, and she has plen
ty o! company, so she gets through
the ordeal well enough.
Of course there are many other
sea'iside watering places along the
shore on both sides of New York;
bat the four just named are the near
est and best known. Unfortunate
ly their total capacity would not ac
commodate one half our people who
need the change, even if the latter
had means to avail themselves there
of. So the vast majority must suffer
through the furnace heat without
respite of any kind. At what fearful
cost this is done is best seen from
the mortality reports. Last week
the deaths reported were 1298, near
ly or quite as great as for any equal
time daring the prevalence of cholera
or small-pox. The ravages of the
weather among the children of the
poor have become so alarming that
the city has employed fifty physi
cians to work among them, while
strong efforts are being made in
other directions to better their con»*
dition. St. John’s Guild, the most
energetically humane .society in the
city, is doing a noble work in its free
excursions for poor children. Its
plan is to charter immense barges
which it fills with the little sufferers
and their mothers, when they have
any, and then has them towed down
the bay to where the fresh salt breeze
can blow over them, bearing healing
on its wings. By these various
efforts many lives have been saved,
but nothing short of a speedy and
radical change in temperature will
save the Centennial summer from
being remembered with a black
mark.
As a result of the short ice crop of
last winter and the recent great de
mands upon them, the ice men have
put np the price of that indispensable
commodity, and should a change not
come soon, a further advance will be
the result. Fortunately the water
supply about which tbe alarmists
began croaking a week ago proves
equal to the emergency, the chief en
gineer reporting that we can stand
a month of drought yet without
suffering that terrible deprivation.
Don Carlos is in the city, having
arrived here from Philadelphia, but
attracts little attention. We’re too
hot to bother ourselves much about
a Pretender so soon after having a
genuine Emperor among us.
A sad accident occurred on the
evening of the 20th in the capsizing
of the yacht “Mohawk" off Staten
Island, by which her owner, Vice-
Commodore Gamer on the N. Y.
Yacht Club, with his wife and a
young lady were drowned. Mr. Gar
ner, though a young man of thirty*
five years, was a very prominent busi
ness man, owning many large cotton
mills, and leaving a fortune variously
estimated at from fifteen to eighteen
millions.
Philadelphia, July 22.
Ufifb citj osAi-nvaUj severer
summers than New York and thus
while its present climate is ultra
tropical there is not as much notice
taken of it as in Gotham. The mer
cury has several times reached 125 deg
in the shade and worse figures yet
have been hinted at. At the grounds
a regular hospital has been establish
od, with a large medical department
and here have been treated as many
as 100 cases a day, nine-tenths being
persons prostrated by tho heat. Still
the attendance does not fall off as
might be expected, the daily average
of admissions ranging about 30,000;
nearly one third of these are dead
heads though, so the receipts don’t
get over $10,000 very often. As this
amonnt comes in fifty cent coins and
stamps, whole, there are from eigh
teen to twenty thousand of these
articles to be counted every evening.
This seems like quite an undertaking
till one thinks of the corresponding
work at the mint where they make
and handle five times that number of
pieces per day. The other mints
having been closed for repairs last
month the one here has had to do
double duty ever since, which, in such
weather, has been a tremendous
strain.
Since the middle of June the heat
inside the mint walls have been in
tense, owing to the large number of
furnaces required. In the melters’
department the heat has ranged from
100 deg. to 125 deg., with an oc
casional dash np to 145 deg. In the
rolling room of the coinage depart
ment, the thermometer has ruled
from 100 deg. to 110 deg., and in the
whitening room from 110 deg. to
130 deg. Experienced men are de
manded, and as substitution is im
possible they have to remain at their
hot posts from morning till night
Strong-armed men frequently topple
over at their work, and all go home
in a state of complete exhaustion.
Thus far there has been no case of
serious prostration, and the operative
officers do not anticipate any inter
ruption from the heat. Most of the
men have been in service from fifteen
to forty-five j'ears, and they say that
this is the hottest time in the history
of the Mint.
Bat to return to the Centennial
gates. Here is where the tribula
tions of the sight Beer commence.
Very many of the rural visitors have
a dreadful time getting it through
their heads that they can’t go
through the exhibitors’ or complimen
tary gates, and are often inclined to
argue tbe point with the long suffer
ing officials, who, having finally con-
of th< ’
viuced them of the justice ol ttieir
position must fight the battle all
over again when the same rustics,
having been steered into the proper
entrance, reach the turnstile with cur
rency or bills of all denominations
excepting the prescribed fifty cent
piece, and present them for change
with the most confident air imagi
nable. Another and sometimes long
er argnment ensues here, in the
coarse of which both parties get mad
while the hot, impatient crowd be
hind presses np closer with frequent
calls to “move on up front.”—
Through this mass tho offenders
have to fight their way back to tho
change office, when having at last
gone through with “all this doggon-
ed redtape" they pass sulkily inside.
Occasionally still more serious
difficulties present themselves in the
shape of fat people who can’t get
through the narrow tnrnstiles. It is
almost as much of a job to get such
a person thrr ugh the fence as to get
an act through Congress, a member
of the Commission has to be sum
moned, who receives the applicant’s
money, gives a special order to have
one of the wagon gates opened to
admit the heavy weight and then
hands the money to an attendant
who goes throngh the turnstile to
register the admission, drop* the
money in tbe box and comes ont by
a regular exit It seems rather ridi
culous, but all this has had to be
gone through with on several oc
casions.
And to'day I am a good deal like
one of the fat men. I’ve got as far
as the turnstile, but can’t get any
farther. I believe, under the circum
stances, I won’t trouble them to send
for a Commissioner. It’s too hot
and we will give the inside a vacation
till next week.
Radix.
FROM COLORADO.
The 4sloundiijg Doctriije of IJr. Ijajes.
He is in Favor of Having the
United States Governed by a Per
manent Aristocracy of Officehol
ders.
New York San.]
Ratherford B. Hayes has written
a letter accepting the nomination of
the Republican Convention to the
office of President of the United
States.
Mr. Hayes is represented by his
friends and conceded by his oppo*
nents to be an honest man. We
therefore receive this letter as the
avowal of his real sentiments on the
subject of government; and we are
not a little surprised to find them
directly at variance with the Repub*
lican and Democratic ideas on which
the Government of the United States
was founded.
“The old rule, the true rule,” says
Mr. Hayes, “that honesty, capacity,
and fidelity constitute the only real
qualifications for office, and that
there is no other claim, gave place
to the idea that party services were
to be chiefly considered.” Thus, ac
cording to Mr. Hayes, “honesty, ca
pacity, and fidelity constitute “a
claim” to office. This he declares to
be “the true rule.”
Now, the whole theory of free,
Republican government is included
in this proposition. We hold that
all offices are established and main-
tained solely and exclusively for
the public convenience and public
advantage, and never, in any degree,
for the benefit of the persons hold*
ing them. These persons are to be
fairly paid for their labor, that is all;
and there is no such thing in a free
country as a public office existing
for the sake of the officer. No one,
therefore, has any “claim” to be a
public officer. Claim, as here used,
means right. A person elected to
office has a right to it, unless he
forfeits it, for the term for which he
is elected; while a person appointed,
and removable at pleasure, may be
turned ont at any time.
The doctrine of Mr. Hayes is “that
the officer should be secure in his
tenure as long as his personal char-
axacter remains untarnished and the
performance of.his duties is satisfac
tory.” That means, practically, for
life. There is hardty any real differ-
eoee between a term for good be
havior and for life; for if a king, who
holds even by hereditary right, de
parts widely from good "behavior,
revolntion steps in and puts an end
to his tenure.
What! Here we have a bold prop
osition that tho eighty thousand of
ficeholders of the United States shall
be converted into a permanent aris
tocracy, holding their places for life!
How long would it be before this
tenure for life would bo converted in
to a hereditary right?
It is to our apprehension a plain
proposition to overthrow the Gov
ernment of the people, and to sub-
stitue for it a government of estab
lished officeholders. Mr. Hayes is
undoubtedly honest; but we believe
the sentiments of his letter of accep
tance will be deemed as odious by
the people of the United States as
any ever expressed by Louis Napo
leon in France. Lonis Napoleon
was at first in favor of an empire
for life, and then of making it hered
itary.
Our forefathers, the founders of
our Government entertained senti
ments directly tho opposite of those
esponeed by Mr. Hayes. When it
was proposed to make the offices of
Senator and President offices for life,
the plan was rejected. They limited
the duration of the office of Repre
sentative in Congress to two years;
that of President to four; and that of
Senator to six. There is no law
prohibiting the continuous re-elec
tion of any of these; but custom has
limited the President to two terms,
and Mr. Hayes has recently had an
opportunity to see with what disfa
vor the idea of electing an incum
bent to a third term was received.
Indeed, after distinctly pledging
himself, if elected, to conduct tbe ad*
ministration of the Government up
on the principle of keeping public
officers in office daring good be
havior—which means for life—and
to employ all constitutional powers
vested in the Executive to that end,
he goes on in the next paragraph of
his letter to announce his “inflexible
purpose, if elected, not to be a candi
date for election to a second term !”
One woold suppose that a mole
could see far enough to perceive the
inconsistency between the advocating
that all other offices should be held
for life, and insisting that for the
President the doctrine of only one
term is indispensable.
Thero is something necessary in
the way of civil service reform, and it
is this: That no man shall be ap
pointed to office, or retained in any
office who is not fully qualified and
of a proper character to discharge its
duties. And that is all. Any meas
ures calculated to perpetui to office
in individuals tend toward the de
struction of equality and freedom. Un
der such a system, the arrogance, the
insolence of office would grow apace^
and vastly until it would become
insupportable among a free people.
Frequent changes in public officers
so that no unfit person is appoint
ed—are most most salutary iu their
inflncrwrp- Constant reductions of
the officers to the ranks is the true
role in civil life. No monopolies of
offices and honors: universal justitce
ami equality; these are the true doc*
trines of government. Against these
Mr. Hayes declares himself opposed.
Narrow Gauge Railroading’.—Primitive
Freighting—A Colorado Court—Miner
al and Metalic Wealth,
Trinidad, Las Animas Co., ) v
Mr. Evarts spoke iu his oration
yesterday of “Our debts to the men
tv# »
of 1776.” Ah! would that all our
debts were to the meu of 1776.—
Turner Falls Reporter.
An enthusiast who liad been to
hear Anna Dickinson lecture wrote
her saying: “With you I could be
happy in a desert.” And she wrote
back: “Nanun wilf
chance to d**w4me.”
■ ever have a
Colorado, July 20, 1876.
Editors Telegraph tb Messenger •
The Denver & Rio Grande Narrow'
Gauge Railroad is completed and in
operation from Denver, 210 miletf
south, to El Moro, six miles distant?
from this place. This is tbe first?
narrow gauge of any importanoor
bnilt in the United States, and is air
eminent success in every point desi*
rable in railroad enterprises. It
the only road in the territory whose*
stock is of any value, though it irf
not the best located for remnnera-f
tive business.
Starting at Denver, it follows that
Foot Hills of tbe Rocky Mountains
in a Southerly direction, occasional-/
ly curving around a mountain spur,,
and anon climbing over a heavy prai
rie swell—thence, following up &
creek to the “divide," at or near
Colorado Springs, it enters the wa
ter shed of the Arkansas river, stri
king the river at or near Pueblo.—
Following up St. Charles Creek
seme twenty miles, it runs across
the rolling prairie, occasionally ra-
vined by water courses from the
mountains, until it reaches the Las
Animas, its present terminus. The
halt in its construction will be of
short duration, as they will proceed
rapidly southward to meet the de
mands of the travel and trade of New
Mexico. Much has been said and
written as to the feasibility and prob
able success of narrow guoge rail
roads. They have had but few ad
vocates, and railroad men have, eith
er through prejudice or fear of fail*
are, been slow or reluctant to test
their utility. This is the first fair trial
on the continent and should settle
the question of their practicability
beyond all doubt. In the matters of
passengers and freight they are over
50 per cent, more economical in con
struction and operating to do tho
same amount of business—than our
Southern heavy, cumberous five foot
guage. The passenger coaches are
of modern construction, and seat
comfortably forty passengers. They
ride remarkably easy and oscilato
much less than on the broad guage.
The freight cars are large and fumrsli
the facilities for freighting that any
country requires, and carry a much
larger proportion of paying freight
to the weight of rolling stock thau
the ordinary roads. As for speed
the schedule from Denver here, 21Q
miles, is 10£ hours. The superin
tendent. W. W. Boist, informs me
that he has made, with ease and
safety, 40 miles an hour the full
length of the road.
The country from Denver hither irf
anything but fascinating to the tour
ist, or attraet/re to the settler. It
presents the same dry parched ap
pearance and iz productive only on.
river bottoms, or wL-^re thoroughly
irrigated. The poorest parci^d lands
however, furnish in the grey Jeatf
appearance Buffalo grass, nutrition*
and fine grazing for stock—the cat
tle and sheep raising industries being
largely pursued in the territory.
Colorado’s future prosperity de
pends principally upon her mining
and stock raising enterprise. The
popnlation of this country is four-
fifths Mexican. The buildings are
mostly of adobe, or sundried brick.
The hotel, in which I am quartered,
is three stories high and built entire
ly of that material. The common
soil is used for that purpose. All
the Mexican buildings are covered
with the same material and'it makes
an excellent, tight, lasting roof.
The freighting business is quite a
novelty to one unaccustomed to the
manner of its being done in this Ter
ritory. They use large heavy wag
ons, which are drawn by from two to
twelve yokes of oxen, frequently
coupling together two or three wag
ons. A team frequently takes thou
sands of dollars worth of merchan
dise to be carried hundreds of miles
into the wilds of Arizona and New
Mexico, and it is delivered with the
same scrupulous care and punctuali
ty that is dono by the express com
panies, and that too, by native Mex*
ican drivers. Honesty is one great
merit of the people here; its reverse
is sure to be developed by lecent set
tlers.
County Court being in session, cu
riosity prompted me to take a peep
at the proceedings. The jury was
about two thirds Mexican, speaking
a corrupt or hybrid Spanish, and
understanding scarcely a word of
English. The court employs an in*
terpreter, and all the testimony,
whether given in English or Span
ish, has to be interpreted, as well as
the court’s charge and the lawyers’
pleadings. It was amusing to see
and hear a lawyer plead his case.
Slowly, sentence by sentence, it pass
ed through the interpreter in a dull,
monotonous manner. There was no
high vaulting, blather-skite, or blar
ney, in the argument, and it appear
ed as if the lawyer was supremely
disgusted with the vocation. To
save time, the court exacted the
most closely condensed statement
possible.
What a school of reform this court
would be to more than one advocate
at the Macan bar! Many a sufferer,
I opine, would be delighted to see
soch a discipline rigidly applied. It
certainly would be an enjoyable
treat.
As soon as Mr. Huff joins me I
shall go into the San Juan mining
district, about 200 miles in the moun
tains west of here; I should add that
this is in the midst of the great coal
fields of Southern Colorado. The
coal is bituminous, much resembling
the Coal creek product, burns finely,
is of easy access, and inexhaustible.
Iron ore is said to abound in the im
mediate vicinity. If that should
prove true, the future iron interest
of thin section may be one of Color
ado’s proudest and most productive
industries. There is no timber ex
cept on the Foot Hills, or in the
gorges of the inonntains, and this is
extremely limited, and of very poor
quality. C. A. N.
A debtor severely questioned as ta
the reason of his not paying a just
debt, replied, “Solomon was a very
wise man, and Samson a very strong
one, but neither of them could pay
his debts without money.” , „
\
Women who work find no
masters so bitterly harsh,
obaritabls, as ftbow <4 IWr