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Old Series— Vol. 25. ISTo. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONAIiIST
TUESDAY, June 29, 1875.
We publish an interesting letter from
the White Mountains this morning,
from the pen of a well known Au
gustan.
Catholico’s reply to the liev. Ch.
Tanquekey, of Savannah, whose letter
appeared in our paper of the 27th inst.,
is providentially and unavoidably post
poned.
Savannah, June 28th. —Col. J. C. Har
ris to-day completed the organization
of the Georgia Torpedo Chicken Com
pany, as follows : President and Trea
surer, J. C. Harris; Advisary Board and
Actuary, J, Clisby Harris; Physician
and Dental Surgeon, J. Charlaraagne
Harris ; Commissary of Subsistanee, J.
Crittenden Harris; Traveling Agent
(ex-Dept. Europe). J. Codrington Har
ris -Europe, Col. Jerome Bonaparte
Gorman, fleadquarters, Savannah
Nows Cdflce. All Postmasters are au
thorized to act as Agents. Liberal in
ducements to clubs.
Look out for the Conference
edition. _
We don’t see how we can make out
till the 1-st of September without Sam
Baud’s new paper. It will go very
hard, but we’ll have to stard it. He is
now shinning around Washington dis
tributing the prospectus, which says
that his object is “not ouly to unite the
whole Union element of the South, but
to bring to its support thousands upon
thousands of old Whigs and Andrew
Jackson and Douglas Democrats, who
are now actually without a mouthpiece
in the Southern States.” You see
?jere is a horrid vaecuum which Sam
proposes to fill up. We congratulate
old Whigs and J ackson and Douglas
Democrats upon getting a mouthpiece.
They have got to that pass where they
can get 110 farther without such a
piece. It is an absolute necessity.
The Belcher jury is still out, with no
prospect of agreeing upon a verdict.
Beecher has to.'d a reporter that there
is only one man ag'alnst him, and im
putes to him the mot’ve of being inter
ested in bets upon the insult. The ob
ject of the trial has, nevertheless, been
accomplished : to bring out the facts
of the case upon oath. The opinion of
ti e twelve men on the jury is no better
than any twelve other men who hear and
or read the evidence. Both Beecher i
and Tilton and Tilton’s wife come out
ruined. Beecher with, at least half the
world believing him guilty ; Tilton as
a miserable coward, wHn took such a
no qp to a liouse for settlemout ;
and Mrs. Tilton a creature who has
testified every way, and whose reputa
tion is gone forever. The American
people have been disgraced by the
scandal, and its newspapers for the
last six months fouled with it.
Is writing to Col. J. Clisby Harris
ior agencies for the Torpedo Chicken,
give your name, Post Office and county
plainly. County rights will be dis
posed of upon reasonable terms. Asa
proof of the efficacy of this machine we
print the- following certificate of a Bap
tist minister, of Memphis, Tenu.,
writing to his brother of the same
faith and order; “I accompanied her
to the hen-house, where a great noise
was being made by the surviving
■chickens. Several had been killed and
iiorae maimed by the explosion. A
search was made for the torpedo
chicken, which was finally found
among the wreck of poultry. The body
.of the machine was blown to atoms,
but its two legs were found intact,
lightly grasped by a huge black hand,
vyhieh had been literally torn from the
j ar m., Death never held tighter to a
Lead nigger than this negro’s dead
! ft md grasped those two chicken legs.’’
It was stated in a telegraphic head
ing in this paper the other day that
Loader, the upholsterer who had
tacked down carpets at Tilton’s house,
and who was a material though unex
ploded witness in the Beecher case,
was loaded to the muzzle with rotten
eggs. Since then he has been before
a magistrate with his partner who
helpeffin making the repairs. Whilst
their evidence is entirely too obscene
for publication in any respectable news
paper, it i3 conclusive of the guilt of
Beecher. The rnau’s case has been a
desperate one from the beginning, and
So managed by cunning lawyers as to
throw a doubt upon the minds of a
asreat n ;any, but the testimony of
’'-, <S9e men given not to the court but to
tb •'rid under oath and after the case
the wo. : away ail doubts
was closeu, of those who had
except in the . wa9 j Q |joceut.
predetermined thw and we are
Beecher will come to 'M's he made
glad of it. For twenty ytv. pjy.
political stump speeches from
mouth pulpit slandering and tradrn. |
the South, was one of the head devils
of the abolitionists and instigators of
the civil war. He comes out of his late
trial in the eye* of all unprejudiced
men a loathsome hypocrite and lecher
ous old sinner, unfit ever again to
be countenanced in the society of the
virtuous.
Thackeray.— Thackeray tells us of a
woman begging alms from him, who,
when she saw him put his hand in his
pocket, cried out “May the blessing of
God follow you all your life!” But
when he only pulled out a snuff-box she
immediately added, “And never over
take ye!”
Botolpb.-—They are just beginning
to discover tha£ the Battle of Bunker
Hid occurred on St. JBotolph s day. He
is Boston’s patron saint, ana gives his
name to the city, Botolphs'town, or
Bostcn.
Stars are probably comets with their
tails worn off.
®lu' paibj fmiltitirtiimaM
FROM WASHINGTON.
Arrest of Swindlers—Treasury Bul
letin.
Chicago, June 27.— Alfred Frederick,
Charles, Edward and George Roe, who
were formerly engaged in the grocery
business, were arrested to-day on a
charge of defrauding Messrs. O. H.
Gregory, J. N. Collinsworth and J. A.
Ellison, of Richmond, Va., out of mer
chandise amounting to $240,000, of
which but a part was oi>account of O.
H. Gregory & Cos. They were held over
in bonds of from $5,000 to SIO,OOO each.
Henry Adams, agent of the firm at
Richmond, made the charge. It is
stated that the Roe brothers, about
September 1, 1874, failing to vindicate
themselves, suddenly absconded, flee
ing to Canada, and that brother Alfred
returned to Chicago and partially 83t
tled up the accounts, and that the other
brothers also came to Chicago, and they
were hunted down and arrested.
Washington, June 27. —The Treas
urer sells a million of gold each Thurs
day during July, making five millions.
General News at the Capital.
Washington, June 28. The Presi
dent has recognized as Consular agents
of Italy Guissippe D. Montdonica, at
Memphis; Raymondo Salas, at Savan
nah.
Lieut. Cos). A. McCook succeeds Mc-
Coy on Gen. Sherman’s staff.
Robeson has gone to Rj ? e Beach wiDpr
his family, to be absent a week.
The cash in the Treasury will he
counted by a commission of bankers.
A dispatch to the Navy Department
reports one deatli and two or three
cases at Key West from yellow fever.
The Attorney General Decides a Nat
uralization Case.
The Attorney General has decided a
question of naturalization submitted
to him by the Department of State.—
The facts briefly are that A. Steiukaa
ier, a Prussian subject by birth, im
migrated to the United States in 1848,
and was naturalized in 1854. When he
returned to Germany he took with him
his son, then aged four years, born in
the United States. The sou is now
twenty years old. The question
at issue rose as to the son
owing military service to Germany.
The Attorney General reviewed at some
length the United States laws and the
treaty with Germany on the subject of
naturalization, and also quotes recent
British legal opinions, and comes to the
conclusion that the boy has two nation
alities, one natural and the other ac
quired. The father returniag to Ger
many and resuming his allegiance, the
son partakes of the status of the father.
Being a minor, and having enjoyed the
protection of the German Government,
he, for the time being, or until of age,
owes military duty, the obligations be
ing reciprocal ; but when the boy be
comes of age, he can return to the
United States as an American citizen,
with ail the rights and privileges as
svich, and would even be eligible to the
Presidency of the United States.
Hinds Dismissed.
A nolle pros was entered in the three
remaining cases against Hinds for al
leged complicity In the recent man wu
tract frauds.
Over one million and a half of na
tional bauk currency, since May 27th,
upon which 80 per cent, are legal ten
ders, will be retired. Since the pass
age of the act of January 14th, 1872,
nearly eight million additional national
bank currency has been issued.
Assistant Surgeons in the army in
clude Walter Reed, of Virginia ; Rich
ard Burnett, of Mississippi; and Ro
land L. Rossou, of Virginia. The ap
pointments were made after a compet
itive examination.
Accident to tlie Steamer Seminole.
Washington, June 28. —The Signal
Service observer at Cape Henry re
ports the steamer Seminole from Sa
vannah to Boston, Captain Matthews,
1100 tons register, with a cargo of cot
ton and general merchandize, broke her
main shaft 70 miles northwest of
Cape Hatteras. She worked up under
sail and now lies at anchor ten miles
east of Cape Henry awaiting assistance
from Norfolk. She fell in with the
steamer Vera Cruz, from Savaunah to
New York.
FROM NEW YORK.
Rowing News—The Beeclier-Tiltou
Jury Still at a Dead Lock.
June 27. —The spring re
gatta of the Harlem Rowing Associa
tion took place to-day on Harlem river.
The attendance was large and the races
were in each instance well contested.
There were three contests, the first of
which for the diamond sculls was won
by R. B. Bainbridge. The second con
test for the ladies’ challenge plate was
won by the Nassau boat club. The
third and last event for the grand chal
lenge cup, four shells, was won by the
Athletic club.
Up to nine o’clock to-night nothing
new has transpired in the Tilton-Beech
er case. The jury remain locked up to
day as they were during the night. No
communication was received from them
in court to-day. Nothing is positively
known as to how they stand, though
all kinds of contradictory rumors are
in circulation.
A Baltimore Injunction,
Baltimore, Juno 28.—1a the Circuit
Court of Baltimore city to-day, upoa a
bill of complaint of certain tax payers
in the city of Baltimore, Judge Pink
ney grauted a preliminary injunction
prohibiting the Mayor and City Coun
cil, its officers and agents front paying
certain appropriations to a number of
charitable and benevolent institutions
in this city, and restraining such institu
tions from demanding payment. The city
Council recently passed an ordinance,
which was approved by the Mayor,
'king' appropriations for the year
'O9Pg which were appropriations
18To, a s^ r Qf charitable and feenevo
to a nunß public and sectarian,
lout assocui ' V Men's Home, Aged
Women’s^Home, MaO""> 4
Society, Institutions for ’
Union Protestant
Mary’s Industrial School, and others,
amounting in the aggregate to
about fifty thousand dollars. When
the ordinance was before the City
Council it was vigorously opposed by a
member of the Protestaut clergy, and
also tax payers, on the ground of ille
gality ; and also that Catholic institu
tions received an undue share.
Fatal Railroad Accident.
Boston, June 28.-The steamboat
train on the Old Colony Railroad to
night ran over a wagon fit a crossing in
] Bowensville, Fall river. Robert ' anct
Tbos, Hynes, Mrs. Hynes, her child and
! John Graham, who were in the wagon,
syere killed. The driver, Henry Fraw-
Jey, was pulled away by the horse and
escaped.
A.UGUSTA., GA.. TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 29. 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Bombardment of a Spanish Town-
West India News—More Deviltry in
Cuba—Review of the German Fleet-
General Destruction of Life and
Property in France—Grand Ceremo
nials at the International Rille Match
—Sailing of the Polar Expedition.
Madrid, June 27.—The Spanish frig
ate Vittoria has bombarded, with de
structive effect, the ports of Matrico
and Deva, on the Guipuzcoan coast,
held by the Carlists.
Paris, June 27. —President MacMahon
arrived at Toulouse yesterday after
noon, and was well received. He visited
the ruins, and was cheered by the pop
ulace.
Paris, June 28.—The Assembly to
day voted $398,000 for the relief of
suffers by inundations. It was resolved
that a subscription should be opened
among the Deputies.
A committee of 30 have decided that
the Chamber of Deputies shall be re
newed every four years.
Paris, June 28.—Antoine Louis
Barye, a French sculptor, is dead.
Dublin, June 28.—A grand banquet
was given last eveniug by the Fellows
of Trinity College, in honor of the
American Rifle Team. There were 75
guests at the banquet, which took place
iu Commons Hall. The guests included
the American Team and the party ac
companying them.
The Irish team practices to-day at
Dallymouut. As they did not lire a full
number of shots at e acii range only
a general opinion as to the character
of their work can be formed. The
scores as far as they went were excel
lent, aud show that to-morrow’s con
test is likely to boa close one. It
has been finally decided that the
Irish team shall consist of the fol
lowing gentlemen : Dr. J. B. Hamil
ton, Mr. Pollock, John McKenna, J.
K. Milner, Mr. Wilson and Edmund
Johnson. They all shoot with the
Rigby rifle, while of the American
Team Messrs. Fulton, Bodine, Dakin
aud Coleman will use Remington’s, and
Messrs Gildersleeve and Yale will use
Sharpe’s rifles. The match will begin
at 11 o’clock to-morrow morning. Ab
solute silence has been ordered at tiie
range during the contest. Conversa
tion will not be permitted, oven
among the shooters. Neither Team
will be allowed to know the num
ber of points made by the other until
the eud of the firing at each range,
when the score3 will be officially an-’
nouuced. A large number of Americans
have already arrived in Dublin to wit
ness the match. The indications this
evening are in favor of good weather
to-morrow. The impression xsontiuues
to be general that the Americans will
win.
Dublin, Jane 28.—The Lord Mayor
and Lady Mayoress, of London, and
suite, arrived this morning to witness
the International shooting match.
They were called on by the Lord
Mayor and corporation of Dublin, in
in state, and conducted to the Man
sion House, where they partook of
lunch. Afterwards, they attended a
review of 0,003 troops at Phoenix Park.
Lhe Ame ilium LMHa Team and narts>
were also at the review, and were en
thusiastically received. The weather
was unfavorable and attendance con
sequently small. This is the first time
the Lord Mayor of London has visited
Ireland in state.
The Mayors, of London, York and
Dublin in state attended a gala perfor
mance at the Gaiety Theatre to-night.
New York, June 28.—A cable dis
patch says so great is the secrecy main
tained iu reference to the international
shooting match, which is to tako place
at Dublin to-morrow by the Irish Rifle
men, that even the names of the men
selected to form the Irish team have
not been announced. The good scoring
of Americans, the dispatch says, has
frightened the Irishmen.
Havana, June 27.—Advices from St.
Thomas of June 17th report trade de
pressed on account of the stagnation at
Porto Rico, where the drought has in
jured the crops. Some failures in the
dry goods trade have resulted from the
general depression.
News has been received from Puerto
Plata, San Domingo, to the 11th inst.
The new tariff was considered op
pressive.
The last treaty with Hayti was very
unpopular.
A part of the new crop of tobacco is
ready for shipment.
At Port-au-Prince, on the 10th, coffee
was quoted at thirteen and one-half.
Advices from Curucoa are to the Bth.
It is stated that large deposits of
guano had been discovered on the
island, aud samples sent to Europe.
President Gazman Blanco persisted
in prohibiting trade between Curacoa
and Venezuela.
Accounts received of the earthquake
in Colombia were heartrending.
Havana, June 27.—Captain General
Valmeseda has issued fresh decrees
against speculation in gold, and is de
termined to punish offenders with
rigor. It is officially reported that on
the 24th inst. a band of insurgents,
commanded by the mulatto Rios,
swooped down from the hills and burn
ed four plantations, besides committing
various robberies. The troops pur
sued and dispersed a band, killing sev
enty-five. Rios was captured aud shot
at Esperarsea. The Spanish loss was
twelve killed and wounded. An active
pursuit is kept up of fragments of the
defeated baud.
Berlin, June 28.— The Crown Prince,
Frederick William, will assist at the
maneuvres of the German iron-clad
fleet, which begins on Wednesday next
and continues until Monday. The
American squadron will witness the
display.
Uondok, June 27.—Telegrams to the
Times say 900 persons perished in the
the flood at Toulouse alone. The out
break of an epidemic Is feared. It is
believed 2,600 houses have been swept
away in the town and euvirous. The
damage there is estimated at from 12
millions to 15 million sterling. A Paris
our respondent of the Times makes an
appeal to British charity in behalf of
the sufferers. The Daily News’ special
telegram says the lowest estimate of
deaths la the flooded districts is 2,000.
It Is proposed to bombard and thqs
destroy the St. Cyprien quarter of Tou-
Jpuse to prevent danger from the
crumbling walls of houses that yet re
main.
The Standard publishes reports of
fearful inundations in Bohemia and
Moravia-
New York, June 27.—The Herald’s
cable special from London announces
the sailing from Portsmouth yesterday
of the steamer Pandora for the Arctic
regions. She goes in search of the
northwest passage and for the discov
ery of the relics of the Franklin expe
'“‘■ion, The Pandora is a-vessel of 450
tons, and wOf flttea ? ut
Young, her commander, _ ra iiß..
and James Gordon Bennett. She pro
ceeds to Disco, Greenland. Eaqui-
naaux Joe is on board. Just be
fore starting Capt. Young received
a present of a splendid barometer
from the Prince of Wales, who takes
great interest in the expedition. The
following is a list of the Pandora’s offi
cers: Capt. Allen Young, commander;
he was formerly sailing master of Mc-
Clintock’s exploring ship. E. Fox ; he
is thoroughly experienced, and has
made the longest sledge travel on
record. Lieut. Lillingston, of the
British navy ; Lieut. Koslemans Bey
nen, of the Dutch navy ; Lieut. Pierre,
of the British navy ; Messrs. Davis and
McGowan, the sailor and interpreter.
There are twenty-five hands on board,
of whom four are quartermasters.
Thomas and Florence, Boatswain Mo
hool and Esquimaux Joe have already
visited the Arctic regions. There aro
no Americans in the crew.
The British Parliament.
London, June 28.—1n the House of
Commons to-day a bill amending the
labor laws passed its second reading,
and the national debt sinking fund bill
was read a third time.
Another British Failure.
Edmund Jones & Cos., East India
merchants, and agents of the Burmese
Government, have failed. Liabilities
estimated at $750,000.
The Spanish Civil War.
Madrid, June 28.—The Spanish fleet
on the northern coast has bombarded
the Carlist ports of Berme at Madaca.
A conflagration at Palacceos in the
province of Seville yesterday destroyed
one hundred and forty buildings.
THE BEECHER JURY.
NO VERDICT YET.
Beecher Says There is Only One Man
Standing Out—They are to be Kept
Up Six Weeks.
New York, June 28.—The WorTd pub
lishes au interview of a correspondent
witli Mr. Beecher, while the latter was
on the way to Peekskill, Saturday.
Beecher is reported as saying; “ There
is but one man standing out. The root
of the matter is this ; There has been
a good deal of betting on the result.
Still this one man has been hanging
out from the first. We were warned
about him long ago. Judge Neilson
will keep the jurors out for six weeks
if necessary to induce them to bring in
a verdict.” The correspondent also
says that Beecher said he knew who
the juror was who was holding out.
New York, Juno 28.—12 M.—Jury
still out.
THE WESTERN COTTON CROP.
Report of the Memphis Exchange.
Memphis, June 28.—The Cotton Ex
change crop report for June contains
the following aggregate of 145 respon
ses from Western Tennessee, North
ern Alabama aud Arkansas under the
average date of Juue 22J: 83 report
very favorable weather, 57 moderately
favorable; 140 answer no planting of
cotton since May 15, some are replant
ing, five have planted six per cent, to
them, 133 answer cotton stands iuu>
sauomevury, x 2 answers“i per cent, av
erage. As to them 84 answer very good,
33 good, 8 moderate condition; 138 re
port free of grass and weeds and well
cultivated; 7 partially unclean, ami not
thoroughly cultivated; 137 answer that
squares are forming freely, 8 not yet
forming well. There are 12 reports of
blooms dating from 18th to 22d inst.
We have only to report a limited com
plaint of too cool weather at night.
Throughout small portions of each de
partment there is some complaint of
lice dating from the 15th of May to
about the sth of June, but which sub
sequent very favorable weather has in
almost every instance remedied.
Indicting Cincinnati Ex-Officials.
Cincinnati, June 28.—The grand jury
to-day returned indictments against
Thos. E. Snell Baker, the present Chief
of Police, formerly Secretary of the
Water Works; Win. Meik, city editor
of the Vulksfreund, ex-Collector of
water rents; J. B. McCormick, ex-Col
lector of water rents, aud Paul Rem
lieu, formerly a trustee of the Water
Works, for embezzlement of money be
longing to the water works, aud H. A.
Bowman, son of one of the present
trustees of the Water Works, for grand
larceny. These cases have all been
brought to light by the investigation
into the management of the Water
Works, which has been in progress for
some weeks past.
* Suicide of a Human Fiend.
Philadelphia, June 28.—Frank En
terer, a German, aged 50 years, who
was committed to prison Wednesday
for an attempted rape upon a little girl
four years old, committed suicide last
night by hanging himself to a cross-bar
of his cell.
The Louisville Lottery-
Louilville, June 28,—C01. Blanton
Duncan has written a letter stating
there are 15,000 tickets out, upon which
50 cents are due each ; also, that hold
ers have suits in preparation for bal
ances due on the Louisville Library
Lottery.
Minor Telegrams.
Greencastle, Penn., June 27.— The
machine shop of J. B. Crowell & Cos. has
been burned. Loss, $60,000.
San Francisco, June 27. —Iu the in
ter State rifle match yesterday the
Sumner Guards’ team, shooting against
the team at Creedmoor, New York,
scored in the aggregate 511.
Detroit, June 28.—A tornado passed
over the northern part of the city.—
Thirty houses are demolished. Four
persons are known to be killed and
many hurt.
Cincinnati, June 28.—At Pomeroy,
Ohio, on Saturday, Jacob Ronshur un
successfully attempted to kill his wife
by shooting her aud then shot himself
through the head, and diod instantly.
No cause assigned.
Buffalo, June 28.— The grain shovel
lers are on a striko against steam
shovels, and the grain business is at a
stand still.
Utica, N. Y., June 28.—Samuel Chub
buek, pjoneer telegraph apparatus
manufacturer, js dead, age 76.
New York, June 28. —Henry Qelrichs,
of the firm of Oelricbs & Cos., is dead,
age, 66.
It is said to be the intention of the
persons in charge of the census now
being taken of New York city, to make
put a total of J.,250,0GQ in the enumera
tion.
Wit is not leveled so much at the
muscles as at the heart; and the latter
will sometimes smile when there is not
a single wrinkle on the cheek— Lord
hyttleton.
\ French statistician claims to have
discovered that, given a hundred
blonde and a hundred brunette women,
more o! the latter than of the former
will get married.
IN THE CLOUDS.
An Augustan on the G reat White Moun
tains—Their Wondrous Grandeur.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Fabyan House,
White Mountains, June 23d, 1875. J
To see Mecca and then die, is said to be
the highest ambition of the Mohamedan.
To see Mecca would, without doubt, be
very desirable ; but to “theu die,” es
pecially with a Mohamedan’s chances
for paradise, would be about as foolish
a,thing as he could do. But to see Mcruut
Washington, aud ride to the summit
over the Mount Washington Iron Rail
road, and theu live as long as one pos
sibly can afterward, to onjoy the
thought of having seen what, in my
opinion, is one of the most wonderful
combinations or groupings of mechan
ism, science and nature there is in the
known world, would be much better
and more sensible, with the chances
lessened of “slipping up” in the under
taking. The two principal points of
interest in this region are the “Flame”
at Francena Notch and the
Ascent of Mt. Washington,
over the Railroad with the view from
the summit. These two points con
sidered, the tourist can well spend a
month more time in visiting the various
other places of interest. This whole
section is oue of woudrous beauty. To
reach here from the south or south
west, the traveler should procure
tickets via tho Boston, Concord and
Montreal Railroad, leaving the ears at
Littleton by tho stage for the Profile
House, ten miles distant. From this
place you have a fine view of the “Old
Man of the Mountain,” and a short ride
carries you to the “Fume” at the notch.
From the Profile House you go eleven
miles by stage to Bethlehem, a station
on the White Mountain Railroad,
where you tako the cars for the Faby
an House, the nearest railroad station
to the depot or the* Mt. Washington
Railway, which is six milts distant over
the Fabyan turnpike. It requires a
very vivid imagination to describe a
turnpike among mountains, aud
as I do not possess that faculty in a
very eminent degree, I trust that your
readers will allow me to omit it. Let
it suffice when I say that the hotels are
plenty aud good, where the appetite
engendered by a ride over them can be
appeased.
Teams are easily procured at the
Fabyan House for the trip over the
turnpike, which leads up the valley of
the wild Amonoosue river, aud by the
falls of tiie same name, which are very
beautiful. Here we stop aud refresh
ourselves. Resuming our ride, in half
an hour we arrive at the foot of Mt.
Washington aud the railway depot. 1
will riot attempt a description at pres
ent of the unique looking little loco
motive and car which takes you safely
from thereto the Summit House, 6,291
feet above you, over au inclined rail
road of three miles in length, with a
rising grade of 1,980 feet to the mile,
which is very nearly an angle of forty
five degrees, but simply say that they
.are built so as to accomodate the
is the great feature of Mt. Washington.
It is fearfully grand, aud should be un
dertaken once by every one who can
by any means do so, not forgettiug, as
a Baltimore Divine whom I met here
told me, to thank God that you had
lived to make the ascension, aud thank
Him again that you had lived to get safe
ly away. We enter the car at the com
mand, “ Get Aboard,” and take our
seats with some hilarity and jocular
jesting with our fellow-passengers,when
the start is made, and we move
slowly aud steadily on up the first half
mile aud across the old Fabyan bridle
path, until we reach the eud of the
first mile and the Fairy Hill water
station, where we stop a few minutes
to get water, aud continue ou to the
head of Fairy Glen and the commence
ment of tho ascont of Jacob’s Ladder.
This glen is 1,700 feet deep, and within
a stone’s-east of perpendicular, and is
to the left of the track, while to the
right the rocks tower hundreds of feet
above and seem to overhang our heads.
The ascent of Jacob’s Ladder, which is
the steepest grade on tho line, com
mences here aud is across a chasm ou
fearfully high trestle work. Oue look
dowu tho 1,709 feet to lhe bottom of
the glen and then to the overhanging
rocks above us, with the car suspended
in the air at an inclination of forty
five degrees, and all hilarity has
ceased, aud unblanched checks are
at a premium. This is no mo
mentary senation, but it continues
as we move steadily oil without, the
least diminution of speed for a full half
hour, when we reach the “Gulf of Mex
ico,” an immense dry chasm at the head
of the Saco Valley, and from which the
river Saco takes its rise. Here, per
haps, the mountain scenery is less wild,
but that in the distance is fast increas
ing in interest. We wood and water
the brave little engino which lias proved
itself a very Hercules so far aud move
on. All vegetation'eeases at this point
except some dwarf grass and Alpine
moss. This latter bears a modest little
flower which I noticed in some places
had pushed itself through the edges of
the snow drifts which still remain scat
tered about.
We have now reached within a few
hundred yards of the top of tho moun
tain, and to the scene of the death from
exposure of Miss Lizzie Bourne, of
Kennebunck, Me., in 1855, 20 years ago.
This young lady in company witli au
elderly gentleman and lady in ascend
ing the mountain were suddenly over
taken with a dense cloud and hail
storm, in which they lost their way and
wandered about until they reached in
the darkness this spot, where ladies be
came exhausted, and during the night
the young lady died. At day-break the
survivors found to their great astonish
ment that they were within sight of the
Summit House, aud not 10 minutes
walk from it a casiu of rock with an
inscription board upon it give the name
and ag* of the unfortunate oae. The
view from the top does not produce in
the same degree that feeling of sublime
terror that the aerial suspension from
below does, but is simply grand. We
take dinner at tho hotel on the sum
mit and visit the United States Signal
Office. Here we find the Signal Officers
qourteous and obliging, who kiudly ex
plained to us the working of the dif
ferent instruments in use and gave us
the record of the day. Wind S. W.,
and 42 miles an hour; thermometer 53
degrees. The greatest velocity of the
wind ever measured at this office was
iasti Winter, when it reached 138 miles
an hoqr. The names of the three
officers who remained at this point all
of the past cojd Winter are Fred De-
Rosher, Chas. J. King and Wm. Line.
In descending the mountain we make
qbout the same speed as we do in as
cending; but the terror has somewhat
subsided—just enough to enable us to
enjoy to tjie fullest extent the answer
of the to the excited old
fndy wUen she asked him where the
passengers would go to if the brakes
were to give way He blandly replied
that “It would depend entirely upon
how they had lived in this world.” We
reached the Fabyan in safety at sup
per time, but well pleased with the
trip—better, I presume, than you will
be with this hastily written description
of it. • Contoooook.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Another Blast for a Third Term—Un
dying Hate—Grant Twitted on the
Civil Rights Bill.
Indianapolis, June 25.—The Indiana
polis Su)i of to-morrow will contain the
following letter from Wendell Phillips
to James Buchanan, of this city :
“Boston, June 19, 1875— Dear Sir:
The first clause of the Cleveland plat
form, adopted last March, has my cor
dial approval. No words can fully des
cribe the importance of the financial
plan it recommends. lam sure it will
soon be adopted by the nation, and
that it will revolutionize the relation of
capital and labor. It will put capital
beyond all danger of interference with
its rights, and will immeasurably in
crease the comfort of workingmen. No
siugle measure of change will do as
much as this can for the happiness, vir
tue, and progress of the race, and, in
my j udgment, everything tends towards
such a system of finance aud heralds
its speedy adoption.
No teachers aro so sharp and suc
cessful as bankruptcy and tho sheriff.
Even here in Boston, the very Gibral
tar of bullionism, I can see signs that
the ranks are beginning to break, and
some few representative men are bend
ing their thoughts and steps to our
side. But there is no use of my giving
you this expression of my opinion. I
have publicly advocated a third term
for Gen. Grant, and unless some oue
cau be found as sure as he is to rally
the whole North, aud as true as he has
been to claim from the South all the
fruits of our victory. He has not, by any
means, done his duty when he claimed
or consented to tho rejection of the
school clause of the Civil Rights bill. He
made that indispensable measure almost
useless, and balked the hopes of the
nation. Still I know no one more to
be trusted than he who has any chance
to be elected. But your party repudi
ates him because he is joined to bullion
ists and stock mongers. I lament this
as much as you cau. Still a nation can at
tend to but one issue at a time. Ad his
tory proves this. To-day belongs to the
great struggle for equality before the
law. The South hates this aud means
to defeat it. The North has hidden
this grand rule in its heart of hearts.
This provoked and justified the war.
The battle over it is not ended. For
this struggle the nation is ripe, ripened
by furty years of discussion and five of
war. Much as I value your great
financial measure, I must in this next
Presidential canvass measure my can
didate by another standard—loyalty to
impartial liberty. Show me a man true
to this and also to financial reform, and
with a fair chance of success, and I am
his earnest, devoted and single-hearted
supporter everywhere and at all times.
i * eiy respectfully,
Wv*nFT.L Phillips.
President Jefferson’s Invitation to a
Third Term.
The New York Graphic has resur
rected the following minutes of the
Senate of Maryland at its November
session, 1806, urging a third term upon
President Jefferson;
Resolved, That the Speaker of the
House of Delegates and the President
of the Senate be requested to transmit
to the President of the United States
the following address;
It being congenial with republican
principles to consider the devotion to
public service as originating from no
bler motives than those which aro ex
cited from the expectation of pecu
niary rewards; under this impression,
we think the approbation of a grateful
people the greatest reward a nation
can bestow on her deserving Execu
tive.
The Legislature of Maryland, cor
dially approbating your administra
tion, eminently distinguished for wis
dom, moderation, firmness and equity,
would not act agreeably to the will of
the people, aud to their own sensa
tions, if they were to neglect., at this
ciitical moment, to assure you of our
unabated confidence in your wisdom
and virtue.
The policy which has characterized
your administration has augmented
the happiness and prosperity of this
fortunate country. The American char
acter has been more eminently exalted
abroad, and the happiness of the peo
ple, the design of government, in
creased and promoted at home.
In vain have the machinations of
despotism been levelled at the princi
ples of our Government; your vigilance
and wisdom have always been directed
towards the protection of those princi
ples which completely secure to us life,
liberty and property.
When we take a retrospective view
of the transatlantic convulsions, and
at present behold all Europe ingulphed
in the misery of war and despotism, we
are obliged to approve of those meas
ures which have averted from us those
horrors and calamities. Wo cordially
hope the same wisdom which lias
guided aud protected us thus far may
be able to aunibilate the demon of con
spiracy, the offspring of desperate aud
abandoned men, who, hacked by foreign
aid, expect to benefit and aggrandize
themselves from the destruction of
that constitution which has exalted us
to our now elevated station ; our great
confidence in your wisdom, and the
wisdom of Congress, warrants our an
ticipations of a complete frustration of
their treasonable designs.
Wishing to live iu peace aud friend
ship with all the world, we siueerely
hope our negotiations with foreign gov
ernments will be honorably and ami
cably adjusted ; if the reverse, a firm,
energetic aud dignified alternative will
meet our support.
But, sir, whilst we bear testimony of
our approbation of your administra
tion, permit us to solicit you again to
take the helm of ur government.
We know that retiring with the bless
ings of a great nation is desirable, and
that your Republican principles induce
you to wish a rotation in office; But we
hope that amor patrice, which is so
natural to you, will permit your name
to he placed amongst the candidates
for the next President of the United
States.
That you may long live to enjoy the
confidence and attachment of the
the Amertoan people, is the wish of the
Legislature of Maryland.
A Brooklyn tailor advertises “scan
dal suits” for sale. They are very
loose, with great breadth or choler.
Boston now has over one hundred
first-class woolen manufactories, all of
which have sprung up within the last
twenty-five years.
THE FOURTH OF JULY.
What Ex-Governor Herschel Y, John
son Has to Say About It.
[Atlanta Horald,]
We continue this morning our publi
cation of the letters received by the
committee in response to their invita
tions. Ex-Governor Johnson has the
floor to-day:
Atlanta, Ga., June 26,1875.
Dear Sir— Yours of tho 11th instaut,
inviting me, in behalf of the citizens of
Atlanta, to co-operate with them on
the Fourth of July in celebrating the
99th anniversary of American indepen
dence, was duly received. I beg to
tender my sincere thanks for the cour
tesy thus extended to me. I accept
the invitation, and hope to be able to
attend.
I have regretted that the custom of
observing this anniversary has fallen
into almost entire disuse. I am glad
to see indications—of which your pro
posed celebration is, perhaps, the most
striking and noteworthy—of a disposi
tion in the public mind to return to it.
And why not? If the principles an
nounced in the Declaration of Inde
pendence were ever worthy to be cher
ished, they still are. They have not
changed. fl'hey remain, aud must
ever remain the only solid foundation
of popular liberty. They may be ig
nored by party, maddened with domin
ion, or forgotten in the stagnant iner
tia of a people paralyzed by the de
spondency which that dominion im
poses, but they are as vital now as
when they were proclaimed on the 4th
J uly, 1776, or as when they were cher
ished by the baptism of blood on the
battle-fields of tho Revolution, or as
when they were crystalized iu 1777
iuto the form of Constitutional liberty.
In the spirit that animated our fore
fathers in 1776, let us renew our devo
tion to them, and for their maintenance
pledge our lives, our fortunes and sacr
ed honor.
If I am not mistaken, the celebration
you propose has an important aud in
teresting significance. It is intended as
a manifestation of the desire of the
people of Georgia, that the bitterness
between the sections engendered by the
late civil war, shall cease. This is
right. Let the assurance go out from
the Capital of the State, that she is
ready aud willing to extend practical
greeting to the people of every section,
who agree to stand by the great prin
ciples of public liberty and maintain
the Federal Union of States based upon
them, as they are defined iu the Con
stitution.
This is the only reconciliation be
tween the sections that can be of per
manent value. It means more than
simply making friends of each other,
or the cessation of overt exhibitions of
animosity. It means more than tiie
adjustment of party differences in pol
itics, which look mainly to triumph in
a Presidential election and the conse
quent control of the power and patron
age of government. Such a reconcil
iation is superficial and falls far below
the requirements of an exalted pa
triotism or the comprehensive and far
reachingr polL-ica or a ™-o C—
.The harmony to which I allude
i- teat wflicu wm result from a con
scientious return to a full recognition
of the principles of our common consti
tution aud the administration of our
government in all its depart
ments according to its title and
spirit. This, and this only, cau secure
lasting fraternity and mutual confi
dence between the States and the vari
ous sections of our country. For it
will reassert State equality, the right
of local State government and even
handed justice, in the distribution of
both the burdens and blessings of the
Federal administiation. This is the
harmony for which I plead. It is the
true spirit and genius of our system of
Confederate government. Without it,
we may have, not the union of States,
but the unity of empire, consolidated
aud upheld by military power—the
stagnant peace of despotism.
It may be that I cannot co-operate
personally with the citizens A Atlanta,
in their proposed celebration. If not.
then these hasty reflections must be
my representative.
Renewing my thanks for your cour
tesy, I am, gentlemen, your obedient
servant aud fellow-citizen,
Herschel V. Johnson.
SHERMAN AT BUNKER HILL.
What the Champion Vaxulal Did Say.
To the Editor of the News and Courier :
In your remarks on Gen. Sherman in
yesterday’s issue, you say : “Sherman
was at Bunker Hill, but he is not re
ported as having said one kind word to
the Southern visitors. We don’t regret
it!” In these la3t words you utter the
sentiments of our whole people. It
may be well, however, for them to know
what he did say. In a report by the
Boston Post of a collation given by the
Loyal Legion to distinguished guests
of the city and State, he is reported as
having said :
“ I have been struck with one thing
since I have been in Boston, and you
must excuse me if I look at things in a
very plain sort of way. There has
been a most extraordinary purpose, it
seems to me, to attract our friends
from the South. You have not only
held out to them tho right hand of fel
lowship. but you have coaxed them to
come. There was always a kind of
sympathy between Boston aud Charles
ton, I think. Extremes meet always,
and sometimes they show, like
weathercocks, which way the wind
blows. I think these two cities,
Charleston ou the oue hand and
Boston on the other, show which way
the wind blows; that there is a general
feeling iu the North to encourage the
South to come in and be a hale-rellow
well-met. It is very much like the
Scripture parable of the prodigal sou.
Yuu not only give them the right hand
of fellowship, but you kill for them the
fatted calf. I say that it is all right;
but if Gen. Fitzhugh Lee be here I tell
him not to draw au unfair inference
from that fact. If we come here as we
have, aud work side by side with each
other in the national cause with like
energy and force, they must not pre
sume upon this kindly feeling. I can
give a hearty welcome to any one who
fought iu the South against us, pro
vided he promises not to do so again.”
Bitter and insulting words to both enj
tertainers and entertained, by one who
was himself but a guest. The great
mendacious incendiary par excellence
has not a semblance of gentility about
him, and does not understand the first
rudiments of decency and propriety.
He doubtless knew very well, however,
that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was not present.
J. EL H.
It is said that a square, fair hug
from a full-grown black bear is equal
to a pressure of 950 pounds. Those
statistics have got to be reduced to 300
pounds or we’ll stop right here.—De
troit Free Press.
-New Series—Vol. 3. IsTo. 132.
ST. JOHN’S EYE.
After the Voudous— -Some Siiife-nlar
Ceremonies—A iu Heatheu
ness.
I New Orleans Picayune, June 25.]
As already mentioned in Thursday
morning’s Picayune, Voudouism here
is slowly passing away, yet still enough
votaries are found to make times rather
lively at the Lake End, and to give an
exhibition, to say the least, both curious
and disgusting.
Leaving the city proper at a late
hour, and arriving towards the lake on
the old Bayou St. John shell road, our
reporters were informed that “the cere
monies” of this year were to take place
at the lake, and falling into a long
line of
Vehicles,
a quick trip was made to where the
black, sluggish waters of the bayou
empty into Lake Pontchartrain. Here
had assembled quite a party, number
ing some hundred iu all, who proposed
to have a pie-nic, but the mosquitoes
being a little too numerous, they were
about breaking up, disgusted with the
eve of St. John sand its appropriate
ceremonies.
Beyond these, however, were scat
tered along the lake shore numerous
parties all professing to be engaged ia
pie-nicking, and who passed away the
night dancing and singing.
At the Lake End proper matters ap
peared even duller than here, but after
a long search it was elicited that the
Voudou Dance
would take place in a house selected
Tor tho purpose way out iu the Lake
and completely over tho water.
Hero were assembled some twenty
five colored men and women, with
closed doors and windows, who were
engaged iu some sort of dance.
After considerable parley the dignity
of the Queer was so far mollified mi to
igree that a certaiu number of specta
tors should be admitted to the dance
on their agreeing to pay a small reel
anu be implicit iu obeying her instruc
tions and those of a sort of major
domo. who presided over the festivi
ties.
Arrangements having been settled
the spectators were mysteriously ush
ered into a large room,
Curiously Arranged.
A large white sheet was laid in the
middle of the floor, iu the centre of
which was a pyramid, some live feet iu
height, of some kind of candy. Around
this, in four separate piles, were fruits
and flowers, and at each corner of the
sheet were four bottles containing per
fumed water. Candles stuck iu small
glass candlesticks were placed at inter
vals on the sheet. On the top of the
pyramid mentioned was a small cov
ered basket of palmetto, which was
said to contain
The Voudou.
At each corner of the sheet, and on
the sides were seated alternately a
man and womau, while iu a corner on
a box was ‘ Queen,” an immense
“gombo” negro woman.
On each side of her were ten men
,#BV}
been admitted. Causing an il?.;
themselves on the floor, he 3tated that
it was necessary to hold their hands out
in front of them and keep perfectly si
lent.
This having been done, at a given
signal the men and women seated
around the 9heet began a low, monoto
nous chant, clapping their hands and
striking the floor alternatively. This
was kept up some half an hour, when
three of the men and two of the wo
men rose up and commenced to dance
around the sheet. Suddenly, at a sig
nal from the “boss woman,” one of the
men took up one of the bottles, and
after sprinkling the four corners of the
room and each one of the spectators,
drank a portion of its contents. He
was immediately seized with a sort of
convulsion, laughed screamed,
Foamed at the Mouth,
and leaped backwards and forwards on
the floor like a demon. One of the
women then took a candle and passed
it over his body like a mesmerizer when
he fell to tho floor as if in a tit. He
was lifted up all shouting “la voudou,
la voudou,” and tiie spectators were in
formed that he was bewitched. The
Queen then ordered him to go round
and shake hands with every one, which
he did, roiling his eyes and shouting.
In the meanwhile the singing and
pounding on the floor had grown louder
and louder, and was perfectly deafen
ing ; the closed room was excessively
warm and most of the spectators hall
reached the fainting point, when, with
a piercing yeli from the whole assembly,
Man Bewitched
seized the small basket, and opening
it, drew out a small garter snake,
which he passed around his neck and
over his head, foamiug at the mouth
and leaping about—the others rising
and dancing.
Auother yell from the voudous loud
er than before, a grand shriek and at
another signal the lights were put out,
the snake’s head was solemuly pulled
off and thus ended the ceremony. The
devil or fetish being supposed to have
been in the snake, and being thus kill
ed, he was got rid of and his worship
ers were free.
It was daybreak, the sun was just
rising, and cast its rays over the waters
of the lake as the party broke up,satis
fied with having in a Christian country
at least spent one night in heathen
ness.
“ If you want fun,” remarked old Se
mi lax, leaning over the gute uud work
ing the gravel with his bare toes, “you
oughter see my wife dig taters when
she’s tearin’ mad.”
There is a gentleman now iu the Brit
ish Parliament whose election expenses
•were $72,000, or about $lO for every
vote he received.
“ It’s generally the case with bad
boys,” philosophically remarks Miss
Anthony, “that they look like their
mother and act like their father.”
The Omaha man who used a $5,000
bond to light a lamp hasn’t got through
swearing yet, and his wife wont dare
ask him for even a hair-pin this Sum
mer.
Over the grave of the wife of Bene
dict Arnold, in the Grove Street Ceme
tery, New Haven, is a stone stating the
day of her death to be June 19, 1775
just one hundred years ago last Saturl
day week.
Men’s vows are women’s traitors
[Shakespeare.
Of all the paths leading to a woman’s
love, pity is the straightest.
The grange movement is represented
as being on the decline.
Mozart was a Jew,