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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,