About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1887)
VOLUME XII.—NUMBER 600. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 14,1887. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE, Shading Across the Bloody Chasm. CALHOUN. lir MARGARET J. PRESTOS. Tae following is the poem written by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, of Virginia, at the re quest of the board of managers of the Caihonn Monument Association, and read at the un veiling of the statue- in faarleston, S. C., Tuesday lest: I. Stand forts, stern patriot: calm, sivere, A.s In thin** bo'tr’s .uprrme elation. Weep, eager Senators thronged to hear Xbe vtlee that thrilled a listening nation. IV. rVep from thy civic chair; receive Tae homage which (hy people tender; . The best that grateful hearts can give To keep thy memory fresh and tender. . III. O tr City hy the Sea, while yet Disaster lays Its grasp upon her, It ^members her Inviolate debt Of pride and reverence, love and honor. IV. Her spires may rock, her towers may fall, Hercenturled grandeur sink and perlsn; Her homes he ravaged, roof and wall, And ruin blast what most she cherished, V. Vet, while one spot stands firm and fair, Safe from the elemental riot, We’ll place our patriot warder there. Sublime In Ule majsstlc quiet. VI. Through life bis watch knew no snrcease; What, then, if In the fair Elyslan, Through the clear atmosphere of peace, lie holds ns still In vactie vision l .. ' VII. The eye so keen to note the wrong— The voice so firm for law and order— Shall we not own their guidance strong, From mountain crest to ocean border? VIII. With reverence tor the poV er that led ' His mind to each profound conviction, We bow beneath bis hand outspread, And hare receive his benediction. IX. Truth,® with her mirror at his feet, Hives Pack, without a wane of glory, His whole consistent life, complete As some clear page of classic story. X. Stern Justice vows, by sword aDd shield— Her roues of regal state upon her— That she, as soon as her scales could yield, As he—his Carolina’s honor! XL And In her sovereign majesty Ttte Constitution, witn her token Spread open on ner pended knee— Mot one of all her fasces broken— XII. Looks up to him, whose giant thrust Still kep* at bay each pressing foeman; Heady to die. If die he must, Pro Palria!-grand as any Romani X1IL See! History takes her diamond pen To trace with calmness unlmpassloned, From fl st to last, his life; for when Was statesman’s life so purely fashioned— XIV. S > tireless In Its atm to wage The war of splendid word and action; So staunch amid the rant and rage O! envious aud Ignoble faction; XV. So like a lighthouse on a rock, When fast the surges swirl, and faster; Still warning those who did but mock. Of tempest, shipwreck, wrench, disaster! XVI. Yet., ere the oflset, doomed to die! IVsrt lining oiace, and fame aod favor; “Mu countrystill Ills latest sigh— ••J would have staked my life to save her.’’’ XVII. Yea; when the stress of peril came, And war’s wild savage sore bestead them. He would have led her hosts through flame O; battle, even as Hampton led them! XVIII. He would have died, like gallant Bee, As if a master’s e.-own had crowned him, To guard ills State’s dear sovereignty. With her Palmetto 11 ig around him! XIX. Fair Carolina! ’Mid the names Toat blazon thy heroic pages; Wnose record all our reverence claims— Whose words go Bounding down the ages— XX. Place first, place foremost, proudest, best. The name here cut whose splendid story, Blown henceward—North, Eist, South and Watt— Remains your heritage of Glory! [•The four allegoric fitures on the base of the monument represent Truth, Justice, the Constitu tion and History ] The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on the 19th memoralized the United States Secietary of the Navy not to have the war ship Hartford destroyed, but repaired and kept in the service, owing to her historical char acter. The venerable George Bancroft, like every body else from the North who comes down to see us, returns to Washington in love with the South and her people. He makes an enthusi astic report of what he saw and of the South’s marvelous development. Of Mrs. Polk, whom he visited in Nashville, he speaks in high terms, saying that she is “a lady of wonderful mind, exalted character and most charming manners.” He says ‘‘she seems as young in manner and vigor of intellect as he remembers her to have been when he knew her in Wash ington forty years ago.” Mr. J. C. Latham, of Latham, Alexander & Co., New York, has erected a beautiful monu ment of Scotch granite at Hopkinsville, Ken- iucky, in honor of the Confederate dead who are at rest there. Mr. Latham went from Hopkinsville to New York, and has never lost his interest iu his old home. The monument will be unveiled on May lllth. Bishop Thos. F. Dudley will conduct the religious ceremo nies. Orations will be delivered by Iiev. C. F. Deems, of New York, and Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky. Survivors. Norfolk, Va., May 2.—A party of eighty- three survivors of the Fifty-seventh and Fifty- ninth Massachusetts volunteers, who served in the Army of the Potomac during the late war, arrived here by a Bos ion steamer to day. The party were entertained by committees of mili tary and citizens, and left on the afternoon train for Petersburg, where they will visit the battle fields made famous by the closing months of the war. Petersburg, Va., May 2 —The 57th and 59th Massachusetts Volunteers Association, 100 in party, arrived here this evening. They were met at the depot by the Petersburg Grays, R. E. Lee Battery, and a large n amber of ex- Confederate soldiers. When the train came in the Battery fired a salute. The visitors march ed up to the Albemarle Hotel along the prin cipal streets, numbers of houses being illumi nated, and there was a liberal display of fire works. The speech of welcome *at the hotel was made by Gen. L. S. Bolling and responded to by Maj. Cook. To-morrow the Bay State boys will visit the crater, accompanied by Gen. Mahone, who will explain the position of the troops on the battle field. Natural Bridges. While every one of our readers has doubt less heard of the Natural Bridges of Virginia,, we dare’say that only those who may happen to live in the respective vicinities know of the seven others in the country. One is in Walker county Alabama. It spans about one hundred and twenty feet, is some seventy feet high, aiid is said to be fully equal to the Virginian bridge. Composed of the sandstone that underlies the coal formation, it is the center of a widely romantic region, lofty, precipitous crags of the same sandstone being visible in the surrounding hil's. In Christian county, Kentucky, is another bridge, having a span of seventy feet and a height of one hundred and thirty. California boasts of five of these curiosities, the largest being on a small creek empting into the fork of the Trinity River, where a vast ledge of rock crosses the valley. The creek runs under ledge through an arch twenty feet high and two hundred and eighty feet space. In Siskiyou county, on Lost River, are two conglomerate Randstone bridges, so close to gether that they are called the Twins. In Tuolumne county, on Coyote Creek are also two^bridges within half a mile of one another, some forty feet high, and having a span of two.hundred and ninety to three hundred feet. —Golden Days. LETTERS^ _ ^Vpedple COLORADO SCENERY. Manitou, the Rocky Moun tain Spa. Glimpse of What May be Seen in the Land of Wonders. OUR ILLUSTRATED LETTER. The New York Commercial Advertiser re gards the Calhoun monument with a judicial calmness which is in striking contrast to the hysterical alarm of the poor old Tribune. The Commercial Advertiser says; Sincerity united with . ability makes the great man. Tried by this test, John C. Cal houn was truly great, and one of the greatest men this country has produced. Even in the stormy times in which he lived, and in the still eioruvle-; '”ii“ in i'a'’’ 1 crvne of bin difiai 'principles were repudiated by the arbi trament of war, his greatness was acknowl edged by his bitterest enemies; and the later generation, which yesterday witnessed the un veiling of his monument at Charleston, can do no less than reaffirm the acknowledgment— and this it does freely and gladly. Manitou, Colorado, April 10, 1887. Editor Sunny South: The “Far West,” so often represented as a “wilderness’’given over to a reign of wild “riotous ranchmen,” is in reality peopled by the adventurous sons and young collegians from the more crowded Eastern States. The di yness of the ground, the electric air, and the bright warm sunshine render out-door sports pleasmeable pursuits, even in winter. The region of the Rocky mountains offers inducements of many kinds; the active man finds boundless opportunities non the picturesque-tail to Pike’s Peak com mences, and ends at Ihe United States signal station on the summt 14,450 feet above sea level, the highest habitation in the world. Little we think, as we read the “weather prob abilities,” of how min on that snow-bound rocky summit flash 4owTf*5ie mountain Bide and over the wild prairies of America the in formation gathered flom the signs they have learned to interpret the use of the meteor ological instruments Vhiclvuave found their way to that wild outpost. Still on farther down the valley we enter t.v. frowning portals of Cheyeune canon iniuortalized in prose and verse by “H. H.,” whf iu-ar by in her quiet grave, in the spot she loved so well and called •‘My Garden,’’ rests jot alone. Surrounded by the flowers she love! so well, and shaded by the trees she wrote to e-ten about, the pica grandis, the Douglas spruce and the Rocky mountain pine. She is net dead, butsleepeth. The Rt.ream is larger in tJITnorthern than in the southern gorge, but the latter forms that magnificent cascade knovR—as ’ the “Seven Falls;” comes tumbling iio>n front a height of 500 feet in seven leaps and 'i well worthy of the admiration its beautf “ways excites. The Cheyenne toll road hereits; ru’s the mountain, winding for about ten mtu- ~i ,h easv grades through scenery unsurv .«£d, affording at t met glimpses down into ti.® valley below and out on the prairie beyond, fw-pi the terminus a good trail to the Seven which pictures que as such bodies of wat ■= usually are among 'be mountains. Austin Bi d& is five miles from Colorado Springs; the is no fear of missing the road, and win the bluffs are reached not only does the plain represent a limitiess expanse, the infini:ude of which few can behold unimpressed but 'fountains hither to unthnught of suddenly apj* .tr. Apparently from the Southern plains rise the twin heads of the Spanish peaks, while the loftier and pointed crags of the Singre de Christo range uplift their snow-capped cres s to the south western sky. The Spanish peaks are about a hundred miles distant, the tops of the Sangre de Cristo range, which are 'isffile from this point, are at least 30 miles farther, they equal Pike’s Peak in elevation and really lie on the other side of the by no moans insignificant chain of the Greenhorn mountains from behind which they rear their snow Had summits. Ute Pass leads westward from Manitou over the range into South Park; 'iris now a wagon road cut ifi many places from the face of the cliff, the rocks towering thousands of feet above it on one side, and on the other present ing a sheer descent of nearly as many feetdown to where the Fountain river brawls along over Pickett’s division have determined to erect a monument to mark the po’nt where they made the most gallant charge of any Confederate command during the war. The monument is to be of Virginia granite, and will be placed at the point where Pickett is supposed to have pierced the Federal line. It will have four sides and four inscriptions, this being one of them: VALOR. The brigades of Garnett and Armstead, of Pickett’s division, pierced the Federal lines and reached this point on their charge of July 3, 1803. Number engaged, 4 700; losses 3,303. “Charging an army while all the world won dered.” Lieutenant Henn, who commanded the Gal atea in the yacht race last summer, predicts that the Mayflower will beat the new Scotch yacht Thistle this season. Curious Origin of Dakota’s Name. The territory of Dakota is, in many re spects, the most interesting grand division of our country’s domain. For a few years it has occupied more attention than any other. No State or territory, certainly, has ever risen to such rapid and surprising importance. The origin of its name has been the subject of some dispute; but the best Indian authority, a dweller for forty years among the Sioux In dians, makes the word an abbreviation of Pa- ha-Sota, which means “many heads, or plenty.” The affix “Sota” always means “plenty,” in the Sioux language. In the word Minnesota, it means plenty of water, the ap propriateness of which designation is made manifest when you consider that the State bearing that name is only two-thirds land, the remaining one-third being water. What the many heads were that gave to Dakota its title I do not pretend to say from actual knowl edge, but I suppose they were the heads of buffaloes. Nothing could be dearer to the In dian than this game, aud here they abounded. Their “countless trails and wallows are still to be found on every hand, * * * not to speak of the elk, deer and antelope,” speci mens of which have survived the buffalo’s practical extinction in the territory.—Cosmo politan. A Group of Queens. The queens in southern Europe are a re markably interesting group of women. The queen of Roumauia, or Carmen Sylva, is not only a poetess, and full of picturesque romance, but she lately underwent examination for a diploma that might give her a right to do cer tain teaching in the schools. Everyone knows of the skillful manner in which Chris tina, the queen of Spain, performs her un wonted duties. And now Margaret of Savoy, the queen of Italy, is to appear as an author, with her stories founded on the legends of the Middle Ages. Among the various languages spoken fluently by this queen is English, in which she reads every new book of import ance, keeping herself posted on English poli tics and gossip. In religious matters she is neither too liberal nor too devout, and she is a passionate patriot. In person she is lovely, fair and brignt, more graceful than majestic, with a feminine sweetness very attractive in a royal personage. Her family relations are perfect; she is the intimate friend of her young son, the Prince of Naples; and, often seen on the streets and among the shops, she is idol ized by the Roman people.—Harper's Bazar. FIRST «.L BEUNAfORIAL RESIDENCE IN COLORADO. in cattle ranches, sheep raising, to say nothing of the coal, iron, silver, aud gold mines with which the State abounds, while the sportsman is attracted by the wild deer, antelope, elk and mountain sheep, and the more dangerous game of wolves, bears and mountain lions, which still infest the forests of pine and cedar, and the disciple of Newton would rejoice in the trout fishing and revel in the speckled beau ties of the tribe that haunt the streams aDd lakes of Colorado. But it is to the artist and the lover of nature that this incomparable country speaks volumes that often read never tire, as each page is not a repetition but a new story. It is impossible to convey any idea of the beauties of the great canons, the watertalls and the glorious mouu- Something New m Railroad Con struction. The Mining Railroad building from Thom- a^ille, N C., is nearly completed and we are in- ftwined is a unique affair. Trees are cut down and run through a machine which turns them all the same size; they are then laid down on sleepers and used as rails. The wheels on lo comotives and cars are grooved and fit over the rails. (in one side all the wheels are fas tened on to the axles like an ordinary wagon thus adapting themselves to any small differ ence in the distance of rails apart. It is said there are no slips and that they pull immense loads. THE SEVEN FALLS. tains soaring hundreds of feet above the plains and meras (table lands) which lie seven to eight thousand feet above sea level. The scenic spot of this picturesque region lies in and around Mauitou, the “Rocky Mountain Spa,” a short drive from here, to the “Garden of the Gods” nestling near the foot of Pike's Peak and encircled by a massive and triple wall of white, red and blue sandstone, iu places over 300 feet high. The gateway, tfi opening into the Garden, whose portals are 380 feet above the ground, glow with the most vivid colors, suggesting the imagery and aerial structure cf the “Alhambra.” Once within the walls, the water-worn rocks assume the forms of fabled monsters, the dragon, the frog of colossal proportions, the seal, the lion, the camel, and on high, bending low in holy medi tation, the veiled nun, white robed and black veiled. One can but wish to be remembered in her prayers. A vast amphitheatre in which the architectural designs of nations are re vealed. The “Kiosk,” the pagoda and the temple, and in the centre Christianity is,not forgotten, raiding heavenward its delicate pin nacle and spires of the cathedral in the glow of an afternoon sun. When deep shadows are cast the ruins are too characteristic to escape even the most unobservant, and the phlegmatic exclaim with the lover of nature, “How beau tiful 1” From here to Red Rock canon is hut a short drive of five miles between the embattled walls raising each side from a narrow road over a hundred feet in height of red sandstone—each turn revealing new charms to the eye, and needs hut the banners planted on its angles to convey one hack to the middle ages in imagi nation before a besieged city. From this ca its rugged channel. You can still trace along its rugged sides the trail of the Ute Indian tribe, made in their descents to the plains and in their annual vis.ts to the “Big Medicine” of the healing springs, the name given Manitou by the Utes. A mile and a half from Manitou, in the Ute Pass, are the Rainbow falls. A beauti ful and picturesque waterfall of about 50 feet. They are the most beautiful and the most ac cessible on the eastern slope of the Rockies. Williams’ Canon situated north of Manitou is picturesque in the extreme. Its lofty walls of vari-colored rock, broken into battlements and towers and soaring piunacles are a never end ing source of surprise and delight. The road winds along between two walls so narrow that a sharp lookout must be kept that no convey ance should be met unless in an occasional turnout, as it is impossible for two vehicles to pass on this road except in these turnouts These conditions confine for a while until reaching a beautiful, valley open and wooded, one sees perched halfway up the mountain the opening to the Cave of the Winds, the most re markable cavern iu the R icky range. It has rooms in its dark recesses of enormous pro portions, one of them being over three hun dred feet in length. Tbs usual route in the cave is only a half mile, but in this distance there are more weird scenes and cave ornamen tation than usually found in such places. There are 30 rooms iu the cavern aud they are divided off into three stories, not exactly over | each other but near enough to be called a i “three-story palace.” Within a few feet of the entrance is Cascade Hall; is well covered with the different forms of carbonate of lime. I On one side is a cascade down which the wa- I ter for ages has slowly passed, it is seven I feet wide and thiriy feet high. Hatging from ; the ceiling are many stalactites of varied form, j Canopy Hall is 200 feet long, 20 feet high and 40 feet wide. Here are seen “the Mound of | Cinders,” icy Curtain Draoery, Wa er Basin ; Canopy, Hogshead Cascade, Fluted Column, : and many other peculiar and interesting for- ! mations. Still continuing our journey we j come to “Boston Avenue,” “Tali Man’s Mi- j sery,” T. Elmo’s rest. Music Hall, Alabastos 1 Grotto and Stalactite Niche, the Bridal Chamber, Pluto's Curiosity Shop, and Dante’s Inferno. Engleman Cavern, southwest of Manitou, leads to the famous Iron Ute Spring. From the spring a trail leads to Pike's Peak, the as cent of which is superb. In all probability at some future day the ascent can be made by From Keachie, Louisiana. Our Railroad—Its Arrival in the Vil lage—The Boom and Collapse. Editor Sunny South: If you have never lived in a village when the first railroad was built through it, you cannot understand any thing said or written on the subject. If you have had this experience, then you will appre ciate our pleasure in our new road. There was so much talk about it that we thought it was all talk—but finally the engi neer came along and surveyed a route and then every time there was any unusual sound, the children would ask with bated breath, “Is it the engine coming?” Months rolled around and our hearts were “hope deferred” sick when another route was surveyed. Then people began to talk about moving to the railroad and property looked up a little. Another long pause followed this wave of excitement aud then came the reflux of the tide and we were startled by the rumor that hands were actually at work on the road bed, contractors for getting ties were in de mand, aud the sound of the axe and maul could be heard all along the line making “the welkin ring.” Dear me! how our hearts bounded when we heard that the track was only twenty miles off and was surely coming. Now there was something to talk about. The men discussed the rise aud fall of stocks and town lots went up to fabulous prices; mean while the women began to set their hens in earnest, for who could tell the possibilities of the demand just ahead! Men were coming and men had to eat, therefore fresh eggs and spring chickens must be in readiness. The track kept creeping nearer and nearer, like a great serpent lengthening out its line. The depot was finally located, after much dis cussion and then a regular “Wall street” ex citement sprung up, town lots and building sites were in great demand and a real town was laid out (on paper) on the Philadelphia plan—the multiplication table was the model. About this time old women began to dream dreams and one old soul, to my certain knowl edge, dreamed twice that the engine stole up on the town unawares in the middle of the night and she mounted a barrel and shouted, “glory, glory.” This old woman was ealled to a distant State and during her absence from home the engine made its first visit to her vil lage, and she never will get quite over it, but “time, tide and the rail train wait for no man.” But I anticipate—to go back to where I left off—pretty soon after the “dreams,” the con struction train arrived and then anew impetus was given to every avenue of trade. The com ing and going and buying and selling kept up quite an excitement. From far and near the rural population came to see the cars, and the dashing to and fro of the few carriages aDd buggies made the main street quite a boulevard of “gay apd festive” appearance. It was as good as a’circus for the "small boy of the vil lage. At all hours could be heard the puffing and blowing and shrieking of a dozen minature steam engines. It was wonderful hi w nearly boys could ec.-e;^ 5 - Often •f . > .ijV .. £ from our equanimity by a well-exe<!jnted shriek froth the little barefooted engine just outside the gate; but one thing was rather surprising, the boys were easily, for the moment, mis .aken for the engine—but when the engine itself poured forth a blast from its great red hot throat there was no uncertain ring in the sound. One gude man wanted to know how long it was likely t® last. I told him I reckoned the small boy of the next generation would know nothing about it. It was poor comfort, he thought, to have to die with old age to escape the nuisance. But all this was the courier aoan f —at last! at last! the day came when the train itself ar rived. Oh, how important the train men seemed, and what a reign of popularity the firemen and brakemen had. The conductor was a hero, and, oh my! the excursions—ev erybody had business in the city from twenty miles off, and everybody said to everybody “Is’nt it nice?” and “What an improvement on the old plan,” etc. The arrival and de parture of the train made sufficient excitement for the day. The girls had some terminus for an evening promenade; how they would smile and throw bouquets, and how the whole village would turn out at the sound of the whistle. It was just equal to—well, words fail me, I can’t find a comparison. For a few weeks the excitement ran higher and higher, and the track crept further and further into the wilds, until the train brought us “news from the wilderness,” and it was rumored that it was all a mistake about our little village being the coming city, the town just ahead—twenty miles off—was the future Atlanta of the interior. Merchants began to flock to the new terminus—houses were thrown up iu every conceivable style of architecture and in no style at all. Booths were built on the corners, and enterprising embryo miliioa- aires even sold from the platform of the cars calico and tobacco and whisky. Yes, whisky was sold everywhere. Men took their families and lived ia cloth tents, through cold and snow and rain, to make a fortune selling whisky. Some of them died, many had pneumonia, but onward the star of empire pushed its way and the latest “advices from the front” are, that another and still more promising city looms up just ahead of the pushing engine, a city whose towers and minarets are tipped with the golden splendor of Spanish castles. The tents are rolled and packed and the hucksters and saloon men are following in the wake of the cars—hunting the new el dorado. Our little village has settled down into a pleasant calm, the feverish excitement is past, the saloons of Cross Street have turned to their first love and now find some interest in the local gossip again. The girls have quit molesting the railroad men, the small boy is content with an occa sional shriek, and the old women have quit dreaming “glory.” The railroad has changed hands several times and we hear of “syndi cates” and “receivers” and many other terms unintelligible to the uninitiated, but I—well, I am glad the railroad has come, and the best of it is, it has come to stay. We are in healthy connection with the great arterial system of the world, and every time I hear the whistle I feel a little thrill of exquisite pleasure. It is iw railroad to use and enjoy, and we wouldn’t be without it for anything reasonable. Elsie Warwick. WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the National Capitol. By BEN. PERLY POORE. No. 184. Telephone for Ohina. Among the passengers on the steamer San Babelo, which started for China from San Francisco on the 2Gth of April, were Count Eugene Stanthlaw Miltkilwich of Washington, the electrician, S A. Heame, a capitalist of Philadelphia, and E. T. Barbie of New York These gentlemen represent a syndicate with $20,000 000 capital. The Chinese government ha3 granted them the exclusive privilegs of using the telephone in China for thirty years. THE VEILED NUN. steam power, as the road is already surveyed to the summit. These are but a few of the many places of interest aud beauty surround ing Manitou. The last General Conference of the M. E. Church South; which met in Richmond, Va., in May, 1886, ordered that the third Sunday in May of this year be set apart as “Children's Day,” to be observed throughout the church with appropriate services, and on that day a collection is to be taken up for the aid of needy Sunday schools. A programme for the ser vices of the day has been issued. A bald eagle killed recently near Santa Rosa, Cal., measured seventy-eight inches from tip to tip of his wings, and its talons when opened, measured seven and a quarter inches. President Harrison. Gen. Harrison, during his month’s sojourn at the White House, made himself very popu lar. He arose every morning with the sun, and took a long walk, often returning through the market. On one of these occasions he purchased a new milch cow from a neighbor ing-farmer and requested him to drive it to the President’s house. The general was there to attend to the animal, and invited the farmer in to take someiefreshment, procured a bowl of hot coffee, ham and eggs, and continued conversation with him about farming. Tae farmer, having finished his breakfast, remarked to the general, “You have bought my cow and given me §2 more than I asked, and a good breakfast besides; but if it wouldn’t be too much trouble, I would like to have a look at the President before I go.” “I am the President,” replied the general. The farmer at first looked incredulous, having taken his hospitable friend for the steward; but ccn- vinced of his mistake, with much frankness observed, “Well, general, I voted against you at the election, but I didn’t know you then.” That simple remark, “I didn’t know you then,” will explain thousands of votes cast against the good general at his election. Gen. Harrison, in his last out-door exercise, was engaged in assisting the gardener in ad justing some grape vines. The gardener re marked that there would be but little use in trailing the vines, so far as any fruit was con cerned, as the boys would come on Sunday, while the family was at church, and steal all the grapes; and suggested to the general as a guard against such a loss, that he should pur chase an active watch-dog. “Better,” said the general, “to employ a Sabbath-school teacher; a dog may take care of the grapes, but a good Sabbath-school teacher will taKe care of the grapes and the boys too.” Mrs. Harrison remained at the White House until the 18th of April, when she left for her home in Ohio, and President Tyler removed from the lodgings which he had occupied at Brown’s Hotel to the- Executive Mansion. When Gen. Harrison had first come to Wash ington, he had called on Mr. Van Buren at the White House, and said, “Mr. President, I have a favor to ask you. There is a grandson of my gallant friend, Gen. Pike, who is desirous of being placed at West Point. He has noth ing on earth left him but his grandfather’s sword He is also a grandson of mine, and as I have never appointed any relative to any place, I wish you to relieve me, aud send him it? th** Me, V«f Yfure 1 promptly rtfppfe . .rV-*yia give peculiar pleasure to do soT'"But it was found that the youth lacked some mon'hs of the age required by the regulations of the department. The plan was therefore frustrated. Mrs. Cray’s Petition. Mr. Win^hrop, during his brief term of ser vice in the Senate as the successor of Daniel Webster, presented an interesting petition from the widow of Capt. Robert Gray, the dis coverer of the Columbia river, asking relief. Capt. Gray was in the naval service of his country during the war of the Revolution, and, afterwards, in the sloop Washington, was the first to carry the flag of our Union around the world. In a subsequent voyage, in the year 1792 k he discovered and entered the Columbia river, to which he gave the name of the ship which he commanded, and thus founded the corner-stone of the American title. Mrs. Gray’s petition was accompanied by the orig inal sea-passport signed by George Washing ton and, attested by Thomas Jefferson, under which the Columbia sailed from Boston iu 1790. A similar document bore the signature of John Hancock as governor of Massachu setts, and a clearance certificate from the Bos ton Custom-house was signed by Benjamin Lincoln, collector of the port, whose name was honorably identified with several of the great battle fields of the Revolution. Capt. Gray had died in 180G, leaving a widow aud four children, with very little property, and she now asked Congress to cheer her old age hy making such a grant to herself and her daughters as would testify its appreciation of a citizen whose nautical skill and bold enter prise had rendered so distinguished a benefit to his country. PresidentTyler’s Simplicity. John Tyler, when he took possession of the White House, determined to set an example of Republican simplicity of manners and mode of life there. The h jusehold matters were to be regulated with uuu3uai attention to economy and plainness. All the foreign servants, and especially the French cooks, were discharged, and the President would invite his friends to a plain Virginian dinner of bacon and greens, fried chicken, corn bread and apple-puiding. The “gilt spoons,” and other foreign “abomi nations,” exposed in Gen. Ogle’s speech, were carefully locked up. Mrs. Tyler was an invalid when she came to Washington, but she adorned and dignified her station; mild and patient in adversity, she was gentle aud kind in prosperity. A daughter of Cooper, the tragedian, she had been for a short time on the stage, but the profession of an ac tress was ever repugnant to her feelings and her sensitive nature, and she shrank from the rude necessities of a profession the honors of which she neither hoped for nor sought to win. Her performance was not acting It was chaste and beautiful reading, an exhibition of tender, womanly emotion, a striving for a certain aim, and that aim was to gratify and benefit her father. The Corner-Stone. The corner-stone of the extension of the Capitol was laid on the seventy-sixth anniver sary of our national independence, July 4, 1851, by the Masonic fraternity, in due and ample form. President Fillmore, the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps, a number of the gov ernors of States, and other distinguished per sons, had seats on a temporary platform, which overlooked the place where the stone was laid, Major B. B. French, Grand Master of Masons in the District of Columbia, officia ting. Among the vast audience were three gentlemen, who had witnessed Gen. Washing ton, fifty-eight years before, officiating when his brother Free Masons laid the corner-stone of the original edifice. Daniel Webster was the orator of the day, and delivered an elo quent, thoughtful and patriotic address. He was evidently suffering from indisposition, and was forced to take frequent sips of brandy and water to sustain him as he progressed. Senator Butler. Senator Butler was a prominent figure in the Senate just before the war. He was a trifle larger around at the waistband than any where else, his white hair stood out as if he was charged with electric fluid, and South Carolina was legibly written on his rubicund conntecance. The genial old gentleman would occasionally take a glass of wine too much in “the Hole in the Wail,” and then bully Hale or Chase a little, but he was a general favorite nevertheless, and when Mr. Sumner showed Mrs. S sward the manuscript of his speech on the “Babarism of Slavery,” she advised him to strike out his allusion to Senator Butler, which provoked the attack of Preston S. Brooks. PERSONAL MENTION* What the People Are Doing and Saying. Patti taxed New York $80,000 for six con certs. Sam Jones w.ll shortly begin work in San Francisco. General Daniel E sickles’ fatIler Ieft him §1,000,000. Mrs. Langtry will pass the summer in the losemite valley. i M I ?L G i®? rd ’ who died st >me little time ago, left §400,000 to the four Scottish universities. The number of feminine students in the col- 18000° f lUe United Stat6S iS eslimated at Mr. Raskin’s profits from his peculiar sys- o".'a .'r>a^ u 13 '' 1 n C k' 3 own books are stated at $20,000 for the last year. The popular fund for Mrs. Logan has been closed. One hundred thousand dollars was asked and $67,000 was given. The English translation of the “Memoirs of Madame Ristori,” the great Italian tragedi- enne, is in the hands of the printers. Joaquin Miller, it is said, has purchased a tract of land at Iruit Vale, Cai., and is going to establish “a literary colony there.” Dan Rice, the world-famed clown aud circus man, is said to be living in Cincinnati, depen dent upon friends for the necessaries of life. Dr. Jenkins, of Charleston, and one of the most eminent physicians of South Carolina, has recently mjved to Palatka for his health. Dr. McGlynn dislikes high-sounding titles, lo a friend, who spoke of him as an “orator ” he exclaimed: “Please call me a jaw-smith!” Statements are current to the effect that Senator Don Cimeron is miking $100 000 a year by real estate operations at the National capital. Ex-Senator Thurman, of Ohio, says that he has settled down to enjoy his books. His along 1101118 t0 Write IetterS t0 help young men On his 80th birthday Kaiser Wilhelm gave his medical attendant, Dr. Von Lauer, a parse Q-?^A lng ' ?37 > o00 > and on bis 90th birthday. Attorney-General Garland is said to be the only total abstainer from the us6 of liquors that sits around the council ooard of President Cleveland. The Lord Mayor of Dublin has called a meeting for the purpose of taking steps toward the erection of a national memorial to Mr. triad stone. George Vanderbiit has ordered the erection of a building for a branch of the New York «TS ng llbrary ’ the same 10 coat Charles Dickens, Jr., will visit the United States about the 1st of October ensuing, under a contract to deliver 50 readings from his father’s works. (ohiml'f" Queen Iiapiolani telegraphed from San Fran cisco that she would accept the hospitality of the city of Boston, which has been tendered her through the Mayor. It is reported that ex-Mayor Carter H. Har- rison, of Chicago, will soon start for California with his family. He Will visit Asia and m»lr« a purney around the world. Dr. H. D. Cogswell has deeded to a Board of Trustees the real estate necessary to establish a 1 olytechnic College in San Francisco. Tin* property is valued at $1,000,000. It is stated that George I. Seney and his party are now among the biggest money mak ers in Wail street. It is hoped some more Georgia colleges will get a good lift. A gift of $10,000 toward a new library build ing by Mrs. Thomas H. Powers and herdaugh ter, Mrs. Mary P. Harris, has been accepted by the University of Pennsylvania. Fifteen years ago David Hoststter was a peddler, now he is worth $16,000,090. And advertising made every dollar of it. it is said. The fellow who refuses to advertise is apt to get left. George W. Childs has an income of $1,000 a day, and a friend who once saw his account book says it showed, that in a month of thirty days, the philanthropist gave away $28,000 for charity. . Among other things, President Cleveland is noted for appointing ladies to post-office po sitions. Ladies till such positions ably as weli as some other p ositions, aud it is right to ap point them. Princess Helen, of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who is spoken of as the probable bride of the wid owed Grand Duke of Hesse, is a woman of many accomplishments and an enthusiastic student of botany. The President has appointed Sigourney But ler, of Boston, to be Second Controller of tha Treasnry, to take the place of Judge Maynard, of New York, pro noted to be Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury. A. G. Spiki ng, President of the Chicago Bise-bill Cmb, is said to be worth over $250,- 000. He has made his mouey from his sport ing goods business. He ha3 a big factory in Michigan which turns out ball bats by the mil lion. The Vatican has notified France that Gen. Boulanger’s military law, which refuses ex emption from military service to youths or men studying for the priesthood is an infringe ment of the Concordat, and has demanded its withdrawal. After the death of Principal Tolloch, of St. Andrews, Queen Victoria granted to his widow a pension of $1,000 a year from her private purse. Mrs. Tulioch is now dead, and the Queen announces that the pension will be con tinued io her three unmarried daughters. Already Mr. Primus Jone3, the first bale man, has cotton six inches high. Our readers do not perhaps know, but it is true, that Mr. Jones has cultivated his mind, almost ai suc cessfully as his land, and knows nearly as much about Sallust as he knows about David Dixon. The recent visit of Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone to the Queen, when they were invited to dine and sleep at Windsor Castle, was a notable event,” says the London World, “as I believe it is the first t me that Mr. Gladstone has ever been invited in this way, except when he has been in office.” The Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church has received, during the past year, the sum of $200,000 from the estate of the late William H. Vanderbilt for permanent invest ment, the interest of which (about $10,000 ai- nually) is to be equally divided between home and foreign missions. Just before the wedding ceremony in New York Friday last, which was ti transform Miss Louise Whitfield into Mrs. Andrew Car negie, a little business transaction took place in the library of the bride’s home by which Mr. Carnegie transferred to her enough secu rities to insure her an income of $->0 000 a y$F- Prof. Tyndall’s resignation of the professor ship of natural philosophy in the Royal Insti tution, which he has held since 1853, has been accepted with deep regret by the managers. Having refused an allowance he has been re quested to sit for a bust in marble, which will be placed in the institution. Lord Rayleigh, succeeds the chair.
