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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 14-TWELVE PAGES.
ELOPEMENTS.
Dr. Talmage Writes a Letter
Concerning Them.
HIS VIEWS CONCERNING MARRIACE
»
The Wedding Procession Should Start From
the Front Door With a Mother’s
Blessing—Capital and Labor
to Blame for Strikes.
The Key. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.,
who is now enjoying a vacation, of course
intermits his usual Friday night talk to
his church and congregation. Instead,
therefore, of a report of a talk, we give
our readers a letter from the eloquent di*
vine, which he sends as a substitute for it
There has been an unusual number of
elopements within a few days. Editors,
clergymen, artists and men and women of
all occupations and social positions have
taken part in this comedy, which is about
sure to pass into tragedy. It is calleu the
romance of marriage. It has been
epidemic in all cities. Some have
cried and some have laughed,
and many have philosophised. Some say
parents are to blame for too great rigidity
in the control of the destiny of their
daughters. No doubt there are such cases
in the attempt to transplant European es
pionage to America. Parental despotism,
like all other styles of despotism, is un
bearable; but American society is not
much overburdened with such care. In
most cases the danger is In the opposite
direction, and in too little watchfulness on
the part of the parents, whom God has ap
pointed to he the guardians ot the house
hold. Let the parents win so much of the
child’s confidence that they shnll be taken
into all counsels pertaining to the affairs
of the heart. When the young neople of a
household come to understand that father
and mother are their most sympathetic ad
visers, the chapter of domestic calamity
will end. But whoever may be to blame,
in almost all cases there are just four people
who will have to suffer for precipitate
matrimonial relations—the parents and
the runaways. The romance soon van
ishes, and the twain find out that if they
had, some evening in early acquaintance
ship, on the way home from a place of
amusement, been by a drunken hackman
driven off the dock into the lake or river,
and the policeman had not been
able to fish them out, their fate would
have been less deplorable. The glamour
of elopement gone, refinement is found
tied for life to vulgarity, education chain
ed fast to ignorauce. and soft hands of
luxuriance have to come to the wash tub.
• More appropriate would it have been if
the minister officiating had lost his place
in the litany, and read the service for the
burial of the dead rather than the wed
ding ceremony for the living. Most of
your sympathiis go outjtowardthe parents,
or the daughter who steps from
mansion to hovel. The moat of mv sym
pathies are for the poor fellow of seven
hundred dollars income with a millionaire
fool tied fast to him, one who shall forever
keep him informed as to how much better
she had it before she left home. Many of
my sympathies are with him, for. he
thought he was nuking a grand affiancing,
and all his life will be a dikannoinlmen!
and a bitterness untold. During the hon
eymoon lie may be exhilarunt, but before
six months have passed ho will wish Le
had never been born. There have been
justifiable cases of wedded liie
contrary to parental decree, and
yit subsequent happiness; but in
ninety-nine eases out of the hundred cases
that you see reported have been unmiti
gated disasters, and will find a terminus
either in divorce cou't, or almshouse, or
pauper’s cabin. 1’aul. standing in a state
of celibacy, yet closely observant of the
family relations warns people against
being unequally yoked together; yet what
devastation has been wrought by the. ro
mance of the connubial state. Marriage
is an old fashioned business, and that wed-
ding'procession marches the best which
starts not down a ladder from n back win
dow, but from the front door,with a better
benediction Ilian anv clergymon in canoni
cal can ever pronoun.e, namely, a mother’s
blessing.
But what a thing to be grateful for, that
the vast majority of homes are divinely
constructed. The exceptions only make
the rule more observable. The stranger
passes along our streets and he secs the
front step, the doorwayB, the windows of a
thousand houses, ana they seem very
much alike. Brick is brick, and iron is
iron, nnd stone is stone, but the wall be
tween these houses is the boundary of an
empire, tiod has fenced it in from all the
wcrld. It is a realm by itself. It is the
most sacred spot on earth to n>. There
our children were born; there our loved
ones dieel. Festivities and lamentations, re
unions and partings have dedicated the
place. Father and mother, son and daughter
call it home. Nothing will so soon kindle
it man into a conflagration of wrath, or
hurl h m into such a thunderbolt of indig
nation, as the invasion of his home. When
his work is done be expects to die there.
The last time he ever tees the world he
will see it from that window. Now, in
these places are concentrated more of hap
pin—s than can be found in any other
place on earth. God has kindly appor
tioned us into these families, and let us be
grateful for this gracious grouping. It
could not have merely happened so. It
was divinely ordered that it should be so.
God eetteth the solitary in families. Upon
all your homes may the blessing come.
Upon the dining room, and may there be
bread enough and to spare. Upon the
nursery, and may sickness stand back and
the angel whicirrcdeemeth us from all evil
bless the lads. Upon your pillow, and you
be guarded by him who never slumbereth
or sleepetb. Upon yourparlor, that it may
be the scene of healthful reunion and
neighborhood civilties. Upon your
library, that the destroying angel of in-
iqnitur* literature may never touch its
wing to shelf or table. And may there be
somewhere a spot of prayer, a family altar,
whfre all shall kneel and all shall get
the divine blessing; and then when
a few more seasons have come and
gone, and that home is broken up, as it
must be by the passage of years, may our
sons and daughters in other homes live
happy and useful lives, and we, who are
now in. the generation at the front, have
passed into a better home, a home with
God, the house not made with hands, eter
nal in the heavens. Yet we shall leave
the gate open as we go through, and after
awhile .the rest of our circle, I hope, will
come and join us In the land where noth
ing can disrupt or destroy.
Hut the overshadowing circumstance of
the last few days is the revival of the old
question of strikes. Are we never to have
this war between capital and labor settled?
Yes, but not by stm'neckcdness on the part
of either of them, but through kindly arbi
tration. To every intelligent person,
whether capitalist or laborer, this state 01
things is deplorable. One great sadness
is in the fact that the thrifty workman
who has a little money in the
savings bank or out on bond and mortgage,
very soon takes it out or takes it up to
meet present exigencies. There must be
bread on the table, the children must have
siloes, there must be more than the usual
appearance of thrift, lest tiierc be a pros
pect of giving in and a necessity of end
ing the strike. A strike always means suf
fering. The blow comes hard both upon
capital and labor, but the heaviest upon
labor. In all the labor strikes since the
world stood the workman gels the worst of
it. Capitalism have money ahead, and if
they never made another dollar in all their
lives they could live ou past surplus; but
the vast majority of toilers, though they
may have laid up sometbidg for a rainy
day, must not have the raiuy day too pro
longed.
Another sadness is in the fact that po
litical demagogues take advantage of surb
things, and foment the distnrhince and
block up the way of adjustment. There
are those ready to frustrate all amicable
arrangements. The trouble is that all
classes of men have among them those
who wa it 10 lie bosses. The most of the
capiialista do not think for themselves;
the most of the laborers do not thiok for
themselves. There are boss capitalists and
boss laborers who want their way. In
deed, the human family is divided into
two classes—those who boss and those who
get bossed. As soon as a man rises to
power in trade, in literature, in merchan
dise, in religion, he gets bossy. I warrant
you I could pick out ten representative
capitalists and ten representative working
men who, in one afternoon's session,
would settle this industrial grief, save
millions of dollars and sutlering indescrib
able and illimitable.
I cry out in behalf of the imperiled
financial interests of this whole country
for arbitration. Capital will never help
itself by fighting labor, and labor will
never get any advantage from combating
capital. They go up together, or they go
down together. Show me any year in the
history of the country when capital was
prosperous aud I will show you a year
-hen labor wa3 prosperous, and vice versa.
Let either interest Le struck between the
eyes and all interests of the land stag
ger and reel, and fall. But there is no
doubt that in all parts of the land capital
ists are imposing upon labor. They own
New York Legislature and Pennsylvania
Legislature, witb a few notable except
ions; they own Congress for the
most part; they ride over the necks of the
people. We have over five thousand mill
ionaires in this, country. It is a bad sign
of the times when one man dies worth
iorty millions, and another worth eighty
millions, aud our richest men are not dead
yet. It wants no very great wisdom to see
that there are p$>ple in this land who
have more than their share. I do not
wonder that sometimes men lose tlieir
equilibrium and strike, although it is un
wise to strike, since a strike means less
bread, less fuel, less good ciothes nnd less
homes.
But thero nre capitalists who have no
trouble witli their employes. The sales
being lets, the employer rings the bell that
calls liis workmen tugethes, and says: “I
;et so much less for this iron, for this steel,
or these carpets, for these woolens, for
these nails, for thess screws, for these
books, aud hence your work is worth tome
so much less.” Such employers have no
strikes in their mills, in their factories, in
their harvest fields, in their printing estab
lishments. The toilers realize they arc
not trod on, nor considered as having no
more feeling than the iron with which they
stir the blaze, or the type'tbey set, or the
spindles they turn. '
Now, what we want is n tv men with
equipoise enough, and sympathies enough,
and pluck enough, and promptness
enough, to go among these contestants and
harmonize counting room desk and anvil,
and get the delicate hand of calculation
to i ross palms with the brown and hard
knuckled band of toil.
May the table of the counting room be
run over with primrose, and all the ham
mers of toil blossom and bloom I I sup
pose that uiauy ul our trade unions are
wielding a despotism, and that workmen
are driven and stopped snd imposed upon
as much by people of their own craft as
by the capitalists. If a man has a
mind to stop work, let him stop, but
he has no right to stop me. If a man pre
fer to go to the poorhouse, let him go, but
he lias uo right to compel me to go along
with him. I would have this country so
free that when a man wants to quit work
he can quit work, and when he wants to
f o ahead no trade union shall hold him
ack. Free hammer! Free travel! Free
yardstick I Free spindle! Free furnace
Free dockyard! Free men! I expect before
labor gets its rights fully established in
this country, it wi 1 have 10 drive back the
encroachments of capital on the one hand,
and the outrageous despotism of trade
unions on the other.
MONTE VGLir.-S CIIAKMS.
A Macon Lady Writes ot the Mountain lie.
sort uuil IU bummer Life*
Monteagle, Tenn.—Monteagle is situ
ated on a nearly level table land on the
lop of tl)eCumoerland range, the width of
this plateau varying from six to fifteen
aud twenty miles.
The chaos of geographical ideas of these
later years caused me to locate Monteagle,
“on » high ‘ table land enrrnundrd by
mountains,” (about the hottest location on
the globe).
Although my friends hid told me em
phatically that Monteagle was on a moun
tain too, I did not quite believe it. It is
true I have traveled over some portions of
< ur continent, and I had seen a few moun
tains; but in my mental trigonometry I
could not quite measure a mountain suf
ficiently broad on its summit to accommo
date the building and grounds of such an
assembly as this at Moutcogle, without the
necessity of some of them hanging over the
edges.
My conception of the pointed character
of mountain tops was similar to that of
the little girl' whose parting injunction to
her auntie (in search of the Monteagle
combination of rest and work) was, “be
careful how you sit around on that moun
tain, or you may roll down the aides.”
I have been there, and I am convinced,
and it would be a great happiness to see
other people convinced in a like manner.
The many bluffs reached by delightful
drives or walks, prove beyond a doubt that
Monteagle, Buwanee and the other neigh
boring towns and summer resorts are very
much above the immediate world around
them.
The views from these various bluffs are
very beautiful and extended.
One of our little acquaintances informed
us soon after our arriqal “You are on top
of a big mountain, but you will not think
so till you go to the ‘jumping off place’
and sec how high up we arc.” This was
true: the sunset view from Table Bock
was one of those unexpected and rare
pleasures which are counted among our
“red letter" days.
Christian mothers in search of a safe and
health-giving summer retreat for their
children cannot find a more congenial or
inviting place in which to spend the heated
term. For teachers in search of a haven of
restfulness and pleasant society Monteagle
has no equal.
To business men, tired housekeepers,
invalids, and to all who aro seeking to
escape the pressure of work and worry, the
balmy mountain breezes whisper, “Come,
let ns heal you.”
While the cottagers are following their
respective pursuits of a “little work and a
great deal of play,” ami the guests at the
hotel outside the grounds are engaged in
the particular procesx of amusing them
selves; and every one is independent as to
what lie thinks or docs, there is a gen
eral feeling of good fellowship prevailing
which charms the new comers, and holds
with ever-strengthening chains those who
go there every summer.
Until tills summer Monteagle liaasuffercd
a lack of water during the dry months,
but now there is a never failing supply of
cl or water Wowing through the grounds
with hydrants at short distances apart
The water is brought by pumping en
gines from a spring at the base of a neigh
boring mountain, across the valley inter
vening, to a stand pipe on Table Hock,
from whence it is carried by pipes to the
assembly grounds, and to the railroad sta
tion.
There is one very earthly attraction
which has caused loyal feelings towards
this place, and I am rather ashamed to
confess it, but I am sure of the sympathy
of those fellow sufferers in this life wlio
feel keenly smaii discomforts.
There are few mountain resorts within
my knowledge whose most prominent fea
ture is not red clay, gummmy red clay, the
kind which gets wet quickly, and remaius
wet thoroughly, to the intense disgust of
pedestrians and out-doir people generally.
What a comfort to find on this delectable
mountain, a firm soil, with gravel and sand,
which allows one the undeniable comfort
o f wearing one’s best clothes in the securi
ty of a peaceful mind, with only the work
afterwards of a good brushing.
Besides the pure mountain air whose
equal cannot be found on this side the
Kocky mountains, or the stars, the one
great advantage of Monteagle lies in the
fact that it is too far from any large city
to have its grounds made the objective
point of cheap excursions and holiday
crowds.
It is true that for the last few years the
grounds of the New York Chautauqua are
so frequently overrun by excursionists as
to interfere with both teachers’ and pupils’
routine work.
One of the studeula of this place, who is
now studying at Monteagle,said that on ac
count of these almost daily interuptions it
was almost an impossibility for any one to
carry out a programme of daily attend
ance at lectures and classes.
Now, of course, the Chautauqua move
ment is “for the improvement or benefit of
the people,” but it is really intended for
those of the people who desire the irn
provement.
At Monteagle this element of disturb
ance is not to be found. Whilo the
whistle of the locomotive is near, the tele
graph office within easy reach, the com
forts of civilization at oneTcall, and five
hundred guests on tlio ground, yet it is
peacefulness, serenity, yea, solitude if one
chooses.
Even the bell which hourly calls to
those who are bent on "improving the
shining hours,” need have no disturbing
influence upon the laggards, who in their
indolence, believe "there is but one thing
in life better that to lie under a tree in the
summer time with a book, and that is, to
lie under the ttee without a book.”
8. B. H.
MAXWELL’S MANEUVERS.
ABNORMAL SLEEP.
Some of Ita Forma Exhibit Remarkable
Phenomena.
From the Youth's Companion.
Familiar as is normal sleep no one can
explain it It is, nevertheless, a blessed
fact. Though it seems to take one-third
from our life, it really prolongs it by the
daily renewing of vigor.
Some of the abnormal forms of sleep ex
hibit strange phenomena. We need not
dwell on sleep produced by opiates, tiic
lethargy of a|oplexy and what is doubt
less akin to it, the sleep of the drunkard;
the coma of Bright’s disease and diabetes,
and the almost irresistible sleep produced
by freezing cold.
The sleep of sonambutism is a very in
teresting form. The person will get up
and go abroad in the darkness and into the
most dangerous situations wholly without
fear. The power of sight is often grea ly
exalted, and seems sometimes wholly inde
pendent of ordinary vision.
Another form is that of catalepsy. In
this there is an entire loss of sensibility
and ordinary consciousness. The limb's
may be placed in anv position, the most
grotesque and uncomfortable, and they re
main so, as if they were made of wax.
Still another form is that of hypnotisn;
or mesmerism, induced on susceptible sub
jects by skilled manipulators. The pen
becomes insensible to pain and his will is
entirely subject to that of the experi
menter. The barest suggestion through
any sense is sufficient to put the person
under the dominsnee of the idea suggested.
Akin to artificial hypnotism is a morbid
condition into which person of a nervous
organization sometimes tali. The cele
brated “Soho sleeper” would for many
years f sll asleep for a fortnight or more at
a lime, meanwhile exhibiting more or less
of the peculiar characteristics of
hypnotism.
Many similar cases may be cited, for
hardly a month passes when the newspap
ers do not tell the wonderful story of some
“sleeping girl” who has been living un
conscious for weeks; but some of the cases
are not only interesting scientifically, but
pathetic.
In 1745 the wife of an English colonel
apparently died. The husband persist
ently refused to have her hurried, and
watt lied over her cold and motionless body
for eight days. Suddenly, on the hells of
a church ringing, she started up, saying:
“It is the last prayer bell; it is time to go."
A lady patient was requesting to have a
hot water bottle put to her I feet, saying:
“I feel”—when she passed intjn a capalep*
tic state and remained in itkhrec boars.
On opening hereyessbe cndel the sentence
—“a great cold over my whok: body."
Harmony Restore
Prom tke Hsu Francisco Alta.
Ingalls snd Voorhees have ulined with
Union Cameron, and both dranlout of the
some canteen. So, we presnm<l the w
that was raised about the war ismlso over,
and the Sycamore of Indianaland the
Jimp-on Weed of Kansas City arifat peace
The Cue of O’Donnull Kecalletl by the Re
quest for a IlCbpite#
Special dispatch to 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Washington, D. (I, August 3.—The at
tempt on the part of Maxwell’s attorneys
to have the British government interfere
in the case and make it a subject of inter
national interest recalls the case of Patrick
O'Donnell, who was hanged in England for
the murder of James Carey, one of the in
formers in the Phoenix Park murders.
O'Donnell, who claimed to be an Ameri
can citizen, shot Carey while on ship
board between England and the Cape of
Good Hope. He was tried and convict
ed of the murder and sentenced
to hang, the day of execu
tion being the 17th of" December 1883.
The matter was taken up by Irish-Ameri-
cans, and after considerable agitation in
Chicago, New York and other portions of
this countty, the intervention of the State
Department was finally secured. On the
8th of December several members of Con
gress, among whom were Sunset Cox,
Messrs. Morrison and Springer of Illinois,
and Burnes and O’Neill of Missouri, called
upon President Arthur and asked him to
interfere in the case, upon the grounds
that the killing of Carey was not murder;
that the judge before whom O’Donnell
had been tried had exceeded his powers;
that the trial was a mockery and a scan
dal; that O’Donnell was a naturalized
American citizen and, as Mr. Cox put it,
the case presented various interesting and
international phases.
A HOUSE RESOLUTION.
Mr. Hewitt, of New York, then in the
House, on the 10 th of December offered a
resolution as follows:
“Kesolved, That the Ilonse brings to the
notice of the President the case of Patrick
O’Duuueii, chinning to be a citizen of the
United Slates ami now under sentence of
death in Great Britain, in the hope that the
FwUnl may secure such reasonable delay
iu the execution of the sentence as will
enable the President to ascertain whether
the said O’Donnell is a citizen of the United
States, and, if so, whether he was tried aud
convicted in accordance with the provisions
of the municipal law of Great Britain,
and within the regulations of international
law."
The correspondence of the State Depart
ment in relation to the case covered a pe
riod from September 24 to December 15,
1883. Those who interested themselves in
the case in this country went so far as to
send to England two attorneys for the de
fense of O’Donnell, but the efforts of the
counsel proved futile. After the sentence
was pronounced, Secretary Frelinghnysen
sent to Minister Lowell the official infor
mation of the action taken here, with a re
quest to the British authorities to grant a
respite in the case. The principal point at
issue seemed to be the citizenship of O’Don
nell. Tn the absence of Mr Lews!!, Mr.
Hopper, of the State Department at Lon
don, replied that upon investigation he
had come to the conclusion that O’Don
nell’s certificate of naturalization had been
either granted to some other person bear
ing the same name, or it had been fraudu
lently obtained by the prisoner. Not
withstanding the alleged irregularity of
tiie naturalization certificate, Secretary
Freiinjjhuysen, on December 11, asked of
the British authorities a delay in the exe
cution for the presentation of any alleged
points of error.
TIIE REQUEST REFUSED.
In reply to the request of tiie American
government, Lord Granville, on the part
of the British government, on the loth of
of December politely suggested to the
American gouerument to mind its own
business. His reply was as follows:
“I have the honor to state that the coun
sel for Patrick O’Donnell, having sub-
mi'ted such representations as he thought
advisable on behalf of the prisoner, these
representations and ail circumstances of
the case have been carefully cammed and
considered in the manner usual in the case
of capital convicts, and Her Majesty’s gov
ernment finds no grounds U|>on which
they would be justified in advising the
Crown to interfere witli the sentence of tiie
law or with its execution.”
Tiie British Government tlius refused to
grant the respite and O’Donnell waa
banged. There were various indignation
meetings of Irish-Americans at New York
and other places, but nothing ever resulted
from them and the case soon dropped from
public notice. The only grounds upon
which the State department asked for a
respite was those urged by the committee
which called upon President Arthur. A
feeling existed in England that O'Dennell,
in elaying James Carey, had acted as nn
avenger upon the informer in the Phoenix
Park murder cases; that aa an avenget
he must hive been a party
to the Phoenix Park conspiracy.
This feeling, it is claimed, had
prejudiced the English people, and the
court against him and prevented him from
having a fair trial. The defense held that
the murder was in nowise the result of tlKT
political confpiracy, but simply grew out
of a personal quarrel between the two
men, who, by tne merest, met each other
as passengers on the same ship. Whatever
may have been the true merits of the case,
aside from any political prejudices which
might have existed in England agaiolt tub
prisoner, a request of the American gov
ernment was not heeded, and its atttuqx
at intervention was received with indiffer-
NYE VISITS THE NAVY
He Strikes a Big Man-Of-War
on a Washing Day.
THE OFFICERS TREAT HIM KINDLY
Colored KxcnrulonUU Mix.
Tknnille, August 6.—The WrighUville
and Tennille railroad had a big colored
excursion to I) .blln Friday. A l.rgw
numper went down and everything w»s
quiet until the negroes got on the outside
of some of Dublin liquor. Several of
them met on the banks of the Oconte and
agree 1 to disagree, and the result waa a
hand-to-hand tiglit. Some three or four
negroes were badly cut and shot. Our
bather, Dave Hicks, re cived a long gash
jus below the ear, which came very near
being a fatal wound. During the row
tour uegro.’s attempted to cross the river
to aid one of their companions, but the
bateau capsized when near the middle of
the stream. None of them were’drowned,
strange to say, al hough one sank the sev
enth time. Quiet was finally restored and
three of the participants were locked up
DENTISTRY—DR. S. B. BARFIELD,
No. Cu‘/t Mulberry street, Moron, Georgia.
Office* hours—V a. m. to 6 p. m.
Death of Mrs. M. A. Langston.
Adairkville, August 6.—After many
weeks of suffering only known to the
patience of a Christian character, Mrs.
Mary Ann Langston, wife of our valued
fellow-citizen, Mr. John Langston, died at
her residence here Saturday morning at 2
o’clock. Her remains were interred at the
home burial ground, six miles cast from
here, where a large circle of friends and
ai-quaintances wi massed the last sad rites.
M r*. Langston h aves a large family who
jrill mourn the loot of their faith Christian
/mother.
And lie Offers to Do Ills Trading at tlio
Ship’s Drug Store—Vessels Which
Are Conveniently Located in
Fall View of the Oceau.
Bill Nye in the New York World.
It has become such a general practice to
speak disrespectfully of the United States
navy that a few days ago I decided to visit
the Brooklyn navy yard for the purpose of
ascertaining, if possible, how much cause
there might be for this light and airy
manner of treating the navy and, if neces
sary, to take immediate steps toward puri
fying the system.
I found that the matter itad been gross
ly misrepresented and that our navy, so
far as I was able to discover, is self-sus
taining. It has been thoroughly refitted
and refurnished throughout, and is as
pleasant a navy as one would see in a day’s
journey.
I had the pleasure of boarding the man-
of-war Bichmond under a flag of truce and
the Atlantic under a susnension of tiie
rules. I remained some time bn board
each of these war ships, and any man who
speaks lightly of the United States navy
in my presence hereafter will receive a
stinging rebuke.
The Brooklyn navy yard was inaugurated
by the purchase of forty acres of ground in
1801. It has a pleasant water-front, which
is at all times dotted here and there with
new war vessels undergoing repairs. Since
the original purchase others have been
made and tiie land side of the vard inclosed
by means of a large brick wall, so that in
case there should be a local disturbance in
Brooklyn the rioters could not break
through and bite the navy. In this way
a man on board the Atlanta, while at an
chor in Brooklyn, is just us safe as he
would be at home.
In order to enter and explore the navy
yard it is necessary that one should have
a pass. This is a safeguard, wisely adopted
by the commandant, in order to keep out
strangers who might get in under the pre-
textof widiing to view the yard aud after
wards attack one of the new vessels.
Ou the day I visited the navy yard just
ahead of me a plain but dignified person in
citizen’s dress passed through the gate. He
had the bearing of an officer, I thought,
and kept his eye on some object about nine
and one-fourth miles ahead as lie walked
past the guard. He was told to halt, but,
of course, he did not do so. He was above
it. Then the guard overhauled him, and
even felt in his pockets, for his pass, as I
supposed. Concealed on his persou the
guard found four pint bottles filled witb
the e»«ence of crime. They poured the
poor man’s rum on the grass and then fired
him out, accompanied by a rebuke wiiich
will make him more deliberate about sit
ting down for a week or two.
X|ie feeling against arduous spirit, in the
United States navy is certainly on the in
crease, nnd tiie day is not far distant when
alcohol in a free state will only be used in
the nrts, sciences, music, literntureand the
drama
The Richmond is a 1-rge but buoyant
vessel, painted black. It has a front stair
way hanging over the baicoDy, and the
latch-string to the front door was hanging
cheerily out as we drew alongside. Dur
ing nn engagement, however, on the ap
proach of the enemy, the front (tain are
hauled up and the latcii-stiing is pulled
in, while the commanding officer makes
the statement, “April Fool" through a
speaking-trumpet to the chagrined and in
furiated foe.
The Richmond is a Veteran of the late
war, n war which no one ever regretteil
more than I did; not so much because of
the bloodshed and desolation it caused at
tiie time, but on account of tin* rude re
marks since made to those who did uot lie-
lieve in thewar, and whi.se feelings have
been repeatedly hurt by reference to it
since the war closed.
The guns of the Richmond are muzzle-
loaders, i. e., the load or charge of ammu
nition is put into the other or outer end of
tiie gun instead of the inner extremity or
hose of the gun, as is the case with tiie
breech-loader. Tb.e breech-loader is a
great improvement on the old style gon,
making warfare a constant source of
delirious joy now* whereas in former
times in case of a naval combat during a
severe storm, _ the man who went outside
the ship to load the gun, while it was rain
ing, frequently contracted pneumonia.
Moderu guns are made with breeches,
which may be easily removed during it
fight and replaced when visitors come on
board. A sort of grim humor pervades
the above remark.
The Richmond is about to sr.il nwnv to
China. 1 do not know why she is going to
Chiua hut presume she does not care to be
here during the amenities, aunp.lhies and
aspersions of a Presidential campaign. A
man-of-war would rather make rome sacri
fices generally than to get into trouole.
I must here say that I would rather be
captured by our naval officers than by
any other naval officers I have ever seen.
The older officers were calm and self-
possessed during my visit cn board both
tt:e Richmond and the Atlanta, and the
young fellows are as handsome as a steel
engraving. While gazing on them aa they
proudly trod the quarter deckur any other
deck that needed U, I was proud of my
sex, aud I could not help thinking that
hud I been' an unprotected but beautiful
f ir I, hostile! to the United States, I could
ave picked out five or six young men
there to either of whom f would be glad
to tulk over the details of an armistice. I
could not help enjoying fully my hospita
ble treatment by the officers above re
ferred to after having been only a little
while before rudely repulsed ami most
cruelly snubbed by a haughty young cot-
too-gtock broker in a New York store.
When will people ever iesrn that the
way to have fnn with me is to treat me for
the time being as an equal?
It was wash day on board ship, and I
could not help noticing how the tyrant
man asserts himself when he becomes sole
boss of the household. The rule on board
a man-of-war is that the first man who on
washday shall suggest a “picked-up din
ner” shall be loaded into the double-bar
relled howitzer and shot into the bosom of
Venus.
On the clothes line I noticed vtgy few
frills. The ingerie on board a war vessel
is severe in outline and almost harsh in
detail. Here the- salt breezes search in
vain for the singularly •awed-off' and fin-
estly trimmed toga of our home life.
Here si! is changed. Flwui the basement
to the top of tic* Iiglituiug r , , ,, I
dome, as I was about s„ '1
Bhip on wash day ; s not nvlve. ' i
Tiie Atlanta UfKfe
tiie modern war vessel and vJlu 'l
most effective craft in the wo.uH
could use her guiLs. S|„. i,.,. ,.| J
ern improvements I
electric lights, handy to depots and *i
view of the ocean, 1. it when she.i g 1
K fr *•» »*«•* out her circle.
l ’ C0DCU " h ? r rotunda,
main brace and injure people wha t 1
:« win s been friendly to the govwiJJ
1 11 r euns are now being removed aa.fl
circles nut in, so that in future she win!
enabled to give less pain to her friend.,"
squirt more gloom into the ranks 0 f!
enemy. She is at present a,
purposes of defense a* a revolve ill
bottom of a locked-up burean dr,, “ 3
key of which is in tiie pocket of T o M .ifl
dress in a dark closet, wherein also
burglar is, for tiie nonce, concealed.
AT THE HALL.'
Bewildering Revelry l )y Night at Whe
—Incidents or tiie ||„||.
WhitkpatH, August 3.-The horn, „
die and shorten time here as well J
other points upon the globe hare
dragging their rough edges hearil
the excited hearts that be in the'
and chivalry of this wild region.
The neighbors had ali been waiting ■■
a marvelous impatience for the sound S
few fiddle strings by which they .
govern their numerous pairs of feet
make merry with dancing. Marri>«be|
nre nowhere to be compared to the
which rang through the long piazza on
second floor of the Hotel de Roberta,
floated over the great surrounding bom
tain tops, kissed their dew-laden broi
and seemed successful 1- pcrsunuloz i
stars to twin le more merrily and to j,
the throng in dance.
‘•Nae cott lion, brent new from France
But strathspeys, hornpipes, jigs sod reels
Put life and mett e la their heels."
“Aire you ’uns a-gwine to thet
dancin’ at thet house where ali them ciul
folka does they eatin’ and steepin' row
here?” i
“My Lord, neighbor, what a thing ton
me about! Why, we’nrs has bin er ptJ
parin’ fer thet frolic fer four days. Lin
and Martha bin down to E.ijay, and out
cabin got things inside it you never seed
the like of befo’ lher wall, er sence. Well,
I can’t ricolleck jist what they did bad
but a mighty lot er marketin' were did on
the chawin’ gum and green ribbon order.I
Well, | good day l” I'll look f«
yer down on Saddisnight, „!
if yore gals looks enny better’n my gtb
when ycr see ther heels begin to crack
tlier floor and tlier beds gits lifted high op
m the air, then, Ike, the treats is on me iu
me’n sou’ll sip “mountain due" rum the
next bee-gum I come across on these here
i> its and darn me if we don't sit tognber.j
fer an hour and crittercixe ever last oat
er them “jumpers.” Gee Buck! Ger-loog
boys!” and with a short crack of his whip
that fell heavily upon the rough shouldcn
of a noble pair of oxen, the speaker mot-
ed rapidly up the mountain side.
Snell conversations have been heard f.w
days Oetwc-en the good old soul who makes
the peacock fly-brusb for a dollar ami her
neighbor who sells a nickle’s worth of ap
ples for a dime because she can’t malit,
the change; between tiie plough boy and
the milkmaid; the Tittle ones and all.
The. dance began. The population o
Whitepath were with us. “An hit Waite
path! Urnph!”." Such ».i» the exclama
tion of a negro boy who gazed upon tli
increasing crowd.
“Jumpers hump yerself in a hurry »’
git ever bit er ycr power reddy for a qnod-
rill !" Such was the first order of the ora
tor of the ball, anil the big porch begs"
to tremble as if in a mighty laughter at
tiie speaker.
“(ienlemen, tnkeyer hands off the la
dies’ shoulders, form tho magnolia, and
pick ycr feet up lively." The feet were
all up at the word. Some of them reachrd
a marvelous height while others sawed the
air right and leti, and aa the big foot of
Ike Wilson sailed through space, a loose
role on his heavy brogan made a sound
like the grumbling of a mountain hornet,
come to take part in the merriment.
Oue jumper in particular, (while she,
fair soul, might not have been the belleol
the halt) held the attention ol iookereon
from bogtuniug to end This U'r moun
tain daisy wore a frock that was juat brief
enough to reveal the rapid movement of
her feet and finally to disclose the fact,
which didn’t disturb her placid apirit one
jot that the heels of her blue shoes were
last bending under her exertions,
nnd the red strings were coming “ontieC
But on she moved like a mountain tor
rent, making her way successfully amount
the dancers. Her costume cannot bede-
scribed except to say that it was equal to
the rest, anil like tlio rest had begun to
to change its color in different parts, si
the false dyes yielded to the influence of*
heat which her own violent movementshad
manufacture'!.
licit.L hv Ilnnglng.
From the New York Evening Telegram.
Th- awful death of Morgan, whoee exe
cution wan botched in Columbus, Onto,
yesterday, lias a parallel in the hanging
of Jcffi-reon, the negro murderer,of Bioox-
lyn, who Underwent capital punishment in
the Raymond street jail four pear* ago-
Morgan fell seven feet when the trap
was sprung yesterday, without iireakin?
Ids neck, anil die band loosening from nn
arms he seized the rope above hi* head ana
tried to free himself from its terrible elutea
upon his throat. ,
Two physicians riez-d hi- *7*
held them while lie struggled in the a P'
nii-sof slow strangulation, and it was -
minutes before his heart ceased to heat.
When Jefferson waa hanged in m 0 "
lyn the knot should hare been dr**“ *•"
der his ear, slipped to the back ot n
head, so that the ropo was not drawn tig“
about his throat. .,.
The dying man’s struggles were teif 1 “ ■
lie swung to and fro at the e-d of t
rope, and agonizing choked cries ci
from h : » throat. . It
To add to the horror of tlim ’
arms were so loosely secu-cd that he m* *
aged to get his head up high enougu
tear the black cap from his face, aud 1
grotesque distortions of his > ac *, f* •
swung and struggled, grasping at tM, cr
rope, were terrible. p ,
The spectators gazed, fascinated
horror, upon the awful snectaeje un
dcatli came to tiie murderers rtliei, »
then the sheriff fainted, and many otn
were taken sick.
Either capital punishment most ,
abolished altogether or some method
adopted whereby death may be >• ;
pi is lied without danger ot such * car
cruellies. .
It remains to be seen whether electrn 1 j
will meet the requirements of human 11 /-