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WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 13. 1883
paritan and (Jnaker.
The persecutions of the- Quakers and
.-R.ntintN in earlv New England have se
long been a subject of deserved reproach
te the people responsible for them that
again and again their descendants have
sought te relieve them from the stigma
bvierversiens of the historical facts, or
apologies for them in aspersions of the
victims of that intolerance. But as
often as the champions of New England
have entered the arena have they been
unhorsed, SuperGcial eulogists of the
boasted freedom of opinion which the
Puritan nlanted in this country, like the
late Mr. Garfield, have never risen te the
defense of this preposition that some
stout champion of the truth, like Judge
Black, did net lay them low with the
stout clnb of historical citations, and
demonstrate that the spirit of Puritan
ism exterminated rather than planted
the right of private judgment.
The Puritan movement in England,
where its pretest against werdly follies
was se powerful :is te " make it flat
popery te eat a mince pie," blossomed
into nothing mere genial when trans
planted te the bleak soil or Plymouth
Reck. They burned witches in Massa
chusetts with the same holy fervor as
Sir Matthew Hale, in England, sen
tenced them te death while he proclaim
ed Christianity te be part of the common
law. They banished Reger Williams,
because he preached the eternal separa
tion or. church and state, while the
illustrious chief justice or the realm
convicted Jehn Bunyan for frequenting
cenventicles. The evaugelical concern
of Rev. Emanuel Downing, lest the cel
eny should be held responsible for suf
fering the Narragansetts te maintain
the worship of the devil, did net res'rain
him from gleeful acquiescence in the
proposal te capture ami exchange them
for lilackaraeres, deeming il right
"gayupful pilladge." because lhey
could maintain twenty negrees cheaper
than one English servant. Their nus
sienary zeal exhausted itself long before
it started for Africa's sunny fountains,
since in 1 GIG a slave woman was rated
as a " beast," and in lTKi they had se
vividly realized the historical accuracy
of Judge Taney's famous declaration in
theDred Scott case, that in the humane
colony of Massachusetts negrees were
judicially rated as horses and dogs, and
the superfluous infants wen-, given away
like puppies.
That the adht-ivuls of Geerge Fex's
peaceful sect weie treated with
scarcely less consideration lias long been
a matter of indisputable history, but of
lateyeais it has been the fashion in pal
liation of the old Puritan persecutions
te represent the Quakers of that day
and generation te have been lawless dis
turbers of the peace, centemners el the
holy religion, whose affected inner light
and higher law made them despise civil
forms as heartily as they defied ecclesi
astical decency. A most effective answer
te this defense of the Puritans by at
tacking the Quaker has been furnished
in Mr. Holle well's " Quaker Invasion r
Massachusetts," which appears almost,
simultaneously with Whit tier's recent
burning lilies en the women who weie
"stripped naked, from the middle up
wards, and tied te a cart's tail and
whipped through the town." Mr. Hal
lewell's little book shows that when the
Quaker visitors firs; reached New Fug
laud no laws existed, human or divine,
te prohibit their coming or bringing
their books with them, hut that en the
ether hand the " body of the liberties "
professed such tolerance of opinion as te
t invite people of different faith by a
guarantee of ample protection from the
authorities. Arbitrary persecution, in
human punishment and confiscation f
property were, nevertheless, at once di
rected against them simply because of
their faith, ample evidence of which for
persecution was found in their use of the
form " thee." A civilization which en
ceuraged the exportation of Indians and
the trading of them for rum ami negrees
because it could " uriyiitayiiu twenty
Moores cheaper than one Fuglislie .vr
vant," interdicted the landing of
Quakers, punished shipmasters who
brought them and bullied these who
would net cairyaway the children of the
banished Seuth wiclces and jell them in a
Virginia market. Net only were women
stripped and exposed te public gaz.,
beaten till the bleed ran down their bate
necks and besoms, but the ears of men
were cut off and their bodies beaten te
a jelly for attending Quaker meetings
and at least four persons suffered the
death penalty, while the number f
homes broken up by banishment and
confiscation can never be computed. .
A reference te the letters and public
declarations of the victims of these per
secutieus shows that the, orgies and
indecencies and brawling spirit ascribed
te the Quakers of that, day, in justitica
tieu of their punishment, are utterly
inconsistent with their character. That
they may have used plain language m
expressing their opinions should have
been nothing te their discredit or unpep
ularity, for both in Fngland and in this
country the doctrines of Puritanism and
its opinion of ether forms of faith were
expressed with a vehemence of expletive
that no religious movement, Mahomme Mahemme
dan, Jew or infidel has ever equalled.
The social indecorums that have b-u:i
charged upon Quaker women, Mr. Hal
lewell shows, either are fictitious or wen:
all occurrences long subsequent te the
cruel laws and mere cruel persecutions
that they have been cited tejustify, and
were invariably the results and net the
cause of persecution. The Quaker niele
drama was "net the prelude, but the
afterpiece and sequel te the Puritan
tragedy."
.At length, and with abundant citations
of a net-superficially examined record,
this last defender of the New England
Quaker fortifies his answer te the Purit
an apology for the spirit of persecution.
It is net a pleasant record te recall ; nor
is the New Englander new te be held re
sponsible for the crimes of his ancestors
in a day since when social and religious
conditions have se vastly altered; but
tfte sons of these Pilgrim fathers are se
apt te appropriate te them all that
makes for glory and freedom, of thought
and speech, political and religious, in
our early history that it is well for them
te be occasionally brought up face te
face with the stern fact that their
fathers stoned and burned the martyrs
of free thought in this blessed land.
The refusal of the court of claims te
grant a rehearing in the case of the cadet
engineers against the government, re
cently decided in favor of the former, is
a rebuke of the freshness and oflicious eflicious oflicieus
nes3 of Secretary Chandler jn claiming
that the executive department was under
no obligations te obey the decrees of the
courts. He may seen learn that he can
not de as he pleases, even if he has be
come secretary of the navy by playing
traitor te his old friends and taking up
with new ones who have new power te
advance him te places of trust. The
very presence of William E. Chandler
in the cabinet is a reflection upon our
institutions, when te this he adds the
office of censer of the court he becomes
thoroughly ridiculous. It is plain that
the secretary has never been able te get
ever the idea that the office of secretary
of the navy is net larger or mere digni
fied that a ward caucus in his own little
town, and that he governs himself ac
cordingly. m
The new Bosten party, which a few of
.the newer blue bleeds of that city started
out te organize a week or two age, has
already succumbed te the inevitable and
has resolved itself into its original cle
ments. It had announced, with a great
nourish of trumpets, that it intended te
take charge of the auti -Butler force and
show a waiting world hew apolitical
campaign ought te be carried en. This
se amused the risibilities of even the
staid and proper people of Bosten that
they proceeded at once te laugh it out of
existence. Whatever General Butler
may or may net de, he has the kindest
and most accommodating enemies of any
man new in public life in this country.
It leeks as if the cyclones in the West
will held out leuger than the Star Reute
trials after all.
This sigh of relief that went up fromthe
jnrers in the Star Reuto tiials at their eud
yesterday, was net mere silicon) than that
t which the whole country gave vent.
Tun Alloutewu Evening Telegram has
just, completed its first year, and enters
upon its second with every indication of
proving itself one of the best journals in
the Lehigh valley.
A cuaxk went, into the Sunday school
at Unity, Des Moines, en Sunday morn
ing, with his arm ornamented with a live
garter .snake twined about it, and .seated
himself in the Bible class. The people
were much put out at the introduction of
the primitive fee te mankind.
Enet.vnd lauded aud honored and made
a peer of General Wolseloy because he
bombarded Alexandria, without much
risk te himself. America will only laud
Goueral Creek because of his superb
achievements in the Sierra Madies. But
the American warrior is a modest man
and don't want mero than the thanks of
his country.
It is new beginning te be doubtful
whether the i ecent circulars issued from
Heme iu leference te the policy of the
Latin church in Ireland and America aie
te be adhered te as at first intended or he
sulfered te drop without further efforts te
give them ferca aud effect. It seem te
be obvious that while thou orders may
represent the ssntimeuts and views of tiie
Ultratnontane party iu the Vatican ceuu
ci!, the peps himself appreheuds that they
are likely te prove a failure
Tin: annual proclamation has been is
sued by Mayer King, prohibiting the use
of fireworks, cracker, guu, revolver, can
non and toy pistols in the streets of Phil
adelphia. Certainly the mayor gives
plenty of tinie by the issuance of his op
position te the usual sport of the cnthusi
astic youngster and festive adult en t lie
Fourth, but it is likely that it matte is
little te thorn when it is givea out se long
as it se effectually steps their usual hilar
ions pasttime.
Tin: trouble batween France aud China
is net likely te be smoothed ever by the
interference of Germany, who has, as
might bd expected, sided with China. Th-j
bloody days of '71 are net forgotten by
cither the defeated French or the victor
ieus Gei mans, and nothing short or the
most pal liable indications of failure will
indnce the former te back down when they
see their old enemy ai rayed agans1;
them. Franca would net have much of a
.show with China and Germany assaultiug
her, and if both take it into their heads te
restrain her from securing the firmer alh
fiance of Tonquin, alie will have te grace
fully submit te the defeat that would in
evitably come.
As additional and fuller reports are ro re ro
ccived of Goneral Creek's capture of the
hostile Indians in the Sierra Madre moun
tains it is only seeu hew difficult and
hazardous was the task he undertook te
perform. Among the most impregnable
fastnesses of the Sierras he found the
icdskins encamped, foolishly assuming a
fancied security, and quietly captured a
whele camp. It was net only that there
were danger and death te fear from a
lurking aud bloodthirsty fee, but from the
natural foimatienof the mountains thcie
was much suffered and endured, and the
brave general and his no less brave fol
lowers may, se far as public approbation
aud praise can cause them te forget their
trials, remember only the brilliancy and
success of their venture.
WKST 1'OINT UKADUATES.
Ailclrefti-ei by uenernl Terry, Sherman, Ad
inlral Keitcers aud Secretary Lincoln.
The annual exercises at West Point
concluded Tuesday, when the graduating
class of '83 received diplomas with suita
ble coremehics. The parchments were
hauded the cadets in order of their stand
ing by Secretary Lincoln, who made a
brief, pleasant remark te each. The an
nual address was made by Brigadier-General
Terry. Other addresses were made
by Rear Admiral Redgers, United States
navy; Secretary Lincelu and General
Sherman.
Jehn H. Alexander, a young colored man
from Oberlin, Ohie, is among the appli
cants for admission. He passed the phys
ical examination te-day. He is a bright
looking, dark mulatto, with geed features
and is nineteen and one-half years old.
GENEEAL NEWS.
I.ATK EVENTS CONCISELY KEI'OKTED.
Vbat Is Going en all Over the Country Dur
ing Het Weather America ana Japan.
The state department has been advised
by our minister at Tokie or the delivery te
the Japanese government of the treasury
draft for $785,000, the amount of the Si-
moneseki indemnity fund returned te
Japan in pursuance of the act of Congress
of 22d of Fcbuary last. In accepting the
sum the Japanese foreign minister express
ed " the appreciation of his government
at the equity and justice constantly mani
fested by the United States toward Japan,"
aud he " alluded with much satisfaction
te the present happy relations existing be
tween the people of both countries."
The annual exercises at the Vest Point
military academy closed yesterday, the
graduating class of 1883 receiving their
diplomas. After prayer by the chaplain,
Rev. Mr. Pestlethwaitc, and music by the
band, the diplomas were handed te the
graduates by Secietary Lincoln. Brigadier
General terry then delivered the annual
address. He referred iu his remarks te
Generals Grant aud Sherman, and the
references were loudly applauded. Ad
dresses were also innde by Bear Admiral
Redgers, Secretary Lincoln and General
Sherman. The exercises concluded by the
band playing Auld Lang Syne," and the
chaplain invoking a benediction.
The 331 aunual session of the Right
Werthy Grand Ledge of the American
Protestant association, of the United
State3, began yesterday in Bosten.
Samuel Simons, of Illinois, the R. W.
grand master, presided. Delegations
were present from New Yerk, Pennsylva
nia, 3New Jersey, Delaware, Massachusetts,
Missouri, Kentucky aud Illinois. Among
the prominent members are Jehn Fuller Fuller
ten, grand master of the order in Penn
sylvania ; Jehn O'Denncl, recorder of
deeds ; William B. Smith, president of
select. council, and Jehn Steen, common
councilman, of Philadelphia.
The twelfth aunual convention of the
Protestant Episcenal dioee.se of Central
Pennsylvania met yesterday in Reading,
CO miuisteis and 175 lay delegates being
present. The question of dividing thy
diocese or electing an assistant, bishop will
be considered.
In the general synod of the Reformed
Dutch church of Anieiie.i, at Albany,
yesterday, resolutions were adopted do de do
neuueing the Masonic and ether oath
bound secret elder.-', and cautioning all
churchrs of the synod te "discourage
their members from joining seciet tocie tecie
ties." The joint special commit tee en prorega
tien of the Massachusetts Legislature
decided yesterday te ask the governor te
prorogue the legislature until August 27.
The governor has said that he will coun
tenance no request en the subject.
The Macen (Ge ngi.i) volunteers yester
day passed through Chicago en their way
te Rockfeid, III., where thiy worn enter
tained by the citizens. They return te
Chicago today, aud will remain until Sat
unlay, as guests of the local militia.
It is announced that during the absence
of Secretary Liuceln and General Sherman,
Mr. Jehn Twcedale, chief clerk of the war
department, has b.suti designated te act as
secretary, "se far as relates te the sign
ing of routine papers."
The president has upjieiutcd Elisha W
Davis te be Indian :i;cnt, at the Uintah
agency, iu Utah, te succeed Critchlow,
whose term will oxpire en July 1st. He
has erdeied the withholding of the com
mission of W. S. Fin ay, appointed collec
tor of internal revenue for the Seventh
district of Ohie, in pl.ve of C. W. Wal
cutt, suspended.
The president, had a long conference
with Secretary Felger yesterday in legard
te the proposed oeiwdid itien of the in
ternal icveiine districts. It is expected
that soma perfected plan will be an
nounced in a few days.
The state medical society, el Delawan,
met. yesterday in Wilmington. Dr.
Rebert Hargadiue was elected president,
Dr. Willard Spihigcr vie- president-, Dr.
Geerge W. Marshall secretary, and Dr. J.
W. Sharp,- treasurer.
The first tr.ii.1 en tli.j Northern Pacific
railroad te Helena, Mentana, reached there
yesterday morning. The track is being
laid at the iate of three miles per day,
with about 1-10 miles te b i laid te the
Oregon connection.
Mayer King, of Philadi Ijihin, lr-s issued
a proclamation giving notice that the laws
prohibiting the selling and firing of
crackers, squib-:, chasms, rocket.'; or ether
fireworks, and the disch irgiug of canon.-;,
guns, pi.stels, toy pistols and ether liie
arms, will b3 rigidly enforced en the com
ing 4th of July.
ACtlltll'.N'IS.
Storm, Water mid Their iAlls.
A tornado at Bush Creek, Iowa, caused
damage estimated at $30,000, but no lives
weie lest. Much damage was done
thioiigheut Southern Iowa and Wiscon
sin.
A tornado did great damage along the
line of Dickinsen and Clay counties,
Kansas, north of Abilene, en Monday
night. The village of Industry, Clay
county, had all but two of its houses
blown down, and tltiit-eendwelling.s.barns
and stables were demolished t-Isr.where.
Several persons were injured, and a child
was killed.
The I uiue of Simen Earls.near Nun ten,
N. J., w.ts stn.c.1- by lightning en Monday
night. and East was killed. His wife and
a ht'Ie daughter were injured by the
shock.
A fire brckts out in Shaft G, in Braid Braid
weed, I!!., u Monday, and has raged ever
since with violent explosions at intervals
Thiity two mules perished and it i; feared
i-cveral men aie lest. The mine, which
was the ni'ist valuable in the coal fields of
thai-sectien, was worked entirely by cel
ei ednieu
The e:i;,in' of a freight train en the
Teledo, Cincinnati & St. Leuis railroad
left the track at Dayton,')., en Monday,
and tumbed down a 40 -font embaukuie-it.
The brakesman, V.'inas, was fatally in
jured. The engine--!- am1 fireman .uf-.!ained
r.erinus injuries.
suh;h)k ts a mi nic.
The I'rnsrititliiteat of Wi.lnw I.pucIIC!; te
:i Search.
A most mysterious death and a most
cuiieus presentiment of a woman came te
light near Reading late Tuesday eveahir.
The dead body of a man was drawn from
the bottom of a deep abandoned niine hole
with a stoue weighing about twenty
pounds hanging te 'his neck. The man
was about feity-livn j cars old and his
name was Augustus Jte.ehler, a farmer.
About tbive weeks age he suddenly disap
pcaied from his home abnut. 1 o'clock in
the morning. His wife- says she was iu
b d ab.mt half an hour b lier.i tli.it. tine,
aud fell asleep, and when she aweke her
husbaud had disappeaied. It will be in in
membsied that a bottle was found the
next day near the liver indicating that
some one had committed suicide by jump
ing into the canal. A day later it, w.i.:
learned that Heehler had been scen in the
neighborhood of Labanon. This was com
municatcd te his wife, but alie failed te
bolicve such reports anil stated that fre
quently an indescribable feeling of fear
came te her and hornet hing seemed te tell
her that her husband's body was at the
bottom of a neighboring ero mine. Finally
she made a request that the old deserted
mine be searched. A number of the
neighboring farmers concluded yesterday
te make the search and te their horror
they found the dead body of her husband
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cuuiamcn iiii.cdu ieu ui waier. a. stone
weighing about twenty pounds was
securely fastened te his neck. A coroner's
jury rendered a verdict of suicide.
BIOT ON A VESSEL.
Bearding Heaie Keepers Attacking a Snlp'fl
Crew at tbe Chester Wharves.
Fer the past few days the crew of the
ship Tillie E. Starbuck, which left Reach's,
at Chester, at 5:30 Tuesday morning, have
been locked in the forecastle and watched
by bearding house runners from New Yerk
and Philadelphia. Tuesday merniug a
man named Duffy, runner for a sailor's
bearding house iu Philadelphia, and Ben
jamin Jinks, runner for a house in New
Yerk, opened the starboard forecastle
and steed ready te give an early morning
greeting te the first men who came out.
The first was a German and he
was at once seized and thrown
down. Duffy is a very large man, ever
six feet tall and very stout. He jumped
upon and kicked the mau, while Jinks
tapped him en the head with an iron be
laying pin. The unfortunate sailor was
then dragged aft and placed in irons. All
this time the men in the forecastle were
still locked in. Leuis Brewer, ene of the
stevedores from Brooklyn, who was still
en beard, having just finished unloading
the Starbuck's cargo, took a hand in the
light. He labored under the impression
that the abused party was ene of his men
aud he was determined te protect him.
Duffy greeted Brewer's iuterference by
drawing a revolver and firing several shots
without doing any damage. As soeu as
this work began all en beard who did net
intend te accompany the Starbuck en her
veyage made quick time in getting en
shore. Soen alterwards the ruuners left
also aud lest no time in leaving the city.
N ene of the officers of the ship had any
baud in the matter. Captain Rogers se
verely condemns it.
KXl'l.tlDING TUAT UAVTIAN STOKV.
Ne Agent of the Government. Authorized te
1'nrchaxe War Vessels.
At New Yerk, inquiries were made
Tuesday at the ilaytian consulate in refer
euce te the instructions said te have been
sent by that government te their agent,
II. Lennex, of Philadelphia, directing
him te negotiate with the United Slates
government for the purchase of war ves
sets te be used for the reduction of rebels
iu Miragoane. " The first heard of the
matter," said E. D. Barrett, the Ilaytian
consul, " was from the paragraphs in the
papeis this merniug. I was convinced
there could be no truth iu it, and se I
telegraphed te Mr. Lenuex, iu Philadel
phia, asking what it all meant, aud this is
the answer I rcceived :
: Never heard such uonsenso nntil your
telegram called my attention te it. Such
stuff never came from ine.
" There " continued Mr. Bariett, "that
seems pesitive eueugh. Besides, it would
be a curious prccedent for the government
te create if it was te enter into such
negotiations as these alleged without any
communication with us at the legation
here and through an entirely independent
source. As for this man, Leen Vicra,
mentioned in this absurd report as the
agent of the Ilaytian government, I have
never heard of such a mau until this
minute, and it is net even a Ilaytian
name."
VltlNAUX'S KKVKNfl K.
The lrrenchiiin Defeats Sciutetcr at Ititllc
I.lne liilliarilH.
At New Yerk the match game of balk
line billiards, between Maurice Viguaux
and Jacob Schaufcr, Tuesday night, at the
Academy of Music, for $300 a side, was
lcmarkabic for the closeness of the scores
up te the turning of the first 300 points
and the hrilli.iucyef the Frenchman's play
from that point te the close. Schaefer,
who evidently had a great preponderance
of the sympathies of the audience, began
with rather a jaunty air. He seemed te
undervalue the strength of his adversary
and was the first te give an exhibition of
the peculiar style of nursing he had previ
ously devised for the balk-line game. But
the Frenchman seen showed that if he
had net mastered the art at Chicago he
has done se sine;), for he speedily fell te
nursing with a delicacy and rapidity that
astonished Schaefer himself, and added
370 points te his score in ene inning. He
finished the game, 800 points, iu the 3Gth
inning, with a run of 75, Schaefcr's scere
being ertly CM. Hisavorage was 22 2 0,
while Schaefar's was 17 8-J).
Matter el Laber.
A telegram from Oswego saya grain
rates by rail have been rcduced te New
Yeik and Philadelphia 1- cents par hun
died weight, and te Baltimore 21 cents.
A conference hetweeti the shoe manu
facturers and workmen, at Marblehead,
Massachusetts, yesterday, accomplished
nothing. The manufacturers offered te
concede "about half," but the workmen
adhered te their full price list.
The new iron sailing ship Tillie E. Star
buck cloared yerterday from Reach's
shipyard, Chester, for the Pacific coast,
with.a valuable cargj consisting chiefly
of machinery for locomotives and steam
beats and supplies for railroad construc
tion. The trade tribunal at Pittsburgh ap
pointed te settle the differences between
the railroad coal operators and miners did
nothing yesterday beyond examining sta
tistics prcsonted by the operators te. show
the cost of mining. It was announced,
however, " that the disagreement ever
the discharge of a miner en account of his
connection with the tribunal had been ad
justed, and that there is nothing te inter
fere with an amicable arrangement of the
rate of wages.
rennf.vlv.iiil!i lCiimirltU Association,
The'Pciinsylvania Editorial association,
about 125 in all, arrived at Fortress Men
roe Tuesday, at the Hygca hotel. A large
addition te the delegation i.i expected in
the morning beats. The excursionists to
day went sailing and fishing, visited the
Soldier's Heme in Hampten.and witnessed
an artillery drill and dress parade iu Fer
tress Mem oe. Te morrow they go te
Norfolk, where numerous courtesies have
been extended. The Gospert navy yard
will be visited, and en Thursday an excur
sion will be made te Richmond. Governer
Camei mi and wife are here and the mem
bers are being pi csented. The wcathar is
line and all are enjoying thenisnlvea.
The Ml34l!-ltil ttepitullrauH.
The Republican executive state com
mittee met at Jacksen, Miss., en Tuesday.
The committce, which consists of soven
teen members, were all present, with one
or two exceptions. Jehn R. Lynch was
elected chairman. United District At
torney Chandler, General Fitzgerald,
Colonel Merphis and a number of ether
inhY.cntial Republicans were present and
took an active part in the nicotine.
Geneial Chalmers is in the city. Chairmau
Lynch is said te he working quietly te
prevent the disorganization of the Repub
lican party of the state as a political body,
(lauglnc: riiingeir te : IluU-l'er.
James 0'DennelI,a resident of Newkirk,
near Taraanua. committed suicide bv
hanging Tuesday. The deceased worked
in the mines uutil recently, when he
started te peddle notieus. He had just
letiirued from a tiip te Mauch Chunk and
complained of feeling unwell. In the ab ab ab
sencoefhiswifo and family he hanged
himself te the bed pest. He was 58 years
of age.
fatally lSo.tteu iVltli Clubs.
At. Serauten Gcerge Lxshel- aud P. Caf Caf
ferl.y were ariested ou Tiuwday night
charged with fatally beating Jehn Gregau,
a brakeman, with clubs. Giegan Is still
alive, but his physicians say he will dia
before morning. Gregaa re fused te give
the cause of the trouble. Charles Lasher.
-. . i.u ..uuy.u. wuu
auniue' ei the attacking party, is still at
large. Officers are en his track.
ME. TILDEN.
HOW BE APPEARS MOW AT HOME.
Editor Wattersea'a Impressions of the Sage
oreramercy Park Alter a Visit En
able te Speak for Tildes.
Henry Watterson, who has been spend
ing some days with Mr Tilden, has writ
ten the following account of his visit for
the Louisville Courier journal, in which
paper it appears te-day.
"I have been spending a few days at
Greystone with Governer Tilden, and net
merely because his old friends in the West
and Seuth have an ever present personal
interest in him, but because his name is at
the moment upon the lips of politicians of
every class all ever the country, I propose
te give the readers of the Courier Journal
some particular account of him.
" When I parted from him a year age I
did never expect te see him again. Indeed
I was se skeptical of the Bteries concerning
his restoration te health as te feel a
delicacy about intruding upon his privacy.
He was geed enough te send for me and I
went ever te Gramercy park in a some
what sorrowful, sympathetic state of
mind. My surprise almost exceeded my
gratification. The old house is un
dergoing reconstruction aud enlarge
ment en a magnificent scale. But the old
library is still the same, being held from
the band of despoiling splendor for the
last. I take it as a tribute of affectionate
romemberance of old times, Old friends
aud old books.
There I found the govor gevor gover
apparition had steed
I could net have
astonished. The days
nor. If an
before me
been mere
0-7 seemed te have come back. His
low voice was found again. His eyes
were bright and his .cheeks rosy. His
intellect as sinewy and clear and his wit
as incisive as they were when he made
nothing of riding Blackstene te Harlem
and back or driving the Kentucky bays
from Gramercy park te Greystone. He
took me all ever the new house, pointing
out the various changes, explaining his
general design and discussing architecture
and architect with characteristic intelli
gence. He quite tired me out a favor
ite and malevelent way he has of punish
iug his friends climbing long stairs,
meaudering through labyrinths of decora
tive art aud threading the tapestried and
frescoed mazes of corridor and chamber.
On current affairs he talked with his usual
pungency and candor. When endurance
had ceased te be a virtue I said : " Gov
oruer, don't you think we have had
enough of this?' He smiled aud iu his
dry, half-pitying, half-sarcastic way
replied: If yen are tired we will go
down stairs."
"At Greystone his life is of the simplest
and busiest. He has a farm hard by aud
no end of pigs, poultry and blooded stock.
Of course, I had te be dragged ever -this
farm, and the devices which the old gen
tlemau put shyly forth te trap me into
some unguarded treason te the butter aud
eggs of ray blue grass country were many
aud ingenious. I steed my ground like a
here, but it must be ewned that the gov
ernor's farming is, like overything he
undertakes, thoroughly well done. I asked
him whether he tried te make any money
out of it. 'Oh, no,' he said. 'It is easier
made some ether way.' While at Groy Grey Groy
stene net se much as the shadow or the
ghost of a politician crossed the
threshold or appeared upon the grounds.
Snrrouuded by his nieces j.nd his books
the old statesman was as unroserved iu
his conversation as he was aud always is,
simple aud cordial iu his hospitality. One
of the young ladies told me that the little
household had get through ever 200 vol
umes the last winter. The governor is a
veracious and versatile reader, no 103s
than an attontive and wise observer of
affairs, aud we talked of everythiug from
Themas A'Kempis te Themas A. Hen
dricks. He playfully observod that the
chief objoctien he had heard te the elec
tion of Mr. Carlisle te the speakership was
that iu seme recent volumes published by
ene Mr. Frendo thore was a suspicion
that he had mistreated his wife.
"Here I must step. I knew that the
public is most curious te learn what are
Mr. Tildeu's views of political affaiis,
current aud prospective. I have little
doubt that if I had the right te speak I
could, by faithfully reporting him, make
myself at ence entertaining and instructive.
But the opinions of every mau are his own
and his house issacrcd. I never knew a mau
mere entirely frauk in his intercourse with
his friends than this sage of Graystoae,
but I am net his mouthpiece and it is net
for me te ceme all the way from Kentucuy
te New Yerk te de that which he is se
much hotter able te de for himself. I can
say however, for myself, that nothing pased
which leads me te modify the opinion I
have se often expressed that no power en
earth could induce him te accept the ptes
i lency."
rOUKlIlNuKANK'S DKKiSI.
The Carious Story Which UO Sends Out te
the Newspapers.
Jehn II. Crane, the foreman of
the Star Reuto jury, wrete out
and handed te a reporter ou Tues-
day the following account of an alleged
dream which he had had with regard
te the proceedings of the jury after its
retirement te deliberate upon the evidence
in the pending case. The se called
" dream " is generally understood here as
a sort of allegorical expression of the fore
man's belief that an agreementupen a
verdict will net seen be reached :
"Last night I dreamed Isiw twelve
men locked up in a room together. They
were venerable looking meu, their beards
being white with the frost", of age. It
seemed a long, long way off in the future
way down near the sunset of time. I
dreamed I was ene of them aud that we
were engaged in considering the evidence
in the second Star Reute trial. The evi
denee seemed te lay in strata and we were
engaged with pick-axes and shevels trying
te oxhume it from beueath the mountains
of arguments, exceptions and prayers
uuder which it lay buried. We were a
very conscientious jury se conscientious
that we were net willing te take a vote
until we had examined all the evidence
One of our number had his heart set en
' Agate ' and declared he would never
consent te take i vote uutil we found it.
We found ' Greenhorn ' without much
trouble, but peer little Agate ' was
buried se deep it never came te the sur
face. After we had been out a long time
it soemod an age I heard the judge say
te the marshal in a loud and somewhat
impatient tene of veice : ' Put that jury
en the old common law diet.' This threw
consternation among us, for we had been
dining en the best, that Walsh could
afford, se we hurried up thiugs. But just
as we were proceeding te take a vote tncre
suddenly appeared ever all the ghost of
Jehn Calvin, who comforted our weary
souls with sometlung like the (ollewing:
' Yeu can and you can't.
Yeii.'Vli! and yen won't ;
You'll be damned it yen de.
And be damned it you don't.'
Just then I aweke, glad te knew I was
only dreaming. I am sorry te say that I
am unable te give any information as te
hew that jury steed."
Hasftball YeHterday.
At Philadelphia : Clevelands, 4 ; Phil
adelpTiias, 3 ; at samp city : Athletic, 8 ;
Eclipse, 2 ; at Bosten : Bosten, 20 ; De
troit, 9 ; at Previdence : Providence, 8 :
Chicago, 1 ; at Camden : Harrisburgs,
13 : Merritts, 6 : at New Yerk : New
.Yerk, 17 ; Buffalo, 8 ; at same city : St,
Lieuis, 4 ; Metropolitan, u ; at 1'itts burgh :
Columbus, G ; Allegheny, 5 ; at Baltimore :
Cincinnati's, 9 ; Baltimeres, 3 ; at Schnec -tady,
N. Y.: Union college, 14 ; Johns
town, N. Y., 2.
PERSONAL.
Oscar Wilde says that he is new a dra
matic author.
Senater Antheny is se much better as
te be able te be out every day.
Bishop Laval, first bishop of Quebec,
is te. be canonized.
"Bonanza" Mackay has a private car
of his own for traveling en the Continent.
Clara Louise Kellogg is in Paris
where she will spand the rarly summer.
Edwin Beeth sailed for home en Satur
day and is expected at .Newport next
week.
Senater Lafayette, of France, the
last of his line, is broken in health. He
is peer and lives in a
flat.
third fleer ordinary
Governer Beoele, of Michigan, has
vetoed an act of the Legislature intended
te give minorities representation in the
beards of directors of corporations organ
ized under the laws of the state
Admiral JenN Randelph Tucker,
successively of the United States, Confed
erate and Peruvian Navies, dreppad" dead
at his residence in Petersburg, Virginia,
last night, aged 72 years.
Jehn Brown's old wagon, iu which he
carried .runaway negrees from Missouri,
and which carried arms for his meu at
Harper's Ferry.uew belongs te II. S. Fair
all, of Iowa City, Iowa.
Annie Louise Cary has refused au
offer of one thousand dollars te sing at the
first Brooklyn Philharmonic concert,
although in line voice. She has snug at
these concerts every season but ene fe 20
years.
Prep. Manuel J. Deanner, of Har
vard, ljas been cheseu by the Vassar
trustees professor of rhetoric and English
literature, te succeed Prof. Backus, who
has been appointed principal of the Packer
institute, Brooklyn.
Governer Pattison, as seen as he can
get away from Harrisburg, will, with his
wife and iu company with Dr. Hugh Pit
cairn aud wife, drive from Harrisburg te
Wilkesbarre. The governor will take a
riding horse, a gun and fishing tackle
along.
i-m? si:i.in;sjkeve C-KriVAL.
A Vherus et il)0 Voices The, rrugraiuimi
aud rieef-heii.
The musical jubilee which is uew in sea
sien in Solinsgrevo, Snyder county, has
proved te be ene of the most netable events
of the kind that has ever taken place iu
central Pennsylvania. A chorus of ever
500 voices participated iu the opening ex
ercises. Many distinguished persons from
all sections of the state weie present, as
well from Bosten aud New Yerk. The
tewu is full te overflowing. Everything
bespeaks a grand success. Cheral socio secio socie
eties from all the adjaennt counties are
hore iu uumbars and each incoming train
adds te the crowds. The pregramme
presented this evening was ene of exceed
ing brilliancy. Various ami pleasing at
tractions were given by the specialist:;,
Walter Emersen, eernetist ; Helen E. n.
Carter, soprano ; Mrs. M. I). Shepard,
piauist ; all of Bosten, and Professer W.
T. Meyer, pianist, of Pennsylvania.
The choruses consisted, in part, of selec
tions from Mendelssohn, Mozart, Haydn,
Verdi, Handel aud Perkins. A. V. Pot Pet
ter, president of the association, in a short
address explained the absonce of Judge
Bucher, who was te have presided, hut
unexpectedly was called Seuth en pressing
business. Governer I'attiseti, who was
te have made the opening address, sent a
letter in which he said the great press of
business consequent upon the adjourn
ment of the Legislature aud the uuex
pected demands en his time and attention
uocessitated by the extra session compel
led him te remaiu at his pest of duty.
Majer William II. Dill, who was the first
te introduce Dr. Perkins te the peeple of
Snyder county, was introduced and made
a short address, which was heartily aj
plauded. The progranune occupied ever
two hours in delivery. L'rofcsser Distiu
and son will be present te morrow. Over
twenty brass bands will also be iu attend,
ance. Mr. Emersen and Helen Carter
will take part iu the pregramme afternoon
and evening.
Jeeil Tempi Grand Ledge.
The biennial session of the right worthy
grand ledgo of the we: Id, Independent
Order of Geed Templars, opened at Halt
fax, N. F., Tuesday. The R. W. G. L.
degree was conferred enlhiitysix candi
dates. Reports showed a ger.d condition
of the order all ever the world. Thirty
four grand ledges and ",733 subordinates
are at present iu working, with a member
ship of ever l'.)(5,00() ; besides which thcie
is a juvenile membership of ever 81,000.
Special progress has been made in
Scandinavia, the order having increased iu
Sweden in two years past from COO te
19,070. The report of the right .worthy
grand treasurer shows an income from
.Inly 1, 1881, te April :10, 188:5, ef$:$,9fi8,
an cxpandituie of -5:5.197, and a balance et
assets ever liabilities of $2,1."0. The
negre mission committee reported a great
variety of work done iu extending the
order, ehiefly iu the Southern states.
I'emigylvaiila 1'eMt.tl (UiuuceH.
At Washington, nnstal chanifes we.r.i
ordered iu Pennsylvania Tuesday as fel-
lows : Postmasters commissioned Aaren
H. DifTenbaeh, Greenl.ind ; Charles W.
McCann, High Heuso ; James C. Leslie,
Brown Hill ; Frederick D. Ritter, G.iinc,
aud Augustus Weber, Vernen. Charles
E. Andrews bend for $5,000 accepted as
postmaster at New Bethlehem, Clarien
county.
Seiiuter Sill niukiyi un Alignment.
Senater Sill, et Erie, the largest stock
holder in the Union City Bank, recently
collapsed, made an assignment Tuesday
for the benefit of his ei editors. IIe ap
points Judge Marvin aud Myren E. Dun
lap his assignees. His property mainly
consists"of real eatate, variously csticiated.
His liabilities are about two hundred
thousand dallais
If i: FORK THE MAYOR.
Urmikit and Fighters Who Uad Fan Yen Yen
terilay. The mayor had five cases bofero him
this morning. Most of the offenders were
men, who are employed ou the new pipe
line. Yesterday they had seme meuey
and get en a big drunk Jehn Stein was
the first arrested. He was found lying en
Duke street stupidly drunk and Officer
Weidlcr took him
costs and was
James Redgers was
gutter ou East Iviu
in. He paid his
allowed te go.
found lying in a
street, near Ann,
batween 11 and 12 o'clock last night, by
Officer Smith. He was very drunk, and
was making a great noise. Upen his arri
val at the station heuse it was found that
th man had a rib broken, hut he could
net tell hew it eecuried. Dr. Westhaeffer
f attended him, aud this morning he was
sent te the hospital. James Reilly and
Jehn O'Connor, two oil pipes, which.
uowevcr, were lull or
indulged in a big light
whisky yesterday,
en Church street
last evening. 1 hey
were arrested .by
Officer Smith, assisted
by the members
of engine company Ne. 3, and were locked
up. Reilly get 10 days in the workhouse,
aud his friend p.iid his costs and a fiue.
Jeseph Kerns, a ene-armed Frenchman,
who runs a peep show, get drunk yester
day, and was arrested in a cigar store
en East King street, after he had fright
ened the inmates. He was seat out for-5
days. -
FaniHiij iiearu. " "
Carrie Scott, charged with robbingjHKjjeif honor man. Think of a Majer Gen Gen
Jehn Merniugstar, had a partial hcaking-X ehfrZuni some day ? And Cadet Sheck
last evening, and the remainder was con-
linued te some future time.
IRELAND.
KEVEKEIfD MOKBOWS UEOTDRE.
Sema or tbe CBaraeterutics or the natives or
the Emerald ' Itle The Ueaatjr and
Urandenr or the Scenery.
Rev. James Merrow, D. D., pastor of
the Tabernacle church of Philadelphia,
lectured in Duke Btreet M. E. church last
evening te an audience that should have
been much larger, en the subject, " Ire
land and Specimen Irishmen."
The speaker, iu his prefatory re
marks, mentioned the great importance
of all knowing something about the Irish
and their country. Iu remarking upon the
characteristics of the people and the
country Rev. Merrow thought that the
gulf stream, whose waters rise in the
Indian ocean and after windiug through a
part of ether oceans touch the coast of
Ireland, had much te de with the tempora tempera
ment of the natives and the peculiarities
of the soil. Ireland, said he, is really in
teresting. Men of science find iu its
geology much that entertains aud
111-
structs them ; men who are
scientifically inclined beheld in
beautiful scenery a wonderful
net
its
pic-
ture of color and form. As belonging te
the scenery of the country, the lecturer
mentiened the Giant's Causeway, which
se many call a freak of nature It is tl.it
as a fleer en the top, and one seems te
walk ever, when upon it, a let of column?,
iu tbe centre of which is au octagonal ea-j
surrounded by many ethors, aud se close
together that it is impossible te insert a
ponknife betweeu thorn. Then, from
below, as ene leeks upon them, the col
umns bear a must perfect likeuess te the
pipes of an organ. We may net knew for
acjrtaiuty bow this wonder wa; formed,
but probably that ferce of motion that
leads te the formation of starch
is the same which formed the
causeway. Then there is the famous Lake
of Killaruey, which was iu the parish of
Dr. Merrow, when be was a resident of
Ireland. Thore standing en ene of the
blufis one may count beneath him the
peaks of 40 hills ; ten miles away aeress
the country ene may sue the great line of
turfs, while ten miles iu another direction
may be discerned the Atlantic breaking
its waves against the shores ; aud all
around are rare plants, and exquisite
scenery.
Dr. Merrow then spoke of the early his his
tery of the Emerald Isle, aud said that in
no ethor country will a knowledge of the
past help us mere te au understanding of
the present age than Ireland. The ancient
Irish were known as Celts, and are ui t of
a great race ; the iUilisiaus iu Spain, t he
Gauls in Frauce are of them, and in the
hills of Scotland oue can find a nation
from the same division of the human race.
The Celts pushed thuuitalve forward into
many parts ef-the old world, and we may
remember as a subject, for thought that
wheh Paul addressed his cpistle te the
Corinthians it was te ene of the branches
of the great Celtic race. Anether point
iu the nationality of Irishmen is their lan
guage. It has a marked resemblance iu its
formation te soma ether languages of the
glebe. But te the Irish, many of them, it
is, as is natural, the dearest tongue et all.
Some of them will argue that their lan
guage was the first spoken aud that Adam
and Eve used it in the Garden of Eden.
Again, ethers will say that it is the very
ene that the devil cannot speak or learn,
while te the lecturer's' mind, it is the best
language iu wliL-h te curse, the
best iu which te pray aud the bent iu
which te make leve, and there is really a
weight of poetry laying in the simple Irish
heart aacLfee finds expression of it in his
language. ,y ,
Anether feattre is the structure of society.
It is remarkably like the patriarchal 1 1 fe
of the Biqle. It is that of the clan,
wherein the father Is uet only the head of
the family, but of a clan, which eharac
teristic still linger hi a faint degree. But
thore was a time when, an O'CouueIl would
net tolerate au 0'Shaughens-ey .; an
O'Donnell notice a McLaughlin, and this
antipathy of the elans is yet somewhat
felt.
The lecturer then speke of the geniality
and general points of the characters of
Irishmen. He said an Englishman i1;
never happy but when he is growling, a
Scotchman never'at home unless abroad,
and an Irishman is never at peace unless
he is fighting. As te the question of ro re ro
ligieu, the speaker thought that no
matter what might be their vices or their
tendencies there is nothing among theui
that partakes of iufidclism or even of
materialism. They are distinctively a 10
Iigieus people. This trait has cenn: down
te them from their earliest times.
When St. Patrick began his work in Ire
land, the Druid ical form of worship still
lingered. He made his way southward te
Taraand began te preach the gospel. The
lecturer then told briefly of the lite of this
geed Irish evangelist, aud rpnke of the
intensity and impetuosity of the natives
of Ireland in the prep igatieu of their ic ic
ligieu. Henry Second was the first. Fug
lish king who called himself owner of
Ireland, but before he invaded Iivland he
received a bull from the pepe allowing bin
ceurse, and stipulating that the tax of
Peter's peucp should go te his holiness.
In the ceurse el uisr.im.irksthe lecturer
I said that instead of regardiug the potato,
lu which all irishmen delight as a
blessing, he thought it a curse. Before
Sir Walter Raleigh brought tlu bulb of
tbe plant from the new world, thu IiiKh
were industrious They tilled their laud
and lived mostly upon grains. But
when they get the potato thev soeu dis
covered hew easily it could be giewn, and
instead of being thrilty and industrious as
before, they grew e.iineles:; aud uusteady.
and then when thu darks days of the great
famine come and the potatoes ictt'd
and black death was everywhere the ef
fects of the introduction of the plant were
seen.
Ireland cannot beast of her riches, but
like the mother of the Gratii, in Reman
history, she could point te her sons as her
jewels. In. every department of human
knowledge they have been found. There
areGrattan, Burke, Swift, Sterne, Gold
smith, Clarke, Currau, and even Handy
Andy and O.ear Wilde, all from lri.ih
parentage.
The specimen Irishmen were then givcu,
the lecturer taking Adam Claike, the
author of the great Bible conimeut.iry,
Oliver Goldsmith aud Jehn Phillpet Cur
ran as the particular ones. Iu his portrayal
of the early struggles of each aud their
final successes, the lecturer gave many in
teresting aud amusing anecdotes, as he did
all through his admirable lecture. Rev.
Moirew spoke mere than an hour aud held
the attention of his audicu-ju all through.
8irawberty Festival.
The members of St. Jeseph's church
purpose holding a grand strawberry festi
val, te commence ea next Saturday overl everl
ing and te continue for ten days. The
Object of this festival is te raise snflicieut
means te clear off the remaining indebt
edness en the school building, aud also te
prepare the way for building a new church
next spring, the present church being en
tirely tee small and in a dilapidated condi
tion Pennsylvania en Tep.
New Yerk Truth
At both el these memqrable places at
West Point and the Annapolis naval acad
way Pennsylvania has carried off the
-iis.s. At West Point the feet of the al-
- pojBet - pejBet steed as A Ne. 1 Cadet Zinn
Mp "un top" among tbe yenng sailor
l-MSyt.
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