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Among the stars, s ome are moving directly
towards - the earth; others are traveling di
rectly away from us; but their distance is so
great that thousands of years must elapse be
fore we can detect any change in their posi
tion by the telescope. The determination of
this fact has long been a question among
astronomers, but now it has been accom
plished by means of the spectroscope, and we
make it known as a most important astrono
mical discovery. Mr. Huggins, F. It. S.,
- whose spectroscopic' investigations of stars
and nebula) are well kuown, is able to de
termine with his instrument whether a star
-approaches or recedes. In the former
case the naves of light which
come to us from the star appear
somewhat shortened; in the other case they
appear lengthened. As a familiar illustration,
.when a boat is rowed against the wind, the
ripples seem shorter to a person sitting in the
boat, and longer in the contrary direction.
So with the waves: of light; by the difference
in the refrangibility of the light from the star,
.Mr. Haggles is enabled to determine whether
the star is going or coining; and he has made
known two interesting facts. One is, that the
motion (if any)of the nebutte, whether from
or towel& the earth, is too slow to btt de
tected by the spectroicope; and that Siritis,
one of the brightest stars, is approaching our
solar system at the rate of nearly thirty miles
a second.
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Exeoution in Prinoestv ' ~ Anns,, Md .
FOUR Mini" iiirriG TO-DAY
The Hist.p!y:: of the Crime
A CHESAPEAKE BAY TRAGEDY
An Interv,iew , with the leondentried
THE 'FINA:','B'4,3ENE
LEpeetal Despatch to the Phila. Evades Bullet/n.l
Pall% eLbil A NAE, 8011NEBET COUNTY, Mo.,
March tab, 1869.--Thls will ever be a memorable
dab' fn the annals of this town and codnty,'for to
day four totodcreio ore to be,' exiented on the
same scaffold for one of the most cold-blooded
and deliberate , murders recorded in all of crime's
dark and bloody history. The scene to-day id
surely, full enough of borror,bnt even the premedl
- ridch society pubs these font uteri tO
'death will tot compute with the 000rdelibersitioxi
with w bleb they planned and consummated the
death of their victims; and in proof of this, we
shall, as briefly as Is proper, tell the history, of
this most timarkable &fine.
= ~ InUILDNII. • ,
On March 30th, 1868, the , schooner, or oyster
pargy 13rave, a/arr . -46Sn 'Shank's Point, in
otnrrect county, with her captain, mate and
rew on board. The Brave was next discovered
~n Muscle Stole . EtarOn Tangier Bound, Chess
in Lite bey,% with ber mainsail and jib hoisted.
cow. Todd, who dlscOvered her, attracted by the
~r.f.ullarity, of a vessel , lying on ,A bar, withi n
"-fAs balked, went aboard, when he fou nd a scone
•J 1 horror which fairly curdled his blood.
Th BCICSiii . ON TEE VESSEL
On the how of the vessel was a great pool of
t , leed, and everything around that part of the
,u ch was txspattertd with blood. Entering the
bin,• be found another great pool of blood, and
• tid r (Its of a Wetting body havinebeeif dragged
nem the cabin door to the side of the vessel. It
a. 5 immediately surmised that the agitate' and
n..ate, the only two white men on board, had
n,uz dcred by the Leta° erew,-who had sub , .
fur [lily re htneki d the vessel and es.rriid oil
ming of value, and ,this suppcsition soon
I t e,aue a cv nattily.
Iflic VICTIMS AND THE AItIELDERBELS
The name ,of the eiptatu web Bei *min
anton, end ; that of the 'Coate, who auto acted
s (110 E, Henry Cannon. "They were bah - young
tn. untuatticd, and citizens of Dorchester
_kmniy, Jn this 12.14„tp. The oanits of the crew, or
.t eat the mares by which they were known,
*ere William, Wilson. William Wells, Frank
AeuLtis at-ci George'llitier - Bome of them were
~uthiel names, but as they are tbo-e by which
awl:A:rum are most generally known, we shall, tO
weld confusion, tire them fur the present. lEu
,
edlalely alter the discovery of thu murder, an
eihe search for the criminals was commenced,
ut two of Ole criminals. Wilson and Wells, were
- .trrattd before their captors had heard of the
1 Tue.
Rounds was afterwards captured near Drum
moodtoan, and Baitey.aftx r a prolonged search,
a as toad in a Baltimore Jail, held upon a trivial
barge. These men were tried separately, and
he) made partial confessions of their crime,
Two or three perlods'were axed for their execa
ion, but the Governor respited thorn until to.
avy, , w ben they will all be hung-together.
TUE STORY OF TUE &ERRORS
Fred) the evidence given on the trial of the
prisoners themselves, and their confessions at
various times, the whole story of the crime is I
fully known, down to the slightest detail, and it I
will be found to justify all we have said of its
terrible character, while its moat striking pa
enitarity b that it seems to have been committed
wholly without any of the great impelling causes
that usually move men to the commission of
clime. The negroes may have expected to get
.ou,e money, and we think some of them did;
Art they did not expect much; or positively
know of any that could be got by their crime.
None of them, unless it were Rounds, seellid
have any cause for vengeance against Capt.
.lehroon, and though both Wilson and Wells bore
grudges against the mate, they were to neither
coati tuck as results. In that deop-seated hatred
which is the soil out of which murder grows.
The story, as we gather it from the evidence
and cnnfeeelons, is as follows:
William Wells had been , engaged in working
for Captain Johnson since October. 1867; Wilson
had been with him about a month, and Bailey
.bunt three months. Frank R..nads waa ehipped
n Baltimore about a month before the murder,
and after receiving a month's wages in advance
ue had run away and shipped on another vessel;
on which he was dbeovered by Wells. On the
Monday before the murder Captain Johnson
went aboard the vessel on which Rounds 'was and
chimed him as his hand. This Rounds admitted,
anti Captain Johnson then took him aboard the
Breve. On account of the stormy weather they
did no more dredging that week, or on Sunday
or Monday.
Oil Monday, the captain and mate went ashore
to a store, and while they were gone, Retinas
asked if the captain bad any money, and su,g
eeeted that they "HZ him." We say Rounds, be
:atite the evidence and confessions of all the
others fix on blue the charge of originating the
plot. He, however, denied it all along, and in
elated that Nilson proposed:the plot.
After the captain and mate came from the
store, they went, aboard another vessel lying
about three hundred yards from the Brave, and
while they were there the negroes moditled their
original plot, and resolved to kill the captain and
mate as they came over the side of the vessel.
To carry this re oltation into effect, they pre
pared bludgeons out of cord wood. sticks which
%ere 7 or 8 inches in circumference at the larger
end. One of them was shaved off to give a bet
ter hold to the assassin's band.
Having thus deliberately prepared themselves
for the bloody deed, the Degrees returned to the
hold, in which were their gUarters, to await the
return of their victims. Here some of them fell
asleep, while others neglected to watch, and the
captain and mate returned, and got on deck be
fore'the crew knew It. The captain called ,the
men' to haat aboard the punt or small boat.which
they did. The captain then called Rounds and
Ilaiiey to go forward wilt him to help cast
another anchor, as he expected a hard blow. The
three went forward together, while the mate went
to the cabin.
TUB M QRDEB
As they approached the bow of the vessel,
Holmes picked up his club and fell behind
Reachleg the bow, the captain stooped to fix the
chutooiod while he Wag still In this position, swift
as lightning iteutada's ponderous club was
brought down upon his head, and he fell to the
deck without a groan. ' ,
Wilson and Wells had, meanwhile, followed
the mate to the cabin, each armed with a heavy
club. As soon as they came within roach, Wells
struck him a heavy bloW across the forehead.
Wilton struck next, lint in his haste his blow. do
sed edcd nu Wells Inateed of the mate. Ells neXt
blow, bont,vvr, struck the mate on the tack
hued, and another struck him about the head. Thu
move e then left the Mate for dead. - 4
The crew thou got the - mad uuder way; Goo.
714111ADELPHIA, FRIDAZ MARCH 5, 1869.
Balit7takivg command. Theyintended 10 'rani
for Norfolk. Va., and eell the schooner.
About this thee Rounds says • the captain got;
up seed Balky went forward and dulatted bitit`
Pitt, an, axe. This, however, fe dented by all the
rest, who , state that , Bailey did not strike aisle&
Mow, though be entered into the plot, and , even!
directed ire movements. If the captain did rise
tegain, It wee Rounds who despatches/
About half. an hour after this the mate, whom
they Lad au poseddead, came up out of the'
eddy with a gun in hie band. He could scarcely.
have known what be was doing, as his head -was ;
all beaten to a jelly. Bailey to him and:
took the ein from him and then pushed him;
,bark ii, the cabin,snd,Welle then went down and :
km( shed the mate in the head With an axe.
THE lAMBI. AGROUND.
At.Otlt two o'clock text morph:ratite vessel ran. •
assroteud on Muscle Hole Bar, in. Tangier Sound. l
Ibis mas March 81st, the murder' having been
coital:titled at 10 o'clock on the night of the 30th.;
After several- ineffectual efforts to get the vessel'
off the bar,- it was resolved to' abandon her. and'
Wands and Bailey then went down into the
cable and ransacked every drawer and private re-;
et es in search of meaty.., They broke open
cumber of pieces, and obtained precisely,9l2 50,;
%bele they bad expected:to find from 9500 to,
&GO. All the pirates then utopia the hold,where
they held a consultation,aa to,tkie best mane
.of
gettleg away. , They , resolved to make for the •
main land in the pont or small boat. but malted,
for daylight to put their design into execution.
WIROWING OVER TUE DOWEL r ;
Shortly alter daylight next morning all four of
the crew went forward and took, bold of the dead
body of the captain, which they seised up and
threw overtoard. They next went to where the
mate was ly ipg, whom, to their "sittipriace they
found still dike. . •
, A aim notaton; • ,
Notwithstanding .that .ite Was alive.. they re
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seived.to ,throw him overboard„ and Wilson,'
Ws Le and Rounds carried him up, OD, s decksfor
his.purpose.. He recognized themand , also
OecOne Bailey, who was standing. by, not having.
t of him. , • ,
As be was carried by,him he piteously cried;
Geerge 1. 7 -George l e —and ,- . even as he theist ;tied
he three Hinds who had hold of him cast him
Tao the bey,elive. After anotber final cry to,
George for help, lie sank, and the devlllsh work]
butchery wass,complate&- , • ;
narentroon or.THE onager.. l a
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The negroes now got. into the puut and .rowed
o ' Smith's bland, where, the yrilred a, colored
a 4313 10140 them to the,make hind. 'They wished,
so go across the chea.speake to Western Mary
aosi, but the negro on die Wind havtug,no besti
Lt to et ina the b7ey in„igreed to put them aishore
Accontac comity, Virginia (Eastern .shore);
«MEE he did. They; thtn made their way, to
:be %Liege of Anar.esick, where .they separated;
Itounda and Baileyjgoing to Balthnore In the
-le inter Sue, and Weirton and Wells obtaining
inplosinant near Drummondtovrn, where they
eery seine (meetly arre = sted.
arrestriti TO isesek. JAIL.,
It MIS Hal to be suppo s ed that, men who had
-.Lowed such desperation Lu crime should inb-1
salt, without murmuring, to Imprisonment, and
.1 nee the:prisoners , have beta heavily ironed and
featly gverdod. - Shortly after their iMprienn
eseet. and before 'their WA Wilson , and. Wait
u ade a desperate attack on the jailer, and csmC
hear tallies that functionary and effecting their
. scene.
.
Their next attempt to eseape wag, more EDOCO:181
el, On tbe ramping of November I.oth, at dna
teat miariied'ati
ITelriet Leaking a passage through the Wall;
ad who bad previously filed off their irons;
teased.. OLe of them cut his foot badly as he
,tmeed to the ground. An active hunt was im
,t (Widely commenced. Wilson was tracked by
is tletding loot to a fodder-stack, near Easton,
rxt Any (Thursday), and on the following even
t g Wilson was discovered in. the wootis near
:-.aelettury, Accemac, county. sitting on a log eat
.eg parched torte which had been his only sub
-ielcbek for several days. Being nearly starved,
be did not elitist capture. On the 24th of the saute
month Wells was discovered iyhtg oy a tire In a
picket near Seaford, Sussex county, Del., and
both have bees in jeilever stem
FINDING THE DOMES.
On May 12,
1868, forty-direst .days after the
merrier, the body of the mate, Henry. Cannon,
ey DS found near the place where ; . the Brave hid
.RR aground. It was horribly, mutilated, the
~ r idge of the nose being broken in and the nick
tart of the shell broken open.. The body of the
captain, bearing similar marks of violence, was
°and shortly afterwards.
THE PRISONERS.
Frank Rounds,wbo is generally conceded to be
the ringleader in this plot, is a powerful, maim
ar oegro, of a muddy coffee color, and about
.ie feet one inch in height. He was born in
county, Virginia, and, as a slave of Right
ee. Wond. He is about twenty-seven years of
Geo. Bailey is a lithe. well-befit , bat not laree
etegro; is jet black, witha rather pleasant oonute
asece, and is about 21jears of age. Hu was a
slave of Milian Pinckney, and was born in the
adjolnirg county of Talbot. -
Charles W. Denby, alias• Charles W. Wilson,
alias William Wilson, was born in B.Littmare,
, nd lived while a boy ,fit Annamessex, in the
lower part of this 'county. He has a father and
mother still livlrg, the latter being in. Netv York.
tie is between 18 and 19 years old, and his true
',amulet Charles Wesley Denby.
L;r sey 0. Welle, alias William Wells, was born
to Buckingham county, Virginia, and was the
slave of R. G. Morrie, of Richmond. He is about
21 years of age.
AN INTERVIIRW WITII THE PRISONERS.
On Wednesday afternoon of this week, accom
panied by the . Rev.. Mr. Carroll,,, the M. E
preacher here, we visited the priso ners in their
cells. We found Wilson and Wells in one room,
sad Rounds • and Bailey in the ether, each of theta
having his feet chained fast to the floor.
Rounds was:lying with blabreast to the floor,
reading a hyren book, with' a smoked-out pipe
lying beside it. Bailey wail curled up, smoking
a little black pipe, the very picture, of perfect
satisfaction. We did not talk to them, as we boo
been informed that , they were busy attending to
thelispiritual welfare. Wilson and VVella were
also tying on the floor, and both seemed (mite
communicative. They talked freely about the
crime, told the part each had played in It, and
both averred that Frank Rounds originated the
plot. The story, as they tell it, does not ma
terially vary from th at given 'above.
To be Couthmed to the Foot* Edition.
PRESIDENT GRANT'S INAUGURAL
OPINIONS OP TEN PRESS
The Philadelphia Journals.
The Ledger thinks it is thrief, clear and dispas
sionate, and jut what the bulk of the people
would expect inch a man to say. He takes the
oath of (Alice "with the determination to do," to
the best of , his ability, all that it requires of him.
It is easy to see in these words. General
Grant bad well conaidered the word's of the oath,
Mat he folly . comprehended their 'solemn im
portance, in requiring him to "faithfully execute
the office of President," and that hots determined
to do it.
The Age says: The address is not belligerent
in ite tone, but in general terras promlats and de
mands equity in our dealiugs with foreign
powers. 'lnking it altogether, as• the utterance
a President - nut elected by the constitutional
party, tail lout forward by. the enemies of bee
constitutional government. to erudite them t' ,
tide over an election, we think they have more
mason to he discontented with the Inaugural
than we have. llieTrebident asks the pravers of
Me nation to Almighty God, and the efforts of
every- citizen, for the cementing of a b tpliy
Union of the titan's. - No human Inatrunaunt 11111
be more effectual to that end, than General tiraut
OUR. Ain OLV COVNTRY.
btnigelr, All that he does towards it will re3elve
fair tettfructlon and furtherance from us, and,
v{ ,e Wit ve, from the grtat body of the Democnttic
' '
, The Inquirer Woks that the inaugural address
, J , Presicent Grant will meet every expectation
of the people who elected him. It contains every
pledge of realty to the principles of the Ryttbli-
CUL OM w hicb the most earnest friend of those
nrincipics can desire. It is deficient in no essen-
Irearticular, and its suggestions are those
abieh..the good sense and patriotism of our
countrymen will ratify. President Grant is, in
his avulsions, brief and to the point. He is
.olfd pad dignifitd, and his words will create a
orotrpud impression. Whoever has been coat
plait:4g that the sentiments of this man of mya
wry were unknown, will have no further oeca-
Aon for conuFlaint after reading the Inaugural
'The Poet says: This address is as etrahrht as a
rapier and as pointed. It is the ungloved hand
rf i r iokiler reached out to his euuntryinen in
frackand fearless ease. Unlike the. secoud ad
dresirpf Mi. Lincoln, It has no beauty of rhetoric,
no Enteric of words, but is almost without prece
dent in its directness and cartdor. It is great oulY
In its simplicity. The sashed and girded subpart
has epokeu, aud the mystery exists no more. It
is, to personification of intense that we have
placid in the Presideocyr, but a simple, hontat,
emphatic man, who uses speech as he uses his
sword -only when it is necessary. Grunt
:i c aracil In the army the virtue •of red
'eence, and he alto learned the value
of well-wei,glied words, uttered: at the right time
and, ip the right way. When he said that he
would accept from the rebellion nothing bat un- , _
conditionaleurrender,,he re-insplred the nation,
with order- Now, dierlainini,rhetoric, and.seek
leg only for the clearest forma to express along.
droughts, he tells the amerlean pecPle as •bristly
uri he can all that he believes'it best for them to
do. We likable way of talking;, we Ilke every
crtird.that he has earcL At last we have a Presi
,irnt 'who is altogether an American of the Arne
ricans--Ulystes 8. Grant, who will be, wo thor
‘itigidy believe, as good as President as he was
great as General.
t To Prom hi of the opinion that General Gtant's
inaugural is very notch just such a paper as the
Atatrlcan people expected of bun. He talks
with them I.rectsely as the hbad of a firm woald
ealk with his partners concerning the business of
;he, fine, in a plain, practical and intelligible
Way- . ,
The North 4 mcrican thinks that Pres!dent (Irani
could have said nothing to pastas Administration
in More . SlTiking contrast with that of the late
chief magbnrate, who has retired amidst so much
execration,than be has said in these fcw terse and
voluted acuteness.
Globe says,: President Grant yesterday de.
).;yererd the neatest, briefest and most sensible in
,sirigursd address that yet, ornaments and honors a
place among the archives of our nation. It Is a
4ocutraeut that the men of all parties eau gai
ts:rifle to and h support without the slightest coin
ptieetion.
The Norar ]Carl[ Journals-.
• The Ei erald says: Preride,nt Grant In his Wan
.
oral speaks with the directness of a soldier and
the fraLlintss of an honesit Luau fresh Iron the
peptic. The outline witieli he
_preterits of, ,the
„:,,nreeses of his E;dretelstration an his demesne
foreign policy is that of a practical states
wan, "oho recognizt B•the march of events and the
lying lorries of the day.
* * *
Here then, including economy, retrenchment,
and le faithful coliecttou of the public revenue,
".shave the sailing Oirectlous of the new adrulnis
;ration. What in Lite general prospect? It in one
Lull of promise, prosperity, progress, develop
tient, and power at borne nud abroad. And so
opens the new book of American history.
The Weiid is very querulore3, as follows : The
only respect In which this empty and sett-con
fident address Is of any importance, bin Vie evi
dence it furnishes that General Grant does not
intend to have-any sellous differences with the
Republican party. With an its self-assertion tie
inaugural Is really very servile. It hadorses all
the favorite matures and dogmas of the Ito•
publican party, except the Tenure-of-011kt) act;
and on that the party is known to be about equally
divided. All his independence is exhausted in the
mere empty proclamation of it; he hen not had
the real independence to differ from his party in
any particular. Aside from its tune of iii-beseeca
ing gill-confidence, General Grant's Inaugural is
a mere echo of the tritest common-places of the
Republican newspapers. We challenge his ad
mirers to point out a single idea which ho has
contributed to the threadbare stock from which
he drew the materials of his address.
The Times speaks as follows: The character's
ice which distingnieh General grant, and com
mand the confidence which marks his entrance
upon the duties of the Executive, are conspicu
ous In hie inaugural address. It is brief, cleir,
inpbatic and to the purpose. It touches gresc
ants, indiestes great duties and propounds a
.:reat poliCy with a distinctness that leaves noth
tug in doubt, and the force of true-born earnest
dteS. Gen. Grant had something to say, and he
nas said It strongly and well.
The Tribune says : The simplicity and dire:A
ces of the inaugural address wilt be grateful.
Ileac wto doubt this man's statemanship should
.nalyze his brief speech, and see whether he has
. ett anything unsaid.
* *
What we hope to receive from Gen. Grant le a
opleirdid admiluzetratien. We have had no many
.leslune Presidents that it is refrksaing to Had a
nun entering' into, the Chief Magistracy with
°teething wore than a mere caucus and polilteal
onventibn record.' He takes into his new place
broader renown than any President since
Washington: .We doubt it even Washington,
hen be entered this office, had a fame so world
.nibraelug. -
The New
_York Bun says: It will be nniver
-ally regarded as forming an auspicious begin-
Ling 01 President Grant's Adwintstration. Its
mphatic approval of the fifteenth amendmtn.t
.huwarthat its author feels the importance or
, )ringing to a final settlement the last of those
, ong standing questions which have remained
to as a legacy from the period of our history
low concluded. That done, the country
4 ill be ready to enter upon a new epoch of
'ts development. For that epoch the Presideut
I kystiown a guiding principle, without which the
cation cannot be prosperous, or powerful, or re
•pected it:v*lw world. it is the principle of honor.
t'ay all your debut to the uttermost farthinc
be nation which can be accused of oven a desire
la defraud its creditors cannot occupy such a
place on the stage of humanity as the United
states aspire to all.
The Journal of Commerce (Democrat) says: A 3
t literary compoeltion it is wore forcible than •
decant; but Ile chief excellence is in the feet nut
d indirect and explicit. It Is plain almost to blunt
tiffs; but than is a sturdy good sense about It
characteristic of its author. It Is evidently! the
work of his own band, and no cunning courtier
or schttuing rolitician has fashioned a line of
it. If it has few smoothly rounded periods,
it Is equally floe trout unmeaning pteti•
tildes or • glittering generalitlets. TAW'S
Is a little more of self.assertiou than we expected,
~nd a still , clearer revelation 'of principtes and
Loney ti. an any previous utterance of tie author
~ii (0 tkoSame into intlrlle life. fie gives a neiv
in Bidden to ble-tilt-quoted promitio to execute
'•tt.o will ot the people.' tie does not, aceortliire
to the doctritte of-saute modern theorists, ace Mt
tie eisjotity tri COtteress 113 too authorized, iuf if
lible r x t Ont - nt Of.that will; but promises to In.
ti 'pose a tete to defeat measures to which ho is
oppostd. . • , j
INAVGIIIIIATIOX SALL*.
If cones mud takcideule Lost Might.
The New York l'ribuna's correspondent in
Washington has the following:
The chief difficulty:was in the obtaining of a
satiable building but after refining to mot a
temporary one, jailing to get the use or the Capi
tol's magnificent Rotunda, and stately old Hall
of the House of Representatives, they finally ob
tained the use of the neßly-completed north wing
of the magnificent Treakury building. Tire social
furies -subsided, and the ruffled . plumage
of all anxious ladyhood was
Wean/ed. We were to have a
hall, and the efficient committee in charge of the
eon-official ceremonies haVe Worked with hear-
th et good will to make it a splendid success.
They must have been highly gratified to-night,
*km regarding the brilliant scene presented
within and without the building, radiant in color,
glowing with light, brilliant like tropical flowers
or the plumage of humming birds, and ever
shifting and varying like a many-hued and con
stantly-changing kaleidoscope.
Entering from the street, the guests found
themselves In a long corridor on the lower floor,
to the right of which was one of the four dancing
halle, prepared for those who participated in the
witching manes of the dunce. To the left was
he elegant supper-room. Three staircases gave
admittance to the upper floors, the whole three of
which were thrown open to the participants. Tem
porary balustrades had been ereeted;and draped in
the : national , tri-colers, and festooned with ever
greens; with the floods of • light that fell, and the
radiant crowds that, like two strestruistrown with
summer llowere r passed up and down; the stair
eases were In themselves a brilliant scene. On
the second floor an orchestral stand, was erected,.
and here the famous Marine Band discoursed
sweet music. The visitor tarried not here, bat
the ladies hastened to the next floor, where,
ample dressing rooms were arranged, the gentle
men's being on the next or attic floor above. The
dreesing-room arrangements were complete, and
the indica were provided with seamstresses and!
coiffeurs ready to the call. Oa this floor were a
suite of four elegant rooms,opening lathe north,
la tended as conversation rooms. At the east end
of the corridor was the dancing hall, 80 by 20
feet, a similar one to which was on each floor,
and with the Treasurer's room, wrung the State,
gw Eta assembled, formed an area of nearly 7,000
teet. The telegraph was brought into regaial
lion, and order and 4 F ,morty reigned supreme.
Each bail had bind of music, and the whole
were under control of the master of ceremonies,
who from the lower floor tapped the electric key,
not waced his baton, and the swee. sound swelled
out with perfect accord and unity. The long,
broad corridors, with their teseellattat pavements,
cool, ereamy-hued walls, dated columns, whose
capitals and flutes pricked with gold brightened
end rcheved the eye, afforded most excellent
pranenudes, which were made ample use of.
On the second floor admission was obtained to
the balcony of the Treasurer 'e flail, a magnificent
Ino•etoried apartment, 60 by 80 feet, which was
eLe centre of attraction in the early hours of the
evening, as the ceremonial reception of the Pre
eicential and Vice-Presidential parties by the
Committee took place there. The scene from
the balcony was a most brilliant one. Tee apart
ment , glowed and gleamed like some ancient
gustern ball, with its polished panels of marble
from the quarries of Sienna and Tennes
ree, reflecting back in their almost burnished sur
faces,,the brilliant light which lit the, scene,and
flo.4ed the unests below. At either end - the un
heisted wails were draped in the radiant hues of
the IA color, and at the east end was a large alle
eolical painting of Peace, which formerly hung
in the Capitol. Opposite this Hall, which, after
the State reception terminated, was open to dano
ing,were suites of elegant rooms reserved for the
pill/ate receptions of the President and Vice Pre
sident and their families, end for the use of their
prrronal friends.
The N. Y. Times says:
At 10.15 the Vice President entered with his
and modestly took the shortest route to
the private room assigned to him. He was fol
lowed twenty minutes later by the President, who
hurriedly passed through the lice of anxious
sightseers, leaning on the arm of Senator Mor
mon. The crowd at this moment completely
Oiled Ike corridor leading to the room where the
Prt sident had retired, and the services of the po
lice force were called Into requisition before a
pathway could be forced for the passage of the
w officers to the rooms
anove. In a sew moments the doors
ot private rooms were opened and the occupants
marched out, two or three of the Committee
oving in the van. They were President Grant
at a Senator Morgan, Mrs. Grant with General
Trocuas, Vice President Colfax and lady, Mrs.
Matthews of the Colfax family, Speaker Blaine
fild John W. Forney following. Teen came the
',net ntatives of foreign nations, all attired in
citizens, dress, with their ladles. The Marine
hard struck up a now and beautiful march, com
posed by their leader, Prof. Scala, and dedicated
to the new President.
The distinguished party moved rapidly along
through the crowded corridors op the winding
stairways from one floor to anoteer, and finally
halted in one of the upper dancing rooms. The
enthusiasm which greeted them was sincere and
heartielt,aud many were the prayerful utterances
which were spoken as they p..ssed along, In
behalf of the men to whom the country looks for
its, guidance for the next four years.
As to the dancing, although there were enough
votaries of the art in attendance to have made
filly ordinary balls ' and although there was no
lack of music, still the greater trod of the throng,
until midnight. seemed to prefer the promenade.
When, however, the dancing-room floors could
by I.ersuaaion of the floor-managers be cleared
for five minutes, the younger portion of the as
re:mbly took possession and would hold it till the
spectators by degrees collected in such pressing
eumbers as to impede all efforts in the dancing
line. It was not until the crowd was lessened by
the departure of the rheumatic portion of the as
rembly that the dancing began in earnest, and
which at this present writing is In full progress.
Poersenutr, 2A. M.—The scene at the ball
cow baffles all description. The crowd, has de
generated into a perfect crash. The confusion
in the cloak rooms is beyond coneeptibn. Hun
dreds of gentlemen are leaving the building with
out coats or hats, and ladles, faint with exhaus
tion, are In vain waiting or making fruitless
arch for their outside wrappings. In
Fifteenth street there is a bedlam among the
hackmen, and if the guests are successful enough
to find their clothing, it is only to find they have
lost the means of getting home. Everything to
day has been a great success. But the inaugura
tion ball to-night is too' much of a success to be
really a good thing.
A Needy Bohemian's Will.
The Pall Mall Gazette says: "The death
Is announced of a writer and Bohemian named
Cheyennes, who, as ayoung man,gave mush
promise, and indeed seems at one time to
have attained a position of some eminence.
But, according to Henry Marge; there' are
two main roads in Bohemia, one of which
leads to the French Aeadensy,the other to the
Mei Dieu. Ohavannes took the road to the
Hatel Dieu, and died there last week. By
way of keeping up his character he had the
lamentable courage to make a berlesque will,
whi-h Was found under his bolster, and which
could scarcely, we should think, m the any
tine laugh. It was in the following terms:
I have nothing. 1 leave it all to the S )03.6te
des gene du lams, and the rest to my or sit
ters.'
—On iliturday - evening . , in Natatorium
iliwati watt, tido w Walnut, Mr. Charles ''R.
Janie will give the filth of hie aeries of ela4aini
eel,ees. Au excellent programme will ha Offered,
and Mr. Jarvis will .he 118318(Oli Inv' Messrs.
Golileumn, Wm. Steil, Jr., Theo. Xamravzor,
and Rudolph Rennig. • • • '
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Presidebt Grant nominated to the ElenateValtuai-•
bus Delano, of Olds, to be CommlasiOnerof, IU
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Philip H. Sheridan fo be Lteutenant-Getterld:
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About Interludes.
Bishop Kingsley, of the Methodist Cher*.
is a very sensible man, as witness the follow
ing extract from an address-by him on,
subject of church music:
There is one practice, -however,, generally
associated with instrumental music, which
certainly ought to be discoatinued. it beano
redeeming feature, bat is only evil, and that
continually. I allude to the habit, Menet
universal in this country, of playing an iii—
terlude between each two stanzas of the
hymn. These interludes- are p3Sitilre
nuisances, in every light in. which• they flint
be viewed. In wealthy churches, where tie
organist is a tine performer, the thing is deno
te show off. And weaker mei—poor&
churches keep up the practice to :be in the
fashion. Many of our very beat hymns
form a continuous and connected discoures
from beginning to sad. Many of there-are
most earnest prayers, others earnest exhorta
tions. Others embody sound Christian eipe
rience, and others set forth in a glowiaglight
the plan of salvation, and so on. The sense
is often incomplete at the end of a verse,"aid
the hearts of all true worshippers me pre
pared by what has gone before for what is to
come. Just then the connection is 'ePoiled„
the continuity of thought and feeling !shaken
up, by a diddling interlude. Every de
vout worshipper feels it to be an incongruity
and an infliction, and is glad when it is over.
so that the worship of • God can proceed:
How beyond all comparison better is into
sing right through! With persons , to whom
those hymns are familiar, one verge.- calla
up the next; but by the time the laterlthilo
is finished, we have generally forgotten
the connection. Why shuold the tune, any
more than the words, he banished from the
mind and heart at the end of every verse? Why
aftEitli the warm glow of devotional feeling
be chilled by a cold bath every two or three
minutes? But it is said the singers heel tiMe
to take breath. This is but a flimsy reason
for perpetuating a fashionable folly. Ho*
comes it to pass that people become so short
winded all of a sudden? Troops of muelolifia
go through the country, singing pieces three
times as long as the average of bycaus,'itl
so manage as not to get out of breath. There
is more reason why the preacher shoull
stop every few minutes- to , get -.llis
breath, and yet a public( s;asals.er
address an audience for . hours together
without resorting to any interlude. It is to
be hoped that the time will , never come when
the ministry will become so short-winded'as
to need to stop at the end of every three or
four sentences, and drum on a hoard 'with
their knuckles, or resort to any other equally
silly subterfuge. in order to take breath. The
thing looks ridiculous enough now, because
it is not the fashion. The great masters_of
music, both in America and in Europe, de--
spise these interludes. They are unscientific
as they-'are inconvenient, and hurtful to the
spirit of genuine worship, and the _moil' at
tractive and most efficient church music dis
penses with them entirely..
AKUNIEBIZENI',TI6.;
—Mr. Barney Williams will have a benefit at
the Walnut Street Theatre this evening in the
Emerald Ring.
—Miss Susan Galion will have a farewell bane
fit to-night at the Chestnut Street Theatre In
&Limon Crusee. Miss Calton will go to CeloeXo
next week, and we sincerely hope slie tuay,win,
profitable popularity.. We commend her to the
people of the City of Divorces as I very worthy
artist.
—At the Arch this evening there will be three
pieces: A Victim of Circumstances; The Midi Of
a Night, and ktarth's Young Man.
—At the Academy of Music, to-night, will he
produced La Chanson de Fortanio, and Les Ono.
yards. "At the roatin6e, to-morrow, La Grotikia
Duchesse will be ;Linn.
—The American announces the Japs for Us.
night, together with a miscellaneous bill
—Mr. John Donnelly, the irrepressible. ilidOMl
- manager, will open the Theatre Combo%
uu Monday next, with the. Japanese trooptt,d*
new BM. •
—At Concert Hall this evenibte; - 72"Afi "4:01-
bean flight'sEnteriainmeht will b.a There
will bo u miscellaneonaVerfortrtage' a nd" adie-
tradition of presents. There will ha a' MMUS*
to-tuurro w afternoon at 2 o'clock. ,
--The n gular Sentz• Ilassler circheattti .oqt
cut will le given at Musical Pond 11.1li to.uLty
rOW afternoon, with, the followleg exedUent pro
it,r4n,mc: • " '
:3 ) in i .boLy No. 2,'!D major,) •1. Adagio • „
allegro. 2. ATI( 1 1411(1. 3. 11iintettoallo.
gio. 4 Allegro v 014006— .. ..
Seetti , tl ee%
k% Decoy hods ...
Gal%) --Llur eutiekl. •• • ..... ...... ...... lidera ma.
• • ,
Ott Monday e.vening.next Mr. Jatue4 E Sier
elocit will give `&elect teadiugs at Llortloulterat
null.