LETTER FROM THE IRISH SCHOLAR. He Writes as Follows to a Former Fellow Work in mi ; NEW CASTLE, GARFIELD CO., COLOA February 20, 1890. % Mr. John Httchimt : MY DEAR FRIEND.— It is with feelings % of pleasure and with thanks to you for your kind remembrance ibat I received your favor -f the 3d Inst. I am happy to hear that some of my old friends in dear old and never-to-he-forgotten Johns town arc not oblivious of me ; to one and all of these you will convey my kind re gards. I will now endeavor to give you a syn opsis of my journey nnd location in these wild regions of the far west- I left Johns town on Friday, December 21st at 8:30 l*. ., my first objective point being Pitts burgh, whence I booked for St. Louis; my half-exhausted funds being insuffi cient to bear me any farther. Here I was detained for two days, when I was fortu nate enougli to hear that till emigrant board wus established there forwarding emigrants westward but not east. I made application and succeeded in get • ting a pass to Denver and $5 in cash to boot. A daughter of mine resides in that city, whose husband is employed on the cable cars. I stayed there a couple of days to recruit myself after a tedious aud uninteresting journey of four days and as many ni dits of actual travel. This daughter, who has no family, presented me a silver watch that cost $37. I once more tcsumed my journey, hav ing yet 280 miles ahead of me ; and after a stay of a dy or two in Leadville, final ly reached my destination here on the 2d ult. My son-in-law and son, who are in partnership ranching, reside five miles from the town of New Castle in a moun tain gorge, surrounded by lofty and pre cipitous offshoots of the Rocky Mountain chain, whose summits are buried in clouds, attaining an elevation of 13,000 feet. We led a romantic life of perfect seclu sion from the outer world, an excelleut abode for a hermit, isolated from civiliza tion or the consolation of religion—an other picture of Robinson Crusoe in his desert island. These mountains abound in vast herds of deer, elk and antelope. It is nothing to meet 1,000 in a herd. Beasts of prey are numerous, mountain lions, bears, and coyotes, a species of wolf which go in flocks, whose ravages among tlie ranks of calves aud foals are most terrible in winter. Hunters are eu gaged in shooting them. These hunters get a bounty of $lO for a lion aud $5 fora coyote. We have a regular armament here, consisting of two repeating rifles, cupuble of discharging 100 shots per minute, two seven shooiers (revolvers) and a double barrel shot gun of which I make use. Though ranchiDg is a nomadic and dis agreeable occupation in the w inter, the whole life of the cowboy being spent in the saddle, yet it is a lucrative employ * mint, as stock increases with surprising fecundity, my people having got over 150 calves for the Just six months. My soii-in law, who is engaged in this busi ness tor the last seven years, Ims realized $30,000, and states that he will not quit till he accumulates sloo,ooo,when lie will get into business ; aud as he is now fully stocked, it will not tu'.c him many years to attain the result. Exclusive of his cuttle l.e has about 100 horses ; his cou * joined stock and that of my sou is very little short of 1,000 head of cattle. Here is where Mosby could make a fortune by dealing in horses, and he could locale a ranch at very little expense.. Though at such an altitude it is mys terious what r. salubrity is in the atmos phere. I have not yet seen a morning 'since my advent here t..at I could not go out in my shirt, sleeves and remain for tours in tiic free air without feeling cold. Invalids are sent here under medical ad vice for the recuperation of their health. The Colorado boiling springs are only fifteen miles from here, emitting jets of hot water at a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, like the geysers of Iceland. I believe the infernal regions are not far from here, and I have to correct an error, so previ.lcnt in the East, that the cowboys are a pack of demons. No such thing. I have come in coutact with several, this house of my son-in-law being a kiud of headquarters of theirs, where they claim a night's lodging without formality as a matter of course after their tedious journeys of several days iu the mountains. I 1 find them jolly, agreeable fellows, devil- j * may-care like, and generous to a fault, ( sharing their last dollar and the remnants j of their food with their brethren. They j are most grotesque in their appearance, j their apparel consisting of a broad-leafed \ white hut, a tight fitting short body coat, I with moccasins or red leather leggings j reaching above the hips. Thus attired, I with a repeating rifle and a pair of blaukcts slung across the shoulders and a seven shooter in a scabbard slung to the side, they are formidable enemies to en * counter, if provoked ; otherwise they are peaceable and unoffending. They ride their horses without shoes and climb mountains scarcely accessible to goats. I guess you'll feel tired of my narra tive before you get through, so 1 will con clud by requesting you will be kind ' enough to send- me a few papers occa- ' sionally, as we have very little other en joyment here but the pleasure of reading | a book or a newspaper when we can get I one. Drink,is out ot the question, being so distant from town and so infernally dear that a man can't afford to buy it. Ale is fifteen cents a glass, and whisky : twenty cents. I must send by express to Johnstown for half a gallon when I get 1 richer. lam glad you are under my old and best of friends, Paul. I have writ- ; ten to him, but as yet got no reply. Write 1 soon and send all the news of tbc day. Your sincere friend, PATRICK SULLIVAN, One of tbe cowboys of the Block Moun tains of Colorado. ' P. B.—l am beginning to enjoy this ' primitive life. When acclimatized and naturalized Ihey Veil me I am likely to en joy it better. P* S. A Valuable Kmtorariiient. The New York Tribune after speaking of another work on the Johnstown flood says the following : •' The Story of Johns town " is the title of another and more ambitious volume, prepared by J. J. Mc- Lauren, editor of the Ilarrisburir Tele gram, and published by James M. Place, Ilarrisburg. It is illustrated by a num ber of well-known nrtists from original designs, sketches and photographs. Mr. Me Lauren has done justice to a story theme, The pathos and the awfuiness of the catastrophe are fully emphasized, as a'so the brighter phases which succeeded, when ali the world comes to the relief of the suffering survivors. This narrative in cludes a full list of the dead nnd a mass of interesting details relating to their families. It must become an invaluable work of reference and record lo all who were connected, directly or indirectly, with the great flood. The volume is handsomely p-inted and bound and is a credit to the author, illustrators and pub lisher. Where DHL I'inlier 11" ry MM **oo,ooo. Indianapolis Journal. Some few weeks ago Robert Fisher, a prominent farmer of Spencer county, died, and now his heirs are searching for SOO,- 000 in Spencer county bonds which are missing. It seems that Mr. Fisher had, sev eral months previous to his death, buried a jur in the cellar containing the bonds, and had not confided the secret of his buried treasure to any one save his brother, James Fisher. The day after the funeral Mr. Fisher went to the home of his broteer and told his sister-in-law of the county orders buried in the cellar, aud they went together to look for them. They found the jar buried, as the dead man described to his brother, but, much to their surprise it was empty. Of course it is not Known whether the county orders were stolen or the jld gentleman, after telling his brother where they were buried, had concluded to move them. At any rate, they are missing, and the most diligent search of the premises has failed to develop auy clue to their whereabouts. I'-iuuraeney Trains. Emergency trains are a new feature of the Pennsylvania Railroad management. Whenever any one or a number of travel ers cannot wait for a regular train an ex tra one is started out at a great speed, the frequency and cost being regulated only by the willingness to pay for the extra ordinary service. Before an emergency train is started out every station on the divisions of the road over which the train is to run, and every signal opera tor,must be notified of it, the number of locomo tives given, the time on which it is run, and every train in the path of \he emer gency train is notified at the Ltsl station it reaches that such a train is on the road, and if it is an urgent case all regu lar trains must keep out of its way. All this is accomplished by the free use of the telegraph, and in a very few minutes. For County CoinmiKMioner. * Mr. John Campbell, of Conemaugb bor l ough, announces himself to-day as a can didate for County Commissioner, subject to the action of the Democratic primary election. .Mr. Campbell sat present one of the Commissioners, aud has had large experience iu that olUce. lie is one of the most popular county ollieers with the people we have ever had. He has always been an earnest and active Democrat, and has rendered his party valuable political sorvice, If nominated he will be elected by a large majority. For County Auditor. Mr. E. J. Blougli, of the Seventh ward, Johnstown, annouuees himself as a can dite for County Auditor. Mr. Blough is competent and would make astrong nom nee. He served a ter mas Jury Commis sioner, and performed his duties credii ably. He is a consistent Democrat and akes an active interest in political affairs. He is worthy the favorable consideration { of tbe Democracy. Presence of Mlnot °mac \ .Re *' > at two Pour- Jv hou princes, co un trymen of .v ;■ Lafayette and ed ucated European ' ? soldiers lit that, COL'NT DE PARIS. ' iai ' P ut on l ' le American uni form to serve as aids-de-cainp to McClel lan, created a stir in tlio breasts of the enthusiastic hoys of 'Ol, who, above all things, wanted to go to war in good com pany. The writer first saw the princes dis tinctly at the front on the peninsula in the spring of 1862. My regiment was not in the Yorktown and Williamsburg campaign, having served in detached operations under Gen. Franklin on the York river, and joined the body of the main army half way up the peninsula toward Richmond on the 15th of May. That evening MeClellan and stall passed our camp in full war harness, having just come in from the battlefield at Will iamsburg, and knowing of the presence in the cavalcade of the royal personages I set out to gratify native curiosity, fully expecting to find some strawberry mark in the. way of outward insignia to tell me when highness was in view. There was none. Tlio commander and his aids were dressed in plain blue regulation style. One Prince de Joinville, the uncle and counselor to the soldier princes, who rode with headquarters, was in civilian costume and but slightly distinguishable in dress from any of the civilians of the staiL The others, Louis Philippe d'Or leans, ('unite de Paris, and Robert d'Or leuns. Due de Chartres, were in the uni form of their rank, which was that of captain. Viewed closely, as I afterward found opportunity to see them, they had an unmislakablo foreign air, not to say un unusual one for men in their position. They were Self possessed anil easy man nered, and were earnest and active, with out betraying anxiety or eagerness. These characteristics, together with their cus tom of having separate quarters and mess, and of being mirfli together when the army was quietly in camp, and being uttended by a personal suite wearing a peculiar dress, soon made tlio members of the party distinguishable under all circumstances. During the movements of the Seven Days' battles circumstances threw me very close to the royal group off by itself at the general headquarters, when the princes and MeClellan were in consulta tion, as it after- /fS 9 * ward proved, re- jf* 1 3 garding their TjLg withdrawal from * the service, which A"A \ took place then Y wr| and thero owing \ j to possible com plications be- / ;-yl) twecn the United . . - States and France Kgl ; I vjl about tlio affairs | | of the rebellion. They left the army in fact Wgpmr\ within a few ((aL'Jff | ; ; hours anil inime- | 3* diately returned "|- — to Europe. Tlio Jl Count de Paris. then 22 years of COUNT DE PARIS IN ago, was a noble WAR TIME. looking soldier. Ilis full, smoothly crop ped beard added to the manliness of his appearance. Tlio Duke de Chartres, his brother, was a beardless boy of 20 and could be very impulsive and boyish un der provocation. At this time he had drawn himself away from his companions to indulge in a fit of sulks because the decision that the princes leave the army at once spoiled an adventure lie had on foot that very night —a cavalry dash which ho purposed to iead into tlio Confederate lines. The rec ord made by each in the campaign was a soldierly one, but the count distinguished himself by gravity of bearing combined with unflinching bravery rather than by brilliancy of exploit. His life even then had been full of pathos. When lie was 10 years old his widowed mother took him before the French chamber of deputies the day his grand father's (Louis Philippe) throne was burned in the public square outside the royal palace and the monarchy over thrown, to have him declared king of France. The national guard, whicli had been summoned to sustain the tottering monarch, had answered with the slogan of the revolutionists, "Viva la reforme!" The streets were full of barricades, and when the deputies were about to an nounce a regency, with tlio 10-year-old lad as sovereign, the mob broke into the hall, and the mother of the princes fled with them to save their lives. A few weeks later the general assembly of re publican France passed a decree of per petual exile against the Orleans family and confiscated its estates. The count was educated partly in Germany and partly in England, where the Orleans family found an asylum after the ban ishment. Before coming to America in 1861 lie traveled through the east. After leaving the Union army in 1862, the soldier prince returned to England, and during tiie Franco-Prussian war was BEFORE THE DEPUTIES, very active in the relief of Frencli sol diers. His brother, the duke, served in the French ranks under an assumed name and won high honor. The decree of banishment was abrogated in 1871, and soon afterward the Orleans estates were restored to the family and the count took up liis residence in Paris. At this time he found a rival to Legitimist favor in the person of Count de Cliam bord,grandson of Charles X, the monarch who was forced to abdicate the French throne in 1830. Four years ago the princes were again banished and the count took up liis residence at Tun bridge Wells, near London. Soon after his return to France, in 1871, Count de Paris began the work of compiling liis history of the civil war in America, a labor for which his vast re sources, liis leisure, his scholarly attain ments anil his personal experience quali fied him. The work, now three-fourths completed, is an impartial narrative re markably well wrought out as to detaiLi anil abounding in frank military criti cisms. The hook is accepted as an au thority l>y American soldiers. A couple of years ago the chapter on Gettysburg was reprinted in English in a separate volume. Probably the most interesting portion of the work for the general reader is the analysis of the causes of tli" war and the comment upon tlio state of the country at the several stages of the conflict. His account of the condition of tlio American nation at the outbreak of the war is a candid and ex haustivf study vf the northern and south ern people, their peculiaritiesof tempera ment. b lief and institutions. His Euro pean origin and education, together with liis idiiin.-t boundless knowledge of all civilized pi "pk s, acquired in extensive travels hi; ore coming to America, gave a zest for his subject which ho indulged to the utmost, and lie handles the Yankee and tlio lire-eater, tlio aboli ionist and the slave owner, the statesman, the poli tician, the backwoodsman and the simple citizen alike as some new and wonderful specimen worthy of a special classification. He speaks openly of the virtues and the faults of both sides, and finds the conflict one that was inevitable. Coining down to the out break of hostilities lie finds tlio two sec tions. wholly untrained to arms, sud denly thrown into tiie turmoil of civil war, and he proceeds to trace the prog ess of the divided nation under tlio new conditions, tlio raising of armies, the gathering of means, the preservation of local peace and order, and finally the grand detail and science of the battle field. His nearness to MeClellan during the period when the Army of the Potomac was formed and throughout its first cam paign and liis experience and observa tion behind the scenes at Washington during tlio first winter of the war gave a first hand knowledge of things that sharpened both wit and pen, and he wrote with the earnestness of an actor, and yet from a distance so remote that the candor of an impartial witness is ap parent at all times. Tlio name of Count de Paris appears among the honorary members of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and ho was tlio choice of nearly all the members of tlio committee on the Gettys burg reunion of 1888 for orator of the occasion. Gen. Butlor opposed it on tho ground that an American citizen should speak at that time. During tiio troubles of 1880, when tlio Orleans princes were placed under republican ban for the sec ond time, several veteran associations passed resolutions of sympathy with the count, referring to the bond of fraternity between them on account of'their com mon services in the Union army. Re sponding to those in .the usual formal way, an interchange of letters brought to his attention tho Grand Array of the Republic, and ho expressed a desire to join that order. On receipt of fuller data, however, he found that tlio taking of tho oath pledg ing allegiance to the United Slates was a bar to his membership. President Lin coln permitted the princes to serve in tlio army without'taking the oath. In meeting the questions of tho times since he reached manhood tho head of the House of Orleans lias shown marked liberal tendencies. During the cotton famine which raged in tho mill districts of England in con sequence jf the blockade of southern ports bv ur war measures, lie made a study of tlie systems of organized aid for the suffering workmen, and pub lished an article entitled "Christmas Week in Lancashire," describing the social conditions of that time. This was published in 'I he Revue des Deux Mondes over the name of Eugene Forcade, as the imperial government would not per mit it to appear over his proper title. Continuing this line of investigation, the count published, in 1860, a work entitled "Trades Unions in England." In a chapter of this work he gave his rievvs upon the function of government, advocating the broadest political liberty, an entirely free press and the unlimited right to form associations, to meet and discuss political, social and economical questions in the clear light of open day. This he considered the best means of preventing those explosions of popular passion which have so often shaken Europe. Repression, he thinks, drives men into secret combinations and fosters passionate hatred. Extreme views, if ex pressed, could be corrected. He favors profit sharing with employees. In other writings, public and private, since his return to Europe, the count has discussed Germany and France. Germany, he declared, must become a colonial and a naval power, and to satis fy its new ambition seek to gain control of Holland. In a private letter written during the Franco-Prussian war he said that France had "to fear two dangers: Anarchy and Ctesarism. Whatever gov ernment will preserve us from them will ho the one we should take and keep, be it republic or monarchy." The count is an officer of the territorial army of France, and performs his duties whenever he is permitted to reside in France. Ilis country estates* are on the coast of Normandy, near Dieppe. GEORGE L. KILMER. EL PERAL. Th Spanish limit Which Navigate* in-low the Water'* Surface. -to • vjnjt. EL PERAL. When Jules Verne wrote his "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," in which Capt. Nemo navigates in his won derful boat under the surface of the wa ter, every one regarded it as a splendid piece of imagination, but few, if any, sup posed such a boat practicable. This, how ever, is an age in which the imaginative writer finds it difficult to keep ahead of reality. Lieut. Peral, of the Spanish navy, has built, a boat which closely re sembles the cigar shaped submarine ves sel whose picture appears in the volume written bv Jules Verne. It was about fivo years ago that Lieut. Peral conceived his idea, but kept his mains a secret. £.vafc-a-jijafiL A war hecom- V| ing imminent, fe' ~ j. lie revealed rfy i * r " v • them to the W\ 'i'/ Spanish minis- K ' r , of '" : "' iuc - and a com mis sioll appointed (\ "i for the purpose /** °' examining Ift \y-' x V tliem having C SS V approved them, v /■ .A tlie Petral was ' built at the ar -" zZ~ - ' v . T-riji ' 7- - _£■ > **Ai —Tifi P*" •ifl"' ' . jj- ulj~ F.L PERAL AND INVENTOK. [EI I'l'rai Descending.] senal of Carrnca and launched in Septem ber, 1888. She is cigar shaped, measures 74 feet from stem to stem and 01 feet broad. She is driven by twin screws, the motive force being sup plied by electrical storage batteries. The Peral is a torpedo boat and fitted with pomplete torpedo gear. The steerage apparatus is in a conning tower in the middle in which the helmsman obtains a view of all about by means of reflecting mirrors. What the internal machinery is is kept secret. Several tests bavo been made, in one of which the Peral went down like a whale and remained under water forty five minutes, attaining a speed of "dx knots an hour. Against such a torpedo boat no vessel, 'however powerful aud well equipped, can stand. Solicitor Gcueru! Taft. Judge William 11. Taft, who has been appointed solicitor general of llio United States, vice Orlow Chapman, deceased, is a very young man for so important a position, being but 30 years of age. lie is the son of Alphonso Taft, who was United States minister to Russia and Austria, and had been Attorney General under President Grant and for a time Secretary of War. The son, William 11. Taft, was grad- Uatod at Va,e > • ! and studied law. I Ho soon became distant prose kv aSF* cutor of Hamil (v-\ ?/ ton county, Oio, *ir and was appoinfc f* y I ed from this of- M? J** ' flce to l)e intorn al ■i V revenue collector // ''y President Ar tg£Vf%r r~' lhur - Mr. Taft 1 ' W, J,> preferred the law, and resigned the WILLIAM It. 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