Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 July 1875 — Page 4

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LADIES* LINEN SUITS, fj'j LADIES' GRASS CLOTH SUITS.^ LADIES' WHITE LAWN SUITS.

I LADIES7 POPLIN SUITS, 4 All marked down to cost and below, to -1

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PARASOLS and SUN SH A DES in all the NEW STYLE8, BONE, IVORYand PEARL HANDLES, to dose at

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PERCALES, LAWNS, GRENADINES, WASH POPLINS, MOHAIRS, PONGEES, SUMMER PLAIDS, SUMMER SILKS, WHITE GOODS, PIQUES, MARSEILLES, FRENCH CHINTZS, FRENCH ORGANDIES, Aa All these Will be sold at a great sacrifice to close them out.

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Seasonable Goods!

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jnfe Towels, Prince of Wale# and Baudringham Bath Gloves, aUo friction Gloves and Brushes for ilry ut^c. Fragrant Magnolia

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Florida Water* for the toilet and baths, Colognes of the best imported brands, their own unexcelled "Ihlang Ihlang' a "lledyosrniax." The English "Plate for cleaning china aud removing tornlsh from Hilvcr plate, gilt ornaments, «fcc,, »tc.

BUNTIN & ARMSTRONG, rtrmglim, for. Oth and Wain streets.

Wanted.

ANTED—THE FARMERS AND ALL Bee raisers to know that I have a perfect Moth protection for Dee Hives. Call at WHEAT A MERRILL, Office between 4th and fith streets, on Ohio—or address Pastoffice box 1810, Terra Haute, ind.

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W HATI'HDAY Ei'Miso Mail has a 1 •r circulation than any newspaper nnbl ed In theHtnteout*ldeof Indianapolis. Also that It is carefully and thoroughly read in the homes of its patrons, and that it is the venr best advertising medium In Western Indiana.

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THE-MAIL

A PAPER FOR THB PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

KDITOB AND PBOFRIETOB.

TERRE HAUTE, JULY11, 1875.

Of this Paper axe published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening hMalatge circulation in the sorroondlng towns, where it is sold by newsboy* and agents.

The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into Unhands of nearly every reading person in the city, and the fnrnr en of this immediate vicinity. ^,

Every Week's Issue is, in fact," TWO NEWSPAPERS, tn -Which all Advertisement* appear for

ONE CHARGE •MTML CKLIA BURLEIGH, for a long time prominent in the woman suffrage movement, died at Syracuse, New York on Wednesday.

HE is a fine bey, is three weeks old today, weighed ten pounds and a half when he was born and his name is Ulysses Algernon Sartoris.

THE long continuance of heavy rains in this region is wholly unprecedented. No body remembers anything to even compare with it.

THE leading editorial in the El Paso Journal of the 22nd, is devoted to the Illinois Midland, and is not at all complimentary to President Hervey.

THE steamer City of Richmond has made the trip from Liverpool to New York in seven days and nineteen hours. This is the fastest time on record.

J. B. FOED A Co., the well known New York publishers, failed this week. The depression in their book bnsinea$ ginoe the panic of 1873, aggravated by the fire in their bindery, in Febraary last, which paralyzed the spring sale?, is given as a reason for tho failure. They were publishers of Beecher's Life of Christ.

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IT turns out that the President about the 20th of June wroto to Mr. Delano, Secretary of the Interior, formally requesting his resignation and that Mr. Delano declined to offer it, claiming that he should be allowed to remain until the pending investigations into Indian affairs were finished. There was an extraordinary interview between the two men at Long Branch, but the President at length decided to take no immediate step to remove him before the commission reports. The propriety of the decision is in this caso exceedingly ques tionable, though the goneral principle of not removing an officer while under fire, is a very gf'od one under most circumstances.

ONE of the most menacing features of our republican system is the astounding growth of municipal debt in almost all our cities. A recent compilation aud comparison shows that the twenty largest cities in England, with a population of over 0,000,000 have an aggregate debt less than that of the city of New Yorkf and that London, with a population of 000,000, oweJ less than half as much as Philadelphia, which is a fifth as large, or Boston, which is a tenth as largo. Portland, Maine, with 80.000, owes almost three timos as much as Birmingham with 850.000. In this Slate the law fixes a certain point beyond which no city can go. and it should be the same in all other states.

OnKAT consternation was created tfii Wall street, Tuesday, by the suspension of the great banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co. The news was entirely unexpected and for a time after its announcement there was a serious panic among the holders of all kinds of stocks. Western Union dropped nine per cent., Pacific Mail five and Western railroads from two to tour. Gold jumped op from 112% to 110%. The liabilities of the house are thought to be about 96.000,000, and is distributed all over this country and Europe. The assets will fall far short of that amonnt. Tho hopse was established in 1850 and its credit was good up to the hour of suspension. It ooold easily have bridged over present troubles and ran some time longer, but took tho honorable course and stopped while it had somathing to divide.

WB certainly believe in college sta dents (and everybody else) paying all proper attention to their physical as weU as —swlal fed that tber^cfo aeare^^»nrow healthful Jfeabf «ftereiae than i|fttin|^, but. if tto Cornell crew get rdugh afi tbelr glory without a lively

tmdtagotie In &flJh»rdroa!iy intl very uablai ffyfT*— "4f| manliness. If -btit let os presume that they will. DKHAted ears carried them from Sara-

tfcem ftom S^mSSp5^«^Buk»rm, riding on a brand-new flro-fiwk, dtqew Hmm, exiUt^d, ti«A«igi»4lK tba peo|A^ claim, a band "from Syracuse" dfatcoorsod trtunphast music pablk buildings, Vmhmm plsdis i(Ml prirate rmMmom #we brlllUhOy tntimiiiatod abd ftitoooed wUI» ttie winning q&lflf Wis rang jaWtee and rockets ttl Bomm oundlas iet the skies aJUumMT formed fbrelgn«r *Kiki that thU was the gre«Un« of some noble wanior wllo ^ad just reterned ttorn tkw vanquishing of the en««By% bosla, bearing sssnraaoe of ttw aaivaUon of the people from a urriUeIMHTQ. lilt •ltog«tbar wti^T tiraotWg that tk* *mng oamnen be wA deeslrsd teto thinking tbeeoaelvtm tbe giMtMl of keme«, wlMt is to be the etteH upwt the strident «hoss ttrengiMH Is in knin and npl)MratP»t

:LP THE SAMOA FABEKJr^ l_ JttiT at iWisiift a good many papers are *w riHjWnUny Onlnael ttatobeiger*e proceedings in the Samban, or Navigators Island* in the Soath PadAe, .nH denouncing President Grant for hia connection therewith aa if the whole thing wore some atroakua Job, Koirit ia possible that ve axe not oi^ialile of understanding the matter, but if we do understand it, the papers referred to are displaying the grossest ignoranoe or most wilful turpitude, one or the other,

A few yeans since the President gave Colonel Steinberger a commission to visit Samoa in behalf of the United States, to learn what be could of'it and to tnako a report of his observations. Colonel Steinberger went to San Fran CLBCO, conducting the expedition at his own expense, chartered a pilot-boat, the Fanny, and set sail for Samoa. He went among the natives, studied their habita and character, and became greatly interested in them, He found them perhaps the only Maylayans that had not fkllen victims to the terrible cttrse of intercourse with Europe. They were superb specimens of physical beauty, and intellectually surpassed any other savage nation of the Pacific. They knew their poverty and their ability to make use of their extraordinary resources, knew they only how and they clamored for information and the civilization for which they were fitted.

Colonel Steinberger thought it would be a pity that such a people, so intelligent, so worthy of sympathy and confidence, should foil a prey to the kind of civilization that has left such a hideous, loathsome wreck at Hawaii, and he determined to go to their rescue heart and soul. He met all the chieffe, he expostulated with them on their perpetual wars, he nnfolded to them his views and spoke to them of the possibilities within their reach. He most be a very extraordinary man, for he did what all the missionaries and Consuls at Apia oould not do. He stopped all their wars ho bound them to a compact of peace until lie should return, which they sacredly held to, and it was the first peace known in their warlike history aud he left lor tho United States, carryiug their prayers to its President that he should be returned to thom to make them a government and teach them the arts of civilization. It was a very pretty, Arcadian sort of opportunity, and Colonel Steinberger, who had never imagined the possibility of sueh a thing when he arrived, embraced it at once and set about securing its successful realization in as common-sense and wise a manner as could have been conceived.

When he returned to this country— near a year ago now—ho laid the matter before the Department of State and asked permission to aid these people in tho formation and establishment of a permanent and stable government. Tho countenance aud moral support of this Government were, of cours?, necessary to the success of his plans, and tlicy were very cheerfully accorded. The President wroto a friendly letter in answer to the ono received, and Colonel Steinberger was sent back to Samoa in the United States war-ship Tuscarora with presents from the United States, consisting of different kinds of fire arms, a steam launch, clothing, nautical instruments, and tho like and we confess it certainly seems to us that the Government did a very creditable thing in taking the action it did.

All accounts agree that Colonel Stclnberger's Influence over the natives of the Sainoan Islands, is unbounded. His wish is law. He could be their king if he dosirod and not a dissenting voice would be heard. Ho wrote for tbem a Bill of Rights and Constitution which were cagorly adopted by the people. This Constitution provides for a King, who is to be elected for four years. It also provides for the ofllco of Premier, which offlootho Colonel was enthusiastically chosen to fill for lite. He has unlimited power now, and there is no ground for doubting that he will make the best possible use of it in developing the resources of the islands and their people, and raising tho latter from a state of barbarism to one of civilisation. A man who has the ability and the disposition to undertake such a work as this is worthy of something better than ridicule. The good b» had already ae compllsbed and t!ie good he proposes to do are r*T+*»"»y entitled to some consideration. It would be creditable in us all to wish him success.

FBW people have even the faintest idea of the fino work performed by the American team in their recent contest* with Ireland. An experienced engineer htt the Soilowing computations, which may be relied upon aa accurate. The bull's eye at the recent contest was three feet square. In the thousand yards shoot, supposing the gun to be aimed at the center of the bull'aeye, a variation of (me^igkteen-tAoMancUA part of an AM* would sendt the ballet ovltuUtfU* Imir* eye. When we take into consideration that the- cottiw of the bullet was liable

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have been changed by the of-

flMt Of speck in the air, the wind or fitlirtr iflgh* eansM upon the vision of ttenttrlwDfian, it will be seen that the OMpwto IA ball* eye mast h«v* hiK$ ateady nerve. It is utterly hn» po«{bl«wfth the naked eye to approximate a dhfekNt of an eighteen-UKwa-aadih jairt of an tnefc. The boll's eye n»t«i**wa«a panOMo^mm six to* Mgb

TKBftmtof tfceSfcai» aieeUMWtakea pi—1 |n Kentneiy next Monday, and will pmbably result in a victory for the Domoemta, 0« tbe Tbonday following the election in North Carolina will oe-

oar,

In which the Rr{wbka»sare pretty certain win. A*d tt goes!

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large portion of the telegraphio columna of the dally papers an at present devoted to reporting the trial of John D. Lee in Beaver, Utah, forpartloipetion In the lfbuntsin Meadow uiassanrs in 1867. For the beoeflt of t$o«» of our readers who have forgotten the drcumstancesof that revolting outrage, we reproduce a remarkably dear and well written editorial on the sutyect from the New York Son. It will be seen that Brigham Young and all the Mormon leaders are implicated and honest people can only hope that they may be made to suffer for it :*.• I

The tragedy oocurireolat atime olgreat excitement in Utah. Brigham Young was then Governor of the Territory, an likewise Superintendent of Indian Affoire, having received his appointment to these offices from President Fillmore, though Alfred Cumming, with a commission in his pocket from President Buchanan, was on his way to superaede him as Governor, accompanied by a military force of about three thoussnd men, under the command of Col. Albert Sidney Johnson, to enforce his claims. There had been great turbulence in Utah numerous outrages on emigrants by persons in the guise of Indians bad been ascribed to the Mormons and the Gentile Judges of the Federal courts had all left the Territory, which in flu* was in a state of rebellion. The question of armed resistance to the troops was seriously discussed, though subsequently this idea was abandoned.

During this period of excitement, namely, in August. 1857, a large train of emigrants on their way to Call readied Salt Lake City. It was the finest train that had ever attempted the overland route. Several elegant carriages were among the vehicles, for the accommodation of ladies ot the party, and there were many women ana children in the train. It la said tnat the finest of these carriages was for years afterward used by a foully of Mormons. After laying in their supplies in Salt Lake City, thlB party precbeded toward California, and that was the last that was known of them for along time. It was fully a year before any of their friends received the least intimation of their fate.

Three hundred miles from Salt Lake, on the road to Los Angeles, California, is a meadow five miles in length by one in breadth, with a very fine spring at at one end. affording an excellent camp ing ground. Here the emigrant party encamped in order to recruit their stock before entering upon what was then called the Great Desert, and here, in the month of September, the massacre took place.

According to tho commonly accepted story of the slaughter, tho emigrants were attacked while encamped by Indians, who had been sot upon tbem by Mormons, and by Mormons disguised as Indians, and ten or twelve men were killed before any one understood that they were in danger. The remainder of tbo party at once seized their arms, in treuched themselves behind their wageiis, and prepared for a determined resistance. For a week, with their women and children lying in tho trenches they had dug, the emigrants maintained their position, and kept their enemies at bay. Then tho Mormons resolved on strategy. The tiriug by the Indians ceased, and the besieged party, looking up the meadow, saw a wagon full of white men coming toward thom. These men proved to be John D. Lee and other Mormon dicn itate with the Indians. As tho Mormons and Indians were known to be on good terms, the offer was gladly accepted, and after Leo and his associates had conferred with the attacking party af savages, it was agreed that the emigrants should surrender their arms and other property, and return by the road they came. The Mormons on their part promised to guard and protect the party until they should reach tho settlements.

Having given up their arms, tho emigrants left their wagons and stock and started northward on foot. The women and children were in front, tho men followed, and in tho rear was a guard'of forty Mormons. Hardly had this sorrowful procession started

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when afire was poured into them from an ambush, followed by an attack from tbo Mormons in the rear, and in a few minutes one hundred and twenty men. women and children lay slaughtered upon tho ground. Seventeen of the youngest children were saved and adopted by Mormon &milles. and it is said that three men escaped immediate death. But one of these was afterward murdered by the Indians another starved to death, and the third was killed upon the Colorado, though by whom it is not known.

The evidence produced In the pending trial all goes to show that this account ot the massacre is substantially correct. Philip K. Smith, one of the defendants, who was a Mormon bishop at the time of the massacre, appeared is Stated evidence, and gave a full description tf the slaughter with all its horrible detaila, as well as an account of tho deliberations among the Mormon leaders which proceeded the butchery, In which against his will be saya, he was forced to participate. The massacre was resolved upon by Mormon bishops and ooupdllors, Lee and W. H. Dame being among the most conspicuous tn planning ana executing the crime. The description which Smith gives of tbo slaughter fully confirms all that has heretofore been reported of its barbarous character.

While th* general facta of ^e Mpni^ taln Meadow massacre have long beeh admitted, It haa been contend Morpton* and tfietr^telBndeaJs 1 ham Young knew nothing about itj while on Use ofthar ha^d la« been

pUtbed by fcJaexpmi eoumaig. ft Is ceitain tMrt iMmmflon oftfee M«rmooajtyring Tn Ota l&dtaty at tMigtt# of the 'murders were greatly shocked when tb**y bwaune known, swd tbe^gn^

penom^ffMn^^fiie art was committed witlwat the knowledge of Young who, it wss thought, was certainly too shrewd man to oortntenanee each atrocious treachery and cruelty tn innont women and children. The evidence of Smith, however, If it is to be creditted proves that Brigham Young was at least an accessory after the AM*, for HE distinctly swears that in company with le and another man* be called on Young In Salt Lake City, tee having previously reported the facts in full, and received from him instructions as to tbe diepositfcmofthe property captured from he murdered emigrant*, and at the asme time a warning against talking about the aJ&ir, even

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LETTSSrsOM WASHINGTON.

OtfitAi, Mcmo-A ftrapr OF A Smjrrut —WsAjasoxB WKATHXR— A JAPA?

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Correspondence of The Mail. WABHiirorraM, July 26,1875. mncrBTTKBBAHD.

In oompany with a Tseesuiy leech I went last Saturday evening to hear the Marine Band, on the pretty grounds back of the White Honaa. The musio was excellent, consisting of national airs and selections from popular operaa, and I, for one, enjoyed it. Forty trained artists with silver boras, playing at the country's capital, make capital music, Besides there was a large crowd of well dressed people, strolling in the shadoof the great trees, promenading in a large circles around the stand, flirting and so on. To use a feminine phrase, it was just splendid. The only drawback waa that in all that multitude there waa no one I knew, no familiar free, no one to whom 1 could bow in friendly recognition, or lift my linen sombrero to a to mode, and exchange metereoloeioal and musical obeervationa with. Neverthetheles8,as before intimated^ I ei\Joyed the moving charade and melodious accompaniment.

But here is what occurred to me when I sat down to write this "abstract and brief chronicle." It sometimes happens that the

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W'hich follows a pleasant hour, or rare experience in this world is suddenly disturbed by a chilling remark from some party of cosmopolitan information, who looms upon you with imperial dignity. places a social extinguisher, and snuffs you out—that Is if you submit to having your "light put out" in that unceremonious fiianion.

For Instance: returning to our cheerful boarding houae, on 1 street, north-, west, opposite Franklin Square, that evening, we encountered a fair occupant of the Catacasy mansion, sitting on the front steps residing Griffith Gaunt. She was told, for the sake of an opening in conversation, that we had been.to hear the Marino Band, ti Indeed

Yes the Band played well, and the people went marching around." Mv dear sir,, nooody goes there—" she sud with a piercing inflection, followed by a sympathetic and auaibh &milo.

Thank you for that sentence but, begging your pardon, I think you are mistaken. There were more than a thousand poople on tho groundf." ,t

Yes. and who were they '1 Really I don't know. My acqualn tance in Washington is limited. I know the Japanese minister, some Indiana officials, and tho Treasunr cashier who hands oat the monthly stipends of employes, done up nicely in Government envelopes."

Well, I'll tell you who they were— nursery maids, and people who can't afford to go off In the summer! Wait till September, then you'll see the ton ton."

I waa tempted to reply, "Isli dot so but felt too weak. To know that I had been to the White House grounds to hear Schneider's Marine Band, in the summer time, when the best people aro out of town, or pretend to be, was overpowering, and I tackled anotnersubject.

The Band plays Wednesday evenings at the Smithsonian grounds and Saturday evenings at the White House. There itrusually a large crowd in attend ince,the music is sometimes very fine, and the entertainment Is appreciated in spite of the fket that the elite are not there to be seen.

SUMMER BNEEZ&S

Tho last four weeks tbo weather lit Washington, barring three or four oppressively hot days, has been very pleasant. A cool breeze from the south, fresh from the Chesapeake Bay and tho Atlantic ocean, has hardly ceased blowing, day or night, and this, with an occasional shower, has aided wonderfully In keeping au agreeable average in atmospherical temperature—anil making a summary disposal of some of the ills of summer.

One night, howover, it was hot. The Treasuryleech and I couldn't begin to sleep neither could the rats In tbo back yard, nor the cats on the woodshed, nor the cooks in the kitchen. We fired every loose article at tho vermin, and implored tho hilarious vigilants of the cubitus to "give us a rest," but the horrible din was kept up, and the heat was intense. Finally the clock on the mantel struck one, the rats got caught In a barrel of slop, tho cat musicale was terminated with an ominous crash, and the voices in the klthen ceased with a plaintive appeal, as a colored Afriean climbed the back fence, which sounded like— "Don't go, Tommy,don't go,'' To which the Treasury employe replied, "If Tommy don't go, 111 shoot mm,'1 whereupon there was quiet, and with the exit of the slum we began to slumber. (That's villainous, I know, but distance makes me safe, and besides you may console yourself that it is no worse. For instance, the Treasury grabber was awakened the next morning early by a terrific sneeze, when he exclaimed Impatiently, 'that's a snoutrage," as ho was just petting to sleep, and that sneeze broke his snooze f)

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It im, Judge Crsdlebaogh, a Federal judge appointed by Buchanan, attemptcdfo bringtbe perpetrators ofthia horrible crime to Justice, butftiled. It to doubted whether the present trial will result in tbo conviction of Lee and his Miirtrilstfa since eight of the iurots are Mormons while itfe said that same of them are near relative* of persons who are deeply implicated 3n the murders.

w* HOW."

A few days ago I received a written invitation to aoeompany a crew of the "Anatoatan Boat Clab'Mo a forty foot barge, propelled by eight oara up the beautiful Potomaca few miles. The invitation ws» accepted with thank*, anU the invited guests were escorted to the river bv saniletnsnly members cf the dub. Among the £s voted few were Mr. Yoshkla, the Japanese Envoy, and one of hie aecretarfca. Roth cm

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"United Sutes" fluently, and having traveled a great dentin this country and In Europe, they are at no loss to take part in any conversation. Upon any subject likely to come np. The young men of Japan, the minister said, do not in

in athletic sports aa the yonng

men of England and America do. They jeetwrally hire other* to row boots, fo perform with bat and ball, and all that sort of thing, while the higb-tdned gentlemen content themselves by looking on.

On the way up oar boat passed another in which there waa a number of ladlea who were talking and laughing gayly, and who waved handkerchfofij as our uniformed rowers made tho dub wld .b. «»o. J.P. "how loud the ladles talk they ssy more than the men. And wnai a strange custom that is, so different from oonu* "Yea, the iraeriosn wonwn has* good deal to say ah© saya it, and she Generally savsR well."*

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is truer I Uk« Amftfc»owo.

men very tnaeb. I did cell m/ own little child Japan America Vwti

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tribute to my owneomitfy, and the peopto I am wttk*

The Potomac, which rapidly grown narrower aa yon go np stream from Georgetown, ,fs a picturesque threrr Aside from thaHotOd places continually In alghtjMote which have been hallowed by thoatrnnglee of patriots, from tho declaration or Independence down to tho last bitter straggle for freedom-

grant, songs of birds and the delightful per* fame of the proud magnolia. On the other the hum of business, the shouts of canal men, the spires of a Capital, and the types and emblems of a powerful government. iTAt Table Bock, a distance of three and a-hatf miles, which WB reached in thirty minutes, tne boat was brought to abore and the nassensers were landed with differential ceremonies, such as ntlemen sailors can alone extend, refreshments were being served the lusty crew sang jolly songs, and tho little nook reverberated with solo and chorus, and ahouts of appreciative applause. A dozen other boats were near by, long shells, tiny crafts only big enough for two, shaip-pointed racers which make the sole occupants look like human spiders, and akiffit with merry freights which had excited the earnest attention of the foreign minister, as we passed them on the way np. The scene on the river was enlivening. The songs of our rowers were answered by tbo flur ones out on the waters, while jests and jokes flew thick and fast, and good humor ruled the hour.

It was late when the boat reached port again, and the return was like coming from the home of Undine, beneath the waves, where all the spirits of enchanted life had ministered to our happiness, and made one of the pleasantest evenings we have known.

The Potomac Is a beautiful sheet of water, and professional, as well as nonprofessional rowers, take much advantage of ita bright suriheo, and have great sport, day and night. Tho Potomao boat club, and the Analostan, aro large organizations, owning commodious boat houses and all manner of craft for pleasure, and muscular development: Excursions are made every evening, and races are frequently indulged in, the rowers being men of business, Govern* ment employes, professional men, and others who like the exercise and make themselves strong by caroful training

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and bard pulliug7 followed always by the bathing ana rubbing which ofiket

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any harm that otherwise might follow.

Among tho ATTRACTIVE FEATURES Of Washington as a city, are tho numerous parks, and beautlrally paved streets. The parks aro now gorgeously green, delightfully shady, nice places to go to in the evening to amoke, see people, and oool your fevered brow. There aro fountains, with their ceaseless, musical plashing,statuary, in bronze and marble, commemorative of men and deeds, eagles and other birds and animals, free ana in cages, sparrows in the trees—little frauds all of thom—aud bugs and babies on the grass—all got up regardless of expense.

But in all these places

tho negro is omnipresent. There is one on every seat, in every path, and by every fountain and statue. Nurses abound, and baby oarts interrupt your progress at every turu. A very large proportion of the population I (should judge, is made up of the colored man and brother, and there is no right, prerogative or privilege whiob is thein by law which they do not secure aud appreciate. In a street car he, or she, keeps the seat, though caueasian ladies stand till the heavens foil, it makes no diflerence to them.

The streets aro simply magnificent, and the prettiest drives in the world. The cool nours of evening may bedeligbtmlly employod riding or driving over Hsphaltuin and blook pavements without end, while at every point there are beautiful private or puolio buildings to enlist attention, and

are beautiful ings to enlist attention, and give zest to recreation. These features of Washington are comparatively new, and are added to so rapidly that old habitues who have missed seoiog the city a felv years aro astonished at tho sight. Ono or two more Boss Shepherd's and Washington would bo the most elegant city in the country.

For the present, dear Mail, adieu. I want to get a glass ot IClssingen, and sit awhile in the shade. J. C. B.

The City and Vicinity.

FAIRBANKS' distillery will start up Monday. [email protected] Is «ffcred for a prime quality of white wheat. lu/

TUB steamer Van Buskirk is now in the Cumberland river trade.

Tun work of bridging the gutters on Main street has been commenced at last.

TUB river raised four Inches In the twelve lioui^endipg seven o'clock this A. X.

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EtaHT hundred snd twenty coplea of D. W. V.or boas' speeches have been •°,d- ~T~L

THR Prasaian Band" played, Thursday and Friday evenings, at the Mozart Beer Garden.

Dams* LTOOS, conductor on the B. A C. railroad, has lost two children, by scarlet fever, within a-woek.

THHIB'IX be another chance /or a la-ger-beer drunk to-morrow. The Hunt* W Club will picnic at the Fair Groundr.

Or Course tbo manufacturers of those Are alarm boxes dont make anything on them at 9250 apiece, but still that's & good deal of money.

Giaoiio« HBIT*A», a boy employed about the Terra Haute House, had his. band crippled, on Thursday, by tho accidental discharge ofapiatol.

MAKY of the brick sidewalk* are being reduced to sight feet in width so as toadmit of a four foot graze plat between tbem and the outside curbing,

SOXK unregeneratc scoundrel is making an everlasting fortune traveling through tbo soOth part of the country selling "brass knucks" to half-grown country boys.

Tit* twin boys of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Heinl died of scarlet fever yesterday. Tliey were fine ohildrUt aged tn month*. The bereaved paraate will have tho baarty #mpatby of ail their acquaintance*.