Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1875, Page 10

10 = T HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY DECEMBER- 26, 1875.—TWELVE PAGES. VOUDOO. Celebration of Pagan Rites in 3 Chicago. Hegroes Who Are Faithful to the Creed of Their Fathers. A Reporter Succeeds in Viewing the Mys- terions Incontations, Sundry Individuals Solemnly Devoted to the Mercies of the Devil How the Interesting Business is Done. To & msn of this age, bred North of Mason and Dixon's line, * Voudooism” implies s weird and horrible_ fantastic dream. It seems to him that guch s system of the era of the Dark’ Ages could not hbave escaped uiter demolition in its * descent upon modern civilization. And, of all cities in the world, Chicago wonid probably be the last place that your ordinary, practical soru of a fellow wonld select for a monstrosity of this kind to hinge upon. Notwith- standipg this, there is ‘s Fetich set- tiement hanging upon tho ragged edge of our Runicipal limits, and by the merest sccident in the world, a T reporter dis- covered its whereaboats. While investigating the extent to which the poorer, more particu~ larly the colored, classes patronized an outrage- ous swindling device yclopt lottery, tho reporter +was actonished by the information that in 2 near suburb the msjority of the population wers Voudoos. It was difficult to control an inclination to socer at the igea of such a {bing, but the earnestoess of the iaformant, and the clearnsss of his dats, finally commanded erious attention, and inspired resolution on tho part of the reporter to investigate the mat- ter. To obtsin an sdmission to a feast or glorifica- tion of the Supreme Fetish, it is necossary that one should bz OTCHED FOZ BY A GROTIER ASD A SISTFR of the Order, who, daring a probation of & fort- pight, subject the professing convert to the most hideous tests of his faith in his professions. 1t did not take very long for the writer to de- termine that, under the circumstances, the ma- triculation was too sultry for his organization. Divers ingenious schemes wers concocted to ob- tain & glimpse of & celebration of the rites, bat, Gespite the brains that were liberally expended in prepanng them, they were all, and siogly, conspicuous failures. Incidentally, while strug- gling to get tho edge on the bemghted barba- rians, tho reporter learned that they had been in ful enjoyment of their worship guring the ast three yoars, and that they ad successfully _ baflled all attempis to encroach upon the sacredness of their ceremonies. With three excoptions, the Vondoos are megroes. There are two female whites and one male white, and these are all peo- ple of more than ordinary intelligence. After exhausting all the meansat his command to get sn insight of the doings of the Voudoos, the reporter returned to the person who first ave him the information. That person was & gn.rkay on Fonrth avenue, and when it was pro- posed that he shonld tako thewriter to the house of worship, he shook &s if he had a fever. THE VOUDOO SETTLEMENT Is on the Milwankee plack road, about a mile be- sond Holstein, and between that place and Jef- ferson, At first this was all tho information the darkey wonla give about it, and he imparted that in fear and trembling. Strong persuasion, after the reporter was foiled in every astempt to gain sdmission to the sceno of tho mysterious rites, induced the megro to show the way to the trail leading to the * Worship-House.” Monday night 18 elways the occasion of & feast tothe Voudoo gods, snd Thursdsy night is always de- yoted to & service to appease the evil spirit. 1t transpired, while on the way to the Voudoos, that the darkey guide ws8 a member infall faith, bot he was snxions to free himself from all ccnnection with the Urder. His reason for this will appear bereafter. The country betwween Holstein and Jefferson is very pleasing, and handsome residences are not at sll rare. Afterleaving the omnibus at North avenue: the colored guide insisted upon walking the remainder of the distance. The time was about 8 o'clock, the road was bad, and the mile that was tramped over seemed never- ending. . “STOP DAR ¥OW," gaid the darkdy, suddenly, and away he went, snd in » moment he was oat of sight. The re- L»ortu had a faint idea that when his guide came ack he would bring inducements along strong enongh to make his viciim ‘‘stop dar” altogether ; but aa he did not know but that he would meet as werm s reception in tho direction from which he came, 88 he was likely to get Irom those whom be was quite sure tho darkey would bring wish him, he concluded to await the advance, and if thers was a_hole left take his shances of being able to crawl out of it. After s weary wait of 8 quarter of an hour the negro returned, and said that the conditions were all right for the feast that night, and that it would be held at 12 o'clock. He could not ootain admission for the writer to the circle of the brotherhood, but if tho * gem'men would tuk a chance™ he would show him & place whera he could lio concealed aud seeths whole perform- ance. To do as the neyro proposed neceasitated the absolute surrender of personal safety, if he was dishoneet; if be was sincere, it made the opportumity for which the reporter had been aching for a fortmght. At all events, it was sgreed that the reporter would ‘‘tuk and the nogro started briskly up the road, etill in the direction of Jefferson. A sharp walk of three minutes brought them to a emall gettlement adjoning the plank-road, aod, leaving the main thoronghfare, the negro struck into = side_trail which he followed about 100 yerds and eeddenly stopped, and in & Whisper Baid to the reporter, “This is THE WORSHIP HOTSE.” The bulléing was an ordinary onc-and-a-half frame cottage with peaked roof. There were lightsin the windows of the first story, but from tbe curcolar window in the second story there was Dot &gleam. At s signal from the darkey the reporter skurried around to the sids of tbe bouse, and he (the darkey) walked out into the light and rapped loudly upon the door. Ilis knock was answered imme- diately aod a child's voice inquired what was wanted, and in_the next breath, in accents of recognition, said * Oh, is it you, Mr. Jackson ? Come in.” Mr. Jackson went in, but, as he had agreed to, left the door open, and in s moment the reporter heard him esy to the girl, ** Emma, wha's de folks?® Ske replied, at Byron Lee's. There was eilence for an instant, and then he - toldber togo and tell them thaf Mr. Jackson was waiting to ses them. The little gir! had no sooner left the house than Jackson called the reporter in and condacted him into the upper stary,and, removing a strip of carpeting, exposed A CBACE BETWEEN {HE FLANKS. through which a perfect view of the room below could be obtained. Very soon after the reporter .had settled himself into a comfortable position toview the impending ceremonies, the noise of the arrival of several persons brought his eye to the crack in the fiocoring in time to sce a strange man and woman exter the house with the child. ‘The new-comers, who were evidently the parents of the child, at once began an earnest conversa- tion with the guide, but tbey spoke in a low toue of voice, and the conversation was but s muf- fled, confused murmuriog to the man on watch, ‘When the reporter went into the loft it was &bout 9 o'clock, and he was doomed to a vigil—if one can call sitting in the dark, with the only hgm that came throogh a shr between two planks, a vigil—of three hours before the per- formauce begun. The time passed drearily Eaugh. bat, after what seemed aimogt an eter- L5y i PEOFLE BEGAX TO ARNIVE. They came 1n oncs and twos, end they entered the honse cautionsly. About fifteen persons passed through the docr, under the eye of the reporter, and then there was conmderable bust- ang ebout down-stairs, a8 if eome furniture was being moved aod people it the room were mov- ing about so a8 to get ont of the way of thore who were bandlingit. Outof a straizht line, the most wonderful contortion would not assist the reporter’s vision more than a few inches, and hie was obliged to grin and tear the mysterions noise wituout being able to ascertain its cause. While feeling around for a knot that might be forced up out of ita place in the plank, the noise below suddenly cessed, and, glancing throngh the crack, the convealed emissary of tne press #aw & larce red, figared curtain_hanging from the back wall of the room. and in front of it, standing onits legs upon two blocks of wood, H A LAZGE IROY POT, or cauldron. To the left or the caaldrom, in Wwhat seemed to Lo a barber's chair, sat = white- baired vegro, enveloped in a robe of what soemed 10 be ecutiet-veiveteeu. The people in the room ware groucod in o semi-circle in fromtof and sround the patriarchal African and the pot. Before the agod darkey appeared, the buzz of endral whisperings ascended to the loft, nt from the moment that le came upon the scens mno owe in the place spoke » word. His presence seemingly awed or terrified them into ilence. So far aa the reporter could see from his perch, the heads of all were bowed as if in silens prayer. Sud- denly the bigh-priest, or boss Voudoo, slowly ereoted himself, and taking from tho iuside of bis cloak a short, gnarled, and very snake-like looking stick walked with ststely step to the cauldron. His rising seemed to be the signal for the rest of the people to riee, and immediately thers was a general fumbling by esch of them shout their clothes for something that it appear- ed they were expected to bring to tbe presiding deiry. The child, before mentioned, suddenly came into view irom some place beyond the ro- porter's line of visio, and stood behind the old man holding & blazing torch, which from the smell appeared to have becn made of piteh. Following quickly after the appearance of tho little girl upon the scene, ono after another of the Voudoos, with the exception of Jackson the guide, and tbo elders of the family in whose house the ceremonies wero being _held, walked &uiem ‘to the place whers the old man steod, and, handiug him & piece of paper, dashed something, which the reporter could not see, into the cauldrua, and 2s quickly retreated. Every piece of papor handed to the solemn old darkey in the cloak was held by him in the flames of the torch jasc over the cauldron g0 that the ashes might drop intoit, Atthe conclusion of this ceremony the old darkey took {rom another receptacle in his cloak & small vial and poured its contents into the caunldron. Then be bent his body over the edge of the pot, mumbled something, spat into it, and Ej“h“ the contents a vicious poke with his wznd. en he and the gl passed round the cauldrom twice, and at each turn_they each_epat into it. After the second turn they stopped 1n the centreof the semi-circle ; the rest of the Voudous formed in line behind them, and all hands marcbed arouod | the canldron ouce more. Each of the congrega- tion, as he or she completed the circuit of the cauldron, spat into it, and by the time the last ono had o his contribution of saliva the patriarch and thoe child wero waiting for them in tho centro of tha™" circle. They all remained standiog. The old man say- agely snatched she toret from the hands of the child; struck wildly with it before, behird, to the right, and to the left of him, and then plupged it into the cantdron. When he dashed tho torch into the cauldron, the Voudoos FLUNG THEMSELYES UPON THE FLOOR with lond thumps, and the old fellow was the only oze left standing. Simultaneously with the descent of tho torch into the cauldron, a bright flame rose up, burned briskly for a momeaot, aud expired. While the fiames lasted the old darkey incessantly mumbled, and when they went out he, too, cast himself upon the floor, and thers they groveled, for several minutes. All this ume not a word was spoken, and the sus- pense was painful. Presently one of the prone ones arose and silently passed out. ‘The first was_soon followed by aunother, and another, until the child and the priest were left alone. Then he arose, aud, taking off his cloak, be fold- od and handed it to the child, and together they passed out. After about five minutes there was a rush through the doar and Jackson came breathlessly into the loft where the reporter was, and almost dragged him down the ladder after him. Thers was no tume for talk, apparently, and after gttting out of the house Jackson start- ed on a run in the direction of the plank road. It is hardly necsssary to add that be at ome time got out of sight of the reporter, whois & pretty good runner himself. There was plenty of time for conversation after getting to North avenue, Jackson said be- tween jumps, and as there was no means of con- veyance into the city at that honr of night—1:30 —Jackson was about right. Once fairly into the city. Jackson’s composure and loquacity re- turned to lim. Tho ceremonies that had been such a mystery to the reporter were descrived by his sable guide with a word : ** HOUDARED." . ? When he £aw that he was not understood ke geemed to have a coctempt for his companion, but he eventually condescended to ex- plain. The feast that the reporter bad just witneseed was dedicated to the Dovil. Those of the Order who were injured during the week brought into the meet- ing the name of the person who injured them, and it was burnt in flames from piteh, Then they cast as many pieces of paper, or old liuen, into the cauldron &8 they wanted affiictions for their enemies, and when the Fetish, or priest, poured the ‘ burning oil™ upon the contents and purned them the charm was complete. Jackson's only object in leading a reporter to the scene of the Fetish worship was, be said, that e wanted toget “‘shet ™ of them. Heand Byron Lee,who, hesays, is at the head of the Order,quar- reled somo timo ago, and since that time Jackson Das lived in constant dread of being * houdshed.” He thioks that, if the whit:_lfieopla find ont about these goings-on they put s stop to them, and drive Leo out_of the neighborhood. This, according to his belief, would insure his safety, becanse, he eays, it Lee haa to livein another State thero will be rivers between, and the superstition is that the charm, for good or evil, will not cross running water. A Eemarkable Meeting, Boston Traveller, Seventeen vears ago Willism Lester, » poor carpenter, died st Boston. Threo of his chil- dren wore taken West by & friend, and the fourth, a lttls girl, was bplaced in a Boston ssylum. Last September the only survivor of the wesiern members of the family came Fast in search of his gister, having himsolf become very wesalthy. Ho found that the girl had been adopted by John Whesler, & dry-goods merchant, but he had been dead a dozen yoars, and there was mo trace of the ziixl's whereabouts since. Belng discouraged, ho efarted West again, but, oo the train, & little way oot of Boston, he noticed among a bevy of girls who entercd _the cars one who remarkably resombled his mother. He left the train when they did, and soon found that 1t wes indecd his sietor, who was living with her poor adopied mother. She had never been told that she was an adopted child, and it was long before she reslized her situntion. The youug lady conld not be provailed upon to accompany her brother West, but as she looks upon the luxuries with which she and her adopted mother have been “surrounded by her brother, she enjoys the pleasure of a real rcmauce. g e Domestic Arrangements of Congresse men. New York Tribune, A Congressman vouches for the following a8 an actual conversation between two new mem- Ders of the majority, which be could not help Learing the otber dsy in the House restau- rant. After somo ~ comparison of do- mestio _arrangements for the mession, A. inguired: *What have you done about your wifi)bing ?* 4:0h,” smd B., *I bave madean ex- collent arrangement for that, I have, Igo: s firat- rate negrowoman, & reai good woman, I think,and bhave made a bargain with her for the scason at a dollar a° dozen!™ **Well,” responded A., “I am not quite certsin whether my arrange- ment is as chesp as that or not. have wade & bargain with s woman to do all my washing for the session for a dollar and 8 half a month; but I'll watch it for the first month, and if I find your bargain is cheaper, I'll try and get your womaa o do mine 100.” Speaker Kerr ought to have been in- formed of this conversation in time for his Com- mittees. If these twomen are not paton the Waya and Means, gross injustice will be dune to the financial geniugof the House. - —_—————— Belligerent Sisters. Columbua (Ga.) Enguirer. Esrly yesterday mornihg, in Brownevllle, Ala- bama, two sisters—one married, the other single but engaged—daughters of Mr. Barris, had a dispute as to the looks of husband and lover. Miss Bolinds seized a pair of helz tongs, and, striking her sister, literally knocked out the left eye-ball. A Columbus physician removed the hanging ball, and on'a third visit in the after- noon pronounced the condition of the patient a8 very dangerous—in fact, life is despaired of. Miss Harris was_dismissed from the Eagle and Pheenix Mills, whero both gisters were employed. A Doz Mail-Carriere “ St, y'aul Pwneer-Press. Who carries the mail from Os-tra-gon-nosh, awsy up ou the Minnesota line, to the nearest froutier sottloment in Dakots? Why, Boss, & mongrel kind of dog. an apparent ultimate resuit of the mibgling of evary kind of dog Yonnd in the Territcry. Boss’ master a year ago was & drunken half-breed, who was paid €3 a trip in summer, and $5 in winter for taking the maiis a distance of some 60 miles. Boss’ master was honest, and never parloined a letter, but he had & wayof dnoking on the road, and the mails were _often yed. Last Janoary the mail-carrier never reached his destination, but was found frozen siiff in & snow-bank 3 -miles beyond Jobley's Bun. Boss was keepiog guard over his master and the mail. Now Boss runs the machine m.bad weather. All that has to bo dome i3 to take and sacuro the letters around his neck in an ou-skin wrap, and away ‘goes Boss to the end of the mail ronte on tha biggest kind of alope. There is no use of starving Boss, like peogle do pigeons, to get him to work, though he does expect a feed ac the conclusion of his journey. (0 one a8 yet is intriguing for crow fltes, v ixty- iles as the Boss' place, Bixty-two mi D carrying the mail through the enow, position most office-seekers care for. ghicie i g e o A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Loss of 2 Vcssel and Twelve Lives— Peril of the Survivors, and Their Eleroic IBescues Correspondence New York Werld. Sr. Jomss, N. F., Dec. 9.—At 4 o'clock in the afternoon on Mouday, Nov. 29, a small consting vegrel, named the Water-Witoh, left Bt. Johns, bonsd for Cupids, & small port on the northern shote of Conception Bay. The run was & short one, being & little over 40 miles. Soon sftor loaving the harbor a strong gale from the £onthenst set in, accompanied with a donse 1all of now. As darkness closed iu the gale in- creased in violence, hn;lix;g lhe;;:o!{flnkna :‘n ita wings, and driving the huge Atlantio waves, with -\gfl!fen roar, far up the dark oliffe. The night was intensely dark. The little vessel, with twenty-foar souls o board, four of them women, Wwas battling with the waves, endesvoring to double Cape §t. Francis, at the entrance of Conception Bay. Uu- bappily the Captsin hugged the shore too closely, and at 9:30 o'clock the startling cry m‘xm the lookout was heard, * Rocka ahead!™ The words had not passed his lips threo minutes when the vessel atruck against a rock with groat force. The Captain and two men Joaped upon & low shell of rock that was dimiy visible in tho gloom, rightly concluding that this was the only chance of saving their lives. Tho water was deep at this 8pot. and tho vossel robounded, but was .presently hurled a socond time against ti:e rocks a few yards distant from the place whero &no firat siruck, Here nine more of the men leaped for their lives and managed to oling to the sur- faco of a sharply-slanting rock, over which at times the waves were breaking. Tho Water- Witch reeled under the tremendous blow, Btag- gored back o fow yards and sank, carrying dovn with ber eight meu and four women. The situa- tion of the poor fellows who were now clinging to the rocks was terrible in the extreme. Strange to relate, the vessel had been carried inton smsll inlet called Horraud’s Guich, a little north of Pouch Cove. The entrance of this gulch is but a few ysrds wide, and had she struck to tho right or left of it not a sonl could have been saved, as the shore is a sieep wallof rock. Therock upon which the cap- tain and two of the crew leaped is & smail projecting shelt on the north eide of the inlet, while that to which the others were clinging 18 on the opposite side. The position of the Iatter was fearful to think of. They were holding ou to a slippory, sloping rock, only a few feet abovethe surface of the wator, and barely large enough to give them room to crouch on its surface. The spray dashed over them with every wave, and at intervals a heavy sea broke over the rocks 2s, huddled together, thoy clatched it for doar life. ‘They dared not move, for the ses was all around the rock, and a fow fect off they counld see a dark, perpendicalar cliff shooting ‘up 600 fect into the midnight eky. The huge waves were thundering at their feet, and the snow- storm roaring overhead. A few feet from them they knew that some of their nearest connec- tions lay dead at tho bottom of the sea. The position of the Captain and his two companions was not quite so perilous, as they found it possibie though at great risk to scram- ble up from the shelf on which thoy first found & footing. Thoy heard the voice of their com- panions on the other sideof the gulch. and cheored them by telling’ them that they were abont to make an attempt to scale the rocks and bring them succor. The nearest house was at the distance of & mile, and tho men had no lknowledge of tho locality ; bat with dosperate efforts they clam- bored up the steep rocks, forcing their way painfully through the dense brushwood, where there was no path. At length, almoat exhausted, they goi to the summit. It was pitchy dark, and they had no mnotion of the proper direction, but heanng a dog bark they followed the sound, and at length reached a fisherman’s cottage on the omslirts of Pouch Cove Village, and ewoke the inmates. It was now 1:30 o'clock. Thoy told their sad tale, and described 88 well as they could tho place where their companions were clinging to the rocks, Soon more than half the village was astir; ropes and other applisnces iwere got ready, and a rescue party mustered to save if possible the shipwrecked men, Tho Rev, R. AL John- son, minister of the Church of England in Pouch Cove, accompanied the party, bringing with him a ‘‘hurricans lantern,” which he fortunately possessod, znd which was invaluable in guch circumatances, and also gomo cordials to revive the sufferers. The task that 1aid bofore the rescuers was a difficult and perilous one. They bad to force their way through a path- less wood in pitchy darkness, and they could not conjecturs whers the sufferers were to be found. With wonderfal instinct, however, they mansged to reach the top of the cliff at the bottom of which the shipwrecked men were desperately clinging to tho rock. Their cries for help faintly reached the ears of their deliv- erars out of tha dark and awful abyss, 600 feet in depth. ** Help! heipl for Uod's sake a rope | we_can’t hold on much longer.” What was to be done? The sufferers were not vigible, the exact spot where they were could not be made ont in darkness. The wall of rock was an almost perpendicular height of 600 foet. There was but one way of saving them. Some one must go down into the dark chasm, at the peril of his Lfe, sxinging at theend of & rops over the edge of the precipice and thus try to reach the perishing men, get a rope rouud each in turn, by which he may be dragged up the fearful height. It was a desperate expedient, but it was the only one, as the wretched men must soon perish by cold and exbaustion, or bse awept back into the sea. The rescuers look for a few minutes into one snother's faces. Who will go? A stout-hearted fishermun—s true hero—Alfred Moores by name—volunteers for the peril- ous undertaking. = Fastening & stout rope round him, he is launched into the biack abyss, Threo times, however, he had to be drawn up again, belng unable to get near the sufferers; but on descending the fourth time he finds o slight fissure in the face of the cliff, down which he is lowersd till he comes within 80 feet of the rock to whick the men are clinging. He has a light hand-rope, which, after several ineffectual casts, is at length caught by one of tho men. By means of it o stronger rope is passed downj; one of the men fastens it round Lis body, and the word is given to haul up, several men, sup- ported and guided by the stout rope, at the end of which Moores is swinging, have now crept down the face of the cliff, and stationed them- selves at intervals eo as to transmit orders and aid in passiog up the res- caed men. Is in a moment of awful sus- penss when the first of the rescuod men is swung off the rock and dragged upwards. At length he reaches tho top; a little brandy is poured icto his lips, and his first words are : *That was an awful long haul, but, thaok God, Iam saved.” One by oue, eight are thus drawn up, and without saccident reach the summit safely. But the nioth is not yet res- oned. He is a mere youth, and, without shoes or hat, drenched and shivering, he i clinging to & shelving rock at a short distance from his compaoions in distress. Doubis sare enter- tained as to whether it is possible to save him. But the galisnt Moores makes another cast with his rope, and the yonth has just encugh strength left to pass it round his body and swiog himself clear of the oyerhanging cliff. He is drewn up more dead than alive, bur the brave rescuers have now the happiness of knowing that by their courage and el all are saved, The men had been on the rock ten hours and & half, and what long, agonigiug hours they must have been to them, expecting each wave to huri them into the deep! There is a bar at tho entrance of Hor- raud’s Gulch which prevented the bodies of the drowned being carried out to ses, ana one by one they have been recovered, with a single excep- tion. THE MISBING CORPAE isbelieved to have been carried into 8 parrow tigsgre or cavern that runs inland under thbe brow of the clif. Some danng men will ven- turein even hers on planks, foritistoo nar- row for a boat, and whan the gea is verfectly calm, may gucceed in recovering the body. A winding path through the woods has been cut to the summit of the cliff, and up this the bodica of the dead were carried on the shouldars of these stout fishermen. In the village ceffins were prepared, and the remains were forwurded to sorrowing relstives. A good deal of property bas been picked up, and $260 i money have been found. ed, and will be sent to the rightful owners, Mr. Johnson himself havioz kept a strict ac- couunt of the wrecked property. The bodies were found to be very Lttle mutilated, withthe exesp- tion of one poor fellow, whose legs had been torn off. One of them was fished up afterwards ; the other lies at the botiom. A 'touchingincideny is relafed of ope of the women- on “board. Her busbaod was with Lot and wished to save her or perish with her. She saw that both could not be saved, and she urged and prayed him to leave her, and for the sake of their child, a helpless ‘infant, endeavor to save humself. Driven by her entreaties, he leaped on the deck at the lost moment and escaped. The poor mother found a watery grave. X 4 3fen must work and women must weep, Though tha harbor bar be moaning!™® ALBERT EDWARD. The Prince of YWales .in Ceylon. Hs Kills One Elephant Sure, and Hits Two Others. fepatches to London Times. > Coronso, Dec. 6.—TLho Prince is at the shoot~ ing-camp, Runawella. There was less coremonial at Colombo than at Bombay, infinitely less military display: indeed, the materiala did not exist for them in the colony ; but thers was more universal dieplay of feeling, and larger cordiality. It needed some- thing to make amends for the grievous disap- pointment in Southern Indis, and it is to be ro- grotted that the Prince’s stay in Ceylon cannot . be protracted. All the scemes atb Colombo wore marked by strong local coloring, but the incidents st Kandy wers so entiroly original that it is to the artist’s peacil alone that the task of giving an idea of them must be left, Thoe costume of & Kandy Chief would need many words of description; and if the sim- plicity of costume of tho lower order would afford some set off to the gquaint rich- ness and extraordinary fashion of the gar- ments of the nobles and chiofs, it wounld be still & work of time to convey am mpression of the effect produced at Kandy by vast maulti- colored crowds of yellow-robed Buddhist priests, with shaven, bare heads, petticoatod men’ with combs nt the back of their heads, turbanod Hin- doos filling up the epace markedout by the most effectivo ornamentation of bamboos, and cocoa- nnts, and palm-leaves. Of the Veddas, or abor- jgines, armed with bows and arrows, 1 did not think , much; nor does it commend thess ! harmless savages much to our human sympathies to learn that ' they never langh. It would be odd, indeed, if they were cheerful, for hard is their lot in life, an- less they ore plessed with misery. The pro- ceasion of elephants in privete rehearsal and devit-dancing on the night of arrival in Kandy might bave been misunderstood by people if it were not known by all that the British Govern- ment has no longer sny connection with Budd- hism, and that it will punish a priest as well as a peasant for a breach of the law. Having gone through bis public duties so far at Colombo, it was onlynaturalthe Prince snould Jesira to cnjoy the sport for which Ceylon is spocially famons, and gee gome of the scenery rarely visitod by travelers. It was mot possible togetupa grand kraal, for at this time of the year men aro busy, and it needs many huodrods to drive elophants gradually into o fatal district where s lsbyrioth is ready. The grand sport prepared near Trincomalee had to be abandoned, as you know, The camps where the country swarmed with game wore broken up, and all that could be done was to make arrangements for an’ elephant party elsewhere, snd Ruan- walla, & seciuded spot, 46 miles from Kandy and 41 miles from Colombo, was fixed upon a5 a place likely to afford a little sport. It was reported that two herds of elephants were in the neighborhood, and the eportsmen of the district were employed in walching them and indacing them to draw near & kina of kraa! hastlly constructed. Servants and ‘baggage wore ordered to start on Friday after- noon. With extraordinary enmergy huts were run up, coolies coligoted, food and transport pro- vided, and at 7:30 yesterday morning the Prince, attended by the Governor, 8ir W. H. Gregory, tho Colonial Bacretary, Mr. Birch, and his suite, loft -Kandy by train for Ruanwella. Great crowds were assembled to see bis departure, which was marked with the usual honors, At the station waa Gen, Strost, with & fi'nmrd of honor of the Seventeenth Regiment. There was much cheer- ing. The train, preceded by a pilot engine, ran pretty smoothly over the new line throngh one of the loveliest countries the world can show, all fresh from lsst night's torrents, which had in many places flooded tha fields and carned away the earth from the dripping hill-sides. Thou- sands of peopls slept, or tried to sleep, in Kandy 1ast night withont any covering. At Gampols, the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Altred Paget. Capts. Giynn and Durant bade the Prince good-by fors timo and proceeded to Nuwars Lliys, where they will be lodged in the Governor's Lodge and ex- ect some sport. They will cross the famous ambodds Pass and atisin sn sltitude which renders figes morning and evening_mnecessary. They rejoin at Colombo. Canon Duckworth, Capt. Williams, Col. A. Ellis, and Mr. F. Knol- 1ys, remained a¢ the Pavilion, Kandy. At all the stations from Kandy to Novalapiliva thera were pretty yot simple decorations, aud pléssed crowds of all classes. Kitnlgala, which was reached at noon, the rain was falling in torrents, andtho Priuce had to got out and walk to West-house. The horses could not draw the, carriage over the soft road. At ths egolnt an alarming discovery was madae. Scatters slong the roadway was the baggage of the Prince and lus eaite —guo-cases, portmaoteans, and all kinds of Pwksgeu. Tho servants were disconsolate. "These had been sent on from Kandy on Friday, at 3 oclock, by rail, to Damalaputison, where coolies were assembied. It is about 30 miles to Kitulgala, aud the rain swept tho road with ox- treme tropical violence. The officer in charge seems to bave neglected proper supervision, and the coolies refused to proceed any further, final- Iy turowing down their burdens and escapiog like wild beasts into the juongle, leaving the European servants to manage as they best could. At breakfnst Mr. Lavard gave rather favorable reports of the shooting prospects, but the weather continued moet deplorable. The Gov- ornor in despair made all the new dispositions that were necessary. Coolics were sought for, and the journey was resumed. Ths Prince proceeded in a covered char a banc, and the members of his suite in different vehicles, the rain coming down more violently than ever, and the hillgides positively streaming. Tho country i8 very sparsely peopled and tbe natives were most urderly, eiiting quietly in front of their buts. 'There was sn excellent road, which appeared little frequented, and no Europeans were mot. Raanwella was reached at half-past 4, long before the bagrage arrived. Every uvne was wot more or less. The Prince, the Governor, and one member of the suito were lodged 1n an old house, The others found accommodation in curious-detached quartérs made of bamboo framework covered with leaves, lined with white calico, each containing four small beds. The coolies came dropping in slow- ly with various articles, which were auxiously expected, and the excitemeut of the owners waiting for cbaoges of raiment was intenso. Of course, things which were mnot wanted came in first, the servants arriving exhsusted and thoroughly drenched. Leechea bad fasten- ed on the legs of Mr. Layard, Mr. Dawson, and some others, At dinner, which was gerved in an open hall made of bamboos thatched withleaves, thero was much talk of elepbants and sporting. It was stated that some planters had come down here from near the place where the elephants were seen. Insect life is tromendously active in these parts, and various. If » pin were to be stuck in the eide or on the top of onoof the buts, 1t would probably transfix some beautiful moth, mosquito, sandfly, or firefly. The moths are in- numerable. There are but two Cingalese to b seen near the camp, but the only guard consists of 300 Cingalsse policemen. Every ouo is much afraid of enakes, especially a very deadly viper colled Tic zzroumgal said to abound here. The Euro- pean servants walk about moat cantionsly, but 1o amount of caution can quite successfull elude the leeches. The night, however, passed over quietly, for all were thoroughly_tired, and, a8 8 precautionary measure, Dr. Fayrer had served out quinine oll round. Breakfast was sarved in the huts at an early hour, Bundsy waa passed quietly. The native Chiefa nod followers who came to bave a look at the Prince went away quietly and politely when toid that he wished to be in private. ‘Tbey seem to take a great interest in the sport of to- morrow. . At 3 Mr. Fisher and Mr. Varien returned, and reported that an old tusker was leading the ele- phants astray, but good sport in the kraalis expected. The party start at 6a. m. All pre- cautions have been taken forthe Prince's safety, a8 the tusker is a notoriously bad charnoter, and .has killed two men and several cattle, but the Prince is in excellont haods. ‘ Dec. 7.—The Prince of Wales left the camp yeaterday at 6:30 and drove to ths forest, where elephants had been traced. The Prince reached the jongle 8t 9 & m, and, at- tended by Lord C. Berezford, took post on a stand for six hours. Every effort to drive the elephants failed, the old tusker ‘baving led tho herd throngh the beaters azain and sgain, and dofeated every attempt to drive him. Elephants could be Lieard crashing through tho trees witha noiselike pistol shots, but only glimpses - of their backs could be seen. As tho beaters could not trace the elaphants, the Prince. baving got a shot at one, descended sud advanced in- to tho joogle on foot, with AL Varien and Mr. Fieher, followed by Lord 0. Beresford and Lord Suffield, with riflea. _They were amid the elepbants, and the Princoshowed the utmost coolness a8 he- stood within ten yards of the wounded beast, who prepared to charge, when the Prince drobped him desd. The Prince also hit two others, which are reported dead in the jungle. . The bunters said the situation was eritical. - The acene over the dead elephant in the river was very exciting.. Crowds of natives wera waiting ontside the jungle to learn the result. The Prince was much pleased, and has just ar- rived here after sn upset in & ditch, but he was not in the least hurt, nor was any of the party. Dec. 8.—The Prince of Wales left Ruan- there was a Iato sitting to talk over the day's sport the night beforo; and, ac- companied by the Governor and Lis suite, be drovae along a road, along which decorations had becn erected, to Colombo. Nows of the Prince’s success among tho elephanta had caused great gratification, aud the cheering was enthusiastic. The lavee at tha Government House was svell attended by chiefs, official priests, Budhbas, citizens, planters. and officers. At 4:15 the Prince visited what is termed en agri-horti- cultural show, which was interesting. There was o tate banquet at 7:30, at which upwards of pixty persons were present in full upiform— Judges, Admirals, Generals, Consuls, and mem- bers of Council, It.waa a great snccess. At 10 the Prince drove through great crowds and illuminated streets to an exceedingly tasteful and elegant ball-room prepared at great expense for the occasion, Chiefs, heallmen, and Cingal- cse Iadies were present. The Irince enjoved the ball thoroughly. His Royal Highness leaves for Madura'on Thuorsday; theuce to Madras. All 18 well. CASUALTIES, CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. BSpeciat Dhapatch to The Chicado Tridune. 8r. Louss, Dec. 25.—This morning, while An. drew Crane, Timothy Sullivan, and James De- ‘Witt, wero cleaning off engine No. 157, on the Toledo & Wabash Road, in Enst St. Lows, Sal- ivan was in tho cab raking out tho fireand aghes, while Crane got down under the engine 10 clean off the pan fo: some -purpose. DeWits wished to move the epginea fow feet forward, and, seizing the throttle-valve, get it in motion. Crane endeavored to crawl from nnder the loco- motive, but a wheel caught him in the back and cut his body in two. Tha Coroper’s jury de- cided that Crane’s death was caused by the care- lesaness of DeoWitt, and censured the railroad company for not having efficient employes. THE BOSTON GAS-EXPLOSION. Boston Post, Dec. 23, . Bince the explosion iu the building at the cor- ner of Washington and LaGrange streots on ths 26th of May last, there hos occurred no such catastrophe in this city as that which happened yesterday near Foderal streot bridge. At about quarter past 6 o'clock in the evening, whan hun- dreds of paeple were in the vicinity on their way home, and while some fifteen or twenty were upon the spot of the accident, the gas conlained in a 3-inch pipe, 150 feot long, Iying under tha sidéwalk leading from ths right of the South Boston side of the bridge, exploded witn five different reports, tearing up the pavement for the whole distanco and throwing it with the rail at the side out into the water. For a portion of the distance tbe con- cussion was not very remarkeble, but near the grain storo of Messrs. Sumcer Crosby & Son, st the point whers this small pipe joins the maip, the bricks of the sidewalks were thrown into the air 25 foet, the glass was broken, and there wore all the genmeral results of an ex- plosion. When thae explosion happened, a teamster, named Mark Elwell, who is employed by Messre. Jobnson & Co,, tesmsters, and Mr. %. F. Sandorson, in the employ of Messrs. Crosby & 8on, wers engaged in loading » team with grain from the store. A South Bozton horse-car, No. 22, was just passing from the vridge, and quite number of p.ople wers upon the sidewalk which was torn ap. rdly had the smoke and dust died sway be- foro the straet in the vicinity was full of people, &nd many willing hands volunteered to removo those injured. Thne few policemen who wers drawn to the epot could bardly restrain the pressmng crowd, 8o eager were they to view the ruins. Analarm was immediately given from Box 119, which brought the firemen and addi- tional polica to the scene; ropes were stretched across the street, and nous wereadmitted within the inclosure except thosa having business. Most of the injored were found to beneath the debris near the store of Mr. Crosby, and the members of Hook and Ladder No. 5 were de- talled, with such other firemen 88 could work to advantage, to extricato them, which, after several momenta of hard labor, they suc- coeded in doing. Two of those taken out wore found to have been killed, and their remeins were taken across the street to the residence of the draw-tender. One of them was M. Sander- son. He had just deposited a bag of grain upon tho wagon. The only appearance of injury was a slight scalp-wound, but he was probably in- jured internally. Mr. Sanderson was s married man, and resided et the corner of Sixth and I streets. The other gentleman who was killed wae Mr. fl. N. D. Kemp. He was found lying upon the piles beneath the sidewalk, with bis head split open, and ho must have been instant- jy killed. He was employed aa & clerk.in the United States Pension office, sod resid- ed et 19 Linden street. The names certained last ovening, are as follows: Eighth acd G streets, ssverely injured znd not expected to recover; Andrew Gaynor, residing at 126 Dove street, slightiy injured abuut tho head ; Patrick O'Brien, 74 Middle street, severo ioternal injuries; Edward Kensington, 251 Third street, slightly injured ; Timothy Sullivan, 30 Dove street, severely injured about the head and shoulders; John MMahony, 546 Dorchester avenue, slightly injured; Chas. F. Ginn, 26 Dove stroet, right leg injured in two places; Michael-and Ellen Ficid, 20 Dove street, slightly injured. The two latter, together with Mrs. Elmira Howard, and son, were thrown over- ‘board, but were soou rescued. Samuel Collins, Second street, was severely cut upon the bead bga brick. Allof the above were remaoved to their homes either by friends or by the police. Of course, aftér hearing of the catastrophe, a groat many persons, mostly women, who wers oxpeoting some member of the family home, be- gan to feel nneasy at the noo-mrrival of their friends. Many cxaggerated roports wers cur- rent, and for an hour or more the, Lisutenant at the police station was buay in_tclfing the fucta -to and allsying the fears of those who came to him to make inquiries. The ooly man koown to be missing is Mr. Elwell. The noise of the ex- plosion and the falling of the debris frightened i horse, and he started to rup. A man named Conley was thrown to the pavement, but escaped uninjured, Mr. Elwell has not been seen since the explosion, although s pretty thorough search was made around tho spot where Sandorson was found, as it was thooght that he might bave been buried. It is now thought that ho dropped _ through the piling into the water. Just before the members of Engine No. 25 started for homo one of their number found & sbawl and & brown hair-switch upon the end of & beam which projected out over the water, and it is supposed that they were the property of some lady who was thrown overboard and drowned. A latge number of porsons are re- ported missing at the Sixth Police Station, but itis thongh: that, aside from those, mentioned above, there aro mot more than one or two, if aoy, beneath the bridge. The Harbor Police were notified 28 soon_as possible, and the Fro- tector was immediately dispatched to the sceno, ‘but after geveral unsnccessful attempts in grap- pling it was given up until morning, when ex- perienced submarine divers will be engaged to search for any that may be buried beneath the piling. The causd of the explosion is at presents mystery, various theories being offered, none of which are entirely satisfactory to those directly interested. The main pipe is laid to within 100 feet of the draw, the pipe tho remainder of the distance heiog of 3% inches. This was laid about ten years ago, and inclosed in s perfectly sir-tight box. It has been examined et various times and found always in good conditton, and with the exception of a few repairs has never been disturbed. There are two street lampa be- tween the grain store and the draw, both of which are supplied by this small street pipe. After a burried examiostion made evening, it seems to be. the opiuion of those_1nterested in this business, that there must have been some loak in the pipe near_ that of the supply-pipe to tho street lamp, and that the elflbm%flfl must in-some manper have be- come ignited sby the light and communicated with the street main by means of the supply pipe, a8 the heft of the explosion was in the ¥icinity of tho street lam; 'he pipe, or rather thesections, are bent and fwisted into all man- per of shapes, and that near2st the large main is bent nearly double. The box for nearly the en- tire length was stripped into kindling wood, and a portion of it deswroyed by fire. atever may have beenthe cause, it18 evident that the small main was defective, sithough had there ‘been @ leak of any magnitnde it would bavebeen detected earlier in the day, there being nothing whatever toindicate thatsuch waa the fact, or that everything was not as it should be. Mr, Frank Taylor, condactor of car No. 22 of the South Boston Horse Railroad..states that wella soon after 7 yesterday morning, though i of the injured, so far as could be as-| Jeremiah Mctarty, residing at the corner of ! his car, which was going to South Boston. was just leaving the draw when he heard the ex- plosion, and the street was at once filled with smoke and dust, which brought the horses for o moment to a atandstill. The foico of the con- cusgion actually lifted the car from the rails and exiing hed both of the lights in the car, be- siles shattering oue or two of the windows. The car wag full of passengers at the time, many of them ladies, aud a rush waa made for the door. Some of the passengers in their eaverncss to get out endeavored to do' so .by the windows. Most of them bowever, Bfter becoming satisfied that thera had been no earthqoake, resumed their seats. Amoug those wha were thrown iato the water was a Mrs. Howard and ber son, a boy 10 vesrs of ace, residing on D streat. Mra. Howard had just returned from a visit to West goxhum and, after waiting on Beach street or:e little time for horse-car, concluded to walk She states that she was about half-way between the draw and the grain store of Mr. CrosYv, when there seomed to be a flash, fol: lowed instantly by a ioud report, and she folt the sidewalk give Way undet ber, and that sae was in the water with her son, whom she had the presence of mind to take by the band. They were both rescned, and received bat little if any injury. SAD DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Baltimore Gazelle, Dec. 23, - John Lauterbach lived with his son, Ferdinand Lauterbach, at the corner of Baltimore and Pop- pleton streets, The old man was & graat favor- ite of the ehildron in the neighborhood, and would frequently gather them around him and distributo among them gifts of cake, cavdies, sud the like. He'was al:o an inveterate pipe- smokor, and was in the habit of carrying his pipe, tobacco, and matches in the same.pocket. Shortly before 7 o'clock on Tucsday he left the hiouse of bis son and went to the store of Mrs. Aonpio Schmidt, No. 685 West Baltimore street. There he met £wo daugtitera and a neice (Lizzie Bidmaon) of Mra. Schmidt, and bogsu amuging them with stories and childish tales. Aftera time ho produced from the pocket where he earried his tobacco and matches three small cakes, which he gave the children. The oldest daugbter of Mra, Schmidt ate a portion of the cake givon her, but, finding something peculiar abont the taste, ‘threw the remainder in the etcve, saying that ehe did not like it. The cake in burning emitted s bright blus flame noticed Dby the others, but only thought remarkable after the fatal results. The younger danghter ste about cne-baif of her portion when tha oldest sistor, suspecting eomething wrong, took the remainder from her and laid it on_the _mantal " shelf. The child Lizzie Eidmann, unnoticed by the other, ate tna whole of be. cake. Mr. Lauterbach slortly after left the store, retarning to the house of his son and retiring for the night. Between 8 and 9 o'clock that evening Lizzie Eidmann was seized with violent vowiting, aod what was most remark- able, the material thrown from her stomach i emitted o bluo ‘phosphorescent emoke. Somo i delay ensued beforo a physician was call and when Dr. Enterline arrived at 3:50 a. m. Wed- pesdav, he fonnd Lizzie Eidman desd and the daoghters of Mrs. Schmidt suffering with symptoms similar to those of the other ehuig By adibistering an emetic to the children the remainder of the poison- ous materal was removed and their lives saved. On bLearing the story of the affair, Dr. Entorline repatred to the residence of Ferdi- nand Loaterbach and told him of the oceur- ! vomained in sheir houses with the docis open, rence. In company they went up-stas to tho father's room, and found him, partly dressed, lyiog on the right eide of the bed dead. The Coroner searched the pockets of the old man, and in them found a number of loose matches, crumbs of cake, bits of tobacco, and a pipe. Exan.ning the body of the deceased he fonnd it turned to a bluish hae, and the odor of the phosphorus was_evident throughout the room. He then proceeded to the house of 3irs. Schmidt, examined the body of Lizzie Eidmaop, and finding the traces of the poisonons phosphorous still moro “evident, decided that an inquest would be unnecessary, death having undoubtedly ensued from the ef- fects of the phosphorus of the matches in tho old men's pocket having impregnated the cake eaten by the cbild and the tobacco which he bad used. The child was 8 years old, and was a pu- pil st Female Primary School No.15. Jobn Lauterbach was 79 years of age, and came to thie city from Germany about eix years ago. Where ha procured the cakes is not known, 13 his son states that they could not bave come from his store, as they are of a shape and size whicn he docs not make. The poriion in the posvession of Coroner Ogle 18 state, and had evi- denity been carried in the old man’s packet for som > days, and bad become perfectly permeated with the phosphorus from the matches. THE EARTHQUAKE. Shocks in Virginia and at Washe ingtom. Corresvondenee Neto York Herald. RicTYoND, Va., Dec. 23.—At 1 o'clock a. m. I ~visited nearly every quarter of the city, is order to ascertain nccurately the extent aud effect of | the earthquake. The result was that it turned ont to be mach more serious, startling &nd, per- haps, dangerous than 1 was aware of. Every- where tha cinzens were walking saboms tho streets half dressed, or congregated on the corners discuseing the events. Some of them preparod st the first symptom of apother rumblo to rush to the streets for safety from the impending dangor of falling houses. Few wore courageous enmough to ro- tire egain, and tnose wo did 20 kept their clothes on to bo ready for flight in any emergency, and numbers chose the seemingly safer alternative of walking about all might. "Never in the his- torv of this city, so.famous for disasters and terrible catastrophes, was there such dismay and consterna’ion depicted on the countenances of the populace as they stood in thoir doot ways or in the strests, tremblingly looking forward to a calamity more swful than anythiog they bad yet experienced. From interviess bad with Dersons of Intelligence snd cool judgment it 18 now certain that the city and vicinily wero vio- Joutiy shaken by three distinct rumblings of an earthquake, rccompanied by & noise resembling thunder, & rmihing sound in tho air, and the shootiug of thousands of meteors through the beavens, Everybody agrees that tho frst of the shocks was the most terrific and starcling of them all, shaking and swaying the honses like the rocking of acradle, rattling glasses and glassware, ring- ing bells, and, 1n many inscances, throwing per- sous from their bads with force and violence to the fioor. This Iatter mcideut ocourred at sev- oral of the hotels and numbers of private dwel- lings, sod the effect was at once to produce & panic and the wildest consternaiton that can be imagined. Men snd women alike rushed into pageages and streets, scresming with tarror, un- able to realize such an awful visitation, aud in the confusion and uprosr which ensued escaping the effect of tho second *‘shake,” which fol- lowed in about three minutes after the first. This latter shock was less violent, bat, like the first, it came with the same rumbling, 2nd a8 1f suppressed, sound of thunder, the eawe rushiog poise, like a whirlwind, and the same shooting of meteors in the ompyrean, which was filled with electricity, prodccing the most briliant and at the same time the most astonishing effects. Those who were calin and collected euough to witness the latter display in the streets became torribly impressed with this extraordinary dem- onstration of nature, and thore was many o men- tal resolution, tending to a reformation in the futuce, made in the few minutes that it lasted. In about twenty minutes from the firet shock the third occurred, and this was still less violent tLan even the second, but accompanied with the same atmospherio phonomens 88 the preceding twe. ‘After that thero was the usual midnight or enriy moruing stillness, unbroken eave only by the winderings of the panic-stricken citizens and their speculations and discussions as to the re- currencs of the remarkable and exciting events of {he night. Nothing further happened, and many wero becoming quieted and retiricg again, when, 88 _gome say, ¢ s little afier 3a. m., stili another slight and feeble shock was feit snd Leard, but 8o very glight that bat fow noticed if, though many vouch for it a8 an actual fact. ¥rom_every source in the city, at least, the couclusion has been arrived at that -the rumble, or quake, began atsome point in the gontteast- ern portion of the Stats, passing under the James River and traversicg the entire territory iying botween the North Caralina border and the Potomsac River, where it seems to have exhavst- ed its fcrce, and between the Bine Ridge and the Atlantio coast. Accounts vary in stating the du- raiion of the first rumble’ at from ten to thirty seconds, or even fifty, a3 some Eay; but the most suthenti¢c reporis place it st twenty sec- onds, which I think is the correct estimate. It is, of conrse, differently described, scoording to the temperament of the individual. It is safe, however, to state that tho earth was -up- heaved in 5 manper similar to the mo- tion of & swell in mid-ocean during 3 desd calm, and this comparison is not a% all extravsgact, »1f, then, the reader who baa been acroea the deép .will .remember the sensation caised whilo on board a_ trembling steamship riding a swell in 6 calm. he will then have a proper apprecistion of the earthquake last night. “Tho ground rose and fell with the regularity and symmaciry of an ocesn swell, and houses azd curth groaped sod hook with that samo sensa- tion peculiar $o the working and trembliog of the machinery of an ocesn stesmshi, o and third shoeks, 1o 1a gt fuly iyt is theory if regard to the motion of e 0% E:uh, and many are thorough i the ‘beliaf 8oma points hotises stoud as-an angle Gt degreas during the convulsicn, - This Gt & taken with grainy of allowance. Yo gt of the University of Virginia, 54Y3 mi’_.'“" ehookn last night, appsrondly thres 1 L%, 48 were distiuctiy felt st Cbarlottesmils bY ment r;:::gflu;:;m P. m., Wasninaton time, nfi ancer: 5 so:hhwnd. P e o3, e _Atslegram from Charlotte, . héy cinicy of Bald Slountain, states ufii':,';.. were falt there, bus at Greensbaro, X, & ¢80 diately beyond tho Virgioia bordar, ghos 22 felt at half-pest 11 o'clock last night, ey "=V flod tho window vanad,” but At no degns ‘Theso wero very slight. The shocks are fy every portion of the State accessible by u,.m' graph, with the exception of the vaile of fix‘nfln.. !;%rthwe::oml Staunton, and wa’t e("}: e ge, showing that ic pecatiy, Visinia entthquale. A Paenigyy e coal mines of Chesterfl i work experienced severe nhoek‘al.d:g: t,g,,m-' that some accident had happened, get to ascertain the cause, buf finding nothiog cel? they quietly resymed their oc¢cubation, = mines havean average depth of 90 feet . T Prof. Charlea H. Winston, Riohmond Gui 8ava that the earthquake ot last night related to the weather, citber as to capan L fect. He iy, however, atrongly inclined mu* ookt with Hho prosent threaiened scupeney Mouot Vesuvius announcad by telegny, terday’a papess. 7 ey The incidents in the city aro nome; 1ng, and often singularly dramatic in scter. A poker party of ve yoang mgg quietly enjoying their game, When aus, who paq lost a considerabls amount, exelaimag j i pairing tones, **Ob, I wish an nrmm),m - sbake these cirds np.” The wonls halmwumg died upon his lips when the thande, o rumble ond ehake came, oy ing in cach other's faces i terror, the party broke mp mdnmmm street. In the dock of the James RBiverthe water was aingularly distursed aad agitated, i Bo great was this that two tugs, one schoones, and a heavy barge parted their Linca snd eables and drifted considorable distance down in thy river. At other places on the river, dockkeepers, and watchmen obeerved the walet to bo vistbly agitated, and in ench & maome that they fancied thers wag en upheaval in iy bed. Persons on the lowar portion of Balig Tsle, the famons prison of Federal soldiers dure ing the War, imagined the island was #irking tushing thelrchy. and wag about to be eogulfed in the waters of the James. The Ballard aod By change Hotels, two buildings ou each sids ¢f Franklin street, and connected by s coveral bridge constructed of iron and wood, we rocked with such forco a3 to thresten the dis. solution of the connecting link between them, _WasHINGTOR, D. C., Dec. 23.—Laat pight the vicinity of Washington experienced a finit-cliq carthquake, or rather two of them. Tla shoely were distinctly felt by those who livainihy qnieter portions of the city, whera such demogs strations of nature could be distinguished trom the rumbling of the horee-cars, but downen Pennsyivania avenuo and F streot, the phenome enon was not observed, exceps in some fawine etances, where the jar of the houses cansad the touching of the electrical bell-wires, and led toq mysterious _ringiog of door-bells, the ine- dent being attributed, however, to the paasaeact rats or mico across the wires, and tha closiog of the electrical circuit by their bodies. The shock was most diatinetly felt st George. town Heights, aud, inaless marzed wav, in South Washington and in tho region northeast of th PatentjOfiice. Ar. Jessup Blair, who waa croasicg Lafayette Synare, whers tho Jackson eyuestrian statue stands,reports feeling the earthquatequita perceptibly ; and Mr. Farrar, who had just gooe off duty from the desk at Willard's Hotal, aws meteor-like demonstration of great sizs aol brillisncy in the southern sky not far from thy geme time, It was the hour when the Sigmt Office is most busily cngaged in translstingthy ‘weather reports and making up thenight abilities, o that the shock was not noticed, b=} Mr. Jennings, one of the observers, whowa on his way lhome at midnight, reporis 1 a sudden running down of the thetmomets and a eharp risiog of the wind, bath beingia strong contrast to tho heat and stiliness noeed st the time of the shocks. Personsiniom who felt the earthquake describe the rocking sensution, apd eay that it caused a momeatrd sensation of sickuess or nansea. 5 Mr. Blsir is 8 nephew of Frank Bhir. B said to-night, in talking of the earthquake, s the ligbts along the streeta danced up and doma and tbat if he had been a drinking maa B would have thoughthe was incbristed. Gen Ricketts, whoso crockerywara rattled loudty fro tho ahock, thonght tbers wass burglsrin i house, and got out of bed and made & search fof one. BEACI AXD FULLERTON. The Bowen Libel Suits / New York Sun, Dec. 23 In the trial, yesterday, of Heory C. Towalt | libel suit againat the Brooklyn Daily Eagieix $100,000 dsmsges for tha al E;lr.;:"; one of the originators of the swindle, Mr. Beach m 2 hours' ferrd speach fo the jury, summod up the cass in be: half of the Edgle, urging that in the beginoizg Bowen and Kinsella stood sgaintd other g8 _rival editors. Eagle believed _that motion_ the inquiry which wss to the destruction of he pastor Kod;egzsr’n ek away to stab Christ's ambassador. dm.y’ of the Eagle ns Beechers friend h}'lfi gate such treachery. The same cl Spirit of the Times copied inio :q.mmm unrepuked. Under different rulings they e have produced testimony to jast "'.gdn: gation in u:le article by proof of otherin in Bowen's lifo. = ‘Ex-Tadge Fullerton met his friend's ssrunal for the defendant gzh s keen, ;;fly;hn i ul spoech in favor of Bowen, imp! s“ spots ot Jury, od of his malice to Thomes Kinstlls, whom 24 a bad man, adding solto yoce to she e of the Judge's heariog, ** Yes, if you DD gentiemen, » damned bad mao.” He '"u ot fenant-genaral of the forces combined 0 > s lite, ato Boeohor—chosen for the pusity of 1t L giu irreproachable repatation, and his w“‘" clipations. 1t was necessary roger] down Tilton, Moulton, Mrs. ‘Mou! et Bowen. Tilton—well, be was Ul? il coald attend tot"l;)our m:‘t;: .f‘f:::“ 5 angel wife ;" bul wen: ° mngn—itrequi:ed a harsher warfare for him, 82 the attempt was made to incito the oo _"” % against him, to crush him, to make There was malico in the tibal, 5 severe pauishmen. —— [Ihepjanry. as haa been telegraphed, & verdict of 1,000 for Bowau.] i o socisty's ot unpopular and a stench ia ndi:dmllfl‘“ AR Al The Nzmelcss Sect i Thera is {n Chica a_remarkable p!opl‘:rg: 25 “The Nameless Soct.” They pro ] old religion,” which prevails more @ ©o over Chpa, but especially in the pronsc of@ Shangtang. Disliked m?“”"un ed by the ecivil suthorities, o7 B for ~a long timo endestortd g keep their beliefs and practices e Vol religion is ssid to Lave come from ‘whence also they expect 8 deh"fikx not worship idols. At the alose of ) ol serviges tho{h have & z‘uux. n:.' 'l':”(:h wmaoe form the greater pi they may be the remnant of the native cIror et planted centaries sgo in Cbins by missicnaries, who aro -3:4 mh;vop Gospel for mnearly a thoussnf Nnntp:ern and Middle Asis_with mfihfl;' ergy and success, and to have exar‘ ey fal inflnence in Ohina for upward of Prrr from the seventh ta the cantT- ————————— i A Eotling Lake, . u Tho remarkablo diacovery of 2 baling el the Island of Dominica bas pxcited m! tific intereat, and 1nvestigations of the v.hfl‘-' non aze to be made by geologists. 500 bt kit i & company exploriog the 80P 823 gvewd m:nntyuln Fpebind tho tqwniof cama upon this boiling lake, apod obove the sea level; and 2 miles i A once. On the wind clearing l'ly_-&l'fl the clonds of sulphurons sieam :'Am by lake was covered, s mound Of ¥ e o 10 feot higher than tho geners] lor! e face, caused by ebullition. The @A jits OV lake consists of A L} Efl‘fii‘% teds of sulpbuf; 20d e e osit bya waterfall of rost bt defcgeie ' g fn Lord William Pitt Leprox's ™ Have Known,” occars this ‘snocdote of 13 Duki loucester ¢ 3 B :l‘;fw?s ‘eager sportsman with & mgz met, and. ia trath I am bound to edd, & different shot I‘no:g '“\‘vh ‘Jél:nf,fl flflh’w"{ inded me of a story ' 2 ?:::gm Lard, still flourishinz, who ufl e e e you're acarcaly ovee et with ¢ worse shot than L am 2 °” i ¢ ¢0h, ‘my Lord.” responded ! “T've mn’:fih ‘many 8 Work, oz I8 l“ them 8o cloanlyl '™ ,