The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1874, Page 4

SHAKESPEARE! Explanations as to Why the Authenticity of the Plays Are Doubted. THE ORIGIN OF THE BACONIAN THEORY, Bacon’s Fragmentary History and Shakespeare’s Plays. A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. Facts Showing that Bacon Did Not Write Shakespeare. HORACE HOWARD FURNESS’ VIEWS. | WALLINGFORD, Pa., Sept. 8 1874. Appreciating the fact that the discussion just inaugurated In the HRRaLp concerning the aushen- ticity of Shakespeare’s plays was likely to attract a marked degree of public attention, and also that the very conditions under which the debate was likely to proceed were such as to draw either upon one side or the other the sentiments, opinions and convictions of Shakespearian students generally, 1 find myself, miles away from the rush and roar of the Quaker City, in the handsome and exquisite library of Mr. Horace Howard Furness, patiently wating until he can gain an opportunity to speak to me. Failing to find him in Philadelphia I have come to his lovely country home, and so it is tnat 1 find myself surrounded with his books, his manu- scripts and papers. There are but few people in this world who bave exclusively devoted their | time and talent to the study of the plays of the great dramatist, and Mr. Furness is one of them. While so unselfish has he been that he has given | to the world, in bis ‘Vamorum Shakespeare,” the | result of his life-long devotion and the product of | his ceaseless researca and energy. He has placed in my hand three large and | elegant volumns—two devoied to a@ long | study of “Macbeth,” and the other to “Romeo and Juliet.” On his table are innumerable pages of manuscripts, and he tells me he is soon to give to the world an extended and exhaustive analysis of “Hamict.” He seems surprised that & HERALD correspoudent should have travelled so many | mules for his opinion, and informs me that if the paper had no more regard for his convictions than he has himself, he aud I would have never met, | It is not my part, however to detain the ‘‘na- tional audience” to which Mr. Furness 1s to speak, and so I give bis words upon tie great subject | exactly as they fell from his lips: The only reason, said he, ticity of the plays is doubted is because the; so superhuman, and also becanse we are in a great measure ignorant of the life, condition and ctr- cumstance of the man who projected them. We simply know that he was born, baptized, married, came to London, it is supposed wrote plays, and died. We know no other (acts, One reason of our | ignorance Is that the Globe Theatre burned down 80 shortly aiter his death that all his manu- Scripta were destroyed, and, indeed, all that is | left to ms are five of his autograpus. One strong Presumption in javor of his being the autnor of | bis plays is the fact that his intimate personal imends, Heminge and Condeil, speak of his Manuscripts and state that the facility | with which he composed bis plays was 80 | great that they ad often received the | Manuscripts from him “with scarce a blot.” What | = rise to the present discussion was the great | repancy between the man tn the flesh and the | man in his works, Hallam long ago yearned for | some knowledge of this man beyond the mere ex- | ternal facts of bis wie, « @, his capusmal ana | burtal register. Haliam wanted to kuow more of | him—more of bis associations, his tastes, his social accomplishments; Le wanted to know more of the construction, bent and organism of that | remarkable miud, from which has sprung so mucn | that is now, and shali be in ail iu-ure, imperish- able—immortal. But Haliam’s prayer has never been answered. The origin of the Baconian theory Was aoout 1856, I cannot tell whether William | Smith, of London, or Miss Delia Bacon, of | Conn., was the frst w | Indeed the arguments in favor | Bacon were propounded by botn | arties at pretty nearly the same time. ‘bey supported their theories by means of | books, Miss Bacon’s being written in such an ob- | scure and repellant style that it mever has re- | ceived the credit it deserves for its somewhat re- markable coustruction. The main arguments of each were jounded upon the projound knowledge displayed in the dramas, and the impossibility | that the son of an obscure wool dealer at Strat- tord-on-Avon could have produced them. To re- concile merely the legal Knowledge displayed in the drama it has long ago been accepted as a fact that he was an apprentice to a lawyer. Now, sup posing the plays had been hanued down to us by | an unknown author, what man in the Elizabethan period could we find who would answer all the Fequiremeuis on the score vi legal knowledge, of medicine, theoiogy, natural history, court life, &c. ‘The only party whom the two writers mentioned above could find that could meet all these con- ditions was Francis Bacon, aud their theory re- } ceived some slight contemporary corroboration irom a postiamous pamphlet, wiitten oy Greene, | called “A Quip for au Upstart Courtier,’? tn which | an allusion to Shakespeare was supposed to lie, under a reference to @ certain ‘“Shake-scene, that the authen- are | Who was spoken of as an upstart “crow,” decorated in feathers that were not his own and who “had learned the _ trade of “noverint.? They boidiy accepted and proclaimed Bacon the author of ‘the plays without | even proving tiat he had ever written a line of poetry, although we know now that he did write a “masque,” wlich we, however, have never seen. The great corrovoration which the two authors | claimed jor their accusatio’ ti I am not mis- taken, was, that in bis writings Bacon made use of the sentiment that the best method of teaching | bistory was by meaus of the drama; it is aiso kuown that Bacon, uncer the infuence of this | conviction, actually began a history of Englan Of course that history, as we know it, 18 only ‘ragmentary. At intervals in it were are long , it is alleged that these gaps the plays peare exaculy fili—while what Sbake- speare has omitted can be sound in this frag- mentary bistory 0; Bacon. Mind yoa, Mr. Corres- pondent, jaa not giving you my own opinion, bUt am simply reproducing, without comment, the arguments of the Baconians. Again, Bacon was never known (o mention Shakespeare’s name. In giving the list of nis friends and contemporaries the name of the great dramatist never was uttered, and Baconians say this circumstance is a better proof of their theory than ii Bacon had used the pame oi Shakespeare irequently. The two names of Bacon aud Shakespeare have never been associated until within the past ten years, when a very remarkabie discovery has been made. Mr. Spedding, the accompiished | Lute,” after devoting forty | yearsto the biography, within the past twenty- | jour months found among Bacon's manuscript a | lip of paper upon which Was written “shake. speare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare,” repeated over and over eigtt diferent and distinct times, along with the names of a few ‘amiltai historical plays and the names of several | more that we have ever heard of. The way in which these piays alléged to have been written by bacon came into Shakespeare's bands was, according to the baconlans, «8 foliows:— Bacon was 4 young man full of genius, but starving ‘in chambers, and, uuabie to suppress the divine spirit of poetry stirring Within him, wrote these R 8 irom the very necessities o: bis genius. To e given them sorth under bis own name would | We associated bimeel! with play actors, who were then, and even up to Garrick’s day, Clasred with vagabonds and Egyptians, He thereiore handed | them over to the poet of the Globe Theatre | Who was William Shakespeare, to be arranged and adapted jor the stage, while the plays thus pro- | duced and set forth were natarally avtrivuted by | the public to Shakespeare uimseli, When a play had a great run it was invariably surreptitiously | Published, and these piays bore Shakespeare’s ame upon the titie page, without his authority, Consent or knowledge. Now, this is @ fair exposi- tion of the Baconian tueory, as far as I am able to Eo though I have not examined it for several ‘That William Shakespeare wrote his plays 18 clear enoug’ to ine from the fact that his contem- poraries acknowledged them ag his and that the seme hand must have written them that wrote the sonnets, “Venus and Adonis” and the “Rape of Lucrece,” whic were ail put forth by Shake- speare himsell aud acknowledged to be his own by everyone. The same trains of thougnt and tue same turns 0} expression appear in both his plays and his sonnets aud poems. ‘Ihe poems are the déte notr of the Baconians. | admit that to explain the vast and comprenensive knowledge evinced by the dramatist ts a bafling probiein, but who shail define the limits of the powers or: assimilation possessed by 40 great a genius? A stray lint, B passing al.usion, dropped in conversation by we rT Men of the time at meetings on social even! atthe “Mermaid,” may have been sumi- cient to bear such fruit as we see displayed in nis | works. Tn ject now being discussed is one in ‘which I take but very little interest. The name of | Shakespeare has become # household word, ana | the authorship does not affect the quality of the plays, A diamond isa diamond, whether found ; arrangement of flowers month by month and the phia, with my books, ‘Thus closed the tnterview, and a half hour later your correspondent “was hurrying back to tue Quaker City. BACON DID NOT WRITE SHAKE- SPEARE. To THE Eprror ov rus HERALD Although 1 feel utterly unworthy, {! v my littie learning, to address the public, through Your medium, on so important a subject as the authorship of the plays of Shakespeare, never- theless I venture to entreat space in your valuable columns wherein to give a few suggestions which I think tend somewbat to weaken the “Bacon theory,” and which have occurred to me when studying the works of the immortal Bard of Avon and those of his contemporaries. In the first place, let me recall to your readers the character of the poetry of Bacon. Those who have read it will remember that it is so replete with colloquialisms as to be ridiculous, and that it has been the subject Of considerable merriment among students from its autnor’s day down to our own, That 1t contains here and there vigorous lines {s undoubted, but tt would seem that whenever Lord Verulam intended his muse to be most loity, will-o’-the-wisp-like, she in- variably led him acros that narrow line | which separates the sublime from the ludicrous, | ‘The poetry to which 1 aliude is that acknowledged by Bacon to be of his com; ion. Is it not strange that he shoujd have be@h so supernatu- | rally modeat as to allow the inferior verses above mentioned to pass down to posterity as his, and to have remained silent when the “Son- nets’? were praised and even compared to the grandest works of the classic poeta? I mention the “Sonnets” and not the dramas pur- Posely, because the “Bacomians” say that their | done nad you found me ‘at my home in Pnilaael- | | hero dared not acknowledge that he had written for the stage; for, say they, “in his day it would | have been considered degrading in @ nobleman to turn dramatist.” They seem to forget that before Shakespeare became famous Lord Sackville had already written plays, and that the influence of | the italiag renaissance was so great at the courts of the Tudors as to be all powerful in matters of | art and literature. Now in fashion-leading Italy sovereign, princes and prelates of the Church devote themselves to dramatic litera- ture. The magnificent Lorenzo de Medici, the learned Cardinals Bembo and Da _ Bibbiena | and the statesman Macchiavelli were, according | to their lights, excellent dramatists. This being the case, it scarcely appears rational to believe that Lord Verujam should have deemed it beneath his dignity to acknowledge ‘plays which his con- | temporaries ranked as high as those of the mighty writers of classical ages. Mark, the illustrious Bacon was not distinguished for modesty. The writerin the Athengum, quoted in Fraser, ob serves that Shakespeare does not claim the au- thorship of the plays, although he makes a point of publishing the fact that he wrote the ‘son- nets.’ There isnothing astonishing to me in this. Shakespeare, everybody in his day knew, wasa dramatic poet, and when he signed his name toa play it was sufficient to prove that he wrote it; but when he stepped out of his way to compose sonnets he did something which was not “in nis ordinary line of business,” and, consequently, called public attention to the fact. Mr. Bouci- cault or the President would do the same thing, I imagine, were they to publish a novel! I will pass over the exceedingly childisn com: parison in the “Fraser article’ between Bacon’s | speeches of Perdita with these few remarks. In the first quotation Bacon says:—‘For December | and January and the latter part of November you must take such things as can grow all winter, rosemary, lavender and marjory.”” Immediately | aiter this ollows a fragment 01a speech ot Perdita’s, with a view of showing the resemblance. In tt of ali the flowers above meptioned tne heroine of “The Winter's Tale’? only mentions one—‘“rose- mary.” That there is a slight but accidental like- ess between these extracts from Bacon and the speeches of Perdita ts certain, but 1t must be borne in mind that the play was published at feast fliteen years before Bacon’s work from wiich the quota- tions are taken was written. This tatter was composed nine years after Shakespeare died, and it is not improbable that the great statesman and mighty philosopher had read tne play and tn writ- ing his essay through a freak of memory set down some of his flowers in much the same order in | # bat’s Wing to groves where the trees ) With odorous blossoms, so that alter sun’s set he | father of the “Sonnets t!’ suffering perfectly accords with the accounts tra- dition and his coatemporarics bave given us of him, and which deserive him as of tender heart and exceedingly lovable. The character of Bacon, mighty genius as he was, was not amiable, and his biographers and admirers are forced to admit the t. His works are roe and majestic, tull of wonders and proiound learning; out they do pot appeal to our heart nor go they betray the Character of ep: uthor beyond showing (6 us that be wa! ry) ol gtgant jc genius, endowed with exquisite taste and an ardent lover of nature and all things beautiiul and curious. The works of Shakespeare disclose to our admira tion the character of their creator, and that chal acter is worthy of him; a charming character, ith loving, kindly, enthusiastic; not exactly a jaintly character, out essentially @ manly, noble, generous and open one. The character of Bacon was the pppysite + a this, His heart was bar- row and 6elflsh, &lthough bis mind was vast enough to take in all races allages. He was among the last Englishiaeh who tsed the rack to torture criminals with. No one has ever calied him “gentle Francis.’’ If Bacon irom motives of policy refused to ac- knowledge the authorship of the plays, why, p! did he besitate to prociaim himseit 6 Men in England of high rank had already written sonnets, and good Queen Bess herself w: somewhat proud of ber skill in composing verses. Then why should Bacon hesitate to place his name at the bottom of the frontispiecea of the “Venus and Jopts’ and ‘Rape ot Lucrecet” Moreover, as I ave Said in the first part of this letter, he has Given to th woe several poems which, it is saie to assert, Shakespeare would have consigned to the waste paper basket, and yet he is so modest that he blushes to declare himself tae author of poems which have no rivals in our own or ip any other language aud which were the themes of the enthusiastic truth is he did not write them. Whoever wrote Shakespeare's plays wrote the “Sonnets” and the other poems attributed to the Bard of Avon. The same pen which described the fairy court of Oberou and Titania and the ells who dance By paved fountains, or by the rushy bri OF On the beached margeut of the son, nil also gave us the delicious speech of the goddess of beauty in ‘Venus and Adonis: e I will enchant thine ear, Or, like @ tairy, trip upon the green, Or, ike a nymph, with long, dishevell'd hair, Dance on the sand ‘and yet no footing seen, and created dainty Ariel, that delicate fairy that Only pines for freedom that he may hie him on ethic! may dance by twilight merrily beneath their sil- vered boughs. The kuowiedge of classical literature displayed in the “Sonnets! and other poems is undoubtedly greater and more accurate than that which is traceable in the plays; but, bably, the ma- jority of the latter were writteu hurriedly under the pressure Of necessity, and that the former are | the result of much greater labor and siudy. does seem astonishing that any one can possibly ) for one Moment veheve that Lord Southampton, a ‘o well Kuown as a@ patron of letters, should have accepted tne dedication of the “Venus and | Adonis,” and under the signature of Shakespeare, uit was written by Bacon, and that no human being in Bacou’s time sould ever bave suspected the fraud, and yet this man Shakespeare, who gave bin Dame to Bacon’s plays, was popular among the dramatists and their iutumate and be- loved friend, and mxgt giten have spoken to them avout his projects aud compositions, | and sbown them his manuscripts. Again, one play is entered at Stationers’ ‘all, , a3 the joiut work of Shakespeare ana Fletcher. which they appear in that gracetul drama. Albett | in the said drama appears one of Shakespeare's most absurd biunders, and one Bacon ts not likely | to have made. An act of ‘A Winter’s Tale” opens | on the coast (9 of Bohemia, Jonson laughed at this, and points it out a8 a proof of Shakes- — peare’s want of accurate knowledge of geogra- | phy, a branch of education in which Bacon was certainly not deficient. All the world knows that Bacon was marveliously weil posted in classical | literature, and that Snakespeare was not. Jonson tells us that he “knew a little Latin and less Greek.” Probably he learned a good deal 0: Latin at school. Shakespeare appears to me to have known just enough Latin to suit o18 purpose—that is to say, to make out, with the aid oO! & transla- uon, enough oi the meaning of the classic writers to discover in their works plots for his dramas and some noble el cd for the speeches of his dramatis persone. Bacon knew Latin perfectly, and was thoroughly and profoundly versed in its literature. Ido not think he would have quoted Terence from William Liily’s Latin Grammar, as does Shakespeare in the first scene ol the ‘‘!aming ol the Shrew.” Lilly's Accidence was @ popular | school book when ‘“Gentie Will” was a boy, and doubtiess he had good reason to remember the above mentioned quotation. It stands thus in the Pl Fo Redime te captum quam, queas minimo. And tn the “cumechus” of Terence so:— Quidagas? nisi tte redimas capwum quam queas minimo. Mr. R. Grant White, in his admirable “Memoirs of the Life of Shakespeare,” very cleverly en- deavors to prove that Shakespeare was more in- timately acquainted with Latin than he is usually tmagined to have been. L recommend those inter- ested in this matter to get Mr. White’s remarkable volume and “study it up.” It is well worth careful perusal. A smail book has been printed which contaius & list of Shakespeare's anachron- 1ggs and other errors. ‘They all prove that iihougn he was a great he was not a very careiul reader, and that he studied rather the neart than the works of man. Bacou would never have been guilty of any of these blunders, I feel con- vinced that Shakespeare possessed a smattering | of Italian and French, and that of the two lan- guages he knew more of the former than of the latter. The plots of several of his plays are of un- doubted Italian origin, and what is more, several nrases are evidently takem from Ariosto and Berm—notably the description of Desdemona's handkerchief in ‘‘Othello.”” ‘There’s magic in the web of it A sivyl, that had number'd in the world The sun to course two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury, sew'd the work. In the “Orlando Furioso” is an account of a tent | covering wrought by Uassandra:— Ch’ayea tl furor protetico, who worked it in many jong years andin a pro- phetic Jur; So, again, the speech of lago, in which he jons thé mind of Othelio, is 80 ex- ceedingly like a stanza in Bojardo’s ‘Orlando In- namorato,” tt seems impossible that it was not inspired by @ knowledge thereol. Shakespeare's | French, if we may judge by the specimen be gives usin the scene between the Princess Catherine | and her lady in waiting in “Henry V..”’ was not of | a very high order, Bacon spoke French well and | probably Wrote it better. His mother was an ex- celient [taltan scholar, and he was weil versed in that language. It ts not, however, 80 very strange | that the great dramatist should possess something | of both these languages. Italian was then all the fashion, and he mingled with men who were inti- mately acquainted with the literature of Ital: and there were plenty of her needy children ip London. * Doubtiess Shakespeare bad litue dim- cuity in discovering a siguor professor to give bim lessons in the dolce lingua, He knew many things, not, perhaps, bye te! apd accurately, but (rom his marvellous mtuitive lacuity. Above ail, he Was most profoundly versed in the workings of* the human heart, and he possessed in an eminent aegree the power o! identifying himself with the feelings of the fictitious heroes and heroines he created. [t we careiully examine ois plays and study the speeches o! his drasatis persone, we are immediately strack bv the insignts they give us of his own personal character. “Gentle war insin- uates his sweet nature into every character, fo} with the sole exception of Iago, there ts not single personage in ali Shakespeare that has not | some redeeming quality, aud even Lago is actuated in evil doing by @ feeling of revenge jor imaginary | wrong. Lady Macbeth will not kill old Duncan, because “be resembles her father a8 ne sieera.’? The abandoned courtesan Bianca, in “Othello,” is full of the milk of human kindness She “trembles because Cassio is wounded," not because he has been wounded in her house, and sue runs the risk of severe panishment irom tne Venetian law, since a broil has taken place under her roof, Her pity and anxiety for the wounded man make her tremole, and have caused her to jorget the vexations that will ere long be- fall her. By such subtle touches as these does Shakespeare show forth his gentie spirit. Blanca is @ harlot and vile, but she is @ Woman 4nd has a heart. I wonder what auswer Bacon's Bianca would have made to iago when he asks her, “Wherelore do you trembie, mistress?” With all his heart and goul did Shakespeare sympathize with maternal grief when he gave utterance through the lips of Constance to those wonderiul 18 a watter or in Golconda, | ain sorry ti 1 am avie to give you notuing jurther, as I might have | brought tears so the eyes of those who have read them, Aud this intense sympathy aod biiw tor descriptions of sorrow which have #0 often | This is the “!'wo Noble Kinsmen ;" aud the first act of it is ey by Shakespeare. Mr. | C, Cowden Clarke told me he believed it was, and heisno méah autnorit on the subject, and he | only re-echoed the words of Coleridge. The play 1s entered at ‘‘Stationcrs’ Hall’ as follows:— “The ‘I'wo Noble Kinsmen,’ presented with great applause, at Blackinars, by ine King’s servants. ritten by Mr. vohn Fietcher and Mr. William Shakespeare. 1634.” Now, if Bacon wrote the plays be must also have written the first act of the | “Two Noble Kinsmen;’’ and if he did so Fletcher ‘Was in bis secret, aud so was Beaumont, his alter ego, aud I'll Wager these two good gossips between them must soon nave “let the cat oat of the bag.” | itis an unquestioned fact that a man named Shakespeare ounce lived, and that he was born at Stratiord-upon-Avon tn 15¢4 and died in that town in 1616, During bis lifetime he was known a3 @ popular dramatist and manager of & company of actors, When he published bis plays be entered | them at Stacioners’ Hail as every other dramat.st did, Those thugs entered we cali to*tbis day Shakespeare’s. They were collected in book jorm and published seven years aiter ihe dutnor’s death by Jonn Heminge and Henry Condeli, well known printers and publishers. in their prelace | these editors say —"'it had been a thing, we con- fess, wortiy to have been wished that the author himselt had lived (acon was still living) to bave set forth and overseen his own writings. But | since it hath been ordained Otherwise, and he, by deatn departed trom that right, we pray | you do not envy his frienas the ofiice of their care and pain to have collected and pub- lished them; who (shakespeare) Was @ Dappy im- itator of nature and 3 more gentle expresser Of it. ‘His mind and band went together; aud what he thougnt he uttered witn that easiness that we have scarce received a blot papers.’’ Now, ti Bacon wrote shakespeare, it is to be imagined that the printers would have rec- oguized his handwriting. Since they had “nis papers with scarce a blot on them’? 11 1s not to be Imagined that tuey would have wanted to dedi- cale @ Volume vy Bucon to Lord Pembroke and call it *‘Sbhakespeare’s plays.” When Shakespeare died, Jonson wrove commendatory verses 10 his honor, 1 select a jew of these:— To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and tam Wile I contess thy writings to be suc! Ag neitber mau uor muse can praise too mach. My shakespeare rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or spenser—or bid Beaumont lie A little 1urther to make thee room. rt @ monument without @ tot And art alive still while thy bool And We have wits to read and praise to g For thence to honor thee 1 would not seex For names, but call forth thund’ring Aischylus, Kuripides and Sopnocies to us, Pacuvias, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, ‘to ite again, to hear thy puskin tread And shaxe tly stage. Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were ‘To see thee in our water yet appear And make those flights upon the banks of Thames ‘That so did take Eliza and our James. But stay! I see thee in the hemisphere Advane'd and made a constellation there! Exists there any one who, after reading these lines, can for an instant doabt that Shakespeare ot Avon was the author of wonderiul plays greatly admired by Jonson, an ud- mirable critic aud poet and his contempo- rary and friend, who adroitly fixes his place of birth in tue lime commencing, ‘Sweet Swap of Avon,” and teils us that his poetic fight “30 did take” the great Elizabeth and iearned games. Could Bacon have read, and he must have done 80, this panegyric, und not have de- clared himselt the real autuor ol the much praised plays? Could he have stood by and heard them applauded by bis Eliza aod his James and have resisted the impulse to announce himseif the creator thereoi’ Ji he did be Was modesty incar- mute, and more than mortal. 1am drawing to the close of this rambling let- ter, not from jack Of What to say, bat because I feel tnat 1 encroach too much on your space. I have still yet an observation to make. Tne con- cluding lines of Jonson’s poem in honor of Shakespeare descrive the loss to the stage whica his departure occasioned :— Shine forth, thou star of poets and with rage Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stare, Which ance vhy fight trom hence hath mourn’d like ni night Our desuir's day, but for thy volume’s light. These lines cicarly indicate that the greatest of une Gramatiats pad gone to those lands whence no oné veturhs, pag’ ht contemporaries ac- koowiedged the losd hi to drainatic litera- ture. Aud let us remember that at the time they were Composed there were still giants in thi land, Cigsainger was living, Ford aiso, and Web- ste¥ and Thomas Haywood, besides immortal Ben Jouson. Now When once Shakespeare died, the dramatic muse 0! Bacon, to use the vulgar phrase, “shut up,’ and we have bo more dramas from his pen, a fact which evidently indicates that eitner he never wrote one of the plays or that he dared trust no one but Shakespeare to carry out his frauds. It would certuiniy have been dimicult for him to discover a more wonuderlully trustworthy person—one who could belool Jon- son, excite the Jealousy of Greene, win praise [rom oO write plays, and dedi- pton, and yet actors to je pretended to have writ- perform dram: ten, but of which he had not composed a single | verse, The story we are obliged to creait in order to believe this “Baconian theory” is positively more wonderiul than are the plays themselves! aud Shakespeare is made out thereby to be a much more astouisuing iraud than our {riend “the clatm- ant.’ But I thing there is more of fashion than of reason in this new theory. 1p our day, when men are endeavoring to prove to us that the Creator is hot the author of is works, it is not much to be marveled if there be folks found who are willing w deturone the genius of Shakespeare. NEW YORK, Sept, 5, 1874. R, DAVEY, PRESS COMMENTS, ee “Versatility.” {From the Evening Mail.) The HERALD's substitution of the exct!ing and timely theme of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays jor the third term queswon shows not only versatility but good sense, “Dignity and Popularity.” (From the Philadelphia Press.) The New York HERALD has done many things which give it a claim on the gratitude of the unorigi- native newspaper man, Who seeks in vain for cold comfort and iresh subjects during the sultry months of summer, That person already has to thank it for the third term {dea and the American Cardinal proposition, and now he must ada to the list the question, “Did Bacon write Shakespeare's plays ‘dhe last subject, it must be said, ts not strictly new, nor Wi) its discussion be novel, If we remember aright we tiave heard of it belore, But then tt never had the combined dignity and popularity which it Will ve awarded in the columns of our contemporary, and whieh i+ will assume trom the fact o1 its Occupying so honorabie aud elevated a place. raise of his contemporaries, The | It | | having signified to him the nature of my mission, | and, what 1s much better. if possible, in such from him in his | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. 'PEACE FOR THE SOUTH A Virginian Ex-Confederate’s Read- ing of Ve Victis. THE SOUTH DEGRADED AND BARBARIZED. Strong Views Against Negro Power. WHAT THE PRESS SAYS. Ric#MonD, Va., Sept. 8, 1874. 4 considerable portion of the press of the State having began the discussion of the HERALD’s prop- osition to calla national convention for the con- sideration of the condition of the Southern State: that subject has become a theme of intense abut interest. Among the thinking and thorough con- servatives of the Old Dominion the scheme obtains general favor. Others, of the Bourbon type, are lukewarm and pretend to regard the idea that any good to the South can result from it as preposterous; but all are gratified that the dis- cussion of the wrongs of the South has been so ably commenced in a@ journal o! such great popularity and such wide circulation as the New Yotx Heratp. Prominent among the latter class are several of the oid Southern leaaers, who, though cautious in the expression of their opin- tons on the subject, are yet inclined to acquiesce in the proposed plan for the adjustment of the Southern grievances, and to give 1¢ & quasi sup- port. Alter Governor Wise, whose views I for- warded yesterday, the next great representative Virginian at present in Richmond upon whom I called was Mr. R M, T. Hunter, whose name is familiar to everybody at all conversant with the | pontical history of the country tor the past three decades. Mr. Hunter was a Congressman from ‘this State for a number of terms prior to the war. For sixteen years he was chairman of the Finance Committee of the United States Senate. He was Senator from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, and for a while filled the po- sition of Secretary of Staté in the late Confederate government. At the last session of the General Assembly of Virginia he was @ candidate for the successorsbip to Sen- ator J. F. Lewis in the United States senate, but was deleated by Lieutenant Governor Withers, who had local ciaims upon the party which at the time outweighed the great influence Hunter wields in the Old Dominion. Later during the | session, & vacancy occurring in the office of the State Treasurer, by the insanity of the former in- cumbent, Mr. Hunter was tendered the position, and having signified his acceptance of it he was unanimously elected, and he now presides over the financial department of this debt ridden State. Mr. Hunter, though about sixty, is still a hale, hearty and vigorous man, witn the florid com- plexion and appearance of a healtiy granger of forty. Ifound him in the Treasurer’s office en- gaged in the discharge of his oficial duties, and, he expreased his willingness to be interviewed and asked me to be seated. He had read the HERALD article of the 4th inst., and I asked “What are your opinions in relation to the sub- Jects treated of tu that editorial?” Mr, HUNTER—It would require more time and consideration than I could give the subjects at this time to do them 1ull justice, if, Indeed, 1 could ren- deritat all, 1 was much struck by the wisdom, cases, the good spirit which it maniiested towards a people who have not been treated either with justice or good poiicy heretofore. 1 believe that if the government had been guided by such views in its conduct towards the South ieretofore and | Bince the war, 1t would have been better for all | parties concerned, wuether those parties are con- sidered in SECTIONS OR RACKS. CORRESPONDENT—In what respect do you con- sider the recent policy of the government towards | | the South defective? | _ Mr. HUNTER—When government was stuatously placed in the hands of the worst and most incapa- ble elements of society, as was done in the South in so many cases, and such action was justitied on | the grouud Oo! punishment of those who were most | capable of meeting the diMculvies of the case, and when those persons whom it was most important to conciltste were so treated as to be convinced that there was a purpose to DEMORALIZE FOR THE DESIGN OF DEGRADING them, What could be expected but ruin, social, political and personal. There ts no safe founda- | uon lor free government and seif-government but | the self-respect of a people. To destroy this proud and conservative feeling in the breasts of a peo- ple, of purpose and by design, 1s an act for which | its authors will be held accountabie not only here | but hereaiter. The tull measure of responsibility is to be reckoned not oaly iu this world, but in the | next, where such things can be more fairly esti- | mated and more justly appreciated. CORRESPONPENT—Do you think the South bh; been dealt with more severely than any other co: quered rebellious provinces ? Mr. HUNTER—I would say that bistory records no such instance previous to our case, except the | treatment of the HELOTS BY THR SPARTANS; butI refrain lest it siould be deemed extrava- | gant by the many who believe that would be im- | possibie; but 1 pass from the consideration of our- selves aud our own troubles. | | CORKESPONDENT—Is it your opinion then that the | people of the North have gudered, 28 well as those | Of the South, from the effetts of reconstruction? Mr. HUNTER—The picture o: @ ruined peoples a demoralized system of labor and grown up fields, the gardens once of cultivation and civilization, if | confined only to the Soutn might not excite inter- | | est enough to awaken attention. The resumption o! empire by the jungle and the wilderness implies such u waste of the elements of refinement and | civilization as must be felt to be realized. In the | South we know what it is; may it be long before | | the North SUFFERS FROM THE SAME CAUSES, | | 1 wil not say to the same extremity. The | HERALD seems to realize the fact that the North ig | already beginning to suffer sometning trom the same causes, and in this article it wisely warns the people against the reflected misery which ia some- times occasioned by gross mistakes and reckless misconduct. CORKESPONDENT—In what way do you consider the North suffers from the efects of the mistaken policy of the government towards the South? HONTER—It is now nearly a year since a ic Occurred in New York, which it was then said would not last long. It Was occasioned, it Was assisted by some overtrading, a littie im- prudent indulgence to railroads, a certain degree of confidence in the banks. Confidence would goon be restored and credit would be revived. Almost @ year has elapsed, and confidence has not yet revived under the spirit of enterprise or with united energy. A Vast amount oO! capital had been destroyed in the war; much of it wasted | since in partial and improvident legislation. | The South, once so potent an agent in the pro- duction of wealth and the restoration oi credit, | had been stricken down, and was now COMPARATIVELY POWERLESS. What is worse, things are getting but little, if ny, better in this section. It may have as many | ms as Briareus, but turn where it may, or | stretch forth what arm it will, it is quick pinioned | to its side by the action of the government, and it can do nothing to aid isell or others until it ts relieved irom this course of policy, The people of the North seem to have rendered this a necessity, and the HERALD is not airaid to express its opin- fons in regard (o tt, 0 8i ste omnes. Had this | been the case heretofore we should not have been 1m our present condition, to which we have been | brought by unwise and passionate jegisiation. CORRESPONDENT—What, in your opinion, might have been done to restore the prosperity of the country immediately after the war? Mr. Vrs a hen our slaves were emancl- ated, without compensation, and our system of jabor 80 changed, if not demoralized, as to be al- most comparatively worthless, no step was taken to restore the capital or to revive the credit with- | out which st could not work, A small compensa | tion, even by way of loan—not more than PRESIDENT LINCOLN HIMSELF SUGGESTED, would have gone far to revive the credit and stimulate the energies of & section which fur so long had furnished THE BULK OF THE FOREIGN EXPORTS of the country. Slave property before the war had been the bi of credit to @ greatextent in the South, and if some substitute had been offered when that was gone the Northwest might have re- tained its greatest customer, with a large wer to commerce, and the North and East would still have bad the means to speed the shuttle or propel the white-winged sails of commerce from sea to sea, Has that been the , Or is it likely to be- come so, under the present system of govern- ment? CORRESPONDENT—Your own view of the situa- tion, Mr. Hunter, is What I would like to hear. Mr. Honren—We vear new cries ior ere and new exbortations to a vindictive hate of the | only class which can rale the South or aid in re- | establishing the affairs of this country. Ii the | SBEDS OF HATE AND DISAFPECTION | be sowed in the hearts of the whites of the Soutn | | by denunciation and oppression will any one be | thas benefited? Will it help the negro if tho whites are made to believe that the two races | cannot dwell togetner consistently with the liberty and self-respect of the latier? Will it help the | | cause of quod government or the vrosverity of | more fortunate sections if they should Irritate and alarm the South to such a degree tiat It will use {ts political power to reach those Who oppress them and cannot be punished in any ouber Way? Would not the cheek of every patriot tingle with sbame if he should see any section forced to destroy ITS LIBERTIES to obtain immunity from outrage or oppression ? CORRESPONDENT—Are there aoy circumstances which could justity such an apprehension ? Mr. HUNTRR—If the South should be willing to take the long step toward despotism. which & THIRD TEBM POLICY would indicate, to escape che Civil Rights bill, who shall cry shame upon her if ghe should be willing ‘to sell something of her liberties to escape the POLLUTION OF MISCRGENATION. Not I, much as I am opposed to the third term pol- icy. I never expect Ae apiven to that one’ G woo 4 aave fived In better times ah {edn} fo value Itoerty too highly wo be mm barter or’ Upyaliy romero oF oppression. 1 will at, Gudcavor to use some otuer Means of delence. But God knows to what extremity I may be brought by the spectacle of the miseries of WY countrymen. Ihave already been driven fur- fer than i expected by such a sight. VOBRRESPONDENT——What do you think will be the policy of the South under # continuation of such governinent? Mr. HUNTER—If the policy of punishiny the South through the use of the power offegisiation and oi the overnment by the North and East shall e further pursued, is it to be sup- posed that this unhappy section will not protect itself by favoring the schemes of some other and stronger section ? What, then, be- comes o! the government, of the liberties, of the prosperity of the people? It isnot ior me to de- Dict the consequences of such a state ol things. CoRRESPONDENT—But I woula like to have your idea of it. A DISMAL PICTURE. Mr, HuxTER—The negro is iree, but at what a cost of money, of life, of the social and moral ele- ments of national strength and prosperity none have yet undertaken to estimate. ‘The lives that were lost in the war are estimated 10 millions. The one, expended, lost or wasted by !t would have aid Tor each man, woman and child among the laves at Many times their market value. The con- stitution has been torn into stireds aud tatters. Take the remnants of that highest of all instru- ments of human happiness and government, be: annttatem,” and tell me bow many fea- tures you now find in that once great agency of buman freedom and progress. How long wil! any of it remain if we keep up this wariare, not by arm: but by 19's and lictes ? It will be found, tfithk, tha’ last metnod ts far more destruc- tive to constitutional liberty than the jormer. CORRESPONDENT—Now, Mr. Hunter, what do you think of the proposal to avert such a catastrophe by tue call of a national convention? THE CONVENTION AND THE MODEL RETUBLIO’S MIS- nN, Mr, HUNTeR—! am g! to seo that the Herat is disposed to avert such a catastrophe. I know not whether any convention could be assembled which would be civil enough to deal with these great questions, The civilized nations o! the earth are sending missionaries to Africa to Chrisitanize and civilize it, Surely, the conquering sections of this model Republic can find some more appropri- ate mission than to send the sounas TO AFRICANIZE is and barbarize its Southern States. ‘his ended my interview with Mr. Hunter, who seemed conscientiously to entertain every senti- ment expressed above, and who Was strongly im- rte | with the pregnant truth of every word he uttered. THE JOURNALISTIC OPINION. There Must Be a Remedy. (From the Austin (Texas) Statesman.] The situation of the South ts such as demands a calm, thoughtfal examination into the remedies which should be Instantly adopted for permanent and healthful reform, We are in the midst of a revolution which will leave its impress upon our social and political status as lasting as the agen- cies which bave brought itabout, The South isin danger of losing much which has marked her peo- ple as the must refined, intelligent and hospitable race upon the continent. We write this in the face of those North: ri newspapers which say that Southern society has ever been aistinguished for its ignorance, prejudice and intolerance of opin- ton. But not oniy socially ts the Soutn in danger; her material interest and permanent prosperity call fora more united and determined policy in we administration of the afairs of State. Since tne war the Southern States have been almost whoily given over into the hands of ignorance and cupidity; and to-day we see the wrecks of weafthy and reiined communities as helpless, ior the time being, as the wrecks which line the shores of the ocean alter a deatructive storm. There must be, there is a remedy, for the il’s under which they suffer. Surely the era of prejudice and of hate will ot exist much longer; surely the people of the South will not longer be considered as “rebels,” because they desire to reform the existing gover! Ments and place the control of the Commu wealths which Lave been so distinguished in the past, in the hands of intelligeat ana competent statesmen. ‘What the South Needs. {From the Louisville Courier-Journal.) The South wants to be told the truth, no matter how unpalatable it may be. It wants here upon the border, where a roaring sea of partisan pas- sion dashes up against the good old Stare of Ken- tucky a8 against a stone wall, a lighthouse, sup- plied with faithful watchers and true signais, not @ ricketty platform of partisan construction, trimmed with useless decorations, to be carried away by the first strong wind that blows, Pan- dere ud parasites are plentiful; the South need not take a Jantern to look for them. But, tn tue long ran, tt will be found that the soverest coun- selg have not been the worst counsels, and that flattery, which puffs up @ vaingiorious self-love and appeals which stimulate an already prostrate body to unnatural and ineffectual excitement, have not come from either a disin- terested or & wise patriotisin, but, on the contrary, from @ weak and seldsb, delusive demagogism, fatal tousall. The time has gone by when our motives were questioned; but the time will come when the most obstinate of those who contend against the course we have so steadily urged will admit that it had been better had our weak preachments been stronger and more impres- sive. ‘We Must Have Readjustment. (From the Graphic.] In time, however, we must have a readjustment of the constitution. We practically put the consti- tution out of sight during the war, and we have essentially modified it by the constitutional amend- ments and the reconstruction legislation passed since the war. It is daily becoming piainer that under the constitution as it now stands tne revival of Southern prosperity and the intelligent treatment of the questions of railroad { BALLOONING BEAUTIES. An Extraordinary Aerial Trip from Philadelphia to Allentown. §$IX LADIES IN THE BASKET, a aR Bien . Aargnautic Pleasures and Petit Larcenies. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6, 1974. When Bir, 8. H. Hurd, manager of the Roman Hippodrome, on last Saturday afternoon invited your representative to step into the basket and to accompany Professor W, H. Donaldson and six ladies upon @ grand trip to the clouds 1 little thought that I was to take part in one of the most remarkable #rial voyages upon record. Not that the distance was to be greater, but that we were to remain more hours in the air and reach a higher elevation than 18 usually arrived at, even by the boldest aeronauts, The cheeriul looks of the ladies and the ever smiling countenance of the Professor would have dispelled any uneasiness, had I felt it. { was to participate in the first thoroughly organ- ized balloon ascension by young ladies upon record. Fully 20,000 people witnessed our depart- ure, and the scene gave me my first realization of the true meaning of the stereotyped expression, “aq sea of upturned faces.” When the balloon was let loose the earth dropped irom under us as usual, and the cheers of the multitude suddeniy seemed to become a iaint buzzing. At the heighs of 5,500 feet the ladies threw over hastily-writtem missives, telling the people below of their feelings upon this (to most of them) their first aerial fight. DONALDSON, IN HIS PERC ABOVE, felt the great responsibility he nad assumed an@ watched his valves and ropes and ballast closely. With such a cargo questions naturally rained in upon bim profusely, all of which he answered Gburteously but plainly, His mind was upon his business. When We hai sailed to a height vi avout 5,000 leet Donaldson made the unwelcome sugges- tion that we should return toearth, Tals was re- ceived With unanimous disapproval and an ener- geiic buc polite request froin the ladies that he suould attend to his own afairs. /rofesaor Don- aldson gracetully gave Way to the ladies, and, at his direction, your representative uutied and emptied @ bag of sand, when we shot up with a rapidity which gent @ noise ringing through our ars. cotne barometer now showed an elevation of 10,050 feet, or nearly two miles. Thick, tmpene- trable clouds were above, below and upon every side, and the very stillness was oppressive. The ladies, Who at no time showed signs of fear, now } agsumed a less demonstrative demeanor and i Jost in the grandeur 0 the surroundings. Ke ths thea Donaldson again proposed to re- turn to earth, bit ise ladies met the suggestion with relusal, They held @2 impromptu meeting and VOTED ‘NO!’ TO A MAN. An “incident of travel” occurred now which might have proved serious but tor the ‘prompt action of the aeronaut. One o/ the ladies, with more enthusiasm than prudence, secretly cut loose @ bag ol ballast weighing sixty pounds. ‘to those acquaioted with aerial navigation the resulé needs no explanation. Impercepiivly and without the slizhtest evidence of rapid movement—except the peculiar buzzing sensation in the ears—the balioon went up until the barometer showed an ascent Of 3,000 ieet in three minutes, making the total elevation 13,050 feet, and but 950 feet less than the total elevation the instrument was made to register. Donaidsop, ever On the alert, dis- covered the situatiou even before consulting the barometer, and for the first time during the trip pulled the vaive coru. The gas rusted out with @ noise which, at this elevation, sounded like steam, and we descended rapidly. AL 1,000 feet from the earth we sailed to the westward, having bencatn us a panorama of un- surpassed beauty. Night was coming on, 60 the Professor determined to land, And amid protests and pleadings and promises of pincushions and worked suppers without stint we descended in Roxbury, and the Misses Alice Costineyara, Ella Grady, Maggie Taylor. Mary Walsh and Georgiana Millson stepped from the basket, their counte- nanuces suggesting that they had been at a funeral. And at tuls landing we Jound collected 500 of the meanest human beings 1% ever been my misiortun to méet. hey climbed into the basket and made vain efforts to reac the concentrating yin; One urchin was discovered crawling ip thé he ting like a big spider. Others insisted upon » Tide, and one scoundrel. whom tt would have beep a pleasure to have taken up aud thrown over, actually CUT THE ANCHOR ROPS. We got off at last, having in the basket Mr. Manly Gilman, city editor of the Boston Posé, and Mr. J. L. Hutchinson, of the Hippodrome, two gen- tlemen whose mysterious appearance suggested their having dropped irom the clouds. Miss Clara Wimiey, niece of Professor Wise, also continued With us Wheo we thought ourselves clear of the rabble they seized the end of the drag rope and in- sisted upon our return, For the iirst time Don- aldson became vexed, and, taking @ pistol from his valise, he sent @ ball just near enough to convince them of his skill as @ marksman. Never did an unruly crowd let go & two-inch ro with more _ alacrity, Clear of the crowd we ascended rapidly and pre- pared for @ night voyage. The drag rope just touched the ground, and rattied joyously over fences, tree tops and houses. About eleven o'clock our brave lady passenger became sleepy, and Donaldson, with cuaracteristic gallantry, volunteered to stop for the night at the first town. Clouds had now obscured the earth and sky, and in the darkness we were undecided as to our correct elevation. Dbeciding to solve the ques- tion we opened the valve, and we descended aay All leaned over the basket to get the first glimpse of the earth It was digeovered, but too late. One shout from Donaldson, “Hold on all and don’t jamp,’’ \ansportation, the reiations of the government to | be be ‘ations and other political problems of the near fature are impossible. We must have a close overhauling and readjustment ‘of our national machinery, Otherwise it will fail to do its work properly, and we shali cease to make that progress | which has heretofore been our national boast. Ana in the meantime the only security against utter anarchy at the South ts the tuterposition of tbe armed hand Of the federal rule, A Race Issue. (From the Selma Echo.] Now it is the “race issue’’—white man against negro. Then it was democrat against republican, MORE SPURIOUS DEEDS. Messrs. Robinson, Cox & Co., of Broad street, caused the arrest yesterday afternoon of two well known stock brokers, Mr. J. B. Frazier and Mr. H. Bartalon, The transaction which resulted in the arrest was about as follows:—It 1s aileged that a Mr. KC. Peck wanted to raige a loan on some real estate ponds, and applied to Mr. J. B, Frazier to negotiate the business for him, Frazier, it is said, made application to W. H, Cotterill, of No. 31 Nas- sau street, for the money, stating that the amount ery en Was $11,000, when in act his principal only wanted $5,000, Mr. Cotterili said he was willing to advance the money. but wanted Mr. D, J. Ely, of No. 101 Wail street, to guarantee the secu: | rity. Mr. Frazier said ne would get the guarantee of Mr, Ely and left the office. Returning soon after he presented what appeared to pe Mr. Ely’s guarantee, and to ascertain its genuineness Mr. Cotterill sent it to Mr. Ely, who pronounced it a forgery. Then Messrs. Rovingon, “ox & Co., who were to advance the money, at once put the case in the hands of Detectives Sampson and Farley, and they immediately arrested tne above named parties. Frazier stated that he received the guar- antee from a Mr. Weaver, butas yet that gentie- man has not been found. This latter named party at one time was 4 high official in Alabama. The arrested parties are at present confined at Police Headquarters, A OASE OP SUICIDE INVESTIGATED. In the case of Henry Herbold, the German tailor, late of No. 223 East Houston street, who commitied suicide on Friday last by swallowing a quantity of oxalic acid, Which he had purchased of Carl Kraus- ener, @ drug clerk at No. 44 avenue A, an inquest ‘was yesterday held by Coroner Eickhoff. Hervold had been abandoned by his wife, which so preyed upon his mind that his daughter, thinking he might attempt to kill himsecil, closely watched nis movements. She followed her father to the drug store, where he called for oxalic acid jor the purpose of removing stains irom a coat, but Miss Herboid told the clerk he wanted the poison for another purpose, but failed to state what use she supposed her father intended to make of the poison. Herbold svon managed to swallow @ por: won of the deadly draught, and subsequently cied at the Seventeenth precinct station house, whither he had been taken. ‘The jury in their verdict found that the apothe- cary, in selling the poison, acted in conlormity with the existing statutes, admonished Mr, Kraussher to oe more careful 10 future howsand to whom he disvensed poisons. | | | | reached to very high altitudes, | | but Coroner Eickhom | Shortly aiter the bailoon changed its course wad and then we siruck with a thud which threw us all into a confused heap, A sudden rebound and we were again hundreds of feet in the air with Egyptian darkness on ali sides. “CONFOUND THE SLEEPY BRUTES, why don’t they come out and pull us down?” said Donaldson, but loach to risk another descent in the darkness, The next instant and we were grace(ully roosting in the top of an apple. tree, where we re- mained until assistance arrived. ‘Thirty minutes later the balloon was securely anchored aud we were seated iu a butcher's cart en route ior Kead- inf two miles distaut. The next morning (Monday) we re-embarked (Without our !ady passenger) and were soon Noat- ing over the fine farming districts of tue valley. Tne breeze was light andthe “time” not to the average youug Awerican’s ideas of spec Donaldson proposed to do a little IN THE FRUIT STEALING LINE, and it was during this aerial pillaging that he proves his periect command over nis ship, Swoop- ing down like a huge bird the basket would cleave through the tops of trees, when we would be on the alert for apples. by sprinkling a littie sand at the proper instant the bauloon would gracefully ascend toward the heavens, In this manner we could descend within six feet of the ground and lay in corn by the quantity. Our variety of apples, pears and roasting ears would have mude a curb- stone huckater wealtuy. At ten A. M. we found ourselves near Trexler, in Lehigh county, Pa, A church was seen Jar be- low us, and the Professor proposed tuat we at- tend—a practice common with him through hie, Afier being sately auchored we took seats in the modest little chapel, and if there was any lack of attention to the sermon the indifference could not be charged to the strangers, At the close of service We again ascended, witn snouts of “God bless you,” until the voices became whispers and the whispers died away in the distance. Later in the day we drilted over a dismal and sparsely inhabited country, where it looked as if tue Jew residents might still be voting for Jackson. Sailing westerly and norcherly we passed over that portion of the state populated by Germans. The farmers could be seen for miles galloping to- ward us, and when the rope would touch the ground they would seize it aud call to as, but their speech being Low Dutch we could not understand it. The aggregate knowledge of German which our party possessed could be summed up in two words, Laszt GENEN | Get go) and it was necessary to give this in one uninterrupted flow to prevent their pulling us oeviien three miles from Allentown, the old Donaldson, the citizeos came aap ne eTredy, aud as the Wind had died out wo accepted their oifer to Low us into town. Seizing the rope they marched triumphantly through une city, while we remained seated in the basket 30d feet above, Doualdson was everywitere hailed as the hero of the hour, while nis companions receive ovations due lesser Dyes “ducive been, Senter the clou hich we hours among Walch we had personages than ever belore attempted @ more composed of la palluon voyage, and these, too, dies. TER Another Voyage in the Air—Professor Wise on the Win, PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9, 1874. Professor Charles kK. Wise, of Lancaster, Pa., accompanied by his son, John Wise, Jr., and J. M. Johnston, of the Lancaster Intelligencer, made a successiul balloon ascension this alter noon, The party took with them sciem tific instruments, and expect to make ouservations. tved here from the Valloon at six P.M. reports the balloon beiow safe Harbor, about twelve miles irom Lancaster, last accounts was passing Wrighwyvilic, Pay, toward York, Pa. above., %)