The New York Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1875, Page 4

a I ; cae THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING, e oe Pouthern Phalanxes Marching to the Music of the Union. WVIRGINIA AND HER JEWELS. Qfappy Effect of the Initiatory Centennial Celebrations. (REMINISCENCES OF THE REVOLUTION. (Worth Carolina's Injuries Buried Under the Memories of an Earlier Past. {Alabama and Her Sister States Preparing for the Great Exhibition. THE TWO VIRGINIAS. PATRIOTIC ENTHUSIASM OF THE MOTHER OF : STATES AND STATESMEN. WHITE SULPAUR SPRINGS, } GREENBRIER Co., W. Va., July 20, 1875. It is unquestionably the fact that Virginia, I y say the two Virginias, are heartily in accord th the grand Centenmial celebration at Phila- leiphia in 1876, and are entering into the spirit of he movement with s zeal and entousiasm that kens a re-awakened patriotic sentiment nich gives promise for the happiest results in he future. To ascertain the feeling on this point here 1s no better place than the White Sulpbur prings.. Among the visitors from nearly every | ection of the Ucion the sprinkling of Virginians NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. where, will speedily serve to bind the’ late warring sectiois ftoget! ponds. and by more enduring which Were 80 recently a by tne stern arbitramens ol ¢) NORTH OAROLINA. HAPPY CHANGES OF SENTIMENT AMONG THE PEOPLE. Ravwston, July 21, 1875. Until witnin the last few months the current preparations for the Pailadeipnia Centennial in 1876 have excited but littie popular favor or Interest in North Qsrolina. Indeed, during the Political canvass of last summer which preceded the election of Congressmen on the first Thursday of August, the whole scheme of the proposed celebration of our bundredth anniversary of the national Declaration of independence was de- nounced unsparingly by the stump orators of the conservative party, ana was received with marked and general dis.pproval by the people. The bill introduced in Congress to appropriate three millions of dollars from the federal treasury in aid of the observaace was espectally stigma- tized as but another robbery of the public purse. This feeling Was uviversal and alt but unanimous; so mach go that the republican spokesmen sought altogether to evade the discussion of the matter, only s few of them, scttered here and there, titotdly apologizing for it. The Industrial Exposition, which waa to be a promt- nent feature of the celebration, was everywhere satirized a8 @ colossal aavertising dodge for the exclusive beneft of Yankee and foreign tnventors, patentees and vendors of new-fangled notions of no account, It was alleged on ali sides, and without much, if any, atlempt at contradiction, that the South bad nothing to exhibit in the pro- Jected big fair, and would not be justly andim- partially treated if she had. ‘To a Southern resident, however free (rom par- tisan prejudices or sectional preposseasions, this widespread and intense sentiment of disfavor toward the Pailadelphia Centennial does not seem to have been at all unuatural. The abuses of reconstruction, less heavily felt perhaps in North Carolina than tn the States further South, were*nevertheless sufMieiently annoying to check and chill any exuberance of revived fraternal feeling, while all Stsul .mpulses of national patri- otism were effectually swallowed up in the Pp her in closer es than those rudely éunde: word, pecial tour through both the States, no more jathentic information could be gleanea than | Wey a brief sojourn here. In the parlors, on the | {piazzas and on the lawas I heve frequently con- | wersed on the Centennial subject with the Virgin. | ans, and I find that the cordial and enthusiastic eception tendered to Fitz Hugh, the grandson of | ight Horse Harry Lee, in Boston, touched a cnord | fin the hearts.of the entire people whicn vibrates | at music of the Union, and beats in harmony poe is representative, and Were oue to make o ith the patriotic sentiment of the land. The re- ‘ival of good feeling has becn as Marked and sud- | eg as itis honest and candid. Theie1sno men- | al reservation among the men who fought under ‘Yehe banners of Lee and Jackson and Jounston and e-aieg Like Fitz Hugh Lee they velieve they | ve 4 COMMON HERITAGE fin the country, and their claims to its past glories, nd their right to the commemoration thereof, @.a8 well founded as those of their Northern compatriots, wrom they are determined to emu- | Jate if not rival in the manner of celebrating the wreat events of ‘76. While their poverty may mot enable them to compete in a grand exhibition vith theit richer neighbors North, yet they will make up in zeal and good intention what they lack | bn financial resources; and though poorin purse, | you may rest assured the grand Old Motner of States and, statesmen will be rich in | relics, both colonial and revolutionary, and ‘will display these, “her jewels,” with zs proud a | Batisfaction as if the “wealth of Ormus and of | Ind” were hers, wherewith to grace with more | meretrictous honors the grand occasion, It ts | sBomewhat unfortunate for Old Virginia tmat tne | Centennial era had not set in previous to the ses- Bion of the last Legislature, for, if it had, Governor stronger throcs of sympathy with Confederates in @ cause lost but sacred, endeared by many tender and heroic memories, now haplessly stricken down by THE MAILED HAND of the Union, It 1s not to be wondered at that the Fourth of July had become almost obsolete as a patriotic festival in the Southera States, and that the Presidential proclamations of national thanks- giving days had been entirely disregarded, Ido not deny that there bas been bad blood, and a good deal of tt, toward the North ard Northera men. Disappointment in hopetuily con- cetved expectations of cordial welcome as re- turned erring brethren; the difficulties of dealing with the new problem of freed labor; the depres- sion of sudden impoverishment, added to the humiliation of defeat; the chagriu with which was witnessed the elevation of slaves of yesterday to not only peership, but, by reason of their numerical preponderance, to absolute mastery in local government; the accession to representative seats of arrogant and unscrupulous aliens, or of natives still less worthy and stil! more distrusted; the introduction of an absurdly complex ana cum- brous system of county and municipal organiza- tion; the oppressive working of internal revenue Jaws and other acts of Congress, ily understood even by the lawyers, and tardily and most in- suMeiently promulgated among the people—all these facta of the situation, along with others which I will pot now use to enumerate, were potently operative elements in producing @ pro- jJound and general discontent, North Carolia expected, and nad a right to ex- pect, more liveral treatment at the hands of the victorious North, She was the last of allthe Southera States to adopt a secession ordinance, and se accepted the Confederacy only in obedi- ence to an inexorable geographical necessity. Throngh all the four long years from Sumter to Appomattox thousands of her best citizens were stoutly loyal to the Kepublic. Tue sturdy opposi- Kemper would have been eager to recommend | tion to the measures of the Davis administration that an appropriation sufficient to defray the ex- | wuich signalized the last two years of tne war, | ana which so largely contributed to the ultimate penses of representing the State ip a proper man- | Tio mpn of tue Union arms, had its chief strength ner at Philadelphia snould be made. As it was ne did not, although General E. R. Bagwell, of Acco- wcac, and many other leading conservatives, were fealous in urging an appropriation, and anxious, in North Caroitua. Regiments of native white voluoteers were recruited (rom her borders for service in the military forces of the United States, 'To this important material aid should be added, in justice to the “truth of history,” the incalcn- even at that early day, that the State should be | lably valuable results in tbe prevention of fereiga properly represented at Philadelphia, As General Bagwell remarked to the HERALD correspondent, “Leaving all patriotic impulses out of the ques- tion, we might well affrd te make a handsome appropriation to represent the State at the Cen- ‘tennial, from purely se!fish motives alone; for no such grand opportunity will be afforded for years | to come to exiibit the industrial, agricaitural and mineral resources of the State to the whole world. It wil be better than all the imnn- | gration schemes that can be periected or putin | operation for the next fifty years; while, on the other hand, if Virginia ia not represented there she recognition, at one time imminent, of the “Union jJeagues’ and other political movements in vari- ous sections of the State, whicm convinced the world that North Carolina at least was HONEYCOMBED WITH DISAFFECTION to the cause of the Confederacy. For all this, however, Nort@Carolina, upon the termination of hostiliies, found no reward. and received no credit, Instead of a generous greeting with the open palm of friendship the cienched fist struck ber in the face. in the course of areeent extended tour of ob- Servation throughout the State, supplemented by trustwortny information trem every avail- able source, find this uuhappy phase of feeling fortunately changed. Forgiveness must Wil lose ail these advantages and run the rigk of being entirely overlooked ana forgotren among | her sister Stares;” and the iogic of General Bag- | ‘well is certainly irresi=tible. Put it will not pow | require any such sh’? arguments to obtain | ‘the required appropriation, the revived patriotic | feeling being in itself suiiicieat to carry the mat- | fer through to a triumphant conciusion. in West ‘Virgunia Governor Jacobs is “all right’ on the Centennial, and last winter urged upon the Legis- | lature the propriety of making the moat liberal | nd patriotic provisions ior the representation | ef the iigns State; but that body had not yet been educated up to the height of th great argument—had never heard of Le: gogion = aaa Concord, of Mecklenburg, or eeven Buuker Hill, Patriotism siumbered amid the eternal hills, whic are supposed to ve “aiways free,” aud so the recommendations of | Ahe patriot Jacobs were passea over with neglect or treated wita ut indiflerence. Now, how- | hange has come over the vision of even whose dreams were all of | 8 NOW moving the people | heir representatives to sake a position abreast with the moat advanced (Stutes of tne Union in commemorating | THE GRAND ANNIVERSARY. } 11 the Virginians from the mouatains to the sea- joard seem to be thorournly iniused with the ned feeling of the Centennial era, and some of | hem go so far as to mtimate that Virginia has a | greater and better right than any other Srate to | celebrate the Declaration of Independence, whica | ‘Was draited by that most distinguished son of the | Old Dominton, Thomas Jedersou, and estabiished by ber immortal Wasnington. The totai absence | In the conversations | have had of any reference fo the iste War or its disastrous results to tue South indicated in a marked cegree the positive Gubsidence of tke passions engendered by that most terrible event in the history of tue na- Bion, Furtkermore, the people here seem to look gorward to the National Centennial as the occa- sion ior bringing together tne whole people in one grand national love feast, and making \t a year | of jabdilee, Even among tie ladies, who were @lWays the Most stubborn Of the revels, there is @ noted lowering of that haughty and contemptu- ous spirit Which hitherto eld itself a.oof, making mo overtures and accepting noue, bus repeliiag all advances and maintaining an utter exciusiveness from contact with everything savoring 01 North- ern association or Yankee society. Now aimost any day Mrs, North and Mrs, Souta can be seen ated together ‘‘cheek-by-jow!”’ in close confabu- ation on the plazzas, forgetting im the interest Of the latest piece Of gossip or scandal the mightier and weigntier events which ry separated and heid them apart on the “ragged | e " of @ divided and paroxysmal patriotism. gentleman never wearies of recounting t events of that remarkabie pligrimage aod fing the magnificens ay ore of the of Boston and Providence. He says the half has not | been told in respect to the enthusiasm aod | ‘warmth of their reception, and as to the recep- tion of Fitzhugh Lee at Music Hail, he neve: wit- | ssed ed | ik jos rose to him, the men shouting and the i dies Waving their nandkerchieis; nor did any one | part he took in tae rebeiiion, but p jad had the courage and the manbood | to ap i tea ne ln ey a stro! of Yan! liom, aud take part in reyeat national event, that Boston felt moved to She had here ar . TRUK SOUTHERN MEN, tative of their section, and Boston wa! lad that they were there and was overjoyed amorded vo do hat the occasion m honor. people seemed to care very litte for their other guests, says this Templar, New Yor and Pen frente they passed by with indiffer- ce, tecsese they had always been in accord ana er fallen Out; but whenever | man the fatted call was od ee at Sucu are ie e Bunker Hill cele- ‘ration, whieh, as the story spreads throughout the Southland, stirs the hearts of the people with emotions altogether new in this section ana jorces apon even unwilling minds the conviction tnas the people of New jand and the North 80 bed as they have been pain ob conviction gathering atrene: i Southern | = | and earnestness ever since. | alone of Soutuern but | word waich covers the waole country. | sent at the mauhood festival forget, and pardon and ovitviom are synonyms, The recovered autonomy of Nerth Carolina, which was won by the true citizens and tax- payers last year, iollowed closely by tae demo- cratic successes in the elections tn the Northern and Western States, initiated an “era of good feeling’ which las veen growing in waguttude And there 1s nothing Bo favorable a8 ‘good ieeling” to the develop- ment of patriotism. The sceptre of power in the State has at last returned to the ruling race; and the repetition of the victory on the broad field of the Union in the coming Centennial year is en- | Kigateen huaared and | ingly probable. Bevel is looked forward to, \nerefore, with cheerful a as an epoch of compleied de- liverance 110m Cwsarism and its impending “iilad of woes.” Ifina the North Carolinians, staid and unde- monatrative ay they ure, everywhere jubiiant in | the anucipation of @ return to sound constitu. tional principies in tue administration of the federa! government. As aa onigrowth of this fixed conviction has arisen @ wondertul resurrec- tion Of patriotism. The revolution of political Opinien in the North hi taught them that the poopie of that section are not irrevocably wedaed to the tenets of the party which has been domin- ant there for the last filteeu years; but that non- esty and independence are the characteristics not all American freemen, heart of the nation is round. They realize that the same chivalrous sentiment which impelied the North to demand equal and exact jastice for the negro and to see to it that bis newly-conterred franchises as a citizen should be solidly guaranteed in the immutable Mmuniments Of the national organic iaw, at the | same time and in the same spirit ef fair play, in- #i8'3 that the Soutvern white man shai enjoy, equally with themselves, ail the blessings and benefactions of tae Union. They have jearued that, tothe great voting ses Of the Norta, | party 18 nothing -ieade nothing; | but that the Republic, one and indivisibie, iree and just and pure, ia everything. North Uarolina bas loo great a wealth of revelationary memories &nd traditions to be otherwise than: patriotic, I | Saw and heard this amia the multitudes in May at Charlotte. Sne is Sessions, and justly so, for large was her part in the long struggie of protest and resistance wien Preceded the Kevolution, and immense the vaior, | the fortitnae, the sacrifice witu waich she made Food the Autrepid utterances of Mecklenburg. itnout the Union all the-e precious memories are noteing; and the record of her deeds in War of 1812 and in the Mexican war is significant | only as it is American, This her people feel in- | stimcively, The best of ner leading mea are now thoroughly patriotic in that broad import of the Ransom Yeates, Barnes, Brooks and Waddell in the £ Merriman and Clingman ip the West, and 5: Moore and Batie and Graliam in tne centre, | are all national men. Toe Releign News and the larger ana more infuential portion or the press of | the State favor the participation of Nor:n Carolina in the Philaaelphia Centennial, and are in other Ways in full accord with the new epoca of frater- nity, The exceptions to this sentiment are rare | and insignificant, There are some few morose, | sour men, Who still preach the gospel of hate and cherisn & sacred animosity to the North and Northerners, but these have no following among the masses, ‘The State Legislature, at ite late session, adopied the following resoiutio Whereas, on the 4th day of July, 1876, the Centennial of American Independence will be celebrated in Pail reat Declaration was made; and at that time to eather up the in- dustries of the ptaies and to show their resources to a world aseembied; and where most prover ime to bury the animosity of past years and in brotherly kindness to commence the march ot another century, North Carouna. present at the birth, ought not to ve ab- of American froedom; therefore be it Resolved, by the General Assembly of Nort That our staie ought wo be represented i nial celebration to be held at Phil fons of bersons and daughters ang her resources, ber products and her manut we recommend to the people to Mill up the North Caro- lina department in this great Exhibition with a bountl- ful supply ot our varied products, and go temsel this peaceful reunion of ar nciled people and in the opeming of # new ceutary ‘of prosperity peace. In General Assembly read three times and ratt- fled this 220 day of March, 187 Sinee the passage of tais lation the senti- meal whicd it expresses has been gre: fied. The fine demonstration at Chario Vouether reoresentative mee of both ry | otions upon & comme Lexington-Oovcord oolovrauea, whion it, and the Bunker Hid Dial, wih lowe, have revived @ host o: reminiscences of the old heroic days when “the cause of Boston was tne cause of all,’ and our ers walked hend io band and wrought su y side. tne giad welcome which Massachusetts extended to the men of the Sontn oniy the otmer day Dis al- ready meta Warm response tn the hearts of those at home. 19th Of April, the 17th of June, dies alba as they m, and worthy of perennial ob- it to be but preiades to tne natal day 0! Republic, and the fesuvities waico commemorated thea hundredth anniversary, as only introdactory to the grand Centenmial at Pnil- adelphia, Norta Varolina proposes to utilize the great Exposition of next year by an BXHIDITION OF HL PROBUOTS, both natural and artificial, Her contribution to the big show at Vienna attracted much attention, Professor W. ©. Kerr, the State geologist, will seo that tne North Carolina department in the Patia~ delpnia Fair adequately represents the rich and varied resources ef the State. He ts already tn- dusiriously working to thisend, Many interest- ing relics and mementoes of the Revolution will be carried tnither, one of which. the orizinal eom- mission of Colonel Arthar Lillington, signed by Jon Hancock, as chairman of the Continental Congress, t have just seen, together with severaf Silver crescents Worm on Che cocked hats of toat period aud bearimg the legend, “Liberty or Deata.”’ A NOBLE ORNTENABIAN, too, will grace the occasion by his presence, If his life 18 spared, as it bids tir (0 be. Tais is Mr. Jo- sepa G. Belk, of Union county, 110 years old, He 18 to full possession of his facuities, and @ fair epe- cimen, exce leutly weil preserved, of tne splenuid Manuood o! our forefathers, ALABAMA. LATER INJURIES BURIED UNDER THE MEMORY OF HARLIER GLORIES, Monroomeny, July 24, 1875, The great topic of conversation is the Centen- nisl, and it may be of tnterest to your readers to know how the people of Alabama stand affected toward this greatevent. Since the proposition for a Centennial celebration of the independence of the United States was first made, some three years ago, there has come a great change of senti- ment in all sections of the country, Then bit- ter and mutual irritation, consequent on the bad feeling engenuered by the war, still antagonized the people of the North and South, What the Southerners conceived to be unwise proscriptive legislation and harsh administration, which par- tisan ill-will so relentlessly enjoined toward the South; fostered a feeling of galling injustice in the hearts of the people of the South utierly at variance with those sentiments of fraternal re- gard so necessary for the preservation of any government, and more especially a repub- lican government, In those days it seemed certain to the wise observer of men and measures that the hundredta anniversary of our independence would, in all probability, be char- acterized by such bitter sectional antmosities that tt would require no prophet to foretell the impossibility of the government existing to cele- brate anovber centennial of 1ts history. Buta change has come over the hearts of this people as great as itis sudden. It seems that tne eyés of Northern men have been opened to the fact that their fellow citizens south of Mason and Dixon's line are something betier than the incorrigible “stifmecked and rebellious people? whom they bave long been taught to distrust and hate. This change o! feeling has, by God's biessing, found a free expression in the Northern press, and the voice of returning confidence meets with a gen- erous echo in the impulsive Soutiern heart that speaks more strongly tor the strengim and stabil- iy of the government than any event that has marked its history jor years, This long estranged eople again feel tue force of the hataral tles that Bing them together, and THE PATRIOTIC UTTERANCES of the press North and South im reference to the Centennial are the true expressions of tue na- tion’s great desire for union and peace, Those Who are entitied to the creait of inaugurating tis scheme for agréat Centennial celeoration almost or quite deserve to be ranked side by side in American history with the jramers of that glorious Declaration 80 joved and revered by the Ameri- can heart. As the people of theSouth in 1776 pDobly responded to that sturdy rtion of right | against tyranny, #0 even more universally do tueir descendauts respond to this mew call, and aim to show an observing world indissoluble Union iouuded on sometuing stronger than mere power Ol werds or the bayonet’s polat. Asa unit do the Pan bee of Alabama sanctioa this gr Vional Passover, ‘is true that our efforts must be comparatively feeble in a pecumlary sense—tne State, but just recovertug from a lone. pated of musruie, is in the most sadly straitened circum- stances, Still sme can Offer to the general goveru- ment and to her slsier States something tufinitely more Valuable than mere money—the reawakened Beuse 0. national confidence. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Centenulal ceievration bas made a most happy seiecuon of @ Commissioner for the tve States of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis- sippi and Tennessee, With @ Sagacity that does the Centennial managers great credit, they bave chosen, pernaps, the most truly representative Southera man of unbiemisbed public record that could possibly be found. I allude to tne Hon. Robert Tyler, a man whe has Kept an untarnished character amid tne rubs and wrenching» of a time | when nobie names have fallen with such frigatral ma- THE HAYDEN SURVEY: Pleasant Meanderings Through the San Juan Mining Region. GEOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTRY. The Weary Way of the Tide of Immigration. MYSTERHS OF TRANSPORTATION, Oregon Bill and His Indian Exhibition. SKETCH OF VALUABLE LODES. SAN JUAN MINES, Baker's Park, } La Pista couaty, Col, July 15, 1875. In entering Baker’s Park oy way ol the Cun- ningham Gaich trail the descegt from the summit on the Pacific slope is 2,400 feet. Along both sid of the rapidly flowing Cumningham Creek tne mountains which form the gulch rise very precipl- tously, leaving but a narrow ravine between their bases, and atevery jew hundreds of yards a tiny Mountain stream flows down the volcanic face of the precipice or leaps headlong over the rocks in & succession of picturesque falls, sometimes 2,000 feet in height. Here we see a silvery rill puritng over the loftiess point and dashing into the creek below; there we observe a narrow liae of, purest white winding downward through a rilt in the mountain, Through all the gulches which open into Baker’s Park countless small streams trickle down the sides of the canyons, and one finds himself, in gazing at them, unconsciously wonder- ing from whence do theycome. In ascending the peaks, however, they may be traced to great beds of snow, which lie far above timber land, and whose gradual and constant mélting supplies the vaileys the year round wiih pure, ice-cold water, lt would be avery natural error for one to fall in to suppose that Baker's Park wasa broad open plain, but the fact 1s it{g little more than a canyon, or, more properly, itis simpy a section of the valley of the Rio de las Animas, What is generaliy known by the name of Baker's Park is the narrow strip of land between the mountains, extending from Eureka Guica to the north, as far as the foot of Sultan Mountair to the south, & distance of about nine miles. The average Width 1s a quarter of a mile, but at the foot of the Park the valley rolls out into a broader area, in which is situated the flourishing mining town of Silverton. Much confusion exists in the minds of the inbabitants as to THE LIMITS OF THE PARK, many contending that it includes all the country above described, which would seem the most Probable, while others, among whom are many old miners and prospectors, recognize none of the narrower section above Silverton under this name. It matters little, however, woether the original Baker’s Park were nine or three miles in extent, It isa most insignificant tract so far as its limits ini any case are concerned. Yet, from: its isolation from other low lands and ita situation in the very centre of the great mining districts, it becomes the moat important spot im the whole of Southwestern Colorado, In one year the town of Silverton has grown from a miserable hamlet, composed of a few log hovels, to what it now is—a busy town, built up of neat board houses, and containing two sawmills, two smelt- ing works, a United States Post Office, with a semi-weekly mail aud all the necessities and conyeniences of civilization, and even some of its luxuries, in the form of restaurants, drug stores, @ barber shop and a weekly news- Paper known as the La Plata Miner, the first number of which was issued Saturaay, July 10. Five miles above this, at the junction of Cunningham Creek with the Aminas, lies the village of Howardville, or what was formerly calied Bullion City. Further up the river, at the head of the so called Park, stand a few huts, which con- stitute the towa of Eureka. Opening into the Park on either side are Arastra, Cunningham and Eureka guiches, and also several less important pcan a In honoring this gentieman with his | appointment the committee have gone tar toward convipeing the people of this State that the North acknowledgea the Souti’s claim toa por- | tionin the noble heritage of glory waich we are tocelebrate mext year, And this is one of the great resaits aimed at, as we take it. Your cor- respondent, when tue Centennial was first spoken of, often heard Southern mon express the opinion that the North intended to ignore the South tn this matter and to arrogate to liseifall the honors gained by our common @acestors, But vuls distrustiul opis ion is rapidly Wearing away, and the majority of the Southera people now feei,that they may come, not a8 wnweicome, alien intruders, bat as true citizens of the United States to the ‘cradle of our liberties,” and celebrate witb their reconciled brethren of the North, East and West the greas actions of a hundrea years ago. Intelligent gentiemen have been appointed by the State government as Commissioners trom Aiabama to the Centennial Exnipition, and, though just experiencing the return of prosperity, yet it 18 believed that the industries of Alabama will be Weil representea among those of her sister States, Renewed hope, both political and financial, @awas upon long suffering Alabama once again, | ‘The planting prospect was never more bright, and bext autumn Will doubtiess show the State more ale to . toward the successful celebration of the nation’s great festival. THE HERALD LIGHTNING EXPRESS. —e——_ ‘VIRGINIA WANTS A HERALD LIGHINING TRAIN. [From the Portamoauth (Va.) Enterprise, July 27.) | There seems to be no limit to the enterprise of the New York Henatp. The interior of Africa and the frozen zones of the Nortn aj ‘ke flelds for the display of its energy. No prominent event takes place without @ HERALD reporter being there to record it. The {ull detaiis of the unfor- tuvate sinking of the tag Lamberman, in our bar- bor, appeared in the Hekanp the same day they | ment consists im ranning @ lightming train from ‘oud of her historical pos- | New York to Niagara, @ distance of nearly five | H&RALD a little after noon on the day it is printed, | and puts it in the Western cities a day ahead of (2 | till further outstrip all competitors, nas taken did in our own morning papers. Its last achieve- hundred miles, for the purpose of delivering its | | edition along the route. whis enables the people | at tho western extremity of New York to get tne the other New York papers, We would like for the HemaLp to turn {ts attention this way, and arrange some means by which it could arrive here the day it is issued. We are about two hun- ‘er than Niagara. THE FASTEST TRIP YET. {Prom the Niagara Falis Register, July 27.) The HERALD train on Sunday last made much faster time than on any previons trip, in spite of | & loss Of time occasioned by hot boxes. The train | arrived in Buffalo only five minutes behing wme; but Charlie Clark brought it through to the Falls three minutes abead, Many more passengers than usual came through to this place on last Sunday's train; but @ larger number would nave arrived bad not the mer Daniel Drew, which | had several passengers for this piace on boara, | ran aground near Albany and failed to make con- | neetions. The Niagara car was in charge of | | W. H. Coriett, who supplied the place of the sable reprosentative on the last trip, The iatter de- a accompanying @ train which emulated ed lightning” in its rate of progress. SIX DAYS TO CARAON cerry. (From the Carson City (Nevada) Appeal, July 11.) * * * And now the HERALD, determined to | upon itself the task of bringing tho great trank lines Of ratiroad into its service. Yesterday we received the Hm@RaLp of July 4. Six days from the publication oMce, corner of Broadway and Ann atreet, to the Carson railway station! This shows | the Vicinity can testify. us what enerer and Gaterpine Can do, | killed south ofthe Park at that time by a hostile ravines. There are two stories which are told relative to the origin of the naming of this vailey. One is that a band of miners, headea by one | Baker, were siaughtered here by the Ute Indians some time about the year 1862. But an old resi- dent, who claims to nave accompanied Baker here in 1560-61, tells ‘ THE FOLLOWING TALR. ‘The report thit gold was to be found in great abundance in the gulches and river beds of this section was circulated by Baker in the year 1860, he having visited the locality in 1859, Witn a party of men he entered about this time, and confining Dis searches to the valleys, wholly ignoring the mountain sides, the result was that the party was unsnecesaful in discovering more than the color of gold in their pannings. But the reports of a fabulously rich country were carried near and far, and as many a5 3,000 people congregated here as early as 1862, Upon finding out their mistake they were very bitter against tae man who hi mislead them, and Baker was forced to flee, About three years ago accounts appeared in some of the Western papers that Baker haa been killed by an Indian in the Canyon of the Colorado while out with an expedition, This is the sud. | stance of the story, and it seems more plausible than the first. However, many people were band of Navajoes, which iact may have given rise to the Baker report. In the immediate vicinity | of che Park there are at present, perhaps, 2,000 persons, while in the whole San Juan mining | country there are, probably, 3,000, But still the tide of immigration flows on and ts not abated. | Men continue to come in singly and im parties at | all hours of the day. Many are bringing im their families, intending to make this their permanent nome, and brave women may be frequently seen pusbing forward amid rain and mud and the dis- comforts of a wild and dangerous country, fol- lowing their husbands to success, or, if so it be, | to death. | It 1s surprising what an extent of trave there is over such abominable roads as lead tothe park. | All the enterprise of the country seems to have | centerea in the interior, and every man waits for | his neighbor to accomplish anything on the road. | The wagon pass over the range is very much Worse than the trail, and to cross the latter is sometimes about as much a8 @ man’s or an ant- mal’s life is worth, How a wagon is ever landed in @ usable condition is a subject for much spec- tiation, At the top of the pass, which is 12,500 feet in height, the way is so steep that vehicl are lowered (even when empty and the four wheels are firmly locked) by means of heavy ropes wound around strong “‘snubbing poste” or large ; Many of which are cut nearly through in s by tho sawing of the ropes. Ta many plac there is an inclination of forty-five aegrees, where the power of gravitation refases to anchor even stones or earth, and on one side a precipice yawns below for hundreds of feet. And dotting side of the road and the bottem of the gulf are skeletons of mules and “jacks” and jumbled masses of once strong wagons. Jn returning from @ tour in Southwestern Colorado last Sop. tember the photographic party of the Unitea States Ceological Survey took this reute over the mountains, and, although It was encumbered with no vehicles, the utmost dim. culty Was experienced in ascending with the pack train, one animal having to be taken up in cer- tain places ata time, ome man pulling on the strap of the halter in front and two literally push- ing the mule up {rom vebind. This description of the road may bear the impress Of exargeration; yot that this is not the case hundreds of men in la Via wala mounsain gonatry moat af the | packing and transportation are done by jackasses, or, what are locatly called Spanish, durros. ‘They scarcely stand as bigh as 4 mun’s waist, and many are not larger than a good siaed dog; but itis wonderfal what hardy Jittle creatures they a id what loads they can carry, From the San Juan country to the outside world burro pack trains are used almost exclusively for the trans Portation Of provisions, and many men make this @ regular basiness, realizing trom their jreighting sometines $200a month. On sunday afternoon, tho 11th of July, the town of Stiverton was excited over &® novelty in the shape of a burrorace. Printed haudbilia were extensively distributed, informing the public that a purse of $20 would be awarded to the winner. In this race numerous burros were entered, and each man rode another's animal, The last in was consid- ered the winner, and the whole affair created a great deal of merriment, By this arrangement each contestant strives to urge the animal he ts Tiding anead of the rest, 80 that he leaves bis own dovkey in the rear, while the man who rides his aims to reach the goal frst and secare the prize | to nimseil, THE SAN JUAN MINES are scattered all over the country from the foot of the mountain range to an elevation far above timber line. Many of the finest lodes crop out thousands of feet above the river, in the perpen- dicular rock, where they are almost out of reach, Massive veins of mineral bearing quartz may be seen running along the faces of the peaks for thousands of feet. The lodes ran principaly Northeast to southwest and northwest to south. east, crossing each other at right angies when they meet, Already over 3,000 lodes have been discovered and located, and should but one out of ten of these proveof any value, which is a small percentage, they will constitute the country the richest mining region im the whole world, Not until a year anda half ortwe years ago were any of these mines developed, and even at the present time very few of them have been worked more thana few feet, But ima very few years, when the development has been gotten fully under way, nothing in any country or any age will be abie to compare with the richness and quantity of the San Juan ores, Among the richest ana beat eeveloped lodes in Baker’s Park and the neigh- boring gulches are:—The Mighland Mary, Moun- taineer, North Star, Terrible, Green Mountain, Pride of tne West, Pailadelphia, Little Giant, Pros- pector, Pelican, Gray Hagle, Susquehanna, As- pen, Buckeye and Royal Tiger. VALUABLE LODES. The Prospector Lode is situated on the south- west side of Arastra Gulch, on Hazleton Moun. tain, aspur of Mount Keadall, very near timber line. The shaft has been sunk sixty-five feet, and is being worked night and day by two sets of hands. A party of three of us, inciuaing Oregon Bill, deseended the mine by means of a ladder® and examined tae vein at the bottom, which runs northwest and southeast, and is one ot the richest mines in she district, The quartz carries carbon- ate of silver, galena, pyrite and gray copper (ar- gentiferous), The Susquehanna Lode ts situated @few huadred yards south and is another rich mine. Itsshaft has veen sunk fifty-five feet, and is being rapidly developed. The vein runs almost due north and south. We descended the mine by means of a rope, sliding down two paraliel and almost vertical poles, but the ascent was more difficult, as we haa to draw our- selves up hand over nand. The interior was damp and eold, and masses of ice coated the walls. On the exterior, at its mouth, lay @ large pile of ore ready for the sacks, which presented rich indtca- tions of silver, galena and gray copper, with lay- ers of beautiful vari-colored crystallizations, This ore, as itis thrown from the shaft, is valued at $267 per ton, The Pelican is anotner promising looking lode, but has only been worked for about fitteen feet, The Legal Tender is one of the finest looking veins on the mountain, but is only ricn in galena, In Ounningham Guich the Mountaineer and North Starlodes are very rich in gray cop- | per, which contains & large per cent of silver. ‘The pest mines, with a few exceptions, are lo- cated near the head of this gulch. To the cabinet collector this section presents | one of the finest fields anywhere to be founa, for it abounas im beautiful specimens of crystals and ores and many odd forms of both. Large, limpid quartz crystals, terminated at both ends, are quite common, and immense tablets of transpar- ent crystalizations lie around in almost every hollow and on every hillsiae. In the Park we find men Of every caste and condition in life, all con- gregated together tor the purpose of amassing wealth—from the capitalist to the day laborer, the owner of mines to the miner, tie prospector, merchant, the lawyer, the editor, the doctor, the packer and the assayer, all interested in a greater or less degree in the development of the mines. On our way to the Park we meta party en route for the mines, ameng which we noticed a jovial, hearty-looking man, dressed in an ornamented buckskin sutt, with long, dark hair hanging down his back and armed with a rifle, a revolver anda gigantic hunting kaife. Supposing him, from his appearance, to be some celebrated character, we found upon inquiry that it was “OREGON BILL,” an oid government scout and a friend of Butalo Bill (W. Cody). The party accompanied us for a couple of days into Baker's Park, and manya good talk aud hearty laugh did we have in com- pany wita Oregon Bill. He bas been in this West- ern country nearly twenty years, part of which time he scouted on the Piains in company witn) Buffalo Bill, In 1872 be was in the Black Hills, and says that he founa gold dust im the guiches of the foot bills on the northwest slope of the Hilis, The squaws of the Biackiees and Crow Indians were in the habit of adorning themseives with gold trinkets which, he thinks, evidently came from that section, A year ago Bill went East with « delegation of Caws and Osages, and during the Centennial Exposition he expects to exhibit a party of Caw Iudians, ‘Whose language he speaks fuently. His private name is W. J. Speck, and he is thirty-eight years of age. Bill has entered the mines | with “she other boys” to setk his fortune, but as long as he has enough to eat and a tribe of Indians to escort he is always perfectiy happy. Although he is @man of education, fine perceptions and good connections, he prefers tuis free and roving life, and, like ali true “sons of the wilds,’’ is proud Of hig repUtation as @ scout and a hunter. In giv- | ing an account of the first night's Indian perform- anees at Fort Leavenworth he says: STORY OF OREGON BILI. “We had had no rehearsal, and wien the hour arrived we knew no more what tye Indians would do than the audience. But I went benind the scenes and told them to go out and do their best. “ At the given signal they went hooting and yelling on the stage aud commenced a war dance, They had three fresh scalps, which they bad captured trom another tribe a few days before, and as they progre: im the dance and grew excited they flourished their tomahawks and knives, and flung te scalps into the air, cutting at them with their weapons as they descended, and licking them with their tongues | whenever they could get them in their hands. At | length they got worked up to such a pitch of ex- citement that, forgetting for the time where they were, they leaped clear over the orchestra and ran yelling and whooping up and down the aisles The audience was so frightened that most of them Tan out ofthe house, and we were rather. scared | ourselves, as We did not know how the thin would end. Two of us ran out on the stage ana shouted and gesticulated until we were tired, without any effect, when one of the squaws came outs and told us to let them have it out or they might do some damage. This was the last night we gave @ performance without @ rehearsal, for the Indians told ua they tiought they were to do Just as they had done.” Then he gave us an imi- tation of the war dance and accompanying weird chant, and it was done to such perfection that our flesh crept id we almost imagined him @ war- rior im disgui THE SCENERY. The monatains surrounding Baker’s Park, with their canyons and streams and lakes, present some beautiful gems of scenery, Here we have the grand and the picturesque, the rugged and the beautitul, all in combination, forming han- dreds of desirable photographic views on every hand and as every elevation, In the valleys the picture is condensed aud stereosoonio, While om the Uncompahgre and San Juan groups and the La Plata ran stand in bold relief againat thé entire horizon, or break up at our very ‘eet inte Gigantic crags with amphitheatrical faces aad barren, ¢onical, snow-patehed tops, whose bases Gre clothed ta a dark verdure of pine, balsam ang spruce timber, appearing in the distance like ter raees of smoothly mown grass. And a there, 1m the broad lap of some monster peak, shimmers an emerald lake or sparkles a silvery brook in its course to the river. On account of the rapidly increasing celebrity and tne importance of the natural surroundings of this section it was deemed of great importance to obtain accurate views of the sites of the Sam Juan mines and vicinity, and several days were employed in photographic work within a radias of ten miles of the Park. In addition to ¢ stereoscopic and five by eight inch sizes, Mr. W. Hi. Jacksoa, the photographer of the expedition, has come into the country thie year prepared te Make some of the finest views which have ever been taken in this Western Territory, His lange camera, externally, measures Thirty by thirty-oix duches and isa fovt thick, weighing 100 pounds, and the pictures taken with this are twenty by twenty-four, which when tuey are mounted wil Measure thirty-two by thirty-six, being the largest landscape views ever produced ta the United States, The great, oulky camera and the aceompanying box of glass plates, which weighs 126 pounds, make a good load for a large mule, and when ‘old Kate” is packed they resembies couple of portable houses borne on the back of an elephant. The dificuities of transporting this ap paratus across the mountains and over almost impassable trails may be better imagined tham descrived. WATERING PLACE NOTES. A Southern paper has discovered that some @ the college champion sculiore are gifted with oar atory. Cape May is said to be duller this season tham any other within the recollection of tne oldest Habitués. Is 18 stated that the Waite Sulphur Springs Hotel in Virginia is doomed. The hotel property cost $1,200,000, ana has been a@ losing concers since the war. After the centennial year it wilt be pulled down and the site sold for villas, &e., @ new notel, upon a More economical plan, belag erected for the accommodation of guests. ‘There were about 100 arrivals at Leland’s Oceam House, Long Branch, on ‘tuesday, nearly nal of whom were from New York, tucluding A, Mana, wife, daughter and sister; Dr. R. E, Radway, Migs Hummeil, Mrs. Lee, A, Kimball and wite, W. Bissell and wife, Airs. A. Carster and two children, and others, S. W. Cowpertbatte and wife, Mra. W. Hunter and Miss Hunter, J. G. Atwood and B. L, Temple ton, of Brooklyn, are at the Ocean, Long Branon- So are 0. Balser and Miss Balser, of St. Loulag Miss 8. P. Edson, Miss Harrison and Miss Gausby, of Philadelphia. A watering place correspondent wrote that there was only oNe ‘duke’ at a certain summer resort, The printer made it omly one ‘dupe."? More dupes than dukes, no doubt, i Mr. G. W. Morgan, of England, one of the aur vivora of the Light Brigade which made the f@ mous charge at Balaklava and was immortalized in Tennyson’s verse, 18 at the Niagara House, Niagara Falla, He served in our civil war and now occupies a desk in the Auditor’s oflce of the Treasury Department at Washington, Santa Barbara, Cal., is putting in an appearance as a rival to Long Branch, All it wants is the presence of some of the luminaries that shine as the latter watering plac:. Mrs. J. Napoleon Bonaparte, of New York, ts at her cottage on Harrison avenue, Newport. Snarles Bonaparte, brother of Colonel Jerome Bonaparte, will be @$ Hartmann’s, Newport, ia August. At Newport there are 196 cottages and villas owned by summer residents, 79 rented for the season of 1875, and there are 54 families at board- ing houses, &o. ‘The Chicago Times says ‘Devil's Lake’—a fa- vorite Western summer resort—ls named after the principal politician of this country, but faila to state who he fs. Four-in-hands are rarer at Newport this season than last year, William C. Rives, Virginia, occupies Fay’s cot e, Newport, rs. Paran Stevens is expected at Newport ta September. dirs. General Halleck has engaged rooms at the Ocean, Newport, Bisuop Sumpson’s family and Mrs. John Kendrick are at tne Cuff Cottages, Mrs. Seoretary Beiknap has engaged rooms at the Ocean, Newport, for August. The Newport News auticipates more visitors an@ “uke, there iu August tham there bas beem us far. Among the recent New York arrivals at the Ocean House, Newport, are A. Harris and wife, D. O’Erien and wife, E. L. Shipment and wife, Miss k, L, Smythe, W. H. Lent, wife and child; Joum Matthews and wife, J. B, Colby ana wile, ‘The following, xmong other New Yorkers, are summering at the Ocean View Hotel, Bloc! Isiund :—Willlam D, L, Boughton, Mrs, C. L. Skeels, Miss Laura Skeels, Howard Pitman, Miss Lie Pitman, Mrs. E. 8, Bisnoy, Miss Arrin Bishop, Miss Alice Brown, Mrs, Martha Miller and twoentidrea, Miss Mary Miller, John Herriman and wife, Mias S. Herriman, Miss B. Herriman, W. f, Paulding and wife, William H. Carr and wile, Mr. and Mrs, ©. Nobie, Miss M. B, Nobile, Miss J. R. Day, Brooklya. Samuel $. Cox and daughter are at the Grand Union, Saratoga, Among fie late New York arrivals at the Cate- | Kill Mountatn House are Wheeler H. Peckham and | wie, Isaac Dayton and family, Levi S. Stockwell and family, Mrs, MoCoskey, Miss Read, Charies Rooner and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A, Ot Mrs, Colgate Baxer and family, Clinton Baker am family, Mrs. Arcas and son, Charies H. Wilcox and famiiy, David Bingham and jamily, Mr. and Mra. J, Parmley, f, and Mrs. J. Campbell, Mr, and Mrs. John H. Sherwood, Mrs. J. Heary Adam daughter, J. Biamenthal and family, Mra. D. stew- art and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. Brand, Willian Lathrop and family, Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Ritter. From Brookiyn—H. B. Philips and family, Miss Gertrude Kellogg, S. Kerrigan and fam Isaao Stiebel and /amiiy, Heury 0, Baldwin Sey Rey. Dr. lntis and family, William 0. De vite. Charles Francis Adams has left the Glen House at the White Mountains to attemd the Commence- es ment of Oulby University, at Waterville, Me. His family remain at the Glen, The following incident affords a striking tlas- tration of the rapidity of travel in these latter @ays:—An actor in the Olympic Theatre, New York, aiter completing an engagement with thas theatre at eleven o’ciock Ou Saturday night, packed up his stage effects, boarded the HERa Special train at haif-past two and was in Chict by eight o’clock Monday morning. Thus he tweive hours leiwure belore playing im one of the principal theatres of that much be-phonixed city.—Niagara Falis Register. ‘The Boston Traveller says ‘the drawbacks om Mount Desert, credited witm by far the graadest scenery Of any ol our iaimous Coast resorts, are the crowd, the bad table, the distance from our large cities and occasional outbreaks of typaoid jever.” Can’t you turow in 4 few cases of small- POX, chills and fever, mosquitos, &c., to make 16 more interesting ? W. B. Maciay and gon, of New York, are at Com- gress Hall, Saratoga, Rear Admiral Alden, of Washington, is at the United States; so are Dr, Videlasvorna, Secretary of the Argentine Legation; Dr, Carnochan, of New ieee and Dr. @. P, Andrews, of the Utica Insaae sylum, A Leonard R, Jerome, of New York, makes his headquarters at the Grand Union for the race ariing, United States Custom House Ap fin Now York, 1s at the Grand Union, with Bi augnter, William Aiken, of South Carolina, is at the United States, with his wife and servant. George Lorrillard, of New York, 18 at fils sum- mer quarters, the Clarendon Hotel, where he wilt ovserve the races and other incidents of the sea- It i stated that visitors at Narragansett, R. L, 4 of vakt! Land hing, take yawn on ported that is e Ne visit New London, but will pass this stopping. The objection Made to the firing of salute: fs alleged to the reason of this.—. port THE O'CONNELL OENTENNIAL. LETTER FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS. Wenaeil Phillips has sent the following letter to the committee having charge of the celebration of the Daniel O'Connell Centennial in Boston:— JULY 26, 1875, GENTLEMEN—You ask me to address the assem- biage which celebrates, on the 6th of August, the bunureat! iniversary of O'Uonnell’s birta. Lam sensible of the honor such @ request does me, and will gladly do my part toward snowing the men O! to-day the great debt which the science of government, the methods of popular livorty and human progress itself owe the great Irishmat Very respectfully, WENDELL PHILLIPS. bags Pareick DoNanig, Dr. J. G. Bare ae fy