The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1876, Page 3

THE GREAT BLOW-UP How the Ourrents Roar and Rush Through Hell Gate A MINIATURE MAELSTROM. Hallett’s Point Reef and Its Pristine Terrors. SURFACE DRILLING AND BLASTING. The Grand Excavation—How It Was Accomplished. PRIMERS AND CARTRIDGES. Final Destruction of the Reef in Few Days. The details of the execution of tho great work at Hallett’s Point Reef are exceedingly interesting, be- cause they furnish a clew to the secret of its successtu completion under most trying circumstances, When bhe undertaking was first commenced the engineers found a vast reef, extending many hundred feet into a boiling caldron of foaming water, a glance at which ‘was enough to inspire fear in the breast of the boldest wavigator. Oply asiall portion, close to the shore, of this rocky projection was visible at iow water, the remainder being hidden beneath the angry waters that whirled over it, causing a hundred eddies, each of which seemed to mark the hiding place of some submerged monster whose hungry maw gaped for victims. Sometimes wWhea the tide bad reached its full height a de- teitial calm would rest on the face of tho water. The floating weeds and other buoyant objects pass Wlowly by with a sluggish motion, as if in mockery of the turmoil that ia soon to follow. Gradually this movement grows swifter as the disturbance of level between the basins of the Sound and New York Bay becomes greater, and soon a tremulous rip- ple appears on the surface of the water, as ifa gust of wind bad struck it aud agitated it fttully, Bat although a profound calm may prevail and the swal” lows skim gracefully over the broad stretch of water \bat extends toward Harlem and Ward's Island, tho mysterious movement of the water continues to grow tn force, and the lately placid surtaco is broken into that lumpy unevenness which indicates thate change in its condition ig at band. Soon a streaky appearance, takes the place of the strong, ripple and tho stream attains a velocity which can only be occasioned by a considerable head. Here and thera flerce, gutpy motion occurs as if an im- mense fish rose suddemly to the surface to seize its prey. The streaky lines develop tato distinct outlines of currents which converge and diverge again with burpfising swiftness, These are observed to be de- flected by some hidden obstruction to their direct course and turn sharply back on those adjoining, causing a piling up of the water into dark green hillocks which break at their bases into foam and scem to bury themselves in the dopths beneath, A floating Jog comes along borne rapidly toward the shore. It advances with a rush and whirls round and round, as if im sport with the waters. Suddeniy it is sought by another current and torn violently away and hurried back into tho sentre of the river, whore it is rolled over and under the waves, and disappoars for minutes at a time in the dark recesses of the river bed, Meantime the foaming and whirling outside increases, the dark, rugged heads of rocks are secon lifted fora moment out of the rushing river and again plunged beneath its surface. These seem to be gifted with life, for they assume an imaginary motion which causes the observer to doubt that they are only the solid pinnacles of some rocky structure beneath, and not the upturned jaws of hideous leviathans that guard the dreadtul passage. " Masses of water rise as if lifted bodily by ome unseen power beneath, and plunge again into depths created beside them, All now ts changed from the placid smoothness so lately beneld into a scene of violence that fairly bailles fescriptions. The force of tho currents that dash madly over the sunken reefs and chase cach other with violent rushes around the rocky centres is !mmense, It seems impossibie that any effort of human ski can tompete with their tremendous energy. They bowl and roar and surge along as it in itter defiance of man and all his boasted power. New rocky monsters thrust their heads bver water very moment to add to the general uproar | vf the waters, They appear to make efforts to stay tho whirlpools, to grasp at the waves that rusb past them with a sheiek-as if of fear, and hurry fay from tho horrid jaws that would engult them. Such is the way the waters come down at Hell Ga It is @ daily struggle bewween those old enem ‘tne rocks and the river. But the river will bear on its broad and friendly bosom the commerce of New York. It will float to our wharves the great ships that cross the ocean {reighted with the wealth of distant countries. It decomes a highway along which thousands hurry daily in pursuit of wealth and pleasure, and therefore we assist the river im its battle with the rocks, The imtter are like wolves tbat menaco the traveller ta; bis journeyings. They in wait for the ship | as she gracetully advances with her sails filled | by favoring winds. They aro merciless in their | Savage assaults on her trail sides and weave net- | works of currents to entangle the navigator in their | meshes before they devour him, Sach being the caso | we regard the rocks as our enemies, and we organize a tampaign against them as against human foex Wo ply the steel and undermine their strongholds, and then we shatter their entrenchments ana themseives whh enormons charges of the most powerful expio- ivo~ known to science. How this accomplished im the case of the great { at Hallett’s Point 1s the special sabject of the pres. nt article, MALLETT’S POINT REEF, ‘This immense mass of stratified gneiss, as dangerous Jo the modera vavigator of the Enst River passage to the Sound as the fabled Charybdis was to the wander- ing Ulysses and his companions, has already been fully feseri in the Hinanp articles. Its influence on tho ‘bb current through Hell Gate is so decided that vo improvement could be said to have -been made in that diflicult channel unless it in- rolved the destruction of this reef. Not anly does the projecting rock represent a local danger to Ravigation which would warrant a large expenditure bn its destruction, but it also complicates the difficulty experienced by ships in avoiding other obstructions. The set of the ebb current may be said to be controlled entirely by Haltew’s Point, which presents a sharp kaleut, around which the waters whirl with immense relocity. Although the rock slopes gradaaliy downward \nd outward from the point of iand, it causes the water to accumulate on 118 slopes and creates a iall tn she direction of the current, Vessels that are entangled ‘fn the counter currents are liable to be drawn high ap on 18 slope and then plunged downward along its rug- | ted slope, striking violently as they move, and tre. quently thrown completely on their beam ends toward deep water, Anaceident of this kind occurred only a few days tgo while 4 small vesse| was being towed around the point, She seemed to have been lifted bodily on the tock by the rush of the water and then cureened over wo much as to render her position exiremely periiona ly, however, the assisiance of Was procured in time to prevent a dina vesecl was dragged off tho rock into deep wat ‘rhe accompanying cut, No. 1, sbows the character and shape oi the reef previous to the commencement of the excavations by Genoral Newton, The contour | lines marked on the sketch show how the ridge pro- 6 into she channel ani the outline ts thaton the ine of thirty-two foot soundings. It will be readily son how important it is to cut off the projection and flatten the curve necessary to be followed in rounding | the reef, THE EXCAVATION. ‘The chiof object of this undertaking ie to cut off the reef at a line which will facilitate the passage of vessels close in shore, bat as the rocky mass ix swept by violent currents during the ebb and flow of the tide through Heil Gate channel every attempt at sur- face blasting Ras fatled to make any impression it, Several difficulties presented tnemselves this work was attempted by Mnilleiert in eighteen, The effect of nitro-glycerine as a submarine explosive is calculated to shatter prominence: tocky mass and even to break down ledges that project opward from deep waicr, Its forco veing as great downward as up’ it detaches isolated masses irom their beds by eru them as with a titanic blow. But where large surfaces present themselves the resistance {is greatly increased and a limit reached when even bitro-glycerine produces no ible effect on the formation. Kooks tke the Frying the Pot Kock aud others of the same class were cut down by the siople process of suriace blasting antl the area of suriace created by repeated detach. ents irom the main buik became too largo and the jan had to be abandoned, Much usoinl work was accomplished by the water was a big te ? Ni ewht to sixteen fect, and t Jagged = points @ tho rocks were cut off, leaving woat might NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. be: deemed Abe com) ‘afi ee. vretecting mai un- touched. But in the case of Hallett’s Point Reef th solidity and suriace of the rock defied the efforts of the engineers w shatter it, even by heavy charges of over 100 pounds of nitro-glycerine, ro that other plans haa to be devised for its removal. The atiempt to suriace drill the reef was equally unsuccessful, because of the difficulty of mooring the drill scow iu the curre! which momentarily varied in force in direction. Surface, drilling can only sueceed in reasonably smooth water, because the action of the drill requires a careful ad justment of the apparatus over tho point to be pene- trated, and the preservation of the mechanical stotw quo while the drill is perforating to the required depth. Any movement of driil scow would necessarily alter the direction of the boring iron, and in- stead of cutting a deep hole into the rock it would receive only as series of punchings distributed or less wide area alt and tu: rq 8 finally edoptes, having proved successful in the removai of the Blos- som Rock in Sau Francisco Bay, California, id being in principle the same operation, though on a smaller scale, as that by which the mines in Cornwall have been carried far out under the sea. It i# annecessary to repeat Lere the history of tho pares of the Hallett’s Point excavation, which has peen already given in ivliinthe Hxxatp. It will bo interesting, however, to note some of the dificul- tes overcome by the engineers in pusbing the head- ings out under deep water and in connecting them by means of the transverse galleries. The general plan of the workings by which the core of the reef bas been removed, leaving only a thin shell of rock sustained by the columns to support the superincumbent mass of water, is shown in the annexed cut, No. 2. THE SHUAPT AND COPPER DAM. The first operation necessary after the selection of the site of the main shatt, which is on the summit of the reef north of old Fort Stevens and close in shore, r it became necessary to follow the dip of the rock in the grade of the radiating tunnels, Asa consequence the ieakage through the rock seams and through defective joints in the dam accumulated at the part of the tunnels farthest from the shatt, To obv: ‘this lines of pipe connected with the main pumps were laid through each heading and the water was pumped out and lifted over the dam into the East R So netimes the roof rock was so thinly lamivated and fauity in its texture that it had to be wadged to fe- Cure it against excessive leakage. thin, bridal veil falis of water that occur through the workings co! from these seams, which more numerous in som parts of the excavation than in others. No heavy charges could be used in the blasting ope- rations on account of the tremendous vibration trans- mitted through the rock mags and the comparatively slenaer supporting columns, which might further open the seams in the roof, Standing in the tunnels during the explosion of even the smallest olasting charge the eflect wes very ap- rent on the whole surroundings, Waves of air, Strong enough to stagger one Dot expecting the atmor- ¢ shock, passed through the galleries, and mado the solid walls of the great cavern vibrato with their force. H The heart has been cut out of Hallett’s Point Reef by slow degrees. A beaver gnawing at the trunk of a gient oak could not be more patient and persevering in bis labors than General Newton io carving the great hollow out of the rocky mass, It was digging a grave for the monster bf Hell Gate in its own bowels, for the result of the coming explosion will be a collapse of the Teef instead of @ scattering of its débris, The cuts i 4 give a perfect illustration of the details of tne plan of Liasting the reef into pieces, which will be subsequently dredged or grappled from the river bed. a ‘The primer, as shown in sketch No, 3, is a cylinder of brass with a bottie-sbaped neck. It will be filled with dynamite and in the charge will be inserted an expivd. ing cap filled with fulminate of morcury and attacheg er, WELL GATE. * ez ee OLD FORT STEVENS Hallett’s Point Reef Before the Excavations. Uf GEIL EE: hij ehh & INCHES————____.- to surround the space £0 selected with a substan ual coflor dam to exciude the higi, tides from the ex. cavation, The surface of the rock itself forms a very relisble foundation for this structure, which ts ouilt of stout framing, lined with plank on the inner side and flied = with well kneaded puddie clay, 0 as to render it perfectly watertight. The rise of the tide at Hullett’s Point i not rery great, so that really the coffer dam bas to sus- tain only a moderate pressure, and the strength of the work is intended a8 a protection against injury by ac- cidental collision teamers or small vessels, scows, &e., af much as to exclude the tidewater, When the’ coffer dam was completed the work of sinking the shatt commenced and progressed until the level ot thirty-five feet beiow low water line was reached. This initial operation was attended with little or no diffeulty because the work Was dry, any Httle leakage trom the dam above being easily overcome by the powerful pamps con- stantly at work draining the excavation, Th stratiti wtion of the rock twell, which is oniy a little of the perpendicuiar, favored the rapid prosecution of the work by offering little difficuity to the blasters nod giving large results from each hole Gred. Theretore the delicate operation of undercutting did not begin until the headings were commenced, THE NEADINGS ANU GALLERIES When these were being cut the utmost caution be- come wecessary 10 Insure againsta sudden rupture of the laminated root reck by (he shocks from the biast- ing. The stratification in relation to the direction of the heading varied as the latter diverged from the line of the former, and consequently the work had to be carried on with the most careful regard to the conditions that prosented themselves in ech part. ot the worl During the progress of the tunnelling the survey of the rock sur- lace proceeded, care being taken to keep in advance of the miners, So as to indicate exactiy the grades of the interior surfaces of the excavation. In the begin- ning of tue work « heading was cut in some distance ut due regard being paid to the surtace po of the Fock overhead, and conse ently too much Was taken away’ from the roof VYolunte at one place, and a sign of weakness ec manitested iteell in an alarming form. it beca! uecessary to build a solid shield of masonry against the shell of rock to support it, and thenceforth no advance was mode with any of the headings without a previous caretal exploration ot ‘be Tock ahead. As tho reef shelved away into deev cnn pencil | thousand bo! by wires to the exploding battery. eon the ends of the wires that penetrate the cap is a small ve of fine | platinam wire whiel, during the passage of the electric epark, will become heated to inc lescence and will explode the falminate, he primer wiil be inserted at the end of the blasting bole that is filed with the regular cartridges, as shown io the cut, No. 4, The primer will alone receive the fire from the cap, and the concussion vf its explosion will be sufficient to instantly explode the cartridges, which are Olied with nitro-giycerine, dynamite and other equally powerful compositions, ‘Each primer will be conuected by the wires with the battery, and ail will receive tho «park almost within the sai fraction of a second. Thus a simulaneous explosion will occar im many sandthe great rock columns and the | Massive root will dissolve, ag \t wore, into small frog. | ments at the same moment. The grandeur of the design afd the marvellous ability displayed if ite execution will find » fitting | climax in the tremendous burst of Gre that will anai- huate Hallett's Point Reef. HOW THR WORKS LOOKED YESTERDAY. Hell Gate wore aforiorn and dreary aspect yoster- day. Tbe dresebing rain kept away all visitors, and tha extra watebmen detailed ior duty about the piace found their positions sinecures ond soon went home. The good-humored Teaton who dispenses beer and other reireshmonts just outside the grounds said he had never known #6 dalla day's business, and ere night arrived became 80 depressed that be closed bis saloon. Within the enclosure the only of activity apparent was the slender jet of steam whien marked where the engineer at the bottom of the shaft Jeaned over his tireless pump, The effect of the turbuleucy of the river was to make the water fod sis way jn greater quantities through the crevices of the roof, and that combined with , the quactity of rain Which descended through the shait necessitated the working of an extra pump, two of whieh are always kept in readiness for emergencies. Captain James Mereur, engineer in charge of the works wader Genera was on band during the day, Indeed, this ver outol sight Of the shalt except ¢ is siveping.- Seated in the little rebed on the extreme brink of the excavation, which is used as an office, he was found alternately scanning an outspread drawing of the work and gazing meditatively hrough the window opoa the dreary scene betore bin. | with aremarkable vim. | as kindly im nature as a harvest moon. TIE INDIANA CAMPAIGN. Interviews with Henry Watterson and Joseph Pulitzer, A GERMAN ORATOR ON THE GERMANS, The Kentucky Editor on the Or- thodox Republican Issues. THE POLITICAL SCHOOL CP LYMAN BEECHER. The Future of the Country Under the Two Candidates Resp:etively. COLONIZATION OF VOTERS. Lovrsvitnr, Sept. 13, 1876. The democrats of Indiana are more coniident of the election of Mr. Willams to the gubernatorial succes. #lon next October than are the republicans of General Harrison’s success, This confidence is based upon the fact that the democrats havo been moro fortunate tn convoking large assemblages on the occasions of their great demonstrations than their opponents, The lead- ersof the democracy have gone into tho campaign Mr. Voorhees, particularly, 1s doing wonderful service, Mr. Julian's Indianapolis address in reply to Senator Morton was not only re- ceived with great applause, but there have becn over 100,000 -copids of It published from the press of the Indianapolis Sentinel alone, Julian's effort was in some measure a surprise, The people were not antici- pating such a splendid reply tothe effective address of the war Governor, and now that it has been delivered Out here in Kentucky, where the people seem to breathe democracy trom infancy, as it were, the warm- est interest is felt in the triumph of the party ta In-* @iana, Thero are quite a number of orators, inclad- ing Marshalls, Breckinridges and Clays, considered truly divine at home, who might do good work in the Indiana canyasa wore Indiana on the samo side of the Ohio with Kentucky. It will be unnecessary tiful River flows westerly and that, as a matter of courso, it must have northern and southern bounds. should take the stump in the Stato and do something in the arithmeticaily argumentative way. It 1s not ‘neath the Hoosier skies. An old Indiana politician was heard to say a few days since that the State had contest since Willard's di THK DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATH, ie pearance, but he is not @ rabble-rousing stumper, He has, however, a thoroughgknowledge of the State poli- tics, bas been a farmer for a halt century and owns nearly 3,000 broad and fertile acres in the central por- Ho is just one of those sort of men who, having been taken trom tho famous, He reminds some of Vid Hickory and others of Lincoln, land of the tree and the homo of the brave, where bard hands and bronzed faces are worshipped," said one of throwing democrats are howling ‘kid gloves and si/k stockings’ at General Harrison, and care no more for On the other hand, the republicans aro hopfal not- withstanding their discouragement. They are game to remind the reader who remembers that the Beau- Ithas been suggested, however, that Senator Beck improbable that he will consent to air his eloquenco never been so thoroughly canvasaed during a political Wiiliams is not only unattractive in personal tion of the State; is plain in speech and manner, but is plough and put in bigh placo, have made themselves “Men of that class are not born to bo beaten tn the the leading democrats of Kentucky recently, The dirt his proud ancestry than they do tor the devil, to the backbone, and are willing to pla diamonds ull’ the cows come home. — The pluck they exhibit is astonishing. Disasters have followed {ast and followed faster, but they still stand by their guns, Morton failed at Cincinnati, Orth died on the fleld, Henry O'Connor, of lowa, came on the stand intoxicated at a mass meeting, William Hi. English, of Indianapolis, went over with Julian, and Kilpatrick wrote a letter. Butif they do carry ‘the State (and the stars are not altogether unpropitious) the democrats will bave but littie heart jor the Presi- dentiai struggle. GOVERNOR HENDRICKS 1s making a round of tho State and is joyously grected everywhere. His speeches are brief, but pomted, and the fact that he was out of doors suggested to Mr. Friedley, Chairman of the Republican Ceatral Com- mittee, tho propriety of bringing ‘about a meeting of the Governor and Senator Morton. General Manson, Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, de- clared on the part of the Governor that it was entirely out of order Jor a Vice Presidential candidate to enter the lists of debate. Here the matter hus ended, and the Indianapolis Journal thinks the republicans have mado a point. Those who are not versed by experience in Indiana politics cannot form an idea of the heat and dust, en- venom and malico and expedients that are evolved duriug the present campaign. Women and children talk polities day in and day ous, The men make everything secondary to tho “‘vitai issucs of the canvass.” All are interested heart and soul in the progress of things. Every voter feels the weight and value of his ballok AS is a common ex- States Thero’s heli on the Wabash The excitement runs to the botling point, and business men contemplate no activity in commerce and exchange until the ides of November. 11 18 therefore pretty certain that a larger vote wili bo polled in Ociober than ever before known, The inde- pendent greenbackers aro reserving their splurge for the Pres tial election, though both parties are try- ing every ‘age possible to throw their solid force into one or utwer of the gubernatorial balances. THR GARMAN VOTER. Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, the German orator, who is now stamping Indiana for the democrats, stayed several day? in Louisville last week. J nad an interesting talk with bom over affairs in Indiana, He ts an agreca- ble conversationalist, speaking with great ease and readiness, ‘Alter a conversation on general topics he said:— “L think, in fact L know, there ts # political revolu- tion going on among the Germaus all over the Union. Lam convinced that the change iu this potential el ment alone will decide the election in favor of Tilden. There are at least 500,000 German votes in this country, tho overwhelming majority of which went tor Graut, and a still larger majority of which will now go lor Tilden without adoubt. Just look at tro signs, and you can teil yourseit. In number over (wo-thirds, or about 165 out of 240 of ail the German newspapers in the country, support Tilden and oppose Hayes In point of circuiation and real influence, however, these papers tor Tilden represent not two-thirds, but | Uime-temtha of the Germans of this Union. ‘Look at the leading = men ported — the republican party irom the 4 ont until re- cently. There is Judge St doubiedly the most schoiarly and ac the very ablest German in the United States, who made thirty speeches for Fremont in 1356, He is now strougly for Tilden, There is Herman Raster, of Chi- cago, by far the ablogt German journalist of this coun- try and editor of the most inflaentiat German paper of the West. He was a very eflective supporter of Grant in 1872, bat does not support Hayes. There is Mr. Oswald Ovtendorfer, certainly one of the vest and most iniiuential Germans in the — country, Staats = Zeitw in New York 1s ‘There is ex-Governor Mueller, of Obio; Fre rex, of Vineinnati; Mr. August Thieme, of Cle who edits a very influential German newspaper in that city; General Sigel, im New York; ex: rnor Kovr: ner, in Mlinois; kd. Jursen, of Chicago, Schurz’ brother-in-law; Dr. Bauer, in Pittsburg, who edits the jeading paper of that place—who were All radical ro- pabdlicans, who all yoted for Grant and ull now support Tiiden and who are all Jeaders in tions. The fact 18 that the Germans naturally gra’ tate back into the democratic party, to which they belonged before the i#sue of slavery and the war drov them nto the republican ranks. Theso issues, how- ever, being disposed of, they naturally turn against the corruption of the republican and back ito the demo- cratic party. The election and the future will bear out this prediction,” Wishing for an expression on other points I con- tinued our conversation as follows'—"Your receptions in the Hoosier state @ veen largely attended and very enthusiastic?” “Ihave bad large meetings. The people are very much aroused. “How seem your Toutonie (riends?"” “The Germans ato thoroughly worked up. Thero has been a decided change among them, 1 have every indication of the truth of what | say, Ast travel 1 ask and observe, One question I always propound is thie:—"Are there any democrats in this section who will not support Tilden and Hendricks?’ Another is :— ‘Are there any fepablicans who will not support Hayes and Wheeler?’ ‘The answer to the first, save from a few greenonckers, has always been To the second | have beard dozens of republicans openiy de- clare their intention to sdpport Tilden and Liend- ricks."’ “Whore do you find such, sir?” “Everywhere | have been, In some places many, in others teow. &verywhere somebody. in Lawrence- burg of 190 German republicans who voted tor Grant against Grecley seventy-two will now sapport Tilden. Jellersonviilo iormeriy gave a majority of eighty. tt will now be 4,000. Of 400 Germans, turmerly republt- cans, twelve will now vote for Hayes. It is the same in New Albany, The enange seems brought about by the laws of gravitation, being necessary, as it were, fod upon them | base my coutidence of carrying the State,” “With what majority ? “f eannot say. The actual voto will be very much affected by Morton's machinations, his frauds and his (lepeauing.”” IMPORTATION OF NKGRORS. “Where do you imagine this repenting will be dono 1" “A great dealim Indianapolis and along the Ohio by negroes brought over froin Kentucky.” 1 here asked Mr, Pulitzer whethor any positive everybody is cager to read it In ita published form, | | bas been played upon. | nonsenzo that dribbies every week ire evidence of the importation of negroes had been di covered, ewer was:— “There bas, sir; plenty of it, There is no question but what they are now moving. They are given regu- jar employment, but in spite of them and their triends they will not be able to carry the State. The demo- cratic majority may be 25,000, I cannot estimate tor the reasons mentioned. So far as the German element g0es three-fourths of it 1s now democratic.” THR CANDIDATES. “So far as your observation goes, Mr. Pulltzer, how are the candidates regarded by the people t’” “Indiana ig conspicuously an agricultural State, More than half of ber voters are honest farmers who ave all a bigh regard for their ‘Biue Jeans,’ Ihey be- lieve him to be an bonest and honorable gentleman, Dot so cultured and refined as Mr. Harrison, but pecu- larly adapted by reason of his oddities to please tbe masses. He has been tdentified with the agricultural interests of Indiana jor nineteen years or more and is woil known and liked by all farm ed At this point | ventured to suggest Mr. Harrison's main Mr. Pulitzer disposed of him as follows arrison 1s intelligent and all that, bus he Baught to do with agriculture and posses tes which make mon popular with the Blue Jeans has been, so prominentiy identified with farmers that they feel kindly—’’ But Harrison,” suggested I, “‘Harrison cannot overcome the like these blunt and honest fellows feel for Williams. The condemnation of his opponent’s oddities simply endears ihe latter in the aflcctions of these people and assists materiaily ip roil- | sng up his vote” JULIAN. From Harrison and Williams we spoke of Julian, Of him Mr. Pulitzer expressed himself as follow: “Julian’s work has had a very excellent effect in Indiana, because of his advantageous standpoint, His Speeches are able and powerful and his record ts un- useailable, Morton can do nothing with him, Morton forced @ ‘war’ campaign; Morton seeks to put the present under a cloud and trot out the dead past, re Viving things forgotten and jorgiven. This ts bis chief | ammunjtion, but Julian deprives this Knight of the Sorrowiul Figure of his means of assault.” KILPATRICK. Kilpatrick being mentioned Mr. Pulitzer said he had Kilpatrick’s letter to Governor Hayes in his pocket. ths original?” said & “Yes, the same one be wrote to Governor Haves. Let me show it to you,” Mr. Pulitzer hereapon pro- duced the unfortunate letter of Kilpatrick to Governor Hayes It bad a genuine look avout tt, and as 1 gazed on the writing and thought of bow tts genuineness had deen | admitted by the republicans, I could nowhelp but pon- | der over the harm ithas done them among the Tndi- anians, The words, “A bioody shirt campaign with money, dnd Indiana is safe; a iivancial campaign and no money and we are beaten,” stared at me with start- ling vivtduess, They were underscored. This Jeter,” coutinued Mr, Pulitzer, “has been ap- proved by Governor Hayes and his party, neither 80 much as censuring Kilpatrick for’ his imputa- tion upon Indiana, Governor Hayes did not dsre rebuke Kiipatrick, but even allowed him to subsequently speak at Columbus, Olio, near | the Gubernatorial mansion, 1 understand, Is this | proper im a candidate for the Presidency to tail in re- buking Kilpatrick for his shameless imputation upon the good name of the people? 1 say not und so do the masses of Indiana,” “How do the people look upon this matter ?"” “They consider it as very hard to bear They aro alive to the infamy of htipatrick’s remarks, that be- eattse they aro poor and needy they can be bought,” ‘What use have you made of tho leiter?"” ellent, gif, excellent, At Jelfersonville last Saturday night, after I had concluded, Joud cries wore made for something about Kilpatrick.’ I read the let- ter and ag 1 touched on the lines containing the impu- tation loud and angry cries were audible in every direction, Numerous cries wero uttered derogatory to Kilpatrick for his reflection upon the honesty of Indianians, and the general feeling seemed to be ope of bitterness for the little General and his parsy.”” CARL SCHUKZ. “1 understand, M. Pulitzer, that Schurz is deing great good in Indiana?” (Surprised, and speaking with great rapidity)—‘‘Not 80, sir, You are not well posted, [ho grout fleet ox- pected of him has not bech accomplished, Mr, schurz cannot carry any German votes; not one, not even hig own, for bo hasn’t any. Germans are a thoughttul people, They make up their own minds, They love people of stead!ast principles. They have no faith in Schurz, His changeable position bas lost for him all the respect they ever entertained and he can do noth- ing now, How could they feel otherwise for onu who 4s now traducing the party he so zealously upheld four years ago?” 1 answered his question by asking another, fecling that sucn would be the best way to doin tho matter, My query was, ‘+I fail to grasp the true inwardness of your remark that Mr, Schurz has no vote?”’ (A tritle excited)—‘Carl Schurz has no vote, Ho does uot really reside in St. Lonis, His family bas never been there, It is always in tne East—New York generally.” “Will you mect Br, Schurz In joint discussion in Indiana?” (A little exalted and rubbing his palms)—‘I hope so, Ihave challenged him, As yet ny challenge has not Deen accepted, though I think it will be,” A CHAT WITH HENRY WATTERNON, I dropped into Mr. Watterson’s editorial apartments the otber evening. They are as neat and Leautiiul as ever, Mr. Watterson was ongaged with his amanu- ensis, I stated my errand, whereupon he put asido his work, and when I asked him of the political out- look in Indiana he replied :— “As matters stand to-day we havo the State. No- body, however, cun foretell what may happen between this and the 10th of October. ‘Tae republicans are working more desperately, they aro working under a better system, and they have larger moneyed than the democrats. It 18 a life or death Governor Morton, The Indiana republicans aro not enthusiastic for Hayes ladeed, they care very litte about the national contest It is the homo struggle that’ interests them, and they are kept in astate of excitemont by the incendiary appeals of shetr leaders, little and big, inspired by Morton.”” “How about the colonization of voters??? BROWN'S LETTER, “Tho republicans are making much ado about a visit recently made me by Mr. Brown-—Aueuin Brown—ot Indianapolis, Mr. Brown brought a letter of introduc. tion from Governor Hendricks. His note to Governor Hendricks asking for this lettorto mo fell into repub- lican hands, and the republicans seek to baye it appear as an offvet against Kilpatrick’s letter to Hayea, Their assumptions are based. upon surmise exciusively. The case will come up in a court of jastice, where, I shall bo a witness, and where it shall be shown conclusively that Brown’s purpose was the organization of some plan to obstruct, {{ uot to prevent altogether, the colonization of illegal voters. A little reflection will convince any ope that the repub- leans can ilicgally vote three black men to one white | man illegally voted by the democrats On our side the colonization scheme is whotly impracticable. It 1% were | racticable [ should’ oe the jast man to intrust it to, for | should eurely leak out the interesting points and features in next day's Courier-Journal.” “Then you belteve the republicans aro importing nogroes into Indiana to be voted on election day 1”? Mr. Watierson turned and laid bis hand upon a pile of letters, “i know it,” be answered, ‘and ero are the proofs, These letters came from various parts of Kentucky. They are {ull of specific information.’ there no way 40 stop this?” “We are doing What we can to stop it; dnt, neces- sarily, she most energetic action on our part must bo | defective, lt isn’t casy to follow acatbird through a worm fence. This colonization business is something in that way, @ sort of nigger-in the-wood-pile affair.” “What about your picket tine along the entire Indi- ana-Kentucky river font?” ‘Oh, that,” answered Mr. Watterson, Jaughing, ‘is one of the humors of the canvass. I thought it ‘sounded’ well, and would respond to the martiai ardor of the other side. The tmagiiary boys on the picket line baye had some oxcitingiy cheertul adventures, have played some awiui funny games of mumble-ihe- peg, and bave drank whole hogsheads of comical and | inflammable blue lick. Lt-arouses them and keeps up a lively ang healthful flow of patriotic seusuments That ts all.” THE BLOODY sminT, “What influence ts the bloody shirt having in the Westr” “All that passion, muisrepresentation and_miscon- ception can exert upon willing partisans. There are honest men in the North who renily believe that there i# an essential difference between the Northern and Southern people; justas there are good people in the South who would be unhappy if they ‘supposed the sections peopled by the same race. This objectionable species of provincialism is pure ignorance. Bat it may be played upon, bas been played upon; is, and always Just now tt 1s profitable tor the republionn leaders to play upon it. One who knows that human nature is the same the worid pver, on o whose personal intercourse has impressed upon him in popular features the family likeness, #0 10 say, among Northorn and Southern men, must be disgusted with the drivel of such statesman as my kinsman, Stanley Matthews, and tho hike, puitng, bumbogging mn the pen of my friend Joe Harper's tried, George William Curtis, TIMER DILATTANTY think they are wiee in their generation. Uanity they resemble Tom Kwing in finauce, They be- Neve they hove discovered the philosopher's stone. If | one should tell them they are making themselves par. ties to a gigantic frand they would laugh. Both of them have disnuesed our appeals to them on behalf of mod- eration as the enuneiations of a prejudiced mind, Yet for clvven years | have stood between the negro and trouble in the Soath; have been tis true and stoadtast Iriend; have many atime risked my iife upon my opinions; am to-day recognized by ali the lending and itelligent men of the South as aman to be trusted where thoir rights and interests are coteerned; re- ceived all of their votes at the recent election, and ean at this moment beat any republican in Kentucky two to one for the same vote. What have Matthows and Curtis done? Nothing except to pursue the phantoms of their jmner consciousness—saloly and ationg range. It t# so with the rest, The trail of the serpent is over them all, They care nothing about the poor bine, It is iheir bitter, wnrelenting hatred of the Southern whites—of those whot, for some secret cause of gricf of their own, they would coutinne to punish, This instigates their irrelgious aod ungener- ous zeal in the cause of suet uemagogues as Morton and such = mountebanks as — Logan, It {* the snme with thousands of Northern book. worms. They coddlo their prejidiecs from year to your, nursing thelr wrath to keep arm. To be sure they’ have theit intluence; nnd the Mortons aud the Logans, in the interest of themselves, along with the Packaris ond the Spencers, make ase ot i to excite and eajole the apletiered fools whose polit! sus. tenance ts noise and chai. Thoy furnish a sort of ruffle to the bioody shirt.” “But what effect will all this haye upon the elee- tlon 7"? “It Hayes 18 elected he will owe his election to the ‘bloody shirt’ The republican managers anderstand this. Along the entire republican line, therefore, bot the Souch. Itt the old, In Chris. | emanding foderal re the same fight hing to beat th the war, and so THRY PORCE ‘A SOLID souTH! by proscription, Toon they uso their own acs asa pretext to punish tne victims of their unwise and wicked policy.”” “What is to be'the end of it?” “Sometimes I fancy tae bloody shirt will tarn out a shirt of Nessus to the republican party. You remoeme ber the fable? Nessus’ shirt was a bloody shirt and proved the death of Hercules. Turn over the pages of your heathen mythology—not more heathonism than the” record of this Vresidential canvass—and when jound stick a p' You will discover there several suggestive analogies,” “Im what relation to thia does Governor Huyes stand 1” “Oh, Hayes!” and tho editorial Congressman, who d spoken with unusual earnestness, laughed again. Why, Hayes is merely a brass pin in the ruffle of the blondy shirt”? “How is he as to the Grant set?” “Simply a fresh ben on the old post of rotten and rotting eggs.” Heat ae know him ?”? “Weill, i've met him. fle’s a poor stick, one of the Hamilton county set of spivelling hypocrites grown up under the instruction of tho innati schoo! of jour- Jism and religion, Old Lyman Beecher begot the vem, Henry Ward is one of is enlargements, Bue they are all ofa kind; when they are not Philistines Like Halstead, they are Pharisees, like Plympton and? Sain Reid. Ghio will never rise to ber true stature until she puts Ler foot on the species. There :s good hope that she will do so this very autumn,” “You don’t include Sayler and Banning in the cate- gory?" “‘T-don’t include anybody but the canting set I havo referred to. Sayier aud Banning are ax good men as may be found abywhere. There are tens of thousands of such men in Ohio.” THE SPEAKRRSHIP. “Will Sayler be elected Speaker?” “He may be; but then you know there are Sam Cox and Ciyiner who are candidates,” “How about yourself? ey Mr. Wattersou laughed again. “Away down the list, pretty nearly foot, | showid say. There's one of my Kentucky colleagues already in the fleld, and likely to carry off the honors; I mean Blackburn, of the Ashland district, He actually presided the greater part of lust session. His claim 18 his morits as a presiding officer, Seriously, as far as myself, that is not to be thought of—is altogether out of question,” You are not a candidate, then??? There never was but one maa hip immediately on entering the and be was a failure, is a place which, like man’s horse, bas but two qualities; 118 very tocaich, and 1 8 not worth having alter itis partieniarly the coming short session, and to which no patronage or power is attached, but plenty of work and a poor show fer praise, ‘For mysert I want nothin, lL mean to press a measure of interna. tional copyright, and at the Jaie meeting of the super jutendents of bind asylums a bil relaung to th particular interests was prepared and placed in my hands whieh I shail urge upon tue House, In other respects I shall be merely a looker-on in Vienna,” “1 Hayws is elected what do you expect ?”” “Four years more of stealing and tinkering, with another bloody shirt campaign at the end of them.’ “What, Tilden 1s elected #”” IP TILDEN 1S KLECTED, “A break in of the old rents; a general level up of parties; commercial, financial and political move. ment; the government minding its own business; the sections washing their dirty linen ut home; reviving trate, reviving prosperity and good will; better temper and better times every whero; the best elements of political soviety xathering about an adminisiration Whose ambition and purpose will be the reform of the finances, the civil service and the several federal departments.” Mr. Watterson, glancing at his desk, I hastened to close our chat, taking time, however, to get ina tinal i gatory. It was Brig about Carl ‘The answer was :— dead.” ANTIETAM’S ANNIVERSARY, ep, weep; like Lyctdas, bo ia THE BATTLE SUNDAY OF FOURTEEN YEARS AGO—MEMORIZS OF THE TIME THAT TRIED MEN'S PATRIOTISM. At daylight on Sunday morning the 17th of Septem. ber, 1862, Major General Joo Hooker began the battle of Antietam, General McClellan being in command of the Union army, and General Lee in command of the Confederate forces. The battle was fought on a spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the result on that Sabbath evening aiter the terrible engagement of tha day, in which 200,000 troops had participated and to which 500 pieces of artillery had contributed, was the most cheering tor the Union arms that had taken place during the war up to that date, Yesterday was the fourteenth anniversary of that glorious victory won at the cost of so mach blood, and many of the lit- Ue children who toddied through the streets of the metropolis on tho succeeding Monday morning with schoo! books under their arms have sinco arrived at manhoou’s or at womanhood’s estate. That great bate ue which retired the veterans of Leo beyond their usual boundary, the Potomac, carried combined sorrow and joy to many a Northern houschold, and dark despair to, thousands of Southern homes. anniversary of the battic of Harlem Piains on Sature day last, which was a mero skirmish in comparison with the bioody feld of Antietam, called forth many almost forgotten reminiscences among shy many vei- erans in this city who had om that memorable day pressed up the wooded heights atter fighting their way ineh by inch across the deep fords of Anticlam creek to face the rebel fire on the South Mountain, To many of these now middio-aged veterans 14 seomed asiftt wero but yesterday that they were sweeping by Porter's corpa held in reserve, with the light of battle in their be- grimmed faces to dash at their joes. Hundreds of th brave men who Were on the day succeeding the battle interred in “Maryland clay,’? as the poet has sang t iett behind them dear ones, who yesterday mourne: their worth aud sorrowed over the memories evoked by the anniversary. Those who were youthiul then, and who day after day listened to the drumbeats going down Broadway in the van of departing regi. ments, can hardiy recal! the teclings that possessed their elders, who through the newsp rs oflices hun- ing for, another despatch or a word of additional choer trom victorious + “LITTLE MAC'S" ARMY, Among the old soldiers in the city the great battlo was fought over yesterday in the places where most they are in the havit of congregating, aad history was repeated as they spoke of the death of gatiant Reno, of the hardibood of “old Bull Sumner,”’ of the desperate combats ail that dread day made by Meagher’s brigade of tery Ceits, of the steady, persistent bravery o old hero Mansfeld, who lost his life; of Joo Hooker away at the frout wounded, and still hammering at th lines of gray injantry, and of a bundred incidents em- balmed wauie life lasts in the hearts of men “whose ewords are now rutt,and whese souls will ono day be with the saints, we trusy?? It was the first red, undebatable success of the Union troops; succeeding so manyideteats It was joy for those who had despaited of the Republic alter the bioouy day of ihe second Mannasses and who had bo- heid with dismay the shameiul surrender at Harper's Ferry to Stonewall Jacksou by General Miles’ divistun, Among the mei of the day were iis trophies thirteen guns, thirty-nine stand of colors and 6,000 prisoners, who were graspod by stout hands in the smoke and buraen of the fighw The North rose to the situation at” onee; Maryinnd, — through its Governor, —_ thanke: McClellan (8r the expulsion of the too from within ite boundaries, and five days alterward Avraham Lincoln fsened the proclamation which made 4,000, ot human begs tree and uushackied ther iimbs for ever, The week following the fighting around forts of Antictan’s deep creek wos most memorable 19 the history of tho nation, Kighty thousands troops in the State of Pennsyivan: ded to ite Governor's call for asstsiance, and never after, excepting at @ tysburg, did the vecerans of the Army ot Virgi traverse Northern soil in whole battalions. MeCleliai was culogized everywhere tor his defeat of Leo, and yet these were events progressing at the time unseea by the people, which deprived nim of his command and transferred it to the hands 6f those who lived to see Lee’s surrender under the apple tree at niattox. In tus city there were various soctal gathers ings last evening, ond the veterans ome of the New York regimenis gathered around the festive board to pledge the daye over again and to epeak with deep revs erence of the dead who had died that the nation might live. TWENTIETH REGIMENT VETERANS. The Veteran Association of the Twentieth regiment of New York Volunteers celebrated the anatver- sary of the battle of Aptiotam last night af their headquarters, southeast corner of Broome aad Eldridge etreots. Two long tables, stretch. ing the entire length of the large meet ing room on the third floor of the building, were laid, and about 100 men who had passed through tha battles and suifered the bardsbips of the two frst yeard of (he war sat down at halt-past etght o'clock to enjoy themselves, tell tho old, old. story o'er agar of dangers ast, and t0 recall the memories of many an old cou ratio left on the battie Held. The walls of the room were decorated with Ainerican shields, on which were inseribed the names of the fallen heroes of tha regiment, ‘fhere were also a number of shietla on which the baties in which the regiment articipated were wseribed. Among them werd Hampton, Angust 7 1861; Hatteras, August . 156; Noriolk, May 9, 1862; Savage Statio dune 20, 1862 Swamp, June 80, 186%; Sout Mountain, September 14, 1862; Antietam, September 17, 1862; first Fredericksburg, December 14, 1862; Fredorwksburg, May 3, 1863, and May's Heights, May 4, 1863 Captain Henry Kiober presided over the meeting and @pened the pro. ceedings with a neat spoech, thanking — all for their preseneo and broponiing ‘@ tongt to their fetlow comrades, This was ing ard in silence. The Veterans’ singing suctoty: sul “Lt Is the Lord's Own Day.” Mr, bog aie ous “All the Veterans of the Late accompaniment, which cou ef tho glass around th the hips with ATth of Septomper, 187% by the singing socwty. The toast, ‘of the Twentieth,’ was offered aid spoken to by Commander Thurges, and then a “you eran,” eight years of mee, Fecited ft ing of ur Union.” After we ular Dros. me was got through ry and occupied the Uli the early hours of ths morning, and olf comrades parted with orders to meet again om The celebration of tho hundredth ~ oA