Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-07-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

tie Star are aware tnet IL mas oA"sys sos i~
face against the so-calIed progress Of the
tines in matters appertaining to the reli-
eious. moral and social relations of society.
II has done so because its conductor, knows
we'll the class Of people at the North who are
at the bottom of the various societies and
schemes for setting up mans passions and
prejudices above and beyond the Word of Life,
as guide for mans conduct-because we
know them to be unsafe guides in affairs either
temporal Of eternal A correspondent Of the
New York Ezprsss, Who not long since trav-
eled with the lot of item Hho made Vermont
hideous by enacting scenes and Sstefing senti-
ments at "reform" convention in that 1trte,
pictures their peculiarities and specialities SO
graphically that we cannot resist the tempta-
ton to use his letter by way of exhibiting them
in their true colors and proportions to the Stars
readers: r. .'"'
0sI left New York on Wednesday evening, the
23d ult. The steamer Commodore brought me,
in company with about one hundred refOTMerS
(self styled in the short space Of ten hours to
Troy. The about-to-be actors In the then ap-
preaching Convention readily and fully posted
me In respect to the theories they held, and the
so called measures of reform to which they were
committed. Mrs. Branch, the fres-love cham
pion was of our boats company, and freely and
intelligently, as fanaticaily, and unbecomn.ly
to the delicacy, good sense and refinement
which, in the past, have characterized her, enun-
ciated her doctrine Of intellectual moral and
sexual " affinitism.n She gave in outline wi at
she afterwards gave fully in convention. She
declared matrimony to be the means of degrad-
ing and enslaving women, and deteIiorating the
race; insisting that, for herself, she would never
again submit to il; that her sex ought to strike
blow for freedom by Tepudiating il; that the
sexes, instead Of being held in relationship bv
legal ties, should cohese by the principle of
mutual q nifty, or love, and remain in alliance
while so held, and then and so long only; that
woman should not otherwise assume the respOn-
sibilities of maternity. aud that she should al
ways be free to choose when, and by whom, she
Will become a mother.
"Spiritualism was represented by at.vSsstes al
bold, and more generally known. Andrew Jack
son Davis and his wife were prominent types.
Bloomefism and Woman's r ig htism were there
in Miss Crane; and Abolitionism, and the ''isms''
generally, among others, in Mrs Rose, the Swede,
who, like some English, some Scotch and some
Irish in the same company, has come to America
10 illuminate our darkness, and lead with
the advancing spirit of the age.
IL was humilieting to look upon, as IL was Gu
rious and painful to hear the discussions of the
crowd of extravaganZas in company with whom
1 was n discontentt d, dissatisfied gathering of
one idea and no idea fanatics-nearly all grossly
iDtidel TelIgiOusly-was there, each Individual ia
which claimed to be par e1celteHttB of the en-
lig htened, having the mission to teach and all
nearly blind, as they together were, professedly
engaged in the work of endeavoring to lead the
blind into the light and way of truth felt for
my country as contemplated that intdel group,
on mission TO brin. OF hers into that darkness of
error in which themselves were cropping ard
felt for the sons and daughters Of my native
State, as though how the soil upon which our
honored fathers most nobly trod was to be pol
luted by the tread of so great a fanaiical infdeI
tn ong and how their cbildren's ears were to be
polluted, aud their hearts corrupted by the word
and so-called teachings of such miserable error
ists.n
The WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.-The head
ings in the eighth tunnel on the Washington
Aqueduct met during the past month, so that
there are now eight tunnels through which a
man can walk, and three more remain uRfn-
ished, but are in progress.
Of the aqueduct proper, the masonry con-
duit, six miles are finished, and the remaining
six and half miles are under contract, to be
finished by first December, and are so far ad
vanced that no doubt is entertained by the
that they will succeed in compile
ting their work by the stipulated time.
The first, second, and third bridges are so
far advanced that it is not doubted that they
will be completed by the first December. The
others are in hand, and will be completed in
time.
The receiving reservoir will be in readiness
to be filled by the middle or end OF August.
The contractor for pipe laying is now at work,
laying the twelve-inch main, all of which has
been received from the contractors, Messrs
Starr, of Camden, N. j. 1t will reach from
the reservoir to the Navy Yard and to Green
leafs Point. A large force will be put upon
the pipe trenches as soon as the excessive heat
moderates a little.
There is no doubt Of this main being ready
by LIST December next, and in the first days of
that month those in charge confidently expect
to be able to show a fountain in the Capitol
grounds supplied from the receiving reservoir,
at the Little Falls.
1t will take another year to complete one of
the large bridges and tunnel near the Great
Falls These done, the full supply from the
Potomac can be introduced.
An AGREEABLE AND INTERESTING LETTER
From the MonHtdiHs-Route through Soufh-sids
Of Prgtnia-Learing Lynehbnrg Peaks of
OHer-Grnnd Scene,y-1h. CTOpS-Ths rari-
GUS Watering Places, &c. &c.
MONTGOMERY WHITE SULPHUR SPRIxes,)
July 7, 1858.
NV last letter was written two DAYS ago, at the
billy city of LynchbuTg. remained there until
d SANeN p M CS"eS'uogB "hVh Il tooh seat IN
the comfortable and elegant cars Of the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad, and soon left Lynch
burg, its hills and mills; its canals and depots
its houses and people, far behind me. b..
On passing out Of the city, could but notice
the grand and beautiful scenery that skirts the
railway and encloses the town; and then, to show
how suddenly mans ideas may descend from
the sublime to tie i'd iculous, Or rather from the
awful in nature to the useful in art my attention
was arrested by an empty water bucket descend
ing from house, some hundred yards or more on
the right, to spring at the foot OF the railroad
em6ankment, and then ascending, filled with
water, In the short space Of less than minute.
These spring telegraphs are fine things TO have
w hlIly country, and especially when, as I'm this
case case, hcreek nows between the spring and the
In lew moments we rushed into a tunnel I
heaid FINALE voice pipe shriil note but nv
the time the piper had gotten IL well out the train
PAD passed through the tunnel, and she became
srisnPd there was no cause of alarm
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