Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1866-06-28
From Cincinnati.
Correspondents Of the Journal.l
CrNcINNArI, June q. SO


8 j have said so much upon the SUBJ
ject of the exceedingly hot weather
in my late letters, that / dare not
make ANYTHING more than mere al
lusion TO it to-day. The subject is
one on which every body here has
most intense feelings, and it natural
ly crops out in q letter.
Hot as it is, people manage TO hive
on engrossed with their ordinary
cares, pursuits and amusements.-
Even the Opera House movement
does not seem to lag or loose any OF
its interest, although it has been con-
tinually agitated and discussed in all
its various phases, since the destruc-
ton of Pixies.
The places of amusen nent, such as
the Helmar- r-Juvenile-so they call
themselyes-Opera Troupe, Negro
Minstrells at the Academy of Music,
occasional performances of various
characters at Melodeon Hall, hold
their nightly sories to perspiring
audiences, that still persevere In their
devotions to Momus. With the close
of the various schools. the little folks
are happily rushing off to visits to
country relations. Soon the old
folks will follow, and the city be de-
serted, at least so says Madame Fash
ion. The various soldiers and sail
ors societies are preparing for q
grand demonstration on the 4th of
July, which will undoubtedly resultin
grand parade, fireworks and score
or so of desperate cases of sun
stroke, with the usual patriotic con-
sumption of cooling beverages.
We had with us last week for
short time, two men whose names
the late war has rendered household
words throughout onr whole coun-
try-Grant and Sherman. Contra-
ry to the usual American custom that
finds expression in public receptions,
speech making, suppers, parades,
and general ovation giving, our peo-
pie suffered these visitors to come
and 90 without the exceeding great
bore of the eternal hand shaking, that
Dickens so Indignantly ascribes to us
as nation, in his Martin Cknzzleaci
In this awfully-I mean the word in
all its intensity of meaning-this AR
fully hot weather, such an infiiction
would be too much for even the stern,
powerful men of war to endure.
They came to us in plain citizens
dress, with nothing to indicate their
being aught but quiet, peace loving,
Quaker like, middle aged gentlemen.
Glorious as is our Republic, its great
est glory is in this fact: that our
great military and civic rulers lay
aside the trappings of place and au-
thority, and readily become az one
of the humblest of the people, find
ing their proudest title after all, to
be that of q citizen of the Republic.
The two Generals held a long pri-
Vate conversation in The same parior
at the Burnet House, in which long
ago, they met and devised the plan
of the greatest and closing campaign
of the war; each going hence to his
assigned field of duty. What they
discoursed and decided upon this
time, of course is not known. Ger
tain it is that with thankful hearts
we can know that it was no plan for
fearfully bloody campaigns, seiges
and battles.
THE NEGRO CHURCH AGAIN.
1 find IN a morning paper OF this
week the following item in reference
to the negro raid upon sristocracy,
OF which l wrote to you:
yesterday Messrs. Tabbs, Gross
and Peter H. Clark, purchased of
Messrs Smith, Winters & Co, the
vacant lot on Seventh street, between
Elm and Plum, paying the sum of
So, 800 for it. The lot Is So feet by
$50 feet deep. Messrs. Gross and
Clark say that it is proposed TO com
mence the building of the church at
once; but it is supposed they are ex-
pecting to be bought off by the gen
tlemen residing in the neighbor-
hood" The gentlemen in the neigh
borhood, however, seem to be taking
the matter very coolly, in spite of the
present outrageously warm weather,
and seem willing to bide the issue of
the matter quite unconcernedly, now
that their first horror of the innOya.
ton has somewhat subsidized. In the
the colored congregation
insist upon it that they intend TO
build, and that the lot is not for sale,
and that nearly all the money to pay
the necessary expenses is raised;
some of it having been subscribed
by acltite citizens, on condition that the
church is bnilt on the aforesaid lot. I
Items appear ir the papers in refer /
ence to the matter, headed "Aristo- !
cratic Africans" and the whole mat !
ter is looked upon as an exceeding 1
good joke upon somebody.
Moved by the vigorous efforts of
our grand jury and Prosecuting At
sorney, the soap-fat nuisances spoken
1f in my last seems to be leaving us.
Fines were imposed on a number Of
he proprietors this week, with or /
lers to abate the evil, and we hope /
Ioon TO breathe the unpolluted air of
Heaven in all its purity. =
CRASSUS. 7
EE IL is stated that Indpe Thomas