Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1866-09-25
ON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADV ERTIsER
Douglas Monument---Laying Of the Corner
Stone--Address Of the President. +.

Douglas Monumen t--Laying of the Corner
Stone--Address Of the President.
The first course of the proceedings was the
brief but appropriate address of Mayor Rice.
The Masonic Grand Master of Illinois, j. r.
Gavin, appeared in front of the stand and de-
livered short, touching, and eloquent address,
in which he paid a glowing tribute to the mem
DRY. Of the departed and illustrious deceased,
both as friend and as Mason, and referred
to the fact that statue will be placed on the
monument visible to the voyagers of this inland
sea as long as starlight and sunbeams love to
dance on its crested pillows.
The Grand Chaplain then invoked divine
blessings upon the ceremonies, when the cere-
| mOny OF laying the cornerstone took place ac-
cording to the Masonic ritual
| After blessing with corn, wine, and oil, the
| stone was lowered into place. amid the firing of
guns and impressive dirges from the various
bands of music. 1888.
! The Grand Master congratulated those as
sembled on the fact that there was present no
less parsonage than the President of the Uni
| ted States, with the distinguished head of the
| departments, and who was, as he had heard and
| believed, member of the Masonic fraternity.
| This remark was applauded by the clapping of
hands, i = i.
Prayer was then delivered by the Rev. w.
A. Milburn Of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
when the orator Of the day, Major General Dix
addressed the assemblage; after which the
and delivered the following brief address:
FELLow-CITIzENs II have travelled over
eleven hundred miles after having been invited
to attend the ceremonies of laying the corner
stone OF the monument to be erected. [ will
say, my friends, personally and politically, that
In accepting the invitation to be present on this
occasion it was for the purpose of leaving the
testimony of my high regard for man who
persisted in the public service, and one whom [
respected and loved. [Cheers. I have no
eulogy to pronounce. That has been done bet
ter than | could do it, and it will be handed
down and placed in the possession of all who
| the distinguished individual who is now no
more. Applause. Some men may wear the
/ civic wreath which the nation weaves for those
who serve their country In lofty positions, or
| their names may be engraved upon the imper-
! ishable records Of national glory. This column
is reared to the memory of the legislator and
the representative man. A consciousness of
| duty performed was his while living, and his
reward will be the inscription of his name high
on the Cenotaph erected by grateful nation to
commemorate the services Of those who lived
and toled for their people and the union of the
States. Immense applause.
Fellow-citlzens, L believe in my heart that it
we could communicate with the dead and cause
them to know what was transporting on earth
were it possible for Stephen A. Douglas to be
disturbed from his slumber, he would rise from
his grave, shake off the habiliments of the
tomb, and proclaim: s'The Constitution and
the Union-they must be preserved" Great
lapplause.
AT the conclusion of the Presidents remarks
a long address was delivered by Secretary Sc
ward.
Mr.. Jos. j. White, of Henrico county, Va,
having been appointed a delegate to the mis-
called Southern Loyalists' Convention which
assembled in Philadelphia on the 3rd inst has
written letter indignantly repudiating the
whole concern, from which the following is an
extract: $3.50 ss6 50 sf
''To those to whom am known, it is need
less for me to say anything ON this subject but
to others [ would state that I utterly despise
the handful of disunionists at Alexandria, and
also the principles Of that party (f principles
they have) the representatives Of which con-
vened at Philadelphia to-day-parasites upon
the body-politic, generated by the political I'M
cleanliness of the present unworthy Congress,
who are now defling the places once honored
by American statesmen.
u
who hail from my native State have no Ian
guage to express my Indignation. Ephraim
is joined to his idols; let him alone" Beiev-
ing sirs, that the principles as set forth by the
Conservative Convention at Philadelphia, if
properly carried out, will perpetuate this Coy
eminent, and that my beloved and venerable
mother, Virginia, with her heroic sister States,
will be permitted to regain those places in the
national councils they once made SO eminently
glorious, [ shall heartily support them. On
the other hand, believing that the success Of
the disruption of this Union, or the cause Of
another revolution l shall most heartily use my
humble influence against it.
NED BUNTLINE. ~ esterday I met a man
whose name has been before the public, and
VIGOROUSLY He once possessed noble intel
lect Z; but, alas he is now but a remove from a
brute. [ speak off. z. G. Judson, alias Ned
Buntline. His had been wonderful career,
and vice ever tend otherwise? A sailor, soldier,
author, duellist, murderer and drunkard-he
excelled in all. No better sailor ever sailed a
ship; splendid swordsman; his was the pen
that only genius yields; dead shot, he has
4 fought and killed his man according to the
/ Code Z; a murderer-you remember the case OF
poor Porterfeld at Nashville. A hard fate
indeed--a wife seduced, and the husband to die
by the hand of the seducer Judson is drunk
ard now-the vilest of the vile-and the wreck
4 of man. A wretched, homeless vagabond.
And such is ever the fate of those whose gifts
of intellect are perverted from their high and
noble purposes. -Neao York Correspondence
The BoTEToURT HoMIcIDE.-A man by the
name of Compert has been arrested and com
mitted to jail in Botetourt, charged with being
an accomplice in the homicide of young Bates
by George Langhorne Compert is the man in
whose employ Bates was at the time of the
i killing.
A very different version of the affair, from
that published by the Valley Virginian, as far
as Langhorne is concerned has been given us
by very intelligent and reliable gentleman
The circumstances as detailed by this gentle
man, show that the sentiment in the Virginian
was incorrect in all its essential particulars, ex-
cept as to the fact of slight encounter having
taken place between Bates and Langhorne, and
tend very strongly to direct suspicion to another
party as the one from whom the murdered man
received the blows which caused his death
| Lynchbau.y Neaos.
The Washington correspondent of the Rich
mond E:canaaqer says:
eve leran from the South that many consid-
crate and intelligent people are Respondent of
the future. 1t must be observed, however.
that no strong foothold is left for the Radicals
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