Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-05-17
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY EVl

both sides were crowded, mostly with
ladies. His whole progress was greeted
with cheers and waving OF handker'
chiefs.
The interview between Mr.. Davis and
his wife, and counsel and their friends,
who were frst admitted to their rooms,
is spoken of as very touching. The
company Joined in prayer, which Was
offered by the Episcopal clergyman under
whose administration the Davis family
sat during the Confederate Presidency.
In the afternoon Davis held an informal
levee, and for two hours or more his
parlor was crowded by the people Of
Richmond, all secessionists Of any note
being present. He is also receiving
friends this evening He advised his
brother in Mississippi this afternoon that
he should visit New York Immediately.
From thence it is understood that be
will 90 to Canada, where his children are,
ualess he determines to have them meet
him in New York. After seeing them he
will return to Mississippi. His friends
announce that he will live as quiet and
secluded as possible during the summer
and fall. 10 aalhiI flalt
The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial says: -...rr.
When the court called for those in
tending to 60 bail, Horace Greeley, who
was present all the while, rose amid loud
murmurs of satisfaction by all present,
and walked around to where Davis was
sitting with his counsel, shook hands with
him, and announced himselfas one of the
bondsmen. Mrs. Davis was notin court.
The arrangement of the snreties was
then commenced, each one walking up
to the clerks desk and signing his name.
They,are for $4,000 each, as follows:
Horace Greeley, Augustus Schell,
Charles 0'Connor, of New York; W. II.
Mcfarland, Richard Burton, - Hax-
all, Isaac Davenport, Thomas R. Cruise,
Abram Warwick, Horace Clark, Henry
Welch, David X. Jackson, Gustayus A,
Meyers, William W. Crump and James
Thomas, ofRichmond, Virgins; William
Allen John Minor Bolts, Thomas W..
boswell, Thomas r. Price.
The court then commanded the mar
shall TO relesse the prisoner, which was
done amid cheering and congratulations.
The community appear delighted at
the result, and Greeley could be now
easily elected to any position within the
gift of the denizens Of Richmond, IiH3
Wonders Of California---The Geysers.
The Geysers of California are une-
qualed among the hot springs of the
world. They are reached by steamer
across the bay from San Francisco to
Petaluma thence by stage for about
fifty miles, over one of the finest farming
regions Of the State From Foss station
"a tavor;.c resort among the mountains
the Geysers areEawelve miles distant,
and are reachedSby wild, romantic
road. For two miles it winds along the
Hogbark, . mountain summit like the
ridge pole of a steep roof. 1t has been
leveled until barely wide enough for car
riage wheels, and on each side one locks
down precipitous banks for one or two
thousand feet. If the wheels diverged
ten inches from the track the load of
passengers would reach the bottom much
in the condition OF bushel of apples
after passing through cider mill. "
The ridges display the dense shrubbery
of the manzineia or mountain mahoga-
ny, upon whose red juicy berries grizzly
loears subsist, and travellers quench their
thirst; the strongly spiced bay or pepper
wood, which has the virtue of driving
away heas, and the exquisite madrona
with round fruit tasting like the dried
thimbleberry. Here bears and antelopes
offer great temptations to hunters.
The roar of the Geysers is heard, and
their smoke seen two miles away, in
favorable conditions of the atmosphere.
After being whirled along road which
pitches down sixteen hundred feet, with
thirty five sharp turns in two miles, the
visitor finds himself in a narrow valley,
viewing hundreds of steamjets putting up
from the ground They are chiefly 10
ravine half mile long, known as the
Devils Canon. Steep walls rise from
fifty to one hundred and fifty feet, bare,
spougy, ashley, clayey soil, without the
fainteSt sign of grass or shrub There
are fully one thousand places where
steam issues from the soil. Hot water
often bubbles up above the surface; but
much more startling and impressive is
the boiling tCithin hundreds Of cavities
under ground. One feels that only the
hmsiest she'll protects him from some
vast subterranean cauldron At times
the ground vibrates so as to rattle crock
cry in the hotel one-third of mile
away. Hot, cold and boiling springs are
found side by side, each with its own in
dividual hue-blue, brown, black, red,
green, yellow, pink, or gray. Their con
stituents vary greatly, though soda, mag
nesia, epson salts and various salts of
iron predominate. r.1
In passing up the canon the visitor
burns bis fingers and receives sitting
blasts from natural hot furnaces He
must be cautious where he steps, unless
he would break through the crust into
some of the seething pools below. Steam
boat Spring is grandest of all. Ii has no
water, but consists entirely of steam
putting through an aperture as large as
the body of man, with roar like
great steamship, the column rising up
for hundreds Of feet The vent holes
are two springs, few feet apart, which
will boil an egg in a minute and halt,
and from which the steam escapes with
great force. A stone as large as man S
fist thrown into one Of then, rebounds
three or four feet, like an India rubber
ball.
These springs are numerous for six
miles along the Pluton river; and travs-
lers declare that they far surpass the
famed Geyssrs of Iceland They. are
not volcanic but result from chemical
action. The smell Of birthstone, the
kissing steam, throbbinT waters, and un-