The Evansville journal., 1869-06-22
The Great Peace Jubilee.


For the Journal.l
Boston, June 17-10, PM.
The seventeenth day Of June, the
anniversary Of the battle Of Bunker
Hill, is a Boston holiday. The stores
are usually closed on that occasion,
and work pretty generally suspended.
This year it has been observed with
unusual interest, because of the
Peace Jubilee. with which it comes
in couDection. The city is dressed in
holiday attire, and, the weather being
delightful, not only all Of Boston, but
all Of Massachusetts,, a good part OF
the New England States. aud a pretty
considerable slice Of New York, seem
to be crowded into the narrow and
crooked streets. Were it not for the
Common and the Public Garden,
which give space for the people to
spread out and get fresh air, it would
be almost impossible for them to
breathe in the narrow and crooked
streets with which Boston is afflic
AS it is, the streets are thronged to
sufication, in addition to the masses
which FIJI the public parks.
The Peace Jubilee is also the jubi-
lee of showmen. Every State in the
Union appears to be represented in
that department, as in the musical
festival Baby shows, double headed
negroes, fve-legged, and two-tailed
and double-uddered cows, jumping
jacks, organs by the acre, not includ-
ing the Big Organ, are found on every
square, and at every corner, while the
Common is thronged with venders Of
every conceivable kind Of trinket aud
bauble. Long telescopes point to the
skies, inviting the passer to look and
learn, and confectionery of every de-
scription tempt the palate. Suci =
medly of scientific. silly and indigesti-
BILE articles and materials were never
before crowded into one place. and
Boston itself, no doubt, never saw
the like before. But the people are
in fine spirits aud keep duly sober.
They bear the jostling and crowding
In most excellent humor. The motto
of all is Let US have Peace" and
no one seems disposed to break the
peace, however much they may en-
danger their lives to preserve it. This
unfailing good humor is very neces-
sary, for frequently things occur to
sorely try. the patience. But the
Peace Jubilee is the distinctive fea-
ture for consideration.
The readers Of the JOURNAL have
already been favored with full de-
scription of the Coliseum. They
have read how long, how wide and
how high it is in feet and inches. But
this description conveys no more idea
of the interior Of the building to a
person who never saw-it than the Civ
ing Of the height OF mountain and
the distance around its base eonxeys
an intelligent idea Of its outlines and
sublimity to one who never saw a
mountain; OF the stating in miles the
width Of the ocean and It's depth in
fathOms affords n clear conception oil
its magnitude and grandeur to one
who never stood upon the beach anC
looked far out upon its rolling bill
lows. Standing upon any one o
the galleries aud looking out over tn,
Coliseum, its bigness is felt as it eau
not be intelligently described. TIL,
reporters of the New York paper
have endeavored to ridicule the who'll
affair, but have only exhibited thei
own littleness of spirit and city jeal
Ousy, without at all affecting thos,
who have the pleasure of witnessing
the concerts for themselves.
The first thing that attracts a stran
ger-especially if he be from tn
West and accustomed to the hap
hazard way of doing things out there
is the perfect order which everywher,
prevails in and about the building
The system is most admirable. Larg
QGbdlAS VI pOAlCG udNG bSGA assigned
to the building and its surroundings
and promptly check the least mani
festation Of disorder. The varieu
committees have also so matured thei
work that they experience no diff
Guilty in disposing Of the various mat
ters coming before them. The Pres
arrangements, under the direction Q
Mr.. S. r. NILES, the Advertisin
Agent, are all that can be desired, S
far as your correspondent can SEE
he Is prompt and attentive, and an
swers all questions readily and salts
factorily. Ushers in large number
swarmed in every part of the CoGseur
this afternoon, and escorted visitor
to their seats without delay or conf
sion. The builiing is divided I'M
sections. in both parquet and ga
leries, and the sections-and seats
them-numbered. Each ticket COZ
tanned the number of the SCI
and the section, as we'll as Il
particular wing of the building. c
entering the door, the visitor was M
by an usher and directed from ush
to usher, until his seat was secure