Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-20
For the Spirit of the Age.
Visit TO the Worlds Peace Jubilee.
COLISEUM, Boston. June 18th, 1872.

Visit to the Worlds Peace Jubilee.
COLISEUM, BOSTON, June 18th, 1872.
Instead of coming down to Boston
alone as | expected from the beauti.
ful village of Woodstock, had with
me four young gentlemen with whom
| was accompanied, who had been EN-
gagged for some weeks in identifying
the mansion house and grounds of
Hon, Frederick Billings, the probably
successful candidate for Governor of
our noble Green Mountain State
Mr.. Cone was accommodating as ever
as to pointing out the right cars for
us to take /; and here, it | was dis
posed to delineate character in the
manner of Plutarch, I would say that
the express manager from Woodstock
to White River Junction, seems to
unite the politeness of Polonius with
the tact of A. T. Stewart, and, while he
does not evince the ferocity of Tam
eflane or Genghis Khan, yet he ex-
hibits the warlike genius of Caesar
and Napoleon, combined, in happy
unison, with the mild virtues of Mon
tezuma.-My headquarters are at 9
State street, and the pleasant room
115 feet long and so wide in the
Coliseum, devoted expressly to the
representatives of the Press from the
various parts of the United States, and
the Canadas. Letters and papers al
rive every hour by mail at the post
office in the Coliseum, and if you or
the editors of that powerful sheet,
Tile Acoy7', or any one else, sends
letters or papers directed to me at the
Coliseum, | shall get them,
Yesterday, Sunday, | went to the
cold South" in the morning where the
the congregation was very small, but
the singlug good what there was of it
there being but four, and the organ
good. In the afternoon | heard Rev.
Mr.. Murray at the Park St. Church,
where the preaching was remarkably
good, as it was at the Old South, and
the singing was super-excellent, and a
great deal of it, the singers filing the
front gallery and likewise most of the
two sides and various parts of the
house, and | am told this is usual at
that church. 1t was worth a journey
to Boston to hear such singing. In
the evening I went to Music Hall and
heard the famous Organ. 1t was a
sort of Praise meeting and Peace
meeting. There was a tremedous ar
ray Of singers, all the rest OF man
kind that did not sing at the Park st.
Church seemed to be here. | Thought
/ had seen crowds before in public
halls, but when | got into Music Hall,
/ gave up the idea that | had
ever seen crowd. Messrs. E. S.
Tobey, Elihu Burritt, DR.. Loring, Gov.
Washburn. and some others, spoke in
an eloquent manner DR.. Loring had
the best voice he had his speech
written, but committed to memory,
and spoke as DIR. Howard used to
preach in Woodstock, without looking
at his papers, and when he had got
over a few pages he would hand them
to a gentleman behind him, then go
ahead a while and then give the man
some more.
am much pleased with Boston,
The streets are clean, the houses and
pavements are solid.-My health is
better than for some time, and my
spirits lively and buoyant-sea air
agrees with me.-Every one is good
natmed, excepting the drunken man |
saw the policemen take into custody
on Sunday afternoon.-We were deck
ed to-day with our badges of blue and
gold, and might be mistaken for Ma
poleon's Marshals of the Empire. If
we had some big plumes and Il few
more spangles we should outShlne
Murat, who always returned from his
charges upon the Cossacks, as Ma
poleon said, covered with gold and
glory.-As the Grenadier Band from
London was playing on the Common
this forenoon, amid cheering crowds,
some of the old national airs Of Eng
land, an English gentleman standing
near me with his two daughters and
two little grandchildren, was so over
powered ut hearing those old airs
again by his conntrymen, in foreign
land, that he cried like a child,
The representatives Of the press had
magnificent reception this forenoon
at Fanuel Hall, the "Old Cradle of
Liberty by the Mayor and Common
Council Of Boston. After several
good speeches of welcome by the Bos-
tonians, we were invited to take what
we wanted at the table, where every
conceivable luxury and delcacy from
green peas and strawberries up to
oysters AMI Holsters, and everything
else that can be named was prepared
in great abundance. wanted nothing
but strawberries with icecream, and as
there were bushels Of them, very large
and sweet, and | had come quite a