Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-07-11
{ HETAMMANY REUNION
"A SPIRITUAL REVIVAL.
TEEEJOY 0FPA,s son.
HE READS HIS LETTER.
Mediumistic TraHces and Communion
with Spirits.
New YORK, July 6, 1874

NEW YORK, July 6, 1874.
10 the Eds. independent:
The great grand Tammany cele-
bration on the 4th OF July was a
fizzle. AS an organization endeav-
oring to control not only the poll
ties Of New York, but of the Ma
ton, it is a failure. Tweed's
incarceration has Topped off its
powers, and the great proves of
Tammany exists only in name.
Usually is reunion are well at
tended, but this year an extraordi-
nary effort was made to get up a
crowd Printed invitations were
sent to the Dem cratic editors of
the country. OF course, none of
them were expected to attend, and
but one lone boy actually showed
himself and he was there
because "Pa wished it," The Her
aid, Tribune. Times, Sun, and all
the great papers of this city were
full Of econiuIns of this young
mans face in Drawing the fierce on
slauchts Of the red-handed north
ern Democracy, that he and his
Pa had yelpcd so much about.
Like the young Napoleon, it was
his baptism of fire, and may prove
to Pa the beginning Of the march
toward Sedan.
Dodworth's band and the bands
of the Eleventh and jim Fiske's
regiment, headed by Hons. Angus
tus Schell, Samuel S. Tildeh, S. S.
Cox, Fernando Wood, with hats
off, called on the young Southern
Chief at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
and after footing of horns and
beating ofdrums, the clerk of the
hotel inquired who was wanted?
Then the Hon. Augustus asked if
the distinguished Southern visitor
1.-THE son of Hon. d. ST. was in:
mhereupon PAS son stepped out
and Winked out Of one eye, and
then out of the other, and then
out of both, and then his whole
face moved, and the band played
Hail to the chief" PAS son re-
piled and said the old chief was at
home, but the young brave was
on the War-path and il he succeed
ed in holding his own, he would
destroy as many SPIRITS as his
sire; and they all said amen, for
Tammany is death to SPIRITS.
Then he said he couldn't stay long;
that he had sacrificed a great deal
to attend, and he would prove it
by reading letter. Thereup0n he
read the following letter:
STATESMAN OFFICE.
Martinsburg, June 20, 1874
My Dear Cdtlett:
Your postal received. 1t will be
impossible for me to be with you
On the 4th. ] expects If well enough
to be in New York that day, MS Pa
wishes me to attend the Tammauy
celebration in his stead.
Should | not go to New York,
however, do not think it would
be doing myself justice to expose
VI iilb IlllAG reputation tIdN
possess O. second time to the en-
viOus and malevolent shafts Of crit
icism, as was the case at your first
tournament, in which ! was made
to appear as having intruded my
self upon you, in communication
written by one ofycur citizens and
published in the "lndependent"
at this place.
Yours truly,
ROBT. $. EICHELBERGER.
Then they all got up a medium
istic trance, interviewed the spirits,
after which they Got up several
more Of the same Kind and thry
kept at it until the 4th VS. over,
and thus ended the Tar many III
union. The great eveno will prob
ably find many chapters in his
tory.
Yours, &c,
FAITHFCL.
Some gepial-hearted writer re-
marked that when Tithonus ask