The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-26


sentenced to Punishment in 1869 by Spain
to the Island Of Ferdinand De Pc, on the
Of Africa, from whence he subse-
queutly escaped. He was sentenced up
on the charge that be was the banker Of
the revolution in Cuba, and, as he claims,
with the object Of sequestrating his i'm
mense property in order to gain resOuE-
ces TO continue the war against the Cubans.
He is a gentleman Of great deal OF in
,elligence, extensive travel and large
business experience. He was the agent
Of the Cubans at Washington At the time,
in Buchanan's administration, when the
athirty million bilIn to purchase Cuba
from Spain, was before Congress, and was
hand-in.gloye with Slidell, Benjamin,
ToOmbs and all the chief promoters Of the
scheme. In those days he kept parlOr
at Willard's, and dealt out information
and hospitality on a liberal scale. /
asked him II 1t was true, as has been
claimed, that Mr.. Seward ever nibbled a,
the Cuban bait with view Of Popularil.
ing the Republican party at the South.
He answered NO" On the contrary,
said he, Mr.. Seward was its implacable foe
in Congress, as we'll he might be, knowing
that Cuba would simply add power to
the South by giving it one or two more
slave States.
ANOTHER CHARACTER.
The Chaplain OF the famous Seventh
Regiment Of New York is a bOarder at
our hotel. He is an Episcopal clergyman
in New York, and holds $4,000 ap.
pOintment under the rich corporation Of
Trinity Church. He is popular with ey'
erybody down here, and everybody seems
to know him. lie was out with his regi'
ment during the war, and tells how the
boys all came to say their prayers at last
out Of the Prayer Book, instead Of max
ing crude prayers Of their own every
night. One Of them conceived the idea
that inasmuCh as they were all in the
same boat together, and had very de-
cided homOgeneity Of interest at stake, i
would be better to unite their forces on
the same prayer, and have regular"
one instead Of miscellany OF militia Pc
titionS.
A METHODIST PREACHER.
Did you ever hear Of the Rev, Mr..
Corbett, Of New York, the Methodist
preacher with Southern principles who
once upon time pulled out his pistol in
church and laid it down on his pulpit just
as he was commencing service, lie too
is boarder at our hotel. He was born
10 Philadelphia and reared in that vi.
cinity, and has never lived South except
two years at Baltimore, and yet he is one
Of the most intense Southern men ! ever
talked to. This is rather remarkable
circumstance for preacher belonging to
the Methodist Church North. lie is an
Andy johnson sort OF u man, aggressive
positive and incorporating, and be-
lieves in literal hell.hre and birthstone
lie has travelled in Europe, and was tell
ing me the other day Of mountain he
saw at Baden. Baden that had been burn
ing continuously for $50 years, and vel
had never uppreciably consumed itself
Thus, said he, according to my idea, will
il be in hell. The bodies Of the wicked
will burn forever and ever and yet never
be consumed. Speaking Of this Methodist
preacher, | must tell you Of visit sew
erul Of US paid a day or two ago to the
CAMP MEETING AT OCEAN GROVE.
Ocean Grove Is village situated
on both sides Of a little river called yves
ley Lake. about six miles from here, anc
contain. n thop.ond cottages. built on the
white sand in the "piny woods" 1t Il a
kind Of an ecclesiastical and denominA
tional corporation, the streets and avenue,
being named after prominent men, pas
and present, Of the Methodist Church
In ono mart Of tbi, summer village is the
eomp ground. which is a hollow suuar,
If an acres extent aanked on every sid,
nv canvass tents. and canopied over b,
orssn bou0b, spre,d on the ton Of ,
stouncb skeleton frame work. At one
end /. the preachers stand. with its five
mr. ,ir rows of seats raised one above an
other and in front are accommodation,
for several thousand listeners, When W,
arrived within the sacred precinct al
about eleven o'clock in the tay feryenI
and sloousnt nreacber wa, lin the midst O.
n vivid pic,ire Of the Judgment Dav
lie compared the scene to the one beior,
him. You rise here, said he, one by one
and tell vour experience. but what vii
that be in compSrison with rising on
THE tupoMrSTpAY
IN answer 10 your name. solitary ant
alone. in the midst of a silence awful and