The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-06-16
A WEEK AT THE CENTENNIAL.
THE SENIOR EDITORS EXPERIENCE.

its permit full description of what we saw.
| The junior Editor saw so much that there is
but little lest for us to add We reached
! Philadelphia ria Harrisburg on Monday, and
stopped at the Washington House, kept by
| Geo, j. Bolton, and were promptly shown to
large airy room on the first sleeping floor.
IOnly guests of good reputation are accorded
this privilege. After busting ourselves, in
company with M. G. Woodward and family,
we took ride on the Delaware. On Tuesday
there was Reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac, presided over by its
President Gen. Hancock The poem, which
we will publish next week, was read by VIM.
Winters, of the N. Y Tribune. The grafton
by Gen. John A. Dix was mainly devoted to
telling what he knew about slavery. Gen.
Sherman made characteristic Speech in the
course of which he remarked that ''if he had
been born South he was not sure but that he
would have worn the gray instead of the
blue" He was in favor of complete recon
cilation. Sheridan, Hooker, Hartranit, Cur
tin, Slocum and others made brief addresses.
A magnificent banquet was held in the eve
ming. There was also present, Captain l.. p.
Semctchkn, Aide-de-camp to II. /. II. the
grand Duke Constantine, of Russia Captain
A. Wonder Howon, of the Imperial Russian
Guard Artillery; Lieutenant General Saigo
Tsukumichi and Lieutenant Hidaka, his aide
de-camp, of the army of Japan; Mr.. Fritz
Cunliffe Owen, of the japanese Commission
Mr.. George Ii. Boxer, U. S. Minister to st,
Petersburg; ex-Gov. Andrew G.. Curtin
Hon. VIM. S. Stokley, Mayor; Col. John w.
Fomey, Mr.. Henry G. Carey and Daniel
Dougherty and the commissioners of various
nations.
Independence Hall was visited, where
were found some old clothes and furni-
ture, &c, which once belonged to G.. Wash
ington, Ben. Franklin and others. The admin
istrators neglected to put them in the inventory
or else they were left unsod for want of bid
ders. There is an old bell also there, but it
ism worth much because it is cracked. Some
fuss was also made about an original document
called the Declaration of Independence, gotten
up by Tom. Sefferson, Hancock, Franklin and
some other old-iashioned fellows. One man
beside us-a P. M. from Lancaster hear
ing it read, said it was rebel document, got
ten up by the Democrats to injure Grant, and
in proof called attention to the following SEN
tences:
"He has refused his assent to laws the most
wholesome and necessary Tor the public good.
"He has dissolved representative houses re-
peatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness,
his invasions on the rights of the people"
'He has refused, for long time after such
dissolutions, to cause others to be elected !;
whereby the legislative powers, incapable of
annihilatlon, have returned to the people at
large for their exercise; the States remaining
in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of
| invasion from without, and convulsions with
in
''He has erected a multitude of new offices,
| and sent hither swarms of officers to harlass
our people, and eat out their substance"
He has kept among us, in times Of peace
| standing armies without the consent of our
| legislature
| ''He has affected to render the military inde-
pendent of, and superior to civil power"
| For quartering laage bodies Of armed
troops among us.
''For cutting off our trade with all parts Of
the world
"For imposing taxes on us without our con-
sent"
''For depriving us in many cases, of the
benefits Of trial byjury."
"For suspending our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power to
legisste for us in all cases whatsoever"
| BY Invitation, we also attended Theodore
Thomas Grand Concert. We had readm
about it, but the performance disappointed us.
The pieces were evidently written by foreign
ers. And then when one performers was re-
ally doing his level best on flute or fiddle,
man with stick would order them all to
strike in, and it put the fellow out. One day
we visited the Mint. 1t is Il crowded, dirty,
heated building. We were shown the wild
ow' S mite, worth one thirty-second part of a
cent. As a matter Of course we preferred
the column of gold, or that Of silver exhibited
on the Centennial grounds. One machine
was turning out 100000 an hour, and man
aged by a good looking girl. She said it was
not for SALE and that she was engaged. Upon
the whole, we came to the conclusion that the
people there were making money. In due
course we visited the magnificent Masonic
Temple, the interior of which is gorgeous be
yond description. Beside it are the unfnish
ed City Buildings, which promise to be the
most magnificent in the nation, and the mos
erpensive Ten millions have been appropri
ated but the Pilgrims are not through with it
We had almost forgotten to mention the
Centennial Buildings and grounds We frs
entered the Main Building, and our attention
was at once attracted to some wax figures in
the Swedish Department. Being an arden
lover Of nature we gazed on them for lonl
time We then reached gulch near Hort
cultural Hall, spanned by rail road with
single rail, and locomoted over by atwo-deck
ed car 1t cost three cents TO ride over, an
we all embarked. The thing stuck when W
! got half way over, leaving us like Mshomet'
J cofhn-suspended between Heaven and Eartl
. The engineer went back to find some COAL ct
: his lunch, and get up more steam. At fir
we admired the view, but after gazing on it a
hour, and hearing the remarks Of the crow
:; below, the scenery got tame. At lost the ell
8 gine returned, and bya series of goat t-lke bu
= moved us at the rate of three inches
! bump across the rayine. We walked bacl
. At Horticultural Hall we saw a lot Of pOsie
prominent among which was the Centcnn
plant, a species Of eactus-which was mao
specially for the occasion, as it blooms but on,
\ in hundred years. The man who raise
= them said he was personally aware of this fac
i From the iibres are made carpets and cloths
= and of the juice, pulque, sort of ''crooke
whiskey." The man said Grant had a hot hou,
y full of them. Agricultural Hall had a are
y lot of plows beans, onions, and other necessi
y ries of life. Machinery Hall had big engI
, which Grant touched off at the opening, al
some other things. The U. S. Departmel
y had on hand lot of things too tedious