The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-07-13

Halfeld is the Pastor. We attended the
St. Stephens Episcopal yesterdaymorning.
This is ertrenre high church. We are
content to visit just such another church
next centennial. The music was grand
the church was beautiful; the people Gle
gantly dressed, and yet we longed for our
plain churches where religion seems to
form part of the service While we
admire the beauty of the episcopal ser
vice, we don't want it in high church
form. On Broad street we find Edwin
Forests old home. 1t is Of brown
stone and magni6cently beautifed. 1t is
now used as musical garden, and Theo-
dorG Thomas holds his concerts there
The United States building when finished
will be the finest in the city. 1t covers
four squares, the base is of granite. The
builting itself is to be of solid marble.
It has been building three years, the base
is finished, and the first story just com
menced. When completed, it will be oc-
cupied by the post-office, revenue depart
ment, court house and city hall We
would like to write of the Baldwin Locomo-
tive works, but space forbids, the building
covers six squares. We visited the Fair
mont Water Works. These works were
designed and executed by Fredrick Croft;
Fairmont Park has thirty three hundred
acres in it, when commenced it had only
five. One hardly realizes the extent of
the Quaker City until they ride over it. 1t
is twenty-six miles in length, New York
has more inhabitants but is more COM
pactly built. We attended the Kellogg
concert the other evening. This concert
was under the imperiA patronage of Dom
Pedro. The performers we're Senorita
Cervantes, Mr.. Frantz, Remmeatz, Brig
noli, Miss Julia River, Joseph White,
Miss Sherwood, Annie Louisa Cary and
Clara Kellogg. This is Miss Cary's first
appearance since her triumphal tour in
Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg. 1t is
needless to say this was fine, Philadelphia
never before saw its equal and perhaps
never will again. We paid short visit
to Camden New Jersey, Friday. This is
a pleasant city of fifty thousand inhabi-
tants, it has nice houses, clean broad
streets, pure air, and one of the largest
shoe factories in the United States.
Since we last wrote, party of sixteen,
from Iowa City, and fourteen from Mt.
Pleasant have arrived in the city. Mr..
Perdue, Mr.. Kendig, Mr.. Perry Shriver,
Mr.. Chew and daughter, Mrs. T. I.
Wright, mother and son of Oskaloosa
came Saturday. They all seem to be en-
joyingit. We stopped writing to witness
the procession that has just passed. They
were accompanied by fifty bands of twer-
ty pieces each. Both army and navy
were represented. There were ten car
riages full of soldiers orphans; the girls
were all dressed in white, and the boys in
blue. As each regiment came on they
were headed by tagged horses; these flags
were riddled by shot and shells, on some
of them nothing was to be seen but few
shreds. Nothing connected with our Wis
it ever impressed us as did the sight OF
these flags. The cheers that rose from
the thousands at the sight of those en-
blems of suffering and distress of Libby
and Andersonville, was perfectly deafen-
ing. Long may this banner wave and
carry peace and prosperity with it. But
our letter is long, and next one will be
written from New York or Niagara, until
then adieu.
Respectfully,
EFFIE L. HOFFMAN.