Litchfield enquirer., 1880-04-08
MT. Hollister's Address to Speaker '... ..- .. Marcy.

At the close of the recent session of our leg
 islature d vhte of thanks was passed to ths Speaker of the House and presented by Mir Hollister with tee following remarks: .. Mir. SPEAKER: During your absence iron,
 the chair the house has unanimously passed
 resolution, which l beg the honor of reading toyou.
 It seems idle to enlarge upon sentiment,
 couched ln such simple phrase, and coming
 from the hearts of men who without relation to party, have so long acknow ledged you as their chief. Yet, sir, your courtesy to the
 minority in appointing so many of us upon
 committees where we did not expect place,
 and your uniform frBnkness and cordiality
 have put us under such bonds that we cannot
 forbear rendering you our pubic fecicita-
 tions. at -.
 With some of us the widening circles in the
 water are growing tremulous and will soon disappear, but so long as the youngest of us shall survive he will remember you with al. lection.
 We came here 1 trust, with no party bigot- ries, to serve our common mother, the state. The tidal wave of the presidential contest may have dashed agaiust the base of this hill, but the echoes thave died before they reached the capitol. (Applause.) Will you pardon me for relating bit of personal history When I represented the United States as minister res- ident near Port au Prince, I visited in a ship of-war the harbor of the Mole St. Nicholln the great anchorage that Columbus found as
 Hispaniola. The harbor is formed by wall of porphyry rock jutting out for miles into the Carribean sea, we'll such as Chinaman or Roman never wrought, terminating in head land almost close to the mainland, on which tower threatening cliffs.
 When the steamer rounded the Mole and l saw her making for what supposed to be a
 little cove, 1 shuddered lest she should dash herself against the rocks on the starboard or the larboard. But she went in like a swan and where l had anticipated danger I found safety For within was harbor able to hold all the navies of the world, and although it was in some places twenty fathoms deep, yet so pure was the water that I could see from the deck branches of coral, tufts of sponge. and little fishes swimming on the bottom sand. l thought this must be the whole harbor and as we steamed along look ed with delight upon palm, cocoanut and pomegranate trees, and murmured the words ot the Lotus Eaters, We will not wander more:"
 To my surprise we soon came to to another narrow opening which feared we could not enter. We steamed in through the deep water, and there was an inner harbor, double locked, where the surface was as tranquil as a sum- mer lake. In fit of homesickness I clapped my hands and cried, this is Connecticut The outer harbor is the house of representatives |; the inner harbor is the senate (Applause.)
 OLE BULLS PENNSYLVANIA CASTLE. About thirty or thirty-tive years ago Ole Bull, the Norwegian violinist, with one of those idios yncrasiess peculiar to men of genius, turned his attention to eolonizing and speculations in lumber. Engaging number of his country men, who have reached New York on their way to the fertile fields of the West, he brought them here, laid out a city and erect ed cabins for their use. He purchased an inn meEse tract ot land in this region from par ties in New York, and made preparations to open up the forests on a grand scale. About six miles below here, on Kettle Creek, high up on the summit of the mountains, he built for himself a home. Endeavoring to implant Ill this wilderness some memories of the land he had left, he constructed a castle and fur nished it with all the embellishments that could be imported into this out-of- f-the-way place. A beautiful road winding up the mountain side on gradual ascent led to his retreat. Artists were brought from afar to add to the splendor of his castle, and the paint CT and guilder gave their handlwork to com plete the structure, while paper of the most expensive kind covered the walls and added it's charms so the editce. One mammoth room was set apart as the concert hall, and here Ole Bull exercised all his ingenuity in it's dec oration. The roof was composed of glass, and the barbarlc splendor was we'll calculated to make one forget the outside surroundings and yield themselves to the subtitle strains of his violin and enter with spirit into the gayeties and festivities with which Ole Bull tried to surround himself
 But all this was doomed to moulder and de- cay. Before the artisans had yet ceased their labor, trouble began to show itself Dissatis- faction began to manifest itself among those who had come with him to this land, and al- though he expended money freely and tried to bring peace and harmony among his retainers, the spectre of rebellion would not vanish. About this time, too he discovered that the title to his land was not worth the cost of Its writing. He had bought it from parties who had no claim on it whatever, and now the real owner came forward and asserted his rights. Overwhelmed by the thickening troubles that came on him, he suddenly aban- doned all and reappeared again among the haunts of civilization, and, with his beloved violin as his companion, began to retrieve his wasted fortunes by treading the boards behind the footlights
 The colony he had brought with him, be- ing left without a leader, gradually broke up and became scattered far and wide Now scarcely one remains behind to tell the st ory and record the history of New Bergen. The castle on the mountain top suffered from the ravages of time and the despoliation of the curiosity seeker. Hundreds visited the place, and nearly all carried away some memento of this ''Ole Bulls Folly" till now scarcely a log remains to mark the spot. The only re- hinder of the past is in the name of the little village that clusters around the foot of the It is called Oleona, which is SUD- posed to be what remains after the shorten ing process" of 'Ole- owns-it"
 A MARTINEr AND MUTINY, 1798.--It appears that Capt. Pigot, of the Hermione, had threat ened, on the night of the 22d of September, to fog the last man of the mizzen -topsail-yard after reefng topsails This threat was made as kind of incentive to smartness on the part of the crew, who were, mayhap, not 80 quick as they might have been. The threat, unjust and obviously tyrannical and capricious as it was, was evidently not new to the crew, for the narrator adds: The men, well knowing from his determined character that he would keep his word," hastened to get into the top, and in their eagerness to escape punish ment, two poor fellows. missing their hold fell on the quarter deck, when both were kill ed. The circumstances being reported to the Captain, he brutaly ordered: ''Throw the lub- bers over board" It would mthat thistyran- ncal and inhuman conduct was only the last of long series of acts of oppression. Loud expressions of discomfort Wi re heard among the men, who spoke their minds pretty freely. Whether it was the senseless atrocity of the threat tO foo the lAst man off the yard Or the scandal of flinging men overheard without (Nirictiar, hllri OF lo of lifo