Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-02
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence orthe Monitor.l

James Gordon Bennett to the great task |
of finding the Pole. | suppose it will
be found or reached some day, and then
there'll be the South Pole to tackle for
scientific reasons. We ought to 90 about
these adventures in more scientific way,
it seems to me, and not kill off so many
of the ablest and bravest of the human
race. Among the crew of the Jeanette
seem to have been as wide a diversity
of nationalities as possible, fifteen or
sixteen in ships company of thirty
three souls all told, and three of them
were Chinese. | was for six weeks
ship-mate of belong and Chip, when, a
week after return from the. Attic Seas
on search for the Polaris, the Juniata
was ordered down to Cuba to bring
back the surviving Virginius prisoners.
Both are we'll known here-the former
particularly, having held a prominent
position in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and
then commanding the Scholarship St.
Mary. His wedding not very long be-
fore his departure was quite an affair.
1 should judge he'd object now to any
more ice for the rest of his life, unless
in the shape of ice cream and spoons
with his WIFE D. l. l. Hayes. the ex-
plorer, died just before the news came
in. He would have been the very man
to send as an escort to bring the wan
derers home from Siberia.
People in general will be surprised to
learn that Gen. Dan. Sickles has father.
And he seems to be quite model of
vigorous eccentricity. too. He has man
aged to make money steadily and swift
Iy from very early age. and has now,
at the ripe age of 50, got married to his
housekeeper. aged 40 their female child
rem, the eldest being fifteen years of
age, acting as bridesmaids. Some hum
dreds of invited guests assisted at the
ceremony, but according to notification,
refrained from offering presents, and the
day after the wedding. following a new
fashion introduced by the old boy him.
self, the guests reassembled for a knife
and-fork breakfast at second-class
hotel. The General looked with disfa-
vor on the whole proceeding-his moth
er died six years ago-but his daughter
went to see the reconciliation of her
grandfather to the conditions of decor
Gus society. There are a good many
practical Mormons among US, but they
don't let the multitude know it, as a
rule. In this case the scandal was bla-
zoped abroad just when an end was put
to it-so far, at least. as practicable.
The Adjutant-Generals long dreaded
guillotine has fallen at last and wiped
out sundry organ izations of the Nation
al Guard. In Gotham, we lose the 9Th
Regt, the first to adopt the Prussian
spiked pot helmets, and, as a matter Of
course, their gallant Colonel, Charley
Spencer. whose appearance IN full uni
form was the admiration of all behold.
ers. Not large man, perpendicularly.
he was, horizontally, more then respect
ably endowed with girth, and it was as
good as circus to see him pounding
along with his berry little Dutchmer
(the big ones went into other corps) tod
ding after him, their big head-gear at
every angle.
When | was on the wedding question
it was almost unpard enable of me t,
leave out the grandest of all that prob
ably ever ca me off in Gotham. Van
derbilt's latest unmarried daughter wa
surrendered in the bonds of Hymen to
lucky young doctor. in the presence o
all the toplofty money-bags of New
York, the other day. Everybody will
an income of $4,000 and over was in
vited, but nobody with less than Sl0O,
900 year found his name in the print
ed lists in the newspapers. | know tw
or three of the guests, rich men toe
prominent men they think themselves
who are very much disguised at beinI
left out. The groom is son of the vet
eran James Watson Webb, the oldes
journalist in the world and the most IN
compromising know-nothing who edit
0 ed the Courier Journal in the days q
our great grandfathers, had the origina
Bennett as an Office boy, and afterward
helped establish the Herald by THRASH
ing the editor in the street two or thre
times week, which encounters bein
n duly published under the standin
It head "Cowhided again." attracted a
: tention to what was at first very dirty
: scurrilous sheet.
: Delightful Newark has provided al
/ other sensation. The City Auditor, VI
1t der the influence of chloral, whiske
it and the Nemesis, advances Of an expe
d engaged in examining the books, h;
E given himself up to the police as d
l. faulter to the extent of $125,000. L
IS says he did it himself, but evident
er lies, for he couldn't have touched dc
IT lar without confederates. and if he sto
7e anything it was by means of forger
IN and the amount may be very much lar
n | or than named Il is nnssihle the who