The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-11
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.


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NEW YORK, June 3, 1882.
The severe criticisms of Bob Inger-
soil in general and of his engagement
to deliver the principal Grafton OF dec
Grafton day in particular, did not in
terfere with the flow or Eeryor of his
eloquence. Whatever one may think
of his theology-or lack of It-none can
dispute the ability and strength Of his
patriotism after having listened to him
in the Academy of Music last Tuesday
night. While the good taste Of invit-
ing Ingersoll to speak has been very
radically discussed in the religious jour
nails, nc II called in question the pro-
pIiety Of engaging an Englishman to
eulogize the dead soldiers in Greenwood
cemetery. The Rev. Robert Collyer,
while an E%nglishman bybirth, however,
is as hearty aud whole-souled an Amer
lean citizen as any man among US.
When the war broke out, on the very
first Sunday, and in a single sermon,
he preached every able-bodied young
man out Of his congregation and into
the army. Now he claims, and right
ly, that the grandeur Of the victory
of the northern arms is due to the fact
that, as he expresses it, ''the foe they
met were not low-down fellows, but
every inch as good men and as brave as
themselves"
TOPPLED OVER AT LAST.
LN,,r,;n, &c tln A,I-n ,,nr,,rnant
should be satisfied now, that at last,
after repeated efforts to destroy it, it
lies prone on the ground, in mute Obeis-
ance to the vandalism whose exhibitions
are becoming alarmingly frequent. 1
went up to Tappan yesterday to look at
it, but there is nothing specially excit-
ing in the spectacle of a polished shaft
of granite, four feet square at the base,
and not much longer from base to apex,
lying on the ground as though that was
its normal condition. L suppose it will
be there indefinitely, although the sag
gestion has been made that the shaft
itself be exploded with nitro-glycerine
on the coming fourth. The people of
Tappan and the sleepy hollow sort of
a village itself which is now blooming
like a garden, are far more entertaining
than Mr.. Fields dismantled block of
stone.
"Washington's MISUNDERSTANDING
we'll regulated village in this immediate
vicinity has its Washington's head
quarters, you know, a quaint, stone
structure dating back to the early part
of last century, is now lost in a tangle
of trees and shrubbery; the old stone
building in which Andre was confined
before his execution, now in a tumble
down and rickety condition, is still as
closely locked and as strongly barred and
~impregnably bolted as though this
architectural skeleton was trying still
to hold the unfortunate Andres ghost
even as its stauncher self once held his
body. while the faded and weather-worn
medallion head of Washington on the
sign that swings before Gregory's
village inn, creaks as ominously as
though when General Washington SEN
, fenced Andre to the gallows. his own
! head fell to swinging in perpetual SYM
pathy. The view from the hill where
the execution took place is far-reaching
and beautiful in the extreme. While /
was enjoying it and thinking how for
tunate one must be to have his last
glimpse of this word from such n stand
: point, the inevitable small boy put in
his appearance. "Who tipped this
monument over?" 1 severely demand
, ed. "Oh, she blew over herself" was
the satisfactory response, given in the
expressive ]vernacular Of the Tap
panese.
+ PRESENCE OF III PRESIDENT.
4 =, President Arthur has been in town
=, been watcheG% bis movements have
. the hungry politicians ahdnIerest by
e ofice-holders. Perhaps he has not beef
kept under such close surveillance a
during the days and nights Immediately
It succeeding his taking the oath of office
but the public has been pretty well in
formed of what he has lone and of the
s people he has met. With his usua
5 tact he has had two reception rooms a
the Fifth avenue, one for his stalwart
and the other for his half-breed callers
l Speaking of the way the reporters dos
the presidents movements, l recall &
t story told of him two or three nights
after he became president. He couldn't
move out of doors, and no one could
enter his residence without its being il
all the papers next day. Reporters
roasted on his front stoop, leaning
/, against his fence, held up the trees and
q lamp-posts in front of the house, formed
! sociable knots at the four nearest street
, corners, button-holed every unfortunate
who came in or went out, and generally
mounted guard over the premises. He
stood it as long rs he could, but ever
the patience of so amiable a gentleman
as Mr.. Arthur has its limits, and one
night, shortly after midnight, he sud
:, denly appeared like a very able-bodied
apparitiOn to a group of startled re-
porters. Very kindly, but in a manner
that could not be misunderstood, he
told them that he objected to being
kept under any espionage of the kind,
and he moreover begged them not to
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