Year: 1877




OSBORNE HOUSE, AUBURN, June 90
Governor Wade Hampton stepped of q Des-
brosses street ferry boat into New York City
the day before yesterday afternoon at ten min
utes past o'clock. He carried handsome
new carpetbag with bright steelclasps and
locks. In this disguise he passed safely
through the crowd Of hurrying New Workers,
and was seen to enter close carriage, which
was driven rapidly uptown. In few min.
utes an employee on the boat brought the
news to the collectors Office that Governor
Wade Hampton had just passed through the
gates. He had got it from one of the train
hands. Thus it first became known to the
collector that the Governor was in town. He
Immediately salted the information down. In
the meantime all of the principal hotels had
been covered" by reporters, and in the even
ing bevy of them gathered at the New York
Hotel, where DR.. John T. Darby, relative,
by marriage, of the Governor, lives. 1t was
wondered what could detain the expected
guest. He had been delayed twelve hours on
the road, but that amount of time had been
discounted, and large margin remained. DR..
Darby and Gen. Preston were at Ocean
Grove, short distance south of Long Branch.
No word had been received from them except
an inquiry addressed to the proprietor Of the
hotel as to when their friend would arrive
About II o'clock that night rumor came
from the Jersey City depot that the Governor
had arrived. This rumor was soon confirmed, /,
but nobody knew where he had gone. 1t
would have been wise and pleasant thing if
he had gone to spend the night with bis
friends in Ocean Grove. The sea breeze there
is delightful, and the night in New York was
oppressive. So some Of the reporters sent
him there, some of them sent him to an un-
named hotel, and some to the house of per-
sonal friend. The truth is he stayed with a
friend on Thirty-eighth street, where he man
aged to escape reporters during the night and
all next day, while the city wondered Among
those who we're densely ignorant of his where.
abouts we're Augustus Schell, Mayor Ely, Pc
ter B. Olney, and other magnates and active
workers in the Manhattan Club and Tam
many Hall.


OFF TO AUBURN.


At o'clock, last night, a tall, broad
shouldered man, in a slouched hat, entered
the Grand Central Depot. Beside him walk
ed smart colored man, who carried carpet
bag and long, narrow pasteboard box. He
walked up to sleeping-car conductor, and
engaged lower berth. "What name ?" ask
ed the conductor. Hampton" said the tall
man. In few minutes it was known from
one end of the depot to the other. "How
handsome said lady to a companion.
"Not year over fifty" remarked gentle
man. "What a splendid-looking soldier he
must have made sixteen years ago, when the
war broke outw The Governor was shown
into the sleeping.car Newark, where bis at.
tendant deposited his carpet-bag and left him.
The Governor opened the carpet-bag and took
out linen duster and pair of worked slip
pers. In few minutes he had himself COM
fortably ensconsed on two of the broad velvet
covered seats, forming bridge between them,
and managing to look cooler and more at
home than any other man in the sultry car.
He told your correspondent that when his
friends in Auburn had got through with him,
and he had returned to New York for few
days of quiet, he might compose himself to
converse on political matters. Then he looked
unduly grave, as if he had meant to quiz his
questioner. He explained that the long mar.
row pasteboard box contained the silk flag
which had been presented to


THE PALMETTO REGIMENT


in the City of Mexico, and he was carrying it
to the North to place it side by side with that
of the descendants of the brave men who had
been brigaded with the South Carolnians un.
der General Shields. The eloquence is your
correspondents not the Governor's.] He had
expected to meet Governor Robinson, of this
State, at Albany, but he thought that owing
to the delays he had experienced in making
his trip North, the latter had already started
for Auburn. Two gentlemen recognized him
in the car, and conversed with him through
all the noise of Vanderhlt's long tunnel and
far up tho Hudson. Opposite West Point
Governor Hampton looked long and earnest.
ly at the government buildings, Cozzen's hotel
and the mountain tops, and asked many ques-
tions. The river was at its best. A warm,
yellow light lay along the mountains, fading
gradually upward into the dim of evening.
Heavy topped pines occasionally stood alone
outlined against the horizon, looking in the
distance not unlike preternaturally upright
palm trees in tropical picture. The even
ing star twinkled out into view just above
them, and sailed along northward on the west
side of the mountains just as fast as the train
moved on the east side. Your correspondent
looked at the scene pensively and thought Of
the Governors Southern home, but the Gov
ernor had been


CAPTURED BY FAT MAN,


who wanted to learn all about the new status
of the negro in South Carolina. The Cover
nor appeared to be very patient and instruct
i've. Just below Albany he retired, and when
he arose the train had just passed the salt
works at Syracuse.


THE ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION.


At halfpast seven o'clock this morning, the