Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1873, Page 6

6 TIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST .31, 87 I.LONG BRANCH. A Turn Amongst the Turfmen--- The Stable-Folks at the Races, A Glimpse of the Racing Cenfury--- Where We Get Our Blood. The Great Racers from Sir Archie Down ==sA Composition on the lorse, From Our Own Correspondent, T.oxo Brasor, Aug. 20, 1878, Tho stable-folks hinve all come from Baratoga down to Long Dranch, and thoy do not much 1iko tho chnugo. At Snratoga thoy havo » good cateli-hold, a lonmy tenck, woll drained, and tho rarest mountain-air, with good manngement, well-bohaved nudiencos, aud tho flavor of re- epectahility. John Morriseoy, rough a8 lo is, is n good poliveman, and his word pnssed is trusted by tho villago-poople nnd by cosmopol- itandom, At Long Branch, thero is an ombol- lished track, oxtortion, n crowd of rowdios aud finshy women, and the prosiding spirita are tho Keopere of skii-games, who give tho tone to tho trionnial ** mootings.” STUDIES. It is somowhat sivgular that this kind of populace should want the Presidential Mansion pitched amougst them nll summer at public ex- pouse, Morals aro so bad bers that gentlomen are known to tako thoir familics away from the public table after partaking of a single dinnor, to protect them from being faced out and put to tho blush by cyprians opposite. Tho recent great adverlising dingram of tho DBranch in Harper's Weckly omitted to donote, though it skotched, Chinmberlnine's cottage,—thirtoen cot- tagos only futorveniug botwoen it and President Grant's. * You'ro tho follows,” snid tho older pariner, McGrath, onco to o pair of correapondents,— 4 i('s Jost you that keops tho Presidont from coming over to sco tho games, Ho knows you'd bo o publishing of him.” This complimount to the press, as compelling some dignily aud obsorvance despite the socioty, Teads us to remark that Mr, Prico McGrath isa fino old hemp-grower in Kentucky, and partner of Chamborlaine in his two establishments, o wiil both tako your monoy, and furnish you with aropoe Lo go hang. Ho is, besides, what they call n gentlemnn-putron of the turf, and has n stablo of thoroughbreds. Ho nlso confers thoe hon- ora of knighthood, and I have scen Mr, Cham- berlaine balance the stirrup-cup & number ot times,—gencrally & great bowl engraved, and silvered, and covered with figures and reliefs of bits, brldles, skull-caps, stirrups, snddles, and gwitch-whips, One of thoso ‘‘gentlemen's cups” is big enough to hold all the wino, ele,, which the Inrgost stomach can disgorge after peying ©4 o bottlo for it. Peoplo woro not originally nilowed to drink vulgar ales and cordials at Monmouth Park. Wine by the pint, or brandy by tho bottle, was tho least “ a gon- tleman" could take. Nowadays thoy havo nn Awmerican Epsom, however,—tho Amorican Enotic, they might call it,—and n crowd n triflo mora respectable ihan that usually admitted pours in freo, The press is billoted {o pay the telegraphed ndverlisemonts of this guwing- houso circus ; the heads of boys, and women too, are turned to seo so much of our rea] gentry,—that is, people who back rouletto, and concoet Black Fridays, and break evory com- mandment nnblushingly, having o full purso to excuse {hom. OUT TO THE PATK QUIETLY. 1 hinve kholenied this Long Brauch 80 often,— well called o, for it in mainly streteh of frame- houses on o green bluff, with good air, fair ronds, & bad, dirty, and dangerous surf, and gront monotony, relievud only by dissipation,—that it shall not’dotaiu mo this day, A fow furlongs’ wallc in the open country will bring moe to the vauuted Park, and I can sit down with horses, gco tho littlo negroos gamblo with pennios, talk to tho boy-jockeys, and read my book on tho turf in America.” Myself and companion lhavo 1,300 royal pages of reading-matter betwoen us, written by that Hemry William Herbert, who wrote about physical eports and horsomanship nll bis life, aud died at last of orushed sonsibili- ties from a woman's disfavor. 1S THE TURF OF ANY USE ? Tens of thousuuds of your readers nover spw alwrde-race, Iuis not ‘my intontion to offend snch by a description of the short and generally unsaticfactory pageant, but to help thom out in the inquiry whetlor, in all this expendituro of money and mixing of morals, thera iy suy advan- tege gined. I the mtock improved?” Do wo become more enamored of healthy exoreise, aud <country life, and incroase our montsl resources, by all “this gulloping in dirty silk breechos nnd gay caps ? Iave the gontry of the tuif in this cotntry mnde us any compensation, intollectual or materinl, for the aggravatod lnwlessuces of their business ? “Thoy have mnde the gamblor a patron, and prescuted him to the public in the light' of a grout man nnd roviver of thoturf. They buve congzgned trotting-matehes to county-fairs and tomperanco-gatherings. The infliction or the cunjoyment, whichover it Lo, is upon uy, and likely to tny. This racing-business is not a new thing in Amctien, It bezan bofore tho Revolution, nnd Washington himsclf was o patron of it; ‘aud, from 1815 Lo 1845, wo hud what we enlled tho almy days of tho Ameuivan turf, Aftor those loud thirty years, racing beenme more and more Jocal and pnemodic, nud the trotting-track grow into favor, until near the eloso of the War, when people, tired of tho trickery of tho trot,— tha relling out of mutches and the division of tho gate-tuoney,—and pursos made plothoric and sonsbilitics diseared by the War fell into the mond for galloping squadrons again, Tho rovi- val of the turf at the Patorson (N. d.) Park wan followed by the oponlug of ° tho celebrated Jerome Park, near Now York City, in th fall of 1836, Just prior to this, tha Bevatogn Park way made ; and theso two I'uiky—tho most succossful iu tho country—havo led Lo sovoral others, nono of which mo s:id to bo profitablo, o tho breeders wud stablomen, however, this revival of tho turf is o sweet hoon. Bankors, and Governors, and railrond-men, and their hapetul sons just coming into their inheritanco, awpire to Lo the })u!.rona of the nationn! races, und go nround followed by jockoys, houtlors, and trainors, talking learnedly of horse-points, It Is tlio chenpost way to become notorious, and tho ensicst to spend monoy. A-GOING 7Q THE DOTTOM, 'ho horse is u large and needful clement of nationul wealth, whether for war or pence ; and whatever can improve the hieed in a country iike owrs may well be excused for some exubor~ ances and incidontal evils, It is probably tho fect Lt the ngricultural populace it oroused to iosily, and led to the improvement of Jocal stock, ~ by the exciling reporta which huve from timo to time beon published of grout, nehiovomotsts in spooil undor the emala tion of tho raco, Na racers, our American thor- oughbreds ara not oxcalled 'in tho world; thoy catry lesn weight, but mukoe better timo, than tho Euglish racers, And onr trotrers are not equal- £d 1 any counlry, owing, Smrlmpu, in somo de- #reo, to our country-road system, something o to onv cliinato, but most to the 'crossiug of goveral different breeda and the ndmixture of tho Lest English-Orioutal blood. “‘The general Liorso of Americs," uoys an Lnglish authority, “¢is puporior, not in blood or Lenuty, but decid- edly in hardihood to do, to enduro, {u powers of travel, speed, docility, and good tomper, to any othor 1ece of genoral horacs in the world.” Tho Amorican hiorso i as mixed in stocl, and 4t woll dofined a8 typo, a8 the Amorican na- tion, and, lka tho nation, tho Ing- lish' blood' fixen the type. In tho voar 1493, tho first horees wero lot loose In the Wastorn World by Columbus, ‘The mnainland wad first trodden by the stesds of Do Sato and Do Vaca, ot o tine whon the Spanish horso was perfectod and most formiduble for cavalry-pur- oscs, At tho descrtion of Duenos Ayres in 68 tho stook wns set loowo, which filled the Contnont with wild horses as far s Toexas and the Plains; and, in 1604, Acadis was stooked with Norman and Flemisk nags, which, four yearn later, woro carriod to Canads East, whence, by tho your 1760, thoy were muade comparatively numurous in_Illinoia, Theuce, probably, npriufl Indian ponfos and mustangs,—Spanish an T'ronch custaways modified by climate and food, III(‘l stunted by navage severity, 11609, six mares ARgee § Wi By oviouedios and, fifly years later, cxportation of lorees woa forbidden by Inw. In 1635, (he Dutel brought hiorsou to Now York : nnd, In 1820, n Lolcunter- sluro man brought thom to Massachusetts Buy, From these small beginuingy, ses tho Incerensoe ! Thoro aro to-dny, in the United Hiates, nearly EIGNT NILLIONS OF HORKE: ahowing o growth npon the slock Imported wmora amarveloun than man's, There ave nlw 1y 2,000,000 0f nwses and mules, although Now Eneland had but 13t fn ali, twonly v ngn. Vetmont has moen stoel than any ¢ Stato i tho Laat; the Roulli passes the” N inmules; and the old Torritory of No'w M ico lind, twonty yenra agto, more” mulos than all the Paoifie Const put togethor and doubled. In 1860, wo had o horso to every fivo fuhabitauta in 1850, ono to every fivo-and-a-third : Ido nof orscas tho consun of 1870 to give fullor dotails, uring tho War, we sacrificod as many four- footed boasts nsmen, and otill tho negro was not happy without his mule. TFanancipation to him wasg an idlo achiovemont without his mule thrown In. This teaches us that freadom with- out transportation is o mockery. WHERE DID THE DLOOD COMI FROM ? Tho above horson wore meroly the wild growth and comnion transplautation, “on which to en- raft tho porfected thoroughbrods of England. ['hho vaco of horses was not fully perfected in England till the reign of Queon Anno, at which timo wo recoived our most copions immigration of mon and gtock. Tho Eunglish monarch had boun importing and improving tho breed, moro or loas, from tho tima of Alfred tho Grent : but it_was not uutil Queon Anno's time that it was domonatratod that Arnbic and Darbary stock could accomplish no movo, The work was done, and Aniorics was peopled ol harucased at tho appointod timo for hor dostinies. DIVERSION. Horo wo aro bronght Lo the question: Didit require horso-racing to accomplish any of thoso things ? Phainly it did, and thoro seoms to be no way of ovading this answor. It is the fact in Ameries, a8 well 8 in Engiand, Tho turf stimulated tho improvement of the horse, Tho King himsol? et tho oxample; the Lord-Propriotary in Amorica loft it to us, In tho reign of Heury L, —n4 for bock as the twolfth century,—tho Smith- flold race-track was sob up in London, In tho Crusndes which followed, the English stcods, oarrying heavy armor and ammored mon, put to Beorn tgulir:hl-moumud Arnbs, 1t 18 queor to remark ot this public opinion, that tho Vritish horse is older than tho Arabinn ; for tho Lorse is a native of Afriea, and not of Asia, Jesus rode into Jorue salem upon an ass’ fonl ; Mabomet had but two horses when ho bogau his roligious wavs; it was in Egypt that Josoph first suw n horse, only 1,500 yoars before Christ, and thoy wero few and novel thero, and had beon presented by thoso Bhephord-Kings who aro supposed.to haye como from Abyssinia, tho avsumed nativo conutry of tho horso, aud in tho vicivity of ns pachydormn- tous cousing, the zebra and iho quaggs. ~As lato a8 tho sovonth century, tho Arabs had uo horses, and Africs is tho omly continent, excopting Amorics, whoro thoro are wild horses in profusion nstrny to-day; but the bones of ancient horses mare found in tho coves of England. Thore Crear, who lnew ag littlo about horses and cavalry aa tho Greoks, found them bostriddon by the native Britons. And it is one, and })erhn‘pb tha provatling. tl.luorly thnt tho horao, Indigenous to Africa, was brougit {o Giroeco by tho Pheniclans, and used for war by the_wilder peoplo north of Grooce,~Thra- cinu, Macedonlans, and Thessalisus; and thatho worked his way up into Hungnry in timo to be rendy for Mazoppa's ride, nnd was domesticated by tho Gormans, Gauls, Britons, ole,, in timo Lo moct the misorably-mounted Romans, Crmsar had tho tact to minke theso barbarian lovies gnard his provinces, aud thoy mixed the stock aund im- roved it in their exchrngo of camps. But, ovon cforo this timo, the Cnrthagenians, invading Europo by way of Spain, with 8,000 Darbs, gave vitolity to tho stock alrondy thero: and the Italinn horao, now s then, is a poor cob ; while the Groeks, who wora always racing chariote, wero no_lhorkemen at oll, aud Philip and Aloxander of Macedon rode over thom, This is & profonnd pubject for Mr. Frederick Douglass to think about. ~ Africo_is tho original Hlamping-ground of tho horse. Whenevor yon oo o horso, you Heo an American citizen of African descont. Dorhaps the originnl romark of Cursed bo Cnnaan: a servant of sorvants sliall ho bo to his bretbren,” was directed at the horso, nud not at the negro. If this intorprota- tion can bo mado to stand on_ four legs, it goes {urlto establish the colored citizen's claim to o mulo, INTERRUPTION. Atthis point Taminterrupted in this sovere per- formauce by an appayition. A leau-looking boy, all wrapped around in blnuketu, and rolling per- spiration, like an ecgg-plant filled with dew, is roceeding at a brigk, pll\sp!ng trot up and down Eel‘nm my chair on tho lawn of Monmouth Park. As ho runs, ho awitchos hin shing with & riding- whip. ¢ Bub, what in the vame of the econstitutod authoritfes of Nosw Jersey, aro yon doing in that locomotive steam box ? “What'niln you? Ilave 5_0“ icommiltfld Inrceny on somebody's bed- ing " +*No,” saya tho boy, “I hain't, I'm got to rido next week at 85 pounds, aud I'm n sweating down to it.” ‘¢ How much must you sweat off ¢ “ Tileven pounds 1" “What do you do it with ?” ““Water, and blankets, and fasting—" f An nys the boy ; “ prayer ho ——: but, nover mind, T'll take it out of the ‘orso ynl." Tlhunk of this, young Fnoplo. who have wator- melons and mint-lamb { Isw't it pitiful? Inn whole city full, hash ho had none, Ilo went away gorrowfully, for ha hind gront possessions, and must sweat them down. THE THOROUGUDIED WE TRACE T0. Tho English horso owes hir gencral dispersion ovor tho Ringdom to Henry VIL, who compalled every clergyman and man of oftico to keep n hotre. From that dny to this, no prenchor will Dbuy u horso from wiother ono. 1leury ostab- tished tho Chestor races on the same spot thoy are still run upon. When you desire to romem- bor this fact, think that Iuchard IIIL, who was known by ncrook in his back, was led by Honry in o stage-fight. Thoy played all tho #amo tho noxt night, however.” Ricliard offered Lis Kingdom for a horse thtee times, and fuiled to bo accommodated, which enused’ Houry to koop o preat mauy lioraos on hand for emergen- cios, This little now reading shows the bistori- cal acenracy of Shaksponre, James I., who startedthe Nownmarkot racos, was the first to import au Arabian, named “ Markham's Arabian,” for which ho paid £500 atorling. ‘Then Cromwell, Tairfax, and Hucle ingham suceensively imported threo stailions, called * Whito urk” Moroeco Barb,” and “ Jolmsley Tarl,” These sillions, with somo horses from tho Lovant, imported by Charles 1X, arc the foundation of Tinglish blaoded atock and, ono groat horso, ¢ American Bolipse,” was of tha blood of * Holmsley Turk."” 'Tho work went on, as 1 have said, until Quoen Annie’s timo, and, just aftor the closo of hor reign, thoro wero thirty-ono foreign and fifty native stallions in their prime in Englund, About this timo, tho {irat racing-calendar was published in Lngland, and tho stud-books of that country ara as necu- rato ua tho Peornge-lists, A blooded horeo is not cight puro croskos bucl; it is clear dorivation, with Oriental blood on both sides up to known putornity and dnm. Tho first thoroughbred racing-horse of Amor- iea was mmported into Maryland,—* Spark,” the gift of Lord Baltimoro to Gov, Ogle from tho Princo of Wales, nbout 1732, From this timo forward, the Govornors of Maryland Jept rac- ing-studs, as Ridgly, Wright, Lloyd, and Sprigg ; and Goy, Bowio miintained the practico oven afe ter tho Rebollion. 1nto tho snno Htato tho red fox was introduced from Englandin1780. From 1783 to 1745, Washinglon was & young turf-hunt- or in hoth sonses ; hio got n rieh widow, and kept flue steods. In 1760, Col, Laskor imported ¢ So- 1ima,” straight from Godolphin Arabian,” futo Maryland. ‘The Livingstones, of New York; tho “Btocktony, of Now Jorsoy; tho Alstons, Humptons, and Washingtons, of South Carolinn; and the ‘nylors, Hoomesos, Soldens, 'and Jobnsons, of Virginis, nlso im- ported Jiroully from Fngland ; #o that ourstocks record, even betore the lievolution, was us cer- tain ad tho English, but, in thut confifet, it was destroyed, Tho character of officery’ Liorsos, however, in that strugglo, showed tho advantago of the brecding, Thus slavery, !nx-h\mtln}g, and raeing wero al- most vilolly Tospousiblo for tha flvst importne tions of Britirh thoroughbrod ntook into Amarica. ‘Wo had horse-races in Now York and tho Sonth whilo ntlll colonion ; and little tohucco-shipping villagos, now nearly oxtinot in tho tide-wator country, wero tho seats of memorablo races, ns woll a6 tho grenter ports und citien, Tho grent horse * Diomed," futhor of # Sip Archy" b{ imported * Helima,"—tho paronts and the Nimrod of the Amorlean turf,—wny fonled in 1777, and haported to Virginia in John Adams' Adminisiration, The groat horso Mos- Bongior,” was ilu[mrlcd ‘to Now York threo yenrn bofore Washington beenme Prosidont, or in'1784, Hgir Archy" was forled on tho Jumes Nivor In 1605, tho futher of ¢ 8ir Charles” and ¢ 8ir Honry.” And his father, * Diomed,” way the proat grandfather of both * Boston" and ¥ Yashion,” Lhus bogan the Amorlcan turf, aud wo hayo not improved upon it even with directly-im- ported Arablans and Darbs,—showing that tho stock was porfocted already, Prosldont Jackson ladus jody from tho Haval g [:ulnh, contrary to Doy of Alglers and from tho Sulian of Muscnt ; Trentdent Van Buren from the Lwporor of Mo- recen, Comanodore Elliott and othors importad divectly from Dabary, Bub no imported Darb, Aral, or Turk over got n borne of nny protens piong on tho Amorlenn Lurf, The Iiuglivh thareueilueds havo dous it all, k! o that blund will 1oll, As thoe Latin A | post wrolo i the relgn of Augitstus: ot e cre 4 ntus fert g of binla o cant agn racly parnphrased ¢ ay o In steers, tiera ho in hores, hood 3 o fransmit (ron wire to son fedr good, o'ce 1 il west ean spriug (o timid dove, Where coupled eagies mute fi Turious lovo, Gamn, —_——— WOMANLY DIGNITY. From the Landon Saturday Revfere, Naturo, which Lins given wospona of assantt or menns of dofense to nlmost all living crontures, las made man audacious, and has endowed woman with dignity,. And dignity has tho bost of it. In fact, womanly dignily may be nceopted an one among many oxplanations of that legoud- ary power which turned the bravest man to stono, and made Lhe might of tho sirongest lika weler in their bones. What can any ono do against it? Am well tryto penctrate tho ar- madillo’s cont of mnil by o noedlo, or make n hole inn prehydorm by a popgun, a8 fire & womun to passion or melt her to pity whon sho lns onco ontrenchied hersoll in the stronghold of hor dignity. Nonrgument can shnke her, no reason= ing convinco hor; denpair dies away in queru- lousuess, and tho pleadings of lovo itwolf fall dull and blunted frowm lier statoly self-posscssion Tiko 5o muny toy shinfts hurlod againat o pollshe od and imponetrable surface. Indoced, how ean you raga i angor, or abaso yoursolt in entronty, to o .cronturo who is lcily polite, loftily unmoved, not lo bo goaded into the smallest demonstration which would put hor in the wrong and givo_you a vantago-point ngainst hor, and whore calin oyes look nt you with n kind of su- porior scorn which, while {t maddenn you, offers no point of attack? What can you do? Siwm- ply nothing. The meaus of defensoe which Na- ture ias given are unaseailable, and a dignificd wowan is niistross of tho situation by thio very power of negation, if by none other, Tt thora are various kinds of digoily, and if some aro moro exaeporating than othors, pome are very lovoly, und among tho greatest charma of womanliood. There is in particular that soft dignity which belonga to women wlio are affec- tiouats by nnturo and Limid by tomperamont, but who have o reservo of self-respoct that de- fonds thom against thetselves ns woll ns aguinst othors, 'Theso have n quict diguity, tempored Dby much sweetnuess of speach and manuer, that is tho loveliest of thom all, the most subtlo as woll n tho most benatiful, Thoy aro liko tho Lady in Comus, aud scem fo cust tho spell of respect on all with whom (lm{ ero associated. No man, sava of tho coarsont flbre, and such s ouly phyeical strength can coutrol, could ba rudo to them in word or brutal in deed; for thiore is somothing about thom, very indefinito but vory pirong withal, which’scoms to givo them rpecinl protection from insolenco ; aid n Toving woman of soft manners, whose mind is puro and who rospocts herself, is armed with a power which noue but the vilost can despise. 'This is the woman who gols a previso obedience from her sorvants without exacting it, nud whose children do not dremm of disputing her wishies ; who, though so gentle and affablo, stops hort of that kind of familiarity which brecds contompt, and with whom 1o ono takes o liberty. I'or this ono can searcely give a rea- son, Bho would not ramp or rave if sho was displonsod, she would not scold, slo could not striko ; but thero is o corlain quality in hor which o may not bo ablo to_formulitizo, yot which would mako ug ashumed to pass boyond tha boundurics of tho strictost respect, and which restyams others loss consciously critical thun ourselves us certninly ns fear. It'is tho re- gpect v sy to thoso who respect thomaolves ; tho cousiderntion and honor which all renl pu= rity of uaturo demunds and oblaps. This is womanly dignity iu it loveliest aspact, and tho kind we' all”desive to seo in women, whom it wounld not harden, nor rendor less than loving. Thion_Uhera is 1o moro aggromsive, strutting, 8lago Kiud of dignity, which wa maat in histos cal romaunces chiolly, where “avaunt, base eai- tiff" is n phraso of powes, aud where an nuprotected dnmeel, in a robe of ‘*‘rich gomito bright,” with her back bair down, and carrying o small joweler’s shop on her petson, iy abla by the mugic of her dignily alono to defénd hersell from the baso dowigns of marauding Barons and the depredations of monning Tinaves,—tnming tho wid bousts mnong mon ns Ui tarued het flon. This is a picturo exquisitely fancinating to tho young, and tirmly hotioved iu, Wo doubt, however, 1t any enthusisstie girl would find sho pomsessed tho gift if sho went into a thioves' quarter in London with her purao in lior pocket und her dignity ns her solo sufo- guard ; and wo think sho would do boter to trust to the police. is kind of dignity, translatod into tho homo lifo, is n troublesoma sort of thing; but vomctimes it is intenkely odd, if ono can nfford e timo to be pmuked ; and n digni- fiod womnn of tho stage-heroind kind, who “‘drawa heraolf up to her full height,” ns novel- ists sy, and spenks in an octavo below hor usial voico ‘whon she is offended, is protty suro to havo plenty of veeasion for thio exercise of hor telout. Thero is another kind of dignity—tho grim Iind, repolicnt nnd irou-haund—whereby you feel yoursolf pushed buek hofore you huve nado nu advance ; whore, indocd, the whole ruls of lifo soems to bo to repel on ml sides. Women afilicted with this species of dignity aro always on tho look-out for nssaults, sud consequontly aro always Uirusting teiv shiold of defonao in your face, You do not want to {rounlo them in their dignity ; you are not thinking of invading that or this eacred province ; yoL you aro sud- donly mel by wn assumption of offendud n esty, which malkes you feol as it you had re- ceived o blow. Somo playful word, somo laugh- ing nod ridiculous accusition, or quite innocout allusion, and you nro treated as o misdomeanant who Lni griovously offended agninst good mnn- nors aud womanly dignity. Thero nre some womon constitutionnlly incupable of understand- ing auythivg like pluyfuluoss, aud who ean mako no distinetion botween fun and importinonee, o laughing humor and taking liborties, They wrapthemgolvos wpiu arobe of mujesty, and rosent as rudencss nvy homely touch which ignoros thoir stately drapory. tliey oro womon about whoso afairs you Imow absolutel nothing, though you _maey Lo thelr friond of o lilelimo, You '~ novor hoar them tell {ho most harmlees anccdoto Trankly, but alvays with a sovero aie of mystory and somothing hidden ; you nover hear them discus the least important subject froely, You would not dave to ask them, frionds an you aro, things whieh you wonld ask a_ecompnrativo stnuger without lesitation, and they naver voluntoor information, ‘Ihioy would contider it aliborty I yon wantod particulus ay to tho treatmont they had pursued, muy in such or such caso of illnosy ; and thoy uro far too dignitled to holp tho inoxperionced” of thoir youngers hy their own nequired storo. Ono ofton wondors what those women nro as mothers with young dnughters to instruct ; and whethor their diguity can unbeond so far as to give lessons to girls who havo overything to loaru. ‘Thoy nre 5o grim, Ko far romovod from any of the kindly familiari- ties, tho materual tendcinomiof ordinary womon, that it Iy hinrd to buliove there can over bo mo« ments in which, or persons to whom, they can condencend to bo nstursl, Akin lo theso, but not identicnl, aro tho coldly dignified women —thoso who koep thomselves apart fromn their worll for wast of warmth to couloneo, ‘Lhoy aro mot Bo npgressive na tho grim ones, and not eo apt fo inke offenso or g0 keen to seo au inanlt, where nono was mennt ; but thoy aro 08 impenotrable, and na imporvious to humor, Lhe difforence be- tweon the two linds lics in tompor ; tho dignicy of the grim being dignity soured by ill-humor, that of tho cold Leing dignity hardoned by in- ditferonco, Neither 16 admirablo, and both ara oonymon ; and woo to the luckloss man, most probebly of o joviul, weak-hneked nature, who has fullon into the power of either. Iie hus to oxpiato by a lifo of solf-suppreusion for the ono past, aud of perpotual stumbling offono for tho other, tho torrible mistake le mado in early youtli, when a girl's cold solf-possossion o called by a finer word, aud no nccount taken of tho time whoen n just endurable churactoristic would haye hecoms oxaggeraiod, “I'lioro I, again, auothor kind of dignity of (ho msthetie Tauga ; & kind of thing that fagd : * No common_person am I;" and thay domends ox- ooptional homnge, us woll s repolu ridonoes with voorn, ‘Chis is n vory favorito kind with tho women who hold the thoory that women are of a diving ordor of nafure, and that men aro—not to put it too strongly—brutes. Thoy oxnct n diforont ordering of clreum- ntancen allogothor for themsolvos, and ospooinl- Iy that thoy should o protacted from tho lawor vonditions of life, Ask theso women to do un- ploantut worls, and goo how thoir diguity takon nvms at onco, and how offended an iuglgnnnt thoy are at your suggostion, Thoy are of tho Brahminieal ordor, sccording to tholr own osti- et o. ~ Havo thev not thalr aienity ta miution, aud thoy aro to bo pared what othor shismea- b audur aupport, and s not thoir nature mathotio and their right to lmmumty from the common lob undoublod 7 Phoso mathiotiv_women nro emi- nontly unpraotienl, and thotr diguity is in gonor- ol o tromendons nulsanen, Thay aro Ao fino, so very pure, thoy hold nature tobo so gross, hu- manity in {ts renlity o droncful, nod all things, anvo thotr own yomanly dignity,so common, tin tuera In no denling with them on anything Iike a pruotical busks ; nnd if you npaak of lifo as it {4, andnotas i1 ia o to apponr—In a clond of pink mnslin and with an ntmosphore of ottar of roso —thoy aro rovoltad, aud think yon aro wantin in respeot. Unreal, ns woll as mathotio, they nro both usclosss and nusatinfactory, 'y bo anro, thoy cultivate art, and know the tight color of n riblon, and_how to nrrange a drawing-room pletureaquely ; but ag_all tho chnmbers fnhabit- od by the hiiman family aro not drawing-rooms, a4 thoro aro wick-rooms and luzarcttos, tho womanly dignity which must not Lo invaded by the montion of efthor is but a poor kind of thing for working lifo, and its artistio speclnlitien aro but_mongro compensntion for its mathetio ab- surditics. Tho fact {8, nacful s womnnly dignity in ns a ‘womanly ponsession, it can bo carvled to oxcons, and from o virino to o vice. Solangasitis nn liouest dofonsc-work against the rough agsnults of suporior atrongth, it is both good and fair'; but whon it assumos to bo moro than this, it be- comes an oxnggoration, and, ag such, ridiculous. ‘Thoro ia no law by which womon can bo oxempt from n sharo in the troublos aud sorrows of hu- man lifo; aud oven their dignity cannot always proteot thom from things that override all but uature. Btll it is a valunblo possossion, and womon hnd bottor have too much of it thau too Mttlo ; for, though too mneh rendors them ah- surd, too littlo “inakes thom contemptiblo, ana botween tho two thera is no doubt na to which in tho worst. 5 —— A FAREWELL. Do not tell ma to forpet theo ! Thott liast round my memory {winod; Bluco tho day when first I met theo, With a sweetness undofined, This hopoless Tovo hath so entyonnd thes, I cannot tear thee from my heart Allmy hopes aro elusterod round thee—y Tlou srt of my life a part, Deeply, forvontly, I loved theo, Vataly, docply, Tovo theo yobs Doubt not, for tho years have proved me— Years which broight but valn regrot. Fondly to my henrt I presacd thee, Droiming of tho blissful yeara ; And I kisscd theo aud caressed theo— Kinsed thow through thy falling toars. X will go ; T cannot clatm thoo § ‘Wo will moet no moro in lifo; Bister, Friond, I cannot niamo they Binco I may not call thee Wifo, X will go; but ever round thieo Falls my lvlusaluF Uko o light With amaranths of fovo I crowned theo i Now-—I bury thes from sight To, my boartls doop, etrango recoancs, Hido thee, wherd no Lope can bloom ¢ Lips, and eyos, and golden tresscs, Burouded—cold—in eryptic glootm,. Twill go; but ovor a'or mo Tangs h shudow Hko the night ; Aud behlud mo, and bsfora me, Spreads o darkness sud hiight, Tuko, CARPENTER, CmioAdo, Aug. 27, 1873, SUNDAY-MUSIC. To the Elitor of The Chicago Tribune, Bin: Tho honx manufuctured to ridiculo the ‘¢ Low-nud-Ordor” movement suggosts a thought worth giving the public. ‘I'hat thelovers of Sab- bath-musio, Inger-beer, and so forth, bave their rights, we firmly maintain, A man's houso is his castlo, and hocan xell what hocau obtain purchas- ers for, vo long as ho does not interfore with tho rights of othora. He owns his house and lot, ay Patriok says, *‘fromtho sintroof the airth to tho top of the sky." But let him soizo o toreh, and proceed to bhurn his homo to the ground, and the police seizoe bim, and, binding him, boar him to prison. What! has Lo not an otornal right to do what ho will with Lis own? Most certuinly. But, the ‘mowment Lis plans interfere 1oill the vights or cn- danger the well-being of his noighbor, that mo- ment ho is arrested, o cases iu band havo been docidod by compeotent authoritivs, A chimer of bolls in tho City of Daris, France, was arrosted for disturbing his neighbors, After n caroful oxamination of tho Inw, the Court decided that tho chimer of bolls had a right to beat his great bella with o8 largo & hammor, and make just as much of n clungor, o ho plensed, and the Inw would hold him inviolable in it. Iut, tho montent his neighbors wors distirbed, Lha' din- turber must nbate tho nuisance, or Lo arresteg and imprisonod uutil he could give buil not 1 bronk tho ordinary guiel of Lhe neighborhood, Anothor caso was decided in New York City, whero a Mothodist Church was plaintiff againg! oortuin Jows, whoran their sewing-machinery, directly adjofning the church, on Sunday. Thg Court held that the workimen had o perfect right to lubor on the Sabbath, but not to the din- turbing of the worshipers in the church. Tho nuigance complained of must, therofore, bo abated. ‘Thus, the lovers of Sunday-musie have an in- Lieront right to locate their band on the lot of Mra. Peach (Hamlin's lr:\ctz uear Lincoln Park, aud make all tho noie thoy wish. But the law will also Emlcct the neighbors in having » ?uint Sobbath, Tor aught we kuow, if tho owe could prove tho Buturday-playing’ of the band in Lincoln Park was o nuisauce, and dig- turbed them in their dovotions, I prosume the Caurt woula feol coumpollod to abato it. We trust Mr. Ilesing will, in courso of the ninotoenth century, loarn thut somo people havo their rights us well n othors. A Sunsoninen. To the Edilor of The Chicago Tribune: 8in: Tho unexpeeted and inexplicable rofusal by tho Commissionors of Lincoln Pavk to permit Sunduy-nftornoon concerta in tho Park is still the themo of convorantion, particularly on tho North Sido ; and thoir action, or rather their want of action by indofinitely postponing tho subjoct, is sovercly commented upon in various quurters. While men of standing in the com- munity are unrosorvedly in favor of such freo concorts for the people, and while the opposition is confined to some men who boliovo that thoir road to Hoaven has to be'travoled Ly all of us, it ronlly scems strango that the Commissioners did talko 1o action, s evorvbody concedes that they aro honorablo and. woll-moaniug mon. ~To ons0 their minds, it mny, perhaps, be woll to inform iliem that, i tho Queker City of Philadelphin, Sunday-aftornoon coneorts rogularly lako pluco in Fairmount Park, and Col. J. W, Fama{, Wwho was liero n fow months ago, stated that ihey wore considered to be n gron success, At tho ‘ Ifub of the Universe,” Box- tou, these Bunday-nflornoon concerts take placo on tho Common; tho programmo in n very uo- lect ono, and, if the Comnissioners will look at tho Inst number of tho Boston Gazelle, thoy will find that the last number of the programmo was #01d Hundrod,” which was fitst to bo played by the orchestra, upon which, the popor says, the oitizons wero oxpected to sing tho time-hon- ored tunoe, while the band \VDIII(F play the accom- paniment. Tu such things agour in front of Deacon atroot, I think the Commissioners ought not to hesitate to permut such concerts in Lincoln Park, o crowd will cortainly bo just as orderly as in tho old Puritanical city of tho Buy Btato, Liuenar, —_—— NOW. ook not to tho Part for pleasure, Nor yet to tho Futura turn ; For the Pant ha Allod ite CABULO,~ Lot it 1o i Memory's ura, Not tho Past, nor yet th Futuro, Cun wo mdrtals call our own 3 Only ours tho lving Presout,— 1fero alono we have our home, Memaory throwa decoltful glmour Lackwurd o'er the path of Lifo,— Biothing ovor the raugh placcs, Cov'slng up the sconos uf atrife, Y4ttlo Joye and littlo sorrowa, Woof and warp together wrought, Muke (he texture of the fabrio That the Past to 18 has brought, Hopo atands by with lifted Anger, Polnting to a futuro storo,— Breatly whisporing, That obtaluing, You'll Lo happy overmoro, Darling Mope but choats ot fanclos,— Does us wrong in dolng this; “‘Taked us from tho liviug Prosent To tho Futuro for our biis, Thus wo seo not, swcetly neatiing "Ttaund tho path through which we tread, Bweotoat flowors of Joy and gladnoss Waiting but to crown our hiead ; Look not forward to the Future,— Look not backward to {ho Lust ; Tz sou fo tho living Prescat,— Find in this your joy b Lush, i ¥ F, Ordzg, Arvaime bemeh ana SUMMER-PLEASURING, Lifo at Long Branch---Chicago + Visitors There. Sizhts Along tho Baltimore & Chio Railroad, Kilbourn City, Wis.-~-The River and the Dells---Devi’s Lake and Its Legend. Laporte, Ind.---A Camp-Meeting, a Pic- nie, and a Hail-Storm, LONG BRANCH, Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune, During tho past month, business has boon ox- ceodingly dull all over tho country, and this fict hns contributod largely to crowd tho fashionabla watering nnd othor places with health and plens- ure-gookors, It iu snid thal, from Now Yark Clty alono, over 200,000 peoplo havo been absout in sonroh of recroation. Tho delightful trip from Now York, in an ole- gant stoamor called the Plymouth Rogk, to Suudy Hook, und thonco to LONG DRANCH, ie quite invigorating ng woll ps onjoyable. Tor son-bnthing, no moro favorablo place could bo solooted than Long Branch, where you can sco tho brond Atlantio roll and fonm in its white- eappod mountains, and at times as placid as o parlor mirror. It is there you can onjoy to your honrt's contont tho rude, wild wave, aud plungo doliclously into the briny doop. It may not bo unintoresting to tho many rend- ora of Tue TunuNe to know who aro at Long Branch FROM CHICAGO, Among the moro prominent, T notico, Tsano Greenobaum and lady, Xonry Greenobaum and family, the Rev. Florence MecCarthy, E. Brunswiok and lady, B, Lowenthal, tho Hon. 1L W. Auston, F. N. fTamlin (of Hamlin, Halo & Co.), L. J. Farwell, Horace MoVickor, Mra. H. W. Hamilton, B. A. Breakey and wife, E. H, Kean, I, Sayors, E, Barbour, M. Drake, Honry Potwin and wife, B. J. Cobb, Georgo Chambors and wife, F. C. Shattuck, THE MOBNING 18 usnally spont in promenadiug nlong the beach, driving, bathing, flirting, and othor ngroenblo exercigos, Itisinthe morning that Miss Nollio Grant is usually seon driving two-in-hand, rand- wiched otwoon two of the Murphys, going at tho rato of throe minutes along tho shore. THE AFTERNOON is the most quict timo of the day. Itisthen you can soe the bustling morchant at oage in hia cana-bottomed chair, smoking a eigar; the poli- ticinn lulled into a quict slumbor; and ploasure- sockers nogotinting for an evening’s amuse- mont. It is thon that tho parlors of tho Motro- politan, Ocean, and Wost End are crowded with fashionablo ladies, discussing Cresarism or other exciting topics, or perlnps TUE EVENING'S DANCE. It may bo n full-dross, o mesquerade, or a hiop, —it matters not; all are woll attendod. Thoroe who go thero do not always dance. Many a quiot, innocent flirtation takes placo whilo tho Tancors aro in progross, or whilo waltzers aro circling tho ball-room in time to the strains of tho music of Btrnuss. ‘Phese evoning-hops bring togethor the gy and fealivo, the voung and tho old, and afford & fine opportunity for tho ladies lo oxhibit their clognnt dresses, oxquisito jowolry, and rofinod mnnnors. ‘Thore are mnuy who do not dance, hut prefer to promenado along the beach, und liston to Whiat are the wild waves nnyiug, ander tho soft and beautiful beams of tho moon. Long Branch has its pleasures, and, awny from our lnrge citios, its tendencies npon tho mind of a young man should be for good, But, alas ! thore arg AANY EVIL ALLUREMENTS HERE, and not the least is the woman in searlet ; nnd, under tho cover of night, many gray-haired falliors, prominent moreliants, nnd Washington officinls can ho seon in John Chemberlnin's gambling don, which js clegrntly fitted up, aud has become the popular resort for our * bloods." It in snid that not infrequently from $100,000 to $200,000 change handa at that establishmont in an ovening, and mauy men can point to that concorn ns boing the monns of drawing them from tho paths of honosty and morat rectitudo. Bummor-resorts aro indeed a grent boon to the rich; but to the poor, who yoar after year aro confined_in Jargo, smoksy cities, and aro obligeit to “‘earn thoir bread by the swent of their brow," watering-places havo no atteactions that thoy can command, TOIEWARD-TIOTND, Roturning to tho Westorn States, pleasure- seckers desirous of viowing picturosque scenery, and historieal places arc offered by tho Baltimoro & Ohio Railway the fullest opportunity. Monu- mental Brllimore, with its boautiful streety, isto be soon ; ns s also Washington, with tho Nation~ ol Cupitol, the President’s House, tho Tronsury Building, tho War Departmont, the Post-Oftico, tho Patent-Oilico, otc., avd other nplondid build- ings. lrom Wnehington fo Harpor's Torry, rlong this road, the reenery is wild and roman- tic. Passing alono tho live, wo como to tho mountains of Maryland, at a point callod DEER PARI, s Thia I8 & delightful summer-retreat, in tho Al loghieny Mountains, 3,000 foet aboyo tho lovol of the sen. ‘Tho nir at this point is romarkably pure and invigorati Chicago's well-known catoror, H. AL Kingloy, i the mannger of the hotol here, and, duritg the summer, quiten Iarge number of Chicagoans hinva stopped at this hotal. From Daor Park to Cincinnati {he scenory is truly graud. Somo sactions of the couutry nro wild and nueultivated, whilst othors are rich and roductive. At ono point the oyo gazes upon a onulitul valloy s aud, nt others, the rugged, wild sconory of tho mountnins of West Virginia and Maryland prosonts itsolf. Altogother, tho picturosquo views along; the rond canot bo sur- passed, whilsb the ollicers are courtcous aud obliging. S KILBOURN, Correspiondence of e Chicago Tribune, Kirnouns Crey, Wis,, Aug, 19, 1873, About 200 miles from Chicago, on the Mil- waukeo & St. Panl Railroad, s tho VILLAGE OF RILLOURY, which is woll known for its oxtonsive hop-yarils, and which ought to bo colebrated, now and for- ovor, as ono of tho most beautiful regions of the Northwost. I'hio town itsol! is lilo other towns of 2,000 in- Labitnts; businoss is good, and lifo qulot; bub it is tho wonderful and varied sconory which londy tho charm to the placo, and attracts thither, every summor, numorous artists, pleny- ure-goekors, and strollers of overy description, Tho railrond orosaes the Wisconsin River at this point, and on tho loft bauk the town in situsted. THE RIVER ITRELF in ono of tho most lovely streams fmaginable. Bomo £ miles nbove Kilbourn, it flows, brond aud slinllow, among numorous littlo islanda, which aro crownod with bright grocn willows; belo, it deopens and narrows until, 2 miles abovo the village, it ruskios through & futhomless gorge, 52 fool wido, called the Dalls,—the terror of rafts- mon, bt the admiralion of all othors, Thon, agnin, tho wator widous to o broadth of 1,000 foot; aftor which, in o majostic curve, it sweops swiftly and stoadily over a dam below tho bridgoe. Ou oachi wido of tho river rise DLUIFS OF HOFT BANDSTONE, trom 80 ta 100 faot hight, on tho top of which ‘Tho murmazing plucy and the bemlocks, Btand l'::'nhl)rul g of eld, with volces kad and proe il o At the Dells, I can liken {ho position of those rocks to nothing but huge stoamnships in a hare bor, Bido by sido thoy have stood for ages; the wator has out and rounded them into fantastic eliapon, and blackened and_ disfigured their eur- fnoo | thon, aa If to kofton their rugged grandour, tiny forns and elimbing plants of the richont nu fuivest groon, have tondorly twined themsolvon in aud out tho crovices, and covored the dark outlines, whioh, in turn, sorve admirably to dis- play this frail and dolicato beauty, bonutiful in our oyos, tho most interest I8 nwaltoned by the THE DELLS, which havo been mnde famous by Mr, Dennott's aterooncople viown, 1lere tho battom of tho tiver Ting novor hoon found, and tho wator dashen awiftly botwoon the rocks. A litlle stonmbont makes two trips thithor daily, or, if tho visitor in willing to meanuro his strongtly ngainst that of tha current, thoro aro plonty of row-hoats at his disposal, Tt §a my opinton that tho most pleas- ant wny to noo the Delle in fn wnch o hont—pra- vidud Komo ons elwn does the rowlng! Coming baelk, you way flont down with very littlo rxor- tou 3 and thero are fow grenator plansures, theso porfect avonings, than to bo carriod smoothly and softly ovor tho still water, with thoe whito maoonlight flooding all tho ontth with its radl- anco, and tho siars looking down at you with their tendor ahining oyes. The Dolls is o TAVORITE PICN10 AROUND, Juat whero the steamboat Jands its passengors, there ia a littlo cavo, in wiich an ieo-cold atrannt of purest water trickles into n natural basin, The Iuncheon-ground is rather a nteop place to n{:rcnfl n feant, an tho guosts on the high side of tho tablo aro obliged to slt under it, aud those on tho lower mido muat arrango themeolves upon tho fostal board itsclf in ordor to bring, flun(iu to thoirproper lovel. But this onlyasslsty in making aropnst in tho Dells one to which neclar and am-= brotin wero au nothivg, Aftor dinner (dinner boing always the first considoration), thoso who aro dovotod to crm}uut may climb n rock somo- thing Jous than 60 foot high, and find o rensona~ bly good ground on the top. Thowo nnfortu- nates who don't Pluy vory woll, and are fro- quently ncoused of “shoving,” and usually malo about threo nrcles in n gamo, may sit quintly down near the wator, and enjoy the glorious panorama #prond out boforo thom, or whilo away the hours inreading somo favorite author, I confesn, howover, with duo 'runltnncn and hu- miliation, that I havo found rondivg in_ the woods n failuro,—tho loaves in Nature'a book proving moro attractive than black and whito, ‘We Linve boon horo two weeke,—havo found BOMETHING AND S8OME PLACE NEW uvor[y) dnr ond tho ond o not yot. Wo have climbad hills (of which thoro aro plonty, though tho river scencry rather cclipsos them), from tho top of whiclh'bluffs 20 wmiles distant can ho soon. Wo havo beon fishing, and the fishing fs vory good,—black bass and lekc baing in abun- dance, and pickorel occasfonal,—but we failed to entico any of tho finny tribo to our hook. If any- Doy ean tell us how those fish manago to take off overy minnow wo carolully put on for bait, and thon swim triumphantly sway, wo would like to be informed. “Thoro is but ono drawback fo onjoyment hero; thore is no hotol which can moot tho wants of visitors; but wo boliove thero is good ronson to suppose that next summer this do- mand will bo supplied. Only 14 miles from Kilbourn is the famous *' DEVIL'S TAKE," or “8pirit Lake,"—tha latter name more eupho- nious, but loss generally acceptod. It is cces- giblo either by carriago or rail, ns the Madison Branch of tho Chicago & Northwestern Railwny nsted belf-woy around the lake and immediate- y in front of the hotal. Tho lako is almost circular, and about omo milo_in dismeter, surrounded by stecp cliffs, which rise_abruptly from tho water to a height of noarly 300 foot. It putsono inmind of an immenga rocky basin, in the bottom of which nostlo the lako, with ho apparent outlet. Thoro ara but two entrancos through the rocls,—ono on the north, the other on on the aouth shore. The *Claff Houso " ig on the north side,—well furnished and woll kept, with overy convenienco and attraction ono eau dosiro. Thioro Is but ono houso visiblo from the hotel,—=z privato resi- doncoe noross the lalo. ‘Would you know tho LEGEND OF THE TLACE? For onch stick and stone has o story in this In- dian conntry. Long ngo, o famous Chiof hed & besutiful dauglier,—one of those Indian maidens whom the Poot of tho Sierras hng describoed to ua. Sho wat wooed by two suitors,—Lho Chiof of anoth- er tribo nud a pale-faco. Sho loved tho whito brave, but her father droaded tho hostility of his enomioca if lie should refuse to givo his daughter to tho dusky warrior; so he told the two claim- outs that he who should first scale the steepest and most inaccessiblo crag on the shoro of the Inke might demand the hand of his ehild, The appoiuted time came, and the old Chieftain and tho maiden, from the top of the opposite rock, watched the contost. The two braves started equally, and bogsn the ascent. Highor nnd higher they climbed, with no ndvantugo to either, On and on, whilo the birds flow startled from their nests, and tho snakes rustled down nmong Lho low shrubs., At last tho white man gained & point above hig ad- yerenry, aud tho distance, slight at firat, gradual- Iy longthened, The maiden's oyes grow bright with liope ; but the Indian, furious with rage, gathering all bis strongth for one last offort, sprang forward, and, seizing tho limby of hin opponont, hurled himn down tho precipico, But this act of trenchery did not escupo unpunishod, As tho pale-face fell, Lis body struck that of the Indian, and together they wont down that awful height into the wators boneath, Tho maiden saw tho fate of her lovor, and, with ono shriek of anguish, sho throw lersolf down from tho opposita sitle, and sauk boneath tho wayes. Buch in tho talo {hat is told to the curious, . W, —_—— LAPORTE. Correspondence of The Cliicago Tribune, Larorre, Ind,, August, 1879, To my last, the pulsations of civilization wore treced from Chicago to its feoblo ulternnces nt Digmarelk ; to-day, we start backward on the trail of acivilization & fow weeka or months older than that of Chicago; in truth, o vigorous young infant anywhore end overywhoro in this truly groat Northwest. As an Old-World oitizen, com- paratively green, to mo its features stand out in bold relief, and I caunot but thiuk that the limo In propitiona but that the Apostle is wanting, who, puinting in its true colors this TREASURY OF NATURE, will open the oyes of thoe teoming population of Groat Britain to your moro desirablo fleld for its musclo, brain, and eapital,—pouring into your midst n tida which, within o few yenrs, will materinlly apsist in turning overything it tonckes into gold ; not only gold in specio, but galdon thought,—thought annlyzing the varions conllieting elements of socioty ; thought ovoly- ing order and harmony 1n sociology, politics, ticiouco, and roligion, True, tho baso sy be agotiutie, but the fruits muat inovitably bo al- truiatic, making onsy 1L W, Beccher's Millon- nium, *'Cho Manhood of Monoy,” Theao thouglits nro suggested na tho Michigan Bonthorn Rtuilrond hurries ug over tho progeut Taradiso of huniors, the low country of Calu- met, whore tho Duck Reservation hag had notico to quit from our Col, Bowon, Were wo beliov~ ors i spoclnl providoncas, croating cats for tho purpaso of cnu:‘hlng mico, wo should opino that e (reat Architcet had ‘designed this district for tho FUTURE QUAYDOM OF NORTIT AMERIOA, arranging land sud waler in such proportions as to onnblo our dovalopors of ompire to comploto with comparativoly small outlny n erios of quays, docks, aud harbors, whoso malorial ad- vantages would draw thithor all the log-intorests of tho Upper Lakos, makiug easy the avoatlon of the %mmnat centro of monufactured lumbor, and its kindred branelos of industry, yot known to tho world, Accesslblo to your 200,000 square miles of coal, tho rapidly-doveloping minoral riches of Buperior, and tiio vast troasuros of your prairies, it roquires no prophetic vision to estimato ts futuro, Iore is ample componsa~ tion for tha miles of sLifting aund-drivos char- acteristio of Michigun's southern shore, Loaving the shoros, and going southand west, wa entor a vory fortilo country, whore tho onrly Hottlor hos wrung from tho forest fluo farms, whicharo yiolding Linryests of goldon grain ; and, in the midst of a Lighly-cultivated country, wo look uhead for its inovilablo rosults, a ‘good town, Hore it iy, 56 miles from Chicago: TAPORTE,—~ o clustor of dismonds richly sot in groon volvet, o city rejoicing in wottlers bofure Chicngo was wrasted from rod envogery, It iaa charming town, with handsome brick” blocks and marblo fronts, utroots and sidewalks, benenlh a donso shndo of vigorous tracs, and amidst & clustor of mirrored lukos of tho cloarest water, reposing upon_sandy shores, and hotweon high bluffs hoavily timbored, heraand thero dottod with model islandy placod thora by tho Groat Artist, It lua contra whoro thio toilors in our largor citioa may ropair, ml vorily hold eommuno with the ele- gnueion of Nalure. Alroady tho civilization of this town is old onough to dovelop the altrulstie, Bho hng among hor cilizons men who tako intor- o8t in the good of ot:ors,—men imbued with tho onthuslasm of humanity, She has—and ft wc‘uld bo woll it othor towns of Indiuna took note— A LIDUARY ABSOOIATION, a roal living and life-giving institution, a fonne taln of tho best brain-food of the hlg(mnt oul- turo, bubbling and sparkiing ovor, ton, among ity rising gonoratlon, * 8o moto it be," hnponu witl roup its harvost, It supplemonts its uuperb library by a fino collection of minerals, fonsily, speolinony of Nutyral History, and a moat un{u\m! sunport hi 1 ne tho_neighborhood. Thero 1 emongut them a slenll nronnd which much solontifio fulorant will | nthor, and tho writer wonld suggost that n eani go tnkon and sent to Bir Johu Lubbock or Prot, uxloy. Tn iha prosonce of such aninstitution, wo nood mnot feol surprise that Taporte s a bad “nigpor-show " town, and equally unpatronlzing of nfliard-sntoons, Laporto s " nok over- ghuxchod ; o ety i rut prelpnly by tio ity therolore it ocensionally Iudulges In modori- seloneo looturay, and is lous annoyed by thoolug- feal friction than tho gnuorality of tow.ss in tho Btate, But tho visttor fools that thore Iy ONI: TIUING WANTING, o gaon discovors that many of its cltizons, bf' oarly Industry nud intogrity, have mado thoir B lo, ard, by roposo, aro gliding into o greon snd onored old ago, Ifo feels that the city much resomblos & cathedral-town of tho Old Country, infused with o Loalthy atimulus of trado; tha there {8 an ordor and mrnau about 1t which sug= est the soat of an institution of learning, Io looks at tho prominout fontures of tho rolling oountry, expeoting to seo a colloge erowning ono of tha'beautiful crosts surrounding tho town; but it i not thore, Thora aro numorous sites ovorlooking its chain of Olear, Btono, Lily, Pino, and Twin Lokes, whoso clean, sondy Deachios invito the bathery and whoso wators in= vito tho oaraman ; thero are mon among ita citis zona qualitiod by education and menns to coach such an institution into success, if thoy do not too rondily re-gcho the trashy ourriouluma of many of our Westorn collegos. A fow years - Liouce ought toweo such on Institution i full #wing; the shores of tho lnkes furnished with baudsome bathing-houscs (tho bntbing would commonco at Ieast oight to- ton wooke enrlior thsn ju Lake Michigan); (he islands studded with handsomo villes, aud the wators with the whito flowers of sniling-boats, Inone of tho many bodutiful groves on the shore of Pino Lake, the aunual CAMP-MELTING of the Wesloyan Mothodists is boing held, Tt 18 ono of thoso tomplos whoro the Connthian columns of Nnturo's growth spring Ionven~ ward from o sward of mossy grass, aud shed gratoful shado over tho orowd of anxious ine quirors of tho Futuro, Tho love of tho grove 18 probably theologically hereditary from our Druidical ancostors; but I doubt whether thoir osthotlo tasto would allow it to bo marred by un. aightly piles of roughly-put-together lnmbor. i Llfc[imr toan adjowing grovo, whore frioudy nvito to A PICNIO, and whero the joyous laugh of children, and the flowors, are making n livtfo Hoaven of thoir own, T'ho serious dutics of o * foed culminate in icoe oream, whon aloud peal of thuuder, and ine stantansously a reloutloss pelting of hail-stonos lighted up by vivid lashes of nnbridled eloctricis ty, compol us hurriadly to seok the dousor folinge of young hickory, cxam tho Indies and children into the covered buggios, and pub oursolves nte tho snallost possiblo Bpace, ‘Chero it o thought. 1ful roviow of the lightningz-conductors around us, and & mook awaiting of tho resulta for ono Lour, during which scarcoly & word is spoken, and the leaved aud boughs aro being romorsolessly stricken from the treos, and the lako is foaming “})\ml‘d in onomnss of fountalna throo feet high. o stand in fee-wator; ico-wnter is drippin through the buggy-covers, dowu the chins sni over tho shouldera of our shivering pots. . IAIL-STONES five inches in circumforenco, two inches thiok on tho ground, aud occasionally etriking au ox~ Eoued bund or boot with the force of a rock urled from a catapult, aro tho finalo to tho picnic, A break in the storm ouables us to gathior up the fragmonts that romain, but ovory- thing that was eatable is in ono rude ice-burinl blont, and, groping among tho wrack, silver n‘lonns, knfvos and forks, ara resoucd, bhut the gleascs aro smasbed. Wo know not whether wo ‘woro ginners above all ofhors, but wo fosr that thoenints in tho adjolning grove woro cqually viclimized by the Olork of the Wenther. Tho rain-foll in tho form of ico wag nob less thon thrae inchos, and suflicod to raise the lovel of tho lakes six inches,—probably oquivalont_to tho enormous harvest'of ice guthiored in during last winter, Joux W. CLangE. —_——— THE FAMILY LETTER. fMow the Materinls are Pro efdun Elow 'Thoy nre Usede=What iiccomes of tho Itesults Trom the Danbury Nets, The family lettor is written on Sunday, The ronson that day is selected is not alone” bocausa of tho lowuro it prosonts. Tho quiot of tha day, its rolief from nll intluencos that irritata_or agis tato, froos tho mind from irrelovant and antag- onistic mattor, nnd 1nakes 1t pre-ominontly o £t occasion for communing with distant lovod oncs. In nino cases ont of ton the lettor is written by tho herd of tho family, and of thoso sont an oqual proportion is addresred to s wifo's folks, ‘We don’t know why it is that o man #o rarely write to his own folks, but as it is not the prov~ inco of this articlo to treat on_that subjoct, wo will pretend wo don't esro. The hour being solectod for inditing the lettor, the fixst thing ia to find tho papor. ‘There is flways a drawor in every well-regulated family for keeping such things, It is eithor in the table or elund. Hore the writing {mpur and odd scrows and fiddle strings and broken locks aud fish llnes and gro- cery rocoipts aro kopt. ‘Thore may bo othor things, but if thoro are ho will seo them. Tho hieet of papor is finally found; the fly staing noatly scrapod off, and tho senrch come mences for the ink and pen. The former is invariably found on tho mantel noxt to tho clock, and is immediately Inid on tho table convoniont to the !porspirlug man, who sar- castically inquires if the lottor it to bo writton to-day or mext Bunday, This inspires tho wifo ‘with now zeal in tho soarch, She goes over the drawor ni;nin, becauso sho knows ho woulln't goo anything if it was right under his nose, but the pon is not thoro. Whon she looks over tha top of tho bureau, and lifts overything on the top of tho front-room tablo, and enys it soems ko singular it can't bo found, 'whon she sayw it only tho day boforo, snd thought about the lotter, Then sho goes into the pantry, and, nfter ox- ploriug tha lower shol? it vain, stands upon n chair, and carofully goos over the top shell, where tho medicino-bottles and unused cans nra stationed, Aftor sho hns dono this, sho starts up-stafrs, and protty soon returna with tho pon, and takes it to tho sink to wash tho greass from it, but doea not succeed 1 quite cfincing tho delieato scent of bergamot, This leads him to obgorve that nni'bndy who takes a pon-holder to life hinir-grenyo from a bottla is too pure and in- nacent for this world, Everything now in read- inoss, good-humor is restored, the wifo tnkes o sont opposite, with her albows on the table, nud her ohin in herhandy, aud assumon au oxpression of countonauco that is mysteriously caleulated to both encourage and repress tho writor; and ho grasps tho pon tightly botwoon his flngors, and staros ab tho papor with an intonsity thut in entiroly unuecosuary, The dute-line starts off glibly,” and then snddenly conees au it reaches the dato itsolf. Ha puts tho holdow in Lhis mouth and immediatoly spits i out again, making up n faco that is 1o wise suggestivo of borgamot, and pottishlyasks her if * u].mqmnwn the day of tho month. OF couren she * doos. Itis tho 13th—or is it tho—bnt no—it must bo, Sho Lioeitntos, staros at Lim, wavers, and is lost, Bl don't fuow whothor 1t in the 13th or thoe 18th, but tho almenne will tell, and sho ut onco starls to Lunt ik up, This oceusions a delay of {ifteon minutes, during which ho makes ninoty-fivo paescs at ono fly, Tho dute baving Leen satisfuctorily sottled upon, and tho things which rolled over tho floor as that stand drawor unoxpectedly foll out having been ro- atored to their place, tho date lino is comploted and * Doar Mother" started. ‘I'nepen is n homa [mu of bushiful mould, and whonover it starts o ino it roquires o half'dozen passes to mako it ivo down. All homo pens do (his. Aud all oo slicots of papar have wenk spols which tho ink rofusos to cruss, thus ereating somo romarke ablo division of words, and considorablo con- fusion among sentonces. Somo of these spots are two inches in dismetor, and augbody in- tho noxt room can tell the moment the writer comes to them, just s woll us if ko was looking ovar his sbouider, Whon tho lottor is comploted, which gonerally occura ut tho ond of thoe fifth hour from the commencomont, it is carefully read ovor, and supplicd with absent words, und then gono over again and artistically tonched \3.- with fta pon at the baro plces, Then 1t is fold od up roady for tho envelopo, and tho discovery is made that thero is vo envelope in the louso, aud tho lotter iu tuckad in belind tho olock un- il the waut is Bupplied, —_— Sevore on tho Ohurch Yeoples Massachusotts paporsaxe tolling the following : 1 A gontloman of Boston lind & son-in-law who WaA B annulmr. o socured his sottlemont ovor one of tho cliy churches, Ho was a feoble pronchier, nud tho congregation soou tired of him and a parish meoting was called for n. change. The parish voted by pows, and thore was ono majority for rotaining llw pustor, Upon ingui- Ty ib was uecortained thal the thritty futher-in- law had bought uu all the choap pews in the gallery and olsowhero, and bad notunily sconred & jorily of votes. A committeo waitod upon Mr. A, and romonstrated with him ou keoping a preacher in tho pulpit so distastoful to tho con= grogation, Mo replied : ¢ Qontlomon, I lmow my son-in-1aw ig not much of a preacher, but my ranmon 18 purely & lnwinesa ono. I bhave gut A mus| im on my hands with my daughter and Al ¢ o i