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SUMMERING. Groon Lake, Wid,---A Beautis ful Sheet of Water, Socloty at the Oakwood and Shor- wood Foreat Houses, A Bady Who Was Acquainied wilh the Beochors and Tiltons. Harll's Vineyard and Naninckel—"Tho Cottage City of Auworiea.” The Llizaboth Islands-=-South Boach--- Gay Head and Its Light. —_— Springs in Southeastern consim--A Veteran at DMackinaw. Wig- How a Saraioza Telle Drossess=Xmpue dent Milliners---Waltzlug at Fut-in Bay. Notes from tho Sen-Side, Springs, and Mountaina, GREEN LALE, WI3. Bpeelal Corresyondence of ‘L'he Chicano Teibune, OnEEN LARE, Wis., Aug, 12, 187, Horo, In tho hoart of Wisconein, sccluded from the world of commerco and trafiio, lies ono ot NATURE'S MOET FAYORED RRTREATS. You bardly aro nwaro of its existenco, before you seo thio palo-groen verduto of its hille, the daop, cool, dolicious ocmorald of its foreots primoral, and the rose-opal tint of ite erystul waters. Of courss you do not drop upon it from the skicg, ot loast T did uot, but arrived in Mo ordinary way, by {he mechanfeal apparatus of tho railroad, and that I oyer did nrrive at all Is duo to mwy superior faoulty for forrol- ing ipformation out of romautic guide- books, digaified Conductors, and roticent Yickot-Arents, who hava only the falntest con- soption of & world ontsido of thoir epecial Tine, Nobody, knew whore Grean Lake was, or how far, 101t might bo Cor years, or it might bo for ever,” beforo you got there. At any rate, £ started fair and square from tho Nosthwostorn depob in Cli- 2ago, aud wont, by the way of Watertown and Tonesvillo, to Fond du Lao. Thoro I changed oars, taking the Sloboygan & Foud du Loo lino to Green Laio, still ntterly unconocions of how near or how far wy dostination might b, The Couduc:or on this tiain koow, buwever, 2ad 1 learnad, Lo my dotight, that it wag 25 miles from Fond du Lno aud 174 aoLrs FBO3t ORIOAGO, and {hal you can toke your choico of loaving Quieago on tho 9:15 train by Janosvillo and Foud du Lac, arriving hera at 8 and sowo minutes, or £0 on tho 9:30 train to Milwaukeo, and havo two hours to rest eud rafrosh, making the samo timo hore,—tickets being g'ond either way, Ihavo learned, sincamy avtival here, that tho most direcs route by which to returnie through M- wauliee,~tho train leaving Fond du Lac in the ‘morning, stopping, without change of cars, in Milwaukoo for diuner, and roacling Chicago at 4 o’clock oz alittlo aftor, instead of 7 in the aven- ing,—tho fare bewmng the same aa by the langer and mora circuitous 10utz, and tho tiokots good for eitlier; Lut the diatance abridged by about threo hours. Dr. Stennott, tho nbio Goneral Pos~ genger Agont of tho Northwestern Road, has published a_valuablo little book as a guidoto tourists in iho Northwest, but ho does not mukie tlug diserimination of routes, which is really of waluo to uil who travel in that largoe section of conntry. Tlaving renched tho depot at Greon Loko, we lighted, tired uad hungry,— A UAY PALTY FORM ST, LOTIS iolnln[z us at Fond du Lte, conxinting of Mre. Floteier, wife of ex-Gov. Floteher, and h daughter, Bisa Ellag Mra, Jhmes,” widdiw of ~the loto iron-merchant, amd hor daughter, Miks Madge; and Mr. O, 8, Mulford, ‘Those people wero_ joily, sovial, aud wall-bred, and thoy mado tho placo riug with their merriment. A long-bodicd, thin-logged, black conch waited to cerry us to the hotel, and, from its prixon-like appourance, way ub onco dutbed tho ** Black Maria” Into. it we filed, and rodo up Inll and_down, stopping only loug enough to shy & leathern mail-bag at a individ- el supposed fo epressnt the Postmastor, who gtood 1u front of an unoflicial-luoking building, Ipbelod Post-Ofico, 'This was in the Town ot Dartford, the counly-seat, aud quito o protty villago, ‘Wo paused through 1t and rodo ob throngh n fine of dark woods, b{n ploagant couns try-road, il » milo sud & balf of digtance wis hotween us and tho dopat, when tho * Black Marin drow up with o flourish at the Onkwood Touse, and we bastily jumped out only to heor tho landlord eny, ' No room] Beventy St. Louis gucats) You muet goto tho Sheywood Forost!” Now, this soundod romautic and Robin Hood- fuh, but we wero hungry aud birod, aud tho courteous proprietor coucluded to givo ug our supper, end’ @FEE WHAT COULD DE DONE, which endod in s general ishiibusion of us through the building, and a cozy compactness of apurtmenta tha: was blissful fo our woaried genses, Onr oxcellent suppor being disposed of, wa repaired to our respeciive dormitorios, aud alops the sleep of tho just, Tias not bifl I hiad breakfastod noxt morning, and stood, hat in band, on the piazua of the Oslwood, thet I roalized what a lovely dimple in the bosom of Natuce I had fallouinto. On every hand rose grnu.e- alopea or clills of unmis- taknbls grondeur, Wooded ecres mada a duik, rich backiraund, against which wore placed tho benutiful villas of art and oivilization; while far, far in the distance gleamed with the opaline light tho waters of Greon Luke thut nestled at our foot. At ovory glauce somo now foaturo of bonuty was ndded : s while-wingad slip; a teut whitoand fairamid thegreou folingoof thobanks; tha blue, curling smoxe of an Indian encam mont just across tho narrowost turn of thelakos and, directly near, the handpome grounds of Oskwaod House, amnmented withs swings, and rustic feats, and summov-housos, ana eroguet- Inwns, with & spico of overgreous in the ir. and » buoyancy of atmosphero thas wado one glad of life, and beslth, aud Lonven | If thou art worn and hard besct Witk sorrows that thou would'st forgat ¢ 1€ tlgu would'at read a lesson that wili keop Thy beart from fainting, sud thy soul from sleep,— Ga to tho wooda end hitiu ! No tears Dim tho sweet lovk that Naturo weard, ‘Accompaniod by Mra. Honry Starring, of Chi- £ago, and her gon, Mason, I went out fora NOW 0N THE LAXE, taking an unsucouneful Huhinig line with me, We trolled wently up the shoro i tho direction of Gen, Brayman's home,—you Lknow tho Goneral 18 s old Chicagony, and hiag & churwing home bore, Just boyond this wo cawo to tha picnic rud camping grounds of Plousant Point, Ilors wo disombarked, acd called st onc of the tents, containing a family from 8t. Louis, Two bods woro mado up on the ground, which was covered sith & gev-colored Drussols earpet, A lrgo Bar- aopa trunk gorved as o divang ono or two chnits wore visible, aud n small port- sble toble, Ouo of the ladics waa at tho maomont ongaged in witmg bomo on ehocolato-colored, mopogrammed papos ; hor im- provised dosk wag an ironing-board., ‘'l tout for cooking was at o distance. ‘Thoy assured us that chmping-ont was great fun, Uutaocky woro hung in tho trees for thuko who liked tham. A lomonode-staud oconpled a sito near, Tho wator hind roughened whila wa wora b xont from tha bont, aud tha waves oame dushing i, chiargod with phosphorescent hght, Latokon- Ings & storm, aud bringitg aut the poculinr tint of tha water whicl givos tho leke ite uame. I NEVER BAW BUCH A CULOR, 1t was a decp sog-green, tinged with yollow, the sreot of tha wava belug » lght bronze, and dark- sulugzdown in tho dopths to a vivid, npnx-l;llnvg mnorald-graen, so falr aud yot g0 cruoll Wo owed up to look at ‘the littlo yacht Horshon, which bhas so fatal s record, fust cua year from lasp Lourth of July, sha wrrled n gny party on tho Lako,—~plenmtrc-ieok- we from tho surrounding country,—twonly- waven {n all, i a Loat capeblo of seuting tou pat- pous comfortably, Whpn tho galoty was At its helght, and thay ware gut it the middle of the lalio, & sudden ntorm of wind and ail darkoned tha wky. Tho.affrighled womon wotld uot givo tho mon who managed tho sails room to move, and (he boab wont ovor, plunging hor wholo preciows enrpo into the Iake, 'Pen parasua wore drawnad ; oue whole tamtly was lout togebhior, Audd thio tromibding tutden held her broath Abtho tale of (st swlaly pitilesn ea, Tu tan winutes Lho utorm struck the lake, did {ta tarribla worl, and paseod ovor, leaving a cloar wliyy b, for Fome, what nges of suffering wore comprosuod fute thas brief gpnco, AREEN LA 18 3 mlles wido nud 15 wllo¢ long, and has lons of olvilizatlon and moro of welrd natural grandour than auy of tho Wisconsin lakes I have yot seen. It is novor ns mirror-liko nud trangiil as the transparant walers of Gonove Luke, bub b Is call of resonnnt aits, sud deop, solbing_ mono- roned, and lurmonioua, soa-liko musle, Iy bor- dlors aro fringod with graud foigut-troes, not the transparont, rlonder, curled darlings of nact, tut tho atatoly, - fudivenous growth aof Indian soil, Iluge bLoulders of rock he 1w pobbly rows aloug ita edee, s if, at somae rumioto Lime, a raco of Glantcatldron had played iboro and soc tham out inoven raws. 'The wators w10 fail of flau,—?ewn, and_plekoral, aud binck Loge, Tu wintor, L am told, fho sleigbing on tho lakio in aulil;hunl. ‘Tho nolson for sminar-yise ity Ista (il October; and oven tacu tourlss go rolitantly away, lugering till thoy light out- door firas to keep warm whilo they pay tholr do- volions to Natmo, ‘Cho woods in ° bor are snid to bo warvelously bonwiitul, attor .ho froat hes touched tho troan, and cach ono hangs out its lovely, {:nyculurml brunara of death, ‘Tho afr haa ab alltimes o hoalth-giving inspiration, that goes down deop into tho lungs) and diffusos uw fifa futg tho tirad, tauguld system, and you o homo to tha hotal with sn apputice that ity tho heart of tho eateror with dolight. Apropos of diniug, I sat on tho veranda wait- tng, with en aching voud, for tho summons to divmor. My gozo was fixed upon the grand swoop of majestio scorory bofore mo, and I was faut drifting off futo the roalns of peacotul sontiuent, whon tho golid carih bonoath me BUQOK WITIL A UEVERDERATION thet for n momout stuuned mo; little jots of bluo liglt danced beforo ma; a wheel of flamo vavalvod with *fenstul velocity, avd I was tho conbral _ polne. . Terrifle 'concussions of wound dinoed thomsolves into my unwill- iug ears, With tho suddent instinct of o womsn in mortal terror, I put my lnnd to my back-hair, and. flnding that in statu quo, propured {0 colleoy sty ecattered wits and lnves- ligate (o mystory, Had Coggla’s Comaob chauged its mund, and como back and hit g ? \Wns there su enrthquake, or had a toruado onvoloped us ? Or woro _{he Sccond Adventisty right, and_this tho ond of things matorial ? Suddenly I was conscious that I still Tived, that I sat on tho Jrlnzzn of the Oskwond Hotel, and the pong had just sounded for dinver | Ican never forgive tho * Chinco™ that fuvonted that insteument of torture. o 18 1, O man, with fuch dlacordant notsce, With Auth uccuracd {nstramenta as there, Thott drowncat Nature's swveet and kinaly volces, Aud jarreet tho celestist barmonies 7 To tho afternoon it rained. Wo bLad plapyed avisit to the Winnobngo Iudian cainp, across the lako; but, onder tho influonco of 1hé weathor, we changed our plans, and sought o quict nook it the linmenso square parlor, waere Lho guests asgembled, 1t was ATIOUT A3 QUILT AS DEDLAM, far the whole nry of littls ones inyaded it, and converaation or thought was alilke uuprofitable. ‘I'ho habics that had been oxposed 1o whoping- oongh toddled nround with small lifa protestora strappod on their tiny chosts, fo tho shapoof mi- waite prckagos of ssarntida ; colorod nunies wisiak- ad tike dusitv shadows afier tholr uhnrficn; whilo the plzeid Memmos onosod eatin-linod baskels, aud g0y anashior stitoh in a novor-Auisbod tidy, or compared notos on a cloud with a silver lining, intonded for o haw-pin-holder. A squad of httlo taules was vressed into wervico for whiat, boziquo; or ouchre, Al one of thoss I noticod Afr. Munson nud hiz wife, of Quincy, Til; Hr. Goshors, of Cincinunti; aod protiy Misa Doyle, of 8t. Louis, Mr, Munson, who Is a rulroad Superintondent, held an unlic cigar in his mouth, which scemed to offord him o vast deal of satisfaction, sud ho plaved with & solomn futontuess that showed ho hud given his whole mind to it, Mr. Goshorn—who, by tho way, i tho Director-Usneral of tho Contonnial Commisston at Philadolphis, and pro- prictor of the Auchor Load-Works, ot Cinciunati—alao plared cn steadity and soriously no 12 his Jito dependod on ib; whila his lovely wifo sat with a group, consisting of Mra, Gon.” AleDonald, Mra. Stwring, dirs. Willlam Greonway, and myaelf, and amised horsel! with light neotllo-work. On the s3fa sab Mry, Gregg and her cimtming family, tho two youngost of the five being daudled ou the pntornni ancestor's Wnce. Ar. Gregg s a’ 8t Lowa gontleman, l[:rcuidom of tho Winto-Load Company; he nings A PATR OF SPANKING ORAYS and colored conehiman, and has been n summer boarder 8¢ tho Oskwood for fivo years, Mis, laal—a prolly, scntlu littlo lady, wife of Uniled Btates a1 u?' ofleor—uity wparl with bor two babics, who ovidently rolor their mothur to theiv nurse, The seeno s kaloidosoopie. A blonde miss i¢ playing onatohes from *La Grande Duchosno” on tho pisno, sccompanied by & callow yonth on & month-organ,—a provi- dential ingpiration to call attentivn to his Inrze mustache, Tho handsome bruustto who ig con- varsing with two uarrow-chestod younm mon, who aro at posts of dovation in front of her, is Mry. Maud Mowiy, the widowed dausbtor of Mr. Greenway, tho proprietor of the house, Ier toilot in perfect, and she is ay brilliant as a ntar, aad the young meu ave hovelosaly in love. Tho blonde youny lady oppouvit s her sister-in-lasw. Ounly last weok thero was o little White waxen baoy carriod away, and to-day she sits silont and apart, with tho shadow of o first sorrow ou her fair, palo face. Tho lrge, handsomely-dréssad woman, with such elogant jowelry, is 1Mra, Giogory, of 8t. Louls, who lacis nob any good thing. £ho hng threo beantiful children with Ler. When the vain was over, wo formed a pasty to vigit STERTOOD FOREST HOUSE. - "Thig Liotet in ahout a iile and nhalt up the lake, amil i reached by A pleasaut country-road, lined with trecs, Wo found the guesta all assembled in tho parlor, - Cal. Smith, of Bloomington, I, who js rbout to mala the tour of tha world, iy wtopuing here, with bia privaco seoretary, Dudlev Cuiaso, vud 18 ronding up foreign countries, D. 1L, Phillips, editor of the Indiuapolls Journal, i there with hia hmsl{. ‘The louso is not yot #oishad, but seema ta have & goad many guests. ‘I'to Sherwood fumnily have lived hero for twenty yorre, but have ouly recoutly apaued the hotel. In tho evening, A DANOE AT THE OARTOOD onded the day, It wasrather exclusivoly for the young people, but good daucers do not care to Bit atill and listen passively to tho inspiring atraine of & waltz ; 80, mothore, sud oven grand- mothers, took part. e, James camo in lalo accompanicd by tho two young Jadies and Mra. Tletcher; sho wos drossed in deop mourniug, her ln\‘nl{ gray owls coverod with _widow's enp, which gave hor n atriking and distingus ap. aranco, Mies Madgo, hor danehtar, was also binck, and did not danco ; but tho lovely and piquant Lila Matohor hesitated not, sud rushed mio the thick of tho fray at onsy, Bho wna dremsed in a- black gronndine, tho polonnize made In the pretty sume mar shada af eltorutts wivipes of gronadine aud insortivga of yal-laco, Bho waa “divinoly toll,” and “ most divinely fair," liko a danabiorof tho fio(l}u and I could not repress o shiver of {forcboding 83 T saw the profane arm of a ntmn,{u youug 1nan eneiroling tuat slendor, pivhah waist, in tha dance, Mire. Grogory was dressed to perfection in n white, puffed “tulle, worq over & pink undordress. She danced, in & [rayy matronly way, with tho boys, who, boing n tho hobbledelioy ags, wers all ianda and feat, and ran imminent dangor of upsotting evarybody thoy came in contnct with, Mis, Qon, AlcDonali did’'nov danco, Bho wau riohly attired tn hlack sillt, her handsomo hair elabovately and bocom- Ingly coiffod, and woro the finest dinpmonds in tho houso. Tho Gonoral—who ia a high ofilelal in the Internal Nevenue sorvico, a porsonal friend ot Prosident Grant, and much entcomod by him—dunced in every et, and mada a gallaut appoatauce, althoush ho dancod in the aamo sat with hir married daughtoer, Mra, Greouwsy, The General hag just finished AN EGEGANT AANSION an the bank of Groen Laks, noar tho Oakwood Villa. o and his family bonrd st tho hotol,— hig only dunghtor bolng married to the anly son of tho propriator, The now Louso ik sald to bo gurrounded by overything caloulated to wake homo pleasant, and it combines comfort with fuxuvy. 'l‘hgu'mfl ronohon this point evory night, bring- ing letters and papora from the oatside world, o papors wre usuatly from Hu. Louls, aud thay glva nans threa days old, alroady stale, Tha Olileagzo papers lnst night, o CiioAao ‘Pumuye of the maeniug’s lsene, roomed to be fully up- preclated, but, of courso, was accorded to the fow Chicogoans presont, who divided it mto four shaats, aud wora spon absorbed in tho contonts, Tho one all-absorbing topio was Iha Deochor trinl, and overybody seemed to expoot that pomo now horror was doveloped, The ladies do nat diucuss tho mattor, at lenst not publicly; but thoro wag prosont ono youny murriod woman whao had ; BELONGED TO THE PLYMOUTZ ODURON BABDATH- BOHOOL aud who_admirod and rovered both Mr. Tilton and Alr, Doochier, Bho sald tbe matter had been " THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 e ) 3 Inown so long in Néw York they had coanad to thinle abant 1, bus tho outsiln workl was nob Dbreparad for it Hlio commented upon the love with which Mr. Tilton inepived tha henttn of Lis Brndny-gohool eblldron, 4aying that Doceher did not kriow how fo adapt himsolf to tha under- aanding of a litlla child, willa Dilton talked to them in tio most gracious and loving mnnuer, t4he ntyo sald that Mra, Tilton was tull of tane trumns sud intensoly velflsh. 8ho daxoribed har a9 n littlo, plala, quliot woman, without any por- wonnl mognabisin—ber dves boiug old-fash- {oned, aurd wooring hee balr i an old-fashioned kuot, tho front braided straight Dbohind tier " oars, and falling thero in short curls, **Tho fact 18, '®ald wy informant, who wns o izmmiuu Yankoo, **Bhio has no got-up- and-gat to hor, but s alwayadreaming ; just tho kind of woman you would expeat to (et a man into troublo ; oite of tho goody-good fand, withe out any moral backbono,” Thg litils lady eat piim atpright, with hor wool-cibroidery in lior hands ¢ disdal iing to look at the papers. *I'm atele of the wholo business,” she said. " Doyou thinie T oonld get that mixed shado of groen in Dartford?” "Chus ure pouls disposed of All through this part of Wisconsin thoro is the GUANDEST FARMING COUNTIY in tho Wocrt, If the farmors make upa poor month about their- ol‘nfm hero, thoy will not de- #orvo symyathy : for I have axamined dold aftor tlold of wheat, in conipany with sgrloulturiste, apd thora is n full crop, with a good, zqmul. clean-looking grain, and plenty of it. Thero lna been mo wet weathor Lo rasp it, ond the formors havo moro ihan thelr usnal averaze of hired holp; whick doon not lool much like & half aerop. This ery ovory yoar about tho erops being a fatluro is get- g tiresomo. 'Twenty yonrs ago it was just tho samo; woovil fu iho ‘wheat aud blight on the potatoea. It io a misfortuno to tho conulry whon comm is 80 plunl?' that farmora uso it for fuol. The stonpngo of all worlk on railroads and of ex- tousfon of ‘pow liney iy liikoly to bu moro dig- astrous to tho Siato than tho chinch-bug, Noarly all work on tho roals hag nta&)pud. thug throwing out of omuloymont hundreds of mon. Now lines, that would havo boon carriod on this year, have not sinco boon surveyed; and num- bers of small towns that owo all their prospority to tho rallronds aro dwindling to ruing. ‘Tho rallrond compantes borrowed monoy oud Issned bonda on tho strongth of Improvonionts and ad- ditioan! strongth: but tho Potter law hos tied their bangs, We ato golng neroes tho lake this aflornoon to visit tho Indlans avd l"f’ in autock of Winnoba-~ go bows and arrows. ‘Tho proity yacht in whicls wo a0 to aail is tho Ilallie O'Falion, the property of s gontleman of that nawe from St. Louis, I go from bere to Groen Dav, which i distant 60 silos. T'woplo from tho wholo surronnding couutry makoe this A RENDEZYOUS FOR THIE SUNMER. Thoy come i partios from Oshkosh, Ripon, Ber- Jin, New Loudow, and the lumbor-rogions, and stopat tho hotls, or camp out by tuo lako. ‘Thore sre half-a-lozon coltages in tho prounds of tha Oalwood, occupied by families who spend ovory summet lera, Thoy find plenty of occupation iu fishing and Luting, and it does not becoma, monotonous, as one swould thiok it might ; and’ thero is wuch a varioty of plensant dives, namnu(y pieniea and Inke-oxour- sions, that ouo 14 kopt {n n miid formont of ox- }mclnflm) all tho time, whilo our oreature-com- orts 810 ndmirably attonded to at tho huudy of mino host of tho Oakwood, ‘T'ne Tollowing liut of gitosts at tho two hotols oomprigs the seayou-guesta: OAKWOOD_HOUSE, A. . Parsons, Chileago s T, 11 Wallaco, d03 E. A, Hammoll, ¢ 3 F, Dorlolat, do; Georgs A, Stowart gnd kily, dos A, J. Ohwos, do3 '3. B, Kirk, o Alvs, 3, B, Kick and” secvant, ' do 3 Mre, Heury Starring nnd son, do; 0, 8. Alford, St Louin; Mri, Gov. F. 0. Flstelier, do Mim Bils Fietchier, dot Mra, A, Jumes, do 7 Stise Mudge Jomes, do: Gu'W, Avory, ‘wife, and son, Yoorls, i, ; 1. 1, unningliam, Oalrot tho {on, Willlam 1.’ Gregg” (Presidons Whilo. Lead Works), Tumily, und sorvanis, St Lowis; 1, G, Walker, family, and servants, do; A, . Blskop, Chtosgo | W. I, Dogd and famlly, St, Louls : Misa Hrothern, do} Atre, B, F, Bush, do ¢ Olarenco O'Falton, do; Benjame it O'Fallon, wifk, thica childron, and ‘ervanis, 4ot Ruth O'Fullon, do; Gen, McDonald and_family, do i Mes, Capl, eulo, tivo children, and servant, do : ‘Miss 1. Cuovitoan, do; iy G, Vaille, do W, 1f, Wators, Trealdent Second Natioual Dunk, 8. Lowms; 8. Wators, St. Lonin; F. A, Waters, do;~ W, D, ¥atera Qo3 Sadlo I\ Waterd, d . Joli: N, Dyer, child, and iirse, o ; Miss Berth Chouleny, doj A, A, Ghoutent, dnj Mrs, Robert Andorson,do ; Mies' Bails Anderson, U’ Mixs Laura Audereon, do: A, Belgel, wie, and s Vasit, do 3 X, C, Harrio, wite, 2t family, do'; Mrw, @, Phtlor, oifld, and ntese, do; N. D, Munson, wif (o enfldken, and corvant, Quincy, TIL: Tufus B, Kel: lagg, San Franclsco s Georga W Bitcholl, Dabiique, Tn 3 Gaarles J. Slark (oditor Jonrnul) sud lady, Derili, Wik, ; John A Ssuddor (Prodident of tho Momphis Tucket Company) nud family; Mre, Frauk Gregory, (hivee culldre, und aervant, 3, Louls ; A, T, Goshon @rasldent Aador WhitoLénd Worke), Glaghuati; 2. , Goshorn, family, mud servants, dos N. 8, Murphy (Sentinel), ‘Milwaitkeo; Mrw, Churles i1, Willlums, calldren, and mal?, t.' Louls, SHERWOOD FOREST HOUSBE. o', A. Smitls and sccretay, Dudley Cliase, Dinom~ inyton 3 Jolin Nuzro nnd funifly, Milwankoo Mrs, F. 1. 3rry und danghter, Indinuopolins D. I, Pilliips {cufor Ntate Journal) whid wile, Indkuiapclia’s Olinzies Gartar, wife, and fuwfly, Milwaukes; Gearga Hueston aud family, Indlanafolls’s J. M. Wood, do; 3. Staplen ani wite, Halt Take Clty ¢ Miu Thattle Lyman, il Veaukae ¢ Lrof. ¥, K. Ifaneon, Lafayetto, In Dlockanbrongh, do ; Yas Auna Cornlug, New York's I, M:Cullock’ (banker), wifo, sud two chiidron, Sfoveun Polut § Eran Edwards, wife aud to children, Apploton s Fiauk Paker and wife, Obicigo s A, B Firwod, Chicago ; Mra, Longfallow, Bzookiyn, N, ¥, M. ———— MARTHA'S VINEYARD AND NAN. TUCKET, Correapondencs of 'The Chicago Tribune, Osx BLuFrs, Mass,, Aug. 0, 1874, Whoro is Oak Blults? On Martha's Viseygrd, to be suro. You dou't mean to sy you have nover heard of 1t bofore? In this section it is styled by tha advertisors “THE COTTAGE CITY OF ANERICA;" ond very appropriate tho term scoms to Lo, Sowma years ago it beecame necessury for me to srop for a short time on this island, and in thoss old days I wondered how {tie poople lived on year after year withont the lifo of tho ontside world, with divided families, half on land and half on sea,—with uothing, in short, to make snch residence deeirable,—and daily, almont homly, thanked my lucky stars for having thrown my Liues in pleasanter places. Marthn's Vinoyard, as you probably Luow, is asmall island, ;of =bout 20 miles in length and avoraging 734 in breadih, containing fourtowns, tho Jargest of which is Edgartown, tha county- seat ; for this lsland, togethor with the Eliza- Loth groun, lying to the northwost of mo as I write, constitutos Dukoes County, Llass. Like the neighboring mniuland, Caps Cod Peulvsula, the land is low and sandy, . THE LLIZADETH 1SLANDS aro barren epots, contuning but fow houses naside from the fishermen's buts, and Lave but littlo interest for tho travelor, unless ho carries with him iy book and line. I must excopt vuo, Pouileds, which, through tho instrumentality of Prof, Agussiz and Mr. Anderson, has spokon to tho world, and promises moro. Tle names be~ stowed upon theso islands aro Indian iu the mein, althongh Gosnold lsland commomarutes the plucky Englishman who discavored thls soo« tion and gave it tho uames still carried. Notlco tho musle in Lhose namos : Naushon, Cultyhunk, No Aau's Land, Chappaqulddocl, Neshowaus, sud a dozon others oquully cuphoul- ous, Unlika tho ElizabothiTelands, which aro not easy of approach savo i1 somo chanco vossel, SARTHA'S VINEYARD, o in, from tho begihning of the warm scason until it8 cloun, o scoue of pleasuro and motion. Tho clhief point of sttraction is, of course, the 4 Bluffs,” buck of whica tho famtonn camp-moot- Ing lu hold. Row aftor row of cotingos meet the sye na wo noar tho wharf, and wo ave forced to admet thut the term wo quoted at the beginning ia not n misnomor. Thero ara hotels in plenty, the Boa-View boing tho largost and most fmpos- ing,—adsmirably named From its pesitlon, for it stands at tho load of the whart, and most iu- vitingly thiruats ita long verauda [nto your eyos. Besides this are the Central, Baxier, Pawnos, Islnod House, and numorous snialler ones. 'Iha passlug yoars havo dovolopod this placo wondertully, A short thme ago It was slnply n _camp-ground iu_ s romote part of Lagartown. Now, Edgartown io overshad- owod by ite Jeader solt, which, dutlag the molt- ing tuno, ia iudeed ite Inrgor welt, Wore you to ask mo if, in tho yoars thut have goue, the chango mado 1a for the batter, If&unnuon il ulmufxl suy Yos, [ shouli tell you thst modorn fmprovemonts, rapid in thoir astrides, buve driven out (ho old alr of comfort sud abandon that oharaotoriaos a plroo Shut In from all the world without, and glve us, inits atoad, foshion and muoh of stiffnesas for it onunot be denied that, stauding on theso vaudy lufy and looting milos seaward, wo hinvo A PADMIONATLE WATERING-PLACE behind us, Witnons tho crowds that como surging from tho bout that hes jues stoanmed up to tne dook, Can Newport or Loug Brunch pro- gent a very diflorent upoot fu point of dross ? Beo the [ighland Ilonso, @ nulo awav. An equally avistoceatle patronago sustaing ity and the oail-byou at tho dock, thut used to come from Bis- tor Hobocoa nnd Aunt Jate, aro now monopolizod u{ Auguuta Fitzwillinn and Arubolls, Iu proof ‘of lts” popularily, oxamiuo tima-iable of Uio bonts tonoliing ab thoso Wharves, Tho Now Dedrord line maken thmozrl&m daily, the Nuntuckot boat two a dny, aud the Lortland avd Now York boat two per wook, heddos oxeurslonn swlhich may appoar at any uu}n—thuu making thoke points easily accessiblo, 4 Thoro hing boon n'a.rlm‘ w now 1o of ataemots, rnning hot woon Now York nud Now Bodford, compoting with tho atopmora for tho fsland, “Eho distanco trom Now Dodrord to the BiufTs is in tlo vislnlty of 25 wnilos; nid o daligh:tal rail it will prove to thara coming for tho wator, Capt, Bmith, of tho onohausott, and Copt. Cronwoll, of tho Mustla's Vi {:\rxl. aro both thorotgh sallors and gontlomen, winulng tho confideca and eatoon of thoss who travel upon their loate, Thero is somothing of tristmph to (Lo Inhibithnia of thia sogtjon over the fach that iheir island is tho smniloat in tha world linving o 1alrond: for it iy Just comploted, bolug 0 miles long, conneating Onlk Dluity with Kalama, of whicl; more auon. EDOABRTOWN PROPCE wns onco o placo of somo tmportencs, having a flne harbor, and doing & larie Dusinoss fn thoe dlvection of whalo-tlshing, To-dsy, with ona of tho bent liarbors on Lho const, It ia a3 quict s thougli it had novor boen nlive, Do whale-shij Tiaa just been fitted up, eud now Bes at tlie dnn[: provisioning for a oruise among Avctle and Pa- cifio Yoas, ~ Tho town was once aformidablo yi- val of Nantuolot, posscssing o advaniago v approach, becauso of tho bar hifore the Nan- tucket Iarbor. Thoy aro still s, but rivals in inaction, 'Tho Vinogard is, throngh entor- prise within and without, ondeawring to malko tho most of what sho is; whito Nantucket, 50 milen to tho southeast, In her oldpride o pros- tigo, scemn to scorn tho vandal touch of marlorn Lande. Anarival to Oak Blufts, the boautitul beach at Katawn hing hoen bronght into notice, & Total bull, and o fow protty coltages put up. And what o protty boach it ia, and how quiot! thio watars of tho bay play upon it, The fancy for x;Ptnlmnyg Indian names mani- fosty ttself horo, dnd Mattnkesott Lodgo bids vou weleome na you land, This is the namo of the holel. Laund, go ina direct ling from thoe whart for the distnace of & mllo, and what do you Dnd? ., , TIE FAMOUS EOUTIL REAQM, i with its furtously-surging Lillows rolling in mad ptrongth for rods upon the shoro. va an undertow | Do thov over, batho hero? Thora aro timea whon tho waters aro peaceful, oven hero, but it 18 rarely safo to truat oncsolf within thoso wators. Thero are again times when the broakors dash with such “terribla forco and hoirht upon the sands na to fill tho bravost with torror, and tho most carclosy with awo. It i o fearful thing for » ahip to bo atranded horo, Somo have triod it, and it mid-winter; and men havo lived to toll of the horrors shoy ondurod whilo soarching, wot, and cold, and bungry, through miles of wildornees for gholtor. 'ha danger 8 not in rocks, but sand. I rocall tho wreck which somo yoars ago Inv liore, ber keol almont bnried iv tho snnd, and that in two weoks from tho_dny she struclk, It wag ?ulcb yosterday eventag when wwa camo, but, {0 tho hait-hour for which wo stood lookine at tho grand old ocoan. tho watera rose with Towor to tho spot whora o staod, This with & slinhtly-freshening breezo. Think what o gele might do! Whon I build my cottage horo, it muat cvarlook tho South Boaoh, DId you ovor hear of - QAY READ ? No! Then vou have never visited thisisland, for it is one of {he Inrpost elophants, Ir you valuo your life, you will do well to #o' by iand. If vou nre Cully inanrad or oxtromely rackloss, sall to it from almost anywhero. Unlilo the South Boaeh. the dngar hero consists in tho rocks which la aff tho const. [n the night, o magnifl- cont rovolving light will tell you from s distanco when you naro off the iend, In the duy, the bright eclay clits will tell you that you aro threatened with danger. Ifow supoth the viow from the water at sunrlso or sunset! Altornote cliffe of 1ed, yellow, white, blnck, brown, sud mixed clay, toom up hundreds of feob feom tho waler. A wimilar appearanco ts not presontaid by any othar portion of our coast, Tho light itself is worth vistting, OF tho highest power, it cuarda many a atorm-tagsad mariver. and zuidoes Lim to o safe liaven. Think of a Inmp in which ton pevsons can stand with case 5 tha light vaflacted by 1,008 prismy, to which must he added tho rod rections, of whicli there are nix, cach contninin threa ploces,—thua making, in all, 1,026 reflecting wedinme, Tho red fineh Ia_Roon oneo in forty eeconds, This lighthonko is kept by threo men, twoof them being assistants, In the summer they cannot b3 lnzy if they won'd : for, notswith standing tho drain upon thoir timo, paticuce, aud streneth, thoy never deny admiltance to vigitors, of whom thev havae fraquontly o hundred per day. From tho towor wo ean oasily gao the towns on the mainland, whilo the many sails that dot the son make tho scoue ouo not to Lo #oon forgotton, o went Dy land, moro than 20 milos, in rhe early moraing, to roturn on the most lorlously- beautiful moonlight night of thorummer, One who would fail to remember tha boautiful sur- riges that burst upon us through tho moon- rlght can havo but little conceptionand ropand for bonuty. ‘I'hie morriest and tho rudest wore quist ‘with apnreciation of what could not be surpagsed, Trne, tho rond wag roneh ; hut tho heht on inland geas und sandy shore, varied with greon flelds that wore black in tho shadows, mors ihan repaid us for that. THERE ARE MANY INDIANS nbont Gay Hend,—romnanta of tho old tribos,— and tho dusky littlo faces which peorad out at us trom tha littlo greon back of the rchool-houso, fiom which thoy bad just boon relonsed, sliowed us that tle lino is likely to continuo at least ona peneration longer. Tho rchnol-house and tho neat littlo homesteads, aronnd which. in stony woil, we perceivad tho ovidences of agricul n*al at*ompta,—indeed, Buccess,—wero not the only proofa of civiliza- tion, A pair of sinlwart Indians—man and maiden—indulged in 8 long gamo of crognet bo- fore their own door. With tha stolid indifference of their race, thov did not deign to notico us, eave by one carelcrd glance, nn_fi all our soroned-" ing cotilil not win a second look, Enforo closing, let mo sy a fow words of NANTUCKET. Hero, a8 at Edgartown, Vinovard Iaven, and tho other towns on Martha'n Vinoyard, tbera ix an gir of comfort in the homes which line the streots, Nantucket hns a much oldor, and per- Linps o moro substantial look. Ona noticeablo fonturo of the houees—proving how tho owners liko the sea—is the open observatory which so many have, Solid brick as well a8 wdoden honsea aro at times to bo seen In Nnntucket, winch is ok trua of itw sistor island, where the dwolling- liouses are uniformly of wood. There nro tiro ways of reaching Nantucket: ono directly, via the Old Colony Railroad, connocting with the boat nt Wood's Hnle, tho other by way of New Bodfard and Oak Blalls, at which poiut tho Nan- tuoket bonts nlways tonclt. i ‘As you approacl Lho town, it rises fnyitingly— indeed fapc sln.xlly—-{mm tho water, giving yon on impression of hoight, which 18 romoved ca you laud nnd go into the town. There is no ominenco desorving tho name of liil, no pafut which gives ?‘uu o flne view of tho town, The pluco is_mach reducod in population, owing to tho docline of tho whalo-fichory; bub the np- ponrance of solidity wtill clings.” Thoro aro sov- oral churchos, threo or fonr good hotels, and soveral places of intcrest to tha traveter, The peoplo are cultivated and rofined, and o true soilor’s greeting awaits the Jady or gontlonn who stags with tho hoat long enough to win bhis confldonice. Thelr practical knowledge so far oxcoods our thooretical thab wo Dide our diminished heads befora tho bLumblest whon hie s falrly lannchod upous his hobby, Nautueket heu fta Bowih-Shore, sud wmekos tho most of it. All thoso Islands havo galos, as {hoir position would indicato ; but, with all thoir solation iu tho wiuter,~for somotimes thoy are ice-bound for days, Nantucket having rogular commuitica~ tion with the muinland but threo times por waok during the wiuter,~they Luve thelr soclal gays- tos, which wo, in the rmsh of o Lusy aity, uey sonlotimas onvy, With all the altrnetlons thene places hold,—for thore iy no denyiug that the sumuwer is dolightful on theao shoros,—thers Is ONE VENY SERIOUS DAWBACK to a roally largo patronsge : llnlul-nlln\'fios aro too high,” At'thoSea-Viow, n comforiublo dsy cannot bo passod for loss’ than §5 or 303 wnd the sama l4 upvroxlmn!ua truo of the orher ho- tels ab tho Blufs, Bourd in private families 18 correspoudingly hugh, and (b thousands who would vastly profor o remain horo, aro driven down tha consl, whoro charges nro loss, and, barving the excitement of coustant avrivals, tho bonotits_and plessura oqually great, Peoplo should, it scom to mo, bo contont with rotiving on tlo profits of two summers’ boarders insteud of ono; Iudocd, tho profits mucht be quite-.as large wove pricos loxs, T'wo dollars por duy in one of theso pisoes cavers all oxposuo to which a ‘mrflou can reasonably subjcot lus host, inoluding iwo snd labor, Of eourse, all extras shoukt be countod outnida of thiy, Dut rents uvo compar- ativoly nothing ; won-food costs bute httle ; und, on tha whole, the vory things for which tho peo- plo__visit the sharo aro tho chenpest and most canily obtsined, Whab wonder that ko mauy live in tents or rough houses along the const, and rruvulu for \omvolyon? {6 costs fur loss to hiro a cottaga for tho seakon, and furulsh nieals rar onowolf, it kevernl olub togother to pay tho oxpense; bub there’s tho roapousibility, which wo il conio boro to escapo, TIE UAY AEARON at Oak Dlaffe I8 Jusb begloning, and will bo at Jts hoight during oamp-mocting waok, which la tho last woek in August. Dow’searry your mind baok to that old camp-mooting of yourboyhood's dayn. 1anotof thay kind alail, Truo, thoy worship Cod in thao.opon ait, nndar tho troes ; b tho times hiave roflned Biohio gathoringo, nud the olito nre hoto, No moro sincoro,—Ffar leas, 1 approhiond,~but without the ruds cuthuniagm which shooked our finer nonsibilition in tho olden time. 'Thoro ia mmch of I)I;hh\mm, mt minoh that is earnest; sud, §f wo had only tho mamory of an.old-timo gathoring of this natwio {o toll us of ita charactor, we nhonld cottalaly go to oua of lafor mothod, Ifnd Ia fow weoks to ppond Ly tho shiore, I know of no placo thab wonld hold mo moto frmly than tho localition of which I have been nnuu.(ln;f; In the mnttor of nconory thay offar nothing: but, In gonutue hos~ pitality and enjoyment, nvurythb\g. AR : —_——— SPRINGS IN BOUTHEASTERN WIS- ONIIN. Correspondence of The Chicaga Tribune, WhITEWATER, Wia., Aug, 8, 1874 Tho northwara-lying spaces of our groat pral- rio rogions, poninonlar or balf-peninsular in thotr chatnctor, woro onco supposed to bo givon up to woody Inkes and malatin, or, in the sonth- orn portion, to wido plaius soantily suppliod with troos and wator. But Naturoscoms to hiave hor own way of supplving hoalth to tho fever- smitton or their descondants, and water fn ovary vatioty to the thirsty or nnclean, Thoe number of minoral springs, magnetic springs, warm springs, Loiliug springs, flowing wolls, &e., iu this rogion 18 WONDENFUL, Long ago I remember having watohed tho morning-mists dragging themaelves upwarl from thoso samo [1l-conditioned lalies fu Michi- gan, and wondexing i¢ thoy wore not the friends of disease who brooded there at night, and scat- torod tho tromulous pestilenco among tho inkab- itants. Now, looking at tho map fn tho samo roglon, I fiud tho -nomes of mineral springs, to whose henling waters tho afilisted gather from oll quarters, ags the sun, in his chemical laboratory, ¢hangod the evil into zoot; or hns he only oxhaled tho baloful cur- nin o malasie from the surfuce, nud rovealed what was henoath ? At sl ovonts, thern seema nuficient need that the dascandants of thosa fover-smittan picncars rbonld o raplaced upon o bnsis of souud health from {hio sanitariums propared for thom in the eamo soil which proved so redolont of disense to tho paronts, The wolls and_springs which havo oxcited my wonder recently. however, . ALl SN ROUTHEAUTERN WISCONSIN, Tho artosian wells, which have Leon npened in this region within n yege or bivo, at Fond du Line and.cleowbere, claitn maguotic provorties. The Bethiesan Spring, at Waukashe, hos been grow- ing into repute during tho Inst two or threo yonrs; but, whataver its virtaes may e, thera is n group of springs, 16 or 20 milea farther weat, on the Milwaukeo & St. Paul Rond, that bid fair to rival it, both as natural curiesities and in heslth-giving powar. Here, among tho renpa of blufls that bordor Whitowator on tho cast and SRy WesT, aonth, and {a tho midat of = whiel tho littln Villago of DTalmyrn is slt- nated, - thero scoms fo bo n singular formution, from which minaral springs and flow- g wolls appear in sbundance. Boveral flowing wolln binye boon struck within o yoar or two, o little to the southenst of thia vilinge,~tho lnst ong at & dopth of anly 16 feok, BOME REMARKABLE FLOWING BPRINQS in tho samo rogion have fong boen known, Mo effort, I beliove, has boen made ro eseertain tha height ta which thin wator can ba thrown; but tho stroams give n strong, continwons_flow, Noar thens i n poculinr minerel spring. In ths midst of a flold of low, marsty land, there risc o inft or mound of ponty sofl, perhaps 30 feot 01 moro in dinmoter, which oy thero liko o huge spongo impregnntod with mineral water, Stop upon it, and you hnva just tho result you wonld have in stepping upon A saturated sponge. 'ho indontation made by the foot fills with water, and tho turf alowly resumes its rlaco when the foot ia romoved. DBut, cut n hole in any ratt of this mound, and you have s strongly=improg- unted mineral spring. At U'ulmyra, 6 or 6 miles to tho east of this, la a group called TITE LOULA APNINGE, most of them bubhlng up from pabbly battoms, and giving cach its own variety of minstal prop- orlies. ‘F'wo or threo of theso aro waras nprines. Not far from these, another group shows in part tho same peaty formation us the Whitewnter Spring just describad, —the spungy nofl, whon out or broken, euffering the water to tricklo down thio sides, satating In pools, or joining the main chaunel. The Bidwe!l Houso, a vory fine hotel, has just beon opeued hore, and scoms to be filling with guests bezoro it s fairly roads for thum. Nearly opposito thia houso, a lovely litilo juko, ket in tho cup of tho' hills, atretchea off do- lightfully in tho distance. A mile below this is THE MOST CORIOUS SPRTNG T havo yot visited, In an oval basin, scoopoed out among tho hillg, lies a hundred ecres or more of low land: and in tho midst of this, following tho planks that load §au over tho morsby soil, yon coms upon & poo} of water, ehallow at firat, but peculiar in its coloving and in the kind of vogete- tion ot tho bottom. But prescutly, passing ovar the platform, you look down tho precipitous sides of a romarkavlo depression, whuso depth was _ variously ostimaled at to G0 feot. do mot Luow whother if hos beon accurately measured. Band, how- evor, hay been drawn up fiom the bottom, andis aaid to bosnow-white, But, to ouroyos, loalkting through tho clear waror, it was ns blue agn for- gut-mo-not ; and tho wiarling, cloud-like mation given to this bluo sand by tho up-boiling of the water at different points on thebattom mado ono think that a dozen fairy caldrons hail beon seb In that ministura Jake.” One might imagino tho steop sides of this deprossion to bo Jined with mosues und syringas,—tho leaven belng coversd with n roddisl deposit, which may indicato the Prcscuna of iron. W'no syringes, honaever, onboe ug drany up, proso to be a reed-like wuter- piant, aud not o slirub, Tho water of thia spring 18 wavm, 80 chac it is said novor to frooze over, though, with thio thermomater at 80 deg, below 7er0, a8 vo sometimes bavo it, ono wonld sup- poso anything would freese. Ihe surplug wator runs through an outlos to tho south, and it ia proposed, by dammiog this stream, to convort the wholo hundrod acres into s lake. Other springs similar to ths last are e2id to exint in tho vicivity ; but theuo aro the only ones I havo seon. A . —_— MACKINAW, Correspondence of Y'he Chicaao Tribune, Maokizaw, Aug. 9, 1874, The hotals of this old resort'nre ull fall, and the cottages of Lhe flsbormen ou tho beach gen- erally huye ono or mora lodgors. Thoy coma and go evory day. Tho poople scom toonjoy thomealves very much, and do not caro partion- larly about stsles. As o rulo, they act sonsibly and fraternizo, and thoae who are inciinod to bo uppish can doso alone, Btoppluyhoro thus snm- mer aro Judge David Davis, of the United Btates Bnprome Court; Judpo Wulls, of the Coenova Awurd Commission: Judge Goodwin, of 3lichl- gan; M. and Mrs, Popo, Mr. J. F, Bonfold and wife, Mr. aud Mrs, Fry, Mr. Stroug end Iamily, Mr. Little, Mr. Goodwii, all of Cineago: M, Ford and wifo, of Kookul; Mr. Olds, Mr, Nut~ man aod fomily, of Fort Weyne; Geu. D.B. Stanloy (of the Army) nud wife, bira. Gen, Swain, Ar. snd brs, Rolyen, of Now Yorlk, JUDGE DAVIS seoms to have thrown off tho cares of the Bonch onurely, aud to enjoy Inmsolf jmmonsoly. Hols o “Jolly good fellow” awoug the lttla folla, kindly perils the Iudios to beat Liwm at ten-pins, and froquently honds walkng-paclios over tho iah\x\:t\. which 8 covered with splondid foot- puths, . THE MOST NOTANLE PERSON liero is Gan, 1unt, of Woledo, 0., n gontioman 70 youra of nge, and o woll-preservad speoimon of tho mou who woio brought up an tha frontior of tho Novthwost, 1o is tel nod steaight, with o splondid sot of toauh, and & stoo that wdicates activity, 1lis mowory iy 1omarkeblo for its clear- noxs, and ho 18 endowed with luo conversationsl powert, Thiv is big firss vielb to the island for govonty-ono voars, Mo was hore in 1803, with Dis father, who was Cummandant of tho Porf, aud Colonel of tho IMirst Unitod Htates Reglmont. Thoy wora ordered henes to B 1.ouis to estublish & post on tho buuks of the Missivsippl nour 8t Louls, ‘Tho trip to Dolroit wos made In o sabling vessel, who ** Adamy" Whon on Lako IIuven, thoy met the troops uumh'{:tu rellove thom, in tho Wilkinson, the only othor vessel on tho Jakes, Thoy sppronchod ouch othor as noar as thoy could, pussing aud ropussing, tho men cheoring, the drums boating, and’ guoy fring, This way tho only thing, aslde from tho canoo of tho l:n!lnn, that broke the solituda of thw pussago. From Dotroit thoy satled, in Montieal bat- touux, to (ho mouth of tho Manmoo River on tho proacut sito of Tuledo, erevio Yort Industry, Trom hore they wont norods {ha Portago Lo Fort Wayue, down Littlo Itivor to tho Wabnsh, und by tho way of tho Oalo to 8t Lonls, aud abovo that city, neur tho mouth of tho Mssouri, oracted n post ealled Fort Joll- Tontaluo. 1t wus hora that Lowls snd Clark Inded aftor thoi tous to the Northwest, ‘The Genoral dosoribeg them and their appearatca Yory winutely, fio was prosont ab Hull's m rondor of Dotroit, aud spoakn of tho pighin o wnw, Homuid: YI was with Willian Whistlor, and snyw moot overything.” Whistior commanded ot Fort Denrhorn yonra 20, 41 31A1 TIIR JELAND OANGED ?" andd T, * Nob mueh fu poveral Appoaranco. Tharn aro moro hnuscn, of enurunI and the whatven, aud tho hotolg, tmt L miss the Tadinns moss. Wo bad uo_propotior-wirstia thew, 1o watling Lontn,—nothmg but tho canoe of tho In- dian or tho btteatx or tha voyageitr.” It moomod liko n dream to bo tatking to n man wlhio had bron hera nino_years bofore Ilulmos fol} winlo tryhig to tako the old work on the hill that boara bl name, Hany Snupla who coma hors camp mnoar tho laiio, and ot prosent alargo party from Dotroit aro jueatod i what thoy can truly onil ** Camp Content,” ™R FIAITNG nonr the {sland {6 not wond: but, by & short sml, good fishing-grounds cau hnyeached. Yestoiday n party of Indies and goutlemen wonb ovor to tho Chonaug, and camo Dback lnden down with boes, perch, and Elokorol. b Oarp Niver gooil trout-fisbing oan o found, A, Olds, of Fort Wuyno, and Mr. Strong, ot Chieago, aro po far tho champion trout-tishers, At the fort thiore Is a company of the Twanty- socond Unitod Btates Infantry, undor command of Mn{. Dickoy, who is most oblizing to visitors, and does much to make tho stny of overy ono pleasent, TIIR WEEK OF ALY, WEERS tuis yoar will bo from the 43d fa tho 80th of this month, when Gon. Shmbmfi will bo bero with the ‘Twenty-second Iufantry d, B.O M e THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. Corpeavondence of The Chicaco Tridinc, Grzx House, N, IL, Aug. 10, 1874, The folloviug I8 o list of recont Wostern arriv- 13 ot this bouso : 35, 1, Ford and family, Ohicago s I, 1, Todlo ani wifo, do ; L, Austin nud wife, Cleveland, ©.; C. W, Tippior nud’ wit, do: ¥, Rckort aud wlto, New Or- lenus 3 Aug, L. Smith and fanily, Wikconing I, D, Hodinpnt and family, Dotrolt s L, 8. Butierold ‘and wife, do; Mra, Pesrdon, Godfrey, Iil, ¢ Arttie Pear~ aony do 3 B, T Cushing, Ullearo; Aitiort Sweot, o § 10, 8, Walli-r and family, Dotrolt, Mleh, 3 Mrs, Wit Gray, do ; Miss I, Whiting, Chisago ; Arthur ‘Wheelor, \do 3 fred Ward ond wife, do 3 4, Korshaw and wife, Colmnbus, 0, 3 J, ¥, Wooil and _wife, Caicego ; T2, II, i, 2, lilard, do; Charien % Vihits Bt, Louln; O, 1%, Hawnders and wifo, Dickorunan nnd wife, d0, e Jomngon, do ¢ innn and Wl Chlesgo ; E. SARATOGA. Alotter from Saralogn in tue New York Sun ivea thoe following pictuca of THE BELLE GF BARATOOA nasho looks to-dav: “llair scolloped in front and braided down hohind in ono straizbt braid 10iuches long, which hanging from the lnb Toooks liko tho handlo of a dipper. 1lut on back of the hoad, with marrow brim turned up and down oud sldowiso, and akowed and twiated atound as if it bad boen ruu ovor by n locomo- tive. Faco velled woll with tulle, which is also muflled nround the veck 8o that the chin rests on it, and tho head looks like a ben on » nest of down. Drass black yak or gronadine, short onotigh uot to tonch tho floor, atraigbt down in front, but long behind, and pulled back over tha hips, No hoops, and tho bottoim of tho dress so narrow that the young lady cannot tuko Jong stopy, How does she “walk? Sko don't weil, sho wriggles along an mon do in & nack-raco, This dresy shows tho form hoau- tifulty, and ity 2 groat impiovemont on tho old flowing_ skirt, Young ladies aro now standing porfoetly erect. 'Their ehosls are expanded and their shou!dors aro thrown baci, ‘Ihe shoes woin are tho ouly part of tho_toileb subjeck to criticism, 'Pheso are narrow, high-heclod bunion- mnkers, Thoy couso the young lady to Hmo, and thoy must nl¥o Lo the canse of a great denl of profanity when tha yortag lady is left alone, 'Fho Pnzasol fa o big black, or blue, or brown nn- brelln, borderad mith lIaco. ¥anu aro ordinary, and moro for uso thnn ornamont, Ilalr i3 worn uaturnl, nnd a8 vet no youug ladies Liero ap- peared with salfron-volorad focks. Besuty isnob of tho Lydiw Whompson school, and only the domi-mondo dye, paint, or powdor. Gloves are fromt tures to six-buttonod. No lockets, nock- cliumy, or wetch-chaing aro worn; thy jewolr: bowg tings, o phin pin_8ad a chuteling brad, or oxidized uilver chizin hanging irom tho belt, to which is suspondsd oxidized #noiling-bottlos, n‘otclf&t-hook, or anything oldo wiklol fency may attach, s o) PUT-IN BAY, A Put-in Bay correspondent of the Clncinnati Times furnishes the followlng description of the atyle in which girly from the difterent Stoles and locslitios wallz, ns shown by tho hops at that plensant resort : © Poopla mey sny that o waltz is a waltz, but it is a mistalke, cg much ng to aay that a dog s a dog, for thero aro dogs aud dogs, and thero are waltzes and waltzes. With one porson it is the pootry of motion ; with another it is about ns awkward s porformanco as puttivg yoursel? upon a Jovel and goiug through the motion of running up-staws would be. A Kentucly gitl is n natural waltzer, znd ohe doos it with o' charming chio aud abandon, Av Ohio pitl's waitzing i3 onsy, pyaceful, aud ¢ meludic ous,” [Kf shio bappons to come from Oincinuatl, and ncross the Rlino, rho awings drenm- HB vound ohd yound in the ovdless ‘Duteh waltz” It pho comes from Cnl- eago, sho hwows ber heiv bee, jumps up_and cracks her heels together, aad carrios off hor astonishod partner as though u eimoom had struek Lim, and kuocks over all in- tarvoulug obstacles in bor mad careor around tho room. I eho i« from Indiana, tho ereops elosely and fimidy up to hor partuer, an tuough sho would lice to creep into his vest pocket, sud molts awny with oestacy as tho witehur atrams of tuo *Bino Dannbo . nwenp through tho hall. 1¢ ho 18 from Missouri, sbe orooks bher body ia the muddlo liko o dour-iingo, tukes lior partuer by tho shouldors, sud mukes him misaablo 1 trving to hop oround her witbout treading on hor No 9 shoes. 1f eho comes from Michisan, uhe astovishes her parinor by now auad then woriting in o to of tho doublo shafile, ora bit of pigeon-wing with tlio waltz-stops sud 1l she comes from Avkonsas, she throws both arms around Lis neck, rolis up ber oyes ag sho toats nvay, aud is hoard to wmurmur, ‘Ou, hug mo, John!" ——— MISCELLANEOUS, The * grasshoppor walk " has succeeded tho * Boston dip.” at the goaside and wprings. —Flev nay that tho fasbionable young moa of Mahopac vow attond bops with powdered hair. ~—Tr o English Jadios walked from Catukif) vil- lago to iko Laarel [Touso lass weak, u distanco of 16 miles, Thoy sccomplished tho feat iu n littlo fosn thau tvo days, | —* Planso ginyne a postage-stamp,” save Mrs, Wriggle tu tuo clork of tho Hotel, Capo May. **Thundors, Madam, do you imagino this iel n,? apolbocary’s vlop #” uereams tho wretchod elerk, —A gork of day-nightgown {s put on by iu- toneely fashionable women as thoy omorge from thesurf, 1t covers thom complotely, and spec- tators on tho bonch aro iparad tho usually eick- ening spectacto ef a fowulo swoll en ronio from sew to bathlug-bouso, Tho porson thint origl- uted theso garmonts ought to havo o neries of cliromos, = Well, I Qoclaro,” said young Bmithiking, of Tiondon, 18 he gazod npun Nusxara for Lo st tine,_ ** Yoth, fts awful,” murmured Sprigy, his wraveling eompamion ; * but, don't_ you knotw, Swithlame, [ think they ought to utllize ull thiy wet by budlding a mill or somotbing of that sort, yon finow i 4 Now, thon, jump right in," osclaims tho surly ommibus-drivor st Long Beancl upon tho arnival of tho oevonlug (rafn, *‘cid be sulck about it, teol” *1'd like to know who you ate wddrossing,” says young Smithkius, uf Loudon, ns ho 15 nbons to enter. Panzt goon tho door, up jumps-tho driver, and Smithkins puts o biv of plain glusy n bis right oye 1o soo how fast the htuge Tolls awny aud Joaves b stonding on the dopot platform. “ Dr, ‘Yrossoau observod of thermelatations; » As o prinaiple, ol waloring-placos ave good for porsons in sound health, provided thov do not drlnk the wator.” I¢ In not nmiss to bosr thi in mind at o moment when so mnny sturdy invalids ayo propaving to sot out ou thoir annual pilgrin: a0, Yortot, the Froneh comodinn, fa nn thsti tion inpoini, o fonnd hin solid fosh to be melt- ing away, oud iy modical ndviker orderod ham to try tho watorn of tho Pyroncos, On nr- iving, the locel doctor assured him the bulhs woulfi ke him stoud In u tow voekn, Porlol continmed the gouruo fur komo tino, but fumul o chango in his couditlon, whon, ono morning In s batl, ho overhioard s lady suy to the mmae doctor, ¥ T am nuot goiting loan pt il ¢ Po nsenred, Madam 3 pationce and contidoace, T'he baths aro ronownnd for maung Spnros alim," Porlot nt oneo quisted hts bath, ealled for bis bill, and retusnad to T'uris, Fhis may bo paral- Jelo by tho old Enghsh auoedote of the riot pa- tiant, Who was sens to Hath by Ins dogtor, with noto of Introduction to a phvsiciun thore, On the rozd tho old geutiemay beoame inguisitive aa to what tho dostor bl said of his case, aud oponed tho noto, Tumdo ho found: * Dear T.—1'ho bearer {8 o vioh old rooso, Nothing the junttor with hma, Pluek biw, Yows frator- nally, ‘ho old°gontloman didn't go to Dath, ok did cbango his dostar, TIIE FARM AND GARDIN, Tho Wasto of the Orchard-Taking CldoraVincgnr—Decnyod Applos for Vinegnr, but Somnd, 13ipe Apples for Older—Dryitgr Apples—E'ho docunts Eoror Not tho Apple~'Yroe«itoror—~1 ha Eatefnl Graswaoppers From Our-Anricultural Corresponent, Cinasearax, T, Aug, 13, 1874, TIUR WASTE OF THE OROHARD, Making cldor In August " ? querled o nelghe bor, ** It wou't keep, and you will have nothing but vinegar.” Woll, thal is all that I oxpoct. You rop somoof thoso apples ate partly docayod, somo nro too small for market, and othors Are dofectives but thoy will sll make vinegar. At lonst 20 por cont of thoso Lroughtin from the orchiard cannot bo sont to market, and yot thoy mako good vinogar, Nob as muck from o bushal aa thoy will Inter in the seanon, but It Ia safe to eay that thewo 20 bushels iu that presslng will ylold 60 gallotfa of cidor-vinogar, aftor deducting tho sodimont avd evaporation, If wo call it worth 20 conts at wholosale, wo haye §12 worth of vinogar for n vory littlo worl, and that is above the cost of thio caak; but than ono bna to wait, i 1t {8 put in the ccllar, some two years for tho raturn, Twenty per cont of tho quanti- ty or yleld of tho orchard is worth looking aftor, Tho farmor who grows 500 bushels of nuples s 100 or nioro thint would go to waato if not turned into vinegar. Unlees ono picks up tho windfalla wookly, ba can hayo no idoa of this woste, s tho insocts destroy them rapldiy and they disappoar. In the Now Yurk market wo seo cider-vinegar qnoted at 23 conta wholesalo, which I supposo includes tho packago, avd mannfactured vinognr 15 cents. IMoro tho former eolls at 25 couts, and tho Iatter i sold nt 15 to 18 couts, packaga ine cluded. Thus it will bo seon that tho furmor who has but o ¥mall stock of waste apples will da woll to look after thom and turn them into ° vinegur, Bomo one mny nsk, What shall wo do for a nresn, and giindor, and horse-power, forall thege cost somothing, aud the man with the small orcherd cannog afford to buy thom, for the in- torest aud dotorforation would tako oft the profit? A progs for 6O bushels will cost 2100, grindor €60, horse-power 81(0, vat S15, total, 5375, 'To (lis prosecs may bo nddod to any ex- tent, Buch an npparatus will make good cidor und pres ont all tho juice, but tho hand-prossen, that cost $30 to €60, are but poor thingy, thongh hetter than none, shen oue eannot get tho worl dono at the regnlar clder-mills, But, for tho making of vinegar, wo mny dispungo witlh o proan altogothor, I Bhakers uwed to mako vivegar by putting tho rofuse apples in a vat, or rathor wo might call it o lench-tub, somothlug after tho manner of the apparatig that the good wife uses in makmg lyo for sozp. Thean may o got up out of dvors, or under aomo shed, or down i the cellar, out of the way, und the ap- ]‘,lr\u put fu from timo to timo ns gathered. A ittle water is to bo added, nud the cider 'will run out a the applen decny. I warin weathor it in #ioon taned to vinogar, aud ia n_vory good ving- par for immediato une; but, without tho nddi- tion of molnsses or whinky, wonld not keop bo- youd @ fow months, us 1t lagks boay, or reserve of vinognr-mntotind, £s, after this lacter is ol oxhaustol, the vinegar soon gebs that, Homo poople put thair e ska out in the Aun; bug thiv in not good policy n3 it endanrera 1ho eazks, baoting off the hoops, or ko shriuking tho utavos oxposed that tho ezl will ‘Josk, Al- ways pnu thom wndor covor, "then, nanin, whon tho vinegar is ot £o wanrhot, ity bo trawn off clenrof tho lees, or it will bo riley und unfit foruse, Tho fermor might sevoe many dollars annually from tho orchard, rad, at tho same {imo, bonofit tho Jator-matitciius 'frait. In caso of & whud bowing off larzor quantitios of apples, beforo fully watyred, iho only resourco is to mako thom into vinegar. In onr vilinge-ntoros, gond ecider-vinegar ro. tnily at 40 conts o galion, whilo tho manutuctored M pnre cider-vinogar ® nells ab 25 to Yo conts,— thus encourraing tho farmer to mako n pooi arliclo of cider-vinogar, Thoro 14 an snpreesios that, to make good cidor-vinegur, o lurge propor tion of wator inay bo used; but wach 13 nob th case. If walored too much, 1t sours quickly and almost s quicsly is spolled, gott.ng dot and insipid, 3ty stlention has beon calted to yo eniced cnned of Taihuro, If yonr cidar-vinogas 5 ot n phar ns you would like to have it, you mny bo pretty woll assured that it will improve by ago, &s tho vinegar<inaterial has not been sl falten up; but if o littlo fusipid, it will soon dly for the want of body, or vinagar metevial. Bmao party in Chivago might make a good thing in making the mmmi:e\! asplesin that mar Lot fnto vinegar. Thoro s another very great mistalo mado by outt farinora who havo spyiles, nud that ig, that the half-Geoayed and defeotive ap- plos will do quite woll for'cider; bag thas is uot 1o, Apples sor cidor must bo 1ipe aud sonnd, but thoy need not bo farga, Fow farmers make eider in Angust, and to do ea o portion of the apples muat bo sweat, and all be ripo and vouud. OF cowrke it is not oxpeeted that such early-made cider will bo Lopt for wmter-uso. Int, from the summos and oarly fall apples. and the windrabls of tho winter uppiles, wo should gathor w’ targe poreentago of the profits of tho orchard in the form of cider-vinogar, i Later in the season, tho greater part of the windfalls end tho rmall applos mey bo made intg | 2 good arriclu of citler, e tho pomnce ropressed Yor vinegar; n tho 1ast pressing of cidor i only fit-for this purpose, and,if proased futo tho cidor- baryel, will rednee its value, "Thods who profer to dry their imporfect fruli to making it into cidar, will find somo of thio naw dvyors on #ale neerul aide in that direction, =nd will find move or loss profit in this mawuer of isposings of smell and over-ripo frult that would not do to seud to market. TRE LOGG OnER, WARL¥IELD, Kan,, July 29, 1874, Mu, “Roman—Sm: I should Kko to know if the loeust-trecs muko n Larbor for tho Lorer that infes{ tho upple-troe, I€ 30, chould the locust-trecs be cut down? Tho locust-trees aro full of tho barer, and there aron fow in tho applo-trecy, Ep Brnt. Theva arg thres kinds of borera that infest tha locust, but theso borers do nos disturb the arpple-troon.. ‘Thoro aro o borers of the apple, ~—tho round sud flat-hended sapherdia, The same borors work in the waplo aud othor forest- treon, Qf thoe locust-orers, the smalleat is a little, roddish eaterpillar, whoso operations aro con- {lued to tho small branches aud to very yonug teeen, in tho pith of which it hives, and by ity fimatation it causes the twig to_swoll around the part attackod. 'This swolling bewg spongy, aud aluo porfornted by the caternillar, tho twige ase weakar, aud aro often broken off in the wind, Tho socond and most common cud dastractlva bovar 1 named Clylus Piotus, the polated Cly- {ux. Tho third, which is lees common, and only infasts tho largor troos, is also very deatiuetive when it han once nade o lodgmont, 1t is named Cassus Robinai. It issuppoted to romain in tha {voss llnea vearn. Howme years ago I wasin Washifigton County, on o farm that had & grove of lacust-lreas, from 1 foob to 18 inohes in di- amoter, that thoso borors wore cutting down. ‘Thay could to distinctly heard at work, cutting with thelr gharp teoth on thio hard woad, This fnscet i from 1 ineh to 2 inchos long, and gonie- timay o8 largo us ona's little fingor, Those lo- cust-horers give promise of destroying onr on- tiro stavk of yollow or biack Incust-trees, thongh it {8 posaibla that thoir ravages may bo cbeokod by somo othor insoct or the birds, Tho spple- troo bovora do not iafest tho looust-troes, TUE CRASSIOPLLTA. TowA Fazvs, In,, Aug, 9, 1874, Mn, ¢ Runan ™9 ¢ Slnco Tk TRinyxe by wuch ample foelithes for ancertaining the vondition of the rraps thirawghiont tha conntry, I think i should next {iesot It6 nitention to tho_jrasshopnor prowpocts, To Jatuin, T would wagzgest that you saceriain from some rampetent persan 3 Fieat, wiicro thoy lay tholr eqgw 3 1, when they Iny thelr ejiya i third, whon they are vint diofr ogi, ovar whiat ecollon of connitry they are at worls 3 and, witen thoy hayo finished, givo us o dla- aram slowjug whero (helr ogga wero depositod this ? :‘y“h {his information, formers who aranot fu the Knm.hnrl‘“:.flm("l‘ll proper may form somo fues of the woapecto for auother year, 2 B s ohaersd flying ovor hero fhe 20th of il ol Aonthekt, i aothior ANR, 1, golug in tho samp direction, Hava thoy beon beurd of to the southe t cast? Harrosting two-thirds fnished, Tho wains af the h\nlI woek h‘twn plkeod tho corn-crop on & firm founs dation, T, 0. A Wa speak of Lho grasshopnor as thongh thers wworo but ouo snceios, whorons tharo aro sevoral, ‘Tho moat voracions of tho triua aro_allad loonats, accordinyg to Eastorn oustom, To tlto arasshopper _tiibo bolong the onrwigs, cack- Youchow, nidl orickets, The wmigeatore grass. hoppor mieht properly ba tormed locustd, as Mo aro dav-fooders and st fn swarme, while ho othior brangh of the familyaro maro lahu’n'ry, md many of thom foed in tho nigut, "The fucnuts by thow agge iu tho gronund, while tho wontytid and wthar nocturnal mombers of the family Iny thom on troas, shrubs, and pianta. 1t mey be wall to distiugulsh botwoen grass- onpets aud logants 3 bub, if wo wonld call thom :‘ -\:éqnd. or flying, or migratory grasshaoppars, wo would be bottor understood, This class of grasahioppors bave boon lnown at tho Enub al- thout from tho firal sottloment of tho vonntry, and gowo yours ¢o a vast pmount of dawage, Dy sensons oro tha mosh favorablo to them, [o yoary 174), 1740, 1764, 1780, 1707, wud *03, wore nated grszuboppor yoars o the New Lugland

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