Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1874, Page 3

SUMMERING. Baratoga-~The Race-Horse in America. Presont State of the Turf-—Repre- sentative Turfmen, Sparia, Wis, --- Castlo Rock, tho € Ariful Dodger,” and Cap ¥ Wilson, The Town---The Mincral Waters--- Guests at the Hotels. The Grand Travorse Conntry—A Beantiful Tnland Chain of Eakes, . Torch Lanke, Intermedinte Lake, and Their Surroundings. Across Iake Michigan---The City of Grand Repids---Oakhurst, SABATOGA. From Owr Own Correspondent, BanATOOA, Avgnst, 1874, In 1642, Lord Horbort, of Chorbury, said of tho Nowmnrkot conrl-races: *''The oxercise T do not approvo of is running of horaes, there boing much cheating in that kind.” ‘This was in tho limo of Chatles T, who estab- lislied tho Nowmarkot race-course, and thore had his final rupture with the Parliamont. It isa Jong bistorical loap from that doy to this, up- wards of 204 years, yot tho fockeys who won the main racea in 1874 {n tho United Statos aro Now- morket boys, Tho loading stablomen, Sauford, Lorillard, MoGrath, Hunter, and Travers, haye imported jockoys from Newmarket. And why? ' Beeauso,” ways aporting roportor st my slde, “thoroisaraco of lads around that track who grow old aud got famitios, but do not fn- oronso in welght, and &ro adapted to rido st full strenglh without mnob swoeating of flesh. Wo Lava no jockeys in thigcouutry as porfect riders. | Nogro jockeya are good imntil they go to Banting, and thon they lose their iutollccts, American Jookey-bogu ave too loosely brought wp, and, Rfter they hecomo proficiont, thay got {00 much woight, aud havo to rovire." THE RACING TURF in Amorica was rovived aftor the War by Willlam Travers and John 3forrissoy at Sarntogs, sod it baog advanced in popularits and capital until thero i anid, ot prosont, to bo belwoon 83,000,- 000 and $5,000,000 of capital itivested in our turf, soversl hundrod thoroughbred racors, ‘many largo stablos for brood-marew, and & small army of grooms, Jockeys, and trainora, Iacing has oxtendod oven to the heart of the Puritan parts of Now England, and tho Hartford couree, oponed & fortnight agd, shows that the Dlue Laws have paled their inofectust firos before tho goneral predisposition-to welcome tho turf. "Tho increnso of speod, tho unoxpacted turng in fortuno, tho quautity of mancy wagered on stablos, tho valno of the promiumns, and tho ad- vont of vory diasimilar men upon tho tart, have markod this yonr's meoting ot Snratoga o8 tho ‘most remarkable known sivce the palmy days of tho turf, in tho davs of Aonrdo and Quincy Adams, Loxington’s lime has beon beaten, and most of tho historic data for sbortor dushos. Tho somson closes with the minde of men undecided whotlier Springbok or Followoraft 18 the botterdiorso, with tho former champion, Tom Bowling, disabled, with Katio Penaso and Preak- nesa under s clond, and with & numbor of less distinguirhod borsos Ao oxactly matched thot tho acionce of betting hns become & mattor of clogo aod continuons attentlon, It i3 seldom that o race {4 boheld liko that whero tho speotatorshald that Belmont's BSteol-Byos had crossoa the lino nhead, wherens Stocl-Evea wns adjadged to be tiurd, and Attila and Acrobat to bave runa’ dend-lieat. TARGONTY. ‘Moreaver, tha winnings this year hove beon very agreenbly distributed nmongst a grout num- ber of stables of quite \muq'lml capital and o~ tont, Whilo McDaniol, with his nsual desort, carriod off sbont $14,000 legitimato purses and stokes from Baratogs, oven Ogzden Bowie, of Maryland, won two racos. and the modest Secra- tary of the Motavie Comrso ot Now Or- losts, who makes no protensiona to bo & turfman, carried off abont §5,000 with Stam- pede. Dractical opinion says that our horaes nowndays nre bred too fing, and are thorefore easily disnbled in long trials, such a8 Eclipse and Boston used to make sgmn and apin, while they have improved for swift apucts aud dashos, It is vory evidont that tho lifo of tho Amorican race-horso for active work ig brief, and the high- o3t names on the turf of lato hiave passed away in Jamenoss, or pain, or gecenso, "Whe morals of tho turf ate higher in Amatics than formerly, whon rnnlus’ had to be dsclared iliognl in many States, end bigher than in En- giond ab present, where the avila of the turf avo Subjects of national agitution. Wbilo thera ara number of gamblors oporating amongss geu- tlomen in theso onconnters, they have very little intluenco in tho management of the turf. Mor- riney, who 18 abuoluta at Buratoga, talies oaro to own no horges nor bo iutereated in Aoy that enter, nud I beoliove that he never owned but ong, Dofender, whioh was consistently and fn- ovitably heaton overy time. Ho jg not hold in digtruat by turfmon of any class, and is expeet- ¢d to fathom the dosigne of lous scrnpulous mon of bis profeseion whowonld he caprblo of sclling a raco. Men of the stamp of Jlslmoutftho Tovillards, Morris, Sanford, and Travers, keep tho mogistiacy of tho turf, control tho canrses, nct a8 judges, and sit in_inquest upon frauds, At the suggestion of somo of these mou ar thoir Pacrs, nowa of the Now York papers this venr Fofused to print tho nnmes_of any gamblers cn- tering saces at Saratoga. ‘Tha dixtinction 14 too flno. No atablonicen are too scrupulous to back thorr hiorsses hoavily, and ono of the groatest performances of the year wes the mateh ol Tel- mout’s Aruy Planat dgainst timo upon & private ot with u sporting nequsintanico, hburf cuu- not piratect itaoll §3 isnoring individuals s and, hoiug on open tournament for Lorses, not for mon, the frailtios of the Intter must bo passed upon witl rigors not obscured oué of mora Ho- cial discrimination, QAMESTERS, Tolloweraft—tlo uow groat namo upon the turf —is the property of a Mr. Littell, who I8 suid to boa Notwport sporteman, Wandever, auothor fa- mons horse, is tho propesty of Rice & Co,, said to bo o fratornity of profossional botters, Tom Bovling, tho champlon until disablod, is ownea by P'rico McQratl, of Kentucky, on oid Now Or- loans gambler, and now tho backer of John Chamborlaine, of Long Branch notorioty, Gage, tho lesnso of Katis Pouss in liow of on- intorost he hold in Ilarry Bassett, is an oporator In what- over will win, ‘Pho most success{ul of Amorican stablamon, the Scotch-born McDaniol, wns a stavo-trador from North Carolina and Virginia, and 18 now of Now Jersey, Iwill give you aun idén of the turf as I have beon soeing it this fl‘enr at Baratogs, promising At my intormation {s that of an amateur, an that I havo taken moro intorost iu tho horso- owneta than tho horsos. HEVIVINTS, Kentucky las beon the scedling spot for Amer- jonn_ thoroughbrods aince the oils jand grass- es declinod in tho worked-out parts of Vir- ginla and Marytand, ‘Tho limestono of Kontucky givos bone to tho animal; ho matures early upon the blue-grasy, L'he maon of Kentucky, brod to horsobuclk, snd adventurous wagorers of physieal spirit, hove kopt up the turf for about wixty years, and I boliovo that the Lexing- ton Courss datos back to tho yoar 1818, The ‘War abuorbed mont of the thoroughbrod stock of the Houth to soat officora in the saddle ; and, taward the claso of the coniliot, wo hoard ohiofly of Alexandor's atables, ‘The Alexandors, s I have hoard, woro a Sootoh family with expecta- tions of property in the old country. Lhoy own- ed Loxington and Australian, and raised stook, A Ohicago momber of the family now keops the stables, In 1863-6 & number of rich Now-Yorkers, ‘brokors aud * operators,™ rosolved to go on tho turf, Loonard Jerome, a nervy broker, formerly a nowspaper-editor st Nochester, N, ¥,, taking tho cue from hia parinor, Wiliam "Tracoy, formarly of Baltimoro, founded the American jénhnyfllub afier coursos dd boon ' establlsbod THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: :SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. §,. 1874, ab togs and Patorson, X, J. Ho ueod all the influenoo_to whioh his meana and acqualnt- anco entitled him, and bronght inte tho turf Augusto Balniont, his friend, & correspontont of tho Rothnohilds, who had previouely apponred with gront brilllancy on the British turf, Dol- mont ia commonly oalled tho hoad of tho tarf in Amorjen, on account of his position in tho ‘Amorican Jookoy Olnb, which ia tho ruling in- fluenco in turf-matters In the Unitad Statos, ns woll as by his liborality in tho purchase and im- portation of tho bont thoroughbieds aitsinable, both from Kentucky and Enginud, Jorome him- self mot with heavy lossos In spacnlation about 18067, which necessitatod tho playing of a com- paratively inferior position upon thoturf, Tho establishment of tho Saratoga and Mon- mouth Park Coursos, and accossogios of Joromo Park, transforrod tho maungoment of tho turf Irom tho South to the North,~—lentucky itsolt Lecoming o brooding and buying-placa for the moje woalthy horsa-fanclors of tha Motropolla. Tho following aro nomo of tho groat lighta of the Amorican turf as ot present coatituted ¢ AUGUSTE BELMONT & # high-mottlod Hobrew, probably of Fronch ex- traction, weiddod to Caroline Porry, the brilliant daughter of Commodore Matthow Perry, of Now- port, R L Mr, Bolmont has rosidod fu this country ginco hin youth, and hoa boen & nego- tator, bankor, and patron of srt and physioal enjoyment, duriug noariy tho whole of that poriod. Lla han faw of the foatutres or fanciod aatiousl traits of tho Hebrow chinracter, and for somo timo was & socisl losder and bosu in New York socioty, \vuumbi‘. in wsome _Indios’ mattor, ho wns chnllonged to fight o duol, and was wounded in tho foot, lnmlufi him for life. Ha is a emall, thiok sot, dark-haired man of engaging address, a prond nostnl, mod- orato and prudaent of apaoch, particularly whore the charactor of third partics 18 disoussod, and of culture on almost all subjects, from intor- nattonal politics aud political economy to mat- tors of art, jomrualism, gastronomy, fowling, and yaohting, Ho has an intorosting family, n auparb fortuno, and is ono of tha motropolitan Tonders of tho Democratlo_party, whilo national, and ovon Ropublican, in his support of tho War- monaures aud the falthfulucss of tho pablic ob- ligations, Ho is gonerally eupposad to bo tho American branch of the house of Rothschild. Ho apponra on tha turf fn a snit of whito fisnnol, with a fiold-glnss strapped around his shouldors, Iis stables” nro at Babylon, Long Island, Tfo is foud of winning, tokes hia lossos hotly yob withont resontment, backs hin own stablo at times with opulance and coufideuce, aud ia al~ most universally regarded as a provotvative and refining influonce upon_tho turf. Ho has bad fair success, without being rnfin-rdod a8 very lucky., 1Mo won at Saratoga this yoar about 5,000, boty not countea, Lelmont is the owner, I bollevo, of tha eolbratad retwod racor, Kentnoky. WARATH. ¥rico MeGrath, owner of Tom Bowling and a Inrjgo raciug stablo, Is & Kontuokiun, orizinally o tailor at tho gooss, like Andrew Jolnson. Closy, shirowd, dry, pounliar, hio ‘boeams tus favorito of men superior in lifo and porition, and imbibed their intelligonco without their ro- finoment. 1o drifted iovg Lo New Orlonns, whora ho hocamo tho pactnor of tha colobrato gambler, Roundtroes, and, when tho city was captitrad, was thrown in jul, sud, it is snid, paid 10,500 to Lo roloased by Dutler & Co. Ropair- ing to New York nt a time of univorsan) gambling, when army and vavy mon, and sutiers, and con- tunctors, gambled liko horsobnokod boggars, Mo- Grath wad faken inby John Morrissoy for his soquaintauce, businoss-knowledge, and dry bumor. Ho foft tho firm _with aboit 240,000, of which ho put nportion to establish Joun Chambotlnino, a yotinger gambier, in business in Now York, snd nftorwards at Long Branch. Trom tho lattor ostablishment, in nivalry of Morrissoy's track nt Saratoga, prang Alonmonth TPark, McGrath is just on DI{m\lim[.' torms with Morrisuoy. o put the bk of Lismonoy in o fino farm and breoding-stuble’ nesr Loxiugton, whero ho s a neighbor of other great stablemon, as Buford, Grinsted, Aloxauder, Shoy, Clay, and others. Evory Sunday ho eutortaing mon of tho ropnto of John O. Brockinridgo and Jamea Beck, and ho s a partner in the manufacture ond ' enlo: of homp, bagging, cordago, otc, of ono of tho brothors of Qon. Jobn Morgan; a business enid to yiold tha firm a net rovenuo of 8(0,000 por annum, MeGrath i ono of tho long henda ou tho torf; a compactly-built, cold-oyed, ntool-gray-whiskored man, who loves & horse and the money ho can win Ao oqually that we bardly kaow whether to considor him wholly or half mercenary. - Ilis nsmociate, Chsmberinine, has not kept worldly ronncot g Morrissoy has, and his ¥ games” ate nndor auspleion ng”**a littlo moro than skin and leus than kind."” BANFORD, ¢ M. T, Sanford, n porson whodo sngacity, ohsorvation, monns, and respectubility, have commended him to the caution and ‘thonght of tho_camp-followors of tho turf, is & retired cotton-manufactnror of _Councoticut, whoso honltl beeamo impaired, snd who was or- dored by his physicians to follow out- of-door pursuils, Unwilling to bo idle or to disburso his fortune without ro- turn, bo resolved to tako to. tho turf aud fo stock-ralsing on a large and comprohion- Kivo acalo, having hnd somo experienco i sport- iog lfo at Now Orleans, whon Jio was busing cot- ton thoro, Mo is, in some rospocls, the succes- sor of Ten Droock on tho turf,—bobh boing Northern men who imbibed the passion for horues in the South. Sauford has & brecding-farm in Kentueky, and an Enstern farm near Paterson, N. J., which ho calls # Prenkness,"—the namo, aleo, of s flnost horso, which was benten this year by MeDaniol's Kpringbolk, He has becomo & merciant in thor- oughibred stock, puraning tho business with the aflicishioy of & Now Luglandor, This yoor, at Baratoga, ho was dissatisfled with the arrange- monts of sterting, spocding, training, and Judg- ing, and withdrow somowhat inw pout. Itis oftan pradicted that ho will becomo the leader of tho tur! in Amorica. 3 "TI LORILLATIDS, The Lorillards aro heroditary tobacconists, of Froneh-Buguonot oxtraction, ho manufagtiro tobacco, hring it in their own lino of ships from Norfolk to Now York, and, seocing omo husinoss- connection botwean the consumption of tobacoo, ships, and sporting life, have' for some_tinie maintained very boautiful yachts, and flually hava takon to tho tm[. Piorra Lorillard, tbo hest-known of . these young men, is o fina physical spacimen ol wmon, tall and shapely. ' e and lis brothers havo a utock-fnrm,l‘[ think in New Jorioy, noar ‘Lron- ton. They have come upon the turf with all tho ‘momentum of thoir name; but I have nuder- stood that, losing n raco this year on which thoy presumed they hiad s snro thing, thoso gentlo- ion loat their equanimity, tnrned off tholr tratnor and jockey, and otherwise snorled aronnd it o way not ‘wise for turi-philosophors. 'They probably thotiglit they wero dischnrging a crow rathor than lending the *unhouseled, froo condition ™ of Hm tuf, * put out of circumnsctiption and con- no, M'DANIEL, - the man who owned IHarry Bassott, and with him Deat Longfollow, and by Basactt won a fortune, which ho kept, though with zu ill-gress sbowing rage when Mopnrehist heat Bassctt, .'a how the ownor of 8omo of the bost horses on (A turf, at the head of whom ktands Springbot. MeDaniol is & native gcnt, aa T have said, sottled vory long on the Carolina border of Vir- glnin, and o prowporons elave-trador, Mo is & white-bmired, red-Iaced, hot-blooded, old man, aminblo enough fn the mowent of viotory, sud ot and profans I tho hour of dofost. INe gives his personal attontion to overy auimal o -owns, watches oll tho minutin of lis businoss, mukes of his grooms and jockoya Lionchmon and familinry, and i8 gorrounded by & turbulent crowd of itlo monkoy, who ot his pone, wane his coloxs, fight for him, and, it nood be, starve for him. ¥ T liven at Elizaboth, N, J.; owns a farm noar Paterson ; s well to do, thrifty; aud is tho Rab- Toy of the turf, o had to npologizo to the Buratoga Association this yonr for threatoning to shoot Donahuo, » contractor, whoso best horse he bought at & solling race. e has mada a for- tuno on the Northorn turf, is sagaclony and ¥oon, snd far abovo such as Johau Hayrper in horse-knowledge. TRAVERK, Willlam Travers, tho hood of tho Baratoga As- soclation, is tho son-in-lnw of Revordy Jolinson, woll-born, and rich. With_Loounrd-Jeromo, his formor [mmxnr, hio 1a tho foundor of tho North- orn turf, Aud I may add that it is shrewdly guspooted that both Jerome Park and tho Harn- toga Courso aro dexirous real-estate speeula- tiona, whera tha turf-intorost protects large pleces of ‘)mperty eventually to bo brought futo market. ‘Travers is mid to kriow littlo nbout horseflesh, and to trust tho actunl commerco in that article to hiw turf-associato, Huntos, & man of moans bred smongst thotaughbreds, " Teavers is a tall, hawk-nosed man, of n proud stop, gal- Iant nod fond of tho ladics, 1fo Lag & magaill cont smamor-houde at Newport, T have given sufticiont biography of tha turf to lot it Lo ‘undorstood’ what composition it js madoe af. "Tho mystorics of pool-solling, oto., will como into auotlier artlclo. Garn, e SPARTA, WIS, Bpecial Correspoidanice of The Chiteago Tribune, #ranra, Monroe Co,, Wi, Sept. , 1874, The famoua minoral wator, of Bparta flmt ot~ trooted & faw friends thither aa its medicinal quolities bogan to assert thomeolves, and but 1itle o8 kuows of the quiol Iulund ‘towa that lny nostied In the bosom of the LaOrosso Valloy, aurrounded by tho loveliont of nntural nconery, andriot in possossion of a farming country highly cnltivated and productive. Now the old Warner 1louse, romodelod and enlarged htosn vory pattorn of watering-place hotols, finds ita roomy oxpansion much too small Lo nccommodate tho summor-visitors who bogin to flock thithor about tho 1st of Juno, and are making thoir oxodus ihls month. 'They are nearly all Bouth- orn peoplo, who loave tho too-sunny clime of tholr own Btates for tho bracing Northern sir of Wiaconsin nud tho invigorating spring-waters ; and thoy 8l unlte in eaying that thoy rocolve groat bonofit from the dual elixir, Thoroina PEQULIARITY IN THE AIR OF WIBCONSIN that, no mattor how hot the sun is, therols s cool atmospherio current, cbarged with tho hoalthful clootelo forcos of her beantiful inland Inkes, and hor brooxy, spioy pino forests, that bronthes now lifo in tho anfocblod frame, and goos doop into the worry-.lungs, earrying fondor messnges of health, Tho tour ists undorstand and approclate this, eud, while breathing in the deop, swoat draughta of woods fragrant with mingled odors of leaf, and bark, and balsam, andof flolda plok swith hons oyed alovar, thoy ndd to its valuo tho cold spring- water, magnotio with iron, and eryatale lizod with maguesia. A grent many invas lds come horo,—mnany of them pronounced inourablo by physioions at homo. Thoy arrive fatigned with tho long journey, dis- cournged that in all the range of matoria modica there is no holp for them, and clinging with dos- porato onorgy to this Inst hopo in tho wators of Bparta. Thoy come palo and wonry, bollow- oyed, and with a hopolosa, woary cadenco, thay is really pathotio, in their wenl, complaining volees, No sorrier sight oxists than thoso suf- forers as thoy flrst prosent thomsolyvesy but, of- ter & throo montls® sojourn, how ehanged it all 18! Their cheaks aro flushed with tho rose of hoslth; they havo lost tho complaining whine of the invalid; and thoir * Hoop-la!" sounds throngh the balls with convinelng enorgy. Thoy lavo takon & now loasa of life, and fool vory woll satisfled. THERE ATE FIVE ARTESIAN WELLA in Sparta, sll highly improguated with mineral propertios, 8o strongly is tho water ohrgod with magnotism that, upon dipping a tablo-knifo futo it & few timos, it will attract to itsolf a nail, sud hold it susponded in air. It is sald to be an almost cortain oure for rheu- matism, kidnoy-discasos, sad all oraptions of the skip. Tho main fountain is in tho Court~ Houso Square, opposite tho hotol, Tho water is thrown up o distunce of 12 or 14 feot from tho surface, nud falls in & cool, orystal shower, and in caught in tin, iron, silver, or porcolain mugs by damtily-kidded boands, or brown ungloved onea, or rosy palns that catch the spray aud dash it morrily over faultless gallants, or by wesk, trombling fiugers, that try in vain to steady the oup whilo it rocolves tho healing wn- tors, It ig ]ru!t o fow stops from the portico of tho Warner 1louss to the spring ; and, when tho Indios do not go themsolves, thoy send tho fa~ ‘milinr spirit of the place, & yoult of 12 summors, whoso obouy faco is nb ouge tho gravest an most mischiovona spocimen of Yhyelammmy on record. In responno to tho musical coguomen of Arthur he puts in an apponaranco, sud stands lie v black marblo statue, gravo aud impenetrable, without moving & muscla of his mahognuy- colored_visnge, or marring by a siogle tation tho outlines of his classic attire. Taking a cup or pitchor from tho table, ho walks with becom- ing diguity througl tha parlors and out to tho stroot, whon, in a momont, o bocomes incaruato with tho spirit of misohiof. His firsc porformanco i8 to throw tho cup into tho hoavous and perform a somorsault bofora it comos down, whon Lie seceives it on the top of his hond, whera it dnuces an unstendy jig whilo he is recoverini Ly oguilibrium, Then ko manifests & saries o gymuastic ovolutious that maltes ono thivk he is guiug ta disjoint and throw himsolf away, like tho wouderful son-gpidor of tho Islos of Shoals. e ho coutonts himsoll with a now kind of facial coutortion of his own invention wbile fitling tho cip, whon ho turns his face to tho bo- tol, and is at ouce aa salomu aud foscratable as = Judgo. Wo wwont yostorday, with _Capt. Wilson, editor of the Monroe Counly Republican,—tho Liboral- Ttoform papor,—to visil Lho prido of Sparta, CASTLE NOCK,— o point distaut 5 wmiles from tno town, and 600 fuot abovo its lavel, Thero isa vcri‘ goog wind- ing roud, ovor which wo droye uutil wao camo to tho baso of tho hill on whicl the rock stands, aud up whiohh no horse may venture. IHere wo fastenod tha horsos, and prepared to climb, The afternoon wag portect,~tihe sun bright and hot, bt tompoered by a cool, fragraut air; no wind to drown tho soft droning of tho beo and the of iuscet-music abovo us. We sorsmbled np natu- ral stops in tho rock till wo grew dizzy; saw whore Jessle Leo and Jouathan = Iunt lad carved their names with infinito Iabor, and morry jesting no donbt; oncountorsd & stripod snake that shono gold and brown in the sunlight, ot which wo uttored tho little fomi- nino shrick that is proper and womanly on such oceasions, whereat hia sualeship scuttted oft mora (rightened than wo ; and thon ascended two flights of perpendicular stairs, and stood on the roofof the earth-mound, round and rocky, which orowns tho summis, sud % calld tho Castlo beosuso, in tha distabco, it looks oxactly like oue, I ventured ag ucar tho edgo na my geu- erous adipose would warrant, and looked down. I wag in Noturo's stronghold. = Fur benocath mo lay tho boautiful Valloy of tho LuGromso,—n thirend of lovely, shimmering groon, —dotted with neatling fa ouses, interaocted by the green aorcs of civilizetion,—all forming & lovoly lnnd= ugapo. ‘There wera tho woving flelda of corn, tho brown plats whonce the whoat lad beon tnken, tho vineyards of hops, -thelr high poloa standing loadod with_tho frultful vinos, whilo among thom moved Lo picturosquo shadows the forms of tho hop-pickors; then s rango of forest, golden willows, and crimeon maple, and durl-graen ouk ; and, Taxthor on, slonder, sinu- ous tliread of palo, fair valloy groon. Boyond this, half-hid Ju the wood, Iny the pretty regulur strooty of tho Town of Sparta,—its church-spires silvor in tho sun, On thoe farthor side I could geo somothing stenling along that shone with prismutic light,— A DIAHS OF BURNISNTED GOLD that drow to a focus of rose-color,—s more speck in the distance. It was an engine drawing a lon; line of froight-cars on tho Northwostorn Rond. ‘Atter all, thou, this was A Yonkco Paradino, . Siguliieant of cotton-mill and ratl.car, Tven so; and I folt m&nnlly thauktul for tho Brl\'(loge 'of secing i¢, aud goiog hoine, 246 milas, y rail insteed of stage-coach. Far away iu tho distanco wo could seo tho biue hills of Minneso- tn, ncross tho Misstssippi Rivers and, turniug in the other direction, wo conld {unl disceru tho woird and shadowy ouelinos of oclk City, 7 miles southenst of Sparta, Alane nnd apatt, in steru and awful grandour, stund thoso rocluses of Na- ture,—no bumon habitation near thom, thoir gilenco woldom brokon by human voicos,—a cluster of grim and rook-ribbod Lills, Near us, # thin, blao smoko curled to heavon, and wo looked'inquicingly at tho douse folingo through whiclh tho spiral golumu penotrated, and thon ab Cap Wilson, “Yes,” anid he, *‘it's Winne- baga {‘udiuua,—the rod rascals, Weo gond them off, and just 'aa fnst thoy snoak back and logato themsolves horo. To quote a local poot : ‘Wonst the red Xu‘)nn hero, to their dolights, Fiob't, it, nud bled Now, most of the luhubitants la whites, With nary red.” T.ooking down ot tho baso of the Castlo, we deseried an impatiout speck, that, on fucthor in- spoction, proved to be our team; and wo tack & farowell look ot the valloy, now yollow in the west- oring wun, the whito spocks of houses, the leaty woole; and thon began onr descent, which was for moro practical than pootical, and was sig- naled with war-whoaps and cries of distresd ag the total depravity of tho fomining costumne ro- vonlediteolf and bognn to uuravo! in an alarming dogres. Wo reaghed the carringe #afoly, how- ovor, and tested tho morits of Bparta horso- flosh. Ono of our pair was an old race-horso, nawed TIE ARTFUL DODAER, and wondorful storles are told of him aud his explolts, It tock two mou to hold hiw thow, but now one mun held thoe liues and did not try to hold himy, and away we went. Artful Dodger had his blood up; lio romemberod tho triumphs of other days, mnd responded to tha challongo with n witl, sud we fsirly flow over tho long utrateh of road that lay botweou us and—suppor, Wo possed stald farm-housos, where the matrons 1y hous wera pluming thomsolves in a dignitiad monner proparatory fo retiiug o roost, and at aight of u they :Frond thelr wingn and genrried oft in arm. Wa met Jolly purtios of hop-pickors,—malds, mate rons, and ohildren,~piled into lumbor- vingous and singing harvest-uongs, Wo passed old farmers, rosdiug thelr eounty-paper ad thay tridged along ; we met wholo droves of lowing, itky hords, mitd oyed nud plocid, as they pae tiontly chowoa their sooond thoughts ; wo pussed floldu o riok witly the second growth of pinke Dblossomed clover ae to laden the air with sweot~ noss; and wo roached tho Warner House with appotitod thnt wero only appeased by brook- | trout, friod potatoes, and cream ‘snd small cof- fees, hot and awoet, and wo wondored that no tourist Lnd over yoi dono justico to proty, qualut, foroat-shadad Sparta. THE TOWN ITSEL, apart from its natural nanoulnsluna, bas many fonturos of intersst. I¢ ia woll Iald ont sud finely shaded, aud hoa 32 milos of sldowalle, It 18 only 21 years old, but thore ara many fine resi- donces, Among thoso way bo montioned those of J. I\, Howphill, Propdont of tho Ilrst Nae tlonal Bank; M. A. Thuyor, of the Bavings Danlk; sud R. 8, Kingman, his assoolate, There are novon churebos, . Tho neat lttlo Tpiscopal Churoli hias for its Reotor o talontod {aung man, who comou from hia honio in_Glondato, 20" milea dintant, every waek to proach on Bunday,—tho Tov. 1. DoWolfe, Tho Rov. Mr. Carmichaol ia tho Cougrogational pastor. Thoro i8 an Inde- pendent Church, undar the care of the Rov, Mr. Bponcor, who is tho 8wing_of 8porta. There is o very fino Ilgh-Sohool building, s papor~ mill, “a woolen factory, & pork-packing houeo, a froo roading-room and library, aud an Amorlenn u{mlnuounu,m ouls, Tho soclotyis solool tho loeal intorosts of the place aro lookod aftor by two uovepspars—Lio 4fonras County Icpublican, tho Liboral-Ttoform paper, and tho Zerald, tho Ropublican organ, * Cap Wilaon," as he {s populnrly caliod, of the Repib- lican, 18 o groat, Jolly, big-heartod sonl, who doosn't woar his best olothes every day, but Is na courteons nud goutlo s o poot. “Ho hses twice roprosentod Lis dlstriot In tho Senato, aud I liko him poesuse fio is n friend to all good, truo womon, and did Lis best once for LITTLE VINNIE REAX, "'Sho's & doar Mitlo soul,” euid this firab-class specimon of manbood, 'welghing 228 pouns, #Thoro woro two niches in the While-Honso for tho busts of Bonators from Wisconsla, and wa wantod tho two first Governors, Dodge and Doty, thero, aud wo tried awful hard to got tho conirnct for Vinuio, aud we did any amount of lobbying ; but thoy beat ns by two votes. Poar littlo thing ! how aho did ory! Sho is a Madison girl, and sho ntoppm‘l thero that winter with Lor mothor, and #ho'a a8 protty os a poach, is Vinnio, —protty and swoot,” Wo uuggcnlod 40 him to go and toll hor so himsetf, but ha ficked tho flank of * Artful Dodger” with his whip, aad vouchsafed uo roply ; but we would suggos to soio littlo robin-rosdbranst of a woman that thoro {8 o vacancy in tho domestioc dspartment of the Republican, and, it sho doosn't fill it, aho denorvey to die hungry,—thats all. ‘Phere aro_ threo hotols here,—tho Warnor Hougo, tho Ida Houso, and the Puvilion. Guosts for tho sumwor may bo found at sll of theso, 88 well a8 at maoy private housen, THERE ANE THREE TRAINS EACK DAY,— two fram Ohicago, and an accommodation-traln from Portage City. Tho grain for Chicago pooplo o take ia tho ono that leavos thar at 10 . 1., on tho Northwostern Road. It is furnished with a Pulltnon palace slooping-car, which you naed not use it you donot wish to,—many per- sons proforring to sit roolinig i the amplo #oats of tho day-car and dozo tho hours nway, noting tho diiforent stopping-places and the sconery on route. Or you can lny aside your olothing, don & comfortable rob-do nnit, climb inte your comforfable bunl, and’ sloop tilt you awrive st Ellory, where you chouge osrs nud partake of & comfortable bronkiast, The Milwaukeo & 8. Paul Bailrond and the Chicngo & Nortuwostorn oroes each othor hovro,—thu liues running nonrly pavallol for 10 miles ar maro, aud the eugiucs on tho differant tians frequontly runuing races, to lt“hu &uli‘;htvl the passougers on tha lme thet aute. I bave found ONI THAOLDY MERE ¢ In the fail at Madison s a stout, derl, handsomo womati, who usvd to bo o gy, dnshing milliner hora. What fearful thoughty riotod in her brain s 8ho bont the bow of promlse and poaco on her nolghbor's bonnat, wo can only imngine; butshe oecupied rooms over her store with hor husbaud, Dauiel Ingetroll, & hunter and trappor, an un~ offerding old man. Hor room was a shrine for all oleasaut and womauly things, aud whot, ono duy, ber hugband camo home not fooling well, she' went thouglitfully up-stairs, twining fair- faced pansies in hor rostioss, Laudsomo hauds, Woll, tho ofd man_died, snd sho is in jail for potsaning him, sud, os often 88 her grinl comos uesr, she postponcs it, and the long, woary nontby in jail have not broken hor spirit or her honrt, . As gold end silver weddings seem epidouwic, £ will muntion that 31 AND 3HA. A. W. REMP, of thiu city, colebratod -thoir woldou annivarnary oi tho 26, at the residenco ot 5Ir. G. Sitnpson, their son-in-law. ‘'Ilv occagion was dohghtfully remomborod by hesty of friends, who lomled tho hn&)py-cmmh with presents, I saw the domr old pair sitting sido by side on their way from a tour to Caatle Rock. . _In conuction with the advantages hero for invalids, thore is a 'Purkish bath in the basoment of tha hotel, undor the caro and suporvision of Dr. Nickols., Thoso baths, in councction with tho curative powors of the wator, aro great ine ducemonts to iuvalids io sojourn hera, 4 From a pumpblet I take tho following rolative o A “to' o TIE WATERS HERE: "Tho kieallng properties of thess mineral aprings woro dfacovered wuon wfter tho sinking of tho firat well, in October, 1807, Residents of this villsgo, who wore suf- Soxing with ehrouip dixomes of various forins daily drauk of thin water, aud ‘many wero pormanontly eured, and could sttribute it to no other causs, These rumarkablo cures, combined with othor cattacs, led ‘our plysiclans, aud also soveral chemists, to tho In- yeatigation of it modicinnl proportics, and, from their fuvestigations and analysic, it waa ascertainod that the ‘wutor contained many valuable elements known to the materia modica. Within tho last six months a thorough sud eorroct oualyais hnd been mnado by Prof. J, 3T, Hlirab, of thu Wesiern Ohemical Works, of Chicsgo. It will bo fouud, Dy roference to the analysis of othor waters, tuat these aptings coutaln moro iron than that of auy other yet discoversd, ‘Chis, in com- Dbination ~with ‘other valuablo nud rate min- crals, will at onice nuggest itaelf to tho wmind of the profussional mat, ot lvast, 08_beliig a sery- valusblo tonlo and alterativo wator, Tho wator Is not only toulo, to tio oxcluslon of other effects, 8a many of our ‘piuro chulybeatos ara, but s a decldod ’dinretic, and in many cases n catbrtio At loast, tho mulphur and gascd o sutliclent to do away with the coustipating elfects which gto dusto most {rou walers, Of this Prof, Tirsh says: * I should think thut tho prodomi- natiig olement here, tho iron, would pro-ominontly desfguato ity eharactor, shongh'tho portion of sulplr ia vory wseful fu conntoructing the costive offect of tho iron, " TCwoll bottisd, or §f dronkk at the spring, tho carbonic gas cartainly alwo greatly counteracts'this offeet.” Tha water 1§ strongly lmpreguated with car- honlo and aulphohydric gakes, Whichare not given in the anulysie, 0a it was mado wway from tho spriog, “Disero correspond with tho sulphohydrio acid shown in {w aualysls, Tho onalysia is given in gompurison witl tbreo of tho principal Bnropean ApTiugs,—\oso of Ems, Vichy, snd Fachingen,—to oneof whieh Prof, Lifesl: s aompared this watar, 101,000 patte of tho Sparta watar there aro: ins, . Corbouate of fron, 905 Garbonato uf megi w03 Carbouate ‘of Nm Sulphate of soda,. Sulphate of tfine.... Chlorilo of potassium Qiilorido of sodium, Todide of iron,.,.. Todida of sostim, Phuspliate of sod Alumibum, Orymiio matier. . Tomyerature of Walar, . ‘YIBITORS, Tho following are amung tho visitors at the Warner Houso : J, L. Januiary, Bt, Touls; Mes, 4, G, Liudoll, obild, and nurse, doj J, P, Doan and wife, doj ¥dwin P, Quetts, wife, twa children, and nurss, (o3 J,8, Deirce, wife, two children, and nurss, do; Miss Ellza Hart, do: Mrs, W. A, Bennotft, Sau Antouin, Tox,; sIrs, Nelilo Logun, do; 8, Cupples, wifo, and child, Louls: G, J, Bhaw, wife, and clilid, do; J, W. Iern thl]all}u, Tenn, ; Ifoburt 8, Graut, 8t, Loufs; Judgo W. J, Ferguson and wife, do: the Hon, D, W, Muuu, wifoy aud ehild, Cairo, 1H,: P, H, Pope wud wife, do Tugh Campboll and wifo, 'S¢, Louiu; Atiss Kylo, do} Mr. A, W. DMilchell, wifo, = two und s, 'do; N, CGarson, do; N, @, Carson, do; Norris Ii, Gregg, do; Olar- etico 0, O'ullof 3 Mis, H. J, Sowman auil (wo chil- dren, do; Mr. E, 8, Poarco, wife, two children, and aurd do; sordo leuk, do'y V. Dean, do; Oliaeios Hielson, do: Thomas Chadbourn, do: A, J. Connnt, wifo, ohild, and nurse, do; I, Bronfuno and wife, 40 1 J. . Grangur, do ; Joseph Allon, wifo, and duugliter, Nashville, Tenn. + Miss Campbell, do § Mr. Qliarluy Buck, wife, five children, sud nurse, do ; Allss Luima Buck, 00 ; A, A, Wallace, wife, two eulidren, aud nurno, do} Mian Royuolds, do; Mra, J, ¥, llume hroyh ond child, do3 A, A. att, ' doj Mo, ane’ loswell, doj = Miea lMattla ' Muson, doj Houry Dutto,wiu, anl dughtor, 8t Loutst Ve 1 re , dos Willlam Mitehell snd family, doy Jumed Tiukoad, do; Mry, I, ¥, Breed aud fumily, 03 J. 8, Guig, do; T dos Jowph D, Lockbart, Nushvillo, Ton, ; ¥, D, Boll, Leatngton, Ky, ; Mru, T, M, lfcmmn and family, 8t Louls; Col. John Knapp (Kepudlizan) uud famlly, do ; D, 8. Uariory 203 J. G, Cutlin, do; John I, Dozler, doj Ara, l’hll‘flpfl. do; Mrs, Bwau, do; Mias Kennett, do ; Mes, Gorard, do} Mika Aary Doltzhooyer, do ; Ates, ‘Capt, Dorobess ter, Evuuston, L, M. L. R. - THE GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTRY, Correspaidenca of he Chicugo Zribune, "Lonon Taxe, Mich, Aug, 31, 1674, 1 havo boon aponding a week among an julond chain of lnkos unparallelod in the Wout for boau- ty of soouory, ‘Thoy couatituto a Western Lnke Champlaio aud Lake George, atoning for tho laok of historiesl intoreat by greater porfection of npaturo, and almost unoqualed pioturesqne- nean. Our Obivsgo summor-travelors, sosking rent mad varloty, adinira tho Wiscousin lakes, vartionlaaly thoeo lyiug about Madison ; but one o our parly, who formosly lived in that Btate, “gizo and tho helght of its banks, and hoes visitod noarly all thoro Inkes, smphatic- ally doolaros that thoso far excel thom in boauty and attractivonesn, Although it would soom that fow Chicago peo~ pla avon know of tho oxistance of suclia ohain, wo bogan to hear of thom na goon a8 wo renchod tho Travorso country, oud, liko tho anclont Athonians, slways dosiring somo now thing, and having alroady mada the tour of Grand X'ravorso Bay, wo onterod at Elikc Rapids thia Inland cham, TIR YIRST AND LETTER KNOWN TP ia on tho steamer Quaon of tha Lakes, from Ellc Rapids, through Elk Rtiver, Elk Lake, Round Lalke, Torch Rivor, and Yorch Linko, to Browns- town, altuatod at tho head of tho lattor lake, which hore hes curved to within balf a milo of Lnko Michigan. Cho disteuco {s 32 miles, Tho stoamor is a boautiful, iron, seide-wheol voasel, 00 tons burdon, woll-arranged, noatly kopt, and admirably adapted for tho purposes for which sho was dosigned. The bavigation of Torch Tiver is a novelty in its way, and roquires ekill- 1nl engincoring. Tho current is considerable, the clinnnel narrow and winding, and tho bont bullt just na large an could possibly bo brought through tho stream, At sovoral points aho turns n right anglo,—tho piling in the bonds provonting Lor from holug damagoed by the logs and stumps at thio edgo of tho ohannol. At ouo point, near tho upnor ond of tho rivor, sho Is compolled-to mako au nouta nugle, and, within n dlstanco of 40 rods, soils noarly ovory point of tho compass, This is tho most complicated place in tho trip, Tho Captain stands, with tho “Pilot, at tho wheel, Tho Engineor is all activity. Tho wheols must bo earofully, quickly, aud skillfully manipulated. ‘Tho spring-line is callod into uso to keop tho stonmer rightly hoaded. Tho passongors are wondoriug how this camol can bo' mado to pass througl this oye of tho noodle, Only a fow foot feom tho paddlo-whoots, the wator i, too shntlow to float hor. For a propellar, tho passago would bo fmpousiblo. Yot tho Quoon passos nn!uli and qulokly, aud, as wa como ont into Toren Linko, wo renlizo that its praisos binve not bren too loudly ehanted. TOBUN LAKE 1les liko an uotarnished gom smong the forests, Hor water is porfootly pure sud colorless, dis- playing tho bottom at o groat dopth, whilo tho woily of o lako is 80 doop ns to give tho finost wator-offoats. There is not o reod nor o rush slong its shores, but the shelving, marly bottom i hard and briglt, aud so plaluly visiblo whilo noar the shores thot- tho stoamor woewms to bo copstantly climbing o stoep yet continually ro- owmding ascont. A party of skalors once cut o holo thwongl tho ive, and, dropping a plute by & string, conld plainly neo it on tho vottom, n dis- tanco Of 66 fook. 1t is, il possililo, woro transe paront than tho wators of Grand T'ravorse Lay, orof tho lakes at Mackinaw. ltg widsh, varying from % to 8§ 1milos, i sulliciont for artistlo oTccts, whilo at oithor ond it flouts away invo uncertainty and obsourity. Its beavily-wooded shores are for tho most port as yob untonched by the woodman's hand, and rivo grndually to & height of from 100 to 150 feot,—tho massivo trac-tops rising tior after tior in imposing grandour, Tho pino-tops aro admired by maiiy; but thoy aro_sombro, motu- tainous, aud checrless. 1 much profer theso Bard-yood ehoros =g boacl, mepls, aelh, and clm, furnishiug tho coutrast of thoir variows forms, curves aud colors, Tho profusion of the foliago iy Almost tropical, nad, for the whola longth of tho lake, tho timbor grows cloor to tho wator's edgo, 'Lhore is no low, flat land, nor vo much a8 the intimation of 2 swamp, At tho Iowar oud thoro aro somo cedars, 1nd acatterod along tho #horos aro somo spruce and pino,— Just ouough for varioty and contract. From my early boyhood, minglod with dreams of snnuots in the Ba? of Naples, under thoso cloar Italinu skios, L alwnya hada_taontal picturo —how suggested or suguionted I know not—of a gorgoous glowing BUNSET ON LAKE PONTOUARTHATN. How thot gunsot could be roalized, as it Lad boon pictured fu_my imagiation, I could uoi say, a8 Dontobartrain'sshores aro mnrahy, andits wators slaggish and shalow. Yot that suuset-dream of “Pontohartrain has bocome n living, oxpori- onced roality, moro boantiful oveu thau I lud concoived if, and I shall ovar banr in my momory of tho Buany South that summer-ovening when all balmy wirs, glowing® clouds, sud woft and dronuy calars, seemed to conspira to captivute 116 oyd and enst an Italiau boauty over Pontohar traw, But, in this Northern latitude, wo havo 2 moro vuriod landsospe, o purer air, and s foli- ago which, evon thougn ' loss Jusuriont, i sus- coptible of tho finost contrasts and offcets, Aud 1 bave seen sunsots on this lake which would dolight auy artist's oyo. Tho Weslern shoro is et in stndow, and the wator-line is drawn straight as o ray of sunlight, cloar cut, oxtonded-far ns tho oo eau resch, and fs shudod off iuto the tiuted wators of tho middle lake. F'lio oastern shore is still bathed in sunlight, aud, as the oyo is filled with the onlm yot majoi tlo benuty of tho acono, oo can but fool that, oxcopt in monntain-grandeur, Scatlind, or oved Switzorland, could hardly surpass theso shores. Thig1s the chain of largor lakes; anothor chnin, of somewhat difforent charaoter, los just nt tho east, filtoon in number, commencing ut tho northonst, aud running "by a deyious cottrso, with short, intormediate rivors, to their junction with Torch Lako, near ita coutfre. This clain can bo onsily vigited in nll its length in emall bosts. Wospont one day at the hoad of INTERMEDIATE LAKE, tho largont of this socond chain, and Iying only 3 miles to Lho onst of Torch Lako. 'lie shores aro somovwit lower, but equally woll-wooded, with thoadditional fonture that nllalongits 12 milos of ehora runs narrow bolt of codars,—thus bring- ing tho full gren of tho folinge down fo the vory edge of tho water. Nover have I soona body of water mare closely invaded. In many places no the trank of a tree can bo geon ;.tho Tolingo absolutoly touchen the wator, _Tho per- spactivo ulso is romarkablo, and geveral points running out into the lakondd toits apparont Nor 14 there here nuy low land,—everywhero o gradunl us- cent ; while, at numerous points ou this as on all tho othors in these chains, streams of cold, bparkling, puro water como pourlug down, Tho rater in thig whole sootiou i tho finest epring- water, always sbundang, cold, and pure. "I'vo of our party nwoke at tho eurly gray of tho morning, and wont up in & skiff to the small- or lake noxtabove Intormediate, to wateh tho wunriso offects. Thoy roturned euraptured, Tho lako was * ADHOLUTELY IN ITA PRIMITIVE BTATE. Tverywhoro was primoval forest. Not a tonch of tho human baud, nior o _sign of human ex- istonce, wus to e scen. Tho stillness wasun- broken, o sun rose as it wero for tuo firab thne upon this part of onrth, and thay could woll imngine themsclyos as slone in the univorso. In his excollont worl on ** The White ITills,"— tho most truly onjoyublo ond approciative book of Nature ond scouery that L have ever scon,— Starr King says that tho best timo to sco those mountaius is whon tho sutumn-frosts hsvo wouchod the forosts, when tho *lower valleys ure still wrappod in summor-verdure, the hill-nidos dockod with all the glorios of tho tarning folinge, und tho monntain-summits glowing in tho clear Octobor sky. Bo, in this inland chain, I know of no soason when thoy would appear in fullor benuty than whon theso pines, spruco, aud cedans should form & dack baokgronnd to the glorious gutumnal coloring of tho hard-wood forosts. “Thon, if possible, tho skies would seom clearor and tho lakos bluor than to-dsy. Tho crowulug,_attraction, Lowover, and one H"wm‘fl gratoful to dwollers in o praivie-coun- try, is tho doscont of i THE TAPIDS O INTERMEDIATE RIVER, ‘This is the outlot for the uppor portion of the chain, and tho water comes pure s eryital from it rapid doscent ovor its rocky bod. One wman stands ol the how and one nt tho storn of ench: boat, to guide its way, for the ourrent is swift and somotimes impoded by fallen logy, sud_ tho curves numorcus and somotimes shurp, IHore, too, tho stream is closoly lned with codars, The Yontmen praise more highly the next stroam, Grags River, which is deepar, the channol widor, and lined with rushes and flags. Our besu-ideal is botter fillod by Intormediato, Wild_ #s nnturo mado it clonr, rapid, tortuous, over. hurrying us, onward. 'Tho rapids aro o milo iu longth. Our only regrot 1s, thut thoy aro o short, ur cicorone was John Ackor, nman whoso mind Is fillod with tho groatnoss and opportuni- tiod of hiu section of couutry, and whoso ambi- tion aspires to mnking its” uttractions widely known, Advouturous ploasurc-sookers liko our- #olves, curolosa of exertion] and exposuro, aud roady to put up with whatever accommodation the country nffords, can n?pmolnu ity bonuties, and encourago him to moat tha raquiromonts of the avorage tourist, I was lsuded by tho stosmor hurdly s half-hour Loforo sinsof, with {ustructiony to follow tho road through tho tim- bor for two milos aud n Lialf to bis houso, whioh was Lho flrst ono on the road. 1t proved to bo a Jog houeo, suy 14 by 16 feot, on tho edgo of a cleur- ing of not over 207acres. ‘Tho stumps wore still {hick {n tho fisld ¢ tho only orop was some strag- gling buckwhost aud o wiwall patol of corn. ‘Lho forost was blaok in overy directiony evon tho yond made no opening whioh cauld ba followed Dy the aye. Tlo door \as oponod quickly, aud I wasg welcomod to tho OSPITALITIEY OF THE MOUSE, Buch & houwdahus boon soon o thousand timos lx]y any travolor, ‘Ihe walls wore covorod with old nuwspapors for gronter wanmth, 'Lho singlo s room sorved ovory purpose of tho family, excopt for cooking § 1¢ lind ovidenily onco sorved for that also, but an addition now existod, about 8 by 10 foat {n sizo, buitt of polossud cedat shakes, floorad withy trodilen sand, and raofed with bavk, A large hole was loft in the roof for tho stove- Dipo, and nuothar atlll largor in tho sido for n window. At night a hugo Flm of homluck-bark conntitutod tho door, firmly propped up on the inatde by au old hroombandle, But where woro tho slboping-rooms? Huoh muat oxiat, and in abundance, for tho hut displayod no diacomfiture at my arrival, A pairof atairs, stoop a8 a laddor, nud quitons narraw, lod futo tho roof, which was canvonlontly partitionad off by old covorlota and blankots bung on clotlies-lings, and ovorybody scomod to bo happy and comfortable. At leant nino parsous slapt n that rouf, aud evon thou I bndna room to mynolf, Later in tho ovening throo moro travelers eamo ovor from ‘Lorch Lnko, carrying on thoir back enough luggago for n pack-mule, They campod on tha tloor down-'| stalrs, and slso woro happy. But a bountifal tablo wau sprend in the morsing. Such aro the nccommodations at Intormodiato Lnkoy boltor ouca aro conjomplated, but thon, O travolor | thoro will be fowor largo flsh in tho Inkes, and fowor trout in the stronmns, That night I saw tho stara abovo ma and the forost beside me, and onjoyad tho frosh air aud rough though gen- eroun courtesy which we everywhoro found; but when_ you, walting for apring beds nnd ' eity Tuxuries, shall visfs this country, you will find less of Naturo, and nao loss of the mannors and customs of tho thrifly eottlers of thia foraut- country. TIHIS INLAND LAKE COUNTRY i8 by no moans o pine-barren, liko much of Northorn Michigsn,—tho soll so poor tuat own- ors will pot pay tho taxes oflor the Jand is stripped of its pine, On tho contrary, it 18, for tho most part, & hard-wood country, dry snd haalthy, well supptied with oxcollont wator, ensy of ncceds, and producing abundant crops, Tho grain is oxcollont, potatoes unequaled in quans tity and quality, and, ns fruit-country, it com- pares favorsbly with any. Apples, peurs, plums, and tho smallor fruils and botries, succood tho hoat. Penchos aro havdly 5o rich in liavor s on tho Inke-shoro further sonth. Ity climate is cooler int summor, and, strango ns it mnay seamn, warmer in winter, than in Southern Michigan or Northorn Illinols. 'Tho observations taken at the blast-furnnce at Elic- Rapida showed tho fact that tho averago tomporature for the year was 8 dogrovs lowor thnu nt Aun Arbor, whore necu- rate obsorvations woro taken at the Univorsity. Tho ronson for this oquable tomperature ia tho Inrgo bodics of water in tho vicinity, tho tompor- ing of tho west winds by cropsing tho waters of Lake Michigan, and the heavy snows, whioh fall oarly in tho winter and nover melt until spring, ‘Tho snow covers tho ground beforo it ia frozen, and, when it disappenrs, tho ground i rendy for tho plow. The effect of this upots tho crops and fruit must bo ovidont Lo any ono. Thore is too mueh non-residont and railrond Imw, sud the farmem have as yot too littlo cap~ ital, to promise far tus rogion any rapid develop- motit 10 eithor wealth or population. ‘Lho ‘* homostonders ” have only had opportunity to biaild thiolr log-houses and muko alwost impor- coptlbla cloatings in the vast oxpanses of Leavy timvor, Hard wood bns not yet, oxcopt in spocial lacatitios, that value which mikos it profit~ able to cut it for market ; 4o thonx must foll and tho firo burn tho holoes whore futurs crops nro to grow. Wihtlo Proiio Btatos are offering ro- wards for cach aoro of forest-troes planted, tho AMichigan farmer is still piling up and burning the flnost maplo and beeoh, which will cut from G0 to 80 cords to the acre. THE INMABIFANTS are mostly thrifty, hard-working, and intelli- gont, doing the bekt thoy can witii (koir mean, and futeut o doveloping the resources of their Iand, Thoy are proud of thoir section, aud look forward coniidontly to o subsisutial prosparity. Thoy aro proud of their lakes, and cavefully treasuropand repont tho glowing tribntes front time fo timo paid by thoso whom business or plensuro has led bithor. Thoy have not yab loarned to proy upon the travaler, turning all their thonghts to & cold-blonded spoeculntion an to how much thoyenumukeout of them : but, fol- Towing tho time-hovored adago to “ Welcomo tho coming, apeod tho porting zucst,” they cheorfully, sud _under all circutnstances, givo the strangor tho bast that tho country affords, treat bim with open-hearted fraukness, toll him no lios, and considor 25 cants ae larga o price as thoy have any right to nsk for tho mort gonerons moal, Thoro aro fow Indinus kero, uud thoro is nok that mixad and thriftloas population which gives o tho went shore of Grand TLraverso Bay o woss unpttractive chinvastor, This Lorra incoguits, thorofors, T commond to tho tourist, the health-seoltor, and tho sports~ man. 3 /o can say, a8 did Anoas of his wandorings and hig adventuras : Fovsan hiwe oliin mominisss Juvabit. J. H. B. e o AOROSS LAKE MICHEIGAN,. . Corveapondence o T'he Chicago T'ribune. GrAND RaFIDS, Mich,, Aug. 28, 1874, Forty years ago a smull canoo was rowed by two mon up onoof tho uswerons river tribatary to the castern shoros of Lake Michigon, 1t wna o winding, pretty straam, paasing through o for- tilo, well-woodod cotutry. Just abovo the Rap- ids two log-lnta wero t0° bo' Boon, and Liors our travolors rosted. 'This was all thon to bo found of the now flourighing little CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, 1t boeamo quite s troding point ; and peoplo,on- ticed by tho richness ‘of the soil, and by its vo- blo surrongding forasts, camo by familios, buils thoir small houses, aud commenced a life of prosparous industry. So tho placo grow. THouses wore porchiod back upon the hills, and lined cithor shoro; stroats wora dug out of tho high, sandy bonks ; and gradually n grain and fruit markot was es- tablished. nod mauy points along the Inko sup- plied from thus, the moro favored garden. Mon camo to tho reslization that lnmber was needed. Houses wore geing up evorywhero, and nowhore than hore were sounder, sloutor forest troes. Bo, like mushrooms in & night's growth, mills sprang up on eithor hand. Large gangs of men woro gont up into the woads, and down the logn camo in tho spring, flling the stroams, and bringing substantisl proof of tho mouey that lay locked up in the heart of pino, olm, and onk. Thon it was discovered tbat quantitios of limo- stone Iny bedded in the epndy soil. ' Bomebody concoived the idon of turniug it into plastor and mortar, and thus grew A mow sourco of iu- dustry, . THE LITLE TOWN PROGRESSED. Wealtly mon came from othor parts, and made protty and haudsowio howes withtn its precinces. Tho citizons, grown rich in their succosaful on- torprisos, woro uot Lo ho outdono by strangors ; ond consequontly the lills about wore crowded with plonsant diwollings, built of o neat brick mapufacturod in tho town. Largo gardons woro 1nid out, plonty of shada-trees loft to lino the streots; and now you will go far to find n prot- :lkur,l?r more comfortable, homelike-looking it~ o oity. Duw’;l town thoy liavo_latoly doveloped a moat nepiring disposition. Wholo blocks of brick storos nnd buillinga layo boon raised 6 and 6 feot, _Tho stroots aro to bo lovoled, nud things romodelod over after modern fashious, Hovoral quite handsome blocks are goiug up, old etores enlarged, largo plata-gluss windows pub in, and, in ghort, the very latost styles ndo[»bcll. ‘While thoy havo attendod to worldly comforta nnd necossitios, to judgo from the number of churchios tho morals hava not boon noglectod, all the difforent croeds boing gouoroussy repre- sontod, "Tho favorite drive is & vory protty rond lying along tho river-side, Tho troos aro mostly Diral, which hang In- grucaful follago over tho cloar wator, Iore and thoro aro littlo islunds, covored with Inxuriunt vogotation. Anothor resort is o very protty Iako about a milo out tho other way from town. Ioro, sov~ orul summers ago, Mr. Piorco and 8oo of hig frionds built cotiages for summor-rosidences, aud spent theic daya in fishing and rowing. Those Lavo boon chnuged tuto & hotol. Moats aroto bo bad, unda botol on tho othier sido, whora oxtra ftie lemoundo is suppliod, tompts the visitor to ry bis skill o tho oar, Ons of the most beantiful iaces in town is OARNULST, . Iying on tho orown and down tho slope of ono of the thickest-wooded hills, 'The family-mansfon standa on thobighest pois ud from 1t you look down ovor tho tops of treos into tho rivor's val- loy bolow, whore les tho lacgor portion at tho town. A vary pretty view it is, with the sunsot- light Bluminoting it, and an oyoning-mist. rising over tho forost-ridgo boyond, Ounkburst som- prisos about 8 acres, and, bosides Nntuve Maving with prodigal haund done muoh for it, Art and ‘\’:'llllll\vmm taato havo mado the moit of its capa-' nlities. ; T shrubbory Is arvangod so that pretty views hero wnd thoro v made, Kustie souts of muuy pattorns invita rost bonoath sprouding oak and olin, Vosos fillad with bloom, fountaius whose wators atkraot many birds, and ' doar rosting on sunuy slopes or shyly hiddon in groon capeos, add to the gonoral bosuly, A tasteful summnmors houso, aud ono of the wildost, wost natural Fooktlas wo liata ovor ooi, aga only pirt of (ho chavms of this ovoly placo, A fluo’ chance It I8 Por soms ono wishing a besutiful homo, us wo oo it Ii just now to Do sold. Lat us euvy nob its fulird ownos ; but, sy we tako » pavling luuk_ of it, and tho pleassnt town in which wo have 6a willingly tarrled, Lo thanktul wo have son much nt'\:fiam’ and plonsantnesa, R i St e MODERN WAUKESHA AND ANCIANT ATHENS, ENS. Correspondence of T'he Chieago Tribune, ‘WAUREAIA, Win,, Bopt. 3, 1874, Gentl resdes (for oll ronddYs aro politely proe sumod to be gentlo), allow me to rospoctfully in« quiro if you havo ovor visited Waukesha, and drank of its puro and nparkling waters, 1! y ou hiave, Inm silont, or ought to bo. If you have not, ft18 too lnta for thia sonson, s this hotol (tho Fountuin Spring Iounso) is to bo closed next wook, 4 To the lovers of solitudo, there Ia no place more fit for thoir sentimental musings than & fashionabla watoring-pleco AVTER TIIE HEIGHT OF TILE SFARON 18 OVER, A splrit of melancholy seoms to haunt the long corrldors, and to broodd over tho qniot parlors, denorted chambers, sand banquot-halla. Your footstaps souud loud and hollow upon tha stire ways, ‘Tho ochoos of past daya scem to follow Jiko ghiosts wherovor you go.- You look out from the windows, or from tho broad plazzas, upon londscape of surpausing. bonuty ; but it seome solomn and still, like tho aconory of a droam, or Iiko & ploture upon & paluted canvas, Tho fow scattored gucats wandor nolaetossly about, lika the inhabitants of somo spirit-land. To attempt to give any rational ncaaunt of tho attractions of tho place, nt such a time and under such circumstances, would bo but o parody ot heat, Tho chiof charm of » watoring-placo consists in tho peoplo, and thero are no poonla hero. ‘Ihioro aron fow porons, but no reoplo. The peoplo hava doparted, and tho scanty indi= vidunlg that remsin havo s sad anvd choorlous aspoct, Ono muy nlmost doubt whothor thoy be~ long to tho kingdom of the iiving or tho dosd— and with reason, ‘Tho hotol is on an eminonce, and commands a epicious yiew. On ovno sido, rt o reappetable distanco, lle threo graveyards, to which many a B0V Bpirit has rotired to rest. On the othor sido, embowerad awid gardons and groves, with its xoofs aud steoplos suing ubove tho thick foliago. Mes tho beautirul Village of Waukusha, 1t is trulfi a lovely acono, h'r 0 grent contral rallying point of this placa TIE BETOUSDA SPRING, and thoso who driuk of its waters, if they do not “altain toovurlasting lifo,” ara supposed to be wonderfully benofltad, ncoording to tho nature of their mnlady and ihe degrae of faith with which tlioy may bo blessed. Tha lattor 'in * quito onoascntial quality, i, without Faitl, mun is ut & matorinl wrotch, wlio, thus defying Providonce, dovs not desorve to got, woll; sud, of courau, it naturally, or rathor logically follow, that, without faith, ho never does gt woll, 1 would suggest to any onn vislting a watoring- placo at tho tag end of the season that ho take o good book or two with him. I brought with ma Curtiug’ *Ilintory of Greeca”; ** Mauprat,” o novel by George Sand; and Bascins * Iar~ monies of Political Feonomy.” It is well to have o varioty; singlo ideus ord dangerous. With snch compauions, ono need uob bo oppressed with solitudo anywhero, Evon among thotombs, the wind may bo porfectly calm aud cheorfal. Ronding a great work is simply communing with o greas miud. This is far botter thon frivolous tnlk with vory faghionable pooplo, such as ono gouerally meotsat waloring-places. The wonther, tho crops, aud evon real cstate, ara commans plsco bopics, of Whdk 010 at ok gots Leasiily tired, THIS BOOK OF CURTUS is ouo of decp intorcat. Donr roador (oxcnsa tho affectionnto torm if you bo s lady, a8 it s only meant for tho mauly Femmlou), if you wish to onjoy & genuiuo intelloctual tront, ¥ means got this work and road it ottoutively, without skipping a _page, through its = threo fasoiualing volumog. Dopend upon it, you will bo smply ropaid. Novor was fiction made moro engrossing than ia this zenl story of Athens, Athons! nmong all the marvelous cities ot the past, tho nost won< dorful und unique. . Wo boast of our civilization and progross, bit, in mmny respocts, wo are bo< low tho lovel of Athons tiveuty-throo centuriea ago, Who among our statesuon can bo oaid ta Du tho oqual of Perivles? Wha nmong our his- torisus would you compare with 'Thucydides? Who among our orstors shull we liken to Demostheuos? What architect o gonlptor bavo we, or bas (ho world, who can bo uamed in comparison with Phidina ? ‘Who among poots nhatl wo rate with Sophoclea or Aechylus? Or, Lo go forther back by some conturies, wito among tho grontest of the world's mingors cau bo smd_to approuch the grandenx and perfection of Homer? And, among our modern philogophers, where sro tho peors ot Bocrates, Plato, and AYistotla ? It touds greatlysto curb the oxcessiva vanity of modorn thonght to go buck to theso early ages, and meditato upon WHAT JIAB BEEN AND 1S NO MORE. Surely there cau bo nothing moro iutoresting or instructive, Tostudy the past is really esscu- tinl to tho undorstanding of thoe presont or the comprohonsion of the future, What has beou mny bo ngain, Tho art, and philosophy, and ro- finomont of Athous miy poasibly bo ogain renle ized in some ity of tho future. ‘When Boston I8 tormed tho * Modorn Athons," thie most genorous compliment and oxagueration of spoochis used: Boston hns no Periclea—no Partheuon! Slhe bas only her Ben Butler aud Lor Fanonil Hallt But what, metbinks I hear tho impotont read« or oxolaim, has all this to do with Waukesba? Waukdsha, I can ouly roply, 1s o good placa for uleaping and for dronming, aud Lo who takes hold of 't * History ot Groeee,” whorover ha- mny bo, will dresm, a8 I have dono, many m loagnut drenm before bo bas finished its charm= ing and suggestive poges. To ono unfamiliar with the grand dramas of tho past, it will be lika a glnnpse into a now and wondorful world,—~the world of wnolout bistory and " philoaoplly, of postry and nrt,—of tho world in_the benuty and froshuiess of its yowh ; like drinking from the original fountain from which hus flowed so much that ia procious and valuablo in our _own time. J. EBA1ss WARREN. —_— COWLESVILLE, N. ¥. Correavondence of 2he Chicago Tribune, CowLEAVILLE, Wyoming Co., N, Y., Aug. 31, 1874, Kuowing that very fow poople in Chicago aro nware of the existenco of the wondorful mineral upriug locatod in Cowlesvitls, N, Y., £ givo you o biiefl doscription, trusting that somo of your readors who are: invalids will read it with interest. The spring wan discoverod somo five yewrs sinco by William Franklin, whilo boring for ol on his farm, After ranching tho doptls of 750 foct, instond of find- ing ol), he struck o voin of mineral wator, tha curativa powars of whickhavo beon tested, aud, H m almast evary inatance, comploto oures have Dbeon offectod. I bad beon an invalid for six ¥oars, when I hoard of this sprivg, and, after a gojourn of n fosy monthy, I FOPND MYSELF COMPLUTELY OURED. Aun auelysis of tho water shows that iron and tho walis prodominate. Ono of the most singnlar fonturos conmccted with thig spring s the periodien! overflow, whick ‘oceurs ovory ninoty days, At such tinos o gronb qu autity of tns exoupcs 3 the well iu uet o tive, sndd . wiore beautitul sight cannot well be imag= iuod, ‘T'ho entire surfaco burus over, throwing up littlo gas-jots from 2 to 6 foet, This lasits from two to three hours, IIundreds of poopla coma for milos to witnoss , this phouomenon, wud ol provonses {6 wondorful, I d¢ not know that apy sciontist has ovor accounted for tho ovorflow. Tho woll discharges gromt quuntitios of gay, from whick tho hotol s brill fantly lightod. Do hotol fu slcuated in o lovoly spol, from which thoro is o mugnificent viow o} sy hills, rolling awey Lo the Lorizow, aud oundod only by tho pky, ‘The kcouory in an aronnd Cowlosvillo s benutiful, and any oue winblug for vost, comfort, sud healih, shoulduol il to visit the place. Mns, J, I O, ———— 5 A Bald on Begping Monks, Loute Correapondence of the Nmo York Times. Tho Governmont of the City of Romo hna la- bored hard for sovoral yours to make wn ond of the habit of mondicancy, so fixod, undor priestly rulo, in tho eharactor of tho lowor cluss of tha population, 16 wns part of a systom to koop tha Inusses sy mueh os posaible in a condition of do- pendonco npon the prolates, recoiving from thow —as thanesnds did—tho small sums which wora rogulurly doled ont, Largo numbors of monks, cuttod misndicauti, gob tholr llvm,'. in the samo way, All theso wora as completely Lound to the sorvico of tho ecolesinstics a8 50 many sorfs Lo their liogo lords. Now that the convents ara Lyakou up, aud tho nionks avw pouslouers of tuo Goyerumont, the brothors, wha huvo boen tanght to heliove that boggiry is a virtuo, wish to keep up tholr 01d linbit of golug from Shop to o, i hongo to houso, tonsing for alma, AN alowgs, Voforn this, while ofhiors who bave violutod ths Inw prohibiting mondicanoy huvo baan put undor arpent, those luve beon altowod 1o Mreely follow their craft, Bt last wook the law wad for tho fivst tine applied to tho bmm\ngf monks, aud sevoral were brought botore the Mugistrate, and auo or twa went to prigen for tive diys,