The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1850, Page 3

Notes from the Summer Resorts. OUR FASHIONABLE CORRESPONDENCE Lesanon Sprives, Angust 19, 1850 ‘The Housatonic Vulley and Lebawn Springs-- How to get There, and What yw get wien Cnere | Scenery, People, and Accommodutions, &c Altogether, the finest ride from New York into the couatry, is up the Housatonic Valley, from Bridgeport to Pittsfield; and the most delightful ‘watering place in the United States, iv L-biuva Springs. The great hotel here is crowded, ab though a vast addition has just been completed, which nearly doubles the accommuodatioas. A word about the way of getting here—tor almost veverybody makesa mistake in thiy respect. The «majority come up the Hudson, and ran ow to Picts field by the Hudson or Albany Kailrowl; buta far more agreeable and beautiful route 13 by the ‘Housatonic Valley. The mormvg trai, wateh Jeaves Canal street at 8 o’clock, reacues Bridges port soon after ten, where the Housatonic road commences, and connects the Souad with the Albany and Boston road, at Pittsticld, a sistance of about one hundred and fifteen miles trou Bruige- \port, and one hundred and seventy from New York ‘This train reaches Pittsfield at four o’vivck, where stages run over to Lebanom the same eveuiug, a distance of nine miles, one of the most piciuresyte districts of country I have ever seea = But bly most persons would prefer to take Lar eveutug train, which leaves Canal street at taree o'clock . M., and gets to Pitisaeld the same vv tween nine and ten. ‘Tr is is one of th~ trains in the United States, and aithough ‘ne ig eo great, there secms to be compirie secuity, fer not an accident has ever happrucd. 1 ocleve, on the Housatonic road. There ww veeu av collie sion of trains, no runving off the trick, wy Fun over, and not an arm Prokes, and the (oad has been in operation a consideranle wurnter ot years. But it is well built, and most noged. engineers, conductors, and ageus, afe em ployed at generous prices; and heuve the true are almvét alway promptly at each siation wha & minute or two of the ume; baggage is setiour ‘ft, lost, gr roughly handled, and tue utinomt courtesy is hdwn to passengers by every person tu the em- ment of the company. These conveniences are appreciated by travellers, aad the nu uber of ers is very rapidly wcreasing, wud the Musa eral sflairs of the road assuming a more tlod and rous aspect under the efficient mauugemeut of Mr. Burrell, the President But aside from these conveniences, the gerat at- traction for lovers of picturesque eceurry ts tound in the exquisite beauty of the Housstoue valicy Thave never seen ariver which, tor nuudred mil took its course through such vined aud foe mantic landscapes. The road hes on the anes al entire distance, crossing the otresm at Py ad intervals, and windiog aloag its margia, sometimes through freshly mowu meadows, their tall drooping elms and rows of uliste sweeping willows; and often, at the sar the care sweep the foliage of a pieviprt tain on one side and mirror theurse'ves stream on the other. Some of the tains are bald, with hardly tree or « while, for the most part, they are ‘with the thickest, greenest and riche-t fo- liege, which is now beginning to borrow some of the earliest autumnal hues Many of the hilis are cultivated, like gardens, to the very top, while Mount Washington (one of the nodiest ‘hills im New England) a wer the valiey, aud is seen in the windiags of the Housatonic for upwards of 60 aules = Che san-et over the Housatonic hills, is deaautal beyoud all description. As we came up, 4 few eveaings ago, seemed more beautitul thaa ever — It bad been a ae meiting, sultry day ia New York, when a single breath of cool air would have been worth half a world. Three nours from York took us one hundred miles. A glorious thunderstorm had crossed the Hudsea to the souta- east, and went sweeping over the [akaanic range, down the Housatonic valley. The fields au forests glistened in the sun from every blade and le: ginning to grow longer and dee; uid fiaally, as i the ill tops, I view of Mount W ashingtoa, Hendy uae but the mignty brow of ‘hat was flooded witn noouwday ot enone i spread a gorgeous caao- of clouds, whic! our eyes Uli aa inter g, mountain cast its black shadow on us, and ut off the view. But, twenty miles farther oa, ‘we caught one more giamec of Mo suit W ishiagton, and the sunbeams were still playing on hie head. It was on appropriate name Le gave that , for the character of our divine natioval deliverer can Kd illustrated ooly by the randest objects of the physical universe. be ‘There were some of our fellow passengers whe 28 had never before passed up the Housatome valley. | the breeze. They could not fiud words to express their astoa- ishment, admiration, or delight. 1 have ao idea ‘that one in an hundred of those Every precaution is wkei—the abiest | troub'esome as they were g few weeks since. The story published in a paper in this city, to the eff ct that u scissors grinder, Who was pursuing his ve- cxtion im the vicinity of Ductor Phelp's house, was taken up into the air and transperted, with his ma- chine, to WV aterbury, a distunce of twenty miles, is deemed by some apocryphal. I helieve it to be allegoricol—and that the ssid scissors grinder sim- | ply pet high upon some of the bad spirits vended | in the neighborhood, _ One of the first places visited here by strangers, is lranistan, the residence of P. T. Barnum, «Esq. Let us look at it. It stands upon a level plateau, about brif a mile west of the msi street— * unique and magnificent building, in an oriental style of architecture—its wings, phazzas, galleries, pinnacles and dome, giving ita light and airy op pesrence There is a miniature lawu in front, | "with a fountain in its centre. The grounds are laid out wich excellent taste, with the Berrie cotiage, the greenhouses and stables, all ia a style of a:chitecture corresponding sufficiently to tbat of the mansioa, withsut being suff copies ot it, and disposed in the best manner for @ pleasing efiect. The gates are constaatl wo open, and in pleasant weather vi- suers may, at almost any time, be seen diving, or promenading through the grounds of Ube earthly paradise. Is it thus throwa open to the public from a love of ostentatious display? I think It is Sunday evening, and the sun is j ciung. Groupe of gentlemen and ladies are ging the walks mags trees. The hard- meehunic, with his wife and children, in thew best, are sauntering along the paths, which are thickly covered with tiuy sea- shells, udmiring the flowers and rare shrubs that border the walks. Some may be seen gathered apout the fhsh pond, throwing crumbs to the fich Others are gazing at the rare eaotics in the hot houses, und all enjoying, as really, the costly ™ for the momeut, as if it were their own. The proprietor, if he is at home, simply enjoys the ismuocent pleasure which his establishment afioras to others; and I really believe that, if he were conditioned to hold it guarded with the ex- clusiveness which characterizes tome of the snob- ish aristocracy of our land, he would sooner burn it to the ground. But the chances ure that, instead ot his being at home, stretched upon a luxurious sotu, this Sunday evening, he started in his baggy gee hour or two ago, to fulfil an cS ee to | lecture upon temperance in a country vil > distant twelve or fifteen miles. His nent ly engeged in this reform, which, Heaven is unpopular enough in Counecticat, and he wage ¢ sacriticing his ease and money to premote it. Although not accustomed to public speaking, his addresses tell upon an audience in a most effective manner. With many others, I was once accustomed to associate the name of Baroum with humbug, but the truth is that there i> po humbug about this man Baraum. He ma have taken it yj himself, occasionally, to satisfy the craviog for humbugs, which is one of the pas- sions of mankind; but he is a real man, with noble qualities and feelings, and no humbug. He is proving, in many ways that the public know por pe me , that he ia a man of benevolent feeling, and en! views. That he possess extraordi- ry tact, business talent, and enterprise, will be hal ity generally acknowledged by those acquaiated wih’ his history. Indeed this’ has been. placed above cavil by his engagement of the “Swedish Nightingale,” for who in America could have kiven to us Jenny Lind but Barnum ? My pen has run on about the proprietor of Tranistap, much longer than I intended. I have vo personal acquaintance with him, and am actu- ated by a simple desire to do him justice, and assist others in removing from their minds such folse impressions of the man as once lingered in wy own. Rivesrixiy, Conn., August 13, 1850. True Comfort—Splendid Scenery and Distant Views—Cave of a Hermitess—Lewis Titus, Pro- prietor of the Menagere—Prairie among the Mowntains—Revolutionary Incident from an Aged Inhabitant—The Spot where Arnold's Horse was Shot instead of Him—Fishing—Gunning— Water from a Solid Rork—Samson’s Rock— Visiters—Distributing Heralds by the Wayside. If any of your sensible readers would like to with shixtag drops | ependa few days in the enjoyment of real solid com- af. The shasows were be | fort, (that is, a temporary reduction from a state of fluidity,) let them take the Harlem Railroad to Purdy’s Station, from thence, Hunt’s stage through It had beeo suaset in the valiey | the town of North Salem, and they will soon pass the old stone fence that divides the States of New York and Connecticut, and be ushered into the lend of steady breezes, as well as steady habits. Here let them take the first farm house, or any farm house, from the fence to the town of Ridge- field, where you can be so fortunate as to find ac- commodations, and if fond of delightful air, beauti- ful ecenery, first rate fishing, and first rate people, doft your beaver, substitute old chip, loosen your cravat, and every nerve will vibrate in unison to It is one of these heavens adopted, surrounded by trees of the richest foliage, soothed who leave New | by the ceaseless sound of unobtrusive little streams York for the north, hye the taintest coaceytion of | gf infant Crotons, which move onward and onward the beauty of the Housatonic vuliey; but the number of those who now piss up itis rapidly ta- auegee I doubt not in a short dine it wil be ‘one of the most frequented pleasure routes ia New England. Those who are comiag to Lebdaaoa come or return by t4is valley. Sepekbon Sy ‘Springs is in the aiidet of the sume glo- scenery, With a succession of hilis and val- ions, Which can hardly Ms con wor rious leys, in all ered with any other scenery in the ‘not ee grand as the Alps, but it is mo fined, suggestive, und home-like. ins, OF EVeD some porticns of the Catskilia; Put it . de far more varned, exquisite, and garde es; we att may cota a word for my private us-) Hull's (the only hotel worth speaking of,) t# built on the lis @outhe rn of a high hill, aud in the court famous serine, Over it one i antifal wes he I Ts weback, tate the ewablishmeant. This sprog nas been famous and frequeated for a long period; bat the present establishineat has (with continual unprove- ae been open for abuut thirty years Lt used to he the favorite waterii ace of the Soath Caro- liniane, when they travel y from their i arr) with 6 a concec! | intrigues. \e wit Chuten, Martin Van Bareo, ( Wright, and many other Warw fhave pissed theic suromers bere Lo trot, exoept for of mere display, it hes aiw been a far Gale dcotrable ag resort Sarsiows, and pow, it seems likely to fairly A that crle- brated The new part just completed sur- pamnonty 1 SR wud convenirace, any hotel | am acquainted with at any of our waiering places, and the view from the balconies is probably the amost beautiful in this country. But | must leave other matters tli my next. This immense house never could aceommoda'e more than half the number before, and yet it never was so full. The company is tightly respectable and rather gay. Last soneaey evening there was ‘a hop in the great selooe, and in fact there i# dane ang every evening. Mice B——a, of dressed with extreme chasteness, elegance vad , and excited unusual sdmirction We hood of fine fishing and hrat- ding, and trout «nd woodcock can be had for the trouble of going after them The rash is still here, and will be for some time yet. The weather is ex- tuemely mild end invigorating Our Connecticut Correspondence. Briporront, Ct., Aag 13, 1850. Boston, wae Appearance and Situation of Bridgeport—The | Railroad Business— The Mysterious Kaockinge— Trantston, the Residence of Barnum—ts Barnum | @ Humbug ?—A Connecticut View of the Mun. This charming little city is omising ae ite [Ost «AD, Its location combines mu for the future are citizens can With. vontages jor pereons of means and leisare nequired fortunes bere, remain end others are attracted bithe consequently, We have many fi eu highly prosperows condition at this present time, and, as far as | can | judge vpon a few days observation, ite prospects : a It ts finely situated for the trade of the Housatonic and Naugatue valleye—t atlords good fecilities for its manufecturera, who are rapidly ae- quiring fortunes, and is a most desirable residence | ladiveduals Who them, me to theif “subterranean celle, beneath a city, that I buve selected for recreation, or re-creation, rest, enjoyment, and freedom from ignorant, modern- hatched, would-if-they-could-be, fashionable in- traders, which are met at many of the watering places, whose manners ntiousness are be- comng 80 platings that true and genuine aris- tocrecy will hurl them down from them with lighteous indignation, to that chaos whose eccen- trie ebullitions has accidentally disgorged them, there to remaip, unless by eome singular process of moral and eon A be trans for med into tal 5 “Well, about Ridgefield the town takes its pame from two of mountains, that ex- tend through ite whole length ony oe Jel, porthenst, (hey being a portion the Allegbanies. ridges are called the Exst und West Mountain, and are eat pote nurter apart, averaging from two ee hun: dred feet in hei from the plain, from seven above the water of I merous | Rocks, resemble very Hud. bes egy) ge and three haa- aved feet high from the . It was a beanti weene last week, to the wud hear the thunder roll among these crag to crag, Whilst the unchained wind appeared te be pursuing it on the wings of the two miles from the residence of Harry Hu: and by a direct path from his farm, is the natur, cove in « rock, now almost hallowed as being the Itcea Sach Bucbop panacd may ofthe lat years mitese Sar many T samen . Bhe w bom Long Island der- ing the revolutionary war, and touk 1 this cavern, where it is said the avimals became Fo they were much less then she was from the righ She lived mostly roots Seiten ar ed eo n Stews, ws wes beaenoull when found ne we Statea, 4 4 q hy = the distinguished , Lewis La Esy., the mainspring of the welkknown firm of ven more of our e\tizens an ity of “see the e' ee oo other scheme that has jear from bis house, ie an immense bai! , in which | the extensive collection of animals will be | found one winter morning by a known, us she of Youk, is. the mansion of June, Titus & Ai proprietors of the celebrated menagene, which bas ever been started. station, a few miles winter months. Mr. Titasts secs ic bun en Bigh greands of whe’ greats o mi cone) 0 lange | vely commotion, oad se fs c owner has a very tien Fe piper Reigh of fait sex, always observing ument and rential reapect all ladies of | one very justifiable liberty, aad tl of theee to bap Ay an aed - wih periect propriety accrde to requret. Upon the groand of this nde a celebrated tree, which, from be seen from the towa of rty miles distant, a9 well as points of the to the same dis ber land o! racts its view Upe illiam Howe, Esq , one quar- ter of e mule over the line in Connecticut, is a per fret sample of prairie, and notwithstanding a view t wi ral of the cit ome artree a aoe ‘of the distant bills on the face of (he coantry looks There are ay probably, more than a half | hke the waves of the sea, still here, in a valley, 8 points in New Engiond at, which more | « perfect plone, covering an area of twenty-five or #4 is transacted then at this pl passenger trams arr ot freight aud bastle. President F emcee, and the Postmaster General, Nathow K. Hall, nave ordered corringes at one € athe celebrated establishments 1 this city, vit, Tomtinson, Wood & Co , wher are mot exo tied by fiew in the world, iu the quantity ant ‘of the carriages turned off by them anna- ally. tet, taste making some singular ree tic, and, from the animation of his ordin «ri Ph inch an omen Foe opie sult evatinne ty annoy yieete counwemanee, a recollection as vivid as . Dr. Phelps, of Stre'tord, but are not as if deserbirg a soene scarcely yet completed. This ave and depart The raitroad ently small, ie a scene of thirty sere s, whilat immediately on its morgin soars the bold “Western Ridge” to ht of 300 feet Ti wee on thie ridge thet the British pused from Denfurs, after having destroyed the seanty stores of the Amerienns at that tows, and reduced the seme to nehes, on the 26th of 1777; and Captain Howe, the aged and veneral before mentioned gentleman, now ia his righty- firet year, who lives in the same house where he was born, and opposite the more modern mansion of hie con, pointed out fo me the path, and te scribed the events of that scene, with langarge ae farmer of the | xs the more remarkable, as the old gentleman's memory of recent events is almost gone ; 80 much 60, that on the Sunday following this conversation, when IT spoke to binvat church, he had no recol- lection of ever seeing me before, until 1 spoke of this conversation, and then it all eame to his mind, “Oh, ye, said he, * Lean remember what took place sixty or seventy yeers ago better.than what took place last week. “I sat by the door,” said he, “as the British passed, and one of them saw me, end called me a * young scoundrel.’” He spoke of seein¢ Washington; but we shall soon no imore beheid the eyes which, in that hallowed age, gazed upon the sainied form of our only Washing- ton. They will soon sleep the sleep that he 1s sleeping ; but for ever cherished be their memory ! In the village of Ridgefield is marked out the spot wheie an engagement took place, as the British ceme from Danbury, in which about fifteen on exch side were killed ; aud the exact spot is marked where, bet ah nn the noble horse of the traitor Amold was killed by a fatal shot, which struck three feet below the mark of the good-intentioned marksman. Would that he had had more prac- tice! Then there are benutiful ponds of three or four miles cireuit, such a8 Peach Pond, Long Pond, and the picturesque Momanasco, which are all well stored with various kinds of fish; and as for game, 11 is plenty upon the mountains. | have al- sate gone so far beyond my intended limit, that I shaif only refer to the spring which gushes forth from the solid rock, as if Moses had been at work with his staff again; and to the ponderous rock of one bundred tons weight, poised upon three smaller ones, where it has evidently been for ages, and would lead one to think that another venerable old gentleman by the name of Samson had wroayht some of his wonderful feats there too, or else that there were giants in those da: _I can assure you, there are many other sensible citizens here, besides your very modest and unas- suming servant, including a very flattering repre- sentation of that portion of animated nature which is the diadem of man’s existence. At the same house with the writer is the good-souled ex- Alder- man James 3. Libby, of the renowned Lovejoy’s Hotel, together with his interesting family. by the way, the ex-Alderman, with others, are peti- tioning the Common Council for permission to ride the citizens of New York upon a rail, much to the annoyance of sundry omnibus proprietors, who bave drawn up an “omnibus bill,” and presented it to the same honorable body, in which they mani- fest decided apprehensions that it will be a serious injury to their prospects of an early retirement with a fortune, although it manifestly favors an early re- tirement from their labors, without being encum- bered by the latter appendage. Then we have two or three young ladies from New York. Mr. Towsend, Uhe father of one of our ta- lented New York Assembly-men,) with part of his family, are also here, whilst his soa is doing the State some service, as one of the committee appointed by the Assembly last winter, to inv te the affairs of certain railroad companies, in which the funds of the State are largely invested, and who, as his intricate labors are drawing to # close, will soon deprive us of the agreeable company of his equally talented sister, they jntending together to make the tour of the State, in which they will, no doubt, meet with that courtesy and attention merited by their excel- lent qualities. Lastly, we have a niece of the late Hon. Samuel L. Mitchell, of Long Island, (brother of the Hon. Jud ze Singleton Mitchell, now living at Plandome, L. I.,) in the person of Mrs. U., a lady of admi- rable merit, and a very agreeable writer, in which qaulity she or sustains the rare talent of her dis- tinguished lamented uncle, to the trai which the writer can amply testify, from a slight scquaintzpes of over five years’ duration. should not forget to mention that Mr. Eunt, the enterprising gentleman at whose house | am sojourning, is mail contractor for this part of the country, and in. going from one Post office to the other, always has a bundle of Heralds to distribute to your honest and obliged subscribers, who are generally waiting for them at the gate. Our Massachusetts Correspondence, Brooxug, (near Boston) im 2 138, 1850, Tuesday Evening, 11) O'clock. My Retreat at Home—The New York Herald— Our Village—Its Scenery—Its Patriarch—Its Historical Points—Anecdotes abowt the Place— Paradise, and a Digression on Priuceites, §c. §c. You may think it perfectly inexplicable how it is that I should direct a communication to you from this place, at this time, especially as I never wrote to yoa from any place before. I will tell you how it is. Two hours since, I arrived here in the cars, (four miles from Boston.) I am not in a strange place, or on a summer tour, but at home; my wife and children are on their tours, or rather are quietly situated, at a’farther remove from the city, enjoying their periodical rustication, and [am alone. After finishing the business of the day in the city, at which I had remained longer than usual, staying a train or two later than when in an- ticipation of meet my wife and little ones, I wilh me Jour Braid adnate vel me your a that, wd y +} and has he pan pcoaat al ls poses which ae ot inappropriate or uninteresting to some of the readers of the world-wide circulated Herald. This is not the place of excepting the playing balls, or equalling bawis of the children pif hough the lareaaner ene neat a ti nea in anticipation on day pt to-morrow, Coy a the mourning pegeant, to take place in our geod bo of ov }, in honor of our most deeply lament- jor. This in not a watering place, but it is a place of water. The reservoir of the Cochituate is here, and a perfect and beautiful leke it is, surrounded mostly high ground, crowned with beautiful elegant dwellings. This is not Cape roy or Cape May, a other Cape, amt on, jive you any account of the capes or capers sy of the ledice. Ti to the city to getthe eevee A] « . Nae wort of Ba ? to gusts ir Sara- toey wun 0 om the tar = day tra ) % ‘ ‘out of the puritenis Newport, or somewhere else, aimoephere of Boston. This is not “the See.” nor “the Falls,” although the springs of Heaven are opened at this moment, and the rain now falls in torrents, on the a unjast, in thie place, for, although t bas been called eo Gageateasete om) ‘we cannot claim to be all free 8 ‘This place is Brookline, not Brooklyn. It is call- ed thus, on account of its northeastern boundary being Smelt brook, which falls into Charles river and its south easternboundary being a small brook, er creek, that falls into Muddy river. There are also several other brooks running a Se eee eae which is now playing ate beantiful, gurgling music in my ears. In ancient town where I am was called other part was called Mud- ithin the boundaries of this wooden tavern, called bow! of punch was invit- beverage over- of famous no- before temperance had ob- caused the specimen of art obliterated. fancy ball H wall estate, an elm tree, 1700, which is twenty-six feet in cireamterence at the surface of the ind. This was the place of que of Jehn Adams’ mother, and while Presi- dent of the United States, he visited it, remarking to Hon. Jonathan Mason, on whom he ealled in Brookline, that the lest time he had travelled over thet reed before, he rode on horseback, carrying bis mother on 4 pillion behind him. In 1800 there were about 600 inhabita Now there are be- The area of the “ Rural Architee- will be found re- his place, as the model town for taste and cultivation. The late venerable pastor of the Firet Church in this town, Kev. Joho Pierce, DD, was the pa triarch of the Unitarian denomination—a great an- Nquerian, and a remarkable man. He wan settled in 1 end was Rory wf said chureh for fifty years, When he a jubilee. He lived about two years efter, and died in the spring of 1819, aged 76 years Rey Mr Kaapp, the preset paw. tor, wes settted as colleague with Dr P a yearor two before his death, aud Mr. Knapp is cousin to the Rev H. W. Bellows, of the Chueh of the Die vine Unity, in Broadway, in <= ety. Dr P. wee universally honored by all denominations in this region He ie sard to have borne a remarka- bie resemblance to Sir Walter Seott in his coun tenance ond person. For many things [ here «tate of she carly history of this town, am 1 indebted to him. Twill geke the following quotation from an addrese he delwered in |, on the opening of @ new Town Halk— For local reenerg, for rich cultivation of Girlie and ‘ions. for contir. malty. privat ie -“ Loe | editor of wie. jom James Bavngr) sromnaners moet beautiful ville in New Rig prationente decensed) has thus sung the praises of our beauti- ful town: “ I have re-visited thy sylvan scenes, Brookliue | iu this, the summer of my day, Again Lave reyelled im thy lovely velea, An@ feasted vision on thy glorious billy, As once I reveiled, fensted in the spring Ot carelene bepoy boyhood. And I've bowed Again within thy temple. and bave heard, Ap though time’s footfall had these years been hushed, Thy patriarch pastor's lips, like dew. distil Gevtic instruction, And the same is he, ‘As to young love and reverence he was, My cheertui frie ‘The rame thy bi Of rich Oeto!l Over New Eng infancy, are those Which eharmed imagination, Thou are fair, And beautiful as ever. Fancy deems Thy rweet retreat excused the common doom Uaured by the tall, as if the Architect Were willing, by such specimen, to show What Eden. in its primal beauty, was’ A singular sentiment was expressed by a sea- men’s preecher, a short time since, when, on a hot summen’s day, after regaling himself ia a Deautitul grove, behind the first church, in the course of bis services in the house of worship, he suddenly exclaimed, “1 know not, my friends, how 1 can help being Christians; tur you already jive in Paradise.” This town is the summer residence of various wealthy families of the city. The Perkins’s, Amo- ’s, Appletons, Doctor Warren, the late Hon. Tatedore Lyman, John E. Thayer, Ignatius Sar- gent, Esq, the Lees, Benjamin Guild and others. A novel inducement for the purchase of house lota, has been lately held forth iu the advertise- ment of a wealthy speculator and auctioneer of this town, in the statement, that it is the ovly town in New England where paupers die, leaving money in the bank; en old jasy having recently died here leaving several hundred dollars in the bank, who had been supported by the town, and whose wealth was not kuown until after her decease. There are scarcely any peor here. Taxes ure nothing, partly becuusa so many of our wealthy people fer pa} on their large estates here, and leave joston just previous te the first of May, to avoid the city taxes. All this makes Jand worth from 124 to 26 cents per foot for building. ‘ell the New Yorkers to ride through Brookline, not by cars, (for they do not ramble about an only go to it, and not through it,) but in a carriage when they come this way, and have leisure for re- creation, snd let them ackaowledge that, if our ladies do not understand (us your Saratoga friend jilosophy of dress,” at least, arranging the robes of nature philosophy rarely equalled, and of dressing its surface im the richest magniticence. I was interested in the communieation signed “An Englishman,” published in the Herald, aad I would like to gee more) of his communications from the nooks and corners of old Somersetshire. Tt was from this county that my ancestors came to this country, about 1686. They might hive had some superstitions, but not like that described of the “ Princei Our Puritan ancestors had good qualities enough to overcome all the evil in- lients of superstition that might have been 1p their belief. Old Somersetshire I suppose to be a fetes place. It is represented by Campbell, in is eurvey of Great Britain, as being exceedingly fertile, especially Taunton Dean, the scene of the Prince superstition, and that this fertility is only equalled the industry of the inhubitants. Fuller gives this maxim as belongieg there, and as expressive of the pride the inhabitants have of their own county:—** Where else should I be born than in Taunton Dean ?” as if there were no other place Fuller says, “‘ God make them worthy of This does not agree with Campbell. Whic! is right? Will “An Englishman” tell't leead a private letter to him, to your care. W.R.D. Geological and Topographical View of New Jersey — Second Division Continued. Honxspatx, Aug. 12, 1860. By minute investigation of the secou iary forma- tion of this State, we find that at Springfield, where the trap range is almost entirely broken, the termi- nation of the Newark mountains occurs. The green stone ridges here, some of which are of con- siderable elevation, take nearly a south-western direction about seventeen miles, and extend into the vicinity of Boundbrook; thence they take a northwest course, for a considerable distance, to a point at Pluckemin, the second mountain taking the curvature of the first. Green stone, of the se- condary formation, is seldom found in ledges of any megnitude; but it is exclusively the rock in place of the summit and sides of both ridges. The base of these _— usual, is tormed by the sand- stone, which w ad situated beneath the greenstone, nearly horizontally, with an unimpor- tant dip, and frequently alternating with secon- cendary limestone, very compact, in small layers, from two to two feet in thickness. uite considerable geameyice of Prehaite has been vered near the foot of this mountain, in amyg- witha ‘stone base, oid, Ad gy 5188 ate of partial a ma in the jumns nearly parallel with each then ind ‘oo stilbite, zeolite, and of lime, are fow at in valley between the two moun- tains. Sulphate of barytes is also found associuted with carbonate of lime. of mountains which extends ia & south-western direction from Springfield, which has been termed the Ciranite Kidge by some geo- logists, in consequence of a grey stone which has pean Sepevenes, in Steers, places along its base; ut @ larger quantity of greenstone occu the entire » and which forms the summit rock of all the other ranges in its vicmity. The general direction of the primitive strata is northwest and southeast, in the same course as the Highland chain extends; but none of the secondary ranges of New Jersey & course parallel with the our. Aneven and level surtace is preserved y the latter, in many places, for a number of miles, which assumes appearance of table tered but lofty eminences and elevatiuns dot the Highland ridges, whieh is a characteristic of the pers formation. The secondary range, which ‘gins in the immediate Beighberhowd. of Poi too, and about half a mile from the Hig which extends in a semi-circular curve, unul it agsin conaects with them, favors very materially the above hypothesis. The valley en- circled by the granite, or, more properly, greeastone ridge, and the is com, of fresh water alluvion, re is no rock, im place, in ey bl ite smaller bills. Between the seurces of ihe river and the Little Falls, an excellent quality been found in the valle bag plain ‘The bed ta from eis to eight let deep, six to eight feet * broad and beautiful valley, commouly , which i about tweaty- , is evident! of entire freeh water alluvion; still, the bitants, ia wells, have frequently found strata of ravel, and clay, without there tione it is quite pla Fy pant an outlet through it, is ex ly marshy, em- bracing about fneen Sanived ent of good peat land. Granular argillaceous oxide of iron is here also, and occupies a epuce of nearly two hundred acres. The west and northwest boundary of the plain is formed by the Highlands, “ which in other directions ie bordered by the Pacgamac im, pursuing A serpentine course from North Po to the viclatty of Morristown, separating the wide alluvial plains watered by the Pompton and Passsic rivers” The summit rock, in place, upon this range, is observed to possess singula: formity, and is compoeed of a dark, » fine grained greenatoor, ehich of being in @ state ot rapid decompo- mtion. In such « state, they form bei 1 mural precipices, in rome *, of com vation; and, des and base, . ly good of sandstone is also found. Io thix range of mountain, the mineralogi-t or the lajdary cau fied fhe: e bis curiosity, by ex- of zeolite, chaicedony, aneThYst, jasper, crye tale of quartz, and veins of satin spar. The agates are of various sizes, from that of small grains of sand, to nearly two or three pounds in weight, nearly cha In one oF (wo inetaners, the mm, or eyed agute, hus been discovered re. Judge Kinsey, it i said, upon good au ity, divcovered a mineral of this kind, which weighed nearly sixteen pounds, and whieh cen tained agate, white quartz, and amethyst There is onether range of greenstone, but of 4 less quantity and inferior quality, situated in tae feat valley under consideration, which takes its rise peer Charhem, and rons in a westerly dipee- tion for about ten mites, called Loag [il Lathis ridge the rocks never appear in plier, in conse quenee of the trap being in a state of demompo- ition. There are mural precipice s near tae mdtie Of thie bill, compored of a sort of Stell rock, fomewhst revembling the stone found on the Retven. This secondary formation follows the Higbbendeto the Deleware river. lye pierced hy revers| broken ridges in many plies, by the fame trep charveter which we have just desorihed. This ie the case with the N sshaoie of Rocky Mountain, ait is rometines called; the heights ia the vicinity of Rowky Hill, H erherttown, Belmont, Lambenvilie, und Woodeilie, Near Princeton, in thie monntain, the sundetene aiff re quite mite oh ly frome that on the Paveaic ite exten sion is marked in & nor nern diteetion as far as the firet primitive ridge, north of Flemingwon, and eon poses the pri) of the valley lying between tha: | sond end puddin, | ridge end Rocky Hill. It is comewhat of a darker | red than the stone feund at Newark, being quite | graiplers @ strong argillacc ous odor, and by ex air apd moisture, it readily decompe compound of alumine, iron und sile: eonriderabl uanuty of sulpbhur, and may be called ferrugi shist. It 18 a very brittle rock, regulerly stratified, and spl into very thin laminw, und, in all ‘probability, in many places, it Tests upon good frees‘one. Southeast of this ridge, and newr Princeton, however, there are quite ex- cellent red and white freest somewhat similar to that found in the Preakness Ridge. Ap alluvial elevation of the secondary formatien, lying between Brunswick and Kingston, like the bills of the Nevisink, is composed ot white sandand colored clay, Which contains beds of ferruginous et At Trenton, the south- u portion of this district, there is some primi- ng through the secondary into craggy vhich ossume a granitic character, and vary nse micaceous shale to granite of a hard apd m sed mostly of hard and compa: of the Delaware at the head of ude are formed by this rock. It then ex- tends in @ southwestern directicn through the St ot Pennsylvania. Large aud beautiful specimens of zircon have been taken fom the bed of the Delaware near Trenton, forms a mags of this rock. We have now described the most populous, and no doubt, the moet wealthy portion of the State of New Jersey. Of course the soil is not so gene- rally productive as the limestone of the primitive and Uensition regions; but it is well cultivated, aud divided into neat end numerous tuck farms, from which all kinds of excellent produce is sent tothe markets of New York and Philadelphia. The mavutacturing establichments, also, furnish a vast amount of wealth, and afford a tolerably good market for farm productions. In enumerating the diflerent kinds of minerals in this division, we have not mentioned that of copper, which is found in this secendary formation in considerably large quantities Nearly a century ago, eeveral lumps of virgin copper, which weighed in the uggregate, upwords of 200 pounds, were ploughed up im 4 field belonging to a gentleman named Phillip French, near New Brunswick. This 8. It wes! peer Bellville, on the Pasewic, was discovered in 1719, by Arent Schuyler. This mine was never worked very advantageously, and after passing through the hands of several companies, it was finally abandoned, and has not been worked for many yeers; although the ore ia of get quality, and might, with prudent industry, mined in wantities sufficient to yield « handsome profit. here are many veins which might de worked with profit, especially those which lie near the sur- face, and which is said to contain stamp ore. The most valuz ble vein of this character, is embedded in a stratum of freestone from twenty to thirty feet thick, and ie called # pipe vein. It dips about twelve degrees frem the honzon, rather by an irre- guler inclination than a straight line, and incré In richness with its depth he ore of the princi- 4? veins yields from 60 to 70 per cent of copper. t is said ihat this mine contains a good quantity of silver ore. There is still anot mine north of Somerville, which contains, according to Doctor Torrey, ‘mn T in irregular masses, phos- phate of copper, carbonate of copper, green, red oxide of copper, the mussive variety crystallized in octahedra, ive silver in small magses, green quartz, chrysaprase, porc' »” We. These form the general grolce al features of the eecondary formation of the State of New Jer- sey, and my next letter will contain a description of the third and last. D. W. B. Our Canadian Correspondence. Toronto, August 19, 1850. Doings of the late Parliament—Local Afaws— Railroads, §e., §c. A bill was before the House last week, to incor. porate the medical profession in Upper Canada, and to regulate the practice of physic and surgery, which, after a lengthened discussion in committee, and when on the eve of pussing, was lost through an attempt to procure for the contemplated institu- tion a monopoly, which would have injuriously affected a private institution, which has been for several years in existence in this city, called the “ Toronto School of Medicine,” from which, from d, when it is breathed upon, itemits | sing it to | a with anin- | ao hy were some verses, which are chaunted by the'schol~ ars of one ef the public schools in England, set to music and sung every morning by the members— first in English and then in h—just as the Speaker submits a motion that is putinto his hands, which, as they embody a fine rule of life, { am | sure will be acceptable to the fair readers of the | Herald, who doubtless peruse itscontents very much to their edification, | shall venture to transcribe :— — that the sun is beaming bright, ) no deed of wrot Nor thoughts that idly rove, But simple truth. be on our tongue, And in our hearts be love. w beleaguered by the foo— gate of every sense. grant that to thy honor. Lord, ‘Our various tolls may tnd ; May we begin them with thy word, And with thy service end.” The other vote to which I refer, is that of $3,000 in aid ot the penitenuary library. Since | have been in Toronto, I have endeavored, without ef fect, to induce the committee for the Provincial Li- brary, which was destroyed by the Vandals at Mouueal, to purchase that of Mr Smetz at Savan- poh, if he would dispose of it, and which has cost him $20,000. And [woudl suggest that it be par- Chared tor the use of the students in the penitentiary. 1 wonder if they confer degress there? This sort of provision for its amiable inmates, reminds me of a speech the former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia Was ip the babit of making to every rogue he was about to sentence. “John Stiles,” he would say, “you have hud an impartial trial, and been found guilty by a jury of your country; and I senteace outo three years conofiuement in the House of rection, where you will be well fed, well clothed, and well taken care of; and if you com- duct yourself properly, Whatever sum you may bave earned at the expiratiou of your term, beyond what it costes for your keeping, shall be paid you.” “Thank you, my lord,” the fellow would reply, im return for his indimation of this novel description of Eac The And led to the discovery of quite xanass of copper ore | pumsbment. Had the Legislature of Nova Scotia ina mine. A pet Al ian formed to wank i, but been equally munificent with that of Canada, his they never were very successful in their operations. perpen might have added, “‘and you may come foes moncs everywhere around this mine are a to follow any of learned pro- i colored, and beautiful copper pyrites are | '* i i fatud the ‘edjocvent quarries. Another , | _Lalways thought it would be something extra- ordinary, if the expression of invidious feeling. over, however, this is beginning to show itself; and ut a recent meeting of the Corporation, one of the members introduced 4 series of resolutions re- tlecting upon the Governor G the member a body, ime, that it is have been unanimous!y aci : convention of e ‘8, probably taught the Earl of EB lesson us to asking bodies en masse. The alluded to in the of Thureda 1 conceive; as it must have 8 wish that such an ebullition of petty resentment should have been passed by in sileace. All were asked, it reems, who had left their cards at the government house, and the compliment mast have been very general, when we find that up- wards of five hundred guests were eenent, w Astronomical Discoveries. (From Bir D. trewster’s recent address Among the more recent discoveries within the | bounds of our own sy tew, | cannot omit to mention | those of our distinguished countryman, Mr Lassels, | of Liverpool. By means of 4 20 leet reflector, con- structed by himerit, he detected the satellite of Neptune, and more we: culaung round Sw made on the very same y of the observatory of Cambri, States. Mr. Lassels hav stli je recently, under a singularly favorable state of the atmos here, observed the very «mituute, but extremely black shadow of the rug of Satura on the body of the planet. He observed the line of shadow to be notched, as it were, most broken up into a hue of dote—thu: "g mountains upoa the plane of the ring—mouatains, doubdtiess, raised by the same internal forcer, aud answering the same end as those of our own globe. Io passing from our solar system to the frontier of the sidereal universe around us, we traverse a gulf of incon- Ceivable extent. If we represent tne radius of the solor system, or of Neptune's orbit (which is 2900 millions of miles) by a ltae two mules loug, the interval between our system, or the orbit of Nep- tupe, and the nearest fixed star, will be greater uflalo féce went off without am Now that it is time to time, have issued a number of students, who, upon examination by regularly constituted boards, were found well qualified to discharge the duties of their profession. During the consideration of this subject severa attempts were made to exclude this school from the operation of the bill, to provide that nothing therein contained should be construed to interfere with its existing privileges, and that its tickets, certified in the different causes, should be deemed and valid for the purposes and provisions funan., but which were as often negatived by small majori es. At Ld it was moved that the further con- sideration of the bill should be deferred for six months, which was carried in the affirmative by a then the whole circumference of our glooe—or equal to a length of 27,600 anies. The parallax of the nearest fixed star bemg supposed wo be one second, its distance from the sun will be nearly 412.370 umes the radius of the earth's orbit, of 13,746 times that of Neptune, which ts 30 times as for from the sun as the earth. And yet to that aie zone has the gevius of man traced the Ure~ ator’s arm workiag ine wonders of his power, and ditlusing the guts of his love—the heat and light of sune—the necessary elements of physical aad ine teliectual life. It ix by means of the gigantic tele scope of Lord Rosse that we have become ac- quainted with the form aud character of those great aesemblages of stars which coa.pos: the sidereal upivere. Drawings und descriptions of the more remarkable of these uebu'w, as resolved by this noble instrument, were communioated by _ Dr. majority of thirty-one to twenty-three; and thusa son ty the last meeting of the association; ood bill wan cventeally loot Cy avreriioniocrcd | and t to Wah peculiet setttaction hat 1 en ence toa narrow-minded and exclusive policy. | sble to state, t aumay eee discoveries Among the items of the estimate for the present | have beea made by Lord Kosse and his as yesr, there wasasum of about thirty thousaud | slant, Mr. Stoary, durmg the last year. Im dollars for the payment of the mounted of | many of the nebulae, the peculiarities of stracture Montreal, which it was ineflectually pr to | @ remarkable, and, as Lord Rosse observes, reduce to eighteen thousand dollars, and that they even to ind cate the presence of di namical be disbended at the end of the present month, the | lewealmost a ramp.” The api al axe motion having been lost. It was contended, during | Ment so strongly developed in some of the nebul the debate, by Mr. H. J. Boulton, whose legal at- taipments vo one will dispute; that this body is illegally orgenized, and that if any of those who compoee it were killed in the execution of ordera under which they were acting, the parties who committed the act could not be convicted of mur- er. The mounted police was organized subsequent of the parliament house bate ind, I believe, have since been sta- Prairie, popular feeling running so strong ageinst them that at Montreal. they cannot make their in'that city are total TD es for “a city are inadequate for the suppres sion of tumult and L T, us was proved when ir. ine’e house was attacked at the period referred to, when they ran y trom the mob, aad which was only protected from te pillage and destruction by the presence cf the military, which was called out on that occasivn. I am ‘at a loss to account for the feeling be <m | was sant on that re oy end wk whic even here, epea! the hon Losses bill, which was the cause of sueh extract oe exeitement, unless it has its origin in a dee] rooted hatred of the Freach of Lower Canada. if certwinly did not originate in any excess of loyalty, which, if ove might ju from their cenversation, when any interference of the imperial government io alll to, seems to fit as lovsely about their con- eciences a8 giant's robe upon a dwartieh thief.” A bill wee aleo passed bode wove de com; to construct a railroad between Bytown, om the OF tawe, and it, on the St. Lawrence river, to meet the American line from Lake © in to Ogdensburg, immediately opposite the latter place. If_« person were to form am estimate of the extent of ratlroad communication throughout from j the numerous acts authorizing their formation, | which eppeeron the statute book, he would infer that the entire province was well sujplied with that deveription of travelling sccom tion; yet no- thing would be more erroneous than such a conclu- rion, as, with the exception of a short hoe ao a | St Joba, on Lake Champlain, and Liprarie, have never met with a railroad in Canada, and I believe no other existe. ' ‘There is no part of the provinces, however, where provement in the means of travelling is more ired—the ronds in that sec’ of the country having been much neglected; and, when last at By'own, | found it preferable, on every account, to descend the Ottawa and take one of the St. Law. steemere, rather thar cross the country be- wo rivers; and doring my travels throug States end British provinces, | nev Re a more dangerous ride than trom Brockville to Perth. While on this subject I cannot but allude to the total failure of the Rideau canal between Kingstom and Bytown, which was constructed a pense, et the instance of the imperial gover evo the St. Lawrence, on wecount of inaty to the United States, between : Conada it forms the boundary live in quarter. At present there is only one steamer navigstimg the eann!, the other—there being at one time two— |b having been withdrawn for want of employment The vndertohing may, therefore, be considered as a cemplete failure. ‘There are some anmeing items in the ex. pendwere of the province, to only two of whieh | shall at present allude. One is the vote of $800 to the chaplain of the Levwislative Couneil tor repeating the daily parliamentary pray- + which in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick that officer receives twenty or twenty-five pounds. In the House of Astembly they go ptayerless to work. A gentleman one mornwg found the Duke of Sussex reading the Bible, and, marae eee he eur at the occurrence, was told His Royel Highness in reply, that the man who spent wu ie perusal of the seripe werned by their precepts is traceable more or less distinctly “more frequendy,” to ose Lord pterrupt nw the regularity observed ia others;”” but his lordship 1s of opimion that (hove aebule are symptoms of a lees pertectly and te the line of mig hi d, with reference ig the more re- of these , Lord Kosse intends to view them with the light of his wix feet specu lum, undiminished by the secoud reflection of the smell mister. By thus adopting what is calied the front view, he will, dow he himself ex- pects, dircover many ne a those inter- esting objects. [tists tue inudence of Lord Hosse’s exemple that we ure tdebted for the tue reflecung telescope of Mr. Laseels, of which | have already spoken; end it is to it, aleo, that we owe another telescope, which, though yet unkoown to science, Lem bound ip this piace expecially to nowee Lak lude to the reflector reerutly cowstructed by Mr. James Naemyth, a vative of Edinburgh, (but for many years past, of the ewater foaodry, Pe Uterott,) alresdy distinguished by bis mechanical inventions, and one of a family well known Ww ae all, avd occupying @ high place among the artiste t Scotland. This tostrument has ite great apeca- Jom 20 fret in focal length, and 29 taches im dia- meter; but it differs from all other telescopes ta the remarkable faciliy with which it can he used. Tus tube moves vertically upon hollow travetons, throngh whieh astronomer, seated in a lite observatory, with only a herizeatel mouon, cam View at his ease every port ofthe heavens Huher- to, the astron: ybliged to seat hime orif et the a elesenpe 5 and if no other observe: ledge the awh wardness and iunecw his postion, | cam Ftd vouch 4 ies 8 oR from very top of Mr. aren fort telescope when it was directed to 4 pont pot very far from the zenith. Tux Sram Reve in © Madrid, dated the Stet ult , way lt wppears that the generat babitents of Cuba, ke ot dowa so rule of ite pro consuls, cent events, hae at document lately con ment. This manifesto pumber of the must di persons of the island. yet transpired as or Wrongs cont preeedented in exceptional law: —A letter from tent of the in- by the irom din the manifesto, ountry hitherta od entirely dep Tem, eevert the night of penition that one of the greatest wi the tmomemorial, but toy tom of making the ishind serve asa tful men, of the aid such be the complaiate, theit Cxpresstom. der important service tothe by opening its eyes to the mor us nhores for which a coanterpart ovo ~ be found ta the bratel and erart avarice of the conquerors of the New World, and which led to ite emancipation and ite disruption from the mow ther country. It is now knewa that « high employ~ ment in the Spanish colynies ie a sort of bit pryme ble at sight on their inhabitants in favor of the lucky individoal, who, in taro, has to make way for some new favonte of the hour, who awaits recompense for public oF private services to the minisier, These leecher, as is well kaown, sue ceed each other every four or tive years, that wo action may be always freeb, plereing, deep, equally productive. Trees reons retare to Syaim in a marvellous ota , tion, and the least "0 thort a sojourn in Cuba proceres to exe! + tone of from thirty to forty millions of reals £H0,0 to £40 000). eh the doing the® remainder the day Inthe House of Assembly, an | anid, they go prayeriess to work, bas caused a direet ‘cowtratietion to be The Pope ne cause Shek She prmnere Cece Savolved. “The die: ponbebed in the Roman Journal of Se aaron cordance berween the Rotmen Catholic and Pro- | of Lord Palmerston, with regard to bie testant creeds ie hy pw i ° ence the braach it Gtbe produces dew: Scoutied to ine that this difficulty mighi be obviated | doubt that his Holiness has « yery bad .