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5 paragraph stating that an effort was about to be | examined. grade, by the “friends” of the late Henry B. Hunt, | é @an SUMMER RETREATS. Our Lake Manopac Correspondence. Laxe Manorac, (N. ¥.) July 31, 1854. Situation of the Retreat—The Journey from New York—Hotels and Society—The Amusements. Daily as I peruse the columns of your valu- able paper, (the New Yorx Huratp,) I observe many communications from the visiters of va- riove watering places and summer resorts, but I see none from that: beautiful and romantic place. called Lake Mahopac. This lake is © situated in Putnam county, New ‘York, and about sixty miles from the city, thir. teen from Peekskill—one of our beautiful vil- Jages on the Hudson—and within three hours ride of our great metropolis, I have visited the place this season, and also for many sum- mers previous. I will endeavor to give an idea of its situation, to those who may wish a few days recreation and enjoyment within a few hours’ ride. We take the Darlom Railroad, and after about two hours’ ride, arrive at Croton Falls. Thore we meet hosts of carriages and stages from the various hotels, which, after about a half hours’ ride, arrive at our destined place. Then, the question arises which hote) will be found the most agreeable? This I decline answering, but leave it for the visiter tu choose, as they are all kept on the most systematic principles of ar- raogement. The first house you arrive at is kept by Mr, R. D. Baldwin, and is very commo- Gious, capable of accommovating from two to four hundred people. Mr. B.is a man well worthy of patronage, as he attends to the com. forts of tho e who visit him, with the best the house affords. At this house there are many beautiful and interesting young ladies, whicy makes time pass more agreeably especially, to | tho-e who are fond of young ladies’ society. Next we come to the Gregory House, which is very commodious; also Mr. G.sparesno pains | to make those stopping at his house return bet- | ter satisfied with r visit than their anticipa- | dons were on their arrival. A litile further on and we approach a beautiful private man- sion, also kept for the accommodation of visi- ters. The proprietor of this house is Mr. Hor- | ton Just below this, and on the lower extremity of the lake, there is another hotel open for the | reception of boarders by Messrs. Tompson & | Ga Nun, At any of these houses comfortable accommodations will be found. This lake is not very large, being but pine or ten miles in circumference, but affords two or three beauti- | ful islands, upon which are many hundreds of | tzves, upon the trunks of which may be seen cut the names of former visiters, as a sort of | remembrance of the happy hours they have pacsed there. The water is pure and fresh, and affords excellent bathing and fishing. Each of the hotels above mentioned is well supplied bs om suitable for saitiag, rowing, fish- ing, &e. What can be more beneficial fora young la- | dy’s hea!th than to take daily exercise in pull- ing an oar from one islani to another, or ex- bibitiog ber ladytike skill in riding on horee- | back at buch a retreat. Nothing can be of | more importance to the human system than | such daify exercise. Ihave visited this place for a number of years, as I have many other fashionable places, ‘but none with as much :pleaspre as I found at | Lake Mahopac. J.P. Fashion at Watoring Places, {From the Philadelphia Lodger.) The Chinese do ko-tou in their faces in the pre ‘Seve of their superior, and the bapighted Africans | worehip a fetish made of old rags; but neither the negroes nor the Morgoliaus are a bit more absurd ‘than Americans, when they prostrate themselves to the thing called fashion. And of all follies connect- | ¢0 with fashion, that of fashionable watering places | is (he most euperiatively ridiculous, Mra. Nervous, for example, wants change of air. Bi:t, unfortunately for the dear lady, she cannot con- went to be cured except at the most tonnish water ing place; ond accord vgly her husband, though he can i) affore? any extravugances, is compelled to take her to such a resort. What matters it that the rooms are close, the table scantily provided, and the proprietor extortionate in every way! This fa: nibveble lady, or hat, boards there, or has board- 6 there, leaving behind her aa odor of gentility to all time. It is amezing what inconveniences, and even insults, Mre, Nervous and handreds like her, ‘will put up with, in order to eat at the same table as be upper ten,” and be bullied by the same land- lord. Nor is this all; for at fashionable watering placee one would think that health wag the last thing they | Andes and Amazon Basin. LETTER ADDREASFD TO A MEROHANT OF COCHA- BAMBA, IN BOLIVIA, BY LIZUT. LARDNER GIBBON, U. 6. NAVY. a Pariapetrut, July 29, 1854. Dear Sm—On a steppe of the Andes, where the mountain streams pay tribute to the Atlan- tic, you write to know something of the peace- ; fa river routes communicating through the | territory of Bolivia and the empire of Brazil. quest sooner, is that I had no right to publish before obtaining ‘permission from the proper | authorities to doso. Having now that per- mission, I hope my answer will prove satis- | fuetory as a rational result of my observa- tions, if not the most agreeable to youasa merchant. + The discovery of an outlet for the produc- tions of the territory of Bolivia to the Atlantic bas Jong been an earnest desire with the inhabi- Amazon and La Plata. The subject is not a | new one; but as the current of population flow- ed from the Pacific shore, over the mountains, | down the sides of the Andes into the lowlands float to the Atlantic has become every year more and raore apparent. Standing on one of the loftiest peaks in the | New World, looking out to the west, the tra- veller beholds a rough, mountainous, unproduc- | tive country from Lake Titicaca to the Pacific shore. A single narrow path wiads through the great desert of Atacama, and leads down steep precipices to the only seaport of entry possessed by your country. Cobija is a free port: yet the distance is so great that mer- chants of Bolivia prefer to pay transit duty to Peru, through Arica, for foreiga manufacture brought by ships around Cape Horn and nearly the whole length of two great oceans. Towards the east he feels a gentle wind blow- ing in his face from the distant Atlantic, which drives before it clouds loaded with moisture from that ocean. As these clouds pass over the low lands, mois- ture is sprinkled on the earth in dew drops and rains. Striking the base of the Andes, the wind wa'ts upward; and when the clouds reach an elevation of a little over fourteen thousand feet above the sea, they enter an atmosphere so rarified and cold that the remaining moisture freezes and falls on the mountains, in snow flakes, hail, and frost smoke. The traveller, plunging through deep snow above the clouds, suffers the torments and pri- vations of dreary winter, and descends nearly seven thonsand feet of everlasting ice, through a region avoided by every kind of animal life, and where no signs of vegetation are to be seen. Above congenial for birds, except the condor, are grasses kept green by water melted from llama, alpacca, and vicuna, the wool-growers toes and barley, or digs silver from the vein. A little lower are coarse tufts of grass, min- led with small bushes of blackberry and whor-. tleberry; flocks of sheep, white and black, speckle the mountain sides; gay, laughing In- dian shepherdesses protect with dogs the new born lambs. In the soil is found native copper; blocks of tin lie near the surface, and a es crop flourishes upon it. The peach, apple, and pear trees are in full at new year’s day; horned cattle are fattened on lucerne, and flowers exist in all their beau- ty. The climate being warmer, tbe traveller changes his garments. The people gather a harvest of corn, and the population becomes more dense. Finally appears a growth of smali ee trees, which increase in size as he de- scends. The best cinchena in the world is free to all bark gatherers, by the laws of the land. The tops of the trees swarm with monkeys, parrots, wild turkeys, and a great variety of beautiful birds of brilliant plumage. Through the woods roam spotted tigers, poisonous snakes, or teains of ants with painful stings. The coffee tree and sugar cane produce well, rs ol plantains, oranges, and all the tropical fruits. sought. Mrs. Manoeuvre has gone there to of her daughters. Mrs. Ephesian has come to catc! a second husband. Mies Flirt is there to i | ‘with the gentlemen. Miss Dash to raise a ion | by ber oddities. In the little world of five huodred | boarders, orarily inhabiting the hotel, there are as many nes, intrigues, and rivalries as at | the court of ® Lonis XIV. Mrs. Tallowcbandler | turns up her nose at Ms. Soapfat, becanse ths hus: | band oft the latter retails his goods, while her own | 6eils out at Wholesale. Mr. Drone will not speak to Mr. Useful, because the latter works for his living, while the former spende in idleness the fortune | acquired by his father. Even the “gentlemen and | ladies of color,” wno, according to their own ac count, partly for recreation, and partly.to oblige the fashionable world, consent to wait at table, make | beds, acd black beote,’ partake of this exclusive- / ners; and one “prefessional gentlemaa’’ boasts an- other, with pompous +elf-satisfaction, of his tonnish | mistrees, and pronounces the employer of another “‘o' no account,” berause he made his money in salt pk instead of in sngar. { Thousands of gollars are annua ly sacrificed at these fashionable eehening places by families really unable to afford. While husbands are borrowing money in the hot town at two per cent a month, ‘wives are sporting lace capes that cost a hundred dollars, at hotels where the family bill is another handred week. While fathers are trembling | with the fear of failure in the fall, daughters are flaunting at watering places in the costliest jewelry, Or sons are eporting fast horses, giving champagne suppers, and perhaps gaming ond drinking half the nizht. Deliver us from fashionasb e hotels at the sea Bhore or the springs! They would swallow upthe purse of a millionaire, and destroy the health of a | Bamson. They would teach airs to the girls of the best mothera, and make the sous of the thriftiest father ap ovident. Ostensibly, people go out of town for health. Pot how many are better for » eojourn ata fushiona- le wateriug place? Instead of returning with blooming cheeks, ladies come back faded with late | hours; entle men, instead of being more vigor Ove, are paying the penalty of wine suppers. A | fortnigs t at some quitt place, where the air is | fresh avd the hours estly, is better than a month at ove of these scenes of fishionable dissipation. In the one case, you get what you contract for, and at | & moderate price, too; in the other you pay six dol- Jers for board and six for fashion, and are cheated | tn both. | Tablet to the Late Harry Hant. TO THE EITOR OF THE NEW TORK HERALD. Deaa Sin—I saw in last Sunday's Dispatch a erectia tablet to bis memory. Madame Thillon's Fens if today’s Heravy, to that portion of the id pa graph which made » poiated allusion to “her, utans brought the subject before the public. Will you it me to state, for the information of thore kind—bat rather siow— late Mr. Hunt, that # neat and appropriate “tablet” has long since been placed over his resting pee one of pretiiest spots in Greenwood—by Mr. Charles Wajicot, at his own expense. Was ag oa 473 Broome atreet. . Law Courts. Judge Mitchell will hold Supreme Court chambers from 9 A. M, to 1 P. M., on and after the 3d of Au- the month. latter of Extending Cana! Street and Widening Woiker Strect—\n consequence of the absence of Judges Roosevelt and Wateon, two of ‘the Jastices before whom the atgameut in this case was beard, Judges Mitchell aod Clerke the decision would be deferred uatil the Sep- tener term. The Superior Court will hoid a general term this day, Wednesday.» Third District Court. ‘case wae reported in yeater- Guy's Hematn.) The being out all t, - @) able to to a verdict, were disch: cause vidi ‘ broug’ ext “friends” of the | notnced | ut on egain for trial on Monday | The small snow water streams, with golden beds, gradually swollen by heavy rains, at the | base of the Andes, east of Cochamba, invite the travelicr to step into a canoe, manned by Indi- ans, who paddle with the current 500 miles of a | river navigable for steamboats. The Mamore flows through a great prairie country, where herds of horned cattle, horses and deer graze. The Brazil elk and ostrich roam over these plains. The land, the air and the waters are here filled with animal life. : Thirteen bard working days are required to descend the seventeen cataracts on the Madeira, a distance of 240 miles, and not navigable wards. But a passable road might be cut in a straight line through Brazilian territory, from the upper to the lower falls, adistance shorten- ed to 180 miles, by which cargoes could pass to the upper country. s savages, black tigers anc alligators, for 500 miles of navigable water, to the mouth of the Madeira, where its waters join those of the Amazon, and still flow on 800 miles, to be emp- tied into the Atlantic. i} In looking back upon the beautiful Madeira, | to proslavery doctrines admits is needed at the, pre- | which we have traced from its source among the snows of distant lands. we regard it as the natural river road, or highway, by which the people of Bolivia can reach the markets of the world. Compare this route, prepared by the Ruler of all Things, with that travelled by the jackass, slama, or mule, through the desert of Atacama, struggling under heavy loads of cinchona bark, silver and wool, climbing th their way to the South P . while the little canoe floats gaily with the current to the uh Atlantic. See by your map of South America the dit ference between the route through the moun- tains and by two oceans, from Cochavamba, and that by the Madeira river, to Para, at the month of the Amazon. fany years ago the govern’ declared ports on the rivers flu Madeira and Paraguay free ports y that time comps vely little was known of 1 erp parts of Bolivia, The rivers had n sounded nor the countries otherwise Now we know that so fur as the Madeira river is ¢ ed, Bolivia has no free ports of entry; by it the fallsare insupera- t | not bee | and it is utierly impossible to make any prac- | ticable use of that part of the Madeira river between the upper and lower falls by steam- beate, | When the kind and hospitable people of Bolivia can induce their government to infiu- | ence that of Brazil to grant a right of portage from the upper to the lower fails on the Ma- deira river—when they open a road, and when they begin themselves to carry their valuable productions tothe meuth of the Amazon—then they will find the merebants of the world pay- ing proper attention to them. You mention a large body of land situated at the base of the Andes, granted to you by the government of Bolivia. The climate of that part of South America is well adapted to agri- cultural purposes, and to the races which in future times may populate those wild regions, The opinion prevails that when the South American nations consider it ‘cy to invite the poor and industrious o! other lands to enter and enjoy their terriwry, the white race will flock to the latitude often degrees south. In- deed, the rule works so generally now, South- ern Brazil, La Plata, Chili, &-d Bolivia. are at this day thickly populated, compared with the valley of the Amazon, Yet the vegetab! growth in the latter is much the most luxari- ent, and would seem, were it not fyr the ex- My excuse for not complying with your re- | | tants on the banks of the tributaries of the | feed, and the aboriginal Indian cultivates pota- | treme heat and moisture of the climate to be Our New Hampshire Correspondence. the most favored portion of the earth. Drewsvas, N. H., July 31, 1854. j Biongie mala rank oO Amazon, it is! Spiritual Doinge—Popularity of General | There tae ri arises may la Boer Pierce at Home—His Agents at Concord— wi * heat, much more to Mo catigmntten than pba Rural Scenes—New Hampshire Courting. the mountains | be somewhere in the wil Do not let pee re esac = oa “gery cited by reports of large lu a, ee Pn where the cli- In my last I promised to give a further ac- count of such spiritual doings as might come beneath my notice; but I have not been favored | mate is sickly, and where the inhabitants are | With any new manifestations, although I pa- tween. It is wrong to suppose even a North Ameri: savage and warlike, with a fair proportion of | tiently sat from eight till half-past eleven, tigers and mosquitoes, neither few nor far be- awaiting the approach of a defunct Persian who conversed through bis medium in Italian; yet, can, would attempt toleap over seventeen oa- |, D0twithstanding our perseverance, we sat taraots in ten thou try. | Many thanks for steamboat, for so amalla prize as id dollars—the reward offered by | and the efforte of the media were of no avail. | the Bolivians to the first captain of a steam | vessel who shall enter ariver of their coun- A party in a parior, all silent and all damned, It is too evident a swindle for your corres- pondent to pretend that there is any news here our kindness to me, a| worth embodying in a letter. The chief topic stranger in your land, I look back with plea- | of excitement is the non-arrival of the HeraLp, o my visit there- I am, sir, your obedient servant, Larpner Gipson, Lieut. U. 8. Navy. | sure t | Senor Don Cantos Bruwovx, Merchaat, of Cochabamba. Bolivia. Our Albany Correspondence. Axsany, July 29, 1854, to the east, the importance of being able to | Delegates to the Saratoga Convention— Woolly Whigs and Abolitionists, a—Silver Grays will not Participate—The Whole | Programme Arranged for Performance in 1856. The cunningly devised scheme calling a | ernable, reason dethroned, and effigies burning in every abolition town. Individuals were called from every part of the State, not aspar- tizans, but aspure philanthropists, for the pur- | pose of adopting sentiments, declaring to the South a determination to repeal the law estab- lishing the Territorial governments of Nebraska and Kansas, to reinstate and re-establish the fugitive slave law. Well, under this call. a gathering of “black spirits and white, blue | day, to select a delegation for Saratoga. The chairman selected was the most appropriate person that could be found, viz: Bradford R. Wood, whom the democrats elected to Congress in 1844 upon the “Polk and Texas”’ issue, but | who, when snugly seated in Congress, voted | against the measure, and had the audacity to | senda letter to his constituents denying that he was elected upon any such ground. He has been one of the most rabid and impassioned an atmosphere | abolitionists ever since. Hence the consistency | j in placing him in the chair yesterday. The resolutions were written by a lawyer Barnes, ice and snow under a tropical sun. Here the | S0n-in-law of Thurlow Weed, who is also kaown | grith ; a8 an abolitionist of the most ultra order. | Though highly denunciatory of the action of State convention of abolitionists, free soilers, end woolly whigs, at Saratoga Springs, in the middle of next month, is reoeiving less favor | than the originators imagined. The call was | made very soon after the passage of the “Ne- | braska-Kansas Outrage,” whilst enthusiasm | ran high, excitement was wild, passions ungov- | Missouri compromise line, and to repeal the | | Spirits and gray’’ was held in this city yester- | | if the drive was persisted in for a sufficient | an event which, sad to say, happens very often. The Pest Office officials seem to think that news, Wke wine, improves by age and travel, as, receive any mail from New York, although we are But ten hours ride from it. The popularity of General Pierce (or, as they pronounce it here, Purss,) appears to be sadly on the wane, and the recent disgusting exhibition at of an army of wire-pull- ers sent on rem Waingon to endeavor, by their influence, to control the Senatorial eleo- tion, has done more to de; @ the Exec- utive than* years of such masterly imbecility as has lately characterized the administration, could by any possibility bring about. From what I can Jearn of the former habits of our chief magistrate, he was what is familiarly called “a jolly old cock”—that is, he would always take his glass with you, and tell his etory; butas for any peeuliar fitness for the situation he now occupies, although I well recollect that “a prophet is not without honor save ia his own country,” no one here, even among his most zealous admirers, could ever accuse him of that. The sentiment of the peo- ple appears to be embodied in a remark made by an old farmer, the other day:—“We didn’t vote for Scott. as we took him to be ad—d fool; but in electing Pierce we jumped from the trying-pan into the fire.” war] At some future day this place will probably be converted into a fashionable watering | place, as it is easy of access, and there is a spring here, called lees Spring, the water of which is sufficiently nasty em- | drives in the vicinity are beautiful, albeit rather hilly; for it is my decided belief that | length of time, the purpose for which the Tower of Babel was erected would be fully ac- | complished, as it is Ossa upon Pelion here, and | when one hill is surmounted another one stares | you in the face. A word of advice to the readers of the New | Yorx Herap: Never “keepcompany”’ (as they | call an engagement here) with a New Hamp- shire girl. It is the custom of this country for two lovers to resolve themselves intoa séance permanente. An interesting pair have been | | engaged in billing and cooing from 4 P. M. till A. M., and heaven only knows how much | longer they will keep it up. Ican’t sit up to fee. This is not a solitary example. Can any metical or statistical reader inform me ; how many times a man is necessitated to make a d——4d fool of himself during that period of | sometimes, three or four ote elapse before we | | body cure for all known diseases, and the | Congress, and all those who votes for the Terri- | | torial bill and obliterated the Missouri line, | time he is engaged in “courting?” We here was still a cowardliness exhibited in not | a é pause for a reply. blossom on a lower steppe; strawberries ripen | ' Launching a canoe below these falls, the de- | | scent is through a wild region, inhabited by | lofty Andes, on | | ble ob-tructions over which vessels cannot pass, | | demanding an emphatic ele of the fugitive act. So thought Mr. C. W. Williams, who metas . ee GS to sept eae itical whigs opposed this. hey wanted Ueprrcnlous setioh ” at Saratoga, aud foresaw that if a resolution was adopted at Albany, the headquarters and centre of all manner of iniquity, that a repeal of the Fugitive Slave | law would be among the ingredients of the Sa- ratoga conclave, then the silver grays, toa | man, would repudiate the connection, and with the bards stand aloof and disconnected. So the resolution was not suffered to be incorporated, and the whig politicians conquered the aboli- | tionists proper. Some twenty names are pub- | lished as delegates, but not a silver gray whig j nor bard democrat among them. Neither are the names of any of the Buttfalo platform free soilers in the list. Being the pecuiiar friends of the “slippery administration,’’ none of them, of course, will be found in a state of open “ ia- subordination,” so’ long as their friends enjoy the government drippings. Among the names there are only three who ever voted the demo- | cratic ticket when the “party”? was in har- ; mony. The gathering was a fizzle—only some | dozen or so thought it worth while to attend. The whig prints alone are now left to dis- | cuss the propriety of the Saratoga conven- | tion. They differ widely in their estimate ‘of the eifect which will be produced. | Whilst the Evening Journal, in this city, | declares the object to be “to arouse and com- bine Northern sentiment to resist by aN lawfal | means the extension and perpetuity of sla- | very”—which means, in literal truth, to | “arouse and combine’’ a Northern party under | the Seward banner—other whig prints, not yet | fally indoctrinated, and breathing the pure | rural air, declare that the “whig party will , Stand by its present organization”—‘that the | Party is now thoroughly unitedand occupies im- | pregrable grounds upon the slavery question” | Another, the Onondaga Gazette; goes in for the “truly republican party,” which is to be organized at Saratoga, and sayr— We wish every honest and unaspiring whig would look this matter square in the face, aud. determine to the sutisfaction of his own mind which is prefer- | able—the triumph of his party at the coming State election, and the distribution of a few palcry offices, | or the formation of such a great and ‘truly re- publican party as every one not given up entirely j | Bent crisis, to save the country from becoming an absolute slave despotism, and the princi freedom, a8 inculcated in that “ self-ev: the Declaration of independeuoe, from being crush- | ed out entirely; a party which, though it might not | give all the State offices to the waige this fall, wonld secure to them their share in ‘56 ‘64, and place the country i its proper relation to | the institution ofslavery besides. Another print, the Republican, at Hudson, does not follow the dictation. It fears the dis- | solution of its party. It says:— We are not in favor of what we understand te be the object avd aim of at least some of its prime movers, which is the nowination of an anti slavery Maine law ticket, and the breaking up, so faras is possible, of the present whig orgavization. And we can say to the engineers, that if they expect to dthe whigs of Colambia county with them ia ‘h a movement, they will fiud themselves wo- mistaken.” The Mirror, of Wyoming county, asks:— —what will they do? rey all W organization? T nearly d to the Nebraska swinds hardly woile to make apy excepti yhably ome of them the political checker board ia to | be looked all over very carefully before committing themselves too far one way or the other. They are all ready to go into this convention, to «xpress opinions, &c.; but will they be ready to adopt the organization that !s rapidly formiag in othe. States, end which now promicea much for the preservation of our free institutions? ‘This is merely « sample of what is said in the public prints. It indicates anything but har- mony. The whigs will of course have the convention their own way. Even the few soft democrais who lent the use of their names at the origin of this movement in this city, seeing aow plainly that the whole purpose is to obtain strength for Sewaed in 1856, are abandoning it. Being under the surveillance of Pierce and Marcy they are not yet quite ready to step upon a platform peculiarly Northern. They will be ready to take ground when those two sepirants are thrown overboard, and when the iesue becomes joined between 9 sectional and ® national candidate for the Presidency. One thing ie certain—the leaders and direc- tors of the Saratoga gathering will be most ef- | fectnally used up politicians. The repeal of the | Territorial law, the restoration of the Missouri | compromice line, or the repeal of the Fugitive | Slave law, are purposes which no political as- piraat, no ebolition demagogue, no sectional | agitator, backed with all the fanaticiem of the | na can ever eccomplish It matters not | Whether meses rather at Buffalo or Saratoga ihe rgsult will be the aqge. nd. The | ent lie,” | | nary increase of bus Deous, but because the meh ae roducti are, a8 as was be when the fc tdok their figures w! change it is not so é abet 3 : ment. It was to be which has existed for railroads in ed with the conviction that they able investments of i fl and We have no doubt such is the fact. We have fre- quently stated such to be our conviction. Bat it is of little use to give warning or advice. A man must experience what haa been told im before he will hear what has been said. construction of railroads has out of proportion to other interests, this fact by n0 meane proves that they are in advance of the wants of the country. To supply this want, great in- crease of necessary. The mistake committed is not we have too many railroads, but that there are wants paramount to should first be wg sheren for; for as soon as harmon: or equilibrium is restored, the construction of rail- roads may be resumed with both safety and profit. It is undoubtedly true that railroads have given a value and significance to capital that it never before possessed. While the ap ogc of steam to the mechanic arta has infinitely increased the produc- tive capacity of society, the demand for capital is increased in the same ratio. There is nota man who does not remember when native vil had always a | plenty of money to lend at 6 and 7 per cent on good security of names or lands. Society hadthen hardly crossed the line of demarkation which separates the old from the new, the period which alized | the introduction of the forces of nature into the | economy of life. The use of steam has increased be- yond all calculation the value and preductiveness of labor. Money now stands for whatever results the steam engine can accomplish. Capital has become valuable just in proportion to its increased capacity for production, and as by the inventions and dis- coveries which are being made every day this capa- city is increasing in geometrical , We can see no pause in the demand for capital till there is a octroenonsing. pause in human ingenuity, or till man shall forego a portion of bia wants, or rest rent yee with his present means for their gratifi- cation. But these remarks are somewhat wide of the sub- What we intended to say was, that railroads we, as alleged, col an immense amount of capital in the construction, which has in a measure been withdrawn from other channels, at some incon- venience to other departments of industry. While this has been the case, the effect has been to create an additional demand for twice or thrice the capital that has gone into them. The of every railroad nishes the means for the developement of other resources, greater or lesa, as the case may be. Let Gey one hundred miles of railroad to be construct Ohio. At every two or three miles upon ite line some element of wealth is rendered available, which before lay dormant. At one point the timber on the line of the road is manufac- tured for use; at another, a coal mine is opened ; at another, iron works are 3. at Bo fourth, some other useful mineral is ht out; ower to be set at work at a fifth is a water for a whole neighborhood. The developement of all these resources offers the greatest inducement to the profitable investment of capital; so that no sooner is a road constructed than a demand springs up for the objects sta‘ed, far two dollars, where the construction of the road cal'ed for one, to accom- Plish the legitimate results due to such 3 work. The demand for capital created by the construc- tion of railroads is not only what is required for the roads themeelves, but for ali the works and improve- ments to which the former gives birth, and which may safely be estimated to exceed, ina very short time, twice their cost. But the cost of rail- roads, experience shows, increases in pee on to the increase of their business. The Boston and Worce&ter railroad, a “brief history of whica ia to be found in another column, is a good illustration in point. The first cost of thia road was about $1,200,000.. This amount has: been increased some 400 per cent in eighteen years, or at the rate of twenty-two per cent annually. Now, the additions to the first cost of the road ngred og ‘a8 neceseary and proper as was the original outley. $76,000,000, ey wil require an egal expendlvens ,000, they juire an equal ex; tare within the next fout ean to accommodate the ordi- Estimating the annual increase of cost of our roads at ten per cent, this amount would call for $50,000,000 annually for old roads. Our works in progress probably call for $75,000,000. If the improvements and {avestments conrequent MSs the construction of railroads equal this sum, the expenditure of capital due to con- pean of these works amounts to $200,000,000 annually. Bach is the annual draft that | _Stigariy Romanric.—The case of James Crow, | charged with kidnapping a little girl, was examined on Saturday before Acting Recorder Wiltz, and | pai to be of a rather interesting character. The | facts of the case, as pexslevet on the examination, | Were as follows :—In March, 1847, Mrs. Fitzgerald, | bE el eee a bers a child, was 1d to go ji gaeenea e charge of a female child afew | days old, for which she was to be paid at the rate of $18 per month. The terms suited Mrs. F., and the child remained under her care until she was about two years old, the stipulated sum being regularly paid. About that time the payments ceased, however, and Mrs. F. declares that she had not received @ ent since for the maintenance of the cbild. A few-morthsafrer she first seceived the child, @ map named James Crow called upon her and inquired after it. She at firs denied having any such child in her possession; but Crow informed her that he knew all about it, and that he had been sent he those who left the child there. She then admitted’ that the child she held in her arms was the one be sought,when he took it, folded it to his heart and kiss- edittenderly. The child has since grown‘into a hand- some, sprightly little girl. and daring the whole of the interviuing time Crow contin to visit her, pasting throughout the neighborhood as the child’s uncle. When the little girl was christened, Crow | | was present and gave ber the name of Louisa Crow. | From hie conduct towards the little girl, and sundry | inadvertent remarks, Mr.and Mrs. Fitzgerald became | | telerably well convinced that he was Louisa’s father. | Although from time to time he made the child pre- } Cae yet he never offered to contribute to its sup- | | port. | _ The foster parents became very much attached to | | the cbild, Mrs. pr eee particularly, and so fear- { | ful was the latter of losing ber that she never spplied | to the person who placed the little girl in her | | forthe money agreed upon. Two ‘or three weeks | | ago, the Fitzgeralds determined to move to Texas | and take Louisa with them. Their intention was made known to Crow, who advised them to leave the little girl with bim, and he would take care of her. | This Mrs. Fitzgerald would not listen to, and on the | | 16th, Crow went before a notary Fans, ard eae an/ ' act declaring that Louisa was his own child, bein, the result of an illicit connection between him and | | Miss —— (the name we suppress for obvious rea- | | sons) fully acknowledging her to be his daughter | and heir, Under the laws of this State, this act le- | gitimatizes the child, and is the only valid evidence of , penny eee child being born out of wediock. The | ollowing day, Crow went to the heuse of Mra Fitzgerald, and under pretence of purchasing a pair | of shoes for her, he got the child in his possession, | and took her away with him. Mrs. F. was from | home at the time, and aa soon as she returned | and learned the loss of her little pet, she be- | came almost frantic. On the 16th, she and ber husband went before the Recorder, and made a charge of kipnapping against Crow, | and on the 19th be was arrested and informed thst | | ifhe did not at once produce the girl he would be | sent t> prison. He then went to one of the orphan | | asylums, in company with an officer, where the | | child was found, and the Recorder placed Louisa once more in charge of her foster mother. Crow was then bound over to appear and answer tho charge of Kidnapping, aud on Saturday last the case was examined. Evidence to the above effect ‘was introducei, and the Recorder (rather singular- ly, we thought,) decided to send Crow before the Firet District Court on a charge of kidnapping, binding him to bail in the sum of $1,000 for his ap- p-atance. Mr. and Mra. Fitzgerald were also bound | over to appear aud prosecute.—New Orleans Delta, July 2 4 railroads impose upon the productive energies of the country. The above facts will serve to explain the constant and active demand that exists for money. When we reflect that we have only commenced construc- tion of railroads and the developement of the un- limited resources of this country, and that at fifty years from the present time our people will be just as much occupied with new projects as they are at this moment, and that every year enlarges the field of enterprise and industry, it is difficult to foresee a peroe! in which the accumulations of capital shall exceed the demand for its profitable employ- ment. Brt while railroads are making, and will continue to make, immense calls upon the capital of the country, of all other investments they make the speedieet and most generous return on their cost. hey have increased value of the ag; property of the country, by more than fivefold their cost. I addition to their earnings, they save to the public at least twenty-five per cent of the whole cost aanually, in transportation. They have created no email share of the foreign and domestic commerce of the country. They are the great fact in the physical progress of our people, and have coutributed more than ay other agency to their astonishing progress in wealth, prosperity and comfort. They may haye received a Gisproportionate developement, not dis- proportioned to the wants of our people, nor their ability to supply to them a lucrative traffic, but to other interests aid other enterprises, alike clamor- ous for capital, It is something to live in the Ses age; but while art and science are constantly unfolding new truths for eur admiration and profit, they impose upon £ocjety a corresponding necessity for labor and toil. We cannot accept the one without the other. A Wrotr Town lv Qu Hea ~The Board of 1 of the village of lave literally M goodly town inastate of quarautise. ounced “the practice of cougregating rs at funerals,” and denied the rites thin the town to aay, person who may ate as to die jast outside of the corpo- They have gone farther, and or- dered, | _ That all persons having families in the said village of Lockport are hereby ordered to refrain, for forty daya from tho dste of thie ordinance, from taking, boarding, ork in their families, any person or persons who msy fter, and within forty days from the date hereof, hme into the said village of Lockport. We publish this ordinance for the purpose of ad- vising our friends, that under its terms they are | probitited from obtaining board or lodging with any Rimily residing at Lockport, for the same espace of time that the tlood prevailed—forty days and forty nights, of course! The man who goss from any point outside of this modern ordinance walled city, on business with its population, must take hia bei std board with him, or fast and sleep under the That we are oppressed and distracted by the new calls made upon our time and means is no good canee of complaint. We onght rather to feel hon- ored at the post assigned to the present generation, in its great mission of unfulding natural laws, and of subiecting their action to the comfort and pro- gress of mankind. All Right, TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD Naw Youx, August 1, 1854. S:r—In your columns of this morning I find the following inquiry:— InrormaTion WanteD, Very Bapir.—We have been re- quested to ask of Pa peries concerned, how it happen- ¢d that Thomas R. Whitney, a rampant leader of the Know Nothing, was closeted at the Astor Hoase the other day, for two long hours, with the Hon. Thurlow ‘Weed, the central organ of Sewardiam? Are the Know Nothings or the Seward party to be sold? Thats all, In reply, allow me to state that I was not closeted with the Hon. Thurlow Weed ‘‘at the Astor House broad canopy of heaven. Why didn’t the Board of | the other day.” I never exchanged a word with Health probibit peo; from og outside, with- in that period, to Ol je with the world, and bring bome with them ous acd contagious diseases, Inaemoch as fright is a provocative of disease, we should not be surprised to hear that the entire Board of Health of Lockport had fallen victims to | o¢ the cholers.—-Bufalo Expr Bononary at Benrevinur, N. J.—This village was infested on Saturday night with a gang of burglars, who msde an attempt ona number of the most prominent residences in the place, but enceeeded in entering those of Mr.John Dow. C. J. Williams. They entered Mr, Dow's bedroom and took about $40 fn money, a gold watcl, and geome of his wearing apparel, ittiout discovery. Mr. Williama, seeing the light from the matches which they struck near his room, Sareng from | bis bed with his sword, which he usually keeps in hie room, opon which the rascal: made a basty re. | treat without apy booty, They have aot been gxp- ured yeh that gentleman, and bave not the honor of his per- sonal acquaintance. Respectfuliy, THOS. R, Warrvey, Frignrrvt Acciprxt.— Harvey Chase, of the firm Boughton & Chase, who manufacture cut shin- gles on the east sid ao Tiver, just oy ay street bridge, was this morn oangit It that carries machinery, ‘and driven round ‘drum that makes eighty revolutions a minute, ing his limbs and body in contact with various and Jacersting him in a shocking manner. had one arm broken twoor tuaree times, one t much injured, if not oruahed, three of. his fractured, and suffered internal bruises, which Shesght by the fone vit intern: pn ba yen te M., and the sofferer about 11 A. is tlive and eensible, though the injaries ara ouch 50 10 make it doubtful whether he can logy, GUTYINe—Rochester Advertiser, July ta pa f ese 4 ‘vossels. On Sabarday last tls Long talkcd of affade came off, as in the of a large number of spectators. Toe entire, line of the ree was dotted with craft of description, and available point on the isisnd wat also sees: . The first race was for crafts of ten tons aad. upwards, |The following entered and contended for Moll Pit Brown .... teeeeeee RT seusedes aad 5a Be = He fli L SeSeztors ~ ~ e were awarded as follews: 'o the Surprise, a gold watch, valued as 2d—To the Wm. 8. Thasher, spy glass, valued at £26. The tokens of victory were presented by Colonel Wright, who scodmmpanted) the gifte pera very happy re ‘4 second race wae for beats of ten tons and under. The following entered the list:— Name. Commander. Where belonging. Tonnage. Sobr. Le: A oe, Cheeses . Sloop ferren, , . Schr. Wave, Curtis,” Quinoy, 5 Sloop Charade, Reed, Hall, 9 03-06 Sehr. Koekee, McKee, Boston, cs Sloop Yankee, Abrabam, do. 4% Do. McDuff, Richardson, do. 4 Do. Village Bell, _ Quincy, 3 63-06 . Grace, Greenwood, Boston, 4 Do. Heotor, Murphy, do. 3 The race commenced short The route, five miles round after one o'clock, e boat Wild Rover, towards Nahant. The boats came in in the follow ing order:— Geeks Minwes. PH s g Boael Fe118 bf The schooner McDuff, Capt. Richardson, entered and sailed the race, but coming in on the wrong side of the line was ruled out. sizes were awarded as follows :— Ast. To the Charade, silver watch, worth $30. 2d. To the Wave, compass, valued at $15. At the conclusion of the awarding of i the cp peed dispersed; the steamers vessels returned to the city and elsewhere, moet ott eine eve! off w tion, and & the manifest delight of all present, hear the conduct, impartiality, and urbanity of tha judges highly spoken of. 7 Some of our fancy citizens were er | whom we noticed Excellency ‘Gov. Dorr’ suite, Albert J. Tirrell, and other lesser lights.' ‘Phe Governor heid his court in a wooden rg tend ever and many of the verdant paid ht Railways in Nova Scotia. We were favored yesterday with a visit from Hon. J Howe, late Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia, and now Chief Commissioner of Railways for that Province. Mr. Howe is well known obs poe hay Heal guty ke Pec and oe mn pe ye) a a ince, and for past at fretteed of its government, holding the office of Provincial Secretary. Mr. Howe resigaed his we offices, and was placed by the government fova Scotia at the head of the Board of Rail Commissioners, under the law of the last providing for the building of railways in vince. Mr. Howe evidently enters with the same upon his new vocation as be embarked hia and bis facile pen in the advocacy of the vernment,” years question ae ali a 2 Fi #0 much alarm inti solid men” of Nova Scotia and C: Mr. Howe may meet as much field of labor as attended his efforts in out of that it le of “ popular now 60 well esta! throughout Britis! America. We have formerly had doubts as policy pt building ror way. work have been, that, wick and Maine, each pt for its accomplishment, while all should apo) all affecting its structure or its fatare rn. ee F ly, all of the latter iw age of 54 feet making it uniform with the line of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada; and when the various sections, the di jecta membra, in Canada,Maine, and in the Provitices east, become connected, they will form an unbrokem _ eh setirays of uniform guage, from Halifax ta tO In 1853 Nova Scotia provisional! to adopt the “Company vipeiple eonally a that of New Brunswick, abd six months time was allowed after the royal assent, for the organization of the companys government ac! On the failure of this, “the ‘waa to come into operation. The war in Europe checked, and in fact defeated the plans of those whe sought to inaugurate the company within the six months, and at the end of that time Mr. Howe introduced and carried Parliament his scheme for a government line. The work was commenced on the Sth of June, 1854, at Halifax,and a section of some ten miles is uncer contract to be opened this year. An addi- tional section of fifteen miles will be opened in 1855. The first twenty-five miles forms a common trank for the lines running to Amberst, to Windsor, and to Pictou, and we learn from Mr. Howe that they intend to pus the trunk line to the frontier of New Brunswick, 80 68 to meet their line at that point, ag soon as it can reach .it, from St. Johu. The will then extend brauch lines to Windsor and Pichoty ova Scotia has ar overflowing as occasion may require. The Province of treasury, and is free of debt. For some years to come the city of Halifax will furnish a ready me ket for ber debentures, at 5 per cent, and as the line proposed will form an iuportant link in the Great Trunk Railway from Halifax to the United States and Cannda, no fears are entertained as ta the paying qualities of the line, 3 Our people will recollect that Mr. Howe pledged himeelf at our City Hall, in the fall of 1851, to com> = that portion of E.& N. A. Railway in Ne ‘ia, a8 Bon as Maine should build her part of. and asthe work is now in progress from Halifax this way we must be up and doing, or forfeit our Regs thus mutually given. New Branswick end c¥a Scotia are both at work, and their lines under contract for a good portion of the distance. Tne line from Waterville to Bangor will be the present year, but from Bangor to C: means for building the -five miles are stil fre tefl of the, af the. gong acai, some fore the » action favorable to ite Cag ts mene will be bad. ‘The visit of Mr. Howe, and the explanation by him, iven, bave awakened @ new and interest for the carrying out of the Eoropean aad North Ame. stican Railway— State of Maine. The Fagittve Biave Law. Wasursoton, July 39, 1954, Ma. J. G. Bayxere :— Sm—In your paper of yesterday, you state that 2 “aeked leave to introduce a bill to repeal the Fugf- tive Slave law of 1850," and moved for a suspension of the rules Of the House to entible me to d¢ 60. Mr. Thos. P. Elliott, of Mass., made the motion ta which, you alluded, and not myscif. You will eee by lMking at the yote that I voted against the me ti tar trom or favoring sach a motion, Velieve that he who favors auch 4 proposition is en enemy to bie country and his country’s constitution. ‘ You will Mags correct are of the proceed: ing, reapectfal OF NPSTOWN HL Buwsore, of Bae