The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1856, Page 2

THE AMERICAN SPAS. SUMMER TRIPS AND SUMMER EXPLORATIONS, | Hienianns oF NEVISINK, Aug. 6, 1856. The Mosquitoes Hiw They Came and How They Disappeared-- The Late Rains and Their Won- derfut Watering Ploce Life, &e. Webster detines the mosquito as “ a small insect of the genus culex, that is bred in water—a species of gnat that abounds in marshes and lowlands, and whose sting is peculiarly painful and vexatious.” ite presence breaks upon the visiou, having the as | pect of a thriving village of cheerful cottages, coquettishly embracing a fuiry lavno’ highly culti- vated verdure, and glowing with light and life, A moment before the adventurous huntsman might have sought the labyri»h to chase the bounding deer, or slake his thirst in the coursing brook, ua- conscious of the health draught or more substantial | repast which here await him. From the side of an abrupt acelivity, binding the magic circle, flow out the living waters. Five distinct channels course cu- riously into separate basins, hewn in the solid rock below—each differing in strength as they are num- bered, thongh all possessing the same characteris- ties. Thus the pilgrim seeks his first relief in num- ber one, and so ascending the scale and building up a g00d foundation, freely imbibes the measure of tonic properties contained in mae five, until NEVISINK. TuomPson’s ATLANTIC PAVILION, I Effects—Pleasures and Philosophy of should describe “ the critter” as a gray- costed, hump-backed, crooked-legged monster, of | thus the superstructure is made ¢ the genus them. Two weeks ago they came upon us like an | *alysis are such as to in epidemic. Jong “ heated term” had driven them up here like clouds of dust, from the distant swamps ef the Jersey bloodeucker. And we have had some of ‘This is no fancy sheich, and the res results of careful cians of the Southern and Western to md patients here, in fullest confidence of their carative virtues. Miserable dyspeptics and those afflicted with scrofula or other cutaneous diseases find a pa- Prevailing south winds through the late coast below. Last Sunday week, between Long | that Cr ae La tp arse ocd > ae Branch and these Highlands, was the great mosquito | test the wisdom of a trial. Myself an invalid, but day. They swarmed on that awful day like the flies | now eojoying the comfortable f of a good ap- of Egypt, the grasshoppers of Utah, or the sea fowl Eee Sn tater Cee, 20 8, Rearing seidente around the desolate rocks of the Arctic circle, ax | common to imeniay, ¥ feel a pleasure ina described by Dr. Kane. my testimony to that of the multitude that have That biessed Sabbath, ia all these parts, was de- voted to the mosquitoes. On that day the Mosquito King was ame the Mosquito coast, and its Emperor is Com- modore Stockton; and we understand his last move is for Buc’ ‘The mosquitoes, on the day aforesaid, reminded as of the hordes of fierce Northern barbarians that descend- ed upon and |sid waste the Roman empire. This Jersey *insec?, of the genus culex” had that sharp, vigo- of hungry savages, or tigers fresh from rons look the jungle dren were Barnegat and Sh them Job from th! inland wat with © seburned bo to But as th Let ge Agassiz auswer whence these in- ects of * have departed. Great, grand and glorioas was the rain of yester- day. It wase Wes» india outpouring, without the hurricane. How it has brightened the face of the woods, the |. Jace of the faces around us! of Thompson, our landiord, with his four nandred about thei «J we don’t wonder that hundreds of people found reliet betore me. Most of the States of the Union have some repre- sentatives here, Laltimore, perhaps, contributing the disporsessed, for this coast of Jersey be- number. These have ly been sent by largest 4 her ablest physician, Dr. Buckler. An agreeable 30- ciability prevails among the guests, and our worthy proprieter, Mr. Frazier, dispenses his attentions amongst his guests with ail deration that marks the Vi cacies are provided for the sick a cheerful libe- rality, sparing the invalid that desolate feeling which accompunies iliness away from home. The pl seeker has also much to interest and amuse him. The billiaid room, bowling alleys, aud at night the ballroom, are attractions within the precincts of the hotel; while beyond, the beautifully raised landscape, arresting the eye at each turn of the well g reads, over mountain and torough valley, enables the t hides of our oldest fisher- | lever of nature to while away unconscious!y many an en ~ | hour of the long summer dsy. Deer bound through hese vampires from | the thickets and trout play in the crystal streams, Hod Job been tried by | requiring but the unerring sit of the sportsman to would have caved in and gone to hard ee ane 3 IS aie bea aaa i avorite excursion, ocenpying part of a day, is They were enough to make @ preacher | to the nateral bridge, from which ttre county derives its rame. Here is a wonder of whi-h no other Jand hanan, ond his next will be for Fremont. , amd they filled the air. The poor chil- peppered the measles; the women 3 and ders, were a rhi— no pro ind all along these picturesque | can beast—a mighty suspension, surpassivg in ex- rom Loog Branch, were seized quisite grandenr and grace of outline all that art has < ever conceived. How tew of our Northera men have epjoyed this magnificent sight! The Menai, in Eng- Jand, and our Niagara, at home, have had their praires said and suns by the curious of our popala- tion, yet how insignificant they appear in contrast! The arch which nature hes formed, so firmly resisting u orks of time end accident, will remain im- M bled », and evacuated these regions and he darks The late rains lrowned them on the land 8 that drove of hogs of ven into the Sea cf Galilee by that s es recorded in Holy writ. The mos- . Jubilate! They are gone. pa and ma are fast asleep, now the coast is clear. able long after man’s inventions have crum- nto dust. NEWPORT. Newronr, R. 1, Ang. 6, 1856. Performing Dogs and Moukeys—Bipeds and Quad- vrupeds—Bething Scenes—The Smithnoodles at Newport—Bathing Costumes— Alphabetical Beau- lies— The Steamship Isabel and the Newport News Effects of Steam—Loretia Shad—Life Preservers Sor Two—Musical Hens—La Grange—Gotts- chelk ond the Germanians, We bave here at present the performiag monkeys aud puppies, for partienlars of whose jus'ly celebrated performances eee small bills. genus culex” came, and whither they How the thirsty eorth drank it up! sea, the face of the sk: and the lovely How it has atened the face souls to provide for, big and little; for Thompsoa | There is, however. a marked difference between well knows that green corn, sweet potatoes, bread and butter, beefsteaks, and even Shrewsoury oys- ters, depend upon timely and liberal rains. ‘The weather now is fine, elastic and exbileratiag. There is a salt water 1) and watery expanses and ground the corner of Rocky Point; and now is the time. Mr. menced while yot the “heated term,” the soutn winds, and the mosquitoes combined to epoil oar these interesting avimals and the two legged breed which drift into Newport with the incoming tide of summer visiters, insowuch as the four legged speci- mens already alluded to have keepers who coatrol their pranks, while t'e bipeds run at large and cit their capers pro bono publico. Now, this may seem avery abrupt, not to say unchariiable opening to a seaside epistle, but for the life of me I cannot help Canis s surf over toe bar, a cool, calm, iver at our feet, and romantic hills and reen islands B., to finish the visit which you com- snle agur es, it, for Tam in an il! natared vein this afternoon, or - pay ne know a bo ory past to use a more expressive though less elegant phrase, bead wi —vanity—etull | at pleasure |, “ in th w = oO 7 Bin oot ae place hotel, fm ‘ic | ‘#8 cross as forty hears,” and moreover am disposed and fussing and fidgety foolarjes and dis | to be cynical and to amatomize our neighbors’ sons? What pleasure in ‘the miscc!ancogs | shortvomings accordingly, Let us, then, take up multitude shout you, and io em and confi: | pembag No. 1. eae, : ay msi Neg a - You are a visiter at Newport; you are there for the house, and in the floss of res day | the rest of the season—you have done the Falls, scraping, dancing, siazing yoang luties, noisy ser- vante and squalling children patural to 4 crusty. ci 7 p r good hy good air, good, wholesome exercise amon! Our M the vaniti tates in + Bhe woods by thou are drenched with the ie coarsest f relves, in of homme — of a reviva! of religion; but it is the hills, ameng ‘i y night, from the endless West Point, Lake George aud Saratoga, and are now prepared to go the entire animal as a fashion- 1 queations A ae es able man, at the sea side; or perchance you may be dyspeptical old But a very | an invalid. Dr. Bolus Glyster, or Homeopathic My tip Nox, M. D., bas recommended change of scene, and @ more bracing air, with generous and stimulating diet. You are at Newport to carry out Bolus or | Nux's idea. Yoo tried Saratoga. You drank the waters freely—« couple of gallons of Congress or 89 om the dall mono- | 0 duy—bat somehow it didn’ have the desired ef ave @ great va feet, #6 you have come down to Newport, to bathe. etter, for sc | Srene, the Ocean Hoase poreh—time, ten o'clock at and stupid | ‘ nt | 4. M—o blazing morning—the sca breeze bas poi | way from { yet crept in—the dust lays beavily upon everything be beams of last night's late hours and sherry lors seem converted into sticks in your as yet But never mind, you are going t» ~ enjoy themselves at just his; and get strong and fat upon the waves, iaclading a see ation of an praia thodist pe es of a water heir camp n They assemble in | y sleep ia teata, they . hey live upon the | half opened eyes. re for 8 together: Sey ey La bathe—with “your party”—the Smithnoodles--and pene ghey rg ety oh solid comforts | ow, a rattle of wheolg, acloud of dast, a getting in nd © of eaxpicious looking garments, a little mystery for the novelties of the thing vial at about wysterious packages, aud you are safely ex tons, and it fig onyg yee 4 seonced in the right hand front seat corner of your piety Deh te. Way Why | aristocratic friend, John Smithnoodle’s equipage, turns up his haadsome woman | Jobn Smithnoodie, to introdace him properiy, be who bas one drew an, fos Lesetaat, —— | ing a retired tallow chandler, wits, since he hae, ot rthe morning ride, anothy " 7 “| + he afternoon, sail, another | like Mr. Phenix McBride for tea, and anotuer for the evening hop. Sapp I om his sees , she has? pose se ¢- We ask, — she | ie better known as the husband of Mis. Sa'th Rot give employmen ressma ki and will not | 4 the Sry ‘goods’ man b-ar witness that thee things | "dle. are wense of | father Pu sophy ond common sense in them, after all. gon in all things—oh yes! money in virevlation, and does good, whil your mirer is a drone in the hive. Look at our sensible old men bere, our sensible and | excellent ladies, blondes and | and take the vote upon it, fa month at the sea side May, at Newport Rockaway, Bath, or, where we have monntains and sea combined, her ask them folly, at such a piace, i r night, or ‘to these Ocean Wave, foot of Robinson « boat down, leav tides of the Shy Rocxpnriver Corry, Va». Site of the Springs— Wild Beauty of the Su the secret of our great commercial prosperity Falk of the Jollics, fripperics, flummeries and non who have f« wtree' of Robinson. are the afternor Your conveyance, like Toot's wardrobe, is ‘‘fash'n able, vat very dear.” Your companions are Smit he watering jiaces,as mach As you pieas, noodle, pere, who looks as if he wouli be fafini uitam, Gheve Ss seneh of geod sans = | more comfortable over a box of adamantines or ft | “best sperm” than in a carriage aad browfeloth. | is fat—not to eny chuckle headed—with pleaty o. | yellow forebead, ond very little hair; and, to crown mothers with their childrea, our young | 4!!--the last mentioned item should have done tha: — ettes, our young balchelor-. | a rich, oily, rulgar laugh, that is so mat iral to hin. Smithnoodle, ¢ sits beside her lesser half—for ir he be fat, she is ponderous. She is an overgrowa, bet your spendthrift Nahant, the Rip-Raps. | at Thompeou’s, for instance, | overdressed, overpompous, and altogether valga: we say, if a month's relexation, fun an’ | woman, with an independent swing as she walks, a good thing, or a fort | ond away of setting her bead on one side, like a dock in oa thender storm, which she considers Look at even a week, or a day 0 toot ottay | Add Mr. Augustus Mortimer Smithaoodie, the rom en fout | son—a three legged animal, in a Shanghae collar, sm New York | wonderfully tight pitent leather boots, and iuci- * | piemt moustache; and yet another persouage, h | shape of Miss Sophy Araminta, the only dauglte | of the house of Smuthnoodie—a scraggy girl, wi | jean arms, long shoulders, no style, and extra nary boop--and your party is sketched in. We will pass over your conversation on the way | ititenfiice to say that it is characteris last Mra. Avs dress—Mrs. B.'s bonnet, and Jerery coast at the hour bury Inter. rack. di VIRGINIA M SPRINGS Arce Speie ’ Aug. 2, 1956. ght's hop ing Scenery—Virtuca of th Basch s—Am | dire. ( n-ions to being admitted into “oar amenis for Pleasure Seekers—The Rock Brier, \ cor (vie, C. ig a retired cabinetmaker) being the > dh a 1 f tort promicent themes, Nor will we comment upon Two days of easy trancition by ra 4 fio Is O°" | the dusty half mile drive—the heat-—the blessed relief correspondent removed some four hundred miles or well of the ote, an you neitle more from the dia and dust of onr great city of New | do come appearance of the York, en, a fefreshing ea and nutare'sclear | L f canvass covered batisi it fountains, in the heart of the Virginia mountains. | Soa te ie The Rockbria xe though first onthe | ofi-e, No, we lready costamed line of travel of the which Natere has 69 | for — 2 4 note ti at the " 9 | i the ol ls of ber | point where bring up the rear of the Smith- Sifelly and c. "t P ' woe & Poodles, aa they rece down with a sort of ho», cere ges tr ded, in the skip at jam, 9 crt the ov waren. potency © neir » generally ia mavens, whet a cha: - adi known to your re a ny Meson and | a ee oes Dixon's | ne na in malice, if we shou a, eae A Some ility | oa look like fools, in painting yo and the remarkable effects of t mention yourself, but « ing and rejavenaticg a system shattered ; 2 niemectien ameneodie Pp i re + least the thousand | in bloc flannel and a sou-wester. may not be without inte ont at least the thousand When ‘ im? A. bippopota at play, on 6 invalids who have hitherto found no pi ”. | kickingno his heels. 4 " how aret 10 mighty whether natural or artificial, sited to thelr peculiar | fatten! Is this John Smithnoodie, Esq., one of the conditions. er aed (ow we ree 5 dt a yl Is this the r =e « " resident and Pan irector in Cevar Deep hidden between two ranges of the tier | nit vunend at times, and Jo! as wo nz down above tier of mountains which |oom op in relief | goes the chucklehead and ap come the stapy legs ageinet the sky—here green and afar off blue—the | which pertain to Smithnoodle, senior. £ tes bia est he can position mperulati reach battle with the breakers, and uphold as | of the springs becomes a thystery and @ fire amful which he has taken for botier or ion to the traveller, mntil within arrow's | fo; worse. We have a slighter form to robe—the Miss By a euddep turn of the deqrending roag | Smithnoodie; her pruteloons (they cali them Turk | cipitous gn arled heights, offering the grandest views YORK HERAWD, — _SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1856. - — a ish drawers) of orange and black, oy ge ye tN, 1) is, an a But the daughter of the house of is nowhere, ty tay n, when contrasted w't! ! re pe =n. Ab ue me for you; ‘too—closel, fitting striped pantaloons and shirt—white and red altervatel ae a sort of nighteap tomatch. “Oh, |,’ ehouls a youngster by our side ‘see the po see the drous a But Smithnoodie outs on in blessed of the re- mark. And now they are all in together—on comes a breaker. “Look out Sally,” shouts the almost saf- focated Smithnoodle pore. Bat the , people go ashore witb the undertow; the ried into a series of under the head of “ whole company”—! Turkish drawers above the bathing dress and exhibi' her avkies to a most unprecedented extent—and you are carried away by the salt water and your feelings—seize an elderly lady by the leg— knock down a fire eating Southerner, and then wipe the sea weed from your eyes to to a meek Roking slereyaae in a second hand rig, hired for a York shilling, who looks as you mention the leg affair, and says, “Excuse me,” at a venture. And 80 passes twenty minutes, and then back you go to your bathing cars, with your most ridi- culouely -— ed, and a vague impression upon your mind thatthe whole performance is a hambug: hat you have been on exhibition in a mo3t unbe- coming guise, tor the benefit of half a hundred lockers on, your coachman not included. And then the misery of getting dry, of feeling stizky and ieee. and wanting a - restorative, and 0} ing the pores with ‘ation tu them ce gcd eae Chad Bom the aly drive. ut why we expat mpeaitigee points, for Mt Newport! “Adieu, then, fortovay ts the Seah, a " » for juaith- noodles—they have gone home to dress for dinner; but we shall meet them at the hop,-or it may be ia the hall, and record their sayings and doipgs in some future epistle. Of local news in Newport there is really but little to tell, unless, indeed, we were to tread in the beaten tuack, aud interest yourreaders by informiag you that last night’s “ hop” was a brill affair; that Miss A—~ was quite a boon, in the way of beauty, to all beholders; that Mr2, B—— C_—, of Smashtown, twinkled her legs an} flirtel her fan with equal grace and judgment; that Miss '—- D——., of Hardscrabble, and the beautiful daughters of Potiphar Parks, the Egyptian Bashaw, were divine; and Miss Squalliani Vincent de Poodle, eminently charming. Dut we wou't bore you wi a list of alphabetical beauties. S»>, you may take it for granted that the visters down here are like the house of Bayard, where the men were ail brave, and the women all something else—we have forgo> ten what, except that it was something very com- plimentery—and #0 settic these ulphabetival re- Merations, which must be uniatelligible to most people, and a great nuisance to every sensivle woman £o distinguished. It is said that the ogent of the steamship Isabel, from Havana, which was not permitted t> laud her passengers at New York, by order of the Quarantine authorities in your city, threatens to send them here. He would co well before attempting thia to consul! the Newport News of tlis day’s date, in which ou friend Col. Cranston gives bim fair warsing that we have no greater penchant for Yellow Jack thay your good people in New York. short, that our sanitary regulations are quite as strict as those under which the passengers of the Ieabel are quarantined. Of musical intelligence there is no dearth. Count Stankowitch, husband of Madam LaGrange, anived here on Sunday mornivg. Mons. Gotts- chalk was to be here to-day. They will give their first iron concert bere on Tuesday evening, August 12, at the Ocean House dining hall, assisted vy se- veral artists. Signor Guidi and Herr Carl Weis give a concert ‘riday evening, the tth instant, at Ovean Hal, assisted by Madame 8° ni and Mr. Aptomas. The Germenia envual benefit concer! and soirée danvante, will be given on the 19th at the Ocean House diving ball. Ihope that this will be well patror ized, for to the Germanians the visiters owe much of their summer pleasure—at least the young people; for their “y flirtations—by the light of n chandelier, Ath music to fill up the pauses, is alt ost as essential to the Mamma teo blind to diecover ‘The little white hand in wy own. Mudame Isidora Clark and Signorina Vestvali will shortly be here to convertize. The attendance at the hogs is improving, but the want of men contioues to be sensibly felt. Among those sojourning here, are Col. Faller of the New York Mirror, who has beev in very poor health, bat seems to he improving, and Mr. Jola H. B. La- trobe, of Baltimore, who vomes to the Ocean as rez- ularly as the year comes round. BASH-BISH FALLS. Basn-Bran Farus, Aug. 7, 1856. Scenery for the Lovers of the Subline—Alpia Scenery at an Easy Distance-—How to get t» Bash-Bish, and What to Do when There. Allow me, through the mediam of your universal ly read journal, to advise all who may dezire to see nature’s grandest scenery, to come here and behold one of those pictures of nature which language is incompetent to inclos? in a fitting frame. You may aswell claim the ability to deseribs perfectly the m» jesty of the ocean, the sublimity of the Alps, o° * splendor of fleme-vomiting Htna, as to attempt t 2épict justly this place of ragzed chasms and pre and contrasts | have ever sce. s Your readers will ask, where ove Bash-Pish Falls? Tn Berkshire county, Maasachueetts, about one mile from the Copake station, on the New York aud Har tom Railroad, you will find them. Persons des! to see Bash Bish Falls con leave New York in the 5) A. M, train of the Harlem road, aud arrive herewbout 1 o'clock; rematn five boure, get a good dinner, and retarn tothe city the same evening. Fine trout are caught here whew the stream is low. ON THE WING. Donegaxa’s Horan, ) Mosrarrar, August 4, 1550. | Saratoga to Oswego—Leke Ontevio and the St. Lawrence—Steumbout Navigation—Ogdensburg —Montreal—Appearance of tue City—Hot Theotre Royal—Her Britannic Mujesty's So! diery, &e-, Se. Tt was a pretty long jump from Saratoga Springs to Oswego, bot as the last named place was cool an! quiet, while Saratoga was hot an] crowdet, we did not mind it. A celebrated trage lian to'd the Oswe- go people, some time ago, that theirs was a mo beautifal city, and that it was lik» Venice “en‘uroned upon the sea.” It is notatall like Venice, neithe is it enthroned upon the sea; but the Oswego people likrd the figure and came in large namers to the actor's benefit. So his object was gained. The fact is Oswego is a mach finer place than Venice. The Oswego people are building an iron bridge across the estuary which divides their town, and that bridg will be nicer than the Bridge of Sighs. It Rot have “a palace and a prison on eithor hand,” but it will have grain elevators and flour mills, and great storehouses bursting with§food fur the million, on each side; and that isa great deal le'ter—don't you think co? Ah, ye nen and women of Oswezo, your glory is great enough without being compared to any worn out, eifete Duropean city, trembling ander the lash of 2 despot and vainly striving to keep ap the semblance of respectability by the remi niseences of departed glory. la Veuice they have nothing but beggars, foreign soldiera, apd poor nobles. In Oswego there are no beggars, no nobles, and the only ap yearance of the few soldicrs at the fort is at the theatre, when they represent the red coats who were entrapped by that cattmable cattle stealer, Rob Roy Macgregor Campbell. The Dakes of Venice wodded the Adriatic with a riog, bat erchant princes of Oswego have joined with t saglable bonds of steam and iron thelr beautif of Oswego sinese of the Ve- peopleasthe Oswe- find their account in feeding the entire world. a. ‘Think of there things, men and w f Oswego, and the next time that some stro! pares your vigorous city to enslaved and broken jee, and by consequence, yon, a free, a ing, Mayor and Aldermen electing dem | the Austrian whipped Venetians, aly ardity of the idea. ‘The comparison, howey one of the finest examp es 0 | ite fullest developement, that | | Sinte of New York. The recip Canada has already poured int wego millions of bushels of the is © odorous, Oswego Young America, in e seen in the y treaty with e mills of Ow f life, and the To great Eastern markets ore, as tho Yankees say, “quite “comeatible.” Ail about the suburbs are the | | pleseant residences of the merchants who have wade rapid fortupes in breadgtufe and provisions, | while the business part of the city constantly re- soun.js with the hum of trade. Then, again, Oswego, fronting as it does on Lake Ontario, is @ cool place. you in New York swelter with the thermometer at ninety-tive of Fabrenbeit, the burgher of Oswego sleeps the sleep of the just under two bi ; bis sina bers are fanned by geutle and unceasing | breezes from the broad bosom of the inland sea, which keeps bim cool and clean, and makes him rich at the sare time. The burghers of Oswego are sensible, we'll to do men. Their wives and Conetoess are ap beautiful, as | could see; amiable, as Tam told. They have a theatre in the summer at Doolittle Hall, which will seat twelve hundred Peni. The ‘e went to manager is Mr. William Henderson, the theatre, of course. The play was “ The Lady of Lyons” —Clande by the manager, Pauline by Mrs. A. Sevengoe (Lizzie Weaton), Glavis by Mr. Davenport; Mother of Mr. Melnotte ( mech younger than her son) by The Pauline was very good, and got a great deal of a; pare The Oswegens applaud siege her, wit) heir feet, which is unpleacant. Claude was safe and respectable; the widow Meinotte quite good, and Beausant equal to any I have seen. “anpoint- ments” were not magnificent, but quite respectable for the country. Ihave seen worse, when Juliet’s balcony was an empty flour barrel—when she put aside the sky with one hand, to wave a farewell to Romeo with the other, and when Damon's scaitold was 2 raisin box covered with a black silk cravat. Oswego has done very well fora beginni Henderson will have a better theatre bye-and-bye. Oswego wants a good hotel, however; aud that want is shortly to be supplied. Meantime, the Wel- Jand House, where we were comfortable lodged, will do. The charge is one dollar anda half per day, but we paid two dollars, because one of us is fat and eats a great deal, I presume. Vive Oswego Visle? We depart at nine o’clock in the morning for Mon- treal. Gur conveyance is the steamboat Cataruct, rather a shabby ailuir, compared with Ameri:an boats generally. The price ge, meals and staterooms included, to Montreal. is seyea dollars; distance, about four hundred miles; time, thirty hours. We had about one hundred passengers, representing eight or ten States, and were soon out of sight of land. That's quee- isn't it?—out of sight of land in the interior of a continent! But as the New York boys say, “ that’s s0. At one o'clock we hed a dirty dinner served by dirty waiters, in adirty cabin 1t made Orestes ver) il. Orestes is a gourniét. Orestes said wicked words, while Pylades, a philosopher, bore it with s:oical ru- signation, and resolved to send his compliments to the steward through the H»enaup. He uasures thai official that he will never forget hiro, and earnestly recommends to his a'tention the eighth chapter of St. Matthew, avd part of the third verse. In the afterncon we en ‘ered the St. Lawrence, and new beatties arrested our attention at every nak i sball Rad no description of the svenery of t sis magnificent river. J em conlideat that I coull give no adequate idea of the sensations which i's sple dirt scenery awaken: in the mind of the lover of the beantiful in natare. At nine o'clock in the evening we reached Ozdens burg, and went on board the steamboat Jenny Lind which conveyance was to have the honor of toking us to Montreal. Pylades humbugged the cleck by representing Orestes to be a “sick lady,” and, a place avx dames is the rule on this line, we got a very nice state roum. We then inspected Ogdeos- burg briefly, and found it a flourishing freshwater sea port; then, by advice of Pylades, we imi‘ated Jenny Lind in the Sonnambula, and went to sleep ox board of her. The Jenny Lind was a better boat than the Cata- ract, in every sense of the word, The steward gave usa beakfust in the main saloon, It was a good breakfast, and the heart of Urestes was mule glad. Our journey from this time (nine o'clock) to three in the afternoon, when we acrived at Montreal, is an exceedingly Five ge) one. We pase through the Repids ad the countless islands which make this river so enchanting. At every turn the eye is greet ed with a new landscape, more beautitul than that with which it was feas'ed 2 moment before. The appeartnce of Montreal from the bay is strik ingly imieesting, but a description at this time would be “ ancient and fishlike.” The visirer from the States admires the solidity and beauty of the public buildings; he is amused by ‘he ones looki cabs and the oddl y shaped houses, and is intereste: by the European air of all his surroundings. The porter touches his hat at your shilling for rescuing your trunk froma moun'iin of luggage F een a and everybody “,sirs” yon in a@ most deferenti manner. “Yhat queer ooking box, not unlike “Black Masia,” will take you to the Dovegana Ho tel, the St. Nicholas of these parts. Donegina’s ia a vely nice, comfortable establishment, where you cao getacozy English dinaer and something nice t» wach it down with. Do you affect vinous beverages’ —here is a stock of sherties, Madeiras and ports un- equalled on the Continent; or, if malt be your weak- pees, the biew of Montreal is unepproachable. 11 brat.dy is your vanity, the choicest selections from the London docks are — ou in tumblers about the size of @ Hinghata bucl Montreal would be agreat place for Congress to mect in—the ‘acilities for getting drunk are 60 admirable. The number of representatives of the Star-Span- ied Banner in this village ia large. At our Sun lay dinner table we had re tives from ‘pibennas Louisiata, South Carolina, Kentacky, Minis, Ohio, New York, Vermont, chusetty and ceveral other States. I have hardly ever seeu £0 aeay beautiful women as were gathered round the table of the Donegana Hotel on this day. Th American wemen, by general consent, curried off the palm of heaps - ey ight we e aM to the ag Royal, under the management . isa pleasant, arderly, well condu sted ® ebteement, with a company mado from the New York and bi "78, and including Messrs. Davidge, H B. Phillips (stoge manager), A. Bland, G. W. Stod dart, W. Donaldson, W. R. Floyd, Mrs, Backland, Mrs. Hough ard Mrs. Archbold. Mr. Wallack was the star,and had his benefit on Monday, “under the patronsge of Lieutenant General Sir Wiliam Eyre K. C. B., Commander of the Legion of Honor, cow marding the forces in British North America. ‘There ought to have been a good house, body's benefit is under somebody's especial patro age here; ond oa General Lyre i# one of the two English heroes in the Crimea, be ought to draw. Monday we all went sight secing. Saw the Ca thedral, which is very fine, although the peristyle is scarcely maesive or high enough to carry out the otherwise grand appearance of the front. We aleo sow Nelson's mooument, which is shamefully dila pidated; and examined the exterior of several nia neries, whereat several Fillmore men were bigh!y exercised. The drive around the mountain was very pleasavt, giving © al magnificent views. Her Britaupic Majesty's military defenders here consist of tue sen th regiment, wnder the cormmand of Colonel Munroe. This regiment se ve! in the Crimea, and many of the men have the me del; one J saw with the three clasps Alma, Inker- mann and Sebastopol. Several of the officers sie fine looking feliows, but the majority are apps rently of the Tite Barnacle school. We saw a drill and a parade. The company move- ments were very good; tut we could beat the regimental manceuvres with the National Guart (Seveuth segiment). The men are evidently not well cared for. Many of them wore diriy equip ments, and I saw ceveral drank in the streets in th day time. Officers and men are great lions here, and Young Canada imitates the first named individ uals in rearing 2 little cap like the end of a stocking drawn over the head—in the eye glass, which is never used when one Cg? desires to see anything, and in the supercilioas stare which is apparently the English idea of good breeding. Montreai is evidently a show cliy. A great many good things are commenced, but labor seems tobe arrested upon them. Still, the influence 0 United States eopital and energy may do someth': for the place yet. The bridge over the St. Lawres will doubtices Lea fine thing when it is done, and the same remork will hold good with regard to several other public works. But if they are stow bere, they are sure, and our builders might take » jesson from the mechanics of Montreal. We leave this place with regret. The pare bracing a here isa great treat after inhaling the pesti lential vapors emitted from the dirty streets of Man. hattan. The clean streets, the solid buildings, mountain air, acd the :capital dinners of Montreal, all combine to make it a most plearant resort. We advise every one to take the round trip irc to Montreal, but (0 divide it between steaw railway. Too much of either is a bore. ‘Theatrical, Musteal, &e. Nisio's Ganpes—Tonight has beea navel fur the benefit of that distinguished densrusr, M’ bert, who quietly took the lead of Mr. Niblo‘s sa choregrapbie corps months by that time comparatively unknowa in has since established a reputation of which she m well Le prond—ore that she has legitima acetate throvgh merit, and pot the seribvlings of caterers for ephemeral newspapers. ‘The cutortaiaments for the cevasion embrece ‘‘ Diablo a Quatre,” tightcope feats, a Terpsichorean rtiseemeut, and the bean tifel pantomime of “ Asphodel,” in which the Ravels appear. flowery Treatar— This Mn | will close the | second week's ran of Wipes eames poner pieces, the drema called the “ Pirates of the a, and tle extravaganza known as ‘ Po-ca-hon-tas. Monag er Brougham has every reason to be satified with t) @ saccess that bas attended these productions _. 'n writing them he appears to have taken special | yains (o make every word tell with the audience; and | Pein lrought out under his immediate supervision, it ia fe {natural they should receive the encomiams of large and enthasiastic audiences. A variety of dances will follow the first ae) to-night. A fresh | bit of whimeicality is underlined ag in active prepa- ya'h me It wan, Aug 4.) Movements are being made in various States. re- msive,to the suggestion of the Virg:nix Wiig vention for & convention of the whigs of the Union to be held in Baltimore on the thud Wednesday in September. The good effects of the Maryland ‘and Virginia old line whig conventions are visible everywhere. Their proceedings have in- fused a new spirit into the noble old hie arty. Every man of them feels that he stands on fi wer paced than he did six weeks ago. All feel that ey have high corey mone’ om form, and the: are encouraged, igns times, that the’ sti hie ate Cominie of Now of New York lay responded to this call for a national Whig Couven tion, and delegates to represent the Empire State will doubtless be chosen by the State Convention which is to meet at Albapy on the Lith of this month, Arrangements should therefore be imme- diately made for the sppotniment of delegates to represent the State of Maryand, to meet which contingency authority was given ty Judge Weisel, of Washington county, the President of our State Con- vention, to call that party together again, which he will doubtless do at an early day. Whig Con- vention to be held in Massachusetts during the pre- tent month will also appoint delegates, there ig prey reason to expect that nearly all the States of the Union—North and South, East and West—wiil be fully and ably represented, and a free and un- doubted expression of the whig sentiment of the country be formaily laimed. The popular vote cast a» the last Presideatial election for Gea. Scout reached the respectable number of one million three hundred thon-and—sufficient, we should think, a3 a “balance of powec” party in the present contest, to overthrow all sectionalism by the pure nationality hat has distinguished it in all past conflicts. We perceive that there is a movement making in Philadelphia for a Convention of the whigs of Penn- sylvania for the represenvation of that State iu the hag pes National Convention, as also in Delaware, ‘ew Jersey and Maine. We also perceive, by the mils revcived yesterdiy, that the whigs of Illinois have elected delegates to the Nat Convention to asse ndle in Baltimore and that delegates have been elected fvom the seve- ral districts of Lovisiana, Georgia, North Car liva and Alobama. There will undoub‘edly be 2 graud rally of the conservative men of the Union om that occasion. Such men as Rufts Choa'e, Edward Bve- rett, Robert C. Winthrop, Washington Hunt, Daniet D. Barnard, Lather Bradish, George Wood, Henry Grinnell, William Schley, John W. Francis, Frede- rick A. Tallmadge, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Richard i. Ingersoll, Richard H. Bayacd, Henry Whi' ander Randall, Dauiel Weisel, Wm. ©. Rv L. Goggin, Willie ”. Mangum, William A. Graham, and a host of other like whig spirits who are r ing under the illmore banner and “ keepiy, to the music of the Union. A Sew SUMNED PIREPATERS— DOUGLAS AND CASS, &6., £0. We take the following trom the Minden Her which is published in Claiborne parish, Louisiana:— Qur opinion is, that Brooks disgraced i nself, and brought the whole slavery ceuse into more dis- repute then ever, and should be summarily expelled from the House. It was a stretch of chivalry on his BROOKS AND Affairs of Honor tm Buffelo. GENERAL GUST/VVS ADOLPHUS SCLOGGS AND BEN JAMIN WELSH, Jit, EDITOR OF THE BUFFALO Kg PUBLIC. {From the Bu Eprrore ov rus REPUBLIC: ty of requesting of you the following corres andthe How. Benjamin Welch, Jr. your obedient servans, Borys: «4, 1856. Bexsamin Wars, Jr. Eag.:—Sir—i rod’ a spor. tion of ariic® which appeared ihe Republic ' of Wedn y last-—of which newspaper you are the responcible editoer—purnorting to be “a ctrcus programe, owing to its reference to one who js in the nearest relation in life to mo, as grossly scanda fous and insulting. | therefore demaad of yous proper explanation ard apology, or 1 sail seek wad endeavor to obtain that satisiaction whieh is due to a gentleman, have not taken this step without due delideration, My friend, Col. J. C. Daun, the bearer of this authorized to act ia my bebalf in this affair, Tespectiully, your obedient servaat, 4. A, BUPFALO, Ang. dy Mr. G. A. Scrotus:—Sir—Your note o this date has this moment been plawed in my tiandé by your friend, (ol. J.C. Dan, ’ The publication to which you allid Republic uring my absence from the assure Yeu, however, that no one could have been more deep ' a oy mortibed than I was on perusing it—1< toat | sap, for moment, that anything + rcanda): sor insu Wes intended, but because it was apparent taut the por ticn of it to'which you refer was io cearly liable to wigpenetrantion, course, | promptly inquired of my uss Peper their motive for making such a':usious, and they aecured me that they bad no intentiva of referring to ludies, but merely ‘desigued to ungex wail known aad JFromipent Politicians fer the occasion, a3 they eaid next ‘ay in the Mepudtic, The ¢9 planation, alihough obvious’ . eae bes ws Was Dot satistactory to me, because I be- jeve that when one attempts tw so in by should bo careful that ite stlagless we? 2 Humor be But all that wounded your that lam Wiiltog eon in which | hud no port, but for which my poaltion olde meresponsible. * Having said thug much, which, T trust, will prove satis- fretory to you might be proper for me, oy ot feel that you are egurioved party in this “nantes exception to Us { olause of tue first note; but i waive all allusion to tb declaration that wy own sepse of jus ence over my actiong than all the threat from the mouth or pen of man. Again expicesing my profound rv jates in the erer came anything should have appeure (in the Republi: © comld be so construed as W Wound the felines 64 cad family, J remuin, very respeouully, your o| -or want, ‘5. WELCH, Jee prable friend, Dr. I. M jeote, will dee is (0 Colcned Lump, 5, a Pestamis Weicn, Jr. of ous ipstent bas jy en 0, . send, Col. Fanp, ard) am Lappy to say that li is eave /acsory ia the mapner end in the matter of it, Lam very respeettully ur obedient eervaut, SeROGES. Ang. 6, 1860, af your noe of ed ital you with the “apannor and matter’! of my re- note of yesterday. of this ‘note is to eay that yo. are at perfect @ ary use of my reply w bv eb Your genase of propriety may dictate, part for which no valid excuse can be ottered. Sarn- ner’s offence against Butier did not deserve any phy- sical castigation, but, on the contrary, was, in oe estimation, taking all the circumstances, past and resent, mto account, perfectly proper, be7anse justly merited. We have no sympatby with the slavery agitators on either side—we have a supreme contempt for Southern fireeaters and ice vending Northern fanatics; but we do tuink that ifevera man might be excused for becoming desperate in the halle of legisl tion, that man is Sumner. We have read the debates in Congress for many ears pest, minutely and impartially, and never we we known any man 80 foully and unceasing!y abueed and villitied as this same Sumner, Every dog of Southern agitstion, from * Bose” D, to the rmalle:t and most mangy that whines and snaris in the unprinc’ ouglas dowa pled suck-egy train, has been barking at hia heels; put the fact not been suc- cessfully hit, that their spite arises mors from a re- luctant knowled; than any real of his cool jority of talent, iiference of opinion on principle. Douglas—than whom, in our humble opinion, a more wnprincipled and reckless agitator never dis- raced the Senate chamber—has from time to time turled at Sumner all his native and well cultivated slang; and then “Og, the King of Bashan,” General Cass, the old broken down President secker and in- consistent frce soiler, bas never tailed to chime in with his more solid invective; and the chorus has been filled to every ‘‘beat ani bar,” with the yelp- ings of the little woolly headed poodles from the South—men whe have no more principle. end but little more brains, than the African slaves in bebalf of whore chains they &, injadicious y rave and rant. And finally, under the iafluence of all this, Sum- ner becomes somewhat desperate, and burls at his conglomerated assailan’s some thunderbolt, which send them howling in burried confusion; and thea, as a list resort of revenge, one of the manly num ver up tobim in the Senate chamber, finds him seated at bis desk, writing, unarmed, and with great gusto canes him. Wonderful feat! wey Southern rights are to be vindicated? Are theee the kied of champions the South must look to for her defence in the national halls of legislation? Is it by such acts of i is the slavery enlightened Union isto be perpetuated? Uentlemen may think so,and may rave at any man who has the independence t) condemn such conduct—parti- cularly if he be a Southerner; but we tell them that the citizens of this repubii And is this the of the e not to be convinced as to What is Me and wha’ is wrong by blows, and fre not to Le brought to « final decision hy brute force. ‘This is our opinion of the Sumner and Brooks af fair—only the bali is not told. Wansas Emigrants, The Nebraska City News, a Buchanan paper, of July 26, gives an accouat of the arrival of the fre: States emigrants at that place, en route for Kaneas. The News says that about tive hundred emigrants for Kansas lave been encamped in that vicinity from Indiana, IMli- durirg the week; they are = nois and Obijo, and are principally composed of young, active men from the county, an during their stay with wa have conducted ti Ives ina quiet, orderly and law abiding manner, acd will be a valuable acquisition to any country that they may settle in. he route taken by this company has been by railroad to Iowa City, and by overlard to this place, by the way of Gekaloora., Chariton, Ocesla, Afton, Quincy, Frank- fort and Sidney, and thence to this place, Sidney, bein; ant from this point (ourtee miles cast. They describe the route as a good accommodations along the route are ample, wil plenty of graes and water for teams; distance about three hundred miles. We learn that thousands more are ng lowa land route tn preference to the Missouri river by boat, aai that Nebraska City will be the crossiag poiat. In company with the above is a large number of Milwaukians, equip- ped in the first style of emigrant art, with large, convenient covered wagons. The bring with thea their families, farming implemen:, cows, teams. , and intend settling in a community together. Jonas’ Coxvextiox ar Atpaxy.—The Con- vention of Justices yesterday, after aiscussing the ropriety of amending a nomber of the rales of the Barrens Court, appointed a committee of five to | revise the rules, and to report at the next Conven- tion of the Judges in 155%. ‘The commitice consists of William F. Allen, Richard P. Maryine, Henry Welles, L. B. Woodruff and D. P. Ingrahain. James Emott and Henry E. Darts announced the decenee of Judges Edwards, Rockwell and Morris, since the Jast meeting of the Convention. A committee was appointed to oe are resolu- tions expressive of the sense of mivention, with directions that the resolutions be entered upon the, minutes and a copy be furnished for publi- cation Among the propored amendments none elicited more disenssion than’ the proposition to abolish what is called “the standing rule.’ The opinion of cach Judge who had in any man- ner given effect to the rvle, was in favor of retain- ing it. Many, who at first regaried the rule as a useless innovation, after observing its practical effect, declared their convictions of is great utility. On’ the whole it was decided to make no change at this time, leaving all propositions for amend- ment to be acted upon by the next Convention. Albany Journal, August 7. A Graxp Hort ror Nsorore—A erand hant come eff in Greene county, Pa , the week before Inst, in which no less than fifty armed white men were engaged in the pursuit of nine negroos, who had left Booth'’s Creek, Harrison county, Va., (eight miles from Clarksburg,) @ few days before. The tugitives _.three in number, and half a dozen boys, some of he latter but twelve or fifteen years old—eseapod, ond the “nigger hunters” earned not the reward of fifteen bundred dollars they so anxiously sought, Lut the contempt of all honorable meu. In one township half a dozen of them drew their pistols on on tnarmed woman, who refused to allow them to search her house for the runaways.—Pittsburg Dis- potch, Aug. 6. PonvoamyY TARING AxoraEr TurN—The Rock Jelarder says that one of the Mormon women who ras in the company of the late crowd which has pasecd through that town for Salt Lake, has no than than four js She is an intelli plrarent looking individual. She contended that women as good & to have a namber of inebar de, a8 a man had to have as many wives as he wished, provided the men were ail members of the Mermon Church. Very respoctfally, your obedicat servant, BEN. W THY VINGINIa EDITORTAL [Prom the Wusnipgtou Str, Are 6.) We hear this morning that Messrs. Pryor, of the Richmond Enquirer, and Ridgway, of the of the same city, whose absence froin th ive tripods for some days past has been a‘tribnied to the purpose of settling their cur-ent misunder- standing by an exchange of shots, have been ia this city some three days past—incog., of conr-e—and, further, that a meeting, to come‘off’ abou: noon to- day, in this y'cinity, been arranged, and that oe ae eps beyond the — of our al police, to keep the seeenest 'e believe that Ohartes Teving: Esq., of the Lynchburg Vir- nian, acts as of Mr. Pryor, and James if. Goggin, E-q., brother of the Hon. Wm. L. Gog- gin, of Virginia, as that of Mr. Ridgway. Wasiuxaron, Mr. Pryor, editor of the Richmond . and Mr, Ridgway, editor of the Richmoad Whia, iooghi a duel at Bladensburg, thie morning, at ten paces, with pistols. broad Was injured, and the alluir was ‘hep amicably ue Since the receipt of the above despaich, we finda “card” on the subject in- today's Wael hee lgger ag a be the rule in ail ern duclling affaire—at least in the vicinity of the na- tional capital. The “ card” is as follows:— ACARD. Mesers. Ridgway and Pryor, o met and exchanged shots without igued, who arrived on the groum 6, 1858. mond, Virginia, terpesed, and at our request the Written under the bclief that there was a etitied pur, woke cehberate purpose, and that each and evory ert and we trust that hereaf.er those re!) of k.ncuese wil ¢rawn. ‘It appearing to our satisfaction ton: the article of dir. Pryor, which was the occasiva ef the challenge, was «n the part of Mr. Ridgway to jaseit bin « (errel, we recommend that Mr Riigwe, Was regarded as offensive either by ‘ir. l'ryor or Mr. Fidgwav, be vimultanecusly and froukiy withdrawa; subsist between them which beco: lemen who have 80 well approved their courage and Avover 6, 1856. due We, the respective friends of Pryor, secert the foregoing adjastic er Just to the parties concerned. From Selt Lake Valley anc the Pilaf (Corre spcadence of the St. Louis Repabliean: Inperenvencs. Jaly 29, 1856. Tro small parties of returned (Californians are bere. They reached this place on jester morn: ing, making the trip through from Han, in sixty days with pack males, and say that if they bad made the effort, could have reached bere in fifty or filty-five days, One of the parties under charge of Mr. Draper, of Jobnson county, came through by way of the Salt Lake; his party consisted of bis brother, Messrs. White, of Johnson couaty, Lawson, of Moniteau county, Bell and Smivh, of Callaway coan‘y, and one or two from Kentucky and Virginia, Their trip throughout was pleasant, soffering no ‘nconvenience on the mountaing, baving fine grass anc water. Jn Salt Lake Valley provisions were pearce and high, and much sutfering was experienced by the inhabitants the past year, but as the harvest seasou was approaching and the prospect good, those who have living on roots, &c., wil! er}oy. if they have means enough, wholesome food the coming Ther a J gon many very poor and de- in the valley, and were one to be ir assemblies and hear Urother _ Ese. and a few other of the elders, he il to discover that they thought #0, too, ro not and were very apprehensive these might be- eg oy dE tion of thelr substance. ore very much afraid of the soldiers, or rathe: of them, and ove of the worthies recently, , told il the women, wnd the » ones ly, that more troups would soon there, and then some of them might want to escape with them; but told them to be careful of them, es they were very wick- ed and aba men. Court of General Sesstons. Before Judge Capron. Ave, 8.—Alexander Johnson alias Wm. MH. Johnson, alias William HH. Upham, a flashy drevsed, confidence Jooking follow, aged 26, pretending to ba‘) from Chicag?, ‘was placed at the bar, under two indicinvents, fur obtain~ ing goods under false pretences. Johocon's mode of ope- ration seems to have been to call at a storé and purchase ‘a bill of goode, order them sent to his home of office, and on their delivery pay the porter for the sam: checke, signed by fictitious names. hie pla hus game ‘upon Edward W. Canning, No. 18 Platt street, and George: Tieman & Co., No. 63 Chatham etrect, both dealers im cull from the first of whom he 4 2 $158 60, and = Poe ee - Bank, signed William I. sun, An" bit ot sor 25 and paid in'a eheck on the Brow lway Bank, signed William H. Upham. e District Attorney stated that from rengpegglouene made by Jobneon's counsel, Mr, Phillipe, oere, 1 appeared that the Was « Man vi respectable cou | nections, and bad until recently led a stabie life. | He bad conversed with the complainants in U ha aid net to fee! anxious to Prosecute the contr <4 and that the prisoner, acting under the alvce had concluded to withdraw hia plea of not guilty to the meroy of tie Court, naked the District AUorney if he thought it was a proper cise fora svepension of judgment, to wick the District Atiorney replied in tho altrmative. The Judge then aad that he knew nothing of tho case, sheuld hoid the District Attorney respons! ote for f or, Under his advies he would suspen) ‘udgment, and be hoped the pritoner would take warn'og by th be careful how he conducted bimsell horeafver, as be | would be jiabie at any tne to be arreste | on these indictments, fefore Hon, Judge Maynard Ate. te \enios ron SLAsneR — Wulleting vt. Higgins This was an action for alleged slander. The defendant is captain of the bark Fvadne, and the plairti belongs to the Merchants’ Protective hmen’s Association, The Nbel consisted in Captain Higgins charging plaintif with liowed some persoa to steal $10 from the vessel. Ai enid to defendant, ‘10 | have stolen the $10" Defendant answered, it is my epinion, and I cam enjoy my opinion.’ plaintifi has not been since employed by ihe Merchants’ rotective Watebmen’s Association. A wiiners said ba could not be exnpioyed there until he cleared ep his char- acter; be heard the defendant say thatche wptieved the plaintif got the morey. For the detonoe, pee etengig 10 the versel deposed that he put (he $10 onder his and then went to the Bowery theat he pleintifl, wl taking or having wae & Watchmen, iw him put i there, when wi ik the money was gone, court gave judgment for tae defend hee wh tailed te prove the slaa bie complaint t. The plain as cot forth