The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1857, Page 2

2 AMERICAN SUMMER RETREATS. Letters from Newpe:t, Leng Branch and the Valley of the Yoscmity, im the Sierra Nevada. Mr, Wetmore's Grand Fete Champotre at Newport. Graphic Description of a Seumer Trip into the Sierra Nevada, &e., &e., kc. Our Sewport Correspondence Newrorr, BR I., August 10, 1867. Arrwal of the Packt Fleet— Mr. Wetmore's ¥ éie Champétre —General Arrangements—Bill of Fare—Programme of he Entertainment— Distinguished Guests Invited—The Last Bull tin of the Newport Season—Pedestrianism. Our river barbor today presents @ very lively ap Pearance, dotted ag it is with those most graceful of all Deautiful ealling cra—the yachts. In fact, we have the ‘whole fleet within view as we write, with several ‘out- siders.'’ Prominent amongst the formor is the Rebecca, which will compare favorably—both as regards speed, finish and comsort—with a large majority of her sister veerels. Let as ekeich briefly the scene, giving you an Outline picture of the appearance of the fleet as we saw them last night lying quietly in the calm starlight, and then change the view to the busy hour ef sun shining— 10 o'cloak A. M. to-day. Soene firet, to which the Strange, old fashioned, cilen\ town, As Longfellow calle it, forms a shadowy background, while fhe tiny oraf, with their dark bulls alone visioie, lay ‘with their bright signai lantorns reflected from the mirror Uke surface upoa which they reat. There is scarce a mound to break the stillness, eave the dash of dripping Oars, or the hall of some shore going yachter, eb wling for ® boat—and then even that is hushed—and the whole night almost seems the vision ofa dream. But iot us turn to scene the second. ‘The harbor ts alive wiih eailbeats, The (hour of 8 A. ‘M. has arrived. Long ago the signal guns have been fired, the colors flutter for a moment as they are unfurled to the breeze, and then go swiftly tothe mastbonds of the little #quadron, till each is adorned with its appropriate bunting; the stars and stripes being diversified with « foul anchor, as an ensign. Then come the (r endly calle—the visite— the morning segar smoked £0 comfortably as you pico up nd down the heaving deck. Is there, after all, haifso Fationa! a way of epending the eummer time as to yaoht- img? Why the very abandon of dress, the possibility of wearing clothes to suit yourself imtead ef other people, ts ‘8 suflicient inducement to cut the Dull unchanging shore. ‘with {t# fast ionable hotels and humbugs—for the freedom ‘and [resher existence of a yacht deck and a pleasure barge on ‘Tre dark bine rea. Buta truce to poctry. Let us give you a hint of the art Of eteopie chase, fox bunting style in which the yacht feet mace the passage irom Glen Cove to this port. We loft Gien Cove, says one of these voyaguers, on Wednesday with a stiff breeze, and the general understanding that we were to reach New Haven, our first stopping place, as quickly as we piease?. So it was “Dicl take the hind- most.’ Some went one way, some another, as their re. spective commanders fancied the wind, tide, or peculiari qlee of walling might best be taken advantage of—which “ eventuated,”’ as Brother Jonathar says sometimes, in the fleet getting into Now Haven on Thursday noon, where the(Favorita beirg better handled or more lucky than her foltiows, arrived first, being followed in their order by the Julia, Haze and Rebecca, On Thursday evening the fleet aguin weighed anchor fur New London, near which place the rece was interrupted by the leading vessels getting be calmed; but though the wiod failed, the tide favored and drified in their fair fretghts in due time. Upon the following day this harum ecarum contest was renewed. Gardner's—or Garner's ber as (he Down-Earters call it— yechts sailed for this harbor, wi arrived early tn the afternoon—the Julia irst, Una geoond, Favorite third They will remain with us until morning, the llth, when they will shake out il to the winds that blow for New Bedford and f i : prt Wetmore’s grand fice champ(tre, giren in bc nor—as the ling ef the programme sets fortp—of hie friend, Mr. Peat , who is, as ali the world knows, alike distingsl+bed for bis bospiiality and wealth. Mr. Wetmore, who ie himeeif reputed to be the possessor of @ princely fortune, appears on this occation to have strained every verve to make tho festivity of to-day all that movey apd pamescoan make it Bat be is { ilustrious and weaiby who will grace by their presence the gay tcene of the Weimore /é, or e your mouth ‘water with the eweet achievements of Downing in the way ‘ bil! Of fare, or even set your readers’ podal extremi- Wrgitog with the order of the dotogs upon the light fantastic toa, let as locate (he scene and by courtesy, tho ‘Bo piace for mine host. Wetmore is @ rich man—a very rich man. He made bis morey, #0 We are informed, in the China trade, and is Moreover, without apy disposition to puffs rich man, we boilieve that Mr. Wetmore is reaily a vory liberal per- fon: dotwg good for the sake of doing good; and wisely dispensing the bounties which l'rovidence as ro lavishly Destowed upon him. 8) we sincorely trast that as evtertainment will cost Mr. Weimore $10,000, be may re- ostve & social ten per cent on the amount invested for the rest of bi watural life, besides that satiefaction which ts ‘antverraily Corived from a wise, judic expenditure of one’s means. And ni @ loot the ruler and 9 of the foaat, lot ur describe the spot where it Is to ven. Mr. Weimor omiage is situated on the lof hand side of Bellevue avenue, abovt half @ mile from the Ocean House, with a view of the fom on botb sides. rhe grounds ceniain about forty scree. One fourth of these grounds are taid cus for bot hource aed sarnbbe vies, he remainder being tut «p into grass plows, with the usuai aliowaace of walkeuivee, Ac., whicn modern garden makers so de- Vig! ‘a Tog tree, rever (like many otber newly ied thtog, bave pot yot acquired that aristocratic bt which adda so great a charm to the old homesteads stone, on tue rigbt of whiob sands the porter’s lodge, which is built of the same material, the coange | self (if Cottage be vot a misnomer) being a largo granite strogore, built in the “‘atert atyle.”” As regards tbe epecial proparations for this él, Mr. Wet more bes caused to be conrtrnoted, in the roar aod some twenty yards from bis bo: rge dancing raloon, Hoored w ¢ pine hij polished. This saloon is 10 feet square, end i co cud with the hue bys covered passage twelve fect wide. On the other side of the dancing raion, sixteen feet from it, is the refrosament saloon ‘The dimensions of this aperiment are 80 be 25 feet. Ik ie, moreover, carpeted and ix provided with a Jong table, whore attractions, when prepared ¢ la Lown. fag, will Goabtiees be dul, Both tae refreshment and wich enowy canvess, bordered witd an edge of rea mun- lin, whiob gives them the appearance of monster tents ‘The sides of the pimrrar attached to tne bailding are aieo covered with canvass, decorated in by draped and blue, je and red stripsd murtio. Theo,too— ‘we in America always like to know how much a thing costs, that we may be pleased with it acoordiagty— lt le proper to state that these two tents were made for the occasion, by one Gale of Borwon, whose bi\l (or the rame exceeds $2,000. The carpenter work, by Geo. H of Newport, te regarded as very creitilable, Abort spare of time allowed him for its comp: The music was furnished by the Germans onsider Loa. whow Teputaiion i# too weil known to require comment bore Mr.¥.B Heimemuiler contiaves to be the manager of thie Vand The following is the programuie of (+ canoes ee wR WErMOKK's ; a ; IN HONOR OF MR. GHORGE PRABODY. : 3 Moxway, Ava. W, 158; : J—Coromation Mares "™7784¥EE Strnune Son ; 2—Grand Overture, * Zampa’”. ig Herold” ; 8—Pete Champetre March . tepultze, cr z > .+ Strauss Bon, 3 5a **‘Maoard near ; + Polk .sergmenn, 3 ie Original ; pe Lumbey. +h Poll | Boh mize. Ru fon Heimemulier Manic by the Germania M.S OOOO PIDODLLELELCTELELEDEOEDELE LODE LEED TELE HE bebe ® Jovductr, Wm Sehattze, % ‘The for the numerous public and private carriages bave been intrustet toa well known livery here, Dr. (Reverend or M. |).") Pennant, whole ead te who ts said to be quite an adept im his particular depart Among the contents of the hot houses may be men Woned two bunsher of Palertine grapes, weigh og together twenty four pounds, and revera! bunches of biack Ham pa ing eight to n'ne pounds each indeed ii ie that Wetmore 's grase crop thie year will exceed 2.000 pounds, which at the market value would be worth “eae Raat and W Peres of ther renmiy and Weet—inoludi! rH respects biltt, - Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Boo. who ie mentions’ Lord Napier, the Eaten * m japier, the Eng! fwbamelor, Toe! and of 2,000 (n nemor) for this heir of the Earl of BILL OF PeRm ‘Balmon jomtp: saad. ver Fresh eis Montps Cel ? es ies a Fonicven Perutdges, reolaoed Uyeters, i okie d Uvaterr, at Geiatine of Turkey, Pete de fols Gras “Bem, “ * — Truffies, 2 “ o* Tongue, Croqucties of Ukickea, Pene‘yolatoes cra Dows. inka Salad olatoes & wa: " ‘og, Tallan Balad, Lobsier Sa ad, Tce Creams. Vanilia, A mond, Pisiachio Strawberry, Lemna, Mille Frult, Mille Frult Oreme Variety of sherbcis, Fancy loes, pareeae he Lafayrie, ggiead iy, de ase h ques, Measerole Puddings, Chat otis Busses, 3 Plem eGiace, Mareaquine Jel'y, Meringue muskets ola ‘ine * le we + ine . Greene. Peaches, Apricots, Neota- irae ot Fancy Cries, Fines. on a vaciets, 60 pounds black Hemborg Qn e*, from Mr. Wet more’x own bot houre, 4 backs pagae fravpe, plain Champagne amontiiade sherry, aadeura, 6 large bowls Lemenad Bares, CoRDAC ARRAN RANI DANE DADE DE But this must do for an opening wedge to the yWetmore Site, which, we doubt not, will prove as brillant as tt de- ‘serves to be. The Newport season is convaletcing, avd in the short rrace now left for lis existence may continue to bear some quaint resemblance to {ts ancient vigor The pedestrian Bughes, to whom we referred in our last, bas, to qoote from bis own programme, now com- a the arduons tatk of walking without rest or seep ‘or eighty cossecutive hours vpon @ raised platform, some eighteen feet long by three teet wide We saw the wind- ing up of this useless piece of pusiness: tt was bow a paia- ful and dirgusting spectacle; the man looked terrioly broken out, tottered to bis walk, seemed out of his mind, and almost reedy to drop with fatigue: indeed, he was ouly urged on t the completion of bis tark vy being pinched, ebouted at, rubbed, drenched with water, &c, immeatately afier being carries from the plank he was en. veloped tna quilt from head to foot, rupbed, and treated rather like a person who was t be resuscitated from drowning Some two hundred persona witnessed the finale of this ill judged expenditure of health and strength We understand tha: Hughes gained some $260 only by this feat. We shouid say that the money was bardly earned. Our Yosemity Valley (Cal.) Correspondence, HADWatexs OF THK Mxnom Rivan, July 2, 1957, A Trip inio the Sterva Nevada Mountains— Walering Places —The Route into tie Interior —Camping Ou! —Mountains— Mountain Foliageo—T he Foremity Vaile — Gigantic Falls— Stupendous Scenery—Trout F ishing—Humting ~The Sum* mits of the Sterra Nevada—“ The Domes''—Mountain Sports—Accommodations in the Sierra, de. If I muy judge of the tenor of the astern papers of iast year at this date, all the world of New York is by this time “ stampeding”’ for the watering places, though the Heracp bas always, I believe, warned the travelling pub- Uc against those pestilent rendezvoux of snobs, vulgarity and imposition. How leng it will be before the fashionable world learn to discriminate beiween the discomforts of watering-place hotels, and the ruval delights and inv!- gorativg influences of pure upland air, amid the wild beau- ics of pature, apart from the bustling crowd of pieasure- eeckers who jottle and sweat at Suratogo and Newport the press of New York aloue must determine, It is their duty at least to point out to the public the road te summer comforts, and it is the fault of their readers if they are not guided by their advice. This, it will be said, is an un called for lecture from such an out and out provincial piace as California; but your correspondent has ere now gasped for bresth in the throngod halls of the above named places, and, learning wisdom from experience, has long since willingly esche wed watering pisces and their votaries, and now appeals for enjoyment to Dame Nature, who never fails to respond with the calm but inspiriting delights of country life. What do you think of « summer tu tho lonely fastnesses of tho Sierra Nevada mountains, at an elevation of from ten to twelve thousand feet above the sea, three hundred miles in the far interior from San Francisco, and where few footsteps but those of “native Americans” have ever trodden—where the giant cliffs rear their granite heads three thousand feet above the general mountain level where we sojourned, and among precipices and crags to which your vaunted Catakilis, Schooley’s mountains, and your celebrated Green and White mouatains are but mole- bills? This it will be mid is on a rather stupenduous soale, and the description just such a yarn as is to be ex pected from the exhilrating atmosphere of California, where Mpa groans fob wen tbrough yellow spoctacies, and the trees are (1 to be) throe bundred feet high. Nevertheless, the outhne I Lave above given you is not in @ single particular, and under the belief @ journey into the Sierra Novada, from which I have just returned, will prove interesting 0 you, T for ward it by the mail of the 6tb. STARTING YOR THE INTERIOR. , Consisting of two or three =. ve Once Leen ‘ely ani favorably known ‘ectentific wo id of New Yors) aod as many unassu- miog ‘‘outaiders’’ or wanderers along the borders of scien- ile Jore, left San Francisco om the 16th of May on a visit to the mysterious and unhnowa Yosemity Valley, ai the sources of that river, whecce I cate this letter, Arriving a; Stockton next morning, we lef by the 8>- Bora coach (we have regular lines of Concord coaches bere) and reached Mound Springs at four o'clock P M. Here we found the Coulterville stage in rea‘iness, and en- econsing ourselves in ite comfortable old fashioned inte- rior, we reached the iktle town of Coulterville at 9 ?. M. From this point, the distance to the valley of the Yose- mity is about forty miles, and the entire distance te up precipitous and mountain slopes, must be per- fori on mule bac’ The 23d of May saw us off, toc crowd mounted, and 4 veritable Mexican arricro or mule driver bi ‘ap the rear, with two mules loaded with packages and bundles filled with the wherewithal to sup. port mountain Life. L—,who had twice ascended Telegraph Hill at San }ran- cisco and returned in safety, bore in one hand a tremen- dous Cok’s revolver, which I dare say heconld baye Gred of ip some cases without ebuiting bis eye, and to the otver a long, black suapicions looking bottie, ita which ever and anon be paused to recruit the spiriis of the com- a tit A.. who took the load, bestrode his powerfal yd mole with air of an experienced mountaineer, ‘sample beard eoping his breast and bis thoagatfal artistic features bes; ing she lover of the grand and the beantifel in nature. He was among the first in the pro ‘vious year who bad visited the famous falls of Cholook in the Yosemity Valley, aad was made capiain by usanimous vole. Paseing the diggings at the head of Maxwell's creek, and Qecendi:g the Coemsal Movotain, we foon reached the saw mili, five miles beyont Coulterville Here we encoun tered & certain ex-Governor, stumping for ove of the politi cal candidates for the Governstorial chair He bat centiy been very ill, as we were informed by « resident, and was brought pearl) to death's door by the too sudden pplication of remedies to which bh» bed been a stranger many years, 4 ¢, © glass of cold water and ® clean pair of stockings. goo’ conetivutioa, however, and a close ap. plication to Lindley Morray were doiog wonders for him At this piace the region of Califernia commences, Twilight found us wenJing our way aowa the valiey of the North Fork of the Merced, and misstog our trail a: he Forks, we reached the viciaity of Whee er's quartz m‘\is, near which weepcamped. al! night the loud cries of covotes and gray wolves rerounded throngh the forest, the avimals fdoubdt!oxs” attracted by the amell of our cooxing, for we porsued our journey in true Calif roia style. Hore the delightful rarity of the ais and evenness of tomperatare epeble whe trarelier to sleep under tae trees with 09 other covering thau the Meaican pencho, or oftener the thick Mocinaw bianket Karly next morning wo mounted, and passed Gelson’s mili and Sbroeder's store, at Bui! creek, hojclassic appol- lation of the North Form of the Merced ‘ver. A few mivers are locrte{ upon this stream and ite branshos, but up to this time there have been but few ‘‘ien sirtkes’’ among the diggers. The vicinity, however, (s rich tn quarts veins jence Our ronte Iay along the valley of tain creek, by the new trail np the left baud braoch, and in two hours we bed parsed the last mining looality oear the brad of the stream, with whieh we toemed tw loayo be bind us the last vest.goe of @! yilix ation. CP THK SNOWY MOUNTAINS We shortly arrived at a (ine yrasay flat at the eource of the stream, and from here aoted above nad ound us the peeks of the Sierra Nevaria piercing the skies, and a boant lees waste of forested ranges undalating like the wavos of a tempet tossed ocean tn the hazy ¢is'ance, and siretch {og downward towara tse PaciGc. | votet the sesns worth dozen of the pury giimpees eround Now York, on ied “ stupendous’? by she © cits’” of Broxdway, and vuggested what fan it would be to roll Scho ey’s mraniain, butol and all, Cown the vast slopes which ran with scarcely ao loter ruption from the snow clad summits aboveu. Toow left aroee tho Pilot , ene of toe highost pointe of the lower moun ains, while to the right of the trail iay the va - leye of the Merced and {is trioumrier, the mountator so log to dieelve in that direction into liquid etner—fro purple and bive p anacies into mere shadowy outlines—so great was tbe distancs. Apother long and steep siruggie and we rowhid the dividing ridge between the Teolomne rivers, the trail winding slong its summit, and through a majestic forest of pine and cedars. From this woe emerged upon @ beautiful meadow, to which some preceding Oar iittle travellers had given the name of green. ere we found arourd us and our rleep during the night was disturbed by the crash of falling timber and the mournfal ory of the California lion as he retreated before amen PORESTS AND FOLIAGE OF THR SIERRA FHVADA. A very per ible change in the temperatare had taken piace since jem Coulterville, owing to our increased Altitude, The also as a spring appearance, |at above this potnt the trees begin to assume a more shrab- by look, and the few flowers to become more simple and smalier, They are for the most soentiess, because fregrance, to reach its highest otion, requires a warm dry climate. Stems of woody fibre yield also to the Simimr reasona: that ix, their degen tence upon moistare for nutrition rather than’ the poll which as the Sierra Ne- vada is asoonded becomes, except in the valleys, very Teanvot here ‘orbear to remark upon the gradual change hoticeabie in the Of the Sierras as you ascend the m. Afver ing the lines of oak, and birch we Pines, and atan alutade of about five thou sand feot pass beyond there until we come into @ region of dWarf pines, their trunks juently of & large time, yet growing in #0 ioow « t when grasped by the bance they may sometimes be made to swing from side to site with the greatest ense; of the game stream comes down the roc! Jef. All the waters thea pour over an wesntime, ‘Deveetb to remify loos clster: wi men tale. kal of = fret in beigat, and menta! line, thetr hes de nearly imporsibie t pene- tri depend ng limbs readily perw the t unks, to extri sate oneself tattered clothing of the weveller freques tly found only stan bushes, intermingled wi'b der trunkr, blasted aud bleached— the skel since perishes; avd bore we pil pon forms the peak which first strikes the @ distance, when, in looking ‘towards the Sierra Nevada, one dercrics a series of broad, rounded bwo*, for the most part surmounted by cones more or lvsf sharp. ened. As we scramble with (ifficulty over this rude pile of rocks all veroure disapp: are— ve are surrounded oaly by deaclation But I eball reserve a full description of the wountaln foliage for some future communication I shall omy add that tn the mid region which we bad pow attaln- er, we foued ourselves surrounded witn beautiful flo vers, while below, in the Sacramento and Sao Jo:quin valleys, everything green had disapreared tn tho summer drought, TAB DIROMT INTO THR YOSRMITY VaLuRY. From our camp near Harle Grean, we soon reached a argo meadow surrounded by the lofiy forest avd adorned witu biilliant. flow: rs, Hora the trail leads o tao right and then divides to the left, descending {ato the waters of Carcade Creck aad its trivutaries Ascenciag and doscea! (ng several steep ppurs, and c-orsing reveral streams, wa finally caught a giimp'e >f the everiasting walls of tne Yo semi'y, and farther on we saw gleaming likea -ilver thread from the dark precipice the ‘Cavcade of fhe Raiabow.”’ We now commenced the descent into tio valley ta good earnest, and in an hour, after rolling, slipping, jumping, tod some little ewearing among (he less initiaed, we reached the level of the river. THE CASCADE OF THE RAINROW. Tt is from this point that we obdtaiced our drat view of the Yosemity Valley, and the scene produces an tmpret ston never to be forgotten As we pars up the valley the Ort object that attracts the sitention is the “ Oascade of the Rainbow,’ already referred to. It dercends into the valley on our right, at one fall aine bundred and twenty eight feet! Too water comes over the granite edge of the precipice, then, descending, {s broken into fleecy forms, sometimes swayed hither aod thither by the wayward winds At other times the sun i‘lumines its spray into rainbow hues, aud the whole hangs from the oliff in @ thin vetl of pink white and biue mist. Gere tt has dashed and foamed from its dizzy height since the creation, with none but savage and unappreciating eyes to behold tt. The surrounding peaks are riven into varied forme, most picturesque in their ontlines, contrasting seautifully with the emerald meadows and masses of pines, cedars and oaks at their base. The stream carries a large body of water, and has its source far awsy to the south, towards the divide of the San Joaquin river. Here in a river rising in the snowy of the Sierra Nevada, flowing along the mountain ridges until it leaps a precipice more than eight times as high as Niagara! But I must not begin to exclaim at this point, or I shall exhaust my store of expletives before I reach the great wonder of th valley. THE FALLS OF CHOLOOK. As we proceeded onward we were held in awe by the sublime proportions of ‘‘E! Capitan,’ or the “Onieftian of the Yoremity”’—« cli? of granite lifting its giant form on the left to the height of more than three thousand foet—a at as gromeene yee) into the valley. Upou the opposite side ofthe valley, (which is here only three-fourths of a mile wide,) immense cliffs also occur, their serrated pinnacics Piercing the very ekias,and forming with El Capitan the gateway of the Merced. Werode slowly and almost reverentially of EI tan, and fording the river beyond, reached the camp Judge Walworth, directly opposite the “high fall,’’ where we remainod during our sojourn in valiey. me Gaetan of the in the rear ef the house wo obtaind a full view the great falls, were the water preci pitates itgelf into,the valley in three awful leaps, suc- poy Aig mpage ne bee i! “hey hea jee! a river plunging over a ice twenty five hundred foot high, ‘and with the two ¢: ep. tions of inequalities in the face of the cliff which breaks its descent, falling from its height inte the valley below without impediment! It uld be remem- bered that this body of water is no trickling i i : ; i F i ; i vost poets who execute the sem!-annual ric of Ni- agara not only never heard of Choiook, but would sca*cely voature to soll their kids bj ae ae Oe Sierra to view them. The tra’ ing publicare ly becoming the exhilirating air are unsur- in the papers ac- wonderful Falls of TROUT FISHING. Not far from where the falls em river wideos into a placid slow orysta), and crowded with such trou! Izaak Walton would 0 crazy about. 5 self resorted to fiah,and we seidom reterned without a necklace of four pounders sirang on a willow twig. I am no boaster, but must in duty say that L gonerally con- fined bis piscatary operatiour to feloniousiy abstracting the pardines from our lunch basket. A , seated in a com- manding spot, soon became adsorbed in transmibiing to | canvass ube glorious scenery around bim, and to your cor- | respondent belongs the crecit of effecting “ent al. Uauces’’ with the denizens of the stream. — MOUNTAIN BCENERY. We made frequen! journeys {rom the valley ap into the cloud capped summite 1nd us, These trips were often aterded with great fatigue and some danger, bat they rerved to nerve vs for future efforta and impart a degree of strength aud bealthfolness such as only the invigorat lng mountain air of California can give. Im these ascents we were frequently struck with the strangeness of the views abou! us, The great variety of atinospheric effects proerents come of the mort interesting traite in mountain roenery—as when, in = foggy morning, the white veil slowly rising displays all we lower landscape clear- ly t the eye, while on the greater peaks wreaths piled pon wreaths are broken \nto a taousand picturesqa abapes, and soar so bigh in the air that the observer |s calved as to the real height of the ridges before him. As be Gealiy enters this region of vapors, which, prowing thinver and thinner, besomes at Inst eo penctrated by the diffused sap ight that every parti sle is illuminated ; and if he looke behind him, the earth so snddenly termi: ate like a precipttoas isiand floating t ling rain of tnduitessi die MOUNTAIN GAME. Amid such « variety of scenes, which were evor shifting Ike a diss» ving view wo paceed several weeks—tiving in toe open atr and generally subsis‘ing on jeicy renison etcaks of our own biiling, or the pscatory lararies I have already referred to. Hore the dive winged teal, the moun tain of wood duck, and seve'al curious upland birds abound. Among the better known are the veritable oure, of great size, and fattene1 upon the heather, which xuriaotly, contrary to the ipse dirt! of sun- ery wie nists wlio have asserted that heather dow no; grow on the American continent. The valieys hero are filed with it—of a deep parpie color—spreading out over couptiens acress of cou atry and diffaring ite fragrance through ali the air. This is the true Scottish heather with which the Highlandersjatui! their beds, and we gonerally have made onr beds upon its sweet yleiding eurface when. ever it was to be furd. found filled with tt There bira sporting @ pretty topm upon his head. we o: by the bendreds end finally qui, ibe sport from sheer ratiety of their meat. We also shot revere! ‘road runners apecies of birde resembling the marab ben or rail motions, but which fies Iii the woodeock. They are yet onknown to ornithologis: and are counted here the best eating of any of the fea thered wild game. We neither saw nor hoard a grizzly bear during our journey, though we frequenily encoun- tered their tracks ip the road, These animale are fast being driven from the coast land, and another generation will doubtless be as bard pushed to find one as the pre — in to scare up & woif or brown bear in New Eng- THB FALLS OF THR MIDDLE PORK. One of our journeys from the exmp was mee to the Falls of the Middle F Leaving the brash but we rode rp the valley rome th: milor, and ta to the right crowed the broad delta where the waters of the Middle and South Forks unite with thore of the valley. Here we tied cur animals and proceeded on foot. Immense masses of granite from the surrounding heights block up the narrow chasm, the stream descending to the loft roaring over it# rocky bed. Soarcely abie to follow ite indistinct trail, we clambered along, and orewat) entered the canyon of the Middie Fork, which comes in from the right. After an ardoous walk we saw the waters of the fall gleaming among the trees, and bling apom ‘an immense mas of granite, covered with moss, we ob- tained @ fine view of tue falls, For picturesque beauty, together witn the sur reoncing combinations of jocks ard trees, this fall excels the others, yot it is the least in height, being only two hurdred feet. Jt comes over the cliff in a broad sheet, retaining tis form until lost it the below. We crawled along the sloping odge of the cliff, drenched with spray, passed the and resohed the bean'iful arched rock beyond. Here rocks overhang some seventy-five feet, forming & mag: pificent arch, {ts receeres adorned with exquisite vad morses—one of nvture’s own temples, not mad hande—w bile the cataract below fin it withged ly of many waters. One of our companions climbed over the Cliff to obtain @ view of the oli beyond—a fest hav- ing too much of the terrible fer me to undertake. THe CrPm The next day Lia ‘ aM ® cltm| over a shelf, reaching the “Upper Falk.” These are abovt & mil’ shove, sa, the sare troam, and are about roven hundred fost high, The water descends about half way perpendicular, and then Shoots over a shoving part of thercliff at an angio of #e venty degroos, reaches the pool below, dissipating itself in {te demoent into clouds of silvery spray; a amall portion ie = ito @ deep reservoir ey plange over the lower fall and reach the depths of the valley by « cuccession of pisturesque gone two below. ‘TUR VALERY OF THE YOSRMITT. From the above outline sketches of the fails it will be readily eeen that far in the interior of California, ameng the snow clad peaks of the Siorra Nevada, there flows a river which la ite comes upon and teaps into a gt basin feet pices or walls of gran! greensward 0’ the val epondent doubts Alps, can offer an. awful grandeur. thousand feet above the oocan, double the beight, aod from the summit of these Segeeiens she <tereer mane where enacted Se ourase is hidden in cloods, clear blue shy ‘nt a succession eye vith tbe intenalt the more tri! seized with the avidity of one who bupgered and thir after the pictureeque, and it is due him to say that he has Produced some pictures of these hitherto uaknown wilds part, and though the name of has been given this separation \t better deserves which of even sur- & “break’’ in the range, walled in as ii le by beetling oliffs which make the head swim to geze up at. ‘THR FaLlS OY THE SOUTH FORK Those are in the course of the Souta Fork of the river which bas its source among the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada, and probably contributes the largest body of water to Yotemity. They are five hundred feet bigh, and the water thunders down into the canyon below in a whirl of eprav and foam. Awful precipices of granite frown upon either side, immerse masses of rock cumber the chasm through w! the torrent descends, while far below we see the beautifal valley of the Yosemity spread- ing out in all its luxuriance of wild beauty, carpetted with flowers, and offert d pleasing contrat t the = fri loonti beyond. Aboveall the great North D me’ rises in solemn grandeur, lit up with the rosy bues of the deoiining sun. This in three thoussnd three bundred feet adove the val- Joy, and in a8 perfect in its form asthe dome of the Capi- tol at Washington. Thore is also the “South Dome,’’ which lift its majestic head four thousand seren hundred feet, its northern face cleft down, forming a smooth preci- pice—a bare wall of granite two thousand feet high. This remarkable peak is the highest in the vicinity of the val- ley, snd staurs at the copfiuence of the north, middle and south forks of the river. ROLLING A BOULDER DOWN THE AIERRA NEVADA. While on t:e eummit of the South Dome we discovered & buge bonider cf many tons weight standing on the edge of a precipitous slope, which extended, as near as could see, down the valley benoath. This had been ¢: dually undermined by the acti su of the rains for countiess ayes, opti) it tottered onthe drink of the abyes. In all pro- baollity it would bave made |ts own way down the moun- tai in s few years moro. L., with bis usual love ef mis- chief and adventure, propored to disiocate it and time it down to the botton—a distance not far from three thou- sand feet. With the aid of some limbs of trees, which served a crowbars, we scraped the earth from ‘beneath its outer edge, and after half an bour’s industrious efforts the hey stono was ed out. The monster slowly reeled from its ef ceniuries, and im another mement we plunging down the mouatain side. I shall ever forget ihe terrific force with which that boulder thundered down into the valley, ploughing @ path through the earth, bounding from ci and awakening the echoes for miles among summits. Large pines and cedars which stood {n Its path were snapped off like pipestoms, It leaped like a thun- derbolt through denge clusters of woo ts, and we could see the tall treetops bow to the right and lef, as the destroyer | Swept through them. Presently it reached a Freres | bounded off into the air like an India rubber bail, and fell into the river below, throwing the water and mud wo actually making an im change in the the A hotel, or something which in California one, bas been erected in valley, where tra’ now epjoy @ comforiavle bed; but in another season or two expest t> meet all the snobbery of San Francisco, who ‘will soon make this a favorite of resort. Cortain it moet sul ecenery on in good repair. The fornia will be over by the mid the country booomes dried end lously eschewed poiltics this \deavored to hold to my original ov summer jaunt (eto the Sierra jovada. How we got back and the route we pursued in mmplishing our roturn may be the subject of « future Our Long Branch Correspondence, Nanowat Horm, } Loxa Brayca, August 9,1867, Ruth of Visitres—Amusenets—Plirtations—The Ball at the Natiomal— Dedication of thNew Catholic Church , die. The numerous arrivals at this sea side resort from your city give token that the long expected warm weather has come, and with it the exodus that all our hotelkeepers | have been sighing for. During the past week the popula. tion om the beach bas becn increased nearly double, and the cry is still they come, Well, it should be so, and the packed denizens of your over crowded city, blinded with the giare of the glavsy pavements, will find a tem: relief in the centemplation of the ecoan. Why this placo is not better patronized by our people I am ata loss to ander- fiend, as !t bas all the qualifications of pure air and whole. some food to recuperate the exhausted energies of yur overworked people. Since the recent influx of so many New Yorkers the beach bas reco rered from its drowny appearance, and now somewhat resembles in animation ite old season looks. Every means to tecare enjoyment i* gaily indulged in, and the laughing, rollicking parties, frech with the pioom | of bealth, that] meet in my wanderings do one’s boart good to look at. At early morn the splondid pan | orema of tho ever rostiogs ocean is gazed up by bupdreds who draw in it inspiring influence; here tottering age, tenacious of life, clings desperately to bope, and seeks to Gud the famed elixir that if itcannot give back youth may extend the te of age. Here, too, the quiet flirtauens beosath thi moon re. sult oftimes in eligible matrimonial , white the copatsnt sighing lover often finds be bas been | my d by & more darhing, yet lees scrupalous rival. ring the part woek a sorice of brilliant entertain ments have been given by the ciTorent hotels, of which the grand hop at the National, on Wednesday o . waa the precursor. 8 ecial invitations to all were issued, and a ray areomblage of nearly se ven handred participat. ed In the festivities. Tho National bas been proveroial for the liberal manner in which its fostirities have ever been conducted, and the last far | ercels anything tuet bat preceded i The capacious dining room, whion was turned lato a ball | room on this occasion, was gaily festooned with a nataral drapery of wild flowers and shrubbery, while the colors of our country were lily intertwined with magoid beuquets I will not adopt the usual style of particularizing cach admired belie was present. Neither will I 7 that the lovely Mrs. X——, of 7—~, was envoloped in « cloud of moire antique with point lace {lluminaions, end that the dreamy Mist Languian ber drowsinees and inundated the a’ urowa of her perfumed cambric. I will leave that duty to others more familiar with desoriptire epithets- Suffive itto say that the ball was s success as ploasing as it will be remembered. Our neighbors of the United States another hop of the same successful character. The new Catholic church was dedicated this morning, and an eloquent address was delivored by Bishop Bayley, of Newark. The Catholic residents at this place during the summer are under many obligations to Mr. McCor. mack, of Now York, for his # } efforts in erociing place of worship im thie benighted region TO THE EMITOR OF TR HERALD. Octan Hoves, Newrort, Aagurt L1, 1867, 1 notice in yesterday's Henan your correspondent from this place says that “ Charles Howard, while driving from this city to Fort Adame, with threo ladies and a email waa thrown from the carriage and considerab y injared.”” ‘The best part of the item is true, . ¢., om the day named | rode over \o the fort and back, with my family, of the number , a4 being im the carriage, bat pa Tf he way’ or accident. Res pectiully yours, CHARLES HOWARD, of Detroit, Mich. Dasrevetive Fine at Troy.—We learn from the Troy Whig of Monday morning that a dostractive fre o»- curred on Sunday night at balf-paat twelve o'clock. Tt originated in the fourth of the brick building 326 River street, oocupied by Edwin Bowman, as « commission store. Foratime the flames were ined © the building, bot soon epread south to the adjoinini store of Charles Warner, occupied as a provision storo, an: to the next sullding south, occupied by Wilson & Charch, droggists, and to the north to Van Rensselaer & Hay- wood's hardware store, 327 River etreet. The building in hg . ~ pA reno wan a to bere —— wee 1e ing adjoint Rout oceupied by. . The scoond tra and fourth therion of sho drag » ding occupied by them were destroyed. The loss by the Bre’ must be large Bowman, liquor dealer, and War- ner, ‘etoo dealer, eaved nothing whatever, and the tock in the drug store and hardware store wea destroyed {nm all but the firet storie#, and the part remaining in the firet the on ons anwage A Win onsen $30,000. Th will ox ). fire at four o'clock ted nadie a cloar 8" of stores Nos, fi leon by water, sad novel ot quote rem} ’ Fay hare aor on building and ‘goods $5000 in ‘The origin of the Ore bas not been THIRTY: FIFTH COUGRESS, COMMENCING MaRcH 4,'57, AND ENDING Manca 4, '59. ‘The Board of Excise Commissioners mot as 3 ?.M,y terday, intho Chamber of the Court of Common Pie, present Commissioners Hatk« 4 and Hoimes. Applications were received from the following persc GON KEBPERS’ LIORNHEA. James Albert, No. | Hoboken street; John S. Ploros, ¢ Broadway; Murtin Ticken, 247 Bowery; Pairiok Caer: 207 Seventh avenue; Cornel: Stokem, 1,990 Broadwt ‘Thomas Forster, 11 Thames sirest, defective; James dey 125 Thirty-tirst street; Jorome FE Smith, Third aveans, | twoon Fighty fifty and Kighty-sixth stroe ta. A tore keepors’ license was appiiod for by Williaa Bancroft, of 43 MacDougal strect. ATTACK OW THE GOARD. (Com. Horm then rose aad made the following FLORIDA. David L. Yulve........1861 Stephen B. Mallory ....1863 T have before me one of our cit whiok seen fit to attack on two Pireb fhoseinoy Moy Philip Alion .... James F Simmons. ‘aunmcat it mot been for this insinuaticn I should have noticed the article in question. But its author | @ very long aitri our official acts and official legitimave eriticiem o lock question:—“Do you thal you stand thes We answer that we do suppose this. pression of pubiic opimion bas sanctioned our cour ‘The public have seen us in (lon, avd have observed that tn its cxercise we have tei 8 oontervative and mediun Course—nelther wrecking ¢ felves cv (he Scylla of unrestrained intempersnoe, : yet on the Charybals of that fanaticism which bas eres {nto an idol the ove idea of absolute 4 procedare the public have looked upom as die ed by « sense of duty, and they bave sufficient charter our acts to generally believe that we Can perform this without the inceativeofa bribe The public ia making {ts judgment of the truth of this us, will be apt to take into consideration all the surroa ing circumstances, and we believe will generally ac | us ofeny corrupt motive. Tbe journal alluded to # within @ short of time levelled ita attacks aga! ef Justice of the Uniied Starver; -ga’ prominent members of that most enlightened dural, the Court of Appeals; against the Nustor the judiciary, Chief Justice’ Duor; against the fi the Cours of GO" and on this very day, tm a cow against one of the mos! honorable and pure min men holding a ition in the judiciary of our ford. Itcan do this Commission ttle barm to be placed in the same category, sponsible for our official conduct to the iaws of the le and if we bave erred, corrupt remedy may be found in our jud! to them would be ia beiter taste than wholesale newspa attacks, necessari! 7 ex parte im their charactor, and nelt,| distinguished for the purity of thotr diction nor free the day. Tuesday next, at 2 P. I) She New York Volunteers and the Gold B. The New York Volunteers Association, composed of merabers of the First Regiment New York Volunto who served in the Moxican war, held « mooting at] Mercer House on Monday eveaing to make arrangom( for celebrating the anniversary of the organization of t corps, and at the same time to express their opinion of receat award of the gold snuff box to one of ti pessession of a wide dixc Cbaries E. Sivart. Zacharia Chandler Outrageous charge sgu HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Number of members...,... ARKANSAS, 1—A. B. Greenwood. 2—Kdward A, Warner. 1—Charles L. Scott. 2—J. C. McKibben. 1—Esra Clark, Jr. 2—Samvel Arnold, Dean. S—Hhaney 4—Wam. D. Bishop. DELAWARE. 1—Wm. G. Whitley. FLORIDA. 1—George 8. Hawkins. or otherwise, an Mojor Dyckman {s the President of this assosiat :2, + it was @ question for a time who should preside, as ho premed a wish not to do so, as it was probable debates m: ariee in which be would be personally interested. Ho at length induced to consent to preside. Lieutenant Garvms moved the appointment of a ¢) 2.5 {oo to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the m- ‘ng, and in doing #0 eaid:—I regret to see present the ; 7) tleman who has received the award of the committee B— Lewis 4—M. H Nichols. b— Ri aaron Harlan. 9—L. W. Hall. 10—Jove ph Miler. 1l—Wm. L Dewart. a 6—Timohy Davis. 1—N. J’, Banks, Jr. Thayer 10—Calvin C. Chaffee. ll—Henry L. Dawes. MISSOURI. 1—P P. Blair, Jr. 2-1. L. Anderson. &—Joba B Clark. 4 Ornig. 5S H Woodson. resoluticos were then after a ecene of 4—Milledge |. Bonham. owe Ws Bere 8 call was made b: tbe city of New York, on General anirew Jacs#oa, 10 the ‘ork,”’ notifying parties interes! honot to appear before them and produce evidence for ois Ants; aod Whereas, at a number of meetings sald coma), did receive evidenos such as 7—Samue! Caruthers. Joho Hi Savage. 6—Charles Ready, 6--George W. Jones, 8 Folin K. Zoldsooffer. OJ. D. ©. Atlan, 10—Wm. T. avery. 1—Win. A. Howard. maittoe 10 clove the examination of wi more evidence in regard to the matter, reeolullon had been unanimous, niope of nald committee olor ed, without, knowledge of the frien ¢s of claimants, did hold » meetiog evidenoe, upor which idence mt affording the claimants or ¢ portunity of rebutting or refuting the (* pri aa iacts in said supplementary evide, ‘That we hereby solemnly by sald committee, as not roduced before it ‘That the award wae made on evidence impr; Ale Meeting, aod on preended facts, wo would have totally refuted bad the opportunity been afer the decieive of the committee fs a gross every other soidier of the regiment, all bi e hover conferred quite at mach as Ligut. Cok Dyckmaa, baving each {9 hie act as meri ae ne tee bave awarded to hun badge of homor which could ever become Rerolved, That we are actusted b Dyckman, And feel po envy or il) we actuated by any sem imenta of fa Ward B, Burnett, but ars coust based their decision, wt" 1—hatah V. Clawson. Pring Secor ‘4—Jobn Boyler s—J. R Wortondyke. Us. as joetioe rey Resoived. That [—Wm. Smita. 8—C J Faulkner. ne to the gallantry of the latter in the feild from the oper! to the close of the war; as to his services in disciplining pei zation of the regiment, from the bon ‘wae raised until it was disbanded, and in every way na to? meri as nn officer and & soldier: avd furthermore, as rei? fenting the united suffrages ard the united merils of the | regiment, ven. W. B. Barnett is the oni; of the bero of New Orleans. 1 The meeting soon after broke up in the most c: ry disorder. The following are the resolutions prepa the committee appotated by they say were endorsed by ihe directors of the Volust | Apeooiation — REOAPITULATION BY FIGURES. Las S47 concame, 86rn coxcRes, Whereas, the special joint committee of baring nnanimouely awarded to M Firat teers, Gold Bor’ presented by the ut few York to (icberal Andrew Jackson, and by. him, death, bequeathed to abou! Ieal Recenas Yerk Volunteers heartily endorse tre action taken an wari made hy the apectal commi'tee of the Common Coun Resoived, That the New York Vounteers having sprupe fr the citizen soldiery and militia of the elt brite eld in which the ed. hereby cordially inv 7 2 2 a 1 1 6 6 8 4 organizations to Banke: honors of the presentation of her Resolved, That afer pat io the wubject by the 1l=Sl enclal anal nl waren! lune 1 ttt weal Sacuk ‘and just decision arrived at upon foous inveaiigation, and cordially endo these resolutions be tranemitioc | in] Committee of the Common Uo’ Total thus far. ... seers STATES IN WHICH RLECTIONS ARR YRT TO BR nRLD Ressived, That s onpy of the Chairman of the Spec 2 Maryland... 3 Twenty-three members yet to be ‘The opposition members include Know Nothings and biicans, the former ling States, and the latter from the free States. The Southern Know Nothings will act with the Southern democrata on all questions affecting the institution of ‘0, the undersigned’, mont New York Volu rt of the Committe of the published 'n the city ~ ‘to be made of the gold ed by Andrew Jackson, believing the report of said 09 mittes to have been pre determined and to be made in tire diaregard of the oyidence produced before Merton Fetrobild, Wm. 8, Moulton, Oo, D; Joho & nor, Oo, I; John Gi lerom Alex Moran, Co, D) J Y. Vol,; Alfrod (. ly coming from the: Common ounel! 7 4 to the dlspesition Naval Intelligence. The United Stator sloop-of. war Constellation from Lisbon i A a at Gibraltar July 14, The United Statea vomsel spoken at sea cine and with sickness on board, Relief, waa probably the Release, as ‘Yard in Brooklys. in want of medi- former vessel is Release sailed from iis Sutazlacher, Oo. B; Conrad Muhr, Oo. 4; Kari, Fodor Shoeffer, MESS Cutnod ‘Slates Conatitation, at Portemonth, wes taken into the dry for repaire om the 6th inst,