The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1857, Page 2

9 mot" And eo tt was Achilt owas born; the mother died and the Living with the decease! rtiraightway dimap peared and Bave Deen beard of po more. And we would wher Beek pot ibel¢ ments further to dirclaas, for thereby the romance of the drange aifair might be re. day coourrence, with woth'ng of the ection por oruni re aoree wW darken | e be naive: shake their beads; bat | they kno Do more than ibey bave toid you Lio <p thie trewcherous #04 COAs! Det ween bare aad Lone Brapob, the Waveller sae pow and thea ths foaxments of some foodiy ship aalf Deried tu the sends, or gathered ai tom: fi herman’s bul for Grewoo!, Ask this amphidi uf erotiewan, who it O-bermae io sum ner and wrecker ib wipter, o-norrpipg tore ieasters, and you witi, er adveuore, Sirk Opok @ mige of uarecoraed marvels, Diractes sb mysterhe einer eveping a Digbfaln ip pyrotechniat, by procia mation thro gt a faming bandbil, bad excited the aati @ations 0! .be cbii pl Cb Couceraing a pro mired balloon avcen-ion, the bello nto carry wiin tt be ‘ COLO, *aperpatural sed gorgeous display of Ae ke.’ Troe to bis apoointmen the wonderfii fre king war at bend «ich his paper balloon and i gimoraskery. To make all cure, bh ever, he fret tested tne puire of the ore #d ip @ cole ion, whind proving satisfactory, he five We Kpeli-d ana soe balloon Gling with the smoke, rene BF recornily w A Chinese lautern; Dut it was borne +o Faritiy era dy the wiad Wat with the explosion of « Focket oF LO “Lae gorgeous specacie” bad vaisnet Tk Was pronennerd ‘a sell,’ andy the firat boat va ishad the fire king widhout the seremony of a farewell address, ‘The operation was like Barnum’s Greeslaud war very One op the canvas ouside, Dat whlor insite tne Moreum dw incied away 0 & vile of DODeS. The defcieccies of our Monsieur Gnabert, how ever, were sin forgotten in @ coccert, ia oolpg tbe ebarming vrcalizalion 0” = #adame » Berkel tp the parlor and in @ bop in the ball room egiceably divermded witty Ine creame ant cham peeve, & lecture op phrerciogy, and the dissolving views Of en ¢xhau wd pigr'ts cotersainmente Oe Suptay aferdoor an open air Methodiet preacher of he primitive formation gave us ® Sermon on the text:—"'T here po balm in Gilead? Ie the.e no physician taore?”? We were seeured, oo, that there war belm in Giead of Ah beet kind, and the very doctor #o needad; for tha Burt Dat ing, Sunday wailing saw ate, high go maudiziog. cham pep nr guszliog, avd Saturvay pigat carouings ad frolickings were pot the remolies for the zoal, sick even to Geaib from the devils patems mediotper; bat ‘that novning except the real ham of Gilead, wainu is the blood of Chriss, wid effect aeure and’ 80, ike St Paul b fore tbe Athen iars, tals Metb! st apostle anoke withoat ‘ear or fiat ry, and wens on bit way rej-iciog, best up and strat forward We un ‘erstand that na week or two there will bo @ the north beapch of this river, 1a a doe rear of Port Washington To his ead Mr , of the Pavilion Hote! contempiat *, we loan, the ‘y evlargement of bir commodious and po ula ment W weet the di manda of the o rerting Tc te ap tnatitutton expecia'ly idea Used wh (be moreers aod the advances of Ameren civilization and Christianity from the Ailagtic #98 the wilds of Oregon; and ee this o'd fashion waves a Our 0 rer Sommuntties, it bes’ mes only the more tuterest Aug from ie historical associat ous. Toompeon’s is full bet as our guests are conrantly Coming Boe goin Z, there tr al "ays room, ex in av amnibus, for ates The Sea Vie bas recovered & goodly compeny, ant alo the Oovan Houre In fast. all the DUmerONe RUMMY reires'# Owwtignous to those Devauif il inkew rg the oxean #h cre (9 Long Sraach, aud fr many miles beyoud that popalouw local y, the past week were verbaos as full as aleny tine acany pre Vite Femou, notwithstauding the compaints we Der from ciber qvartere The reason of this excep'tin ie the quick cheap (fare trenty-five conte on tae Osean Ware sn Long Brancd, and thirty oa the Aliss Price ) pe bealibfel Hoe of rlewa boat communica ii detwoen New York and there paris via tre Narrows and S.ndy Hook Said steamboats from the foi of Rovius on «treat meke the trip daily each way, eo that the vister may come cown in the evening and return {a the moraiag, or Thus to a ral of two hours we are viaced sly in ibe midst of country life aad country sow As ip & Journey of six hupdred miles. But be e Taom sm Gnnounces @ supper of sof nd #0 we Drea off to of “Hail ie err tersa Our Long Branch Vorrespond-nce. Lone Bearou, N. J, Argust 22, 1857 fhe Sommer Resorts at Long Branch—The Routes to Them — Travwling im Jersey Stages—Pecudiarisies of the Long Branch Shore— Amusements—Drives—High Price of Board--Dastinguished Visiters—Churches, dic , do ‘There are a great mapy people in New Yore who would, U they had ever seen thie place, make it their sommer resort But lying #0 near Now York es {i does tt wiil be Pacsred over for places more difficult of access and far loss agrecable ‘Taere are three good boats running from New York to the mou'be of the nor'b and south vrapohes of th. Shrews bury rivers, which come together at a potat of land oppo Gite to which « wel) known place of resor:, called the Ocean louse, iseituated. Those rivers empty into a narrow er- Coary lying between the tongue of land, abont seven miles long, known as Sandy Hook and the mainland The par gengere for Long Branch are landed at the Ocean Hoa dock, where they take stages for the hoteln, abou: wight miles cistant, while the boats go up the two branches to the different villages, which sre to be found on their banks, the mos} important Lelong Red Bank. The ride from the Ooeas House to the Branch hotel- fe made in large Jersey wagons catied s ages by courtany and a very uncomfartable way of travelling {i isif italaaye Provoe as tandy apd infesie! with morquit es as {i did the day I passed over The wheels of the stages are far inches broad wo prevent sinking, and you travel with tha creaking, sandy round betweeu rows of barberry bushes {he wbaking of which, by the wheels mariag , sure op ut ‘e their fil before you reach the eo! do resob it the ronae ohangse wor You find yourself 'n a rick agricultural coo! derfally vy thickly dotted with boares looking neat sod tbrifty, (ant Jet me add, tm parentheris, with no mosquitoes) with foe catile partaring in the rich grass waicb grows up to the very brink of the sea ‘Th: formation of .be land bere is quite pevuliar Instead of that rolling sandy beaob *hich ts tne charactertstic of a!) Other tea ride rerorls where there ie p> rook formation the land t# elevated about twenty feet abrve tbe sex and comes up to *ttbin & bundre! feet of low water mark be fore it ead dorcends perpendicularly tyihe sade At bigh dde the surf rolls up vo the bark with a sound tixe Cvtant tbueder Tole day night is pesoliarly south ng, eod lvls you to weer bke a cradie song toa child wmaticn | have rpoken of extends for only two or an it is these (wo or three miles waich oon Ola ding peroape, one-rightd tow quarter and dack from the Rea about two hundred parce, | The 0 bigb that at the bonwes the bathers are bidten From viem, giving en alr of privacy which ie very ploasing The fret v bic bouwe which meets your view ou coming from New York is the Metropolitan Hotel, the larger. aud moet elegant of all But with e strange waat of as 6 ow the part of tbe owners it is erected on the bank before it peu i foil beigbt. thus rmcri( sing the coance of geiting the ® “ In whieb the how wake is the mom desir ment Oar table couls pt be more sati-farvory, and attention of oor borte Is of the mo reufyiog Kina you pars along tne bank yoo come in front in ‘torn vptil you reach the mat “ earh hotel charming par. of the shore where the ba vk is the highest aod most apt, abd where se three betes, coropied onlely by * (26 ae whole summer, are placed Toe names do Wot Ruow, but they go respodti rely by i prouriel re—Green's, Howian]'s 407 ‘# Tbee house haves reg:lar custom fi You! to Fear, Billing toom up, and, 1am told, with como ier mutually agreeable, plew ing and desiring w plese ‘The ‘rives toto the couptry lying beck of the Branch ere Of (be mast agreeable tind duced to grow at the tance of a mile back fine # ‘The Sbrewsbary river and iw wivatarios are crossed re meatedly even Ip a sbort drive apon subsactiel wooden Preece “The erat. plying, the Glam pberere weding, (he oyermen reking the sradbing pa ties from the Hotels, with tbetr lioes and bag nels, tbe iaberers on «ne rion wheat harvest Geld, may be seem at ope glance from a sng one of these bridges. The Pbiladelphisns, » form the bulk of the compeny, bring their Ane “Gr rimaplo #ne,’’ ae they oall the large six toated oom Cortabie Onrringes, itn mt poouliar to our riser ctr, aod Uhewe may be seen by the sore onan afternoon im the ooarre fe drive prose for board bere, for some unex plained reason, fare above thors of the New sort hotels I learn that « vee and large boose is projecten, to pnt the prices at ® more reasonable gure these high priors are, o> doubt, one Treason for Le abaence of company who might ovmerwiso be indnced to come carly ane tay lalor fo the eoascn Mr. Dm) ton, the republican candidate for fice President, te 1 thie boure He |* & noble looking man, unaffected, freak ‘and courteous in hie manners Also the Hoa. James Wall and bie friend, Mr “reuon ‘The Homan Ostholion have jart erected a charch at the Branch. eo that Dow we bave ae Emeoops: cuuron aad the one above referred to The village of Loug Branch t¢ 8 oy Hite pinoe, & mI\e from the Rea, eviaeDtiy support reas monsure by the summer visiers. There are beredes here, @ Datch Reformed and ® Mothodirt tthe piney Anbougs no trees cae de im two Bometimes of ap aflernoon the litte sto Dave a row of carriages at their doors, reminalng you of Book's Of Stawart's. Bat my paper falls me | will give you another lower before leaving Our Adirondack Mountains Correspondence. ApinomDAck MOU MTAINE, August 20, 1867 Preparations for the Chase— A Start at Dawn —Pracking the Deer The Sport in View—The Deer on the Laem Hix Fight ond Death—a Dinner in De Woole—Ouring Ventson—Striding the Tents, de Long befure the un rose in the cast we were aroused by the guides, who bad raked together the embers of the (ngt olgbt's fire and bad prepared a bot cup of tea. in the curly dusk we bad our breakfast, and, plunging our Already among (96 trees the birds cbirped Gn cooasional pete, each aument growing louder and Ctronger, and scrome the iake long hoes of faint Of ok libs abet up into the morning, preeaging the coming a te bound, excited by the preparations, extended fer neck towardafibe broese and uttered the bow! of RCI Ot RE peoul ar to Ie race. We now drew lous whe a@hould (ste the boat and who ehonld bo etationsd on the wunweys Thejiot{ fel) to Charley O-—_—., and, rowed by @ vide, be made his way to the centre of the late to ‘watob for the deer, | waa stationed alone, on a headiand, where the deep tracks of animals lat toward the water jeer, luke Bheep, ae apt to foliow ome behind the other, ne gt the polpt at whieb | was stationed tho sof moul” «! the forest bail deem worn @ ray to the clay deneeth, « Cintance of several in bea, while the sites of the pai? rove an i-tinet ane upright es these in a garten Frosh tracke leading up and down the path abort the beach | showed thet tom or afwen deer, of ali sizer, from the lara: buck to the tliotd fawn, had but lately lef the spot, per hae even ariven away by my approach. 1 follower the eth a few oundrad feet, to @ point from which tt alve god inevery direction Suddenly I ksard » thort, ebarp yelp, and Durry pg to my poet, | Kaew that the hunnd bad been pat apo the treeb scent of a deer Tn avorher m mont the powenange! to an almost ap tote rreptes coy, as the fiset dear sorang before tae mo per-evering dog, The mouninin apd rocks on ever: shiv took vp ‘be deep goles of the Bound and the whole la hore seemed +o be re win the bent At the» upd» ould die away and again would ° fan fom the mo piaia rite oth rer huoted with s pack of npe hoaeds ia a count y, but never before am ong ihe ror fu bae the poise or excitement equalled ‘Over Reemed approaching me, wud mtanding ia the centre of the pata. Theid my ritle forward in readiness, but the keeo roented animal nad tevestet me, and tarning axide spain sovgbt the hile, Every sound pow died away, only ovwasionals vtbe farther anore the fe ce growi of tne hound could bedeteotec. Siting upon the beach [ though: of those bean iful ines Of Scot's, n0 auited to tne occasion Phe deep mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay, Rasovunded up toe rocky way, aad ‘aint, b farther distance borne, rd th clanging hoof and horn. Laying down om the eani | repeated as mush of the Obese as Loould recall, wile the profoned ence ant sojoritle mor: Ing air Both exerted thelr infaeucs, and | fell in oa deep aleep Twas wronged by tho sharp repe Of # rifle aud raw tae canoe fifing acro1s the waer in var # itof accor, #bich was already near she shire wut iho houvo snii following not more than a haadred yards oe bind he shot aprarenty had been fired in vain, aat own entinals reanbing the shore, continued the chase. Fif teen min tes had eesrooly elapsed when tao desr, lim sing an) sonnied, agein songht the water to ric himsel of ni: purrver, and this ime his course lay directiy arr asx the ren! of the ‘ake. Wth a peoket giasss | saw the long aotierr thrown back, tbe nostrils exteated eas te alaved ¢ ting from {te sooket with the agony of aligue Tha cance lay oaluly aad plact tly in the cenvre while (he poor oer ewam towar ta bis destroyers O01 sud ‘ep he saw the Doai, and with fresh exertions leap» lourst olear cut of water w# he crangad bis direction Bi {t wast 0 late, the gut le rowed the light shallo > fascer than be coaid seim and after asoori raoe [sam th fas of a rift po justaptly the nonie animal buried his head tty the water Tae o8 cass was too Reavy to lift into the boa! spo hey vere ob iced totes it to the camp The good bound Rose, however, was betler attended to, and, seated iu the Canoe, wadebed the Geer as it was brought in. We now firet fe liy sporecisiad ocr prizs, weighing, as Wr guider s-rerted, folly 280 prande; the antlers, for the seanor, were {n excellent condition; the velvet or sof: 8 wih @bich ine bore is covered during tho spriag aod evwmer bad elready been partly worn away, and baneain the Dove was brigbi sud bard Ateleven we enjoyed x famous dinner, In Now York venl on Dever lasted as goou ss that veataon eaten ta th nd be fresu trout, taken buts fow hours ago, are oifferent Gah from she frezea acimals you g t1o Mr, (——, who acted as commissariat of tne party, dealt ur cul teu biscuits and a small born of gin s piece, and we thought our disc 1h Detter than the floes cf French bread, and oar gin tuperior to the best «f wine, snd here let ms say, as a bio to all wh foliow after, to these wild regi ns, chat al hough they may prefer a more agresble tipole, this (hat [have wentioned will beat euti the woodeman, wh» lives alma epurely ppon venison The reason, doubtless, sugges i veif afer dinpor we \alked, recounting the adventurer of the morning, and thon commenced 10 erect @ saauty to wbicb to jerk our venison before retting out for other regi us. Jerked vonison is made by means of ex.0- flog the meat, cut into long and rather thin ribbons, to the continued action «f emoke and acertain degree of beat Toe amouat of em ke as well as he degree of tem, erature mort de of a uniform cbaracter, and to myn tain thie .oostitutes the skiilof the hunter’ cooking Tae flerb i mee im roved by the use of cortals kinds of wor tn kincling the fire and in maintaining tbe supp y of am ke, We) etly bad c widence in she ekill of our men, wing tbat these who were eo perso vering at the treacher, as they had proved ther-el es to be, must bave god know. ledge as to the meas of supplying it Severs: times during the night one of them would rise and exam'ns tos moke he ure, and add frosh fuel and turn the of moat ob their wooden gridiron, so tha!, atthe end of thirty mx hour, hey de lsred the jerked venison done toa tro. and tha: pabing Bow prevented our atr King the tent and again moving onward. Our Fire Island Correspondence. ‘Samans’ “xe Horm, Free Is.anp, Augnst 20, 1857. The New Lighthouse at Fere Island—the Bathing, Boating and Pubing- the Hotels and Thee Gueste—The Bet Route to Oe Idand—How They Mamage om the Long island Railrvad, de. As you are po doubt aware, Fire Island beach forms « sort of break water for that portion of Long Island stretch. bg from Babylon to Montauk. Where the hotels and Ligh bonse are ettuated, pear the alot, at the westerly end, {tis about the dis ance of a couple of Ni York biocks ‘across. It is washed on the one side by the “ever-souna- {bg ed mysterious” waves of the Atlantic ocean, while on be other side ripple the gentle waters of the Great S»uth Bay. The lighthouse on thie point is one hundred feet bh —It_-bas seventeen reflectors, which revolve by clockwork every ninety secvnds. The Lighthouse Board bave, bowever, concluded tojerect a ne# lighthouse. Is will be two bundred feet im height. The butiding will be & very substantial structure, The foundation stones were br vght on shore Inst week. They consist of blocks f Qoiney gravite, Ove feet in length by three feet in bickners. ‘he ighwe will be of the best dsscription de vised 9) the ecientifc Fresnel. From the lighthouse may be men the (bra of the wrecks of several vemcis Tae pilot boat E K Collins went on shore near this point, also the ehiye Suingaree and New Hampshire, and he steam. sbip Franklio. A wrecker is cow engaged im recovering ibe ancho « of the Inet mentioned versel The graves of severa! shipwrecked mariners are also printed out pty celebrity, it i ope of the most poe toa can be resorted to for quits, pore sca air, bathing, yachting, Oebing and ani shooting Tre bathing ts roperd | One oan Ia" quiet watersof the bay, or tndnige tm the hardier and more erbilaratiug botfets of the tea bery wurf, tn which or dinarils there t# no treacheroas untertow | As for Qehing, Jit epgage the sere'coe of that careful baymaa Abe Oram ‘end yoo will be placed at une proper atige of the tide where the brilliant bluetied hte quiokowt at tne giiitori: g eqaid Or the delicately favored prhead we Abe Ane Hil miro take you to bye boat, tne Kate Hayee, 00 @ raise tw the bay, oF to l-lip, Baby lnm, or Pateb gus made cleans y rquence of ‘Weoater—aiways returning by the time the gong rounds S aking of gong reminds mo of the exosilst hovel ac cor modations on Fire Island There are two of these in rUtutlons here 1 eak experimentally when I assert chat Semmis’ Surf Pte te place where one can mreica nie 0 mine eave at mine in Every ppretending, clean and comformabie. The ab endcance le npexoepii-oavie Tho table is supplied from the garcene 0° Long |*a0d aod the markcre of the metropo lis, while the ciroumjscent wai'rs contribave from their S>uDdaDt sores to tem t the palaw of the most fagddioas ‘A cacaveroos young man from Troy thie morning destroyed four pluefich at Oreakfest He bad taken to balfa fozeo on the bal’ ehel! jut 0 evtously, by way of au appetizer The |adiet call bim “bluetieh ' now, and be bears pis po pols ity © tt bos ming modesty ye ber | Giled with agreeable gueste of the rigut fort Our are enlivened with dancing, and thowe bilariour yet fanosent games which doll oung, and which the elverly and vedate frequen ly eator to with @ refreenng zret A leader {n ihose apr deser-es to be menioned th thie cennestion. She is the @i"e of @ prow erous New York mercnant largely in torested \n goano enterprises. 4be can sail a yacat, calcd & Diuefied, ewitm Uke mermaid, dance a jig “culer ing the goove,"’ sing @ patriove or sentimeatal tong, (rf del’ver an extem :9ransous dinseristion oa com prete, with charming vivecity and grace. Notning fem: Dine oan @ Ceed her ' I" Maite variety.” At an cepectal favor those whe are longing to rint fruch an \nvigorating locality as Fire Island. 1 wii! ataw that {ican be easily reacned dy tacing the stoem rat Soreamer at the foot of Rovinson sirect She leaves at Delf past eight in the morning, comets alone the shore of Long Inland, arriving a Ssmmts’ dock in time for dinner ‘The inlanc can also be reached py way of the Long Isiant Railroad to Thompson's etatior, thence through « hackel berry to the Day, and across tbe bay in the protiy Hite steamer Hore the Long Island Rulirned i, how A radly mivtnaonged afair Iam told that the son ore plop at every farin hones to inynire of the hoeltn of the children, and wat they sometimes kindly wait til the deve lay @ dozen eggs, in order to fetch them wo mer ket Doobtions there i# seme exaggerstion in thie Bit ‘baifao hour t# mde. passengers are cons irae At one station, the pediar of pies and coffee there may courier the Li Da very proper and profitable one By al) meane | snould recommend the Screamer roa. Our Ephrata Correspondence, Brugata Mocstais Samos, Lawcactea Covert, Pa August 20, 1857 Attractions of Ephrata—Drosperity of the Season— Hola Improwments— Magnificent Landscape Fiews— accommo datoma for Visttors— Eminent Vivilers, de , de Among the various gamer resorta, the Mou tee &t Eph a, in Lancaster coun y, Pennayivanis 0 is By one of the mont atiractive. Atuated In @ region of groat falobrity, with good water, (eand stone) freed tala sir, A>, i eere many inducements as well to the valote. Ciparian #8 to the man of pleseure. The senron bas been very prosperous thas far—to faci, at Umer every bed 19 the hotel and neighboring covtages hee deen veoupied The provrietor, the Hon. J. Konigmachar, Con'em plates enlarging ths alroady extoasive ovilaings and maniog otc er improvements for the next season. ‘The botel is #itoated at the foot of « mountell whaded Of about three quarters of «mile through forest, the mountain twp i reached, where from a0 observatory about etghty feet in height, the ‘Par apangied banuer”’ gaily flatters tn the breeze. The ric ‘om thit point can soarcely be eur parneo eye embraces an horizon of aeut 200 miles around city of Laneanter, fourteen miler distant, '* ta fall vf while vilinges, farm houses, chorehes, mille, kod mountain lie like » Lancaster county ls the gard Eporate might well be called the garden of Lanvaswr counly, and No loes than eight counues are in aight, and the Toe NEW YOR bet or apy ont tie noexoeotionable Situated i tout Ciwanee from We Pai J 1K Ore, THOR ww total eile there are plenty of rations! amwase- an! o mori, biiliaeds ton pins, Tp mark em yassont that nts Exce!l-m vf of the United Mats, was ber ‘tere embrace many distiasutshet fem var parte of the United States We excelleot the vegetables doing of ihe vary bost apot, the milk and bate fine sad mu top if the Lancaster county a brand should epy of you mumerous readers be iuclined 19 be favored epot. they will pot be timappaoted — It be too late t) vill (t this fall, although last summar the noure wee open vptil tbe 1th of September; but aext ommer wil afford an oppertunity of vistiag a resor: wbicn needs only lo be Known t be alwass ty Sega, Ot th onge . E; brats Sortogs can be reached tn sbout etx hours from Philadelvbie, apt the journey by railroad and «sge brorgh a conn ry of remarkable fertility wad beauts, is one of the most agreeable featares in she trip, Our Sahart Vorres: Nanant, Auguet 17, 1857. Arvwal of Ira Listowell and Party—Elegant Oareiaames— Cockney Manners ina Nahant Drawing Room — Hints to English Suelle from a Fair Oorrespondent— Brougham and Elise Brityes—The Weather, de. Last evening the society of the Nahant Hotel was varied by che tut ed ition of the newly arrived Earl of Listow: #1'b Color el Searlett ano Captain Tower. They were resented to ihe ladies by the Hon Robert C Win'hroy, to whom tbey brought letters of imtroductioa vem abroad Whatever mental acoompliahments they may porsess, there te corteiply no pereonal superioriiy apparent among ho Eoglitn #origs of vobili y that tarn op here over the inae ¢8 of ony ow poole who are generally better look- { gend a mort uviverrally better bred than their nodle ieiter , or, a# one of ‘he cleaver Roston young ladies re marked Iasi night, ‘noble effigies.” ‘The dress of Englishmen generally, while in our draw: ‘ g rooms, bas lorg been & matter of comment Boing only «moog Vankere, they tske liberties tn their totletts, as well * to their race manaers, «bich they dare not doat home it {sno uncomm n sbipg for ap Eoglish man to presont bim er party 1p thie country in abooing jacket, ch-cked trowsors, and a even'ng en eriain non 8p New York @ frook sout 1s n0 unusual garment for chem 0 year The cost me of an Ecgtish Colonel was the subject of uni cer/4] remark and coadempalion iast eventug. He anpeared na browe worsied eack duster, whico bad certainly not seep Clsned for man’ monthe The collar wat muco led with Rowlupd’s Maccassar, and the seat quite crumplet from hondreds or thousands of miles of railway wavelling ta the ‘onli counhry,"” sod pe @ little tainted with bog yaraish while she ting ip tee Highlands or the Orimoa [this brace individual distr his eyes from himself long enovgh, be coud vot pave failed to perceive last evening that every Isdy and gentleman in the drawing roon, except Mi ngelf, was neatly and appropriately at- ured’ The prover wa’ to treat foreigners who act in this *a, {8 © Consign them to Coventry, Colonel's father wus, I bell: ve, noth'ng but a third rate tory lawyer, of obseure family, who obtvined a peerage less for his mer|! ‘ban for bis red bot bicoiry; be ibis gentleman, however, wbo be may, o may rest assured that the time has persed for cockneys w be run after, even if they wear +paulettes and tities The house ts quite full, Rrongham read bis o “ all's Fair tn Love,” on Ssturday evening night Riotse Bi tyes reads ove of Saakspere’s plays. weather {s (ool and charming play, ‘To-morrow The Our Florence Heights Correspondence. Fioxaxce Baicum, NJ, August 17, 1867. A New Jerey Florence of Tuscan Attractiveness —Orinoline— Hops—Theatricals—‘* A Pretty Piece of Business,’’ de. You bave already beard from me sioce I chanced to alight at this plearant spot. I write again jusiasI mo leaving, after @ sojonrn of some two weeks, I had no idea there was eccn a place as Florence until I happened © drop down upon it; bot I shall remember it well here- after, It will dwell in my memory as one of the brightest apd qwost beautiful points in this section of the country, New Yorbers can reach bere by the Camdem and Amboy Railread in @ little over three hoare; and @ most delightful ‘trip they may bave of it by eteamboat and railroad. Thare been staying at Robbin’s tel, whish ts spacious and admirably k+pt. There is no nonvense about any of the arrangement or surroun ti Ladies dress rather extravagantly of course. “he dear creatures can't do spjthing sborter There is loss spread of flounces and cripeline, though, here than at the majority of watering places indeed, matters of this kind are graduated on @ Tessonabdle acale The evenipgr are passed in waltzing and dancing to the simple but sufficient moaic of the pans, in qilet games of cards and obers, in tele a teles the piazes, in social Interchange generally. Now and then there is a = when ® superior bawd of masic ts sent up from Paliadel- phis. Other pastimes, as T told you in my last letter, are fableave and ameteur ‘heatricals The first exhibition of \Deatricals was, as you were advised, brilliantly succcss ful The last, *bich came off on ths evening werk, was equally satisfactory to all concerned. The were the ‘Eton Boy,” a repeat of encore, with the ‘ame cast ar op he fist night, and “Sox and Cox.” I save you the cart of the “Exon Boy,” “Box and Cox" is rarely better done on the stage than it was by be amateurs at Florence Box foand a capital representative ip Mr. O——o toe geatloman who piaved Dabrter eo well in the ‘Eton Boy '’ Cox was entrusted to De. Ker, of the occasion, and be ip the most comic style §=Mrs. Bouncer was H—4,a lovely: girl, better caloulated for a young and beat captoring heroine than th» hard hearted Keeper of & lodging howre. Trhonid add, defore leaving Florence, that there arcseve- ral pretty cottages bere, occupied and owned by goatle- men of New York aud other cites Among the more con- moerable are the villas of Wm. D. Lewts, Eq, tate Col. lector of Philadel -bia, and Ieaac Lloyd, Raq , an acive bu miners man of your city Since writing the above | learn there is to be another theatrical exhibition at the Arighta on Saturday evening pext, wben “A Pretty Piece of Basiases’’ wilt be done, in connection #1 b ® repetiion of “Box and Cox."’ Uur Chittenango Vo: respoodence, CHITTESANGO SPRINGS, Manion Covery, NV. €., Avgust 19, 1867. } Ronte to the Springs—Cas novia Lake—The Chittenango Pals Paper and Woollen Mamufactories—A Taste for Oe Matrrial— Absence of Snobbery—The Sulphur Watert —Kacestier Haina—Injury to the Orops, ho , de | lett the modern Babel on Friday evening last, when the mercury \adwosted 04 in the shade, and took the steamer New World which plies between New York city and Al pany, apd from thence on the New York Central, 130 miles, to Chittenango siation, where [arrived at 11 A.M. Hore (found & foor bore omnibus waiting to tako the passon- gore to the Chittenango solpbar epriegs, which are four ‘miler from the rail ond etation, The road is One—part lof y mountains op cither side, with a besutifa tie stream of water rippling and dancing rily over tne penbiy bottom This iitie sapplied from the Caz-now a lake, one of the most Hob te perpencicular fa! the Chittenang al Over be | uge rooks, and falle in the deep p20! be low Conriderabie manufacturing ie done on shis little freem = Paper aot #00 leo mils are in abandance; and | epderstany they tarm out some sxcellen paper aod ine At he springs there iss fine hotel There are about one Dondres guests now st pp'ng at ine springs Tae pro irietor, Mr Lewis, @ ree.no pains sor expense to msko com‘ortanl= And ruca delich us eatabien and drickabler, 1 will pet make 5 fes., that come piping hot mignt Sach vrotled and—what’s the ure of talking? Your Newports Sarsioene an) Cape Maye are nowners §Snoxbery and codfish arietonrany sever iotrode their disagrosablo and ugly faces bere Ih i no pianos for them waters are mirong!y Im) with waishar and maaveria, and are bigbly beoedcial for almont all the tlle that Sesh ie betr to. ‘ho often and drink freely of there health giving waters every day, andthe rudiy glow of health will y mania the onsexs of him or her who hot yesterday, ae It © ere, looked pale and emaciated Tc has rained bere tooessaat'y forthe lest fon" days, and ween Wher ane we dolce rf damage t the crooe The low bor m lands arr verfeotls imancalsd with water, +) much #0 that stacks of Day aot grein wore fuating to every cirection There ty no ¥ log the amount of dam ge (has #11! be done to the Crops If thie thing continues « few aye longer meats Our O'd Pow t Correspondence. (hp Pout Sompowr Va, Ang. 1, 1887, Ooriemplated Vert of Members of the Oabina to this De Lightful Summer Resort Indigmation at the Avempted Bx duet of the Herald's Reporter fromthe Knoweille Oonven fom Circulars to HPrive te Know Nothing Organies tum for (800. Gower mor Wise Memtioned as the Democratic Cand aieVadwaiiaher, of Pormeyloania, te Know Nning Uandidate—Goverwn Fay-tie Mc thulien « Candi date for Congas in 1850— Fesiers at this Place Pry Memror- Col Manm and We Steamship Bnicrprise— Pres byterran Seormum Convention, de, be Having waeeviained tbat Gove oor Floyd, the present Seoretery of War, with orher members of the Cabinet, onemplated @ visit to this delighifal watering place, in be course of the present wook, | made s flying toar bicher wih @ view t fereish you an sosount of , might occur ine their way. | felt aewured that the game would be richly worth the trouble, for my know, cage of the bappy sootel qualities #0 characterintio of the (atingol hed Beeretary of War, led me to conclude that be oerasion wonld afford ample material for an interest. ng chapter There ae probably few men in the Union +o jovial aod bappy tp thetr social intercourse, He ie the ory live and soul ef any society in which he moves. He bar an inexhaustible tock of the richest and most amusing snecdotes, which he tells ins style of comic perfection K HERALD MONDAY AUGUST 24, 1897. | wat tents to render apy su jeot interesting. When fo ® p oper vem of Dumor his countenance aw@ymes ‘ap cxpreesion of wit no obacactertstic as actually to fore ehados what 's comiog, and prepare bis hearers for so ne thing ricb Should hie contemplaed visit to this place wb the ohe here of the Cabtact s2oken of, be car ried out I bay dow bt woalt be well renait for the trip to vie P int There seeme to be a doubt now as to wheiber ‘hey will come within the preseat week, bat taey ere looked for *itb some certainty in the course of tae ensuing week ‘Tre ‘poignation felt at the course of the few fire eaters tp the Knoxvi le + opvention. to exclade the Hmraco's re porter from that bod» ine moet untyersa!, sofar ut ivast, as Able section of Virginia is concerned. Every peraon waom Thare beard eve wD t.6 snoject denounces the at lemp ae ant rep biican Ip ihe last degree. Its effect tt to render ultrainm aiill more disgusting aud to bring slum ep the rotors ip that miserable farce. I koow well how it originate? and what was tt object, and avall ata fure Ume for*ard you an interesting résume of the whole movement, Thanks to the moderation and prucenc: of tbe three conservative men io taat o>- vention, the effort proved @ ridiculous, a>orton es will every effort of that rampant clique ta the fature It's@ fect worthy of moilos tha: the great majort ty Of thore fe eaters who profess to be actuated to thelr run wad policy by erincere seal fur the welfare of ibe south, ave Ro materia! Interest in the very institutions waicr tney sfc: ro 2 mlously to uphold. Many of thom are not holders 0 rla-e property, while those who are constitute «be moet m abi Comservative among Syutrern poit tieapa (ner cectied mitake 2 toe pablis miad as © We ertect of tre Ipfluene exerct-ed by tne fire eaters of re Berth bey are ia @ plifoi miaority—a ne e faction in fact, a8 Compares with the vart conservative mrrree who go for the Union The lator Deing mou of buripese whe have something elke besides politios to at tend to, are perectl, ailent upon those questions which agate the political world, but when the time comes io yroponnce open them, they will be fund true to unwo and be copstintion e present agiiation which is ¥ ging tn the south ts nocriterion ofthe true Southern «en- tment It t* covfined solely to the fre cater and dis uplopiete, Wbo, hue all other evtis, are concentraed th is In the lergor Sou'hen cities, and + mpased chiefly of frrespormble persons, #0 far at cast us any material interes’ ip slavery is concerned § They sho# of lo the bert advantage possible, every individual member of the clique, or at leant, four f the of them, being eitrer writers or *:eakers, who let no opporianity pase to give to the sori ther sentiments and opiuions. Tacy are a’) reprereptati e* of the public will, as it were, and If esti mated ‘pa proportinnal degree ith the comparative fow #bo aeume tor precept the courervative masses, they would be locked upon ia @ very important and exaggurstet light The fact is, they re,resen themselves, and nono O:bers—the clique tr, to abort, composed altogether of rep rerentativer wiihout’ @ tall six inches loog—all otonrs ne no Koldiers, Fam resily of ovicton thar the ARKALD attaches too much importance to them, and that their vers exietence at thir day is cue in @ great measure to toe noiloes of thelr movements * hic sony of tne testing conservative journals and politicians of the country bare ceigned to ofier Ic appears that the Know Nothings are actively engaged in ap effor: to reorganize that defunct party for thy Preni centia! election of 186. Circulars are being sect vy thourands from thetr headquariers at Phiiatelppts, to Keow Nothing Mayore and other functionaries brouga: ut the country, Urging @ reorganization of the pavsy ia tnetr reepective ciles towns aa1 bailiwices, for the above p ried, tet forth withovt qualiaoa:iop, or save or except, that Cad~aliader, of Pennvylvania, ts to be he Kno* Noth g candidate, and Governor Wise the demo cratic Union candidate. Itt), deabtiess, in view of tho Governor’s pom‘pa'ion, which the party in their clrou ar presume to be certal they bave thus early under- taken to tim ‘amor the figh!. He nas hada trial atarms with the Governor already, and the resolt has admonsihet his friend of ‘be oecemity of mbjecting him to a longer course of treining. So far asIha ¢ ascertained, these circulars are totally disregarded, all hopes of reviving that party being lot Governer Fayette McMallen har arnoanced in a receat speech at ove of ihe Jveurt Hou-es in his district that be wile ron for Jongress in 1859 He I+, no doubt, en coursged by the bright prospects of success wbich are presented tp the very small majority by which Judge Hop kine, the present delegate from that district, was etacted Sbovld be carry out 1nis determination, be will, of course, have to resign his office of Governor of Washington Terri- “Bere are still large numbers of visiters at this beautiful watering place Among them I observe Mr. A. Dudley Mann, J B D De Bow, late Presiaent of the Knoxville Copvention, and numerous others from Baltimore, Wash trgton and Richmono For those seeking heaith, this aud Bext month are by far the most favorable of auy ip the b being head are to be foand now in the greatest a9 ndance at this place, end as the saren advances they vecome wore and more riot.e, and eo with os sters T paly arhort viet to Fort Monroe yestercay,ani was moch interested at seeing the men ens aged in fold ant siege exercise Large accessions of new recruits are Diing made ia order to fill up the deficits in some of the companies. I observed them undergoing the asaal rudimental crili, ip which, #0 far as T coul! ascertain, thoy were making admirable . The parade ground is magn’ficent, and exhibite signs of the strictest care and at ‘tention on the part of those whoare charged with its super. ‘vision. There is, I am informed, one serious drawback in ‘connection with this gar-ison, which, however, is fast being emedied—it is the small eupply of water afforded. The present sources would be iasufficient to supply water garrivon the fort, in the event: ig pow being pene de; th of about three hun have been appropriated by the work, which when com; re: viremeot of the garrivon in the mailer of water supply. Mapp is sti! conddent bas any bibitions o’ the Knoxville ing, Dat 8 poototype of tw thi a0 tle seccompliebing — body would be to conrign it onbesttatingly to 1 , It ts prover vially a do nothing convention, aod hes been 09 rendered by litle cli quer, which, for mouths before its teteion, seek toc mnatitute it with refereuce to some private tcheme of their own, o* make it the agent for the over. {brow of some rival enterprise. I imagine that Col. Maan bas learned of (bese conventions to cause bim to trust t private enterprise and apy agente of 'bie uncertain character. A non af the new school Presbyterians of the South wil! asremble a: Richmond on the 270 inst, to form themselves into ® seperate Southern organization. Tt ta, im fact, @ so reerion convention, ite design being © cut tell loose from the no thorn wing of that ohnroh, and organ'ze \velf apou ‘be same principle as the ‘* Metho- diet Episcopal Ohureh south.’ This wil) be ® very impor. tan. movement, and ove to which the country will look copaide able interest, xertion la preference to jon will assemble at the samo ies”’ of Baltimore made a tour from that few ag0, and after breaking a lot of windo © pinen, tbrew ‘hoot the captain of the steamer for doing bie duty, and other little offences of & trivial character, returned again to that city. Baluimore bas, ip truth, s rascally notoriety Sr e in beginning to ox perienoe ite practical effecta in tho diversion of ber trade, which is faat setting 'p in favor of New York and Pile: delobia This s but jwt, since she cannot afford proper pretection to those visiting her for basiness pur Mr Falls, Pr sicent of the Bay Line of steamers, plying detwern Baltimore and Norfoil Int of et book, containing & money, travelling on board one of the beats of that line to Nor Two Neonons Saerancep To Ba HONG, AND FocK To Tkansruxtarion —About 6 o'clock Wedoos tay aftar- 20D, the trial of the ax negro men—Boa, Tom, George, joore, F mund and Robert—elaves of Mr. William Boal jaro, charge? with aseaulting with intent to kill their overseer Mr Joon H Dodd, om the 27th of July inet, was brought to a close before the County Court of Henrico, afer occupy ing Fix day the orisoners were foind guilty, Toe Dispatch states that gy Judge Wm W. Cramp and Marmaduke Jobeeoa, Joan & Caskio, ana eloquent address cones by Judge Cromp, telling appeals, in which applied the iaw to it morning Aon, Jotn 8 ip an eoquent aidrons , ane werlng cour rel on the Oher side, and phoable to the case. About six o'6 mitted to the ort for dectaton. were then sentenced to be hung on next, and George, Rovert, Moore and their youth, » Wmite of the United states were ordered W #tand up and reorive thelr sentence they both nid they bad not inteneded to kill Mr Doda, and bed not tried to dona The reorived the sentence with stolo indtif- ference er of them exhibiting the slightest emotion at learning that they were to be bang The court then fixed the valne of the condemned rinvos, aa follows: —Bon, $1,260; Tom, $860; George, $1,200; Moore, $1,280; EL mond, $1,2°0 and Robert $1,200 —Hichmond Lnguirer, August 2. Tat Oowst Arrnoaonixg—The comet sen at Berlin on (he 224 Jone, by Klinkerfoe, and recegoiz x’ at Parle on the Zin of the samo mont 4 wiih rofficient minuteners to trace ite orbit. From t vervations of Viliaroeau and Lepiaelor, at th obverwatory , It ie ascertained to he far from its perihelion nd (hat ft wll noreage In brillansy a tt approaches, antil it oad De seen by the paked eye It will, indeed, approach ibe ron, at the same dis anceas the earth. It isalso ascer tained by tw movem |, the poeition of it. perihellv aad {nclination to ite orbit, ‘bat lt ts not the conot of Charles ¥., which, it was celoolaed woul! reture at some tavet nite before 15/0, and wh eb was recently annoaneed for the 18 of Jane, to annihilate the earth. In regard wo the query,” “ia this errant body an old sequaintance, returning in accordance wits ostah- \tehed lawe which may be observed and calculated; or is ita now comer, vieiting us for the frat time!” Tt te impo. rile, at present, to anewrr there questions: astronomers most bave time to caloniate fie orbit more closely and to compare i movements with those of similar visitors 09 se: ved heretofore To pointe, however, are sotuled. It te not the comet of Charlee V., aod it can do ae no harm, in consequence of the remoteness of ite orbit from the earth's, Atany rate, tt will be eemeieatly Comceraie to be seen and enjoyed by all, and not cont! we the arm. tworncy of science. Our Albany Correspondence Auany, Augast 22, 1857. Grants of Land Uvder Water—A Libel Suit at the Capitad —More «f the Corrugh Leyisiation of Last Winter—The Railroad Interests versus the Tax Payers. The repent letter of ) ovr correspondent, reepecting tho spphcations for grante of land under water, has been pro dvcive of good, The Commissioners of the Land Oifice bave beld o meeting,{despie be absence of the State Ea- gineer; the Lieutenant Governor bimsclf, who ts ex aficio Pro ident of the Beard, having visited Albany for the ox prean purpose of defeating the wchemes shadowed forth in your columns, and doing justicg to the applicants Tho quorum of the Board consisted of the Lieutenant Gover nor, be Comptroller, Treasurer end Attorney Gonoral. Some dozen epplications were granted during the long eeesious {the Com aissioners, among the most important Of which were the followtog:— To Robert Journeay and others, for land at Westfold, Richmone county. Name, for land at Northfield, Richmond To Davio Van 00: Bty To Ebert B. Bogari, for land at Hempstead Harbor, Quoras comnty. ‘To Joseph Hicks, at eame piace. To Peter © Lafever, for land on the west side of Ron dout creck, Kingeton, Ulster county. Other sppiication re returned for the correction of papers, and afew were laid over Nearly all the business belore tbe Board was disposed of At @ proof that some suod decisive action was needed | nthe matter of these grants, [ may cle the instance of | one application which was wctea upon some two months siuce Ail be applications now passed upon bave been in he hands of the State Kougineor six or eight months On the 26th of Jome Inet that cilicer reported fevoravly tw tne | Compiiasioners the app ication of William Bear! and Valea- tire T Hail for forty two acres of land immediately adya- contte New York Harbor beigrant wax made by the O»m- mesioners, on tue recommen iatinn of the State Kaginesr, AL war double # avery proper one Bat the Ors: notice of was pobliehe’ on Apri! 22,and tno rx week? required by law bad only just expired when the sp plicaion wes reported, while scores of spplicante been waltne twelve months for their grants. The Bu and Hall grant, 1] may @ d, was worth to the grantees ono hi ndred thourand do lars We are promised @ jaw anit at the capitel, to amuse an du tog the ullterm The Kuning Journal having cnarge? tome «hat specificsily that $40,000 had been usec by the ownerr © the Averiil ore bed at Clinton prison to secu: ite porobase by the State, aud that the Attorney Gener had been bribed in the nawer, that officor has ied ‘oprictor of the Journal, inying bis aamages, I bell BI eee $50,006, It, of course, a notorieus fact that the Legtslaturo of Inst winter was coptroiled by the rame unser apulous lobby © been eo busy about the Say Pd to Whom al! persone de veiled to pay smbate, Tho pam der of timer has been nofore the Logis have Heev co: the Central Ratircad Company lature bar made wil the lea¢ers of this gang holders of Cental atcck, and hay interestet thom in ail meanres tending to ihe vavapinge of the Company Of courte Ii ae ap cary > utter to crowd through tue Nentral Railroad bile Ia t winter, with a Ls gialnture so catirely ta the power of he lobby. One of the moet tofamons tricks cf tho see tion war the endeavor to parr, ender ® bitte aad falas Uile, the bili to ausborize the lesrening of the draw tp Albeny bridge Bot this wasa trifle compared with one sbich hae not yet rocetved we groat a snare of 10D us tt richly deserves. It will be foand au- Ger chapter 636 of the session laws of 1867, ant I send you a copy, in order that you may place tt before the pabilc throngb your wicely etrevla 64 journal {f oa nee fit, Thir ew giver to railroad corcorstions ine aothority te fx their own valaation on thetr property, real and por senal, in ail the oonntles of the State. Thay are requires to make a rtatement, pot wader eath, of the valuo, first, of their land as though tt were private individual property. | Improvements in the shane of embankments, dridges, ex cava jour, &¢ , ecape asserement allogether, Secoadly, of iheir ruperstructare, whisb te consurued to mean ties, chairs, pikes, frogs and ewitchos. Thirdly, of their builoizgs, wih cepreciad n. ‘The va vation put upou these by the cor oration is to be taken by the aseeesor es the basis of asiorsmont. There in, to be sure, a provision that the asseasir may, if die Usted, avail himself of otber additional tnformation an- der oath,’ but it ts only & blind, aud amounts to nothing atall The asscesor bas no power to subpmoa or compel the attendance of witnesees, and cven If so unlikely a thiag sbould happen as that the corporation should fall to “ satie fy.” bim, be can only oblain volunteer testimony to inva- idate the valvation of be company The jar coating spread over this pill in order to Induce the coupt'y members to swallow it, is contained io the Orst secion, which provides that the taxes accruing from personal property of the road sbali be to the collectors of the eeveral towns or which the road sha’! pass, in proportion to the length of tbe track im euch town or ward Bat this is oply whenever the “financial concition’’ of the road shal! subject it to assessment on personal estate, and ega.nst this contingency the corporation wi!! carefully guard Now for the practical op ration of this law. The returns of valuation by the Centra) Ratiroad corporation in Living- ston and Monroe counties are put at one third the amount at which the returns were made by the assessors fast year. In Herkimer county, the bp ap Ake ge 4 whet i the assessors last year. valuation will be cut down a} least two-thirds from last year’s va- tuadon. With the taxes upon rown Out of assessment the people will be bardened. It will react nearly baif « million of dollars on State, county, villace and city taxation. The amount thus saved by the corporation will enadie the company W reduce the tolls «a the freight conveyed over the road §=They will not make any reduction on pas- fare, of course. This reduction of freight +1ll not benefit the mass of the peo) le of the State, who have to Yay the tance evaded by ihe road: but is will holp on the jownward carcer of that unfortunate work s motimes known as “ Clinton’s Ditch,” and the upward career of fotnre taxation Of such a character was all the legislation of last year under the control of the Albany biack republican jobbers: ‘egislation prostituted to individual jutereate ai the expense of the great mass of the people of the tate, Our Kansas Correspondence, Oana, Biumy Oo., K. T., Ang. 9, 1887, False Maps—Ogden—Manhatian— Fort Riley—Kaneas rt- ver— Paumer— Dolitics—Indians— Oat | Armcad—Go werner Walker— Kansas Abolitionis's, £2. Whoever will take the trouble to consult the maps here- tofore published of the territory of Kansas, will Gnd Bumorovr ineccuracies, although several of them purport to be “ compiled from the fcld notes in the Surveyor General's office.” Among thos which have come undor my observation, none are moro glaring than one found in the lateet map publiated by Jokn Halsa’l, of St Lous On this map it may be #eon thai the town of Manbatian, in Riley county, 1s representes as being obly about six milon fom Fort Riley, when in fact it {* about eightoon, Where the town of Manbatian is represented as sanding is the feat of the thriving town of Ogden. This town is si'vated on the north bank of the Kansas river, four and # halt miles east of Fort Riley, and thirteen and a baif miles west of Manhatian Althoogh leas thao one old, it i# one of the mort thriving ininad towns w the Territory. It is surrounded by one of the Dest agrigul- tore! regions in Kapras. It bas been deermined by competent engincers to be the best point for s Kansas Vailey raliroad to leave the valley anc intersect withthe Republican Valley road, and ubur or Ege Leg td Paar to the Pacis. ‘The ¢flloe of the Western land divtrict # located here, under \be manegement of Frederick Emory, register, and James P. Downer, reoriver Kawat river wil compare in size with the Merrimac, And is navigable st certain reasons -as (ar aa Fort s\ley for small rtesmere atx or eight trips can be made annually Two rtone houses alone remsin mark the pot (Paw- itive Assombly convened wm 1856 Iaid out on t36 military reserve, Riley, the Secretary of War ro foved the applicadion to build @ town there, cons quontiy WN wae abandoned. Riky county hes in fect but two political parties, the Oemecratis end republican. The pro slavery people set up RO Claims ata party Two froo Stee demoorata aad two > ele democra'a were elected to ihe Consi\ational ‘ony ention which meets at the Capital on /be frei Monday tp Aepeomber pext mesenger arrived at Fort Riley and mired Indians bad arrived within nine or ten miles of the fort, and had siready Several women and children, aod ae their aerembied at the fort from the adjacent towns. who had not suitable frearms were supplied with govern ment muskets All soon started lo pursait. Five miler from the fort Major Armisted and his company wore mot — ho baying become sasstied that the rumor was Ik @ ems that tho Pottowattomisa and Cheyennes had had & battle, io which reveral were kilied on both sides, Out Of this Originated the false report. Governor Walker no sooner received tho nows than tarted with « |r force for the fort. He rote night and day ont) it Asnoon as he became satisfied that the report was inoorrect be urdered the troops to re. torn. the facta in the case. No whites have been kt 9 Indians in this vicinity for a long time. May’ rmistead feared that he bad acted too hastily in the matter, and would therefore be ornsured by the Go. vornor, Bot this wan not the cio, and hiv Execolioner spoke the views of every citizen in this rerion, when he aid thal the Major, with the {nformation he bad reco! ved, could do no Mess than be had dove While here the Governor wer invited to address the citizens of Riley sou Ho consented, and poke about one hour at Manhatian. During bis #peech be wae [re- quently interranted by ® packed crowd of rod-mouthed Marsachusette aboltionitte Two of thetr ermber attempt: ed a roply to bi Excellency. Gow Walker waited pa tiently 11] the close of thelr harangaes, when ho gave them a drabbing which will not soon be fergotten in the neighborhood of Man atten. MoneMert to Anno Lawrence =A fine marble mona Meut twenty rix foot In height, is now nearly oomploved, Abd will soon be placed over the romaine of Abbott La rence, at Mount Auburn fhe monumert consiste of ® a Dorie shaft, by pe aay yy An antique urn with drapery, og It will be one of tho finest momorials in Mount 0 Our Troy Correspoudsnee. ‘Bao, August 21, 1967 Aw Important Legal Decision of Judge Wright against the Trey and Bosom Ratiroad ompany—Rashoay Tracks ie Cities are not a Pubic Nuisance Wilitaw B Wright, of the Third Judicial district har jas rendered an important railroud decteton to a suit brought by James Browa agstust tao Troy and Boston Railroad Company. Ii fevore the legal pro,rioty of laying railroad tracke through public st eete in cities, and heads La fever of be defeodents ‘The coure was tried at the Resnselaer Special Torm, April 17, 1857. The facts are as foliows:—Ou tho 28d of Mey, 186, Brown, the platati(f, a taxpayer of this any, and the owner of rem eatare eituae ov Adame street (a publi street of the city) brovght an action against the de fendants, a ratiroad coryporalion organized under the Gene rai railroac acts of 1848 and i850, to restrain the defea- dant, from ‘“ eonstructing apy part or portion of any rail road track in Adame street. or im any part thereof, aud from in any wise, or to any extent, digging, cacumbering, Or piscing materials on sald street, Or any part thereof, for the purpose of comatructing, or alding to construct aay railroad or portion of railroad corth of Adams stycct, and between it apd Federal s'reet.”’ Tne defendants are 4 rei Toad corporation under the several acts referred to above to all intemis and purposes. According to the original articles for tho construction »f their road, it wes to be cobstruc'ed from @ convenient point im Troy. {Our correspondent thea pronesda to give a detailed ao. count of the privilges conceded 10 the company by the Legiviavure and the Common Council of Troy, sad coutt DEER Spon) these fscw, a8 presented to the Court, the Judge do {doe that to susiate the action It must e pear, Let, thas the actof tbe defendans, in layiig & rail-oad ‘track in A trect, is unwiimorized and illegal; and 24 that gal ed may be restrained at tae sult of the plala nthorized, it is not & public auieanos, nor woald the owner of property on the etrect, in such a care, bare @ right of actiou,for covreqnenttal damages if ualawfat, thea the act mast be @ auirance, uccasivaing a direst spe cial Injory to the piantitf, distinct from the pablis, rye parable in {ts nature, abd that cannot be compeurated (ar in damages, to eniitie the plaintiff to the aid of the Coart W reetraD sued oulsance whore vo 8 ecial iojury ts of ferea, ont the nuisance compisined of is purhe ia te oe ture, and the injury conrequential and comuon wail. A private action Cannot be maintataed to supp:ess the not sence Afier dircossing the piovosition, Did tho ae ferdan's proceed ip Oasiruction of tho track #itboat due matbortiy of law?’ aad arriving at tne concl ston that J did not, the Judge proceeds * asvert that m raixay Week in the siroet of xeity is oot per sem public nuisance, oF invasion of avy priv ste right verted in the owners from ing on such stroet The Logisature bss, in broad verms, Nborieed such aD appropriation of thes reat, with the arn nt of the city goverament, (which was in this instanoe obiaiued,) aud Cike a number of former decisions to sus tain bis point Gut at thougd doubting the propriety and real forea of there comeluedoe, the Judge bolatore up biccsie i ‘he dirous#ion of a second proposition, in waica ne If, however I .m mistaken tu #ome or all tne: ore tone, o remaining Inquiry ts, what ttle nas the platuut made to the re fet detiandod, viz -—@ pervotual eajoimag of the defepdan's trom exercising the pe-miwion granted by the Commou Connell of (ry? Tthink I aay ray uvhew tatingly, none sbaever Tt ts gverret tn the oom met that he lew texpaye: *nd ovaer of roal osteo in Adame ttreet, ths value of shi b sould be greatly depreciated by consiructiog @ ralirced in be street Nothing wes sheen a to th nature or #itustion of the plaintiff's pre perty, or that, »y laying the track {mn tre treet, any spo cial injury would reeuit to aim, or that he would suffer or Wasth eateped with any imsginary ur consequcntial bp Jury not commos to other pro erty boloers and tax payers end the p blic Nothing t* more certain that, under these circamelances, the plaint{T cannot tuvoke from s equity the exwarrdimary rewedy of im japetion, A railroad track io w sity 1) nes per se @ oad lio nuieance, and vntll the road be constructed and ope aied In Acams :tree, aa authorized by the corpo ration of the city, can it be seen whether this track ty « nulvazce. If it should prove to be a public aulsanco, and thero bas doen ap tli: gal exo oine of municipal power, or « violation of pudile trovt by the city of Troy, the nulsanoe may | dy hs by @ ctvil or c:imiva! proceeding, oF the abose of corporate power and breach of corporate trom be restrained and corr: ctod by equiiadle action prosecuted by the Sate. But @ private action cannot be maintained for the redress of a pubiie wrong For an individual at hie ewn suit to be enutled to the relief of a court of eqaity, it must be shown tnat be is suf. fering, or ie threatened wish @ direct special injury grow. ing out Of the act of tbe party against whom be comp'ains If te complaint be that a railway track is betng laid in public strect, it mast appear that ite constructina will bes BUisance OF epecially iujurious to the com piainapt Oiber- wise ho makes no title to be relieved in aa action begua and prosecuted im bis individual character. if anything was determined by the Court of Appeals, in Darts ¢ al v9. the Mayor Ce.) ae this In ‘als Case there fe ® tial absence proof iendng to show that the plainu® will supain any special ‘The vital points contained tp thir decision, then, are, 1. Thai the Troy and Boston Railroad Company are pat Proceeding #ithout due enthority of law, because « reli road company per s is Lote nuisance 2. That a mere tax payer on a line of street has oe right, @ on if be owns toe entire street, to restrain a rail. road company, be shows thai he suflers some ape cial injary The decision will be appealed from If ever there decision rendered that abould om’ natton W) #oMe purpose, this is pre Abia section bold (iat there ts caw epough on which to build railroads withoat running nem through our pariors, aud sending the “irop seed” to vio late our domestic fanes, and enortingly ravish our very Lousebold and goddesscs and goda The Press and the Knotville Couventioa. ‘TO THE BDITOR OF tHe HERALD. Eaermas Vincrwia, August 20, 1887 Of wll the scctionaiieme that have sprung from the pre ent condition of Amerioan politics, that, surely, is tho pet Hest and mcei miserable which was exhibited at the late Kooxvilie Convedtion, of attempting to exclute Nurthers editorsfrom tho,privilege of repcrdng ite proceedings;and 1 think I may safely assure you that the spirit that prowpied this moet {li!beral and narrow-minded proposal finds ttle Tesponse tn the bosoms of Southern men, A fow fire eas. ors, Impationt of obscurity, and lowking to a dissolution of the Uniow as the only bove of sling teto ‘notoriety, and who, by the way, are just as mut fanatics ar G-ooley, Giddingt, Garrison, or Mime Aoby Kelly. or Mra. Harriet Beecher Stowe——4 fow secession, Unioa bating, Union-e pitt ling fro-enters, I nay, may think {t a very clever thing te mozzle ® portion of the American prees, bot with the great masses of the Southern people, certainly of Virgina, the rentiment undountedly Ia, bat freedom of speech aad freedom to write down and publiah to the world the procead ings of pablic bodies, are prerogatives guaraatied by the American constitution to every American ctiizen, end rights too sacrsd and dear Wu he tampered witn by aay or eet of men, on epy pretext whatsoever Lam entirely aati ty ‘that ao overwhelming majority plo ook with unequivocal pon the late a tompt to exclude your reporter from the floor of the Knoxville Convention. For one, 1 feel ha- miliated, both as an American and anon of the goverous South, that so ant: Americas, anti national and esries Syrepeats shoold ever have beeo ventared in as body bearded 2~ericam men. be asbamed to make thetr actions pabiicl Bovices, if their proceedings were to be of any sort af not bave deen « ven thankful for hav- ‘all Over the lead by ali who might choose to give them poblieit ? Th was altogether a rdicuiows thing, members of tho convention should ve to the New Yore Hesston for baving enterprise the Kroxvtile Cooveatioa would in a week's time from ite ad the land bat the Hixaip would ipow ii A ie iil ! i & Ele tpt and. tout of ibe epirit and of the ings, 1 never wou'd bare known anything, columns of the New Youn [ematy i it Fi e af ii by 4 \wolve columps cf space, ern peper, that I know of has de -oted column and a balf to the pad! Mee ol nare acy gece fe ir splendid paper eal per, 7 ae eet ha mantiy Into the imps of every Mason and Dixon's lire to the remotest L- hy na Now, if Souther journals will not andertake (0 Pu . . Jn ga of Interesting occasions io 1 8 yin dod a bane lot 1i be come by ty Poents ight \teolf wante lig’ the Svuth, why, let It shine In what I have writen, I 3 3 : be Harare OF that ( say nothing, Dove se anor apropos tthe, coonston, “Tata & Soa 1 desire to enter my protest against t to an American aliam that vonld forbid repr otioation of the Me with the fullest co.fdenoo— thes the rit (hat dictated it are unworthy of repo diated by the aouihero magenp, A VIR INIAN ane, oprnion——whiob | do peovement aad tbe & the Bouth, and utterly Am Attracts OF tt Coast BtcRvEY DRownEy =A di from Bath, Me, dated August 21, eayt:—Mr. Ham) of the Coast Survey, waa drowned while going down river yesterday afternoon to join his vewmol, iying st the fnouth of tha river. The boat capsized at the upper hert- gato, The tide was running atthe time, A young man with him ip the boat swam Seer eee e_EOE