The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1865, Page 3

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. ‘Tuurspar, July 6-6 P.M ‘The stock market was firm and more active than of ” Ante at the first board this morning. New York Central closed % higher than at the second board yesterday; Erie 134, Hudson River 1%, Michigan Southern 1, Ik- nots Central 3, Cleveland and Pittsburg 44, Rock Island @, Ohio and Mississippi certificates 3, Quicksilver 134. Northwestern was unchanged. Government securities fully maintained yesterday's improvement, The chief activity was in coupon sixes of 1881, which closed at 1065. Coupon five-twenties sold at 105, At the open board, at one o'clock, there was ‘fg fractional advance throughout the list. At tho second regular board the market was steady, Quicksilver Deing the only stock which showed a marked rise— pamely, 8% above the Grst board quotation. New York Central was % higher, Hudson River 34, Reading %, Cleveland and Pittsburg %, Northwestern %{, Fort Wayne %, Ohio and Mississippi certificates 4. Erie, Michigan Southern, Illinois Central and {Cumberland were unchanged. Government securities’ w quiet ‘and coupon five-twenties of the new eo de- clined %. At the open board, at half-past three, the market was firm. New York Central closed at 96%, Eric 83%, Hudson River (s.3) 100%, Reading 9934, Michi- gan Southern 64%, Cleveland and Pittsburg 10%, Rock Island 10454, Northwestern (b.3) 2734, Cumberland 42, Quicksilver 594. A current of speculation for a rise has set in, and the immediate tendency of prices is upward; but asthe num- ber of outside buyers is small, the market lacks perma- nent strength, and the rise is Hable to be checked at any time. Meanwhile the abundance of money isin favor of the bulls, who are enabled to carry their stocks on easy terms. Call loans are reported at 4.a 5 per cent. Good commercial paper rates at 63g a9 per cent. It is Tumored that the outstanding compound interest notes will be'receivable, after allowing for accrued interest, at some time before their maturity in subscriptions to tho seven-thirty loan, in which case other notes will be paid ‘out in substitution, according to the authorizing acts. The subecriptions to the geven-thirty loan are increas- ing, owing to the surplus of funds secking investment and the short time it has to run, when it is redeemable in currency or fundable into six per cent gold bonds, at the option of the holders, The gold market has been dull and the supply of cash gold more abundant, in proportion to the demand. The borrowing rate, therefore, declined to % @ 1-32 per day. The influences which have surrounded the market during the last fortnight are depressing, and it has shown great strength in resisting them. There is a large ‘‘short’’ interest outstanding, Dut the bear@have not begun to cover, their expectation Deing that the disbursements of the Sub-Treasury on ac- count of the July coupons will make an easier market for them. Tho effect of the latter is, how- ever, liable to be overrated. In the firat place, the amount payable in New York is loss than seven milHons of the total, $9,753,907, which, in view of the scarcity of gold, both on the market and in the entire country, is too small asum to work of it- gelf any important change in the premium. In the next place, as the gold paid out of the Treasury docs not add to the stock in the country, it is a mere transfer from the agent of the people—namely, the government—to the people themselves, and its effect isonly temporary. Again, ‘there will be no other payment of coin interest till September, and then $4,319,252 will be due upon the ten- forty bonds. The payment following that will be upon the five-twonty loan, in November, amounting to $18,167,085. This will be tho next and only important ooin disbursement this year. The opening price of gold was 130%, from which it declined to 13834. It then reacted to 1303, at twenty- five minutes past three P. M., and soon after five stood at 130%. Foreign exchange is firmer, and bankers are asking higher rates, but the volume of transactions is light. Bankers’ storing at sixty days is quoted at 109 a 3 and 110 a 3 at short sight. The commerci&l convention which is appointed to meot at Detroit on the 10th inst. promises to be attended by the representatives of all the Chambers of Commerce n the United States and the neighboring provinces, jand 1% f difficalt to estimate the ; amount \of good which may result to our commerce through the interchange of opinions on such an occasion. The question of the Reciprocity treaty is especially important oor owing to the vote of the late Congress giving of its repeal. That some treaty calculated to on- rage trade between this country and Canada should ist admits of no douvt ir the minds of mercantile on both sides of thi border, and the subject doubtless receive prominent attention at * thiy trade congress. Now tha the war is over, our ship- Pity intorests will gradually thprove, and considerable @Qustitios of Canadian produca which might, in the ab- song of a treaty, be exporld to Europe in British bottdns direct, will be likely, 4 heretofore, under the operaion of a treaty, to be tranported via ports of the United States. In this connetion tho report of the Censud Bureau, showing the vue of tho agricultural produc shipped to and receiv: Seliowity years, is of value, Value to 1,880,00 49,084,087 This is exclusive d the lands be- longing to the rn terMtories and these belonging to the Hudson's Company. The population of the countries rep: according to the layt census, the annual rate of i and the ostimate of population December 31, are shown in the annexed table:— In. rate Population Poputation, Increave, Dec.31,"63. 124,288 1.50 137,800 330,867 «1.82 840,300 262,087 «200 = 972/71 80, 207 85, he 2,507,657 8.48 2,783,079 Total... 295,706 8,628,151 The population is culated to the end of 1963 or be- @inning of 1864, in oler to arrive at a correct estimate Of the debts, revenue, \o., of the several provinces—all which are shown in th€ollowing tables:— 13,350,892 72,105,683. provinces, with the dutioa xports for the year 1863, —~ Value of Duties, rte, 453,400 6,092,219 861,090 8,420,908 TOT!3b4 (8,064,784 45,372 1,627,040 6,100,178 61,831,532 Total $70,001,400 vazhees | Gabatoue Meee ee ee eee $70,001,460 7,427,528 06,847,090 New Brunswick also coilects = duty © the export of umber, which in the yeat named amounted to $68,624, ‘The relation of the several retares to population per head 1s oxhibked in the annexed tabie;-- owes week ending Jefly 3, and since the beginning of the year, compare as follows:— Previously reporied.01,762,576 81,623,286 Since Jan. 1.....$05,177,505 08,747,042 60,603,722 ‘The imports at this port compare as follows:— on goods. eg gancid 1,306,000 neeeeees » $790, 5 Gensel meavchandise Piisiona 9,600,678 9,422,082 Total for week...$2,604,008 4,811,008 3,818,001 Previouly. Baan OR fost ion 124,000,943 brary Since Jan. 1.....$00,107,715 129,311,085 79,642,220 The Giobe Insurance Company and the Tradesmen’s Insurance Company have each declared s semi-annual dividend of five per cent, free of tax. The semi-annual dividends of the com) inend about Boston disbursed on the Ist inst. amount in the aggregate to $6,065,452 Of this sum $131,528 are from insurance, mining, steamboat, hoteland other cempa- nies; $2,806,871 from interest on bofftis; $1,406,100 from manufacturing company dividends, and $1,660.963 from railroad dividends, At the semi-annual period in Jenua- ry last the aggregate amount paid out was $7,045,005. A year ago the amount paid was $6,637,442, and the Janua- Fy preceding only $6,127,303. ‘The following table shows the amounts of specie and Jogal tenders held by the banks of this oity and Philadel- phia on the first of each month since March :— 1,201,862 19,415,065 ‘The earnings of the Chicago and Northwestern Rail- road Company for the fourth week in June wore:— . 908 -*ic0;008 Increase..... peeneeeeeeeeeeene bossnasaceys $09,513 Woe find the following announcement relating to the New Brunswick and Maine and European and North American Railway Companies in the St. John’s (N. B.) Journal: The New Brunswick Company will take $200, stook, paying the same down in cash as req’ 5 Maine is will find the balance of capital beyond © government gift of $10,000 a mile, re- oo pad this sum, and quired to complete the New Brunswick portion of the Toad to the American frontier, that company having already secured the funds required for its own end of the line, conditionally ‘on the entire line being arried through. ‘The Maine Company will build the road of a character satisfactory to the New Brunswick government and company, and when it is completed they will accept alease, which the New Brunswick company agreos to grant, of the road, the rent to be sufficient to cover the inter-at of the stock, minus the government gift of $10,000 a mile, Thus'the government subsidy and tho Now Brunswick subscription list will enable the Maine company to obtain the capital for their line, while thoy in turn will reciprocate New Brunswick’s co-operation and with characteristic energy make the work a fixed fact. ‘The above line of railway will extend from St. Johns, N. B., to Bangor, Me. ‘The Great Wostern Railway of Canada reports the fol- lowing earnings for the woek ending June 30:. Receipts corresponding week in 1864. Increase...... eee AH tee Ae Be ‘The following roport of the coal traffic on the Delaware and Hudson Canal shows a large falling off in she busl- ness this season as compared with last :— ‘Tons of coal conveyed this season. Same time in 1864 ‘The cash balance in the hands of the Assistant Treas- uror in Boston, at the close of business July 1, was $5,327,268 52, an increase of $510,733 16 as comparod with the close of the precoding week. ‘The total valuo of the exports from the port of Port- land, Me., last weck, was $37,412. The following comparative statement shows the aver- age condition of the leading items of the Philadelphia banks for the past and previous wook:— June 26, July 3. Loans... $50,369,800 50,054,700 Specie. 1,208,852 1,184,631 Legal 19,415,050 20,801,408 Circulation. 790,444 Orniae A large meeting was held at Frankfort, Indiana, on the ‘24th ult. to promote the building of the Indianapolis and Chicago Air Line Railroad. ‘The Western and Atlantic Railroad has been comple- ted to Acworth, Ga,, one hundrod miles from Chatta- nooga, Tenn., and thirty-cight from Atlanta, from which last named place to Chattahoochie river, a distance of seven miles, trains run rogularly. The ontire road will soon be in running order. Stock Exchange. ‘Tavrapar, July 6—10:30 A. &. $5000 US 6, '81, reg 107 =: 2000 shs Erie i, B26 5000 US6's, '81, cou 106% 100 do. - 82 20000 5 +» 106%, 200 Eric RR . 85 6000 100 Hudson RiverRR 109: 2000 US 1000 dO... eee 109; 12700 US. 600, 200000 300 30000 US6' 1000 1500 US 1000 6000 Tr 100 Chio, 20000 Tr 160 Mich 30000 U‘ 100 2000 Mo 6's,F RR iss 200 10000 Ohio &Miss cer 25 100 Mi 6000 Erie &h mort. 9336 700 4000 - 93 2000 ins 1000 % 1500 85 3000 oT 1000 97 =6200 00 98% 600. 42 «100 1 100 42 «(100 @ 103-300 1% & ie BBs 5 x & 5 20 145-600 Chic a 60 5634 160 Chic 8 100 55% 300 88} 500 be 500 . 00 14. 200 0, 100 1000 60: 40 100 Cleve 104 200 300 Chic 108% 100 a . 104 105 Fe ria ik 200 Chic & Alton RR. 96 5 100 Mil&Pr duCb RR 87 BOARD. onboun 2p . M. 500 9, 5 1 100 90} 1200 903% 4 73% loot 133, 200 133} 100 14 30° 400 rr 100 je 600 63% 200 Cumb Coal be 42 100 63% 200 Quicksilver MgCo 68% 200 1200 do. : 2600 0 ; 19% 3600 ty sl 200 Erle RR pref. 104 360 Hud River RR. . do. b30 104% 600 Reading RR. .w16 200PFt Wa OhiRK 97 CITY COMMERCIAL BBPORT. ‘Tuvaspay, July 6—¢ P, Asmes,—Recoipta, $4 pkgs, The was dul 4 Prices were nominal. ‘ Breapervers.—Receipta, 8,715 bbls. ant 450 do, corn meal; 110,638 bneticls wheat, 10810§ do, cora, 69,508 do. oats, 7,000 do. rye. The dour market was firmer, under & more active inquirf and-lighteF-receipts, wud <<. about 10c, per bbl. all round. The salcs were to extent, in part for mhipment to Bri. tain, comprising 1,300 bbls, the market and firm at the advance. Canada flour was also in demand, and prices wore 100. higher, with sales of + 88 110 9 Reo. Imp'ts, Duties oat 8 vn 71% 46 231 17 Oh 1 00 10 91 1 86 20 the Comptroller of 13 91 20 91 276 21 00 19 63 19 18 ' Bide will be openod at the office of | this olty, at two P. M. on Saturday, for three hundred | | thousand dollars of Central Park improvement fund stook of 1896. Those bonds boar six por cont intorest, payable quarter yearly. ecm at the Sub-Treasury to-day was as fol. pte for customs. reosipte to government joan. . p | She Bow Kock exporw (oxclusive of specie fd 712) ; Market was firm, in sympathy with Stete and ‘Woatern, | bhia, for she | limi bbis, Southern flour was in moderate request, but and the gales were at full prices. The sales wore 625 'o flour wae quiet, with small sales at our quote: tons, Cen nel wal a We quote: % f. Superfine State ‘16a 6 60 Ei os. oon Commen to medi a 610 Extra round hoop Ohie. Wes ‘rade brenda. oe 4 . Bid & 90a 600 |' a is wee b| 62 \o.day, a0 ew waned was toa Cesc shuppera and the was wore fair at full prit Rice.—The market continued quiet and prices were without change. We quote:—i 8 0X6; Carolina, 934¢. a Ile, e market for raw ruled steady, with a fair Suean.—' Inquiry, and fall about 2/500 hhds., do. at 14%0. Srnanine.—The $0,000 Ibs. grease ‘Tatiow. vado and 14c. a 14%c. for Porto Havana at 13c. a 16 3¢c., 700 bbis, refined at 19c., and 400 2 st 2 g PSesser * = x Lt i ii li fii e = | fairly active, mainly for shipment, and the gales prices were obtained, 10 sales were at from llc. to 143¢0. for Cuba musco- ‘Rico; also 1,450 boxes market was quiet, We note sales of at 12340, .—The market was quiet, with sales of 80,000 Ibs, at 10%. @ 1c. ‘Tra.—Tho market was quiet, and only small sales wore made, and these were at private rates. bhds. at from 6c. Warxry.—The shall preclude all whatever, except shall have, ‘with another rule ‘Mr. Kexnan—I that in no legisiat part of the world, | supposed it was the out, without any resolution, to say marked beforo, I free speech and a Never open your The wo for copyright should The ordinance sales were 175 bbls, Wostern at postpone until dt is of the main question. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and that motion and a motion fora call of the Board shall be have discussion cut off by a motion to refer. Ses aint iid an moved to have the work done property ‘The ptroller: a in a communi oe families of volu 1866. Ig another communication statoment of the conditi Towacoo was in rather botter demand, with sales of 150 to 28c., including luign at 6c., cold. market was quiet, but very frm. The $2 1o. Board of Councilmen. MR, LENT ON PRES SPREOH AND THE RIGHTS OP THE MINORITY. ‘The Board met yesterday afternoon, President Hayes in the obair. After the minatesof the previous meoting wore read and approved, Mr. .Lavrr.moved that rule No. 18 of the rules governing the body be suspended. The rule is as follows:— - A motion to refer or lay on the table until it is decided A motien to amendments or debate. decided shall preclude all amendment decided without debate; but no motion to admit a member to explain his vote, shall be ontertained by the Chair after the syes and nays m ordered, untfi tho result of shall have been announced by the Chair. In moving the resolution Mr, Lawr said—In accordance the vote of this Board, I move that rule No. 18, 90 far as that portion of it preventing discussion on the presentation of a resolution, be suspended. In making that motion it me to express my surprise at a maj 6 members of the Board, representing the so-called democratic party—s party that bas for the last four years made complaint and continually against the administration because they do- nied the right of free speech. And Fag ye the Board of Councilmen of the city of New York, lightened, the liberal and the free city of New York have in their rules of order—— e great, the en- rise toa point of order. Task the gen- ome oe what purpose he desires to have the rule sus- nded. paar Laxt—To present a resolution. Mr. Kesnan—Well, let him present Mr. Luwt—In this New York, where I supposed that free speech could be enjoyed if anywhere, they have a rule that,preventa any member of this Board who offers @ resolution from ex- plaining why that resolution has been offered without stifling it bya motion to refer. it Board of Councilmen of the ity of 1 will venture to say ve body In Rurope, or perhaps In any is there a rule of order so arbitrary, 60 unfair and so unjust as the rule to which I have referred. only necossary to call the attention of to those words to insure their being stricken opposition. - I do not believe that the majority of this Board have made any captious opposition for the purpose of killing any resolution ; and I do claim that we have aright, whenever we sco ft, to present a whiy it has boen presented, and not to As I re- am somewhat astounded that the mem- bers of thts Board, who have been so long the advocates of ‘tree press, will deny to me and my as- sociates in this Board the rignt of saying why a resolu- tion 1s offered. But keep it on, if you choose. It is a blot upon your rules of order so long as it remains there. mouths inst an: rerument that Hight of froe epeec denies to ite subjects the suspend the rule was lost bya large contract; that be the of the publishers, RE in which he ,288 had been disbursed to the ‘te ending Jime 2%, the Comptrolier gave ® trongu of thi 584 relative to the Eighteenth war! was Sinended by inerensiag the eleetion etricts to the num- Atte of Sa Oa en eg ee see, —————— ne Another Complaint from Half Starved To THs As the friend of Soldiers. EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Peranapund, Va, July 8, 1666, the soldier and the champion of right everywhere, we address you ® line on a subject that at Present agitates the whole body of troops stationed at Petersburg. It has pleased the fovernncnt to retain us in the service aftor mustering out about one-half our regiments, Those cortatnly the least this we do not and if sort home are chiefly one year men— deserving of any in the service. Of ‘We enlisted for three ft to keep us till of our wo 1865. Saratoga, Bedford Springs, Na- hant and Newport. The Nobility and Military at Saratoga. Ex-Presidents’ and Pennsylvania Beauties at Bedford. The ‘Exclusive Upper Ton” in. Possession et Nahant end Newport. The “Privileged Ten Thousand” Not Yet Arrived. The Cottages Full but the Hotels Dmpty. The Summer Season Fairly In- augurated, &., &., &0. Our Saratoga Correspondence. Sanatoca Srainas, July 1, 1865. Judging from present indications, this village of monster hotels, private boarding houses, water cures and mineral springs, will be more crowded this season than ever before, and the amount of dressing, drinking, driving, dining, dootoring, dancing and dissipation to be accomplished will puzzle the lightning calculator to estimate. The Congress Spring grounds never appeared more beautiful. Tbe grass has been closely shorn; the walks rolled; those remarkable marble statues have had their faces washed and back hair parted; new seats have been scattered about the grove, and the facilities for flirting very largely increased. Hete, “around ‘the spring, at early dawn and dewy eve will countless Emma Janes and Charles Henrys sip Congress water, and then hieing away to the grove above, on fron camp stools breathe vows of love and all that sort of thing: Here, in the walke of this charming park, will’ shoddy and petrotia, radiating in dia- monds and point lace, inhale the same atmosphere ‘and mingle with our first families. Here will swells and snobs abound, and pass for more than they are currently worth at home, and here brigadiers will be as thick as blackberries, and colonels will be of no account, or in other words, will have no show. THE UNION HOTEL which includes the Ainsworth block, and an addi- tion of sixty feet on the brick wing, will now ac- commodate a population of twelve hundred, ex- olnsive of servants. The stores in this hotel are all occupied by New York and Philadelphia mer- chants, who pay enormous rents for tho little shops. Miss Mary D. Kelly, who occupies No. 7, pays a rent of twelve hundred dollars for four months. The children of Israel are pretty well represented in the Ainsworth block, and in fact every other block in town, and one can rarely enter a store without meeting a Jew behind the counter. It is now positively understood that LIEUTENANT GENERAL GRANT will arrive here by special train from Albany, on the Fourth of July, accompanied by Governor Fenton and staff. The train will leave Albany at four o’clock and arrive here ata qaurter past five P.M. By this arrangement General Grant will be enabled to pass the greater part of the day in Albany, according to programme, and arrive here inample time to preside at the dinner to be given by Major W. W. Leland to the Army of the Tennessee. After the dinner a grand ball, in honor of General Grant, will be given in the Leland Opera House. The General is engaged to dance the first quad- rille with the elder daughter of Governor Fenton, He will also dance the German with Miss Lizzie Melville, of Newport, RB. I., who is now here,a guest at the Clarendon Hotel. THE NOBILITY will be properly represented this season by Lord Willoughby, the Count Johannes, and many other counts of more or less account, Lord Willoughby has already arrived and occupies @ co! on Broadway,’ and the Count is oxpected durigg the races. Mr. Charles E. Leland, late of the Metropolitan, has leased fer five years the OLARENDON HOTRL, One would suppose’ the Lelands had Saratoga and were going to farnish it anew, viewing the many improvements made by these entlemen since last season. The Clarendon, with recent addition of two hundred rooms, will now accommodate eight hundred and every room in the house is lighted gas, and hasa Dell. Under the erior management of Mr. Charles ¥. Leland, this hotel is daily becoming More popular as 8 resort for the elite and fashion, who annually sun themselves at this The mF John C. Chamberlin, formerly of ‘erk Hotel, and late of the late United States Hotel, is cashier of the Clarendon, and Mr. A. B. Garfield, late of the Metropelitan is the steward. T have always indulged a wehkness for soft orabs; and when we read one of Garfleld’s bills of fare, can easily acceunt for the great popularit; of the Clarendon, now the ag ae the old wel eee saeear ve aaa for a a jm ine for the use of the Clarendon; and in order to have an ad New au Ay of wal ? built 2 oe onthe grounds, wich is enp: a nate tains Seen a aoe » located on the - don grounds, is being greatly improved in eppear- ance by the erection of « taste! over very similar to the one in the Park ones miod & the band. A now dome has also been built over oe Spring at ® cost of three thousand THE DNITED STATES HOTEL 3, _rebitimmediatey oo a , 80 in size and elegance the world. On the south it will cover the ie jets now occupied by the bank and dwelling house, and on the north will extend te the centre of Di- vision street, which will be widened on the north, by adding the lots formerly covered by Marvin Stine toll rene eo tase Wi it hundred thousand dollard, uae ects ificent » MUSICAL AND OTHERWISE. Harry Sanderson, with his double octaves and A plano, will be due here in A and Mr. . W. Morgan will give orp dar- g the same month. An individual, who adver- tises as “The King of Pain,” has established him- self here for the season. He wears | hair, under a broad brimmed hat, and drives an o! poy ae Pg ote ne en ony hand he " ac , end thus attracts attention to the show. Beaded the King of Pain there are various side shows i foreif ‘alen bak pai to mak foreign én ing nerves, First, we have uProfeesor Valentine wonder- ful snake tamer,” represented ona iarge canvass in the act of eating snakes. Ni celebrated performing bears, Don Juan and Thun- der,’ jotured im eil, standing in a fight- ttitude the gloves on, and just south of Don Juan and Thunder are the Indians, who have moved into civilized society, and are now cleanin, house preparatory to supplying ali of the small boys in the country with bows and arrows. There are two very vocal peacocks in the side show neighborhood, who do a great doal of loud scream- J Kd their own account, and not by special re- er principal ewners in a stook pany, known as the ‘‘Saratoge Association for the im: Provement of the breed of horses—"' in other bb ee en neta Ole OF THE RACES will commence July 11, when Butler, Y: Me wan, Ethan lion, Stonewall Jokson, Jobs Mor — beginning Astrold” (of Kentasky) Feline, Captain Moore, Li , Velvet and Eatin eras, orca at gent, » beautiful stallion from Easex county, fired soi on Morgan, and bis dam sirod LAS bl . Prince Regent pe beaten will trot here in August, and has slready on Bernstein's has been engaged for the Clarendon, where hops willoccur in the dining room every .) fe ‘The trip from here to Montreal and thence by ‘Saguen: Hundred falles--26 Hehe, Bay, is to be able route this summer. pee gefre and im “reoenty introduoed to the travelling publi on the Toute from ‘roy end ‘Bibany "to Wi , is not reliable. Keep your cheoffand give them to the hotel porters on your arrival at the Saratoga Our Bedford Springs Correspondence. Beprorp Srainas, Pa., June 21. SEASON OPENED AT BEDFORD, ‘The hotel at Bedford Springs is open fer the ré- ception of guests; all the arrangements for trans- porting guests hither have been completed, the telegraph operator has taken his seat in the office at the Springs, and the season may be reported commenced. Perhaps twenty visitors have already arrived, but letters and telegrams to Mr. Allen in- dicate a “bigseason.’"? These Springs have been steadily increasing in popularity, with the "people of Penngylvania more particularly, for fifty years or more. Last season the house was full till the close, notwithstanding the war excitement, and so it has been every summer during the four years of war. HOW 70 GRT THERE. There may be somebody who do not know where Bedford Springs are. To such a short paragraph under the above heading may be inte- resting reading. Bedford county lies along the southern boundary of the State of Pennsylvania, in the midst of the eastern series of the Alleghany mountains. The town of Bedford lies on the southern forks of the Juniata, in @ hellow among the old hills, so perfectly pretty, that—as an old traveller once wrote about it—the valley seems to have been scooped out by the hand of God for the builders of # village. The Springs are about @ mile and a quarter from town, on the road lead- ing south to Cumberlami. Visitors from Philadel phia reach the springs by Pennsylvania Railroad to Huntingdon,‘where they,connect with Broadtop Railroad trains to Hopewell, six miles from Bedford; thence in good stages over a fair plank road to the springs. This route is available twice a day to persons coming from east or west along the Perns ‘!vania Railroad. From Baltimore, Washington and the South there are a couple of routes—viz: that via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Cumberland, Md., thence thirty miles across a magnificent country yby stage; and another by the Northern Central Railroad to Harrisburg and down to the Huntingdon and Broadtop Railroad as above. From Wheeling or Parkersburg or Pitts- burg the distance te Bedford is not great, and the cost of transportation moderate. WHAT WE FIND THERE. The visitor to Bedford Springs has a great variety of medicinal waters to choose a favorite from. It is generally conceded that a person must have a preference, for it is utterly impossible to admire them all. There is a chalybeate spring, @ powerful lime stone-spring, @~sulphur spring, and two sweet water fountains for the use of visi- tors, all within a circuit of half a mile in front of the hotel. Nature has been lavishly bounti- ful at Bedford, and art has sought to be her rival. There are accommodations «in the great hotel for upwards of five hundred guests. The main bnilding is a three storied -brick, nearly two hundred feet in length by sixty in width, I judge, having a broad colonnade extending its entire length, supported by massive columns and enclosed by an iron railing. In this building are the office and barroom, telegraph office, receiv- ing room, one of the largest dining halls in the United States, a splendid drawing room, a pall- room and a number of dormitories. There are three other buildings, each over one hundred feet in length, laid out in chambers and suits of rooms for families, All these are situated in the valley of Shover’s creek, which here runs through a wooded lawn, where old trees shade fountains and walks almost innumerable. These gravelled walks extend for miles around, over the forestcovered hills in every direction. There are three magni- ficent bathing houses, where shower baths, plunge, douche, hot, cold, or any other variety known to bathers, ma: had in most luxurieus style; the equestrian has ® boundless fers es and drives; the lover of amuseme , bil- liards, swinging, while the 5 4 i z 833 hi Dg . ‘The aoe a barrel , and uantities are shipped to their agencies thr. ; A a by the Bedford Mineral Springs Com- BX-PRESIDENT BUCHANAN’S SUMMER Mr. Buehanan spends mat os ford ever; , when he is within the country. his custom for many years, even from the timo when he travelled from ‘Stony Batter, a young man, on horseback, over to The of rooms fied up expresly for Mi too fee up e: ly use, said to fh visite ly. Don Carlos Buell and ily were at the with Mr. Buchanan last season. THE VILLAGE OF BEDFORD. Bedford village, built after the usual manner of Penn’s towns—streets at right anglos and square in the centre—ia very old and very pretty. The town was formerly called Raystown, and in pro- vincial and revolutionary times was the site of Fort Bedford, one of the frontier chain of forts made famous in the old ware. Part of the old yet standing on the main street, in so reservation that it is in use as a law office. dford is full of poem General Forbes, with suneped kl read ptioa ie 5 ig! previous to the march on Du Quesne. Washin and Harry Lee came here with a formidable force to quell the Wh Rebellion in 1794, Washi yn was V’resident then, and could spend but lit ime away from his duties at the capital, but the insurrection was so formidable that he stole time, came upon the field, looked it over, and took the matter in band. ‘Tilsen, Wincanen, Husbands, Lucas and other rebels were caught and the rebellion Seeoiened in very short order compared with our affair. In pi with General Lee, on his return to the sapital, ton ad- ro the soldiers « Lak Henny eloquent letter. quote one p| » Which con- tains @ hint Ter the. present time. The Fath of his Country said: “There is but one point om which I think it em to add iy recommendation. It is that every officer and soldier ear in mind that he comes (a Our Nahant Correspondence, ~ Nauwanr, Mass., June 30, 1865. There are probably thousands of well-to-do, ucated and refined people here and there, the spokes and around on the felloes of universe, who will recall mach pleasant sdimer experience at the sight of this date. I mean there ‘re many people beyond the boundaries of Boston | who will be glad to be reminded of Nahant, and’ who will be interested in the perusal of # short | ‘account of its present conditien, prospects, iates- tinal commotions, village topics, &o. An epitome t of such news as is usually turnished from fashions- _ hant now. On the llth of September, grand hotel was swept off the Point by fird, and the proprietorship of ‘The Million” in Na hant ceased forever; that is, the privilege of enjoying themselves st Nahant rever* from the “upper ten hundred thonsand"’—they wh) could afford to spend » couple of months at an ge, pensive hotel—back to the ‘‘upper fen! —Sae wis kept cottages on the precieus,promontory. ' Afte a while I propose to devote a paragraph or two te the explanation of their scheme to keep it, : A PEW BRASSY GLITTERING QBNERALITIES. — } / They who come down from Vermont, or from the great West over the Worcester Railroad, an up from over-grown New York by Providence and Fall River, for the first time, apt to consi? Boston the Orient, and stop there, as I-did, til’. my wanderings through the crazy mixture atreets I discovered and located an Eastern rails road leading out to a country of shoes and fish where Nahant is. The Hub is an ingtructive and” amusing place for a loiterer, however, and a day ¢ | two there will not be misspent. Any Boston cit} | zen of leisure will be happy and proud to show yo) | the famous town. My chaperons were the field, staff and line officers of the Thirty-third Massa chusetts Volunteers, old acquaintances in the wart and they acquitted themselves nobly, as I haw seenthem do before. Breed’s Hill Monument an Faneuil Hall are, I should judge, the jewels of th Boston crown of glory, and are dilated upon a considerable length. Old South Church, the Cor mon, with the Deer Park, Brattle street med. house, and Franklin’s birthplace among com ancient; Quincy Market, Boston Libragy, and the’ Journal office among the modern placés oF interest, are shown with great gusto; then the Cambridges, Mount Auburn, and Brighton with its menagerie of tame beasts, and wild speculators antl butchers, ita hoofs, horns, cows, neighs and squeals. Afterward, if you have a morbid curf- osity that way, it can be satisfied by a ten minutes!) walk from the centre of Roxbury to the place where the Joyce children were fiendishly mur: dered. Clamber ten or twelve feet up the slope o & gray rock by the roadside, and # couple of o° | tendant policemen will point out the spot ben- your feet where the body of the poor gir) found, thence leading you a few rods through .. grove tothe brookside and the brokdz elders, where the body of the brother lay. Crowds of people visit the woods on Jamaica Plain daily, the policemen tell me, # canvass the murder in low tones, sorrowfully upon “‘the spot” and beat the path down to the scene of the boy’s death. Four thousand dolir rewards have been offered for the detection murderers, but no clue has been gained—tj; except the romantic story of the four laborers a field hard by who saw a'villainous looking ~ dash into the woods just before nightfall thre\e four days before the bodies were discovere Back in Boston Ben Franklin’s proverbs ¢ brought to the mind of a visitor by tablets ‘ pnb lic places, and the proud names of Hancock Adams, Warren, Revere and the rest are perpetua, ted in substantial Quincy granite. 6 Btat House and Beacon street—the political and sooi) top sheaves of Massachusetts—are exhibited, cou fish pendant in the Assembly chamber, and codfish rampant in the ‘swelled front” houses of Beacor street. THE BOAST OF THR BAY STATR.! I visited the State House and met Iris Excellene: Governor Andrew, in the /the Massachusetts regimental. flags the pillars of that apartment. Not o fia is ing. ‘They have been torn by bullet and battered by storms from Baltimore te Brazos, but rebels cannot boast of a fragment o. Bay State colors, In oneortwo instances where regiments have. been captured. the colors have been secreted by soldiers and officers, who after- with the cherished banners sa’ The Governor exhibited to our party other bi* foundation for Btate -elanos nt the gilded codfish end the ‘racription “Got self uy a looking gentleman Vanity Your eres pos is cents wortl! of dura * Prom the travel, and a. pleasure tion. , Little Nahant to ne Poirit, -: xen expensive,’ yet easily te ‘ 1 '} roomy stage. Of the route d ye Ae + speak in another » Mayhap, before'I reach that Mine taake willbe te ‘ble; for the contest between ‘‘éxclusion’ icable; fave nood word to say for Lynn, aad will rik’ { ve ® few moments. ma pN . The 5 purpose with which busy shoemcker improves each shining h, | strikes you at oncd as something wonderiar. i the annals of the towh aAy iv {8 DOted for strik: In little seven by nine hops, Where four or gathered r, in leather o tings, there are shoes in varions of tion. ply the noisy hammer Teligious matters and politics as been scoustomed to do from immemori In ria ™oth factories, blagoned and iecfered over win. ‘technical terms for parts of snc, machines a , Sputtering and humming women’s wear, prowans, cacks, boots, shoe pes re. o Co rs hes stilt and sdles—antelts are ' Mercant establishments to ly the o era tives at all these factories and 8 make Tyan complete as a business city. Palatial residences ae cae risen a rou, all the interme. grades of pri it ‘waxics’’ te “lickers” to running’ po on stogas,”’ to’pre- prietorship and s swelled front brick, meet the) \ eye on shady streets, Forbearing to ‘twit!’ such little idios: crnclen. as nekee soles cigar boxes them on with bite of lucifer matches, whic is the most awi @ aris- }. tocracy—that raised from the ite on fish of the Banks, this built upon the so! ly Boston fish ‘‘ranks’’ at Nahant, ™. ead ™ as powans. ” @ summer promise to be very quiet here, albeit the places of the vitage are full, } and man; the Boston proprictors have opened i their cot s for the season, There are no new | comers to ruffle up society as in the days of the great hotel; and you may wager that tho class of | Genteel thorougi.breda known to Dr, Holmes and other New Bt land writers as “New England } Brahmins,” will make no undignified stir. Perhaps some fashions le bell-wether from, Beacoa atreet a divp down to Nah, occasionally during ‘su! r, with a Pes stately followers in fastion, then a few sober and picnics, enlivened by musie froma triew rover band, will follow; they will get a ithe of this bracing air, and go back into qui again @ little better for momentary relaxation, ey want no further commanion with the outer world. ‘Potfolia and Shoddy”’ are not, and cam Pa be, ree d hore ig he bys is gone, jothing bat inoy granite, Boston ice, c West India ram rf crivatsering in th 1612 ariatucracy” cag reach the charmed cod. 3 of oa T