The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1868, Page 5

Baapey NEW YORK HERA LD, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1868—TRIPLM SHEET. THE SCHUETZENFEST. ses F coma, Conese | JONEN WOULD ON SUNDAY. Ten Thousand People Pro-' 7, fuiouig is a lat of the tnt Atty honorary pascal teeter Va Sarat iat von Wi wh hal New York Schuetzen Corps. The Lict of Winners and Their tl Pruladelpnia . Prizes. shi Coanan Counell. nae , Central Committee of Switzerland. , ‘waten and chal, New oT Sehuetzen- THe TRIAL OF BREECHLOADERS a s 12--Bronze Mr, Ottendorfer, iscemeraid ving, New York Liederkranz. gold, merchants af Switzerland. Although it wae Sunday yesterday, and the Metro- politan Excise lew very stringently pronibits any jovial gatherings, such as the Schuetsenfest has brought together during the week, yet nearly ten ‘Mousand people visited’ Jones’ Wood yesterday, the concerta called “sacred” at the. m the afternoon and evening. ‘The ‘committee of entertainment, however, very wisely, were mind- fai of the law and of the Dinue-coated ‘and ‘brage-buttoned officers of the law, and prohibited the wale of any, intoxicating beverage. The bars and stands outside for the sale of beer and wine were all “gompletely and effectually closed,” as the law direots, and only in the dining room and in the Pest Halle coffee, checolate, sodawater, lemonade Wi New. bork Turnverein. iredin gold, siientee! udehota terete: 1: 110, gold, wraw goods merchants us Switzer- gold, citizen of the First ward. 19-$100, gold, Detroit Schuetzenverein, aarieh. oF gore, merchants and manufacturers. of 21—$100, gold, Meilinore Sch . 22—$100, |, Helvetia hiand. jive ox, United Bui ‘vase, Teutonia Schuetzenvercin, Boston. ‘epbegeia watch, Bavarian end Saxon Consul 26—Silver goblet, Germania Fire Insurance Com- Po Saver goblet, Germania Schueizenverein. currency, Newark brewer Society. watch and chain, Independent Schuetzen Corps, Brooklyn. and dinner were served to the thirsty and hungry 303100 gold, Alpe Schuetzenverein. crowds; but most in demand was “tmported Ger | S1- 3100 Lie news barre Society. 3 man cider” in bottles, of which quite a quantity was | w, wed wPbigh, Rearing -Sociery, Nnevoentt eonsumed. The concert, under the direction of Mr. 33—Gold watch, & Bradbury. J 34—One mantel clock and side pieces, New Jersey Carl Anschuetz, was again a success, and was Matened to approvingly. ‘THE MEBTING IN THE PORENOON. ‘The fret business in regular order was the mass meeting ‘of‘all the members of the Schuetzenbund, President P. F. Steffen acting a8 chairman and Mr. Max Morgenthau as secretary, both of New York city. Immediately after the opeping of the meeting Mr, Matechiechner, of Chicago, the former President of the Bund, announced in feeling words the @eath-of the former secretary and proper reselutions ‘of condolence were paesed. Mr. Gruaz, ef High- Jand, made a very detailed statistical report of the ‘reswits of the last National Schuetzenfest.et Chicago ‘m 1866, by which it appeared that the New York fettival this year leaves all similar gatherings far be- md. Secretary Morgenthau then reported the wames of the several societies and delegates rom al) parts of the country and from abroad, mand he also ma#@e a general report of the sehooting during the four days that it was in “actual progress, ‘the special report not having been \ae yet completed by the committee in charge of it. Mr. Katzenmayer, of New York, moved that a re- organization of the Bund should be planned, to the effect that all local societies ef a State unite into ene State society or union, ani that the Bund ‘ee constituted only by the several State unions forming the centsal head of the whole, and that Schuetzenverein. « 35—Bronze clock, donor unknown. ‘sé—Clock, New York Schuetzenzilde. 37—Double plated tea service, New York Schuetzen oD. 38—Meerschaum » Loriitard. see and chi Brooklyn Schuetzen Corps. ww machine, Empire Sewing Machine ‘Company. 41—Mantel cleck, Central Park Garden. 42—Telescope, Waldstein. 48—A rife, Brid, 't Schuetzenverein. 44—Painting in oil, William Aufermann. oe oy in gold, S. b. Kapf. of U. S. coins, $43, honorary member. 47—Mantel clock, Schuetzen Corps, Illinois. 48—Set of United States coins; honorary members, 49—Breech-loading shot gun, needle attachment; Charles Farker. States coins; honorary members, izes for the money targets, for which the list ef w! rs is, not yet ar ‘Phe committee are still at work, and will be buay all through the night to perfect the liste. ‘There be some slight inaccuracies in the list ot ed above, butin the main it is tolerably correc THE TRIAL OF BRBECHLOADERS. itis generally admitted that so large a collection of breechioading firearms of American manufacture: and invention has never beer had as at this festival. Their trial under the direction and supervision & special com: ion of w General chairman, Messrs. Bender and Voss- ries, and secretal and timekeeper, be continued to-day, beginni R at nine o'clock A. M. The minutes of the trial fm the future no one should ‘be a member of the | of are withheld from penton, as Band without being a member of the commission desire to compare their individual te nd moeteeniocnls £0 notes with the record kept by before @iety. A ‘very excited debate ensued upon this Proposition, which lasted for upwards of an hour, and while it met with few dissenting opinions it was ‘the generai and prevailing opinion that this move- ment should be left to the consideration of the lecal societies and the fina: proposition of it be postponed ‘till next biennial meeting, but that each society should notify the Corresponding Secretary of the Bund, at Yeast two months before that meeting, how they Bave instructed their delegates to vote on the ques- ‘op. Cincinnati was fixed upon as the place for the next National Schuetzenfest to be held in the Month of June, 1870, two years hence. This was one principally for the reason that the next great ‘National Saengerfest will also be held at Cincinnati fat the same time, and it is the understanding, theugh nothing of it appears in the oficial records of the proceedings of the meeting, that both the Saen- gexfest and the Schuetzenfest, and, if possible, the ‘National Turn Pest, should be combined, and that, like the Olympian games of the ancient Greeks, these bt- ania) reunions of the whole people of the country in ra} Relider #entivitiem ha anvnted am ers in the @olial life of America. From Highland, 1u., ...... the Schuetzenbund was first brought to life ata years ~a@go, the following despatch was received and read ~ amid cheers:— 6 HIGHLAND, Ill, July 4, 1868, . metre Ace aces aoe ney American Shoo! Festival, and like # another dreaming of a che sen far away, 80 do we long towards ice child, hearts and doors bpea ready to to all the teste to-day. Colonel Berdan was again on the junds yesterday to make arr: unents for the addition of newly improved breech-loading rifled musket to the breech-loaders to be tried this orn- Ang. THE NATIONAL GUARD. tioual Guard wil resume thelr target, Drecties tus w practice Fp RO will be ! ry by General Alexander Shaler, to process of his stait, the brigadier generals and their stait and the regimental and line officers. General Shaler, paren Sard ans cine iemen and oficers - the division have contrib handsome prizes im. commes-e this morning at ten o’clock’and continue From the members of the American Sharpshooters’ | through the day with AO ceremonies. The Seciety at Highland, 4 winner.of the first prize, Knebel, will be crowned It was at once resolved to answer this despatch by | ## Schuetzenkonig at the same time. telegraph, and the following was sent:— ‘The hell on last ‘Thursday ha ¥ ha grand ‘meee, con! the Halle the 4 elite of New York , at, te Fest HALLE, Jones’ Woep, New York, July 5, 186s. } ‘To the MEMPERS-OF THE AMERICAN SHARPSHOOTERS’ a with which the American Socrery, |, Ts to Sg Wg be attended by a similarly the @ numerous society. THE PROGRAMME FOR AMUSEMENTS TO-DAY. open air @feeting. Succese has There will be concerts by three orches- crowned all our efforts, and may we meet with equal f tras, a rope the afternoon and good fortune at the fourth festéyval, at Ch . } evening Harry races, dancing on the From the Executive Committee Amesican | platform in the Pog on that on the river @ank; ‘National Shooting Festival. pt aan yy the Ka the Teutonia, oa Another despatch was sent te.the President of the lerbund several singing a Sharpshooters’ Soclety of Cincinnati informing bim | {oned m grand tabican donated, ty Brige & Gorin that the next festival wilt be held at that city. When | recognition of the national importance of the im- ‘these several matters of businesahad been concluded | Zroveufent in the object proper of the Unequal and Unjust Taxation—Proposed Plas of Equality—Letter from Donald McKay. Boston, July 2, 1868. To THE Eprron.oF THR HERALD:— Dear StR—As you well know the. bill for the relief ef the shipbuilding interest by ® drawifack on duti- able articles entering [into the construction of new ships has been brought up in Congress, tabled and the matter virtually ended, and the hope of renewing our commercial marine and bringing it up to ite former standard is about abandoned. Under the Present unfair system of taxation the prices of mate- rial and labor for shipbuilding and other mechanical industries cannot be redvced until fair play is given THE AWARD OF PRInes. The committees entrusted with the duty to measare ‘the shots in the targets, to arrange the gifts received ‘or prizes in the order of their mongy value and to revise the list of the.guccessful markamen entitled to ‘the distinction of a prize were in continuous session a: F H 5 5 Hl 3 i 4 3 , divided into twenty-five “rings” of one | DY a equality of taxation on all property and par- ol eR S, edge fo gd the | ticularty in taxing government bonds, and it is a de- -only three shote, e higheot nomber of rings be id make would there. Fusion to expect a general revival of buainese until fore be 75, as 68 has highest Prize, representing this is. Gone. three bull's eye shots, ft must. be for ake ‘The enterprise of the United States in commerce, good pn a a heretofore so-largely prevailing and known the Kenncteentinig, @ king of the sharpshootera,for the world over, is fast fading away. Many of our former ‘mext two years, and is to receive @ number of other | large shipowners, and some of them were my cus- Biteo. seen. for the Teun & a tomers, tell me they prefer to invest their money in @everal of the winners thasame number of rings | government securities, which are exempt from taz- vwho have the right to choose the prizes | ation, and hus receive a better rate of interest for Gemanded to their number ia the Met of winners. the year through than from ap investment of an THE LIST OF WINNERS. fifty names .of the winner: equal amount in commercial property subject to tax- We the first tbe mies in which they range, and their residence:— ation. The people are constantly fattering.them- No. Name and Residence. No. oy mings, selves that some miraculous change for the better will take place tn «ne mechanical industries, but cannot aay how or when it will take place. My opinion is it wili occur when An equality in taxetion takes piace; tax government bonds as other property and “better times” would con follow. Judging from my intimate knowledge of ‘he voice of the mechanical classes in my employ and employed tn thie vicinity, men of stability and imteligence, both home and foreign born, republi- cans end democrats, are a unit on the en vject of having equal taxation, aad say they are aecermined at the next election to support the party platform equalizing justly the burden of taxation. Tue edi- o—Sammerville Hefti, Milwaukee, Wis... 16—C. P. Beck, Newark, Nid... 77—F. Brannenkaut, New York cit} 18— Audit Philadelphia, Pa..: 30-J. F. Beckmann, Philadelphia, Pa. tore of some of our papers, I noticed, were surprised —— Eger, Quincy, Ill. recently at the mention in Congress of the taxing of 2. pe ene, here . the interest on bonds, saying it wae “against the will 23—¥. W. Fliedner, of the people. if these editors would visit my premises and the immediate vicinity I would be happy to introduce them in several hours to over one thousand workmen, mechanica and laborers, and with the exception of about one in a hundred they are determined to vote for the party at the next election that adopte taxation of bends equally with other property, and the party doing this will obtain the support of the oppressed working clanses of this eee In my opinion the cry of ‘‘party” is fast dying out, and it is a common remark now made for each one at next eleetion to look out for bis interest. grsesesss2eszese2cee*cacaaeeaaaszee2es4 J. Banty, Weehawken, N. J... 90—B. P, Peck, San Franciaco, Cal. Give the people at jarg® fair piay and business wilh Fred, Mramer, Baltimore, Ma... ss f00n revive DONALD Mogay. ‘ PARIS. FASHIONS. Death of the Emperor's Favosite Dog and @ Sad Loa to Courtiers—. ve Entree Dot Almost Obliterated-=' Dresses and New Cape-Eugenie’y “Prettiest” Bonnet The Countcus of Figuders’ TolletRkirtéy Boots and Dress Shoew=Hans and Seankic Casaqne—lied Currant Pet Trouble at Mnbille—A Celebrity fer New Yorh—House Furnishing Hiuts. . Pants, June 10, 1868. The impor‘aat communications of last week ‘on fasnions an Fontainebleau leftne space Mm my Cor- respondenece for notiee. of an irreparable loss which haa ocurred in high life. It is a death naturally, no ‘other fosses being irreparable. ‘Teeth, hair, figure, henor can be supplied by a simile something, 80 | much likethe genuine article that it is folly to moan when such things do depart; but when a dog dies, and that dog ts‘Nero, the Empcror’a dog, whose functions in life wére'to be stroked and caressed by ‘all thoge who could not atroke and fondle its mi no.simil’ anything in existence gan make up for so useful.an.apimal. A courtier haa but twe legs, J eyer much he may sigh for the crawling two ‘Nero has, of course, left memoirs; he is buried, 1 an told, it the private garéen of the Tuileries; hig fune- ral Oration has appeared in a conservative paper under this shape:—-‘Nero ig uo_ more; the Emperor has lost his most faithful friend.” I admit this may. be trué, but, notwithstanding the grand philosophy. 4) of the remark, who then, I inquire, are M, de Per- Two ewences are preferred to an otben white rose ‘club. Pocket handke for the are worked lawas ig all the drab Places ellow Liuts. They are not all tty, but are ight rural. A rura repast; by the way, has been at wi a pie under crust no lees twenty ducks us, ioeaiairire ec. ee Mates Seu e | YOSEMITE. VALLEY. FROM ‘THE WERALD TRAVELLING ‘CORRESPONDENT. Mistery of Its Diecovery—Present Appearance ‘ef the Valley—Description of the Mountains Aveund ‘It—The Highest Ogtaract in the ‘Werld—Falle-of the Merced—Brincigal Ob- Jects of Interest. a YoOsEMITR VALLEY, May 26, 1868. * fhe Yosemite Vatiey was not known to white men ‘nti? 1692, and it owes its discovery to the Indians, In the early daye the settiers on the San Joaquin and ite tributaries were much annoyed at the depreda- tons of the Indians. These maraudere-would come down from the mountains, and after stealing horses and mules retire to their hiding places, where they would be safe from pursuit. Several times they were followed, but tt was generally diMcuit to reach them when once ont of sight. Becoming buld tiey boasted they had one piace where the whites could not reach them and where they could etfectyally conceal all 6 a - ee a = Ail are grand; alt are beautiful. They cannot be well | but as the way to it was long and diMcuit we did not @eseribed, for we have no standard of comparison. One of the peculiar features of the Sterra Nevadas, and of this portion in particular, is the tenacity with which the trees fasten themselves to the mountain , little miches ‘away up on dizzy ‘where the soil must afford a very precarious support. In summer these spots must become parched ard: dry, yet the trees remain, thrive and grew, somecof them attaining considerable diame. where they germinated, and the trees must be nour- ished by littie save the air. Nature never deserts her chitareti, and here, as in polar snows or Arabian sands, she cares for her offspring and tenderly watches that they may not perish. Our slunibers at: night were within hearing of the Great Yosemite Fall. There it was, pouring ite flood. with « crushing, rattling sound like that of musketry on a battle field, 80 much so that those of our party who had borne an active part im the war were prompt to discover the resemblance, | Now it sounded like sud- den and successive file firing, and again like dis- charges by company and platoon, Occasionally, but not often, as the wind took a certain direction it sound- ed ike the ‘roar of artillery, as'though.a dozen bat- teries were actively working four or five miles away. Niagara roard steadily and unceasingly; Yose- mite rattles sharp, quick, rapid discharges that vary where: mo man could find his way | jake Itean hardly be much Oper than the volume of r features pay it @ visit, cataracts we have uiready seen, and a8 water is not large it must depend upon Today have paid isit to Mirror Lake, to ‘o-day we have ay ir 5 study ‘the Feflections of the mountainy and the scenery around that sheet of water. There was a breeze that roughered the surface of the water and corer aay ease tie lake ion its oe og A sill in the early part e like a mirror, and reproduces everything above it with most perfect distinctness. Photographs have been taken in which the reflection wag 89 poms that 1¢ was im to distinguish. of the joture from its bottom. We saw these reflections in @ small i near-the botel anc in front of the Yosemite Fall, where the cataract seemed to be re- roduced and having its doupte from below, revers- ‘the lawsof gravitation and overturning the theo- res of Sir Isaac Newton. ‘The attractions of the Yosemite are not in the mountains alone nor im the waterfalls, the refiec- tions of Mirror Lake, the rich, green and fertile mea- dow, the wilderness of pines and cedars and other forest trees, with the pellucida river winding among them; butit is in all of these things combined. The mountains are unlike mountains with which we are familiar elsewhere: the waterfalls are unlike Nia- ara, ape or Passaie, and the whole scene- vy has an individuality pecuilarily its own. Ip beauty, graudeur and subiimity the Yosemite stands without 4 rival in America or ‘the world, and will so stand till the rocks and the mountains shail again be Joined and the earth be tossed by convulsions like those that formed the great Sierras and piled then as a/barrier between the interior bas.n of the cont: neny. and the shores of the peaceful sea. (ur party leaves the valiey to-morrow morning, a sorne Of ita members must de in San Francisco ata given day. ‘There are two routes from civilization to ie Yosemite—one by the way of Mariposa and the ether by Coulterville. The former enables us to vish the Big Trees, as described in a pregious le:ter, ant the other has sone uttrastions peculiar to itself, We hot adwn by the Emperor. @md<the rest? ‘The only detail 1 can give | thelr plunder. Actuated dy ctriosity and a ut the regretted, faithful deceased is that his | desire for revenge the white settlers organized a keep.cost the civil list only twelve francs per month. foparty; and when the Indians next appeared they How much cheaper a friend than many new in favor, | were vigorously foliowed. The result was the dis- and that the poor dear fan after all the game | covery of the Yosemite. The Indians were follewed Since Nero’s account | into the upper end of the valley. Some of them were book has been opened one of the deputies has dis- | killed, others were captured, and the balance es- missed his valet for spending three francs per month {'caped by clambering out by a trail where a white on his dog more than was deemed necessary forgo | man could not follow. Since that time no Indians, great a dog as Nero, and no less than three thousand | with the exception of a few peaceable ones, have Offers of dogs‘iave been made tothe Bmperor by | ever lived in the valley. three thousand owners, who are emulating for the ‘The word Yosemite (pronounced Yo-sem-i-t¢) means honor of ailing the sad vacancy in eanine high life. great grizzly bear, and was applied to this valiey to ‘Phe most fashionable street in Pans has also for the | skow that it was held in high honor. The grizzly ‘Most part ceazed to exist. The Rue de la Paix is at | wear is the largest animal known to the Indians of ‘present being demolished, and those lovely stores of | this region, and is held by them in great veneration, Jewelry, towers and tempting Valenciennes caps j The valley was thus designated by the pest word which still. do open are rendered unapproachable by | known to the men who inhabited it, Nearly all the clouds of time, dust and fying roofs. Towards the | mountains and cataracts around tne valley Place Vendome it is safer, and all the fashions are |’ were desiguated by some name that ex- momentarily centered there. pressed a characteristic. Thus Tutochanulah, ‘The newest head dresses and neglige caps are very | the name of the high mountain opposite Inspiration pert amd coquettish, They look hke a horseshoe | Point, means in English the greatest, or the captain, caul behind; the front is raised with @ diadem of } andthe mountain is known tn Spanish as El Capitan. rumed lace, which stands up; nothing but a pale | The three mountains, which some one lias named the ‘pink ribbon is run across. It sits on the top-of the | Three Brothers, Rave an Indian name which signi- head much like’ a knowing, winking bird. The | fies ‘mountains playing at leap frog.” The rock style called hérissé by French modistes. is very pre- | called the Sentinel has am Indian name of the same valent indeed. for headgear, especially bonnets. A | meaning, and one of the falls at the upper-end of the hertsson belng the French for hedgehog, anything | valley, one of the prettiest aud most dazzling, is T-rissé implies bristling-up styles; but a ?/rissé Louis | named Piwyack, or the ‘‘cataract of diamonds.” XV. fs a bonnet having on ‘the front of @ fanchon, | Meny of the Indian names have disappeared and just on the top, 8 tuft of lovely fowers, | American ones, not half as full of meaning, have out of which spike leaves and rushes and | taken their places. firm grass prickle high. The affair is very Soon after the valley was discovered it began to be pretty or very hideous, all depends on the hair un- | ‘visited by curious persons; but there was never much derneath. When hérissés are pretty they look like @ } travel in that direction until within the past few nest of blossoms, variegated carnations, for in- |. years. Any piece of grownd that promises to be valu- stanoe, with tapering buds, buried in wavy, curled or | able is sure to attract settlers, and the, Yosemite was crimped bande@ux, or they look like a small fresh | not left unnoticed. For nearly ten years there have oasis; but when they look hideous they are a patch | been settlers in the valley, most of them departing in of vegetable produce stuck up on the summit ofa | the autumn and remaining away until the following skull to act-as a scarecrow. The difference is evi- | spring. Some seasons two hotels have been kept dent. here, but there is now but one, ‘The Duchess de Mouchy, who-has excellent teste, A week is not too long a time for studying the Yo- excels in white feather hérissés; she is called blonde, | semite, but our party had only three days at its dis- but is really a light auBurn belle, and whether ell the ] Posel. So we rose ata reasonable hour on the morn- hair she'wears is false or not it is always artistically | ing after our arrival, determined to see ag much as elegant, falling in rich Jong curls under @ fabric of | poesible in our limited stay. The question will be pouty, with no space left-but fer @ cluster of some- | asked, in what Goes the beauty of the Yosemite con- thing having lace or gauze round it in fromt. The | st? Isit like Niagara, Lake George, or the White prettiest bonnet the Bmprese has worn this scason is | Mountains, or is it different from themall? Itis -@ white tulle pouf, with a white aigrette on one | mountain and cascade; but its mountains and cas- “side tied? on by @ white satin bow. She wore it lately | ¢ades are diferent from all others I have ever seen. “with « lapis ble robe covered with white lace |The valley is nearly mile in perpendicular depth, guipure. The Countess of Flanders, who has been visiting in riéres, at St. Gratien, with Princess Mathilde, and at Fontainebleau, is an elegant dresser. @ne of her trimmed with pipings, wall flower shade, but of a PCCUEL ous wes. Cha ta tand of white -striped Al- gerians over white poult or over White darn. gray), and sara, an Indian material. The boxes of our elegantes leaving for the different | Crags that guard this portion of the valley. The thermal establishments are very voluminous, and | Whole distance along both sides of the valley we see what makes them more so is the new style of short | precipitous walle and high mountains scattered skirt, which readers boots and shoes to match o | irregularly and plied.in greatheaps,.as if the earth- mecessity. One Jady carriesmo less than forty pairs | quakes that made the valley had but ceased their Of Doote and shees,,end besides fans and parasols are | Work from sheer weariness at tossing these huge selected for every toilet. masses into theair. Among all the cliffs and moun- The latter are either trimmed with the eame lace | tains there are no two that correspond save in height as that on the costume, or worked with the same | 8nd subliimity. flowers as those.worn. It is & most fastidious affair, The first and most striking of the mountain and the wondenis what timeis left for.vomen to | Walls is Tutochanulah, or El Capitan, near- think of more serious matters than everlasting dress, | ly opposite Inspiration Point, and in full Black silk ia, as usual, indispensable, but so taste- | view as we come in sight of the valley. fully made that there is more beauty in a black | Thie cliff is of a light gray granite and stands out toilet than in any other. inte:the valley at an obtuse angie beyond the other The overskirta are elaborately Jooped and embroid- | portions of the northern wall. It rises an almost ered with Mowers, overfrilled with blue, violet, maize | Perpendicular face for 3,600 feet—more than two- and lavender frilled underpetticeats of taffeta. thirde of a mile. No foot ever ascended ita front or ‘The casaque, for the seaside, is a tight polonaise, | ever will ascend it unless some man shall arise who also forming an overtunic. Some are made of very | can cling as the fy clings to a window pane, or a light silks, over red currant-colored petticoate and | squirrel to the bark of his favorite tree. As you look and it 1s sixcr eight miles in length. It is not a reg- ular and well defined chasm, like a huge ditch cut by Pans, both at the Rothschilds’, at their estate of Fer- | human hands, nor does is possess the characteristics of the cafion of the Niagara river, below the falls. With @ general direction from east to most admifed driving robes is a light, pearl gray | West, the Yosemite is #0 shut in by mountains that there is me one point where an uninterrupted view can beobtained. In going to visit the falls of the Tug | Merced, at the upper end of the valley, we seem to foulards are called javanais (fawn satin foulardy | de advancing directly against the mountains ana Douquetitre (email showers of flowers en white or | Must pase around geveral bends before realizing that Wwe shall not be entirely shut in among the cliffs and entered by way of Mariposa and. shall depart y the other route. ‘The number of visitors’to the Yosemite! an- nuaily inereasirgg, In 1364 there were only hun- dred persons coming here to study the atti ar “ the valley, wiiiJe there were neariy four ie oe nee 1865, and the ‘morease has continued ever Year. We o party of are nearly @ qonth» cariier than the fy Tt arty of with the wind or with the volume of water. Niagara is constant, day, week, month, yearand esele, Yosemite is swayed by the wind and its volte yieids often tothe zephyr; now stronger and new fainter, as the breeze may dictate. While Niagrira y a, hat exou} does not change in volume throughout the wear, PAA year in San oa. at Yosemite is @ mountain torrent in May, a drool :-in_ | the tine offonr departure. The jour yrevéat ie June and July, a silver thread depending over the nH Safle aetna, focaare to come. . i : ly two bun- clit In Angust and September, and sometim es in | From nm Fraacisco tt is rade > eae late summer it disappears altogether to bread. forth | ated’ and seventy miles, i roads again when the rains and snows fretutn. bacteris Sea ine budis vaths, ‘Travelling This fall is directly in front. ‘or the | in CaMfornia is always expensy, Dus eqpecially La hotel on the opposite side of the valley, | When one must hire saddle tet fataoee resort @ mile distant as the crow flies and Valf a mile in perpendicular height. We have watched it in sunlight and shade, and we never weary of studying tt, As the stream pours over the cilif/it shoots for- ward clear from the precipice, as if ‘endeavoring to avoid contact with the mountain, umtil it strikes the débris of rock at its base. The ceki and pure water from the melting snows becomés a spotiess white mules, The Yosemite wilt n # until a wagon road is built Table vehicles to go there. Application will be (‘10,10 the Legials are of the Btate at its next ppropriation (A ee tony/Alley there has been the usual number of simp! Who ve aa pan Lemp acsonicytl curt tery t. In the hotel regis- and at various points of Pel saad deals ter there are records AUG DY pare have given names to cliffs and mountains over- s! following is & literal copy of like the crest/of a wave when the tide ro!lsin upon | looking the valley. Yising changed:— the beach. Before reaching the bottom of the cliff It bese orn as ucheighis cast of Yosemite, Falls is broken into foam and spray, aiding as it were in a Peto arin’ in home otmy father, John Smith; of Bos. JOHN SMITH, JB., r pesons in 1866 named @ moun- aftr one of their number, and ‘ton, A party of a doi tair near the vali cloud of itxown formation. At either eage it breaks into nnmberless rockets of spray that go chasing each other downward as the fire bolts of a Roman | took the trouble p inscrive in the register the b candle and other works of the pyrotechnist pursne a | o/ dedication a She) PREP OF m4 pmo fea: contrary direction. These spray rockets are an in- Le gerne. vanity ‘@ the other these speeches in thay Way. The commissioners win were chews of cin! have requested civi- lized visitors to regqnstrate with Indians and others who may shotda disposition to deface ae scenery or in any way’ Ar the beauty of the t would’ be well if the:bhers would the injunc- tion and refrain from #uching names of no moment to the points of intere /in an ‘around the Yosemite. the height of the Ny Below ts a table ¢ fa apa 4, terestiag’veature of the Yosemite Pall, aud in fact of all the cascades of this region. Nowhere in the worl’ ts the water purer, and nowhere is fts purity mor conspicuous than in the Yosemite. ‘TYaisfall is the highest now known in the world. Frogn the point where it leaps over the cliff down to Syme of the mountain is a Re ndicular distance of enty-ix hundred and thirty-four feet, cr six feet less than half.a mile. Though properiy con- #etered as a single fall itis broken in twe places, thesiivisions being connected by short rapids that ‘are little more than steps from one fall to the other. Whe first clear plunge is sixteen hundred feet, or ten times as h as Niagara, and the middie -and lower falls are respectively four hundred and . thirty-four and six hundred ‘The whole fall is sixteen times as high as Niagara, eleven times the bight of Bunker Hill monument, and nine times of Trinity chureh. We have visited the foot of the fall, going into the Ht ng he Yosemite. The v: Beaeo weet, suote. @) level, and the figures here ven are above the ¥ ley. Add 4,060 to each num- i ‘and {t will give #) height above sea level:— Tutochanulah (El Cg itan) cloud of spray that is constantly rising as the water | Cathedral Rocks "400 dashes ‘upon the rocks. It 18 like “the spray at | Mount Cre o 00 Niagara or Montmorency, or any other cataract | Mount pecpin dose in the world, e’ rocks drip with the | Yosemite Fall. ‘Spisit ot 40 falling shower and the trees that grow quite up to | Bridal Vell (Pohon® Seo the base of the cliff are drenched till they pour out | Piwyack (Cataract 100 huge like a heavy rain cloud. I presume that | Nevada Fall. .i.. +g the autumn finds these trees basking in the warm | South Fork Fall. +. Lag te ge of that formic Faron — volume . for Icamnot conceive how can exist should the shower be continuous throu; nd THE BAYER STREET MURDER. out the Moisture is necessary to most v ep No Provochti@s for the Act—Inquisition Before Coroner Keenan. Coroner Keeym yesterday afternoon held an in- tion, but what tree or shrub could survive the piti- less ofa storm ? Our is meccnereant Hered timed. We are seel: Hver and the streams that form ie various fata ‘tation house, on the fer al js are nm a at their highest, the volume of water being fifteen or | West at the fiath precinct walbe “hake Et Te twenty times as a great as in A and September. | body of John RA#rmds, the young So great is the difference that 1s 13 dimouit to recog: | dered in Baxieretreet lato on Saturday afternoon, a4 nize the pen or pencil pictures of some previous | reported tm the HERALD. Several witnesses wore Down the valley opposite Tutochanulan 1s the fall | ¢Xamined, and the testimony elicited went to show known as the Bridal Veil, so named on account of its | that there was not the least provocation on the part rr. FO in the late autuinn. To us | of Rylands for the use of the knife by Donado Ma- overa late ry the stream shoot! curand % falling ine gentie curve. | galdo, the prisoner. Below will be found a copy of the true line of —to the roeks nine hundred ymost rtamt testimony and the verdict of tie feet below. The voumne of water 1s about equal to nd a ae by that of the Yosemite Fall, ‘The sound of the cataract | [9° WYER is more subdued in consequence of the lesser height TRSTIMOWY OF MARGARET D “ sar, ela fe Ve @ Bl no ba i a iis dangerous to sleep near it oF even to pase near | S878—The deceased was a nephew of mine, and re Itafter ai and they at to cor. | sided with meat Bio, 23 Roosevelt atreet; the deceased roborate thelr belief. I can fancy how the Bridal | left the house about half-past four o'clock yesterday by could ‘prove the ap] late autumn, when arenens of ts title 1n | afternoon, and lat er in the day I heard he was dead present the waterfall is much larger than the most Margaret Dwyer, being duly sworn, deposes and The euniee at the Sixth precinct station house; I came here aaetee tt dacasaeea teen t ; 1 know nothing about the its present large volume of water the fall codeine he body; @ pecullarly beautiful and wavy appearance that is no doubt greatly increased as tho seagon becomes TESTIMQ) NY OF BERNARD GOLDEN. lates, Bernard Golden, , residing at No. 22 Baxter street, Yesterday we made a visit to the falls of the Mer- ced, four or five miles from the hotel. We accom) plished the first two miles on horseback, beneath the shadows of the mountains that form the walls The trail leads amo: being sworn, deg oses and gays:—Yesterday after- noon, about haif-g ast five o'clock, | was near my own door, when I notit :ed deceased and the prisoner talk- of this jon of the valley. the rd pk at the foot of the mountains, and | !n together; they spoke together some two minutes, these rocks become more and more numerous as we | when deceased { urned to go aires ds Pilaonst advance, so that we must desert our horses after a | drew a knie from his breast and stabbed dec time and make the of the journey on foot. | onthe rigit side ; the knife shown I think is the the ‘when compared Sit outwarlerines inthe | made apa até and afterwards for a poluoe oftcet able wi com| wi our wande: in the | madew at me have on after to arrest him; there were snow. The cafion of the Merced ts not in a direct | who cam¢very so orange shades, These are as conspicuous as a’dame tripping about in high boots and with a long walk- ing stick can desire. The nastiest of waters at Arcachon and Bagnéres de Luchon, and those horrid ones called Eaux Bonnes, will be much fre- quented, Black cashmere, or black Scotch merino, worked with flowers, or much trimmed with black satin, bas been made up for ramy days at the chateau The style in great favor with fast ladies is plain white muslin, with a fleunce around the bottom, plenty of muslin ounce on underskirts, shoes and high heels, sashes and fichus, no vestige of crino- line. At Mabille the said ladies bave had a smal revo- lution, and the propietor of the garden is in dire trouble. it arose with Louise, the dancer. One fine mooplight night when the band had done the ‘Tea Blossom" qiadetile and “Bridge of Sighs” polka, the gentlemen forming that musical body dispersed to their homes somewhat earlier than usual; the heat had been excessive ani the cancan very wild. The dancers, who felt inclined to spend the night out of doors, protested against the departure of the band, and the’cavaliers forming a gentlemen's chain, carried Louise, their {dol, high in triumph over every obstacte and did not atiow her to alight on any other spot than the grand kettiedrum in the orchestra. On this worthy instrument did she and a few others perform feats and antics until the parchment fell jn, Of course Mr Mabille was tly incensed; be ~~ youth @ very profitavie article, but eir Vagaries fod without the ee Ss Louise out. Since been jt nerted ; all the lady’ om gle adorers are determined never to return to those lighted es until this cancan diva jm readiuitted. | M. Mabille is disconaclate; he should have had fils drums mended tn private. Therese isin Le and Mile. Irma Marié¢ is on her way to New York, where she will in “Tea Biossom,” the very pinkest of Uhinese ladies, looking Aa she had been bora -, afan. If she wears the costume adopted for this character at the Athénée she will do well, itis so becoming, so mand pink Mush combined that a Chinese lady is no more forbidding than a tea rose. ‘The intensity of el has somewhat dimin- ished since a young Lori Lovelace had to run away with hts beloved and her bonnet boxes by the same express. lengon lace is Worn over silks, but they must be blue, or grays, otherwise they look a and lose regal rich appearance so admired ih this queen of laces. Mme, de Metternich iately regret- ted peciag put on an Alengon tunic over a@ pink sal- mon toilet. The newest fan is made in the shape of a horse- shoe. It is very ugly, but haa free currency, being all the vogue since Earl won the grand prize. Another ¥ is more extravagant and in the furnishing line. Satin chairs are now embroidered strawberry wets of A yy tinted fruit, and, ion rooms are striped green 5 at al juslin over pink, biue or cerise. Coun- are mostiy with French calico, large hang vat every Sep; the wills and celing. are hung There an reres al} things in thig Nighty Parie, upon it you see its gray surface streaked bere and there as if by perpendicular seams. Observation ‘will tell you that the whole mountain 1 almost with- ont flow, and only bears the stains of water that has trickled down its sides. On ite top ia a forest of pines 60 faraway that they seem like shrubs, though we are told that many of them exceed 200 feet in height. In a little crevice towards the top is a single pipe that seems to be clinging for exist- ence to the solid rock, and apparently with avery slight support. The whole front of the cliff is free from vegetation. A person can ride to itsfoot and place his hand against a mass of rock rising more than three thousand feet above him. East of El Capitan and overlooking the river gre three mountains lying closely jogether, as if looking over each other’s shoulders. They bear the name of the Three Brothers—their Indian name, and a most appropriate one, meaning “the mountains playing at leap frog.” Opposite these is the Sentinel and the Cathedral Spires, the former a single shaft that over- hangs the valley, though far above it, and reminds one of s Watch tower of the middle ages. The Ca thedral Spires are two shafts that rise side by side with a rack between them that bears strong like- ness to the gable end of @ church. East of these are several crags not yet named, or which bear individual names whick have not adhered. Towards the head of the valley is the North Pome, situated, as its name indicates, on the north side of the valley, amd rounded on the summit as regularly as the dome of the national Capitol. Not far from it is the South Dome,eoverhanging she upper part of the valley and rising clear above it more than six thousand feet. Nearest the valley it appears as if split half way from top to base, the portion that has fallen being buried in the valley below. From thie fact the peak is sometimes known as the Genii’s Domé; but uader whatever name it is the highest elevation in our vicinity. Back from the hotel is @ peak that was last year christened Mount Colfax, and away near the upper end of the valley is & mountain known s¢ Mount Starr King. Nearly every mountain has some Indian legend connected with it. The breaking of the South Dome has ita story, and the Indians, as their white cousins would have doubtiess done, Nave contrived to have a woman in the case. ‘To name and briefly describe a few peaks will give a very inadequate idea of the mountain scenery of the Yosemite. As well might we describe a house by @ single brick or a city’ by the picture of a solitary house. Everywhere the cliffs present a thousand variations. Here almost precipitous; there sloping, though steeply; now smooth and bare of vegetation, and now studded with pines that cling with steady and unylelding ‘wherever they can find soil to sustain their roots; here the crags are stained and stremked with marks of Water, and again, tiny rivoleta of the Water course aiown their sides, There ie no uniformity of muting; neither ia there any of detail, line, but bends to the ri quite near the lower fall to abend in the it this fhll and study it at ‘our thro far more Fall is "eaing si whiteness, Spray and the dro} water sparkling may of eee oratan title is at once perceived. x pisterion of clinbows more than ows fori be- fore you, meeting in a circle at your feet, coming and going ag the spray 1 moved by the wind. I! this cataract must have @ name of lish origin tn place i - Indian one it should be called the top of the fall it is necessary series of ladders fastened f the aides of the precipice. These have not been repaired since last autumn, and at the ent time they are rather dangerous, on acc of a bad break near the top of the upper one orytiy “shakiness” to the whole concern. On reac! ing the top of the cataract one can stand behind natural parapet about breast high aud look down the fall and along the cadon o/ the Merced, [tise ood trial of the nerves, and few persons can Kore without a sensation of dizziness. a mile above Piwyack Fall ia the Nevada po ae beautiful, — ceiag prover bg 4 tures than any other of tese beau is. It has not the height of the Yosemite nor the ceful curve of the Plwyack and Bridal Veil, it has height and volume combined, and its background of cliff and mountain brings i¢ O@t more distinetly thau the others, haa the whole volume of the Merced elit. From cine to @ hundred fe it expands as It fat whole sheet from brink tu of foam, whose snowy whiteness the dark rock on either side. Half way down the clit the watet strikes & i that shatters the current when the river ia iow, bul ‘es. int Of exe and logs aad farigied bushes, and among huge pines and Ors, but we pursued our Way up to the bise of the cataract, within fifty yards of the foot of the recipice. No visitof should fall to see thix {ai hough it may Cost him considerable weariness (ir! drench him thoroughly with the falliag spray. The Tivar below the fall is quite @ curiosity, and in some cue presents an appearance rarely found else- ere. As we look toward the Nevada Fall, when approach- ing it from the ladders, we see on the left a moun- tain, with @ rounded summut, having an inclined ledge on one like the staircase of a watch to climb a uring over the at our visit could Several mames have beeu given to this thoufitain, iedioe aie a then @ ortwo, As ite Indian “the it of the aasas- ein,” tt recent it most to call t Mount Lincoln m honor of our ¢ Presi- dent. I trust eae base tar’ In from the Nevada Fall to the lace where She. our ae we the of the Of “the south fork of the Merced. is a waterfall on this whera sooth k «enters the ht and left, 6o that we are re We Can see it, Owing | fore he wes stab stream, we can get directiy in | name, bu I cann It is ee known as the Vernal Fall the ian name Piwyack (Cataract of Dia- ) is and should be re- | being svorn, say’ tamed. Pt by the Merced river hooting in 8 single sheet over a me three hundred feet For beauty of curve Outiine it can | workedhe walked a ross the street bes towards hardly parpeceea. and when we study its dazziing mh the reckets chasing each other he in the sunlight, the In omeet. of spray that rises at ite base there is a | away; le fad taken’ where, though | prisongr stabbed him «in nt in the pris- large rainbows stretching as We moye about in the rare | laces you see Its height 18 seven hundred feet, and 11 | wide at the top, | ils to. nearly twice that width, The | ia one moving Mass | ia finely set out by | ith the prisoner; decease’! just be- 1 called the prisotier an ofvensive remember what else wu, sald; 1 know of jo dificni} y between the two beiure. TRSTIMON (Y OF PETRR SCANLA: ¥ Peter Scanian, ret iding at No. 23 Roosevelt street, :—Yesterday afternoon, i Ah] tel two companions © five andsix o'clock , deceased and I came up Bax: street tether; wh en we got opposile where he the prianer, who W 43 with some other Ii Font tube wnat ¢aald;. presently IT don’t know wi © H ith a kn ife when decei turned to a cou Pr nen the side of the upper tabout the shoulder; deceased Tan @soon as he | vas stabbed across ‘the ‘street, when, he fell; 1 an after the privouer till he was caught; the deca: wed"was brought to the station house TESTIMOMY OF FREDERICK W. HARRIS, Frederick W, Harris. of No. 28 Baxtenstreet, being swom, :—Yesterd ty afternoon, between five and * wix evel L was oe ping. from store, when | saw deceased about | twelve feet m me; he was ing across the stre &t, and the prisoner ran after and stabbed him in 4 1 upper part of his body; deteased fell to the fewalk; the prisoner passed onward and ran away; there were @ number after | hm, including three on ses, OmMcer Hugh Mooney, of the Sixth precinct, testi | fled to arresting the pra soner tmmediat ‘ter the stabbing, when the acca sed turned upon win at , tempt to stab him wit the bloody knife wiich he then held in his hand. Wooster Beach, M. D.,.deposed fo making a post mortem examination on | the the body and fouud ‘ound back of the should@* blade. The steel paased ering the desvendl pnt Instantaneous. fo the jury, who a —“That Joun Rytande, portios of the back | der'ad tite following verdict the Tecensed, came to his ddath by @ stay wound at the bh of Dounado Magaidp, in Baxter street, near Chath. vn, on the 4th day of Maly, 1968." of age, was born at 8 at NO. 36 Mulberry gul Coroner Keenan to the Tombs to await his tris. pram H VAL INTELLIGENCE. The United States steamer Cyane, guardship for the squadron, was Jn the bay of Panama on the a7th ult. The flagship Contoocaok, of the South Atiantic squadron, arrived at Aspinwall on the 2ist uf June, and was to sail immediately @fter the arrival of the New York mais, The gunboat Gettysburg had been relieved a Aspinwall the gunboat Saco, which arriv there on the 24th ult. | ‘Tie United States steamer Nyack arrived at Val- raphgeon aaah oe during the last days of May, u repairs. Dakota ran, expected at Vi 20 from and it wi that the hataa, fi ne saan ron, Was about to make @ © ‘ae Peruvian coast. Magao is thirty-three yer , ly, @ laborer and Panama, ship of ¢ ong