The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1868, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘THE PACIFIC RAILROAD, Hlow It Was Bullt—Its Present Condition— Wher It Will Be Completed—The Country Teroush Which It Passcs—A Railroad City— Hew They Enjoy Themselves. ‘oRnT SAUNDERS, Wyoming Territory, ¥ Ry cngust 21, 1868." Both the town and Territory from whence I date this are of so recent origin that Iam not aware that | Governor Bros, e@&ther has yet been designated on our maps or Mentioned in our geographies, It is perhaps well, therefore, that I should state that I am on the Pacific Railroad, nearly six hundred miles west from SRRrRTeL a 5 ow in The ia run on earlier, race along side by side on the Fort Wayne and Southern roada through the ter and bone boiling adjacencies of the eny of the Northwest to their Lone | Here we joined er and his family and for the proposed ride over the Pacific Railway and vacation visit to the Rocky Mountains, The party and t were a Suggestion from the Speaker's famous “across the continent"? trip of three years ago, ir. Richardson, of the original four, was lamentably lacking now, but the realization of the then prom- Omaha, six thousand five hundred feet above the | ised sinoothness of tie pase added ladies to the com- Missouri river and seven thousand seven hundred feet, “or thereabouts,” above the HERALD office. 1 arrived here the day betore yesterday from the “end of the road,” one hundred and fifiy miles beyond ‘this, after a continuous journey from Omaha to that point. sengers now is Benton City, seven hundred miles west of the Missouri river, but persons who desire to witness the marvel of from two to five miles of railroad track per day are allowed to go forward on a constraction train. ASA Whole column of the Heratp would hardly contain aperfect description of the track-laying feat, I shall Bot now attempt it. Suftice it that it isdone, and well done, too. The road now being constructed is truly | berth and seat a single night, w “first class” one, being well ballasted, well tied and in every respect weil built, unless, perhaps, I ex- cept the rails, which appear too light, Concerning } * parlor with sofas and easy chuirs, by night a cur- the first three hundred miles of the road I cannot @ay as much. It is in many respects shaky, B0 to speak, and reaovating would do it no arm. This, I am informed, is being done, and in faci all the way from Omaha to Cheyenne I saw men at work replacing the wooden culverts and oridge abut- ments with stone hauled from the mountains, The day [was at “end of track” it rained for the first Sine in memory of the oldest inhabitant, but as Benion City is but thirty days old this may not ap- Pear so surprisiag. I could have wished the rain had held off a little louger, for mixing with the aikull dust, which ranges here from four to twelve inches deep, it made a most disagreeable pudding, im which the pe trian slid and shoved about until he gave out ir sheer exhaustion, I thought the condilior Was qu S bad as could be, but was iniormed it ath, rather comfortable; int Wien compared with that of bigh winds sweep over th earrying face b described out West, is a “red hot town,” niade of canvas and very thin buards, liabie to be folde | like “Ye Arab tents,” and moved on to the next station on the road. It claims a population Of about four thousand, which is literally made up of the offscourtugs of creation, Not a dozen shan- ties—bu ldii gs they call them here—are devoted to legilimaic business. ‘The rest are drinking shops, @unbling dens, dance houses, houses of prostitution aud in fact 1doubt whether there is a kind of tni- quity which is not here represented in its mos? dis- gusting features. All go armed generally, with a r of revolvers, strapped outside of their clothir @ Water is not fit to driuk by reason of the Waiskey is very bad and very dear, and hum: 4s remarkably Cheap, @ murder or lynciing being of every day occurrence. I experienced a sevse of re- Mef Whea Thad checked my trucks for this point, aixl the roll of the cars imdicaied we were fairly wnder way from Benton. Fort saunders and Laramie City, two miles dis- tant, Iiteral'y form an oasis in a desert, for take the country all the way trom a hundred and fifty miles ‘west of the Missouri river to two hundred miles west from here, and it is truly a desert, A miliion of acres are not worth a farthing. Sage brush and in Places tufts of buifalo grass are the only vegetation, ad prairie dogs, now as ever, form the only perma- nent luhsbitanis. Hour after hour the cars sweep over a vast arid plain until the eye tires try- ing tocatch a pleasant spot im ali the desolate dis- tance. blutis ther , IL is true, on either hand, but @ good way off, and their sameness seems to in- erevse the monotony, Nothing iaviling presents itself until, coming from the east, we sight the Black Hills, some ten miies beyond Cheyeane. ‘these form ‘the first ran; of the Rocky Mountains. ‘Tue coun- try tien becomes more broken and wild and in places fruly picturesqu ‘rhe mouataius ave ascended with a toler: asy grade, mot exceed- tug, | wm told, eiguty feet to tae nile, Unt at Suer- Mal, live wuodied and lity ives from the initial Pout of the road, we stand, as stated, on the highest ground along t line anywhere belweca the two Oveuis. itis said, by those wo ought to know, to be exght thousand hundred feet high, 1 make this statement cautiously, becaw feliow travelier, Who meusuved the elevation wie in my company, ‘insist somebody has been exaggerating afew Bundred fect on this subject, Fort Saunders been within the past few days Denored with vistis trom General Grant, Speaker Col- fax and Deacon Bross, who “spoke, and General Frank P. Blair, Who has been here some time and will remain some days longer. | have no doubt the time will coe, and ina year or two, at furthest, when this point, including Laramie, will be a favorite yesort of travelers. The Cimate is deiightiul, the atiuospiere clear and bracing, just the teaperature for contort, the scenery grand, embracing in one Sweep Of Lhe eye taree distinct rauges of monnutans, including tue Els and Medicine bow with their higa peaks, always covered with snow. The huner will tere find antelope, bear, elk and feathered game of almost all Kinds, including the “Lo” faraily, as Mr. indian is here kuown, and the disciple of J#ak Walton wil revel in the finest trout that ever snapped at a fy. ioral Blair is, 1 judge, laymg in a good stock of heaiih. He nunts, fishes and en- Joys hinseif hugeiy, seem ly periect! con- cal @ 18 on every: ersution with him fe expressed him. entirely contident of , Gnd becuuse, said he, it is impossibie for the LOW tO Inisjudge; The issues are too well de- uid the inass.s never fall to see and determine ‘The personal popularity of candidates 1 ater resuit. ile patd a higu tribute military genius, aud stated that if iy cerned at what is going on in the great polit Work! beneaih him, witere hit body's tougue bot a bri is not sie ing manuel Cue 'd decide tn Hed evough to Mane a doz but it had ever been in the that the peopie hy look personil poyrlarity wes which, 1 1 herve history of the couut oxed beyond the mere of candidates to the princi- r the me not unl he idea that he was ex Sev and others ever failed in a ity was reiled on. case tins fall. The on negro sulrage, re to tie reconsiruction iderable extent em he could not fr a mo- respect lo aco ston ment believe them or the ao of tue mently yy What We lad see particulariy, Gene ww make a fe perhaps in ti In Con BHects to for his &t Was not 9 came up to our tion. airce people wouid ever tolerate Mnanctal tas emi- eto those present if frou iblic sentiment, he the West coud be any donbt as to the re were iniormed, intends soon Sin Onio aud Indiaua, and mild not forget to pay my re- in charge of the for aihvou, rhe FFrom the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Aagust 19.) DENVER, Colorado, August 9, i863. Chicago, #0 receatiy the western end of ratiway Macs, uuw stands in the very middie of east and west Tadivad coummuiicauon on Wie Continent. Jn round Bambers it ts twelve hundred miles from Chicago eaat to Boston, and also twelve huodred miles frou Chicago west to the present end of the Pacific Katl- Way. Her western arm is rapidly increasing, Last Week we saw the rail laid that rests on the summit ‘Of the continental mouutains, and now the iron line ts following the waters that fow into the Pacific Ocean, Soon Chicago will belong to the East in dk viding railway travel acros# our Contineat; but for the hour she stands in the centre, and looks both ‘Ways with supreme satisfaction, a3 a sort of umpire qucen, and broods beaignantly over the commerce oi the hemisphere, In the fashionable trip of the feason to see tle NeW regions that the railway has anuexed within these two years to our business aud Social life Chicago is alao the resting pli and tie Starting point. We «livide the journey th the old ends there, the new begins, Hut how lately was the oid new aad the new unknown? If you propose to buy real estate in this proud city of tlie West, you will not, of course, delay a moment fm the from New England. Time iu that case is, indeed, money; but if pleasure and comfort are in jour mind you will stop @ day and ® night each at Ragara and at Cleveland. These are the one ations always between Springteld and Chicago. e found the Falls inthe very height of the season. The hotels were overcrowded and hops werenightiy. But the brides and ig bridegrooms were for vie ‘week outnumbered; dowagers and the dentists ‘were in a temporary majority—the former bent on Dusiness looking alike to the division and muitiplica- tion of family expenses, and the latter resting from the vexation of the jaws of the gence of their own. But the majestic waters roiled on as ever, undisturbed and anheeding the petty anxieties of women and drowning the vain wranglings of men, How can the Marthas of both sexes continue Marthaa in the presence of this great pricet and pia. Bosopher of nature! Whether you come west by Erie or frail, or vittsvurg abd Fort Wayne, laying | an, and form a part of ail the through trains on ‘the republican party has donefor the country, and at the promise of iis continued power and usetul- always agreeable to the earnest-feeling and vigorous- acting peopie of the Wesi. ‘The Northwestern road ts now the only one that comes in direct from the east; but next year tWo more, the Rock Island and Burlington, ccossing lowa lower down, will be finished, lines from Chicago to the Paciiic road at this point. The road from the south, along the Missouri river, is just finished by Mr. Wiilis Phel, making @ conlinuous line up the river from Kansas City to Council Bluits and connecting St. Louis by the Hannibal and St. Joseph road, as well as py the Pactilc Railroad of Missouri, with the Union Pacific. indeed St, Louis is thus placed 125 miles nearer to Council Bintts Chicago now 1s. north from Council Biuits to Sioux City on the Missourl Blais is 8,000; nearly 1,300 uew buildings were evected in it last year; the oider and better parts of the town lie back from the river oa the bluds, aud in Deautiul and wooded ravines amoag them, but the newer and business portions come down into the bottom lands by the river, and where the rallway tracks ceutre, mnetrics jesty of location and 18 wide spreading improve- have given it almost feverish development and tt al- ready holds a population of fifteen to seventeen country a8 auyin the West—abundanil fertile to the highest degree, not espect in thuber, and with a climate as well balanced as any on the continent. the cars, as three to enthu Prati dis f this J pris as any discovery of tiis Journey. yond, water and timber are scantler, the roll of the begin. the dezert. nud will support flocks by the tuougands and hun- dreds of thousands, while I see no wheat may not be grown upon thea, without artid- cial irrigation, as well or nearly as well as in Call- fornia, “But the railroad has for the time remanded them to the Indian and the wolf and bifalo, Tue ranches which the stage line and the trains of freight and emigrants supported all along through them are now deserted. the old roads are substantially abandoned, aud tac settlers, funding their occupation and protection gone, desert theig old homes and gather in at the railway stations or move on to the greater local de- velopments beyond. ‘The loss?s of these setliers, as well as of the ‘stag means of comurmaication have been very great. i; hey are the victims of a higher civilization, ndig ty the locomott ublic to the indul- New York Cen- by Mivhigao | Of Work Bus it bas bot cost them pany. Sq wenumbered ten, divided as Noah did lus chosen companions on the ark, ag in a luxurious “Pullman palace car” we this day week swept out across Northern Iilineis and Oentral lowa over the Mississippi river aud on to the Missouri by the great Chicago and Northwestern Salinas, These Puilinan cars, by the way, reach a degree of co! fort and lux- The actual western terminns for pas- | UY tha’ nothiag in the form of sleeping cars or “colpartnenv” cars on the Bustern roads yet ap- proaches, They are built and owned by a company at the head of which are two brothers named Pull- nearly ail the long lines of railway in the West. ‘The roads keep the cars in repair and run thom, and the Paliman Company get their puy and a generous proilt from the extra for their occupancy. hese charges vary with the amount of room & passenger chooses to take and the length of the journey run with them, from $1 50 for a singie to $10 for douile or quadrup.c seats aad beus and a two days’ ride. For a dozen Persane one of these cars is tue very aeme of comfort in railway travel. By day it is like tained bed for cack, nears as counmodious and quite a3 easy a8 home can furalsh, ‘Tho ventilation is as free as you choose to have it, but the cinders and i be waolly Kept out, and as yet no shower balls are provided, ‘The accominodations 8X or forty-eig lt persons for each r numbers each passenger wud @ narrow berth, Ours was witha little organ built dato uor Lross’ songs by, for we » of nature wich the music of ng m it day and night, over prai- to te very crest of the continental ue party Was of just a conveuient size modations, ano our jour days aud nights of live on the rail in it, with the vast enro.ment, of lie and uature that they atford us, and tue varied pas times they raced, Will associate the name of i’ull- man will blessed memories forever, ‘dhe irst \Wenty-four ours carried us flye hundred Miles—to the Missourl river at Council Biails and iv) ex Le © has but a single @special anu new ¢ its sule to plich Gov t Lime to the mus! art as We ro. rie and hill, mountains. for ils acco! i ‘Though but a new country most of tae way ly out of sight of the golden stubble of u of Waving corudeids, The atthe richness of the soil, olliug prairie, the abundance of the harvests, the rapid settlement and cultivation of tue country, Where ali the people come from, and where ail the grain and hay they grow go to, At the larger villages crowds gathered to see and wel- come the next Vice President, the everywhere popu- lar Colfax. Forbidden by his sense of propriety and duty from partisan speech, he responds to such calis with but general allusions to political questions, ex- changing congratulations with his friends at what hess in the tuture, Goveruor Bross feels freer in his tongue, and goes in with @ practical pertinency to the personal aud political issues of the year that 18 Council Bluffs on the Iowa side and Omaha on the Nebraska side of the Missouri have grown rapidly in two years, and are desiincd to be large towns, as an important railroad centre. A bridge will soon con- nect them and carry cars back and forth between ine roads of the East, centring at Council Bluits, aud the great contineutal road that begins at Omaha, , and make three direct of Springfield, aud Omaha by raiiroad than Another road is already open river. The population of Council Omaha rises more directly and sym- iy from the opposite bank; you ‘see its ma- its at @ glance, the operations of the Pactile road thousand, Ite future growth can hardly be so rapid, but both itand tts opposite neihbor are sure of hoiding @ large aud steadily increasing popuie- tion. Nebraska, for the first one hundred or two nun- dred miles west from the river, is certainly as fine a watered, ly lacking ‘The ride through it now on rears ago in the sf ds stirring sin, wiille the extent of its settlomeat improveiment since the tormer visit tg oy prairie ceases and the great plains properly But nobody now gives these the old name of At the least they are fine pasture iands, 1 reason wh. ‘The cars take travellers aud freight, e line, by tils revolation in the ‘Phe and the butfalo gave Way to then—they yield in turn. The ratiroad has petty ith turnouts for every ten or fifteca miles, ble depots, with encine houres once in a houdred milea, ‘he % vut are Grand isiand (160 Platte (291), Sidney (414), Chey- Julesburg, list nothing, aud the divisioa stu. departure for Colo- TErowtl. There is a po wl thous ' Cheyenne, tie tions, and the prese (hotel 18 in the séutu que-ness of urig- big temple at Sa y the rad- rently seriously large were has been a coat yar tie tullroad peopie themsety her Cheyenne should be & town or not; it 1s not, peruapa, fully net+ tled yet, nor is it determined tust ihe bran vo Denver shall connect 4 tenderness in the real es apeecir of Its people conce! he future. The see ond twenty-four hours’ rade brought u his y aud here the plaina proper ad aad tie mountain , but the ler ia to. be adual is the coinpletely road Op Wide valleys or plaias to the Very top of the hills, But do sympatietic eyes require to be told that we fre now entering upon a new order of scenery, ‘The out-look is a succession of novel beauties for ‘he oue hundred and iiity miles west trom Choy 2; aud fortunate are those who can ride through it upon ine englae, the top of the cars, or at least ihe piatform rear one. In this distauce the road passes up ck hilla, the first range of the Kecky ioun tafng, reaching at Sherman (548 miles) their highest point—and the highest point that the entire road has to mount in all its passage from the Miseouri river vo the Pacific Ocean—and then runs on through the “famous Laramie platas. It is ailogetier the most in- teresting and novel portion of the route so far opened. Rich black mountains bound the horizon north and south; a dash of suow on peak or ade oc. cusionally eniivens the view and deepens the color. ing; aioug your pathway are fine valleys or broader laing, rich in grass and flowers; nature has fash- oned it for railroad; scattered around tn vailey or plain as the track approacties the summit are monuments of rock grotesquely or | symtetri- cally arranged; bere a wall as if for a bul. wark, there the ruin of a cathedral or fort, again a half finished building, anon the fashion of a hugo dismasted screw umer, With paddle astern and pilot boat ahead; over all an atmosphere so pure t the eye seerms to take In all space, and so dry i exhilarating that life palpably dilates and every sense is as if bathed tn innocuo%s champagne. Here Would seem to be the fountain of heaith; and among these lijlls and piains ts sarely to be many & summer resort for the invalid and the ea seeker inf the by no means distant future, ‘Tho hills have timber, thongh the plains are bare of ft, and the water runs Pure and bright and carries trout in abundance, as plains and mountains give deer, mountain sheep, Antelope and grouse. This whoie wide pathway up and over the mountains seems to have been fashion- ing for its present use for ages, The hills have Wasted into plain; those golid walls of and Granite disintegrated and dissipated rom these “bi 4 Tock that lie scattered about with such uresque effect are all that are left, the very bral, 20 to speak, of what was once but @ close succession of Feal rocky Mountains—a@ Pelion uvon Osaa that fore bade pa to wheel of wagon or car. ‘This one hundred and fifty miles ts the precise tlon of the track for which the rail company has got the highest subsidy of $45,000 8 mile from the government, The equal amount advanced from their own first morgage bonds makes $96,000 @ mile that the company has received in cash for this Over $20,000 & tucre is # visible rket and an if in tue night, exce ties and the rails. With the present commercial busi- ness of the road the materi Miles a day can be brought up, and tits is about the average progress, two brothers Casement, from Ohio, men of wonder- ful energy 11 rauroad building organization of labor. advance, ton aud Sait Lake vailey, indeed, fully half is al- ready tinisied; and for tue track laying @ picked force of about tour hundred men are empioys ties are carried ahead a mile or two supply train by teams, aud iad by a special gang; but the rails are brought forward on a piatiorm car to the very edge; places, Bad two meat the; one pusi “gon, trough the laborers are charged but $20, line of the work; duly r iinished and open to public travel irom end to end. becn a suaject of sor anxiety. Fro acter ‘of the work is quite up to of other new rowls io original mile. Thereare Tam sure, any one hundred and fifty miles of rail in New that have been wo Gusily and cheaply. is mach more heavy and expensive work upon the road between ‘Atbauy and Springdeld shan upon the whole of ¢uis, ‘There are two or turee places, of a few hundred'feet each, of heavy rock ge equal extent of high embankment, not more two thousand feet of Reigeteg, @ Said; the rest is just the easiest and pret- tiest railroad bul bate lms distance that materials su} food) must be hauied, cheaper the work the plains; for the earth to be moved is Little and of Just the sort that gives a firm, tinmovable bed, The geraper and the shovel ar@all the tools needed for five-sixths of this whole “mountain” sec- tion, The wonder at the rapid progress of the Toad grows less as we gee here how nature hud kindly paved the way. Further on, as tie road passes down the Pacific side of the mountains into the Salt Lake valley there is work for powder and ickaxe, and the progres# must be slower; but for hat section the subsidy ts less, or of the second grate of $32,000 a mile; and yet Ido not suppose there 1s a single fifty mile division of the whole line, this side of sult Lake at least, that has or will costaa much to build as the government subsidy and the first bonds nave furnished cash suyplies for, Beyond tus oue hundred and filty mile division west of Cheyenne, which I have dwelt on at this Jength because of 18 various interest, the character of tue couniry changes and a real desert pisin be- gins, Alkali Whiten Lhe so.1 and poisons tie water, and the suge busi is the only vegetation that thriv ‘Tue road is open for puviic use to Benton (94 mi just beyoud whe crossing of the north fork of the North Piatie, and here on the ashy plain, with not a biade of grass, much less a tree, with the delicate, poisonous dast Mhing the air and irritating every seuss, Is a Most exaggerated and offensive speciinon of the mushroom town tual jollows the temporary term/oaus of the road, A thousand or two people fathered in tenis and Cheap board shanties; the roud employs a hundred or two; afew of the res cheap storexeepers, but the great bulk are ranning “restauranis” and “saloons” or are downright loaiers and speculators in the viees of themselves and ther fellows, “itis enough to turn a heatthy stomach to wade through the deep and volattie dust of its streets and study the prevailing life along them, Purgatory would be & paradise coinpared to it fora wees’s resi- dence, ‘Tuirty days hence it wili move on and evapo- rate, else it would soon perisit from its own poisons of earth aua aur and humanity. Sach an aggrava- tion of disagreeableness aud oilensiveness can only long exist by frequent changes. {t would rot with permanence, Meaawhue the railroad peopie turn ¢ pretty penuy by speculation in its temporary oppo tunities. Hive hundred to a thousand dollars ai cuarged for a lot or a shanty bhat to thirty or sixt days will be useless, Some $30,000 to $40,000 said to have beeu made thus by the monopoly of the location of Benton, and the game is. repeated at every iresh halt of the open trac The road is al- ready laid forty-four miles beyond Benton, and is go- ing @icad at the rate of three miles aday. ‘hese forty-four mues reach the point where they slope to- wards tite Paciiic regions, and itis to be marked by a station calied Creston, Bat it 18 not so high by over one thousand feet as the summit of the Black ills, where the station beara the name of Suerman, One hundred miles more from Creston west will bring the road to Green river, and finishes the “bitter Creek country,” which may be said to be- gin at the end of the Lamarie plains, or say at the crossing of the north fork of the North Platte, and run for 150 mules, Itis all such as I have deseribed the country about Benton to be—a barren aikalt desert, easy enough to build a railway through with the materials brought forward, but without water even for the engines through at least one hundred miles of it, and with nothing but distant mountains to invite the eye or cheer the hope of travellers. A fine bituminous coal is found upon it, as also upon tue Laramie plains, and is aiready in successful use in the locomotives, and good water will probably be obtained by deep weils; but for the present tiere have to be water trains from below, as well as rail, and tie, and food trains, to keep the work in pro- gress. The afternoon of-the day we were at the end of the track, a locomotive used up its water, the sup- yy was gone and all work had to be given up ull he next day, betore which the next water train Would not come up. The process of laying the track is indeed as tnter- esting as has been described. There is no limit to its speed, inside of eight miles a day, including the yt the ability of the road to bring up the for no more than three The work is under the charge of and great skill in the ‘The grading is kept far in Of the three hundred miles between Cres- . The from the two are dropped to thew ‘ar putied by a trained horse over thein, re dropped, and so on, while the mo- fal men adjust them exactly, others fol- Jow with spikes and uivets, and others stil with shoves and bars to level and strengthen the whole work. The thomenta car load of iron 1s exhausted c ui to the iront, and so the round goes on with the reguianty of clockwork. The lodgings and warding houses of the laborers keep progress wilh the track, A long train furnishes kitchen, dining room and partial lodgings, and carries tents lor the Test of the latter, and these are pitched Wherever the night finda them. A drove of cattle follow along and brouse among the sage brusi of tae adjacent hil- locks, to be siaushtered from day to dag for fresh beef. Tho contraccors farnisu the board, which is excellent, and costs them $40 a month for each eS ve happened to be at the end of the track when the tram moved up with its dianer, and sat down by in- Vitation to share it, It incinded boiled beef, pork and beans, tomatoes, peas and potatoes, canned peaches and blackberries, bread and buiter, and tea and cotfee, all of the very first quality; and alto- other, to us, It was the best cooked tinea! we had found since leaving the Missouri river. Yous it is, in part, that the contractors get good workmen and rapid work. They pay from $4 to f4 50 a day wages, aud these are the rates for the laborers ail along the but not all the contractors feed thelr men as weil as the Casements, Last Thursday, the day we were at the end of the road, it reached to seven hundred and thirty-eignt miles from Omaha, or tweive hundred and fifty from Chicago, and was witiin two hundred and_ eighty- eight miles of Salt Lake valley. And one mules to Green river will be finished before Occober 1, aud then the public end of the road will be advanced from Benton to that point, but probably not moved forward at all til! that time. certain tat the road will be finished into the Salt Lake valley thia year; the probability ts that the winter end of the road will be at Harris’ Fork, some twenty-five miles beyond Green river and the point of departure for the Montana branch; but there can be litte lavor left for the completion of the track to Sait ayo companies; both are surveying and locating it, and the eascern company are absviutely sure Of contro. hug at least one wuudred inJes of It. General Dodze, theur chief engineer, has gone forward to Sats Lake to push on the preparalions and make the final loca- tions. close to the uortieru on piles over @ considerable section of its waters, The one hundred Jt is not Lake in the miles west alispute between spring. ‘The first two of Salt Lake is stil! the eastern ana western lity ig that the road will be run The probav: te of Salt Lake, even gong 0 the spaces between several isiands that yw its nortueru ara. This will leave Salt Lake riy-tive mies to the south, The 1st of ar will certainiy witness the entire road What a great and giorious four years work this will be! ‘The manner In which the road is being bnilt has dispute and considerabie id see and hear, the cuar- the a “ane America, better, I shoud think, than most of the Western roads on their counpietion. Of course, with such temptation to speed as exists, thoroughness is sacrifced to that at first; wide detours are made to avold sow cuts; trestle-work takes the piace of pier bridges or high embankments, and the track 18 not filed up fall and firm; but after gettin: ahead, contractors or company go back and perfec the Lne, cutting Off unnecessary curves, putting in stone cuiverts aud piers, aad every way responding to all the exactions of the government commis- stoners who taspect the work, and by whose ap- proval only caf the road obtala the governmeat grants. Everytalng, tn fact, depends upon these gentiemen; if the government and the people Po they all L eou being cheated in the character of this work, Are respousibic—it ts becwuse they are bribed or de- ceived into Cyt of imperfect construction. The Standing anu Lavelligence of at least two of the three comm ssioners—General Buford, of Rock Island, and General Frank P, lair, tue democratic candidate for Vice President—are ‘as good guarantee as could be had, perhaps, that neither thing is done, Both Were educated at West Point; Geaeral Buford has hat long practical experience as an engineer; they Know Waat honest aud proper railroad work 18, and both have a character and ition in the country that they eanuot afford to compromise by any fallure to perform their fail duty in a matter Of such impo. tance as this, The third commissioner, aa shpat “, Rew Maven, Conn., is unknown to the vole anid aids Hothing in this way to the responsl- bility of the board or the conildencs of the country. Yet I do not know that he is not as reliable and in- teiligent personaily as I believe the others to he. They are evidently construing the bargain liberally to the company, but because they recognize the im- Portance of the early compleiion of tue road, and iso because they have contiience in the pw of the managers to repair all_negiects and put line into thorough condition, “Wherever temporary curves are made to gain time, the straight or per- manent line ts measured by the commissioners in counting the leugth of rond to be paid for. arantee of the faithful building of great at road, ‘al bul this fr which the government has given such bountiful Grants, lies in the fact that ite bulld present owners have iat come ae conclu- sion that it will be worth keeping and running ag well aa worth building, 04 rereto- fore they have probably justified the suspicion tuat they woult abandon {t to the first m bondhoiders, after securing the great profits construction; but the large and profitable cial business already pouring in upon the red and the incalcuiabio vaiue of the land grants in the fu- ture have combined to produce a change of feeling and purpose which is manifest in an improved con- struction and a general eye to permanency of posses- sion, ‘This is an important as well as significant im- dication, and, | believe, a correct one, So frequent are the calis won We commissionere 5 4 a F i at : se eeaste fesse #7 in friendly and familiar intercourse ing. The smoke of their ci- Iningled in a common volume, as the incense of their common patriotisin goes up for their country’s ifare and glory, Both are in fine health and spir- its, and alike confident of the election of thetr re- spective tickets,. Mr, Blair really seems sincere in be eh ie a Seg yh, and is the Seat man of his 'y I have met or West, who appears so, Bar railroad excursion ended in the retura to Chey- enne on Friday moraing, and then a stage ride of one hundred and ten miles and twenty-one hours brought us hither. long letter; but the journey was long, and ‘This the main subject is one of the first public interest at this time, But you won’t get another letter in a hurry, and you may read thisin instaiments, For to-morrow we start on a series of excuraions to the mining centres and natural parks of the high moun- tain regions of Colorado, and they wil! cover a month of the, dud give no opportunity for writing. NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN BANKIPTCY. Decisions. Before Judge Blatchford. In the Matler of Andrew T. Van Tuyl, a Bank- rupt.—This case liad been before the Revister for in- vestigation and examination of the bankrupt, and now Gime before Judge Blatchford in consequence of bankrupt having refased to answer certain que: fons which opposing counsel insisted on. The Keg: ister, therefore, submitted the matter for direc- tions, Judge Blatchford, in delivering his opinion, says:— The bankrupt having stated that he dues not own the house he lives in, questions reiating to the owne! ship (which the bankrupt refused to answer “unle: compelled to”) are irrelevant, Question five is ir- relevant, unless the bankrupt owns the furniture and named in it, Questions six and seven are irrelevant, uniess the bankrupt owns or has kept the horses and carriages referred to. Questions eight, nine, ten afd thirteen on their face relate to property which is not the property of tie bankrupt, and are therefore irrelevant. The foregoing decision was duly certified by the Clerk of whe Court to the Registers SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. Tue Councilmanic Imbrogtio. Before Judge Barnard, The hearing in the case of the People ex rel. George ivans vs. The Board of Councilmen, which stood postponed from Tnesday in eonsequence of the unavoidable absence of counsel, was yesterday again postponed froma similar cause. Plaintiffs’ counsel, Mr. Shaffer, was first unable to attend on acconnt of an unexpected deteniion on his way to tie city. Yesterday it was the defendants’ counsel that was absent, Mr. O'Gorman being in attendance atthe Board of Audit, The case stands postponed tall this morning. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Tho Submarine and Floating Pen Litigation. Before Judge Daly. Holden vs. Littie.—In this case, the particulars of which have already appeared in the Heratp in some of the other different aspects in which it has been before the courts, a motion was yesterday made for an order to show cause why an injunction granted to restrain the gale and negotiation of a patent for a “floating pen” by the defendant should not be vacated. Mr. Edwin James, counsel for the defendant, read the affidavit of an ex- perienced electrician, setting forth that the patent for the defendant's invention, the “floating pen” was a distinct and separate invention from any and.all others referred to in this controversy, and that it could not, and had not been considered as a mere improvement of any other invention bear- Ing upon the uses for which the floating pen was designed. On these grounds defendant's counsel | Shae yaa that the order of injunction should be vacated. Judge Daly granted an order to show cause, to be argued on the ist September next. CITY INTELLIGENCE, Tne WEATHER YESTRRDAY.—The following record willshow the ohanges in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, a8 indicated by the ther- mometer at Hudami’s pharmacy, 218 Broadway, Ler- ALD Butlding: Average temp ure Average for Monday. Founp Drownep.—The body of an unknown man ‘Was found in the river off East Thirty-seventh street yesterday morning. ScppgsN DeraTn.—At an early hour yesterday morning Ann Callahan, aged twenty-six years and a native of Ireiand, died suddenly at 317 East Thirty- first street, Coroner Rollins was notified, Found Drownep.—The remains of an unknown man were discovered in the East river yesterday, Bear the foot of Thirty-seventh street, and towed ashore. The Coroner was notified of the fact, and ordered the removal of the body to the Morgue for inquest and identification. Coup KILLep BY A FALL.—Coroner Schirmer held an inquest yesterday over the body of a little girl, named Caroline McFarland, aged two years and eight months. She fell from a second story window ou Sunday, at the residence of her parents, 444 West ‘Thirty-irst street. The jury rendered a verdict of — by concussion of the brain, caused by the fall, Tus TENTH PRECINCT PoLIce HEADQUARTERS. — Very cramped rooms over one end of Essex Market have, for a long time, constituted the headquarters of the Tenth precinct police force, Additional room has now been granted them and workimen yesterday coumenced tearing down parutions with a view to enlarge their boundaries, SuppEen Dearie av BLACKWELIS Istanp,—An in- quest will be held to-day by Coroner Schirmer at the Biackwell’s Island Hospital over the remains of Michael Costelio, a native of Ireland, aged thirty. four, Who was sentenced on Tuesday to serve a term of three months’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary for petit larceny, and who died suddenly soon after his arrival from unknown causes, Rew MING THE ToMBS.—That ancient temple of justice, yelept the Tombs, around whose sepul- chral grim gray granite walls a fearful gloominess has hang for a long time, is about to undergoa th " ‘oldings now encircle is, and masons, plas- carpenters and painters are busy giving it a presentable outer appearance, PERSONAL.—Generals George B. Dandy and R. Granger and ¢ nel A. Zabriskie, United States Army; Judge ine, Georgia, and Hon. B. F. Fuller, Ohio, ave stopping at Ue Metropolitan Hotel. G.N, Foster, Delaware: 8. I. Currier, Ohio; W. Lewis, Peunsyivania, and J. Connor, Virginia, are at the Astor House, A. H. Bewee, Iinois, and Mra, Graham, of Pennsylvania, are at the Merchants? Hotel. A. Bourn and W. H. Smith, Georgia; G. B. Cornell, Hiinois; J. Wilkins, Texas, and ¥. B. Draper, Massachusetts, are at the Western Hotel. Novet Can Casvauty.—A boy named reter Snic- ter, thirteen years of age, residing at 110 Vesey street, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon by being crushed between car No. 65 and a telegtaph Re on the corner of Vesey and Greenwich streeta, he proximity of the car tracks to the curb at num- bers of te turnings presents a constant peril to foot travellers in Lom f parts of the city whose escape from being injured as this boy Was is more of an ac cident than its occurrence, THe GUILLOTINE AT Work.—The republican me- cessor of the late General Halpine, General Patrick H. Jones, in the Register’s office, yesterday raised « very unexpected commotion in the City Hall Park by erecting a cuillotine for the decapitation of clerks in the City Register’s building. John Sheridan, ex- aminer, was removed, and in his place was aj oa John Walker, a republican politician of the jineteenth ward, Chartes Ford, folio clerk, has also been removed. It is asserted that a general sweep of democratic clerks will taki piace next week. Such are the checkered fortunes of politicians, CASUALTIRG YRSTERDAY.—John Jordan, ten years Of age, residing at No. 401 avenue A, while getting ome wood from the river, got between a canal boat nd the dock and was jammed in such a manner as To recovery doubtful, He was taken to Mertin Leonard, aged thi residing at No. 117 Twenty-sixth street, wie riding on the plat- ofa avenue car early Seo accidentally fell off and cut @ severe gash in his fore- Musto AMOWG THE LUNATICS aT BLACKWRrL's Istanp.—Yeaterday afternoon Hooley’s minstrel band visited the Lunatic Asylum, and while in the building gave one of their unique entertainments, in character, introducing many of theis mort Siearing astonished from the lookers-on. AD occa- minstrel a0 A Naknow EsosPs.—On Tuesday afternoon, while the carriage of Mr. Jerome Fellowes (in which was seated three ladies), to which were attached his fours-in-hand, was being driven through the upper Park, i near the deer paddock, collided wi? the o/? of 4 Mr, Marsh, in which also was ‘seated a Mr. Carr. ‘The last named gentleman, by the force of the con- cussion, was thrown from hie place in the vegicle to the ground and slightly injured. Mr. Marsh, with at presence of mind, noticing the rin which he leaders of Mr. Fellowes would if not checked place the ladies, ran to the wire railing which en- closes the deer age and succeeded in soothing the frightened stee: The ladies throughout the trying scenes preserved & heroic calmness of demeanor. Newszoys’ LopGiIng Hovse.—A Chicago paper has given currency to a story which 1s entirely false, but which has a tendency to injure, in the minds of the benevolent, one of the noblest charities of this city—the Newsboys’ Lodging House. It states that an agent of the House recently took two boys, Andy Shields and William Jordan, to Lincoln, Til, and there deserted them, forgetting to pay the hotel bill. The story is altogether improbable. Jt hardly needs & formal refutation, We may here add we have authority for saying thas boys of the name were never taken from the Lodging House, were never occupants of it, and that no ex- pedition to Lincoin, ill, was ever sent from it, ‘These denials ought to induce the Chicago journal to withdraw without qualification its ingenious and | wholly gratuitous statement. RECOVERY OF STOLEN Goops.—About half-past eleven o’clock yesterday morning officer Walmsley, of the Eleventh precinct, had his attention drawn by the movements of, two young men carrying a bundle and box through Second street, Tne orticer followed them to avenue D, where they both got on a car, and observ- ing themselves still followed by the officer, passed through 2, and while he was getting on the rear platfo-m jumped off the front and ran away, leaving the bundle and box behind, which the oficer took charge of and brought to the station house, Upon examination this proved to be a bandsome silver tea service that was stolen from the premises of bir. Howard, of Fifty-first street, near Eighth avenue, on Saturday night last. Fire MaRsHa’s Revorrs.—Fire Marshal Brackett has reported to the Police Commissioners the re- sult of his investigations into the causes of recent fires in effect as follows:—July 29, 12 M., No. 8 Park Place, evidently an incendiary fire. Auqust 2; 6:20 A. M., No, 943 Second avenue, cause not ascertained, August 3, 1:15 A. M., Nos, 221 and 222 West street, supposed to have been ignited by sparks from the kitchen stove, the pipe of which projected through the roof, August 10, 8:07 P. M., No. 223% Division street, accidental. August 12, 12: M., evi- dentiy of an incendiary origin; 6:44 P. M., No. 76 Varick street, roof supposed to have ignited from sparks from @ fire in one of the upper rooms. August 14, 2:60 P. M., No, 13 Fulton street, Brooklyn, supposed to have been caused by grease ignitins from the heat generated for a smoke house on thir and fourth stories. August 15, 5:45 P. M., Broome street, mischievously set fire by a boy, Henry C, Wheeler, now in custody. August 17, No. 194 Bleecker street, caused by sparks from a stove, August 18, 6:30 P, M., supposed to have been caused by burning soot falling down the chimney. August 19, 12 M., No. 135 Hight avenue, same cause; 9:05 P. M., caused by the breaking of a kerosene lamp near some vil cans, A CiAaPren IN AN UNWRITTEN NovEL.—A short time since a successful burglary was committed in Westchester county, which, as @ German named Charles Webb, a servant in the family robbed, dis- appeared the morning succeeding, was generally supposed to have been perpetrated by him or with his com) Lhe @ Accordingly all efforts having for their object the arrest and punishment of the offend- ers were directed to discover his whereabouts, but without success, Yesterday he presented himself to Inspector Dilks at the Central office in this city and related that, being awakened on the night of the burglary by the noise made by the thieves i effecting an enirance he was about giving the alarm when he was seized by them and threatened with instan- taneous death if he made the least noise. Being afraid of his life he remained dumb, and the burglars on retiring took him along with them. Since then he has, through the same fear, remained away from his home aud kept silence respecting bis captors; but becoming weary of such constant terrorism and knowing the suspicions his absence would occasion, he managed to escape their survelllance and asked to be returned to Westchester county to be examined regarding his rart .in.the robbery. He was re- manded accordingly. Boakp orf AUDIT.—One of the most important claims with which this Board has had to deal came up before it yesterday at noon. The claim is made by the executors of the estate of the late Daniel Devlin, for the sum of $434,000 for commissions on the city money received and paid out by him as City Chamberlain. The claimants argued that Mr. Devlin Was hot aware of the fact that he was entitled to any percentage on the moneys deposited with him on acconnt of the city, bnt that in settling up his estate they (the executors) found that the amount claimed was due to Mr. Devlin in accord- ance with the provisions of the Jaws of 1830, and that it should accrue to the benefit of- his eatate. Corporation Counsel O'Gorman opposed the claim, putting in, of course, the usnal protest as to the constitutionaiity of the Board and tis right to interfere in the matters brought before it. -Mr. O'Gorman, however, agreed to the examination of Witnesses under protest, but no points other than as above gtven were elicited by the testimony. The case was further adjourned until Friday noon. The claims of C. L. Purdy for $5,379 tor building fire ap- paratus during the year 1864, and of W. McKeag and others for services ag attorneys in defending suits against the old Board of Excise from 1857 to the time of their creation of the Metropolitan Board of Excise, were heard and decisions reserved. IMPROVEMENTS ON THB SZCOND AVENUB RalL- RoaD.—Improvements in city railroads—when in- angurated and prosecuted with the broader and bet- ter purpose to give additional accommodation and comfort to the travelling public, and not for the sin- gic purpose of inereastng the company’s receipts with Increased discomfort to the public—are to be hailed ad a Diessing. Such a spirit, having in view the welfare of its tens of thousands of daily patrons, is showing itself in the man- agement of the Second Avenue Ratiroad. Gangs of workmen are laying down a new kind of rail, which is a-great improvement on the old one; large and commodious stables are being built at the corner of Sixty-fourth street to take the place of the old and rickety stabies at Forty-second street; constraction ind repair shops are to be built near by, and a large id stately depot and car house of ornamental ‘chitecture are 8.00 to displace the contracted and dilapidated butiding now in use, All these latter improvements, which have so long been needed, it bas been impossible to make through inability to procure until lately, either by lease or purchase, the hecessary jand upon which to build. Jt ts also in contemplation to introduce horse cars of lighter and more gracciil construction than the present heavy and cumbrous pattern. Marked improvements are aiso to be made on the upper part of the road. All the dummy engines are to be detached from the cars and longer and more commodious passenger cars introduced. An effort will also be made to compel the nntighted portion of the street to bs lit with gag by the gas companies, la compliance with the condi- tions of their charters. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. , CARRYING BURGLARS' TooLs.—OMcer Buck!ey ar. rested Jolin Connor and Charles —, at @ late hour on Tuesday night, as they acted in a snspicton man- ner in the streets, As they were found in possession of burglars’ tools, they were locked up for trial by Justice Hogan on the charge of hav! felonious intent. HELD For TRtAt.—An examination was had yos- terday, before Justice Hogan, in the case of William Maillard, who ts accused of having forged the name of John Wallace to a receipt for As the charge was sustained by the evidence, the magistrate granted a full commitment and the prisoner was remanded to a ceil. Daring Lanceny.—As Lewis Drisener, @ tailor at 65 Chatham street, was attending a customer, he saw John McGaftny deliberately seize a valuable coat from @ pewand ran off with the same, He was arrested alter asharp chase by @ policeman who heard the alarm given by the owner of the coat, and- arraigned before Justice Hogan, Who him for trial. ALLEGED Proxrocret.—James Monroe was de- tected yesterday in the act of removing a eilver Watch from the yest pocket of Henry Rogers, ome ing at No. 8 Hudson place, Brooklyn. He immedt- auiy dropped the Emepiece and attempted to escape. He was, however, secured and brought be- fore Justice Hogan at the Tombs. committed to answer the charge pi AN OvrRacE.—Poter Burns, a repulsive looking young man, was arraigned before Justice Hogan @n outrage the of Mary Ann sey, aged nine years, ron, aged veven and Anne years, who reside at No. 62 James st! ‘The chi dren were terribly diseased in pommegpence of out as snowa medical the ‘wretch Was reman for examination, YACHTING NOTES, ‘The sloop yacht Tda, formerly of the Hoboken Yacht Club, was cone of yesterday at auction for the trifling sum of $880. Th # dn ia $f feet in length, 13 feet beam, 13 tons measurem and has Just been ‘woroughiy overheuled and with every ‘The new City Register is making the clerks in his department shake in their shoes, The guillotine has been set up in their midst, and the slaughter of the innocents promises to be numerous. ‘The fall trade ts backwant. Southern and Weaterts merchants are not buying so freely as they ought. They are waiting for the final returns from the cot- ton and cereal crops The epistolary s'rangements for notifying citizene of arrest by deputy sherif™, as arranged by Mr. O’Brien, are gimirable. All that ts necessary is to draw out the revolver and by a bullet-do settle the: whole troubie. What a misfortune to the people it would have been if the Sheriif’s deputies had, by way of serving the writs issued by the Supfeme Court, fired into the members of the Board of Coun- cilmen, as they did at the old doorman and property boy of the New York theatre the other night, and: thus have saved themselves and the public and Judge Barnard further trouble about “purging of contempt’"on the part of the refractory municipal legislators. Of what possible use to the municipal government or the people is the City Library? It is about thee last place one can visit to get information on lgcal subjects. It affords politicians one or two nice little berths, and that is all. Weare always desirous of calling the attention of the City Hall Ring to the nice little jobs that can be worked up and out of which fortunes may be made. Now, in addition to facing the lateral lines of our harbor with granite blocks aga substitute for wooden piers, which we suggested the other day, we urge updh the gentlemen who “go in for chances” in the aifferent departments to turn their attention to the necessity of dredging the Harlem river and blasting out Spuyten Duyvel creek, so that the northern waters of the jaland equally with the southern may be made navigable, ere is a couple of millions im this little job. When is fell Gate to have its obstructions re~ moved. Months sipce there was something sai@ about a Congressional appropriation and the imme diate blasting of the rocks which so seriously inter- fere with navigation and the commerce of the port, but of late the matter appears to have died out, Blasting Hetl Gate must be admitted to be a sulphur- ous business, The new Court House in the City Hall Park, facing’ Chambers street, is rapidly approaching completion. It will certainly be a maguificent addition to our public buildings, considering how “honest” every- body is who haa had anything to do with its con- struction. If Ann street does not want widening it certainly does paving. It isin a horrid condition. Why is it not Nicolsonized ? The adherents of Salnave tn Hayt! are anxiously awalting the ‘arrival of the Galatea, now lying snugly at her berth -in the East river, to save them from the insurrecttonists. They have an idea that if they could only get the iittle gunboat at the fortificas tions of the rebels her guns would “knock spots’? ous of them in no time—periaps. , Her fire upon the forte fications—worthy of the mame—would be about as effective as the discharges of a popgun from a canal boat directed at the turret of a monitor. Meantime the officers and crew are enjoying themselves Db daily reunions with the (dite of Thomas street. FIRST MANHATTAH CO-OPERATIVE GROCERY AND PROVISION SOCIATION. fi The call for a special meeting of this association last evening at Milliman’s Hall, corner of Twenty~ sixth street and Seventh avenue, drew out a large attendance of members. Mr, E. B, Barnum, the President, occupied the chair. The president explained the object of the meeting, They had been called together to decide whether they should continue their co-operative store or wind up its affairs. They were now losing money and had been for some time. He accounted for this because many of the members who ought to give the store their patronage had fared to do so, Another thing was the insufficiency of stock, and a third obstacle against them had been the duincss of trade during the sume mer months. He believed they could make it @ pays ing Ute ye and as theirs was the plonecr project of the kind in the cliy he should exceedingly to have the Spperiment arose a failure. He felt confly dent that $1,000 added to their capital would re+ establish them on a firra basis, The question before the meeting was to talk more money or close the business, A notice was read annoupcing that the German Co-operation Society at Néwark was paying fifteen and a ialf per cent on its capital of $34,500. A member stated that he had dealt elsewhere bee cause he could deal cheaper elsewhere. ‘The Presiient could not understand how this was, as they had alined to sell as low at least ag any gro- cery in the clty. A motion was made and seconded to close the store and wind up its business at once. There was @ lengthy discussion on the motion. The co-opera- tive principle was descanted upon at most learned lengta. It would not do, many urged, to give ap this grand principle. The time was believed to be at hand when stores would be kept and build: Ld up in every section of the city upon his = principle. These insisted that the cause of the present embarrassment was bad management. One — urged select: @ new locality at cheaper rent, another insisted thet there were ioo many bosses, and still another claimed that they had failed from not advertising in the papers and soliciting the patronage of laboring men. Mr. Oliver, the superintendent, stated that with a trade of $700 a week tiie store could be made ved lo There were avout three huudred members, an ne urged that it would require but a small trade from each to make the store self-supporting, Mr. Moss offered as a substitute a resolution that the Members pay up the unpaid shares forthwith, and that &@ committes of five be appointed to take such action as will enable a continuation of the business. This resolution was adopted, and Messrs. John Ennia, Jotn Shuck, Wm. Shaw, Joseph H. Horton and Geo Martin were appointed such committee, with tnstrue- tions to report at tie next meeting. DEPARTURE OF THE FORTY=SEVENTH REGIMENT FOR ALBANY, ‘The Forty-seventh regiment, N. Y. 8. #., Colonel Austin, left their armors at Williamsburg punctually at five o'clock yestorday evening for Albany. A large concourse of citizens assembled at the armory at an early hout and waited patiently until the regiment started for the ferry. During the march down the Windows of te ho: in the streets traversed and the sidewalks were filled by peopie, who cheered. lustily as the Porty-seyeuth, wit ban@ playing and bed past. The immediate rela. the members with huudreds of a formidabie rear guard to the regi- on the New York side the regiment citizens made ment. Arrive formed quickiy in good order and marched up to the Bowery, down to Canal atreet to the pier where the Rip Van Winkie was aiready waiting to receive them on board. fine military appearance of encomiums of the people In the streets through which It passed, The regiment numbered about four hundred rank and file. Tne embarxation was ef- fected in excellent order and without accident. Shortly after seven o'clock the Rip Van Winkle wag cast oif from her moorings and headed up stream for Albany. The he command elicited the WESTCHESTER INTELLIGENCE. RaLnoap Deror Ranvev.—The passenger depot at Woodlawn was broken open on Sunday night by thieves, who e@eattered all the tickets found in the oMce on the floor and carried off some articles of clothing belonging lo the agent. The same office hi been robbed three or four times before within t last ix montis. AGAIN IN Lin s0,.—Emma Hays, who in well knows to the police of Tremont as a drunken and disorderly character, after being out of jatl a couple of dayt only, was again arrested on Tuesday evening bj roundsman Sticke! for being drunk and disorderly, With a view to the welfare of Emina, her sojourn is the lockup at Wiute Plasmas will probably be of some duracion. ‘ Sons oF TeMPRRANCE.—The West Farms Division Sons of Teinperence dedicated their new hall on. Tuesday evening. The exercises, which were of aw exceedingly interesting character, were conducted by Grand Worthy Patriarch Vanderhoof, Wort! Patriarch Wood and Past Worthy Patriarch Me Cullum, The aiteniance was very large, especially of the fair sex, who are zealous advocates of temperance cause, The new hail is quite |: an py aed fitted up for tie meetings of the Order, At the close of the cedicatory exercises the members of the division and their invited guests sat down to baa — ALA hich the company Pie @ Word, everything passed off very Pleasantix, mies. To-MoRxOW BEING THe Feast OF ST. AUGUSTIN S the day will be honored with impressive services a& St. Augustine's church, Morrisania, of which the Joseph P. Woods is pastor. The music promises to be of a high order under the leadership of Pros fessor Gustavus Schmits, organiat of St. Cathedrai. The St, Augustine's Benevolent Societ, Will attend divine service in a body, High mass at half-past ten A. M. In the afternoon the above nauied charitable society, in conjunciton with the St. iar omy. Selrooi, ee Lagi ag lenic at Karl's Germania ark, Aulrose, where Many friends of Father Woods wil seathty by thelr Preeeuee their apgreciation of him. .