The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1869, Page 5

OUR CIVIL SERVICE ABROAD American Representatives at the Courts of Foreign Nations. YNTERESTING REVELATIONS. A Peep Behind the Scenes at Our Far Off Diplomatic Ageuts. Lonpon, May 1, 1869. In the Interests of the New YorxK Henacp, through instructions received from its agent in London, your correspondent has travelled over just one-half of the Eastern hemisphere. Avyssinia, Arabia, India, Egypt, Crete, Syria, Palestine, Turkey in Asia and Turkey in Europe, Greece, the Cyclades, Italy, France, Spain, England and Soutnern Russia have I visited. Much that Ihave scen has been detailed already in sweetest morsels—tidbite, revelations of foreign matters concerning commerce, public works, nance, politics, wars, history, varied with descrip- tions of the chorographical distributions of the dif- ferent empires, kingdoms, staves, republics, col- onies, over which my erratic footsteps led. The every day life of the various peoples Inhabiting these countries have I also dwelt upon, and every publicist in America I hope bas been considerably enlightened thereby. But now, after your correspondent’s re- tarn to England, preparatory to another extensive journey which your agent tells me I am to take, and actiug upon @ suggestion given tome by your agent, dol find myself called upon to touch upon another topic, which hitherto I have not done, and this is, “Our Civil Service Abroad.” With the view to make our generous republic acquainied with the actual present condition of the American diplo- matic body abroad do I open my portfolio and ex- tract such Information as notes taken upon the spot will afford me, Paraphrasing once more, so that no selfishness or unworthy motives may be ascribed to your corres- pondent by your readers, let me state before com- mencing my work that whatever revelations are herein contained may be believed, because I can have no object whatever in distorting any actuality with which I am acquainted and are herein set down. Articles referring to the same subject, on which I am about to write, have at intervals appeared in some of the American magazines, but they were not written by me, nor by an impartial observer of events and actions; they were the emissions of interestea per- sons—of men already in the employment of the gov- ernment—of an American Consul now on service. Your correspondent was at nis elbow while he wrote ‘one, and of a verity I could not help but smile at the platitudes apd arrogant postulates upon which he was eplarging for the purpose of obtaining from government a larger salary. Would 1t be believed if I were to state that the American public are the worst representea at foreign courts of any other nation on earth? And yet such is the fact. Why? Because the majority of our representatives have pot been chosen as the most eligible for their several positions, but are ap- pointees of a set of politicians, whose chief alm and stuay is how to dispose of their friends, It 1s natural for men to think of their own friends and relations first, but if these frends and relations are totally incapscitated to perform the set duties they do themselves grievous wrong in persisting to retain them in their situations. How very wrong, how very sinful is it, then, when politicians, though con- vinced of their friends’ incapacity and want of in- tellect, persist in using their influence to preserve ‘unit appointees in public office, when each passing day of such oficeship is at the expense of our mational dignity, But let the reader pay attention and follow me while I indicate some instances of real absurdities, YHE AMERICAN LEGATION AT THE COURT OF Br. JAMES, Starting at the initial point on the route tw the European Continent, we find ourselves in the neigh- borhvod of the Court of St. James—the English Court. Mr. Reverdy Johnson (no, I should have said, in newspaper parlance, the Hon. Reverdy Johnson) 1 the appointee at this Court. Hon. Reverdy John- son, it is sald, is a gentleman, a scholar and a states - man. Highand necessary qualifications these are before a thinking man can find it in his heart to sanction so important an appointineut as an ap- bassador or the representative of a vation. Mr. Johnson has now been in oflice some months, Those who have traced his career thus far must Rave arrived at some conclusions concern- ing his capability and adaptibility for this very important post. We ail know, aud it is apparent to the most casual observer, that Mr. Jobnson is a gentleman anda scholar. But of the other qualification, what of ii? Can any inteiit- gent American place nim among the category of pene No, not one. What has he done, then, forfeit that name? This, chiefest of all. He has, luke another Lamartine, sacriticed the reputation of aman of action and the statesman to speeches. In striking contrast to his calm, dispassionate prede- eessor, does the conduct of Mr. Johnson appear. Before the most slowly deliberative people in the world he commenced his diplomatic duties with stump speeches. For a while he was listened to with respect. His eminent office demanded that, and Englishmen listened to the American representative with ® respect blended with curiosity. But his speeches became vapid and uninteresting, simply because they were Dut common-place rehearsals of what the peopie bad heard from his own imouth, aud had read in every paper scores of times before. His dogmatic and imperious expressions, edects of premature con- clusions on ‘us part concerning the Alabama cialis, were caught up and sidiculed by a people who, more than all others, detest clap-trap speeches, and are seldom prone to hasty declarations. As we wish to stand well in the eyes of the world, ail earnest, thoughtfal Americans must deplore tits lack of tact en the part of Mr. Joluson., in the minis of the jahabitants of the Hriti+h isles, he has established the fact, beyond all doubt, that we are still in the Martin Chuz- wlewitt era, and that stamp speaking is still idiosyncratic of native bora Americans, He also exposed himself to unkind remarks, if not insults, The Saturday Review was in its giory, and many were the pungent sarcasms levelled at our un- fortunate Minister’s head for his gulleless remarks before beef-eating corporations and insolent mem- bers of mechanic institutes. I confess to having felt, with several other Americans, as if | were sit- ting on thorns while erratic Mr. Johnson made his extraordinary tour over England, and what way- ‘ward spirit prompted nim to deciaim, with the feeble diffusiveness #0 characteristic of him before every beet-faced, fat-brained sans culoites that thought ft to call upon him for a speech, i* be yond my knowledge. Andrew Johnson's tour was not more undignified or more out of place than Mr. Reverdy Johnson’s was. His reasons were—accori- Ing to his own statements—he hoped to cement in bonds still Ormer the love existing petween the two nations, and to erase from English minds the ide: that the American people entertained hostile feel- ings towards England. Very laudable indeed, we must admit, but was it his piace to halt at every petty village to disseminate his opinions? What is the press fort Whatevor feclings animate Amert- cans generally find their way to the edaorial columns of the American journals, and if they con- cern England ana her interests they are republished in English journals, Not fora day have they been at fault as yet to discern the tendency of public opinion in America, No other American Minister ever thonght it incumbent upon him to act as a newsman or an oracie to the country he was accredited. Why should Mr. Johnson constitute him- seif as the mouthpiece of the American nation t Oniy that be was bora for a stump orator, and his predilection for speech-making usurped his dignity and his duty. I fear also that there is a good deal of parasitism inthe man, elae why should he be so Feady to scoommodate himsett to the desires of the i 5 80 Well Amer can feeling with which valways bees bu any of your readers doubt the e: ce of wuch a feeling, let then remind ihemclves of the epiphonematic exclamations which greeted hia with- @rawai from an aristocratic Grawing toom:—“How ¢ 18 full very like a Yankee he is to be sure; of Yau kee buncombe.” Since the hi termina- tion of the civil war in amente we "are rally very proud of the word Yani beca} K imaiveves a q 7} ry they have always been im. | | aud of many that Was victorious; but with au | nm | te day who will ft NEW YORK HERALD, Engliehman the word Yankee }s the emnodiment of seli-conceit and low cunning, le never thinks of 1ts innocent origia OF 0: 1t8 local application .oruieriy meant to imply a cluzen of New England, bat re- gards the word as meaning that of a person whose sentiments are antagonistic to kngland and English- men, it 18 time that intelligent Amencaus, espe- cially American ami should remember that thougn buncombism aad mountebagkism, though suitable to litical mass meeungs and slump speakers of former years, does not dig- nify them in the eyes of foreigners not trained Lo that perfected liberty which we enjoy nor accus- tomed to that language and action. Mr, Johnson wii also do well to remember that there must be harmony and bapiren4 becween an audience and a speaker belore a speech can have effect, THE AMERICAN EMBASSY AT THE COURT OF THE CZAR, ‘rhe next subject, 1s that of the embassy to Russia, the United States Legauon at st. Petersburg, Our representative at this Court is the Hon. Cassius M, Olay. Mr. Clay is an American stavesman of dis- tinguished abilities, He was an advocate of the abolition of slavery, and gave a proof of his sinceri- ty by freeing his own slaves. fqwas born in Ken- tucky m 1510, studied for the and aiter holding the position of » member of Congress, was im 1861 appointed Minister to Russia on the formation of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet. He subsequently resigned the appointment, and returned to America, to take part in the civil war which was tien raging. Mr. Clay found, however, that though his patriotism and sympathy for the Union cause had prompted him resign his diplomatic position at it. Petersburg, his services a8 a general were not appreciated so much as his diplomatic abilities had hitherto been, so after @ vemporary elevation to @ general and tasting of the pleasure which wearing miltary goid lace gives, Mr. Clay was readily mduced by Mr, Lincoln to return to St. Petersburg. : Admiral Lessoffsky, of the Russian navy, recom- mended to Mr. OC. M. Clay, for his secretary, a Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, and upon an introduction and after a little private confabulation, Mr. Curtin was engaged, But soon after Mr. Clay’s arrival at St. Petersburg he found himself weighed down by an incubus, Wherever he went or whatever he at tempted to do, there was evidently some Influence impeding his actions, and being biest with @ fair share of common sense and discernment When pricked into it, was not slow in tracing these stupefying and oppressive influences to their source, Who was no other than his secretary, Jere- miah Curtin, who, through some moral obliquity in his constitution, deemed it @ kind of duty to con- spire to watch and to hinder his superiors move- ments, Hence arose the mutual recriminations and petty accusations which were made by one to the other, until the scenes at the United States Legation became the common table-talk or the Muscovite cap- Itai, Clay charges Curtin with inattention to his bu- siness, leaving his oflice for montis together without asking his superior’s permission, and “doing ali kinds of mean tricks, you Know.” Aye, this ‘you know,”? sums up unaccountable things with which we are Supposed to be well aware of, And Curtin charges Mr. Clay with being Weak and ineiticient, of making social troubles with his rancorous querulousness and biting tongue, Besides these ees, there has been a stigma upon the United Stat&® Legation ever since Mr. Clay’s re- turn to St. Petersburg, which arose from a harinless aifair of the heart, bul wilich once threatened to become momentous. It seems, 80 report says, that Mr. Clay Was rather captivated with the daughter of an Irish lady--an ‘adventuress—who resided in a house near the Legation. ‘lhe adventuress had a penchant for intrigue. She wished to become the mother-in-law of the aistinguished American citizen; but the citizen, though he, perhaps, had intentions, was rather slow 12 proposing. To hurry matters she boldly charged Mr. Clay with having committed an outrage upon her daughter, This was a very serious charge; but Mr, Clay stoutly denied it, and stated that it was a@ conspiracy to force money out of hun; and this was in reality the truth, Every one, however, did or would not believe that it was a conspiracy, and among them was the gruff, fungous-faced British Ambassa- dor, Sir Andrew Buchanan, who obstinately urged the woman to push the prosecution, and this man further wrote to his government for instructions, 1t might have become most serious had not the Prince Gortecbakoff come to the rescue. The Prince saw through the mesh which had almost entangied the American Mintster and at once compelled the woman to hush up the ease and scandal instantly or she would have to ieave the capital. This ener- getic proceeding of the Prince effectually terminated the gross charge. But, now, indeed, has not enough been shown in this sketch to show that our Legation at St. Petersburg is not filly representing our coun- a on the contrary, it is @ weak, impotent thing THE AMERICAN LEGATION AT THE COURT OF THE SULTAN. Mr. Edward Joy Morris 1s our Minister at the ‘Turkish court. He 18 an author of some celebrity. He ts a profound and refined schoiar, an able politi- cal writer, and it is for those qualities I believe he ‘was appointed to the high office he now occupies. He knew nothing of the Turkish language nor of ‘Turkish customs, save what he had gleaned on a few weeks’ travel in Syria, Palestine and Egypt. He had never been trained in the mysteries of diplp- macy; but, being @ gentleman, an author and a po- leaf writer who had assisted some Senator into office, he was appointed Minister of the United States to Constantinople. It was never ascer- tamed whether Mr. Mi was @ man of juugment before he was despatched to the diplomatic post he has occupied for the space of eight years. SuMcient for those who sent him was it that he had given what aid there in bim lay towards pushing some politi- clans invo ofice. But this sketch is not for the pur- pose of enlarging upon any deficiencies that may be uttributed to Mr. Morris, but to show that had he possessed self-command and judgment there would have been no necessity for the scandal wiich 1s brutted about in upper tendom of the Turkish me- tropolis. ‘The Secretary of this Legation is Mr. John Brown, not a relation of the old patriarch Brown, whose pame ts now immortal, but @ descendant of the brown family, eminent as we all know it is, power- ful aiso, When one takes into consideration the nu- merous branches iound in all quarters of the glove, distinguished under the familar surname of Brown. This Mr. John Brown has been Secretary of the Legation at this court, or First Dragonian, as it ts technically called, for the last tweaty or twenty- five years, salary of $3,000 per annum. He un- derstands Turkish language periectly, and in more senses than one has become completely ‘Lurki- fied, if linay be alowed to use that expression, which means that he is a Turk in every way save by birth. Except the most ardent lover of his country and of its mstitations no one can find fauit with Mr. Brown. But travellers know weil the influence that au apatictic climate ike Turkey has during the lapse of years upon the e of the very purest ‘American. Even our missionaries, though prompted to ther duties by the love of wod, suffer from the insidious innovations of tropical climates, and we generally flud them, thoagh exerting extraordinary powers to check tie apatiy which gradually steais over them in the course of a few years, until they succumb, and ihe apathy is un- congueraple, So it 18 im the case of Mr, Brown. He has been loo jong # resident of Constantinople for real work and for the interests of our country, Fu- teen years ago he should have been recalied, and | have no doubt he woutd then have been abie to pre- sent a clean sheet for labor performed. But now | par it is a diflerent thing, at least so every one is to suppose from the accounts given travellers upon their arrival at Copsiantinople. To come to the point of tue story at once—it is a well known fact that the Minister of the United States at the Sublime Vorte and bis Secretary of Legation do not agree, First. —Mr. Morris charges Mr. Brown with being un- Ameri ed; of inattention tw the business of the Legation; of altering documents to be presented Wo the Turkish officiais to suit his own pur 3 of conspiring against hin; of sending false information aggainat him to the State Department at Washington, ower things, Which lus secretary 1 not do, nt.—Mr. Brown charges Mr. Morris with in- pacity and many ovher things, which I need not ion here, ail being sadly derogatory to his eras agentieman and the representative of great republic. Who 1s wrong and who is right is not for me to judge. Suilice it that the Minisier and his secretary are fighting, quarrelling and snari- ing. What we all know is that au American Minis- ter aud his secretary siould agree, and not bring the reputation of their country mto disrepute, There should be confidence between them, f think it an utter Impossibility for them to do their duty properly it one conspires against the other. What would a merchant say if he found his clerk abusing his confidence? What would a patient say if he found that his physician was proclaiming his mfirm- ities to the world, or What would @ client say if he found his counsel publishing lis sins to the public? ‘The feelings of Mr. Morris may be imagined then, when he has proofs that his secretary has been con- spiring against him. cl made by one of the parties agais are so incredibie tiat! dare not suliy my letter by qT ht of them is hat has been ituiating them. The very tho saficient to cause one to biush. above stated ought to be sufficient to give tne American public an idea of how matters staud at the United States Legation at Constantinople. TRY AMERICAN LEGATION AT THE SPANISH COURT. Mr. John P. Hale, of the of New Hampshire, is the representative of the United States wao was accredited to the Court of Madrid some three years Mr. Horatio Justus Perry is the Secretary of tne Legation, ‘There are several people in existence pantly sav that in his prime Mr. Join P. Hale was @ “very smart man,” not able, but “clever, dexterous,” a8 & lawyer—for that was his profession. After survey’ iim lately, with sharp critical glances, and analyzing each look and ges- tare, f came to the conelusion that if he had ever been a “very smart man,” @ clever, dexterous man, there were not extant the alghtest vestige of any such dexterity or smartness when I saw him, and it would be a bard matter’ to mak man with @ grain of common sense in him, seeing him just now for the first time, believe that John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, Minister at Madrid, bad even been @ smart man. If he pos- keawd fis fall mental powers when he first went to Madrid Esnonid be untruthful if T said that he pos- wesses them now, A species of mania has already overtaken hito, which I believe to be symptomatic of the dotage that is not far off. Poor, poor, old man! ‘There is # wandering, unsettled fook about hit, a ahiftiess, almiess character, which becomes apparcnt at once, and | say it is asin, a shame to our maniiood and @ disgrace to the nation to have kept him “monldering in his sinecure” so long. Some strange fatality must have d the foot- stops of the State Department when they could not discover this venerable entity, this wreck of a man occupying @ diplomatic position during one of the most critical periods that Spain Nas gone through, But apart from the imbecility which, apparently, characterizes him now, there has been a grave e e made against hira of introducing goods and shanuive into the city of Madrid, under the pri. vileges of which, as a member of body, he enjoys; in short, he nas been a ed of smuggling. ‘This charge is not one trumpe! up by auy euemey of his—for, poor man, Who woud injur such as hef—but it is notorious, and has been noticed by the Spanish — ‘ne question Was asked the other day, before the whole house, by Don Alcazar, whether there were not papers in whe State oltice relauve to the proceedings that were to be instituted against Mr. Hale for the abuse of his frank, Tue Foreiga OMice at Madrid found that he had surreptitiously brougnt in very many more bales or carpets than were necessary to carpet his house; that there had been, tn fact, enough intro. duced to have carpeted three royal palaces. Mr. Horatio Justus Perry 18 the Secretary of the Legation, and has been, with the exception of a short interval, for the last twenty years. This gen- Ueman 1s aso from New Hampshire. During all this period that he has been in Mad- rid Mr. Perry has been ¢ m_ trandtiny forward a stone—a truly contumacious stone, suc! as Sisyphus labored with. Speaking practically, he has been working most admirabiy the little game, called intrigue, 80 a8 to be made United States Min- ister at Madrid. Awkward; it has been much labor spent in vain. The departments at Washmgton are wallowimg io sluices darker than that of Cocytus, Ponitics absorb all their thoughts, and act as baleful perversions of nature, and are the means oj keeping many who are laithful forever knocking at the gates for promotion. “His Excellency” .8 the Nuzzur for which Mr, Perry’s soul has been angling these two decades just past. ‘ere there not something radi cally wrong somewhere one of two things bad surely been done—either he would bave been re moved or have been prom: Mr. Perry married @ spanish lady tn 1853, ‘‘Sefora Carolina Coronado, the lovely and gifted poetess, whose genius had burst upon enchanted Spain, an whose unrivalled fame had already extended as wide as her novle language is apoken in the Old and New Worlds,” for so the enraptared husband, fired with her heavenly beauty, ecstatically writes in his biography. But what | have to do with Perry is that he has been making Madrid a very hell to every Minister with whom he has served in that cily—to Barrenger, Pierre Soule, Carl Schurz, and lastly Mr. Hale. Tnat he 18 @ hungry soul hever satisfied, eternally making other people, his superiors, uneasy, that they might resign and he be left to fill their piace. That he dabbies in all kinds of Mean work, insinuates his flugers mto every speculation, that he has a dozea inirigues on his hands, that he is equaliy guilty with Mr, Hale in abusing their franks, of introducing goods into the city free of duty and selling them again to the mer- chants of the Spaush capital. That he is at open war with Mr. Joun P, Hale and his family, employ- ing, it is said, Mr. Haie’s servants to act as spies: agaist him, and carry tales about the minister's family to Mr. Horattd Justus Perry's open ears. ‘That is what I have to do with him. There things are talked of in every café in Madrid, Every gossip who does not consider the matter too stale fouls his mouth daily with a revetition of the scan- dal. Surely anew broom is needed at this legation strong enough Lo sweep out every member of 1t buck into bis country or out of the oilice into the street; and as we may be presently in need of powertul, able dip.omats at this post, in consequence of our late expressions in favor of the Cubans, the sweep- ing change should be at once thoroughly done, so that the evil repute which stains our name may be done away with torever. TUE AMERICAN LEGATION AT THE COURT OF PORTU- GA Minister Harvey, at Lisvon, is not a very popular man with the good, easy people of the Portuguese capital. He is what they cail ‘a mean man,’ the deninition of which they give as a man who accepts everybody’s Invitations, out never Invites in return. ‘They say the citizen does not live who has tasted of edibles at hus tavle, while Mr. Harvey, on the other hand, dines out every day of the year almost. Strange to say the United States naval ofcers cor- rovorate these asscrcions; they also say that he 1s a “mean man.” ite never gives them dinners. He never even invited Admiral Goldsborough is or Farragut to his house, This last bad, very bad, if true. He shoud at least have shown the courtesy of a _ gentleman to these two great heroes, whjch perhaps would have cost him in all just ten dollars, aud the Admi- rais, being gentiemen, would have reciprocated the courtesy very readily, I have no doubt, which would have diminisned the expense @ third. But there is a charge made against him which ts not consistent with tne law laid down lor the guid- ance of oiticers in the service of the United States government, viz.—that he writes to newspapers for pecuniary pay, which he periorms in a very ingeni- ous manner, . It is said that he 1s the correspondent of an American newspaper, Who is supposed to write from Paris, ‘this is in tota contra to the law. Per- haps a change might be beneticial here also, as in the others wuich I nave sketched out. AMERICAN AMBASSADORS AND CONSULS AT OTHER PLACES. We possess some men, nowever, who forget not their country, who forget not that they are Ameri- can genuemen, supposed to represent one of the grandest nations on whose characters are Spotiess, and of these, of the rank of ainbassador, —Marsh, at Florence; Tuckerman, at Athens; Bancroit, at Berlin; Mix, at Paris, and Bartlet, at Stockhoim. We have also very many first rate men as Consuls, of whom we may menuon Farrell, at Cadiz; Conway, at Marseilles; Goodfellow, Consul General, at Constantinople; Johnson, at Be: its Webb, at Zanzibar; the Consul General at jeutta, our Consul at Bombay; Seward, at Shanghac, and several others. ut then we have Con- suis and Consul Generals who are nothing more than low drunkards, brutes, who al the very name of man, and then we have men who are im other ways utterly uufit to hold office, and Genera! Grant should exercise the very eas care that such men as are totally incapaci- ited from performing their duties, menta ly as well as morally, should no longer be @ reproach to the nation of which he ts the eiected head, Consul W. H, Stillman, at Candia, has been want- ing to leave for along ume. Why should he be kept im a place that he does not want to occupy? There are plenty of brave, talented young fellows who served inthe army to whom it would bea godsend. Let one of them have it, since Mr. Stillman cannot make enough to live upon out of the salary, and there- fore 1s very anxious to leave. A new Consul might also be appointed to fill the post at Jerusalem, who would perhaps be more suita- ble to our forlorn colony at Jaffa than the one who is there now. There is a vacancy at Aden, Arabia, that ought to be flied immediately; for sev- eral American ships arrive there every year. It is a most important place. Muscat should have a new appointee, and especiaily Akyab and Rangoon, in Burmah. The one at Kangoon has been a very un- sausfactory consul to merchants and American cap- tains because he knew little of shipping matters, and [ am toid cared less. With these sketches I close my portfollo, not hav- ing the heart to go any further, thougu I could fill every column ia your journal. Ii General Grant wishes to prove that he bas the interest of the nation at heart he will proceed calmly, carefully and de- liberately with the task of haga the cobwebs that fill most of our diplomatic and consular offices abroad, and for his meed he will remember the | proverb, which never yet failed, Merces viriuiis linus Bi. THE NATIONAL GAME. Thus far there have been but few games of more than ordinary interest played in the vicinity of the metropolis, but practice games have been in- duigea in by the leading clubs to an ex tent and with a vim which would seem to indicate that when the match playing does begin it wiil be prosecuted with much spirit. The only aifair of importance which occurred during the week was the advent of the young collegians from Princeton, N. J. The young men came on to play the Atlantics and Mutuals. On Friday they went over to the Capitoline grounds and met the Atiantics, who were out in full force. Pratt made his fret appearance in the nine, and was of course most anxiously watched. He proved during the game to be as full as ever of his old tricks, and worried the young men considerably. The prestige which the colicgians had gained their contesis with the Athletics was such as to warrant the idea that they needed carefal handling by any ciub which might undertake to oppose them. ‘he Atlantics were obliged to do their prettiest in the way of safe bat- ting, and only by doimg so did they succeed in achieving a victory, Every opportunity given the flelders was taken advantage of. Fortunately for the Brooklynites they succeeded in putting the bail in or that the college boys could not get at it, and they managed to reach first base on clear its thirty-two times and made a total of forty-tive bases, but only secured twenty-four runs. The col- boys made first base on hits eleven times, with @ total of fourteen bases on hits, for which they scored only three runs. The ie as @ whole was nen / fine and brisk, and occupied only one hour and fifty minutes. ‘On Saturday the cotlegians went over to the Union grounds Ampuibiouscircleonatheatre, to play with amare ean Sooke wo ba hour for a 4 poured down in lively style, soak- ing te ground and owpects 10 ning had one run, when the rain came down again — Lge it imperative on the umpire to call , and each side had secured in tor. Mutuals were attired in their new unt of a dark slate color, and presented a i neat oma while the ‘Princeton boys, unlike most college cinbs, wore a variety of costuincs. As soon as it was known that the game was off several among the large crowd present began to clamor tor @ return of their money, ‘The policemen on duty at the doors informed them of the rule which has been enforced on the grounds that no money would be returned when a game had once been com- menced. This did not seem to suit some of the tut bulent ones present, and they went of vowlng ven geance on the proprietors of the ground and the Mutual Club, A Washington correspondent says that knowing ones elaim Pabvor as the engaged pitcher for the Nationale, The same correspondent says that Shelley and Forker are not definitely counted on as meuivers of the Nationai ni The Olympics, of Washington, have lost Cope, Dick and Beach. Cope has joined the Maryland Club, and Dick the Keystones, of Philadelphia. The Olympic nine i@ said to be Leach, p.; Malone, venleun, I8tb.; Re Reach, 20° b: Mclean. od MONDAY, MAY 17, 1 9,—TRIPLE SHEET. Foree, # 8.; Robinson, |. | mt | “The Yale nine have just begui | time hitherto having been brok | tons and vacations, club are as lollow: dent, J. G. K. Mevlur Treasurer, H. A. Clevi W. H. Hinkle, i, Ho, ray, F. P. ‘Terry; G. kieb . cateher; T. Hooker, plicher; J. W.’Shattuck, first base; B. G. Selden, second base; T, McClintock, chird base; 8. 8. Me- Woods, ¢ £.; Young, to practice. their a up by examina and nine of the erry; Vice Prest- J. Y . W. Shattuck; cutive Committee, antreas, F. F. Mur- Cutchen, short stop (captain); L, E. Condict, left eas C. Denning, centre field; E. A. Lewis, right eld. The Amateur Club of Owego, N. Y., has applied for admussion to the State Association, ‘The committee having charge of the amendments to the constitution and by-laws of the State Associa- tion should hurry up their report. The ciubs will soon begin to how! for tue Manual and the sooner the comuittee reports the sooner will the book be prepared, ‘The National Chronicle of Saturday contains the followin, ‘The Lowell are again going into the country. They take the half-paat two o’ciock P. M. tran this day from the Boston and Maine depot to play the Atianta Club, of Stoneham, As the Atlantas hav ‘new uniform there is @ chance of suc- ceus for the Lowells. ‘The last sentence is evidently Brother Rogers, ACROSS THE CONTINENT. In Brigham’s Dowinions—What the Place and People are Like—A Discussion on the Doc- trines of Mormouism—Dissatistaction Among the Saints. Saur Lake Crry, Utah, May 1, 1869. TO SALT LAKE CITY. J left the last station of Wells, Fargo & Co., on the Central Pacific Rafiroad, on the morning of the 29th ult. for a stage ride of forty miles to Corinne, the first station on the Union Pacific Railroad, ‘rhe day after my departure the station was to be moved to the extreme end of the Central Pacific track, thus shortening the stage route some fifteen miles, and making it a pleasant relief rather to the monotony of railroad travel. The ride was a@ delightful one, for although the scenery was of a similar character to what we have been passing through lately, except that at times we had Salt Lake in view, we were allowed to sce the progress of the rail- road work at the end of both tacks and various other matters of interest, the camp of the em- ployés, the heavy rock work that now forms the only barrier to laying the balance of the track, and other points that made tae five hours pass very quickly. We passed tbrough one town composed entirely of tents, possessing the singular but pot in- appropriate name of Deadfall, This name 18 prob- ably derived from the fact that almost nightly shooting affrays take place. Itis only a week since some fifty or sixty shots were fired up and down the street in a fight of no smaii importance, whereby several men were killed and wounded. The entire population of this interesting little piace is composed of the very worst characters the country can pro- duce, with whom robbery and murder are but pas- times. The same may be said of the other places of like character in tnis vicmity, for they are all made upof the off scourings of creation. We reached Corinne about two P.M. This 1s the point at which travellers commence the journey over the Union Pacific Railroad, and with the excep- ton of Weils, Fargo & Co,’s office and the ticket office of the railroad it is not better than Deadfall in appearance, and not much better in the character of its populauion, it is situated on @ vast plain at the foot of tue Wahsatch range of mountains, that le along the eastern side of palt Lake, and it will probably remain no more than what it is—a mere station for the accommodation of trains. 1 was com- pelled to remain tuere one night, and after iuspec- tion of the locality, and noting the nuiber and va- riety of the faces of the men portion of tie comimu- nity, I deemed it best for the safety ot my person and pocket to leave if possible, Looking eastward I happened to espy a neat looking town or village, Jocateu near the of the mountains, and con- siderably above us, about eight miles distant, and upon inquiry found that it was Brigham City, @ thoroughly Mormon settlement, but a place where one could 81 ‘with comparative comfort and saiety. Accordingly, having engaged seats in the Salt Lake that leaves every iworning, and that passes through Brigham City, I chartered a wagon, or rather @ pine vox on four wheels, and left. 1 drew a long sigh of reliet when Corinne was bebind me, and 1 retained but one thought about it, viz., that by rea- son of the number and evident character of the eed inhabiting it its name should be changed to Camille, It was a long side of two hours, through a hot sun and over an execrabie , before we arrived at the door of @ hotel that had been most highly praised at Corinne. 1 was prepacved to find sumeiung nice, equal to our countiy taverns of the East, and was “sarkasum” by much disappomted to discover one of the dirtiest | places I have yet met with; however, it was better than Cormmne. 1 succeeded in geting a room and managed to the fiiteen hours without having them eee heavy upon wy hands. The proprietor was a Welsiman and a Morman, His mayor domo informed me that he had but one wife, but the pres- ence of four women in the house, two oi whom pre- sented a very wife-like appearance, led me to tink there was some mistake—ihat if tucy were not his wives they ought Lo be. Brigham City 18 very prettily situated and it nas a few very nice builamgs in it, constracied of adove bricks, but it 13 quiet beyond description; a death- like stience prevalis, and the appearance of a human being almost starties you. Wiat tuere is to keep the piace alive 1 cannot discover; what business is carried on 1 failed to see, and yet there 1s some life there, for posters mformed me that @ theatrical periurinance would be given the following nigut at the City Hall, Tue streets are wide and very clean, @ stream of pure water from the adjacent mountains runs gurging through every one, and the aimusphere 1s delicious. Nearly every house hay its 4 orchard and ce trees ure now in full bloom, the contrast is great with all vegetation putting on its summer garb, and yet only a stone's throw behind you is tue range of mountains the tops of which are covered with suow, and that never lose their white mantie throughout the year. ‘The view of tne vast plain, the lake and the distant mountains 18 very fine, and a traveller would be amply repaid for his trouoie by staying in Brigham City tor an hour or two, but not if he were compelled to remain over night unless better accom- odations are offered tian at present. The stage passing at balf-past five ’. M. compelled me to make an early start, aud I never eujoyed eariy morning more than at Brigham City. ‘Tue temperature wos just right and the atuosphere as pure as a diamond. ‘phe effect of the rays of the rising sun upon the dis- tant mountains was very fine, aud | never enjoyed a picture of nature more than ft did that morning perwesd five and six o'clock; It was glorious indeed. ‘The ride to Ogden, twenty-two miles distant, was pleasant. You skirt along the base of the inouutains, over a tolerable road, and have avery fine view of the lake on tue other side. You pass through sev- eral Mormon settlements that are devoid of interest and that looked nothing like our well to do Eastern villages, the people of which may be happy and coa- tented, but they don’t look if, fhe lana appears to be susceptible of nigh cultivation, and you here no- tice large flocks of sheep grazing. ihe catue are apparently poor, of smail size and ill condition. Stock raising does not appear to be a speciality. OGDEN. We arrived here at ten o’clock in the morning and tound 1t appareatly @ thriving town, that is if L com- pare it to #righam , but stil tuere is an inae- scribabie something about it that says plainly itis not inhapited by a people goveruea by the same laws and doctrines as ourselves. ‘the men look differently, and as for the women I have seen, they look as if they dragged throuch a miser- avle existence, I may be mistaken, they may be happy and contented, willing to become one of many wives, but their countenances dont indicate 1; there is none of the sprightimess of our women and girls, none of that joyousness that one sees among gir females at home, be 1¢ in the couutry Village or the large cities, that indicate their nate the re- spect shown them by the sterner sex, and the high position they aa in the social circie. You look in vain for this, and not finding it you must conciuae there is something wrong, Mormonism may have its strong points but at the same time very many weak ones. ‘The Union Pacific Railroad passes about two miles from the city, leaving it on the left, and almost cuts it of from the beneiictal effects that a ratiroad has upon @ town in @ new country. Whatever of im- provement the railroad does create will be built at or near the track, and the lities are that a new town Will grow up abous the station proper that wilt eventually look upon the old one as only a suburb, We changed coaches at Ogden, that is, we changed from @ mud wagon to a Concord coach; from the humble discomfort of the former to tae comparitive comfort of the other, and after @ deiay of neariy three-quartors of an hour we started for Salt Lake, distant forty miles. Two miles out we came to the railroad station, whereat ie @ hotel and office and a dozen or so of shanties, inhavited tor the most part by the same kind of characters you meet at Deadiali and Corinne. There are no ac- commodations whatever for passengers, and as the trains this side of Wahsatch run by tevegraph only, and have no reguiar time of starting, they have been Known to rematn fifteen hours betore the cars came to carry them eastward. Were it not that they are ey cig to ee and do yo nen 4 can, in Wells, Fargo & Co's. express oitices, they would fare badly. A clean shed would answer the = purpose and afford @ place where a lady could be taken to without bet! thrown into contact with the roughs and rascals that hang about these stations, and that will remain there until things are better organized. A short time, however, will remedy all this. When the cars connect, or rather when this becomes the terminal point of both roads, as it is now destined to be, matters will assume a different shape, and | have no doubt most comfortable station and eating house will be provided, 1can say Nothing in favor of the road Petwoen Ogden and Salt Lake. *1 was told that 1¢ was very |, but found it absolutely far worse than that be- tween Eiko and White Fane) trae, iz have charm- ing scenery and pointe of int ‘all the way to look at, bat being jolted and pitched about constantly by che uneasy motion of the stage, #\ihough proceeding at only @ snall’s », destroyed all that which otherwise would have been enjoyed, ‘There was one thing, however, which afforded me a world of fan, and that I will always remem- ber with pleasure, and that was a controversy between two of our passengers. On the back seat of the coach was a young married woman, With a boy about eighteen montis old. She was from the lower waiks of life, but possessed a face that said she had intelligence ‘and a will of her own, which I soon found to be the case. Alongside of her was a ruddy- faced, blue-eyed man of some forty years of age, Who from his manner led ine to suppose that be was fond of the good things of this world, It was not long be- fore he commenced a conversation, and after draw- ing niin out he confessed to being a Mormon and the husband of three wives, Soon he tried to argue in favor of his church and its doctrines, and when he 1d so L observed the brown eyes of the young Wo- man begin to twinkie and the blood to rush to her cheeks. She was evidently getting mad, but tried to restrain it, She listened to ail he had to say and stood it for some time, but at last her pent up feel- ings burst forth, and then she waiked into him with- out gloves aud gave him her opinion regarding @ plurality of wives in language that he will remember lor some time. He contended that his re- ligion was one of honor, truth and virtue (Lam at a loss to know when the Jatter comes 1p); that crime is less Known in Utah than elsewhere; that seduction and prostitution are unknown (why should .they not ber), aud that happiness reigns supreme among the Mormons. She went after him on every point, and he found at last that he had caught a Tartar; that he had got hold of a woman who was more than a match for him, and that if sue were his fourth wile, sue would—to use her Own words—“make it very warm for the other three.” I never enjoyed anything more in my life, and was sorry almost when we arrived and they parted, for I wanted to hear what the wind up would be, 1 don’t think he would desire to be ‘‘sealed” to any such character—that 1s, if he desired peace in the house. ‘The la.e 18 very pretty as you approach the city, and tiere is a sheet of fresh water that empties into it, formed by streams from the mountains, that 18 large enough to be diguitied by the same name, which 18 very picturesque. On its shores were several boats, and | noticed groups of fishermen nauling & seine, for fish abound in this fresh water, whereas nothing can live in the Salt Lake. Indians we have met frequently durmg the day; and just before entermg the city there was a number of their wigwams pitcned upon the brow of a lull not far oif, that looked very pretty in the distance. 1 must not fail to Ineution the warm spring that you pass within a few feet, avout two two ules from the city, It bursts out from beneath a large rock on the left of the road, and the water, scalding hot, empties into the lake, It Is highly medicated and the sulphurous stench that accom- panies 1t renders the atinosphere anything but pleas- ‘ant in that vicinity. Farther ou and aimost within the city is another very similar, over which a large bath house has been erected. This is a place of great resort vy the citizens, the bathing being said Vo be lughly beneicial to health. SALI LAKE CITY, We arrived here at half-past five P , and I learned, much to my disappointment, that President Brigham Young was absent on a tour through the soutuern portion of the Territory aud that he would not return for a fortnight. I will say that I was sux- prised to see a city of such dimensions in a place 80 isolated from the rest of the worw It is beautifully situated on the same plain that extends from the mountains to the lake, on the entire eastern side border, and nearly all of which is under cultivation. ‘The city covers a vast exient of ground, the houses, except on the principal street, being well separated and having large gardens attached to them. The public buildings are really fine. Ihe temple is a huge structure and the theatre a build- ing creditable to any city. So much hus been writ- ten respecting this place that it would be folly to at- tempt detali now. A volume would scarce suffice to describe properly all that is to be seen, and I dare not atcempt even @ commencement in this hurried epistie. 1am no more iavorabiy impressed with the ap nce of the people here than 1 was with those of Brigham City or Ogden. They wil look alike, and, m what I have heard, they all think and talk alike. Kverything 18 very dull, ‘Tne President now compels Mormons to deal with Mormons, and to tis end a large number of stores have been established, with which those the Church are com- pelied to deal. These are all known by a sign, which reads as follows:—‘Holiness to the Lord,” then an All-Seeing cye is painted; then comes these words:— Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Insutute.” Woe be to him or her who passes one of these signs and deals with a Gentile; they are visited by the sore displeasure of the Church, and, as my female feliow passenger said, it is made very warm for them, I hear that very many are dissatisfied with this, and that trouple is brewing in the camp. A Mormon told me so, henee I think it is true; he said that if Brigham were to die now under the existing state of affairs, there would be a row in the Church that would be hard to quiet. I think it not unlikely, Ihe most attractive point of this place is the climate at this season: it is as Warm as summer; the trees are just cot into leaf, aud flowers are budding, and yet I set at my window and look at the Wansatch of mountains, only a few miles away, covered with snow half way down to their base, These snows temper the heat of summer, and render the climate deligntful, To-morrow 1 leave for the Union Pacuic Railroaa, and by this day week hope to have passed over its entire route. STATEN ISLAND. A ay on the Island—Its Magnificent Drives and Villas=The New York Ci! House and Its Annual Regatta—Fatare of the Isiand, A three column article recently published m the HERALD told a good deal that was to be said of Staten Island, deseribed its principal villas, its pleasantest drives, its Gnest points of view, the in- ducements to settle there, the prices of lots, the tariff of rents and all that. But this was a month ago, The island since then has put on its summer array. Its slopes and summits are covered with emerald beauty; ita trees are decked with a glorious weaith of foliage. Fields and woods and lawns are one wilderness of wild spring flowers. The deli¢ious products of the spring show themselves in every garden. It ts the pleasant spring time—she fragrant, joyous spring— all sunshine and perfume and banners of fresh green and singing of birds and blossoming of dowers. Going i any direction the bustle of newly awakened life reveals itself. Country residences, closed through the winter months, are being put in readiness for their summer occupants, Many families have already taken possession of their pleasant summer homes. New carriages and new faces show themselves each day on the drives, Guests, though sparse in number to w.at they will be very shortly, begin to throng the hotels, Nothing can be more charming than a drive along the northern and eastern shores, Picturesque villas crown every height and peep ont from every grove. Many of these since our late written account have changed hands, The castie-like abodes, with theis quaint sky-kissing turrets looming up grandly to view at intervals, call up fragments of half remembered stories of the oid feudal times, which glimpses of the bay and passing steaincrs and sailing vessels and New York in the dim and dreamy distance hardly serve to dispel. Richmond and New York avenues present on either side a continuous lime of magnit- cent suinmer residences. ‘he country seat of Mr. Jono J. Appleton, the publisher, is specially noticeable for its massive and unique elegance. A most beautiiul summer abode, and in the style of the structure and arrange- ment of the grounds, wearing an air of gracefal ele- gance and chaste finish, ix that of Mr. Arthur Leary. Challenging comparison with any of its neighbors is the superb villa of Mr. Marsh, ex-president of the Erie Ratlroad, The residences of the late Sir Edward Cunard, Captain John Vanderbilt, Mr. Geo. Duncan, Mr. Atkins and Mr. Distreili, tn the superb beauty of their elevated sites, in the style of tier structure, presenting the most charming and cosy style of mo- dern villa architecture; in the extent and decoration of their grounds, and in the ‘audiy extended and picturesque views to be had them are unsur passed by any residences on the island. The tardy spring, merged ot length into the mildness and warmth of advancing summer, invests wita a halo of alluring delight ali ihe country about him, and the charm country abodes to be seen on every side, With thelr delicious cnvironings of soft green turt and freshly leaved woods and nt howers blos- soming inio grand beauty. R It is pleasaut to turn irom New York avenue and stroll with others who are gotug the same way, in the direction of the New York Yacht Ciud House. It is no wonder 0 many visitors zo to look atit. A neater, quieter, cosier club house of the kind is no- where to be seen. The grounds, covering two acres, are beautifully laid out witn wide and winding gravelled walks, and its spacious lawn is rendered charmingly pleasing and picturesque by an aban. dance of shade trees. A more luxuriant growth of box wi is rarely to be met with than that hemming in two of its sides The house i & two = atory cottage, inted 0 pat @ light yellowish brown, with dark brown trigual of the Windows, porches, balconies and gables. ‘The front facing the water hase porch extending the whole length, bu¢ irregular, to conform to the bay Window projections. This irregularity, taken in cou- with the piainuess and striking style of the poreb, increases its ot. The windows extend to ) luis poreli, and still on it. “ tue porch and ope beter from the upper windows, there is &@ most maguiiicent view. in front there is @ perpet picture of the bay and passing vessels. To the right the view of the upposite shore of Long Isiaud is cut of at Fort . To the left there is a bold sweep of vision taking above here the whole of New Foi kK and Newark and their environing shores. First the eye rests on the receding shores of Long Island and the fine country seats nestied in the groves of ite farther heights, Lp! more faint aud Ehadowy in their outline and more frequent till the expanding “Clty of Churches” swallows them up in ite outstretchi and Rew York ateeplee, and Ke oreets “of alipping and ond the far-off din of the city es the aye rests from the gaze @ moment, seems to reach one like the roar of Ni in the distauce, and then on Jersey Oily and the shure of New Jersey up to mouth of tae Kul von Kull, with Newark and Eilza- beta and Elizapethport just visible la the dim vista. Splenaid as this view is m the daytime, it must be brilliant with beauty at night. ‘The lights of the distant eities and the colored lamps of Moving vessels shining out imto the darkness must present fairylike picture. And, in the soft laze of @ moonlight night, what themes of thought in the deep uush of the distant cities and dittng shadows of the ghosilike vessels ! Kousing oneself from the contemplation of the view spread out before him, and from tae reveries incideutal to it, superd realities, 1a their weirdilke cnaracter seeming almost an ideal fiction of the overw rought brain, he goes to the rear of the house— Which, in fact, 18 the mam front, 80 far, at least, a8 respects the mam entrance, whick 18 on this side, Here a sirtkiny int of beaut is the upper windows yet on wo grace. fully picturesque Venetian bafconies, tt un- mecessury to desertbe the interior. The furniture 48 fauluiess, but having a view more to comfort than glittering show. ‘There are pictures on the wails, though principally of nautical subjects, and huge armchairs and tete-a-tetes and lounges, and bool toread. The arrangements of the cuisine depart- ment, the last, but not the least important feature of ail, are perfect, and the steward, a yentieman of slightly dark complexion, but with a wonderful gleam of bright intelligence shining in his eyes, in the speciaity of catering to huwan gastronomic Tequirements is “to the manuer born.” » terraced lawn, With @ gravelicd walk on one side, Jeads to the water. A dock ts built here aud # picket fence hues Its outer edge, and 4 gute is in the centre, through which access 1s nad to the club sronnas from the yachts at their movoriags in front. just at tne buck ei the gate is a neat and trim fag- stat, from which during the yachting season the club fag oats proudly in the breeze. There ure no yacht# here now, tne yachting season not yet having com- menced, but there soon will be plenty of tagm. The liveliest yachting year there bas been since the formauon of the club ig anticipated. Active prepa- ratious are being made for the third general mecting, the time of wich and business aud forthcoming belipend and all are announced in the following cir- cular:— New Youk Yacur Cuep . ( New York, May 7, 1369. 5 Sim:—The third general meeting of the ‘luo wili be bela at the Cin House, Clifton, Staten Island, on Thuraday, the 20th of May, at tive o'clock P.M. Businiess—Llection of members. , Dinner at 6 P. M. Very respectfully, H. MORTON, etary. Active preparations are also veimy lade by the oMcers ol the clap for the annual regatta, This season of aquatic pleasure will be of unusual in- terest. Several new vessels have been added to the squadron, Which now numbers sume fiity odd Yachts, which, together with the radical alterations that huve been made In many of those ulready be- jonging to the club, will naturaliy lead to a muct fuller “entry”? than has heretofore obvained, The changes of ownersiip will algo Lave @ similar ten- dency by introducing new and sanguine aspiracts for the proifered plate and the laureis of tue wave, and although the lormer can fall to tue lot of but one, yet all can win the latter in their episodical or acci- dental contests during the intended forty mile race around the lightsiip. ‘Yuis aquatic season the note of preparation was sounded weeks ago for the annual regatia, that will take place on Thursday, June lu, aud already re- sponses have been received that give evidence that the occasion wul be marked with a greater vrillance than ever before. The regulations governing this annual festive time have been issued and are as follows:— The value of the prizes for the two classes—sioops and schooners—is $25) for each class. Tue sailing courses and directions for the start are as fol- ows :— ‘A tlagboat will be anchored abreast of the Club House, Staten island, about half a mile from the shore, west of which the sioops wiil anchor in line about forty yarda apart, ‘and the sch in line about 200 yards north of the sloops, about ulty yards apart. In taking position in the line eacu yacht may aclect its own in the order of arrival at the anchorage. ‘Mainsaiis, foresails and gatfiopsaiis may be set before starting, unless otherwise ordered bythe committee. T signal Tor starting will be announced on the morning of the atta. FFachis will proceed from the anchorage to the buoy of the Southwest Spit, passing {t to the west aad south, and thence to the lightship, rounding it to the northward and eastward, and return over the same course, passing to the west of the flagboat off the Club House, Going and returning all the buoys on the West Bank, viz., Nos. 11, 14 and 15, are to be passed to the eastward. Kntries will be received unui Tuesday, June 8, 1869. They must be directed to the secretary of the club and delivered at his oilice, No. 46 Liverty street, New Yor. ‘Members will bear in mind that the present rules are ma- terially changed, expeciaily in regard to tne forms of enter- ing yachts for a regatta. ‘The entries are kept open to tho last infnute aLowed (forty-eight hours before tue race); but it iedesirable that they should be made eaciier, that errors of form or commission may be corrected, waich cannot be done after the hour for closing has been reached. The utmost pains will be taken to make everything pleasant for the members and their ladies, as the steamboat to be engaged for their exclusive use will be ample in ize and accommodations to make hun- dreds comfortable. Music will be furnished, and, if it should be an auspicious day, those who devote 16 to a period of pleasure will be fully compensated, as the race of the different yachts will be grandly ex- citing. We have lingered longer at the Yacht Club House than we intendea, bat the time to come here is when the floulla of yachts have dropped their anciors 1p their moorings, and Wien lively aquatic contests are tae order of the day, and pleasant, social festivities at the club house, the order of the evening. 1t will be —— a full fair sight, When the fresh breeze is as fair as breeze may be And white sails are set, and gayly curve the waves before each dashing prow. ‘the club promises to make @ most briliiaut record for iuseif during the coming summer. ‘The day is only half past. Jumping on the steam cars the ride is quickly made to'To.tenville. ‘There is unusual activity at tue different villages on the route. Iinmigration trom the city Is setting in quite priskiy in this direction. Houses, however, are renting con- siderably cheaper along the road, as tu fact throug - out the island, than they were a lew weeks since. Real estate, nowever, holds at the same high ngures. A stage—not the oid fasbioned stage coach with four horses, but an imported metropoiitan ommnibus—car- ries us across the country to New Brighton. we find @ good many tracts ot land for gate, irom which im- mease forvanes are expected to be realized. A good many Staten Islanders are getting tired of spending their energies in the culture of vegetabies. They are wo eager ou the money making question; they have not patience enough. The greatest poraon of the island is high ground, but it is amlicted with legions of mosquitves, and the non—absorption of the clayey soiland a profasion of rock covering the surface cause @ miasina, and the secret venom of chilis and fever engenders disease. There must be proper drainage to remedy this. Fortune, by large and liberal endowment of the island, by its geographical position aud its vicinity to New York, has unquestionably Mapped out ior it a grand and high destiny. Ouroverflowing population must settle here-—must fill up the island. Jt 1s only a question of tine. = ig — of the an lis begun at the Battery ly nearing Bridge. vor ple are being driven beyond the precincts of Manoattan Island, Within thirty years, if our population increases in the same ratio it has during Wwe past thirty years, there will be 9,000,000 inhabitants on oar island and im its suburban cities, Staten Isiand, in this ume, must, at necessity, fll up wits people. Creeping up its slopes and over iis heights, ite vil- lages wul extend themselves Uil they embrace one another and become 2 compact city. One con- tinuous line of massive Wharves and pters will sur- round it. The commerce of the world already gorging our city with its merchandise must find part of its intet avd outlet here. ‘The completion of the Pacific Ratiroad, the great crowning event of the age, and the sure completion of other parallel raii- ways across our Continent to the far distant Pacific siope, Will add immeusely to the goods received and shipped from here, It 1s plain, therefore, that Staten Island must be built over; that this isiand, having @ more spacious area than our own island, must become the site of a great commercial city; that exteugive man- ufacturing estavushments, resoaant with tne jar of ponderous eugines and the busy ham of industry, must be erecied here, and that mammoth ware- houses and churches, and banks and schools, and ~ and private institutions, and palauai homes for the rich, and, it 18 to be hoped, comfortabie homes for the poor, the noble gift of some philan- turopie Peabody, will cover the whole vast area of lis broadly expansive acres. As our forefathers used to enjoy their strolis on the Battery, and as a few years since the Elywian Fields were our moss agreeabie places of rural resort, 80 now is the time to visit Staten Island before inexorable commerce and tue turnuit of trade and bustle of business sweep away every vestige of rural beauty, GENERAL NOTES. In Vinton, lowa, five misses have just been admit. ted into the Agricultural College. ‘The wolf business is lively in Mercer county, Ui., when $150 a Week ts made by goud hunters at eight dollars bounty for scarps. An Illinois law recently passed classes habitual drunkards the same as idiots and lunatics, and puts them under control of the overseers of the poor, Elections will take place throughout South Caro- lina on the 26th of May for county officers, The de- mocrats are laboring to carry tie upper part of the State, The great White Sulphur Springs resort in Vir- ginia was opened for the season last Week, A rail- road will couuect the place Wita the outer worid after July 1. The astronomical observatory at Mount Adame, Cincinnati, Ghto, 8 to be removed, on account the smoke and heated air of the city, which obsuract: observations at ite present ton. ‘The Vineyard (Mass.) Gazette says that 100,000 her- ring were cast ashore by the tide in Kataya bay on Monday last, and they were carried off and ite. ‘This was a protitabie description of jeisom, ‘The new State Librarian of Michigan i9 * Mrs. fenney, wife of Professor Tenney, Ag Libratian. she became accustomed to the duties of the position during the absence or sickuess of her husband for many years, and is said to be the roughly qualided, ‘The trial at Warsaw, Ind., of John W. Vannatta, = Mean = Lid is bp months rged poisoning & came to close on ‘the Join. ‘Tue. trial lasted. & Week, and Created consiterable excitement, the court being thronged with ladies and gentiomen the entire proceedings, The prisoner was to two year's imprisonment ly the penitentiary,