The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1869, Page 4

£ : NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY,’ SEPTEMBER ALONG THE SOUND. Developments and Improvements cx the East Side. Castios, Parks, Villas aad Paucy chy WEALTH, ENERGY AND VPRISES % The Future of New York and tis Suburban Surroundin ‘That New York is not the least enterprising or de- veloping Of cities has frequeatly been shown tn this paper in sketches of improvements appearing from time totime. Under the light of modern progress— progress as appearing in massive works of engineer- ing, beantirol gems of architecture, broad avenues, Picturesque parks, thriving centres of trade and commer hardy sports, promineutly so 4n the aquatic pleasures that the other day enabled Har- vard to barely lose golden laure!s, and in the quiet ease and When necessary the elegant hospitality of our cit.zens—Manbattan Island hw n spreading her wings and preparing to enter the clrcumjacent country lying about tts bounds for a radius of forty miles, with ail the prestige of her energy and wealth, Few are acquainted with the actual advances that have been jade on all sides towards suburban set- ements, especiatly in the direc ) of those tmpor- tant lands, wanting aothing but e:terprising capi- talists, lying in Long Island, New Jersey and West- chester county—the latter the future supplement to the overcrowded Manhattan Island. THE BXODUS OF 1 from the city began many years a when rents becaine (oo high, provisions too dear, and building ground too imuen under the monopolies of specu- Jators and brokers, and has convinued since with surpri pidity. Laborers, and soon salesmen, betweens and men engaged in respon- sible positions, bul supporting families on stated walarie wi compelled by the inexorable law governing the equilib: iam of the body politic to seek their natural levels In @ position more consistent with economy aid less in keeping with lavish out- Jay. This depletion of the populai.on has not been percepiibie to habttual residents ry going beyond the corporation limits, perhaps; yet it has been so enormous that when Mr, ¢x-Secretary of State Depew made his notorious census of the elty some years ago few were willing to ¢ his figures, apparently showing an unnatural fa 200,099 people, oF @ ridteuious disparity in the ex- pected relative growéh of the poprlation. Itnow seems as If this gontieman Bad made a more correct estimate than is rally supposed, }imay be that politteal aims had something to do with his integers, but it cannot be that he has tam- pered with the eiphers-—for the wonderful develop- nent of the tuaced at all points of the com- rom tue City Halt presents an edible ex- om of rural immigration, Qae has but to Taday at the duTerent ferries and depots, to the termint of street railroads and take a glance? at the columns upon colntans of real estate advertisements now dally appearing m the papers, to begin tv appreciate the magnitade of the diurnal towns stream drifting mto pleasant homes and neat cot- tages, amoug fertule and well drained lands, But it must not be taken as a matter of course that all living in these quarters are yeceat settlers or poor men. Many gentlemen, whose e: tates have come to them by taheritance or Who have dwelt upon them for a tong period of years, gull retain a large portion of thelr orginal! !ands, only having cut up the tracts into lots for generat sale and setticinent. Others again have deprecated this mode of improvement, and would rather discourage the herding process of the elty, pi ng to reside on broad domains In Clegant secl: The public spirit of Mr. A. T. Stewart tn his purchase and inten- tions regarding the improvement of Hempstead Plains is a notabie exception, while his course has already found imitators, all of whom will fad at to (heiy pecuniary advantage to carry ont thoi designs. THE ATTRACTIONS, ithas been found that a few moneyed, go-ahead men will do more to draw settlers, and thriving ones, too, towards a neglected region than any num- ver of railroads or steamboats that can be putin motion, All along the Morris and Essex Railroad active towns aad ciusters of spieudid mansions can now be seen upou @ tract which, but a few years ago—less than ten—was as destitute as an Oviental waste. The reason of ihis is evident. A systematic and determined effort to build roads, drains and creditabie buildings, @ neigh borly and triendly co- operation, in locaung post oMces and churches, and tvo often gia shops; a hberal outlay of enpital and aa Intehigent appreciation of united wants—these characteristics have loft their impress npon the beanuinily built houses and culitvaced acres consti. Uuling the charm of the places which we will nowtce An Lhe course oi the preseat article, In nove oi the country places to Which the rush lias been so sygaitl- cant of the lature giaudeur of New York as the busi- ness centre of yet 3,100,000 of people ha ra been showing such conspicnous advance ment as hester county. Aud what is Westehester ty, and how iar, in & general wa, Wil its Tuture be the furure of this metropolis? ‘The query Is an Important one and deserves a vrief considera- tou. WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Westchester county b vast tract of undulating country, coniaining avout 480 square miles ot terrl- y erous small streams running ater basins forming ws eastern, ‘atnem and hem among the most _Enion, le upon is fertiie aod productive in tt nortnern [ine The majestic Tludson to the west- ward, the Harlem to its southward and tie Sound pon ite astern shore make Unis peninsula of 307,200 ac! the best situated for purposes of commerce that could be desired by any one, Look at its advantages. The North river from ts head waters is Davigated by craft doing the en- Ure carrying trade of the great Weet, which Gnds a natural chaque! frova the lakes over the Erte Canal through Which to pour the abundance of her grain, We inexhauscdle supplies of ver forests and mines, and the vast resources of her rare live stock and bidden treasures, ‘the aanuai drift of products down this stream, carried in a canalboat or a huge Jeviathan iy utierly inconceivable. Let any one take & station at the magnificent hydraulic works at Lockport in this State, which permit the descent of eighty feet in the Erie Canal, and he wiil get a giimpse of what comes silently easiward and glides down the Hudson presently to be offered m the scat- tered markets of tae world, This river is the outlet of the American iniand trade, and no foolish predic. tions about the fatare of the Mississippi should bitnd men to the vaiue of the tindson. Nor bas Boston, Fbiacelphia or Haltimore — yet succeeded in convincing the world and especially that important part oi the world, trate, that they ere more than Igureheads beride the coilossai monn ment ol commerce, While New York stanas to-day upon the pedestal of 1s wealtn and uternational prestige. Koston, it is true, had a grand jubilee, Philadel- puians embrace each other in the street in brotheriy jove, and Baltimore ruvs one line of steamers to Euro- pean shores; but it requires something more than these together with cunning railroad connections and foreign Capital to clutch the prize from New York's grasp—a feat that only can be accomplished when the waters of the Hudson are hunguptodry. What, (ben, t# of Bnet Vast smportance to New York has a revative value to Weste! ercounty, So tas with the Sound. When the t Fiver 1a cleared of ob- siructions; wheu the dangerous rocks at that fitly tamed point, Hell Gate, shall have been removed— und the work 8 1p progtess—and his Satanic Majesty svall lenve clear tne most vital commercial gateway o American commerce, then will open @ brilliant e or our shipping and with ita long step forward by our landed proprietors on the east side. THE CHINA TAADE which now sails through the Narrows, the European sieumers, and all the important invereceanic trans- ud requ ug a certain degree of cespatch and then find ther passage shortened by slormy weather, when Long Island is ing the prevalence of thick y 1a great saving of coal, ni fear, and pilovgs, will also be Items not to be ur estimated in the completion of tats oud dixgracefuily neglected work, The morous action of the goverument in the matter ol heen a living, Staring reproach to New York for nany years. We have not fatied to call attention to reiarding tfluence upon our material proa- rity, to 18 Qangerous character even as an wdiment to the little navigation that now weeks the channel, aud to the pallry mean- of those whose slippery fingers aud well ered nests are in cupsiant proximity to the puble treasury. Not until te last degree of damp- ‘ess is wrong from the Atlantic Ocean suoald #0 im. portant an haprovement be allowed Co langulsh. Ie pucces® Wi! have @ Wonderful tafuence upon the pusterm auore of Westouesicr county. Bouded ware- wot honses and the great !umber and in trade would locate on the Hariem river were thia ploturesque lit- tle stream opened as a ship canal, and storehouses would line the Sound from Point Morris down the Convecttent shore. Where the plum lies ts not eas- uy discovered, but somebody, perhaps, who owns largely down town, takes in the situation. He sees tat the mevitavle movement is toward the Sound; his large blocks and stately stores are his all or the ; chief source of his wealth. To destroy or impair | these is not in the nature of man, spectfically in the geras homo of this ime and ciime. And so large for(unes are secretly, never openly, allied to defeat improvements in Unis quarter, It may be said that Liese persons Can buy, But the fleld is already pre- oceupied by anticipation. This is the complexion of one of the “niggers ou the fence’ adjoining Hell ; Gate, Things look now as if the darky would dis~ { mount. A GREAT IMPROVEMENT, subject of opening the Iariem river bas been “a considered to need mention here, it mast e. Travel, public sentiment and the dual | wreatne-s of New York and Westenester demand it. { rhe ioterests are really identical, and their means e.opment should be harmonious. No one who 1 ash for commercia! pride, or has a fair fore- suadowing of his own aggrandizement, if ne own real estate on this island, can oppose it. With these innovations, then—with grain, lumber, produce and ore rushing down the Hudson; with tue ireights of the Harlem, Hudson river and New York Central roads discharging at some great en- wrepot about Yonkers; with the New England roads having a common depository for manufactures avout the same spot; withthe great China tea trade, the West India fruit trade, the South American and European trades—all oceanic trades uring their profuse harvest into the lap of tae Empire Staie; with the merchandise of the Indies and the great coasting commerce; with the magnificent depot of the Pacitic Railroad at Mount Vernon, and with the iow rents and small insurance rates; with room, plenty and a fair country, what will not the future of utis chosen land be? To what limit of population and wealth will it not reacht This 18 @ sanguino but not au exaggerated view. Every eloment that makes up the commercial grandeur of @ community is there or Will be there, aud the germ 38 ripening Into An unmistakable resuit. What a singular anow- aiy New York will then present? There will be Westchester county on the north—a peninsula, a8 ew York practically is—draining the life blood from. the heart of the m etropolis, takiag the nourishment from her commerce and depriving her of bone and sinew, All inevitable, AN OVERLAND CHANNEL TO THE SEA. The products mentioned as finding their depot at Youkers will have ao overland channel to the sea. ‘The Point Morris Raiiroad connecting and running to the Sound will be the highway over which such freight must be transported, so that right through the heart of the county a rail- road will ran like an eternal fertilizer, nourishing small hamlets and quiet settlements into active towns and busy cities, Such is another landmark, once a wild Indian country Where the savage Mone- wans brandished their tomahawks, and @ region Where most every acre bears some footprints of the revolutionary struggle, the county of Westchester has ever heen attractive soil to the historian and has bevoine classic ground to the American anuiquary. ixich in agricultural requisites, abounding in singu- lar quantities of the primivtve rock called hypogene or granite gneiss, running in long ridges, with veins of vob ore and quarts through the entire county, & surface covered with boulders that would make some of the blocks in the Pyramids crystalitze with shame; with quarries deptiiess in Ane marpies and g#ray uranites, mines rich in gold aud silver, West- chester has these additional advantages which give her cultivated fields, solid loundauons, handsome and imposimg mansions, and public and private in- sutucions that adorn her seun-rural character, while they plainiy indicate her power ag a tuture dispenser of vast water power, capacious river frontages aud extended drives and thoroughfares. And then there are her streams, ereeks, rivers and gushing torrents; her Croton water and her Tappan r venerable trees—forests of white and red 4, elms, White and slippery birch, buttonwood, wood, lindens, maples, locusts, chestnuts, hickories, dogwoods, white woods, hem- i ars, and her endless variety of pines and spruce, ‘The country on the east side 1s broken, billy dud undwiating. ‘The Sound, washing its shore, judeuts it with coves, bays, and sometimes with mall creeks, which ebb aad flow with the tide. ‘The pun is not high ip general, though Knolls rise to sonsiderable elevations and form eligibie sites Jor fine mansions. In a santtary view the Whole county is malarial Dr, farris, eminent in all matiers effecting the public health. aeclares that the pruni- rondstion Oi the lands has this decided teudeacy, ¢ view 18 taken by Dr. A. K. Gardoor., Some people to @ region having this drawback, and m- tely couclude “there is something im the at- jere.”’ Malaria does no: arise from anyttung but stagnating in open or subterranean basins, and in be expelied by a careful system of draiuage. af Westchester couuty is an example of sysiemat eflective draining. Immense sums have been ner alone, aud energies directed win a coumendaole zeal to remove this only remaiming barrier to sensitive residents. Thus fevec and agi has been conquered, and purchasers no ionger dad Dut one thing in their way. THE ROADS AND AVENUES. As we have in a previous article considered the improvement along the Hudson, the opening of tie Kiyerdale road and the cutting chrough of Central aveaue to White Plains, it omy remains vo notice the condition of the east side—a district that is won- drousiy charming in tine scenery, sumptuous man- sions and fine grounds. Besides tue Kingsbridge road, Macomb’s Dam road and the railroads, there is one other prominent highway, and that 13 Third avenue on this side and the old Boston post road On the other. 1f the driver prefer he can take the east route through the Park, down Harlem lane across 125th street, and reach the teratnus of Third avenue by a pleasant roadway. The way ltes over the Harlem bridge, and Continues on the proloaga- tion of Third avenue, wich takes one and the same ‘ine as its sister street in the city. Indeed, all the avenues and the hilis and valleys in Westchester county are admirably adapted to be but continua- cons of tue New York avenues, as they have the sate topographical characteristics and can be ex- tended even to the North Pole if necessary—a work that has been contemplated by one enthusiasuc admirer of ihe telescopic growth of the city, Upon entering the eastern end of the county by this road, waither we design conducting the reader, @ settie- ment is #¢ep that had no nucleus ten years ago. Now fine frame structures, stables, com/ortable pusi- ness offices and stores are constructed upon the side streets aud upon Second and Third avenues. These higuways have been laid out with gas and water; they have good roads, established grades aud ftlae flags. The ground may be driven over m the direc- tron of Eust river until the Bosion Post road is attamed, lying buta few hundred yards from the Sound, and then over an undulating country, with fine views and pleasant breezes, one can begin to nieasure the grouad which be can in vain cover with grcenbacks to ouy. A MARVEL. Twenty years ago, when that genial and bardy pioneer, Mr. Simeon Leiand, first pianved bis toot upou this ground it was a wilderness of forest t and howling beasts. Now tt ts a healthy and vigor- ous country, intersected with living arteries and weming with the young blood of American mndus- try. Such is the marvel o1 a score, What will another bring forth’ The wood has been cleared away, the ground has been given an casy slope to ibe river, the tak trees have beea respected tu their venerable years, and the infant meadows and pretty mounds have had their nakedness cove: with a tuft of green. The waters have been made (o caress the lawn, and the deeply wild sceuery has not been marred by the harsh hand of im: ricious art. Houses of a joity height, with showy Matisard roois, Wide verandas, pointed gables and often feudal turrets, ascend to a beautuuily blue and serene sky, while quict grazers move about the heath, play/ul dogs peep out benind mdden oranches for tus [ox and *posstim, and birds sing, parrots talk, and pretty gitis and beaux send the Croquet balls Aytag over the lawn, This is @ great transtormation from twenty years ago. THE INHABITANTS OF SOUTH Waste The country in the lower part of nestar 14 now largely inhabued by thrifty Germans, and hotels and the national resorts of the people can be seen along the line in a8 good a condition as those on the west side. The land tn this vicinity has been well drained and all sources of tever aud ague re- moved. Over aroad that has picturesque banks, fine trees and @ Macadam bed, the view comprehends spacions groands arustically laid ont and Joity structures in all styles of archivecture. Besides, glimpses of the Sound rise now and then ino view, and the narrow streains, its tributaries, ran Uironzi Sri, with the degrees marked upon tts face, and capable | the classic features of Ariosto, Tasso, Petrarch and of being set to any point, When the degree of ex- treme heat or cold is reached the positive and nega- tive poles of an electric batrery meet and communt- cate to a wire going into the keeper's lodge, ard thus ring a bell and Sparing him of the injurious temperature, Probably the most. interesting thing upon Mr. Hoe's place fé his apl- ary, containing eight swarms of good producirg bees. This building is octagonal shaped, and the bees can be seen bustly at work constructing thar combs of mathematical nicety, It takes about four weeks to fill a comb, and ninety pounds have already been made thts season, Hives, itis weil known, often produce several swarms ar. In the course of afew years this apiary will nave a very dense population. The view from the balconies embraces one of the most attractive parts of the Sound, and large tracts of forest and the adjacent residences, many of which are pleasing structuréa, Mr. [oe has resided upon his place tor fourteen years, Under bis hand he bas converted the rude wood into its Present condition, and constant improvements will place it among the handsomest places in America. ‘The greenhouses have all the rare exotics; the rose of Sharon, spruces and firs, and the golden corn fleld present a fine appearance from the road, seciuGed spots, preserved for their beauty in tie wencral landscape. Passing Paul Spatford granite mausion to northward and eastward & 8 estate. T, Mr. Wh ated Mr. Benjamin Whitlo doing an immense was once a wealthy gro: Southern trade, The war breaking out, lis creditors failed him in the sum of $800,000, and his estate be- came mortgaged to his persona! Iriends, and among them Commodore Vandertiit held a Hen of $175,000. ‘The mansion is very glegant, being of the rena sance style of archiecture, with Mangard roofs and a front gucci | of the character of the Champs Hiysces tacade of the Tulleries, The estate is now divided, aud the original design has never been car- nied out. GROUNDS AND MANSION OF COLONEL ROBERT HON. Mr. Robert Hoe, whose name is tmperishably connected with the printing press, occupies fifty- three sof finely laid out grounds on the Peinan road, about ten miles from the city. His tract com- prises valuable water frontage and is about aa ex- tensive in area as any in the region. The drives lay up asioping hill, They are staded by beautitul evergreens, weeping bircies, willows, Norway maples, and Mekores and pies. Mr. Hoe's house i8 a jnodern structure, roomy, with high cetiings and inlaid floors. A high Mansard roof towers above cornice work, and a lofty cupola surmounts iniata floors of oak and Walnut present a very rich oppearance and were bought tn [nterlachen, Switzerland, Mr. Hoe has some valuable works of art, cluding intricately wrought bronzes by Jules Marguiez, ‘The Orpneus” in marble, and fine park neces. The grounds in front comprise lawns and rived im chief, and to the eastward is a large vegetaple and flower garden of sey- eral acres, To the southward, shut off by a movable iron fence, is the grazmg meadow, upon whicn sixteen of the best Durham and Alderney breeds can be seen, probably nnrivalled in America. A large number of gamecocks are also in the poa- session of Mr. Hoe, and they are allowed to live peaceably in each other's society. Some feet horses are in the stables; and one freak of nature 1 seen 1n a colt Who Was born with his fetiocks tarned uuader, The graperies of Mr. Hoe have been nnn- sually successful, They are all im good condition, ‘The houses are heated by het water, and siwphur is Jaid alon bad to kill the leafworm, which has been so depredatory in so many places. A unique device, which registers the most delicate variations of temperature, is placed in @ conspicucus position lu (ue graperies, ‘Tale devicg cymalety gi @ diel, and a stranger woulda scarcely pass without stop- ping to inquire as to the ownership. OTHER MANSIONS. The road after leaving Mr. Hoe's ground pur- sues tts tortuous direction along the Souna vy Mr. Fox's stuccoed house, through corn flelds, linmg either stae, and under bowers formed by huge but- teuwoods and stately elms. Late i the afternoon and when the sun 19 tinging the horizon wiih a beit of gold and tinting the sky with purplish streaks, this country, with its hilla and gentie eminences, and cultivated, yet Reoiningly wild ands, ia a charmiug quarter. Always a fres! breeze blowing from the Sound, with no mosquitoes: or annoying insects, it will pay one to drive along this line on & sultry day. Pelham’s Priory, a school that has become noted 4s an educational institution for young ladies, and where many romantic matches have been set on foot, Makes @ pruminent figure in the landscape. Reaching Pelham bridge the steamer Osseo ap- pears approaching with her daily cargo of residents who visit New York every morning to attend to their business and return intheevening. The Kdgars and Emmets, the latter the descendants of the famous Irish patriot, own spacious grounds and com(ortabie houses tu. this vicinity. Passing through Mount Vernon, which lies to the northward, on the New Haven road, @ giant oak that has stood for more than 200 years, attracts the attention of every one. This relic of the forest has a curious lustory. In the revolutionary war it was related that a spy who made his entry into the continental lines was summartiy executed upon the large brancn over- hanging the road. ‘This, wich other stories, has made Westchester county seem, like the rugged land of Sir Walter Scott, repleve with legends and weird tales of the eary days, It 1s a good field for the poweaas though, to a certain extent, it has been oc- cupied. ‘rhe places of Messrs. A. 8. Higgins and Pierre Lorillard occupy sites along this region, ‘The latter has an elegaut mansion and pretty grounds, It 13 through this quarter that the new Boulevard which staris into Westchester county from Central bridge, known as Central avenue, and winding around White Plains, thence having two arms, one to Portchester and the other to Rye and through New Rochelle, wiil pass with a good bed and a width of a hundred feet, The road ties on towards the village of New Rocuelle, and arriving there turns into Leland avenue. CASTLEVIEW—THE PLACR OF MR. SIMEON LELAND. We have no aristocracy in America, and there are no lords viscounta, dukes and princes, What a pity! Mr. Leland, of the Metropolitan, has as fine @ mansion and as beautiful grounds as there are in this country. tis nouse is a capacious and lotty castle, standing near the heart of une villaze of New Rochelle, surrounded by and stocked with all the elegance that a quarter of a million could buy when a dollar was a dollar, But one thing is necessary to constitute Mr. Leland a peer, and that is a properiy authenticated warrant, and then Low natural woud i be to say “Lord Stimeon!’ Alas! the Piigrim Fathers neglected co foster this desirable custom, and the geuial and courtiy proprietor lacks the hundle only of a lord of the soil, belng but one of navure’s noblemen. Some men are called bricks, Mr, Leiund ts oue of the rectangular specimens; yet, white ne has the salient points and the keen edges of wit, the solidity and undaunted front of many of these cubteal blocks, he has none of their flavulency or dead weight Mr. Leland has been aimong Lhe most active and untiring of all the landed proprietors of West- chester county in projecting and carrying through Important improvements, For more than twenty years he has been a resident upon the actual tract where he now lives, and has been endeavoring by lavish outlays to make the place without a rival in the Union, In @ life as active as his has been and covering @ period of (ifty-three Ele | Ab 18 Boarcely possible to estimate the amount of time and money Spent with the single purpose and sole idea of im- proving his forty acres and adding to the luxuriance and striking ornamentation of a massive mansion. Four years in building dis castle, at atime when money had @ fixed valte and houses a more sub. stuntial Character than those now in process of erec- ton, he has planted a structure upon a rising slope upon Leland avenue and broken tts outlines into shapes and figures whica call to miud the fortilica- tions of the Thane of Cawdor, and has converted it into a house where he receives his guests innumor- abie and flies his broad pennant from his main tower with the command ;— Hang out our banners on the outer walls, ‘The cry ia, “Still they come.” The grounds of Castieview are differ- ently latd out from the many places on the Hudson, and the castle has few points in common with those same edifices mentioned in a recent issue. Entering from Leland avenue, a straight highway leading from the main road, wo find but @ 1ew bunared yards to northward lies the great marble archway forming the gate. Of witte marble, with heavy tron gates and two savage lions crouch- ing over the path doors at either side, the struc- ture in itself tsa marvel of architecture, and dis- plays many fine points as regards iaste, consiruc- tion and adaptation. The passage through is of the ordinary width, the height about swenty feet and the thickness of walls three feet, The park now stretches away to northward, wesiward and soutu- ward, covered with symmetrical arbor vitw, grace- ful willows, weeping perches, mountain asiies, laurels, beeches, hickories, pines, spruces, firs and nearly every species of these invaluatile pro- tectors. The lawn has an abundance of statuary, and the effect of white figures, representing Europe, Africa, Asia and America, spring, summery, fa'l and winter, is to the eye pleasing, and to the mind sug- gests the great commerce and mighty trade of the four quarters of the globe, whieh some day must be stored along the waver froats ot Westchester county, through all the varying seasons of the year. ‘two 82-pounders, mounted on the reguiar navy gun-carriage, commanding the main road, stand out wiinan imperative and ugly look, and can speak when they are spoken to, an- swering respectively to the names of “ierror and “Deflance.’’ ‘The drive over a broad roadway, witn a lawn of more than satin softness and a hue richer than emerald green, agrecabiy terminates under the huge gray granite poreo, trom which the whole tract lying from its front can be seen, with ali the dissolv- ing views of the prospect, About twenty yaras in front of the door is 9 large white vase, carrying an abundance of creepers and blooming fuschias, together with mosses and rare ivy. In front of the wing, from which is boiit a wide veranda, the. round is fevel and beautifully grassed and cut by gravelled walks, the principal ope of which leads to tue stables and the flower and vegetable gardens, Along the line of this pach an apple tree is under going the singular training on an espalier, which spreads tt branches over a framework, uiter the mar rof cultivating hothouse peaches and nec- tarines. The dower garden in part lies fo westward of a fence, Cn agro | it from the lawn, and Is profuse tn tue canning and pretty budding ladies’ eardrops, which feed in autumn, when the nate ones seem to rematn open forever. Taen thei re tastefully arranged beds of galtias, collues, gpreading their beautiful colors, verbenas, heliotropes and ca’ diams; beds of marigoid, fuscuiss, * old man” and phioxes algo are pianted ta abundance. ‘The straw- berries upon the place were uumerous, of good size, with a delicious Mavor. The pataway should now be pursned over a layer of asphaltum, compactly driven, to the stables, whose windows are of stained glass, general construction gothic, and material rood. Mr. Leland 18 a connoisseur in horsedesh, aud owns many vaiuabie trotiers. We drives an elegant four-in-hand, and has lately been making a sensation “on the beach at Long Bran with is elegant turnovt. Besides hs four-in-tiand the tara- out is always accompauied with iwo small Base fndla miniature horses, with delicate limbs, of 4 light bay color, and no larger than suod sized watch dowd. Mr. Simeon, Jr., hoids tne threads. Lhe fol owing ts | alist of Mr, Leland’s fancy st ick:— hon ‘i } ighlander, | pour Dandy. yFour in ha ase ket. | Straine, biti ste Cinierena. | Bresding stock. Sliver Bell, , * A Fort he > Trotters, Dollie, Nelite, ‘Tue grounds, radiating ip ail Girections from tae castle, are of the most picturesque aud lovely de seripuuion. They show art, good tasie and delicaie handling. Under tie watchtul eyes of Lord Simeon they bave attained that degree of ayinmetry waich occupies the chief werlt in tie gardenesdue, aad lends so much aliernating quict and gayety to trae grant Nowers and unique shrubs. Dogs and dragons, in figure, are placed upon pedestals to southward of the wide veranda in the rear, and a semi-circular wall supports white vases of creepers and buds. A pigeon cot, densely inhabited, has a place a litte farther to the southward. There are npon the forty acres eight and a half miles of drain and one and a hatf miles of drive, The trees ure singulariy abun- dant, and are as fine as will be noticed aiong the Sonnd, Palace is more a word that should describe the mansion than castle. Painted and gilaed beyond a polit to which no popular belief Will reach, the rooms, halls and domes have a richness of dish aud an intricacy of design that love made some of tue foreign princes whom Mr. Leland hag entertained, ag well as the sallow merchants of the Flowery Kingdom, blush with shame. It isa noble structure. The interior is reached through the door under tne great arch, and, passing over & mosaic hall plece one finds himself in @ lofty hall, sixtoen foot high, { Haat tndia dwavis F ‘The tirst room to the right is the livrary, watoscoted in walnut and fuished with frescoed panels and stained windows. This apartment commemorates the golden of art, literature and cutvairy. Busty im marble aad wedalligns in vrogze picture Dante; and Shakspeare and that now thrice-nonored and beloved face of the great Byron, whose memory a3 been most nobly defended, culiar fitness in their places, and tesseliaved floors, through up walnut@taircases, by massive bronzes, one wan- ders in vain to find evidences of cramped rooms or cheap ornaments. Throughout the house the ar- ticles of vertu, the paintings and the figures are significant of the same expense lavished all over the place. Satins, velvets and delicate colors are conspicuous in the large parlors, and columns of Sienna marble and windows of giass stained with artistic scenes appear all over the mansion. ‘The Dive roo, Cie pink room, tent room, flirtation bou- dow and cucare room, Fognine with the dining Toom, (he state chamber and the spare rooms, are clegant, and, untixe some houses, too good miman hature's daily food, The paintings hang in the picture gallery, a mag- Dificent room, aud comprise “Joseph's Dream,’’ “Joseph Landing his Forces,” “Scene Near Vienna,” “Abraham's Meeting with the Angei” ana a copy of Raphael's “Madonna.” In other parts the house 1s commodious, i9 patnted on walls and ceiling throughout and has the most costly watnscoting known to this quarter. Here in the midst of such fury splendors Mr. Leland lives surrounded by & numerous aud pleasant family, dining and wining the quality of the land, Mr. A. B. Miller has eight acres near the foregoing place, and Captain Cults, merchan 2 gncrrnnged a valuable house rising from the midst reen and spreading ¢elins, Many other houses in this region are ane ones, and deserve mention, but space forbids. TUK HOUSE AND GROUNDS OF MR. JOHN STEPHENSON. ‘This place, called ‘Clifford,’ has been im Mr. Stephenson’s possession for many years. It com- prises thirty-three acres, lying directly on the Sound. ‘he land nas been weil drained, partialiy cultivated, and irom the magnificent house, now nearly com- pleted, promises to be @ fine country seat. The house ts an example of what can be produced by the union of heavy walnut wainscoting, inlaid floors, sixteen feet ceilings, with forty rooms. The structure is & castie. Its lines are singularly defined, and terminate ina high tower wish a cone-capped cupola. it ts fitted for steam heating and has all the auxiliaries of the steam engine, it nasa high arched porch, Wide balconies, picture galleries and roomy apartmen:s. Yhe dwelling 1s but so that one portiun can be occupied in wiater and the other in summer, former being constructed with thick walls and the latter with flues and channels admitting of good veutilation, Tae main tower is 40 feet high; the plan has a ee area measuring 109 feet long by 80 wide, ‘Yhe first stury is finished entirely in walnut, and tae second in oak, while the upper rooms, broken frou # rectangular shape by the sloping rool, are less capacious but more lofty, OTHRR RESIDENCES. Mr. Toole has an elegant edifice farther on, and Mr. B. L. Soloman has one hardly tuierior. Mr. James Tuy ets retired merchant or Brooklyn, lives in @ mansion of wooden consiruction on the Grecian order. [thas a great capacity, is richly turnisaed, and is situated near the estate of the once famous E. K. Coliins, who owned the line of transatiantic steamers bearing nis name, and which was formerly tue pride of New York. Domestic musiortunes and subsequent events have despouled Mr. Coiling of his lands, and the s2) acres of tine ground have been sold, divided and purchased by strangers, Mr. Flint, a Chicago gentleman, obtaining 260 acres for $150,000. hls estate as @ mile frontage on the Sound, When improved there will be no lunit to its beauty and no rival in its value in Chat section. ‘The singuiar silence, yet unmistakable evi- dences of secret operations 10 real estate avout tus portion of New Kochelle, ts a puzzie to all wao wish to make landed investments, Powerlui cilques resort to ail sorts of expedients to inveigie purchasers, by drawing elaborate plang on paper, by holding out fabled improvements, and geuerally by mendacious assertions they succeed in convincing tyros that they are about to descend near the £ Dorado. ‘fhe truth ts that none should purchase but oo careful inspection, and then only when observation verilles the statemeat of opera- tors. No doubt Westchester county is ripe with enterprise, 18 pushing her boulevards and public roads to @ rapid completion; is building depois, churches and town structures, and has taken a wide departure from the sluggisa flow of otaer suburban improvements; yet 1c can hataly be necessary to say that sharers misrepresent, and by fraud endeavor to obtain customers at fanty prices, that sooner or later must seek a more navural level, DAVID'S ISLAND, formerly the property of Mr. Simeon Leland, apd now @ fiospital grouud, with good accommodations and exieasive wards, has been suggested as tue future depot of Sing Sing convicts. ‘ine idea 13 @ good ove, The State of New York could do uothing better than purchase it from the United Siaies and convert it into a prison, On leaving Mamaroneck und passing over the east- ern Boulevard, cue preity country Seats of Measrs, Sumac: L. Mutcheil, Alexaader Tayior, George R. Jackson and obicrs, are secu, Whose grounds run down to tae water's edge; theyce on by the estate of Henry Brevoort, with its mile fontage on the Sound until the oid Jay Homestead is 1a view—an estate comprising about 600 acres of land, tlie residence of Jonu . Jay, grandson of Jubn Jay, tne first Chief Justice of tig United States, and at oae time Gover- nor of tae State of New York, In thls neiguborhood are the country seats of Jaines H. Parsons, who tas about forty acres of land under excellent cultivation, inctuding a noble grove of woods skirting the har- bor; and the piace of the late A. W. Bradford, for- moriy Surrogate in this city, which cousists of & large mansivain the French chateau atyle of archi- tecture with mansard roof and lorty tower, frou de- signs by H. if, Holy, architect, with commodious barns anu stables, cher with @ conservatory, graperies and 100 acres of land upon whica a large ®mount of money has been expended. WHITBY—TULB FAMILY MANSION OF THE MESSRS. WILLIAM P. AND H. P, CHAPMAN. ‘rasto, culture and sensitive refinement may be at- tributes of maoy professioas, and be conspicuous in inost every species of art; but in nothing can they Le 0 happily combined, so harmoniously executed and s0 Woudrously typiied as 1a a piece of arcaitec- ture coustructed for beauty and durability, The Roinan, Grecian, Gothic, and Norman schools, ail have ‘their destravle points, but of these none ¢au be said to embody the modern maasion, a3 it should be. One with more diversity, leas formality aad coldness and a iugoer grade of tne picturesque should obtain. [o their castie, built near the Coile- giate Gotiic style, with strangely artistic limes— tuoge lines always noticeable in the works of the old masiers—the mansion of Whitoy ts a splendid em- bodiment of what is the ideal residence. A glauce from the road revoals the castle, standing back from the wall several hundred /eet, lying partially con- cealed by fuily developed pines, spruces, map.es aud els. The lawn, shaded with ligat and shadow by the sun; the tall peak and flinty spire of fray granite rising over ail, iu the background; barely a glunpse of the water of the Sound, now and then; the creamy whiteness of the sky and the rich blush of a thou- sand, flowers—iuese, with caruiue roses, straw- di corniields and the great sweep of tie forest, afford a sceue witich every one sould sce to appre- clate—a combination at ouce rare and admirably ar- ranged. A.J. Davia, the celebrated designer of the Custom House and other well Known buildings, was the archivect of the buliding, and pronounces it his fairest work. Adding to its wildness 1s a thick and weil-tramed growth of creepers, of the Virginia, Irish ant Sagist climoers. "The interior af tite castie seems to have been fur- nished regardiess of onse, the rooms designated ag voudolrs, siate char 3, Dillard rooms and par- lors being mar sviance—yet not that Kind of luxuriance which forbida the touch; tn other words, Use as Well ax nt Was considered ia the general provisto: L nacotings are of the oid Hngitsh style, rich, finely carved aud very showy. Of all parts of the mansion none is more Interesting than the library, Ajonai Shaped, with piate and stained glass windows, lolly bookcases, easy cuairs, cl ars, sans RO 1 fishing rods lying about, i e ries i th 3 Specimens of early print jug, fo) * printed in 1b00; “shal speare, in nine volumes, hall st «Ben Jonson,” mont and Fle «Milton,’? “prydea” and “Sir Waiter ialeigh,” in tne rat, or among the fi together with @ Bible sirack off in 1492, constituled some antiquated gems. In history, In voyages, and incothparably in dramatic literature, Mr. Chapman bas been a su The musee Frangais and muse also in his brary. ‘ull of quaint relics, souvenirs of an interesting charac- ter and other valuables of the antiquary, one can almost sec the remote ages pass by in panoramic procession, while the lancmarks of the past are ve- fore his eye. Two volumes of the Naw Yore HRRALD, Of 1815-14, antograph letters of Washington, Lincoln and others are 1 the collection, Tae auto graph letter of Benedict Arnold ts Known to be preserved. ne only one Sr. JONNS, Aug ni me fitty pounds, and piace to ac Sir, your obedient servant, ARNOLD. S1a—Plense to of, 8. ‘The rascal wrote a bold band and signed his name witn @ fourisa. A chart, upon which the Sound ts denominated the Devil's Belv”’ (a name ts suould Dave retained tlt | tne plasting of the rocks from tiell Gate), printed in | 1840, and & book of tra ig upon which De Foe founded his “Robinson Ornsoe,” can also be seen. The plocares are valuavle and chotce. Taey are “itoyal George,” by Hy schaities; “Interior of Versaities in we time of Louis XI aitar Music; “Span ish Soldier,’ by Joseph Lees; “Jewelry Merchaut, by Pissett, and a landscape by Inness. The bil- tard room is decorated by the new wood hanging paper of black walnut, birch and birdseye mapie, wainscoted aud paneiled; when placed upon the wails an experiment, bat now a success. To the roar {8 the conservatory, always heated tn winter to a temperature of eighty degrees, and from this line the grounds slope of to the Sound, whose shorgof sedge, well-busl and adjacent peaches is a pleasant siope astic. With @ lake, statues, outhouses, Fustic arbols, Woods, groves, rocks and moss, tile place has a picturesque ending aiong the jine of the water. The viewsfrom the towers, eighty foet high, is magnificent; it symbolizes beauty and aints tae picture of fablet splendors. More than a jozen lighthouses litt their frosty heads to the sky; the water glimamers at their bases; church spires are waslied in goiden ether, and Long fsiand and Con- necuicut, to Stamford, are visible im aciear day. This is grand. Over # place like this the Chapmans pre- side With @ hospitality tiat 19 troly Kentuckian. They pursue the elegant walks of literature; drive, hunt and fish and mvite auch men as Bdwin Forrest, and Vandenhor to give readings to thtir social cir- cle, Ina way that deserves more extensive init tion are they trying to iniroduc ments aa parts ofa country seat, aud the sa no liwit to their outlay of mousy, urbanity aud chariy. Of horses they have many. BXIBNSIVK COUNTRY HOUSES. All over (lus region elegant mansions are profuse. , 1869.—TRLPLE SHEET nn Further on and nearer New York, on aside road, ts the house of Mr. Rubtere, importer, in the ‘Tudor style of architecture. Mr. Jonathan Sturges » with four acres and a fine house, is contiguous. Mr. Hemmingway, Mr. Richard Lathers, with sixty acres and two houses; Mr, J. Harrison, lawyer; Mr. George Lockwood, merchant; Mr. Charles Marston, retired, all occupy places on Lather’s Hill, At Dav- enport Neck, running into the Sound, are the sump- tuous houses of Messrs. Iselin, Porter, Morris, Charles Leland, Fisher, Goodyear and Clarkson Potter, Member of Congress. We now pass on through a country undergoing pickaxe ‘and shovel, and from Mr. Chapman's Whitby meet many places extending into Rye and Harrison of considerable attraction. ‘The boulevard here ts being built at an expense of $10,000 a mile, and a further appropriation of the Same amount will be necessary to couplete the work, Adjoming Whitby is Nutwood, the residence of Sid- | uey U. Genin, comprising about fity acres, upon the grounds of which, in dramage and macadamized roads, there has been much money expeuded pre- paratory to building, the stable, which isor stone, having been finished. This property is finely wooded and commands an extensive water froat, with & stoae dock constructed in the most durable manner. Farther on are the residences or Arthur Parsons and H. A. Cargill, each having about twenty acres of land and fine westerly views of the Sound itself. The former is & house in the Italian style, with tower, and the latter has for its chief feature plazzas of great width and extending so far around the man- sion as to afford the most ample scope for @ prome- nade, Here, leaving the boulevard and taking the road to the famous beach, passing the property of Richard B. Chapman, now under improvement, and Locust Woods, the fine residence of George Loomis Cornell, formerly of Brooklyn, looms up. The mansion ig partly in the Italian Ci with a large Campanile tower, from which there is a grand w of Long Island Sound and the adjacent shores. The place comprises about twenty or thirty acres, and is kept in perfect order, the grounds extending down to the shore, where there are boat and bath houses and a hard, white sand beach, ‘The house 1s finished on the main floor with black walnut and coutains a large drawing room, dining and billiard rooms, wit @ brary of well seiected volumes, m which there @ cabinet of minerals and curiosities from ail of the globe. The stables are woll arranged and cor- respond in the style of architecture with the house, A cold grapery, gashouse and lener’s cottage are on the premises, with a garden covering about an acre, the rest of the land being laid out and planted with evergreen and choice flowering shrubs. On the point below, known as Mliton Point, ts the newly erected mansion of Mr. Van Wagenen, tor- merly of Brooklyn. It ts of large dimensions and is finishea with all the modern improvements in the very best manner. The groun Comprise about twenty acres and are laid out and planted with taste and judgment, there being @ fine beach on the place, towards which the visitor 18 invited by a path well provected 4 shade trees lining its way. ‘The beach to which the residents of the lower section of Westchester county, from ‘Tarrytown to {throgg’s Neck, trequently resort for sea bathing, has two or three hotels, where clain- bakes and other refreshments are provided, as well as boats and fishing tackle for those who are dis- pee to indulge in that species of amusements. eaving the beach and driving oyer the Milton road to the village of Kye, passing the residence of Dr, Cockey, a stone building, known as Rock Covtage, and the country seat of Wm. H. Parsons, with its well kept grounds, also the new villaof Mr. Hay- nards, tne estate of Mr. Greceans, Christ church appears, a stone edifice of the early English Gothic, recently erected on the siteot a similar building which was destroyed by fire two years ago. The pastor is the Kev. Keese Falsop, a geutieman of cul- tivated mind and higaly esteemed by his congrega- tion as well as by all the residents of the town. Moving on by what 1s called the Grace churci, on the shore road, towards Portchester, the rad winds and rises, forming points from which flue views of the Sound are obtained. On the line are tne residences of George F. Cor- nell, James 1. Titus, Augustus Wiggin and others. Near the shore ia the picturesque residence of Mrs. J. R. Bulkley, quite concealed, however, by trees, of which lolty evergreens, with a few choice magnoitas, predominate. The house has been recently remo- aclied, and 13 of the French Gothic, commanding an extensive view of Long island Sound and the adja- cent shore of Connecticut, Within the grounds there ave some beautitul rock works, such as would have delighted the eye of the lamented landscape gardener, A. J. Downing, to which access 1s had by winding paths that tu vatious directions Intersect the grounds. Contlauing ou the shore the Cottage Park 18 soon reached, witin which are the vilias of Misa Faweett Lesher aud others, who resort thither In the summer months for pure air and sea bathing. On Mannwising island, which ts in this aeighborhood, are the fine residences of Win. P. Van ensselaer and Caaries T, Cromwell, Tiere also ts ihe former residence of General Dix, who built among the first on tue isiand, Leaving nere and proceeding to the thriving village of Portchester, and turning west- erly, one strikes the boulevard again, and passes the country seat and farm of George Quintard, ol the Quiniard jron Works of tuis city; also the fine man- sion and grounds of Benjamin Loder, formerly President of tue New York and Ene Railroad, the Picturesque cottage of Mrs. Catlins, with others, aud tue new young ladies’ seminary and boarding school shortly to be opened under the charge of the Rev. Mr. Life, late of Pennsylvania, Among the number of attractive points ia the town where many of the citizens have erected vilias, North street and the Pur- chase Stand are conspicuous, On Nort street are the residences, first, of Mr. Josiah Macey, who, in ripe old*age, 18 still vigorous, and gives constant su- pervision over his extensive and well cultivated farm; also the fine places of Messrs. P. H. Stevens, Drake, Wilson, Matthews, Abbot, Cragin, Mills and others Who are more or less identified with the me- tropolia. Adrive up the Purchase road takes one through the fine property of Mr. Joseph Park (of the firm of Park & Tillord), consisting of about 700 acres, wilch is devoced maimly to farming purposes, but is constantly under the work of improvement. Beyond this is the Highland Farm, the residence of Warren Laland, one of the proprietors of the Me- tropolitan Hotel. From these two farms large quan- Uties of milk are forwarded to the city for the su, ply of some o1 tie leading hotels. On this roi aizo, is the estate of Benjamin Holiday, Consisting of about a thousand acres of land, on which he 1s now erecting a costly stone mansion of very large di- measious, 1¢ will command one of the most pic- turesgne and extensive views in the state. The sta- bies and entrance lodge, which are of stone, are flo- ished, ag tg algo the family chapel--a quaint specimen vf tue Norman style of arcuitec- ture, aad wortay of examination for 1s cu- nously jointed stonework. Vassiug on, a beautiful sheet of water appears, whicn is Rye lake. [tis well stocked witu fish, tas @ sand beach, aud mar- gined by @ fine grove, which is the general picnic ground of this locality. From tts elevated ground, looking easterly, is seen Walnut Grove, the seat of Mr. Samuel K. Satteriee; @ tine house, in the French style, with a lotty tower, from which there are splendid views. On the north ts the palatial resi- dence of Dantel Brooks, which crowns probably the tugheat bili east of the Pausades. The opening of the eastern boulevard is giving a great impetus to building operations and other tnprovements In the towns of Rye and Harrisou, which cannot but be Vastly increased when other equaity well consiructed roads are opened leading into it. CONCLUSION, ‘These are bat a fewof the attractions and im- provements of the cast side. Nor can they ve termed a8 belonging exclusively to the east side. They be- jong to Westchester connty, and by every coustdera- ton Of intertrave! and commugication Westchester belongs to New York. When that county shali be traversed with paraiiei belts of steam railroads; Wien tunnels, elevated tramways. or rapid trans- portation shall be established between the two Shores of the Harlem river and extended to the City Mall; when the projected improvements shall be set on foot, and those uuder way completed, then will this rich country have a population worthy of the areca, and one capable of lifting it fo a still higher point of prosperity. THE FASHIONS. Away for Baden—Plies of Trunks aud Horale izingLadies En Route—A Counten= - in Travelling Costume—Eugenie’s Opinion English, Visitora--How “My Lord” Looked and Waat. He Carried—Suits for Autunm. BavEn, August 17, 1860. On leaving the Paris station for Baden I could not fail to observe, on casting @ glance on the pyramids of luggage being hoisted in the rear of our train, thet the namos of well-known gentiemen, Who are n10- ralists in thelr Own country, Agured on small travel- ling tranks. Among them thoseof many who, with tears In their pons, have lamented the folly of spending aseason at the above-named watering piace. They have done more, They have proved that the Baden springs @re destitule of mineral elements; that the murlatic acid they still in small proportions con- tafu ts all departing, and I suppose tts ghost haunts their writings; it cannot be got bold of by analysis now, anyhow. They siso backbite the Romans who had hore built a vaporarium and ridicule ladies who go down to the Trenknalle, with glass in hand, for a cup of new milk, They positively anatheima- tize the hypocrisy of men who arink some tnky stuiT combined with a flavor of stale eggs out of bottles Which bear the label of other springs, whereas I think they ought to be putamong the saints in the Roman aimanac for drinking them at all, I was, consequently, astonished to find the distinguished authors of sach able invectives thus openly ilius- trate “Do what I say, but not what Ido.’ There- fore, before jumping up into: my car, I thanked fha- ture for varying the human species so agreeably that lam not like other men, and never preach about their follies, vbnt laugh at them, Lonce was much amused to hear @ stanch democrat say that to kill a king was the infancy of the art of getting rid of royalty; the perfec. tion of the sctence was to disgust monarchs with thelr profession by constantly opposing every ono of thetr efforts and very good humoredly. We should get ria of folly i the samo manner, Your correspondont was kept alive to this placid philoso- phy until he reactel Keni. Between this frontier den there ure ten stations, at every one of hich the train stopa, aad st Heinbach, tue native clly of Erwin, who was vie arghitect of the cathedral Of Stiraevurg, vo iadiga--both Parjstana—got into the car I occupied. They had been spending the Morning with a friend in the environs and were re- turning to Baden. One instantly admired the ‘scenery, calling & pretty and toyish, something like that of a box of Nuremberg doll villages, and the appropriateness of the simile led me to have an excellent opinion of her judgment, for the houses are al) small, clean and weil painted. Clematite, hops and roses climb up to the low chimney pots, Hereand there comes an orchard, then a wide cluster of elm trees, oak and pines. It must be awfully aquatic, however, in winter, as the country is cut through in every sense, right and left, by canals, This explains the extraordinary fertility of this part of the world. But your lady readers are all auxtety to see me drop this strain of icscription and tell them something about Baden, even before I get there, It is & feat, but it can be done, thanks to the two fatr passengers, who soon went through all the talk, all the fashions and ‘all the news or the day. As I said, one of the two appeared remarkably judicious; the other was # type of the French woman, who can be anything in turn—tune her wind to any pitch, very possibly, tn & large company of people, and be simply and sweetly conversational in private. She was cutting @ book and reading and answering and smiling and watching me, too, all the time. She certainly said little, but there is great art in knowing how to listen. Nothing can be more eloquent and entertaining than &@ Woman whose eyes speak as much, or even & little less, than her toague, ‘This expressive lady was a Comtesse, for her com- panion continually addressed her thus, and this companion was calied by her “cousine,’”” The la cousin was of a@ talkative tu! but What ghe sat was to the point, and I think 1 just to stave that her information was usetul to me. ‘1 opencd a newspa- er, and was, of course, supposed to be reading; It formed an apparent screen, too, irom behind which, however, 1 have after long practice got into the way of noticlag every gesture, giance and mo.ion around me. I could not help admuring the appropriate travelling suits, ‘The Comtesse wore the excursion- ists’ costume, a striped cambric, of which the petti- coat was trimmed with three rows of plaitings; a Garibalai or chemise russe of the same, and loose jacket without sieeves, All the piaiungs were edged with narrow Valenciennes lace. A leather Walatband, with Chatelaine bag and @ parasol waiking stick with carved hanale, were her acces- sories. Her hat was flat, its broad brim was bound wita black velvet and ornamented in front wish @ trio of variegated carnations. The ribbon strings began under the flower, crossed on the top and were tled on the chignoa, under the vow a gauze veil, Cousin was evidently a bit of a coquett Her suit was a light mauve and ash white cloth, paletot sack with mauve taffeta revers and cuffs, piaived sash of taffeta and Ligueur hat of*ash gray, with curling mauve feataer. This shape will reign supreme, 1 hear. It has a high crown, and the fea- ther is thrown straight back over the pair. The brim underneath is lined with velvet of the color of the feathor. A dog-collar necklet of mauve velvet was completed in front by a very Hg socket maae of filigree gold. Her earrings and brooch were of the sue, it has been very easy to describe these toilets and to remember them, as they have been geen on a thousand since at Baden; but it 1s dificult to detail the plauancy of Cousin’s features— that and her foot, and sie put both of the latter up on the op- posite seat, evidently taking me for a statue—a thing that can be acied on, but not feel. ‘The boots were meuve taifeta, fastened with pearl butions and strapped all up the front of the leg and mstep, leaving open stocking work between, under which the pink nue of-——. Well, they were a picture, those two fect, as they rested, crossed, on the vis-d-vis cushion, ready to trot off anywhere. “But what did the Empress sa)?’? usked Comtesse, after some whispered communication from Cousin that I could not hear, “Pnat the fashions never wero 80 lovely as they are now; that it women will Keep to the charming variety they have adopted, the sensible distinctions between full dress and neglige, the clear denarca- tion between pusiness, walking and pleasure promenading, and li each will study the harmony of color we shali at leagth leave nothing open to ridi- cule, By the way, you know she is fond of the new brown ‘bear’s ear,’ or orevte dours and ‘Venus,’ which isa muid nasturtlum, Poor wo.nan, she is on the eve of a journey witha load on her mind. The Emperor's rheumatism has put an end to Onaions for afew more’ days, and be ts worn out with the Senatus Consuitum Do you kaow, Com- tesse, that onthe morning of the day it was reag out by M. Rouher she got up with sunrise and was so uneasy that she walked up and down on the bal- cony in front uf his bedroom windows at Saint Cloud, looking into speak now and then to some one inside, who was, of course, the Em- peror; then she walked up and down again, and looked out over the dawn as if something was rising of terrible import, and the sentinels watched her gracetul gure gliding about for ever so long. At length M, Rouher drew up, and she went in, Now M. Rouner had left nome without any break- fast: at least the Empress thought so, and had one cooked for him, but when she told him to go and take 1t he answered that he had eaten one and made @ hearty digestion coming aloug in his coupé, Sena- tus Consuicum and all.’ “He had eaten it?’ asked the Comtesse, Jaugh- ingly. “For the matter of that, my dear, he has been liv- ing on it for along time. The next emotion at the pulace was Marshal Neil’s illness. You bave heard the Emperor say nis death would be a terrivie loss to him; but I think, ana my husband says, [ was born to make Senatus Consuitwns. He 1s a greater loss to the Emperor than tothe nation. Militarism has, at all events, received @ great suock, and now 19 1t not strange that this should nappen just ay all offenders are being amuestied, poiltical marcyrs aud martyred politicians and viciims that had got so interesting! There 13 something in the scrange coincidence. By the way, Comtesse, have you heard ot the famous wbbe magnetizer? The Empress ig @ hittle superstitious, between you and {—spanish blood, you Kaow—aud sne is going tv give him an interview. itis the man who discovered his extra- ordinary power vy laying hands on a church door that opened without any kKey.’” “It was a-jar,’’ put in tue Comtesse, ‘not a door.'? “For shame, Comtesse; you a punster !"? We here stopped at @ station again, our car opened and a Britisher, dressed in the last approved styie came tn, with @ lady dressed for the casino, Cousin scanned him over and concluded to keep ner feet up. Comtesse gave a side look, then went on leat cutting. I looked over my paper and noted the new lady comer’s toilet. It was dashtng—aud I fear that was the style of the wearer herself, for after ae jooment’s inspection Cousin exchanged a look with the Comtesse and began to ian herseil, Which means volumes, “Vous comfortable, Théobaldine?” asked tho Insular gentleman of the beauty as soon as she had settied tn the Corner Opposite mine~—a thing she did with the soft mogon of an angora. “Va-ry; and you iollord 2 My lord did not answer; he was steady ing a amalt box between his knees with scrupuious care. Tne word “britcie’ was not written on it; butit evi- dently contaimed sumething apt to break. When he had established its periect equilibrium ho puiiea out lus whiskers and looked at the French ladies— his glance particularly directed to Cousin's boows-— I retaliated by studying Théobaldine, Firstly, she had on a sulphur colored petticoat, of which tne heading was Iined witn lilac sulk. Over this a loug lilac tram, fringed all round, was looped to Siow the petticoat and form a panier behind. At we centre Of this @ long sash, fringed wiih sulphur aud iped with lilac, ‘The bodice was square and under a Valeuciennes and tulle fichu. The sieeves were @ savot and described in my last. The hat was @ Tice straw toquet, oraamented over her chignon (of failing aud looped plaits) with a sulphur bow, the front with a diadem of iflac and sul,hur pansies; the same shaded gioves worked with lilac silk, lac brancaes worked on & white satin leal ian aud hung from the wrist by a white cord, “And now you will show me what Is in that box,’” said Tieovaidine; “you have promised, intiord.” ‘This was uttered in the Angio-Franco idiom of Parisians, 4 stress on every word aud Wrong lntona- tious—rather pretty ou the whole. My lord nodded, took a smal! golden key from his vest pocket, opened the precious box, and, to the ostguistment of all of us (for Comtesse and Cousin both turned), held ap a bit of old cord; ‘the rope of @ man Who was hung,’ he uttered distinctly. Cousin, she borst intoa ft of laughter, Comiesse considered Mm qatety, 4s one would a curiosity; but ‘Yheobaidine was thoroughiy disappointed, and weut through a series of ejactiations, “I will break the bank for you with Uus ta my pocket,’ went on inilord; “it t3 a talisman,” and ite solemuly restored It (0 its sanctum, We arrived at Paden soon after this, and never had | seen it 80 lovely. There was the Conversation facing the three hills, whic are a verdant trout acreen to Baden, and offer charming excursions. ‘The hail In itself ts decorated with profase taste and @ great display of marbie, bronze and gilt. Here loiter the most duwtinguished pleasure seckers of every capital. One of the pretty sights, too, are the children here assemvied; they have their sporta, their fashionable worid, their heroes and heroines, who are the unitation of their elders, Pastimes are not ail concerts and roulette, though they are the most appreciated by the larger number. ‘There are walks in the Licateathal, caval- cadey to the old chaveau and donkey parties too, whicu are picturesque to the eyes of the peopie who are not horse dears, There are remains of tie Jesuits’ college, autiquities, and even herds of real sheep, kept by te government to preserve an. Aiping aspect in the rustico line. I can only com- pare them to the doves of Venice and the geese of the Capitol. With the assistance of the fasiions the meadows around have a Trisnon effect. Pienty ot mousquetaire coatumes beside, whita, with black silk revers, over Vests black or wilte. Much orange and also. Hats upwrned behind, with feathers above the chignon; but mostly Ligueurs, ‘Tho mon are im light gray frock~ coats under white or yellow aipaca dust coats. ‘The height of the season, however, will collect alt the great celebrities in Septeinber, When Mlie, Niia- son and Mine. Patti will deugnt the princes in the neighborhood. As yet the greatest musical sensa- tions have been the Bavarians in the morning at the Springs, the Prussians at midday and the Austrians ateve, Leonard, the violinist, Botiesini, the thor- ough bassist, and Marie Battu have had great suc- cess. Bottesini has travelied around the worid several times With his unwieldy instrument, and on com- ing across him at the Conversation he took me aside to tell me, in Answer to my inquiry, that 1t had aiready cost him $0,000 francs carriage, for the wou- derfal player gets 11 ticketed as if it were a passen- ger, and those wuo have heard it agree that us sounds are far more welcome than maay live pas sougers. ‘the travelling suits for autumn are almond and Wargon scotch plaid, with shawi fringe all round. Javender