The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1870, Page 4

JUNE 12, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. nn nce cmnrtimmamerennrraaaamemmamemeemed 4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, " MIDSUMMER RETREATS. The Season of 1870 at Rockaway, Far Rocka- way, Fire Island and Islip. Among the Choice Resorts of Long Island—The Developments of the Country—The Railroad Connections, Hotels, Numerous Beaches and Improvements—Board, Fishing, Hunting, Yachting, Driving, Sad- dle Riding, With Clambakes, Picnics, Excursions and Boating. Isuir, L, 1., June 10, 1870. Long Island 1s a strip of land famous for the rich resources found among its forests and in the brooks and streams that intersect its surface. The Sound, which washes its northern shore and the Atlantic Ocean to southward, abounds in the largest quanti- ties and finest qualities of all classes of fish, oysters and clams. When this truth becomes more gener- ally known Long Island will grow in population, and the popularity of its numerous watering-places must increase rapidly. Isay this because I know that any one who would take care to observe the country through which the Southside Railroad has been so successfully and even elegantly built would at once perceive its marvellous fertility, fat but not swampy surface, the abundance of standing timber, facilities for draining, constructing and fine road- ways, together with the cool breezes and advanced vegetation. No better illustration of the advantages of this section of New York State could be named than the proposed new city of Breslau now being laid out to constitute the habitation of a thrifty and industrious band of Germans. It 1s the South- side Railroad that has already made the soutnern shore of Long Island what it 1s; and the company, moved by a iiberal and enterprising policy, has been extending branches from the main track to the sea shore, One branch runs to Canarsie and connects with Coney islaad; another from Valley Stream to Rockaway beach, Thus the traveller can leave the ferry at the foot of Roosevelt street in the morning, either at eight A. M., ten A. M., eleven A. M., or by three well-timed trains in the afternoon, and after a pleasant ride through delightful scenery he can reach Patchogue after an interval of two hours. Between this eastern terminus and the ferry at Brooklyn, E. D., are some of the most beautiful and exquisite of ail Summer resorts in America, If the visitor wishes a town or sort of village lfe, where he would be con- tented with comforts, or bathing and excitement by the beach, or shooting, he can find these, or any of them, either at Glendaie, Clarenceville, Jamaica, Spriugied, Valley Stream, Merrick, Ridgewood, Aaulyy Babylon, Islip or Patchogue. But it 1s the Cudo. | Ne at Oders the attractions—the long, irreg- ular s.reted, fail O: Ittle coves, charming bays and DoWito Low iblebs, Where the offing is broken by nu- merous istands, from Fire Island to Coney island. mu New york to Rockaway is an hour's ride, With @ Caange of cars at Valley Stream, ROCKAWAY, as the world Knows, ts of remote origin as a resort. vorty years ago it was struggling into position, and tweuly ater tt Was not excelled by any place of its kind on the Alluntic Ocean. For the past few years it has been wantug—siowly fading into that obscur- Ay from which ib 1s the office OF Uhis season to rescue it, So many tn the minor stations of Iie, who were good and worthy peopie, perhaps, but not of that siawmp which contributes to elevate and exalt, have been in the habit of giving Rockaway all its patron- age, and on tills patronage aloue has it been surviv- ing. The direct cause of this great change in the 33 of guesis arose from the destruction of the beach, Wiuch was entirely spoiled for surf bathing some years ago, When the sea washed up a sand bar, cutting oif tie breakers from the main shore. Now the waves have made such an impression against (his barrier of sand that an inlet has been opene und now Rockaway is as of days of yore, burl bathing ts good. The Woodburg House, kept by Mr. J, P, M. Stetson, Wil be opened about the 16th inst. in frst class style. The Woodburg House has elegant accom- modatious for seventy five people, and stands but taree-quarters of a mile from the beach, The Pavi- lion, burned two years ago, has never been rebuilt. Mr. Woon, owner of the hote!, has several cottages to be occupied by New York geailemen, with their fuuilies. Rockaway promises to get back much of her ancient prestige, and the work of the last six weeks has coutriputed largely to such an end, 10r the prospects are now that the beach will be restored to its original condition by the same elements as compassed its destruction. FAR KOCKAWAY is three miles from the Woodburg House, and there 18 a splendid beach, not unlike many others aloug the coast. ‘Tbe cars continue on to the shore, The Seaside and New York Hotels are the most proml- nent of the resorts. Far Rockaway, like Rockaway, has been somewhat on the decline recently, A large patronage 18 anticipated. FIRE ISLAND is situated south of Long Island. Its eastern ex- tremity is just eight miles from Islip. There are various accessible and agreeabie lines of travel by Wich the visitor can reach its shores, He can eicner leave New York by{the Southside Railroad, get off at Babylon and cross by au elegant little steamer, or he Cau stop at Islip and cross in @ centre board sailboat and enjoy a pleasant sail across Great South Bay fora distauce of eight miles. Fire Island isa ved of sand. Upon it is situated the celebrated Surf Motel, managed by C.A. Sammis. lt nas good ac- commodations lor over 300 people. The perfection of the suri bats Caunot be exaggerated; and the large ciass of persons Who preigr this iuxury to splashing in still Water can find the most exquisite joy. The huge breakers roll up, one succeeded by another, covering the beach With the se: red fragments of @ Vast Sea dancing at your feet. The Surf House has long enjoyed good repute; and this season it has none but purely honorabie designs upon the stomach: Ol iate years ISLIP r ka public appreciation than On Us Coast. It has growa wonderfully aud has suct a bitlliaat future Laat it might be well to wlan efly at its attractions. 1b ig situated about a mile from the railrogd station andabout @ quarter of 4 mule from the deutaiton pusiing nortaward trom Great south Bay, The country encirclg it teems with the richest vegeta- ticn, and the jarmer and gardener show extending fleids of aoon as the result of a careful ana has perhaps stood bet any retire: understanding iucustry. Uxpansion seems to be law, aud rowdw, drives and bridie paths are piercing in every direction. Nutuing 18 pretuer than the meadow lauds and foliaged groves, and nothing of keener delight to the Tesident of the city than te sea broeze e. Fine cottages are built up and ") jages, and away to the shore are beautiful villas, fitted up with ali the convenivuces of the metropolitan mansion. In the midst of Islip, on the maim road, is the Uargest hote in Islip and one of the completest, in uil U lars, to be found in ihe, Union. vels, upon Making 2 tour through (THE PAVILION HOTEL, kept by Mr. Cornelius Banta, that such an immense and thorough establishimeut cau be supported out- side of Saratoga or Long Branch. Ivis a tine speci- men of architecturas beauty aud was built by Mr. Johnson, who had both the money and inclination The observer mar- to build a fine hotel, and he succeeded. ‘The edifice is four stories high, with gabies, and @ high wwer ends {rom the cen- tre, with a balcony, muking te complete circuit. A broad piazza ruus around tae ground floor and looks out, upon two nicely grassed parks kept for croquet playlag ani lawn amusenients. They are superb, with velvet verdure, lofty shade trees, poplars, firs, willows and maples overhang- ing the broad drive iniront. Then everything avout thé house on the exterior looks so neat, so cnceriul and delightful and yet so rural, vut not uncomsort- able, that it 18 really one of those places aimost ‘ewixt heaven and earth, and nearer the former, to the imagination, tian tue latter. The house has first class accommodations for 200 guests, The rooms are large, sumptuous\y furnished, well veur tilated and lighted, aud trom any window an ob- server CaM Overlook handsome country sears, plea- sant cou graveiled roads, distant Villages, the bay, Fire Island and the ocean. From this house exiend the most circuitous bridle paths on Long Island, and young jadies, provided with a gentie | steed, in past seasons have been wout to ramble over hills, through dales and among the wilder Po tag situated more to the eastward and north- Good bathing down near the notel is unparal- Ieied. You can have the bewitehing excitements of the surf or the still waters, cither without Ganger. Gunung and fishing’ are the pre: Vailing pastimes. Snipe, plover, woodcock and quail can be brought down on the wing, when shooting is recognized by law, and as for fl ing. ‘ng the onsen winuseinent—the generai “what- came for'’—aui tis provender, how does it tasie atisip? Like reai fsa. it has the flavor of a delle cious richnesss—tiat which nature gave it, Nothing | 4s more absurd than bo believe that cooking can con- | ceal the staicness 0: fist. They mus: be devoured as soon as they cau be paced won tue tabi xhours | 4s long enough to send a dead fish to market orto table; it should never be placed upon the table when it has gone iiio a state of py how often does one accompany fin caressing Wien it has already Leguu co « Diue fish, Spanish mackerel, striped as right from their natiye element, abound aud clams, soft-shell cravs aud wii species are on the bills of fare, Just a from the water, Amusements are aime: include yachting in tie bay, beach parties, p billiard piaying, bowling, driving and Ushing with a@ trap, net or line. Trout are abundant on the pia of Mr. Amos Stelienwert, who has over 2,000 of this excellent eating. ‘Iwo targe likes ity, and these two sheets of fresh wate! Place for minor yachting and genuine boating. Islip has wany churches; the weather is undormiy | that he himself travels and trespasses too much on easant, the temperature rarely exceeds eighty in ¢ shade, and board is from fifteen to twenty dol: lars a week =e large aoa ee with house is a complete age —_ it. Itnas Tag vot a splendid hennery., rel rators at the freez- bi i bowling alle, large Ln secured ard tables, a place for clambakes and chowde! ton, Euonans, ranges and bakel large ing rooms, offices and a luxuriant pertor, & recep: ‘ys, laundi 4 outbullaings of every descrip. aundries and outbullain \ ousea, I read. tion room, an extension dining hall, and the rooms throughout are lofty and well furnished, The staples Of the sea load down the table, SOCIETY. is fine here, it comprehends people who ‘become sick of the Gayety of Long Branch and similar places, who are tired of show and toilet competition, who seek @ life that ts fullof incident and amusement without mdolence and monotony, who care fora mean between the extremes of a secluded hermitage and @ noisy city, As there are thousands who care for such an existence, one full of rapturous rural enjoyment and temperate habits, I predict a good season and an extensive patronage for the Island retreats. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Services To-Day. Rev. CharlesB, Smyth preaches before the Ameri- can Free Church, at Masonic Hall, morning and evening. Dr. Thompson speaks in the evening at the Broad- Way Tabernacle, ~ Rev, Abbot Brown preaches at the Church of the Reformation. Rev. C. church. Rev. Dr. Bellows and Rev. G. H, Hepworth preach at the Church of the Messiah, Rey, T. B. Newly and Rev. W. T. Egbert deliver sermons at the Church of the Holy Light. Rev. J. M. Pullman preaches at the Church of Our Saviour. Morning services and a conversational mecting will be held at the New Jerusalem church, Rev. D, Mitchell and Rev. Dr, Thomson preach at the Canal street Presbyterian church. ‘There will be 2vangelical preaching at the Catholic Apostolical church this evening. Rey. Dr. Strong preaches at the Forty-second street Presbyterian church, Rev. Dr. Duffle preaches at Bishop Wainwright's Memorial church, Rev. Dr.Corey preaches at the Murray Hill Bap- tist church. Rey. R. M. Stratton preaches at the Lexington avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Dr. Westcott speaks at the Plymouth Baptist church, Rev. U. S. Hanmer lectures at St. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. Dr. Peters and Rev. Dr. Potter preach at the anniversary service of St. Barnabas’ House. Rev. Dr. Kendrick will tell all about “Adam in Paradise” at the Tabernacle Baptist church. : Rey. U, F. Lee speaks on “The Voyage of Life” at Plimpton’s Building. Arrival of Irish Clergymen. ‘The steamer China brought over from Cork two worthy clergymen—on a@ mission which will com- mend itself to many, the completion of the cathedral in that city—Rev. M. B, Buckley and Rey. Mr. Hagerty. Father Buckley 1s highly distinguished as an orator, and designs to deliver a series of lectures during the coming fall season. He comes from within sound of the famous “‘bells of Shandon,”’ near which the yet unfinished cathedral stands, although the belis chime out their music from the steeple of the new creed. He means to raise @ collection in this country, and with that view will probably spend a Year or two in travelling through the States, Foote discourses at the Christian The General Reformed Synod. After a session extending about ten days, at Newark, N. J., the General Synod of the Reformed Church has adjourned sime die. The report of the Committee on the State of Religion set forth that there had been organized one new Particular Synod, one Classis and thirteen new churches. The benevo- lent contributions have exceeded those of the ejb year by $26,111. There are eighty- lve vacant churches, and the report ur that the ranks be recruited, PRreferenoe was made to the death of Rev. Messrs, Matthew, Hardenburgh, Van Liew, Proiessor Oggel, B. W. Collier and George White, ‘The first Friday in November was appointed as a day of special self- examination and public and private confession. Rev. James Demarest, Jr., formerly pastor of this church, invited the Synod to hold its next annual session in the church of Chicago. The invitation was acknowledged, with thanks, but the North church, of Albany, was selected as the place of meeting, and General Pruyn promised that that city would recip- rocate the hospitality of Newark, Laying of a Corner Stone. On next Sunday, June 19, the corner stone of a new Catholic church, in 138th street, North New York, will be laid. The Rev. Father Hughes ts in charge of the parish, and is at present adminis- tering to his parishioners ina temporary chapel. The good Father is making all nececessary preparations to receive his frienus and expects an unlimited number on that occasion. Church of St. Charies Borromeo, Sidney Piace, Brooklyn. Trinity Sunday, June 12, being the first anniver- sary of the dedication of St. Charles Borromeo's church a solemn high mass will be celebrated at half- past ten, A. M., in honor of the event. The music will be very elaborate and rendered By the eMicient choir of the church, under the direction of Mr. J. R. Magrath, the talented organist, aud will com- comprise Generali’s maguiticent mass for four voices inG. The pieces will be as follows:— i 1. “Kyrie quartet. ade, SGloria. “(ui toles,” tenor, soprano and basso; > yuoniam tu solus,” ¥ % “Credo.” Solos —“Genitum non factum,” alto; “Et in- carnatus est,” tenor; “Et in spiritum sanctum,’ soprano, Duets—"'Qui cum Paire,” tenor arf basso; “Et unam sanc- tam,” soprano and alto. Before the sermon, hymn “Veni, Sancte Spiritus,” by Him- mel,” basso, solo and quartet. Olfertory, “Ave Maria,” soprano solo. Giordigiani’s “Sanctus,” quartet, “Agnus Dei,” by Giordigian|, solo for basso, with quartet. In the evening, at half-past seven o'clock, Gene- rali’s grand musical vespers in C, “Salve Regina,’ by Schubert, solo tenor; Bassini’s “QO Salutaris,”? Aopranio solo. he following vocalists form the quartet, vi Mile. Lami, soprano; Miss Monica Newman, alto; Mr, Charles G. Lockwood, tenor, and Siguor Gucci- notta, basso, Heury Ward Beecher on the Religious Char- acter of the Late Charles Dickens. To TRE EpiTok oF THE HERALD:— Ever since you commenced your missionary work of trying to Chr.sttanize domestic heathens or civi- lized savages I have been a most attentive reader 4 not only of your own advanced opinions, but of those truth-seeking and liberal differences which you have encouraged in your enlightened congregation— enlightened because charitable, and willing in the spirit of love, to enter the lists of argument in order that the truth may be eliciied from the very rubbish of the Dark Age: Since your last weekly discourse a great man has disappeared from our midst, In due and proper time not only England, but America, will pay the merited homage which his name and works demand atthe hands of civilization. To-day the sombre clouds above us are In keeping with the funeral sadness of the earth, and the heavens weep at the contempla- tion of one of the greatest and best of the sons of men laid low in the charnel house of mortality. Aji nature is sad; not that the change can imperil his immortality or shadow the splendor of his name, but that in being taken away from our visible midst the fon: memories of our natural atfectious are sympathising with themseives at tne sudden death of the never-to-e-forgoiten, illustrious friend of hu- manity, Charles Dickens. His name and his memory need no eulogiums in religious intelligence. ‘Time gave him birth, eternity will celebrate the event. He rests from his labors, his works will follow on for- the centuries will strew immoritelles on his g e child of sorrow in all ages “will keep his memory green. But not In praise of Dickens am [ writing to you, my dear religious editor, and through you, reading to your readers the world’s funeral service at the grave of his body, but as a simple, humble believer iu the principles of a love that shmes not alone into the hearts of men who boast, and proudly boast, a geographical location that is blessed by the higher wisdom of the nine- teenth century, but shines with equal beneficence on all parts of God's created universe, 1 would feebly but earnestly raise my voice against that pharisaical cant which takes upon itself to be the censor of every noble name that on the banks of the cold river seeks passage to the unknown world beyond. My text is taken from the remarks of the Rey. Henry Ward Beecher, at the Plymouth prayer meeting oa Friday night—the evening of the day on which the news reached us that Dickens was no longer an inhabitant of the world of physical mal- viduatity. Than I no one entertains higher admira- tion for the name of Beecher; but as a religious teacher and critic I am sometimes inclined to think his reputation of to-day, an abuse of which will not add to the halo that might otherwise surround his name wien he too shail have gone the way of all the th. The remarks of Mr, Beecher, to which I allude, ap ed ia rday morning’s papers. Lre as yet “the dust has returned to the earth” as it was, poor Dickens’ soul ts made the subject of Plymouth theological assay. Mr. Beecher in this prayer meeting, mot contented with leading the lambs of his flock to the footstool of the throne of pearealy sree. in ie. amiss C3 that anal and love that is supposed characterize the followers of the Lamo of God, takes tt ‘upon himself to anpounce—no doubt as a sensation of the day— the sudden demise of Dickens, So far well. But he cannot letthe matter rest here, He, as the Boa- nherges of the church militant, must pass, If not cen- sure, at least judgment on the departed ghost, and withhold that whole-souled praise which the world wiil unite in sing! to the latest benefactor of our race, he must needs dampen the holy cheek of grief with the tears of an infernal doubt as to whether man-adored Dickens was a Christian, and bases his damning faint praise on the fact that he was not Seqie ni? with Dickens’ private cuacaater: Well for Dickens if he be not the subject of the next catnmantating effort of some un- hatlowed pen that lives on the ul-gotten gains of the moral resurrection(ist. By what right does the reverend moderator of Con; ‘tionaliam take upon himself, as a minister of the Gospel, to publicly announce his opinions of the Christian status of adeparted soul? If the tree is to be known by its fruits, and the man by his works, the human family, despite the pulpit, will recognize and acknowledge that the Charles Dickens just gone takes bis place among the trees of the beautiful land—that bright and blessed land whose sun dis- penses hope and joy Ee lati the vast realms of creation, and in 80 dispensing these beatitudes se- lects such minds as Dickens to be the atmosphere through which Heaven modifies her gracious and unbounded gifts, And weil will It be for the coming age if the logy of the Church will endeavor to incorporate into their teachings the blessed lessons in giving which has been the life-long labor of pleasure of him, the immortal Dickens. ADELPHI, * Religious Personal and General Notes. ‘The Rev. Mrs. Phoebe A. Hanaford, who has been preaching at the Universalist church in New Haven for the past few weeks, was duly installed as pastor on Tharsday last. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. E.H. Chapin, of New York, and the installing Drayer was offered by Rev. Olympia Brown, of Bridgeport, Rey. Wm. G, Haskell, of Danbury, gave the charge to the pastor, Rev. Charles A. Skinner, of Hartford, the right hand of fellowship, and Rev. W. A. Start, of North Cambridge, Mass., the address to the society. The installing hymn was written by Julia Ward Howe, of Boston. A large audience was in aitencdanee, ‘The new Presbyterian house of worship in Amster- dam village was dedicated to the worship of God on the 1st inst. ‘The audience room is sixty-one by seventy-eight feet, containing 160 pews and about 200 sittings in a beautiful Rorseshoe gallery, the whole seating 1,000 persons. ‘The total expense of church and 1urnishing a little exceeds $43,000. ‘The Methodist bishops are united in their opinton that a loan fund of $1,000,000 is the least amount that will enaple the Church to do her full work of Church extension in the West. Professor N. N. Niles, of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., has been elected Bishop of the Episcopal dio- cese of New Hampshire, in place of the late Bishop Chase. The Episcopal Convention at Baltimore has elected the Rey. William Pinkney, D. D., of Washing- ton, Assistant Bishop of Maryland, Sidney E. Morse, Jr., one of the editors of the New York Observer, arrived by the Silesia from Havre last week, after an absence in urope of a year. His heaith is greatly improved. Mr. William A. Masker, a graduate of Union Semi- nary, Was ordatned a3 an evangelist by the Third Presbytery of New York on Sunday eventing, June 5, in the Tairteenth street Presbyterian church. Rey. R. D. Van Kleek, of the Reformed Church, died in Jersey Clty May 27, aged sixty-five years. He was pastor, in his lifetime, of churches in Kari- tan, N.J., and Berne and Beaver Dam, N.Y. He aiso taught in academies for several years. The de- ceased was universally esteemed. A weaithy gentleman of Morristown, N. J., Mr. A. Minard, has jast erected in that place a handsome three story brick building, to be used as a home for orphan childrea, The house and grounds cost about 60,000. ‘The ladies of the congregation of the First Presby- terian church in Newark are raising a fund of $500 for the purpose of erecting a monument to the mem- ory of the late wife of the Rev. Dr. Stearns, who was greatly beloved by a very large circle of friends, Rey. Peter Cartwright, the veteran Methodist preacher, is now eighty-six years old, having been an itinerant minister for sixty-five and a presiding elder for fifty years. Chicago ts tohave the Presbyterian General As- sembly next spring. aie Baptists of Newark have organized a soctal union, The St. Pau’s Memorial church, Edgewater, Staten Island, was consecrated last week, Sunday, when Bishop Littlejonn, of Brooklyn, preached the sermon. Bishop Potter read the prayer of consecra- tion, This fine edifice is the gift of Albert Ward, Esq., of Edgewater, and was built in memory of his deceased sister. Daniel Drew has not given an additional $100,000 to the Drew Theologica! Seminary. Items from Rome. Cardinal Casoni, Archbishop of Verona, has just consecrated Mgr. Touvier, lately appointed Vicar Apostolic of Abyssinia, a3 Bishop of Olene, in par- tidus, at the Church of the Congregation of Missions of St. Vincent de Paul. The Bishops of Adrianople and Danata are both of the same congregation, Father Whitty, having been chosen Roman Catho- lic Provincial of England, in succession to Father Weld, willleave Rome immediately, where he has been for some monihs occupying the important post of theologian to Bishop Moriarty. THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY. A Visit to These Strange People—The Work- ings of Their System—Religious and Moral Purity—A Playiul Party of Outsiders Re- buked—Social and Domestic Habits—Manu- factures. Mapison, N. Y., June 9, 1870, Much of late has been sald and written relative to the Oneida Community, situated near Oneida, tn the county of Madison of this State. Having lately paid a visit to this Community and seen tts practical workings, it can well challenge the State of New York to produce any other number of 3,000 persons who live so contented and so weil. From small beginnings the Community in less than a quarier of a century has advanced to become the owner of the finest palace ani sur- roundings in the county of Madison, The mem- bers cultivate good will towards each other, and common courtesy marks their daily walk and conversation. They wish no person to belong Ao them who does not firmly believe in their religion, and who does not join them with heart and soul forever. They are not anxlous for any new- comers, a3 thelr, family is now about full and com- plete. They trust in God as their power and might from day to day, and when one once places his foot on their premises he feels secure in lis person and property, and that everything 1s safe around him. They aim to practice no decelt among themselves, and hold out no false colors to the world, They use no profane or obscene language; they use no tobacco in any shape; they use no intoxicating drinks; drink no tea or coffee, Theysell at their store no tobacco, nor would they, if they could make $100 per day by so doing. They meet daily in their Hall for mutual criticism and generai conversation, to the end that each may benetit the other, and thereby bind themselves tn a bond which may endure as long as life snail last, and that peace, happiness and contentment may abide sng rena with them forever. héeVer goes to the Onelda Community with the expectation of going toaplace of iil repute will be greatly mistaken. They have nothing to do with the worid at large, in politics or sociability. They wish to treat the outward world with respect, and expect the same treatmeut in return, without familiarity in either party. A gay, lively and respectable party of ladies were there present on the aay of my visit, and while rest- ing in the parior of the Community building from thelr walks over the premises they mdulged inan innocent play, of tossing @ bali from one to the other, connected with some loud enening: The Supertn- tendent immediately checked them by stating that “Visitors were expected, in coming here, not to be too reserved, and still not to be too familiar." The ladies took the hint, and founda they were more insiae of a church than a place of frolicking. “The world is said to be a cheat, and heis a rool who has no hand in it.’ This Community has withdrawn itself from the cheating world, and has reared a monument in this country founded on truth, justice, temperance, fair and Just dealing between man and man, without ae- ception and without fraud. Eryors, like all mortals, they undoubtedly have; but time and experience may yet correct and prune the objectionable past, which 13 so much critigised and condemned by the world at large. No fair-minded man can help ad- miring their thrift, industry and general prosperity. Place a stranger down in their midstand he isa welcome visitor to view all the premises, He sees a large brick edifice, reared with care, and the tem- perature of every room, in tbe coldest day of winter, mild and gentle as a summer’s day—caased by every room in the edifice being heated or warmed. by steam. He sees comfort and cleanliness all around him. He goes to their stlk room and sees something i full blast wonderful to behold. He goes to their reading room and finds there a large library, in which persons of literary tastes can and spend hours with pleasure and advantage. He can go to the fron manufacturing establishment, where orders come from distant parts of the world for mink, bear, fox and otter traps, and will learn that in the last ten years about two millions of these traps have been sold that have been manufactured at this establishment. Atone o’clock he can go to the hall and hear as good music from their band as is heard in Central Park, excepting their band ts only about half the size of that which plays at the Park, but the music is as fully entertaining. Thence he can go right to Wall street, New York, and a feel- honesty and entered a band of peculators, ately obvious; but the necessity for Mr. Abbott's The diMcuity ts explained at once, and we ing will come over him that he has left a place of thing but aitence, utter silence. And so I stand upon the Preatples of Ui ENGLISH VIEW OF MR. BEECHER’S 8 18 very fine, and Brooklyn church ta per- SERM' 5 haps a very dark cave for Mr. Beecher to #and in; ONS bar the only authority for the facts as recorded by him, so far a3 our reading —and that is not ex- actly in accordance with Up “Geseription—is in the life of Yamen:— ‘And be fell, and he felt, to the regions of hell, Nine centuries bounced he from cavern to rock, And his hi he tumbled, went nickety-nock, Like a pebble mn Carisbrooke well, We believe, however, that the Rejected Addresses were not composed for delivery in the pulpit. We will not go so far as to deny that some cave- dwellers in the far-off past may have done porhane what Mr. Beecher says they did, but if in this he 1s not “telling us a lie,” what shall we say to the fol- lowing: jan is the chief monster that the earth ever bred?’ If our recollections of Aldrich do not fait us, this 18 a ‘complex proposition” in logic; and in fact it combines the two assertions, first, that man was bred by the earth, and next that he is the chief Monster of all mousters so generated, Another logically complex proposition, which we happen to remember, put which Mr. Beecher evidently does not, asserts that “God created man in his own image.” It ig true that “they didn’t know every- thing down in Judge", but if Mr. Beecher intends to maintain the position which he has taken up he must be prepared for a harder fight with both the sclentidie ‘and the religious worlds than we should ourselves care, single-handed, to under- take. The “human race,” we had learnt from & sentence immediately preceding, is indeed “vermi- cular,” and therefore cannot come into comparison ‘with monsters of a grander type. Mr. Beecher does not deny that the Saurians and their like may have been created by God; all that he asserts is that the “vermicular human race’? 18 the result of spontane- ous generation, and that man isa chiefer monster than any other which is known to the Polytechuic Institution or to Professor Tyndall. ‘This “vermicu- lar” doctrine is introduced by Mr, Beecher in connec- tion with one of the many questions witich tt pleases him to ask his hearers; and if those on the page now open befdre us are to be taken as @ specimen of his {From the London Saturday Review.) Mr. Lyman Abbott, of New England church, Now York clty, appears in the introductory page of this volume in the subordinate and at first sight unintel- ligtble position of steamtug to Mr. Henry Ward Beecher, whose sermons he has selected and edited. Why Mr, Beecher should not have been competent to perform these offices for himself is not immedi- assistance becomes evident on turning the page, where Mr. Beecher personally mects us in @ preface, are charmed and almost perpiexed by the author’s modesty and candor, “I have never," he assures us, “read one of my sermons after it was printed that I did not burn to recon- struct and improve it, * * * In preparing them for this volume, therefore, with one or two excep- tions, I abandoned all idea of reconstruction.” No wonder: for as Mr. Beecher’s friends “‘nad long de- sired” to possess ‘some collection of his sermons,’ the author's simple method of “reconstruction” was scarcely such as to lead to an immediate fulfll- ment of their wishes. Mr. Lyman Abbott, there. fore, “undertook the editorial care of these sermons through the press,” with the understanding, we suppose, that he was notto “burn” the whole of the proof-sheets, which seems to be Mr, Beecher’s personal practice. We cannot, it is true, penetrate so deeply the recesses of Mr. Beecher’s mind as to assert absolutely that no esoteric and. non-natural sense 1s attached by him to the words to which we ordinary method we should say Sane as a compound of obscurity and nastiness the Brooklyn Charch Cat- refer; but the plain English of his statement is that | Of ovscuniy ai Ditto ray atiead of all other eocle- he burns every sermon of his own which he sees in print, His language may not be very elegant, but a careful study of his style shows that he habitually uses the inexact “that”? as a relative instead of “who” or “whic and as we are bound to belleve that he does burn ls sermons, 80 we are bound also to add that it is, in our opinion, the best thing for him to do with them. Not that the sermons are altogether siastical formularies extant. “Did you ever’? (one has heard that phrase before, somewhere), “of @ hot afternoon, witness the contest of innumerable worms over a carrion carcass?” Not if we kuew it, wo should say; but Mr. Beecher seems to have done so frequently, and to have considerably enjoyed it, “How snould you feel,’ he goes on to inquire, if you went into the nursery and found the cat choking the baby t—we beg B igor of Mr. Beecher—“if you e worthless and only fit to be destroyed; on the con- | were to enter room where your child was trary&there 1s enti sterling sense ‘and sound teach- lying, and find upon it a stealthy cat, stationed ing in them, and Mr. Breecher’s burning them is for | at the portal of life and stopping its very breath ¢ ‘Toere 18 no time given us to realize the appalll domestic picture; the inquiry 15 instantly lo!lowes by another:—‘How should you feel were you to find upon your child a vampire that had fastened into its fesn lls bloodsucking bill and was fast consuming its vitality??? We should feel, we believe, that the “chimera dbombitans in vacuo, comendens secun- das intentiones” was very much the same sort of phenomenon and had about as much to do with “the entieness of God’? of which Mr. Beecher imagines fiimseit to be speaking. A preacher who conceives it to be within the limits of revereuce—to say nothing of common decéncy—to describe our Lord as “a sublime radical’? may naturally consider it in equally good taste to call God “the arch thunderer of eteraity,” “who is independent of all other beings and who can rub them out easier than I can rab out the colors from the butterfiv’s wing.’ It 1s not easy to being oneself into exactly the same frame of iniad; an perhaps, if we were more en rapport with the author—which at this moment we are not especial, desirous of becoming—we should be able to attach some rational meaning to what he chooses to write about the “sensitiveness of God.” “God's sensi- bility is exceedingly acute. We are accustomed to connect fineness and acuteness of feeling with deli- cacy and subtleness of organization; and we are apt to think that, as God is a being so vast that his latt- tude is infinity and his longitude 13 eternity, he must be comparatively insensitive—less sensiyve than men are. But he is more sensitive than men can possibly be. Sensitiveness is a pecu- liarity of his nature.’ It is perhaps possible that a man not yet actually in a lunatic asylum may be “apt to think” in the strain of half-blasphemy, half- raving nonsense Which Mr. Beecher assumes as the ordinary course of religious thought. We cannot answer for the results which such a course, or a succession of courses, of the Brooklyn sermons might bring about in an intellect of not very stable equilibrium; and whether those resuits led to a de- scription ‘of God as “insensitive” or ‘sensitive’? would be a mere matter of chance. But Mr. Lyman Abbott and the ‘personal friends” ought to have known better—even though “ihe skill and fidelity of ‘'T.J. Ellinwood,” the shorthand writer had been under the necessity of reproducing the spoken words for their use—than to give publication to this scandalous sentence, Mr. Beecher, we are quite prepared to allow, may never have heard of the Arisiotelian cat- egories of and , and may be quite unable to attach any meaning to the terms if he had; but he must have heard, in some English or American form, of the well-worn schoolboy problem, in which ‘we were required to find the distance from West- minster Briuge to the First of April; aud there is not a child who has ever laughed at the stupid and man- ifest old joke who would not see at once, and who would not shudder with a child's reverence as he saw, that Mr. Beecher has exactly and without alteration associated {t, in the passage which we have quoted, with God, whose “iatitude 1s infinity and his longitude is evernity.’* For some time past the dead walls of London have been disfigured with the presentment of a hideous negro head, grinning a vacuous grin at the specta- tor through a pair of monstrous red lips. This offensive advertisement professes to represent “America as it 1s. For a companion picture, just as sensational in its way, and jest a3 true asa re- presentation of “America as it is’ in the iuighest rauge of human lle and thought, we refer our read- ers to Mr. Lyman Abbott's edition of Mr. Henry Ward Beecher’s sermons. PRINCES OF THE PRAIRIES, Arrival ef ‘Spotted Tail,” ‘Yellow Hair,” ‘Fast Bear? and “Swift Bear”?—The Red Men on Their Way to the Prairies—Visit to Niblo’s Theatre. “Spotted Tail” and his companions arrived in this city about eleven o’clock yesterday, from Washing- ton, on their way “home,” to the great prairies of the far West. The storm prevented them seeing more of the city yesterday than the windows of the Astor House would command; but as they will re- main here for a few days the pedestrians of the side- waik may have an opportunity of seeing real In- dians about whose genuineness as descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of this great country there can be no doubt. “Spotted Tail” and “Swift Bear’ both belong to the Brule tribe of the Sioux, and are both chiefs, “Fast Bear’ and “Yellow Hair” belong to the Dacotahs and are warriors. ‘Their appearance as they walked the parlors of their “reconstruction and improvement"'—a process which he has so weil described 1n one of the sermons that there may, perhaps, be a hidden meaning in the allegory. A mine owner, he tells us, looking on “great heaps of ore,” “gives directions to have this ore prepared for the market. The laborers”—Mr. Lyman Abbott and “some personal friends,” it may be—*‘take it and throw it into the furnace; and as it begins to meit and flow out, and grow less and less, he is appalled to see how itis wasting away. But the men who smelt tt laugh, and say, you have lost nothing, you have gained by a3 much as it has shrunk; for it was nothing but ore, and nine-tenths of it was good for nothing, and that which was was so tied up that it could not serve you at all. It was necessary that you should lose nine-tenths of it in order that you might have the benefit of the other tenth.” Nothing could be more sensible than thts advice to the gentiemen to whom Mr. Beecher intrusted his “directions for having this ore’ of his sermons “prepared for the market.’? And Mr. Lyman Abbott has attended to the letter of it, after his fashion, which we must take the liberty of pronouncing to be an untptelligent and lazy fashion. Out of ‘over five hundred sermons” placed in his hands he has printed something less than fifty, or the ‘one-tenti”’ of his wlegorical instructions. That is, he has shovelled the ore into heaps, thrown away nine- tenths of the bulk and printed the rest, just as he found it; and ‘“nine-tenths’’ of that ts *‘good ior nothing,” to say tie least. Another time Mr. Beecher had betier either do his own “amelting’’ for himself, or look after his ‘laborers’ to see that they do thelr work in some more workman- like style, With this volume we can only deal a8 it stands. The sort of stuff which it contains would seem to be the spiritual food tor which the great annual pen asnson scramble takes place in New York. Now, if Mr. Beecher likes the pew auction, and thinks it an edifying ordinance and necessary for these times, we hive nothing to say to him; tt is no concern of ours. And if Mr. Beecher likes to ad- dress a congregation in the style which we are about ww illustrate, again we have nothing to say to him except that it 13 better of its kind than a great deat of his matter. But when he talks in this fashion to those whom he knows to be the successful bidders in the pew scramble, who have fought their way within Rearing of the Gospel according to Beecher by sheer force of money, it does seem tows to savor a good deal more of Barnum than of St. James:— Many people go to church as rich man from tne South goes toa hotel. He has big boxes, his trunks, his wife, bis children and plenty of money, and ‘he wants to find commo- dious apartments. Many people think that if they have clothes and a good supply of rnoney, and are well appearing and gooa paying boarders in the hotel of the church, they are just the kind that we want. We do uot want any such folks. ‘We have too many of them already. ‘This sermon was preached in the Brea pulpit previously to 1863, But the pew auction has been going on as vigorously as ever since its delivery, and supplies suficient evidence as to the belief of the hearers in the sincerity of Mr. Beecher’s declarations that he “has too many of them already.” It ts to be supposed that shoddy and petroleum do not make much account, in the calculations of the auction room, of scholarship and Criticisin as part of the expected return for their money; at any rate they would not get_much of either if they did. In the matter of style they are, of course, more exacting, and Mr. Beecher finds tt necessary to supply his patrons with a certain amount of one in prose,” to one of which Mr, Abbott is kind enough to call our special attention in his introductory note. We extract a stanza:— ‘A plough 1s coming from the far end of a long tied, and v daisy stands nodding and full of dew dimples. That furrow ure to strike the daisy, It casts its shadow as gaily, and exhales its gentle breath as freely, and stands as simple ' and radiant and expectant as ever; and yet that crushing furrow, which is turning and turning others in {ts course, is drawix neat, and ina moment it whiris the heediess tlower witl sudden reversal under the sod. It may be possible, for aught we know, for a daisy full of dew-dimples, which is radiant and has a way of gaily casting its shadow, to be both expectant and heediess at the same time;but we should not, till this passage met our eyes, have imagined it possibie for any man with the most elementary ideas of the decencies of ministerlal teaching to associate inco- herent gabbie like this with the thought of the Holy Sepulchre, We had marked for quotation another passage, illustrating far more painfully Mr. Beecher’s inability to appreciate the reverence for sacred things which 13 an instmctof every educated mind. It is taken from @ sermon on the Divinity of Christ, and 1t begins thus:—*Let me place another case before you for my judgment. A maiden, the daughter of a prince, has wandered from her father’s house and has tapsed from virtue, seektn; pleasure in ways every year more degrading. noble youth appears among her gross compan.ons, not to partake in their orgies, bat with a gentle grace," &c.; but we do not like to pursue the quota- ines The prescher eae toue ith See anacernes the Astor House yesterday was that of talent for blundering when he tries to get hold of an ; ; filustration may be Shown quite as well in afar less | @gnity and manly strength, united with objectionable extract:—“A warrior,”’ we learn—and | the picturesque appearance and forest as- our teacher was the great proplet of the iederal | sociations that are inseperably connected with armies in the war, 80 he knows all avout | the idea of the Indians. The scalp lock of ‘Spotted modern fightung—‘‘walkin, through his maga- | Tail” 13 ornamented with three brass buttons, his ane, says, I am goin, out to battle, and | legs encased in buckskin and his feet are coverea I will select the weapons on which { will | with moccasins. His head 1s covered with a Kossuth hat. The remainder ot the tribe wear gray hats, Last night the party, accompanied by their very obliging interpreter, Mr. Charies BE, Guner, oc- cupled seats in the parquet at Niblo’s. The theavri- performance greatiy interested them, and to tne grotesque antics of the drunken soldier tn ‘Not rely. He passes by his bow and arrows, and says, 140 notintend to rely on them for the fighting of tls bate. He comes to the artment of his old fashioned armor, and sees swords and spears and things like these, and says, ‘they were good in thelr ay and time, but {do noi intead fo rely upon them either. When he gets to the place where he keeps | Guilty’? they showed their teeth {fo glad- the best imstruments of modern warfare, he says, | some, childish giee. The great scene of this Here are the things that I mean to depend upog.”’ | piece, where the troops embai ‘k for India, Does Mr, Beecher imagine that any one of fis neir- ers, male or f2male, could be enlightened or bene- tited in the faintest possible degree by a wordy jum- bie of Wardour street and Woolwich Arsenal ilke this? Can he conceive any “warrior” not in a night- mare saying or doing anything of the sort? Anotier sermon conveys the author's sentiments “on the decadence of Christianity,” which he seems to consider an accomplished fact, and of which the Barnumized pulpit of Brooklyu certainly atfords rather awkward evidence. Among tie maxims which he lays down we read that “the power of Christ goes back of (sic) ail originating and forma- tive powers to their very source.”? Perhaps the seat holders may have possessed a key to this somewhat obscure language by the help of the parable which accompanies it:—"A man says, T own all the water that has been brought into Brooklyn and distributed through the mains in the city, Ah, says another man, lown more than that; 1 own Ridgewood Reservoir, whence you get itall. Ah, says a third, [own more than that; | own all the land from wiich the water comes that fils Ridgewood Keservoir.”” Thus far the interlocutors seem merely to be bent on capping one big Yankee lie with another, keeping still within the compass of conceivable fact; when a fourth man seemed to impress them with strange astonishment, and they Jooked at one another, setting forth their conimendations in language that was made more forcible than intelligible to the ordinary ear. To-day they will no doubt visit one of the fashion- able churches, and should Grace church be honored by their presence the most elegantly dressed lady will not have borne upon her a greater battery of eyes than will these rude Indians, in the full de- velopment of the simplicity of nature. BROOKLYN CITY NEWS. A camera and some articles of clotting were stolen from the photographic gallery of W. IL H roll, 631 Myrtle avenue, on Friday night. The tot value of the booty is $11 There were fifty cases of smallpox in the Eastern District during the month of May, twenty-five of ch number were sent to the County Hospital. Heaith Onticer states that there 18 no cause for as the disease is confined to the Sixteenth comes in and {says that he “owns all the clouds.” | ward. ‘Then ‘one man more steps in and says, i own more than that; | own that constitution of nature by John Hannigan, a child two years old, fell into which water 1s formed in the air, and by which it rains down.” And of this last boaster, this pro- fessor of lying in exceésis, the preacher gravely asks, “Has not he got behind and beyond them ally 1s not ail that they own comprehended th that great, comprehensive, organizing fact?” “And so” it pleases Mr, Beecher to go on to apply the moral to “the power of Christ,’” Mr. Abbott explains in his introduction that “there is perhaps no man of ancient or modern times whose preaching is so diverse in manner a3 that of Mr. Beecher.” We sincerely hope there is not, and that no future preagher may a to con. fuse the precious and tie vile by sowing “diverse”? @ tub of scalding water at the residence of ts parents, corner of Dykeman and Ferris streets, on ‘Thursday last 1 died yesterday from the eifects oi the mjuries received. An tnquest was held and @ verdict of accidental death was rendered. The following appoin.ments and promotions were made by the Police Commissioners yesterday:— James Cassidy, Keeper at the Raymond street jail, and Supervisor of the Ninth ward, appointed Oap- tain of the Tenth precinct, in place of Aibert Sterna, removed; James Kane, Civilian, appointed ser- kinds of seed together after Mr. Beecher's “man- | geant im the Third sub-preciuct, vice Robert ner.’ Perhaps one of the worst speciinens of this Govers,j discharged; patrolman Join McCon- degraded style is to be found ina sermon on “the | neji, “promoted to the captaincy of _ the gentleness of God, watch Mr. Abbott appears to ac cluct, vice Enoch Jacobs, removed; John Fogard with special favor, ay he places it Second preciuc eee J. Clancy, patrolman, promoted to a sergeancy in nearly at the beginning of the volume. | the second precinct, vice George Y. Pearce. dis- In reference to this amazing composition, | missed; patrolman James Dunn, promoted to a sere we should be sorry exactly to address | peancy'in the Second precinct, in piace of Charles the author with the Quaker's remonstrance, “Friend, Ido not understand thee. First thou teilest me a die and then thou askest me a question.’ Certainly ‘we do not understand Mr. Beecher. Certainly, too, he asks us a great many questions; as to the rest, our readers may judge Sometimes in dark caves men have gone to the edge of un~ speaking precipices, and wondering what was the depth have cast down fragments of rock, and listened for the revort of thet that they migut jldge how. deo that blackness was, and listening —still listening—no sound returns; uo eud- dou plasi, no cliaking stroke as of rock against ragk: ao- W, Coombs, removed; Nicholas Masterson, patrol. man in the Third precinct, promotea sergeant in the same section, in piace of Coridon D, Smita, removed; Patrick J. Colonan, reappointed sergeant in the yourth precinct; Sergeant William Lee, Third sub- precinct, transferred to Eighth preciuct, to take the place of Edward J. Temple; Edward Riely, patrol. man, promoted to sergeant in the Third sub-pre- cinct, in place of Sergeant Lee, transferred; George eB Filaniey, appointed Superintendent of Telegraph anes. THE ENGLISH TURF. Mr. Tom Hughes’ Plan of Reform in Racing Affairs—“Two Year Olds” Racing— Gambling Affairs Generally—Mac. gregor and the Derby— Good Luck”—How a Man May) Be Unlucky. Lonpon, May 26, 1870, ‘The author of “Tom Brown's School Days’ is a courageous man, a muscular Christian, and it 1s per- haps in keeping with his character, opinions and tastes that he should follow the example of Mrs, Partington and attempt to “mop up the Atlantic,’” Whethgr it be so or not, the fact is that in the House of. Commons last nignt he essayed the task, and re- ceived some slight encouragement in the first step he took. He js extremely disgusted with the fact that, a3 Sir Joseph Hawley puts it, English racing has “degenerated into a trade; he fears that our present system is detertorating our breed of race horses, and he isappalled by the amount of gambling that goes on day by day. Accordingly he conceives the idea that he is destined by Providence for the task—to vary the simile—of cleaning out the Augean stable, aad proceeds to do so witha straw. The bill which he asked leave to introduce proposes three reforms:— First, that two year old racing shall be abolished; second, that no horse shall start for a Queen's plate under four years of age, and third, that the provi. sions of the betting act shall be extended so that it shall be penal for any person to take @ deposit on account of a bet, It will be seen that the objects of the bill are twofold—to ameliorate the condition of the thoroughbred and to limit betting. Mr. Hughes should have known, or, if he knew, should have paid some attention to the face that with regard to the former point a committee of the Jockey Club is now taking evidence with the view to reform the details of racing, altogether ig- noring betting; and that the government, not car- ing to interfere with the details of racing, has promised to deal with betting to a certain extent by enlarging the borders of the Betting act. So that two distinct bodies are engaged in two distinct parts of the same work—that of reforming the turf. What, then, was the necessity of Mr. Hughes putting in his oar, and such a weak and ineffectual one too? ‘The probability is that the Jockey Club will at the least limit two year old racing and wilt prohibit three year olds from running for Queen’s plates, ‘The certainty is that government will do its best to restrict betting to as great an extent a3 possible. In neither case, therefore, is there any necessity for the interference of Mr. Hughes, who, whatever he may have heard of the evils of gambiing, is utterly igno- rant of the administration of racing. THE TURF REFORM BILL, Leave was, nowever, given him to introduce his bill by a vote of 132 to 44, but the tone of the devate, which was a very spirited one, showed that the House did not sympathize with his effort, The points raised, with, perhaps, the exception of that relating to two year old racing—which ance authorities is a disputed point—are extremely sinal and will do but little for tie elevation of the turf, It does not_ matter much what animals are allowed torun for Queen's Beer for very few horses of any sort do. As for Hugnes’ betting provision, it would only; if passed, extinguish tie “bagmen’? and “listmen’? to whom the backer actually hands over hig money when the bet is made, and would leave untouched the ‘‘bookmaker” who marks down his transactions and settles afterwards, John enna the costermonger, would no longey be able to be' his five shillings at his favorite “list,” but Lord Noodle could go on betting bis £100 with his book- maker, actually protected by the law. The incon- gruity struck the House, and many members laughed at the idea of such an ineflicient method of dealing with the subject, and, above all, at the ignorance dis- he by Mr. Hughes of the very eiements of racing. ‘he government looked on very coldly, but offered no coboation, and accordingly the bill was read a first time. UNEXPECTED APPEARANCE OF MACGREGOR. So far as actual racing is concerned the chief event of the week was the appearance at the Bath meeting of Mr. Merry’s colt Macgregor, who since his victory in the Two Thousand Guineas has been first favorite for the Derby. It is very unusual indeed for a horse to be brought out in pub- lic between these, the two eens of our races, and when it was first rumored that the hardy son of Mac- aronit and Necklace would be an exception to one rule very many were incredulous. it was agreed, however, on the one hand, that Mr. Merry had dis- covered that the horse’s chance for the Derby was doubtful, or that he had a better in the stable, and that he did not see the use of neglecting to pick up a stake like the Eighteenth Biennial, which 1s wortn, without bets, $2,500, and which the horse, in the company he had to meet, could not lose, Bus, on the other, it was gregor was so good soft state of the ground, the race would be nothing more than an exercise canter, which he might ag weil take at Bath as at home, and which could fot prejudice his Derby chance. ‘That the latter of these arguments Was correct was proved by the fact; for the horse was brought out and absolutely walked away wiih the $2,500, is opponents were Mr. Bragley’s colt Recorder, Mr. Graham’s filly Gamos and the Lady Somerset tilly. The last started to “make running” for Recorder. These two were allowed to lie in tront for more than amile, Macgregor lying off at least seventy yards over all that distance, At this point, however, Grim- shaw, who rode the Derby “crack,” became some- what uneasy on seeing the wide interval that sepa- rated his horse from Recorder and the nearness of the winning st, and at once let out Macgregor. The horse, taking the bit between his teeth, abso- lutely galloped away with his jockey, and, dimintsh- ing the advantage of Mr. Bragley’s colt at every stride, passed him when about fifty yards from home like a shot and won in @ canter by a dozen lengths. The victory was so easy and so decisive that Macgreg- ors chance for the Derby seemed greater than ever, and accordingly when betting commenced he was elevated from evens, at which he had figured, and backers laid five to four on him in hundreds, MR, MERRY’S GOOD FORTUNE. Mr. Merry may truly be regarded as the “gilded youth’ of the tur, though he is seventy years of ag Tor not only “as he wou the Two Thousana Guinea not only does the Derby appear to lie at is merc but he is the ownerof the best two year old (hat has appeared this season, This is Perth, a colt by Dun- dee, out of Lady Dot, a big-framed, age Pec aniinal, who, with time, will become a splendy race horse. On Tuesday he cantered away with the the Nineteenth Biennial, worth $2,500, and to-day so strong an impression did this victory create that he was allowed to waik over for the Weston Stakes, worth $1,600, Strangely enough, he was picked up atasale by Waugh, Mr. Merry’s trainer, for $500, and sold to Mr. Merry tor double that sui, so that ne has already won, on his first two appearances, $3,000 more than he cost. What ts still in store ior hin is “in the wounb of the future;’”? but he will une douubtedly pay lus way. GOOD LUCK AND BAD LUCK. A curious instance of the unequal distribution of the favors of fortune was furnished this week at Bath by the disaster which has driven that excellent three year old mare Fuzee from the turf. A week ago M. Eliyot-Bower, the head of a well known Auglo-French racing association, oifered her owner 1,000, guineas or $6,000, for her; but the telegram announcing the fact did not arrive at Chelmsford, where she Was then running, until after she had won the queen's Piate. On hearing of her victory M. Bower stipulated that that plate should be thrown mito the bargain; but the owner of Fuzeo refusing the negotiation fell through. The mare was then sent to Bath to run for the Beanfort Cup; but about half an hour before the flag fell Sir Frede- rick Johnstone—he who was mixed up in the Mor duunt divorce case—oifered the 1,000 guineas for her, and the offer being at once accepted the bargain was concluded on the spot, The horses had hardly gone more than half a mile betore Fuzee was seen to falter and draw up suddenly, Her Jockey at once dismounted, and on examination found that she had split the pastern of her near fore leg, and the probability is that slie will never again run, Strangly enough, Sir Frederick Johnstoue was equaily unlucky a lew years ago, when hegave the enormous sum of 3,000 guineas, or $15,000, for the Derby favorite Fitzroy, who broke his leg the very next day. If this—io say nothing of the divorce case--i3s not enough to disgust a inan with Fortune some one will, perhaps, ask what ts? ‘The disaster to Fuzee left the Beauiort Cup at the merey of Sabinus, the winuer of the City and Subur- ban and Great Metropolitan, whose running on the yielding turf was 50 good that we have reason to believe he would have carried om the Chester Cup but for the mud through which he had tien to plough his way THE MEMORY OF GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON. {From the Hartfora Post, June 10.) Generai Nathaniel Lyon was one of the iirst vice tims of the late war, having been shot whil ding a charge aguist the enemy at Wilsou’s Creek, neat Springtieid, Mo., August 10, 180i, He was a native of Bastford, in’ this State, and it is gratiytag wo know that the people of Windiam county are about to move im the matter of raising a monument to Ms memory. It seems thao there is no stone at present to mark his grave. The Windham county 7ravscript states tat on Decoration Day a large number of citizens gatuercd at the little burial ground early in the morning aad levelled the scrub oaks, white birches and tangled undergrowth, which, with rank weeds, disigurod the spot, and the pastors of the two churches, wit their congregatious and the Sunday school children, brought flowers and decorated the graves of Lyon and the six or seven other soidlers whose remains lie buried there. A committee of arrangements was appointed to make preparations for a mecting of cilizens to take measures for the erection of a mouu- ment, Such action 1s as binding on the living aa } it is demanded by the sacrifices mace by the dead.