The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1870, Page 5

*& THE CITYS DEAD. In the Morgue, at Twenty-sixth Street, North River. How Suicides, Those Who Die by Violence, Sun stroke or Epidemic are Exposed to View—Tho Interment of the ‘Unknown Men,” Their Photographs and the Means of Identi- fication — Inside of the Public Coffin — Every Man Entitlod to a Decent Burial and a Marked Gravo. New York ts a great cosmopolitan city, growing constantly in population, both by birth and emigra- tion; but there is @ mortuary roll, as well, decimating its inhabitants and bringing thousands to their graves, In the natural order of affairs men die by disease and violence; but death that supervenes from self-imposed imfictions—from poisons, drink, drowning and strangulation by the cord, make up a Jong annual list for this city. Society can never stay the hand of the suictdo, and it has never tried. But itis tho duty of the authori- tues to care for those laid low by their rash act, as ‘well as for those who, without friends or relations, are murdered, sunstruck, or by accident or epidemic are translated to their long sleep. In view of such a public necessity THE MORGUE, or dead house, at Bellevue Hospttal, foot of Twenty-sixth street, East river, was organized by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction and duly opened on June 22, 1866. It was a humane provision, necessary for the sanitary welfare of this Vast population, and an imitation of the institutions eXisting in the large capitals of Europe, The Morgue 4s, therefore, the dead house of this island, where all who die of any form of malady or violence can be Teceived and put on exhibition, !n order that the re- .Mains may be recovered by anxious friends or rela- tives, No bodies of persons who are surrounded by families or acquaintances at the time of their decease are admitted, nor would any person desire to have the remains of @ friend exposed at the Morgue. ‘Thus, it will be perceived, there 1s @ wise and valu- able provision made to care for those who are un- known in their lifeless clay. It 18, perhaps, one of the saddest phases of metropolitan fe that unknown men are expiring bour by hour in this metropolis, when all that they have on earth in the fesh is many hundreds of miles away. New York, tike Chicago, San Francisco, Molbourne and Sidney, has nod ceased to be the resort of adven. turers, In England, Germany, Denmark, Franco and Ireland, and, in fine, all the European States, exag- gerated stories arc circulated about the rapid means of acquiring fortune in New York; the wealth and enterprise in the city, and the short race of the poor man before he overtakes the rich man In luxury aud aifluence, \ ‘TALES ke these, sown broadcast among the peasant peo- ples of the Old World, produce their effect. They Swell immigration, they make America the goal of every man, the nope of every boy. No matter how ex- travagant the detalls may be, these tales are eagerly devoured, and the durk, unwholesome side 1s never told. Emigrants thus become stragglers. in thetr own lands accustomed to work by an easy going and plodding industry, they find in the New World per- Plexing toll, disappointments and datly chagrin, ‘They become tradeamen—a crisis brings them to bankruptcy; they are mechanics—polltical in- Muence makes their skill worthiess; they are gen- tlemen born—a hard and grinding fate reduces them toa scanty and ignoble poverty. ‘This is the story often of the seeker of @ manly competency in this city. Distracted and despairing they hope, tlll they dare hope no longer; blue and reckless they live a awhile in misery; forbidding even a welcome anti- cipation, they invite a gloomy end—their finale is cath by their own hands, How many of these cases, the ultimate form of AN INCURABLE HYPOCHONDRIA, or the fiercest type of a rash, bold and determined self-destroyer, are Imported to these shores | é It ts thus that self-slaughter swells the public Mortality, and it 1s thus that not a few romantic ves are terminated at the Morgue in Twenty-sixth strect, It might be said that within this structure is ‘the end of almost every “unknown man.” It 1s the cof ‘Mn of European and American provincial dead, who, in the struggle for existence, are slain and forgotten and passed by the crowd, Thus, mere the curtain falls on a dramatic and eventful life; itis here that ‘the once rich and always poor are exposed on the game marble slab to the vulgar gaze, and buried Vogether in the same POTTERS’ FIELD. It is Impossible to visit the Morgue and not be im- pressed with the true sentiments of sorrow. What 4s that cold, pale and rigid form lying prostrate and inanimate for recognition—the eyes closed, the face set firmly as by pain, damp and dewy, ready for the grave, about to be sealea up in the ground, with none to know the last? Perhaps he who was once its life started out young, full of youth, hope and buoyancy, seeking 1p his maturer years for @ happiness he could not find, and a usefulness that Spurned his aid. Perhaps be wearied from place to place, liviug in cities among throngs aod noises, un- successful, Irresolute and an intellectual wreck. Gaining Dothing by time, .but losing all by an iil- Starred destiny, he went on sinking into pitialls and ambushes, the last of which is a hard couch on @ marble slab of the Morgue. The brief story of many men who have been distilled through this Gead house to welr final soul might be told, dis- playing a multitude of trying vicissitudes, a moun- Vain of croel reverses. These men fall into their ayer nothing marked save a [eres card ip © coilin or a crisp record on the books, There is little doubt that many wives, fathers and mothers having lost husbands, or children, could Ond traces of them through this beneficent institu- tion, All over this broad Union live thousands upon thousands of families who now mourn the loss of o ‘«disappeared” relative. He went to New York to buy goods; he took a room at. the Astor House; he went out in the evening and spent a night in folly, perhaps was robbed at the gam- ing table or forced into an unpleasant notoriety by a descent on a house of ill-fame, and to cover up tus Shame or dnancial ruin he PLUNGES INTO THE RIVER. This is not overdrawn. Lifelong residents of New York do not commit suicide, aud peopie brea b this community know too well’ its utter futility. ‘orelgners, however, are prone to expedite thelr own death, Germans especially. By nature a deevly native and a wildly speculative people, eases Gre known where Teutonic suicides have deciared Bell-destruction to be herote, and the cheapening of human life as a subject at the Supoast of every man for himself. This freedom tn an arbitrary disposi- on of such A grave matter undoubiedly accounts for the large mortality amoug ‘unknown men,?? Aside from cases of felo de se, the Morgue 1s Eo path i Lo Of sunstruck patients, men y dl r OF any mysterious agency. Let us look at ti . THE EDIFICE and its interior reguiatious, about. all of which ev resldent of Ameriea cannot but have an Intense it terest. Foot of Twenty-sixth street and North river @re toe old granite buildings of the Bellevue Hos- ital, foe are gray, worn with age aud somewhat Hapiaated, Fronting on Twenty-sixth street, on ae shat eh IN isa brick structure 200 feet from e Fiver, With a doorway opening to the walk, ‘which, in white letters, ts paintea, he Passing under a high arched rat Ing under a high arc! ling grasptn; be lamp at its apex, you stand in ie Sparuneut of . Itis a room about forty feet square and one-half is ipcteed Oy a Klass Partition made of Jarge sashes, which effectually prevents communica- ton between the two divisions except bya jarge door nnder the control of the keeper. ‘The strees admits the visitor to the eastern one which 4s tho room for receiving the deat. It 3s tesselated in dark brown marbles, is neat, clean @nd invdorcus, with ceilings about ten feet in heigit. The other apartment of the Morgue beyond oemioen partion is, however, the scene of inte- Test, Wituin it are four marble slabs, resting upon ‘cast iron stanchions, The slabs are ent feet long, twenty inches wide, three fect from the tesselate Marble foor below and one end Is given a slight ine clination in order that the Lain gece body may t with an clevatton of the head and shoulders, rectly above these marble slabs is a long iron red, ‘Upon which tho clothes of DECEASED SUBJECTS reexposed for inspection. This completes the fur- ture of the Morgue—simple, plain und subsiantial. 00 now enter to look upon the unknown dead. ‘Two slabs are tho reating-places for the bodies of two men in the prime of life, ‘The one to the southward is that of a German, of large, musowlar fr me, with face, beard and Frigid expression. He is wraptin a black oilcloth, Which ompletely encircies his bod: e ‘his feet und all, save his head. A sttéam ot wat broken Into spray by a sprinkler, is playing on his ehess by o pipe attached to S Conduit overhead, Maguer. |. Wouly remolng to be sald that the Mor NEW 'YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 3], 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘This provision is to preserve tho remalnsin as healthy @ stale as possible, and the action of the water stays putretacuon and preveais the SUDDEN DECOMPOSITION that might set in, ‘The face of the corpse Itself ts livid and a picture of anguish; the eyelids are drawn tightly together; large purple rings, as of coususion, disfigure the face; the hair is heavy and clotted, aud the sight is one of norror to contem- plate, To study a corpse 18 atall times a disagres- able task; but at the Morgue, where the subject is exposed in an apartment as light as the open air, where every vodily blemish can seen, the impression left upon 4 sensitive nature 4g revolting. Further on, and reposing upon the next parallel table you observe the remains of a man, smooth faced, beyond fifty, large and evidently @ death of resignation, — His expression 13 peace ful and calm, and so you might continue your ob. servations on a day Ww the Morgue ts full of the dead until the heart would sickeu al these SIGHTS OF MISERY. It only shows how men of diferent nationalities, viciasitudes and fates may be anchored on the same pier to be ouried in the same grave, People crowd uround the ante room of the Morgue every day, some curious to see who are the last victims, some to ud missing friends, whom they meet cold and stitt. Since the Morgue was opened, on June 22, 1366, 593 bodies have been exposed, and of these fifty per cent have been buried in Potter's Field a4 unrecog- nized. During one year 149 unknown bodies were brought to the Morgue, and of them seventy-seven were recognized and seventy-two were unrecognized, ‘The number of bodies for the vartous years con- veyed to the dead house was as follows:— From June 22, 1866, to January 1, 1867 From June 22, 1867, to January 1, 1868. From June 22, 1868, to January 1, 1369 To July 30, 1870......0.05 tees lit oemandraively for the Months of July the records show:— July, 1868. | July, 1869. 15 July, 1870.. * 23 Most of these cases were entered as died from drowning and coup de solell, and. seldom you find cases of apoplexy, plithisic or the fatal fevers. The bodies are conveyed to the Morgue by a policeman in a wagon, Suppose a man jumps ol he gsc drowns himseli, leaving no evidence of persoi identity, he is fished out of the river, taken to the Morgue, and placed under charge of Jon O’Brien, who is the responsible head at the Morgue. ‘The first duty of the keeper is to take a full description of the subject and e the following entries:— te of reception. Name, Cause of death, Mode of death. Hatr of deceased. Place of death. Such an exhibit 1s immediately forwarded to Police Headquarters. The subjeet is then deprived of all clothing and placed upon the marble table, and a stream of cold water 1s kept turned upon tne re- mains. But if the residence and name of the deceased be known he is KEPT TWENTY-FOUR HOURS in a coffin, and notice is transmitted to those who should be nghtful ry of the body. Should Iriends or relatives fail to respond, the remains are carried to Hart's island, and there interred in the Pot- ter’s Field, = With “an unknown man” this course 18 not pursued. He is placed in the Morgue for ihe tion, aud there must remain seventy-two hours, pro- vided always his disease is not contagious, and that Smita aes not hd fa = is now Or ino cy penn lorgue, aud hot properly Jadntite it is In covered with the original clothing, and photographer, ot Bellevue, Mr. Mason, prepares to take @ likeness, The body 1s placed in an upright postion in the cof fin, aud the cotin itself is supported at the angle of the fence. The camera is now adjusted, and re- peated negatives are made until a faithful reprodac- tion of the features, clothing and personal charac- teristics of deceased are obtained, The remains are then enclosed in the cofin, which Is nailed. up, and the body ts ready for burial. In this yard, as also in the shed opening on the East river, the odor ts NAUSEATING. Putrefactton ts in the air; human rottenness is the respiration. ‘the foul smell is like the stink of a charnel house, and the vicinity is one where you can observe all the evidences of decomposition. It 1s noagrecable resort, How different is all in the yard beyond! There you see a green sodaed with soft verdure—flower beds, pansies, violets, carnations, roses, tuberoses, creepers, climbers and heliotropes. One is the last of mau, his decay and passing away; the other the aromatic bloom of flowers fresh in a luxuriant fragrance. Other surroundings there are to the Morgue. The Wood museum, the Mot. mu- seum overliead, full of skelewons, bones, splintered fragments of the frame, diseasod organs and all the ossifled component parts of the body. The recep- ‘ton room, coroners’ office and other apartments are in the same building. But the most interesting part of house is the Morgue, where a large case hangs, containing the PHOTOGRAPHS OF TWENTY-FIVE BODIES now buried on Hart's island, and which have never been recognized. These pho! is-are exhibited for six months and then packed away archives of the institution with the clothing of the corpse, thus keeping a record where those disposed can examine for the lost. Most of these tures are clear, distinct and well any friend ot the recognize the photograph in death. Upon almost every picture 18 the look of anguish, the ‘ec expression of despair. They are almost all aul- cides; and, indeed, no inquiry is necessary to bring out Uns fact, An inspection of the features is enoagh—disappotntment, melancholy, rashness, the end. They are ail men, with but three exceptions, and all the faces are above forty years of age, when trouble thick and fast begins to hasten a mun’s de- clining years. ‘There 1s a picture of a man wno SHOT HIMSELF in Central Park. He 1s above forty years of age, has an expression of deep agony, and looks like a re- entant sinner, The Keeper took the photograph mn its black, sombre frame of mourning, aud on the back was the date and hour of death, description of bod person and the details connected with bis burial. Auother face was that of a suicide who hanged himself in Central Park. You could note the stran- gulation about the neck—the deep, dark rut in the skin, the blackness im the face, and the evi- dent appeal for mercy in his face. It wasa sad case. ‘This man was about fifty years of age, app: rently from the interior, and destroyed himself, pe: haps, with premeditation, for such is the character of his phystognomy, Oue old man, near seventy, was among the self- slain. He was fine-looking, large, high forehead, dreayny face, bald head and ful whiskers. This was @ case of delirtum tremens. DRINK WAS DEATI’S INSTRUMENT. He was habited in fne garments,{and seemed a gentleman in every Lineament of his face, us we world understands what a gentleman is, Alongside of the last photogragh was that of a man in middle life, with a face suarpened in feature, but. full of intellectual vigor. He wore a dark, heavy overcoat, and seemed to gasp for breath in his very picture. His was @ sud case, He had been among those who sought CaHfornia when she Was teeming with gold, when her rich mines called out the adventuring crowd to dig for the precious ore. He went there to earich himself; but misfor- tune drove him to this city, and dinally, to end his Ife, he went out to Macomb’s Dam, and, fo the midst of the gorgeous scenery about that spot, jamped into the Harlem river. This is all that is Known of his history. Many such cases occur every day in this densely populated city, but from their humble character they are printed in @ line and the victim Passes forgotten to his SELF-SOUGH? OBLIVION. It is for many to say who now m friends whether relics of t ist in the records of the Morgue. Sutll another case is that of a woman still unrecog- nized. After she was brought to the Morgue two daughters appeared and claimed her body. By their order she was interred aud a solemn funeral celebrated, A few days asie buried she walked in to ber ghters to full We and heaith. These mistakes are Hable to occur. Many other instances might be recorded, but these must suffice, And here a word of advice to the of Charities aud Correction, body should be CONSPICUOUSLY ADVERTISED in astanding column, with which tie public might become familiar, A ready relerenes to this place would be a boon to the public. iis necessity is no- torious. After the remains are exposed, a5 stated apove, they are placed in cofting and conveyed to Hart's Island, twenty-two miles distant, ite New Rochelle. Each coiin ts marked with a card:— QM rnnnnennnnse rere nent tt Ont tb 11 he rbbe ten tt Obtb tt ° BELLEVUE NOSPITAL, No. —. i in tue rn missing men do not DOW ex. the supposed tady ommisstoners Every unreciaimed e Name, ——. Age, ——. Died, ——. ONE NEEELEDEEODELE REDE LELE: DO LEEDLO DE LOD EE DDOE Upon arriving at the island the remains are taken on shore and the following card is flied with the su- perintendent in charge:— ennneeenceseeneert tbenrenennntreronresenet-t6 rb-te reg BELLEVUE HOSPITAL. 0. —. Name, ——. Agee single, iarried, widowed, Nativity, a How long In this country, -——, Occupation, — Date of adimission, Daie of death, . Disease, Where buried, . Relative or frend, a ‘Their residence, ———, Number and location of grave, ———. Date of burtal, . AOONOLE EO TELE LCOL IEEE DED IEADAEDODDEDRDDPLDD DODD) ‘There are two burying grounds at the island, both, of course, being Potter Field—one for Protestants and the other for Catholics—and men are burted according to their religious teachings. The cottins slide off the steamer Hope, a red, ugly looking craft, to the shore, and are then carried to a deep pit, rectangular in shape, and in this piace the bodies are packed indiscriminately one upon the other, and the earth is then filled in. All this 13 shameful. ‘There is no excuse for it. The Commissioners should provide enough ground and give every man @ grave—espectally when he 1s un- Known, and is hota pauper. 1tis the natural right of all lo A DECENT BURIAL, and this evil alluded to demands the strongest con- demnation of the community. Besides the city’s dead, the deceased of Blackweli’s, Hart's, Wards and Randall’s Island are disposed’ of in the same eiel; bes 18 one of those peculiar Institutions where- in much improved, where gel ihe dead can be better interred and more carefully marked, and where, by more systematic details, no man can be enrolled among “the city’s dead’ wlio 1s not at least furnished with private sepulture, JOURNALISTIC KLOPEMANIA. Telegraphic Larceny and Lightning Justice~ How Some California Papers Obtain the Associated Press News--Capture of tho Thief In Flagrante. SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 29, 1870. The case of Van Valkenburgh, the manager of the office In this clty of the Central Pacific Railroad ivision of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com- pany, Who was caught in the act of attempting to steal the Associated Press despatches last night, was called up in the police court this morning at ten o'clock. Van Valkenburgh did not jump or fall from, @ balcony, as stated in a despatch to the Amer- ican Press Association by the Atlantic and Pacifio line, but was held in the position he was caught until taken in charge by a policeman, The “clip and paper were taken ont vf his hands before he was moved from the position in which he was found. Two pencils and bis hat were picked up from between the balconies of the Western Union office ana the one next to It, where bo had crouched to copy the report. His position brought him within hearmg of the sounder of the instrument in the oflce, a window having been left open near him. He Was first seen to come out of the Record office and go airect to the position he occupied on the balcony, passing up through a house near the Western Union office and coming out through a Window on the balcony of the house which adjoins that of the Western Union bultding, there being a Bpace of two fect between the balconies where he took up his position,and from which he did not move until detected, The pistol fred by Mr. Pierson, the Western Union operator, was merely to intimt- date Van Valkenburgh, and it had its effect, a3 he held up the “clip” and begged he would not kill him, There Was no attempt made todo him any bodily injury, except a few lusty kicks administered by Mr. Peirson when he took hold of him. ‘The oppo- sition line is Known to have been down a portion of the day yesterday and up to one o'clock this morning; hence his attempt to supply. the news from @ more reliable source at little expense, ANOTHER ACCOUNT, The foilowing, from the Sacramento Union, gives a@very clear statement of the attempt last night to steal the Associated Press despatches in tus city:— About @ quarter to eleven o’clock last night a pistol shot was fired at the Western Union Telegraph office, on Second street, between J and K streets, and quite an excitement ensued in the neigbbor- hood. Being In the immediate viciuity at the time our reporter ran up into the telegraph office and learned that the Canse of the eXcifement was the distovery of the leak in the Western Union Telé- graph Company’s aifairs, whereby tie Eastern de- Spatches of the Associated Press have been stolen since the latter part of June, wheu avout a column of news was abstracted and appeared in other Papers simultaneously with thoce lor which lt was sent, A detective hag been empioyed by the Western Union Company to work the matter up, ‘The indications were to the ellect that messages had been taken off in this city, and a strict watch has therefore been kep: ever since, Last night, a few minutes before the shot-referrea to was fired, E. L, Pierson, one of the Western Union operators, while on the balcony in front of the ope- rating room, heard a noise on the balcony adjoming, and, looking around, he saw the figure of a man Which he thought he recognized as that of F. 8. Van Valkenburgh,the manager of the office of the Central Pacific Railroad division of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. As Mr. Pierson turned the man stepped back tuto the shadow, but Mr, Pierson became contident that. it was Van Valkenburgn, and that lus intention was to catch ther 7. despatches as they came over at few minutes afterward the despatches commenced coming, and Mr. Pierson went to the. instru ment to receive them. ie was scarcely down, however, before he heard a noiwe on the balcony which convinced bim that the man outside had taken @ position from which he could hear everything, and therefore signalica the operator sending the despatches to walt a inin- ute, and went out on the baicony and caught sight of Van Vaikenburgh lying concealed in a narrow Space between tie railing of the balcony of the tele- grapb building and that of the building adjoining it on the north. Drawing his plato! he fired a stot in the air to intimidate Van Valkeuburgh and to call assistance, which was quickly forthcoming Irom the other side of the street in the person of J. F. Allen, the agent of the company, and oilicer Moore, who took Van Valkenburgh in custody, After the snot was fired the latter called to Mr. Pierson not to hurt him or kill him, and holding up @ “clip,” which was filled with writing paper, on which he had evidently intended to take down the report, he sald, “You see J haven’t taken a word of it.” He was taken to the station house by officers Moore and Chamberiain, and a charge of “atiempt to steal telegraphic report” made against him. Mr. Pierson was also arrested for discharging flrearms in the city, Both men put up deposits tor their ap- pearance to-day in the police court. Van Valkenburgh, who is a young man of unusual ability in nis profession, and has been esteemed by a large dumber of friends, would appear to have made a misstep in his anxiety to further the inte: ests of the goupeny, by which he was employed that will have @ very damaging eiect Spon him. We have not heard lus explanation of the oc e, but it looks almost impossible for him to clear s4 the cloud resting over him, owing to the ecullar position in which he was caugnt, reing concealed and having in his posses- sion the material with which to secure the despatches belonging to other people. ‘The law Of the State, 1 we mistake not, makes It a misde- mneanor for any person to clandestinely obtain the contents of telegraphic messages, xing as the penalty therefor a fine not exceeding $1,000 or im- prisonment for not longer than one year, or both fine and imprisonment. in this case the party did not gain possession of the contents of the despatches, but he made the attempt, which, as in other of- Jences, amounts to the same as the commission of the deed. In fact, the Western Union people say that they have evidence sure to couvict tim of hay- ing taken in @ similar manner tue column of news before referred to. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COUAT. Assignment of Judges. During the coming term Judge Blatchford will hola court in both the District and Circuit of the United States Courts of the Southern district of New York. He will sit on the 9th of August. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Uustamped Cigars. Before Commissioner Osborn. The United States vs, Margaret Lolpt.—The defend- ant is charged with having sold 200 unstamped cigars to officer Applegate, of the Secret Service Division. The examination into the case was ud- Journed in the absence of an important witness for ‘the prosecution. Alleged Cruelty on Shipboard, Before Commissioner Shields. The Untted States vs. C. Concktin.—The defendant, chief mate of the ship Villa Franca, was brought be- fore Commissioner Shields yesteraay on the com- Plant of John Clark, the steward of that ship on a voyage from New York to Bristol. Clark says that on the 10th of September last he was cruelly and inbumanly punished by the prisoner without any justifiable cause. Held to answer on Monday in $1,000 bail. THE QUARANTINE PERPLEXITY. awa: ‘The New York Authorities Sustained=Letter from the Treasury Departinent. The Board of Health of Pertn Amboy have under- taken to set at naught the powers of tne New York Quarantine by allowing vessels from infected ports w slip ap the Kills to the metropolis, and in a recent case actually sent an armed posse on board the bark Caro to defend her against the New York Quarantine authorities, who desired to prevent her discharging cargo. The following letter from the ‘Treasury Department effectually disposes ot the case and takes away the little brief authority enjoyed by the Perth Amboy ofMlcit TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 28, 1870. Sir—The Solicitor of the Treasury, to whom the question was submitted on the 27th inst., has given it as his opinion that a vessel froma foreign port bound to & port of entry in the United States, with her cargo destined for that port upon her manifest, cannot change her destination after arriving within the waters of the United States. In view, there- fore, of this opinion, which 1s concurred in by the Department, you are directed to require all vessels arriving within the waters of your district from foreign ports, destined, with thetr car- goes, for your port, to proceed thither and there- after to make due entry of the vessel and cargo as is required by law. You will also, when vessels from foreign ports arrive within the waters of your dis- trict whose papers show that they are destined for Other districts, refuse entry to such vessels and direct them to proceed to their proper destination, if necessary using the revenue cutters to enforce your orders, 1 am, very respecttaliyy GEO. 8. BOUTWELL, Secretary of the Treasury. To Toomas Munruy, Bsq., Collector, kc, New x MUSICAL REVIEW. The summer #eagon 1s not favorable to the publl- cation of new works, as the majority of the patrons of music publishers are at the waterlog places; but We ag glad to find that some of thy wading houses are not felaxing their exertions to clear tne musical atmosphere of the deleterious odors with which London concert saloon songs impregnated it, The indications for the noxt season are extremely favor- able, and a higher standard of art may be expected, Some houses propose to republish in cheap form editions of tho ancient aud modern clas- Blc3, 80 as to bring them within the reach 7 Of all, There 1s @ great improvement also in the style of publication, The lithographer’s art has been brought to the highest state of perfection in adorning the titles of many of the lacer putlica- tions, and in engraving these works may favorably compare with the best speciinens of European handt- work. But the main feature 1s the great improve- mentin the character of the music published nowa- days. It is to attain this end that our Musical Review was inaugurated in the HERALD, and we are happy to find that our work has not been fruitless, Trash has been gradually but effectually weaned out ofthe market, and we seldom now meet with a work which does not possess some claim to merit, ‘The Board of Music Trade of the Unlied States met on the 20th inst, at Niagara Falls, Fourteen of the leading houses were represented on the occasion. The following were elected officers for the ensuing year:—C. M. Cady, of the firm of Root & Cady, Chicago, President; Julius Lee, of Lee & Walker, Philadelphia, Vice President; Thomas J. Hall, of Hail & son, New York, ‘Treasurer and Secretary. Several complaints were made of the gross neglect of the Post Omce Department in regard to the transmission of music. It is necessary very oftea to send three or more coples of a piece to sub- Serivers at different times to ensure the delivery of one, Hall the music sent by mail never reaches 118 destination, It 1s probable that in the fall there will be many valuable accessions to the music pub- lishing trade. So much the better. Every trace of the monopoly of the past will be thus removed and @ healthier tone given to the business, Charies W. Harris publishes the following:— “A Tress of Golden Hair.” Song. Henry Tucker. Eminentiy characteristic of the composer and there- fore not remarkable for fresiness of melody, “Guide Me, Oh, Thon Great Jehovah.” Hymn. Wil ham F. Miler, Simple and well constructed in a contrapuntal point of view. The melody is rather commonplace. “Softly Now the Lightof Day.” Hymn, Miller. Bet- ‘er than the preceding, and 4 valuable addition to small church choirs, “In Loud Exalted Strains.” Hymn. Miller. A very retly theme, in mine-eiglt time, easy aad popular in character. The same house publishes eight easy organ volun- taries by the same composer, Which will be found of great service to young organists. Schuberth & Co. publish the following:— “Variations On Favorite Melodies.” For the Plano. By Henry Maylath., They are admiravie stulies for litte fingers and a help to teachers, “Mon Triste Souvenir.” Romance for the plano. G. Aberle, A lovely melody, framed in tie most artistic mahner and @ fitting musical illustrauion of Lamar- tine’s poem, “Fata Morgana Polka Mazurka.” the Beautiful Khine.”? Wai which are well known to the through the medium of orchestra, “Schumann’s Abendiied.” Paraphrase by Joachim Raf. An exquisite setting of this charmuig “even- ing song.” It is colored with all the vivil tints of those fairy-like passages so characterisic of (us eminent composer, Many novel eilvcts are intro- duced in tt. in Balio en Maschera.” Fantasia, Eugene Ket- terer. We know of no composer at present in Bu- rope or America who can compare with those beautiful parlor transcriptions of operas. 18 one of the best we have yet se Ditson & Co, publisti the folio — “The Roses.” Swedish soug. This Is one of Nilsson’s tavorites, and attractive, although pecauar in melody, “Fisk Guard March.” Henry Tissington. Destined to become @ general favorite in military bands. Gocd stirring theme, “Dying Alone.” Song. C. A. Fuller, A very pretty melody, which in concert will be sure to he- come popular in every sense of the word. “Night Song.” Jungmann. One of the most beau- tiful themes we have seen from the pen of uiis dis- Ungulshed composer, and arranged in the most at- twactive style. “Midsuminer Night’s Dream.” Fantasia. Sydney Smith. A truly great work, written also in a com- mendable style for pupils, it unites vriliaucy with unity of idea throughout, Strauss, “On Keler Bela, Two gems public of New York homas’ magnificent ART NOTES. Mr. W. E. Marshall, the extraordinary merits of whose portraits of Lincoln and Grant have won not only American popularity, but also high praise from Couture, Gustave Doré and other celebrated Buro- Pean artists, will soon leave New York for @ pro- Jonged residence in Parts, Not satisfied with his ac- knowledyed rank as one of the foremos tliving engra- vers, Mr, Marshail 18 ambitious of becoming equally distinguished as @ portrait painter. The numerous portraits in ofl which he has made during the past few years amply justify this ambition, In addition to the skill anc fidelity insured by his experience ag an engraver, his likenesses: Cynce @ rare capacity for presenting uot merely the exact mechanical countenance of the sitter, “not the countenance that we ever actually beliold, but its abstract, its idealiza- tion, or rather its realization, the spirit of the coun- tenance, its easence and its life.” Such was Southey’s admirable description of the true portrait, a of Mr. Marshail’s portraits answers well to this: description. The portrait of Henry Ward Beecher which {8 now on his easel, and which he will complete and afterwards engrave in Paris, already shows how fully Mr. Marshall has mastered the pecullar dificulues of “the case where the character predominates over the features, and that character itself ts one tn which many and seem- Ingiy opposite qualities are compounded,” The most Important task to which Mr. Marshall will im- mediately devote himself wiil be the completion of his new portrait of our Saviour. In this picture he wil aim to blend with the traditional sacred associ ations of the subject all the light which has been thrown upon ft by modern thought and erndition, The experiment of a summer exhibition at the National Academy of Design has proved tobe even more successful than was anticipated. Many strangers from remote parts of the country avail themselves of the opportunity which they now for the first time enjoy to visit the galleries of the Acad- emy at this season, Messrs. Allen B. Miner & Brother, successors of the late firm of O. H. Leeds & Miner. will open, about the 10th of August, a free summer exhibition of pictures aud statuary at the Leeds Art Galleries, AL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. mUSi Henry Molienhauer’s concerts at Terrace Garden are the musical features of the summer season in the metropolis, His band is smail, but well selected, and the programmes are unexceptionable. Miss Pauline Canissa sings some of her cholcest mor- ceaur at these summer nigiit festivals, as they may be termed, and the attendance shows signiticantly the high appreciation of tue public for the eminent con- ductor, cantatrice and orchestra, Dan Symons, of the Olympic, is back from Sharon Springs, entirely recovered. ‘He proposes to enter the lists against the French wrestlers, take the posl- tion of champion clog dancer, and may possibly essay the cancan during the next season. Harry Jackson’s new play, it is said, will present a novel phase of Jewish drama. Paris will supply the metropolitan stage here with some ol the most brilliant plays of the coming season. Mr. Alfred Joel has effected an engagement with the distinguished cantatrice, Mie, Czulay, for an operatic seagon In this city pext fall, ‘The Zavistowski sisters inaugurate the season at the National theatre, oot ake tn September. Combination troupes are the rage for provincial theatres this season, First class theatres will make an effort at legitl- Mate business next season, leaving buriesque and cheap sensation to the minor theatres und variety haus, Professor Worth’s splendid Japanese and Chinese collection, 80 eae, in Wood's Museum, will suoruy be transferred to Pittsburg. “Chromo”? pictures are to be used as an advertis- ing medium by Mr. A. L. Parkes during the coming season. “On a Doorstep” Is the title of a play written by Maeder for Emeline, Alice and Christine Zavise towskl. Ten cent publications furnish excellent themes for the present style of sensation plays. A SAW MILL BUANCD NEAR TRENTON, About two o'clock yesterday morning the saw mill owned by Messrs. J. C. & D, Vaylor & Co., at Morris- ville, Pa., near Trenton, N. J., was discovered to be on fre, and before any assistance could be rendered the flames had enveloped the entire buildiug. The fire companies from ‘Trenton arrived at the,scene of the conflagration, but notwithstanding their efforts, the building and all the stock and machinery were completely destroyed. The loss is estimated at $10,900, partiaily covered by insurance in the ‘Bueks County Contribution Company.” During the fire a carpenter named Oubberly fell from the Toot and gusiained @ severo fracture of the right shoulder, MIDSUMMER RETREATS. The President and the Races at * Long Branch. Monmouth Park Trotting—President Grant De- clines to Attend—He Does Not Want to be Considered a Sporting Man—The Fino Turnouts at the Branch—The Sunday Crowds—Hop at the West End. LonG Branca, July 30, 1870, That assumed gift of prophecy which so many bring into constant active play regarding the pro- posed movements and purposes of President Grant was never indulged in with greater assumption of confidence than as regards his attendance at the races so successfully and brilliantly inaugurated to-day atthe Monmouth Park race course. It was universally supposed he would go. Everybody prophesied that he would be among the first in attendance and among the last to leave. Nobody supposed in fact that anything could keep him away. “Going to the races, I suppose?” said a gentierian meeting him this morning. * “No, sir,” answered the President, “Not sick, I hopes” observed the gentleman with surprise. “No; but I am not going.” “Waiting for the races to get under good headway first?” “Not at all. I do not propose to go to any of them.’ “Lam surprised, Nothing inthe management, I trust, you don’t approve?” “No fault to find with anything or anybody,” con- tinued the President. “If 1 was only a visitor here I might casually attend; but, living here, I have de- cided to stay away aitogether.”? And the President did stay away ; ana, it 1s unne- ceasary to add, greatly to the disappointment of the great majority who were present, It 1s evident that however great his fondness for good horses, he does not choose to be regarded as one of the victims of a Passion for horse racing. At all events, it is un- doubted that this marked deference to the general public sentiment—for such it most certainly is—will meet with most extended approbation. Meantime, the President remained quieuy at home nearly all day, taking with the members of his family lls usual mid-day bath in old ocean, and buf- feting its bounding billows with more signal success than the wild waves of the tempest-tossed sea of politics, ‘This afternoon he took also with his family his customary evening ride, most of the magnificent Surnouts returning from the races bearing him com- aADY. it GOING TO THE RACES. If President Grant did not go to the races nearly everybody eise most assuredly did. There has never been a livelier morning than this morning about the hotels, The large hotel omnibuses, witb six horses atiached, were filled to overiowing, outside and inside, with eager and anxiously expectant sporting men—their eagerness being to get Lo the course be- fore the races began, and thelr expect ancy to bring back more money than they took with them, In the first regard they were not disappointed, but very many in trusting to the fickle of Mr. Stuart. Pleasure craft of various tonna, ome up and down the bay, and enterprisin; oatinen are ever ready to allure tho stranger take a sail. Lime Rock and its heroine, Miss Ida Lewis, still are objects of interest, and for sale in the town windows, painted upon rocks taken frout the beach, are pictures of the light-house that shelters the Grace Darling of America. August is the hotel keepers’ favorite month, and they look for it as Wellington did for Blucher af Waterloo, Already rooms are in demand at tha Ocean and Atlantic, and the guests will be wel: come, for both hotels are in excellent order. This evening the roads are thronged with gay equipages with fair occupants, whose gorgeoud toilets vie with the splendor of the setting sun. Pony wagons, phaetous and cumbrous old cars riages roll past slowly, for the cavalcade is a long one. With exquisite ‘skill Miss Anna Dickinsou turns her dark bay out of line, and with a touch of her riding whip passes the throng and dart down an avenue that leads to the ocean. It is singular, yet the great war going on across the water, ipon whose result mighty issues hinge, is rarely mentioned here. Underneat! these balconies very little but pleasure is thought! of, and save Miss Mora, who wonders if the watt will raise the price of silks, and her mamma, wha wonders if it will distury Tom, who is finishing af Heidelberg, f have heard naught of the war and its murmurings. When morning dawns the road to the beach i¢ again thronged. The sands are dotted with bathers, and, apropos of bathers, I saw a bathing costume this evening, which, if adopted, will be a step toward redeeming the horrid habit that oftea turns the heart astray of the once ardent suit A blue flannel blouse, trimmed with white ta fortunes Of the treacnerous turf did so to. thelr serious pecuniary cost aud grievance. Soon long rows of carriages were, one aiter the other, busily recelving their ioads, made up for the most part of richly toileted iadies. There was no end to single buggies, while chiefly attractive and casting ail the minor vehicles in. the shade were the splendid six-in-hands of Jun Fisk, Jr., and Mr. Helmpold. Mixed up with the throng of departing conveyances were also seve- ral four-in-hands, All the fine tarnouts of the Branch joined in the geaeral exodus, and away in their com- bined vehicies went all the wealth, beauty and faspion of the Branch. ‘There was inconceivable dulness at the hotels, The surf had but few patrons, Bartenders, barbers and ___billtara markers had a day of respite, Everything wore a banquet hall deserted look. By five P.M. the crowds, however, returned, some smiling and happy over their winnings, and others groaning in spirit over their losses. Such as did not bet, and, therefore, did nov have occasion fog elther extreme of judliaucy or grieving, pronounced the day one of magnificent sport, AND STILL THEY COME. To-night brought in the usuai turday night crowd trom the city, but greatly augmented by those coming to remain during the ensuing race week. ‘Tne hotels are already crowded, and tt 1s a problem with the hotel proprictors to Know how to dispose of them. The sevehth bed in & room commands @ premium, and half beds are discounted freely at par value. A pillar of a porch to lean against is aiuxury, The worst is—that 1s, for the guests, but the best thing for the hotel men—this state of Ulungs will continue through next week, THE HOP To-NIGHT. Most ample preparations have been made by Messrs. Sykes, Gardiner & Co., of the West E Hotel, to make the invitation hop here to-night one of the most splendid of the season. ‘The large dining room 18 to be used for this occasion, and suc! been the multiplictty of invitations, inciuding all the prominent people of fashion on the Branch, that it is doubtful if this 1s jarge enough to give ample scope for dancing for the unusual number expected Lo be In attendance. As stated in my yes terday’s correspondence the President and’ Mrs, Grant have accepted the invitation to attend, and their presence, of course, Will give extra ¢clut to the occasion, NEWPORT. The Trip to the Place—Fisk?s Admirnble Bonte—Artatocratic Idling—The Prospect Brightens for the Hotela—A Jaunty Bath. ing Costume. Newrorr, July 29, 1870. One misses as ho trudges along the dusty road from the hotel to the beach at Newport the fow steps across a grassy lawn that Icads him to Old Ocean at Long Branch. Me remembers, if quar- tered at the best stopping place, the gay assem- blages on the portico when dinner was past and the scenes on the beach when the moon lights up the waves. Yet the idler of summer days at this ancient city, with its queer and gabled dwellings and mysterious old stone tower, can enjoy the hours. For the beach, though, far away, has not the treacherous undertow of Long Branch, and the brave swimmer may go out into the white crests nov look behind to see if he has past rope or buoy. “Why, sir,” said an attendant at the beach, “two of our visitors go out every day far out of sight and come back hours after, lookiug pinched and blue, but there is no danger.” The beach—a semi-cirele—is not of the pearly white sand of the Branch, that becomes like ada- mant when the tide recedes, and back where the sand of the shore touches the grass of the meadow one looks for hotels, yet not a dwelling meets the eye. The attendant informs your correspondent that the season is a dull one at the hotels, and jl won- der what became of the throng on the Bristol after she touched the wharf. For on the voyage long lines of men applied in vain for staterooms at the clerk’s office and a small army laid down on cots in the upper saloon when the staterooms sere filled to overflowing. Elegant steamers are upon this route. Their equal is not to be found in this or other waters, and, echoing the language of the Rev. E. H. Chapin, who was a passenger with your correspondent, “Say what you will of Mr. Fisk the travelling public owe him a debt of gratitude; a trip on his steamers is a luxury.” I wondered what became of the passengers for indeed the hotels were dull cuough. Cottages are the wens drawing away from the hotels their sustenance. On all sides they are growing up, and in the past three years over seven hundred thingled roofs bave pierced the air of Newport. Men rush from the city to Long Branch to register at the inns, take a night and morning plunge, and then the world tugging at their skirts hurries them back to the heated town again; but people come here to live, and with cottage, carriage and bas- ket wagon the sammer months are passed merrily away, Foreign ambassadors in Swiss cottages on the cliffs; ex-Governor Morgan hid away in the vines on a shady stree far from Bradish John- gon; Thomas F’. Cushing iv his new mansion back from the road, and many others whose names are well known “on 'Change”’ preter this aristocratic old city to the Branch. ni "Ch In the harbor trim yachts ride at anchor, and near the guna of the fort is the pleasure steamer and corded a la militaire; in place of the frightlul seaside hat, a cross between a pancake and 4 brigand’s, was a chasseur cap, with a cover of oi silk encircling the chignon. There was a rakish cut about this attire that charmed the beholder{ nay, it may have softened the heart of Old Nep: tune, for the fair bather went far in the surf, and returned to the shore safe from his embraces. WATERING PLACE NOTES. Governor Hofman has returned to Newport. William M. Tweed and family are at Niagara Falls Among the guests now stopping at Lake Winnipt- seogee, N. H., the following a@re from New York:—Acton Civil and wife, Miss Civil, D. John, J. Bassett and wife, Eliot T, Bassett, R, Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Ferris, infant and nurse; Frederick Couldock, L. M. W. Steere, A. Ellsworth, ©. Ellsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Slade, daughters and sons; M. Morgan, wifq and child; W. T. Larned, D. F. Blount, S. T. Hub« bard, Jr., E. Hustace, A. Bellamy, wile and daugh ter; Mrs, S. L. M. Barlow, Miss E. E. Barlow, P. Ty Barlow, E. H. Ciark, E. 8, Mills, B. T, Beekman and wile, F. L, Nutting. Among the ladies at Greenwood Lake, Oranga county, are :—Mrs, Scheper, of ihirty-fourth street, the Misses Gilsey, daughters of Peter Gilsey; the Misses Brandon, Mrs. Forbes, Mrs, Marun and Mrs. Van Ness, Mr. M. Heymann and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cohn- feld, who have just returued from their wedding tour; Mr. Lewis and family, Mr. Randoif and fanily,: are stopping at the La Tourette House, Bergen Pmt, NJ } Generals Franklin and Warren, Manton Ma. »le, F. F. Gunther, A. 8, Cooper and family, N. (. Dan- ton and wife, E. D. Morgan, A. 8S. Hatcn, ( harles Hi. Russell, L. P. Morton, and any number o1 bank- ers, lawyers and politicians from Gotham are spend~ ing the summer at Newport, Every villa and cote tage is full and has been for a fortnight past, thougn a number of new ones were put up last year. Real astate has advanced as much here during the past ten years as tt has in New York, and large fortunes have been made by persons engaged in speculative operations. ‘There are pleasant drives in the neighborhood of Lake Winnipiseogee. Six miles east 13 Croppie Crown Mountain, 2,100 feet high. From its summit‘ the lake and the surrounding country can be seen to great advantage. On clear day Mount Washington and the ocean can be seen in the distance. On the northeast ts Tumble-Down-Dick Mountain—so named, because it looks as 1f1¢ mught have been at one time @ respectable full-sized mountain, but having been tripped up by old Nature had tumbled down, The Devil’s Den Mountain is well worthy a visit, Init 1s a cave made, it is supposed, from some great con-\ vulsion of nature. The Mount Washington Railway ts proving a great success this season, This wonderful structure has Veen patronized by a great proportion of the Mount Washington climbers, aad not an accident or deten- tion has occurred so far, Which, When it 1s remem- bered that at many points the grade 1s 1,900 feet to the mile, 1s wonderful, The largest number taken up at one thme was eighty-four, who found a per- fect day throughout—not @ cloud to ovsiruct the view {rom morning ull night. Among the latest arrivals of New Yorkers at Sara- toga are T. N. Lawrence, J. Wiliams, G. T. Cor- biere, W. Trow, J. McKeon and wife, Miss John: son, Miss Whittemore and Miss meee, W. HL The last fish story from Newport {s this:—A horse. mackerel or biue fish was recendy caught in the bay, weighing 660 pounds. It was taken in a selne,, which 1t Lore to pieces, and the boat was also stuve and the lives of the captors endangered. It mea, sured eight feet long and seven feet in breadth, and beats anything for size ever taken m these waters, ‘There have not been many guests at the Lake Georga, hotels thus far this season. “The principal hotel, aw the head of the lake, with accommodations for'700} persons, has had an average of about two hundred daily during July. The other hoteis aiong the shore) to the fuot of the lake have had no better fortune. Itis somewhat curious that the public has never regarded this beauctiul region a3 a place to find & summer home, but simply as @ place for transient! sight-seeing. ‘The “season” 1s only about a monty ia duration, The “Trout Pavilion,” on the east shore of Lake George, 1s a cluster of buildings with piazzas, veran- das and dancing platiorms, so mtermingled with shade trees that the occupants hardly know whether they ave indo: Lieutenant of the Canadig On Wedni Ol. neral Lindsey, Com: ‘forces,’ 1s al Niagu nder-in-Chief Maryland regt- ment was reviewed by Major General Meade, on their parade ground adjoining Camp Trenton, at »May. The review was witnessed witu great r rs course of our visitors, ne = ral Meade was supported by Major Gencral Patter- son, Major General Van Viet, General hei Sellars and a number ot other ofil his stat, The regiment went through sev 8 Uons, which were executed in a mauner alike table to wen and onicers, Beyond the Narrows at Lake George is Rogers? le, 80 callea because Rovert Rogers, the famous New Hampshire partisan, here escaped from his savage pursuers by reversing Mls snow shoes after reaching the edge OL the precipice, and, retracing his steps Unus, Inducing the Indians to think they had followed two men Instead of one, and that thee intended vict.ms had leaped down the rock. The quality of Newport may be stated by calllag st @ watering place In contradistinction to @ brandy- and-watering place, a8 many of tue more muscellane. ous resorts are. #ibulously speaking, Niagara 13: milk punch; Saratoga, whiskey straight; Long Branch, gin cocktail; pe May, hock-and-soda; New London, champagne; Swaimpscot, burgundy; and Newport, claret of the genuine Lafitte, Cuateau- Margaux, ana Haut-Brion cra. A Long Branch correspondent makes the follow- ing assertion :—*Dressing is not a matter of moment, Every lady is ag independent an dresses or hot as sults her. There have been fer toliets of remarkable elegance, and those only ap- pear at intervais; but there 1s much taste shown simple costumes.) \ The new road connecting Lake Superior and Sr. Paul is lined with seven or eight new “summer re- sorts,” which are already appealing for the patron: owe of travellers making the “grand tour” of tne Northwest. White Bear Lake is twelve miles from St. Paul, and has been a,popular resort for several years. has twenty miles of shore, with a wooded island ofeighty-tive acres, Therg are five hotels, and numerous saliboats, which may be haa for $1 5v per day. Bald Eagle Lake is two miles 5 te This lake 1s “lonely, wild and interesting.” Forest Lake ig twenty-five miles from St. Paul, and abounds in excellent fish, with only “moderate” accommoda- “ons for visitors, Green and Chisago Lakes are so located that the hoteis and “Chisago City” stand be- tween them. Rush Lake ts fifty-four miles from St.y Paul, and Trout Lake 150 miles, ‘The latter Is famous for the fish from whioh it takes ita name, There are: a number of other lakes along the line of the road, but the most famous resort of all 1s the “Dalles” of the St. Louis, near Thompson station, The St. Louis river, in a distance of four miles and @ hall, falls 450 feet by a succession of rapids and cascades. Jay Gould's trotters have arrived at Long Branch. Their owner was out with them on Thursday. Sen- ator Creamer and family, Alderman Coman, Sheri O'Brien and family, Judge Dowling, with Jounny Chamberlain; General Estes, Collector Murphy ana Governor Randviph and family were among thoso Who were on the road in elegant equipages thas evening. ie ‘f rhe editors of Maine and New Hampshire havo beer having a good time at Rye Beach, The festivi- tes were opened by @ poem by B. P. Shillaber, anu speeches by Speaker Laine and others. Lucky dogs, those Maine and New Hampshire Kuiguts of the quilt and scissors, Aniong the latest arrivals at Cape May are:—-Maj -: General T. 0. Ormsby, of Clucago; Judge Bond, Baltumore; Colonel Cilas. W. Kaphirn, Major A.W. Bradford, Jr, r Joun Huiond and Majoc George W. Cainpbell, of tho stat of Governor How i of Maryland; Colonel Joseph L. Stitehier, of Kaa ing, Pa., and Heury Bushoug, Laukers