The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1871, Page 7

-ARTER THE SETTING SON. FROM THE NARROWS TO THE GOLDEN GATE Over the Three Great Moun- tain Ranges. A Midnight Ride Through the Wasatch Canyons. “ALKALI, ROCK AND SAGE.” A PLYING VISIT TO THE MORMONS, Through the Sierras on a ! Cowcatcher. Story of a Transcontinental Excursion. BAN Francisco, July 21, 1871, Certain philosopher of the East 1s tn the habit of Wing advice to young men of slender means that 6 best thing they can do 1s to ‘go out West and w.f? For @ man who has not the price of a horse ride to Harlem nanay this sounds so excessively ike irony that the beggar in wisdom leaves tho hflosopher witn a poor opinion of the latter’s nity, and A wonder at his: heart as to what the ‘West may be like, where it is, and how people and grow there. Yetto those of the East who Ve nO fortune to make there Is something in the of life experience hidden from them unless they jave traversed their mighty country, in all its width, the Empire to the Golden State. A manor @ roman having suficient means may, with the extr- of thelr sweet wil, accomplish this witnont an fort, and learn a living chapter of the country to hose children they have tho honor to belong. THR DAY OF GREAT EXCURSIONS, nd but a few years is necessary to make this trail the sun a trip as necessary to a young lady's eda- tion as the visit to Newport, Saratoga or Long ranch is now supposed to be. It needs but just a low precautions to be as pleasant as either of the bove. The HERALD, in the persons of its goose- ll angels, has truversed tbis route many times it the world might be enlightened, and it need, re, be no surprise to observe that one of its reporters, with a stout heart and a small valise, the Prat crammed with noble sentiments, the second moderately full of clothes, took a berth in the sleep- Sng coach attachea to the train, which shrieked 173 WHISTLING “WESTWARD, HOU? the Jersey City depot, at a quarter past seven wrclock P, M. on the 10th inst. His feelings on this loccasion need not ve dwelt upon, but as he grow fered of gazing on the expanse of the resoued Jersey jpwamps his eye tell upon tho form of a lady, th a pretty little girl by her side, ows the mother’s face large tears were ‘coursing, while the chila, conscious only of the ew signs of life opening before her, prattled and jamboled about as if thero were no sorrow in the iniverse that could reach her little soul, Tho reporter felt, what ail the world Knows, that over overy foot ‘of the toiling earth the passions and sorrows tread their sombre way, heedicss of the sunshine or the @cene that may bea puradise of joy to all but them. In one corner a quartet have already commenced laying everlasting euchre; in another an old, be- jpectacied gentleman, with a look of owlish wis- @om, is devouring an evening paper; and s0 on fone the human car load is summed up in the ex- Pression ‘killing time,’ translated mostly with ‘American vigor. ‘Tickets,’ 1s the next sound heard above the throbbing of the engine and the rattle of ‘the wheels, and every one discovers that all are @olng West, But it 1s tue vaguest of vague direc. tions, for with each it has o different signidcation gpd if any one trics to puzzle his brain over tt, the sooner ho gets the dusky porter to MAKE UP IIS BED FOR THE NIGET the better for his healtu. It is little over three -nours’ ride before Philadelphia is reached, and the Ugnts of the city show brilltantly through the night, and the trato again suapes its tron way toward tho Alleghany Mountains. ‘he reporter is neither a Wizard nor a guide book, and so he does not pretend to describe what scenes he passes while wrapped in fhe folds of sleep in an upper bérth, whtch 1s a par- ticularly warm and uninteresting location on & mid. ‘summer night. It isa pity the sleeping coach com- pany do not advertise the Turkish bath, which is thrown in free to ali who slumber two stories high Jn the dog days. { The morning of Tuesday, the 11th, dawned aus- \pictously, and about seven o’clock tho terrific sound ‘of a Chinese gong sent tho travellers toward their ‘preakfast. They were at Altoona, Pa., and twenty \ninutes were at theiy dejeunistio disposal. The ‘ime was generally well employed, And now the en- \gine begins f CLIMBING THE ALLEGHANIES, ‘This is the frat grand experience of the route, and uncer a lovely setting of morning floece- jouded sky is {t preseated. Magnificent sweeps of stance run down from beneath you, and, after dipping into the bosoms of lovely valleys, are car- Tea up in bold lines to the crests of the wooded ‘nila, whose verdant crests are clad in the mist ‘white glory of the morning. The sun’s rays are gilstening in the foaming mountain streams, silver rivers below and the gentle breeze waving the long plumes of the pines to the tune of a goutle melody, if the panting of the engine would but let ‘one hear. itis near the Horseshoe now, and as the train creeps feariully upward, still higher on the ntain side may be seen its curved road, arked by telegraph poies until a vend in the jountain cuts it off. At length toe summit is hed, and, as angry at the pieasure has’ afforded you, cho” tron horse, with angr, neigh, lunges into tne rock- feartea Yorknens of the Allegha tunnel. ‘When next you emerge to light, itis a sharp down ‘grade, and although the scenery is pleasani, it has ost ts mountain spiendor, Bui the signs of life plenty around you. Tue ( BEAVIS OF THE COAL MINES, ‘the miners’ cottages, the rusted look of the smeitin furnaces are the jncidents of every rod traversed, gradually to concentrate co a focus a8 1s reached, With the unutterable smoke o! ta industry vomiting {rom its myriad chimnics an ng in a big dingy Canopy ever its grimy gener- tor, whose smutted iace the Alleghany, the Monon- ‘ahela and the Obio rivers cannot Wwash clean. jus far, in this moruing’s drive, the majesty of na- ure and the power oi man have been witnessed, aving Pittaburg on the Pan Handle route a bridge Over the far-iamed Whiskey River 1s an untounded cause of terror t the nervous, and henceforth on the stretch o1 193 mules to Columbus the veauties of DIFFICULT RAILROAD BNGINERRING fre exhibited in numberiess tunnels, bridges and Beep cuttings until at length tie iron and coal dis- icta are lett behind and thesmiling felds of the fuckeye State come into view. A thunderstorm meanwhile has rolied up its massive banks of cloud, ot forth ite fiery portent, aud deluged the feids th rain till every fissure in the ratiroad cutting mes the shed of a small cascade of water, Muddy as the Missouri from tbe yeliow earth ef the adjacent slo] ‘AS Columbus {s reached the storm god furls his wings and hangs in urple clouds above the verge of the western sky beneath wbioh the san goes down in & = of virgin gold, Fat and yich are the pincers now, and night again closes in upon the Westward bound with the yellow wheat and yroom ct reflecting the last rays of its fery go’. ome of the voy urs, believing themselves “Oy st,’ have already,dropped of ine train, and Mf itis of any importance to the public tiey may leary that the reporter enjeyed THE LUXURY OF A LOWER BERTH. J minutes of Indianapolis” was the conduc- rst good morning, and at half-past four the train anu the reporter “parted company” at Indian- @polis, where the latter was to stuft West in dead gazes. It is not @ pleasant thing te be dropped in & railway depos, no matter how large, shoruy after daybreak, with the prospect of Joafing round antl nearly noonwide, It gives great piay to @ Man's pa- Uence, and, if necessary, hls philosophy. ‘All I can say ts, you must see Jones; he's runnin’ this here 'scursion, What ain't gwine to start at no orslook. Was the only consolation vouchsafed by the stalwart policeman on duty at the depot, whose OMloe seemed to be that of marching at tho head of M0 coming trains with one hand ing on the cow- fe ner, r Hl f bringing a tor’ tcl like @ pompous parish ull to the pound. This done, he joked solemaly With (he fireman while yhe latter Giled the engine. w : , Seemaaary was any wegen ‘Open'its eyes, and vy sux A HERO WITH A CARPET-BAG made his appearance, bragging to every one be met: — Chim ratlroadin’ since I was knee high and never got lett; no, sir.” His frat query was;— “Say, Jones round yetr’? To Which the stalwart policeman made his re- ply “This ’scursion w9n't start at no nine o'clock; don’t fret, strangel.” Whereupon the hero an- nounced bimself sold and proceeded to mutter sub- dued curses for the following tive hours, One by one prudent Westward-hoers dropped in to secure sleeping berths ior the next night, having utterly destroyed one night's rest for that purpoze, ‘hese sagacious people proceeded to grumble also. At seven o'clock parties of three and four began alight- Ing trom the local trains accompanied by tn- numerabie trunks, Valises, satchels and huge bas- kets of food, om which they cast deliguted eyes. Each individual asked for Jones, and aiter hearing the policeman’s reply only jound cheerfuiness in cont implating the hecatombs of provender which which they had laid in for their journey West. “Guess we'll have to feed the crowd before we get far,” was a remark whicn tickled these jolly Junket- ers when the waiting process becamo ony way tedious. Time wore slowly ov, and no Jones was Visible, unt his existence became a mutier of douus. Ataquarter to nine o'clock a smart-lookiag young man made his appearance, and a thrill of joy slot through some seveaty five persons, who had assem. bied, as it became known that this waz THE VERITABLE JONES, and no myth. Sleeplig berths were now disposed ofatthe rate of five dollars for the night between In@anapolls and Omaha by the Pullman palace car people, which was considered toleraviy steep, but Which, under the circumstances, everybody Maa to pay. At last the bell commenced ringimyg, and with the cheery cry of “ail aboard * three of tho extor- tlonate palace cars moved out toward the setting sun, via the ludianapolls, Bloomington and Wesiern Rauroad, it may be well to explain that this was at one pordon of we “grand transconunental excursion,’ @ train from Chicago and one from Bt. Louis, leaving for Omaha at the same time, where ai) would unite, Through the rich coru and grazing lands of Indiana and Southern [imois the course of the Indianapolis party lay, and in the Bight Of the fertile country ali the first vexatious of the morning were forgotten. The raliroad, running Qs it does throug! A PRAIRIE COUNTRY, I level as a becalmed Jake, and, alded by the cheer- ‘ul odicials, Of the line all wore soon in the best of spirits. At various stations along the route parties of two and three camo on the train, the whole yil- lage turning out to seo tg great men off, At Uraw- lordaville, Ind., a hale, elderly yeutieman, in a bine dress coat, with gilt buttons of the pasieee 1845, ace companied by a lovely aanghter and @ prankish son, was partioul ory sent off, This was Colonel Wuson, Paweenng of thé Indiapapolis, Covington and West- ern road, wgplie a send-off, Colonel."” “Bless my soull’’ was the Colonel’s response, ‘If the train had been ou timo you'd have seen a sight. They had a brass band of threo pleces playing there for over an hour.” Beiter, pondered the reporter, tone FIRST IN A LOOSIER VILLAGE than ninety-nine thousand nine hunared and ninety- ninth in the Empire City. At Urvanna twenty miyates was giveu for dinuer, hut mine host's pro- visions were almost raw, the chickens having to all appearance been put to the fire only when the train came in gigbt, Severai ineffectual attempts were made by the hungry upon them, when THB STURDY GRUMBLER OF THE OROWD laid down his knife and interviewed the chicken scorcher as lollows:— “Pretty wild chickens in this country, [ reckon? Takes three men and a boy torun one critter down Gon’t it? e birds, 1 gucasi—die game, too? Clinch their feathers on the inside ufore they kick Out, 80 as you can’t half piuek’em, en? ‘hen won't cook under tnree bushels 0’ coal and a half a day Yes, thought so, dust the thing for a twenty minute dinner at seventy-five cents, The chicken heads are level. Give mé ao glass of iced tea and don’t stand looking at me witu your mouth open. I'm not gein’ to Hore ot feellugs by asking you to eat an of the bird; think I'll keep it as a souvenir; would If I were to cat tt, anvhow, &¢,"" The unfortunate host explained that he had on! an hour's notice and he had to go half a mile to picl up his chickens, which were O/ a self-supporting but vagabond race. “phen it’s Jones’ fault,’? sald the grumbler; “£ knew It.” The company were in such good humor that neither the chickens nor the chastener could mar it, and the train bowled along amid the thousands and thousauds of acres of corn, over the Wabash River and over the illinois, until Peorta was reached, at ® quarter past six o'clock P. M., with its DISTILLERIES AND PORK HOUSES looking very prominent indeed—a fountain verily of unclean spirits and a last home to that unclean but cherished anima), the pig. Here a long delay oo- curs, Which wears out Reeattoe sorely, No engine to take us on. Some say itis through the surliness of the Chicago, Buritugton and Quiucy Railroad, others that itis tué fault of Jones. Jones, being an entity and on hand, finally receives ail the blame, Tne more charitable confine themseives to the remark:— “4 SCREW LOOSE SOMEWHERE,” which, however, frightens an old maid who has taken a policy mn the Accidental Insurance Com- pany. A shorting monster is procured after much Veiegraphing, and over the rolling prairies of Illinois the train goes on, and another nigat darkens about the Westward-hoisis, The company seek their berths, whose high-priced softness a quarter past eleven supper at Galesburg cannot induce them to quit, At tiree A. M. THE MISSISSIPPI 18 CROSSKD at Burlington, lowa, the rumbling over the tron bridge being the principal evidence thereof to the sleepy tourists. ‘owards daybreak there was a copious fall of rain, which had the very pleasant effect of laying the dust and cooling the atmosphere through the greater partof the day’s ride. The couatry was already BEGINNING TO LOOK WILDER, but the !mmense spread of cullivated prairie, with mammoth telds of corm, wiieat and oats, which seem limitless in extent, Call forth hearty adiotra- tion. Few trees are seen, savo here and there patches of scrub oak and cottonwood, At Chariton @ spiendld breakrast is seryed in @ sort of shanty bostel, Which would have shamed many a pretentious city hotel tn quality and variety of food and cleanl- ness in serving. By and by Creston is reached, sald to be the highest polnt in Iowa, but which stauds with its score or two of houses in the centre of a plain level as a billiard tabie far as the eyo can reach On every side. Tis tg 1,300 miles west of New York, and here are boys playing base ball as if it was Central Park, On now through the same stretch of country sometimes breaking into long, blilowy rolis until at three in the afternoon the abrupt rise of Council Bluifs 1s seen in the dis- Jance, with the quiet town nestled on the plain at their base, and next the brave Missouri broad, with 1(s 2,000 miles of flow, meets the gaze, and in a few moments all are on tne depot platform gazlug across “old muddy” at ‘OMANA SITTING WIDE AWAKE on the rising ground upon the opposite bank. As the new briage ts at least twelve months from com- pletion the ferryvoat ts signalled, aud the ungainly creature paddies Setanta over to the lowa bank, and then back again tothe shore of hardy youn; Nebraska. That Omaha stands in the track of mani- fest destiny its Inhabitants continually aver, and with implicit faith jn {ts future they are Lae! aring to pullding @ hage city, and are eternally busying their brains and bothering their visitors about the high and Increasing galuc of building lots, Here will be found seve aces of the rie George Francls, who owns somo real estate which ono of these centuries will be worth millions, ts streets are upbiil and downhill and roundbill and very much like other stantyish cities of the far “West. ‘The principal objects of interest aro the public schoolhouse and a classic advertisement {tn letters fifteen feet high anent the qualities of BUNKUM'S BEDBUG BUSTER, Which encloses the site of the new courthouse, From the crest of the hili on which Omaha ts built a eater view of the Missouri Ktyer ts obtainable. t what of the excursion? The Onicago and 8t, Lous ere jes to the number of some one hondred and thirty bad arrived at ten A. M., and had occu. ee their time in gazing across the river like Sister nné, the female Micawber of the Arabian Nights, tosee it anybody was coming. They wero in & painful state of heat and excitement when the In- dianapolls party arrived. Either through want of foresight on the part of the excursion manager or ungraciousness On the part of the Union Pacific Ratl- road—most probably tue latter—tho last arfiving party had to scrambio for TWO HOURS AND A HALF UNDER A BROILING SUN to get theiy excursion tickets changed tor Union Pacific paper—t Nad which, tf absolutely neces+ sary, could have been dove without any didiculty on the dare before they arrived st Council Blut, Yt 18 but just to Mr. Jones to say that he telegraphed ahead to have this done, but met with no response. Fresh sleeping berths had to be boughs and baggage to be recnecked, @ series Of vexations which spoued everybody’s humor and kept most of the excarsion- ists without their dinner or a chance to see the town, as the etupid authorities announced that the train would start momentarily. The reporter, taking in the situation at a pane drove with some of the arty to Cozzens' Hotei and dined, and afterwards rove over the city, putting THE ASTONI®HRD HACKMAN inside and taking the reins themaeives. This in- enious contrivauce caused intense amusement to he unsophisticated popularion. At hall-past eight P. M,, Just as an indignation meeting was about to beheld, the train, now numberi: oignt sleeping coaches, @ baggage Wagon and a smoking car—of which more anon—started for the setting sun, wich, however, ot ahead of them and leit them in the darkness on the unenclosed prairio still on 118 trail. Now as to the smoking car. Some of the passen- gers believed that under the contract they were en- Titled to a first clas§ passage over the line, and that taking @ sleeping car was eutirely optional. ‘They wore told, a8 & compromise, to take up their quarters IN THE SMOKING CAR. Among the protesters was @ stout-hearted, foot Jooking Indiana schoolmarm of interesting years, who declared that she had paid for a first class seat, and that one in a smoking car 4id not come up to tnat description, Through the means of a pusy- body train detective, Who by dint of excessive talking worked up matters to fevor heat, matters became very unpleasant (or the lady, since he sup- ed some high-toned gentlemen (’) of the party heir smoking While loudly proteating his dese to serve Miss Indiana, The news spread over the tram, and many Jadies and gentiemen offered to secure hera berin; but Indlana’s blood was up, and she would make 10 compromise; the result be upon the company’s head, she said, At length, alter assing ou: nigut’s martyrdom, the manager eu- Rorsed her ticket for @ sieeping berth both ways; ao, with her bright, browa eyes Nashing, INDIANA DECLARED HERSELF SATISP' and “autet rojened in Warsaw.’’ The yar’ num- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 187L bering 217 ffi ft including professional men ana thelr families, froni twenty-two States in the Union and from the Canadas, With one from France, it may be sald was of a gonerdily good average of respecta- bility, all, except a few who purposed selling their return tickets at San Francisco, being beat solely upon @ Dieasure trip. The morning of July 14 disclosed a view of tho Platte River to the south of the line, and at nine o'clock the bridge over tho wile but shattow North | Platte was crossed and the train halted for break. | fast atthe siation of that name, For tue greater part of tne da the train was ruaning throagh the uncultivated but beautifully verdant prairie which forms the RICH RIVER NOTSOM OF THE PLATTE, with its biufs bounding the horizou to the sonth and loug ranges of low sandniils on the north, Now along the route were met further instences of unsettled and unsafe couctry in the shape of cay- alry camps, with their wh and Uncle Sam’s boys themselves lounging around in every varicty of prairte undress, which means anything, and recoguizavie a8 soldiers only by their regulation pants. The prairies open gradu- ally, and towards evening Pine Bluifs iited them. selves into view, and soon afterwards @ halt was Made at the squatterish looking town of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The sturdy mongrel mining population were out to see the train arrive, and an Indiana Quaker took advantage of that fact to distribute THREE HUNDKED TRMPFRANCE TRACTS, being the time table of the Black Valley Ratlroad, 6larting from Drunkard’s Carve and going heil wards, ‘They were soon all tuken up, but whether they wrought any imiraciles among tho hard mining crowd they reached is probiematical. The honest Quaker was delighted nevertheless, “he train haa now gradually reacheit an alcitude of 6,000 feet above the sea level, and there were yet 2,200 feet to be sur- mounted in the next thirty-three miles, when the summit of the Rocky Mountains would be reached, at Sherman, although even on arriving there nouung mountainous {sto be seen. But tne aris dry, pure gnd rarefied and INFLATES THR LUNGS to the full extent in a novel way, which, with the skeleton snow sheds, Is tie only sign of one’s betng on the backbone of the Continent, After leaving Sherman the descent on the western slope ts more vadual, and @ cool night’s rest is the best luxury to pe enjoyed. Butin the morning bow the scene 1s changed! The excursion is IN THE ALKALI DESERT, that blisters and sweliers in the sun, gitatenstny ainfully on the retina, with the scattered tufts o} he silver sage brush and the prickly cactus the only vegetation visiole. The sullen sandy mountains on either side, desolate and bare in their total sleril- ity, stretching in endless width, grow Into the soul with the sense of their mighty desolation, while the alkall dust on the furnace alr makes one almost choke with unsiakable thrst. It recalls the graphic description of Bret Harte involuntarily:— ‘oetrr! Jest lonk around you, alkall, rock and sage, brush, rock and alkiall, al pretty pago jun ip the east at morning, sun in the weat aPotnt, And the shadow of this yer station th’ on’y thing moves fn aight. It is along, long day for the excursionists, who Mil it up as best they can, The Chinese railroad la- borers are the Only new features, at work or tn their huts, At Buter Ureek tne cagine stops for water nd the weary passeugers dismount for an instant, As you look into the room where the telegraph opérator works @ leaded navy revolver and a sheath knue are seen lying by his instrament, while a loaded rife stands ip the corner, all strongly suggestive of hostile Indians round about, although none bad yet been seen by the party, At Bryan, where dinner is served with antelope steaks for a garnish, . A BAND OF MEXICAN HUNTERS fre seen lounging aronnd the door of the Itquor saloon of the piace, Their sinall, tough Texan horses stand tied up toa post, A regular filibuster- ing bana they look, with their wide sombreros, moc- casons and Indian. shoes, aud with hage revolvers and sheath knives hanging from their broad belts. A tall Frenchman of tne party, with long, lat feet, whom every one believes to be an Englishman, be- cause he wears a blue rowing cap aud an eyeglass, comes out to look at them. Aiter. he is satisfied With lis scrutiny he departs for the train, As soon as he taurus Als back, they begin to chavter in Spanish and point to nls lootprints 1b the sand, One of them, showing the white teeth through his dusky skin, measures the footmark and cries out in ugh ay e don’t Want no snow shoes the hardest winter ever come.” On again through the terribie desert, with the old emigrant road close to ibe track, and ever and anon beside the fasi-elfaclng waces of tus path of the ploueers, ‘A GRAVE WITH A RUDE CROSS ABOVE IT tells what a via dolorosa those plains smitten with the alkali curse were in days happily gone by. Sup- per 1s reached at Wansatcn and the reporter obtains leave to ride on the engine through the canyons of the Wahsatcl range. It was deep night (quarter-past ten P. M.) when the train started. There was uo moon, but the sturs filled the whole expanse of the sky, und the fireman said:— “You won't see much of the canyons to-night; its too dark.”” With ita deep throb the engine begins moving, and the course at first runs Over country much like that of the day. There are many sharp curves, round which she runs smoothly as on the prairie. Nine miles have perhaps been covered in this way ‘when the engiueer says, “Come titis side and {00k out.”” In ap instant alniost the distance between the hilis on either side narrows, and then from under the deep shadow of Castle Kock she plunges with a hoarse whistle INTO ECHO CANYON. Heavens! whatascene. At first all is vaguencsa, for the furnace giare, as the fireman heaps on coal to fee! the thunderer, blinds the eyes, Looking out then on the right tnto the darkuess, the eye runs up a dark, overhangiug mass and sees that it is the sheer rock wali Of the caayon that rises 60 teet above. Far upon its edge the sturs may be seen twinkling and disappearing as the engine throbs and pants and roars along. Out in front the glaring headlight shifts and dances on the siiver- Abining track alead and glimuers on the tumbled rocks at tue mountain's foot. AN UNCONQUERABLE AWE creeps over the soni as this goeson, By and by the rocks assume their jagged outlines, for the eye be- comes accustomed to the dark, and then tne rent and huried rocks that lic plied up to the stars stand out in all their horrid sublimity, Again the furnace door 18 opened and tue bright reflection leaps from crag to gulch on either side like ademon; the hoarse whistle sounds again, rousing a kindred shriek from every embattied stone as Ifthe deep, rock-hearted spirits of the hills were ultering, 1p discordant chorus, A QUAINT WaRwuoor, angry that man shoulu wake them trom their sleep of untold thousaud years. All separate features are lost in the awfulness of the entire scene, beggaring detail, but jeaving & profound impression that Nothing can remove. Out in the open space again and again into the rocky lastnesses of Weber canyon, with the same surroundings, but with the hills drawing 80 close tugeiher aud the path winding so that itseems as if it but wanted a touch to send some overhanging clit across the path oran extra oscillation of the engine to dash af and griud it to powder against THE EARTAQUAKE-SUNDERED HILLS. , thousand miles from Omava. Look at that ree, And a fir tree alone in that teriible valley tells a story of days gone by. The engine 1s now rushing through the night with the valves slut, for tho rade down ts 100 feet to the mile, aud tho driver as only to mind the brakes, “aint you scared t’” “what avr? “The tune we're makin’. Ta liked to run yon pve down i an hour aud @ half, but they wouldn't et me, A tow minutes afterwards the train stops at Og den for tho night, and the reporter finds that he has been on the engine for nearly three hours and a half, though it hardiy seemed a seventh of that tine, Next morning the baggage and passcugers were changed to the cars of the Central Pacific Railroad, and itis the merest jusuce to the gompany to say that under the wanagewent of Mr. J, W. Maitland, Assistant Passenger Agent, the rest of the trip was IN BVERY WAY MADB MORE ENJOYABLE than it nad hutherto been. After an early breakfast the cars tovuk the side track for Salt Lake City, thirty-six miles, where (ue party spent the entire day aod anti the following afternoon, examinin the wonders of that valley, Which from & steric wil- derness has been made to bud and bloom wrough the patient todustry of the Latter Day Saints. President Br pan Young was from bome, but the Mormon authorities pald every atiention to the gnests and answered ail qaéations asked with marked courtesy, nov evon excluding the DELICATE GROUND OF POLMOAKY, Mr. Jennings, Vice President of the Utan Central Raliroad, avd Mayor Weila, being particularly ex- Hot and painstaking. A sermon by Orson Pratt as latened (oat the great Tabernacie by ali, an much amused the ladies of the party, who seemed on the lookout for something terrible, They were destined not to be shocked. Un Monday the city was viewed from the roof of the Tavernacie, after the Rev, Mr. ovis, of Indiana, had BUNO “THR STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” in the butiding *teelf, At half-past four the whistle shrieked “to Ogden,’ and, onee away from there, the Journey was over the same alkali desert as be fore for over 600 folles, passing 10 the afternoon through the Palisades. e sight of some “noble red men” in raga, who begged for money at the cars, Was an amusement fo the children aud the ladies; one of the latter would let her daughter give but tree ce ‘he'd get drunk.’ On the morning of suesday, the 18th, the reporter rose at three A. M., for the desert was now behind, and A RIDE ON THR COWCATOEER through the Sierra Nevada had been promised him and a iew overs, Putting on a warm overcoat for the air was cbilly, though fresh and delicious, after tue hot aikeli-iaden atmosphere of the desert— he took the position unuer the headlight, and there enjoyed the biessed change which had come over the scone. It was Verdi Uaifornia now. Tall, stately Gr trees were visible on wll tne eminences, and although not yet In the sierra the heart rejoice when it was Known that henceforth the way would he glorious with verdure. An up grade now, wich two stout engines pulling up the heavy train 108 feet to the mie, through Jong tunnels and mies of snow sleds, untii Sumit is reached, and thencefor- Ward, where tie snow sheds aud the tunnels do not shut Out the View, It 1s one succession of magnificent VEU OF eoopED TAPERING cake Helin be ely valiey. of crag, precipice and boulder, that tive th the. mind jorever, From Summit for reventy miles the down grade is tn some piaces 120 feet to tho mile, aud the brakes are the only power used, At Bongrant Gap the oid Emigrant road again is passed. But the most beautifui sight on this run through the Golden State ts that at Cape Horn, a sharp curve Where the railway rounds the mountain on the sheer edge of & precipice 1,000 feet above tie verdant Valay Wilek Hes below. aud tents pickeled horses | throngh whiei tho widd America River rons’ looking LIKE A NARKOW BELT OP SILVER the moraing sun. On reachidy Collax breakfast partaken of with chéer, and tie Jnside of the cara satisfies the reporter for the resd of the journey, Aniucident of that ride is worth gelling. As the train was leaving Alta three innocent young pork- | ers were on the line in front of the engine. Two of them nad sense enough to, get oif te track, And 6o save their bacon; the third, hearlag the monster be- hind hu, rac ahead for at least twenty yards, wien the cowcatcher tossed him up and cangat bim, but Not solisied with this foothold he made & jump, aud one of the engine whees EVVROTUALLY GUILLOTINED TIM and left Nim 9 saunguinary warning to the piggies of | Aitator many a day to come, The road was now Sigh the gold region of former days, with lis Ge ; Serted Workings, and here and there the gold | Runters might still be seen washing the red soll for | ate glittering metal, At sacramento a meeting was eld aud speectos delivered, Which ended by pass- ing @ series of resolutions, with acclamation, to Messra, W. M. Jones, the excursion manager, and J. W. Maitland, of the Central Pacific Raflread; and six hours run, tho temperature cooled down until the cool breeze of the Pacitic came ilke @ welcome wind from heaven, telling the passengers that HEIR JOURNRY WAS AT AN END. At Oakland the ferryboat was entered, and’as she jane across the Bay of San Francisco the golden lights of the city of golden dreams rose up trom the sea, terraced above each ot.er until they were lost in the night, while through the Golden Gate the last | gilded glimmer of the departed day showed that the #un 1 ail his glory Was still beyond. THE WSSIFIELD DISASTER. Death of Another Victim—103 Now on the Roll. Mr. John D. Clark, one of the men who were acaided by the explosion on board the Staten Island ferryboat Westfleld, died yesterday morning at the German Hospital, Seventy-seventh strect and Fourth then fiom the heat of Sacramento, in the course of a | avenue, Coroner Young was nouded, Deceased lived at 161 West Twenty-sixtn street, to wich place the remains were removed for interment, Mr. E. W, Smith Before the Bonyd of Inapec- tomn—A Correction as to the Thickness of the Boiler. New Yore, August 12, 1871, To THE Epitor oy Toe HERaLp:— In your report of my evidence for the United States, on Friday last, in the investigation of the cause of the Wesifleld boiler explosion, your type Makes me say, “1 am satisfied that if the shell had been the eighth of an inon thick and of a higher worked and finer quality of iron, such as is used in various parts of the interior fire surface, the accl- dent would not have taken place,” I said, “I am satisfied that if the shell had been one-eighth of an inch thicker and.of a higher worked and finer qual- ity of 1ron, such as 1s used in various parts of the interior fire surface, the accident would not have taken place,” This Would make the tron plates in the Shell three-eighths instead of two-eighths or an ineh, or one-half thicker—a matter of vital impo tance in the shell of @ steamboat boiler, Yeurs of commercial custom has allowed the employment of what is known In the iron market as “U No. 1” tron in the construction of the shelis-oi steamboat and steamship boilers, which tron 1s of a third quality when compared with “C H No. 1 fange tron,” and cb Sietaatae quality when compared with “O H 10. le Please to make the necessary correction and place me right, not only vefore the engineering profession, but the public, in a matter of 80 much importance, Respectlully, ERASTUS W. SMITIL THE WEEHAWKEN FERRY. To THE EpITOR.oF THE HERALDS. Your article on the Weehawken Ferry Company ‘Was read with great interest by.the few passengers who were on tiie Lydia on her nine o'clock trip this morning, and they offer you their heartieit thanks for exposing this most abominable of all ferry com: Panies. TEN PASSENGERS. AvGusT 11, 1871, A CHANCE FOR BASE BALLERS. An Appeal to the Levers of the National Game. New York, August 12, 1871, To THE EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— Your columns being always open for the advocacy of any case of real distress, I take the liberty of submitting the following to the favorable considera- tion of your host of readers generally and the lovers of our nattonal game in particular:— A few. weeks ago Mr. John Goldie died, leaving a wife and a young family almost totally unprovided for. There are few persons who take an interest in athietie sports of all kinds who were not acquainted with Mr. Goidie as ono of the cleverest athletes in the United States, but he was best known to the base ball fraternity as first baseman for the Mutuals, and the Unions, of Morrisanta. He had been at different times a member of various other clubs and lus record in them all ts a clean one. There are few persons, if any, who had a more thorough Knowledge of the game than he possessed, and there ts no player in this country upon whose good faith, strict integrity and attention to his work, greater reliance could be placed. For the Jast few years his nealth was falling rapidly, which com- peiléd him to give up his regular bustness—a stereu- typliee—and take to something else in which tue strain upon his physical strength would be less severo, it is in the interest, therefore, of those who were so dear to htm who for s0 muny years con- tributed to our amusement, that I would appeal to the sympathy of your numerous readers, What I would stggest {3 that A BASH BALL MATCH SHOULD BB PLAYED for the benetlt of the wilow and children, From what I have seen ol the men who play base vail 1 have no doubt they will come forward instantly, ready and willing to do all in their power to assist in making ito grand success. A most attracuve Tiatch might be arranged between the old Mutual and Atlantic nines, at least ag they existed in 1870, Such a coniest tuvartably drew a good crowd to the ground on which if was to be played, and I feel assured there are thousands who would again flock to see these old competitors once more ranged Against each other, irrespective of the laudable ob- ject in view at present, The Mutual men would, 1 Ice! satistied, be glad to have an opportunity of as sisting the widow and Children of an “vld time’? ‘triend and companion, and I am equally satisfied the old Atlantic boys would be glad to take a hand in to assist in such a scheme. Should they have an improvement upon the avove idea to suggest, shall bo glad to hear from them. een Apologizing for trespassing 60 largely npon your Valuable space. duHN W. BRODIE, SUNDAY STABBING SCRAPE. A Rum Shop Rew in the Sixth Ward—Esrape of the Criminal. Coroner Young was yesterday morning called to the Centre Street Hospital to take the ante-mortem statement of Dennis O'Connor, who had been stabbed by one John Collum during a drunken brawl near a corner groggery in the Sixth ward. O'Connor did not know the name of his assaijant, but the police learned it soon afterward. Below are the principal facts embraced In the victim’s statement :— Dennis O'Connor, of No. 9 Mulberry street, ae- posed that at six o'clock yesterday morning he wag standing on the corner of Bayard and Baxter streets with two other men; they had been quarreiling in @ liquor store in which he (O'Connor) entered to get a drink, and they commenced a quarrel with him; one of the men called O'Connor a savage, to which the latter replied that his ailant was a liar; one of the men then went out, but soon returning, plunged some sharp instrument into his (O'Connor's) Tight breast, Without provocation other than stated above. O'Connor, alter being stabped, was taken to Centre Street Hospital, but could not tell the name of the man who stabbed him nor the name of ‘the other man; recognize the prisoner as brother to the man who stabved me and who was quarreding with the one who stabbed me, The Jury found a verdict against John Cojlam as the man who stabbed O'Vonnor, and Coroner Young issued a warrant for his arrest. Captain Kennedy, of the Sixtb preciuct, and bis oflcers are tn pursuit of Collum, ‘he biother of the fugitive is in custody, as he was present at the time of the stabbing. THE MIDNIGHT MURDOR. jon of the Body=No Explanation of the Mystery. Ata late hour on Satarday night the body of the unkuoWn mad who was so mysteriously and fatally injured, corner of Eighth avenue and Thirty-sixth street, a8 heretofore published in the HBRALD, was {dentified at the Morgue as that of Patrick Me- Namara, laborer, who lived at 245 West Thirty-fifth street, The person who identified the remains could offer nothing whatever towards soiving the pickle fnd no explanation of it has yet been reacned. Coroner Young was applied to for the body, which the friends propose bur, ing from the Morgue, after Tdentifc Dr. Marsh ave Made & post-mortem examine- tion and 8 jury empanelled. Captain Cafirey, of the Twentieth precinct, and his officers are in search of the man last seen stand- ing near deceased and other Information tending to explain the mystery; and from all that has yet been learned the police seem more tirmiy convinced that McNamara was FOULLY DEALT WITH. The wound on the nead was an incised cut, pos- sibly infiteted with some sharp instrum ~ or may huve been received by a fall, Nr. Marsh, however, {8 of the opinion that McNamara had fracture of the skull or compresston of the brain, bw Mortem examination will be necessary vo positively determine tho nature of tye luuries, OUR SUMMER RESORTS. The Sensation of the Seasou—Masculine Due plicity aod Feminine RevengemAlinost a Tragedy—A Pair of Fools~'The Devil's Licue tenant—Fancy Dress Bull. LONG Branon, August 10, 1871, Something Jess than a week ago « Philadelphia gentleman, with lis wife, son aud daughter, stood in the depot @yaiting the train to Long Branch, The gentleman, @-fne looking, black whiskered fel- low just i the forties, was called a prince of good fellows among his cronies, He smoked and drank, gave fine suppers and.spent moncy lavishly. Women likea him, too, for he was polite, Matvered them and abounded in small talk, Butto his wife he was a tyrant—just the sort of a man the women suifragists like to tear into pieces, and by this time he probably wishes they had, Anything was good enough for his wife; no amount of pinching or economizing was considered hurtful to her, and if she wanted a oar- riage or a hundred dollars he was always too poor to grant it. But now, all suddenly, ne scemed to repent himself of as PAST UNEINDNBESS, for he was about sending her, with the cnfidren, te Long Brauch fora fortnight, He, hiraself, regretted that he could not accompany them, as business called him to New York. But he would come for her, and she, meek, obedient and ac customed to all wifely and unwilely submission, Was silent; #0 the trio oame to Long Branch and stopped where good Philadelpnians go—at How- land's. They had been quietly domiciled for only & day, when the son, who with a party of Jads had been on an exploring expedition, rushea into his mother’s room with ‘Say, motier! father 1s over av the West End.” “But your father is In New York, Johnny. You must have been soistaken,'’ eald the meek, trusting wife, “But don’t you euppose { know my own father? I tell you, mother, father is at the West End. Ho was @ Sifting in one of them rooms off the hall valking qith a lady with a lot of hair on her bead, I tell you 1’m golng over there to seo him.’’ Tho wife’s suspicions were aroused, and going With her son, who acted as guide, the distance be- tween the two hotels was soon made, and with her own eyes she beheld what ner son had related and escaped unscen. Taking her son with her she ro- turned to her own apartinents to muse, to think, If I were as astute as some people I might relato just what she thought about. But E think most Women can comectnre. She undoubtedly cried first and “took on”’—felt crushed, dls graced and dishonored, ‘hen reaction took place and the tinder in ber soul took fire. It Jacked half an hour to dinner. Dressing herself in her best gown and removing the traces of her suffering as much as she could, she betook herself alone to the West End—to dine. She sent for one of the walters, described her husoand, and if he was in the dining room she desired to be seated in front of him. She waited until such a gentleman was given a seat, when the waiter came for her, andin @ mo- ment the husband, who was gayly chatting over a bill of fare to the Fair one witb golden hair, saw something in the shape of another woman sitting vised-vig that made bin feel queer. The wile looked at him butsaid not a word, He looked at the end of his nose and into vacancy, which latter place was the face of his falr-yaired partner, Ste said he looked pale. He said he was not feeling well. The dinner dragged through, silence being preserved by the wife, while coiversalion between the “twain” opposite her Was not 60 brililant as it might have been under other circumstances, as the man seemed to grow sick and “sicker.’’ At length the wile arose, and, stepplug between the chairs of the sitters, said in a low tone to the blonde, “Hx. cuse me, madam, but I observe that my husband looks 1], and you will please excuse him,’? » torning to ner husband, she whispered, “If yon hope for mercy come at once.’ The bionde snickered a forced giggle as the busband, excusing himself, ac- compamed lis wile to ner hotel, What happened after | cannot say, only that there was a ‘new de- parture” that evening for anotuer watering piace. “Man, thy name is Villany,” but brazen, open- faced villany is not a match for a “meek”? woman’s ludignation whev it rises to the height of cool stray legy. Of course prudent sinners will wouder that this fellow did not chouse some other resort tor his fleld of action, notwithstanding the fact of his hav- ing a timid wife, wno would never think of trespass. ing beyond the limits of het own hotel, TAR BROTITERLY ADVICE given a young woman here a few mornings ago caused Considerable merriment among thoso who heard. ‘ihe two were standing tn a conspicuous place on the piazza, when the brother says, 11 a loud twone, “see here, you better not flirt with that fellow any more, “Oh! she replies, with a simpering toss of ber head, ‘Jack introduced iim, aud there’s nothing serious in tit.)? “veut tell you you'd better cut him, Io hasn't an income of over a hundred thousand 9 year, and What is that to you?” “Tuat’s no opject, of course, in comparison to ours, aod I tell you the flirtation don’t mean any- Untng;” and after advertising themseives as a palr uf fools they waiked off. Visitors at CHAMBERLAIN’S OLUB TOUSE cannot fail to notice the numbers of young men from seventeen to twenty years of age Wii get ‘a big push on the way to perdition in the splendid saloons of that gilded trap. They are handsome, well dressed lads, the hope and pride of many a home, who, after losing all they have to lose, sit down to wines and delicacies to patch up their feelings, The devil has numerous agents at work at Long Branch, but tho Mephistopheles of tue clan abides in Chamberlain's club house, THE CHILDREN'S FANCY BALL at the West End Hotel last night was largely at- tended, nearly a hundred children being iu costume, ‘The little one’ had been in a fever of anticipation for days over the event, wile mothers had been eagerly discussing the costuine questions. It was 4 gay sight as the miniature lords, ladies, princes, duc! esses And other antiquities marched in the lor . lor in their fitting costumes. A bright litde Spantsh boy in crimson velvet, with gold lace, a white wig tiea back ina cue and a fancy whip in lis hand, personated & Spanish postition. A little curly fellow was dressed as Cupid, with wings, bow and arrow. Mrs. Shook displayed her litue daughter as @ young lady of tho period, tu a court train, with crimmlogs of rich lace aad a blond wig. ‘The little creatures Who wore trains managed them wel! in dancing, and seemed quite at home io their odd “fixings.” ‘The only biemtsh upon the por- formance was the appearance of a pair of fully de- veloped giris, who had been gent into the room by their mothers only baif dressed. People ac- customed to the loudest and nakedest of ballet dancers were shocked at the indecent display. When children in refined and cultivated (’) society are brought into such associations, what can one expect of tné vulgar? Hardly anything worse than What people saw at the West End fanog bali. No- boay is 80 verdant as to suppose that newspaper criticism has any eilect upou the BOUNDING BRASS and tinkling cymbal of this watering piace. A large majority of the fathers and mothers, and especially the latter, are too far gone in fashionable demoralization to be reached by any human in- feenery, whim, 1 bellove, no calls “'Pleasang Homes."’ That represents very well on a lumited scale the scenery round and about Lake Mahopag, ough the artist iad not, probably, Lake Mahopaq i 13 mind, and though ho chose one of the mang charmng landscape Views of the Hudson River as the ground work of his picture. It would be diitlealr to find a more beautiful combtuation ot varied natural scenery than that of Lake Mahopac and the surrounding country—of lake, island, bays, jutting capes and headlands, geutle slopes and bold shore, towering rounded hills, with extensive views over highly cultivated valieya and patehes of nobie forest trees, al! harmonizing and indicating plenty, peaca end bappluess, Ad@ to this what art has done, the numerous elegant villas, with ther gardeus and shrubbeties, the fine hotels, the excellent road | With aunrvers of carriages rolling along them, and the surlace ‘of the lake dotted everywhere with sall and row boats,ana the whole seene 1s picturesque and animated inthe highest degree. But Lake Mahopac has another eharm and an ad- Vantage which those who seek health and pleasure in summer should know. While people are sweltere tering In the heat of cities, or even on the seaboard, the tomperature ts pleasangly cool there, The lake, Which isin Putnain couuty)ia 800 fect above the level of the sea, 1d The chain of the Mighionds pasa ing from: New England to aud through a part of New York, and through which the Mudson breaks at West Potnt. It ls & well known pecuitarity of this mountain chafa that there are a number of lakes on the summit. Luke Matopae 1s tho largest. There ts abont a mile square of water, though on account of the irregulae form of the lake its pert meter is about nine miles. Tho pasin formed by the lake and surrounding hills 14 & vast ampni- theatre. The rock formation ts of granite and gneiss, with a good dewlot quartz, The water of the lake, cousequently, 18 pure and soft, There 1% no limestone or impurity in tt The Croton dam, from which the city of New York has been suppHed with water for years, fs elght miles below Lake Mahopac. But the increasing demand of the city made it evident that there must be additional storage of water, and, therefore, & basin on the Crotom River six mules above Lake Mahopac was selected for this purpose. ‘This will furnish a supply for the largest population. Lake Mahopac 1s, then, &® part of that beantiful water system which supplies our city so bountaully, and of which the Croton River 13 the condutt. While the great work for furnishing this ad‘ittonal supply of water was in progress tho severe dronght of 1870 came, and n Lake Mahopac, Lake Gleuide and Lake Gilead were turned into Wie Croton Liver and relieved the city, ‘The islands in the lake, a# well ag the surrounding country, where not clearea and cultivated, are covered with hickory, chestuat, eim, hewlock, a variety of oaks ana other beautifut fores. trees. The region of Lake Manopvac ased to be a spot where the Indians delightea to dwell, and eveu Low some are seen there In tents, making fancy basket work for sale, The lake nas pee for yeurs tin favorite suminer resort for the old subscants families of New York and Hoston, Svme have wee own residences, while a great many go to the hotels. Among the handsome reaiiences (here may be mene tioned the tine stone chateau of Mrs. Tiiden, the residence of Anthony Hogout, those of Mr. Kauf. the bi of the Peruvian Minister, of G, W. Lane, of Mr, Bergh, the friend of the animal creauon, and ota The two Jurge notels, we Gregory House and,'nompson House, accommodate about fliteen hundred peoplo, the former the most. They are full, and chiefly with good and refiued families. there are no gambicrs, Jockeys oF Tidicu.ous shoidy pevple, There ts, consequently, & great deat of soctability among the guests. im the day the ladies go rowng and suing on the lake, with or without gentlemen, ond sometimes they have rowing matcnes among themselves. At othor times tney play cro- quet Or take @ carriage ride, Its charming to we Bumbers of weil dressed and handsome ye and ladies playing at croquet on the beau lawns in (ront of the hotels, by the side of the jake gud under the shade of forest trees. Among he uests at the hotels are Mrs. Gross and daugiite! r. Jeremiah Devlin and family, Mr. Thomas a: and family, Mr. J. H, Howes aud family, Mr, J. He Morrow and family, Mr. Dennisun aud famuy, Mr. J. Ferro, of Spain; Mr. C, Moller, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mourath, Ar. Charles Lord, Mr. A. A. Marsh and family, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Gilman, messrs. W. H. Earle, E. M. Karle and W, P. Earle and toele families, and @ numoer of overs, McKinney and lis charming family occupy & cottage. Geueral Egbert L. Viele has @ cosy rural villa Ou the border of the lake, which he intend@ to make @ home for his family, aud tu which he nas removed his fine aud choive library, This residence his accomplisned daughter, whu has just arrived from Lurope, presides over. Aithough Lake Mahopac has so Many attractions, and has been the resort of & naniber of faimilles iot years, few improvements had bBeen made til the Present year. Tie old hotei keepers made money Without any effort, and were satisiled. The lines of communication were not the best, Now, huw- ever, all is belug changed. Anew line of railroad between Bostou and New York, passing rigut by the lake and immediately in rear of the hotes, brougit this locality prominently to the notice of the capital- Mr. Anirew fluence. Nurses take care of the children, and the mothers flirt with any or everybouy—yesterday strangers, to-night promenading on the beach or Diagzas, confidential “friends.” And tho GossiP, oh! the gossip! that borders this length of the sea. Women pick each other into pieces, not even sparing their back hair; that never faiis to furnish atopic when everything elso languishes; religion 1s discussed, social position 18 weighed, Jewels are catalogued, dresses are numbered, while jealousy and envy ride rampant over all. THE “REVOLUTION,” ‘With Sasan-like ardor, thinks ‘‘a little common sense Would be a novelty’ here. True, and 31 1s; but the demana for itis base limited that tt 1s not at all in the marker. But the action of one good:faced German Woman heré should be clironicied. sue tops at one of the best hotels, with her family of children, and when seated in room forms @ picture of domestic coim- fort that is good to see Ste does not change her dress three tines a day, and tt 1s doubtful if she has had on more than three dresses since being here. She wears neither over- skirt, ‘*stice out’? nor store hatr. She leans her el- bows on the table when she cats, and seems per. fectly at home. Her chitidren Well mannered and are aressed like children instead of puppets. There ts one thing usually reputed to women at watering places that 1 don’t belleve. I allude to HUSBAND CATCHING, The women here are braini soulless and sense- less euough, Heaven knows; but it seems to me they must be lower down in the Darwinian scale than they now are to be induced to put forth any effort to “catch” any of the Lovg Branch ‘‘catcl- able.’ Conceilt, impudence, tovacco, drink, cox- mbry, with mind and heart turbid as a politician's onesty, Catalogues the principal points of the typi. cai Long Branch beau. Beautiful Scenery=T Hotels, Villas and Coming Improvements at the Lake—The Guests Their Amuscmonts—The Water Supply of New York. Lakk Maworac, August 10, 1871, One of the Harts has a large oil painting on vwhich he has worked for years and regards as his smasver- piece, & compogition of natural and dopiestic ista engaged Iu that enterprise. The work was commenced three years ago, and will be completed, itis said, In November. ‘The principal man in this undertaking 1s Mr. Andrew McKinney, a venee Boston buoker aua a geatieman of tasie, liber: Views and evergy, Seemg the advantages oi Lake Mauopac, Mr. McKinney resulved to form an assu. ¢lation for the purpose of purchasing property and making improvements there, In tiis he se- cured the Co-operation of the famous banking house of Seligmaus, Demas Barnes, M. C., of Brooke lyn; Henry Knickerbocker, Joho ‘urd, Abel Denalson, and other prominent capitalists They obtained a charter and organized under the name o¢ the Lake Mehopac Improvement Company. This Association Owns about a thousand acres of land, the hoteis, and a pumber of villages and cottages. in fact it owns all the avatlavie property round the lake not previously occupied by country seats, It owns besides the smail lakes, Wixom, Kirke and Oranberry, near Lake Mahop: ‘Tia 1s not a stock Jobbing enterprise, like so 1aany tn our country. Of Course those composing the company expect ta make money by tnetr investinents, but that ls to be done by making Lake Mahopao more attractive for families of New York, Boston and other cities, by disposing of building sites, erecting handsome cot- tages, enlarging and inoreasing the hotels so as to accommodate 6,000 persons, by ornamenting tue grounds aud by surrounding thé piace with uil those @sthetic influences wilcn can gratily refined people, General Egbert L, Viele, who, us is known, ue igned the plan for our magniticent Central Park, as charge of all the improvements. Besides those to which | have advected there is another great im- rovement under way, Tula 18 a boulevard sixty fleet Wide entirely round the border of the lake, which already in good condition for driving part of the ‘ay, and is graded all round. I droye over the whole of It, No description could do justice to the varied and boautiful scenery that opens to tho view atevery point, There are wo be sidewalks as Ww. he flne, solid carriage road, and the road Is to iered with double rows of cima. The nine mies of boulevard will be lighted also by gas, and wili be sprinkled with water during summer. Imagine this boulevard thronged by elegant equipages und promenaders, under tie shade of elme in the day an by gasiight in the evening. The tormal opening this work is announced for August 224, when it ts ex- pected one military organizauion of New York, be-~ aides the engineer corps of the Seventh regimen’ Will be present, There will be quite a séie on tl occasion, @ dinner at the wrincipal hotel, a Motil display on une lake and @ bali in the evening. Al thoge owning property Independent of the company in the vicinity of tne lake fave expressed thelr im- tention to conform to General Viele’s pian. In the end, therefore, there will be a great rural park of @bout three thousand acres. Hitherto it has taken three hours to reach Lake Mahopac from New York, by the Harlem Railroad to Croton Falls, and them five miles by carriage over the common ruad, A branch road hag been made from the Harlem as Golden's bridge, which will make thé time abous two hours. Bat as soon as the New York and Bostos Railroad shall be finished the time from. New York will not exceed one hour and a half, Looking at what haa been dope and the plans for improve- ments now being carried out, this favorite resort of the old Knickerbocker families {$ likely to become Soon one of the most fashionable a8 Well as mows delightful places in the country. DOUGHERTY'S DISCOVERY, Dead Drunk Beside a Dead Body. Yesterday morning about five o'clock the body of an unknown man, fifty years of age, was found im the diting | an excavation dug ont fora ceilar corner of First avenue and 109th Bireet, by Andrew Smith, and be- side deceased lay one John Dougherty, who was sound asleep. Dougherty 1s ignorant as to how he reached the excavation, as ne was very drunk the night previous, neither has he any knowledge what ae of deceased, Dougherty was detained as @ ness. Deceased was slightly bald, had thin, light brown hair, long gray beard, light complexion, was about five fect eight inches im height and evulently a laboring man, He was assed in black cloth coat and ves! black cassumere pan white Muslin shirt, flannei tees heavy cow- hide boots and white felt hat. e body was re- moved to the Morgue. Coroner Young will holt as Inquest. THE DEATH OF HENRY DOBSON. Christian Riedel was arrested on Saturday nighd by Coroner Whitehill to answer for the death of Mr. Henry Dobson, who died on Friday last from the effects of injarits sustained the samo day by the falling of a plece of timber from tue roof of 4 sued ’g alleged carelessness, a3 reviously puoiisiea in ihe Ben car iodol was admitted ta ail yesterday. Mr. Dobson was 5 oF forty-five years of age, and pes oD ee ea at 327 Soutn Tuird street, Hts faneral t ee esterday afternoon and was attended by the at Varpenters and a large number of the fitends of the faually,