The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1873, Page 3

“. Vashtonables Flitting to Fertile Fields—Town Houses Closed for the Season, —_— Off to Europe—Watering Places and Summer Re- sorts Most Patronized—The Catskills, White Mountains and Mineral Springs—Why 80 Many Visit the Old World— Economy and Comfort—Exter- tion and Dissatisfaction. ‘The hegira of pleasure-seekers to every COO] re treat within the boundaries of steam and tele- graphy is just now atits height. A person needs but to look through the columns of the HERALD to discover the inducements offered by the proprie- tors of country hotels and boarding houses to all the weary and exhausted denizens of the Metropo- lis in search of rest, shade, Iresh butter, milk and eggs. The streets up town in which our finest private residences are located look lonely and deserted, the blinds being closed, the brown stone stoops dusty and unwashed and the area ways unten- anted, except where the amorous policeman dis- plays his club and brass buttons to the fond glances of Bridget or Mary. Day after day ocean steamers leave this port Joaded down with passengers who go to Europe to Ning away the wealth that they have amassed or inherited in this free Republic. The rage for travel to Europe increases with the fire on which it is fed; and it 1s wonderful how cheaply people can travel abroad if they have any experience in the matter. A reporter of the HERALD was talking to the agents of several of the numerous steamship lines whose vessels ply between New York and the transatlantic cities in regard to the passenger traffic and travel, and the general answer which he received was to tle effect that the exodus of pleasure seekers to Europe during the present sea- #00 will be about ten thousand in excess of that of last year. The Inman line have all the first class cabin berths engaged until the miadle of July on ‘board their steamers, and, indeea, the APPLICANTS FOR PASSAGE are so numerous that many will have tobe dis- appointed. Since the 1st of May about one thou- gand two hundred tourists have proceeded to Europe by this line. The Cunard line represent that they have been patronized by the wealthy class of travellers, which is probably owing to the bigh prices which some members of the upper ten choose to pay in order to gain beau-monde seclu- sion. In the Anchor line first class cabins are almost all engaged for the next two months, and they have already transmitted a wonderful number of toufists to the Old Country this season. ‘the White Star line carried 480 cabin passengers in May, though it only Yan three steamers. Three hundred and filty are booked for the present month and. 250 for the early part of July. The National line is domg extremely well this season, The complement of passengers by this line has already been very large, and great’ numbersare booked for the twonext months. The French and German steamship lines are doing a od business; the Williams & Guion line obtains a fair quota of voyageur's, and the new State line is doing a much larger business than might be ex- pected of so juvenile a company. These statistics show the éhormous amount of money which is taken out of the country and spent in foreign lands during the Summer season by those wealthy enough to seck pleasant relaxation from business out of the heated, dusty and tumul- tuous cities of the States. Ought not the hotel Proprietors in the most beautiful parts of America to learn a lesson? which is briefly this:—The tour through the Continent of Emtope can be accom- plished at reasonable rates. Lavishness and ostenta- tion are by no means a criterion Of respectability, and courteousness, civility and attention engender more sympathy and patronage than all the tawdry embellishments and semi-autocratic pomp which are made a feature in the major part of our aristo- cratic hotels, Of course the juvenile members of all families which have money to spend jor a trip out of town wisn to go to Europe. It is something for ever young person to boast of—a visit to the Old World. A trip ucross the stormy Atlantic lends an air of aristocracy to the scions of plutocracy which it is * held utterly impossible to acquire in this fair land of the free. Yet America has its beauties, lovelt- ness Of scenery—in grandeur, in primeval vigor and force—which ugoPe, With all the perfectness of its miniature landscape, all the glory of historical record cannot equal. This fact will be fully appre- ciated by the next generation. The medieval In architecture, the ruins old in history, the hallowed Places, sanctifiea by the records of centuries, will Bot hold half so high a place in man’s estimation as the gorgeous beauties of this West- ern World, which the last finisning touches of Dame Nature’s brush has perfected. Every one who is blest with a wife and family, and whose pocketbook is sufilciently plethoric to admit of him taking a vacation during the Summer months, yet who does not feel inclined to risk the cares and troubles of A SEA VOYAGE, ee into the country” as naturally as swallows meward fy when they’ve finished their little lark in coeler and more congenial climes. The ‘eat diMiculty which the American head of the ily has to contend against—unless he be the prorirncs, of a dozen stately country residences» “Where shall we go?” Saratoga finds favor with the pane Leslee because it is fashionable and abounds in balls. The ‘boys’ advocate Long Branch or Cape May, where there are boating, sea bathing, &c., and the children, if their vote was to be taken into consideration, would “plump” for some quiet rural farmhouse, where they could revel in buttermilk in the dairy and roll in daisies in the meadows. At last, in order to stav all dis- sension on the matter, paterfamilias lays his head alongside that of his gentle and perspicuous dame, and the two, eee, all the votes and wishes of the insubordinate crew, their olive biggie fay determine upon some fertile ry ri , OASIS IN THE DESERT, where they will pitch their domestic tent. Two one are made sine qua nons, however—the girls must have some “cligible’’ society (this advocated DY Mamma) ; the boys some boating, shooting or Sshing (this sustained by “the Governor’). Now to give the public a choice of piaccs to which it can tranguilly emigrate—with encumbrance or Minus this nuisance. Saratoga all know well; it ranks high as a Summer resort on account of the mineral springs in the vicinity, which are sup- posed to be conducive to the recuperation of in- Valids, Some of the finest hotels in America are there, at which board can be obtained from $3 50 te $5 per diem, or ut the smaller hotels and boarding houses from $8 to $20 per week. The fare from New York is, by raul, $4 60; by boat to Albany, to meet the train, $3 60, The pleasant places within easy visiting distance of Saratoga are many. There are the Geyser, Glacier, Excei- sior and White Sulphur Springs, Cedar Bluils, Glen Mitchell, Lake House, Lake George, Crown Point, Ticonderoga, Forts Ana, Miller and Edward, Luzerne and Round lakes, Many of these are places of historical interest, and, indeed, the su- preme BRAUTY OF THE SCENERY is almost matchless. The annual races at Saratoga are not the least part of the resort's attractions, Long Branch is too near New York and too much of ® semt-local institution to need voluminous de- scription. The President makes it his Summer uarters. There 1s a fine track at Monmouth Park, ¢ ea bathing in the surf of the broad Atlantic, which laves its beach, is excellent, and tuere is. ay of boating, flirting und dancing. Boats leave twice a day irom New York, and any one who wishes to see *‘the soldier of Appomattox” driving With military skilihis-bright bays along the beach Toad can ao 80 for the small consideration of $1 50, Board, even at the hoteis, is pretty reasonable, and ‘those who do not wish to travel far in search of en- .Joyment can find it cheaply at Loug Branch. Some of the prettiest, most “truly rural” and east expensive of the Summer resorts within easy distance of Gotham are to be found in Pike es Pennsylvania, At Miliord, which is reached via Port Jervis and ig near that place, is one of the PS aevd internal locations to be found in any of he grass counties, and it has lately sprung into ‘ favor to so great an extent that quite a number of Aine hotels have been erected in the immediate vi- cinity. Theré is a plethora of . NEAT FARM HOUSES, ‘prettily situated within their own orchards and in Sey eeraimity to the village; and the disciples of Walton can find fresh-running brooks and streams, in which trout and other mem- bers.of the finny tribe abound and afford ample sportsto lovers of the rod and fy. The fare by rail is only $3, and the places about tobe mentioned ttained, a @ Very cheap rate, by stage ere is Deis ‘e Water Gap, where fine is to be pate ; Stroudsburg, Dingsman'’s tushkill and Monticello, and” white Lake, 3 Within this district the scenery ig magnif- cent—sloping uplan: undulating plains, deep Ba ge a) green aren are varied in color by Selds of ripening maize and grain, antl Jofty hills, -covered and fecund, whose aerme whadows ease to the sunburnt Tend artistic beauty to the scene, eanily a ned by the Hud Ri Rail. prone U ludson River - road, {rom which boat can be taken from Fishkill and other ferzy stations, mainatic are feuing Ny’ traveller and ft tomas NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. is too well known famous Hartz, of Story: the Apsontees or the moun- ranges Wales could com- pete with these in splendor. There 1s a versatility, @ changefulness in the scenery that induces the person who has once visited them to return to the scenes of his former delight. Good hotels are scat- tered at intervals on nearly all the peaks of the Most prominent Ks and others are cosily situ- ated in the nooxs of their spurry ridges, THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, which can be reacyed in twelve hours by either the Connecticut River Valley or the Fall River lines, are also considered by tourists to be one of the districts hich leasantest wi eer can ravel. At Gorham, Carroll, ite Mountain Notch, Jaekson, Bethlehem, Northumberland and number- less other mountain "stations, fine hotels are located, and there are also four of these caravan- saries On the Lake Shore. Boardin these houses averages from $3 to $5 per diem. Cape Ann is the recipient of many ofthe Summer Petereseetere from Boston and Philadeiphia, jut only a few proceed there from New York. Florida, with its genial climate, its odorous orange groves and flowery pateros, lures many invalias to SALUTIFEROUS SOIL, . while the Western Plains entice our Nimrods and of the Rocky Mountains, with thei their green scener: Poets and Rainters ¢o roam 6 8. Canada, frigid, cold and uncharitable during one- third of the year, looms beautiful i Summer months. There ean be found the temperate climate of the Eastern world, while sports of many kinds abound and one can escape from the rapacity of Le United States hotel keeper. The general route CANADA is via Niagara; from thence the tourist can pro- ceed to Mentreal, Quebec and take a sail down the Lower St. Lawrence. There is good shooting to be obtained upon the Otta' August and Sep- tentver, while St. Catharine’s and London (Ontari are the resorts chosen on account of the miner eprings by invalids. The hotel rate throughout ja is from $3 to $4 per day, American cur- rency, and hacks are only allowed to charge @ very moderate tariff. ‘There can be no doubt existent in the mind of any sensible person that the scenery in America, in point of diversity, excela that in any part or rtion of Great Britain or the European Con- ‘finent. Our hills and lakes and vales, in size, et the, majority Of ‘people, whose country, and yet the majority o! ple, Business will permit of their so doing, spend their vacations on fore! soll, This can be easily ac- counted for, Americans hear the praises of THE OLD WORLD sung in rapturous strains; they read history and long to visit scenes amid which every crumbling ruin, evéfy moss-grown stone, every court and plaza abounds with time-honored recollec- tions. To tread softly over the hallowed tombs of great gene! artist authors, bards; to view dim cloisters, made Bacred by historical remembrance or romance; to look back into the dim vista of long lorgotten ages, and to conjure up to the mind’seye the scenes enactedin the days of chivalry, has jor the Ameri- can a potent charm; but there isa charm more owerful than all these connected with a visit to urope, a@ charm that strikes home to the honest son of Dame Columbia—he is not robbed. Of course couriers, waiters aod hotel keepers in the old country like to make “their little stakes” as well as other. members of society, but Europeans will not allow themselves to be SUBJECTED TO BXTORTION, and consequently charges have to be kept within bounds, is ig the. re reason why so many of our citizens and their families visit Europe annu- ally. Shoddy may go there, and with ostentatious liberality scatter its money broadcast, but our well- jo, not sumptuousiy rich, but sensibie heads of familles go there for the sake of com- bining comfort, picesure and economy, When the hotel keepers of the United States choose to re- member that Americans are not @ race of idiots, and that they like to obtain pleasure and satisfac- tion at arate that is not disgracefully extortion- ate, the vulture clement will die out of their na- ture and the Summer hegira to Fnxope will palpa- bly diminish in numbers, while the pleasant places of America will become the resorts not only of the aristocracy of this country, but also that of Europe, during “the heated’ term.” GM Sn emes Sonae eee WATERING PLACE NOTES. . —_+—— ‘The Marquis de Noailles, French Minister; Count Krentzi, Count Corti, Italian Minister; Mr. Stener- son, Swedish Minister; Count de Ganay, military attaché of the French Legation; Baron Brin and M. @’Ivoy, also of the French Legation, and Ad- miral Polo, Spanish Ambassador, will Summer at Newport, ‘The names and localities of the principal springs in California are the Harbin, the Seigler, the Adams and the Crowell, in Lake county; the White Sul- phur and the Calistega, & Napa; the Skaggs Springs and the Geysers, ‘in Sonoma; the Paso Robles, in San Luis Obispo; the Gilroy, in Senta Clara; the Warm Springs, in Alameda; the buit- lett; in Colusa, and the Chalybeate, in San Joaquin. The yachts of the New York Yacht Club will rendezvous at Newport in July, The hotels at Keyport, N. J., ana its vicinity are now open. Our Israciite citizens have a partiality for Keyport. The Seventh regiment New York National Guard will go into camp at Newport on the 1st of July. George W. Childs, of the Philadelpnia Ledger, will occupy his cottage at Long Branch. A chance for speculation presents itself in the offer to sell the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky for half a million dollars, If properly fitted up and attended to the location would make an attractive Summer resort. ® Five new cottages for Christian Summer sojoura- ers are nearly completed on the camp meeting grounds at Rouna Lake, Rensselaer county, N. Y. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the martyr President, is at St, Catharines, where she will spend the Sum- mer. St. Catharines is the fashionabie watering place of Canada, Chief Justice Sanford E. Church and daughter have taken rooms for the season at the Grand Ho- tel, Saratoga. The Benecia Boy, John C, Heenan, pugilist, from | Troy, N. Y., is Summering at Messina Springs, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Oscar Coles, Mayor of the city of Aiken, 8. C., is spending the Summer at Saratoga Springs for the fortieth time. % ‘The Delaware Water Gap, Pa., is an old and well known Summer resort. The mountain scenery is wild and magnificent, and for health and quiet the location 1s unsurpassed, Governor Hart, of Florida, is Summering at Mor- ristown, N. J. Portland, Me., has a sea beach in imitation of Long Branch. The authorities should endeavor this season to put a stop to three card monte, the little joker and chuck-a-luck tables at Coney Island. A great many Southern families will take quar- ters this season in the hotels at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, =, The Catskill Mountain House is 3,000 feet above the level of the Hudson River, and the view ex- tends over ten thousand square miles. This is its fiftieth season. In the height of the season, when rooms are in demand, some of the hotels at Newport charge $7 @ day. The arrivals at Saratoga Springs now average nearly two hundred a day, MUSIC AT PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN, ‘The fourth of the Summer series of open air con- certs at Prospect Park took place yesterday after- noon, in the woods near Nethermead UConcourse. The programme, which embraced several popular operatic airs, Ww: performed by Professor Conterno’s Twenty-third Regiment Band with admirable precision. Seats for the accommodation of about two thousand people were ranged in the shady grove about the music stand, and these were nearly all occupied, while hundreds wandered about within earshot of the sweet strains. On the lake the little fleet of rowboats were kept in con- stant motion, to the enjoyment of the patrons of the silvery water and the pecuniary emolument of the owner of the tiny crait. On the upper end of the lake the boats of the miniature yacht clubs were fitting to and tro, and envanced the attrac- tions of the scene. The lawn was patronized by cricket and croquet parties, and this being the comimencement of the holidays with thousands of scholars, the amusements were entered into with peculfar zest by the rising generation, who put in an appearance in goodly numbers. LAUNOH OF A STEAM YACHT, At noon yesterday the beautiful steam yacht Florence Witherbee was launched from the yard of her constructor, Mr. J. B. Van Deusen. The yacht was fally finished on the stocks before her launch, and was sent into the river with steam up, ready for an immediate trial trip. A large number of et witnessed the launch and cheered exult- ‘ly as the Se ealely’ of the ways. ne yacht was built ae a8 ohn G. Witherbee, of Port Henry, who piace her on Lake Champlain. Dimensions :—Length of keel 97 bs na pe a beam and Sfeet draught. She is furnish with two vertical engines, 14inch cylinder and 14 inch stroke. Propeller det diameter, with 10 feet r ‘Weighing elevep and a CAMP MEETINGS FOR 1873. What the Managers Have Done and Propose To Do—Costly Enterprises and Permanent Im- provements—Settled Christian Communi- ties of the Future—Summarised List of Twenty-five Camp Meetings To Be Held During July and August, With the advent of July comes also the advent of camp meeting season among the Methodists, Every year these meetings are growing more and more in favor with the multitudes, but they: have within a recent period undergone a wonderful change trom their original design. Originating in “bush meetings,’ for purely religious purposes, they have gone on until the religious feature nas become almost an accident of the gatherings, while the social element of moral and Christian communities has developed to such a degree as to supersede the spiritual, A camp meeting of ten ays no longer suffices, but there are regular vil- lages and permanent residences, with many of the appliances and facilities of modern society living connected with such residences, now to be found in all the camp grounds of the land, Even THE OLD CONSERVATIVE SING SING ASSOCIATION has been compelled to succumb to this spirit, ana has purchased an additional plot adjoining ite camp grove, upon which a hotel and several per- manent cottages have been erected or are in pro- cess oferection, And no longer can its admirers say that there is nothing whatever speculative in its character or its practices. It has been obliged, for self-defence, to do this and to fall into the pro- gressive spirit of the age if it would maintain its Place among the ancient landmarks of rustic Summer Methodism. A short time ago the friends of this pla camp ground took an excursion to the spot to examine the improvements and to purchase lots or hire cottages for occupancy during the camp meeting term, which begins August 5 and closes August 15, This is the principal Summer resort for Church people along the Hudson River, in West- chester, Rockland and Putnam counties and the adjoining portion of Connecticut and largely of this city. We need hardly tell city folk how to get there either by land or water. Sea Cli, or the METROPOLITAN CAMP MEETING ASSOCIATION, which has set all the other associations to work on the new principle of permanent Summer resi- dences connected with their grounds, will open its magnificent groves and grounds for camp meeting services on Saturday, July 5. But as its members and friends reside here and in Brooklyn, or within easy distances of the grounds from other direc- tions, and very many of whom will remain on the ground until September, a second meeting has been provided for to commence August 26 and con- tinue ten days. A meeting exclusively for the German churches will begin here August 5. Here very many permanent improvements have been made during the year. Several hundreds of fine shade trees have been planted out in the campus, lots have been fenced in, handsome cottages built and some of the walks widened and partly graded. The dock has also been improved, and religious services have been held in the mammoth taberna- cle during the present month—preaching by minis- ters of different denominutions in the village of Glen Cove, whence also the worshippers are drawn. A fine hotel, costing $40,000, is in process of erec- tion on the grounds, and but for the failure to have it ready for guests in time tne first camp meeting would have opened on June 24 (Tuesday) instead of July 5. CLIFF PARK, overlooking the beautiful bay of Hempstead, has been opened also for Sunday school picnics and excursions, and a few days agovohn street Meth- odist Episcopal church Sunday school went up there and spent a pleasant day in the grove and about the grounds, A correapondent who was on that excursion finds fault with the committee for failing to place sign-posts or providing some other means of directing visitors to the picutc grounds, This ‘certainly could be remedied at very little ex- pense, and should be attended to at once by the trustees. The steamer Arrowsmith, which last year made daily trips to Glen Cove and Sea Cliffin concert with the Seawanaka, has been purchaged by the Camp Meeting Association, and makes regular | trips, as usual, to the grounds at a quarter-past nine A. M. and three P. M., making the run direct in about an hour and a half, at the cost of thirty- five cents per trip. Rev. J. B. Merwin, presid- ing elder-of the New York District New ~ York East Conference, will have general supervision of the services during the meetings. He will be as- sisted by Dr. and Mrs. Palmer, the evangelists, ‘The trustees say they have made special arrange- ments for holding a series of business men’s meet- ings, children’s tneetings and mothers’ meetings, and they anticipate A SEASON OF GREAT RELIGIOUS INTEREST. They certainly need something of the kind to atone for the lack of religious interest manifested during their meetings last year, when some of their own number, a8 reported, were not restrained by the sacredness of the Sabbath from transacting | real estate and other secular business on that day. They have no excuse now, however, for such sacri- legious practices, and we may anticipate a better state of nate during the coming camp meetings. A new plot ol ground has been surveyed and offered for sale tn building lots, forty by sixty feet, at a minimum price, we believe, of $300 a lot—about coubie what they sold for last Summer. The grounds may be reached by boat from Peck slip or Kast Thirty-third street or by rail of the Long Island Railroad. OCEAN GROVE CAMP GROUND, a few miles below Long Branch, on the Atlantic beach of New Jersey, has ee up within a few years as if by magic, 80 that a respectable little Village has grown out of it a few miles distant, where recently a neat little Methodist chapel was | dedicated, Ocean Grove originated with and is mainly the abode of the advocates of ‘the higher Christian life,” or holiness, as it 18 interchangeably called. Over three hundred cottages ure on the grounds, and a superintendent and several cottage owners reside there all the year through. A $3,000 cottage is in process of erection for the use of the superintendent. Ocean Grove is, of course, a sand bank; the pine trees are weakly and stunted in growth, but they are so thick and numerous as to jurnish a very respectable shelter from the sun. Last year the walks were in very bad condition, so that with every shower of tain that fell the roads and pathways were left in ruts and gullies, making it impossible for a stranger in the eventide to ob- tain @ safe footing at all. The ride of seven or eight miles by stage from Long Branch to Ocean Grove is also very unpleasant, The high roads after rain are badly cut up, in the absence of rain the strong ocean breezes waft the dust through every opening into passengers’ eyes and ears. ‘The roads will doubtless be im better condi- tlon this year, but the New Jersey Southern Rail road Company ought to complete their branch road, which was artly laid between the camp und and’ Long Branch last year, and avoid the annoyance and delay by tne stage routes, which take from two to three hours to travel the distance. The meeting will open this year on August 8 and continue ten days. Meetings have been held, however, for a month past in the grove, and they are never con- fined to the regulation period of ten days save for casual visitors. A SEASIDE UNION MEETING, consisting of representatives of different denomi- nations, will be held there July 10 to 18. The camp 1s sufficiently near the tashionable watering place at the Branch to admit of each having some refiex influence upon the other, as undoubtedly they have. Ocean Grove can be reached from this city hy boat to Sandy Hook, thence by rail to Long Branch. Ex- cursion tickets are issued during the meetings. ROUND LAKE, near Saratoga, is another of those Summer camp grounds which must Cathe grow up into a per- manent Christian community if the fashionable life of on does not so weaken or destroy the spiritual lue of the camp as to make a change of location an imperative necessity. ‘This ame opens its meeting July 6, continuing until the 18th, but the cottage and tent owners who have been on the round already @ couple of weeks will remain here until the “season” closes at Saratoga. This meeting ts known pecutiarty as a State camp meet- ing. Passengers can reach the grounds by rail, and thereby escape the annoyance of dusty roads, The trustees have, during the year past, erected several tabernacies, 20x40 feet, for religious ser- vices for such churches as may require them, be- sides a mammoth tent for general services. ‘They are to take the place of canvas tents. An excur- sion Was made thither from Albany and Troy and adjacent Pere on Wednesday, 25th inst., when lots 30x60 Jeet were put up at auction at the minimum price of $100 per lot. One of the attractions of the camp is the mineral spring water from Sarat on draught, fresh every day. Another is the beautiful lake, whieh gives its name to the camp, and which has been stocked with salmon trout to the number of 26,000, which wiil afford pleasant iscatorial amusement. The grounds consist of 80 acres, eighty of which have been recently pur- chased, 80 as to secure permanent residence in the place by and by. It is proposed hereafter to com- mence and end the watering season with a good OLD-FASHIONED METHODIST CAMP MEETING. The shade is very fine in and around the cam; and the ey of trees embrace oak, maple, birc! hickory, ash, poplar, pine, &c. The trees pre tall and of medium end ag beautiful as ti were for the occasion, Shout aixty thousena doll have been already in purchasing and developing the All the earnings of the association are expended in uti the unds. In to this the Delaware and Hudson Cana: addil and Railroad Company are expending about ten thousand dollars for a new and elegant depot and other railroad improvements. ie circle or g@udience space in front of the preaching stand is being seated with permanent seats. These seats have comfortable support for the backs of their occupants, and are, with the exception of cushions, as comfortable as in of our indoor churches, Other improvements, such as road making, build- ing the hew boat aoe on pig take shore, &c., &c., are going forw: of whigh wiil add to the unparalleled attractions of Round Lake as a cam} meeting ground and Summer home, The grounds have been opened for camp mesane purposes five Ph paat and within those years ii has taken a lead- ig place among camp meeting institutions of the country. It contains a telegraph and post office; several new cot! barns snd stables for horses have been pat up, and it is pro d by and by to have iacilities for bathing in the lakes, ‘Thestreets aud avenues on the camp ground are partly circu- lar and partly at right augles with each other. They are, with few exceptions, named alter the reat a of Methodism—Wesley, Fletcher, sbury, Whitefeld, &c, The exceptions are that Albany, *Troy and the lake give their names to avenues. There is also a Prospect avenue, and seven short streets numerically named. SHELTER ISLAND (L. 1.) CAMP GROUND is @ new religious recreative resort, which, like all new-born babies, is the handsomest that ever was seen. lt is only @ year old, and is, therefore, nearer to its virgin beauty and purity than it will be some years hence. It embraces some fiity or more acres on the northwest part of the tsland, and‘contains a fine hotel, built by an association of Boston Methodists, It is capable of accommo- dating 150 guests, A few cottages have been erected; but the majority of the visitors or tempo- rary residents ,will dwell in tents, ‘the camp ground can be easily reached from the Connecticut shore, opposite, and also from the mainland of Long’ Island. {it is too distant, however, to be made available for New York or Brooklyn people. ‘Two trains a day on the Long Island Raiiroad con- vey passengers thither, or an afternoon boat irom New York will land them there early the next morning. The facilities for boating, bathing, flsh- ing, yachting, &c., are reported to be unequi . MOUNT TABOR, NEAR DENVILLE, N. J. 1s a beautiful camp ground, comparatively new, but rapidiy growing into favor with the people. An excursion was made thither on Monday, June 16, for the sale of lots, renting of cottages, &c. ‘The camp meeting will open there om August 12 and close August 22, Tae grove is on the line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rallroad, and 38 readily accessible to visitors from this and melee ane cities. Excursion tickets will be gold at a reduction from the regular cost of travel. A similar meeting will epen on Thursday, July 20, in PITMAN GROVE, on the line of the West Jersey Railroad, about six- teen miles trom Camden, N, J., to continue ten days also, This meeting 1s held under the auspices of the New Jersey Conference, Several improve- ments have been made in this grove during the year past, and ample preparations are now going on to render the brief stay of the camp fol- jowers cheerful and pleasant and spiritually profit- abie. The Jersey City district of the Newark Con- ference will hold an eight day meeting in their grove at Wortendyke station, commencing July 23 and ending July 31. ‘. MARTHA’S VINEYARD CAMP MEETING will begin on Monday, August 18, and close on Monday, August 26, The Vineyard is accessible from New York by all the land and water lines to Newport, Pall River, Providence, New Bedford and Boston; also by Portland steamers, which touch at the camp meeting landing. e fourth Ohio State camp meeting for the pro- motion of holiness in the Church and the conver- sion of sinners, will be held on the Stark County Fair Grounds, commencing August 5, 1873, and con- erry ten days. This meeting has been signally blessed heretofore m the sanctification of beliey- ers and the conversion of sinners, and the associa- tion most earnestly invite all the faithiul to jein them im daily prayer and in observing Friday, Au- gust 1, ag a day of tasting, humiliation and Lrayer, that the meeting of t873’ may be one of still more marvellous power and efficiency, Another meet- ing for the same objects will be held near Logan, Hocking county, Ohio, commencing August 27 an continuing eight days, It is held under the au- auces 01 the Olio Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, ‘ Acamp meeting is to be held at Embury Park, near Dayton, Unio, under the auspices of the loca! ministers of Cincinnati Conference, commencing A t 6 and closing on the 15th. ‘The Chester Heights Camp Meeting Association announce that a meeting will commence on the 5th of August and continue ten days. The grounds have been greatly improved and are now in elegant condition, The third “National Camp Meeting for the Pro- motion of Holiness,” of the West Virginia Confer- ence, for 3873, wilt be held at Moundaville, West Va., beginning August 20. Expensive and ample preparations are being vigorously prosecuted, A camp meeting will be held on the Cambridge district camp grounds of the Pittsburg Conterence, near Winchester, Ohio, commencing August 26 and continuing ten days. The Chautauqua Lake camp meeting will com- mence August 12 and hoid ten days, This is said to be a very beautifui camp ground, on the shores or one of New York’s most delightrul lakes, $ BRIDGEPORT DISTRIOT CAMP MEETING. The annual camp meeting of the Bridgeport district, New York East Conference, will be heid at the old camp ground, Milferd, Conn., commencing Monday, August ll,and closing Saturday, August 16, The Wesley Grove Camp Meeting Association, Baitimore Conference, wilt hold a camp meeting upon their ground, commencing on Wednesday, August 5, and continuing ten days. The Minnesota State Camp Meeting will be held on the camp ground at Red Rock, an ancient indian Village on the Mississippi River, seven iniles below St. Paul, commencing July 1, and continuing one week. ‘The grounds are most beautifully situated, covered with a beautiful oak grove, and accessible either by railroad or steamboat within twenty minutes 0! St. Paul. SUMMARY OF MEETINGS FOR 1873, These are a few of the camp gatherings that will take place throughout the country during the year 1873,,summarized for convenient reference, ‘They are: Place, Minnesota State camp meetin Sea Clif camp meeting opens Round Lake camp meeting of Ocean Grove Union camp necting oven’ Shetter island camp meeting opeus.......... Wortendyke Station ( J.) camp meeting opens. Pitinan Grove (N, J.) cainp meeting opens. Sing Sing (N. ¥.) camp meeting opens Merrick (L. i.) camp meeting ovens. Obio state camp meeting opens. . Au Wesley Grove (near Bultimore) camp ‘meeting ; > Any ens OPEDS .....2.. pe Chester Heights ( amp meeting opens. Sea Cliff Grove (Germau) camp mecting opens... Crisfleld Station (Md.) camp meeting o} ens. Ocean Grove (N. J.) camp meeting opens. Milford (Coph.) camp meeting opens. Denville camp meeting opens.. Chautauqua Lake (X. Y.) camp im: pens... Aug. Bridgeport District (Conn.) camp uleeung opens. Martha's Vineyard p meeting opens.. A Painesville (Conn.) Moundsville (West V Sea Cliff (L. 1) camp meeting Cambridge District (Ohio) Con ing opens see Seis Round Lake (N. Y.) camp meeting open: Here is a list of twenty-five such meetings from Which the readers of the HERALD, East and West, North and South, can make thcir own selections. The National Association for the Promotion of Holiness will make their annual tour of the United States, holding meetings in their mammoth tent Wherever they may be invited or can find an opening. ANEW CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BROOKLYN. a ns Description of the Edifice in Course of Erection for St. Stephen’s Parish. ‘The parish of St. Stephen’s, South Brooklyn, was | established about five years ago, to meet the wants ofthe rapidly increasing Cathvulic population in that section of the city. A small frame structure, used as a church by the Episcopalians, on Carroll street, near Hicks, was purchased, and its limited accommodations sufficed up to within the past two years to furnish shelter for the practical Catholics of the district, But since the period named rence the wants of the flock, which are ever increasing, made it necessary to pro- vide a larger and more suitable house of worship.’ In the month of February Rev, Father | O'Kieiy, one of the most zealous and energetic clergymen in the diocese of Brooklyn, was de- tached from the Church of St. Paul, Court street, and appointed pastor of St. Stephen’s. He at once set to work with # will and determination to suc- ceed in rearing the required structure te the honor and glory of God, and organized his parishioners into a “committee of the whole,” as it were, to provide the Ways and means for the undertaking. About six weeks ago ground was broken for the foundation of the new church on the corner of Summit and Hicks streets, and the work was com- menced in earnest. So rapid has been the progress made that the corner stone of the building will be laid on Sunday, July 20, The occasion will be one of * ceremony. The Bishop, Right Rev. John Loughlin, and several riests of the diocese will assist in the ceremonies, ie Convention of Irish civic societies, as well as all the Catholic church societies of Brooklyn, have resolved to Vycbed upon the day in question with banners and music, The new edifice, the plans for which have been drawn by Mr. P. C. Keeley, the venerable architect, will be of the modern Gothic order of archi- tecture and will fronton Summit street. The ex- treme length of the church will be 162 feet 2 inches, and the breadth, from the outside of the wails, 72 feet. The side wall will be 36 feet in height above the floor, The brick work of the ehancel will be 52 feet in height. There is to be an ornate tower, rising to the height of 110 feet, from which Will rise asteepie. On the top of the latter @ cross will be reared, The Lay oy om the sidewalk to the top of the cross will 210 fect, Making the steeple the second highest in the City | ily. 8 | easily 6 feet 6 inches below the sidewalk, and the founda- tions are laid on the best quality of concrete. The front of the edifice and the tower will be built of Philadelphia brick, The water ta- ble and window sills the basement are to be of Bellevile brown freestone; all asblars, bases and mouldings in the front will be of the same descrip- tion of stone. All the other cut svone dressings are to be of the Nova Scotia freestone. The joists and roers are to be of Southern yellow pine and the looring of spruce boards, best quality. There will be an organ gallery, but no galleries. It will accommodate about two thousand persons, and will cost, it is estimated, when finished, $135,000. One year will sufce to accomplish the work, provided the faithful are as generous in their support of the undertaking as they now promise. THE MAYOR AND THE ALDERMEN. An Interview with Mayor Havemeyer on the Newly Appointed Armory Com- mission and on the Present Deadlock in the Board of Aldermen—The Mayor Seeking for Light and Hoping for the Best. The Mayor was yesterday afternoon sitting in the civil chair preparing to close tne business of the week, lock up his, desk and wend his way home when arenorter of the HeRaxp entered the sanc- tum and introduced himself. “Mr. Mgyor,’’ said the reporter, “I have called to ask you what you think of the appointment of the Armory Commission by the Board of Supervisors the other day, and whether it is necessary for you to take action thereon.” “I have not received an engrossed copy of the amendments to the charter, in which this Commis- sion is authorized, and therefore, strictly speak- ing, 1 cannot recognize the appointment in any way. 1 don’t remember whether there is any salary given to the Commissioners or not.” “There is no salary, Mr. Mayor; they are to serve without pay, and 1am told by a very prominent Alderman that these Commissioners who are ap- Pointed are as good and ft men as any that have been nominated by yourself under the charter.” “I saw that one of the Aldermen said that they were better than any Ihave nominated. Perhaps they are. Ithink they must be very prominent citizens, and must be connected with some power- ful political organizations, for I-know that they have been named for every office under the charter by some political iriend or other, and have been on Iny lists all the time. Ihave no aoubt that they ave friends of certain Supervisors, and it is all right that they should genpart them. Not having re- ceived the law I don’t know very clearly what their duties are”? “This 18 the clause under which the Commis- sion is appointed, Mr. Mayor; tt reads as tollows:— hapter 429—to provide forthe building of armories \d drill rooms—authorizes the Board of Supervisoss to appoint three commissioners, to serve without pay, and give bonds for $50, of thelr duties, ‘The sites s. must be approved by the Mayor and Board of supervisors. The Coimission- ers may take for sites any of the parks or public lands except Central Park, Reservoir, Union and Madison squares. The Commissioners may condemn private property by the dua, legal proceedings. Ihe plans tor he buildings must be approved by the Major General commanding the Fi The Board of Appor- tionment shall’ make appropriations not to exceed, a ‘any one year, $500,000, te same to be raised by taxa- jon.” “That is a commission,” said the Mayor, ‘‘with a very sarge margin tor jobbery. I don't say that there will be any, but the people of New York have paid very dearly for armories for many years; and when you give the power to three men to select and recommend sites and construct armories tor the city and county o: New York, I think you have given them a very big job, and one that will bear Watching. If the peeple have not been taught les- sors bitter enough by.the robberies of the ring, I don’t know ah hat will teach them. I am glad to know that these men cannot do much with- out the concurrence of the Board of Supervisors. The people must look to this Board to protect them, aud J suppose the Board will.” “what: do you think of the @@adlock in the Board of Aldermen, Mr. Mayor; do you think it wiih last long 8? ‘you mean the failure to confirm the nomina- tions for Police Justices, Well, all we have got to do about that is to wait and see. The Aldermen are amenable to public opinion, and by that let them stand or fall. nominations, mine is to select. They are to ascer- tain whether the qualifications and the character of these men are correct. Ir they find, on inquiry, that they are not, itis their duty to reject them. For exampie, if they object to a man who wears spectacles, why, they must let me know it andT will not nominate any move any men who do wear spectacles, If, for instance, they discover that one or more of the nomimees have been in the State Prison, why, it is their duty to reject such a nomi- nation and call my attention to it, so that Imay ayoid sending any State Prison nomination in again.” aS presume the objection to confirming the police justices’ nominations is of a different character to that, and not quite so specific, Mr. Mayor.” < “| presume 80, but so jong as the Aldexymen sim- ply Jet them alone, let the nominations be on the table,why, they must not be surprised if the people try to cast about tor reasons for their inaction, and come to conclusions that are not very favorable to the political integrity of individual members, ‘st Division, don’t know that there is anything to complain of | in that direction, but if you or anybody elise put yourself in cireumstances of suspicion you must not be surprised if the character of that suspicion finds a voice.” The Mayor arose from his chatr to make ‘a bee line” for home, but was intercepted by severai gentlemen, who had a few last words, and the reporter bade His Honor adieu, THE JACKSON MURDER, - : Inquest at Bellevue Over the Murder of Mary Jane Sullivan—The Negro Mur- derer Gives His Testimony. An inquest was held by Coroner Keenan at Belle- vue Hospital yesterday over the death of Mary Jane Svilivan, the white woman who was killed under such brutal circumstances by her colored paramour, James Jackson, on the 16th of May last, at 59 Thompson street. According to the accounts at the time the two quarreiled in a liquor store at 49 Suliivan street, and next morning the woman was found dead in her bed, Jackson was afterwards discovered with his throat cut, and was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he has been kept in safe custody ever since. His wound has healed so far thut he is able to move around very He 1s @ lithe, active looking negro of pure breed, to judge by bis complexion, and 18 by no means 80 bratal in appearance as his crime would indicate, Coroner Keenan conaucted the exami- nation, TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM SARVANT. ‘The first witness examined was William Sarvant, who keeps a liquor saloon at 49 Sullivan street. He testified that he heard from his bartender that a razor was found in the closet of his house on the morning of the 17th. Charies H, Moore testified that he lived at No. 59 ‘Thompson street; knew that Jackson lived with the deceased; went round on the morning of 17th to borrow a brush and found the deceased lying dead in her room. A WHITE GIRL’S TESTIMONY. An attractive-looking, well-dressed young white girl was the next witness examined. She gave her evidence in @ pert, unconcerned manner, not seem- ing to realize in the least her 0” disgrace. she testified that on the night wf the 16th the deceased, @ young girl named Lottie Armstrong (present), the prisoner and herself had supper together and were quit. sociable; they separated, and she after- wards saw the deceased come out of a dance house in Sullivan street under the influence of liquor; she went home, and at seven o’clock next mornin she was awakened by Lottie Armstrong, who tol her that Mary Jane Sullivan was lying dead in bed. Lottie Armstrong, another young white girl, cor- roborated this testimony. ANING & WOMAN, Alfred Wilks, of No. 137 West Thirty-third street, testified that_he was in the liquor store on the night of the ®th; he heard Jackson ask the de- ceased What brought her there; she said, ‘Noth- ing,” and he then struck her across the stoulders with a cane, said, “Get out of here;” tney both went out and the door was closed; tle wit- ness heard some quarreling outside, Sergeant Schultz, of the Kighth precinct, testi- fied that he saw the deceased and Jackson together in Broome street, near Thompson, about two o’ciock in the morning; Jackson was trying to get her home, as she was drunk. THE PRISONER'S STATEMENT. After some further immateriai testimony the prisoner himself made a long, rambling statement about how he passed the night. He had been to the theatre and came home and found her out; she was intoxicated, and when he got her home hie took a bottle from her; he then gave her a blowon the head and she fell down stairs; he went down, took her up stairs in his arms and undressed her and pat her to bed; soon he began to perceive that she was getting lifeless, and ne put on hus clothes and ran Out inthe street; at the door he meta man who got him arazor; he then went to the hall of the liquor store, and after a time went into the closet and cut his throat; when next he became conscious he found himself in a cellar in York street; he was then taken to a saloon, Leds by a an named Boldens, where he was found by Tne ‘police lying on a stretcher with his throat cut; he said to the police, “I am glad you have come, a Alter Dr. Cushman had read his medical te mony the Coroner charged the jury at great length, THE VERDICT. They found that the deceased came to her death from Violence at the hands of James Jackson. of Churches, Inthe tower wiil be a clock, with four dials anda beil. Beneath the church will bea basement, the ceil! is 13 feet bigh. The wails are to be 3 feet thick, and the workmanshij re ip throt et peropeRout, tprova to the specifications, 4 He was comsaifted to await the action of the Grand Jury, During some parts of the testimony Jackson was very much affected, ana shed tears during his own pi nt, Two policemen guard his cell coutin- fe ow each for the faithful perforuiance | Their duty is to criticise the | 8 MASSACHUSETTS ABLAZE, A Forest Fire with a Front of Eight Miles of Flame. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Sixty Miles of Territory Laid Bare—Ef forts to Oircumscribe the Limits of the Conflagration—The Oitizens , Alarmed—Prayors forRain. © PLyMovrTs, Maas., June 28, 1873, One of the most destructive forest conflagrations ever known in New England is now raging here in the wooded portion of Plymouth county. It began on Friday, the 20th inst., and has increased daily in magnitude and jury eversince. A smart thunder shower this afternoon has had the effect to some- what check its speed, but unless there is more rain the flery demon threatens a devastation of the country scarcely less in extent and destrnctive- ness than the famous Western fires, At the beginning there were no fearful apprehen- sions more than of au ordinary Summer brush fire, but to-night trere is general alarm all through the Cape district and eitizens are organizing to pro- tect the hamlets and villages which they inhabit. In the vicinity of the Great South Pondin this town the progress for three or four days has been Steady up to the iittle shower of this afternoon, ‘The main body of the fire has been south of the pond, and the entire half of the woods between the. great and little ponds is now burning flercely. The red glare from AN AREA OF EIGHT SQUARE MILES OF FLAME, seen from the Old Colony Mills, is terribly grand, and absolutely defies description. This morning, in spite of all the men and means available for checking its progress, the fire emerged from its apparent confinement within the heavily timbered district between the ponds, and seized upon the scrub oak and small pines to the northeast. Here, though not so fiolent, it spread more widely, and made rapid progress towards the village of Clintonville, on Eel River, some eight miles distant, which locality it is likely to reach unless there are rapid and frequent repetitions of this afternoon's shower, A nearer approach of the fire to the thickly-settled portion of Plymouth seems hardly probable, unless the wind changes and comes from one point long” enough to cause the burning of the district be- tween the ponds and the town, which are six miles apart. The interval is heavily wooded to within a mile o! the village, the remaining dis- tance being covered with light brush up to within a quarter mile of the houses. No buildings in the path of the fire have yet been purned, the men en- gaged in fighting it having concentrated upon every structure threatened in season to prevent their, destruction. ‘This work has been rendered com-’ paratively easy owing to the large clearings around the farm buildings which the occupants, by past. experiences, have been taught to leave. The fire began on Friday, the 20th inst., and has burned with more or less energy since. The heavy dews have had the effect to deaden the flames at night and cach morning has bronght with it encourage- ment to the men that their work was nearly ended, But as the day avanced the wind would freshen and TARE SMOULDERING FLAMES would rise with the occasion. There has been trom the first but little gained by starting back fires, and the various gangs have learned wisdom by experience. They now confine their energies to narrowing the area of fire by operations on its flanks, and they hope soon to reduce its path of four miles to less, and, if possible, change its course to the more swampy districts. Nearly a thousand men, 300 of whom ave employed by the Old Colony Railroad Company, from along the lines of its road, have been engaged in the work at various points for a week, and the jorce is dally augmented. Last night A NEW FIRE started about two miles south of the point of origin of the great fire at Tremont, and made rapid prog- ress in a southeasterly direction. The gang en- | gaged in that vicinity have been drawn away to other points where danger threatened. An addi- tional force was put upon it from the Cape division, and the prospect this evening is that the fire will soon be got under, as it is in Low land, covered only | by a studded growth. THE AREA BURNED over extends from Tremont to Plymouth South Pond in one direction, and to Herring River, within a mile or two of North Sandwich, in another, having passed across the northeastern portion of Carver, destroying immense quantities of standing | and cut wood in its track. Not legs than sixty square miles of territory are laid bare, and thou- sands of cords of wooa destroyed, At times the miles, at others it was reduced to two miles; then a slight veering of the wind has caused it to spread beyond all human power to op) it successtully. Nothing but rain, and that of twenty-four hours’ continuance at least, will serve | to prevent the flames irom devastating the entire wooded portion of the Cape to the shores of the Bay. si PRAYERS FOR RAIN. The citizens, as may be expected, are greatly alarmed. Every means at command is employed to quench the flames, but nothing will be e! ctual until there are copious rains. Prayers tor which from heaven will be offered in the Various churches to-morrow. : PROBABLE MURDER IN HOBOKEN. Melancholy Result of a Quarrel Between Laborers—The Knife Again as the Are biter of Disputes. And still the improved system of settling differ- -ences among meu Keeps pace with the other ad- vantages of civilization. The humanized mode of | trying murderers and the chances ofan assassin being immortalized for his heroism in wresting life from one of his fellows constitute the surest guarantees that the criminal calendar is to be constantly reddened with the rec ords of brutal murders. A man named John O’Brien, living at No. 3 Willow street, with his family, left his howe yesterday patel | in the best of health and spirits, and the next thing his wife and little ones saw of him was his return on a stretcher—his leit side torn by @ huge knife that showed a wound four inches in length, two in width and three indepth. He was stabbed by a ruflan bearing the same name as himself, who, on learning what a fatal gash his knife had inflicted, threw the death weapon upon a heap of coal dust and calmly surrendered himself to Chief Donovan. Coroner Parsiow repaired to the house of the bleeding man and took the following «1, gona Obrien, being Of MGhd mind, ao maKe A the following statement:—About one o'clock P, M, on Saturday, June 28, | was on the Southern Scran- ton coal docks, sitting With several comrades, the homo John O'Brien, being = them. We ad been putting coal on a schooner. John O’Brien gotashovel to trim the coal on the vessel, as I Said that it was necessary so to trim it. He then ‘threw the shovel down and sat down. I left the place for a short time, and when I returned I found the prisoner quarrelling with Thomas Reilly in relation to the trimming of the coal. Reilly then left, when told the prisoner that it was ms fault to have coal unevenly plied. He replied that it ‘was not his fault, and that he'd make me run a as he had done three times before. I said L wo not ran, but that I would make the top of his nose narrower than before. This he denied, when I stool up and said, ‘Now, come and make me run away.’ He rose and hauled back his hand to hit me, Whereupon I struck him on the nose, Thet having stepped back a little, he followed me Strack me with the knife, I struck him first, as I saw him attempt to strike me. He is no relative of mine, and he has challenged me to fight on other occasions. That is whyl said I would not ran away a fourth time. I aks now prisoner as the man who followed me and struck me with the ; knife. Dr. Apdrew, of Jersey City, attended the suffer. ing victim and pronounced the wound a most dan- gerous one. SUICIDE IN BROOKLYN, Mrs, Mary Ann Fleming left her home, on the corner of Filth avenue and Nineteenth street, South Brooklyn, on Friday evening, while laboring under a fit of mental aberration, roe suicide by jumping into the river at the foot Twenty-third street. The body has been ered and given over to the an of her relatives, ‘The Coroner will hold an ina in the case, burning mass has presented a front of eight. ca ccccceeemenmmmennr ET Ee