The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1873, Page 4

THE CATSKILLS. A Look Over the Overlook Mountain. “ BIRD'S-EYE AND MOUNTAIN VIEWS, Hotels Above the Clouds—Mountain Air and Appetite—A German Philosopher on “Op- tical Hunger”—The Poetry of Several Thousand Feet Above the Sea—Hotel Clerks and Strained Eyes—Go- ing Gothamward. ‘Woopstock, N. Y., July 5, 1873. ‘The terrible heat of the dog days being upon us, Sresidence at a considerable elevation above the tide is @ javorite and very frequently successful method of enjoying comparative coolness, In the vicinity of New York city there are considerable Batu-al restrictions upon the pursuit of this rising mthe world to anything like an Alpine extent, Our mountains are not very loity, and, like all motin- saans, are only moderately bandy for transient visitors. The Adirendacks are only just emerging, 4s it were, from savagery, 50 I shall leave them to the enthusiast of sleeping under canvas, and von- Ane myseif to the “rising ground” whereon I indite these random notes. ° THE CATSKILLS. It ts trresistibie with writers, when they find themselves on an American mountain, or in tn American valley, by an American lake, or sailing on an American river, to hook in alittle tomance about the vanished glory of the red man and the poor prospects of his race even for exist- ence nowadays. Region of shallow regret, let me Rot wake one of thy uncertain echoes! The side spring gaiter is so much at home in these grand bills that a moccason, if seen, would be eagerly grasped at by the hotel keeper for his museum. Fenimore Cooper has done enough for the red- skins of the Empire State. The mythical has just | As great a hold on the imagination as the histori- tal, and Rip Van Winkle, instead of the Indian, is the spirit that claims most homage among these mountains, Here on the summit of Overlook Mountain I sit, UNTROUBLED EITHER BY THE INDIAN OR THE DUTCH- MA! and kick my heels against the ledge of hoary rock while Lsurvey the marvellous sweep of the valley Of the Hudson that spreads itself out so gloriously beneath. Trusting to a powerful field glass instead of my weak imagination, I scan the world at my feet, or, laying down the lorgnette, listen to the perpetual wave of the wind among the trees. One forgets that it is scorchingly hot about three thou- Band feet below. At least it is hard to imagine that if one were somewhere else, he would be swel- tering and longing iusatiate for the specious cool- ness of iced drinks, I state this to indicate that the buman being who rejoices more in avoiding possible pain than m experiencing positive pleas- are is @ specimen unfit to be catered for. Yet these PHABISERS OF RECREATION are to be found even on & mountain top, with their overweening seif-consciousness and their bumptious announcements that they are not as other people. The Catskill Mountains lie partly in Ulster and largely in Greene county, and are ex- tensive enough to give the eye all it wants of grandeur. The oldest Mountain House is the well-kept caravavanserai of Mr. Beach, to be reached via Catskill. Its attractions are well known. They include a magnificent valley view, aithough 1,000 feet lower than the Overlook. The mountain view is necessarily limited by the want efelevation. Mine host, the proprietor of the Overlook House, says, with emphasis, that he can seat a man at his table seven hours after quitting Sew York. This is barely possible. It requires a series of connections that should not fail in any particular, and that is more than usually happens. However, EIGHT TO NINE HOURS ls not.a long journey, when the diMculties are taken into account. By train to Rhinebeck on the Gudson; thence by ferry to Rondout; thence by tail to West Hurley, brings one within three hours’ easy staging of the mountain top. This is tedious because of the slow progress made. The steepness and the detours necessary account for this, The tun down again shows how one is deceived in dis- tance. This ride upward has one compensation, gamely, the graaua! coolness which deliciously succeeds the heat of the vailey. A source of trri- sation to fidgety people is the fact that after .eav- ing the pretty little hamlet of Woodstock behind you do not catch a glimpse of the hotel haven antil you are within a coupie of hundred yards of tt. The trees which at this season clothe the moun- tains with a thick ambrosial mantie of green embower the road and cut off nearly all the lew. At last the driver points ahead, and the white front of the hotel gleams out amid the maples, oak, fir and hickory, and ina moment you have alighted. You may pause to register your ame or Jook alter your baggage, but, if you drink a glass of mountain spring water and walk straignt out on the piazza, you will have added A PEBRLESS SENSATION to your experiences. I shall premise that the day ts clear. Walk straight tothe little plateau of rocks in front of the piazza and look down and to the south. The mountain seems to open out at your feet, like the trough of a giant wave, with a great billow of green on either side. It looks almost a6 though it were a meadow that stretches down to the valley, instead o1 a verdant carpet made from the waving tops of the lorest trees. Now look beyond, out upon the vailey, whither the slope of the green wave leads your eye. There lies THE VALLEY OF THE HUDSON. To the left the broad river flows like a surface of polished steel in the sun. It is net dwarfed by the height, but is the majestic river still, Towns, hamlets, villages, homesteada, fields, streams and woods glow bewilderingly upon the eye. Across the Hudson, which seems so near, you may look beyond the border line of Massachusetts. In the | distance Kingston and Rondont gleam whitely in the sun, and irom this height you caa barely be sensible that there isa line of hills between you and the now united towns, With a field glass you van see to Poughkeepsie. Fancifully the plain here looked to a lady traveller LIKE PATCHWORK. “The dark green of the woods,” said she, “is like the original color. and the golden flelds and white houses seem like the patchings of man on a gar- ment made long ago by God.” Improved, I have littie doubt, she believed. By | a eved. By | gam Bay Leaf, 114 Ibs. D, J. Crouse’s chestnut colt walking round the piazza YOU SEE THE MOUNTAIN GROUYS with their heads in the sky in every shade trom the green of the nearer ones to the rich deep purple of those farthest away. You want to see them when the sun is setting, so get you to your room and prepare for your meal. THE HOTEL {s a plain stracture, without much attempt at out- ard show. Its internal arrangements are fair, but not in all things exactly what you would ex- pect at a first class hotel in New York. When you gee 80 mach that is brought and provided for the comfort of guests at so much trouble you won- der why @ little more foresight in design of the building, and @ little more enterprise every way, Were not included to make the thing complete. One can be comfortable here, and even Inxurieus; but occasionally a little hitch in che arrangements makes you regret that more was not accomplished, There is one peculiarity here which people in val- dey hotels do not encounter. ; THE CLEAR, PURE AIR CRBATES HUNGER tan alarming rate, Everybody sits down with an enormous appetite. A regular dinner of courses, ‘with recondite names in French, with the insum- ciency of soups and the pardonable shortness of fish at the beginning, gives the artificially famished guest @ poor opinion of the tendency of modern rookery. “Oh, for a good piece of roast beef!” he pighs, And roast beef is ordered. fie feels disap- pointed when be bas demolished 1+ in two or thice NEW YORK HERALD, TUMSDAY, JULY 8, 1873—TRIPLE SHEKT. LONG BRANCH. |AMONG THE ACTORS. snaps. else he might nibble through a dozen dishes and be satisfied in the end. Here he thinks that he is pinched, and that each successive dish leaves him hungrier for the next. Personally I have quieted the abnormal ravings of hunger alter some determination. It is a dificult question, and I #all leave it unsolvea, whether the feeding Plan is the best suited to the circumstances or not. 4A GERMAN GUEST, A SCIENTIST, Tam certain, because he wears spectacles and smokes a long pipe with an air of self-introversion, discussed the great question with me. He said, with the fine deliberateness of a man whose opinion is worth knowing :— “Well, you see, dis question of foot troubles me dree, four tays. Boot I seddie him. I feel very hungrig all tay. Zo, I smoke unt I aink; unt here 4s vat I fint. I FINT IT 18 OPTICAL HUNGER. Yes, sir! 1look down into de valley, everyding look very small; I look at my roast beef, it look very small, doo, Mit my detescope de hauses look very pig; mit my double spectacles my roast beef | look pig, doo. I fint my naket eye deceefe my | stomach, zo | deceefe my eye. Dot is all. Iplay | dricks ou my optic, unt may stomach say all right,’ COUNTIES VISIBLE. Aman gains quite an idea oj Empire State geog- rapliy up here. You learn what the numberless places are that you see, and you learn where a great many places are that you cannot see, You walk out to the point of the peak by the path along the bluff, and Columbia, Greene, Ulster and Dutehess counties are pointed out until yéu are gorged with detail, It seemed to me pleasanter and grander to think that the vast expanse beneath and around, wide and varied as it seemed, was all buta fair, fine sample of the great land whose children we are so proud to be. Mountain and valley, river and lake, town and village, homestead and farm blended lato one magnificent view tnat knew no town limit, no county or State line, no bourn whatever except the far-off horizon, and that seemed more pride-compelling to me than any knowledge that Saugerties was this side of the river and Tivoli beyond; that Esopus lay towards Kingston or | Wawarsing out towards Sullivan county. All belonged to iree America. Asif to give directness to the thought A GREAT EAGLE, SOARING IN CIRCLES high above the mountain, suddenly shot in the full sunlight towards the hills to the west at a winging speed that made lines and limits seem a poor conceit, On faverable evenings the sunsets are miracles of hush and color. Whatever constancy of weather there may be in the land beiow there is no monotony here. To see THE GOLDEN LIGHT STREAM DOWN THE VALLEYS lying east and west and burn upon the hilltops in gorgeous wealth of fire is beautiful. The cloud studies are enchanting, and to watcn the light pour through cloud openings slantwise upon vary- ing points on the plain provides a succession of Pleasures, Moonlight I have not yet seen to advantage, because there was very little moon and I admit not having seen asunrise. I groan to think of what fate and somnolence have deprived me. To see the white feecy clouds sailing at your feet around the mountaims fiom crest to crest is very fine, with the long, blanched hair of the mist trailing through the tree tops or streaming out upon the wind. Sometimes, indeed, the clouds en- compass the peak and the hotel, and THE SENSATION OF BEING IN A FOG is enjoyed to its utmost. Your view is cut off. You feel a damp breath on your cheek, and if you are to be especially favored it rains upon you. This may last irom five minutes to an indefinite period. When the trial is to be ended one of the most mystic effects is presented—namely, the ltit- ing of the curtains of the cloud and the rolling forth once more before your eyes of the wondrous panorama below. If the wind blows hard, the sound of the trembling trees rises on the ear sub- limely as the roar of the ocean on a sandy shore. An intelligent child who had been to Long Branch would ASK FOR THE BATHING HOUSES. Fact. The hotel people have one trial to bear which they meet with heroic resignation. When a guest happens to be alone and discovers some effect of light or cloud he forthwith rushes to the office and drags forth the first oficial he meets to find out if anything “like that” has ever been seen be- fore. One of the clerks was treated all through the Winter for an affection of the eye. It resulted from the constant strain on the muscles necessary to open the optics to the point of astoundment, Of course, they seldom have seen anything “like that’’ before; it was a blessed privilege for the man who saw it. The hotel is not nearly filled yet, but the hopes are strong. There are some points inits management which capital would improve. It isa mistake to wait fur the public to find out shortcom- ings. Improvements are projected or promised, and until they are made the iuture of the house cannot be foretold. Tne advantages in sight tor seeing purposes and the drawbacks for the carry- ing out of improvements go together in mountain houses; but all people do not care to count one against the other, On leaving the hotel to return to New York there 1s a line of travel which could be made very delightfui—namely, by the Hudson River, It would require the existence of a really good hotel in Rondout or Kingston to please every- body. Arriving by train at Rondout in the even- ing there is a great temptation to remain over 80 as to start at half-past five in the morning by the steamer Mary Powell, that makes her hundred miles to Gotham in five hours and a quarter. The cool, fresh breeze, the river scenes, the pleasures of @ good breakfast on board, the avoidance of dust and the arrival in the city at a quarter to eleven are great baits to those who do not exact discomfort as & condition of travelling for pleasure. MONMOUTH PARK. Second Day of the Long Branch Races— The Events and Probgble Starters— Pool-selling Last Evening. This is the second day or the Long Branch racing meeting at Monmouth Park, so successfully in- augurated on Independence Day, and if the weather holds pleasant the amusement will be of the most attractive nature. There are three events on the card, the first being the Hopeful Stakes, for two-year-olds, half a mile; value, $500, added to a sweepstakes of $50 each, play or pay; the second to receive $100 and the third horse $50 out of the stakes, This will be an interesting contest, bringing to the post, stripped for the trying ordeal, representatives from the following stables:—August Belmont, George Ayres, John F. Chamberlin, John Coffee, H. P. McGrauh, A. B. Lewis & Co., D. J. Crouse and F. Morris, Second on the list is a purse of $900 for all ages, two-mile heats; $760 to the first, $100 to the sec- ond and $60 to the third horse. Entered jor this are Stockwood, 114 Ibs. ; Eolus, 114 Ibs. ; Jon Mer- ryman, 114 Ibs., and Katy Pease, $7 lbs. Then will come the Monmouth Cup, two miles and a half; vaiue, $1,500, added to a sweepstakes of $50 each, p:ay Or pay; the second to receive | $300 and the third horse $150 out of the stakes. Of | engagements there will the thirteen appear | before the starter for this interesting ana tm- | portant race D, M. Daniel Co.'s chest- hut colt Hubbard, 4 years old, by Planet, dam Minnie Mansfeld, 108 Ibs.; M. H. Sanford’s | bay horse Preakness, 6 years old, by Lexington, Business, 4 years old, by Revolver, dam Siren, 108 lbs,; John F. Chamberlain's bay colt Survivor, 3 years oid, yy, Vandal, dam by Lexington, 90 lbs., and Rice & McCormick's chestnut horse Wanderer, 6 years old, by Lexington, dam Coral, 114 lbs. ‘ools were Sold on the above races last evening at the rooms of Mr. Chamberlain, No. 1,146 Broad- way, and at Jovnson’s, and the following figures will give a good idea of what the betting men think of the respective entries :— HOPEFUL STAKES, Belmont’s entry $20 $20 Morris’ entry. 16 15 McGrath's entry. 10 9 Crouse's entry 6 8 Ayres’ entr: 6 7 | Chamberiin’s entry. 1 6 | Lewis’ entry. 6 6 Coffee’s entry 6 a| —Chambertin.— —_—Johnson.— | Katy Pease.......$25 $25 $25 $55 $00 | Kol 4 45 co Ww pis a 2 Johnson. 6 7 Business: Il, | 5 Hi} Field....... 10 ‘The means of transportation from New York to the track are ample, and however large the crowd that may visit the Branch, each and every indi- vidual member of it may jeel assured that he will be returned to the city long before dark. The prasraganeett Steamship Company will run three boats this morning trom pier 28 .N. R, (foot of Murray street), to Sandy Hook, at 6:45, 9:40 and 10:30 o'clock, Where they Will connect with the cars for Monmouth Park | pect, in the person of the jolly, rubicund-visaged | city, which at one time tried hard and tn vain to | become the seat of the national government, may | capital in one of her suburbs Por Long Branch, in | Suburb of the great metropolis. | are Hupbard, Preakness, The Semi-Official Society at the Summer Capital. A CASE OF EFFETE NOBILITY. A Hint to the Diplomatic Corps. ners THE MONMOUTH Lona BRANcn, July 7, 1873, This place has lately had quite a windfall of celebrities, including two Cabinet officers— Belknap and Richardson—with a@ third one in pros- PARK RACES, Robeson. With the Chief Magistrate of the nation and half his Cabinet here Long Branch vindicates the claim, advanced half in earnest, half in jest, of being the Summer capital of the Union. New York now rest and be thank‘ul, as she “divides the honors” with Washington, having the Summer spite of the dividing State line, 1s, after al, a Considering also that there isa plan afoot to build here a Summer mansion for the use of all Presidents of tue United States to come, and that the ad- mirers of General Grant talk of electing him for a third term—some even hinting for the term of his natural life—it seems the likeliest thing in the world that Long Branch should be and re- Main the Summer capital of the Union. The society that has a temporary existence here has most, if not all, the characteristics of the republican court at Washington. It might be aptly called a semb oMcial one, Its IN A CHRYSALIS STATE, between worm and dragon-fly, consisting of aspirants to office and oMice-holders aspiring to the control of the government. Nor are there men of a (doubtful) national fame wanting, We have had here ex-Senator Caldwell, of Kansas, who had such a distressing time of it last session in Washington, and his more fortunate colleague, Senator Clayton. of Arkansas, who was in a similar scrape, but born under a lucky star. There is but one element lacking here—the repre- sentatives of the effete monarchies. What a pity that the diplomatic peopie do not take kindly to this place! lf they were only here, instead of livin, in aristocratic seclusion at Newport, then, indeed, the idea ofa republican Summer court would be realized to perfection. The same enterprising mind which planned the Presidential mansion should enlarge upon the idea, extending simtiar courtesies to the Diplomatic Corps, as an induce- ment for them to come and cluster around it, The result would well repay the outlay, for those dainty, spruce attachés of legations, TAE DARLINGS OF OUR LANGUID BELLES in Washington, are sadiy needed here, and would attract mi aspiring young beauties, There is, however, @ dark background to this bright picture, in the shape of a reminiscence of a foreign repre- sentative who came to grief, proving another instance of the proverbial ingratitude of Tepublics. Catacazy was the aiplosiatig pioneer in Long Branch, and his fate probably serves as a warning to his former colleagues, 1 would not, however, be understood as saying that the effete nobility of the Uld World is ulto- gether unrepresente: ‘There is THE RICH COUNT VULGABCASH, who is in himsel! a host. You can see him any evening in the height of tne season in the parlors of @ fashionable hotel, arrayed in purple, fine linen and massive jewelry, moving about quite freely, and now and then addressing those around him with great kindness and condescension. His noble origin dates back to a period so remote that it can- not be established with y degree of certainty. The curious might, howev« find, if lucky enough to hit upon some old book of heraldry, that ‘the arms of the Vulgarcashes consist of three twigs with three balis d'or upon a field d’argent, And though the origin of the family may be iost in the mist of time, it is tolerably well settled that the Vulgarcashes were famous in medieval here, Their Island Home in the Sound. The “Multum in Parvo” Clab—How They Spend a Sensible Summer—Sunday’s Banquet on High Island—Descrip- tio of the Club House and Grounds—Who Were There, There seems to be no apparent reason why an ac- torshould not enjoy himself, It is true that he plays most of his time, but still he is unreasonable enough to callit work, It 18 a fictitious realm of painted canvas and “garish gas” in which he moves, and wuile there ¥2 is not himself at all. One day a king, another @ slave, the buifet of the capricious spirit which reigns BEHIND THE SCENES, he flies gladly, when opportunity offers, to where real pleasure may be wooed, There is no doubt at all but that, even in the babyhood of the drama, the actors were the same jovial crew as they are atthe present day. Could we take the historian’s dark lantern and fliasn it across the cemetery of the centuries we would see the man of the mask but little different from our own hero of the sock and buskin. Kven those gentlemen who ap- peased the clamorous claims of Athenian land- ladies by their efforts in the . GREEK CHORUS had a taste for pleasure and satisfied it when op- portunity offered, Picnics to any one of the isles of Greece, with which “burning Sappho” had sometning vague to do, may have been the order of the day. There, reclining upon the ground, en- gaged in eating figs or playing primeval draw poker, the Athenian actors may have deliciously rounded a holiday. They talked, as they do now, of their parts, of the latest tragic thing from Euripides or the newest screaming farce from the pen of Aristophanes. It was Greece and it was long ago, but they were men and actors, and the clan has changed but little. But whatever the custom of the murky past, we can speak with certainty of the present, There ex- ists in this city to-day A GUILD OF ACTORS, bound together by the silken tie of pleasure, After the season is over, when the footlights are out, when the theatre is deserted, and the stage isa maze of phantoms; in fact, when Summer blazes upon the scene, they unfurl their banner and begin their campaign against dull care. For the nonce Duty exits and Enjoyment enters. They are known as the “MULTUM IN PARVO"” CLUB, ! which has been in existence about four years, having been established by Mr. Harry Cunningham, Their club house is on High Island, in Long Island Sound, about seven miles from Fort Schuyler, andit is also “much in little.” On Sunday the season of 1873 was inaugurated in a manner which was at once imposing, and, at the same time, pertectly regardless of expense. When the steamer Seawanhaka left Market street wharf, on Sunday morning at nine o'clock, she carried with her, among others, a group of twenty or thirty peculiar looking gentiemen. They were costumed in a picturesgue manner, RED AND BLUE SHIRTS blooming out prominently. Some haa fishing rods, while others had bottles, which contained proba- bly the bait. There was also a collection of baskets and hampers and a variety ef other miscellaneous traps. A spirit of jollity, of bubbling merriment, seemed to pervade the party. Their conversation was of @ grandiloquent nature, consisting chiefly of choice selections trom the dramatic poets, given with much unction. In a word, they were the “Multums,” en route for their “native heath,’’ their island home, times as money lenders and money brokers. How they earned their titie of nobility may be gleaned from the legendary lore of that heroic period, which has the following A certain improvident King of Bohemia, who was in the habit o1 making trifling loans, was once upon @ time (date not given) particularly in need of hard cash to pay off some heavy bills which he had run up in extensive entertainments of a neighbor- ing {riendly monarch. in this dilemma he called upon the then head of the Vulgarcashes, leaving him the pleasant alternative of either advancing the sum needed or having his front teetn pulled out with hot pincer. The Chief of the Vulgarcashes ‘was touched by this graceful proposition, advanced the sum and was rewarded with a sheepskin parch- ment of nobility for a service rendered with 80 much self-denial, Tiis touching story ts told of the noble origin of the Vulgarcashes. FASHIONABLE SOCIETY, like capital, loves to concentrate, and thus it is that the beauty and fashion of Long Branch come to a focus every evening in the parlors and porches of the West End Hotel, where all the celebrities congregate. There you may see our manly, hand- some Secretary of War, General Belknap, whose goiden beard and locks are the admiration of the fair; Senator Stockton, whose Rallantry jately found scope in the rescue of Miss Nellie Grant, when her life was putin peril by two runaway horses; the courteous General Babcock, ex-Collector Murphy, with his good-natured nod and smile for everybody, as well a3 others equally well known, but too nu- merous to mention. There you may also seemany fair ladies gliding gracetuily to the strains of music, It would be individuous to bag out any of them for special remark. At first signt the stranger cannot but be impressed with the idea that American ladies know better how to dress— and that American fathers and husbands give them more money to do it withal—than those of any other nation. THE NICARAGUA, DARIEN AND TEHUANTEPRO CANALS, Among the arrivals at the West End is Judge J. P. O'Sullivan, late United States Consul at Bay- onne and Singapore, who was one of the Commis- sioners to St. Domingo. Judge O'Sullivan has just arrived from Central Am where he had gone to make surveys for the proposed Nicaragua Canal. This project, as well a8 those of the Darien and Tehuantepec Canais, will be examined by the Board lately appointed by the President. The ex- pedition sent to survey the proposed Nicaragua Canal may be expected back in a few months, when the Board will decide which is the most feasible route for the government to work out with the appropriations made by Congress. The Presi- dent himseif has no preierence for either of the three projects. TO-MORROW’S RACES are the principal topic of conversation In the hotel barrooms, the contest for the Monmouth Cup being the subject around which centres the most in- terest. The starters jor the two mile heats are Katy Pease, Eolus, Stockwood and John Merriman, There good deal of betting between bolus and Katy Pease. The starters for the Monmouth Cup Business, Survivor and Wanderer; ‘for the Hopeful Stakes, Belmont, Crouse, Ayres, Chamberlin, Morris, Coffee, McGrath and Lewis& Co, The horses from the different stables did very well to-day. Colonel McDaniel w: very busy with his team, ail looking in the best health. Mr. Belmont’s two-year-old colts, Steel Eyes, King Amadeus, Countess Beatrice and Theodore, were moving along in fine style. The older horses, Gray Planet, Electra, Periwinkle, Count D'Orsay and Oakland, took ‘things more quietly. Business and Culpepper, trom Mr. Crouse’s stable, were also going well, Business breezing one and a half miles, Wanderer ran two miles at good speed, Mr, Chamberlin’s Survivor, Trae Blue, Yheatiey, Visigotn, The Hoaxer, Mary Constant, Galway, Weatherceck and Lord Jersey were going remarkably well, Survivor galloping two and a halt miles in fine style. The horses irom the other stables were all looking well. Mr. McGrath’s Susan Anon fell lame to a gallop of two miles yester- day, and itis doubtful whether she will start in any of the races at Monmouth Park, The track was in fair condition. MEETING OF THE GENEBAL COUNCIL OF THE INTERNATIONALS, The Sixth General Congress To Be Held im Geneva in September—The Pro- gramme ot the Congress. At @ meeting of the General Counci! held last night at the Tenth Ward Hotel it was unanimously decided that the next General Congress of the In- national Workingmens’ Association will meet at eva, Switzerland, on Monday, September 8, 1873, at nine o’clock A. M. The above is in execution of the resolution passed by the Fifth General Congress at the Hague, which was held last September, and which vested the power with the General Council to designate the Goan place and time oi the holding of the above Dongress. It was decided that the following will be the pro- gramme of the Congress :— First—Provision of the statutes. _Second—Organization ot the International Trades Unions. Third—General organization of the working class on pour Valiieal setion of th ized rth—Political action of the organized w tatisties of labor. re betes The delegates are requested to deposit their mandates with the Provisional Committee at the Temple Unique, Geneva, on Sunday, september 7, from two to six o'clock P. M. All federations, sec- tions and mandatories are to be invited to trans- Toit forthwith to the General Council their detalied annual report, The Secretary was authorized to forward a copy of the above proceedings to the sections throughout Lue world, ‘The Club disembarked at the City Island landing, preparatory to taking their boats for HIGH ISLAND, situated about a half mile distant. An oppor- tunity was then offered to see who were present. There were Messrs. Ltt alae (President), Isaac L. Street (Vice President), Gideon Ryder (Secretary), S.S. Fitch (Treasurer), William Cun- ningham, George Jordan, —— Price, Dick Street, Charles T. Parsioe, Harry Fisher, Governor George Johnson (of Alaska), Mat Snyder, Charles Norris, John O'Neill, Shiel Barry, Michael Connolly (or- chestra leader at Niblo’s), Jonn Bennett, Mr. Beck (Frank Lesite’s), — Carpenter, Benjamin F. Por- ter, Charles Furbish, George Maxwell, George it f eorge Farren, John Fullman and William . Manley. Hardly had the eee | been effected when the report of acannon was heard, and, looki up, the boys saw the yacht tilus bowling down upon the dock, flying the flag of the Nautilus Club. The yacht had been reserved for the Shah, but as he had sent regrets in choice Persian it was used to hog several other high-toned guests from the city. hen the smoke cleared away Mr. Shiel Barry was seen pulling rapidly toward the yacht in @ dugout; but the appearance of the long co- lumbiad amidships, and the manly form with blaz- ing torch, frightened the great Feeney of. Then three other boats, pulled by kings, knights, lovers and first murderers, put off tor the piratical craft; but the seas ran so high that they were also force: to put back and seek the shelter of the shore, where the water was still. ‘The launch of the remaining boats was the next thing, and the five beautiiul barges, flying the Club colors, were soon afloat. Mr. Shiel Barry, finding some difficulty in launching his own dinkte, he was seated in it, and the whole establishment was given to the waves amid the cheers of THE EXCITED POPULACE and the thunder of a nine-inch cannon on & sloop hard by. It is due to Mr. Barry to say that he bore himself throughout the trying ordeal in @ most sat- isfactory manner, Ashort pull across the rippling water brought the flotilla to the pebbly shore of High Island, which, out of compliment to the great poet whose Leh inspires these men, should be called Avon isle, or by some other pretty name of dramatic significance. ‘The Nautilus was already at ancnor, and when the Club had assembled upon the float In @ quaint old Knicker- her occupants landed. bocker style the Governor bade the guests “wel- come to Kisinore,” and said, in @ voice husky with emotion, ‘We shall teach you to drink deep ere you return.’ Just as the old man had got as far as “not that I love Gotham less, but I love High Isiand more,” Mr. Iky Street wanted to know from Mr. John O'Neill whether a half acre patch in his pantaloons carried that famous “rent the envious Casca made.”’ The scorn that gamboiled over Mr. O’Neill’s classic features was superb. This sideshow knocked all the eloquence out of the Governor and he sat down. The island itself is worthy of digressive description. It sweeps away from the shore into a lofty 4 on the top of which is the club house, Upon the mall 1m front is a tent, fying the ensign of France. All around the edge of the island nature gives evi- dence of her rude handiwerk. Huge boulders are piled one on the other in reckless contusion ; there are canyons and guiches, and miniature lakes of rain water, ». One pauses in awe as he treads these dangerous passes, and inadvertently thinks of the Modocs and THE LAVA BEDS, half expecting to see some of the Shack Nasties emerge from their retreats. But they did not emerge. At first, as the fotilla drew near, it was thought that no one occupied this wild and roman- tic isle, , But in an instant there flashed upon the eyes of the approacaing gompany, from the cor- ner of the house, a strange apparition. It was of human shape and carried bejore it a biazing smeld. “Ha! ' said Matthew Snyder, as he caught a crab, ‘'Tis Zamiel, the red fiend of the haunted gien.” But it wasn’t; it was BROWN, THE COLORED COOK, busily upon in burnishing a coifee pot. A stroil through the island gave one an idea of its topograph. id resources. No gold mines have been discovered yet, although the members are hopeful. Of the interior no one thoroughly knows, it never having been fully explored, It is naturally entirely surrounded by water, and a spiked can- non, upon a commanding biuff, bids intruders be- ware. So dees a bulldog, with @ saffron com- plexion, which is chained to the orchard—an apple tree. The island is bounded on one side by City Island, om the other by Hart's Island, above by the sky and below by China, There isa long, narrow bar stretching out Into the sea, but, it being Sunday, 1B BAR WAS CLOSED. ‘The house is sensible and commodious, are bedrooms, a dining room and kitchen. cel is the ‘der, which looks as it the island were provisioned for an Arctic cruise in search of the Polaris, Alter the debarkation clams were the first thing in order. Seated beneath the apple tree, the breeze playing a weird melody through the branches, one gazed with rapture upon the vast Diue stretch of glittering water, the white-winged yachts, the ide | sky, the rolling hills on every side, crowned with verdare, through which peeped the turrets of stately chateaux, and then turned sadly swallow a@ clam. The clams were good, and seemed to appreciate, as much as an ignorant and debased clam can apprectate anything, the fact that they were fulfilling their destiny. they were opened in all sorts cf ways with all sorts of instruments—knuives, swords, bayonets and foils being used Lay alge be ‘Then came dinner, The first intimation of the READINESS OF THE BANQUET was a drum solo executed by Charley Porsloe. the “call” every man was on hia feet, and in There In the At ‘ne mgn visitors. did it express a to & horse, there was no break im the entertainment, The nomenclature of the gentlemen who brought on the things was at least peculiar. ‘Will you have beef, sir?” “Yes, sir.” “What, ho! slave without, t out the beefl” Terms now, DO doubt, obsolete, were plentifully used. cae, yo abe ie “pansies ¢ a little nigan!’ if so give me your ‘gazape.’” And so the jeast went eS right merrily, despite the remark of Mr. Ike Street, that the “belles of the kitchen” were raising a fearful tow. During the progress of the dinner it was natural to muse upon the changes you saw wrought before you. Yon gentleman with a red shirt and his hair @la Modoc, whom you saw last in ‘coat of inky black,” saying so sadly, “Ay, but thereis, and much offence toe,” has jsust requested his neighbor to ‘AG HIS NIBS,’? which mystic remark was ‘ound to mean “look at the President,” Romeo is there, in checked shirt and big booty caring to bet Mercutio @ bottle of wine that he Can eat the most claims. Alter the dinner and across “the walnuts and the wine’ there was the usual sparkle of postprandial wit, Songs were wanes among them the foliowing, dedicated to Harry Cunningham, words by Mr. Harry McCarthy, music by Mr. Michael Connoily :— Yiempgunders. of Shakspeare's heroes, en the season draws near to a close, How ve'll welcome the day that ye'll ‘hasten away Where the bo sin full harmony mieet | ‘or No gau lay mars tho jo} ry At High fian ‘the Actors” howent! . “Much in little” Club, ‘tis a good name, For how much may be gained oy cach game ‘That wil strengthen the heart, and renewed nerve dr For another year's struggle for ‘ame. With fishing, with boating, with swimming, Such joking, such laughi: such singing, For yo tree from ali care ire the boys that are there, ‘That the rocks are with merriment ringing. There's Hamlet, you've oft seen before, But he!s now digging clams on the shore, And a lover of note 18 builing a boat For Macbeth asleep by the door. Wo have Momus, Apollo and Thalia, But as they are Got in regalia, a oo the sho re you never would know, they belon; e show, Unless some kind trlend were to tell vou Then the probletarians had a show at the table, Mr. Mat Snyder presiding “with his customary grace.” After telling his friends that his home Was the burning desert and he waa cradied in the hot sirocco, he requested them to pass up their Yaasenes!! and be helped. This merry crew wound up wil A OHINESE SONG and an appropriate walk around. A quiet cigar, a loll upon the green grass, a bath in the salt water and it was time for the visitors to be off. The “Multums"’ pulled them over to the island, and cheered as the boat steamed away, Mr. John O'Neill adding to the excitement of the “send om’ by taking @ header, while in full uni- form, into the Sound. Then the members returned to their island retreat, where they intend to stay until the Ist of Septem- ber, when the orchestra once more “breathes fitfally,”” once more the footlights fash and the Play goes on, They will have an exquisite time of it this Summer, while less fortunate beings broil in the city, get the cholera and enjoy all the other advantages of a metropolitan existence, They have fishing tackle, guns aad boats and no intruders, A DELICIOUS CARBLESSNESS in attire will not be the least enjoyable feature. No ladies under any consideration are allowed on the island, and so the subject of dress will not bother them. Even the married men have to go to the water's edge and say “good morning’’ to their wives on City Island through a telescope. Next Summer a new and elegant club house will be built, and the “Multum in Parvo’ will enter its fifth sea- son with an unparalleled burst of magnificence. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. RENAN’s “Anti-Christ’’ is announced in an Eng- lish translation by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Tne Saturday Review has “crammed” upon the subject of the Persian language, with which it is enarmed. The Persian, it says, is superior to the Arabic or the Sanscrit; it is*equally adapted to philosophy, to history and to poetry. The great Arabian law-giver said that Persian ought to be spoken in Paradise ; it is “the French of the East;” and it {s admirably suited to proverbs, repartee, social affairs and diplomacy. See, now, whata Shah may bring torth! MATTHEW ARNOLD has a new book in press on “Higher Schools and Universities in Germany.” THE Cantab is a new monthly magazine sup- ported by the professors and scholars of Cam- bridge. Emig OLIvrer is in Florence, writing a history of Machiavelli. Tux London Chronicle has been bought by a com- pany for £30,000, and will be made more metro- politan and less suvurban than it has hitherto been. The paper 1s @ daily, and contains a won- dertul array of advertisements of the ‘wanted’ order. M. Vicror Huo has just finished the book upon which he has been engaged since last Summer. It wilt be entitled “Quatrevingttrieze,” with “La Guerre Civile” as the first series, ANOTHER member of tho House of Peers, follow- ing the example of the Duke of Somerset and Earl Russell, is about to publish a book on the claims of Christianity. Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe has written a work with the title “Why Am I a Chris- tian?” Says the American Bookseller's Guide, apropos of ireight charges on newspapers :— We learn that some of the railroads running out of New York cit: e in the habit of charging more for carrying packages of the daily papers than for other classes of freight. We are at a loss to unde’ eg why they sheuld make such an unjust, wel unwise, discrimination: unjust, because apers are as easily handled as most other kinds 0! freight, and unwise, because it interferes with the circulation of the city journals in the ad- jacent towns and retards the growth of those towns, whose local traMic is_an item of considera- bie profit tothe roads. The Philadelphia railroads settled the question of their relation to the news- we some time ago. They reasoned very sensi- ly that to encourage local trafic and facilitate the growth of towns along their lines they should use their influence to supply those towns with metro- politan conveniences and ussist the Philadelphia Merchants to advertise their. goods extensively. ‘They saw that the city newspaper was their most powerful ally, and concluded that they could better afford to extend its circulation by carrying it free than to obstruct it for the petty profit they could derive from express charges. Since then thez have been carrying the daily paper without cost to publismers or pewsdealers. If these conclusions were true for New York and if our railroads are to discriminate at all it should be in favor of the newspapers, not against them. Tuk Scorch CONSERVATIVES are about to start a daily paper in Glasgow, and £70,000 are said to have been subscribed for the purpose. Every penny of it will be wanted. Mr. J. E. Bartey has in the press an exhaustive life of Dr. Thomas Fuller, on which he has been en- gaged for several years, The work goes largely into the family history and genealogy. In REVISING his earlier works Mr. Tennyson omit- ted several poems to be found in the first editions, It occurred to Mr. Hotten that some people might like to have the verses thus withdrawn from pub- lic notice, and so, without asking Mr. Tennyson's leave, he printed them, under the title of “The Laureate’s Dropt Poems.” An injunction to stop the sale was, however, soon obtained by Mr. Ten- nyson, and “The Laureate’s Dropt Poems’’ is pow @ rare and curious book A. KI&L, Professor of Philosophy, bas, according to the German papers, given a ball to celebrate the 2,302 anniversary of the birth of Plato! A CURIOUS symptom of the present social condi- tion of Germany is that one of the heads under which the contents of the ZWustrirte Zeitung are divided is, ‘‘Strike-Angelegenhelten.”” THE Saturday Review reviews mercilessly one of the “goody’’ books of which the age is so prolific, entitled “Very Little Stories for Very Little Girls.” It says:— This author, with her ‘words in season” for Spring time, reminds us that we once heard of a person tn greasy black clothes and a white tie who got into ap omnibus and hanced to his fellow trav- ellers # traet bearing the inspiring titie—“‘Are you aware that you are going to heir To “ApsTain from writing further, at any rate for some while to come,” is the candid advice which the Saturday Review gives Mr. Joaquin Mil- ler, A Memorr of General Robert E. Lee, written by his nephew's wife, Mrs, Childe, appeared in the June number of the Paris Revue des Deux Mondes, and is attracting much attention in Europe. “UNION COLLEGE, Scougnucrapy, N. Y., July 7, 1878. The President and Secretary of War have assigned Captain Ward, U.S. A., a graduate of West Point, to the professorship of military science and mathe matics in Union College. The following degrees have been conferred :—L. L. D. on Professor O. P. Chandler, of Columhia College, and Rev. J. W. Nevin, D. D., of Lancaster, Pa.; D. D. on Rev. John Vaughan Lewis, of Washington, D.C., and Rey, inatany at the table. The rst party dined were, | Jagoh Fry, of Reading, Pa THE BSCAPE FROM THE TOMBS, —_—————_ How “Billy Bruce,” the Celebrated Hotel Thief, Got Out of the City Prison. a Soenes at the Tombs Yosterday—The Female Visitors and How They Aid and Abet Their Incareerated Friends—The Dreadfal Chances Taken by “Billy Brace’ —A Sketch of The escape of William J. Barclay, or “Billy Bruce” (the latter being his real name), ‘rom the Tombs on Friday night has caused considerable excitement among the criminal classes and much wonderment among those who have the care of the prisoners in the City Prison, A reporter of the HERALD Visited the Tombs yesterday for the pur- pose of personally ascertaining the mode of es- cape. It was during the two busy hours of the day, when the prisoners are allowed to receive visitors, At each cell door was a prisoner's friend or relative holding converse with the inmate turough tho irqn bars, Nearly all of these visitors were women, and they were neatly and expensively dressed. /Meet any one of them on Broadway, and it would never be supposed that their fair lips or neat at- tire had been pressed closely to the iron grating of @ cellin the Tombs. Mrs, Walworth and another lady were at Frank Walworth’s cell, which is now on the ground floor in aline with those occupied by Sharkey, Gillen and other murderers. It is this female attendance that has, no doubt, given the chance of escape to Bruce. Alady, with ladylike manners and @ countenance that showed no guile, was daily in the habit of calllag upon Bruce, That her countenance was no iidex to her character is shown in the circumstance that she was the lady who figured so prominently about nine montha ago in the Jersey City Bank robbery. THIS FEMALE FRIEND no doubt conveyed into the prison, hidden away within the mysterious folds of the outward attire of woman, the rope, with the steel hooks attached, that enabled Bruce to lower himself from captivity tofreedom. ‘This was, however, by no means all that was neediul for his escape. He must have been furnished with a skeleton key 80 admirable in its construction that all locks opened to ita touch. The rope and skeleton key once in his cell, the next problem was how to get himself and them out. This he easily solved. Me was a small man— he weighed only ninety pounds. By a strange com- bination of favorable circumstances he had been placed on the fourth tier of ceils, the tier next to the roof, His cell was second from the right hand side of the staircase, over which stair- case was @ trap door in the side of the wall leading to the roof, He was of course locked in his cell at bedtime; to unlock the doors he had to put his hand through the open iron work, The place where the hand went through looks so small that it seems hardly large enough ior a child’s hand; yet it was quite large enough (or his hand to through, ior larger men than he, inmates of Tombs, have ASTONISHED THE WARDEN by shor through. him that they could pat their hands ‘esterday it was discovered that the cell doors on these tiers have larger open irom work than the cells on the tiers below. So there were three circumstances that favored this man’s escape. It is probavie that it was accidental that he was laced on the top tier near the roof, that he was ut in & which had cell that was near toa Key door, an door openings larger than those of the cells of the tiers below. Accidental or not he availed ofit. There are three keepers inside the prison at night, They pass each man’s cellevery hal! hour, or are supposed to doso. They do this with the regularity of the clock, 80 thata prisoner knows when to expect them. Immediately aiter midnight on Friday Bruce put his hand through his cell door, having first fixed his bed so that, pillow shor represent him comfortably asi and with his skeleton key he unlocked the cell door. The next step was the dare-devil act of the whole scheme. It Brace was unassisted in his escape it was liter- ally instantaneous death or almost INSTANTANEOUS LIBERTY. A small ladder of rough construction, used about the prison and generally on this tier, was placed with its foot on the narrow, founded iron railing, and its top about twelve inches froin the bottom of this door, which was locked. To reach over to this lock risked the capsizing of the ladder and the |g ce of the man who was upon it down the ron staircase into the lowest tier below. The Warden has offered $100 to any of the prisoners whe will unlock this door and get into the room, unassisted, from the ladder placed as this ladder must have been. None have accepted the offer. One or two have said they will do itil the Warden will give them their liberty. The trap dvor reached in safety the rest was easy, with the help of the hooked rope; all noise made by Bruce was deadened by the exponen of 4th of July fire- works, and he reached the street, where, no doubt, his friends were already prepared to receive him, Bruce took all these risks, though he must have known that on the charge for which he had obtained a new trial he could never have been con- victed. It was for aa alleged hotel robbery, ané the prosecutor had LEFT FOR OALIFORNA, could not now be jound, and was not likely to re turn to prove the theit against him. A guilty conscience, that makes cowards of us all, was, no doubt, the bere ge ary age to his escape. He was not quite sure that he might not be indicted for crimes committed, but not et present traced home te him, and therefore he would make an effort to get away. He had been in the State Prison at Sing S.ng for a term of five years for burglary. He had served a term in the Pennsylvamia prison for hotel robbery. He was arrested in Freehold, Monmouth county N. J., for breaking into the room of a guest Of a prominent hotel there, and stealing thousands of dollars worth of diamonds, and he escaped irom the jail there. He was the dread of hotel keepers and bank officers. To-day he is enjoying a semi-kind of liberty. Messrs. Howe & fiummel had obtained for him a new triai, and he had been brought from the State Prison to the Tombs to await that trial, What the result of that trial would have been has been al- ready indicated, but there is no doubt that the above firm have consciously or unconsciously beep istrumental in the escape of a notorious thief, POLITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. The Washington Capital asserts that it isthe opinion of the administration there that General Butler will be: nominated Governor of Massachu- setts and elected. The Capital calls Butler the “Lowell anaconda,” and avers that Massachusetts is drifting into his coils, Senator Tipton, of Nebraska, has converted his back pay bounty jump into—an elegant mansioo at home. That's where charity begins, you see. The Dayton (Ohio) Herald (Vallandigham’s dis- trict) was inclined to endorse the Allen county movement, but General Brinkerhoff having put the label of liberal republicanism upon it the Herald ia not inclined to be so much of an endorser as it was at first. Thomas H. Armstrong has been endorsed as the republican candidate for Governor of Minnesota by the Olmsted County Republican Convention, GENERAL BEAUREGARD ON “UNIPICATION.”” General G. T, Beauregard, of New Orleans, has written a letter addressed to the peeple of Louis- jana on the subject of the “unification question,” or the union of the whites and blacks for self-pro tection against carpet-baggers and interlopers, and for supporting which he has been very broadly condemned by several Southern prints. By “car pet-baggers”’ he explains his meaning to be those corrupt and unscrupulous individuals who ge South only to occupy offices and despoil the people The General, in the address referred, to says:— 1 am persuaded that the natural relation between the white and colored people is that of friendshi Tam persuaded that their interests are deutioaly that their destinies in this State, where the t races are equally divided, are linked together; and that there is no prosperity for Louisiana which must not be the result of their co-operation, Iam equally convinced that the evils anticipated some from the practical enforcement of Tights are mostly imaginary, and that the rela tions of the races in the exercise of Ce ig will speedily adjust themselves to pat. isiaction of all. I take it that nothing bat malice or stupidity could find anything either in the letter or spirit of the uniication resointions which contemplates any interference or dictation in the private social relations of the people. These lie entirely outside the domain of legislation and pol tics. Tt would not be denied that in travelling and at places of public resort we often share these priv- lleges in common with thieves, prostitutes, gam- biers and others who have worse sins to answer for than the accident of color; but no one ever su Roe that we Lay | assented to the social eq ity of these Mt ‘with ourselves. | therefore say that participation in these public mgivieges ™ volves no question of social equality. By the enjoy- ment in common of such privileges neither whites nor blacks assert or assent to social equality, either with each other or even beywe lnaividuals Of the same [a6e