The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1873, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1873,—TRIPLE SHEET. “BREEZES PROM THE SBA. President Grant Going. to Mon- mouth Park To-Morrow. A Row at the Branch—A New York Artist in Cloth Badly Pummelled. me ed A FROG POLKA AT A CONCERT. The Saturday Hops at ‘the Hotels. _ Secretarv Richa::dson on the GoJd Deficit. THE PRESIDENT AT CHURCH Lona BRanon, Augast 24, 1873, The success Of yesterday's races at Monmouth Park has formed the principal topic of conversa- tion at the Branch to-day, and there is certain to ‘be a large attendance at the track on Tuesday and Wednesday next, The absence of all turf jockey- ‘mgin the racing and the admirable manner in which the arrangements were carried out win general approbation and have done much to raise ‘the character of the sport among the best classes of society. PRESIDENT GRANT TO SEE TUESDAY'S RACE. The President received a vistt last evening from @ome New York gentlemen who had attended the races, and was much interested in their accounts Of the. close contests for the several events. He ‘was glad, he said, to see the American people be- coming fond of horse racing, as he considers it ope ef the best public amusements that can be in- @uiged in, and he thought the idea of a race course 4m such convenient neighborhood to New York and Philadelphia could not fail to prove a grand suc- cess if properly managed. .He thought it likely that he should be present at Monmouth Park on ‘Tuesday @0 witness that day’s racing. This idea of ‘the President’s is a good one, and he should carry it out. The royal families of Englana and (for- merly) of France have been in the habit of attend- ing their own national sports, and there 1s good reason why the President of the United States should show an interest in and encourage by his Presence those amusements, that afe popular with the American peopfe. It is to be hoped that Presi dent Grant may be seen at Monmouth Park next Tuesday, and, from all I learn, I think it most likely that he will be there. He admires @ horse and loves a race. Why should he not at once gratify his own tastes and show a commendable sympathy with the amusements of his fellow citizens ? 4 BLIGHT ROW AT A FASHTONABLE RESORT. . Some excitement was occasioned last night ata fashionable resort at the west end of the beach, by a personal ditiiculty between two of the visitors, ene of whom is a Southern gentleman and the other a New Yorker. The latter, who, although mota lawyer, is largely interested in suits, had been indulging in wine and got into a quarrel with the Southerner, to whom he sought to “give Dts.” At all events he made use of language which no gentleman would be likely to lusten to patiently, and was knocked down alter the most approved fashion, measuring his length on the floor, His assailant proceeded to administer to him as good a basting as he haa ever been conversant with, and only desisted from sheer exhaustion, The New Yorker has probably learned the prudence of weighing his words tn the future, or, in other language, of cutting bis coat : according to his cioth. THE SERENADES TO THE PRESIDENT, The serenading of the President on the night of his “silver wedding” was not confined to Keat- ing’s Band. After the concert at the Ocean Hotei on that evening the male artists of the company, Messrs, Neison Varley, the tenor; Mr. Whitney, the Yamous bass singer, and Messrs. Humphreys and Barron, visited the ‘cottage by the sea” and sang somo of their most beautiiul pieces. Commissioner ‘Van Nort was aiso the recipient of a serenade, given him by General Blanchard, and the beach was made musical all night long by the imstruments @nd the voices of the serenaders, which sounded all the sweeter from the murmuring accompani- ment of the washing sea. A FROG POLKA. An reer occurred at Friday's con- cert. While Pattison, the well known pianist, was performing a very sweet polka movement a large sized frog, which had apparently lain sleeping on the carpet unobserved just in front of the audi- ence, suddeniy awoke, and just asthe air of the polka was reached commenced hopping about in excellent accord with the time of the movement. An enterprising spectator, desirous of putting a stop to the singular interruption, pounced upon the polkaing frog, seized him and ejected him from the room. Pattison declares that the peculariy (ef motion of the dancer has given him an for a frog polka, which he will no doubt com- THE PROMENADE CONCERTS AND HOPS, ‘The Saturday hops were ail again well attended last night. At the West End there was a full and fashionable meeting, and at Howland’s & very eie- gant company assembied, and a german was danced with much spiritand grace. The largest ‘affair was at the Ocean House, the occasion being @ grand promenade concert and subscription hop for the benefit of the Keating Band, which has won eo much honor at the Branch this season. The company was more select than usudl, and the Numbers present sufficient to ensure a substantial return to the band. Man, the costumcs ‘were very handsome and taste, those most noticeable a@ black velvet train, with white point lace flonnce; black velvet over- dress, with trimming of white point lace and a ‘white lace bertha, tled on the back and caught uj ‘with scarlet roses, which was worn by Mrs. George K. Otis, of Brooklyn. Her ornaments were of diamonds. Her daughter wore a very pretty white tulle dress, with pink sash and natural tlowers elaborately intertwined with the flounces. The Wife of General B. W. Blanchard, of the Governor's etaff, wore a very handsome salmon-colored moire fantique—a shade now much in fashiqn—cut of décolleté, fiounced and trimmed with white point lace, and diamond jewelry. There were other noticeable costumes {im the room, among them all the prevailing taste being displayed on the new shades of green and pink. The dancing was kept up until one o’clock, At the Mansion, United States and Metropolitan theré were also well attended hops. THE PRESIDENTIAL DEVOTIONS. The Presidential devotions were paid to-day, as usual, at the Centenary church. The day is exceedingly fine—a bright, warm sun- shine, but accompanied by a wind cool enough to make a shawi comfortable for ladies’ wear. THE REPORTED GOLD DEFICIT. ‘ The interesting interview of the HEraLp’s ‘Washington correspondent with Treasurer Spinner ‘on the subject of the alleged deficit in the gold balance in the United States Treasury brought out some B aes which were fully explained by Secre- tary Kichardson a few days ago, beiore he last leit Long Branch. It is impossible, says Mr. Richardson, to show an exact statement, at all times, of the gold actually in @ hands of the government. ‘There will be more or less coin in transit vetween th treasuries, or the points where the govern- ment gold accumulates, and the Treasury at Wash- Ington. A few weeks ago $5,000,000 was sent on here from San Francisco, and for a week while in ‘transit it did not appear as received at Washing- ton, and would not have been found in Francisco if the coin there had been then counted. Recently $17,000,000 of our bonds, redeemed in England, were sent over here to be cancelled, ‘They were thirteen or fourteen days on the voyage. After that they had to be examined, the coupons compared and the proper entries made in all the books in different bureaus, which would occupy another week. Ali this time they entered into the government balances, although they were in fact redeemed and prac: tically cancelled. These things are not of extraor- dinary occarrence—they are happening every day. Thus “the Treasury reports, although literally correct, can never represent the exact condition of balances, 8 this is in sub- stance Secretary Richardson's explanation, as well as Treagurer Spinner’s, tt is evident that we cam never reckon upen there being as Mauch gold in the ession of the government as the published balances show, although there may be no defalcation. Hence in reckoning the suppiy Of gold it will always be safe to deduct a few mii- Hons from the reported amount in the Treasury, THE SURF BATHING. The surf bathing since the storm has greatly im- roved. There has been some calculation made of ‘he amount of soll taken from the Jersey coast by the recent high seas, and, probably, it may be correct. But the practical Lone has been id to cover over the pebbies which an re always to be Jound a few feet from the water's edge with fine sand, making tne whole bottom as soft asa velvet cat lay the Water was as warm as a tepid 1d thousands enjoyed the healthful and in- Steptoe fEchane aetna naan a lant, and @ vest 18 anticipated for the vresent week, et WATERING PLACE NOTES, Professor Theodore Dwight, of Columbia Coleg’, 1s at Cooperstown. Mount Desert Island, on the coast of Maj fifteen hotels—$2 a day. Ve. i Gollector Arthur and family, of the_.< York, are at Cooperstown, N. Yow raion Hon, Gideon Wells, ¢X-" -oretary of the Navy, of a Conn., is at Newport. = an jas givengat the Kearsarge House, North Conway, N. H., oa Saturday evening. Lieutenant A. H. Mrgrriil, United States Navy, is at the Atwood Hote’, Narragansett Pier, R. I. Two-thirds of ‘che ‘visitors at Saratoga Springs are New Yorkers, and the metropolitan ladies lead she fashions. _ A new, fiotel, to accommodate 400 Summer boarders, is to be erected this Fall at Narragansett Pior, R. any Colonel Audenreid, United States Army, and wife, are at tbe Cooper House, Cooperstown, N. Y. ‘The Colonel ts on General Sherman's staf, ° Governor Ingersoll, United States Senator Wil rior Court, all of Connecticut, are at Saratoga, United States Senator Henry B. Anthony, “of Rhode Island, is at the. Profile House, White Mountains, Dente 1 ‘Typhoid fever ts prevailing at Bar Bdtbor, Mount Desert, Me., which is attributable/to the over- crowding of the Summer population, At the banquet gtven at the Mcntgomery White Sulphur Springs, Va., on the 19th inst., Jubal Early appeared in his uniform of Confederate gray. The thermometer at the White Mountains seldom Tises above sixty-eight degrees, and fires are al- ways found to be comfortable in the evenings. Four deaths occurred in the families of visitors ‘at Martha’s Vineyard last week. The last one was achild belonging to the commercial editor of the Boston Advertiser. Statistics show that Newport has more old people and raises a greater percentage of children that are born there than any place of like population in the United States. From the top of Kearsarge Mountain, in New Hampshire, may be seen the birthplaces of Rzekiel and Daniel Webster,”William Pitt Fessenden, Governor John A. Dix, Vice President Henry A. Wilson, Lewis Cass, ex United States Senator James W. Grimes, of Iowa; United States Senator Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan; Levi Woodbury, Horace Greeley, General Benjamin F. Butler, ex- President Franklin Pierse and Chief Justice Chase. Among the visitors at Hampton Beach this sea- son is the venerable Judge Willard Hall, of Wilmington, Del., and his family. The Judge is now in bis ninety-fourth year, and with the single exceptien of considerable weakness in his limbs, is apparently as smart and vigorous as in his younger days. He is one of the oldest surviving graduates of Harvard, having graduated at that university in 1798. He was appointed United States District Judge by President Madison in 1813, which office he held forty-nine years. POLITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS, The Washington Republican avers that Reuben K. Fenton, the “eminent liberal republican re- former,’ is endeavoring to get back into the republican party. ‘The Cincinnati Commercial regards the removal of the statue of Jefferson from its position at the rear of the White House as the most suspicious evi- dence it has yet seen of Grant’s purpose to estab- lish Cesarism in the United States, The democratic candidate for Comptroller in Maryland having declared that “of all the great interests of the State that of agriculture is most paralyzed and prostrated,” the Washington Repub- can thinks this is the natural result of having old fogy democrats for State rulers, In view of Senator Fenton's reported aspirations for a second term the Washington Star affirms that Shakspeare’s opinion on the Subject becomes interesting. This is what he says:— Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here? You wrong ime, sir, thas still fo haunt my house. The Cincinnati Times thinks the mastodon was one of William Allen’s contemporaries of early days, He might have been, for he is still six feet two in his stockings, with neither a Crook in his back Nor a melancholy crack in his voice. The Springfield (Ill.) Journal says after Jef Davis’ speech before the Southern Historical Socie- ty, it never realized what an act of magnanimity the government committed in not “hanging Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree.” The Chicago Tribune says that one of the prin- cipal grievances wfich has brought on the struggle between the farmers and the railroads “is the glut of farm products and consequent low prices and unprofitable farming.”’ Did not the high rates of transportation nave something to do with it? A Western paper thinks that the grand qnadru- ple tracks on the New York Central Railroad are not only intended to facilitate transportation for the West, but also to switch the owner of the road into the Presidential chair. The St. Louis Democrat (republican), referring to the farmers’ movement, expresses the firm belief “that these manifestations of public indignation and determination for reform qill powerfully aid the better element within the republican party to purge it of all unworthy leaders and representa- tives, and to render it in the best and highest sense worthy of public confidence.” Ifit does this it will accomplish a great good for the counjry. Senator Morton opens the campaign in Ohio by a speech in Cleveland to-morrow evening, The Rochester Democrat (republican) very kindly Says of the venerable candidate for Governor o7 Obio:—‘‘We read too much about ‘Oid Bill Ayn? It ts altogether too irreverent and un‘gnified. Mr. Allen is extremely old, and his"rreat age de- serves ne such treatment. Poscipiy ne is a bad Bill, as well as an old one; but, we must insist that he be treated respectfu'.y until he is withdrawn from circulation.” PSST. <n eo eee ~ THE LIBERAL REPUBLICANS, ‘The Democratic State Committee Invited te Unite with the Liberals in Calling @ State Convention. Penn Yan, N. Y., August 22, 1873, Hon, ALLEN ©. Brach, Chairman Executive Com- mittee Democratic State Committee :- SiR—At a meeting of the Liberal Republican State Committee, held at Saratoga, on the 31st day of July, 1873, the following resolution was adopted :— Resolved, That all questions relating to the future action of this committee, revresenting the liberal repub- liean party of the State, reparding the time, place and mode of its convention and its action generally in the coming camnpaign, be referred to the Executive Commit- tee thereof, with tull power, hereby advising them, be- fore taking any action, to irame a call embracing the Cincinnati platiorm, with such additions as may be deemed proper, and invite all opponents of the present administration to unite in such a call for a State Conven- tion, with the view of combining all opposition to said administration in a united movement. At q meeting of the Executive Committee, held at Penn Yan this day, | was instructed, in accord- ance with the above resolution, to invite your com- mittee to unite with ours in a call for a State Con- vention, such as 1s defined in the above resolution, with a view of cembining all opposition to the resent administration in a united movement. Sur committee desire that the action of your State Committee on this subject be had and communi- cated at as early a day as practicable. Any communication addressed to mo at box 150 New York Post Ofice will reach me. Yours, re- spectiully, JOHN COCHRANE, Chairman of Executive Committee, THE BERALD AND ITS EXCHANGES, en (From the Pittsburg Gazette, August 23,) ‘The New York HERALD has adopted a liberal Policy, in dealing with the press of the country, in the matter of exchanges. It proposes to increase rather than curtail its list. This, as indicative of bea the spirit of liberality which obtains so generally in “the management of the HERALD, is entirely The Gazette, while it could doubt- less dispense with more. or less of ite exchanges, has adopted a similarly liberal policy, in the matter of exchanges. We believe the plan pursued tobe wise, in that @ single item of important news ob- tained from an exchange may be worth a year's exchange. And news, like diamonds, is often pd. tained srom very unexpected sources, tam A. Buckingham, and Judge Minor, of the Supe- / | ENGLISH WATERING PLACES, e NO. 2-MALVERN. Disadvantages of Visiting Watering Places Out of Their Season. SARATOGA LATE AND MALVERN EARLY: OOS ar Places and Scenery by the London to the Town of Hills and Fountains, ral he Water-Cures and Their Treatment. ° Lonpon, August 8, 1878, It is with places as with people. There are some of them that you never catch at the rignt mo- ment—that you always see under disadvantageous -cireumstances, There wad profound knowledge of the world in that old sentence quoted by the Eton Latin grammar, “Jn tempore ad eam Vent, quod omnium rerum est primum''—“I came to her at a fitting season, which is of all things the most im- portant.” Come upon the belle with her hair in curl-papers, the bishop in bis dressing gown, the diner-out learning anecdotes from commonplace booxs and jokes from Joe Miller, with which to de- light the assembled crowds, and all your highly- wrought expectations are disappointed. It is the same with places, It has been my lot in my time to see some of the great ‘‘shows” of Nature and Art, and I declare that, with the excep- tion of Niagara, none of them came ‘up to an- ticipation. In some cases this disappointment can be accounted for by the fact that I visited them atthe wrong time. Take Saratoga, for instance. I Proposed to go to Saratoga “last September soon after landing in New York. I was told it was too lave; that the season was oyer; that J should find the place “played out,”’ and that I ought not to judge of it in its glory by the mere fragmentary remnants of splendor which I should find. I pleaded in excuse that I could not get there before, and that I should have returned home before its glories were renewed; that I was bound to see Saratoga @8 a far-famed American institution, and that if I could not behold it in the ‘mild freshness of morn- ing” I would at least take stock ofit in “evening’s best light.’ So I started, by way of Albany and Troy, in a car with one of my countrymen, who seemed to have crossed the Atlantic with the sole purpose of see- ing West Point, and he worried our fellow passen- gers to show it to him before we had well got clear of Spuyten Duyvil. I don’t recollect where we changed cars for Saratoga, and I haven’t my Appleton handy for reference, but I remember we lay over an unreasonable time in Troy, and that | when we did get under way for Saratoga our pro- gress was so remarkably mild and unostentatious— we were backed and shunted and sidea and switched, we rang so much bell and biew off so much steam, we rolled along so siowly and we stopped so ofven for the engineer to ask after his aunt’s health, or for the conductor to buy a few grapes for his bedridden grandsister, that I began to believe the season was indeed over long before I got there. When I reached the depot there was no longer any doubt about it. The cars had been playing about at their own sweet will so long that we did notarrive until nearly midnight, and only two or three hacks were waiting. As there were ladies in our party I made arush to secure one of these, and being successful we were driven off to Congress Hall. “Our entrance was sufficiently depressing. For days we had been baking and broiling in New York, under the rays of the most splendid sun, and thongh coming along in the cars we had been somewhat cooled by, the breezes from the Hudson, we had not noticed any sensible difference in the temperature. But when we arrived at Congress Hall we found all the doors shut and the lighted stove surrounded by its circle of mute worshippers. I have seen that idol and its devotees hundreds of times since, but that was my first experience of it and them. The stove glowed and the ring fence of humanity encircling it stared, and I made my way past it and them and consulted the clerk in the office. as to rooms. Contd we have any? Considering that the hotel holds fifgeen hundred people and there were about fifty staying there at the time there was no question about the possi- bility of accommodation. But the clerk was very short and sharp with me, and gave me to under- stand—If not by words, by looks and manner—that he looked upon our coming there at such a time in the light of a liberty. He also; took occasion to remark that the house would be closed in two days and that consequently our stay would be limited. They were evidently careless afout our impressions of the magnificence of the establish- ment, and the best rooms were probably already closéd, for they gave us very mangey, little apartments, and declined to pay any attention when we rung the bell, and I never shall forget the . “abomination of desolefon,” a kind of feeling which overwhelmed me ‘vhen a aps fee pba gentieman, actingas head waiter, showed four of us to a table in a room, Otnerwise empty, in which twice four hundred | could have been accommodated witn ease. It was | my first experience of colored waiters in the United States, and to the last I always found them the quickest, best tempered, most truthful and most obliging of attendants. Considering that this is meant to be one ofa series of articles on English watering places, and that it is headed “Malvern,” I do not quite under- stand why, thus far, I have writven about anything but Saratoga; but i suppose I may ag well finish the second day’s experience there. The next morning | discovered how utterly played out every- thing was. I had heard of the gorgeous costumes of the Saratoga belles, and J saw ladies oe about dressed almost as dowdily as an Englis! woman en I had heard marvels of the carriages and horses, the buggies, the trotting wagons, at saw only a few old shandry-dans tumbling about amidst over- whelming clouds of dust. 1 visited the Indian en- campment, from which the Indians had wisely re- tired, and the “Circular Ratiway,”’ which «had ceased running. 1 was compelled to content my- self with merely an outside view of the Tempie of Chance which looks so modest, so villa-like, and yet within whose walis you can “make your game while the ball 18 a-rolling;” can back the black or the color, or can find a private room for a littie quiet draw-poker, in deflance of the Young Men’s Christian Association. All the springs, Columbia, Washington and Congress, were to be had for the asking. There one gets fried atoes at the Lake Hotel, and on the lake itself the Silver Moon was still conveying passengers on periodical trips, but the place wag ciearly played out, and / fled irom it in despair, A FRESH START. It is obvious that the condition of my brain must be illegical as that of Fluellen, when he compared Macedon and Monmouth for the reason that there is a rider in each; but I confess hoseeny that what led me drifting into reminiscenses of Saratos when pledged to write about Malvern, was not merely that both are watering places, but that I visited each at the wrong time. For, as Charles Lamb, when reproached by his superiors for arriv- ing late at his oficial duties at the India House, replied that he always made up for it by leaving early, so I, having arrived at Saratoga after the’ season hed terminated, made up for it by arriving at Malvern before the season had commenced. It is impossible, however, to imagine a lovelier journey than that from London to Mal- vern in the bright summer weather, or one tnrouga a country fuller of more charming associations. ‘The very starting point, the Paddington depot, is in one of the most aristocratic parta of London; the carriages are better, the servants more civil than on any other line. So soon as we are outside the Manking lines of bri i mortar we come upon green, sweet-smellii yuburbs, th among which is Hanwell, where there is lunatic asylum, apropos of which I know a ere story. A gentleman travelling to London had been annoyed all the way by the talkativeness of a passenger, who would not be put down. As passed Hanwell be garrulous man broke out “Beautiful place, sir; the asylum leoks splendi: from the railroad!” “It does, indeed,” said the rsecuted being; ‘but pray tell us, sir, how does The Tatlroad look from the asylum ?”’ The man said no more. BRAUTINE WE PASS, Parther on we catch our first impse of Windsor Castle, Attest residence for monarchs, with ite grim round tower, its magnificent St, George's chapel, beneath whose pavement rest the ‘mortal ating of sovereigns Pie grand ter- race overlooking the umbr: yas trees and ver- dant tugs of tae Great Park, gp asgociated with Way, from ee Saratoga, and that the place was played out | memories of Falstaff and th erry Wives.” A little further is Maidenhead, the grand riverside resort of London’s ‘sweils,” who have a splendid hotel handy for them (Skindle’s), with the Guards’ Club House next toit. Here, in the garden, loung ing at full length, orin punts or rowboats, on & summer's alternoon, you may see some of the best known men and women in society—and out of it! Close by are the ‘splendid woods of Oliefden, the Duke of Sutherland's piace, and Cookham, per- haps the most charming spot on the Thames, Henley and Mariow lie just off our route; near the latter is the famous Medmenham Abbey, where an order of modern Franciscans was established about century , of which John Dilkes, the politictan, and Churchill, the poet, were prominent members, ‘Their doings were terribly licentious and quite in accordance with their motto, “Fay ce que vou- dras” (do a8 you please). Mr. Mortimer Collins, who may be relied on as the Laureate of the — eee ey bere song about Med- ch Le — ham, & Verse of Which Lextract j— ji & que @udras, inaided sweek, Fay ey What willest thou in the noontide heat? A boat, and to drop with the current down, Crushing the lilles, to Marlow towns Cool will the air on the river be, And loving brown eyes will gaze on me, As the beech woods ilroop to the sinuous shore, And Thames is stirred by a lazy oat! As the train shoots alon; ou see people stretehed under the trees, s from the rion. tide heat, and a Bene ooxing fellow sculling & boat, in the stern of which sits a pretty girl, her arm hanging over the water, “with idle fingers fretting the tide,” and you wonder, with Brown- ing— Oh, which were best, ‘To roam or rest, ‘The land’s lap or the water's breast. But you have not much time left to wonder in. Here is that wonderful mass of spires and domes which is all the ratlway traveller sees of Ox{ford, most venerable of seats of learning, never over- looked by the American citizen, however hurried may be his English tour. It is pleasant to see the children of the New World issuing forth from the eosey Mitre, or the comfortable Clarendon, accom- panied by the professional guide, who is to chant bis commonplace story in his wearying voice; not that the historical portion of it is needed by his customers; English history is far better known in America than in our own country, and, so far as useful bi ccoees education 18 “concerned, I would kK a boy out of a free school in any of the big towns of Connecticut (I name that State because in itl made acquaint- ance with the educational system of America) ainst that of the gentlemen in caps and gowns who are parading the High street, Oxford. Not tnat thig is to be taken as a sneer against the ad- vantage ofclassical education. No one believes more heartily in themthan I do, in thejr place; but to fit them for the various careers which, a& gentlemen, they can never fulfil, and froni which half a century go they were by pride and ignorance debarred, the university curriculum is worse than useless, After leaving Oxford you eome to Moreton-in- Marsh, the place of residence of Lord Redesdale Anne is chairman of committees of the House of rds, and knows more of its traditions ‘hap an other peer), and a number of little country plac the only noticeable one being Worcester, a quaint cathedral town, with the great salmon-producing river, the “Silver Severn,” flowing through its midst. Here the country, which has hitherto been very fat, becomes undulating, and when you reach Maivern you see before you a chain of hills which, in Belgium or Holland, would pass for mountains, and the highest of which is between 1,400 and 1,500 feet above the sea level. THE HILLS ARE MALVERN, and Malvern ts the hills, The inhabitants make their living out of them, and enthusiastic visitors speak of nothing else. The water—another pride of Malvern—is, as Enoch Arden satd it, “slipping trom the hills”’—notably at St. Ann’s Well, whither eople resort before breakfast arfy at intervals all 4 long to get a drink of the pure and SES in ne uid. It does not, | believe, pretend to any medici- nal qualities, though there are in it component parts of iodide of potassium and carbonates of soda and magnesia, chloride of magne- sium and sulphate of soda, all of which have theireffect. But its principal reeommenda- tion is its freedom from organic matter, in wh: respect it is unequalled certainly in England, and, 1 believe, throughout Europe. “Water, water everywhere” at Malvern, and not merely “drops to drink,” but gallons, oceans for drink, for bathing, for every conceivable purpose. There are physi- cians who have made large fortanes out of nothing but the Malvern water, the application of common sense to silly people and the knowledge of the re- cnperative powers of nature and the weakness of the human race. The highest and finest situated houses are held by these physicians, whose patients live with them en pension, or, in the more familiar phrase, are their “boarders.” Coniormity to the rules of thé establishment is strictly insisted on from the boarders, and I can tell you that means something. It means giving up stimulants and alcoholic drink of all kinds during the entire time you remain inthe house, Of all kinds, and at all times; don’t forget that! I know the white pitch- ers of ice water on the public dining tables in d- a eauaih This being the last American hotels; but also do I know ,the nicely appointed bar to which resort is made at the con- ehision of the meal and (ie A during the rest of the di None of that at Malvern, my cocktailing riend! No dry SantaCruz punch; no pint bottle of Monopole, with a lump of ice; no toothtul of old Madeira (8. Ward, Esq., of Wash- ington, D. C., what memories of thee does the mere writing the word evoke!) ; no ‘smile’ of old or Monongahela! Aqua pura drink, and nothing else! Do ‘you know further what “the treatment” means? It means being routed Out of your bed at five A. M. by @ strong valet who hurls you into an pe-caig batt it means walking miles up hill before breakfast ; i means being stripped at intervals and packed in wet sheets; 1t Means total deprivation of your tobacco in every shape and form; it means going to bed at nine o'clock, after the excitement of a rub- ber of sixpenny whist with three old ladies. They say the “treatment” does you good, and I say “soit ought.’ To the dyspeptic or the ennuyés, to those who, have lived too fast or those who have worked too hard, the air, the water, the regimen, the exer- cise and the quiet are wonderfully recuperative, The late Lord Lytton, brain-bound und exhausted, came down to Malvetn and received such benefit that he sung its praises in a pamphlet, and many other invalids have testified their gratitude by votive offerings in the shape of ornamental and useful ad- ditions to the pretty little hill-side town, For those im health there 1s nothing to doin Malvern, and but little to see, beyond the enormous mMap-like panorama which extends all around. There ig al Ahcient priory church, the usual num- ber gf gentlemen’s seats, the usual obelisk, erected to due memory of some dead worthy, decent angling and fox-hunting. The riding of donkeys is much cultivated by the ladies, and the climbers of the hills provide themselves with Alpenstocks, and probably, if they “make believe’ very much like Mr. Swiveller’s Murchioness, imagine that they have uncountered danggys equal to those of the Matterhorn. I speak bold on these point, but my assertions must be taken cum grano, for all I write ison hearsay. When I visited Malvern, although late in July, the season had been unaccountably deterred, and the place wasempty. There were nota score of us in the Imperial Hotel, a vast and handsome building, capable of containing Pineie of nundred, and Malvern was waiting for her guests. 8 4 EDMUND YATES, GIVEN UP BY THE SEA. eee ver. vr eet nies Obsequies of the Remains of George T. Keiller—Arrival of the Body of George P, Rowe. The funeral services over the remains of George T. Keiller, the young journalist who was drowned at Moriches, L. L, om Tuesday last, were . held yesterday aftefnoon at the Washington street Methodist Episcopal church. The obsequies were very largely attended by members of the press of the two cities, members of the Bar and citizens generally. Rev. William McAllister conducted the services, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Barn- dollar, who delivered the opening prayer. A fine choir furnished the requiem music upon the occasion. The funeral address was delivered by Rev. Mr. McAllister, who based his remarks upon the text, “There is but a step between me and death,” which is found in the second chapter of I. Samuel. He alluded to the solemnity of the occasion which drew them to- gether, and said that the great lesson for them to learn was just what came up from all the grave- yards, from the sanctuarv and from the sea, and every day uttered it, and night picked up the lamentation and re-echoed it; every sick bed felt its force, this funeral repeated it, and this Holy Bible declared it, “There is but a step between you and death.” With this step we must associate one thing—It must be taken, and if we could reajize it as the Lord felt it and understood it, that we must dre, what a point wou'd be gained! What a chang@it would make in our histories and in our lives for days to come! There was connected with this thought profound subject for meditation. He spoke of the biameless life and character of the deceased, and, after tendering words of consolation to the bereaved parents and friends, concluded by an earnest exhortation for preparation for the future, The remains were taken to Greenwood Cemetery, where they were interred, Arrival of the Rem: Rowe. Tne remains of George P. Rowe, who was drowned with Mr. Keiller, and which were recov- ered on Saturday at or near Patchogue, L. I., were brought to Brooklyn at seven o'clock last evening, when preparations were made for the funeral, which will take place from St. Barnabas’ cone on Bushwick avenpe, at halfpast two o'clock this afternoon. At & meeting of the Brooklyn press yesterday it was resoived to attend his funeral in a body. thes journalistic Fraternity of New York will as- semble at the Astor House at noon to-day to attend the funeral of the late Mr. Rowe, DEOWNED, ° —_— PATLADELPHLA, Pa, August 24, 1873, William Campbell, quartermaster on the British steamer Abbottsford, fell from that vessel into the Tiver lags night and wag drowned, of George P. FRENCH SUMMER RESORTS. TROUVILLE AND ITS MARINE NEIGHBORS Watering Place Architecture—Art (olleo- tions—French Law of Inheritance. THE CHATEAU DE LASSAY, ° Fe. : fOUVILLE, Joly 22, 1873, day of my seaside rambles, at least for the present, I have been obliged todo With it as with a carpet-bag, and cram a variety of things in, Monday is a great day, for Right and Left will fight out their final battle before recess, and the “month of pilgrimages” wilLalso eommence. In view of these events the watering places are be- ginning to thin, and will not be fairly full again till towards the end of next week, when politicians, early batches of pilgrims, and quidnuncs, who have been lingering totake the last look of the Shah, will all be free to bathe themselves and their fami-" lies till October east winds come and put a stop to the fun. Luckily last night’s rain had cleared of this morning and the waves were gambolling friakily as kittens on the sunlit sands, sheeny as acloth of gold. Troops of bathers were already fitting homewards with damp hair dishevelled as I saled-out, deeming I had risen rather early, for it was only seven; but people are astir betimes in these parts, and the hotel waiters bound down the passages with trays of café au lait on their shoulders just as you are beginning to wonder whether any of them are out of bed. One thing you miss here, by the bye, is the delight which at- tends ygu at the Brighton Grand Motel—that of getting up to the music of a German band playing out of tune below. Isaw a German band at Dieppe, but have not heard one at Trouville. They have grown scarce since the war, for a belief has spread that the instrumentalists were one and all spies of Bismarck, and that while pretending to stare at their music books they peered craftily at the naked- ness or fatness of the land around them and took notes thereon, ARCHITECTURE AND ART COLLECTIONS. Trouville has houses of all complextons—simiii- Gothic, simtl-Tudor, simil-Italian, simili-Moorish and simili-everything. The place looks as though the architectural genll of every century since the food had met together to exhibit their works; and, if @ respectable British town would come and take a walk this way Trouville would produce the same impression on it as Joseph in his coat of many colors probably did on his respectable brother Reuben. The machinery of Montebello’s miniature palace, in the Louis XIII- style, perhaps deserves the medal, and is one of those gems which any man would be pleased to accept as a gilt, if respectiully tendered by a grate- ful country or an enthusiastic meeting of share- holders. But to make the present quite suitable it ought to be fitted up with the contents of M. Cor- dier’s Swiss cottage, opposite the new boulevard, at the end of the Rue Cavée, M.* Cordier is Trouville incarnate in the person of an elderly gentleman of enterprising soul.. Ye dreams wak- ing and sleeping of how Trouville may be magni- fied, and if the mussels or lobsters of the locality ever hoax him with a nightmare that nightmare must consist in the spectacle of Trouville being suddenly washed away bya tempest. M. Cordier very affably allows strangers to visit his rich museum of antiquities, and last year he placed his cottage at the disposal of President Thiers, who might be daily descried strutting about the grounds in a suit of iron-gray and a straw hat that lent him the appearance of an intelleopnal toad- stool, If you can fortunately be favored by M. Cor- dier’s own company while viewjng his treasures the pleasure is twofold, for his explanations are not those of the sing-song guides we all know so well from visiting Windsor Castle or Fontainebleau. Few men possess sucha store of archwological knowledge or such a chatty way of imparting it; but it must be confessed one leaves the Chalet Cordier with an impression of pain, for this ad- mirable collection, which it has cos a lifetime of scholarly diligence and taste to organize, must, of course, ome of these dayc come to the hammer. An artistic Frenchman takes the trouble of forming a very gem of a museum; he dies, and up rush the heirs in a hungry pack to divide the spoils to the last centime, so that not one of them may inherit a tittle moré than the others.. Heirlooms never outlive asingle generation in modern France; for that curious system of testamentary equality which obliges a man to part his property in tdentically- sized morsels among his children, and, jpilin children, forbids him to disinherlt nephews and cousins Who have never done him any service but to wait covetously for his shoes—that system is the ruin of art collections. 1 was lately ta bed with a Frenchman who is creating himself charming estate in Touraine. As he is childless I could not help expressing my surprise that he should lavish so much capital and energy en prop. erty which must inevitably be dispersed at his death. He angwered dismally:—‘I live in hopes that we may some day have a government which will restore to us the privilege of doing as we please with what belongs to us. Of course it will not be a republican government, for French republi- canism means meddlesome despotism in private as well aa public concerns; but if ever we get that liberty, I shali bequeathe all this to my sister's son, who is as dear to me asif he were my own boy; if not the property will, as you say, be dispersed. gang of collaterals, whom I have never seen, will shoot up, rend the lands piecemeal, sell the house and scatter pictures, tues and furniture to the four winds—that is, to England, America and Russia, where most French treasur go nowadays. A RELIC OF THE ANCIENT REGIME. People who care to see where a fugitive king roosted for thirty hours may be gratified by the sight of Colonel Perthuis’ house in a small street on the outskirts of Trouville; for Louis Philippe hid his royal ie ste here when flying from the revolutionists {n 1848, It seems the sea was too rough for him to cross over to Havre, for he was a rudent monarch in all things; but when it was at jast safe to travel His Majesty steamed over to Newhayen and abided two days in a small hotel, which still bears a painted notice on its facade commemorative of the comforting fact. Needless to say that Englishmen never fail to go and refresh themselves with a sight of Colonel Perthuis’ house, for there is inexpressible balm to the British soul in the signt of any dwelling where a crowned head has done anything, no matter how mean and spiritiess. Nay, there is nothing mean to the Brit- ish mind in the doings of kings. Their ways are holy; their path of peace, and, whether they smile, sneeze or turn tail, they are sure to find s® procession of Anglo-Saxons ready to burn incense and chorus “Hallelujah!” 1 did not visit Colone! Perthuis’ sanctum, for a char-d-banes was in waiting to convey me with a festive party to what remains of the Chateau de Lassay ana thence to Cabourg. The ruins of the chateau should be visited out of deference te the loyal Frenchman, who erected the mansion under circumstances which did great credit to the puoy- ancy of his mind. He was @ great liar—not to put too fine aepoint to it—and, having amassed a con- siderable fortune in speculationr, used to brag night and day of Louis Fourteenth’s Court—of his splendia residence on the Norman cost. He went to such lengths in the way ei descriptive rhodo- montade that Mile, de Montpensier, the King’s cousin, evineed a desire to behold this palace of marvels, and promised M, de Lassav to pay him a visit the next Autumn. This was awkward, for M. de 3 splendid residence existed only in bis own head; but he was @ man of ex- edienta, so he posted off to Normandy and planned, bane and furnished one Of the showiest palaces in the whole country side in the space of three months, and at a cost of seven million francs, equivalent te about three times that sum in modern money. He would have been a valuable man to assist in rebuilding Chicago or the ruined quarters of Boston, but he was ill-requited for his energy. ‘The Princess wrote to him in the Autumn saying that she felt too lazy to undertake the journey and Invjted him tocome and visit her instead at her estate of Bw. This was not the same thing at all, but M. de had to pocket his disappointment as he best could. Mile de Mont- pensier never saw his castle, but he continued thenceforth to live in it himself, and the monument survived till the Revolution, an imposing sample of what a spirited Frenchman will do when egged on by vantty and sufficient capital. The palace which had been reared tn three months was sacked and burned by the revolutionists in three hours; and naught remains of it but a staircase and a crumbit tower which cats, bectles and rats enjoy all to themselves. A GROWING RIVAL TO PROUVILLE. two hours distant from ‘Trouville, 18, & place that has made its way »; atts; but it has mot run the full lengt! ne Of tte totter i and may beco! big town and eclipse Trouvil fore it has done, Its situation 18 goods its sand beach even finer than Trouville, and ite Casino @ building of ambitious tendencies, ah tgp and hospitable. Journalists come cause character ne bars alt ideas of ita being sala. brious. One of the great sports of Cabourg 18 to go ont on the sands at low water and berrow with a 5 three-pronged toasting fork tor an eel-like a: silver-sealed fish called “equille,” which Wrigglos about under the sand in search of seaworms and little shellfish, Itis great fun, especially if you slip into @ quicksand when the rest of the party get well ahead of you: but by bawling vigorously you can generally bring back your friends to extricate you. before} you have sunk higher than the waist, and if not the odds are not great, for one maa more or | makes no conspicous difference in tne pulation. If you have no taste for molesting fish with a toasting fork go and lunch at the Hotel de la Plage, which is good and, of course, dear as every good thing needs must be. urg is said to be @ fine place for honey-mooning, as indeed are most other places 1 have ever heard of save the top of the Alps; but at ta oy met Uh at hese French seaside om , Tinlés: fet Into ‘the noisiest of all, et YOu'ean have as much quiet as yo please by simply imagining yourself to be in & ie hen ge den, where the visitors are so many cabbages, It you get your pockets picked, or if you are knocked down by a donkey in the sands, you may have to draw further on your fancy and imagine that your cabbages have turned predatory and retire under the influence of lunar changes. But it 1s fair to add that pickpockets are rare in France and the donkeys well behaved. When I got back to Trou- ville at about dinner time I did, indeed, hear of one having bolted into the sea with a Judge’s mother- in-law. But the onimal was evidently stricken with remoage halfway, for he omitted to drown the lady, and greatly genadened the Judge's heart thereby, let us all hope. To sum xP. the impressions which the Norman watering places are sure to leave upon a man who loves rest when he can get it and amusement when he cannot:—You will find at Dieppe, Tre- port, Fécamp, Etretat and Trouville, al! such sweets as French life yields, and may study the in- teresting natives of this country au naturel. They are always breezy and facetious, but nevet more so than at the seaside, for maritime air weorks their spirits, as it were, and makes them fizz Mee Roederer on the pop. It just occurs to me that it is, perhaps, a merciful thing that Paris should not be located on the sea, for I fail to see how any government could control fora single week & population which cantered about on don- keys, went n sporting with toasting forks and waltzed publicly to fill up the intervals. These in- vigorating pursuits develop the muscular fibre, and yet it must not be supposed that the visitors neglect their education or fail to keep themselves accurately informed as to the names and titles of foreign celebrities. I have just read 1n a list of local arrivals, ‘fhe Rev. General Field, from Phila- Aetna ; ‘diss’ Williams and children, from Lon- on. KANUCKDOM. AS Port Dalhousie Reminiscence of Mrs. Lincoln. A BIT OF MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS. Canadian Views of Canada’s: Situation. vaen OSU NO INDEPENDENCE—NO ANNEXATION. Port DaLHousie, August 19, 187: Having tried the curative qualities of the St. Catharine’s waters to his satisfaction, and having nothing particular to cure, your. correspondent accepted an invitation from Captain James Murray, an enterprising gentleman of this place belore alluded to, to take a drive to Port Dalnousie and see how “things were working” in that quarter, Passing the Stephenson House, where the widow of the late President Lindoin formerly tarried, we held up amoment, Although everything wore an air of dulness, yet there was an appearance of elegance and comfort about the place that rendered @ brief stay particularly enjoyable. Theregare a number of anecdotes afloat here concerning the widow of the late President, that exhibited her in the light of a good-hearted though rather eccentric lady. One I may repeat. ANECDOTE OF MR3. LINCOLN. On her affival here a few weeks ago she took one of Davis's omnibuses for the hotefs, On the way she asked Davis about the names of the dif- ferent hotels. They were given. The price of board a% each was asked, and Davis sald he was unable to Say, Several other questions were pu upon all of which Davis professed ignoranc Finally the lady asked the omnibus man how jong he had livea in St. Catharine's? “A good ny years.” “Did you know much when you caine !”? “Not a great deal.” ‘Well,’ responded distin- guished widow, “I don’t think you have learned much since you came.’ The conversation dropped, and, as the Ticonderoga man says, “The wagon drove on.”” e A distinguished jurist, of Welland county, before quoted, stigmatizes Port Dalhousie as only a “mud-hole. But it is hardly deserving such an appellation. It is about as cleanly a place as you will find on the line or at the inlet or outlet of any interior canal. To be sure there are no “gorgeous palaces” to attract the eye, but there are the great engines and carriers of commerce—the propeilers, the schooners, the big barges—bringing food from the West and transporting it to the Atlantie marts, either for home consumption or to feed the fam- ishing millions of Europe. There is no use im “throwing mud” at @ place that does so much for human comfort all over the world, " ADMIRAL DAVIS AND PROFESSOR PIERCE, OF THE UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE BOARD. The principal hotel in Port Dalhousie is the Wood Rouse, kept by @ genial soul, the “learned land- lord,” Professor Long. Hence the house is some- times calied the “Longwood House,” which brings up associations abéut Napoleon and St. Helena.and all that. Were we were pleased to find temporarily domiciled Admiral Davis and Professor Pierce, of the United States Lighthouse Board, who are here on official business connected with the Board, © gress, at the last session, passed an approp' for the constraction of a lignthouse on the Ameri- can, or New York shore of Lake Ontario. The se- lection lay between Braddock’s Point, Thirty Mile Point and the Devil's Nose. Thirty Mile Point, I believe, has been finally determined upon, and the work will be immediately commenced. MASSACHUSETTS NEEDS STIRRING UP—A BIT OF POLITICS. Professor Pierce is of opinion that Massachusetts needs ‘stirring up” and that General Butler is just the man to doit. The people want to know how their rulers stand on the prohibitory liquor ques- tiog and other matters of State policy. They know already how some of thetr would-be rulers stand on the."back pay,” “Crédit Mobilier’ and other na- tional topics. The “third term’ project is also en+ tering as an important element into our politics, The question whether “Owsarism” is or is not to rule is likely to become, If it has not already, one of the great questions of the day, and the people in Massachusetts and elsewhere ought to prepare their minds to consider and discuss it understand ingly. So much for a touch of American politics at Port Dalhousie, a thriving port in the Dominion of Canada, ANNEXATION. Returning to my hotel in the-evening, and after Meeting several prominent gentiemen there and at the select private resort known as the “Penin- sular Game Club,’”’ I have arvived at the conviction that annexation to the United States is the last - dreamed of by the sound thinking men of the Dominion. They say every reason of public policy demands that the Dominion should remain asitis, Its taxes are lower than in the States; it receives tribute both from Gyeat Britain and the United States in the way of duties on imports; its manufactories flourish; its local commerce (via the Welland Canal) is almost @ monopoly for the water transit from the interior to the seaboard; its financial condition and its credit are good; its currency is based en Apecie (upon which its traders demand a premium of filteen per cent over American greenpacks), and from other “high and prudential considera- tions the idea of annexation to the United States is and of right ought to be now and forever abandoned.” INDEPENDENCE. The independence of the Dominion from the Mother country was considered. “What do we want independence jor’ they argue. “Does not England provide us with a navy? So that if we get into trouble with any foreign Power there is the heaviest armament afoat to procect us, Englan lets us have our own Parliament, and only supplies us with a Governor General, which Ke vents us from getting into snarls and dispa electing @ head for the among ourselves about sell 1s vetter off government. No people {n.the wor! ee r the subjects if you 5 eee Tatinion’ of Canada. Hence, being satisfied dition, taking it from every point of Tite, at we ‘ask is to be let alone by our cousing rder.”’ See snore yout correspondent proposes to leave them for the present. + TIRED OF LIEB As the Hoboken ferryboat James Romsey was én her way in midstream, about ten o'clock yester- day, an unknown man stepped to the side of the boat and jumped into the water. He sunk in- stantly and was seer no more. It is thought from the appearance of his clothing that he must have loaded his pockets with lead or other heavy mate- rial to prevent the possibility of his rescue.