The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1874, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. CHILDREN’S EXCURSIONS. More Free Picnics for the Poor Papils of the Public Schools, The Pleasure Programme for the Vacation. Poor children tike fun as well as thelr well-clad and careluliy-housed neighbors, To douot that a day’s pleasure in the shude of a sheltering grove or | npon the water is as benelicial vo the hatiess urchin {rom Cherry street as to the pet ofa Fifth avenue home would be absurd. During two snm- mers before the present a number of our best- known wealthy citizens have managed a fund con- wibuted to afford the poor children of our streets free picnic excursions through the close, hot weather of July and August, These have been admirably managed by Colonel George | ¥, Willams, the tickets being distributed during the public school vacations by .the police captains of the several precincts within h the homes of the poor are mainly v9 b¢ | found. This system is continued this year. Already two of these excursions have taken place with charming success, Two thousand boys and gitls from the Sixth ward, and nearly as many from the Fourth, were marshalled ia line at tae Police station, Guarded by careful police details, ‘and led by the fine Unitea States Army band from Governor's Island, they gayly marched, @ battalion ©: neatly dressed girls in bright colors, and a regi- met of brighter eyed boys to the designated pier whee they were to embark on an expedition of wWhdegome pleasure at some shady spot a score of mile away across the clear salt water, whose air "REIGHTED WITH HEALTH AND ENJOYMENT. These processions bore no flaunting flags, they carned no armament suggesting the red battle field as their ultimate destination. Keeping step to ‘he music, or at times echoing the chorus of jhe “Mulligan Guards” tn harmony with ts Strains from the band, these armies of baply childhood were a pleasanter sigut as they passed than the outgoing regiments whic), during the war! claimed public applause while marching down'Broadway to go “to the front” and to gsry. Less than forty cents tor euch shild carriea was the cost at which the con- tribwors to the fu furnished to these happy and appreciative children their day’s enjoy- meni, with ample provision of wholesome food and juch tootasome delicacies a8 ice cream and | cake of the best quality. Spots were chosen | wher all, girls as well as boys, could saiely bathe in Ue salt water on a smooth, sandy beach, which, with the opportunity to roum at will in the | Wook, gathering flowers and branches, was A PRIVILEGE MOST RARE and most keenly relished, No imagination can pictwe a truer scene of joyful avandon than woull be a photograph of the poor children’s ex- cursiins during the three hours oi the stay ashore. Nor vas there a moment from the start at the policé station till the tired children returned to their homes at night when they wore not to the ‘full phed with pleasure. Every sense was Tainistered to for ther benefit. Their ears drank sweet music, gceres Of fairy beauty coustantly me* their eyes andrefreshing viands pleased their palates, while the! breathed tue ocean air or the balmy odors of thegrove. Better than ail, these cniidren ot want, ‘whis? necessities have given them a precocious apireciation of whatever they see, Knew and un- derituod, every boy and girl of them, that these enjiyments were freely provided for them by those whi, being better off, stil recognized with kind hea‘ts their brotherhood with the poor and the neely. They saw with sharp logic that those who libewlly contribute to their happiness are their trieids, not enemies to be plundered or harmed whmever opp rtunity offered, How much was thatlesson worth? No figures could compute its valw. It taught, as do our free public schools, thattle social and property distanctions which divide classes in our free land are but superficial bourdaries, subject to constant change, and that the community recognizes virtue and probity as the true titles to respect. It taught, as did the | char.ty relief 01 last winter, that a common heart beats m all hamanity aud that the truest happi- ness b found in making others happy. THE BXCURSIONS TO CONTINUE, A IRRALD reporter yesterday called on several memeers of the committee having charge of we fond © inquire into its condition and prospects and tie plans for approaching picnics. He was im- forma that the amount now remaining in the fund, after paying the expenses of the two excur- | sions already given, will sufiice to pay for three more. Mr, Richard King, President of the Union ‘Trust Company, Treasurer of the tund, assured the reporer that money was being received con- btantly, not alone irom the generous denizens of our own city, but from large-liearted donors in | Norfolk, Va., from Stockbridge, Mass. and from various other localities where the notices of the Tess lave caused this gentle charity to be known. le mentioned several sources irom which he wis certam further {funds would come, and believed that enough will be contributed witoia a week to insure five excursions in addi- tion to the two already given. He hopes the cneer- ful offerings will ve still larger, and sumce to fill tne two months between now and the opening of the schools for the fall with at least one picnic per week for the poor cuildren, Mr. William Butler Duncan, a member of the commi;tee, said that the bulk of the donations go to the freasurer, Mr. King, and he only knew of | now and then a gilt, the droping of the shower of charitable generosity. He had within a few days received $500 for the good cause, and he hoped tnat our kind citizens would not suffer a fund devoted to such noble objects to languish for lack | Of neediul money. | DONATIONS. A modest lady, who writes from New Brunswick, N. J, to the HERALD, without signing her note, en- closes a $2 bill, which she wishes to go to the | Children’s Picnic Fund. Her request is prompty and gladly acceded to, and all other money Bent to the MERALD for that purpose will be duly acknowledged and will help to brighten the sad lot of the children of the poor in this great metrop- olis, Donations sent directly to the commitiee ‘will aiso be at once oMicialiy acknowledged, COMING EVENTS. Arrangements have pot yet been definitely made for the next excursion, but it is mow probable that the children of the Fourteenth precinct will be taken out for their iree picnic on Saturday of this week. Notice will be duly given for the next excursion as soon as its particulars can be cer- tainly learned. It is now believed that the series ‘will be extended with but short intervals through the balance of the hot weasner, and it is hoped that every poor child in the city of proper age will taste for at least one day the pleasure and share in the benefit of the free excursion with its group of at- Vendant enjoyments. A Praiseworthy Charity. [From the Louisville Ledger.) An association has been formed in New York city, supported by the voluntary contributions of the charitable, for the purpose of affording the poor children of that city the opportunity of get- ting away for a while from their heated and con- tracted homes to breathe the iresh, pure atr of the country. The first excursion of this season was made last Monday, when nearly 2,000 poor children of the sixth ward were taken on a picnic to Rari- tan Bay. This charity 1s one deserving of all raise, and it might be advantageously imitated in all our large cities. There are doubtless poor children in this city of Louisville who | have never known, and who, without aid | of this sort, will never know, the de- | Nights of such @ holiday. The improvement in the bodily health of the children, though doubt- Jess the princinal, ts not the only benefi: conferred. The sense Of grateiul appreciation 0. the kindness shown them, which would doubtless be awakened in many a youtniul heart, unused to such aensa- tions, would perhaps be as humanizing as a series of Sunday school lessons; and we doubt if any missionary to the heathen ever succeeded in dis- pensing the spirit of the glad tidings of great joy to 80 many souls at so little cost as did the humane gentleman who carried these poor littie waifs and | estrays of humanity away from the sordid scenes of their miserable homes, and gave them the bebe by of gazing upon the bright and giadsome jace of nature, and the opportunity of raisin, their hearts through nature up to nature's God. ‘These are the heathen that are at our door—the | Poor that we have always with us. RECREATION FOR WORKING GIRLS. The Coming Picnic—A Plunge in the Salt Waves at Rockaway Beach and ® Day's Enjoyment Out of the City. Within a few days it was stated in the HERALD that the lady managers of the free training Schools of the Female Industrial Educational As- Boclation, at No. 47 East Tenth street, proposed to Give a grand free excursion, insuring a day's release from toil and participation in the whole- some pleasures of sailing, bathing and picnicking on the grass to the jaboring girls and women under their care, As might have been anticipated by those who know the generosity of the New York public, that announcement at once drew forth letters of commendation, with offers and suggestions towards carrying out the charitable proposition, One gentieman owning a number of | excursion steamers, for which hts usual charge is $200 per day, Wrote the Heratp offering a suitable steamer for one half that sum, Better yet, the | owners of the steamer Twilight have proffered | | tions, re no asieeemmensitioonmcts to the ladies the use of that steamer gratuitously, and it 1s now arranged that Wednesday, July 22, is to be A RED LETTER DAY for the working girls, @ special extra holiday not named in the church calengar, but a date to be Jong cherished in the memory of many @ bard worked sewing machine operator, or kitchen maid, or wundry Woman, or Other worker in tne great army of working women who recognize in the free training school their guardian and tnstractor | in the nobier art of earning a living so aa to become seli-supporting, a8 weil as necessary parts of the great industrial machine, in the ordinary course of afMairs such an occasion never occurs to hundreds of these women. Born Mn poverty, or brought to it by one or another Misiortune to jather or husband for which they were biameless, but which they could not fail to share, they have been thrust, without the requisite ecaucauon, into the thronged market of jemale labor to struggle for food, clothes and the right to exist. Society claims service as the equivalent for support, and these helpless girlie could not render that service for lack of preparatory in- struction and training. They were thereiore de- pendent more or less On charity till this associa- ton took in hand their practical education so us others instead of depending on the public’ tor au About 3,000, alter due and careiul instruction in the various branches of industry, have taken piaces and are now self-supporting, They came to the aasvciation as Hey, on This excursion is to cary them chaWidy Hearn, where they will enjoy the rare juxury of a tumole AMONG THE WILD WAVES that wash that smooth, sandy shore, A nice colla- tion, prepared at the kitchen of the school estab- lishment, will be served in the open air, aud an- | other by a generous hotel keeper, and opgortanyty will be offered tor the working women, Whose long, Jaborious days in the city are passed in the heat of confined rooms, to sport for a few hours in this de- lightful locality. Abundant means of recreation Will be provided, suited to the tastes of the bene- ficiaries, and every ettort will be exerted to make the day one of pure enjoyment. On application of the managers to the Police Commissioners an or- der has been issued giving them a poiice guara competent to protect the party and insure their salety irom aby insult or intrusion; and every- thing will be done to secure for ii members all possible comfort and convenient through the trip and the aay There cau be no doubt that the sree exetrlbn, whicn has given puch. keen gnjoyfhclit to the poor boys and girjs of the city, will be found equally appie- ciated by the willing acd industrious girls who are unable from their own scanty means to spare aday’s wages, besides deiraying the expense of such a recreation, even were it to be procured lor money. A CHANCE FOR LIBERALITY. To give the working women this happy day re- quires money, There will be no expense lor the steamer, but the food and other constituents of the day’s pleasure will cost something, ‘here 18 not an abundance in the treasury of the associa- tion. It has li by the activity and the self- sacrificing labors of the sadies who care for it and for their distressed sisters. Those who would like to take @ share in this blessed en- terprise, which is intended to make 600 or 600 girls and women joytui for aday, and give them atruiy happy day to look back upon With satisfaction through long after years, can do 80 by remittances either to the as- sociation, at No. 47 East Tenth street, or to tue HERALD, Which will prompt'y acknowledge all such | gifts and hand them over to the jadies, A call at | the estaolishment and an inspection of the work done wiil impress any observer that the instiru- tion is employed in @ noble work. The excursion it has is to be hoped that the generous guts of our wealthy and well-to-do ladies will not only secure that, but will provide for its irequent. repetition, for the great physical and moral advantage of their sisters Who must toil for the price of livelihood, A moderate deduction trom the amounts our ladies expend for personal luxuries would fully endow the charity which seeks to render poor girls able to live nonestly. A Prompt and Gencrous Offer. To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD:— Having noticed an article in your paper of the 10th inat., headed ‘A Steamboat rip and a Tam- ble in the Waves at Rockaway for the Working Girls,” we hereby, through your paper, offer the steamer Twilight to the Women's Industrial Asso- ciation, of No. 47 East Tenth street, free of charge, to convey the working girls from the pier of the | Aibany day line, foot of Twenty-iourth street, North River, to Rockaway and return. The voat will be reaay to leave at nine A.M. Mr. Henry Eckert has kindly consented to five them the tree use Of his bathing houses, and wil Jons of chowder Iree. Messrs. A. 0). Failing and James Remsen, of another hotel, will do likewise, and Mr. Louis Hammell, o/ still another eras | low, | P. Maguire will do the same as the others, we say, let them aircon New York, July 13, 1874 nd have a good time, SMITH & HILLYER. Another Generous Offer. To THE Epivor or THE HERALD:— I notice your appeal for aid to give an excursion | to the Women’s Industrial Association of No. 47 East Tenth street. My usual price for a suivable steamboat for such an excursion as you refer to would be $200, I will furnish the boat jor tnis pur- some, some open day the latter part of the present month, for hal tenes or $100, . B, CROSSETT, 384 West street. New York, July 11, 1874. THE SLAVE CHILDREN. The Nation’s Protection of the Homeless Waifs of Italy. The people of this nation have hatled with pleas- ure the abolition, by an act of Congress, of the infamous trafic in young Italian children, The passage of this bill marked the untversal over- throw of this abuse not only in New York, but throughout every city in the United States. The poor, friendiess, homeless boys and girls who, in summer and winter weather, trod our streets have already disappeared, and their absence is a relief. Many have found their way into benevolent insti- tutions ; many have been abandoned by the padront to make their own living, while not a few, it is to Ue feared, have been carried off by their old mas- ters to Canada and the West Indies, where their Slavery will continue. Signor Moreno, an Italian gentleman, who has given much time and labor to this subject, was visited yesterday evening by a HERALD representative with the view of obtain- ing further information on the subject, “I have called to ascertain any new facts in re- gard to the enslavement of Italian children, HOW IT BEGAN. Will you give me the nistory of the rise of this infamous trafic, together with its causes and re- sults?” asked the HERALD representative. “With pleasure, sir. The trafic was a relic of | the Bourbon government in the kingdom of Na- pies. These children are partly kidnapped from their parents, but some fathers are induced by subterfuges to give them up. The parent is told that bis children pball be apprenticed to a me- cbanical trade in America. All tne kidnappers went out from America with passports lurnished them here, and they returned to America with children obtained in any manner practicabie, which children they sold or hired out to otner Ital- lans, known as padront. THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PADRONI are in Mulberry, Baxter, Mott, Elm, Sullivan, Marion and Crosby streets. The cities of Italy whence these children are brought are Calvielld, Marsico Vetere, Merscia Noro, Castel Vinzano, Viggiano and other towns of Southern Italy. How these children have been landed in Castile Garden has always been a mystery. It is very strange that the police .who are stationed at that place should have passed them when they were all under the charge of one man. ‘his man, known as chief of convoy, Was usually elderly in appearance. At any rate the man always got the children. Ten thousand of these poor creatures were brought over in. this way. ‘Then began the long story of their wretchedness and tneir misery. 1 wrote to the King of Italy, to Messrs, Correuti, Lauza, Menabrea, Visconti Venosta and Minghetti, members of the King's Cabinet, de- mantng, Jor the sake of the Italian pame avroad, the recall of thé Consul; also showing clearly by Statistics that this evil was taking greater propor- Their answers were evasive, promisin| that they would give the subject their earlies attention, but by their slowness, which ts charac- teristic of the present Italian ministry, nothing practical was done.” AMERICA THE LAST RESOURCE. “Discouraged, then, with the apathy shown by the Italian government you determined to appeal to the American Congress?” asked the HERALD Tepresentative. “Yes, sir; believing it to be the only course by which this deep-rooted evil could be stopped. I went to Bostun to see the late senator Charles Sumner, and asked him to introduce a bill for the abolition of the white slave trade, “la tratta det bianchi.” Mr. Sumner, with his characteristic earnestness, told me this traMic was indeed infamous and should be stopped. He offered ireely to do all in his power to that end, and requested me to write out a statement of grievances nd have a bill drawn, ‘This I did, and took it to fim in Wash- ington, He introduced the bili on December 1, 1873, Mr. Negley also introduced the same bill in the House, and tt finally padsed both houses unani- mously on June 23 last. As passed, the act reads as follows:— AN Act to pzotect persons of foreign birth against forci- ble constraint or involuntary servitude. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives of the Unfted States of America in Congress assem- bled, That whoever shall knowingly and wilfully bring into the United States, or the Territories thereof, any person inveigled or forcibly kidnapped in any Other country, with intent to hold such"person so inveigled or Kidnapped in confnement or toany involuntary service, and whoever shall knowingly aad wiltully: hy other person involuntary service, or who shall transfer any su service to apy other person, except for the purpepe planned should be a pertect success; and it | | lL urnish sixty gal- | | eonvictior | might be m. | Dearly half completed old any in involuntary confinement or rit | I acquiring a trade or occupation, in the United Btates or the Terrtwries, thereof, and whoever shall knowingly and wiltully sell or cause to be gold into any e of involuntary servitude any other person, for any teF Whatever. and every person who shall knowingly a wiltully hold to involuntary service any person so sold and bought, shail be deemed guilty of u felony and, on ereos, be imprisone:: for a term not exceed- ine hot exceeding shall be i ing ine not exceeding $1,00). 0 hat every person charged with the telonies herein declared may be tried In the district in which the same have been committed, or in any district in which the person so inveigied, brought, kidnapped, sold or held has been taken under such ednfinemeut of holding to mvoluntary servitude, Suc. 4.—That upon the trial of the felonies herein de- clared the consent of the pe so held, confined or Kidnapped shall not be a defence unless it” appear satis factorily to the jury that such consent was pot extortea by threats or by duress. HELP FOR THE HUNGRY, Work, Pay and Plenty. . A correspondent, shocked, as all have been, at the sad revelation of the Moynahan misery, ap- peals to the HERALD, bringing to bear, as an addi- five year: and'pay a | tional reason, the part it took in the alleviation of to ft tnem to ae. honorable liveliooa, to help | the city’s distress last winter, to give publication to a suggestion of his in aid of the multi- tude out of emplayment in New York at the present time. He aptly instances the small amount of this year’s immigration and the great number of persons returning to Europe in disappointment., The high fares from New York wo the West prevent many from seeking tneir livelinood in that quarter, while others are de- terred by thelr ignorance of agriculture. For the | tirst obstacle it is suggested that on certain days ol the week @ special train of ten or fiitecn ordl- Bary pataenger cars, seating sixty persons each, de vp. These, at $5 a head, would pay the company $3,6 the second objec- tion is removed by stating that there is any amount of well remunerated employment out West ior agricultural help that requires little or no knowledge of | farming: for imstance, binding sheaves, husking corn, digging potatoes, &c. The easy work o! husking corn is Fecompensed b gue out of every seven bushes of Wheat. 6 Bugges- tion deserves consideration. THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE. The Report of the Committee—They Feel Confident that New York Will Unite in Furthering the Work. The regular weekly meeting of the Brook- lyn Common Council was held yesterday after- noon, President Bergen in the chair. It was expected that final action would be taken on the report of the special committee on the bridge appropriation but every effort to introduce it was lost. The report of the committee will be presented at the next meeting. It states that ‘if the question presented to us had been as to the expediency of inaugurating at this time an enterprise of this magnitude. we should, im view of the heavy burden of debt now resting upon our city, have hesitated in recommending the necessary expenditure, But such is not the question, and not only has the great work been commenced, but tt has progressed. so far that in an engineering point of view the chief obstacles to its success have already been overcome. Over $4,000,000 have already been ex- pended upon it. The question presented to us to decide 18 whether, after having establisifed the feasibility of the enterprise—indeed, aiter having t—we are to abandon it or leave it for future generation to complete, losing in the meantime the interest on the money already invested, and what is of far more importance, foregoing the great advantage certain to result to both cities trom it8 early completion. The bridge should be completed as soon as _ pos- sible, and when completed travel on it should, in the judgment of your committee, be made ag free and untrammelled as it is upon any street of the city. The work up to the present time has been carried on by a company controlled by pri- vate stockholders, who have thus far furnished ten per cent of the amount expended, while sixty per cent has been provided by Brooklyn and thirty per cent by New York. he act under consideration contemplates the retirement of private stockhold- ersaud constituting the enterprise a public work. We feel confident that New York will unite with us and pay towards the com| amount proportionate to her original supscrip- tion. The act becomes operative on the accept- ance of its provisions by either city and by two- thirds of the private stocknolders. If the pro- visions of the act are not accepted the enterprise yemams as at presept, under the control of indl- yiduals, and work must cease at an early day. The act authorizes each city to contribute towards the completion of the work an amount proportion- te to tiat originally subscribed by them. Your ommittee cannot believe that New York, having nuihiee hand to the plough, will for 2 moment look ack. The report 1s signed by Aldermen Joseph Platt, Daniel O’Rieley, A.S. Rowley, James Dunn, Wil- Ham Richardson and James Howell, Jr. The Board adjourned until the first September. SEASIDE AND COUNTRY. jetion of the work an ‘ Monday in It costs $5 to hop at Long Branch. Carl Schurz is drying on the Narragansett pler. Mr. aud Mrs. Barney Williams will go to the White Sulphur Springs. Oh,. for a week at Lake Mohawk! College giris are waiters there, Lake Mahopac {air ones are in ecstasies over the attentions paid them by the owner of the yacht Trifier, whose vessel is always at their service. It makes one hungry to read of the speckled beauties captured in the trout streams of the in- terior; but as we never see any of these “four pounders” in the city, there must be a good deal of “romancing” by the Adirondack’s correspond- ents, After all the noise about a dally illustrate paper for the season at Saratoga, it turns out tobe merely the old familiar Sentinel, with a very poor cut of the Uited States Hotel, and pictures of @watcn and a triangle over advertisements re- peated from day to day. Colored porters and baggage-smashers will take notice tnat the man who has had the five nitro- glycerine tranks built will. leave this city on his first annual campaign against these enemies of trunks early next week. He will go first to the East, and then swing around the circle. Among the guests who are found at that popular and near resort, the Pavillion, New Brighton, are A. L, de la Forest, French Consul, and family; Judge and Mrs, Sterling, Louis Fatman (the banker), and family; Robert McDowell, of the Columbia Legation, and William A. Ellery and family. General B. W. Blanchard and family, Mrs. F. A. Goddard and family, of Fifth avenue; Dr. R. G. Radway and family, Mr. Kitchell (the banker) ; De Louza Lobo, Spanish Minister; Josh Billings, and Lieutenant Commander R. P. Leavy, of the Navy, have taken rooms at Leland’s Ocean House, Long Branch. Among those who will spend part of the sum- mer at Lake Mahopac are Mr. E. Owens, of 730 Lexington avenue; Mrs, 3. C, Barr, of 59 West Thirty-sixth street; Mr. and Mrs. L. 8. J. Brew- ater, of 434 Fifth avenue; Isaac Bodeau and family, of Brooklyn, and H. L, Clark and family, of East Twenty-ninth street, ANewport correspondent writes:—C. J. Peter- son, of Peterson's Magazine, and Mr. Lippincott, of The Vassar Ltppincott’s Magazine, are also here occupying | cottages, These, with Julia Ward Howe and her husband, Dr, 8. G. Howe, Colonel Higginson, George H. Calvert and the Boston Radical Club, will make @ delightful literary coterte, which will be probably jomed by others known in fiterary circles. “Mac,” of the St. Louis Globe, who is quite com- petent authority, thinks a properly conducted young woman will dispose of the following during @ day's stay ata watering place. No wonder some hotel men go into bankruptcy :— 7 A. M.—1 glass spring water. 8 A, M.—1 Cup strong coffee, 1 tumbler iced milk, 1 slice buttered toast, 1 hot roll, 2 buckwheat pan- cakes, 1 plate chicken, 1 ditto fried potatoes, 2 poacued eggs, 1 venison steak, 11 A. M.—1 glass sherry. 124 P. M.—1 tumbler ale, 1 ditto iced milk, 1 cq hot tea, 2 glasses sherry, 1 plate soup, 1 ditto drool trout, 1 ditto cold meat, vegetables at indiscretion, bread ditto; 1 slice pie, 1 plece iruit cake, 1 plate berries, 1 ditto ice cream, 1 cup coffee. 4 —1 glass spring water, 1 glass sherry. —i plate soup, 1 gisss Chablis, i slice 4 plate cucumbers. Vegetables—Pota- toes, tomatoes, corn, peas, salad, &c. 1 plate salmiof wild duck and olives, Entrees—oyster atty, rice curry, mutton cutlets, One plate roast urkey, 1 ditto boiled ham, 1 glass tced milk, 2 ditto SEreE am pag Rea iaks aS ae 0, e, raisins, nuts, Cheese, fruits, ac, ad tt. papell 9% P, M.—1 cup Coffee, 1 glass iced milk, 1 plate lobster salad; miscellaneous potsonous substances, hot bread, ice 1 —1 cup coffe glass ice water, 2 Balad, Qla Lucrezta Brinvilliers; 1 eipic, galantine de volaille,’ garniture Wharton; various ineral vaked meats, cake, ice pudding, &c., quant, oufes 1 plage ced punchy brandy, cake, &c. asses \ | Yemunerative real estate in this Village jed to.this | SOCIETY AT SARATOGA. Camp Meeting Saints Admiring Wordly Works— Grand and Noble Architecturs] Ornaments of the Village—Splendors of Gilding and Fresco—Sermon on the “Christian's Regatta.” Sanavoca, July 12, 1874. “Oh, what & sin and a shame!’ said the old lady; “it looks just like heaven.” This was the remark of a good son) from Round Lake camp meeting, who had a horror of the ex- travagance of Saratoga and an involuntary ad- miration of its new splendors, They shut up the | Round. Lake camp ground on Saturday nights; they board in the fold like a menagerie after the performance. . There 1s no way to pierce the sacred precincts on Sunday, and, therefore, do a few captive spirits slip off to Saratoga and bask away the Sabbath. Alas! the season 1s inauspicious and tardy. Sun- day it rained all day, and the mighty hotels were filled with a shivering multitude looking out at the rain as it plashed ana raved, cooling to the bone and compelling fuelin the boudoirs, where the ladies sat reading theological tracts or the latest novel; for few would venture to church, notwithstanding many of the pastors had pre- pared sermons on the regatta, At the Presbyte- rian church, on Main street, a sermon was de- livered on THE CHRISTIAN’S REGATTA toward the heavenly goaL He was described as feathering his oar with precision, turning the Stakevoat of life me a the resolution of faith, coming: down ‘the desperate dotirse of the homé- stretch with vigor, fixing his eye on the Heavenly Referee and taking good care not to imitate the disciple Judas and break his scull. The sermons were repeated among the college | boys with mirth on the verandas and around the | bars, and the Saratoga Rowing Asaociation’s quar- ters on Broadway, in a hospitable parlor, were at- tended by a few pipe-smoking lads in sunburned skins, intent upon the concert to-morrow night of | the Yale Glee Club. On the whole the day was one of the most miserable ever known at an inland watering place, and the weather has been back- ward and dispiriting for much of the week, full of showers, bad for promenading, and as for hops and balls, threatening both the toilets and the lungs. There were about 600 arrivals Saturday night, a small number, however, for these majestic inns, of which five can accommodate in all 6,000 lodgers, Saratoga never was so magnificent in | architecture, and since the days of tue baths of | Caracalla no piace of health and pleasure has been adorned like this.’ There is ofiength of piazza alone in the village of Saratoga said to be seven linear miles. All THE SPRINGS are now inclosed with canoptes, domes or minia- | ture temples in pretty architecture, some of the | most elegant of these edifices inclosing springs least known to popular fame, as the Red Spring, the Seltzer, the “‘A’? and the Hamilton. From the Geyser Spring, which is two miles south of tne village, and has its own park, up tothe Excelsior Company’s fourteen springs and natural sulphur baths, is about five miles, the village of Saratoga intervening, and in tnis course there are about sixteen sources under architecture and in separate | control. With the exception of half a dozen all these mineral and hygienic properties have been developed since the war, inclusive of the Hathorn and other very notable sources. There | can probably be found dozens of springs of nearly equal delicacy and efficacy in other parts of the village and of the valley which winds through it, | but the pecuniary temptations are somewhat re- | duced to tube to their yonds these nealing waters, a matter often of considerable expense, in addt- tion to the task of organizing for the circulation, sale and collection of the water and its value. The High Rock Spring, the first known here, and visited by the Indians, has been tubed within two years at pains and cost suMcient to have erected a very large hotel, merely to pass below the ) abbreviated to avoid collision with the Congress and Empire Spring Company, which had mean- to mention the artificial compounds and imported spa waters which are found in every corner. Tne Congress and Empire Spring Company, as I am in- formed, have property in this village nominally represented by @ capital stock of $1,000,000 and paying five percent. Its very elegant park, which | is the green carpet of Saratoga, is rapidiy becom- ing valuable for building sites by the rise of private edifices on its heretofore secluded flanks and rear, Chief of these is the elegant Norman French villa | of General Batcheller, which is probably the most elegant summer abode southof Newport, with a | tall conical tower and crocheted pinnacle, keen, sharp pavilions, from which protrude stone win- dows, lower windows like proscenium boxes and | galleries extending around porticos and bays to uphold statues for candelabras at their angles. the house contains an elevator, worked directly hydraulic pressure of #xty pounds to the inch, | from the Saratoga water works. | THE WONDER OF THF SEASON is the new United States Hotel, occupying the site of the scurvy lot and waste of board fence where ube conflagration bad destroyed its great prede- cessor fourteen years ago. ‘The new hotei is not so grand or expensive as fo dwar! the surroundin; hosceiries, but, considered in relation to tiem all, it gives and receives dignity by such equally dis- tributed spiendor. The Grand Central and tne United States are on the same side of the street with the Grand Union, and the latter is rignt op- posite Congress Hall, where the President is to be @ visitor in @ day or two. ‘All these hotels, con- gregated on adjoining blocks of ground, present their crowded prazzas to each other and swing the music of their bands and orchestra to and [ro, so that, suddenly brought into coup d’qil, they ex- torted from the pious ana torilled old lady afore- | said the remark :— “What asin andashame! It looks like heaven.” The United States Hotel ts the last great house for summer pleasure built in our voluptuous period, and it may probably be the last of all such costly public structures for many years tu come. No | American Watering place that can be vrougnt to | mind is now agitated with building schemes— | neither the White Mountains, nor Newport, nor the | Branch, hor the White Sulphur Springs—and these are all that are strictly first class places of resort, | others being imitations or parvenues or places ot | local repair. ‘There is a good deal of watering place property that is a drug, paying nothing to stdckholders except free board bilis in “the sea- son,” which demoralize the establishments which | liquidate in that way. CRITICS AND OBSERVERS AT SARATOGA are generally of the opinion that a vast eatablish- ment like the United States "Hotel should have been erected at some spot like Washington city, | where there are six and eight months instead of two every year of reliabie hotel Lusiness. The i0cal confidence and the necessity of improving un- great establishment, where the mind and expert- ence are invariably staggered to look up and be- | hoid the loity and almost interminabie piazzas, enclosing several stories, the whole encompassing @ park of trees, walks and fountains, which has | grown as ii by magic on a long depopulated and ‘Waste square of ground, The United States Hotel— Dd ew superior 18 this name, like the Union HY Congress Hail, to parvenue adaptation, like the St. Stylites and the Balmoral!—would be a | faming, hot pile of brick except for the new taste in our brick panna aap ¥ a "HBS use of paint on poe erat la! ight tints of gradu- ated shades, ie main edifice ts o1 a eheerful’ greenish yellow, with projections and trimmings of & brown yellow. In like manner are colorea the wooden and ornamental iron columns and arches of the piazzas. The furniture within is of warmer tones, blue and crimson predominating, with two noiseless, .crystal-like elevators, fre- uent oilices, nooks and boudoirs and a parlor that is of bine and gold, as the vast dining room is of clear, unassisted diamond glass, without any colors whatever to dye it. Behind, in the distance of the park, are cottages grouped in architecture, with suits of elegant salon chambers, baths an conveniences; and here isa Paiats Royale in one comprehensive edifice, a true Court of Haroun- el-Raschid himself, As Saratoga stands we shall, probably, long see it; unless fire, Which bas played so large a part in its past history, again occurs to open unsigatly wounds in its Compact and comfortable citadel. The splendid elm trees, which grow here as ex- quisitely as at New Haven or Camopridge, are now in thelr most Willowy dew and muvisture, weeping nearly to the street and making the college boys feel at home. The snug oy, Hall, @ sort of sum- Mer capital of the State since the trial of Judge Barnard, 1s algo perfect as we i live to see it many & luting its tower above the broad, rambling aisle of Broadway, The ratiway depot and the conveniences of water and gas require no amendation. The race of hotel keepers here, in- cluding names like Cozzens, Leland, Gage, Marvin, Breslyn and Hatton, requires no ‘advertisement, ¢ To-day at dinner, ie shower went down, all the leading hotels were found to be crowded in the dining rooms, and this evening there are more sanguine anticipations of good weather and a CENTRAL AND S0UTH AMERICA. | pontine hah temala Relieved of the State ef | Siege—General Prosperity and Peace— Exploration om the Line of the Ama- | zon, PANAMA, July 5, 1874, The affairs of Central America in general seem to have subsided into comparative quietness, In Guatemala the government had decreed the | abolishment of the state of siege in which the conntry had been temporarily placed, It will also contribute towards the celebration of the Cen- tenary mn the United States, Peru. Up to the 28th the public tranquillity of this Re- 6 ——— L, Ray; steam sloop Cameleon, 7 gun*, Commander Anarew J. Kennedy; steam sloop Keindeer, 7 guns, Commander William R. Kennedy; steam gan vessel Myrmidon, 4 guns, Commander Hon, Rich- ard Hare; steam sioop Peterel, 3 guns, Commander William E. de Cookson; steam sloop Fawn, 5 guns, Commander Whetterall; steam gun vessel Boxer, 4guns, Lieutenant Commander William Collins; steam corvette Scout, 17 guns, Captain Ralpp P. Cator; storeship Nereus, Valparaiso. "BRAZIL, Party Struggle for Minte- | terial Power—rhe Emperor in Favor | of Electoral Reform—Is the State Free | im Relation to the Church # Rio Jangrro, June 7, 1874. | | Am Exciting public continued undisturbed, and the govern- ment 18 busy preparing the reports concerning its administrative action, which must be presented to Congress, The budget for the next two years is nearly | ready and will be submitted for the consideration of the Legisiature. Congress was to assemble on the 28th of the present month, AMERICAN CONSULAR CHANGES, Mr. Philip Clayton, the recently appointed United States Consul at Callao, has arrived at his | post. The departure of Mr. Willlamson, the for- | mer Lorie wo reside in Valparaiso, was much re- retted. & Mr. C. F, Powell has been appointed United States Vice Consul in Callao. AMAZON RIVER EXPLORATION. An expedition had been despatched to survey | that branch and region of the Amazon head waters in Peru called the Chauchamayo, supervision of Admiral Tucker, under the The Difficulty Between the Church and ‘the State Not Yet Adjusted—Cheering News from the Financiers in Europe— | Naval Drill at Sea—Reminiscences of the Struggle Against Spain. Lima, June 2, 1874, The religions row alluded to in my last despatches between the government and the peo- Since the opening of the Brazilian General Assembly we have been watching with great in- verest the party struggte which has been going on in the Chamber of Deputies. The opposition piled | up mountain upon mountain to scaie the heights | of power, and their attack was so rade and vigor« | Ous that the Visconde do Rio Branco was forced | to throw himself bodily into the fray to save hig | subordinates from impending defeat. On the 6th, however, the opposition mustered its might, and, | forcing battle upon the unwilling ioe, gave them a “crowning mercy,” as Cromwell termed it, which must quiet their pretensions for a tine, THE GROUNDWORK OF THE PARTY TACTICS, ‘The Congressional practice of Brazil is to make the replies to the Emperor's speech at opening the session the opportunity for a general and special criticism of all the acts and policy of the govern- ment, and the usual tactics of an opposition are to dilate the debates as long as possible, even montha, to force the weary government to resign or to modify its personnel by calling in the heads of the opposition, In the present session this debate had already continued a month, rendering all legisla- live business of importance impossible, and inca- pacitating the ministers for any departmental or other oMcial labors, when, on the 5th, the Cabinet ple of Arequipa remains in statu quo. The clerical | summoned all its fmends quietly to the Chamber of party, after exhausting their store of invective on | Deputies, and, putting what is bere called ‘a cork’? the administration, seems to have quietly sought | jn the debate—that 1s, having it declared closed by rest, and we hear but little about the affair, Had | 4 Vote of the house—forced a Aivision on the oppo- it not been, however, for the measures taken by | *ition upon the question of adopting the the Prefect of the disturbed department in destroy- | TePly to the speech srom the throne, and carried 1t ing all the coples of an objectionable newspaper | PY 66to 44. Five clergymen of the majority re- Tegion of pyrites which gave a sul- | phurous taste to the water. The old name of High Rock Congress was also time been somewhat worried by the competition | of Geyser, Excelsior and other natural waters, not | | her toreign debt, that he could lay his hands upon, and thus remov- | ing the bone of dissension, bloodshed | would certaimly have ensued. Meantime | the Prefect, enraged at the censure of | the Lima newspapers at his perhaps prudent but certainly timid step, offered to resign his post. As yet We are unaware whether the government will accept his resignation. Mr. Pardo appears to have opened nis eyes as to the danger of tamper- ing with religious matters, but the journals of Lima are loud in their praise of the recent action | ofa distinguished portion of the Chilian Chambers, calling for a reconsideration of that agticle ot their | constitution aliowing no public worship within the territory of the Republic save that of the Roman Catholic Church, and insisting upon the adoption of Cayour’s famous principle, “A free Church in a free State.”” Nevertheless, although Peru is really tending towards such a greatend, it will require many years time to peacetully effect the change. FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS IN EUROPE. ‘The last steamer from Panama brought us the good news of the ratification by the Paris house o} agreement entered into here between the branch of Messrs. Dreyius Brothers & Co. and the Minister of | the | served their assent to the paragraph on the re. ligious question. Only nine Deputies were absent, and of these only two are professed oppositionists, go that the vote, which was really one of confl- dence, is tolerably devisive, and proves that the goverhment has a suiticient margin over the sixty-one members required to make & house to carry an important measure or tWo m the course of tue sessit ELECTORAL REFORM. The great measure of the session will be the Electral: Reform bill, which the government brought in last session, and which, it is Known, the Emperor has at heart-to push on, whatever else lalls through. If it pass, which is probable now, it Will now be without great diflicuity, for the principle of indirect election of Deputies and of Senatorial lists, which the govern- | ment wishes to preserve, 18, Im gener- | al, considered a complete failure, ana | only the spirit of allegiance, or whatever goes to make a party, will induce a not small number of | government supporters to vote with the Cabinet iregard to it. Ii the Elecroral Reform bill veg come luw this year it isexpected that the Cham- ber will be dissolved at the elose of the session, in order to allow a new one to be elected under the new law. THE INDICTED BISHOPS, Finance. As has been already communicated to the H#RALD, this instrument places the two inter- ested parties on a comfortavle and friendly footing. ‘The government allows the house to carry into operation the scheme for manipulating the guano exported or reducing to a single and medium basis the numerous and different qualities of tne fer- tilizer offered Jor sale in foreign markets, by,whicn, it 1s hoped, the consumption will be largely increased, and, in returp, the house continues the monthly advance to the Exchequer o1 400,000 soles, which will materially improve the condition of financial affairs here. As soon as the good news was known in London and Paris Peruvian bonds, then singularly depressed in value, jumped up twenty per cent inaiew days, and at last ad- vices continucd rising. The publication of the oil- cial report made by order of bis government by Captain Cookson, commauding Her Britannic Maj- | esty’s steamer Petrel, on the recently surveyed \ guano aeposits ot the south, aiso contributed to | the rise. ‘his document was suomitted to both Houses of Parliament, and the holders of the obil- gations of Peru were rejoiced, to discover | tht the estymates of the Peruvian Com- mission were not found to be exaggerated, | Captaim Cookson reporting the quantity existing | untouched in the new beds at 7,400,000 tons. | Guanape guano is a little over £7 10: their | southern deposits are considered to be mucn superior to those of Maca)1 and Guanape. quently it may be deduced that the wealth of the nation to be derived from the southern beds wiil | yeach to more than the highly respectable sum of $265,000,000 (gold), a virgin resource untouchea, and which may be regarded as a reserve guarantee for the strict compliance o/ Peru with the terms of ‘This is already amply securea by the guano from the nortn; consequently no nation should stand better before the financial eru. NAVAL EVOLUTIONS, On the 18th the Peruvian squadron, composed of the iron-clad frigate Independencia, the plated ram Huascar, the iamous monitor bought in the United States, and the wooden steamers Union and Chalaco, proceeded to sea, steering towards the south, younger oMcers and the sailors in naval evolu- the first of its natnre ever attempted by Peru, or, indeed, by any of the republics on the west coast peiwer chauge irom the weary inaction in Callao jay. S vistt FROM A DISTINGUISHED SAILOR, Speaking Of naval matiers, we have a distin- guished satlor now visiting us—Admiral Cochrane, of the British service, a son of the famous Earl of Dundonald, who so efficiently aided the patriots of Chili and Peru in their efforts against Spain in the war for independence. The Admiral is the recipient of courteous uttention at the bands of the government and merits the honors shown him. COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE, The South American Steamship Company, an organization formed in Chilt and running’ its steamers with great success between Valparaiso establish @ line to Panama, As the French steamers on that route left the coast some months ago the new enterprise will be the only rival to the powerful Pacific Steam Navigation Company. “chili, re still discussing the question of limits with re- Bpect to the disputed ownership of the Straits of Magellan. The Argentine government was anx- | ious that it should be declared neutral territory, | as the speediest and most friendly way of settling | any question about it with Chill. HONOR TO ITALY. The Italian frigate Garivald! was at Valparaiso, The Duke 01 Genoa had been received with marked bid a and was, when the steamer ielt, at San- ago. | 4 A CITY IN DANGER. | The hill called Cerrode Ja Conception, at Valpa- Taiso, still threatens to tail aud destroy part oi the city. 4 TELEGRAPBY, \ The Directory of the Transandine Teiegraph | Company have been informed by the manager of the River Platte Telegraph Company that he ex- pects telegraph communication to be estavlished | with Rio, Pernambuco and Para by the end of August. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE. The motion for entire iiberty of religious wor. | Ship has been signed by @ large number of mem. | bers of the Chilian Congress. THE MINES. | In one of the Carracoles mines, the Descubridora, | silver ore has beeo struck at a depth of more than | 100 metres, | Colombia. | “PANAMA, July 5, 1874, | The Fourth of July passed off very quietly in | Panama. The United States steamer Richmond | fired a salute at noon, THE WEATHER, The heavy rains 0 Unusual at this time of the | year in Panamy continue unabated. The weather during the past two months resembles more that of October and November than May and June. THE BRITISH FLEET IN THE PACIFIO. Special Order for a General Rendezvous | at Panama (From the Panama Herald, June 6.) | A special despatch by cable from the English Admiralty announces that the vessels composing the British naval fleet on the Pacific are ordered to rendezvous forthwith at Panama for special reasons. The first of the fleet, the Tenedos, an- chored in our port on the 28th ult., from Mexico. The others may be expected to drop inin due time. Admiral Cochrane, R,N., was at Callao ‘when the Oroya leit there, on the 21st ult., and will there receive his orders, which arrived here in time to have been forwarded south by steamer of 24th ult. STRENGTH OF THE NAVAL MUSTER, Her Britannic Majesty’s feet in the Pacific, now ordered to rendezvous at Panama, consists of the following vessels:—Screw steamer Repulse, fag- ship, 12 guns, Admiral Arthur A, L. great attendance during the week, Ret . Cochrane, OC. B., Rg ga Joseph E. M. Witson; steam aioon Tepedos, § guns, Captain Edward H, | The net gain of the government on one ton of the | vonse- | pos @broad than this most extraordivarily gilted | The object of the trip is to perfect the | tions. The cruise is of especial interest, since it is | ot South America. The vessels were in capital , condition and the crews enthusiastic over the | and the northern Peruvian ports, is about to | The press of Chili and the Argentine Republic | The prosecution of the Bishop of Para is now | awaiting the filing of the indictment by the Crown } Prosecutor. The Bishop of Marianna, Minas Geraes, also seems desirous to provoke the gov- | ernment to prosecute him, as he has ordered his | vicars'to send him lists of the Freemasons in the | brotherhoods, in order, us he says, to “eliminate | them, at even the risk of four years’ tmprison- | ment.’? He has also ordered them to accept no | Freemasons for gossips at baptisws or cuniirma- | fions. But the Bishop is very oid and ts said to be ryled by his Household clergy. The government ' nds not yet divulged its further course in the religious difticulty, but it is expected in the anti- ultramontane circies that @ measure of impor- tance, perhaps ¢ marriage, is in project and will | be announced later on in the Session. | THE POPE | having alleged that Baron de Penedo had prom. | fed that the prosecution of the Bishop of Olinda would be dropped, the government, in the name of that envoy, has declared that no such promise Was made, and that it was expressly stated that the course of the law could not be interrupted by the Executive, The tollowing is the protest of the | Interuuncio and the reply of the government upon the condemnation of the Bisipn Of @linda, it will be seen that the Minister ofForeign Affairs took high constitutional grounds, THE NUD most grievous facts and of tne clestastical immunity Your Bx- ¥ fvill.comprehend that the undersigned, by we strict obligation of lis charge and as representative of the Holy See at this I:pertal Court, fluds himself abso- Intely obliged to protest against ail’ and any vioiation of the rights and laws of the Church, practised in this | question of the bishops, especially in_ prejudice of eccie- | giastical immunity and all its successive consequences, Guat the iimprescriptible rights of the Church. aud the Holy See may ever und in alltime remain safe, intact, entire and unbroken. REPLY OF THE CABINET, | The government replied as iollows:— The tribunal which tried the Rev. Bishop Olinda and | has to judge him of Para is the supreme tribunal of jus- tice in the Empire, authorized by our laws, and this authorization dues not depend upon the judgment ot any foreign authority, whatever it . ‘ihe protest of the Aposvolic Intertuncio is, pormit me to say it, thereiore, fuconsequent and ual, “and as such can produce no ettect. A CABLE SHIP WRECKED. Electric Communigation in South | America “Delayed. Cha! Rr0 JANETRo, June 7, 1874. > | The British steamer Gomos, engaged in laying the telegraph cable on the southern coast of | Brazil, has been wrecked with about 100 miles of cable on board, though no lives were lost. This disaster will postpone through cable communica- tion with the Kiver Plate for six months longer, as she was landing anend at Rio Grande do Sul, for the purpose of laying the cable between thi city and the frontier o: Uruguay, when she was Jost, 2ud with her the cable intended for that last | Ba link. It 1s also reported that the cable | on the Uruguayan coast has parted. On the other | hand, the Uruguayan land lines nave reached within twenty miles of the Brazilian frontier, and should join on with the Rto Grande lines by July; but the Brazilian lines, whether government or | private, are proved so unreliable that little ac- | count 18 made of them. MORE ABOUT THE NATHAN MURDER MYS- TERY. What Mr. Isaacs, the Undertaker, Says About It. Captain Irving, Chief of the Detective Corps, has received a letter from Mr. Levi J. Isaacs, the undertaker who bad charge of the remains of the murdered Nathan, dated at Baltimore, in Which the writer states that he disrobed the deceased, and aiterwards turned the shirt over to the Coroner, but that it would be simpiy inmpossible jor bim to identify the garment recently discovered as the one worn by the deceased on the jatal night. The | Coroner has already stated that he does not rec- oliect anything about it. Provably there is not one who can positively identity the disputed night gown as Mr. Natnan’s, LADY OPERATORS, To THE Eprror OF THE HERALD:— In your issue of Saturday a correspondent enters @ grievous complaint against what he con- temptuously styles “country telegraph ope- rators,” charging them with divulging the secrets contained in messages entrusted to their care and allowing ticket agents and others to read everybody's despatches. 1 wish @ small space in your columns in which to deny the charges which te has laid at my door in common with ail other operators. Having been tn the busi- four or five years, aud during that stationed at Various places, well qualified to speak, Truly say that never we like the violations of trust agai which your correspondent so loudly protests, I will allow that it is not right to permit every one to enter tne office, and in no place where t have ever been is | any one, except an Operator or interested parti allowed inside the raliing. If “0. M4. any material damage at the hand: any opera- tor, why does he not make a proper complaint to the proper authorities, instead of stigmatizing the entire fraternity? ‘Trusting you will give this a space in your Infuential journal and vindicate our honor, Lam, yours, &c., | A LADY OPERATOR, RHINEBECK, July 13, 1874. THE WASHINGTON SAFE BURGLARY, Hid away in an obscure corner of the Boston Post of yesterday appears the following suggest- ive paragraph: — Major Bluford Wilson, Solicitor of the Treasury Department at bie te! was in Boston Satur- day, engaged atthe Revere House taking testi- mony tn regard to the alieged complicity of Colonel Whitley, Chief of the Secret Service, in the Har- rington sate robbery. From the evidence taken here and elsewhere Major Wilson has become convinced that Oolone| Whitley and the members Of his force had no connection With the robbery. has suffe;