The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1874, Page 2

2 AMUSEMENTS, } ETROPOLITAN Mme. VIOLI Mm PARISIAN CAN FORTY beautitu NEW A ONE HUNDRED 5 MATINEE W Box ofice MONDAY TIBLO’S THEATRE, THEATRE, 585 BROADWAY. 2 PICAL .. Directress v IOLETTE PICAU PS AN ’ r, CHAHU DANCERS, Lane bewitehing ladies FORTY, ND ATTRACTIVE OLIO. TAR PERFORMERS. | One Hundred. EDNESDAY AND SATURDAY, open daily to secure seats August $-4LA, ALA, ALA. Charles R. Thorne, Manager. Pull and ashionable houses (o wi.ness the Americ ravaganaa THE BELLE UF ARCADIA, Now and Orizinal Musd:; Doubie Cast of Chargeters, Songs Dances, Duets, Trios aud Choruses, W. oe aE VANGELINE ‘O-NIG THIS DAY AN Pp, ® sasnoms THE GREAT © OPEN : OF THE BRILL THI AFTER: ALL THE ROMAN ROMA ALL THE Dai ALL THE BRI ALL THE Li ALL THE ALL THE GRE! AT MLLE. Vii ON HER VEL( \LOBE THEATRI 7 RW. BUTLE GRAND OPENING NIGHT, MONDAY, GREAT For partieulars Box book now op (omossec M, St ‘OLI Open OOD'S MUSEUM. FIRST DON EACH R, __ PERFORMAN( 3 TONIGHT, D MATINER 2 O'CLOCK. GREAL ROMAN HIPPODROME. Last Day DAY at of. OMBINATION IN NEW YORK. BOSTON, AUGUST 8. RY FEATURE IAN! SEASON REPRODUCED. S$ CLOSING WEER, NOON AND EVENING, CHARIOT RACES. N STANDING RACES, NG JOCKEY RACKS ALLIANT FLAT RACKS, JLIPUTIAN RACES, TRAINED ANIMAL RACES GYMNASTIC A and BROOK PAIR EXUIBITIO CTORIA, AE DCIFE, ENAGERIE, AT 1:30 AND 7. AT 2:20 ND & LOBE. ager EB. B.. AUGUST 8, 1876. STAR COMBINATION. nowucements Sunday papers 0A, M. w6 P.M. ye SON, 90 CE BY Day. ‘om 10 ull dusk. MER ) LOND! daily AND ONLY MATINER OF TH STREETS OF NEW YORK. Dr. Mi Ipony P. N. B, LEAVITT GREAT Bi ‘The famous and original F CA Tro r3 The great sensati FEMA LOUIs ALDRIC ss SOPHIE MILE d entire company brated Drama, PGE TS | | | i} | month. | family _| M® A? AMS! Pe: | A —FOR SALE, Hotes, Roadside Hotels, cheap; Meat Markets, a fi bargains, r col Soda Water Business for horses, Wagons, boxes, bottle: seooud street. —GROCERS. ¢ No oppo: rr 280 Tenth avenue, near Twenty I Book and Stationery 12,000 inhabitants, doing a safe Address J, T. selling northwest corner Apply on the nue. JOR SALE—sHOW CAS Stands on Broadway Apply to B, Wa 10 to 12 o'clock. fr de $1.00) Uptown Branch ottce. Herald 1Q t lures, for $ APHER'S CHAN in, PHOTOE bare: Rast, dest paying Hotels in Connecti York and Sew Haven Railroad, nm account of sickness. POWER PRE! platen, Cone Wh Hoe Deum Cyl el also several tons of U Amateur VANDERBURG corner Fuultor Cal SENUV & CO. 163 West street, D & CO., 176 State street, New Haven. Prenses and, Dutch NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. LR. Store’ rer sale 8 Wanted, Call on or address U. B, Al, 11s sit st RUG STORE—ONE HOUR FROM CITY; NO OP bosition; flue opening for physician; price low; @ Tare chance, and worth investigating ve. HALLON, Little Falls, N. J. OCK, GOOD WILL AND oldest stand and wiuieh can be considerably increased : this is a rare op established trade: terins cast; satis! Fifty-eighth street and Seventh avenue. AND r Duane. stree RMAN, 10 D (OR SALE—A GOOD CORNER LIQUOR STOR a leading avenue, up town, Where there is a good halt cash. UOR STORE FOR SALE-STOC: ND 600. $26 First avenue and Nineteenth st FO! ar A ” MACHINERY, 88.—BARGAIN, price 8600; H, ‘br ‘on the line of N Hotels’ Country Grocery Stores, d handsomely and JAMES MOOLKE, street, PIXTURE: 8, of ry reasous tor Herald office OR SALE—THE FIRST CLASS LIQUOR STORE ith street and secona a ro 1 ‘Address J. V., FIX. AT STAND—A FINE DOUBLE STAND FOR the meat business, for sale cheap by the owner. Nos 415 and 414 Country row, west Washington market, R SALE AT A Photograph Gallery $23 Broatway. or partner Giken; reasoa, other business; good operator wanted. nea is cong ARE CHANCK FOR HOTEL KEEPERS.—FOR Lease, Stock and Fixtures of one of the eu the depot. or adaress ©. R. ew York, or G. W. $109, der—Barguin, 28x41 bed; price Used Type, aud varieties of is. WELLS & CO., streets, New York. ERA HOUSE. ose Sole Lessee. )- NIGHT, 1 Mme. Renta’s MINSIRELS. VENTRAL PARK GARDEN TONIGHT. J THIs (SATURDAY) EVENING, AUGUST 1, AT & THEODORE THOMAS? UNRIVALLED SUMMEK NIGHTS’ CONCERTS, | Overture, Preciosa “ Weber Waits, Wiener Strauss nes Pittore -Maseanet Overture, William Tell Rossini Bomanze, op. 40. Beethoven | Selections, Flying Dutchman Wagner | Overture, Merry Wi t Windsor Nicolai | Waltz Wo die citronen, Bluha, new. .... Selections, Galop. Bivouac Admission tc ORES TWE 8. GILMO L aR AD THis VERY BEST 27 UNION Trovatore et, 5c. ; ADER AND DIRE M UE TH The ladies and gentlemen engaged for the ensuing Season are requested to assewble in Ue giee Saturday, August 15, at noon. ___ PIANOFORTES RE rat et. “Cirenlars al Director, EATRE. room on JOHN MUORE, ORGANS, &C, R. 1AINES BROTHERS WILL offer their fine assortment of first class Pianotortes at prices which cannot fail t to rent and rent ap; Pianos taken In exe! ) MAGNIFICENT sale; tour round corae: months, for $300, inch der, Dining Furnitur: ing’city. 36 West 15t LADY WILL rosewood Pianc $500, ror less than $1 28 Third street. BARGAIN FOR ¢ 7 octave Piano FAM nis. Call, priva Sunday made to order; be: Stool, Cover, Box tor shipping; Jor Furniture Hecker & Bro richly carved ro: “GRAND SCAL! Call ‘wenty-third street, suit the times. New Pianos d toward purchase it destred. Old ange. ROSEWOC nding Stool and e rlor,Cham e; wsucr property iamuy leay- | . hear 5th av | HANDSOME WEBER corners, full size, cost over, dc. ; perfect order, n's woop | improvements, BEAUTIFUL ROS 1 modern Mort LY WILL SELL THEIR sacrifice, full agratt Cover. overstrung, —Has box tor shipping st city ma also richly carved Par- at private residence, 120 West near Sixih avenue. OVERS' OCTAY, e Piano, rent Irgan. cost GORDON & SO} 13 Kast 1th st., near 4th UNG $4 H % fortes to rent, by CHIC RING & M1 East Fourteenth strect, between Broadway and Fittn avenue. STEINWAY'S, WATERS’, CMICKERING'S AND > other frst class secoud hand Pianos, at bargains; Pianos and Organs t ORACE EL RY C cannot be beaten as to tone an: competition. Catal HORAC "FIRST CLASS York, desires a English; 18 a good re Adress 'B. A., care v ty and 5 emember Fourth sireet. The seu in the world. ences exchanged Ap] of Jordens & Marte asl, B comforts, healt instruction. Addres: Boake, ister for 4 iniss of MUSICAL, JUST ARRIVED IN NEW | - THE LECTURE SEASON. or companion to an ¢ OARDING SCHOOL AT WILTON, C¢ let until Daid for. WATERS & SON, 481 Broadway. EBRATED CONCERTO ORGANS auty. We dety d. Agents wanted, & SON, 431 Broadway. jogues mal EB WATE Position tn a church choit ot LECTURE ON NERVOU iseases, at Dr. y OSB cial the add if largest and most magnificent mu r Admission 5) cents. ____ INSTRUCTION. DUCATED ery lady ty to or address MUSICIA Broadway. —HOME hy location, long <tanding, thorough S AUGUSIUS WHIILUCK CTION, AND MOTHERLY CARE upland” excavator. Machine, Sage @ Alger paten: ALKER, Spri id, Mass gfe (OR SALE—A NEARLY NEW Sf AM DREDGING be changed to an Nok Address McCLULLAS, Fe o it reasonab Last WU street, between case Piano, having | we | 5, tn’ a small, respectable, quict | he city: references required. Call » RULAND, at H. B. Clatin & Co.'s. ing sireet and Kingsurid and Day S5i08 a apply to M —WEEKLY A Furniture, Carpet and PERTHWAIT &'CO. immense stock and LARGE ASS¢ ture and Beddin: English t BOGART York, or to Golonel THEO to 2) East Phirty-seventn street. #TON FRENCH INSTITUTE BOARD- School tor young gentlemen, I7ist i ad, New York. Former resi- Twe year. Will re veh Principal, successor lars on applicat LESPINASSE ACADEMY. Civil Eng ly taught. For « ret iden roug’ Esq., No. 3 Nassau WORE HYATT, Pres PAYMENTS FOR Bedding, at B. M. COW- 15) and 157 Chatham street, an low prices. ND MONTHLY 3, PURNE est cash prices, by weekly ORTMENT OF CARPE iz. at ko instalments, at O'FARRELL'S warelouse, 410 Kighth nue, berween Th MAGNIFIOEN A Furniture; a encrifiee ; property tatily leaving city West Lith Ava Furniture of NO. & CO ever Parlor Suits, Pianos, & LACK WA with drawe: ble for stock broker or bh gain, Address KIC) (00D SECON sizes: at the old plac D HAND AND MISFIT CARPET patterns and fine qualities; very cheap | 12 Fulton street; side entrance. Bring irtieth und Thirty -firs T GRAND 1 tree ts, cost $400 rior, Chamber, Dinin $0 , Rear 5th av. 39 BAST THIRTEENTH STi! will off private sale Householc description; Carpets, auction price: CR DESK, 10 FEET LONG book rack, pigeon holes, c., su nker's 0 t @ great bat BARDS, box 1,656 Post off ’ ALL your measures with you. BRO REFRIGERATOR, WITH WATER AND WI cooler, is the best for book. ls Send STORAGE, + houses, 593, tand 1 Abin: ag Di Boe AGG AL gon street, near Tw eit a JYAROER'S WA: USES, EIGHTH H from Thi ird to Thirty-tourth st age, Good: ‘elosod irniture, in scription, seared Tecel » Placed in sep: acking and moving arefuliy a food and ice ki fe wrorkde Y eeper in the world, ALEX M LESLEY, 244 West Twenty-third street, “STORAGE, WEST SIDE 8’ de in for Furniture, Pianos, rooms; alway’ accesal dort owner and manager, office #3 Had- on squa AVENUE, reet.—Stor is aad Wares of every compartments. Night it sil hours. grande FOR FURNITURE, PIANOS, BAGGAGE, separate rooms; ing has all conven” hte ICHALES & SON, a ‘wand co marce street, near Bleecker. Mattresses, | V WILSON 1B SALE—TWO LARGE ENGINES AND BOILER two Boat Engines, fine lot of Tanks, Boiler F a and Greenhouse Pipes.” NEW YORK TUBE WORKS, 53) West street. LV: rder, a! W YORK 1 tor details. 0 lowest eash price. Tray street, up statrs. TANTED TO PURCHASE—A_TWE. power horizoniai Engine and Boiler. in good orde dress L. W. STANDARD STEAM MOTOR COM. M4 Chambers street, first lott, invites estimates gine builders for building their steam en- Y HO! WARNER & Cv. Q CAMPBELL PRINTING PRES e I For sale cheap, tor cash. Y, Post office. YACHTS, STEAMBOATS, & ARGE BEDFORD FOR SALE-IS 14) FEET LONG and 42 teet wide, has 2 decks, 18 boused in and hay S FOR SaLo— : two 4rolier Campbell Presseu and one Grolier Campbell Press. Address 4. D., avery strongly built, copper fastened hull: is in good condition; can be seen at ken. | ror SALKE—VERY CA Inquire at olfice of A. Apply to A. DUNN, 382 Wi A tons register, carryins Hoboken, N. J. 8. POW resiacnce 21) West Zist street, this day or | A? | | Wate | tiques and Articles of NED. 7 ANTED—A SCHOO. Boats UL, 151 Front street, T 7 BLRE KEEL tons, suitable tor a pilot boat, | Sweeney’s Hote! | 100 ON HAND—SHE | Club. metallic Life Boats, and Spoor Shops 368 and 373 South street, ai t Elev A SC ‘ER, nd 114 LOAN OFFICES. ZR STREET, NEAR BRO: ces upon Diamonds, Watches, Je AL Liberal advan elry, Pianos, &c., or the same bought. ers ickets bought at 77 Ble: cker street, up stair: the foot of Fifth street, Hobo- enn stree’ HOO} R 43 tons in six feet of water. B. HAZARD, iron shipping agent, GHTER OR SCOW TO CARRY FROM | {to 175 fons. Address, giving price and full par- —~ | ticulars. box S44 Post office. y Address ropiun 53 LS, WHITHALL, Oars, at th ma street, Hari EN ROBERTS River, STEPH $1500 -kO8, SAbR THE Past (Satine OUU. sioop Eo A. FULLER; length, 45 feet; 13 eet beam. light draughts iy pertect order. ‘Apply to is. jew York. Also Pawnbrok ‘T 67 BROADWAY, CORNER FOURTH StREEC.— street—Mun 3 on Jewelry, silverware. Silks, Laces, estab) same bought Most extensi try. Private parlors tor lad. fies to pay advance. SULOMON & street, near Nassau—Mon tches, Silver Plate, ilks, ¢: ertu; office for Indies, Se habla kspan MERICAN _ OFFIC Liberal advances'on Diamonds, Watches. Jewelry, ‘Ke. cost | Silks, Camels Hair Shawls, Laces a | ertyy of eery description. JOUNSON'S, CORNER ‘BOWERY AND SPRING loa Diamonds, | Watches, established 150; ol. On jaws, '&e., oF the ish ment in the coun- & Goods tor sale at sacri LYON monds, Is, Ane DIAMONDS, Watches, Jewels, silver, India Shawls, Siiks, Laces, Valuables, £¢ D ihe utmost value loaned, or will buy. Established 134. J. H. BARRINGBR, 738 Broadway. ONEY LOANED—ON DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEW- elr: and silverware, and the same bought. C. ALLEN, 1,190 Broadway, near Twenty. NEY LOANED—ON DIAMONDS, WATCHES AND Jewelry, at D. ABRAHAM'S, 450 GEO. th street. jatham street and 29 North William street. The highest price paid for old Gold and Silver. 403 ances made on Laces and Shawls. fourth and Twenty-fifu PROPOSA SIXTH AVENUE, BETW reets,—Liberal ad- | Diamonds, Watwhes, Jewelry, Silks, | Same bought at ful in LS. TWE value. BERNARD. N PURSUANCE OF AN ACT OF THE GENERAL Assembly 23, 1874, the “Cx Statutes of si amittee on te will receiv € than tree thousand copies of mittee, howev: poral and to require sec jor the performance of the contr. <pecifications may be P. C. MATHER, New London, ©: Dated July 27, 1x74. per ISALS the State of Connecticut said act. ‘onn. ot less Statutes, th twitied by addressing JOHN for WROUGHT AND CAST IRON WORK tor the LIBRARY OF THE NEW STATE DEPARTMENT. Ornice or Surrevin Trrasvey Derarterst. Wasuinctos d Sealed proposals will be rec M. of the Ith dav of August, 147 ing. fitting and putung n place the w D, furt NG ought aud cast iron work required for the Library of ue New stave Depart. ment Coples of the arawings and specifications may be bad on application at this office All scaffolding required by work in place will be tu of charge, but wi mnths troin date of avoeptan must be accompanied responsible persons in the sum of twent & whole work he contractors to put the hed by the Departin ent free d in specification. om of the by a pieved within four proposal. Dt» will be made mouthly, deducting per iI the completion of the contract. al_bond of two five thousand do\lars ($25.00), that tbe bidder will accept and pertorm the contract, if awarded im, the sufficiency. ot th the Unived States Judge, states Court, or the District Attorney of der resides. curity to be certified ot the United the District wherein the se- lerk. The Department reserves the right to reject any or all bids if it be deemed for the interest of the government to do so, very bid must be ned at this office, an be considered. BAP—LIQUOR STORES, LAGER Beer Saloons, Billiard Saloon ma ug store; great MITCHELL'S STORE AGENCY, 77 Cedar street CHANCE SELDOM OFFERRD.—A MINERAL AND including only’ part cash ast Thirty FROM 2% TO #0 | nd Personal Prop: | JAMES P. MAITHEW private | r. reserving the right to reject any pro- | y trout the succeastul bidder | | | | THE (CELANDIC MILLENNIUM. The Vikings’ Homo of Democracy, Learning and Love of Country. RECORD OF 1,000 YEARS. Norsemen the First Colonists in America. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. The King of Denmark Joins in the Solemnities. The Men and the Women of Iceland. A very remarkable solemnity will be observed to-day in an isolated but interesting country on the confines of the Arctic Ocean. It 1s the cele- bration of the millennium of the first colonization of Iceland, which took piace in the year 874, and it is also the day on which a new and liberal consti- tution, granted to it by the King of Denmark, goes into operation, The Icelanders are comparatively few in number, but they are a peopie noted for their great intelligence, for enterprise as naviga- tors, and ior having maintained what may be caled a pure democracy for many centuries, despite the efforts of powerful neighbors to reduce them to subjection, Whether it was that Nature placed obstacles in the way of armies being sent against them, or that their country was not well adapted for military operations, or that their poverty was 60 great as not to make it an object to conqter them, the Ice- landers have, through all the vicissitudes of thelr history, managed to retain in their own hands the right of self-government. Besides this they have a wonderful attachment to their dreary and inhospitable island. This, how- ever, las not prevented several hundred Iceland- ers during the past few years emigrating to the United States and settling tn the Northwest, to be iollowed, no doubt, by many more o/ their country, men. In this connection it has to be mentioned that recent researches have brought to light certain evidences to show that nearly five hundred years before Columbus started on his voy- age to America Icelandic mariners found their way to this Continent, and estabiished colonies on the coast of New England, which they called Vine» land, Some extracts from old Scandinavian records on this subject are given below. They have afforded much matter for speculation to per- sons interested in the history of the country before the Spanish discoveries. The Icelanders are, there- fore, to Americans, in many respects, @ people en- titled to sympathy. They long upheld republican institutions in their Arctic nomes, and were prob- ably the first to introduce Christianity and civili- zation on this Continent, though all traces of both were lost in course of time. The King of Denmark, attended by a feet, 1s to participate in the festivi- ties in iceland that commence to-day. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. The gift of Christian IX. to his Icelandic subjects on the occasion of the millennium jubilee ts the new constitution, which is conceived in a very liberal spirit, having in most of its articles been closely moulded upon the Danish charter of 1549, one of the freest in Europe. His Danish Majesty concedes to Iceland, in all matters concerning the island and not belonging to imperial jurisdiction, its own independent legislation and adminis. tration, superintended by an Assembly—the Althing—consisting of thirty-six members, thirty ot whom are to be elected by popular suffrage on @ very liberal franchise, the remaining six to be nominated by the King. It puta at the head of affairs a Minister named by the King and residing exercising his fynctions through a local Governor residing in Iceland and invested with an extended authority in all Matters of a pressing nature or of jocalimportance. Finally, it fully and to the same extent as the Danish charter guarantees the inde- pendence of the courts, the freedom of the indi- vidual, liberty of religion, of the press, of pubiic meetings, of inviolability of property, of self-gov- ernment of the munictpalties and the EQUALITY OF ALL CITIZENS BEFORE THE LAW. Some «liMculties had to be overcome before this result was reached. Last year the Althing expressed a wish that if the King should be disinclined to grant their fall demands he would by an act of his royal au- thority cut the knot by according to the tsland a constitution for its internal administration and {| legislation, and this is what now has been done. proposals until Augast | 2), 1874. tor Stereotyping. Printing and Binding The population has been prompt to acknowiedge the vivid ieelings of gratitude which the grant has awakened in their hearts, and the sense of loyal duty they obeyed in offering to the King tneir thanks for acharter giving to the representation of Iceiand ull legislative and financtal authority. Referring to the fact that the grant was made this year, when memory carried them back through the span of a thousand years to the first settlements on the coast, the Icelanders proceed to say, | “Your Majesty has thus touched the innermost and ade on the printed form to be ob- | t must conform in every respect | ty the reauirements of this advertisement, or it will not longest vibrating chords of our hearts, and piacea your royal grace in the, tous, dearest light. In the royal proclamation itis graciously recordea that @ thousand years ago Iceland became the home and the heart of a national Ife that was destined, by the preservation of the language of our forefathers and the historical or poetical com- memoration of their deeds, to become of the high- est importance to the Scandinavian North, From the last royal gilt of liberty this national life may take a fresh start and @ higher development, and that will afford us @ new guarantee that also for centuries to come our and our ancestors’ lan- guage will be preserved. As long as it survives it will raise to Your Majesty @ monument more last- ing than brass, and when in coming days our sons and the sons of our sons are writing down the feats and events of our time, they will name as the deed worthiest to be remembered and richest Proposais will not be received from parties who are | Not themeelves engaged in the a. utacture of cast iron Work, and Who have not the necessary jacilities tor getung out the work. Ail bids must be enclosed ina sealed envel “Proposals tor Wrought and (i New State Departiwent, Wa: seed to dorsed ra and a r fdr th 1874, ‘tutes of said State, to A.B. Tron ington. MULLET Supervising Architect. EGISLATURE OF CON. 874, will be received, | Committee on the Reviston stereotyping, ing not less than 3.099 copies of said’ st | Specifications may be obtained by addressing JOHN P . MATHER, New London, Conn i BILLIARDS. is STANDARD AMERICAN BEVEL TAB: AND ¢ Phelan & © et ation. Hions: for only by the patentee, H. W. COLLENDER, suc. cessor to Phelan & Coilender, 733 Broad . New York | London. Al. hier, Ubassy, 1, Bagatelles, Tripolites also a wCK P WINES, LIQUORS, Y WHISKEY, 8 T0 12 YEARS OLD, © nd Apple Brandy, Clarets, Chi n a agnes, sparkling Cogn solutely tole agents for the 3 nerries panish GEO. EB. B. GR, Rewer a REBEL. 3 Tanned Leather Belting, | new and commodious steam p Tort street, opposlte Jacob strect, stan New Yona, July 2, 1874, D! Pater "4 ler: ly FOUGERA, have wer buildin one _ MISCELLANEOUS, ERI, VIENNA EXHIBITION, 1873 — Powders and Loze dugases of the teat” Rl da ‘ACTURERS OP -—GREAT AMERICAN BEVEL TABLES, WITH Delaney’s patent wire cushions, indorsed by Gar- Dion and others; tables nearly ad Rus#an Bowling Tables; variety ot new Games at reduced prices, W. H, GRIFFITH & OO, 40 Vesey street, ¥ new, for ure liquors nly: Gorman & Co,, of AY & 0O., No. 3 Park row. A ed to their be Frank- biock from the old remo omacn ; Pow: ists’ depots. New Orieans. printing | ta iitex, | lope, en | Worx ot D.C." | in blessings Your Majesty’s royal gift of liberty.’ These words no doubt betray a strong national spirit among the poor but patriotic islanders, aa distinct (rom that of Denmark proper. » THE PAST OF ICELAND. The authentic history of Iceland commences at the dawn of the ninth century. As early as 800 A, D. a Dane named Garder was drifted from Scot- land in stormy weather northwards to an unknown Years later the country was visited by another | Norwegian, named Flake, who remained a year of this isolated territory states that Christian relics were found by the Norwegtans on their arrtval, consisting of crosses, &c., which had been erected previously, itis supposed, by Irish settlers, However this may be, it is certain that the first successful colonization of Iceland was made under Ingolf, who was driven into exile on account of the cruelttes of the Norwegian King Hagar. Ingolf, with his foster brother, made @ fruitiess attempt to locate on the southern coast in 870, and finally succeeded in 874, just 1,000 years ago. in establisuing himself near the place where Reykjavik, the capital of the island, now stands, Others followed the two brothers, and that seque: and of an enlightened repnbiic. century Iceland came under the sway of Norway and was allowed a considerable degree of self- government. When Norway was united to Den- muark, in 1390, Iceland shared the same tate. The inhabitants for some me maintained a straggic for the remnant of freedom that had been left in Copenhagen, but responsible to the Alching and | | and called it Isiand, One of the earliest records ] lies along the most level part of the coast, tered spot became the seat of reiigion, \earning | In the thirteenth | | coast. He wintered in the country and called it Gardersholm. In 861 Naddod, @ Norwegian adventurer, also found his way there, Seven | | existed for them by the Norwegian kings; but, the island hav- ing been laid waste by A DREADFUL ERUPTION OF MOUNT HECLA, the people submitted to Denmark on condition that ali law suits should be determined by their own tribunals, and that natives only should be appointed to office. When Norway was wrested from Denmark, in 1814 (in consequence of the sym- pathy and aid extended by its monarch to Napoleon), and given to Bernadotte for his assist- ance to the aliies, Iceland was not transferred along with it to the ruler of Sweden. The native Legisiature or Althing, which had subsisted for nearly nine hundred years, was suppressed in the beginning of the nineteenth century, bat was reorganized under a different model in 1843, Ever since that time the question as to the constitu- tional and politival position of the island has been the subject of bitter and passionate contest, the home rule party claiming not only am indepen- dencey leaving to their sovereign very little but the bare name, but also demanding considerable financial subsidies from the national exchequer. The new conatutution setties this dispute to the satisfaction of all parties concerned, DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY. Iceland (in native language Island) is situate in the northermost part of the Atlantic, on the con- fines of the Arctic Ocean, It w in many respects one of the most teresting spots in the world. Its physical features are most remarkable, and not less 80 are its history and the character of its in- habitants, It lies ata distance of 600 miles from Norway; 260 from Greenland; an equal space divides it trom the Faroe Islands. Sixty hours’ steaming takes a vessel [rom Leith, in Scotland, to its principal city. Its greatest length from east to west is 300 miles, and its greatest breadth from north to south about 200. Iceland consists in great part of lofty mountains, many of which are active volcanoes, The interior is a dreary waste. Only a few level districts along the coast and a few dales, chiefly in the south, are habitable or in any degree capable of cultivation, while even there 1s scarcely a tree to be seen. The rest of the island is occupied with ruggea tracts of naked lava and other volcanic productions; vast ice fields in many places connect its mountain summits, among which prodigious glaciers in some in- stances descend even to the coast. They and the torrents which gush from them render communi- cation between one Inhabited patch of land and another extremely difficult and dangerous. There are numerous boiling springs, such as the Geysers, in the southern district, which throw up at periodt- cal intervals columns of boiling water more than ten feet in diameter and about 200 feet in height, preceded by a loud report like that of artillery. ‘The Icelanders are the genuine desceudants of THE OLD NORSEMEN, who worshipped in days long gone by Odim and Thor. The popuiation of their ice-bound land once numbered 100,000, but in consequence of nes- tilence, tamine and the destruction caused by vol- canic eruptions at various times, it became con- siderably reduced. Since 1840, when the census showed 57,000, a gradual increase has taken place, until the inhabitants now exceed 70,000. They are distinguished for honesty, purity of morals, won- erful love of education, intense attachment to country and a sturdy spirit of independence, The men are tail, but not generally corpulent, with a florid expression, flaxen hair ana open, frank | countenances. The women are shorterand more inclined to corpulence than the men, and a certain | degree of beauty 1s not rare among the girls. The men are not noted for energy, in fact, seem terri- bly disinclined to engage at any vocation save fishing. On the other hand, the women are re- markable for their industry, and devote themselves | to the periormance of work properly belonging to | Overtaxed | their husbands, brothers and sons, with domestic cares they go down to the wharves when a vessel comes in and by hard labor earn enough to buy scanty clothing for their children. They attend to the cows, make the cheese, cut the hay, carry the heavy burdens and perform manual labor gener- ally. The women are not rated high tn the scale of humanity tn Iceland. Still, overworked as they are, the natural procitvities of the sex are not obliterated, In former tines THEIR COSTUME WAS PICTURESQUE and becoming, and some traces of the old style are yet tobe seen in the pastoral districts. body, a jaunty little cap on the head with a heavy tassel ornamented with gold or silver bands, silver clasps to their belts and filagree buttons down the front give them a very pleasing appear- ance. Of late years, however, fashion nas begun to assert Its sway, and even in this comparatively unknown part of the globe, the native costume is gradually becoming modernized, However, there 18 no lack of refined society in tne island. There are many families as cultivated in manners as can be jound in any part of the world, and on occa- sions of balls and parties @ stranger would be sur- prised at the display of beauty and taste. This ts, Ol course, almost confined to the weaithier classes, composed principally of Dantsh merchants and their families. It 1s hardly necessary to add here, that for many months of the year the sun is never | seen, while during certain seasons the same lumi- nary is viaivle at midnight. THE CAPITAL, Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is situated on the southwest coast, on 4 strip of land between the harbor and a lagoon in the rear. The population 1s about two thousand. The houses are generally one story high, and seldom contain more than two or three rooms. The only stone butiding in the place is the cathedral, but the palace of the Gover- nor and the university are not without pretensions to style. The public library contains 10,000 volumes, which will be considerably increased by the aona- tion of public documents recentiy sent from the United States, but whether the gift will be interest- ing to the generai reading public of Reykjavik ta another matter. The university and library attract students from all parts of the island, and several of the professors and literary men have attained Ku- ropean reputations. Three newspapers are pub- lished in the town. A line of steamers plies be- tween Reykjavik and Copennagen, carrying the mails, and receives a subsidy from the Danish gov- ernment. They make six trips a year, ana touch at the Faroe Islands and at Leith in Scouland. ACCOUNTS OF TRAVELLERS, Iceland his not been favored with the visits of foreign travellers to any extent. Ross Browne, formerly United States Minister to China, passed a short time there in 1862, He described the huts or houses in which the natives live to be wretched in the extreme. The general condition of the peo- ple he found to be miserable, and that great room improvement and elevation. Mr, Browne was treated with hospitality; but there could be no doubt as to the degradation and poverty of the inhabitants. A much later writer, Mr. James Bryce, who has just returned from Iceland, con- tributes to the Cornhill Magazine tor June, 1874, a jong and iuteresting article on the condition of the island. Mir. Bryce says:—‘There are no trees, though apparently there were plenty in the tenth century, while we hear of men hiding among them and being hanged from them. No corn is grown, nor any other crop, ee @ few turnips and po- tatoes, which taste only half ripe. The onty wild quadrupeds are the blue tox—who has probably come, as the white bear now and then does, on ice floes from Greeniand—and the reindeer—the latter <mtroduced about # century ago, and still uncom- mon, ranging over THE DESERT MOUNTAINS. There is nojtown except the capital, no other place deserving to be calied even a village, unless it be the hamlet Akuregri, on the shore ‘ol the Arctic Ocean, with some fifty houses; no inns (save one in that village, whose resources consist of two beds, a single jug and basin and @ billiard table) ; no hens, ducks or geese (except wild geese); no pigs, no donkeys, no roads, no carriages, no shops, DO manulactures, no dissenters trom ‘tue established Lutheranism; no army, navy or volunteers or other guardians of public order, except one policeman in Reykjavik; no criminals, only two lawyers, and, finally, no snakes. What, then, ia there? Snow mountains, giacters, hot springs, volcanoes, earthquakes, northern lights, ravens and, above all, deserts, or rather + THEKE 18 THK DESERT. “For Iceland—and this is a point which none of the books of travel bring out—is really one vast desert, fringed by a beit of pasture land rigs an tne valleys of the great fhe Icelanders have now here and there runs w rivers into the interior. | for tem centuries been maintaining a ceaseless struggle against frost and fire, and frost and fire have been too mucn Jor them. They do noc till the round, for though corn and other crops were raised £5 the lirst colonists, these will no longer ripen, and they have given up the attempt to construct roads, to reciaim barren tracts, even to build themselves comfortable houses, because one of the terrible spring or winter storms or more terrible earthquakes may destroy in a moment the labor of many years. Despondency and siuggisnness may | be pardoned to a people who remember as it were yesterday, eruptions like that of Skaptar Jékall, in 1783, which covered with java and ashes 4 tract larger than most English counties, and caused either directly or through the famine, ity produced THE DEATH OF A FIFTH OF THR POPULATION of the tsland, Nor is it strange that they shoulda set little value on time, or, indeed, as one some- times thought in moments of tmpatience, regard time as an implacable enemy to be got rid of at all hagards and by alt devices. For they have always more than enough time ior everything they have got to do, more time then they need in the three months summer to garner in their aeanty crop of bay far more than they need im tae long uabi mm otghs of winter ior tue A close | mento mend thetr neta and tools, while the women spin and weave the wool mto the thick blue vadmal and out of it make garments for the household, Nature, to be sure, has much to auswer for in the wretchodness ofan {celander's loaging and food, Tuere 1s no umber, the stone is bad for building purpose: and one need not complain of the absence o| luxuries when everything comes over 1,000 miles ofsea, Still the house need not be a mere rabbit burrow, as it mostly is. Lv is built of sods, and covered on the top with grass and weeds, looking, When it stands with a hill benind it, itself so like & hillock that you are in some danger of riding over iv and finding the horse's teet half way DOWN THE SMOKE HOLE before you know where you are. Inside {t is & labyrinth oflow, dark and narrow passages, with Uny chambers opening off them—one of which has, perhaps, some little furniture, a table or board doing duty tor @ table, @ couple of stools and one or two beds:eads (often in the hollow of the wall). ‘There ts a small window, but its frame ts fixed 80 that it cannot be opened. Tue air, therefore, 18 never changed, and as the room is seidom or never cleaned, a8 the chambers are half full of dried stocktish and reek with a variety of otner smells, any one can fancy what the interior of an Icelan- dic farm house is like, and can understand why tho frst thing to be done on entering it is to light ® pipe and smoke furiously till the room in’ a cloud.” it must ‘be said, however, that other travellers have not /ound matters as bad in Iceland as they are described by Messrs, Browne and Bryce. One of the first circumstances that uttracted the attention of some eurlier visitors to the island was the attainments of the natives in ancient and modern languages and their devotion to the atudy of the sciences. These tray- ellers beheld with wonder men whose habits be- spoke a wretched state, who suilered numerous privations, and who, amid the storms oi the sur- Tounding sea, sought by fishing in their little boats the provisions upon which alone their fami- lies depended. Among these men was an inti- mate knowledge of the classic writings of an- tiquity and & susceptibility to all the beauties which these models disclose. The Icelanders de- lignt in the study of the history of their dreary country as set forth in ancient poems, and thetr pi lonate devotion to their homes seems almost inconceivable. The nest favored nation of the earth cannot furnish examples o1 such intense and all-absorbing love of home and country. The Lutheran clergymen are well informed, stmple in their manners and zealous in their calling, They are paid in kind by the people. . Usually they get a sheen, or an ox, or perhaps one of these animals is taken when young, and after being fatvened by @ member of the congregation is returned to the pastor. Schoois are in all the settiements, and rarely can a native ve found who can neither read nor write.” The language of the natives is distinct from that of the modern Scandinavians, It is the old Norse tongue, and 4 national pride 1s felt in its preservation, In their late address to the King the Icelanders dwell pointedly on this subject. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, The claim that an Icelander was the first discov- erer of America 18 not so destitute of substantial grounds to r.st upon as many would be inclined to think. The records of the ancient Scendinavians may be taken, perhaps, with some degree of allow- ance. However, they state very clearly and mi- nutely that in tae year 1002 Herjal (a descendant of Ingull, a famous navigator of that age) and his son Bairf, both Icelanders, subsisted by trading between Iceland and Norway, and that in the lat- ter country they passed the winter seasons, At the close of the year their vessels, as was tie cus- tom, were divided, and Barf, sailing to Green- land, did not find his father. He had never visited Greenland before. He steered westward for many days, and a strong north wind bore him consider- ably to the south, After a long interval he arrived in sight of a low, woody country, whic pared with the description he had received of Greenland he was sure could not be that coun- | try. Proceeding to the southwest, he joined tis father, The information that Bairf gave of this discovery induced Liel, who had already discovered reenland, to equip a vessel and proceeu towards the Continent of America. With thirty-five com- panions he sailed towards the south inthe direc- tion indicated by Bairi, Arriving at a flat, strong coast, with MOUNTAINS COVERED WITH SNOW, visible ata great distance, they called it Halla- | land, Proceeding still south, these adventurous Icelanders came toa country of more attractive appearance, From the pretty {uli description given this was probably Nova Scotia. They called it Mark- Jand. A brisk north wind biowing jor two days brought them toa finer country, woody and undulat- ing und abounding wita natural produce. They were | unadle to find a port; nevertheless they landed, as there was an abundance of fisa in the river, which flowed into a bay, They ventured to pass the win- ter there, This country tuey called Vineland or Wineland, They found the nights and uays less unequal than im iceland or Norway. On the sh | est day of the year (December 21), they not that the sun rose at half-past seven in the morning and set at hail-past four im the evening. During their stay, which continued @ year, they were ap- proached by some natives (red men), Wom they killed. The navigators, we are told, returned to their homes and carried with them the story of their discoveries, Others, during the suc- ceeding hundred years, followed in the pata their countrymen had trodden, but troubles arose, and some Scandinavians who brought their wives and children with them had diMculties im reference to their conduct. The Vineland colonists treated the aborigines as enemies, anda continued state of wariare existed. | It 1s believed by many who have investigated the matter that the Vineland of the northern navi- ators was the coast of New England, probably lassachusetts. If Christianity was established on according to the writings of the Sagas, a priest who left Copenhagen about 1100 for Vineland was, on his arrival, put to death by a man who spoke his own tongue, MONUMENT TO THE DISCOVERER OF AMERICA, There are legends of navigators visiting America orig the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, but there is notuing definitely known irom the Scandinavian writers after the year 1120, when a bishop satled trom Greenland for Vineland, of whose fate nothing thereaiter waa ever heard, ‘There 1s a blank up to the time when Columbus set out on his voyage Ol discovery. It may be men- tioned that Ole Bull was last year collecting subscrip- tions at concerts among his countrymen to erect a Monument to Lief, the Arst alleged discoverer of America, who touchea American soll 400 or 500 years before the janding of Columbus; and there are indications tnat the Genoese were not only ac- quainted with the voyages of the Norse sailors to America, but that they were not without influence on his plan and its execution, Icelanders fre- quently visited the Mediterranean, notwithstand ing the fact that they were to a greatextent cut off by frozen seas from the more favored portions of Europe. Their fame as mariners was weil known and their acquaintance with southern navigators afforded favorable opportunities ol spreading a Knowledge of their voyages to distant and then unknown lands. In the journal of the London Geographical Society (1835) it 1s shown that Co- lumbus 1n 1477 made a voyage to Iceland, which he considered the Thile or Tnule of Ptolemy. Thule was discovered by Pytheas, who believed he reached the North Pole; so that on this island the longest days were twenty-four hours, and there was constant day during the six summer months and constant night during the six winter months. From the time Of its discovery it was regarded as the most northern part of the koown world, although nO further knowledge was obtained respecting it until it was settied by the Norwegians, in the ninth century. Columbus had, thereiore, an opportunity of learning of Vine- land, which had been colonized over 400 years pre- vious to his visit to Iceland by the natives of that country and of Norway. Atall events, it is now contended that the Scandinavians preceded Co- lumbus in discovering the American Continent. It ig not likely that this incident in the history of Iceland Will be lorgotten during the ceremonies that are to take place to-duy aud to-morrow in that distant and rugged country. Itis understood that several Americans, including Mr. Cyrus W. Field and Mr, Murat Haistcad, of Cincinnatt, will be present at Reykjavik to assist at the solemni- ties, From all that has been said on the subject it would appear that the festivities, literary exer- cises, &c., in which the entire population of Ice- land are to join, will be o1 a very novel and highly interesting nature. THE KING AMONG HIS ICRLANDIC SUBJECTS. Preparations have been made on a grand scale for the reception of Christian 1X. It will be the first time that a crowned head visits the shores of the distant island, so long the home of the fierce and proud Vikings, who preferred exile to sub- Tatssion, and who resisted for centuries all temp- tations and threats to make them exchange their republican poverty for golden chains of vassalage. Heirs to the crown have now and then visited Ice- land, not always with their tree consent, put often 4g a sort of penance for youthful escapades, Frede- Tick VIL once spent a few days on the island be- fore he ascended the throne, but a king will un- doubtedly be a novelty. The steam frigate lylland was to have conveyed His Majesty and suite to Reykjavik. Some men-of-war, having on board the midshipmens’ school, Prince Vaidemar (the King’s youngest son) among the number, were to escort the royal frigate. Christian LX,, tn sharin; pesonally with his Icelandic subjects the prou memories of the post and the joyful hopes of the juture, will, no doubt, do much to cement the ties that have bound the island to Denmark since 1380, The Press on the Celebration. In treating of the great historical and geological importance of the Iceland millennial celebration he New Yorker Presse of yesterday says:— The lestival, besides being invested with all the customary pomp and display of monarchical Europe, will be also notable in other respects, and cannot fail to draw thither a great number of visi- tors irom every quarter of the globe. No incon- siderable number of professtonal tourists will seize this opportunity for going to the extreme north and visiting & country which people as a rule regard only with constant shivering and chat- tering of teeth. In this respect they will certainly find themselves agreeably mistaken. The inhabited part of Iceland 1s at this season, as above indicated, nothing less than a rigid expanse ol ice and snow. But the summer climate 1s warm and agreeabie. it 18 @ country that scarcely knows a night, Where the sun shines with steady, unbroxen Tays in the cloudless sky, possessing, for the Majority at least, the charm ot novelty. The vegetation in @ certain sense ts even luxuriou: the meadows particularily exhibiting a delightful | coat of green, Then there is the northern, volcanic portion of the island, where there is a vast extent of rock and lava, where the volcanic forces are active even to the present day, and often there are eruptions whose suddenness and grandear are not equaicd eiawhere on the move. @ soleantife this Continent 800 years ago it soon died away, jor | and ctally in a geological sense Iceland ts a highly important country, where the most remark~ able discoveries are yet to be made. The jubilee celebration will doubtless attract many scientists, Many of whom will, perhaps, reside for a time tn the island tn order to make personal investigation, And not alone important scientific results, but @ Still closer investigation and a good description of the connie we expect trom the organized expe- dition of the New York HgRatp, which is under the lead of the hardy and competent North Polar traveller, Dr. Hays, If the HERALD Lad undertaken this expedition with a view of making it profitable simply, it might have engaged other than a Geologist of acknowledged ability, who will at least require some thousands of dollars to complete his task, ‘There is also another depa- tation from the United States, led by the veteran telegraph manipulator, Cyrus W. Field, and com- paoe four of the most capanie and expert travel- lers aud writers of the time, including the well known Bayard Taylor, from whom we may expect the Most complete and able local descriptions. Many European countries will take an active part in the celebration, First come Norway and Sweden, for whom the celebration possesses @ special tnterest, witn a numerous deputation. The universities of Copenhagen and Christiana will be well represented. Tne Danish literary and scientific societies have completed arrangements to erect @ monument to the Iceland poet, Snorre Bhorlerap, who, 1t will be remembered, collected those anctent fables and anecdotes, Germany will certainly not lose the opportunity, and England ts doubtless well represented, ‘nus there Will be during the next few days grana and pecullarly {es- tive scenes at the Little capital of Reykiav of which we expect to receive the most liveiy descrip- tions, More important will be the trustworthy reports as to the country ftself and its dimensions, which may disclose Some wonderful facts, THE SEASIDE CAPITAL, The Summer Season—Only the Last Month Remaining—The General Re- sults So Far and the Prospect at “The Branch”’—Not a Gregt Success, but Bet~ ter Than Was Expected. LONG BRANCH, July 31, 1874, The last day of July is rapidly passing away, and we are on the verge of the last month of the season at the seaside, at the springs, on the lakes and among the mountains, The season for the pleasures and recrea- tions of the country. 1 considered em- bracing our summer months of June, July and August; but this year at “the Branch’ there were only a few scattering birds of passage till after the 1st of July, and, as usual, there will be a general clearing out by the 1st of September, regardless of the thermometer, Last year, in consequence of the heavy storms of August, w:th the resulting general stampede from the country, the summer harvest of Long Branch was a@ failure; and this year, unless we have through the importance month of August hot, dry, roasting weather, our landlords mostly, in balancing their books, will find the balance on the wrong side of the ledger. June this year at “the Brancn” was a loss to the hoteis; July has given them a promising lift, but unless the ‘rush’ shall be maintained through August the profits of the most popular and suc- cessful of these houses will be comparatively light. The travel on the New Jersey Southern Railway, ia each direction, four, five or six trains per day, is immense; but in each direction @ large proportiom Of these traveliers are through passengers. Con- siderable bodies of visitors, too, in great excursion parties or in numerous crowds made up of small parties, ull concentrating here, come inthe morn- ing and are gone in the evening, and transient visitors, but for a night or two, are more numer- ous than heretofore, In short, it is getting more and more the fashion with our people who do not go to Kurope for the summer and who can afford to “swing rouud the circle” at home, it is getting more and more to be “the style,’ to have their own summer retreats, or to make the grand tour of Niagara, the St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain, Lake George, Saratoga, tne iud- sop, Loog Branch and Newport. The increase ia the number 0! private cottages at this place with- in the last ten years, for example, with the en- largement of the hotel accommodations, here and at Various points all along the coast down to Vape May, will account satisiactorily tor the apparent general slackness of the season, Taking these ta- creased accommodations into the estimate the increase of the summer travel to the Jersey coast and up and down this coast since the war is really astonishing. Where there were hundreds of pas- sengers there are thousands, and where there were thousands there are tens o! thousands, So 1t appears that New York city 1s the greatest and most popular summer resort in the United Statea, in being the common central point of these seeth- ing currents 01 travellers, and irom which they diverge again to every point of the compass, Our landlords here are hopeful of a continuous and increasing “rush” through August, with tavoring skies, They say that we shall have vari- ous diversions to draw immense crowds of vist- tors—such attractions as grand military recep- tions, fancy dress balls, scrub races, tournaments, boat races, grand picnics and clambakes, and we hear it whispered that a movement is afloat to give the President and his Cabinet a grand dinner ut the Ocean Hotel, to which a numerous pody ef distinguished public men are to ve invited, with- out distinction of party, and from all parta of the country. Governor Parker, at the late inspiring Union meeting between Northern and Soutuern soldiers on the old Monmouth battle field, said that he hoped that at the, Philadelphia National Centennial of 1876 there would be gathered around the ven- erable Hall of American Independence a national Convention of soldiers from all the States, pledge: iug together thetr faith on the altar of the Union; and this idea, it is thought, may be widely en- larged in a grand Union dinner here this season, on @ no-party platform, to General Grant, because, a8 they say, itis out of the question that he can be a candidate for another Presidential term, and that he is only keeping quiet on the subject in order to maintain peace for the time being be- tween Messrs. Blaine, Butler, Conkling, Morton, oeene and other aspirants of the republican church, At all events, our hotel men say that if we are favored by a beneficent Providence with good, hot, roasting weather througd August, the summer sea- son at Long Branch will be crowned with the laurels of a great victory. SEASIDE AND COUNTRY. — oct Little Mac and Mrs, McClellan are summering im Switzerland, Cyrus W. Field is bound to be cool. the North Pole this week. The family of Dr. Joseph Worster are at “Morri- son's," Catskill, for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. ‘t. C. Campoell, of No. 77 West Fif- tieth street, are at Easthampton, Mass, we Mr. Addison B. Hall and family, of this city, at the Boar’s Head Hotel, Hampton, N, H. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Copiand and family, No. 472 Carlton avenue, Brooklyn, are at Setauket, L. L. William M. Evarts and family are making a tour through Canada, and were last week in Montreal. The family of Danie! Drew, of No. 41 Union square, is spending a part of the season at Croton Falls, N.Y. Dr. and Mrs, A. O. Stevens, of No. 143 West Forty- first strect, are spending the summer at Newburg, on the Hudson, Dr. Wagstail and family, No. 31 Washington place, are spending the summer at their councry seat, near Islip, L. I. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. J. Brewster, No. 434 Fifth ave- nue, have gone to the Gregory House, Lake Ma- hopac, for the rest of the season. Mr. Augustus L. Brown and family, of No. 51¢ Fitth avenue, are at the Ocean House, Newport; also Mrs. George A. Fellows and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Jackson, Mr. ana Mrs. H. D. Norris and Mr. and Mrs, ©. D. Slater are among New Yorkers at the Prospect Park Hotel, Catskill, Mrs, Duke and family, of No. 167 Lexington ave- nue, has just returned from the lakes, and will go to Glen Cove, L. L, where they spend the rest of the summer. Several American families are occupying cot- tages at Tadousac, a Canadian watering place sit- uated at the mouth of the Saguenay River, The Karl of Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, has 4 cottage there. Admirai Porter and family, General McDowell and family, Generai Belknap, Secretary of War, and family, and Mr. Moses H, Grinnell are passing the season at the Pequot House, New London. The Germania Band furnish music at the Pequot House. ‘The season there is particularly brilliant. Among recent departures for camp life in the Adirondacks are Mr. Frederick Schack, Dantel 5. Riddle, @ prominent member of the Bar; Dr. F. Seeger, Mr. L Hess, Colonel H.C. Lockwood and Mr. Frank Whitfleld, The basis of operations wilt be from Martin’s Hotel, on Lower Saranac Lake, He goes to OUE PATERNAL GOVERNMENT, {From the New York Tribune.) Frank H. Smith, the Secretary to the new Board of Indian Commissioners, whose health has not been good for some time, will leave Washington ia about a week for bis second excursion to the In- dian isles | at the government expense. He wilt 10 to Fort i, thence to Moptana, and should hi fi then to Arizot ealth not be restored he will and New Mexica, vie