The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1874, Page 4

+ THE WAPERING PL The Height of the Season at Long Branch. QLOUNGING AT ORIENT POINT. Angling for Trout on Shin Creek. ROCKY MCUNTALVY RETREATS. THE SEASIDE CAPITAL. A Stormy Saturday Night ond Sunmday and a Lovely Monday—“The Branch” Blooming—The President's Movements— The Indians Not Blown Away, and the Other Squatters All Right. LoNG Brancs, August 10, 1874, After the storm a calm. Saturday night was the roughest night of the season oa the Jersey coast trom Sandy Hook to Cape May. Tbe storm came down from the north, and in the height of its tury Jt was from a point a little to the west of the north; for, had it been a nor’easter, there would donbtiess have been some wrecks along the coast. | As It was, it biew the coasters off the shore; bat | at did not blow the big tent of the Warm Spring Indians into the sea, for Donald McKay and bis troupe, being old campaigners, when they discov- | ered that sie gale did threaten to carry thetr tabernacle imto the surf, took down the poles and dropped their saturated canvas upon the ground. Some of the other squatters along the | blu adopted the same precaution; but they are all rectus in curia@ and in full blast again this morning. ‘The storm expelled all nocturnal strollers from the beach, but it filled the ballroom at each of the hotela, and the ladies say that in driving in the gay cavaliers, even from the piazzas into the hop, tt was a good storm, and they hope that about mine o’clock just such a drenching down pouring of rain and just such @ driving wind will come on every Saturday night to the end of the season, because they will then be sure of a gathering of the beaux on Saturday nigut where they oughi to be. Sanday was.a squally, rainy day; but, thanks to the couuell of ministers concerned for the capital idea, we had religious services tm regular church form at each ot our principal hote!s, and many were drawn into the droppt of the sanctuary ‘who had not attended the preaching of the Gospel since the war. But irom one end o1 the line to the other the preachers carefully suppressed tne temptation to harp upon Beecher and Tuton, and, no doubt, because they, too, had concluded w Wait for the verdict from Mr. Moulton. Monday has opened pen us, the brightest and | Most beautiful summer day of the season, and the surf is pronounced by Miss Jones as “pertectly splendid.” Tne roads are im excellent condition jor driving, and belore sunset this aiternoon everything on wheels for ten miles down this shore and for twenty miles round will be out; and if the President is not called off on some little ex- cursion by Tail he will give bis pair Oi magnificent bays @ oie er run around by Red Bank alter dinner, and Mr. Murphy will likewise be there. The rumor is aflout here this morning thas the President will not be a candidate ior a third term, and that he will so declare Dimseif at the per Time, Not having as yet made up bis mind in lavor of Biatne, Butier, Conkiing, Morgan, Fish, Logan or Robeson as his successor, it cannot be expected that he will declare himself of the course. When he has made up his mind, you know, and picked out his man, all the other ex- pectants of the republican church will get an | Official notice that the succession ts provided for | and that they must wait a litue longer. Long Branch Exalted. To THE EpITog OF THE HERALD:— 4s you are generaily willing to lusten to both | But now] think I have said enough about our | have some sides of a question, will you permit a tew remarks about our “seaside capital,” which are suggested by reaaing your correspondent’s letter containing the ideas of an “experienced old coachman” It 1s a singular fact that shops and bazaars are sadly megilected; but who cares to go and purchase in- fertor articies at a large price when they can go to New York in an Lour and a half and get alithey require for less money and have @ choice? That the restaurants, the Dillard rooms aud whe bars are deserted is more to the credit and character of our summer visitors than to the depreciation of Long Branch, and sensible enough are the excursionists who come jor the day and bring their own little basket. wita them weil flied with tt-bits from “home,” instead of having to run the risk of tough beef and Weak tea and coffee at an inferior hotel, snd waiter tees beside. ‘“xperienced Old Coachman” does not tell you that in bis good days there was not one cottage (private) to the twenty of tne present day, and every season increases them. As & proof witness the new corenges of Pullman, Se- ligman, Quincy and others, By looking at the daily registers of the different hotels it 1s easy to perceive the character of its visitors, who come trom ali parts of the world. Merchants’ clerks and drummers must get wondertully good salaries wf they can afford to keep ap appearances at Long Branch. As for the “theatre people,” they live | very retired in their own cottages, and are seldom seeD at any of tue hoteis, Cy they have done @ great deal for Long Branch, as may be testified by a glance at their vari- ous homesteads. The coachman does not say lis trade is bad because almost every visitor of means brings bis own horses and carriage and Fess evening this month will see Ocean avenue lined with private turnouts of at value and magnificence and of every possible styie that ts | fashionable and elegant. Not much wonder that | the old coachman and bis seedy horses should wait in vain fora “haul.” There bas been a dis- position on the part of newspaper correspondents to depreciate Long Branch this season, but in spite of the panic and the cool summer it will average {i not run over its usual amount of | patronage. And where else do they have its Jamous drives, its broad expanse Ot ocean, ite glorious moon'ight, when the Lady Luna, rising out of the bosom of the sea, casts her broad rays irom north to south and illumines a scene of gorgeous brilliancy; the cottages and hotels, with the gay music and gorgeous dresses; the bright lignts | glancing and the lithe forms moving with the | measures of Strauss? There may be gayer scenes, bast “echo queries where “BRANCH,” ORIENT POINT. —.- Lounging at the Extremity of Long Island—Pecullarities and Convention- alisms—Sailing, Flirtation, Croquet, Scandal and Melody. OntENT Pont, L. L, July 20, 1874, ‘This point, as you know, is the extreme north- eastern limit of Long Island. Here the isiand ends putting out, as a feeler for the vessels of unwary @ “beacon” or “spindle” has been built. The Point narrowly escapes being insulated, tor abouts ® mile or two from its head there is an isthmus scarcely wider than 200 feet, whereon the waters of Gardiner’s Bay and those of a cove running in from Long Isiand Sound beat with an unholy de- | Watch the more active ladies plaving croquet upon avigators, a long jine of sunken rocks, 04 which | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY. AUGUST 1), 1874--TRIPLE SHEET. or Gardiner’ and to New London and Saybroor, acioss the have tuspired me to remain bere in preference to them or any other summer- ing place on the Island or Connecstcut shores. Shelter Isla deed, at hotel, whereat one can lounge like a Sybarite; bus itis got a for him ‘who would have rude | health made by exposure to sun and air, wno wishes to Gsh success{ully or sail with a iree wind. It is @ place to dress well and spend money freely. Greenport, and, in ‘simost ail the villages, oF ape the ways of Long Branch and Newport ani come to most signal grief. At Orient Point there 1s @ charming freedom, born of the ses. Sain, ‘are the continual amusements, an blue shirts and old pai nts are the usual costume of the male visitors, while the ladies garb themselves Prettily, but piainiy. Among the visitors here are some very peculiar , Persons. On ‘ my eyes were at a gentle- $, Tound-imbed child, the son hee some, round-lim! rente, and began to catechise him al gator solilog ressed audibly, as the result of his reflections, the belief | that it would be well if our young men studied the English language, to keep it pure from the slang which they are continually incorporat: in it 6 Hav disburdened his mind, the ol scholar dashed down his book and strode rapidly old geutleman’ st one ol the evening “garserings ol man at one ol the evening ga! in the parlor read some of Moore’s Melodies with every indication of exquisite feeling. His voice, deep and strong, yet mellow, he used with ability not surpassed by that of any proiessional elocutionist. As a result of the old scholar’s suc- cess as @ reader we were given by one of the ladies @ recitation of the old song, ‘Tne Maniac,” accompanied @ startling exhibition of dramatic power. It was wonderful the influence she wielded over her auditors, She shrieked, and so did they, but with laughter; she seemed vo grasp and shake the iron doors of the maniac’s cell; her bearers certainly heid thei sides, which snook aud ached with sorry mirth at the simulated dis- tress of the poor maniac. Can the calm power of vanity reach further than it did in keeping the lair reader from knowing in what way her per- formance was enjoyadie?t While seated upon the Porch smoking ‘matutinal or post-prandial cigar invariably have for though they seac themselves at ther end, a party of old oung Who cluster about @ bedizened dowager, the shaded lawn. I have noticed that every now and then the heads of these females came together suddenly, and there ensued a sibiliant whbtsper- ing, followed bya reference of something seem- ingly important to a pursy oid rson, with whia- kers dyed a lustrous k, aud I have been some- what puzzled about the cause of these whisperings _ and references. The pursy old fellow has also | Pi d me, jor I have been struck with bis like- | hess to somebody whom I could not remember. Both troubles left me to-day, for one of the active young ladtes has taken me into her confidence, and explained that the conclave at the end of the Piazza 1s & sitting committce to discuss the actions Of the ladies, and that the pursy party is a sort of counsellor to tie committee. am now satisfied as to whom the latter is like. He is the Sergeaut Buzfvz of this period, and I can easily imagine } | } | boulders and brought with me many a bas- | Petia of fnny tropiies, Shaded through nearly | its whole length with Jorest trees, with here and | there a clearing, It is @ syl stream rare beauty, and affords | for the brust ofthe artist. All along its course its | volume is, as { have intimated, increased by | numerous teibatarieg, each of which furnishes & | Dursery for millions of young trout, At times the angler ls annoyed by the unwelcome and persistent chubs which will insist on sharing his atten- ut if ne have the spirit of the true fisher- will re!use to take @ life thas is useless to | bim and do with him as is mees forall such and the trout that are too atl turn them again Fr. Some idea may formed tl nature of the trout when it is known although the Beaverkil is fished every sum- mer and even during the by reaident fisher- men and by scores from New York and elsewhere, it is not an unusual fora person to | catoh over 100 iu five or six hours’ AND BAITS, LINES RODS. Of course, the use of the fy is the most sxilful means O/ taking them, but 1 found moat effec- tive, and those wno are not particalar as to the method and who look to numbers as the best test of piscatorial accompliahments prefer it to the leas attractive and successiul fly, For those, how- evor, who prefer the latter style of fishing, thes of dark colors—brown or dark gray, or biack hackle—are the most “taking.’’ all gray wings and red body, gold, is st times an attractive jure for Beaverkill and Shin Creek trout, Ali kinds of rods are to be seen on these streams, from the ordinary sa; to the costly split bamboo, the latter bet prized by many fishermen as the best that , although the controversy as to the relative merits of the bamboo and other woods ig still undecided. Upon this point your corre- Spondent does not venture an opinion, though for his own use he prefers the lithe, tough, light and flexible bamboo, which whatever dispute there may be as to ite other merits is certainly about Se een and most graceful rod that ls now WADING. In fishing on the Beaverkill much care is neces- sary to avoid entanglement of your line in the trees, which in many places overba: the water; but for these annoyances the skilful fisherman 18 always & matca, and rarely, ifever, returns home minus a leader ‘or hook. ‘Tne wading, which -he Wiil have to do if he desires to fish all parts of the river, will, in no place where it is necessary for bim to go, exceed two feet, while it is generally hardly @ foot in depth. But those treacnerous polished stones, which the incessant action of the currents have Worn as smooth as glass and nearly a8 alippery as ice, keep the angler always on the qué vive, and, With all his caution and dexterity, even the most alert sometimes receive a little more hydropatnic treatment than 1s pleasant, AN EXPENSIVE TROUT. I Dave said that trout weighing as much as six pounds have been caught here, and that the evi- Gence of this was to be ound in 8 popaiar ablic museum a few years ago. It was declared by all Who saw it to be a periect beauty of tts kind—a real, genuine denizen of the brooks, and altnougn larger had been taken in other streams, yet they were like angels’ visits—“short and far between,” This trout was taken in a pond about three miles from Murdock’s, and the noise of the capture being bruited around, finally reached the ears of | the great showman, who was on the lockout for | just such a curiosity for nis aquarian exhibition, A friend of Mr. Murdock under- him searching a hypothetical warming-pan for the sudaen fire of vicious mei , or crying out in the voice of horrified virtue, and with an extraordinary rising inflection, ‘Chops, gracious heavens! and tomato sduce |!” sitting com- mittee has made a queer condition of things by the remarks and rumors it nag set flying, for sev- eral ladies, having procured visits of several da: duration irom their husbands, are now pursuing a course of flirtation under the eyes of those non- chalant gentlemen, with the purpose of prevent- ing remarks upon their conduct when their “iords’’ are absent in the future. llearn that my letter is growing long through beimg interrupted by the hotel terror, wno ob- scures my light with his person and much evil cigar smoke. About him I shall say little, and ail of itan kindness. The affection of the ladies for | | him 1s _a@ sufficient cause for me to be kind. Without him tne parlors at night would be deserted. He sings sentimental and comic songs witn equal iacility, and always draws the company to his neighbornood. Even now he is Tenectively humming the song with which he | intends to delight us this evening. This morning, | While in the woods alone, with a deceptive gun upon his shoulders, he sung that melody to the birds, I say a deceptive gun, because by carrying it from the hotel he blinds ali but me as to his in- tent in going into the woods. I have learned that instead of geing to kili he goes to catch tue | harmony of nature. Thus it is he charms us | at night with the notes he learned at morn. It is | wonderful that no one but myself has discovered his habit, as he never returns even with “ehippy” to excuse him for carrying that gun. | tenor in particular and Orient Point in | and will bring my rambling lines to an en “CASTING THE FLY.” | A Trip Among the Mountains in Searen of Trout—Shin Creek and Its Piseato- rial Pleasures—How the Speckled Beauties are Lured and Caught. SHIN CREEK, Sullivan County, N. Y., August 8, 1874. Long Branch may boast of its races, its fashion- able visitors, its division of the Prestdential honors with the federal capital and its huge overcrowded hotels; but what are they all compared with Shin | Creek, its picturesque beauties and ptscatorial | attractions? From time immemorial this section of country has been celebrated as the sportsman’s paradise, a land not only fowing with milk and honey, but possessing streams and springs and brooks and rills unsurpassed for the crystal purity of their waters and the delicious flavor of their trout. Here, at an elevation of 1,800 feet above the level of New York, the thermometer bardly ever indicates more than etghty degrees in the shade, while biankets are not only comiort- abie, but indispensable at night. In these cool and shady retreats among the mountains, life in the | summer season becomes a luxury instead of a bur- den, as itis amid the sweltering and oppressive | heat of the great metropolis. Taking the average | temperature of the day and: night, of the whole | twenty-four hours, there is a difference of at least filteen degrees between New York and this section | of the country. The evenings are sometimes 60 | cool at this season of the year as torender over- coats and shawls almost absolutely necessary, and since I have been here the mercury has been down as low as forty-five degrees more than once in the early morning. Cool and retreshing breezes tem- per the midday heat and render outdoor exercise | not only pleasant and healthful, but tree from the dangers that attend it elsewhere. Let Long | Branch and Newport and Saratoga enjoy their littering glories, but one day’s trout | faning on Snio Creek or _ the Beaver- kill, them ail, I know shin Creek is most unpoetical and unat- tractive name, an tll-sounding one if you please, but it has the advantage of originality, and that is something in 1ts favor. If yoa look in the general | directory you will find that it can boast oi a post | office, which distributes its mails twice a week, | that ita population all told does not exceed ity | individuais, and by examining the map of the | | State you will learn that it 18 situated in an angle | of Sullivan county. THE ATTRACTIONS OF SHIN CREEK. The creek itself 18 @ beautiful stream, whose | limpid and almost ice-cold waters flow heey ) one of the most Uy 4 valleys to be found in the | Empire State. It is the very perfection of a trout | stream, and like the Beaverkill, of which it is one or the numerous tributanes, it 1s full of rifs ana — | pools from which the skiliul a1 nom with fly and | ,; bait may ture the speckled beauties of the brook. | All over this particular section of tbe country | trout must at one time have swarmed in the | waters, for here all the conditions for their juc- | | tion are to be foand—thousands of springs Nowing from inexhaustible sources in the mountains, | thickly shaded rivaets gently Sowing over sandy | bottoms, fitting nurseries for the tender trout- | | | genera, ce sire to be joined. One expects to find here | jings; and placid miniature ponds in whitch they | ‘acious members: iY re appointed upon arriving. A riage of elevated | 11 not for these peculiarly favorable conditions groand, broken by smail hills and depressions, | trout would long ago have diss peared from the forma the backbone of the Point and slopes down | Waters of these valleys, for ti ver and tributaries have been fished toexcess. For the on all sides to beaches—of which there are three— | reasons stated, however, it appears next to im- one on Long Island Sound on the north, one on | Pp perond os eee te early, Sapp 4 was | eto} e min! fe number, Piom Gut (which is such a mame for the vulgar to grea reduced. It is rarely | joke about) and another to the south on Gardiner’s | $470 Cl the fen ie greatiy reduced. It te rarely that | Bay. For tnese beaches not@ great deal can be | instances of huge Iellows welghing” five, <_< | sald im praise, They are strewn with stones, | Fut «Tonster of six pounds which was exaibitod | which, though smoothed by the lapsing of the | some years ago in an quaciom as a popular mu- | ‘water, are not soothing to feet used to leathern | seum in New York, and of which more anon, wae on. If any one intends to visit Orient | Caught in the inmediate victnity of Shin Creek. Potnt, and needs must bathe, let him or her come Give these streams a respite of three years, banish ‘with old slippers to wear in the water, or else with from their waters rods and lines and nets aud Jnres of ali kinds for that length of time, and tne | hardened cuticle. On the ridge there are shade | fishing here assed. ‘will be unsuarp trees in plenty, and its emerald sward reacnes THE BRET FISHING down its slopes to the sand of the beaches, ‘Ihe | in the immediate locality is to be found at and Poiat is cut of irom no breeze that biows. The | near Murdock’s, whose hospitable hostess haa the oo yen ‘Wind that breaks up the water of the Bay, | rare talent of cooking trout to periecuon. Here, | Sound or the Gut, making ‘ors on every | in one of the loveliest of valleys, with lawns as tiny wave to refiect the Sunlight, comes to | level aa prairie land and seemingly shut tn by bills | the Point, bringing igorous health to those | rising to che height of 700 or feet, the disciple who inhale it. it matters nothing that | of the renowned Izaak may enjoy his summer re- sometimes, whem the breeze takes creation with the zest which only the true fsher- across Lath: corn bills or potato | man can rightly It is true he will not work in the am it brings with ita faint reminder that “menhaden,"’ or homtpeonn nat make an ex- ir. There cellent most unsavory the Savine or the Loo, are the armories containing the helmets an never a6 @ place where the air always the two great linea of the Kansas and Union Pa- | light, the mountains to the weat, and, of course, ; bauberts, the greaves and morions of former days, ¢ those of ‘Araby the Blest,” | an angler; and as to the cH Dg 160 miles apart. This is the great buf- | below, are in black darkness, being eclipsed by | dinted with the swasning blows of many & hard and it 1s by Do means certain that Eden was with. | fisn (if your corre nts ex nee of years | falo country, and for some reason, possibly hard to | the peak, but Po peak alter peak comes | fizht; the matchlocks and arquebuses, tae double- out an evil odor. If that snake which | in jar Wotes judge) he understand, no settlers have entered it, and it is | into view, and the celebrated lady uescribed it well | handed swords and the polished rapiers with | y bad ratiies know! of nature | not find their supe! anywhere. almost wholly unknown. The buffaloes are in herds | when she Said it seemed as if these snowy moun- | which men killed each other in the days before : melt cacumbers, and to ‘a rather brief of a fortnight in this fanging from a few hundred to several thousend | tains answered to the roli call of their Creator. | hund-to-hand fighting had oeen superseded by the ot "Somature Pickles many people | delightfal summer ent have had some pieas- | hei soeeding, clear across to the South Platte, | On the whole it will be dimcult to find any water. | long ranges, Thorege room, too, maa, ef corimns, have aa. ant on tbe banks of the Beaverkill; Rave | and ifa defaulter should go thither {t is improbable | ing place in America, perhaps in the world, which | be seen, thougn I doudt whettror ita contents wil here, several excursions made | waded for miles smong its ri; currents, es- | that ony, oMeers ever would dare to { nim; presents 80 Many points of attraction a6 Colorado | make much impression, resembling so much as they to eland and daa Harboe Up | canes not atew See ee ney rem us sa Lane te mnderatood that the Charannes and Are ines, do. theatrical cewaawa, ‘the Crvetal Palace ta aie took the negotiation, and alter much business diplomacy $75 was agreed upon as the price, the condition being that one half should be patd on the delivery of the fish and the other half one week alter tf the trout should live so long. In due time the fish was produced ana placed im the aquarium designed for it, and within one week thereafter, punctual to | the hour, Mr. Ball, who represented Mr. Murdock’s | interest in the transaction, called for the rematn- | ing half of the money, which was daly paid. | Hardly a day elapsed after the consummation of | the bargain before the trout was found dead. It | was one of the worst investments ever made by | the self-acknowiedged Prince of Humb and the price paid ior the fish was perhaps the greatest ever given for a single trout. Twelve dollars and @ balf a pound was a pretty heavy outlay, but if | the finny monster had lived he was certainly | Worth the money as a curiosity. PROTECTION OF TROUT. An effort wus made daring the last session of the Legislature to pass a bill for tne protection of the trout in Sullivan and two other counties. It was represented that there was imminent danger of the fish being exterminated, bat the measure aiter passing one branch was killed in the otver. The reason alleged for tts defeat was that it was unjust to the interest of the counties affected, | and that the law, instead of being local in its | operation, should be made general in its spplica- tion to the whole State. It 1s, indeed, doubtful, ‘with such prolific and seemingly imexhaustibie sources of apy as I have described, if the fish in the Beaverkill and ite auxiliary streams canever become exttuct. It wouid be well, however, to legislation prohibiting the killin; {trout under a certain size, ior ave seen many that were taken which | could hardly have exceeded an ounce in weight. If this were done the average size of the trout in this region would be muteriaily increased, Here, upon the Beaverkill, efforts are made by some of the owners of land along its banks to put | @ stop to trespassing by fishermen, but they are of | little effect; and althongh ali the terrors of the law in the form of fines and penalties are threat- | ened, they are set at utter defiance. The attempt to convert any part of a wide flowing stream, at least thirty miles long irom its sourceto ite junc- tion with the Delaware, into @ “preserve’’ 18 con- | sidered intolerable and meets with general oppo- sition, The owner of the riparian ‘ots must watch in person or empioy an agentif he would enforce the law; but this is rather an expensive | | business, and he accordingly puts up a notice pro- hibiting trespass on his grounds, and generally lets it go at that without further effort. ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESORTS. Summering in the Far West—The Jour- ,mey Over the Pilains—Magnificent o! Sketches of the Various Watering Piaces. GREELEY, Col., August 1, 1874. A journey from the Missouri River to Denver, in Colorado, presents 0 many remarkable views that 1t will never be forgotten. The first-nundred miles or so up the Kaw Valley is through a decidedly fertile country, and one sees majestic swells, fre- quently bordered by ledges of magnesian Itme- stone, and there are loity blue mounds, covered with grass all as smooth as @ well kept lawn. Gradually the country becomes more level, there are fewer trees in the immediate valleys of the streams, and at last the great Plains are reached. Here and there the adventurous pioneer has made his claim and home, and corn will be seen grow- ‘ing, but the aridity ot the climate forbids a gener- ous yield, This is along the division line between the moist climate of the East und the dry climate of the West, and now the grass is short and gray, trees disappear, and onward is an unbroken stretcn of 350 miles of wid, uninhabited and uninhabitable domain, divided by thin threads of streams running among willows, neither the cottonwood, hardy as it is, nor the elm, tough as it i, daring to face the fierce winds. The sta- tions are at convenient distances apart, more for the accommodation ofsection hanus and the needs Of the road than for passengers, where the tele- graph operator lives in a little house year in and year ont, seldom seeing other strangers than those who pass in the cars. No garden 1s attached—for what would be the use of planting, since nothing will grow?—and the chief sarroundings besides the illimitable piam, the railroad track, the telegraph poles and the station are a profusion of empty fruit cans and bottles and scattered remnants of antelope and buffalo skins. THE DINING STATIONS area trife cheerful, for there are more people, and likely enough an attempt is made to cause & few cottonwood trees to grow by watering them from a well, if there is a well, which in some cases is absent, and water is hauled on the cars, over one stretch something like 100 miles, both for ha- man and locomotive use. Utterly destitute, and one naturally adds ansolutely worthless, the country seems to be, yet it has immense resources tm the grass, capable of sustaining millions , Of cattle, ag one may be convinced by seeing at Various places corrals into which large wild nerds are driven by as wild men for shipment East, and it ts gata that in various places, north and south, five and ten miles apart, are springs in gaiches ‘and little valleys, and even streama which ran @ | short distance and sink and sometimes reappear. A PLACE OP REFUGE. Especial attention is called to this country as having great inducements for men fleeing from justice, and it would be weil for such clerks and treasurers as have been altering books, forging bonds and overdrawing accounts, whether in New York or other cities, and who must know thi sooner or later, discovery will be made, toat th give some thought to this part of the world as 1ur- Dishing a secure hiding place. Such indiviauals shor ave & suMicient love of count Lo ize home institutions, instead of visiting kui and it is recommended that if they get Gimost any station between Ellis and ‘Hugo t will find secure rejuge to the north, etther al Scenery and a Delightful Climate—_ pahoes are living here the year round. course it would necessary tO vecome frendly with the Indians, which is eusy to do, and then | everything would be secure, and, having abun- | dance of money, supplies could easily be brought | in, and Ife would pass ike a long summer day; nor need one be deprived of domestic joys, since half-breed children abound, Mr. Greeley was right in recommending city men to “Go West and grow up with the country.” At last, after the long, weary ride, distant snow peaks are seen rising on the weatern horizon, glittering, cold and intensel, solitary, aad not long after Denver is reached, suddenly, unexpectedly, and green trees and run- ning waters and civilized homes are welcomed, ‘The line between the desert and the suburbs, be- tween erlasting solitude and verdure and beauty, is crossed like a flash, and the stranger wonders at the large brick depot, at the row of omnibuses, each drawn by four white horses. and, as he rolls along, at the busy streets and churches, at cool Shaded sidewalks, by which are as beau- tifally embowered homes a3 are nestling far away by the river shores, It was appropriate in the arid that water should be representative of religious belief, and its power to develop and party 18 a8 much felt here as it was felt long ago in Judea. Denver has at least 20,000 inhabitants, and it 8 at the rate of 5,000 @ year. eee South Platte runs close by, thougn o above in canals and distributed through every part of the city, running in rivulets along the gutters and spreading silently through gardens and suburban grounds, The mountain view is im- ressive. To the north, seven! ong's Peak, and to the south, the same distance, Pike’s Peak, each a trifle over 14,000 feet high, while behind and beyond are immense masses of mountains, unnamed and almost unvisited. At- tractive as are Denver and its surroundings, the fame of Colorado Springs has gone abroad, and thither the summer traveller will be likely to make his way. Four years ago Colerado was without a mile of ratlroad track, now trains leave every morning as iollows:—By the Kansas Pacific, the Denver Pacific, tue Rio Grande, tbe Boulder Valley, the Colorado Central and the South Park. The Grande has a gauge oO! three feet, it is an active and energetic road, and it runs south nearly 200 miles across the Arkansas, the destina- tion being the Rio Grande Valiey, and ultimately Old Mexico. far the casual observer can see, the little locomotive picks up the little Lm each loaded with six tons of coal, or an eguivalen' of other jreight, and goes off with a train as promptly as its larger brother shoniders cers loaded with teu tons, and passenger trains are rattied along quietly at twenty miles an hour. In going to COLORADO SPRINGS a@spur of the Rocky Mountains is crossed, called the Divide, 2,000 feet above Denver and nearly 8,000 feet above the sea, said Divide betng the cie- vation between the Platte and the Arkansas, and the ascent is made by such gradual approaches that one scarcely conceives he is going up in the air. The _— down is alsogradual. It was stated to possible fora train to run from the top of the Divide to Pueblo, on the Arkansas, sev- enty-five miles, without anounce of steam, since the slight elevations can be overcome by the mo- mentum. On reaching Colorado Springs the town is found to contain 3,000 inhabitants; to have stores, banks, hotels and fine residences, and vet it is scarcely three years since the first house was built. Some of the screets are more than two miles long, and each street is planted with trees, twenty-five feet apart, along the sidewalk, No street is less than 100 feet wide, and there are ave- nues 140 jeet wide, with two rows of trees in addi- tion planted in the middie, as is the case in Savan- nah and Augusta, West of the town and close to it is an awful array of mountains. Pike’s Peak is the only one oi the highest peaks whiclr comes out boldly to the Plains, and here it stands, over- whelming the spectator with astonishment. Aud yet the top of the peak is eighteen miles ina Straight line from the town, which snows how vast is its base. The complaint is made that this mountain does not do itself justice at so near a view and that twenty miles further away it 1s more majestic. A bundred and fifty miles out on the Plains it is a prominent land mark. The rapid mountain scenery. lt is true that the town has become the county seat of El Paso county; that the site 1s a plain of great beauty and that it 1s on the railroad, but the supply of water tor irrigating purposes is too amall to permit agriculture to be- come @ leading pursuit anywhere within the vicinity. So charmed, s0 fascinated is every per- son Of taste on reaching this place that a wish lor a home here is natural, and it has tollowed that thousands of wealthy and refined people have bougat lots and built handsome residences. Pike's Peak itself is iar from being the only attraction, though of course it is first; second are tie soda ud ifon springs at Manitou; third, the Garden of the Gods; fourth, Glen Kyrie; fifth, Cneyenne Canyon, and sixth, Ute Fails, THE GARDEN OF THE GODS is four miles northwest from the town, and it con- sists of several red sandstone rocks, Or splinters, standing over 300 feet high perpendicular. ‘The sight is impressive, and once seen never can be forgotten. Glen Eyrie is two miles beyond, and a part has been called tne Little Garden, as here also are splintered rocks peruaps 200 feet high. Opposite if the elegant residence of General Palmer, President ot the Rio Grande Railroad. Glen Eyrie proper is a guich extending several Miles {nto the heart of the mountains, and a ceau- tiful stream bursts lorth in merry cascades. On each side of this stream are majestic and choice evergreens, rising amid deciduous trees, and 80 dense 1s the shade and so thick is the ander- growth that the scene resembies a wild forest tn one of the Atlantic States. Manitou is seven miles from Colorado springs, and here really are the springs. Half way is Colorado City, iormerly the county seat and once the capital of Colorado, One of the first settlers of this town was A. D. Richardson, who was a chief personage. He was a@ heavy real estate speculator, and there are stul some city lots held in his name, The Foantain is the name of the stream that comes out of the canyon in which Manitouis situated. It is small, bright and rapid. Manitou is scarcely more tuan a fest ry _ hotels, 8 eaten poe are, perhaps, eight or ten, four of them first class, Pind they have cost from $10,000 to $50,000 each. They are all well filled with summer visitors; the accommodations are equal to Sara- toga or other similar places, and the prices are ; about the same, The mountains rise so abruptiy on either hand that much labor 1s required to get | suM™cient room for building, and several hotels | are on eminences or in deep guiches, THR ROADS AND WALKS wind among thickets of cottonwood, wild cherries and alders, and the Fountain dashes now here, now there, while it is crossed by many bridges. | The springs themselves bubole through noles in | the solid flat rock, and they have iormed cups or reservoirs nolding irom aiew quarts to several galions. They are known as soda springs, and with the addition of acid and sugar the fuid makes excellent soda water. They are said to be cure for dyspepsia and perhaps jor some other diseases, The iron springs are a mile from Mani- | ties. The guests at the hotels in no wise differ in appearance from the guests seen at Newport or Long Branch, nor snould they, for they are almogt wholly from the Atlantic cities. Time passes the same here as there, while, so lar as the tables, tue billiard rooms, the lodgings and the attenaance the base of Pike's Peak or 2,000 miles from tne At- lantic. So [od are the attractions and so un- doubtedly advantageous is the climate ior invalids that it is found profitable for the large hotels to er open all winter, and they are well patron- zed, ‘Three miles up the canyon of the Fountain are into South Park, and it was made through this three miles at a cost of $15,000, Tae rocks crowded to the stream so closely that it was necessary to biast down the face of the cliff from 50 to 150 feet, leaving a shoulder for the road, while the stream roars and tumbies SoHE the rocks fromi 200 to 500 feet below. This road decidediy a dangerous one, although its bed is broad and smooth. sev- eral teams have veen precipitated below, and one man was recently kilied. ‘the danger seen a6 one descends, for the turns are frequent and short, and the natural course on turning around the dizzy cliff 1s directly into the guli below, so that and summer flowers bioom among the rocks. A Mile above the ialls is @ hotel, two miies further the canyon opens wider, decline. There are parks and groves, and one might 1ancy himself among the Berkshire hills. CHEYENNE CAYNON is, haps, as interesting as any ofthese roads. It Ty reached first at a distance of four miles from Share o: its water is taken out miles | -five miles, rises | growth of Colorado Springs is wholly due to the | tou, and the water seems to have valuable qualt- | are concerned, one could not imagine himself at | Ute Falls. The road nas now become the only one | id soon the mountains | AMERICANS IN LONDON. i The Rise and Progress of the Transatlantic Colony in the British Metropois. Demoorzcy Vindicating Itself as a Pa- tron of Fashion and Art. Intellect, Beauty and Grace the Guiding Stars of Society. Lonpon, July 27, 1874. The American colony in London which has for years been growing in number and importance, has now attained respectable proportions. Time | was, not so very long ago, when American families | visitmg Kurope merely looked upon London as a | resting place fora few nights on the great high road trom New York to Paris. Then Morley’s Hotel in Trafalgar square was their neadquarters, and when they bad strolled into the city and seen the Bank of England and the Monument, passed through the Thames Tnnnel, visited the House of Commons and Madame Tussaud’s waxwork show. (where Mr. H. M. Stan- ley’s vera efigies is now on view) they thought they had seen all that was worth seeing in our Smoky metropolis, and flew off to gay, brillant, | Paris, American citizens of that time, if 1 recol- | lect rightly, were given to dressing in shiny biack, with swaliow tail coats and trowsers which rucked up and showed a considerable portion of Weiling- ton boot. The shirt collar was 1! and | the bat curiosity of architecture. Now, when the thews and sinewsa of leading American gentlemen are duly noted in the meas- urement books of Messra, Poole and Smalpage, when the best works of Lincoln Bennett crowd the shelves of the eminent hatter next door to the Fifth Avenue Hotel (whose honored name | Lcannot at this moment call to mind), and while the chefs @auvres of Mmes. Virot and Ode are purchased by American ladies, when, in tact, the | American nation ts better dressed than any other | 1n the worid, one can afford to look back without wincinog at those almost pre-sartorial times. THE LANGHAM. It is not to be expected that people will settle down in however charming a spot (and it must be confessed that London to the stranger 18 not para- dise) uniess their comforts are considered, and 1 take 16 that the real colonization of London | by Americans dates from the time when | the Langham Hotel began to get into full blast. In its early days it was @ very wretched establishment, miserably mis- Managed; and it was not until Colonel Sandeson took ‘tue helm that it began to make any way and to get into that current of prosperity, out of which it has never since driited. ‘The Colonel understood the wants of | bis | customers and took cara to cater for them. Many of these brought their primitive tastes along wita them, ana were insensible to the charms of a European cuisme. So that after wild lamentings at Liverpool their hearts melted within them as they read the Langham menu, and saw that | hominy, pork and beans, Boston crackers, buck- | Wheat cakes and molasses. were yet avtainabie delights, Though, of course, not to ve compared to any of the giant hotels of the Western Cou- tunent, the Langham is carried on on the American principle, and bas a certain caches of its OTHER HOTELS. There, are, however, Many American citizens who, on coming abroad, look for achange mot merely of national dishes, but of national notions; who determine that they will upset the old Latin proverb and vary not merely their celum but their anima, ng of this kind take up their quarters at Feuton’s Hotel, in St. James street—oid iash- toned, high priced and particularly select. The waiters at Fenton’s might be peers of the realm; the presiding divinity who steps out of her parlor to receive you with a irigid inclination looks like @ dowager duchess, You feel it would | be bighly indecorous to whistle in such | @ solemn piace; while if any Wesiern gentleman were to arrive there, and, after the Custom of his countrymen, permit himseli to ex- pectorate, I have not the faintest doubt that he Would immediately be given into custody, and tie resuit would be sowething trightful. Intensely respectable, but somewaat gruesome, is Fenton’s Hotel Bordeaux and Burgundy wine are still known under the geveric name of “claret” and are still charged at the price in vogue before the tariff. Dinners are still set fortn in the lumbering old Engitsh style, witn the bat- tered plated dishes of the bygone generation; | the furniture is heavy, antique and somewhat | | stuffy, and very Much astonisoes those accustomed | | w the bright fittings of “the other side.” Ido | not Know that they very much value American | custom at Fenton's, They have a regular | clientele ot their own, and the house is nearly | always lull; many country members of Pariiament | and coupty magnates make It their London home; | solemn people, unaccustomed to be put out, and | glaring balefully at the little American children, | Who skip up and down the principal staircase and | playon the landing, shrieking meanwhile at tue | top of their voices in the way usaal with these cnarming, but somewhat over-petted darlings. Lang’s Hotel, in Bond street, another favorite | resort, is perhaps more fitved for bachelors tnan for families. Here the American traveller has an Opportunity of studying the manners and customs | or the more wealthy and aristocratic upuer- | graduates of tue universities out-ol-term time, | and of the officers of crack regiments when on | Jeave, Breakiast as a meal at Lang’s is not Known | until eleven A. M. or noon, and then consists of | grilled vones, devilled turkey legs aud other escu- Tents calculated to tempt rather than to sutisiy | the appetite. Hansom cabs are always in atvend- | ance, aud the night porter’s berta is not @ particu. | larly easy one, Au the hotels in Dover and Albemarle streets, where every other house is a hotel, have tueir proportion of American visitors. They are essen- ually quiet, comfortable houses, modernized edt- | tions of Fenton’s, just described, aud with much | the same class of company. In some of them the | cierical element is predominant, and you come across the plutup, round, biack silk-stockinged legs of bishops on the staircase, or meet the shovel hats of deans in the hall. Persona accustomed to | | toe magnificence of the Fifth Avenue in New York, | | the whirl and bustle oi Parker's at Boston, or the | | Continental at Philadelpiia, would be astonished | | @t the home jike peace and comfort of these Kng- | lish hotels. “Most resembling to them mm many _re- spects 1s the Brevoor, House in New York, and | that 18, | imagine, why so many Enghsh peopie take up their quarters there and always speak of 1t ag the best hotel in the world. WHERE THEY GO. The initiated, of whom I shall speak by and by, | who make England their home for @ certain num. | ber of years, of course lead tue same kind of hives | | other favorite resort, being not merely a nye buiding, unique in itwelf, and of ast invoreat, but affording phovennte of escaping from the smoke of London Into the beautuul Kentish country, an aiter having thoroughly done your seience an art, your concert and aquarium, of eating your dinner overlooking highly cultivated gardens and & beautiful prospect. ‘Zoological Gardens in the Regent’s Park contain the finest collection of wild animals, birds, reptiles, &c., in the world, and advantage is generally taken of combining amusement with instruction by visiting them on @ Sun afternoon, when an enormous crowd Of fashionables gather together. While the quiet student will be gazing with Wonder at the mummies, the papyri scroils, the Assyrian antiguities or the bibliographical treas- ures Of the British Museum, or taking in a filtra- tion of science at the Polytechnic Institution, the lover of rt will be either seated under the Davilion at Lord’s watching the evolutions of two ol the finest cricket elevens in the world, or lying on the green sward at Hurlingham intent on a pigeoe shooting match, and backing, according to his opinion, the gun or the bird. Handy, within reach, 00, is the polo ground, at Lillie Bridge, where young gentlemen of the aris- tocracy May be seen galloping furiously about on their short-legged, hog-maned ponies, regard- leas of the Dlows wnich shower round them, and cutting at the with their shockey sticks as though to drive it to the goal was the main object oi their life. 0 £0 So “Prince's” requires an in- troduction, which ts easily obtained, and there also may be seen the younger members of the male and female aristocracy—the former whee!- skating OD @ great square of granite beneath a blaving July sun, the latter playing cricket; both later in the afternoon sitting under the pretty umbrella tents drinking te&@ and iced beverages and flirting with all their powers, Qonnoissears of painting, too, whether fers of the old mas- ters or the modern school, tind at the National Gallery and Burlington House specimens enough to wratily their tastes. Descriptions of the places within the immediate neighborhood of London, as of those at longer distances, whica are all made the subject of pu grimages by American visitors, will form the subject of tuture letters, but it 18 now time that. should say something respecting the AMERICAN STARS OF THIS SEASON, ‘These have been both many and various. In addie tion to the regular luminaries, who are constantly among us and who seom to have settled down into our planetary system, we have brilliant new comers in the persons of General Sickles and bis charmmg wife and daughter. The General, who has taken a house pear Queen’s Gate, Ryde Park, and who, it ts said, intends to reside permanently in London, looks better physically and more at ease mental; than when I used to see him at Madrid in the thie! of the Virginius controversy. He 1s to be seen frequently under the shade of the trees in the Park, smoking his cigar and Spa quite happy. He was taken special notice of by the Queen on his presentation, and Mme. and Miss Sickles were well received at court. Other diplo- matic celebrities over here just now are Mrs. Hof- man, wife of the Secretary of Legation at Paris, whose charming nieces, the Misses Living- stone, are much sought after, the Hon. ©. K. Tuckerman, late United States Minister to Greece. The Hon. Rovert C. Winthrop, of Massachueetts, formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives, has been with 8 has our constant visitor, General Pieasanton, of railroad celebrity. General Dick Taylor, son of ex- President Zachary Taylor, 18 & great success among us, being high tn favor with the Prince of Wales, who takes him about everywhere. Other visitors of distinction are Mr. Arthur and Miss Bis- sell, from New York; Colonel Dickinson Woodratfe, of” the United States Army; ex-Mayor Ambrose C. Kingsland, of New York; ra. Biss, of Ohio; Mrs. E. 8, Edwards, of Washington oity; Cuptain W. G. Temple and Captain John T. Upsher, of the United States Navy. Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris went away to the country immediately on thetr arrival, and have scarce been seen since; but Lady Randolph Church (née Miss Jerome) is a great favorite tn society. THE GRRAT SENSATION of the season is, however, an American heiress, whose fortane is reported at various amounts, varying irom $75,000 to $200,000a year. She is @ ous lady, who, though arriving here te and not having been presented, has been invited to the court festivities and 19 attracting =a eat deal of notice. Everybody is talking of her. Is she as wealthy as people say? What is the real amount of her for- tunet Has she any brothers and sisters? She is immensely sought alter, and the names of three gentlemen are current in society to each of whom she is reported to be atflanced. One of these, the Hon. Walter Harbord, ts a cavalry officer, a brother of Lord Sutfield’s and one of the handsomest men ofthe day. Another is word John Hay and the third is Lord Henry Lennox. Perhaps before t mer toa: he season ends, two weeks hence, the Delle A’ ine will have made her selection. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Ear Russxx1 is about to publish a volume en titled “Recollections and Suggestions o: Pubiie Life. 1813-1873," Two HUNDRED AND ForTY THOUSAND Bibles and Testaments, and nearly half a million Books of Common Prayer were issued last year by the Society tor Promoting Christian Knowledge. A New Book on “The Philosophy of History in France and Germany,” by Professor Robert Flint, ts an important contribution to the history of civilization for the past two centuries, “PRIMEVAL LIFE IN SWITZERLAND,” by Dr. Oswald Heer, will be translated and pub- lished soon in London, THE LONDON Publishers' Circular, in criticising the recent literary pensions bestowed by Mr. Disraeli’s government, says:— The two nations whoowe most to their authors are the most dignified in their freedom from acanowledging any obligation to them. America has nobly surpassed us. In that great country ° they give their writers no State atd at all, and we have so far emulated their example that wo give ours as little as we can. ENGLISHMEN Will Dever have done with writing histories of India. The last one ts Str Henry Bill- ott’s “History of India, as told by its own histort- ens.” Ma. CHARLES Lamport has written @ book on the “Working Classes,” which treats of co-opera- tion, wages and other matters connected with the great labor question. A FrencomMan named Edward Les Childe has Pubiis .cd a new biography of the Oonfederate Chieltain, entitled “Le Général Lee, 9a Vie et ses Vampagnes.” Strange to say, it contains no vitu- eration against the North. SAD SUICIDE IN JERSEY. The House of the Hpiscopal Dean in Mourning. The facts of a very sad and painfully humilisting Suicide in Morristown, N. J., have just leaked out, the victim of his own rash act being none other as English peopie of the same quality, passing the season in London and in the off season visiting the usual places of summer resort, But the birds | who have but a limited time at their id who try to compress @ month’s aight- seeing into @ week's work, bave enough to do, | more gspeciaily as that Continental necessity, tue | valet de , 1s almost unknown among us. 1am @iratd that our English modisces are not in sufll- cient favor with American ladies to induce them | | i to anticipate a portion of the hoped for | leasure in their intended visit to | ‘aris by ordering any ciothes im London. ! Occastonally, however, tt happens that wardrobes | the driver needs to see that ali his gear is | are in such @ state On arrival as to necessitate some | strong and toat his team is well in hand, ‘he | immediate purchases, and in that case American | falls are at least 100 feet below the road, and the | ladies, bfogerts, instructed, will be recommended descent is 60 more. In addition the mountains | to go . White, of Regent street, or Mrs. | rise to @ fearful neight above, and, although un- | Mason, of New Bur.ington street, both of whom seen, Pike’s Peak itself pierc far beyond into the e employed by the Princess of Wales, Fashion- clouds, A dense growth of pines ts on every hand, | abie milliners aiso are Mme. Klise, Mme. Devy and others, whose names and addresses can be easily learned. Gentlemen are better off, as even in Paris the best tailors are Kogiishmen, and here Messrs, Poole and Smalpage bear away the bell. In the 1a cool rooms on the ground floor, in Saville row, one can smoke an excellent cigarette while being fitted, or hsten to the latest — news irom Mr. Poole himself, the big, fair man, pablican—that is, between is dark. Colorado City, where a walk of two or three miles | with the light whiskers, who is courteous and @mong underbrush and rocks is necessary, while attentive to ail his customers, from the Prince of a considerable stream 14 frequently to be crossed. | Wales downwards. Nor does one meet with less | The passage is made by ladies without much adiim- | attention irom Mr, Smalpage, im Maddox street, | culty, bat probably fewer would venture i! they | whose icy tor the Canard and White Star /ines, could previously realize the roughness of the way. | 1n addition to his first class taiior’s establishment, At last lofty cascades are reached, and tnen ono is astonished at the height of the precipices bordering the stream and only a few feet apart. It 1 alleged that these precipices are over | excellence of jewelry and value of precious stones 2,000 feet high, No description can do justice to | we are not to be beaten, as will be seen on in- the terrific scene. It would haraly answer to re- | specting ‘the establishments of Messrs. Hancock, turn without going to the top of the peak. The | Landon & Ryder, Hunt & Roskell, of Bond sirect, journey can be made in a singte day by starting | and Mr. Philly early, but usually two days are taken, A new | spectaity is coral, of which ne has the finest col- trati has been opened so that any one who can ride | lection in the worid. horseback can eaatly ride to the top. A telegraph Our transatlantic birds of passage will not be line ieads to the summit, where a branch of tne | likely to encumber themselves with any impedi- Signal, Service nas been established and here , menta in the way of furniture, china, giass, &c., the officers stay month aster mouth, A hallway | vhough all are to be procured at their very best in house has been buut below timber line where one | London; but, having looked to theif attire, will can stay over night, but blankets and provisions | proceed to sight seeing, With their veneration must be carried along. AS may be supposed the | for antiquity and @ desire to realize the result of view from the summit is imexpressibly grand, | their reading, they will probably make the Tower Thousands of lofty mountains at once come to | of London the object of their first Visit, and under view, including some of the peaks of New Mexico , the guardiansnip of one of the quaintly attired end arizona. beef-eaters, in crimson doublet, veivet poringer THE MOST IMPRESSIVE SIGHT and slashed shoes, will go through the grum old 1s not likely to be witnessed by tue casual visitor; | fortress which has been the pore of so muco that rs @ strong American connection. We have no rows of jewellera anu gimcrack shops, such a8 are vo be tound in che Palais Royal, but in this is the coming on of night anda the coming on | has been memorable in yd ad ofday. As the sun descends the shadow ol the | will stand in the cell where leigh was im- peak gradually stretches out in darkness across | Fer and touch the block on whit Jane the Plains tor & distance of 200 mites; Suadenty all | Grey laid her winsome, innocent head. ere, As the sun arises, filling the east with | d of Cockspur street, whose | than Mr. Albert Merritt, brother of Rey. Mr. Mer- ritt, Dean of the Episcopal Church and rector of St. Peter's, Deceased, who was a young man of about twenty years and unmarried, had been for Years a resident of bis brother’s house, and 1s said to have been given to habita of dissipation. One day last week, as the facts are given, he returned home after @ season of prodigality and asked money from He was retused. He then asked for @ revolver. This also was re- fused, He then left the house and sought to pro- cure laudanum tn several drag stores. Two re- fused him, but the third, not Knowing him, yielded and gave him two ounces, he swallow:d and then retired to the graveyard and lay down to die. In the evening he was found still alive and re- moved to his brother's. For twenty-four hours the peels 8 tried to save his life, but without avail. e died on Friday night last, The facts were care- fully withueid irom the reporter. /BASSHOPPERS, What the Little Cusses” Cam Do. (From the St, Joseph (Mo.) Heraid.) The grasshopper ts not as big as a thousand Other things we can name, but then the insect has a8 much devilment in its carcass as was ever con- tained in the same apace tn anything that ever lived or breathed. Stories have been pabitshed bow they completely Diockaded out West, but they were looked upon as a fanciful ectae uon, existing only in the imagination of the re- porter. still these stortes were not imagin- “On Wednesday, train No.7, of the St. Joseph | and Denver Ratiroad, struck the grasshoppers be- tween Axtell and Beattie. The insects covered the Wack two toches thick, and the engineer was com- | Pletely at bis wit’s end to know what todo. He understood a soaped srack, but @ track coverea with grasshoppers Was a novelty. He put on all the steam he could and tried to drive abead, and yet he was actuaily pine hours making eleven miles. How many grasshoppers were killed no one will ever undertake to say. Yesterday morning Conductor Scott Sharp pulled out of Seneca on time, and tnought he would have an easy run to St. Joseph. in this he was slightly mistaken, Two miles out the track was complete! | blockaded by fxesebopgety, ad the engineer toan: | tt impossible to proceed. He hated to be veat out by such trifling Insecta, but finally had to run back to Seneca god wait until the insects haa crossed the | track on their way southward. \ ba =) atories look @ little tough, but then they are true. THE PHILADELPHIA DIAMOND ROBBERY, Yesterday the police made a new arrest in the Philadelphia diamond robbery case. Mr. Hettsel, the bondsman for Mr. Rosenbe! was rested on Saturday, went to Herigin "im oo ny with @ detective irom Headquarters and s ; in arresting A. H. Goodkind, who waa formerly & broker on Wall street. It 19 charged that Good. kind was interested in the robbery and sold Ce jf eS in 2 Hetwael's loc! 5 ed up, in default of £6. | i