The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1874, Page 4

4 ~ THE VALCOURIANS, | free Love on Valcour Island. Matrimony, Limited Copartnership | and Dissolution. THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM | High Priestess White and Her Promiscuous Philosophy. “Is Woman a Dog to Wear a Collar?” THE PROPAGANDISTS’ PARADI | Children Not to Bear the Surnames of | ut Father or Mother. \ “Brother” Woodhouse and “Sister” | | entice away any of our virtuous girls or young meu Charles. | i ISLAND OF VaLcour, | IN Upper LAKE CHAMPLALN, Oct. 15, 1874 | It was asmail but strongly built little steam. | boar, the A. Williams, pamedvafter some rich tron dealer, Who dwelt in Plattsburg, that pushed its way ‘rom behind the breakwater at Burltngton, pu Lake Champiain, All the chief towns on this lake bave breakwaters to shelter their very scanty commerce, and the Burlington breakwater has on each end of the structure a lighthouse, or, more properly speaking, a beacon, to light tne way for the mariners who have trading to do between Verment aud New York or the Canadian border, Atnight, as the steamboas ploughs its antiring way through the deep waters of thls noble lake, these beacons can be seen on every jutting point, and by their red lights the pilots are enabled to thread the watery paths that lead to Crown Point, Ben- aon, conderoga, Burlington, Sneiburne, Port Kent. Larrabee, Orwell, Plattsburg, Essex and Rouse’s Point. These lights afar off look like vivid glowworms, and it may be interesting to know that the keepers of the lighthouses—I do not reter to beacons which do not require any more attendance than is given to city street lamps—receive $000 a year and luel, with quarters Jor their wives and families, providing tnat the light keeper has any family to put in quarters, AN ISLAND STUDDED LAKE. I question if there be a sheet of water in the domain of the United States that 16 sO well and richly provided with islands &s Lake Champlain; and, therefore, as far as Seclusion and romantic surrounding scenery tan render @ location desirable, there cane not be any doubt but tnat the Free Lovers who have settled on Valcour Island have chosen well and wisely. Some of the islands in Lake Cham- plain have, as I am imformed to-day by the honest- | faced and sturdy looking captain of the A. Will- | lams, but few equals im the States for good soil, Close cultivation and happy homes. “You may rely upon ti, sir,” remarked Captaln White, as we stood onthe torward deck of the little steamer now gliding at quite a furious rate through the water. “There isn’t many islands im the world to beat North Hero and South Hero for fine farms, good farmers and comfortabie farm- houses. Why, sir, they can raise anyrhing on these islands, and the Jruit tuat they grow is a caution to see. isa very rich soll, and if these Free Lovers get it and work it rignt they will have a spiendid place Wo live on.” The trafMc on these Champlain boats 1s a pecu- dar one. and noise that you may discover turtoer South, andthe laborers or deck bands are nearly all | French Canadians. Point after point forms in tne | sye, and bay alter bay of biue, giorious blue water, | stretch out their arms lovingly to the mentalem- | brace of the sightseer or tourist. The traveller, _ hurrying turougn to Montreal by night on Lake | Champlain, has no opportunity afforded bim to ob- | verve the Deauties of the Lake, tor when day | breaks he is summoned to breakfast and he heirs that he has reached Rouse’s Point, the end o/ his winter journey. Going South, Ais trip be by night, he also joses the views of ‘ake and mountain. But in the broad, open and glori.as Septemoer day, with the arched blue dome above, as it now hangs over ,my head, with- dutone feck or spo", what can be finer? Not even Italy can ford aclearer atmosphere than this, and no italiaa wir was ever so pure and bracing. And on board of tnis little steamer, Which is bound for Piattsburg and Grand Isle, With a number of stoppages on the way at differ. emt points, the passengers seem to feel the eects Of the air, and the ladies, I notice, are ali pre- paring to wrap themseives warmly. THE IRREPRSS3IBLE DRUMMER, There are probably about forty people on board, among whom are types of various “kind: There is the true Yaokee drummer, keenest of tue human race, a sharp-visaged, smartly dressed young man of twenty-five, whose head, from too close attention to the riage and fall in unbleached musling and coarse Mancuester pzints, has become quite baid on tne top. This young man has smattering of everything in the world; but, like oli bis drumming rice, he knows nothing well ex- cepting the hours for the arrival and departare of Failroad trains and steamboats to and from the different places where he has to make trade for his employers. What @ mournful, miserable look | these wretched drummers have, tobe sure! Al- Ways on the wing and aiways eating from home at hotel tables, they finally obtain stomacns like to that belonging to the ostrich, and they all have a theory that everything ip the worid should be measured by tle yard or weighed by the pound, ‘There 13 @ middle-aged woman, with a brace of chudren clustering around ber knees, who lives in the Adirondacks anu has her home 3,000 feet Above the levei of the jake, in @ pine clearing. btanding oy ber side isa@ tail, lithe and willowy Bhapeu girl, With a marble paie ace anu deep Bimond shaped eyes oi a mixed dark viue and gray- ish cast, A communicative person, With 4 stout Irame and @ shaggy cuat, who seems to know ail Ou vuard as well as the entire geograp.y oi Cham- Pain, tuiorms we just DOW that this party of three fre irom near Keesvilie, apd that the girl with the ) Dale ace and string eyes i9@ Llece Of the Matron’s vusbaud, who is “ap north,” on the St. Lawrence, rating timver throug the rapids. ‘Ine Man with the shaggy coat isa horse jockey from Northera New ork, going ‘rom Montreal and flown the river to Quebec, to see what he can do in tae horse trade. ine pale-tace girl is French Canadian, aud has the peculiar veauty and won- Serial eyes of her geueraily srolid race. Forward, ADd SITLIN4 Alone, is au artist wWoose whoie attens lion ig taken Up witli the color of tree leaves on the fuisides and the hoary grandeur of the moun. | tain tops alu worses, Which are well defined as ihe libue steamer neirs ue sore in tts winding Way to schuyler’s Island, 4 smali round isiet of two huudred acres, covered With &@ sooth greea sward, a little grove oi trees, a larmiouss with eral barns and other outhouses and appurte- bance: A bard featured but good natured farmer, who is hespuipanied vy iis Wile, a scrawny looking Wom: And a littie buy, opens » conversation with tne Hdl apropos ol the latter's survey of Schuyler’s and, A STONE FARM. “That island, stranger, is just a hefty lictle bit property. 1¢ be:ongs to Latner . Whitney, and he hus dune Well toere, Iteli you neow. You see, he bought it taree years ago, and i'm told bu need it muatiy jor tie stun that’s im tt, Tuere’s iots O1 stun iD all tue nee bereabouts, aud Valcuur lsiand, where the Lovers are, | make converts—aud I suppose that they can’t | thea 1, or We, will nave to go over and clean them | to join the Free Lovers quietly the only obstacle in | 1am told, too, that Valcour Island | and snproa | all crowding to the side oi tae | good look at this island of Caiypso. For as Ulysses | and Lymaz aud Shipwiaa yet find their greatest | troubles iu this island of Valcoar. There is none of the bustle and furry | | child. | toes in a fleld near the maryiu of toe road, i NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHERT. THE FREE LOVE PARADISE. ~ as lots of limestone in the seouth end on it, Well neow, here is Lather C. Whitney, he’s uot most all his stun eout Schayler’s Island to build kWaters, becaase he’s a sort of & contractor jor building breakwaters, and | beileve you couid | buy the isiand Of 200 ucres DeOW lor About $3,000, | And, [tell you, it would make a spiendid jarm, aitavugh its pretty oieak in winter und the winds | do grown around the point roughly evough. Thea tue lake Ireezes over, you Kuuw, aud you can drive a siegh to Burdngteo = or to Pot Keut to get what you want in the way of groceries or fixiue. Trere’s a good Many \eams lost going avross tie lake, Lut that is becau-e the peopie are careless toat own them and ihey wii drive when the ice 18 _honeycomved, There's 4 terry irom the island to the shore in E 8°x county 0 summer, a kind oO: & Matvoat terry, ‘That island used to belong to the ~cauvler jamity, that ft io the Kevolutiou; ana Benedict Arnold, when he got licked by the Enghsi gunoouts, brought his yawis aud schooners duwao trom V; id and burot ’», suv that the Briusp wouldn't get Lim at that point there (indicating with his hnger) where the water’s shallow, be- tween schuyler’s Isiand and the New York suore.’? Finding this man, who seemed to be an honest specimen Of his class, rather communicative, I thougnt I wouid ask bis opinion as to the possibile ity of the Free Lovers settimg on Valcour, and, | being left im peace by the citizens of New York | State who reside in the vicinity of Valcour Island. | A MINUTE MAN, “Yes,” be broke in, “I hey heerd tell of those | Free Loviers fur over a week, and | at a farmer in Clinton county, N. ¥., and that is the county | that Vatcour isiand is in. 1 may aa weil teil you, sir, how our people jeei about wie matter up tits | Way, and then you wil ve able to uuderstand What these Free Lovers may expect. The people | that I live a:nong are quiet and sociable people enouga and our town gives & democratic majority. | So does Plattsburg, Weil, now, democrats or ree | publicans, it is aii the same with us | on tis tree love question; tor you | koow we have families aud them as hag got gals growing up want to take care of them and bring them up right, They say that | there will be a commuuity of 300 persons, men and women, on Valcour Isiand in a few months, or mayhap pot beiore the spring Opens, Well, that’s | no one’s business but their own, and as long as | they don’t meaule with those who live on sore | wou't have anything to say. They may go on | og the soil and raising crops of Outs or at, OF potatoes, or what they like, and they las get rich a3 fast as they like, ii they pay their debts and we on the maim svore Wout be any | poorer. But the Very moment that they try to get along without converis—and if they try to Who ure now attending to theur farms or business, out, and if they resist’?— “aud it they resist?” | added, flndiag that the old ijarmer hesitated somewhat im finishing bis homeiy argument. “Well,” he continued, “you know what hap- pened to Joe Smith's Mormoa crowd out West when they resisted? Tuey got cleaned out so badly that they never came back any more to Lilinoy, I believe.” ‘Tnis 1s the kind of opinion that I found mani- fested everywhere on the New York side of toe luke in regard to the Free Lovers’ advent on the bosom of Champlain. On the Vermout side 1 ais- | covered a greater Jaxity of sentiment, and found that there were numbers O! the inhaoltants ready their way, one tough looking man in‘ormed me, being “tne d—d meddling newspapers, that find everything out as soon as itis Started and them they sit on it and squeleh 11.” A FIRST PEEP AT VALCOUR. As the steamer diverged from the main channel to the westward the scenery became wore grand and loity, the mouniains seeming to overshadow us. Approaching Port Kent, a littie village noted only ior its mauutactory Of pails taken from the iron ore of the adjoming Adirondacks and :or its | bad whiskey, a loud bell summoned the passen- gers to dinner below decks, and nearly all on board responded, Owing to tre appetiies created | jor them by the keen mountain air. Down ona | level with tbe base of the miniature engiges I en- tered a swali diniug room, with two boys in at- teadauce to wait u;on the hungry people. “Tne only trouble I have with one of those | boys—Jim—is tit he will not wear @ clean shirt. Hie says that he has oniv got one suirt,” remarked | Captain White, a8 we gat down to an excellent meal Ot roast iamb, roast beef, raw tomatoes, an | excellent cup of tea aod some apple pic that would bave delighted the most lasiidious cook tn New England. Dioner dnisbed, we weut on deck again and found that tue steamer Was about to enter the shabby looking dock at Port Kent. At this piace a Cargo Of nalis to be used 1a horseshoe- iug was taken on bdard of the boat, and the Canadian family, matron, cuildren aud the paie- faced, lustrous-orbed young girl leit us to go up in the mountains, I never saw a@ sadder Jace tian that of the young and elegantly shaped girl, AS tie stage which Was to take her to her home in the clouds turned upa winding road to the village of Port Kent she gave @ last glance at the blue Waters of the luke, aa Atala did when she saw tne spray of Niagara for the last time, and then plunged into the curcain of pines that covered the Wilderness [rom our sight, | Leaving Port Kent and lis aii trade tae vessel | | was now steered io the eastward agai and the lake opeved outin ali its splendor. the ruwor goes round and circuiates as by magic that the island with the rocky point dead ahead to the | | north of us and which bas a bristling limestone | eminence or jissoutnern pointis Valcour, Even the “drummers” become a L.ttle excited and man- age to set up au expression ot interest aud the | horse trader ejaculates adunringiy :— “They have got a déviish uce little island and | | lots of timber, tiem Free Lovyers!” | Now we ny d Valcour to the westward again | tue New York shore, the passengers amer to gets Went in search of the nymptis that brougat nim great tribulation, so may the “vrothers’? Wilcox High up on tae Biud Point, 10v leet or more, is a handsome light- | bouse, Dulit oi tie biue stune that is to be iound | everywhere in this vicinity and ui which no douot is composed the bed of Luke Champlain. ‘The lighthouse stands tuere lonely aud grin as the boat tears chrougu toe loam, and the only sign of life (rom the isiand is woen @ littie rosy-cheeked | cnild ruus forward merrily from the base of the ligutnouse on the rocky blaff above our heads and Shouts giadsomely at the boat down in t: ters Ww. Low. We hear the child’s merry voice and soon after | there ap.ears a Woman écreening ber eyes with her food, who is no doust the mother oi the Long and anxivusiy they both look irom tne @miuesce on tue lonely via with a wistiul gaze, as the gray sbaduws gather and darken a@bout their figures, aud the waters plasu beneata as they did u huudred years ago when Benedict Arnold, gailan: suidier as ue was be/ore bis soul Was Stalged with treason, surrounded the British gaueys io tuis very same place aud within 100 yards of the sput where Uncle 5am nas now Taised the mariners’ beucon. And as the boat wowiy ieft the isle 1 was tempted to think of auvother pictare drawn by & master Nand and re- calied by tue jacea of tne two watcher, motner and chiid, ou tue rocky bluf:— | Three fishers went sailing out into the west, ‘ut Into the we te sun went down; | Each tought of the woman Wiio loved hitn the best And the colidren sivod Watching thea: out of the towns or Men Wut Work and woipen Wust Ww For were's iit.Je to bough the barvor bur ve musning. SEEKING FOR PASSAGE, Some eight mies suuth of Piattsburg there is on the lake road to the eastward @ very com fortavle jarmhouse and fine farm of about 250 seres, Owned oy @ iarmer named Day. Uo this Day, Woum Wy driver supposed to ve in posses. #10n Of @ s@lluuat, OY Whicu I might, perbays, ne gotiate w passage to the enchanted Isle Of Ualypso, we liad to cull, On nearing tue iarm I discovered two young men who Were engaged iu uoeing pota- nese young men Were the soas of tue eiger Lay, who owned che farm. The question was propounded by tae writer— “tlave you & coat of any kind that will carry eo | passenger to Valcour Isiand?"? | ‘The two young men stopped hoeing the potatoes and, shading ther eyes with their bands, une of thei suid ;— “Weil, there is a boat down on the shore, but | its w pretty good pull to the isiand, You might | go over there, Fred," said the eldest brotner to Uls junior, “aad take @ sali witu you if the pull 1s too long.” | The bargain having been conciuded,I walked througa the feld, young Fred Day, o fine, hearty and handsome lad oj eignteea yeurs, following me through ploughed fleids aown to the shore, on which there was spread @ pretty comiortab! beach, pebuly and sandy, the background of tr jorming @ sieded cove. A pair of vars were taken out Oo some underbrush, aud With them @ sail, and we embarked, Fred aud J, ina smaii but stanch ff for Vaicour isiand, the bourne to wuicu | bad been seeking access ior a whole week. THE ISLE OF THE AFFINITIES, | And now we were afloat at last, The young Ja: mer took charge oi the leg-of-nutton-saii, out fading It b.owing Loo Iresu aud tne current belug very strong irom toward Bia! Pomt on Valcour aud beaung in azaiust the New York shore, tue lad took to His Oars, Which were Hxed with thowel pins, while I ve.d the rudder, and oon the reguiar up aud down vibratioa of tue vars told that We Were in {il sweep to the nome of tne Free Lovers. The young farmer kuew very littie abouts settlement, but he had seen the prop! OF high pricstess of the sect, Miss Hannah Augusta White, vo the maio land, and his Jarher, who bad beid & conversaiion wici ner, had suvsequentiy pronounced ber to veo “iarna: tion smart Wowan.” Vaicour rose like 4 vast dream from tne surface of the jake, its rocky summits crowned with maple, virci, live oak, poplar aod veech trees, ‘The sailvGat Was steered to the soul, and tova again @ tack Was made to the northward and east ward, toe young farmer asking tie writer to “keep ter head well up on tat wooden house,” meaning thereby a low sized Wooden mansion that seemed to be Jeast @ hundred years old, and Which Was situated in @ Clearluy (hat syaued the heart of Valcour tsiaud on the western bide, Pretty soon tie boa, impeiied by the hard rowing of the country iad, neared the shore, sweeping past the ast eddying waters, and in @ iew moments we Were salely anchored benind a rotten oid cattle boat inside O! & minia- | ture and decaying dock. 1 felt as Kovinson Crusoe | Might have feit on iis a, discovered iund | bad looking but beauti- | aan oF nena, Dd 1410 be BD Sterne Etilinedd 1 bhO Bif | ag 1 Baw her quickly. | at work as | Was one Oi (he vommunity absens, | glua vo comply wit | tion of The boat was fastened, end es I eprasg secmre the young tarmer’s lad ioliowed me with the curiosity Imuerent in all country lads at any strange mani- festation. He wanted to see them “Free Loviers,”” he said, and he thougat that by iollowing close in my wake he might get a view of them. The itront of the old farmhouse, which was one story and a hal! high, faced the Bcraits in the lake between the islana o1 Valcour and the New York mainland, Its gabie stood to- ward tne ligatuouse on Blut Point, and the rear ol the house, which held the entrance, by the was, looked towerd tue middle of the t land, wach hud a billy ridge running clear througn it ior a back- bone. As tue boat was iastened 4 queer looking being, Who wore @ ragweed feit hat aud a strange, Close-vutioned frock coi having United States Imiantry buttons, made bis appearance from behind @ sort of wooden lence or breast- work, ‘this strange looking heing disappeared lor @ moment and then announced himseli, As he “jg Miss Hannah Augusta Waite, the high Priestess of the iree love community, On the isl aud at present ?? STRaNGE LOOKING BEING (with a@ simple smile ou his tace)—You mean Mrs, WH. Augusiy White, don’t yout | Came forward / said to aim:— THE UNKEMPT BEING, Istated to this unkempt but goud-natured-look- ing bang thac it Was not nuterial to me whether the lady’s name was ‘alissus’ oF ‘Miss!’ so long fhe unkempt being then plougned his way tuward the entrance of tue ula larmlouse und entered, while 1 foliowea alter, Taere was a large room, taking up the whole of the iirst floor of the old homestead, und @ large but piainly titted up beu in the corper toward the worth end. There were io Wouwen iu hail-dress, one of whom was occupied as lentered in making bread, and her sleeves were tucked up, ald sue seemed to be bard stooped over the dough, wien she Tolied und pounued and smote with great earnest ness. I hau ever beiore seen eituer a iree lover, @ spitiiualist or a womau’s riguts lemale euguged lu way Gumestic iavor, as they generally aliow their husvauds to do tne houseuoid work, and, therelore, Luly Spectacle Was lo We w Dew dispen- gation, aud 1 regarded it aa such. ‘The sirange-iooking being announced me for- rane when we entered tue house, suying as ne 80 ‘Mrs, White, this is the New Y« HERALD cor- | respondent, who wishes to get some information about the community.” : @ little lady in the balf-dress arose irom her stooping pusture and scraped some vo! the douga off uer Well rounded arms and vowed, aud the otuer lady in tue distance und dimueéss of the TOom also rose ond reiired, aiter bowiug sud- deniy, to some alcove that | couid not see, owing to tae smoke tuat ascen.ed irom tue huge stove iu tue ceutre of the jurge room. Just then anotu: Free Lover appeared on whe scene—a youngisl Wau ol twebly-siX years or #0, Who Dad # dari olive face, dack eyes @au Uair aud 4 well-koit ap compact igu inis was Brother J, He Wood- house, iue strange loowing being = wai Brotuer Charies. Tne lady who to the coruer of the room was @ Sister (Mrs.) Charles; the iady wuo was eugaged in mixing the duugh was Sister Miss Hanuan Augusta White, poctess, priestess, propagandiat, preacher aud percgriuater iu general ior ihe Cause Of pure and ULAduiterated iree love. There a Ocother of Brovuer Chailes wbd tue busvand, accoruing to tue ‘world’s people,’’ oi Sister or Mrs. Ciaries. 1 believe nat Mis, Hanown Augusta White had vee! married or ‘something, oud she, 1 was iplormed, was the sisier of Brother Chariea. brother Cuarles, tae married Free Lover had gone to toe mainiand some days beiore and bad jeft his Wile aud cilid—a beautiful lictle girl pamed Edith, aged about seveu yeacs—in toe Old homestead, Walco bad been built uearly a hun dred years veiure by some smart Verwonter. By some ireemasoury it became evident to me that Mrs. Hunpal Augusta White was in too great a stale Of Geshavilie to give one w seauce at that moment, and suddenly Bro: her Wooduouse came toward meé und asked if 1 would not like tu ge look wt the island, which request] only was too AROUND THE ISLAND. Brother Wooduouse aud | leit the homestead and Walked down @ Cowpath, which was voggy and quite unpleasant. Here, leauiog across the gate which opened into tne upper clearing, on a hill, we jouod Brother Charies, 10 a state of avstraction gud whittiing away like grim death, re going wby jurther 1 made kuown to the two tree Lovers | my desire to know sometiing avout the commanity, Brother Charles Was @ litte vark iaced, jolly sort Oo: @ man, Of about thirty-tive years of age, was attired in asiuif coat suck as Was woru by we Tebeis during the War. Brother Wovdhouse wore & Bluuiiar garment, and on each coat | saw the United Siates imauuy bution, indicating, no douot, the jact that the Free Lovers desire to have a uniform, but tual they Nave uot as yet got any turtuer then the batton, “Are you both Members of this [ree love com- mypuity now established at Vaicour Isiuna? 1 asked the two men, »ho were Walking turough & grassy Heid toward the lake at toe northern ead Of the isiand. Brother WoopHOUsE—Yes: we are. But pernaps ireg love that You know Oi in the word is nob tne tree love wuich We practise on this isiand, Oar system oi [ree love Is to choose partners and to live In uaion a8 long as the partuers can agree, and len if there is Mutual dissatisiaction the ualon is dissolved. Brother CHAtLESs—ThI6 le @ beauciful island, ta It not, Mr, Corres, ondent? [answered taut | tuougnt It was an exceedingly beauctul spot, and jo!lowead my admission by asking Brotuer Wooduouse, who seamed io ve & Civil ebough sort of person, but with an alfectw smartness, Wisl vccnpation he aad been engayed in waule liviag in the “worlu.’? For, be it knows that the Valcuur community, hike the Wailingiord and Oneid: commuaitics, speak Of ali places and peoples Outsive of toeir own little localities a3 wwe “World,” aud tuose woo are therein as the “world’s” people. Broraee Woovnovse—i was a carpenter im Chicayo belore | jound grace und leit ine world iyi ir, Chass " “Aud you, Mr. Chariea, what did ar joined the Fiee Lovers: yOu: 0) eae other CHABLES—1 Was iso a car Workedin Chicago, Mrs. Augusta Paite | | slater. “any particular ioe there,’ 1 again asked, guaiifications necessary to enavie a aia BOOLety OF Free Loversy" perres toa 18 TunORY, Brother Woopmovsi—Weil, you muat be o seper retired | and temperate man, and I don’t mean by that that you should totally abstain trom liquor or Wine of any kind, put you must be temperate, have sume trade or business aud advance some- thing to the common stock or treasury either in money or tn $0 ve industrial pursuit. We wish to make all industries co-operative iusteaa of com: petitive, “Then it does not make any difference to the community wha & man’s religious opinions may be, snould he propose to join your community f Brother WoopHOUSE—No; we do not interiere in any Way With that, and, 1p fact, we do nov care whetuer ie has or has not retigious opinions. But he mast live up to the rules aud regulations of oe society as we propose to make them ielt here- alter. Vhat progress have you made in connection with the purchase of this island, and how willit suit your community for a home?’ | remarkeu. brother CuarLes (wich joy marked in his fea- tures)—Oh! tius isiant will make @ perfect para- | dise jor us. Why, there are no less than forty kinds of timber growing on the island, and it hus hill and valley and you nay raise as much potatoes and vegetables as you walt, Brother WoopHOUSE (With a degp agricultural look) —Yes, and I think we cau do weil with corn | and wheat and tobacco, But principally the com- munity will Gevote itself to the raising of irult, which always brings in most money Jor the least | labor, a8 cuinpared with the cereals, tone)—I think, too, that we can do very weil with strawberries and apples and peaches anu avy ae vl iruit that may be used jor preserves or jams, THE BAY OF BEAUTY. We had by tits time reached a most beautiful grove, looking out ou the luke througa the birch, beech, red oak and poplar trees. Here there was & bay or cove of ubout iifty acres in ex- tent, the sheiving rock running out grad ually, and the bottom was as cleariy perceptivie as if One nad been looking into a glass, Northward of us we could see Crao island, WL hits Wooded veach;to tue west, Plattsburg town and its church steeples; furtaer souta, the mourns Of the Ausavie and Bouquet and Little Ai gabie rivers, andon the Vermont side, the Wi nooski, Lawmoilie and Poultney rivers, which empty irom the hills into Lake Champlain, This upper end of Vaicour Las o:teu been used ior pi nic parues, and here and there we saw lelied tr which had oeen extemporized and used as sea! Jor the gay picnickers, Tue outer edge o1 this charmingly picturesque isiand ts covered win litue bays, Which afford sheiter (0 ali sorts of small crait, and even steamers could ply here and fod a arbor in a dozen places. Tne Bay of Beauty, us it 18 called, 18 sheet of about sixty acres, and at its back i#& range of tall cliffgand a sheiving, Tocky beach, At the south ead the beacves on the digerent bays are rather sandy and the soil inland 1s very rich and productive. | migut state here tuat about 100 acres of the fslaud, waich has an area altogetner of 1,000 acres, belongs to Orrin Shipman, of Winooski, Vt, and at the south end the remaining 800 acres belong tv two men named Bissell aud Day, who have farms on tue main iand, there are only two houses ou the Is! exciadivg toe light house tue property of the /ederal wovernment and @ ieW baroa of rather @ uiiapidatea appearauce, ‘The island bas never been proverly cultivated, @ud its productiveness bas vot, therefore, been properly tested. IN THB UNDERBBUSH, Continuing our waik all around the island we came On the hilly aud rocky part which was co ered with tuck underbrusi that was prooabiy never worked since tle days when the Indians @ud French iought over it 160 years ago or more. we Walked we cuutinued the conversation, the Gay veing a beautiiul oue, iuil o: bam ‘and softness, ald above all was tue viue sky, the grandest dome | ever saw in any country. Finally we reached tue hill on whica the light- house was situated, and there on the bluif over. looking the lake, Brother Woodhouse and we Writer jell intu 4 desuitory conversation, { made bold to ask him about coe lady wiom | nad been Intruduced tO 48 dirs. Wulte, and I did it as den- a3 Was poasible under tue circumstances so cate; novei 10 me. PRINCIPLES, NOT LOVE. “May I ask you, Mr. Woodhouse, if the lady known a3 Mrs. Wuite ig your wile f” We stood looking out on the jake, and the shad. ows Of the evening came down with rapidity on toe beautilul scene iar below us, @ wide stretcn of forty miles of water, blue us 1u- digo, and, a8 the song says, “Tbe mountains ran’ all around.” The young bierophant of Cybele or Priapus, I dou't Know Waich, looked @ littie confused, and only answered alter some suame-iaced vesitauon, brother WoopHOUsE—Vhat lady is united to me, but bot io tue worldly bonds of matrimony as the worid knows it, “And,” said 1, & little muddied by this inex. Plicavie theory uod to me new reiatiou, “nave you been ‘united’ aiter your fashion long?” Brotuer WoOotuuss (solemuly)—i have known Mrs, While two years; 1 kaew ner in Chicago, and was “ouited” subsequentiy to her, withvat aoy wedding ring or “wo. idiy’’ ceremony, “May I ask you.” | contimued, “4f you nave joined the Free Lovers as w matter of priuciple or Tor love of thls Wommao who 18 United to your”? Brotuer Woopuouse (with quiet adsurance and | tion, Zour Delos m snis ge Jove Goctring, of font Bouse ? Brother Woupuousr (with a very important air)—Most assuredly we shall. The world will not be ready ‘or the last consammation und the mil. leunium until our doctrines have spread from sea Ww sea, The Bibi Bays go in piain terms. Are we pot in every was Letter und purer than Plymouth church and its disciples, | ask you! Look at their hy pocrisy ana beastly licentiodsuess! 18 Dot our dovtrine purer tuan that of Beecher and tilton ? 1 tell you, it seems to me that the doctrine of mare riage iu Piymouta church is so iar beneath our practice, that they should not talk aboat us in t same breath, excepting with a sense O/ me aud moral inieriority. 1 then askerl Mr, Woodhouse, who seemed to Nave everything wt his finger ends, how the com- munity was tv be organized and what its work- | ings would be, when pertected, Brother Woophouse (glowing with faitu)—We shall organize the community into groups and each group will have its duttes allotted to it, One | group may joilow farming, another fruit growing; another may be carpenters and worsers in wood, and there will be groups of shoemakera, cabinet- lnakers, bakers, butchers and taliors; and in tact we will embrace all the necessary callings that any worldly community possesses 1h their present state of imperiection. Kach group will have ita elected head or chief, and all o/ these heads of groups Will have to sit, waen occasion warrants, a8 % general council to govern the isiand, delegates being elected irom each group. The slang of the day in the world calls our relations to each other an ‘‘allinity.”” It is @ pericct union. Suould any man or woman who may choose to be united aller experience o1 each other find that they were not mutually adapted to this state of uniol, then, as im fairness, without quarrel or bickering, they are st liverty to dissulve the life of copartuership and resoive themselves into indepenuent members of the community. ‘That if ae purpot id,” said I, rather diMidently, “should chil- dren result irom such @ union, Wat becomes of them alter the aissolutivn of copartnership ? HOW abouT THE BABIES 1’? Brother WoopHuusg (in a decided ard deliberate Manver)—On! as fur that, the couple who part will have to make some provision Jor thetr children, and should they tui! to do so the com- munity wil, of course, be compelled to p. ovide in sume manner for iheir offspring. But you are anticipating by your questions many things, and we have not got so far advunced as that yet. As the aay was progressing to its end,.and asl did not Know Wheluer 1 Would ever have a chance of seeing the isiand again, | conciuued tue inter- view, and we mounted the usceuc of the biuif aud Claimed admission Lo tne Hyhsnouse, @ handsome | stove edifice, Which had the figures +1874” carved on its stone Iront. The lighthouse Keeper, &@ man Of ubout Afty years of age, welcomed usto his home and stowed the writer and Brother Wood- house how to lignt the lamps and the internal arrangements o! his lonely life and trade, There were some children scattered around promiscu- ously, and his housewile was employed in re- moving the débris of the famiiy’s irugal meai rom the tabie as we entered. IN THE LIGHTHOUSE. The old lighthouse keeper was saffering from some nervous complaint, and expiaiued to us that be had been a ship's steward under Commodore Foote at Fort Vonelson, and had received his ap pomtiment of ligntnouse keeper for his services, having been wounded, | believe. He said :— “1 get $000 and iuel a year as ligut keeper and I have @ pension of $18 a mouth, and between tae two l just get along, 1am setfering from my head and you must excuse me that I did not ask you in when you came first. I had just been taking ether to get my head wgnht. Lo you know Commodore Trenchard, of the Lighthouse Bourd? No! Aan, he ig a flue man, He pas-ed here yesterday in his yacht, and nailed me from the deck, This lighthouse that we are ‘1 cost $10,000, but 1 could build it for $4,000 if Lhad the work to do, New Hampshire aud some oi my people are from Vermont, There’s lows of Waites in thay direc- I tell you. Do you OTs to the Free pore ?? (uodding to myself and Brother Wood- jouse). ‘This last named gentleman, who been watching the old salt imtently some time, seemed taken @vack and said:— “f live on tue isiand and I belong to the com- munity.” . “Well,” said the old fellow, in a musing tone, “I don’t Kuow What to say avout them. Tiere was two of them up here la the lighthouse the other Gay—one was called Lyman, a big, tall man, and the other, his name was Hall, 1 knew be wasa Hall as soon agi seed him, Because you see my mother’s people were Halls, aud they all camo Jrom toe hills up our ra’ sud he had the Hall lace sre pear it, and told bim so. bo you know im) “Yes,” answered Brother Woodhouse, “I know the man that you mean, aud bis name 13 Ous C. Hall, He belongs in Pekin, Niagara county, N. Y., aud is 4 member of the community not yet or- ganized.” “Well, he’s @ terrible smart mau, and so js Mr. Lymau. They Were both up here prospecting around the isiand, and they thougnt it was not worth any such price as $20,000. Lyman, he thought that the land wasn’t wort more tuan about $s wn acre, and Mr. Hali he bud @ talk about it too, and they didn’t think that 1t Was @ goou investment, 43 lots of laud on (he isiand nothing but sand, And there 18 Orrin Snipman that would not sell ga acre und @ hal: to the United States for over @ year aud 4 hal, aud teu we got $500 Jor the vit ot rock, and we can't even raise u head 0: cab- | | Toav Brotaer CHARLES (In a Uifling or ght comeay | PA? oH tt Thats a fine light we have on this | house. it shows flity times the size o1 the lens on the iake.’” Descending the hill we made our way Irom the blu down inio the valley, aud ssirting & natural bay ou the west side of te isiand, we soon fuund our way to tue Silpman homestead, which is at present the headquarters of the free love com- Mjunity. Brother Woodhouse hud iuformed me that Mrs. White Was not at a.l airaid of newspaper men, aod i could readily believe him irom wuat | nd had no | I had seen, The tour around the doubt Leen made for the purpose of giving the nigh eld of Priapus an opportunity to make her toule} THE PRIESTESS OF PRIAPUS. Once more [ passed under tue doorway of the old homestead, aud this time its venerable raiters were lit up by the fames of a modest looking lamp and tue huge stove iad a warm fire burning WiCuIN its IrOL Walls. Brother Charies was absent and Brother Woodhouse, uiter making some at- tempts to find severai Lewspapers supposed to contatn specimens of Mrs, White’s lectures and Doema, leit me and Weis out into the darkness which Bow Bung over Valcour isiand, The quaiut old room looked like a hall {a some rude baronial Castle of the time Oi Macbeth, and notning was needed to transfer me seven or eight nundred years vack but tu have had some iushes strewo ou the floor and some wassatl on the tubie at which { sat down, Buta short time Lad elapsed since I bad last seen Mrs. Waite, ana yet the change made in her appearance Was Most Wonderiul. There waa oot any trace of douzh or yeast avout her now, and alter 1 had been politely invited to take aveat oy the prophetess ana poetess | had time to louk at her—the woman wo 18 said to be eager to tuk toria Woodhull among the Fr Augusia Waite Was dressed in a dark blue cloth zouave costume, having biue leggings gathered in at her ankies, below wuicn were @ pretty pair a Jeet, She also iad wu Zouave jacket of the same blue material and this was thrown open in iront to | 82 Wavery fine bust, which was covered by a To the souta lay | | but Mrs, @ satirical Blulle on his Upper lip) —We have come | here tu mind our own business and we mean to make other peuple mind theirs, li tuey will not doit inteud to teach them how to mind their busioess; vut I will answer your question, We do bot velieve in this community tuat any ring is necessary, Dor auy ceremuny to a anion. | was Impressed with the doctrives of this community we taugiit by Mrs, Wooduull before | became ac- quainted wita Mrs. White, and it was purely a muatter Of principle and not because we loved @acu uther that we joimed tue community. HE BRINGS IN THE BIGLE. “Have you aay diviue or inspired authority for this doctrine of iree love which you pro.esa?” continued, Brocher Woopnouse (in @ dogmatic and lectur- ing mauner)—lhere is plenty ot authority in tue Bidie; out one text is enough, Christ says that “in My kKiggdom there soall neither be marrying nor giving lu marriage.” That w in the heavenly Jerusalem, “Do you, then, think that your doctrines, as they are about to ve practised on Vaicour Isiund, Whi realize tae heavenly Jerusalem tor yout’ Brother WoopMousR (voldiy und with an in. Our in @ rept way o: basque that in its tura was jastened vy @ belt and @ Luge buckle, such as are worn in the operas of “Der Freiscuutz” and “#ra Diavolo.” Mrs, Charles fat Ot sume distance of in the shade of the Jamp, and a8 sie sat there sue kept her head down wud sewed steadily at some unknown garment, the pretty litte girl Edith piaying around her muther’s knees and capering, coild-like, over the floor, And oow ior Hannaa Augusta Waite. This lady, as I saw her, was below the medium helgut, with @ close and compact body, a puir of iarge dark blue eves tui of audacity and inteliigence, » head covered Witu short, dark curly hair, such as tue iemale soriekers usually adtect; aemall pair of ears, quite aristocratic tor their simailuess @ dimpled chino and un impudent littie nose, ‘the eutire face and body she moved ground and then sat dowu hali-defantly was Juli of what the French cal chic, and the woman looked to we like @ remarkavie personage, to whom | would | rather yield than argue with on any subiect. oi came, Miss Waite,” I said, “all the way trom New York city to see you and to get some intelli- gence about the tree love movement on Van-+ cour [sland, and, as | understand tnat you are the principal iemaie member of the community | have the hupe that you will be able to give me some in- formatioa ta tne matter.” HANNAH AUGUsTA WaITR (with @ saucy toss of the head)—Well, Mr. Correspondent, let me begin by teliung you that my name is not Miss W White. I Want youto understand t! particularly. This remark rather confused me, as 1 had been told that tue la.y had never been married ina “worldly” sense, 80 I replied:— “ut, Madame, | have veen gi w you have never been married according to the Ubrist mouy of marriage?” Lieit wat T was On dangerous ground, HANNAU'S QUeER NOTIONS, HANNAB AUvGUsta Wit (with a superciiious look)—I have never veen married according to the Cnristiaa rite oi marriage, it true. | was educateu at Ouerga Volle; 2, Lint nd did not graduate, und as soou us 1 became gn aduit 1 caled myseil rs.) feeing that 1 had the rignt to do 80, Shail twenty-uve yeata be entitied to a nae Who is Jully capabie oi rveasoning and who nas ail her to understand | Jaculties? And shali the doy of eighteen, just out 0! scnool or Culleze, be called Mr., while the wo- Man iias no\hing to dignity her out the noueatity Of a Dawe Whicu lL would be ashamed tu be called by? i mean, *\iss.? “But,” said I, “thia rule of yours is against all Custom aud would tend to couluse tue word, Miss—I beg your vardou— dia, Woite,”’ HanNau AUGUSTA WHiTs (tois time smiling like & basket of coips)—Aud do jou suppose that we value customs? A woman who comes of age is a3 much entited to a vame, whether si@ may choose to marry or not, a8 any mao. [ Would not, io any seuse, Call the children by the Dame of the father or inoiner, Why vot cau the chile ‘y Jones ana Thomas Robinson vy the names o| Kdward Washingtoo, William Heury, Kute Jefferson, Julia Quincy, or by amy bame vat you might choose? Or why not cali the Children afer siroeta, rive Dail counties, ousting, laces inne ar vougamoed fe ae fatner or motuer, od theory ag well asi understand | My Dame 18 Walte, and I am from | Why, there | cups placed | not @ woman of | la tact, I | do Dot see Lue need of cailing them by toe name of | sot meee, eae a | tucet’ 1 comiesé the star Jemale eer amegie had sumewhat bewilJered me, and | waived Jor her uuswer, |. HANNAH AvGustas WiliTe (drawing herself up on her cbwir)—{ don’t think the world would trouble {tseif about the airectury makers or the census takers. Marriage 19 merely a vond of Slavery, Yuu see a richly dressed aad bralule.s Woman waa plainiy ca:ries in her jace ber assertion b.at sue owes ali ver position in te Word wud ID seciely to her busband and notning, julely BO hing, to , herseil, Sue s-ems to say, “lau Mrs. Jones, and , YOU Know the wealthy alr. Jones owns me, i an, Vherelure, Letier than org. Sini'n in every Way, jor her owner, pmiti, 18 a poor devil. Now the lucule Miss siguifes a wowan wav has never been sold, but wuo i ready for the market ol matrle moay with ailiis attendance degradatiou.”? “May Tusk you, wadam,” 1 said, “it Mr. Wood house 18 your atinity or novy” HANNAH AUGUSIA WHITE (ps time her cheek had just @ perceptible biush on ite suriace)—J huve been united to Mr, Woodhouse, and I look | upoa him as iny fusband tn ull things; but we | have never been married tu @churcu or with @ rlag or prayer book, or bivle, or by any suce ceremony of parapiernalia, I have takea him and Le Las taken me Wilbout any of these ti und tuacis the ductrine we hoid and thatis t doctrine we continue to stand vy and hold to, af It is also the belle! of tose who are not here yet ‘on Vaicour; but wherever they ure they will form this commuaity with that bene! And, Mr, Corre. sponudent, you can teil the HeRALv wil this, and also you cab ada, that we are peaceable, law-abide ing citizens, aud we ean to mind our own bus ess, and we ghail do it, too, ‘the tery littie woman had now worked hen seil up Wo a lever heat, and I spoke to Mrs, Charles aud usked her what she taoughce of tue free love system and sie spoke freely as iollows:. | “sister CHARLES (quite modestly and with downs | Cast head), Lbeweve io the iree love tacory, ant my preseoce on tials isiand 18 &@ guarantee that believe init, Sly husoand 18 vow absent, but he believes 1u tt also.” HEKALD CORKES?ONDENT—But, Madam, have yo! been married according to the Ciristian role Marriage or how? vu will pardoa me, I am st {1 Luo ot exact!y oderstand everything tbat you say, ladies, but this is all so new und strange to me, Sister CHARLES (looking up from her sewing)— | 1 am sorry to say that fave becn marred in @ Catuolic churca by @ Catuollc priest to wy hug band, aud 1 love him well enough; but yet I béee lieve in ais theory ol iree love, and 80 does he, and he aud 1 came to this isiaud to live according t¢ the ruies abu laws Of this iree love community, whica We will obey in all things. Here I noticed’ that toe mother, fool ane may have been, brougit her little girl, the veauth | tu Euith, of seven years, nearer to ner; and geemed (o speak With some sense oi same, “But,” added she, With true ieminine acervity at being questioned, “1 do think 1 Is such nonsens¢ tus thiug of iaterviewing. Tuere were some re porters in Caicago who interviewed us, and they did print such @ pack of stuil,” 1 made no attempt whatever at this stage of the procecdiugs to defend the veracity of a Chk cugo reporter or correspondent, and contented Inyself by making auotuer attempt to discover guy tarther views that Hannan Augusta White might have m her brain, HEALD CORKESYUNDENT—I want to get, if pote sible, your vieWs on tue question Of mariiaze ag it is known iu all Christian and civilized comnur nities, airs. White, A STARTLING DOCTRINE. HANNAB AvGusta Wulwa (wit ready yolnbility) — I veileve that when a wowan takes in marriage the name of ger Lusbaod she is tu all lotents and purposes Og slave, and she is mmediately branded 4s bis slave, Such wu Marriage shouid Lot exist as it 19 now known, and it 13 a curse trom hel instead of a sacrament. The wlie becomes his property and is oranded like auy cattle in tne Murket—not Wita B not iron, iis true, but wit the inuelible 10K Of castum upoa ber forehead And a8 many Wives as tu lord of a mau may have had durmg his lie so many slaves haa nt brauded With 4s name. Now, i believe tbat we Shuuld put a stop Lo tins Drauding, aud let every womun scorn to Wear any Such badge of slavery, | but let her have her own nawe singly or in unos | With him who acts as her uusvand. { know ot but one woman ia the world who has been orave enough to stem the torrent of superstition, preje udice and ignorance in tuis Matter, aua her name is Lucy Stoue, and the husvand’s gume is Henry HlackWeli, 1 beueve that every caild boro inte the world 1s aD individual human being aod ba assigned to it ap individual name. 1 would give every child a Dame of its own and start it out o the journey of life upon its own merits, label Dy ae hereditary name and encumbered by u¢ edisree, peBut, Mrs. White, can you not foresee @ Ee mendous confusion trom sucu @ syscem as yours! Would uot the world be turned inside out ta guca & chaos?” Hansa AuGusTa Wurre (now thoroughly worked up)—I caunot see tue torce of your re mark, {um sure. Do we care to know the names of the parents of Veriosthenes or Hypatia, Cusag or Cleoputra, Napoleon or Joan o: Arc, Mary Somervilie or Sir isaac Newton, Vittoria Coloana or Rienzi? No; we honor them for what they have done. ana nec for Wiat their parents have been called, Taere are so Many names alike that in speaking O! facher aud sou even we are obuged | to mention the:r reiationsbip. | _ HERALD CogkgsvoNnvene (timidly)—Am I to une | derstand, Mrs. Waite, taut you despise apd ad- | hor marriage as 16 18 DoW sulelMnized, or whas @re your exact Views In tie matter? HANNAH TALKS PLAINLY. | HaNNaH Avcusta Waite (with a noble and loity condescension that was really tine)—vo uot imer that 4 hold tae marriage relation ia signe esteem, True marriage 1s, { beiueve, the grand uitimare for Wuicu nature designed t bexes, and I think pareniuge is godlike, But ree memver coat | hold that as ioug as aman OF Wolnan doés aot iniinse on the righis Of anotuer, tuey have @ Dulural rigat to reguiate tueir sexual lives as they Cuoose, aud It is sheer mpertineuce lor anybody else to tuieriere; and, tuereore, to iimpose a title Waich is virtually a placard of theig bexXual relations is an impertinence waich shoud be resented. So far as iman 18 concerned, the World recoguizes this and reguiates its customs accordingly, and now let it do the same jor woumen. “How will you do this, may I asx??? HaNNau Avousta WHITE (iu a0 explanatory moou)—Give to every female the title of Miss until she reacnes the age 0} womavioud, wud then let her take that of Mra, ‘The chauge in ver case could be a3 naturally and aseasily made as itis now with the mate. I nave been amused to hear verdant youihs ol seventeen, withvut auy hair on their Ching, called “Air.” watle the white-neaded lady eo! aixty—who is unwarried—must, perioice, Le contented with the ttle of “Misa,’? which sn¢ bore in her childhood. ¢ “L believe that in the Middle Ages Mrs. White, the matron was called ‘dane’ aud sometiines widow lady of rank Was called ‘videine! io the ol Freocn, and trom ‘dame’ came ‘ma dame,’ wich 18 old reach, while the unmarried girl waa acyled demoisetie; wud tn KOsiand the marr: married woman was usually cailed ‘ailstr GIVE THR LADIES A UMANOR. HANNAH AUGUsTA WHITE (wita a@ historical look) —Yes, I nave read of what you speal are in the oineteeata century, aud I pele ‘ Marriage should no Jonger be & legitimate mat ter ior barter and sale, but as long as a woma: Audividusl importaace is epnanved oy marr We snail have tiem always exertions themselves to get a@ husvand, by fair means 1 possible, i out by the meanest iraud and deceit, aud of course she the her lide long se: vice in order to optain a tiviuge ust tuigk DOW much it Would Improve 4 Wowun’g individual worth to ignore ler present sexual Teiutions aud how much more independent sl would ve. {rue love ts the oniy basis of marriage and | want mun and Womin piaced on an equ Jouting In all seXual matters, and the time 4s i; coming When it will be achieved. Till that time We must Wavco and pray. “What ig tie future ior the ideal woman of Pe | free love scnool which you teacu, Mra White??? conciuded by asking. (very graciously | HANNA AUGUSTA | WHITE and benigniy)—ie free woman of the future will neither wear a collar mor @ label but, realizing that she is avsolute proprietor her own person, she will not condescend to adver- tise aud placara herself when she enters the real Marriage reiativu sucad as we will establish op Vaicour Island, nor will she assume aay new tith bat keep her own name and her tudividual tro will of body and mind im their broadest sense, The tree woman O! the future will have too much dignity, independence and delicacy to advertise ber seXual reiatious by taking the name of toe | Man who may become her partner in ile, how. ever loug or short the period may be, She will | claim ver rignt to exercise ail her functions without | asking perimission or license irom man-made laws aud, cousequenutly, will not legally or iormaily a® sume anew utie when she marries, But sue will, nevertheless, insist Upon the recognition of het womanhod add thereiore, on arriving at adult age she wil, weiter sie marries or not, claim the proper title of Womanhouu as the adult male Claims the title of manuood, G0Ob-BY TO VALCOUR, Alter some few minutes more of private conven. sation, I bade Mrs. Waite aud sister Charles a long good-vby and turned my steps toward tie lak Over Whica the stars hung in tne clear autunn: night, the whole vault of beaven being siidded with myriads Of witnesses, aud a; i toom my seat in the lithe pinuace, to take my leave, perhaps forever, of Valcour’s lonely tale, Icould not help thinking over what I bad heard, andi wondered tl the island witch | was ieaving bad, even in che French auc Indian forays, aod 10 the torch and flame of red batue, ever contained people so dangerous to the general peace ol suciety a3 those it now holds, Converts are coning In With quiet energy to the Vaicour settiement, @nd soon they Will have establisaed their altura and built their fires, and the end is not yet, AS good-natured, arty and laugning Fred Day, the farmer lad, heid tue main sheet whilel held the rudder of the boat tiat was swiltly car. rying us away irom the alficities and the eternal eniities and usmogouies of the new sect, T asked the bright young fellow: “Fred, what do you supo0 @ old Vavalier Cham. lain or Mouteaim, or any of the old heroes of the order, JoWM Stark or Bihan Alien. would say, ib they could pave Leen present to-uight im the old homes:ead on Vaiouur Isiand, and could have le tened to what we nave heard’? “By jingol” said the farmer's lad, innocently, “it would Jave made the oid jeliows jump out of cnet bouts, [ do beli ‘hy, 1 was itsteuiog most of she tine, and When she duid sno won't tm atried, but only liviag wi that lodow, 1 toougat ene W ouly prniertn gven,?