The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1875, Page 5

t NEW BOOKS. net Reviews of Romanees--A Norseman’s Pil- grimage’—“‘Aliee Lorraine’’-- “Wyneete.” pes i SPA EE Is POETRY “EXOTIC?” M you Want to offend Mr. Bjalmar Hjorth Boyesen call bim @ “foreigner.” He oalls bimself an American, and is @ naturalized citizen of the United States and one of tts most enthusiastic ad- mirers, You have onlyto read his books te find that ont. Although @ projessor at Cornell Unt- versity he isno mose than five and twenty years old, How he bas managed to become master of all the knowledge that he possesses in 11 ort time he nas lived is enough to puzzle @ philos- opher, He not only reads and speaks ten or more janguages, but he is perfectly familiar with thew Uterature, Take his Engitsh, for instance. Who | would imagine from reading nis books tm that Janguage that he bad pot learned to lisp it at iis mother’s knee? (ne would naturally expect to find the writings of so ne a schMar filled with ervaition; instead 6f that they are as simple as the itfe of which they tell Mr. Boyesen has one fleld entirely to himself, and that is the romance and tragedy of emigration—all tne peculiar changes ef iife, the cule ture and association that come not only for the pea but for the bigher classes, und the relations of those who emigrate to those Who remain behind, We dnd a great aeal of this tn his latest novel, “A Norseman’s Pilgrimage,” last publisued by Sheldon & Oo, The tale reads like an autobiography and has undoubtedly a great deal of fact mixed up with its fiction, It is the story of & young Norseman, Olaf Varberg, who, accordimg to the desire of his father, spent a year in America, His father’s request, made known in @ letter received after his death, was tn these words:—‘Iam convinced that America 1s the land of the future, and in spite of injustice, abuse and corruption, there is health and strength enough Mm this nation to lift the whole world; 1 mean to raise it to a higher view of itself, and of the des- Uny ofmankind. Therefore my iast prayer to you js that you should, as soon as you have finisned your college course, embark for New York and spend one year here, travelling about the country and making yourself acquainted witn its people and its {netitutions. * * * If at tne end of a yearyou prefer to return to Norway, you will at Jeast return a wiser man than you leit; if you de- elde to remain you wail alse find work for you to do here. 1 rely upon his guidance. Here on the broad arena of iife you are nearer to the world’s Breat heart, and bear with joy its miguty pulsa- tions, the horizon of your mind widens, the Erand possibilities of your nature develop taster and you become a larger and a stronger man,” Acting upon this sound advice Olaf came to America, thoagh against the wishes of his grand- parents tn Norway. Here he soon laid the foun- dation Of a literary career and ts in Germany on bie way to visit Ris relatives in his quaint Norse home when the story begins. In Leipsic he meets & beautitul and briliiant American girl, a pupil at she Conservatoire, in whom he becomes deeply interested. He is continually ia her soclety ana Minds ber avery delightful subject for study. Is does not take bim long, however, to fad out that Varberg, the man, ls even more interested than ‘Varberg, the anthor, im this amique creation. The course of their love dows smootaly along, with euly # few ripples to give @ sparkle to its quiet surface. He takes ner to his home in Norway, which he describes with such @ delicious appreci- ation of its old fashioned romanticism that we begin to fear that he may be won back after all to the lana of the Vikings. There is reaily uo plot to thestory. You seein the beginuing just bow 2t 18 going to end, but that does not lessen your interest one iota, “You Bavea'’s mentioned the cover,’ says the Lounger, indignantly; ‘it was designed by a young lady aud is a work of art. It isareal pleasure to dnd cover that means something in these @ays of slop work and bad taste. Just look at this Knotted limb of Norway pine with iis deli- cate needles and this scallop shell, symbulic of pilgrimage; they are beauti/ul.”’ “ALICR LORRAINE.” He must be avery captious critic who can find any fauit with Mr. R. D. Blackmore’s novels. Mardly bad we read “Lorna Doone’ ‘tor she sec- ond time than he springs ‘‘Alice Lorraine’? (Harper & Bros.) upon us. “Alice Lorraine” pos- nesses ail the picturesque beauty and old fashioned quaintness of “Lorna Doone.” Mr. Blackmore does not write like any one else. He is altogether original and thoroughly satisfying. His isa new feild, amd he works it like an appreciative hus~ bandman. When Mr. Blackmore describes a bit of country he takes the reader along with nim. You taste the strawberries and smell the fragrant bayticids. His pen is like the brush of Juies Bre- ton. You see the swaying boughs and tue shadowy lanes that make up the background of iis stories, and his pleasant maidens have all the warmth of color, lacking some of the brown, per- Daps, of the famous painter. Cam you not see this livtie picture of Mabei and Phillis in orchara?—"Tkese two went among cherry trees, wita fair knowledge what to do, and having light scarfs on their heads, brought benind their ears ana tied under the curves of their single chins, because they | koew that the spurs and sprays would spoil theic lively Sunday hats, even if they should escape the drip of acherry wounded by some fine thrush. ‘The blackbirds pop them of entirely, and so do the Starlings, but the thrushes sit and peck ac | ‘them, with the juice dripping down on their dap pled breas ia flavor in their throats which soey mean to sing about at their leisare. But now the birds that were come among them meant to have them wholesale. Phyllis being a trife taller and less deft of finger, bent the shady vranches down for Mabel to pluck the fruit, Mabel knew the | the that she must take the northern side of the tree, of course, and the boughs when the hot sun bad net beaten throngh the leaves wnd@ warmed the frait with her hand and dim the gloss, but above all things to be carefui—as of the gooso with tme golden eggs—to make no havoc of the young buds Jorming at the base of every cluster for the prom ise Of next year’s crop. “It would have taken stouter hearts than iilary Lorraine's or Gregory Lovejoy’s to have looked Unmoved upon such @ pictare,” says the Louager, Jrom behind kis morning's paper, There 18 a crispness about ali Mr. Blackmore's | stories that proves them to be the work of an en- Be has @ quiet-humor, too, aud says img things without the slightest smile upon his face, that is, without any paiaver. How sensible it was, yet hew funny {it must have sounded, when the clergyman gave ont frem nis Pulpit that the beat of the weather had not al- lowed him to write & NeW discourse that week; but as the same cause most have made them for- getful of what he bad sald inst Sunday (wnen many of them seemed inatrentive), he now pro- | posed, with the divine assistance, to read the fame sermon again to them, way to do jua- tice to Mr, Blackmore is to reproduce some of nis pictures. Heré is another particularly pretty one jefore the stars f out of she sky the piekers advance through the strawberry quarters, carrying two punnets each, yawning more than | chattering, even, whisking the gray dew away | With their Jeet, startling the iark irom mis nest in the row, groping among the crisp leaves for the fruit and often laying hold of a siug Instead.” “That {8 the time lor the true fruit lover to try the taste of astrawberry. It smould be one that reiused to ripen in tae gross & Of yesterday, but has been slowly fostering goodness, with the attestation of stare. And wow (ifit has been properly managed, properly picked without | touch of hand, and not laid down profamely), when the aan comes over the top of the hedge the look of the strawoerry will be vnis, at least ifit is of the proper sort:—The beard of the feotstalk will be stil; the sepals of the calyx moist and crisp; the neck Will show & narrow baud of varoten where tle dew coulda find no nox be deliv of the | new YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. fruit wm ve sleek and gentle, frm, however, to | can read ‘A Double Story” and not be the petr accept its fate, bt the back, that has dealt with | forit. tis wonderful how much poetry Mr. Mac- the dew, the sides, where the colorof the Donald will put in su ttle story, The truto back slopes downward upon them such a gioss of is, he is so much of a poet that everything he cold and diamond chastity, will We thatthe baman | touches bears the imprint of the gilt be possesses | hit at that much to de deplored spirit of en | looks with awe upon a pect, | Suddenly he arose and said | no little pride:— | Makes @ pleasing background to the picture of lips get out of patience with the eyes 1n no time.” | “a strawberry pastorale, 1 should cull that,” | may jounger, witb enthusiasm. “It is worthy of being set to music, Allegro, the pickers ad- vance; andante, groping among the crisp leaves for the fruit; scherzo, the sun coming over whe top of the hedge; /inale, strawberry festival and merry-making generally to the music of tue reeds, | ending with a grand march as the pickers return home, A composer should jump at the thought.” A SHEAP OF PAPERS. Roberts Bros. have collected the various arti- cles written by Mr. T. G. Appieton for the late Old and New over the initiais ‘*/. G, A.” and puv- lished them in a book form under the title, “A Sheaf of Papers.” Mr. Appieton ts @ brilliant man and clever writer, ana is credited with being the father of that oft quoted remark, “Good Amert- caps when they die goto Paris,”” Mr, Appleton fortunately did not watt until after death betore visiting that captivating city, He spent a great deal of time in the gay capital, seeing everything that was to be seen and bearing al) that was to be heard, and we find tne result of bis coagopoll- tam tastes in the book beiore as, “A Leal mo Journal,” aated Francs, 1834, gives a charming pieture of French provincia) lite forty years ago. | Another, written in the spring of 1848, give in excetlemt id of revolutionary France—the France that “revolved on tts bayonets.” “A Cruise of the Alice’ takes. us into Eng- land, and “Nearly a Bandit” to italy, Then there are American sketches show- ing that Mr. Appleton 1s not so much of a traveller that be cannot sec the romantic and@ beautiinl under bisown vine and fig tree. | “The Iconoclast of Sensitiiity’? contains a happy | i terprise which covers our ro¢ks and hillsides With flaming posters advertising ‘Jones’ pa- tent pills,” or ‘old Shepp’s second hand stomach vitters,”” it is almostimpossible to keep up a sentimental or romantic mood in wandering througi the White Mountains or sailing ap tne Hindson. ‘The plastered sides of the palisades i are enongh to make the most patriotic disgusied With bis couatry men, Mr. Appieton writes ike ® man who gets a great Ceal of innocent enjoyment out of hie, even at its most common place. An old chateau isnot simply an oid chateau with him, It is arehc of the past, and he repeoples it with its early mhabditants and weaves @ wend of mystery around it thar tempts the reader to penetrate its gloom aud do his sight-seeing with another’ eyes untll he can do tt with hisown. ‘This sad of papers nas been well gicaned and will make Many an hour pass pleasantly along to its forta- Nate possessor. EXOrGs. Im this littie volume of Exotics,’ ges out by James R. Osgood & Vo., we find some charming translations from foreign poets by Rev. James Freeman Clarke and his daughter, Miss Lilian Clarke. The accomplished clergyman, im a rather lengthy preface, sets forth some o! the diMenities Ol the translator, whieh, however, he seems to have overcome with singular ease, There are verses by fioethe, Geibel. Hugo, Birger, Heine, | Ritckert, Schiller, and many whose author’s names are notso well known. Here is a bit of Heine which has képt atl of ms spirit; it is called “Icn Hab’ im Traum geweimv’—in free Pnglisn, “The Bitter Waking :” I slept, dear love; and in my dream was weeping. Tawoke. My heart beat hard with crue) tears; For L had dreamed thou in the grave wert sleeping, And so my cheek was wet with foolisi tears. 1 dreamed another dream that cruel morn— O bixter te: unavailing sorrow! For new I thought thy love was dead and gone, ‘And night waich falls on love can know a0 morrow, Idreamed once more. Wish love of other You loved me. An! how sweet that love And then woke, and (aster flowed my (ea My bitter ceare—because It was a dreai Our friend, the Lounger, listened attentively as we read the foregoing. He adores poetry, and we knew exactly what train of thougns was running im his mind, He tries kard to make rnymes and He keeps 4 velumi- nous scrap boek into which he pastes or coptes choice selections, and he quotes frecly therefrom. He always bas an appropriate verse for every oc- casion, and we know by the eager way he listened to these lines that he will have them in his book before it, Ours is sentimental lounger—the verses that he has marked in this little book show that. A peculiarity of his is that he never reads & pretty thought, prectily expressed, but that he rages internaliy to think that ne did not create and express it himseli, This verse, from Ruckert’s “Greeting from Far Away,’ he is particularly jeal- of:— When I send thee a red, red rese— ‘The sweetest flower on earth that grows! ‘think, dear h how I love thee; to what the sweet rose saith, nd her fragrant breath ; | Love, { am thine in nd death! ‘ 0, my love, dost thou love me t “Winter Sumshine,’’ Is another that he ha: marked, and “A Reminiscence” and ‘Lost Sun- shine,” each one breathing of love; yet the Lounger is the vertess bachelor 1m all our acquaintance. While we turned page by page and glanced over the many gems with which the book abounds the Lounger was intently scriobliug tn his note book. ‘See what your po- etry has Jed me tuto,” and he read these lines with ears id seem! \ = I send thee a sprig of mignonette, To wear in thy gold-brown hair, iny pet Place it there with thy cool, white hands— Aide it among those fragrant banas: ‘Then think on the one who loves thee. Whose ieart is thine more day by day, | ‘Though many crue! miles away— Oh, heart of my heart, wilt thon love me? We smiled gracioasiy, and the Lounger saun- tered out of the room muttering something about & lady whese favorite fewer was miguonette, What @ sentimental fellow ? “wrncorg.” “Wyncote,”’ by Mrs. T, Erakine, is the latest ada- dition to Holt’s “Leisure Hour” series. There ts nothing new or strange in “Wyncote,” yet it is an uncommonly pretty story, The first scene ts laid ig Rome, then tt shifts to England, where tae | action is continued until the ond, The characters represented are few, but they all take am active | part. The principals, however, are Pawbe Heron, the usual virsvous ladies’ companton, who wing the love of the neir of Wyncote; Miss Gamilia Wyn- cote, the ‘Lady Bounttiul’”’ of the village, a wo- m. who meant well amd did well, according to Mer lights, bas ber lights were dim; Piers Wyn- cote, areformed rake and “geod fellow;” Lydia Ashton, the veneered daughter of avuigar million- | aire, and Rose and Johanna Cooper. Miss Camilla | Sries tomahe 4 Match between George Wyacote | and Lydia Ashton because Lydia bas momey and George Bas bul @ rapidly decaying estate. But the young man is not tractable, He falls in love with bis gtandmother® pretty companion and scorms tne millionaitess. To the surprise of every one, except the reader, ola Tiérs steps up, marries the rich Lydia amd saves Wyncote. Mra, Erskine evidently has @ poor idea of Ruskin ana his dis. ciples aud the modern taste for decorative art ‘She his some iight blows at the pre-Raphaelites Over the suoulder of Lydia Ashton, bus they are very harmiess. AS we sat, there is no new vein worked in this Story, We like it becauge {tts nicely written and pure intone. The characters are pot particularly stroug—aniess perhaps we except Miss Camilla—but they are just the sort of people ove fs constantly meetin, nd for that reason they are interesting, The old manor house Bnglish home life and sets off tne story amazingly. “a DOUBLE sTORY." George MacDonald is never more delightfal than in Wie fairy stories. They are, perhaps, a litile be- yond the depth of & very young child, but they are very attractive to grown folks, In ‘Double Story,” which Dodd & Me; ve gotten out ia neat and comventent style, there is all the charm Of his “‘raulisties; ot quite so much imagination, bui all of its atiractiveness. The “Double Story” 1s of two little girls, ome the daughter of a king and the other the ughter of @ peasant, Both are spoiled children and consequently very disa- greeabie, They are takeh mm band by a “wise woman,’ WhO, though good and kind, is terrible When angm, She brings the haughty gitis to their bearings by showing them their faaits fn the strongest Might, and not only that, but show- ing them how to overcome them py very simple means, No ohild. Ror man or women eitner, | to such a degree, His pen is like a fairy’s wand; | it but touches paper, when lo! up spring @ taou- wand fanciful creations that are new even to the world of imagination; and bis writings abound ip | beautiful imagery and subtile thought, THE HAYDEN SURVEY. PROGRESS OF ‘ree EXPEDITION—DEL NORTE— SCIENCE AND SHELLS, San JUAN Crry, June 22, 1875. ‘The town of Del Norte lies near the south bank of the Rio Grand Del Norte. Its population is esti- mated at 2,500, but @ large percentage of this is merely transient, leaving when warm weatner Sets In and the passes are opened for the San Juan mining districts, A considerable portion of the inhabitants of Del Norte are Mexicans, Waose villas (lf we may use the expression) 4f@ built all around the suburbs. These qhodes consist of one story log cabins, plastered externally with adobe clay, in front of which is the inseparable dome- shaped little oven, resembling a miniature Esqui- maux bat, for all their baking Is done in the open air, Sometimes there are several cabing adjoin- ing, looking iike one long dwelling from the back, where there are no openings, but they are separated internally inio small Square apartments, with @ window ana door in front opening out on a continuous portico, Rough as these structures are they suggest the idea of comiort, which !s only dispellea by a sight of the swarms of ragged vrown-faced urchins and idle men and women who lounge around the premises. A hittle incident occurred to us im connection with one of these Mexican men which may be worthy of note, and the story might be written in novel | form under the title, “the Adventures of a War Bag; or, the Honest Greaser.” Mr. Jackson and I having gone on ahead of the train to see to our mail in Del Norte, waited at the Post office for the boys to come up, When they arrived we discov- ered that one of the war bags tad been dropped along te way, and as ts contained all the ward- Tobe and personal effects of one of the party we sent back Bob, One of the packers, 1o make inquiries on the road, About an hour after ® Mexican rode up the principal street at a rapid gait with # rot of biankets strapped behind him on the saddie [ noticed that the bundle was almost too bulky for @ Mexiean’s blankets alone, and being in arather Vicious state i ran out and stopped him, We must have been the very party ke had been searching ‘or, judging trom the startled look with which he greeted my familiarity. Taking the liberty of a brief acquaintance, 1 peeped tn at one end of the blankets and discovered what hada strong likeness to the butt ena of a war bag. Not being conversant with the Spanish language, and my companton being equally innocent of all Eng- lish, our conversation was concise and to the point. I peinted to the bag, then to myseif and then down the road, throwing in such interjections and gruntsas I thought might emphasize the tdea, This might be trans!ated, “That bag was dropped by me down the read.” The fellow pat on an in- Jured look of surprise, but seeing that he was cornered, repaired with me to the curbstone to mogotiate with me forthe piander. In the mean- time Mr. Jackson had come ont to asstst, and he seemed to be the most astonished man in the group. The Greaser untied the blankets, delivered over the bag meekly (which I noticed looked rather flabby) and snen proceeded to disencumber bhim- self, First he pulled a clean handkerchief out of one pocket and returned it, then he took @ look- ing glass from another, ® brandy dask froma third, a towel and soap froma fourth, and soon through the whole catalogne of pockets. His gar- ments seeméd to have been constructed solely of old pockets. Feeling kindly towara the old man after these harrowing performances, we offered him a drink from the flask and a dollar asa re- ward for his painstaking honesty. But, alas fer human greatness, the flask was empty; however, be aceepted the money, as a natural consequence, counted over the quarters deliverately, looked at us as tf ke appreciated our liberality, but, mevertheless, thought honesty & cueap drug in the market where we came trom, and then, wishing to ‘Save us prove our property so as to Sc sure of no mistakes, mattered the word carretia (which means in the vermacular “cart”), accompanied by signs illustrative of aropping, and seemed satisfied when we told him it had dropped from our wagon and that we had been hunting for it, No doubt he had lingered behind afterhe saw itdrop, to giveus a. greater surprise when he | should return it after we had given it ap for | lows. Wishing us “adios” he rode slowly away, a ler but @ wiser man. The Del Norteand Animas wagon road, which rons ap the Rio Grande, was construeted and is owned by a company. About fifteen miles above the south fork of the river is @ toll house, and in order to compare the rates of toll in this country with the penny tolls of our eastern Macadamized roads, the notice conspicuously ex. hibited at this place is given below :— eonevocconensrreterese-cecnrestre-receseesee te RATES OF TOLL. 3 Oni nh of horses, mi or yoke of oxi $2 03 Fac! ‘of horses ot mules addition: PN 2 Each yoke of oxen additional... 258 3ach horgo, mule or Jack, led or driven’... By Each ven wn Each saddle animal, 5%. ; POLE NIOM EE LELELEDELONTE TEDL LE LOLOL DLL LED) ‘This 18 a good, well-worn road, and three strong bridges are thrown across the stream where It crosses at different points. Proceeding up the river a few mules, high bluffs of volcante rock rise perpendicularly on either eide for more than 4 | thousand feet, on the grassy roiling summit of which massive walls of natural architecture rise still higher, iike the moss-grown ruins of oid Gothic castles with crumbling parapets and weather-worn doors and archways. Having joined Mr. Holmes’ party again for.a couple of days, the two divisions of the survey camped together amid this magnificent scenery, The great metropolis known as San Juan City ts located im Antelope Park, on @ small stream called Ciear Greek (the second of this name in the Territory). The city consists of two houses, a store and two stables; mevertbeless there is a post office uere and considerable tramMc passes | vals way. antelope Park {8 @ small valley of only three or four miles tm extent, at the foot of a branch of the Sanu Juan Mountains, deriving its name from the animals which were fermeriy so numerous here. At present there are very few, or none, in the | immediate park, but im the surrounding countr: they are frequently seem roaming in small band: Aa wo entered the valley we passed a lew of them, but they were very sby, having been hunted by tae settlers, To the morth of this val- ley is one of the moss Fetharkable canyons in this section, or, Indeed, In amy part of the country we have yet passed through. The rocks are perfectly perpendicular and almost level on the tops for wiles, standing, by actual measurement, a little over 3,000 feet anove the anderlytug trail. At the bottom of this chawm nesties @ lake, a mile and # half tm length, on the banks of which, receding (or twenty or tnirty feet from the water, are busnels of a large species of planorbis, Tne entire margin Of the lake is pave: it were, by these bicack- tng shells, which lle m a foot below the surtace. Upon investigation it found that no living mollusks Of this species exist in the lake, all hav- ing been killed by some poisonous properties con- tained in the ater, aud as they died te decomposing shells were washed ashore. From an oogervation of facts we can gain some idea of | the way in whicn the large beds of fossil sholls, | which abound to such large extent through this western country, have been formed by tne slow workings of nature in countless ages. Th of some extensive inland sea have been thrown together im this manner and been collected on the bottom im vaas layers, and long after the waters have beew dried up the amimal life bas dis geares wi ver the shelis or their impressions sar’, im a in deposits af rock whien have been formfng since the beginning of the worid. From San Juam City the Photographic division will immediacely start on a wwe w eke? r | SOCIETY AT LONG BRANCH. $16 Kighth avenue yesterday. NEW YORK CITY. The police made 1,993 arrests during the week. OMcer Smith shot and killed mad dog at No | the resideuce of tne oride’s paren's, 5 | ease. | dock, the husband of the better known The Cottagers--How They Live and Comport Themselves. LIFE AT THE HOTELS. The Theatrical, Political and Rail- toad Colonies. Lone Brancu, July 3, 1875. ‘Th Ronson here has now tally opened, and tne wast jew: warm ai have brought visitors in crowds, Every day now sees @ filling up of the cottages and hotels from the East End to the sec- ond pole, which 1a some two and a halt miles be- yond the “West End.” These are the present Mmits of the Branch, but I think the new railroad Will give an impetus to that portion o/ the Branch on the westerm side beyond the President’s cot- tage. THE PRESIDENTS LIFE, His Excellency leads a very quiet and retired MWe here, but thoroughly enjoys himself in his peculiar manner. He goes about In a free, demo- cratic sort ot fashion, and nobody bothers him by over-attention or impertinent notice, He is per- mitted to enjoy the domestic hearts rug as much as be pleases, You may see him occasionally lounging down the beach, with a siouch hat and a cigar, paying attention to no- body and nobody paying attention to him. This walking by the sea, which sometimes comes up and laves his feet, and riding are the Presi- dent’s lavorite oecupations. Daily one may see him on Ocean avenue, More spruce and trimmed up, 4 either driving & one-horse buggy, which he loves to speed In, or else slowly moving along in ull the magnificence of a four-in-band drag, whicu he drives with perfect nonchalance and He is generally alone, thougn Mr. Childs, of Philadelphia, who becn his guest for some time, occasionally accompanies himin his walks, and aiso at times Mr, Algernon Sartorts, his son- in-law, This young man has made himself un- affectedly pleasant at the Branch, and ina circle his presence ts much prized. He likes Long Branch, and will probably remain here fer some weeks longer. His wile, formerly Miss Nelile, is now confined to the house and has not been ont for some weeks. She ts looking previler than ever and enjoys herself in a quiet way at the President’s cottage in company with her lady driends, many o& whom ve cottages near by, while others board at the West End, which is mot far off, The President's cottage is prettier tnan ever this year, and bas been fixed up with vines and flowers on trellis work. No additions have been made of any consequence; but the place Is now one of the nicest here and Js greatly prized by its owner, whom Jerseymen are fond of velieving is their salvation. Every second man you meet will tell you that bus for the President the Branch would not Se whatitis. This is a mistake, how- ever, for I don’t believe the bulk of our visitors give any thought to the President and whether he is near them or not. He lives so quietly and refrains so strictly from leading any social mani- festations that 16 really makes very little differ- ence where he ls. It may be that the mere fact of the President being here gives the place a prestige and an amount of advertising tt would mot otherwise have. But this is ali, LONG BRANCH SOCIETY. The cottage people are no les’ numerous than they bave been in years past. The society of the place ts varied, but thoroughty enjoyable. Mr. ‘Themas Marphy keeps the cottage he has lived in for years. Mrs. de Rivas, the daughter of the ex- Collector, and her husband will be at the Branch for a month or so durimg the season. The Hoeys are at their beautiful villa, “Hollywood,” where urs. Hoey has been confined to tae nouse on late. They generally adjourn to the West End Hotei on summer evenings to be present at the nightly hops. The family is very popular at the brancti. The Boyts, the Nackins, Howells, Coits and Bis- pl 10 jong these accounted members Of the frat society. THE THEATRICAL COLONY, One of the features of Long Branch is the pres- ence ef 0 many members Of the theatrical prot sion within its preciacts. the This was even more fact when the gilaed Fisk and his merry band possession of the place. have @ inemt but even now we large delegation of some of the more prom- members ol the profession, Edwin Booth up his cottage, amd McVicker, his , Went with mim. His brother Joseph, Who was never am actor, but was identified witn speculation, still ives by the beach, in a pleasant little cottage n United states Hove. J. W. Wall the cottage jeit ber by b je does not mingle much with the outside world and ¢ al. be found at home. Mr. and Mrs. Chanfrau i one of the pleasantest residences in the place, on the Deal Turnpike. All the actors seem to have chosen quarters near to the Methodist S camping grounds, Next door to these the cosey liitie nook owned by Edwin Adams, one of the most beautiful residences Branch. ‘tne favorite actor tives here with hie le for three months of the year. Still beyond we have the cottage of M Mitchell.” Close by is the cottage of anouie actor—J. W. Albaugh, the husband of Mrs. Pad- dock’s sister, Mary Mitchell, Another actor, Oliver Doud Byron, has a cottage at Monmoath, two stations irom the Branch and a pleasant ri¢ on tue new road. Mr. Theodore Moss, the treas- urer of Wallack’s Theatre, has his beautiful cot- tage on Ocean avenue, where he and his chanming family live for three months of tue year. He de- his in me turnouts and home comfor Bis daughters are often seen driving on Ocean to and trom the depot, Mr. Lester Wallack his cottage Near by, but he Bas gone to live inland at Stamford, Co Ulive Logan, the former ac- tress and present iecturess, spends the summer atthe Branch with her husband, Mr. Fox, the manager ofa theatre in Philadelphia, also tives here through t! jashionabie seasou. THE POLITICAL COLONY. Many mem prominent tu politics ‘make their home at Long Branch during the warm season, or at least pass there @ por of bmeir time. An op- portunity for frequent visits to the President is one of the reasons of the! resenes, but outsive of this the Bi pleasant Ripoe to forges all the troubles and trials of the Kaleidoscopic ive of politics, Governor Tliden has pald the place a flying visit and intends coming bi Senator Jones, of N Ving intimated on poke an intention of stopping for a w: northern watering place. Secretary Belknap has already been here and Vice President Wilson passed | Sunday here. Many men of lesser note have already arrived or are booked at the hotels. THR RAIWROAD COLONY. ‘The ratiroad mep are always herein force, as are also the 8\ock brokers, Scott, of the Penn- sylvanta line, will remain for @ moth or so, MONMOUTH PARK has been added ‘o in many respects during the ng, and now cannot be surpassed as a race ‘The horses and their jockeys are all down s Et | i | hese | | TO THE Eprvor or vax He: tra here, and tf ome may judge by their appearance and numbers the meeting of the oth wiil ve a good one. Mr, Th Marphy ts the President of t ear, and has given much of w jon to it, Special facilities ars going to be otfered by the ratiroad companies. It is confidently anticipated by those interested in the park that 15,000 people wil! visit the park on Monday, and there will be need of ail the ac- commodations that can be offered. Tue most NOVEL FRATUR of life at the Branon this cottay and tf is the namber of which have bee as bourding houses, possibly detracts mucn irom the attend- the hotels. These cottages are, im the tn, already full, The gen price for board ts $15 or $25 for wo, Dut in m: further reduced, and net a few shere are who would otherwise board at boteis who find this an accommodation ta these duys of pecuniary barraseme: to almost ali of us, more or lens, ‘The boarding house keepers who ha enough to do this will no doubt Gnd profit init, aa they are having plenty of applications for the ‘ooms they have to spare. AMUSEAE A smail theatre, the Comique, variety compan by @ fishing is spiendid avout na a tew since at Seabright they were Diue fs trom the beach as fast as thoy could draw out their line: Tke peovle consider i+ a great boon bere to ges is open with a the RALD Some tWO hour's earlier every mora- | ing vi any other paper, and (he enterprive | duly praised, A MILITIAMAN'S QUESTION. LD Pace the Aldermen have agreed to give $350,000 for an armory for the Seventh regiment, What are they going to do about paying the rent of the armory of the Twenty-second regiment, which the Comptroiler wont pay + Nor would the Governor sign the bill providing ior tts settiementon the 7 jcemery along the ground thas tne romt of some armories was ex- | COMBIVa, JUSTICR. mores, himself 30 well that he | evada, | a Lege he of the seasom and | no} je at the great | y Cases bhis 18 still | e been smart | The Buard of le received from tic granted during the week the sum of $3, Another mad aog was killed yesverday morning in front of No, 12) Chambers street, by Oficer va lana. The vital statistics for the past week are: Deaths, 617; birtus, 486; stil pir riages, 157. nsce BROOKLYN. ‘Sale ae Daring we past week the police arrested 642 persons. month amounted to $180,412 74, Colector Burrows reports that the amount re- ceived for taxes last week was $18,726. Yesterday the Commissioners of Police and bx- else revoked the license of George Zipp, liquor deuler, of No, 468 Fuiton street. Justice Prait, of the Supreme Court, bas directed @ decree of absolute divorce to be entered for the plalntim in the <utr of Philip Rneimheimer against Emma Rhetoheimer. ‘The Board of Fire Commissioners yesterday ap- poluied Mr. James Naughton Superintendent of Boildings to mil the vacancy caused by the re- moval of Mark Paraver, Detective Biggart yesterday tendered his resig- nation to the Police Commissioners and it was ac- cepted, Mr. Biggart was formerly connected with the United States Secret Service. Burg.ars entered the drug store of Elista Theal, corner of Sands and Bridge streets, eariy yester- day morning, but were discovered and /rightened QWay belore they secured any plunder. The Fire Marshal's report shows that there were twenty-five fires in the city during the month of June, entailing a loss of $19,137. The amount of Insurance Oa the burned property was $73,150. Messrs, Thiel, Sterger and Cermy, members of the Stxteenth Ward Scbutzen Association, sailed yesterday for Germany inthe steamer Oder. They ag to participate in @ rifle contest at Stutt- ar # Dr. Segur, Sanitary Superintendent, sent his resignation to the Board of Health yesterday and it was accepted. Mr. E. L, Langford will fuifll tts Guties of the office until jecessor to Dr. Segcy 1s appotnted, Yesterday afternoon William Smith, aged A{teax) years, shot himself im the hand while playing wit® @ pistol, at the residence of his parents, at tr corner of Marcy avenue and Hooper sircey. Tw bones o/ his nand were badly shattered, William Miller, aged sixteen years, was accl- dentally strack in the meck last evening by a piste! bullet, fired by Charles Hughes, aged fifteen years, at the residence of the former, No. 373 Broadway. Toe wound indieted is only @ sligut one. The semi-annual report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Funé, completed yesterday, shows that on the 3ist of December, 1874, the fund amounted to $3,040,309 46. Since then the re- pate have been $821,608 92 and the payments OMcer McGann was before the Police Commis- sioners yesterday en the charge of brutally club- | Avenue Railroad. His defence was thac Purvis resisted him when arrested for disorderly conduct, ‘The Commissioners r ed their decision. George H. Watson, the canal boat captain, who two weeks ago shot his wile Lucinda, at her resi- dence No, 31 Tompkins avenue, waived examina tion before Justice Eames yesterday, and was heid to await the action of the Grand Jury. Mrs. Wat- son bas entirely recovered from her wounds and appeared im Court to testify against her buspand, ONG ISLAND, * People along the line of the proposed extension of the Southern Ratiroad between Patchogue and Moriches are holding meetings to influence the company tn fixing the route. The comtractors on the Grand street improve- ment Nave reached Newtown Village, the Queena county terminus of the new road, ana in two weeks will have completed the grad: Rockaway travel is now very heavy. Last Sun- | day twenty-two carloads went there via the Island road, beside six steamboat loads, tn all from 10,000 to 12,000 peopie, STATEN ISLAND. Pitt wth to wage a bitter war against the liquor sellers, The Canal street brook at Stapleton, which nas been @ nuisance for seyeral years, will be sewered &t a cost Of Irom $12,000 te $15, 0.0. The Right Rev. Bishep Potter wili administer the rite of confirmation at the Churen of the Ascension, West Brighton, at the morning service to-day. will be closed about the middle of the present onth, and will mot be reopened until about the i8t of September. im tne case of Adrian Post against the Trustees of Edgewater, Judge Gilhert nh: granted an | order, returnable on the 6th inst., for the Trustees to show cause woy Mr. Tyvan shoula not de de- clared @ Trastee tn place of Mr. Brown, tHE YACHT OOTAVIA. SHE Is DECLARED NOT A BRITISH VRSSEI. Yesterday aiternoon a rumor was circulated in this ctty that the celebrated and alleged British yaont Octavia, now lying of Fiftn street, Ho- bokem, and ef which Mr. Bainbridge, of Man- chester, England, is the owner, had been repu- diated by the British Consul as @ nondescript. A H&RALp reporter forthwith was sent to the office of the British Consul for information tn the mat- ter, and from Mr. Plerrepont Edwards, the Vive Consul, received the following statement :— We have come to the conclusion that the Octa via is not @ Britis vessel. The following ate the clauses taken jrom the British Merchant Shipping act of 1854 applying to the question: — ON ALTBRATION, BKEGISTRY ANEW MAY BE RE- QUIRED. So. 85.—When the registrar, to whom application Is made in respect of any such’ alteration as aforesuid ie the registrar of the port of regisiry, he may. i! he wach ship to be fore directed, on the first registry of a is not such registrar as lastiy herein before ment: he may, nevertheless, requite such ship to be regis anew, buthe shall, in such last mentioned case, 2 itlcate, or make & provisional if made in manner herein ‘eno regisiry anew ts deo. a taking care to add to such certificate or indorsement | statement that the saine is made provisionally, and vo trar of the ‘port of n | or registry of alteration of any ship | said, such ship shall be deemed nog aay shall no longer be recoguized as a Britis! HISTORY OF THE RAPT. The Octavia was built tn 1864, at Cleveland, Oluo, as # sailing yaont, and in the following your was changed to @ steam yacht by ner laty er, Mr. I. W. Kemnard, of this city, at cue Erie machine shops tn Jersey City. It ts reported In Spanien circles that she is now golug to fy the Hondu: flag. ———_+. + , MARRIAGES AND | DE ATHS, The receipts for water rates during tbe past | bing Rovert Purvis, a conductor ou the Atlantic | Southern road and eight carloads via the Long The chureh people of Westfeld nave determined | ' The Chareh of the Redeemer, at New Brighton, thinks fit instead of registering such alteration, require , registered anew in manner herein be ip, ana if he { t Bediow, vy the Rev. Dean Rodman. Gro. Seriey THomPson, of Brooklyn, to Mskia LPUERKSE, ‘oungest daugntes of the lave Wm. a. Beecuer, of | Brookiyn. WALDRON --GrAss.—~On Wednesas June 9, av by cne Rey. | John Pegg, Jr, JouN MeNRY WaLpRox, of New York, to ANN GLass. of Brovkiyn, the only daugdter o: Joun Glass, Esq. No cards, DIED. | Somes. Jair 2, GeoxgE, son of Alfred and | Marg Sandier, aced $ years and 4 months. ,fauered Wilk take place from (he residence of | DS geocmts, No. 26 Willow place, Brookiyn, on we — }, dey 4, Ot two P. M. i eManw.—On Friday, July 2, Bere C.. infanc | Clue of Je: id Anna Betjemaan, aged 23 days. Busted in the Lutheran Oemete: BLacknvnn.—at Yonkers, om Uhursday, Joly 1, | Mrs. JOSsPHINE G, #L4CKBURN, daughter of Samuel | B. Garvin, of tuts city, ‘The friends of the iamily are imvited to the funeral, from her tather’s residence, West Thirty-sixth street, on Sumday afterneon, July 4, at balf-past twelve o'clock. RAMBLE.—Om Friday, July 2, CHARLOTTE BRaM- BLB, Aged 72 years. The reiatives aod friends of the family are re- spectfully invited to attend the ‘uneral, from her late residence, No. 52 Carmime sireet, this (Sun- day) afternoon, at two o’ciock. BRownine.—Oo Thursaay, July 1, G. BROWNING, in the 34th year of nis age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfuily invited to artend tne ruveral, at his late renidente, 1,921 Third avenue, on Suuday, July atip. M Mysric Tix LopG®, No. 272, F. and A. M.—Breri- REN—You are summoned to attend @ spectal com- munication, to be held at lodge room, Sunday, July 4, at wweive o’clock M. sbarp, and attend the funeral of our late wortoy brother, George Brown- ing. by order JAMES K. AVERILL, Master. f L. A. CHRISTIANSON, Secretary. BURKHALTER.—OD inst., after a lingering 1) ness, KUPHEMIA, widow of tue late Stephen Burk- halter. Relatives and friends are invited to atrend her foneral, trom her late resiaence, No. 230 West Pourth sereet, this (Sunday) aiternoon, at two o'clock. BuRNS.—Onm Thursday, July 1, PRANK, beloved son of John and Mary Burns, in the 22d year of bis age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are ine vited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his Dretker-in-law, Riohard Hennessy, 345 Base Thirty-sixth street, on Sunday, July 4, as oaf- past one o'clock. CaRgY.—In Brooklyn, James CABRY, a native of tne parish of Clonoulty, county Tipperary, lreiand, on July 3, im the 47h year ol his ag Hs friends aud those of his brothers are invited ‘at two o'clock, William Carey, to vary Cemetery. 8 yy 1, Of diphtheria, Jos ‘sand 2 months, and MARY AGNES, rs and 4 moncns, ouly children of J, B. . Cole. al from the residence of their parents, 268 aegotou street, Broekiyn, ou Sunday, Jog 4, at CY Siero Pa Suly 8, 1875, CORNELIA Comsrocg, egea 40 Notice of funeral herealter. DasraGu.—On July 8, Marta L. DARRAGH, 0? Bright’s disease of the Kiameys, aged 25 years and 8 montvus. ‘Tne relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend her tuneral, from the house of Mrs. W)i!- jam Oldring, No. 267 North Secend street, Will- iamsburg, this day, at two P.M. De Witt.—At Middlevewr, N. Y., July 2, 1875, Hagvey De Wirt, aged 30 years. Wapdig.— On June 80, JAMES Kadir, aged 57 years, | after a severe illness of four months, @ native oF | Pollack Shaws, Scotiand, was buried in Green: | wood om the 29 of Juty. FLaNnaGan.—Oa July 2, 1875, of consumption, | WINIFRED FLANAGAN, @ Dative of Sligo, Ireland, | aged 21 years, ‘Tne relatives and friends of the family are re- | spectiully mvited to attend the funeral, to-day (Sunday), from the residence of her brother, 267 Spring atreet, at one o'clock. FLANAG Oo Saturday, July 3, Mary F., daugater of the late Wm. B. Flanagan and Adeline Smith. Notice of funeral hereafter. Fox.—Suddeuly, on Friday, July 2, Professor Orro Fox, aged 46 years. Fonoral services wili be held at St. John’s Metho- dist Kpiscopal church, Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, on Sunday, at nall-past three o'clock P. M. | Frazrgn.—On Saturday, July 3, NELLIE FRAZIER, | aged 19. | *sruneral services will take place at the residence | of Mrs. James Foster, Rossville, 8. L, on 81 | Inly 4, at four P. M ireenwood on Mi iv be in attendance on the arrival of the nine 4. M. boat from Staten Island. Mr. JOUN GOULD, Rusband of Margaret esidence, 403 East Fifteenth dora in Drum Chulloc and, attend 58 to attend the funeral, on Monda: from the residence of his brothe! uw ! | |, at half Sunday, 4th of July. | Harca.—On F July 2, MARY ANN HaTcu, | widow of Jonn Hatch. aged $1 years, | bas gone to that peaceful rest, | med im Christ. | | spectiully | past two o' at two P. M., from the residence ef her daugnter, Mrs, 3, B. Russell o€ Madison stree Hewimit.—At East Rock: , way, L. L, on Satur July 3, Josern HEWL2 i day, , formerly of this ci: ‘the ‘Sist year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends are invited to attend | the funeral, irom his late r Tnesdas, | July 6, at twelve o'clock M. church, | Rockaway, at two o’clo rriages will be in | Walting at Hewiett’s ie Reck way Branch ot | the Southero Ratiroad of Long Isis to mecst | 10:45 tramfrom South Eignth st rooklyn. Kary.—On Sature the Sd inst., JAMES KIN, aged 67 years, & native ef the coumty Tyrone, ir land. His remains will be taken from his late resi dence, 316 Kast Twenty-first street, cn Tuesday morning, the 6th imst, at if past ten o'clock A. M., to the Churen of the Imm late Concep- tion, Fourteenth street and avenue A, where | solemn high mass of requiem will be offered | fe pose of his soul, after which bis remains en to vary Cemetery for laterment, ‘chock precisely. | _ Kinmen.—At his late residence, 531 Kast Twenty- | fifth street, on Friday, Jaly 2, after aiong and | Pphy: illness, DAVID KILMBR, Jr., in the 81st year of his a Relat! and friends are respectially invited to | attend his funeral, on the 4th tnst.. at one o'clock. AN.—Of diphtheria, Kars, youngest and iy ‘thomas and Marguret Lenehau, | aged 4 years and 8 moni 8. ‘Tue friends of the family are invited to attend the june! idence, 1,051 Sixtn ave- iy 4. July 3, FRANK THROCKMORTON and ANN Sve of LILLY FRaNCES MILLER, twins, of cnolera in- | tantum, aged 6 montas, only remaining children | of Henry G. ana Josephine Miller. | . Punert two P. M., Monday, July 5, from 451 | Flatba: Venue, Brooklyn. MITCHELL.—On Yuarsday, July 1, bey | Mrroa@eLt, im tne 80ch year of her age, | Bailinasioe, county Gaiway, Ireland, Dearest mother, a has left us, And tny loss We @eeply feel, Bus ‘tix God who has bereft us, He can ail our sorrows heal. The relailyes and friends of the family are re- spectiully invited to attend the funeral, irom her iate residence, No. 10 West street, on Sunday, July 4, at twelve o'clock. McGaniry.—On Friday, 2d tnst., Jonn McGarity, father o1 Robert eGarity, in bis 87tn year, t Lodge, No, 194, are [raternally of sister lodges, to atrend ate residence, No. 214 Rast fy b-day (Sunday), July 4, at | Getma,—On Joly 8 after along illness, Joun | Cavea, aged 60 years and 10 Months, Reis tives aaa iriehds are respectiully inviied to Gottend his funeral, from the residence of his son- ny , 4. d Murrey, 96 Dapont street, Greenpoint, | Broosiyn, B.D. . | we eeRPYE.—Micwae O'KERPPR. a nat ot Boughbee, conmty Cork, Ireiand, aged 43 y His taner: ‘take place, on Sunday, 4th Jniy, from bis late residence, Hunter's street, Lomg jsiand vity, PrcK.—AV Brodkiyh, 6m oe July 3, Mar. evra, wile of Kdgar Ff. Peck, M.D. and i Rev. Joan F, Jackson, of Har- int, Fut | lum, New York, aged 00 years. | Relatives and friends are invited to attend her funerai, Without further votice, on Tuesday, the obh inst, from her late residence, No, 385 state street, Brooklyn, at three o'clock P. M. Rapett.—On Friday, July 2, CHARLES RURLOCK, only chiid of Charies P, and Susie A. Rabdell. interred at Evergreen. ———~-——— Rocuk.—At Hoboken, N.J., om Friday, July 2, MARRIED. JOHN Roche, & Native of Lyons, France, aged ot | R | years. BULLARBD—COLBURN.—On July 1, by Rev. Dr. Relatives and ‘riends of the family are respect- | Seever, WiNLARD BULLARD to Sana UoLnUns, only daumhter of Adclaiae F, and the late Zerat Colburn, all of NeW York city. ee eee dnesday, at the Ghurch of the Holy Trinity tue Rev. Dr. Krotel, W. A. Einnavs, of Broek: to Loviss, | daugMter of,G, A. Tewes, » OF bhis city. | _ LAMB—BoYLe.—On Wednesday, June 30, 1875, by Rev. Father Taaffe, at residence of the bride's parents, Jaks H. Lamp to Mary, eldest daugater | of Led Boyle, Esq., all of Brooklyn. No car |. Me ARLAND—Mix.—In this city, on Thuraday, | July 1, by the Rev, Dr. Draper, GEORGE S. McFan- LAND to JBNNIB A. M: | . McKenna—@. | by the Rev, Fi | Maroarsr T., all of Brooklyn. NASH—SUTTON.—Ow Tuesday, June 20, at the 13 West 125tn Mr. Cuanies & jaughter day. Jane 24, 1875, JOHN MCKENNA to Ld | Nasiy'Jr., to AMANDA B., #econd | of Andrew P. Sutton, fea, all of B | ‘KNS—Honn.—On Wednesday, | Tesidence of the bride’s father, by t) ved. We Selleck, Miss MaMIn THURSTON, daughter of [fenry | bes Horn, Esq., to Mr. J, EDWIN OWENS, all of tuis | city. SMITH—WILSON.—By the Rev. William MoAlhs- ter, Pavs 0, SMITH to KiTTIR &., youngest daugh | ter o/ Clark O, Wilson, all of this city. No cards Sonst—SPRout,—On Thursday, July 1, 1875, by the + Dr. A. HM, Ueid, OMARLES Sonst to MINNIB LOUISE, elaest daughter of Frederick | Speons, ail of tuts city, No cards. | of MOMPSON—BRECHER,—At Piainfleld. N. J, on | Thursday, Juty Lat te residence of Mra dna June 23, 1875, "| | flly Invited to attend tae residence, No. 334 Garden s' at half-past two P.M. Roscoe. —Ow Savurday, Jaly 3, Jauzs W. Roscor, | aged 20 years anu 6 months. | The roiatives and friends of the family are re- sp ectfaily tuvited to attead the iumeral, irom his | late resideuce, No. 546 Hudson stree!, om Tuesday, the Gtiminss,, at nali-past one o'clock. Sea tT. —-On Toursday, July 1, of infammation of the bowels, CHARLES R. ScaRLerr. Relatives ana intends are respectfaliy invited to attend the iuneral, (rom nls iate residence, No. 416 West Forty-2itm street, om Sunday, July 4, av ball. past one o'ciock P.M. | _ SMITH.—At Freeport, I. I, Jaly 1, EMELINE A, eral, from nis late eb, this (Sunday), » | SEABURY, We Of Sidney Smita. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to | atrena the faseral, trom the residence o her | orotner, B. H. Seabory, 114 Eliott place, Brookiya, ! on Sunday, July 4 at two lf. M, | Surew.--On Saturday morning, Jniy 5, Ormerta, wite @f Georze B. Smitu and daughier of tue late Munson Clarke, * the relatives and friends of the family, also | Members of Keystone Lodge, No. 285, F. aud A. M., | ere respectfully invited to artend the fuuerai, on Tuesday, July 6, at tour o'clock, from the Univer. | geste me Xx corper of Downing and Bleecker e Waisa.—Ue Friday, July 2, Mrs. ELLEN Watsi, | Saat the funoral, (rom ner late residence, No, go ¢ TOIRBins wil De taken to the Marvle « ry, So0end stree\, for inverment. one, year of her age. on ves and friends are respectialiy Invited £0 attend MOMFOS SSfec\, this (Sunday) AfermooR, a tre | oook.