The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1875, Page 4

4 FLOODS IN EUROPE Sad Scenes in the Desolated Districts of the Republic. Toulouse in Its Ruined Quar- ter--Danger of a Plague. THIRTY VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY. ‘What MacMahon Witnessed—The Work for Relief. Forty-four Dead Bodies Found in One Houss. The European mail of the 8th of July, at band yesterday, supplies the following adaitional detalis NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1875.—TRIPLE SHERT. au epicures, There will, I fear, be no barsac this year, (or the vines Dave sudered terribly. THR DANGRE OF AN EPIDEMIC MORE VISIBLE Serious apprehensions coat to be an epidemic, Te imtense heat of tue sua seting the m: ered déoris, which are made oly letia by the heavy raia storm abowers thal tall morning and evening, bas developed such a stench that at St. vyprien large fires have bad to be lightee; and the proposai (o make @ huge bon- fire of the ruins nas been mv oted, At Conesus (where Ove people have been drowned) the ruads are covered with the decaying carcsses of oattie, as batives take bo trvuole to clean thy quences to the public health must 18 the col be serious, TOULOUSE CITY IN ITS DESOLATION—SCENES AMID THE RUINS OF THB 67. CYPRIEN QUARTER. (Folx correspondence of London Times.) At hall-past ten we ‘eft Toulouse tn carriages and passed through St. Cyprien, wyere the work Of clearing away the fallen houses is proceeding slowly but surely, More so:diers have arrived, and Wagons and ambulances are to be seen evary- where tringtng provisions, taking the wounded to she bospitals and Dearing away the dead bodies. The village of Verdun, which President Siac Mahon visited this morning, 18 provably the most terribie proof of the force and the rapidity of the recent inundation @n tne Pyrenees, The destruc- tion of Veraun was caused by ine melting of the snow by sudden beat, Three houses alone are Stand\mg; the rest of the village is a coniusea of the consequences which have ensued in France | bewp of mud and ruins, aad other parts of the European Continent from river foods, Ball storms ana the inundations consequent om there visitations. The reports from the desoiated districts of France are heart: rending in the extreme, MacMauon witnessed ter- Under (his ue over 100 human beings and more thaa 500 kine and vi ber auimais. 4 TERRIBLE STSNOM. ‘The odor ts overpow:ring; auc, by the Marahal’s orders, soldiers have been seus ior from Lyons to eXcavate the place. STILL aT WORK, The Marshal Fresident, wio had left at five o’ciock, revurped to FoiX a@t @i: ven O’ciOOK, und rible scenes at the St. Cyprien quarrer of Toulouse | left at twelve sor Lavasuae, where be will aistri- and amid the ruins of Verdun, There appears to be some appretiension thata wide-spread sickness, even a plague, willveengendered when the warm sun begins to affect the putre/ying magses of bu- manity and of auimai carcasses which lie buried in the ruins at diferent points, the cuarity which has been displayed for the reliet of the suffering Survivors is of the most noble order, not confined to Class, country or creed. WHAT MACMAHON SAW AT AUTERIVE. [Toulouse correspondence of London Times.) Yesterday morning, at bali-past six, the Mar- shal left Foix for Uarcassonne and Narbonne, which latter town Was at the last moment substi tuted ior Ceite. & RIVER FLOWING ON A TOWN DURING TWO DAYS. ‘We went by railway es fir as Auterive, ‘where the work of the day began, Au- mterive 1s situated on the Ariége, some tweaty ea m Toulouse, a hi suffered as erribly Your readers may bes when | say toa or iw following its na:ural course, low any piace in the judge of the destractio Gays (he river, instead of the throug of ihe towa. Toe siceets are mare uu lines of stones and gravel. One of tae caure had three Walis stai.diag, and two-thirds of te houses are iy ruius or uninbabitabie, The main bridge has not been carried away, though smalier one, over au arm of the Ari¢ge, is de- stroyed. Stanaing iu tue middie of tae river are the piers of @ Lriaye destroyed vy Simon de Mont- fort im 1213, Toese remains save been uninjured by the inundation—a strung testimony ty tue ma- of tue past. MEROISM REWARDED. Outside the staicu @ plvasing ceremony was riormed, the Marshal decorating a poor water ir, bad saved tweaty persons, with tne Cross of the Legion of Honor. Tass brave fellow on receiving bis weli deserved reward, devouwy crossed bimself and then kissed his aec 102. ‘The Marénal then decorated .wo gendarmes with tary Hai; Que Of mh Was 80 oarried away by nis fee! as, unmindiul of all etiquette, to snout “Vive le Marechal!” a cry whica was Te- peated witn cntausissm by the crowd around. Alter giving ® handsome donation to the Mayor for the sufferers toe Marsal returned to tue | teal, im wuica we retraced our steps to Uintega- elie, —E AT CINTEGABELLE. Here the damages are iriilng, though M. de Ferioie, the iarges: proprietor, Bas nad losses Bmounting to 160,000 1rancs. Aiter staying but a | short time in tnis pretty istic iown we mouated | the carriages ready to (/ansport us over the nis | to Villefraucue, At Nallioux hal: an Rourts halt was Called .or junch, Suortiy aver leaving Nat- loux we passed THE CHATEAU OF THE LATE MARQUIS D’HAUTPOUL, jantiy iost Wis ile ia trying to save Touiouse, dhe Marshal stopped here for aioe moments Ww pay a Visit of condolence to the AT VILLEFRANCHE, ® very quaint littie place, a special train was waiting by transport tue party to NARBONNE, which was reached at tai-past ome. Here, of course, clerical, civil and tary guteorities were gathered togetuer wt tae station, with syeecues and aadresses. Alter receiving them the diarshail drove to tue Catnedral and Pre- fecture. It is DO secret thal some douots and fears bad vewn express the head of the Stute would be received radica! town, bul they were quickly dispel tne hearty cheers given by tue pevpie, inde: the reception at Narbonne ) berbaps, warmer than at any otver piace. From Narbonne the President of the Repebdiic weat to COURSAN, where the town has been very seriousiy damaged by riging of tue Aude, Afier a urief imspec- tion be left ior c where he arriged st # quarter to five o'clock, In the midst of fleavy rau. Wheiner the latter damped the afdor of the populace, or whetner it was uue |0 the influence 0: Liioyen Marcou, Whose headquariers are at vai cassoune, certain 1b 18 that the Marshal's reception Was cold in the extieme. One solitary Yuice crea “Vive le Maréchal!” though, to be sure, tue fown Councillors on the | Plaifurm had shouted theuwselves huarse with “Vive la République!” just detore, and tuis to tue eviden:imputieuce of the President, who, escorted by the sixteenin dragoous, drove at ouce to the Prefecture. He alterward visited the Vuuren of St. Michel, and Went round this curious oid Lown, perhaps the oldest in France. AMID THE KUINS OF THE ST. CYPRIEN QUARTIER. I Lave vais alieruoun revisited tue Quartier pt. Oyprien, wu is crowded With peopie inspecting Soe ruins. The ohore one sees Of Lois cevasiate quarter tae more dors ume marvel at the exicat | aud jorce of the food, Yesterday a briuge of | Coats Was fnisved, uutting tue quarter of Bazacie to St. Cyprien. ‘Tnis bridge 18 the work of @ cow- pany of eugineers speciatiy seat irom Avignon. Lt Will temporarily rep.ace the bridge of St. Pierre. BOVIES ARE STILL BEING FOUND asthe Work Of excavatiun and demolition pro- ceeds. iv one house were crowued torsy-four Corpses, the pour victims having imagined tuat | Shis building Was particwiarly soud and secure, | i am oMiciaily tnterm thas the pumber of Geatus ts about v00, 80 1 is known at present, GBBMAN SYMPATHY WITH THK STRICKEN FRENCH. | (from the Dresden News, Juiy 6.] | Public suoscrivtions are being opened, not only im France, but aiso in Engiand, Belgium and Switzerland, to assist the uaiortunat from the inundati which have de: , southwest of Fron Tue moment perbape now. come for us tv vole out @ iricadly hang to te nquisoed, and to mark in our turn our sym- | ‘oles towarc those distresset populations. Tne beart-of the German navion sees in every un- fortunate & brother, and is Mever Closed to ihe Boble instincts of humaaity. A BORNE OF RULN PROM TOULOUSE TO THR GATES OF BORDEAUX. (Bordeaux corresponacuce of London Standara.) Very seldom have i seen ruin more compieie, or amore thorougu scene of devastauon than 1s pre- nted by the iOug ine Of country from Toulouse to tbe very gates uf Bordeaux, it would be aim- cult, deed impossidie, (0 16m an LMBLE OL | i | | | aiter @ mere fying survey. In mMamy vil- lages nut only have houses been either gatied or knoe! own Ly the stream, but every- thing in sna of clotues, surnitar Wagons, agricutural implements, horse: and cattle have been swept away, Tne na which in many insiances was cul, thouga Dot yet stacked, May ve sevv in Gense Wisps on the trees some twenty feet tin. Some of ie trees nate Graliy bave been leveled wita (ne ground, but ali of them bave been sewed and jorced duwn in one at | bute rewards and assistance, he will probably go to Carcassonue and Ceite, AAP SDE HAS SUPPRBED FRARFULLY, MarsMal Mac danon visited Labustide ibis after- noou. He returmed at quarcer-past eignt to-night. Labastide hew suflered seariuily. TORRENTS OF RAIN—A KalLWAY SUBMERGED. (From Galignani’s meF8euxer, Paris, Juiy 3) We receive the jollowing telegram Irom Capde- mac (Lot), dated twenty minutes past sevea on ‘ruursday evenivg, July 1:— “Kain has vee falling pere in torrents, The rallway is submerged, aud the trains make ther way (nrouga the Water with great diMculty. A small stream bas Overfowed tts banks. the Garonne is very higo, and the inhabitants are in dread Oj another inundation.” 4 BOUGH ESTIMATS OF Tuk LOSS OF LIFR AND PROPERTY. [Parts correspondence o: London Tim Itis stated tois evening that the information furnisped to the goverament estimates tue loss of ie af 3,000, and the aamage to property at 300,400,000 francs. In the Arrond: ment of Mois- sac aione 567 houses have been aestroyed and twenty lives lost. THE SITUATION AT BORDEAUX AND ITS NEIGHBOR- HOOD. [Bordeaux correspondence of London Standard.) ‘Yhe Marshal President yesteraay visited the localities in this departmeut woick have suffered from the rise in thé Garonne—nameiy, La Réole, Langen aud Barsac. imere was ouly une person drowned, but the damage is very severe. ‘ine authorities Weut to mect kim from Bordeaux, anda svodly number of peopie travelled duwn to wee the Chief of tne State. The Boraeiats are moustrative, and the Marshal must Dave beea tuned at the warmth oO: his recepuon. He them reiurned to that dreariest of towns, Agen, Whence he le t this morning tor the Ariéze. SIXTY THOUSAND PROPLE OUT OF EMPLOYMENT. A rough estimate sets down the numver of peopie woo Will hu to be provided jor during toe BeXt few Months at 60,000, oae-bali of whom belong to Tvulvuse and its immediate vicivity. BOARDING SCHOOL YOUNG LADIES THIATY-SIX HOURS ON THE ROOF OF A OUNVENT [Paris correspondence of London Telegraph.) A botraing school for young ladies, tae Gunvent of Notre Dame de Nevers, was threatened cy deatn irom ‘amine. giris fr. For tuirty-six hours the poor emained om the rools, hemmed in by tue aud uot baving ® morsel of bread im the threatened toeir house, and fora jong time they culied tu Vain jor hetp; the current Was too strong; no boat couia reach t At last @ teritnie cracking sound Was beard, ana the house opened jotwo, M, vbecournean a pis whe were on their hnees awaiting deato. At tne sucreme momeat (hey threw (Gemseives into each o her's arms, aud thelr vedies were fouud ciusped io- getuer. THX FLOOD INVADERS THE COURT HOUSE AT AGEN— THE JUDGE AND OTHER OFFICIALS BATTLING FOB THEIR LIVES—PKISONERS LST TO THEIR FATE. {Paris correspoudenee of Lonaon Teiegrayo.] Jt appears Cuat w: the waters came duwa suudeuly on Agen the Assize Court was sittin Gallantiy did judge a. against rain and food, As to tie wretched cri inals, nO credit is Gue to theia, (or we are ex- pressi, told tuey were aliowea no cnotce, At taree P, M., however, the Court jound itsel: ku deep in ‘water, and tue bravest vegan twat Koma heroism had never been tesvet In this way. History, L suppose, might be searched in vain to doa guytaing like it. Toere is Hoerauus Cocies, who nad svine allel, So jadges and lawsers and witnesses 01 0ko Up the sitting, Under Jorce ure. With proies- Sional reseatment against the prisoners tney Packed them ail iu & room to Lake thetr ial endeavored to save toemseives. But ni On to’clock did am ungratetul populace exert lawyers, Wh), meanwhile, iy. A lar, boat then drew near and embarked the lot. Ali their avteis, sitauted in the lower town, nad lung since beeu nd tae Bar of AgeD went cruising vens Of Old, to fad saelier. ‘ihe. ssful Qaaliy, muca to the disgust, a suppose, of those evil persons Wao Lad no ark. WHAT IS TO BFE SEEN AT THE LOCATION OF ONCE HAPPY BHAMLEIS—TRIRTY VILLAGES SWEPT away. [Paris correspondence of London Post.) the Souta of Frauce, the Parisimn jourvais hye | thereiore, to nope that tue Same spirit or charity | tne, ; The total amount alr | Company | Générates, 20,00: | Duke de Gail | 6,000f, | are also neing iy direction by the impeiuosity of tue current, and | in some instances Kota the roa , ano, What it seems alm it @ mockery to descrine as the “per. »? of \ue lide irom Toulouse to Ko stroved in parts, 4s tuougu a mine or Telegraphic commuanicatioa paving been re- estaylissed In Many O1 the imundated districts of morning continue the parrative of furcuer 1048 O} Villages im ruins aud crops \destroyed. Tue mre we leara the more wide-8pread are tne disasters which this overflowing of the rivers und streams Of the South discover. The ree por.ers have started trom louiouse and paxsed through vamiets litte Known beyvnd their respec- tive districts. BUBSCKIPTIONS FOR THE AID OF THE SUFFERERS IN FRANCE. [From Galiguanv’s Messenger.) The Journal Oyte-el pudlisnes i's sixth list of Subscriptions lor the Suiferers by the inundations. ay collected ts 66,5261. —The Soutvera Kallway ompagnie d’ Assurances the Juckey Clud, 12,000/.; the M. Veil ara (ol B gacn vig tue Baroness Salomon ld, 8 [Paris (July 2) correspon: lence of London Tim Muse. Macwanon’s warded (o the Zemps reach 84 0001, ‘rhe Onion of tuis evening aunoances that the Comte de Chamoord bas “nastenca” to suascribe General Garioaldt has directed his iriends to open a sudseription at Rom ¢ Mulan M. Wallon, the Minister of Eda Pp, Ras addressed @ circular to scriptivns, The ultramontane organs resent tw circular as quite #upereroga@tory as regaras tue episcopate. MME, MACMAHION’S LETTER TO LONDON. (From the Londoa Post, Jaly z.| The Comuitwe of the Universal Alliance has received AN the following letter trom Mum % Mahon :— , eremyet ee RESIDBNCE De La Repvsirat ist recu Vewpressement que vo Jager des infortuaes sans procedtents jusqu @lie receyra avec reconnsissauce tous les ions 61 Ou en Gature que Vous Youdres bien iui [aire p Agriez, messieurs. expression de ines seutimente’ J on, Lofheier d’ordonnauce de M. le Marechal, UOMIE SACQU Ks Dec GANA A Messicurs les Membres de “ihe Universal Alian ail, Londres. SH BNGLISH MOVEMENT FOR THR RELIxP OF THE MOURNING FRENCH. (from the Lonaun Times.) evening the subscrip tious at the Man- Up to les | sion Hous? amounted to about £1,500—ine Lord tor! Bad been fred werums it. THE FIELDS, and especially the coru ficids, look as if they had Deen pressed down vy & givaatie roller, and von corm and vines are covered with a (mick iayer of mud, varied DOW od then by being powdered with gritty sa! As to the wheat, the crop is lost; the vines, except in eneh cases us tuey bave been toro up, beiug yet Jar irom maturity, may recover; pienty of faim Would clean tuem aud ‘Wash away the mud belore the torrid heat of mia- Of which we have had @ specimen jor tue days. FROM AGEN TO BORDEAUX. The damage dune between Agen aud Bordeaux ib i thitoer atreccy it yes deemed tt AO that @ jong rigueux and cvach, and occasivnally on foot, tue ‘ay DOiDg Consolidated ONIy a8 far as am Whence he Jreve w La Kéole, authorities, god being Sewanee by the or ere we however, pieu cries ypub. oceoded by train ww Langou and Bareac, whose name is lavuyrapiy knowa to Mayor giving 00 guineas; the Corpuracion uf Lon- do ‘ourts & Oo., £400; Messrs, Sp Mr. Alderman ana Alderman Finais, £10 10+, ay Riddell, £10, and vaptain A. jung Will be received by Walter and La low Sianey, £10. the Lora aiayor at the Mansion House irom day to | ay. Mayor of Birmingham has calied a public meetbg in aia of the sufferers by the Freacu io- undations for Mouday next. THE THRATRES. A morning per ormance ia ai by the Inaadavion will be given on thursday next #l the Lyceum Theatre, the use of woich has been Kindly granted tor tue purposs by Mrs, Bavema ‘Tee first piece on the programme is “L/Aut Moti,” with Mine. Delaporte and M. and Mme. Bilbaut in the priucipal characters, Lne second of the sufferers that way joliows tuo of "La Fille de Madame Angov” follows, M. the Dordogne, whica | Vapoul being the Ange Pitou, Mile. Pausine Lag.ni % Of peacelul prosperity. ‘Lo | the viairette, and Mine. Kuphael the Lauge, 1a & trict the Marsial had to travel | concert Mme. Nilsson Will sing the “: rand alr of the Byou de Faust,” and Swedish songs, and will be followed by Mir. Sautiey, Moi. Gillandi and Cas telmary and Mine treveil: have aiso prommea to sing. A piece in Verse, by M. de Burnier, onutied “varia! Toulouse |" is the next attraciion, and Mme, Dully-Bubaut #od Mme. Damain take part riormance © pcludes with "Les Odannach. M, Jolly as trouble with the Tiver, but the cases are not par- | lnundation Fund now | | amounts to 006,000/., Walle the suvscriptuous for- , | details of the first collection made vy the mem- Patachon and M, Gapoul as GiraMer. The box Ofice of tne theatre ig wp om ven Will O THE STORM AT BUDA-PESTH. VERY CALAMITOUS CONSEQUENCES AT THE SCENE OF THE VISITATION. The consequences of the inundation caused by the great hail storm at Buda-Pesth on the 26.n June are scarcely less cylamttous than tuose of the catastrophe at Toulouse. Estim: of the number of victims and of the amount of the dam- age vary consideraoly, but 112 boales nave aircady been found, and more than 100 houses were el\ner destroyed by the storm Or have had to be aban- doned because they menace ruin, THE RESCUR. The rescue of the inhabitants was effect the military eugineers and tne trem CondUCE was beyond all praise. THE WATER SUBSLDINO. On the 28m the waters had subsided, but the cellars were § tt flooded, and uniorcunateiy tue The Minister Tisza is she inundated by whose a have been open A TEBRISLE HURRICANE—WIND, RAIN AND HAIL COMMINGLED IN FURY. vennma correspondence of Lenaon Standard.) in the course of Last Week BuMeroUs distric's uf the Gmpire were visited by hurricanes, inunda- tens, and hal storms; bat the t dreadinl dis- asier occurred in th and Olen on Saturday eveung. Toe woole of Saturday a buroing heat prevaited in ths capital of Hi ‘J. Nota cloud Was vistolé to (he wuole horizon. But at seven o’c.ock im the evening the sky became overcast, and @ moderate wind rose, This was toliowed first by @ heavy fall of rain, and thea of hail, which soon attained sach dimeusions that all we pancs Of glass eXpesea 10 the force ol the storm were shaitered tu pieces. The Rulistones increased in tial they Were an inch and @ hall joug and ao fuca thick, Io their iall they beatdown uli the Vineyards and maize feiua, aua stripped tie trees Of their leaves. lt was hoped, ween the sun sho. jor # Moment, trat the storm nad been oaly @ passing one, Dut ac elynt o'clock it broke out @lvesh, aud then tue Ca ustrophe really began. DWELLINGS SWEPT INTO THE DANUBE. The hurricane raged till midnight; the fm such streams that 1% carried away eutire houses into tue penate, PEN. Ofen forms a valley, surrounded im a semicircle by hills from 700 to 1,000 feet uign—namely, tie Biocasverg, Adiers, Scuwaben, Jovancis, Linden aud Gawoerz. Through this vailey passes tne mountain vorrent caled “Teufel’s-Graven” (the | Devil's Diten), which, rumning paraliel with t Dauabe, uitamately iaiis into it, Loto this fow ail the rivwets irom the above-named mountains, For some time they have bee! work on the Tegulation of this Téufel’s-Grao ut only @ part Ol the dite! uch ig most ode e in summer, had been covered in, And now it was swollen b; the tempest taro & mighty river, which drag With it, Irom the Ofen Vineyard, mass and stones that weighed even (hirty centuers, THE SWOLLEN WATEUS CONCENTRATED. This compact mass at length, about eleven P. M., closed that part of the caoal whicod Oud been roo‘ed in. ‘loe rapidly advancing flood, whicn came (rom the beigat of 1,000 lees, made & way for i:gelt into the valley iu every possivie direc- tion, and rushed down with such force that tt ung tae houses, waicn were situated in tue Ofen Don.uzeue, a street at the mouth of the Teulei’s- Graben, ike balis into ine air, THR PROPLE IN FLIGHT. Happily the occupauts of tuose buildings had alreauy Vacated their dwelings, aya part of the ditch which was walled up at that spot had jallen io, Yeteven then the oufortuuate peopie could only be rescued by the flemem. All cue tenanis touk refuge im the upper floors of the front tract, Wuich, happily, remained uninjured, but for tie moment they bad no way of escape. The firemen were, therefore, obliged to carry them down singly on the iaaders waicn they bad nastily procured. But it was stil wors With Lhe occupauts 01 other houses; they Were Crusned by the iuliing wails or carried away into the Danube by the torrents. TEE WILDLY RUSHING RIVER presented horrivle scenes; young girls, hung with jewels, clinging convuisiveiy to each otmer in death; mothers Witu their culldren at the breavt borne down the stream by the rapid current. Many bouses io the Raitzen Feareee) towa, uch stvod oa the deciivity of we Biockaverg | flung into the vaileys. A large brickktio | whe lightuing siuuck was burned to the SOUTHERN RAILWAY, the ratiway on the Scuwabenberg, and the tram. Way were much damaged; many carriages were dashed from the summit of the Schwabenberg MLO the Danube, THE MOSPITAL of the Pesth garrison feil in, all the cellars wero | filied with water, aud many streets were covered | rites uprooted trees, stones, Wagons and drowned | cattle. THE VINEYARDS which surround Olen are tutaily destroyed. As 1 informed yuu vy telegrayh 500 persons are miss- ing, ana ‘the loss of at least 120 ives bas been ascertained, AN OFFICIAL’S ACCOUNT OF A MOST TERRIBLE DISASTER—WHOLE FAMILIES SWEPT AWAY. To Tug EpiTos oF THB LONDON TIMES :— Sim—A sad disaster caused @ great 1o3s of lifa nd property in Buda on the eveuing of the 26tn ult. How great that joss ts it has as yet been im- | possible accurately to estimate, The inundation | occurred in a quarter of the towa most y occupied | by the werking classes, and exact returns of the inbabitanis who resided there arc not to be nad. Beyond the numbers of bodies ound among tue | ruins, there are probably greater numbers which | Wil never be recovered, Many corpses have been Teported to bave been seen floating down the Davobe miles below Buda-Pesth, and, as wnole jamilies buve disappeared, the chances of obtain- ing trustworthy revuros of tue missing are greatly g@imiuisned. A ior the survivors in that quarter of the town, | many of tsem are, 1 tear, utieriy ruimed by the | | castastrophe. Subscriptions are being made fur | their reiiel, which have been readily responaed | to; the financial condition of Hungary aua the recent Vase increase of taxation are go novc- Tivus taat it will be easily understood by your | readers toat we cannot expect to coilect such | large sams as would ve subseribed on similar oc cusions in other European capitais, 1 venture, | whic has prompted my couutrymen iv come to the assistance of the sufferers’ by the inunda ‘ious in Frauce will inauce thuse who can afford it to give tueir mite in aid of the ruined victime of the Bud@ catastrophe. It will not be the trst ume that Englisomen will thus show their sym. | patny for Hungariaos; and it may not, perhaps | be out of place for me to remind my coantrymen that mo Continental nation can vie wi Maeyars in the Warmth und sincerity of their trieudiiness to England and of tuetr admiration of English social and political institations. No | more striking proof of the (rath oi what | allege | couid have been given than tvat aiforded oy their | entuusiastic weicome to ihe Prince of Wales on the occasion of His Royal Higuuess’ visit to Buda- Pesth in 1373. Ji this appeal should meet with any response I Wii gladly receive aud (ransmit subscriptions to the fund, Your ovedient servant D MONSON. BUMU) BRITISH CONSULATE GENERAL, BUDA-Pastu, July 2, 176, | 4D FOR THE FRENCH SUFFERERS. RELIZY FLOM FRENCH RESIDENTS. To rue Epiror oF THE HERALD —~ 1 have the honor to hand you here enclosed the bere of the Société Meridionale. Please publish it and also please state that the crayon portrait offered by Mariu Gambier is not to ve exclusively raMed for between the members of the Société Meridionale, but between ail those who shall secure @ Chance; price of chance, $1. Aiso sate that M. Garand, our iriend and President, t weil known designer of the Lowell (Mass.) Uarpet Factory, a pup: aud a graduate of the School a Arts and Metiers, is getting dy & iancy subject | Ol birds and flowers, to be railed aiso ior the beneiit of tne victims of the food in France, FELIX KUQU K, Secretary of the Société Meridionate, New Yous, July 16, 1875, THE COLLECTIONS, ‘Yhe following contributions have been collected | by the Société Meridionaie :— List of Marin G: - sevee SU "ow 800 | 15 09 | List of &Uenue Guiraad. 103 26 } Total .. as a BRUTALITY TO ANIMALS. | During the past week some stocking cases or! crueity to animals have been detected by the officers of tue society over whici Mr. Bergh pre- sides, | William Stiles was arrested in the act of | | plucking alive chicken; Bruno Yarke was cap. tured while claboiag & cow over the head and | eyes until blood ran from its nostrils; Patrice | Kirk, (or beating bis hore io @ similar manner; | David Grey, for working @ horse sudering trom fatcy and dreadful sores on bis ims; Frederik | Repeoker, for ¢riving @ horse suffering trom sores | uncer the collar; John Pizgerald, James Pocian | @nd Michael MeArdel, for driving vlsabied horses. | TWenty-KeVen LOrAes Were ordered out of hate | | ness and ent to tueir stables, beiny unfit for wurk, An old horse bevore an express wagon W Jound by the Superimtendent compieiey @ | hausted on Broadway. Upon inquiry wi tie se | It wad foand that the poor animel had not beea ww (eed VOX aud HOt reversing Ib to lis emolaver, THE “TOURTH” EN LONDON. American Celebration of Independence Day in England. Patriotism, Pluck and Good Feeling Around the Banquet Table. Religious Consolation Effacing the Scars of War. Lonpon, July 6, 1875. ‘Tbe Fourth falling on Sunday the Americans in London were compeiled to celebrate Independence Day suis time on the tollowing Monday, IN THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The place chosen forthe séle was the Crystal Palace, which Was gayly decorated with American ava Boglisn fags, In the Marbie Hall American and English emblems were combined in every pos- sible way, and attne endoftne hall two hands were united, with the motto bencath, *Hagland and Awerica.” Among the distinguished persons Present may be named His Excellency General Schenck, the United States Minister, who pre- sided, and amongthe company were Mr. U. 5. Grant, soa of President Grant; Colonel Moifman, Colonel Cheseborough, the Bon. K, P. Carpenter, Sir Frederick Perkias, M.P., and Lady rerkins; Mr. H, Bichards, M. P.; Mr. M’Cullagh Torrens, M. P.; Mr. Livingstone, son of Dr. Livingstone; Mr. N, Barnaby, Chief Constructor of the Navy; Coionel McUvok, General Bradford, Mr, Woodhouse Stevens, of Brussels; tue Hon, H, M. Watts, the Hon, W. Thomson, Mr. Hugh McCulloch, Mr. McDougall, United states Minister at Dundee; the Hon. Freeman H, Morse, late American Vonsul Generai in London; Colonel J. W. Forney, the United States Centennial Commissioner in Eu- rope; Miss Schenck, Miss Balfe, Colonel Muter and olwers “too numerous to Mention.” THE SPEECHES. When the company, says the Times, had taken their places at the tabie, and woula % ac- coraing to Eaglish custem, awaiting the grace to the banquet, the Hon, B. P. Carpenter, taking bis position om the rigMt of the cuairman, thus ad- dressed the guests:—I have the huuor, as the Presideat‘of the Vommittee, to cajl this assembiy to order, I feet I only echo the voice of Mother Engiaud when I say, Welcome, American grand- caildren, to the old English homestead! (Chcers.) Let us pring gailands of peace to the altar of lib- erty, “malice to no one and caarity to all,” show- ing we appreciate a free government, and show- lug, too, our veneration Jor the wisdoim of our agncestors, who have given us 80 goodly a heritage, (Cheers.) This day aud this occasion, if obser in @ spirit of unity aud peace, may serve to strengthen the ties of iriendsuip between two nations whose power united must lead the civil- igat.on oi (ke World. Agaia | bid you weicome at this feast of jiber\y and peace, aud 1 trast that you wii all be the happ.er jor beg here on this oce.siou, I have now the great p.easure of pre- senting to you a8 ine Chairman of the diy our Minisier, “His Excelleucy General Scuenck, (Caoeers.) MINISTER SCHENCK’S SPEECH. The Chairman, who rose amid ioud cheers, countrymen, aud iriends in Kogiand, 1 snail not detain you one moment by attenlptung an ex proes- biou Of my thanks for the hovor you do me, through your committee, by having asked me to preside tere to-aay, I am glad to see that we are Unus pleasautly asdemoled around this board, aud thas no coufusion or geiay bus arisen irom any cause, except irom the large wamber who desired to press lurward to do Qenor to our country and the day we ceieorate. (Cueers.) it will ve my business not to detain you Low or hereaiter with auytulag in tue Way of oratory, bul to engiucer ‘ue occasion for otuers, (A lvuga-) The speaker then asked if a clergyman Was present. No one auswered; and the chairmun, ior grace, said, “Your hearts are iuil of thankiuloess, aud that | said:—Ladies and gentlemen, soguand,"L anal and | wil suflice,” ‘Tue dinuer, Which was excelleat in every way, then proceeaed, ‘ibe aishes were ali named aiier Awerican cities or celzbrities, aad, however Lamea, were @ great credit to the Palace cuisine. During the banquet the band of the dt. George’s Kifles played & seieciiun of wusic, in Which vi wisof Great Briain aud America were later mingled. OTHER TOASTS OF HONOR. The Chairman, ia cumwmeucing tne toast list, said his Amerean brethrea aud sis\ers would au- Licipase the (oast he sucuid frat propose. He had been asked by Haropean frieuas how Americans Who livea under a republican orm of governmeut could have in their hearts anything Waich could Le called loyalty. The aaswer was obvious if they louked at the derivation of the word, jor waer- ever (he Augio-baxuu race Was te be jouud there the popuiativa weula be rywuere “ia! e|bidiug.” (Uneers.) More than that, tae Aweri- ‘a inatitutivns were io the sironzest possib: mse Of the word ime peope’s OWD, and tuey were, therejore, atiached to them. (Cueers.) They not euly loved their couatry, broad and expansive as it was—streteuing irom ocean to ocean, irom froze regions almost to the torid zone—but tue constitution waica they themselves had framed, and the institutions aad the liberiies whicu 1 secured. (Uneers.) y love their laws ahd their flag, and Laey were not coufimed to this general love of taeir instiiu- tions, (ur Americans Were 480 lvyalin the con- | crete, They chose their own ruler, who became toer Chiel Magistrate lor the term, aud Ameci- aus of ail sides looked up to that ruler as the constituted authority of tielr land, to Whom they should do ail bonor. He gave tuem “Tue Presi- dent of the United States!” ‘The toast was received with all honot the band played “iiall Columbia” and “Yaukee Dooaie.” Hl ‘The Chairman said that, having paid due homage | to thelr own Chief Magisirate, the Amerigan | citizens had toremember teat tuey were enjoy- | ing peace wily und happily the bo pitauty of bog- Jaad, WOse Sovereizu tuey sDOula Hoar, (Cieers.) 1, Was the theory of the Engitoa constiiution that the Queen Was the fountaia of ail honor; and he added in all earnestuess that not ouly Was tue Queen tuls, bul & most Lonorable lady, respected | over the world as @ wile, @ motier anda woman. ‘Tue toast was warmly accepted and drunk up- standing, the band playing the national anthem. ae Cuairman then gave “The day we ceie- brate,” and :eminded his hearers that it was on tue Fourch of July, a day ou which tuey were sup- posed Lo Meet, Linety-uloe years ago—pamely, in 1776—that the Deciaration of Independence was made, and the iniant coiony deciared inseli free Oi the mother country. The sirugglo over, he he feud was forgoyson, and Americans stood thar Digut im the midst Of thas motuer land, pro- tected oy her fag, aua with ail kindly feelings of lev d irienaship to celebrate uat part- ‘Tue resuits of that parting Of ninety-nine years be‘ore had been well said by @ high thority to ni chal to bi countries, and be expected, therciore, t ‘y st: map present would join in the tgast of “Lhe ive The band played ‘Home, Sweet Home,” and the Hon, Truman 4. Morse, Who responded, reviewed the circumstances Of @ century ago, and con- cluded by expressing the fervent wish that Kag- jand aud America might Low go on hand in hand in the pata of civilization, and prociaiming peace and goud will to the worid. rhe Chairman, in proposing the next toast, “RNGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES—MOTH&R AND. DAUGHTER,” toward the Haglish, asked a young lady in Awerica Who were ata party where she nad been, and she replied by mentioning some of ner country people, and “aud some kny- ish ana some foreigner Thus, be said, tue AMericans never looked upon the ngiish as jor eigners, and when Americans woo came to Eng- Jana were pastening fur (he Uontinent wey always spoke of guing irom Kogiand as “going abroad,” Tue toast was duly honored, and Mr. McCullega Torrens, M. P?., who replied, said that the Americans were anitet with England in biood, janguage and religious thougat, and as re- gerded tue revolution of 1776 they did no more | than the Engiish tuemselves did in 1644 and 1688, when (hey said that tyranny was iusufferabie and they wouid have no more of it, (Cheer of the wartu feeling of ail Eugiand towar United States, from the Sovereign to the people, | sayimg that tae One question Which the consutu- ency He had Lhe honor of represeuting—a constt\u- ency Which was the toird largest borough in Eng- jund—asked was with regara to his sentiments respecting America, ‘Toat was to 18, when eveuts were gioomy In America, and he knew t the sentiments of Engiand wero that ¢ snouid be 4 good Uaderstauding Leiween the bwo patio: (Cheers,) PRACE. The next sentiment given was “Concord at Home ana Peace Abroad,” and this was responded to by General Fairentid, who also testified to the kindly seutiments of (he Americans ior Bagiand, ‘This Was lollowed by the toast of “YHR CENTENNIAL OF 1876,"? reeponded to by General Fournay, who said that Uh ugh Kagiand contributed but @ small part of tho migrants to America, yet everytuing in j America wos influenced by England, and the brates bad gone the jength of copying (he veauti- ‘aiare in Woich they were celevratiog ins an- a niversary, and Eagiish visitors to Phiiadvipoia pext nil year would fiad @ larger Orystal Palace on @ li, and sur/ounded by counues named ater & 4 of the o d country. HM. Ricuard, My Py responded for “The Ladies,” ana spoke upon nis favorite topio or Watle the speeches were being brought to a close the fireworks commenced. ‘here was & very beactisu! disptay in of the Exbivition butiding Of Philadelphia, and another special feature Was & represeniation’ of the Niagara cataract. The thelr grees Americans ‘teasure with the 4d! y Mr. Sawyer, end A special train conv: dou shorily beiore ele’ CHRISTIAN CHARITY, UNITY AND PEACE. {From the Pali Mall Gazette, July 6, 1875.) Dean Stanley preached Wesvminster Abbey yesterday alternoou on Matt, xxi., 22; and, after expiaining that the words “raca” and “fool,” the use Of whieh was condemned by Christ, were to be taken as types of all contemp- tuous expressions more or 188 virulent, he spoke at some length on the evils of indulgence in such modes Of speech and of the wisdom ef those who avoid them, even at the sacrifice of britliancy:— Quoting the proverb that “cul hike young chickens, always come home to roost,” the Dean Put in a Vigorvns ples against party Rames; jor, ‘While be aduitted that tuey ure not al Ways unde- served, buat some Called {vols really fools, some culled rebels really ed atheists Fouuly are atheists, cS rewily are heretics, some called achismatics reaily are sohis- Maiies, sume ealied idolators reaily are Pj he argued that suca terms are (00 olen only at raudum, aad are often applied to the good and wise, and heace are valy Mt to be cast Wilh tue refuse and the offal into valiey 01 Hinnom. They are the slang of ¢ religious OF the political world, just as the common vVuigar souse of conversation Is Lhe slung of the scagolboy or Of society. Quoting the expressions of an Alexandrian divine oj the .ourth ceatury which nad nh Tecemsly quoted by & mederm divioe with purent saiisfactlon— devils, AnLi-Caiists, maniacs, Jews, polytacists, AWe.S. GOgs, Wolves, Hons, chameleons, eels, hornets, leecues—the Dean sald these aud like words nad ligited up the fumes of persecution and death wuich udu Bot log alsd out. So, too, the mighty maser of gives in France had used Woras Wulch, When Utlerei, seemed to be like mere fasues Of summer ligituing, but which bad lea to eVeuts in wiich maay a noble, prelate, Priest aud pastor bad perisved and Ouarck and constitution had beea levelled in the dust, Wheiher in the mouth of au Arnamasius or a Vol- taire “raca” and “mora” produced their natural frat in fire, swerd and murder. Se, too, in charches and im natioad tue Dean tracea the results from the same causes and tly aded for @ greater exercise of brownerly e@ among peoples aud among Christians, Appising the subjecs to tne a@vuiversary 01 tue Fourth of Juiy, which next year would reach 118 humdreadch ceiebratien, ihe aoniversary of Deciaration of American ina nce, Of the beach bewweeo the mosuer the daugiiter country, the Dean said that tue sons of the great country beyond tue Atlantic were tne deed vur brotuers, i @ sense in whieh Do other at Dations oa the face of tue eartu were brothers, for tuey were cuilaren of same jatuers, inberilors Of the same traditions, speak- ing the same language, proiessing the same re- ligioa, Tewioing io the same iaita and tae same hopes. No douvt each had had its temper sorely tried aud its ons roused, the eluer by the younger or the younyer by vue elder, bat none the less strong were tue bends which united them, Bicteras had veen the Ornt feeliugs sostered by the recriminations 0! King and statesmen; swiftly as the Words Of enmity had beeu tossed across the Ocean—“raca” trom Ome, “mora”? from tne o1! “tyranw? from one, “rebel! irom the other. Wound Lad sovn been hi le of independence Was ths friendsnip, How soon had the repr live of the yvung Kepubiic presentea himself gladly at the Vourt of England; and now, asked the preac! what American 1s there who is not proud of the ancestry whica ouce be spurnea, What Knglishinau 18 there wao is not proud of tne name of Washington? Aiter expressing tae pieasure he feit in being to welcome an eml- neat pastor ol the United States to the Abbey pul- pit, WhO & century ago Would ave been unable to occupy it, tae Dean said it Was Dot Mattery waich the (Wo uations needed, for each bad its faults, Walch none could correct 80 well as those wie but it was an indis- fh Should approaca the not as a foc, but as @ brother. it was tr of nations as Oi individuals, tugs truth, even it 1 were praise, spoken tu hate was gail and worm- wood, wud that truth, even if it were to biame, spoken in love was welcome, and se Lad ic been in birth of a new Were o! & common lineage, = this case. Woe, said Dr. Stanley, to those wao reopen the preacn, aad giv! the peuca- mocers, who, by conciliaiion, by & de termination not to give or to take otence, by &@ Careful abstinence from insult, have kuit the two nations togecaer in the one commua- jon and feJows.ip of good deeds, great taouzat ang Uj $ Of @ JuLUre in Wuich boti na fons bre oh LS more ben they do now thas their ias:itutions, theél rature and their Gaarca are betier worth uniting aud preserving, because in another hundred years iney Will Rave outgrown mMauy Weaknesses aud adVauced in many graces, and Will have gained [rem the experience of votn hemispheros more lignt, greater warmth, greater clarity, greater se:lousuess wud @traer insight into the means Of improving, Witn a deeper Know- ledge of tue mi of commanion with God, “On,” said the Dean, in couciusion, “may the chudren of the New World look back’ to the rock whence whey were hewn Witn an undiminished conviction iiat 13 faith aod practice are bused upon the Rock of Ag and may tue nations of the Old World, as they watca the star of empire uoving Westward, jeel twat even if they taxe tue Wings of the moruing and flee to the uitermosy purts of the earth, even there also will God lead wnew, aod His right band wil uphold them} LONG BRANCH. NEAB THE HEART OF THE SEASON—A GLORIOUS BAIN AND A GENERAL BEJOICING—THE YOUNG PRINCK—WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH HIM? LoNG BRAaNcH, July 17, 1875. We are near the heart of the season and the end of the races; and, {rom the Prince's cottage to the Smallest boarding house, we are doing ‘tas well as could be expected,” and are hopefal of a {air har- Vest; and here, too, the Henan, in all great en- terprises, leads the way. Jersey—better than an invasion of thousands of money-spending nabvobs from Babylon—better | than could be the discovery of a gold mine in the Orange Mountains, or the running of a thousand horses, or forty camp meetings in full blast ail to- gether, or the wrecks of fifty steamers along the coast; better than any or all these things could be the Jife-giving rain upon the thirsty land. We have had nothing to compare with it on thts sunburnt coast for five long years, It was a West Indian soweaster—@ tropical siorm—giving us in @ few hours more than ail oar rainfall of last sum- mer from June to Octover, It nas swept over a wide area of the Atiantio slope, but to Jersey alone its value can be estimated only by millions, lt isaccepted asa Godsend even by our summer hotel Keepers, with whom'a rainy day, as the rale 1s, is @ day lost of their brier and uncertain harvest season; for they say it settles the dust, is purifies the air, is brightens up the country, it Will bring Us good weather ‘or travellers and they will Come Gown upon us by thousands, THE RAGING CARNIVAL, ‘The races here have given us ilvely times auring the last two weeks, particularly on the New Jer- sey Soutnern Railway and at Monmoutn Park, Half a dozen trains @ dey, up and down, have Marked the passenger trate of a heavy season with New York and Philadelphia, and wits the Jersey lowlands to Vineland and Oape May, andit is only justice to the management to say that the traing and boats on the Jersey Soutnern line been up to time, that the passengers have been com/ortadly provided for, and tnat of all the thou- Sands carried up and dowa not one has suffered from any accident, on the lant or water, op this route since the opening of the season —not one. “What shall we do when the races are over? outgoing trains in the morning and the incoming trains in the evening, when these racing days aro | endea?” These inquiries from a dashing young belle, Who says that Mr, Chamberlin, ia his beaa- | tifal institution of the Monmouth Purk course, has | proved himself a public benefactor, we can hardiy | wadertake to answer. That tue races been a good card for Long branch cannot be qnestioned. ‘True, the mags Of the visitors from the city com- ing down on race day have zone back in the after. noon; but some have remained over nignr, and | some again have setiled on Ocean avenue tor the aeason, and the excltements on the course during the day have given some actwity in the evening to the billiard and sample rooms ofthe hotels, But nous duiness of these hotels on race day, betwoen twelve and five P. M., was positively pain/ul. Iv really brougbt upon the casual visitor some- thing of that melancholy sleepiness which comes over him in 4 July walk irom the deserted White House to the vucant Capitol, down the lonely Pennsylvania avenue. Take Thursday last. itis noon, The hotels appear unintabited, save | by & group, here and there im the piazza, Of two or turee old dowagers, dis- cussing family ore silent aa the affairs; the billiard rooms Ve, the barkeenaer (a asiecy at “Yesterday was a glorious, golden Gay for New | was the glorious downpouring irom the skies of | bofore the iate reviving rain the drowsy and monot- | How can we fill up the dreadful gap between the | | Saratoga, in private quar Dis post, the drivers of the empty staj hacks which go creeping up and down the other Wise unoccupied road seem to be sleeping com fortably, and one or two bare-legged catchers o Sbrimps and sca bugs are the only straggiers © the beach. In the merciless blaze of the noontide sum ageneral drowsiness rests over the settle ment, and only the drivers of the watering carts appear to be really awake; but ihey have the ad. vantage of @ cooler atmosphere immediately around them than the general multitude, Li evory visitor ab “the Branch’? were supplied with his own sprinkilag wagon we could all be bappy. Aa it is, we have here on Ocean avenue on this Muggy day the sleepiest and most dismal publi thoroughlare between and five ‘S- oe _ noo! where to be found this side o1 Fairiax Co: or a deserted gulch in the deserts of Nevada. AFTER THE RAORS. But from five to eight P. M. we ful transformation scege on this iamous drive in ap endless procession of splendid ho} carriages, commouplace-looking men an t and beautiful women. And the rremeeers ificent Missourl bays, and the dne team Sartoris, aud the poweriul horses of Tom Murphy, and the swift-footed pair of Joon Hoey, and thé greyhounds in harness of Chamoeriin and thé substautlal Pennsylvania family team of George W. Childs are seldom missing in the grand parade. tue smoota and weil spriakied road tn graceiully aloug, and there ng, OF clashing or broken furnic ture, a8 OM @ wala day tue High Bridge race. course, And then, you tue plazzas and KPa cious lawas of \hese hotels, tn ali bueir summer glory, each with its goinay, of guests in full dis« Piay. Pater familias an beaux have re varged from town, and ma and the girs are wide im & igh Wind, and onatvering |! me Bus tue, beaux wre nevertheless 8 cits! the demand exceeds the supply, bacheloy anywhere inside of sixty commanag @ premium, cs, ecially ita dancer, ‘ee women at every hotel are im @ heavy majority, a balance of power which they pronounce nos ouly extremely uniortunate, but positively ridiculodé—se many, wall fowers at the evening hop, apd hall a dozen giris mouopolizing tue few young men who con- descend to drop mm. Such things make Lon; Branca a homvug and @ bore in the estimation many a honest dive stocking. REFORM AT TOE BRANCH. Since the Mush times of Snoduy and petroleum Long Branch 3 been greatiy revoiujlonized, Scores o( tamilies that patronized the occupy thelr own Cottages, and scor have gone offto Kurope, And the Svuth bas nos yet recovered from tne prostration of the war, ‘and thus thousands of summer travellers from ube Teconséructed States are lost to the North. Again, aa at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, seven miles below here, numerous religious encampments have been estabiished jor the summer recreations ve & wonder- ie aud revivals oi the iaithiul, How these religious encampments with their pretiy cottugt Baie upon the general crowd of traveller: Anierred {rom the Visliors at the rate of a@ day, whicn during the week been pouring in upon those jorat Metho~ aside little cities of Ocean Grove and As~ bury Park. And ail this time the noteis ab our regalar summer resorts havo 2 increasing 1D number and enlarging their accommodations, so that if they are no lovgerin the middie o! July packed from the ten-piu alley to the yarret we cag readily account tor tue apparent failing of. And if we no .onger have any large detachments of scheming politicians droppimg in it ts because Otnelio’s occupation, for the time being, ts gone, General Grant’s taird term letter 1s accepted by the republicans @% an offivial edici, unuounclui bta retirement from the Presidential fleld, ana he has uo more offld.8 Lo give for his prese@ terat he has no more or very few visitations [rom Tiotlc oiice-beggars. Uncle -ammy Tilden, on ‘the other sido, ts (ve lion of “the Branch,” bat Uncle Sammy's aces in tne Demecratic Vow vention are considered very dubious ne is not muci annoyed by democrats castins about for the rising sun, It is dead low water ia party politica, and it Will last allsummer, Meantime THE YOUNG PRINCE OF LONG BRANCI is « favorite topic of discassion among the ladies, and whether hi an Englishman or an Amerl- can ana Is destined to be the Lord Unancelior ot the President, are questions only the more im teresting because Do prophet has been found who can anewer inem, It is surmised, however, that with the return of the President to private Itie March, 1877, he will retire te his farm at St. Loum aad there gatner all his chil dren around him, and that Sartoris become an American oltizen; for taey do say th Mistress Nellie Has deciared that her boy suall be an American and only au American; that he snall Ag ve Pianetot Uke the boys of dime. BoJisco. ‘ie eXperimental run outinto tue Atiantic some 600 leet, more or less, from the surf line near th st End Hotel is & success, and bas been turue THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS to agood account In serving the HERALD to lta Long Branco readers ahead of ali its coutenporm ries in tue morning. We dure say buat by next summer the steamboat trip, in fair weather, right y Branca’ with the lanaing of the passengers on Ocean aven will become Une Javoriie summer excursion fi the cit: Whya pier or two rug Out into the deep beyoad the breakers Was not tried twenty-five years aga 4 is now the question most dim : the old provercy bolders. But as they believed then tha cit & Work, to hold, could DOL be eoustrucced, it Was indefnitely postponed: Now they see tuat ior twenty-five years they nave been resting under @ mistake, whic bas been te them the loss of many thousands gj dollyrs. Another 1improvement for Long Branch has just by been completed, whica could as well have beea carriage made twenty years ago, We refer to t road constracted aloug the up to tne Navesink Higni: over those wooded bills to ry by the Jersey plains seveu miles, down to th Branch again, But ior ihe present this magniti- cent drive is unused, because of the breaking o) the draw in the ourewsbury bridge, which renders the bridge impassable. Within the coming week, however, we are promised the restoration of tué draw, and A PROCESSION OF SEVEN MILES OF CARRIAGES’ to inaugurate the opening of tue circuls between the lookons Pighiaads and ghe imperial fanaily’s “Cottage by Uiy Sea’? In anticipation of this summer jubilee thé botels at those Aigniand have been filling up mére rapidly ian osual, an guests are now estaviisned at most of the farm houses scattered over those romantic hilis. Various other projected improvements we ex rowned hilis Witain a ver, the most beautiful part summer Villas, cottages, vineyards, orcaurds and gardens on tins coucinent, Kast or West. We Gear that the President and nis usual oMictal attendants go down to the Ocean Grove Camp Meetipg to-day by invitation of the Metnodiat brethren of the populous and beautifal eucainp ment; jor tae President, only that ce does uot sing, Or pray, or exnort sinners to repemiauce, if ap orthodox Metnoast of the old scnool, and @ firm beidover in tue geod old way to the Jorw bale. WATERING PLACE GOSSIP. The Scranton (Pa.) Times says city visitors are very scarce throughout Monroe county this sew son, and landlords and boarding house keepers grambie therat. But the grain crops are first rave, Jonnstown, Cambria county, Pa., for many years bore the euphonious name of ‘‘Kickenupawlings town.” It then got to be “Yaunstown,” and finally became mild, milky Jehostowa, and a pleas ant place it is in summer. ‘The Boston Traveller says Sharon Springs seems tobe the Sleepy Hollow of watering places. It used to be lively enough. A correspondent —At Long Branch and everywhere else the be'les bave @ flobson’s choice of schoolboys and péres du famille to dance with, and the whereabouts of their natural masculine complement 1s a problem of & serious order, and one that social science will have to take up u things do not mend." Manchester, Mass., is the rendezvous of Harvard ana Camoridge luminaries, President Elliot being afrequent visitor, Rev. Dr. Bartol, Richard H, Dana, senior and junior, Mrs. Angou burlogame and Olver notabie people are taere. The Niagara Falls Register says newly marrt couples flock to Niagara juss now and “bill coo” 1a fuil signt of the great falls. Aud that momeus Woen thoy suoud remomoer a still greater [ai—Adam's. ‘The “toitadow of the Rock’ ts the name for the Rew cave under the American Fuli—a name thas Wil be appreciated by tae followers of the shad- OWS Of jaxuion, Bishop H. HM. Kavanaagh, of Louisville, is et ra. R. M. Hoe and Airs. Moe, of New York, are at the Grand Union. jedford, of New York, are tain Oliiford, A. H. Bart diord, and Airs. ,. ed nd Bo are 0 lovt, Dra, F. iH. Me | Woodara and two daughters. ound ¢ances are interdicted at Round Like, S. Moffat, of Danemora, 18 a the Stuces; wiso BL B. Perkins, of Fort Washineton. A. Kourigues, J. H. ¥ Ules, F, Campana, U. Rovide and J.B. Ru video, are at the Grand Uaton, Gurmendez, Dre nies, of MONG Among the recent arrivals at Saracoga are T. B. Secor, J. M. Jarvis, il. G. Stebbins, Moatgomery sh. Toroop, Jr, and A. Nathan, of New York Lieatenant Commander Kelly, Uvited States Navy EK. B, Barnard, Miss Barnard, of Raglan jeu- erai Joun N. Martindaie, of hester, Says the Saratoga Seasons-—'+Mr. aod Mra, ThOO- dore Moss have Closed their Loug Brauch res dence | & month and taken a States coliage, They are accompanied by their agreeable dauca- ters, Miss Addie und Miss Emily Moss aud by the younger members of tue tamily.’? tue Purkish Minister of Wasbtagton is at Sara. toge. He hae crested quite ® harvm-scarum among the belles, Mr. Kiegard Sonell, Mr. and Mrs. Q. Tiot- gon, the Rosenbergs, the Potters, the Fargos, the Roots the Le Royse, the Lords, the viarks, And mavy others trom New York, are among ‘he recent Guests ot Saratoga. The Belgian Minister ws la Newport.