The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1875, Page 4

4 THE SEASON OF REST. Life at the Seaside, the Moun- tains and the Springs. SARATOGA, SOCIETY AT The Season and Fashion’s Dev- otees at Newport. The Joys and Pleasures of | Cottage Life. SARATOGA, BEMARKABLE WEATCRES O¥ THE AMERICAN SPA--LESSONS AT THM SPRINGS AND IN THE BALL ROOMS—THE HOTELS AS THEY ARE— HERALD HINTS TO THE HOTEL PROPRIETORS. Sanaroea, Jaly 31, 1875. Saratoga presents many remarkible teatures as @ place of summer resort. You cannot compare dt with other places in the country, because it 1s Unlike them in almost every aspect. And this year it seems to be as tar in advance of previous Beasons as the present gorgeous hotels ane in id- | ‘Vauce of the poor shanties of tive years ago. Since the first week in June there has been @ Con- Stant stream of visitors. First came tne throng of college students to watch the progress of the practice by the college crews, then foi- lowed the rush of friends to witness the great aquatic contest. The heated term sctin, and the flow of health end pleasure seekers became almost overwheiming. Then came the long list of polivi- clans and their iriends to teik politics and sip from the springs. Now there are additions from the ranks of those who delight iu horse racing. There is always something new and attractive. Scenes of gayety and excitement abound on every band. SCENES AT THE SPRINGS. Watch the weak and emaciated as they Mock to the springs at early morn and drink glass after Flass of the medicmal waters, and you sce tie struggle for life by many who have apparently de- voted the greater portion of their lives to destroy the precious vitality which they are seeking to restore at the hands 9f nature, reminding you of the old but trite saying that people dev the Oirst hall of their existence in violating the natu- rallaws and the second half in contrition and | pain. Here you see the effects of the rapid gud blustering methods of living, the desire to itve two livesinone. It is true you may see similar evidences at Ems and baden, but the cases are not so numerous, You maysee the pale faces and sickly frames at Brighton, the re- sult of long nights of fashionable pleasures, long hours and trregular feeding of a London season. You may also watch the Sedan chairs laden with young invalids, and see the lounging, sallow- featured damsels of Biarritz, who have literally to be carried out of Paris at the end of tae season. But In proportion the instances are fewer than with us here. bus the sipping of the waters here twice a day, at morning aud evening, presents the reflective or puilosophic side of the picture, | Ido not mean to tnfer that only invalids haunt the springs. Far fromit. It is quite a spectacle to watch the young ladies—and oid ladies, too— emerge from the hotels in early morning attire kud solemnly file down to the Congress. the Haw- ‘uorne and other springs. rongregate, sometimes six deep, anc chat aud sip | the strange tasting ingredients inat the ‘dipper’? , brings up. AS soon as the water 1s swallowed a | short walk 18 in order until break/ast time, Stroag men also find the waters palatable evidentiy, for | Biany stand round until they have taken three or four large tumblers of it, which is, to say the least. a good deal for an empty stomacb. But then they generally moderate its influences ater BU the botel bars. EXCESSIVE DANCING. Turn now to the amusements of the evening and you have another view. Large and prilllanuy ghted rooms are filled with gay throngs of weil fed and fashionably dressed persons, averaging in age from fourteen to forty, A band is engaged, the music begins, and 1n a few seconds hundreds are whirling round and round in tue dance, Whirling through the air and into the lungs ef the dancers, Alter dancing ensues perspiration, gud the overheated coupies repair to open win- cows or walk out mto the chilly atmosphere for relief, or, what is often worse, rush for ice cream, What is the result? Sore throats follow, cuilis and fever come on, and the doctor, of fourse, has to be told that the patient has been Neeping with the window open. Of course, tven dancing may become beneficial, but tue *xeess to whicn it is carried during the warm Weatuer must be deleterious to heulth. Visitors trom Cuba, Mexico apd the West India islands | May be able to stand it, because it is second na- | ture to them, but the average youug lady who 4 has been reared in New York and other large American cities cannot. It is extremely pleasant, no doubt—tnere 1s even @ little delicate flirting that can be carried on in this way—but excessive daucing in the hot season is not and cannot be considered healthful, Why not sit and enjoya good concert in the same manner as in the after- noou? It would be better in the end, aud would not necessitate the continuous dressing and changing of asttire—the unfair ordeal of a winter season imposed in the dead of summer. it what are we to ao when the weather is rainy? Are we to sit in and count the raindrops as they spatter on the streets?” many will ask, “It has become the fashion to dance in summer, and we must do it.’ Se argue the irrepressibles, like Misa Lavinia R. W. in “Our Mutual Friend,” and our mdulgent pater familias, like the cherubic R. W., Must submit or undergo the terrors of being per- pevually bored. Mamma sometimes indulges a hope for her daughter :rom the fact that young | Out-of-vown 1s paying ber much marked attention; besides hi auces #0 perfectly. Mamma often ob- jects to hints that Out-oftown may be already | bound at the hymenal altar. And so the young People trip off to the music, piano on one side and forte on the other. It 1s tne old story of the wish being father to the thought; because it 1s custom. ary everybedy should do it, As the Freven poet Bays :— 1) est si naturel a’estimer ce qu'on ai Qu'va voudrait que’ partout on Jest The time will prubabiy come when dancing in the summer wili be as unpopular as theatre-going during the same season now is. Good concerts are jar safer; they are certainly as instructive, and should be encouraged, especially at such vast establishments ag there are here. The misses Would have to flirt a littie more cautiously, taac’s ail, There is no special need of concert halls, be- cause the spacious veraadas and extensive par- lors are adequate to meet all requirements. any case, the time of dancing should ve greatly reduced, from three hours to one hour, As at pres- | ebb it 1s ruimous, and many of py coupies lose more tn point of he wight thaa they can regain by ® Week's rest. es, ther wre @ huudred other Amuscments that Will tend to be on the time” as pleasantiy, but without evil re- uit. FASHIONS DEMANDS. Fashion appears to demand « strict adherence to along programme. Kise at seven o'ciock in the morning. Go to the springs and drmk water. Walk in tne pork, and Chat til nali-past nine. Go to the hoteband dress jor ure at ten. Alter breakiast do the shopping and hau-past one, Dress tor dino al two. dinner attend the regular converts ov the until hall-pastfoar, Then a drive to the | Gien Mitenell, or to Mayregor until seven. Anowh draught [rom the springs aug then { supper dress for tne even 6 Wliere Most of the dancing hull-past ten or eleven, theu go boay feels constrained, apparently go through a!!tne formaiues, There are vut jew exceptions. There is Vommodore Vancerbis Who Was down a8 # member Of & bull commitive last might. The Congressman, poet and vivant Jor the next Speakership of tue Howe pre- sentatives, & 5. VOX, Was alko here migot, and, J understana, was to tive a the same committee, Here u teverenu wen by the dozen from ali parts vf tie country is don re till very to jatturuy ot up who are carried with the tide, it scems impos- sivie lor them to st. Our bachelor Governor ar'van to the inkes and bandies the riivous like The | wasligat in time heats the room, the dust is sent | | surrounding it. NEW YORK HERALD, acrack whip, Perhaps the only exception ts the | Vice President of the United States, who keeps | hunself to himself aud Works assiduously at his | book, of which he says he bas written tity chap- | ters since the season commenced, THE HOTELS, But, as I before stated, there are so many gay Scenes here, #0 Much to eugross the attention, that no time ts allowed for reflection as to the real objects ofa really excellent spa such as this Is. llere are hotels that exceed in grandeur and ex- tent any ovlersineXistence. Many European uotel keepers would marvel at these grand edifices, erected a the cost of millions of dollars, tied throughout with sumptuousness of palaces, Wih gorgeous furmiture aud equipments of the | most linprovea kivd. Here sre several vecupying | whoie blocks, forming complete quadrangles, the | entire square within laid oat in the most exquisite manner With Walks aud flower beas as com- plese a# art and wealth can reader them, As hight they are lit up brilliantly, aud the visitors can promenade to and fro as ima miniature park, | When the knglish began to get up such hotels a | the Pavilion at Brighton, the buildings at Cannon street and Coaring Cross, at Pimlico and Portiand place in London; when the French began to build | such places as the Bristol and the Gragd hotels Paris, people Imagined they were simply pericc- tion, A peep at such institutions as Congress Hull, the United States and the Grand Union | here, Would, indeed, astonish the over sanguine | stockliolders 1n the jereign enterprises above- | mamed. Here ure ive or six hotels and they can | accommodate as Many thousands of guests. ‘Here | | are dintag rooms, each of which will seat irom 800 10 1,000 persons at one time, and yet every one has plenty of room and good attention, | A glance through the hotels here 1s extremely 1a- | teresting, and repays 4 hundred fola by the new | | deus engendered und the novelties encountered on every hand. These form another of the stropg | aud peculiar leatures of the place, and are stinply | mentioned as such, Then tuere 18 the club houre jor Lae sporting men, capable of dining and board- | ing Mundreds, in @ style wimost equal to “our Deimonico.” Another feulure tuat may be noticed here ts the variety Of vistors and the exteut of | territory they represeot. Im order to show tuts 1 | sent you to-day the names of a few here tuis week. | REFORMS NBEDED. | There 19 one point, however, and a very im- portant one, that has been overlooked in the ar- rangements here, tundreds of people come bere inyalided and wish simply io drink the waters, ‘They do not Know whch waters to take. Ther uve either to drimk ut haphazard some water tat will be likely to do them more harm than good, or go to the expense of constant consult tions with a physician. If the Frencn had such a | | place a» this toey Would at once establish a kind | | Of dispensary (Wich could be provided by the towu or hotel keepers at # trifling cost), and | appoint two or turee good doctors’ weil acquainted with the effects of the diferent waters upon diiferent diseases. Then | it should be made known thay all ad- | Vice coald be had gratis of these doctors, whose | | duty it would ve to imvestizace special cases and | point out to patients the bevelits tobe derived | Irom the Various springs. ‘this would be a great lmprovement on the present method. I saw a | | man yesterday morning who vad been taking con- | | siderable Water the eveuing before, “with @ stick | | In it,’? go up toa certain spring, heavily charged | With tron, aud take two tumblers of the Water, TWO hours later ue tuld me that tue iron had nearly | litted bis head off, He bad asked somebody which | ‘Was the best to take fur his “symptoms,” and had | been directed to this Spring. The result was he | had to go to a doctor iu the end. Another point, and one that would tend to les- sen privie gambling tn Close hotel rooms, is that | some Ot the rear piazzas witain tue court yards of the hotels should be fitted up with the open tables such as the French use in front of their restau- rants in many places in Paris. Here the gentle- | mien could sit and enjoy the frest air and dring | their sugar water, too, and still be under a cer- | | tain restraint, at least sufficient to prevent petty | and vexatious gambling, by the keen eyes of whe | luirer sex. | | VARIETY. | | Last evening the 8v0 guests at the Congress | gave Bernstein, the orchestra leader, a benefit in tne ballroom. At about hall-past eignt o'clock about forty little giris, all dressed in gala attire, | | entered tue dancing hall, jollowed by the stream | of adult dancers, aud the procession across the | very | proclamation, white ie bridge, wnica was lighted up with Chinese lan- leras, presented @ most picturesque appearance. | ‘To-morrow night Governor Tilden, ex-Governor | | Hoffman, Judge Neilson (of Brooklyn) ana Rev. Dr. Budington will make addresses to the Young | Men’s Christian Association at tue rooms of the | | association, | | _Itis announced that the Democratic State Cen- | | tral Committee wili meet nere on August 18 to | | periect arrangements for the ial! caupuign. | | LIFE AT LONG BRANCH. Around these the: Y | perren YROM THE FAMOUS AMERICAN WATER- ING PLACE—THE GREAT IMPORTANCE OF THE SEASIDE RESORT—PRESIDENT GRANT'S EVERY- Da¥Y LIFE AT THE SUMMER CAPITAL. LONG BRANCH, July 30, 1875. | The Long branch season was at its high tide | When the sudden succession of showers came to | dampen its career. The hotel keepers sympathize | | with the suderers in the Frenca provinces as they | | look out upon the damp piazzas, and think what | | the tralus might have brought bat for the unwel- | come weather. However, this interruption has | | been but fora day. Long Branch now is very | full, and there is no better prospect of American life and society than cau be obtained by an even- | | ing stroll along the ocean roadway. Much | | of the interest that formerly centred in Long Branch hasbeen diverted to the attractive spots | in the neighborhood whicu have siowly grown up into unusual.prominence as seaside resorts. The | | term Long Branch, so far as it applies to the sea | shore, must be used In some sense as we use the | | term New York when apphed to your city. The | real New York embraces not only the inhabitants of Manbattan Islamd but ull the clties and towns | The reai Long Branch embraces | Monmouth Beach, Sea Girt, the Higniands, | Branchtown, Eaton, Asbury Grove and @ dozen other minor ‘places, all of wnica come within reach of New York city and may be visited in an | easy afternoon drive. i THE IMPORTANCE OF LONG BRANCH. | To this extent, therefore, Long Branch has at- | tained an importance that is not generally under- stood, ‘Ihe special attraction of the Branch, or | what we call Long Branch proper, is tne high | biuff that leans over against the sea so that you may stand in the fleld of corn and trrow pebbles | into the foaming breakers. Here we nave not | only the ocean but country prospects, fine drives, | an agricultural country second to none in the | Union, rich in historical associations, in the ehar- | acter of ita people, sheir enterprise—a pbistory a worthy illustration of the American Republic, Here we bgve the new Long Branch and the old | Long Branch growing together side by side, types of a different civilization which never mingle and which have their marked trait | OLD LONG BRANCH. A little, guiet, attractive, sleepy village, set back | | @ mile or two from the sea, so that the winter | storms of the ocean would not disturb the peace- | | fal inhabitants, it goes on from year to yearin | | a steady round of modest life and temperate en- joyment, looking upon the summer as a harvest aud regarding the tide of summer visitors as tuey © would a field of ripening corn. Old Long Branch has its churebes, its town houses, its little so- ‘| ciety, and lam told that the winter season Is ex- ceedingly pleasant, the inhabitants spending the | long evenings in discassing the success of the | summer that has gone and the antictpations of the | summer that ig to come, The sudden rise of prop- | | erty has made many of these farmers rich, but they | are content to husband their wealth for a rainy day and live honestly and humbly, even as their fathers dit, The new Loug Branch changes from Season to season, ‘Tuere are a few old residents who coms every year, or at least who have been | conilug for ten and twenty years, which is old age | in the life of a watering place. ‘The general aspect | ot the society here changes with each season. ‘Tne | | wandering American likes to spend bia holiday at | | | adifferent resort cach summer. There are many places. They begin at the Brauch, and when the | the mountains, winding up, perhaps, at Newport | ‘The proximity of this place and New York brin | every day @ large crowd of hasty visitora, who | dome dowa on the cvening bout to sult the salt | air and hurry back on the morning train to the daily routine of duty, 80 that you cannot expect asteady society at Long Branch. the avenue change, aud (Ms Jact gives @ Variety and iife to our seciety Which you Will pot fad at Oller seaside resorts. THE SGASIDR METROPOLIS. Long Branch must always be a prominent and attractive watering place, maluly because of its in- New York and Philadeiptia,* 1 hes virtual between the two greav cit Although the Poliaceiphian, as a general thing, prefers Atian- tic City because Of its being somewhat nearer than Long Brauch, still the aristocrauic Philadel- phign 18 more satisfied to spend his summer days in the metropolitan suburb of New York. Some of our most progpervns residenis are Philadel. phians, The finest cottage on the beach, in some Teapects, 18 owned by Mr. Cuilds, of the Phiaael- | pala Ledger, whose hospliality has given the Branch a uew atiraction OUR SUMMER CAPITAL Mr. Childs’ hoase is ave the centre of what may be called the West End, or tne jashionable part of the Brance. Atound him e Wwe Pres (dent and Mr. Seiugman, the governmeut | banker: Mr, Pulimau, ex-Collector Murphy, | summer, | mer of their days, | Park | Judge Siatehiord, William | eral George Cadwallader, aiso who make the rounds of ali tne watering | York; Daniel Le Roy, ex-Governor E. D. | races end flock off to Saratoga and from thence to | Lewis M. Kutheriord, F. A, Stout, | George Peabody Wetmore and otners of a siin- ‘The faces on | ‘ariety | sat they can live cheaper and pay | | sO remain both winter and summe | ver, and thus made tor ti coterie of their st advantages and also because of Its proxtinity | | at Newport is not w ve despised, MONDAY, AUGUST 2 Mr. John Toey, of Adams ; Gen eral Babcock, "the private secretary of the President, and General Horace Porter, who formerly Held that office, who may be said to fori | the tmperial retinue. These families, with the constaut dropping in of Cabmet Ministers aad officers of the government and eminent politiciaus and piace hunters, give the West End the import- ance Of acourt, ‘Ihe President bimself leads # quiet hie, spending his me many With Lis friends, those whom [ have men- Mis intimate association 1s) with Gener Porter and Mr. Obilds, They saunier up and down the beach and sit in the summer house looking oUt Upon tue sea, the President smoking incessantly and telling stories of the War aud of the administracion, The coming of Neiiie’s baby bus been an event in our social Life, and all womenkind are in a Nutcer to see how it looks and to learn the color of itg eyes and its disposition. For tue last three or four days the baby has been quite il, and the other night 1t Was dangerously so, giving the President cause fur great alaria, as he ts said to have become yery fond of his grandenid, This ager, however, bas passed over, aud the oabvy ow is believed to be in @ flourishing state, and quite equal to the duties imposed upon it in its young existence. THE PRESIDENT’S DOMESTjC LIFE. ‘The President has a larger Jamily tuan usual ‘this season, and his cottage 18 quite Ulled to ove: flowing. Nellie and Mr, Sartorius are with him, Fred Grant aud his bride ana other members of the famlty, all of waom are together now tor the first time lor two or three years, The second son 18 home from his European travels, and is quite a manly young fellow. Kumor insists upon wedding | | him to tue danghter of a well Known financier who lives under the shadow of the President’s in- fluence. come quite a favorite ut the Branch, and is said to have taken @ strong hoid on tse affections of the President, There bas been a good of nonsense and disparagement about toris im the Rewspapers, and there 1s not a little disappolutmeat ip the minds of the very luyal members of the administration that tne President's daugater should nave veen carried | og by an Engitsiinan, The truth is that is a manly feliow, quite an accomphisued lmguist, & thorough (ype of the weil-bred, high-stepping, plucky Kughsauman, who can swim and ride and shoot, and who is in every respect an affectionate husband and 4 devoted son-in-law. SEVERAL RUMOKS, ‘The Indian Comiuissioners have been sitting at the West End Hotel, and have issued a flue Will go far toward soo mug the minds of arving squaws tie coming winter, General Fisk, the head of this Commis- sion, has been at ihe Branch for some time, aud ts a brignt, eager, polishec gentieman, Who means to do the best ge van with wis work, but finas it diMcult to worsnlp God and Delano. Jona Hoey’s magnificent place continues its attrac- uons. Mr. Hoey nas entertained & good deal thls season, especially when Governor Tilden was here, ‘ine peopie of Long Brauch were quite ex- : ultant over the possession of the cuiel magis- | trates of both New York and the country, but Governor Tilae@a wok alarm at the sugyestion tgat Dorshermer might usurp the luncuons of Governor, #na hurried back to New York one evening und bas not been beard from since. Wil- liam A. Seaver, Presicent of the Adriaue Insur- ance Company, has been here for some doys, the guest of Mr. Childs, and General Robert Patter- son is expected on Sunday, Byron of ble Plains, ts living at tae Ocean Hotel abd had an interview witn the President rhe other morning, Muller came away quite tin- pressed with ifis Excellency, and is about to write @ poem describing the impressions made Upon nim by the silent KXecutive. The hoteis dave not been very prosperous dur- ing the season, altbough UM the ram keeps away We shall, No doubt, have overflowing houses during this mouth. Lhe races were novsu succeasiul as last year, and the general summing up Of the season at the Branca must be at tue pe- riod of depression, which has fallen upon it ai ‘the opening of the through train from New Yo. has assisted the Branch la sdéme respects, put 16 has also drawn attention to the many veautiul Spots On its line of travel wuich have heretoiore been unkuown to New York. Perth Amboy, South Amboy, Red Bank, Surewsvury, Matawan and other attractive and delightiul spots, wiich have hithervo been removed from the general observa- tion of the health-seeking tourists, are now brought witbia au hour or so of the city, and of course dispute with Long Branch its attractions @s a seaside summer resort; but, generally speak- lug, the great seaside metropolis maintains its supremacy, and every advance in communication ana progress in New York and Philadelphia only adds to its value, NEWPORT. PROSPECTS OF THE SEASON—NEWPORT AT PRESENT RATHER DULL—THE LUXURIES or ‘COTTAGE LIFE DESCRIBED—HE SELECT AND DISTINGUISHED VISITORS NOW SOJOURNING THERE. Newronrt, R. 1, July 30, 1875. "rhe season, So far, at this Well known watering place is dull, very dull, truthfully speaking. The usual number of cotfagers are here, but the guests at the Clif cottages, Ocean and Aquidneck bouses and private boarding houses are not so numerous | as they were last year, which was also termed a dull season, Newport 1s too far trom the large cities toever attain much popularity trom tran- sient or botel guests. Long Branch prospers, and | the reasons are obvious; Saratoga likewise. | However, Newport has been justly termed the “queen of wateriug places,’ ana she numbers among her annual sammer residents some of the best families of New York, Philadel | phia, Boston and Chicago, This class finds no fault with the lack of transient travel. They de- sire blesse@ exclusiveness, and they have it to their heart’s content and are satisiied with the society in which they mingle. Even durmg the prevailing stagnation of business there are sev- eral clegant cottages now in course of erection for parties who are to make this their summer home, and one of the leading arcnitects in the place informed your correspondent that he was then engaged in making estimates for cottages for several parties, and that he never, at this season of the year, Nad as many inquiries in re- Jation to these matters as he had had during the past six weeks. COTTAGE LIFE, The prevailing idea is cottage life, and unl ess one 1s possessed of this luxury be cannot expect to move in the society of cottagers, Millions of dollars are invested here in palatial mansions and extensive grounds, and the inatviduals who own them will continue to beautify aud improve them and make Newport their summer home as leng as they live. Year after year the same familiar faces will be seen on Bellevue avenue. Careless, laughing schooigirls whom we were wont to see dally have grown to woman’s estate and have been ied to the hymental altar, but sull they continue to visit Newport every and their childrea will, too, after they have passed away. Here their fathers before them came from the larger citics, and, alter test- ing the salubDriousness of the climate and enjoy- ing its dfives and romantic walks, determined to make this their abiding place as long as their means would admit. They came, bought iand, and at once commenced the erection of com- fortable summer homes,*not in the prevailing showy style, however, aud here spent the sum- reireshing their memories with the many revelutionary incidents of the lace, the mysteries of tue Old Stone mill in ‘Touro d the teachings of Bisnop Berkeley, with whose melory everybody is familiar, FAMOUS NAMES. ” Men 4nd women, tumous in the ranks of mer- cantile, literary and scicatific pursuits, make Newport tueir resting place—such as George Ban- | crott, the kistor'an; Miss Chariotte Cushman, the actress; W. R. Travers, the banker; Levi P. Mor- ton (Morton, Bliss & Co.), Miss Woolsey (Susan Ooolldge), Colonel Tt. W. Higginson, G, BE. Ware ing, Jr.; Professor Aggssiz, Hun. August Belmont, iiiden Blodgett, Gen- Alexander Van Rensse- Jaer, Dr, W. E. Channing, John Winthrop Gnanier, Rear Aamural A. L. Case, U. Judge Dickey, Professor W. Bb. Gammell, se wife, the daugnter of the late KR. H. Ives, believed to be the richest woman in America; Dr. Samuci G. Howe, Julia Ward Lowe, W. T. Michards and Johan Large, the artists; James Lenox, the founder of the Lenox Library in New Morgan, Levi ?. Morton, Joun Paine, Royal Phelps, Kev. H. U. Potter, D. Grace church, New York; orge Tiffany, D., of liar stamp Visit Newport year after year, and their Magnificent Villas may be seen upon every hand, Men and women of this stamp naturally tend to draw otuers of the same class to tne place, and in time taduce them to become one of their mumber, There is one fact which ig worthy of note, aod that is that several of those who spend the sumu here find 4 taxes, and . Last winter ined during the win- foxelves a delightiui who rent nouses of About one-third the ason. This Is getting upward of fifty families re own. Thos course can secure them eum asked at the rate per s to be a popular idea, and it is understood that an equally large number will also remain here next | winter and see Newport in ner winter ve Thus they will have an opportunity to hear Old Neptune lash the beach inail nis tury and see the pouting Kock in its most terrific mood, A winter ‘ LIFE AT CAPE MAY. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS AT THE HMOTELS—A ENTERTAINMENT —-CHILDREN'S CENTENNIAL PRESENTATION BALL, The point of land at the extreme southern end of New Jersey, which sticks its nose into the At- lantic and its eyes nd mouth filed with the Neilie’s husband, Mr. Sartoris, has be- | Joaquim Milier, tne | is now | spray of Ola Ocoan, is Known as Cape May. There 18 probably no beach ou our whole coast so fat, clean, White and long, unencumbered with débris, Shelia or wrecks, Froutiag aud encircling this sbingle of sand are mammoth volels and pictu- Tesque cottages, and back of these an irrecular group of pou huddled togetoer without much regard to plan, order or arcttecture, and this is’ called Oape May City. In winter, probavly no | place more dreary; in summer, no place more lively and fashiopable than this little colony. Tae Visitors have not the cosmopolitan appearance which distinguishes tne sojourners at Long Branch, they being, seemingly, drawn in the largest numbers from the aristocracy of Daltimore and Philadelphia; bat, on that account, life here takes On @ more attractive nome form, and the delightial social intermingling between the cot- tage and hotel communities constitutes one of the chief charms of Cupe May. THE YRINCIPAL HOTELS are the Stocktus, Columbia, Congress Hall, Ocean, Atlantic aud a host of smaller houses éapable of accommodating from forty to one hundred guests, Cottage life ts much more untversal here than av most other watering places on our coast, and the round of eutertainment in these simple but aris- tocratic homes is unceasing and delightful. The Stockton Hote! ts, of course, tne great tasti- fouable caravansery, and bere the most not able people may be found, The distinguisved persons stopping at present at this house are the following:—Hon, D, J. Morrell, Chairman of the Iron and Steel Convention ot Pennsylvania; Pro- Jessors Joseph Pancoast and Gross, of Puiladel- phia; FP. Taeodore Waltoa, Recorder of Deeds, Philadelpaia; H, O. Borie, B, Borie, Nelson Brown, Louts A, Godey, the magazine proprietor, all ot the Quaker City; Hon. Judge Ould, of Ricumond, Southern Commissioner ior the exchange of pris souers during the War; R. Crangie and family, of Wheeling, Va.; William Thaw, Presideat of the Empire Line, Pennsylvania Railroad; Generat &. Grubb, of New Jersey, and the tullowing dis- Unguished guests irom Baitimore:—Henry E. Johnson, Prolessor D, Alien smuth aud Dr. stew- art, Healta OMicer, Mr. J. Cudliife Owen, who | represeats Japan at the Veatenutal, 18 aiso here. Colunet Charles Duity 1s tus manager of the Stock- LOM, 4 gentleman Well remmevered on account oF hia connection with tue Continental Hovel, of Philadeipnia, Congress Hali gave A CENDENNIAL ENTERTAINMENT on Wednesday eveniag, at Whica Misa Rose Eytlage, the well known New York actress, read with charming effect One of Browning's poems. Tue whole allair was under the mauayement of Mrs. Colonel Forney aud United States Marshal Kern. The Columbia does not seem to be as lively 4s In former seasons, althoush the attractions at [Eis Skneanionsd bouse are ROL seusibiy dimin- ed. ‘the bathing ts indulged here about noon, and to see te tuoasands Of deligated bathers m their gay costumes in the surf is worth a journey taituer- ward, The surf boats are stauoned beyonu tae line of danger, aud no accident has hitnerto marked tue season, Lhe Oficial reporc of tue LIFB SAVING SERVICE May not be Uolnteresting here. it extends from Maine to Cape May, and irom Cape Henry to Cape Hatteras, Since tue Ist of last November the numer of wrecks Qave been 69; numoer OL lives imperiiied, 852; lives saved, 837; lives lost, 15; shipwrecked persons shditered and succored, liv; Value of property lost, $772,765; value vi property Saved, $1,618,635, Sinve the service has been in operation, irom 1871, it 18 estimated 2451 jives huve been saved aud $4,316,916 worth of property, ‘his 1s tue way the local newspapers treat of their rival to Cape May; it 18 LoL withous its lumor, however i= ‘They took him dowu to a sand-ridden city by the sea and pid bim view an tl Dorado. He wmounted a saud hiilto look, On the one side he beheld namense tracts of unsightly marga land: on the other he gazed upou a Waste of dreary sand, studded with sickly pines. While thus straming bis orbs the damp wr darkened witn swarms of huagry mosquitoes that flavored of neypUs plague. the wiranRer's Jule was In Jeopardy. Ii hot haste he sought the next train, shouting, “Heaven save me Irom the #1 Dorado!’ ie Was at Atlante City. ‘The great event of the week has been THE CHILDREN’S PRESENTATION BALL, Tits took piace on Thursday evening at the ockton and Was a most enjoyable affair, Baca cuild on entering the ballroom Was presented with usliver commemorative medal. ‘he inscripuon on One Side Of this read as follows, above an em- bossed bell:—"Liberty Belli—1776." Above vhis Was atlacsed, by a dive ribbon, @ smali silver eagle and beiow 1 a Silver tassel. On the reverse Was the inscription, “Cniidren’s Ball, Stockton | Hotel, Cape May, N. J., 1775.” ‘fne pieces were cast at tue Phiiadelptia Mint. About 1,000 beau- tial children attended the ball, The costumes of the liste Ones Were extravagantly elaborate and | their graces und manners Of society Were at once amusing and wonderiul. Delighted mothers hued the Vast bairoom and crowas thronged the piaz- zas. Certainly the cyildren will remewber tie ai- fan Witaout reference to their medals, WATERING PLACE NOTES. Mrs, A. J. Wescott and Miss Adams, of Jersey City, have cugaged rooms Jor the summer at the West End Hotel, Long Franca, ‘rhe Philadelphia Times calis tne late heavy faliure in this city only a “summer squall.” And | five millions waited into thin air like a zephyr! Tuat will do very well for alittle watering piace note. ‘the editor of the New Beaiora Mercury, having retur: from an interior summer resort, remarks alliteratively tiat “trog-try, with fried potatoe: is felicitous feeding.” Try Sarato, there you Wil fina fried putatoes not only felicitous feeding, but something requiring financial fecundity. Among tie guests at Fenwick Hall, New Say- brook, Conn., are:—William H. Atwater and famuy, Mr. and Mra, Morris Franklin, Santord Cobb, wife and daughter; William P. Bacon and family and Dr. Lawrence Sheldon and tamily, of New York; Joan Prentice and family, Cearies E. Bill and wife, Charles £. Bill, Jr., H. W. Green, Mrs. H. P, Morgan and Miss 8S. Morgan, of Brook- | lyn; Protessor Dwight and family, of New Haven; Mr, and Mrs. 1. A. French, of Morristown, N. J Mr. and Mra. William &. Leavitt, of Fiashing, L. L. Among the New York Jamies at the Palmer i Nyack on the Iludson, are those of John iumimer, Wiliam D. Sioane, Willlam ©, Hol- brook, Bow:es Coigate, E. Ff. Shepard, M. Morgan, P.M. Bryson, Dr. Henry O, Mayo (U. S..N.), Aloert Filt, Join Saird, J. T. Wiillams, BE. M. Van Tassel, A. I. Roberts, Owen Jones, W. J. iain, Mrs, Rt Boardman, B. Wakiman, ik. Kimbali, Joon P, itiliard and wile, George Beil and wile, A. G. Heaton and wile, ¥. Moulton and Wife. Also Mrs. B, P. Brunner, San Fran- cisco; Miss K. P. Baird, C, U. Baird, Pailadelphia; F. Hondow aud daugiter, B. P. Kissam and wile, Brooklyn; Mrs. k. Downer, Miss E. De F. Downer, M. Downer, Freuerick W. Downer, New York; | David Belden and family, Robert E. Matlack and family, Philadelphia; Wiliam i. Pailips, Mrs, a. M. Baldwin, New York. Brook trout weighing two pounds and five Ounces, ahd measuring seventeen inches in length, are amoung summer curiosities on & farm in Claverack, No city suuimer voarders wanted, Along the lato New York arrivals at Lejands’ Ocean Hotel, Long Branch, are ‘I. 5 I, Se As Harp, D, Pahuestock and wile, Mrs. C. Anderson, ©. L. Anderson, L. fl. Hyatt, 8. Bliss, W. B. Asten, E. VU. Smita, M, smito, A. B. Walwer, T. OC. Mitcu. ell, J. . Winter, ‘I. Bayle ana wife, Dr. J. Foster, George Kissam, Frank Favor, Jr.; D. 8. Moore, M. P. Brealiuk and family, B. Lawrence, Mrs. Smith, Rosa sux, G. P. Grima, J, i. Lindsay, P. Smith, Miss Layie, H. 5, Kingsland, &. 1. Allen, J. B. Morris, Lewis Leland, bk. R. steinnard(, W. KR, Mitcoell, b. Beeber and family, and A. Kauiman. D. W, Oarro!! and wue, J.T Pittsburg; I. b. Sunnyman, W. Mrs. R. | Wilkinson, Jersey ee i rook ly . Cameron and wife, S. G. Burbridgs, Mise L, Burbidge, Washingtor ’. Huvbard and Jady, Ken. Pilladeiphia; G. | Mr Dougherty, J. tucky; Mra. J. KR. Magange, Corstand ana wile, Sciencetady; Mr. aud Mrs, Almerton, Galveston; A, McVunlel, St Louis; M. P. Fisher, Havanu;G. B. Wilkiusou, St Josepn, Mo., are among tie iately arrived guests at tue Ocean, Long Branch. H A watering place poot, having plenty of leisure, composes the Joliowing elegy ou tile noble donkey that whipped the Cincinnati honess:— A lioness, from Lybia’s desert wasie, With ratiling heels he bolily dared to paste; She scratched him and the se es Thor tied 5 In seventeen weeks the little jackass disd. Gone to meet Sergeant Bates. Among the New York visitors at Lake Tene lately were 1. L. Doviittie and wile, Henry Tt. Willams, &, D. Curtis aud wife, X. A. Willard, W. fuck and Jadies, G. U, Brackett, Rev. George K. Freeman; irom Brookiyn, W. H. Taylor. A gentieman irom London, tarrying at Hail, an ancient and well known Watering place in Boston Harbor, was heard to exciatm, Wille reading paper tne other day:—‘‘Vell, there | I'm biowed {i eve isn't & Massacnusetts paper aa spells Sam Bowles’ name wit two heis ." Judge Porter, alter the great fatigues of the Beecher trial, is rusticating in a cosey cottage on the grounds of the Wells House, Schroon Lake, Adirondack, He 1s accompanied by is wite aud son. G. M, Crittenden and daughters, W. Tf, Merrill, Misses A. aud Heitman, &, M. ey, G. U. Decker, William ‘Taylor and others, | Of New York, are atmoug ine recent arrivals ac tue | Cataract House, Niagara Faiis, | Mgr. Roncettt and sr. W. Ubalbi, of Rome; the Right Rey, Bishop MeNeirey and Fatuer Ludden, oi Albany, are at the Congress, Ssratoga, W. A. Dioble and wile, and ©. W. Cooper and | fanuly, of New York, are at the ates, Saratoga. So are Senator Hi, B Anthony, of Rnode island, and Key. Dr, Abercrombie, of Jersey City, | “Josepi.at. Dixon aud lwmily, of New York, are | at the Grand Union, Saratoga, Major General Ford, of tae British Army, ta at the states, Suratoga, J. Thompson and wife, and W. J. Thompson, of Liverpool, are at the Volumbian, Saratoga, Wood, Riehurd | ‘orrence and wile, of | 1875.—-TRIPLE SHEET. NORTH CAROLINA, The Colored Vote and How It Is Misused. INTIMIDATION BY NEGROES. Rawerag, N, O., July 25, 1875. North Carona has bat few counties— perhaps @ dozen in wil—in which the negro vote largely pre- dominates; 12 most of these there has been more or less serious misgovernment and corruption. It is freely acknowledged by the democrats that the negroes are in the main quiet, peaceable and a useful laboring force; but they ad@ tnat where they have the majority of votes in a city or county they are almost invariably the tools of de- signing and unscrupulous wiite men, wno mass the negro vote and rale by its means; and the truth of this is undeniable, Of course this is a serious matter, Ibis sotto be expected that the property Ownera in a city or county will sit con- tentedly down and suffer themselves to be heavily taxed and run in deb¢ by white or black rogues, in spite of their votes and protests, and by the help of non-taxpaying voters. if you re- member that thesé landless voters were, ten years ago, the slaves of those whom they now tax ut the pidding of unscrupulous politicians, you will, pertaps, realize that the provocation to re- sistance is the greater, and give the white men Who submit torobbery more credit for patience than they often get. Nor is a property owner made more content by the knowledge that those counties where the whites rale are, I believe, Without exception, economically managed. There has been no general or widespread demoraliza- tion and corruption im North Ourelina, Tne local finances, except in most of the negro counties, are in @ healthy condition. HOW THE NEGRO VOTE I8 MISUSED. In the black counties, a3 they are called, it Struck me odd that the sheriffs and clerks of courts are commonly white, wuile the justices of Lhe peace and the members of the Legislature are usuaily black men. But the explanation 1s easy. The sueritis’ and clerks’ offices are highly Incra- tive, Hence the corrupt whites take these and Rive the less profitable places to tue negroes, The County Commissioners are often black, too, and are then easily misused by the white rogues. ‘Thus the Sherif of Wake county was until last year a white republican, an Irishman trom Bos- ton, 1 believe. He 1s a aefaulter for $60,000, and he ruled by the help of the colored vote, Fifteon thousand doll of the SIXty Was school fund, and the loss of t is felt keenly by the negroes, who liked to send their ehilarem to school, Another white republican was sheriff of New Hanover, also a black county, and has gone off “short” between $40,000 and $50,000. Meantime New Hanover regularly senas three negroes to the ‘Legislature, which 18 demo- cratic, and they have little imfuence and no pickings. INTIMIDATION BY NEGROES. You Will see that the negroes are used by the White leaders, and put off with the poorest places, ‘This is done in part by frightening them about the joss of their “rights,” the democratic bugaboo being always brought forward about election time; partly by whiskey and a share of the plun- der divided among the negro leaders, and partly by totumidation. More than one colored man spoke to mo of the difiiculty of opposing the cor- rupt leaders, because these denounce, threaten and make inflammable speeche: In Wil- mington, less than @ year ago, & young colored lawyer, who had called a pubuc meeting of his people to protest against corrap- tion, was mobbed by drauken blacks brought in for that purpose from the country, and hada narrow escape of his life. He did not get a hear- ing. White republicans told me that it was not safe in some places for a black man to vote the democratic ticket, and the democrats gave me several instances where democratic negroes had been attacked. ‘Ostracism,” so called, is ridgidly practised among the negroes, and a colored man, @ republican, admitted to me that opposition to the party “caucus” had greater terrors than he liked to face, because it involved at the least the loss of friends and as- sociates; “the women abuse you, they turn you out of cuurch and you lose all your friends,” he said. Imust not forget to add that the white rascala who tus mass and control the negro vote are mostly natives of the State. There are but few men from other States in North Carolina politics, and the “carpet-baggers,” by whica is anderstuod here Norchern men who use politics corruptly, are very!ewinuumber, Also the greater part of the leading republicans in the State are honorabic men, respected in the communities in which they live; and some of them the descendants of the best families ta the State. GOOD AND BAD MANAGEMENT. To show you the difference between good and bad managementl cite here two counties, both of which are ‘“black,’’ and have heavy negro ma- jorities—Warren and New Hanover. Warren county is one of the wealtniest tn the State. Be- tore the war it had the densest slave population in the Stat aud it has now @ negro majority of 2,000, Fortunately when the vote was given to the colored men they ha for their leader a colored man named Hyman, who had been a siave in the county, @ man of quick parts, good address and good sense. Act- ing under the advice of senstole white men he persuaded his people to elect some of the best of the ola citizens, democrats, to be Suerti, County Clerk and a majority of the County Commission- ers, Colored men were sent to the Legisiature, and the magistrates are of botn colors. No white republican has ever come Into the county to dis- pute the sapremacy with Ayman, and by bis in- fluence this system has been fatthfully adhered vo since 1868. The result has been very happy. The county finances are in good order, and there is no debt; the negroes are happy and have no complaints of Injustice; the whites are so well satisfled that they cast in this county over one hundred white votes in 1874 for Hyman for Con- gress, and six hundred white votes were cast for Hyman’s nominees for the Legislature, three colored men. ‘here are only four. or five white repubjicans in the county, and these 1 believe taxe no interest im politics. Now miark—a quarrel among the white republicans in the Congressional district caused the nomination of Hyman for Congress. The district is strongly republican, but @ negro leader organized an opposition to Hyman and made @ canvass against him, carrying off 1,000 negro votes in the election, The white dem- ocrats in Warren county helped by their votes to desert this opposition. Of course they would have preferred to send a man of their own party to Congress, but not being able to do this they showed thelr regard tor the good sense and good conduct of ilyman, who is now @ member of the next Congress. A CONTRAST. Take now the city of Wilmington, Tis place has about 3,600 voters, of whom 1,400 are white and 2,200 colored. Tue colored men have been, since 1868, under tho control of @ bad set of lead- ers, white and biack, some of the whites being What are called ‘carpet-baggers.” The city debt in December, 1866, was $376,181, In February, 1875, 1b has been increased to $580,200, or by $204,018. Since Feoruary, 1 am told, $30,000 more have been added to it, ‘This 18 tho bonded debt, and for @ place of only 3,600 voters it is preity steep. But this is not all, in 1866 the real estate and personal tax amounted to $59,607, and was one per cent on the Teal estate. The poll tax—only whites paying this at that tiae—was $3, In 1874 the real estate and personal tax amounted to $108,000, or two per ceut on the valuation of real estate; and the poll tax, now paid by both races, was only $1, In 1866 the jicense tax paid the expenses of the city government—except the interest on its debi—ana leit a surplus of several thousand dollars in the treasury, In 1874 the real estate and personal tax, $108,000, and the license tax, More productive ythan in 1866, Were In- suilcicat to pay the expenses, and these now exceed the city’s income, There is no deny- ing that when a@ city’s debt 1s almost doubled im nine years and its taxes trebied, and yet lt doce hot live within ita income, tuere must be grave Mismanagement. , THR NEW WILMINGTON CHARTER. It ts not surprising that there has been great Irritation apd bad feeling in Wilmington. Last year it required the efforts of good men of both parties to maintain the peace. but in spite o! opposition the negro vote has been kept togetucs and has served the uses of corrupt leaders, Even the efforts of a tew colored men to bring thelr people to reason has failed. The Legislature allowed the people of Wilmington to try cumula- uve voting; but for some reason tnis failed, Accordingly last winter a new charter for the city was formed by some of its citizens, and granted by the Assembly. In this they took the troubles by tne horns; and, ag one of them said to me, “We do not conceal our object, which was and is to so arrange the wards as to overcome the colored vote; the negroes, who own no prop. erty, help to taxand rob us, If our remeay is wrong, then we have dene wrong intentionally— we meant to do just what we baye done.” What they did by the new charter was to divide the city into three wards: ‘he First containing 397 voters, of whom 201 are white and 106 colored; the Secona, 360 voters, of whom 281 are white and seVenty-nine colored; and the Third, 2,800 voters, of Whom 800 are white and 2,000 colored, Hach of these wards elect three councilmen, and, of course, the Whites have six to the blacks three. It has been pretended that the division was made on the property ling, but this is not correct, ‘Tue valua- tion of the First ward 1s $950,000; of the Second, $1,180,000, and of the Third, which contains many residences of the more wealthy inhabitants, $2,000,000, The fact 1s that the division was made to overcome the negro, or, to put it more plaialy, the non-property owning vote, and the wealthy residents Of the Third ward appear to nave freely consented to the arrangement, probably because they are large owners of property also in the First and Second wards, which inciude the business parts of the city, 1 have taken my figures trom the “case agteed,” which has been submitted to the State Supreme Vourt, Which 1s soon todecide upon the constttutionality of this charter. An additional regulauon pro- vides that a qualified voter must live for ninety daya preceding the election in the ward, block and lot in witch he lived when he registered. Ot course this is done to prevent “colonizing,” and it seems asevere demand; but it isa fact that the negrees are very migratory and easily col- onized; and the rule 1s said to be necessary in order to enable the registration to be verifled. Now, no republican with whom I have spoken denies that there has been gross and shameless corruption and mismanagement in the city gov- ernment ef Wilmington; nor that it has so far been impbssibie for the honest republican leaders in the State to control the negroes there or to overthrow the men whe misuse their votes What then? The remedy provided in the new charter is novel. Is it essentially unjust? Of course it is easy to say that it is unrepabil- can, But 1s lomg continued and continuing mis- government, perpetrated by the help of a class which readily gives itself up to this use, republican? I for one do not hesttate to say that, the facts being what they sre—and I nave heard no one dispute them—tne expedient here to be tried deserves the trial, and 1 nope the Sue preme Court will so decide as to give ita trial. It May teach us of the North a lesson in city govern. ment. Newbern, Tarboro and Raleigh also recetved newohartera, Im Newbera, a republican told me, waste and maladministration had gone to such lengths that he knew of a house which would rent for $300 per annum the whole rental of which would be swallows up by the State, county and city taxes, In Raleigh there were formerly three wards, with three councilmen for each. The negroes chose & republican Council and Mayor, who issued scrip until it fell to sixty and seventy-five cents; and it has since been dis covered that they kept, or, atleast, left no records, 80 that at present the amount of the city debt is unknown. The city has about 10,000 inhabitants and is believed to owe about $200,000. The new charter makes five wards, and gives to one of these five Couneilmen, to the remainder three each. The Council also now elect the Mayor and other executive officers. The new arrangement gives eleven demecrats ana six republicans. An attempt was made to colonize negro voters before the first election under the new charter, but it was defeated. There 1s no complaint or dissatisfaction with the new system, now that it has gone into operation, so far as lcould hear. The new democratic Councly bad the wisdom to retain in office a negro police. man who had shown himself a fit person, There 18 no complaint of mjustice by the negroes, I may add here, to show the spirit of North Caro- lina, that last year, at the beginning of the politt- cal canvass, a negro whocommitted a rape upon a white woman within the county was brought into Raleigh by the law oMicers who captured nim, lodged 1n jail, properly tried by the proper court, and, being founa guilty, was in due order hanged, Such an offence ts not always so lawiully deals with in our own Northern States, Iwill also add that colored aswell as white re- publicans admitted to me that the negroes in several counties, and especially in the city e Wiunington, cannot Bow be controlled by the better class of leaders, The arrangement of city wards so as to overcome the negro majority is a device which will be needless by and by, and will then be easily repealed. Meantime, it is an eflectual means to stop the plundering, which is injurious not more to the wuite property ownera than to the negroes themselves, who are pe cultarly demoralized by the political corruption oi which they are the tools, 1 must reserve for another letter some account of the general condition of soctety and industry in North Carolina. CHARLES NORDHOFF. POLITICAL NOTES. Vice President Wilson thinks the republicans had better goto work and make up a winning party before they talk about who shall be their candidate for the Presidency. “Banks and Lamar’ is the 1 the Presidential candidate mongers, The name of Thomas Donaldson, of Howard county, is mentioned as an independent candi date for Governor of Maryland. He is expected to have a better fate than his namesake, whe “went up in a balloon.” The Boston Journal says there is no truth im the report that connected the sames of Judge Hoar and Hon, George F. Hoar with a movement to bring Judge Devens into the political flela. North Caroima will hold an election August 5 for delegates to a Constitutional Convention, to meet at Raleign, September 6, The repablicang offhe State are strongly opposea to the conven- tion, which, they fear, will put in force some measures for distranchising colorea voters, The name of ex-Governor William Bigler, as the democratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylva« nia, is being favorably received in various quar- ters. Some papers say be would make a capital Governor for the Centennial year. The Whitenall Times deciares for the renominae tion of Deidricn Willers, Jr., as the democratic candidate for Secretary of State. Politics are im full blast in California just now. Senators Booth and Sargent have already made set speeches, And others of the smaller fry polith cians are following in order according to political preferences and bias. ‘The independents are making @ strong pull, but there are some land speculations that aro damaging the chances ot their candidate for Governor, The names of the gubernatorial candidates are:—iIrwin \demo- cratic), Phelps (republican), Bidwell (indepen dent) and Lovett (temperance). All four of the candidates claim to be opposed to railroad mo nopolies, PIO NONO AND ‘HE SHAH. (From Galignani’s Mes: er, July 20.) The Holy Father has heard from Persia th Mgr. Ciuzel, Archyishop of Heracieum, charge presents t@ ah, bi eran by His ity with the honors due to nis renk, Novhing could be more cordial tian the Kaatern monarcy’ manner, invention of , %