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

THE BLACK HILLS Opposition of the Sioux to the Presence of the Scientific Expedition. TREATY OBLIGATIONS DISREGARDED The Opinion of Red Dog on the Ac- | "tion of the Government. REMOVAL OF THE MINERS. | Camp Groox, Buack Hints, Av Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, when at Chey spring, beld a talk with the chief of the government scientific explorers, then about to enter the Black Hills, They expressed an earnest desire not only that the miners should be expelled and prevented from entering their hunting grounds, but that the government expe- dition should not begin the work of explora tion until after a new treaty or bargain had been completed. The speeches containing these | Bentiments were utlered with fierce gestures. The chiefs possessed the shrewdness to demand the ut- termost of their rights until they should formally re- | inquish them. Mr. Jenney, without any authorization, ‘promised that their wishes should be fulfiled. Sugh a ‘declaration, made just before the movement of the ex- pedition, was palpably mendacious and singularly indis- | creet, The Prosident, however, shown his disposi- h tion to fulfil the provision of the treaty of 1868 in re- gard to the invasion and occupancy of this country by ‘white citizens, although that clause which forbids also the presence of government troops in the Black Hills without “consent of the Indians first had and ob- tained” appears to be a dead letter in his sight, DISPLEASURE O¥ THE SIOUX, ‘When four of the Black Hills Commissioners—Messrs, Ashby, Comingo, Hinman and Collins—passed through the camps of this expedition last month, the Indians ‘wccompanying them djd not attempt to conceal the sul- Jen dissatisfaction with which they viewed the presence of this expedition and of so large a number of miners on their lands, While at Camp Harney they sent to Cap- tain William Hawley, Commandant, a message requesting stalk; but that astute officer declined hearing any of their childlike requests, which he would be powerless to grant. When the Commissioners and Indians, with their escort of cavalry under Captain Eagan, reached Camp ‘Crook, where they knew was-the commanding officer ef the expedition, their eagerness to talk with him ‘was rewarded. Red Dog, as the most prominent of the (party, was their spokesman, and carried himself with ‘unctuous dignity. | He left out of his speech, however, ‘the self-laudatory remarks which are characteristio of dhim, and seemed to feel the gravity of the present snb- Ject, as did his companions, too deeply to make it the ‘vehicle of personal vanity. The Black Hills were his, he gaid, to hunt in, and the Great Father had promised juat the white man should not trespass upon them, ‘The Great Father, he knew, tried to keep his word, but ‘his children would not obey him. He asked that the miners be driven out by the big chief before him, as had been promised by the Great Father. But, when he saw ‘what else was done, that troops were sent in to let men ‘examine the country, he felt that he was wronged. The ‘white man had no right to come here, not even the sol- @iers, He demanded that the expedition go back and take the miners with it. The ether Indians granted approval, and Lieutenant Colonel Dodge then replied, saying that he was not Sent here to remove the miners, but to protect the ex Plorers whom the Great Father had caused to come here to look at the country before the Great Father should make up his mind to purchase it. There was no time Vor further parley, the commissioners making only a Drief pause at Camp Crook and then pressing forward. Captain Eagan had only four days’ rations, and unless they travelled very rapidly they must have experienced some deprivation before rea¢hing Fort Sully. GENERAL CROOK VISITS THE EXPEDITION. The expressions of Red Dog show that the Sioux are fully alive to infringements of the treaty, and that they | ao not overlook the doings of this expedition in the proscribed district, altnough the President’s sanction and protection of the troops invest it with respect in their eyes, It is not surprising that he should recog- nize the policy of conforming to the wishes of the Bioux, supported by the guarantee of the treaty, before final negotiations with them for the relinquishmeng of the Black Hilis. General Crook's visit to the expedition has been expected for some time, and its purport has hardly been considered doubt- ful. Lieutenant Colonel Dodge in June wrote to General Crook deprecating the intended expulsion of the miners and dreading the necessity of performing so disagree- able a duty if it should be required of him. General | Crook himself saw President Grant and protested against an overscrupulous regard for a treaty which has already beon broken so many times by the Indians themselves, The example made of the outit captured | by Captain Mills had not checked the Ude of invasion. | The President, however, gave him verbal instructions | to detail troops against the miners « ause their expulsion from the Sioux reservation as speedily as pos- | sible. On bis return to Omaha the 6 in wrote | to the President in relation to the BI Js and re- | cvived in reply a telegraphic order, 1 by General | Grant, rendering peremptory his former instructions. EXPULSION OF THE MIX General Crook arrived at Spring Creek on June 27. and at this camp on June 28, He was cordially wel- comed. The Indians of the country north of the Platte, | who have heard of his qualities as an cnemy from the | wilds of Arizona, regard him with fear and awe. They | have adopted the name given him by the Apaches, | “Gray Fox.” Preparations for an energetic hunt were | immediately made; but the General attended first to the | important business of the hour. On the 20th the fol: | lowing important proclamation was issued to the | miners:— PROCLAMATION. Whereas the President of the United States has | Girected that no miners or other upauthorized citizens | shall be allowed to remain in the Indian reservation of the Black Hills, or in the unceded territory to the west | thereof, until some new treaty arrangement has been | Made with the Indians; and w same au- | thority the undersigned is dir upy said Teservation and territory with troops, and to remove all miners or other unauthorized cit may be now in or may hereafter | this country in violation of Therefore the unders' minér or other unauthorized citizen to Titory kuown us the Black Hills, i Horn country by or before ‘wext. | He hopes that the good sense and law abiding dis. | Position of the miners will prompt them to obey this | Order without compelling a resort to force, H It is suggested that the miners now in the Hills assem- | Die at the military post about to be established at Camp | Harney, near the stockade on French Creek, on or be- fore the 10th day of August; that they there and then | Hold a meeting and take such steps as may seem best to them by organization and drafting of proper resolntions | to secure to each, when this country shall be opened, | the beneilt of is discoveries and the labor he has already | expended. GEORGE CROOK, Brigadier General United Staves Army, Commanding Department of the Platte. Caur Croox, D. T., July 29, 1875, Official—Monnis ©. Foor, ‘First Lieutenant Ninth In- fantry, Adjutant Black Hills Expedition, ACTION OF MOXERS. | Yesterday about fifty miners, who have located claims | along Spring and Rapid creeks, assembled at one of the | camps in “‘Jenney’s Gulch,” on the former stream, to | @cliberate on the action proper for them to take in view of their approaching compulsory departure from the Bille, Tho object of so curly a meeting was to enable many of them to make their exit, who desired to do 0, before the time appointed for the gathering at the stockade. At three'o’clock Mr. Moffat, Deputy Recorder of the mining | istrict, called the miners to order, and A. J. Carlen was | gppointed chairman, R. Foreman being made secretary. the 1 oth day of August hres men, named Allen, Moffat and Hall, were ap. | pointed to draft resolutions. The following were pro- spared and adopted :— ‘Hf RESOLUTIONS. ‘Whereas it has become necessary for all miners and ee to leave the Black Hills before August 15, 18’ the ers to ; and whereas it becomes necessary for their selves the money and labor claims and to secure to then upon the same, Ties armat a anion of miners bo effected for the pro- bing on of all clvuns againat ‘jumping’ or relocation un Ul June 1, 1876. Sood’ vat we ah Dad garneliee 10 BEAet Ad | encountered many miners, with whom he conversed | calkers hi | the Colorado is to be maintained in as high a state of | efficiency and discigline as any vessel in commission in | the navy. The only drawback anticipated to this excel- | of raw hands have to be taken on board, ‘The Colorado will be ready in a few weeks, when Captain Braine, with the officers of the Vermont, will take charge of her. | mentione secure to each claim holder his claim, provided he com - plies with the above resolutions adopted at this meéting and produces records to substantiate the fact that he is a bond fide claim holder at the time he is forced by military authority to leave his claim and the Hills, The following additional resolutions were also adopted:— Resolved, That miners shall hold their claims, and their title to the same shall hold good up to sixty days after the ratuication by Congress of any new treaty arrangement made with the Indians by which the Black Hills shall be opened to settlement. Resolved, That the thanks of the miners are extended to the officers and troops for the kindness’shown them. Resolved, That each member sign his pame to these resolutions. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be pre- served by the Recorder of this district, Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings of this meeting be forwarded to the Cheyenno newspapers for publication, After the conclusion of the meeting some of the miners immediately began their journey out of the Hills, their wagohs being loaded and ox teams hitched to them in readiness. Two companies of cavalry of this expedition will aid Captain Pollock’s command in effecting the removal of the miners, After entering the Black Hills General Crook while on the march, He took pains to notify them of the order which he was compelled to enforce, and advieed them to quietly submit to the situation, | providing to the utmost for the protection of their claims during their absence from the Hills. The miners | immediately became very kindly disposed toward the | General, aud there is no doubt that every one of them will voluntarily depart from, the Indian reservation within the time preseribed. The above proclamation has been distributed as widely as possible among the 2,000 unauthorized individuals supposed to be now in the country. THE TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. THE CONSOLIDATION AND WHAT IS SAID ABOUT IT—THE HRIGHTENING OF THE RATES—-EFFECT ON BUSINESS. A visit to the headquarters of the two telegraph com- Panies—the Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific— failed to elicit auy definite information regarding the Tumored consolidation of the two lines. That such a movement is in progress there can hardly be any doubt, if the secretivoness of the two companies is taken into consideration. Mr. Cornell, one of the vice presidents of the Western Union Company, who acts in the abt sence of Mr. Orton, positively refuses to give any infor- mation, but was disposed to be very funny about it, He | cracks stale jokes about it, asks questions having no | bearing on the subject, and acts like a man who is under orders from his superiors not to tell what he may havo been allowed to know, While the Atlantic and Pacific people are not so secre- tive they profess to know nothing ut the consolida- tion, It is certain that the Vice President of the At- lantic and Pacific {s very strongly in favor of the amal- gamation of the two companies, and he seems to be the only one who does not conceal it Regarding the change of rates the manager of the Atlantic and Pacific says it is a misapprehension to call the present rates high ones. They are the same that were in operation up to last February, and those that were in force since were not the normal ones. It was to a great extent an experiment, and it was practically a failure. The increase in business that resulted there- from certainly did not repay the expense of the reduc- tion. The present return to the old rates only affected messages between Boston, Philadelphia, Albany and New York. Western and Southern rates remained the same. The average increase over the prices of last | ‘Week was about thirty-three per cent, The change had | taken place at the solicitation of the Western Union | Company, und the rates of the two companies were the same. 1t was found that the cost of delivering messages in largo cities was very high, it costing about eleven cents to deliver every message in New York city. Under these circumstances the rate of a message from Boston here, for instance, was not exorbitant at thirty cents; whereas at twenty cents it ceriainly did not pay, and the public did not seem to have paid any particular | attention to the change. ‘The reports of the activity of the new National Line in San Francisco are ridiculed by the people of both the | telegraph lines here, who say that without an arrange- ment with the Pacific Railroad to repair any portion of | the wire that may be down no line across the continent | will pay, and that it would cost all the receipts of the business to maintain a construction force to make re- airs and drag poles across the mountains and prairies. in spite of all this reports from San Francisco state that | the new company is going actively to work, and that | “coustruction departments” will soon be ‘opened in | Chicago and New York. In this city, outside of the doubting Thomases of the telegraph ‘companies, con- siderable faith seems to exist in the genuine intentions of the new company. s THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. THE NEW RECEIVING SHIP—WORK IN PROGRESS— PREPARATIONS FOR INCREASED COMFORT FOR | SUMMER RESORTS. LONG BRANCH. AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE WEATHER—PRINCESS NELLIZ AND HER HUSBAND PREPARING TO DE- PART—COUNTRY LIFE IN ENGLAND—THE LONG BRANCH ROWING CLUB'S REGATTA—THE AUGUST MEETING AT MONMOUTH PARK— WHEN TO ENJOY LONG BRANCH LIFE, Loxa Braxcm, August 17, 1875. ‘The weather and the bathing at Long Branch have been more enjoyable for the past four days than at any previous time during the present season. Sun- day and Monday were free from rain and very warm in the sun, but with a fine cool breeze from the southeast, The sea is as calm as a lake, and the long waves roll in with a gentle, regular swell, one after the other, apparently too lazy to make more than a pretence at surf as they break on the sands, The water is of a tepid tempera- ture, and the bathers, disregarding tho caution of elderly ladies and doctors of the old school to limit the bath to ten minutes, sport in the surf for a full hour, and only return to shore and dry themselves in the warm sand to plunge gain into the tempting waves. Rain fell in the night to save the credit of the weather prophets, and to-day, in spite of the hot sun, there is searcely a speck of dust flying in the roads, ‘Tho driv- ing is, therefore, delightful, and Ocean avenue is crowded with vehicles, from the showy four-in-hand of the imperial family, with ts retinue of liveried servants, in which Mrs, Grant appears in public, down to the little pony chaise with its load of twelve year olds, PRINCESS NELLIE AND HER HUSBAND, The Princess Nellie and her husband are busily pre- paring for their European journey. They leaye on the 28th of August, and will not return to the United States until the early part of 1877, when they expect'to attend his third term. The Princess has no idea that her father will retire from the Presidency, and Mr. Sartoris carnt see any reason why he shouldn’t rule America all his life, a8 the Prince of Wales will rule England, you know. So after showing the little im- perial grandchild to the old folks in his country home in England Mr. Sarioris will bring back our Princess to share in the glories of the inauguration ball ‘That, at least, is his calculation. It is to be hoped, however, that they will return to the States even if the dream of a life tenure for His Excellency should uot be fulfilled. The Princess is a favorite here on her ‘own merits, and would be welcome wherever she is known even if her father should return to tanning hides at Galena, Besides, there is a general apprehen- sion that Nellie will not enjoy a hum- drum English country life, where people are all highly respectable, but very staid and quiet. We have nothing here likes the English country family class to which Mr. Sartoris belongs. ‘They are not farmers; they possess a competency— that is for a country life—and live without work ina dreamy, humdrum sort of manner, visiting and visited by the country parson, the doctor, the attorney's wife, “the schoolmaster, and occasionally favored by an in- vitation to the residence of the great landed proprietor, who is sometimes a peer and sometimes the member for thé county, These are rare occasions, but they are the only opportunities that offer for showing off the country beauties and their wardrobes before ap- reciative eyes, The country families seldom visit ondon, Paris or any of the gay cities, because their means, which are sufficient for their’ modest home wanis, do not warrant the expensos of a metropolis. Will this placid life suit “our Nellie?” Some believe not, But they forget that her husband is all in all to a young and loving wife, and that wherever he may be She finds there acontented home. Mr, Sartoris, too, appears to be a favorite with all who know him, and there is no doubt that his American wife will be happy with him, on whichever side of the Atlantic he may chance to be. A REGATTA ON SHREWSRURY RIVER. A new excitement has been created at the Branch by the formation of a boating alub among the summer resi- dents and # proposed regatta on Shrewsbury River. The younger members of the cottage families and of some of the hotel guests have formed a rowing asso, ciation under very promising auspices, and will com> mence active operations at once. The regatta will take place on the 23d of the present month. For the single scull race there are likely to be twelve entries. of fours and a deciding heat between the winners. The prize will be a subscription medal, and a dinner will be iven to the club at the West End Hotel after the race. every year, This year the arrangements were delayed until somewhat late in the season; nevertheless a spirited race is anticipated. In future’ regattas it is pro- posed to have races for four-oared shells and doublgand single skulls, and there 13 no doubt that the hong Branch regatta will become one of the most attractive events of the season. THE RACES AT MONMOUTH PARK. and Saturday of next week will no doubt be largely ai- tended, The entries up to the present time include many favorite horses and the stables are beginning to arrive from Saratoga Five are already here and more SAILORS AND MARINES. A few weeks since an order was issued from the Navy | Department directing that the line-of-battle ship Ver- | mont, which has served for several years—since the old | North Carolina was broken up—as receiving vessel at | this port, should be put out of commission, and that the steam frigate Colorado should take her place, The | latter is a first class vessel and carries forty-five guns— | thirty nine-inch on the main deck and fifteen of the same calibre on the spar deck. The officers of the Ver- | mont were at the same time ordered to the Colorado; | but, pending the. necessary repairs, which are now ac- | tively going on, no actual change has yet taken place, | It seems to be the design of the departinent that ships employed for reeruiting purposes shall also be available for immediate and effective purposes at any moment when required. Accordingly the Colorado will be kept in a condition to meet this requirement, She will also be employed as a school of instruction. The vessel is | ne dergoing a thorough overhauling from truck to keelson, under the direction of Captain Brame, com, | | mander of the Vermont. As is usual after a return from | a cruise in the tropics all stores have been landed, © been hard at work, new galleys have been constructed, the masts, yards, sails and pumps subjected to a close examination, and repairs made in every di- rection. DISCIPLINE OF THE CREW, According to the instructions of Secretary Robeson Jent design is that a sufficient crew can never be perma- | nently relied upon. On the Vermont there may be | sometimes 600 men, and in a few days this numbery owing to drafts for other vessels, may dwindle down to Jess than 100, It requires some time to bring a recruit up to the requirements of first class duty. Months pass before he properly performs his duties, and it also re positions for the men to ocoupy on board. After this 1s perhaps the entire crew of the receiving | red to man some other ship, and a new set ‘The Vermont, it ig understood, will be used hereafter as a coal barge. ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION, On the cob dock, close to which the Vermont is now | moored, there stood, up to a week or two ago, a row of frame shanties occu; ing purposes, | The grocer, in a sm eror, the barber and the newsdealer had fac ¢, and the compe- tition being active the on whatever to complain of paying unreasonable prices for the com modities or accommodation he required. ‘The old structures have been demolished and the materials ro- moved to make room for a two story building, 100 feet | 20 feet, which is to be constructed ding to plans | designed by Captain Braine, 1 portion will consist of lavatories, b hi mna- | | sium. Inthe upper story are to be reading rooms and | apartments for the reception of visitors, The building is intended solely for the use and beneit of the enlisted men of the service, and the object is to add as far as possible *to their comfort, Hereafter, when friends | come to see men on the receiving vessel they can have certain. degree of privacy in a neat apartment, free from the —confngon and publicity of a gun or berth deck. The sailors, also, when off duty can have opportunities for reading and , mental improvement, In this connection it may be | that Captain Braine has already 900 volumes of instructive and entertaining works to place in the ibrary. The means to be afforded for physical exercise and for bathing will be devised with a view for the | healthful improvement of the sailors and marines. WORK IN PROGRESS, The Swatara (in commission) is umdergoing rome sht repairs, It ig understood that she is intended for | pean squadron, nton, one of the new sloops of war the con- of which was recently authorized by Con- | , 18 steadily progressing toward completion. Sho | ‘will correspond in tonnage and calibre of guns with the | ‘Tennessee and Brooklyn, now in active service, The | frame of the Trenton is up and the inside iron strap- | pings are now being placed in position. ‘The Intrepid (torpedo boat) will be ready fora cruise or for experiments in a few days. A crew is detailed to take her, it is understood, to Rewpors Large quantities of oakum, whiel manufactured at the Yard, with other naval stores, are now being shipped to _veusels in foreign stations, There are 1,100 mechanics and laborers now em- | themselves at as many | of health and enjoy | bly hi are expected this week. The August meeting is more fashionably attended than the July meeting. It is tho American Ascot, while the July meeting is the American Derby. The character of the entries will, however, insure a full attendance of turfmen and of the lovers of good racing. The track is in lirst rate condition. LONG BRANCH IN SEPTEMBER. Wo are yet too young asa nation to have learned per- fectly the lesson ‘how to live and enjoy ourselves. We are ‘a toiling people, all working for a living and not rich enough to have nothing to do but to make a study of pleasure. When the summer comes we rush out of the cfty, ifwe can afford it, and go to Saratoga or the White Mountains, or Long Branch, or Newport, us the case may be, A few go the rounds of the water: ing places, stopping a week here and a week there; but their object is only to see and be seen—to show es during the season as pos- sible, They are hot influenced by the desire to enjoy the springs when the springs are most enjoyable; the mountains when they are most desirable; the seaside when it presents its greatest attractions. In Europe people go to different places at different times in seareh. ment, and not as a fashionable labor, ‘They know just What months to visit Scarborough or to go into Devonshire; when to make a trip to Hastings and St. Leonards, and-when to seek the soft air of the Isle of Wight Underclif™ Brighton, of course, has a character sui generis, and’ is available at all seasons, Hence the pring, summer and autumn aflurd them thé opportunity to secure a clean bill of heaith for the winter and to obtain renewals of the lease of life. In fifty years time we shall proba- learned the same lesson and put its teachings into practice. When that time arrives, the true season at Long Branch for health and enjoyment will be found in the months of August, September and October. The Toads are more free from dust, the sun is less flerce, the air more bracing and the sea breeze more reliable then than earlier in the season. The bright moonlight nights of September on the seashore are among the most beau- tiful sights afforded by nature, and the water is generally more pleasant for’ bathing in August and September than in any other months. The cot- tagers are beginning to understand this, and many of them remain at the Branch until mid-November. When the people generally understand it the Long Branch hotels will be more crowded from the middle of August until, at least, the middie of October than in June, July and earl¥ August. This year the season has been laté and we are likely to have’ much sultry weather yet before the sun Joses its tierceness. Hence there are who | Quires time fur the officers to find out the most suitable | probably gay and bustling times in store for the sum- mer capital for six weeks to come. It is certain that the Branch has not been go enjoyable this season as it has been for the past three or four days, and several families at the West End, whose departure bad been fixed for the middle of August, have determined to re- main over for another month. UP THE HUDSON. ON THE SUMMIT OF STORM KING—‘‘IDLEWILD,” THE HOME OF THE PORT WILLIS—TRADITIONS. AND LOCAL ROMANCES—THE VISITORS AT CORNWALL, Moryrais Hovsr, CORNWALL, ON THE Heupson, August 16, 1875. After a delightful sail of four hours’ duration from New York, up tho. Hudson, I found myself ut the pie- | tureaque and secluded little village of Cornwall, Orange county, Of late years this quiet retreat has beon mach in favor with New Yorkers as a summor resort, and, judging from the -crowded condition of the various hotels and boarding Louges, of which thero are many, ithas ne been better patronized than during the Present season. Its popularity is not unmerited, for parer air and more glorious natural scenery can hardly be found anywhere, As the steamer nears the landing the tourist's atten- tion is attracted to a towering mountain that looms up in gloomy grandeur, acting, secmingly, as a senti the pleasant little villa nestling at ita base, This is Storm King, the especial pride of all Joyal Cornwallians, who look upon it with deep veneration, and with par- to donable vanity point it ont at every opportunity to new comers, But of it] will speak further on. Upon landing at Cornwall one is filled with astonish- ment at the bustle and activity displayed at the dock— A capacious one, by the the wa town. Vehicles of all sizes and ¢ other in the competition for 8. The attractions of the leading hotels ard heralded through the stento- rian lungs of rustic drivers; private carriages are realy to whirl expected city visitors away to beautiful cottages; solitary saddle horses, anxious to be mounted; the shouting of porters and the greeting of friends, all and worthy of a larger criptions jostle each tr ‘Plovod at the Yard, form @ scene of busy life, reminding one more of the If that number should contend there will be three heats | five calculated to keep up the club and hold a regatta | The races at Monmouth Park on Tuesday, Thursday | His Excellency’s inauguration on the commencement of | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET. central depot of a large city than of the landing place of an unpretentious village. , ‘ THR DRIVES. Cornwall has a number of charming drives, but as a rule they are too short Art has done but little toward their improvement except in rare instances, but beauti- ful nature has bestowed upon them weird picturesque surroundings that compensate for all deficiencies of art, First of the drives in point of beauty is probably Bay View avenne, which commands throughout its entire length a fine view of the Hudson and pleasantly winds up an easy grade to the summit of the Storm King. Upon this avenue are many very beautiful summer cot- tages, Next comes Champlin way, which leads from the main thoroughfare to the Mountain House, and thence by bridle path to the top of Crow’s Nest Moun- tain. A deep yawning chasm bounds it on one side for quite a distance, and overhanging tree-tops, while not ob- structing any of the views, shield the traveller's face from the burning sun, The West Point road is another very pretty and popular drive, and also abounds in de- lightful scenery. ‘The drive from the landing to New- burg, @ distance of five miles, skirts the Hudson for almost its entire length, and would be a charming road were it kept fu proper repair, but in many places it has, through neglect, become almost dangerous to travellers. THE LAKES of Cornwall are of no mean order, cithor in pojnt of size or beauty, although the unappreciative title of pond, coming down from olden times, still clings to many. ‘The | principal ones are known by the uncuphonious names of Bog Meadow Pond, Long Pond, Round Pond and Pop- lopen Pond. They io among the high hills, and some of them stretch away into other townships, The water they contain, I am told, ts pure and soft, and the fishing is spokenof as very good, ‘MIN MOUNTAINS. Among the chains of magnificent peaks that greet tho eye in Cornwall the Storm King, before mentioned, stands pre-eminent, From the river at its base to. its cloud capped top the distance is about 1,500 feet. The ascent can be made only from the rear via the Champlin bridle path, and even this is by no means a safe or easy path, but the top once attained all the difficulties and dangers experienced in the journey are quickly forgot- ten and amply paid for by ‘the gorgeous scenery pre- sented to view on every side. On a clear day one can distinctly see from the sum- mit of Storm King a radius of tifty miles. The Catskill Mountains, in all their splendor, loom up in the north, apparently touching the sky; the steamers plonghing the waters of the winding Hudson in the dim distance appear like miniature yachts, ve Point, distant five miles, appears to lie ai your feet, nd the music of the military band can be plainly heard. ‘The church spires and higher buildings of Poughkeepsie seem not far away, and Newburg, removed six miles, is apparently within rifle reach. When the sky to the south is per- fectly free from clouds it is sait ‘that the shipping in by TAR harbor, a eae y nearly sixty aeons e perceived; but this J cannot gorrehorate from Ee Rat sokeprvat ma n0 such ‘slate, OF the. atimoe- phere has prégnied itself during my stay. Ex- cursions to the summit of Storm King, notwithstanding the steepness of the ascent and accessory perils, are of frequent occurrence, and more than one fair city bell bent on country frolic, has reached the tep. It eeienh here that the romantic name the Storm Being bears was given it by the poet Willis, because of its remarkable barometer accomplishments. Mr, Willis often remarked. that, by glancing at the mountain he could foretell the state of the weather. If at early morn its peak was robed in clouds a storrh was imminent, and whenever at the same hour its head stood clearly defined in the blue sky, fair weather throughout the day was a certainty, ‘The next mountain in size is Crow’s Nest, situated a short distance south of Storm King. Its ascent is com- paratively easy, but the view from its summit is not so extensive as that from Storm King, being obstructed on ‘one side by the latter, Breakneck, Roundtop and Grand Lookout Mountains also come in for a share of favorable notice, IDLEWILD, Descriptions of Idlewild, late the home of the lamented Willis, have so often been written that I shall content myself with a mere allusion to the place, Its picturesque- hess and beauty have not been overstated, nor could they well be, for it is Indeed a beautiful spot. There are numerous estates on the Hudson that, so far as artificial beauty is concerned, far surpass Idlewild; but there are very few that equal it in natural loveliness, Every variety of picturesqueneas appears to be repre- sented. There is the deep precipice, the ravine, the gorge, the rippling mountain stream, the undulating plain, the wild forest of hoary oak, the rugged, danger- ous descent, the natural bridge of fallen trees across the flowing brook—in short, the diversity of picturesque scenery is remarkable, Add to all this a beautiful vine-clad cottage, with a fine, broad lawn in front, shaded on the other sides by abun: dant foliage and commanding a fine view of the Hudson, and you have a fuir idea of famous Idlewild. The his- tory of Idlewild dates no further back than twenty-five years ago. At that time it was considered a mere tract unfit for cultivation, One morning in the autumn of 1550 N. P. Willis, then sojourning in Cornwall, passed through the estate, and was struck with its richness of natural beauty. He inquired about its value of a friend, and was met with the discouraging response that it was almost valucless—a mero idle wild. Soon after Mr. Wilts purchased the property and baptized it Idlewild, Here ho lived and died, After his demise it passed out of the hands of his heiré, and it is now owned and oc- cupied by Mr. Courtney, the President of the contem- plated West Shore Railroad. A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS, In company with a party of gentlemen I took a horse- back ride early this morning through the mountains, We ascended the summits of several of the highest hills and viewed the glorious panorama from various stand- points. From the top of the Grand Lookout the view was the grandest I ever experienced. The entire coun- try to the north, almost to the Catskills, seemed like one continuous beautiful garden, Nature has indeed been lavish in her gifts to this section of the country, THE HOTELS, Thore are several very good hotels in Cornwall, among which the most prominent are the Mountain House, the Glenridge House, the Smith, the Lawrence, the Linden Park and the Clark houses, The first of these is situated about 700 feet above tho level of the sea and commands a magnificent view of the surrounding country. Attached to the hotel is a large pavilion, where excellent mrusic is discoursed and nightly hops' take place. Among the New Yorkers etopping at the Mountain House are Jacob Halstead, ‘Tracy R, Edson and sisters, the Polhemus family, ol Brooklyn; William A. Boyd, the counsellor; Dr, James 7, Fitch ‘and family, Robert Jeffrey, cashier of the Bank of North America, and Mr M. J. Head, the artist, ‘The Hon. Mablon Chance, United States Consul at Nas- sau, N. P., is also sojourning here. Many well known citizens of New York and Brooklyn have cottages scattered throughout the place, at which they quiely spend the season. Josh Ward, the famous oarsman, the champion of the international race of 1871, is also here and keeps a modest little hotel near the landing: BITS OF ROMANCE, Everything about Cornwall appears to have a romantic history. The most prosaic looking, houses and places, where romance would never be luoked for, I have found on inquiry to be allied in some way with’the romantic, An old decaying mill which I passed on my drive to the hotel, I thought surely could Lave nothing of note about it, but I was imistaken, for I learned afterward that some five years ago a dastardly murder had been committed within its walls, A young and prepossessing lady was | enticed into the mill, and there outraged and murdered. Her dead body was ‘found several days after, terribly mutilated, atid the cowardly murderer remains to this day at liberty, A romance of the exuct ca site nature stands recorded of a_ little arren isiand in the middle of the Hudson, nearly known as Pollypella pele Storm King, Island, What an odd name, { remarked to my com- panion while viewing it this morning, whereupon my ears were charmed with the delicate romance of how a sweet poetical young lady, a number of years ago, de- ¢lared she would be married to her own true Jove in no other place in the wide, wide world than on that partic- ular island, Remonstrances were in vain, and our he- roine was married in the spot of her choice, The nice ‘oung lady’s name was Miss Pell—Miss Polly Pell— Renos the name of the island, THe Hi ALD'S SARATOGA TRAIN, I find that the Saratoga lightning express enterprise of the Heravp is warmly commended here on all sides, On Sunday morning, they tell me, the guest. who is not found with his HinAup at breakfast is looked upon with grave astonishinent, @ Weather here has been very rainy of late. As I write it seems as if the floodgates of Heaven had been opened. WATERING PLACE NOTES. Aristarchi Bey, Ottoman Minister, is at Newport. At the White Sulphur Springs, Va, are General Joseph E. Johnston, Genoral J. F, Gilmer, General J. M. St. John, Genera! Robert Toombs, of Georgia; Major Honry Mathews, Attorney of Wost Virginia; L. R. Longworth, the Catawba Wine King; Dr, Cadwallader, of Philadelphia; Mrs, W. M. Gwin and Miss Gwin, with Judge Ord, of California; Rev. Morgan Dix, of New York; Hon.’ C. M. Conrad, iiss Bettie Erwin, & grand: duugiiter of Henry Clay; Miss Lizzie Henry, a great granddaughter of Patrick Henry; Miss Sallie’ Marshall, ‘of Louisville, n granddaughter of Chief Justice Marshall; Miss Maggie French, of New York; Miss Hallie Voor hees, of Indiana, a daughter of Hon, Daniel Voorhees; Miss’ Brooks, of Baltimore; Miss Denison, of Baltimore; ex-Governor Randolph, of New Jersey; Colonel Aiken, of South Carolina; Colonel Huger, of Mobile, and Gen- eral Beverly Robertson, of St, Louis, SUNDAY EXCURSIONS, New York, August 17, 1875. To Tur Eprror or tHe Henary:— . On last Sunday morning I was a passenger on board the steamer that left pier No. 8 for Long Branch at half-past nine, Shortly after rounding the Battery the steamer Northfield, running between New York and Staten Island, came from her moorings. From the Battery, almost as far down as Fort Hamilton, these two steamers put on a full head of steam and raced with the utmost speed, They were so near at times that the slightest jarring of the wheels would have led toacoliision, The Long Branch boat would not allow the Staten Island boat to pass her, while the Staten Island bout ifsisted upon the right of way. During, this exciting race women and children were alarmed, and for fifteon minutes, at least, the utmost distress and confusion prevailed, ‘Considering that both of these boats were laden with excursionists, and that there was nothing to be gained by either boat arriving a moment or two earlier at its wharf, it seems to me that the con- duct of those who commanded them is worthy of tho severest cergure, Your obedient servant, QUTIZEN, THE WERMANASCULACE The Drama of Heinrich Von Kleist. AN APOTHEOSIS OF HATRED A Sketch of the Fragment of Grabbe. Banu, July 26, 1875. The defeat of the Roman General Publius Quinctilius Varus, with the total destruction of his thtee legions, by the Teutonic tribes united under the command of the popular hero, Arminius, Armin or Hermann, the chief of the Cheruskii, in the year 9 of the Christian era, has ever been a favorite theme for German poetry, German art and German scholarship. The main facts of this astounding check to the onward stride of the great Southern colossus are, of course, known to all readers of Roman history to whatever country they may belong, But for men of other nations the interest attaching to the story is Roman rather than German. We take our stand in imperial Romo, and, following the progress of the harrowing news as it spreads like wildfire through the dismayed city, we are carried along by the excited crowd through the Forum to the Palace of the Cwsars. We look upon Cmsar himself weeping for his dead vet- erans of Syria and Spain, as Queen Mary of England wept over the fall of Calais, and hear him cry in the in- coherent anguish of his heart, “Give me back my le- gions! my legions!” For Germans it is a very different matter. That memorable three days’ slaughter in the Cheruskan marshes is, for them, the dawning of a new and brighter day in the world’s history, the first link in the long chain which has been upon the anvil ever since, and which was knocked into something like ehape at Sadowa and afterward at Sedan, although, perhaps, a few more strokes of the hammer will have yet to be given before the work is complete. For German art and song Arminius, or Hermann, has become the typical and somewhat legendary POUNDER OF 4 UNITED GERMAN PATHERLAND, Volumes upon volumes have been written with the View of settling the endless doubts and difficulties aris- ing from the fragmentary treatment which the sub- Ject has received at the hands of the Roman historians, of piecing their conflicting narratives together so as to form one consistefit whole, and of establishing the ex- act spot where the occurrence took place, The shelves of libraries groan beneath the weight of the multifarious literature connected with this mighty argument, Hermann and his wife Thusnelda, with her massive flaxen tresses, have been portrayed over and over again upon the glowing canvas; they have been glorified by the chisel, idealized in epic and lyric strains and pre- sented upon the stage with all tho enhancements of ex- quisite scenic decoration and of minute historica, accuracy in matters of costume and of everything else comprised under the general term of accessories. Many dramatic writers have tried thetr hand at a “‘Hormann- schlacht,” but the word at once suggests the names of Heinrich von Kleist and of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, both men of mark who have dramatized the subject, each from his own point of view and under this identi- cal title, Grabbe’s work, much later in point of time, is a mere fragment, totally unfitted for the stage, quaint and crude to excess, but, like everything ‘proceeding from his pen, full of originality. More of him, how- ever, anon. For tho present we will confine our atten- tion to the better known ‘Hermannschlacht” of the gifted but wild and erratic Heinrich von Kleist, whose sad career was fitly closed by a romantic suicide, HEINRICH VON KLKIST. Kleist was born in the year 1776, at Frankfort, on the Oder, and he wrote his ‘“Hermannschlacht” during a period of. deep national dejection. Never had the for- tunes of his native Prussia been reduced to so low an ebb. By the peace of Tilsit she had been robbed of her fairest provinces, All her territory lying west of the Elbe, and much more besides, had been wrested from her by tho overbearing might of France, and her King, Frederick William IL, in reply to certain claims ad- vanced by him had been disdainfully admonished by the haughty conqueror to stand upon his good behavior, “avec ce qui lui reste de ses éats,”” that now barely covered an area of somo 2,800 square miles, with’ 4,000,000 of inhabitants, Kleist’s drama has been called the apotheosis of hatred, and hatred uncompromising, undying, shrinking from no means whereby its end may be compassed is the key-note which sounds throughout this strange medicy of past and present. Kleist knowingly and deliberately reads the _his- tory of the first century of our era through a pair of spectacles manufactured in the nineteenth. His Cherusci and Bructeri and Nervii and Ubii, the old Teutons of Tacitus, are the Wurtem- bergers, the Bavarians, the Rhinelanders, the Lippe- Detmolders, taking various sides in the war of inde- pendence against France, some basely leagued with the invader, others preparing the means of resistance and already allowing their vengefal thoughts to carry them on to the glorious dawning of that day which shall see them pour their conquering hordes into the captive “mistress of the world.” Nach Rom selbst muthig aufeubrechen, cries “King” Hermann at the close of the play, and Rome, of course, meant Paris, for Kleist’s contemporaries and for Kleist himself, whose Romans are, consistently with his genoral scheme, the Frenchmen who had laid his country | Waste, mounted guard before the gates of his dear Berlin, THE BERLIN OF THE ORKAT FREDERICK, and, be it not forgotten, arrested the poet himself and sent him away to be kept for a twelvemonth in durance vile at Chalons on the Marne. His Germans live in the rudest of wigwams; they aro grotesquely clothed in decrskins and untanned ox hides, the horns projecting by way of ornament from their own foreheads; and yet they can all read and write, and their conversation is that of men who are deeply read in the Conversations. Lexicon. They talk familiarly of whales, of sucked oranges, of the Colossus of Rhodes and of Parthian darts, showing at all events that they have made the most of the Latin polish which they are supposed to | have received at the hands of Sentius Saturninus, the predecessor of Quintilius Varus, and, as history tells us, an unflinching Romanizer. Hermann himself has received a Roman education; he is the friend and ally of the Romans, and, as such, an object of suspicion to the neighboring chieftains, Ho is, however, merely biding his time, and his pro- tended love for the foreign intruder is simply a mask which he throws off when the right moment has ar- rived, and his enemy, lured into a false confidence, is completely in his power. Poor Varus, when he dis- covers—too late—by what treacherous wiles he has been betrayed, learns to his cost ‘that aman may have fair hair and blue eyes and yet be as PALS AS A CARTITAGINIAN!”” Eicist means this, of course,-to be taken as a compll- ment to his hero, for in the temper in which the Her- mannschlacht was written the doctrine that the end jus- tifles the means is stated in all its crudity and sanctioned without qualification. For the furtherance of the good cause the chivalrous German Prince docs not scruple to play with the credulity of his simple little wife, who has rather a liking for the voluble, plausible Romans, as, to Kleist’s disgust, too many of the German ladies of his day had for the gallant, showy Frenchmen, Her- manm tells the pretty simpleton, who sets great store by her thick flaxen locks, that the Roman ladies have no hair; “that is, not dry, goldep hair, like yours, my Thuschen,” but only black, greasy bristles, with black teeth to boot, and that their husbands and lovers have come 80 far northward, in the land of fog and snow, for the simple purpose of providing their southern wives and sweethearts with wigs and falso teeth, obtained by the summary process of shears and pincers. Imagine poor Thusnelda’s horror at this appalling revelation! When his plans are matured Hermann confides them to his wife, who is again horror-struck at the idea of the wholesale slaughter of the poor Romans, MUST THRY ALL DIE? she asks, tearfully, “even to the brave centurion who Jately, at the peril of his life, rescued @ Gorman child from the flames of a burning house? Hermann’s re- ply is sublime in its fendish consistoncy :— Accurs’d be he, I say, e'en though myself Had been his debtor for the boon of life! For he it was that for an instant made My stout heart falter in its dread resolve, oa wah a bat bes to our sacred cause, will not love ellish viper brood! While Romans flout us on Du German foil, Hate be my virtue, my sole thought revenge! ‘and we're brothors again), said in his turn the German ridden Italian, whose genial nature preferred wo dwel upon the brighter alternative, although the main thought was, I suppose, The same in both cases, Finally Thuenelda, finding that Hermann’s resolution is trremovable, implores him at least, as a special favor, to spare the life of Ventidius Carbo, and thiagHermans consents to do, stipulating, however, that Ventidius it to be apprised of the matter at daybreak, but not before, and then provided with horses for his escape across tht Rhine far away from the wrath tocome, As this it the most striking episode of the drama, the story must be told, as briefly, however, as possible, VENTIDIUS, THE ROMAN LEGATR, is a gay young patrician from the banks of the Tiben and, to all appearance, agreat admirer of tho stately Cheruskan matren, who, although she checks his ad- vances whenever they pass beyond certain bounds, still gives ear with a natural feminine complacency to his impassioned pleadings. On one occasion, after a great deal of ranting, the Roman throws himself upon his knees and begs Thusnelda to give him at least a lock a her bright golden bair; and, when she refuses the gift, he takes a favorable opportunity, and, scissors in hand, helps himself to the coveted prize, declaring that nothing on earth, not death itself, shall part hit from an object dearer to him than the silk of Persia or the pearls of Corinth, What woman, Cheruskan or other, could be quite insensible to the fervor of this dis- interested, hopeless passion? Thusnelda therefore bega that Ventidius at least may be exempted from the terri. ble doom which hangs over the heads of his fellow countrymen, and Hermann consents, showing her, at the same time, with affected indifference, an intercepted etter which Ventidius had sent to the Roman Empresa Livia, together with the very lock of hair which ho himself bad cut from ‘Thusnelda’s head. _ Livia had jestingly asked the young diplomatist to send her a sample of German hair, and Ven- tidius in his letter reminds her of the incident, forward- ing tho sample, and promising the remainder as soon as Cheruscan shall be at the feet of the victorious Roman, Thusnelda is to be shorn of her golden tresses, which aro to be transferred to Livia’s head, for the Roman dames of old were as preposterous in the matter of chigy nons as any lady on Broadway in this present year a grace. At this terrible announcement poor Thusnelds is tongue-tied. Her rage is too great for utterance. Bu she soon comes to herself. Tho outrage which she has roceived is one that no woman could forget or forgive Her vengeance must be something terrible—unem &tnpled; and 56 sho éalmly lays hor hand in her hus band’s and says, “Leave Ventidius to me; you shall be satisfied with me, Hermann.’” How does this fair-haired daughter of the north wipa out the affront inflicted upon her by the false-hearted, mean-spirited Roman? Lured by the seductive prom 4s0 of a private interview with the object of his ignoble passion, Ventidius allows himself to be thrown into the clutches of a fierce she-bear, rendered still more savage by long fasting, and is slowly worried and mangled before the eyes o Thusuelda, and almost in sight of the spectators, The scene is somewhat too highly wrought for all tastes, bus still essentially dramatic, While Ventidius is struggling with the black monster Thusnelda is laughing him t¢ scorn and mockingly repeating his former protestations of love, while her maid and the bearherd are vainly striving to wrest from her grasp the key which alone can save the shrieking victim. When all is over she drops to the ground in a swoon. In the adaptation which now takes the place of Kleist’s original upon the German stage this sceme is omitted and the incident given in the form of a cold narrative, to the detriment of the pioce and the sacrifice of all artistic symmetry, for the scene of the stolen tress is thus left without # fitting pendant, * Another striking scene, evincing high dramatio power in the writer,.is that in which the armorer Teut hold kills his daughter, who has been dishonored by party of Italian soldiers, The situation is finely com ceived, the darkness faintly illumined by the torches borne by tho awoe-struck, whispering throng of vik lagers, the fuinting, tottering form of tho victim, my» teriously shrouded from the public gaze by a thick white veil, the storm of conflicting emotions in the poor father, present a weird and fantastic but singularly fascinating picture, leaving an impression not easily effaced. I should add that in this, as in all other re Spects, the manner in which the ““Hermannschlacht” ia put upon the stage by the dramatic company of Saxe Meiningen is beyond all praise, Nothing can offer a greater contrast to Klcist’s “Her mannschlacht” than Grabbe’s dramatic sketch bearing the samo name, I say a dramatic sketch, because it i, properly speaking, no drama, but merely a sories dramatic pictures sketched in rough outline, the whole effect being suggestive of certain conclusions and juxta. positions upon which the writer desires to lay stress, It was Grabbe’s boast that all his works contained s Subtle undercurrent of meaning, a liefe Weltanschauung, to which the outward and superficial meaning was simply subservient. Thus the dying Angustus—ho did not die till years afterward—waxes prophetic when the news of the defeat of Varus and his legions is brought te him in Rome. He sees a new world opening in the north, while at the same time a new world is opening im tho east, where, as his friend Herod writes to him, wonderful things are taking place in Bothlehom. Ger many and Judea, converging to one focus, are to change the face of the world. % *Kleist's ferocity is apparent in all the departures which be makes from historical truth for the mere gratification of the spirit of revenge. | Thus, in his “Hermannschlucht,” the roconsul Varus is killed by a German chieftain after'a fight with Hermann to decide who is to have the honor of ridding the earth of the “heilhound:” The adapter “Genée allows him to fall upon his sword in the dignitied Roman fashion, as in fact was the case. THE STATUE OF HERMANN’S WIFE, To tox Evrron or tae Heray:— In connection with the recent inauguration of the statue of Arminius it may be interesting to your readers to learn that the sculptor Von Bandel has also executed a life size statue in marble of Thusnelda, the unfortw nate wife of the ancient German hero, This statue wag finished in 1843, and is now in possession of the Prince of Lippe. The moment represented by Von Bandel in his beautiful impersonation is that when Thusnelda was ; first led before the Roman conqueror after her capture, ‘when, according to Tacitus, “she stood in calm and col lected silence, her arms folded across her breast.” The attitude of the figure indicates stern resignation toa bitter sorrow. The flowing robes bordered with fur are studies from antique bas reli¢fs of ancient German cos- tumes, The peculiar arrangement of the hair was sug- gested to the sculptor by etchings on copper found im old German tombs. A bust brought from Rome to England, and known as “the head of a gladiator,” is supposed by students ofarchology to represent Thumelicns, the son of Armin and Thusnelda, It was the custom among the ancient Romans to honor their dead gladiators—those who had especially distinguished themselves—by _ erecting memorial statues. This bust, marked as a gladiator by the short hair and mustache, is of a man of no common order, The yoytitas face is that of a noble d brs warrior, whose life had been blighted by some great sorrow. ‘ There is aremarkable resemblance between the face of this bust and that of the statuo in the Loggia, at Florence, known as the “Dia del Silenzio,” and sup- posed by archwologists to represent Thusnelda; and this, combined with other evidences, leaves but little doubt that the sad face of this young gladiator is that of the unfortunate son of the great Arminius, HS. C Naw York, August 17, 1875. METHODIST MISSIONS. MEETING OF THR MISSIONARY sOcIkTY—1T2 FINANCIAL CONDITION, A mecting of the Board of Managers of the Mission. ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held yesterday at the Mission Rooms, No. 805 Broadway. ‘The Treasurer submitted the following statement, show- ing the financial condition of the society Balance against Treasurer, July 1 Disbursements for July. . ‘Transferred to Assistant Ti Total....... Receipts for July. Balance treasury in debt.. Assistant Treasurer ia Cincinnati Aggregate indebtedness Reports were read from the various 6 mittees from Africa, Europe, India and Turkey, Om the recommendation of the Committees on Domestia Missions several appropriations were made to relicve missionaries and churches in the West, A communica- tion from the citizens of Dalles, Ogogon, was received, asking for a conference commiticote arrange the basis of compromise in regard to the lands which have been awarded to the society by the government. The matter ‘was referred to a committee of four, Tho question of &n appropriation for the expenses of a Bishop to Li- Deria waa referred to the General Committee at its next | meeting, Resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Dr. Lord, editor of the Northern Christian Advoe. “ | @ member of the Board, were udapted. and the “Laasate (Alpi, ¢ vornerem fravdge” (oroms Whe Alps | than adiournoa