The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1876, Page 6

6 - THE BIG HORN MOENTANNS A Trip to Places Never Before Visited by Man, PICTURESQUE JOURNEYI\GS AND JOTT.NGS. | Following the Trail of the Snakes | with General Crook. A SEARCH FOR GOLD. Croup Pax Caxr, Bio Hoax axp YuLLOwsTON® ExpEnitioy, July 12, 2 A curiosity to penetrate wnero white men bad never entered and where there 1s no evidence that the Indian baa ever gone possessed me from the first moment of ms approach to the Big Horn Mountains, and added io this incentive to exploration was the brilliant possi- bility of verifying the tradition of the existence of gold in their dark and virgin ree The Snakes, when leaving this camp, had dete to cross the mbduntains by a new pass, never bel rectly southwest, and it scemed feast certain how far they haa succeeded by following in their trail. ‘THE PERSONS It was not ditfouit to enlist a party of the following personages: Crook, Licutenant Colonel William B. Royall, Captain Anson Mills, Captain Andrew S, Burt, Lieutenant Will- m L. Carpenter, Lieutenant Walter Schuyler, late | donorary attaché of the staif of the Czar of Russia; Lieutenant Henry R. Lemiey, Lieutenant John G* | Bourke, Messrs, Finerty and Strahan, journalists, and the humble explorer and chronicler of the Henan, who is the present writer. Each of us was mounted | on a male, which carried also rations of bacon | ard bard bread to suillce for an absence of | four days. Eight packers were in charge of as many | mules, come of which wero laden with buffalo robes and blankets, while others were led empty, with the | expectation of placing upon them tho game which we | hoped to slaughter, A DISQUISITION ON MULES, 2ne hears much and reads much of the length of a wule’s aural appendanges, but the realization of it is wanting until he has mounted on a mulo’s back. Then it demonstrates itself to a degree which is very im- | pressive, by reason of qpe's olevated station of view, andthe wagging thera inspires an unquestioning faith in the entire sobriety and gravity of the owner | which his subsequent paces will not be likely to | weaken. Most patient, though most obstinate of | beasts, if thou acknowledgest not the superior wisdom | of the hand which seeks to guide thy rein and gocst | ever in the way of thine own choice, thou certainly art | Bleady and sure, constant and unswerving. Thou | climbest over rocks like a fly on the wall, and mean- derest through pines and thorns as a rattlesnake, | through cacti with as little bodily annoy to thyself and | thy rider as may be! | The inestimaple value of mule naturo to mau— | though so much reviled—the members of the little ex- | ploring party soon appreciated. After sallying forth | from Cioud Peak Camp and crossing the creek a long | and arduous climbing was begun. At the end ot two | wo were at the summit of tho silurian rit of the | mountains—1,000 feet above the camp, which is about | 7,000 fect above the level of tho soa. We looked back | at tho white spots upon the table land by the | stream, which were our canvas dweilings, and they Were so small and filled so little space that the army ot the Big Horn seemed to have dwindled to less than a battalion. * Iu the vast plain it seemed hike a mere | fleet of petrols on tho ocean, only the sentonco had been long dgo uttered :— Here lot the billows stiffen and have rest! | THE BIG HORN MOUNTAINS. Tne outer ridge of the chain is ribbed by carbon. | flerous limestone, Potsdam sandstono and meta- morphic congiomeraie, and scattored fragments of coarse porphyry appear upon the surface. The ascent from the cast is exceedingly abrupt and totlsome, but | while we were recovering our breath we drank in the magnificence of a prospect which extended as | fur as the Little Powder River, Beyond the summit the mountains had been flattened tmto a broad, de- pressed mesa, densely covered with tall and straight but slender timber. The eastern edge of tho forest is | broken by many and large glades, spangled with white, | pink, purple, blue and golden blossoms, and deep dell resounding with the roar of rocky brooks, which | splash with cool spray the roses that crowd their | brink. ‘The turf ts rich and strong. Its graceful tas- sels, like long ripples ina quiet pool, waved glinting in | the sup. It seemed an elysium for naturo’s irrational children, and here, for the first tine west of the M rouri, I heard the clear, melaucholy piping of the her- mit thrash, that rare aud delicious warbler, which might be called the Philome! of theo New World. In some of the ravines we observed pyramidal stacks of lodge poles which the Sioux had cut m some | Ses, ned attempt je for us to as- | 4, dl. | Ov THE EXPEDITION, which consisted | gadier General George previous summer, leaving them to becomo sea- Koned for use by exposure Further than the small water deds just beyond the first ridge, however, no indications of their former pres- | ence were seen, and it is certain, from knowledge ob- tained by half-breeds, that they bave never penetrated | further than was necessary to replace the frames of their tepees each year. Muny of the decayed and worn. | out poles lay on the ground where the camp of the ex pedition had been recently pitched, near the base of the mountains, and where Sitting Ball has probably piten located his summer village while the squaws busied themselves in folling, barking aud trimming the pine saplings Crossing several ridges darkly timbered and small torrents rushing into the Goose Creek, whieh rolled through a deep and savage canyon on our left, | THE SNOWY RANGE | suddenly burst upon our sigh, It seemed very near, The ragged edges of the precipices, draped in clinging snow, stood out in sh » relict against the black shadows which they cast in their front They looked to be moro inaccessible than ever, and the depth of the canyons, which they enclose, crowded piney masses in their ebon darkness like the gaunt portais of hoil, Faithful to our text— which being interpreted means the pony tracks of the Snakes—wo plunged into a forest which covers the de- pressed table land. Boulders of granite and gneiss strew the trail, and frequently in hollows circled by them are smal! lagoons of pure water, biue and shad- owy even as the vasty deep, under the gloowy panoply of,pines, but which delighted our eyes with thicir dusky sheen. Soon we entered a district, where there was no verdure—a vast spectral forest. Fire | had swept it away, a ruthless mimic of physical death, | and Jeft behind only cohorts of blackened and decorti- cated trunks Many were still oreet, others were bowed, aud thousands encumbered the ground witu | their mournful forms. But for tho boa whispering Of the breeze there was an unpleasant absence of | pounds, especially of the pert converse of the birds | Only the ground sparrow was seen and the hollow | drumming of the woodpecker heard, | All oncthly things shall sink in gloom, The si Coast yrtal may assume | rtalit, | This scenery left the same impress upon the mind as that made by the first reading of “The Last Man," | A MOUNTAIN JOALe | We bivonacked on the edge of a hollow, the bottom | af a large basin, of which the ridge we had elinbed | was the rim, and in which the rank verdure of grass | and willow made a pleasing contrast with the dead sur- | rounding forest, On a level, sterile glade we picketed our animals, the short turf affording them a little nour jsbment, and we lay our couches undor an isolated group of green pines. A packer killed adcer on a mountain side and it was brought to the bivouse on a | mule Being somewhat wearied by fourteen miles of | dificult travelling from Cloud Peak Camp we reclined at case about tho fires which had been kindled, while | exch individual, in bis own behoof, stuck @ bit of ven- json and a bit of bacon on a jorked stick and held it over the coals, Thus broiled and exquisitely tlavored with salt, fat and Cuil-Colorado, the viands were | fit jor an epicure, provided, of course, that | he had previously vegotien un appetite by embing of Mountains The ehot which kilied the doer cehoed and fe-echoed ao loudly (hat it was ike a irregular volley of artillery, ‘The conformation of the moantans peemed favorable to reverberation, bul we had none | | | however, em, | wide and rapid current | toward tho f youd Which rises a great slanting bank of Snow nst a precipice, which it hides” Its tof ts the | summit of the pass, bat it proved impossible to reach a by crossing the snow, which was sol, So we were obliged to climb a stil ‘higher crest on the right, leading | Sierras and the Wind River Mouniains sietched across | and guzoy | was at the top they turned aud bounded away wita ® | tts rige from them, aad t | granite, was travers | closer exammaton nm NEW YORK HE but accidental tests. The highest ridge was boldly out- lined against the soft glow of the sunset, some of which it borrowed in reflection, and the hgnt of the nocturnal heavens was also duplicated in those lofty glacial mir- rors, lending them a fantasmal aspect of beauty, at the same Limo that it quivered like molten gold in the bosom of the stream whch rushed by through the stunted willows, ON THE UPPRR TONGUR RIVER, On the morning of July 2 we left our hard couches at sunrise, We conjectured that the stream must be the Upper Tongue River, rising far higher in the mountains than geographers bad ever supposed. It bad here a Fishing in it was of no avail, the water probably being too cold for trout at that altt- tude, My narrative shall borrow from the notes of the day, which reiain the freshness of the first impression, From the moment of our earliest glimpse of the white caps, when we wero but threo duys’ march from Fort Fetterman, a prodigious canyon west of the central group of peaks, overhung by masses of snow, was visible more plainly than any other gap im the mighty barricade. The precipice at {ts upper end looked then as it did tous in the morn- ing, inaccessible, At noon, however, we stood upon a summit much higher and further west than the pass, Jotting in our notebook s:— Main ridge of Big Horn Range, 11,500 feet above the sca We left our bivouac on tho middle depressed mesa, whieh slopes to what is properly the basin of the Upper Tongue River © * * and followed its course Inversely thereatter until we reached the point of ite origia, ina great bank of snow, lying in the shadow of the steep cliff west of Cloud Peak, which we have 60 often observed from the plain As we have progressed the faint trail made by the Snakes bas grown more and more difficult and obscure, We have crossed the Tongue River at least a hundred times, each time in deoper mire than at the last The bed and banks are composed of large and small boulders werlged together, buy in the interspaces have accumulated biack ooze and moss, into which the mules sunk up to their bellies, Some- times their hoofs would become fast in tho Intricate roots of the pines which underlie these fens, and in their efforts to got free would endanger tho equipoise of their riders, The brush and timber became more dense, and sometimes tore our hats and shreds of our clothing away. Luring one of those moments, when his faithful mule was floundering in a deep quagmire and had placed her forefeet in positions from which they could not be tustantancousiy extricated, Mr. Joba F. Finerty, the distinguished journalist, of Irish extraction, found his plight to be deplorabie, Tho mule swayed to and fro violently, now nearly tilting him upon a thorn bush and now into a pool of ooze. In the ludicrous struggle the carbine, slung at the bow of tho saddle, fell, barrel foremost, and was im- mersed in the soft mud. He could not dismount lo rescue it in the bottomless mire, which would have voraciously engulfed him also, and could not reach it {rom his geat except after re- peatealy reining his mule and stooping over to grasp it beneath the surface. Then the cavalcade, torn by unfriendly branches and bespattered with mud, moved on, JOURNEYING AMONG THR MILLS. We passed the border of the district through which the flery scourge had swept, and every step jed into denser green sade. The stream showed its high source by its stout volume, clear and frigid, foaming and sparkling over rapids and cascades of the wildest description, On each side of the canyon tho cliffs rose far into the blue sky, in the naked grandeur of the primeval granite, ‘Thin threads of water dripped irom a thoutand crevices, with musical murmurs, aud the moisture on the surface of the rook could be traced | to their source, the cold, ghttering snowdrifis crown- ing the tops of the crags. We rode in a sort of twilight in the dark shadows of pines and rocks, the air, pleasantly pervaded by the pungent aroma of the brouze foliage, The mules threaded bewildering mazes with wonderful steadiness | and patience—sometimes around and under buge boulders of granité; sometimes over piles of smaller ones up steep acclivities; sometimes over the rough beds of ancient glaciers, paved many feet deep with the arrested torrent of polished débris of felspathic rock. Paths of extinct avalanches are numerous on the slopes of the main range. On the surfuce of the rock in many places aro traces made by boulders shoved along under the weight of less terrific svow slides, Which probably occur every winter. ‘The aen- sity of the foliage in the narrow canyon and its steep sides circumscribed our view as we crawled along the very base of Cloud Peak, so that we did not realize the stupendity of the walls until we at lengil approached the limit of the pine growth, “where the trees opened about crystal pools that were ensconced among the rocks. They then seemed to tower above us at least 2,000 feet, and we had already | climbed 2,000 tect above our bivousc ground of Jast | night. We were nearing the suow, and saw that tt lay in the indentauions of the grauite, On the ragged edge of the ierrace-like cliff that surrounds the gaunt and broken mountain supposed to be Cloud Peak a drift juts over, m y, doubtless, in the meliow 1 of summer and congealing again at night after slipping | seductive brink. Just below is au e , ou which the shadow of the Clift | mous frozen ma always falls, aud which therefore never diminishes. The trst drift wiich we passed lay at the foot of a towering cataract of granite débris, another checked | glacial undercurrent, The wood was thick and dark, | the way devious and uncertain, Tired and prema: | turely made bungry by the keen air as we were, the | white patch of coolness and purity received many a | fond and thirsty look. Then a iresh breeze met us, with a wintry Smell, and henceforth snow was around on every side. The bottom of the canyon became more rough and spougy, the ascent more steep and tortuous, | We frequently came to reservoirs of melied snow, and bogs of ‘tangled willow and thorn, which were nearly immersed in the water. Above the timber line ihe great gorge expanded into a narrow glen, jewelled by achain of sUil lagoons, which are fed by ‘Ube aritts and feed the mver in tur MOUNTAIN SCENERY AND WONDERS, Ata height of about 10,000 feet the snow in the glen bridged (ue stream, aud after advancing a few Lundred yards further we found itarivulet escaping trom a ep bog, Which was flooded by the summer thaw, and the muies, ‘The cloud-like outline of the Soshonee the west, A Hock of big horn or Rocky Mountain | sheep stood on a neighboring granite ridge faciag us | Beiore, however, wil our gallant party magnificent agility, Just at our feet oa the southern side of the barrier which we had surmounted lakes, within steep shores of granite. A ) many in lovel than the bog opposite them, aud separaced (rom thom by only a thin nock and preetpice, which ts the | head of the Tongue River. The two lakes are united by several small ril y are but three paces apart. Their suriace w ‘ally covered with 1ce, although it was high noon; bat in the ceutre the water was open and seemed very deep. ‘This basin is prob- ably the highest water source of the Big Morn Mountains, A livély current joams over a | dent im the granite rita and tumbles through, rather than over, a chaotic macs of boulders unti it reaches a’ bed more softiy bordered by turl. On the righ, which wos toward ‘the west, another stream rises in a pool at the oot of frowning clifts, and aiterward gathers strength frow many other pools that giistea 1 a dreary looking canyon wending toward tho northwest. This is undoubtedly a tributary of Sheil Creek. We congratuiate ourselves that we are the y white party who ever ascended fo the crest of the main Mig Hora Moantaing, Unding neary at the same point the heads of Uiree Uuconnected streams ON THY CREST OF TRE BIG HORN MOUNTAINS. | of the neighboring a bank of sultry clo the upper gilt with the flush of light pgt mantle o! Paced | lower with the hues of turf and pines, as if darkened in | shadow, Brawling by the lakes, which are on a bigher level, the stream tumbles from’ the valley tnto a dar! and Barrow canyon, crowded with slender pines aud fir trees. In this haunt two huge buifulo bulls were discovered and killed. The packers found the “color of gold”—a singie flake—in the soil on the margin of Nowood Creek. We begin our return toward camp about twelve o'clock. The ruggedness of the ascent trom the valley of Nowood Creek was indescribable, but it was deter- mined .o aveid the bottomless ooze of the canyon of the south fork of the Tongue River. Attaining the sumtoit of pass after pass, over ledges and débris of grnite, a seemingly intermiyable chain of green glens and rocky canyons, with ddtk and spongy bottoms, recking with melted snow and linkeo by loity gaps between the gramite—cohea, while on the right was the reat een- tral wall—the snowy range—whic! presented for along time as we plodded northward no inviting passage such as was the objeetof our search, Our mules scrambled over rocks, logs and boulders, through thickets aud marshes and snow drifts. At length the mountains became less lofty on the west and the valley more open. We suddenly came to the bead of a lake, beyond which a large herd of elk was grazing. Most of them were cows, attended by their calves. Some of the pickers of our party fired at them ‘prematurely, fee they escaped several volleys at long range un- armed. We are now bivouacked a mile north of the lake, at the base of a high but gradual pass which we hope to penetrate to-morrow, MOKE MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCES, ‘The second night spent on the western side and near the crest of the mountains was very cool, although the tomperature was higher than might Lave been supposed, in consideration ot thy proximity of the everlasting snow. We rose about three o'clock tn the morning and had eaten with gusto a breakfast of big hum, bullalo, elk and deer meat, when the sun timidly peeped 0 the main granite ridge, rst making the topmost driits juintly blush like a maiden who is conscious of a secret tons 1m every nook that wus glazed with ice or snow. A suivery texture of frost glistened on everything, but the beauty of the picture was cold and inhospitable. ‘The verdure of pines and turf was sombre; the gray | cliffs and towers of granite were uurelentingly ster in aspect, the snow upon their foreheads a badge of gloomy, frowning old age, which had wiinessed the lupae of geological eyeles; their grizzled mien like that of wn ungracious Magog, glowering and unhumbied in the spell which boand them to motionless silence. Westward of our bivouac ground the mountains seemed to have been flattened into giaduated steps or teaus, leading down to tho great valley of the Big Horn from the wide but lofty pass on the right. A faint trail was discernible, which 1s probably one of the highways of the Sioux in entering ike country of the Soshonees when bent upon — war. It probably was originally marked by the migra- tiou of the elk from the jower to tho upper suimiuiis of the mountains, whither they aro driven in midsum- mer by the mosquitoes and the heat, ‘The mules bad luxuriated during the night upon the short, rich grass ot the Alpine valley and were very willing for tho start, Having slept at an elevation of avout 11,500 foct, the ascent to the top of the pass, wiich is moro than 12,000 faet above the level of the | sea, Was soon accomplisved. It cannot be more than a few hundred feet interior in altitude to Cloud reak. We seemed to survey the world, The plain velow us looked dim—iiitle more detined im features than a stratuin of cloud, ‘The red apices of tho ridues and kuolis, where the erosion of the elements has left bare tho burned sandstone, looked like the roseate upper borders of vapory masses tinged by the sua. ‘The distance trom” the pass to the eastern base of the mouniam chain, although in reality twenty miles, reat but a span, nearly ignoring which the eye dwel@Mbpon the bazy sea of plain which, as if rolling im dim surges, stretched north, east and south, seemingly too vast for concep- tion, and meiting into the shadowy infinity of distance. The soft tints and faint billowy forms biended with the murky midsummer blue, as if we were gazing through the strange giamour and glow of a tropical | sky. The faintest suggestion of dark waving lines in the cast, springing trom nothing and again swallowed up in ihr were «ie contour of the Black Hill, 290 miles away. ‘A dark belt, sweeping trom tbe northern ex- temity.of the mountain range toward the northeast, indicated the course of the Big Horn River alter reach- | img the plain, Beyond it, a fainter streak of color, | might have been the shaded banks of tho Yellowstone, The Kosebud Mountains looked ant hilis, Spiral col- umns of smoke wero lazily rising in the southeast, near the Powder River, from baruing beds of lignite. In that vicinity there are great fields of smouldering fire, Flames leap out through fissures of the baked mar!, ard crackle sepulcbraily as if a cremation of all the dead in Hades were iv progress The ground is too hot to walk on, Many former sites of these beds, where the fire bas long been extinct from exhaustion of the luel, are scattered over the country through which the expedition has marched, but in my letters I have heretofore forgotten to mention them.” ‘They indicate, probably, the same immensity of coal deposits in the northern portion of Wyoming as has been developed in that more iully explored, CLOUD PRAK. Cloud Peak seemed to bave taken strides toward as since our last glimpse of it. Even since it frst came in view we have had no certainty of its idertity, many mmnmits being apparently of the same altitude. We were then probably nearer it than any white man hadever been betore us. Travellers have agreed that it is the highest mass of the Big Horn Mountains, but they have never deseribed its peculiar outiines, We, for the first time, realize its great Superiority of height and the abruptness and grotesque- ness of the contour of the topmost crag, Tis 1s the feature by which Cloud Peuk should hereafter be known, its sister peaks are more symmetrical; no other in the whole 1 is So ragged and broken in jorm, From the indications apparent from an examin- tion made through a telescope it might be concluded 5 uplcayal, it hud cracked and failen asun- iB & wide gap between the two whose edges have been dulled by There are two great knobs, the northern ons the iarger and higher; and between them the drifted snow lies hundreds of feet deop. The form of the mountain from its base, for hal! of 18 height, is that of a bulky cone; but cliffs thon rise vertically at least 2,000 feet without a break der, jeav! fragments, natural erosion, | where enow could lodge to cover the givomy granite. On the noribern side of the main knob a ponderous biock of frozen snow overhangs the precipice and casis k sadow to the rugged depths of a canyon. orthwest of Cioud Peak 1 observed another summit nearly as lofty, with features indicative of ancient vol- canic action. " There remains a circular rim like that of acrater, Minor pinnacics bear the apparent evidence of having becn cast in molten granite and having cooled before the convulsions of the igneous masses beneath the earth crust had entirely ceased, They retain al- most fantastic shapes, TUE SNOWY i Tho snowy range exhibits many enormous canyons, Though they aro now like sinuous grooves they were probably originally shurp-cdyed clefts and gusbes. ‘ihe elemens have ground slowly irom the heights, by glacial, thermal and aerial action, a fine powder, which has accumulated in the crevices, together with the coarser débris buried down trom the beetling crags, The meltod suow and the rain permeate it to a great depth aud tt treacherously yields under the tread of animals. The erosion mast have been very rapid, because immense beds of gravel found by cs on both sides of the main ri-ige and within the outer rim of the mountains showed evidences of avery recent release from the mother rock. The pebbles, iustead of being rounded smoothly, are angular, Tbrs characteristic 18 a sign unsayorablo to the existence of gold in covstder- able quantity, as it betokens that the deposits are com- paratively modern. Still thero are instances of snecess- ful mining in similar placers in Montana and Nevada, Tne timber line on ihe Big Hora Mountains is com- paratively low. The fact is due to the Geuudation ol the granite above au elevation of 10,000 Foldspar is the principal component of the rock, 0: quartz, for which the goid hunter always looks so eagerly, are rare, but a (ew Were seen near the summits, CTURESQUE VIEWS. Amediey of lesser mounts, platewus, canyon and ravine, ditigle, Wood and glade, torrent. pool and lake— chaotic, but picturesque-—iay below the giittering line of snowy summits and within the sombre foot riage. Tho gorge, which had been for us a Vale of diifloulties, was on the right, and the lagoons, which we bau passed iu making the ascent of the eastera side of the moun- tains, embosomed im sombre shade, now were displayed like a siring of sapphires, mirroring the deep blue sky, while the bright, Willowy fringe of the river contrasted With the dense colonnades of pines, dead and living. Bluish gray smoke rose from a point at the edge of the depressed mesa. We cast a backward glance over the great basin of the Big Horn, encompassed by majestic mountains, south, West, north ata cast, and were charmed with ibe sub- limity of the survey. Tne main divide of the Rocky Mountains seemed piled up like great drifts of cumu- Veins After hating in the green valley of the Nowood cr where, by the way, thero are plentiful groves of | pines, several mombers our party strayed avout in search of game, The highest of the neigh- | boring suimmiis were climbed, aud in those seemmgly inac regions General’ Crook aud Lieutenant Schuyler killed wo wild rams, Their horns were en- | ormous and each pair must have weighed 100 pounds. An elk Was also killed, | Jvuy &—Wearied by the day’s climbing we slept | under the elear moonlight. Noteveu the ager mos- | quites, of Which there were mm s and who tor | tented us dreadiuily, could preveut us reaping the | sweet slumber which’is tho honest reward of toil, The | id shadows of the night, aitor a while, dulled ther | Jracious appetites, and about midnight the moon nid | benind clouds, and they droppod iiermittontiy Light | showers of ram This morning our diankets, bufluo robes and rabber coveriids were encrusted with a hoar t; but the sun soon dissipated both i and the thin hb had lormed margin of the stream, of ple packers procceded down the valley, intena- ing 1o.test the sud ede tor gold, aud, in company | with Coloael Mills and iour other gentiomen, your cor- respondent foliowed them an hour alterward as far as a beautital Siue lake, witich bad been deseried from the summit of one of tho mountains aud Les four miles from the biyouac ground. i bts two miles lowg and hait a mile wide aud js sur. rounded by graulie-cappet hills and detise woods of spruce. Another ene vccupies a basin further west, Wild geese and @'@K: -ere op both, A cool breeze gatly rippled (Let sdrtace, and each ray of saniight (em was broken into a thousand kind)! ountain west of the valley, comp J from apex to base by a broad seam, 0! browwrsh red quarts uf the disiniegrated species, A gut reveui indications of go From a rugged point overlooking the larger lake wo surveyed the enormous busin of the Big Horn Kiver, through whieh a broad, biack strip marked the Umber along ite banks. The adjacent pi Kel arid aud broken, but the slopes near the Moun- tains were green and usduliting. TOWAKD Ty KRA SO8HO The enormous Walis of (be Sverta So nes loomed more distinctly than yesterday, but the atmospticre was lazy ouough Ww lend falling upon gleams A nas | vens and Doane, Alpiue gem is avout th jus clouds, Their bases were obseured by the preva- lent suliry haze, while their summits shone with their ghostly panoply of eterval suow, Tho graceful figure Of the Heart Mountain, bebind which slumbers the Yeilowstone Lake, guarded by Mounts sheridan, ste- uspicuousiy overtopped the neigh. boring eminences; but southword Fremont's and Union Peaks towered still higher over the dazgiing phalanx of the Wind River Mountains, the Wasuakie Needles and tho Owl Creek Mountains croucved at their fect. The higher chains of elevations formed a vast ellipse, like a savage council ring, and they like mighty sphinxes, shrouded m the smoke of some volcamie calumel, Whose aroma soothed their eternal reveries. The #ocgy tart among the rocks and drifts of snow was jewelled with tiny — forget» mie-nots, They are plentifal ali over tho wer points above the silurian formation, but at the top of the pass the plants were stunted so that they re sembied moss. Thy tint of the petals was remarkably fresh and brilliant, White sivilar fowers wero also biooming at the Verge Of the suow, As wo sat on our mules there Wasa shrill burst of song far avove our b It Wasa titlark caroiling and soaring ovt of sight, THE DESCENT. The descent from the puss, although it ayorded » bogs which had nearly swallowed up the maiex 10 canyon, was very steep, The mountain side was ed with boulders and fallen timber, — Seme ot the receiving impetus Near the top (rom the hoo! ’ mules, rolled thundering down to the bottom the leaders of the cavaicade, which was ub cov form ot | and alarmed in Indian fasion, The pack mies tore oft bran sand ‘Ked trees in threading the jabyrinin of forest aud rock. Once again reaening the boom of (he south branch of the Tongue River our new | tral was jomed to the old one, and shoruy ater we met a party of myners, They were | the men Who had encamped on Goose Creek, pear the | expedition, with the exception of a few of their com- pany Who SUli remained there, Protessing 20 be dis- couraged vy the absence of any brilliant discovery, they Were early resolved to dissolve the fraverntt | but had determined to examine the taterior of meURlaiNs and Lo cross Lo Lhe western side belore re- | turoing to their homes Accepting friendly advice ib the aspect of | from us regarding the trail they rode pasty We soon | pleasure; then the Hght tell trough the gap on the | right upon the little pools in the canyon; then it | barst upoa us in ail its splendor, with duzzling retlec- | came upon the embers of ome camp fires still smok- ing. At noon wo were twenty miles from the bivouac ground of the previous night, and looked down ugain upon the camp of the efpedition, which even from the top of the foot ridge iooked insignificant The day was the perfection of summer blandness, and the lat- ter half of the march was threugh scenes of exquisite loveliness, which we had beheld without due apprecia- tion when pesrng Stare ardently to reach the highest crest, © groves are dense and fragrant and the turf luxuriant and thickly be- pangled with flowers of every hue, ‘There are a thousund idyllic giens and vales, breezy uplands and turt-carpeted groves, fit for the dommion of a Calypso, Pastoral industry would prosper there f ever the Sioux ban were removed. THE GOLD QUESTION. So far as determining the question of the presence ot old on this sido of the snowy range of the Big Horn ountains the expedition had only negative results. All the observations made tend to discourage a belict 1p the extravagant talea which frontiersmen are prone to invent about every region which bas not been ex: lored. Some person in the course of time will doubt. | Jess find auriterous particles which have been washed from the bigh veins of quarta But these are few, and searcely apy of them pre: decided signs of chemical disintegration, As gold bas already been obtained in the Wind River Valley the question of its presence west of the crestof the Big Horn range is foreign to the conclusions which I have expressed. THR FLORA. The flora of the Big Horn Mountains, though similar to that of the Wind River Mountains, which was catalogued by Joues, must possess soine distinet characteristics, as a few flowers were seen which are not in his enumeration. A geolog- ical chapter 18 also presepted by this region which 18 comparatively upread. Rare birds and insects wero | observed, the identification of which would be of the | greatest ‘scientitic interest, The government has de- voted so much to the detailed exploration of other portions of the great central divide ot the continent | that the time seems to have come when a scientific ex- | pedition should be sent to the Bix Horn Mountains, | whose altitude, even, has never been ascertained with exactitude. When /t is considered that they form one edge of tho basin in which are the headwaters of the great Missourt and which adjoins that of the bead- waters of the Colora o, the importance of the study of this region may be estimated. IN DEFENCE OF CROOK. [From the Omaha Herald, July 27.] General Crook needs no defence at our hands, but the lying despatches sent over the wires by the pross agent at Bismarck, yesterday, should not be allowed to | pass unquestioned, ‘This despatch states that army ofticers blate Crook for refusing to co-operate with Terry. Gonera! Crook bas done no such thing, On the contrary, his next move will be toward that co- operation, Further than this, army officers who havo any judgment or common sense would not express such sentiments. Its stated that any army officer “little interior in rank, insists that Crook knows litte of the plans of the Indians any way, and lacks the ex- perience desirable in one commanding an army ope: ing against a wily and savage foe.” If General Crook has not bad the experience and knowledge necessary to fight Indians successfully, which one of the army oflicers has? Ifbe bas not all the knowledge of the plans of the “wily savages’? that any one has, will the rascally press agent at Bismarck or the lying special correspondent tell us who exceeds him in the posses- sion of this knowledge? As to the number of the Indians General Crook has spoken in language that cannot be misunderstood, and has said that they out- numbered him three to one, As to bis management of the campaign any one with common senso must admit that his handling of the troops at the battle on the Rosebud was excellent 1m every respect, and that his cool judgment on that occasion prevented another massiere of our troops similar to that on the Little Big Horn, Crook will not be caught In traps, nor outwitted by the Indians, if his orders are obeyed. As soon as all his reintorcements arrive be will move to meet and join Terry, and if the opportunity can be found he will fight and whip the Sioux. We have no doubt the Indians have been largely reinforced, and that some of them have lett their agencies to join the hostile bands, The Indian agents ought to know this and take imme. diate measures to prevent their return, for il they will only remain with Sitting Bull they will be taken care of in due time. YACHTING. THIRD ANNUAL REGATTA OF THE NEWBURG YACHT CLUB—THE COURSE, SAILING REGULA- TIONS AND ENTRIES, Tho third annual regattaot the Newburg Yacht Club, which taxes place to-morrow, promises to be very interesting, as over twenty boats aro already cn- tered. There will be first and second prizes for each class, and a special prize awarded to the yacht making the best corrected time, THR COURSE. The course will be from an imaginary line near the steamboat landing, at Newburg, crossing it {rom the north; thence to and around stakeboat No, 1. an- chored off the Long Dock at Fishkill, turning it from north to south; thence to and around stakeboat No. 3, two and a half miles north of starting point, turning from west to east; thence to and arouud stakeboat No, 4, anchored opposite the foundry at Fishkill, turning | trom west to east, and thence to and around stakebout at starting point, turning Irom north to south, This course to be gone over twice. SAILING REGULATIONS, boats will first be started, and ten ose of the first und second classes will be sent awey. The diring of a canon from the judge’s boat, tullowed by two prolonged whistles, will “be the signal to prepare. The second gua will bo fer the third class boats te start and the third gun for the first and second classes, Yachis mast cross the line within fif- teen minutes [rom the starting gun. All baliast to be brought back and no extra baliast to be received on board during the race. Any yacht touching a mark, boat or buoy sball forfeit all claim to the prizes. No means of propulsion allowed except sails. Yachts may anchor during the race, Yachts on the port tack must invariably give way to those on the starboard tack. When rounding « mark, boat or buoy the yacht nearest . thereto is to be considered the headmost yacht, and should any yacht in the race compe! anotber to touch such mark or buoy the yachts so compelling her sha.l forieit ail claim to the prizes’ ~The number of cach competing boat must be carried ou the port side of the mainsat). In case the distance assigned for the race be not gone over iu six hours the regatta shall be repeated trom day to day. If done within six hours the race shail be considered made and tie prizes awarded, Disputed questions will be dectded according to the sailing regu- lations of the Now York Yacht Cind. The time allowances will be two minutes to the foot, yachts to be measured on the water line, THE ENTR! So tar as reported the entries are as tollows:— FIRST CLASS—UNDER oRTY FEET AND NOT L¥SS THAN TWENTY-FIVE, The third cl: minutes late tl Dimensions. Place. Ovener. Ft. In. N. Hamburg. .W. & P. Leroy.. 27 10 N. Homburg. Irving Grinnell. 0 .C, F Brown 3 Miller. . Suns Souci Laura. 1H Nettie Hane Uno. Tom Thetis Ripole Gracie 1 Woody 0 W. ©. Chambers 0 ve dohn Campbe 0 Rackit eb, Christ 8 Sophia ‘Emma. ncob Varian. 10 Entries will be receivea until this evening atthe oftive of Mr. James T. Sloan, No, 94 Water street, New- burg, N.Y. “NOT YACHTING Tho yacht Fstelle anchored yesterday at Manhasset, Shelter Island, CORNELL AND THE CENTENNIAL REGATTA, To tHe Evtror or THe Heravy:— . Your editorial of the 29th inst. would lead one an- acquainted with the facts to suppose that Cornell is morally boand to participate in the Centennial Regatta at Philadelphia = Permit me toimake a few remarks upon tho subject, which I hope you may not consider out of place. Cornell, tor the two years last past, has beaten every crew represented at the intercollegiate rogattas, tho regular tavetings of the only association of American college boacing men. The English crew from Trinity College, Cambridge, is by no means re] resentative either of England or of that university. Te Cornell should perchance enter and win has sbeahen Beaten Cambridge University # As for Yale, i! that college thinks she can outrow Corneil, why did she not meet her at Saratogain a straightaway 6ix-oured race? She had but to remain ip the rowing association, of which she was a member, anti beaten by Cornell. That Yale won the race against Harvard at Springfiold i well, The conditions, however, were totaby different, The course was on & river with a strong current, the crews were eights, and the distance four miles, and as much depended upon the cockswaiu’s choice of course as upon the rowing of the crews. It js also well known that Harvard's ner- yous stroke (nd dash 1s better adapted to tne lighter boat and shorter distance of the Saratoga course. ly, the regatta im which it is desired tnat Cor- te is not under the control of yt to be rowed in the style adopted by our college oarsmen. Six-oared crews have for yoars represenied American colleges. The gentiemen in charge of the regatta at Philadelphia have not even seen fit to make theo race of the class adopted by college men. In regard to what Yale would have done if she had been at Saratoga one thing {s cortain—with every opportunity to do so she did not there beat Corneil. Sho was not there, and— Of ail sad words of tongas or The saddest are thees, “Tt mint have been.” . A CORNELL GRADUATE, New York, July 31, 1876, RALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. SARATOGA RACES. ENTRIES AND BETTING ON TO-DAX'S CONTESTS. Sanatoca, N. Y., July 31, The starters for the races to-morruw are as fol- Jow: Oxx Mitx Free Hanpicar.—Bethune’s Burgoo, A. Smith’s Inspiration, Charica Reed's Gray Friar, ‘late Gray Steet; McDaniel’ Virginius, P. Lorillard’s Merci- less, Denohue’s Waco, Two Mite Race, —P. Lorillard’s Merciless, Mcvaniel’s Madge, G. L. Loriliara’s Warlock, MoGrath’s Asron Pennington, Grinstead’s St. Martin. i MILE AND 4 QuanTER Race.—Browh’s Paladio, O’Donnell’s Jessie C, McDaniel’s Virgil, Burton’s Courier. Hurple Racs—Mile Heats.—Fisher & Carson's Keiso, Lawrence's Resolute, Hitchcock’s Carriboo, Longstafl’s Osage, Ayres’ Windham, Queen's Milton, Donobue’s Weasel, d's Doubtful. THR POOL SELLING. Pvol selling on to-morrow’s races has been very brisk at Morrissey’s all the eveuing. the bulk of the selling up to pine o’clock being on the mile bandicap for all ages, The following being an average of tho sales, with the ontrics and weighis. MILE HANDICAP, P. LorilJard’s Merciless, 95 Ibs. $425 Bethune’s Burgoo, 115 ibs. - 215 McDaniel’s Virginius, 96 ibs. * + 135 Reed's Gray Friar (late Gray Steel), 107 Iba. . . 130 Donohue’s Waco, 92 lbs. - 105 Davis’ May D., 90 Ibs... 90 Smith’s Inspiration, 113 55 DASH OF TWO MILES. George Lorillard’s Warlock, 101 ibs. 50 P, Loriliard’s Merciless, 96 Ibs... 40 McGrath's Aaron renuington, 124 ibs. 30 Grinstead’s 8t, Martin, 101 lbs. 30 McDaniel’s Madge, 119 lbs... 16 ONE MILK AND A QUARTER. Burton’s Courier, 103 Ibs. see see 50 McDaniel’s Vigil, 103 Ibs. - 22 Brown's Paladin, 119 Ibs,. 13 O'Donnell’s Josie C, 98 Ibs lu HURDLE—MILE HRA’ Lawrence's Resolute, 163 lba...... 51 Hitchcock's Carriboo, 153 Ibs. 60 Fisher's Kelso, 154 Ibs... 31 Ayres’ Wyndham, 144 ibs. 26 Donobue’s Weasel, 138 Ibi 26 Lougstaf!’s Osage, 147 1b: 25 Reed's Doubtinl, 120 Ips 20 Green’s Milton, 143 lbs uw FINK RUNNING ANTICIPATED, The weather is bright and clear, and everything is very promising for a brilliant day’s sport. POOLS IN THE CITY. This is the fourth day of the frst meeting of the Saratoga Racing Association, and four events are on the card, These are:—Firat, a free handicap, tor all ages, purse of $500, ono mile; second, purse of $700, for all ages, dash of \wo miles; third, for maidens of all ages, purse of $500, if four years old allowed 3 Ibs., if five years or upward 5 lbs, a dash of one milo and aquarter. The day’s sport will wind up with a handi- cap hurdle race, purse of $650, of which $150 to the second horse; mile heats, over four hurdles, Pools were sold on these events at the several marts in this city last evening, with the following aver- ages:— ONE MILB. Burgoo, 115 1b seeseees 20 25 50 Merciless, 95 | - o 18 35 Virginins, 96 1b ai 15 28 May D., 90 Ibs far in 2 Inspiration, 118 ibs, ie 8 15 Grey Friar, 107 Ibs. - 6 u 25 Waco, #2 lbs. or » 8 8 wb Aaron Pennington, 124 Ibs... 10 23 30 St. Martin, 118 Ibs. 7 20 30 Warlock, 101 lvs.... . 3 12 20 Madge, 119 Ibs. . 3 6 8 Merciless, 96 1b: sees 2 6 7 ONE QUARTER. Courier, 103 tbs 25 40 Pasadin, 119 1b 20 32 Vigil, 103 ibs 8 12 Josie C., 98 Ibs. oe 8 u HANDICAP HURDLE RACB, Rosolute, 153 Ibs....... Cariboo, 158 Ibs: Osage, 147 Ibs. Kelso, 154 Ibs. Wyndham, 144 ibs.... Milton, 143 ibs... Doubtinl, 120 Iba. Weasel, 138 Lvs. 16 25 15 20 1 15 20 40 BUFFALO RACES. Burrato, N. Y., July 31, 1876, Tho weather is fine, and the prospects for the races to-morrow are good. A large number of strangers are in the city. Pools sold readily as follows:— 2:36 cass. Mambrino Kate, 40, Treine, 24. The tield, 6, 2:24 crass. Little Fred, 4 Breeze, 18, The tield, 12, THE AMERICAN HORSES IN ENG- LAND. In view of the defeat of Mr, Sanford’s Mate and Preakness in the events they took part in at Good- wood, July 26 and 27, the following, trom the New- market Commissioner of the London Sportsman, July 17, nine days beiore the Goodwood mocting, may not be uninteresting, even at this late day:— Tue American Goodwood nags galloped, as usual, the length of the Bury side tan. I must say one word in favor of these horses, that when you come to iook them. over there is not a speck or biemish about them, and not astrapor bandage on their limbs, which are as clean as new straw. Nothing could possibi$ exceed the heaith and vigor of their appearance; bat one sin- gular circumstance has always struck me concerning them, which is that when they have done work of a morning they waik about as slow and sleepy as ghosts, CREEDMOOR. The regiments forming the Second brigade of the First division sent detachments to Creedmoor for rifle practice yesterday. The weather was exceedingly un- pleasant, rain falling ‘rom about a quarter before eleven o'clock until one P. M., when shooting was dts- continued, There were in all 355 men out for prac- tice, Tho Ninth regiment sent out 166 men, the Seventy-tirst 109 and the Eleventh regiment 80 men, Colonei Hitchcock, of the Ninth regiment, was officer of the day and Major Orvis inspector of rifle practice, Although a strong wind prevailed there was some good shooting for third cliss marksmen. Sixty-six per cent of the Ninth regiment men qualified at the short ranges. Of the 109 men from the Seventy-first regi- ment 48 qualified, and 37 of the 80 men of the Eleventh regiment, The wen returned to the city early in the afiernoon not much fatigued by their exercises, A CHESS CHALLENGE. New York, July 81, 1876, To tux Eprror or tik Hxratp:— I beg to propose u match at chess with Captain Mackenzie, tho champion of the United States, for $50 a side, leaving «li other conditions to be named by him, It1s known that the hope of a trial of skill with the Captain (as suggested in our correspondence of 1873) was one of my reasons for visiting America, and Tam reluctant to leave without it taking place. I trust, having regard to tho desire existing for us to play, ho Will, 1m the interest of chess, accept my challenge. The amount of stakes will, perhaps, be considered smail, and may possibly be increased. It may be mentioned, however, that ‘somo of the most important chest matches on record have been played for a stake withil the named, Hoping for an early repiy, 1 am, yours obediently, fe BIRD. P. §.—Staunton and Horwitz, Morphy and Anderssen, Morphy and Harwitz, Stemwitz and Bird, ana Wesker and Bird (London amateur championship), were all played jor stakes not exceeding $60 a sige, BASE BALL NOTES. At Rochester, yesterday, the Buckeyes, of Columbus, Ohio, defeated the Home Club; score, 10 to 2 ‘The Orange and Carbondale clubs played ten innings, which resulted in a draw. SAVE THE CHILDREN, The following is a correspondence between the Board of Health and the New York Juveniie Guardian Society, Telating to an effective pian for supplying medicine and food to sick and destitute children of the tenement eal to the dru 8 of © present great destitution and il prescriptions signed by cost as possible, will un- Yet, as you are aware, late ap) tk diy tind a generous respor xucis of our poor need more than this, Im these cases of si¢kness, often xccompanied by prolonged poverty, uncon. ditional and tree assistance fs indispensable, As superi ndent of the relief work at the house place, owned by the New York Javenile Guardian Sock would propose to you to seud here aon of this ut destitute ciass having w prescription inspectors. g We will, in evory such case, free of any charge, have the ription filled by a competent “arusgiet. I would also be red to furnish you with aweekly amount Of dekets the holder to @ supply of as feeble or convalescent childe If this meets your approbation be form me. With much id sympathy tor y work, I remain, dear s ven Evorse J. Esnwax, Dear Sin—I am directed by th knowledge the receipt of yours of July 26 ow York Juvenile Guardian Soci behalf of t food and m ¢ for such destitute children as come under the "wed ion of the sanitary inspectors of th: men The Board cratefally Mberal aud ebarita- le and has direoted the Sanitary Buperintendent to ‘ail himself of it #0 tar se preniesnte, With great re- pect, yours truly, is CLARK, Secrovary. —_— THE CUSTER MONUMENT FUND, THE BLUE JACKETS ON DECK AS USUAI-—= SCOUTS, ROCKETS AXD OTHER ABMS HEARD FROM, The following additional subscriptions to the Custer Monument Fund have been received and are horeby acknowledged THR NAVY. United States Strauxr New Hamrsums, . Port Royal, 8. C., July 27, 1876. } TO THe Eorron ov THe HERALD:— A subscription for the proposed monument to General Custer and bis associates was started a fow days ago by the crew of this vessel, to which the officers oon- tributed, and the enclosed draft for $63 ix the result, lene.ose the subscription list, I am, gir, very respect fully, J. Mb B. CLITY, Commodore United States Navy, Commanding, The contributors were:—Thomas Ryder, R. Bates, Charles Wilson, Jobn Smith, Christopher Berens, J. Reichmann, James Walsh, M. Brown, John Steve ‘Abel Davis’ William Thomas, H. Hawkshaw, Richard Fitzgerald, Daniel Riley, 5. NM. Bowers, F. Kharvey, Patrick Toner, J. Loughran, William White, David Kinker, Jobn Tierney, William Mitchell, who each gave $1, and the followimg gave fifty cents apicce:— E. Moroi x James Wilson, Thomas Ward, Thomas Medaing, John Needham, a. W. Skidmore, James Ban- croft, Juan Augusto, J. Tines, Philip Quirk, F. Huet. wohl, F. W. Muller, Patrick Shea, Peter Larsen, Will- iam 0’Brieo, Thomas Monohan, Joseph Sexton, R. Wille iams, James Maley, E. C. Allen, Charles Cunneen, G E. Hall, R, Lillie, &. Bobner, John Hawkins, Joba Stanton, J. R. Cashman, Joseph S:nith, Thomas O’Don- neil, James Carlin, Jobn Glyno, Charles Blatt, Jos, Schultz, Jobm Lynch, Robert Percy, Jon Therese, Jobn Leary. Twenty-five cents was the donation of the Jolbiwings—F ose Fay, John White, E, H, Brown, A. Sheppard, L. Brovberton, V. E. Novilla—making ig all the amount of the check $63, SUBSCRIPTION FROM FACTORY EMPLOYES. Nuw York, July 31, 1876. To Tne Epiror or tHe HERALD:— Enclosed please Ond check of $2745 as per annexed subscription list, of the employés in the factories of the Lazarus & Morris Periected Spectacle and Eyo- glass Company. By acknowledging receipt through the Hxkaup you wilfoblige. Yours respectiully, THEO, STERN, Treasurer, Coliected at the office, $10; George M. Johnson, 250, ; Edward Fieig, 10c,; Thomas Fogarty, 50c. ; Thomas J, Fogarty, 10; H. F. Preston, 256 ; John McHenry, 25c; Henry Wolilmaker, 50c.; G, A. Beaser, 25a, Charles Smith, 25c.; Antonio Bertelli, 25; John J, Crowley, 250.; August Henckleman, 250; William Lynch, 'l0c.; Jerry T. Noonan, 25c.; James Young, 6c.; A. H. Hitchcock, 26c ; Henry A. Johnson, 250. J.T. Lynch, *250; W. H. Vinton, 250; Wilham 8, Owen, 46c.; Miss,Nora Mullen, 26c.; Lizzie Tracey, 2c. ; Barah’Daly,.25c.; Mary Jane Wahe, 25c,; Her- man Bauman, 100. ; Kate Savage, 25c.; Annie O’Brien, 25a; Walter Fogurty, 1éc.; Fischer Ernest, 15c, David Crowther, $1; Willain Langley, $2; A. Lucker $2; B. Wyman, $1 50; J. M., $2; Master Alex, 15c. James W. Armstrong, 25c.; Master Freddy, 10c. ; Will- tam Shoemaker, 10c. ; Joseph G. Fogarty, be.; W. L. P., 16c.; Henry M. Fisher, 10c,; A. Weltz, 300; V. Kurtz, 35c.; W, W. Webb, '25c.; J. Burt, 30 Total, $27 45. ROCKETS AND LONG RANGE RIFLES. West Troy, N. Y., July 29, 1876, To Tux Evitor or THe Heraup:— Enclosed please find $1 for the Custer fund from one who, with the Hera, believes .iu rockots and long” range rifles instead of carbines and sabres, and who, with some little experience on the plains and with the Tudians, would rather have to back him 100 scouts, such as can be obtained by paying them $100 per month, than the best regiment in the United States army, M. E, WANDELL, eee RECAPITULATION. VU. 8.8, New Hampshiro. Lazarus & Morris Eyeglass Company. ME. Wandell. FE, 8. and three One of Rosser’s Gray Jackets. X. Fort Reno, L. T..... An_ Old Soldier. Oo Ms Th, Stvsseenes Master William Clarence Valentino. J. HLS. V., Lynchburg, Vi J.D. H., Lynchburg, V P. BL, Lynchburg, Va. FE, &, Lynohburg, Va. SRRZSSRSSTSES Total ... GLIMPSES OF THE EXHIBITION, ITALY AND HER CONTRIBUTIONS—HER EXHIBIT IN THE MAIN BUILDING—THE UNSURPASSED DISPLAY OF STATUARY. PuivabeLruia, July 81, 1876. Italy will leave very pleasant impressions when the visitor has gone through all the apartments in whick he finds her contributions scattered; but if he con- templates her only in the manufactures of the maim building he will be disappointed. That department {a like a piece of an Italian Chatham street. It resem- bles the little shops on the Chiaja or the Piazza di Spagna, where cheaply mounted mosaics aud coral Jewelry are gold to eager Americans. There are some other things in it; but the spirit and tone of that small commerce dominates the section, There are several exhibits of carved furniture in this section that are valucd very highly; but theso indicate that while the Italian workman bas no superior in dealing with his subject when it 18 once chosen he is incapable 0! comprehending what subject is appro- priate on certain occasions. Thus, on massive articles of furniture, we find designs that would bo exquisite as decorations in porcelain, or that might be appro. priate worked in lace, but are lost in wood. In short, the London joiner, with a jackplane and bamme makes far handsomer furniture than the Italian with his sculptors’ tools. A NEW STRERING APPARATUS, Thrust away in corners in this department are two contributions of interest One recalis tho spirit of the old Italy that straggled with the stormy seas It ia an ingenious invention for a supplementary steering apparatus, to be rigged toa ship when the storm has carried away her rudder. To describe it in a word, it isa gigantic motal fan, to be put down in the position of the rudder post and opened by machinery when down, That such @ contrivance could be made with strength enough to withstand the seas that had broken a rudder js unlikely, but it might certainly be of great value to bring into port ships that have outlived the storm, and aro adrift for want of steoring apparatus, PAGANIN’S VIOLIN. The-other interesting exbibit is Vaganini’s viohm It is a Guarnerius, made at Cremona a great many years ago, and is for sale ata fabulous price. It was cer- tainly a great instrument when Paganini’s chin was on it. MARBLE TABLES. In tho annex to the art gallery may be seen the fi part of the Italian exposition, Statuary and mosaic tables make up the show, Tables with stone tops are not alwoys handsome or desirable articles of farnivure, especially in our climate; and our almost universal ust of poor marbie for this purpose bas inspired the ju- dicious with au admiration for wood. But tho stone tabies as seen in Italy, where marbie is only used for the very cheap sorts, exhibit the magnificent posst- bilities of this article of furoiture. Perhaps the most beautiful they make are those in the style of the Florentine mosatc, and there are some fin imens of these here. Many of the finest are marked ‘‘sold."” Avis aux amateurs, ITALIAN STATUARY, It 18 demenstrated here that Italy stil! has the call of the world in sculptures in marble, Good statues are made in other countries, bat they are like the pound of tea that some one occasionally raises in North Caro lina to prove the possibility of getting on withor China. ‘They aro curiosities and luck favor. The statuary bere not only proves that Italy 1s in advance ot the modern world im this art, but also that our worship of the ancients—the accidental relics of either Greece or early Italy—is mere idolatry and affectation. Finer ogy is made in Italy to-day than was mad tore, either there or elsewhere, his whether we conceive the essential function of the artto lie mechanicaily in the accurag reproduction of the human Oguro, or practically in the resentation of the.heroic or tender moods. The if cifer exhibited bere is a finer statue than the Apol Belvidere—nas a better body and more sow); and there are half a dozen female figures superior to the overrated Venus de Medici. Perhaps in the course of the ages since the Venus was made woman bas really tmproved physi: cally and the modern artists, oviy as taith{ulas tbe ancient ones, have the benciit of the euange THE ADMISSIONS. The paid admissions to the Exnibition to-day wore estimated at 15,206 A STATUR OP WASHINGTON. A colossal statue of Washington, for the Exhibition, arrived at this port yesterda: It is movelied trom Leutz’s painting ot Washington crossing the Delaware, ja twelve feet high and was cut from @ solid block of marble, It wiil stand between the western end o! the main buildiag and Bartholdi’s tountain upon a pedestal eighteen feet high, PROFESSOR ARCHER RETURNING HOME, Professor Thomas C. Archer, l. R. 5. E., who, with Colonel Hervert B. Saniord, R. A. 8 represented Great Britain at the Exhibition as Executive Commis- sioner, has received @ communication irom the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education directing him to return to England for various reasot connectod with his daties. both as Executive Commise sio1 and a Superintendent of the Edinburgh Museum. THE TALMADGE DEFALCATION, The continued discoveries in the case of John B. Talmadge, the alloged dofaulter, are positively astonish. ing. As already andounced a large portion of the goods was found ina building on Washington street, Jersey City, and attached by Sherif Laverty. Yester- day morning he received a telegram from the Chief of Police in Chicago setting forth that $20,000 worth of goods, supposed to belong to Talim: & Co., had beea seized in that city. Meanwhile Jmadge has dis. appeared and an active search is being made for him. His agents are not idie, Thoy have rople- vined come of the goods which are now In possession ot Coroner Gannon, who, under old statute, can SRR RNG petaths ors tants peed legal figat tor the ion of the in p | devweon the creditors and the agents of Talmage