The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1876.-WIYH SUPPLEMENT. TH SOUT AND THE CANTASS, Letters from R, Barnwell Rhett, Jr., and Colonel Mosby, WHY RHETT SUPPORTS TILDEN. ———+——- Triumph of the Democracy Salvation of the South. The the | WHY MOSBY SUPPORTS MAYE rn The Triumph of the Republicans the Salvation of the South. Rhett’s Picture of Carpet-Bag and Scalawag Government. mnt AML MOSBY UPON TILDEN AND 1 ——_—_-—__—_ ANY HALL. LETTFR FROM MR. CHARLESTON, To tie Eprror or tHe Herain:— Your issue of the 26th ult. contains an editorial ender the head of “An Opportunity for Barnwell Rhett.” It compliments me highly for sincerity and capacity, for which I tender my acknowledgments, Bat while attributing to me an importance 1 do not possess, it inveighs against my efforts for the demo- cratic party, and holds me up before the Northern public in a light both incorrect and injurious Tho Heratp of the 2d inst, and that of the 3d bring me forward again in condemnation of my course, whieh is misrepresented, This is unJust to mo, to these South- | ern men whom I am supposed to represent and to the | democratic ticket I support, and I therefore crave a | small space in your columns to set myself right with pu and to reach the great Northern public whose opinions are reflected by the Heraup. I find myself described m the Heran as “the chiof of irreconcilables,” and classed as one of those with whoin “the lost causo ts fresber and moro potent than in war days,” and the “war issues, which have long been forgotten, gain new life.’” Suffer me to call your attention to a few facts, Upon my re-entrance on the stage of editorial Iife, In the Charleston Journal of Commerce, a tew weeks since, I fistinetly announced:—The issues ol the days gone y are fought, We have reverently buried our dead, and propose to march forward trom the past to meet he emergencies of the living present.”” I havo not made mention of “the lost cause.” I have not al- luded to “the war’? or to any of the “war issues.” “The lost cause,” “the war” and “war issues’? have nothing to do with the bitterness” felt by the entire RHETT. , August 7, 1876, white population of the Southern —_States toward the oppressive satraples ‘put over them vy tho republican party and toward tho political emissaries. who haye done the dirty work of banding tho negroes in hostility to the whites. The fecling 1s produced by the gross misgovernment and systematic plunder to which the Southern people have been subjected since the war and which are fast vankrupting theso States, counties, towns and citizens of every class. Tho agents of tho ruin are honestly regarded as the worst enemies of their dupes—tho aegroes, and of the whites—the victims of their ra- pacity and enmity. The Henato correctly states that I ‘support with old time fervor Tilden and Hendricks.” Tilden was a free soil democrat and at Buffalo in 1848 supported Van Buren and Adams. In 1860 he was a squatter sover- eignty democrat and supported Douglas, He was a Union man and war democrat jn 1861, and afterward tustained Lincoln in the abolishment ot slave institu- Hons in the South to break down “the lost cause” and | make the war against the Soathern Confederacy suc- cessful, I submit that my recent record asa journalist and my support of Mr. Tilden refute tho allegation that I am irreconcilable, While described in the Hrenratp as “a cool man, with wide experience,” Iam yet placed in the category of those with whoi “Northern mon are carpet-baggers— the Sonthern man who votes according to his conscience is, it he votes republican, a scalawag,” and with whom there ts “the sane spirit of antipathy toward the North that was manifested before the w The pesple of the South whom [ represent draw a very widt distinction between the people of the Nortn and the al partisans of the North. They make a sil wider distinction between Northern men coming to the South to engage in any regular business and bring capital, and the radical emissaries and political adventurers who bave come here to array the negroes in opposition to the whites, and to use the power copierred upon the negroes ‘sonal plunder and republican asceuday pression, social degradatio the whites. Tuey are the authors of the ‘color line” and “‘race issues,” of the misrule and anarchy pervad- ing every State which they govern, If the people of the North and these who shapo their ppinion could notice the character of the negro radical governments imposed upon the Southern Siates they would marvel at our patience and hurry the reform we | keck. To enable you to get a faint idea of the govern- ment of South Carolina I will preseot afew iacts— 4rst, as to the personnel of those why vccupy the seats ot power, and then, as to the abuse of their power, to tae injury and prospective destruction of the people. THR GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Executive Department.—Governor, D. H. Chamber- lain, white carpet-vugger, irom Massachusetts; Lieu- tenant Governor, R. H. Gleaves, mulatto carpet-bagger, from Lousiana; Treasu F. 1. Cardoza, mulatio keaiawag, from South Carolina, Secretary of State, H. E. Hayne, mulatto scalawag,' from South Carolin Attoracy General, W mont; Superintendent of Kaucation, J. K~ Jilleen, white Carpetbagger, from ; Adjutant and Inspector jenerg, He L. Purvis, mulatto carpet-bagger, from vania, ¢ Department, —President of the Senate, R. muiaito carpet-bagger from Louisiana. | Of | De wrough the political de- mand pec! hicary robbery of tone, White carpet-bagger, V "e mI WW Senators, 26 are radicais, 7 conservatives, 19 are ne- rrocs and mulattoes, 4 white carpet-baggers, 3 white u8 and 7 white conservatives or democrat ers of the He vatives, 75 are negro carpet-baggers, § white scalawa ocrats tives, 91 oF mulaie and 3 whit white conservatives or de Judiciary Departnent.—The Supreme Court consists of 8 jadges—Cnief Justice, F. 1 from Sonth i ard, white Moses, waite scala. st Associate Justice, A. I, ‘om New York; second ght, hegro carpet-bagger, from | 1 ¢ are hela by § judges, these & are carpet-bag™ atives—1 republican and ters, J sealawags and 2 conse UL democrat, PLUNDER OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. In i860 ¢ taxeble erty of th Siate was | F607,815, 255. The annual state tax was $500,000, The Legislature, sitting tiiee weeks, and each member paid | §3 per diem and milage, cost the State $18,000. fhe public printing cosis avout $16,000, The State officials Were paid salaries on a par with those now paid in (ne emailer Now kngiand states, and formed the duties of thoir respective Now the taxable property of the State, by an extrar+ agant assessment of ‘ands, i $140,000,000, and South Carolina is sot down in the census ay thirtieth State in niividually per. Nees, taxabies. Yet the aunual State tax $1,500,000. The i ‘ each member paid mi the ‘State «$103,000, The pub and, for ato officials are ‘now several years, $150,000. Tha heads of departments and employ clerks todo their Vusiness Oillees arc multipited ond salarios largely | reased for the beneit of a crew of political bums mers and cormoranis feeding on the people, The State government, in addition to the expense of the Legista- Tare, how costs in the neighborhood of $500,000 annus | aily. Siuce 186 government, , when this party got possession of the he amount of taxes collected for State aud county purposes has been $18,000,000. During | the first threo years, in ddition vw the debe wt) five of six intl ollars fandod in 1868, $12,009,000 of bonds and $2,000,000 were issued; and tm i $12,000,000 were repudiated absolutely or by funding | atfifiy cants on the dollar, With a few exeepuons the counties are all in debt, and (heir checks are ata | heavy discount, and the | eopte of the State arein abject poverty’ Pet garnum of the Contonnial Commissioners would | collect and extibit at Philadelphia for a few weeks ine Legislature of this State in session the spectacle wonld draw. The republican government of Seat Carolina, in the United States of America, iu the year of our Lerd 1876 and. the 100th year of the Union, woold | shock the civilifation of the world. Every honest re- publican of (he Norih would stand aghast at the hor- Tibie mockery ¢f free gevornment and would become a revormer, as 1 an The Hewanp w wants the Southern people to * Y to “throw over politics altogether,” to support the republican tieket.’’ It compiains of “color line”? and ‘race issues’ But whe made them; who keep them They were made by the republican emissaries of the Freedman’s Bureau. They are kept up by the tarpet-baggers and sealnwags, These are the stock iD trade of the rauioal party, and withont them their oc. | ? | checks and overruling all limitations embodied in tho | rounded by very consideravle dangers to our institu- | that they are the candidates of the southern people | construction measures necessarily enpation would be gone. Southern white men are com- | pelled in sell-defence to try and protect their property | from coniiscavion, their civilization from debauchery and their liberties trom political slavery. Does the | Hxnatb expect them, in the face of such an invasien, to put their hands on'their mouths and their heads in | the dust, and surrender {reely the property lett trom | the wreck of the war and the eleven years worse than | war which have followed? Are they to give up ail, and | then thank God they are radic:lized and Africanizod ? | Is that the “negro equality” incuicated by the HERALD, “the peace which wil be peace, indeed ;”’ the “repose” | wo have not and do not exhibit? | But the HERALD suggests that ‘“iinance, free trace, | centralization, the constitutional relations of the Stat to the general government, reform, civil service and | general improvement are the questions that should be- come matters for discussion and for popular suffrage.” Now, on all these questions the peopie of the South, whom 1 represent, oppose the republican party, and in principle and policy agree with the democratic party. | Therefore, without the slightest reierenve to ‘the lost cause,” “the war’ or ‘war issues,” and “accepting the inevitable” “as men of common sonse and p tical polities,” they purpose to support Mr. den and the democratic party. As to tho allegation that the Southerners “have striven to bring the Union back to what it was belore the war,” | itseems to us very far-fetched and, if 1 may be par- doned, fatuitoug. With the abolishment of the slave istitutions of the South, the overthrow of the South- ern contederacy, with the wreck of a terrible tour | years’ war, and the waste and destruction of the last | hine years of negro-radical domination, to talk abous | this section exercising the power in the Union she | formerly did is to conjure up @ phantom and ghost of | the pasi, forever gone. In the language ot Daniel Web- ster, Northern men ‘‘should not be carried away by | fancies of gorgons, hydras and chimeras dire, to the utter disregard of ali that is substantially valuable, important und essential in tho administration of the government,”? The peopte of the Sonthern States believe that the liberties of a tree people are embodied in their funda. mental law, and that coustitutional limitations of power can ‘alone establish freedom in government Those who assume for the general government Washington the reserved rights guaranteed to the States through the constitution, and would, by eon- struction, convert the States into mere convenient cireles tor minor local legislation, possessed of no political power, practically strike out the States, Then there are no States und no union of States, and nothing is left but centralized, constitutionless, abso- lute power in the hands of a majority in Cougress, rul- ing the country by secret party caucuses, So far as the minority is concerned, sucha governmentis utterly | irresponsibie and leaves them without protection or | remedy. Whether injustice or cppression be imposed by one man at headquarters in the form of Ciesarism | or by ignorant and irresponsible numbers scattered in remote sections of a vast country, the burden is just heavy and hard to bear, Aud as the passions of ag- graudizement, ambition or prejudice may dictate, a | ceniralizea government administered by the majority | on the principle of “the general welfare overriding all Tie constitution,” will subject the helpless minority to all | manner of injuries fatal to thelr liberties and their | prosperity, Such are the principles and policy of the | republican party. And, looking wiolly to the future, the people of the South’ hold them to be incompatible | with the existence of free government, It is easy to | understand how those of the North, whose polities aro | controlled by short sighted sectional grecd, ambition or | ML ieeling, can sustain the republican party. But itis | hard to comprehend bow men can stil support it | who aspire to constitutional liberty tor the wholo country; who desire a Union of patriotic love and mutuai regard—a Union in fact and not in nm only—who would nourish the rehavilitiate the dnancial vurces, resiore the cre and placo the currency and bonded debt on the frm basis of a well governed, harmonions and pros- | pering people, It is difficult to understand, because | the republican party would continue to subject the | Southern States to the tyranny and anarchy, xpolin tion and imbecility of carpet-bag satraps, ‘It is a party whicn has ‘squandered the public funds e: tracied from the scant means of an impoverished peo- plo, a party whose ollicial career 18 steeped in profi. | gacy to the lips, whose corruption, from its muim- moth proportions, overshadows the land and threat. | ens to unsettle the foundations of virtue on which pop- | ular government is basod. | The people of the Southern States beliove that tho democratic party 18 the only party that can preserve tho constitution and give peuce and harmony to ail who are destined to live under it, Tbey regard it as the true and only Union party, whose principles and policy can re-establish good government, with reform, | economy and stability, and give confidence and rity to capitalists, property holders and business men throughout the country. Unless it be successful in the pending olection we judge that no man can foretell the future. It is the lass chance for good and stable government in the United States After the defeat of tho democratic party now—the deluge. If these views appear to you wild ict me direct your attention to the premonitions and forevodings of men | ov ackpowledged authority at the Norta than my- self. ‘Thomas Jefferson, shortly before his death, wrote as follows to Mr. Holmes, 4 member of Congress from one of the New England States:— “I regret that [ an now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776 to acquire self-government and happiness of their country is to bes thrown away by the unwise and un- worthy passions of their sons, and that my only con- golation 18 to be that I shall not live to weep over it.”” Daniel Webster, only a year or two before his death, said in the Senate:—‘It js not to bo denied that we live im the midst of strong agitations, and are sur- tions and government. I have a part to act, not for my own security or safety, for { am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from tho wreck, If such there must be, but for tne good of the whole and | posed of seven democratic judges. Mr. Charles the preservation of all. Never did there devolve on | O’Conor, the Nestor of tho ‘New York bar, in a any eration of men higher tenets than now dovolve | letter published at the time. charged that upon us for the preservation of this constitution and | the decision was procured through the cor- the harmony and peace of all who are destined to live | rupt influence of ‘Iweed’s money. Here wos under it, We have a great, popular, constitutions: | a #plendid caso for an investigation, far government, guarded by law and by ‘judicature and | defended by the affections of the whole people, No mooarchical throne presses there States’ together; no iron chain of military power encircles them, They live and stand under a government popular in its ferm, representative in ite character, founded upon prince ples of equality, and so constructed, we hope, as to last forever, In all tts his- | tory it has been beneficent; it has trodden down no man’s liberty; 1tbas crushed no State, Its daily res- piration is liberty and patriovism.”” Mr. Seward, alter trying in vain to curb the headlong carcer of the republican party to revolutionize the gov- ernment, spent his last years in mourning, and died, it 1s said, in gloom and depression concerning the fu ture of the country. And Charies Sumner, in his last discourso at a din- ner tabie, gave utteranes to the forebodings he feit | about coming events, and dreaded aoarchy und blood: | | shed for the North. The present, so far as we can seo, 18 a great crisis and turning point in the destiuies of the United States, | and tho people ef the Southern States intend to strag- y to make and to keep the government of the United States a free government. ‘The HeRaxo urges that the white people of the South “give the negro political equality.” They are willing to give them ail that the laws grant them, to let them reach ireely their own proper jevel and to protect them as thoronghly as they protect whites, The democrats of the South appreciate their good qualities, know their industrial value and have kind feclings to- ward them. But they do not propose, “on account of | race, color or previous condition of slavery,” to make | rulers and statesmen out of ignorant hotel waiter beggarly bootbiacka and well mannered barvers, 1 cause of these peculiar incidents in the lives of colored men they do not enjoy the more confiscation arranged under forms of law. Whether the pen or the pistol be used to compel men to stand and deliver the meags of bread for themselves and their families, it is all oue, equally unsatisfactory and distressing. ' Negro poli ticians, tho tools and henchmen of the radical carpet: Daggers and? sealawacs, aro not admired or beloved } those Who are their victims, fut the great body ot the colored population are not disliked, The demo- crats of the South are their best friends, and, so far as “having nothing to do with them,” at you conjece ture,, expect to convince many of their friendship, and by their aid to carry the democratic ticket in South Carolina. So fur as ontrages are concerned, there {ts no more orderiy and law abiding people tn the United States than those of South Caroliua. In proof, let me recail that im 1852, when two white men named Motley and Blackledge, the fortner, aman ot some family influ mot a runaway negro ‘near Parker's Ferry, on ¢ Kaisto River, forty miles from Charleston, and killed him by a blow on tho head as he tried to gat away, ale though the name of the negro was unknown and also | the name of his master, these men were tried, con- | victed and hung at Walterboro. At that time law ex- istec for the protection of all, and, with democratic government, it will be so again, R. BARNWELL RHETT, Jn, LETTER FROM COLONEL MOSBY. Wasntvotox, August 12, 1876) The following letter has been written by Colonut Mosby to a former Confederate comrade in reply to ono urging bim to support Tilden :— Wannexrox, Va, Aagust 6, 1876, | My Dean Sim—Uhave just received your communt- cation inquiring tf it be’ irae, as reported, that Lam supporting Hayes and Wheeler, Ibis true that Lam a | cordial and earnest advocate of the election of that ticket, Botwithstanding you say that all the Southern | people and especially the Confederate soldiers are | | | United in support ol tbe democrat: I hope, however, that ia this you are mistaken and that many men in the Soutti of round re and national senti- meuts will be found on ihe other side; however this | may be, it will not divert me from my purpose, I Thought you knew that | ceased to be a Contederate dier about cleven years ago and became a citizen of the United States, As a soldier | did eonscieutionsiy what I thought was my duty; as acinzen I shail do she some thing os tor as L knew how. The ground on wiieh you tirge me to support Trden and Hendricks is | it elected, will be ander their contro! cause thig thing is apparent that the ‘elec of Tilden ‘Ie an impossmity. In attempting to grasp too much the Souih will lose everyting The tonal y ol the southern peopie has been the governing Hea and bone of thor polities. So far | Irom. its being a remedy Jor anything 1 has been the | cause of moat of the evils they have suffered. So long as it continues the war will be a comtroiling element of polities, for any ery in the South that unites the Con- lederuies re-cchoes through the North and rekindles the war Gres there. Thus, every Presidential canvass mes a battle between the two sections, and the South being the weaker must be the losing party. lo insist Oh Keeping up tiix sectional fight may be very heroio—so was the charge at Balak but, ia my Opinion, 18 just as reckics# and just as unwise. The re- | divided parties in the South on a color le, for the issue they presented was the political equality of the races, While the South was opposing it the republican party was on the side ot tha negra, Hut since the South bas accepted itand | | have accomplished; the democrats are pledged not to | four years ago d urged the southern people that 1f they | the United | Any good which the Southern people might derivo | | South, | PB. Doouelly, treasurer; Charles Duddy, secretary. | Heights, | the Hoboken Meadows, where they | of incorporated it in the platform on which it bas mounted its candiaate I see no reason for continuing to divide on an issie which hax become extinct. Having adopted all the principles of a party, and sanctioned all its mensure:, | can se no objection to voting for its candidate, Do you not see, then, that as long as owe kee up the fight on the oid hues, with the same allies and the some battle cries, the North will be suspicions of our good iaith, no matter in what torm we protest tt! Ail that Tepublieans propose is to preserve what they distur) what the republicans bave dune. You cannot complain that ihe sincerity of the pledges of Gov- ernor Tilden to execate certain Jaws is distrusted when supporters justily their opposition to Gov- ernor Hayes on the ground that his party ling enacted these laws, To be cousistent they should go tor re pealing then af «they come tnto po I concur with you in adesire fora change in the policy of the ational government toward the South, bat that can only come from a change in the attitude of the South- ern people toward the administranen, You say that no one in the South is supporting Hayes but ne- groes and carpet-baggers, I would be sorry to think this were so, but if it were I should still vote for the candidate of my choice and would not Jet this class deprive me of 1% 1 suppose they support Hayes be- cause they think it is to their interest to do so. I think it would be equally to the interest of ail the thern people tw do the same thing Kut you say that even admitting it would be better for thein to do so, yet, a8 it iS notorious they will not, that I ought to” surrender my individual conyictions to the will of the majority, | don’s think so. It is better for some to go right than for ull to go wrong. It I think they are goimg wrong I could do no good by gomg with them. If they insist on breaking their necks I don’t intend to assist them, Besides, you say that if Tildea 1s clected he will be under the control of the Conicderates, If that is so then you will have no need of me. But suppose Hayes ts elecied, with a solid South against him—what are you going to dothen? You do not see now, but you will then sce the force of my logic? It was for these reasons that really, desired peace and reconciliation to bury their | passiéns and resentmenis and support the man who | Was not only the seprosontation of an overwhelming majority of tue North, but was the most powertul, as he had been the most’ generous, of our joes, I have | seen no cause to change my opmions or to regret my course, Many things have since occurred waich uo | one deplores more than Lido, But “you can never say I did it’? The responsibility Is with those who adopted | the fatal pohiey, “Anything to beat Gran’? In the | contlict they invited Grant to beat them. Having pre- dicted all sorts of evils to result from tbe «tection of Grant tney have done all ia their power to make their preditious come trae, You speak of the bitter hostility of the North toward the South, Well, four years of hard fighting is not | the south of the West Eud Hovel, SEA AND MOUNTAIN Viewing the Yacht Race from Long Branch. SNOWBALLING AT THR WHITE MOUNTAINS. Flirting, Dancing and Masking at Saratoga. HOW TO KEEP A HOTEL. LONG BRANCH. A VIEW OF THE YACHT RACE—THE CITY'S SATURDAY OUTPOURING—CROWDS OF PLEASURE SEEKERS AT THE HOTBLS—COTS AT A PRE- MIUM—A GRAND BALL AT THE WEST END— THE PEOPLE AT THE PRANCH--THE CUSTER MONUMENT ENTERTAINMENT. Lona Bran August 13, 1876, Long Branch had a sensation yesterday aiternoon. A little after four o’clock a steamer was sighted, ap- parently laying to and probably about ten or twelvo miles from the shore, on a line enst irom and a litle to Presently four hts were observed making for the boat, two of which were immediately recognized as the Madeleine and Countess of Dufferin, on their second race tor the Queen's Cup, Large crowds gathered along tho cliff and on the piazzas, balconies and roots of the hotels, and every available glass, trom the long telescope to the lady’s opera glass, was bronght into requisition in the attempt to discover whether Ola England or Young calculated to make men'love each other; neither 18 an everlasting retearsal-ot the wrongs which each side | imagines it has suflered going to bring us any | nearer to a better-undersianding. Peace can only come | with oblivion of the past. I Know as well as you wnat tho Southern people have bad to enduro; but this has | been the experience of every conquered people. The | figure of Judea on the Roman com—vetled and weep- ing among her palm trees—was tue type of those who Jought for a cause that failed. It will always remain so, Tho wound of war time alone can heal, but many grievances springing from our administration could long ago have been corrected by ceasing to oppose the mmevitable, In doing this the Southern people have | played Into the hands of their worst enemies, From | | A chronic habit of complaining they too often injure good causo by mixing up real with imaginary wrongs. For instance, Mr. Lamar, in the very able speech ho recently delivered in the House of Representatives, | said that what the South-wanted was local seil-govern: | ment. [thought the South had it, 1fat has not, how | did he get into Congress? 1f Mississippt has not local | self-government, what sort of a governinent :s it | which controls Mississippi and bag just clected him to | tates Senate? It you wish to know, | then, the ground of my support of Hayes, 1 is thi from the election of Tilden would equally result trom | their support of Hayes. They can vote for Hases, bat they can’t elect Tilden, “But 1 am far from (hinking | thal the election of a democrat, even if such a thing | were possible, would be an unmixed blessing to the | On the contrary, I fear it would open a ‘Pan- gora’s box of evils. The very remote prospect has al- ready excited hopes anc expectations tbat can never be reat.zed, If such a thing should occur as the election ot a President by a united South combining with a | mere fragment of the North it would simply revive the old conflict of the sections. A transtormation nas taken place in the state of parties, Tho republican now represents the principle of conservatism, while I can concieve bo worse form of radicalism than the re- actionary movements that would fall on a Bourbon restoration, No onv desires more than | do that the Sonth should get its full share of the benefits and ex- erciso a just influence in the administration of the Re But this cannot be done by voting tor iden. But the democrats aro going to rebuild everything | if they get possession of the government, they éa} Haye you ever known a party out of power that did not promise reform to get in? Has there been one | single abuse oxpored for which tho Gemocrats have | not established a precedent? Do yon tmnk that a | higher standard of morality would prevail in pablic ite by transferring the intluence of Tammany Hall to Washington? Has that been a proper schoul to edu- cate reformers? 1 know nothing ol Governor Tilden except that he has long been the loader of his party tn New York, whoxe colossal rovberies have been the op- probiam ot American politics. When Governor Tilden a8 purified politics ih his own State it will be time enough then to turn his attention to the national ad- ministration, It was only about twelve months ago that Tweed was released from prison on habeas corpus by w decision of the New York Court of Appeals, co excelling in enormity the eale of a sutiershjjy; yet these judges remain unimpeachod and are stil wearing the ermine of justice, | aliude to this fact to show the tone of political morality of the party of which Governor | Tilden bas been tho acknowledged hea: ever since the retirement of Tweed, He proposes to reform the civil service; but how? By achange in the system of a pointments? Notatall; but by filling the oflices with his partisans, who will flock to Washington as famine and hungry as the grave.” o have thus been all filled somebody will then have to rotorm the reformers. The character of such bogus pretenders ts well described in the language of Junius as “resembling the termagant chastity of a prude who, while she prosecutes one lover for rape, invites the lewd embraces of another,” That official trusts held under the administration have becn abused no one a nies; that the delinquents have not heen screened gy their party associates is equaily true, Any ooserver can see that those who have ben most forward in ex- posing corraption are pow the most earnest in sup- Porting liayes. Bot it is suid that no party ean reform abuses in its own ranks, I can- not accept such a theory of muman depravity, 1 do not see why a party, like an individual, can’t re- form itself, If this were’ not so we would have to chronicle datly the rise and fol of a new party, It 18 claimed that the democrats bave done great good by their investigations. This may be so, and yet is no Poot of capacity, for the administration of affitre, he act of the detective may be very necessary and useful in the economy of yovernment, but has never been considered an rent of statesmauship. I know very weil the measure of denunciation which the ex- prossion of these sentiments wil! receive trom the peo- ple in whose cause I shed my blood and sacrificed the prime of my life. Be it so; 1 wait on timo for my vin dieation. To thove who now assail me I reply, in the language of Edmond Burke when charged’ with do- serting his constituents in opposing the American wat, “did not obey your instructions, No; | contormed to the instructions of truth and nature and maintained your interests against your opinions. Tam, indeed, to lovk to your opinions, but such opinions as you and I must have five years hence. I was not to look to the flash of the day.” 1 have thus given you, at more length thanT in- cended, the reasons that impel my_politieal condact. Very truly, JOHN & MOSBY, LOCAL POLITIC A largo and enthusiastic mecting was bold yesterday by the workingmen of the Fifth Senatorial district at their headquarters on Horatio street. John Larkin, the president, presided, Alter transacting some routine business and admis- sion of now members resolutions were presented by Messrs, Higgins and MeDonongh indorsing Samuel J, Trden and Thomas A. Iendricks for President and Vice rresideut. Both candidates were culogized in high terms, aud the speakers explained the sufferings of the workingmen of this city, A meeting of the Tenth Ward Independent Associa- tion was also held at their hegiqnarters yesterday, and resolutions indorsing the nomination of Governor Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks were adopted, Col- onet Wilham R. Roberts was also naned as their can- didate for County Clerk and William Campbell for Al- derman. Tho sollowing officers were elected for the year:— Dorris Dowiing, president; John Failon, vice president; RIOT IN HOBOKEN, Atan carly hour yesterday morning several Jersey City police officers drove away a number of Oghting and dranken rowdies who had been to the “Michael Whalen picnic,’ at Dittwar's Park, on Jersey Cny ‘Tho party were driven down tho ‘Steps’? to re out of tho Jurisdiction of the Jersey City police and im that of Hoboken, When the officers were returning to the hill up tho “Steps,” Police Officer Rahtjen, the Iobeken polico, who happened to ve passing, saw one of the gang about to throw a stone at a Jersey Ciiy Police oilicer, etre Rahtjen could prevent the stone being thrown he was himself seized snd thrown to the groand, and his cowardly assailants kicked him in tne head and ince ull he became nearly insensivic, Ho was subse- nily removed to tis home, in Hoboken, and at- ded to by Dr. Pindar, The stone thrown at the Jersey City policeman fortupately missed its mark, Meanwhile Police Onticer McDermott, of the Hoboken police, came npon the scene, and succeeded in capture ing two of the ringieaders James Taohey, aged twenty, sash and blind esiuing on dersey City Heights, Geo a printer, employed at Frank Leslie's, and residtpg on Jersey City Heights likewise, ine prisoners were taken before Recorder Bohnstedt, at Huvoken, iz terday morning, wno remanded them without bail for further examination to this morning. It is under. Stood that the prisoners hare betrayed the names of | | went, now the slim-looking vessel seeming to take the lead and now the broad canvas showing the way. ROUNDING THE STEAMER. At about five o'clock, however, oue of the yachts was seen to have changed her position and to be heading tor New York. although it was impossible to distin- Ameri was ahead in the race, At tho West End Hotel tho male guests crowded tho piazza, aud the sight from that point was a very fino one, It was not then known tothe spectators that the saucy Madeleine was maintaining 60 well the credit of American yachts, and had already virtually beaten her gallant com- petitor, and as the boats were sailing on opposite tacks | it was difficult to determine which was ahead, the lead apparently changing every timo oue or tho other went about, Indeed, it was not easy for an inexperienced person to distinguish the English yacht from tho Americans, and the opinions expressed, as the telescope passed from hand to hand, were somewhat lacking in harmony, “That's the Countess! You ean tell by her sails, and she's ahead—oh, away ahead,” exclaims one excited gazor through the glass, “Let mo look; Jet me look!’ cries another, and the glass passes to | his hands, While ho ts adjusting the sight one of tho racers tacks, ‘‘Why that one isn’t ahead at all through the giass,”” shouts the new eritte in astonishment; “the other feliow’s ahead, and 6! the Madeleine sure, from her load of canvas.” Again tho glass passes to a new hand, again tho vessels tack, and tho | third boat, which every one agrees must be the old | America, seems now to be nm advance, “Well,” says a hberally disposed gentleman, “1 hope the Conntess may carry off this race, anyway, for then we shall have an exciting contest for the third trial and there will be the more credit in our victory.” “I don’t want to trust anything to chance,’ replies a more cautious individual; “that Countess 1s a good vessel, and might have won the first race if she had been more capably handled. It she should win this one a very little accident might give her the next, and 1 don’t want to see the rousing old America’s prize zo back to the Britishers.’” AN RXPERT GIVES AN OPINION. At this moment Colonol Schuyler Crosby, who ts taking the benetit ofthe sea air and rest at the West End, appeared among tbe crowd of gazers, and the giass was at once handed to him, as an expert, to de- cide the position of the yachts. He promptly picked out the Madeieine as the leading vessel, and named the America as second, a good lead ahead of the English- man and pressing closely on the Madeleine, Tho fourth yacht came ploughing along behind, at such distance ‘that ber tacking did not bring her in appear. ance within tho line of her companions, This, it alterward appeared, was the Wanderer; but to the excited imaginations of the West End company she appeared at one time to be the Countess and at an- other tho Madoleinc, and, of course, every one knew that some ‘accident had hap. pened to her, whoever she might be, and that it was a elean walkover for the other yachia, On went the racers, beating up toward the stakeboat, and from the shore it was still impossible for the unprac- tised eyo knowing nothing about the port tack and the starboard tack to decide which was ahead. Ou they | guish her in the act of rounding, There was no mis- taking the ranniwg up of her balloon sails, and the eemed to shoot past tho other vessels, which were still beating toward the steamer, on her homeward — tack, arcely a min- ute seemed to have clapsed betore another vessel rounded and headed tor home. This was de- cided by Colonel Crosby not to be one o; the racers, and it was in fact the America, Nearly a quarter of an hour parsed before the third boat, now evidently the Countess, was seen heading toward New York. Tho fourth boat, as the Madeleine reached her oa the re- turn, wheeled round and evidently gave vp all idea of troubling herself further about the steamer. The positions of the yachts now became plainly digcorni- ble. The Madeleine seemed to walk away from the rest, the America came next, quickly passing tho Wanderer, and the Countess lollowed suit. Away they went in single file betore the wind, and the patriouc mind of the Long Branchers became satisted that, barring accidents, the Madeleine was to be the victor aud royalty’s cup Was to remain in republican hands, 1% MOTEL KEEPERS’ JUBILBR. Yesterday's trains brought to the Branch even more than the accustomed Saturday crowds, and the hotel keepers, with suing countenances, welcomed tho J conveyances as they drove up to their doors, peeded to ussure their visitors of comforiabie odation and to stow thet away tn ail manner ot , including the hallways, reception rooms, billiard rooms, and, in some ikstances, in the bow.ing alleys, Atthe West End every savaiiavle space was Biled with its cot, the rooms having been secured by telegraph Jong betore the arrival of the trains, Lt was a sight to see the New Yorkers pouring in from the sweltering city and willing to put up with the most ro accommodations for the sake of a few hours of ‘pure sea air, Theevening was a delighttut one, and the » cht cold enough tor double biankets, su that the visitors were fully recompensed for a little tempo- rary inconventence, The sedate and stendy Howland Honse even iost some of its customary orderly and peaceable character and became excited in the attew to stow away its overilowing measure of the Saturday inflax. The Ocean and the other hoteis were glorying in densely packed rooms and their uccompanying profits, A GRAND BALL AT THY WHST END. In the evening there was a fall dress subscription Dail in the spactous parlors of the West End Hove, given jor the benefit of Ernest Meyer's excelient band, whose music 18 so well known to tho guests of the lead- ing house at the Branch, It was something more thah & success in puini ot numbers, for the floor was too crowded for the dancers, and ‘a large portion of the ticket hoiders had to content themscives with places in the corridors and an occasional squoeze into the ball- room, Baltimore ts proverbial tor iis beauty, and s Baltimore is liberally represented among the West Ex guesis it 13 needless to say that its reputation was well Maintained last mght, Where so many handsomo women were gathered it seems superfluous to allude to the mature charms of Mrs. Robert Garrett and to the attractions of such varied shades of beauty as wero represented in the Misses Erick, Howard, I,cavering, Moihe Lasby, Remington, Hiheott, Merodith and Vir- ginia Neal, all of the Mouumental City, To dwoil upon the charms of these Southern belles wouid render it only a matter of justice to declre that Philadeiphia disputed the paim of loveliness by presenting M Tobias and the Misses Pancoast; tuat Albany furnts ‘a fair contestant in the persou ot Miss Tweddle; that St. Louis, aiways rich in pretty women, conid not be | overshadowed while Mias Sophie Sloan was one of the dancers; that the Paciile coast sent its golden tribute in the beautitul canghier of ex-Senator Gwinn, of Cabfornia, and that New York, as usual, held her own through a representation embracing such young ladies as ex-Mayor Vance’s daugtter, riod, Miss Lamont, a reputed heiress; te Misses Puiling, Stan- dart, Prail, Jarrett, Yale, Nowvson and Emina Koach, and the dark eyed Mrs R.A. Compton, The cottages ‘also jurnished their quota of grace and loveliness, the two beantiin daughters of Theodore Moss—night’ and morning—Lester Wallack’s daughter, who is suffering frotw temporary lumeness, Mr, Richard Murphy, Mrs. De Rivas, Sirs Paddock, Mrs. Simon Sternberger and daughters, Miss Drexel and Mrs. Joba Hoey and danghters, being atnong the contribations, The ptazzas of the hotel wero literally rendered impassable, the guests and others who did novattend the ba ing Seized possession of them and filled them compactly with Jookers-on through the windows and buleony doors, It is noediess to describe the dresses, They wero all clogant, whine, with an ample supply of lace and flowers prevaiung and light materinis being sito. ther in use. Of course, the dark eyed and dark jrod Miss Moss appeared in pink, and the bine eved haired one in blue; of course the handsomest Druoette, Misa Molite Lueby, wore white alk and laco; of cour+e the dashing semi-bionde, Migs Shorwood, was in white with black velvet trimmings, and of course every other beauty studied her style and comprexion in selecting her attire, it was a very successin. and tractive ball, and it was fully m: ht before tho swallow tails homeward few. THR PROMINENT VISITORS. Among the company at the West End Hotel to-day are Colonel Schuyler Crosby, Wright Santord, Lonts Me- fier, Carl Otto Peters, W. B. Petton, J. R. Dos Passos, their companions, aud that several other arrests will soon take pin Sinton Tiaves and family, George M. Van Nort and wife, H.C Fabnestock and family, ex-Mayor Vance | complete, and, forgetiul of church debts and mortgages and family, Samuel Thom; and family, President of tho First'National, Bank; A. G. Fay aod family, De. Pancoast and family, all of New York; ex-Senator Gwinn and family, of Calfornia; Archbishop Bayle; of Baitimore; Bishop Corrigan, of Newark; Vicar Gea- eral Quinn, of New York; Colonel Asch, British Com- missioner to the Centennial; Chevalier de Bielosky, A. Pietueff, and Leon Warschowski, Russian Cominis- sioners; Paschini Finetti, of Rome; General Bingham and wife of Philadelphia; Lambert Gittings, of Balti- moro; W. H. Hunt and family, of New Orleans, and Pliny Jewell, THE CUSTER MONUMENT ENTERTAINMENT. Tho arrangements for the Custer monument entel ta‘nment at the West End are in progress and the affair will no doubt bea success, The regatta of the Long Branch Rowing Association will take place at Pleasure Bay some time this month, The weather very ine and the prospect of @ long season is promising. SARATOGA SPRINGS. “SEE SARATOGA AND LIVE”—A WONDERFUL PLACE YOR HUNGER AND SOMNOLENCY—CLERGYMEN ON VACATION--A JOLLY SET—HOW A FAMILY HOTEL IS MANAGED, Saratoca, August 12, 1876, ‘What shall be sald of a man who bas ren through & couple of score of years and never scen Saratoga? When I first arrived I mentioned the fact to several whom I met casually, but it was greeted with such an expression of faco—partly compassionate and pitiful that so much of life should be allowed to pass without A sight of the focal point of Amertcam social life, and partly of indignation that I cou!d so misuse my oppor- tunities—that I have kept very silent of Inte, and try to act as though I had spent my babyhood in the par- lors of this magnificent Grand Union Hotel, One may live to be forty without having smoked, or seen Ris- tori, or travelled in a pulaco ear, and be regarded simply as an eccentre or an uncanny | Person, but If ho has failed to doff tis hat to the famous | men in this place who pull the wires of our political | history and to admire the belles who make one in- | Btivetively grasp his pocketbook in utter despair and resolve to be a buchetor, he is looked upon as httle Jess than a criminal. “Seo Naples and die,” 18 an old adage which has been transformed to suit the American | temperament, and now runs, “Sco Saratoga and live forever.” A HUNGRY AND A SLEEPY PLACK. | Well, there aro two povultar experiences through which Lam daily passing and which ought to be no- tced, First, this is a place where one discovers a lim- itless appetite, It may be uhat the clear, brilliant air acts as a terrible stimulant, or it may be that good company becomes a temptation, but in whatever way ft isto be accounted for the fact remains that one’s | hunger is never appeased. The hour and a half at din- ner only serves to givo you a zest for sup- per, and your supper makes you dream of tho Dill of fare for brenkfast, Saratoga starts one's digestive organs to svoh an extent that cating assumes | an importance never known befora; second, it 1s a place whero the faculty of sleep rises to tho plane of genius. Insomnia here is a disease not known, Tho house Js as still as.a grave at midnight, and tho guests seem to bo sleeping on a wager. If you will permit me to become egotistical I will venture to say that I have | won the oup; I wear the laurol; 1 take tho stakes in this contest; 1am king of the great army of somno- lents, By nine o’clock I begin to wonder how men can keep their cyes open, and by ten the magic charm 18 and foreclosures, 1 tramping through dreamiand, where salaries are large and promptly puid. PRIESTS AND PREACHERS OX VACATION—RARR LOVERS OF FU 1am surprised at the numer of clergymen here, There scoms, howover, a8 much hun nature among them as among ordinary people. Ju-ton my lett at | this moment are half a dozen priesis, with as many theoiogical students hovering 0a the edge of the circle. they enjoy themselves with a suavity and dignity that 48 Very commendable, Tho other day they were at the races, both the boat and the horse races, and wit- nessed the feats of the brawn and hoo! with an enthusi- asm which was not ashamed of iiself. Unlike some | others, who were as anxious to see aa they were solicit- ous not to be seen, they found good positions and con- tributed 10 the ¢njoyment of the occasion. Some things a priest will do openly which a Protestant min- ister almost always does secretiy, and as though he were afraid people would make comments. He will read his Bible or prayerbook in the vars, or on the deck of the steamer, or in the gallery of the hotel, and do it in sueh a nonchalant way that the peopie look on but somehow never express any wonder. Tho clergyman of any Protestant church who should thys publicly de- Voto himself would be criticised severely, and regarded as one who wants a reputation for piety nut posseased, Uver yonder sit, in a xroup of eight, clergymen who have left their flocks in Philadelphia, Balumore and New York to get retreshment and rest in this in. spiring spot, They are tuil ot their work, and if 1 mis- take not aro comparing or possibly exchanging note: which will help on next winter's labors. By thei looks you can’t tell the particular doxy they proses. | Tho pleasant joke makes the Presbyterian and Kpisco- lian mingle their merry laughter, while the observer Rooks on and thinks what a bicesed privilege to bo a | boy for two months, in order to ve a stronger man the | other ten, Do you know there is no ploasanter com- pany than a dozen ministers 1 want nothing better | than to sit down with a couple of Presbyterians, threo Episcopalians, one Methodist who has been a circuit rider, and about four Catholic priests. They are filled | to the brim with auecdotes, ludicrous experiences and strange mistakes, and when the tongue is unloosed by genial fellowship they make the hours pass by on tip- | toe, 1 know, because it has been my good fortune to fall into just such a company within the last few days, A FAMILY HOTEL, AND HOW IT 18 MAN. The Grand Union 1s rapidly becoming a ily hotel. It seems to be the ambition of Judge Hilton to give tho guests overy home comfort, Ie measures everybody by himself, and, wanting everything of the best, and an | ainple supply of it, he furnishes 1t to others, The only | people who find fault are these who have stepped up, rather than down, when they engage rooms in the hotel, [ said, the other day, to the proprietor “What is your ambition respecting the Gracd Union?” He rephied:— 'o make it as much like the homes of our quests as possible; to put the hotel on a par with a Filth avenue | residence.” ‘But, my dear sir, a hotel is a place whero every ono and any one who can pay bis 85 per day has a right to Tegister his name.” “By no means,” he answered, decisively, “There are several detectives here, and they are on the watch allthe time, When t discover a person, man or wowan, who for any reason is objectionable, they have itive orders to see that they Vacate the premises.” | “But that is a very delicate matior.’ It is not always easy to get rid of parties who may come with a pur- | pose, How do you arrango tt?” “Laimply present them with their bill, and that gen- | erally suffices, If it does not, 1 call to my aid the | plamest king's English at my command. and toll them | that | have had an application for their rooms, and that the trato starts at . You remind ime of an anecdote of Talleyrand,” I answered. ‘Napoleon wanted to get rid of De Stacl, so he sent the diplomatist to convey the order. Talley | rand cailed on the lady, and aa he held his hat m bis hand and Was on the point of departing, te carnestiy remarked, ‘Madame, I hear that you intend to leave Paris on Wednesday.’ ” “On Wednesday, monsieur? I assure you I have not the slightest rdea of 11,’ she answered. “The couversavion continued on ordinary subjects for a few minutes when Talleyrand said again, and as | though the subject were entirely new. ‘Madame, I | have heard it reported that you leave Paris on Wednos- “te “Do Stael was piqued, and saw tho poin! quickly, ‘Monsieur, L have never dream thin; “The conversation was again diverted; but at last just as Taileyrand was closing the door behind him, he turned and said, tael, 1 have heard trom the very best authority that you’ will positively leave Pacis on Wednesday aiternoon, “on Wednesday alternoon she took a postchaise and loft for parts unknown.” “There is my de.ective,” said the proprictor and I watched bim. A shophiter, gorgeously attired, was in clove and intimate conversation with a lady who, it must be consessed, was feariully and wonderfully made up, ani the talk’ was running on diamonds and who wore them and the number of their rooms, The detec- tive wanted a fow nents UNL Lhe sance wat an end, and then quietly went up to the offender and. re- marked, “Madame, your hosvand js fll, your children are dying, and you are wanted in New York at once.” At tho supper table (here was one vacant chair, bat few knew what it meant, “1 propose, n suid the proprietor, “to put on My guests all the restrictions of woll-bred society. ‘these young gitis mast be gnarded as carotuily as they woaid bo in their own houses, IM Tecan do that the hotel will be filled by faniiies, and they wili feel assured that their sous and danguters will bo protected Irom every sort of incursion,” ‘That ts 4 povel way to run a hotel, I thought, bat tho consequences of such a line of conduct aro already visible, There is a curious absence of noisy and pois terous taik and behavior, which makes the place ex. | ccedingly attractive. Everything 8 orderly. and decorous vo the lat dearee. A general sense of contidence m each other seems to fll the quests, and it is beleved that tamilies will remain here later in September than has been their custom. LARGE XUMMERS OP GUESTS AT THE NOTRLS The impression has been given that a smaller number of people have visited Saratoga this year than ever be- fore, and the lard timos have been addaged as the catise thereof = lt may be that the mierior hotels have suiterod, and possibiy the innumerable boarding houses: which are frequented by those who are said to belo: to the “middie cinss.’’ The “middle class,’? by the Way, means that central population which could ran the works well cnough if both ends oF fringes which are attached to it—the so-called high and low—were cut of. Woil, the ‘middie class’ ts missed. They are at home trying (o worry through the summer ns best they can, and hoping for the time when Tilden and Hendricks or Hayos and Wheeler, or somebody or something else, shall usher in the day of specio p: ment, which 18'the only true proof of a “golden ag But the large hotels are doing an unexpectedly jarce business, “There arom people in this hotel than there were at this time last year. We are prova- bly no exception, nd the other hotels aro wearing a smile as well, NATCRR AND ART IN THR BALLROOMS, ihe young ladiws are beautirul to look at, but how much of their beauty 18 the gift of nature and now much the result of high art 1 am unable to decile. The train I always approach 4 but replied of such a | altera drowsy ride of three hours, | because everyboay belteves Mount W: room with a becoming degree of awe. How much of herself belongs to herselt by the right of a gift of nature avd bow much becomes her personal property by the bexpes sopeadiinre of lavish funds {se prob- Jem less easily solved than one of the sternest proposi- tions of Euclid. MUSICAL RIVALRY AT THR HOTELS. The music at all the hotels is good. There is a kind of rivairy in this matter which prophesies well for the coming year. At tho Grand Union we have an artist’ who extricates musical sounds irom an instrument with a long Greek name, and is composed ot pieces of wood placed on a rope of straw, He mavages tu de- light the guests with bis marvellous recitations, though I take it that Beethoven would wish himself deat if he were to hear it. And so goes the world. During July and August it “ejaculates? ttself, as Mr. Choate once said, from Ne York to Saratoga, and in September it packs its trunks and hurries back to its five per cents and its fashio: able churches. 1 came, T ba " lighted with the mineral springs and cheered by its genial companionship, | hurry back to the dust and heat and grandeur of the city. THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. A JOURNEY FROM NEW YORK TO MOUNT WasH- INGTON—CHANGE OF TEMPERATURE FROM NINETY-THREE TO THIRTY-SIX DEGREES— DISCOMFORTS AND PLEASURES OF THE TRIP— SNOW-BALLING IN MIDSUMMER—ARE WE 4S BAD AS WE SEEM? Noni Conway, N. H., August 10, 1876, When I lett New York the other evening the ther. mometer registerod 93 degrees. Twenty-four hourg later amid the mountains of this wildly picturesque re- gion the mercury stood at 65. Eighteen hours lator, stilt on Mount Washington, it was but 35 degrees, It was like going from Africa to Greenland, or, to draw a more homely comparison, from an oven to an ice shed, But, however grateful the change may be, the terrors of the journey aro too great to be easily compensated for, Tho heat and confusion at the wharf, the struggle for staterooms and the clamor of hackmen leave per. mant disagreeable impressions. And then, just as you have overcome tho palpitating lullaby of the monster engine and fallen asleep, the ubiquitous colored gentle. man is at your door, with Chinese gong and drum- stick, to greet you with internal Mongolian music, Having inwardly cursed the inventor, of that Urutal cymbal of the Celestial Empire you rush forth to a train in waiting at the picbeian hour of hal!-past two o'clock A. M, It is true there are ‘‘accommo- dation’? trains at Stonington intended to give | passengers a chance td sleep, but then the | uninitiated do not understand this courtesy on tho | part of the railroad company, and thus they rush off to Boston in a state of mind very difficult to describe, That terrible gong is worse than the patent “Ameri can devil,” 1 remember seeing a reverend gentleman rush off the Old Colony Company’s boat at Newport at about threo o’clock ono morning last summer, He had passed through the line of hackmen and hotel run- hers, and was inquiring for some place a few miles from Fall River, “Why, yowre in Newport, man,” yelled a fellow passenger. ‘It would be uncharitable lo print the ciergyman’s remark 98 he footed it back to the boat, but I venture to assert that the Chinese goag | now forms no part of his household furniture, AKRIVED IN LOSTON you dash fo. a hack—and the hackman dashes for you, subsequently, when you arrive at tue Kustern Railroad dopo. The Boston “backman” isa less voracious animal than Lis New York brotifer, however, and will only take as much as he can get over and above his legal tare ot Dfty conts {rom one depot to the other, never making a peremptory detnand for an additional ono bunared per cei, The police watch ‘+ir. Cabby”? too closely at the Hub, and if the Chief of Police is calicd on to arbitrate be- 1weon the driver and his “tare” it generally ends in cabby josing lus license. Such supervision may even be practised in Gotham some day! Tho benefit of | going by an enrly train 1s soon apparent. The air is cool and relresting, x04 can enjoy tho lovely and ever changing scenery without being cn- ervated by the rays of the. sun or smuuih- ered with sand from the roadved. You aro sure not to be bored by loquacious paterfamihas, tor he sleeps all the way to Nushua or Manchester. Be- fore Uld Sol reaches the meridian you are in a fair way | of cheating him. Tho breezes from Lake Winnipiseogea greet you pleasantly, anda sudden chill warns you lo prepare lor the changes of the high latitudes, All at once you behold Mount Prospect enveloped in a misty atmosphere to the northwest of Centre Harbor, and then further on io the right and left nills and lutle Jakes imuumerable, and you begin to wonder why on eurth you did not think to bring a spring overe coat with you, You also discover that the mountain region creates a wonderful appetite, and when you arrive here in the evening you are ready to eat any- thing irom araw tomato toa fiiet de cheval And after you bave eaten and drank and smoked you meutaily recall the ups and downs, the perspiring eagerness, the dusts and discomforts of the past twenty-four hours, swear you wiil nevor go through itagain, then go 1 and make arrangements to unde tako sUil more disagreeable feats the next cond Mount Washington on that gtiaky, break. Tailroad running to the Summit Houre. “Anu you ge to Mount Washington of course. 1 say murse,”? soa to be | the White Mountains, and that cousequentiy you must go there or you willbe (old you baye novseen the White Mountains, MOUNTAIN WONDERS. “You should have been here a tow days age,’ enid a young lady to me as we were passing between Mount co River. “We had sucn a snow ts of the Great Kanye were euvered with a perfect mantle of white. We pitisd the over: heated, suffering creatures of Boston and New York when we read ofthe feartul heat. The next day we started with the Appalachian Mountain Clup to ascend the great Kearsage. or Pequawket Voint.” And here my informant went rapidly into the mysteries of the mouutarn paths; climuing Bartlews Peak by a secret path, crossing ravines 500 feet deep on a twelve inch plauk, getting up Rattlesnake Ledge after continual pulling and hauling, and tinally reacning the great | cone, where Professors Muddic and Fidget began a series of geological, botanical, topographical ang micro- gcopical investigations, ail of which I was led to suppose would result {n a scientitic revolution, —L was more in- terested in surveying Mount Willard and the Willey Notch and in endeavoring to bold the collar of my miserably thin duster ¢lose to my throat. It had b come positively cold, Lasked the conductor the © dition of the thermometer, “Uh! a way down,’ he replied. A Ripe UP THE SHAKER, confess to baviug bad some misgivings about that crooked backed, perpendicular railway to the summit; but tho jouruey had to be made, 1 would christen thid the Shaker and Twister, A little way up we saw a great pile of stones surrounding What secmed so be a tombstone, telling of the tragic death there of the daughter of a judge somebody while ascending the mountain. Of course this Was not imtended to prove how much safer it is to go up on the shaker! “Glo: tous, glorious 1” said au old follow, who came to bi out some of the passengers. He would have made a good Falstail. There was nothing “glorious” except An extreme chilliness and the tremendous corpulency ot our bage chaperon. During dinner at the 5ammit House I was greatly amused by the running description ot rgb ‘ond everybody given me by a young mau whom | imagined to be either a part owner or fessee of the house. Tuere never had been such a season as this, Five or six iuadred poopie up every tine day. A per. fect siecca jor the sick aud afflicted, invalids from all paris of the country, Thermometer now only thirty. Bix degrees, Har been nearly down to zero within ten days. Wednesday, week, had a fall of snow over three inches, Went out and had a grand snowbail mateh, “Fancy snow-balung in July, a thing not known for many years.” Never was’ such a grand ume, Mountains everywhere covered with snow, Panorama more beautiful, grander than in Switzerland, Nature had never beon prolific but once, and that was in Franconia Notch and Washington Mountain. Kev, Henry Ward Beec ixty or seventy New York- ers were to be m a few hours, and the Piymouth preacher was going to preach every Sunday, Wondertul atiractions of tho niils this year, There were SOME NUMAN ANTIQUITIES also, A lady from Reading, Va, one hundred and two yours vid, accompanied by a Mrs. Davidson, aged hinety. The “young women” were like century piauts—exceodingly rare, and, doubtless, very attrac- tive as cusiomers. Then there was Colonel A—, whose railroad shires in Boston went (rom 110 to noth: ing 1 bo Ume when it was discovered the company had borrowed all the money ever pad tor dividend: As for fun and flirtation, there was no end to it. Thus, by the time the meal was over { was in possession o| all the current gossij, Bui the great feavuro ot this place was its coldness and vicakness, When the mind reverted to New York’s sweltering heat the heavy cloaks and gloves seemed perfectly ridiculous, We re- turned to North Conway ouly to tind crowds, crowds, crowds, WHO WOULD BELIEVE that we were passing through a pertod of unparalleled national depression and poverty alter a twelve hours’ visit to this place? To the toreiner here our constant lamentations over hard times must seem the veriest nonscuge, Mere come thousauds of visitors (rom all paris, all well and many cicgantly dressed; piles of tranks are flung dewn in front dl the hotels iiled with the manifold articles of dress requirea for the name rous changes at breakfast, lunch, dinner and the balb room, according to Our present’ hotel etiquette, Na sooner are the Visitors ‘ed and the baggage siored—the latter requiring especial attention, for Mrs aad, the Misses Partington must know whero to put their hands on everything at a moment's notice—than. they rush for bouquets, carriages with teams that cost as much hour as hole aiternoon’s drive through our lovely suburbs north of Central Park, and tor whatever othet extravagances in general tho piace offera Nobody seems poor, nobody seems depressed. On leaving New York tor Stonington your correspondent remarked to the captain of the Rhode Isiand that every passenger seemed to have a cart load of baggage, “I never saw 80 many people travelling before,” said he, “and the Lord only knows what they do with all the traps they carry. @ have 700 or 800 passengers frequently, and it's abont all we cn do to stow away the runke in addition to tho regular treight.” Indeed, the tourist bither moves amid elegant equipages jaratoga tranks, There iv glitter und dash everywhere, and v9 the season has but just been inaugurated thero will probably be more “show’? betore the end of Septom- ber, There are three important considerations for those who desire to make tho journey to this place from New York py steamer, Secure your staterooms three days ahead, sleep on the boat till the six o'clock accomtodation train leaves and carry nothing that is not absolutely necessary, one being attonied to the young lady who {3 on exhibition iQ @ ball | ourney may be made with comfort aud lavereuy