The New York Herald Newspaper, July 6, 1879, Page 4

4 OCEAN AND HIGHLAND, Summer Resorts Between the Battery and Coney Island. ALONG THE NAVESINK. Breezy Points on the Sound from New Rochelle to Bye. ANCIENT LANDMARKS Al MAMARONECK Preparations for a Long Season at White Sulphur Springs. About half way between Fort Hamilton and Coney Island, and within ten minutes reach of both points, Hath is situated. Its closeness to the great watering place, with all the manifold attractions which have sprang up within that quarter during the past three years, most pleasant summer retreats in the immediate vicinity of this city. The great mass of humanity which passes over the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad, running directly through the village of Bath, never think of stopping here; they keep on to where the rush and excitement of a thousand amuse- ments bring the multitude tothe beach. Probably a few hundred may come down specially every week to enjoy the beauties and quiet of the unpretending village, with its fine beach and good facilities for bathing, while the tens of thousands hurry on to the more congenial pleasures to be found three miles below. MOTELS AND PARKS. ‘The main hotel is situated within a few yards of the water. It is kept by Mr. H. L. Scranton and is known as the Avon Beach Hotel. An addition has been built and it can now accommodate about three hundred guesis. From its expansive p can be seen the Highlands of New Jersey, Forts Wadsworth and Hamilton; Coney island, with its array of hotels and other public stopping places; the shores of | Staten Island, backed and surmounted by the green hills and fruitful meadows of that locality. There too, nearly iu front, ave anchored several pleasure yachts to be used by their owners when time and weather permit. The incoming and outgoing steamers and sailing vessels float past within a mile of the hotel, while the visitors are refreshed by the oreezes from the Atlantic, whose broad bosom is plainly visible. Among the guests already at this hotel are the fol, lowing:—Messrs. C, H. Pope, John Hone, 8, M. Wai- ters, C. A. Becker, George Kissam, J. Woodworth, Max Stern, A. H. King, A. 8. McCrea, W. H. Wilson, Peter Lang, J. M. Fairchild, W.S, McIntosh, J. C. McClure and $, D. Pioyd, All these gentlemen are accompanied by their families and are principally residents ot New Yor, The Atlantic Hotel and Garden is situated at the railroad station und is kept by Mr, Furnel. A large number of guests are also stopping here. ‘The Lowery Mansion, situated on Carroll place, within a short distance of Bath Park, on a high bluff, immediately over the water is, probably, next to the Avon Beach Hotel, the most eligible site in Bath as to scenery and beautiful surroundings. The house is kept by Mrs. Lowery, and the lady is patronized by a respectable class ‘of guests, principally trom New York, who go up and down to the city every day. bath Park is one of the prettiest resorts around the vicinity of New York or Brooklyn. about two hundred yards to the right of the Avon Beach Hotel, and is kept by Mr. Whipple. Bathing Louses, 4 restaurant, # small hotel aud a platform | lor promenading and dancing compose the attrac: tious. Music is provided and concerts are given every evening. PRIVATE RESIDENCES. Among the more prominent and tastefully ar- ranged private residences on the water front are those of Mrs. Barney Williams (widow of the 4 ceased actor), known as Kathleen Villa, and Mr. W. W. Swayne, of Brooklyn, Mrs, Williams resides here with her daughter every season. Her hus- band’s good qualities and cheerful disposition aro still a theme oi frequent remark among the residents ot Bath. Mr. Witham E, Robinson, formerly men. ber of Congress from Brooklyn, also owns a res! Mr. Swayne has named his place Avoca Villa, Mr. Young, proprietor of a large amownt of property in Bath, lives in a fine old man- sion nearly opposite Kathleen Villa, shaded by ex pansive trees. Another large property owner, Mr. Benson, occu- pies a venerable residence betwe Grove, in which his ancestors have lived and died for over a century, FORT HAMILTON AND BAY RIDGE. Within two miles of Bath Fort Hamilton is sit- uated, and two or three miles nearer New York Bay Ridge nestles cosily over the Narrows, One hotel, the Mansion House, kept by Mr. and Mrs. Steven- son, provides acconimodations for guests in this vicinity. Several of New York's /teradi have rented cottages here, among them Mr, 1 supervisor of the City Record, aud Mr. M editor of the Catholic Herald, over @ thoroughfare known as the Shore Koad may be taken from Bay Ridge to Fort Hamilton. Among the many elegant private residences skirting this road are those ot ex-Senator Henry C. Murphy, aud | Judge Van Brunt. The latter is tamous from the tact that here were shot the notorious criminals Mosher and Douglas in their attempt to commit burglary. It is rented this year by Mr. McAlpine. On the road Clif are @ number of cottages and country ences of considerable pretensions, Mrs. Helen sis proprietress of two handsome mansions at Bay Clit, overhanging the Narrows, immediately 4 Staten Island shore. Several New Yorkers ken up their residence with her for the sum- mong them Mr. Dennis A. Spelliissey and fam- Ir. Richards, of the firm of Coudert Bros. ; , of the firm or Laurence & Waehner, to- gether with several well town brokers and mer- chants, Mr. Perry, of the Union Ferry Company and President of Greenwood Cemetery, occupies oue of the finest mansions at Bay Ridge. LOCUST GROVE. A large hotel, platform for dancing, facilities for Dathing, a band of music aud a deligbfully arranged grove are the attactions of this quarter. A long dock stretches out into the bay, upon which are Linded thousands of passengers from New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark and other places on their Way to Coney Island. A good many, however, romain to enjoy the pleasures ot Locust Grove, The hotel is kept by Mr. Walker. Lhe place is about ten minutes’ ride from Bath ALONG THE HIGHLANDS OF NAVESINK— LOVELY SITES AND §& RY —NEWSPAPER TRAMPS ON THE WING—-HOW THEY SWINDLE HOTEL PRO- PRIETORS—QUIET OLD KED BANK~ LITTLE SILVER, THe Hicntaxps, July 4, 1879, Among all the charming pictures alony the Atlan- Me coust that in which the Highlands of the Navesink tre framed is entitled to the prize for natural beauty, sommandin, views very side and a pleasing com- bination of land and water. Situated only twenty miles below New York, accossible several times s Gay by steamboat and ratiroad, and affording supe- rior facilities for surt or still water bathing and for | fishing, sailing and hunting, it is not a subject of wonder that it has become one of the favorite summor dormitories of the metropolis, and that thousands eVery season return to it with as amuch satistaction | as if they wore going te asecond home, Tho season cannot be said to have yet fairly opened, for the large broportion of guests have not yet arrived, but the rooms in all of the hotels and boarding houses have been generaliy engayed tor several weeks ahead, and afew days more of hot weather in the eity will fill them rapidiy, ‘The influx of visitors this year will begin during the st week in July, after which there is no intermission until late in September. The Highlands, if such # thing were possible, grow more beautitul every year. Viewed from the cars as you pusw these heights enroute from Sandy Hook, Where you have ieft the boat, or scon from the vck of tho steamer that carries you up the: Shrewsbury River to Red Bank, the prospect .4 everywhere attractive, Crowning the hill and stands | ing out in bold relief from the green wood is the bistori¢ ; 4 tew hundred yards lowe own and half way to the water is the broad plateau on which embowered among the trees and running vines are the hotels and cott where one finds bis summer health and ploasure; while at the base | you have Otily to cross a country road to step into ® rowboat that carries you over the river for five conts and lands you on the narrow beach washed by the surf of the broad Atlantic. The bridge at this point having been repaired during the year one vally makes this place one of the quietest and | It is located | autly situated, within @ short distance of | 1 Bath and Locust | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY ,6, 1879.—QUADRUPLE SHEET, | may go to the other side of the Shrewsbury either | on foot or in a carriage, THE SURROUNDINGS, From the piazzas of the hotels the scene is sim- ply exquisite, and the eye need rarely tire 1m discov- | ering constantly changing objects of interest. The slups aud steamers inward aud outward bound, the switt winged yachts racing oceanward, the simall bouts skimming the more quiet river at your feet, the parties of ladies aud gentlemen rowing or fish- ing, the trains of cars skurrying backward and for. ward a dozen times a day between Sandy Hook and Long Branch, the bathing parties, the baseball and croquet clubs—all theso and 4 score of unmentioned incidents constitute attractions that make the High- principal hotels this year are the East View House, formerly known as JenKinson’s, but since the death of that gentleman kept by Messrs, Conover & | Micheau, and Lhompson’s, Both are within a bis- cuit throw of cach other and both are distinguished by similar externaj features and internal comforts, REVOLUTIONARY ASSOCIATIONS. The neighborhood is not without historical in- terest. Monmouth county, in which the Highlands of the Navesiuk are situated, was settled in 1675, and its surface is generally level except in the township of Middletown, where I am writing, and where the country is broken up and dissolves into rolling and uneven lands. ‘he battle of Monmouth Court Honse, between Sir Henry Clinton and General Washington, was fought on the 28th of June, 1778, in which what seemed a defeat waa turned into a victory by the American commander. ‘The night after the battle, while our army lay on its arms, the | British army stole away, gained these heights and the protection of the guns of the British fleet in Sandy Hook bay. This immediate locality was settled by Richard Hartshorne, a Friend, at the foot of the Highlands, on the Nave- sink River, He called the place Portland Point, and the property still remains in the pos- | session ot his descendants of the same name. About a mile north of Beacon Hill, upon which the High- | laud lights are placed, is a locality known as Gravelly | Point, where deep water is found near the shore. | This is the point of the embarkation of the British army after the battle of Monmouth. It is also cele- Drated as the place where a Captain Huddy was mur- dered by retugees. In 1782 @ singular lund slide took place at the highest point of the Highlands, two miles north ot the lights, the results of which are still visible, About forty acres gave way, sinking | perpendicularly down forty or fifty feet, just as it the bottom ha dropped out, forming a cavity equal in cireuiterence to the space described. It was cov- ered with woods, but neither the surface of the land nor the surface of the timber was broken up, | ‘The tops of the trees are now ona level with the ground from whence the slide broke away. ‘THE LIGHTHOUSES. These are objects ot interest to ail visitors. They are erected on tho eastern summit of the hills and | stand about one hundred and ninety-five feet above the level of the sea, while the towers themselves, rising fifty-three feet turther from their base, gives an elevation of 245 feet from the sea level. The lights can be seen twenty-five and a half English miles distant. This considerably exceeds the range | of other lighthouses along the Jersey coast. There | are only two in the United States that surpass them, | and they are on the Pacific. The towers are 228 feet | apart and are connected with each other by the keeper's dwelling. ‘The south tower is square and | the north octagonal. The entire structure is sub- | stantially built of hard sandstone and in the distance looks like some old castle. The lights were estab- | lished in 1828 and rebuilt m 1862. " NEWSPAPER TRAMPS, ‘The hotels here are generally pone, the first to get the benefit of that obtrusive class of individuals yelept ‘the newspaper tramps.” Fortunately for ine proprietors, however, they do not often come to stay—only to skirmish around for a day or two, pick | up a stray acquaintance, and write a letter to some country newspaper puffing the landlord in lagen tor their bill, which letter rarely sees type. Fortu- | nately their method of doing business ‘is hecomin; | tolerably well known, and the bogus journalist o} | both sexes has been obliged to resort to new schemes | in order to inveigle victims more successfully. In | the course of my wanderings, early they are in the season, I have already met a number of the avant-courters of this cloud ot pests, who are out | on their usual prospecting expeditions to ascertain what crowds of ftashiouables have engaged rooms, | and where among them the biggest bonanza may be | struck, For, mark you, your newspaper impostor, | especially your bogus watering place correspond- | ent, whetlcr male or female, pursues this culling | with ag much system as any general who plans a | campaign. To begin with, they are a compound of cheek and conceit, the principal articles of their creed being to dress well, lie without flinching and carry with them I’m-a-conquering-Cwsar-sort of an air, Whether familiarly penetrating the recesses of a social circle or the secrectes of the hotel manager's private counting room. CHEEK, Everywhere and at ail times they wear a livery of unblushing impudence, and atter @ half hour's ac- quaintance will call you by your first name, es- | pecially if anybody they desire to impress be near | by, wita as much effrontery as they will eventually ask you for the loan of a V or to cash @ worthless check, A stranger who is unfamiliar with their ways will almost invariably succumb to their in- sidious wiles and find himself cheek by jowl with the rascal und, if anything, feel rather proud of the | ucquaintance.’ The “correspondent,” so called, has probably learned enough of the ways of Bohemia to be able to talk well and can carry on 4 skim-milk “conversation on general topics, adroitly interspersed with an anecdote or two that | makes his companionship interesting. His chief stwuek in trade, however, is an ussumed familiarity | with the names of the leading legitimate members | of the press, aud of these and bis association with | them he never wearies of discoursing He can tell | you more about the current gossip iu # large news- | paper’s editorial rooms thanever was thought of, and before he has got through with the chief clerks | and the proprietors of the hotels, ten chances to one | bat they will be inviting the Jeremy Diddier out to drive and begging his acceptance of a bottle of wine | at his daily dinner. I have seen a prim looking fe- male betore now—the name lady is inappitcable— uninvited « family group on @ piazza, and in fifteen minutes make every person in the company regard her with a species of reverence, because, forsooth, she had at some time written a latest foreign novelties in the leading dry goods stores, That way all she wanted, ‘The next day she was driving on the beach as an honored guest, aud at night borrowed from them the diamonds she wore at the hop. A sly ten or twenty dollar bill slipped into her hand then bought the notices in the Bung- town Fashion P.ate that Mrs. Money Bags and her beautiful daughters were among the observed of ail | observers, &e. AN ANECDOTE OF BEAU HICKMAN. It is related of the famous Beau Hickman that in | his best days he once went to @ first cluss hotel in Baltimore and, after reg.stering his name, said he | wanted the very best the house could afford for his money, twirling in his haud at the same time a quar- | ter ofa dollar. The clerk saw before him an elegantly attired gentleman, and, as Beau requested, axsigued him « handsome parlor and bedrvom, Beau lived like a fighting cock, ordering wines, extra dinners and everything palatable tor a week, at the eud of which time the bill was sent, The amount was something extravagant. Nothing abashed, however, he strolled into the office and confronted the clerk. “Look here, sir, there must be some mistake about this; when i came here I told you I wanted the best you could | afford for my money's worth. I had this quarter | then (producing the coin), and it’s all I've had since.” The clerk waxed angry and high words fol | lowed. “Your fauit, sir, your rault,” said the im- perturbable Beau, “not mine. You ean kick ine out it you like, but I’d rather go sloue.” Tradition says they ‘were ‘about to proceed to violent measures when the landlord appeared on | the scene, and, looking at the uame on | the register, recalled tho peculiar vagrant | character of the man) betore “him (then just | becoming ustorious in Washington), and discovered | that he nad been “egregiously |." The thought | flashed across his mind, “If this joke gets out I | shalt be the laughing stock of my friends aud never hear the last or it.” Deliberating @ moment he turned to Beau and good naturedly remarked, “Well, Hickman, that's the best I ever had; but I can't keep it. Iii make w bargain with you. Here, take this $5 to pay your faro (o Washington (Beau quietly pocketed the hulf eagle), aud now go over to the | ¥ aweek on the same terms that on sta: ‘aud I'll give you a dinner every | timo you come to Baltimore” “Thauk you,” | replied Beat, without cracking @ sinile, “I’ve b | over there for two weeks and they sent me here!” | It is needless to add that Be: out of the front door with an accelerated motion, and the landlord never heard the last of hix attempt to “g even’’ with his neighbor, Phese m have no more conscience than the f | ton swindler, and live precisely in the same way—by | their wits, ‘The landlord has to blame only himseif for encouraging them, for they are simply the out- crop of his own misplaced con adence and generosity, and if he Will shut down ou the whole crew and | make every member of it pay I Dill, aw reg | ular journalivts are neted tu wil: confer | a benefit on his gu and the community at lerge, | by ridding them of a crowd of social footpads, RED BANK. A short hour's sail by steamer from the High! one in the qniet old town of Red ite resort of many New Yorkers, who iebude of ite thousands of trees and uh o and rest, Which is its prevailing ch t nine miles distant by wat ki Shrewsbury River, wide. ‘The bank is lined sidences, whieh command an ny miles, and in front of early every house are boats for sailing, row- ana fishing. The town is torty years old, or less, wnd, judging from its long business ces of enterprise incident to | ing mo | street ou Of tree or four thousand © inconsiderable portion of the | woalt intry. Good board ranges irom #8 | to $14 i there are few places in the i | rior Where one who desires a combination of land and water, with the ocean only five miles away, is | likely to be better satisfied. | “LATTE SILVER, | This litde hamlet is about four minutes’ ride on lands peculiarly attractive as a summer resort. The | halt dozeu letters on the fashions, and described the | the rail from Red Bank and on the direct line to Long Branch from New York. It is situated on tho South Shrewsbury River and offers many induce- | meuts to summer visitors in the shape of aquatic pleasures. Nearly all of the twenty or thirty iami- lies of the neighborhood take boarders during the summer and are well patronized. It combines the advantages of comparatively cheap board, an ab- sence of fashion and the privilege wearing what you please. Most of the guests live on the waterand | in the cool of the afternoon run down to Long Branch to join the throngs at the hotels | or on the beach. Compared with many . other parts of the country, the means of going between ‘New York and twenty attractive summer resorts along the line of the Central Railroad of New Jerscy are unequalled, You may leave your city home at almost any hour in the day and in two hours more be enjoying a bath in the sea or fishing in a dozen pretty streams, all within a pistol shot of the depot where you alight, Let the poor tired clerks try the experiinent for a day and be satisfied. ‘Three dollars wie pay for an excursion ticket; lunch, boat and aang Bek and bring an amount of hoalth, rest saa pleasure that will make the sum seem insigni- icant. ALONG THE SOUND—-SUMMER ATTRACTIONS AT NEW ROCHELLE, LARCHMONT MANOR, MAMAR- ONECK AND RYE—OLD NAMES AND OLD PLACES--NEW YORKERS ENJOYING COUNTRY LIFE IN THE VICINITY OF THE CITY, Ryg, N. ¥., July 3, 1879. The relief offered to the great cities during the summer months by the quiet suburban villago of New Rochelle is neither so important as the major- | ity of its residents desire, nor as they are yet des- tined to see it. Upon the line of the Now Haven Railroad it is less than’ forty minutes’ ride from New York, and may also be conveniently reached by steamer. The ground rises gently with a rolling surface from the water's edge until, from a lofty | elevation at the back of the village, a magnificent view is afforded both of the Sound, with ats endless panorama of sail and steamer, and of the precipi- tons shores of Long Island beyond, The land- seupe of the vicinity is of singular sylvan | veauty. ‘The village sleeping beneath the shade of venerable trees, the placid creeks, the marshalled water reeds, the motionless line of foam, the white steeple rising through the woods, might be bits by Turner, The fishing is so excellent that two ama- tours of the goodly craft staggered home lust woek under the weight of a thirty-pound bass. A shoal of yachts and catboats flutter round the Neptune House upon the beach, and the boarders of that hotel are never tired of bathing and boating, of dances and picnics. The salt breeze, filtering through the mass of accumulated seaweed in the South, has a flayor which is unmistakably its own. The villas that crown the promontory called Davenport's Neck are royal in their luxury of equipment. THE HUGUENOT’ SETTLEMENT, Bat New Rochelle lacks the seal of popularity. The Columbus of Summer excursions has yet to discover it, The village remains much what it was two hundred years ago, when the Huguenots landed there, and thought the site worthy to bear the name of their loved Rochelle. Walk down Main street and look at the names of the storekeepers and public functionaries :—‘Lefevre, carriage builder,” Hugue- not; ‘Le Count, real. estate agent," Huguenot; “De Veau, steam packets,” Huguenot; ‘Badeau, postmaster," Huguenot. Trinity Church is built over the ruins of that Huguenot chapel to which the French refugees marched in solemn procession every Sunday. ‘he Town Clerk still keeps the parish register of those days, written in curiously neat characters, and will show you the papers relating to the slaves whom the Huguenots kept, and » quaint map made in 1711, The descendants of the old families preserve the traditions of deeds that took place long before the Reyolution, and dwell.as fondly on stories of sieges and war as did Sterne’s Uncle Toby. There was one man, almost of Sterne’s time, who loved their com- pany, and that was Tom Paine. His monument is chopped by tourists; his bones He in England. But the inscription may still be read:—‘‘Tom Paine, au- thor of Common Sense;”’ and part of his common sense was doubtless this—that he spent the best years of his life under the shade trees of New Rochelle. Paine being gone, the modern hero of the village is the great American stage driver, Colonel Delancey Kane. He is not only its president; he not only lives ina sumptuous house on Davenport’s Neck, but he even used to rattle his Tally-ho coach, bugler, passengers and all, up to the doors of the Huguenot Hotel, to the consternation of the aged hostler of thatinn. And as Colonel Kane thought to quicken the life of New Rochelle, so the late Simeon Leland, the hotel keeper, thought to embellish it by build- ing an edifice known as “Leland’s Castle.” It has two round turrets and a square one. Two lions meet you at the entry of the park. Two canuon stand beside the gate with the word “Defiance” graven upon them. Nevertheless the castle has ielded to the drowsy influence of the neighborhood. its builder is dead; widow inhabits it at the sufferance of an insurance company, and even the defiant cannon ure mortuaged. THE LORDS OF THE DOMAIN. To see the aristocracy ot the place you must return to the beach, which is halt a wile away. The dow- ayer of Davenport's Neck is old Mrs. Davenport, who still carries her eighty years to market and bargains as valiantly as her ancestors fouvht. In revolution- ary days her tather owned all the Neck, but part ot it | is now in the hands of proprietors who would accept | no possible inducewent from contractors or builders | to destroy its equanimity and flood it with strangers. j “As soon as our rich people buy a house,”’ said a real estate agent, “they want to buy the next. They | would not sell you a lot,tor the value of half their | place. Foremost among these nabobs of the soil is | Clarkson N. Potter. Here 1s his villa, “Nut- wood;”’ here are his gardens and lawns; here is the | truit to whose culture he devotes his leisure, He | took the first prize for strawberries and gi the last exhibition of fruits and flowers in Ne and sighs more for horticultural than for po! honors. Hard by is @trim French rooted villa be- longing to Mr. Adrian Isetin, father-in-law of Col- onel Delancey Kane; and tothe north of it a bay, gemimed with small islands, where stood the villa of | the late eccentric David Hudson; and to the north of | that is the main shore, covered with groves and | villas, commanding Echo’ Bay, and the residence of Mr. Thaddeus David, the ink manufacturer. ‘The Neptune House, which overiooks a pretty harbor, accommodates about one hundred boarders, Most ot the guests are rich merchants with their families from New York. ‘Lhéey enjoy themselves vastly in a quiet way and carry with them an air of mystery a8 though they would say ‘Hush! we have fouud a gvou place for the suminer; but for goodness sake don't bring anybody else bere.” So that when the steamers land their excursionists and Sunday shool | picnickers at Hudsonu's Park aud Starin’s Glen Island they fly back to New York and the aristocrats ot the villas hide their heads in dismay, FISHING FOR FISHING’S BAKE. Up in the village there is always a good sprinkling of young fellows, who care nothing for the tashions and much for the fish, For their entertainment the coxey, old tushioned Leroy House is kept open on Main strect, as weil as the Huguenot Hotel, of couche ing iame. Here they can buy rods and tackle more conveniently and revite their piscatorial prowess to 4 larger @udience than they could on the bea Nor is the village without cither its aristocracy or its amusenents, Colonel Richard Lathers has a charming plive in Huguenot Park, and the villa of Mr. Jou Stephenson, the cor builder, rivals any- thing on Davenport's Neck, Concerts are organized at the Lown Hall by local y ists, assisted by young ladies froin the Brooklyn churches. Blue | rivbou temperance clubs hold festive mectings over | the grocery store, strawberry festivals are quite coin- | mon, wand the arrival of a circus occasionally rouges the | 4,500 villagers to wild excitement. Two news- | papers supply the neighborhood — with of the latest burglary, criticisms of tho ‘Town Clerk, the weight of fish recently caught, the honors conterred upon “our favored sou,” and #0 forth, Literature thrives apace, Tho “celebrated greenback poctoss ot Texas’ is a guest in the village, which has also given birth to “Aunt Josephine, | whose new work will shortly appear.” Ind with its three fire engines, its hotels, concerts, hors, newspapers and burglaries, the old Huguenot com- munity seems to be making a strenuous effort to keep up with the times, and when New York has Joarned the charms ot its scenery and the excellence of its fishing the effort will no doubt be rewarded by an abandance of visitors. WHERE THE JAYBIRDS LIVE. “How far to Laremont Manor, old yentleman?” He was very old and his memory halteu; but he put up bis hand to shut off the glare of the setting ab ‘Larchmont Manor? mont? t's where the jaybirds live, "Ti traight halt to where the jaybirds liv birds,” it appeared, was Huguenot for “actors.” Larchmont Manor was the nest that some half-dozen ot the stage folk had long chosen tor their stunmer retreat, 1t was once the property of Mr. E. K, Collins, the steamboat proprietor, and w bought from him ata very low rate by the Lareh- mont Manor Company, which laid it out in streets, drained Ht, bulit its cluster of villas aud put them in the market. Claude Burroughs, who was killed in the Brooklyn fire, was the first actor to discover it; then came Mr, Lewis James, ot the Boston Theatre, and next Major Daniel Hgrkins, who has Ived there in_hot weather over since, Now, Major Hurkins is credibly believed to be the most hospitable of mortals. Like the hero of “Nos lutines,”” he would insist that every casual acquaint ance should come down and spend a month with be ivery Baturday bight he would hurry off to to i acour the streets for friends to take pot- luck with bint at Larchmont; and when, with the arrival of the train next morning, a whole caravan sitors marched down the lawn, and his wife, | standing in the veranda, asked him their names, | he would say, "The first is Such @ Une, the trager dian; thesecond is So and So, the comedian; the third—upon my word I don’t know who the rest are.” This mode of colonization was eminently successful. Poets and journalists, sing- ers and painters, managers and players met on that yenergus piazza overlooking the wnrufiled waters. ‘There they chatted, smo laughed and chatted again. Mirth winged the hours, Whatever the world ot art had to show, from the Venus of Milo to the jae creas of oft’ theatres, wa: y the shuttlecock of conversation. Mr. James Lewis, of the Park “Theatre, your cor ondent under a spreading sim. “that was the golden age of Larchmont, With all the villas included we were so small a colony that every- body kuew his neighbor. The ladies would come down there to the waterside in their calico gowns, and the men would rove about in their bathing dresses, kind of formality or re- straint. Now Mrs, Harkins 18 dead, and the Major 'y and retired, and now the towns aro beginning to find out our quiet corner, Calico has given place to silks, bathing dresses and as for the evening costumes, my dear fellow, Worth of Paris is simply nowhere. For my own part, I grow a# melancholy as a gib cat, and lounge so unceasingly that I think of histo, hall and giving lessons in the noble art of sitting around.” THE RETREAT, The influx of visitors which Mr. Lewis deplored was the source of much joy to landlord of the Manor House, the only hotel in the place. It stands on the summit of a declivity that 8 straight down to the wuter, surrounded on three sides by trees, has the air of a big chalet in an Alpine val- ley. It is managed rather as a boarding house than a hotel, and the transient visitor is, in a measure, frowned upon and made to teel his paintul in- .teriority tothe more durable boarders. Its veran- das sre bright with French bonnes, whol wear their caps at coanaiann angles and allow the children to be as dis ble as the fondest before sunset they id them all the inhabitants of Larchmont, beside the little semicir- cular bay, round which the white cottages sparkle like the dismonda in « dandy's horseshoe scarf pin. ‘This is an admirably bathing place. The waters are perfectly still, the slope of the ground is neither too «radual nor too sudden, and a euviog pienk is run out from shore into twelve feet of water. The ladies sit on benches reund tho bay and applaud the swim- mers, The boys paddle about iu tubs and there take their ease aud bask in the sun, You may see an urciin of six, unable to swim, working one of these frail craft into deep water. His mother implores him to come back, but the infant Diogenes shouts defiance from his tub. “In which case,” says Mr. Lewis, ‘as the Bard has observed before me, it is will-he, will-he, he drowneth ? Looking along the audience on the benches you would have noticed an enormous sun bonnet, beneath which nothing was visible but a merry Jaugh. On closer inspection both sun bonnet and laugh were found to belong: to Miss Sidney Cowell, of the Py ‘Theatre. Her eyes were twinkling with delight, and her hair was glistening with sea salt. Miss Cowell was fresh trom her bath. She is an intrepid swim- mer, and frolics as gayly in the water as on the stage. “TOO MUCH BRASS BAND.” She is also extremely full of life, and was twitter- ing on like a bird, when a deep melodramatic voice was heard reciting the tragedy of a Texas barroom :— vod in a way that all admired od drawed iron at last. aud fired, Nath Bludso 'twixt the oye caused him great surprise. ‘The voice was the voice of Forest; the face, body ‘and genera] appearance were those of Mr. Nat Good- win, the comedian; His wife, still known to the public as Miss Eliza Weathersby, was lying sick in a cottage they had leased for tne season. It was strewn with skins or animals, very serviceable in dressing rooms of provincial theatres; the mante piece was lined with Japanese curios, picked up at San Fran- cisco, and the walls were hung with pictures of the pair in their varions characters. Being asked for the cause of Miss Weathersby’s illness, “Well, it was like this, id Mr, Goodwin, “when we were out at Kal- amazoo a lame ola gentleman came stumping up to me, and looking at me Pen f “You're Mr, Good’in?”’ said he, 8, Sir.” ‘ou play here to-night?”* ex, sir.” ‘es, sir.” “Got a brass band with you?”* “No, sir.” “Then you don’t draw « cent,” and he stamped away vigorously, He was right, We didn’t draw a ceut. So after that I bired 4 brass baud, and that’s byt ails my wite, She has had too much brass and. The life at Larchmont has its quiet amusements. They were rehearsing “Box and Cox” up at the Manor House, and assured the actors that it was an admirable comedy. ‘The amateur representative of Cox would recite his part while bathing to Mr. Goodwin on the shore. He would debate # question of intonation before diving, and when he came to | the surtace would urge that Cox’s ragher of bacon should be more fitly a chop, They had also opened their evening — parties, which the actors ran the gauntlet of feminine criticism. ‘That's Jimmy Lewis." “No; I thought he handsomer.” And a dropping fire of sharp, quick shots rans all along the line. “Too short!’’ “Talks too fast!’ “Very gentlemanly!" “Odious side whiskers!"" “Wonder his wite lets bim make himself such a figure!” There were two old ladies who.made a pilgrimage trom the country to Mr. Har- kins’ house expressly lived.” They had once been to the circus and ex- pected to see the manager of the Fifth Avenue turn a somersault on the veranda and his late leadi comedian jump through fiery hoops. And so the players divert themselves in summer time, soberly yet gayly; laughing, like Figaro, at overything, and the voyager turns his back on them with re- gret. MAYOR COOPER AT HOME. From the ridiculous to the sublime is only a step. From the actors to the Mayor; from Larchmont Manor to Mamaroneck, where Mayor Cooper sum- mers, is nearly three miles. Mamaroneck is as white with age as Were its chestnut trees in spring with bigssoms. The village is full of ancient landmarks. Its chief hotel is the Shelldrake House. The beach is some distance from the village, and this year, for the first time, a boarding house has been opened there—the Rushmore House—with accommodations for seventy-five persons. The villas that line the shore are mainly occupied by old resideuts, but the Fauboury St. Germain of Mamaroneck is a narrow strip jutting out from the main land and known as “Orienta Point.” Here, in great state, live such prominent New Yorkers a» Mr, Constable, of Arnoid, Constable &Co.; Mr. William B. Reid, the broker; Mr. John P. Haines, and Mr. Alexander Taylor, whose couch bugle blares through the quiet streets. It was scarcely three weeks ago that Mayor Cooper announced his intention of leasing for two years a house on Orienta Point, and quickly moved in, with his wife, who had been in poor health and was ordered sea air, hie children, servants, horses, car- riages and all his household belongings. Mr. Bryce, the Mayor's son-in-law, was one of the party, which had scarcely arrived before schemes were being devised for laying out some fifteen | acres of the uewly acquired plots as a polo ground. Moreover, @ second four-in-hand may shortly be expected which shall out bugle Mr. Hen- derson’s. The old residents, who are a strictly con- servative body, view these poo sy innovations with much suspicion, and consider it little less thun sacrilegious that ground which the Revolution hal- lowed should be desecrated by the toot of coach horns and the click of polo mallets, But Mayor Cooper pursues his way unmoved through the midst of them, gory to New York very early every morn: ing and returning after six every evening. The hotel proprictors betieve that his arrival will add to the popularity of the place, RYE AND RYE BEACH, Kye, which is three miles further down, has its niche in American history, whether as a ‘frontier settiement of New England, # border town, or part or the neutral yround. It is, as Irving said, “one of those rich bottoms aud fertale vaileys in which our Duteh yeomanry wo fuinous for nestling them- selves;” aud it is nearly two hundred years since certain Indians—Ipawalun, Aramupoe and the like-— sold its site to the carly settlers aud gave all men to know that “they doe hereby acknowledge to have re- ceived us (ull satisfaction eight cotes and seven shirts, fitteen fathom of wompome.’’ All its attrac- tious as a watering place contre round Rye Beach, two miles from the village. Here, hun: dred years igo, horse races were held; aud when some disputed point touching ao thoroughbred mare was brought into Rye courts the jurors thought the whole matter so im- moral that they retused to be sworn, saying they would rather yo to prison, and the justice was forced to hear the case himself, 50 the beach went out of fashion uutil, some twelve yoars ago, a man set up a@small shanty there for the sale « and drew the rustics down from neighboring vil- lages. To-day there stands over the shanty’s ruins the Rye Beach House, with whose prosperity the future of the watering place is closely connected. It has great advantages, Tne sand is wonderiully hard to the foot; the ground inclines easily, and bathing houses have been built, with basins and all the newest ee TT are bowling atieys and billit saloon Darrooms and a snuy little den where gentlemen sit together at night, to smoke, discuss th drink their toddy, Behind the hotel is creek, covered with small craft and w ily pre- ferred to the Sound tor pw ot rowing. Judge Lawrence, of the Supreme Court, and Mr. Edward Schell, of the Manhattan Savings Bank, were re- cently at the hotel, and the tollowing gentlemen and their {ies @ others, staying there now:—Colonel 8, K, Pinkney, Mr. Joseph Eager, Dr. Ryan, Mr. W. 8. Crane, all irom New York; se Johnson, Mr. Erastus New, Mr, William Varker, Mr. E. A, Hall, all trom Brooklyn; Mr. Jonas 4 eee from ‘Troy, and Messrs. K. G, and J. H, i Piuins. ‘Vhe Rye are, almost without ex- ception, those that have the oldest names. Mr. Jo- seph Park, of Park & Tilford, is the lineal de- scendant Of that Mrs, Park, wife of Roger Park, who owned one of the only two’ carriages—it was & two- wheeled chaise—that had ever been seen in Kye. The Jays, of the Chief Justice's rempmr are a#till wutocrats of the village, Lhe Purdies, Thealls and Strangs are still represented in ite commerce, Many tradesmen, farmers and fishermen pursue the calling that their ancestors pursued for generation aud generation before them, For the says a colonial historian, “quacks abounded like locusts in Kyypt.” Lawyers there were none. Inne were of the poorest kind, Mmo, Knight, of Bostoi Pasniny rough Ryo in 1703, hv. ing objected to w connate, and having “hastened to bed supperlens,”” way shown to a miserable cham- ber where “poor i made but one grone, which was from the time L went to bed to the time I riss.” To- day the silks are rustling Surough the corridors of the Rye Beach Hotel, aud even the farmers, coming to ‘see where the actors | ing | iquor | and down to bathe in the Sound, find ice creams lager beer and clams galore. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS—THE CLUSTER OF WATERING PLACES IN THE VIRGINIA ALLE- GHANIES-—PROSPECTS OF A PROFITABLE SEA- SON aT THE SOUTHERN SARATOGA—-ENLARGED ACCOMMODATIONS—UNSURBPASSED ATTRACTIONS FOR THE INVALID AND THE PLEASURE SEEKER. WHITE SULPHUR SPRiNcs, Greenbrier county, W. Va., July 4, 1879. “The season of ‘79 has commenced, the “Saratoga of the South” looks as lovely and charming as ever, pects are exceedingly bright, and the lessees of “The White" are correspondingly cheerful and happy, At no time since the panic of 1873 have the indi- cations for a full season been so good as they aro at present. Letters are here by the Doxfull engaging cottages and suits of rooms, This is the case to ‘such an extent that the managers are often obliged to resort to alittle finesse in order to dispose of and accommodate their numerous customers, Everybody cannot have the choice cottages and the most convenient rooms. Some have to be disappointed im this way, and, con- sequently, have to be soothed, appeased aud often eajoled into a good humor afterward. Then there are others that rave and fume and abuse, and I have seen very choleric gentlemen threaten to leave, fight or have their rights. In dye time, however, they all settle down toa quiet enjoyment of the beautiful grounds, the grand mountain scenery, tho delightfully cool breezes and thank their stars that they are away from the heat, bricks, dust and the nineties of broiling cities, The White, however, Iam inclined to think, is fast losing its character- iatic of an exclusive Southern watering place. It is no longer to the South what Saratoga is to the North, Year after year the company is becoming more cos- mopolitan. The society, it must be admitted, is ‘rather exclusive, but in this exists the great charm of the old White. It is too far and too remote from the great populous centres to admit of an invasion by the mob or rabble, and, consequently, there is little vulgarity and nothing indecorous, But this season the letters—applicutions for the limited quar- ters here—that I have seen bear the postmark of every leading city in the country, North and South, East and West. These letters give the assurance of a refined company, such as has always distinguished the White Sulphur, and it is fair to presume that the season of 1879 will be as choice and select as any of its predecessors, AN ENLARGEMENT OF ACCOMMODATIONS. With a view, however, to accommodate visitors who wish to reap all the benefits of the sulphur water and have the privilege of the grounds at re- duced terms, the proprietors have leased that charm- ing little resort known as the Calwell House, on | Dry Creek, just a mile from the White Sulphur, on | the Sweet Springs Road. It has a capacity for about one hundred and fifty guests, is delightfully lovated and has always been a famous place for suppers with the moro aristocratic visitors at the White. Num- | bers prefer the quiet retirement of Dry Creek to tho noise and din of the great hotel at the White. The Dry Creek establishment, which is under the man- auement of Mont Miller (who will be remembered as the clerk that was on duty when the Spottswood Hotel was burned, and did such good service on that terrible night), will be connected with the main office at the White by Edison’s telephone, as will also the livery and other branches of the concern. A new gravelled drive within the grounds has been made from the White to the creek, which alternately runs through thick shade and upen meadow, mak- | ing an additional attraction to the owners of tashion- able equipag: KIGHBORING RESORTS. The White Sulphur is the centre of the Springs region of the Alleghanies, It 18 the distributing depot for visitors to all the other and lesser water- ing places in the mountains. They all come here and after spending a week or two, or perhaps a tramp. Mr. Archer, who inaugurated the march, may possibly be an extra contestant. A PROPOSED TALKING MATOH. After the walkers come the talkers. Virginia, which, besides being the mother of Presidents, Mr, Balch and Chastine Cox, can also boast of having 4 progeny of the most inveterate talkers, chinuers, button-holers, spouters and bores in ‘the wholé Union. ‘There is vsually a choice collection of talkers and gossips at the White, and it is proposed to have a regular match this sesson, the man whe holds out the longest and speaks without inter: miasion from the start to be presented with a silver evp, duly and SRBropelately, inseribed, Several yeu- uemen from hmond are mentioned very favor- ably in connection with this linguistical contest, but the betting is 10 to 1 against the field on a dis- tinguished member of the Richmond Press Club who was cheated out of the “Chinner’s Cup” on a former occasion. The variety of talkers that will be resent will embrace every class and degree peculiar this talking age, and the exhibition will no doubt be full of interest. A gentleman at my elbow, speak- ing about the contemplated match, says that Mr. William L. Royal, Mr. W. R. Trigg aud Mr. A. 8. Watkins, of Richmond, can talk louder and make more fuss and noise talking than any dozen meu on the continent, POLITICAL, It is expected that a number of the Southern b: adiers wi aucus here during the season, and ossible indulge in alittle President making. The hite was noted in times past for this sort of political pastime. “THEY WOULD A-WOOING GO,” HOBATIO WISE, A QUADRUPED COUNTRYMAN, RAMBLES THROUGH THE CITY TO SEE THE SIGHTS—A POLL PARROT ENAMORED OF HIS BRAY. L OST—JULY 4, GREEN PARROT. $3 REWARD FOR L4bis return, GERAYED, FROM PIER 7 EAST RIVER, A BLACK Mule, 10 A. M. yesterday, There seems nothing particularly striking to the average reader in these two advertisements from yestorday’s Heratp. And yet in each case there isa story of pathetic interest. The case of an ordinary mule straying away would not as a rule occupy the thoughts of the public for any great length of time, but the habits, cccupation end life of Horatio Wise (tor so this animal was called) were of such a nature as to cast about his disappearance the halo of ro- mance, Horatio was @ country mule, and although he had travelled extensively through tho interior, having been employed for some years on various canals, he had never before visited the metropolis. ‘That his arrival should occur on a day of national celebration was a matter of chance purely, but the tact no doubt had much to do with his subsequent adventures. “STRANGE COUNTRIES FOR TO BEE.” He was attached to the person of Mr. John Smith, of the canalboat Hitchcock, lying at one of the lower piers of the East River, and on the morning of the Fourth was permitted, with other four-footed mem- bers of the crew, to stroll upon the pier and amuse himself as best he might for an hour or two, Now Horatio, as before stated, had seen much of country life, and had spent various Fourths of July at coun- try villages where the day was duly and bucoli- cally celebrated, Notwithstanding this, however, he was hardly prepared for the sights he saw from that pier. He had seen the stovepipe of the Nancy Jane decorated with the national colors, and had, perhaps, witnessed the gathering of a fleet of craft similar to the one to which he was attached all gayly tlaunti: bedticke and unbleached muslin, but he bi never seen a New York excursion boat on @ public holiday, and the sight filled him with emo- tions new to his breast, He had seon the glare of the country rocket aud heard the whiz of the festive cracker, but never until Friday had his ears tingled and his brain whirled with the roar of the great guns of the Nuyy Yard. He had seen the coun- tryman whirling his sweetheart to a picnic ina red wheeled buggy, but never before he witnessed such a thing as a New York ‘chowder party” starti: on ite tour of devastation. While he stood an revelle@in these sights au impulse to explore this hitherto unknown world came upon him and grow stronger with each moment. He passed quietly to the eud of the pier and saw Mr. John Smith, his cap- tain, sitting on a piece of wood smoking his cigar month, disperse to whatever place they have selected to sojourn the remainder of the summer. Within a radius of about seventy miles are not less than a score of lovely watering places nestling in these | grand mountains, and they are all liberaily patron- ized during the season. The nearest of these is the | Red Sweet Springs, fourteen miles distant, and just | one mile beyond is the “Old Sweet,” one of the lurgest, best appointed aud most delightiul resorts in the Alleghanies, They can be reached from the | White either by stage direct or by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Alleghany station and tnence nine miles by stage. To the west ‘of the White Sulphur lie the Salt Sulphur and the Red | Sulphur Springs. They are both located south of the line of the Chesapeake und Ohio Railway, the | Salt Sulphur seventeen miles by rail to Fort Springs | station and fourteen miles thence by stage; the Ked Sulphur thirty-six miles to Lowell station by rail and fourteen mile thence by stege. Coming east the visitor has the choice of perhaps the greatest variety of medicinal springs in the world, The first is the Healing Springs, then the Hot, the Warm and the Bath Alum. They are all located in what is | known as the Warm Spring Valley, and are noted for | | the extraordinary temperature gs well as the cura- | tive and healthful qualities of their waters. Leay- | ing the White Sulphur by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway the distance to Covington is twenty-two miles by rail; from thence to the Healing by stage firteen miles, to the Hot eighteen miles, to the | Warm twenty-three miles and to the Bath Alum twenty-one miles. The waters of these springs are | hot and warm, as their names indicate, and with the Healing are tavorite resorts for invalids as well as | healthy people. THE BATH ALUMN. | ‘Pnis is but little known to the travelling public. Asa general thing it is only used asa place where one can get # good meal ou the route trom the Warm Springs to Millbosough, but of the many places in the wountains for good buildings, healthy loca- tion and the grand desideratum of 4 mouutsin re- sort, dryness, it is unsurpassed. It is situated in the middle of a valley some three miles wide. In | every direction there are beautiful walks. Sunshine has free access to dry the damp of mountain mists and the alum waters are especially suitable for te- | male tronbies, while the clintybemte ‘are just what is | needed for the overworked business or professional | | man. There is no dunger of catching cold. Fires | are not needed, for you are always dry. The wood- work does not rot and the banisters do not stick to your hands as you come down stairs in the early morning, | ANOTHER CLUSTER, Further east is another cluster of mountain re- sorts, the first being Dagyer’s Spring, which is | forty-six miles trom the White, thirty-six by rail to Clifton Forge and ten by aes to the springs. | Then there is the Jordan Alum the Kockbridge Alum, fitty-nine miles by rail to Goshen and nine | iniles thence by stage. ‘The former of these is noted tor having the most improved hotel accommodations in the mountsins, including hot and cold water, electric bells aud turniture of the most modera pat- tern. It is mauaged by that popular gentleman, Mr, c. B. Luck, a tormer proprietor of the Spotts wood Hotel in Richmond betore that establishment was burned. In addition, there is the Coid Sulphur | Springs, two miles from Goshen; the Rockbridge | Baths, eleven miles from Goshen; Lexington, | | twenty-two miles trom Goshen, and the Natural | ridge, thirty-six miles from Goshen. Coming still | turther east to Staunton, uinety-one miles irom the White, aud there is Stribling Springs, thirteen amiles; Wyers’ Cave and the Cave of the Fountains, sixteen mies; while still away down the Shenan- | | doah Valley you leave the railrodd at Newmarket and can rice over sixteen males to see the wouders of the Luray Caverns, These springs offer to the visitors to the Virginia mountains the greatest variety of auiueral waters from which to select perhaps in the world. | A NOVEL PEDESTRIAN CONTEST, | There will be a grand pedestrian feat here during the season, which, however, will differ materially | | from the contests of O'Leary, Weston, Rowell and the other yroat walkers known to tame. Two years ago Mr. W. W. Archer, a promising Reb7F journal. ixt, who is devoted to muscular Christianity of | every sort, remarked that he would walk to the top | ot Greenbrier Mountain and hoist a flag from the summit. To look at the thickly wooded moun- | tain, though of steep ascent, this seemed easy to do. The distanse was apparently about five miles, but when it is known that after ridge and valley after valley, rugged thick with undergrowth, had to be traversed, it will be feon that the task was no easy one. The clear cut uppermost ridge of Greenbrier was at least eleven miles, aud the march was likely to be attended with adventures with bears and other wild animals, not to speak of an occasional encounter with a rattle- snake. Mr. Archer, 1 dismayed by the im- portunities of friends to mn the ides, set out about ten o’clock inthe morning, carrying a white jag, # staff, a hatchet and some nails. He calculated to display the flag about two P. M., but the strongest glasses failed to discover it that day. It was night when the daring young jour- nalist returned, his pale features turned brown as @ berry from exposure to the burning sun, his hands lacerated with briars, his clothes torn, and nd pantaloons almost in tatters. He was but he had hoisted day, howe: passed, and the flag remained invisible until two weeks afterward, Mrs. Do Witt G. Ray, of New York, discovered it from the upper piazza of the hotel, and the reputa- tion of Mr. Archer a an adventurous pedestrian was extablished, Tne flag, though nine fect by four, | could only be seen on cloudy days, but it reinain there during the whole of tue next winter, and wis ev occasionally seen last —_sitmumer, This sean the prog me will be varied by © contest between two amateur walkers, The sun init of Kate’s Mountain on the east is about the same distance from the spring grounds as the sum- mit of Greenbrier Mountain on the west. Each of the contestants will start with a» flag and a lamp at tho same y andthe first to return will be con- sidered t! ietor, provided that the flag or lamp be- comes visible day or night as the case may be. Among the Visitors now here this novel walking con- tout creates considerable interest, and the young gen- tlemen who are to engage in it have already gone into training wud begun to equip themmelven for the and lazily watching the romping of his crew, Horatio dropped his right ear over his right eye to hide the settled determination there expressed, and assuming his peculiar look of artfulness stepped slowly to the pavemeut and hied him away. EXCITEMENT ON THE BOAT. In a few minutes ali was confusion on board the Hitchcock. The crew were summarily tied up, and the capiain roared to the first officer that ‘Horatio had got loose.” He, in turn, passed tho information below to the chief engineer, who, imagin'ng tnat the boat was on fire, rushed to the companion ladder to escape. “Horatio must be found if we never leave this port,’’ said the captain, as he buttoned up his coat and strode across the street for a nip. “Poor ole Wise,” tearfully murmured the cook. Horatio passed slowly up South street and disap. peared at last among the vust crowd of other sight- seers, His track was lost for an hour or so, and we have no record of him until he 1s discovered at South ferry, gazing on the throngs passing to and fro, Here he “seemed deeply interested in s policeman threatened him with his club, Hora- after weighing the clubber for some little time, opened proceedings with his business end that effectually routed the police force—shield, club and buttons. Again he disappeared, and it 1s not known whether he went down to Coney Island or not. Another hour or two had passed when he ayain made his appearance amid a crowd of small Doys on the west side, They, vir ging him as @ pos- sible prize, worth thirty cents at feast at the pound, proceeded to capture him vi et érmis. neha him they began to pound him with sticks, but he served too many years in the merchant marine to mind the occasional whack of the bludgeon, Of course he escaped ator a liberal display of muscular ability, and making his way rapidly up town, entered some uf the quiet aristocratic streets. “PRETTY POLLY.” While passing down one of those streets he would occasionally laugh at the thought of his escape, and the cool sea breezes watted the mellow, rippling laughter onward it was borne to t) ears of the Teen parrot. Every o1 as heard the story of the who would be as large as a bull, but it may be doubted if it ever came within the opportunities of ‘he naturalist toobserve a parrot Ceara roe the sweet song of a mule. The parrot sat in age, ® pampered aristocrat. Not » wish of hers was expressed but ready hauds gratified it. She saw Horatio approaching and heard the sweet melody he carolied. An attempt to imitate it was unsuccessful and a second and 4 third were equally so. ‘was too much for her and the more she struj roe the difficulties appeared to becom: joratio ad now reached the house and hearing what appeared to be an echo of his roundelay paused to mark the effect of a pighes. style or vocalization. He uggled, and the parrot did her best to imitate, but on, and the now Lhe voice led the to no purpose, Horatio desperately enamored bird, ing from her perch, followed the ovject of her ration. Together the pair strolled away, now and again attempting a travesty on some 9 ular air, but more often silently occupied with the thoughts that must have at times almost overwh«lmed them. So they passed on, happy in each other’s company, through the crowded streets of the metropolis, seeking the quiet lanes and green fields that lie beyond, Hence the advertisements quoted above, IMPORTED LIQUOR STAMPS, On the Int of last March Chapter 125 of the Revised Statutes of the United States was amended so as to require @ stamp to be affixed to every package of liquor going out of the United States Bonded Warehouse, Section 11 of this chapter requires “that all distilled spirits, wines and malt liquors imported in pipes, hogsheads, tierces, barrels, casks or other packages, shill be first placed in a public store or bonded warehouse and shall not be removed theretrom until the same shall have been inspected, marked aud branded by a United States Cus- tom House gauger and a stamp afiixed to cach package indicating the date and particulars of ch inspection,” It is imtended that ail packages shall be stamped on the wharf at the time of ywug- ing, whether the merchandise is duty pald or en- tered for warehouse, It may not be possible to do this for some days, but no goods will be sent to joneral As to goods in warehouse, the store- eepors have been directed not to deliver any pack- ages until the stamps are affixed, no matter whether the duties were paid before or after July 1, AWAY. MONEY THROWN UNCLAIMED INHERITANCES IN HOLLAND AFTER FIVE YEARS LAPSE AND THE PROPERTY BE- COMES VESTED IN THE STATE. New York, July 2, 1879, To Tux Eprron or tHe Heaawp:— Tam 4 native of Holland and have just come back from @ trip through that country, Every now and then I have met with people who wanted to know something about a large sum of money which they suppose to have been left by somebody some timo ago in some city in my native land. According to our law all inheritances not claimed within tive years pass over to the State. Consequently there 1s not much chance of people recovering money which has been lett about two hundred years ago. At different times articles and letters about this subject have been published in your paper (Febru. ary 12, 1876, &.), but, nevertheless, the United States Consul in Amsterdam is receiving letters of inqtiry about such claims Py, nearly every American mail. My sincere hope is that you may save tho United States Consul in Amsterdam some trouble and some unpleasant corres) mee. I also wish that you may save your countrymen and fellow citi- vous ome anys and money. Every ponny spent by claimants for inquiries or otherwise is monoy thrown to the dogs, May this be of some use to some le. r SHAN FS VERSLER,