The New-York Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1866, Page 7

RGN | NATIONAL PROGRESS D TAYLOR'S TO IN THE FAR —— TS IN £CIDNCD D [opem MR. BAYAR MINES WEST. LW-YORK. | N IMPROVEM WAVAL LADIOAD. | 4 TRIP TO COLORADO. s 1IL.—UP THE SMOKY EILL FORK. Prom Our Bpecial Correspoudent. Dexver € lorado. | et Junetion City the rains which had | Kansas, stopping stages and railroad v, and the seathier became clear Afer ay ar Booded all East traing alike, o aud fine. Althov, ject in visi WS to 80CUTE € Z0 Lit's rest before sett Plaws, I was wintely requested to lecture that e ing. There was o ball, the ouly one having beeu receutly bumed; no churcl yet completed; no aunouncement had | made—but in these A store d 1ks carried in for scats, s tempo sent around to give private | two hours' tituc lo ! there | ly for the Overlard stage- | down the Kaw Valley repre- | impassable, aud toward sun- onsidered that With icss sult os ¥, T have rurely more egre bundred persons who &t upon the in that undnished store-building. | than the Awcricans would do such | town precise , in color aud texture, that which | £orms the Island of Malta. In the quarry it hasa pale Lull tint, with 8 soft, cheesy graic, which may be cut with a g «d with & common hand-saw; | yet, afier exposure to the air, it becomes rd and | assumes o ric Messrs, McClure and Hop &ins of Jun n by color. hors er, Nothing could have been more satis- ) through the stone as easily and dily as throngh a block of wood, dressing & smooth exactly two minutes. Thesup- stible, thisis the beginning of s the future cities of Kausas | tiful in the worll. ion of the place at 400 or 500, but I | 0, each building representing thrice | , a8 in the East. 8o I hasten to for pothing annoys these frontier | » @s either to understate their population or | « their prospective importance. Junction | be tiic terminus of railrosd travel aud the | etarting-point of the great overland freight bv.m..oss‘l ~bich will give it certuinly a temporary importance. The | people, 1 find, desire that the road shall run up the Repub- | fican ¥ er to sceure at t the New-Mexican | trade fo but this is not a matter to be decided | The di then to De Ano fortable night at the Eagle Hotel, and Wednesday came, warm aud cloudless, without any sign of tho su MeC indly offered to drive meto | Saling, the last settlemens on the Smoky Hill Fork, 45 | filos farther, and we set out soon sfter breakfust. The | woad slong the bottom being too deep, we took that lead- ng over tie rolling comutry to the north., C i through & little glen to the level of the bluffs, we had ebarming backward view of the junction of the nvers, | with the buildivgs of Fort Riley crowning the wooded | then forward, over many a rolling mile of | s beyond we found a traiu of wagons just starting with the stage stations a'ong the live. Mr. Stanton, the super- intendent, 1 me that he bhad come through from | Denver to Fort Riley this Spring, with ox-teams, in | Ho expects to make three round | ng up corn, and bringing back lum- stables to be buiit on the line. opal views over the bottoms of the the people claim, are even richer | ty-seven days. fmoky Hill, whi han those of the Kaw Valley; but that scems impossi- Twelve miles of pleasast travel brought us to Chap- #man's Creek, the first stage-station. Here, however, the wiream was nine feet deep, and the people at the nformed us that we would have 1o take a ford two miles It scemed to me better to return to June tthe stage there than to risk missing it by | higher up. tion and awe leaving the m: fourney. Atnoou, when we had reached the bluffs and were | thicking of dinner, what should we see but the stage, st | driviog toward us from the town! Hunger, then, | sto be my first expericnce on the overlaud journey. | “We turned out of the road; T alighted with my baggage, | aited the approsch of 8 face well-knownign the | 2. There were two passengers, | n wasmy friend. In faet, the driver phouted to me, before Lo pulled up his horses, * Your friend didn't com Oneof the passengers handed me o tetter from the agent at Topeka, informing me that Mr, obably not bo able to reach that place for on account of the floods. My arrange or would zot allow me to wait, so I depos- kets and baggage, in the stage, aund wes | fairiy embarked for crossing the Plain ! 1 travemsed, for the third time that day,the route to Chap man's Creek. The water was still rising, end we, there- | ed the upper ford, and successfully. The road | cended from the Smoky Hill, followed | tho broad, level bottoms of that river. The soil was, in- deed, of wonderful fertility, though but little of it, as yet, | er cultivation. Toward sunset we reached the vil, | Jnge of Abilene, or Abeline (how or whenee the name was | erived I carnot im: unless it isan abbreviated cor- | Fuption of *“ Abe "), and here 1 determined on hav- | 4og something to eat. Upon questioning a stalwart fellow who Lung upon thecoach while it was crossing Mud Creek, ho declared, with emphasie, ““ I'sthe last square | wmead you'll geton the road !” My experience of a ‘* square | mueal” therefore, is that it coneists of strong black coffee, | @trips of pork fat fried to & sandy crispness, and half- | ‘aked, soggy, indigestible biscuits. For these I paid the ‘oquare price of $1. i # The sun set—there was no moon—and onr eoach made | \toilsome progress over the muddy bottoms toward the | Solomon’s Fork., Musketos began their attacks, and | thenceforth worricd us the whole night. About 10 o’clock | tho driver commenced an imitation of the bark of the | eoyote, which, it appeared, was a distant signal of our ap- | proach to the ferryman st the Solomon Crossing. It was 00 indistinet to note snything but the dark masses of tim- | Der on either side, and the gleam of water between; but | from the length of time we oceupied in crossing, 1 should | $udge that the stream is o hundred yards wide. The bot- | tom-lund along the Upper Solomon is said to be equal to any in Kansas, and emigration is fast pouring ivto itas | ell a along the Republican and the Saline. 1 sbiould not wonder if ““The Great American Desert” should finally be prozounced s myth. In my school | geogrphies, it commenced at the western border of Mis- | souri; now, I believe, it is puehed some 250 miles further ‘West, leaving sowe of the fluest, agricultural land ou the @obe bebind it. Bo far, T had found the reverse of & | desort; | determined, therefore, to be on the lookout and | duly note its present point of commencement. Wiat a weery draz we had that night over the deep | mud between the Solomon ad Saline Forks! Either | sleeping and stung to inflammation, or ewake, weary and amoking in desperate defense, two or three hours passed | Wway, until the yelping and howling of the driver au- | mounced our approach to the Salive. Iu the dark, this Fiver appeared to be nearly equal in volume to the Solo. mon. Ies water is so salt us sometimes to offect the taste of the Smoky Hill at Junetion City. Nine miles more in tho dark brought us to Salina, a vi 1 road; 8o we put about and retraced our | | age of %00 or %00 inbsbitents, sud the eud of settloment | ia extent half-o-dosen Buropean Kivgdots, bas aa arva of | tioa iu the modo of tre | cool, delicious breeze, and great s | our seats with a great | quently be taken for bui | sionof a quarter aerc of & | existence of a me | ing up and elown be | ing, we saw the larg, | ground habitations, ard b | the boot, and the cover strapped down over Lim. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1 Our driver kept us waiting two hours ! 1 this interval 1 I in this directis for a new bit snetelied a Baw ¢ for one of bis b Litt Of 8 t say thi ) & 1001 1 at Juneti People wash th (becouse 1t is 1 nees iu the cabiz hotels which 1 hav Kausas, who ¢2 pulied out On leaving Saling, tie road across the , to cut off Two or t. we struck o bend of the the mud and muskotos; slowly bri; tening with the yof the b o 10 onote al, gentle undulc both to team and poss By six o'clock we reac 16 miles from Salina. Here th stoncs and mud, and a with a rude roof of 1 i d 2ht of a protty littlo girl of seven, cabin found a wom: in g ‘The walls and floor were the bare soi table, two short benches for s e prairie dogs in one corse would not like a co swered: *“I think I have Pr dog ‘Water was furnished plentifully fo ntions fast resembled the * square meal” of the precedin ing, with the addition of canned peaches, aud se of refreshment »n scems to teke away ell sense of fatigue; it is | ' to pl more fau with ‘What a Western we , even at mid Soon after start | w 8 coyote snecking al a meadow on our left; | sge 1f, at which one of wy fellow-passe a disdaiz gers fired withont efloct. He trotted away with ful air. stopping now and then to look at us. At the time & rattlesnake gave an angry sigual by the roads: There was no longer o question that we were now beyond ilization. The limestone forma sandstone, whick erops ¢ tar walls and towers. Al they tures of th Liere gives places to s darkred of the ridges in Tough, irregu Jugh rising to no great hight, stive fone distance they might fre- ertheless form picturssque and sug th e landseape: ir i | The grass | large crin 1den bl o tin For many « The fora seems also to ¢ starred wit ty of the helianthus, with g flower of the ri spurs apd dark- country Was ono vist nat There were places wher ider-wort own ¢ of Palestine After leavisg Clear Crock proached the y Hill. ted s Ca out, we beh abiead of us. At present this porary log barracks and stable permanent post have beeu Jaid o tle further from river. mails, but 1 b o fora Lester, and a glass of exc 14 miles further, we ap- Two companies of the ¢ érawn up on the plaix with Li a barrel iu the sutler’s quarters. Gen. o pro gress of the new fort, aud I did not see him. erybody | —espoc: he private soldiers—were suxious to hear | about the F There had } oflicers seetn absence of 1 consider that withdra 1. but the art of the Indiaus, indica te Smoky Hill route, I find, year, on acc neasiness this | The traders ut that the tribesof | am therefore surprised tl the Smoky Hill route i far as 1 canlearn, the difficulty seems rather to lie in the ngrel baud of oute; from vanous d a f>w whites, who are known, col- tribeg, half-bree ively, under the atrocities beretofor from Fort E! “ Here's wk yrmed by 1l The sccount £ 40 (Pawnees, he supy pted 1o upset it, and mad driver gave was, 1 had stopped the e o | various i One pas- senger, who w wes knocked down with & ¢l g the driver; seairt, and & wowan, | and she was the coolest of "emall.” This band is supposed to be under the com d of Bent, o half-breed, sox of the | famous old frontier At the next #! 1 detachme su ening, but they assu us quiet Thenceforth, indeed, we ; for, in st bulalo—a dozen We saw our 4 | dark spocks on the boundiess green. Before night swald | tral valley of Culifornis. The former has it sour aridge, two e8 AW frequent, making th h sides of tho road. T Jop 6t 0 roach, their & with the Lerds of them grew ance near us, on bot slow, lumberiz regul feveral movement of small waves shots were fired f the coach, but only one took effect, wo 28 bng in the shoulder. Iti s wanton kill their game, v in the way of ians. On the sim the enimals. three the previous da the stake, but the meat bot agreeably that J had no desire to taste it. Antelopes and prairie dogs also in large numbers, Th uer were mostly pairs, leaping nimbly the elevations, o graceful Leads in cuw The prairie-dogs sat vpri ring upon lled so dis | loors of their with & comic: the ow lence. Toward eveuing their partners, | forth also to take the air. The ratilesnakes, I presume, | to the commerrial capitalsof both hemispheres; but there were still in-doors, a8 we saw but two or three during the | whole journey. After passing s smali stream near Foasil Creek, the | driver suddenly stoppe team and. juoped down from | his seat. He stooped down over the water, started b ook courage again, and presently held up to view a turtie | which would weigh twenty-ive or tlirty pounds. The | creature kicked aud snapped viciously, as be was suspend- | d by the tail, nor was Lis odor very attractive but such | not often arrive in this land of | ibled o a prospect for soup do salt pork and indigestible biscuit, so be was tw ould hear him seratch- | several miles, we on the back seat ing behind us, but when the boot was opened at Big C Station, Jo! 1o turtle was there. The driver's face was o | picture of misery and disgust As the cool, grateful twilight came down vpon ¢ boundless swells of grass and flowers, 1 exumined my sen- sations, and found fthet they were of pure, peaccful enjoy- | ment in the new and bosutiful world which I xow beheld | for the first time. The fatigue, so far, was triding: the fear of Indians had disappeared; the ¢ square meals’ somehow or other, manzged 1o digest themsclves; and I heartily congratulated wyself on having undertaken the ourney. Here 1 leave you, 175 miles west of Fort Riley, in the : of what ouce was * The Great Americau Desert. een . B.T. —— MINERALN AND MINES OF THE FAR WEAT. —— Between the 105th mendian of western longitude and | ween the British possessions north | f the | the Pacific Oceas, b and the contines of Mexico south, Usited States fo which most af titlo of the * Far West.,” This vast region, which that 1o near a mil end cortains within § Terrdtories—C. T o toward Josas, and their geueral cours ast, but their spurs end later to which no single descrip- iave v 1 appls. The most castern range, after passing thr b, ins. Th the borders of C Tdaho, wh it conncets with the east latitude north. The third range, 8§ a Mountaius, in an icrra New known as the Coust asbortdistazce 1 portions are penotrated. from the southern extremity of the whero it diverges from the Sierra Strait of Jum do Fuea, which separates Van Couver's rom the m land. the great m boweled the exhaustiess West. Let us now take ain ranges in which are em- nd untold treasures of the Far noto of the altitude of th: ¢ their geol cal Mountaina cannot compete in alti- ayas of India, or the Cordilleras of Sonth America, yet soveral of their peaks towerto o great | Light above the level of the ocewn. Mount St Eliss, | which stands on the Pacific at the north-west extremity of | Mount ubia, re- the Sierm Nevada, bas an eleva 1 of 17,80) fuet. Browz and Mount Hooker, also Yy British ( r run of 14,000 fe, The genes Mouatain ut is ex- r of the Rocky | tremely Many of th the Alpine cbar- | | scter of ragged, procipitons pea to their being freqe y peretrated by deep transverse valleys aad they p k. ated espect from which | panish name has been deriv The prevalent rock formations of t worphic gne o several ranges are | and mice- 1yries gran tioned being The granites are in | ¢, and it is these and the other e rich wetal c0us presently have parated rulity, cains are sep weon the great ch land, elovated from 3,00 above vel A brief not fice for o mountain sides are ge 1 pine, which, prally cover pr wer down, become int ious other trees. Tho plaive, 1 at species of grass 1o b 0ol are I ricts flowe o they give o while in cert wh s full of & vast garden ‘ anels by whick the waters of the Far of the Rio d Bau The prizcipal West Greade, the Col ™ Joaguin ri rang , in latitude 3% 1,50 miles, flows 2 morth s uavigable The Co- the western north, and eastern r a course of f Mexico i is soutl aboun Its gen- > sea. ppe of the Rocky Mo 1 gitnd west & bay from %) miles from its » to seven wiles wide, a ble burden for sbout of the Columbia 1s 1,20 aud its principal taries are Flat Bow, Lewis Fork, and Su Rive ranch of the Colorado River, called the Green o the Wasatch Mountains, ia lati- nor Thence it flows in a south-westerly dire gh Utak, Arizons, and sloug the borders of | to the Gulf of Californis. It is over 1,000 miles in length and is mavigable to Callville, between which and San Francisco there is now regular steam com ation. The § | tributaries of the Colorado ¢ Virgio, White, and Gila rivers. The Sucrauento are the great drainers of the cen- in the pands inte nd is navigable for vessels of entire t The River, Las its s tude 41 mu wre and San Joaquin rive: | meniare pijing hot, and even wives perspiro profu | are famil BG6. ocomotion from days to hours, and enable the miner | practice their his trewsure from place to place :A‘ ‘mmy be otling which must be experienced 1o be | iy this exinbi nized set foot on this continent, the Far West has been of recent discovery. Piior 10 1847 the region of the Rocky M tains was almost ferra ineognita, Until then the wild s of the desert held absolute sway over the greater of it, u the white man, who dreamed vet of the gold of California, or the silver of Nova- No sooner, however, wero deposits of the former the Sscramento end San Joaquin valleys thy of the white man vanished, and multi om the Atlantic seaboard and from Europe, ous treasure inclosed 1 the wotab tendonts, As Towels are by the superin policoman is i unces. Hithe buathers ure too | Tt has 1 to of this new El 1t is not yet twenty years since the working of the g mines of rnia commenced and the tide of emigra begas to flow thither, nevertheless, betiold the resul d | s On the rock-bound shore of the Pacitic, and in au unkempt mules. [ 0 t bjectionable nofin the slightest degree unseeraly | bject to it. will'be uade in the rales, restricting the This bath has 3, dressing roows. accommodaiions for deep-water swimming, in conse- fuemee of adincent business streots overlooking it. While ath No. 1 during five days of last week h wele patrous—on one da; satie period, was used by 3, graceful art in decp water. OF coarse zhc‘: seen as they cleave the waters; but the beoawe many of the olucst aud best known families of z bave been iucluded iu its wewoeraiip, whii some of tha distingaished ciergymen belonging 1o the dencmination Lave officiated in its desk. Dr, Duffy was suceeedsd l:r’ Dr. Up on. No oae bas been tound so prudish s of Mexico and Perahad boon known | 7 has Litherto been confined to males. To- | hoid, tie present Bishop of Ludiavs, and b : morrow it will be opencd fe il el Beperine | B e s Sy s )% "Tbs Moece W hitehouse, present Bisbop of Iliinols, and the Jtev, Dr. Neve ilie also successively oceupied the position previous lu-lfi when the Rev, Dr. Morgan, the presest incumvent. Was to the plece. ‘Tlow many luurc:‘lln and memorable scenes pertence dietates it is believed that cer- to certain ho ble. ot pure by the action of the tids, which | those old walls buve wi ol thess years: how o i the latticod sides of the axh be- | a7 fuir maideos heve estered thurs o g0 forth sents o8 aid to the loved and the jost, 1t id St. Thomos's has aw only ia te memories of those who it The ground will be devoted to business the parish will erect another charch edifiee furiier um Pprobably in the neigiborbood of Fifts-second-st. sud Fi The site of the od chureb, with most of the material of srovided cither by the individual bathers or tendents ou the payment of three cents. A n constant attendunce to prevent disturb- rto he has found nothing to do, for the o Lappy to find time to quarrel. The Bt e e tho smallest of the six, | Duilding, was sol uearly o yoor ago to Messzs: Suits & Risas et e e nk 0235 foot. 1t has mo | SlOthin dasier, who will eroot thereon & sow busiding fo The lad sold by the Vestry measures 51 feet and 10 inches on Broadway aad 125, feet on Housto A part of the ehurch ground, on the northern side, embracing the ler-’ vacant spice of 13 feet ia width mext the eturch sud 4 strip feet wido of the ground on which the buliiiag formerly hes been reservod fur & eurlous reason. Somo time 8go the Chureh society sold to the owner of the adjoiniog premises the right of lizht on the side pext the church, goaran ad nearly 6,000 000—Bath No. 2, during the 555 men and boys, aud 178 fe- Boston Bath has 32 dressing rooms end wilderness has sprang up, within the briet space named, & ha " ] "’ chances " for deep water swimming. 1t is row - ndin riek, and powerful State, Whose ares comprises On Priday 607, end on Haturdsy 819, | et or 8 e e o dassrmland o £l o sGuare miles, whose inhabitants number over e ehuron propeity, they endeazored to buy back this nual exports of gold have ranged 40 feet lon, bz 18 in width, | but the purciscer demandod 85000 for it, which the Vi N b the usual depth of about four feet. It has also out | thoughe was too much, Finding, bowever, that they 0,000 to $75,000,000, Most marvelous indeed atls itae1f 100 can reudily enough | Bot seil the property to good advantage awith this right re- s boeen the rapidity with -which California has grown The statistics of this beth | served, they notified the possessor that they would -«l'm‘z his terme, bat the light-owner. secing his advantage, P Eut the valleys of the Sacramento and quin have been explored throughout their length and broadth, and some of their mines bad begun to give exheustion ero people thought of cros vhich bounds California on the nort; 1,700 pe t0o, are almos main es he South specions beac tide is high. bathers, of wh this bath the T class, | themsel in some cases, ente At i zion, then pert of Utab, now the State of Ne- s the west side of the Great Basin inclosed by atch and the Sierra Nevada mountains, Its area ains over 31,000 square miles, aud ita situation is so are less than 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, while several of its moun- tain peaks tower to the hight of 11,000 feet. ‘When the exploration a commenced the country was still more desert than California had been anterior to 1847, In 1850 there were not two decent dweilings within its bor- ders, and where Virginia City now stands was then a , barren waste, with not a living thing thereon sav: occasional stunted pine or other alpine | plant. B discovery of the silver mines of Washoe, | as the Virginian district was first called, quickly changed el this, and, in the few years which have since elapsed, s now State has Leen ushered into existones, which already contains a population of ever 5,000 souls, and two flour- ishing citis. foruis and Nevada! these are the great reprosenta- Fur West, Other regions of that por- t undoubtedly pos ich deposits of tals, but in extent and exuberance of me ese States excel them all. California, of col elevated that fow even of its valle) wronnd their o regain their cl The D dreary, desola an h nearly tablisii these I tive States of t tion of our eo: CA’ OLD LAND! —TH y 3,000 patrous, This these public baths are a great snccess. *Salvation by #oap’" is the gospel of the hour. INPROVEMENTS IN NEW YORK. THOE AMOUNT OF REBUILDING, AND WHAT IT IXDI- CHURCH, DR. CHAPIX'S CHURCH, THE STUYVESANT of these OmENew | [iot though he would bave taken 65,000 at first, Lo miust bew n Lave 810,000, Again the Vestry dem: 1 and cousidered the matter for a monty, at the end of which timo they agreed 88 aceept the inereased terms, but the light-proprietor, thi t wholly from the poorer classes—the be bad & good thing, again reised the prioe to $15,000. Iy of tenement houses, which have ts fow | this the Vestry deeidedly rebelled, and rather than submic 88 tor persoval ¢l izdred pest- | whas they decmed & swindle, dotormized to reserve a fall o8 lisliments of Mulberry-st., New-York. “ ffl;:'l_umm uu,‘n.dktlo light man lost & bargais. privk Boston Buth Las tiirt sing rooms, a | Jege wili expire o six years. . adjacorit, but can only be uped when the | The old buryisg-grouod in the reat of the shaseh has B8 On Thursday it was used by eight hundred | g og of the remains therein interred have been removed w8 om one hundred and fifty were females. larger portion of the patrons were of the e of whom, it is stated, were so eager to of the facilities 1t offers that they waited, from two to three hours for their turn to 13 bath the patrons are provided with dupli- ich they return to the Superin- ing their poom, They hang the other s, by au elastic cord, until they wish to Trinity Cemetery. The struciure which is to take the place of the church will e of iron aad brick, sad Wwill be sabstautial aod Leadsome, Next to the St. Thomas's Chareh, the most promizent of the destroyed buildings, was the Stuyvesant Iustitute, which erected about the vesr 1835 1toceupied eround which belunged to the old Herring farm, lying on the north side what was know s Amity Lane. afterward cioved up. 135 this site, ovcupying sbeut 75 fest 0n hru‘dw. was by Francis Dessau to Jsaac Greer, who represented the vesant Iustitute Associstion. The buldicg which they o was desigriod to bo the headquarters. par excellence, of the litorary element in this city, and was well adapted to its puse pose. “Lesides one of tho finest lectue-rooms ever built in the. eity, it contalned reading-rooms, studios for artlsis, hn:u: and admirably-arrauged roows for scicatific collectivns uuseams. Afterward _the building was bought for the Modioal Ceb Jege of the University, represented by Valectine Mo W. Draper, Jotn Rovere, Martyn Paine, Granville Sharg tison and Gunoing 5. Bedford. Tt was under this ownew. | ship an aneaviable notoriety bogan to attach to the wrisiog out of the disscctions which took place st.auze and horrible were the rumors circulated in e it The Collegs, at that time, swod smong the first in the conntry in reputation. and its scieatific aud anatomical eeb lections were euriched by the labors aud rescarches of 'sush meu as Dr. Mitebell, Dr. Hosack, Dr. Francis. sod These collections were afterwasd remo ing on Fourteentl-st.. and were lost stroyed the Academy of Music and the Col 25 by 15 feet, with | mming outside. It | Whe will move t Joston institutions in the “ uuclean cit —————— i i 1B NEW BUILDINGS AND THE OLD ONES.— MARKS PASSING AWAY.—ST. THOMAS'S tioge building. course, a8 tho t of the Pacific States, and becanseof | ¥STITUTE, AKD OTHERS, . T'wo great stores are to be erccted 0n the muuu.b 4 > D havisg & frout of 75 feet on Broadway, with a depth of After the storm comes the calm. For five years tho | having Bfrect 170 er 30, 00 7 e " width of the greater development of her mineral resources, still first rank, but there is every prospect that she 2, find a formidable rival in her younger sister. Nevuda «cd entered on her career under some dis- | wdvastages. She has appeared later in the field, her popu- Iation is comparatively sparse, and her mineral resources sed, yot such is the abund- now the produet of o3 of the Virginia City distriet sloue amounts t 1,000 per aunu proportion to the namber of its miners, than the Golden State hersell can show. Nevada is in fact etill richerin silver than California was in gold, and her staple metal, in its nature. ranged and div ing tnereased & loin the gre miore markedly even during th Silver mines 18 suthor of & very two waysin wh observer; first, dugces into bus rangeients wh commodate the certain pecnlia great a corio serto the region in the worll which curronts of trade and commerce in this country have been de- disturbing influences of war. Now that the stro, and the morbld excitemonts resulting trom it have passed away, we find trade resuming its former routine and demand- business. ‘Thia reaction is, ¢f course, most promiuently visi- ness, but its operations wers feverish and irrogular, indicative of the wbnormal state of the country, and markedly different from the steady routine of times of peace, Perbaps no more aceurata barometer could be found by which to measure the coudition of the political atmospiiere, than the mercantile re- lations of & country, am! in this view the present fourishing condition of trade is a matter of grataiation to all. on Mercer-st. The rny Las been purchased by B. Ka Solomon & m.lj . & J. Sloase, aud one yasi build- iug will be erceted mnlfi.m estire ground, aod so divided interiorly that Messrs. Soomon will have asiorc 45 foet in. width and 200 is depth, extending through from street §9 atreet, while Lbe oulier store will be 30 foot wids on 1) and 94 on Mercer-st. - The Broadway front of the building bo of white marble, five stories high, acd surmonsted by wassive pedimeat extendisg entirely seross it. It is dnfi to make this oue uf the haudsomest fronts on Brosdway. | estimated cost s §450.000, makiug, with the origioal cossed the ground, the entira value net less than $500,000. “The lust of the oid relics. which, thongh not yet entirely de- stroyed, is slieady dismantled, and will Mly vanisl alte- getler, is the Foorth Universalist Choren, where, for 14 years, oue of the most eloquent of pulpi: orators, the Kev. Di. Cher has weekiy d-awn crowds of admiriug and interesied am- tors. But for au even longer time thau that, this church has been a temple of lideral and erlighteved religions opinion. ¥ was bailt 1n 1e45 by the First Unitarian b‘ocie%:lln H of New-York, for the occupanoy of the Rev, Dr. Bellol was subsequently sold in 1=52 to the Society presided over , Dr. Chupi. It was desiguied by one of tic lest srebitects | bis time, Lefovre, aud was uudonbtedly oue of the finesi speals | mens of she florid_gothic style of architeciure io the m‘? The estire inierior of the ehurch has been removed by | trustees of the coagregat ou. nad we believe it is the intention to replace 16 in the new building, now beiug erected at the st. aud Filth-ave. corner ot Fort) 50 we o, ion, education, art, all must give way ands of trade; but when our great avenue the inexorable dem shail be wholly gives up to the neéds of comemerce, iet us hope ues between the Laumts that the physical space which interve erted from their accustomed channels by the is over ad improved facilities for the transiction of ite commercial eentars, aad nowbere perhaps thau in our own city. Not that New-York, ¢ war, exhibited any signs of dullness in busi- There are ich this prosperity manifests itself to the general in the new tirms and new names whicl it intro- les, aod socond, in the eularged ar- existing establisiments are making to sc- nereased busitess. And in tois lust point, rities are visible this season in our city which one thonght, growtis of our ety bas baen maialy external, iness oi balk ap previossly uncecupied slices with ew | of bustasss aad homes of reigion @pd ssclability By A6 be ABE hare beck SreiM e A et 5i%in | typical of u moral chasis, scparating us fro everythig . - otal va- | 2 holier and betier tuan tae arts of money-getting asd the : cancins o 2 meanwhile 1n the bult up portions bave | rui. OF business. ount been spe oo 1 in some secticns the cLaracter i present day, aud are gene | of the buidinzs bes bee dually changing for years, but rully more productive now tian st auy toe ba their pasi bls- | prodably ut no previous period Las thers beea so great an NAVAL SCIENCE ABROAD. tory amoust of reb in thebasiases pariione of the sity a8 s¢ y 5 s rese thont oppi mi tow Tiracts D s ars being replaced | WHAT TIE MONITOR REPRESENTS—IMPORTANT NAVAS Novada then fear to persist in the glorions contest et arrender the paim to | §irores where ave to should ultimat Lerrival? We trow not. e ———— BONTON. L —— YANKEE SANS CULOTTES—THE BOYS IN ECSTACY AND IN WATER. From Our Spacial Correspondest. Union Square, construction or veoupl Fostox, June 2, 1566, 1t is lathery weathor, The pave- T more eapac: 8t work. | eaus Boston is sweltering. ile the unfortnnate males, whou busiuess ties to tow. are truly in & melting mood. Boston is thirsty. Ice-water and fise-water, * with the edige taken off,” arv iu incessant demand. Even the news- | without extend d among by mawmoth whol piesent on lower structures, mapy of them of nuusual sige and costliness. To mako room for thess, many substantial sound end originally | costly buildings have been deliber: watter of marvel to find new bo upper and growing portions of th by small and inte nd vamable buildings taken te pieces to make way o A greatel Niogle mammoth establis litans, the modest being replaced QUESTIONS STARTED BY HER CONSTRUCTION— WIIO ARE RIGHT '—AMERICAN SHIPBUILDERS OB BRITISH ? From The Times. June 77, A strange vessel, with a strange fizure and still strapger name. now Les anchored at Spithead. It was omos getully mentioned as au official diffioulty in av admiralty e 7t that sames could not e conveniently discovered for ows port ¢ s = assnent. not less thaa forty buiidings now in proct sloration. All 0f these are atricily first- destroged. It is no ugs belug crected 1o the city, or on streets bitberto structures, bat to see really new ships of war, bat the Americans have multij fricates fiftyfol ] without ineurring any such embarr: 10us Ones on their wite, sugeests some uliar o after the rivers of taeir country, Tho obvious iplication is this. They cali their sbips poning 100 greE ts distan and as rivers in all regions retain the designations a bl e gives by the earhest settlers, the American eruisers christened in " the of the Ked Indiess. st the Misntovomah may actuslly signify iu thet tongws we shall not procead to inquire; what she represents is a mas- ter of very great unportance indeed. She is a_real Monitor, & true specimen of that siagular flee: ou which the r position on the seas. As these vee- floating things, i€follows cimost inewe ory of buss arger space. ts must accomplish what is sow e, and to_ sccommodate these ud moderate buildings which ing the o dozen ot a » Americans Fely for the; are fanatical and they, even—tlo 18 ago, must aow be replacsd by | sels resemble no other wun-wors 5 k By s of the & rv;u | T o s esutoghs o€ Bt ‘ § thal 1if the American sbipbuilders are right ours most 9 N 3 »; t. ject re] elay, Sie has established froo public baths, which are as popu- Commeneing at the lower part of Kuudny. the first of the .\jn Amcrwlnpllonll:vr involves two prineiples of constraes Lot i s usefil 10 these roasting diys—albeit in & grogser | new erections which Attricts the eyo is the handsome, five | tion ot necessarily connected. The firs?, whioh was the origh i—as the Public Library is in the cold raw nights of | #tory briok and free-stone store, Just completed by ** Knox the | sal principle of Mr. Ericsson's desigo, consists in wit! Hatter,. for bis owu Disiness accupyiag the viko u(‘:‘ former | from t:-m-r- shot that surface which io or pablic h i o | establishmont, destroyed in the famous ** Museum fire last | constitutes broadside. ‘Monitor, public baths have now been opened a littlo more | (00 AT L R S o under an order of g » generic name to all abips allt o *:fl’ k almost_level with the water, so that she configuration admitted of than s month. They wero eatablishe tasu” style of arehiteeturs, vith dormer roof covered with the City Government pas d about two months ago. Ten | yari.colured siater, and its offect is very graceful and pleas mere raft. DBut s this Bardly thonsand dollars wropriated for the purpase of es- | Jug ahove this, at the corner of Ann-al., on the ground of the | armament, the ides of 8 tarret was conceived, in whieh shing six baths. sum proved to be amply suflic- | oid * Museam,” is the flve marb'e and iron struoture intended | Kuns might be carried, and this was ' the second pat wind used every day for the use of The New. York Herald establishment, whick is de- | principle —of desizn. It should art in order 10 fecommo- | 8ig0ed to be one of the fiuedt stractures, for its prpose, in the | bowever, that the tarret prioeiple had originally =e utis population. To those of your readers who | ®orid. One block abave, ut the sorner of Barciay-st., the site | connection with ordnsace of extraordinary weighh H of tha onee famoos ** American” Hotel, Its object was simply to provide for the ocarridge of guss with the plan of Boston, it may be interesting to kuow their locations. No. 1 is st West Boston Bridge, the fast men of ing lots, o1 ug 8 plot abot 75 by dear to the hearts of 4 which conid not bo carried otherwise or elsowhere. The aud 1oading idea was to protect the vessel by submersion, ed as & necessars platform for the New.York 40 years a cast corner of the State, aud the latter in its sonth. | pear the foot of ( ambridge-st.; N near the junction for the ! s th . t bt ) extromity, but both in the § evads Mountains, | ©f the Warren and Pitchburg Railrosd Bridges; No. 3is El'r'iil«-'“’. o the ereotion of o capacious buildiags for oflice | Fien sy SR Mol se"teo Lems Shere in 20 ewcatia) counaes g " | near the Scetional Dock on Bordersst., ton; No. 4 | P04 the east side of Broadway, between Walker and Canal. | tios. It is Guite possible to build s turret stip as hizh out of ¢ general course of the Sacramento is south-cast until | jy gt Arch Wharf in Broad-st.; No. 5 is a it of Loest. | ata, E. 8. Higgine & Carpet Manufacturers, aro con. | the Water as an old wooden frigate, for the turret prinoiple on with San Joaquin; that of the San | in South Bost and 615 at the South Pier of Do- flr.nunxnvrv{ large Their own nse, o the ground | i itself represents nothing but an improved method of cartye far # 4 By, rdgi v il b | verst. Bridge | formerly occuplod by pollo Ttooms. This building will | 1% guas upos pivots, Ary pivot gau protected by circalag after it issues from Lake Tulare, is nort ‘ith the exeeption of No. 5, theso bat ¢ | haven frontage of atwut 45 feet on Broadway, aud by means | iron balwaik would show the turrret systen of armament, 3 With the exeeption of No. 5, theso baths are flonting y From their junction, however, which takes place | gryctures, moored to the whar of i the rear of the ucfoluiag builiag, ¥l be about 160 Boarcely, ho'":‘l.hlldlh;:fllwwa oo "".I-‘! N 9 neise o & e 1 el feet square in the rear. The ay front will be of marble | new and epexpocted advan was 0 o sbout 50 milos east of San Francisco, their couzse is h the ¢ i iron, fours tories in Light. Gl Caiinon were ‘oreaght 1nto tse of o caliber and woight un due west to t point where they discharge their | Aveve Canalst., the buliding which formerly contained the | kuown before, and Yot 1o carnoon were t0o Leavy to be curried waters 1o {he" Bay ‘of ‘Bax Prancise, 'The Secrs helving shores, which render the con- | City Assembly Eooms, hss been remodelod, forming four, | in turrets. The Americans advanced from one = L e pat @ | @ s bath impracticable. Iarge five-story stores, occupying the eutire building. Ad- | ssotber il they A50-pou ns for soa servioe, Joaquin ere out 350 miles in | Now, let us take & trip through theso resorts of the great | Joiniog these, anotuer fve-story white marble store, 100 feet as they soou built their Monitors with two tarrots instead. length, and are navig cesscls, the one toSac- | unwashed. 10 depth, 18 Jnst completed. Oi the west side, near Grand-st., | 0ne, & elogle veasel conld carry, as the iantouonal does, four e ) o Y oh The Cambridgo-st. Bath at * the West Ead.” I hare sorge Codliug s preparing to put up & buikding 50 feet | of theso enorzmous pleces. In fact, it was in this particulr sape- ramento City, sud the other to Btockten, which stand just retarned from my first visit to it. The riso and fail Lk::‘., .,:n..,. above ‘;‘,“,,J<_I.“,. beiow, of fron snd .d" that '3, new ;,mr .m':.hm{:m af,“w{“l‘bn e P sam stance the ses J 2 : R e r | Nova-Scotia brown-stome. At No 496 again we find o five | is a natural presumption, other things being eq! - Dty S0 R Gt s g Ko o L some sight or ter, foct, 1018 1% | yiory” white marblo store, seatly oampleted. No. 510 s a | the biggest gun, and the biggest guns, beyond all doubi. were tributaries of the Sacramento are Pitt River, sud the | tide now, You descend some 20 foet down a ..m-q_n\g- similar stractare. On the site of Dr. Chapin's chureh, a large | 0 be found in turret ships. This orougtt tarret ships inte sod aro landed on the outside platform. Passing | store. x0 feet square, with an entrauce from Lroadway of 25 | notice, though not Juto fusbion, for maay and not qcite wares: her and American rivers—while the most important affluents of the § and Tuolumne rivers. The Colorado, the Sacramento, and the San Joaquin are the great channels by means of which the inbabitents mineral regions of the Far West hold communica n with the outside world, and transport their treasures Joaquiz sre the Mariposs, Mérced, are other modes of traveling to and from said regions than those which we have pointed out, namely, the great inland routes. From Salt Lake City, in Utsh, for instance, to Atchison in Kansas, there extends o vast stage line, over 1,200 miles in length, from the western extremity of which brapeh lines run in various directions—one due north for 44 miles to Virginia' City, Montana; snother porth-west for 450 miles to Boise's City in Idabo, while a third runs southwest by Virginia City, Nevada, aud Sacra- , mento City to San Francisco, o distance of 850 miles The average time of travel over these routes is at present as follows: from Atchison to Salt Lake City, 14 days, from Salt Lake @ity to Virgima City, Montans, and Hoise's City, Idabo, six dage; and from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, seven days, ere are also severul new routes in contemplation, rand Tronk ronte from Salt Lake City to Los Ange- Jos is n future to run through the Pah-Ranagat Valley, | insiead of by the old way of 8t. George, a change which will shorten the journey fally 100 miles, and bring the said distriet into immediate mail communication with all parts of the country. This route may be reached by lateral | roads from the various mining localities north and south, | From Salt Lake City a road has beeu already projected to | Caliville, on the Colorado, distant sbout 330 wiles, The voute in question will traverse Meadow and Pab-Kanagat | valleys, where have lately been found very extensive and rich deposits of silver, not more than 85 miles from Call- | ville. .While there is now before Congress o bill for im- | proving the navigation of the Colorado River, whieh, if } carried into effect, will mneh enhance the value of these | argentiferous valleys, as well as the importance of tho pro- ute, in the estimation of all persons connected at section of the Far West. Norm with o ut ¢ years, ca oli. out there, Wik roduce the period | batbers of vrnclicod swimers caa dive ko e niver and you see beyond the Superintendeat’s urrounded on all sides by littlo dress- ing-rooms. The bathing trough is 25 feet long by 15 wide and has an average depth of less than four fe At least 70 boys were stripped-—and loquacious—sa I entered the through a doorwa, T the wholesal build and u five in width, wili shortly be built by Shethan & Nichols for hat trade. Just above on the same side, John . Lawrence & Co., are learoom forcarrisges, On the ground of old St. Thomas's church, corner of Hous wonable were the misgiviogs eatertained of their sucoess. all the American turres sbips did, as & maiter of fact, the comparative sul eystem of armament, could live bmersion of their hulls with the tarred it was doubted whether snch vessele t ses or be made habitabls for their crews. oh doubts confined to this country of S of the Americau Navy t y structure, 25 by 100 feet, for & warebouse bath-room. One rule of these establishments was evie f . . i tou-at. aud Broadway, Messrs. Smith & Rice, now of Fulton. | Furope. The Secretary dently framed without expericnco and is destined 1o bo | 10" 4o Mtopariug to erect & mawwoth establisbment for the Teport. that the monitors could more honored in the brew .nmw the observance: *“No | yals of ready-made cloching. This building will be about 50 nj pe-—and, indeed, —three noisy conversation allowed ! by 125 feot. four of them had actually foundered, while it was thought But boys have no respect for such rules and regulations At No. 616, ilding for a long time ocpupied iu part by isablo in the case of others on active service to change ‘tios” eoncert 0, has beon ellln\' re- ir erews every toree or four More recently, bow- when their enforcemeint must Decessarily be a wattor of | the notorious * ‘L oice, W gt ! N modeled, and will be used for the sale of sew b ever, probably on aceount of improvements iatroduced, the choies. What o chuteiog crowd! Xo six doten partote | Biod L 0 L0 Lt o et o | Amarionsebavs Ve tosead thl mosirs o s, T3 % listen to this hubbub; for the voices w d ud of the old Stuyvesant Institate, will be occupied by | Monadnock went round Cape Horn into the Pacific and made e A g pices were ringing aud | Boiomon & Sonw and W. & J. Sloase, & description of whose | vory ood weather ofit; the Miantanomah Lias crossed tho At~ o [y ous exproasion of geniine enjoyment. | proposed building we givo below. laniic to our sbores, and, it is said, withoot any difficalty. Aud’ what s school of unstadi mnastics! Not 8ix | © At No. 6e#, Stepan & Son are erecting s threa-story building | Lh . are the ouly instaaces of snch idveatures, dozen monkeys could have devi o larger varioty of | to be oceupied by themselves as a restaurant. No. 731 18 to be and the two vessels are the newest specimens of the graceful postures and gamboling attitudes. Some wers | anotbor handsoue marbie-front store erccted by Job J. Ciaco, | ~These n--rhvln-lmnfm the trae points for fm- rusning round the pangway; others were sitting on the | Just below Thirt thest., Peter Lorillard is now building two | quiry outhe presout occasion. It should first be ascertained ailing some Wero clinbing up tho ropes that uro sus | RGOS, TSN, Soree sl of white marbe, s6sh ¥t e T e e e S s o A eet front et deep. 3 ':-l::miln I:;n::-:c‘:] :! ‘.x"-'v'al:"’-'fi-'fil’m'}"&: o-v:::ru pedisssia 7 Sambes of other butldings not bere specified are also fn | a8 an ordinary cruiser. Itis not ql-d’onlfl what nn o, a8 they dissppearcd from sight ; some were "immh?g procean of consiruction or alteration, bt those mentioned will poeeibiy be don by snch Tasmae 0n. simargeneies, bus of . ot evi ces e roads; others were hanging on to the ropes’ ends :-y they hc-:t:hn m::}zm :;r:l’n’l:’::l.flr eity, nnot view u’ form migit :onud With a turret , but w the maude their first squatic ossays in the practical problem of | the cbanges which are taking plsce without a faint tinge of re- | principle of submersion were also adopted the defensive - how to keep their heads above water—while many others | gret. Itis nounngwmaun 1o soe passing away old | vantages of the monitors would be iost. The sirengtb. for ja- were aequiring, nolens volens, their first experience in tho gnluunn which Lave beol anrks 10 our oity for & gen. | stance, of the Miantonowmah cousists not ouly ia ber 4:0-poand e g, A ol were G b co. | bl 420 cns i ont B e 1o hgusady f | £, bkt bt R0 S ch vt o em e v citi . g k b ."‘;‘::’n:‘l:‘:;;";‘;""" Eve leaped out of his side, stone wall and n-n;m-" squaro towers of St Thomau's Church. | the water sa she seems b0 be, but ber submersion is w0 groat % H the st anits of the “lustitute,” and ti some L she eppears VO B0 A dnunl ;i‘;'o b: I:;}md(::;‘h;‘_'l-fir:-mdw b": docr w.y'af'uri mmn'.‘-nu:u aye becn to «mum‘ou- -Aumr of interest is supplied u-n:lxg come aquatic Christians; while o ased on way for the jast 30 or 3 we | carrie ‘s turrets. Her guns uut of ther dressing-rooms wih ealger eyes of anticipation | wiss thom now ther are gone, And almost Tod1 omeaeivea ‘o | ers. but they boar bo Poseiabianoe to what & Lritiah gu on the chattering clins which bespoko ® felicity too long | bave grown suddealy older, as wo g:n at their vacant places. | be of that calibre, They are staped soda-water bottles, 0} re were only two Iuen auwiol oW They were not among the oidest buildicgs in the city, but nmmnn-bbhwv.fi—m-\nuub enjoyed. ‘There were only g this erowd o boys. But this 18 not & estimate of tho avel thei position and strueture made them notiosable, aad the ty, comparatively -nld?- of powder. z 'y £tho bathers, 1t was just after school-hours 'h“”l associations convected with them gave them s suggestion of lnm‘mmnnzunh- ‘.“vflu these &l 'h- r.scll::dm-ha;nlm nlboyl.onldonbh-qu"::k, fil'h u‘l‘:o # 60ib. - might be 3 Gemoustrated. They were on their Way to enjoy a froo the shares 1of the Dalenopbesls, 0 pompdersal® o 5 swim before ing home to supper. There was the Dahlgren prineipld as with the -r. never any lic institution 80 pOguhr with of our owa artillerists. We bave been left in the tho as ‘the public bath. Its ouly rival is dark sbout the actual power of the American nor cem tLe fireworks on the Fourth. Even the circus has wo tell now whether mlmn may “r‘“ Jesser charms. O some days, as many 85 1,500 and 2,000 .-lhpl-u_ :‘:‘ oy {:un - 3 bathers—tho larger portion of them boys—have visited .mum"w‘mn usel. e ‘.% this single bath, The Superintendent told me that he be- o “:{s.. L The Lieved it would bo necessary to issue tickets, without stint, 0 the beads of families, in ‘order to prevent Lh;{unnnlm from coming oftener than once & day. Some the little gaming visit the bath aud swin a8 frequently s four or five imes. 3 il stor made the Vestry. Although the top of the bath 1s not covered over, there e v Cornelius 1€ Daffy was the Srst §s 8 V enetian screcn on tiie roof whieh provents the pase | o 5. ied to kiis charge on the 174h of Febr sengers on the horse cars and the pedestrians o the bridgo | 4, day of March, le4, the sacramony o from seed; tea At the or 8ide thero | ws firat adrainisterca in this church by the Rev Dr Bersi . The opportanity is an esoel's for showing bow pe- 18 an arraugement by , with being seen, adult | Trisity Choreh, and 19 communicauts partook of it ural ad cordial the amity between the two nations oughi te » y Tn P 4 cluced was fgebla (o 1ty youts, wud (e uaiies of {uos e, aud W (ryst i AT 40} 0o gOWed 10 pasy