The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-20
YoNxERs, N. Y, Sept. 10, Is

YoNKERs n " Sept. 10, 1S48
Up the H~dson-Scenery-Mr Forests Castle.
Saw'st thou the castle that beetles over
The wine dark sea
The rosy sunset clouds do hover
Above 1t 80 godenly
From the German of INLAND.
Up the Hudson Soon this will be great an object
OF ambition the Of taste, and Of much inter-
est to the traveller, sup the Rhine" AS tits,
doubt the latter river boast Of attractions
than our own noble Hudson. In point Of majestic
beauty it is greatly inferior From the moment you
this onet yillsge the varied which meet the
eye TEEN with interest From every wharf you pass,
steamers shoot out bearing their crowds of weary
siness- men TO the quiet retreats to be found
the rivers banks. Lumber-laden river craft fly UP
and down. their white sails gstenDg in the SUM- and
the 1.-the spaIs bending to the gentle breeze. On
side is tn. great town teempg with vitality stretch
ing for miles up the river ana on the other the qet
shades Of Hoboken and the Jersey shore covered with
mag nifcept yerdure. Anon leaving the city behind
the New York bank of the river dotted with
tasteful cottages and mag nifcent vias-whe on the
other side the lowlyshuts Of the fishermen
ing like anti hills by the aide Of those immense rocks
Who will say that the Hudson is devoid Of interest
Every little and inlet has its romantic legend Of
revolutionary strife the old regime of the sturdy
Knickerbockers. The humorous historiographer OF
that nearly extinct race has pleasant villa Hast
ings and some Of the descendants of those whom he
has immortaized have exhibited their taste in erect
ing costly mansions on the rivers bank
Neither will the Hudson be deficient in that feature
which lends TO the Rhine much of interest-its
castles About two miles south Of Yonkers, Mr..
Forrest the celebrated tragedian is building CASTLE
lecture that attracts the attention Of ali who pass up
and down the river. The building consists of six
other, the bsttlements of some being notched with
embrasures and those Of others capped with solid
corniced coping The highest the staircase tower will
rise about sxtyve seventy feet from the base The
Others named the centre tower the main tower the
library tower the drawing tower and the dining
room tower The basement will contain the kitchen
W he he draw linz
room, dining ROOM study. boudor, and library. The
centre tower will comprise rotunda. or hall, and
above this hall picture gallery lighted from the dome.
The upper rooms to be divided into chambers and
servants apartments The stairc tower contains
column rising the baseme mt to the top Of this the
highest tower and containing landings on each floor
leading to the principal apartments. The picture.
gallery will contain some of the rarest specimens of
art and the library will be enriched it is said with
works in civilized tongue. The interior WILL of
course, be fitted up in style of magnihcence CON-
xpepsurate With the wealth and taste Of the owner
The chse Of the sculptor and the pencil of the artist
viii doubt. be literally employed to make, it in
beauty Of detail equal to the grandeur of the general
design.
This design is Of Mr. Forests own conception.
The castle as have said combines both the Norman
snd Gothic styles sofened in Of their details
as TO embrace some of the Injuries of modern improve.
meDts. Fer instance. the drawing room aud dining
room lighted with deep. square, bay windows
while those Of the upper chambers and of the boudor
are OF the Gothic order; and in other portions Of the
building are to be seen the rounded windows Of the
viding the compartments again into pointed Gothic
lcopholes and buttresses not wanting giving the
building the appearance of regularly fortified castle
4 here are two entrances one on the land, and the
ctber on the water side each opening into the octago
nal hall OF the centre tower. The window Of the
drawing room looks out the river while that of the
dining room locks the land in the opposite direc-
lion
The site chosen for this castle, although from its
small elevation rendering the building invisible at any
,iest dttaDce, has nevertheless, the advantage Of
commanding an extended prospect up and down the
river From the tops of the staircase tower
~ lar 81 Sing Sing side, and Staten Island
TIE ether On the opposite shore frowns the gloomy
ws. 81 the Palisades, rising prec pitousy from the
rivsxs bank. On the north lie Yonkers and Hastings
and Nyack and the pretty little inlet called Tappsns
Bay and the village of Piermont-the cottages Of the
latt,r glste ming like white shells on the shore in the
distance. small headand runs out opposite the
tie forming with the angle OF the rivers bank little
cove where bat ng and boat houses are to
be erected. This little cape, which is covered with
Trees Is cut OF from the lawn by the track the Alba
n railroad Over the cut which is' thirty feet in
DEPTH there will be thrown rustic bridge connects
the beach with the grounds
The castle is built immense bed Of silicious
Qranite Of grey coior of extraord nary hardness,
and much III er grain than the common Boston gra-
mite This 10 the material Of which the walls are CON-
peeed II is obtained from quarry, about quarter
of mile distant and Is also found, understand, on
Staten Island With the exception OF the windows,
doors. cornices, and coping, the stone used in
the walls Ia merely hammer dressed. and pointed
with grey cement. The design Of the building is GER
taiply original Nost castles consist of centre build
ing, hspked with towers MIR Forests castle doubt
less like the many lowered causelot" of Tennyssn Is
composed Of nothing but towers presenting Sc,
o very unique and very picturesque appearance.
GALvIENSIS.