New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-28


have observed for himself, that ia just such proper.
ton as we stop the sale of Sunday, do we
secure public order and personal comfort. The re.
turns sent in yesterday almost blank. There has
not been Sunday report for ten years free from
account. of violence aud debauchery. Once establish
the full execution of the law 10 this matter, and the
benefits will be SO manifest and important that the
people will forever thereafter maintain the good work.
SUMNER REs0RTs.-The various rural resorts in the
vicinity of the city have assumed their usual Summer
gayety All the hotels ard boarding houses in New
Rochelle, Rye, Stamford, Yonkers, Lake Mahopac,
Red Bank, Shrewsbury Long Branch, Keyport,
Oceanpo, Rockaway, &c, are nearly full, and by the
close of the present week it is expected they will be
crowded. Visitors to any all of these resorts will
have ocular demonstration that that portion of our
citizens who usually spend the Sumner months out Of
town have not all gone to Europe the present
in quest of health or pleasure.
A VIsIr TO GOVERNORS IsLASD.-The Govern
melt have taken great pains to put this station in
complete order, although il is understood that they
will probably have occasion to use it, as the var
GUS forts below, at the NarOws, can soon be put in
such state of defense as TO keep back all enemies.
On Saturday last We vifited the Island for the
purpose Of examining the different Notifications
and the mechanical departments. On arriving, we
called upon the commander, and were conducted
to Fort Columbus which overooks the whole
of New-Yo,k Bay. The main building through
which all persons are obliged to pass before en-
terng the fort is of granite, very strongly built, and
of fine architecture. dome decorates the top rising
about ten feet above the building In this building is
large and choice library amounting to twenty thou
card books, printed in the English and German Ian
gusges. Here the soldiers, when off duty, generally
spend the greater part Of their time in reading. Fort
Columbus is the largest fOrtifcation the Island,
mounting at the present time seventy gus of heavy
caber On the north eide Of the fort there TWEEN.
ty-fve 42-pounders, capable of throwing shot three
miles. These guns are ranged by elevating screws,
which enable the gunner to get q fair sight There
are also Elk hOwitzers of the largest kind which will
throw 75-pound shell one mile and half. On
the south eide of the fort there are six 2i.pound-
ers, and ,everal smaller guns for throwing chain
and grape shot, In the middle Of the fort is oven,
built of brick for the purpose Of heating balls It
about ten feet long and five feet in width. The time
required to heat the balls is fifteen minutes. They
then drawn out by implement made for the purpose
dropped into iron basn and carried to the gun. They
are then forced into the by rammer all which
is done in less than a minutes time. -Four
quired to work gun, and when under good headway
they can FIRE one shot every minute. Toe scaling wall
is built Of granite three feet in thickness and thirty
feet in blight Around the fort is an entrenchment ten
feet wide and several hundred feet in length which
would be difficult for an enemy to scale if landing
should be effected. At the west end Of the island i,
the castle which is constructed Of the trap rock four
feet in thickness, with four tiers Of portfolios. The
guns here as large those in Fort Columbus, and
are worked upon the same principle. The Government,
however, intend to remove these guns aud mount
others larger csber. In the castle several bar
Tackrooms, which aIe occupied by new recruits. They