The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-15
Matterr in New York.

sition up to the time of his death. % Gi-lrr
it .lT Matters in New York. %
Summer season and Summer retreats-A,ani-
. rersary Beecher's NoUel-hobert Bon
ia ner Bennett and Barnunt- Scion Robinson
A Mob-Neao Noyet-Mdrk Ttcain. Fafz4 r.
.1 aa s5.as. a New YORK, May 10, 1867. Il
To the Editor of the Press -3.,,-,i- v
What is called the Summer Season." after
good deal Of delay, has just commenced
The air coming down from the Highlands" is
really little temperized and less icy. Yester-
day was a glorious Sunday-earth, air and
ocean, field, eadow and hillside in the warm
sunlight Joined in a general jubilee. The pleas
ant summer resorts in the vicinity of New
York are beginning to attract the crowds who
long for fresh air and fresh fields and the in
vigoration of Natures universal panacea. Nc
country in the world is better or more beauti-
full than the surroundings of this city Nature
has been lavish in her adornments. We have
river bay and ocean, hill, dale and valley
cheap railroads and cheap steamboats,; the
poor man at a mere trifle Of expense may take
himself and children into the beauties of the
country. The principal points OF summer re-
Oenha al Park, Staten Island, Couey Island
Harlem, High Bridge, Hoboken and the High
lands, Greenwood, and up the Hudson. Thou
sands yesterday were off in each direction 1t
is good to go to church; but in large cities it is
rather expensive, and we are not at ali sur
prised to find what, an immense majority Of
the people, in every way faultless as to appear.
ance and dress, give the churches the go-by and
worship God in the open air. nbt'a bus III
Anniversary Week" is over. The good PEG
pie of the country have had good time. a
great many good things have been said and
the Christian heart warmed up for new and
flesh inroads into the kingdom of Satan. The
good time coming has been ascertained te
be near at hand, and before many years we
may expect men, women and childrep TO be Oh
the tip-top wave of the glorious millennium.-
The houses and hearts of the New Workers
have been open for a week to the clergy. They
have enjoyed it, no doubt; at any rate, we have
had some of tho bes of speeches, to say moth
. t@s ~bDat some ridiculous anniversary speech
es necessary to have to laugh about. On thu
Whole 1t has been good time for all concern
ed. 1t is well for the relisis-- wurrd to come
and see for themselves what is to be done fol
poor humanity right here at home. fE1g 70 z
70 The first part of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's novel has appeared. There is some
disappointment in the opening chapter of Nor
wood" Without the name of "Beecher' il
would be decidedly "tame.'e atr.-.., III 4
Robert Bonner, proprietor of the Ne,D YORK.
Ledger, is really the great actor in this 'sensa
ton" affair. Fifteen years ago, the amount O
his ready cash in hand probably did not reacf
$25. Now, he is reputed to be immensely
wealthy. With a lavish hand he puts in the
pockets of celebrated authors, thousands OF
dollars-pays the daily papers $500 or 81 600 tor
a page of "pufs offers S25,OO0 to pay the ma
tIonal debt fires a hundred guns on the Park
in honor of a. circulation of $50O,000 copies OF
his paper-and drives the best span of horses
on the avenues. He is now about As years old,
and some twelve years ago was a compositor
in the office of Fuller's Daily Mirror. The Led
ger was run down affair, when, by the assist
ance of few friends, he took possession of it
He came to New York from Hartford, Conn.
where he learned the trade of printer in the
office of The Courdnt. When he got possession
of the Ledger he immediately i'Estruck- out
and hired Fanny Fern nd Sylvanus, Cobb to
write for his columns at prices which, it was
said, would ruin him. But somehow he struck
the popular heart--adve rtised magnificently
what he was doing with The Ledger -and-has
been succeeding ever since. He is shrewd
man. For year or two past, he has met
strong competitors in weekly literature, and
The Ledger had commenced a decline. Its I'M
mense circulation was running down. He then
conceived the idea of entering another career
OF money-making through the great reputation
of Beecher, and he has done It'll The Ledger
will RUN up an fmme nse circulation for a year
or two to come, and Bonner will then be able
to retire millionaire. NJ, - ~" o,o.rq,
did not mean to say that the lot for the
Herald building cost 100000, as the compost
tor had it. 1t should read 100000 And here
was one OF the causes of the quarrel between
Bennett and Barnm. Bennett bought the
LOT soon after the Museum was burned down
for S5oO,000, He afterwards found some claims
on the lot which he says Bafnum did not dis
close, and intimated that he got cheated They
nave been at swords point ever since, and dur
ing the late Congressional election thousands If
copies OF the Herald were thrown broad cast in
Barnums District to help defeat him for Con
gress. 70, -.. lst s.t...,,. Ell, 1Di -2 @9aD il u
Scion Robinson, the great "plouqh. sb.,re''
editor of the Tribune, to whom L alluded in
my last, meant to say is not at home in nov
el-writing HMa-win-i-tocY is failure. ,Acri-
culture is his forte He is avery antique-look-
ing gentleman, with long white hair and beard
proud as Lucifer, and Industrious as. an ant.
A mob was expected in Few York yesterday
owing to the Superintendent Kennedy's order
for the indiscriminate closing of all places of
business of Sunday. A perfect organization
was found to be in existence to resist The exc
cuton OF the order, and ON Saturday it was
oouhoernanded The shutting up of the liquor
SHOPS on Sunday has been successful; but this
was stretch OF authority the people were de-
@rihihed 10 resist, although he exempted the
Jews, whom heallowed to open their sbons ON
SUNDAY because they closed them ON Satn,-
day. t.. - 1''''ui1
n new novel In imitation of Beecber 10 an
nounced by CORY O'Lanus' of the RroolTI.,
Edge. Ills to be entitled "Basswood or VII
lage Life in New Jersey" 1t opens with
beautiful description of Hackensack meodo,,.,,
and romantic swamp. The first cbanter i
idyllic; the second, spasmodic; the third id;7
otto; the fou-sh chaotic. The opening illustra-
ton is view of the gable eud of Eastwood
log cabin by moonlight. 1t also has vignette
portrait of Jerusha, whe, to make short work
OF it, is married off to the hero Hezekiah, a
young man who devotes his existeDce to chop
ping wood and struggling with Jersey mosqui-
toes. '.f
MARK IVAN" the celebrated California hui
m rist' is here lecturing ON the Sandwich Is
lands. He leaves in June on the great excur.
trip of Capt. Duncan to the HOLY Land in the
steamship Quebec City Twain is a no,rro1
humorist, in many respects exceiling the late
Artemus Ward. He is a finished gentleman
in style quaint and taking, and wherever he
goes draws like plaster, NASSAU