The New York herald., 1868-06-08

10 tired and crowded population like that OF sks
metropolis It Is no small consideration when Sunday
comes TO have the facility OF being steamed out OF
town into fresh winds aud green surroundings
Thanks to the enterprise OF boatmen this desIders
tum ~ elaboratey and amply provided for. There
is no occasion for even the poor man to fret away
this welcome day OF rest amid hot walls and burning
pavements for the fares to inviting points In every
direction are within the means OF almost everybody
Thesteamboat Neversink for example, inspiring by its
very name confidence in the compactness Of ts
hull even to the most timd. paddles from Peck sp
to College Point, whitestone. City Island. New
Rochelle and Glen Cove all or which are places, to
say the least, OF individual merits Then there are
TWO cool and attractiveiy named steamboats, tho
from the point ply the Harlem river as far
tlixh Bridge, Harlem aud Earl's Park. Then there
s tne sunday passenger boat for Newark the Thomas
2. Way. which leaves Barclay street for Bergen
Point ana Newark twice on that day.
Again .a.,s. the ,ea9ubtanle Is , gp Van winxie.
day morning excursion TO New borg, Yonkers, DObbs'
Ferry, Hayerstraw, Cozzens' West Point6 Cold
Spring and Cornwall. He she ieayes from the foot
Of Chambers street. North river. The steamer
Thomas T.. Huise. from Christopher street. visits
Shady Side Pleasant Valley and Fort l.N white tho
Thomas Collycr q Sunday morning boat for New
burg, leaves from the foot OF Warren street ana
sea"s to YonEss as asss sinc RoSes Fey rng
Cold Spring and Cornwall. The Ella Nav leaves Peck
sIip Cor College Point City Island aud New Rocheile
u
brief general outline Of Sunday excursi0hs that
the most peculiar ana fasd0,s taste for pleasure OF
this description may be grstiaed. At this time OF
year the 'cafy month Of June - when earth laughs
out and the ields are studded with delicate hpwert
bearing a ''look SO like smt'e," the country
Is attractive and when pasements are 80
hot, streets SO sultry and rooms and
houses oven-ke, they become positively repeilan'
with these two forces operating In the same direc
tion, and with plane smooth and level a. river.
with swift steamer to ply 1t, extending between
the wish and its cOnsummatiOn it s not strange tbat
the accessible inviting vcinities are 80 crowded on
Sundays or that the bOas ara 80 amply patrOnized.
The psychology Of Sunday trip Is perhaps more
suitable to the metaphysics OF q "garret ghOul. "
though this may be said Of II even by practical
edged thinker-t throws the mind of, its potss
OF routine, care and business, and gives it
sr.. SSsnce 10 0sc'ate d,ses tSpogout R"rs H.
soul . SUBTLE silent, pervssve cheer which is
felt. giving the pulse q happier neetness for many
days afterwards IL ornaments the halls or memory
with scenes by the great artist, which time may
dim and blur little, as does the thinning Of the
best masters but which nevertheless exist and stu
hold forth their charming sugge6tiveness 70 the ad
miratOn Of the soul In It's tui moments Of leisure.
An occasional Sunday excursion Ia valuable ~
unct health and ought to be enjoyed for this pracu
cal benefit. even IL II were not Its own sufficient re-
ward,