, 1870-08-25

pose to l0ok At the 6ea, and now that I'm mere |
guess I'll Just enjoy IN hour Of it, /
looked, and looked, and there left him, = |
delighted Wotshipper. He will. perhaps, 20
home to tell his 6oys how 1t sounds, how it
1oa1s, how the boats gallop On It, how the land
on itaverge wears naked look, "a II smitten BY
it's gales. What noble pleasure 1t is to see
reverent man and nature introduced to each
other II ali empire goes weatward all pill
gnm1ge goes toward the east.
A NEW zEAIANDEn At SARATOGA
Another quaint incident Of the summer was
to meet an Epglishman, fresh from New Zea-
land, in the crowd at Saratoga. lily friend
North1up. editor Of tho Syracuse Courier,
found him at Fort Ticonderogs, !" froze" TO
Mm, and tTeated him Hospitality. He had
come direct from New Zealand, tho most iso-
latod habitable land probably in the world
70 the Sandwich Islands, thence to San Fran
cisco, Chicago, Montreal, and Saratoga. A
member Of the Courc1 and IN attorney at
Auckland, he Was now, after seventeen yeara'
absence, about to 80 straight to Yorkshire to
sec his friends ind fix his property. Ho
WAS about 40 years OF age, Of flowing
anndy hhir, tail man, 1Ten-formed and we'll
bred, and his name was Johnstone. It ia not
in the nature Of an EngGshman TO be enthu-
siastic over another mans country; bnt
Northrup told me that he had been coerced
into an expression OF surprise at the size Of
LUZ HH41A1Q IEGIJ l1Ql641 AuA tu1L WuSu
he came to Saratoga he said:
"God bleas my aoul! Why 'ere's pair Of
tayerns bigger than the other one!"
suggested to him that good device for
the state shield Of bis colony would be u New
1ea1ander standing On broken arch Of LON
meyer heard Of Aacaulay's picture Of such q
pe1sonaGe.
Ho conceived that the growth of the United
States over New Zealand Was solely dne
to the one State encouraging lmni-
grafton. and the other positively, for
very good road, indeed, but the engineering
obstacles attending the building Of it he pooh
poohed. The Rocky Mountains we're merely
gently ascending slopes Of successive terraces,
and in two hours the whole p1ecipitous part OF
the Sierra Neyndas was passed over. The
social management OF the road waa, however,
very 1epuguaut to the EuElishmau:
No rtlvacyi Nothing done to separate the
gentlemen from the incursions OF hundreds Of
blarsted miners and ruffians. They cursed and
spit, and paraded their dirtT, unshaved faces
III the first-class carriages, you know. It was
shameful. It was awful"
San Frnncisco be admitted to be finer city
than Sidney or Melbourne. Chicago, (which he
pronounced with the accent onthe trst syllable,
Chich-ago), he said wes rousing place, built
well. Montreal he disliAed. He heard Orson
Pratt preach, and vaa sorely moved to request
permission to reply.
New Zealand, he said, WAS languishing for
want OF common sense government and
proximnte markets. A whole sheep could be
bought there for two shislings. Tho Pan anna
want Of support. Nevertheless, he wanted
me to advocate the United States substituting
\ new line to his province by way of the
Sandwich Islands. New Zealand WAS the
worst faxed country in tho world, having a
debt Of thirty million pounds sterling to 10
hetA f,xf L.
created in the Maori war, which he thought
tsgrantly unjust, and waged to get the
residue lands Of the natives. The Maoris
had whipped miiitia md British regulars with
war clubs and spears, and had not been con-
que5cd but half annlhilatod. He consld-
cred his own seventeen years thero good
As wasted, but was, nevertheless, going back
Like real Briton, he loved the a1istocracy,
fercely denounced the Irish Land bill, said
England was humiliated by it, and English
men ashamed Of their country. and to my
suggestion that tho laws Of entail and primo
geni,ure ought to be abolished, he urged 3
1usty s1efenco of them, and said that = The
damned cotton -Hpinnera did not know how to
use good piece Of land" He had examined
the United States land laws by which land ia
acquired by settlers,. and was satisfied that
they were ridiculous, involved. and. in practice,
broken every day He thought the greateat
American who ever lived was Fennimore Coop
CT, and regretted that he had not the time 10
make pilgrimage to his home and grave,
Such was my New Zcalander, p1acid1y survey
ing tho gay world of Saratoga
TIE NEW Y0RE YACHT FLEET.
/ While at Block Island we had fine view Of
the New York yachts racing over from New
port. They {had to turn buoy at Block
leland and return to the harbor OF tho other
place. The scene is not always an animated
one, for these yachts arc frequently becalmed
for hours, and scarcely seem, with all then
clouds OF sail. to move their own length. On
| this occasion they were under full speed, now.
| ever, and came plunging and bellyiug down
the ocean, rocking up and down, their hulle
scarcely more noticeable, under their canvas
than the body Of white butterfly under itt
wingr. Tho sport Of yachting is its buoyancy
it's tact, its freshness, tho unimpedel roadway
on which 1t exercises, the la1geness Of iti
mauunyres, and the nearly absolute power o.
art in its vehicles. The yacht-owners, as gen
eral rule, are no more the yachtmen than thu
| owners OF celebrated horses are thei
jockeys. 10 love the sea aud to take pleas
ure in = vessel, is Of course to know aomo
thing about handling it; but our accreditot
yachtsmen are commonly young mon Of lei
sure. wealth, and physical e1uberance, wh
spend their large pocket money in boats. Th
Daunt1ees probably costs Mr.. Bennett $50 90
year, and there is no yacht in the New Yo1
squadron which can be run for less tha
$4,000 the yachting season. The real Car
tains Of the vessels and the crews are sailor
who are hardly heard Of in the reports c
l races and regattas. GATH.