, 1873-08-05
Cape May---A Sacred Concert The
Beaoh---West Jersey and
tho Quakera.
Mackinac.--i Proposed National Park-'-The
Objects Of Interost-.'llow Two CHI
cagoans Got q Rusking.
Tie Catskif|s-.-Views from Overlook
Mountain---president Grants
Recent Visit.

From Our 0ten Correspondent.

CAPE MAY.
Eron1 Our 0sn Correspondent. ..
oArE MAY, N. j., July 81, 1873.
The devil retoicoa at tho coming Of summer,
for then 1t Ia his season. Restraints nro put
away; oil and water mingle; worthless young
mon got opportunity to turn tho 1eada Of ro-
spectacle wlyoa; tho married mon spend much
of tho day solashly in tho bar-roon1; aud good
womon, we'll protocted, but weary Of tho mon-
otony Of responsibility and monogamy, lear
words from choice acqunintancos which, II put
IN aoenc in q novel, would sound shocking.
"Why don't you write novel, Jasper7" aays A
to J "you have scon enough" "That's tho
reason don't write tho novel;" snys Jasper.
Around these groat Aotels. particularly In tho
:Middlo-Stato climate, there
LoITER Set
Of young mon, and oldor ones as we'll, who 1urk
tu wait for foolish women. 1t makes no differ
once to thorn IL they loao their timo and garno.
It thoy do lose both thoy kill tino, which
is worth nothing to thcm, and get pre-
toxt j. for llttlo calulnny, which tho
woman never hears, but Which sails around In
yisib]y, almost inauaibly III tho air. like niasn,a
or Yellow-Jacls, to kill tho subject of 1t. Whoth-
u this waywartlneas Is tho fruit Of tho carnal
heart, Of tho perpetual uovol-reading which is
going Oh all round theso great inns, Of the mix
ing Of single women and their ynrns about
lovers, Of married women who can no more hayo
two lovers than two Redoonlers to aavo thom, or
Of whatever, it is tho eaddest, worst aspect OF
cur society. It is playing with powder 1t ID
experimenting with poison never 500 young
girl with her head full Of lovers; doop in tho cou-
fldonce Of q young married. woman but I know
that had tune Is being playad In that young
wifo'a ear. The lifo she ID leading slips it's lar
ness little eo}f-rospoct rolaxes peg obliga-
ton feels for the first timo onoroua and the maid
ia stronger than tho wife, because Rhc may DO
right in her coquetry, and 90 on with it freely
mud unchnllenged.
This il good placo, however, to bo If you
like
Tn1s KIND OF THING:
daily bath, threo-quarters Of an hour long, in
the fsinges OF the ocoan, coquetting with Etor~
nifty. For tho rest, treating Honlobody or being
treated, in our loud American fashion sitting
around tho piazzas md swapping gossip; taking
ride once day, and fighting tho big-bcllied
flies which settlo on tho nag like nail-hoads.
That is about all. There ia music tbroo timer O.
day, and must Say Of the music, ut the placo
where food, that it is moro pleasing to mo thau
I can describe. Sometimes I climb up into tho
music stand to Hoo how thoy make 1t 80 vol.
Tho big fiddler mods at mo, and three of tho
little filllorB Rpeak in epattoring English. Tho
futc-blowor fngors his stops with nddi-
tiopal diligence; and Hassler, tho londor,
alleges that 30 much encouragement quito un-
norvoH him. tako 1t oil in good part and ho-
hayo quite seriously and wisely, and do not
know ono noto OF music from tho other To mo
there is bowildoring charm in the whole per-
fo1mance as Boe it out Of tho blessed roalm Of
ignorance, anl ! feel like one hearing charm
Which lie cannot intorpret. But tho divinity is
thore, and who can full to approhend it2
I,ust Sunday night, they gave d
SACRED Bu1sch1pIIoN~coNcERT
on tho lawn Of Congress Hall. Several thousand
people woro out there in tho cool sea-air. filling
sEimbo' etc., apd looflng as the programme. I
snw beethoven. Schubert, and all the fantastic
much for mol" But, at tho waving Of the wand !,
hear6i almost tho tho articulate trumpct-worts
Of a hymn mover suspected to be Of any scion
tifio value:
All hail the power o. Jesus' nan,ei
Let angals prosrate fall
Then tho colo players drow the groat hosanna
down to D sweet atrain as Of courtesy aud aside
directions:
Bring forth the roya, dtadesn;
And my friend with tho bnss-tlrum, pounding at
QYGry Woru nS II cannon HGEo Doing 1IGa 0u y
great occasion, mado tho last limo reHound:
And crown him Lord Of ali.
Tho leader Of tho orchestra was Hebrew, hut
there is no theology In art. and ho corrected him
solf presently By, giving Us plenty OF judaism, al
.,1he croation," etc. felt tho grandeur o. o.
will, the daily music of light waltzes and pulling
airyia1ns from nlen-1noukeys like Cnenbach
aud it WIS oxcollont 10 know that these religious
chords awoke responses in more breasts than hat
ever gathered to hear tho music OF frlvolity.
CnuRou-9O1N1
is plonsure Of this place, also; There arc
many churches very vol attended, and tht
Babbath-air is purified aa II by = molodout
Gay and grave. saying " Come II health fai
Eforls." Efa'l ~ '' "'''''A''S' N'''' 49,
Those who go to church come back witi
Bwceter expressions. You cnn tell them by no1
gentloneBs and serouity. Many of them ba!ho
also, after churoh-hours; for, il your OK fall int
the ditch Of d Sunday, Us he must havo dono t.
be pulled out, according to tho parable Why no
an invalid man fall into tho slrf7 There
Al! That bathl How hara it Is to writo abou
1t when you can tako it. Sensible woman thR
"neyer told her love" in the poem, but loyoe
correspondent until wo got Quo who
WRITES NOTHING Ar ALL.
Gfy conception of tho dignity OF tho newspaper
buBinoBs- I throw this hint out to th
Nation, which is concerned on the sub1ect.-if
that IN elegant writer ought to get large salary
md be allowed to bo perfectly idlo. He ongl
to pad wear an eyo~glaaa, carry come Gree
proot-sheots in his hand, and send his bills t
tic office. That's tho kind Of man I would i
willing to DO, particularly at The seaside. othe
people have those privileges. They play poke
In Hmall back room at tho end of q dark hall
they 70 OF aud fish for swapping maokerel the
look IL ut the ottice-window whore I am poggin
away, producing perhaps three lines in tn
hours aud boratiug my woful condition, aud II
mark:
''Thoro's poor old Gath still at it !"
Let us pass from these sud reflections. II
us 70 down to tho beach, aud 900 tho poopl'
and perhaps postpone this letter which no ha'
been 80 long lon1dering in.
THE BEACH HERE
ia hard and wido enough for tllirty-nay, Nifty
wagons to triyo upon It at low wator. You ca
drive from Gold Spring Inlet tn tho ocoat', t
the ataalnhQ1t- landing OH Delaware l}aY.-A dt