The New York herald., 1874-10-27
The vALC0URIANS.
Free Love on Valcour
Island.
Matrimony, Limited Copartnership
and Dissolution.
THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM
High Priestess White and Her
Promiscuous Philosophy.
"ls Woman a Dog to Wear
a Collar
THE PR0PAGANDISTS PARADISE
Children Not to Bear the SurnameS Of
Father or Mother.
sBrother" Woodhouse and "Stster"
Charles.
"Is Woman a Dog to Wear
a Collar {"
THE PRopAGANDIsTS PARADISE
Children Not to Bear the SurnameS Of
Father or Mother.
sBrother" Woodhouse and "Stster
Charles.
ISLAND OF vALcoUR.
IN UPPER LAKE CHAMPLAIN, Oct. Is, t81

ISLAND OF NALCOUh,
IN UPPER LAKE CHAMPLAIN, Oct. Is, 1874
II was a small but strongly built little steam
boat the A. Williams, Damed.after some rich iron
dealer who dwelt in Plattsburg, that pushed It's
way from behind the breakwater at Burlington,
On Lake Cnampiain. All tue chief towns on this
lake have breakwafers to shelter their very scanty
commerce. and the Burlington breaKwater has on
each end OF the structure lighthouse or. more
properly speaking beacon, TO light the way for
the mariners who have trading TO do between
Vermont aud New York or the Canadian
border At night. as the steamboat ploughs Its
nntirlng way through the deep waters OF this
noble lake. these beacons be seen on every
utting point, and by their red lights the
pilots are enabled TO thread the watery
paths that lead to Crown Point, Ben-
son. Ticonderoga, Burlington, Snelburne,
Port Kent. Larrabee. orwell, Plattsburg, Essex
and Rouse's Point. These lights afar or look
like vivid glowworms, and it may be interesting
TO know that the keepers Of the ighthouses-I do
not refer TO beacons which do not require any
more attendance than is given to city street
lamps-receive 5000 year and iuel, with quar- ters
for their wives and families. providing tnat the
light keeper has any family to put in quarters.
AN ISLAND STUDDED LAKE.
] question If there be sheet OF water In
the domain of the United States thar is
~ "SA 1lu iiSuiJ Pio'iHcu wAsu io.oAsAS
IS Lake Champlan; and, therefore, as far as
secuslon ana romantic surrounding scenery
can render q location desirable, there can
not be any doubt but tnat the Free Lovers who
have settled on valcour Island have chosen well
and wisely. Some OF the Islands IN Lake Cham-
plain have as l am informed day by the honest
faced and sturdy looKlng captain OF the A. VIII.
lams, Dut few equals in the States for good soil,
close cultivation and happy homes.
"You may rely upon Il, slr,n remarked Captain
White, as we stood on the forward deck OF the
little steamer now gliding at quite furious rate
through the water .Tnere isn't many island,
In the world TO beat North Hero and South Hero
for fne farms, good farmers and comfortable farm
houses. Why. sir they raise anything on
these islands, and the Iruit tnat they grow is a
caution to see. am told roo, that Valcour Island
s very ricn soil, and f these Free Lovers get II
ana work it right they viii have splendid place
TO live on.n
The traf1c on these Champlain boats is a pecu-
dar one. There is none OF the hustle and nurry
and noise that you may discover iurtner South,
and the laborers or deck hands are nearly all
French Canadians Point after point forms in the
and bay after bay OF blue, glorious blue water,
stretch out their arms lovingly to the mental en-
brace OF the sightseer or tourist. The traveller,
hurrying through to Montreal by night on Lake
Champiain. has opportunity Afforded him to OBJ.
serve the beauties or the Lake. for when DAY
breaks he Is summoned 10 breakfast and
be nears that he has reached Rouse's
Point, the end OF his winter journey. Going south,
Il his trip be By night be also loses the views OF
AXE ana mountain. But In the broad, open and
glorous September dag, with the arched blus
dome above. as it now hangs over .my head, with
put one deck or spo-, what can be 1neri Not
even Italy can afford . clearer atmosphere tnan
this. and no itallan air was ever pure and
Draclng. And on BOARD or this little steamer,
which Is bound Tor Piattsburg and Grand Isle,
with number or stoppages on the way at differ
ent points, the passengers seem feel the effects
Of the air, and the ladies, notice. are Ali pre-.
pairing to wrap themselves warmly.
THE rRREpREssIBLE DRUMMER
There are PROBABLY about forty people on
board, among whom are types or various kinds.
There Ii the true Yankee drummer, keenest OF the
human race, snarp-vsaged. smartly dressed
young man OF twenty-five whose head rom too
close attention TO the rise and fall in unoleacned
muslins and coarse Manchester p-Inss has become
quite bald on the top. This young man has
smattering OF everything in the world but, ike
ali his drumming race, he knows nothing well ex.
ccptng the hours for the arrival and departure OF
railroad trains and steamboats, TO and from the
different places where he has to make trade for
his employers. What mourniul, miserable look
these wretched drummers have, to be sure Al
ways on the wing and always eating from home az
hotel tables, they finally obtain stomacns like 10
that belonging TO the ostrich, and they all have .
theory that everything IN the world should be
measured by the yard or weighed by the pound.
There IL o middle-aged woman with a brace OF
children clustering around her knees, who lives
In the Adirondacks anu has her home 1000 ieet
above the level OF the iake, In pine clearing.
Standing oy ner side is tal, 1.-THE and wlllowy
shaped girl win marble pale lace AMI deep
almond shaped eyes OF a mixed dark blue and gray
tsh Cast. A communicative person. with stout
frame and shaggy coat VINO seems to know all
pam, Informs me just now that TINS party OF three
are from near keesvie, and that the girl with the
SAD, pale iace Ind staring eyes IS niece oil the
matron's husband, VINO Is "up NORTH" on tue st.
Lawrence rating timber through the rapids. Inc
man with tne shaggy coat Is horse Jockey from
Northern New YORK, going rom Montreal and
down the river to quebec to see what ne can do in
tne morse trade The pae.iacc girl is q French
Canadian, and has the peculiar beauty and won-
pcrIul eyes OF ner generally stolld race. Forward,
and sittln1 alone Is an artist whose wnoe atte ~.
ton is taken up Win the color OF tree leaves ON
the hlisldes and the hoary grandeur OF the noun.
tain tops dnu Kor9es, which well defined AZ
Inc little steamer nears The shore in its WINDING
way 10 Scnuyler's Island, a small round ,slet or
two hundred acres, covered with a smooth grean
sward, little grove oi trees. a farmhouse win
several barns and other ousnouses and a2purte.
nances.
accompanied ny ms WIFE, scrawny looking woman
and little boy, opens conversation with inc
writer dpyopos OF the latter's survey oil Schuyers
Island.
THAT island, stranger, IS just hefty little bit
OF property. IL DeIongs TO Luther q. whitney. and
he bought IL three years ago, and I'm told he i
used II mostly Tor the stun that's In It..
There's lots 0l stun IN all the Islands hersabouts
Aud ysicour Island. where the Free Lovers are.