New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-04

money, Sle kept EtI III tito AOOoS0So VA
her bonnet Then as we started, and stopped again,
Al, Whose sympathies we're evidently arousedlwent
back to the camping group, to get another basket.
He caught look of her face, and talked with her
little. Eyes, voice and manner were those of
corpse, animated by electricity. She was quite
young-the man she was travelling with, middle
aged. Poor wOman-what story was it, out oil her
fortunes to account for that Inexpressibly scared
way, those CLASSY eyes, and that hollow. voice
THE BAY--sANDY HOOK.
June 25-Returned to n. Y. last night. Again
out to-day on the waters for a sail-this time with
beves of handsome, intellectual, jovia well-drest
Sorosis ladies-circunnaviga Staten Island, by
way of XII Won Kull. Spent much of the day very
comfortably up in the pilot-house with Mr.. Judd
one of the owners of the boat, MIR. Croly, and the
captain. Lunch on board. In due time, out IN the
wide bay. southeast Of Staten Island-a rough,
tossing ride and free sight-the long stretch OF
Sandy Hook. the Highlands of Navesink, and the
many vessels outward and inward bound. We
came up in the midst Of ALL and in the full sun.
especially enjoyed the last hour two, approach
ing New-Yorl moderate sea-breeze had set in !;
vet over the city, and the waters adjacent, was
thin haze, cOncealing nothing, only adding to the
beauty.
THE CITY FROM THE BAY.
From my point of view, as | write (for TINS Is
iotted on the spot amid the soft June breeze, with
sea-temperature surely nothing on earth can go be-
yond this show To the left, the North River with
its far vista-nearer, three four war-ships, an
chored peacefully-the jersey side, the banks OF
Weehawken, the Palisades and the blue. lost In
the distance;-to the right the East River-the
mast hemmed shOres-tbe grand obellsk-lke
towers of the Bridge, one on either side, IN haze
vet plainly defned-giaut brothers twain, throwing
IL 1svl- oh
tumbled tumultuOus river below tthe tide is just
changing to its ebb)-the broad widespread every
where crowded-nO, not crowded, but thick as stars
in the sIv-with all sorts and sizes of sail and steam
vessels plying ferry-boa arriving and departing
coasters long strings OF fastened groups OF canal
barces in tow-great ocean DOns, iron-blaok, mod
ern magnificent in and power, filled with their
incalcuable value of human life and precious mer-
chandise-wth here and there, above all, those dar-
ing eareening thir rs of grace and wOnder-those
white and shaded swift-darting fish birds u wonder
if shore or sea elsewhere Outve them ever with
their slanting spaIs, and fierce, pure, hawk-llke
beauty and mOtion-thOse frst-class New-lork
sloop or schooner yachts, sailing of fine day, IN
free sea in "a good wind.
And rising out Of the midst of all this our own SUI
perb, tall-topt smp-hemmed, modern, American, yet
strangely oriental V-shaped New York, with its COM
pact mass, us biltS HIS
ticay groupd or disposed at the centre-the green OF
the trees and all the white, brown and gray Of the
architecture well blended, see il, under mira
Gle of mpid sky. delicious light of heaven above,
and June haze on the surface below. (Other skies
and bays-oher cities, of the SORT know not
but faTer, more vivid, characteristic scene than
this know can not be met, around the worldJ
saw, moreover the highest scenic picturesque
nesses beauties and varieties Of the world are Illus
trated of the SORT Of not the Caucasus, not
mid-oeean, not Yellowstone or Yosemlte), by three
DAYS exploration of the bay of York. the stretch
through the East River and Sound, and hundred
miles I'D the Hudson. Any season, these demesnes
are indispensable; but if time is to be pickd
out more than another it just this time OF matured
June.
HUMAN AND HEROIC NETWORK, (THE MAIN POINT
AFTER ALI
And now I wind up with what these off-hand de-
scriptve sketches are for. In cities in men, shall
not the emotions and the soul tally the outward ma
terial investment The general subjective view of
New-York and Brooklyn-(will not the time hasten
when the two shall be municipality united as they
are now socially and naturally united in one, and
named Manhattan ?)-what may call the human
interior and exterior of these great seething oceanic
populations as get 1t in this visit, is to me best of
all. After an absence of many years, IL went away
from New-York at the outbreak of the Secession
War and have never been back to stay sincel again
resume with curiosity the crowds, the streets
knew so well, and was brought up amid-Broadway,
the Ferries the West side of the city, and then
Democratic Bowery-human appearances and man
ners as seen in all these and along the wharyes and
in tbe perpetual travel of the horse-cars, or the
crowded excursion steamers, or in Wall and Nassau
streets by day, and tine places of amusement at
matchmaking and whirling and moving like its
own environment Of waters-endless New-lork
humanity in all it's phases-and Brooklyn also
taken in for the last three weeks.
And now. no need to specify minutciy-enough to
say that making all allowances for the shadows
and sdc-sireaks of milllon-headed city, the
general and brief total of the impressions OF
the humanity qualities, so TO speak, OF these vast
cities. is 10 me, inspiring, promising, comforting
even heroic, beyond any present hasty means OF
statement at my command. Alertness, generally
fine physique clear eyes that look straight at YOU
singular combination of reticence and seii-posSes
sion with good nature and frieDdness-a prevailing
range of manners taste and intellect surely beyond
any elsewhere upon earth-and palpable Outcrop-
ming of that personal cOmradeship look forwardto
as the subtlest strongest future hold of this Union
are not only constantly visible here in these mighty
channels of men, but they form the rule and average
Today, should say-defant of cyncs and pessl-
mists, and with full knowledge of all Their ex-
ceptlons-an appreciaiiye and perceptive study of
the current Humanity of Now-York gives the
directest proof yet of modern civilization, Democ-
racy and of the solution of that paradox the eligi
bility of the free and fully developed Individual
with the paramount Aggregate. In old age, lame
and sick, bordering for years on many doubt
and danger for this Republic Of ours-fully aware
Of all that can be said on the other sde-I
find in this visit to New-York, and the daily
contact and rapport with its myriad people, all
phases, all degrees, and the scale of the oceans
and tdes-the best most effective medicine my soul
has yet partaken For spiritual America, in heroic,