New-York tribune., 1879-05-24


noiscless cleaving Of the grand oceaner down
the bay-we speeding by her side Always. and then
turning wheeling amid babel Of wild hurrahs'
shouted partngs. ear-splIttng steam whistles KISS
ing of hands and waving Of handkerchiets.
This departing Of the big steamers toG n4pns tai oT
love. There is no better medicine when one is lst
less or vaporv | am fond OF going down Wenhes-
W. tch ihsm and the crowds on the wharves, tne
aTrving passengers, the general bust ana acuYINi
in eager looks from the faces, the cieai, ,Ion'u
voices [ a travelled foreigner, "a musician, told he
the other dav she thinks an American crowd
such occasions has the finest voices IN the worldl,
the whole look of the great, shapely DiacK ships
themselves and their groups and lned sides-lh tne
setting of our bay with the blue sky OVerhean'
Two days after the above saw the Britannia, the
Donau the Iielvetia aud the Schiedam steam out'
OIL for EurOpe--a magnificent sight.
lt did NOT add to my good spirits TINS rde up anu
down the bay to see most of the passing hrSt-ciass
ships. or those at anchor, aving the BRUSH, Ger
man, French or other foreign ta0s-seldorn the
Stars and Stripes. We met the state OF INDIANA
coming in the Red Cross aft. The Brussels we
went down with. the same.l
TWO HOURS on THE MINNESOTA.
Then the same evening, from to o, aboard the
United States School Ship Minnesota, lying up
the North River. Captain Luce sent his gig Tor us
abont sundown 10 the foot of Twenty-thirl-st,
and received us aboard with oilicer-ike hospitality
and sailor heartiness There are 200 youths on the
number Will soon increased to 600, to be trained
for efficiently manning the Government Navy. IKE
tho idea much and as far as have seen Tonight,
like the way il is carried out on this huge vessel
Below. on the gun-deck. were gathered nearly
hundred of the boys, to give some OF their
singing exercises, with melodeOn accompaniment,
playcd by one of their number. They sang with
will The best part however, was the sight or the
young fellows themselves. / went over among them
before the singing began. and talked moment.
They are from all the States asked for the South
erpers. but could only find one, lad from Baltl-
more. In age, apparently, they range from about
fourteen to nineteen or twenty. They are all OF
American birth, and havo to pass
rigid medical examination. Well-grown youths,
good flesh, bright eyes, looking straight
AT Won. healthy intelligent American, not slonch
among them, nor mena-n every on 'as pron,-
t,ons OF yOung and old, and of schools ana colleges
In nv day but | confess have never been so near
satisfied. so comtortod, both from tDe iact OF the
school itself and the splendid proof OF our country,
onr composite race, and sample.promses OF t5 capa-
cities ts iuure In the collection from ail parts
of the United States on thus Navy Training snip.
4" Arc There going to be am meR there y was the
dry and pregnant reply OF Emerson 20 one VINO had
been crowding him with the rich material statistics
and possibilities Of some Western or Paciiic regop.l
Stfolled leisurey and quite thoroughly over the
Minnesota, conveyed part OF tie time by Lleuteh-
ant Little. ard part by Lieutenant Murphy. saw
fhe black sluggish guns everywhere. saw the an-
imated scene or call of piping tn hammocks. The
hammocIs scores Of them are rolled mp, put out
side above all day, covered with tarpauln and taen
about S:3O at a signal, tine deck sWarins WIN the
mfrylrg crowd Of lads taking these great army
worm looking rolls and carrying them below.
Lam markedly indebted 10 Captain Luce for
courteous recep'iOn-aud TO the KIND eofdlallty ot
the before mentioned officers with Engineer Moore,
Dr. Sowerby. Mr. Pay Clerk Daley, aud hr;
Til; but as / listened to The young crew and
efr0lled on the berth-deck below, and then
went above on the open deck among the
crowds OF blue-clads-or as | watched them then
brown faces confronting me, win muscular arms
milling their OaIs, rs / was boated to or uon the
ship-l must confess my heart went out NEST 10
those specimens, among the best have yet seen OF
the promise the average ot tine IutuIe nahiIhesS OF
America on sea and land.
PLAY-ACTORs STOOD Up FOR.
One Of my correspondents. A. j. T., takes me to
task to-day for side aiusion, in my late lecture
10 the actors, whom he makes q very spirited de-
fence of, as follows:
Iam not never have beenand never expect to be, an
actor so have no personal interest In the thng but
allow me 10 say that done Ike well as do the
rest what you say laccording TO your reporter
of they really act ttle
more than people off tho stage Why should you
hold them up class to contempt, b. speaking oil
sy little gestures, foreign spirit read your Cen
haer ~ Who'll. than almost any national across
the soas) and auient texl Actors follow their trade
exactly hS Omnibus utifcf7, hHHh p'o'oe'; Jou-'''
GENERALS archbshops phy sCans farmers, poets sclen-
fists. lecturers mechanics, cOUnerjnmpers char
women aud architects do thers-naihely, priioa-
rv and mainly for the sake OF getting their daily
bread either on SILVER salycr out of 9shbarres, and
m scraDe enough gold copper together 70 have good
tme with the other sex, ard to pay Tor chdtens school
books ana shoes, church and theatre tickets.
And factors their well, they iust useful
aud re- pec.ablc "a any the others There always
ac ors on histriouic stage who great men in
brain heart body and culture any Of the Ohcrsiu-
cudrg President LncOn-0f li;yOu and the late Judge
Ecmuuds to the contrary Notwithstanding Mr. Lincoln
4 have
once told me- probably fully realized this, and felt that
I'm the recreation aud goraOn heTeceiyed from Mr.
SOinern aud Miss LAURA kCcne, no gOt ml as much
from them as they got from him." W. W.
NelC- York, May %, 1879.