Pier at 8:45, and | | Thirty-fourth st. at 9 a.m., landing at Yonkers, (Nyack, and | | Tarrytown by ferry-boat), Cozzens, West Point, Cornwall, | | Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Bristol, Catskill, | | Hudson, and New-Baltimore.

Pier at 8.45, and | | Thirty-fourth st. at 9 a.m., landing at Yonkers,(Nyack, and | | Tarrytown by ferry-boat), Cozzens, West Point, Cornwall, | | Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Bristol, Catskill, | | Hudson, and New-Baltimore.

After that we started for Poughkeepsie and that was as far as he was going to tow us, because he had to tow a barge down to New York.

But, any way, we should worry, there isn't any tide above Poughkeepsie and any dinky little kicker could tow us up to Catskill Landing from there.

That night we kept the boat tied up to the dock in Poughkeepsie and took a hike around the town, while Mr. Ellsworth tried to find somebody who would tow us up to Catskill Landing.

But, one thing, he wasn't going for two days and so we'd have to stay tied up in Poughkeepsie waiting for him.

So now I have to tell you about that two days we spent in Poughkeepsie and most of the time we spent in teaching Skinny to swim.

That was the second day at Poughkeepsie and most all day the Elks were busy turning Skinny into a fish.

"Locust Grove," on the Hudson, near Poughkeepsie.

He thus announces to his brother the glorious news: POUGHKEEPSIE, NORTH RIVER, July 30, 1847.

[Illustration: HOUSE AT LOCUST GROVE, POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.]

I have directed Lieutenant Budd to visit Poughkeepsie in order to confer with you.

From that city he wrote often to his wife in Poughkeepsie, and I shall quote from some of these letters.

Reception at Poughkeepsie.

" He and his family left the island in the middle of April, 1859, and in due time reached their Poughkeepsie home.

His former pastor at Poughkeepsie, the Reverend H.G. Ludlow, in long letters, with many Bible quotations, called upon him to repent him of his sins and join the cause of righteousness.

And the following letter to Matthew Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, dated February 1, 1861, shows that he was actively interested in the foundation of the first college for women in this country: "Your favor of the 24th ulto.

I am not at this moment aware that there is any quantity of this wire anywhere else, except it may be in the helices of the big magnets which I have at Poughkeepsie.

" In a letter to his friend, the Honorable John Thompson, of Poughkeepsie, he describes one of his dissipations: "Paris now is the great centre of the World.

His pastor in Poughkeepsie, the Reverend F.B. Wheeler, says of him in a letter to Mr. Prune: "In his whole character and in all his relations he was one of the most remarkable men of his age.

" MR. ABRAHAM BELL, of Poughkeepsie, New York, a member of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, was employed, in 1837 and 38, in levelling and grading for a rail-road in the state of Georgia: he had under his direction, during the whole time, thirty slaves.

Milo Mead ...4.00 Poughkeepsie.

Jno. F. Winslow, for Student Aid, Atlanta U. ...10.00 Poughkeepsie.

At Fishkill Village we saved a few miles and some bad road by continuing on to Poughkeepsie by the inland road instead of going down to the Landing.

" It was six-thirty when we arrived at Poughkeepsie.