DEXXIS, Sept. 20, I8FI. M R . Km ton:—Never having seen a leter from here In your paper, I thought one night be acceptable. Truro, Vroviuceown, and other places on the Cape, Inclining this town, me favorite resorts of Bospnlans, A great many New Yorkers flock tere during warm weather, to their Sumner residences) «r the qniet farm-houses, ahile some travel annually from uven Mlehlratt nml Ohio, to enjoy the grand ocean fiews, and picturesque scenery ot hills and vales. One of the chief attractions ef Dennis Is Scargo Lake, bounded on one side by hisrh hiiK It is a beautiful place to sail, and very often one can see young ladies, ns i we]) n.« gentlemen, .skillfully managing tho, osr in their pretty boats, upon the smooth stiHaeo.. Vory near the Lake there Is quite a targe boarding-house. It was built years ago by Dr. Poole, of o;ir own city, bnt since then has been enlarged and improved, until it has become one of the pteasantest dwellings on Cape Cod. Farming is the principal occupation of the men who stop ashore. The sandy soil is quite fertile; rare grapes of n very large sizo grow vory luxuriantly, in one spot, at least, and one of the smallest pear trees I ever saw is going to yield a very rich harvest from its tiny branches. Bnt the cranberry fields arc tho farmers' most valuable grounds. In the autumn il is quite n novelty for city folks to watch the pickers. Sometimes the red berries are so abundant, it is necessary for almost everybody to leave, homo, and help to gather them before frost appears. Then, eveey pleasant morning, bright-eyed, laughing boys and girls, and more sedate men and women, don the oldest garments they can find, put on strong, home-made gloves, and, taking their dinners, go in large companies | to diligently do their day's work in the open air. Tiie smartest pickers often earn more than two dollars a day, mid little children me disappointed if they don't earn one. Some seasons it takes two months, or more,
to cleanly pick the extensive gtxnmde, ittit)
every year the harvests seem to grow greater, thus bringing In hundreds oi dollars to many a land owner or hard-working (aimer. A great many sea captains live in Dennis. They are constantly coming home nil limes of the year, to tell the news, bring i costly presents, and ancient relics from for. cign ports. In one home, among many very valuable curiosities, I saw pieces of beautiful inlaid and painted stones, in elegitut dcsii ns, which were taken from the' ruins of Pompeii; n parchment roll of 1612; a deed ot 1082; and a sulid. silver tnnknrd, which had been kept nearly two hundred years. It is very pleasant to converse with some of tlte persons who have been to all pans of thu world, seen almost every race a^pjankind, and visited the cathedrals and fMaecs of the Eastern Continent. The folks here arc most all very hospitable and talkative. They do all in their power to mitka strangers enjoy themselves. In some country places city visitors and boarders don't gel much to eat, bnt in Dennis the tables aro literally loaded with a great variety of the very best products of tho farm, splendid fish from the hay, and fresh meats and luxuries from other places. This year the number of boarders has been unusually largo. j Education is not neglected in this unpretending part of the old Bay State, and often one will meet with persons so cultured and charming in conversation that it is very hard to leavo their society. In the winter | tho young people make the plttco as lively 1 as possible, giving parties, holding fairs, etc. Lectures are delivered about once a' week, and on that Important evening a pa-' pur, edited by a young gentleman or lady,! is read by them to a wide-awake audience The drives nlojig Dennis Beach are very beautiful, and it fills one's soul with loity feelings to sit in a carriage and gazo way out upon the restless billows, stretching towards tho bine Atlantic, where so tnany shtps have sunk, and been heard from no more. Tho grave-yards contain the precious dust of many of our Pilgrim Fathers. It is very interesting and profitable to try and decipher tho figures and letters upon some of the oldest, crumbling stones, placed thero by loving friends, who also folded, their hands to sleep beside their kindred more than a hundred years ago. Most all who have heard of Aunt Desire want to see her. She is a very old lady, Midlives alone near the shore, in a house more than a century old. She owns considerable land, and takes care of her gar-| den,—plants, hoes, etc. She still cooks in her huge, old-fashioned fire-place; fries her I bread over sotuu of the most antiquated {niid-irons in existence, does many things \ just as our ancestors did before, the Rovolullioiiary War, and has not eaten a meal j away from hoine for twenty years. She J ims also taken a pupir twenty years, Teads ' il carefully, is much interested in what is going on around her, talks politics, and I tells her history to all who wilt listen. There is another old lady in Dennis, 84 I years old, who is a wouder to most persons. ; Eight of her nine children, and her hus-! band, bate been rut down by death, but she stilt survives, like the last strong oak of the forest. A year ago she rode out alone, 1 driving her horse a distance of ten miles. She is very intelligent, keeps her house in perfect order, is a splendid cook, has the entire care of a grandchild, and often walks long distances for tho sake of chatting with a fraud She is very small and spry, and sometimes accomplishes tnore important work in an hour than modern belles accompli-): in a day, or perhaps a week. There are man; more items of Interest relating to Dennis, but thinking my letter about long enough, I remain, Yours respectfully, U'CITTE. —Ckttua fienttr.