presents many romantic little scenes, IS'ear its banks, a few miles from Hudson, are mineral springs, now rising into celebrity, and known as the Colnmbia Sulphur Springs. The accommodations for invalids and l)leasure-seekers are arranged in the midst of a fine hickory grove, and many persons spend the summer months there very delightfully, away from the fashionable crowd. The tourist should not omit a visit to these springs, nor to Lebanon Springs farther in the interior. The latter may

be reached by railway and stage-coaches from Hudson, with small expenditure of time and money.

The Lebanon Springs are the resort of many people during the summer months, but the chief attraction there to the tourist is a village two miles distant, upon a mountain terrace, composed entirely of celibates of both sexes, and of all ages, called Shakers, They number about five hundred,

* Tlie Hudson Iron Works are at the entrance of the South Baj', on a point of low land between the river and the railway. They belong to a Stock Company. The chief business is the conversion of the crude iron ore into " pigs " ready for the manufaetiu'er's use. Two kinds of ore are nscd-- hematite from West Stockbridge, and magnetic from the Forest of Dean, Mines, in the Hudson Higlilands. They produce about 16,000 tons of " pig-iron " annually.

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and own and occupy ten thousand acres of land, all of which susceptible of tillage is in a state of highest cultivation. The sect or society of this singular people originated in England a little more than one hundred years ago. Ann Lee, the young wife of a blacksmith, who had borne several children, conceived the idea that marriage was impure and sinful. She found disciples, and after being persecuted as a fanatic for several years, she professed to have had a direct revelation that she was the female manifestation of the Christ upon earth, the male manifestation having been Jesus, the Deity being considered a duality -- a being composed of both