GIBSON PEACOCK. Editor. VOLUME XXIII.—NO. 90. Tlie- Cuban Revolu- tion. RECENT REPORTS FROM THE ISLAND. DISCHARGE OF THE FILIHUSTERS AT FORT LAFAYETTE. RUMOKKD SUCCESS OFTI-IE PATRIOTS. Wawiisgiox, July" 23.-7-A(lviccs received in this city from tlie leaders bf the Cuban' army I to the 15th, state that on the 13th and 14th the 1 troops of General Quesada, stationed between'j Puerto Principe and Nuevitas, were attacked" by General Letona, and in both instances were ; repulsed,on the first day with aloss of 00 killed i and wounded,and on the second with over 100. i The Cubans retaintlieir position of siege before j Puerto Principe. Thetroops under Gen. Figu- ! ero, qf Gen. Jordan’s command, occupying a i - positjon some 40 miles from St. Jago do Cuba, j were attacked on the 12tli by a Spanish force of over 1,200, and said to be commanded by i Gen. Valmaseda in person- After three I hours’ lighting the Spaniards were compelled ! to give up the attack. The next day, haring been re-enforced, the Spanish General re newed the attack with great vigor. Three assaults were made on the Cuban posi tion, and in each tlie Spaniards were repulsed. In the last attack their loss was bo great that they were compelled to precip itately retreat. Gen. Jordan participated in tlie second day’s tight. The loss of the Cubans is set down at 62 killed and wounded. Among the killed were two officers. The Spanish loss is reported to have been over 300. They made good their retreat to St. Jago. The Cubans are in good spirits, and affected but little by tlie cholera and vomito, so prevalent among tlie Spanish troops. A Conspiracy-—The Capture of Holqnln. Havana, July IT..—A gTcat conspiracy has been discovered on the part of the Spaniards, •wliieli has for its object the refusal to obey the authorities sent out from Spain. The idea is to strike for the interests of Isabel 11. The chiefs in tlie movement are said to be Valma • seda, Gutierrez de la Vega, some of the vete ran officers, and the greater part of the chiefs of the Volunteers. It is said that Holquin has certainly fallen into the hands of General Jordan, and that Manuel Suarez,who went out with the former, lias been named Governor of the town. The report circulates that ITielio, with 4,000 men taken from the Nuevitas and Puerto Principe It ail road line, is expecting an attack from Guesadn, and that in a few days we may hear of a big tight. Figueredo has 6,000 men’ near Cuba, all in fine order, and well equipped. They are ready for any Spanish column that < mav come along. In JBaracoa a movement had been made, at the latest advices, hv 130 , patriots. They liave taken possession of Las . Cucliillas, winch is an inaccessible point, and there they will be able to defy the Spaniards for a long" time. . More Atrocities. Slanzanii.la, June 29.—Atrocities of an alarming character are being constantly com . niitted here, and no one’s life Is safe. Don ' Felipe Canga Argtielles, a captain in the Span ish armv, and belonging to the political school of Narvaez and Gonzalez Bravo, lately in quired of a foreigner here if, under the actual circumstances, it would not be well .to send ■ over to Spain and have sent out a few dozen bloodhounds, with which the unfortunate - Crooles ebuld be the better tracked through > the swamps and morasses. Don Manuel La v Itosa, an officer in the Cuban army, for - many reasons was induced to demand the am cownJtcd, to thatend,Don Luis Itovira, chief of the detachment stationed at Beeana, and asked him if he thought he (La Itosa) would M run anv risk in going to see Ainpudia. “None —• at all r I assure you?’ wi»s- the reply.-Itovira :■ gave his word of honor to La itosa that he T should be protected, and himself accompanied - thc Cutan officer to thecamp of Ampudia. v No sooner had tlie two arrived than Col. Am i pudia handed over La Itosa to his execu f tioner, Rios, who,without ceremony or pro i text of any kind, slew the contidnig soldier . with his own hand. J Discharge of the Fort Lafayette Prl - ■ - soners. [ From the Now York Times of to*day.] One hundred and twenty-three of the fili busters, who belonged to Colonel Ryan’s com j mand and were captured on Gardiner’s Island , by Marshal Barlow, were brought by that '. gentleman to. Fort Lafayette on Saturday night bust, where they have been held ever since. Yesterday District Attorney Pierrepoiit, .. haring received instructions from the » Secretary of State, with whom lie had along v interview on Thursday, went down to Fort .■ Lafayette in the revenue steamer Uno, Uapt. - Pierson. He was accompanied by Coinmis i sioners Shields amlAA’liite. On arriving at its destination, the Uno signalled the fort, and V- told the officer of the day, Major Maynadiere, \ of her hnsincss. After considerable delay a Boat was despatched to her,and Mr.Plorrepont, - with his attaches, were transported to the fort. When they landed they were received by •• Gen. Vogdes.who introduced the District-At tornowo 11. 11. Harrison, the commander of ,i the Cuban liberators. Mr. Pierrepont pro .' needed to inspect them. They were formed ! into three companies. Some of them hare looted, others contless and shirtless, literally in -. rags. Yet they were fine-looking, soldier-like men, despite tne disadvantages of their sur .! -roundings. When General Vogdes called .to attention, Mr. Pierrepont, standing in < froiit of the battalion, addressed it thus: “Men, you have been arrested charged with widating the law of the United States, in pre . paring to join an . expedition against the " Government of Spain; with whom we are at peace. A .statute . passed; in-1818 makes it a - crime, punishable by fine and imprisonment, ! 4o engage in any expedition against a Govem . ; ment with which we are at peace. You have been arrested because information and affida vits have been filed stating that you , were ; engaged in ■ such , an expedition against, the Spanish Government;" Some of you may perhaps bo/ignorant of-the violation of the law you have committed. And I learn from the" officer;. who commands you or in whom you seem to trust, that Cuban expedi tions are given up and that slichis the order of the Junta. . Under these circumstances,and ~ - that-none of-you- may Unjiwtlwsuffor,,by._.tliG.. authority vested in me by the President of the i United States, I have determined, to, Release - -lyou allupongiving your parole of honor - and .signing an agreement thatyou will not in the within the United States, engage iq, ■" any violation of its laws.” i When tills address had been delivered, | , Commissioner Shields read the list of the 123 j ■ prisoners ■ whoso ..names.-.wore., published . yesterday morning. And . as each was called i ■up he signed his name to the bond.’ The list , comprised 120 names, the same elegant though i vague appellations published; in yestorday j morning’s Times. Many of - them failed to re- : cognize these names'when pronounced by: 'Commissioner Shields. Indeed, bne man ex- ’ claimed, on being told that his name IRwl In (Jr D p itht o U3rrl I ptiir was Rothschild, -in great trejiida tion and hurry, “Is it? O! I forgot.” This clearly proves that all were so much ashamed of their connection with the whole matter, that they preferred to give fictitious names, to avoid being identified'with the movement hereafter. One hundred and twenty signed this bond, and three men—Thomas O’Neil, Jas. C. Burns and Albert O. Erwin—re fused to do so, and therefore were" looked up in private cells. Their refusal must; un doubtedly have been caused by a fear of vio lating their oaths as Fenian brethren, At the close of these proceedings the prison ers went to dinner, after which Captain Har rison read the following farewell, which dis banded the filibusters, and contained the Junta’s intentions with regard to future expe ditions : • “Headqvabters First N. Y. 0. A.L., July 23, 1869.— ,Soldiers: We have called’ you to gether for the last time. Spanish gold, Ameri can duplicity, tyranny and treason in our midst have proved too much for us. The great Republic, forgctling the traditions of the past, has prostituted herself to the infamous task of strangling a struggling sister, and she to whom tlie world looked as its beacon fight to freedom, is striving to continue the .trade in flesh and to perpetuate oppression and human slavery. The standard wliich we had hoped to have borne in triumph over the hills of Cuba • must be furled, and our swords returned unstained to their sheatlis un til other hands are.ready to draw them. There is no alternative, and we must part. Acting under the orders of our superiors it becomes our sad duty to disband you, and to declare that the First New' York Cavalry of the Army of Liberators ceases to exist. We thank you for your orderly and soldierly conduct in all the trials through which you have passed, and we shall ever remember the brave men whom we have commanded, and the hours of pleasure and of mis fortune which we have spent with them, our only regret being that we could not lead them into battle for liberty. Return'to your homes and remain law-abiding citizens. The cause will not fail with us. It must succeed, and we may yet meet under the blood-red flag that bears the star of Cuba You have done what you could. Tlie responsibility of failure does not lie with you. With our best wishes for your l’ntnre, we bid you farewell” This was the final address of H. IJ. Harrison, the Captain commanding the prisoners. He is well beloved by many of them. A Virginian himself, be lias thirty-nine men of his native State and county with him, allof whom served in the Confederate army, during the late war. Mr. Pierrepoiut- haringassnred the liberated liberators that lie would send tlie Uno hack for them, returned in her to the city. At, 6 o’clock she reached the fort again, and re ceived on hoard the prisoners, 113 in all, five having enlisted in tlie regiment stationed at tlie fort during her absence. When, on board they presented a singular group, tattered and torn, and bearing unmistakable marks of tlie hardships of campaigning under difficulties. Nevertheless they were joyous, and with hearty cheers hid adieu to their former guardiaus-i -tlie military. On the trip to New York, filled with the nleasant sensations of liberty, their voices burst forth simultaneously in singing tlie old song “Home again.” At length they reached their Eldorado, New York, and, landing at tlie Barge Office Dock, proceeded to the Castle Garden, where Capt. Harrison, who had gone to see the Junta early in the afternoon to obtain money to provide for his men, had appointed to meettliem. He told them that his mission had been unsuccess ful, inasmuch as he had obtained from Senor Mora only money sufficient to give each man a slight supper.' He told them that they, might sleiep on the grass in the garden, where he had no doubt they might remain unmolested by the police. To-day be will have an interview with Gen. Alfaro, when he hopes to obtain money enough to meet their present wants. , . They spoke highly of the kind and gentle manly treatment they received at the hands of Lieutenant Driscoll and Major Maynadiere, who both behaved to them, as far as lay in their power, in a manly and soldier-like man ner. To-morrow morning, at 9 o’clock, Captain Harrison has appointed to meet liis' company in the Castle Garden, when-lie-will communi cate to them tlie result- of-his mission to tlie Junta. The Deluge In Texas. A letter from La Grange, Texas, to the New Orleans llulktin says: Tlie Colorado commenced-to rise about a week ago. Yesterday morning a rise of seven feet during the nigllt Was reported. Hundreds of people assembled to waten the rise. It con tinued to rise at about two feet an hour. About two o’clock I‘. 3l.it rose one foot in twenty one minutes. Asthetownisa good half-mile from the hank of the river, but. little fears were entertained. At three o’clock the river had covered the flat between the town and its banks, and commenced running in the first street. The water mark of 1852 was at the upper side of tills street. As the public square is about ten feet higher than this street, still it was not thought that tlie water would go over it. Tlie Colorado, like a giant, came steadilv on. Houses aud fences were seen going by. A report came that a negro at. one of the planta tions had been drowned. It seems that lie hail reached dryland and had gone back after a puppv, and in trying to save the dog was drowned. At six o’clock the water broke into the public square. Then wc sent you the des patch. AVe went to supper, and the boarding house was on the third street. AVe tvent down over dry land. By this time the water commenced to .spread rapidly, and fill the lower places. While at supper the water broke into the yard. After eating, and starting back to the square we found the water over our boots. The merchants had carried their goods to the second stories, and families in the lower edge of town had commenced moving to the outer edge. At -a little after seven consternation prevailed in La Grange. Tlie water had run over the square and was covering the streets beyond. AVagons carrying women and chil dren were hurrying through the streets. A little after nine we left the telegraph office and loaded the stage in the water. In ofir drive out we passed through water over three feet deep. On reaching the hills we camped. At this time the bills .presented a picturesque sight—hundreds being camped on them. The Colorado was still advancing. Some who re mained. thinking it would - certainly subside, were willing to leave. At eleven it was swim ming water on the square. 3lenon horseback were going in and bringing people out. Thev had to swim for it. A report started that AVil liams’B family had remained in the Fred. Tate house, and the water was nearly np to the second, story.- Tliere were several ladies in this house. In the excitement the skiff had beenlostsight-of.—AViththecurrentthatwas then running through town, it was. useless for a swimmer to go to their assistance. The water is from five to eight feet deep, overihe sonare and business portion of the town, a rapid current' going through the streets 1 and flvor still rising Slowly. Allhouses below the Fred Tato bouso are swept away. The houses of two streets on tho west side of the town are swept away, : Thei loss t 6 Lagrange -will reach near four hundred thousand specie dollars. Yesterday wo placed the estimate at $2,090,000, lost in'the Colorado Valley.. That is too low, for it will be remembered that the rich cotton, lands s of Travis. Bastrop, Fayette, Colorado, AVharton and Matagorda counties have been swept as by a' besom of destruction. Tho crops, the finest ever seen, are gone. Fences are near Matagorda, and iffmany plaoes not a vestige of plantations is seen. The old Colo rado w forty-five feet above ordinary water PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1869. mark. The telegraph wires between here and Austin are twenty feet, underwater. The backwater in some of tlie creoks here has; hacked twenty miles. People are yet dreading; the rise from the Red Fork; To those whqt; live on this river it means further destruction;'; for with the corresponding rise in it' the river will go ten feet higher. Old. Texans -will understand, when we add that the ■ river' is now from “post dale to post oak.” It is ten feet higher than the famous rise bf 1852, and old Texans will understand, when it is added, that it is four feet higher than the great rise of 1832. The water must be in the lower streets.of Austin. Rumor has it that a large portion of the town of Bastrop is destroyed. As Bastrop, is generally lower than Lagrange we fear it may he, correct. People have hurried away id this place, leaving furniture and goods, and such must be the case in other places. Three millions of dollars in specie will he a light estimate of the loss in this valley. YOU can calculate by reiterating, the loss of threes fourths of tlie farming interests in this valley, adding nearly a million of town property, for Columbus is lower than this place. It is to he hoped that the rain has not extended to the Red Fork. > EUROPEAN AFFAIRS. FRANCE. Message of the Enijperor to tlie Legislative In the sitting of the Legislative Body, on July 12, 31. I!ouher, Minister of State, read the following message from the Emperor: , By the declaration of the 28th ult., I an nounced that I should .submit at the ordinary session of the Chamber the resolutions and ) plans which seemed most fitting to realize the wishes of the country. However,as the Legis lative Body appears desirous to learn immedi ately what reforms have been decided upon, I think it right to anticipate its wishes. It is my film' intention to give to the powers of the Legislative Body that extension which is com patible with the cardinal bases of the Consti tution. I now lay before you, by this message, the decisions which have been taken at the Council. Tlie Senate will be convoked as soon as possible to examine tlie following questions, viz.: 1. The powers to be accorded to the Legis lative Body, including the right of laying down the regulations relating to its proceed ings 'and the right of electing its bureaux. 2. The simplification of the mode of present ing and considering amendments. 3. To make it obligatory upon the Govern ment to submit to the Legislative Body all modifications of the tariffs in international treaties. 4. The Voting of the Budget by chapter, in. order to render tlie.control of tlie Legislative Body morg complete. 5. 'The suppression of the incompatibility, hitherto existing between tlie position of De puty and the assumption of certain public functions, particularly those of Ministers. 0. The extension of the right of interpella tion. The Government will also deliberate . upon questions relating to the position of the .Senate and the more efficient “ solidarity” whieh will be established between the Chamber and the Government, the facility of /xc-relsiug simultaneously the functions of Minister and Deputy, the presence of all thfe Ministers in the Chambers, the iliseussion of affairs oi Stare in the Council, the establish ment of areal understanding with the majority elected by the country, anibthe creation of all those, guarantees which we seek, in our common solicitude. I have already shown several times how much I am disposed tokre linquish in thepublic interest certain of in jr Srerogatives. The modifications wliich I haVe ecided to propose constitute the natural dei velopment of those which have successively been made in the institutions of the Empire. They must, at the sometime, leave intact the prerogatives wliich the people have most ex plicitly confided to me, and which are the es sential condition of power, and of the preser vation of order and society. The message was favorably received, and M. Ilouher concluded the reading of it amid cries f of “Longlive. the. Emperor!” M.M.Martel, liournat, Dolfus. Beauchamp, Tenne and Peyresse, all members of the majority’; were elected Secretaries of the Chamber by a large preponderance ot votes. The Public mentions a rumor that all the Ministers intend to pro ceed this evening to St. Cloud to place their resignations in the liands of the Emperor. Seenes nt a Itecent t)liperi:»l- Decep tion—Nnpoleou’s Views Expressed in “ Gossip. ' ~ ~ \ [From the Figaro.] .. / i \ TheXEmperor conversed priuqipally-with M, IluilV't, who was present withlf'ujoftt two thirds oivtlie Left Centre; the rest, With M. Emile Ollivier at their head, having abstained. His Majesty is reported to have said to the honorable Deputy: “Well! and So you desire to force me?” Thereupon the conversation commenced, interrupted occasionally by the observations of some Deputies, who, as sembling by’ degrees, formed a cir cle round the interlocutors. “Does not Ministerial responsibility exist in fact,” said the Emperor, “since the Chamber can manifest, by an act of its will, that it has no confidence in such or such a minister ? In wliich case would not that functionary resign or be dismissed? lam reproached with what is called personal government, which accusa tion means that I am blamed for acting with out. consulting the Chamber and the country. The war in Mexico is mentioned as an ex ample. I persist in saying that a great idea was involved in that expedition, which had only one fault—failure. Did not the Gov ernments of, England and Spain, which are constitutional countries, enter, like mine, upon the affiiir -without con sulting tiny one ? Moreover, the Legislative body might have stopped it by refusing the supplies.’’- At another moment His Majesty used the following language: “A wish exists to recommence the fable of the old lion : first of all his claws were cut; then his teeth were drawn; and finally he had nothing left but his mane, which was insufficient for liis defence.” The Emperor several times intimated that he was decided to advance in accord with the Chamber and the country, that he would not have a shock at any price; but in his view everything could be managed. without introducing the principle ot Ministerial responsibility into the Constitution. A Deputy, perhaps 31. Buffet, ex, pressed the opinion that, unhappily, the Chamber appeared to he specially deter mined on that point. “Not the majority,” quickly retorted 31. Acliillo Jubinal, who was present at this point of the interview. As some one asked the Emperor how ho inter preted the results of the elections in May and ; June, he replied; without hesitation: “They -haveprovedthata ehoice-must-bomado-bo tween the Empire and revolution, because they have demonstrated that between these two systems noplace exists, for anything or 'any person,?..; His.Sljuesty’s last.characteristip_ phrase was as follows - : “Tsball give satisfaction to the aspirations of the present Liberals; hut I shall remain within the limits of. the Consti tution." —After prolonged and careful consideration of the question whether .' Yale -College .should leave its old site to gain a more spacious one in some other part of New Haven, inostof the Faculty of the academical department agree in thinking, first, that the proposed change in location, if there were no financial difficulties in the way, would, on the whole, be; advan tageous to the College; but second, that financial difficulties are so great and for midable as to make the undertaking all but hopeless. OUR WHOLE COUNTRY. ; Duxnniv, 3lass., Friday, July 23—The ; French Cable fleet bas fully accomplished its mission. Unexpectedly it whs announced off Highland Light, Boston, at two o'clock this morning, and many came to Duxbury to wit ness the landing. ‘ The citizens of this place descried the fleet by three o’clock this morn ing. The shore end was spliced to tlie deep sea cable at about sunrise, and the fleet, con sisting, of the Cliiltem and Scanderea, came steadily and rapidly to Duxbury. From 12 tee 1 o’clock the people poured in rapidly to- the i’beach at this place, which is two miles in an air-line from Duxbury, hut six miles by the highway. There were from SOO' to 1,000 waiting and watching the approach of the fleet.. The Scanderea. having finished her work, was a mile in advance, and anchored first, at 1.45, about half a mile from the shore. The Chiltern, which had been paying out the shore-end; was soon up and anchored- at 2 o’clock. A perfect swarm of small vessels hovered around the fleet, and when- it an chored a largo number of citizens boarded tlie . C'biltern, all of whom were hospitably enter tained. During the next twohours preparations were made to land the shore end. The cable was pulled out by band and coiled on a barge, / wliich was pulled ashore bv the sailors in 1 another boat. Tlie end was Landed at 5 o’clock amid the booming of artillery on the vessels, and the cheers ol the multitude on the shore. The people caught hold of the cable andlielped pull it up to the cable bouse, where it was spliced to the land cable, jvliich Is to run in a trench to Duxbury. About 6 o’clock all the arrangements were successfully carried out,and the best of feeling prevailed. The land line is incomplete,but it is expected to be in working order by Tuesday. The .cable is in perfect working order, and messages have been sent and received up to 5 o'clock this evening. THE YALE AND HARVARD REGATTA. Woucesteh, July 23.— The day was fine,and everything at Lake Quinsigamond bad been prepared lor a trial of skill. The first race started at 3.15, and resulted as follows: The F-.F, Curran first, in 23m. 505.; Water Witch second, in 28m. 155.; Excelsior distanced. The second race started at 3.53, the Harvard crew taking water first, and gaining an advantage of half a length at the beginning. This tliey bad increased to a length before reaching tlie stake boat, which they turned first, and came in lO lengtbs ahead in 19m. 305.; to Yale’s 19m. 58s. Tins result created im mense enthusiasm among the friends of Harvard, who took all the odds on the Uni versity race, although the betting ranged three to two in favor of Yale. The third race was called at 4.35, and a good start was ett'ected. The boats came in in the following order: The Salisbury first’, in 19m. 305.; Union second, in firm. 50s.'; Quinsigamoiid third, in 20m. 435.; Bay State fourth, in 21m. 255.; Ida Lewis fifth, in 21m. 555. The crew of the winning boat was tlie same that was distanced in the first race, and they are accused of having thrown away their chance in that race, in order to get bets on this. They would have counted without their host, however, had notthe Union crew caught a crab shortly after the start, thereby causing her to lose ground, and preventing her from •coming in first, as she would undoubtedly havedone otherwise. The winning crew .wliieli was composed of Irishmen; Were Heizeil by their friends and carried off on their shoul ders, amid the most intense excitement. The University race was called at 5.33, the enthusiasm being worked up to the highest pitch among the eight thousand persons present, who betted with perfect recklessness on the probabilities of the result. The Yale crew put in an appearance first, wearing white shirts and blue handkerchiefs, and tliey were greeted with an outburst of enthusiastic cheering. Five minutes later the Harvard boys darted into position. They were stripped naked to the waist, and had Magenta hand kerchiefs bound around their heads. Their skin was of a dark brown color, to represent sunburn, but it had evidently been colored ar tiiicially.r Their appearance was the signal of even a more frantic tribute of cheers than that of their predecessors. _Both crews are composed of a fine muscular set of men. The aggregate weight of the Yale crew was 966 pounds, and of Harvard. £Ol jiounds, as follows: Yale—R. Terry (how), class of ’7O, 155 lbs.; E. D. Cooti lev.tyi, 155-lbs.;-W-.-H. Lee, ’7O, lGilbs.pD. M.„ Bone, ’7O, 160 lbs.; 3V. A. Copp, ’09,164 lbs.; G, 3V. Drew (stroke), ’7O, 108 lbs. Harvard—N. G. lleed, class of’7o, 133 lbs.; G. T. Jones, '7l, -155 lbs,; G. Willis, ’7O, 152 lbs.; G. 8. Fay, Jr.,. Law School, 155 lbs.; T. Parsons, ’70,153 lbs., F. O. Lyman, ’71,153 lbs. Harvard won the toss of jiositiou, and took the inside. Botli crews laid to, ready for the signal, but Harvard got the stroke first, and shot half a. leugtli ahead. In the first quarter of a mile sbe gained an additional length, pulling five strokes to Yale’s four. At the turn both boats looked to be nearly even, and both presented their broadsides at the same moment in 8 min. 43 sec. Harvard having the inside, however, rounded first,andstarted home fully two lengths ahead. Both crews now Jaid down.to their work with a vim and did their level best, amid tlie most frantic cxcitemfcii't, cheers now .or Har vard, now for Yale, rending.the air alternately without intermission. On the home stretch it was difficult for the spectators to determine wliieli had the advantage, and even bets were eagerly offered anil taken by tlie friends of both colleges. Harvard, however, passed the regatta point six lengths ahead, ill 18 minutes 2 seconds. The Yale crew tlieu slackened their gait, and abandoned tlie contest, coming in 8 seconds behind, beating the champion time of 1808, tlie quickest time on record. In 1808 the Harvard crew won. in 17 min. 481 secs., which was beaten by tlie "Ward bro thers two days afterward, in 17 thin. 405 secs., over the same course. Tlie Harvard hoys are intensely jubilant over the result, not having anticipated a vic tory- They carry all the stakes at heavy odds, and are spending money to-night like lords. A’ale is crestfallen, but seeks encouragement in tlie fact that they made better time than has ever been made by a Yale crew before, and were only beaten by the loser in Harvard’s race with the AVards last year, when Harvard scored 17m. 535. The result takes everybody by surprise, but it is universally conceded to have been a per fectly fair race.. The lake was as smooth as a mirror, and ’everything was favorable. No questions are raised on the decision of the T?ie course rowed was from the judge’s boat off Regatta Foint, duo north, up tlie Jake one and a half miles to and around the stake-boat, and back to tlie place of starting. —An English editor cites as a particularly fine specimen of American nowspajier art the following from a AVestorn paper: “ Eobert Dexter—(Kirig of tlie New" York Ledger and editor of the turf. He has a circu lation of 2J5, and can trot his mile insido _of half a million subscribers 6n a ten cylinder track. All the distinguished writers in tho country trot for his paper. Ho learned the art of printing' when ho was a eolt, and by dint ot persoverauco linked with ,n natiyo business tact, and a thorough knowledge of the' 'value . of advertising, under' the sad dle and to harness, he has in . his maturity become a millionaire. Ho is_ a perfect gentleman, 175 hands high, of a noli glossy color and faultless symmetry. He may he seeu almost any day if the weather is fine, trotting around tlie Ledger office,or writing hia editorialsiu the Central Park.” THE FRENCH CABLE. Tlie Landing at Dnxbnry, Mnss. Victory of ttac Harvard Boys. fFor tlio Pbilu. KvonlttP Bulletin.] lutemiierancc a l>jtaea»e* Under the above heading you published, in your issue of the 20tli, a notice of a paper read by I)r. Joseph Parrish before the Medical So ciety of Pennsylvania, at the meeting in June but, in which you say intoxication from alco' hoi is treated as a disease, and not a rice; that it is common all over the world, and that na ture basin every country furnished some pro duct by which intoxication may he produced, and that, therefore, “it is impossible to eradi cate so evident a natural sense of want as the use of some intoxicant” Further, that the committee, in view of these facts, were in duced to urge on the profession to encourage the moderate use of stimulants. Nor did the committee stop here. They cited Dr.. Anstie as authority for tho declaration that alcohol is good; that “some old soldier lived twenty years on a bottle of gin and a small crust of bread daily,and that the cocoa-chewers of Peru can sustain ahard amount of labor for a long period without food, if they can be allowed their accustomed quantity of cocoa.” The talk about alcohol being food is not' heard now for the first time, hut is now so utterly disproved by science that we hope to hear no more of it. Of drunkenness being a disease and not a Vice, we may be allowed .to say that for more than forty years we bare been accustomed to hear people excuse men for getting drunk daily by saying! it is a disease with them; so that idea is not original with Dr. Parrish and liis com mittee, nor any more true because they refer to it. AVe do not believe that their depraved appetite for stimulants Is anymore a disease tbaniis their depraved disposition to swear and steal a disease. The Society gave no sanc tion to that opinion, nor to tue idea that alcohol is food. At the same time that Dx„ Parrish and’ his committee were appointed, another committee, of wliieli Dr. Hiram Corson was chairman, was also appointed to report on a resolution “in re lation to the terrible practice of of stimulation so common with the medical profession.” In this report the highest medi cal authorities of this and foreign countries are adduced to show that it is the most fearful producer of disease in every country—that it is never necessary as a remedy, and is value less as a preventive of disease. The opinion of Anstie anil others, that it is necessary food, is completely disproved by the authority of some of our most celebrated physicians and physiologists. But the intimation in your paper that tho Society endorsed, the views of Doctor Parrisli Is what I wish to correct. Tlie .Society, by accepting a report, does not en dorse it. In the iorejiart of every volume of its “Transactions,” you will find a resolution de claring that “the Society does not endorse or sanction by its authority the facts or opinions contained in any address or report made to it, or which is directed to he inserted in its pub lished transactions.” So tlie reports of those committees will go into the Transactions side by side, and we would gladly call attention to them both, believing that those who may read them cannot fail to see how fearful is the penalty for indulgence in intoxicating drinks. A Delegate to the 3lbdical Society AT ITS LATE MEETING AT EltlE. AMUSEMENTS. The AValnut Stheet Theatre.— During the brief interval which the AValnut Street Theatre has been closed, workmen have been engaged in giving the establishment a com plete renovation, and when the next season opens, the theatre will present an entire nevy appearance. Carpenters, painters, upholsters and paper-hangers are now all working ener getically. The whole interior of the audito rium and the lobbies are being newly papered and painted, and furnished with new matting and carpets, and the gilding is being renewed. The improvements in the house will add much to its attractiveness. The new season will commence on Saturday evening, August 14th, wlieri the great London drama, in four acts, entitled JJuty, will be presented. This play is by the author of The Orange Girl, Henry Leslie, Esq., from whom the sole right of its production has been pur chased— - The company at the AValnut during the_ coining season will comprise \Vm. A. Cfiap maH, Stage 3lanagerj Charles AValcot, Lead ing aiid J uvenile Business; Lewis Morrison, Heavy Business; AVilliam H. Bailey, First Old Man; Owen Fawcett, First Comedian; James Taylor, AValkiug Gentlemaiv and „ResponsibleJßusiness;AVillis_H.Eage,AValking„ Gent and Respectable Business; Frank Stull, 'Prompter; General Business—Messrs. AV-.L.- Street, AV. H. Jones, C. H. Bradshaw, \\ r m. Lomas, R.y.T. Lanning and J. AVade. The ladies' in the company wili consist of 3liss Annie Graham, Leading Lady; Mrs. Cliaiies AValcot, First . Chambermaid, Comedy and Juvenile Business; 3lrs. AV. A. Chapman, , First Old AVoman; Sirs. Lewis Morrison, First AValking Lady; Sirs. J. P. BreJsford, Second Old AVoman ; Sliss J. Barton, Second j AValking Lady; General Business, Misses I Mary Barr, Julia Porter, Susie Price, Hattie Sliller, Fannie Henry and Laura Reetl. Sir. T. J. Hemphill, the efficient and popular ! Business Slauager, of course will remain in that position. Arrangements have been made witbrthe fol lowing popular “Stars” to appear during.the season: Sirs. D. P. Bowers, Sir. and Sirs. Henry AVatkius, Sir. Edwin Forrest, Miss Lucille Western, Sir. Edwin Booth, Miss Kate Bateman, Sir. John S. Clarke, Mr. and Sirs. Barney Williams, Sir. F. S. Chaufrau and SI r. Joseph Jefl'ersoii. AVith the degree of liberality thus shown by ' the management, tlie'next season at tlie AVal mit deserves to be one of great success. Bal Slasqi'b oat 0 at Atlantic City. —Tlie sett, son at Atlantic City is to be enlivened by a grand carnival hud bal masque. The arrange ments are now actively progressing. The af fair will take place at the new Excursion House on tlie evening of August sth. No better place could have been selected, as the danc ing ball is more spacious than our Academy of Slusio, when prepared for similar festivities. This bal masque lias been placed in charge of gentlemen who have had much experience in managing such affairs in this city, and, therefore, there can not he the least doubt that it -will be entirely suecessful in every particular. Tho different costumers in tlie city are already engaged in making preparations for tho carnival. The price of the tickets for the ball have been fixed at S 5, whieh includes a passage from this city to Atlantic and return. ' Alien Street The atre. — Bryant’s Slinstrel Troupe, direct from Bryant’s Opera House, New York, will make their appearance at this theatre, commencing Slonday eyeniag next, July 20th. The company is one of tliedargest anti heßt iii the business, numbering thirty-tour performers, and eotnprises Sueli ot'tistss asDaiv, llryant, Davoi Reed, be sides others that are considered stexs in min strelsy. The leading feature of. tho Bryants -is t.ho'capital manner in whielirthey-perform- Imrlesque opera. The performance, on,.Mon day will commence with the regular first-part olio entertainment, after which will be given the burlesque of Verdi’s charming opera of 11 Trovatore. It will bo placed upwi-the stage in an elegant manner, with now sconery, splendid; dresses and appointments, a, largo and wbll trtuned orchestra and,an, effietent chows. Every attention will bo paid to all the minor details, and Judging from tho reputation this troupe lias attained, in other cities, there is no donbt "but that it will be sustained here, and tlieir treasury receive nu abundance ot oasli. —Young ladies who play croquet are known as “mauU'tis all for lawn.” F. X. FETHERSTOft Pnlilislier. PRICE THREE CENTS FACTS ASI) FAMI® —Except in point of fortune, Bicker and.’ Perishing are as like as two P’s. - • >* r —The Argentine Confederation.—TbeleaguO of Wallstreetspeciemen. ■ • —Song of a magistrate—Let us speak of a man as we’ve fined him. /" —When lovers quarrel what presents made on either side are not returned? The kisses. —“Let us have P’s,” said the Convention at Harrisburg, stealing Grant’s thnnder;;and so' they nominated Packer and'Peris king.'- —The ‘‘conservative” rural'.fiame applied to General Kosecrans during tlm-war was “Blue*' bejlied butcher.” . • —“I don’t cafe a'darn,” .said-a down ' town - politician, “about the nigger race or the-White race; Hm for race o’Packer.” —Kussia teaches England a lesson in dises tablishment by dropping its hereditary priest hood at one sweep. —Change for a Sovereign—The Quecnth transferring her residence from :Bhlmofal to Windsor. —Our last advices inform ns that the LontE Chamberlain lias determined to have the out skirts of Lonilon lengthened. ' —ln the Chicago councils an ordinance i» pending to raise a revenue from advertising,, by offering to the highest bidder the privilege' of placarding the backs of the city policemeni —A letter from India, in referring to the in tense heat there, says “life becomes a burdeui here after the'•thermometer gets above BK degrees.” —lt is suggested that the disaffected .’Demo cracy of Philadelphia, who cannot vote the- Ahern-Stewart ticket, be called hereafter the - , Disinfected Democracy. —Owing to the poisonous nature of thS cos metics in use among our belles, courtship lias eorrie to be like a game of billiards. In -eifheirt. many “kisses” are fatal. . —A man at Hurricane Heights, Ark.,-says that all the air about the earth will shortly blow away, and lie is busily engaged in, col lecting all tlie empty bottles in his vieinity-nnd sealing up the precious fluid for his personal use when the trying time shall arrive. —There has not been a single case of fever and ague in the lower part of Chester since the establishment of the Chester Chemical Works, , liy Mclntyre ,& Gibson. Hie gases which. ■ evolve from these works have been a 'death blow to fever and ague. . —“Here’s your money, hoy, and now tell me why your rascally master wrote eighteen let ters about that contemptible sum?” “Era sure, sir, I can't say; but if you’ll excuse me, sir, I sort o’reckon ’twas because seventeen- 1 , didn’t fetch it.” • —The great needle manufactory of .Carl . Schleicher in Scljonthal,' near Dpren,.ou the Kliine, exported in the year 18(18 no less than u 1M0,000,000 of sewing needles, which were dis- • posed of in various parts of the continent of Europe, in Hortli and South America, and- in - Africa. ■ ■ —A smock-frock philosopher in the rural part of England compared wife-beating to • thresh ing a sack of flour. “ You may knock all the line out of it,” lie said, “ hut ’pend ’pon. it the - coorse will stop beliind.” The more we think . of this saying theprofounder it becomes.' . —Prince Arthur, of England; after three • whole days’ stiidy of artillery, fortittcationand.. engineering, has received the recommendation , of the British Council of Military Education as being “well qualified for a commission in either of the scientific corps of Her Majesty’s army.” ' —Besides the people who eat with dhclir • knives,Olive Logan has found at Long Branch - “thegentlemen and ladies who continue, the masticating process post-prandially the- whole* length of the dining-room, and there are • the* gentlemen—few ladies—who drink tod much.l. champagne and walk out unsteadily with red. ; face and bleary eyes.” —The Hew York correspondent of. tko.Hewr . Orleans JPicuuune writes: “I know. of. one hank here—about the largest in the city—the President of which has allowed his son,iwho.. has no account whatever in the bank, or is in no way connectedxvithit, .to draw therefrom. all the greenbacks he may see fit, for the pur pose ot loaning them'at eiiormoWTatesofinr tere.st. ... . —The Norlhwestem lmfhwUm says ,of its town, of Warsaw: “We have a youth in this place by the name of .John 'fusing, who is in .the one hundred and sixth year~of hiS-agert.WTe -- also have the largest number of .beautiful, lakes, the handsomest women, two men-with tapeworms, more representatives in the-peni-- tentiary.and are prepared to excel anybody.in. anything thateau ho scared up.” '—At tliel celebration of the natitumli anni versary at Algona, lowa, on the sth instant, a. gentleman presented Air. Ingham,,, bunker— took from Ins wile’s arms bor babe, anil Afts.. Ingham mounted the platform ami delivered a speech on woman’s rights to an attentive, audience; after whicb the banker returned the babe to his wife with apparent.satisliiction and x>ride at her success. —Short hair, which has been comparatively of little value, is now. as expensive as any other, and this has brought into market aa article called the “Japan Switch,” reminding one of a fly-brush, by name. Itis made. from, the fibres of a tree, and comes in. all lengths and all colors natural to the human-, hflir, is soft and light, and can be braided, twisted or dressed as a chignon in any style desired. —Utica is atrticteii with lughway-. robbers. One of them dragged a young- manioutoff Ilia carriage the other night, anil , demanded Ilia money or his life. Bur. the youngman was plucky, and he first .thrashed the robber and then coolly got back into his carriage ant! drove away-ZThe highway robber who.w.oetkl sub mit to such air outrage is a fraud whom it wore a compliment to laugh at ■and call a vil lain. -A gentleman residing several miles from —r—- has been in the habit of.sending his wait ing-hoy with the buggy buck.bourn, with the following message: “Tell my ivifo I’m caught on that it—d jury again.” His with,to he sure, little suspected that the jury was a set of boon companions bent on “a liigfs old time” and the determination not “to go home till morning.”; A few. days since he sent said waiter-boy to town after some necessary articles- ; The hoy fell in with friends, gat elevated and top heavy, anil pitched out of the buggy. The-, horse and buggy arrived home-all right,out the hoy did hot make his appearance until next, day. With a stern, countenance our juryman, called the boy up and demanded why he did! not come up in the proper time. “ 'Pore Godh rnassa, I was eotched on do d—d jury.” . , —Tlio following anecdote is told of the Vice roy of-Egypt’s tendency-.-to., extravagances— When ho was in Paris, same years re marked that the French officer who was-ap pointed to accoiopanyhimworaapalatgt;oi a,— new fashion. He begged the officer the tailor wlio had made the paletofc to heu. brought to him; ho would like 1 one of exactly 'thesame kind. Thotailoreame,-andtook tha. - - measure of Ismail Pasha, who them said, “Now, make.me twelve dozen patetatsof this cut ” The tailor turned in amazement,to tha officer and said, “His Highness does not understand French very well; thorn must baa mistake. Who would wish one hundred and forty-four paletots ? ” The offices' was him self at a loss to understand, what was meant, and begged the Viceroy TO explain His Highness answered coolly, “Twelve dozen will scarcely suffice for a winter, for I cannot put on the some paletot mote than onco.” Tha tailor went away satisfied, engaged a number of Parisian workmen, and ip eight days 6ept . .. Ismail Pnsha his one hawked and fortydow ’ paletots, - r
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