GMSON ITAACOCK. Mar.
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PARIS ; Priday,JUly 31),1fiffi).-Paris is gradu , !
:!- ally dispersing itself over the face of the earthy I
‘.' and will' soon, be found anywhere rather
home
i: '' than at e. But different ideas -of - a
' . "fhimitter4our" lathe preSentgeneration likely ;
to . grow-4 .with; compared, to the , last! In - i
former , - days a :!'rent hniin; .or at least a
Parlidani : thought - that - to - , -- reaelries -- b(Wds - Efat
Rhein was an achittiement." "With the nicanti I
:of locomotion
,at :prtment at', our command, i•
said the - javrnal : Official, the other day, If•
.
apropos to this traveling . season, "i :tem.' .
round the world may .. . be made. 'in
about eighty\
.days, just the length - iif 1
the _summer vacation, or what it took in the
olden time to go from Paris.to St: , Petersburg." '
And thenthe official, organ prOceeds'tOcount ,
, .
__
up its itinerary :Hraris to No* York, chit en 1,
days; San 'Promisee, - by'rail, - Seven;
.Yoko
hams, hir steam, twenty-one ; Hong Kong„Six ; i
Caleutta; tirellie; 13oinhay, three . ; Cairo, foUr. j
teen ; 'and so hack to Paris, six. Total, eighty.
And out of all this immense line of route, only i
a distats:e of one hundred and forty miles, !.
between Allatrahad, and , Bombay - . which
. is, i •
pro tena., not . performed by steam,.either on I
. ..
land or water., Only the other day; two Ame- I. To the' 'Editor of the Evening Bulleti n : With
riven gentlemen'' arrived in Paris who had 1 out having 'anY desire to intrude upon your
reversed the above "tour," hiving "gone by ; readers with a controversy on. a theme of, at
the canal," and "returned by tie railroad," as I hart, only local in - Wort - once, I - yet beg your
they simply expressed it ;• the "the's" apply- , p erlo ti is ioh to 4ply,, as 1.,-tietly as pos ,., ibie, to
ing respectively to ling. apilthe Trans-Conti- ! a communication in your issue of the sth inst.
. netital hleitie, Which /begin already be - thus i Agnitti. 4 .r. L.," °tithe "Beauties of Delaware."
distinguished par exedienee and apart from all ,i ...1..L.e infornis his remlers that he wrote front
other routes. Albert. Bierstadt's two magniti- a sass rise of (hay .to hisfellow-eitizens,".de
cent railitintis ofthe Rocky . 3loUntabin, which : !thing to Correa certain pdastatentents Of - your
were exhibited throughout the • whole •of the correspondent "G,. J. H.," who had spoken
Paq season; at the 'exhibition - of tine arts in ( favorably of . the LI-AVe.4 andßehobeth Beach._
London and Paris, have quite inflamed the 1 .As ..i . furnished "G. Jg il." with•:SomeOf the
- Europtuin ithaginatioe with the igh.a of the 1. information on 'which ' his statements Were
beauty and grandeur .of those regions, ,! based, justice,. requires that these 'statements
;m 4 l have, appealed t 0.. :, - the,. e.ye in - - a should be made good . or , the en•or ac
way which. , could ; fun . have . heen ! know edged.
effected by a hundred • entitle-,souks .. The ' - I MIS With "ti. J: II." ' ,when hCVLSited - . Ite
dinulors of the 1? won Pacit - W ought to grant 1 bohoth. We left Linves for Rehoboth about
to the great painter the fre&tom of their road Plo'elock Ag:'3l., and Proceeded; by Wlty of
, for life, in return for the !rests of tourists his t i Cape Henlopen lighthouse, along the beach:
works will inevitably semi them? • , , The distance by that route, from the best in-
.
As though to, complete this wonderful in- ; formation I could obtain, is about seven milt.t.s.,
(Tease of facility for the locomotion of the ; and is, Withollt eXeeption, the most plea.s.unt
hunien licitly, this morning bringaus - ilidproof 1 drive I have bail. AVe returned by' the road
of' equal- suirantages accorded for the trans- usually traveled, and were assured by the
mission of human thoughts.' For the first i driver of the hard: that the distance Was not .
!hint our papers appear with despatches rev- l
1 over six miles. Hack drivers are net, so tar
larly and directly transmitted through the "'us my experience goes, in the habit of under
-1 rench t t ato ,, At i atit i c. c at & - Th e - oomm o ol _ estimatingng live dollars for their services. distances,'• partlinlarlY-when , they
eationg between New antic bark Brest, sir,are chargi Delaware horses are not the must fleet-footed
rather, enc. sheulri say between New i counient in the world, and yet they" passed
York and Paris, 'are: complete. , " • The an- 1 over the` road between Lewes , and , Rehohoth,
nouneement of his final Success is intimated 1 with fire Person in the . hack, ill ProolselYfllrtY
. . 'fflulthie .- ' r' - - , ' • , ', - ',.,
by Sec .Jaines Anderson in the following grace- n :gts tothe "famed Rehoboth," "J, L.' says
ful terms: "'AV - e reeeived,yesterday, from the the Beach la steeper thin at -CaPe • 3Liy, and
inhabitants ofThixlmny - multhe Governor mill - his Mita, single - ,roll ,of breakers
,breaking ,
Stator "of Boston, such an ovation as for I - UP - On ib , i'v'erk edge.' The ' appeatatwe - ortlif;
I surf Wag not tempting . to him, and thereferq
.warmth ..and 'cordiality_l never,. before saw
- .he did not try a:bath. Some persons have an
equaled." And thus another great link has antipathy ca:water, and not bathe oftener
been forged to:bind together, I trust, in peace than they an help; but such are not generally
and gOod will, the great human fondly: ~,It. good judges of bathing localities. This Beach
seems almost like a, prophetic . coincidence is as smooth, as elmn, as safe and as beautiful
-.--,-- ,as that at Cape May, and this can be vouched
that this VerYmorning, al.o, pro.; are tom that ~
i for by' many genWinen inthis city Who' have
the Imperial GOverninent has. de ermined to I bathed in its , • . '. .
send to their homes, either' forr - good or on un- "J. L:' further says that the is-a-lake of-
limited leave, 50;0(M) soli - him:. One can almost] fresh, good water Within • one hundred_ yards "
fancy t
,- of the sea, but it is eery diminutive. This is
hat the first whisper of the tined cable
.1 literally tru. The lake IS 110 as large as
from America has began to break down the Superior- or. Huron, but it is large enough to
huge militarYsysteinsolthe EuropeanGoveni- 1- be'both beautiful and useful. - But what - opti
melts. 1 tical defect afflicts "J. L." that he failed to see
the se!..or . c lake,. stillneaterthe ocean; which
There is nothing worth alluding to in the lay ' Rea" one! ' I ;
z o lvi i,wi tlunfi tlir6 tty -tardy
i h n e f irmii iigth t , h :i a i l - t ti '.
way of polities far the moment. Attention is
1 - . 1 / 1 some _places -a. - 7 feurth- --of a mile
in.width? Was he.. 'looking for ,‘„,.
ternal evidences _et_ ' _fish, none -of
which, he informs your readers, existed?_
- -After his - signal failure UT - see - Lake Newbold,
, I ant not surprised that his fishing in ',Rem,
b
th - b - aywas NO IlletteCtUal; but my astonish
-intuit is-great-that he-diseovered such things
as blackberries and crabs, and I think he 'has
been remiss in his "duty to his fellow-citizens,"
because he has failed to inform them whether
both-grow on bushes , or are found in the bay.
Will he please inform the public whether lie
found the crabs by "external evidence," or by
the acuteness of his, ision ? ' •
But,
,31r. Editor, prejudiced statements are
not'arguments, and I would most respectfully
present the following points, which I will sub
stantiate by good and sufficient testimony at
any time :-, , . ~ . '
ll
1. That the'eachat Rehoboth is, in every
respect, equal to that - of Cape May.
2. That the fresh water lakes spoken of by
"G.J. IL" do actually exist,. and that nothing
like them can' be' found on the coast of the
United States. ~
3. That Rehoboth Bay is the most beautiful
sheet of water, and the safest for bathing, that
lies between Cape Cod and Key West.
As to when all these advantages will be
utilized and made .attractive to the pleasure
seekers of the country the future must deter
mine, but with railroads nearing Rehoboth
`every day, the time cannot be remote when it
will be numbered among the "cities of - the
sea." G. A. It,
fixed wholly !von the
thiiiiieCting — ef "the Senate on that
\ , slay. All sorts of conjectures are put forward
\ respecting the nature and spirit of the forth-_
coining Senatils-Consuitien. But it is hardly
svorth-whileto-speentatii-upon--what--we-shall
' so _soon know_with_ certainty.,
An insurrection;' in , a (.artist sense, has
broken out ;in ;-but : - aw disposed to ;
• consider it as trivial, and- nn.supported by any
',forces siitficient to mike it really dangerous to
',the Governine.nt. ; '
A case was tried two,days age before one of
,the civil tribunals of Paris, which is worth
Mentioning, perhips, as a, trait de 'mimes, al
though the chief'BartY to it is notiof a class to
which frequent allusion lb desirable, One of
the most , distinguished, or, rather , distinguish
able, females of the demimonde in Paris is a cer
tain Mlle. Anna Deslions, who drives the most
brilliant equipage and wears the finest clothes
pi' any among the crowd of fashion in the Bois
ide Boulogne. But the individual in
(question pretends, it appears, to far
different tastes from the , aboire, and
has a turn for the intellectual as well as
the material and sensual. 'She has a taste for
, books, at least for the outside of them and
indulges in rare editions and costly bindings.
The bookseller 'who was favored with the ens
tom of this singular patron of literature, was
the well-known 31. Fontaine, of the Passage
"des Panoramos, whose store is frequented by
so many American bibliophilists. Here 31'lle.
Desllons ran up a little ; bill of some 8,0001.,
amongstrind the Catalogue or her
,choice acquisitions, I find the fol
lowing: A Livre d'hetires, illustrated by
31athieu : and bound by . ' 'Cape:(the
tm
• ost celebrated artiste in that line in Paris or
,perhaps in the world)—price 700 francs.,, An
"Imitation of Aims Christ," ,alsO bound by
- Cape, 800'1mi:ids: beautifui volume of La
„Fontaine, 800 francs. A speech ,Of., Prince
Napoleon's, which had,been, it appears, to the
lady's taste, and itis'o' Sumptuously bound. 3r.
Fontaine alsnsupplied her, "library" with the
worts . , of Spinoza, Homeir, - Sophocles', de
Maistres, Chideaubriand and a grand collec
tion of French claStiles, with Dorii's illustsa
-led edition of the Bible; `,ln short, any
-one casting his eye along Mlle. Desllons's
"shelves wend(' have conceived an elevated
• opinion of that lady's;' religious and classiCal
acquireMents, to say nothing of :.her taste ; for
artistic bindings.. To ni,y Mind there is Horne
thing infinitely more, shocking in the preten
sions which these creathres thus,exhibit in the
above line, (especially when one considers how,
they are' supported)—than when one sees
them flaunting in their peaeocl6l feathers fn
the broad glare of day. It is curlous;,too, tof
' mark the sort of hankering they so often mc-
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4pproAching _ 2d t_of.
For the information of the curious, the
Mauch Chunk Gazette,- of •the , 6th, publishes
the following transcript from the borough
election returns of 1861, i for Town Councils,
which Was the last time Judge Packer ap
peared before the people of . that place as . a
eandi6te for office. This was befere he made
his odious "war record," which has since de
tracted from the-popularity. hathen: enjoyed:
Ho will run far-worse this yeat:,_. - .•
Republicans. • - DemocratS.
Wm. 016:er........163 31. 31. Dimmick..ll4
H' 31. Line...• . ... .164 'John .. .. .112
James. Hyudtrin..lsl Jos.Weyhemnyer:ll2
Louis Beekhardt...ls9 Reuben Deviait...lll
Nich. , Remme11.....160 , .Asa Packer....... 116
'l'lnta,le- will he observed that with all the
vast 'patronage under his, control, the " Pride
of our Valley" ran but tour Votes, on an aver
age, ahead of.bia ticket. • •
. . .
—Duprez, _lien° et Minstrel Troupe
clpened on Monday night at. the 'Arch Street
Theatre, and have thus far met With great and
well-deserved Success. There wilt be an enter
tainment every evening Ws weelc,with a con
stant changeof 'programme. •
,
—The Walnut will be reopened on Saturday,
evening, August:l4th, ;with the new serum- ,
tional drama, livty, ;which; ;be produoqd
with'a fine cast, new seenery and qcelleht
Mechanical effects.
hibit after religious subjects. rememhe
one being taken by a friend, Who Was a great
patron of the drama, to see the house`
of that miserable, unhappy child of genius,
poor Rachel. Her dining-room, was 'fitted up
like a Greek trieliniurp,'-With couches for the,
gtiests to repose'orf at 'table; Re Afr here; as
was only too notOricaui, manya wild b.accha-
Indian rout and revel had been perpetrated.
Will it be believed that at'one end of the room,
laced so as to look down upon and command
a full view of these orgies, hung a sup Orb popy,
of Guido's "Christ crowned with thorns:"
One shudders to think of the scenes it must
have witnessed and listened to.
only --- addi- in coneluiliag -- these remarks
on subject's I do not often refer , to,'
that Mlle. Deslionamith acerfain consistency
of character Whichone rather admires in her,
though very willing. to Order her ,Llrre
&Ileum, imitation, SZO, was not by any means
equally ready to pay for th'em, and resisted '
this Pait'pf the bargain as long as she could
One almost fancies she ought to have been let
off altogether; on the' plea that the good.s de
livered could not possibly be of the least use
,
to her. •ButjuStice is inexorable even' to the
,
donr4liondo;:arid comic:tined her in the whole
sum demanded ; althotigh the court gave a
whimsical proof of the stability of her credit
by spreading the payments over an interval
of two years.
THE BEAFT/E4 OF DELANIVARE.
POLITICAL.
.."THE 7: - 114; ,VALLEY."
Havii' he "Runs" at Home.
EINSASTERS.
DIBASTFR "AT SEA.
The Steamship.; Germania Wrecked', in
the Bay Of Trepamer, Nestfanneltind—
The Passengers anti Prew
tel and Cargo a fetal Ltoss.
Again the wild waters of the , ocean bare
made sad havoc with the work of man. Not
all the ingenuity, skill and enterprise of the
human mind could prevail against their power.
'Whenever for a series Of months there is no,
terrible. dbiaster at sea to be detailed to arrawe
stricken 'public , ' one settles 'down almost fa
• the belief , that the ,progres.s. of civilization.:ls
about to triumph over the terrific . forces of
nature. But soon we are aroused,. and the
_foolfmrdiness,- the - self,complaeency of Man is
terribly made apparent,, It is but a rem - months*
ago that the United Kingdom steamed our of
this harbor with liagivwaving cheerily in the
breeze, and her freight of hunian beings re
Joking and congratulating thernselves at the.
prospect of a;_ speedy return to the moun
Min ranges of Scotland. ALTS man znay .:hope and Irish ' and make his
calculations for ' the immediate future.
as 'if he could command the powers and
threes of nature, but often, and only too often,
he is battled by his utter inability tb counter-'
acithem, and is made to' feel his own insig
nificance, the poverty of his own'pigmy
strength. Merrily and cheerily as, the United
liingdom sailed from our shores, no human
eye Will see her ag,ain,no human ear will listen
to the harrowing tales of her passengets, no
human voice will give an account of her hist
days and the sufferings of her last moments.
She is gone, and the bed of the ocean will not •
surrender its prey.
WRECK OF THE MTEA3ISHIP GERMANIA.
As if again to remind us of the weaknesS of
i man, the sea has demanded another inVolnn
-1 tary tribute to its unconquerable power. It
; was not an'old vessel, Which haslong haffeted
the winds and the waves - and has grown less
staencli in the many contests: than when first
launched from the stocks. It was compara
tively a new vessel, built of, material and upon:
a Model Which it was tielieved could withstand
any attack of the ocean, nematter hoW vio
lent. yet the sea proved it , :v mastership, and
the splendid stemma' Germania is hy,this time
no more, and neither iron nor -steam, neither
the skill, experience and -energy of her offi
cers and crew nor her watertight compart
'Meats could save her from her fate. ~ '
_
DESC.ItIFTION OF TICE STEA3LER;
Tile Germania - was built at Greenock, Scot
land, by the Nvell known. and sueet...s.sful
bidlders of iron steavashiixs, the- Atessrs. Caird
& Co., for 'the 1 - Lunburg-Anierican Packet
Company, of Hamburg Germany. 'All the
steamships of this company—twelve in num
ber—have been built by the same firm._ The
Gennania was sent to. sea- from the shipyard
-of
.Caird & Co. in 1863.; At Lloyd's she was
rated, when last Surveyed, in January, 18418,
as Al; measured 2.718 tons, had three decks,
drew 21 feet of wafer, was constructed of iron,
and. was considered 'a very , - fast steamer..
Her engines . were
,direet-acting . with .
72 inch-cylinder and 4 feet 'stroke of piston,
her nominal horse polver being 600. Her, di
nien.sions Avere, as follows: Length of keel, 318
feet-, breadth of beam, 41 fjet,,antl depth: of
hold, 26 feet nine inch s. She xyas bark-rigged
and a fair sailer. She had all the modern an
plianees for •• safety, such - - as water-tight
compartments, pumps land the like: •
,Her first
corninandh:r.was Captain Ehlers, afterwards
captain Schwensen took charge of her; and
latterly Captain Kier, had coml./mud.
THE if;EUMANIA ON FIRE us
Already:once this splendid Vessel came near
destructiort by - fire; during •one'cif - her earliest
trips from Iltunburg to New York. It waS on
the morning of the 24th of January, 181 f, when
off Newfoundland, and while - steaming
through extensive flakes ot floating ice, that
the witch below observed smoke issuing from
the lower deck into the berths occupied by the
steer age passengers. - Captain Ehlers was im
mediately informed of it, and he summoned
the officers and crew to hiS asSismnce.
Orders were given that : nothing of the
occurrence should, be . conamumeated_ to
,the - cabin passengers. The people in that part
ot the steerage below which the tire was (Us
covered were removed to another.part and
placed under guard, but were assured of their
safety. The deck was' then cut through, and
five streams of water poured 'on the lire be
neath in the hold.. and it was thus fortunately
extinguished before laity person: inthe cabin
bad-tue-least-lutintation-to-whatjerrildn
ger they had been exposed,_ and . that,but_for::
- a
the promptnd • been_
taptath
Ehlers and his stibordinates, - .7 - the.faterof-the.
Austria - On'lBsBiinight have been theirS. 7 •
The Gerniama,- sailed Ifrom , this
Cowes (Southampton} add Hamburgi_ on Tties•
av - of - last — weeki - the - Ild'o - f7A. - trgust, at two t
the regula dav- of the -.Hamburg-4
steamships. .
THE WIRECIt.----
The first intimation of her loss WaS the
re
ceipt; by the general agents of the packet
company, 3iessrs.linholiardt & Co., ill Btoad
street, from the North German Consul at St.
John's, Newfoundland, a despatch to .the fol
lowin effect
Si...l g
on...is, N. F., Aug." 10.—The Germania
is a total loss at Trepassey, off•this coast. The
passengers and crew have been saved. A'
steamer has heen sent there ' " to bring them to
this port." R. H. PnowsE.
The locality; given in the , aboVe despatch is
near Cape Itace and somewhat to , the north
west of it, on the , southwestern coast line of
Newlotindland. Trepassey Bay is situated in
longitude 53 30 west of Greenwich (about 23 tip
east of 'Washington); and about 4.4 i a) north
latitude. NO, particulars of the disaster, no
precise statement of the cause of it, have beep
received, but it, is presumed by some of those
who, seafaring men, know the surround
ings of that part of the Newfoundland coast,
that the Germania must have run, or rather
been driven, upon a rock durifig the 'night by
the tremen dous sea just now raging there.
When the above despatch became known it
created quite an exeitement,for thoOgh atlirth
ing that the passengers and crew were saved,
from. - 0e- crumbling wreck, it did not state
whether they were brought to the shore or
still, left to treacherous fortune upon the
seething waves in•open boats. A second • de-, spatch, however, dispelled all these doubts. It
read: ' •
ST. JOHNS • N. P August 10, 1869.—The
passengers .•
gers and crew were successfully landed
at Trepassey, and a, tug has gone to their as
sistance.
This was assurance that the entire number
of human beings which had left - New York on
the vessel were safely returned to dry land,
and would soon be taken care of by the agents
of the ccenpany: - The apprehensions,i± any
were yet felt by those who had friends, rela
tives or even acquaintances on board, were
further quieted by learning of the receipt of
the following
ST. JonNs o N. P., August 10, 3.31,-P. 3L—To
Kuhnharde iii Co, New Fork. The passengers
and crow are still at the scene of the wreck.
A tug left this morning to bring what she can
carry here. It. H. PnoWsp.
The latest, information is that the Germania
is a complete'wreck, that she is breaking up
and fast disappearing under the continuous
shocks of the tremendous blows of the waves
breaking up against and •over•ber. , One de
spatch last , evening empressed the Imhof that
besides the passengetW and crow the' mails
were also brought, safely to land, but nothing
upon which this belief could rest was mien
tioned. The vessel; cargo and specie are a
total loss; and in all probability also tio bag
gage of the passengers, whoi if, the disaster
happened at night• as appears to have been
the fact, must have been in their berths, and
very likely could Rave but little of their ward"
robe.
OUg comintY.
RELIZT' XEA.I2.
The Umbria, belonging• to the la corn= t
piny the Iltunburg-American—sailed.iester
das. at twerP. M.. it being. her regular sailing
dny. The general agents, Messrs..Kuhithardt
& Clio" had already been advised of the loss of
the Germania and immediately gave orderi - to
Captain Haack to make all possible
Speed to'St. Johns. and there take •on board
'the passengers of the late Germania the
sister vessel of the • Chnlbria, and' '
;31 7 r..
, ProWse; the North. German -Consul; at St
Johns, was at once informedzofthisstep byte. ,
,egraphyandl)e IVati requested nog only to con-'
municate this to the passengers *I to Capt.`,
w
Kier; but to do all in Ins poer to make them'
:114 comfortable as pos.sible,ond toi`sipare no ev.-;
pense in doing so until the - arrival the - Chu-;
Urfa. A special agent, entrusted" , With full
powers by Messrs. Kuhnhardt;& Co.,'
went out ;yesterday in the same'stemner to. St.'
Jam. the passengers of .the wrecked:
steamer will be placed on board the Cimbria
arid eonveved to Europe., ' ••
•;:' It is indeed a fortunate circumstance that
the Joss of not a:angle heman being need be
mourned in so terrible'a cataktrople.—Heraid.
DISASTER NEAR YOILIK, PA.
• - 'Explosion or ts POirde*Mtil•
Fork-TrueThe Democrat: Oays :•• ohnso,n s
powder mill, about One-and4-haltiniiles South.
:of S onr borough,' explodedoin San:inlay evening
last, ''about seven' o'clock. The dry . -hOuse,
.which ,, WaS a stone building,',WaS blown to
atoms, and the roof of the.powdet mill blown.
About two tons of.the powder were in
4te; dry-house at the time of the explosion, the
largest pottion of - which -vas in ,kegs. . It is,
supposed the explosion was oaaStoned bye
Some fire from the stove in the dry-house Com-
Minficating - with a number of. sWallowif nests
in the chimney, which, igniting; dropped ,
their sparks on the'. pulverized charcoal
on the litiot below. This seems
be apparent from the faet . that
Mr. James Johnson, Who has charge ofT the
- works, first . noticed Smoke proceeding front.
the roof near the chhnney, and 'going into the
dry-house discovered _the: door atomic in
flames, andgave the alarm in , time , for him
self, wife and children to reach a secure place
just before the catastrophe. • The, powder. ip
the powder mill was ignited by the flames:
front the exploding dry-house, and 'Was only
sufficient in quantity to pkodtice the effect.
already noticed. Owing to the ;Powder not
-being confined closely, the noise of the ex-plo
sion was not especially heard or noticed in our
borough, although persons residing in South
George street were cognizant of a sudden
'couossion not sufficient to produce serious
alatnt; 'A Volume ()Ohl& smoke, was seen
rising front the direction of the . Mill, and when
the news reached town that an explosion had,
taken place,' quite a large number of our citi
zens visited the ruins. - There were no lilies
: lost, as there Were no worlauen in the mill at
the time; but a valuable nointet dog, belonging
hi Mt. johnson, was. buried .abont three or
fourfeet under the falling debris and was
afterwards dug out alive. - Although' pretty
severely mimed and 'scOrched‘, it is supposed
the animal will survive its - injuries The loss
:Occasioned by the; exploSion, is estimated at
about 53,000, upon - which, of course, there Was
..no insurance,
The Voyage—lltrn They Passed Their
11ine....Lite on the Ocean Wave.- •
Norrciipondencebf tb . . 2 ll'artroid:Connititj
Strong hOpes were entertained that as the
men wereJti such: excellent etindition, in fact,
being tilino4 in training force, that they Would
not be, affected by the voyage, lint we were
disappointed, for one: after another. they :me
cum-bed to the power of the sea,- and Neptune
'receiVell his tribute till only number two and
the jolly little coxswain remained . untouched
by "mal-du-mer." The stroke, Mr. Simmons,
was Most severely affected, and it was not till
almost the end of the trip that we had
the pleasure of seeing him do ju_stice to the
'well-spread tables of the steamer. Under the
- circumstances, - theplams .for regular exercise
formed before the start had to be in a great
measure abandoned. A rowing weight had
been set up amidships on the main - deck, but
even those who were well eciikt scarcely abide
the smells WhiCh 'filled the `giddy," and' the
steamer rolled so much that _they could: not
keep their seats so as to" pull properly.: The
_f__upper deck' however, furnished_pretty
accommodatioas for walking, and every_flu
••=the - --ere, di hii three ;tired dour miles
while the:lighter exercisP
"e4iider,the long-reach—the -backward- and
forward leap,:joined with
the more liar (and sonic of the more venturesome
even found -the no ---- blid — si - WaTtnti: ' 4 ' -
1 gymnastic apparatus) served to keg
in Their accommodations on
shipboard _werei-very good,- and- T -the - MR cers - j
spared no attention Winch could make the trip,
more agreeable, and generously — refused to
take any pay for the transportation of
the boats, though they were a source of
considerable trouble, as they had to be con
stantly watched to prevent. the passengers
from sitting or leaning on them; despite the
warning "Keep oil"' printed in large letters on,
their canvas; jackets. The evenings of- the
voyage were most:glorious, and many were
the hours spent in promenading by the light
of the moon with the ladies, of whom there
were many on board, or leaning over the
rail, in watching the brilliant flashes from
the phosphorescent waves or the softer
light of beauteous eyes. And the sons of Har
vard proved themselves as well versed in the
more gentle arts as they have already shown
they are in the more arduous duties at the.oar.
Many and warm were the friendships formed,
and who shall say that when our little house
hold was broken up at the termination of the
voyage, that the partings were less full of re
gret than those from friends of longer stand-
ing across the wide 'Atlantic.
The Race—Will there be .Fair Play?
The London correspondent of the N. Y.
Thaw writes as fellows:
The season has gone with the tight over the j
bill. In ten days Parliament will be pro
rogued, and London empty. of all who are able
to get out of it. The interest of the few re
maining millions will then concentrate upon
the international boat: race_ between .Oxford
and Harvard, a few miles up the river. The
Harvard boys, who 'are declared to be near
-oleus specimens of nianly beauty, have
a nice house by. the riverside at Put
ney,. with a garden runnin„c , down to the
water, and they are trying their boats—try
lug the. Thames—getting - the bearings, and
,goimg into regular traininZ crew;
has cre,
has its own little Villa, lent to them by the pro
prietor, riot far distant, and the trains, omni
buses' and steamers 'already carry hundredS
of people daily, who take a pleasant trip,
:into the prettiest. suburbs.of London to get a
glimpse of-the rival: crews.. The betting men
are . eagerly studying, .Aim, prospects .and,
'chances. They, are, wary now, but as the, ox-'
citement rises great sums will be ventured,,
and . then will come' the desperate desire to
Win. *The hating men Who 'would not • beg
tate to poison a horse or rider, will do their
best to foul a boat. I , however, „,j
that every effort will he made to give the )far-'; j
vard boyii"fair play, and that it would be satis- . .
factory to•many to have Oxford beaten, be
cause they thinkit would please the 'Awed-,
'cans. SO, the Harvard crew will steer around!
all sorts of currents. If the day coUldbe fixed,
the river.banks would' be as crowded as the ;
Epiom Coupe ea Derbyia,y., AS. it is to ho:
the first tine d*YOf four, timpmilkbo no lack
of sliectators,,
—ln a eluinee ry suit pending ,in Chicago
there are one htutared an tive•ciefeadants,
TIRE .11511ALRVARD CREW.
TIM NOV Ipl4loli*V
A ,
, Nevi** OP:iihe tilltionitloino:,aphe lu t a
• , Canseof the Quanotrel:
"We publish uporoan Inside'poige an ticepunt
of the, light over . the - ,Susquehanna _Railroad.
.11$ following front the 7'rib,une - will aid the
reader ingetting a proper comprehension of
the eXact situation: , ' •
Originally the \and Susquehanna
Railroad was Ithilt'sis a local enterprise, with
the object'of , °Peeing Itis and imprhoing the
country through which a runs. Appreciating
the, importance df its deolgns, , the.:Legishiture
granted it consi!lerable aulksidiOS, and Me tO "CDS
and eitieosalong its route followinsnit,- sub
scribed literally taniettich g
.11
c tittlie.seantsidies
and contrillationsseenire - havebeenTiT: I sufficient
for the building of the'roatkand the directors
allege that they were eompelled to issue a Ihrge
anoonnt' of stook which they sold at s2s';' per,
share of $lOO, while the law positively forbade
the sale of the Company's stock at less than
par. The queStion of the validity of this lsale
is now the grow:a/work of nine legal suits and
Considerable - illegal squabbling, laut it must
be undendood that; each, of the suits has bear
ings independent of this qiiektion. " •
To.give a clear understanding 'of the im
portance of,the roaci.to Erie, it may be stated
; that at Bingnampton it connects, with the
Erie line, and tou
hrgh it
with, the' whole
System of Western roads under its command.
At Albany it, joins , the Boston and Albany
Itailiray. Thus be seen that the Erie
Railway, once in .poiniession of this road,-:
would have a route , from the West to New
England so direct as topreVent any successful
competition, excepting on the
i littit of
the New York Central .ailroad.
Another importantconsideration in
the eyes of the Erie magnates is, the
'coal trade of Albany 'and the river towns,
and the inland towns of-NeivEngland, which.
m
is now in their possession, jointly ;with the
Delaware and Hndson Canal. Binghamton is
rapidly be:coming a great distributing .centre
for this trade, and. the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Rail Way. Company svill soon
complete a road direct from Scranton to that
city. As Erie and the Canal 'Company have
hitherto monopolized this trade, and as it is
understood that the present , directors of the
Albany and Susquehanna, Railroad are •in
favor of leasing . to the Delaware and
Lackawanna ltailway the right to run
their coal trains over, the road, • thus
ilestroying the coal monopoly, it would
obviously benefit Erie to obtain control ot the
Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, or at all
events to depose the contumacious directors.
The consolidation with Erie is opposed by the
directors, for two reasons. Pint, they claim
that. the road VMS built to , accommodate local
trade. If it be placed' . under the control of the.
Erie road it will lose its primary .object, and
the local trade Will be forced to give way 'to
through traffic, and to pay heavier tariffs.
They argue on well established 'prece
dents, they say when they assert, that
in all of, the large railways, mad&
up of nianyreads,.but more especially* of Erie,'
local trade is matte subservient to a through
ffi
trac, and the fbrmer is, taxed ,m6re than ;
thaible (in proportion) than the latter. Their
tecond reason for opposition is - the 'coal trade.
For the interest of the section of the country
through which the road runs, awl for `the.-in
terests of the road aS well,they desire to break
up the Erie monopoly in the coal trade, this
cheapening the fuel raised in all the river
towns, and in all the inland towns of New
England, and as a natural cousequenee, , in
creasing the consumption and their own
freight traffic;
he Bald on,. the Ehiequehelles itethreed•
• [From the Argus, of.Ttesdnyj
We think it must. be - etident .to the
Erie Railroad directors' that'their move
ment' ripon the Sus9nehanna, Railroad
is a failure. Law game , at
which two can play; and unluckily , for -the
Erie operators, they disclose all. their tricks
and devices in their: previous performances.
The citizens of Albany have had the . advan
tage of twenty-four hours' in time and one him-
Sred and - fifty miles diiitance over , these New
York parties:: 1 While Adinind Fisk has, been
Mailing up and down "the river 'the
Albany -- party has instituted pro
ceeding,s, secured orders, obtaine4 the,'• ap
pointment of receiver; and taken possesion
of the propertfy of the road.: - Fisk, in his last
expeditionisalled right into the jaws -of the
court, on a process. of contempt.. We sup Pose
the contest in adegalpoint - of view is substan
ly-ei ded.--If7Judge-Bartia.i. dbes
draw-the ordiaohnunedi - -from .him .by false:
representations T--it. avill :be the ':duty-.Of the
court here tcLtreatthe
m as they deserve,' and
to enforce thOVlaNragainst those: who , attempt
tcrtiike - advantage - of - thicahuse;-- - But - we --do
notrefer to thiLinatterfor the purpose of dis
-cussing the legal questions - Involved. What
_ls_important our--eitizens,_and
extraordinary struggle has illustrated, is', the
innnense. value, of tile - road in its rela
tions to 'the other routes of trade and travel,
and to the material development of the 'cout
try. It is one of the most important avenues
to the coal mines. It is a connecting linkbe
tween the West and New England and
Northern New York. It is the terminus of
the broad gauge, line from Chicago, reaching
tide-water at Albany. It is a rival of the Cen
tral Railroad, and can defeat its, tendency to
monopoly. It is not important what set of
men are, Directors in the road. We care
nothing about that.: But the road is essential
to the prosperity of Albany; and it is the in
terest of all our citizens that it Should be pre
served as an independent corporation, not
subservient to any other company or interest.
_
of refer to t
FROM NEW YeEli.
NEW 17011 K, Aug. 11.—Edward R.:Jones,
George Phiff and David R. Morrison. brokers,
who, pleaded guilty to violation of the usury
laws, were yesterday tined 82.50 each by Judge
Cardozo. Emanuel Knight and Reuben W.
Howe '
for same offence, were tined i•.'100 each,
and
Howe,..
A. Macy 5406) . on each of two in
dictments. George Watts, another. broker,
was tined $2.50 and sentenced to be imprisoneti
in the City Prison tea days.
Twenty Cuban prisoners have escaped froM
Fernando Po'. Three of them arrived in this
city yesterday by the'Cmiard steamer, and the
others are expected - to , follow in a few days.
The Union - RepubliCan Central Committee
met last night and:adopted a Constitution,and
decided to hold an election for permanent
officers on the 17th inst.
the Fifth Company of the' Seventh :Regi
ment celebrated their anniversary yesterday
by an exeursi'ott. to Staten Island, and a
Two more 'firms sighed tlio , new price list of
the tailors - yesterday, and it is said that twelve
others will sign it, to,day. The strike will
-probably last but a short time longer.
At the meeting' of, the Woman Suffrage As
soCiation ' yesterday; ' Mrs. Wilboitr read an
essay - on the rights ' and duties of her' sex,
which'Was ~tell received. The printed petf
tionsfor a Sixteenth Amendment are' now in
Circulation - for signatures.
—..41 flying toad, noir 'in IVashington, was
captured in a seine at Cape Henry, a few dings
since. it in of most singular conformationi and
'of beautifbllyr variegated hues, ineasuring
about:six inches in length, with a -perfeetly
fiat, bonyback, eyes wide apart , tuul in the
centre ot circle, capacious mouth, and tins
as large OA wings about the, centre, of th.e body
'on each side. •
" Saial S, 'genital, of . Ohio, bias,` bou,ght
„tit© tiefrriti of the late Nottetta/ Inte lngo/eq.
I—'l'ho metrical System. af weighty anti
measures has been introduced in tb,o Topublie
of Uruguay, since January last, and heavy
tines aro imposed on all parties not 3sing it,
P. L F!gluEßgloN Pnfli'
rAir4il;
_
(For, the gYeitirig ballerts.e, ;
• 1416 at Matters It r: -
It matters lirtle',Whi;re I was l!prlat)‘:-• • ."'; `'
Or ie . riiy iiare464 weretroif
AVherber liter :Ararik' i' e6lO 'World%
seent;.: • !•• , ,
Or walirciiitbeltrlde Ott wealth Aearet.;
But whether Lli*e tax hotakitrmaa i "
my.integrity:tonv"in zny*uteti,.,
te llTourlaY:torOtheD, , plainAsildav,
'lfmattera much! , , •t.
•
Ir matteiti - ltitlehow - loni t B fa3: '
Iu a - *arid of sorrow; airi and care;
Whether.in4csufthl am milled imay,, • ' •
Or lAre tII myr.tones of‘fiesh , are hare.;
APtVle_tAer./ &Atte IH.=B*l can
. soften. the vt•efght.ofadversiti3fs tomtit
faded Cheats of my fellow inan s
It inatfera ` muclrt ''
•'• - '
•
*lt matters little*Uwe be my grave,
Ur on the lop4.k.ssi,ithe.sea ;
By pqrling brook.ox,',neath stormy wave r .
It matters little ofsrianght tome ;
but whether the angel, of death Comes down
Aria MAWS thy viriih his lovng
As vne that shall' wear thief ifictor's erewn;. . " •
•It Matters '- ' , ) • • • .• •
-111inols'is the first northwestern State to
employ•colored inilitja.. • •
—A :young Califernianet recentJyT lithdt
father arrested for profanity., • e. •
• —Prince Arthur will leave for, America , in
the. City of Paris August 14.
s..
_ —Kansas promises that-her population shall
be 450,000 when the next . census is taken.
.
—A jockey club is about to be established In
'St.Petersburg, the meuabers of which for thp
present Will be limited tollie . onutber Of 000: •
. .
—ln aome•narts of Georgia the cotton pialitt , •
tiro so heavy with bolls as to break down, and
two bales to the acre are e.epected..
=John- Bell, of Tennessee, •hi Ire fallihg
. health and there is no hope of his pertannent.
•
In 1860 there ivere'buts . 46l l , miles of home•
sraiirciail in thernited State.4.' It is' e4tittiated
that there are at least 4,000 miles to 7 klay.
;:• —The impointmeit cif:llr: George - William,
Curtis as President of Alichigait.lTniversity.i.s.
odvocated. by influential journals in that State.-
__ 7 --The Pope has appointed:a:Nuncio fop the
%Kingdom. of Norway, who is'nvpected soot* to , •
be installed. , .• • . .
—"The Garpnau,i'zincesar i lain
ptivelv.iteati
ze4 tit'Neli• (Means Picayune asplebeitipAr
slinging beer Asilocia Ac t latt bity,tatns out
bkao*Prtadois 411. ' • ~
kobP •• wir.oapAss,
Liftiligk, *of ti*eden, her - recent partifado tb•
thaTriaile 30iaufsiiii
tated at aud'etilt1. 4 .2 1 1,11100:••• • ••' • - ..:. 1 • 1 .•‘•
.
'-L-The'ethetifillas levied 'o tl a properttor
ElishaSpiague to.the vain° •Of ' ,4 40,00016 xi&
isty the jw.l44nent itho-l•hr'eaeh •of proreisir
case brought against hini•by Kiss Onup-•
. --The Pinta .Indituis aectime the .:whiteof
homing changed the climate of Nevada., They
say it rains now more than before •tho coining
of. , • • • • ,
.—A western Rill!or Copoll,tulates, a , noighbor
that thematingeinentof the paper has
been. given up to 31r.,q. ; cissers.aml air; P.
• .L
-The trtiea Observer say:4' : ''There are ga
678986432811 §6 - 1.12M164328076 , 12.14412197987497314---
'B9l2l'229B'more tiles this"- year thatrOteStilv
actual:count.
—The Uhieago2,-,:ist says, "nrcitizetiotlfits
ings. "Minn.. threw ul) a copper nuggetweigh—
ing thirtv.poutids, exca,mting the street.
in t'ront of hiS house.," It vmst_liaver,.been
very unhealthy jotit - Ziliare allectlif the mao.
as the. Post records ; perhaps, tbough.,;he".4as
no stomach for his work. . '
' =The vines in the Venetian provillnea.
infilsted'with a new para Site
Yilis They are so small that it • . taltea .7,00 Q or
them to weigh two pounds. , Luokilytheirean•
be shaken off the leaves in the'early rrifuning i
and then. destroyed.
—3L. Louis Ulbachthinks Louis lc'
- Istache Mark of
moustache mar weakness, arukan gene—
ral he thinks-this ornatheixt: Is- worn to con=
ceal the weakness or wickedness that WOuld,
.be apparent iLthe upper- iip - were
be seen. •
13.
—Dr. Beecher; in describing the. Wilson.
arawberry, says: "It shoots forth from every
separate atom of its composition ,so sharp an
acu4that one - would - thilikthatithe juice .had
been made of needles:,ilisselved in nitric acid !"
The Doctor delicately designates the stomach,
as "the point where the vest stops." •-•
- tither
Hyacinthe, the famous
_pulpit .ora,--
ter of Paris," lately declared at a mecting . ofi
the Peace Society Paris, that, there ' are
"three religions intim world—the 'Jewish, the.
Catholic, and, the Protestatit,-all equal in tho
sight of God." . A singular , utterance-for tk.
Roman Catholic priest.
—The Memphis Avalanche takes a pleaSa4
view of Hon. E. M. Stanton, as "the mitrder7-
'ous' two-legged 'hyena, every•fibio of 'Nviiefief
vile careaks is saturated, with gore, his jaws.
dripping with crimson froth,
,reeking with the
blood of half a million fellow-beings sacrificed
to the 3folochs of liellislilainbition, fanaticism
and hate." , , . .„ " -
—There is comfort for men of cramped re
sources and numerous families in the follow
ing advertisement of anundicrtaker in Now.
l ork City, which is, conspiculouttiv-posted in
a car of the Third Avenue Line:* "Economical
Burial. A handsome coilin and plate,' hearse
and carriage for $25 at ---." Quite Appro
priately, on one side of this appears.the-adver-
tiseumnt of a quack doctor, while en theother
the merits °fa patent medicine are pmelaimed
in glowing terms. , • , , -_, ..-,.
. --.lradatne Dora trLstra (Princess Missals)
.writes as follows on the woman question:. tqt,
will be `with the political status of women at.;
with the colored race. -Thee gravest objection
might no doubt have been urged agaixott_ the
i j
Litter. Physiology, politics, and his ors, sup
plied specious arguments to - their o ponenta..
But.when certain currents are omenfunned in
the.publie mind, they.enti by sweeping away '
all obstacles, even those that.were regarded as
'impregnable. This is sufficient ;ex eni e
.•
by' the progress-of- universal; itu i .7,-:. ~ -': - ..
years ago this Wasregarded al) aVeiEuropegs,
a vain illusion, unworthy of tho consideration
-of a thoughtful statesman. NevertbiloiS,Mas
already-made - sufficient conAyestsiu, western
Europe to )ustify,the prediction tht , eastern.
Europe, too, will be obliged to adopt it."
Broke! broke! broker .
' And the .world has gono "down to flab sea,,,:
-And I would that my wallet.cOuldfortanhi, i.i.
Wherewithal to transport thitherrae l ,
' Oh, well for old Spriggiona% heti,i-;:•,. „r..• - • ; :. . ,
He can drive with ids OltesPan't w.A' gray ';': -,
Oh, well for old. Robinson's sop,. , ...,..
He can sail in his yacht on. the bay ;' "
While a little snip elta therei. ',` .- • -
In his shop at the foot of 'the
the
And he says 'that •loWe "for the ceSt on Ty'
back, , . : ' ~ t - , ; 1 '
Well, I think, I shall owe for it, still.
Broke!- Woke t broke !
Oh, wouldn't I go down to the sea, _
If the vanished stamps of a d 40
ay that's 4%
Would only come back to we!
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