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BRIDPORT.—On the 27th twit., Hugh Bridport, in
the 76th year of his age.
Ills friends and those of the fanilly are Invited to at
lend his funeral. Own his late residence, No. 1719 Arch
street. on Friday afternoon, the 29thinst., at 4 o'clock."
BUNTINO.—On the 27th hist., Nathan Myers, son of
Samuel and Bumn Bunting, in the second year of
Me age.
The friends of the family are luvited to attend the fu
neral, from the residence of his parents, to meet at the
honer nt 4 o'clock P. 31., on Seventh-day, Xith Inst. **
OR ftlE.—On the-morning of-the 26th instant, Samuel
B. Cdr.°, Esq.. in the &all year of his age.
The relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to
attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 41116
North Seventeenth street, on Friday morning next, 29th
Instant. at 9 o'clock.
SHDEBIAKELL—On the 27th inst.. bfaria. wife of Dr.
Charles Shoemaker, fn the 60th year of her Age.
The relatives and blends of the family are invited to
attend the funeral, from her late residence No. 220
North.Tbirteenth Att. et yon noventh;damarnfrig, at 10
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in the e7th year of his a 0,
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jr.; 1870.
.1870.
SHERIFF.
WILLIAM R. LEEDS.
;i.16 tl ecl2rp;
HI ADQC2CifTERS UNION RE
PUBLICAN CITY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
1105 CHESTNUT STREET.
At a Heeling held on Wednesday, July 27. the follow
ing. among other proceedings was adopted
lie‘otv , d That the Convention to nominate a candi
d Ate for Representative of the First Representative Dis
trict be RECONVENED, and a Sub-Committee of Three
be et lected from this City Executive Oonunitteo to effect
the permanent organization thereof.
In accordance therewith, the Delegates elected to said
•Cottl eta ion will meet at the 8. W. corner of SIXTH and
I.IOE ERSON streets, on THURSDAY, August 11, at
10 A . M., for the purpose of placing a candidate In nomi
nation.
By order of the Republican City Executive Corn
lektee. _
CHARLES W. RIDGWAY,
Vice President, presiding
[OLIN 111cCULLOUGII, t Secretaries.
C HONG,
ii•rptiG
FORT LEAVENWORTH.
Particulars of Col. Huel's Assassination.
ET. LEAFENWORTII, Kansas; July 23.—C01.
D. H. Buel, who was assassinated here last
night, vas a young man of about thirty years
of age, and was. held in high esteem by his
superiors, as is seen by an officer so young
being placed in charge of one of the most im
portant military arsenals in the country.
Be came here last November from the Ken-
nebec, Marne, arsenal, and took charge, reliev
ing Col. J. McNutt, the latter going to Detroit.
He leaves a wife who has been an invalid for
a long time, and two children.
Last evening there was a fair and party
given at General Sturgis's house, Colonel
Intel, Wife and child being present. The
arsenal, which is a separate department and
south of the main garrison, is about ten min
utes' walk from General Sturgis's house. About
half past 10 Colonel Btiel's carriage called for
him, and he- waS.:immediately driven to his
house, and when about five yards inside the
gate a musket shot was fired from among the
shrubbery; the ball struck him in the back,
shattering the spine, and came out through
his right breast. He threw his antis around
his wife's neck, sank to the earth and expired
in a few minutes. -
Col: Buel was universally liked, but at the
same time was a strict disciplinarian. A few
days since a soldier by the name of J. M. Ma
lone, under Co]. Thiel; deserted,
.inl at the
time made threats against his - life. linspicion
rests upon this man, and a reward of one thou
sand dollars is offered for his capture.
When the man was last seen he wore alight
linen coat, , 'check pants, slouch hat. He is
about thirty-three ,Years old; has blue' eyes
and brownL hair,' and is five feet teu inches
high. 51?
liannediatelY opposite his house stands the
guard-house, outside of which stands the cor
poral of the guard, and upon his hearing the
shooting he ran back iu the 'guard-house for
his musket, and then hastened towards the
corpse. It is thought by many that had the
corporal immediately ran' to where he saw the
flash come from, instead of running back into
the guard-house,-he would have probably se
cured the assassin, but as it was the murderer
found no difficulty in getting off, as 'the night
was quite dark, and the grounds,aboundectln
trees and shrubbery.
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Colenel'Buel is to be buried at tenoreloek
to-morrow forenoon. A coroner's jury was
summoned to-day, but will not conclude till
Monday.
Immediately after the shOoting, Dr. Magru
der was prOmptly on handi but he was beyond
all human aid. This morning the ball was
found not Tar from where ho fell, and close
by an empty cartridge shell. To-day the
arsenal flag is at half mast, with Capt. Cullen
Bryant in command of the arsenal.
It-bas been the of conversation ' unciation" of the cat
Si c_e_rts_ciccuirrence w and the r• omniunity_a /1
grief,
ancdoeply sytn. LeOpialif, -- aud a plerge that it shall never be
overwhelmed with
pathise with - the widowed wife and orphaned renewed. - But King William, who has CM,
children. cially signified his unrproyel" q the zeuum-
THE WAR IN EUROPE
EXCITEMENT AMONG TUE
PARISIANS.
Scenes on the Boulevards and
gltieets..
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT'S DE
SCRIPTION.
Later Reporst 4 rom _the OPPoeing
Armies.
LErrEft wm)al emuus.
(Oormmulence of theitalodelphla Evening Boßeth:Li
Pau's, Friday, July 15,1870.-At the mo
ment I am writing, 10 A. M., peace and war
still hang evenly in the balance, and must
continue to do so until the promised declara
tions are made this afternoon by Ministers in
the Senate and the Corps Legislatif. A few
hours, therefore, will probably decide the fate
of Europe, and make known whether her
pins are to be deluged with the blood of
thousands and hundreds of thousands of hu
n•beings,whose lives 'will be sacrificed to the.
merest point of honor, raised solely by the Lin:-
graceful ineptitude of those into whose hand
the national destinies have been entrusted.
should this shocking and most wicked war
really break out, it will be one of which the
futility of the cause at once, and the gross in- .
capacity and coilsequent Leavy responsibility
of those who have mismanaged and brought
it about, will' be alike without parallel in
the declar-'
na lona, Jistory. declaration
of the French Ministers to the
Chambers, to be made this afternoon, within
an hour or two from the time I now write (a
atimght sufficient to make the pen tremble iri
one's hand), if this declaration be a declara
lion of war, it must he based upon an attempt
to make the King of Prussia pay_ the penalty
of their own temerity and rashness ; to make
him utter words w_hiclineither ever have_ been
necessary, nor would, ever haVe been called
for, nor ever even thought of, but for that ill
advised declaration of the lith of July, which
has been the real cause of all this mischief.
The_ state_-in - which Path has. been for- the
last two daYs beggars 'descriptiom It may
well be said, indeed, that the French are an
excitable people. Never were seen such evi=
'tepees of it as during the last forty-eight hoUrs.
Business (except among the speculators on
Ate Bourseyand-pleasure-seemed-to-be equally
abandoned:and news! news! was the only
thing thought of. The scenes on t‘he
yards in the eVeiiing are indescribable - N.-Stock
was selling iu the public streets, speculators
and alarmists screatuing_outNices and rumors
of all sorts with the same vice.. People were
-tearing the newspapers' front Catill other's
hands as new editions came out, one after the
other, up to near midnight. The conflict of
public opinion, -and even of the press in
some degree, was so great that it was
difficult to decide in which direction
the current flowed most strongly. The very
servants in private houses seemed to take dif
ferent sides, and you heard the concierge
altercating on the stairs with the cook, as to
whether the Prussians were right or wrong'
In Paris there is undoubtedly a strong, mad,
wild, unreflecting war party, full of vanity,
national rivalry and blind hatred of the Prus•
sians. And these are supported by a flagitious
ultra- imperialist press,composed ofsuch organs
as the Pays and others, and represented and
sustained in the Chamber itself by men like
Thnier de Cassagnac and Baron Jere.ina=
vid, whose prestige Mad influence have been
overthrown, and mortified and wounded by
the decline of aristocracy and the restoration
of Parliamentary government. These men
and their organs, without any -other pilia774
than their interests, prejudices and passions,
will undoubtedly hurry the country into war,
if they can ; hoping in the tumult of external
conflict and the eclat (perhaps; of victory, to
arrest the internal changes and reforms which
are daily and hourly throwing them and their
ideas more and more into the background.
These men, no doubt, desire war; but I feel
persuaded that the great bulk of the French
people in the provinces are opposed to it under
any other plea than that of absolute necessity.
So great is the anxiety for news that vast
crowds now assemble daily round the Cham
ber, and line the entire road from thence to
the Tuileries, over the Pont de la Concorde
and the adjoining Quays, in hope of inter:
cepting and interrogating deputies, or only to.
watch ministers or messengers who may be
passing, and catch a gleam-of4utelligenee from
their countenances. .Never have I seen such
signs Of .nublic_ouriosit,y and excitement. The
Emperor has conic) to Paris almost daily from
S . Cloud, to hold councils at the Tuileries.
The situation itself, at this moment, may be
briefly summed up as follows -
On Wednesday last, as you will hare known
long since, the Duke de Gramont • announced
officially the fact which had been already re
vealed by M. 011ivier, viz.: " That Prince
Leopold had renounced his candidateship."
But this renunciation had been communicated
by the Spanish Ambassador. "The negotia
tions with Prussia," , the ',Minister added,
" whlCh, have never , had any other object, are not
yet terminated." NoW,- why " uot terminated
with Prussia,"—if the " only object" in view
was already accomplished? I will tell you:
Because the French Ministers. felt that if,
after all the foolish bluster and..accusation,in
dulged in by them, in their ill-omened deela
ration against Prussia, if, after'„all this, they
Were to be satisfied with.asiMplerenuneiation
only ' on the- part -- of • *Mid,
as I said in my last letter be laughedat. And
so it proved; for the Ministry was immediately
attacked in the Chamber by Baron David, on
the ground of the inSufliciency of
. the satisfac
tion received. by; France`,' and notice of inter.'
pellation given for this day. • Tide is why the
Emperor and his , Ministers have been try-,
ing to enact front; the King . of Prussia also a "re-
,ndiditteship of Prince
ciation by his relatlye, refuses to 'go a step fur
ther, and has shown M. Benedetti the door.
And so on this petty question of "form" (the
"realty" being already secured), raised by
the folly and incapacity of the French Empe
ror and his advisers,—on this hangs the terri
ble issue whose solution I hope to give in the
concluding lines of this letter.
P. S.—l have but one moment to add, .with
out comment, that the Duke de Gramont
just made his final declaration before the Leg
islature. It is to the effect that the King, of
Prussia declares that be neither can nor ought
to pledge himself against all and every future
candidature on the part of his faniily to the
throne of Spain, as now demanded by France,
and that he had refused to see the French Am
bassador-again on the subject.— " Under theie
circumstances, " said M. de G-ramont, "we
Are preparing to defend our rights. The re
seHes are called out," War is in fact de
clared. M. Benedetti has returned to Paris,
and the Prussian Ambassador is leaving.
W. SMALLEY'S 'DESPATCHES
Attitude of Russia.
LONDON, Wednesday, July 27, Midnight,—
Our special correspondent in St. Petersburg
writes on the 20th inst. that Gortschakoff will
not return at present. Baron Fredericks, of
the Foreign Office, has been sent to assist him
at Wilbad. The Russians are concentrating
troops on the frontier of Galacia. The sale of
army horses has been discontinued. Allleaves
of absence in the army are canceled. The
troops at the camp of lira.snoeselo are held
ready to march. Government opinions fa,.
- or PrusSia ; the liberal papers sustain
France. The St. Petersburg Gazette; blames
France wholly; the Moscow Gazette and the
Exchange Gazette blame Prussia. The Goto.s
was at first for Prussia, and is now against,
but urges strict neutrality on the part of the
Government. The 3f iwitger, an official paper,
at first attacked Prussia so strongly that the
Prussian eharge d'Affaires complained.
Fleury is to remain in St. Petersburg at pre-
Nent. The Hessian Government attempted to
terfere-lks=persuading-the-Prussian--King-t,
make to England the declaration which was
demanded by France, but failed.
The Emperor appoints John,Archimandrite
and Inspector of the Ecclesiastical Seminary
of Moscow, as the Archbishop of Alaska and
he Aleutian Islands, to reside either at Safi
Francisco, New York or Sitka. The salary
will be paid from the Imperial Treasury.
Scenes on the French Frontier.
A letter from, Metz, written Sunday night,
Rine
_.24th,_saq's
When I arrived at M - etz for life fiNt `titne,
transport horses were to be found in numbers.
They were . heavy, strong-looking horses,
many of _themgrays. They were picketed in
a large square, their lialters tied to the wheels
of country_ wagons.. _Tbe _horses had_ clearly_
just tome from the plow, and beside them lay
their ordinary harness. An auxiliary corps
of peasants had been engaged to conduct
the wagons. They bad no uniforms, hot
carried cards on their hats, denoting 'the
, W
orps arm me to which they belonged.
1 tried to get a room at the Hotel do
__GLEurope,:_but_vvag-informed-that--it--was-full
uf generals, and of the Etut Mainu. I then
applied at the Grand Hotel de Metz, and was
ruin thavalthough they had eighteen generals,
they would manage to accommodate me.
Upon repeating this speech to the lady wh..)
pp ears Icurna.nage _the__-Rcttei_de_L!Ettrop_e.,
where I again repaired to inquire for letters,
she grew a little indigriant, anti _said that she
had more generalefin herlfetertban — tife -- ifiar
(lam opposite, and even she bad not eighteen,
hut then she was not in the habit of exagger
ating.
The court-yards of both hotels were crowded
with baggage-carts belonging to the staff mas
ters. Bazaine alone had at least five two
horse wagons marked: "Marshal Bazaine,
No. 1," &c., up to No. Zi—not an illiberal al
lowance even for a Marshal. Orderlies and
guards crowded the gates ; the private sitting
rooms were turned into offices, and the call
ing saloons were surrounded with uniformed
men. It was quite a distinction to wear a
Blain coat, but by no means a pleasant dis
tinction.
This evening I ,toos a walk with an ac
quaintance. He asked me: "Do you observe
fin 3 thing peculiar about the French officers ?"
I replied,' No." "I do," he answered; "they
are dressed in marching order ; they embrace
instead of bowing when they part ; they say an
au rcvoir and not an adieu ; there will be a
march to-morrow." True enough ; when we
cot to the hotel the staff-wagons were loading,
and we were informed that Marshal Bazaine
and at least one division of his corps would set
snit at daybreak. Marshal Bazaine commands
not only a corps crarmt'e, but the left wing of
the French army.
The whole of the French troops are -in
a magnificent state of disCiphae, and
the officers are much more numerous than
those of the Prussians. The French artillery
was superior to the Austrian at Solferina, and
lie Austrian was superior to the Prussian at
lconigratz. There is no doubt of the Chasse
pot being a better weapon than the Prussian
arm. I can hardly believe in: the. Prussians
having yet been able to effect such a concen
ration of strength as the French have cer
tainly done, and believe that, on the. opening
of the campaign, either with or without a
hattie, the Prussians must retire behind the
Rhine.
• Now for a few words as to the attitude of
the population. I. have : .by this . time, gone
through - alarge' section of , Erance-Lthe war
section. It is true that, having only traveled
by rail, the view I have had is but a hasty cut
ting-up of this portion of the country. still
find opinions too clearly and evidently marked
to make me personally doubtful of the state - of
public opinion.
First--By the officers the war is received as
at once their due, and as the greatest boon the
Emperor could bestow upon, them.
Second—The soldiers with the colors accept
it with enthusiasm, in many cases with plea
sure. „ .
Third—The reserves; who have. been out on
unlimited leave, take it as a terrible duty,'
which it is their hard loci to have to dis
charge, but their opinions rapidly merge with
those of their comrades. . .
Fourth—The upper classes, commercial,
educated, &c., all talk of ", La France ;" how
the Prussians must' be beaten ; how "La
Frthice" should be and, is United; how it is
not.patriotic.to abuse the ;government. • This
being settled, they immediately pull the
government to pieces. They say: Mexico
was the cause of Sadowa. should have
fought in 1866. In both BiSmarck, outwitted
our government. The pretest for war is ad
one; we should not have fought until IM7I.
Still, the war was inevitable, and La France'
must be and is united.'!
Fifth—The peasantry and the lower classes
of Alsace support the- War ; their attitude is
plain and unequivocal; their homes may be
burned; their crops and cattle taken by , re
quisitions (although it must be said that they
firmly believe this will happen to their Ger
man neighbors over the. order); still they ac
' claim the war. They fete the soldiers. Most
of them talk 'German as rwell as French. To
be sure that is not saying much. Many of
them do not talk French at all: Still, as M.
Thiers says "The wise policy of Colbert, has
made of them the hest Frenchmen in France;
and the larger the number ,of the men who
I.spealLtheinawn_tongue_that:fall---in-thefirst
battle, the better;theywill be pleased!!
Spain liwillned Toward France.
LONDON, Wednesday, July 27 1 11tittilig1
THURSDAY, JULY 28,1870.
an air of painful unreality pVer all
the—correspOndencealmost--unexeeption
able as we rind it on the part *1 our own Gov
ernment, is on one hand, the clear determina
tion of France to obtain at- least a grand di
plomatic victory by the humiliation -of Prus
sia ; and on the other hand, the evident con
ti,arLof _lti ng-AV-i e,- ii.ohenzo
lern candidature was nothing but a pretext,
and that the Government of France was treat
ing Prussia as it lints heated Austria. in Janu
ary, 1859, intending to make war, and trying
It, put the defendant in the wrong."
The War Excitement in Paris.
[Par*, Letter [ July 14l to London Daily News.]
—The pollee authorities of London have
issued sets of boxing-gloves to the police at
the various section-houses in the`metropolis,
and the y9ung , constables take kindly to the
— exercise . int - spito - of - the - bot weatherTstrength
ening their muscles 'and , Pimproving their
style" by practice in the leisuro hours between
the boats.
The special correspondent of the Trilrune
writes from Madrid, on the 25th instant, that
the feeling of the Government was secretly in
favor of France, based on satisfaction, be
cause Prussia, and not Spain, was attacked.
The Republican newspapers denounced this
tendency, and warned the Government that
the people will not endure a base submission
to French alliance under such circumstances.
The same sentiment is partly shared by the
army.
The order expelling Don Carlos from France
was purchased through intrigue by Olozaga,
and with humiliating concessions. Spanish
parties each regard the war with reference to
their dynastic interests. Montpensierists hope
that France will be too busy to oppose their
candidate. Prim keeps silence. The Republi
cans are immovable for a republic.
The Secret Treaty.
LONDON,, Wednesday,- Jaly-- 27, .I.B7o.—The
English Government intends to make no fur
ther statement abOut 'war except that of Lord
Granville's. To-morrow, Mr. Gladstone will
riot say anything on the subject, unless ques
tioned' but it is believed that the Opposition
mean to bring on a debate on Friday in. the
Rouse of Commons, • -
The number of people who really believe
the. ; . assurances of French Embassadori
quoted by Lord Granville, respecting the pro ! .
posed treaty, cannot be great. Nevertheless,
there was a great feeling of relief when M.
Lavalette had even ' professed to be able to
explain away so ugly an, incident. Explana
tions are eagerly awaited from Berlin in ad
dition to what the English Embassador has
telegraphed.
The Daily News to-day expressed the wil
lingness of the Government to accept friendly
assurances from France. That journal says :
• " We are. ready to admit that whatever has
been Aliscussed nothing. - Unfriendly hasbeen
done. Perhaps the misunderstanding.just
raised will tend to consolidate our friendships
both with France and Prussia, and it will
have shown that we are not disposed to be
rPgarded as of no account in the atfairs of
Europe, and that any attempt to redistribute
European territories, and to reconstruct the
map of Europe made without us, would be
, reckoning without a host.' We desire to main
tain neutrality, but shall not forget our obliga
tions, treaties, nor the duties of our position.
nor ti' • • "
he claim
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We are friendS of both nations, but firmer
friends of national right andjustice, and who
ever infringes that must count on having Eng:.
land for an enemy."
This article Web expresses the general feel
ing. Yesterday morning all England waited
in suspense a declaration, which almost
threatened instant war. With such a pros
pect, anxious eyes were - turned toward Ame
rica; and the anxious question was perpetually
asked, " What would Amerida say and do if
Ave-have_ to side..against-Erancur"---There-has
oeen great satisfaction in learning that in
general the Americans sympathize . with
Prussia.
_The correspondence published concerning
the English effort for mediation adtLs little to
n•hat_ was already known. _lt applauds Great.
Britain's share in the negotiation, bid declares
that the knowledge of what was going on was
faffrom complete..l." It was no fault of Gran - -
ville," says the Dolly News, "thathisincessant
and indefatigable'exertions for peace ,
could not
.suceeed. But what throws
I have extraordinary scene on
the Boulevard des nailer's. The little Bourse
was more crowded than it has been ever since
the crisis. There was a wild market at ten
o'clock, the last quotation of the Rentes
heard was 67.20. The pressure was such as to
render.it almost impossible to do business to
any extent. But for at least an hour without
interruption the Boulevard resounded
with' loud howlings for war which
to-morrow the French press will
call " patriotic cries." People stood up
on chairs in front of the cafes, and frantically
cried at the full strength of their lungs," Down
with Prussia!" "On to Berlin!" ow far
this demonstration may have been stimulated
by the police, how far it may proceed from
Lienuine Chauvinism, and bow far it may have
been joined in from mere love of fun and noise
I am unable to distinguish, althoughlattrihute
to the latter element a very considerable part
of the movement. But I record the fact that
among this people, already half ruined by the
mere rumors of war. and whose sufferings,
when war shall become a reality, with the ra
pidity which it does in these days, are appal
ling to think of, revelled with a demonstra
tiveness most rare in the streets of Paris in
hurrahs for the coming bloodshed. While
-ally contemplating this scene from the into
!or of the cafe, I bought a catch-penny pub
lication, the Paris Journal, from which I ex
tract a few items of (so-called) ''Latest News."
"It is true," says this organ, "that
the Emperor's war horses have been
sent to the frontier ; but the Empress, who is
most anxious about him' (small blame to her)
sets her face against the idea of his getting on
horseback." I should think she would. I have
already told you that if the Emperor can walk
for bill tun houron a green sward, on the_ arm
of an aid4le-camp;lie - haS made agreat achieve.;
meat. The notion of his being able to com,
mand an army.in-person-in the - field is a ridic
ulous mystification.
The impression under which I close, this
letter is, that there exists in Europe a power
geneeL, which has been, greatly
supported by. too charitable constructions of
its motive, a power to which more than any
other is to be •attributed the ruinous arms,
ments which weigh upon nations, and which
now once more 'from entirely dynastic and
selfish motives, is about to, indulge its periodi
cal and IrrepreSsible thirst for blood. The
ferocious roars on the BonleVardS continued to
a late hour.
—Three young navigators have sailed from
Ehoira,asTew York, for Baltimore in a skiff.
They took along three baskets of, champagne,
a keg of lager, three deinijehns of whisky and
a loat of bread: The' Elmira folks don't see
what they 'Wanted of so much bread.
—A table has been published showing the
old yield in Nova Scotia from; the first work
rug of the mines in 1860 until the clo.se,of 1869.
The total number of mines 48.87 ; mills, 55;.
tons of quartz :raised, 4,086,680; ounces of
of gold, 176,455; value £717,000.
—The richest man:land prettiest woman ,in
Chicago are soon to be made one. A combi
nation of this kind indicates happiness if it,
can be made to harmonize. 'Wealth and beauty
going hand in hand'ought to ravish the soul
of the Western Jenkins." - -
—The Pall Mall Gazette is "at it loss to know
which is the mere enviable feature - in the lot of
the English criminal-41e difficulty which we
experience in catching hitu,or the facility with
which our law permits him to escape after he
is.caught," . . .
THE MAN RACE.
THE CAMBRIA AM) THE DAUNTLESS
WHY THE CAMBRIA WON
AND WHY THE DAUNTLESS LOST
INTERESTING DETAILS
[Special Corresuondonce of the Phila:Event no Bulletin.)
NEW YORK, July 27.—Tc the Editor• of the
Evening Bulletin : 'Vow' special correspondent,
detailed to accompany the yachts Cambria
and DauntlesS, during the recent exciting race
across the ocean, although too much pros- .
trated by the fatigue and excitement of the
last three weeks to furnish you, this,
,evening,
' Ids full: report, submits a few leading_ facts_
which are necessary to elucidate the apparent
victory of the British yacht over the Daunt
less.
Having had free and daily access to the logs
of both vessels, during the voyage, my brief
statement of facts - may' be accepted as authen
tic and official.
Passing over all merely incidental features
of the race, I confine myself to those having a_
direct tearing .upon the result. These may be
divided under two heads, namely, the good /tick
of• the Cambria and the badjaek.of the Dauntless.
At the start on the 4th inst., as I informed
you by cypher telegram, No'. 423, the Cambria
was laboring under as fatal a disadvantage as
befel the ship that sailed from Joppa for
Tarshish in the year 862 B. C. How the
Agent of t he I% I Y. Associated Press
was smuggled on board the Cambria, has not
ve ee satisfact•ril • •x . '.• '• : I : •
that may be,the stow-away was not discovered
untal the Bth instant, when, although you will
see by the published log, the Cambria was be
calmed, her four
- topsail back-stairs gave way,
producing a very ugly leak, just abaft the bin
nacle. We immediately communicated with
the shore, and commenced shifting the ballast
amidships, when the cause of the mysterious
accident-was found stowed away between two
bound—copies:-.of ---thc—Sportiny- ehranic/6. --
He *as at once brought into - the
fore-top and closely interrogated by
the -sailing-master, who soon elicited
the fact that the wretched old man was an ac
credited agent of - the New York Associated
Press, smuggled nn board by Mr. Simonton.
There was no time to" be lost. The Cambria
was.alreacly falling off into her lee-scuppers,
and it was evident that, -with such a dead
weight as the N. Y. A. P. on board, no speed
could be got out of the craft. Unpleasant as the
alternative was, the wretched man was thrown
overboard, and although some of the pub-
fished accounts speak of hiS recovery, it is
needless to say that nothing was further from
Atte-Iliougitts-of_t_tte—darang_Etaglislamen_who_
were determined to win at all hazards.
eraping - the. Remains.
We got a splendid wind- immediately from
the N. E. S., and bowled along under a full
spread of sail, the Cambria burying her star
board taifrail to the very nose at every bound.
Every precaution was taken against accident.
As you have already read in the published
log, the carpenter wes constantly "employed
in scraping the remains of two top
masts, ready to be prepared for another
break." This had the double effect of altiard
ing steady employment to a very worthy man,
and of showing to the nautical world that the
true Briton is always "ready to be pre
pared."
A Qualion,of Time
Under these favorable circumstances, victory
became a mere question of time. The days
were spent in bathing and fishing, and the
evenings in hilarity and innocent mirth. The
Cambria was kept under double tarpaulins in
wet weather, which undoubtedly added much
to her headway. The story of her being taken
in tow, at night, by a steamer, which I find
prevalent in this city, I am bound, in all
candor,to deny. It no doubt originated In the
fact that the yacht chased the Ville de Paris
for twenty-tour hours, knowing that Mr.
Simonton was on board of Ler, and intending
to demand satisfaction for the dirty trick
played on her at the start.
Quitting the Cambria.
Satisfied that the Cambria would win the
race, and.anxious to If now how our country
men were faring upon the Dauntless, your
correspondent left the . English yacht on the
evening of the 21st, while she was laying-to
under single-reeled cross-ties, and went
aboard the, Dauntless, : reaching the latter
vessel soon after midnight. "\
A Different-Seent;.
- •
Her a very different scone met the eye.
The beautiful yacht was hauled down to a
close fighting trim. A heavy sea had carried
away her larboard newel-post, shivering her
staylaiLs to au ; extent which jeoparded her
whole top-bamper. Below the water-line
nothing could be more perfect than her action,
butiit,was evident to the-practiced eye, even
at that late hour of the night, that unless Mr.
Bennett could get an additional martingale on
the forward mizzen -hawser, it would be " all
daylight " with the Dauatless before morning.
Yankee Ingenuity
Desperate efforts were made to accomplish
this important object. The master's mate was
three times yeel-hauled in a water-proof cap-
Side, without success, and we were about
losing our steerage altogether, when one of
the • seamen, a
. clever Yankee boy, named
.fedediah . - Clamp, modestly volunteered
to go aloft, and improvise a martingale from
a•PAir of (4oedyear's suspenders which he had
found in the calaboose. At the s imminent peril
of his life, Clamp .V111:4 hoisted to the main
truck,. and sneceedeti in belaying the swagging
hawser in a most sallor-like fashion: '
Suu Struck
I regret to 'say that the brave fellow was
'overcome by the heat, during' his gallant ex
ertions, and although proper remedies were
immediately applied, he rallied so slowly as to
make it,necessary to send him ashore, which
was 40he vilthout ? reeling anything but the
storm Jib, „", ' • •
The Ittemitless AArround,
But the misfortunes of the Dauntless • were
, not yet at en end, The day after the events
'just mentioned, she encountered a dense fog.
Prt gu seareArighie would, have dietAtedit
PRICE THREE CELT PA. "
reduction of canvas, but although bqth mash
wc re-now-snapped off, about twelve feet from
the deck,Dfr, Bennett refused to listen: to his
sailing-master's proposition to shorten 'sail;
and after running crab-fashion, for a couple of
hours, shipping heavy seas in- the leeward
lockers, the Dauntless suddenly brought up
all standing, upon a soft - shoal; not laid - dowis
in any of the charts.
We were now 5431 miles E. S. 11. front
Sandy Book,' and the fog so "dense that we
could not see the 'catheadS"in the main-rigging.
No time, however, was to be lost, and Mesita..
Lorillard and Longfeliew volUnteered to go.
overboard and push astern, while tow-lines
were got out forward, and attached-to the
patent_windlasses. With these npplianoes, we
were rejoiced to find the Dauntless slowly
forging ahead, and in about an hour she slipped
off into deep 'water and was once more walk
the water . _
•
" Like a thing of life."
Conclusion.
No further important incident& occurred,
during the concluding hours of the race; Thet
wind became flawy and uncertain, and we had
to resort to hard tack every fifteen minutes;
but even this soon failed, and this morning we
found ourselves in a dead calm, with the'
Cambria about twenty mites northward of us-
Offer - to - Make a :Draw.
We at once signalled the (lambda, offering
to haul oil and make.it a draw, believing that;
at that distance, our competitor could nob
detect the loss of our newel-post: - Our inno-
cent little Yankee trick did not succeed, as he
ironically answered: " We can't see it,"and
got under way with a stiff breeze, while
we bad not a puff to fan a grasshopper. In
an hour and nineteen minutes, however, the'
breeze reached us, and, as you know, we
accompanied the Cambria up the bay at just'
that difference of time.
Remarks.
In this brief sum
race I have confined myself to a-very few de
tails, but bope that I have been sufficiently
explicit to prove that the Dauntless, under
ordinarily favorable circumstandes, can_ beat
the Cambria, even at large odds. Her numer
ous accidents and the early discovery and-re
moval of the only drawback of her antagonist
are enough to softie the questien of the su
premacy of American builders - and sailors fer-r
-ever. -
, Another Aceount. •
(From the New York Journal of Commercej
The ocean yacht race between the Cambria,-
owned by Ashbnry - of the Royal Thamea
Yacht Club, and - the Dauntless, owned by M.
James Gordon Bennett ofp the New York,
Yacht Clgb, terminated yesterday afternoon,
in the victory of the former, which passed.
Sandy Hook gat 3.45 P. M., the Dauatless
reaching the same point at 4.55.' -
7he sailing -master of the Cambria state's'
that his yacht never sighted the Dauntless.
after_the night of the day on which the race
began. The Carnbria reached Cape Race , in
1:3 days. When in the neighborhood of.New
toundland she had heavy fogs and passed near
ninny ic'ebergs. The greatest rurt one day was
208 miles. She passed Sandy Hook lightship
one hour and thirty-five minutes ahead of the
Dnuntles&--
Mr. Lorillard, who was a passenger on the ,
Dauntless, reports that she lost two men over
board, and spent two hours and a half in vain
efforts to pick them up.
The Cambria proceeds to-day to the Brook
lyn navy-yard to be overhauled, and, it is un
derstood, will, after the race for the America's
cup, proceed to the West Indies.
rom the log of the Cambria it appears that'
the start was made off Daunt's Rock at 2.20 P.
M., July 4. A great deal of rough weather was
experienced. St. Joan light was sighted at 2
A. M. on the 18th, and Cape Race, three miles
west, at 6P.M. of the same day. Nantucket.
lightship was sighted about 25 miles N. W. N.
at 10.30 P. M. of the 25th. Sandy Hook was'
reached at 3.30 P. M. of the 27th.
According to the log of the Dauntless, the ,
start was made at 2.40 P. M. on the 4th. , On,
the 7th at 4.30 A.*M., wind and sea increasing,
took in flying jib. In furling it, two men.
Chitties Scott and Albert Demar, were washed.
off the boom. Hove to the yacht for two hours,
lowered foresail, and got out boat, but failed
to bee anything of the missing men. At 7.30,
the wind having increased to a gale, reluct ,
antly gave them up, took the boat on board.
and kept on the course. Double-reefed main
sail, and took bonnet out of foresail. Ends
in a fresh gale, thick, rainy weather,and short,
high sea.
Sandy Hook light-ship was passed at 4.47 on
the 27th.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Five thousand immigrants landed at. New
York last week.
—How to scrape an acquaintance—get a.
situation as assistant in a Turkish bath.
—lt is said that Mr. Macready, the retired'
tragedian, will publish a volume of his remi
niscences of Dickens.
—English gossip says i was his anxiety
over the affair of the Greek brigands that
caused the death of Lord Clarendon.
General Butler . prohibits the -,sale ..of
liquors at the military encampment ill Con
cord.
.
Louis Napoleon's escape from Harris sup -1
posed to be the first instance of successful
'nullity from trichinae. . .
—A Gardiner physician says he never.
charges a Christian anything for medicine,
but that they aro so scarce that it only costs
him twenty-five cents a year.
—Barnum is growing aristocratic and Hel
lish. -His last act is the offering of a reward'
of a'.2o for-the conviction of any person found!
catching fish in Pembroke Lake.
—Mrs. Millie Devereaux Blake, a niece .of
rebel Bishop Polk, a leader in Southern so-;
ciety, a handsome woman and a fine speaker,.
is getting ahead as a woman suffrage speaker.i
—A New Albany, Ind., girl, fifteen years* , or,
age, advertises for a situation to teach.threAl. ;
languages, and is willing to assist jri doing.
the housework in the family Where She:
teaches.
—A Paris letter-writer thinks the American,
men in that city would make excellent figures
for Dante's Inferno, so broken down in health
by business do they appear. The American
Thdics, on the contrary, are " hale, fresh and
blooming." . •
—Further discoveries have been , made . in.
Pompeii in the shape of five imusical
ments made of silver and ivory, and' '
aving
close resemblanoe to the flute of the
•
—The long dry spell in Franco is cortikfly
bad enough; but think of what the zondition
of the crops must be across the Spanish border;
where they have had, no reign for more tharia
year.—Louisvillo Courier,lournia. ' r
—granlg Thorne ? of Buffalo ; persists in hias
determination to Jame from the now sueporkgf
;Abu bridge at Niagara Falls, ou the I.4titofk
August next. He ought to be lookod ate t t y
the authorities. ' '
• „ •
- —A colored man, with an Irish patrio t VeSuki
lug at Columbus, Ga , is the owner of an e • yri-,,
leas chicken. Haying au eye to b u siness;' he in'
about to lay the keel for a flirt ute upon, Via'.
iutixmity thy poor
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