Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1877, Page 7

B oo Irrl o [EeBerrrr | | | eam | “¥v |$EBPERERE b pPE eep | \Br8sB| | s B leRr B8l L ry B \BBER|| §oWeee\ | Ro \ee) \er B 110 A THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. OCTOBER. 28, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES, K; “SPORTING some Reasons Why the Chicago Club Conld Not Retain the Cham- pionship, Comparative Showing of the Records of the Twenty Best Clubs in the Country. Becapitulation of the Games of the Thir-’ 1een Teams in the Leaguy ) Alliance, In zxtriarfinm English Description of Base- Ball-Disbanding of the White Stock- ings, Ete., Efe. When Judges Should and Shonld Fot Declare OF Pools on Horse Races. Crooked Work at Fleetwood--- The Case of Lady Grant. BASE-BALL. qHE BEASONS WHY THE CHICAGO CLUB ENDED THE SEASON of 16778t the bortom, instead of the top. of the champlonship list are asked for by many friends of \be crganization. 1t is mot dificalt to give an oplaion based on 8 presence &t wore than half the club's gsmes ond & carefulexamination of its scores: : J. Second base, the key of the field, bay been neglected. or rather abused, by every player but Spalding, Lsst vear it was played with an average of .10, This year Barnes opened with five games fawhich he mas manifestly unfic 1o play, and in which he made s record of only.510. Then Harry Smith took hold and made only .S07, lower- ing even toe invalia Barnes” average. Then Hines wasallowed to make an awful exhinition of him- £elt, and dropped down 10 . 774, worse than Smith, snd pot mear as good a8 Jimmy Wood would be with his cork leg. The depressing effect of these changes on the Epirit of the team may be said to be * (combined with the loss in play) the greatest of all . Mteation of the reacer so far to-day that base-bawi the canses which led to the loss of those impor- tmt games in the carly part of the season shich determined the fate of the campaign. Not only did the team muss Barnes' beautiful batting of the previons year, but they were bewildercds) by the rapid chionge from bad to worse, and from woree Lo worst, as shown in Barnes, Smith, and Hinesat gecond., 2. MeVer wasnot, is not, and never canbe s cucher, eepecially for such a man as Bradicy. Mac is a cool-headgd, sure, first-class first-base- zan; 2u effective pitcher fora score of games in sseseon; and @ plendid and scientific batsmun; batheisnot a catcher, because of his aptitude to get sore bandsand to weaken hie pitcher by making tim pitch over the plate too mocn. 2 Dradley was heavily handicapped by the change of the ball this year, as well as by the failure of ¥cVey to support him properly. With a **soft" il on which the cover wonid loosen up 8 ftlle, Bradley was the best pitcher in the cozntry; with 3 hard ball he was got ty any mesns 8o good. In 1876 he was given by Claop’s efforts a great lecway in his work. and n0 man nsed strategy more; but in 1677 e cisims that he felt him=elf confined to a narrow- ercircle Uy the necessiiy of always thinking apout bs eatcher, and pitching 1o sim. There is unques- Tonsbly much trath in this; Lradler never coul Zoball the work before McVey that he could be fore Clanp. Another thine arowinz out of this pemersi subject had to'do with 10ss of games. and fat was the utter imposeibility of Bradley and JeVey pulling ther. Ihe former is bel-ftrong. quick-tempered, and mervous w2 degree; the latter hse alto a tem- »r of bis own, and when Drauley Tae 3 comment Mac' eent it back with interest. nd there was ‘too much growling between those twoimportant men. Each had Ius coterie of ad- nirers, and there was mot a remark or a hint topped by one _biit came to the other. Bat both wauted to win all the time, and had no intention of embarrassing each other's piay,—they simply &'t give vy to each other's failings, and cs- peclally is that irme of McVey. ions element of enccess called lack ivhich is oiten lauzhed al) was entirely wanting " plar. Before the ecason was well ing bad_ loel two games by one Tis field'nz all throngh was eplendid, and he played game sfies pawe witaout an error, but that indednabie fena. bad lInck, ecemed to follow him right Wrough. In the second Boston same he made air onc etror 1n the sixteen chances, but that lost izesame; in the thirteen-nning Louizville zame Le arain made only _one error in sixteen chances, Tt tnat acoin lost the game. At Jeast twe other Ames went. precisely the same way, until it came late tnaerstood that if Spulcing made a sip the pme wes gone. Of course, this s il osh, ut w are ou #oing 0 make the player Delieve it The writer Srmly believes that in not more then three games for the fiag did the Juck favor the Chi- acos.That clement had not a littic effect n dis- coarazing the men as well a5 in losing sames. 5 The espenments of the Chicazod with new men were uniformly disastrous, and that wus an- olber point. Waitt was not apparently of any e, Kowe was not up to grade, Swmith was 0o very much better, Eden didn't hold out, 2ad Quinu's record was i~ 1. Nof one of them bitied a8 well s Bielasks, who was 40 uneleas at the etick in 1576 that hc was allowed to go. It vas 3 diemal and damaging eeties of cxperiments with kids: and, more extraordinary thawall, the other clubs that took in outaiders got good service ott of them; instance Dergan, Crowley, Snaffer, Latham, Larkin, Croft. ctc.” More oad fuck. & Why the white-leazed team did not bat better the writer docsn't kiow and wakes 1o guess at. Itis eimply to be recurded that not one man of the em came up to laxt year's record. though the ball was a_much better one and the bateman had more advantaze than ever before. 1 7. Last. bui not Jeasl, the Ghicazo Club were Tobbed outright of not a few games by the superior tharpness of the Lomisvitle and St. Louis manage- meme. They perceived the immense advantage they might have by adopting robbery insteag of ‘umpiring, and they used it withont a blush of une. “The writer saw the Chicagos play two fames in Louisrille which they could not hase won ad they been gifted with the power 10 Work mincles. Devinney stole those games, and come others, clean and clear. Aguin, two games were lostinSt. Lonis by the dishonesty of Burlis, who afterward turned outto be the employe of a low Chicago rampler. The geawou is now closed, and ihe Writer connot be accused of having 20y purpose of guining any advantage when he ex- Preeses his conviction that Burus and Devinney Derer intended to wmpire a fair zame and mever The writer may be pardoned for digresei 2 enonch 10 £ay that be never saw such 1nfinite Sisgmet and amuzement depicted on a man's guntenance as on Dartis' when, in 3 game May 2 behad called two strikes on_fhincs, and was tstgometo call him out when Paul reacbed out 2d punched a wide ball safely foran awful scratch It, winningthe game. Ile made it up the mext Aies, however, and gave the Whites ot on any tetext and no pretest. i Any one of these troubles wanld have discour- 2 nine.—suy tmo of them would bave di leartened it,—sil of them together were too much. \0d the sirongest team o the country Went tu the o the ity should have a team in 187S, letus Javeas few of these tronbles 3s possibles lot us ave 10 weakeners in damazng positions. Of the Cidtesm the only ones who Lave not signed are An- on, Barnes, Glenn, and Bradley. Crxerysam, Oct, 27, Do INCINYATI, 27.—1 ] s CaenrAT, Oct. 27.—Dase-ball The Manchester (X. H.) team is announced as {ollows: Eelley, Towen, Snigg. Lears, Cogs- well, Dailey, aud Hawkes. s it The uoble politician and his doings ensross the Bostons, 11; E0c6 0 the wall until the cumpaign is over. The Boston fferald sa; i says that of the present Fall Rver Club, Libvy and Mackwill go to Butialo, wen to Manchiester, and Hanlon to Rochester. The New England championehi : e X pionehip. for which the gatrics were Lowell, Manchoster, Fall River, aoode Lslznd, gnd Live Oak, ended in the order ued, Lowell losing but éeven games out of forty. ‘c:‘_hm has been great rivairy between Blooming- b 8, 2ad Sprinctield this eeason, and tiie ;rma;d :‘uy has u"?nd for afl um!%unal est Scar, and hos rase 280 Fuaraatee-fund already. 4 1ute Post estimates the losings of different. clabs s featon s follows: Chicazo, $G,000; St. ghuie, §8.000; Martfords, $2.300; Louisvilles, a00:, Loston. $1.500; Stars, £2,000; Indian- $%, $4,000; Tecumseh, $3.000% Milwaukee, = ,I: EPpears from the St. Lonia Republican that in of sip Lt game *Devlin and Sryder won the hearts ol present. ™ Yes, ol yes: it is the ssme old JouTs sk lzldeman the Younger and he will teil mnum.uf' Pparticulars of the disease for eightecn Eczier and Bradley, the ball players, are an- ::}‘nqed 10 play best iwo 1n thres ):):nmc.e of rackels Cpdnst Lieraty and Callen, at O"Naley's Court, on zf:‘?h':’:;”‘,mf afterdoon, for a siake of ST00. .3 game Fearon and O"Malley will pisya ERiue of band- ball agavaet Carmody ad Herats. aohe Chicaro's returned from Milwaukee yester- i Without havine plaved the game announced. wiiBorzow will be disbanding day, when matters ¢ straivhtened out and tbe business of tho %ar closed, aftec which the team wi home. lolfnm“' 8s at present constituted, will winter as %e: ' Bradley and Eggler in Philadelphia, Spalding, Barnes, Anson, Glenn, ana Rels In Chi- cazo. McVey in Cincinnati, Peters in St. Loms, and [Tines in” Washington. Anson was expecting i;.ve(crd a1ternoon 10 20 to sce the new Anson in ‘Liladelphia at once: .S 1. B.—¢(1) Who constituted the Memphis Reds of 18771 (2) Where will Leonard play next ecasont™ Ansicer.—(1) Burkalow, p. ; Kennedy ¢ Waiker, 1b.: Shoup; 2 b 2 Tedmond, & &3 Moore, 1. f. Loitus, & f. (¢ It is ead {0 note that another player has turned up ““clmmed by two clubs.” Keenan. of the A burne, i said to have eigned with both the I cyes and the Hornells. “At the snme time Shaffer appears ue a trivartite, being claimed by tne Louis- villes, Buckeyes, and Indianspolis. Some paper must be Iying about this matter. The Mercury says that Heifer, Fouser, and Cor- coran have obtained their releases from Buffalo. Tt also adds that Shetline will play in Milwaukee, 2nd that. Force will play in Buffalo' next season. This laet must be a grave error, unless the St. Lonis papers have increased their ‘eait, in lying, Why, they have told us that Force wasthe apple of their eye. A correspandent, who signs his name>Jones, de- sires to inform T Twinrrs that the Chicas team for next vesr will be Larkin, p. ; Crane, 1b, ; Barnes, 2 b. ; Anson, 3 b. : Ferguson, . 8, ; Bden, Halhnan. and Caseidy, Oelders; Barncs to be Cap- tan. 1tappears that the same ' writer imposed similar het upon 1 city paper, which printed it as anthoritative. The trath ie that only one contract, and that conditional. has been made oy the Chicazo Club for 1878, Ferguson and bis party may have an idea of coming West and they may not, but Mr. Hulber( s oo wise to enzage 3 team until he gets s ground. XNo contracts with any Eastern players bave been made. i s Following are two little tables for St. Lonis ball folks Lo explain away before anything more down that way sbout superiority in basc-ball. Furst shows the viclories for each city since Louis had a club: s Chicago. St. Zowts. S s a7 15 The second showe all the games played between the two cities, whether regular or exhibation: Clxlcflyg. St Lzmll.s The Pictorial iorid€an English paper. contains the following truly wonderful account of the games of basc-ball? As a rule, the pudlic nmutements fo the United States are not very different frum those in Englsnd: but lately a few uew games. chiehy hnported: from Germany. have come futo vogue. Whilst crieket clubs are fewand far hetween, asd are gencrally got up by the English residents, 3 Efog of modlied form of slattie, much more resembling the German than the Rritish game. 15 universally played In the United States under the name of bafe-ball.” Every village has its Lowling-alleys and Its clubs for base-ball, d fn some of thelarger towna they are even Kept up for ladies. who also compete with gentlemen In the game at the fashionable walering-places. The Germans, w e great skittle-players, are fre b ball establishments. ‘The sketeh which we give this week Is that of une of these snl:lcrranennllz)o\‘“nw suloons In the German guarter of Fhiladelphia. The alleyx are very short, and are boanied over: in the cen- tre of each §s placed a ralsed ledge for the halls. of which there are ten. As an old rule forbids the use of o0ly nine bails, the fetter of the law fsobeyed by having ten, but one s always placed ou oue side. The elze of e balls. to one who lius been accusiomed to plav skittle In Europe, 18 quite ludfcrous. but aftera time practice renders one able to disregard thelr puny dis mensions. And was it for this that Spalding went to England 10 show them the Amenican national game? TABLES OUTSIDE THE LEAGUE. Mr. C..G. Yohn, Secretary of the Indianapolis Clup, and un earnest supporter of the gume, 33 well ax an_excelleut stalistician, sends tyo teresting tables of hispreparation which are valua- ble contributions to the histors of the zame this year. The first suows the axzregate of the season's Play of the twentv best cluby fn the country, giving them eredit for all the games they have played 50 Follow- far as they have been gaven to the public. ing is e tanle: cket (Binghamton) . Auburn 17 Manch 18 Mibwaukee o Fall Biver. 20 Rhode 1sland (Providence).. i1 Yohu's sccond table is a full record of the eeason’s play of the thirteen clubs in the League Allizuce. To make this must have been no little rouble. Ttis us folloy S B s “dv pay o ! -snoavuripar] 11090u SIr. Yobn says of this table: **The Red Caps lead in pames won. but. as they won ninefucn of them from one club, they can hardly with jus- tice be called champions. We won from every club weplayed.” THE TURF. THE ACTION OF JUDGES IN DECLARING OFF POOLS has from time to time been thesabject of conwider- able comment by the sporung papers, and the abuses which may be practiced under the present rales have become 8o flagrant that both horscmen and the general public are united in demanding that at the next session of the Board of Appeats a 1aw ehall be framed and incorporated in the pres- entcode poverning National Association tracks that will clearly define the dutles of judgzes in re- gard to the puols, where a palpable frand i com- mitted by drivers for the purpose of swindling the public. Atthe Buffalo mectine of 1876 a glaring injustice was perpetratea by ibe judges of the 2:3% race on those who had backed Albermarie. Tt will be remembered that this horse, although undoubtedly the best in the race. was defeated by 2 combination of the other drivers, who wanted Thorndale to win. the latter horse ‘having £old before the race for $10 in $100 pools. The foul driving and fraud was so apparcnt that the jud=es were forced to take notice of it, and ex- pelle Dan Mace and Frank Vanness from all Na- tional Association tracks for their share in the dirty work. Having thus officially announced that Al- bermarle was defested by fraud. it was expected that they would declare the pools off, but, to the surprise of everybody, they refused to do this, and those who had invested heavily in Alvermarle, knowing bim to be the best horse inthe race, went away knowing that they bad been swindled out of their money, the judges, who should hasecprotected them having, as far 2s they could, helped alongthe steal. 7 This was an instance tn which the power of Judges to declare all pools and bets off was disre- gsrded when it should have been promptly en- forced. A recent decision in California was as far on the other sde of the line, and equally ridica- lous. Inarace between Nutwood, Gov. Stanford, Dinzo, and others. the first-named horee was con- sdered so mueh the superior of the others that he was barred an the pooi-selling, the other entries beyng sold for secoud place, The first heat was wou by Nutwood, with Gov. Stanford sccond. The Jatter horse was at once made a hot favorite for sccond place, but in the second heat bis chances \ere destroyed by Dirigo winmng the heat. In the two succecding beate. which were won by Nut- wood, Dingo was second. The judces then de- given to Dirio by Nutwood. F fike of arzument. suppose ihat it was. Dirigo _ would then stand _credited _with baving trotted to second place twice to Stanford's once, which would_effectually settle the question of second money: in other words, he won second ‘money yrrespeciive of his Dosition in tne second heat. ‘The California_sSpiit of Uhe Times very apily cites this case as one inWhich iznorant judzes ohimitied a wrone upon the betting men, and $oins in the general cry for effective legislation on the aubject. ARGOS -In last Sunday's Tau peared on article relative to the recent County Fuir at Waukegan, in whick the complaints of some gentlemen rela- e ba'the ailesed preference shown by the mana- ‘ur of the Fair towards the stallion Arsonaut and i colts, owned by Mr. H. T. flelm, of Lake For- est, was given publicity. As was 6tated in that atticle, there s, perbsps, no_ instance on record Shere’ the decicion of judges at a State or County Fair was pot kicked against by some of the contesting exhibitors, aud the compluitit in regard-to the Argonaut matter was made oubiic simply_because it came from rcs[pnnsime gentle- men. Of course, there is another side to the story. Mr. ficlm, owner of Arzonaut, was not present ot the Fuir, but says that the talk about his horse be- ing unduly favored is all nonsensc. Argonaut, he claime, could and did easily defeat every one of the four horses that started against him in the stallion race, afthough there was a combination on the part of the other drivers to defeat him. He started be- hind ali the rest, and beat them home easily, and. this_in the face of the fact that he bad ‘been handled but 3 week previous to the Fair, and was suffering from cuts onithe coronet of each front foot, caused by his having been driven some time azo with _too light a shoe, which caused him to strike. In regurd to the awarding of prizes in the suckling colt clase, Mr. Helm says that there was nothingthat he knows of at a1l ou: of the way, his Dhorse's colt presumnably receiving first premium ‘becausc it was the best onc exhibited. ‘And in this connection it may be etated that Mr. Helw is about to remove his stock, now at Hamp- tondae Stock Farm, near Lake Forest, to Allen County. Kau., where he intends establishing the most extensive stock farm in the United States, if not in the world. Mr, Helm has purchased fonr sections of land in Allen County, and nest week the removal of the stock from Hamptondale will begin. Although there are 2 larze number of ani- mals st this place. including horees, cattle, and shecp. they will form but s small proportion of the number that will be located on the Allendale Stock Farm, as the place in Kansas has been christened. Mr, Helm is now making arrangemeuts throuzh W, i1. Wilson, of Cynthiana, Ky.. for the purchase of alarge number of the best brood-mares in the South, together with short-horn cattle, and Cotswold sheep, all of which wilt be sent to Ransas 8 soon as purchased. Helm has been an extensive breeder during the past five ears, havine patronized such stallions as Idol, ron Duke, Messenger Duroc, Volunteer, Florida, ‘Almont, Gov. Sprazue, Knickerbocker. Mambrino Patchen, and Administrator, besides his own ftal- lions, Argonant, Abd-el-Kader, and Euripides. Although’ breeding to nearly every well-known trotting sire, Mr. (lelm's especial fancy is for Ab- dallab “und Bellfounder blood, and in his new en- terprise he will have, besides a fine stock of brood- mares and stallions, an ‘experience which cannot 1ail to contribute greatly to its success. “FUNNY WORK " AT FLEETWOOD. The recent breeders' meeting at Fleetwood Park seems to bave been characierized by some very ““funny " work, which the _judges very properly and promptly nipped in the bud.” In the champion- stallion race the starters were Thorndale, Nil Des- perandum, Blackwood Sr., Thomas_Jefferaon, Champion Jr., and Young Sentinel. Of the first 6ve neats, Thorndale managed to win two, Black- wood St two,.and Nil Desperandum one. The racc was then postponed tili the pest day, the nbove-named . horses being the only ones to start, as the balance wenl fo the sta- ble under the rule, not having wona heat in five. Durng the night. Turner. who drove Nil Desper- andum, and W. 11 Dobic, who had clarze of Thorndate, scem to have comoined against Black- wood Jr. for the purpose of having Thorndale win, and in the moruing proceeded to put their tactics fnto execution. ‘The New York Zerald, in its revort of the affair, 8ays Sirth heat—The horses had a very fne start, Dlack- oot Jr. having_his head in front, S Despirandum second, & head fn advance of Thofadale. When thev reaclicd the quarter pole Biackwoud Jn fed, one cngtl, Thorndale second, NI Desperandumt third, two Tengehs furtl ¥ around i lower turp Thom- dalé began 10 10 Tun with hls hind Jezs and his, Turner brouht M1 Desper- angui forward to take Iis place, and the fatter chal- T k. for ‘the hieat. Re closed on tae biack un the i} of the backstretch,” after leaving the half-mile pole. anda caplial struggle ensued 10 the scare, Xil_Desperandum, winning the beat by lalf a Jenzth. Blackwood Jr. elght Jengths in front of Thorn- A¢ seconds, 1, and the heat 1n . ‘Serentn heat—Biackvood 'Jr. had Lis b Tront when the start was given, Nif Desperandum second, T ale third. Golng down toward the aquariers pole “Turner went for enos outfrom the fence tocive horndale the pole. aud e 12 a short time showed (n nd was leading two lengthis as they passed that 11 Desperandum second. 8 length fn advance of od Jr. It was F:\l)ll‘lle 10 the judges that ‘Furner wad ble 10 beat BlacKwood Jr., Gofnz around th > wonod Jr. letting Thorndale o on with the lead, and so the aifalr went on w the_ end. Thorndale coming houte six lensths in front of N1 Desperandum, the lat- ter six lengths ahead of Bla Jr.‘The fu decision was Do heat, much to the admirstion of the Sectaton, 5 oAt heat~Turner was takenout from behind Nt Disjerindim and John Surphy substitated fn is lace. The st Wa3a very even one, Bluckwood Jr. aving his heatt Ia front, ‘Thorndale second, Nl Des- perandum thind. Thorndale went 1o the frout sround the turn as Blackwoud Jr. broke up. Thorndale led two lengths 8t the quarter pole in 35 secon: 5] Black- wood Jr. secund, Ml Desperandum third. ‘Thorndale dashed away from the othersaround the lower turn, wpd was Dve lemgeths i front at the half-mile pole i 1:10, Blackwood Jr. second, Nil D »F ndom twe lengths further of Golng up the hill of the home- streich Thorndale opened the J:flli 10 efght lengths be- tween mseif and Biackwoud Jr.. who was one length N andum, d latler bavinz cast a Hl‘id“f’ ume ard won the hicat . Blackwood Jr, second. the who came i Desper- avdutn 1hird pre- wium, and Thomas Jeffersou the tourth money. The cup for which these horses contesaed s a vase of sterling silver, fourteen mehes bigh. and Vearing on either side an elemintly modcled horse's lead. The body of the vase Is of plain burnished siivor, and the scalptured ornaments are tinted with gold. Tn the Tace for foals of 18 duy that the stallion race heit was won by Jerscy Boy in 2 second and taird by Jolin Murphy daie. The tnle 10 Uhe QuiRLer Wl was n to Ui half-mile put trotted on the came concluded, the first . and the erscy Doy teiug second in cach; time, 55, In the fourth heat Jersey oy was y, Sadic Beil second, Murphy Jr. third, half-mile olc in’ 1:11Y, Jersey HSoy fed Sadie Dell haif a ength, Murphy Jr.. who had broken badly, be six lenzths in the rear. Going up the hill near t three-quarter pole, the dnver of Sadie Bell was scen to fall from his sulky and drag in the dust, Jur-ey Loy winning the hieat casily,” The driver of Sad ho was driving Murpby Jr., of purposely running mnto him, and the latter was declared distanced by the jadges. LADY GRANT'S SPEED. The Philadelphia City Jtem bas at last bronzht Mr. Trask, of Otexo, New York, whose stirtiug Ccommunicutions ubout his mare Lady Grant have appeared m these colums. down to business, e ntly wrote the propricters of the paper a letter stating that ke would _trot his mare amainst time aud beat 2:14 ** very bad * for a purse of S1,000, or bie will <how 8 wmile in Lwo minutes_ for 2,000, The' Item bas_accepted both propositione,” and azrees to pay §2,900 1f the mare trots a mile in tw minutes over the Pownu_Breeze track, or 31,000 she showsa mile in 2:14 or better. ' Mr. Trusk is citiier o limitless liur or & jackass. If hismare can troL anything like as fust as he says she can, hie ixa omeaul 00l to how auy such speed for £1, 000 000, as the fact that moncy was up would the time o record for the mare. Trask can hove heaps of fun make Mr. Y ¥ and et rich very fast if his mare can trot a wile in 1wo minutes, Ly trotting her inraces, After he had captured everstaing in the shape’ of purees from those for turee-minuie horscs down Lo the free-for-all class, e might tackle Rarus, and im- poverish abont 50.000 men who would like to bet their last dollar on toat hurse. At all events, if Lady, Grant vocs o_Ihiladelphia ana accepts the Jrenic's oner. there will be s big crowd (o wilness the performance. INDIANAPOLIS. 5 Ixpraxaronss, Oct. 97.—The following s the resuit of the racing at the Capital City Driving Park to-day : Tuwo-twenty-seven class: Dick Wright.. Naucy Hacl Monareh RBule.... e wnis cram Ethel, T H 120 2 dis ar J.N, Steck. 2 dist g0 Tribuns. The, Lincoln National ace cime off this after- nz postponed from yesterday on account The attendance was very large. g first called thero were ive en- Won by Neeley in three second, Vandalia Joe Time, 2:46, 2:473, Suecial Dispatch to Lixcors, 11l noon, of rainy weather. 350 trot be: and four started. ght heats, Walter L. thind, Bessic ' distanced. 2:48. lie purse_of $150, tizst horse S75, xecond $45 then came: half mile dash, open_to &ll; three en tries, Barbarian took the first, Lean-Dog second, s0d Gypsy Queen third. Time, 55. On account of the poor condition of the track the 2:30 and 2:26 trotting races were postponed till next week. TRACK TALK. The old-time trotter Uotspur is said to agnin be on tho war-puth a3 & Tinger. The programme for the epring meeting of the Louisville Jockey Clup in 1875 ias becn arranged anu adopted. £ Budd Doble is thinking of making Chicago his bome, nnd also of huving his biography written by agentleman of this city. Tlarry Hill, the New York sport, has a_trotting horse that looks likea piraile, its fore legs being cousiderably longer than its hiad oncs. Secretary Boyle, of Dexter Park, bas becn ab- sent for thie past ten days atiending the trotting ‘mieetings at Varginia aud Lincoln, in this State. Barney Crossia, the well-known Eastern dniver, ecems fo huve a capital mare in Lizzie Crossin, whom e brought out Jate 1n the present season. Effurts arp being made 1o have $10,000 added to the Grand Prix at Baden-Ladeo, and to remove thie £7 penalty now in force against 1oreign horses. One day meetings are getting to be fashionable in the East. Belmont Park, Philadelphia, pave one lust Wednesday, Gve racés being on the card, The 4-year-old bay filly Betty Marshall, by Bol gora, won the 4-year-old race with ense at the re- ceut Mount Lolly (Pa.) meeting. Her dam isby Star Denmark. ) The gray mare Neilton that Jimmy_Goldsmith bas been driving in races ltely, and that bas ob- Lained a record ‘of 2:31%, is by Dencolin, and the Gust of that horee's get. The Chicago horse, Sheppard Boy, record 2:2314, bas fulfilled oIl his engayements for the present scason. and becn reiurmed to Lis owner, Mr. Harry Byraes,,of this oity. 3 Anodyne, the Maine horse, between whom and Billy Plattcr there hus been o bitter rivairy, ob- tamed a record of 2:25 at the recent ¥ystic Park, Boston, meeting, winning the 2:50 race. The trotting more Lady Daniels, record 2:27, owned by Ssm Daniels, of Philadclphia, is for sale. She basbeen broken of her trick of slow aconing, which formerly militated againet her suc- cese in races. . In an article on the then approachingspecial race st ke Baltimore mecting between Ten Broeck, Tom Octultree, and_Parole, Mr. B. G. Bruce,of the Kentucky Live Stock Record, sald m_that ‘paper: U7 Ten Broeck 15 in condition he will forever set at rast his sueriority a3 & rice-huric. but at Lonis- ‘ ville we did not like his condition: he was cough- Tug, and to our eye looked t0o 10w in flesh.” The result of the race, in which Ten Broeci was beaten by Parole, proved the correctness of Mr. Bruce's judgement. The 4-year-old colt Altarik, by Woodford Mam- ‘brino, dicd at Lexington, Ky., last Sunday night of congestion of the lungs. Altarik was an excecd- fogly promising colt, and bighly prized by his osmer. TheNew York Meraidsays that ** big-hend " 1 very common amoug trotting horse inthat vicinity. The same disease is prevatent in Chicago, but here it attacks the drivers, and it js very scldom that o compléte recovery {8 brought about. Smugler i3 snid to have fully recovered from the Jameness which aflicted him during the present season. He is quartered at the Rochiester Driving Park, snd his driver, Charley Marvin, recently gave bim a mile and repeat in 2327, 2:23. Parmeson, the noted Enzlish race horse and eire, died recently at Rofford Abbey. e was by the celebrated Sweetmeat, out of Groyere Ly Verulsm. 1fis only known repreeentative in this country is Patience, owned by Mr. Belmont. Dr. W. J. Weldon, the well-known trainer of race-horses and author of **How to Breed and Train the Thoroughbred, " was gcvereiy Kicked by adlly, while attending &’ recent sale of horscs at Barber & Son's, New York. Theinjary, although serions, willnot prove fatal. Philadelphia sports have been excited overa rumor that the pacer Willinm C., that has heen taking part in races in that city, was the Ilinois horse Sucker State, under an’ altas. = For their beneflit it may be stated that Suckor State is in the West, and paced lust week at Indianapolis. The %»sy ‘mare Morning, brought out recently by W. U. Doble, Jr., is proving a good adveriise- ment Tor her sire, Mambrino Pilot, who is also the sirc of Hannis. Morming hes won several very cregitable races this scason, and reduced her record 10 2:30, although credited’ with much more speed than theze Aigures indicate. After the three-yeur oid Gily Efic had won the $1,000 purse for foals of 1874, at the recent Fleetwood Park meeting, she was given & mile trial in 2:803; trotting the first quarter In 3715 seconds, and the balf mile in 1:18%. Efle is 2 small am® mal, bat well proportioned. and hergaitis re- garded by horsemen as being perfect, Thus far, Leamington heads the list of winning thoroughbred stallions for the present season, his ot havine won stakes and purses to. the amount o $46,000. _Charles J. Foster, of the New York Sportsidn, Wwas wlways yety weel on Leaming- ton. and Lis wnccess In thestud has more than verificd Mr. Foster's predictions as to bis merits as asire. The Louisville Jockes Club intends introducing dish custoius on its zrounds next year, aud oii ¢ Day will_theow the field, enclosed by the K, open to all, no aduussion feo being charged, 1t is thouglut that this will have the effect of sus- pending ail busi in’ Louisville on that day. The derome Park authorities are thiking of doing the same thing, and have already abolished the extra churge of S1 for quartec-stretch badges. Ar. A. W. Longley. of this city, owner of Mon- roc Chief, record 2:25, reports thal horse in fine condition, and Peter dohusou, Lis_driver, thinks lie will be faster than ever nextseason. Mr. Lont- ley has g 4-yeur-old filly by Monroe Chicl, the first of bis get, recently purchased 1n Kentuciy, that can {rot in 2:40 0f better. The Jatest addifion (o 3lr. Longley's etable is & brown colt, by Gov. Spraguc. ont of the trottiug mare Wighland Maid. The youngster is doing nicvly. The followinz atock was recently sent to En- glnd by Mr. Sunford: _Two-yeur-olds: b.c, Catar- ract, by Glenelz, dam Niatara by Lexingtons b. c. Daucing-Master, by Glenels, dam La- Polka by Lex:ngton; b. 1. Ultra by _Glenelg, dam Ulrica by Lexington} ch. f. Miss Ward by Baywood, daim Enrrus by Ringzold. Yearhngs: ch.c, by Glenelg, dam Ulrica by Lexington: b.¢. by Glenelg, dam La I'alka by Lexington; b. ¢. by Glenels, dam Cordelia by’ Lexinston: b. f. by Glenclz dum Stamps by Lesinzton; b. T, by Glencly, dam 3Miss Doyle by Le A San Francisco paper ssys that the lazgest crowd thut hus cver graced California street Bince the bonanza excitement of 1575, ussembled n few days a0 to witness the sale ut auction of tie horses and ontfits belongring to the great stock operator, Jim Keene, who recently removed to New York. While not bossessing the infatuation of Bon- mer or Vandorbilt, Mr. Keene twas still & fuir judge of borseflesh, and the animals in his siuble were all fastand good ones. As is the custom in California strcet. the various vehicles were ranged along the sidewalk, aud the horses were aligued on the outside. The vast crowd made it impossiole for any onc to zet within ity feet of the Merchants’ Exchange, and if persons {n Mont- omery strect lisd busitiess in Sansome strect they Biad to o around by either Pine or Sacramento strects. The first article of Mr. Keene's outit was the sorrel carrioge team—a hancsoume snd stylish span of horses. Pickering, ‘all, was permitted to walk off wita the A baudsome epan of dark bay car- -a team that can trot together d for which Mr. Keene paid §2 sold for $725. A forrel mare, imported from Ken- tucky. and Rald to be the finest #addle amimal in t by William 7. Coleman for horse, 7 years old, eound nd, sired by Niagara, and with o record of , was bougtt by Drary Melone for $676. Mr. Keeue paid §3,000 for this horse. AQUATIC. SCULL RACE ON THE IGDSON. PovGnREErSIE, N. Y., Oct. 27.—The four-mile double-scull race, working boats, bewween Ehis and Daniet Ward, of Cornwall, aud Arthur Maginn and Albert Darrakl, of Newbirg, was won by the former. Tim ’ e —— A FATED TORPEDO-BOAT. The History of the Craft that Sunkthe Hou- sntonle. Gen. G. . eauregara in Philudelphia Weekly Ti Nearly abou the tune of the attack upon t New Ironsides by the David, Mr. Horace 1 unley, formerly of New Orleans, but then li & in Mobile, oifered we another torpedo-bout of a different destription, which had been bulit with bis_private means. ‘It was shaped likea fish, made of galvanized iron, was twents fect long, and at the middle three and a balf feet wide by five deep. From its shape itcame to be kunown as the “lish torpedo-boat.” Propelied by a screw worked from the inside by seven or cight men, it was s0 contrived that it could be submerged and worked under water for several hours, and to this end was provided with a fin on each side, worked also from the interior. By depressing the points of these fius, the boat when iu motion was made to descend, and by clevating them it was made torise. Light was afforacd through the means of bull’s-eyes placed in the man-boles. Mr. Payne, the engineer who had successfully saved tie David, having vol- unteered with "a crew from the Confederate navy toman the fish-bouat for another attuack upon the New Ironsides, it was given into their- Dands for that purpose. While tied to the wharl at Fort Johusou, whence it was to start under cover of night to malie the altack, a steamer passing close by capsized aud sunkit. Mr. Payne, who at the time was standingin one of the mau- holes, jumped out_into the water, which, rush- into the two openings, drowned two men then within the body of the boat. After the recovery of the sunken poat Mr. [Iuniey came from Movile, bringing with him Licut. Dixon, of the Alabama Volunteers, who had successfully ex- perimented with the boat in the barbor of Mo- bile, aud under him anotber naval erew volun- teered to work it. As originally desizned, the torpedo was to be dragzed astern upon the sur- face of the water; the boat, approaching the broadside of the vessel to be attacked, was to dive beacath it, and, rising to the surface beyond, continue its course, thus brinwing the floating torpedo against the vessel’s side, when it would be gischarged by atrigrer contrivea to go off by the contact. Lieut. Dixon made repeated de- scepts in the barbor of Charleston, diving un- der the naval receiving ship which luy at aochor there. But oneday when he was_absent from the city Mr. Hunley, unfortunately, wishing to ‘bandle the boat bimself, made the attempt. It was readily submerged,’ but did not, rise again ta the surface, and all on board perished ffom asphyxiation.. When the boat was discovered, raised, und opened, the spectacle was indeseribe ablyghastly ;theunfortufiatemen were contorted into all Kiuds of horrible attitudes; some elutch- ing candles, evidently in the endeavor to force open the man-boles; others lying in the bottom tizhtly grappled toether, and the blackened faces of all preseuted the expression of their despair and agony. After this trazedy I re- fused to permit the boat to be used againg but Licut. Dixou, a brave and determined man, having returned to Churleston, applicd to me for authority to use it against the Federal steam sloop-ol-war Housutonic, a powerful new vessel, carrying eleven guns of the largest cal- ibre, whichlay at the time in the north channel opposite Beach Inlct, materially obstructing the passage of our blockade-ruuners in and out.” At the sugzestion of my Chicf-ol-Stafl, Gen. Jor- dau, 1 consented to its use for this plrpose, not as a submarine machine, but in the same tman- ner as the David. As the Housatonle was easily approached through interior channels from behind Sullivan’s Island, aund Lieut. Dixon readily procured a voluntecr crew, his little ves- sel was fitted witha Lee spar torpedo and the expedition was undertaken. Licut. Dixon, acting with characteristic cooiness and resolu: tion, struck and sunk the Housatonic; but un- happily, from some unknown cause, the torpedo Bboat was also sunk, aud all with it lost. Several years since a *‘diver,” cxaminingthewreck of the Housatonic, discovered the fish-boat lying alongside of its vietim. — Theodore Barricr, the French dramatist, died at Paris recently at the age of 44. He made his ucbut at the age of 20, and for the next eizhtecn vears he was u most industrious author. Among ihe sixty or seventy plays written by him many were known to English audiences. “Ile was the author of “Un Monsieur quisuit les Femmes " Q‘An Impudent Puppy?”), of *Les Filles_de Marbre (“The Marble Hears”), of “La Vie e Boheme ! (Mimi ™), of La Vie d'une Come- dienne 7 (“The Life of an Actress?), of L1 Ange de Minuit ? (“The Angel of Mid- night"),” and of “Une Corneille qui,abat des Noix {4 Buil in a China Shoo ™" TWEED. An Interesting Talk with the Ex= * Boss.” His Characterization of Hall, Sweeny, Connolly, and Tilden. What Tweed Intended Doing If He Had Not Been Captured, And What He Would Do If He Were Free to Begin Life Again, New Tork Herald, Oct. 26. “What s it you are confined for now, Mr. Tweed. Areyou under sentence or awaiting trial®” “Well, I'm confined for debt. They say im- prisonment for debt was abolished in America many years ago, but I don’t see it. You can ar- rest a maun for debt bere easier than in any country in the world. Walk around this jail and ask who now are here? My imprisonment is for inability to pay that sixmillions of dollars for which I ave had judgment found against me. And they can keep me here until I rot.” #1Well, the clection which is coming off will put in new State officers.” *But the same Governor will be in office,” gafd Mr. Tweed.” “No. My remedy must be found in the courts. Ihave made all the resti- tution inmy power. I am not indictable. L am simply bere because I cannot pay a judg- ment.” “Are you tho only member of the Ring now held in duress?” . ‘*The only one. Ingersoll and Woodsward are both out. Sweeny lives up town. Connolly is in Switzerland. Hallis in London or theren- bout.” . ** Are you on good terms with any of these persons i ** No, not at present. Ihave just found to- doy, looking over my papers, a receipt in full for 2 suit which Ingersoll (or Woodward, I have forzotten which) hias brought against my wife, another cheek of Jimmy O'Brien, and” some other letters of Hugh Hastings’. You see, it is a slow and laborious matier to go back and re- call or recover these little items in an afmost tumultuous career.” “ Wasn't it a foolish thing for Woodward to have ventured over the Canadian line to Chi- cagoi” 'm satisfied that he did it by arrangement, and that {t was understood he was to be ar- rested.” : “Why @id Hall run away—on the score of your confession * Hall, T think, has been crazy, or growing crazy, for years. He wusa dreadiully firesome fellow, with weak little puns.” + But he was useful, was e not, in the way of drawing up advantigeous or cunning bills P> “He was Iuir at that; ot accomplished; not arcal expert. Hall was pretty good on his legs, to presude at a dinner or make ready speech.” *“What is the meaning of the rumor that Sweeny and the Sweeny influence are at work to keep vou in jail ¥ : “ T'don’t think Sweeny wants me out. He’s probably goinz into politics again. You know he never came 10 the front much, but wanted to rule from a position of retirement. He can reach influences which I cannot reach.” THE MAN AT THE FRONT- “ But y!uyu uever quarreled much with your est! “No. They didn’t quarrel with me, because I was the only man who would go to the front. ey couldn’t rely on cach other if anythmg desperate was oo haud. I remember once there was a meeting to be held where Elijab Purdy wanted me to presige. Said I, ¢ Noiw, boys, tell you fraukly, I'm afraid to o to that me ing.” You may 2o, but I dow't want to.” *Poob, povh!” said Purdy, *we didn't expect that of you, Tweed; Pll go myself.” 8o I went that niglit, and, beiold? no Purdy came. ¢Come on,’ said I, “I'1f preside! So I took the chair, and waso't very comfortable in it, either. A mun from California, by the name of Doyle, was_1nnning for Recorder ugainst Bar- nard. (This recollection is at random.) I saw, as the _roll-call proceeded, that Doyle had the majority of delegutes. Said 1 to a Sccretary: *Have a motion made to dispense with cailing theroll? It was done. ‘All in favor of Mr. Barnard as_the nominee of this body say ave. Carried! The meeting is adjourned!” "well, there was a riot and 1 was driven iuto one cor- ner. isaiah Rynders bad a pistol as long as my Said Le, ‘Tl pay you arm drawn and cocked. for this? T was scarea, but I didn't say so. *1'm not ufraid of a whole ward of you fighiting villains,” sud I, nnd we all got out.? ““I'nen you never guarreled with Sweeny?? 40Oh, Sweeny is a bard, overbearin, ful mah,_Tle sants s 'was and treisurcs up rath. He has considerable ability of its kind. We were' so opposite and unlike that we got along very well.” “Jlow iid you ever take into your confidence Dick Connolly?" 8 “Counolly was before my time; I nad to teke the worid as it was and not make it an e was a powerful man in bis ward and distric being_from Cork, and that region iu other duys was full of Corkonians. If yon would walk through there and talk against Connolly it would beat your peril. We could not get along without Counlly, and aunexed him the vote he controlled. He had been an old Federal Custom-Housé ofticer and in Magor Havemeyer’s Bank.” “Who got Conuolly off#" “Tilden, through the aid of Mayor Have- meyer.” WIHAT HE INTENDED TO DO. «What did_you intend to do, Mr. Tweea, if you had been let alone in Europe?' 1 should have lived in Spain ail my life. I nad designed to zo Into some quict part, Cata- Tonia or somewhere where living was_incxpen- sive, and I have always been prudent i my appotites and personal livingz., 1 could bave lived there for the rest of my days.” “Don’t you think the desire for power, for American society, or to revisit New York would Dave bothered you at times#? ] think not. At that time I felt indisposed to talk, to meet acquaintances, to do anythine but rest and get some education besond what [ had. But it s a mistake,” remarked Mr. Tweed, * to consider me, s some Of the news- papers have donc, a5 a nian without a fnir edu- cation and an appreciation of it. ln 1852, when I was runninz for a small oflice in this city, it was printed about me that I was taken hoine drunk at nights, when the fact is I was never arunk in my life. My father lived to old age and dropped dead in the street. I have never smoked a cigar nor chewed a piece of to- bacco. 1 never liked whisky. Befng a man of large body, I am fond of good eating. But for my attention to temperance L should have been in my grave years 0.7 WHAT HE WOULD DO. «May T ask, what would you do if you were * out of this prison and free o bewin life againd”! “1 should go to New Orieans or to the West. Tdlencss is my aversion. I do more work in this jail than anybody in it. Look on that win- dow-sill_at those piles of books—the Jaily Transcript and other documents—pertaining to iy examivation. L spend hours ransacking them every day. During the beight of my Dprosperity in this city 1 made eversbody around me work, and it used to beasaying, ‘There comes Mr. Tweed, now we will have to sweat.! My son-in-law is in business in New Orleans and 1 could make myself useful to him os traveling aerent or in some other way—enough to give me employment and a living. - 1f 1 did not go there 1 weuid start life out West.” r “Perbaps you mistrust_yourself, Would not the thirst for politics in New York resume its place?” doeh “No, I am too old and indifferent, and would not ¢ven vote fu this country again. HIS VIEW OF TILDEN, = «What kind of President would Mr. Tilden bave fade had he been peacefully inaugu- rated ¥ n i ¥ {3Well,” said Mr. Tweed musingly, “if Con- grress were called to meet on the $th of March, And by constitutional requirement the Presi- dent wonld have to send in his Mcssage on that day, Tilden would buve it ready perbaps by the 4th 'of Avril following. He always puts off everything.” Gl « Bt if be has so much procrastination in bis habits how did Mr. Tilden become so rich " “wHBy tiring people out,” said Mr. Tweed. “He would just sit down and wear out the patience of anybody in business as he wouid in olitics. He wasa railroad schemer, you knos. gupnusc you ad 5,000 sharcs of stock in some company which he desicucd to capturc. e would have it all Sgurel out so that you would get no dividends, aud after awhile you would have to scil some of the stock. His pool, which had arranged to keep ¥ou out of your dividend, would then buy up Your stock, and so, little by little, yon would have to let that stock out until Tilden's crowd ot it all, and after awhile your railroad would be reorganized and consolidated. But that kind of paticnce does not apply to a Presideat, who can only serve four years and must act on the momenz.” , Sl Mr. Tweed, it is generally concedéd ‘that Tilden has showun ability.” How " aakod Sr: Tweed. respectfullv, 41 suppose you mean in his specches and letters. When he became Governor, at a time Wwhen no- body else desired the nomination, what kind of men did he bring forward to support him ia this State? He took a Republican, Kobinson, znd a squad of little fellowslike Fairchild.” **But he carried the nomination over many competitors at the Democratic National Con- vention?” “ It was his wealth that did that,” said Mr. Tweed. *The politiclans of the Democratic party in the South had no money, and could be picked up by Tilden’s agents. That is where he got. his strength in theSouth, but when he capt- ured the delegations he got no ability into them. ~The persons he selected to manage his case in Congress, excepting Mr. Hewitt, whobe- longed to New York, were- incapable of saving him.. Right in the midst of that controversy in Congress; there were able Democrats, members, and others, from the West and South, in New York, who'would not bother themselves to see Tilden counted in. They preferred Hayes.” NEW YORK POLITICS ALWAYS DISHONEST. “When you came Lo politics did you ever re- motely entertain the idea of snch ‘proportions as the Rine afterward sssumed?® ~ “No. The fact is New York politics were al- ways dishonest,—long before my time. There never was a time when you couldn’t buy the Board of Aldermen exccpt mow. If it wasn’t fordohn Kelly’s severity yon could buy them now. A polititian coming forward takes thines as they are. The population is too hopelessly split up into races and factlons to govern it under universal suflrage, except by the brioery of patronage or purchase.” HIS GREAT MISTAKE. #Well, Mr. Tweed, ou a zeneral review, what do vou think has been your great mistake—i mean in judgment—as a politician?” “1In pressing forward for leadership. I was always ambitious to be influential and to con- trol. When [ was 20 years old I foined an Odd Fellows’ Lodge, and in three months was the President of it. Liking busy_occupation and social influence among men, L'think I pressed on too confidently. I oughtu’t to bave tried to be leader.” “Since you have spoken of your principal mistake, fell me what act of your life—~what performance, srather—you take most pride in.” Mr, Tweed stopped and lovked dreary. I L;‘_ l,i\'gthinz. 1 don’t see apything great that id, “Not the new boulevards, nor the grades, nor the docks#? “Nothing,” gaid Mr. Tweed. *My vanity sees nothiny to delight it. L recall nothing cminent.” CIVIL-3ERVICE REFORM. * How would you go to work to rearrange this city and start it afresh, if that were the price of your release!” “Ishoulu adopt the Civil-Service policy,” said Mr. Treed. There Is no earthly policy to straighten out the gbuses of patronage but striet civil service. Its defect, of course, is to put a sort of aristocracy io the public offices. ‘When men hold their positions mdepeadent of politics they are apt to get a little Joity. But the evils of patroname, as every politidan must cncounter them in New York." are else incurable. I as carrying pav-rolls ot §50,000 a vear for per- s00s who did nothing at_all. - No adequate ser- vice is given here for official salarivs. Few of these pursons who are getting $3,500 and $4,000 a year can carn SLUK in any other business. They arc in cach other’s way, and are quarreling as o who shall do the work. If they worked in merchants’ stores, they would have to_go down town at 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock, and, with an in- terval of half an bour for diner, stay in the - store until 6 at night, and in the business season remain util 9. They go to our publicotfices by noon and zo away at 4 o'clock. The conse- quence is engrmous cxpense. When 1 began to Kkeep horses 1 bought two and bired one man. Then I bousht another horse and hired two men, and I got less service than when I had one man. ‘The passion to get office has become na- tional in America, and it is absurd to be a poli- tician under existing conditions without holding plent of patronage. We broke ourselves down 2nd injured this city by extending our patron- age in the reach for influence and power.? “ Haye you paid_any attention, Mr. Tweed, to the debate on Civil-Servive reform now rag- ing around the Federal Government £7 “T have, and it is a great question. I sceno objection to that system, except as it disturbs politiciuns. We can certainly et better service at less cost under that system.” “ When you held so much power were you ever tempted to do_personal injustice—send & nan to jail to get nim out of the war, for ex- ampict? N he fact is we were not conscious that we held 50 mueh power. Ican look back now and see the things L could have done which never struck me at that time as pertinent or Dossible. Our *power,’ 5o called, was always precariously held; our revenies werc uncertain and flitting; the greed below us ate up faster than any greed of our own.” MRS. FREMONT. Her Reminiscences—Senator Benton's Home —Life at Washington and St. Louls. Ttarper's for Soprmber. Our house fu_Vashington was headquarters for the varied interests from all these places, while about my mother there collected and shaped itself a “circle which formed for many years reaily a saion, to be broken up only by her loss of health. ‘This life rubbed ont many littte prejudices, and fitted us better than any reading conld have done to comprehend the necessary differences and equal merits of differing peoples, and that aithough ditferent each could be right. The ‘mannef in which my father taoght us also led us up to the same idess. The French lanzuage was a necessity, and that we acquired without any trouble, because we had g nurse who began us with it as svon as we could speak; whatever governess ur tea we had, my father always was our real teacher, my mother reserving one day and one line of instruction, which, like the red strand in En- glish naval cables, marked us for her own. While in Washinzton we nad our routine of studies and town life; in New Orleans my elder sister and myself rose to the proportion of members of Society, for my father’s clicuts when on their visits to Washiniton were pleased to have us for their little interprgters, and when we would be in New Orleans they would insist on treating usas grown people, inviting us formally to dinners, where we would be taken in formally by grown gentlemen and sit through the whole “entertainment. ‘There was areat in- herited wealth among these planterss they were aerally eduvated in Paris; and with the com- bined resources of climate, taste, and wealth their mode of living was beautiful as well as luxurious. In St. Louis where our house stood among its large treesin a’squarcof itsownwehad toa large decree a plensant out-door life. -Our les- sons_ always were givenon the broad gallery running around the house, and in_ every way we Dbad agreat deal of open-air life; but our true delight in out-of-loors was only to be had atmy grandfather’s place in Virgini. When going there from Washington we used no pub- evances bey onid Fredericksburg; there e the carriage and saddlc-horses met us, my mother as well as my father often making the Journey back on horsebaci, while the carriaze was there for us 1dren and for her to return to when tired,—a London-built traveling coach, which gave all the rest’ one looked for,—large, high-swung, and with so many springs that the jolting from the execrable roads was greatly Tessened. The interval betieen the close of the long session and the winter was too short forthe long, tedious journey to St.Louis and back. We only made that onalternate years after the short session, when high waters gave us large steamboats sud comfortable transportation tor our little crowd. What we do now in two days required then several weeks. y father knew no plan of life that separat- ed him from his family, so we led this churming nomadic existence witi its fixed pointsin such coutrast to the trouble of travel and distance between them. Washington was in ooe way work, and St. Louis and New Orleans had their sides of political work and his duties usa lawver. But it was all boliday here, and my father en- joyed it thorouglily. Especially he enjoyed the autumn shooting. ~ The birds were most plenti- ful in certain large wheat fields which in their warm tints of stubble undulated over the south face of the hills, thetrees of the “Ilit- tle orchard” and the park'making u good screen to the north. Here and there through the fields were zood apule trees: under one of these we would rest and eat our luncheon of abiscuit and some fruit taken from the tree above us;and then my father wonld takea book from bis pockel, usually & classic in a Frengh _traaslation, from which he wculd read aloud for meto translate. There were pleoty of ideas, even words, that 1 did not understapd. I it ad Geen a descrip- tion of the steam-engine I should have gone through it with equal’ ood-will and docility; but much of it remained in my memory, and I grew into it. Hard words and hard ideas tired my d as the long tramps and plowed fields tired my youoz feet, but with time I grew wsed o both, and the betefit of both remained with me; thesc long sunny mornings were the most delightful phasc in which my Jessons came. In winter .I bad my cormer at the library table. Nomatter how good onr teachers were, my father bad us prepare our lessons with him. About a year after I was married my father sent for me oue morning, and pointing to my old place at the end of the library table said. 1 want you toresume your place there; you are too young to fritter away your life without some useful pursuit.” So back to mv mornings of workacd readings and translations, which brought with them the scraps of talk and con- nected interest on all subjects which can only 'L‘ZKSL where lives are passed in that - pleasant intimacy. _The long litions which Mr. Fremont made took him from home five years of the first eight after we were married, and 1 remained in mgly respects in my old place asoueof the children of the family. My mother’s long ill- ness deprived my father of her compavionskip toa great extent and made him turn to me atill more. How greata loss this was to him and {0 us can only be known to those who knew her; but Ido not speak of that life, for it is not like mine, in a manner publicproperty. For mysell, 50 much good-will and warm feeling bave becn given me duriog the public portion of my life that it does not seem more intrusive to talk of myself to my unknown friends than shose I know personaily. As my mind turns back to that time so much crowds upon it that Ican neither tell it in its fullness. ‘norcan 1 brivg mysell to leave it # mere skeleton. 1 think there conld hardly bave been o happier life than minensa child and in all my vaath: it would be = full_volume to be bound in white and gold, and red-lettered throughout and full of lovely pictures, and everywhere in ll of them my father the promi- nent figure. He made me a_companion and a friend from the time almost that 1 could begin to understand. We were s euccession of girls au first, with the boys coming last, and” my {ather gave me early Linz place that a son would have had; and my perfect health—without a flaw until was 21—gave me not only the yood spirits but the eaduraace and application that pleased hum. NICSICS. Picturcsque Features of tho Maliometan Hegira. o Fetter to the Munchester Guardian. Nicsics, Scpt. 2L.—For the lust few days T s of a melancholy spectacle —the wholesale enngration of toe Mahometan population of Ni ‘But do not imagine that this is due to any harshness on the part of the conquerors. Immediately on entering the town Prince Nikola convuked the leading Mussul- mau townspeople, and informed them tuthe most reassuring terms that he guaranteed for all who chose 1o remain complete personal security, the possession of their liouses, lands, and all prop- erty, perfect rcligious freedom; aud, in fact, ail the rights of Montenegrin citzenship, inclua ing the rizht to carry arms. On the other liand, if any chose to depart, they would be allowed to carry all their moveables with them, and suppli- ed with horses and guards by the Montencgrin Government. ‘The greater bulk of the Mahom- ctans of Nicsles have preferred poverty and exile, the loss of house and land, to romuining in a place where they could no longer feel thew- selves the dominant caste. Equality before the Taw has been offered them: but equality befora the law is precisely the thing which the Turks will notaccept. Some of thew, no doubt, expect that at no distant date the Sultan’s troops will recapture Nicsics, and that they may then re- turn and claim their own. But such hopes are vain; there are tew more certain things as to the futare of these lands than that Nicsics ywill remain in Montenegrin bands. By emigrating wholesale the Mahometan inhabitants have but buen playing into the hands of their conquerors. Had they elected to rematn, the rer of an emeute within the walls would have mu hml)er- ed the defensive strenzth of a garrison; to keep fn check an armed population of some 6,000 fanatics a large body of Alontenegrin troops must continually have been drawn off from other scrvices. Long since the little principality has learned the danger of possessing a Jarge 3oslem population withia its borders. The rencegades were aliways ready to coaspire with their coreligionists beyond the border, and the durkest chapter in MontenegTin history tells us how they opened a way for the Turk ioto the heart of the country. Montenegro would, indeed, long ere this have become a Turkisk pashalic but” for the terrible remedy devised by the greatest of her Vladikas. ~Montenegro, too, has her Vespers. On Coristmas Eve, 1702, the whole Maliometan population was massacred from one end of the conutry to the other. But, with such experiences in the past, it may be imagined that the incorporation of 4,000 Turks in the body pulitic at one fell swoop was re- garded by inany Monteuegrins with great mis- zivings, insomuch that the most respected man and the bravest genural in_ the country, tha Voivoda Bozo Petrovich, told me ouly the other day that hal Le the manazement of “affairs he would never have given the Turks the option of remaining. As it is, Turkish fanaticism is spar- inz the Montengrin Government & zreat deal of trouble, and the Prince has lost nothing by his generosity. Day by day up to the present, the last day on which the Prince gecords them horses and escort, these haughty Moslems bave been turning their backs ou their native city, carry- ing with them their wives and chitdren sad household goods. It has been a striking sight to watch long cavaleades, somet{mes s many as sixty at a time, streaming out of the town. Now and then one of the little ones would look consolate cuongh, but the women werc maflled in their long white sheets, so that you could hardly sec so much 3s a nose,and the men. were too proud to betray any symptom of re- aret, and were even dressed_out in their bright- est holiday costume. How duil and dingy took the Monténeerins who escort them beside these vrilliunt Orientalsf You may pick gr, if you huve a mind to, the claborately-carved ' trunks of Turkish familics removing zorgeous Herze- goviniun Tugs, with their rich pervading orange Zmost creditable memoriul of the taste and in- dustry of the N 45 she Was} you may pur- chase from their Bashi-Buazoak owners desirous of realizing ancient Albaunian flint-locks, their stocks inlaid with mother-of-pearl, their barrels exquisitely wrought with silvervork by the artistsof Prizrend. I huve said that the Mahom- ctans of Nicsics refuse to betray any emotlon. Iwas wrong. Even the stolcism of the Mosiem can break down at parting with s arms. An ancient Turk who had covenauted witn & friend of mine to sell his flint lovk for 30 Horins—it had adate upon it of three centuries back and s dustined to adorn a museum at Berlin—fairly burst into tears as he concluded the bargain, ex- claiming. ¢ My grreat-grandfather will rise from his erave torebuke me!” ‘There are still some fifty Mahometan families who have not yet migrated, but it s probable that the Turks will leave Nicsics almost to o mau. Moutenegrius are already sctling here. Some who resided here before the war are com- ing back; aod [ may mention, as an exawmple of honesty on the part of a ‘*trus bellever,” that a Montenegrin merchant who at the be- pinning of the troubles, two years back, left his wures to the safe keeping of a Mahometan friend, found them intact on his return here the other day. Yes, that old tyrannous dominant caste had its fine side, too. Those turbaned szraybeands sitting in their fur-bordered mantics outside the city gate awaiting the signul for their departure are not wantipg st least o nobleuess of expression. The black bordered fez that always stem to mean business, the dull, white dolama or tunic, the dingy, brown struka, the plaid of the Sluvonic hizhlunders, may secuy but a poor exchange fur the wajestic turban, the brilliant, fiowing, tasseled fez, the rich broesded vest, aud wl these fantasies of gold and emerald. One'is filled with overpowering artisttc regret. One follows the retreating groups as thelr silver-studded arms flash in the sunlignt far across the plain, but_regret ceases as the eye wanders across that rich champaign 5o barc of cultivation, or lights here and there fn the suburbs of the town on a small garden patch, where the rich growth of tobaceo, tall stalks of Indtn corn, molden fizs, and clustering vines attest how rich this land might become when vo longer trodden down with Turkish luof-prints. You teel then that the land has need of these gaunt, horny-handed highlanders. You turn your eves beyond the plafn to the naked mountaius that inclosc it on every side in their hunery arms, aud you realize’ what Tneed Montencero hus of the fich plain of Nic- sics, TAL'K NOT TO ME OF LOVE. Talk not to me of Jove and bliss That fries fielf In linseringlcs, And all its giowing kind: Give all those deep, delicions ills, That cause such beart-vibrating farills, To those whom Love makes blind. “Tis pot for me to dream a dream ‘That gives my whole life fitful gleam Or joy, so soon destroyed: “Tis not my will to school my heart To seek » mate that wonld depart, And leave it chill and void. What i this Love, and all ita gain? Nuught bot what will to me bring And grief, and ssddened beart: Athing o'er whichtosizh and weep, A hope which lnlla my fears to sleep, Till rudely thrust apart. T none of this—TTi live alone, ‘And teach my heart to o¢ stone, Insensible 1o all; Tl never let my songs be heard Like those of éome imorisoned ‘That chirps its mournfal call. Alone Tl live; within my shell 135 *+ st and sigh " 1—perhsps—tis well; 111 no inconatant friends: My books and flowers alone I'Il love, ‘And auk the stars that sbine above ‘Which way my life portends. Cmcaco, 1877 Crara P. BORLINGAME. L ——— watch that saved the life of G. W. Leaven- woAnh, who was sbot_at Wilkesbarre, Pa., s on exhibition in Troy. The fiattened bullet is em- bedded in one case, the weeks are thoroughiy demoralized, and an aperture forced through the ooDosite case.