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THE NEW YORK HERAL. WHOLE NO. 8441. THE FIREMEN’S OVATION. Grand Triennial Parade of the New York Fire Department—-Programme of irrange- Companie:—_Bescription Hew Fire Department Banner, &o., &, do. To-morrow, the second grand triennial parade of the ‘ew York Fire Department will take place, when every ‘engiwe, hose and hook and ladder appiratus, which have ‘Deen painted and decorated for the occasion, will be out, ‘and the various companies will parade 9 full complement ef men. We doubt not but what the parade will be grand aud very attractive to thoso who may bave the good fortune to witness it. The procession will form on the Fifth avenue, and proceed down to Fourteenth stecet, ‘thence to Eighth avenue, to Bleecker street, to Broad- ‘way , to the Park, and pass in review by the Mayor and Common Council, in front of the City Hall. Up Chatham Street to Bast Broadway, tarning into Grand street, and ‘through to the Bowery, up the Fourth avenue to Union wquare. The parades of the Fire Department take place ‘Dut once in three years, and as this is the only chance to see the whole department for some years, a large turn out may be expected. ‘Besides our own firemen, there will be quitean array of ‘wisiters from abroad, who have brought their apparatus ‘with thom to assist in the display. Subjoined we give tho ns Fire of the Charlestown De- Hook and Company No. 1, of Patterson, ymper Engine Company No. 4, of Hartford, Conn, Tone Oonobainy Nov ot New N. ¥.; Bos: Company No. 8, of Boston, rl Company, of Roxbury, Mare; Crocket Hook No. 2, of Newark, N. J.; United Hoso Company No. 46, of Philadelphia. ‘The following is the official programme as adopted by ‘the Board of Engineers. Chief HARRY HOWARD, Grand Marshal. Assistant Kogineers John A. Cregicr and John Baukh, ‘She Mne will meet and be formed at ten o'clock A. M., on ‘Fitth avenue, in the following order :— ¥IRST DIVISION. Assistant r John Decker, Marshal. Companies. SROOND DIVIBION. Assistant eer Peter N. Cornwell, Marshal. Colt’s Hartford Brass Band. pen Barouche, with ex-Chiefs Uzziah Wenmaa, James Gulick and Alfred Carson. Fireman, ex-Fire Commissioners, wv York Fire Department, it Banner, in char; - No. Ansociation of Board of Fire Commissioners Exempt Eng'pe @Bicers and Trustees of the Ne! New York Fire ‘Company No. 7. Sing Sing Brass f any No. “ah with tender, No, 8. Ss FOURTH DIVIAION. eee aaa Wm. T. Mawbeoy—Marshal. Regiment Brass Band. ‘ion Eny Phoenix Hook an ~ Membettan ‘Water Gulick Brass Band. Knickerbocker Engine Company No. 12. Magle Hook and Ladder Company No. 4 ‘Middletown Brass Band. Company No. 13. Engle En; Jackson Company No. 13. Governor's Island Brass Band. olumbia Engine Company No. 14. Tompkins Hore Company No. 16. Fighth Regiment Drum Corps.§ Atlantic Hose Company No. 16. Chatham Engine Company No. 15 FIFTH DIVISION. Aspisiant Engineer Timothy |. West—Marshal National Guard Brass Band, Excelsior Hose Company No. 14, @linton Hose Company No. 17. Wannamacker’s Brass Band. Mohawk Engine Company No. 16. Franklin Hose Company No. 18. Union Brars Band.” Union Engine Com yo. 18. Lafayette Engine Compasy No. 38. Liberty Brass Ban: Bast River Engine Company No. 17, Zalayotie Hook and Ladder Company No. 3. North Carolina Brass Band. American Hose Company No. 19. Humane Hose Company No. 20, ‘Washington Newark Brass Band. Washington Fngino Company No. 20. Hudson Hose Company No. 21. SLXTH DIVISION. Assistant Engineer Eiw. W. Jacobs—Marshad. Union Braas id. Wnion Hook and Ladder Company No, 6. Protector Engine Company No. 22 Perry Hose Company No. 23. ford Brazs Band. Falton Engine Company No. 21. United States Engine Company No. 23. ‘Mechanics Hook and Ladder Company No. 7. Rubles’ Brass Band. Phoonix Hoso Company No. 22, United States Hose Company No, 26. ¥Yort Waehington Engine Company No. 9. url’s Brass Band. Jackson Engine Company No. 2%. nl Ratgers Hose Company No. 2%. . Assistant Ipr ee G. Joseph Ruch—Marshal. ational Brass Band. National Hose Company No. 24. Neptune Hose Uompany No. 27. Cataract Drum Corps. Cataract Engine Company No. 25. Pear! Hoge Company No, 28. Pacifle Brass Band. Pacific Engine Company No. 28. Lanrel Hose Company No. 30. Band. Metamora Hove Company No. 2 Mwpire Hook and Laddor Company No. 8. Jefferson Braas Band. Jefforson Engine Company, No. 26, Putnam Hose Company No. 31. Robingon Brass Band. Guardian Engine Company No. 29. Index Hose Company No. 83 Drum Corps. North River Engino Company No. 90. Narragansett Hook and Ladder Company No. 10. HIGHTH DIVISION. Assistant Engineer John Brico, Marshal. Rohn’s Brass Band. 8 5 Black Joke Engino Company No. &. Adriatic Engine Company No. 51. Hackensack Brass Ban: Warren Hose Company Ni Shelton's Brass Baud. Howard Engino Company No. 34. Jafayette Hose Company No. 24. + Schottio’s Braas Band. Columbus Engine Oompany No. 85. a Albany Cornet Ban. ‘Washington Hook and Ladder Company No. 2. ‘Tradesmen’s Engine Company Nov 37. Mauvaban’s Brags Band, c Harry Howard Rugine Company No. 36. . Mohawk Hos» Company No. 9. Bholton’a Brass Band. Oceana Hose Company No. 90. Franklin Engine Company No. Assitant YoogingeT ave Saintant gincer Danicl Donnevan, lars! Srover'n Bree Band? eee Madipon Hose Company Lady Washington Paging Compan Wallace's Brass Bane. Southwark Engine Com 40. ng’ 7 No. Alert Hose Company No, 41. Vif, Att Regiment Brass Bond. Company No. 88 Company No, | } 1 | | j | i i H | | } i t i } very vivacious, B ‘ } { } nees an ability of the youthful aspirant for fatare the. 1 atx imac. ‘his tyro in the dramatic art, Uke many | others now eminent in dramatic annala, was originally an employs of the Court and by that t | j Danner, presented at tho titne of the Groton { and Kingsland hay Harry Howard Hose Company No. 55. Assistant Baghuoer Stophen Mitchell—Marshal. F Cercilion Columbian Hook and ladder Gompany No. 14. ‘Nassau Hose Company No. 56. Em) ‘Brass . Dodworth’ : Baxtor Hook and Ladder Company No. 36, The several divisions will form as follows >— First Division—Vieiting Companies, west side of Fifth avenue, 7 restiig ‘on fifth street. Second Divisim—New York Fire Dopartment, east sido of Fifth avenue, right on Thirty- fifth stroot. Third Division—East side of Fifth avenue, right on ‘Thirty-second strect. Division—Kast side of Fifth avenue, right on Twenty -ninth street. Fifth Division—Knst side of Fifth avenue, right om ‘Twenty-sixth street. Sixth Division—East side of Fifth avenue, right on Twen- ty-third street. Seventh Division—Enat side of Fifth avenue, right on Twentieth street. Division—East side of Fifth avenue, right on Seventeenth street. ‘Ninth Fourteonth etreet, south side, right on Fifth avenue. Tenth Division—On Fourteenth street, right on Sixth venue. Eleventh Division—On Fourteenth street, right on Se- ‘venth avenue. SPECIAL Smoking in the Ii a be strictly prohibited. in ine will be stri . violation of this rulo will cubano the expulsion from the las of the person ormeeesce offending. Fel at ol voang ee. soveral dries wit eat 16 COR) leave the line, are directod to retain their positions unt cuit” 8 of companics are requested to be punctual at ten oe Ae ANDO EN move precisely at cleyen will be prohibited from taking their re og with more men than they are entitled to by We Companies parading with steam engines are directed to by pot plas in the tne without steam. companics throughout and county of Now York are perce eteees wo “foyer” the on Sree aneerae Sane ie an near the front r Ol other citizens may have free le. ‘Marshals will appear in dark clothes, red shirts, wile sguafertse, bras trumpets and their badges of ice. order , Cibef HARRY HOWARD, Gréad Marshal, On Monday morning at nine o’clock the new banner will be pr sented by the Mayor, on bebalf of the city, to the New York Fire Department. It ts at present placed in the City Hall, City Library Rooms, and has boon sevorely criticized by hundreds of people, The resdlution granting a uew banner to the Fire De- partment was adopted in November, 1857, and at that témne a committee was appointed from the Board of Repre- sentatives of the Fire Department to take charge of the matter. The Common Council very considerately placed the choice of a design in the hands of the officers of the Fire Department Find, and to them belongs the credit of the exe e of the work. The President of tho Fire Department will receive the gt of the city on the part of the Fire Department, and look and Ladder Corapany No. 11 will carry it theonghout tho day. Engine Company No. 14 have kindly consented to escort it to tho hn ‘The banner is the largest and most costly over exhibited in this or any other city. Itis of heavy double silk, nine by twelve feet in sizo. One side is of the best blue Italian silk, known as tho Marie Louiso quality. The tableau on the face is em- braced in an oval, and conaists of a representation of a widow and her children rescued by a fireman. The god- dess of protection, riding upon the clouds in the back ground, is prese nting the Koy of tho Fire Department to jeptune, who, with his Tritons, are awaiting orders upon the brink of ‘the soa. Tho figure of the water god is strikingly dolincated. Charity is placing in the hand of the widew money, and points to Cornucopia at hor fect, as the earnost of futuro plenty. Below aro some of the symbolical emblems of the department; the whole appear surrounded by clouds of smoke, from the summit of which appear twrosniing ‘cherubs,’ The principal tn- scription on the face is:—“New York Fire Departmont, ehartered March 20th, 1795.’? ‘The obverse side of’ the banner is patnted upon royal purplo eilk, and consists of a repotition of the ropregonta- tion of the billowy firo-clouds, in the contre of which is a Jarge oval bearing the arms of the city of New York, most uniquely formed by the rope that drags an engine. Above, fs a medallion containing a view of the Firemen’s Monu- ment in Greenwood Cemetor; Ddolow are the re- remaining emblematic types of the department, bosidas & representation of the certificates of membership and | dismissal; between which, at the bottom of the banner, Je a hydrant with two lengths of hose, artistically intro: duced in the whole picture. The motto on this side is:— “Presented by tho Corporation of the Gty of Now Yori, October 17, 1 ‘The banucr, for size, grouping, do- fign and execution, stands unrivalled in the history of banner painting Atonce bold and free, the figures and emblems are in brilliant and distinct rolief, which renders them easily discernible at a distance, and yet finished with a eoftness of touch that will compare favorably with many cabinet paintings. It was executed by Joseph H. Johnson, a young artist of this city. ‘The bannor is superbly trimmed ‘with gold laco and tassols. It will be delivered to Comptrolicr Haws bition in the City Library, City Hall, from threo o’clock P’. M., until its presentation on Monday. It cost $1,500, ‘The frame is of polished hiokory, with the iron framo work gilded. On the top are an eagle and Fire Do mont emblems, We kuow tho Fire reciate this gift from tho city and keep ator Cele- Dration’ in 1842, has boen used on every occasion where the Firo Department have beon called’ out. Seventeen ears of continual use have now worn it out, ‘The new anner will, of course, be Placed in Firemon’s Hail, and in charge of the Trustees of the Firo Department. Nearly ail oar down town compar the pregentation. ‘She early hour solected—aine o’clook— will admit of every company being presont and allow plenty of time to form the linc. Enginoers Decker, Baulch ve been aelected a8 a committee from the 8, and will have ard of Eng! f tho banner e: Cun oF 4 Por me ton years ago a bition and animal spirlis, obtained a piearant notoriety as a promising actor in characters, of minor importance in themeolves, Dut rendered of consequence by the earnest means receiver © a thoatvical adimigcions, and -,itanny be fairly presumod, recoived his firs Ieee, 1 yoar# of ad theatrical life have 4 the pr te youthful aspirant, the strog- tyre, has returned among ws, after three years? ab. Fone, with all the proud distinetions of unoxarpled sue- eces, unt tho more sold advantages of an honorably eainod and bandeome independency. ‘The fame mado fn thie comntry hes heen ackvowledged justly carned—in Kag- land, Ireland and Seotland—<and the welcome givon to | Rarney Wiliams and his Yankee wife has been such ae Geir merits well deserved. Mr. ond Mrs, Barney Williatns will appear at Ntblo’s on Mandnay next, October 17, u, We predict, tho house will bo filled fo its vitineet extont to give them u welcome to the city whore th er been ko kindly recoived and whore they have a ontribiited to tho rational ary is oF the larg aby antic Colonel Karon Keilles, w! deen Bent Wy th Cromat ihe 1 Duke of Ream of ag, on the T7th ult., and embarked on the following day on Voare a steamer fox St. Petersburg. Comritteo on Fire Department, | ‘tment will ap- Reafely.. ‘The old | 8 will be present at the time of | ge of the formation | j; ight-eyed young man, fall of life, am- | The English Cricketers and the Propesed Bace Bali Match—The Two Games Des eribed and Compared. ‘Tho imparest created among the general public by the report of a proposed base ball match between pine of the eolebrated English cricketers now im this country and nine of the most accomplished players of this city and Brook- lyn, ie #0 great that we append, for the information af our readers, a full and explicit description of the two games of cricket.and base ball. It will be seen that there ie pet the slightest probability of ench a match taking place at the present time. We have the authority of the English cricketers for con- tradicting in tolo the statements lately made in reference © a contemplated base ball match. Our reporter saw ‘them at the railroad station yesterday afternoon, just as they were on the point of leaving Philadelphia, and they avsured him that the statements made of their having of- fered to play a match for a cortain amount of money, of having received a specimen base ball bat aud book of in- strvetions, &c., are {glee in every respect. They nover play for money ; they have never received a challenge to play a match at-baso ball, or offered one ; they camo here on invitation from the representatives of Cricket Clubs, in. Montreal and New York, with whom they wore acquaint. ed, to play asories of ‘four matches at cricket, and they Dever purposed entering into a match at a game with which they wore unacquainted. They think it due'to tlie courtesy with which they were troated in New York to make this public acknowledgment, and they should feel gratified, M it possibly could be arranged, to arrange a match at base ball with the Now York players, if thcir li- mitod tay in this country would allow them. But itmuat be remembered that they mover play for money; and if outside parties make a match for moncy stakes they aro not responsible for anything that may bo dono, They commence the fourth of their arranged series of matches | ‘on this continent at Hamilton, C. W., to-morrow at eleven o'ewek A.M. When this game is terminated they pro- c5eed to Rochester, where they play a match on Weenes- day and the succeeding days. For the sake of the uninitiated in cricket and base ball and they are the greater number as regards both games, but particularly cricket, which is scarcely known at all by Americans—we propose to give some explanation of tho two games, and to compare and contrast them in those points in which they are similar an different. Cricket has been only reeently introduced into this country, the firet clab—tho St. George’s—hawng been established here abont twenty years ago. From this sprang a few other clubs, both in the United States and in Canada. But, on the whole, the game bas not extended much, and that for two reasons: first, because base ball—an American national game—was in possession , and was too like cricket to be superseded by it; and, secondly, in the points on which it differs from cricket it is more suited to the genius of the people. It is rapid and simple. Even if there were no base ball in ex- fgtence cricket could never become a national sport in America—it is too slow, intricate and plodding a game for our go-ahead people. Cricket—which is derived from the old Saxon word ertce, a stick or bat—is a purely English gamo, and baso ball—though originally imported from England when England was more “morrie” than sho {s now—is pecu- Marly American, while in the old country it is not 90 gene- ral as it was formerly, Base ball has been from time {igmemorial a favorite imerease has been within the last throe or four years. ‘Till 1864 thero were only four clubs organized im that year two moro. In 1859 a convention ‘the’ cits of ‘Now York and its vicinity was puxposo of establishing a uniform In tho last year a second convention was held when a re- solution was adopted declaring the Convention permanent. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, and the socicty was duly organized ag ‘‘The National Association of Base Ball Players.” ‘Tho first annual moeting of tho aesocia- tion was held’at the Cooper Institute on the 9th of March of the present year. Fifty clubs were roprosented and enrolled—tho greater number being of New York and Brooklyn. We suppose the number since has beon nearly doubled. The moet distinguished clubs at pr are the Knickerbocker, of New York; the Union, of rigania;the Excelsior, the Star, and the Putnam, of Ri lyn. Verhaps the Excelsior is the best of all. ‘The good effect produced on tho health and stn and morals of the young men engaged in this outdoor ex: It has taken them from the unhealthy haunts of disetpatio indore, and given them a taste for manly sporta which cannot failto have a beneficial effect, not only in the phy- sical developement of oww citizous, but on the national character. No “refreshments” are allowed on the occa- sion of matches, which are visited by thouzands of spec tators, including a large number of ladies. om bat, whoreupon the striker runs to points called “bases,” of which there are four, at the four corners of a square, placed diagonally or diamond wise. The batman or striker standing on one corner called the home or last base, after striking away the ball, runs for the first base, which is to his right hand; if he can get there be- fore the ball is caught, he is so far safo; if it is caught he is put out, but if not, and if he thinks he bas time to run for the gecond base, he runs for that too, and liko- wise to the third and fourth, or home. If he can get to any of these before he is touched with the ball in the hand of his opponent he is safe, and if be makes good the last base, he counts one and retires, and one of his companions on the same side takes the bat and follows his example, till three are put ont, and that is called an inning, and the outs then come !n and make thelr inning, and #0 on alternately, till nine innings are made by each, and that ends the game, the party counting most winning it, Thus in baee ball every man gets the bat three times in all to make his runs. In oricket every man only gets the bat tw Tn cricket there are two | batmen, in bare ball only one } The bases are thirty paces ov atnety feet apart; so that a dis each man before he counts one, In oricket the successful running of sixty feet count: one. The first, second and third bases are, or onght te be, canvass bags, painted white and filled with cand or sawdust, covering each a space equal to 2 square foot. The home base is marked 4 1 ron plate, painted white. ‘The pitcher's point, that ie the spot from which the player pitches the ‘ball to the batman or striker, ix likewise designated by irctilar iron plate painted white, and is within the s y ty-five feet from the home base © second or furthest base. 7 ‘ing, and the pitcher’s position corresponds with the bowler’s in cricket, quite so important. ‘The ball must be noi jerked, nor thrown; that is, the hand down to the Inp or below it, and it must 4 for the centre of the home base, or at the bat- Ii murt not touch the ground before it reaches the bat tho art of pitching conaists in throwing it hb foree that the batman has not time to wind § bat to hit it hard, or 60 close to his person that he only hit ita feeble blow, which enabies one of his sonists to get the ball before he has time to reach the tiret base. The batman strikes overhand at tho ball. Tn cricket he strikes underband, because the bali is thrown low, and must etylke the ground before it reaches the batman. Dall,on or before the third fur ball, the bat- nws down bis batand runs for the first baso; putout. In-ericket the batman is never ron Ul he (hicks proper, so that he has oly any risk in making at least one run of sixty feet setween the two wickets. We eay sixty fee, for though « wicket are C6 fect apart, it is sufficient for the runner to ho tip ot his bat inside the poy crease. Ifhe has time ack again, and counts another, and go on; butfif ught out, it does not deprive him of counting. sfulrune ho has already made, as is the case in ball, Hemee the ish game isso slow and tame, ho American so full of life, In the latter the playor yelled to go. If the bull is caught, either flying or ic Hirst bound from the earth, after being struck with bat, the batman is put out without counting; or if it etd b ry on the first base before the iat any time he is touched by tho ball hands of an adversary without somo part of his person being on th Formerly it was eufficient to vorsary with the ball by throwing it at him, ow abolished, as it was dangerous and to the game. ‘ ich of the bases js stationed one man to » ruuner, and the flolders, who are outside te bald to him in order that he may toueb the ran 4 } i { ; ' with wo + tarow f nt ercise is the theme of all who are conversant with them. | Base ball, which is played by nine on each side, is so | called from the game being played by a ball struck witha | neo of three hundred and sixty feet must be run by { OCTOBER 16, 1859. Der with it before he reaches the base. Henoe the neces fity of the elders being fleet of foot and accurate throw- of the men’ guarding tho bases being good catchers, The ball is often thrown from an astunis! distance and caught. A blow from it hurte severcly, though it js not so heavy in proportion to its sige at & chat ball. me weight of a base ball must not be less than five and three-quarter ounces, nor six oonces, Jt must measure net lens than ino ad inte Pn tipped than ten inches in circumference. It made of rubber and yarn. Tho wi of a erieket ‘ball must be not lees than ‘ive and hae soosees and moro then five and threo. ouness. Jt must mea- g | E i ; P§ it 3 ; i i 5 if 2 5 Ze HE : A z F 3 £ zee 5 z 22 =5 & F i iH E Ata i z E fF iy a4F & bess Hck ; 44 =f i BFE F ire Ht iyst one plays against Grpols fell. “Crieket. 52 a frst poaseslon of the wicksto and Dats ot wou Jot of of thelr, Cy makes all he and tine thay ane thie in i cnlisd thats teases eat as united ar Best first their E F | i i, i fie I H ts E & é 3 Ls i ria! i F i tid H as i 4 dy j e i dl He ae he ee ei He i eter EERE : z 2 i Ff Fy i Fae ; i J i be Bi 8 iS i : at it E & i i ie i i z 42 5 3 = fi i i i é : i fs PT Hy :. i EB ef i F i fi F E : H ESS A 4 Ee g > z £ 5 E E E [ i & é z i é lu Sts i : 5 e to stand near enough to his wicket to protect it and yo be able to give the ball a good stroke; if he winds his ha ho is in danger of knocking down his own wicket and o thus being put out, and if he does not drive the ball sufti ciently far away ‘he canfot getarun. A stroke called square log, by Which the batman sends the ball with a owersul blow to his Jeft hand gide at right angles with the ine between tho two wickets, is fered a great fea! and generally gives bim a succeseful run, or perhaps seve ‘al; it ig difficult to make, and.dangerous to attempt this troke. If the batman stops the ball with his leg or any part of his body when it is golng straight for the wickot ho is put he cannot stop it except by the bat. is out if the bail on either of the is be bowled off, or if a stump is bowled out of the ground, or if the ball from his bat or hand is caught be- | fore it touches the ground, or if in striking at the ball or at any other time both his feet should be outside of “the popping crease” and his wicket fs put down by the adver- fary, except his bat be grounded within the crease. A bat- man may therefore either be “bowled out” or “caughtout.’? When a batman makes any number of runs the bowler | 4s Said to have ‘bowled’? go many for him, and {t is con- tracted to *b.,” and when he is ‘caught’ the letter “c,”? ig need and the player by whom he 4s caught is named. Wi ; to the reader what tho | popping It is a sort of enclosure made by a in tho grass around the wicket, | and within this the batman must stand. It is a line drawn parallel to tho wicket, four feet distant and in front of it, unlimited in length. We should mention that the bowling crease is a line eix feet eight inches long, running paraile} to this line ana right through the wicket, which is placed in its centre. It has a return crease or Hine at cach end drawn at right angles to it. Within this square enclosure the bowler must deliver his ball, and with one foot behind the front line, and he can select either the left or right side of the wicket to bowl from. There is only one bowler on the ground at the same time, and cf course only one wicket is bowled at, but aftor every fourth bail the bowler changes over and bowls at the other wicket. The batman who guards that wicket whieh is not bowled at has the privilege of making his run to the other wicket, when the ball {s struck, just the same the etriker, and they generally run together, crossing each other. ‘Sometimes they are both successful and sometimes only one, and sometimes both are pnt ont. All who are opposed to them, excopt the bowler and the wicket keepor, aro called tho fielders. Thore are thus always nine fielders out. In base ball there are not so many, for there are three men Jeft to watch first, second and third bases, who with the pitcher, and tho catcher, and the stop-short, who stands nearly in front of the bat? men, make Fix, and thus leaye only three fielders. Tho fourth bace is suilciently protected by tho stop-short, who looks out for the ehort halls in front of the bat, and by the catcher behind the bat. In base bail the batman mnst not Send the ball behind the first or third bases, that is the two nearcet him on either hand. The exact terms of the rule are :-— If the ball, from the evoke of the Dat, facaught behind the range of home and the first base, or behind the range of home and the third base, without having touched the ground, or first } touches the ground behind those bases, it shall be termed foul ard must be so declared by the umpire unasked. If the ball first touches the ground, of is caught without baving touched the ground, elther upon or in front of the range of those bases, itehall be considere i | i H i \ | i j ' eres! fair. By this rule the number of fielders required is lessoned, | the ball being driven for the most part to the front. It is to be observed that three of the nine who aro {a may be all running together; for instance, the man who first takes | the bat gains only the first base in his first attempt. After he runs at all he cannot come back. ‘The next on the list takes the bat, and then both run together; if neither of these gethome, but only gain another base each, then when the third batman comes in, and r all three will ron at one ‘Tho only points iu which the base ball men would have any advantage over the cricketers, in ame of base bal, are two—first, in the batting, which is oyerhand, and done with a narrower bat, and secondly, in the fact of the ball boing more lively, hopping higher,’and requiring a different mod ing. Bat the anperior acttyity and practice of th nin fieldiug would amply make up for this, even if they have not already practised base ball at home, which is more than can b sily determined. Jn cricket 2 very_smooth ground wanted on account Eh of the bowling,as the ball must strike te ground before | an or strikes the wicket, and every it renches the vb murface would spoil the bowling. retion on th all thon it neccseary for cric! wear a pocultar ktad of buc in the sole, t prevent of the sand in base bali clubs th: c nine, d first. nine, second nino, thi econd eleven, third sieven, &c. ub promotes or puts down men a erformanoes. In all inatches with other clabs nine in bake bail and the firsteleven in y. foceupies on an average of Dawe Inll—twro days fo play @ game of cricket From the foregoing de fvo game. and comparison of the the reader will see that base ball is better popular use than cricket. Tt is more ii istocracy, Who ted to the peo- for me is cold. In cricke throe—the — bow! er, per—do litte or nothing three fourths of the time A for helt the day, Fometimes longer’, nine ont of one fioid at all. In the American game the dl quty alter. nato by quick rotation, like our officials, aud no ran ean bo ont of play Iongor than a few minutes. Still the gam of cricket is Onc of great merit and ekill, and we ehontd de are ne the e in | ry smooth ground is not required, but a rather | J it. er’ CENTS. PRICE TWO bo glad tq 866 it cultivated by all who have sufficient time {whe Cathounized for the purpese. Both games seem cuited to the national temperame 4 chareter of the people among whom they rexpoctively prevail. and Van Burenised Democracy and the Campaign of 1860, If we turn onr attention to that petiiteal soldiery ERP MODE OP ARRANGING THE MATOR OF ase BALL | Which calls itself the democratic party, we shall be WITH THE KNGLISH ELEVEN. +O 1H GUMOR OF THM HERAED, New Yoru, Oct. 14, 18% 1yom a communication in thi: morning's paper Vhiladelphia, one is led to belieye that the English eters would aceopt a chatlonge to play a game of base ball $95,000 were guaranteed them. At our last Convention fifty three clubs were represented; and since that time, so popular hes the game beoeme, at this moment as many more have sprung into existence. Calculating the number ig each enb at only thirty, we have over ‘three Uhomsand players; and if each member will be iniu ‘4 struck with the foisy antagonisms of its principles as a national party, and with its comsequent weak- ness and ineapacity for the hard struggles of the next Presidential campaign. Indeed, it can no longer with truth be said that the democracy is » national party, Not certainly in the proud old con- servative sense which the name bore in the days of Jackson. That party is dead, and the combination of Southern fire-eaters and Northern free-soilers who have crept into its place and assumed ite venerable name dates no farther back than the ential in proenring two subscribers at $1.a ticket, enough | time of that late unhappy Presidential experiment, will be immediately obtained, with a talexpences, But alized, all clubs Pan Re ee are dre ge o « ve WI thelr ‘elnd, Brooklyn cl rao tkowise. Then the selection tart othe tanta nine” ean be piel ‘and they ‘Will havo abundanoo of time to ‘by tho time our English brethren will be able to mect them: We aH remember the crowd who went over to the Fashion Course to witness the contest betwoon New York and at hi epi game at why Dow lan the reollnes tn bedi se a ibe crak more t! 2 Uj Adiding. The My Gaus i5 touch more interenling A ase BALL 4s oaue. ENGLISH 2 nheasanliy , New Yon, Oct. 7, 1850. we to: ‘otror in 2 leading article of Seetecrcmemn = et eee wat Sag ite hs en the en i cmath i cked from the two champion clabs, i it B= iF the Quaker City. ‘United states revenue steamer Harriet Lane, Capt. }, arrived in this port yesterday afternoon from her cruise in search of the Quaker Uity. Although unsuccess- ful in finding the disabled steamer, Capt. Faunce had the satisfaction of knowing that he sailed over the very spot hore the Quaker City was picked up. The Harriet Lane as far south as Cape Hatteras, and east as far as the iy le ae $ timo of the steamer’s de- i from z 5 s g ASR g ft — ‘at ten ‘ralnutes’ i un. i i i E ‘the Hook; and at 2 o’clook, whilo: steamor Augusta, from Sa- the Quaker City. at Barnegat hovo in Barnegat at 710 P.M, by east half caat.. Kept throo men on the lookout night—one op each paddle box and one on the bow. 3 = S I 8g E i E i : ei agp Brigadier General Franklin Pierce, of Concord, New Hampshire. What calls iteelf the democracy is now so thoroughly Calhounized in the South and #0 entirely Van Burenized in the North, that it is’ not in reality one party, but two great noisy fae ~ tions of totally dissimilar principles, with no other This Calhounizing and Van Barenizing of the ola national democratic party was the work of the Pierce administration, That administration came isto power on the basis of the Compromise measures of 1850. Congreas and the country had just passed through a fiery trial of excitement, in whieh Cal- Bie thero statoathat | hounism and Van Bureniam put forth all their dieos” defeat of both of those malignant factions. But they t give tales pleco io tho | relied again in the democratic Presidential Oon- vention of 1852, and after a whole week’s balloting of the Harrict Lano in Search of | and fighting, they were again floored by the nomi- pation of Gen. Pierce, on the antiCalhoun and sati- Van Buren platform of the Compromise of 1850, Mr. Pierce took his seat in the Presidential chair as the elected head of the democracy, which had firm- ly planted itself on.a basis of opposition to the Cal- houn and Van Buren agitators, both North and South. He came into power pledged to regard the ofthe Gulf Gircam. G@apt. Higgins, late of the | Compromise as “a finality,” and to “ no more agi- toc! wie test for tho underwriters, | tate the slavery question in or out of Congress)? Capt, Faunce on tho expedition, as aleo our | and in his first message to Congress he congrata. bas farmished us with the follofring | lated the country on the “sense of repose and se- curity” to which the Compromise measures had foderacy,” und he gave his official word the bay in fino’! that those meneures should “‘suffer no shock, his official term if he could help it.” To the credit of the Brigadier it must be confessed he faithfully kept his word for almost a whole month, when he ‘and altered our course to | traitorously turned his back upon the party which elected him, and upon all the men who represented its principles. He not only took for his counsellors » ‘Waomepay, Oct. 12—In tho Gulf Stream ; woather | but he bestowed the entire patronage of the govern” and the air quite balmy. At 3:45 A. M. spokea Bes Quaker City. At 6:50 spoke the brig Andover, for Aetandris, Vi. Heard nothing of the Qualter City. At 16 spoke the schooner Helen McLeod, of Salem, from Alexandria, Va., for Boston. At@:45 spoke the schooner ‘Thurston from Matansas for Providence, R. I. At10 o'clock A. M. spoke the brig Starlight from Porto Rico for Boston. At 10:45 spoke the ship Hesperus, y from Hampton Roads bound for New York. No news of tho Quaker City. At noon spoke the ship E. G. Barney, rig from Baltimore for Newburyport, Mass. Nonows of | North and South. The democracy ‘of Boston, | inthe language of aleading member of Mr. Pierce’s ment upon, the enemies of the Compromise, both ‘Calhoun or Jefierson Davis faction of the South and the auti- Compromise Van Buren faction of the North were erected into a new party on the ruins of the Cabinet, was to be “crushed ont.” And it was crushed ont. Such an exterminating war did the from New York for Apalachicola, but could not ascertain | President carry on against all the original friends apything relative to the missing stoamer. At 3 P.M. | of the Compromise that his official organ, the Wash- e,from Charleston for Now York, No news of the Quaker City. ‘Taomepay, Ocr. 13.—Weathor clear and warm, with ight wind from the northward. ‘Altered our course at 2A. M.from south to west northwest, and crossed the | ; bark Sumpter, from Havana to Falmouth, Bngiind. nows of the missing steamer. At7 A. M. the temperatura of the water in tho Gulf Stream waa found to bo as high as 80, At 8 A. M. tho glass showed that wo wore approaching the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the water having fallou to 71 dogrece, At 11:15 A. M. sighted a vessel, which wo at first snpposed to be the migsing steamor, but which subsoquontly proved to be a fore-and-aft schooner. Tand, hol from tho foro- top was announced at 1.46 P.M. In half an hour aftor- deck. It was resolved te run up to Hampton Roads, for the yurpoze of ascertaining whether any news of the Quaker City had been received, and our course was Inid for Cape Henry accordingly. About five o'clock, while of the point of the Cape, spoke a pilot boat, and reesived the pleasing intelligence that tho Quaker City was safe, and lying at anchor in Hampton Roads. Passed Old Point Comfort at even o’clock P. M., and in half an heur after- wards came to anchor within gunshot of the Quaker Gity, We boarded the disabled steamer during the evening, and upon inquiry learned that Captain Shufeldt had gone to New York with the news of his safo arrival. The’ re- mainder of the passengers, twelve in number, aocom- panied the captain, go that there was no ono left on board but the officers aud crew. From tho chief engineer of the Quaker City we learned the partica- lars of the accident and the subsequent picking up of the wreck dy the State of Georgia, with all of which your readers are familiar. Tho engine room presented a most woo-begone appearance. The ruins of the machinery andthe broken woodwork showed that the smash must have boen a dreadful one. Indeed, the damago is estima, ted at no Jess a sum than $25,000. Finding that our sorvices were no longer requisite, Capt. Faunce announced his determination to start for New York at an early hour in the morning. Frapay, Oct. 14.—Weather clear, with warm wind from tho southward. Weighed anchor at half-past nine o’clock A.M., and stood out to sea, Tho weather continued-fino all day, until about eight o’clock P. M., when the wind yeered around to the northwest and blew heavy, accom: panied by a smart shower of rain, We enw very few ts during the day, and met but one steamer. Sarvnpay, Ocr. 15.—Weather clear but cold, with a sharp breeze from thd northwest. Paasod Barnogat light- honse at eight o’elook A. M., and at two o'clock P. M. we came {o our anchorage off the Battery. Army Intelligence. XPRCIAL ORDERS—NO. 93. FIRADQUARTERS OF THR Arsen f New Yorx, Oct. 15, 1859) The Superintendent of the Eastern Departmont of the General Recruiting Service will organize a detachment of recruits, to be sent in the steamer of the 20th instant, | Fourth and Ninth regimente of infantry in the deparment of Oregon. ! The following officers are | crnits Major Albemar! Detachment. Captain Andrew J. Smith, Firat is. . Mercer, First dragoons. Second dragoons. esignod to duty with the re- Cady, Sixth infantry, Commanding | Second Licutenant Jol Captain John Buford, Jr. Brovet Major George lery. 1 eCptoin Renssolacr W. Foote, Sixth infantry. Fitst Lioutenant Benjamin F, Smith, Sixth infantry. to stationg in the department of Call. r arrivalat San Francisco, report for | duty to the Commanding General of that department, ana i the remaining officers will continue on duty with the re- cruits to Fort Vancouver, W. T., where the Commanding | Gencralof the Department of Oregon will give such in etrections ag may be necessary. | ‘The Medical Purveyor im this city wil! make the neces i peleogng fornia will, on the eury ngements with the & medical attendance on the detachment. Laundresses may be sent with the reeruits, not to cx- cod one to twenty men. } Yntisted men belonging to companies serving in the de | partmonte of California and Oregon, and now at Fort | ,, Colonel Joseph XK. F. Manatield, Inspector Goneral, j | troops, traneports and supplies. Letene’ ct Brevet Lieutenant — Scott, | . L. SOOT, | Lieutenant Colanel and A. D.C. oy General David E, Twiggs, United States army, has hea gantod leave of absence for twelve months, with permission t go boyond the United Staten, south of Cape Henry, was visible from tho hurricane | wards False Cape, a point of land about twenty miles | j } } “OWE . | free territory. B Andrews, Captain, Third ort | nd with whut title intelligence 1 have been able to Second Hicutenant Aaron B. Hardeastie, Sixth in- | i { { | t urgeon of the etoamer for | Columbus, will bo sent with the recruits to Jjoip thelr re- | spe e com ie "he Quartermaste & Departinent will provide the ne- { cessary traneportation 1¢ movement above order ! ington Union, in attempting to defend hie condact, was driven, as early as November; 1868; to utter the monstrous falsehood that the democratic party had not pledged itself to the Compromise measares of 1860 at all, and that therefore the President was ‘Tecognise the frieuds of those measures. Hear it:— ‘We knew that they (the Compromise measures) wer: so irreconcilably obnoxious to a large portion of the demo. cratic party that it would be madness to make the question of approval a test of democratic orthodoxy. So here was the President's treason to the party and to the men who had elected him, thus early made manifest by this shameless falsehood of his mouthpiece. But having used this lying device asa momentary justification of the President’s conduct, in taking to his bosom the disciples of Calhoun in the South, and of Van Buren in the North, his organ is obliged to fall back upon the truth, in January, 1854, when, in condemning Mr. Dixon’samendment to the Douglas Territorial bill, which proposed to repeal the Missouri Compromise, it said:— Prudence, patriotism, devotion to the Union, the inter- est of the democratic party, all suggest that that public sentiment which now acquiesces cheerfully in the princi- ples of the Compromise of 1860 should not be inconsider- ately disturbed. The triumphant election of Pierce shows that on this basis the hearts and the judg- ments of the people are with the democracy. So here we have the admission of the Pierce organ, as late as January, 1854, that he waa trium- phantly elected on the basis of the Compromise of 1850, and that the judgments of the people were with the democracy as established upon that plat- form. And yet at this very time, whenever the eye of the President could reach over the field of his official deeds, he could see nobody but the enemies of that platform in office. And it was by this actof folly and treachery that he succeeded in Calkoun- izing one section, and Van Burenizing the other of the old democratic party, until it is now no longer a national party, but a temporary and inces- tuous union of two sectional factions. In thie respect the only difference between the black republican and democratic parties is that the former is composed of one sectional faction, while the latter © is made up of two factions brought together by a yearning and hungry stomach for official plunder: In the whole North the party has fallen down upon the Van Buren Buffalo platform of 1848, The squatter sovereignty principle discovered in the Nebraska bill, it is contended, secures the objects of the Buffalo platform, and makes safe the proposition of no more slave States. On this construction of the Nebraska bill the democracy of every Northern State now stands. It was on this ground that Mr. Van Buren declared “the bill secures the triamph of the principles of the movement of 48.” So John Van Buren, “the son ofhis father,” in his principal speech of the last Presiden- via the Isthmus of Darien, for equal assignment to the | tial campaign, boldly assumed the ground that the Cincinnati platform was entirely consistent with the Buffilo platform, which he and his father built in 1848; and in answer to the republican press, which derided him with inconsistency in adopting the re- solutions of the Cincinnati Convention, foe prea Iam told that in looking at the resolutions con: vention they have been able to discover that they. ledge > democratic organization to tho extension of fhe oF} Thaye read these resolutions them, I can find no such thing in them. Toffler @ re- armed Coany of these highly intelligent, republican untiemen to point me—not to an outrage not ‘ashington, nor to an improper 6 oe vt sper newapaper ar eee a line or sentence in ti resolutions which advocates or encourages the Cxtension of slavery to free torritory. Governor Wright, of Indiana, in a speech which he made at New Albany just on the eve of the Inat Presidential election, said:~ ‘The Kansas-Nebraska bill ts the best Wilinot proviso ever enacted. ~—And ina subsequent speech at Tippecanoe he declared that— If the policy of the democratic party in reforence te slavery is adopted and carried: out, not another foot of slave territory will be added to the United Statos. Hon. E. B. Olds, a democratic member of Con. wilt | gress from Ohio, and who voted for the Nebraska repair to New York; and make tho usual inspootion of the | Dill, gave the same version of the Northern demo- cratic programme, and declared to his constituents that he voted for the bill as a free soil measure. He said— There wag no danger of slavery going foto Kansas or cbrurka. The slayeholters don't ‘emigrate; but the

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