The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1867, Page 3

THE FORDHAM ‘ACES Third and Most Brilliant Day of the Autumn Meeting. Jerome Park Threnged with Spec- tators. Kentucky Loves Against Pime in the Four-Mile Race. James A. Connelly Wins the Twe-Hille Dash, @nward the Three-Milie Heat and Bonny Braes the Three-Quarter Dash. ‘Faken together. the three days of the autumn meeting @f the American Jockey Ciub—Tuesday, Wednesday ‘end Thareday—may be fitly illustrated by a reference to ‘She simple principle of grammatical comparison, If the ‘@ret was good, the second was better; and the third has Been, beyond cavil or controversy, superiatively the Dest, In other words, the ascending series of the rhe- torical climax has been strictly followed im the progress ‘@f the races; and neither Blair nor Quackenbos could find fault with a climax embodied im fact, though -@limaxes of simple fancy are often defective enough to ‘De subjects of legitimate criticiem. A more brilliant day, ‘Doth as regards the brilliancy of the borsemansbip and ‘abe éclat of aristocratic presence, was never witnessed at ‘Jerome Park, and, of course, never in America; for where else shall one seek for éclat and brilliancy befitting “even 0 royal an occasion as the racing of the petted ‘and pedigreed Kentucky, unless in this metropolis, the Bub whence the best thought, the most extensive rami- ‘cations of business and the most expensive kinks of faabion radiate like spokes to the very circumference of ‘the social whee! of a continent. The hub moves and the wheel moves with it; the hub stands still and from @entre to circumference the revolution of the whole ‘Circle stands stil! with it; the central point controls, modulates and regulates the motion of all which revolves 4m unison therewith. New York has decreed that Jerome Park shall be the Derby of Amorica, and that its ays shall bo Derby days to all Americans; and Now York having so decreed, none can be found, except pos- sibly in Boston, so foolhardy as to attempt to gainsay or wemst. The appreciation of the metropolis, its almost Fanatic admiration for that species of talent, the mani- Seatation of which is particularly a matter of quickness ef hoof, was never’ more’ superiatively denionatrated than by the fact that New York has adopted Jerome Park as the theatre of its aristocratic diversion in the ‘way of tournaments of speed. Nor did the enthusiasm of the subtle and artistic Greek in the triumph of the ‘winning atbiete ever exceed, even in the palmiest days of hardy and gallant Sparta, the enthusiasm of the New Yorker inthe triumph of the swiftest courser. If with rapid beat of hoof s Lexington er a Kentucky out-hoof the invisible steeds of the wind in bis fight towards the goal, all the better this pleases the nervous metropolitan. ‘who has no patience with mediocrity’in anything, an: taboos with a Norman shrug of shoulder all dogrees of. excellence in all things, unless to those degrees the fullest scope of the adverb ‘“‘most” is easily applicable. ‘Now, arab-like in their enthusiasm, where they can bo finduced to be enthusiastic at all, New Yorkers have consecrated Fordham as the Mocca of their pilgrimage, Jerome Park.as the black stone, at the shrine of which, like true Mussulmen or true appreciators, they will wor- ship, and the American Jockey Club as the conclave of Priests by whom that shrine be kept with all due undue sanctity. If ‘New York sent representatives to Fordham on ‘Tuesday and Wednesday, yesterday she wens bodily, and left her palaces of business and her palaces of Jordly e guar’jansbip of inferior keepers. Fifth avenue, Madieon avenue and the adjacents were almost deserted; in’ fact, at one o'clock in the after. ‘Boon, through all the aristocratic precincts of that which {a termed “uptown,” it was as if some- died suddeniy, and almost every- aquare, had gone out to attend of 3 the last day of Es tation the spring meeting, when ladies fluttered about, and to and fro, and here and there, as plentiful as butterflies in June, ere butterflies, by some metamorphosis, pasa th stage after stage of intermediate being, from ‘things with wings golden or particolored, to @rawling and unsightly caterpillars. They (the ikdies) Shronged the balcony of the Club House, thronged the ‘upper and nether balconies of colosseum, thronged the aalon 4 manger, thronged hillock after hillock in car- Tiages, thronged the whole park, in fact, and dotted it ev nere with dots of moire antique, lace-trimmed shawls and sumptuous pa‘etots, capped by way of elimaz with hundred-dollar bonneta. Houris some of them were which a Mosiem would bave sent imme- @iately to Mohammed in Paradise; houris some of them were not, aud these a Saracen ‘would haved eemed exactly fitted to remain on earth as long as they liked, Mohammed not coveting them; and ancient dowagers with trizzied hair were among them, who had marriagable daughters and would have been delighted with ao eligible suitor—dowagers with daugh- ters labelled, at least imagivabiy, “For sale to the hig ext bidder,” Of course, with all the pol-pourri of humat ity seethed together in je mags, the race ground, 4n its social features, presented to the observer a sort of Kaleidoscope of New York society, of which, or yt iy which, one might tako notes of sort aud single out indi- » dualities of every ilk, from Mark Tapley to Mr. Guppy, and from Paul Dombey, who wondered what the brook ‘was taiking about, to Barnaby Rudge, who doated on Bis raven. There were horses with pedigrees and men without them, and horses without pedi and men with manufactured ones— ‘with § long lists of ancestors excerpted from ‘the heraldic dictionary ; the principle of the latter being that a Brown is a Brown, and that, if any Brown in all ages past was dubbed by potentate with a coat of arms, ‘tbat armorial Brown must bave been the progenitor, either direct or indirect, of all the Browns who have wince existed or who shail hereafter exist. Besides, ‘what is the use of pedigrees in a republic unless those pedigrees be universally applicable? Upon this reason- bappened that there were many at Fordham yos- bo had adopted jigrees, and, consequently, ed lions or griffins or other fabulous monsters paneis and upon the gilding of Lar- and upon the shining metallic rode before and held the rib- wens 8, Senaeatente tone who and ought not, at least on race- to be subjected to too minute scrutiny. A ruby is ts be not of the red vintage of Pegu unspotted claret. fact to fact iteelf, New 4 ay race with Time, which nde with the beating of and four Kh ig 3 thousand from midnight to mid- i i z 4} gs 4 iy : sf s = a Wom begins. ia the sum of 000 that Kentucky ‘would make four miles, with separate some hun- dired times sooner than Time could take four hundred and forty steps, as Lexington bad done before, beating the gray old steed, which carries forward the worid a second @te-ery cick of huof, by just halfastep and no more. Everybody on Manbaitao—a vast turtle with sheil of pave, upon which human insects crawl about and ea: @ud drink and sleep—everybody on Manhattan was, fore, inverested in rnout of yesterday; for, nh nobody on:Manh: expects to outrun Time, everybody would be delighted to see th i i dreds and thousands of buman insects crawled, or, mounted en voiture, like #0 many Pucks, were driven off the shell and barri th whi wheels in a northerly ik, tat he fnvthe hit ro in ashing, as in the sunshine they dance Say oe od era's meaeae ay os louse as merry on the hi hell of the tare ct bat at ; abort, they carried their old habits with th haved themseives after their wonted fashion, ¢ point of betting and losing and gotting swamped in every one of the five pools o} th ie ‘They eflected, in fact, at least many of them, the on combination of business with pleasure whica they are ‘wont to effect in the vast ant-hill of business which, an’ of business, they have upraised and calied by the son rous name of New York. _ , In transitu, the difference between yesterday and ihe day before was simply that the cars of the Harlem Rail- Toad were packed with human figs more closely than ever figbox was packed with fige proper, and that t! Yoad thither (to Fordbam) was simply & broad, continu. our river of vebicles, of which the black top of every carriage made a separate Wave, About the arrivals thore ‘Wau nothing intermitient. People passed into the park by every gaveway for (wo bours uncensingiy, unti) there Shame teats et Son fe ones, SE was to keep guard fon, of the 1 Freclnck, so ‘aati ‘ie force this ommana as 16 retest upon ‘hie = winwer most successfully anton convenience ef the general pubiic, be if r Se ‘ | | ii i ; ; f th se. i ri Pi 4 38 i, a age t i Ze E E : om extraction, bad run against beaten Time for tne firet half jo Time had won in the yed the Pheton of Apolto, and Pheton-like had beaten Julius and borne off bis laurels from the field; Stonewall Jackson had tost in spite of the invincibility of bis name; and the bugle had been sounded for the last time when an end was put to and by rail and carriage the public Bt for home. The sun now hung like a globe of gold above and beyond the club house, seeming to be suspended with threads of gorgeous yellow, which shot upward and out of sight in the have on the west, and just ready to drop dowo behind the cliffs upon the scar- let pillow of clouds directly beneath, Enough of sport there had been, enough of staking and easing, and, jaded and weary, the crowd @ as if by magic. And here, the burden and heat of the day beimg over, the penciller of sights and scenes may pause, col- lect bis wits, gather into knots of minutia the tangled thread of his jottings and paint a hasty pen-portrait of Jerome Park during the three hours of tarmoil which bave preceded the going. BN avant, It ig natural for a Gothamite to indulge im the illusory hope that when he pays his money to a company or cor- poration, for the preference of a duty, already agreed upon, that it shall be faithtally, quickly and satisfactorily disc! He had rather be kicked than be gulled, but guiled be was.with many tren en route to Fordham yesterday in the democratic cars of the Hariem Raiiroad, True, there was room, many seats, and two-belted conductors began to collect the fares, but there was not sufficient to actommodate a tithe of the equine-loving bumat that looked with sparkling es to the pleasures promised on the course, teats re made of knees; big men, Lambert-like in propor- tions, sat upon these useful appendages of the human frame belonging to diminutive bodies, aud ladies doubled up their costly robes to squeeze into spaces hardly sufficient to drop a shawl, bat yet with all attending miseries the pilgrimage was at last reached, amid the rapturous and self-complacent congratu- lations that one evii was over, and the antici- pated oi at band as a soothing balm for wounded spirita, fot here was the difficulty of approach to the little house on the hill ended, as the stewards, indo- fatigable and far-seeing, had opened a gate with binges rusty with the rains of a season, leading over a road that looked as if it bad jost tumbled from the folds of surrounding roads, stupidly falling amongst thorns over sharp .dged rocks and summits of ridges, and with thie it was surimised that the thousand or more visitors— dnsty and crosagrained visitors—might wend their way more pleasantly to the scene of loveliness that lay stretched out beyond, the additional accommodations proved almost a slough of despond, as a more villainous, meandering path never existed. It was short, aud that was its ouly beauty and virtue. Soon these it inconvemences vanished, however, before. the bewildering scone that mes the gaze from the summit of the hill. Never did bonored king or potentate call together a more enthusi- astic throng, and neverdid Jerome Park look more beau- tifally bewitching, asin the morning sunshine, with a soft, Italian air, a heaven almost withouta cloud, all blue and transparent, with the thousands commingling in delicious and harmonizing confusion, with proudly stopping steeds teaaling proudly looking monogramed equipages. And as their precious occupants—occupauts that irradiated a delicious halo as they lighted upon the dusty soil adjacent to the stands, and tbat aimost fell imto the hands of dark skinned men, species of Cicerone, as talkative and silly as the generalyy of the parrot tribe they belong to. Emerging from their hands with garments bereft of duat,tbe course 1s again , and happiness, with ‘atisiactios beams upon every countenance. ON THE LAWN AGAIN, ‘Where the unapproachable coterie of the aristocratic ves of Manhattan “were many and guily attired on Wednesday, it was aripple to the ocean of beads that encircled the stands, and stretched like a variegated ribbon atong the curving line of demarkation drawn from the public stand to the elaborated Italian constraction where the judges sit with plenitude of wer, dispensing justice and time without fear or favor. ‘hey seem airy aud cal and have a demeanor of forgetfuluess—mysterious to contemplate, Their ieness of devotion to the club stand, as much as the attractions of the ‘‘pool’’ selling will justly admit of, has not been more strikingly displayed during the meet- Stopping occasionsily in their promenade, and aioe | way for an instant (rom the fliting glances of the bel adorned radiautly in their beautiful attires, they inspect the lithograph of a steed of superb outlines and flowing mane, whose dimeasions aud mettiesome appearance call them to @ recollection of the sport of the hour, rless Kentucky’s antici per- formance ! eanwhile the crowd augments, fairest of the fair and the superlatively coarse arri with sach rapidity that the emerald covering of t! lawn is geen, even as the illusory mirage of the desert. With praises of unbounded admiration for the magniti- cent exhibition soon to break upon their senses, they flit along the enclosure to hear what the populace and that institution, the betting fraternity, say, and how they es- teem the noble animals powers of endurance. “How much, gentlo how much? Tune, or Kentucky? Remem! ria in half an hour; how much?” and before tho we died upon the seller's tipa, *$900"" came floating from the eager crowds that old Time, re- morseless ever, would beat the courser. And thus, in tones dutcet and sweet, of the excitement aud prowess that would ensue should Kentucky have inscribed upon his belt “Fordham, October 17, 1867,"’ the seller named gathered more golden stores to bis well-tliled box. “And how much for Kentucky? Time is sold for $900!" Again rippling up,beyond the crowd comes the sum of $800, evincing that the old scythe bearer, fleetiiooted as he is, seems but littie the favorite. And thus, with conciusions gratuitous and unwarranta- bie on their part, they commingls with the more pro- fessional of the boundless sporing throng, and wager their money with a freedom irrestetivie in its fervor, They seem determined to make the most of the oppor- tunity, and call up @ variety of proverbial encourage- ments should they be amiss, as ‘It’s a long Jane that has no tarping;”’ “Fortune's wheel isever revolving; “Bad luck this time, better next.” There sre golden legends for the better, and such lay the shadows of their pleas- ant promises clove to their souls, But let the better over that empire. ina short time at “guillotine” nal exit from money), certainly .t! imuate Mark Tapley and be jolly.” giances, and “ jolly’’ and radiant with alithe that a beneficent band bad harmonized so sweetly ‘with the thoughts and feelings awakened by the autuina ing, ‘‘froatly and kindly,’ and with the games that were soon to burst spontansourly upon the throng jayden roe goer these in the sequestered nooks be war r A mira- cle of loveliness, faded scat Bye are no points beautiful and entuusiasticaliy provoking im the nobler bry of equine renown that now @racesthe turf? it is® mysterious enigma. “Kentucky | on the track.!’ The word few like Nigbining through the assetnbdiage, aod the varied, quickeving shouts of approbation bursting from trampet lungs, made the pulses of the more quiet run wild, until the ten thousand took up the cheer and loudly accia- mated the arrival. His entrée was universally popular, save in one or two insiances, that made the suoutings of hig adherents more loud and apparent. From the scim tillating leaders of the po ‘and glories of fashion to the little curly pated gamin that escaped the vigilance the ba ig! gotien up Metro- jitans. who fling up bis tattered ie id _upite in tl Ty; all, all shouted “Hor: accompanied with the gentle gurgling of rip: Piing pit-pat of kids that elevaied the eral eDihutiasm and ci osity to Witcess the actions of the admired animal. As a stalwart groom led bim op an the quarter-streteh the thousaeds above. below and all aroand, from the stands to the distant hills, greeted his sleek. ‘aimurable beauiy mdering cheers. Tom Littlede! , and then the embodim Appeared, t of 8 speare’s sentiment, equaly applicable on Uiis occusi comes up:— d upon a hot and fiery steed, is aspiring rider seemed to know sepiring impulses of an oagie, eager fi scarcely retainable on garth, he 4a ibe doit?” “Dn pet $100 to $120 he makes it 10 7:19," “Keep thy epesd, 0 steed,” comer rbling Up from tender iips bearded mouths, while courser like the power of a roc! iaapeiled a hundred pounds snoots of unpowder Away he 4 pina another the eo quick ea tinuous thunder greeted 1 panton, and Luther in chief. coat.” and The mile in 1:48%; keep catches. Muttered, con- time, — Stitl another com- i A on, ueky, make ‘volte, victory is there. third mile is made, with Ciara Ctari his companion, and ume ie qnerot, Tempus fugit’ Keep atendy, “but eee, ‘a bolt,’ and the rider nearly thrown,” is spoken, wd the venturesome, with the radiant faces poering to the quarier stretch ip the fourth mile, with ded lineal | parentagep would eadeavor to equal or perhaps exceed that great Performance, thousands were anxious to witness the tral, Kentucky did make the attempt, but he failed, for res- sons obvious enough in some respects, but not #0 clearly discernible in others, One of these reasons, no doubt, was, that he bad received too much indulgence mnce his retirement from the turf, and that his training was inadequate to the fulfilment of so great @ performance as he was expected to complete, This too great indulgence, perhaps, bad a tendency to the develop the consiituttonal tendency some of descendants of Sir Archy, through Boston, the grandsire of Kentuoky, to sulkiness and to bolting while making what should be some of their finest efforts on the tarf. Bus another and y equally forcible reason can be found in the fact that Kentucky tarted and ran at apace for two miles that he was je to hold, aad which consequently told with serious effect im the latter part of the race, and brought to the surface that par- \icalar trait of suixiness which has been so often ex- hibited by that family of race horses. Yet it is our opinion, after viewing the matter in the most favora- ble hgbt, that Set pany was unequal to the task imposed upon him, thing, however, is proved by this trial of Kentucky against time, and that is, that there has been little or no improvement in our four mile racers for some years, as the performances of Lox- ington and Idlewild yet remain unparalleled by any recent exhibition on the turf, Besides the above event there were four other races on the pro- gramme, which also had a tendency to add to the in- terest of the day. [he first was atwo mile dash for three year olds, which was won by James A. Connolly, who beat Morrissey, Flora Mclvor and Yorke. This race was fhoely Ce ae be although not very fast was highly appreciated. @ next race was a dash of three miles, between Onward and Red Dick, both close relatives of Kentucky, which was only interesting at the finish, Onward, the winner of the race, gave another exhibition of the peculiar vice of hig family by bolting after run- Ding a quarter of a mile. The fourth was a selling race for two year olds, for which tive were entered but only four ran, Mr. Sanford’s being left at the post when the drum tapped for a start. Tne race was won by Mr. Watson’s bay filly Bonnie Braes, who was after- wards sold for $1,005. The concluding rent of the day was a dash of a mile and a quarter, between Mr. Morris’ No. 3, Stonewall Jackson, Clara Clarita, Luriine and Twinkie. The race was won by No. 3 by a short h struggle ead, after a very close and desperate ith Stonewall Jackson. “The result, probably, been diferent had not Stonewall been ‘inst at the start by Clara Clarita and throwa nearly off his feet, losing thereby several lengths. THE FIRST RACE, Kentucky vs. Tims, a match for $6,000 a side, half forfeit, four miles in seven minutes and twenty seconds, to carry ope hundred and twenty pounds, Time was a decided favorite before Kentucky was Drought on the ground, one hundred to sixty being cur. rent, and astiff breeze breaking in from the southward just before the horse was saddied made the ers of me more Lberal, and they laid twoto one on the “old hosa’’ that never tires nor stops to rest. Ken- tucky was accompanied to the track by De Coursey, Clara Clarita, Luther and Redwing. A _iitile atter the appointed Charley Litule- field, who had been engi to ride the horse, mounted, and took a station about one hundred and iifty yards below the judges’ stand, in order to give Kentucky a running start, De Coursey was sent on ahead, and he ran in advance of Kentucky throughout the first mile and the greater part of the second. Luther ‘Was started at the bend of the bluff on the second mile, and the three ran together around the lower turn and up the homestretch to the stand, both miles being done in 1:48 each—a little too fast for continuous running. As Kentucky entered on the third mile, he was joined by Clara Clarita, who took a circuit with him. During this time we saw no abatement of Kentucky’s mg ae indeed, Py, disposition to flag until stand, at the expiration of the third mile, when we dis- covered his jockey giving him his head, and that he was somewhat slower in his stride, although it was not perceptibly shorter. As he passed the Ug =A stand Redwing fell in for a runing com- panion, but was somewhat too fleet for Kentucky at this juncture of the race, The third mile was run in 1:63, which left him 1:61 to run the jas: mile in. Usfortunate- ly, however, he did net increase his pace in going around the upper turn, but gave evident symptoms of taltering. At the quarter pole his stride was shortened materially, and he to show symptoms of sulkiness, and a dis- position to quit, His jockey now spurred bim, but to no effect, as he became very dogged, and at the half-mile pole boited across the track, and some seconds elapsed rr hten him again and ges bim All chances of his winning were now over, and notwithstanding every exertion on the pai jockey he wees as in making the mile, and 7:31% in running the race. In this connection we give the fol- lowing synopsis of “§ THE PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES OF KENTUCKY. Paterson Fail Meeting, 1863, beat Minnie Minor and Eagle, one mile, $100 each, $50 forfeit, $300 added; six others paid forfeit. Value, $000,’ Time, 149%. Kentacky won as he pleased by three lengths. Paterson Spring Meeting, 1864, beaten in the Derby, runing fourth; Norfolk, Tipperary and Eagle, firat, sec- ond and third. Saratoga summer Meeting, won the Tra’ Stake, $90 each, play or pay, and $1, added, a mile and three. quarters; colts 1001p, fillies 97ib., beating Tipperary, the gray colt by Eclipse, Path and Ringmaster, Aste- ‘and twenty-four others paid forfeit. Time, 3:18%. f the stake, $2,500, Same meeting won the sweepstakes for three year olds, $100 each, half forfeit and $500 added, two miles; colts 1001b., fillies 97ib. The wiuner of the Tra- vera stake 5ib, extra. Kentucky, 1061b,, beat Tippe- rary, and the gray coit by Eclipse, Time, 4:11. seventeen paid forfeit, Value $1.750. Paterson Fall Meeting, won the St. Leger, $50 each, play or pay, $1,000 added, two miles and’ a quarier; colts 1001b., fillies 97 Kentucky beat colt by Lexing- y Glencoe; filly by Eelipse out of it by Mahomet out of Prunelia and Charioite F. ° Time, Asteroid and twent forfeit. 0 of the stak 5 $2, ‘ame meeting, won the Sequel Stakes, $50 each and $200 added, two miles, carrying 107/b., inclading 7ib. extra, beat the colt by Lexington out of Lightsome and filly by Knight of St, George out of Levity. Time, Nine paid forfeit, Value, $900, Same meeting, won a match, two mile heats, for $5,000 and $750 added, beating Aldebaran, Kentucky, three years, 90ib ; Aldebaran, four years, 104i, Time, btm mes Vaiue, $5,750, Paterson Spring Meeting, 1865, won the purse attwo mile heats tor all ages, beating Captain Moore ia two beats, Time, 3:51—4:02%. Value, $609, Same meeting, won the purse at threo mile heats, beating Fleetwing and Aldebaran in two beats. Time, 5:59-6:34, Value, $1,000. Saratoga Meeting, 1805, won the Saratoga cup, with » aweonstakes of $50 each, two miles and a quarter, beat- ing Captain Moore and Rbinodine. Time, 4:0i'y. Aste- roid and fourteen others paid forfeit, Value, $1,900. Same meoting, walked over, four miles, for the purse of $1,000, Paterson Fall Meeting, 1865, won the purse, two mile heats, beating Lord Monmouth and Oakland in two heats, Time, 3:565;—3:45, Valine, $500. Samé meeting, walked over for the purse, three miles, Value, $400. ba Same meeting, won the purse, three mile heats, beat- ing Fleetwing, Time, 6:39%. Floetwing drawa after first heat. Vai: 700. Mecting, 1866, won the purse, two Jatias, Norwich and Baltimore. 356% —3 Norwich distanced im the second Baltimore drawn after the first. Vaiue, $600, meeting, won the purse, three miles, beating Butler and Lely Bryant, Time, 6:045;. Vaiue, $500. Same meeting, won the purse, three mi ing briny Time, 5:54% mee Be saratoga Meeti won the cup, ing Beac Dejaware and Lastheriuags. two miles and a quart Time, 4:04. Twenty-two others pai ; won the purse, four miles, beating Jungs. Time, 7:31. Value, $1,000. me Park Inauguration Meeting, won the In- auguration Stake, four mile heats, Ly | Fieotwing, ward and Idlewild, in two heats, Time, 7:35—7:41'¢. of tho stake to and lost but once previous to his failure yesterday. The valve of his winnings is $32,950, and the inaugura- tion Cup, from which most be deducted,the losses of bis late engagement, The following te KENTUCKY'S PEDIGRER. Keptucky was got by Lexington, and is fourth in desceht from Sir Archy, through rimoteon, Boston and Lexington ; bis dam was Magnolia, by imp. Glencoe; 24 dam imp. Myrtle, by Mameluke; 3d dam Bobadilia, by Bobadil; 4th dam Pythoness, by Sorcerer; 5th dam Princess, by Str Peter; 6th dam by Du: on; Th dam by Turf; Beh dam by K Horoa ; Grove, by Blank; 10tb Spinster (the sister to Squirrel’s dam, by by Greyhound; 13th dam m2 Grimmer; 15th dam by Place’s Whi rk; 16th dam by Dodsworth; 17h dam Layton Barb Mara, $1,000 added by the ciub; ‘0 to the second horse; winner of Derby, Belmont, Trav St. Leger or Champ.on siakes five pounds extra; penalties not to accumulate. ‘This closed with twelve mainations, iour of which € race, both Y Lucia di the biu@, close wp. rear, and bs race ss a Debind. A merry rattie ene them up the jae stretch to the stand, Connolly viens by two lengths, hot ledais Griting Kort and Fiora, ten ort \ongtbs benind. e first mile was run ia 1:66 and last in 1:484¢, making the dasb 6 The Steward’s Cup, vaiue $2,000, $50 entrance, play or Gash of three —_ inners of Cecqiodar year amoui nde extra. ‘Thie closed with ia gt leer which only came to the post, Jas, & Watson Seaachaethntety np sage, D. Mebasiel wierd bre Red’ Dick. oy iaxi dam Alabama, by Brown Dick, 4 years old... 2 ‘Time, 6:00. Onward was » great favorite, selling in pools for $600, ot $100, with few willing to pur- ig was @ strangely run race. Red @ bluff he baled, and Red Dick nad to go on with the lead for ashoritime, At the balf-mile pole Dick was 4 foll behind, Onward then went on , im 2:16, turo and to the quar- ter pole; but as s00n as Ooward’s head was turned to- wards the bend of the biuf he again bolted, and Dick had to take the lead, which he maintained until he the homestretch om the last mile, when On- and soon hauled him, and beat him to the stand a length anda half. The second mile was Tun in 1:55 and the third im 1:40%, FOURTH RACE, - SsttimG Racm—Premium $500, for two year olds, three quarters of a mile, the winner to be sold for $1,000, excess of rk Watson entered b. f. ai Balrow- sowe Ciark, by Glencoe... Ti Bonnie Braes was the favorite, selling for $450; Mr. Sanford’s filly for $440, Mr. Dowling’s for $280, Mr. Wood’s for $240, and Mr, Jerome's for $100. hen the drum tapped for the start Mr, Sanford’s filly remained behind, others g away rapidly Cycloid leading Bonnie Braes second, Wood’s colt tiird and Dowling’s fourth. Bonnie Braes soon ram to the front avd camo home an easy winner by a couple of lengths, Wood's colt second, Dowling’s third and Cycioid foarth, Time, 1:21, Bonnie Brace was then sold for $1,005, FivTH RACE, Premium $500 for all ages, one and a quarter mile: horses that bsre not won during the meoting allow seven pounds, 5, Eclipse, dam F._ Morris entered g. ¢. No. Fidelity, by Glencoe, 3 years Parra | T. G. Moore entered g. c, Stonewall Jackson, by Lightning, dam Edith, by Sovereign, 4 years old.. 2 L._W, Jerome entered ob. f. Clara ita, by Lapi- dist, dam Madonna, by Yorkshire, 8 years old.... 8 J. H. Dowling entered b. m. Luriine, Knight of ‘St. George, dam by Trustee, 6 years old........... 4 py roe chy d.f, eee ant by Eclipse, dam jtarbeam, lencoe, 3 years ig Time, 2:16. Stonewall Jackson was the favorite at three to one against the Held, the backers of the favorite having trouble to invest at that rate. However, a great deal of money was age the result, this being the last race eccesecsencccees 6 of the day. horses were started at tb head of the homestretch, but just as they wheeled to and fell Clara Clarita £0 the carromed against Stonewall Jackson, which threw the lat- ter bebind, Twinkle took the lead, closely followed by Clare Grits, Lurline third, No, 8 tourth and Stonewail ast. turn, when made his down, with the ex of No. front As they dent the race lay between and No. 3, one supposed that the latter could maintain a pe with the son of itming. He did, however, nobiy stand the test, and the most beantiful and exciting contest of the day came in # winner bys head. Clara Clarita was six longths behind Stonewall, Lurliae fourth and Twinkle fifth. Time, 2:16. AMUSEMENTS. Theatre Francais—La Grande Duchense. The audience at the French theatre last night were somewhat startled and grieved at the sudden indisposi- tion of their favorite, Mile. Tostée. She fainted in the beginning of the first act, im the air ‘4h / que j'aime les militares,” and was carried off the stage, There was but little confusion, the admirable training of the com- pany preventing “scene.” Mile, de Feicourt, who played Wanda, undertook to act as substitate for Mile, ‘oatve, as there was no one cise available in the emer- gency. The opera passed off very satisfactorily, with the’ exception of the principal rdle, which, of course, could not be rendered well at a moment's notice, To- night is Ristori’s last night, and the last night of the most thrilling tragedy or drama that the American stage has probably over witnessed. Steinway Hall—Leopold De Meyer. Last night's concert introduced a new contralto, Madame Lumley, who made a hit in rita, Ernani and Semiramide, Her ful one, and her voice possesses power, sweetness and training. Rosa played an extraordinary piece, called “Trille du Diable,"’ by Tartini, and was enthusiastically applauded for his admirable playing. He has won his way up to the first rank of violinists and displays the true artist in all his selections. But the great festure of the concert was Leopold de Meyer's fantasia on Lammermoor. It revived in the completest manoer the furore which attended bis previous visit to America. When the stormy finaic was over the audi- once recalled the pianiet with athunder of applause. His next performance will be on Sunday, with Madame Kosa as vocalist, wr Academy of Music—Fanny Janauschek. Last week a German tragedienne, named Mile, Fanny Janauschek, made her first bow before an American audience ia the Academy of Music, In her native land she has won the highest honors on the stage, and both as an artist and lady deserves the title of the German Ristori. The selection for the déb most unfor- tunate, being a weak and long-spun vernon of Medea The German dramatist, unlike Legouve, has given each of bis characters more talking than action, and, instead of seizing upon the strong points in the sad story and concentrating them in s few effective scenes, he bas diluted the incidents into an interminable and intolera- bly borish play. The success of Mile, Janauschek, then, under such circumstances, i# a sufficient proof of ber abilities, The ebaracter of the wild, pas- sionate, loving, tigress-like wife of Jason was never acted bewer in this city. Her next Theatrecgoers through, te” Daly's Lab, 90 cleverly rep. joere throug! Ir. . |, #0 cleverly rep- resented by Miss Bateman. "This was something more buman and beart-reaching than the unnatural classic hero: The success of the previous night was em ically endorsed by the large audience, Miss Ji schek took a place at once on one of ¢ y may d a4 tals in the temple of Thalia or the minds of hearers. Her stage appearance, to commence with, is striking and attractive. Her voice is one of mingled power and sweetness, and the rugged lines of the German drame- tist become soft as Italian on her lips. Every word is given with the utaost distinctness, and she never soends to rant—that infallible sign of a tragic char! ber in Medes and the a heart rent to iteinnermost depths with passion, but is was partially suppressed emotion in which from her lips as if each were & drop of her life's blood. In both characters sue com- pletely sinks her individuality and fascinates her audi- ence with the character alone, There is, occasionally, the same fault of over-eiaboration in her acting that we have found fault with in Dawison. In true adherence to natare and strong passion, Miss Jan be surpassed ia thie city. Her reception by people was most cordial, and applause and bouquets greeted her after each act, The horrid practice among foreign artistes in this county of coming forward in a line after the curtain is raisea and bowing like so many Punch and Judies is discernible in Miss Janauschek Every actor or actress on th should en solf-suliciency attond to role without lananechek appeared iast night as Mary Stuart and confirmed the verdict pri need om bor previous impersont The house was crowded, 744 eived from the company was very inefi: three plays. Usi0w Pacinec RaiRoAD.—The Presid Yas appointed py RR nage Rt New ba and Samuel Mekee, ol jor . ui Paoite Rallroed Te Directors of the Union the oo ¢ the pointed a fer aro. They are George Astin Piaseachusetta, ohn 8. Rotlins, of Missour! aud L, Williams, of lodiang ¥7ASHINGTON Oras thereof carefully arranged onder your a ope the Se retary of War directa me to say that after the end of the present mouth your serviews as chief of the office will not be Tequived, ani tO request you (o tura over the office and ite ords, |apers aud property to the Adjutant General of the ny, With great respect, I Bare the honor to be, your obedient TOW Wasainoton, Oct. 17, 1867, = qa ociock Midnight.” } The Impeachment Propositio oling Rela. | “et EK. D. SND, tive to the Ma fu the Weat. Assisiant Adjutant General. The statemenie that Coogresaman Woodbridge bas de- oo igen clared his invention of voting for impeachment, when RAILWAY REFORM AGITATION, the sense of the committee ie taken for the purpose of making a report, hes been reosived. The assertion comes from extreme radicals, but it is not generally re- garded aairue, On the copirary it was positively in- slated to-day by one who has conversed with Mr. Wood- bridge recently on this sabject that the latter said his views on impeachment wero substantially (he same as as they were at the close of ast session, Representative men of the republican party, from the West, who are now here, have been beard to say that the question of impeachment has lost much of its popularity in the Western States, and that an attempt to impeach and suspend the President now would create a revulsion of sentiment in that section of the country that would prove fatal to the radical party. A Forthcoming Report om the Counterfeit di. Cheap Transportation aud Facile Iutercom- munication—Meecting at the Cooper tute 1 Evening. A very respectable meeting of influontial citizens was “gathered at the Cooper Institute last evening, under the auspices of the association for the advancement of sei- @nce and art, for the purpose of giving approval te the Dills now before Congress ing for their object the pro- posed improvement in means and cost offintercommu: cation through all parte of the Union. The Hoo. Freemas Clarke, of Rochester, Comptrolier of the Cur- rency, was elected chairman, Messrs. John H. Grisoom, Erastus Brooks, Jobo L. Sieight, 3. 1 # Prime, Peter Cooper, Judge Charies P. Daly aod Rev. Dr. Cutting vice-presidents, and Samuel P, Dinsmore and Henry O'Reilly secretaries, The call of the meeting having been read, Judge Kusnwoon, of Texas, addressed the assembiage in explanation of the three national railway bills now pending in Congress, as introduces by Senators Harlas, of Iowa, Nye, of Nevada, and Henderson, of Missouri, for the purpose of improving and cheapening railway transportation between the various sections of the Union. The substance of his address may be comprised under the following heads:—1. These bills are designed to take the initiative in the establishment of a national system of cheap freight railways uader Congressional logistation, whereby the great natural freight ihorough- fares of ihe country may have common trunks laid down from the interior to the seaboard, and whereby the local roads already built may extend their commerce tothe gea, 2. The opening of these thoroughfares to free competition in transportation, a8 much 60 as the Ene canal, 3. The adoption of a woderate and uniform rate of speed for all trains—double tracks to be used on all the proposed routes, In commenting on the advantages that would accrue from the adoption of the proposed system of international transporiatiog, the speaker said:—In view of the national debt and common burden of taxation, the people of the Northern States bave nearly the same interest 1n the question of increasing production im the South as in their own States; or, im other words, a common burden has created the common desire for a wide spread and general prosperity. The inauguration of a national system of cheap freight railways, which can only be done by the geueral government, will be benoticial to each section in almost exact proportion to the common advantage. There nowr been found, and probably ne will be found, anv basis of social and political content other than what is found in equal- ized justice in all the relationships of tociety, con- nected with systems productive of common thrift and greatest popular advantage. These simple propositions Will ever underlie the motives to maivtain our Be It ig gaid that Secretary McCulloch sent a committee of confidential clerks on Saturday last to New York to investigate the circumsiances connected with the coun- terfeiting of the seven-thirty bonds. The committee is still ia Now York, but will return, it is expected, before the close of the present week, when their report to the Secretary will be laid before the Joint Cominitiee on Re- trenchment, now in session here. Mr. Seward’s Prediction as te the Result of the Elect! iu New York. Secretary Seward, who is at bis home in Auburn, taking a view of the political prospects, has become con- vinced that the New York election in November wili re- sult in a democratic triumph. The Committee a Ferm of Government for Maryland. The Sab-Judiciary Committee appointed to inquire as to whether the Atate of Maryland had a republican form of governmdnt to-day examined Mayor Chapman, of Baltimore. Representative Thomas, of Maryland, one of the committee, says that they will be engaged two weeks upon this subject, Review ef Troops by the President a eral Grant. President Johnson and General Grant reviewed to- day on the grounds south of the Executive Mansion the Twelfth regiment of United States infantry, together with a portion of the Fifth cavalry and the Veteran Reserve corps, at present on duty at the headquarters of the Armies of the United States. General Grant did Bot appear in uniform. The display was very fine and quite a number of spectators was present. ‘The New ( ul General of Hayti. The newly appointed Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General of the republic of Hayti, Mr: George Racster, was received at the Department of State this morning and presented his letters of credence, Movements of the Turkish General. General Hussein Pasha, of Tunis, and General Mott, of New York, visited the Treasury Department and had an interview with Secretary McCulloch, General Hussein was also introduced to General Grant, with whom he spent a few minutes in agreeable conversa- typo. He will leave here in a day or two for New York, whence he will gai! for Tunis. Pay of Retired Oficers. The following extract of a letter from the Second Comptroller of the Treasury to the Paymaster General, dated October 15, 1867, is published by the Acting Pay- master General for the information of paymasters:— The Rotiring act of 1861 does not give the retired officer bis bigbest pay, but the pay proper of the highest rank held by him at the time of his retirement. His rank, therefore, must determine the amount of his re- tiring pay. If a Oxed salary has been given by law to any military employé of the government while in active duty, and a defined military rank, either actual or as- similaied, also been conferred upon him by law, bis rank, and not bis salary, will control bis pay on re- tirement. Gen- republican government, and more sapecially to is maintain our national faith and integrity. self-evident that a system of common to the whole Union is the best ge of union; and, resting inthe main for its origin and support on the national power io finance, its bare intro- duction to the people and endorsement ‘by the people puts an end to all timid fears with regard to repudiation, and it may be added that when our people in all parts of the Union shall haye begun to move in concert of action and commence taking the steps for a careful and accurate system of railways in accordance with the principles and plan of the Congressional bills, our gov- ernment securities will go to par in gold in less tham eighteen months. After Judge Sherwood had coneluded, Mr. Heory O'Reilly read letters from Secretary Seward, Governor Fenton, Governor Andrew, of Massachu-etts; Governor Dillingham, of Vermont; Mr. Gerritt Smith, Hoo, J. K. Moorhead, ‘of Pennsyivania, Hon. Geo. W: Clinton, of Buffalo; Me. Charies Francis Adams, and from the & dents of the Boards of Trade in Cincinnati and Cieve- land, Ohio, excusing their non-attendance at the meet- ing, but expressing the fullest sympathy with its ob- ote, Mfensre. Horace Greeley, Henry O'Reilly, Rev. Dr. Cotting, of Rochester; ex-Mayor Kilborn, of Keok' Jowa; Mr. Fox, Assistant Seoretary of the Navy, several others made brief addresses favoring the ob): of the meeting, after which the following resolutions were read and adopted :— Whereas several bills have been introduced into the Con- Of the United States proposing {he establishment of m of railways to be constructed a @ reterence to freight, capacity and ‘This decision is applicable to all chaplains of the army eeined,| ming red 5 car basan itshneliainaieue- holding the military rank of captain of infantry, under | diate and careful attention and investigation of the Ameri. the provisions of section 7, act of March 2, 1867, when |” people on as ueuration of « national sytem retired from active service, of freight Darr fe. the rings a ane vaiee the Come The Southern Railronds and Their Indebted- | Sie! to the auccens of the pay. eae ness to the Government. receive, ‘ advance Fon sae i rani iad | Messrs, MoCiurg (Chairman), Mower and Sawyer, of Po ara emperor serenr, the raprasentatives, of Lie people the Congreasional committee to investigate the past and | will not expected to move until required by the . 100. Present relations of Southern railroads to the govern- people of each and every Slaie have volwe. Resol Set, the the Taereat an ment, reached Richmond to-day and took rooms at the ve right to freedom of commercial 4 that the lodgment of the exclusive power Spottswood. They are sccompanied by Captain T. P. in. Gongion, over hole subject of ‘commerce by the Franses mbndiong Biren! as repairers aOR in arrangements by any Bute (o lx the persons and products presidents of the York River, Richmond aed Poters- | ofthe people of other States i oss burg; Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac: Vir- | j osabiy necessary for the welfare of oop le thas com ginia Central, and Richmond and Danville Railroads mercial thorou ing throug! nine Sans wrmorow tnaing Oreos Weaniarco wat | Sth pee Hawase stones ono as mittee to-morrow morning. roe wil por avy power . in| ry 4 join the committee to-morrow. The committee expect tational ne ee Le a thorugh iv ransing to despatch their business there in two daysand will proceed to Nashville, either by way of Charleston or Chattanooga. The total amount owed by Southern Toads to the government is between $600,000,000 and $700,000, 000. The Conservative Stand in Richmond. Meetings are being held to-night i several wards of the city of Richmond for the purpose of fori com. promise ticket of moderate republicans with which to oppose the Hunpicutt radicals. New combinations will series of States. Resolved. That while the fmmediate wants of the peo} demand and require increased facilities for moving a from the interior to the seaboard, as die yy nan mo Jerous material necessary wo be ir.neported in supplying commercial, mechanical avd dowestic requirements, 1 high time to take the init: to Joaugurate an in| railway system, whereby the future of our great country may be freed from possible perpetuity of railway monopoly and speculation, Resolved, That a committee of seven be inted to in- vestigate and report ata future meeting on the followin matie:s:—First—The cost of iniand transportation on the dif- ferent lines of fallway, candle lakes river in the Vnited States. Secon system, In accordance be formed before the day of election. The anxivty as to yan of the Congreso: creases Hi pariso) the exist ayetoms, ihe eens asthe day approaches. The split in | Piith_ ihe “erect toancially of Swtablishing the the Hunnicutt wing is decided and if advantage is taken | proposed arterial or trumk thoroughfares on the existing of it the ticket can be defeated, railways, Lourth—{n the ontlay of $200,000,000 In the con: Riruction of fonr thousand miles o ‘Trank Railway, what effect would it have by wav of invigorating the who! rallway system through its present extent of forty thousand miles. Fitth—The annual production of the United Btaies being now about $4,000,000,000, to what extent, if any, would of the irtok railways tncrease’ such produe- Beauregard Entertained in the Capital. General Beauregard was entertained in Georgetown last evening by a number of his friends, and on Tuesday night the General’s frieuds in thie city ¢: & priv: ould the adopiion of « party iu honor of his visit. The enteriainments were ~ mad thus. sosbling the oper: n nore readily, te pas the national. debt, while Promoyng the comfort and prosperity of the Americas people fn all portions of the Stare. The following gentlemen were then appointed a com- mittee under the sixth resolution, after which the meet- ing adjourned:—samuel P. Dinsmore, Horace Greeley and Henry O'Reilly, of New York; James M. Edmonds, of the District of Columbia; John A. Andrew, of Massa chuvetts; Lorin Blodgett, of Puiladelpbia, and Danie! J. Morrell, of Pitsburg, I’a, attended by a large number of old and prominent resi- denta of the District of Columbia. Another Projected Prize Fiaht. Another prize fight has been arranged between Ho- ratio Bolster and Charies McLaughlin. The ariicies of agreement were entered into at noon to-day. The par- ties bind themselves to fight on the 12th of November io Virginia, for ope bundred dollars « side. Both men go into training at once. Bolster will be trained by Mike English. goveran THE WEW ELECTRO-MAGNETIC LIGHT. Lest evening, at balf-pest eight o'clock, the first regu- lar experiment was made of thie newly tuvented . from the cupola of the barge office at the Battery, and resulted most successfully. A volume of intense light, some two feet in diameter, was thrown from the appa ratus containing it, in the neighborhood of Staten Island ferry, » distance of four and « balf miles, . So brilliant wore the rays of light that passengers oa board the ferry boat leaving Staten Island ferry could see to read their newspapers, The rays directly emavating from the Iamp are so intensely bright that the eye popes rest npon the focus without being dazzied trot ‘Tbe conductors leading to the lamp in the Newspaper Reports of Cabinet Changes. a out” 1967, Correspondence of the Boston Po: The Pst mr wt ieateas ore to ol com change in his Cabinet has several times beon Tinto ie in tbis correspondence; and I now feoi authorized to repeat the same with the full permission ofthe President. I suggested to him this aflernoon ‘that the great popular verdict in his favor would pre- bam, ye itation of the os ment ques tion, + replied that thought not; that he apprehended the radical leaders would become even more desperate and would besitate at nothiug to oe, J intimated 10 public to know tempt be made to what his course would be depose him before trial and conviction. “Resist, sir, a ave supplied with electricity from a powerful with all the power® which t! oustitution furnishes for of souguete, battery im a shed om the ground its own protection and jon,” responded tho he reer of the office, The batiery, Presdeat with much warmth and earnestness, It would consist of seven rows of ie be criminal, he said, not to resist all efforia on the part e1voen, each containing eight m: into of Congress to usurp or destroy executive depart. | @ cylindrical aft «= whit fe kept revolving. ment, and be thought it well country to know | the electric agent alko revolving and comi! that such was his opinion hy in contact with the magnets at the rate of four bundr It was then that he olutions per minute, A concentrated etic his Cabinet, and taid he hos communicated from the conductors jf tive) attacked to the machine to the mom | capote, ‘The lamp apies & postion immed ately front of the apperat ‘hich feeds it,a machine resem- bling the works The self for any emergency wh migbs aris stances, he gaid, necovsitated a change, and betore the meeting of Congress the change would be made. In selecting his new Cabinet the President deciared bis pur- Citcums neither to consult nor be governed by party cliques, | ployed to ree! the but to set oo his own Judgm-at and Aa Aa spiral on caaliog. gt raw arout ty of ‘per = ncite "i Otinma, “Tt was then 8 ‘a ieee tee ae ee coach square. Supplied ‘with gested by me as Ah matier to be regretted that Generat Sherman had returned to the West. ‘Tecan assure you,” promptly answered President, ‘that General Sherman wil) be hore between the 10th amd 17th of November aus, jg ample time for tho discharge of auy duty, howev, T may devolve upon bim.’’ He w, 1t best to retarn to his commay Peace Commissioners as be by 1 touching each other, burn with a steady ed light for four bouts, at the trifing cost of ‘and when burned out are immediately re- new set in another lamp. The light thus obtained (@ profected with immense force throu freane! lene twelve and a half inches im diameter and sixieca inches long, and is what ts called a third clase jens, (be largest of Oret clams of these lenses measuring then return without delay + ington. ° cure! , discovered may prevest cris, ' “Rt ‘Mat full p case lent m distance of forty miles amt sea, aud can ve vieably seen by Voasels at that In forgy weather the light penetrates the enti distance fog, €o powerful i® ite propul point where it is emitted. It by the propri- ocor of (iis electro magnetic machine t ur of these lamps placed at four different quarters of a large city streneth from the (From t¥’9 Washington Tatel') neer, Oct 17 | Te will Oe reevliected that Mr. Houtweil repeal’, in bis Fy im Congress, charged thar President | would be sufficient to light every part of it, the four implicated in the aseassination con | jamps being supplied from ove battery, One bal apiragy | id OM several ovcasione averred that (he | will also supply every house in a whole block with « recor as of the War Pepariinent would pr Nebt cheaper and eaperior to gas. It can also be used 7 Recently in a speech at Be for supplying hgbt to mines, thus avoiding the peserbik Foonded to be more specific, and porn ity o explosions, Mr. Brady, th jotographias, wiseal of the chief of 1 nieders is about to apply this for puete- he (Boutwe graphic views and portrait, [tt to be a beer light for this purpose than the avn’: rays, ‘This new diecovery is tm successful patable evidence of the malignancy ten in Tgbth t La Beve, on the bay of Havre, bees of this charge, The Presiden hing What | from whic pe seen for forty milesatecs, It@ne do with the removal ot be never has | aes been ti introduced on board Prince Napoleon's vac! Napoleon. xm vacnt Jerome Napoleot sy inte ight wee made Knight on is of the city of Havre and joo the town, the alarm of fire wae sou city wae thrown jato et: and f inventor \@ Professor Noliet, of o present apparatus, however, patented by is an improvement upon Professor Frasers Laven, bt s e objet hated having beeu