The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1871, Page 5

LONG BRANOH. Politics, Bathing, Driving and Dancing. Honest Tom’s Quiet Game of Political Poker. General Hillhouse to Replace Pleasonton, and Henry Clews Boutwell, “if” Mew the Branchers Bathe, Drive and Dance— Some Hints About Bathing Drosses and Ad- vice to Bathers— Who Are at the Hotels, Lone Branon, July 10, 1871. Politics, bathing, criving and dancing are the life {the Brauch, The former is the absorbing topic of wonversation with the men, at least of those who Ihave reason to rejoice, hope or mourn on account of ‘the present conaition of public a‘fairs, and the three Batter engage the attention of the ladies. 1 propose ‘im this le‘ter to portray the present aspect of these absorbing questions of poltics and pleasure in thelr proper order, Im the first place, then, he who 1s the foun- €ain of power and the dispenser of federal patronage wemains at his post of observation, listening %o the murmurs of the sea dashing in on the beach, ‘@nd ihe more angry nolse of contending politicians from afar. He will not leave here for a week. ‘When he does leave it will be for Washington; thence to Olio, and possibly Indiana, He has not vet determined whether he will, after his visit to the Buckeye State, retura to the Brancli before is STAR’ FOR CALIFORNIA. 1 Berdly think he will, Some politicians here would like to know; out for the fe of them, they @an't tind out. Ta ine meantime the Prosident Who aid “Lev us have peace’ has very little peace. Biting out on the high bluif overlooking She Atlantic, as he does daily, hé has nothing to Sear from the ever-encroaching waves; but the erowding politicians are irresistible. Every day ‘General Grant is waited on by persistent geese, anx- fous to emulate the deed of the famous ganders of Bome, who ‘saved the country” by cackling. They @ome from every part of the States, and appear to ‘elleve that the nation will assuredly go to——well, to that piace where unprincipled politicians must e@ertainly have “a say”—if any lost soula have—if ‘&helr particular schemes fail to receive Rxecutive en- @oreement. HONEST TOM MURPHY, Who undoubtedly holds the inside track in the face for special and lucrative Presidential favor, is mot the only one whose scalp is eagerly ,sought by fivals in the republican party; aud, certainly, he is Sotlowed up with a sharp stick. “Murphy is going to Vienna and Jay 1's coming ome,” said a gentioman in my hearing at the Con- mental Hotel last night. “Why so?” asked his companion in amazement, “Because he cau’t spell ‘dear sx’ correctly, and is ‘atimate with Porter and the President,” was the weady but incorrect reply. ‘That man, whose face I could not make out in the ‘Bade Of the portico, was evidently an enomy of the Wollector. 1 could no: have heard the remainder of Me conversation, even hau [ stooped to listen, for a ‘bend was wildly blowing praises of opéra bouf? for Re special entertainment of Fisk and his nymphs. A LITTLE GAME OF POLITICAL POKER. ‘Mr. Collector Murphy enterwined at dinner on Batarday night United States Commissioner Daven- port, Mr. Henry Clewa, General Ailihouse and two wther genticmen who think they can “save the wouniry.” 1 believe 1 am pretty accu- wately informed of the drift of the con- Versation. It Was mainiy on the subject @f the disagreement between Boutwell and Pleas- ‘nton, though New York politics were referred to, An understanaing was arrived at for the benetit of certain parties, and this was, that inthe event of Pleasonton’'s resignation, which 18 regarded as ex- tremely probable—the President being determined Mot to interfere between the disputants, but to ler Bem work out their own salvation—the name of General Hi.lbouse, Sub-Treasurer at New York, be ed oon te resident as oe fit and perron to jump into tie tattered of General Pleasanton. So much for Hill. But if Boutwell should resiga iis post—the ure of the new loan betag taken into considera. i—then that Henry Clews, the weil known New fork banker, be PROPOSED AS BECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. This, I am credibly informed, was the programme @ecvided on by Mr. Murphy and nis guests, As iar Hilthouse is concerned 1 think that his aspira- are correctly stated; but lam not so certain @bout Ulews. The latter holds, it 1s true, the same ¥elations toward Murphy (the present or pretended wer belund the turone) as Jay Cooke did toward etary of the Treasury Chase; but he is nota Si cas Englshman. He has never renounced allegiance to ER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, if nominated tor the ‘treasury, he would, as a luess man, be In the same fix that Mr. A, T. ®tewart found himself when he was named by Grant as the financial head centre of the nation, law that barred Stewart would biock Clewa. jeed the fact of his being an alien would be @nough. After the dinner Mr, Murphy and_ his frienas stepped over the road to the President's and spent the remainder of the evening there discussing the situation. As far as [am informed, nothing was de- eided upon by the President, though tho reticent @enerai listened to all General Grant has a few bathhouses under the Dias opposite his cottage, and takes a plunge occ gioualiy. His family bate daily. 1 have never seen jurphy and Porter play porpoise. It they ever con- descend to notice Neptune they do so wien there is @obudy near to notice their UNBINDING TO THR PLEBBIAN WAVES. It is not by any means nice to be exposed to the of, and listen to the chatting of, fastionable ob- ers When up to your knees in water. Strut, angie 100K never 80 Doble, you must be ridicu- in spite of yourself, The File clothing—vile in mane and color if in nothing else—which one forced to wear, is sufficient to damn any ‘edignity. Then the breakers have a wonder- way of getting under one’s trousers, swelling m to Ligh Dutch proportions, extending (appa- featiy) your body to an glarming size, and making ir hair stand on end with every sweep back of the ier current, Then dignified people are more e than other and more sensible people to tind ar heads eccking for clams in the sand, while sketr heels mark notes of interrogation in the air e, They tind their jevel, too, quicker thau your Fough aud ready sory and this bemg the result of gentlemen bathing in the rougu breakers while Wrapped in Janel and fed round the wast like a monk, how is i with the ladies? Thei’s is auch Rarder case. Encumbered vy A DA. MARY WALKER DRESA, and tortured with a bonnet, arcadian aud pretty on shore it may be, they flounder hetplessiy im the Waves, A sorry spe le 18 a bevy Ot Cae ladies @troggiivg in tier swaths im che sea, and sorrier #8 IL TO HOS UNCENL maidens In the same Pickle, wen had only courage enough to tell their ladies Chat they make Wiciuseives: ridiculous in the water ere Would De jess Of Lois kind of bathing and a ter prospect of the adoption of tastelul nud use- fal bathing dresses, ‘The uresses now used are ply abominable; they are repulsive in color, bad shape, and most eiectually prevent swimming. eay this at the risk of veing considered ungaiant. lat any man of taste, however, take a walk along the shore during bathmg hours—or, bever sull, Lave @ bath himselt oy that tuteresiing period of the dey—and | amsure he will agree with me. Some of THE WOMEN'S BiGii'ts WOMEN, iz them the female candidate for the Presi- cy’, are expected here Soon, and it is to be hoped ey Will insist, When they come, on ladies’ right 0 awim without having to carry the weight of su- p eitcngd bandages. For the information of your ders who have never yet garnbolied in the surf of ‘this beach let me say that there are certatu hours of the day when it is “the thing’ to go in the water, At other hours bathing 1s not “correct,” even As pants the hart for cooling streams The old cur- eons Who own or rent the bath houses imdicate ours for bathing, amd none dare to question their decision. So arbitrary are the rules lald down by these peo- that sooner than submit to them many people 7 before six o’clock aud take askin bath, ‘The 1 house man is powerless up to that hour. These early risers drive daring the forenoon and dance in the event: Yesterday and to-day, however, the gun shone so fiercely hot that fow were on the foads, jt is only when the aun is sinking in the ‘West and the never-faliing breeze blows in reiresh- froma the sea that THE BRANCH ON WHERIA oan be aeen at its best, Then como four-in-hands, tandems, carriages With fast trotters, buggies aud tecrs rattled along by Nags of overleaping am- 5 livelier scele, Or Ong more pleasant to She eyo, It would be hard’ to find. And when after hospitable John sloey’s splendid grounds, hing by the President's Cottage, and back by the the Geving crowd pull up at their hotels, ir invited to the merry dance Dy good music excellent bands, Dancing genersy concludes Se acoas for a dash in the waves. whe NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY I, 187L-—TRIPLE SHEET. eS after eleven. eonsi le are in | and Restless are at anchor In the club basin, foot of bed pareve re Ke ian ition or | Court street, peda ont yo latter yacht was run THE BIRMINGHAM BORGIA. LITERATURE. [FROM THE NEW YORK HERALD, 3ULY, mrse, where there nto during Friday night last by a West Indi; wenn nore fashion struggling for the mastery over rivals Irmterer, her captain ‘stupidly mistaking Gowanus vo SRS Se reece 15, 1868,] IN THR MATTER O¥ DRESS, Bay for New York Harbor, ‘The Restless was Dt | Interview with & Giergyman ‘Who Attended Criticisms of New Books. —— manners are never so important in our watering laces. There 18 & good deal of bitterness and a deal of iil-natured talk. Thus far, however, | aye heard nothing here piquant or amusing enough ry titers of social meat deserving of spe- cial notice, and 80 mote It be, Nearty all the lame ducks grew fat during the past raci week have disaj eared, some to Saratoga, to add to or retrieve their fortunes, and others to the safer and more honest paths of trade and business, 1 send herewith a few of the names of the more prominent people at pre- sent atthe Branch. A list of all the arrivals ere Within the past few days would fill more space than 1 suppose you would be wilitng to give. ‘There are at the West End Hotel:—Hon. Geot Smith, M. P., London: Hon. William Werr, M, P., be i Brackstone Baker, President Great West- ern Rallway, tingland; W. K. Muir, Secretary Great Western Railway, England; Count ‘urenne, France; Major Gus Nicholson, Unitea States Army; Charles Rice, 0. P. Tweedy, R Campbell, New York: James F. Casey and family, New Orleans; Sheritf Patterson, New Jersey; H. W, Hook, Bishop and Mrs. Simpson, Philadelphia; P. W. Hitchcock, Nebraska. = those ducks who YACHTING. A LETTER FROM Ml The Yacht Livonin Coming to the United tates. No. 9 Sussex PLACR, HYDE PARK GARDENS, wm} Lonpon, June 22, 18%. To THE SECRETARY NEW YORK YACHT CLUB, NEW York:— S1r—In accordance with the rules of your Club, which require me to send a model before entering a yacht for a race, I have pleasure to forward a model of my new yacht, the Livonia, of 280 tons, old mea- surement, whigh the Club will honor me by accept: ing. * ” * * * . * Tam, sir, yours truly, JAS. ASHBURY, Commodore Royal Harwich Yacht Clab, Per T, N., Secrétary. YACHTING IN NEW ENGLAND. The Fourth Annnal Regatta of the Dorches- ‘facht Clab—A Capsize aud Nerrow im the Roston Advertiser, July 10.] ‘rhe fourth regatta of the Dorchester Yacht Club took place Saturday alternoon over the usual course, and for the same prizes offered for the it tta arranged fur the 17th of June, but whic! Filed of completion on scogn Nf ota 8 es é' 0} vee no such bay teeta af 4 Ins uit: trons at achtmen coul VQ 5 a 4. Nef ielfus Sok the first class he to Start was seven handsome vessels set their jibs anu opened the radé, tting off well to- gether, except the Arion, she being behind, and so much 80 that she did not go over the full course. ‘The first gun, Which was for the starting of the firat class yachts, was fired at twonty minutes to four o'clock P. M., and five minutes afterward a second gun sent off six boats in the second class; a third gun, four minutes later, starting seven after them onthe same course, Th the latter class the sloop Bristol got such a long lead that she was pooked as sure to win. Tho Pacer, owned conjointly by Captams Omar Loring, the secretary of the club, and H. W. Hunt, was intending to start in the race, but her crew were used up in the hard blow on the oast for two nights. The wind on the start was rom northwest by north and very uncertain, 80 that most of the yachts reefed and some double- reefed their mainsails; some of them even sailing over the whole course without “shaking out,” while others carrying little canvas rac all to the wind. 8 sire ‘The following @ summary of the race, with the time allowance made py the club:— FIRST OL.AS8 CENTEK-BOARDS. Time. Name. Oroners Meanement, HM. Sloop Fanchon.,....Captain Shattuck. Y Sloop Kelpie Cuptain Capen. Bloop Mary. aptain Robinso’ The Ke'ple and Fanchon took the first and second prizes, the first belog a silver pitcher and the second & marine view, FINGT CLASS KERLB, Nem Own Schooner Suste......Captain Wales, Schooner Ban plain Simps Schooner Arioi javen Bioop Jennie. tain Bloop Gertie. . Ke * ‘The Gertie came in 9m. 25s. before the Jennie, The Banshee took the first prize, @ chromo, and the Ger- tia will probably the second, when her mea- surement is taken. BROOND OL488 CENTER-BOARDS, ‘The Sea Bird got the first prize, a chromo, and the Lotuie the secoud, @ Kerosene stove, &c, JOND CL.A488 BERLE, Meumvenent. 18.0 THIRD CLASS ORNTRE-LOARDS, Ovrer, Mea werer. O° 120 cvceed Mime. Bloop Water Sloop Bristol. Sloop Hebe Sloop Maud Sloop Wave. Sloop Bunbe Sloop Phantom. ‘The Maud took the first prize, the second not being awarced. Some objection beimg made to the Water Lily, on the ground that she was “let for hire,” although she had stopped tn the race to pick ap the four men trom the pace sluop Hebe, which, b; the way, was leadiug her class when she weut over, the decision between the Bristol and she for the sec- ond prize in this class fs reserved; but the Maud was awarded the first prize, a spy-glass, while the Wave was awarded the prize for boats under elgn- teen feet, this being a set of eignals, ‘the only mishap which occurred to the various yachts engaging ia the races yesterday was to the Sloop Hebe, in the third class, which capsized be- tween Spectacle Islaad and red buy No. 6, on the Lower Middle, when she had a decided lead of her cia The Water Lily, sailed by Capiain P. Coyne, and owned by Mr. Dante! Briscoe, which was follow- ing her, changed her course at once to pick up the four gentlemen comprising the crew, succeeded in doing this, and came past the judges’ boat the sec- ond in her class. In consequence of the treasurer of the ciub beiny one of the ‘‘shipwrecked” gentie- men, the prize for second class keels 1s held in abeyance, ANOTHER YACHT RACE AT CAPE MAY, capsized, 18. 1 py (From the Cape May Datly Wave, Jaly 10.] The Gertrude, Congress, Curlew and Ida started from Schellenger’s Landing about noon on Satur. ay for a race dowa the creek, across the bar and around to the front of the island and return. The Curlew was allowed sixteen and a quarter minutes, turee of which she took at the commencement of the race, After the Curlew started the Ida, fol- lowed by the Congress, and afierwards the Ger- trade, Before sa the bar the Congress bad passed the Ida, whioh latter boat was tn turn also passed by the Gerirude aiter crossing the par. On Along tack to reach the flagboat, anchored off the Excursion House, — both the Congress and Gertrude succeeded in winding e Cure lew, the former boat leading. ‘The course was thence around the Spar buoy at the western end of Uncie Eph’s Shoals, again around the flagboat, pass ing between it and the island, and thence back to the lauding. The Ida in the meantime had fallen so muchin the rear that she abandoned the race. From the time of turning the buoy the Congress had everything her own Way, crossing tie bar and com- ing into the landing an easy winner. ‘The main in- terest of the race was between the Gertude and Our- lew. The latter little boat was eo skilfully salied that she managed to keep under her larger oppo. nent’s stern, thereby keeping halt the wind out of her sails, aud though she came in third, received the second prize by timo allowance, ‘The Congress ro- ceived as first prize, and she deserved it, belng weil handled, $02 60; the Curlew $19 and the Gertrude 12 The purse was made up by Messrs, Join W. Lockwood, Joel bailey aad Edwin Benson, CANADIAN YACHT CLUB REGATTA, Tororo, July 10, 1871. The annual regatta of the Canadian Yacht Club took place on Saturday, fhere was a very light breeze and the weather was unfavorable for large yachts. The club rooms and balconies were crowded, ‘The whole course was about twenty-three miles, ‘The following yachts started In the race for centre- board yachts:—Ina, Gorilla, Gipsey, Restless, Wide- awake and Rapid. ‘The wiuning buoy was passed as follows:— Yachts a. OM. aa. ipsey «3 59 Restless. ory 00% Wideawake...... 1515 ‘The Gipsey won by time allowance from the nila by 2m, 108, The race open to deep draught yachts only was penal beg the Geraldine, beating the Kestral and YACHTING NOTES, Bayonne Yacht Clab regatta July 27, The schooner Rambler i lying at anchor off Whitestone, Since her retarn from Oape May Mr. Banker has ordered Jarger gaff topsails, maintop- mast staysail, balloon jib and balioon Jib topsail, The Wanderer 18 lying of the foot of Twenty- eighth street, East River, Sho wilisoon go on tho dock, The sloops Alert, Daphne, Mary, Orion, Peeriesa, slightly damaged, Kear Commogore Osgood’s schooner Columbia 18 at anchor in tue stream oif the South ferry, Brook- lyn, The Dreadnaught fs lying in the North River, off Hoboken. Since her return from Cay she has been docked, and four additional tons of lead bal- bgp ba dee her ined ar. Rowand wil the schooner Agnes, Mr. Edward Harvey, go to Fire Island to-morrow with a party of ladies and gentiemen. She will be away a week or more. The schooner Magic 1s anchored in the East River, off the Hamiiton avenue ferry, Brooklyn. ‘The sloop Joe Jefferson, of the Harlem Yacht Club, with Commodore Brinkerhoff and a party of friends, visited Greenwich on the Fourth of J| and the party were very hosplitably received by he Ameri- cus Club. They speak in the highest terms of their kindly treatment, The Dauntiess is on the larger sorew dock. On her return from Cape May on Friday last her flying jib boom was carned away, and the yacht touched Brigantine Shoals, which caused her to leak some- what, She has been calked where needed, and while up will be fitted witn a uew flying jib boom two feet longer than the old one, and anew main boom and main gaff four feet longer than those pre- viously used, 16 Will also have six tons of lead oallast cast in her kee). When these alterations and repairs are completed the Dauntless will make a short cruise eastward. ‘The Madeleine passed through Hell Gate on Satur- day last, en route to Newport. 18 8100} scaophine was run into on the Nortn River on Frid: jast by a schooner, damaging her stern badly and tearing into ribbons her maiusall, THE TEMUANTEPEC SP CANAL SCHEME. Extract trom an Official Mexican Report en tue Sabject—The Importance, Prospecis aod Probable Cost of the Work. Ciry oF TEHUANTEPEO, Mexico, June 1, 1871, Tehuantepeo, still a veautiful city, bullt several hundred years before Cortez came to Mexico, bas lost much of its former greatness, though it has now & population of about sixteen thousand, situated on the banks of the river Tehuantepec, eleven miles from where it empties into the Pacific Ocean, and about the eame distance from Salina Cruz, the new port just openea by the government, tne proposed southern termination of the Tehaantepec Railway projected across the Isthmus, Like your Brooklyn, It is a city of churches, one of the oldest and most Interesting of which is the venerable Parroquia, bullt by Cocijopi, last Cactq uo of the Zapotecos, 1n 1530, when 1t was dedicated to the purposes of Christian worship by the Dominican friars, to whom it was left as a legacy by the Chpistanized dying Cacique, This church 1s an dels eotanastar bulding, of & seat Bardceito style of architecture. Its massive walls, arched gateways and ruined dome are silent evidences of the greatness of a people whose dust is mingled with its own. In the western end is a large chapel, containing three altars and many rich ornaments in sliver and some wooden statuary. In some of the corridors are many musty pictures of saints and scenes long since forgotten, Some of the apart- ments have been appropiiated for the college estab- lished here in 1850, The archives of the convent have long since been transferred to the olty of Oaxaca, : The market place on the north side of the plaza fs of great interest. Tne principal part of the mar- keting is done by women and girls, who throng the long tiled shed by hundreds at earliest dawn. Here are motley groups of venders and buyers, inter- spersed with hogs, dogs, donkeys and monkeys; the shouts and grunts and barks and brays of each, min- giea with the human voices, ring In the morning air, startling the echoes of the overhanging Cerro del Tigre through the broad plaza. A morning stroll here cheers one wonderfully, and thé fruits regale us as well, ‘This city is governed by & town coun.il, and the police duty 1s performed by soldiers of the National Guard, whose quarters command the entrance of the plaza. The cleaning of streets and the repairs of pavements are done by the prisoners from the public jail. TRADE AND MANUFACTURES. The principal trade of arn 1s in cochineal, cacao, fish, camarones, eaddies, shoes and leather. ‘The manufactures are, to a considerable extent, leather, cotton cloth, silken sashes, shoes, hats, mats, silverware, ‘saddles, horse appointments, put- ery, ing and A NEW TO BUSINESS. Anew impetus has been given to the city, as well as all of the smaller towns upon the Isthmus, since it has been announced authoritatively vy the Com- missioners on the part of the Mexican gove:nment who were with Captain Shufeldt, who commanuod the United States exploring expedition which re- cently made explorations and reconnolssances of the summit, tbat & supply of 2,000 cubic feet of water per seoond could be delivered at the sum- mit level in the Tarifa Pass from the Rio del Corte. ‘This announcement simply confirma the opinion of Colonel J. J. Williams, now Chief Engineer of the Tehuantepec Railway and Ship Canal, in a report made by him in 1852, when he was principal assis tant to General Barnard in that celebrated survey of this Isthmus, THE MEXICAN COMPANY AND CAPTAIN SHUFELDT'S EXPLORATIONS. Speaking of the proposed railway and ship canal, the Mexican engineers fully concur in the vews ex- pressed by the company’s engineers and en- tertalned ‘by the Unitea States government expediiton. It Teported that lowest is the summit ot the Tarifa Pass is fect barometrical measurement, but thata line of levels now being run by the company with the Mexican engineers wil demonstrate that the helght of the summit does not excced 670 feet, and that it will be Uaiheie | feasible to cut down that summit at least & wenty feet, wnich will then leave it an elevation of only abont 659 eet. This elevation can be overcume by lorty locks of fifteen reet lit on each side of the summit, The scope of Captain Shufeldt’s explorations and surveys were, unlortunately, limited vo cerns whether or not a suflictent supply, of water coul be found above the elevation and contiguous 10 the Tariia Pass, and to make hydrographical surveys of the Gulf and Pacific coasts, for the purpose of ascertaining definitely whether serviceaole harbors exist or could be made there for the accommodation of the commerce Which would make use of Uie rali- way and canal. Captain Shufeldt, having ascertained that water from the Rio del Corte couid be suppited at Tarifa in sufticient quantities for a ship canal, it is understood here from tne engineers of the Mexican government that the Tehuantepec Railway Company, which also holds the ship canal concession, wil! now make without delay @ complete survey of the Isthmus from the lagoons nortn to Minatitlan, which sur- veys, When compieted, will, as I am informed, pe submitied by the company to @ board of eminent engineers of the United Btates, Mexico and Eu- rope, Who will be requested to examine the maps, lang, profits and estimates, and define the precise jocation of the ratlway and ship canal. The execution of the work on the Suez and the Amsterdam canal into the North Sea should demon- strate to the company that the southern terminus of the railway and canal should be the upper lagoon, which can be dredged where a channel 1s needed leading to the Pacific, by cutting a canal of ‘about two miles across the sand bars near the ocean. 'The southern terminus of the canal being fixed at the iagoons, a canal proper of flity miles in lengtu, northerly, Wouid reach the mouth of tne Mataleago Kiver; from thence the Coatzacoalcos River would be utilized to tide water, the head of silip naviga- tion, thirty-five miles irom the Gulf, making about 123 miles of slack water navigation. ESTIMATED COST OF THR CANAL. The Mexican engineers, estimating tne cost of the work by comparing it with the Caledonian Suip Canal, in Scotland, at $152,000 per mile for 175 miles, fifty of which {s canal proper and 125 of slack ‘water navigation, WUuld give $26,296,000, to which must be added the coat of eighty locks, say double those of the Onledonian Cana!—$6, 100,000—making a grand total of $42,606,000, Then for feeders, say thirty miles, at $100,000 per mile, would be $3,000,000; for basins, ports and contingencies, say $4,304,000, making a grand total of $4u,000,00u, which 1s considered extremely hberal, The presets jocation of the line of railway Is through the Chivela Pass, about six miles to west- ward of Tarifa, but will be changed to Tarifa now that the feasibility of a surface ship canal has been demonstrated, and sh go to near Minatitian, on the east side of the Coatzacoaicos River, od THR PEOPLE ANXIOUS. Thousands of people upon the Isthmus are anx- jously awaiting active operations by the company, which, when commenced, will give them employ- ment in opening their country to the commerce of the world. This Isthmus, of all others, ia the one in which the United States 1s most directly interesied, to be convinced of which it 1s only necessary to look at the map of the world. Inthe construction of great works like these the health of the climate 18 of the utmost linportance. No part. of America 1s more healthy than this Isth- mus. The route upon which the heaviest work 1s to ve done extends partly through a pincy wood region, everywhere noted to be healt! In fact, history for three hundred years has demonstrated that the Te- huantepec 1s much more healthy than any other Isthmian route, Captain Shulfeldt’a expedition having concluded their labors have returned to the United States to report, aud the Mexican engineers have gone home to report to their government, and I iearn that Colonel Williams has been recalied to New York tem- porarily, leaving his corps in the fleid; but he ts ex- gore to return by the second steamer irom New ork, reaching the Isthmus in July, SHOCKING ACCIUENT TO A SUNDAY ScHOL PicyC. Berwin, Ont., July 10, 1871. A Sunday school ptonic here, taking fetuge from the rain ina tannery, the floor gave way, precipt tating about one handred scholars into the vats be- neath. ‘The scene is represented as fearful. Forta- nately all were rescued with the eaception of one Jitsle boy, wno was drowned, Mombers of the Struck Family—Suspicious Cirownstances—Refusing Stockings to a Corpe—Record of the Death of the Strucks—Doctors’ Suspicions. Anything regarding the career of the woman Lydia Sherman, now on trial at Birmingham, Conn., for poisoning her husband, Horatio N. Sherman, two children and a previous busband, will be read witn interest, the more 60 as she is suspected of having poisoned her first husband, Edwara W. Strack, late of the Thirty-second (New York) pre- cinct police, It will be remembered that on ‘Thurs- day the correspondent of the HeRaLp at Birming- bam gave some deteils of HBR CONNECTION WITH THE STRUOK FAMILY. Yesterday @ Henaxp reporter called upon a respect- able clergyman of Harlem, who was present at tho Dedaide of two of the deceased children, and trom him ascertained + some important detalis relative to the family. I¢ appears thas the woman married Struck, who was then a coachmaker for Mr. Butler of Manhat- tanville, about 1846, They livea together some eighteen years, four or five children being the result of the marriage. When she linked her fortunes to Struck, who is a Jerseyman by birth, he was & widower with several children, one of whom is Mr. Cornelius Strack, formerly @ gallant soldier of the First New Jersey infantry, and now a conductor om the Third Avenue Ratlroad, where he is highly es- teemed by his employers. Struck was quite poor, but was able from his salary on the police force to comfortably rear his family, In 1864 the family lived in Manhattanville, where Mrs, Sherman nee Struck was 4 COMMUNIGANT IN THR FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, In 1864 Strack 4164, after a short illness, and was buried in Trinity Cemetery. He was appointed on the police force in January, 1857, and dismissed in December, 1868, for violaiion of rules, The next member of the family that “shuMed off the mortal coil’? was Edward Struck, Jr., aged about four years, who followed bis father on July 6, 1864, to ‘Trinity Cemetery, and on the same day his little sia- ter Martha died, aged s!x years and nine months, ‘The next to find a resting piace in Trinity was Wil- liam Strack, aged nine months and fifteen days. Then, on the oth of March, 1866, Ann Eliza Struck, aged twelve years, died, and was latd away to rest in the family plot ant aaa Rot stop here, On May 19, te fa Sitiék, GH Akcompitsnea young lady, aged eightcen years, eight months and eleven days, breathed her last at the family rest- dence, The cause of death and the record at the Bu- reau of Vital Statistics will be referred to hereafter. ‘The gentleman with whom the reporter conversed stated that he was during the sickness of the two last named treqnently at their bedside in a tenement house in Manhattanville, where they resided. Tuey were attended by Dr. L, A. Rodenstein and had SEVERAL OF THR SYMPTOMS OF ARSENICAL POISONING, Imcluding nausea, cramps and violent vomiting, Lydia especially showing these symptoms. To him Dr. Rodensteln expressed his surprise at the symp- toms, which, at the time, ne considered susp{cious. Ann livea abont two weeks after her first attack, aud Lydia about three weeks. The gentleman de- clared that while at the time of the death of these two girls there was no openly expressed suspicion of poisoning, the circumstances were spoken of as singular, and THE CONDUCT OF THR MOTRER especially excited comment. A few weeks before her fllness, while visiting @ friend, Lydia declared that she was 800n to be stricken with iilness from which she would not recover, and, lying down on the floor in front of a mirror, she instructed her lady friend as to THE POSITION SHE SHOULD BE LAID OUT IN. When they were preparing her for the grave this lady friend Was present and endeavored to carry out the wisbes, but Mra, Sherman positively refused to allow her to ve encoMned in the clothes named, dressed that part of the body that was exposed when the coffin lid 13 opened in a dress the skirt of which was cut of, and even DENIED THE CORPSE A PAIR OF STOCKINGS, two this Dr, Rodenstein had employed Mra. Struck as nurse for his patients and she was re- markably attentive to them. During the Illness of ‘the caildren she displayed no concern, it is said, neg- lected them, acd tie day after the funeral atvended to her weekly washing as usual, After Lydia was Aaid aw: e the gore oe © ort 4 RE HER CLOTHING. gavel aa clergyman Wi i ett art bs with all the facis, and descrives the ‘deal ; girls ag the most affecting he has ever seen in Dis ininistertal capacity at the bedstde of the dy! The reporter next visited the Buresu of Vital Statistics, and by courtesy of Dr. Rassel was per- mitted to loox at TAE RECORD OF DEATH, The following are the entries:— Edward W, Struck, aged fifty-nine years; residence, Tenth avenue; birth a pince, Now Jersey (Bavarian); dled of con- sumption; interre. rinity Cemetery ; die 345 attending physician, Dr, W: Hostend, ij Si anita | JULY 5, 1844.—Edward Struck, aged four years and three months; remidence, Tenth avenue; native of New York; died of remittent fever; buried at trinity Cemetery; attend tan, Dr. @. Jackson, 5, 1s64.—Wiliiam Struck, aged nine months and fit- teen days Ui santiae Norfolk street; native of New York; died of bronchitia uried at Trinity Cemetery; ending physician, Dr. B. Gross, ‘Mauow'9, 1868.—Ana’ E, Struck, aged twelve years; rest. dence, coruer of Lawrence strect'and Broadway; died of fever; buried at Trinity Oemetery; undertaker, L. : attending phyaictan, L. Rodenstein, May 19, 1864.—Lydia Struck, aged elghtoen years, eight months and eleven days. Residence, corner of Lawrence street and To reay & Died of typhoid tever, Buried in Trinity Cemetery. ttending physician, Dr. L. A. Roden- ein. The above are all the names of deaths in the fami. ly recorded in three volumes of the register; and probably the statement that six chitdren died sud- denly is untrue, or else the physicians attending the oiuers failed to report their deaths. [tis said wnat the Connecticut authorities intend to have the graves of the Struck family opened and an apalysis of the stomachs and liver made, If poison 1s found (and the statements of the clergyman would iead to that belief) the web of circumstantial evidence now beiug woven about the Connecticut marderess will be com- picte. AQUATICS. The Col! Regatta Week at Springfield, Mass. [From the Providence Herald, July 10.) The annual boating contest between the colleges is transierred tals year from Lake Quinsigamond, at Worcester, to the Connecticut River, near Springfleld. The course 13 to be three miles in length, with no turning stake, and is without bend or break till about a quarter of a mile from the end, when the river makes quite @ sharp curve. Tue races of regatta week will begin Tuesday, July 18, when the Harvard University crew will conipete with the Atlants six of New York city for the ama- teur championship of the country. As both crews have a high reputaion and a fine record tue contest will undoubtedly bo close and exciting. On Thursday, the 20th, three races will provably be heid under the auspices of the citizens of Springfeld, but the complete programme for that day is not yet definitely determined. On Friday, tie 2ist, will come off the graud contest of the week— the inter-coliegiate race, open to all the colleges, and embracing contests between both the Freshman and University crews, When the Collegiate Boaung Association was first talked of, some months since, It was ex) herst, Williams and Bowdoin colleges and the Ren seiner Polytechuto Institute of Troy would tal art in the races; but Yale has refused to participat ‘or this year at least; Bowdoin, owing to distan will be hardly able to send a crew until next st and there ia considerable doubt about ihe ‘ype > ance of a crew from either Williams or Troy. Hence the contest for this year 1s considerabiy narrowed down, though it will be carried out none tne less gallantly by the competing crews, The Brown crews are quartered at the Ingleside Hotel, at Hol- yoke, Mass,, and are hard at work. They have fully Joade np their minds that if by any mischance they avould not carry oi the colors themselves the victo- rigus crew will be obliged to pnt forth all their powers (o reach the goal before them, FIRE IN GAFFSTOWA CENTRE, N. H. ConconD, July 10, 13971. The Uncnoonnue paper miil at Gastown Centre, owned by P. U. Cheney & Co., of this city, was de stroyed by firo yesterday. Loss aboat forty thousand doilars, Insured for $25,000, in the foliowing com- pantes:—Andes, of Uincinnatl, $2,590; Pacific, of Calitornia, $2,000; Putnam, of Hartford, $2,500; Charter Oak, of Hartford, $2,500; Narragansett, 0 Providence, $2,5v0; Merchants’, of Providence, $2,500; Security, of New York, $4,510; Bay State, of W ter, $4,000; First National, of Worcester, $2,000. CIDE OF A Marrtep Woman IN RrouMoxn, gy le op 4 VAIN May. By Marie Sophie ‘) Wartz. Translated from the Swedish by Bel Borg and Marie A. Brown. “tee & She 284, ‘how i tor SI a Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, New York, ‘The works of the Swedish authoress, Madame Schwartz, now being translated for the first time into English, are becoming remarkably popular, The present volume, with its peculiar yet most appropriate title, is the fourth which has been pub- lished, and it 18 at least equal to either of its prede- ceasors, The story ts full of animation, interest and originality. The characters of Ellen Ochard and Count Uno Kerner are of themeelves a siudy, and the book is altogether one of uncommon merit. It 1s pervaded by an alr of purity which deserves all praise, one of the writer’s objects having apparently been to set forth @ truly high and nobie-minded woman, the light of whose virtue shines resplendent through the clouds and storms with which she is surrounded, Through the iife, character and fate of Evert of Ochard, who tor the gratification of a petty and culpable vanity sacrifices all that he should hold most dear, @ healthy moral kesson is conveyed, while the writer’s reflections, so judiciously offered throughout, are never long enough to be tedlous, and serve to awaken the reader’s highest thoughts andemotions. In the same volume will be found a short story entitled “A Reminiscence of Kreuz- nach.” This contains a quaint and striking legend, and Is of itself sufficiently touching and romantic to thrill the heart of the most experienced novel reader, REINDEER, Dogs AND SNowsHoRS: A Journal of Siberian Travel and Explorations made in the years 1865-7, By Richard J. Bush. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1871. 12mo, pp. 529. This work {a wholly narrative and descriptive, The author was attached to the Rasso-American telegraph expedition, which fve years ago made explorations for a line since abandoned or post- poned, Like the majority of books of travel it is overloaded with detail, containing minute descripe tions of trif'ing objects and every day adventures, Tn his preface the author attributes its publication to the importanity of friends; but if.everybody who travels and has friends 1s to make a big book what will become of our literature? A lack of literar, skill prevents Mr. Bush from adorning his subjec and in this respect his book 1s inferior to that of Lieutenant Kennan, who traversed much of the same ground in the same expedition, and whose en- tertainiog ‘‘Tent Life in Siberia” was publisned last year owe [ANS BREITMANN IN Evrope, Fifth series of the “sreltmann Ballads.” By Charles G. Leland. Philadeiphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. 1871, 12m0, pp. 85. This will never do, Mr. Leland! Secause we have laughed over “Hans Breitmann’s Barty,’ and ena ken our sides at ‘“‘Sherman’s March to the Sea,” 1t doesn’t follow that we must read and admire such lees and drippings of the Deutsch-English humor as this 7th series of ballads, which had far better ‘ge-stopt” with the second, When a poetical humorist is so reduced in bis material as to depend on that lowest form of wit-puns to make his rhymes interesting—when he thinks to amuse the dlasé public with “Ostend-sibly” and “Zouaviter in modo,” be had better turn his Pega-cus out to grass, There are some good lines and funny verbal ingenuities in the book, but the bulk of it is bathos, In the poem headed, “Breltmann Interviews the Pope,” the author dips into macaronics in four lan. guages, thus:— 33 verbo venta,” satd Hans; “permitte, Bancte Pater. Num verum est ut noster rum gemixta est mit water? Tn owlis wo die gotter live, nou ‘Semper est sereno, Nor de wein axb goot anh decet in Each spaccio di vino.", Tax 'rwo GuaRDUNs, By Miss Yonge, anper Re C.D. “The Heir of Redclyffe,” ‘‘Heartsease,’’ Appleton & Company, Broadway, New York, A handsome new edition of the well known works of this popular authoress is now being published by the above-named house. “The Two Guardians” 1s the third of these which bas made its appearance In the new garb. THe Heap oF THE FAaMILy. “John Halifax, Genucman.’ New York. ‘This charming story 1s too well known to stand In need of praise, The present edition is uniform with Muss Mulook’s other works, recently reissued by the Messrs. Harper, belng nicely bound and in good . Clear tye. LITERARY CHIil-cxus7T Benson J, Lossing 1s to be the editor of the new American ‘‘Histostcal Monthly and Notes and Ques ries,” the first issue of which will appear in January, 1872, from the press of Chase & Town, Philadelphia. ‘8 BLOoUS DR METZ EN 1870" 1s the title of a new historical work on the Franco-German war, published by the Municipal Council of Metz. We have not heard of any of our besieged towns tn the American civil war devoting themselves to make a permanent historical record of the event, BeKOsER’s ‘Life of Jesus the Christ’ is now nearly ready, and wil! be issued by J. B. Ford & Co., to subscribers only. ASvIT FOR VIOLATION OF COPYRIGHT has been brought by Dr. George H. Napheys, of Philadelpiia, against Messrs. Parmelee & Jones, of ‘The National Pubiishing Company.” The last-named house pub- lished The Physical Life of Man and Woman,” which Dr. Napheys says plagtarizes the title, con- tents and textof lis book entitied “The Physical Lite of Woman.” AN INTERESTING Book is the “Journal Historique et Anecdotique du Sidge de Paris,” by Messieurs L, do Villiers and De Targes. ‘THE SIXTY-SECOND VOLUME OF THE “BIALioTEca DE AUTORES ESPANOLES” has lately appeared at Madrid. It contains a collection of letters of illus trious Spaniards of all ages. ‘THE GERMAN novelist Spielhagler has anew story in press, entitled ‘Allezeit Voran.” THE ATHENAUM for June 24 has an appreciative review of Samuel Hazard’s ‘Cuba, with Peu and Pencil,” qualified by mild complaint at the bigness of the book. The same journal says of Miss Alcott's “Little Men’’:—“Here we have @ transatlantic academy where young ladies and young gentlemen—boys and girls—are brought up together, This novelette is to school systems what More's ‘Utopia’ was to the aystem of politics. It describes the impossible.’ QUEEN VicToRIA’s ELDEST DAUGHTER, the Crown Princess of Prussia, 13 about to publish a work on “Female Labor,” promised long before the war, but postponed, it Is presumed, by circumstances beyoud her control, LeON® LEVI, author of several works on political economy and taxation, will soon issue a ‘Listory of British Commerce” from 1793 to 1870. By the author of Harper & Brothers, UNITED STATES ANMY GFFICERS IN CANADA. Toronto, Ont., July 10, 1871. General T. W, Sherman, of the United States Army, and @ party of twenty-one ladies and gentiemen from West Point have arrived at the Rossin House. ‘They are going on an excursion down the St. Law- rence on thett way back to the United States. Sev- eral other oficerd of the United States army are stopping at the Rossin Housé, General E. Mexia, of the Mexican Ariny, 18 stopping at the Queen’s Hotel. The Conscription Act Declared Un er SUICIDE OF A CHEMIST. a Theodore Alther, @ chemist, was found lying dead on the floor of nis room at 800 Broome street, The body was sent to the Morgne, where Deputy Coroner Tap NAGRO ANTIPATEHY. Cushman made a post-mortem examination and found that death had resulted from some irritant ion, but the precise nature of the polson it was mn possi ie to determine withont an analysis, De- ceased bad veen very despondent for several da; Caused doubtless by having no friends, permanen home or employment. Mr. Alther was thirty-two years of and from a gvod family in Switzerland. Coroner Heirman bas charge of the case, Tap DaLtivone Counry TRAGRDY.--The Wilming+ tou (Del.) Commercial of Saturday, referring to @ slatement that the insane womap murdered at Chase's station some weeks since was probably Mra, Va.—The Richmond parers announce the suicide ta tat city, at au early hour Saturday morning, of Mra. Mary Bishop, @ married woman, by cuiting her Unroat with a pocket-knife, She leaves six children, all girls, the oldest being thirteen years of age. Her basband had recently obtained work in Baliimore at is trade, asa tatior, and sent word for her to sell out his establishment in Richmond and tollow him, ‘The stress of poverty, the sudden breaking up, an her peculiar condition at the time, contribuiad to de- press her mind apd lead to the suicide, Kate Plake, says:—"We are convinced that this last supposition is incorrect, as we have seen Mrs, Plake frequenily, and she Is @ Woman with dark hatr, {te variably dreswed in piack, @nd not young, While th murdered person ix spoken of as iS ee! girl wit light haw and gayly dressed,’? oO one has yet clatioed the remains of the unfortunate deceased, Leagno, who fired the fata) shot, and bis assoctates are stall confined at Lowsoutown Jail.--Baliimore Aner ivan, July Ws Rioters, Murderers and Plunderers Were Our City Authorities Now Dodge Their FIERCE HOSTILITY OF THE MOB. Fighting in Nearly All the Wards of the City. BUSINESS ENTIRELY SUSPENDED Attack dyke’s House. on Mayor Op- DREADFUL SCENES IN SECOND AVENUE. The Military Fire on the’ Mob. Several Women and Children’ Killed. COL. O'BRIEN HANGED TO A LAMPPOST. Collision Between the Begulars aud the Mob {n the Thirteenth Ward, Disturbances in the Fourth, Seventh, Eleventh, Twelfth, Eigh teenth, Twentieth and Twen- ty-seventh Wards. # Hot Work in the Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Over Two Hundred People Sup: posed To Be Killed. PROCLAMATION BY GOV, SEYMOUR, He Asks the Mob To Bo Quict and’ Promises to Protect Then. Appeal from Archbishop Hughes to the Cathes lies to Cease Further Violence, ‘ THE SEVENTEENTH = WARD BLOCKADED, Railroad Tracks Torn Up and Tolew graph Wires Cut. anne Meetings in Broadway, Wall Strect, the Bevo enth Ward and Other Localities. Excitement About the Seventh Avenue Arsenal. 4 , , Loaded Cannon Planted in’ the Street. Destruction of Property in Harlem’ and Yorkville. OOOO OTTO ea ’ The Rev. Father Quarters Savos a House’ from Being Sacked. ! POSTMASTER WAKEMAN'S HOUSE BURNED. The Twenty-third Precinct Sta« tion House Laid in Ashes, Conflagration of the 1 ken Ferry Hou: Brooks’ Clothing lishment Sach ONE OF OUR REPORTERS Five Thousand New York Milit! Back from Pennsylvania to Rumored Suspension cf the Draft. nnn ' constitutional. —EEE=— The Above Startling Lines Appeared in the Herald of July 15, 1869, Then Put Down by Bayonets! Dnty ani Seek to Escape Reszonsie bility by Yielding to the Threats of Lawless Citizens.