The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ee THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in. the tear. Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price 812. Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. EW ALEACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and lth street. — ELV, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Aonoss THE CONTI- ENT. N WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 20th st,—Perform- ances afternoon and evening—Lrs MISERABLES. BOWERY THEATRE, Bi 'y.-Humrry Dowrrr— Wuirk Stave’s REVENGR, GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway,- MAzerra, O8 THR Witp Hozsr or Taurary, LINA EDWIN’S THEATER BRRGER FAutLy oF BELL R OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Scuxrepsr—New Sonas axp Day Broadway. —Tax THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strest.— AN ANGEL. 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Cn ss I—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Financiai and Commercial Reports—Domestic Marxets—Dry Goods Market—jederson Market Police Court—The Acctilental Shooting of Young Garrity—The Murder of Charles Casey, 4—Hditorials: Leading Article, “R Polticat Retorni—Progress and Popular Ideas—Aquat A Perio Fires—Deauh by Drowning Ben Putler—Amusement A 5—The War in the Corea: Det tween the Gunboats and the Siuation in France—News trom The rt s rams—Views of the 6—Relteious: nizera on the Shootin: sation; * es of Sin is ¢ Rioters Disown 1 by the Cathelic Hings of False Pr¢ igzious (Continued from 5 ng from the Riot: N eof the Shooting: Cutung — Case—Batmed Newark Horror—The Brazii riages and Deaths. s- Dust Di q Sau: f Wednesday's dvertisements, Tae Parts News.—General Paladines has obtained a command, and has been appointed at the head of the Fourteenth military division of Pa This is a just reward for a brave and efficient soldier, who won distinction in the field against the Germans during the first days of the republic. The Commune prisoners will be put on trial to-day before the courts martial formed for that pury We uow learn for a surety that the letter of President Thiers to the Pope was a forgery. The Executive, however, has wrilten a letter to His Holiness, in which he hints that France will support the papacy diplomatically if other Powers will act with her. Tue Deraitep Reports of ihe battle in the Corea coutirm in all particulars the first ac- count of the gallant action of our navy. The Coreans appear to have been exceedingly well prepared for attack and defence, and to have by no means lacked those modern improve- ments that have rendered warfare so murder- ous. They seem also to have had strategical plaus well laid for crushing the outside bar- barians at a single blow, and it is only the indomitable bravery of the crews of the launches that saved the Americans from a repulse that would undoubtedly have pro- longed ihe war for years. No confirmation of the reported landing and storming of the forts has been received as yet; but it will be re- membered that these occurred very shortly after, and doubtless we shall have full details of them in a day or two. Mrusrer De Lone, our Envoy Extraordi- nary, &c., to Japan, has had an audience with the Mikado. This latter august functionary is a youth of about nineteen, who, according to hallowed tradition and the unfortunate accident of his birth, is compelled to keep him- self secluded from the gaze, not only of foreign barbarians, bet of his own people. Heretofore one or two of his highest ministera have been permitted, for the furtherance of public business, to enter his presence, but as a general thing an audience with him is very ; rare, and for a professional reporter to inter- view bimin the style which Napoleon, Bis- marck and President Grant consent to now and then would, doubtless, create a revolu- tion throughout the empire. It seems, how- ever, that this lad is an innovator. He had a talk with Secretary Seward some time ago, and veniures upon quite lengthy discussions with his ministerial council, we hear. Now that he has granted an audience to Minister De Long. he deserves to be classed among the progressive monarchs of the a, Tak AMERICAN-MEXICAN Claims ComMis- gion has settled some very important test questions regarding the rights and privileges of citizens of either couniry residing tem- porarily in the other. Claims on the part of (Mexicans for damage done them by Con- federate troops during our war were promptly disallowed, and claims of our citizens in Mexico for damages done them by the French troops during the intervention were promptly decided in the same way. But in cases where the damage was done by Juarez’s forces, ‘or by Union troops on our side, the claims are promptly allowed. These decisions are im- ements upon Lord Lyons’ cold-blooded terpretation of international law to the bereaved English citizens in France, and fully accord with the harmonious agreement of the Joint High English and American Commission relative to English subjects in this country during the rebellion, The excellent lessons of the Alabama claime treaty are already proving beneficial even beyond the broad sphere of the treaty itself NEW YORK HERALV, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1871 Religious asd Political Reforme—Progress and Triumph ef Pepular Ideas. Ata time when many minds were disposed to feel satisfied that an era of peace had dawned upon the world violence has rudely disturbed the dream, The 12th of July in New York city has, as we already know, proved a world-wide sensation. On the evening of Wednesday last—or on the morn- ing of Thursday at latest—it was known in London and in all the great centres of Great Britain and Ireland, in Paris and all over the populous centres of the South of Europe, in Vienna, in Berlin, in St. Petersburg and all over Central and Northera furope, not to speak of Alexandria, Cairo, Bomoay, Calcutta, Ben- gal, Melbourne and Sydney, that New York was in danger of destruction at the hands of another and scarcely less tamable Commune. It was only an Irish squabble that disturbed New York; but the squabble was so serious that New York really was, for a time. in danger, and so much in danger that the London Times rejoiced that in the United States Great Brit- ain, through Irishmen, was to find a compan- ion in tribulation, Happily for us in New York, the tribulation has not been great, and the companionship between Great Britain and the United States cannot be said to be as yet established. Popular ideas, the fruit of the thought of these modern times, not medixval- ism, carried the day. On the 12th of July in this city modernism and mediwvalism, intoler- ance and liberalism, came into collision; but modernism and liberalism have been triumph- ant, and the world rejoices. Our 12th of July troubles compel us to think of the force of opinions and ideas in these times. The times are certainly stirring and peculiar. Yesterday our preach- ers were full of the inspiration of the hour. The result is that to-day, in our anxiety to do justice to all, we publish a good deal of good sense and a good deal of nonsense. The late Franco-German war, the Commune and the second siege of Paris, the 12th of July in New York, the troubles of the Pope—these are splendid themes for the pulpit. The American people wait for the HERALD of Monday to know what the preachers have to say on the general situa- tion. Theresult ought to be instructive and beneficial if the preachers would only walk and talk in the broad and generous pathway into which the Heratp has been trying to lead them. With all the light afforded by the pulpit we must nevertheless consider the situation for ourselves. It is undeniable, we think, that there are in modern society elements fall of force and liable to prove full of destructiveness, which neither the preachers nor the politicians clearly understand. One class of Irishmen has one set pf religious opinions. Another class of Irishmen has another set of re- ligious opinions. But, although the one class end the other are convinced that one God and Father loves all andrules over all; that one Lord Jesus died for all, and that His death atones for the offences of all, and that there is one happy home for all the good, religion does not prevent Irishmen of the opposite creed from seeking to imbrue their hands in each other’s blood. In spite of the sweet influences of the religion of Jesus Christ, itis a painful fact, which has to be admitted, that in every large city of the world where Irishmen of the opposite creed do congregate peace is disturbed, property is imperilled, life is endangered, once a year. This is true in Belfast and Dublin. It is true in Glasgow and Liverpool. It is true in New York, in Boston, in Chicago, in St. Louis, in San Francisco. It is not one whit less true in Melbourne and Syd- ney. The secret of this antagonism we do not pretend to know. This one thing, however, we ihink itis safe to say: religion, the reli- gion of Jesus Christ, in a sphere within which it ought to tell, isnot making men and women love each other; is not making them live happily together on the earth; is not fitting them for companionship in a heavenly home. In this New World, this home of free- dom, this sanctuary where all races and all creeds are equal, we are.sorry to be com- pelled to make this confession. We know not where to lay the blame, but the truth must be told. It is not, however, in the religious world alone that trouble exists. The religious as- pect of things is certainly not promising. Look where we may we seem to feel as if, re- ligiously, we were standing on a thin volcanic erust, beneath which tremendous fires were raging. It is not yet by any means certain that the Papacy may not engulf Europe ina wide-spreading and most destructive war. Ina modified sense the sentiments which found ex- pression in our own city on the 12th divide Euro- pean society, and, indeed, the Christian world, to-day. But, as we ave said, the peace of the world and the welfare of modern society are threatened from other quarters and by other forces. The unity of Italy and the consolida- tion of Germany must be regarded as triumphs on the popular side. In Italy and Germany, and even in Great Britain, the people have won; but the reins of power are not yet in the people's hands, The destruction of the French empire, which was built on fraud and maintained by deceit, was a popular victory— a triumph of Mary Anne and Madre Natura. No book of prophecy was ever more swiftly or more literally fulfilled than Disraeli’s ‘‘Lo- thair.” The Paris Commune was but a wild and unreasoning, or rather maddened, branch of the International Society, which is scarcely less strong in the United States than in Eu- rope, and which, without any disguise or concealment, aims at the annihilation of relig- ion, the destruction of capital and the mastery of the world. The maddened branch was killed ; but the society lives and local failure has but given it intensity of purpose. Austria fights with it and yields to it in her most unsatisfac- tory policy of decentralization. Great Britain fights with it and yields to it in the breaking up of Church establishments, in the abolition of University teats, in army and navy reforms, and in the promised concession of vote by ballot. Berlin Jonkerism will soon have to fight with it, and unless Berlin Jonkerism changes its tactics it, too, will have to suc- cumb. Russia, as we all know, has hard work on hand in consequence of the same spirit, although in Russia it has taken a more relig- ious form than in any other part of Europe. It is not our opinion ,that the International Society, or Communism, can win unless it very materially modifies its plans and purposes, Bul asa areat force of the present—a force which may so be qualified as to command general popular favor—it is not by any means to be ignored. In its present acknowledged character‘we cannot say we like it; but in so far as it represents popular feeling and'seeks to win popular rights we do not, we dare not despise it. When we consider that law and order have been re-established in Paris, that law and order are being maintained in Rome, that law and order have been vindicated in New York, that law and order are made compatible with reform in Church and State in almost every country and nation in Europe, we can afford to speak hopefully for the future without disparaging popular efforts, The popular cause, religiously and politically, has often been disgraced. It was never more disgraced than in these recent months and years. But it still lives, and marches on to new and grander victories. We regret not the unification of Italy. We regret not the consolidation of Germany. We regret not the reforms in Church and State whioh have taken place in Great Britain and Ireland. We cannot refuse to admit that under the guise of liberty lawlessness has revealed itself. But Liberty remains stainless as ever, and we do not despair that in the future her votaries will be better organized and more perfectly disciplined. ‘‘A parliament of man, a fede- ration of the world,” imbued with the spirit of @ pure, generous Christianity—such is still our hope. Is it impossible that men now living should see the dawn of that happy day? The Fanerals ef the Victims of the Riot. The martyrs of the Ninth regiment were buried with an imposing military display yesterday, from Calvary church, in Fourth avenue. The crowd of citizens who thronged the neighborhood to witness the obsequies was immense; but it was a re- markable fact that no one among them seemed inclined to discuss the late riots, even mode- rately among themselves. They were promptly obedient to the request of policemen to stand back or to make room, and there has probably never before been so orderly a crowd assem- bled in this city on an occasion that looked so threatening. The services passed off very decorously, and the bodies were consigned to their graves at Woodlawn Cemetery, without any demonstration beyond that of heartfelt sorrow and respect. The funerals of ‘two Hibernians who were shot in the riot also took place yesterday with more than the ordinary demonstration on the part of their friends ; but the greatest decorum was preserved also at this, as at the other more gorgeous funeral, Indeed, the angry and inflamed feelings that caused the deaths of these men seem to have settled down to an undemonstrative regret, that it is to be hoped will be succeeded at once by a genuine desire for harmony, peace and good will. The Health of New York—Vigilauce of Oftcials. Considering the hot and sultry weather we have had for some time the health of the city is remarkably good. Though there was an excess of deaths, according to the report of the Health Commissioners, for the week ending July 8, over the corresponding week of last year, the state of the weather will account for that. Two hundred and sixty-four deaths are ascribed to diarrhoeal complaints, which are fifty-four more than in the corresponding week last year. Three hundred and seventy-four deaths were due to zymotic diseases. Thirty were from smallpox. This latter disease, which has been among us for some time to a limited extent, appears to be declining. So far, then, we have escaped any serious epidemic or contagious disease, and we hope we shall continue to escape through the watchfulness of the health authorities. A great deal depends upon Dr. Carnochan, the Health Officer of the port. Vessels arrive frequently from infected places, That terrible scourge, the yellow fever, existed at three, four or more ports with which New York has large commercial intercourse—as, for example, the ports of Buenos Ayres, Vera Cruz and Havana. Some few cases have been brought here, and one death from yellow fever occurred the other day; but through the vigi- lance of Dr. Carnochan these have been kept away from the city. It is a critical period of the year, but we have confidence in our efficient Health Officer. Some of our merchants may grumble, the captains of vessels swear, and spiteful newspapers and those antagonistic to the Health Officer may abuse him, but the pub- lic of New York will commend and sustain him. He has a great responsibility in protect- ing the city. If the yellow fever were to get into the city it would prove, probably, more disastrous to property and business, as well as to life, than if a third of our beautiful metro- polis were burned to the ground, It would take a long time to recover from such a dis- aster, and none would suffer more than these very merchants who are too apt to complain of the vigilance of Dr. Carnochan. We have no doubt the Health Officer will continue to do his duty to the public, and, therefore, have little fear, but the press and the Quarantine and Health Commissioners, as well as the people, in his efforts, CapraiN Perry AND THE Boarp or PoLice CoMMISSIONERS.—It is rumored that Captain Petty, of the Thirteenth precinct of our police, is to be summoned before the Police Commis- sioners on some charge of having reflected upon the conduct of a portion of the National Guard at the late attempted riot. While it may be proper enough to investigate what may have been said or done improperly by any official on or relative to that occasion, we must say that, according to all reports, no one did better ser- vice than Captain Petty last Wednesday. We do not know the precise nature of the charges, and shall not attempt to justify any one in doing wrong, or for a breach of discipline, but if Captain Petty should have been guilty of imprudent expressions merely his exemplary and gallant conduct on Wednesday and gene- ral character for efficiency should outweigh such a fault. We doubt not Mayor Hall and the Police Commissioners will look at the matter in this light. A Baiwuant Exarsition or THe Nortagry Licuts in these latitudes in the middle of July isan extraordinary phenomenon, yet we had it on Friday night last, from about ten till the small hours of the morning, It was an elec trical perturbation in our atmosphere, which signified the approach of a widely-extending storm or storms, of which we had the begin- ning on Saturday and yesterday afternoon, The Charches Yesterday. The slaughter of Wednesday was the subject of the morning’s discourse in many of the churches yesterday, both Catholic and Protes- tant ministers drawing lessons of wisdom for their congregations from the unhappy occur- rence. The Rev. Felix Farrelly, of the St. James Roman Catholic church, delivered no sermon, but he read a list of recently deceased for whose repose prayers were requested, and as some of the names mentioned were those of victims in the late riot he very impressively, end with remarkable emphasis, read the lesson of the day; and those passages spoke volumes :— What fruit, therefore, had you then tn those things of which you are ashamed? For the end of them 1s death, Beware 0! false prophets who come to you in the clothing of sheep, vat inWardly they are ravenous wolves, Father Deshon, at St. Paul’s Roman Catho- lic church, took for his text the last verse which we have quoted, and preached a strong sermon, touching indirectly upon the riot. He said the clergy should instruct men in polities as well as in morality, and it was their duty to see that their people were not led astray. Father Haggerty, at St. Colum- ba’s church, said that the men who had had recourse to arms the other day because a few Orangemen chose to parade the streets ignored the restraints of law and the coun- sels of prudence. In the Thirteenth street Presbyterian church Dr, Burchard referred to the riot, and very desperately denounced Catholics, ‘foreign renegades, unscrupulous rabble,” and our “erring Mayor,” and in this vein worked himself up into a very uncomfort- able passion, considering the oppressive weather, Dr. Northrop, at the Twenty-third street Presbyterian church, prayed for peace, but urged it upon those in authority that right and principle must be maintained even at the ex- pense of blood. Rev. Charles B. Smyth, at the American Free church, spoke in the same temperate tone, and hoped that the question whether Christian toleration or anti-Christian intolerance was to prevail in this country had been settled forever. Altogether the views of the clergy of both the Catholic and Protestant faith were remark- ably unanimous upon the general principle in- volved in the doings of Wednesday, and the idea of Christianintolerance was scornfally re- pelled by both sides, John Quincy Adams on the Political ation. One of the Boston newspapers, following our example, has interviewed John Quincy Adams on the political situation and prospect. This New England democratic statesman was not at all averse to the interviewing process, for he remarked:—‘‘I do not know why it is any more objectionable to be ‘interviewed’ out of one’s sentiments than it is to state them in a stump speech. In fact, the somewhat illicit character of the ‘interview’ seems to secure for them a more extended currency than is accorded to the more formal speech.” This is sensible, and it would be well if our public men generally would look at the “interview” in the same light. In the report of Mr. Adams’ remarks we find that he goes for the so-called democratic ‘‘new departure.” He says, in fact, that it is an old departure with him; that ‘the sees nothing in the constitutional amendments themselves, apart from their procurement, which need distress any democrat. The fair purport and upshot of them is merely to give equal civil rights and impartial political privi- leges to all men, irrespective of color.” When asked about negro suffrage, he said, “I was very sorry that it was forced upon the poor creatures in the wholesale way it was. It endangers their losing it altogether, The misgovernment in the Southern States is a fearful impeachment of the attempt to found republican government upon undiluted ignor- ance. But it has been done, and I would not undo it.” Mr. Adams thinks, however, the suffrage might be modified, as in Massachu- setts, where taxpaying and reading and writ- ing are prerequisites to voting, and where, it is said, fifty thousand citizens are disfran- chised in consequence. He considers the Ku Klux bill an absolute surrender of the Situ. whole principle of free government. “Control over the army to regulate elections, and absolute power to im- prison by military force, without habeas corpus, is supreme and unlimited despotism in possibility.” The democratic party, he says, should have no negro policy, any more than a German policy or an Irish policy. ‘There can be but one democratic policy—the United States policy—and that should be equal and exact justice to every citizen.” No doubt this is an excellent ‘“‘departure,” new or old, on the part of Mr. Adams, and one which the mass of the American people will endorse. With regard to the democratic nominee and Presi- dential election, he says, ‘‘the tug of war will ve in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Vir- ginia, and that he thinks the candidates should be taken from those parts.” On the whole these are clear and sound opinions, and if the “tug of war” were to be in Massachusetts Mr. Adams would be as good a candidate as the democrats could find. The American Eva Czar of Russia. The representatives of the Evangelical Alli- ance of the United States have just been received by Prince Gortchakoff at Stuttgart, and the address of the Alliance in favor of religious toleration in Russia has been pre- sented to and been favorably received by the Czar. We know no more noble mission than that on which these representatives of the Evangelical Alliance have gone forth, and we but do them justice when we say that their address to the Czar, which we printed in the Henan of yesterday, is in every respect worthy of their mission. Russia has never laid aside the spirit of intolerance in matters of religious belief. Within the Russian empire nothing but the Greek Church is tolerated. Roman Catholicism has been all but stamped out in Poland; and in the Baltic provinces, contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants, who are of the Lutheran faith, the Greek Church has been established and conformity made compulsory. In opposition to the spirit of intolerance the Evangelical Alliance rea- sons pleadingly with the ©: The address commends the well known benevolence of the Czar, expreszes the profound sympathy which iy felt in the United Stoles for large pumberg nce and the ms Wa of His Majesty’s subjects in the Baltic provinces, points with pride to the example of the United States, ‘‘where all religious denomi- nations and forms of worship are equa before the law, which, supporting none, pro- tects all and never interferes with their inter- nal affaira;” and in view of these and other considerations respectfully requests that His Imperial Majesty’s subjects in the Baltic provinces ‘may be permitted to worship God and to educate their children according to the faith of their fathers and free preference of their own consciences.” It is still further requested that His [mperial Majesty's Chris- tian government would ‘grant within the limits of its jurisdiction, among all subjects not belonging to the orthodox Greek Church, liberty of worship and religious institutions, including circulation of the Holy Scriptures.” There is something noble in all this. Let us hope that, in obedience to the call of free America, the Czar will reveal in a higher platform that benevolence which he revealed in the emanci- pation of his serfs, and establish religious equality throughout his vast domains. By so doing he will win the respect of his generation and the homage of posterity. © the Benefit of Storm ‘Telegraphy. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences at Paris the proposition to lay a telegraphic cable between the Azores archi- pelago and Europe was advanced and strongly endorsed. The idea has been more than once set forth and its execution urged in the columns of the Heraup. M. Buys-Ballot, the celebrated Director of the Ut ht Meteorolo- gical Observatory, has been ‘Ominent advo- cate of this new enterprise, and has memorial- ized the Portuguese government for the estab- lishment of a meteorological station, or, rather, system, Inthe Azores. This plan executed will result in the issuing of regular weather reports as to the progress of ‘‘the southwest- ern gales,” which are well known to advance on the British Isles and on Western Europe from the vicinity of the Azores. M. Delau- nay—a name eminent in telegraphic meteor- ology—at the meeting of the Academy read over the note of M. Buys-Ballot, and madea strong plea for the prosecution of his learned colleague’s proposition. The storms which reach the British shores are borne along in the normal path of the so- called ‘‘Passage Winds,” or ‘Antitrades,” and, at present, the only premonitions afforded the signal officers of England are those of the barometric changes on the immediate western coasts of the islands. As in all the middle latitudes, in England the preponderance of wind is from the west. The United States is most singularly and happily situated for carry- ing out an exact and effective system of storm signals, But the French and English meteor- ologists have no station to the westward in the Atlantic from which they can be forewarned of the approaching and probably tropic-bora hurricane, Even if they could learn the barometric oscillations and other weather con- ditions of some point a hundred miles to the southwestward they would have great advan- tages, and, since the cyclone seldom travels more than twenty miles an hour, the observer might have ample time after it reaches such a point to telegraph his storm-warning to every harbor master on the English coast and dis- play the cautionary signal before the arrival of the hurricane. The institution of weather observations at the Azores would give usually, at least, thirty-six hours’ premonition 1o all Western Europe of every important atmospheric change. The result would be of incalculable advantage to all Western Europe. For, even such storms as the celebrated ‘‘Black Sea storm” of 1854 (which came so near de- stroying the entire allied Anglo-French fleet before Sebastopol, and was forecast in Paris by Marshal Vaillant while it was yet off the western coast of France, and, fortunately, pre- announced more than thirty hours), not con- tent with desolating the coasts of Western Europe, invade the Continent and sweep over the Mediterranean and other inland seas, The seaport of Augra, in the Azores, is admirably situated for the landing of an ocean cable; for it lies far enough from the extreme Western coasts of Europe and Africa to be beyond the influence of the recarvation current of the Gulf Stream. The sea bottom has also a conforma- tion well adapted as a receptacle for the wire, and is not exposed, as that off Newfoundland, to being washed into gullies by submarine cur- rents. The distance from the Azores to Por- tugal is within nine hundred miles, and as its ports are much frequented a storm signal sta- tion at Augra might save many precious argosies of commerce from the destructive gales of the Atlantic, and, if we are to judge by the past, the cost of a cable, much less the trifling ex- pense of a signal station or a dozen stations, is not to be compared with the immense sav- ing of life and vessel and cargo. One invalu- able good that might result from telegraphic communication with the Azores is ibis: —Our steamships, when disabled by accident occur- ring between New York and Liverpool, drift— as did one of the Collins steamers some years ago—directly down toward the Azores, With cable connection to Liverpool missing steamers might be rescued from destruction by searching vessels sent out in time to reach them. The Portuguese government will do much to win the good will and respect of all Europe and the United States if, in subserving the be- nign and grand purposes of storm telegraphy, it shall consent to bring the Azores within the kindly and civilizing influence of the elec- tric flash, The topic has another and profoundly im- portant aspect, to which we shall hereafter refer, A New Cable A PERILOUS RIDE. Run Into by a Locomotive, and Taking an .Anvolantary Ride on a Cow-Catcher. Samuel Coe, a butcher, of Ridgewood, near Pater- son, N. J, had @ narrow egcape on Friday night. When crossing the River street crossing at Paterson his borse ani wagon were struck by the Lightning Express. The horse was knocked to one side, so badly injnred that it had to be killed subsequently, The running gear of the vehicle was shattered to pieces on the other side of the train, The body of the wagon, how: ever, with Goe in it, rolled up on the cow- catcher and stack there until the train could be stopped, alter running tve distance of several blocks. When the train was stopped Mr. Coe jumped from his perions perch, not having been injured tn the least. An almost precisely simi- lar accident occurred in the same vicinity about a year ago, From the speed of the train the body of the wagon is supposed to have been kept tn tt po sition ou thy -coweatcler by the vressure of the WL AQUA TIOS. The Coming Regattas at Hol- yoke, Mass. The Atalantas, of New York, and Harvards, or Cambridge, to Race on Tuesday. Disabled Condition of the Har- vard Crew. General College Regatta on Friday. InaLesipe, HoLyoks, Masa., July 13, 1871. A series of aquatic sports of almost national if- terest and importance are to come off on the surface of the Connecticut River in this vicinity during the present week. ‘The first of them will be on Tuesday, and consists of A THREE MILB CONTEST between the celebrated six-oared Atalanta crew, of New York city, and the no less famous Harvard crew, of the renowned university in Cambridge, just across a rickety and dangerous bridge from Boston, Then on Thursday, after a full day's interval, wit occur a regatta under the anspices of the Spring- field Club tor prizes of $250 for six-oared boats, $200 for four-oared boats and $100 for single wherries; and on Friday the carnival will wind up witn a sort of @ national college regatta. There will be first a race between! the six-oared crews of Harvard, Brown and the Am~ herst Agricultural Colleges, and afterwards & contest between the Harvard and Brown freshmen crews For the University race, ff PRIZES, , consisting of six solid silver cups, valued at $800, wiil be given, and for the freshmen race six sold silver cups, valued at $200, A set of colors Will also be given to each University and freshman crew, valued at $100. ‘The cups aad colors are furnished by the Springfield Club, The rules under which tho races are to be rowed have been carefully compiled: from those of Oxford and Cambridge, England, the Henley and the London Rowing Clubs, and adopted as the regatta rules of the Rowing Association of American Volieses. Already there are A LARGE NUMBER OF BOATING MEN here and in Springtleld, and in spite of the soleme mity of tne day, they have mdnustriously engagea in aquatic rather than theological discussions. The race between the Atalanta Club, of New York, and the Harvards, is the one most talked of, and the general impression 1s that the New Yorkers will be victorious, They have an excellent record this year, and will work hard to wrest the victory from the college boys, While, on the other hand, the Harvards have not puiled tn a race this year, and are unfor- tunately in a deci disabled condition. Mr. Rice, one of the H , is down with the: es, and Mr, Tucker, another of the crew, met accident afew days since wiille practising ‘iver, Which will mot contribute to his'muscie on ti and endurance, Ais DOUBLE MISORTUNE has certainly weakened thelr chance of success in the race of Tuesday, but they are, nevertheless, hopeft nd some of their friends are coalideat that victory awaits them. To predict success tor them would hardly be safe, for the injury to Tucker has got him a little out of condition, and has greatly in- terfered with tie regular practice of the crew. Up to Priday might they hud pulled together but twice, once in Cambridge, and the pull up the river from Spriugtield on the arrival, and of course such inter- ference put sthem somewhat out of trim for the race of Tuesday. The Harvards proposed to the Atelantas that the race should be postponed to the 19th, inorder that they migut have a chance to do themselves jus- Uce by presenting un approximation of their real power, but to this the Atulantas would not agree, claimed that the race 2 been appointed for tae 18th, and should, thereiore, be rowed on that day; tat, furthermore, some of their crew had only a short leave of 3 e irom their business and were compelled to return to New York at once. The race will, thercfore, take place on the 18th, as originally aunonnced, at an hour which is yet to be agreed upon, THE ATALANTAS are full of muscle, und every man is inspired with a foreyone conclusion of victory, and their fiends offer beayy odds on the: They are a nardy look- lag sec of men, put on iand lack that pecuitar, healthy and energetic action Which is $0 noticeable in their ‘Their average weight is only according to their own testimony. the boat they present a fine appearanca, and their pink shirts render them easily distingutshable at a great distance. Their stroke Is quite neat and pretty; as quick but not ag long as the Harvards; the swing of the vody is shorter, and the pull with the arms begins always with the first of tie stroke. The rough water on the rivet on Friday prevented them from doing their best; but we could perceive that they were @ weil- trained and skilful crew. They obtained an easy victory over the Yale Sophomore crew, 1 New Haven, lately, making the three miles on Lake Sal. vonstall in 19m. 02s, The average weight of * THE HARVARD CREW is 160 pounds. They are all stout, healthy looking men, and with a week's steady practice would give any of their opponents a hard pull. They left the Doathouse Friday afternoon with a stroke of forty- four to the minute, and Keptit up as tar as the eye could distinguish clearly enough to count. They are rowing in anew shell, built by Beakie, of Cam- bridge, 49 lect long and 2045 inches wide. Consider- able dissatisiaction 13 expressed by all the crews in regard to THE COURSE which has been selected, and it does not quite vertfy the favorable reports which have been printed several times in regard to it. It has been spoken of a8 a straight course until near the end, bat that ta not so. The course as laid out has a bend tn the frst eighty rods, and it will require skilful and cleur-headed bows to prevent . foul- mg on this bend. Farthermore, the river is very shallow and is full of snags, weeds, sand bars and other obstructions. These should be removed before Friday, or else the boat which drawa the middie position may be so hampered by weeds and shwiow water as to lose all chance of winning the race. We hope that those who have the mat. ter in charge will tend t this. ANOTHER SERIOUS OBJECTION to the course is the frequency of rough water. The river extends two miles toward the south, and even a slight breeze from that quarter blowing against the current makes a disagreeable chop sea, which troubles the crews greatly. Should there be much wind ou regatta days the races will, necessarily, be postponed, FIRES. Destruction of a Tannery at Norwalk, Conn Lockwood's tannery, in Norwalk, was discovered to be on fire at half-past one o'clock yesterday (Sun- day) morning. tn the buildings was a large quan- tity of oil, which was soon on fire, sonding up a bright fame and dense volumes of smoke, The tannery 18 located at the foot of the steep hill, atthe (op of which ta the parsonage and barn occupied by Rev. Dr. Mead, of St. Paul's Epts- copal church. The intense heat of the fire soon ig- nited the barn, which, with the hay therein con- tained, and a barrel of kerosene oil stored there, was soon in flames. The steamer and the old hand engine now appeared, and the fire ‘was got under control. The trame and covering of the barn is saved, though the hay was mostly burned and the roof partially destroyed, The tannery is a total loss, estimated at $6,500; tnsared for $1, Fires in Cami Krxaston, Canada, July 16, 1871. A disastrous fire ovcurred here on Saturday, by which W. & R. Henry’s mill and stables, together with $20,000 worth of lumber and 200 cords of hard wood, were consumed, ‘Total loss about $35,000: insurance not ascertained. The fre, which throws filty men out of employment, was Cal sparks from an engine on the Nortnern Railroad, Extensive fires are raging in the nétghborhood of Sutton, destroying the standing crops, &o. Much anxiety is felt owing to the prevailing high winda and the dryness or the weather. ———— DEATH BY DROWNING AT ATLANTIO OITY. ATLANTIC City, N. J., July 16, 1871. Josiua Marsden, an unmarried Faglishman, about thirty-five years of age, was drowned while bathing at this place this morning, Himself and some comrades had been drinking concluded to go patking. ‘To show his supertor abilities asa swimmer, en went out beyond the breakers, Was seized with cramps and sunk be- fore atd could reach him, The body foated ashore about twelve o'clock, noon, BEN BUTLER- for Governor of Mnaw husetian Boston, July 16, 1871. A letter appears ina Sunday paper, signea B. P, Butler, in which that gentleman says, in view of the present poittical situation of parties in Massachu- setts and the withdrawal of Governor Giadin, he proposes toa become a caadityte for the ofice oF Governes He Nominates Him cy