The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Velame XXXVI AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEAT! Twenty-fourth street. — ‘Tux New Deana or Divorce WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street. Buur Beaxv. OLYMPIC THFATRE. Proadway.—Tng Batter Pan- ~ Pomme OF Hurry DUMPTY. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23a st, between Sth and 6th avs. — Tar Lire Detzcrive. coroer 30th st.—Perform- All, THR FORSAKEN, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad ances afternoam and evening: BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—BreTia, TOE SEWING MACHINE GIL. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between P: Houston sts.—CARt, TUR FIDDLER. pe ene GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Sth av. ana 33d st— Goort. y STADT THEA: = oS TART THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery—Tux PostitLiox GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—N. NTRI- ‘CITIES, BURLESQUES, &0. ‘ope tag INA EDWIN'S THEATRE. No. 720 Broadway.—K. aitows MINGTRELS. o ait ilk eel UNION SQUARE THEATRE, corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway.—NR@RO A CBLRSQUE, BALLET, £0. 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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S Paar. &—Advertisements, vertisements, ie Municipal Muddle: Results of the Great Injunction—The Law in the Case—What the People Say—What an OMice Holder Says— The Joint Committee : Informal Conferences, but no Sessions of the Sub-Committees Yes- terday ; Programme for ‘lo-Morrow—The Committee of Seventy—Mr. Connolly's Action : Correspondence between Mr. Have- meyer and the Co. roller; Removal of Mr. Storrs ; Andrew H. ‘en Appointed Deputy Comptroller— Conn: Friends : Meeting at Foley’s Hotel, in Chambers Street ; A Mass Meeting and Torcnlight Procession Proposed. @—Religions Intelligence—The Jewish New Year: Observance of th estivi 5, Yesterday—Ovitu: Brooklyn. Afar xciting Runaway Orange—Mysteriously and Fatally Injured. §—A Great Man Gone: Death of Professor Mahan, of West Potnt—Westchester County Fatr— Yachung Matters—A Saratoga Scandal— Shocking Accident in Trenton—The National Game—Prize Fight tn Minaesota—Fleetwood Park: Postponement of the First Day's ‘Trot Ung—Financial and Commercial Report—Dry Goods Market. : Leading Article, “The Sin of the —Amusement Announcements, %—France: ‘fhe Assembly and Alsat President Thiers Attempting to Coerce the Customs Com- ational Guard mal in Lon- Miltee—Proclamation to the at Lyons—England: The Intery don—Newa from Ireland, Spa y, Sweden, South America apd Jamaica—our Russwin Visitor—The Mont Cenis Tunnel—News trom Washington—the Gubernatorial Campaign in Massachusetts: Speech of General Butler at Lawrence—Political Items—Miscellaneous Te!- egrams—Local News—B6usiness Notices. 8—The Defaulting Paymaster: Treasury OMcials Indignant; Shifting the Responsibility—Mar- Thages and Deaths—Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. 10—The Municipal Muddle (vontinued from Thira e)—Starved to Death: Inhumanity of Per- formers in O'Brien's Menagerie—Love and Laudanum—A Railroad Sold at Auction—An Aquatic Sorehead—A $2,000 Robbery in New- ark—New York City News—Hidden Horrors— Niagara Falls—Iilinols Episcopal Conven- tion —Snipping Intelligence—Advertisements. 11— Advertisements. 32—Advertusements, Sviomwe oF Proresson Manan.—Professor Dennis H. Mahan, of the West Point Military Academy, whose brilliant qualities, fine ac- complishments and eccentricities will long be remembered, committed suicide yesterday morning by jumping from the steamboat Mary Powell while on her passage to this city. Tox ALSATIAN Customs Brit, after a great deal of unnecessary negotiation, was accepted at midnight last night by the Assem- bly by a vote of 533 against 310. This settles that bone of contention between Thiers and Bismarck, and now the Assembly may take {ha vacation. aes MassaOHUSETTS REPUBLICANS, with that noble self-denial and disinterestedness of pur- pose that characterizes New England poli- tictans, propose to regulate pariisan affairs in Louisiana. They denounce the course of the New Orleans Custom House faction, and call upon President Grant to remove Collector Casey and otber federal officials in the Cres- cent City who took part in the late State Con- vention as the only means of saving Louisiana to the republicans at the next election. Tax Werx 1x Watt Srrext.—The chiet feature of interest to the denizens of Wall street was the declaration of the long expected dividend on Lake Shore, which wound up the week just as the brokers were getting back into their old quarters in the remodelled Stock Exchange building. The Lake Shore divi- dend, true to the Vanderbilt character, which is represented so much in this road nowadays, takes the form of a scrip, after the manner of the New York Central, but, unlike it, converti- ble after a certain—or rather uncertain—time into stock. The charge of Judge Bedford kept the ‘‘animals” very quiet in the Gold Boom. The stock market was weak after tho Lake Shore dividend and the bad bank state- ment. ha ici i ‘Tre Harvest ix Fraxce.—The grain pros- pects throughout the French departments are far better than what is generally supposed. Though the yield is less than that of previous years it is by no means as short as what might have been expected in a country which for nearly a year was engaged in a desperate struggle on its own soil with the armies of a neighboring Power. As a whole the wheat crop Will be deficient; but the other crops— oats, rye and barley—will make a good exhibit. The figures which we subjoin, taken from French sources, will enable the reader to judge of the prospects :—Wheat is very good in three departments, good in twenty- three, tolerable in nineteen and moderate in thirty-four; oats are very good in thirty de- partments, good in forty-four, tolerable in seven and moderate in five; rye is very good in eight departments, good in sixty, tolerable in eleven and moderate in two; and barley is very good in twenty-three departments, good in forty-six, tolerable ir sivht and moderate da one. A fag Pam E ee ‘The Sin ef the Age. Y We have heretofore calied aliention to the pre-eminent Christian civilization of this age in its peculiar care for the two extremes of human life—infancy and old age; but what shall we now say in regard to the evident laps- ing of the people of this most reputed Chris- tian nation into heathen barbarism? The love of children has always been deemed a sign of superior intelligence—of noble manhood. Af- fection for its offspring is a quality possessed alike by all animals, with scarcely an excep- tion, and few indeed of the millions of the animal creation seek to destroy their own off- spring after birth, or to so neglect them as to leave them liable to destruction by other bodies or forces. It was left for human intelligences to encompass the death of their children, both before birth and after, and it was left to the Christian civilization of this nineteenth century also to discover and adopt the most revolting and barbarous means to accomplish this end. The crime of fosticide, or infanticide, is not of recent growth. Like every other crime, it has bad a venerable existence, but its beastly de- velopment among us has been mainly the work of a few years. Thirteen years ago its preva- lence attracted the attention of medical jurists in all parts of our country, and essays, tracts and bound volumes were isgued against it. But the crime grew apace, and its deadly and dastardly fruits appear before us to-day, sick- ening to the moral conscience and religious sentiments of the nation. In 1865 Dr. Morse Stewart, of Detroit, Michi- gan, declared that few of either sex entered the marital relation without fall information as to the ways and means of destroying the legitimate results of matrimony. And among married persons so extensive has this practice become that people of htgh repute not only commit this crime, but do not even shun to speak boastingly among their intimates of the deed aud the means of accomplishing it. Dr. H. R. Storer, of Massachusetts, in 1859, de- clared that forced abortions in America were of frequent occurrence, and that this frequency was increasing so that from 1 in 1,633 of the population in 1805 it had risen tol in 340in 1849; and Dr. Kyle, of Xenia, Ohio, asserted that abortions occurred most frequently among those who are known as the better class; among church members and those generally who pretend tobe the most polite, virtuous, moral and religious. And, without mincing matters at all, this eminent physician boldly declares that “a vonal press, a demoralized clergy and the prevalence of medical charla- tanism are the principal causes of the fearful increase of this abominable crime.” The paucity of children in the families of wealthy and well-to-do Americans has been publicly noticed and commented upon time and again, but the trae cause thereof, if known, was carefully concealed. And can we wonder that the crime has descended from the highest to the lowest, and now pervades all classes of society? Statistics have been frequently pub- lished to show that in certain States of the Union, and in certain districts of those States, the births did not, and do not, equal the deaths, and were it not for the foreign popn- lation among us many of those districts, and not a few of those States, would be depopu- lated in a few years. Massachusetts and New York lead the van in thiscriminal record. Dr. 'T. A. Reamy, of Zanesville, Ohio, in 1867 wrote that after a careful survey of the field he was ready to say that ‘to-day no sin approaches with such stealth and dangerous power the altars of the Church as feeticide; and, unless it can be stayed, not only will it work ita legi- timate moral depravity and social ruin, but (he believed) God will visit dreadful judgment upon us no less severe, perbaps, than He did upon the Cities of the Plaio.” The great inducement to foeticide is the de- sire to avoid the sufferings, dangers and toils of maternity; and yet Dr. Storer remarks that more lives are lost during or in consequence of abortion than in the full course of natural par- tarition, and a very much larger proportion of women become confirmed invalids, perhaps for life, and the tendency to organic disease at the turn of life is rendered much greater. The characteristic physical delicacy of Ameri- can women is not owing principally to climate or necessary difference in mode of life, but rather to the violence done nature by this crime of which we speak and write. Nature does her work wisely and systematically, and we disturb her at our peril. How great this disturbance and this danger is may be inferred, though it can hardly be ascertained by the num- ber of quacks and medical practitioners who ad- vertise to treat specially ‘‘ diseases of women” in our midst. And some of our correspon- dence, provoked within a few days by the Ro- senzweig-Burns-Van Buskirk horrors, indicate very plainly the culpability in this matter of | many so-called reputable and respectable phy- sicians, The greatest criminals manifestly are not those parties now confined in the City Prison. They are, to be sure, the most bin- gling quacks, but had they not bungled so fearfally they might have still continued their | nefarious and God-abhorred business. The “‘respectable” and educated physician who can destroy foetal or infant life, and do it so cleverly as to leave no immediate trace behind, is infinitely more worthy of State Prison than the other; for he who knoweth his Master’s will and doeth it not shall be adjudged worthy and be beaten with many stripes. How can we logically expect any great respect for human life in its later stages when so little is thought about it in its beginning. And the truth uttered by Rev. H. D. Northrup re- cently and reported in the Hgratp, comes to us with redoubled force every time we read these harrowing details—namely, ‘There is nothing so cheap as human life.” That which is the most costly and precious in the sight of Heaven is the cbeapest and least worthy among men. And God’s own image is cut down and destroyed with as mach impunity as if it were a log of wood or a mad dog. ‘‘Shall I not visit for these things?” saith the Lord; “‘and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?” We may talk never so elo- quently in our public assemblies about the value, the increasing value, of human life; but what avails it if we persistently allow that life to be thus ruthlessly taken away? The crime itself is not more @ physical than a moral one, and we must concur with Dr. Kyle in assert- ing that ‘‘a venal press, a demoralized clergy and the prevalence of medical charlatanism” are the prime causes thereof, The responsi- bility is, therefore, threefold, and cannot be NEW’ YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER before God in this matter. And in view of the alarming increase of this crime of child murder the prediction of Dr. M. B. Wright to the Medical Society of Ohio in 1860 wiil soon be fulfilled, namely:—‘‘The time js not far dis- tant when children will be sacrificed among us with as little hesitation as among the Hin- doos,” unless we stop it here and now. The moving spring of this crime is igno- rance—ignorance of its enormity in the sight of God andof human law, and which, com- mitted at any stage of. conception, is murder; ignorance of the true objects of mar- riage and the obligations of the marital and parental relations, and ignorance of the grand and glorious object of human life, both here and hereafter. False education or an utter lack of education is another cause of this crime, The young are taught everything in physics and ethics except themselves, and the result is that, being ignorant of the structure and functions of their own organism, they eat, drink, sleep and dress in a manner that is simply suicidal. Ignorant of the high moral nature of the relation of the sexes they are driven to communicative companions or im- pure literature to gratify an interest in the mysterious, which in itself is not evil. Dress and food, idleness and particular forms of employment, and want of cleanliness, induce prostitution, adultery, foeticide, infanticide and a host of kindred evils. Dress has been declared by one of the most eminent female physicians in this city to be one of the princi- pal causes of abortion in our midst. An opportunity is now afforded by the intense in- terest manifested by all classes of the commu- nity in the fearful developments of this crime, for the press and the pulpit and the medical fraternity, to educate and warn the people in these things. And no better course of in- straction by lectures or familiar conversations could be desired for the pupils of our public schools and the adult community generally than a course on these crimes and their con- sequences. Who will inaugurate them? The Religious Press. There is nothing very alarming or very striking in the columns of our religious con- temporaries this week. The Independent is, as might have been expected, filled to the brim with long and labored articles in con- demnation of the corruptions of the city gov- ernment, and finds space to put in a few rallying shots by way of editorial squibs aimed at the offending officials. The follow- ing extract ‘will show the character of the articles pitching into the Tammany ring :— Even Barnara, their trasted warder, opens the gates to the foe, ‘The grand army of citizens is ready to 1ollow ap the attack, and their generals on the day we go to press will develop the line of attack, which will be pressed witn unflinching vigor. They will include civil suits and criminal sults, The Governor of the State will be appealed to forrelief and the next Legislature for an imme- diate repeal of the city charter, But even before the battle opens the enemy is fleeing. that one of the heaviest contractors has leiy the couptry, and we would not be surprised if ‘Aveed and Connolly should leap to follow him if not im- mediately arrested, Let no moment of delay be allowed them, Saint Peter (Catholic) compliments Judge Bedford for his charge to the Grand Jury on the crime of abortion. In the course of its remarks it says :— We hope the eminent Judge will not desert the sacred point he has so boldly made. He 1s a Catholic man of great weignt in the State; and, therefore, there 1s no litte obligation on him to do all in his power to stay the general cruet muraer of unbap- lized innocents which is going on. ‘There can be 10 doubt, whatever, that the hoiy law he dggires to be enacted he, himsell, individually, can Calise to be passed. The Observer (Presbyterian) has some sensible suggestions in regard to the duty @ pious people in connection with politics, in- spired, no doubt, by the present crisis in the official affairs of the city. It says:— In our country the Church is not to assert itself as a Church; but as individual members ali Christians are bound to stand fast to their profession and ex- hibit in polities, a3 in business and im religion, that y seek first the kingdom of Gou. Righteousness 1s the salvation of the state. and we honestly be- lheve, if the Christian men of this city and of this country would fearlessly assert and act upon these principles thev would ‘secure the nomination to office and the election of upright men, who would be an honor and blessing when tney come to power. It would certainly be well to try the experiment. The Hvangelist (Presbyterian) calls upon the present city officials, to use an expressive Westernism, to ‘‘get out.” Regarding the robbery of the vouciers from the Comptroller's office, the Hvangelist says:— Piainly it was not an ordinary burglar, for the papers were useiess to him. It was not like break- Ing into a bank and carrying off gold or greenbacks. “hese vouchers of old bills paid were of no value whatever, except to conceal the proofs of fraud, Evidently they were stolen by some one who would be implicated in frauds if the papers saw the light, and who, therefore, seized them to avoid discovery. Suspicion at once fell om the Comptroller himself, or some one in his office. So univeral was this feel- ing, even among those of his own party, that the Mayor immediately wrote to him that he vad lost public confidence and asked lum to resign. The Golden Age has not discovered that there is an opportunity for the introduction of an evangelistical mission in the official depart- ments of our city government. It has a good deal to say about free love, where other men’s wives and other women’s husbands are con- cerned; but making free love to the people’s money on a wholesale plan is not thought worthy of a remark. Our Jewish contemporaries are full of the prevailing New Year festivities. The Hebrew Leader has an editorial entitled ‘David on New. Year's Day,” and ‘Party Organiza- tions Under the Cover of Religion and Na- tionality.” Henry Ward Beecher touches slightly in the Christian Union upon the city sensation. He says:— ‘The battle is by no means won yet, and it will not be won in a day or week. Something more is needed than that a temporary stop should be put to te leak in the public treasury, The community needs a thorongh sulting of past offenses and ine exemplary punisbment of those who shall be proved guuty. The Tablet (Roman Catholic) dixcusses the subject of alleged ‘‘Dissensions in the Catho- lic Church,” and essays to show ‘‘why Dollin- ger will not be Luther.” Our country religious exchanges this week show no marked feature of public interest ex- ceptin regard to the interminable Cheney case, in Chicago. The controversy has reached that stage when it would appear to be better for all concerned to let it be dropped for ever, Onr religious correspondence to-day will be read with interest. We are told A Bap ExamPLte any a Goop Oxe— The example of Paymaster Hodge in using the public money in his stock speculations is bad, very bad; but his example of making a clean breast of it in an honest confession and with every evidence of sincere remorse and repent- ance is good, and might be foflowed to their advantage by other parties in a similar pre- dicament, COMPTROLLER CONNOLLY bas removed Mr. Storrs from the office of Deputy Comptroller and has appointed Mr. Andrew H. Green to auifted Grom one to another, Weare gli guilty | the plage. ° * n " sin 3 he se he United Sta It is not, we think, contrary to truth to ssy that many hundreds of those into whose bands will fall the Hegaxp of this morning are igno- rant of the fact that a large and growing sec- tion of our population are engaged in the cele- bration of a festival which is, at least, as old as the days of Moses. On Friday evening last, at sundown, commenced the year 5,632, according to Jewish calculation, The opening days of the year are devoted to prayer, fast- ing and charity. The festive season, we be- lieve, lasts for ten days. With the old ortho- dox Jews the two first days are held in special veneration. With the new school the first day only is especially sacred. It is the hope and prayer of all good sons and daughters of Abra- ham that their names should be found written dn the Book of Life. We know no good rea- son why we should not, after this fresh proof of devotion and self-sacrifice, join with them in this high hope and prayer. The return of this Jewish festival compels } attention to a subject which we are all of us too liable to overlook. The history of the Jew- ish people is virtually the history of the hu- man family, How much of the history of the world would be worth remembering away from its connection with that people? The call of Abraham; the patriarchal history which fol- lowed; the bondage in Egypt, the deliverance and the subsequent wanderings in the wilder- tess; the conquest, occupation and strange his- tory of the kingdom; the disruption of the state which Solomon and David had so labor- iously built up, the decline and fall; the ap- pearance of Him who claimed to be the long- promised and long-looked-for Messiah; the new teaching ; the crucifixion, and the miracu- lous events which immediately followed; the destruction of Jerusalem by the soldiers of Titus and the consequent and final dispersion— how largely all these enter into all that we knowor care to know of the past! We know of no higher compliment which can be paid to Christianity than to say that it is the comple- ment of Judaism. Differ as Christians may from Jews, differ as Christians and Jews may among themselves, this at least must be ad- mitted: that Jews and Christians alike have a right to claim an inheritance in the precious memorials of the same glorious past. The history of ancient Israel is no doubt the property of the Jew; but it is also in a very emphatic sense the property of the Christian. To the Jews we are indebted for our moral an@ religious opinions. If we are not Jews by blood, we are Jews all of us in intellect and feeling. Disraeli once said:— ‘*Qne-half of Europe worships a Jew; the other half worships a Jewess.” It was a daring and somewhat impious saying; but it has this to recommend it—it is true. We cannot—we dare not—be indifferent to the condition and prospects of the Jewish peo- ple. Time was when it was the supposed duty of every Christian to trample them under foot. The history of their wanderings in all lands for the last eighteen hundred years is a his- tory of sorrow and suffering which is entirely without parallel. No people have ever been so tried and tempted. For centuries the world was in league against them. Anything was good enough fora Jew. With what measuro he meted it out to the Founder of Christianity, with that measure every Christian deemed it his duty to mete it out to him. But there was stuff in the Jew which could not be destroyed. He stooped, but he stooped in hope and with a determination yet to conquer. In spite of apparent neglect he trusted that he was not forgotten by the God of his fathers. In spite of persecution the sons of Israel grew and multiplied; and wherever they went they contrived to amass wealth and to give proof of intelligence. Times are now changed. The Jew still suffers in some lands; but in all the great civilized nations of modern times he is the object of imperial, royal, or, what is better still, national favor. The clouds of ad- versity no longer darken his path, Wherever opportunity is given the intellectual character of the race reveals itself. In almost all de- partments of human enterprise and ambition the Jews compete successfully with their Gen- tile neighbors. In literature, in the fine arts, in politics, in finance, they carry off the prizes; and by their wealth and their rapid accumulation of the same they threaten to become the masters of the world. Kings once plucked out their teeth to find out their purse. Kings are now proud to court their favor and assistance. In almost every nation of Europe, in Germany, in Austria, in France, in Great Britain, not to speak of the smaller States, the Jew has worked his way to the surface and made himself felt as a power. While, however, it is not to be denied that the condition of the Jew has been ameliorated in all the civilized nations of modern times, it must be claimed for these United States that the sons and danghters of Abrabam find their true home among the free people of this young republic of the West. Nowhere else are they so fully admitted to the rights of citizenship. Here they feel that they are citizens by right and not by favor or privilege, Disqualified neither by race nor religion, every office in the republic is open to their ambi- tion; nor is there any good reason why a descendant of David should not yet sit in pride in our Presidential chair. To the advantages we offer them the Jews are not indifferent, Year by year, quietly and without any osten- tation, they come in increasing numbers from Europe, and in proportion as their numbers multiply so does our wealth increase, In all our large commercial centres Jewish enter- prise is conspicuously revealed. All over the country, bot particularly in certain portions of the West, Jews are extensive holders of real estate. Wherever we find them we have to admit that taste and elegance go hand in hand with wealth. Unlike their brethren in most of the nations of Europe, they act as if they had found a home; they are no unwilling or nig- gardly contributors to the refinements and elegancies of life; and their princely mansions and gorgeous synagogues attest at once their taste and their munificence. New York city alone speaks volumes for Jewish industry, Jewish enterprise, Jewish taste, Jewish lib- eralty. We dare not, even if we would, speak of our Hebrew fellow citizens but in terms of the highest respect. If this language seems the language of eulogy our best apology is that it is the language of truth. It is still an unsettled question whether our free ipgtié “gna shall urove as favorable to 17. 1871,—TRIPLE : Fee tm the | the conservation of the ancient Hebrew faith v3 SHEET. as they have proved to be to the conservation of an ancient Hebrew liking—we mean the liking for wealth, In all ages and in all countries, in spite of his much-wandering and his many trials, the Jew bas remained true to himeelf, In nothing has this characteristic been so strikingly revealed as in his attach- ment to the faith of bis fathers. In this land of ours, and amid our free institutions, that faith is being severely tried. We are aware that the faith of the Hebrew is being tried sorely in other lands than ours. But we are not without good reason for believing that the first fruits of reform are likely to be gathered here, We have already our Hebrews of the old school and our Hebrews of the new school ; and a third party, we understand, has already sprung into existence. It is not for us to make too much of these ecclesiastical divi- sions, for we have divisions enough of our own. Come what may of these ecclesiastical discussions, whether they do or do not intro- duce the Jews into a purer atmosphere of liberty and a clearer light of trath, we do not feel that we are in any way hindered from carrying out the purpose with which we com- menced this article, and wishing our Jewish fellow citizens, after our own fashion, ‘‘All the compliments of the season and a happy New Year.” American and English Speed in Howing. How does the time made by the Wards the other day compare with the best English time, has been asked so often that we will endeavor to lay before our readers some facts from which they will be able to form at least a tolerably correct approach to an answer. And were it customary on the other side to row races frequently as here on ‘‘dead water” or water unmoved by tide or current the reply would be far more easy. The time so often, we might almost say uniformly, made by English oarsmen over a given stretch was so much less than Ameri- cans wanted for the same distance that it was held up to Hamill, and especially to the Har- vard men, before they made the daring ven- tures that made the late races possible, as an obstacle simply unsurmountable, and at first it would certainly seem so. The Harvard men, for instance, had, in making their fastest public time, required on Lake Quinsigamond in July, 1868, seventeen minutes, forty-eight and a half seconds in which to do three miles, and they supposed then that they had done some- thing worthy of mention, But meanwhile the Oxford and Cambridge crews were managing to travel from Putney to the Ship Tavern at Mortlake, on the Thames, four miles and three furlongs, in less than twenty-one min- utes, and one Cambridge crew in private prac- tice found at the finish that they had consumed but nineteen minutes and fifty seconds—time never equalled before or since. Notwithstand- ing these startling facts the Harvard men went out and Goliath shrunk up amazingly when they once got fairly at him. They, too, found that they could surprisé themselves at the brief time they needed to go from Putney to Mortlake. Six of them at home had, as above, covered three miles in seventeen, forty-eight and a half, or, allowing twenty-five seconds for turning the stake, in seventeen, twenty- three anda half. This would be at the rate of abouta mile in five minutes and forty-eight seconds, or, if they could keep up the pace (a simple impossibility), they would occupy on the Putney course twenty-five minutes, twenty-two and a half seconds. But the race was to be forfour oars, not sixes, Three sec- onds a man per mile in favor of the boat with the fewest men and four and five seconds have been variously allowed in this coun- try, where competing crews comprised different numbers of men; but any each arbitrary standard can only approximate the exact allowance proper. Take, however, the average—four. This would give the four- oar eight seconds in each mile, or in four miles and three furlongs, thirty-five seconds. This, added to twenty-five minutes, twenty-two and a half seconds, as above, would give twenty- five, fifty-seven and a half. Butanother and a new element came in, an incubus of a hun- dred pounds weight, a creature almost unheard of in this benighted land—a coxswain. Not heavy at first, long before the fourth mile is covered he seems fearfully so, and would easily make the above crew need all of twenty- seven minutes to row over an equal distance on Lake Quinsigamond. Yet in their practice on the actual course they needed but twenty- two minutes, and in the race itself, though a stern one all the last half of the way, they consumed but twenty-two minutes and twenty seconds, Even a better instance, one exactly to the point, is before us in the performances of the gallant ex-champion of the Thames and of all England, Harry Kelly, for he has had none of these allowances to make, but has had the pleasure of chasing Renforth over those same long miles and furlongs, and again of measuring off some Yankee miles, going it red-hot after Sadler over this very Saratoga track, Unless we err gravely he has rowed from Putney to Mortlake in twenty-three minutes and thirty seconds, while over the Saratoga course, three furlongs shorter, he spends over half an hour, What can be the explanation of this? Can it be that Saratoga water does not agree with him and is only good for Yankees? No, the explanation in both and in all like cases is simply this; the English usually row their races with the current, and as that runs on the Thames four and sometimes nearly six miles an hour (for that river is very narrow and the tides rise as many as eighteen feet), if Kelly had allowed his boat to simply float without his rowing her at all he would proba- bly have drifted over the distance in an hour or less, and the Cambridge crew in question would have, when they made their wonderful time, drifted it in considerably less than the hour, as they had a high wind dead aft most of the time. A four composed of Renforth, Taylor, Win- ship and Martin, and carrying # very light coxswain, have, we believe, rowed the Putney track in about twenty-one minutes, thirty sec- onds ; but last Monday showed that England’s best crews to-day (and Taylor and Winship were both there) found that even twenty-five minutes would not suffice them for four miles alone, to say nothing of the three furlongs be- sides, But they also know how to make slow time in England as well as fast, One of the most famous courses ares there ia that at Hepler. on the Thames, familiar to all on this side the water who have read “Tom Brown at Ox- ford.” Maclaren, Professor of Gymnastics af Oxford, in the appendix to his excellent essay on “Training in Theory and Practice,” says :— “The Henley course is one mile, two furlongs and twenty perches long, and is the fairest course for comparisons of speed, there being but little stream, and the races being rowed always up stream. It is, moreover, the only one where first class racing boats of all kinda have been contending for any number of years on the same day, and, consequently, under the same conditions, * * * The highest re- corded speed for fours was eight minutes and eight seconds, by the Third Trinity crew of Cambridge University, in 1865. Beat London by three-quarters of a length—both crews. fearfully distressed.” This would be at the rate of about six minutes and ten seconds to the mile. If the current against them ran as much ag a mile an hour it would not hold them back over twenty seconds, as experience om this side has shown; so that they moved at the rate of about one mile in five minutes and fifty seconds, But the Wards did three miles, with- out the turn, at Worcester, in seven- teen minutes aud fifteen seconds, beating Harvard, when she made, as above, seventeen, forty-eight and a half, thus going at the rate ofa mile in five minutes, forty-five seconds, or five seconds faster than the “‘fastest time om record” in England, on a track where no current, wind or tide favored, and instead of being fearfully distressed, in about a mile and @ quarter, keeping up the motion all over three miles and coming in with considerable left in them, Their rate of speed on that occasion, also, will be seen to have surpassed. that of the other day (and so will Harvard's, too,) by enough, if they could have maintained only one mile more, to have cut the late time down, includisg turn and all, over a whele minute. Thus, if we have calculated cor- rectly, we need not feel reluctant about bring- ing up our figures and arraying them side by side with their English cousins. We see that recent cable despatches say that ‘‘some of the journals express the opinion that the race was won by the Wards because of the stakeboat arrangement, which has been discarded in England;” but they have, probably, supposed that there was but one stake for all contestants, while, in fact, each crew had a separate stake to turn and a distinct track, amply wide, all to itself, thua obviating almost the possibility of any trouble and effecting what is generally conceded to be one of the fairest and by far the best race ever seen in the United States. The Amusement Season, In the dramatic line the season has been a@ far rather quiet, as the public mind has not been excited even by the portentous announce= ments of our managers. Bandmann has left the Grand Opera House, and we are to be treated this week to an olla podrida of brokem English at that ill-starred establishment; that bighly-drawn picture of American society yceleped “Divorce” still holds the boards at the Fifth Avenue; Lydia Thompson an- nounces, Dieu merci, her last week at Wale lack’s; the same remark will suffice for Booth’s and Niblo’s in the case of Lotta and Emmet (for the latter we trast that the man- agement will dispense with his services after this week), and “Humpty Dumpty” still pur- sues his devious course at the Olympic. The smaller theatres are struggling hard to com- pete with their big opponents, not without # fair show of success, The musical season opened last week with a real, bona fide novelty—the Vienna Lady Orchestra, consisting of twenty young girls— violinists, ‘cellists, flutists, &c.—brought here by Mr. Rullman. The vocalists were Mlle. Elzer, a young prima donna, and Herr Miiller, a baritone of exceptional ability. They alsa leave us after this week. To-morrow evening we are promised a sensation in the musical line at the Stadt Theatre. Wachtel, the long talked-of German tenor, whose ut de poitrina has been for some time a sensation in European circles, makes his American début in the “Postillion of Lonjumeau,” and the Teutonic mind here is excited in consequence. In the beginning of next month Mme. Parepa-Rosa will commence her season of English opera (she may also give Italian and German) at the Academy of Music. .She bas a very strong com- pany, and a complete one, too. Three weeke later comes the Swedish Nightingale, Mlle. Christine Nilsson, making her operatic début here as Marguerite in ‘‘Faust.” She has three thorough artists in her troupe—Mlle. Cary, Capoul and Brignoli. Of the others we know nothing beyond mere hearsay. Next month, also, we are to have, for the first time in con- cert, Miss Wynne, Mme. Patey and Messrs. Cummings, Patey and Santley. Of the last- mentioned artist great expectations are formed. Thus, it will be seen, the musical season will lack nothing in genuine talent, and the only thing desirable is that the various managers will come to some understanding by which we may be enabled to hear some of these great artists together. Mrs, Charles Moulton and the favorite American prima donna, Miss Kel~ logg, will also appear here during the season. If we add to them Thomas’ unrivalled or. chestra, the Philharmonic concerts and a score of lesser attractions the list will be complete. It will tax all the energies and means of our dramatic entrepreneurs to combat this for- midable list of musical stars and to hold their own with the public. New York Crty is prolific of horrors, and not a week passes without revelations of crimes of the most fiendish character, But even such monsters as Foster and Rosenzweig never dreamed of such atrocities as are fre- quently perpetrated in the rural districts, where vice is supposed to be unknown, bat whose people devour the recital of metropoli- tan offences with astonishing avidity. On Thursday last at Stormville, Dutchess county, a boy seven years old, indentured to a Frenchman known as the Man of the Iron Jaw, attached to O'Brien's menagerie, died sud- denly. Upon investigation it was shown that the child had been systematically starved ta death by his inhuman master. No attention was paid to the affair until after the showman had departed, when the villagers becama aroused at the outrage and efforts were insti- tuted to secure the arrest of the Franchmag ang his na lesaguilty wife,