The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1872, Page 6

NEW YO BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXX: AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, 8T, JAMES' THEATRE, Twenty-cizhth street and Broad- way—MONA LDL. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—BUFFALO BILL—CAT0; on THR WHITE SLAVE'S KEVENGR, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRS, Twenty-fourtly stroet.— FERNANDE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-—Tik BALLET PAM- TOMINE OF HUMPTY DUMPTY. Matinee at 2. LINA EDWIN'’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—WiTcurs ov New York. ROOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third st, coraer Sixth av. — THE FOOL'S REVENGE. ACADEMY OF MUS! BA—MIGNON. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — Tur Vereran, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. and 28a st— Lara Rooku, Foariecenth street.—ITALIAN NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.x—La BELLE SAVAGE. WoOOD's MUSEUM, way. corner 0th st. —Perform - ances afternoon and ev WORKINGMEN OF NEW York, MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. Prep o' Day. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, a burra.o Bini, kenkd Alaa seca THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Cowto Voosn- MB, NFGKO ACIS, AC.—CINDERELLA. Matinee at 235, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth at. and Broad- ‘Way.—NEGKU ACTS—bUKLESQUE, BALLET, &0, Matinee. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. — NEGRO ECOENTEICITI£G, BURLESQUES, 40. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 st., between 6th and 7th ava,—BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third ave- nue—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 B: — TB SAN FRANCI800 MINSTRELS, i end NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteent» siramt.—SORNRS IN THE RING, AcROUATS, £0. Matinee at 234. TRIPLE SHEET. March 20, 1872. New York, Wednesda: CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. acs, ie 1—Advertisoments. 2—Adveriisements. 3—Washington : The Pacific Mail Subsidy in the House; Sumner and Uincinnail; The Guerriere and Her Capturea Wines and Liquors; The Ku Klux Question in the Supreme Court—The State pital: What the Senate Commitiee Wil! Do With the Seventy’s Charter; ‘The New York Life Insurance Company; A Joint Revo- lution on Adjournment—The Custom House Inquiry. 4—Mayor tall: Judge Daly Reserves His Decision on the Law Till Thursday: The Jury Discharged ‘Til ''o-morrow—Proceedings in the New York and brooklyn Courts—!igeon Shooting—Kow- 4ng—More Stolen Vouchers: Catacazy Loses His Papers—The Pacific Mail Battie-Small- pox. G—Financiai and Commercial: Another Exciting Day in Erie; Tne London Market and New York on a Level at Last; Reopenmg of the ‘Transfer Books; Other stocks Weak and Lower; Decline in Gold and Foreign Ex- change—The Reign of Crime: Barroom Brawis and Battles of the Past Twenty-iour Hours and Thelr Results—The New Normat College: Lay- ing of the Corner Stone of the ustituiion— Court of Special Sessivns. G—Editoctais: Leading Article, “The Cinclonati Conference and its Elements—Let the Repub- licans Attend in a Body'’—Personal tntelli- geuce—Amusement Announcements. ‘—The Swamp Angels: Confirmation of Our Cor- resvondent’s Capture by the Outlawed Low- ery’s; The Fearfal Kisk He Runs—The War in Me: Cortina’s March on Monterey; His Victory Uver the Revolutiontsts—The Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from _ England, France, Spain, Austria, Russia, India and Cuba—The Poisoned Family in Maryland still a Mystery—Miscellancous Telegrams—Business Notices, 8—“lop «and Bottom Game'’—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. 10—The raedes City Frauds—The Judiciary Investi- gation—Investigating the Rexzister’s OMce— Comptroller's Payments—Suipping Jotelll- gence—Advertisements, 41—Aavertisements, 123—Auvertisements. Toe RevoLvTionists IN Mexico are cer- tainly losing ground. If matters do not soon take a more favorable turn for them their rising is bound to have a disastrous end. According to our special despatch the forces of Cortina have inflicted another defeat on the revolutionists. At the same time we have a report that the Juarist authorities at Matamo- ros bave at last made an effort to stop the depredations of Mexican cattle thieves in Texas. Worxinemen’s Riot in Moravia—SuHarp AoTiIoN oF THE AUSTRIAN TrRoops.—The workmen employed in the Witikowitz mines, in Moravia, demonstrated against the property of their employers yesterday, and with sach violence as to create a riot, which was quelled only by the interference of the Austrian troops, who fired onthe mob, killing some few of the men and wounding a number of others. .The Wittkowitz mines are situated in the government of Moravia, They are owned and worked by the Rothschilds. The men alleged that they were “enraged by non-pay- ment” of their wages. Judging from the vio- lence with which they acted and the punish- ment which followed it, as detailed in our tele- gram from Vienna, it looks as if they were moved by some one of those unseen politico- artisan agencies which are likely to disturb the relations between labor and capital all over the world at an early day, to the tempo- rary advantage of the associated idler, but for the great injury of honest industry and pro- ductive enterprise. The Wittkowitz miners had rich “bosses,” certainly, and the Roths- childs are men who are wont to pay promptly as they go. Kina Amapevs’ Compuiment To THE Crown or Betcium.—The King of the Spaniards has decorated the Count of Flan- ders with the insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The knightly col- lar, which bas been forwarded specially from Madrid to Brussels, is the identical one which was presented to Christopher Columbus ‘by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in com- pliment for bis services. This remarkable as- sociation would have caused the relic to be prized highly in the United States, but for this only, as our people are not given to the wse of collars of royal foundation or forge or otherwise. The gentleman who is destined to wear the Columbus collar is brother of Kiug Leopold of Belgium. He is related by mar- riage to the imperial German House of Hohen- zollern, having taken for wife the Princess Maria Louise, daughter of Prince Charles, of the branch of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. As kingly compliments are generally interchanged on the principle of the guid pro quo—vulgar as the consideration is—it may be that Ama- deus wishes to compliment, by his action to- wards the Belgian monarchy, a powerful friend in the Emperor of Germany, and that the Spanish throne question may revert to the realization of the first principle of succession _ of @ Hohenzollern, should the Italian Prince fail to substantiate his electoral claim to the acact scat of the Bor ys, YORK HERALD The Cincinnati Conference and its Ele- itself defeated, and, having erected a platform without principles, it came back from the people without any votes. to be that General Grant has quarrelled with his assoclates in the administration of the government, and cannot therefore expect to retain the confidence and support of the thoughtful men of the party. the Amlable Statesman, running upon a plat- form of Universal Harmony, is as odd a figure as Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, dis- solving partnership with an agent who robbed the Treasury of three hundred thousand dollars to proclaim himself brother of reform.” life has shown as much anger grammar, who has been honored far beyond his NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, and Morton, and Carpenter and Conkling, and the rest of the leaders, with their followers, go to Cincinnati and ‘‘confer.” It will do them no harm. The Queen City of the West is noted for its beauty, its hospitality, its delicate native wines, and corn-fed pork and belligerent newspapers. Let there bo a fair “conference,” with the party fully repre- sented. Mr. Sumner can make his oration, Mr. Schurz can repeat his devotion to that German government which was anxious to hang him twenty years ago, Mr. Fenton can shake hands with everybody, Mr. Greeley can tell what he knows about farming, Mr. Trum- bull can recite his experienses as a politician and his conversion two years ago—and the HERALD will see that the orations and debates are well reported. The conference over, nothing will remain but for the ‘‘conference” to take the sense of the Convention, and nomi- nate Ulysses S, Graut for re-election. This will be a good ending for Cincinnati, a good beginning for Philadelphia, and an auspicious opening of what promises to be the most ex- citing and important canvass since that of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” over thirty years ago. The New York m House=—The Duties of a Collector of the Port. The testimony of ex-Collector Murphy be- fore the Congressional Investigating Commit- tee on the affairs of the New York Custom House will be found both interesting and in- structive. To be sure it may not throw much light upon the dark mystery of the General Order business and of the thousand and one bewildering intricacies of Custom House man- agement, but this is probably owing to the fact that the Collector, who is supposed to be the head of the vast establishment, appears to know less about its affairs than any other per- son. Mr. Murphy, when before the commit- tee, was deprived of the services of the subor- dinates from whom, as Collector, he would seek information, and hence it is not surpris- ing that he could’ not tell whether any person would be responsible to the owner of goods lost or stolen from a bonded warehouse or cart, or whether the unfortunate importer in such a case could sue the Collector or Lect and Stocking or the cartman, or whether any bond given by the general order men or anybody else affords any pro- tection or security whatever to the people who are compelled to allow their goods to go to abonded warehouse. The ex-Collector had heard of a great many cases of loss and theft, but he did not know or failed to remember or could not say whether anything lost or stolen had ever been traced or recovered, or whether the losers had been fortunate enough to secure any recompense. Indeed, Mr. Murphy does not appear to have made the revenue laws he was called upon to enforce his special study, trusting to the high legal ability employed by the Custom House for such light as it was desirable he should re- ceive upon the subject, But if the ex-Collector’s testimony is of a know-nothing character on all matters affect- ing the public interests and the duties ‘of his office, it brilliantly illuminates the political features of the position of the Collector of the Port of New York. Mr. Murphy did know of the heavy assessments made upon the employés for political purposes, amount- ing to a great many thousand dol- lars, and he was perfectly familiar with all the intrigues of rival cliques and factions, Indeed, he makes it clear that in the collec- tion of duties amounting to millions, in the guardianship and care of the interests of the port, in the enforcement of honesty among thousands of officials, in the protection of the commercial and shipping interests of the me- tropolis, the first qualification is a thorough understanding of the intricacies of ward politics and a capacity for running State con- ventions, beating objectionable candidates, and rendering other services of a like char- acter. We are satisfied that the testimony of the ex-Collector will astonish no one more than President Grant, and that as he at once took steps to remedy the Genoral Order abuse, he will now take care that the Collector of the Port of New York shall in future know something of the official duties of his position and of the laws of his country. mente—Let the Republicans Attend in a Body. The lines are being drawn closer and closer in the Presidential canvass. New Hampshire, instead of terrifying the auti-Grant men, seems to have given them a new existence. Mr. Trumbull has avowed his allegiance to the new movement, Mr. Schurz has béen in sym- pathy with it for along time. Mr. Greeley, with an effort to retain his consist- ency as amusing and as sincere as the efforts of Donna Julia in Byron's epic to preserve her honor, avows that he will go to Cincinnati if he can have his own way on the tariff question. In other words, if a conv ention of free traders will say notb- ing about free trade, he will assist in the elec- tion of a free trade candidate like Trumbull and the defeat of a protectionist like Grant. Tipton will be there in howling condition. Fowler and Ross, having been turned out of the Senate for voting against their party, will attend in the most revengeful temper. There is a ramor that Andrew Johnson will be pres- ent, with the constitution in a fine state of preservation. And, over all, we are informed officially, Charles Sumner will preside, and, perhaps, deliver a two or three days’ speech, Now we are far from ignoring the strength or the character of these gentlemen or belit- tling their movement. It is possible, as Mr. Greeley says, that the Cincinnati Convention will nominate the next President of the United States. We say this is possible, but not prob- able. We are anxious that the Convention shall not meet under false pretences. We do these men the justice to believe that they would not assemble in any convention without a definite purpose and the hope of establish- iag a definite principle. The purpose is plain enough. It is ‘‘anybody to defeat Grant.” But what is the principle? Mr. Sumner wants civil rights and disenfranchisement, Mr. Schurz desires amnesty, while Mr. Fowler would be far from regarding a negro as the equal of a white man. Mr. Greeley yearns for protection, while Mr. Cox would prefer free trade. There {s no existing political principle that will not have friends and opponents in this Convention. The platform, or indeed any platform, that will meet the wishes of such a Convention will be as negative in its way as the platform adopted by the Convention which nominated Bell and Everett in 1860. That Con- vention assembled to defeat Lincoln, and was We understand the position of Mr. Sumner Mr. Sumner, as “the elder No man in public impatience and and irritability of temper as Mr. Somner, His career as a Senator is a succession of quarrels; He quarrelled with the old Southerner, but that was pardoned to his radicalism and patriotic devotion to free- dom. But when his party came into power he continued to quarrel. He quarrelled with Lincoln on the Louisiana Reconstruction ques- tion, with Mr. Johnson for his ‘“‘whitewash- ing” message about affairs in the South, with General Grant for removing Mr. Motley for incompetence as English Minister. He quar- relled with Fessenden constantly, and often honored the Senate with a public display of temper. He quarrelled with Foster of Con- necticut and contributed to his defeat in Con- necticut, and with Clark of New Hampshire, refusing to allow a single resolution of thanks to be passed for his services as presiding officer by the declaration that he would make @ public assault upon Mr. Clark in the Senate if it were offered. His quarrel with Mr. Trumbull was so long and bitter that we ques- tion if they can keep the peace at Cincinnati. The quarrels with Edmands and Hamlin, and Conkling and others, might be recited to show thatthe man who bitterly complains of what he calls General Grant’s disposition to petu- lance has really been the most quarrelsome and impatient Senator in public life, Mr. Sumner, as the Amiable Statesman, is no less grotesque than Mr. Trumbull as a reformer and Mr. Schurz as a despiser of patronage. As to the latter, when he came into the Senate his clamors for office and patronage were so incessant that his colleagues felt he was exacting. Here is a man who has been in office ever since he began his English Erie on the Stock Exchange, The advance in Erie shares on the Stock Exchange has been a feature in financial mat- ters outside of the great moral and political interest attaching to the coup d'état of Gen- eral Dix and the new board of directors, The changing opinions of the speculative class are something very curious. Thus, when the new board came into power the stock fell, because it was thought Erie wae a shell which would now surely cave in, its recent steadi- ness during the Ring administration being something like the credit which a spendthrift gets as long as he has good clothes, ‘‘cheek” and confidence. The shares fell to thirty-five the day after General Dix got into Jay Gould’s seat, but then turned around with the great speculation inspired all over the country and throughout Europe by the broader results of the change in the management, the mass of the people in Great Britain, as well as at home, looking not to the matters which Wall street dallied over and reckoned down to the very fraction of cent per cent, but to the more general fact that a gang of thieves had been driven out from the treasury of a great money- earning corporation and honest men given their place. For this reason the professional speculators have been heavy losers by the upward turn in Erie, their ventures having been chiefly on the ‘‘short” or ‘“‘bear” side, The part the cable has played in this great Erie movement has demonstrated the growing tendency to unification of the monetary machinery, if not interests, of the people of the United States and England. Erie was bought and sold by the ten thousand shares across the cable. New York watched the London market, caught up with it, and now the sensitive wire betrays to either city the least variation in Erie in the other. London has not been as far away as Boston the past week, so frequent and prompt has been the communication between the two places with reference to this stock—the world-famous Erie, years and deserts, who ne ver made a political speech for which he was not well paid, who used his nationality as an. argument for his own advancement, who has settled in as many States as the most nomadic carpet-bagger in the South, who failed in the diplomatic ser- vice, inthe army, as an editor and as a Sen- ator, until he made a desperate effort at recognition by betraying the party which honored him and becoming a malcontent. Is this the man to lead the party against Grant? Are the American people to disown and overthrow the great soldier, whose genius gave our armies victory and whose name fills the world—whose administration has preserved the peace, strengthened the credit, given protection and justice to all classes, and managed affairs with honesty and economy—are the millions of brave soldiers who followed Grant's flag to victory, or even of the brave Southerners who surrendered to his valor, only to find magnanimity and kind- ness—are the citizens of the country, in whose history the name of Grant must live for ages, to serionsly abandon him because Mr. Sumner is angry, and Mr. Greeley is dissatisfied, and Mr. Trumbull would like to be President, and Mr. Schurz has no more patronage, and to obey the mandates of @ conclave of malcon- tents, whose only principle is office, and who have no grievance but what comes from their temper, their vanity or their disappointed am. bition? What the friends of Grant should do is to go to Cincinnati. We are told it is to be a “conference” of republicans. Well, if it is to be @ ‘‘conference,” let the republicans attend ina body, There is no reason why it should not be a full conference. Let Cameron —eretieneannanmenyee Tne British House of Commons was moved to a tumultuous degree of excitement last night by Sir Charles Dilke’s action in pro- posing his resolution for the curtailment of the expenses of the government. Sir Charles failed very signally jn bis object, The Outlaws of the Swamp—The Enter- prise and Oaring of Herald Corre- spondents. A few weeks ago the Herarp announced the rumored death of one of its correspondents who had been detailed to search for Dr. Liv- ingstone, with instructions not to return until he had found the great explorer, or had obtained certain information of his fate. The devoted attach¢ bad penetrated into the wilds of Africa in the discharge of his duty, and had already succeeded in obtaining some reliable news of Livingstone when he was siricken down by disease, and, as we have reason to fear, died at his post. The Heracp had pre- viously despatched another party to assist its first envoy in his mission, 9nd hence we have still hope that our enterprise and heavy expenditure will result in giving to the world the earliest correct information of the missing explorer, alive or dead, and probably of the result of his wonderful labors, To-day another of our correspondents is in deadly peril, owing to the fidelity and courage with which he has attempted to carry out his instractions to ascertain the exact facts in re- gard to the operations, condition, intentions and character of the swamp outlaws in North Carolina, The gallant people and the efficient officers of police in the district infested by these desperadoes were shaking in their boots, paralyzed with terror, and sending forth ex- travagant accounts of the terrible strength and wonderful resources of the cutthroats, while two or three of the band would hang about the railroad station and approach trains without encountering any molestation. There was evidently a disgraceful and cow- ardly panic among the people, and the Hzraup, with its customary enterprise, resolved to do its duty as a public journal and to put a stop to the shameful episode by as- certaining and publishing the true condition of affairs in the swamp, the actual strength of the outlaws and their real ciaracter and ob- jects. To accomplish this useful work it be- came necessary to send an emissary into the heart of the outlaws’ camp. The mission was one of great danger, but the correspondents of the HrRaxp are not accustomed to reckon risk in the discharge of their duty. One was promptly found willing to undertake the task, and the fact that he is to-day a prisoner in the hands of the Lowery gang shows how well he is doing his work, We have already ascertained through him the fact of the death of ‘‘Boss” Strong and of either the death or flight of Henry Berry Lowery. This is important information; and to this we hope soon to add a full history of the whole gang, their operations, intentions and condition, if our correspondent shall be fortunate enough to escape with his life. But he is in the hands of desperate criminals,, who would not hesitate to murder him without remorse if they should imagine that their safety or convenience required his death. Our special despatch from Wilmington, N. C., to-day, however, informs us that our attaché is threatened with another peril; that the citizens of Robeson county, having geen him in company with some of the outlaws, although evidently closely guarded by them, have taken it into their wise heads that he must be in complicity with the gang, and hence threaten him with vengeance should he escape the hands of the desperadoes of the swamp. Well, the citizens of Robeson county, who are too cowardly to at- tempt to put down the outlaws, and who shake and shiver at the sound of the name of Lowery as children shake and shiver at the mention of bogey, would, no doubt, be just sensible enough to mistake a journalist for a cutthroat, and just valiant enough to lynch one solitary man, pro- vided they could be satisfied that he was un- armed, But we do not believe they will. ven- ture to meddle with a Hkraxp cor- respondent who has braved the outlaws in their den, and we shall therefore feel assured of the safety of our attaché provided he escapes with his life from the Lowery band. In the meantime outside the benighted region of Robeson county every- body will admire and applaud the enterprise of the Hrratp in probing this disgraceful affair to the bottom and the daring and zeal of the correspondent who has placed his life in jeopardy in faithfully carrying out our instructions. There are heroes in peace as wellas in war, and not the least honored among them are the men who, in the discharge of their duty as the correspondents of a great journal, risk perils from which or- dinary men wouldshrink. The devotion of the HERALD staff on the field of battle has already been sadly illustrated by the hand of Death. While we yet hope to obtain a contradiction of the reported death of our African explorer, and while we look confidently for the safe re- lease of our attaché from the hands of the outlaws of the swamp as well as from the less terrible clutches of the wiseacres of Robe- son county, we recognize that these corre- spondents are just as deserving of honor and praise as those who have always risked and sometimes laid down their lives on the field of battle. The Alabama Claims Question Before the British People and Parliament. England is waking up to a national appre- ciation of the serious interest which attaches to the Alabama claims compensation demand of the American people, particularly since thé receipt of Secretary Fish’s despatch on the subject, and the necessity which presents to the Queen’s Ministers for the delivery of an immediate reply to the United States govern- ment. The London press, in its issue yesterday morning, proclaimed that the public were disappointed by the tenor of Premier Gladstone’s exposition to the Commons rela- tive to the American State paper in answer to Earl Granville’s note, and that the British commonalty was apprehensive of the ap- proach of a dangerous international crisis un- less the American demand for indirect dam- ages was treated promptly and in an amicable spirit for immediate solation by the Crown. The newspapers revealed the national senti- ment exactly, as will be seen by our cable telegram report of the proceedings of both houses of the English Legislature last night. The Alabama claims note from Washington, with the matter of the govern- mental relations to America generally, were treated by the Peers and by members of the House of Commons, Lord Redesdale evinced, for the second time, his disposition to put off the coronet and to again encircle his brow with the horsehair wig of Westminster Hall. His ex-study of legal lore came full upon him. He repeated his professional quibble about the united demand which is now made on Great Britain by the American States to discharge a, liability which she may have incurred for damage inflicted on one portion of them at a moment when they were territorially separate and in a war attitude towards each other as bel- ligerents. His lordship proposes to offer a reso- lution to his co-legislators declaring that this view of the case affects all nations alike, and that the House shall address the Crown, ask- ing the Queen to summon an international congress for its decision. Lord Redesdale is, as we have already shown in these pages, liable, hereditarily almost, to muddle the ac- counts of nations, his father having had, in his capacity of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, every- thing to do with the completion of the financial arrangements between that country and Great Britain at the time of the union, in 1800, and it being acknowledged to-day that the matter of the exact debts and money liabilities and credits of the islands has never since been unravelled for fiscal purposes from the snarl in which he placed them. Earl Derby, in that spirit of promptness which characterized the official acts of his deceased father, gave notice that he will ask the government what course it intends to pursue with regard to the Treaty of Washington; what it is ‘“‘zoing to do about it?” Mr, Disraeli will require to be told of the relations generally towards America, and Mr. Horsman ts to look to it that the Ministry shall remain strictly’ accountable to Parlia- ment during its negotiations with the United States Cabinet. From all this it will be seen that the Alabama claims case remains a matter of grave import to Great Britain—in the streets, on the floor and benches of Parliament and around the green table in Downing street. It seethes in the brain of the millions and fills their minds with apprehension lest the democ- racies may be alienated in feeling by means of the class interests or personal intrigues of the aristocracy, and, in this sense, it may seethe to the boiling point, to a bubble and to an English home explosion which will burst asunder the impediments which prevent a general fraternization of the British and American peoples—the “‘source of all power” in the two countries, The International Rowing Match. The text of the reply of the London Rowing Club to the recent challenge of the Atalanta Club of this city to row a four-oared outrigger race over the famous Putney to Mortlake course during the coming season has arrived, and a special telegram to the Heratp yester- day gave the names of the probable contes- tants on the English side—namely, Messrs, Stout, Ryaa, Gulston and Strong—names, by the way, as familiar among rowing men in England as those of the Ward Brothers here. The event is fixed for five o’clock on the afternoon of Monday, June 10, and all other preliminaries are to be determined after our men arrive out. This time is earlier than the Atalantas had desired; but if they assent to it, as we sup- pose they will, it oan hardly be made too plain to them that they should be off at once. Nearly six weeks of a stay in England before the contest proved insufficient to properly ac- climate the Harvard men, and this at a time of year when their passage thither was over such a quiet sea as to affect them but comparatively little. Boats and oars are to be tried and proved by processes that take time; the track is to be mastered, and careful study for over a month under the eye of the oldest watermen of the Thames failed to pre- vent the Harvard coxswain from discovering for the first time inthe middle of the very race itself an eddy off Chiswick Eyot that caught his boat and held her so tightly that she seemed tobe anchored. Arrangements are to be made for keeping the course entirely clear— and the stopping all traffic on such a broad thoroughfare as the Thames is almost like closing Broadway from Madison square to the Battery—for if this is not done our country- men had better stay at home; and we ear- nestly hope that a perfectly clear and distinct agreement will be made relative to the allow- ‘ing or barring—and, we trust, the latter— the jockeying principle of ‘‘washing,” or the leading boat’s rowing directly in front of the other and throwing the back swirls from her oars right against the latter’s bow, and that thus Harvard's fatuous blunder will be avoided. . We would suggest that a committee go along amply large and competent to attend to everything that will be at all likely to come up, so that the rowers may have nothing whatever to attend to but their row- ing; for with only this they will find that the novelty and excitement of the affair will tell on their nerves even for days before, and: make it far harder to keep in their best con- dition long than they have found it at home. Notwithstanding the disclaimer of the Lon- don papers and of their antagonists themselves, in their friendly reply of the amateur cham- pionship of Great Britain, we still believe that it will be a very difficult task to find any amateur club there that can beat these same four Englishmen, when they are in such fine order as they probably will be on the Monday afternoon in question; and this although ‘we have seen four Eton boys whip Guiston and Ryan and two other good London men almost under the shadow of Windsor Castle, They have rowed together too long, are too famillar with each other’s ways, have met formidable rivals too often and been in too many trying posi- tions, to be anything else than an exceedingly difficult crew to defeat, and it is better that our venturesome countrymen should look these facts fairly in the face first than last. Yet the latter have two great advantages over the students who went out in 1869. One is, profit from the former’s experience ; the other, and a really great one, that they can row without a coxswain, Now the London men must learn this habit just as Harvard had to to carry one; and they will find that it will not only alter their pace, but quicken their stroke very markedly, while the Americans have always rowed the quick stroke adapted to their style. The problem for each is how to distribute their strength to the very hest advantage throughout the twenty or twenty- one minutes of terrific work in store for them. The Englishmen have weight ond,,we think, age in their favors but there's a goodly amount of wire {a the American boat, and the sort of men who can surmount all obstacles, as these countrymen of ours seem bound to do, are not going to be beaten hand over hand even by such picked oarsmen as these whose reply, already referred to, is so full of gene- rous hospitality, We hope our men will be off quickly; that their friends will see to it that they lack for nothing; that two spare men, thoroughly used to working with them, will go along; that we will soon be hearing that their bow Oarsman knows every inch of that world-renowned. course, as Josh Ward would quickly ‘know it if he were there, and that every effort of head and hand of theirs will be made to keep their flag above that of their rivals, as the latter will courteously place it when once they have made their acquaintance. Catacnzy’s Cup of Misfortune—A Sea Sere pent ‘Voucher? Story. After all our bragging about facilities for communication we must admit this morning the fact that we are indebted to St. Peters- burg for some interesting Washington news. It is about Catacazy. He was robbed while here, under a conspiracy of circumstances painful to contemplate, of the documents which were to vindicate him to Gortschakoff and the Czar and to carry unutterable confu- sion to Hamilton Fish, his enemy and de- stroyer. This news will cause astonishment and regret to a great many on this side whose sympathies are always on the side of unde- served misfortune. Wily Hamiltoa! Uafor- tunate Cat.! But about the robbery. We had a voucher burglary here in the famous New York Court House, which exhibited so many suspicious features that, although the virtuous Mr, Hagerty pointed to a three-cornered hole in a thick pane of plate glass, the “burglary” was uni- versally put downas “thin.” The evidence of Hagerty’s servant girl about that guileless gentleman carrying an armfal of papers up stairs and burning them has not shaken the incredulity about a ‘‘burglary” that settled on the public mind when the tell-tale documents had first vanished. To return to Catacazy. After all he had endured and the subdued threats which hurtled ominously through the air touching his personal safety, and which he alone had heard, no wonder he was placed on his guard. In his possession were valuable papers which, like the diamonds in ‘‘Les Trois Mousquetaires” that turned up in the nick of time to save the good name of the French Queen, he was reserving for the eye of his imperial master to cap the climax of his triumph in a tableau representing him amid red and blue fire in his grand cocked hat and court dress, reading the docu- ments to an Emperor in tears, amid the cheers of thé Russian Court. To take the greater care of these documents he placed them in a silver casket in some exposed place and retired with some other documents to his bedroom and waited events, Slow music on the bass fiddle. Conscious of innocence the child of Greece slumbered peacefully. Shortly after midnight (we sup- pose) enter somebody (of whom did certain exalted persons choose they could tell what they don’t know). Exit the somebody with the casket in his hat, carefully stamping the print of his neat, well-made boot with the airs and appearance of a gentleman in the carpet. This idea is patented. The moonlight falla over the footprint and gets up again, Enter Catacazy, soliloquizing :—“‘Tae silvery moon reminds me of my silvery casket [while ad- vancing he stumbles over the footprint]; wh-at isthat?—moonshine. Be still, troubled heart, thou hast been beat often endugh, I will read my documents by the moonshine, Ha, gone! (hurried music by the trombone), All is lost!” Exit Catacazy, who again retires to bed, and does not speak of the “stolen vouchers” for a couple of months. Now, what we most regret in this extrava- ganza is that the tableau in the end of the piece will have to be left out. It is a caution to diplomatists—Firstly, not to plan the last act before the first is played; secondly, not to possess documents of that nature; thirdly, not to put them in a silver casket; fourthly, to take them into their bedrooms; and, finally, not to get into trouble with Fish. We are not quite sure about the sequential order of this piece of advice to ambassadors; but we ask, is it not as logical as the story itself? But is the age of chivalry no more? Is there no D’Artagnan to board the Brooklyn ferry- boat when she is eighteen feet out from the Fulton street dock, or the Pacific mail steamer as she paddles out through the Golden Gate, to seize the casket from the somebody, whom he will recognize by his neat and well-made boot, and then spring in mid-river or mid-ocean upon the boat going the other way, rush excitedly to the office of the Atlantic Cable ard telegraph in Russian cipher to St. Petersburg, “Saved! saved!” Itisa splendid chance for Buffalo Bill and the Bowery Theatre. In the mean- time we await developments. The misery of, the wholo affair is that there is a terrible possi- bility if the chivalry does not put in an ap- pearance very soon. It is that when the last scene is reached, and Hamlet Fish takes up the foils with Laertes Catacazy and the bout com- mences, unless the action is changed at the last moment, our Laertes may find himself doubled up and perforated, exclaiming, “Like a woodcock to mine own springe,” &. In such case it is scarcely probable that the Ham- let of the State Department would consent to die of the poisoned foil, whether it was in the bills or not. Try again, Mr. Catacazy. Personal Intelligence. Lieutenant Commander Dickens, of the United States Navy, is at the Hoffman House. Congresssman Ulysses Mercur, of Pennsylvania, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General §. C. Armstrong, of Virginia, is stepping at tne Albemarle Hotel. Judge Nelson Hotchkiss, of Connecticut, has ar- rived at the Grand Ceniral Hotel. Captain Palairet, of the British Army, has,arrived at the Brevoort House, Goneral A. F. Burnside, ex-Governor, of Rhode Island, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel, General A. 8. Diven, of Elmira, one of the new Directors of the Mrie Railway Corapany, is at the. Hoffman House, ’ Judge Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, Is at ¢ho St. Nicholas Hotel, The Judge is now seldom spoken of 48 @ politician, though he was formerly the head of the democratic party, in this State and twice its candidate for Governor, ‘He was both times defeated—in 1856 by Joan A. ‘King and io 1868 by Edwin D, Morgan,