The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1872, Page 3

eee Nee core TUTE INVASION OF CHAPPAQUA The Forces of the Ex-Confederacy Be» sleging Horace Greeley in His Home. SHAKING HANDS ACROSS TEE CHASM. The Democrats of the South Among Chappaqua Edibles. THE STATE DINNER OF THE DAY. Specoties in the Evergreens by Horace Greeley, Duke Gwin, Ex-Confederate Reagan, Fran- ols W. Bird, Colonel Shorter and Others, A great day for the country yesterday, especially the country about Chappaqua! At least two hun- dred and fifty of Philosopher Greeley’s friends and adherents visited him at his “Rumble farmer home,” on the Harlem Railroad. LITLE CHAPPAQUA looked as bright as asilver dollar, The good things of the campaign have at Jast begun to flow in upon it. It flung a flag to the breeze from its liberty pole in honor of the occasion yesterday, and the villagers turned out in their best attire to acknowl- edge the compliment paid their honored lord of the manor and to bask in the reflected rays of his iid THE 8:25 A. M. TRAIN which left the Grand Central depot yesterday car- ried about a hundred visitors of all kinds, compris- ing members of the Democratic National Commit- tee, members of the Liberal Republican Committee, personal friends and adherents of the candidate and their lady friends and relatives. The twenty minutes to eleven train, which is ordinarily an ex- press train, had two extra cars attached, and stop- ped, for this occasion only, at the little station. Guests also came from the country round about, and the whole of Westchester county was repre- sented. Among ‘THE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS were the following gentlemen :—Ex-Senator Gwin, of California; General J. B. Gordon and General Ohalmers, of the Confederate army; Francis W. Bird, of Boston; E. 0. Perrin, ot Brooklyn; Gen- eral Coit, of Connecticut; Colonel Anderson, of Missouri; George N. Sanders, Theodore Tilton, Colonel Shorter, of Alabama; General Stephen 8. Burbridge, of Kentucky; Cyrus H. McCormick, of Tilinois (of reaper fame) ; Thomas Y. Simons, of the Charleston Courter; Colonel Herndon, of Alabama; Colonel Richard Lathers, of South Carolina; Colo- nel J. H. McCrae, of Tennessee; W. E. Robinson, of Brooklyn; Mayor McCoppin, of San Francisco; Horace Trumbull, of Illinois; Whitelaw Reid, Sam- uel Sinclair, H. 0. Kent, of New Hampshire; T. 0. Everts, of Montana; ex-Judge D. 8. Birdsall, D. C. Birdsall, R. I. Birdsall, Judge Leonard, John C. Ferguson, Professor Jackson, Nelson Mabee, Sutton Reynolds and a host of others of local fame, while among the ladies pres- ent were Mrs. Sinclair and two daughters, Mrs. J, R. Stuart, Miss Stella Partridge, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Lamson, Miss Burbridge, a daughter of the General, Mrs, Linson, Miss Cora Stuart, and dozens of others. WHEN THE TRAIN STOPPED p. at Chappaqua the party straggled out, most of them being strangers to the place, and looked about somewhat bewildered at finding no great reception, and for that matter no great shakes of a village awaiting them. They had not long to wait, however. In a bend In the road, a few rods distant, THE VIGOROUS FORM OF THE PHILOSOPHER himself, with his broad white hat siammed on the back of his caput, his head up and his gold spectacles sparkling in the sun, was discerned com- ing in his jerky trot down the hill to the station. The whole party ranged mechanically along the platform and gazed at the “coming man.’’ The puodlicity of his performance brought something of a modest tinge to the old gentleman’s lily white face, and then he showed his teeth as a broad smile came over his features. THIS FIRED THE HEART of the assemblage, and when H. O. Kent, the hand- some committeeman, with long black hair and mil- itary mustache, who looks as if he came from Georgia, but who really comes from New Hamp- shire, proposed three cheers for the next President they were given with a will and the hearty swing- ing of hats. The Philosopher reached the platform and shook hands with everybody, had the -ladies carried away in carriages, and invited everybody ‘who wanted to hear about farming to follow him. A PROCESSION WAS FORMED, in which the bulky forms of Duke Gwin, of Sonora, one of Maximilian’s noblemen;George N. Sanders and Colonel Anderson ; the shapely figure and poetic face of General Burbride, leading his little daughter in deep mourning by the hand, the slender frames of Francis W. Bird and Colonel McCrae and others appeared, and followed the rugged chief down the long platform of the station to the hotel, where some-of the delegates sidied off for a drink, up the road to the house in the woods along the borders of the reclaimed morass, and in Indian file up the rocky glen to the peerless spring, where the whole delegation took a drink, the Philosopher all along the route descanting on the results of his farming. From the spring the party continued all around the farm. SNAKES. “Are there any snakes in here?” asked Senator Gwin, as they entered the wood. , “Yes,” said the Philosopher; “but they are friendly.” “Well, if I were you,” said Gwin, I'd advise ‘em to emigrate. Tell ’em to ‘go West.’ “No, no,”’ replied Mr. Greeley, “I find them very ‘useful in killing vermin.” “Well, said Gwin, quietly, “between snakes be- coming useful and old abolitionists and secesh like ssa and me associating again, I think the millen- jum’s Ce a After making the tour of the farm the distin- guished party returned to the house in the woods, where in the meantime the express train had qumped another cargo of fifty or sixty distinguished ligh' MISS IDA GREELEY had in the meantime received the lady visitors at the House in the Woods, and made them, in her graceful way, both welcome and comfortable. Then, accompanied by her indefatigable chief of the luncheon department, Mrs, Stuart, she had betaken herself to the Evergreens, where a royal table was being set, There were lobster salads, baked beans, potted pigeon, fish, fruits, vegetables, relishes, ice cream, lemonade and pyramids of flowers on that BOUNTEOUS BOARD, and yet the major domo of the occasion, a negro man, maintained that everything on it had “been rowed on the farm.” “The lobsters?’ queried the HERALD reporter. “Yes, sir; dey growed in de brook.” IDA AS A CANVASSER, When the delegates came down to dinner, 250 strong, it was nearly a3 mueh as the ladies in charge could do to see that everybody was served. But they were both Hered, alate and all ¢hose hungry fellows were thoroughly satiated before the dinner was ended. “How is Ida man ig?’ asked Mr. Greeley, somewhat anxious; Theodore Tilton. “admirably, She's the best canvasser that you can possibiy have. She’s won the suffrages and satisfied the hunger of all these gallant fellows.” MRS. GREELEY, During the progress of the meal Mrs, Greeley came out to the grounds in. low carriage. She Is still an invalid, but she was determined to see some of these Southerners who had returned to the old Union and were actually supporting her husband for the Presidency, She looks the invalid, her clear complexion appearing almost transparent, and her large eyes dark as night. But she was cheerful and chatty in her carriage, and insisted upon having every ex-rebel on the ground introduced to her, ‘To one of them she said :—“I hope that 1 am a good Christian, but I hardiy think that I could forgive as much a8 you have forgiven.” “Mrs, Greeley,” responded the other, “it is the day of jubilee, and we must all forgive, as we hope ‘to be forgiven.” AFTER DINNER, The dinner over and He pary still having plenty of time on its hands, Mr. Greeley calied all to ‘order and said they would now have some speech- Baking. CARRFULNESS OF COMMITTREMEN, On the instant General John Cochrane was at his - NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET reeley, persistent and in his expressions and move- to injure their cause than any ie might make, So they are and ent General John Cochrane was at big sida iy 8 momen ury him to be careful, “Well, 1 can talk about farming to them, ! su said the Philosopher, and Cochrane with- still doubtful as to the policy even of discua- el} in a political cempaign. crowd ranged around the Evergreens and an arm chair was placed in position for the use of the speakers. Mr, GEELEY mounted the chair, and said:— My friends, we are met together in a merely social gath , for no other pu than to foster the food feeling and harmony that has sprung up be- ‘ween different parties, from widely separated sections of the Union. I propose to say words myself on the subject of my farm—a subject which certainly need excite no bre mercer ions on the part of my political friends. 11 twenty years since my wife and I determined to move to this spot. We had hved in the city and had been mar- ried fifteen years. We lost four children out of six, and we felt that if we did not give. the remaining two a home in the country we might loge them. We looked around for some time before we were satisfied. My wite’s wants were few and humble. She wanted a farm aay had a first rate ring, an evergreen shade and a cascade or rippling water upon jt. It was two years before I found a place to suit. I was at Pleasantville, making a temperance speech, when my_ old friend John ©. Ferguson, here with us to-day, told me of this farm. I tasted the spring water and was satisfied. Mrs.. Greeley did so too, and said it would do decidedly. There was some difference about the price. When it was discovered that we were willing to paya certain price for it the other party naturally concluded that we woula Poy, a higher price, We bought it, however, not for ts financial value or for the money return it would make us, nor because it was all and rocks upon which I could experiment with my ideas of farming (true, you can’t very well get a cpeade without rocks), gel a com- ne vantages. Beginning acres we built the house in the woods where there a ew, ‘was then not half the wood there is now. The bog re. mosquitoes and It had that facility. ‘he concerts of these com! luctions were ed es not always unpleasant, though they were rather untimely. I went to work, and made blunders, of course, Every friend predicted that I would get out ina Ter T said that the Sheriff would sell me out, though that chance is lost now, for the deeds are made out in my wife’s name, and they couldn't sell the farm without her consent. Ihave been in business of various kinds and have lost money. It has ie I know not where—‘“gone where the ‘wor Ine _twincth,” I suppose, and everybody thinks I have been fooling away money here, and while I have poeeibly sunk some money in my farm, at least know the hole where it went down, Ihave alarge assortment of friends who never come here, but who know just what each turnip cost and who are perfectly satisfied that I have destroyed every tree in my woods, Llove the woods, I have an affection for my trees, and Ido not cat down to destroy, but to build up. Where I find dead or worthless tress hindering the growth of better and nobler trees I cut them down to make room for a nobler growth, and I trim off the lower pendant branches of the trees because I find that half the woods destroyed PY, fire have been lost by the thick conditién of these lower limbs, which gives the fire fuel and headway. This is the first titme that many of you have been here. I have lived here for twenty years. I have @ deep affection for this place. I hope i live here and in God’s own time to die ere, A good farmer would probably have made money out of it, but I don’t pretend to be a good farmer, because Ican only work at farming a few hours in each week, and that only about twenty weeks ina year, andI have made the place pay well for itself. I hope that all of you—not all at once, of course, but in groups more wieldly than the present—will frequently call on me. (A Voice— “Down at the White ay Bad farmers make their blunders and go bull-headed right along. Now I have made blunders—new ones—but I never Kept on making old ones. I thank you for your resence and attention. I will now ask Senator win, of Mississippi, more recently of California, to address you. We wiil have a number of speeches from gentlemen here, and I will take good care that the train does not leave us. ~ SENATOR GWIN’S SPEECH. Senator Gwin, a tall, portly man, ae six feet two, with large features and white hair parted near the middie, and standing up with a pure Sen- atorial “roach” of the old school style, mounted the chair with some difficulty and said:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—Twenty-eight years ago I Was & member of the National Democratic Convention, heid at Balti- more, tO nominate a Presidential candidate. The delegates were instructed to vote for Martin Van red. ee iB the paeentine, be wrote a letter op- posing annexation of xas, & pro-slavery Tmeasare, and thereupon the delegates got clear of him, | The result was the annexation of Texas and the founding and settlement of California. In 1860 another democratic convention was held in Baltimore, at which the democratic party split up and divided on the question of slavery in the Territories, Crimination and recrimination en- sued. and the result was civil war and devastation. The Democratic Convention just held at Baltimore was harmonious beyond everything. The gentle- man nominated there was not a favorite of any of the delegates; he was not the choice of a baker's dozen of them. It was said that his previous nom- nation was a farce, and yet the representatives of 8,000,000 of the people of this country came there just to vote for Horace Greeley as their Presiden- tial candidate. What is the cause of this gentle- man’s hold upon the hearts of these people? They know that he is honest, that he is incorruptible. We have not had strict honesty and incorruptibil- ity in the Presidential chair lately, but we are go- ing to put them there next November. REAGAN'S SPEECH. Ex-Confederate Postmaster General Reagan, a tall, hearty, black-whiskered, bald-headed man, with 8 ort ing eye and awkward manner anda decided Southern accent, was next called upon, and, after a somewhat lengthy discussion as to the oppression by local radical government in Texas, said :- LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—At the close of the war the Confederate soldiers dispersed, with but one feeiing—that of accepting its results and securing an early reconciliation, This you may think was purange, but why so? It was not a war of personal hatred. It was a war between ge ib and broth- ers on a question involving $300,000,000—a question ‘too big to be settled by civil means. It was a war of ideas—one side fighting to maintain an in- stitution which it cherished ana believed in and the other fighting to maintain the integrity of the Unton. ere is now ho reason why we should be enemies. We have no aporoeies to make for ac- cepting the liberal republican platform—no apolo- gies to make for accepting tne liberal republican candidate. We care nothing for democracy or re- publicanism. We ask only peace, re-enfranchise- ment and a closing of our old wounds, To us that is life and death. COLONEL SHORTER'S SPEECH. Colonel SuorTer, of Ala., an ex-confedcrate colonel, who had served tn the army and the Con- gress of Dixie, a wiry, nervous man, slim of figure and fuent in words, with a rapid accentuation and the unmistakable dialect of the South, was next called apon by the Sage, and spoke as follows :— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN :—If any one had told me ten years ago, when I was in the Confederate Con- gress, standing there as a representative of a secession district in Alabama, that in 1872 I'd be here, at the home of Horace Greeley, advocating his election to the Presidency, I would have said he ‘was a madman. A war has swept over the coun- try, slavery has been abolished, and Horace Gree- ley—the gentleman sitting there—did more than anybody else to accomplish that result. I owned slaves. I lost ali the accumulations of my lifetime by their emancipation, but, so help me God! I would lose my right arm before I would raise a voice or cast a@ vote for re-establishing them as slaves. There is heat enough yet in the dead ashes of my country to Laake | forth the phoenix of its restoration if Horace Greeley is made Presi- dent. | I served in the rebel army and for four years tried to get my State out of the Union, and for five years after the war ended we tried to get back. General Grant had visited the South and said that the people there needed only to know the people of the North to harmonize with them, and that they were willing and anxious to return. But he himself refused to receive us. He said peace, but there was no peace. Peace was onjhis lips, but war was in his heart. But this old man whom we are visiting here at his country home, againat whom we have warred all our lives, he promises us peace, and he will give it to us. hen the storm has lashed the ocean in its fury and the waves have dashed against the heavens in their tumult, for days after the storm is over and the clonds are serene the waves still roll and tumble and the ocean still murmurs tn the last sub- sidence of its rage. So the angry passions of a people, after four years of strife, require time to return to the normal condition of peace and har- mony. But is not five years long enough? The angel of peace is at last spreading its wings over all this land, and the brothers who fought so long ago are at last clasping hands across the bloody chasm for the salvation of the country and the ib- erties of the people. FRANCIS W. BIRD'S SPEECH. “T will now call on Francis W, Bird, an oid radi- cal, of Boston,” said the Philosopher. Mr. Francis W. Bird, one of the famous radicals of the most radical coterie even of Boston, a fine old gentieman, who looks like a picture of Old Hickory refined to an intellectual cast, came forward and said :— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—I cannot promise to Make @ speech. I can only express my personal enjoyment on this Pentecostal day at this outpour- ing of grace, as in the days of old among the Medes and Persians and the dwellers beyond Mesopota- mia. A friend—an old radical friend in Boston— asked me the other day how I could bring myself to consort with the democrats. I replied him, “My Christian brother, J am amazed. You have read in the Holy Word that the angels of the Lord re,oiced even over one sinner that repenteth. Here are three miilion democratic brothers brought up out of sin, 1 cannot refoice too much. These democrats are shaming us by their devotion. This is the most glorious time in the republic. A few daya before the replted, ment since the think we ou, for so man: ory But I hy my friend Charley Davis, 8 regular Boston he’ll speak to you. And with that Mr. Bird out of the chair and entered again into cl wit! jore Tilton, Senator G' ponve ith ue in these remarkable times extremes the quartet forming a most MR. DAVTS! SPEECH. of how meet, CHARLES Davis, a short, brown-haired, sandy- ipa Bostonian, mounted thg chair and LADIFS AND GENTLEMEN—I thank Mr, Grveley and I thank God for permission to be here at thi love feast. Icame to see what Mr. Greeley knows about farming, and I rematn to see what he knows about healing the sectional animosities of t try. 1 was born within a child’s cry of PI Rock, and I was a thorough-going abolitionist fro: ~ earliest days, but I am proud to shake hands with Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gwin over the reunited Union. We may be sure that we will have great help in this campaign. Sumner will' not sulk like Achilles in his tent, . COLONEL M’RAE'S SPERCH, Mr. McRae, of Tennessee, a lank, thin-faced man, with'a high forehead, bushy whiskers, tall, rapid in his declamation and vehement in his'gesticulation, mounted the chair and said that he was Consul in Paris in 1858, when Mr. Greeley was arrested is the French authorities and thrown into prison. Great excitement ensued among the American residents, and he visited the prisoner in order to secure hts re- lease. He found him coolly and contentedly pursu- ing his investigations in the prison, Only the other day he visited him as one of a committee to inform him of his nomination to the Presidency and found him just as coolly and contentedly pursuing his in- vestigations into politics. The gentleman continued at some nae: on the political questions, pledging himself and his Southern brethren to full acceptance of all the constitutional amendments. He was {ol- lowed by General Chalmers, of Mississippi, an ex- rebel General, who said that he especially asked to be considered as good as a “nigger,” and Colonel G. W.. Anderson, of Missouri, an ex-officer of the federal army, who said he had fought these men while they were at but he did not propose to keep on fighting war, after the war was over. Tim! At this the Philosopher, who, with his mag- nificent gold chronometer, presented to him some years ago by the printers of the Trfdune, had been keeper for the meeting, announced that there remained about thi minutes to reach the depot, and the crowd tool ir way straggling to the vil- * The Philosopher came down as far as Wil- ‘where he was met.by Assemblyman me es, with whom he had engaged to spend it GRATZ BROWN. Particulars of His Condition Yesterday and During the Evening. Governor Gratz Brown slept very well during Friday night, and yesterday morning was awakened at a late hour, whereupon he arose, and with some assistance dressed himself. He was quite pleased to find himself recovering so rapidly, and spoke and acted as thongh he was in possession of his full strength, It he really thought so he discovered quite Soon that he was in error. Early in the morning people began to flock to the Glenham Hotel to see him, and the calls became so frequent and press- ing that his old friend and physician, Doctor Theophilus Steele, finally arranged to take the Governor to his own residence, where he might be absolutely free from annoyance and intrusion. At eleven o’clock the doctor’s carriage was driven round to the entrance of the Glenham, and the Vice Presidential candidate was assisted down to the vehicle. On arriving at Doctor Steele's residence, No. 50 Great Jones street, the Governor was shown to a luxuriously furnished room, which was both airy and shaded. He at once signified a desire to lie down and rest. An hour after it became evi- dent to the critical eye of his friend and physician that the Governor had under- rated the degree of his illness, and that he was in oanR r of relapse. He was at once placed in bed, and, by careful nursing and frequent slumbers, it is believed he will in a few cave be well enough to once more appear in action. He slept soundly during the evening and till eleven o'clock last night, when the HERALD reporter left. bout one hundred persons called at the Liberal Republican Headquarters, at the Glenkam Hotel, yesterday, to,inquire for Governor Brown, while some fifty gettlemen, all claiming to be relatives,. claimed admission to his room at the hands of the clerk of the hotel. - Carl Schurtz send a note ofinquiry in regard to the health of the Vice Presidential candidate, from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and Dr. Helmuth, his old fam- ily physician, called to see him after he had left for the house of Dr. Steele. Among the prominent gentlemen who left cards were Chauncey Shaffer and Mr. N. B. Brady. BADGES AND BANNERS. Going for Greeley and Badgered by Brown— Episodes of the Drapeau Blanc. The d@rapeau dlanc has had a widely different sig- Nificance, as it has been variously used, in the years that lie behind us, As an emblem of purity, more honorable than the Golden Fleece or Roman eagle, it has caught the enraptured gaze and fanned the religious spirit of many a generation in our own and far away climes, In ancient Greece, as here, it clothed the fair girl at her bridal and the scarred warrior at his funeral; but there also it had a grander signifi- cance, borrowed, as it was, from Egyptian mysteries, when worn in mourning, as emblematical of a spiritual existence beyond the tomb. The white cockade was the royal color of France when the fleur de lis was broken and the torn eagles of the empire were bathed in blood. In our day and ‘generation Mr. Greeley is the em- bodiment ofall that is white (as well as black), of all that is pure and lovely in our system,of politics, and the followers have donned the white drapery with the same unanimity that Byron’s admirers adopted the broad, open collar. THE BADGE OF HONOR. Highest in the hierarchy of that body politic which now plumes itself both with the titles of re- publicanism and democracy are those who wear the decoration of the “old white hat,’’ made of a metal more lustrous than silver and as cheap as brass. The miniature white hat of philosophy, like the badge of the Philadelphians transformed to the cross of the Legion, or the vio- let of Les Jeux e is the most illustrious order of its decade known to Christen- dom. The decoration is suspended from a brown ribbon, bearing this legend, LODOIOIO RE IODE DORE LE DE LORE PE LDEODL OE LEE; : GREELEY AND BROWN. ; POLO LILOLIOLEIEIEIOLLLISEDE DEDEDE OD DO DODEDODE DE A white hat, without a ribbon, constitutes a minor order of natural ability, which, having a great deal to accomplish with a Liliputian amount of time in which to perform it, is unworthy of serious men. | tion. THE OLD WHITE HAT was an order founded by one Horace Greeley, about the year ninety after Benjamin Franklin, and doubt- less could be traced back, by antiquarians to the Tron Crown. When the conqueror, Gratz Brown, came over from Missouri the arms were quartered and a brown ribbon introduced around the rim, while hats came in time to have broad bands of Brown About the crown, and these in turn were succeeded by canvas head tents set upon wire frames and called “Digby hats,” which were furnished Ua LG) or without cost, to men in the lower wards, who found them- selves early in “the canvas” and thus committed to liberal republicanism. “GARMENTS CLINGING LIKE CEREMENTS"? were next introduced in behalf of the discipies of philosophy. Greeley coats and Greeley pants, with rown buttons and Brown stripes are now the rage among the swell mob. Brown neckties, with a Greeley “head” in the centre, are fashionable in the environs of Chatham street, in the Sixth ward and in Greenwich street, while Brown topped shoes, with Greeley buckles, have been introduced by enterprising and venturous knights of st. Crispin, IN FANCY'S BYR, Fancy Mr. Greeley in a fan scene, with white hair and beard, so like to nothing on earth or under the earth or over the earth that no one ever saw the like before, and Bg will get some idea of the fan sold for fifty cents, and said to be a marvel of poor workmanship, You are badgered by the people with Greeley badges, you are terri- fled by Dutchmen with Brown banners, and you long for the campaign of a people so liberal in Uis- play to have au end before you are badgered to eath, BANNERS ON THE OUTER WALL are hung, and the portraits upon them, m the great majority of cases, look like those of men who have also been hanged. A more villanous display of rubicund and ferocions-looking monsters was never ~ than are exhibited by these adventurous escors, A LIEUTENANT GOVERNORSHIP DECLINED. INDIANAPOLIS, July 18, 1872, ‘The Journat this morning publishes a letter from W. 0, Depaw, in which he declines the nomtnation for Lieutenant Governor on the democratic ticket, | GRANT AND WILSON. <|A Talk -on the Political Situation. Wilson Thinks the Horizon Particularly Blue— Senator Morton in Grave Consultation—Move- ments and Doings at Long Branch. Lona Branon, July 13, 1872. During the forenoon of yesterday, when the cool salty breeze was blowing briskly in from the sea, and mosquitoes were winging and singing in com- pany with clouds of dust toward the inland bogs where bullfrogs croak the night long, the residents of Long Branch bathed or took a drive. The morn- ing is the most enjoyable period of the day at a fashionable watering place. One can go without a collar, or tumble, side- walk, cartwheel fashion, in the hot sand. if he affects that kind of amusement, without shocking the keenly aristocratic sensibilities of the illustrious sojourners who desperately try to persuade them- selves that they are the (on. Sensible people do their DRIVING AND BATHING in these cool, delicious hours, and drink into their willing lungs the invigorating breath of Old Ocean, as distilled from the waves it pours in upon them. President U. S. Grant is fully alive to the beauties of the Branch, and thoroughly understands how to make the most of them, and consequently he is up bright and early to take the sea air and enjoy the pleasure of a drive along the murmuring beach. Yesterday morning he was out as usual, and, accompanied by Mrs. Grant and Mr. Dent, en- joyed a ride behind two of his best horses. After breakfast General Porter stepped over from his cottage, and while smoking a good cigar the Presi- dent opened his private letters and transacted an immense amount of business in THE QUICK BUT QUIET WAY peculiar to him. The representative of the H&RALD called at the Presidential cottage about one o’clock, but had the misfortune to find the President e Senator mn and Senator Morton—the fort the Vice dential candidate, and the ter the head scene shifter in the regular republican comedy— drove up. Mr. Wilson assisted Mr. Morton to alight, and Grant received both with cordiality and with that grace and gentle tact for which she is so eminently distinguished. ‘The Senators re- mained closeted with the President for several hours discussing the political tuation. The HERALD correspondent was informed by a gentle- Lr nto spoke to Lda] Meine in Nee evening t, pQliticaily gousidered, he (Wilson) never saw the bSNizon toskeas 4 . ALARMINGLY BLUB, Senator Wilson leit to-night for North Carolina, where he will speak in the principal cities and towns during the campaign, and Senator Morton Will go home to Indiana on Monday, ‘The President remained in his house all the even- ing and received but few visitors, An absurd ru- mor agitated the Branch all day concerning the Sage. In the interest of one of the hotels a local reporter telegraphed that Horace Greeley would be at the Branch in the evening and make a speech. Some few creduious individuals theaght that THE PHILOSOPHER: might be induced to dance a cancan and talk an advertisement for the hotel. The President wiil attend the services at the Methodist church in the village to-morrow morn- ing, if public business does not demand his atten- tion, and will leave for Washington on Monday evening. CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION IN ILLINOIS, Curcaao, I, July 13, 1872. The Republican Congressional Convention of the Fighth Minois district, held in Fairburg yesterday, nominated J, T. Fort. GREELEY RATIFICATION MEETING. ~ A Demonstration in New Orleans in Favor of the Liberal Candidates. NEw ORLEANS, July 13, 1872, A democratic and reform mass meeting was held last night at the Varieties Theatre for the ratifica- tion of the nominations of Greeley and Brown, The theatre was crowded and thousands were in the streets, unable to gain admission. After the meet- ing there was a torchlight procession, EXPLANATION FROM OOLONEL BLANTON DUNOAN. SARATOGA RACES. FIRST DAY OF THE JULY MEETING. yaaa ak Brilliant Assemblage, Fast Time and Capital Racing. Scenes About the Hotels and on the Course. COLONEL M’DANIEL IN GOOD SPIRITS, Joe Daniels the Winner of the Travers Stakos, - Harry Bassett the Sweepstakes for All Ages, Tom Bowling the Flash Stakes and Kingfisher the Time Race. SaRatoaa, July 13, 1872. To the newspaper writers and politicians fresh from the furnace heat of Baltimore city this day's blowing breeze, moving leaves and considerate sky were a8 grateful as @ cool Sabbath day after a week of battle. The race ground and the village wore the calm of a widow's holiday, no loud words nor wild excitement slipping in from the world to molest it, and the great speakers, Managers and huzzaers of political life met to- gether without controversy, as if the springs were to be respected as the seat of truce, and the nobler competition of horses preferred to the debilitating race between Presidential candidates and their grooms, trainers and backers. Who could have promenaded this pleasant Satur- day of the week—sacred to schoolboys and school! Masters—through the elm and maple-lined Broad- way of Saratoga, into the cool parks and dells of the bubbling springs among the invalids and drinkers, or along the wide piazzas of the splendid hotels, and not have been conscious that this day was the first of the racing week? Such is the charm of the course at Saratoga, far aloof from the multi- tude of cities and so near this gem of a village, that all the day's races, four in number, are witnessed betweeti two meals, or, if you please, between breakfast and lunch. . You rise, perhaps, at eight o’clock or nine, drop down to the Hathorn, the Congress or the Pavi- lion spring, hardly further away from your hotel than the length or your city lot, and there take the cool, gratuitous and grateful glass; then a few minutes at the toilet or the barber's puts you in appetite—no wormwood required— for breakfast, and while it is being served the daily fashion Journals of Saratoga or the New York papers of the previous evening are beneath your eyeglass; the great hall of the breakfast room is: swept by a breeze which is natures most ductile fly brush, and when the breakfast comes, with its speckled Adirondack trout, or salmon, only yester- day in the St. Lawrence, or mountain lamb from those green hills of Vermont nearly in your sight, or chickens and butter from the battle fleld of Stillwater, and the stamping ground of Fenimore Cooper and his Miltonic Indians. You exchange opinions with your neighbor complacently—and he is, perhaps, a@ clergyman—on the horses and the condition of the track, and the great advantage of @ cool day for the poor animals, “Bless you!” says the bishop, “they can’t make as good time on a cool day a8 on a warm one! The pores of their skins are closed in this weather; the moisture don’t run, and the fextility is not so great as on a warm day. This weather is exquisite for men, but too voluptuous for fillies and colts!’’ So, it is plain, Saratoga assimilates men, and the blandest of the Tg speak as if he had a red his information like Baalam, ‘the above might have been the beginning of any visitor’s impressions this da; at Saratoga, the first day of the renowne races, and they literally were those of your correspondent. And after the breakfast hour, sitting on the long, palm-tree shaded piazza of the Union, pote cigar smoke with three hundred others, calumet-fashion, toward the three hundred who sat just across the street on the piazza of Mr. Blanton Duncan sends us a letter complain- ing that our correspondent at Baltimore during the late Convention described him “asa man having cash forthe basis of his character,” and that he had ‘arge claims before Congress.” Mr. Duncan saye:—‘Your correspondent has a right to com- ment on my acts. He has no right to misstate my motives, nor to fabricate facts. Ihave no claims before Congress, AS Confederate ft would be a farce to propose any for damages. Your corre- spondent should ascertain fortune and my known character before aspersing me tn such man- ner. I take charge of my own conscience, and do not permit others to think or act for me in any- thing, whether it is in a transfer to Horace Greeley and an abandonment of prineipies or anything clee. Ihave, therefore, to request that you will edit tially rectify the injustice perpetrated tn your edi- tion of the 8th by a partisan of Mr. Greeley, who can a no good in me because I do not admire his favorite.’ OCEAN BREEZES. Watch Hill, B. I., and Its Surroundings—The An- nual Visitors—How They Live, What They Pay and Their Amusement. Watcn Hr, July 12, 1972, A sandy point adorned by half a dozen hotels does not present an inviting appearance to the traveller in search of recreation, but yet if a person seeks for quiet, comfort and economy, by all means let him call at Watch Hill. It is easy of access, as by taking the Stonington boat from New York at 5 P.M. one can pass a quiet night and reach this haven of rest by 8:30 A.M. onthe next day. By the way, if the traveller is not gifted with that virtue through which the name of Job has been handed down to posterity, let him order his evening repast on board the Stonington boat one half hour before he desires to consume it, as the attendance is not the best in the world. A small steamer leaves Stonington every morning at 7:30 A. M., and for the moderate charge of forty | er ts the voyageur is transported to Watch Hill, 1 you are uncertain as to what hotel you intend to tronize your ideas will be DOUBLY OBFUSTICATED ly the rnsh of the touts to secure your baggage. Jn order to secure peace, the best thing ts to sub- mit quietly and you will presently find yourself in either the Watch Hill, Larkin, Atlantic, or some of the other three or four houses that comprise this settlement. Board is cheap, three dollars per day being the standard price; and {f al! the houses are kept with an equally good bill of fare to that supplied at the Watch Hill House the boarders will certainly not starve, but return to their nomes, strengthened and invigorated by good, wholesome food and fresh air. This is not a piace for a single young man without friends, as he would probably commit suictde before the close of his third day's residence; but to a family party who seek for fresh air, or the recluse who gasps for retirement, he all means let them ad- vance on Watch Hill. t present the six hotels boast of about three hundred boarders, but thev | bal sl 4 rush in the month of August. It would be impossible to describe how people pass their time at Watch Hill, as after bathing hours, from ab ten A. M., until one P. M., they are not seen. Bathing here is the same old story of atrocious bathing costumes, encompassing FAT MEN AND LEAN WOMEN and fat women and lean men. Filirtation ts ata discount at present, as no eligible firters have yet arrived; but the few young ladies who have the courage to weather the summer in this locality, dream of future conquests in August. Last evening Watch Hill was excited and the boarders poured forth from the hotels to attend a concert given on board a barge that had brought a party of two hundred Methodiats to these isolated regions. - The concert waa supposed to be given,by the Continentals or Hutchinson Family, but was | certainly afailure. The audience, nevertheless, were much ainused, a8 one of the men singing had an enormous mouth, and when that mouth opened the audience laughed, and so on to the end of the chap- ter. After enduring the concert for about two hours, the audience were finally put to route uy, a cornet duet perpetrated by a man and his wife, much to the ast of an ice cream vender, who between the parta obligingly stated he had two hun- dred dollars’ worth of ice cream on hand, which he invited those present to partake of at their own expense, Watch Hill is said to be a great place for match maxing, aa the male and female are driven together by stress of weather, to Onally unite in Congress Hall, and all edhe | the most tranquil and meditative kind of horse talk, I said :—“What signs are here of @ race at which the whole country is looking 9” Across the way Commodore Vanderbilt was smoking his clear with some veritable Indian of the Plains, and both the spirit of the steam whistle and of the warwhoop were composed to a hardly ani- mated chat. Here was August Belmont, the mag- nanimous spirit of last week's great political Con- vention and the owner of several of these steeds which were to race this day, je Governor Bowie, of Maryland, another poll- ticlan and turfman, and both Sppeared to listen rather than to talk; for the evil genlus of overmuch communication was not abroud. How pleasant in to see the great lights of the turf like the ve, to whom the world would appear to be ill- led without horses, joining fdr a sally down to the pool room, our tall and racer-built patron of good blood in men and horses, President Travers; the sarge and sedate Mr. McDaniel, who was to win two races this day—one with Harry Bassett, the other with Joe Danicls—but who walks along with an old straw hat and a linen duster, as if were a reflec- tion on the village to be more “peart;’’ and finally Mr. Jerome, one of the creators of the racing turf in the East, who has lived to see it, within six years, made one of the cardinal amusements of the country. The pool room—a new feature of Saratoga—stands almost opposite the Congress Spring, in the grounds of Mr. Morrissey’s great sporting, eating and hotel establishment, now called with propriety the Sara- toga Hotel, because sporting is confined to a small and separated wing of the building. The pool office is a frame building, three stories high, the windows hammocked with plata. in every story pearl lights enamelled “Pool Room, John Morrissey,” stand at the door, and in gilt letters above the door “Saratoga Racing Association.” Within this neat al unique — establishment were beheld this morning the cropped, round head and broth of a countenance of Underwood, the monopolist of pool-selling, presiding at a blackboard whereon were chalked the horses ad- mitted to pool, and in his rich amusing Irish brogue doing business witnout boisterousness; while on one side were the tally-takers, and at the end the bar for the sale of badges and tickets. It looked Uke the harmless sale of effects at a church fair with @ licensed exhorter for the auctioneer. Mr. Morrissey himseif was a looker on, saying nothing, as his whole oficiousness on these occasions is confined to keeping the track clear at the races. Ex-Sheriff O’Brien also fell in, and the bidding was none the less animated, but it was quiet. < The Saratogians have ceased to be querulons about the institutions which are arranged with the gentlest policy end with regard to everybody's right: jacks and omnibuses carried people to the ground for # quarter @ head, but some of the weaithiest people walked in the cool morning down the broad avenue of a route bordered by youn trees and under the gateway and throng! the grove of pines to the Grand Stand. Prices were practically $3, and hence put few Sara- togians came, although the scene at the beginniug of the races at the quarter stretch and stand was a4 populous and orderly as any moral element in Christendom could produce. There were no cheers and little noise, and the first two races, while superb instances of equine competition were also gentlemen sports in the nicest sense. Five or six thousand people looked, as if listening to a cheerful sermon, to the easy preparing and despatching of their steeds, and if one would shut his eyes he could not be aware of anything going on. The view of the race ground irom the Grand Stand was that of a pretty elliptical sweep of farm lawn. shaded by one quaint oid tree near the middie, and by some low pines at the gateway, with clean stapling, scattered about a pool of water for cattle, and the wide roadway curl around on both sides toward the at the stand. Over all conid be seen the Green Mountains, seeming very near in the steel-gray ire Taken a8 @& whole the establishment {# about the same as that which lately performed at Long Branch. The quaint old John Harper, the solemnoly brusque McGrath and the burly yeoman, McDaniel—men who live the lives of importers, producers and tte ot fine racing stock—were all on the ground, They, like the horse, are transiatable to ali climates, and the entertainment they gave to-day could evoke the detraction of none who have the charity or the pride to see @ fine horse indulge himeelf with his nature and fully in sympathy with the gamesters who enjoy it. The pecuniary success and the number of people present at this race were in marked contrast to the diminishing popularity of the in- door balls and hops held this year at Saratoga, where, as elsewhere, the ladies are tired of work- ing all day to get dressed and then find no gentle- men worth the pains atthe ball. The dresses ut the Grand Stand to-day were comfortable plain morn- ing dresses, such as a respectable townswoman ee shopping in, and the Lhe was eminently interesting, genial and exhilarating. The Grand Central Hotel was to have been opened to-day, and seem to be exteriorly ail finished. Good critics ‘et that this cityfied name should have replaced the previously selected homestead name of Artington. It is, however, both grand and central, built in the superbest villa: style, with ‘intricate and exquisite chateau & one Lousekeeving establishment domes, pavilions and dormers, 340 feet by 200, con- taining 650 rooms, and enciosing & private mineral 3 The dining room {s 200 feet long, and there are twenty-two handsome and even lofty stores be- heath it. Thus we have three hoteis side by aide at Saratoga, with a frontage on the principal street of 2,120 feet, the Ike of which is uot in the world, THE RACING. The track was im the finest possible condition, and as fast as it could be made, The weather was Gelightful, and everything that could conduce to fine sport and fast ronning was given the gay lovers and admirers of the turfin abundance. Four races were on the card, the frst being the Travers Stakes for three-year olds, $50 entrance, play or pay; with $1,000 added by the association, and $500 in plate, given by W. R. Travers, one mile and three-quarters, in which there were nine starters. The second race was a sweepstakes for all ages, $60 entrance, play or pay, $750 added; one mile anda quarter. There were four starters for this affair. The third race was the Flash Stakes, for two-year- olds, $50 entrance, play or pay, with $500 added; half a mile. There were twenty-nine nominations, of which eleven came to the post. The fourth event wasa time race for a purge of $500, one mile; it run in 1:41, $1,000; if in 1:40, $1,500 to be given, There were three entries for the latter. ‘The starters for the first race were Isnac W. Pin- nock’s bay colt by Vandal, dam Margravine; A, Bel- mont’s brown colt Wade Hampton, by Asteroid, dam by Churchill; D. MeDaniel’s chestnut colt Joe Daniels, by Australian, dam Dolly Carter; John Morrissey’s bay colt Genseric, by Lightning, dam sister to Ruric, by Sovereign; B. G; Thomas’ bay colt War Jig, by War Dance, dam Dixie by Sovereign; A. Belmont’s gray colt Gray Planet, by Planet, dam Eagless, by Glencoe; D. R. Harness’ chestnut colt Meteor, by Asteroid, dam Maria Innis, by York- shire; J. Hunt Reynold’s chestnut filly Elsie, by Bonnte Scotland, dam Grande Duchesse, and Wm. Jenning’s chestgut colt Silent Friend. Jo Daniels was the favorite at about even before the start over the field. He won an easy race by three lengths, Silent Friend second, Wade Hampton third. The value of the stake was $5,450, including the cup. It was a capital contest throughout, and a very fast one, being two seconds and a half faster than it was ever run before. The Banshee ran it in 3:10) im 1868. The.last mile was run in 1:46. The starters in the second race were Carroll & Coar’s brown colt Ortolan, by Donerail, dam Canary Bird; D. McDaniel & Co,’s chestnut colt Harry Bas- sett, by Lexington, dam Canary Bird; John Harper's bay horse Littleton, by Leamington, dam Fannie Holton; A. Belmont’s chestnut filly Victoria, by Cen- sor, dam Camilla; McDaniel’s entry was @ great favorite over the field. He won the race in hand, Lyttleton and Victoria making a dead heat for sec- ond place, Urtolan a bad fourth. The time was very good, but has been beaten three times by horses of much lesser note. Still it was & capital ee, and in some ortions of tt the spee Was very great. Victoria aston- ished the spectators by her fine rapid running, ‘The third race had eleven starters, comprising Hunter & Travers’ bay filly Luna, by Asteroid, dam Gieneliffe; D. McDaniel & Co.'s chestnut filly Cora Linn, by Lexington, dam Dolly Carter; Hunter & Travers’ chestnut colt Saturn, by Planet, dam Jennie H.; M. A. Littell’s chestnut colt Feilowcraft, by Australian, dam Acrolite: F. Morris’ chestnut colt, by Eclipse, dam Mollie Jackson ; Hl. P. MoGrath’s bay colt Tom Bowling, by Lexington, dam Lucy Fowler; A. Belmont’s chestnut filly Electra, by Ken- tucky, dam Bernice; A. Belmont’s chestnut colt Bilk ‘Stocking, ny Kentucky, dam Fluke; R. W. Walden’s chestnut filly Minnie W., by Planet, dam Edina; R. W. Walden’s chestnut colt by Planet, dam Novice, and Oden Bowie’s chestnut colt Cal- vert, by Baltimore, dam Chickamauga. _ Tom Bow- ling was the favorite, Morris’ colt the second choice, and Belmont’s entries the next in favor. ‘Tom Bowling won the race in gallant style. The tourth race wasa mile aguinst time fora urse of $500. If run in 1:41, $1,000; if in 1:40, 1,500 was to be given. It had three entries, these being August Belmont’s bay horse Kingfisher, by Lexington, dam . B. & We Davis’ chestnut Fadladeen, | a War Dance, dam Nora Crena, and G. jomas? chestnut colt Ramadan, by War Dance, dam Hegira. Kingfisher was the favorite over the fleld. Rama- dan did not start, as he broke away before the flag fell and ran against a fence, injuring his jockey, Wiitiams, and was withdrawn. Kingfisher won the race, beating Fadladeen very easily. THE FIRST RACE. THE TRAVERS STAKES, for three-year-olis; $50 entrance, play or pay, $1,000 in money added by the association, and $500 In plate by W. R. Travers; one and three-quarter. miles; closed with eighty- one nominations. D. McDat ¢. Joe Dantels, by Austrattan, ‘dam Carter, Roe....... Hee gh reyhy Wm. Jennings’ ch. ¢. Silent Friend, by Aus- tralian, dam by Lexington, Hennessy......... A. Belmont's br. c. Wade Hampton, by Asteroid, ‘dam by Churchtll, Gradwell...../...0.csce00++ D. R. Harness’ ch. c. Meteor, by Asteroid, dam Maria Innis, Palmer.........-+++sseesseseee Isaac W. Pennock’s b. c. (brother to J. A, Con- nolly), by Vandal, dam Margravine, Shy...... ‘A. Beimont's g. c. Gray Planet, by Planet, dam Bagless, HOyd.........-..ceeesseeenes PEST hee B. G. Thomas’ b. ¢. War Jig, by War Dance, dam Dixie, Williams... subscoses a» J. Hunt Reynolds’ ch. f., Elsie, by Bonnie Scot- land, dam by LaGrande Duchesse, Lakeland.... John Morrissy’s b. c, Genseric, by Lightning, dam Sister to Ruric, Gilpatrick.........++.+eeceeeeee THE BETTING. McDaniel 250 «310 = 270 390285 200 70 45 35 SUR RACK After a tew attempts the hotses were despatched toa very fine start, Elste leading, War Jig second, Gray Planet third, Silent Friend fourth, Meteor fifth, Joe Daniels sixth, Genseric seventh, Pen- nock's colt eighth, Wade Hampton ninth. They ran rapidly up the fractional track, and as they came out of the shoot at the half-mile pole Elsie was still showing the way, Gray Planet second, Silent Friend third, the otners grouped together so closely that it was impossible to separate them. Elsie led the way, on the lower turn, Gray Planet seeond, Silent Friend third, Wade Hampton fourth, the others in a bunch packed together as close a3 it was possible for them to be. As they came up the homestretch and passed the stand Elsie led half a length, Gray Planet second, Wade Hampton third, Meteor fourth, Pennock’s colt fith, Gen- seric sixth, Joe Daniels nth, War Jig and Silent Friend together, round the upper turn, changes began to take place, and the colors of the jockeys altered Ike the changes of a kal- py sa At the quarter-pole Wade Hampton was in front, Elste second, Pennock’s colt third, the others bunched. Joe Daniels and Silent Friend ran through the other horses down the back stretch, and at the half-mile pole Wade Hampton led, Joe Danie.s second, Elsie third, Silent Friend fourth, the others stiliin a heap. Going along the lower turn Joe Daniels came to the iront, and after that all doubts on the result vanished. It was dollars to dimes on his winning. Still Wade Hampton stuck close to him into the homestretch. Then Silent Friend came Ce and as they reached the lower end of the Grand Stand Silent Friend passed Wade Hampton. Joe Daniels came home a winner of the stakes by three lengths, Silent Friend second, Wade Hampton tmird, Meteor fourth, Pennock’s colt filth, Gray Planet sixth, War Jig seventh, Elsie eighth, Genseric ninth. Time, 3:08%4. on op #38 380 WINNERS OF THE TRAVERS STAKE. ubs. Stdrters, Time, 1264—Kentn 30 5 B:18% 1885—Maiden 7 831836 1866—Merrill. 5 3:29 1867—Ruthless......... 3 3:13: 1868—The Banshee. 34 8 3:10, 1869—Glenelg. . 31 8 3:14 1870—Kingfisher. 70 7 B15 1871—Harry Bassett. 83 7 Br2L4¢ 1872—Joe Daniels 9 8:085¢ Li Sweepstakes for all ages, $50 entrance; play or pay, $750 added; one mile and @ quarter; closed with seventeen nominations, D, McDaniel & Co.’s ch. c. Harry Bassett, by Lex- ‘ington, dam Canary Bird, 4 years old, Roe..... 1 Carrol! & Car's br. h, Ortolan, by Donerail, dam Canary Bird, 5 years old, Brown........... sees Jobn Harper's br. h. Ly(tieton, by Leamington, dam Faunie Holton, by Lexington, 5 years old, Sample. eee 0 A. Belmont’s ch. f. Victoria, by Censor, dam im- ported Camilla, 3 years oll, Hannone.......... 0 me, 2:11. sud" 118130410500 5 2 #3 2% 2% 10 1% 0 & WITHOUT MCDANTELS’. $475 410 B00 Med bo jo 310 200225 ++ 600 470 «400 4856 255 195 THE RACB. ‘The horses had a capital start, and came rattling up the stretch close together, As they passed the stand Harry Bassett was leading, Littleton second, Victoria third, Ortolan fourth, with not a length between them. As they passed around the noger turn Harry Bassett showed a streak of daylight be- tween himeelf and Littleton, the latter being ono length ahead of Victoria, who was one length in front of Ortolan. Going down the backstretch the pace was accelareted, and Victoria ran into second lace and Ortolan fell back several lengths. As. hey passed the half-mile pole Harry Bassett led one length and a half, Victoria second, half a length ahead of Littieton, who was four lengths in advance of Ortolan, Going around the lower turn Little. ton passed Victoria and was @ length behind Harry Bassett as the latter entered the home- stretch. He was leading one len; Littleton second, half a length ahead of Victoria; Ortolan out of the race. Victoria passed Littleton on the home- stretch and made a desperate attack on Harry Bas- sett, but the latter ‘gallo d away from her when near the finish and won by two lengtis; Littleton came up just at the end of the race and made a dead heat with Victoria for second place. Ortolan waa beaten off six lengths, The time was 2:11\. This was 1 time, but not extraordinary, as it. has been beaten by Narragansett and KR. B. Con- Dolly, who ran it in 2:10, and by Frogtown, who ram CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE,