The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1872, Page 10

SARATOGA RACES. The Great Day of the , July Meeting. HARRY BASSETT BEATS LONGFELLOW He is Hailed “King of the Turf.” Longfellow Broken Down and Will Not Recover. ‘The Western and Southern Men Astonished. TMMENSE CROWD---ENTHUSIASTIC INTEREST. hci laa Seenes ut the Pool Room, in the Village, at the Stables and on the Track. Catesby the Winner of the Saratoga Stakes, Harry Bassett the Saratoga Cup, Gray Planet and Buckden Make a Dead Heat in the Dash of One Mile anda Half, Dividing the Purse. Sanaroaa, July 16, 1872, Half the republic is here in spirit to-day. The two finest horses of the age have as many parti- sang as the two candidates for the Presidency, and the result of their second competition makes as much intense feeling as the great election to be decided aiter the fall State elections, of which the Face at Long Branch was the equine counterpart. SARATOGA ON THE CUP DAY. ‘The Saratoga “Cup” isa myth. There is no cup. In England, where fortunes abide and plate 1s an heirloom, piece of silver is the honorary part of every great field contest, Here the plate is gen- erally commuted, and the cup meant to-day the @raught of elixir in $1,600, offered as the joint prize of the premium. of the association and the sum of the entering fees for all the horses which originally desired to run, Beforg the Grand Stand, on the race course, a pedestal is erected to hold such occasional cups, but to-day the cup is less a breach than an observance; they give its value and wink at its omission. FOREGROUND INDICATED. Before we give the recital of the extraordinary Tace between the kings of the turf to-day, wherein the proud testimonial reclaimed at Long Branch ‘Was wrested from the noble horse which, in the judgment of the multitude, will carry it off again, Jet us briefly jot down the surroundings of the spot where the race occurred. ‘The little village is full of praise for the money mow being spent init. They are driving the nails im the trial stage of Judge Barnard in the new ‘Town Hall, which has just cost $110,000. The two morning journals are disturbing the peace of visitors by dull and pointless village abuse over the question of who shall be Postmaster for the next four years. The new spire of the great Methodist church is waiting for its bells. They are throwing out a mountain of mud from the old High Rock spring to tube it again. The uphelsterers wrestle with the new Grand Central House, to fit it for «company. The fine new depot lies silent and aban- doned between trains, and at train time is a pan- d@emonium. The town is crowded, and the races are the cause of it. FOOL-ROOM TALK ABOUT BASSETT AND LONGFELLOW, ‘Avery large crowd was assembled at the pool room, on Morrissey’s grounds, Monday evening, probably above four hundred persons, coming and going, of whom nearlyone-half occupied chairs in aa irregular semi-ellipse, around Underwood, the pool-seller, who waxed warm in his shirt sleeves and perspired about the collar, but kept up that sustained, even and good-humored form of rapid auctioneering which despatched a great deal of work and stunned nobody's sense of hearing. With the names of the horses chalked up on a blackboard for each of the three races apd the treasurer and tally-taker about a table below, Underwood had under his eye all the varieties of the sporting man: here a horse partisan who would stick to a particular nag, as Bassett, the whole season through, taking the best odds he could get, but de- termined to recover the money lost at Long Branch by sustaining the same gailant chestnut on which he had made it the previous summer; here a cool, imdifferent wagerer, whose superstition or judg- ment had got the better of his sympathies, and who mow offered odds greedily on Longfellow against the colt which had for a whole year enriched him; again, a novice or poker player, with an eye to hu- man mutations, fond of betting upon anything that came along, whether a horse or an election, and ‘willing to lose something for the remote considera- tion of winning very much. Some timid people, e@lways betting upon certainties, were listening around for suggestions; others, with means enough and time enough to make wagering a ne- eessity of human enjoyment and a stimulation for the ennui of looking even at such a race, bet for the benent of their spirits on the morrow. We httle know in the ordinary professional and methodical courses of life how much of human ature finds employment in these forms of hazard. SCHOOLS OF TURF PEOPLE. Yonder were the great patrons of the turf look- ing on—Pelmont, Cotterell, Sanford, Hunter. Morris, Travers, Jerome—taking little apparent part ;yonder the heavy stockbreeders aud ex: hangers—McGrath, Carroll, Walden, Withers, Dosweil, Bacon and } Donahue; again the boyish and wiry jock. eys drawn to the spot by wistful curiosity further on that Knot of genial horse- Joving Irishmen and stablemen who follow Under- ‘wood around, hopeful of an opportunity to improve such means as they may possess; yonder Babcock, the owner of Helmbold, still sullen under Mor- rissey’s denunciation of Saturday; on the out- skirts the cappers and the creatures of the faro houses looking in for victims orexcitement; behind cumstances, such as took place lant year, Bassett can’t outrun him.” “Do you think Longfellow can beat any horse on the English turf Y” says the novice to Mr. Cotterell, the Mobile stockowner, who is betting on Bassett. “{ should like to see him over there or Bassett either, Yes, I believe that they are both superior to the best running champions of England.” THR SECTIONAL ATTITUDE OF THE BASSETT LONGFEL- LOW RACES, between the Noith and the South, like the great race between Eclipse and Henry, fifty years ago. In that instance a race took place at Wash- ington city between Charles and Eclipse, and Charles broke down, whereafter the sectional sportsmen met at a hotel, and the South closed a match to beat the Northern horse next year, on.the Long Island course, with a Southern horse to be named at the post on the day of the race. Eclipse was considered a ciasnet vary Northern horse, having been raised on Long Island and sired by Duroc, who was of the direct stock of Diomed, the winner of the first La row Derby, in the ear 1780, At the appointed time Colonel iohnson came East with Betsy Richards and Henry, and named Henry as the Southern champion at the post. The feeling was extraordinary, and the Southern people, not con- sulting their Judgment, bet wildly on their favorite. Henry won the first heat and Eclipse won the race, The Southern people, full of emptiness and tury, went home hating the Northern men, and never aiterwards allowed them to race South on terms of eqnality, Atleast so said the authorities of the pool room. > THE PAST OF BASSETT AND LONGFELLOW. Although Harry Bassett and Longfellow were foaled within hali a mile fs! other Bassett is now a New Jersey horse, bela stock farm at Paterson, while isin Kentucky, The South and Southwest regai Longfellow as their Leite y the Northern sport- ing fae st predicted last year that Bassett would beat Longfellow in the former’s fourth year, there being the difference of a yearn favor of John Har- id champlon. Bassett has been @ more valuable horse in the way of winning money than Longfel- low, and has run above double the number of races. Longfellow has runa half score times and been twice beaten. The actual -value of Longfellow, however, as a swifter, stronger and more reliable animal—never yet strained nor even out of temper— was supposed to be greater than that of Bassett, aud the betting last night, alack for many ! showed this to be the general impression. Longfellow was with no ot! end the avoirdupols weight of graphy of human consequence—was recorded in a 00k, estimated to be worth $50,000, and it was thought that after the present season he would never ap- pear upon tue track, but be used for stock pur- poses. Longfellow had made his mile in 1:40. ahead of any time. Bassett had run under 110 pounds weight two miles in three minutes and thirty-five and one-half seconds. His career last year was remarkable and excited the liveliest apprehensions of his capacity to transfer the honors of the turf from Kentucky to the East. He ‘walked away” from Helmbold, Preakness and Regards and beat the former tough and matured galloper in the four- mile contest at Baltimore. The worsting of Long- fellow by Helmboid at Saratoga last August was by Many imputed to dark and treacherous work on the part of outsiders, All waited for the opentn; games of this season, but Bassett’s expected tri- umph was ended at Long Branch amidst the great- est excitenient of the kind ip one period, and the present strugule hag been regarded as of high, thougi minor Interest, as giving the young and de- feated son of Lexington oie more chance to take the ascendant. He gallantly closed up with the chance and carried it off. ‘As to Kingfisher, opin- ions dit Some say he is merely veneered and will gO down in a year. His owner, who paid 15,000 for him, as it is said, ts still proud of his favorite. Helmbold, also, hurt himself at Mobile, so that we have nothing on the turf approaching the champion and his young challenger who to-day be- came chanrpion. Z ‘ VHE STALL BY NIGHT. While this gaming and blufing goes on in the hotels and club rooms of Saratoga, the mind of the quieter spectator can wander off to these secluded stables among the pines of the race track, one mile out of the Hghted village, where carefully watched all night, as Mammon ‘might watch impounded Pegasus, the beautiful subjects of all this specula- tion and barter sleep upon the straw, No stranger may venture near, A footstep startles the watch The owner lies sentinel over groom and jockey; for ess and vivlence take devious or desperate paths. The thin plates which are to re- place the horse shoes, a pair of pumps in a human runner repla his boots, are already fastened upon the young stallions. The mighty shoulders and haunches of the black champion are stretched in the clean litter as he dozea out the night in forgetfulness of his strength and beauty. The more capricious Bassett stirs oftener and starts sometimes to his feet, as if he knew the morrow’s work; while Longfellow indifferent, may be supposed to think the day sutticient for the vic- tory thereof. Such are life and morais when the speed and splendor of horses become subjects of the gamester’s commerce, and the horse grows nobler at the contrast of the human selfishness his nobility provokes. BASSETT’S FATHER, A gentieman recently in Kentucky told me that he had seen the grand old sire of Bassett, that parent of our noblest stock, old Lexington, who ran four miles in seven minutes and nineteen and three-quarter seconds, ayxd is now twenty-three Peed! of age, past the measure of equine length of jays. “He was wrapped up in a linen coverlet,” said my informant, “and we could only see his ears, eyes and legs, and he moved off ina field so frisk+ ily that I said, ‘What trotting mare have you got there?’ Just as if he knew that we were talking about him. The old veteran at this gave a neign, threw his legs in the air,and executed a flousish, like a colt.’” BETWEEN POOL SELLING AND RACE MORNING. At ten o’clock John Chamberlain, the Morrissey of Long Branch, and, as some say, a more pros- perous gamester than Morrissey, and the chief spirit of the race course there, arrived at the Grand nion Hotel and joined his frieud, McGrath, At the same hotel were such opposite spirits as Judge Barnard, who has taken a cottage on the hotel | premises and is to appear to-morrow to defend the charges on which the Judiciary Committee have impeached him. The Peruvian Minister Garcla and his handsome wife were at the same hotel, and across the street, at the Congress, were Assistant, Secretary of the Treasury Hartley and hundreds of others prominent in poset, politics or commerce. Mr, Breslin, at the Union, told me that 1,000 guests slept under his roof that night, and probably ten thousand strangers were in Saratoga on the eve of the races. be ‘Tuesday morning opened hasity and with signs of rain, but before nine o'clock the sun was shining brigntly and the day grew warmer than on any pre- ceding morning of tiese meetings. The pool'room was again crowded, and a rivaland more demo- cratic pool room under the Marion Hotel also did a | peed trade in the possibilities of the next three ours. A lunatic made the strects lively by parading in red, white and blue priestly vestments, with an | enormous hat and a tremendous banner fall of texts | from Scripture. A band of music announcing a | horse trot somewhere, made the alr heavy ; With bum-bum-bumming. The marble walks of the all, at the bar, smoking his cigar, Morrissey, whose | horse Defender is to enter the lists for the Saratoga Cup with the two great rivals; and finally, the old Virginian, McDaniel, head ef “the MeDaniel Con- federacy,” and proprietor of Harry Bassett, with Roe, the’ light an young Lexington colt, close at his side, as ever; and Old John Harper, quainter and more provinctal still, the owner of the favorite Long(ellow, attended by that cheery-faced black waif who rides the great five-year-old io victory. Politicians iurk around, as Jimmy O'Brien, the “Big Judge” Connolly and Harty 1 wity boy rider of that splendid | Genet; a few Western and Southern Congressmen, | and perhaps a Senator, watch the proceedings; und then we have the Kentucky crowd of Confederate officers; the Maryiand school, led by Governor Bowie; the New Orleans turfmen, the Canadians who travel with the steeple-chasers, and that over- dressed swarm of New York liverymen, fanciers und sale stablers who seck ideas, odds and holiday. PROGNOSTICATIONS ON THE HORSRS. The betting was nearly three to one on Longfel- jow against Bassett. Mr. Movrrissey’s horse De- fender gets very little encouragement at the pool room—say $1 in the pools to Longfellow’s § “What did Morrissey put in that slow five-vear- older for?” asked one, ‘About all he ever did was says he put him in to help Mac Lheip him along as a coach dog y staidiy running benind.” Y Want to help McDaniel more than John Harper for” said the new arrival, fresh in horsemongery. “You know ever since last year, when he won so largely ou Helmboid by Longféllow's defeat, Morris- wey has been betting on Bassett, and by this course he lost $10,000 at Monmouth Purk at the last meet- » But he is obstinate aud sticks by his fav- orite |” At this point a sporting reporter comes up with Danie) says it will be no ‘walk over’ to-mor- id that John Harper isn't running this time against a sick horse, as he was a fortnight ago.” ‘Now, that means sumethipg. Does oid Jolin teel maident 7"? “John gays if Bassett beats his horse it will be only one to one and no finality, and that they must run again.”” “That is what the public will say. A single beat this seaswn won't settie the matter. It's the popu- Jar idea that Longfellow Is the best horse alive in the world, and that, egcopt yuder suspicious cir long behind once or twice. Didhe | | streets were full of promenaders, and all the many | shops exposed their gorgeous goods upon the sidé- Wi ‘urriages stood in long rows along Broad- and at an early hour pedestrians moved in lines out of Union avenue, past the handsome | brick and brown stone Club House, the Indian | camp and the circular railway to the race track. | There again the pool selling continued under the | Grand Stand, and as the people filled the long lines: | Of seats the air blew down from the Green hilis of | Vermont and feebly swayed the piny woods about the Boys were peddling programmes of the | arriages drove up and filled the fleld; satthe park stables, without the grounds, | were walking the animals to be raced to aad fro, | It was the noisiest day of the meeting, and suil- | ae animating to interest the oldest man of the world, INCIDENT. | “Will it be a fair race’ Now, tell me,’ said an | incredulous belle, surrounded by gallants and a too doting fath “Are horse races ever fair’ Don't they make them up beforehand and get people to | bet the right way and then take their money by riding the wrong horse best {" “Oh, no; not in such races as this. The reputation of the he is worth more than the profits of swindling. These horses are owned by the most honorable and conservative men on the turf.’ “Then Pi bet. Let me see, who will bet with me?’ Pa, I guess you must.” Pa looks shy at this; but brightens up with the reflection that any closeness on the money hint may aifect his chances to get this lady off upon some of the admirers aforesaid, “Well, what do you bet, Pet 1” “Til bet you $100 on Harry Bassett, That's the prettiest name, and he ought to win.’ “Not eve iss Perichole,” says a malicious young man; “the odds are hree to on inst | - sett. If you win the Colonel loses not but 00, ‘The Colonel is gently grim. The young lady feels | Assured now, more than ever, that the pretty nawe will win the race. THE GRAND STAND. At eleven o'clock the stage is full of Greeley fans | and morning dresses, programmes and pretty feet, | ‘ols and White felt hats, handkerchiefs wiping '¥ perspiration and people walking down in the | quarter stretch, cutpurses, governors, invalids, oo men, the kaleidoscope of the human orld. | _ The first race has many contestants, and they are | All colts—two-yeur-oidsters, of no diseretion—so that it takes “about one hour to start them off | and the people grow impatient, and over all the | enormous length and depth of that great stand | | there is a decent beating of feet. As the colts finally get off we look back and see one of the most mumense and orderly assemblages of people ever congregated at an American race, and before our as- tonishment at this multitude is done the three- quarters have been run, and we see that a negro boy rides in the winner. This rebieves us. Anything would. THE TALK AGAINST BASSETT, @Just before the horses started for the first race a partial revulsion took place concerning the second | and great race of the day. I mention it to show | how the best laid plans go a-gley. | “T anticipate po sport,’ said one authority. “Last night Colonel McDaniel was offered 100 to 40 | on Longiellow, and he repifo® that such was not fair—that 100 to 20 would be more equitable. Now,” said this gentieman, “if the owner of @ brag horse, like Bassett, stands that way oa ten per cent, what are we to think, who must take sidesy “Yes,") said another, “I wouid have preferred to | race between 1 Koree, Monarchist and 7, Dotenderet close, equalized test. race ‘will be an easy triumph for’ Longfellow, ‘and the hag Defender will make it ee this time old Colonel David McDaniel, with his set EMS SRL" ta eine, a around i were the members of ‘the McDaniel Seater in tio Smet at akan were the relative equality we oc- | Daniels, &c. suppose: Ag before the civil war the serics of | more or less, in Harry Bassett, That contests between Bassett and Longfellow | might say, “They have parted my ves' pede nd would take the form of a hot sectional rivalry | them al for raiment they have cast lots.’ lc- | has bought grounds adjacent to the track at daa oee and aba comfortable stables and lodg- ings, evidently designing to stand siege yearly. He is a man of observation, of wide experience, withont strict education, but of far higher intelli gence than John Harper, and is a better trainer. “McDaniel,” said the editor of a well-known sporti journal, ‘has been too sanguine. He thought he hada world-beater in Bassett, and re- lied too little upon patient work. Some say his horse was strained at Baltimore in the four-mile heats, and that four-mile heats kill three-year-old- asters; but his horse has made better time since than before. It is work—patient, skilful work which conquers, other things being ey the same, Bassett could run better two weeks he than at present, for he is not now in condition.”” ‘The prophets were destined to come to grief on this day, altnou, possibly, their ultimate {asi ment upon 10) feliow will be sustained, Within one hour and a quarter Harry Bassett, Hiding neck and neck with Longfellow, ed the two mile and @ quarter pole, won the mythical Saratoga Cup, won $1,000, won enormous odds in and wagers, and, had his backers shown faith, they might have won scores of thousands of dollars. WEIGHING THE TWO RIDERS. : The scene under the judgés’ stand at the wcigning: of the jockeys at @ quarter to twelve o'clock was Pieturesqes and inter- esting, about twenty tittle urchins, white and black, carrying saddles and bags of weights upon their arms, clad in parti-colored suits and skull caps of light colors, each the livery of some celebrated stable, waited their turn to mount the scale with all thelr haberdashery upon them. There, successively, the little heirs of danger and poverty St900, engineers of these vital locomotives, er education than Piece and habit give, each—his only bio- ‘o him any word of en- and he - indifferent to any. jockey is of the newsboy and the shoeblack class, with his attention transferred from ® boot or a pile of | yp anil to a horse, je88- ing native faculties and confidence for elther, as his 1ét may be. The two most marked urchins among these were Roe, the riaer of Harry Bassett, and the negro boy who rides Longfellow. oat Roe isa lean, sharp-chinned, large-eared lad, with a black, piercing eye, quiet and listening manner, a skin broken out with pinipieg “a oriae from thinness of the blood—and prettil Wy booted; on the whole, a fine, wiry specimen of the fighting urchin, without vanity or assumption of any kind. He is the very apple of McDaniel’s eye + The negro who rides Longfellow has a light mu- latto skin and a cherry-shaped face, with bulging flesh under each eye, and bright, radiant negro eyes. He said nothing, like the boy Roe, | but pitea nig turn and studied the situation. Neither wag above tlirteen years of Abe me of Bnaee te whiffets wei . no note an seventy pounds, @ hoy t pointed ont who ad reduced his weight three pounds in eighteen hours. He had wrapped him- gelfto his ears‘in blankets ang walked til) that amount of mojsture percolated sprough his pores, and appeared to-day sickly and weak as & hew- mother cat. Upon each of these little fellows hun- dyeds or thousands of wagered dollars depended. They were pursued to the weighing spot by a dozen still Hitler whites or negroes, who peeped in admiringly at the gorgeous vestments and burned to ride and reign like these. + IE GREAT RACE, Just before one o'clock the sky to the north was full of gold and leaden clouds, lying on the angular mountains there like discolored balloons, A fresh breeze blew the whole length of the main stand, but on the well harrowed track the sun was hot, and the pool-bidders and uneasy strollers on the homestretch carried umbrellas to be comfortable. “It’s a noble day to get speed from a horse,” wus the general exclamation. A minute or two later a large horse, swaddied in coarse, worn gray and blue blankets, appeared on the track, moving sluggishly, and there was a great wave of involuntary applauso, It was Longfellow. All Knew his quiet movement, his white hinder feet, his white nose and that unsuspecting, docile look, so admirable in strength or beauty—the un- consciousness of it. Stripped in a few minutes he was mounted submissively by the aforesaid negro, clad in ® dirty yellow jacket and a dirty yellow ae John Harper is evidently no man milliner. Next a common looking sorrel stood on the track, exciting no curjosity—De- fender—and then there dashed past, well mounted by the cleanly Roe avoresaid, the changeful chest- nut Bassett, swinging his head and neck and look- ing ugly, like a fair-haired woman under family dis- cipline, Do they think they have shorn thee of strength, Strong maid with the light yellow hair? ‘Their thrones thou shalt topple at length, And the kings of the earth shall beware. Nobody noticed any difference between these horses when they were stripped and ridden, ¢é: cept that Longfellow has the most method, regu- larity of speed, length and be: Kd body and worked ith apparently less effort than his light and ardent rival A. literary man might say that they ran this race like Goethe and Schiller, the poets—the one quali- fled by broad powers, natural and acquired, the other with the fiond spirit of one more de- sirous and jess confident. ‘They had to start a uarter of a mile up the track. They passed the stand with Bassett leading & length, both a quiet, and Longfellow gallop! ng as steadil: as the hand of a clock, his brilliant brownish-blac color eed him a fine relief to the reddish tint of his junior, They passed up by the half-mile aed with Longfellow apparently a half a length vehind ; so close were both, indeed, that we could only distinguish them by the black jockey pulling back and the white jockey on Bassett sitting straight. They kept the same unchangeable place till they returned down the quarter stretch, and then the first articulate sounds escaped the people. “See how Bassett holds his own!’" “The black boy will let Longfellow out in the last half mile!” Still like parts of the same machine, the flerce contention grew. Nothing could be distinguished from nothing; it was only @ ravelled horse's shadow against the eye. “ Bassett wins!’ sald a reporter, who had been steadily looking through a glass. “Longfellow can’t catch him. Rassett wins! es! He will win! He does win!” By this time nothing was to be seen but therun down the homestretch. There was a long belief that the black horse would pass, His rider climbed up in the stirrups and flogged him. He never winced, but did his noblest, methodical, gallant and ineffectual as before. The shout from the stand was that of dis- tress rather than of joy, as Bassett passed the pole and the white jockey turned maliciously round and grinned in the negro rider’s face, even under the line which was the boundary of victory. Description is Inadequate. A few caps were in the air, The great mass were in that state de- scribed by Sairey Gamp when she said she was “confuged." none speaking couragement, The average The morning was foggy and clouds obscured the sky, indicating rain; but the curtain wag with- drawn and the sun shone brilliantly before noon, The track was very fast, as much labor had been bestowed on it during the morning by the harrow and scraper. Longfellow and Bassett were ex- pected to make great time, and Mr. Wheatly was determined to give his aid by having a fast track for them; and atthe start a more favorable pros- | The | pect never presented itself to horsemen. racing was all good, but the favorites were beaten and the big betters were heavy losers at the end of the day. Three races were on the card—the Saratoga Stakes, a half mile dash by two-year-olds; the Saratoga Cup, two miles and a quarter, and a mile and a half dash by three-year-olds, The entries for the Saratoga Stakes numbered forty-two, twelve of which came to the post. Two of the original entries were made void by the death of James 8. Watson. The value of the stakes was $3,000. The starters were Hunter & Travers’ chestnut colt Reviler, by Censor, dam Jennie Rose; Hunter & Travers’ chestnut colt Saturn, by Planet, dam Jennie H.; John Coar’s bay flily The Nurse, by Australian, dam Zone; A, Belmont’s chestnut colt Count @Orsay, by Kentucky, dam Lady Blessington; A. Beimont’s chestnut filly Elee- tra, by Kentucky, dam Bernice; F, Morris’ chest- nut colt by Eclipse, dam Mollie Jackson; D. Swigert's chestnut colt Springbok, by Australian, dam Hester; D. McDaniel & Co.'s chestnut filly Cora Linn, by Lexington, dam Dolly Carter; M. A. Littell’s chest- | nut colt Fellowcraft, by Austraiian, dam Aerolite; R. W. Walden’s chestnut filly Minnie W., by Planet, dam Edina; Leonard Jerome's chestnut colt by Austrahan, dam Weatherwitch, and 0. Bowie's bay colt Catesby, by Kclipse, dam Katie. Springbok had the call in the betting. He did not, however, come up to the expectations of his backers, as he was slow in getting away, and never showed to advantage in the race, bein; eighth at the finish. Mr. Bowle's Catesby, a col little thought of in the betting, won a@ capital race very easily, [oa th the others on the last quarter asa race horse should, and won by a length and a@ half, to the great astonishment of the backers ofthe others, jorris’ colt was second; Electra third. The time was IL :17 3, the fastest two- year-old time ever made, ‘The second race was the great race for the Sara- toga Cup, in which there were ori lly twelve entries, but the night before the race nine of them declared out, leaving Longfellow, Harry Bassett and Defender the only ones willing to struggle for the trophy, Why Defender ran was a puzzie to all who knew his racing capabilities, and they have not solved the question yet. Longfellow was pro- nounced in fauitiess eondition by his trainer when that | S | | | | on the track, and Harry Bassett was x, COionel McDaniel to be @ much better he was at Long Branch, Longfellow outside betting at one hun- some one Hi tt won the race, Longfellow ig down in the sti ulled up so laine at the finish that it was wit ity that he got back to the stand. The that took place after tlie race exceeded anythin, we ever heard. This is the fastest race ever run ing two seconds and than Kentucky’s race, when he beat Captain Moore an odine over the same course on the 8th of August, 1 hich was run in 4:01}. Harry Bassett won Longfellow will never run as the cord run- ning over the joint of the near lore ankle appeared to be severed entirely. He is a broken down horse and will now retire to his home in Kentucky, where he ii ba given a chance to reseat himself in his sterity. ¥ ™ The titra race was for three-year olds, a mile and @ half, for which there were four starters, consist- ing of Hunter & Travers’ imported bay colt Buck- Men by Lora Cares cone Consequence; A. Bel- mont’s gray colt Gra e Planet, dam Eagless on A ‘MoGrath’s “es ‘ally oon by fo ton, dam Roxana, and T. B, & W. R. Davis’ bay colt Pledmont, by Asteroid, dam Fairy. “Buckden was a {ern favorite over the field, Gray Planet made a lead heat with him in 2:4234. It was not run Mr. Belmont and Messrs. Hunter & Travers, the re- spective owners of Gray Planet and Buckden, con- he a te cluding to divide the purse and not punish their colts with another trial to test their superiority. THB FIRST RACB, jtrances play OF pay; 81,000 added; tnree-quazters entrance, play or pay; $ rs of a mile; volte 10) pounds, fillies 97 pounds, Oden Bowle’s b. c. Catesby, by Eclipse, dam Katie, by Two pip teenage ee +. F. Morrie ch. ¢. by Eclipse, dam Mollie Jackson, in setae hee cae see eeeeseeee oe nt’s ch. f. Electra, by Kentucky, dam ni 1 Hannone.. see ‘alden’s ch. f. Minnie W., by Planet, dam Edina, Ponton......... seeeeeeeee A. Belmont's ch. c, Count d'Orsay, by Kentucky, dam Lady Blessington, ye a sae . Hunter & Traver’s ch. ©. Reviler, by Censor, dam Jenny Rose, Gray.... oebebm Leonard W. Jerome's ch.c, by Australian, dam Weatherwitch, Lakeland. nek esr D. Swigert’s ch. ¢. ae by Australian, ‘dam Hester, by Lexington, Walker. John Coar’s b, f. The Nurse, by Australian, dam imp. Zone, Wright oa ¢ D. McDantel & Co.'s ch. f. Cora Linn, by Lexing- ton, dam Dolly Carter, McCahbe........+.+++++++ M. A. Lettell’s ch. c. Felioweraft, by Australian, dam Aerolite, THOMAS..........++eeeseeeeeeseee UL Hunter & Traver’s ch. c. Saturn, ‘by Planet, dam Jenny H....... . Semsx aah ww ‘Time, 1:1734. THE BETTING. Swigert ..........$200 310 205 210 100 100 Hunter & Travers 155 385. 310 +820 =160 100 105 220 135 140 = 70 = 80 6 85 100 85) B 85 105 125 110) 2155 70 65 100 100 110) & THE RACE, The youngsters gare considerable annoyance to the spectators by their fractiousness in not Retise inline, Nearly an hour was wasted before the flag fell. When they were despatched, however, Je- rome’s colt hi the best of it, Reviler second, Electra third, Count Gornay fourth, Morris colt fifth, the others closé together. As they ran up _ the fractional track the; raised the + dust to a cloud, an shut thamselveg anerey from view in it, and they “y it they ¢qme in the regular Were not seen un. mes ke Tue wlectra. WA track beyond the half-mile pole. 3 ax leading, Jerome’s colt second, Reviler third, Morris colt fourth, the others in a bunch. Those’ named kept their places around the lower turn and into the homestretch, coming ip which many changes took place, Catesby coming to the front one hund- red yards from the finish, He won the race bya length and a half; Morris’ colt second, one length ahead of Electra; Minnie W. fourth, Count d’Orsay fifth, Reviler sixth, Jerome’s colt seventh, Springbok eighth, the Nurse ninth, Cora Linn tenth, Fellowcraft eleventh. Time 1:1744, the fast- est time by two-year-olds, THE WINNER. Catesby fs 15.3, dark bay, well formed, with a racing appearance. He was sired by Eclipse, dam Katie, by Two Bits; granddam Glen Mary, by Steele; great granddam Nivon d’Encios, by Thor- ton’s Rattler—a very well bred colt, running back through the good old Virginia strains, He will be a race horse or his look belies him, as his style of running is vigorous and untrammelled, and his sCride immense. WINNERS OF THE SARATOGA STAKES. Year, Winner Weight, Subs. Starvers.Th 1864—Saratog: soeee OF 12 3 1865—Ulrica, 87 9 4 1866—Redwing. aoe BT 14 5 1867—*Relentle: » 87 26 6 1868—tOakleaf . . 87 27 5 1869—Remorseless. . 87 4 ll 1870—Mary Louise. ~ 7 ai 9 1871—St. Patrick. 101s 32 6 1873—Catesby.. 42 12 100 1 121135 *Distance changed from one mile to tnree-quar- ters of a mile, tAfter @ dead heat with filly by Eclipse, out of Slasher, in 1:1924. THE SECOND RACE. THE SARATOGA Cur, for all ages; $50 entrance, Play or pay; $1,000 added; two and @ quarter miles, D. McDaniel’s ch. ¢c. Harry Bassett, by Lexing- ton, dam Canary Bird, crane old; Roe........ 1 John ‘Harper's br. h. Longfellow, by Leamington, dam Nantura; SaMple.......sseeeeereeesereces » 2 John Morrissey’s ch. c. Defender, by John Mor- wan, 5 years O10; GilpatricK......6..ssseeeeeeeee B ime, 3:59, THE BETTING. Longfellow....¢300 610 775 340 400 = 620 Harry Bassett. 100 200 260 100 100-200 Detender...... 10 12 20 12 a ris THE RACE. When Longfellow and Harry Bassett appeared, they were received with applause from the stand, and as the former galloped up in front of the stand the cheering was resumed, The assemblage were very nervous, but there was no delay in getting the horses away. They soon moved down to the juarter pole, and at the first attempt were despatched to a capital start. Harry Bassett soon took the lead, and as he came rattling up the homestretch to tne stand he led one length, Long- fellow three lengths in front of Defender. The time Of the first quarter of a mile was twenty-five and a half seconds. Going around the upper turn, Long- feilow went up to Bassett’s saddle girth, but at the quarter pole they were nose and tail. Time of the half-mile, 6244 seconds. Defender at this time was out of the race and not worthy of further notice, Going down the backstretch Longfellow again went up to Harry’s saddle girth, but at the half- mile pole fell back again. he three-quarters of a mile were run in 1:16%. Harry Bassett led half a length around the lower turn and at the three- piles pole, The time was 1:45%4 for the mile. Longfellow then ran up to Bassett as they came up the homestretch, and, passing under the wire, they were both doing their best and ranninj at a tremendous rate of speed, hea and head. The mile and & quarter was ron in 2:08%, which is the fastest time ever made for that distance, They did not relax in their fight around the upper turn, Longfellow gaining gradually until he reached Bassett's shoul- ders at the quarter pole, the mile and a half being runin 2:35%. Leaving this poms Longfellow tal- tered, and he had to be urged. It was here, it is sup- posed, that Longfeliow’s near ankle gave way, but still he ran i again without flinching, and was at Harry's saddle girth at the half-mile. Longfellow ran up closer, and was at Bassett’s shoul- ders on the lower turn and as they passed the three-quarter pole, finishing the two miles in 3:30, the fastest two miles ever run. A bullet fired at one jockey would have hit the other, so near to- gether were the horses. conn up the home- stretch the contest was close until near the furlong pole, where Longfellow began to succumb, and his Jooxsy commenced using the whip, The horse strug- gied on, but could not Keep up with Harry Bassett, and the latter passed under the wire a winner by a length, making the two miles and a quarter in the fastest time ever recorded, 3:69, Defender was beaten nearly a quarter of a mile. THE WINNER. Harry Bassett is four years old, by Lexington, dam Canary Bird; secoud dam, Panola by imp. Ain- derly; third dam, imp. Sweetbriar by Recovery ; fourth dam, imp. Primrose by CoTous; fifth dam, slip by Cockfighter; sixth dam, Brown Javelin by Javelin; seventh dam, Young Maiden by High- ‘yer; eighth dam, Maiden by Matchem; ninth dain, Mr. Pratt's celebrated mare by Squirt; tenth dam, Low's dam by Mogul; eleventh dam, Camilla by Bay ‘ton; twelfth dam, Old Lady (Starling’s dam) y Pullein’s chestnut Arabian; thirteenth dam by Rockwood; fourteenth dam by Bustler, In color Harry is a darker shade than was his grandsire old Boston, though he resembles him more than any. of his descendants, He has two white hee® and a star, is 164g hands high, but so sym- metrical in his build thi him over 1535 hands, until standing beside him, He has that wonderful depth of chest which so chavacterized his grandsire, also the sume flat or “slab-sided”? barrel and large hips, with powerful loins, stifles and thighs, the muscles being well let into large, strong locks. He ts closely ribbed up, and, unitke Koston, is a handsome horse, being highly finished, with a fine head, well set ona pretty tapering neck, and with gamecock throttle and Jaws wide apart. He was bred on the Alex- ander farm at Woodburn, Ky., and purchased: for Colonel McDaniel for #315, PERFORMANCES. avatoga, N. Y., July 16, 187 Was beaten in the Saratoga Stakes for two-yea olds, dash of three-quarters of a mile, by O'Donnell's Mary Louise and Jerome's bay filly by Kentucky; time, 1:18), Saratoga, N. Y., August 13, 18 tucky Stakes for tw ‘Won the Ken- -year-vlds, one mile, beating a | fleld of seven, in 1:51. . Jerome Park, N. Y., October 6, Nursery Stakes for two- a field of fourteen, in 1:40 Baltimore, Md.. Octobe: 1870.—Won the 26, 1870,—Won the Supper Stakes for two-year olds, one mile, beating Madame | Dudley, in 1:49%4. Three Years Old—Jerome Park, N. 1871.—Won the Belmont Stakes for thre one mile and five furlongs, be sing Sto the Sea, John Merryman, Mary Ch Tubman, Monarchist, Nellie Gray, Edwin and Wet: more’s Breckenridge colt, in 2:56, Long Branch, N. J., July 4, 1871.—Won the Jersey Derby Stakes, for three-year-old colts and fillies, one and a half miles, beating Monarchist, Idaho, Wanderer, Callodia, Nathan Oaks, Astronomer, ‘ood, By a person would not think | | | ear-olds, one mile, beating | NEW YORK HMRALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT, O'Donnell, Asteroid colt: and Crouse’ bay gelding Revolver 2:53; iy i. ¥., a "1e71.—Won the Travers Stakes, three-quar- rr one ters, beating ‘six others in 8:21%, Ling August 16, 1871,—Won the Kenner Stakes for -year-olda, two miles, beating lie Ransom, Alroy, Wine Sap, Acolus, Nathan Oaks and Je Par! . ¥., October 7, 1871.—Won the Champion Stakes for three-year-olds, two miles, beating Monarchist, Alroy, Mary Clark, Neliie Ran- som and Stockwell; time, baa Jerome bam 9 le ¥., October 14, 1871.—Won purse 1600, for all dash of one mile and three- quarters, beatin, esse, Judge Durell, Morlacchi and Vespucius; 3:16%. Baltimore, Md., October 24, 1871.—Walked over be Bong Reunion Stakes for three-year-olds, two Baltimore, Md., October 25, 1871.—Won purse of 1,000, for all two and ‘a haif miles, beating aknegs and Telegram, in 574134. Baltimore, Md., October 30, 1871.—Won the Bowie Stakes, for all four mile-heats, pestis, Holt bold in two a1 ht heats; time, 7:54%—8 :033. Four Years —Jerome Park, N. Y., June 8, 1872.—Won the Westchester Cup, dash of two miles and a quarter, beating Little! in 4:18%. Jerome Park, N. Y., June 18, 1872,—Won purse of $1,000, two mile heats, beating and distan Me- tella in the first heat; time, 3:3934. 1872,—Was beaten Lor Branch, N. J., July padly for the Monmouth Cup, two miles and a half, by Longfellow, in 4:34. Saratoga, N. Y., ay * 1872.—Won the sweep- dash of one mile and a quarter, ttleton and Ortolan, in 2:11. Sar ge, N. Y., duly 16, 1872.—Won the Saratoga Cup, for all ages, two miles and a quarter, beating Longfellow, who broke down, and Defender, in 3:59. WINNERS OF THE SARATOGA CUP, Fear. Winner. ht. Subs. Starters. Mme, 1865—Kentucky. 18 B 430134 1866—Kentucky. 26 4. 4:04 1867—Muggins. 18 4 © 4:03" 1868—Lancaater 20 4 14 1869—Bayonet. 26 6 9 1870—Hel 18 5 86 1871—Longfe 12 2 10295 1872—Harry Bassett..... 110 12 3 3:50 LONGFELLOW’S CONDITION AFTER THE RACE. I have just returned trom the stable of John Harper and have seen the broken down horse Lon; fellow, and gathered all the facts possible about defeat. Harper told me that as his horse wheeled to start in the race he struck his foreleg with the hind one on the heel and grabbed the plate, which, he says, nearly threw Longfellow down, but seeing him run on rapidly afterwards without showing any signs of injury, he supposed that nothing material had occurred. When the horse stopped at the end of the con- test he was very lame and came near falling at every step as he hobbled to the stand and thence to the stable, where it was discovered that his plate was doubled up under lis foot and that his ankle was sprained and the back sinew broken. The horse had the mark of the hind foot on his quarter at the heel an inch and a halt in Pieeriperat pe to have cut half of the heel of—and the ankle was swollen to an immense size. Longfellow would not put his foot to the ground, but held it up as if in great misery, the muscles of the forearm being in constant agitation. The horse, in the opining of horsemen, is irretrievably ruined as a race horse and will never again be able to contend on the turf. THE THIRD RACE, PURSE $600, f0) dines Is; one and 2 half ile; winne; 0) ty akés exc nided. ate Hows. Gray Planet, by Planet, dam A. Belmont's g, c. Eagless, Gradwell..........0+.-.+ ssseeseseeeees 0 Hunter & Travers’ b, c. Buckden, by Lord Clif. den, dam Consequence, McAdams......... ececse @ 4H McGrath's b. f Jury, by Lexington, dam na, Combs, T. B. & W. R. Davis’ @, Piedmont, by Aste- roid, dam Fairy, Henry.... 4 mime, 2:42 . THE BEITING. > Buckden 530 00 656 188 240 390 73 100 150 65 100 = 120 130 THE RACE. Buckden was first away, Pledmont second, Jury third, Gray Planet fourth. As they passed around the lower turn Buckden showed the way, Gray Planet second, Piedmont third, Jury fourth, Atthe three-quarter pole Piedmont had his head in front, » Buckden second, Jury third, Gray Planet fourth, his jockey Bae 3 taken him in hand to make a waiting race. three leading horses were abreast as they ran up the homestretch, and passing under the string Buckden led by a neck, Pied- mont an Jury head and head, _ eight lengths in front of Gray Planet. Going around the upper turn the leading trio were parallel, eight lengths ahead of Gray Planet, They were in line at the quarter pole, Gray Planet far behina. Goin; down the backstretch there was not the slightes' advantage between Buckden, Piedmont and Jury, but here Gray Planet began to shat en ae day- light, which he gradually accomplished. At the half-mile pole the three were still running head and head, Gray Planet four lengths behind. As they entered the lower turn Buckden began to show his head in front, and Gray Planet shut up all the daylight while going to the three-quarter As the leading trio swung into the homestretch Gray Planet made a dash, and his jockey seeing there was room between Buckden and the inside fence pulled his horse in there, and in less time than it takes to tell it was on even terms with Buckden. A fierce and exciting ee, ensued, whip and L red were freely used, and after a brilliant race they landed at the wire head and head—so parallel that the judges decided a dead heat. Jury was half a dozen lengths behind them, and about as far in front of Piedmont. THE FOURTH DAY'S RACING—POOL SELLING ON THE VENTS, There will be three races to-morrow, the first a mile dash, with three entries, in which Kingfisher is the favorite, selling for $400, Alarm bringing $225 and Fadladeen $50. The second is a selling raee, which has five en- tries. Buckden sold for $210, Sanford $100, Mary Louise $60, Cadence $55, Allie Hunt $10. The third race will be a dash of two miles. Tub- man sold for $500, Lochiel for $225, Susan Ann for $75 and John Merryman for $40. TROTTING AT SARATOGA. Huntress and Topsy the Winners—Cap- ital Time on a Half-Mile Track. SARATOGA, July 16, 1872, Two trots came off this afternoon at Glen Mitchell, the first between Alden Goldsmith’s bay mare Hun- tress and Peter Manee’s bay stallion W. H. Allen, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, for a purse of $500. Four heats were trotted, Huntress winning the first, second and fourth heats in capital time on a half-mile track. The second trot was a match of $200, mile heats, in harness, between Topsy and Young Thorn, ‘Topsy Won the race. 4 SUMMARY. GLEN MITCHELL, SaRaTOGA, N. Y., July 16, 1872,.— Purse $500, mile Pei best three in five, in harness, Alden Goldsmith entered b. m, Huntress, 1 1 2 Peter Manee entered b. 8. W. H, Allen.... 2 2 1 2 TIME, First heat... Second heat.. Third heat. Fourth heat. SAME Day.—Match Colonel Dickey's b. m. Topsy. James McKee’s & m. Young Th First heat. Second h Third heat THE CLEVELAND RAGES, Postponement on Account of Rain—Great Crowds Anticipated—Goldsmith Maid, American Girl and Lucy in Fine Con- dition. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 16, 1872, The second annual meeting of the Cleveland Club was to have commenced this morning, but heavy rain set in early in the forenoon, and showers prevailed all the atternoon, At one o'clock the following notice was issued by the President of the Club, Mr. John Tod :— “The races of this day are postponed until Wed- nesday, the 17th inst.: those of Wednesday post- poned {il Thursday, ‘Isth inst., and the races of Thursday Yt eee to Saturday, 20th inst., at ten o'clock A. M. precisely. Goldsmith Maid, American Girl and Lucy will positively trot on Friday, the 19th Inst.” x There was a large crowd at the track and con- siderable disappointment was felt. There is great interest in the races for Friday. Most of the rail- roads have issued half-tare tickets for that day, aud ——_—__ os Nites Sorte | a large attendance is anticipated from all parts of | the country. Goldsmith Maid, Lucy and American Girl ave here in fine condition, ‘The Utica Park Association has completed its mile track and buildings, which are second to none in this country, The track is an admirable grade, and situated about a mile to the east of the city, on a broad plateau rising to the south of the valley of the Mohawk, commanding an extended view of its magnificent scenery. The grounds are approached by street cars and by steamboats on the Erie Canal, in twelve minutes from the centre of the city. ‘The association is composed of some of the most prominent gentlemen in the central por- tion of the State, whose names are & guarantee that its meetings will be conducted in a high-toned manner, and ‘free from the objections that are occasionally met with om the track. Utica being situated miguny between New York and Buifalo, on the New York Central Rallroad, not three hours distant from Saratoga and one hour ark, Wanderer, | only from Sharon, Richfield, Vernia and Chitte- nango Springs and Trenton Falls, promises a large attendance at what, in the future, must be one of the most popular racing associations of the State. Entries for the large purses offered, aggregating $33,000, will close on the 27th Instant. Nominations must be addressed to Alexander Buoll Herald | the crowd Utica, X,Y. The takes place 14, 16 and 16, iecapebonestesesd August: Jackson’: lding Mysto Sammis' “gelding cores “ull are matched eek tee mnlles and in harness, tnis afternoon, at the REVIEWING THE AWABRDS. >t Meeting of the Contract Commissioners— John Bryan’s Stowe Pavement Con- tract—Was the Ordinance Forged, and ‘Who Committed the Forgery? Ex-Judges Sutherland and Hooper C, Van Vorst and Mr. D, R. Jaques, the Commissioners ap- pointed to pass upon the awards made by the Mayor and Commonalty of the city by vir- tue of chapter 580 of the Laws of 1872, resumed their investigations yesterday afternoon, at haif- past four o'clock, in the rooms of the Board of Aldermen. At the opening of the ses- sion Commissioners Sutherland and Van Vorst were in attendance. Mr, Jaques en- tered afew moments later and the session was formally opened. The first call on the calender considered was John Bryan, who claims an award of contract for paving with the stone pavement, White, Fifteenth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, Thirtieth and Fortieth streets, bids for which were opened November 23, 1870. The argument in the case was resumed by Mr. Shepard, counsel for property owners, He quoted from the law, which, he said, provides for advertis- ing in all the corporation newspapers, and de- clared that the ordinances were not published at all, The law requiring the advertising of bids must. be published ten days before the giving out of the bid. Counsel asserted that the law had not been complied with in this particular, ‘The counsel for the Comptroller declared that. there was no legal advertisement of the ordinance. If not properly advertised, under the ruling in the Douglas case, there was no ordinance at all. wiaas Sutherland stated that he was free to say that he thought the advertising of the ordinance amounted to nothing. The question we are to dis- cuss is whether there was fraud in the award, The city cannot retreat from an award, and the spirit of the law is that the city must fulfil the obligations. assumed by its officers. Mr. Calvin, counsel for Bryan, stated that if the case was reopened he was prepared to put in fur- ther evidence, although they had submitted the case upon its merits, Mr. Jaques stated that the question now raised in this argument was whether there was an award. at all, Mr. Shepard denounced the job as a frand, inas-- much as it was not advertised in all the papers. It was a Guy Fawkes fraud of the Common Council to deceive the property owners. The evidence of the Mayor showed that the ordinance contained a forgery, and that this is not the ordinance he ap- proved. ‘Therefore a forged ordinance is not an or- dinance, and there can therefore be no ordinance. ‘he counsel continued his argument at eat length, but his effort seemed to have little in- uence upon the Commission, who frequently inter- roe him ana corrected his misconcep! on of their powers in the pre...-- rat coat SF Mr. Colvin, counsel f Bryan, said that @ complete misrepresentation of facts in regard to the evidence of the Mayor on the subject of the alleged forgery of the ordinance existed. The Commission were visibly pleased when the argue ment closed, and soon after adjourned. ate A COFFEE CONSPIRACY. Two Employes of a Coffee Warehouse Employ a Drummer and Sell the Steck on Their Own Account—A Very Quiet Operation. On Friday last Charles Vattier, a Frenchman in the employ of Marshal S. Driggs, 278 to 290 South street, noticed the foreman of the establishment, James Boardman, removing the marks from @ num- ber of bags of coffee and then sending them. down the elevator to the walk, Vattier asked what the marks were removed for, and if the coftee had been checked on the books. The fore- man answered that it was all right. The coffee was ~ Placed on tne cart and driven off, Vattier men- tioned the circumstance to Mr. Driggs, who ex- amined the books and found no record of it. When the cartman, James tins returned he was asked where he lett the last load of coffee. He answered that he was directed by the foreman to. e 6 6it to the house of Fisher & Lansing, corner of Duane and Greenwich street. Messrs. her & Lansing were then visited, and said that they had bought the coffee from a map named Dennis Shay. y received ten bags, or 1,896 Ibs., and im $388 68 for it. Tley bought it from sample. Messrs. Fisher & Lani e stated that they had been in the habit of buy- nf the iromsa, ind Rie Tending, the man, an ho wes ine seneoracd int hipping of tn wi in the sl of the ten wer wrested by Detectives ainey. and Jar- th precinct, who also secured Den- were all brought before Judge \ouse,, Scott, at Essex Market Police Cour & Shay, who is a junk dealer at 75 Henr} Pash fs mit! her & Lansing by selling the coffee to Fis! vy » but said he was employed @ broker named Hays. Mr. Driggs stated to the Judge that he thought it was only one of a long series of simi- lar operations. Judge Scott held them all for trial. THE WHISKEY MEN STARTLED. Raid by Supervisor Dutcher’s Officers— Capture of a Still and Its Effects in the Fourth Ward. The energy displayed by Mr. Silas B. Dutcher, Su- pervisor of Internal Revenue, has been the means of putting a complete stop to illicit distiliation in Brooklyn; and the fact of such vigilance on his part in the City of Churches has emboldened the operators in ‘poteen’” to try their luck in New York, with a prospect of more success. Yesterday morning, having received intelligence that a still was in operation in the Fourth ward, Mr. Dutcher detailed some of his force to visit the neighborhood of Dover and Roosevelt streets, one of the worst parts of the Fourth ward. The efforts of the officers were crowned with success. At 2863¢ Front street, rear building, was found the followi property, which was at once seized by Mars 4 Biake, Collector of the Thirty-second street dis- trict—viz., one la one still, firmly enclosed in brickwork, running whiskey at the rate of forty gailons an hour; about two thousand gallons of mola: mash ready to be charged into the still, four barrels of rum, five barrels of molasses and all the tools and accoutrements necessary to pro- duee Irquor, The building in which these operations were con- ducted is a four story edifice, and, (aging from the complete manner in which it was fitted up, it is fair to presume that the owners had located them- selves with a view to Focer ee Under section 44 of act of July 20, 1868, the real estate and building are liable to confiscation, as well as the distillery property captu‘ed therein, The United States Marshal has already taken possession of the seized effects, and the District Attorney will at once commence Pa ee for forfeiture. The following oMeers of Mr. Dutcher’s force assisted at the above seizure ssistant Assessors J.B, Was: David Irish, John Clyne, F. L. Tucker, Alfre Vanderwerken, Robert Hunt and William H. Whit- lock. BRUTAL MURDER IN CANADA. A Sea Captain Murders a “Crimp” with an Axc—Kxcitement of the Populace— Great Efforts Made to Lynch the Assase sin. QUEBEC, July 16, 1872, A horrible murder was committed here to-day by Captain Pelletior, of the bark Rivoli. The Rivoli is lying off the city, and the captain, wishing to land, was rowed ashore by two of the seamen be- longing to the vessel. hen they landed the men were approached by “crimps.” An altercation arose, and one of the sailors being struck, the cap- tain seized an axe, and with one blow almost sev- ered the head of James Dillon, who was not the assailant, from his body, The wounded man died ip less than twenty minutes, being taken imme- diately to the nearest police station. The murderer was at once secured, and it was witi diMeuity the constables were able to prevent rom lynching him. An inquest was held forthwith, and Pelietior, being declared @ murderer by the Coroner's jury, was lodged in jail. DEATH OF A UNITED STATES CONSUL. Bosros, Mass., July 16, 1872. J, C. Cover, United States Consul at the Azores, died on board the bark Fredonia, on July 4, while ¥, his passage home. He belonged in Lancaster, i E DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED FROM ts of different States. No publicity. Advice Public and Commissioner for every State, KING, Counsell w, 368 Broadway, ROOKLYN, ruin street, A LHERALD BRANCH OFFIC ‘copner of Fulton avenue an “open from 8 A i BSOLUTE DIVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED FROM A Courts of different States; legal everywhere; deser- tion, ac. suMcient cause; no publicity’ required; no chagge wit! divorce grantra, advice tree 190 Broadwa; TEAS, COFFE! QROCERIES AND iizovisions; warranted 10 ,salt the palates, and the m. Pockets of the millon 29 Greenwich street, New Yorky