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THE ODYSSEY. The Four Years’ Travels and Adventures of Ulysses. a His Scaly Officers and Grambling Crew. woe ie ARIS HOW ODYSSEUS MADE THE “GREAT DIVIDE.” Voyage. to Domingo’s Land of Watermelons, Customs Island and Its Greek Collector, Murphy. a ed ‘ THE WAB ON POBYPHEMUS FENTON. Story of the Floundering Fish with the Diplomatic Tail. DINNER TRIP TO TREATY ISLAND a SEs a First Rising of the Discon- 7 Wind. With canvas piled on and without delay. ‘The good ship steered into Samana Bay. The melon-eating natives, black as bight, Opened their eyes—too lazy they for fright— And dream’ly murmured ‘neath the sun or moon, When asked to trade their land, “Good afternoon.” Ulysses and his officers in file Marched up and down, intent on “striking isle,” And while the bugmen, botanists and blacks With nasty creepers filled their gaping sacks, Lay down beneath the palms and fell asleep, Dreaming of corner lots and acres cheap. Meanwhile the crew, with Sumuer to the fore, Bellowed and railed at what was done ashore. “Are we,’ he said, “to be kept here like felons ? Uiyeses and his fellows feast on melons, While we are starved on salt horse and hard tack? We'll mutiny unless the crowd comes back.” Then Porter, wakened by the threatening noise, Shook up the rest and said, ‘The game’s up, boys.” The wise Ulysses blubbered with a sob, “We'll go aboard ; afar they scent the job."” HE EXPLAINETH AND SEBKETH MURPHY. The gig was called, and when he trod the deck Addressed the crew thus:—‘Safe from rock and wreck We’re lying here; besides, ‘taint any harm, Is it, to add to Uncie Samuel's farm? Me to suspect, my lads, is rather rough; ’Twas all for country.” (Cries of ‘Good enongh!’’) “Weigh anchor, boys; no imputations cast; Boutwell can tell we’re saving money fast.” ‘The ship sailed forth, and after many days Of beating ’yainst the wind and sad delays From an unwilling crew, with much of nous Turned for provisions into Custom House. ‘This green-backed island, tempting to the eyes, Lay basking in the light of summer skies. Ros Conkling’s lambs were grazing far and wide; ‘The shepherd sat a whiskey spring beside, Ye GREEK SHEPHERD'S ATTIRE, Upon his head he wore a shoddy cap, And fed himself pn enemies and pap. One jeg a stocking owned; to Cather clung A leet-le piece of uniform, while hang Around his shoulders a great “golden fleece,” That robe of office, which will but increase With wear—a relic of the old barbaric song Rout and Shipwreck of the Carpet-Baggers. ULYSSES SEEKS PENELOPE IN RAGS. Fvwnaya ne Homer's Story Applied to the Conqueror of Ho- ratio and the Rival of Horace. YE INVOCATION, ‘Whysses’ story taken on the wing For four Jong years, 0 heavenly goddess sing! Crash tamborines, and picking banjoes sound ; Ye buzzing jewsharps mingle in the round; Nose-twanging saints of newer England howl; Pag-nostrilled bull-pups raise the midnight yowl, And, lest my muse true inspiration want, Come, hollow-hearted priestesses of cant, My Odysseus’ travels pray untold ‘Till ail the panorama is‘unrolled, Writ in a page of blood and tears and gold, ULYSSES LADEN WITH GIFTS, Four years’ red desolation darkly reigned Upon the land, while freedom’s hearthstone stained With crimes that laid us ‘neath God's awful ban Were washed out in the purple biood of man. Bleak was the nation’s night, but yet there burned The pillar’d fire that lighted those who mourned, And shone above a million freemen’s graves ‘Yo say that men should never more be slaves. Then grim Ulysses rose—the leader he Who bore the Stars from earth to victory, And hung them glorious, undefiled on high, To shine forever in the gladdened sky. He did it in avery thorough manner, As well became a soldier, erst a tanner, Ob, that while Fame had smothered him with kisses, * Bhe'd only ta’en to glory our Ulysses. But no; tho’ pow at peace, men still would quar- rel Who would bestow the biggest wreath of laurel. The grateful citizens on ev'ry hand Came trooping in with lager and with land, The best cigars, the first seat at carouses; They brought him sticks, stocks, money and fine honses, Pipes and tobacco, spigots and spittoons ; Ben Butler brought a dozen silver spoons. Basins bowled in, and milis with grist and saw, Short-horned cattle, milk from Chappaqua, Carpets and caulifowers; solemn college deans Sent him degrces, and Boston pork and beans. ‘The far West gave him mustangs for his ranche, ‘The Murphy Greek a cottage at Long Branch; °Twere well if, "mid his fortune’s many shifts, He’d learned to fear “a Greek e’en bearing gifts.” Then bull-pups, brandy, whiskey, gin and wines, Horses and wagons, hooks and fishing lines. These were symbolic, for ‘tis safe to bet ‘That all was fish which came unto his net. *Twould tire to tell the presents that he had, Long as the ship list in the Iliad; Yet "twas agreed by men of ev'ry station *Twere incomplete unless he got the nation, Of course, there was some little opposition, And hence Clem Val, a knowing politician, Bade Old Horatio cap-a-pie arise, ‘To wrestle with Ulysses for the prize. Ulysses won with ease. His triumph rare Did only ‘‘seem more” for the noisy ‘‘biare.”” HE CHOOSETH HIS FOLLOWERS, ‘The ship of State was ready made anew; The grim commander more Sphinxitic grew, And next selected officers and crew. ‘These let us glance at. First a hungry horde Of men who ‘gainst the Trojans wore a sword, And some who used it, came. These got their share Of petty offices. Swifton their hecls ~ The vile camp followers, like slippery eels, In wriggling thousands, begging for a place, Came, leaving after them a slimy trace. Some few were taken who could be of use To beat the passengers or place the deuce ‘Whenever called on. But for the ward room, The whee! house, galley, magazine and gaard room Diysses puffed and pondered ere deciding, But cut the knot by honestly dividing Between his family, his friends and those The great gift givers at the battle's close, The disappointed said tn cynic hate :— “Diysses Much more grateful is than great,” HE SETTETH SAIL. Thus on the Fourth of March, in sixty-nine, With canvas spread, the weather mildly fine, And clouds diminished o'er the troubled South, His ship dropped past Potomac’s ample mouth. Here rose a squall, and while the east wind diew hard Olysses lost his first-selected “steward.” But merry times succeeded on the ship. The helm was tied; the orders, “Let her rip,” And rip she did, till growlings, deep and loud Arose, that frightened all the jolly crowd, Who, with Ulysses, held a royal revel ‘While things were haply going to the devil. He called a council, when they quelled the row, And asked suggestively, “Where are we now ?”” ‘Long wrangling followed ‘fore they could agree ‘When ‘twas concluded they were all “at sea.” HE STEERETH FOR TUE WATERMELON LAND, “Now shape a course,” said Fis! ‘The clam'ring crowd. There's blood in Dat Rise, Babcock, boy.” Thus Babcock—We should go Where bread fruit fourishes, bananas grow, A land I wot of full of milk and honey, Which with good management will bring in money.” Dlysses slapped the table. “Then, by jingot ‘We'll,turn her head at once for St, Domingo, Ho! call some bugmen, botanists and dlacks, ‘Zo gull the crowd and cover uv our tracks,” ‘That ‘to the victor all the spoils belong.” He'd but one eye, a cold one, one for gain, Aud round his neck he wore the office chain, MURPHY BEMOANETH FENTON’S RAGE. ‘The hungry crew gazed o’er the waters surfy At Tetons ant Tacs Of Murphy And thandered out their curses witha roar, While Tom came down to welcome Lys ashore. A dozen officers nid come along, And Murphy met them with a dolefal song :— “Golden the harvest for our coffers here; But, great Ulysses, there is much to fear ‘That Polyphemus Fenton from his cave Will steal our flocks and slay our bravest brave. Full many a threat beneath each angry scoff is That echoes from that cave—the Tribune office.” HE FIGHTETH POLYPHEMUS—THE RES! “Him Vil attack,” said grim Ulysses, ‘Shall Rabe Fenton, with old Horace for a pal, Dety my power?” Th’ attack was deftly made, Ana Fenton’s lambs soon felt the soldier’s biade, ‘Thus knocking Fenton's eye out on his forehead And making him feel something of a sorehead. Butin the cave six officers were eaten, And Tom and ’Lysses came out feeling beaten. The former found that ‘gainst the jagg’d stones knocking Had badly torn his shoddy and his stocking. Ulysses now got mad; by fary led, With one fell slash he chopped of Murphy’s head, Made for the ship once more and put to sea With black ciouds from the weather to the Ice, THE CLOUD LIKE A MAN’S ITAND, Loud to Ulysses’ foes did Fenton call— “Revenge! revenge! his tyranny must fall.” Soon round the ship from all points of the compass The blust’ry papers raised a reg'lar rampus, In vain Ulysses tried their mouths to gag, Mudgett had let the cat out of the bag. FISH PROFFERETH TO AMUSE TIE CREW, ‘The wise Ulysses, troubled now at heart, From all his messmates pond’ring sat apart, When Fish approached the downcast chief and spake :— “Another course the vessel, str, must take; Sumner and Schurz are babbling ‘bout our record, Saying that 1t with many crimes is checkered ; And, when they asked the crew what would they do, They said that overboard ‘i should be with you At Treaty island all can disabuse ‘em, At any rate, I know I can amuse ‘em.”’ HE SAILETH FOR TREATY ISLAND. Thither they steered with loss of sundry spars And shivered sails. The ever-grambling tars Kept wond’ring what was next to be their lot, When they espied, near-seated in a grot, The treaty sorceress with old John Bull. She loud complained that business was dul. But Fish jumped overboard and floundered out And put the gaping sailors out of doubt, For cunningly he soon began his games By off’ring Bull the Alabama claims, The bowings and the antics of the pair Made gen’ral laughter everybody's share. HE DINETH AND MAKETH A TREATY, Ulysses charmed, attended by a score Of hungry followers, now went ashore. The sorceress got up her incantations tions,” And all around were smiling and salaaming, Followed by wining, dining, speeching, cramming, Between each course, the crew could just detect Such sounds as “Heidsick ?” “No, sir; indirect,” men shall Submit to pay one cent of consequential.” But who would in the end come off the winners, Could never be told by smelting at their dinners, YE TREATY GOETH TO —. Twelve months this lasted. Ail was going well. The witch (she kept the Diplomats’ Hotel) 'Twere hard to say did not provisions give out. The wine ran dry. This cut the speeches short And, thank Jehovah, spoiled old Fish’s sport, Then, finding there was nothing more to eat, he Concluded that ‘twas time to sign the Treaty. Of this well-cooked production’s fate we'll speak By reference to the story in the Greck. Circe sent Ulysses down to Hades, (We'd say’t in Saxon were't not for the ladies). The treaty went there, though to blind the nation Fish passed the word, ‘twas gone to arbitration, YE LIBERAL STORM RISETH. Now joy was swelling in Ulysses’ breast, As Treaty island sank down in the West. “Such triumph makes me quite regret to flee it, Tho’ as a victory folks refuse to see it."’ On sped the ship; still dangers dogged her way; The discontent grew greater every day. o The wily Fish again to ’Lysses spoke :— “As we before the front of growling broke, By foreign dodging; now we're on the main, Let’s turn awhile to bully bankrupt Spain.” But Spain, if poor, was proud gnd wouldn't stand it. “No power,” she cried, ‘shall treat me as a bandit,” And Fish’s bullying was countermanded, Onward, in darkness, staggered ‘Lysses’ bark, Storm-driv'n and creaking, when at midnight, hark! The watchmen’s cry of “breakers on the lee,” As with strained eyes on either hand they see ‘The frowning Scyila rocks of fritter’d trust, The whirlpool guif—Charybdis—of disgust. YE CARPET-BAGGERS ROB YR SOUTH, But yet she struck not, and when broke the morn, Ulysses to a newer life seemed born; ‘They stghted land and in a haven anchored. Ful soon Ulysses’ greedy henchmen hankered After the fatted oxen on the plain. They managed soon to s!ip ashore again, In spite of order, and with ready knife, On cows and hen roosts moved as if for life; Commenced to sianghter, then to cook and eat The Soutiern people's little store of meat. For in the Trojan war they'd beggar'd been, And hence the cow-thieves acted doubly mean. Chickens they killed and eggs stole by the hundrea, And next the Southron’s very homesteads piun- dered, Each bore a bag, which ad.led to their ewaggers, Of “Saxon peoples,” “peace” and “kindred na- “Apology, of course,” “Roast beef’ “Sir, never Said so, at least; but just how long *twould live out And hence the world’s contempt for carpet- baggers, Y¥ CREW REVOUTETH. The ship’s crew, when they saw the bricands’ deeds, Deserted in disgust and sowed the seeds Of dire avengement, for the South they joined To rid them of such harpies on their kind. Now, in dismay, the cow-thieves turn to fy, Bullock (ft name) drops tears from either eye. YE LIBERAL STORM BURSTETH. They gain the vesse}, and altho’ short-handed, By dog-faced Morton happily commanded, Get off the shore. Ulysses now at last At what thas come to sadly stands aghast. Too late. The sea beneath swelis angry in the gioom, The rising tempest speaks its words of doom. The lightning flash reveals the lowering form Of fate; black clouds, and, high above the storm, Scburz, Sumner, Trumbull peal like Joudest thun- der, When the strained bark snaps suddenly asunder. The waves enguif and saw-tecthed sharks devour The carpet-baggers within half an hour. YE PLANK THAT SAVETH ULYSSES, All save Ulysses perish; ere he sank He grabbed and held a single Moating plank, And, by the lightning, as he thanks Ins star, Reads this:—*Ulysses’ record tn the war.”” On this alone he Moats and longs for land, But no Caiypso’s isiand ig at hand; At length he’s ung upoMPotomac’s strand. HE SEEKETA PENBLOPE COLUMBIA. Weary and wet, chapfall’n, in wretched plight, He reaches Washington at dead of night, And to the White House jame and halting creeps, And ‘twixt the green Vencrtians anxious peeps, Within Penelope the Patient sits, And round her troop a company of wits And gallants suing for her hand. She smiles and sighs and trifles with the band, NE ESPIETH HORACE AMONG THE SUrTO! But to Ulyases' horror he discovers A gray old man among the would-be lovers. “Horace, by Jove!” he cried, and through the garden (He didn’t slope like spoony Enoch Arden) Went in and roughly grasped her Dolly Varden, } Columbia, his Penelope, scarce knows Her Jord in such a shocking suit of clothes. When sure ‘twas he that trod the White House floor, He asked her would she love him as before. ~~ “COLUMBIA'S CONUNDRUM. Gravely she answered:—‘Though you gained the strife, ‘This house is rented to no man for life. *Tis yours just yet; but pray you, sir, remember, I'l choose ‘twixt you and Horace in November.” . WHAT MR. BOUTWELL KNOWS ABOUT FI- NANCE AND CURRENCY, To TRE Epiror OF THE HERALD:— Mr. Secretary Boutwell’s late North Carolina speech has been severely handled by his political oppo- nents on nearly every topic, except those of finance and currency. These branches of the public admin- istration constitute the peculiar fleld for the labor and the teachings of a national minister of finance and it is here that the student of political economy expects to learn wisdom and great and broad prin- ciples, Like his immediate predecessor, Mr. Mc- Culloch, he has exacted from the too willing tax- payers @ superabundant revenue, and made haste to pay off the national debt, which would have fallen lighter on a future generation, when the country’s resources will be doubled or quadrupicd in amount. This, he argues, is the right way to establish the public credit, and he then lays down this remarkable proposition :— The establishment of the public credit upon a firm basis is a condition precedent to the resump- tion of specie payments, This is the most astounding proposition ever put forward by a man holding Mr. Boutwell’s position, surrounded, as he is, in his own department by able men who could bave pointed out to him the extraordinary absurdity of such a deciaration—a declaration that stamps him as an ignoramus in financial affairs. To talk of establishing the na- tional credit on a firm basis and leave the nation's paper, or currency, at a heavy discount and the football of speculators is so manifestly preposterous as to require no argument to demonstrate its fallacy. President Grant, in his two first messages at the opening of sessions of Congress, urged on that body the Indispensable necessity of passing mea- sures to hasten a resumption of specie payments, as paramount to all other considerations. But how did he carry out his own sound principles ? Why, at the close of the second session by signing a bill, making it law, to inflate the currency by the ad- dition of $55,000,000 to the national bank paper, thus indefinitely postponing specie payments, This act of President Grant, when he had it in his wer to veto the bill, shows how completely he ad then become the tool of the national bank ring and thebond holders. Had there been any reasonable grounds for increasing the currency why should this $55,000,000 have been donated to the latter to enable them to start additional banks? Why not issue the amount in greenbacks and pay offso much of the national debt as that amount converted into gold would have accomplished ? This would have effected an annual saving of $3,000,000, or a million more than Mr. Boutwell claims to have saved by his boasted conversion of $200,000,000 of six per cents into fives. Now, a word about this latter claim. What merit can there be in having made a bargain with his pet banks, who hold large balances of government funds, without paying interest therefor, from one yous end to another, to exchange for sixes held yy the Comptroller of the currency to secure their circulation, formerly presented to them by the nation, for fives? How much of this boasted con version was made in the open market? Certainly not a third, and that only by a resort to an enor- mous commission of more than six per cent on that portion so disposed of, paid to the so-called Syndicate of speculators and bankers, The claim made by Mr. Boutwell for President Grant’s administration, on the score of finance, is utterly untenable, The boast of having reduced the taxes on spirits and increased the revenue therefrom by an honest execution of the laws has no better foundation as a claim for merit. It was beyond all dispute, that the cause of the evasion of the Excise laws, under Mr. Johnson's administration, was mostly, if not wholly, due to the enormous duty of $2a gallon. The moment it was put down to seventy-five cents the temptation to defraud the government was removed. Instead of collecting Oi 20,000,000 gallons at the rate of $2 it became easy to collect on 80,000,000 at the lower plies to ‘other branches of rate. The same argument Wy the revenue where before the duty amounted to nearly a prohibition. Since the days when a lot of ignorant and stupid Bank of England Directors, in 1810, repudiated Hr. Homer's now universally ac- cepted theories of currency and finance, embodied his masterly “Bullion Report,” no such ignorance of the first principles of the science of money and Pouca economy in all its branches has been ex- ibited as that openly proclaimed by. Mr. Boutwell and acted on by Mr. Grant. BROOKLYN AFFAIRS. The Condition of Commissioner Corr. The physicians, Drs. Shepard and Young, who were in attendance on Commissioner Corr, believ- ing that while there was life there was hope, con- | tinued their treatment with unceasing persever- ance, and yesterday morning had the gratifying satisfaction of secing their patient in an improved condition, Mr. Corr is not yet out of danger, but even his present slight improvement is cheering to all parties. Another Stabbing Affray. Early yesterday morning two young men, named Patrick Welsh and John Dailey, quarretled about money matters at their boarding house, corner of Hudson avenue and Plymouth street. The couple | resorted to violence to settle the dispute, when | Welsh drew a knife and stabbed Dailey three times— twice in the leit thigh and once in the forehead. The assailant was arrested by OMcer Donoghne, of the York street police, and locked up to answer. | Dailey is not seriously injured. i | Descent on a Disorderly House. At half-past three o'clock yesterday morning Officers Regan and Price, of the Myrtle avenue po- lice station, made a descent on the basement of 43 poy ne oe street, which had been complained of as a erly house. The officers arrested Dennis and Mary Murray on the charge of Salty # the \d James McMahon, Mary McCreevey, Eliza- th Welsh and Catherme Johnson, who were found there at the time. The prisoners will be arraigned before Justice Riley this morning, Robbery and Violence. Two. young, thieves, hailing from New York. en- tered Louis Mentrup’s grocery, corner of Court and Harrison streets, on Saturday night, and de- liberately proceeded to rifle the money drawer. Mentrup detected them, and when he attempted to Lope them from escaping they assaulted him. Ine of the thieves, who gave his name as Cornelius Sullivan, was arrested, but the other one escaped. The sum of $16 was found in Sullivan’s possession, and he was locked up in the Buties street station house by Oflcer Roche, The Last Day's Proceedings of the In- ternational Prison Congress. THE STORMS AND FLOODS IN ENGLAND. itl Race. Cemeteries Inundated and the Graves Robbed of Their Dead. AEE: Peale G SIGHTS IN THE RIVER SICKEN) . Gambetta’s Speech at the Banquet Given in His Honor. The steamship Republic, Captain Perry, of the White Star line, from Liverpoo) July 18, via Queens- town the 19th, arrived at this port yesterday, with latest foreign advices from Europe, ENGLAND. ie Se ea The International Prison Congress—The Closing Business of the Conference—Last Day’s Work—What Has Been Accom. plished, and What is Expected to Acerue from It—Adjournment. Lonpon, July 16, 1872. The closing proceedings of this Congress were held on Saturday, inthe Middie Temple Hall, Sir John Pakington, M. P., presiding. There was a very tull assemblage of the delegates and commis- sioners, and although the business to be transacted | was only to receive the reports of the various sec- tions, a pro forma matter, the members showed an unabated interest to the last in the work. The Chairman, on taking his seat, said the Congress was now assembled for the concluding meeting of what had been @ most interesting gathering, and he hoped the progeedings of the morning would be in every way worthy of the satisfactory proceed- ings of the other days, His duty was not then to detain them, but he would simply congratulate them upon having got through their work so weil. He then called upon M, Victor Bournat, of France, to present the report of the French-speaking section. REPORT FROM THE FRENCH-SPRARING SECTION, M. Bournat then brought up this report, which en- tered into the subject of the deliberations of the French-speaking section with great spirit, and dis- cussed at very great length the merits of the vari- ous systems of imprisonment brought before it. Great praise was given to Sir W. Crofton, Captain Du Cane, M, Stevens, and other gentlemen, for the information which had been laia before the section, ‘The report proved to be too long for the audience to hear it all, and the reporter of the section was interrupted when he had got apparently about half through its reading. A resolution was passed that the report should be printed with the proceedings of the Congress, RRSUME OF THR PLOCERDINGS. Mr, G. W. HASTINGS then read the seport of the International Committee, and this gave a résumé of the proceedings, the general features of which have been reported, and it expressed the thanks of the committee to the government of Her Majesty for the facilities afforded to the delegates for the inspection of the convict and Other prisons, and for the information given to the meeting, especially by Sir Walter Crofton and Captain Du Cane, the head of the convict department, who had attended the sittings of the Congress, and spared no pains to elucidate the workings of the systems under their care, The Congress was much gratified by the resence ot the Secretary of State, the Right Hon. i. A. Brace, at one of its sittings, and by the as- surances he gave of the interest felt by tne govern- Ment in the objects of the Congress, A still more flattering recognition was aiforded by the presence of the Prince of Wales at the soirée, held in the Middle Temple Hall on the 9th inst., when the lead- ing delegates from most of the countries repre- sented at the Congress were introduced to His Royal Highness. The committee also thanked vhe Courts of Quarter Sessions, benches of magis- trates, and public institutions which had sent dele gates to the Congress, and also the Incorporated Law Society, the Society of Arts, and the Social Science Association forthe accommodation placed at the disposal of the committee. The report con- cluded by sisting that in the general question of reclamation the influence of women devoted to such work was of the highest importance, and the com- mittee rejoiced thi. the Congress had had the ad- vantage of the presence and counsel of many ladies whose practical acquaintance with prisons and reformatories had given weight to their words, and whose example furnished hope for the future. After reading the report Mr. Hastifigs said he wished to draw the attention of the Congress to the manner in which criminal statistics were prepared. He hoped that whatever scheme might de vised especial care would be taken to insure trustworthiness in obtaining = sneh information. He cid not hesitate to say that at present such statistics were exceedingly de- lusive. Sir Walter Crofton the other day had pointed out thatit was a most imperfect test to ask what was the number of convictions under a system. They should well consider the cireum- stances of those reconvictions, and he therefore begged to call the attention of the International Committee to that point. The next point he wished to refer to related to prison discipline, which, he con- tended, could not be carried out efficiently unless the prisons contained a certain number of pris: oners, The management of jails containing a sm=il number of prisoners could not be carried on pro- perly, and he mentioned one instance where a jail contained but five prisoners. Mr. Hastings said he hoped the Home Office would see the necessity of submitting to Parliament the great good which would be effected by the Secretary of State having power to abolish prisons which contained # small number of prisoners. The speaker then formally moved the adoption of the report, and resumed his seat. Mr. BAINES seconded the motion. THE WORK OF TRE CONC Miss CARPENTER, in addressing the meeting, ob- served that it was impossible to comprehend the importance of the Congress, for by it a bew era had opened upin the progress of civilization, and this new era had been coming on for years. She recol- lected well the chairman being at a meeting of juve- nile delinquents some twenty years ago; and she was then asked if children did not owe retribution to society; but her answer was that society owed retribution to them. There had been one feeling of unanimity pervading the Congress in reference to the treatment of prisoners so as to prepare them for a re-entry into the world, There w: too, another new feature connected with the C Tess, and that was the part assigned to women in the work of criminal reformation. It was right that women should seek out and help the less fortunate of their own sex. It was a great feature in the his- tory of the country for women to enter upon such important duties, for they, of all otuers, were best. able to treat the moral and mental, as well as the physical diseases of their sex. CLOSING BUSINESS, Mr. Powe then addressed the Chair, and sug- gested that at the close of the day's business the Congress should adjourn till! Monday and Tuesday, to consider the subjects of death punishments and the creation of crime by the liqnor traffic. Mr. E. H. Coatrs, of Pennsylvania, fully sympa- thized with the last speaker, and said that when he left America he brought with him documents representing the views of half a million of the best men and women on the American Continent, The CHAIRMAN, referring to the report of the committee, said it was very pleasing to hear such @ very satisfactory report from what was essen- tially a representative committee, consisting of one delegate from each of the man nations there represented. The discussions whic! had been held would be read with the deepest in- terest by the people of every nation represented at that meeting, touching as they did upon subjects both complicated and difficult. When they found, then, that such committee concurred in recom. mending the report for adoption, which, though brief, was comprehensive in its character, it cou Not fail, he apprehended, to give the atest sat- isfaction, It proved that the discussions kad not been in vain. Aiter alluding to the prominent part which had been taken in the proceedin, ladies, the Chairman concluded by observing that it was a | source of much thankfulness to know that the de- bates would not be unproductive of good results. Mr, PoWELL then renewed his suggestions in the form of a motion. ‘The CHainman said he understood that no further business was to be taken, and thought that & would not be just to the foreign representatives to have an adjournment, at the same time he admitted that both the Revere referred to by the gentlemen were of vital EapOr Hanne, and were well worthy of consideration. le then put the adoption of the re- port to the meeting, when it was carried unani- | monsly. Dr. Wings then moved, and Archbishop MANNING seconded, the following resolution : “That this International Con; composed of representatives from twenty tes of the world, desire on this, its last day of meeting, to éxpress its grateful thanks to the Master and the honorable So- ciety of the Middle Temple, and to its treasurer, Sir T. mbers, for their liberality in placing at the dit of the Congress this magnificent hall and ir Parhament Chamber.” Votes of thanks were also passed to the Chair- man, tothe Secretary, Mr. Pears; to Dr. Mouat (who had interpreted on several days and other- Wine assisted the Congress), to the foreigm dele- the river, and committed great devastation, washing away headstones and other memo- | rials from the graves. In some cases the | brate this gr e tended to the foreign delegates im every way, hip pong Ego apes votes 3 good jeeling an will the ceedings terminated. weel ‘ihe members of the. Congress will visit ms, State, county and voluntary, lit- tle time having been ‘afforded last week for obtain. ing an inspection of these objects of peculiar in- ag to the gentlemen who have visited this coun- The Disastrous Storms and Floods— Terrible Seenes—Cemeteries Flooded, Graves Torn Open and Dead Bodies and Coffins Swept Away by the Flood— Bursting of a Reservoir—Manufactories and Mincs. Stopped Working—Suffering of the Poor and Injury to erenerty: {From the London Daily News, July 15. Accounts reach us from cpontng tn of Mania. shire and Cheshire of the serious effects of the storms of the last few days, Our Manchester cor- respondent, writing last evening, says:—Yesterda} the heavy falls of rain in this neighborhood, which hag continued with bnt alight intermission for sev- past, suddenly ceased about three P, M., andthe weather Coutinasd fine until about nine o’clock this morning. The rain during Thursday and Fridey was accompanied with thunder and lightning, and at intervals the downpour was such as is seldom exceeded during the most terrific storms, Yet no great alarm.or uneasiness was felt_in Mai chester, because the volume of water in our prin pal river, the Irwejl, had not very largely increased, After the cessation of the rainfall yesterday, how- ever, there was a yery perceptible increase of the | stream in all-the rivers, and this rise of the waters continued to increase till a late hour in the evening. The rivers Irwell and lrk, however, have not over- fowed their banks so as todo much serious dam- age. With the Medlock and Mersey, however, the case was far different. Both these rivers seriously overflowed their banks, and the escaping floods from them have done immense damage. The river Medlock had begun to rise rapidly at one o'clock on Saturday, and s00n afterwards evidences of the ravages it was committing along its banks resented themselves in the shape of household yniture, planks, and various other kinds of property, wi floated down the stream. Soon after three o’cl the food made a elean breach over the stone bridge in London road, Manchester, and subsequently several streets were overfowe® | in some places to a depth of many feet, and in some of the buildings, which are dwelling bouses, the tn- mates were driven up stairs to escape the water, and made prisoners for many hours in the upper | stories, A very ghastly aspect was given to affairs | during the afternvon by the appearance in the stream of a considerable number of dead bodies, some of thein in coitins and some of them without, which had been washed away from the Roman | Catholic portion of the cemetery negr he | Philip's Park. ‘the flood had swept ovéi ie on of this burial ground severa! miles higher up = soil had simply been weanes from the graves; in others the 1{@s of coins had been removed, expos- ing the faces Of the dead; and. in others, as alread: mentioned, the coftms and the bodies they co tained were entirely washed away. The police sus ceeded, with,the aid of grappling irons and by other means, in recovering a number of the bodies floating down the river, and such of them as were without coffins were removed to the police station in shelis. As many as nine of these bodies are Wing at Fairfield street station, and three others at the Choriton Town Hail. The flood in its course through Ancoat’s vale washed away three cottage houses. The flood found its way into a large dye works, in Embden vale, and into the extensive machine shop ot Messrs. Wren & Hopkinson, which was flooded to the height of two stories. The damage will be very considerable. A great quan- tity of calicoes and fustian goods were swept out of the dye house into the bea of the river, and remained mere ae to) i oe pile and Great serious obstruction to the water-courge. Gre: & ment was naturally created tt Mi portons ay i} city tims flooded. During the eatly part of yeste day afternoon the Gorton reservoir, near Manches- ter, belonging to the Manchester Corporation, burst, and an immense volume of water flowed upon the Sheffield Railway, very seriously impeding the trac for a time, besides doing great damage. A large quantity of water Sscaping from this reser- voir swept over the populous village of Fallowfield, flooding the turnpike road to the depth of several feet, and filling and damaging the cottages of the yee besides doing much other damage. The river lersey, which passes through Stockport, an comes within a few miles of Manchester, burst its banks daring the afternoon at a point near to Dids- bury church, and has placed a large tract of coun- try on the Lancashire side of the stream under water, There is an artificial embankment for some miles along this side of the river. At Didsbury in some places it is fifteen to twenty feet high, and of considerable breadth and strength, and during the afternoon the water began to wash over the top and soon made for it- self a new channel, which every moment increased in depth and breadth till the whole valley formed an immense lake, in some places a3 much as six to eight feet deep, and covering, besides meadows and pasture lands, fields filled with grain, pota- toes and other growing crops. The damage done by the flood here and for many miles down the vale of the Mersey will be very great, and up to the present time oniy a very imperfect idea of it can be formed. On the leit bank of the Mersey runs the Manchester and ShefMeld Railway Cem- pany’s line from Stockport te Altringham, and some portions of this property were submerged to adepth which rendered travelling impracticable for several hours, and a good many trains were brought to a stand near Northenden station. We have heard of no loss of life through these floods, From Wigan we learn that mach injury has been caused in the valley of the Douglas. On Saturday the river was higher than it has been known for a quarter of a century, and immense tracts of land have been laid under water, The water washed away a boundary wall in Wigan, and entered an old coal pit, whence it is feared it will reach the workings of those firms who lease the seams beneath the borough. The most, strenuous efforts were made yesterday to fil up the pit, but it was not until late at night that the difficulty was overcome. Through fear of a flood the workmen were with- drawn from several pits on Saturday. All along the stream the lower rooms of the mills and manu- factories have suffered, the boiler fires have been fay a and the hands compelled to cease work. The heavy rains of the past week have caused the River Aire at Leeds to overflow its banks, and considerable damage has been done to property. Houses in the lower parts of the town have been flooded, and the furniture has been removed for safety. Some of the streets have to-day been tm- passable, and parties have had to cross from point to point in carts and wagons. A little boy was car- } ried away by a stream, Similarly disastrous accounts, accompanied in several instances with reports of loss of life from drowning and lightning, reach us from other parts | of Lancashire, as well as from Nerfolk and Essex. FRANCE. Bren Heian eked The Banquet to Gambetta at Petit Paris—The Ex-Dictator’s Speech on the Fature of Fra and the Prospects of the Republic. ‘The correspondent of the London Daily News sup- plies to that journal an account of the much-talked- of banquet to M. Gambetta. The entertainment was given the ex-Minister under some large tents in a@ field adjoining a suburb of La Ferté-sous- Jouarre, called “Petit Paris, possibly from its proximity to the high road to Paris, The following is an extract Irom the News account of Gambetta’s speech :— “My D&ak Frignps—When I rise amid you all my first thought is for those who have permitted us, by the sacrifice of their lives, to assemble freely to- day in this Department of Seine-et-Marne, not far from that Paris which ought to be and which will remain, whatever may said, the intelectual | capital of France and the whole, world. Yes, my | friends, it is above all a prous thought which brings us ree her to-day, not only under this frail canvas but throughout France; not only to féte and cele- date of the French Revolution, but also to study calmly, coolly and resolutely what was done by our fathers, what remains for us to do, Not only ought we to do this patiently, but we ought to study our actua) position and see how far behindhand we are, and how hard is our situation, seeing that three-quarters of @ century after our great Revolution we are still fighting, not for its institutions, but for the mere name of the republic. Yes, my friends, it is neces- sary that this mecting shouid be a meeting of free men; that is to say, of men who know how to sub- due their feelings. Whatever may be the sympathy with which they may be good enough to receive one of their fellow-citizens, and I may say one of their Tepresentatives, they ought, I say, also for them- selves and for bim, to spare applause which ad- dressed to his person could not be justified. I am anxious to remind you that it {s nOt with a feeling ot jor but with one of profound sadiress, that we should meet together on the morrow ot our disas- ters—disasters resulting from our forgetfulpess of the principles of the Revolution; that on the mor- row of our terrible misfortunes we shonid still be busy in obtaining the right to-meet and to reply to | the accusations of a paid dishonored Es which | only.seeks, by its assertions, on all occasions to | frighten France by representing us as the pro- moters of disorder and agence T way this for the benefit of the so-calied “light’’ press. If its repre- sentatives could see you assembled here peace- ably they would see tliat you came from ali around, not only to banquet, out with @ more noble end, say this because [ ‘know that my words will be repeated, and because I desire that every one may know that we are ripe for all possible liberty. These meetings, then, are good ; iwi more, they are necessary, in order to bring together all tie difter- ent clements of French yok which the Kevolu- tion of 1789 had brought together, but which the survivors of the old world would now, three-quar- ters of a century later, scatter anew if they coula. ‘Thess nee borg therefore, to be bef oad more particularly in the Cog order to bring | I | | ig its rigl degradation of tl pricats. It wae this admi destroyed by the Church and the aris} was on account of this ad: unton of a wh people that the dissolving them- united selves against the republican idea which bf 2 trod not cole = hig righ ava Bt rae urg, in Germany, pai rland, even: in Catholic Spain itself—in a wore, Cl ie re. And then, too, everywhere it was felt the old. world had come to anend, that the new world of justice, of right—the world of individual will, of the era of civil, lay and equal society—was about to commence. It was necessary to check such @ vic- tory. It was necessary, at least, to keep ‘ bounds, and to stop it from croasine Oe frontier. That is why the nobles and the priests, the Condés, the Contis and others left three days later to er | the forel, in, They have been accused, justiy, of treason. They have been wrongfully ac- cused of stupidity; but this is absurd, for they sue- ceeded in stirring up against France a coalized Europe of — : Gambetta then proceeded to consider i oe situation of France, and laid the spe- asis upon the neoessity of education as the only means of putting an end to the misrule present cial empl and uncertainty from which Frai ince had so long suffered. In conclusion he-spoke in el it terms jequen’ of the republic, and defended it from the calumnies. by which it had been assailed, The fact must be proclaimed from one end of the country to the other that the republic was the ally of order and Aiacinite, and that it was not the enemy of prop- erty, NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS PROJECTED. Feitelonialaantontetinkes A Flect of Ships in Search of the Poie. The latest acconnts from Germany, through the medium or Dr, Augustus Petermann’s sfittheitungen, convey the intelligence of the further multiplica- tion of North Polar expeditions in various parts of Europe, destined to move to the high north without. delay. Among’ the first of these to sail will be the expedition which is generously designed to co-ope- rate this summer with that of Lieutenants Payer’ and Wyprecht, and is equipped and managed by Count Wiltschek, This distinguished patron of science will sail first to Tromste and thence direct to Hornsund, in Spitzbergen, after which he wii go to Nordkushe in Nova Zembla, and transfer hia sup- | plies for the Anstrian party. The expedition under Payer and Wyprecht left Bremerhaven on the 13th of June, and are now doubtless well on their way into the seas east of Spitzbergen, where it is thelr purpose to ascer- tain the surface currents, the thermal curves and the general meteorology and biology of these waters, and ultimately to eadeavor to follow the supposed path of the Gulf Stream towards the Pole, and thus to test the “Thermometric Gateway’” theory of Captain Silas Bent, of St. Louis, Captain Svend Foyn, a Norwegian sea captain ot note and a renowned whaler, 1s fitting out a pri- vate undertaking, combining research with sport, and he will go out in a steamer specially prepared. to rough it in the Siberian seas, A similar sportsmantiike and semi-scientific enterprise is also- preparing by Captain Jensen, of Drammen, in the: steamer Cape Nor, destined also for the Siberian seas. af The most important, however, of all these pro- jected expeditions, next to that of Payer and Wy- sisal in the steamer Admiral Tegethoff, is the test great Swedish North Pole Expenitie under’ the commannd of Professor Nordenskivid, This: Swedish exploration will be under the protection and at the expense of the government and ina vessel of the Swedish navy, verytying, as Dr. Peter- =e says, the remark ff ary ape annet +4 not alone for war, ave a mission as Brave a nes rahe : UH ds Professor Nordenskivid will winter in 1872-1873, if possible, at Parry Island, north of Eppes Sl latitude 80 deg. 40 min., and will endeavor that point, in February, 1873, to push on to the Pole. ‘The French expedition, under Ambert and Mack, will change their original plan of going via Behrin; Strait, and have determined to make a movement between Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla, in the me posed track of the Gulr Stream, and thus they will Bold cok-ad lee fy Captain Bent’s “thermo- metric” paths to the Pole. Three noher distinct efforts at Polar discove! will also be soon made~ by gentlemen already well known to the geographical world—Messrs. Ikhuniopp, Meinert and Pavy. The first will sail with a Russian crew, and winter in latitude 72% North, on Karmakuly Bay, Meinert goes very nearly in ae route of Captain Svend Foyn, of Nor- way, and Pavy, an American by birth, modest but dauntiess, will make the novel experiment by way of Behring Strait on his celebrated raft. These various enterprises, with those already im Polar waters, will constitute a powerful fleet of Polar discovery, and we may hope will prove suc- + cessful in their combined attempt to capture the objective point of Arctic geographical research. BUFFALO PARK ENTRIES, BurFato, N. Y., July 28, 1872, The entries for the Buifalo Park August races closed last night. Seventy-one horses were entered for the regular races and three for the pairing race. The aggregate of the purses is $60,500. Notice of several entries by mail, not yet received, will be added, The list, as far as completed, is as follows :— Pursk No. 1, for four-year-olds—First @ay, Tues- day, August 6.—Purse $1,000, for four-year-olds and under; $600 to first, $300 to second and $100 to third horse; the names are:—D. L. Kase, ch. 8. Ma- roon Golddust, L. L. Dorsey, Jr., g. f Katey Gola- 8. Carpen- dust, Rufus P, White, br. g, Buzz, T. ter, ee s. Rowe’s Tommy, formerly Thomas Jeffer- } son, Jr. Pursg No, 2, of $1,000, for horses that have never trotted better than 2:27, the names are:—John A. Lovett, b. m. Lulu, formerly Jenny Perry; Charles Champitn, dark br.s, North Star Mambrino, for- merly R, A. Alexander; M. Roden, br. g. Soorge Jacob Kremer, br. g. Dennis; T. 8. Carpenter, br. 8, Dauntless; George N. Ferguson, br. fi James H. Burke; Thomus J. Smith, br. m. Flora Belle; Sera Wade> br. g. Cloud; Budd Dobie, br. g. Glengary, formerly Uncle Dan Mace, b. g. Sleepy John; A. H. Dare, b. | Grand Duchess. For the purse of $3,400, for horses that have never trotted better than 2:4, the nanies are:—M. Gooden, br. m. Lady Mauc> John K. Leavett, s. g. Starr; Cormee; 8B. Shumway, b. 8. Jones, . g._ Ashland Pet; M. . Crown Prince; A. M. 3 Wiison, race; Alden Goldsmith, b. g. Gloster; 6, & me. Leggett, b. 8. Bembrino Star. For the second aay irse No. 4, for horses that have never trotted ter than: three minutes, the names are:—J. J. Bowen, b. g~ Comee : Kimble, g. § Fred Johnson; John S. Steven~ Willie Golddust ; Ne Jarvis, g. g. Doubt- tu;; Lewis Glenn, b. g. H. B. ley. , Purse No. 5, $5,! for horses that have never trotted better than 2:21 (barring Lucy). The names are W. H. Harrison’s 3. m. Susey, Budd Doble’s b. 8. Jay Gould, Alden Goldsmith’s b. m. Huntress, M. W. Bacon’s b. 8, W. H. Allen. PURSE No. 6, $5,000, for horses that have never trotted better than 2:34. The names are S. Greeii’s: br. 8. Golddust, Jr. . Van Socoter's Kilburn Jim, F. F, Bilis’s g. g. Ben Flagler. THIRD DAY. Purse No. 7, $1,500, for five year olds and un- der. L. L. Dorsey, Jr.'s, ch. ¢, Selcaldi Golddust, M. Goodin's br. m. Lady Maud, James W. Myers’ br. c. Vanity Fair, T. 8. Carpenter’s bl. 8. Rowe’s Tom- my, formerly ‘Thomas Jefferson, Jr. 'URSE No. 8, $10,000, for horses that have never trottea better than 2:20, John Lovett’s b. m. Ga- zelle, Jacob Kremer’s g. Dennfa, B. Shumway's b. 8. Strideaway, C.S. Green's br. m. Lucille Gold- dust, M. D. Van Scoter’s br. 8, Kilburn Jim, A. M. Wilson's br. m. Ella Wilson, E. 8. Brown’s g. Advance, formerly Honest Fred, 0. A. Hickox's Elmo, W. Devine's r. g. Barney, T. P. Roach’s r. m. Gentle Annie. PURSE NO. 9, $2,000 for horses that never beat. 2:50. Rufus R. White's b, 8, Continental; E. B. Par- sons, b. g. Bird, formerly Canada Boy; L, Benham’s: 4h. Frank J., formerly Hilton Day; A. M. Wilson's. Gm Grace; W. Devine’s 3 yunndare; Alden, idsmith's b, g. Gloster; 8. D. Walbridge’s b. m.., FOURTH DAY. Lady Shgrwood. PUR§E No. 10, $10,000, for horses that never ted better than 2: John Lovett’s b, br. 8. | trot- | Lula,,, 8. formerly Jenny Perry; Charles Champlin’ North Star Mambrino, formerly ‘Alemania Roden’s ch. g. Triumph, formerly Joe; Dan ‘9 ch. g. Judge Fullerton, T. 8. Carpen' 8m. 1 Such, G. N. Ferguson's D. J. H. Burke, J.C. Simp-: son's b. m. Ciara G., W. H. Harrison’s 8. m, Susie, Bud Doble’s b, m. Rosaline, A. Brown's b. g. Derby, formerly Dutchman. PURSE No. 11, $10,000, for all horses. Mr, Roden’s’ ». g. Henry; B. Mace’s b, m, American Girl; Budd Doble’s b. m. Goldsmith Maid; 0. A. Hickox’s b, m. Lucy. for pacers. W.G. Luce’s EXTRA PURSE OF 9 ra Dan Voorhees; H. Crawford's b. g. Harry ; .P. Boyce. Roach’s b. g. Billy | A OLERGYMAN DEPOSED, BUFFALO, N. Y., July 27, 1872, The Buffalo Presbytery to-day deposed Rev. M. Ix P. Thompson, who is charged with adultery at Jamestown, from the ministry, and indefinitely suspended him from communion. The Rov. Mr, Thompson was suspended so:ne years ago for é similar offence in Cincinnati, and, on the recom together the working man of the towns and the | Depsunt from the coumtry; abd @ proof of this is mendation of his Butio brethren that he hat heartiiv repented of his sin, was reinstated,