The New York Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1872, Page 6

6 EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. puewanr THEATRE, Bowery.—Honxst Jonn—Hazew WarTms ATHENAUM, 085 Broadway.—Nearo Min. WOOD'S MUREUM, Br - 8. oe peaway, corner Thirtieth st. vening, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Blocker six —A Live's Dusan, 40. . WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth —BLUE Bear, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201’ Bowery.— ‘Oanis ann Lena. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Escarep nom Sina ‘Bina. OBNTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Grarp LwsteowmnraL NORRT. | NRW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Botenou anv Ax: DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Aur ann Borenox. \TRIPLE SHEET, low, York, Thursday, August 15, 1873, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. Doctor Livingstone’s Great Lacu River=The Nile Problem—The plorer, the Missionary and the Man. In to-day’s issue of the Henaup will be found our correspondent’s detailed account of the six years’ travels and discoveries of Dr. Livingstone. To present these momentous results of the traveller's great work in a form appreciable to the general as well as to the scientific reader, we have accompanied it with ® beantifnl map of the wonderful region de- scribed, prepared with the utmost accuracy at present attainable. It displays with fidelity the course of the mighty lacustrine stream, so faras explored, and indicates the direction by which the explorer himself believes it to connect with the Nile—the river of old fable land and mys- tery. These discoveries were first given to the world through the New Yorr Henaup, and we desire that no element may be wanting to thoir thorough comprehension. Before discussing the various theories to which these discoveries have given rise outside of Africa we will turn for an instant to the dis- coverer himself, The achievements in the cause of science, humanity and the Gospel, which will make the name of Dr. David Liv- ingstone forever famous among men, have been told to the world; but while they eall forth high admiration and sin- cere sympathy, those most impressed by the recital will ask for further light upon the steadfast man who wrought and suf- fp aces CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. ‘Paan. 1—Advortisements. » Q—Advertisements. ee the Wavershed of the Nile, with Expla- a ns, 4—lLivingstone’s Nile: Graphic Description of the Great Explorer Sketched at Ujiji; The Outer and the Inner Man; His Vigor, Pluck, Mem- ory, Perseverance, Patience and Gentleness; The World of Solitary Thought He Lived In for Six Years: The Story of Explorations ; qyavelling Up the Rovuma; Sending Back the Sepoys; Desertion of the Johanna Men; The Watershed of the Nile; Lake Lincoln and Its Outlet to the Lualaba; The Sources of the Congo; The Unexplorea Region; A Weary Tramp to Ujiji; Manyema’s Introduction to Gtvilization at the Gun’s Muzzle; How Arab Cupidity Defcats Itself; Once the Natives Are Armed with Muskets the Slave Trade Ceases; Resolve to Visit the Head of T nyika. S—Livingstone’s Nile (Continued ym Fourth —Mexico'’s Liberator: The Iliness and Death of Benito Juarez—a Terrible Out: Doings of Detectives—Murderous Molly Ma- Wea Decapltated by a Lunatic—American institute of Instruction. ,®—Editoriais: Leading Article, “Doctor Living- stone’s Great Lacustrine River—The Nile Problem—The Explorer, the Missionary and the Man”"—Amusement Announcements. W—The Alabama Claims—Cable Telegrams from Fngiand, France, Germany and Rome— qn and. China—Affairs in Mexico—Greeley in ine: Journey of the Philosopher from Gorham to “Away Down East’'—Sunshine and Storm: The Remarkable Weather of Yes- terday; Fatal Cases of Sunstroke; Electric ee at Poughkeepsic—Business ‘8—-The Campaign: News from Ohio, Maine, Ver- mont and Missouri; The Grantites Calm, Con- fiaent and Active; Curious Paradox in Maine; A Probable Liberal Governor, but Ten Thou- sand Majority for Grant; Vermont and Ohio Certain for the Administration, but by Re- ‘duced Majorities; The Struggle Everywhere eines Bake Aer te ie ular Pine tres Stacey Russone Still Steady for Gratz and the Sage—The Poiitical Head- quarters, —The Germans Organizing for the Greeley and Brown Campaign—The Greeley and Brown Mass Meetin, vernor Jewell in Williams burg—Brooklyn in Greene re Street—The Dental Conyention in Boston— High Freights—Uptown Roads—Financial and Commercial: Decline in Breadstutls; Gold Lower, Going Off to 114%. and Crosing 11424; Customs bes $749,000; A Weaker Feel- ing in Foreign Exchange, with Nominal Rates Steady; Stocks Dull and Unsettied; Further Falling Of in Erie and Recovery in Western Union; Governments Quiet; uthern Se- curities Dull, Railway Mortga: Steady and Bids for Uity Bank Shares; The Business of P the Sub-Treasury—Marri: and Deaths, $0—Mace and O’Baldwin: The Champion of Muscle Again Arrested; Held to Answer Before a United States Grand Jury; The Police Called Out to Maintain Order—Utica Park Races— The Yellow Fever Fleet: Three Vessels in the with the Scourge on Board—Shipping In- nce—Advertisements. @1—Barnard’s Impeachment: Beach Combattt the Charges bade) the Supreme Cou! Ju Interest ng, Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—The McCabe fered in patience and trust for the good of mankind. Such a picture is given in our cor- respondent's letter. Perusing it we see the crude outlines of the popular, vague, uncouth idea of the man vanish, and in their stead appear the full, tenderly-toned figure of the missionary and explorer. In his cheerfulness and patience we see the moral strength which sustained him under all vicis- situdes; in his introspective power the charm which made long isolation bear- able, the desert populous and the far off near; in his unobtrusive soulful piety, the true qualities of the harbinger of God's word to the heathen.* The world will rejoice at this mental beauty of the man whom it wishes to honor, and the story of his trials will receive a mellowed light from them. The portrait of a great war captain in the flushed moment of triumphal entry to the capital of his land may dazzle the eye in its glare and pomp and awaken feverish ideas of fame in its suggestion of power and genius, but for absorbing inter- est it cannot compare with a picture of the conqueror grimed with the dust and smoke of battle as he rests from victory at evening for an hour before flinging himself once more upon the harried and broken enemy. Of ten- fold greater value to humanity is the peaceful conqueror of the wild, such as Livingstone, and of a hundred-fold greater interest is this presentment of the weary traveller resting awhile from his Iabors than in the midst of the highest honors he can attain. It blasts the breath of slander which pained the world, although it could not even reach its object. It withers the sneer of false friend and heart- less cynic alike, and gives us our hero after the very model his most ardent well-wishers could desire. Happy it is for Dr. Livingstone that he can- not, amid his continued searchings for the connecting link between the Lualaba and the Nile, be worried with the long discussion which excites the attention of geographers over the value of what he has already placed firmly on the map. The “aching void’ on the map of Africa, west of Lake Tanganyika, and extending north and south from two degrees north of the Equator down to the Portugnese Zambezi, has only been Habeas Corpus Case—Jefferson Market Police Court—Coroners’ Wor! eke aoa Between Brooklyn \clals—New York ty Items—Board of Apportionment—Charge with Arson—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. ‘Tax Exrvuston or THE Jzsurts From Ger- wanx hus been practically commenced with closing of a Jesuit establishment at Issen- im, in Alsace. A small thing, this expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany, but a great mis- take for Bismarck, as we suspect it will event- ‘ually appear. Tae Detaware Democracy, ina little con- ‘wention to thetnselves yesterday, found it such uphill work to endorse Mr. Greeley as an old- line democrat that they finally concluded to say nothing on thesubject. Wise old fellows, those old-line Delaware democrats; but they \would be wiser if they would take their can- Gidate cordially, and, “like honest Sancho, pid God bless the giver, nor look the gift hhorse in the mouth.’” _ Avnormer Hircu Amone TH: Lasor Rzrorm- mns.—The Executive Committee of the Labor ers at Philadelphia warn all concerned their bolting chairman, A. M. Puett, Bnd announce that in spite of all that he says ‘or may say to the contrary there will be an- other National Convention of Labor Reform- ers, and it will meet at Philadelphia on the 92d of this month. Very good. Nothing like perseverance; though in swimming against the tide you know that you can do nothing, Ovr News Despatcues From Ast.— Asia, by way of San Francisco, we ve @ news report dated in Yokohama, Japan, on the 22d of July. Coincident with our de- Bpatches came a very heavy cargo of tea and a large number of passengers from the Far East; of them bound for different cities of the nited States and others for Europe. These latter features are quite agrecable to the people as a commercial nation. The had completed his round of visits to different shrines at Kioto, where he for- resided, and in Osaka and Hiogo. He Sea Maray Magen when the Heranp was forwarded. His Imperial Highness his patronage of foreign tailors. before his astonished subjects in magnificent display of broadcloth and gold ex his personal attendants being ‘gotten bop” in an almost similar style of magnifi- ence. The Mikado is determined that the ‘Japanese shall not repeat the insult to personal royalty which was committed by an English Pumpkin against Geotge the Third, when he said, ‘In the show in Bartlemy Fair I saw Bs good a King as that chap there.” The Co- reans have spurned the Japanese demand for redress of grievances in a most indignant and {insulting manner; 80 much so, indeed, that it §is inferred that the Japanese will be compelled to place a higher and more exact value on the routine of an elevated, dignified course of diplomacy in treating tho foreign relations in the futures. - filled up in part, and over the ‘‘unerplored region’ the geographers are wrangling. Nu. merous theories have been advanced dissent- ing from Livingstone’s own conviction that the Lualaba is the Nile. The van of doubt- ers was led by the President of the English Royal Geographical Society, Sir H. ©. Rawlinson, who at first declared the Doc- tor’s great river to be the upper portion of the Congo. It is worth while remark- ing that: this was Dr. Livingstone’s first idea when he had proved that the Chambezi was not the Portuguese river resembling it in name, and that the river flowing out of Lake Bangweolo took a northerly course in the centre of a great valley. On further read- ing, however, Sir Henry adopted the opinion of the Lualaba being the Nile, but dissented and still dissents from the explorer’s theory of its line of connection with that river. We may here say that our own first opinion of the course of the Lualaba to the Nile was the same as that subsequently, but equivocally, adopted by the Geographical Society's President—namely, that it flowed into Sir Charles Baker’s lake, the Albert Nyanza. Doctor Livingstone’s words addressed to the Henaxp, on the matter of the direction of the great river he had followed, are—‘‘and at last found the mighty river had left its west- ing and flowed right away to the north.” Continuing in this line, he argues, it must inevitably connect with the Bahr el Gazah]— Petherick’s branch of the White Nile—through the lake which the Italian traveller, Doctor Piaggia, found at its southern extremity. Sir Henry disputes this theory on the ground that the sources of the Babr el Gazahl were traced by the German explorer, Doctor Schweinfurth, to mountains very little south of the latitude of Gondokoro. Dr. Charles Beke, an eminent African authority, comes in with an argument against Livingstone’s theory of much greater weight. He states that a river called the Uelle, discovered by Dr. Schweinfurth, rising in the mountains west of Lake Albert Nyanza, takes a westerly course, which, if it be the same river as the Shary. heard of by Dr. Barth, would meet the Lualaba in its northerly course, and of necessity carry it into Lake Chad, and the theory of the great Central African Nile Valley along with it, Stated in Dr. Beke’s words it reads thus:—“It inevitably follows that unless the Lualaba takes a decided turn either to the east or to the west from its course ‘ right away to the north’ within thove three hundred miles, it cannot avoid joining the Shary, and through this river falling into Lake Chad. It appears to me to be utterly impossible to gainsay this. Still I believe, for my own part, that my good friend Dr. Livingstone is mistaken in his idea that the course of the Lualaba continues northwards for any considerable distance, but that, on the contrary, it is deflected to the northeast, and 80 flows into the Albert Nyanza, and thus forms the main stream of the Nile.’’ te do not, however, share a thorough belief insists on. It is by no means certain that the river Uello is one and the same with the Shary; and it would not at all surprise us to learn that the Uelle is a tributary of the Luflaba. itself. It is, nevertheless, possible that the, Lualaba enters Lake Albert Nyanza by a sweep to the eastward, and thus settles the question of the Nile; but our trust is greater in the judgment of the exp[fer himself and in the courage and backbone that will tell in the end who is right. It is flattering, indeed, to every one con- nected with the explorations and the channel through which they flowed to the public that something which in Livingstono’s opinion transcends the importance of mapping out a continent may turn up as aresult. We refer, of course, to the slave trade with Zanzibar. This accursed system has been depicted by Burton and other travellers besides’ Livingstone, and although not then extending so far inland as Manyema, “‘wrought its ghosts upon the floor’’ of every home within reach of the Arab slave traders, Villages disappeared ina day, and nothing save the blackened’ ruins of the tembe could tell the traveller that whero he stood was, perhaps a fortnight before, the home of an inoffensive tribe. The slave market absorbed what the spear, the scimitar and the bullet allowed to live, and the seeds only of hatred, revenge and treachery were left behind. The English government, which seems at times to shape its conscience by the degrees of latitude and longitude, has been indirectly the powerful protector of this terrible trade. It is now moving towards itssuppression. Various means are spoken of by which this evil can be rooted out ; but whatever course is taken, let it be done at once. The United States, purged of the iniquitous slave code itself, will hasten to supplement its eradication everywhere with willing hand and heart. It is darkly hinted that the adoption of stringent measures to abolish the slave trade at Zanzibar would possibly bring about the murder of Dr. Livingstone at the first opportunity offered to the red-handed Arabs, who would be the losers by its abolition. Whatever truth there may be in this—and it probably contains a germ of danger in its being tried—the gentlest means should first be essayed with the Sultanate of Zanzibar. But this thought brings us back to the man about whom these weak-kneed prophets per- turb themselves. If ever there existed a human being whose devotion to the best principles of humanity is of the present and highest order, that man is David Liy- ingstone. The energy and vigor of his language to the Huxraup, deploring the slave trade of Manyema and praying our influence and that of philanthropy every- where toward its extinction, do not vibrate in a syllable with the faintest suspicion of fear on his own account, Nota qualifying word is there to signify other than his entire readiness to meetany fate that might come tohim through Providence out of his strong cry for protection to the weak. With his knowledge of Africa, her inoffensive children. and her petty tyrants, he must have thoroughly understood the probable effect of carrying out his fervent de- sires. They do not know the lion heart and beautiful soul of Livingstone who would relax a single nerve strained to break the shackles of the slave on his account. Horace Greeley on the Stamp—A Speech from the Liberal Candidate. Mr. Greeley has taken the stamp in earnest. Last night he made a political campaign speech at Portland, Me., which was listened to with interest by many thousands of the citi- zens of that State. Since the liberal candidate has been off on his clam-bake wander- ings his sayings and doings have been watched with anxiety by the politicians on both sides. His friends have been nervously apprehensive that he might give utterance to some indiscreet remarks, while his enemies have been fearful that he would not make a speech at all, feeling confi- dent that if he did open his mouth he would be certain to put his foot into it. The long agony is now over, for Mr. Greeley has actu- ally spoken ‘“‘on the stump,”’ and, what is more, his speech will disappoint those who seem to believe that it is impossible for a man of genius and talent to talk in a practical, sensible manner. He has said plainly, frankly and honestly what he had to say, and while there is, un- fortunately, too much reason for his complaint of the misrepresentation to which a candidate is subjected by-his political opponents when he says anything at all, it will be difficult for Mr. Greeley’s enemies to distort the meaning of his present words, However much Mr. Greeley’s eccentricities and peculiar notions may have rendered him liable to ridicule, it is unquestionably true, as he claims, that he has struggled faithfully for—first, impartial and universal liberty; second, for the unity and greatness of our common country, and third, and by no means the least, when the former ends were attained, for early and hearty reconciliation and peace among our country- men, In this Mr, Greeley touches the key- note of the paign, for it is certain that the issue foreed by the advisers of the administration has been accepted by the people, and that a decision will be rendered at the polls between those who desire to keep open the bloody chasm made by the war so wide as to hold the people of the two sections of the country asunder and offer an insurmountable obstacle to a thoroughly restored Union, and those who would bury the bitter memories of the war and suffer the nation to enjoy substantial peace. Mr. Greeley disclaims distinctly having made any pledges or promises in regard to the distribution of office either before or since his nomination at Cincinnati, and sets at rest with an emphatic denial the stupid story about his favoring the payment of the rebel debt or the pensioning of rebel soldiers. Of courseno person who circulated such report believed it to be true, and no one will doubt Mr. Greeley’s word when he distinctly brands it as a falsehood, He states that he has been questioned as to whether he would, if elected, confine the dis- tribution of the federal patronage to republi- cane, ond be naively asks if it is usual when your neighbors have helped you to raise a house to kick them out as soon as the roof is safely over your head? It will be consoling to the democracy to learn that Mr. Greeley intends to abide by the plank in the Cincinnati platform which cordially invites co-operation and help da the sliernativa which Dx Bako | from all mem of whajgreg former zolitical affiliations, and that this will guide him in his action as President should he be chosen to that position. Altogether the speech is a neat, shrewd little affair, and will not harm the liberal candidate if it does not do him a very great amount of service. Interesting Reports from Mexico—A Fair Prospect for President Lerdo— The Policy of Railways and Tele- graphs. Our latest advices from the city of Mexico give us a more hopeful view in behalf of the establishment of law and order in that revolutionary republic. While the Cabinet of Lerdo de Tejada, the constitutional President pro tem., is still an open question, it is the gen- eral belief that he will be regularly elected to the Presidency with but slight opposition. The country is becoming pacified, the roads are safe—that is, comparatively clear of highway robbers—confidence is being restored in the government and the revival of trade is natur- ally expected to follow. Martial law has been revoked in several of the States where it had been found necessary by Juarez to enforce it, and the local civil authorities of those States have been restored with thoir full powers; and such revolutionary leaders against Juarez. as Diaz, Negrete, Aravarrite, José Pestillo, Mariano and Gonzales had accepted the am- nesty offered them, and many of them had reported in person at the capital, Best of all is the report that President Lerdo’s course gives general satisfaction; and better even still, as we are assured to-day, that the re- bellion in Mexico is closed, and that railroad surveyors are travelling through the territory unmolested. In the presence of all these facts in favor of the pacific and conciliatory policy of President Lerdo, it does not appear a violent assumption on the part of the Traits d Union that his for- mal election as President is a question of life or death to the Republic. It is apparent that he has shown himself to be the very man needed at the head of the government for this crisis in Mexican affairs. The long adminis- tration of Juarez—a fighting administration from first to last—had resulted in establishing @ civil war, which would doubtless havo lasted while he held fhe government, had he lived to hold it by the bayonet for five, ten or twenty years tocome. His death has disarmed the rebel leaders and their fighting factions, organ- ized and maintained for the single purpose of putting him out. Hence the ready responses of the revolutionary generals to the amnesty offered by President Lerdo. This popular man, having no enemies to punish and no revenges to satisfy, and having the solid advantages of the army and the sinews of war left him by Juarez, sets out like a full-freighted ship with a fayoring wind and tide, though on a danger- ous voyage, A glorious opportunity is thus offered Lerdo de Tejada for a name and a fame as President of Mexico which will eclipse the fame of Ju- arez and all his predecessors in the substan- tial benefits secured to his country, although the name of Juarez will ‘be henceforth, in the the history of Mexico, associated with the ex- pulsion of a foreign imperial usurpation and armed occupation, and with the establish- ment, against a powerful Mexican party, in the field of argument and the field of battle, of civil and religious liberty. Juarez had prepared the ground from which a rich harvest may be secured to Mexico through President Lerdo by simply rising to the grandeur of the golden opportunity before him. .On being regularly established in his government by ‘‘the will of the people,” and after providing the needful safeguards against revolutionary disturbers, highwaymen and border cattle-stealers and assassins, President Lerdo should look at once to the policy of uniting the Mexican States with the central government and of developing, onagrand scale, the enormous material re- sources of the country, mineral, agricultural and manufacturing. And the simple scheme by which both these great objects may be cov- ered is a scheme of railways and telegraphs, binding the country together with bands of iron, bringing the remotest parts into direct rapport with the capital, and giving to those districts which are now almost inaccessible to trade quick and easy communications with each other and the capital and with the reciprocal traffic of the United States. To Mexico, an extensive section of the Con- tinent, of seacoast lowlands, mountains and elevated table lands, without navigable rivers, a network of railways isas necessary for the development of the resources of the country as it is to our new States and Territories west of the Mississippi. Within twenty years—yea, ten—more may be done by a comprehensive network of railways to develop the unmeas- ured riches of Mexico than has been done since the invasion of Cortes. Nor can weover- estimate the importance to Mexico, in a politi- cal view, of an extensive system of railways and telegraphs. With even a single line of rails and wires running through the Republic via the capital, from north to south, and another from Vera Craz across to the Pacific, that imperial armed occupation by the French would have been impossible. Without these powerful agents of national strength, unity and cohesion, railways and telegraphs, we could not have put down Jeff Davis and his Southern Confederacy, and we could have done nothing with our States and Territories west- ward of the Rocky Mountains. Without rail- waysand telegraphs there would have been no such thing as Italian unity or German unity, or a French Republic in the place of Louis Napoleon. Without railways and telegraphs there can be no such thing as national unity, strength or cohesion among the Mexicans. Let President Lerdo de Tejada, then, inau- gurate the policy of a comprehensive system of railways and telegraphs for Mexico, and he will provide the solid securities required against domestic disturbers and foreign invad- ers. If our government will not interpose a helping hand for the salvation of our sister Re- public here isa way whereby the Mexicans may save themselves and become a strong, united and prosperous people. Fever in the Port—A Hint to the Health Officer. The yellow fever ship, the Spanish iron- clad Numancia, which lies abreast of Staten Island, whatever the authorities concerned may say of her distance from the shore, of her fumigation, the vigilant watch kept over her, and so on, is not where she ought to be. Saturated with yellow fever—a yellow fever floating hospital, in fact—she ought to be Ldowg qmoug the interdicted ships in tho Yellow Lower Bay, and far enough from all of them to avoid communicating her fearful contagion by the wind. We know from our experience at Fort Hamilton that yellow fever can be carried more than a mile by the wind from ship to shore, and this Spanish fever ship should at once be removed to the Lower Bay. And right in here comes a rather singular state of affairs. Pilot Commissioner Blunt states that in the Lower Bay there is good anchorage for the heaviest draught vessels in the world, while Health Officer V: upon the authority of the pilot who brought the Numancia into port, says that there is mo safe anchorage for her in that neighborhood. Here is a question which cannot reasonably long remain unsettled, and it should be settled at once. Despite the pre- cautions which are said to have been adopted to prevent tho possibility of a spread of the contagion, we are sensible of the fact that the great city of New York, with Brooklyn, Jersey City and the populous villages which skirt the shores of the Narrows on either hand, is being subjected to o very dangerous experiment, and that the people have reason to feel alarmed. If Dr. Vanderpoel has not the authority to locate the vessel on an anchorage safe and secure both for the ship herself and for our citizens, then, perhaps, Commissioner Blunt will lend his, assistance by pointing out a safe anchorage in the Lower Bay, and it will then be en easy matter to find some pilot who can take her to such quarters. It is no time for squabbling or disputation upon 80 grave a matter, and Health Officer Vanderpoel should at once bestir himself and exhaust every means in his power to give the people that security which, in the exercise of the potent functions entrusted to him, he is expected to do. He wields moro sovereign authority in the bay of New York than any other man in_ the State, and it is strange indeed if he cannot direct any vessel that crosses the bar to any berth he may assign her. The people look for prompt action in this matter. Two addi- tional vessels arrived in port yesterday with fever on board, and these are where the Numancia with all other ships similarly af- flicted should be. Put her with them and the people will be satisfied. YACHTING. The Departure of the Fleet from New London, Newport, R. I., August 14, 1872. At daylight this morning the Newport yacht Squadron were enveloped in a thick fog and riding at anchor off the Pequot House. The weather did not look very promising, and there was quite a panic among the yachtsmen at the prospect of being becalmed in such a locality, But they were happily delivered from such a calamity, as the sun finally burst forth and its genial warmth soon dispelled the damp and misty vapor. Although the yachts were not to start until €leven A. M., mainsails and foresails were nearly all set by ten A.M., and everybody appeared anxious to get away about ten A. M. The flagship Dauntless sig- nalled the fleet that the squadron would get under Way at twelve noon, as Rear Commodore Osgood was anxions to give the Columbia and Gracie time to get up from the village. A light breeze came up from the southward shortly after eleven A. M., and vessels in the race off Fisher’s Island appeared to be having it a little fresher. THE FLEET UNDER WAY. ‘The starting signal was fired from the Dauntless at twelve noon precisely, and the fleet immediately got under way. The Foam was the first to pay off, and laying on the starboard tack came up through the fleet, as her berth was well up the Bay, and followed after the Eva, who was also quickly away. The Halcyon, Madeleine, Caprice, Vixen and Gracie followed soon after, and they were joined .at the entrance to the har- Dy th Mi he waitit bor by ie le, who was ing for them with her jib to windward. The Dauntless ‘was hard to move with such a light air and a strong flood tide dead in her teeth. By the time the latter had got fairly moving the Columbia came up from the village, and after — under the Dauntless’ lee, made a short reach, went on the starboard tack and clawing up to windward crossed the bows of the latter and headed up for the buoy at the mouth of Fisher’s Channel. The Columbia looked well, although some pov, she was too much by the head, but her subsequent sailing rather upset that theory. She took in seven tons of lead baliast in New London. The Tidal Wave started last, as she had not finished taking in water when the starting fs was fired; but, hauling close on the wind, she close tothe shore, and succeeded in weakening the buoy and getting a good slant on the big keel boat, who to keep out in deep water. The Alice left the just as the fleet were running into her’s Channel and followed up later. The Dreadnaught issed into New London harbor as the fleet were leaving it, and will ropanty come on to Newport to-morrow. The Madeleine, Foam and Madgie kept tacking pretty close inshore, while the Eva and Halcyon made a long reach to the westward, which, however, rather threw them back as the Madeleine soon led the fleet, followed by the Madgie and Foam, When they got past the buoy and gave a foot more sheet and aiterwards set their stay sails THE BREEZE FRESHENED up a little and tang were soon bowling through the water ata ee, ively gait and everything looked romising ora quick run. Madeleine was saili ike a witch and kept dropping the Madgie an Foam pretty fast. The yacht, however, that was attracting most attention was the Columbia, which, with a big club topsail set and staysall ballooning out in the breeze, was walking up to the leading boats hand over hand. When the Columbia lifted her sheets the Madeleine was off Stonington, fully six miles ahead. The Tidal Wave was doing pretty well, chasing up Mr. Wallack’s beautiful schooner, and the flagship brought up the rear. [The severe thunderstorm which prevailed at the Eastward early this morning put a stop to tele- graphing, and our report is, therefore, consider- ably abbreviated.—Ed, HERALD.) Yachting Notes. ‘The following yachts passed Whitestone yester- day :— Yacht Alarm, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. A. C. Kingsland, from New Haven for New York. Yacht Meta, B.Y.C., Commodore Beling, New York tor Newport and Portland. Steam yacht Intime, Mr. Cheseboro, New London for New York. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Governor H. D. Cooke, of the District of Columbia, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Mayor ©. J. Filey hi at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Sheridan started from the Fifth Avenue Hotel for Chicago, the headquarters of his depart- temporary domicile ment, last evening. Count V. Schirkoff, the Russian Chargé d’Affaires at Washington after the recall of Mr. Catacazy and until relieved by the present Minister, Baron q@Offenburg, yesterday started for home on the steamship Cuba, M. Schirkoff was attended to the steamer by the Baron d’Offenburg and a number of the members of the Russian Legation, and as the vessel dropped down the stream many expressions of cordial feeling were uttered. M. Schirkoff has been recalled to Russia, but will, it is likely, soon be attached to a Russian mission to some other government. Chief Justice Richards, of Toronto, Canada, is at the Westmoreland Hotel. General Lew Wallace is at the St. Denis Hotel. DEPARTURE OF THE PRESIDENT FROM LONG BBANCH FOR WASHINGTON, Lone Brancu, August 14, 1872, ‘The President and General Porter left at six o’clock this evening for Washington. The military Secretary was quite sick and hardly in a condition to undertake @ journey. They will sup en route at ten o'clock to-night at the Continental Hotel in Philadetphia and thence take the midnight train for Washington. The President wil bo back at | taee Brapoh on Saturday, adds :— On the same days the decree was approved and ming the Right Rev. Ji Vice Apes: Tolle of North prolinn, ‘pe Bahop of ulin Va., a9 the successor of Bishop M deceased, a ments have both been looked (on “as cortain made. In fact, It is not gots too far to say that’ the Feault has prevent the shominadion Bishop Bayley ta tho Moiropolitan Seo of a relate is the’ presont Bishop of Newark= imselt, From the that he knew how was threatened wi 6 increased dient tet rig. ce erence oe postpone and confirm the earliest decision, Simultaneously with this announcement come, the information through the Baltimore Gazette ot* yesterday that Bishop Elder, of Natchez, ts the for- tunate prelate. A HERALD representative called ‘at the residence of Bishop Bayley in Newark last evening, and learned that the Bishop was exo; @ brief respite from his labors at Madison. Tather Doane, his secretary, stated that he had just re- ceived the intelligence, and was about to proceed to Madison to apprise the Bishop. He remarked leasantly that the Bishop’s house had been oe into one of mourning since the arrival of news confirming previous fears that he would be ted to another sphere of service for the ter. The Fether’s sorrow was of a peculiar kind—a sorrow largely leavened with joy and pride that his beloved chief should be so highly honored. The fooling of the people in the diocese, and especially in the city of Newark, where the Bishop hes gone in and out for nearly twenty years, is of the same desoription. Few churchmen could be more univ. beloved by nis people than is Bishop Baviey, his flock, It is with them as with ther Doane. They are filled with sorrow at the prospect of his soon leavi them, but they are alao filled with joy to think 1 he has been raised to the highest position in the American Catholic A are acy. Nor 15 this feel confined to Newark thollos. On the contrary, prevaiis among people of all denominations, who have ever regarded the Bishop with the highest re- gard and respect. It is too soon yet to late as to who will succeed to the Bishopric of Newark. The Newark Journ2t gives the following sketch of the Bishop of Newark in this connection: James Roosevolt Bayle: rn in the city of New ¥ i) HI” In‘bis youth ne Sonmegied higasoll with the Poot testant Episcopal Church and devoted himself to the min- and for some time was pastor of the congrega- tlon at Harlem. As his years incroasod his mind became convinced that the Catholic Church was the true Chure! and soon after ho was received into that faith. He wet to Paris and made his ecclesiastical studies, preparatory fo the priesthood, af the old SE Sulpice. | Returning, he was ordained ‘priest by Bishop ‘Hughes, early in’ the year Shortly afterwards he was made Vice President of St. John’s College, Fordham, and afterward President. Whon St ohms College was transferred to the Jesuit Fathers the Y Of Fy the Rey. Mr Bayley was appointed. secretar cese of New York. & position, that he held till 1853, when, at the recommendation of Archbishop Hughes and his suffragans, Pope Pius IX. named. him first bishop of the dral of Now York on Sundny, Ootaver 3h of that goat by “al of lew York on Sun et ir 30, of t year, Archbishop Bedini, afterwards Cardinal’ who wagon ai apostolic visit to this country, Archbishop Hughes a reaching” the “sermon. While’ Father Bayley was | eretary of the diocese of New York he found me to write hls Very. interesting “Sketch of the i Of the Catholic Church in New York,” and his “Lite-ot | Bishop Bru i olty and a nt o beth ; the } grand Convent of the Passtonists, of St. Michacl’a, at West id loboken—caring for so many surrounding lonary tations—and ail later the ‘Jesuits, at St. Peter's, Jorsey at cor | pee THE ATALANTA BOAT OLUB REGATTA, =” The twenty-fourth annual regatta of the Atalanta Boat Club came off yesterday over the Pleasant Valley course, and was in all respects a success which reflects credit on the club and afforded in- tense gratification to the numerous friends of the Atalantas who were present. According to an nouncement, the barge and steamboat which were to convey the Atalanta boys and their friends @ the scenes of their rivalry were at the foot of Chris- topher street and North River at one o'clock, butié_ was fully an hour-after that before they gotaway-for _ the course. A fine band was on board the barge and the fair friends of the Atalantas, with their gal- lant escorts, enjoyed themselves in dancing, not- withstanding the heat of the sun, until Plessant Valley was reached. Representatives from nearly all the prominent boating Oe orgereetene in the city mingled with the gay throng. The Gramercy, Sappho, Nautilus and Friendship clubs, from the Hariem River, were all duly represented. The North River was not by any means behind. Tie Gulicks and Atlantics algo rallied in good force to dohonor to | the club which was plucky enough to send @ crew across the ocean to struggle for honorable suprem- acy at the oar with the famous London Rowing Club. Pleasant Valley was reached in good time : A delay occurred which prevented the races from , taking place as early as was intended, but these little drawbacks will happen even under the most favorable circumstances. ‘The first race was the Sentor Single Sculls for the champion belt of the club. The contestants were Eben Losee and John ©, O'Neill. Distance three miles with @ turn. Little Losee, who has wou many @ hard-fought battle with the oar be! came off the victor, beating his antagonist by be ora seconds, Time of the winning boat, ‘The second race—the Junior Single Sculls—for 7 the “Columbia” belt, was between George Yor ; and Samuel Clark; distance also three les, wit turn. It was plein to be seen from the start that Young was to repeat Losee’s success. Clark was evidently no match for his young antagonist, for before a third of the course was rowed over | | Clark ‘caved in” and allowed his opponent togo over the course alone, which he did in 25m. 13%s., beating, in a seventeen foot race boat, the time made by Losee’s shell by 36,8. } The third race was for eight-oared gunwale barges, and there were three entries—the Atalant ; Columbia and Hudson; the distance to be row , two miles, with a turn. The following are the | vottalanta.-Rowed by George Young, bow; George —Rowe orge Young, bow; Ackerson, No. 2; 8. Van Zandt, No. james Wat-” | son, No. 4; Geotge Springsteen, No. 5; 8. Clark, No. . L 6;J. Silkman, No. 7; Russel Withers, stroke; B. - % Losee, coxswain. Colors, crimson. Columbia, —' . Knapp, bow; W. C. Mainlan 0. 2; J.T. No. 3; Edward Mills, No. 4; John, \dsey, No. harley Earwicker, No. 6; J. Nell, 'No. 7 King, coxswall U Alexander Hert stroke; John —Alden 8, Swan, bow; Henry Haney, Os- } } Colors, pink and-blue. No.2; W, Haddock, No. 3; M. B. Odx, No. 4; 8. Clark, No. 6; Charles Zachman, No. 6; 0. 8. borne, No. 7; Theodore Van Raden, stroke; cox- swain, cere Roahr. Colors, white. ‘This was the race of the day. At Pe the Columbia, which had the inshore position—t best of the thre a good “send off,’ soon ob- tained the lead, made an excellent turn and main- tained its gain to the end, notwithstanding that the Atalanta pressed them very closely. The Hud- son away behind and came in at the “heel of the hunt” badly beaten. The, Columbia won by see going over the course in seventeen min- utes. ‘The fourth and last race, fout-oared barges, be- tween the married and single men of the club, over the two mile course, was also an exol race and was well rowed. Thé following are the names of the boats, together with the crews with Ezxcelsior— (Married).—A. 8. Swan, bow; 8, Van Zandt, No. ions ier Handy, No. 3; Theodore Van len, stroke; George Roahr, coxswain. Colors, crimson. Volante—(Single).—John C. O'Neil, bow; George Springsteen, No. 2; John Lindsey, 'No. 3; Russel ° me stroke; Eben Losee, coxswain. Colors, \ white. The boats got off well together, the Excelsior having the inshore. From the starting point up to the stake it was difficult to tell who was going to ° come off victorious. Withers was doing his beat, «~ and Van Raden, on the other hand, was also work- ing with might and main to keep the lead he had won. Turning the stakeboat the Excelsior was ahead and a length to spare. As soon as both boata - got out into the stream the real struggle com- Menced. The Excclstors were rowing in excellent torm, pulling a longer stroke than the Volante, an crossed the line about two boats’ length ahead of the Volante, winning the race in fourteen minutes. A short stay at Pleasant Valley, and the steam- boat, barge and “all hands” returned “home again,” reaching the city a little after ni Tegatta was a success; ev body was thus it to & ste the Atalantas’ annual was close, SS eR THE SUNDAY OLAUSB, cessful Organization of German Saloon Keepers. The lager beer retailers yesterday afternoon held meetings in the different Assembly districts for the purpose of forming an organization foreach =~ district and electing delegates to a central organl- vation yet to be organized. ‘The object of | the movement is to insure protection against | the reinforcement of the Sunday clause of the Excise law, and to secure by the Legislature the enactment of a law providing tl brewers shall have their casks stamped, to coi them to furnish full measure. The first twelv, esterday, and the ' districts were organized mainder are tobe organized at meetings to De held in the several districts to-day. A mecting for the purpose of organizing the central bony be sail held to-morrow. ig central body is algo & Rolltical pduence ta @ certain extent . ; /