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

6 NE EW “YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addrosseed Naw Yoax Hepa. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. -No, 264 Volame XXXVIL. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tas Senceant’s Wxo- ping—Tux Datu Tear. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Cxow-Cuow, Afternoon and Bvening. OLYMPIC TH: BASEE 2 eee: between Houston and Eleccker sts.—One W) UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Beonaway.tatareen Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets.—Aannms. WALLACK’S THBATRE, Broad. and Thirteenth etroet.—Ixi0n; on, Tux Max at Tus Wasnt, FIFTH AVRBNUB THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Dianonns, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street. —Srraxoscu Conckrt. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third et. and Eighth av.—Kot Canorre. et ata COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway. —ARRAB-NA- BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twonty-third street. corner Sixth avenue.—Tux Butts; on, Tae Pouse J: WHITE'S ATHENRUM, 585 Broadway.—Neoro Mix. emmetsy, &c. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty- suing Pct Cihav.—Nxcro Minstazisy, Eccentricity, ST. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 28th st. and Broad way.—SaN FRancisco MINSTRELS IN Fauce, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Guano Vaniery Erextarwrnr, 4c. corner 720 BROADWAY, EMERSON'S MINSTRELS.—Gaand Ernropian Ecorntricitiss. JAMES ROBINSON'S CHAMPION ommoun, corner of Madison avenue and Rory-ti flith street. AMERICAN INSTITUTE F FAIR, Third av., between 63d and 6éth streets, CENTRAL PARK GAR Concert. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Art ap Science. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ‘ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— — aND ART. —Granp InsTRUMENTAL TRIPLE SHEE T. New oP ent Friday, bo 20, 1872. THE NEWS OF ‘YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. BUROPEAN CABLE NEWS—THE BIENVILLE— AMUSEMENTS—SEVENTH PAGE. YACHTING: THE START FOR THE COMMODORE’S CUP—ART—Turgp Page. KINGS COUNTY RATIFIES THE LIBERAL NOMI- NATIONS; TREMENDOUS OUTPOURING OF THE MASSES; THE SPEECHES—THE GER- MANS AND THE FOURTH WARD MOVING FOR BEDFORD FOR CITY JUDGE—THIRD Pace. GREELEY “GOES WEST: ANOTHER DAY OF BUCOLIC WANDERINGS; HIS TALK AT PITTSBURG—PENNSYLVANIA: CURTIN TO JUMP FROM THE FENCE—S8vENTH PGE. URANT IN JERSEY: SPLENDID OVATION AND HIS SPEECH AT NEWARK—A, T, STEWART DECLINES A MAYORALTY NOMINATION— THE CLOVEN FOOT OF BOSS TWEED: TAMMANY EXPELS TRAITORS—Turmp Page, FALL FASHIONS: RECEPTION DAY OF THE FICKLE GODDESS; WAIFS FROM THE SALONS OF THE MODISTES—Firr Pag. YROTTING AT PROSPECT PARK: TWO FINE CONTESTS—CRICKET: THE “GENTLEMEN ELEVEN” VICTORIOUS IN ONE INNING— AQUATIC: THE GREAT SINGLE SCULL RACE—SHIPPING—TENTH Page, EDITORIAL LEADER: “PROGRESS OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM FROM 1842 TO 1872—HOW MUCH *’—SIxTH Page. ON 'CHANGE: THE LATEST ABOUT THE “COR- NERS; CURIOUS REVELATIONS AND PROBABLE FINALE OF CORNERING SCHEMES—THE CLIQUES INTERVIEWED— aT, STEWART'S OPINION—ErautH PAGE. THE $185,000 SUB-TREASURY DEFALCATION; JOHNSON DECLARED GUILTY; WHAT GENERAL HILLHOUSE AND THE EXPERT KNOW ABOUT IT—THE POLICEMAN'S LO- CUST—FirTH PacE. ROMEO AND JULIET UNDER THE ALPS: SAD SCENES IN SUNNY SWITZERLAND—DEATH OF THE KING OF SWEDEN—THE COURTS— Fourth PaGB. HE MEETING OF THE SEVENTY—NInNTH Pace. Tue Watt Srneer Drama presents new and deeply interesting scenes as it progresses from day to day. Yesterday the clique deliberately “gobbled’’ the government gold which Mr. Boutwell sold to the highest bidders, and pre- vented it from going into the market. Butin endeavoring to “‘cut their rum old rigs’’ in the money market again they were suddenly checked by two of the largest downtown banks, the officers of which refused to hand over the greenbacks in exchange for certified checks, and accepted the obloquy of nominal bank- ruptey in order to test their power of breaking up the “locking-up”’ conspiracy. The matter has gone to the courts. and an interesting de- velopment is awaited. Tue Fatt Fasmows.—Yesterday was 0 festal occasion for the belles who have returned from the watering places. Many of the leading modistes threw open the doors of their estab- lishments for the first time this season and gave a fine display of the Fall styles. In another column of the Hnaxp will be found a descrip. tion of these styles. Good taste and common senso still hold their own with the fair sex, and the extravagances of past years seem to be abandoned forever. Wansep mm Towe.—It is stated that the re- form party talk of nominating Wheeler H. Peckham for District Attorney. If they do, and Peckham be elected, some of those gen- tlemen who are now lingering between trial and conviction for official misdemeanors had better commence to pack up their trunks and take passage for some undiscovered country, Peckham as prosecuting officer of the'city and county of New York will see that the law is vindicated, and malefactors, whether in high or low station, brought to justice. Be warned in time ! A Good Svacrstion.—It has been sug- gested that inasmuch as there exists a city or- dinance for muzzling dogs during the dog days that Congress pass an act for the muz- gling of the partisan press during Prosiden- | tial contests like that now pending. A great deal of editorial froth and foam might thereby be aavod. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1872. Progress of American Journalism from 184% to 1872—How Much? In February, 1842—over thirty years ago— “Boz,” otherwise Charles Dickens, then the bright particular star rising in the firmament of fiction, made his first triumphal enirés into the United States. His popularity as the nov- elist of humanity had preceded him, and from his landing at Boston to his departure from New York, everywhere—East, West, South and North—he was hailed as a lion and treated like a prince. Many of our young gallants of that day whostill live, now ripened into the mellow sobriety of old age, will re- member the unexampled honots showered here upon the bright young author of Pickwick, and especially in that never-to-be-forgotten ‘Dickens’ ball.” The triumphal advent on Broadway of Captain Tyler, the dinners to Kossuth, the ovations to Lola Montez, Mayor ‘Wood's firemen’s torchlight procession in honor of the Prince of Wales, the whole round of extraordinary festivities which made up our grand carnival to the Imperial Grand Duke Alexis, ‘every inch aking,” may, in the course of time, be but dimly remembered in the tra- ditions of our ‘‘old fogies;’" yea, in the lapso of years they may cease to recall that remark- able epoch in our political history when Horace Greeley ran as the democratic candi- date for the Presidency; but ‘while the grass grows and the water runs” our old New Yorkers will delight in recalling the ‘beautiful belles,"’ the romantic fascinations and the glorious enthusiasm of the ‘Dickens’ ball.” They will remember, too, how the unstinted admiration and unbounded hospitalities here given to Dickens were repaid by the ungrate- fal philanthropist on his return home in that spitefal, loose and: incoherent rigmarole, his “American Notes,” and in that more deliber- ate caricature of American society, American patriotism and the, American press, his story of Martin Chuzzlewit. His first impressions of the American press are grouped in the carica- ture given of Martin's reception by the New York newsboys ‘‘on the deck and i down i in the cabins of the steamboat before she touched the shore,” as follows:—‘‘Here’s this morning’s New York Sewer!’ cried one. ‘Here's this morning's New York Stabber!’’ ‘Here's the New York Jumily Spy!’’. ‘Here's the New York Private Listener!’ ‘Here's the New York Peeper!’ ‘Hore's the New York Plunderer !’’ ‘Here's tho New York Keyhole Reporter!" ‘Here's the New York Rowdy Journal!" ‘Here's all the New York papers! Here’s full particulars of the patriotic loco-foco movement yesterday, in which the whigs was so chawed up, and the last Alabama gouging case, and the interesting Arkansas dooel with bowie knives, and all the political, commercial and fashionable news! Here they are! Here they are! Here's the papers! Here's the papers!’’ Then follows a more elaborate out- cry of the superior achievements in the dainty scandals of the day of the “New York Sewer, always on the lookout, the leading journal of the United States, now in its twelfth thousand and still a-printing off. Hero's the New York Sewer!" And then a voice in Martin’s ear tells him that ‘‘it is by such enlightened means the bubbling passions of our country find a vent,”’ We have no space here for the patriotic ebullitions of that model American journalist of 1842, Mr. Jefferson Brick, nor for the lamenta- ble collapse of the great Southwestern ‘‘Water- toast Association,’’ organized to assist Daniel O'Connell in his war upon the tyrannical Brit- ish lion, but instantly dissolved in a state of in- conceivable wrath with the astounding infor- mation that this “public man of Ireland’’ was “an advocate of nigger emancipation !’’ Says Dickens in this connection:—‘If anything beneath the sky be real those Sons of Freedom would have pistolled, stabbed—in some way slain—the man by coward hands and murder- ous violence if he had stood among them at that time.'’ Nor, in view of the apology of Dickens at the New York press dinner of 1868 for these opinions and observations of his of 1842, do we reproduce them now in judgment against him, That account was settled in the amende honorable of 1868, 98 was that of our wrath against England's peculiar neutrality with the honest apology given in the Joint High Commission. Our simple object in these extracts from Dickens is to present the con- trast between the American press of 1842, as he portrays it, and the American press as we find it to-day. Nor are the American caricatures of Dickens so very wide of the mark as prima facie they appear. In 1842 the population of the United States was about eighteen millions, and the population of New York city was not above three hundred and twenty-five thousand. We had very few railroads at that day and no telegraphs, our first experimental electrical wire being that of 1844 between Washington and Baltimore. From the absence of ready means of intercommunication our people were clannish and sectional, and there was then a meaning and a vital power in the Southern dogmas of State sovereignty which the railway and the telegraph have since extinguished. In 1842 the institution of Southern slavery was the supreme power behind our State Legis- latures, the President, Congress ond the Supreme Court. The Southern oligarchy, through iis” egencies and kitchen cabinets, for the independent press was then still strug- gling into the foreground. We had learned nothing from foreign wars but from our wars with England, and nothing from these so much as the invincible prowess of the Ameri- can eagle. In 1842 even General Scott had not become fascinated with the ‘‘sweet Irish brogue,” and lager beer and beer gardens wore held as outlandish German innovations, In social refinements, in political knowledge, in music and the fine arts, in literature and journalism, we could not see ourselves as others saw us, for were we not unapproachable in our power and glory, our progress and manifest destiny? But all this time the elements were gather- ing their mighty forces for the impending deluge, and ‘the windows of Heaven were opened,” and ‘the fountains of the great deep were broken up’? on our world-namazing Southetn rebellion. The deluge passed away and our surviving people found themselves in a new world, from which old ‘things had dis- appeared, ‘and in which all things had become new. The contrast, between the American colonies under the British Crown and the United States under their original constitution | was hardly greater than the change in all our relations as a people from the Dred Scott de- cision 10 the Giventh amendment Aud this still ruled the party joufnalism of the U Union’ i| tremendous revolution, through all its pro- | Romeo ana Juliet in Switserland—The cesses, from the war with Mexico to the im- peachment of President Johnson, had occur- red in the eventful interval between the first and the second visit of Dickens to this country. In 1868 he found that during his absence our population had doubled, our territorial area had been enlarged by the’ absorption of vast empires in extent, our national resources had been more than quadrupled, and. that railways and telegraphs had worked miracles in the en- largement of our ideas and in our general enlightenment and “solidarity” as a people. In this general advancement he found that the independent press had vastly reformed the pre- existing abuses and had removed the party trammels of American journalism, and that this great agent of modern progress, with its faithful Ariel, the telegraph, held the balance of power in Church and State, and in the gen- eral order of society. Hence there was, in truth, neither retraction nor humiliation in the apology of Dickens in 1868 for his caricatures’ of America and the Americans from his observations of 1842. He simply recognized the great revolution which had done its work among us in his absence, and with the two hundred thousand dollars gathered from his readings he went his way rejoicing. And now, from the gross and reck- less personal denunciations of our party press on both sides in this Presidential campaign, the question recurs, has there in reality been any marked improvement in the tone and temper of our party press and party politi- cians. since the time of Mr, Jefferson Brick and ‘the Water-toast Association? Yes; but still our party journalists have much to learn. They are still far behind the advancing spirit of the age. They are still doing much to poison the very fountains of our political system in their unscrupulous and debasing Personalities, “A stranger to our political con- tests, from the perusal of the party SOREN on both ides at this time, | would look in vain for an honest or capable man standing as o candidate for “Any offical position. If in one party journal he finds a candidate possessed of all the virtues of Cincinnatus, he will find in another party oracle that this man is fit only for the State Prison. Thus, from the one side or the other, Gene- ral Grant is denounced as a tyrant, an idiot and a drunkard; and Mr. Greeley as a hypo- crite, & traitor and a charlatan. And so it goes through the whole catalogue of ‘our can- didates for public office; and so, in con- founding good and bad, our party politics are corrupted, and American journalism is de- graded in the eyes of the world. But the continuing and still enlarging pros- perity of the Hegnatp in pursuing a different course attests at once our ap- preciation of the intelligence, honesty and se- curity of the American people in their own good judgment, and the suicidal folly of the reckless party organ, which substitutes base in- ventions for facts and personal detraction for honest argument. We can, then, only con- clude that if American journalism at large has greatly improved since 1842, our party press is still like those Bourbons who ‘never learn anything and never forget anything.”’ The Sub-Treasury Defalcation. Another stupendous robbery by a govern- ment official has come to light, which, in the simplicity of its accomplishment, challenges wonder. A clerk in the Sub-Treasury in this city constituted oa department in himself—the Revenue Stamp Department. He received stamps from Washington, which it was his duty to enter on the books, so as to make the tally of sales and receipts, One fine morning in August he is alleged to have re- ceived $175,000 worth of them, and four days after $10,000 worth. He did not enter these. He went on a fortnight’s vacation, and has not since returned. They are now looking for him and the stamps, This is-all, He was a jovial man, years in the Department, trusted, relied on and promoted. It is simply ao tale of misplaced confidence. The wonder is, it would appear, why a man on a salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year is left to a quiet communion for years with hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of convertible stuff in his hands, and the thought before him that he had only to omit an entry and walk off with as much as he pleased. Should the government lay such inducements in a man’s way and escape condemnation with him in his crime? He has had a long start of the knowing detectives, and it is not probable, as some wiseacres believe, that the man who took such a step, knowing that it, must be discovered in time, waited around for the éclaircissement. He would not be likely to misplace his con- fidence in such a way. Another curious feature connected with ‘this curious affair is that the authorities of the Sub-Treasury took so long to ascertain whether there had been a fraud committed or not, Any well-regulated business concern will have its accounts and cash made up to the Jatest ‘hour, so that it can tell immediately ifthere be anything wrong. The magnitnde of any business makes no diffefticé. The Sub-Treasury here ought to be managed as well as any small bank would be, The Partisan Ball of Seurrility Still Rolling On, The Evening Mail administers ov ‘Weli-merited reproof to the partisan organs that go out of their path to fling offensive expletives upon their opponents. It calls for a week's truce, “go that hot blood can cool and muddled brains get clear and animosities subside a little.’ Another evening contemporary also reprehends the prevailing grossness of parti- san invective, but being a partisan print itself it sees only one side of the question and would take the mote out of its brother's eye before taking heed of the beam in its own, Again, in one short paragraph in the columns of a morning partisan contemporary we find such ungentlemanly and unjournal- istic expressions as ‘‘untruth,”’ ‘slanderers,”” “calumny,’’ ‘‘sneak;"’ in another, ‘boss thief’ “thief,” “‘scalawags;"’ in another, “wanton libeller;”’ in another, and apparently the leading editorial, a neighboring journalist is characterized as having ‘grown old and vicious” in the art of libelling and of “forg- ing’’ charges against political opponénts, Another prominent journalist is classified among “unscrupulous men.” This whole constellation of elegant English is subli- mated under the modest heading of “Slander as a Trade.’ In the words of a Newark con- temporary, this is truly the ‘campaign of scandal,’’ and, it might have added, of scur- sility and vulgarity and pegdicas peryouslity. Dangers and Duties of Life Abroad—A Lesson to Parents and Guardians. We print in another column a letter from our correspondent in Switzerland which tells a strange story. It has many of the features of Romeo and Juliet—the samo old legend of love, disappointment, desperation, suicide ; the loving not wisely but too well which we have had from the beginning, and shall prob- ably continue so have so long as our poor human nature is what we find it. There would be nothing, however, in what our cor- respondent writes but a twioe-told tale were it not that it comprises lesson to parents and guardians, in America that cannot be too thoroughly and promptly learned. An American maiden, scarcely more than a child, daughter of an American lady of for- tune and social repute, is sent out to Europe to learn the languages, under the care of ‘a competent governess’’ living in Zurich, who has also the supervision of two or three others. This maiden is about. sixteen, and while at Zurich'she makes'the acquaintance of a young man, scarcely more than a lad, a native of Poland, residing in Switzerland to acquire the art of medicine. Intime an arrangement is made by which the maiden is to teach the lad English, while he teaches her German. Our narrative is somewhat obscure as to the nature and the origin of this arrangement; but we suppose it was approved by the ‘‘competent gov- erness,”” Atall events, the ‘studies’ began and with a result that our readers may fancy. Romeo and Juliet spoke the same language ; but we question if things would have turned out differently had he spoken German and she English ; for love hath a language of its own apart from the grammar and glossary. There were long walks by the brawling brooks, under shady old trees which may have sheltered, the, hogty, of uliug Crsar, “eight, of, the love-i ing Alps— 086 “palaces “of nature where eternity sits enthroned in icy halls of cold sublim- ity—frequent communions, a persistence in the new study that quite drove medicine out of the young mag's gmind and the finer accom- plishnténts 6 dutof that of the young lady, for, as we have said, sho was sixteoh and he twenty, In time the mother came from America with three other daughters. Sho discovered the nature of tho. ‘‘studies’’ that engrossed her child’s attention, and instantly forbade them. To make the prohibition effectual, _ she left Zurich with her family for Lake Lucerne, leaving the young Pole to continue his study of medicine, and to find his happiness in other eyes than those of Miss Juliet. But love, as Madame Mother might well have known, is not to be dissolved or defeated by seas, or streams or even ‘the wild Swiss moun- tains. The student followed the maiden to Lake Lucerne, decorated himself in a wig and false beard and other mystifying toggery, and took apartments in a small hotel near his be- loved’s new home, telling a curious landlord— not without suspicions we would think in these Commune times as to the rig and whiskers— that he was in love and that a cruel parent stood between him and everlasting peace. Then came little notes for the student, timidly handed to the hotel porter by maiden hands, and hurried meetings and. strolls by the banks of the lake, where Tell is said to have split the mythical apple and to have de- fied Gessler's imperial chapeau. Byt Madame Mother in time discovered this, and announ- ced that she would leave Switzerland, and Europe even, to prevent the relations which had fascinated her daughter. This cruel mandate was announced to the student, and it moved him deeply. He asked for one moro interview. The next day his beloved would leave Lucerne and go to distant lands. The meeting was permitted ‘for twenty minu' says our correspondent. “Are you afraid to die?’ said Romeo. No,” said Juliet, ‘‘when the time comes.’’ And in a flash the student drew a small pistol and fired it at her temples. She fell upon the ground, apparently dead. He then put the pistol to his own forehead and fired, and fell by her side. It was thought, when assistance came, that both were dead. The maiden, however, was severely but not dangerously wounded, and is now free from danger. The student was more seriously injured. It is thought, however, that youth and health will save his life; but he will never again look upon his beloved, for the shot which was to have taken his life has robbed him of his sight, and he lies in the Gersau Hospital hope- lessly blind, This can scarcely be called a tragedy, although it has the elements of tragedy. If Romeo had simply shot his sight away, instead of taking the fatal drug, we are bound to believe that Juliet would have loved him just as fondly when she recovered from her potion, and that in time even Old Capulet | would Raye done the handsome thing and made his peace ‘with the Montagues. The bloody little drama on the banks of this Swiss lnke may have in time another and happier ending, _We Bard from that, however. This maiden is of American birth, and what happened to her may happen in n hundreds of American families, Steam, telegraphic cables, advancement in navigatio2 and engineering, all tend to narrow this wide Aucntic Ocean and bring Europe and America close togethes, What was an event in the lives of our fathers now becomes aSummer'’s pastime. In the last generation the “grand tour’ was made by am- bitious and enterprising young men, who did Europe for a year or two ina slow, staring way, and overwhelmed their parents with de- scriptive letters, returning home with a litile French and Italian and tastes for sauces and salads. Now we miss Johnson and Goldsmith from the club for ao few weeks, only to learn when they return with odd looking apparel, ao mousical snuffbox and an astounding meer- schaum pipe, that they have just ‘done’ Europe, the whole thing in six weeks, the Irish lakes included. We go to Europe now as in other years we went to Saratoga, Every year the travel increases—fifty thousand this Summer alone, we are told. And in Europe we have an American society, a little federation of colonies in Dresden and Geneva and Paris and Nice. and London, with their newspapers, their cliques, their gossip and their fashions. Every year itis becoming the custom to send our chil- dren to Europe to learn languages. ‘Competent governesses’’ are constantly advertising their willingness to escort a class of young ladies l to Switzerland and teach them the acgom- ee LN —TRIPLE SHEET, | plishments, Not Jong since a dowager sthool- mistress or something of the kind went sailing over Europe and to the Nile with a dozen Young ladics in her trail, seeing sights. She Probably had the lot on speoulation, and found 80 much profit in it that others will imitate the example, and Europe will soon be trav- ersed with The danger, the folly, wo say the sin and crime of Sd wa ei da pe disaster that has fallen upon this American family in Switzerland. Our correspondent ’ accurately shows the extent of it in his letter. It is well to visit Europe. Education is cheaper. than with us, and perhaps more thorough. | One learns how to live—for instance, the economies of life that centuries of experience and the necessities of population have taught the older and denser countries, To’ those of fine tastes there is aneducation such as we cannot give in the splendid galleries. of Madrid and Dresden, rich with the works of Raphael and Velasquez and Titien, in the cathedrals of Cologne ahd Seville, in the sculpture and architecture and painting and music of Rome. ‘The practical man may see what industry can do in Belgium, what patience has achieved in Holland, what free trade and enterprise have made out of tho little island of England. There are po- litical and financial problems in Germany, France and Spain, that may well excite the keen- est study of the statesman. We can understand, therofore, the driftof the cultivated and eager American mind to Europe—the desire to drink | in the old knowledge at the fountain head, and to see the mother nations as they are. There is no true American who does not come home a better patriot from what he sees abroad, He has greater, broader, more cos- mopolitan views, Ho leargg that America is 9 greater § Sountry in some respects and not 80 great in others. But life in Europe is full of temptations. The family relation, the discipline of which is so sacred with us, cannot be relaxed. when abroad without the greatest danger. Europe swarms with adven- turers, exiles from home, sogiety and duty, eek “devotees ¢ ‘of Baden-Baden, boggarly counts who hawk around a title for an income. There is a freedom also in social relations foreign to our habits and which may have a dangerous result upon young minds unless they are zealously guarded by the parent or guardian. The family discipline which every true man cherishes in his own home—that his sons and daughters may be a comfort to his old age and a blessing to society—this same discipline should be taken to Europe. To send young maidens abroad in the care of ‘‘a competent governess’’ who has five or six to manage, or in charge of a school mistress who proposes to march with ‘a seléct party’ of a dozen or so through the cheap hotels of Europe, to drop them promiscuously into the society of Dres- den or Paris, ‘is'to invite a danger to their peace of mind and the home of their family which we cannot exaggerate. The duty of the father and the mother, so sacred and impera- tive at home, is no less so abroad; for there are restraints of custom and association here which are not found in Europe. This sad business at Lucerne would never have oc- curred had the head of the family shown pru- dence and firmness in time. The way to avoid the Niagara leap is to keep your boat out of the current, and those of our readers who think of visiting Europe, or of sending their children thither for study, must consider well the solemn responsibilities it involves, The Death of the King of Sweden. A cable despatch informs us that His Majesty Charles XV., King of Sweden, died at Malmd on Wednesday night. . Malmé is a respectable seaport town of the old Scandina- vian kingdom ; it is the capital of a len on the Sound, one of the most fertile districts of the Kingdom, and is distant some sixteen miles from Copenhagen. The death of the King was not wholly unexpected, for we had a day before been notified of his serious illness. Kings die like ordinary men. To them, as to all of us, the last hour will come; and in their case, as in the case of the rest of us, when the final hour does come human skill must be found unavailing. The death of the Swedish King commands atten- tion from a variety of causes. The late King was the grandson of the celebrated Ber- nadotte, one of the First Napoleon's best generals anda marshal of the First Empire. Of all the French commanders’ who had figured under Napoleon Bernadotte was the most distinguished for the clemency which he showed to the vanquished in the hour of victory. It was known, besides, that he was one of the few leading men at the head of the then terrible army of France who despised Napoleon’s insatiable ambition and who were impatient o of his arr ce, Betore the death of Charles XIII. the Swedes found it necessary to look after a suitable successor to the throne, and the qualities above referred 2 Feo. mended the great French general, himself almost the rival of Napoleon, ns the man for the position. When the matter was first broached Napoleon pans “What}” faid Bernadotte, ‘ A me great than yourself by cab me zap tual a ie The Emperor felt the force of words, and his feply “ea! is —'"8o a] our” Sates must be accomplished.” Bernadotie” became Crown Prince of Sweden and ultimately King. It was pain- ful to him to fight against his countrymen and his former chief; but he he found it necessary. to enter into the coalition which finally over- threw the man who began as the liberator and fell as the tyrant of Europe. As was said of the first Bernadotte, so it may be snid of his son and his grandson, they ruled Sweden and Norway wisely and well, and left the United Kingdoms more prosperous than they found them. The first Bernadotte, King of Sweden, was only a lawyer's son; but the successful reigns of himself, of his son, Oscar, and of the now deceased Charles abundantly prove that & man qualified to occupy @ throne and to wield a sceptre is not necessarily born in the purple, The deceased King leaves a daughter, his only child, who is the wife of the Crown Prince of Denmark. Most of our renders will remember that, when this marriage took place, ‘some three years ago, there was much talk of the possible union of the Crowns of Denmark and Sweden, and rumor had it that on the occasion of the an early day that Oscar the Second has ably mounted the throne: of Swedéu ana Norway. Of course there, will be a double coronation, one at Stockholm and one at at least another generation, if not indefinitely or forever, The Yachting season, “ The very brilliant success achieved in the yachting seasons of’ 1870'and 1871 had led us to expect a similar series of regattas'and con- tests this year, that would lend additional elustre to the annals of, American yachting. There appears, however,'to have been a: kind of tameness pervading ' the of yaghting this season which ‘would be’ poet re aimee ana ah emda haf rm calma in which the. June. regattas, wore,, drifted. Every sport may be’ said! to be: especially adapted to certain phases of weather, and, Although horse racing in a rain storm did bil- liards. with the thermometer one hundred degrees in, the shade are certainly. not ,,inspir- ing, there is nothing so decidedly tame as yacht racing4n a calm, \ The yachting season was inaugurated on the 48th of June by the Atlantic Yacht Club Re- gatta, which ‘resulted in a victory for the schooner Peerless, easily defeating the’ Tidal Wave and Resolute, There was a light air throughout the day, which gave a small orafé like the Peerless, spreading ». large: area ot canvas, an immense sate over’ a" large, sea-going roast the Resolute. In fact, before the got dainty started the Peerless was 2 through the Narrows. The New York Yacht Club Regatta was sailed on the following Thursday, and rosulted in the victory of the Ianthe, tho smallest schooner in the fleet, beating: her competitors by half an hour. The weather embraced a rather melancholy combination of puffs and calms, as when part, of the fleet had a pleasant breege from Sandy Hook buoy to, the lightship the others were becalmed in the: Horse‘ Shoe, and again, after the fleet on the'return’ home had run past ‘the Southwest Spit into a calm, the Ianthe came along an hour later, and, luff- fing sharp, round the Southwest Spit. buoy, carried.a breeze home, while the others lay rocking'about, with their sails hanging idly. On the succecding Saturday the Brooklyn Yacht Club sailed their, annual regatta, The unfavorable state of the weather kept many of the large schooners from putting in an appear- ance, and the schooner prizes ‘were conse- quently left to competition betweon the Madeleine, Eva and Ianthe. The former won the prize for first yacht home, and the Eva carried off the time allowance prize. This regatta, however, brought out a good, fleet of first class sloops, embracing the Meta, Gracie, Addie, Undine, Mary and Captain, and re- sulted in an easy victory for the Mota, The race for the Wallack Cup, sailed during the following week, was won by tho Made- leine, with the little Peerless second. The course was from the Sandy Hook buoy to a stakeboat anchored about three miles to the southward of Long Branch and‘ return, There was a light balloon-sail breeze, which, however, was rather shifty, andthe Madeleine won the race by standing well out to the east- ward while the rest of the fleet made short tacks along the shore. At Newport the season has been tolerably good, and a large flect of yachts have been laying there during the summer. There have been several regattas there, and the Columbia retained her prestige by winning a five-hun- dred-dollar cup in handsome style, beating a large fleet. The Magic also won a sub- scription cup, arriving nearly two hours ahead of everything else; but the winds were variable and rather favored the winner of the Queen’s Oup race in ‘71, The race for the Newport Cup was finished ina fog, and.as the denseness of the atmosphere left. a doubt as to whether the Resolute or Dauntless was victorious, a second race for the same prize was sailed last week and won by the Palmer, which made her first appearance this season on that occasion. The yacht club cruises this season were tolerably well attended, and at Newport there were twenty-five yachts sailing under tho New York Yacht Ciub signal. Vice Commodore Douglas has been gather. ing fresh laurels abroad with the Sappho, and altbongh he has offered the most tempting in order to obtain a race with the Guinevere, Aline or some other fast English yacht, the owners of those vessels have ‘pre-’ served @ most ominous silence. gre is 8 Leaare of ome | Good racing rahe fore the close of the season. Yesterday the Madeleine and Rambler ‘starled on & second race for the Challenge Cup, from Branton’s B Reef to Sandy Hook Lightship and return. The sloops Gracie and Vision sail « match to-day over the Club course for the Challenge Cup won by the former last season. A Challenge Cup has also been offered for a schooner race from Sandy Hook Lightship to Cape May Lightship and return, provided six yachts start, and the Brooklyn Yacht Club propose having a Fall regatta, The new boats of the season have given a very fair account of themselves. The schooner Viking has appeared in public once or twice, but on both occasions encountered light winds, and her builder claims she moves best ina stiff breeze. The schooners Madeleine and Tidal Wave have both, been improved by their Alterations, and the change of the Peerless from a sloop to a schooner has resulted in the addition to thé yachting fleet of a fast light- weather bont. 'The new sloops Meta and Vision, although of a very different miodel, are both fast. The former is a decided success aiid has won nearly every race in which she contested, although she was beaten by a minute and 4 half in a pri- vate match with the Gtacie. The Vision has not yet appeared in any regatta. On the whole, although nothing very brilliant death of cither pouasch the Scagdipavian bas ogcurred to immortalize the yachting of