The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1873, Page 8

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THE PERILS OF THE FRIGID ZONE! HERALD SPECIAL REPORT OF THE SEARCH CRUISES—Firtu Pace. 4 MAP OF THE FIELD COVERED BY THE POLAR SEaRCH PARTIES! TUE ROUTES OF HALL, KANE AND OTHERS—Sixta Pace. BRITISH NAVAL OPINION ON NORTH POLE EX- PEDITIONS—THE REGATTA TO-DAY AT SARATOGA AND THE QUESTION OF MOR- ALS—SixTH Pas. ENLIGHTENED PUBLIC OPINION ADVERSE TO GIVING A THIRD TERM TO ANY PRESI- DENT! VIEWS OF JEFFERSON AND OF PROMINENT PENNSYLVANIANS—LEGAL NEWS—FouRTEENTH PAGE. NINETEENTH CENTURY MIRACLES! THE AS- TONISHING PILGRIMAGES IN FRANCE! STATEMENT OF ONE WHO PERSONALLY SAW THE VIRGIN MARY—TuRTEENTH Pace. SENOR SALMERON ELECTED PRESIDEET OF ‘HE SPANISH CORTES! THE EXTRAOR- DINARY MEASURES AGAINST THE RE- VOLTED REDS—NINTH PaGE. 8PAIN’S DESPERATE STRUGGLES! THE ING AT BERGA AND CARTAGENA! PLOT- TING AT BIARRITZ! THE OLD RULE AND THE NEW—THIRTEENTH PAGE. SKIRMISHES IN CUBA! THE POLICY OF SPAIN UNDER THE REPUBLIC—A REVOLUTION IMMINENT IN PANAMA—TWELFTH Pace. FIGHT- CHOLERA IN PARIS! EIGHT DEATHS IN TWO DAYS—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— NinTH PAGE. THE HERO OF DUTCH GAP AGAIN OVER- LOOKED BY MASSACHUSETTS! WASH- BURN NOMINATED BY ACCLAMATION, AND THE BACK PAY GRAB AND FEDERAL BAYONETS AT THE BALLOT BOX STIG- MATIZED—NINTE PAGE. MAGGIE HAMILL'S HORRIBLE FATE! GLED TO DEATH! FINALE—NINTH PaGE. GREAT FIRE IN THE MONUMENTAL CITY! VAL- UABLE BUSINESS AND AMUSEMENT BUILDINGS BURNED! RAPID DESTRUC- TION BY THE FLAMES—A BROOKLYN FIRE—SEVENTH PAGB, MERCHANTS VS. MONOPOLISTS! THE COOPER INSTITUTE MEETING DECLARE FOR A FREE OANAL, A MERCHANTS’ FREIGHT ROAD AND FUNDING THE CANAL DEBT— SEVENTH PaGE. WISE'S BALLOUN MISADVENTURE! A WIND THAT MEANT BUSINESS AND A PROFES- SUR THAT DID NOT—TentH Pace. STRAN- THE THRILLING Proresson Wisr did not go up in a balloon yesterday. General Butler did. How dread- fully sour those grapes tasted. Tar Great man Rartnoap Kava of New York does not know what the farmers’ granges are. His ignorance is lamentable ; but, fortunately, it is not likely to be lasting. Tur Reunion or tHE Vererans oF THE Mexican War.—On Monday next the resident survivors of the Mexican war will celebrate the anniversary of the surrender of the city of Mexico. The surrender occurred on the 14th of September, 1847, but, that day falling on Sunday, the succeeding day has been selected for the purpose of commemorating the event. The city authorities have taken some action in the premises, and the day will be celebrated by a reception in the Governor's Room, City Hall, an oration and a public din- ner. President Grant, we learn, has been in- vited to participate in the exercises, which, there is every reason to believe, will be of a highly interesting character. Tur Mormons in Pant.—A cable despatch from Paris informs us that a party of Mor- mons, who haye just arrived there on their way to America, have been notified by the Prefect of Police that if they attempt to hold their religious exercises in public they will be expelled from the city. Why should the Pa- risians go dread the Mormons? The Mor- mons are not Communists. But perhaps a too healthful reaction is not now wanted in France. Brigham Young in Paris might give pas vigorous lessons, NEW ‘YORK HERALD; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER D1, 1873.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. | Hews of the Pola: Waifean Unfin- ished Chapter of the Great Ice Ro- mance—Will It End in Tragedy ? Whatever good fortune may interpose to rescue those members of Oaptain Hall's expe- dition to the Arctic Ocean who remained with Buddington when Tyson's party were car- tied away on the ice-floc, it is at least certain. that the expedition itself is dismally ended. The startling telegrams from St. John’s, Newfoundland, which our special correspondent with the Search Expedi- tion sends to the Hzratp, will be found to throw some. welcome light on the awful catastrophe, whose details, so far as known, have moved the commiseration of the civil- ized world, On the 24th of August, 1871, the gallant explorer, C. F. Hall, put a post- script to the last letter he was ever to write, and dated it from Tessui- sak, the last outpost of civilization, on the ice-bound shores of Northern Green- land. ‘God be with us,"’ were his last words, and, as his trusted vessel steams cautiously out through the fog and mist into the frozen king- dom of the Pole, a fitting picture can be con- jured of the gloomy outlook for this arctic argosy. It is fresh in the public mind how the indomitable Hall gallantly sailed his little ship up through Smith's Sound, Kennedy Chan- nel and into Robeson Channel, where a point was reached that will bear his name in all future time, although the waves wash and the icebergs roll over it, It isa small pin-point on the maps (latitude 82 deg. 16 min. north, longitude 61 deg. west), but it is all that science has to show in exchange for the brave man’s life, that went out so sadly in the polar gloom of the November following. Never, indeed, did an expedition have greater need of a saving Power—of one mightier than man. The scene around the dead commander's icy grave, with a ship’s lantern in a sailor's hand held up to east a glimmer on the book of prayer, and a feeble ray upon the bowed white faces around, is fitly emblematic of what was to follow. The ice commences to drift and with it the ship. She is in danger, and prepa- rations are made to abandon her. Then the nincteen souls upon the ice are hurried away from the ship amid the warring of the ele- ments. Sounding waves, crashing, crunching ice, roaring winds and utter darkness envelop- ing nineteen souls upon the moving floe aro surroundings to compel the bravest to despair. To give the situation its master touch of bit- terness, during the brief day that follows they see the Polaris steaming away from them. Yet through six months these nineteen souls lived on. The great pack of ice, miles wide at first, was dwindling down until it seemed that death should creep upon them as the waters rotted the ice by piecemeal. And then they were saved, Was it not the sturdy old mariner'’s prayer as he steamed outin the mist and fog that was heard—‘God be with us?” We have gone over the first two chapters in this thrilling story in a few words, that all its bear- ings may be before the reader of the third—the search so generously instituted by the govern- ment for those whom the party on the icefloe regarded as saved when they had given them- selves up for lost. Elsewhere the story is told with simplicity and directness. We cannot, unfortunately, say that success has crowned the efforts of the expedition, nor can we decide fully as to whether the best has been done to secure suc- cess. The veil of the Arctic mystery is lifted cornerwise once more, and we catch a momentary glimpse of the white waifs of the Polaris, and then the gloom encircles them again. On the mainland, near Iattleton Island (latitude 78 deg. 23 min. north), Commander Greer, of the Tigress, dis- covered, on the 14th of August, the house where Captain Buddington and his party win- tered, and whence they had started for the south in two canvas-covered boats, made from the ship two months before. The ship was gone, sunk in nine fathoms of water, and with an iceberg grounded upon her—lost indeed. The Tigress stayed off this place only five hours, during which three short visits were made toa spot where so much might have been learned of how the winter had been passed and what the plans and prospects of the fourteen castaways were when they went away in their canvas covered boats to Pond’s Bay or Cape York. The Esquimaux who had lived with the party through the winter begged to be taken aboard, but Commander Greer refused with what must seem for the present a strange want of humanity. If he purposed immediately con- tinuing the search, acting on the clew he had obtained, there might be some excuse apparent; but five days afterwards the Tigress was lying to in the harbor of Uppernavik. The insufficiency of the inquiry at the Polaris camp, the failure to follow up the clew at once, and the fact of leaving nine human beings, who had no boats and little provisions, to perish, seem strange proceedings in a position where the best qualities of head and heart are called for. Buddington and his party are lost onco more in the Arctic wastes, and the expedition that costs thousands of dollars and risks scores of lives satisfies itself with a search for records that lasts not three score minutes. Two months, with barely what provisions could be carricd in their boats, leave very little hope that the fourteen men are still alive, unless the old whaler, Buddington’s, forecast was correct, and that they fell in with some Danish whale ship operating in Boffin'’s Bay. With the miraculous escape of Tyson’s party before us it seems almost blasphemy to shut the door to hope in this instance; but the story of Arctic exploration is such a martyrology of heroes that we tremble to think of the slender thread by which the lives of the fourteen men were held—the faintness of the chance on which they relied when they ventured out with the opening summer light towards the south, where the sun had been. ‘There is something so sadly touching in that grasping after life with fresh-born courage when the arctic day was come that the vast stretches of snow and ice—grand, fantas- tie, frozen pictures that cannot be dreamed of in the torrid.climes—seem allied to the living, breathing world when sunlight can reflect such magic cheer from their soulless solitude and utter desolation. Never was romance go terri- ble, so awe-inspiring as the record of the | Polaris in the empire of the ice, every succeed- ing detgil increasing the wonder and the mys- tery of it all. There isan ominous line in the despatch which tells us that all reference to the death of Captain Hall was destroyed from the diaries and log books that were found in the abandoned hut where Buddington and his thirteen men had passed the winter before. What does this mean? We recall at once with a shudder the half-formed utterances which gave to the lonely grave of Captain Hall a shockingly painful interest, and which pointed to some among his fellow voyagers as worthy of a degradation Which is made at once the climax of shame and the end of life. We believe that the official investigation dissipated the murky cloud thus cast upon the good repute of those whose fate is still a mystery, so far as it could be dissipated there. Until we are enabled to say whether this destruction of all reference to the death of their commander 18 merely accidental or bears the evidenco of deliberate intention we shall reserve any opinion on what it portends. Surely the death of Captain Hall was pitiable enough to cause a comment of some kind from the hardest heart in all the company. Tho statement of the Inspector Royal of North Greenland is very important, os coming from a disintérested party. He states that the feeling of insubordination to Captain Hall was promoted by Dr. Emil Bessel, the scientist, who is said to have wanted the charge of the expedition and wished ‘to give ita German character.” Oh, what unworthi- ness and unmanliness are conveyed in the bare assertion of such insubordination, where unity, cheerfulness and discipline were the first things required! The point where the deserted hut was found is undoubtedly the spot where the party on the ice-floo last saw the perished Polaris. It was so recognized by Captain Tyson. We should be readier to believe that the calculations of Mr. Meyer were in fault than that the eye of the man should be who had once associated the physi- cal features of the place with thoge im- pressive ones which have the haunting power of despair. Northumberland Island is sixty miles south of Littleton Island, and as tho ship had drifted in the ice- pack from latitude 80 dogrees 02 minutes southward the mistake may be accounted for by the confusion on board immediately preced- ing that terrible night of the 15th October, 1872. It is a little thing to note, however, when we recur to the fate of the fourteen beings still missing of the crew. Ere this, if res- cued as they hoped, they should have been heard from; at least the tidings should soon be to hand. Unless we hear of their safety in a very fow days the inference will be forced upon the public that their fate has been in all probability even more fearful than that of the party separated from the Polaris and finally rescued by the Tigress last spring. We read in this harrowing intelligence an- other terrible but timely lesson of the folly of exposing so many valuable lives in an ill-con- ceived endeavor and badly provided ship among the relentless terrors of the icy ocean. Every similar endeavor since the time when the dauntless navigator Sebastian Cabot undertook to find the royal road to India has proved a forlorn hope of geographic ambition. Thus far the explorer has made but little progress in that perilous passage for which Cabot and Willoughby sought, attempted since so much in vain, and seeming to be shut by jealous Nature with eternal bars. Desperate as the chance may be on which the safety of the Buddington party depends, we shall yet cling to the hope of their rescue. Never could be said more appropriately— Hope, like the glimmering taper’s light, ud stil as darker grows the night, ange a brighter ray. Batler—Kequiescat in Pace. Ben Butler has been wrapped up for the present in his political shroud and bot- tled. The republicans in conyention as- sembled at Worcester have decreed that the ‘‘claimant’” has no right, title or interest in the gubernatorial chair of Massachusetts; and Benjamin, bowing to this verdict gracefully, announced “anow his fealty to the party, and said that he did not want to do anything to cause a dissension in its ranks.’”’ Consequently, last evening, at five minutes to eight o'clock, Governor Wash- burn was renominated by acclamation, and thus terminates one of the most extraordinary struggles in the history of the Puritan Com- monwealth, What has been decided by this overwhelming victory of the friends of Gov- ernor Washburn? Simply this—the republi- cans go to the polls with a united front and the democracy cannot slip into power between rival and warring factions; the administration of General Grant has suffered a severe blow— the severest party castigation yet inflicted by those who are naturally his political friends, Butler has run down, we fear, beyond all winding up, and certainly he must abandon his pretensions to the Presidency, as he will have to assume a more modest demeanor in the coming Congress. At his time of life, and with his military and political record, he can hardly aspire to any lofty position in the gift of caucuses, conventions, legislatures, Executive appointment or popular sove- reignty. His back-pay exploit was, guberna- torially, a big spike in his coffin, and now we behold him treading his way from the High Court of his party, condemned at leastto tem- porary obloquy. Now, we believe that Gene- ral Grant would do 4 tender act if he were to appoint Butler to some post abroad, for Ben- jamin will be very wrothy during the coming session, and no one knows how much injury he may inflict on his party by his political vagaries. We would therefore suggest that a special mission be created to the Shah of Persia, feeling confident that the Essex states- man could reflect with cool philosophy in the distant capital of Teheran on the ingratitude of Massachusetts’ sons. Whatever may be- come of this irrepressible, we see no reason to lament the action of the Worcester Conven- tion. Tur balloonatics were all in a terrible stew yesterday. There was too much wind tor some, too litile for others. There was not enough gas to be had, and there was so much gas on hand that Donaldson ripped the balloon to let it out Who was right and who was wrong? A Suns Sion or Exection Trwm—A de- mand from the republican organs for the prosecution of Tweed and the “Tammany thieves’’ with ‘renewed energy.” Wonorsten Sauce—The resolutions of the Massachnnesta Bennblican Convention, Cheap Transportation and [ts Rela- tom to New York—Supplementary Needs. Scarcely second to cheap transportation in its importance to us, asa great commercial centre and distributing point of the products of our own country and Europe alike, is the question—brought home tous the more closely from the discussion of last night—of the cheap handling of freight at this port, and especially is this the case in reference to the particular freight, the excessive cost of moving which, and bow that may be reduced, forms the sub- ject of such active agitation throughout the country at the present time. No provision that may be made either in respect. to addi- tional railroad facilities, with lower rates, or increased canal capacity will suffice, how far soever it may go, to maintain the com- mercial supremacy of New York against the formidable rivalry of other cities anxious to dispute our empire. We have work to do within our own limits that should have been done years ego, which it would be well for our merchants to consider in its practical bearing upon our commerce, with the same fulness of understanding and earnest purpose to effect reform that they have brought to the discussion of the matter of transportation. -One has but to read the letter of our Montreal correspondent in ‘Tuesday's paper and then take a walk along the river front on either side of our city to realize how much behindhand we are in the great struggle for precedence in the forwarding trade of the West now impending. For years has New York stood still in this as in other great improvements, while rival cities have put forth much effort of that kind in their bidding for a share of the trade New York appeared to monopolize. Tam- many appreciated our need in this re- spect; but, promising to meet it, de- layed action to help schemes of private speculation, while the present reform manage- ment seems to lack even an understanding of the important trusts it has assumed. It is true the natural advantages of our capacious harbor, with its safe anchorage, open at all seasons of the year, are many ; but these will not always counterbalance other disadvantages when modern engineering skill can so soon transform a dangerous channel into a secure rondstead. The problem to be solved is how best to use these natural advantages so that we may turn our extended water front to more profitable account in cheapening the expense of transshipment. Our commerce is twofold in its character, being in both respects greater than that of any other city in the Union, and in times of special activity is subject to overcrowding alike in our streets and at the piers. In addi- tion to the new docks proposed along our city. front, but so long delayed, we want particular provision for the cheaper handling of grain freights, The annexation of the lower portion of Westchester county has given us just the additional water front we need for this pur- pose and placed within our municipal control the very locality adapted for a great grain depot. Large and important engineering works are, of course, required to realize the full advantage thus offered us; but, in the meantime, while these are in course of con- struction, much may be availed of. A railroad bridge across the Hudson River, at a point near Poughkeepsie, proposed years ago, but, as in the case of other much-needed improve- ments, apparently still-born in its agitation, will enable grain-laden cars to bring their freights close alongside vessels waiting to receive them, thus reducing the cost of trans- shipment to a minimum, while the completion of the Harlem Canal project will enable barges and canal boats to reach the same point of transfer without the trouble and expense of passing through the crowded waters of the Hudson and East rivers lower down, and thus give great relief to the busi- ness of these waters. Here are three projects which it would be well for our merchants to give attention to if they would retain the commerce in grain now so seriously threatened by Montreal. That ancient city, so long slumbering in quiet con- servatism, has recently awakened to a knowl- edge of its importance at the confluence of open sea and inland water navigation, and is making active preparation to meet contingent possibilities certain to present-themselves if we prove dilatory. New York possesses equal advantages with Montreal in respect to the particular claims that city presents, if we properly use them; but we cannot afford to longer stand still in our dock improvements and in providing for the means of cheap transshipment, while ten miles of new works at Montreal invite trade in that direction. Nor can we longer ignore the necessity of the immediate widening of the Erie Canal to its fullest capacity, in order that our inland water routes may equal those of our growing rival. This latter work would largely help the solution of the question of motive power; as with larger locks and a deeper and wider waterway the application of steam would be less difficult. It seems a little strange that in the resolutions passed at the meet- ing last night the importance of these improvements was not set forth at more length. We may quadruple the railroad carrying capacity between the East and West and reduce freights very materially, but this will not suffice to maintain New York in its present position if we neglect » corresponding increase in the ig capacity of our great inland water highway—the Erie Canal. To this work New York owes the place of prece- dence she now occupies in the commercial world, and by its enlargement may she best hope to maintain it now in the severest struggle she has yet had to encounter. ‘There is another lack in these resolutions to which we desire to call the attention of the gentlemen composing ‘‘The New York Cheap Transportation Association."’ In asking legis- lative attention to existing defects and abuses in the railroad system of the country they fail to point out how that attention can be best directed. Congress has power to deal with that entire subject in the regulation of commerce between the States. It should be instructed by these gentlemen, @rho have given a particular study to the subject, how that:power can be most beneficially exercised. First, at least, a check should be put upon the watering of stock, so common during the past few years, or the issue of dividend paying scrip, calling for rapidly in- creased earnings. Again, Congress might deal with the question of tariff, requiring that thsough freight be cared et the miniwoum charged by any road over which such freight passes and fixing the maximum rate atastated figure, securing at the same time competition, free to work its reduction, by a law preventing an officer or director of any one railroad cor- poration being an officer or director of any other, the word ‘‘officer’”’ being meant to apply only to those comprising the general manage- ment. The project of a government through road is not one commending itself to the best judgment. General legislation could be made effective to secure all needed reform if intelli- gently and understandingly applied, while it would not be well to detach government from its legitimate sphere of action by intruding it into business competition with private in- dividuals. As well might government be asked to turn banker and loan money on the street from day to day for the purpose of keep- ing down a stringency. When we have lost the power to regulate such direct personal affairs as belong to our business it will be time enough to hand them over to government management. Congress can extend great relief, however, without going to this extent, and equally effective, both by the legislation we have pointed out, and further by extending encouragement to the revival of our merchant marine. & It will not suffice to provide for the rapid accumulation of grain at this centre if we be | without the means of forwarding it hence. Therefore, while the subject of inland trans- portation is receiving attention, that of secur- ing means of rapid transshipment should not be overlooked. We have already pointed out the necessity of making provision for the quick and cheap handling of freights here ; but it is equally important that ample freight room be provided, in order that the cost of ware- housing be not unnecessarily added to the cost’ of transportation. Congress can help to this by some liberal policy that will stimulate American shipbuilding. With the increased demand for freight room, growing out of the fact that there is at present a very considerable diminution in the merchant tonnage of the world as compared with the demand, a very profitable field of enterprise here presents itself, of which our shipbuilders would not be slow to avail them- selves if properly encouraged by Congress. This, besides insuring us necessary facilities for forwarding freight, would be of great ad- vantage to us in giving us the freight charges to help the reduction of our balance of trade. It is well to see this awakening of our citi- zens to a consideration of matters so impor- tant in their bearing upon the futare of this city. Since Hendrick Hudson first navigated the waters of that river which now bears his name and laid the foundation of the present Empire City New York has made giant strides in the race for wealth and prominence, out- stepping all its rivals and rendering them in 8 sense but feeders to its greatness. But since that time never did it need so much its best effort and its most earnest enterprise to main- tain its supremacy. It is well that the mer- chants of New York have taken this matter vigorously in hand at this juncture. It marks 8 crisis in our history, which we think can be safely left with them to deal with to our best advantage. To-Day’s Races at Saratoga—Who May Be There Next Summer. Our latest advices from Saratoga show more clearly than ever that those who have in charge the races of to-day and to-morrow are in dead earnest, and, if they are as successful in closing the gambling houses next Summer as they are confident they will be, the prospect for the selection of Saratoga Lake for the intercol- legiate regatta of 1874 brightens very much. A large number of the first gentlemen of that city have contributed generously of their time and substance towards effecting the desired result, and as we said recently, if they over- come the one objection named, deserve to have it. It is pretty plain that, very greatly as the college races have increased in interest and in the number of contestants of late years, we are as yet far from the end, and the time may not be distant when ®@ course wide enough to accommodate almost twice eleven six-oared boats and all rowing abreast may be needed. West Point has not yet been heard from, and a bout between the young soldiers and the civilians would surely do noharm, Nor have the mid- shipmen widened their home reputation at the oar by taking part in these contests, which have already become of national interest. The command of the boats of men-of-war is, we believe, usually entrusted to midshipmen, and if good rowing was general among them it would be sure to improve that of our sailors, who so frequently, when in foreign ports, are challenged by those of other nations and especially of Great Britain, to the friendly tussle. Then, again, where is Union College, of Schenectady? And the Western Reserve and many another will doubtless yet come into line. With this prospect the fact that, as our cor- respondent assures us, Saratoga Lake is wide enough for forty crews to row abreast, with a hundred feet between each, is deep, smooth, indeed, so well sheltered from the winds as to be much of the time absolutely still— free from snags and bars, and amply long for any race, places it far in advance of any place where the University race has yet been rowed, and if, with these natural advan- tages are combined such earnest and well directed efforts as those of the gentlemen in question, we see no reason why Saratoga does not at least deserve to have the regatta. Then, again, near st hand is a place far better fitted than any other, of anywhere nearly its size, for the suitable entertainment of the thousands who go to these contests. Look, for example, at the total inadequacy of the Worcester hotels this very day for the tide of visitors which has suddenly made an inroad there, And yet this is but a repetition of what always happened there during regatta week. Noris this peculiar to Worcester, for a writer in the Nation well said recently: —‘‘The national ability to keep a hotel I never saw so sadly discredited. The art of colonizing guests; the perhaps more difficult art of declining to take man’s money for a dinner when you have no dinner to give him, or only @ dinner at the end of half an hour, and at the hands of distracted thongh double-feed waiters+these arts the principal hotel keepers of Springfield seem never to have learned.” But no other place in the country has been favored with the education which will develop that ability as has Saratoga; for she has had the care and keeping of thousands of guests from far and wide—uegta. too. qqrustomed toovery coy- venience and luxury—until her repute as am entertainer has justly become cosmopolitan. Moregver, it would be _Well to perfect the arrangements this fall to insure the college regatta for Saratoga lake. Little, certainly, will be gained by waiting six months later, while, with the determining this question, now comes a very positive advantage, one which, if properly seized, will go far towards doubling and trebling the interests in the university races of nextsummer. For the reasons named if Saratoga is decided on, the opportunity is now ripe for an invitation to the far-famed crews of Oxford and Cambridge to come over then and take part, They would have abun- dant notice and time to prepare. They stand now at a tie, each having beaten the other just fifteen times in the annual univer- sity struggles, so that the victors of the coming spring over the Putney to Mortlake course would be peculiarly welcome at Saratoga. They could show us how nearly the Yale crew, which rowed so well at Springfield, has come to the refiowned English stroke. They would come at a time of. year when their long vaca- tion would make it most convenient for them ; when they would enjoy both their ocean ride and their visit here exceedingly, and a fitter Place than Saratoga whither to invite them could ‘scarcely be selected. If thoy did not care to trust themselves in o six-oared boat—a craft unknown to them—the race im which they would take part could easily be made forfour oars, andon the second day their competitors might be limited to the first two or three or even one only of the crews of the day before, thus avoiding also all danger of touling. If both Oxford and Cambridge would come (and the latter should not ,forget that she has never yet accepted Harvjrd's chal- lenge), then all the better. Andif the Lon- don Rowing Club—probably the amateur champion oarsmen of the world—could be prevailed on likewise it will not be surprising if the spectators assembled on the shores of Saratoga Lake that day number more than a hundred thousand and would begin to ap- proach in numbers the vast multitude which pours annually out of London to see the sixteen chosen young men of the two great seats of learning measure their strength at the oar. And what a eapital story it would make, for instance, if they could go home and say that they were beaten by the Wesleyans! Why, we would almost forget that there ever was a Qeeun’s Cup! How and When Will the Geneva Award Be Distributed? The fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars paid by Great Britain according to the Geneva award has been applied to the pay- ment of so much of the national debt. The interest saved on that amount at six per cent is nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars, But the money is due to the shipowners and merchants, or their assignees and the insur- ance companies. Although the transaction of this settlement was between the two govern- ments of England and the United States, and could not be otherwise very well, our govern- thent, strictly speaking, is only the custodian or trustee of the money for the benefit of ite citizens who suffered by the depredationa of the rebel cruisers. The claims, then, should be settled promptly. How and when is this to be done? If we refer tothe French spoliation claims, which our govern- ment engaged to pay, but which have not been paid, we see it is not easy to get money out of the Treasury for such a purpose. Of course the money to pay the Alabama claims of our citizens will have to be appropriated by Congress, notwithstanding the amount was received from England and turned into tha Treasury. Nor is it to be supposed the claims of our citizens will be paid until they are thoroughly investigated. The first thing in order, then, will be to appoint a commission, or to turn the matter over to a committee of Congress. Should Congress manifest in this matter the same corruption it has exhibited of* late years there will be a vast amount of lobbying and trading before these claims will be settled. Let us hope some plan will ba devised to ascertain without delay who ara entitled to the Geneva award, and that the money will be appropriated and paid to them promptly. ee Tene bas been enough gas expended on the transatlantic balloon project to inflate twenty aérial monster ships. THE CALIFORNIA ELECTION. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 1873. The Bulletin gives tne toliowing summary of the composition of the next Legislature, viz.:—Repub- licans, 44; independents, 36; democrats, 40. Total, 120, Necessary to elect a United States Senator, 61. Many of the republicans recently elected are anti-railroad, and in favor of Booth for Senator. Assuming that the latter will be supported by part of the hold-over Senators, his friends claim confl- dently that his strength from the start will be much greater than can possibly be combined for any other candidate. THE MAINE ELECTION. Avausta, Me., Sept. 10, 187%, The Kennebec Journat has official returns from 343 towns, which show a total vote Of 69,079, divided as follows:—Kingley, 39,547; Titcomb, 27,987, and Willams, 1,545. Kingley’s majority over all, 10,015, In the same towns last year Perham had 62,019 votes, Kimball, 46,202, Perham’s majority. 15,817. The 145 towns and plantations yet to heard from last year threw 19,044 votes, of which Perham’s majority was 693. PIGEON SHOOTING. ‘Winding Up the Season at Newport— Last Matches of the Narragansett Gun Club—Pierre McCarty, C. A. Post and Sir H. Stafford Northcote the Winners. Newport, R. I., Sept, 10, 1873, ‘The last matches of the Narragansett Gun Club took place to-day, and were witnessed by the dite of the summer residents. Ovnsiderable money was staked on the result and great interest manifested contestants in the first LAP gtr Ruse and Mr. Pierre McCarty 35 . birds each, for a sum not named, at 25 yards. Mr. Movarty, proved she winner, killing 13 to als oppo- pres Aaansere GoW OLUD R. 1, Sept 1B —Newrorr, R. 1. rst cPronon SBoormna—Matcn of 25 birds each. MoCarty—9; 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0,0, 0.1, 1,1, 1,1, 1 4.9 da! 1s otal, ‘a3; “utiteay’ 3; niaded, "ane Russell—I, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1. 0, 1, 0, 1, 0 1, 0, 0% O% o—rotal, 33; killed, 10; missed, 13, 1} Suite Dar. PiuRON SuoUTINe—Handicap of Sve birds each :— ©, A. Post, 27 yards—t, 1, 1, 1, 1—6, H. Stafford Northcote, 25 yards—1, 0, O—I. Santen Sate 4 ay, 26 yar Same Day—Same conditions :— Pierre Mccarty, 27 yards, 0, 1, 0, 1% jerre t! H. Stagord Northoote, 27 yeas 4, 9, 0, 1-8 Harry Russell, cess Ol], The tie votweat te an: McCarty being shot of, it resulted :— Northeote—1, 1, ‘The fortunate gen! ‘and Sir H, Stadord winner, McOarty—1, 1, 0—2, tlemen were Mr. Py A. Post ang Nartheote, the latter twica~