The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, SARATOGA REGATTA, Preparing for the Great Uni- versity Struggle. YALE COLLEGE AND HER RACES Captain Cook’s University and Freshman Crews. Names, Ages, Heights, Weights and Positions, Yale Bubbling Over with Boating Enthusiasm. * New Haven, May 15, 1874 Though rowing, as a pastime and physical exer- else, came into vogue at Yale im the year 1843, It ‘Was not until 1852 that the practice of the art was suMiciently advanced and the tuterest correspond- ingly developed to lead the ambitious oarsmen into trials of speed with Harvard, their old-time honored antagonist, and at which seat of learn- Jng boating has existed a8 an institution since the year 1844, Thus, the Arst boat race between their representatives originated im a challenge from Yale inviting Harvard to meet her at such time and place a8 should be mutually agreed upon “to test the superiority of the oarsmen of the two col- leges.” This challenge was accepted, and Centre Harbor, on Like Winnipisiogee, situated in the north of New Hampshire, was selected as the scene of tne contest, which took place on ,the 8d of August, 1852, It must not be underscood that the participants in this race represented the best oarsmen of their re- Spective colleges, and were selected from the whole body of undergraduates, as has been the custom for several years past: but the event was sitaply & (rial of skill between certain of the class crews then in existence, and which inaugurated that character of contests which have since figured | 8o largely in the history of rowing in this country. At the Urst meeting Yale was represented by the Shawmat Boat Club class of '53, with their boats, the Halcyon, Undine and Atalanta, while Harvard sent their class crew of the same year with the eight-oured boat Oneida. The day was fine, the at- mosphere clear aud the lake scarcely rumed by @ breeze. A scrub race took place early tm the morning, im which the Oneida | came in first, winning @ Nandsome silk flag, ob- tained by private subscription, followed by the | Halcyon, Undine and Acalanta, in the order named. | | In the alternoon the decisive trial took place, in | which the Harvards won by two lengths, the prize | @ pair of handsomely mounted black walnut oars, still being carefully preserved, occupying an hon- ored place amid the trophies waich have since re- warded the efforts of that university. From this time up to the year 1871 the history of boat racing BY THE UNDERGRADUATES of American coUeges is mainly comprised in a nar- | place last Monday. this contest, the first three mile straight-away University race, Harvard being second and Browa third, In 1872 Yale again entered the list of con- testants, and was beaten badly, the course being the Conuecticat, near Springfield. YALE ENCOURAGED. After this defeat, or rather continued defeats, and by the addition of troable arising Irom finan- cial difficulties, oe ‘st Yale was very much de- Pressed and but little interest taken in the pastime by the students outside of the racing crews. Now that bas 4 chan; and during the past winter squat at Yale have received an impulse unprecedented io the history of American colleges; and What bas caused this? Simply the victory of the Yale crew in the iatercollegiate race of last year at Springfieid, and by the growing popularity of the sport a8 @ manly and healthy exercise, The pluck and apt, the perseverance and patience dis- played by the Yale crew at that time, and the skill Manifesied by Captain Cook in teaci hig men the art o1 seme nere borne fruit a hundred-/old. In the coliege he winter long the utmost en- thusiasm was manitested in the anticipations of the yearly reunion of the universities, una every man Guring the season and those who were no! begs work in the gymnasium, and in which hardly a day throughout the whole of the cold weather but what could be found some of tre men that Captain Cook had made op bis mind from whom to select the champion crews of 1874 an- Other grand result arising from the victory of 1873, led Yale to the reflection that much of the former indifference manifested by the students tu Squatics was the want of a suitable boat house having pleasant accommodations for the rowers, ‘The old house on the steamboat dock and nearly two miles from the college 1s a rude affatr, possesa- ing no convenience for either men or the stowing oi boats, which in a great measure acted discour- agingly and was one of the princi; reasons why ale ed to drop ao low in the aquatic scale. seemed This despondency has also given way to enthusi- asm, ior THE NEW BOAT HOUSE decided to be built bas already been commenced, and is expected to be finished in about two | months, The club itself had no available funds for the pur, aince the debts tor running ex- Ppenses consumed all the money that was raised, and finaily, on the expiration of the ground lease of the present rookery, @ notice: of Peg was served upon the club bythe owners, ‘nen 1¢ was that the students went work and by their own contributions and appeals to their friands succeeded in rais over $12,000, which sum was greatly augmented by the Yale Glee Club in their recent tours throughout the country for the same object. In this way the clubd has pro- vided for the following:—Debts of 1871-73, $750; running expenses, 1873-74, Poprrg eeeoeg C e: Penses, $2,000; land lor new boat house, $4,000; pinng and dredging, $1,250, To build the house it estimated that $10,000 will be required, of which gum there bas been raised enough to justily the statement that the whole amount will soon be tn the hands of the committee, In addition to the above amounts there 18 proposed to raise the sum of $8,000 1or permanent investment as a fund to support the janitor of the new house, and <hose who have the matter in charge are san- guine of ultimate success in this particular. The students are entitled to great credit for the en- deavor to develop their energies tn this direction. ‘They are working entirely independent of the col- lege authorities, though a8 a guarantee for the proper expenditure of the funds received all Moneys of the ciub are pat into the hands of committee of the facuity and graduates of Yale. The point chosen for the new boat house was @ lot on the left side of Chapel street, beyond Mill River, with a eect of 75 feet and a depth of 100 feet. The location is half @ mile nearer the college than is the present boat house, and jn all liketinood 1s will be rendered still more acces- sible by a proposed horse ratiroad, to ve built when the new bridge across the Quinnipiac River is completed. All the plans have been long agreed Upon and the piling was commenced to be put in The first floor will have a water side of 83 feet, with @ side of 75 feet on | Chapel street. The elevation of tae grouna floor above low water mark will be 7 feet 6 inches, and the height oi the first and second stories tweive feet and thirteen feet respectively. The first foor, one large room, will, of course, be de- ‘Voted to the storage of boats, and will have a ca- pacity (or forty-eight single, pairs and four-oared boats and twelve six-oared. This capacity may, | however, be muefinitely increased by hoisting up boats aad the well known. expedients resorted to for storing. rative o/ the rival oarsmen of Yale and Harvard, | since On the few occasions where crews from other seats of learning contested at the annua! coliege | reunions, they had, until that year, been | so far behind the representatives of the biue and magenta, both tn skill and training, as to | excite in the public an interest subordinate to | and often quite eclipsed by that taken in their as- sociates. The second aquatic mecting between | Yale and Harvard took place nt Springfield, MMass., | July 21, 1855, Itseems that in June of that year | the citizens, being desirous of celebrating the | Fourth of July with more than ordinary ¢clat, got up a regatta for that day, to be rowed on the Con- | Becticut River, opposite the city, to which the boat clubs of the Yaie and those of Harvard were | especiaily invited. Yale accepted, but Harvard aid not put in an appearance. Tne disappeint- | ment of the former in not meeting the latter led | to their sending them a challenge, which resulted | in the second college regatta on the 2ist of that month, Harvard was again victorious, The | course was one a half miles down the stream and | return; the prize, @ handsome set of silk boat flags, pennant, jack and ensign, offered by the citi- | zens, Tuen there was a lapse of four years, On Tuesday, July 26, 1859, the first race between crews formed of men seiected irom the whole college con- tended together. The water selected was Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester, and at the time | this course was namea it seemed to fulfil the re- quirea conditions, ond, yudged in the light of the racing experience oj that day, was probably as eligible @ piace as could then have been chosen, | affording as it did a fair three mules turning course | for two boats, being centrally located as regarded | the New England colleges, and very accessibie | jrom all points by rail, But the history of the | University races irom 1859 through a long series of | years proved conclustvely that both the i} COURSE AND THE LOCALITY | were wanting in the essential requisites for a fair, first ¢lass regatta, and, even in the changes that were made, there was not much improve- ment ootil the action of last summer was taken, electing Lake Saratoga as the scene of all future” contests; but of this more hereaiver. The victory again jell to the Caubridgeites, their time being igm. 188., Yale, 20m. 188, aud the crew fron Brown University, which also partict- pated for the first time, 24m. 408 A “citizens?” regatta took place the next day, in the six-oared race of which Yale and Har- vard again met to contest for the prize offered by the city of Worcester. AHthough Yale had been de- Teated by the Harvards the previous day, its crew | were on this occasion the victors by | four seconds better time than that of | her oppoaents the day before. This victory | inspired the iower classes of Yale to challenge the | corresponding classes of Harvard (or the regatta of 1800. The Harvard Juniors declined, but the Sophomores and Freshmen accepted. Toe second annual Union Voliege regatta took place on Tues- day, July 24, 1860, and the first race between the Freshmen crews was won by Harvard in 19:40. ‘The Sopnomore wis also won by the Harvard, the Yale boat having been withdrawn in consequence of the sudden 1liness of one of the crew just alter | turning the stake. in the third, or, as it wom this | time was Called, the Puiversity race, entries were | Made by the picked crews of Yale, Harvard and Brown. The Cambridge students repeated their victory, Yale second utc Brown last. Harvard aod Yaie met agai OR the ivilowing day in the Citizens’ Tegatta, w ¢ proved victorious, ‘The tullowing year they met ior the tith time, the Magenta winning in 15:53, the Yales making the three miles in 19:15, ‘The Outvreaking of the rebellion caused a disband- ment O/ the crewsin tae spring Of 1861, aud it Was not until the summer Of 184 that a sixth meeting | was had, when the famous Yule crew, which re- | ceived their instruction from Wilbur Bacon, suc: | ceeded for the first ume in race for collegiate honors 10 carrying away the trophy, the ime being 19:01. ‘Ihey repeated tuis victory the succeeding r, Making voeir best time up to that period— T424—coming bome 26% seconds in advance the Harvards. They also won next day in the tizens’ regutia, he trophy reverted to the rards in 1866, they covering the distance in 18743 % vo Yale’s 19:10, and in 1867 the Magenta was tue winning color in 16:12%, the Yale | crow making it in 19:25 5. Through the subsequent years—ises, 1869 and 18706—-Yale, suifered repeated deieats, and in the University rece in Jey Fa Fg - gg vas 101 among the Yale ewe their iriends by the decision of the um- pire, it culminated in @ pledge being made by the members of the crew that they would never again enter another contest on Quinsigamond, where, by the way, @i the races from 1864 up to | that ume had taken 3 and this decision was uently indorsed py the action of the ‘ale University Boat Olob in voting that no crew irum that college ever should row there again. Yale did not send @ delegate to the von- vention of College Delegates, heid at Springfeld, April 15, 1871, and took no part in the college races of that’ year, Yale’s devermination betore that time, that she would never again row at Worcester or meet Harvard in any but A STRAIGHT-AWAY RACR, ‘was fally understood. The convention which as- sembied at toe time and place appointed organ. | ed the “Rowing Association ot erican COi- | has treed the University Clad from debt—a | and practising them for the im | and sturred the Yankee mush the, | and fromm which much is expected in the physical | This ciearly demonstrates, what one victory has achieved. it has given the whole college new courage, made each man think better of his fellow student, restored the old and fast fading pride whicu Yale possessed in the halcyon days when victory was wont to perch on her banners, and “ | OBi> | on of independence not before attained within seven years. YALE'S BOATING ORGANIZATION. The Yale University Boat Club now numbers 703 members, the several class organizations, though aspiring to the dignity of having their own oifi- | cers, are @ part of the older o1ganization and gov- erned by all its rules, The officers ior this year are:—President, Charles H. Ferry, postgraduate, Chicago, [il.; Vice President, Julian Kennedy, 75, 8, 8., Struthers, O.: Treasurer, E. H. Landon, °75, Ac., New York; Secretary, J. H. Marvin, '76, Ac., Brooklyn, N. 'Y; Captain, Robert J. Cook, 176, Ac., Lutayette City, Pa. While the present term. has been un active one for ali concerned, because of tue general business and many financial pro- | blems brought beiore them, the Captain reauy is the party on whom rests the responsibility seemingly, of the entire year’s work. He isthe great power on the water, selects the crews, places them in position, trains them and, in gen- eral, gets them ready for any race they may wish toenter. Hence, if they lose the grand contest he is likely to incur the blame; if they win, much ofthe glory. Mr. Cook this year, as last, occupies tuis responsibie position and seems even more en- thusiastic now than then that Yale will repeat her victory. PICKING OUT THR CREWS. In the beginning of April, after all the prelimi- nary arrangements had been made for the inter- collegiate race, to come off at Saratoga, Captain Cook took seven men from the hardening exercise of the gymnasium and placed them in a new barge, 44 feet by 29 inches, built by Blaikie, of Boston, and every evening since and on the aiternoons of Wednesday aud Saturday he has been giving them instruction in tne stroke which he wishes them to become familiar with, portant matter of ositions in the racing suell. In the harbor of ew Haven and the river Quinnipiac this work has been gone throngh with. At the same time the crew began the dietary regimen laid down for them to pursue, aud in ths respect Yale hus aone Much in cutting adrift from the course pursued oy her in former years. It was hinted io times gone by that the Yale men put spectacles in their soup were so jond of with an old copy of “Saitust;” hence their very eruaite and proiound puiling in outriggers. ‘The Yaie boys now are allowed a very generous diet, condition in which it will place ber crew. They | do not believe @ man ought to eat what he thor- oughly dishkes and will not stat oat meal down | his turoat ir he don’t care a snap for oat meal; and Just So 1b 15 With a Majority of the erticles that are put upon their table. What each man wants he is generously provided with, and what he objects to can be pushed aside or tiurown over his shoulder at will. as yet tuey have not done much work be- sore breakfast, and they believe in batns early in | the morning. A smaii quantity of ale with dinner | aod tea at supper is the extent of the liquid they mauige in, and they dote on jomrs and steaks and rive o! beef, But jor them there ig no pastry and Dat lutte milk. Already theirs is @ life of @bati- neuce, of seli-abnegation und pure moraiity, Aller the extended trials to which they tad been subjected Captain \ ook decided that the crew with Which he would trust Yaie’s boating reputation at the next intercollegiate regatta would be two of last year's University crew, Juilan Kennedy and | himsei{; two of the Yale’s victorious 73 Freshman crew, Frederick Wood and George L. Brownell, and two green saplings, which have to be bent and inclined jor the stern test that awaits them. I @aw these men last nignt at the boathouse just before they jumped into their barge for a pull of five or six miles. In the boat they looked well, nd it 18 quite enough at this early day to say that Cook likes them exceedingly well. They have Gone excellent service aiready, taking hold with a Vim &nd giving assurance tiat they eel the next University race wiil not be chiid’s play nor won without @ determined effort. The men, their positions in the barge last night, and which they ‘will row in their shell at Saratoga, should none of them become sick or mect with accident, are as Jolows:— UNTVBRSITY RACE OF '74. Bow—George L. Brownell, 8. s., '75, of East Had- — Conn.; age, 2; height, 6 ft. 8in.; weight, ry Port Bow—Frederick W 8.8., 75, of Norwatk, Conn.; age, 20; height, 5 103g 1n.; Weight, 1663¢ los, Stardoara Watst—Mmiles G. Nixon, 8. 8., 76, of IU, ; 8ge, 10; height, 6 ft. 11)s in.; weight, | ered tnoghe ste io ince weg TA oe” il. ; age, 21; he . 1s 5 5 Wslathoard ‘seroes—duilan Kennedy, &, Su, 7, of Stratuers, Ohio; age, 24; height, bit 11% in; weight, 17 ‘stroke—Kobert J, Cook, Ac, 76, of Lafayette, Pa; age, 25; height, 6 ft. 8 in.; weight, 19634 lbs, The substitute selected and whp haa done as much work, if not more, than some of the number iven above, is David H. Kellogg, Ac., '76, of Spuy- n Duyvil, N. ¥.; age, 20; height, 6 it 11 in.; weight, 164% Ibs, The average of the seven gentiemen is less in age than last year’s crew and somewhat more in Weight. Five of them have acquttted themselves with honor in nee Taces, while the two new men, Nixon and Fowk re, it is thought, pos- sessed Of enough muscle and a sufficiency of spl- hai column to engage in @ #tx-oarea shell race, and heip win it. ‘Ihe weight of these men will average on the day approaching the contest about 156 or 158 Pounds, oF such is the tntention. Anew shell for the race will be ordered in a day or two from Biaikie, and a paper boat has been proffered them, which will be received and used if liked. THE FRESHMAN OREW. Captain Cook has also selected the Freshman crew which will represent the University at Sara- toga next year, and if the weights given me are correct, tuey are & lusty six, and will, when Tid Of the excess of adipoise tissue, no doubt pre- sent @ form that may repeat the Yale's Freahinan victory of '7% which refiggtea great credit on the institution, This crew, wiih their ages, weigh’ Of the several classes who were at all likely to row | | forty-seven were deliveres | Mts, Ind; age, 21; th 6 ft. 8 in.; weight, 155 Ibs. | Port Bow—L, 'H, Braater, “hc, or Hastings, N. | Y.3 age, ert, 6 it.; welgnt, 172 Ibs, Waist—Onaries $. | Mervine, Ac., of Milton, FA; age, 23; heignt, 6 ft, 9 in.; welgut, 170 Port Watst—Charies A. Clattin, s. #., of Hopkin- ‘on, Mass. ; age, 21; height, 6 ft. 6 in.; weight, 175 | | Starboard Stroke—Elbrit 0. Cooke, Ac., of | Worcester, Mass.; age, sa hegne 6 ft 10 in; Stroke—Witam W, Ao, of Penn Yan, N. Y.; age, 18; heignt, 6 ft. 10in.; weigut, 180 Ibs. hese men do the same amount of work as the University crew, pulltng tn the harbor and on the | Quinnepiac evel and Wednesday and | Saturday afternoons, As the weather becomes warmer and the season advances both crews will | make Lake Saltonstall their place of practice. . The crew will row in & new shell at Saratoga, whica has just been ordered, SINGLE SOULLERS. Yale will also send one or two single scullers to Sari and ii rumor is true, these men will be Ansley Wilcox, class of 76 academic, who pushed Captain Cook so lively in the two mile scull race for the Southworth in fall regatta of last year on Lake Saito! W, ©, Hall, clags of 75 of the scientific ool, But in the colle; regatta which the Yale boys will have on their watersin June the several candidates for sculling honors will tnen be tried, and those proving the better men will besent to Saratoga, and their expenses paid by the college, which has not here- tofore been done. it is thi t by the club that tt these gentlemen strive to uphold the boating honor of tne University, there should be no reason why they should not be put on the same footing pecun- niarily as the University and Freshman crews. YALE V3, ATALANTA. Should the Atalanta Club, In accordance with the invitation extended, conclude to visit this city and row the Yale University crew just before they depart for Saratoga, the race will be witnessed by thousands. The promised contest has excited much comment, and many do not approve of it, as. there are chances of accident tm such a race that might not otherwise occur, As for tie Yale crew, they seem glad of the opportunity to test their skill before the alleventful day, claiming it may do them good and cannot result in aby harm. Bo this as it may, should the race take place, New Haven wiil be provided with a real and unmistak- able sensation, and her otherwise quiet streets overrun with boating men and students from all sections, who will, Jor the nonce, turn the place topay turvy. YALE’S BASE BALL NINE. ‘The exponents o/ the national game at xale will accompany their fellow students to Saratoga, and augment the amusements by playing a series of three es with the Harvard pine at Glen Mitchell. The Yale nine a8 now constituted is as fotlows:—Bentley, catcher; Avery, pitcher; Scud- der, first base; well, second base ; Nevin, third 1 | weight, 174 Ibs, base; Osborn, shert stop: Foster, leit field; K. C. Smith, centre fleld; 8. Hotchkiss, right feld. OFF FOR SARATOGA. The crews will lei New Haven for Myers’, their headquarters on Lake Saratoga on the 24th oiJune. The club has not yet settled upon which 1 the hotels they will select for their friends to congregate and make the piace of rendezvous for Yale, but it 1s pretty certain that Congress will be the place. One and all of the students are en- thustastic in the matter of this year’s courso, and feel Well assured that on Lake Saratoga there will be room enough for all and that the “vest crew will win.” They cannot see in what particular the arrangements can be improved, and are proud that the College Rowing Association have so many friends, who have been working 1 their behalf to instre a pleasant annual reunion and a successful intercollegiate regatta, THE PHILADELPHIA YACHT CLUB. Psa alia ill PHILADELPHIA, May 15, 1874. The firat regatta of the season under the direc- tion and management of the Philadelphia Yacht Club will take place on the Delaware River May 18. ‘The regatta is open for ali first and second class fifteen foot yachts, and the race will be in charge of Mr. A. Ebener. The course is from Shackamaxon street wharf to the Block House, opposite Fort Miftin, and return. The second class yachts will start at ten o'clock A. M. and the first class at twenty-five minutes past ten. The following are the entries :— tain A First Class Yachts.—William H. Clymer, Cap William Roach; Al, Dager, C: in A. Baisley; A. ©. Eggleton, Captain G ington Simons; Windward, Captain Frank Day; ‘tyler Hamuiton, Captain John H. Fitler; Beujumin P. Sparks, Cap- tain William Flick; Kate D. Eakuis, Vaptuin George Eakins; Lizzie Ardis, Captain Wiiliam Aiexander; Charies 5, Austun, Captain DU. Huber; Willie Kicintz, Captain Frank Kieintz; Kate Leary, Cap- tain S. isaac Swearer; Georue Aoit, Captain John Smith; Harry Strimmel, Captain Thad Chambers; Charles W. Hillman, Captain Charles Bradley; John Hiliman, Captain Henry Newlin; John F. Ohl, Captain Joseph Wood; John Stilz, Jr., Captain George Bratton. ¢ Second Class Yachts.—Leo Reinfried, Captain Theo. Helm; Edward Ebener, Captain Robert Rockey; Litue Maggie, Captain G. Griscom; An- nie B. Riser, Captain H. Abrauams; George Jes- son, Captain J. Kiehl; Klisa Booke, Captain Ed- ward Bower; John: B. Brewer, Captain J. Brad- shaw: Charles Abel, Gaptain W. H. Vanderslice 8. A, Maurice, Captain W. Kiik; Ida May, Captain D, Ahern; 8. A. Standeford, Captain T. Ledyard; Dolhe Tiiton, Captain C. Tilton; Sallie, CaptainJ, Radder; Lilian, Captain G. Bumm ; Richard Riddle, Captain Joun Tipton; George Lewis, Captain P, Jones; Euchantress, Captain G. Long; Joseph Leary, Captain P. Vandersiice; John D. Side- botham, Captain J. Doerr; William 0. Wieland, Captain W. Hariey; Cowell B. Miller. Captain UC. G. Bodie; Julia, Captain James ©. Vignor. ‘fhere are four prizes offered as tollows:—For the first boat of each class, solid silver tee pitchers, highly ornamented, mounted on solid sliver stands; nut ef ht day chronometer ciocks; third boat of each cl solid silver castors. Yachting Notes. The yacht Columbia, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Lester Wi lack, from New London, passed Whitestone yester- Gay forenoon, en route for New York, New Haven for New York, passed Whitestone yes- terday afternoon. The Seawanhaka Yacht Clud is making srrange- ments for a grand schooner regatta, to be sailed in the Jatter part of August, in which the recoghized clubs tu the United States may compete. The regatta will be conducted on what 13 known as the will be required ti and, teach yacht shall be sailea a8 far as possibie, steered by her owner, and shall be manned exclusively by amatear members of tae club under whose fag she is entered. The names of the proposed crews must be submitted to the Regatta Committee on the i | previous to the race, and all “projessionals” will be rigidly excluded. The judges will be the commodores of maa York, the Lastern and the Seawan! clubs, SEIZURE OF THE STEAMER PEREIRE. —_-—. A Claim for Damoge to Freight. Yesterday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, the French mail steamer Pereire, belonging to the General Transatiantic Company, was seized by Deputy Unitea States Marshal P. R. Hawley, act- ing under orders of United States Marshal S. R, Harlowe, of the Brooklyn district. I¢ appears that some time back the ‘‘Society of St. Gobain, Chaun- cey & Ciry,” @ plate glass and chemical manufac- turing company in France, sent a large shipment Of glass to this port. it was much broken before being discharged on the wharf of the com- pany in this city, the damage amounting to $1,016, Mr. Muckenzie, the agent of the line, transmitted the claim of Messrs, Noel & Saurel, the agents of the St. Gobain Society in New York, to the company’s beadquariers at Paris; but no action Was taken ig the matter, and Messrs, Noel & Saurel, at jast losing patience, determined to libel tue ilifated Europe upon het arrival here. ‘The seizure yesterday was for similar Cause, as the following extracts from the complaint—dated May 16 and pled in the United States District Court of Brooklyn, before Judge Uharies L, Benedict—show. (Futy cases were shipped, it ia reported, of which din condition). THE REQUEST TO SEIZE THE PRBEIER. That said steamship Pereire arrived at rt of New York on or about 20th day of March, 1974, with the said goods on board, and the said goods were unladen from on board the suid vessel and placed on the dock ivered Roel 1, bot that and the and damages and negligens Moring, discharging aid’ bandd glass, While im their possession 9 aioresaid, and that the dami consequence thereof amounts to $1,236 1 thereon trom the 2th day of March, phir hich has been duly demanded and refused. that said ‘essel is About to leave the port aud harbor of New York, where. she is now, within the juriadiction of jourt, Feely ubiess by sricecding suasnat sala" voweh, Het ou oceeding aj ‘a Eien lcilsrapparal aad Neate THE SEIZURR OF THR STEAMER, When the United States Deputy Marshal, Mr. Hawley, stepped on board the vessel he asked for the Captain and was told that he had gone ashore ; but, the Second Captain being on board, he was informed that the vessel was seized by the United States Marshal, at the request of the agents of the St. Gobain Society, tor damage done to their ‘oods. He made no reply, except +s ae he papers, ana immediately telegraph to » . Mackenzie, the agent of ie line in. Broadway, informing fim of what had taken place, The Pereire will probably be bonded this morning, and no interference will be made by the marshal on board to her getting up steam in preparation for her departure. The whole re- Aponsibility Of this seizure and its annoyances are aia on the shoulders of the French directors of the ng proper respect to the claim oel & Saurel, agents in this Society. 1t is reported that ry rest 4, nt of ” The race of 1871 took piace at ie oo age ou the Connecticut, six miles above Spring i z tao Amherst Agricultursi crew, won | heighis and residences, are as follows. 1 obtain them (rom Vaptain Vouk :— Bow—Charies J. Rockwood, 6. 6., of Indianapo- ‘this affair will be jooked upon by importers a5 a test case as to the rights 0} ipping ane the lia- bility of the company jor damage to freight. second boat of each ciass, handsome carved wal- | ‘The Yacht Alarm, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Kingsiand, from | achts of all | rinthian” system—that is, it | LITERATURE. *The Life and Times of John Quincy Adams. 1795 TO 1848. The famous diary kept by John Quincy Adams during the greater part of his long public life has been sor two generations an object of pub.ic curi- osity, It was known for a long period previous to his death that Mr. Adams was keeping such a diary, and his remarkable opportunities, vigorous talents, great power of expression and unrivalied attainments in various departments of knowledge, warranted a belief that, if ever published, it would be found a rich repository of information on the public affairs of his time. The celebrated ‘Memoirs of Talleyrand, which he required to be withheld until thircy years after his death, did not excite greater expectation in Europe than this diary of John Quincy Adams has excited in America. Tne volume before us is the first instalment of its tong deferred pablication. To how many volames it will extend the editor has failed to inform as, but we have some data ior conjecture, The diary, as left in manuscript, consists of ‘nineteen quarto yolumes, averaging 500 pages each, of fine writing.” Only the most important and interesting portions of it are ¢o be published, and, as nearly as we cap make out from certain notes and indications, the pres- ent volume ig an abridgement of the first two of the nineteen volames of manuscript, Supposing the same proportion throughout, the publication willextena to nine or ten volumes, But, as the nterest of the materials will increase as the diary Spproaches nearer our own times, there should naturally be less suppression asthe publication proceeds, and the work would seem more like to exceed than fall short of ten volumes. The growing interest of the materials is not only in- ferabie from the more important public positions towhich the author rises and his wider connec- tions with men and affairs, but from 8 comparison ‘founded on the contents of the present volume, which comprises portions of the diary during tts first fourteen years. In this period Mr. Adams ‘Wrote only two volumes of the diary, or at the rate of seven years to a volume, whereas he fillea seventeen volumes in the ensuing thirty-nine years, or almost a volume every two years; which ig explained by the greater importance and mul- tiplicity of the author's public duties and his wider fields of observation. We therefore inter that the present volume, valuable as 1t is, ts the least tnter- esting in the series, The Adams family is the most remarkable in our history. We Can think of po other in which strong hereditary traits are so combined with marked pecuilarities of individual character. Not even the Beecher blood has a greater dash of eccen- tricity than the Adams blood, The Beechers have moved in @ narrower sphere, their reputation is more local, we have had but two noticeable gen- erations of them, while of the Adamses we have already four. In both families there is an ua- tamable tendency to be different trom other clever people. Jonn Adams, the first in time and most gifted in genius, was an ‘impetuous, trascible, tm. patient, strong-willed, proud, imperious man, who only lacked coolness and self-command to make him a statesman of a very high order. Jenn Quincy Adams had not quite his Jather’s intellect, he was less open in his de- meanor, less explosive in his temper, but he was full of asmouidering vehemence, which broke out with great heat as often as it encountered much provocation. One of our grave historians called him “a stormy petrel, incapable of existing ex- | cept im the surge und foam of political strife.” Charles Francis Adams has more balance of char- acter, greater self-control anda sounder judg- ment than any other member of the family, with | less rapidity of ideas and far less vigor of \an- guage than either his father or his grandfatuer. But he has, nevertheless, a spice of the Adams im- | pulsiveness, of which a sight display was made in the singular letter he wrote, in 1872, in relation to the Cincinnati nomination, and again in the Seward eulogy, in which his seeming recklessness of statement and perversity of estimate exposed him toa damaging fire of criticism from cooler men, One of the great-grandsons, who is becom- ing quite a noted publicist, shows in his writings all the impetuosity of the most i/lustrious member of the family. We have had no other American Jamily in which there has béen sach a long descent of inherent vigor of character and remarkabie abilities. Webster, Clay, Calhoun were the first and last of their line in point of public distinction, although they all had sons, The descendants of Hamilton and Jay present no example of men capable of acting great part and creating a high reputation by their own exertions. Franklin lett nothing behind him that resembied him’ With the exception of John Adams, our first five Presidents never had any sons, and the same is true of Andrew Jackson, it is a singular circumstance that of our firat ten Presidents the only two who had sons were the two Adamses, that the first son of the second Adams barely tatled of a Presi- | ential nomination at the last election, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, in editing the writ- ings of his father, has adopted quite a different pian from that which he pursuea with the works | of his grandfather, pabilshed twenty years ago. | Of the ten octavo volumes completing the works of John Adams less than four consist of previously unpublished writings of that statesman. The col- lection included all of his official papers, the books he published before he became President and his | fugitive publications afterwards; but the manu- scripts of John Quincy Adams are so very volumin- | ous that the editor has concluded to print very iittle | beyond the diary, affd even this with a large sup- pression of parts containing personal details of no permanent interest and repetitions of the same ideas, He says if all the productions of his father were publishéd they would be equal in quantity to the 10 volumes of Voltaire. But he thinks this examiple of Voltaire ought to serve as a lesson for warning rather than imitation. “No reader,” he says, ‘can aip into his pagés without perceiving how oftem even so versatile a mind as his repeats the same thoughts.” Mr. Adams accordingly con- cludes that even after putting aside ali the other manuscripts, an abridgement of the diary is indis- pensable, Alter giving @ brief account of his father’s early years in a first chap- ter, mostly written by himself, the editor | Suppties nothing further from his own pen, beyond occabional connecting links and explanatory foot notes. These are never obtruded when not necessary, no editor ever having been more free from the vanity of making himself prominent inetead of his author. Pains- taking, diligence, sound judgment, faultless taste and thorough knowledge of the subjects touched ‘upon in the diary are the qualifications which Mr. Adams brings to his task. The chief attraction of this work for most Teaders will consist in the interesting glimpses which it constantly affords of the public men with ‘whom John Quincy Adams was associated or came in contact during his long and varied career at home and abroad, as Minister to Holland, to Berlin, to St. Petersburg, to London, as the head of the commission for negotiating the treaty ofGhent, as Secretary of State during the four years of Monroe’s administration, aa President, as member of Congress for eighteen years after his retirement from that high office with a fame which caused him to be sought by all persons of distinction visiting or residing at Washington, he had probably seen, conversed and acted with more people of celebrity than any man of his time, The diary is @ repository of his observations * set down when the impressions were fresh, and hav- ing consequently an engaging air of reality. Even the hasty judgments that are sometimes recorded seem to keen up tho interest which would not at- tend a cold, studied performance. We have not space for extended quotations, but ‘wil try to give an dea of Mr. Adams’ manner in the lighter portions of the diary by referring to the entries made on seyeral occasions after dining at the~ table of President Jefferson. John Quincy Adams’ acquaintance with Adams lived to see his son President, and that the | Jefferson commenced in his poynood, when he ac- companied his father to Paris. The old man made @ touching allusion to the great fancy which Jet- ferson took to the boy in a letter to Jefferson, Written just after John Quincy’s election to the presidency, in which he apologized forspeaking of him as “our John.” The proud and gratified father then close upon his nivetieth year, said:— “I call nim our John, because when you were at Paria be appeared to me to be almost as mach your boy as mine. I have often speculated upon the consequences that would bave ensued from my taking your advice to send him to William and Mary College, in Virginta, for an education.” It was Ro new thing for John Quincy Adams to dine fre- quently at Mr, Jeferson’s when be went to Wash- ington as a Senator from Massachusetts. His opinion of that statesman’s conversation can- nos be considered as that of a novice. So much has been written, first and last, of Jefferson’s entertaining gilts as a conversationalist, without any specimens of his topics and manner in his lighter hours, that we are glad tosee the curtain iifted half a century after his death, rgving U8 8D authentic view of some of hia peculiarities, What seems to have struck Mr. Adams most was & habit of strange exaggeration. {n one place he says:—‘You can never be an hour in this man’s company without hearing something of the marvel- lous, like these stories.” One of the stéries alladed to was Jefferson’s statement that he had learned the Spanish language “with the help of a Don Quixote lent bfm vy Mr. Cabot, and a grammar, to the course: of a passage to Europe, in which he was not nineteen days at sea.” ‘The real marvel is that a man so intelligent as John Quincy Adams should have thought this Marvellous. We have seen it stated somewhere that Edward Everett learnt Spanish in an equally short space of time. Of course neither he nor Jefferson meant to say that he had learnt to speak it or to write {¢ in so brief a space, but only that he had acquired the ability to read it, which is a Much easier attainment, The language of Spain is @ gothicized Latin, with a smali infusion of Arabic words derived from the Moorish occupa- tion, A person who, like Jefferson, had long un- derstood Latin, and two languages so kindred to Spanish as the French and Italian, had merely to learn the grammatical changes which had been superinduced upon Latin in its conversion into Spanish to understand nine words in every ten without any other help. The knovwi- edge im Jefferson's case was facilitated by beginning with so famiilar a book as “Don Quixote,’’ which he had doubtless read repeatedly in English or French translations, the well known story rendering doubtful work intelligible. Some of Mr, Adams! other examples were more to the point. “At table he told us of a Mr. Bergasse, whom he saw at Marseilles, a famous manufac- turer of wines, who told him that he would make any sort of wine he would name, and in any quan- tities, at six or eight sols the bottle, and, though there should not be a drop of genuine wine in the compositi n, yet it should so perfectly imitate the taste that the most refined connoisseur should nct be able to tell which was which.” On another Occasion, alter dining at Jefferson's, Mr. Adams said, in the diary, “‘his itch tor telling prodig- tous stories is unabated.” Speaking of cold, Jefferson said that he had seen Fahrenheit's ther- mometer “in Paris” at tweaty degrees below zero, and that not for asingle day, but for six week's together it had stood “thereabouts,” saying, that never and in the whole time was it so high as zero, Which is “fiity” degrees below the freezing point! This was, indeed, shooting with a pretty long bow, but the “fifty” must have been a slip of the tongue. On another like occasion, Mr, Adams wrote in the diary, “The President was less cheer- Jul in his memories than usua!, but told some of his customary startling stories: An instance given 1s, that Jefferson said that before he went from Virginia to France he had some ripe pears sewed up in too bags, and that when he re- turned, six years afterwards, he found them in @bveriect atate of preservation. An observation 80 often repeated by a person who knew Jefferson 80 well, and whoalways confirmed it by giving instances, must be accepted asa proof that Jel- ferson’s conversation at his own table was astar sworn testimony in a court of justice. We insert the following passage from the diary, after another dinner atthe President's, because it doubtiess gives a fairer idea of the usual topics at Mr. Jef Jerson’s table, and because it brings into view one of the most accomplished men who made a figure in New York society in the early part of this century :— At dinner there was much amusing conversation between’ him and Dr, Mitchell, tnough alt»getner desultory, There was, as usual, a dissertation upon wines, not very edifying. Mr, Jefferson saia that the epicurean philosophy came nearest the trath, in his Opa of aby ancient system of phi- losophy, but that it had been misunderstood and misrepresented. He wished the work of Gassendt concerning it had been translaied. accurate account of it extant. I mentioned Lucre- tius, He said that was only a part—only the natu- ral pabesonny. But the moral philosophy was daly to be found 1 { In Gassendi. Dr, Mitchell men- tioned Fuiton’s steamboat as of great im- portance. To which Mr. Jefferson, assenting added, “and 1 think his torpedoes @ valuabie in- | vention, too, He then euiogised u ou the cer- tainty of their effect, and adverted to some of the obvious objections against them. which he said | were not conclusive. Dr. Mitchell’s conversation | Was very various—of chemistry, of geography and of natural philosophy; of arts, grasses, beasts, birds, petrifactions and incrustations; Pike ana Humboldt, Lewis and Bariow ard a long trais of et ceteras—ior the doctor knows a little of every- thing and is communicative oi what he knows, which makes me ay im his company. Mr, Jetferson said that he had always been extremely fond of agriculture and knew nothing about it, but the person who united with otuer science the greatest agricultural knowledge of any man he | Knew was Mr. Madison, He was the best farmer | in the world. On the whole, this was one of the | Most agreeable dinners I have had at Mr. Jesfer- son's. We have preferred to give a specimen relating to social manners rather than one bearing on political history, in order that the reader may perceive that the work is not entirely devoted to Politics. So 1aras it has yet gone it abounds in criticism, in personal anecdotes, in jddgments of books and theatrical performances and most of the topics that interest cultivated peopic. Mr, Adams was all his life mach given to verso writ- ing. This was a foibie, for he had not the slight- est glimmer of poetic genius. But as it is the purpose of his editor to exhibit him precisely as he was, like the artist who painted Cromwell's face with its warts, he gives a copy of verses consisting of fourteen ight line stanzas addressed by Mr. Adams to his wife on her birthday. He was then board. ing with her sister in Washington, and the verses consist chiefly of a description of his manner of passing a winter day, intermingled with remem- brances of the absent wife. Every stanza ts equally bad, and in selecting a specimen we have taken one in which the matter is level witn man- ner. It may remind elderly New England readera of a childish rural custom :— Boon little Mary, toe, they bring, And now we practise every wile, And clap the hands, and laugh and To catch that heaven—am intant’s ein’ Meantime an apple paring whirl’ Thrice round the head with mystic ditty, Ana forthwith on the carpet hurled, Foretelis her future lord to Kitty. One constant feature of Mr. Adame’ diary is his self-examination, which his editor makes it a point of conscience to publish. The most depre- clating of those contained in this volume cannot harm Mr. Adams’ reputation. We insert a speci- men, which contrasts curiously’ enough with his speaker in the House of Representatives thirty or forty years ago, ‘The date of tne extract is 1805:— On this occasion, a8 On aimost every other, I feit moat sensibly my deficiency as i rancous speaker. In tracing this deficiency to te Source I find it srising @ cause that is irreparable, No efforts, no application on my part, can ever remove it. Jt is slowness of comprehension, an 1 jacity to grasp the ‘whole com} ‘of asubject Inthe mind at once with such an arrangement as leaves @ proper im- pression of the an incapacity to form ideas properly, precise and detinite with the rapidity heceasary to give them uninterrupted utterance. My manner, therefore, is slow, hesitating, and oiten much coniused. Sometimes, (rom inability to provide the words to finish a thought com- 1 begin @ sentence with propriety and ith nonsense. oe okies ee carrving in idea Of peculiar jorce to its last stage, tho wane Of @ proper word at the close drives me to use one which throws the whole into @ burlesque, and sometimes the most tinportant detuils of argument escape my mind at the moment when I want rete tia ever ready Oo present them be- fore and aiter. Hence, | never know when | have finished suy given subdivision of # subiect. And as possible irom the exactness of a witness giving | great readiness and power a8 an extemporancous | It was the only | heen Making the transition from one part it to the other, I am often compelled to take Minute or two for recollection, which leaves @ inate man atitals cnt attr Sayed ust, therefore, never fal with the hope of oratorical distinction. “The man who took this aesponding view of hie powers at the age of thirty-eight lived to be habitually spoken of as the “old man eloquent” by the newspaper correspondents ot Washingtom Mr. Adams’ early boggling and embarrassment re- call what Burke said of Fox:—‘He rose by slow degrees to be the greatest depater tne world ever saw.” Mr. Adams had become a good apeaker be- fore h2 left the Senate in 1809, ‘We have only space forthe further remark that a striking portrait of Mr. Adame in his youth faces the title-page of this volume. Atthe time it was taken he was a slim, sharp-featured, good looking youth, with an expression of great intelligence and animation, but bearing little discernible re. semblance to Mr. Adams’ tater portrait, *Memotrs of John Bulney, Adams, comprising perp of his diary from 1795 to 1843. Edited by haries Francis Adams, Volume I, Philadelphia: J. B, Lippincots & Oo, 1874. : LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. J. R. PLancae is now engaged on what wik be the magnum opus of his long and inaus. trious life, It is a cyclopmdia of costume in England trom the earliest period to the reign of George IIl., and will include notices of contempo- raneous fashions on the Continent. Fifty years ago Mr. Planché was thought a trustworthy au- thority in matters of costume, and was consulted by such men as Charies Kemble. Ten years after ward he wrote ‘The History of Britisn Costume’? for “The Library of Entertaining Knowledge ;” ana Now that we know so much more about matters pertaining to ar-hwology Mr. Planché, above all Men, is the best fitted togive us a dictionary ef dress that can be consulted without any misgiving, “Mose Evans,” the novel by William M. Baker, which has been publishing tn the AWantic since January, is finished in the June number and Is to be issued at once in book form by Hurl & Houghton. Mr. Baker adds to his title the words “A simple statement of the singular facts in his case,” and at the close of the book intimates pretty distinctly that he has crawa his character from life, However this may be, he has certainly tutro- duced fresh characters into our literature. Mr. Baker’s father was a Presbyterian clergyman of Austin, Texas, of wide reputation, and his son's experience in the South and Southwest before an@ during the war supplied him with material which he has used to remarkable advantage both in “Inside,” which created such a stir when pub- lished in Harper's Weekly, and nowin this new novel, “Mose Evans.” Mr. E. Sreigge has published {k a new volume Ins catalogue of the periodicals of the United States, To thishe has added what he calls an attempt at a catalogue of American books, Strangely enough Hawthorne, Longiellow and ‘Whittier are not included, while the list is mainly of interior writers. A bibliographical dictionary of American literature, like Lowndes’ ‘‘Bibliogra- pher's Manual,” is much needed, and Mr. Steiger’s catalogue might serve as the basis for such & work. AN AMERIOAN NOVEL, entitled “Ua Ira, whick aiso deals with Paris in the days of the Commung | has been published by the United States Publishing Company. It isin the manner ot Victor Hugo, but it has none of M, Hugo’s matter. JamES R. UsGoop & Co, have published a volume of poems by H. R, Hudson. Some of the pieces are pretty, though none of them reach @ very high | standard, TENNYSON has written @ historical tragedy, the scene being laid in Engiand, at tue time of Queen Boadicea. It is said to be intended for production at Drury Lane. Miss METEYARD (author of the “Life of Wedg- wood,” and compiler of several works on his man- ufactures) has now in the press a “Handbook of the Wedgwood Manulactures."" NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. From J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia:— “Harold,” “Lucretia,” “Ernest Maltravers,’? “Leila” and “Pilgrims of the Roine.” Five vok umes of Lord Lytton’s works. ‘The Heir of Maien- ward.” A novel, “Phitogophers and Fools: A Study.” By Julia Duhring. “Autumn Musings and Other Poems.” By Elizabeth Hazard, From Db. Appleton & Co.:—“Responsibility in Mental Disease.” By Henry Maudsley, M. D. “Principles of Mental Physiology.” By William B. Carpenter, M. D., LL.D. From Estes & Lauriat, Boston:—‘Religion and the State.” By Alvah Hovey, D. D, “Elens,” 4m Italian Tale. By L. N. Comyn, Prom the United States /ublishing Company:—| “Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner.‘ By C. Edwards Lester. From Harper & Brothers:—“The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Data, Its Principles, Its Specal tions and Its Theistic Bearings." By Ate: Winchell, LL. D. From James R. Osgood & Co,, Boston:—“Italy- Handbook for Travellers.” By K. Baedeker. “Good Luck.” (Gluck Auf.) ‘Translated by Frances Shaw from the German of Ernest Werner. From J. A. McGee:—"'Lives of Celebrated Som of Irishmen.’? By Colonel James &. McGee. From T. B. Peterson & Brotners, Philadelpn! “Miss Lesile’s New Receipts for Cooking." PISCICULTURE. The Sixth Annual Report of the Co missioners of Fisheries. The sixth annual report of the Commissioners 0 Fisheries of this State (iloratio Seymour, of Ute: Edward M, Smith, of Rociester, and Robert # Roosevelt) has just been published. It isa ve interesting document. During the year endig December 31, 1873, the shad hatching operations the Commissioners, despite the backwardness 4 the season, were very successiul, Five millio and forty-one thousand shad that were succes fully hatched were turned loose, the greater pt in tne Hudson River, According to the repo doubts have been expressed ag to whether the fish will torive in fresh water, inasmuch as it their habit to seek tue salt water every winter. test the question, shad im. 1872 were deposited the Genesee and other rivérs Mowing into fre: water lakes, and te following sumnier these ff were caught in Lake Ontario. Again, 64,0 young shad wero deposited in Canand: Lake, on June 12, last year; 80,000 In Grand Riv Michigan, on sune 15; 64,000 in Cayuga Lake, June 16; 60,000 in Fox River, Wisconsin, on Ja 17; 70,000 in Genesee River, On Jane 10; 60,000 ‘Ashtabula Kiver, Onio, on June 23; 60,000 in the gable ana Racine rivers, Michigan, on June 46, ¥ ver, Indiana, on June 35,000 10 ne 3,000 young shad were taken Commissioner oj Fisheries ee euoent of tne New York Comn sion and deposited in Caliorpia waters, In Ji ary, 1873, the following shipments were made irq erd'state Hatching House In Caledonia, N. Yo» several tai—twenty boxes of salmon trq eggs, 54 boxes 0 salmon trout, 115,000 white f fo February, 30,000 salmon trout tor Canad Lake, 40,000 white fish and 20,000 salmon trout ca Lake, 15,000 salmon trout for Hemig ‘Lake, 75,000 salmon trout for Cayuga Lake, 20, for Little Lake and Long Lake, 20,000 for Gi Lake, 20,000 for Schuyler Lake, and salmon tr ‘a8 1ollows :— Saratoga Lake, Saratoga county Hemiock Lake, Ontario county. Sand Lake, Glass Lake and Crooked Lake Biiver Lake, Wyoming county........++seeee ZY Fennileon and Pointee lakes, Oswego county 35, Tueka Lake, Yates county... 80, Owasco Lake, Cayuga county Cayuza Lake, Schuyler county: Casadaga Lake, Chautauqua coun Anen Lake and West Land Lakes, the Un! the es ty, Rei Copaka Lake, Columbia county Lake George, Warren county Mindovo Lake, Wisconsin.. Seneca Lake, Seneca county Fishkill Lake, Dutchess county Cananaaigua Lake, Untario county. Dewitt, innais and Clapper lakes. TACT COUNLY.... see. eseesees Little Fork Lake, Cortiand cow! Canandaigua Lake, Ontario coun Scott’s Lake, or Little Pond, county....+. Crooked Lake, . ua county we J sereelaes te: lar hamber of salmon trout lakes several thousands wero warded So varion nivate parties, The contains an interesting description of the arti spawning and hatching process and many lad interest and value to viecicuiturtats gene: