The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1874, Page 4

4 PARIS GOSSIP. Duel Between Hock and Champagne. FALL OF THE DE BROGLIE MINISTRY —_—_—_—_-——— Right Ministers in One Week—Probability of a Conp d’Etat—Present Chances of the Bonapartists. Panis, May 25, 1874, All the world knows that there has been a duel between Prince Metternich and the Count de Mon- tebello, but all the world does not know what the Might was about, or the somewhat unsound moral which has been inculcated by Prince Metternich’s victory over his antagonist. The Prince, who now only represents the !amous Vineyard of Jobannis- berg, om the banks of the Rhine, was formerly Ambassador at the Court of Imperial France in the piping days of Napoleon IIl., where he represented His Imperial Royal Apostoilc Majesty the Al- Highest Emperor of Austria, when that potentate was still one of the few remaining despotic sover- eigus tu the universe. Now, the Napoleons have ways had @ Kind feeling tor the House of Haps- Durg, and they were peculiarly gracious to Prince Metternich, Indeed, he had many personal claims to esteem besides those which he derived irom his bigh position in diplomacy. He is a nobie- man of the first rank in a country where Deraidic quarterings are still carefully pre- served and jealously guarded. Aithough mot, perhaps, giited with the most Drilliant sort of intelligence, he is singularly up- Tight, truthfal and pieasant tempered. His conr- age is not of that aggressive sort which detighia in provoking 4 quarrel; it is of the steady German order of bravery, which never shrinks from dan- ger. He was, therelore, much beloved and much esteemed by the imperialists, and was for a long time the principal ornament of their Court upon @ala days. He sunk, however, into complete in- Sigoificance beside his wife, who was and isa bright @articniar star of the first magnitude. She isa ‘little scrap of a creature, with eyes of astonishing vivacity and manners which charm every one who comes near ber. She used to call herself the “Monkey in fashion,” and, indeed, she is rather winning and gracefl than regularly beautiful, «hough her figure is perfect as that of a littie fairy. Such is the lady who gave laws to French socieiy during many years of the most spten- did reign in French history. She was always inventing something new and pretty and delightful, till all that was gay and ebivairous in the country bowed down and wor- sbipped her as Queen of the Reveis and Goddess of Good Taste. Her banquets and her dresses, her ‘wit and amaztng talent for saying sprightly things, were the talk of all Europe, and a high pacing lady could hardly imagine a position more agreeable @han that which she occupied. The Emperor of the French and Prince Metternich, the Kmpress €agénie and the Princess, lived together on terms as intimate as if they had ail beiouged to the same family, and it is certain that the bright little lady ‘Who has just sent her husband out in an east wind Jeo fight for his lle felt a warm attachment ior her @mperiai (riends, and that the natural instincts of @ generous heart have mused that artachment to fmcrease in their misfortunes. ‘Yhus, immediately the Republic was declared Prince Metternich re- Signed his Embassy—or, rather, he frankly told the Austrian government that he coud no longer be of any use in Paris—and he broke up his estab- lishment and went away. THE METTERNICHS. It is much easier, however, to leave Paris than to remuin aay from it; and after a little while Prince Metternica and his wife yearned for the gay French life they had quitted. and began to fit backwards and forwards, making a longer halt there every time. l used to see them very often making tunny excuses to themselves and to their friends to explain their presence in the republican Ctty—“they were going away,” or “they had just come,” or “they were passing through’—but Btill they lingered, aud the somewhat stolid Seure of the Austrian gentleman and is charming wife became once more familiar to the Parisians. They did not go everywhe they conld not have been found at diuner with M. Gambetta’s aunt, and it is ‘whispered that they did not regurd M. Thiers with the same reverence as he inspires in the mind of M. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire. They went to some dew public places and among people who thought and ‘elt as they did; and upon one of these occasions they unfortunately met @ deserter from the imperial ranks who bowed ‘to the Princess, as he bad been accustomed to bow to her before he turned his coat, Her Highness is @ small, fery person, of quick sympathies, who ‘does not run away from her friends because they Dave had an awkward tumble; and she honestly {told the renegade Bonapartist that he must not ‘Bow to her again, for that sue hau resolved to ter- ‘WMinate their acquaintance. THE LANNES FAMILY. ‘The personage who was thus abruptly cut by the great lady ts also a grand gentieman m his way, @nd may have bad reasons for changing his poli- ‘ies, which need not be discussed bere. He rep- wesents almost as fine a wine as Prince Metter- Rich, and bears the same relatiouship toward champagne as unites the Prince to hock. The \Montebello brand is as well known tn the market as that of Johannisberg, and when two such great vine growers come into collision it is @ serious affair. So Count Montebello at once called the Prince 6 account for the discourtesy shown to him by the Princess; and herein I cannot help thinking that he had right and reason apon his side. Society ‘wonld soon become a bear garden if people were privileged to insult each other, and there are 80 many ways of dropping an unwelcome acquaint- ance without coming to sharp words, that the Princess deserved a lesson, which other ladies ‘Would do well to take to heart. The ruie has been Wow clearly established by two of tne first gentie- Men in Europe, that if @ iady says things which Ought not to be sak, her band may be shot or impaled; ana tr is fervently to be hoped, that ‘whenever a lady fecle rude she will remember that ‘a sharp word may cost the life of her husband. Without any unkind rejerence to Princess Metter- nich, whom every one iikes and admires, it may be drankly acknowledged tat society often becomes almost intolerable because of the terrible tongues of women. They aré apt to actentirely trom impuiae and feeling, without judgment or consideration for others, simply because they have hitherto been considered irresponsible; and, therefore, immedi- ately Prince Metternich was cliallenged he put Forth the oid piatitude that “a man could not help what was guid by bis wife.’ It i# nonsense! He Ought to be able to help it, and is bound to rule his Belongings in such @ manner as they shall not er We Offensive to other people, ur to apologise far the,’ sbehavior or to take the consequences ofin Us 42 the present time it has invariably H Mhappened that wYeuever any of those abominabie mcandats which break She hearts of gentlemen are found in circulation noboty oyn be bronglit to * punishment. Uf tho oggreved perso whose holes es foully slauderéi gts gut vo find his tra- ducer hecannot goth veiore he is stopped by @ petticoat, and itis high (ime tuat such privi-+ Aeged indecencies should be ended or chastised by heavy penalties. THE DUEL, The duel between Metternich aiid Monrevelio ‘was rather a funny affair. In the first place it was @ hew thing to fight about a lady's talk, and the seconds wanted to get up another riot. Count de Montebello, however, would pot hear of that, anu ‘he said, very properly, that he had no dispute ‘with Prince Metternich upon any other subject but ‘that which he had pat forward, nor would he com mmence a neediess quarrel. Then the seconds could Dot make up thew minds as to which was the Offending party, Prince Metternich naving person- Bily done nothing to displease Count Montebello, ‘end the question as to which of them was the Otfender wes important, because it involved the ehotee of arms. The French gentieman naturally or =the French view of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, wanted to skewer his antagonist as though | he were a fow! intended ‘or the spit; the | German, probably not being very dexterous in tne use of the folls, and paving no intentton to eat bis foe, thought that if the:e was to be aduel at all it should be @ heavy, serious thing, with a leaden bullet in it; so the seconds took to writing those | odd ometal letters which are in favor among the , Continental dueliists, and ustamately decided that there should be no fight atall. This was a great com- fort to the poor little Princess who had let her tongue ran so fast, and was now half wild with iright. But, unfortunately, Frenchmen can never do anything quietly, and after having wri ten the | pradent documenta above mentioned, they pub- | lished them in the morning papers, because as much notoriety as possible is invariably given to ' ali the proceedings of a trtal by combat in France. Prudence, somehow, seems to look fnny in print; and when it appeared that some extremely fine folk had been making much ado about nothing, | A prince and a | all Europe burst out laughing. count could not be expected to stand this, so they went to War this time in grim earnest. A hostile aneeting Was soon arranged, and the next morning Prince Metternich nodded kindly to his wife and told her he was going to take @ walk belore break- fast. He told her nothing else, but snortiy after Wards she learned that he had ventured a very pleasant existence for her sake, and had | scratched Count Montebello with a sword because she had affronted him, So the thing ends, and it is to be moped that she will recollect another time | “that sweet words do best become a woman. VERSAILLES. Ibave been backward and forward to Versatties during the last ten days because Ve'sailles is now Paris, and eight Ministers have been ruling over usin jess than one week of time, M. Buffet, the Due Decazes, M. de Goulard, M. Dufaure, Duc De- cazes again, the Duc d’Audiffret-Pasquier (whose reign lasted an hour) Marshal MacMahon himself, and finally (for tne present) Ernest Conrtet de Cissey, an old soldier, More than sixty years of age, who does not promise to last very long. The most prominent member tn the new Cabinet ts certainly the Duc Decazes, He isa genial, popular noble- man, of a cheerful manner of expressing himseif, extremely intelligent, and aman I think of honest purpose. But he will be able to do nothing with the present Assembly at Versailles, because 1 is splis up into factions so equally balanced that no party has a working majority, and any two or more parties are ready to com- bine against the government merely for the fun of the thing, and without any reference to the imme- diate obj which they ave supposed to have in view. Thus J iniormed you several weeks ago that the Duke de Broglie world be upset, and be has been upset accordingly; but no observer, however shrewd, could have predicted that he would be overthrown by @ coalition of Bonapartists, legiti- mists and republicans acting together. Yet such was the case. The French are a charming people, king hearted, witty beyond all other human wit, and most sublime dreamers; but they have no more idea 6f Parliamentary tactics than so many children, and indeed not half so much as English or American children, who can combine and make laws for their games, which they observe with scrupulous fidelity; whereas Frenchmen can make no laws at all, and would not abide by them if laws were passed by accident. [have often been ata loss to under- stand how a people so clever, and who reason so Prectsely and logically, can be so ailly in the con- duct of their public business. It is the more won- derfal, because they are a particularly governable people, and whole flocks of them will be kept standing in orderly rows, or what they call “tails,” at the door of @ theatre on a wet or windy night, by a single policeman, though an Engiish crowd, under such circumstances, 1g quite unmanageable, and few festivities pass over in London without some people being trampied to death, though the English are quiet enough in their Parliament Houses, I have long suspected that Frenchmen can only be governed safely by au authority with which they are uot alowed to argue, and it is certain that the Germans controlled them successfully by stern methods, Indeed, from the moment they are permitted to talk their vanity will come into play; they hterally live on gratified self-love, and many of their most grave and reverend elders, if not all of them, pass their spare time in courtebip. Thus it happens that the National Assembly is constantly thronged by ladies, and, whenever a Deputy segs 4 young woman who bas expressed an interest in sis weifare within earsnot thélively | ¢| fancy ofthe man lights up at once, and he bursts lorth in speech, commonly about nothing, This is the cause of those frantic cries, “2 Vordre,’’ and ‘tres bien” and ‘de protester avec énergie’ which are constantly being heard, or, 80 to say, fired off in French political assemblies, Moreover, every Frenchman is born with some of the best qualities of an actor, and likes to exhibit his talents in that direction, for men are always fond of doing what they do weil. Consequently there are always @ dozen Deputies | who keep aa atteative eye on the tribune, ready to make arash for it ii they can find an opportunity or a pretext for so doing. Then they talk—heaven and earth bow they do talk! They goon circling | @ Caesar in the person of Napoleon IV. But, | dear me, there are haif a dozen people besides who are steadfastly purposed to take 2 turn at governing tuis lignt-headed people. There 18 the Duke a’Aumale, tho Comte de Paris, M. Thiers, M. | Gambetta, M, Grévy and Prince Bismarck. They are ail biding their time and may all get what they wan', sooner or later. Ido not know that it sige nities very much. Paris will still have its inex- haustible gayties, and France, to the uttermost ends of tt, the rich and plenteoua produce of her land, Governments everywhere have tallen into some disrepute of late, and perhaps they nave littie bold upon wise men’s attention aud far leas upon their happiness, YACHTING, Depth to be Considered in English Time Allowance Regulations. (From Bell’s Life, May 30.) The opening match of the New Thames Yacut Cluv for cutters of all classes, fet for decision on Monday last, was made the scene of @ ‘protest,’ somewhat more emphatic, perhaps, than court- eous, by a number of yacht owners against the hew scale of measurement adopted by the club. A jew months ago, it will be remembered, when the subject Was first seriously mooted, a meeting was convened by the New Thames Yacht Ciuo, to which all the leading yackt clubs were invited to send representatives for the purpose of considering the desirability of altering the existing rule of yacnt | measurement, commonly known as the Royal Thames scale, the proposed alteration being to comprehend the depth Of a vessel, in addition to her length and beam, as one of the qualities for mensurement, The decision arrived at by the | mecting to which, as @& matter of fact. only a comparatively few clubs sent repre- sentatives, was adverse to the proposed change, but as the resolution was carried by a very small majority, and @ number of yacht clubs Who Were not represented at the meeting expressed their approval in writing of the scheme, the N.T.Y.C, were encouraged to carry it a step further, and, at a general meeting of the club neid subsequently, the new system of measurement was agatn proposed, and after some discussion 1. Was carried, and the principle adopted for the regula. | uon of future ciab eee The latter matcn of Tuesday last was the firsc Opportunity of testing the innovation, and the Owners ol yacits at the time they entered their vessels must nave been well aware, all of them being members oi tue N.Y that it was the tnotention of the sailing committee to euforce the new system of measure- ment. It seems, however, that a nuimber of yacht owners who were adverse to the change held a Meeting at Roshervitie Hotel on the Sunday before the mate, and the resuit was a protest addre-sed | t» the club officials, objecting to sail under the newruie. To this the club replied to the eect that, though the protest came rather late in the day, the yachts would be classed under the old rule, but must sail under the new one for time allowance, Late on Monday night a second protest to the same purport was jor. | warded from the same quarter, but on the foilow- ing morning all the yachts entered, with the ex- ception of the Latona and Vampire. neituer of which was in acondition to start, came to the buoys with their racing flags flying. On the st: ing signal being. given, however, the Aretuusa, Kriemhuda, Vanguard, Bloodhound, Norman, My osotis, Eveieen and Vanessa simultaneously hanlea down their racing flags, and, with the exception of the last named, ran up the burgee of the toval Thames, as aD indication, we presume, that the, intended to adhere to the old rule. The race was consequently leit to the four vessels of the third class, viz.:—fhe Fieetwing, Mr. F. D. West; the Snowdrop, Mr. F. Fairbrass; the Aveyron, Mr. E. Packard, and the Surge, Mr. &. D. Lambert; the Fleet wing ultimately winning the first prize of £25 and the Snowdrop the second of £15, ‘The conduct oi the Vanessa, we may mention, created some comment, as, though she had voluntarily with- drawn from the race, she accompanied the tour competitors the greater parc of the distance, and on more (han oue occasion hampered them ina | most gratuitous fashion, On the jlasco itself and its origin we forbear to comment, Yachtsmen will best be able to form their own opinion concerning it. The opening cruise o; this flourishing club took | place on Saturday last, the rendezvous being off the Club House, Gravesend, aoe after noon the Commodore, Mr. J. D. Lee, hoisted his tag on board nis new vessel, the Cutty Sark, and led tue Way into the Lower Hope, a goodly fleet of yachts displaying the club burgee Toa in her wake, including the Kriemhilda, Cetonia, Nina (the Vice- Commouore), Myosous, Druid, Maid o’ the Mist, Evelyn, Adele, Marguerite, &c., &c, The tide | brought them up before they got into Sea Reach, and the wind being ligit and variable they had to take for home earlier than they had anticipated. In the evening the members dined togetner at tne Club House, the Commo. ore in the cnair, faced by , the treasurer, Mr. K. 5. Wilkinson. After the usual Joyai and pawietic toasts nad been daly given and honored, tue Commodore proposed “The New Toames Yacht Club and the other Yacht Cluvs ol the Unitea Kingdom and the American Yacht Clubs.” in the course of his remarks he referred with pleasure to the very jriendly relations that subsisted between he yachtsmen of England and America, and ex- pressed his satisfaction at the probability of our seeing an Americap aeght ering the lists against the English fleét this Yéar at Cowes for Her Majesty’s Cup. Other toasts foliowed, mclud- ing “tbe Mayor and Corporation of Gravesend,” “The Vice Commodore,” “The Treasurer,” &c. responding to the loast of “The Treasurer’! Mr. Wukinson cothmen‘ed with pride on the vast progress the club had made since its establishment tn 1966. Year by year it had grown both in ‘popue larity and prestige, and Dow boasted of 451 mMem- bers and 175 yachts, representing an aggregate tonnage 0! 10,617 tons, while the amount offered O prizes this season was £665, Yachting Notes. The sloop yacht Nimbus, lately purchased by Mr. Burgess, of the Beverley Yacht Club, Swampscott, Mass., from ex-Commodore Peet, of the Atlantic LITERATURE, The Development ie Ameri- can Fiction. * A Batch of Novels, Very Good, Good and Bad. The chief fauit of the American novel ts the ab- sence of art and method. Noneof our novelists secm to understand that a character in a novel must be developed in the course of the story by | slow and steady growth, just ag everything in na- | ture unfolds itselt by gradual transformations until maturity is reached. There, for instance, 1s Mr. Thomas B, Aldrich’s new story, “Prudence Pal- | frey"—the work of a man of gentus, full of exquisite touches, betraying the soul of an artist—abounding | in bright thoughts and quaint fanctes, and written | in pure and nervous English—a book to please most | cultivated readers, but negiceting the art-idea in the development of character. Mr. Aldrich creates his heroes and heroines by describing | them, forgetting that they thereby become the Puppets, and not, as they ought to be, | | the vital forces of fiction, Even lis delicious | story of “Marjorie Daw” was only a quaint bit of | description—not a bit of quaint description—ana | the reader, as well as John Fieming, discovers in the end that there was no Marjorie Daw. For this | reason—the substitution of description for develop- ment—we fear “Prudence Palirey’ will fill no _ high place in literature and that Mr. Aldrich, un- | less he perceives the radical error into which he has fallen, will fall far short of that literary rank which bis powers ought to command, | Shouid we find @ novelist betraying all of Mr. | Aldrich’s faults and exnibiting none of his strength, the temptation to pass such a work by | | With @ sneer at its imperiections would be almost | irresistible, And yet it is works of this kind | which are deserving of the most serious study | im the present condition of American litera- ture. We have one of them belore us now —a novel by Marie Howland, which rejoices in the | singularly disagreeable titie of “Papa’s Own Girl.” | It is a novel of shreds and patches. Many things that are interesting eupugh in their way are brought togetber in the oddest fashion, The first chapter ig a travscript from an old letter of “0, F..’—Clara Forest, the daughter of Dr. Forest and papa’s own girl—in which we wet a glimpse of ner dull brother Dan and of two little imps, the twins of the family. The second chapter is a description of a children’s party, and two chapters follow of a visit irom one of the doctor's patients. So far, though there is much dogmatizing matter in the book, it seems 10 have some artistic purpose; but suddenly the author ieeis the neces- sity of getting forward curonologically and she does it by the simply announcement, “two years are passed and nothing that very seriously affects the doctor's family has happened." Whether or not the reader is satisfied with this summary meihod he is sure of one thing—some- | thing very tmportant is about to happen. This great event is that Dan has tattooed his arm; whereupon the novelist tells us, in elegant Eng- lish, “It was abominably but clearly done in blue | and scarlet, the design being two hearts spitted with a dart, between the names Dan Forest and Susan Dykes.’ When this is discovered by the doctor and his wife Mrs. Forest is much shocked | at the indiscretion of her favorite child, and b: ‘ | " Y | tance a gray bluff, grown over by a scrub vegeta- | for the boay ot poor President some occult reasoning the doctor at once deter- mines that “papa’s own girl” must go to college. The determination to send Ciara to Stonybrook College 1s followed by a description of the college itself in the opening paragraph of the succeeding chapter, tne paragraph closing with the announcement that the young lady had elreauy been a student there two | years. It is unnecessary to reciie any more oO! this story, for Marie Howland evidently is utterly with- out knowledge ol the art of novel writing. “Papa's Own Girl,” is the crudest attempt at a novel that we remember in years, and yet its faults are only an exagzeration of the faults of our best writers of fiction. Astili further illustration of what we have said in found in Mr, Theodore Tilton’s * Tempest Tossed.” The very plut of Mr. Tiiton’s story—a plot that 1s strikingly unique and original—-makes it necessary that the novel should be full of de- scription ratier than the development of charac- ter and padded with speeches and reflections and moraiizings. Had “fempest Tossed” been com- pressed within the mnomber of pages which comprise me “Scarlet Letter” it would have taken a place in literature next to Hawthorne's terrible narrative. Yet while con- densation wou!d have made it, not the illustration ; Of @ fault, but Of a merit, ib must be admitted that, i in spite of much that 1s superfluous, it is @ very gratifying success. The story is one that can be | told in a few words or in many pages, and one, by | ; Whatever method, well worth the telling, The ; Coromandel was a superb vessel, built in 1847, to Tound @ question with words of fire till they posi- 4 yacht Club, has distinguished herself by beating , Participate in the search for Sir Jonn Franklin, tively stand in need of refreshment. Some of | the Litlie and Ketpie over av hour ina twenty | 9d “had been made as tough 4s a hickory wedge them take sugar and water, which may be called the naticnal drink, when they have chattered themselves dry. Some take coffee, some wine. It is all the same, words never fail them, and they are admirable words, so that if business could possibly be done in five hundred ways at once by speech, they would | do itca@pitally, If this cannot be managed under the existing conditions of the untverse Prance absolutely must submit to another Empire. She cannot help herself; tuere is a block all along the line; the present Ministry cannot pass a single measure of any importance, and their successors Will be just as incompetent. That state of things cannot goon forever. The other day half a dozen pursy bankers went puffing to the President of the Republic and told him that they dared not invest thetr capital till they knew whether there was going to be some sort of working government; and it is @o @wiul matter when the money market takes fright. MACMAHON AND THE CONSERVATIVES.: Well, the President told these good people that he wouid not desert them, and that if the mob became rampant he wouid put it down with a | strong hand. That is adi very nice; and the bank- ers went away mach comforted by the old soldier's words. But they simply mean that Marshal Mac- Mahon, if driven beyond his wits, which are not very jong, Wili risk another coup d'état. What then? He may march haif a dozen cavairy regi- ments about the quartier Saint Antoine and Belie- Ville. He might, perhaps, go the length of shutting up M. Gambetta. But he would also have w shut up M. Thiers and M. Belcastel, with 150 other peo. ple, before he could make the smallest impression on the opposition, andas far as hisown words toa {friend of mine can be trusted, he bas deliber- ately made General De Cissey his Prime Minister with the intention of keeping down his adversaries by the sword. Now this is a return to pure Cwesar- ism, and If the French people must have a despot to keep them quiet an immense majority of them wonld rather choose the boy at Chiselhursy than the Duke or Magenta, Jom nek. gure that they ‘would choose rightly; not al They, hof can they be gure of it; for very little is known of the boy, and that litse is 29% much to his advantage. He ther physivaily nor mentally strong, though he bas been very highly trained ana educated, He would not govern, nor would his mother have a voice OD aby uther subject more serious than the make of ladies’ dresses and the fashion of théir bonnets. Blui? M. Rouher would be really master of the French people, unless ne affronted Generat Ficury, in which case a boudoir cabal would be formed against him. Jt might very itkely be suc- ceamul, aud then | do not see any man in the Bonapartist ranks, except Prince Napoieon, who is ft to sake the lead, and there is deadly enmity between Mis Highness and the Chiselnurst people. Upon the whole, therefore, the prospects of France are most discouraging. No probable termmation of her troubies appears to be at hana, We are now about to have a succession of short, incom- petent Cabinets; then, possibly, bloodshed; then the Comte de Chambord, who would, to all appear- | ances, blunder about like a biind man till he | Knocked his head against a post and tumbled down; the case, and_| alter which more loodsted and the shadow of mile race, satled last week in Boston harbor. | The members of the Atlantic Yacht Ciub wil | CVF, Pronounced her too large for Arctic naviga- | pachea in moonlight. On bold a special meeting in order to decide whether the schooners and first class sloops will sail again | t0 Cape Town with a cargo of canned fruits and pongo, or whether the race will be off altogether. | Yachtowners sailing in the Brooklyn Regatta are requested to call for their numbers at John Saivyer’s, No, 116 Wall street. An attempt is being made to ds up a race be- tween the schooners of the New York ‘ht Club, to be sailed on Thursday, June 25, over the regular course. It will be for a subscription cup; $25 en- trance, and sailed over with time allowance, Captain Holmes’ handsome and commodious 8100 the Brooxlyn regatta. Captain Holmes will enter- tain his friends on board during the day. The schooner yacht Eva, General £. Burd Grubb, New York Yacht Club, was disabled off Sandy Hook dur- ing the regatta, and had to give up the race. The Eva hus been entered for the Union schooner race | in tae Brooklyn regatta and also tor the Corinthian schooner race to be sailed at Newport in August. lt was reported yesterday that the schooner yacht Idler, Mr. S. T. Colgate, New York Yacht | Club, intends challenging the 1idal Wave to a race over the New York Yacht Ulub course, The match | Will be sailed with time allowance, | The following pee Whitestone yesterday :— Yacht Aricl, N.Y.¥C., Mr. Swann, irom New York tor Oyster Bay. Yacht Helena, B.Y.C., Mr. Bliss, from New York, cruising eastward. Yacht Fieur de Lis, N.Y. » Mr. Dickerson, from the eastward for Staten Isiand. | AQUATIC NOTES, | The New Jersey boat clubs think of forming a State organization. There are many first class clubs in Jersey, and the formation of such an aaso- ciation will tend greatly to promote rowing abroad, ‘The Columbia College crew will haul down their | flag to-day from their boat house on the Harlem and take their departure for the shores of Sara- toga Lak fhe Kebel Boat and the Augusta clus of Georgta, both organizations containing material for good crews, are about to consolidate, Good for the sourh, | Fe ee ote Sate 2” ig Atalanta six now stands—Dlake (bow), audy obusop, Spear, Van Raden and Doc. | Withers (stroke), ‘The Olympics and Beatérwycks of Albany are | to row adouble scull race on the 2d inst | Saratoga Lake bids fair to becdtae the great row- ; Ing water of the country, One of the telegraph | Companies has siready atrangea to ezgend 1t3 wire | to the lake and will “have an ofice open there for regatta reports, CENTRAL PARK BOATS—A SUGGESTION, YO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: G. PF. M., who although not a New Yorker, ap- pears to be a close observer, made some good points in his remarks ou the “Wants of Central Park,” in to-day’s Heap. With your kind per- mission I take the liberty of adding a few words in reference to the jake bouts, 1 think the proprietors would double, or at least, greatly tuorease their receipts, if they would let out bouts to private, responsible parties, without forcing upon them the company of one of those “jolly old salts.” There would surely be leas dan- ger of having boats stolen or damaged tuan on the rivers, or at the many susmmer resorts where boate are ays let Out upon # fair deposit. If the boats in use on the lake at present are too large for this urpose, @ part of them might be replaced by lighter ones. 1 eg pabiic aad call boats ; could be continued as usaal, and tn addition to these, there should be boats for those who do not | desire to sit as passive objects, This woulda add | Dew attraction to an already charming locality. | New York, June 9 1874 BLN. de yacht Piayful will be the home-stake boat at | to plough the ice floc.” The government, how- i tion, and she was despatched on her first voyage | preserved meats for the South Atlantic whaling | squadron, Among her passengers were Dr. | Rodney Vail, bis young wife and the tra- | ditional colored servant, When’ within two | days of her destination she was struck by ght. Ding. and, being on fire, abandoned by aliexcept | the Vails, their servant and the captain's dog. At , the moment of the accident Dr. Vail believea his wife was dead, but he refused to avandon her, | preferring to die with her. She revived, nowever, | and during the night gave birth to a daughter, the fireon the ship, which in @ tew minutes swept | away the masts and rigging, veing put ont bya | drenching rain almost before the boats were away from the vessel, Thus the hull only was left, and this hall floated on the seas for years, at last | quietly coming to anchor on an unknown Island 1n the tropics, not many leagues from Karbadoes. | Here the fainily waited to be found and here they | Were found by a United States war vessel iooking | for Confederate cruisers. There is, besides, the | Slight thread of a love story running through the | tale. Philip Chantilly, the finder, being the son of Oliver Chantilly, and Oliver, the iriend of Rodney Vail. Barbara Vall, the child born at sea, and Philip, though they had never seen each other, haa been lovers all their lives. The story throughout is very evenly told and its improbabilities are neatly smoothed away. Itis not a great novel, but it is a very interesting one, and with the aid of @ night editor’s traditional biae pencil for excision and condensation it might have been made very nearly great. | Alter the freshness and delight, the gladdening | surprise 0! Mr. Tilton’s book, itis bard to get back | again to the “True to Him Ever" styie of novel, even for the purposes of comparison and reprool. Why | will people who do not know the difference between “gecept” and “execpt,” and whose taste is vad enough to allow them to write such seutences as “fie has gotten himself up regardiess,” and “It w | preposterous for you to talk 80," print novels at all? This ts the “True to Him Ever’ style, into | which is infused a strong decoction of woman's | rights. The plaint for saffrage does uot make a | fitting theme Jor fiction, Mr, Tilton did well tn | not giving ita place in bis work, even by indirec- | tion, and F. W. R. has only given us an inane book on a0 inane subject. But when out | | of four novels which reach our table In a single week we find thas three are good, one y good, indeed, and only ofe thoroughly bad, we may bee | gin to hope for a great Juture lor American fiction. Ip isin the expectation M® orightening that future and assisting Lo disprove he silly assertion thas Americans cannot write flosion that we have grouped togetuer these latest issues from the press and pointed out the blemish common to all of them, All that our writers need is a careful study , of the true principles of art in fiction to rival their | English cousins in novei writing, The world has never yet had a novel great enough to last forever. | With the growth of culture eveu Dickens Will not be read, because Dickens was sadly deficient ; tu art, Unlike poetry, fiction bas yet | attaim Its golden age, aad there inno veagon why | JUNE 13, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. | size than the one exhibited in the Academy. | Out-of-the-way corners of Europe. that golden age, when it comes, should not be more brilliant in America than anywhere else in the world; especially as the English language ts the language of fcuon and America richer in ma- terial for the imagination thav all other lands be- side. The “coming American novel” is a gibe that even now has no meaning, and must soon take tts place with the old time scof, “Who reads an American book ?” * PRUDENCE Patyrry. A romance. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston, Jaraes H. Osgood & Co. * Para’s Own GiRL. A novel. by Marie How- land. ae York, Jobn P. Jewett; Boston, Lee & she) mM PRST Tossep, Aromance. By Theodore Tilton, New York, Sheldon & C * Trug TO Hiw Ever. A novel. By F. W. R, New York, G. W. Carleton & Co. ART MATTERS. Stadio Notes. In all the studios the notes of preparation are heard, not for work, but for Might. Nature, having put on her summer garments, invites the weary tollers of the studio to go forth and refresh them- selves from their labors in the enjoyment of her beauties, This yearly homage is tue price the artist pays for success; for, shut within the studio walls, the artist is likely to lose the memory of the delicacy and subtie pesuty with which Dame Nature clothes hersell in the Woods and fields. In the noise and turmoil of the city, among the vulgar, eager, wealth seeking crowd, the votary of art is but too apt to forget the idealism and poetry which are supposed to be the strong motive powers of his labors, and the yearly pilgrimage to the shrine of Nature is under- taken as much to reanimate the drooping enthu- siasm of the worker as to freshen up the knowl- edge Oo; the student. Hence the exodus is general, and the hardest workers are getting their traps into order ‘or the summer ramble. Mr. H. W. Robbins, whose tropical landscape in ‘the Academy exhibition attracted so much atten- tion, will take up his quarters at Simsbury, Conn, He is at work on 4 new tropical picture, smailer in It represents an “Evening Scene in Jamaica,” and although the material used is water color the bril- ancy ol the scene is rendered with considerable | power. Satterlee nas just returned from extensive wan- | derings through Italy, the Tyrol ana Brittany, and | comes home laden with sketches of ile m odd, He has begun several pictures, which exhibit the poetic ten- dency of this painter’s mind, One representsa | monk in an Itallan convent receiving a visit from his younger brother; another a well known Roman | model—Bernadino—a boy celebrated among the | art community of the Italan capital for his re- , markable beauty. These pictures have the advan- tage of being studied from nature and incidents that came under the artist's notice. Bispnam devotes himself to the animai creation, and has a@number of horse portraitsin various | stages of advancement, among them one of “Black | Walnut.” Among his compositions are a group of setters that have just found their game; they are carefully drawn and strongly painted. A catule picture, in which @ splendid bull ts the chief ob- ject, displays considerable power. Miss Annie Hiasko is studying animal painting under this | artist, and gives excellent promise of one day be- | coming an American Rosa Bonueur. Britcher has just completed a very delightful picture representing a scene on Lake Champlain. The blue water occupies the foreground and stretches away into the distance where shadowy mountains rise on the horizon. In the middle dis- | tion, rises boldly trom the water, and tends to tone down the scene which in Its bazy purples and blues | ts almost Italian im character. “Lake Memphre- | magog,”’ Canada, is also a boldly treated landscape | of considerable power. Mr. Britcher will pass bis | holiday in Berkshire. Baker has painted a portrait of Beecher which that eloquent divine considers satisfactory. It is Mr. Beecher's misfortune to be generaily repre- sented on canvas etther as an angel, or the | Opposite, so that one fegis pleased to look on his semblance and find that he is merely a man. Wilham Hart still wanders about the Adirondack brooks, keeping Turner in his cye, which shows very good taste on his part. The resuit is seen in @ charming brook passage—an autumn scene— when the foliage of the American forests 1s 80 gor- | geous in its hues, In order to heighten the effect the artist selects silver gray aqueous clends so as to relieve the dazzling brilliancy ofthe foliage. An unfinished canvas 1s filled with notes for “Aa | Showery Auturan Day."’ | It is full of beautifal color, and makes one almost desire that the artist would leave 1t just as it is and allow it to tell the story in its careless, joyous anc delicate way. Mr. William Hart has selected Susqueuanna for his summer retreat in view of the opportunities it affords ior the study of nobie trees, Oliver Lay devotes lirnself entirely to portrait of Mr. Higley and Mr. Delafield. T. L. Smith has given himself up almos¢ wholly to painting moonlight scenes, and hus heen so successful in imparting a tinge of romantic inter- est to his pictures that his patrons seem inclined to keep him painting moonlight effects during the term of lis natural life, His studio is absolutely eof his most important pictures represents a rather curious oid manor lighted up ou a winter's night, the joyous. ness of the fiuminated interior contrasting with the bare, leafless branches of the trees, that iu the Moonlight look weird and desolate. “A Mrosty Night tn the Woods" ts an American treatment of the same subject, and the glimmering light in the little shanty seen in the distant ciearing in the | woods will appeal with greater force to American sympathy than the aristocratic looking old manor house. Among the projected works of this most industrious artist is “The Witching Hour,” which promises to be fuii of romantic interest. James M. Hart is at work on an important land- scape and cattle subject. The aim of the artist is to get away from a mere literal treatment of hits landscape and venture more into the regions of composition. The scene is laid in a heautiful spot on the Cayuga, where a melancioly Jacques might go torail atthe lie he could not help enjoying, or lovers might rhyme the music of their thoughts to the sweet warblings of tne gently flowing stream. The chief aim of the composition ts the strong rendering of daylight in the still, noonday hour, and in this the artist has been unusuaily successiul, Mr, James Hart wili take refage in the Adtrondacks, at Kilgabethtown, Edward Moran has sold advantageously nis fine picture of ‘Tbe Tempest, from David Vopperfield,” which attracted so much attention in the Academy exibition, He finds himself m very good quar- ters at his house on Long Isiand, whence he can | survey his favorite element—the sea. He will re- ; Main i his studio during the summer, | THE PUBLIC BATHS, a Commissioner Van Nort, of the Department of Public Works, states that the two free floating baths are now in positton—one at the foot of Wear Eleventh street, North Kiver, and one at the foot of Fitth street, East River, and wilt be open for bathers to-morrow morning. — They will pe open daily from five A. M till nine ?. M., and on Sundays from five A, M, till twelve M.; for mates on ‘ues. days, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and wor fernales ou Mondays, Wednesdays and Frida, Phe rules ahd regwianons promulgated last year remain in torce, and req that no person Siall remain i the water more than twenty minutes; Jorbid profanity, throwing water, or disorderly conduct, and exelude spectators,’ A policeman will be in attendance at each bath to enlorce order. CIVIL SERVIOR EXAMINATION, B | the f * Ls | Hon Painting. He is at present engaged on portraits ir THE DUKE OF GENOA. The Nephew of the King of Italy in Peru—Joy- ous Reception in Lima—Citizens and Italiam Residents in Gala Trim—A Loyalist Host Agroeably Surprised—Gunpow- der, Bull-Fighting and Fraternity. Lima, May 13, 1874, The great guns of the Callao batteries thundered forth an answer to the salute of the Italian frigate Garibaldi on the 7th instant. The event was the arrival of His Royal Highness, the Duke Thomas of Genoa, nephew of the King of Italy. This young gentleman has for some time past been engaged on a voyage, more of business than pleasure, to different quarters of the globe, and at last has honored Peru with his presence. Since tne ex- tinction of the Incas, His Highness ts the first Tegal personage that nas placed foot on.the ter- ritory of the repnblic, HOW THB ROYAL VISITOR APPEARED, The Duke has already been fully described, in. terviewed and written abont by the American press in San Francisco, Suffice it to say here that he is a remarkably modest individual, elmost bash- ful, in fact; not particularly good looking, very gentlemanly. weil instructed, speaking French, English and German with fluency, and, in short, a royal Duke. THE DEMOCRAOY IN JOY AND GLORY. ‘This latter circumstance was sufficient to turn the head of republican Lima, The weleome ex- tended io the princely visitor is hearty. As soom as the Garipaldi had dropped anchor the Prefect of Callao, accompanied by @ dri Mant staff, put off to the vessel to com- pliment the Duke and to place “the country” at | @t his disposal, to use the polite Spanish term. The Prince answered not only vy word of mouth, but with the guns of his vessel, acknowledging the cour- teay. Then, in a famous barge, manned by twenty oars, appeared the Port Admiral, This dignitary retterated the remarks of the Prefect, and again the cannon of the Garibaldi were called into requi- sition, Aiterwards the Italtan Minister, with his Secretaries and attachés, saluted the nephew of his royal master, and once more powder was burned in his honor. The guns by this time were somewhat heated, and fortunately the visite ceased, HEADING OFP AN ITALIAN ADDRESS, But it would seem tuat the Duke of Genoa is an admirer of the Arabian Nights and of tue customs followed by the Catiph Haroun Alraschid. While the diferent Italian societies of Lima and Callao were preparing an ovation to take place on his landing, he very quietly went on shore in the ward room boat, dressed according to bis rank, which is that of second lieutenant, without medals, crosses and ribbons, supposed to be the inevitable ac- companiment of these royal peopie, took the train for Lima, paying for passage in good coin of the country, and, with several of his fellow officers, started forth to view the sights of this interesting capital, But like his prototype, the Caliph, he met with some curious advent of which the most amusing is the foliowing :—Capolla, the Maillard o: Lima, was standing at the door of his sumptuous saloons, when he perceived four gentiemen approaching, clad in the garb of Officers of the Italian navy (which by the way is simply hideous), and with all of the joy that an enthusiastic Predmontese ex- perlences when he sees his country’s aetenders ta au foreign land, rushed toward them with out- stretched arms, begging aud imploring that they would refresh themselves afier their journey and taste his genuine Vermouth from Turin. In other words he “stood drinks.” The officers, nothing loth, imbibed at the expense of the good Capeila (who, it way be here remar! was decorated by the King of ie tor Pad te alta alter his sad murder at whe hands of the Gutierrez), and when this agreeable occupation was over proj tol lowing up their voyaye of exploration. Capella insisted on accompanying them; called a coach, drove to the Aiamedas de Acho and Descaizos, so called from the monastery of the barefooted friars overlooking the park, to the Buil Ring, and finally to the veautiu! promenade around the city, built by Mr. Meiggs, on the site of the old walls, whose cost 80 disturbed the peace of mind of King of Spain. y tha time the sailors were somewhat hungry and inquired where they could satisfy their appetites. Capella 1s not a man to do things by halves, and intimated that soup was on the table in his own house. Un- willing, doubtless, to slight their generous enter- tainer, the party accepted the invitation and tn @ iew moments were strenuously engaged im au at- tack On Iaccaroni, raioll and the otner pieces de résistance of the Italian cuisine. Tne conversation turned on the Duke, the host was anxious to learn all that he couid concerning that eminent person- age, and the youngest of tae oficers was amiable in the extrome 1 nis answers regarding the sub- ject in question, None of the guests had given their names. Capella recounted to them his explolts as A SOLDIER under the orders of Duke Ferdinand, of Genoa, father of the Prince; displayed his medals, won by his valor on the field of battle, aad quated many @ cup of vino Mast to the healtu or rather memory of tus old commander, The oificers also evinced A partiality for thet pleasant beverage. The repast was at last concluded, and Vapella then es- corted his newly-iound iriends to the quarters of the Italian fire brigade, where, it so happened, they foupd the band of that organiza- hard at ‘work practising the national airs of their country, ‘preparing for the grand entry of the Prince. Then the party pro- ceeded to the Callao Railway station, aud here Capella took leave or his guests. On saluting the young oficer, the amphytrion was astounded when he heard the auieu:—“My good tend, you hold the hand of your old commander’s son.” Bystand- ers remarked that Capella was almost taken of nis feet by this announcement. Recovering his pres- ence of mind, however, he manifested his sense of the honor conferred upon him, and, 10 accordance with an invitation, had the additional gratification of breakfasting with Duke Thomas the following morning ob board the frigate. 11 ‘tory is true, MUNICIPAL BECEPTION. Up Sanday, the 10in instant, the Prince was received iormatly in Lima by the civil authorities, President Pardo very courteously had placed at is orders Captain Raygada, of the navy, a former attaché oi the Peruvian Legation in Washington, to initiate him into the delights of the capital The governinent carriages were sent to uieet bim at the statiou, and his first visit was made to the Union Clad, to witness from the balconies the ex- ercise of the itatian fire brigade. Thence he re- paired to the residence of Mr. Garrou, the repre- sentative of Italy, to receive the salutations of the diplomatic and consular corps, and in the aiternoou visited the President in the palace, wind- ing up the day’s entertainment by an hour spent at the bull rg, where the toreros and their victime did ailin them power to please their noble specta- tor. Since then the Prince has been dined and wiied by the President, Various parties have taken Place ib bis honor. A grand excursion ts pro- Jected to the terminus of the Oroya Railway, the National Guards are to be reviewed be.ore him, and, in fine, tie Duke of Genoa has met with a iar more complimentary reception in Lima than he would pogsivly la his native city, where men of nis rank are not considered as curiosities, He will leave Very pleasant impressions on the society of the capital. The Garivaldi wili sail for Valparaiso in a week's time, Contradictory and erroneous accounts having appeared in regard to the death of three young Americans, which occurred last month, near Lau- sanne, tn Switzerland, a gentleman to whom the facts Dave been fuily communicated called yester- day atthe HERALD oOillce tu correct the inaccura- ‘ ciea. John R. Crane, aged seventeen years, and his brother James, two years youuger, were pursuing their studies at Lausanne, under the charge of Proiessor J. F. Astié, the distingulsned Swiss ai- vine, who wat a member of the late livangelical Alliance during its sesaions in this cuy @ few months since. They were son of Mr, vrane, of Brooklyn, of toe importing firm of Forstmann & 0, Of this city, they bad been granted a houdeay jor Tuursday, May 14, to goio Fribourg, For some reason companions with whom they were doned the trip. Tne two brothers Crane called early in the morning for a young friend Woodoury, out the same age, a son of she lute Major General Woodbury, who lived with nis motuer and sister tn Lausanne, and the three started to gether for & trip on tho jako in a gall boat, im witch they embarked during a storm under close reefed sais. They saticd up the lake to St. Sule pice, on the Swiss side, where they debarked eieven o'clock and hat lunch, Starting agata “wenty-one candidates, who are app'icants for | they Were 300n aller seen orf Morges, on the same positions in the Post Ofiice for letrer carriers, were ezamined yesterday by the Civil Service Commis: sion of the Post Onice, consisting of Mossrs. Harry G, Pearson, Assistant Postiunaster; James Gayier, Speciai Agent and Private secretary; George 5. Lounsbery and Thomas R. Bannerman, in the Civil Service Rooms of the Custom House. Out of the en- ture class only live proved themselves com peten t— Messrs. i. W. Roverts, John F, Kauil, Michael J. Graney, Xauder Hyland and Michae: B, casey. The standing in inerit of these candidates were 83, 76, 72, 69 And 67. ‘The frst named oi she above 18 @ colored man, and very intelligent. He received a collegiate education in Liveria. Posunaster James, on the recommendation of his Civil Service Board, nominated the above, being adjudged duly qualifiea, to the positions solicited, The rules gov- erning the examination have hitherto worked to a charm side of the lake, with full sails set, and the re- miirs Was made that they appeared inexperienced in the Management of ‘their craft, but no effort was inale to ald Wew, Neither ot the three wal ever Seen again ultve. [tis supposed that James Crane, the youngest of the lads, becoming terrified at ‘ue violence of the storm and their inability to manage the boat, either fell or jamped overboard, With tae hope to reach the shore by swimraing, and that young Woodonry jumped in to assist nit and both were drowned. On Saturday the kd with ber sails lywered, came ashore right side near St. Gingolf. when the body of John Maud Ay of Jonnd tn ft lying on hts side dead, appear "7 L though asleep, except that his ‘were hi ona it was judge that ne had perishes J AY rearet, hough at the expiration appeared, thoug: the faherigou und boatmen om te lake made great @fforw to discover them.