The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1874, Page 3

REGATTA WEEK. — The University Crews at _ Saratoga, THE COURSE. Dartmouth Doing Forty-eight Strokes to the Minute. HARVARD'S BOAT STRAINED. One of Her Causing Trouble. THAT ENGLISH STROKE. SaRaroga Springs, N, Y., July 11, 1874. 3m the annual athletic gatherings of our students in days past there was often much @one by the citizens of the places they Pitched on towards caring for them and their contests, and making all go along smootily, side-the work of preparation already done or now doing here all that any past year saw, or even all ‘of them put together, is simply insignificant. Nearly 200 of the leading gentlemen of this place have banded together and gone sensibly and reso- Yutely about making the University race of 1874 in all that pertains to good conduct and right ap- pointments at least without a rival. The willing, ‘almost eager interest, shown by them on every hand would make nearly any project succeed, and the more especially when that interest is atded by found judgment and no small experience. Sev- eral times before these very gentlemen have taken their “practice pull’? at arranging for such a meeting. On the litn day of September, 1871, on this same beautiful Saratoga Lake, there took place one of the sharpest and best and in many ways most important races ever shared in by our protessionals. Nor was it limited to ours alone, for there was Harry Kelly, longtime Engiand’s champion with the sculls, and Robert Onambers, a man needing no introduction to any British hearthstone, and Joseph Sadler, the best Waterman in England to-day, and Taylor and ‘Winship, and the whole famous professional English Team, who paid usa visit that summer and went home with too sad recollections of us and our land. For before covering the first mile out of six, on the little Kennebecsis they lost the foremost oarsman of modern, if not of any, times—James Renforth. Andagain they had even worse cause to mourn in the bitcer cup poured out for them right there under Moon’s, on this pretty sheet of water. To beat Americans! Pah! That would be Nght work, mere play between the whiffs of their brief pipes! But that same day they met four quiet sons of an oldman from the Hudson who could ijurnish more if called on, and these vaunting | English fell before them as the Philistine before David. Saratoga, Stiliwater! These names about here somehow bode Englishmen no good, and, from the doughty Cornwallis tothese men of the “coaly Tyne,” they and their Yankee cousins have never inet pleasantly, at least to the former, in ‘this locality. And again last August, when the shameful bun- giing at Springtieid (where, trom between the committee of the city and that of the students, each leaving all work to the owner, all, as is usual im such cases, fell through between the two) threw their exceptionally good management into bold reliel, they showed themselves compiectely quall- | fled to engineer anaffair of tuis size; for to look tothe every want of severty-five men, many of them used to deny themselves but little—to trans- | port a score or more of frail, delicate boats safely many miles by rail or wagon and securely house them and their owners to the satisiaction of the latter, and perhaps of the former—for boats have mbs and like to rest them easily—to supply each with a boathouse, well built and abundantly roomy; to have the course so flagged and buoyed that a child might not mistake it; (aecessary enough, perhaps, as many of these rowers could yet, should little obligations annoy them, plead “the baby act’); to erect a grand stand, easy of access and exceedingly commodt- ous, to go to the Legislature and get an act passed allowing all citizens to be assessed for sprinkling bighways on public days, which, being interpreted, means on the day of the University boat race; to take such care of the thousands of incoming Iriends of the crews as they can get in such num- bers almost nowhere else, and to do all these things and many more without one student hav- jng to place his hand in bis pocket and draw therefrom one cent—weil, possibly it is a mere pastime and nothing more, but it is a sort of | pastime simpiy unknown in our boating history. Not that all will surely go smoothly, for that is beyond man to say, and doubtless there will, for imstance, be many a person seen strutting gully forth in all the new jound dignity contained in the word “police,” emblazoned for the first time on is faded natband, fit member of the motley mas- queraders who with opulence of nose and dearth of trousers passed in review at Congress Hall last night, the need of striking out whose lofty title and substituting so as to read “Lout,”’ will, to some stray band of students seem 80 like a duty that they will struggle to accomplish it; or that the water may be rough ‘or some other evil betide them after all their pains and jabor. But somehow when man has done his best his wishes are more likely to come around ‘than if he had neglected part or ail. THOSE WHO WILL BE HERE. There will probably be on at this race represen- tatives from boat clubs of nearly every State in the Union. Already they have begun to come, and & blue band, or an orange, a lavender or white and green alternating, is seen on many a jaunty hat of some comfortable, easy-going looking fellow, who is passing through the process of becoming liber- aly educated, contrasting pleasantly with the ailent, sombre, black band of his senior by few or many years. From all appearances there will yet | be one duty of these gentlemen of the committee which, used as they are to crowds, will tax their powers to the utmost. Itis to transport all who are forced to come from South and East and West by @ railroad of but a single track, and do it promptly and in accord with the time table, Worcester, nearly similar, had a like problem, though simplified enormously by paving two tracks to work on, and thousands of people found easy and rapid transit on the many trains saga- cious Superintendent Firth kept constantly run- Ding. Springfield, too, did the like, but witn the like advantage. Waether the Rensselaer and Sara- toga Raroad will be equal to the stratn put on it je the conundrum, Already you can quickly tell when you have left Vanderbilt's line, Indeed, I look even with pity on the poor concuctor who—a senseless and unheard-of custom—stands at tne car step and makes you show your ticket before he ‘will let you in, Fancy some grim old dowager, ‘whose ticket has been securely ensconced in an¥ unknown part of her clothing, having to down ‘with it at the bidding of this exacting oMcial, and this when the thermometer ie dancing avout brothers whom old Rip Van Winkle found away ht Sa the fastnesses of the Hudson be about the right sort of party to at tend to Bull there havé been many large’ gatherings of ople here, and it is 60 attractive & place to come that one should put up With a goo THE Not only does the new United gtates, and the as a6 new Grand Union make this great water- i place always ono of the pleasantest spots to more #0 even tian ever, but this half-day at the lake is to be a teatare new to many who thought they, even lon o, knew Saratoga well. And the roa 9 Worcester, or that with the ramshackle ferryboat at bee but @ broad ayenue 100 feet across, lined at the middie and gides in many places with New Men But it is entirely safe to say that be- | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JU LY 13, 1874.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. ye SARATOGA LAKE. _ John Riley's Trinity Crew Columbia Crew Mie, “STARTING POINT AeA Leach fc “enoig { Rogers\§ AN J.Ramsdil Caldwell Map Showing the Starting Point, Eaitire Course and Finish, aad the Location of the Univer sity Crews at Their Quarters on the Shore. 40) 1 oy “ {i Chayman's Grove Amold } ounds, is really one of the smoothest, easiest | and safest roads to be found between Maine and | Mexico, Eefore you get to the Leslie grounds propos it i @p easy turn in to tne beautiful uterlaken, while directly opposite his gate, across @ pieasant delta, where several roads meet, 48 the famous Moon’s, whose genial proprietor told me the other day that there was just one man in New york who knew how to set a good table, and that was Lorenzo Delmonico. [ thought { | knew one man, not far from Saratoga Lake, who knew how to charge for what came ona table, whether it was goud or not; though it is but jus- tice to him to say thet about his fish dinners and | Saratoga potatoes there is but one opinion, You are DoW AT THE EDGE OF THE LAKE, Dut 100 feet or more above it. The distance be- tween is @ gentle, easy descent, covered in most parts With abundant grass. Sloping up this side m one well chosen place is now erecting the grand stand, already mentioned. {n Boston, on Fourth | of July, or any race day, you can stand on the | housetops on lower Beacon street and look far up | the course on the Charles, seeing, indeed, most of the race; but this runs up much higher than any Of those honses, and as the ground slopes at about the same angie as the stand is quite safe, while the view from the Worcester or Springfleld stund | was not to be named with it, For, right at its foot are the flags of the fintsh line, so that the rowers, as they come down home here, right in the most exciting part of all, are almost beneath your feet, so that you can look right down into their boats, while it certainly does not seem any three miles to Snake Hill up the lake, of whica stretches the starting line. As will be seen on the map, the lake is not only long but amply broad, and two or three dozen crews might readily row abreast. Oif to the east the banks rise riggs and the pretty hills and meadows make fine grain and ne lands, while in the background lie the reen Mountains of Vermont—the only New Eng- jJand State, by the way, which has never mustered a college crew. THE LAKE stretches nearly north and south, and on a sunny day one can get a beautifal drive around it, if he has time to spare tocover fifteen miles. Mr. Leslie has certainly not blundered in selecting this tor his country seat, his broad acres of shining graia al- | most ready for the sickle, his elegant suburban | buidings and good fencing, combining with the rear lake view, the extensive, distant one, and tie | preximity of Saratoga, to render it not nard | to make this a charming spot. Since te crews have come they have had some rough water, and brought in considerable 01 1¢ in their bouts. But all fare alike, and it must be constantiy | Kept tn mind that 11 nine crews are to row a breast race it cannot be done on acangil. By tis bring- ing many colleges together they have made neces- sary @ broad track, and it 18 traditional that “when the wind blows the cradle will rock.” Staii, they must take their chances; and if a hard blow comes up on race day they have their plaus all boaeped to postpone, if an hour before the time they conclude not torow. And they should not dodge a little water, Even in the dirty thames, Oxiord and Cambridge often get a deckload of tt while racing up Corney Reach. Yale has a neat little wrinkle. Bringing her boat carefully down trom their quarters up the lake on a day when the water is lumpy. they work her under the old bridge into Fish Creek (at the extreme lett of the map), and there, in @ snug harbor, put on the Kngdsh to tieir stroke to their hearts’ content, while their brawny rivals are maufuliy breasting the raging waters of the centre of the lake, where the Wayes run six inches deep. No fear for our navy in the future ‘With old salts like these to draw on. THE WILLIAMS CREW. Mr. Nelson once said that England expected every man to do his duty. Well, that’s what Mr. Gunster, the Williams captain, tells his men be ex- pects of them; but the trouble yesterday was ne did his, and he aid it mainly weil, too, and got through each stroke of it before the said men could do the same. His rival, Vana, of Harvard, told me he’a like to seize on that man and drop him into the Cambridge team, These Hoosackers have certainly picked up on last year, aud no one need Jear that they will, as then, be last. Not that I think the last will be first, sor, much as they have developed in strength and gotten ahead in their rowing since that clumsy umpire’s steamer washed them as they struggled manfully home at Springfield, they have yet a deal to do. Bow, to be sure, 1g ght, but lack of steam is not the matn trouble, It is the knowing how to use it. Had Horace Greeley aud Ben Butler been pre- vailed on to enliven the evening after work with what they knew about a clog dance or double shumMe with variatious there might, perhaps, have been ample power to liit the shapely hoofs o1 these old war horses; but it would nave been necessary to have had in Mr. Seymour— not Aoratio but Nelson—to get them to benave as doth the true minstrel. So, with these good men, to whom Williams intrusts her chances in the com: ing sea fight, it is too bad to see power awkwardly thrown away, That which makes the indifferent- looking bank clerk outrow the brawny blacksmith 18 practice—coaching. “Practice is nine-tenths," says Emerson, or, as the Frenchman had it, “Familiarity breeds despise,” and it is this coach- ing that Williams sadly needs to-day. lt Mr, Gunster would take his men out two ata time, himself sitting as coxswain, or would take them ail tua barge, he still at the beim, and would coolly, quietly and firmly single out their various faults, and under po condition let them row fast, but slowly, slowly, slowly, until he, steadily explaining, got it first into their heads, the rest would anickly follow. I venture the asser- tion that any man of aisle! capacity can, by a skilfal coach, be made better than a fair oarsman With but half an hour's practice a day for oxe month, Ihave seen it done too often to doubt it. But the biiod must not lead the blind. Every day Mr. Gunster.does a thing he ought not; lor every day and almost every stroke he looks out at the blade of his oar. There isa pretty dancing mas- ter skipping about here at the Grand Union. Weil, the other night, after all the fine panniers Snd trails had floated a dozen tumes down the Blue Danube and had all gone quietiy to bed, some of the young gentlemen from these renowned seats of learning Feauent they would like to have some too. What would they have from the piano? Well, after much discussion, that fine old bit of Ttalian from Hart, “The Mulligan Guards,” was at length selected, antl as its sweet strains sought usin our upper rooms there was, it seemed, & oe about that dance which could be evén heard at our distance—certainily was ferent. from anything from those who had earlier occu- pied the floor, Now remark that dancing—if within @ quarter of a mil@ you might, or at least the gentle whispers which accompanied it, Well, had you noticed this light-heelead master you would have seen that, whatever nis pupils y have done, he never looked at his teet. ither did he whom once saw carry @ good sized man on his back from New York State to Canada on a single rope stretchod across Niag- ara River, Neither should John Gunster at his among the nineties! Would not one of the deaf this part the ~ business ? i deal, ROAD TO THE LAKE. come to tn summer time in al) our country, now to the lake is no such affair as the old turnpike trees, and stretching as it does ha trom the old sau lsed Congtons BUtIUe Of AANOUAS oar blade, would he do good rowing. There is one Tudder DOKL OF Nhe id to the gate of the editorial, Frank Lesite’s beaut | rowing fast, then on the watcn hanging between { his heels, With where the boat is going he has nothing whatever todo, That is for bow, and no other man should ever, while at work, save in au emergency, look out of the boat, Williams cannot Win this year, but she can probably put Princeton atleast behind her, and perhaps two or three or even tour more, DARTMOUTH yesterday afternoon came rattling down the track ata fast pat, pulled up at the finish and paddlea into the dock, A Columbia man en the raft had, he said, timed their stroke thrice aud at each tak- ing made it torfy-eight. This was so much like the rate they swung in old and recent days, when Sliding seats were unheard of and English strokes unknown, that we could hardly belteve it. “We couldn't help it,” said their short- armed stroke, “L guess you will on the third = mule said I, ‘That was the third mile,” he replied, “Did you do all you had on the other two?” Well, he wouldn't go into that. It must be understood that, us would be ex- pected, all the cre vs are keeping a sharp lookout jor each other’s time made in practice over the course. To go and deliberately row over the exact course at top speed and (hen stop would be a showing of a crew's possibilities (hat, whatever maay be the fact, it is geueratiy deemed (oolish to make. Tlence tius eagerness to clutch at any- taing that looks like a going on tim THE HARVARD Ch By the way, Harvard's voat, in the recent rough water, has bly strained, nor ha gig with her to weather. This has justly among her men, for fear she Would not last tii] the race, The pulling of Taylor, too, tue Lew man next to bow, thongh strong, is unsteady, and he was out of the boat at the End of hie stroke, cant- ing her down to starcoard, making her roil badly, and so iretting the crew by preveuting them froin getting in wnd out o1 the water, evenly and cleanly, indeed it 18 debated seriously whether Devens or Silsbee (now on hand as_ substitutes), propebly the former, who was bow oarsinan last year, had better not be substituted for him. ‘Taylor is very strong, tn fact, tae ueaviest man im the boat; a Tare thing in a Harvard crew, too—a furmer, and 1¢ seems -teo bad to lose alt his strength. Of course, being the newest man he finds himself accredited with apout al the ‘aus: in the boat, and it naturally chafes iim nota little, summer compiaint, also, Is sali to be visiting at botu the Harvard and Wesleyan quarters. It is astonishing low little a tuing may Upset all the caiculations and throw away all tue work of the whole past year, Of what mighty importance it is, lor instauce, to atl Yate wellwishers that, until next Thursday night, Mr. Cook’s stomaci should behave itseli and not go tooling around the way that organ is sometimes known to im meu, or tat any of these men, ous as they were yesterda aiternoou in & rain that ip a iew minut hati | fled their voats, shouid not, as they could so easily, indulge ina playful attack of quinsy or a neat cramp? And then So little disorders a D0at, aud even the oars get unruly. Harvara, ior exam- ple, had broken every spare one, and bad already begun on one of her last six, Dana executing @ heat slash about two inches square out of the corner of his blade, And, by the way, in this very matter of oars Harvard has had to satter much, For the great maker is Ayling, of Wands- worth, just out of London, He had orders for an extra fine set for this crew, Which were ritofully promised ior May delive May came, but they did not, and they have been written sor and cablea for ana still they come not. Donohue seems to be the favorite on tits side the water, but a Dononue oar is severa! removes behind an Ayliug. THY ENGLISH STROKE. Serine of the Ki arker Chandler, of Williams, a son of Peleg W. Chandler, of the Boston Bur, thus discuurses, Warming up on the subject, he said:—“When I went to England | thought I was well informed on boating matters—indeed, | had commenced writing wu book on the suvject—but I soon became con- viuced that a majority of my pet theories were wrong, and accordingly I threw aside what L had written in disgust. Mr. Smaii of the Zribune, who nas attended ail the iwportaat English boat races for years, suid to me, ‘Our beys wilt never learn rowing until they make up their minds that they don’t know anytving abour it and start iresh,’ You see the Hogiish have always becn a nation of rowers, You remember the Northmen travelled arouad with their sweeps, ‘Lacy prepare tor thetr coliege races with a thoroughness of which we oi tuis side Know nothing, bach member of a racing crew is trained in a pair oar down to within a lew ae the event iu Which the crew is to take pat. “Do not the strokes of all the crews that are to take part in this race subdstanttaily correspond ¢ Are they not aliin theory the English stroke inguired. e answered that ail the crews, with possibly two exceptions, were pulling the English ronk much pulling nsiderd F in heavy chicd) apprehension one stl roke. “What isthe English stroke, and waat, in con- tradisdiuction, is Or Was the American stroke ¥? “fue English pull with their vacks and je Americans rely more upon their arms, lish regard the arms in rowing simply a8 bars con- necting the back with the hands, None of the col- lege crews rely, as they used to, on the arms, but al place their main dependence on tue vack and leg. Now, this talk with Mr. Smalley is very interes ing, butas he right That they have many ways Which it would be well to it aside and start aires in there is no question; but how mach did these Northmen have to do with “catching the beginning.” tor instance? 1 do not know Mr. Ayiing’s age, either, bat he couid hardly have e. isted 10 thete day. And those sWeeps; something avout the size of a weaver’s loom or a bed leg, whittled down a little, probaoly. And what did they know about form? When the bold Erie and his cheery lads swung down our Nortuern coasts, do you believe they were doing 34 to the minute? Mike Fink, the just of the boat- men, or one of our choice-tongued youth whose life is on the “raging canawl’—tuese are, more likely, the sort of parties who used to pull beliind ric, and it is barely possibly that what they could puli best at was a junk bot- tle. And avout Mr. Smaliey’s thoroughness of training. This all sounds like him, for 1 have heard much tie same trom his own lips; but will the Statement bear sifting? Most inielligent men, Whether fond of rewing or not, have of late years réad the entertaining accounts of the annual uni- versity races in England. Now [ suomit if itis Not almost the stereotyped story which reaches us from there, that along just pelore the race both crews—t these stories are truly told, aud | think with very little search I can quote Mr, Smailey’s own words, if he has doubts on this subject—have many glaring fauits, ana often one of them, usualiy the losing one, is ignorant of some of the frst principles of the art of rowing, Just recall some ol the comments that the English press made so often during the nine dark years between 1860 and 1870, When never once did the lignt blue go to the fore, And then George Morrison, of Oxford, who coached the latter’s four against our men, had | Jacoeaias OFR WS, Ad Went. ADd tAURDd Sem Ik many of the first principles of good rowing ; and ever since 1869 they have won. And where was all this boasted English big “pasar on Saratoga Lake in September, 1871? ho coached the Wards? It would bave been « treat to have turned a London reporter on them for a little while, just before the race, to have heard him warm to his work. Why, they would have had more faults than they had teeth; and, When they won, what dia it? There 1s notbivy so beutiful in rowing as to get your boat m ahead. It has charms veside which pretty feathering 2nd catching the beginning abd all the other watery wisdom fade away, as will the comet’s tail, It you doubt this come up on Thurs- day wnd ce your son or you brother row, or, even as the rresident does, see bow your son’s Iriends row, and you'll soon get mghi ideas oi the true weanty of rowing, Why, the Wesleyans splashed about last year like a lot of boys in the vath house of the Battery; bat whick was better, to row so and be in thé Iront Mk, Or row preciily and be eight, nme or ten? ‘The sastesi horses do not always have the prettiest movement, and then as to the Knglish stroke, Whatis the Kngish stroke? For England 15 a lacge country, ana I confess if 1 was asked to de- fine she .merican stroke that 1 would be at a loss; ior there 18 no distinctively national stroke in eitier country, Guision and his Londo crew never rowed, in i869 at any rate, With ail the stif tormal- ity and stately precision of Oxiord, nor had they the wild scramble accredited often to Cambriage. Now. which was the English stroke? Captain Cook, ot the Yale crew, went to England,-and, if rumor 4s correct, was tanght mainly by Captain Guiston. The stroke, to look at, Beems principally diferent: in more tine being taken to get ready to put the oar in the water and less in pulling it through it. it is claimed that thus tne rower 18 tired less because he gets longer rests; ne also rows severai strokes less a minute, Dut better ones. ‘there are also minor points, like throwing the head back iD the last half of the stroke aud mak- ing its weight tell. The first manI ever saw do this was Sir Charies Dilke, When he was in this country in 1866, We lent him a boat at Cambridge, and the way he set his head back makes me think that he may, after all, make something of this movement, where be and one other gentleman a while ago found themselves in a noble minority of two, so persistently did he seep tt up. That the main Teatures Of this stroke, as described, help a man much, 1 believe; but 1 think, its superiority has either not been suilciently tested to prove it cou- Clusively better, or else that the Wards’ victory demands explanation. Columbia at least 18 re- ported to have got tired of it and fallen back on. the oid Way, though I have not seen her out yet. THE SINGLE SCULL RACE. Entnes for the stugle scuil race will be made on Monday morning. The single scull race and F if mau race will occuron Wednesday and the U sity race on Thursda The base ball mate! come of on Monday: and Tuesday; the running and walkiug matches on Friday. A Fatal Leap in London—Advertising From the Clouds-A Talk With an Air Navigator in the Colosseum Ubsery- atory. A despatch * from London published during the past few days conveys the intelligence that another life has been sacrificed im the vain endeavor to navigate the air, Tue account states that “a man would attempt the perilous feat while im mid-air, of flying from a balloon to the earth to aflymg machine.’’ The announcementhad drawao together an immense and curious crowa to the Cremorne Gardens in London (Chelsea) ; ‘the balloon was cut away, and after rising a short distance, the ‘Professor’ was lowered and hung suspended {from the balloon by a rope with the wings of the machine extended, The bailoon as- cended to a considerable height, and at a signal the rope was cut, “fhe experiment, however, proved a total failure The ‘Professor’ descended with trignttul velocity vo the ground and was istantly killed, His body was horribly disfigured,” As acrial navigation is just now attracting great attention, hot only tu Europe but in America, a HERALD representaiive was Inscructed to discover whether the daring expermentalist of London Was known in this city, aud, if possible, upon what principles nts Machine Was couscrucied, Protesdor ‘Tobin was accordingly sought and the following conversation occurred in tue observatory of tue Colosseum — : “Professor, do you know the man who has just lost bis ie i London ‘taking a fyer?? Never heard of bim, twas & sensation at Cremorne Garden, was tt not, to draw money ?”’ “Undoubtedly. stan are iuterested in aeronautics—are you not! “Yes, and have been for years.” “Have you any opjecuion to give the HERALD your ideas as to fyimg machines, taeir practica- bility, wlality, &c, 2” “None whatever, I believe that the feasibility of navigaling tue air will soon be demonstrated, in fact, | bave made this science a study jor years, dabout the middie of August lL bope tg lave a machine in New York—the invention of a Frencu- man—with which # man can not only jump irom the dome of tins building with satety, bur guide humselt in mid-air with as Inuch ease and certuty as screw propellers are steered at sv: “Are you willing to explain the principles of this machine ¥" “Certainly. Inthe first place imagine a balance pole made Oj lancewood, avout twenty feet song, aut each end Oi Which are gas receptacles; at- tached to Us pole, and nicely balanced, ts a smail voat—a rowing boat, made staunch vut light; in the centre Oi this lancewood pole the motive power (or screw) ; by working this with one haud oniy, the Operator ts enabled to gain velocity, and can either uscend or guiue himself in any direc- uon. “But how would tt be if he wished to descend ?”* “He has simpiy to remaiu quietly in the vuat—in which he Will be securely tied—and he will float easily down to the earth; instead of falling with the accelerated weight of 150 pounds—a man’s Weight—te would only fall with the accelerated weight of five pounds on account of the buoyancy of the gas receptacies, which are about ten feet in diameter, made of the finess Chinese white sik and flied with the purest hydrogen gas.” “Have you made aerial navigation a study “Yes, Some years since there was an exhibi- tion in England of all tue apparatus ior air pavi- gation. The Duke of Argyle was the President of the Aeronautic Society and Mr. Thomas Brear, y Jes SeCrehAKa Shore Wad Dus ene (Ont Od AeVerAL i hunared schemes) whicl: was considered practi- cable. This was an invention by a provincial working man named Stringiellow, and he received the medal.” “Is your Parisian fying machine based on his ligcoveries 7” “No. Ibis based on the experiments of years. The inventor is an enthusiastic Freachman, and if it prove fo be all that is claimed forit it will un- navigation. THE GRASSHOPPERS’ CAMPAIGN. Their Descent Upon Minnesota—There are One Hundred Bushels of Grasshop- pers to the Acre—Fear of the Utter De- struction of the Wheat Crop. [From the St. Paul Press, July 9%] Now that the vast army of grasshoppers has got jairly in motion, some idea of its immense range may be gathered from the fact that our special de- spatches this morniug report their simultaneous appearance yesterday, fying from the southeast to the northwest, at Sheldon and Hast Orange, im Northwestern Iowa, Where they lighted yesterday in immense clouds on we flnely growing crops; at Mankato, over 200 miles east of those points, where they were fying northward, and at breckimridge, over 250 miles north of the first mentioned points, Contrary to expectation and to the Impression derived jrow their first movements, they have not pursued @ continuous tight northwestward or even northward, but large bodies of them wave returned soutiward and southeastward, in the in- verse direction of thew original movement, Either these were the same swarms returning whence they came, possibiy be try so desolated on their northward tack that they were forced to go back for supplies, or they were hew swarnis following what appears to be un erratic impulse Only because their general migra- tory movement has seemed to be definitely north- ward, and because what has been Known of their previous habits had prepared us to expect an early fight back to their uative deserts. Their winged columns seem, too, to have spread out laterally toward the east, so thatthe skirmish lime on their eastern flank now takes im Blue Earth county. It is just possible that they may continue this flank movement toward theeast, Iftue prodigious swarms of hungry lo- custs should once take it into their heads, alter, stripping the thinly settled country west of Man- kato, to move eastward over the rich, populous and prosperous agricultural counties this side of the Blue Harti and Minnesota rivers, the destruc- tioh of crops would be immense, and the caiamity tenfold what has resulted irom their ravages in the newly aud sparsely settled region to which they have heretofore been confined. If they should once set about it, there can be no doubt single week the entire growing grain crop of Minnesota. Their numbers are stinply prodigious. Mr, James G, Butterfield estimates, from tne numbers clinging to stalks of wheat, Oats, &¢., as compared with ihe numver and size of kernels of wheat, that in Watonwan county, where nis tarm 1s situated, there were 100 bushels of grasshoppers thics over tie whole tilled area of the country j-Westward to the Lowa line as in Watonwan county. We know not what law or influence guides thetr migrations, but if the mysterious 1npulse which impels them should unfortunately send them over the vast grain fleids of Southern and Central Min- nesoia, they ave quite capabie devouring the entire crop Of 30,000,000 bushels’ of wheat, which are now estimated to be growing in this State, without overloading their voracious stomachs. Happily there are no present indications that this terrible calamity 1s in store jor us, It is an en- couraging sign that Our Breckinridge special re- ports them flying northwestwai d over that place. ‘This 18, nO doubt. the advance column of the great | retreating army, and let us hope that all the lag- gard legions may follow this example and the ex- cellent advice of the lute Mx. Greeley, and “Go West.” JOY FOR THE LITTLE ONES, [New York correspondence Buftalo Courier.) Speaking of journulism and journalists, one of the latter, Mr. Williams, 1s entitled to much credit for the energy he exhibits In getting up pleasure excursions for poor children. Taese excursions take place weekly, and are a godsend to the little ones picked out of the streets and suffocating tenement houses to enjoy them, Mr, Williams started the idea a couple of years ago, and by per- sistent efforts he has RoW got a large number of persons interested in tt. reeuiar jund tor the Butler Duncan, Charies HU. Marshall and three other well known gentiemen 2s trustees, Nearly 2,000 Children were taken out ol the city on Mon- day last and sajely returned in the evening, much pleased and certainly oenelited by a trip to ‘ive Island and back. — The cost of the excursions is about forty cents for each child, and money to meet It comes in Ireely ‘rom many quarters, Dar- ing the first sewson Mr. Williams had to depend almost entirely upon his own exertions, but now ail the papers give him @ heiping hand by urging subscriptions, and the result 18 a steady flow into therand, The children for waose benefit the ex- cursion project was put in shape are ail of the poorest cass, and mapy of them belong to parents who are too brntalized to care whether their little ones ever get a breath of iresh air of not. Mr. Williams is doing a noble work in providing a genuine pleasure for them every week, and the praise he receives for doing it is certainly well deserved. The subscriptions to his fund in the past two weeks amount to over $1 FENTON AND THE. REPUBLICAN PARTY. [From the Utica Observer.) We caftion our readers against being surprised at anything in these surprising times, We are en- gaged in the business of political prophecy. but we venwure the suggestion that within afew weeks Reuben E. Fenton may possibly be acting in close communion with the regular organization of the repubdlican party. He is not loved overmadch by the New York managers ofS the administration ring, but ne is feared a good deal, Hats are dotfed to him now tilat were not doffed six months ago. Place-seekers and tide-waiters Who held bim in contempt not long ago now wait obsequiously upon his pleasure. The organs which reflect the views of the inner ring are studied in their silence con- cerning Mr. Fenton, They have ceased to de- nounce him as @ “perfidious wretch,” a8 @ “traitor to the party” and as a ‘“corruptionist.” us more, the managers themselves are courting bi Savors | doubtedly eifect a revolution in the science of air | cause they Jound the coun-” that. they could without ditliculty destroy im a | to the acre of ali growing crops, and they were as - excursion was formed some time ago with William | M 3 THE THIRD IFRM QUESTION. Men Must Speak Out. [From the Daily Saratogian.) ‘The New YoRK HERALD, Which, more than any other newspaper ever printed, labors for the good of the people, is afraid that the third term serpent is only scotched, not killed. It thinks that if the third eran idea 1s to be beaten men must speak out “wita bold, clear and manly voice” against it, Grant Would Be Successful, (From the Binghamton Republica in.) Many of the democratic papers have already be- gun to indulge in speculations as to,the nomina- tion of President Grant for a third term, They thus unwittingly pay a tribute to the merits and popularity of the President. ‘The fear of his run- hing again disturds them. They know if he was again the regular caudulate of the repuolican. party he would be suceessiul, Useless to Ignore the Questio: [From the Elizabeth Herald.) It i8 useless to ignore the question of a third candidacy for Genera) Grant, since all the papers, administration as well as Opposition, have been forced into the discussion. ‘The idea of forgetung the traditions of the Kepublic may be disagree- able; it may be treasona le, even, and to a true patriot preposterous; but the last fifteen years have given Many a rude shock to our institutions, and the notion of a Presideny elected lor turee, or even an indefinite number of terms, is in perfect consonance with our present theories of aduminia- tration. Will Wasbburne Run? {From the Miner’s Journal.) Gordon speaks rationally when he states his belief that Elihu B. Washburne will be the prom nent republican candidate for the next Presi- dency; but his conviction that the democracy will have # certain victory 18 a8 Donsensival a6 the majority of bis reasons why Grant cannot be elected on his financial platiorm are sound and well considered. He is perfectly right when he says the whole spirit of the Republic 8 against any man’s admission into the Wiuite House for @ third term; but he betrays a lamentable lack of persplcacity in falling to perceive that 1¢ 18 by no means the intention of the republican party to nominate General Grant for a third term, even if he dexired une compliment, which we have little besianen in saying We do not honestly believe he does. The Tone of a Master. {From the Kansas City Times.) Certain it is that he has been a new man and assumed towards his party a new tone—the tone ofa master—ever since his second term was as sured. He has thrown off some of his reserve and shown a disposition to have @ policy of his own, or veto that of Congress, to make bis appointments in a Way to inculcate a@ peliel that personal frieud- stip for the present incumbent 1s a surer ciaim for promotion than party services bed ag he javor. ‘Then his copspicuous softening towards the South, and his tender manipulation of Stephens, Toombs, Mosby and other men ol supposed influence in ‘ha section, go to prove thar he intends to have a fresh Jemon unless he can squeeze anther nomination out of the old one. If it should come to that there will be some tail bidding for Southern votes between Grant and hig republican opponent, and old party platforms will be terribly wrecked. Rather Ben Batler. [From the Mobile Register.] On his record in the past there is not a solitary sound reason, in logic or in morals, why the demo crats and anti-administrationists among thé American people should support General Grant He is a full sharer in responsibility for all the mischief, 1ollies and political crimes of the radical party, of which be is the head, While that party was secure in its power he halted at nothing that it proposed to bolster up that power at tue ex. ense of the American constitution and the anni of the South and of State rights everywhere. we take him now it wil | be upon fis promise to change his policy, | Ifa man has betrayed a great trust shall he not | only be pardoned, but reinstated in bis trust.cn a | promise of reform, and especially when it is clear | that interest inspires bis promise? Why not for give Ben, Butler ail his villanies and make fam oun standard bearer on lis engagement to be a better boy next time ? He has ten times Grant's ability, and of public virtue quite as mach, If the demo cratic party wishes to nominate a second Presix dent who Will Inspire the best men in its ranks te stay at home and refuse to ratuy by their votes a Nomination nov only stupid, but condenined by principle and good morals, it wiil deliver its stane dard ve the Keeping of Geseral urant hilation of the ones No Pronounced Sentiment, [From the Independent.) It will be time enough tor the President to speak ‘when there 1s anything for him tosay. At pres- ent there is nothing for him to say. The next Presidential election will not occur until two years ‘ from pext fall, and any discussion about candi- dates now is wholly premature, There 1s no evi- dence before the public tuat the President desires w re-election or has the slightest expectation of being a candidave in 1876. There is no pronounced public sentiment on the subject one Way or the other. When the time comes for taking up the question of candidates and actually electing a President the peopie will be abundantly compe- tent to dispose of the matter, It may be true (we do not say whether it will be so or not) that the generai votce of the republican party will ve ia favor of renominating President Grant, Should 1¢ ve true, It will be @ strong expression of the con- | fidence of the ry. in bis administration, It will | prove that the dominant party o! the country judge him, on the whole, the best man to present jor the suffrages of the peuple. The tact that he has served for two terms ts no reason why he should not serve a third term at the public call, Such a call or-@ general sentiment poinung ip this direction, of which there 18 now no evidence, would jurnish the proper occasion for the Presi deat to speak. Till then he has nothing to say, and, hence, cannot with propriety attempt to say, anything. What the Spirits Say. FE. Searle, an inspired medium, who knows more than be will tell at once, has bad a revelation :—“} also foretold that General McCleilan would be the next candidate of the democratic party for Presi- dent, three’ years before his nomination, which prediction was treated like one of Mad Cassap. drie’s prophecies. These are facts on record, and whicn Lhave also the est Kind of verbal testir mony to substantiate. No one at the time, to my knowledge, ever thought that such events would become nistory, and every one to whom I commu: nicated the fact ridiculed or laughed at the crazy idea, Now the spirits teli me that Grant will be candidate for the third term, and that the Work and the Chicago 7+mes will support him, and had I time and space 1 would give 1D detail the whol working out of the campaign; but as this is not just the test that is called for, 1 will accept the one proposed by the World, It must be taken into account that spirits, m communicating intelligence, operate by netural law as much as the electrictans who work the at- lantic cable, Nor have they any more power over | conditions than when in the body. Their minds, | to get intelligence from the Sandwich Islands, must be en rapport With some one there in order | to establish lines for the sending of a spiritual | telegram; and if King Kaiakua will send a lock of | his hair, 80 as to orm the connection required, and keep a record of the events that transpire on any specified day, in which he is bimsell a prominen' actor, making allowance for difference 0! time, we will inform the public through the Times, several days im advance of the mati, of the leading inel- dents that transpired in his Court on that day, | which a diary correctly kept would corroborate.’ AMBRICAN CREDIT ABROAD. (From the Nation.} The London Economist of June 20 contains @ paragraph in reference to the recent history of qhe Emma mine which we commend to the atten- tion of the public and ali whom tt may concern. After mentioning that Mr. Albert Grant, the noto- rious Stuckjobber through Whose instrumentality the mine Was brought on the London market, had appeared the other day as deiendant in Chancery to & Suit brougut against him for the recovery ot $8,500, part of a sun ne had agreed to pay to a Mr. Doulton for “introducing to him ® vender of | Americun mines,” the Zconomist says :— | ““sMore lately there have been certain stormy meetings of the Emma shareholders, who are, naturally indignant at finding that they bi been long without dividends, aud that the shares, which were issued at £20, and which were once, we believe, quoted upwards of £80, are now sal able only at £2, Ii, indeed, oy considerable quan- uty of them could be sold for that price. Tne statements made at the meeting are im curio! contrast with those in the prospectus, and should open the eyes Of intending investors in pub- lic companies to the tricks that may played with them. The mine Was sold, cording to the prospectus, as a property a seed £700,000 per ANNUM; and not only Bo, it Was st that the ore was s0 abandant and so rich tl no attempt had been made to work the mine on commercial principies of economy, and with econ- | omy the Andual return could be brought up to nearly £800,000—Ior all which even @ million, which, | was the suin asked, was che: But the mine, tm fact, has never yielded anytuing worth speaking | of since the ore Which was on the sariace whem | it Was sold bas been worked up and Mr. Attwood, tne company’s eugineer, Who was sent out dD; | reiorined management to inspect and survey | Property, distinctly reported to the two meetings that the mine was in a wretched condition, aud | that there was nothing to work which would do | More than repay the cost of working, The con-; trast between promise and periormance has thas been most painial, and it is diMicult to say which: is most to be wondered at—the folly of those wha se such Stavements Or the assurance af bavaq who