The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1874, Page 6

6 } NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic @patches must be addressed New Yore * giunaw. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ———_ JOB PRINTING gy every description, also Stereo typing and Engraving, neatly ana promptly exe cuted atthe lowest rates. Volume XXXIX -No. 244 — — AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, WHAT SHOULD SHE DO? OR, JEALOUSY, at 8 P. Bes closes at ll P.M. Miss, Fanny Davenport, Miss sara Jeweit, Mr. C. Fisher and Mr. James Lew THEATRE Ct TE. hg Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3 P, M.; closes at 10:30 BOOTR’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. BELLE LAMAR, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. John McCullough and Miss K. Rogers Randolph, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.— THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Joseph Wheelock and Miss fone Burke. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—PAUL PRY, and OFF THE LINE, at 8P “M.; closes atl P.M. J, ole. WOOD'S MUS: 'Broadway, corner, of Thirtieth et.—BLOW FOR BLOW, at2 POM. THE LAST NAIL, ats P.M; ch at 10:30 P. M. “Louis Aldrich and Miss Sophie Miles, PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN. THE WOOD, at8 P.M. E. Lamb. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Jo,em Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 LY Fourteenth street an D'ARGENT, at3 P.M. ‘Mile. Minelly. UM THEATRE, Sixth avense.—LA TIMBALE loses at 10:30 P.M. Mile. Aimee, GLOBE THEATRE, ge Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at10 METROPOLITA: HEATRE, “No. 585 Broadway.—Parisian Cancun Dancers, at 8P. M. | BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, ats P.M. “Dan Bryant CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, (Fifty-ninth street and Seventh ayenue.—THOMAS’ CON- SCEBT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. EET. ee TRIPLE SH New York, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1874. a From our reports this morning the probabilities sare that the weather to-day will be clear or partly weloudy. Waut Srreer Yesrzrpay.—Erie led an ad- ‘vance in the stock market, sympathetically swith an upward turnin London. Gold was 11093 p 1093. Taat Borriz.—An officer writes us on the wubject of the corked-up message found on .the beach at Long Branch. He takes all the igood out of that bottle, as a first-rate officer his apt to do out of any bottle, and the prisoner xof the Tortugas becomes a myth. Taz War in Cvna is being prosecuted with igteat animation. The telegram from Havana, under date of yesterday, which appears in the (Henatp to-day, goes to show that Spanish guerillas have been sharply attacked by a body ‘of mounted insurgents, that a very brisk affray ‘ensued, and that a number of men were killed ‘and wounded. The garrison of Fort Martin ‘Lopez is harassed by rebel bands, and the general condition of affuirs in the field is quite lively. A Srxevtar Suir has been begun in the ‘United States Circuit Court, which involves (the right to property now held by the Old Worth church, worth millions of dollars. Mr. FWilliam Hastings, the plaintiff, does not claim ‘the property for himself, but declares that it thas been abused and mismanaged by the ‘trustees to build gorgeous temples, pay ex- dravagant salaries, and is thus diverted to ‘uses which are not sacred, but are in violation of the trust. An injunction and the appoint- ment of a receiver is requested from the Court. Evropran Customs are not often intro- duced permanently into America, the carnival balls in the large cities and the Mardi-Gras processions in New Orleans being exceptions to the rule. The Bavarians of New York have, however, undertaken to establish a national festival, and their masquerade yes- terday was full of quaint and instructive in- terest. The festival will continue till to- morrow evening, and that it may canse a scarcity of beer is the only danger that is feared. Tae Barrisa AND Spanisn Canrnets continue to communicate officially concerning the case of the Virginius. Lord Derby urges the Ma- drid Ministry to settle with the Queen’s sub- | jects ot an early day. The Spaniards repiy with fine promises, as usual, and add a sort of pitiful appeal for an English hold-off on account of negotiations which are pending with the United States, and which may ter- minate in hampering Spain if the Americans | find a precedent in the payment of an in- demnity to England. This is Spanish dipld- macy all over ; a cunning effort to cloak a dishonest intention, hoping to cheat a very sable personage in the dark. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, F Sameera SUS SCS So dos ay NA 5 Smal a ie ce a alta RD rc cra se: eee a OR Peeo Raia yateee Penk era DOS Effect of the “Reform” Movement on Political Reputations. One of the most suggestive chapters of our recent history is that which records the havoc which the reform movement of 1871 made of the personal popularity and political standing of all its most prominent actors and abettors. The path of that remarkable tornado is strewed with wreoks, not only of the broken Ring, but of its most formidsble assailanta. While the Ring itself was scattered “like chaff which the wind driveth away’’ the noted reformers have been rocked and wrenched like trees in a tempest, some torn up by the roots and lying prostrate, others standing with broken branches and mutilated honors, as if the avenging Nemesis owed them also a spite, or as if they were blind Samsons, destined to perish beneath the temple of the Philistines which they brought down in ruins. Some may regard this as an example of the ingratitude of republics, but we shall offer a different explanation. Account for it how we striking, as we proceed to illustrate by a detai! of instances, First in prominence among the reformers, especially in its early stages, was Mr. Have- ; meyer, who has his reward as Mayor of the city. It was he who presided over the first re- form meeting, making a notable speech ; he was chairman of the famous Committee of | Seventy which played so leading a part in the demolition of the Ring; he was the recog- nized centre of all the anti-Ring consulta- tions, no important step being taken by any branch of the reformers without his advice and concurrence. Verily, he has his reward. But it is not in the esteem of his fellow citizens for disinterested public services, but in the possession of an office which he could have reached by no other path, and which it is the unanimous voice of the press and people of all parties that he has disgraced. Whatever respect and confidence he brought with him to the reform movement he has entirely forfeited. ‘There he lies, and none 80 poor to do him reverence." Another prominent reformer was Andrew H. Green, who also has his reward in the pos- session of the Comptrollership and the univer- sal dislike of the community. In former days few of our citizens were more esteemed or better spoken of than Mr. Green. His name was associated with the most attractive and popular of all our public improvements, and he was reputed to be a man of honesty, taste | and administrative capacity. But to-day he is more odious than any other officer of the city government, not even excepting Mayor Havemeyer, who is rather despised than hated. An attempt will be made in the next Legislature to render the office Mr. Green holds elective, and if he should have effront- ery enough to bea candidate and ask for the votes of the people he would be greeted with | general derision, The connection of this old parasite and pet familiar of Mr. Tilden with the reform movement has brought him some- thing very different from increased esteem, confidence and popularity. To be sure, it brought him office, as it did later to Have- meyer; but the day is long past when activity in that movement could help the prospects of any candidate. The community has come to believe that those reformers were as ar- rant a set of office-seekers as ever made professions of honesty the cloak of selfish am- bition. We cannot follow the history and fate of them all. Many dropped at once into ob- security. Several picked up lawyers’ foes beyond their professional deserts, either as lobbyists for the reformers at Albany or as assistants in the mistaken civil suits against the Ring, prosecuted with great parade and expense, with no other result than to give the holders of the stolen property ample time to put it beyond the reach of the law. Of all the reformers not one has gained any increase ot public consideration. Even Mr. Evarts, who was a prominent member of the ‘Council of Political Reform’ and made able speeches at the reform meetings, is none the better in public standing for his participation in the movement. When the Chief Justiceship was to be filled the President passed him in contempt, or certainly did not offer him the place, notwithstanding his eminent qualifica- tions for that exalted station. Of course the President did not put this slight upon him in consequence of his having been a reformer ; but that fact did not help him, as it cannot help anybody else who has real or fancied claims to high office. No political party or any section of the people recognizes even effi- cient service in that cause asa title to con- fidence or popularity. ‘Jimmy O’Brien,” who set the ball in motion by farnishing the figures from the Comptroller's accounts and was the veritable author of the reform movement, gained no credit, because he had tried to use those figures as a means of extorting enormous payments from the city treasury, and at last published them in pursuance of a threat from motives of revenge. The newspaper which first printed the figures and was the noisiest of all the champions of reform has since been losing caste, even in its own party, which talks of establishing a new organ jt this city to supplant it. The reform move- ment has helped nobody's reputation, has | added to nobody's political strength, and the | overridden horse which so many were eager to | mount in their chase after office lies ‘with | his nostrils all wide,” without breath or mo- | tion, and giving @ perceptible odor of carrion. A city government which has arrested the hand of improvement and yet has raised our taxes above the old Ring exorbitance, the scandal of militant departments waging against each other a ‘‘war more than civil,” with such a Mayor as Havemeyer and such & President of the Police Board as Matsell, sre monuments of reform which do not need to be inscribed with any epitaph to Tae Fist oy Seprempen—Tae Watrara Praces.—It is part of the unwritten constitu- tion of the fashionable world that the pleasur- ing season in the country ends on the 81st of Angust, and that the season fora general re- turn to business begins on the Ist of Septem- ber. Accordingly from the seaside, the springs, the mountains and the lakes, the gen- eral rush back “to town’’ has set in, and the thermometer, even if it were to record a weck or two of roasting days among the nineties, would hardly slacken the ebb tide from the country to town. Thero is, as the preacher says, @ time for every thing under the sun, and the time for business has returned ; and o fair summer senson in the country gives Btomise of a good fall trade. tell the character of ‘the poor inhabitant be- low.” Bat is it not really a singular exhibition of political sagacity that one of our great parties intends to renominate as its candidate for Governor a citizen whose chief title to that distinction’ consists in his headstrong co- operation with these buried reformers, who reverse what is said of the saints in the hymn, that they “smell sweet and blossom in the dust?’ As prominence in that reform has left nobody else in the possession of any pop- ularity it is difficult to see how it is going to make the fortune of Mr. Tilden. It surely | may, tha fact is as unquestionable as it is |” last year he went off to Europe to sulk, and seriously thought of retiring from politics altogether. It did not bring him a harvest of Popularity in the reform Legislature of 1872, immediately after his great achievement with the bank figures, for he was abont the same 8 expelled from the Assembly by the strongly marked dislike of his fellow members, which they took no pains to conceal If he was treated with so little consideration when his laurels were fresh what has he to expect now that they are withered? Besides, his Great exploit with the bank figures only showed into whose hands the stolen money had gone, and did not help to recover it, The truth is that Mr. Tilden is no exception to the rule that any maa who distinguished himself in the reform movement is less popular now, or has fewer chances to be elected to any office than before. It has proved s blight and & mildew even to reputations which were Green, and chiefly by the demonstrated selfish- ness of the motives of the actors. Professor Tyndall’s Address. There is nothing of which that eminent philosopher, Professor Tyndall, is so im- Patient as the attempt to limit physical science by theological or religious creeds. This is to him the unpardonable sin, Errors of opinion upon other subjects he can toler- ate; indeed, he assumes them to be inevita- ble. But the error which would forbid human reason absolute freedom in its search for truth is to him a fundamental wrong; and he has always protested against it as the foe to knowledge, honesty and progress. Yet he never before uttered such a protest as he has done in his address delivered before the Brit- ish Association, August 19, at Belfast, which The Outrages in Tennessce. When men want to fight it is easy to find a pretext, and so it is hardly surprising that the recent terrible outrages in Tennessee began with a vulgar quarrel about roast pig at a barbecue. Yet this was but the occasion, not the cause of the trouble, and, as our Nashville correspondence to-day shows, the worst classes of both whites and blacks are responsible for these horrors. The negroes are said to have attempted the assassination of two white men near Pickettsville, which led to the arrest of some of the ringleaders. The confessions ner in which the New England witches accused themselves of dealing with the devil The negroes had no hesitation in testifying that hatred of the whites was their only provocation, and one of them, who turned State’s evidence, declared that they had determined to kill the majority of the whites, in order to own the land and make it & negroes’ country, where they might hold’ the offices and govern to suit themselves. In this they were persuaded thatthe President would support them. This testimony is to be re- ceived with a certain degree of scepticism; but there is unfortunately very little doubt that the negroes were ripe for revenge and slaughter. On the other hand we find an equally blood- thirsty spirit on the part of the whites, united with more determination and greater power. The description of the midnight attack upon Trenton Jail, where sixteen of the negrocs were imprisoned, and the deeds that fol- lowed their illegal seizure, remind us of the worst days of the Ka Klux reign in the South, One hundred armed and masked men, dressed in black, took these wretches from their cells and murdered them most we published yesterday. It is a remarkable production, and startling in the boldness of its views. The Church has ever been, in the estimation of Professor Tyndall, the enemy of science, and the long night of ignorance that enshrouded the world from the time of the Greek philo- sophers to Copernicus he considers to be the shadow of religion. He is not entirely wrong. Religion, as it was for centuries taught, was an obstacle to’ science. The Church in Galileo's time undertook to stop the revolu- tion of the planets; in our own age it has, with equal zeal, but less power, arrayed it- self against the revelations of geology. The struggle has always been one- sided. Theology has always retreated; science has always advanced. The rosult is that Christianity itself has been modified by the preachings of. the silent rocks and the bright mysterious stars. The Mosaic chronology is no longer taught in the pulpit; the Deluge has become, even to ordinary theologians, a local flood, and the story of the sun which stood still for Joshua at Ajalon is looked upon as 4 beautiful pocm of the Hebrews. This conflict between a literal interpretation of the Bible and the hard facts of physical science has been in part averted by the prudence of theologians and philosophers, who have declined to join issue. A compromise was also effected. De Quincey pointed out more than thirty years ago that the Bible could not contradict science, because science did not exist when the sacred volumes were revealed. God disclosed His will to the Hebrews in the langnage they understood; spiritual truths were uttered which are immutable, but physical phenom- ena were spoken of by Moses as they seemed tobe. The intelligent Christian world almost universally accepted this theory of De Quin- cey, and there was truce between religion and science, each working apart, until Mr. Darwin came with his theory of develop- ment, denying man to be the immediate crea- tion of God. This was a challenge that the Church could not decline. There is no com- promise possible here. ‘These facts must be recalled in order to un- derstand the position which Professor Tyndall has at last boldly assumed. It is unnecessary for us to say that he never recognized the Bible as authority upon the questions of the origin, the nature or the destiny of the human race. Its morality he may have accepted as founded upon fundamental laws of thought, but he admitted neither its history of the past nor its prophecy of the future. He pursued the mystery of life as it fled from him in other directions, and has found it an insoluble mystery. But to this conclusion he has finally come—that matter is in itself sufficient to account for life, even for the production of human reason (the highest form of life we know, or could by any possi- bility know), and that a creative, interfering God is an unnecessary hypothesis. We donot find that Professor Tyndall denies the possible existence of God, but he emphatically affirms that in matter itself “exists the promise and potency of every form and quality of life,” This is the theory of evolution carried to its ultimateextreme. It is absolute materialism. Beyond this is a mystery to which he bends, but which he believes to be inscrutable to the intellect of man. is Thus, casting away all compromise, aban- doning ail disguise, Professor Tyndall bgs qig: Taissed Christianity, with all the Senda och preceded it, as simply an effort of the haman mind to fix a conception which cannot be fixed, but must perpetually change. The boldness of this avowal will command the at- tention of the world; for here we see that modern science is not merely o study of rocks, fossils, analogies of structure and fanction, chemical affinities and elements of matter. Professor Tyndall's address must, therefore, not be looked on &@ simply an in- quiry into what we call science; it is a search into what we know as religion in the highest sense of the word. We cannot blame him that he speaks that which he be- lieves; intellectual hypocrisy is of no help to the world, and while we may shrink from such views as Professor Tyndall has declared, we cannot deny his claim that, whether right or wrong, freedom of discussion must be ad- mitted. True Christianity itself has, in the persons of its noblest disciples, conceded to science the unrestricted rights of search it de- mands, and is ready to meet the issue with tolerance, it is true, yot without either com- promise or fear. Tae Annrvat of General Custer’ s expedition | at Fort Lincoln is announced in our despatches from Bismarck, Dakota Territory, to-day, with full details of his long march. Four men were lost by disease and accident. It is now cruelly. Six were shot at once, and the re- maining ten were hanged at intervals along the highway. This was, indeed, a bloody vengeance to wreak upon the helpless authors of an unsuccessful plot. Itis encouraging to find that the more in- telligent whites and blacks of Tennessee have had enough self-command to resist the temptations of panic or _ retaliation. At Nashville a meeting of colored people was promptly held, at which counsels of peace and order prevailed. The support of the race was pledged to the Gover- nor in his efforts to legally suppress such out- rages and to punish the perpetrators, The speakers declared that all the colored people of Tennessee wanted was peace. A similar feeling was displayed by the conservative whites. Governor Brown at once offered a reward of five hundred dollars each for the jail breakers, and their cruel deeds have been de- nounced by such citizens as General Forrest, of Fort Pillow notoriety, Jefferson Davis and Isham G. Harris. Our correspondent indeed says that the massacre is universally con- demned by respectable citizens, and we have no doubt that he is correct; for violence and assassination of negro prisoners cannot help the white population, but, on the contrary, is what they have most to dread. This cold- blooded massacre at Trenton will be quoted against them by their enemies, and perhaps made a pretext for new plans of oppression in the South. The white citizens have endured great evils with singular patience, and. now, just when the whole North begins to recognize their sacrifices and to appreciate the situa- tion, the reappearance of the Ku Klux would be the worst event their enemies could wish them. The vast majority of the whites know this, and if the outlaws of Trenton Jail are dis- covered and captured they will not have much chance of mercy from an impartial jury and court of their own color. Departing Summer Season—Dry but Wholesome. ; Again, in the sublime procession of the seasons, our golden summer is passing away. In the conventional sense, which limits this season tothe months of June, July and Au- gust, it is gone; but, in fact, it will not end until the sun, in his journey southward, crosses the equinoctial line, which will be about the 23d inst. Our summer of 1874, then, is not yet among the things of the past, but is passing away, and so far, throughout the United States and around the entire circle of the northern temperate zone, it has been, in its meteorological peculiarities, one of the most remarkable summers of many years. Following # spring season of generally abundant rains throughout the Union and of inundations almost without a precedent in the lower Mississippi Valley, from Arkan- sas to the Balize, and in the Gulf States, east of the Mississippi basin, we have had a sum- mer from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast so generally dry from June to Septem- ber that it may be designated as the gen- eral drought of 1874. If we had had this year only the average rainfall of the winter and spring the deficiencies of the summer would certainly have resulted in ruinously short crops of every description, and in the running up of every article of subsistence to famine prices. But'the abundant rains of the spring have not only secured us, beyond thé average “of tei years, crops df hay, wheat, rys, oats, barley, rice and all the early fruits and vege- tables, but so widely and thoroughly satur- ated the soil as to insure'us gehatally good returns of cotton and sugar, and of that most important of all our staples, Indian corn. It is probable that, counting all the rain which has fallen within the limits of the United States since the Ist of June (leaving out Alaska, ‘‘where it rains, hails or snows every day in the year"’), the aggregate would very nearly approach the average of the last ten years. But this rainfall has been to on extraordinary degree con- centrated in heavy floods in narrow localities, asin parts of Connecticut and the valley of the Hudson; or it has descended in over- whelming cloud bursts or waterspouts, as in Pittsburg and at several points in Nevada. And similar phenomena have marked the sea- son at various points in Central Europe. These remarkable phenomena are widely be- | lieved to be due to the comet; but, whatever | the causes or the conditions producing these results, they are exceptional and out of the | regular order of things meteorological. We have had this summer no old fashioned north- easterly storms, spreading over the whole country from the Atlantic const to the great Plains; no general, settled, misty rains os in times past, and in some districts even of the Atlantic slope—as in Southern New Jerseyg for instance—they have not had even a re- The cithor then or since, On the contrary, it | reported that the Black Hills are to be ex- | spectable thunder shower since June. Created such coldness and estrangement that { plored again thig fall, {ss not strengthen him with his own party, From the Atlantic const to the cxoat, Plains | seconds to the oar, hed the Beaverwycks been | made by these wretches recall the man-’ the drought has been the prevailing cry of the farmers. The Little Rock (Ark.) Repub- lican, so tate as the 27th August, says‘‘:—The drought continues throughout the State. From information derived from all sources we are now satisfied that this protracted absence of rain will work ruinous consequences, The corn crop (Arkansas) may be regarded a total failure. It is now past redemption. The top crop of cotton, a few weeks since so promising, will amount to little or nothing, thus cutting the aggregate one-half short of former ex- pectations."” We are gratified, however, that the last week of August in Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi was marked by liberal life-giving rains, the be- ginning, we trust, of liberal rains soon to cover the whole land, and that they will not yet be too late for good to the maturing crops. But if our summer season this year has, throughout the Union, been the dryest, it has been and is to our people the healthiest of any summer for many years, in city, town and country, East, West, North and South It was feared that the inundations of the spring in Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, would be followed in the summer by some pestilence, “which walketh, in the darkness and wasteth at noonday;” but thus far we have no reports of yellow fever or cholera, or of any symptoms of an epidemic from the Southwest or the Southern Atlantic seaboard States, It may be said that the danger of pestilence down South is not yet past, but still we are encouraged to believe that this is destined to be a remarkable year, through the summer and autumn, not only in the general cheering record from its health reports, but in the exemption of the South from cholera, yellow fever, and from any epidemical disease. We rejoice that Septem- ber opens with this high and grateful promise, and we hope to record its fulfilment in the dying glories of October. American Amateur Championship at the Oar. The performances of last summer and this have proved beyond all reasonable doubt that we are ina fair way to soon have a navy of amateur oarsmen in this country who will bring us almost equal credit with that won by our professionals. For years, hereand there at irregular intervals, now at Philadelphia, then at Detroit, next on the Harlem and again at Saratoga Lake, there have been local, or, at best, sectional meetings of the men who had the time to spare, and took to boat racing from pure love of it; and, indeed, for over a score of years, either here or in Boston, on the Fourth of July, or other gala day, good work could often be seen. But not until last year, we believe, did the meeting of our amateur oarsmen become in any sense national It was reserved for a little body of resolute men at Saratoga to gather the talent scattered over the Continent, and open for ita test which should settle publicly and conclusively where we could look for our best ama- teur rowing. Canada, then, as in the first college foot race, proved the favored one, but that did no harm in either case. On the other hand, it seemed only to arouse our na- tional pride, and this year the number of con- testants in some of the races has more than doubled, while the result of yesterday proved that, if the good men from the Dominion seek @ worthy foe, they need only cross the line into our State alone. For, as if not contented with her memorable scoring six weeks ago on this same Saratoga water, when little Col- umbia went and stayed so brilliantly to the fore, New York has again carried off the highest prize of all—that of the great race of yesterday—and been likewise first in every race in which she was allowed to enter. And to do this she has had to beat some first class crews, which, coming as they did from the Northwest, from Canada, the Middle and the Southern States, would in all probability not have come had any who conld vanquish them remained behind. Our own Harlem clubs were there, and the gallant Bergen Pointers, and gave, as might be expected, a good ,account of themselves; while the Gramercys, by their very fast time at the sculls, deserve especial mention. But there is no denying the fact that among many genuine surprises the gallant perform- ance of the winners of the last event yester- day—the TBeaverwycks, of Albany—has been the chiefest of all. If any one had wished to look them up they could have well referred him to their rivals, whose boathouse almost adjoins theirs under the bridge at Al- bany, the well known Mutuals; but so little were they known by the outside world that in naming the first four, or indeed the first half dozen, they were hardly thought of at all. Most of the New Yorkers pinned their faith to the famous Argonautas, and indeed the result showed that they did not shoot very wide of the mark; but the Wah-wah-sums with their singular aboriginal name had made ® record for themselves on the lakes which made many wary of them, while the Can- adians who won last year, the Pittsburg men who so often give a good account of them- selves, and the welcome strangers from the | Carolinas, to say nothing of the Atalantas who went once to England, iiod all earned a prominence in the forecasting which could not be ignored. As js usual in such cases the winners had bedi lest before- hand, never announcing tha’ ‘Yond any idea that such good things were in store for them, and so the well earned honors sit all the more becomingly upon them. But while the foremost cluster of crews yesterday did much of which to be proud, a little reflection will show that they have yet much to do. For though they rowed so fast and scored such creditable time, the best of them has not done nearly 80, well as did the Columbias in the University race. The time of the Beaverwycks was eighteen minutes thirty- four seconds, while, although there is just doubt as to the correctness of the accepted time of the Columbias, there is none that they covered three miles on this same lake in some seconds less than seventeen minutes. Both rowed in the lightest outriggers, neither carried coxswains, and the only substantial differences in the students’ favor were that they rowed six oars while the Beaverwycks had but four, and that they had no turn to make, But sixteen seconds per oar at most is the greatest difference which our aquatic annals will, we think, show has ever been allowed, while leven has been far more common. Allowing thirty seconds for the turn—and twenty ought to be enough—and evon granting . sixteen in the University race and gone only as fast ap yesterday they would hardly have been better than sixth, which is, for instance, to say the least, a different story from what the London Rowing Club, the champion amateurs of Eng- land, would have to tell should they at any time measure oars with the victorious men of Cambridge or Oxford. Saratoga has done well; now let her show next summer that she can do as much better as she has already done than any other place. The President's Revurn. The President has returned from his tour in Massachusetts, which must have been ag delightful as even he, who is accustomed to enthusiastic welcome, could have anticipated. Martha's Vineyard received him with the smiles of joy, and parted from him with the tears of woe; and if his visit dis- tracted the attention of the camp meet- ing from religious duties to worldly pleasures the good people may be easily excused. New Bedford was not less overjoyed at his arrival, and the faces of the dignified officials will long continue to shine with the reflected glory of the Presidential countenance. Neither of these places had ever seen a President of the United States be- fore, arid they made the most of him while he remained. At Martha’s Vineyard General Grant made a speech, which shows a marked improvement in oratory since his visit to Atlantic City, amd was very neatly expressed. His response to Mayor Richmond, at New Bedford, was, prob- ably, even finer; but it was unfortunately in- audible to the people or our correspondent. The President must learn to speak out loudly. It is thought that at New Bodford he referred tothe third term question, which makes us regret all the more that he could not be heard. Yesterday ‘afternoon he reached Newport, where, after a warm reception, he triumphantly embarked for New York. We congratulate the President on the proofs of re- gard and esteem he has received during his entire tour, and are sure that if his refusal of another term had been distinctly understood the enthusiasm and rejoicings would have been overwhelming. But probably he is re- serving this declaration for his return to Washington. At any time or any place it will be welcome. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. J, Hubley Ashton, of Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Rey. A. B. Leeson, of Baltimore, is stopping at the Hoffman House. Assemblyman F. A. Alberger, of Buffalo, is stay- ing at the Astor House. Mayor D. M. Holbert, of Binghamton, has apart- Mentsat the St. Nicholas Hotel. General John G. Hazard, of Rhode Island, & residing at the Albemarle Hotel. General H. W. Benham, United States Army, t& quartered at tne Grand Central Hotei. The Governor General, Lady Duiferin and suite arrived in Toronto from Niagara yesterday. Assemblyman Warner Miller, of Herkimer, N. Y., is among the recent arrivals at the Glisey House. Lieutenant Commander H. 0, White, United States Navy, ls registered at the Brevoort House. Ex-Governor: H. H. Wells, of Virginia, arrived from Wasnington yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J Mr, C. W. Remington, formerly prominent on the Produce Exchange, leit for Europe on the Oceania last Saturday. Sir James Paget, the great London surgeon, pub- licly protests against the high heeled boots that ladies now wear. Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Texas, formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives, yestercay arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. British papers are fall of “the national game,” and the writers are apprehensive lest this country should get the credit of having invented tt. Two English ladies were suspected of complicity in Bazaine’s eacape, and the gendarmes have since ingeniously insulted every English lady in France. Plymouth church has stood by its pastor “through thick and thin.” The thick was Moul- ton’s evidence and the thin was Beecher'’s de- fence. Captain A. Harrison, Captain H. Beckwith, Lteu- tenant F. Lane and Dr. Arden, of the Fifty-third regiment, British Army, are at the Grand Central Hotel. Tennyson's tragedy ts nearly ready for the stage, Nothing tess than a tragedy from Tenny- son could ever prove how atterly undramatic is his muse. Frederick Dabury retired from the position of Assistant United States District Attorney in Boston yesterday. He is succeeded by Prentiss Cumwings, a member of the Suffol« Bar. It has been thought that to turn the Desert of Sahara into a sea would injuriously affect the ¢lf- mate of Souvhern Europe; but M. Grad writes to the French Academy of Sctences that the evapo- ration might increase the rains but would not otherwise affect the atmosphere, a3 the prevaient winds are independent of the physical condition of the Sahara. Geographical circles in England are excited over the discussion as to who is entitled to the credit of bringing Livingstune’s body to the coast apd saving the journal. Credit on both points ta claimed for Lieutenant Cameron on the one hand, and on the otner it is alleged that Livingstone’s negro attendants really brought the body, and would have brought the journal ere this if left alone. Alexander Dumas was invited to the literary dinner recently given by the Lord Mayor of Lon- don, and replied as follows:—“My Lord, 1] thank you for having thought of me; but you should understand that I cannot go to dine in a country which authorizes the literature of M. Vermersch and forbids mine.” Vermersch was one of the worst of the literary Bohemians who wrote up the Commune and is now a fugitive in London, It is argued In France tnat as the death penalty for political offences is abolished, and as Bazame was sentenced to death, therefore big offence was mot political and he ts subject to extradition from any country with which France has an extradition treaty. On the other hand it ts argued that hia offence is One against the military code and not against the municipal law, and therefore he is aot subject to extradition. Thus the doctors disagree. Sir Mutu Coomara Swamy, of Ceylon, on whom Queen Victoria has just conferred the honor of Knighthood, is & gentleman of distinguished post- tion in the East. He is also remarkable as having been the first person who, being neither a Chris- tian nor a Jew, was admitted a barrister of one of the English Inns of Court; bis “call” bears date January, 1863, at Lincoln's Inn. He has also done much toward making the literature of India known to the Western World, having published severat works relating to Indian and Buddhistic philoso phy; ana he has given to the public an English t lation of an interesting Hindu drama, named richandra,’? which he dedicated to the Queen, ‘The New York correspondent of a French news- paper, who had read all the evidence and state- ments which came before the investigating com- mittee upon the Beecher-Tilton scandal, wrote the following orief summary o! the affair to his paper:—Threo prominent New York ciergymen— Rev. Messrs. Moulton, Beecher and Stilton—are at present involved in a grand quarrel. It seems thet in the possession of Mr. Moulton were found sore love ietters which revealed the fact of an im- proper intimacy between Mr. Stilton and the wite of Mr. Beecher, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, te mother of Uncie Tom, the blind pianist, and Mr. Stilton accuses Mr. Beecher of having seduced his Gaugnier Florence, for which he claims $50,000 damages. New York is greatly excited over the efall.—Necark Mornina Reciner.