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PROSPECT PARK FAIR GROUNDS. Third Day of the Second * Autumn Meeting, Three Trotting Contests—Lady White the Win- ner of the First, Lady Woods and Mate the Second and Comee the Third, Three trotting races came off at Prospect Park Pair Grounds yesterday afternoon, the first being the unfinished race of Wednesday, the second a | team race and the third @ trot between horses | that had never beaten 2:26, great event of the day, there being seven starters of the ten original entries. These were Comee, Bar- mey Keily, Bella, Lady Banker, Mystic, Charley Green and Kittie D. The track was heavy but the ‘weather was delightful. Tne following are the ‘details :— THE FIRST TROT. PROSPECT PaRK FAIR GROUNDS, Oct. 7—SECOND | DaY vF THE SECOND FALL MEgTI for borses that have never beaten 3 $850 to the erat, $150 to the second and $100 to tue turd jorse ; mile heats, best three in five, in harness. STARTERS. uM. H. Whipple's Db. m. Lady White. 4 115 6 1 . Walker's bik. m. May sird g322112 &. A Einstein's b IT 343 83 3 A. Patterson’s b. g. 5 6 4 2ro W. S. Thom’s f 643 2 4ro B. Casey's r. Mm. Rosa Sonberg. 8 76 6 Tro 4. Snyder's b. g. Mausnay.. 9877 5ro W. E. Weeks’ b, m. Beule 6 8 dr dis. 87% 112% 2:33 Sixth Heat.—May Bird was the favorite over the field, at odds. At the twelfth time o trying the horses were given the “Go!” with Lady White several lengths in front, and she was five lengths in the lead at the quarter pole, in 3734 seconds, May Bird second, two lengths ahead ol Black Crook, At the hall-mile pole Lady White was leading eight ‘ths, the others trailing hopetessly on. Time, 1 Going down tue lower stretch Lady White's breeching broke, and she came nearly to a@ standstill. May Bird soon was up to Lady White, put then she broke up and kept up until Lady White began tro‘ting again and was going 80 that there was a0 doubt of her winuing. Sume said Mr. Walker became 80 contused in hts anxiety to Lady White when she was on the break that e lost centro! of his own mare, broke her aod could not gather her up again. This may be 80, but some people think differently. Mr. Walker, however, tad a great deal of money pending on The latter was the | ‘frst heat bad t be run over. Pools od this race previons to the start sold as lollows:—Kaue earce 75; Harding's entries 26; MeGinben’s entries 10; the fleid 8; Bob Woolley’s 6, Alter the dead heat, McGibben’s sold at 220 and Hardings’ 134, SECOND RACE. Py Best three im five, tor the Association purse of 400, Frankiin's p. m. Arizona Crawiord’s br. h, Gran; Swigert’s ch. me, 1:47%- 240-1151 54. The pools sold on this race bejore the frst heat averaged :—Egypt, $220; Arizona, $180; Granger, $16. Alter the first neat Arizona sola for $200 against $48 tor the fleid. Alter the second heat, Arizuna, $160; Granger, $50, and Egypt, $40. THIRD RACE, Mile dash, for Associa‘ ion purse of $125. Swigert’s cb. c. Elkhorn... Scott’s b. m, Lady Greeniield...... Time, 1:47. In the pools Elkhorn solid at $110 and Lady Greenfield at $17. AMERICAN JOOKEY CLUB, The racing to-day, judging from the varied char- acter of the several contests, will be hignly enter- | taining. Five events are on the card, the first being a selling race of a mile and a half; the | second the Grand National Handicap sweepstakes, @ dash of two miles and @ half; the third the | AnDual Sweepstakes, @ dash Of two miles and an | eighth; the fourth the Champagne Stakes, a dasb ot three-quarters of a mile by two-year olds; and the fifth mile heats, The iollowing is a het of some of the pools sold last pight on the several | events:— his winning, and this may have caused his coniu- | sion when Lady White broke u fecona, Black Crook third. ‘Tim THE SECOND TRO: Prospect PakK FaiR GROUNDS, Oct, 8—THIRD Day oF FaLt TROTTING MEBTING.—Purse $500, for teams; $300 to the first. $150 to the second and $50 to the third horse; mile heats; best three in live, in harness. ENTRIES. D. B. Goff’s br. m. Lady Woods ana b. m. Carrie N..... pete ceeeeseseeseees . 7. H. Phillips’ b. m. Ella Madden and b, s. Regulue. G. N. Ferguson's br. g. W. g. CrOWN Prince............cce eres 4. H. Schenck’s b, g. Listener avd bik. Adonis... ip. May Bird was 2:33. dG First heat. favorites. m and Regulus. At the hall-mile pole Lady Wooas and mate were haifa length ahead, and they finished the heat with a length the best of it, ‘Ibe quarter pole was reached in 44, the half-mile pole in 1:27%,, and the heat in 2:55, Second Heat,—Lady Woods and Carrie N. were | bere favorites, selling ior $100 to $25. The teams an even start and were never apart during the heat. Lady Woods and mate took the lead on the turn and passed the quarter pole three- uarters of a length in front, in 44% seconds, ey were halia length ahead at the half-mile | le, in 1:26, and came home winners by hall a Ke length in 2:48}, Third Heat. “the Lady Woods team took the lead, were never headed, and won the race by two | lengths. Tuey trotied to the quarter pole in 41 veconds, the half-mile in 1:20. and made the mile to 224233. THE THIRD TROT. Same Day.—Purse $1,000, for horses that have wever peaten 2:26; $550 to the first, $050 to the vecona and $100 to the third horse; mile heats, best three in five, in harness, ENTRIES. W. W. Comee’s b. g. Comee. B1id1i1 W. L. Simmons’ b. ma. Bella. 1354 W. Lovell’s b. g. Barney Keil; 2223 8. N. Ferguson’s b. m. Lady Ban! 4532 J. Murphy's b. g. arley Green 5466 J. H. Phillips’ b. g. Mystic, 76465 4. Falk’s b. m. Kittie D. 67 tar Otis Borst’s b, g. Confide! ar, W. EF. Week's g. g. Tanner Bo, ar. Dan Mace’s bik. m. Blanche . ar TIME. Quarter. Hay. woe BOM 131334 - 111383g eee 87 Las 36 Fourth heat..... A:ld 222835 | First Heat.—Vomee was the favorite over the eid at 100 to 85. Bella took the lead, Kittie D. second, Charley Green third, Comee fourth, Barney Kelly filth, Mystic sixth, Lady Banker seventn. Bella was first at tne quarter pole by three | lengths, Kittie D. second, Charley Green third, Mystic fourth, Comee tiith, Barney Kelly sixth, Lady Banker seventh. Time, 36% seconds. Bella kept the lead to the hali-mile pole, passing that unt two lengths in front of Comee in 1:13%, ittie D. third, Charley Green fourth, Barney Kelly fitn, Mystic sixth, Lady Banker sevent jarney Kelly then made a fine burst of speed, and, pass- ‘ng through the horses, showed in front at the three-quarter pole. He then broke up, and Bella ang Comee caine away from him side and side. Bella kept 10 front and won the heat by a length, Barney Kelly second, @ head iniront of Comee, Lady Banker fourth, Unariey Green filth, Kittie D. wixth, Mystic seventh. Time, 2:26, Second Heat.—The field the favorite, Comee sec- ond choice, Bella the third in iavor. Bella took the leau, Barney Kelly second, Comee third, Lady Banker iourth, Kittie D. fifth, Charley Green sixth. At the quarter pole Comee led a neck in 38 seconds, Bella second, Lady Banker third, Barney Kelly fourth, Charley Green fi‘th, Mystic sixth, Kittie D. far behind on a break. At the hali-mile pole, which was passed in 1:13%, Comee led one length, selia second, two lengths ahead of Cuariey Green, Barney Kelly fourth, Mystic filth, Lady Banker sixth, Kittie 0. a quarter of a mile bebind, ber driver making no effort to make her trot. Comee led down the lower stretch, and was two lengtus ahead at the three-quarter pole, Bella second, Barney Kelly third, Chariey Green fourth, Mystic filth, Lady Banker sixth. Comee came on steadily, and won the heat by a length, Barney Keily second, Bella third, Charley Green fourth, Lady Banker filth, Mystic sixth, Kittie D. seventh, Who Was over a quarter of a mile benind, but the judges believing that she was pulled did not distance her. ‘Time, 2:27, rhird Heat.—Bella was in front, Comee second, Charley Green tnird, Lady Banker fourth, Barney Kelly fifth, Mystic sixth, Kittie D. seventh. At. the quarter pole Comee led & neck, Burney Kelly second, Beila third, Charley Green fourth, Laay Banker fitth, Kittie D. sixth, Mystic seventh, the ter having broken Kittie D. was on a pace that point. » 87 seconds, Barney Kelly then broke up, Comee led to the haif-mtie three len Barney Kelly second, two ths in front of Chariey Green, Bella fourth, Lady Banker Mystic aixth, Kictie D. still pac- ing’ far behind. mee kept in iront to the end, ning the race by @ length, Barney Keliy gecond, two lengths ahead Lady Banker, tne Jatter being six lengths in advence of Mystic, Bella fitth, Charley Green sixti, Kittie seventh. ‘Time of the heat, 2:26 }s. Fourth Heat.—Comee the favorite over the fleld ationg odds. Kittie D. was withdrawn. Charie: Green was in iront at the start, Bella secon Mystic third, Lady Banker fourth, Comee fith, Barney Kelly sixth. At the ppartes, pole Bella led two lengths in 37 seconds, Lady Banker second, Gomee third, Barney Kelly foarth, Ohariey 5 sixth, The hali-inile pole was by Bella ini:l4 three lengths in front of Cemee, Barney Kelly tourth, Mystic fith, Charley Green sixth. Going down the lower stretch Barney Kelly and Comee went to the trapt, and they passed the three-quarter pole lead and head, in that way entered the homestretch, but then Barney broke ap, and Comee coming steadily on won the heat by two lengtna, Lady Banker second, Harney Kelly third, Bella fourth, tic fifth, Charley Green sixth. Time, 2:28 3,. e meeting at Pros} close to-day with t' tting races. WASHVILLE RAGES. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 9, 1874 The attendance to-day, the Alth of the fall meeting Of the Nashville Biood Horse Association, was the largest of the week, the ladies’ stand being crowded. The running in the first race was the Anest ever witnessed on this course. The second race Was very exc'ting. Young America Stakes Nos for ¢ es No. 2, for two-year-old colts and fillies; mile daah; $25 entrance thy De Dey the association to add $220; $60 to second ‘horse, a were thirty entries and the following started :— McGibpen’s ch. ¢., by Asteroid o1 Warding’s ch. c., Ventilator 02 . 8 Melatire & ree b. f. Katie Pearce, 1G, 1:46 3¢—1 240%, According to the rules of the association the d They, took the lead and went to the | qeaer pole two lengths in advance of Ella Mad- | le: t Fark Fair Grounds wil! | SELLING BACB. Kadi, 99 }bs.... Galway, 101 Ibs. 30 Resolute, 96 Ibs. . 5 Leamington colt, 96 lbs 20 Rosebud, 93 Ibs. 10 Scratch, 83 Ibs. . Mate, 114 1bs..... $60 Feilowerwit, 108 ibs. 50 105 Abd-el-Koree, 105 Ibi 20 45 Shylock, 105 Ibs... 1b 40 Jack Frost, 104 lo: 20 40 Lazzie Lucas, 102 2 40 Bessie Lee, 1061) lo 30 ANNUAL BWEEPSTAKES, Cottrill.....+. $80 50 160 160 Vandalite..... 110 105 Rutherfurd. Bs) 35 Firework. 155 70 85 60 65 60, 65 65 40 35 30 _ 30 10 Aniella. 20 20 Ravena. pty 6 Eimwood. pt} pt Preakness. + $200 150 Survivor. > 6 4 Jury... . 56 20 Spimarut . 25 30 Colonel Nelligan... ae 10 10 Frank, + . 5 ‘Special trains will leave the Grand Central depot for the Jerome Siding at half past twelve and one o’clock, A VILLANOUS CRIME. Some scoundrel has been poisoning horses at Prospect Park Fair Grounds. The wretch poured Croton oil down the ventilators of the stables into the mangers of the horses, Dan Mace’s black gelding Arthur took a quantity of the oi) in his food, and is dangerously i]. H. Woodruf’s pb: gelding Falmouth Boy also took some in Bis food, | @nd is quite sick. Mr. Conley’s fine horse Thomas L. Young recetved the ol! in his face, and is badly | bilstered, while the gray gelding Tanner Boy is dangerously injured by the oil getting into his left eye and down his lace on to his knees. This horse is sadly disfigured, and it is ieared will lose his eye. The proprietors 01 tne course offer a re- ward of $500 for the conviction of the miscreant that ponred the oil down the ventilators, and it ig sincerely to be hoped that he may be vered and punished, THE NATIONAL GAME. A Close and Exciting Contest Between the Boston and Mutual Nines—New York Ahead. No more exciting game than that contested by the Boston and Mutual nines yesterday aiternoon on the Unton Grounds has been piayed in thia victn- ity this season. The two clubs are so close in the race for championship honors that their games excite much more than ordinary interest, in proof of which it is only Necessary to state that yester- day’a meeting was witnessed by not fewer than seven thousand spectators. From the first the Mutuals had the call im betting at odds of 100 to 80, the betting men feeling confident of the New Yorkers’ ability to come out of the match with flying colors, On the Mutual side the finest fielding, and it was remarkably fine, was shown by Burdock, Hat- Held, Start and Remsen, Start also leading at the bat, while, for the Bostons, Barnes, White and Leonard distinguished themselves. The Mutuals were outbatted, but, in turn, beat the Bostons in tue field. The score follows:. BOSTON. Players, RAB.PO.A.B B.PO.A.B jarnes, 2 13211 2400 O1502 Oos2 oo0100 1301 00500 0050 01100 1351 -11 902 1310 00018 0011 3927 610 527 1510 NIN Clubs. Ist, 2d. Bd, 8A, 9A, Boston ooo 4 1 O° 0-3 0 2 0 v 2 0 86 oH Buns Boston, 1; Mutual, 0. Hirst base by errors of opponents—Boston, 4 times; en eae prone ah e— Two Umpure<ir: Glapp, of the Athletic club, Base Ball Notes. The Bostons and Atlantics play on the Union Grounds this alternoon. Higham, Remsen, Care; signed papers to play in season, Suicide of a Veteran Base Ball Player. Peter O’Brien, @ well-known contractor and a life-long resident of Brooklyn, committed suicide yesterday afternoon, while laboring under an at- tack of temporary aberration, supposed to have been caused oy the excessive use of stimulants. Mr. O’Brien shot himself with a fowling piece in and Burdock have he Hartiord nine next the forehead, at his place of residence, No, 542 | Third avenue, South Brooklyn. Death was mstan- taneous, He was lor several years one of the first nine of the Atlantic Base Ball Club, which won such @ high record ia the national game. - Ceased, who Was about filty years of age, lost his wife about two years ago, and took her death dreadiully to heart, He leavesa large family of children. Coroner Jones was notified. ~ WESTON'S. WALK. On Thursday mght Weston retired to his room at 12h, 28m. 128, He was suffering considerably at this time from his left foot, which was very sore, causing him great pain. When he was stripped to be pat to bed the wonder was that he had ever been able to walk on it at all. He had by this time completed his 260th mile, having been able to walk but nineteen miles during the entire day. He was attended to by Dr. Taylor, his attendant physician, and a6 soon a8 his foot was dressed sunk into a quiet and refreshing sleep, which lasted until 10h, <2m. 12s. yesterday morning. He then appeared to be considerably better and limped but little as he meade his cir- cuits. His ioot, however, was still very bad, and from ité condition plainly showed the indomitable perseverance of the man who woud try to walk while suffermg the pain he mast have felt. In fact no ordinary maa would have veotared even to put his foot to the ground, let alone walking on it. He scored his 256th mile ‘@t 12h, 6m, 28., and his 260th at in. Zim. 364, He here indulged in @ rest for over an hour, and resumed his walk at 2h. 26m, 86. His foot was ail this time ary improving, bat still was vecy sore. The h mile waa scored at Sh. 26m. 40s., and his £76ch at 5h. 48m. 208., when he rested for supper and med his perigrinations at 7h. zm ws, He then welked 18 miles, making the 40th of the day and the 288¢h of the journey, indaigin, more in & reat 1or a few minutes only, when he again toed the mark and commenced his pew tramp, with the intention of completing his 300th mile before retiring to bed. He was then to sleep four hours and make a struggie to compiete 375 miles by to-night at twelve o'clock, A TEBRIBLE SAORIFIOE, New Yorx, Oct. 9, 1874, To THe EDITOR OF THE HERALD: In reading the order from the Navy Department on the heroism of Commodore Woolsey tne ques- tion arose-in my mind why the department should accept sucit-s sacrifice. Surety his place could not be filled by'snany men to the governmen: God Kaown not to his family. rik act uf Heroin was for what? It is peace/ul times, and the (ever in Pensacola hax been raging for over five weeks. Why were not those healthy men placed on board the monitors-and w&! towed out? Kvyeu thirty miles’ distance would have saved the lives of twenty men who have let theif homes desol: In tnat one little sand heap there are over twenty chil dren jatheriess, It will fake @ great deal o! faith to make any one believe what Jetters of praise tor heroism wil pay tor grief and Geaoiatlon. ron, once LITERATURE. History OF THE UNITED States FROM THE Dis- COVERY OF THE AMRKICAN CONTINENT. BY Gores Bancrort. VoL. X. Boston: Brown & Co. Forty eventful years have passed since Mr. Ban- croft published the first volume of the important work which he has now compieved. He was then thirty-four years of age, the nead of the Round Valley in which nestles the lovely village of North- early graduation at Harvard, bad pursued his studies in the most famous of the German univer- sities, and, oy @ happy union of patriotic ardor with literary ambition, was impelled to write the | history of his country. He has devoted to this great task the chief activity of a long, Jaborious Mfe, and his fellow citizens will offer thetr congrat- | Ulations that he has been spared to bring it to a | definite conctusion. him in the republic of letters, he is vulneraple to | criticiam, and of late years some of his critics have | lication o1 the last preceding volume especially, he | by several distinguished writers, who impeached | | @ppearance of his ninth volume the assaults of his critics were principally directed against the liter- ary execution of bis work, and bis most partial | admirers cannot deny his tendency to literary tinsel and stilted grandiloquence. These besetting Weaknesses of Mr. Bancroit’s style do not so much appear in the strictly narrative portions of his work a8 In the frequent episodes and rhetorical fourishes, which might be pruned away without im- ' pairing its value asa history. Hia narrative style combines in @ singular degree the merits of clear- ness, animation and dramatic efect, although 1b 1a deficient in ease and simplicity. By dropping the pages and passages which he considers particu- | | larly fine the chief fauita of taste which disfigure | his volumes conid be made to disappear. Nothing | is easier than for hostile critics to make bis his- tory seem ridiculous by culling out and presenting | | together its bombastic fights, But to a continu- ous reader, who seeks oply information tn Mr. Hill School, whose site overlooks the picturesque | ions victories against mighty odds. No public ampton; @ young man of rare culture, Vari0US | ception of the hopelessness of tne British attempt accomplishments and high hopes, who, after an | to subdue us a8 Frederick the Great, The copious | interest requires the énfeebiement of Notwithstanding the general popularity of Mr. | favorable than is likely to recur in three centuries.” Bancroft’s history and the bigh rank accorded | In the same year, commenting on the military | given him rather rough handling, Alter the pub- . war with her colonies; then followed the illusion | Was assatied with great vigor and some acrimony | sand men; next the scattering of its diferent his accuracy ana fidelity. But previously to the | priges,1 | { | | | Mr. Washington’s Intellect made it di Meult for men of | rapid perception and fervid fertility of ideas to do him full justice. Frederick knew him only 98 a willtary commander, and in com- Parison with bis own brilliant campaigns, by which the art of war was advanced, those of Washington must have seemed to betoken & com- monplace order of generaisbip. The Fabian tac- | tes of the prodent American commander must | have seemed tame to the great captain who had | astonished and dazzled Europe by almost miracu- | man in Europ? had so early and intuitive @ per- | extracts from bis correspondence given in Mr. Bancroit’s third chapter are among the most in- teresting things in this volume, When, in 1777, he was trying to push France into the contest, Fred- erick wrote to his Ambassador at Parig:—~“‘Her first feebi ‘Great Britain, | nd the way to this is to make it lose its cvlonies in america, Her present opportunity is more favorable than ever before existed and more movements in America, Frederick saia:~“‘Kngland made originally an awkward mistake in going to of being able to subjugate them with seven thou corps, which has caused the failure of all its enter- There are scores of places in this volume in which new light is shed upon our contest tor inde. | pendence by the rare and curious materials which Bancroft has gathered in his European researches. He states that the best existing account of the proceedings of the Contt- | ental Congress, which sat with closed | doors, is icund im the despatches of | the French agents, who found meaus of gaining | the confidence of members and sent home to thetr government an exact recital of every important thing that ocourred, In discussing the motives | which impelled England to commence, and France | and Spatn afterward to participate in the war, | Mr. Bancroft is agreeably full and instructive. | His first chapter, especially, in which he deals | with the causes which jeu Great Britain into her great mistake, is one of Mr. Bancyoit’s best titles to the character of a philosophical historian, He Bancroft’s pages, these excrescences seem tore. | Maintains that the American war was a natural | Meve bis narrative. or, at least, may be easily | skipped by readers whose taste they oftena, We | established by the Revolution of 1688, and cou- ' one of $600 for the best work on the stoic philoso- have a sincere respect for some of his critics; bug | S*med by again changing the succession In | phy. their efforts remind us of Swift's satir cal repre- | sentation that the primitive critics “wea race | Cess'al of men who delighted to nibpie ut the super- fluities and excrescences of books; which the learned at length observing took warn- | ing of their own accord to lop the | | luxuriant, the rotten, the dead, the sapless and the overgrown branches from their works.”? Swiit carries out his witty malice against the art of pruning their vines by noticing that tnrove the better and bore fairer fruit.” Unior- tunately Mr. Bancroft hag never fully learned this use/ul tesson; but his last volume has fewer of his To mention one example out of a multitude, authorship of particular papers in the Federalist; but it would be aosurd for the successors of either to inculpate a historian because his narra‘ive could not be reconciled with records which are incon- sistent with each other. After due allowance is made for Mr. Bancroit’s contestable merit of naving given infinitely more history than any other man who has yet lived. He is the only writer who has industriously explored exception, in favor of Sparks, all the writers of our from American journals, Irving, in his “Life of little else than Washington’s writings and the Hildreth’s aseful work rests entirely upon Amer- ican documents and authorities, Mr. Bancro/t’s fruittal mquiries have taken a far wider range. He has delved tn search of materials in all the archives of Europe, and has had access to the cor- Tespongence and private papers of the statesmen who took an interest in American affairs or acted a part in relation to them during the period of our Revolution. The State paper offices of all the governments of Europe have been freely thrown open either to him airectly or to diplo- matic friends who have assisted him in his re- searches. In the richness of his materials Mr. Bancroft 1s unrivalled, and cheap sneers at the occasional grandiloquence of his style cannot depose him irom the position of supremacy which he holds in public estimation asthe most fully in- formed man of our time in all matters connected with the rise of our Republic. Mr. Bancroit does notin the least resemble pretenders who write never travelled. The diligent, exhaustive re- rearch in which Mr. Bancroft has neither equal nor second in the department of American history is the highest claim to attention which a writer of our annals can offer. And, besides, he’ is a Picturesque, interesting narrator, and he has tried, mot without success, to trace the causes of great events and place them in philosophical sequence. Some of his Worst faults of taste are indeed committed in con- nection with thts part of his work, agif, in a vain struggle to grasp conceptions which were a littie into that region of wide survey to which the eagle rises by strength of wing. mounts in his most swelling oalloon Mr. Bancroft seldom falis to take im something of the broad landscape spread out below. The present volume, which ends with the treaty | of peace by which American independence was secured, begins with the state of our affairs im- mediately after the alliance with France m 1778 In the last paragraph of his preceding volome Mr. Bancroft said:—*So the flags of France and the United States went together into the feld against Great Britain.” From that period the American struggle became a leading topic of European politics, and through- out the present. wofume important light 19 thrown upon the @r by Mr. Bancro/t's extousive European researdhies. From that time forward the public heart of every leading country palpt- tated in sympathy or opposition. Foglend soon found hereelf at war not only with America and Franoe, bat with Spain, with Holland, and with the sentiments and good wishes, though not with the armies, of Prussia and Russia. The great Frederick of Prusata, though lending no open as- sistance, had done allin his power to encoarage France to teke up our cause, and from the un- published correspondence between him aad his Ministera at foreign courte Mr. Bancroft has de- rived a rich fand of interesting materials. He finds one stngularity in Fredertok's correspond- ence which gives him more surprige than seems quite warranted. ‘‘1sought for seme expression,’ he gays, “on the partof Frederick of a personal interest in Washington; but I found, none,” Washington was too staid a character to excite the admiration of impetuous men of genius, Even ourown Hamilton undervalued him, as Mr. Bancroft is compelled to state. Speak- ing of Hamtiton in this volume, Mr. Bancrott says :—‘'The years of his life which were most pro- ductive of good were those in which he acted with Washington, who was the head, the leader and the guide of a nation ina manner which he was not only incapabte of, but could never even fully com- prehend. While the weightiest testimony that has ever been borne to the ability of Hamilton is by Washington, there never fell from Hamiiton’s pen during the iifetime of the iatter one line which adequately expressed the character of Washington.” John Adams, who also knew Wash- ington well, always considered him an inferior man to himself, The nninventive slowness of papers of Hamilton and Madison respecting the | | Proached,-to’vonfine our boundaries so as not to | | Washington,” has covered a great part of Mr. | A Bancroft’s ground, but his materials consisted of | 8ert:— American archives, a8 he states in his preface. | descriptions of countries in which they have | beyond him, he songht to lift himself by a balloon | But even when he | outgrowth of the supremacy of Parliament. first favor of the house of Hanover. By its suc- resistance to regal tyranny Parlia- ment won the support of the peopie and then took advantage of their confidence NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, | tional Scientific Series during the coming season the most thrilfng character. It embraces the period when the articles of Confederation were adopted, and exhibits the depiorabie defects of that imbecile arrangement. It exposes the mis- chiefs and iniquities of the Continental and other Paper money. it gives the history of the new | State constitutions formed after the dissolution of the colonial tie, It traces the true genesis of the Jealous State rights ieeling aud shows that it did not result from the instituuon of siavery, but from the principles of human nature, It throws Much new light on the negotiations for peace. | “With regard to the peace,” saye Mr. Bancro‘t in | his preface “‘netween the United States and Eng- | land, Icthink I might say that my materials io | their completeness are unique.” | The public will take leave of Mr. Bancroft with sincere regret that his long literary labors are enaed. No other writer of our history nas ap- Proached him in extent of regearcn and iuiness Of investigation, and, in spite of the glitter of false ornament, to which he is too much addicted, hig Yoluminous work 1s, a8 a whole, exceedingly | pleasant and readable. We fear a long period wilt elapse before a successor arises who will devote &s much jabor, as much love and pride of cour: | try, a@ much enthusiasm and such ripe and varied | literary attainments to a similar work. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Tae volumes to be published in the Interna- will be Professor Marcy’s ‘Animal Mechaniam;” | Dr. H. Vogel on the ‘Chemistry of Light and Pho- | tography,” which will be profusely illtstrated; | Professor Uscar Schmidt on the “Doctrine of De- scent and Darwinism;” Professor Lommel! on | “Optics,"' and Dr. Van Beneden on ‘Parasites in | the Animal Kingdom,” AmMonG Longman’s forthcoming publications are | “A Journey up the Nile,” by Miss Amelia B, Ed. | wards and an account of Isaac Casaubon, by the | Rey. Mark Pattison, rector of Lincoln Coliege, Oxford, MR. J. E. BalLey’s “Life of Thomas Fuller’ dif. | fers from its predecessors, in betng tor the most | part autoviographic, Copious extracts are given | from some of Fuller’s less known or untque pro- | auctions; anda some of his scarcest works and | Various literary raities, witb which he is con- nected, are given verdatim. ‘THR French Academy offers a prize of $500 for the best work on metaphysics ag a science, and | THE most elaborate musical biography ever written will be Mr. A. W. Thayer’s “Life ot Beet- hoven,” in four volumes. Two volumes have al- | ready appeared tn the German language at Berlin, 5 ee | GRAND SCULLING CONTE | John A. Bighin, of New York, vs. James A. Ten Eyck, of Peekskill. | The State Championship and $1,000. Biglin the Winner—Three Miles in Lumpy Water in 23 Minutes. Nyack, N. Y., Oct. 9, 187% After two days of weary waiting, the first of | which brougbt together at thw lovely village | Many of the prominent boating men of the coune tury, the race Of three miles—one and a half and return—between those professional acullers Joba A. Bigiin, of New York. and James a. Ten EycX, of Peekskill, for $1,000 and the State champiou- ship, Was decided this morning at an early hour, on the Hudson, resulting in a victory for Biglin, a termination not unlooked for by the better posted oarsmen, The settlement of this question bia been anxiously looked forward to by ail of the aquatic-loving community in the country, inasmuch as the friends of Ten Eyck, viewing tit sche coming man, were loud in their praises that he could pat any man in New York State astern of him in such & contest as that just de- cided, these speeches of boastiulness being parti- cularly marked from the time that James defeated Scharf last Jone. Since this morning they may have changed their opiniop, and yet the loser shouid not suffer thereby, as he i¢ @ capital young oarsman, THE PRINCIPALS, Jonn A. Biglin was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1844, and therefore will soon be thirty-one years uld. His height, without Shoes, 1s five feet nine and three-quarter inches, and this morning he scaled 164 pounds, which is one pound more than he weighed when he veat Ellis Ward two years ago at this place. James A. Tem Eyck is a native of this State, hav~ ing been boro at Tompkins Cove, on the Hudson, October 16, 1851, being therefore within a week of his twenty-fourth birthday. He did his training at Peekskill, and came tothe post weighing 139 pounds, feeling well and looking grandly, his boy~ ish ace glowing with the hue of perfect health. AT THE STARTING POINT, Notwithstanding the postponements of Wednes- to undermine thelr liberties. The narrowness of put the English version (though the author is an , day and yesterday, caused by the rough water, the representation made Parliament the instru- | ment of the aristocracy, and as the people felt no Jove Jor their foreign Kings they had no rallying | point for creating a counterpotse to aristocratic the critics by observing that the ancients “learned | *4Premacy. One of the first evil fruits of Pariia- | mentary arrogance was the oppression of Ireland, when an ass had browsed upon one of them it | and then iollowed the attempt to crush freedom in the colonies, The American war was, there- | fore, as Mr. Bancroft holds, also @ war against the American) will not appear untii the completion of the work in German, A COLLECTION of legends illustrating the history | those strangers that remained over at Nyack, together with hundreds of the inhabjtants, wended their way to the river, filling tae steamboat dock, of old Louisiana are in progress, under the hand | of Mra. Maria Bushnell Williams, of Opelousas, a | lazy whom Misa Raymond, in her critical biog- Taphies of “Southland Writers,” describes as the most learned woman in America. | Lawyers will be glad to know that Mr. Justice surrounding Haines’ boathouse, where Biglin’s shell was stowed, and every other available resting | place that afforded an opportunity to see the start, | Phe neavy, fying scud that darkened the sky on the | preceding days had vanished, and the clear, blue | dome of heaven was visible. Old Sol, who had rights of theEnghish people, and British liberty a3 | miller, of the; United States Supreime Court, isen- | 5° long Rid hus face behind the hills, blazed | developed by Mr. Bancroft. | The diplomstic intrigues of Spain, as peace ap- endanger her posséssions on the Mississippi form | the subject of a curious and interesting chapter, Spain desired that the ridge of the Alleghanies should form our western limit, and insisted that, | Nterary foibles, there must remain to him the in- | ®t #ll events, tt should not extend to the Missis- sippt, “From the grandeur of destiny foretold by time and research to the sources of American | tH Possession of that river,” says Mr. Bancroit, | “and the lands drained by its waters, the bour- | bons of Spain, hoping to act in concert witn every accessible fleld of information. With aslignt | Great Britain as well at France, would have ex- cluded the United States totaliy and forever.” In annais have drawn their information almoat solely | @¢8¢ribing that great water way as @ bond of the | American Union Mr. Baucroit gives « cbaracter- | istic specimen of nis eloquence which we wili here The Misstssippt River ts the guardian and the Pledge o1 the union of the States of America. Had they been confined to the eastern slope of the Al- leghanies there would have been no Reographical unity between them, and the thread of connection between lands that merely iringed the Atlantic must soon have been sundered. The Father of Rivers gathers his waters from all the clouds that break between the Alleghantes and the farthest ranges of the Rocky Mountains. The ridges of the eastern chain bow their heads at the norih and at the south, so that long belore science be- came the companion of man nature herselt pointed out to the barbarous races how short port- | ages join his tributary rivers to those of the Atian- tic coast. At the otter side his mightiest arm in- terlocks with the arms of the Oregon and the Colo- rado, and be the coniormation ol! the earth it- sell, marshals hignways to thre Pacific. From his remotest springs he refuses to suffer his waters to be divided; butas he bears them all to tne bosom of the ocean the myriads of fags that wave above huis head are ail the ensigns of one people. States larger than Kingdoms flourish | Where he passes; and beneath his steps cities start | into belng more marvellous in their reality than | fabled creations o! enchantment. His magnificent valley, lying in the best part of the temperate zone, saludrious, wonderfully fertile, is the chosen muster ground of the most various elements of human culture brought together by men, sum- moned irom af the civilizea nations of the earth, and joined in the bonds of common cittsensbip. by the strong, invisible attraction of republican free- dom, Now that science has come to be the house- hold friend of trade and commerce and travel, and that nature has lent to wealth and intellect her constant jorces, the hills, once walla of utviston, are scaled or pierced or levelled; and the two oceans, between which the Republic has unassalia- bly intrenched itself against the outward worid, are bound together across the Continent by friendly links of iron. To @ severe taste there may, perhaps, seem a | tinge of literary affectation in this, but it never- theless embodies a majestic conception im- pressively amplified and developed. It is the | Most ambitious paseage in the volume, and the thought 18 important enough to supporta good | deal of embellishment. In recounting the mulitary } events of this period, Mr. Bancroft makes no strained attempts at fine writing, and his narra- tive is always perspicuonus and interesting. There | 1s occasionally & summing up, Which is a model of rigorous Conciseness, The last specimen is this severe but admirable review of the military career of General Howe in America:— Brave and an adept in military science, Howe had failed im the conduct of the war trom sluggish | dilatoriness, want of earnest enterprise and love of the pleasures which excite a coarse nature. On near Bunker Hill he had sufficient troops to have turned the position of the Ameri- cans; but hé delayed just long enough for them to | prepare tor attack. He was driven out of ton from bis most unmilitary neglect to oc cupy Dorcheater’ Heights, which. Overlook the town. He took his troops in mid-winter to the bleak, remote and then scarcely inhaoited Hall- fax, instead of ing vo Rhode Isiaad, or some convenient nook on Long Isiand within ibe Sound, where he would have found a milder olimate, greater resources and nearness to the acene of nis next cam; . In the summer of 1776, marohing by it to sttack General Put- nam in his lines at n, he loat the best chance for success wy, haiting bis men for rest and akiagt. en bis officers still re- ported to him that they could easily storm the American intrenchments he for- bade them to make the attempt. His want of vigtlance was so great that he let Washington pass day in collecting boats and a pint and morning in reétresting across an arm’Sf the sea, and knew not what was done till he was aroused from his slumber after sunrise, When with his undivided force he might have reached Philadelphia, he de- tached four bi and eleven ships-ol-war to Khode Isiand, where the troops remained for three years in idle uselessness. Failing to cross the De! ire, he occupied New Jersey with 1s0- lated d&¥achments which Washington was able to cat to pieces in detail, In 1777, instead of an earl: al ctive campai he It in New Yor tll midsummer, and then neglected to make a con- nection with yne. He passed the winter in Philadeipbia without one tempting to break up the American camp at ley rge, corrupting his own army by hig e: ple of licentiousness | and teaching the young oficers how to ruin. them- | seives by gaming. Tne manner in which he threw up his command was & defiance of his government and an open declaration to all Europe that the attempt of England to reduce its colonies must certainly fatl. This closing volume of Mr. Bancroft is the most instructive of the sertes. some of the preceding may perhaps have more military interest, but this volume touches on many great political subjects and diplomatic movements of the deepeat conse- quence. Some of its half military episodes, like rook ristic superfine pagsage | Well as American Was staked in our contest. If gaged in editing a digest of the reports of the Su | cnereaseriath Fahey eee Se en | Parliament had succeeded in maintatning the om- | preme Court from the eighteenth Howard to the | wind had veered pruning hook has not left less for the critics to | Bipotence it asserted over the colonies, English | eighteentn Wallace, or from 1855, where Curtis? | browse upon. Mr. Bancroft’s accuracy has been | Teedom would have fallen in their subjugation. | digest closes, to the present date. The first vol- impugned only by.the possessors of family papers; | “08 upea our sticcess efforts began to be made | ume will soon be ready. | but such documents are. not always trustworthy. | jor Parliamentary reform,‘and the partial eman- there | cipation of Ireland was’ another direct conse- are remarkable discrepancies between the private | (ence. This train of sequences 1s very clearly SEY MATTERS, “The Hunter's Home.” T. L, Smith has on exhibition at Goupil’s Gallery one of his charming moonlight pictures represent- ing the lonely home of a hanter on the shore ofa | jake, The picture is rather a lake study by moon- | ges | ight than properly @ study of @ nunter’s home, | upper stakeboat, Charlies Ward; for, indeed, all we see of the latter is a little log | cabin with a Mood of light streaming through the windows overlooking the water. There isan ex- | tremely poetic feeling in the sense of utter lone- linesa, which the artist manages to convey by contrasting the brightness of the rade hearth with | the sombre tints of the woods and the ghostly \ grays of the Jar off seen hills and skies. The | farthest hills are, to onr seeming, slightly | too pronounced, and do not fade away | im the shadowy night, as in nature they would | do; but the artist has managed to tnrow round a thoroughly American sudject the same exquisite sense of romance with which he has hitherto in- | vested roined casties and baronial chateaux. We | are glad of it, for there isas mucn try in the | mysticism of our woods and the wil | our lakes ascan be evoked from the ivy clad ruins | of Europe tf only sympathetic spirits wil seek it out. This last work of Mr. Smith is acreditable contribution to American art. The National Academy of Design. Design are again open to pupils under the excel- lent direction of Professor Wilmarth, who has con- ducted the classes lor the last few years with most satisfactory result. LOED BIPON'S OATHOLIO ASSOCIATES. {London (Sept. 24) correspondence of Liverpool Mercury.) While Lord Ripon does not forget his old friends of the Protestant faith, like Lord Aberdare and Lord Wolverton—the Mr. Bruce and Mr. Glyn of eighteen months ago—he is gathering around him acquaintances who hold his new faith. Among the party now staying at Studley Royal are Sir Charles Douglas and Mr. Doyle. Sir Charles, who 1s @ natural son of @ brother of a former Lord Hardwicke, was private secretary to Lord Ripon’s tary. He was for fifteen years member of Pariia- ment for Warwick, and. aiterwards repre- sented Bano for a few months. W } in Parliament he was an sdvanced Iiberal, | and was one of the foremost antagonists of church rates. But he changed his faith and joined the Roman vharch. Mr, R, Doyle, an- other of the Marquis’ guests, is, I presume, the ‘well known artist who used to sign his caricatures | “a. B.,”? and for several years contributed the | best of the cartoons to Punch, put left the staff of that paper about twenty-five years ago because he, ; being a Roman Catholic, could not remain con- ected with @ journal which at that time—tne | period of the bal aggression—was constantly | deriding his Church. By this step he surrenderea considerable income. Subsequently he illustrated “fhe Newcomes” and the fourne of “Brown, Jones and Robinson.” Another of Lord Ripon’s | ests is Lady Rose Weigail, wno, thongh the laughter of an earl, married a portrait painter. | She contributed some months ago an article to the ! rterly Review on the Princess Cuarlotte, aud foay ‘Rose has since then expanded the article into @ volume. “HONESTY IN HORSE FBED." New York, Oct. 8, 1874, To THE Eprrok OF THE HERALD:— A8@ consumer Iwas much pleased with amar. | ticle on the 6th inst in your paper under the above head, The facts you thereim stated in re- gard to the wood on bale hay, although new to | THE LABOR LEAGUE IN BUROPE, Secession from the Ranks ef the Inter- tional. A letter from Geneva ip the Paris Dedats of Sep- tember 23 gives an account of a Workmen's League, which has been formed by seceders from the International. The new society afirms that the International has made a mistake in aiming at the destruction of modern society and the crea- tion of a new political and economical organiza- tion, The object, it contends, should be the eman- cipation of the working class, and gradual progress must be counted upon. To effect their emancipa- tion they mast agitate for universal suffrage in countries where it does not already exist, ana where it exists they must direct legisiation and government to liberty and equaltty, the develop. ment and production and the general welfare. Workmen must also combine 60 a8 to be able to treat with em Each trade, it 18 suggest jocal anion, which should be aMiitated to a higher union of the same trade, and an Internationa! congress should be heid yearly, co of delegates of the inter. national corporations and of the National untons, ‘The societies are to teach other in all econ. omical disputes, promote an equal distribution of labor by means of ¢ in, and secare an international standard of wages as the y the capture and execution of Major André. are of grandeur of | The drawing classes of the National academy of | father when that nobleman was Colonial Secre- | | bright and warm on the scene, and the to sou’-sou’-west. There was but little betting, as the friends of Ten | Eyck asked euch long odiia ihat those disposed to | rigk their money on Bigiin turned ovey in Sie gust. As there wan no tugboat ou hand to take’ the referee over the course the Tap; Zee Boat Ciub lvaned bim their Jour. aig, George Wasp! yn, aDd a crew being made up, of which Frank belli was stroke, Commodore Vorhis thus lollowed the rowers. At the same time the re- | porters were kindly cared for in this particular by aptain Charles Haines, of the above club, form- | ing acrew for their eight- a stroke himself, enabii entire race, The jud t lower, Tom Ferris; for Ten, Bick Oppen stakeboat, James Ten Eyck; jower, James Sarles. THE COURSB ‘was from the stakeboats moored of the steambo: dock near Haines’ boathouse, ome mile and a |The men. were ordered to their | twenty minutes past nine o'clock, and at this time the scene was very animated. Fra betore this tossed with Ten Eyck’s : tions, and Bell winning, selected the inside for | Baglin, next the dock. | THE SHELLS | in which they sat are as ioltows :=. James W. Booth, rowed by Jonn A. Bighn, of | New York; material, Spanish cedar; length, 30 feet 6 inches; beam, ll} inches; depth, 6 inches; | weighs, 32 1bs.; Sliding seat; bulider, Charlies B. Biliott, Greenpoint, L. 1; Donoghue's scuils, 10 | Jeet long; weight. 73 lbs. Colors, blue and white, Jennie Wines, rowed by James A. Ten Eyck, of Peekskill, N. Y.; Material, Spanish cedar; length, 80 feet; beam, 1035 inches; depth, 5 inches; weight, | 83 lbs.; sliding seat; bulider, Thomas 'Fearon, Yonkers, N. Y.; Donoghue’s sculls, 10 feet long; weight, 73¢ lbs. Colors, red, white and blue, THE RACK. It was the last of the Nood, and the water was still somewhat fumpy, but yet suficiently smootn | to start the shells. e eyes of the multitude were | bares fixed upon the rowers as they silently | workea their tiny craft Into position, aod when Commodore Voornis stood up in the gig togive them the word there was almost an unbroken si- lence. ‘There was but & moment to wait, as at 9b. 27m. 478. the order to be away was given, bo! catching the water bean- tuully together. Now the brazen throats of the masculines were opened to the widest exten: and successive shouts of encouragement cheere | the rowers on. Ten Eyck after the firststroke or | two drew alittle ani of John, as the latter fora second did not putin power on his sculls, as he thought a boat haa rowed [n his way, but Anan himself mistaken he hit them up to the ume o. 86 to the minute, and 200 yards away the en Eyck pulling scullers were on even terms. about 87. In this manner and with grace. ful and effective strokes the sheile glided | swiltly down the stream, nose and nose, until a | quarter of a mile away when Bigtin commenced to | shore the bow of the Booth tn advance, and the | race promised to be a tremendous one in earnest. | John never stopped his forging business until he | was half s length im advance, and as the white church on the hill was shot by both were crack! their shells 34 to the minute. Biglin’s stroke proved more effective than that of his an- tagonist, Inasmuch as John’s shell went throug! | the water fuster, although Jimmy wrenched {ij sculls through, in and out, witha vim and deter- mination that entitied bim to commendation. Hal wig comm. the course, passing the Zee House, Jimmy reduced Biglin’s lead somewhat, but Not soMiciently to prevent the latter from reaching his stake first, John rounding the boat in just 12m- 13a, from the start, six seconds in advance of ditamy. Both made admirabie turns, and soon straightening up they taxed their mascular pow- ers to the utmost, and with tide und wind in their favor the keen edged boats almost flew through the water. Biglin was doing nd work now, and on reaching the Tappan House he had opened a gap of two and a half lengths, which he maintained, despite the exertions of the little man behind him. Those that could see the struggle were now. certain that despite an accident Biglin could not lose, as Ten Eyck hete fell in be- hina Jono, mess, bia wash, and gi’ the latter an opportunity of governing himsel! by are work. Bigifl was now pulling 3 aud LJ Eyck 36 to the minute. Thus they kept until within @ quarter of a mile of tne finis! when Ten Eyck pulled out from Biglin’s wash, aud hitting the Jcastaante ‘with a vicious stroke, ry ore tae on tried to reach ahead m him, ut the veteran wae ready, and, responding to the e: ‘Of the occasion, te Booth went xigencies humming up to the score and over It one length in Such @ manper tat a8 the consumer, were well knows to the trade. 1 | front, in he swept by the Would now call your sttention to a fact in regard | oaetebehiets natEcane of cheers areered tin an toloose hay. ip nine cases out oi ten a of | of his victory. Ten rowed a game hay, if welglied correctly, will fail suort 800 to 800 | Pace, auld; thougin loser, need not be ashamed of pounds ss compered with the ticket weight. | nis day's work. Time, #8 minutes, sometimes the weight of the wagon is invoived in SUMMARY. ticket weight. Let the consumer look to ta: Nyaox, N. Y., Oct. 9, Tere-soatting match for case reweigh the hay. Itis not my 1,000 and the State championship; Course on the te how this error occurs. It is saMicient ‘adson River, three amonennees stakeboars pi consumer ou his glard and tell chored of the steamboat dook down stream. how to protect himself. FAIR WEIGHTS, les to stakeboate and retu: an one anda balf mii rn. Weather clear and moderately j_ wind fresh, from south-southwest; water . Relere starter and stakenoiaer, Williaa Voorbis. Jom A. i New York... James A. ‘ok, Of Peekskill Time, 23 minutes, BOAT RAOR POSTPONED, Boston, Oct. 9, 1874, The boat race between Butler and Plaisted is again postponed, AUSTRO-BUSS{AN ENTENTE, (From the Brusseis Nord, sept. 24.) The Cabinet of Vie: neglects no opportunity of dtawing closer the bonds woich antte the courts of Austria and Russia, The seventh Regi ment of Austrian Chiang, which had for honorary Volone} the Emperor or Russia, has just sent ade tation to St. Pet to oaspliass at His Mas jesty on the twenty-Aftn anniversary of bis ap- pommtment to that di ity. At vie banqnet given to the delegates by the Czar and the Grand Dukes who have a mili: ie His Majesty drank to we health of ns Iriend, the Emperor Francls ti news Of thts toast,’ s: the Tages Press, of Vienna, ‘has caused great throughout Aum of the present cauality in the price of provisions, tria,”