The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1875, Page 3

—_——— SORE “JON QUINCY A. |e oii The Diary of the Sixth President of the United States. THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING a How Gnr Fathers Dreaded European smbi- tion in America. vat her elie aire SE FEARS OF THE HOLY ALLIANCE. How Russia Wanted Califor- nia and France Mexico. How the Bourbons Desired a Maximilian. —+——— Joumalism and Politics During the Era of Good Feeling. THE EDITORS OF FIFTY YEARS AGO, Memoirs of JOAN QUINCY ADAMS, COMPRISING PORTIONS OF His Diary FROM 1795 TO 1848, hd~ itea by vho Francie Adams, Vol, Viv J. Be Lippincott & Co. 1875, “Reading further,” says Mr. Adams, ‘in ‘Wal- pole’s Memoirs, or Secret History of the Briti#h Administration from 1750 to 1760,’ 1 find in them many things that remind me of the present state | of things here. The public history of all coustries and all ages 1s but asort of mask richly colored. ‘The interior working of the machinery must be foul, There is a8 much mining and countermin- ing for power; a8 many Nuctuations of friendship | and enmity; as many attractions and repuisious, bargains and oppositions narrated in these me- moirs as might be told of our own times. Walpole ‘witnessed it all as a siarer in the sport, and now telis it to the world asa satirist. And shall not I, too, have a tale to tell |? This quotation from the sixth volume of Mr. Adams’ extremely iuteresitog memoirs, which now lies before us fresh irom the press of Messrs. Lippincott & Co., Increases in interest, although it does not in any re- spect rival the instructive and brilliant memoirs ofthe Walpole time. Tne present volume begins with June 2, 1822, Mr. Adams was in the fifen | year of his service a3 Secretary 01 State to James Monroe, in the second term of his Presidency. At concludes on the 4th of May, 1825, a littie more than three months aiter his own accession to the Presidency. it covers one of the most interesting Periods in American tistory, a period that cannot be too carefully studied by those who desire to trace to the root the source Of our preseut politi- eal partics, of the issues that daring the inter- vening filty years have revolutionized the country, ulmost rending it to its foundauons. There isa certain reserve about Mr. Adams which takes from the book the interest that we find in me- moire like those of Walpole and Hervey, and Pepys and Eveiyn and Greville. He never descends into scandal writing or mere story telling. [1 1% varely that he gives expression to an opinion derogatory to those with whom he served. | Js will be our purpose, in foliowing Mr. Adam.’ | book, not so much to dwell upon the issuce and | problems he discusses, aud wolcll have frequently a new meaning, but to gather trom these pages some scattered data that may be interesting to | our readers in illuminating one of the most dra- matic periods of American history. ENGLAND AND THK HOLY ALLIANCE. In 1822, ween Mr. Adams was Secretary of Btate, George Canning was about entering the Foreign Office to begin his celebrated contest witn the Holy Alliance, which ended in the recoguition of the independence of the States of Sout Ame tea, justifying him in his fameus boast that ne had calied a new power into life im the New World to maintain the baiance of power in the old. France was under the rule of the dying Louls XVII, who was soon to give way toCharies X, Russia was g@overned by Alexander, Emperor of all the H Russias, once tue rival of Napoleon, now reaching the close of his romantic apd extrvordinary career, whose ambition was to realize in ie New World plans as gigantic as those which | he failed to attain im the old. It is avout this time that we had the beginning of the “Mourve doc- trine,” which alterwaru was to become a part of our diplomatic common jaw. Stratiord Canning was the Minister at Washington, the same whois | now Lord Stratiora de Redclifie. fe was then the bustling, eager, young diplomatist, tn the bogiu- Bing Of a celebrated carecr, who was to be famous wuirty years later as Kinglake’s “great Elieh),” with the a-blue eyes,” who Grove England into ‘the war against Russia, whica ended in the Jail of debastopol. THE CANNING POLICY, ‘The Orst glimpse we have of the brilliant poiloy | of George Canning was in 3823. The Spanish coiv- | nics Of South America had been for some time en- | gaged in revolt. Spain was avout tosiog her boll upon ber old possessions in Peru and Unlii and Mexico. The, Holy Alliance, fresh from tue con- Aict with Napoleon ana under the stimulus of the restless genius of Russian Alexander, was disposed ww interiere forcibly between the colonies and the mother country tor | the purpose of stifling tueir all-won i dependence. Canning, who in (this matter oppored the Moly Alliance was anxious to sec the co-operation of the United States. “fhe o ject of Canning,” says Mr, Adains, “appears to Bave beer to ovlain some public pledge from the government of the United States, ostensi*iy against the fercibio imterference of te Holy Alliance betweea Spain and South America, but really or especially against the acqnistiion to the United States themseives of any part of the Span- | isb-American possessions.” In other words, Mr. Adams understood the g:al of Uanning to ve not #0 INUCh AN Attempt to limit the claim of the Hoy Alliance to be the arbitrators of European civi- zation as to prevent America from acquiring Cuba or Texas or Valiforn a. We quest!on whether history will justify tats suspicion on the part of Mr. Adams, but it is interesting to observe how Geeply it Was engraved upon bis mind. CALHOUN’S DIPLOMACY. Calhoun, the Secretary of War, was willing to consent to the wishes or the Engiizn goverament and to join in the declaration against tne Hoy Alhance, “even if it should pledge us not to take Cuba or the Province of Texas.” Calhoun was then a young man of forty-three, timpa- tient, ambitious, with an opinion upon every subject and not governed by the | colder intellect and wider expericnes of the See- retary of State. Mr. Adams declined to assent to the views of the Pritish, because, as he said, “without entering now into the inquiry of the expediency of our annexing Cuba or Texas to our | Union, we should at least keep ourselves free to | uct a8 emergencies may arise, and not tie our- felvos down to any principle which might imme- | diately afterward be brougat to bear against our- | i] | | selves.” ‘This contains the germ of what atter- ward grew into the Monroe doctrine, It is curious 10 observe that Caluonn, afterward tne leader of the great slavery party, who achieved the annex- ation of Texas and aimed at the occupation of | Ouoa, should be willing nere to abandon boti Texas and Cubs to tne pretensions of Great Brit- ain, Whi.e Adams, who was to become the furious aud eloquent antagonist of the annexation of Texas and the leader of the anti-slavery party in the Novih, should insist opon the right of the | United states to vecome at some future time mas: | ‘ers of Texus ond Cuba. The #ubect was ‘0 Wmuertgnt that President Moerug gd | | edgment of the independence of Greece. | pled wway by | Annexation. NEW YURKK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET and ex-Prosident Madison, then living in retire- high stations of government, asking for their opinion, Jefersen’s reply shows that he was still under the influence of the teachings of the Frencn Revolution, for on the 16th of November, 1822, Mr. Adams Bay: “Mr. Jedercon thinks, then, the proposals of Canning more important than any- thing that has happened since our Revolution, He 1s for acceding to the proposals witn a view to pledging Great Britain againes the Holy Alliance, though he thinks the island of Cuba would be a valuable and important acquisition to our Union, Mr. Madison’s opinions are less de- cisively pronounced, but he think 6 1 a0, that this moveinent on the part of Great Britaio is tm- pelled more by her interest than by @ principle of gepera! liberty.” FRARS OF THE HOLY aLLIaNce, The President was “‘disheartened” over South American affairs. Calhoun had eo little eonf- dente in these Spanish colonies that he thougnt the Holy Allies, wit 10,000 men, could restore alt Mexico and all South America to the Spanish dominion. Mr. Richard Rush, the Mivister at the Court, of St, James, was uisposed to doubt Can- ning’s sineerity and to entertain the views of tho Secfetary of State. Mr. Adams was resolute in his Doitef that the Holy Allies could under no cir- cumstances restore the power of Spain over her col 3% “Lno more belteve,” he writes, ‘that the Holy Allies wili restore the Spanish dominion upo® the American Continent than that the Chim- borago would sink into the ocean.’ The oppost- vion of Mr, Calhoun to his views evidently nettied for later om he’ makes this Cal- honm’s extravaganzas; he is for plunging into a war to prevent that whicn, if bis opinion,of it is correct, we re utterly unable to prevent.” The warm admiration entertained by Mr. Adams for Calhoun, as expressed. in the earner volumos of the diary, the conddential intimacy that existed between them, seems to Dave been chilied by tho rising of the Presidential storm. Monro® con- tinued “im an extraordinary degree of dejection,’’ ‘here must be something thet afflicts ulm be- sides the European news,” stys Mr. Adams, and ne doubt there was, forafew movths later we find Monroe bewailing the fact that he was about to leave the Presidency in poverty. RUSSIAN AMBITION, Russa was thinking of extending her territorial Aonsittons on this continent, and when the minis- ter of the Russian Emperor intimated the imperial intentions on this subject we find this significant record:—*1 told bim especially that’ we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial es- tabhishment on this continent, ana that we should assume distinctly the principie that the American continents are no longe~ subjects for any new European colontal establishments.” This extract has a historic value as tie rat uint o/ that policy afverward known as the “MONKOB DOCTRINE.” Mr. Monroe intended in his message to the Cop- gress what assembied in 1823 to take high ground on foreign questions, to reprobate tne invasion of Spain by France, and to recommend the acknowl- Cal houn, still tu the “extravaganza” spirit, sup- ported these proposais. Mr. Adams argued that it woutd be a deflance of all Europe; that Spain, France, and even Russia, would cease intercourse with Awerica, and that there might even be war. The potiicians ap this time—the men who were to become renowned ay the statesmen and leaders of the young Kepuvlic—were mainly car- the impulses which governed Calhoun. The sympatutes of our fathers were aeeply impressed by this struggle of | Greece for independence. Liberal Bugiisnmen | ike Lord Srongham, and even those notespectally | liberal, like Lord Bia Were subscribing to aid the Greeks, Mr, Clay, the eloquent and popular | Jeader of the House, was imcessant In bis ceclara- tious about independence in South America and | in Greece. Lord Byron had drawn his sword in Pehaif of the glorious cause in which le was 80 | soon Yo die. Even aa shrewd and experienced statesman as Albert Gallatin, then in the sixty- second year of his age, @ foreigner by birth, and | experienced in fureign affuirs, Was not avove ad- | vising President Monroe to send two or three frigates to assist the Greeks in destroying the | Turkish fect and to give a subsidy of $2,000,000, “Mr. Gallatin,” says Mr. Adams, in a tone of quiet | | sature, “still bulids castles m whe air of popularity, | ) and veing wader no responsibility for the conse- quences, patronizes the Grock cause for the sake of ratsing bis own reputation. His meas. | ure will not succeed. Even if it should, all the barden and danger of w& will | bear, not upon him, but npon the administration, , and he will be the great champton of Grecian Itb- | erty. 1 is the part of Mr. Clay toward Sourh | America acted vyer again.’ The extent of this | fear on the partof Mr. Adams and 4ll, indeed, of the members of the Cabinet, of foreign inte: ence im América can hardly bo realized in this | generation. Mr. Wirt sustained Mr. Adams, and did not tink the noiy aliies would really invade South America and Mexico. It is certata that the counclis of the great Powers were animated by nigh amoitions in reference to this continent. Mr. Adams argued that if the allied Powers did suc- ceed in overcoming the revolution in Mexico and South America, tt would not be In the Inierest of Spain, but for their own Individual aggtandize- ment, “Russia,” ne says, “might take California, Peru, Chil; France, Mexico—where we know she | has been intrigoing to get a monarchy under a | prince of the House of Bourbon, as well as at Buenos Ayres; and Great Britain, as her last resort, if she could not resist tiis course | of things, Would tuke at leust the island of Cuba for her share of the scramble, Theu what would | be our situation—Engiand holding Cuba, France | Mexico?” This extract emarkanle as showing that even ander the reicu of Louls X\VIIL and the Bourbons France was endeavoring to carry ont the policy whitch Napoleon 80 disastvously at- | tempted when, forty years later, ae sent aa Aus- trian prince to be Emperor of Mexico, In the presence of this danger, which certainly was tm- Iminent cnoagh to ite the apprehension of Mr. | Monroe ana his Cabinet, the avowal of the ‘Mon- Toe doctrine” was an act of courageous statesman- ship, the true valae of which has never been prop- erly appreciated in the nistory of this couatry aud | the credit of which redounds more than ever to the fame and the foresight of John Quincy Adams, WHAT OO FATHERS THOUGUT OF CUBA, While dweiling apon this most interesting phase of tue early nistory of our foreign relarions, it is curtous to note the opinions entertained vy the leaders of the epudlic en the question of Cuban it Was as serious @ problem to Mr, Mooroe as it has Deen to Buchanan and Lincoin and Grant, Jn 1822 we find Mr. Calhonu express ing “a most ardeat desire that the istand of Cuba should become a part ot the United Staws.” In support of this desire Mr. Cainoun said that “defferson told him two years ago (in 1820) that Wo ongnt, at the first possible opportunity, to take Cuba, thongh i cost a war with England.” | Mr. Adams thonght that fora long time to come a war with Epgiaod jor Cuba would result in her ovenpation of island. He argued that the Telative situation of the maritime forces of the | two Powers made it impossible for Amertea go | maintain @ War with England, There was a rumor that England was iptriguing for the possession of | Unda, and that the French Minister, Tiyde be Neuville, kad informed Adams coufiventially tnat a British agent was “living at Havana in great splentor and with profuse expense.” These fears-of English interference continued. Calhoun was for war with England if sie meant to take Cuba. There was # taik of calling Congress together, “which,” says Mr. Adams, “I thought abvsurd.”—(Memorandum.) ‘To be cool on this sadject.” Tae question of the annexation and the possession of Cuba never assumed a prac: tical shape, There is oniy one conversation be- tween Mr. Adams and the British Minister on the subject, and this arose ont of a fear that France might claim Cuba asa colony. The English Minis- ter endeavored to obtain from the Americans “a premature commitment against any transfer of the island of Cuda to France, or the acquisition of it by ourselve: This commitment Mr. Adams would not make, but the British Minister deciared that “Certainly, in no event woald Great Britain Permit Cuba te herame a snlony of France.’ With | Svratiord Canning, cousin of the great Canning, | | Peaceful time wich began at the termination of | . that declaration the subject passes ont of thie bistory. GREEK INDEPENDENCE The disposition of Calhoun and Clay and Galla- tin to induce America to take part in foreign com- Plications found a becoming ilustration in en effort to induce Mr, Adams to snoseribe to tue Greek independence. A Dr, Thornton called upon nim with a book “to be deposited im the Con~ gressioval Library at the Capitol, to contain the subscriptions of all persons in the service of the United states at Washington for the Grecks, His | project was that every individaul sbould suo | scribe one day’s pay.’ Calhoun, the Secretary of War, and Southard, the Secretary of the Navy, ex- pressed their willingness to subscribe if the Presi- dent and Mr. Adams would. “I told bim,’ says Mr. Adams, “I should not subseribe for the Greeks nor advise the Presicent to aud serine, We had objects of distress to relieve &&§ home more than sumicient 10 absorb all my capucities of contributten, and a sueseription forthe Greeks would, in my view of things, be a breach of néutrality and therefore Improper.” Wuile they were discuss:ng the subject Thomas H. Benton introduced & Presbyterian clergyman who hada subscription book for building a church at St, Louis, Mr. Adams “subscribed for that instead of the Greeks,” LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFR, | Before passing from these chapters of Mr. | Adams’ diary it 1s interesting to note the im- Pression made upon our government by Sir and now living in extreme old age as Lord Strat- ford de Redcliffe, That gentleman was about closing his career in this country, from which he satled on June 17, 1824, to become minister irom England to St, Petersbarg, and afterward to fur- key, The retations between Canming and Adams were marked by an imperious and haughty spirit on the part of the Minister which was always resented by the Secretary. On June 29 Adams aflujes to an interview with Canning which “had 80 much the appearance of a trick that it heated me.” Canning evidently felt that it Was necessary te deal with the new Repuolic as he afterward dealt with the decrepid Turkisn Power. His interviews with whe Secretary were prolonged and generally angry in their tone. He feared that America meant to take Porto Rico, On 00@ occasion there were high words on the ac- count of Mr. Adams resenting Oanning’s intima- tion of ‘false impatations,” the tone 1n which he spoke was “passionate.” Hoe was ‘excessively | puuctilious upon every point of formality.” Ina jJater interview, says Mr. Adams, ‘‘this conversa- tion was altogether desuitory, excessively guarded, as usual, on his part, and somewhat provocative on mine; purposely, because nothing i8 40 be got from Canning but by provoking bim,”? They leit, however, on reasonably good terms, and on June the 27th, m noticing Canning’s re- Urement from Washington Mr, Adams sums up his character as foilows:—‘Mr. Canning 1s to de- part to-morrow. I shall propadly see him no more. He is a proud, high-tempered Englishman, of good but not extraordinary parts; stubborn and punc- thous, with a disposition to be overbearing, | which I have often been compelled to check in its | own way. He ts, alter all the foreign Ministers with whom J bave had occasion to treat, the man who has most severely tried my temper. Yet he has been longin the diplomatic career, and treated with governments of the most opposite charac- H ters. He has, however, a great respect for his | word, and there ts nothing false about him, ‘This- | 16 an excellent quality for a negotiator. Mr. Can ning 16 4 man of forms, studious of courtesy and tenacious of private morals. As @ aiplomatic | man his great want is suppleness and his yreat virtue is sincerity.” » | “THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING.” i ‘vhe period covered by this volume was the close | of what 1s known in onr history as “the era of | good feeling.” It was the close of that long and Jefferson’srule. Evidently Mr, Adams had antici- pated tne verdict of history upon the admiotstr: tion of Monroe, for we find a conversation | on the 22d of December, 1823. between | himeeif and the President, in which he ys, | speaking of Mr. Monroe's tenure of oMce, “It | would hereafter, 1 believe, be looked back to as the golden age of this Repupiic, and I felt an ex- treme solicizude that its end might correspond with the character of iis progress; that the aa- ministration might be delivered into the hand: of the successor, whoever he might be, in peace and amity with ail the world.” In this “era of good feeling” thero was as muco bitterness and intrigue and misundersianding and clashing of feverish ambition, as mach scandal and defama- | tion in the press as we have now. President | Grant has never coniplained as bitterly of hie treatment by hostile critics as Mr, Adams does | in these pages. 1¢ 19 @ Singular Llustration of the fact how the history of one generation becomes tinged with romance and adulation, and ihe gen- eros.ty which succeeds the subsidence of party Jeeling by the generation that comes after, As we , look inty the pages of Mr. Adams’ book and ob- serve, & new light lalis apon the men who are now | Jooked up to aa ibe iiustrious culels of @ golden FS OURNALISI IN THE ERA OF GOOD PEFLING ‘Was a power that inspired as much terror as the | journalism of our own time. Adams looked partly with contempt and partly with anger apon the press, We have the City Gazetle “under the management of clerks in tle Treasury,” tts editor, an Englishman, “having no character of his owa | pentrious and venal—metal to receive any stamp, and, in his treatment now of Crawford and me, looking Uke one of the Tower stamped dollars during the late war—with George IiL‘s head strack over that of Oharles [V., and not entircly effacing it.” There is no journal that has a prouder bistory than the oid National Inteiti- gencer, which for so many years was the Sir | Charles Grandison of American newspapers, Yet ‘we find the National In elligencer ‘in subjection to both Clay and Crawford,” by reason of the power | which Clay, as Speaker of the House, held over the pubiic printing, and which he used ‘both asa rod over tne heads and a sop for tne monttis of its edt- tors.” Calhoun was anxious to have an “inde- pendent newspaper.” Mr, Adams remarks :— “The editor who would establish such a journal in Washington must have # heart of oak, nerves of tron and @ soul of acamant to carry it through. His first attempt would bring a hornet’s nest about bis bead, and if they should not sting him to death or blindness he would have to puraue bis mareb with them continually swarming over him, aud beset on all stacs with slander and odloquy, and probably assassination.” The Richmond £n- | Guirer—Father Ritehie’s oid paper—also a celo- brated journal in its day, 1s “the very Mrs. Candor of newspapers, aijthoagh the or- gan of «a great and predomimating politi- cal party im Virgiula.” in another entry Adams complains of the National Advovate of New york, the Bo-tom Statesman and Portiand Argus and the democratic press of Puiladeipnia as con- trolled by “‘principics alike seifisa and sordid.” The City Gawtte is, on another oecasion, ‘ine famously sourrilons and abusive, not only of Mr. Cajhoun but of his mother-tn-law.” Again it prints “tnree columns of brevier type of the foulest | abuse.” There is a picture of an editor named Joun B, Colvin, ‘a base and despleable character,’ who “attempted to jawn bimseif into my tavor by eulogizing me in the newspapers.” This editor Mr, Adams appointed to ois department, but was compeiled to dismiss him for his intemperance, and the effect of bis attacks upon the writer are shown in this sentenc: Oman in America has maae his way through showers of ribaldry and invective of this character more frequentiy than 1 nave breasted it.’ Stilliater we nave Gales & Seaton, the time-honored editors of the Intelligencer, quietly dismissed in a sentence as “trim. mers for the printing of Congress.” Al private secretary of Mr, Monroe on another Occasion speaks to Mr. Adams “in terms of great severity of Ritchie, the editor of the Rich- mond £nquirer, and said he was the most unprinci- pled feliow upon earth.” We find the Boston Galaxy Wescrived as ‘a paper for years advertised for sale to the highest bidder of the Presidential | candidates.” ‘The National Intelligencer gave so Much dissatisiaction that tt Was proposed to es- tablish @ new jonrnal, The attempt to rival the Intelligencer bad not succeeded, the journal which Was t do this work being the old Wasningva | | Charlie Green Second, Saree lengths in front of | haa been sacrificea on some one of tne Fallroads | ranome into Jersey Uity, but chiedy on the renn- | in Jorsey City. Republican. “1 said,” writes Mr. Adams, “ Washington Republican was & partisan pepe! which has never paid tts expen could not, in my opinion, survive the present year, baving the irredeemable defect of being edited by an Englishman not yet naturalized.” In this opinion of whe impossibility of an unnatar- alized Englishman editing the administration organ Mr. Calhoun entirely concarred. We must defer to another time our considera- tion of this most interesting book, and especially its narrative of public events at nome and the in- trigues for the Presidential succession, | WOOD PARK, TROTTING AT PURE! | FLeETWwooD PawK—JUNB MEEVING—MonDaAy, | JUNK 14.—Purse $300, for horses that have never beaten 3 minutes; $400 to the first, $250 to the secoau and $100 to the third horse; mie heats, best three ln five, in barness. STARIBL: W. Connor’s b. m, Edith. J. Splan’s c. g. Briliant dames Dougrey’s 8. m. Minule de. M, Roden’s ch. g. Deimonico,. M. Whipple's b. g. Judge Robertson. D, B. Got’s DIK, m, Fannie G, J. Marphy’s D. g. Pat Malloy, Thomas Connor's g, g. Sam Huanpg. &. G, Watson's b. m. Katie Watson. First heat... Second heat, THE SECOND TROT, Purse $1,500, or horses that have n 2:25; $900 to the first, $400 to the second and $200 to the third horse; mile neats, best three in five, in harness, STARTERS, W. H, Crawford’s b. m. Annie 38 ry First Heat, . 801d for $200, Annie Col- uns $85, Chariie Green $60 and Lady Benker $35. eharite Green was frst Frank J. second, Lauy Banker tmrd, Annte Coliins fourt Lady Banker then broke badly, and Frank J. went to the tront, and led two lengths to the quarter polo ‘m 37 seconds, Chariie Green third, six lengths #nead of Annie Collins, the latter & dozen lengtns wadvance of Lady Banker, Frank J. led one length to the half-mile pole in 1:14, and, coming On steadily, won the beat by two lengtns, Charlie | Green second, one length iu advance of Aunie Coitins, Lady Banker fourth. Time, 2:3044. Second Heat,—Aunie Collins sold for $110; the fleld, $60. Charlie Green had @ trifle tne best of the send-off, Frank J. third, Laay Ban! tourth. frank went to the front om the turn and led two lengths to tbe quarter pole, in 38 seconds, Charlie Green second, Annie Coiling third, eight lengths anead of Lady Banker, An- nté Collis closed upon the lower turn. Frank J. led one length in 1:15, Annie Collins sec- ond, a head in advance of Charlie Green, the lat- ter ten lengths to aavance of Ludy Banker. Frank 4, Sept in trent all the way home, and won the neat 4 @ length and a half, Charlie Green second, nalt a longth in advance of Aunie Collins, the lat- ver eigat lengths in advance of Lady Banker, Time of the heat, 2:31. Third Heat.—The field sold for $70, Frank J., $50, Charlie Green had the lead, Frank J. secon Annie Coins third, Lady Banker fourth, Going te we quarter pole Frank J. went to the front and led a length past that point im 37 seconds, | Charley Green second, two lengths im front of | Annie Coliims, the latter ten lengths in advance | ot Lady Banker. Frank J. was only half @ length | im wont at the half-mile pole, Charlie Greeu secoud, two lengths in advance of Annie Collins, tne latter six lengths ahead of Lady Banke: Annie Collins trotted to tne front on the bac! sirech sod led a leagth at the sang a ed pole, | brauk J, second, Onarlie Green third, Lady Ban- | ker fourty. Annie Collins came on and won the heat by two lengths, Lady Banker second, four leet ae rroas of Frank J., Charue Green iourth. Ley 2229. Fourth Heat,—Frank J. had the best of the send- YACHTING. The Corinthian Sloop Race of the Seawan- heka Yacht Club. A Beautiful Day and citing Race. a THE ADDIE VOORHIS THE WINNER. lt Is now over three years since the Seawanhaka Club first introduced Corinthian ractug; bat as their races were then conilned to sueir own ciud the public heard very little about them, When they first announced ® public race of the kind open te yachts of all yacht clubs the idea was laughed at by many as impracticable, The men- bers of the Seawanhaka Club, however, were not easily disheartened and struggled along until they have popularized Coriathian races. The regatta yesterday was given for sloops belonging to the clu» and governed by the sailing regulations and rules of the Uorinrbian races of the club, the main feature of which is the manning of toe yachts exclusively by amateurs, The race was to be sailed over the New York Yacht Club cvarae, from a flying start to and around buoy No, 10, on Southwest Spit, toand around the Sandy Hook Lightship, and resurn over the same course, pass- ing between the club steamer and Staploton ferry landing on arriving home. The yachis were to be sailed and steered by owners, were allowed to carry one amateur foreach five feet of ienath on deck, and were restricted to mainsali, ueadsails and working gafftopsail, The sloop Coming, of Boston, was also to have entered, but not having complied with some of the regulations was ruled out. The Regatta Committee were Messrs. Frederic G. Foster, M. Reosevelt Schayler, James H. Elliot, William Krebs and L. De Forest Woodruff, The preparatory gun was firea from on board the Josephine st Joh, 88m, 208, and then the yachts began to pre- pare for the start, The competing yachts were ag follows :— Over AU. Water Line, Beam. Addie Voorhis.. 69.17 58.9 19.38 VASION.... 2.0000. 66.00 624 20.9 While the yachts entered for the race were wait- ing for the starting signal they tacked backward and forward, always keeping within a short distance of the starting line, The starting signal Was given at 10h. 61m. 30s, id shortly afterward Une yachts coursed in the following or ar: breeze light irom the northwest, and, with boom to starboard, the Addle slipped across, first @t about a dve-knot g: Sue looked very pretty under mainzail, working gaftupsail, jid and jidropsatl, The Vision came shortly after. ward under the same canvas, gliding througa the water very rapidly and foliowiog in the wake of her antagonis. Afer waiung to take the time of Coming the Josepniue turned around and started afier tue racers, The Vision waa evidently determined to make the best of the light wiud and had @ big balioon jibtopsail set, that considerably agsisted her speed. Passing through the Narrows the breeze appeared vo be dying away, but as tie Aacdie came up of the Quarantine Hospital sho appeared to eatch It a little stronzer, The Coming | wasiollowiog after the Vision and making compara- tuvely good pees The Adaie’s jibiopsail Was Shaking considerably and not doing ner much Hood and, after passing Quarantina, she took 1¢ ro, The Vision stl aupg on to hers, aithough it of, Annie Coilins second, Charlie Green tira, | V8 Capping about and not of much apparent Lady Banker fourth, All tho horses except Frank J. broke up beiore they reached the quarter pole, Oharke Green passing that point first, Annie C isos second, Frank J. third, Lady Banker iourth. ‘The ume was 38 seconds. Going away from where around the lower tarn Frank J. tell in the rear, Charlie Greon leading Summ lenatip, Anote Collins second, Lady Bauker vinrd, up the ili and bad his nead betore Anule Collins ase passed the toree-quarter pole, the latter ieanug Lady Banker @ lengts. ‘ank J. was a dozen lengtls beuind, A fine race up the home- stretch aod Annie Ooilins won tae neat by a neck, Lady Banker, Frauk J. a dozen lengths behind. Tue heat was given to Lacy Banker, as bota Unar- lie Greeu and Annie Collins ran tuo muck at tho start. dime of the neat, 2:33, Fyth Heat.—No betting on this heat. Charite Green had the best of the start, Lady Bauker sec- ond, Annie Collins taird, Frauk J, tourth. At the quarter pole, which was passed tn 37}; seconds, Charile Green led six lengtus, Frank J. third, Lady Banker far bebind, on a break. Charley Green led six length to the vali mile pole in 1:13}4, Frank J. second, Annie Collins third, Lady Banker fourth, Onarie Green Kept im iront to the homestretch, but he was beatea home two lengihs by Annic | \!s0u. Collis in 2:39, Frank J. @ good third, Lady Banker fourth. Serth Heat,—Charlie Green bad then to go to the stable, not Daving won @ leat in the race, The belting had ceased eatirely, and the pool seller was quieliy Walting to pay of. Annie Coliins took the iegd, Lady Banker second, Frank J. third. Lady Banker and Frank J, broke up badly and Aunie Collins went ob with @ lead of fifty yards to ine quarter pole in 38 seconds, ha-miue pole—lime, 1:14—Anme Collins led ten lengths, at the three-quarter pole six lengths, and suo Won the heat by two lengtus, Frauk J, | benefit. Sue finally luffed up, | in the breeze, took It Yime, 1:15. Cuarile Green kept in frons | COMparatively smootn, ana still there Was # At the | id when it shivered The amateur Ks worked in handsome style and soon had it snugly stowed away, ‘The two racers were Dow making precty good time and appeared to be holding weir if was impossibie to discern any per- ceptible gain on eivier sid dt was quite @ ledies’ day, as the water w: ficient air to Make the yach!s Move through the | water at @ tolerably fa-t pace. Now that the Vision was uneucumbered by the acre of can- yas in her jibtopsar appeared to act much livelier in the water and closed up a litt on the Addie, The breeze had now hauled rou a litue more to the westward, and the Addie’ 1 did Very little good, as tt was continu- The Commg was being gradually dropped astern and did Dot appear to be it com: pany for either of the two racers tn a | As tho yachts approached Buoy 10, at the Southwest Spit, the breeze appeared to be dying away. The At their jibtopsall, and a few minutes later the crew coming a9 -. Betore sfriving at the buoy of the Hook the Addie jibed her main boom, and the Visiou soon followed suit, Now that the wind was aft the yachts made rather siow progress, and after passing the buoy olf the Heok jlved their Looms to sturboard ooce more. Tne Vision tinea | took tn her jintopsat!, bat before ten minutes nad | Clapsed it went up again rigged to port witha dof. Both yachts crept slowly along to- htship, tne crews laying along the wes just inside tho distance flag. Time, 2:34. Prank J, won second mouey and Lady Banker the | turd premium, THE JEROME PARK RACES ‘The following are some of the prices paia in tho pools last night tor the horses which are to pur- Lady Cll ” m0 | Addie was still leading, but the Vision was h McDaniel’s Muy 85 40 | ing UD rapidly, and wo the Addie rounded 3d 200 «ugatsbip to make her homeward trip it was 65 $5 | doubtfal for a moment whether, if cleverly | ) ay away. The Vision appeared te be | eteaulty closing we gap betwe r and | the addie, and finally, when neither my: breath | of wind to tli their canvas, was close astern. some kind Providence was watching over them us the westerly breeze bad graduaily crawicd round to the soutaward, and was now coming up | with increased sirength—sneets were soon trim- ned down and jib topsails stowed away, and they oth went ior the lightship at a lively gait. The —— die’s crew went to work and sent up | of the Vision executed the same maucuvre, Tue | yachts rounded as /oliow! He OM. &. Aadie . Uo 16 roa b 3 ven by tne ciuh for the race that bis yacht had iat won, ‘Ibe Josephine thea starve? lor New York, and ianded the guests at the foot of Bust Thirty-third street. ENTRIKG FOR NEW YORK CLUB REGATTA. | . The following are the entries mide yesterday fur the reyatta to morrow:— VRS! CLASS SCLOONTRS. Cur Che Ovncra, Stuyvesant. Wain Voorhis. ‘ Alarm ., Kingsiand.. idier. Madele Rumbi Wandere: a Atwlania Wiliam Astor. BkoonD CLass SCHOON s . AOE As (Mot ureas.) Addie Vou inion, . ¥ Kaiser Wilhetm.J Breeze ¥, G. Havemeye: PULLADELPOIA YACHT CLUB. PHILADELPHIA, June 14, 1876. he third annual regatta of the Philadelphia Yacht Club caine off on the Delaware to-day, Some filty odd yachts of the first, second and turd clas participated. On the Romestrerch several of the boats capsized, the crews being immediately picked up, ‘Ine successiul boats were tne Hod, of the irst class; Brewer, of tue second ciass, aud Millie, Of she third class. - CREEDMOOR. hal ie a 3 TAS NATIONAL GUARD AT BALL PrRacticn—~ BARD WORK YOR THE MILITIAMEN, TM obedience to orders recently issued irom DI- vision Headquarters, @ portion of the troops com~ posing the infantry arm of the First Division N.@, 3. N. Y. turned out yesterday for ball prac- ticeat Creedmoor. The detachments were from tne Third Brigade and composed of companies ©. and F, of the Ejghth regiment, Captain Bieidiag commanding, bumbering four oMcers and seventy- eight non-commissioned officers and rank apd file; company A, Niuth regiment, three o/licers and forty-two men, under command of Captain Coll- man, anc squads of companies A., B. aud G, of the Fifty-fiftm regiment, consolidated for the day withcompany B, making a total of two oMcers and thirty-four non-commissioned oMcers and rank and file of this regiment, under the orders of Captain Marensky. Tie Woops got mio position before the butts by tem o'clock and coir” menced firing at the 100 yards range witnoat ae- jay. Each man was provided with ball cartridge ammunition to fire lve rounds and two sighting shows aveach of the following six distances—10Ur 150, 300, 409, 500 aud 200 yards, After fring at the 100 and 150 yards butts a halt was sounded along the line and tue troops wenv to rations about one o'clock, resuming practice wn nour afterward. During the entire day the eather was excelleus aud the Conditions savor le to ball practic As the men were furnished with firing tickeis ht id Of having printed vlauks lor exch con- Pi it was lound next to impossivie to keep rack of the scores. The blanks on maay of tho U tickets Were not iijled 10, 80 that no one couid tell either the distance Which some of tue men bat fired irom or even the companies tuey deionged vw. Abumber of the tickets Were parted mn two, and che corresponding sides promiscuonsly mixed mong the otners. Under these circumstances the members 01 tue press were obiiged to conleat themselves with bey | the scores of the fleld und staff aud those of afew men wWio Nad shut over all the ranges, thus qUalluylug toomselve: “marksmen.” SCORES OF THE FIELD AND STArr. COLONEL J. A. MITCRCOCK. ry as oe 20 9 ab SOum MHOOUR Reaeee eoruem Ueouore wpreader. ‘The crew of the Addie appeared | thunderstrack at (his exoibition of nautical skill, in a Mt o; desperation boomed their jib to port | ill as mice and the breeze gradually | | | CAPTAIN GRORGE K WARD: | AheSue Cuneo Seeuen Geom seneem CFORe £ = | 00-3 AO RESCUER Beeson SCUreD ESeene Eeudan ease EteoNee wouces ee Gescen eecuee Sce RES OF THE NINTH Ri & ou Ge mo te Ae oe ee Oe Ge ew cw au oe te eA oe Gm ne oe eres w A LONG ISLAND HOMICIDE. } A case of homicide occurred on the Greht South 40 56 | haadied, the Vision could not bi turned inside | MILES, | and took first piace, Ast wai lost ground an ‘and started for the Hook considerably astern. ‘Toe yachts turned the lightsnip as seeatl gm i 2. Hi. M.S. 2 «1 16 i Dosweil & Oammack. 5 lM» TH + 1 aw Springbok.. jome the Addie sent up ber jibtopsatl, Springbok... i Jon Was uot long beiore she put be: if Roadamantuus | on equal terms, The breeze was now quite fresu Fadladecn | ashy 1, and it jooked hke a quick Griustead, FO! Lawrence & 120 Torrence ps 1 Diavoio,.. ” 149 vorone 20 “0 Dayiigat 13 40 Donviiue ty 2 Meteor, . w SAL BLOODED HORSES. At the auction mart of Messrs, Barker & Sons, | Broadway and Thtrty-ninth street, yesterday, the following race horses, from the stables of Mr. August Beimovt and Mr. Pierre Loriilard, we sold :— From the Belmont stables were :—Slikstocking, | by Kentucky, bought by A. Welsh, of Philadelphia, | filo; Mantred, G. Longsdorf, New York, $05; | Salem, Coione R. Peniston, Philadelphia, $100; Salvador, F. B. Wallace, Keatucky, §w; Adonis, withdrawn, From Mr, Lorillard’s stad wore :—Attila, A, Crook, New York, $230; Alaric, W. H. Hoey, New York, $125; Leonore, F. @ Ti New York, $250; Evasive, F. G. Thomas, New York, $250, After tas sale several other horses known to the turfmen were sold, a9 follows:—D. McVanieis’ colt Enquirer, A. Coleman, Canada, $200; Baboock & Graham's Eclipse fly, T. @ Moore, $80; Bav- cock & Graham’s Ee! colt, A. Volem: aaa, $96; horse Business, withdrawn; Jo! nell’s Australian colt, T, McLoughlin, $120; Eclipse colt Long Branch, E. R. Bringbam, $85. On Wednesday Messrs. barker & Son will sell | the trocting stud of Colonel P. J, Connelly, of | Germantown, consisting of the followi horses:—Aamiral, by Go.ddust; Stockholder, Norman; Friendship, by Rea Bagle; Hope: by Deimonico; Capta by Kentucky Cla! Beauty, by Corbeau; Starlight, by Cassiaa M. Ola Pilgrim, ig! Surplus; sunset, by Legal Tender; Mermaid, by Mambrino Ouicf; Midway, by Abdal- lan; Enterprise, by Biue Buil; Presto, by Mem- brino Mediey; Woodford, by Mambrino; Rezulator, by Clark Chief; General, % Young St, Cbaries; Compocarous, by Morgan tler. The horses are all of the bess Kentucky stoc are last sleppers, and are to be soid without reserve, THE JERSEY RAILROAD GUILLOTINE. Every day daring the past three weeks a lie 0 syivania Raliroad, Yesierday morning Bernard MeDermott, « »ainter employed in the machine siiops Of thé rauroad company on the dackensack meadows, attempied to jump on the work- men’s tral the Tlenderson street crossing In his haste he did not observe a Midiand train passing m the opposite directior and he was throwa down and run over. Bota le; were compiciely severed from his body. He su vived oniy a short time. Als residence was at + pata street, Pojiadelphia, woere he leay aw 5) Vas. | ready for a boat on tne wind. Trace and @ six o’clock dinner a Bota yachts travelled fust now, with @ beam wind, waking their big neadsails draw to ,ome effect. | Tee favorable breeze, however, was not of jong duration, as by the tine the Viston had overranied tue Addie it bad died away, and both yacnts lay vecalmed, With not enough aif to Mil their can The Coming, away astern, Was still carrying a breeze and laying weil up to the southward im tue hopes o: keeping it. The Addie kept wratually working i shore, and finally caugat a istic air | ; Utat sent her going, and before tne Vision bad Aleerage way she Was moving along quite faa'. The Coming was now @ mile to tie souti- ward and looked In a The breeze w about northwest, and Addie gov nearly & mile and @ half stars belove @ Vision got her matnsatl trimmed in The Coming was away down in the Long raven direction, and vir. tually out of the face. The Addte, under mainsai|, gattopsail and jid, Was skipping along pretiy tart, and making thé best of her way home. Alter a stretch on tue starboard tack she went in stays Sud stood in toward Mandy H The Vision was tarboard tack reaching wp along the id making good headway, but it apyeares sutile td expect her to regain her iost ground. ot the Hook the Addie went about and made a stretch on the starboara tack, enabling ber to to weather Buoy 100n the Southwest Spit. The breeze was still holding iresh, and gave prospect ofa good beat bome. The Coming was along way ind, and when the yachts were turniug the buoy atthe Spit came tn sight of the point of the Hook. The yachts turned Buoy lo ou the a Mm. 8 3 OL &B Vision vores 3 O08 Ub Homeward bouad tne race began to get quite interesting, a8 it was understood that ine Addis bad to allow the Vision some time. The raciug boais were aiso met by quite @ small feet of yachts that turned round and accompanied them nome. The Addie was still nearly & mile ahead, and forging through the water at @ nine-knot gait. ‘Tue Vision had her big balloon topsail set, aud came steadtiy along witu the hopes tuat some- thing might turn - togive beran even chance again. The breeze held quite steadily ail the way home, and passing through the Narrows tne Vision oppeared to bave gained @ trifle. Tae schooner yackt Ariel, Commodore Swan, of the Seawanhaka uo, Was cruising around aua appeared te ve wo- ne very nicely, muca Improved by ber alterations, ‘The Josepoine took up a position off the Stapleton dock ana took the time oj afrival, The following iw Woe summary — Cy 2 = rl Southwest Spit as ioliows:— Actuat Arrival, Tine. MMS OH. A 402 2 40 4 07 03 5 10 48 As Wilt De seen by the above it was quite a close Face; and the three seconds that the Addis had to allow the on did Not make any difierence ta the result, Mr. Corneitus Kooseveit, toc owner of ortly sented the Addie, came on veard the Josepuin aiter the race, and er p ben with eo aso) shiver soup bow!, the yrize | them passed by a vote of 2 Bay on Friday, but how far it may Rave been w- Ventional it is dificait as yet to determine. Two oystermen residiug at Greenevills, in the Oakdae school district, town of Islip, named respectivetr Edward Groenleather and Fiaoz Foster, bora Hollanders, were engaged on the bay in planting sved oysters at a place two miles southwest of Nichols’ Point, on a lot which was ren ed vy them In partnersuip, when, a3 tt appears, ay aiter- cation arose besweem them, m ths course of which, as supposed, Groenleather was eitner thrown Overvoird aad drowned, of Was CaoKed to death and then throwa overboar4, On reterning home at night, whica he did et the usuai tiwe, Foster reported that Groeniest#er tad been knocked overboard by the jibing of the walnsat, and tais at first appeared provable enough; bu: bie SULSCqUeN. Versions Of tuo aileged xeeden and bis Contradictory statements of tue cite | silanes attending it, led nis neirabors w suspe that there might have been foul piay. Search accordiogly made jor the body, ava when it was recovered it was found to present vunmstakabie inarks of violence, bon from eneow of cuoking and from blows in the lace. Foster was thereupou arrested, and alter some besitation acknowledged that he and Groenieatner nade tient in the de but alleged that the iatter had him den and we: beating him; tnat he (foster) tied by choking him to turn him over; thal atier @ desperare struggle he succeeded in dog 80, a that as he turned ue fel overboara. The story regaraed by the icighbors a8 sume Wha’ improt bie, (rom the iact toat there are no wurks of p ment visidie npon Poste: kely had bis autagonist been on the top of him and beating him as he alleges, and bis bumerous contradictions arc taken as evidence againse him. Immediavely upon tae recovery of tae bvey Coro- ner Hammill was sent fof to hold an thqnest, waich 18 still in progress. A post mortom exami: person, ay Would ba hation of the boay will, doubtiess, determine whether tne death was due to choking or to drowning, and in etther case Foster will be nerd for the action of the Grand Jury, Groenleatner was twenty-nine years old, and leaves a wife and one child, Foster has @ wile and three chijidren, REWARD FOR THE ARR SHUTE’S ASSAILANT. | Alderman Fisher introduced a resoiution offer. ing @ reward 01 $2,500 for the arrest of the bur- | glar Who shot Mr. Agron Shute ta his resident Tompkins avenue last Tuesday, He spoke fi | port of the resolucton, saying that tne police force was shamefully inadequate to protect tue livosand Property of the citizens. Alderman Dwyer ofered an amendment that tie Ainount shonia’ be $1,00v, Waicil, be said, was the same a3 that paid for the assassia Of Charies Good: rich, Alderman Ropes also ad vovated t ment, but it was iost, r oF