The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1875, Page 5

AMATEUR OARSMEN, A Review of the Rowing Season of 1875, UNIVERSITY MEN AND AMATEURS. TheCollege, Internationaland National Regattas. STYLES OF ROWING. The aquatic season of 1875 is fast drawing to a close, the great regattas are over and nothing but the rowing of a few match races by prominent and energetic clubs remains to bring the term to a conclusion. On the whole the present has proven to be the most successful teason in the history of American boating. Better rowing has never been shown. A greater improvement In style and more thorough acquaintance with the true principles of oarsmanship have been exhibited than in any previous period in the boating experience of the oarsmen of this country, There have been a fow genuine surprises. THE UNIVERSITY REGATTA. The victory of Cornell in the University regatta was aot so much a matter of surprise to those who, devoid »f prejudice and partisanship regarded rowing from an anbiassed standpoint, as it was to those who regarded Uarvard or Yale as the real possessors of the correct principles of rowing and almost certain victors in the aniversity contest of the year, How many persons, this timo last year and in the varly part of this, were there who looked to Yale, with ber famous Cook as captain and stroke, to carry off the victory of 1875? “It is Yale’s year,’ said some, and faith in Cook's ability to reach the goal his ambition aimed at was general, Harvard, also, was determined o secure victory, and by doing go be able to make good 4 claim which some of the more ardent admirers of the magenta put forward, ‘that Harvard would have won the race of 74 but for ‘the foul’ which helped Columbia to cross the line first.”” The time made by Columbia in that fumous raco is suMciently good to show that even if the contest had been rowed from start to finish, without ‘‘foul” or ‘fluke,’ Columbia would not have beon far from tho line when the first boat crossed if the blue and white wero not the first to show the way. This year Columbia showed up again—not the winner, it is true, but danger- pusly close on the victor. Cornell's victory, as before stated, was nota great surprise. If ever a crew worked carefully, conscientiously, and with a firm determina- Hon to do their best and leave nothing to chance, these students of Cayuga did so, and tney did their prelim-” Inary with cheerfal hearts and good spirits. They worked together like one man. They were well dis- ciplined, and acknowledged with cheerfulness the au. thority,of the man who had the right tocommand. It fs not always so in a boat’s crow, but it was in tho Cornell boat before the race, aud when the great day came these men of Cayuga Lake rowed out from under the shadows of Snake Hill not to return to it again but ag the champions over all the crews of the American universities engaged in the College regatta of 75, THR AMATEURS’ REGATTAS. The discussions and comments about the college regatta had scarcely subsided ere the rumors of prepar- ation for the international regatta of amateur oarsmen began to spread, Kew considered that the chances were that the Saratoga people had almost resolved not to have a fall meeting, and but for the exertions of a low—a very few—mombers of the Saratoga Rowing Association there would have been none. As it was so little interest was evinced in the crews that came there to row that it will require a good deal of persuasion to bring some of the best crews there again unless there is a change in the management of affairs. Tho best crews of the country were on hand, however. Tho Beaverwycks, of Albany, were there, with their reputa- tion of last year to sustain, and with a crew nothing Inferior to that of twelye months ago; the Mutuals, of ‘he samo city, the rivals of the Beaver- wycks, and as fine a looking lot of men as one need wish to see; then came the Argonantas, plucky, telf-reliant, determined to win if they could, but equally prepared to abide by the decisive results of an hon- orable defeat. Whether they came out of the re- gattas at Saratoga and Troy as conquerors or con- quered it was the determination of the crew, a month before either regatta, not to row again this season, On tho ground they refused one or two ehallenges before the Saratoga and Troy events. The Buffalo crew were also there, and a better crew to-day it would be dif- ficult to get together. The ‘little Duchesnes,” as they were formerly called by many, were there to battle for the honor of Pennsylvania, and the Atalantas’ University four, whom most people considered were to bring up the rear of the six competing boats instead of leading the van, had also entered the lists. SARATOGA LAKE. Before the race that gave victory to the Atalantas few had confidence in their ability, It was impossible to say why or how such an idea prevailed. John Eustis, as stroke of the Wesleyan six, had proven himself a good oarsman, and John Guster, stroke of the Williams? six, was bis equal m every respect, Rodgers, No. 2 in the crew, wag a powerful man, and for a large man was singularly easy and free in his movements in the boat. Moreover, he was a goo’ oarsman. Downs, the bow man, had no reason to be regarded as “a weak spot’? in the boat, as the experience of every race he has rowed {n has since shown. Yet, altuough the Atalanta Club had labored hard to get this crew together, when it suc- cceded and had the men in the boat in training on the Hariem, and subsequently at practice on Saratoga Lake, they had so little confidence in the four and so mean an idea of their ability that the crew rowed and won as handsome a victory as men ever achieved without an | *ncouraging word or a friendly greeting from the mem- ders of the club for the honor of whose colors and flag they gave their best strength. Not so with any other crew on that lake, The Albany men poured in in thou- tands to see their famous Beaverwycks and favorite | Mutuals do their best. Buffalo stood to its dauntiess crew, which, under more favorable circumstances, might have won the race, WHAT MIGHT HAVE NREN. When tho fours were started the Argonantas, the Buffaloes and Duchesnes were side by side in the order named. The Argonautas had the outside position, The race was not one-third rowed when the Dachesnes be- gan to crowd over on the Buffaloes; so much so, that the referee found it necessary to warn them to ‘“iook out,’? “keep off.’ They obe: but again fell into the same error, and were again w ul of by the referee. At this time there was little or no difference in the boats. “Tt was, biel race yet,”’ and the stakeboats wero nearly reached The ‘interference of the Duchesne, whother intentional or not, had caused the Buffalo crew on one occasion to almost stop rowing for fear of a foul, seriously interfered with their work and caused much irregularity in their rowing. They were also forced over somewhat into the Argonauta’s water. All things considered, it was a detriment and a drawback to both jhe Duchesnes and the Buffaloes—the one for its bad steering, the other for the effects which that bad steer. ing produced, Had the Duchesnes rowed a straight course and the Buflalocs not been interfered with the results of the race might have been different. As it was, the Bulfaloes beat the Duchesnes, the famous Beaver: wycks the Argonautas and Mutuals, and were only a length and a half clear water behind the winning boat, MEAVERWYCKS AND ARGONAUTAS. Great surprise was manitested because of the post- lions these two famous erews had in the race. Tho as good condition physically as y They had made achange inthe , but the eb ¢ Was not for the worse, das well as any man in the boat and better than some of the others, The crew do not row well together—not nearly as well as last year, and | Wilson in the bow rows too much with his arms to make his rowing effective, They roll their boat terribly when they “hither hard,” and shells, like all other boats, will not travel fast off “a straight keel," So fur ax the Argonautas were concerned they were handi- sapped in their boat before they started. She was from twenty-live to thirty pounds too heavy for the crew, tnd she was so deep and wedge-like that in turning the Hakeboat they were sure to lose much valuable tine at ihe most critical period of the struggle. Even with a rnowledge of these disadvantages the crew resolved to Aght against odds and, with what result, 1s already known. Doncaster rows THOY, | On the Laureate course the Atalanta four achieved | another victory, und Reaverwycks, victors on this kame course ‘li met another defeat, The Mutuals we it breaking their rudder wire during the race, and the Argonautas suffered with the rest. Victory Had once more perched upon the banners of the old Atalantas and this time Atalanta members had travelled all the way from New York to ee their colors go to the front, Every crew the alantus had rowed against and beaten candidly ad- mitted defeat. ‘The Argonantas jewlarly acknowl. cdgad they had been beaten fairly and squarely on two feparate trials, It would have been well Had the vie~ lors rested on their laurels here, ATALANTAS AND ARGONAUTAS, Flushed with success and determined to whip the | ) challen; ‘NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. esses Arpraaiee on their own water the victors of Saratoga and Troy, in the Laureate boat hi issued their to the defeated Argonautas, who had a1 noun before both regattas (hat whetber defeated or victorious the crew would not row again this season. The challenge was ill-timed and out of place. It was the victor a tenging the vanquished—even with the latter openly adinitting defeat, What was to be ined by another victory over a prostrate foe? Beaten is they were, the Argonautas took up the challenge almost forced upon them; yet thoroughly appreciating the spirit m which it was offered and the intende humiliation in their own waters. They saw, however, that they had everything to gain in case of victory aud nothing to lose even if they were again beaten, and they also saw that victory to them rebbed the Ata- lanias of all the grand pgestige of Saratoga and Troy and made them the conquerors of the conquerors—in fact, the champion four of the United States. idred had to go away, and not quite a week was allowed them to prepare for « contest with four men in such maguifi- cent condition as the Atalanta crew were, and with the flush of success still hot upon them. THE RACK OF THE SEASON. The day of the race came round, and both crews met on the Kill Von Kull. The Atalantas felt confident— over confident—the Argonantas self-reliant and hope- ful. The river was crowded with craft, black with spectators. It wasthe race of the year. Nino-tenths of those present believed the Atalantas, to use a com- mon phrase, hada ‘‘dead sure thing.’ The difference in the crews was most marked. The Atalantas were great, able, powerful men, all except the bow, who, though smaller than the others, had proved himstif good and true on more than one occassion, Tho boats were started, and never did eight men row a more game or plucky race. From sturt to finish it was a struggle all the way, There was much to admire in both boats, With the Atalantas there was strength, muscle, terrible tearing work, lacking style and catch and finish; with the Argonautas there was strength, but there was also style and regularity of movement and unity im the catch, The steering of Smith was superb, Their boat— not the one they rowed at Saratoga and Troy—carried them splendidly. Eustis, the Atalanta stroke, worked with terrible euergy, and he was backed up as strongly by Gunster, who sat behind him, and laid out the work for his side of the boat, It wasa grand, powerful crew, and every man in the boat—Downs, Rodgers, Gunster and Eustis—felt he was rowing to sustain the championship of the country, which ten days since he had go gallantly won, The even swing, steady stroke, harmony of action, true steering and stanch heart to back all up was doing its work steadily und surely and keeping the Argy’s boat in advance, The difference was not much, and time and time again Eustis tried to lessen it and failed. Gunster and Downs were doing good work. More than once it seemed as if their side was the strongest and the boat veered toward the Jersey shore, It was a grand race throughout, and after one of the hardest contests ever pulled in these waters the flag at the finish dropped to the Argonautas, winners— victors over the conquerors of Saratogaand Troy—and champions of the United States. REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, All who witnessed the race pronounced it the best they had ever seen. ‘The time in which it was rowed proves that it was fast, and the losers were but a few seconds behind the successful crew. In face of these facts it is to be regretted that the chagrin of honorable defeat should make some of the unsuccessful ones im- pute their loss in the race to a lack of work on the part of one of their number. Brave men are as magnanimous in their acknowledgments as they are in their acts, and when worsted in honorable competition freely admit it. Responsibility for failure is assumed by all, not thrown upon any oue, as has been the case in this instance, The Atalanta four were outrowed from the beginning, with every man in the Atalanta boat doing his full share of the work allotted to him, and the imputation that one member of that crew failed to do his full share of the work isas unmanly as it is unfair and contradicted by the time made and the work done in the race by the side pronounced weakest, but which was strong enough to not only keep that side of the boat up, but occasion- ally to give apparent evidence of strength in the way they pulled the other side round STROKES—FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, At the beginning of the season there was a great deal of talk about strokes, particularly the so-called ‘English stroke.” Cook, of Yale, who went abroad to learn it, was going to prove its effectiveness and good qualities. AS was most natural to expect, there were quite a num- ber of English admirers, and they took up the notion that the foreign style was “the correct thing.” It was rowed on the Harlem to the amusement of every row- ing man, There was a jerk at the oar, a bob of the head and a slow recover, and that was ‘the humor of it” How any such rowing was ever going to win noone could weil make out. The New York Rowing Club tried it and got well beaten in the trial by the Athletic four, who pulled a protty stroke with little power and no reach. In the University race the rowing of Yale was rhaps the most finished in the contest, but Cook and is men were beaten even before the starter got them away. Cook, it is claimed, pulled the English stroko, ora modification of it, but 0 unlike the copyists who believe they “have it down fine” that no person would imagine that there was any relationship between the two styles, What was particularly remarkable with every good rowing crew during the season was that they ail rowed a less number of strokes per minute, and the strokes were lengthened out. Even Dartmouth came down from her forty-eight to thirty-six and made by the change, The Cornell stroke showed u good reach forward and a clean pull through the water devoid of hang or drag, and differed very materially from Columbia and Harvard. All the college crews showed marked improvement in rowing. ‘The same may be said of most of the amateur crews, The improvement of the Buffalos was extraordinary. In twelve months they made such rapid strides that it is questionable if they are not a match for any ama- teur crew in the country. The Beaverwycks have ret- rograded rather than advanced. The Atalantas have, or rather had, as it is scarcely possible that John Gunster will ever row in the boatagain, a powerful crew, but their rowing was anything but even. On occasions it was most ragged. The stroke was slow as arule, but Eustis showed he could run it up tu thirty-eight if need be, and do good work at that, Eldred, perhaps one of the best strokes in the country, rarely gets beyond thirty-six, save at the start and when “spurting.’” He has magnificent reach, and he pulls clean through to the finish. His crew know him thoroughly and he them, and it is owing to the harmony and accord exist- ing between all in the boat that. much of their success may be attributed. Unless perfect harmony exists in a boat's crew not a great deal may be expected from it as a rule, LIGHT AND HEAVY CREWS. It appeared to be the object at the commencement of the season, when the different crews were being made up, to pick out big men to go in the boats, In the Uni- versity, as well as among the amateurs, the prictice, with some exceptions, was noticeable, larvard, Princeton and Columbia, among the colleges, had their big men in each boat, Among the amateurs there was the Atalantas, the Beaverwycks, the Mutuals, all heavy crews, composed principally of men large in stat- ure and heavy regarding weight. ‘The Cornell men were a litle above the average weight, of good age and height, and perhaps as evenly a balanced crew as ever sat inashell, The Buffalo crew resembled in many respects the Cayugas. The Duchesnes were light, something like the Athletics, but possessed of much more yim, dash and power. The Argonautas can hardly be considered a light crew, yet it is not far re- moved in point of weight. Many others might be men- tioned, but enough have been named of those who have been prominent and victorious in the great regattas w illustrate the fact that very large men, though posses- sing superior strength, are not the must desirable men in a boat's crew, and that men of average weight and height are preferable, The performances of Cornell, the Buftalos, Duchesnes and Argonautas this year will go far to sustain this idea, SINGLE SCULLERS. The number of single scullers who have come into rominence this year has been quite numerous, There was a time, and that a very short time back, when one or two men went the rounds of the annu: regattas with a fair certainty of carrying off the prizes, ‘That little business is at an end and the circus is over, New men have come to the front and the new men are good ones. Little more than two years ago ana Charles Courtney was utiheard of. Curtis and Yates wore at that time the bright particular stars. Both men are quite as good to-day as ever they were, but better men have appeared. Courtney can beat either one, James Riley, another “new comer, has shown up this season, and save by ‘Court | ney he has not yet been beaten. Frank Yates, an ac- complished oarsman, was never in better condition than at present, KR. D. Bainbridge ts also rowing fast and has much improved since last year. Lathrop, ono of the Beayerwycks; Maxwell and Orr, of the Sew wanbakas, and Ackerman, of the Atlantics, give tine promise of future excel.ence in rowing, THE PROSPECTS FoR ‘76 are, therefore, good, and in our Centennial regattas, when crews and scullers come here to compete, the prospects are fair that American rowing and American oarsmen Will be able to stand the test of comparison with the oarsmanship of the best amateur pullers im | the world. TRA A. PAINE’S LAST SHOT. Newport, Sopt. 10, 1875, To tus Epirgr or THe Hera.p: With the view of finally closing a discussion which has ceased to be interesting, I beg to inform Mr. Bogar- dus that Lam ready to meet him at Baltimore, in ac- | cordance with my original challenge, for $500 or $1,000 aside, If be can flourish largo amounts such as he names, it will, of course, be easy for him to make the necessary deposit forthwith with Wilkes’ Spirit for the smaller sam, It fs an easy matter to arrange the de- tails alter this is done, Iam willing to divide the gate money, should thore be any, and supply the birds tree, My experience with Mr, Bogardus jcads me to demand his deposit first of the half of either of the above named sums, As to the stake he mentions in his last communication, he knows better than any one that he not (and would not if he could) risk $2,000. If he not accept a reasonable challenge let him cease to | boast of being the “champion wing shot of the world.” His fairly Won championship ot v not questioned. I offered to meet ‘This ho refused as a match, I repeated my proposition, He | then wavted to go game shooting of the prairie. No sooner did Loffer a straightiorward challenge than he went off into long dissertations and made an impossible proposition in reterence to going to Fleetwood Park. 1 still kept. to my challenge, and now he wants to shift again. He wants $2,000 and gate money. Now, air, let him first accept my challenge, put up his deposit, beat | me and then introduce his tive friends from Iino After he has beaten me it will be time enough to mar: shal in the Western troupe | In mny interview [stated that Mr, Jaffray was one of | the best shots in this Souatey: When here Mr. Wallace and other gentlemen of the Hurlingham Club gave h four yards and a beating. 1 will name one or two ama- tour gentlemen, pupils of mine, that he cannot give the same odds, for $500 a side, and shoot at Balti more at the time of the other matcnes, | know some Amateurs also to whom even Mr. Bogardus cannot give three yards and win, 1 have nothing farther to way in this matter, IRA AL PAINE, } THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, The Many Branches in ‘Which American Exhibitors Are Behindhand. A MATTER FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. Metallurgical Products, Ceramics, Glassware and Woven and Textile Fabrics Unrepresented, Puitapenruta, Sept, 11, 1875, Some time since the Hsxaxp called attention to the fact that while the foreign exhibitors to the Interna- tional Exhibition, especially those in Great Britain, were rapidly sending in their applications for space, American manufacturers and producers, in many branches of industry, were far behind. This state of affairs still continues, and if the subject is ignored by the State Centennial Commissions and the press gen- erally, as it seems to be at present, there is every dan- ger that in many departments of manufacture the United States will make a most deplorable showing, | and the fiasco of Vienna may be repeated, If this lack of representation in certain classes of goods were un- avoidable, if it were because American manufacturers do not make them, there might be reason for regret, but not for complaint; but when it exists only because of a lack of enterprise or patriotism on the part of those en- gaged in these industries and a failure to urge the mat- ter to their attention by the State Centennial Commis- sions or others, then it is the province of the leading journals of the country to call serious attention to the matter. AMERICAN MANUFACTURES NOT REPRESENTED, In all the metallurgical products, the manufactured forins of metals, and in ceramics, glassware and the great varietles of textile fabrics, the applications from this country that have been received at the offices of the Commission are very few and far between, Scarcely any of tho American factories of theso important materials have been heard from, while those in Europe have declared themselves anxious to exhibit, and have sent in their applications for space promptly and in great numbers. If the great Exhibition is allowed to open with these tmportant products poorly repro- sented or not represented at all from our own country it would be a matter of national regret when too late to romedy it, The manufacturers of England, Germany and France are so anxious, from motives of self-in torost, to exhibit the extent, variety and excellence of their wares that our deficiencies will seom most glaring, especially from the arrangement for allotting space to the different governments, which will bring thé four great competing countries, the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, in close juxtaposition, almost side by side. Time is growing short, and the importance of the question cannot be overestimated. For the purpose of enabling one to realize the great number of classes of goods that have not yet been offered for exhibition the following list is worthy of careful consideration. It comprises the classes in the departments of metallurgy and mannfactures, under the divisions of metallurgical products, ceramics, glass, woven and silk goods, ac- cording to the system of ‘classifteation adopted by the Commission, from which it is taken, METALLURGICAL PRODUCTS, Precious metals, iron and steel in the pig, ingot, bar, plates and sheets, with specimens of slags, fluxes, resi- dues and products of working; copper in ingots, bars and rolled, with specimens illustrating its various stages of production; lead, zine, antimony and other metals, the result of’ extractive ' processes; alloys used as materials, brass, nickel, silver, solder, &c, CERAMICS, POTTERY, PORCELAIN, BTC. Bricks, drain-tiles, terra cotta and architectural pot- tery; tire-clay goods, crucibles, pots, furnaces; chem- ical stoneware; tiles, plain, enamelled, encaustic, geo- metric tiles and mosaic, ‘Tiles for pavements and for rooting, &c.; porcelain for purposes of construction; hardware trimmings, &c.; stone china for chomist: druggists, &c., earthenware, stoneware, fatence, & majolica ' and’ Palissy ware; biscuitware, Parian, & porcelain for table and toilet use and for decoration. GLASS AND GLASSWARE. Glass used in construction and for mirrors; window glass of various grades of quality and of size; plato glass, hammered and ground or polished; malleable glass; chemical and pharmaceutical glassware, vials, bottles, &e. ; table and decorative glassware, WOOL AND MIXTURES OF WOOL, Card wool fabrics—yarns, broadcloth, doeskins, fancy cassimeres, tlanneis—plain flannels, domestics, opera and fancy; blankets, robes and shawis; combined wool fubrics—worsteds, yarns, dress goods for women’s wear, delaines, serges, poplins, merinoes; carpets, rugs, etc.—Brussels, Melton, tapestry, tapestry Brussels, Ax- minster, Venilian, ingrain, felted carpetings, druggets, Tugs, &c.; hair—alpaca, goats’ hair, camels’ hair and other fabrics, mixed or unmixed wit! wool; printed or embossed woollen cloths, table covers and patent vel- vets, YARNS AND WOVEN GOODS. Cotton yarns and fabrics, bleached and unbleached— cotton sheeting and shirting, plain and twilled, cotton canvas and duck; dyed cotton fabrics, exclusive of calicoes; cotton prints and calicoes, including handker- | chiefs, scarfs, &c,; linen and other yegetable fabrics, | uncolored or dyed; floor oilcloths and other painte and enameled tissues, and imitation of leather, with a woven base. LK AND SILK FABRICS, Cocoons and raw silk as reeled from the cocoons, thrown or twisted silks in the gum; thrown or twisted silk: coiled off or dyed, in hanks, skeins or spools; spun silk yarns and fabrics and the materials from which they are made; plain woven siiks, lutestrings, sarsnets, satins, serges, foulards, tissues for hats and millinery pur- poses, &e, ; figured silk piece goods, woven or printed, upholstery, siiks, &¢.; erapes, velvets, gauzes, cravats, handkerchiefs, hosiery, knit goods, laces, scarfs, ties, | veils, all descriptions of cut and made up silks; ribbons, plain, fancy and velvet; bindings, braids, cords, gal Joons, ladies’ dress trimmings, upholsterors’, tailors’, military and miscellaneous trimmings. AMERICAN APPLICATIONS, In other branches than those given above, the appli- ULTRAMONTANE BLUNDERING, The Papal Press and the Irish Nationalists, A FIGHT WITH ROME. Dowty, August 28, 18 ‘The collision betwoen the leaders of the various sec- tions of Irish nationalists and the chief managers of the 0’Connell centenary celebration is likely to lead to consequences far moro important than the events of the moment, Among the dignitaries present in Dublin atthe festivities, upon the Lord Mayor’s invitation, was Mgr. Nardi, Auditor of the Rota in Rome, the Su- preme Ecclesiastical Cour. “the Roman Catholic Church ip bygone days. This distinguished personage is the proprietor or manager of a little newspaper published in Rome, with the ambitious title, Voce della Verita (Voice of Truth). Those, however, who look occasion- ally into its columns report that ‘truth,’ as presented by the Voce, seems to be a one-eyed maiden, seeing naught but what is specially pleasing to the Curia and the Vatican. Anyhow, in its issue of August 14, it published, ‘under the heading, “7 Disordini di Dublino” (“The Disturbances in Dublin’), an absurd article, which is thus translated by the Dublin Nation of this morning :— AN ULTRAMONTANE VIEW. It was impossible that the European liberals, who are still devoured with rage on account of the imposing and magnificent festival of the centenary of O’Connell, should abstain from sending orders to the Irish liberal to disturb in some way or another that [esti Aud, as amatter of fact, some disturbances did occur in Dub: lin, But, however the liberal newspapers ay endeavor to exaggerate thoso disturbances, they cannot doprive the festivities of their splendor and thetr un- portance. ‘The pretext laid hold of by the Trish liber ‘als for ere. ating those disturban was the t the 1 jent Lord O’Hagan to deliver the panegyric of O'Con- nell, As soon as ever his oration was relerred to those liberals, educated and well-bred there as everywhere else, betook themselves to their usual most polite dem- onstrations of hisses, yells and abuse. They tamultu- ously demanded that Butt should speak instead, along with two other Fenians, O'Connor Power and Sullivan, who are the Petruce nd Sonzogno ot Ireland, “AIL these three uemen (we quote trom the Indépendance Belge) spoke a few words, the two lirst in- viting the public not to compromise the demonstration, and the last Geclaring that, 1n his opinion, no one had a Tight io wrest a national anniversary to the interests of his party.” ‘This language of the Butts, the Sullivans, the Powers, show to what scum of the canail/e the hissers be- longed who were employed to disturb the national Catholic festival of Ireland. Those performances of liberal politeness were repeated in the evening, in the hall where the grand banquet was held. But the Lord Mayor, with a spirit which does him honor, withdrew, together with the guests, allow- ing those others to prove by their conduct the amount of politeness with which they were furnished. ‘There- upon Mr. Butt began to address them, But the Lord Mayor caused the gas to be tirst lowered and then ex- tinguished, leaving in darkness the children of dark- ness, Tho disturbance, however, continued outside tho hall, afong the streets of the city; whereupon the po- lice interfered to compel the disturbers to keep the peace. It must be admitted that the liberals of Europe, who first inspired and now so uncourteously applaud the disturbers of the O’Connell festival, have been badly served, That Fenian, anti-Catholic, liberal demonstra- tion was a very wretched affair and proved only one thing—-the cowardly and abject spirit and the anti-na- tional and iliberal views of the liberals of all coun- tries. PETRUCELLI AND SONZOGNO, ‘To understand the allusions it is necessary to remem- ber that ‘Petrucelli della Gattina’? is one of the politi- cians of the most advanced school from the Romagna, most thoroughly anti-Papal in all his views, and that Rafuelle Sonzogno was the editor of an ultrasrepublican organ in Rome, called the Capitate, in which the Pope | and his Court were very scurrilously handled, and that * he was assassinated as ho sat at his editorial desk one | evening last February. The Nation devotes its first leader to-day to a very just commentary on this absurd caricature, the absurd- ity of which, however, docs not diminish its power of | mischief and misrepresentation on the Continent:— THE “CATHOLIC PRESS’? OF ROME. Tho Voce della Verila, of Rome, in its issue of the 14th of August, has an article on the disturbances at the O'Connell centenary celebrations in Dublin which we commend to the notice of all who would have the utte ances of Continental Catholic journals tru spected hero in Ireland. ‘The Voce is, or affects to be, an ultra-Catholic paper, devoted to. the interests of the Catholic Church, and an organ of Papal views. As the “Voice of Truth,” it pretends to give Catholics, a3 acon. trast to the views of the revolutionary journals, genuine and authentic information—inforination tlat good Catholics. may safely accept and impheitly — be- lieve—on public affairs, Well, the Voce della Verita, Papal organ, tells its readers that the incide: at the close of the procession and of the banquet were got up by the Continental liberals, in conjunction with Irish liberals, the leaders being “Butt ana two other Femians” (due altri Feniani), O'Connor Power and Sullivan, the “Petrucell and 'Sonzogno of Ireland.” ‘At the banquet, however, the good Catholic Lord | Mayor turned off the gas “and left in darker of darkness.” Good Catholics in Rome are as y this “Voice of Truth” that what. Petrucelli_ aud Son- zogno are against religion and the Holy See in Italy, John O'Connor Power and A. M, Sullivan are in Ire- land, And this is the good Catholic “truth,” as con- trasted with the unveracious news of the revolutionary press | Having referred to the terms of intimacy which exist between O'Conner Power and A. M. Sullivan, and Car. dinal Manning and the leaders of the Catholic interest in England, the Nation goes on to say:— demonstrativeness and the exub»rance of those declara- tions of submissiveness and devotion in which—at least when, on a London plattorm, he finds himself in the company of Cardinal Manning and the Duke of Norfolk, &e.—he seems to revel. Time was when the Nation newspaper was the unswerving, uncompromising advo- cate of Irish national aspirations, despite all the sug- gestions or denunciations of prelate or priest, It was £0, certainly, so long as it remained in the hands of Charles Gavan Dufly. ‘There will be good reason to thank Mgr. Nardi’s caricature if it will make the man- agers of the Nation reflect upon their position and re- solve to “try back” and tread again the old ways, SUNDAY WHISKEY. WORK OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTRE—‘TAKING IN THEIR SIGNS’’—-A FEARLESS POLICE CAP- TAIN. A meeting of the American Temperance Union was held at Robinson Hall yesterday afternoon. A large number of people attended, and were addressed by Colonel J, F, Hoy and others. Rey. Mr. Woodward, of Brooklyn, said that the Vigilance Committee still con- tinued its arduous labors, Last Sunday it obtained proofs of tho sale of intoxicating beverages, implicating fifty-two places in New York, among them Gilmore’s Garden and the cottage in Central Park, where it is pre- tended nothing but milk is sold, ‘This last was considered acase of peculiar atrocity, Yesterday seventeen more places in the city were visited by the committee and proof of liquor selling procured in each instance, Evidence was also obtained against eight places in Brooklyn yesterday. A vigilance committee is being formed at Hunter's Point, where it is claimed there is a Grand Jury that will indict every man guilty of selling liquor on Sunday. The case against the Trivune basement proprietors had ab- sorbed three hours of the committee’s time, although he was sorry to say that little progress had been made. He hoped that the case would be finished before the snow falls, but the manner of the speaker indicated that his doubts on this point were very strong. In regard to the future, he said that the skies were brightening. The cnormons force of public opinion and the interosts of morality were with the temperance party, and in the they must prevail. Behind the ohers stands a Grand Jury that, he was happy was not afraid to indict every saloon keeper brought before them, tor the committeo would exercise ample precautions'to make the proof overwhelming in every instance that they prosecuted. The chilly air of yesterday and the indications of a storm prevented mich travel to the usual out-of-town Sunday resorts, and the boisterous fellows who renier Coney Island and such places so. pleasant on the Sab- bath remained m the city and lJounged around the streets. It is, too, quite probable, despite the cheering tone adopted in Robinson Hall, that this element did not go thirsty during the day, and that the liquor sell- ers did not fal of doing a thriving business. Down town the most casual observer could not help seeing th idences of Sunday traffic in liquor, About one o’clock the policeman on duty in Park row rapped on the door of. an ale vault which was being freely visited. A boy came promptly forth, andthe officer pointed to some printed placards which notified the passer-by of the business carried on within, Tho signs were at once removed, Near the foot of Chatham street. several pl were in operation, more or less disguisedly, the door of one’ being open a portion of the time, The German places on the Bowery were generally open, without any pretence of reserve; but the nipping air was evidently reducing their profits and turning tho floating scrip into the pockets of sellers of “hard” beverages, On the Third d Sixth avenues the side doors were almost univer- pen, although in many places a scout stood by the ‘There was no practical difficulty in the way of obtaining as much liquor as could be paid for. Captain Willams, of the Fourth precinct, said no new instructions had been received from headquarters in regard to Sunday sales, and that the men were pro- ceeding in the old routine, Dealers were forced to take in movable signs or placards, put up their shutters or draw down their shades, and’ manifest generally an ob- servance of outward decency within tho hours jaid down in the Excise law. Captain Lowery, of the Sixth precinct, said that, in the present state of the law, decency of appearance was all that could be maintained on Sunday Policemen could not enter a liquor shop to obtain evidence of the Vivlation of one law without themselves violating an- other, ‘The Sixth ward had a hard name, undeservedly in his opinion. The people were poor and greatly in nationality, but they were hard working and Hy law observing people, A strict enforcement ion 5 of the Excise law, which compels the closing of liquor shops from one to five o'clock . M. every day, produced a most happy elfect in the diminution of crime and the number of arrests for drunkenness. 1t was strictly carried out in the precinct, and he intended it should be. The sup- pression of the Ltahan dance houses, too, had removed afertile cause of assaults and stabbings. “When the law is changed,” added the Captain, ‘so that I can stop the sale of liquor im this precinct, and I receive the orders to do so, depend upon it it shall be stopped. 1am wholly untrammelied here and would carry out 0 that eflvet fully and unreservedly. any favors to the liquor sellers, and when T can legally stop their Sunday sales and ai ordered to do so, depend upon it T will.” AN ARREST AT SANDY SPENCER'S, An officer made a hostile entrance into Sandy Spencer's restaurant, at the corner of Broadway and Fulton street, last night, He was red-haired and dig- | nilied, even to solemnity. He entered noiselessly, and, waving his club as if it were the wand of an enchantress, “i the mouosyllable, Come!” “What for and ¥” said the ender, “Ah! answered the solemn guardian, “didn’t I see yez sellin’ beer jist now? Gome!” “I’ve only just come on,” pleaded tho bartender; but his blue-coated tormenter only re- sponded, “Come!” So the unhappy John Zeller, once the king of baso bali players, went to the Fourth precinct station house, where his ‘appearance gladdened the eyes of Captain Williams. Aud the partner of Sandy Spencer ordered all doors to be opened wide, that all passers-by might enter the banquet, even though they might not drink beer, Then all those people who had eaten but were athirst, except the man who had stood at the bar and drank tea, went sorrowfully away, and mournful- hess overcame the waiters in Sandy Spencer's saloon, ARRESTS OF LIQUOR DRALERS, This is not the first nor fortieth instance of like con- duct on the part of the Catholic press of Rome about and. Nearly every villanous calumny of tho English press against the people of Westmeath was rved up as good Catholic truth about the Irish Car- bonari. When Mr. Gladstone first introdaced his dread- ful Coercion bill the Osservatore Komano undertook to explain that this was a benevolent effort of the good Signor’ Gladstone to repress the _ frightful cations from American exhibitors have been abundant enough, especially in the classes of furniture and cabi- netware of various kinds, stoves, ranges, hardware and clothing. The space set apart for American exhibitors is about 160,000 square feet, and applications more than enough to twice fill this space have been recetved, many of wh will be declined, 60 as to allot room for the other classes not well represented. No space has yet been allotted to any applicants, but it is probable that Mr. Henry Pettit, who has charge of this department, will begin) making the assignments very soon, when public notifications will bo issued fix- ing upon a date in the future upon which the last applieations will be admitted, Aw the list stands at present Pennsylvania has filed many, more requests for space than any other State. Next | comes New Jersey, which is taking more interest in Centennial matters than any other State but this. New York 1s next, but her work is small in comparison with her wealth and extent of manufactures, New England | is doing well in this matter, and the West is exceedmgiy alert, But from the Southern States tho applications have been meagre, the reasons for which are more of them pecuniary than political, it 1s hoped. WHAT MR, WELSH SAYS, In a speech before the Virginia editors who visited the Centennial grounds day before yesterday Hon. John Welsh, the President of the Board of Finance, hinted at the mattor rather delicately, He said ‘They had met with many disappointments, but they had gone on with the con n that the day must come when the people of this great country would come to their suppo With that interest which they were justilied in expectin As things now stood, they were becotiing more and more couraged every day, and he could not ‘heip feeling that and his associates would be sustained In the fullest d carrying out the work to a grand consummation, Lt was of et importance, however, that the efforts being made to niorin and stimulate the hiterests of the people should not be relaxed, since there is much to be done, both in securing material support and in obtaining w fair fepresentation of | cts and industries of the country, | ‘The foreign governments are very uctive. The Khediv Egypt will spend $250,000 in securing a grand disp! his country, and England, France, Belgium and ¢ are striving to see which shall have the most ered exhibit. He hoped that every one present would carry home with him the determination that he would do his best to have his State worthily represented in the Exhibition. This was the true method of arousing & deep interest in the celebration; and he bop at the gentlemen from Virginia would Femember that one of the principal objects of the celebration was to bring the people of the various sections together and make them respect and love each other. (Applause. ALLEGED MALPRACTICE. Coroner Croker was yesterday called to take the ante- mortem statement of Mra Elizabeth Burrows, a young, married lady, residing at No. 406 West Kighteenth street, who lies at the point of death from alleged mal- practice at the hands of a midwife named Mrs. Margaret Klein, The latter was promptly arrested and con- fronted with the dying Woman, who identified her as the person that atten her, The ante-mortem statement sufficiently implicated the midwife to warrant her de- tention, and she was accordingly committed by Coroner Croker to the Tombs to await the result of Mrs, Bur- rows’ illness. | NOT Y | 7 | The body of the unknown man which was found In | the Hudson, near the Hoboken steamship docks, on Saturday, still hes unidentified in Crane’s Morgue, Ho- boken, Three men visited the place yesterday and ono of them pronounced the remains to be those of a New York laborer who was drowned at the toot of Twenty: fourth street some time ago. The other two, however, were positive in stating that the body was not his, The difficulty of recognition lies in the decomposed state of the body, crimes rife in Ireland. “In the county of Thurles,” | said this Catholic organ of truth, “there are forty miscreants now before the tribunils, and nearly as many more in Longford, charged with murdering priests.” At the moment these miserable articles were appearing in the Papal organ there were Irish gentle- men in Rome serving in the Papal Zouaves; men, sume | of whom had spilled their blood on the. field of Castel Fidardo defending the Holy See; all of whom subse- quently stood in the breach at ‘the Porta Pia, With Durning checks they read these libels on their country daily appearing in the so-called Cathoite organs, Soime of them waited on the editor of the Osservatore. He promised to “inquire” about it, The Irish Zouaves | wrote home to the gentleman who is, according to the Voce, “the Sonzogno of Ireland,” entreating him to for- ward, forinsortion in the Osservatore Romano, aletter cor. | recting those absurd and insulting misrepresentations. He | complied. The Irish Pontifical Zouaves carried the let- | ter to the editor, and Waited for weeks and months, but neither letter nor retraction nor explanation ever ap- peared. That letter, thus refused by the editor of the Osservatore Romano, we will some day publish, so that the Irish bishops and priests and’ people behold what defence a Papal organ in Kome refused to Ireland in the person of her children, at the very moment when they were, so to speak, shedding their blood in defence of the Holy See. And now, to-day, comes tho Voce della Verita to tell the simplotons who may still ve duped by its fables that the man to whom but the other day Cardinal Antonelli addressed a certain mem- orable telegram from the Vatican—conveying the bless- ing of the Holy Father to him and his colleagues (the Irish “Petrucelli”” included)—is, forsooth, “the Son- zogno of Ireland 1’? ‘The Nation then asks:—‘Why is the so-called Catho, lic press of the European Continent so weak and inetti- cacious 1 tho arena of public opinion?” It pro- cecds:— 1 ‘The miserable Impotency of tho so-called Catholic press of Europe, with, perhaps, a brilliant exception of here and there, 1s linked up with another subject solemn and serious import for all thoughtial Catholte: how have so many of the C dom been lost to ‘or been A fu all that relates to public opinion and political ace tion? How has the Christian world come to behold unmoved the international outrages and inta- mics of the Piedmonties usurpation in Italy? How has it been possible in the midst of these “two hundred millions” for the most vencrable, the most just and beneficent ruler of Christendom—the head of the Catholic Church—to be ruthlessly. set upon and saeri- logiously despoiled by treat vaders? Thero ts among Catholics who r hings an un- willingness to utter the sorrowful but irresistible con Viction—the spoliation of the Holy Father, the triumph of the revolutionary schemes, has cause the public opinion and pop y the nations of Europe were disregarded, unstudied, un- cared for, neglected, lost, alienated, and eventual many instances, wounded and outraged by those in the interests of religion and s y, should guarded, nurtured, studied and cherished those things us the most priceless of all possessions. And the so- called Catholic press of Europe—with, as we have said, exceptions, alas! too few—represents with fatal exacti- tude the disastrous policy in these civil affairs that has lett the Catholic Chureti where it is to-day in tnany once Catholic land. | People who have watched tho réle that A. M. Sullivan and his associates desire to play among English Roman Catholics will not ve surprised at the bitter indignation which they feel at being classed by the Vatican organ with Belgian Freemasons and German liberals But | thero 18 another view of the matter. Many persons | will not bo sorry if the study of Mgr. Nardi’s queer | little sketch of the “Due Feniani”? may result in mod- | ‘ating the profuseness of Mr, Sulliyan’s clerical | ‘om the Holy se | Prohibition law, people from New York, Brooklyn and vicinity, en route | | locked up for the night By orders of the Board of Police Commissioners, Captain Allaire, of the Fourteenth precinct, made a descent last night upon several liquor saloons, and arrested the proprietors for violation of the excise law in selling liquor on Sunday. The following persons were arrested:—Peter McGinn, No. 1L Spring street; Luke Hackett, No. 21 East Houston; Jacob Eager, No. 104 Bowery; Thomas Stanton, No, 27 Spring street; Adam Wolf, No, 26 Spring street; William Scherénback, No, 80 Bleecker street; Agnes Colson, No, 320 Mott street, The prisoners will be arraigned at the court this morning. AN EXODUS TO HOBOKEN, The German element betook itself to Hoboken on ac- count of the stricter enforcement of the Sunday Liquor ‘The ferryboats were thronged with to the colossal tdeutsches Volksfest, which was at the height of its celebration yesterday in the Schuet: Park at Union Hill, Fabulous sums were paid to hack- men for transporting the revellers to the carnival. Some enterprising New Yorkers embarked in this busi- | ness without the requisite license and wound up at the st The roads were swarming with pedestrians and vehi- cles. Only a few arrests were made by the Hoboken po- lice, the disposition of whom rendered pickpocketing a perilous venture, A busy traffic was kept up until an advanced hour this morning. WRECK OF A GIN MILL A BARROOM FIGHT WHICH SERVED THE ENDS OF JUSTICE. On the corner of North First and Second streets, Williamsburg, is a little rum hole which has become notorious of late for the disorderly character of its customers and proprietors, August and Phobe Baker, and Captain Woglom, of the Fifth precinct police, has been anxiously watching for an opportunity to obtain @ revocation of the license, and thus relieve the neighborhood of a crying nuisance, Last evening the opportunity occurred. Baker and his wife both became fuddied, and under the iniluence of liquor opened their saloon on Sunday, About nine o'clock Daniel Graham and John Smith, who had been out riding, alighted in tront of the place and entered to take a drink, Mrs, Baker waited on them, and as sbe seemed to fumble over the change arged her with giving away the drink and the drawer to Smith. A row was the imme. Baker ok his wife first and then | Smith him. A revolver was next drawn and | then ‘alam entered into the fight, which, though it lasted scarcely five minutes, resulted in the completo wreck of the saloon, the counter being upset and every | fragile article within it being broken, and the entire party, with black eyes, bloody noses and cut heads, being’ taken to the’ station house, where they were ‘The horse and wagon of Gra- ham wore also takey charg: of by the police, MURDEROUS RUFFIANS. As Thomas Hogan, aged twenty-nine years, living at No, 36 Spring street, was passing through Elizabeth | street, at an early hour yesterday morning, he was sud- denly attacked. near Grand street by four unknown mon, one of whom stabbed him three times with a > ouce in the lett hip and ran away, Neither vito the W slight, WRECK. assailants Mr, ANOTHER LIFE Coroner Croker was yesterday notified by the police of the Twenty-first precinct that an anknown woman, aged about forty-five years, had beon found dead tn the hallway of No, 438 Third avenue, The deceased had bluo eyes and brown hair and wore a cottou dregs, # black shaw! and hat, a red underskirt and gaiter shoes, tion house, where they were mulcted by the Kecorder, | 5 THE WANDERERS’ RETURN, Coming Home of the Summer Pleasure Seekers. SCENES AT THE RAILROADS, The European Reflux of Tourists. Since the first of the present month the summer pile grims from Gotham have been retracing their steps and returning to their native air, As a rate, the advent of tember tolls the knell of the seaside watering places. The ocean breezes lose their balmy quality and bathing falls into disrepute. The inland summer re- sorts retain their attractiveness longer, for September is the month of all others when the country looks its best and brightest. There is less dust and heat, and, corre- spondingly, more comfort. Annually New York is de- pleted of its regular population by at ieast 100,000 peo- ple, who betake themselves to Europe and to all tho many watering places that abound at home. It is calcus lated that since the 1st of the present month half that number have returned and half the remainder are on their way. Watering place residents are like sheep— when one fashionable party leaves the rest are apt to follow pell-mell, A single cold, wet day near the ond of the season precipitates a rush for home, and thus we find the leading depots of travel are now, after the recent cool spell, thronged by returning crowds, From every quarter the truant ones are dropping into the eity— some from quiet out-ofthe-way nooks in } °y and Long Island, some from the brilliant glitter of New. port drawing reoms, some from the echoes of the sad sea waves at Long Branch, some from the tempting digsipations of Saratoga, and some from every conceiy- ablo sort of place. THE FOCUS OF TRAVEL, ‘A majority of the watering places are reached from the Grand Central depot. From there the tourist takes passage for all the favorite summer resorts on the’ Eastern coast, from New London to Bangor in Maine, and inland from West Point to Saratoga and from there to Niagara Falls, Within this cireuit are embraced at least five hundred places, patronized to a greater or lesser extent annually by residents of Now York. Now that the return flow has fully set in it is a very interesting study to watch the fashionable throngs that debouch on Forty- second street of an afternoon from the Grand Central depot, Here is a family all complete—father, mother, boys, girls, nurse and baby—in an extreme state of hilarity. The children are the picture of health and even the small baby gives evidence of having imbibed the vigorous air of the country. The old folks are serenely happy and cannot but flatter themsotves they have laid in a stock of health that will tide them safely over the winter,. They are in a very benevolent temper and trusp themselves uncomplainingly to the charge of | the ferocious cab driver who is yelling for their patron- age on the curbstone. Then the young gentleman, with the long alpaca duster, the belted bag at the waist and perhapsa fishing rod or fowling piece encased im gray Jinen, hurries along the platform, rejoiced to get back to civilization and tell the story of his travels and ad- ventures. Everywhere in the thronging multitude one sees the tints of health and good living in the faces alike of men and women. The latter rival the bloom of the peaches that are now pouring with lavish abundance into the markets, There is an air of strength and joyousness in the arrivals from the country that stands in marked contrast to the jaded and listless demeanor of those doomed to pass the summer in the city Some come homo all trayel-s | though they had been camping in th ing the pursuit of It is easy to pick ow who have been sojourning at Newport and & from the bolder and less fashionable ones who have pierced the Adirondack forests and tisbed in th lakes of that wild region. The Saratoga tourist is pale and dressed in his best, but the adventurous spirit who has spent his stimmer days climbing the rugged Catskills or hunting in the woods of Maine pays little attention to the cat or color of his habih- ments, while his face is tawny from the wind and sun and his spirits are strung to a high tension, All classe | are represented in the motley crowd that issues from the long line of carriages and in endless procession files out upon the sidewalk at Forty-second street. ‘Tha clerk earning a pittance of $15 a week jostles the mil- lionnaire who keeps a country palace up the Hudson, Both have been away on vacation, and not unlikely tha poor clerk has enjoyed himseif to’ better purpose ‘than the nabob beside him, He has had no high brands of wine to unsettle his liver and digestion. His exercise has been on shanks’ mare in place of in a carriage, and the chances aro he brings home with him a stock of health for which the miilionnaire would exchange all hit money. THR INFLUX. Tho influx of the wanderers has been steadily aug. menting since the month opened, At the Grand Cen tral depot on Saturday the evidenco of summer having “gone glimmering through the dream of things thas were” was made plainin the immense number and quantity of passengers and passenger baggage trbight | that rollea in by the afternoon trains, A breath of | winter in the air bad hurried back thousands who may have contemplated spending the remainder of the month in the country. ‘On no one day since the Ist of September, according to the Superintendent of the New York and Harlew Railroad, has there been occasion for extra accom modations on the road. The influx has been evenly distributed over ten or eleven days, with a marked in- crease in the past two days On Saturday over summer tourists arrived at the Grand Centraj j depot with an estimated weight of 800 tons of baggage, which would give om- ployment to at least 600 express wagons, | Calculating that each of the 6,000 arrivals spent on au | average $000 each, there is found a gross expenditure of $2,500,000, ‘The baggage department at the northern end of the depot was a place of extreme business activ ity. On several traius extra baggage cars were attached, ‘The express wagons did a roaring trallic. Sarato; trunks were conspicuous, and in many instance: a single family reqiired the entire accomninodation of a wagon tor their own baggage, enough to it out a smail army. RETURNING FROM LONG BRANCH AND LONG ISLAND, On Saturday the Long Branch boats and the New Jers sey Southern Railroad brought a host of people up to | the city, who have, no doubt, come to stay. An extra Jong train pufted into the ‘depot of the Long Island Railroad at Hunter's Point, bearing a multitude of sume | mer sojourners on Long Isiand, chiefly at Rockaway, Mr. Custis, the General Superinwndent, tecis satished | with the’ season's returns, Long Island is every | year growing moro and more popular with New | Yorkers; und as for Rockaway, “it has more than doubled its patrons since railroad facilities of reachin | there have been afforded. i Last Sunday and next wi probably be the last to witness any considerable exodus irom New York to the silver sands of Rockaway. mosquito season on Long Island is responsible for driv. ing hundreds of New Yorkers home who might other- wise elect to stay the entire of this month im such de- Hightful rural places as Huntington, Babylon, Bath and Southold, DOWN THE NUDSON, ‘The passenger tratfic on the Hudson River was quite considcrablo during the season and is now at its height down stream. The scenery on both banks of the noble river is assuming its splendid garb of antumn tints, and the pilgrims who fled Irom the torrid heats and spi themselves over Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York State and Canada are to a great extent | coming back via the Hudson River. Duri | al septomver the aqueous roads of travel will be popular, The Dauiel Drew, Dean Richmond | and ©, Vibbard brought multitudes of people and moun- | tains of baggage down from various points on tho river during the past week, and the Narragansett and Rhode Island, of the Stonington line; the Iristol and Provi- dence, of the Fall River line of Boston and | City of New York, of the New York and Norwieh lin and the Electra and Galatea, of the Providence line, ti unusually large lists of passengers homeward bound, | HOME FROM BUROPE, | From Europe the return tide is rising higher every | day, Last week the number of cabin passengers that arrived {rom various European ports was 1,790, These were not all New Yorkers, half, at least, belonging to other parts of the United States. Twelve steamers en- | tered the port, and in only one or two mstances wero | there any verths to spare for cabin passengers, The | intiux from Etrope is now at its meridian and will soom be un the dodiine, LOOKS oF THE city. From Union squure to the Park, in all the vast mas of private dwellings embraced between these two points, there is great stir at this moment. Houses ¢losed up and silent as the tomb during the summer are openin; their doors and windows to life and light. Carpets and furniture are in all stages of handling and arranging. Piumbers, whitewash artists and bbing women are met at every turn in the quiet streets branching off the | avenues. There ts Joy in the heart of the milkman and grocer, for the winter of their discontent is near an end, and their patrons are reappearing ones again, The dition to the city’s populanon is perceived in the gradu. ally swelling throng of promenaders along, the tine of | Broadway, and in the increase of private carriages im the reguiar daily procession through Fj/th avenue te the Park. CAUGHT AGAIN, | OMcer McGloin, of tho First precinct, yesterday mp fested Joseph Buck, aged twenty-seven years, & com viet, who recently escaped from Fort Edward, Wast Jngton county, N.Y. ‘The prisoner will be sent back v@ the Washington county authorities,