The New York Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1876, Page 3

~ COSTER MEMORIAL Arrangements Being Perfected and Success Assured, Vriendly Emulation Between Hotels and Clubs in Getting Subscriptions. ADMIRERS. SOME BROOKLY Specimen Letters from All Sorts of People. mmm TOTAL HERALD FUND 10 DATE $3202 61 General Phil Shoridan’s letter, in which he seizes with both hands the presidency of the Custer National Monument Association, as pubtished in the Heraup yesterday, was read with universal satisfaction. Evory one seemed to foe! the fitness of the dead hero’s gallant comrade in arms presiding over the nation’s efforts to perpetuate and honor bis memory. The massacre still forms the aimost exclusive topic of conversation, and the contributions of the peoplo to the fumd flow in an undiminished stream. Subscription lists were opened yestbrday in the principal club houses in this city, in Delmonico’s restaurant and in all the leading hotels, and a most commendable rivalry exists between them as to which shall collect the largest amount. As will bo seen below, the Hotel Branswick, the Hoffman House and tho Travellers’ Clab last night forwarded to the Heap office sub- Seriptions, and they promise to go on in the good work. No doubt is felt that, despite the absence of so many prominect clubmen ¢ and hotel guests at the seaside, a handsome amount will be raised in the Empire City. The Army and Navy Club held a meeting one week ago at which it resolved to appoint a committee of five to raise funds aud define some plan for a memorial to their lute com- rade. General Hancock, however, is in Wasbington, the greater part of the members are oct of town and for these reasons the commitice bas not yet been named. The idea of a memorial most ‘avored by the members of the club is that of an independent monument to be erected by them at West Point. Below will bo found a fow representative letters, selected hap bazard from those that accompanied contributions, BRUNSWICK HOTEL'S SUBSCRIPTIONS. New York, July 19, 1876. To Tux Eprror or tax Heraup:— The proprietors heads of departments of the Brunswick Hotel have to-day subscribed the appended | amounts toward crecting a monument to the lumcnted and gallant General Custer:— Mitchell & Kinzier, W. N. Blinn... E. &, McCarty 5 M. Farle: 2 Thomas M. Cortney. 2 Capt. G. E. Harding. EP. Ebertin. 1 1. Total amount. MITCHELL & Kid HOFFMAN HOUSE CONTRIBUTIONS. Horymax Houss, New York, July 19, 1876. To rue Epiror or THe HeRALD:— Enclosed please tind $30, the amount of subscrip- tions | collected in the calé of this hotel last evening toward the erection of the monument to the lamented Custer and his comrades, F. E. Loup, Ly $2 00 HL. Tracy. E. A. Tilford. E. 3. Ackerly William H. Smith... Total SSSSsssess en s s THE FIRST OF THE CLUBS. New York, July 19, 1876, To Tax Eprror oF tHe Heraup The following sums were to-day subscribed by mem- bers of the Travelier's Club to the Custer National ene fund :— ah s+s-$5 Henry Tileston. 3 J.D, Tileston, A DOCTOR'S SUBSCRIPTION. New York, July 19, 1876, To Taw Emon oF tie Heraun:— ‘Koclosed one dollar is my mito toward the perpetua- | tion of the memory of the noble soldier, Genera: Cus- ter, and his companions. DR. JACOBY. WHAT THE MONUMENT SHOULD BE. New York, July 18, 1876. To tne Eprror or the HeraLp The Custer monument | would suggest shoulu have a vase brosd enough on which to lay the offerings of all sho wish to co honor to the talien brave. Not one nap’s name alone should be inscribed thereon, but the vames of all the other gallaut soldiers who were worne down by the savage tide. The gonument should stand on the spot where hey fell, the stone to be taken from ‘he mountains which looked down upon the butchery. the rock should be rough hewn, typical of the rugged jate which overtook the poor fellows, and in harmony with the wild scenery abont the place. It need not be expensive, and should be imposing. worthy of the memory of the men whose sad fate it commemorates. Thus standing in its rugged and solitary grandeur it would be a perpetual reminder to the Indian that the white man remembers bis culmination of his .dloody work, and may perhaps tend to solten or con- \rol his murderous instiot. SA “MANY MICKLES MAKE A MUCELE.” Brooxurs, July 19, 1876, To ru Eprror or tne Hrrato:— The undersigned citizens of the Twenty-first ward herewith transtuit to your care tie sum of $4 15 toward heping to build a monument to the memory of the brave Geveral Custer and bts hereie band:—Ciptain Scott, H. B Abbott, James Garrison, John Garrison, Sam McCracken, Henry Hudtwalter, H. J. Wallace, Isaac Smith, Liester Pardy. Louis Mitler, David Stow. art, Thomas Bisket, Jawnes F. Garrison, Nick Schnable, on Abbott, Joba Snirss, Jacob Bounerwith, Richard Urwick. 4 SUFFERER'S TRIBUTE. Garven Crry, L. 1, July 17, 1876, To tHe Eptror or the Henaip:— Tam a poor man, but loved General Custer dearly. I lost one brother ‘fighting under bim in the rebellion and another brother bas likely died with his geperai iv ‘the Must fatal batt. | enclose $1, and may every man that ever drew sabre send all he can to insure the con- Mruciion of a monument which will cause luture gen- wesone to bonor the robes ¢ wae Custer as ly a8 do those who served wit! im. nid M, SPELLANE. VARIOUS SUBSCRIF TIONS. Pau a bugler for the Harris Light cavalry sends 2. H. J. G., a Texan, coniridutes $2. An English woman sends $1, praying “that the Al- mighty will, in His infinite goodness and mercy, com- fort and sustain the aged parents and ihe poor young wife’’ of the fallen General, Charles R. George, int sergeant Company A, First n, “*seven-year-old orator of Wash- ” ‘gubscribes $2. Southern woman sends Soeloy & Miller, of 695 Lroadw: Y. Esmar, of Brooklyn, sends $: J. U, 5. sends $1 from Shrewsbury, N. J. “A Subseriber”’ sends trom Newburg, Ohio, $1 10, the gombined subscriptions of L. 5. W. and Howard Callam, Laiu Forsyth and Allan Forayth— three lite ones, iy cents. rN y oung Lady"? sond respect. fvoiy 50 centa and $1 in the same enclosuré. 8. F, G. sends $1 from H. Port, N. Ye "? forwarde $1 from Jersey City. ‘Johnnie Reb,’ of Norfolk, Va, eends 50 conts with “sympathy for the grie! stricken families and admira- tion for the noble dead.” C. A. T. subseribes 50 cents, J. A.B, Jt. of Brooklyn, sends 50 cents, “One of the Red Neckties of the First Brigade,” sends cents frown Fair Haven, Conn. forward $5, Charlic R, of St. Louw, forward 25 cent K. of Uneasy ile. eubverite: cen Elmer and Florina tiondrieks, ‘two little ooy#,” sond 50 cents from Long Branel. > | ior after bis battle with Crook he immediately planted ‘NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 20. 1876. Matt Mr, and Mrs. Farrell, Little ry ai Artbur and Robby, Charles Rosenthal and J. Shiele. EL , W. R. ier, Tom G., W. Mel., George Tread and Lewis Wiseman each send five cents. RECAPITULATION, Brunswick Hotel. $74 00 Hoffman House. 30 00 Travellers’ Club. 30 00 bi 100 46 100 125 200 1 00 200 200 5 00 100 100 110 50 50 100 100 100 50 50 50 50 25 2 60 2 Wiillam N. B. 2 Wiluam Hall 25 Helen Scott ose 25 Stonewall Brigade. : 25 Twenty subscribers ,10 cents as . 290 Six subscribers, 5 cents each, as above. . 30 TOCA. ..s.sees eevee ee Previousiy acknowledged. CORNELL'S CLEAN SWEEP. Ithaca’s Boys Carry Off Every Prize at Saratoga. THE UNIVERSITY CONTEST, Ostrom’s Crew Victorious After a Gal- lant Rush in 17m. 1 1-2s. SINGLE SCULL —_——. Francis Rows Over the Course in 18m. 42 3-4s. EVENT FRESHMAN RAOE. Grand Total..... SITTING BULL’S HISTORY. AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE LITERARY SAVAGE BY COLONEL NUGENT—A WHITE MAN'S INSOLENCE MADE HIM A GREAT WAR- RIOR—HIS PICTORIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY—a SINGULAR STORY. [From the Little Rock (Ark.) Evening Star, July 16 ] Litres Roox Barracks, Ark., July 16, 1876. ‘Autobiographical Sketch of the Indiau Sitting Bull,” who has recently come into such prominence by the death of General Custer and his companions. This book is a great curiosity, It purports, by means of pictures drawn by himsolf, to illustrate some of the most distinguished feats of valor in the life of one of the most remarkable Indians which the country bas produced, If the life of Sitting Bull is dispassionately considered ho must take high rank among the unlet tered savage military chieftains of history. His recent batttlo with General Crook lifts him away out of the list of vulgar savages, and gives him a claim to be con- sidered a skilful general. The manner in which he dis- posed his forces, taking advantage of the topography of the battle fleld wherever it presented itself, and bis skilful man@uvring to divide Crook’s forces, and the desperate manner in which he fought to prevent the reunion of the forces aftcr he had divided them, show this unlettered Indian to be a natural born general. His tactics were to pierce the enemy’s centro, and this he did in @ very masterly manner. His treatment of Custer shows hin to be as cunning in his strategy as he is skiltal im bis tactics, SITTING BCLL’S COUP D’KTAT. He decoyed the brave cavalry officer intoa defile of the mountain, where he feil a prey to the Indians, who doubtless sarrounded him. From my knowledge of Indian character and tactics, I think it ve doubtful whether Custer was able to inflict any very severe injur: on his foes, A word more asto the tactics of Sitting Buil und then I sha!l have come to the true history of the vook referred to in the boginning of this communica- tion, The plan of the federal leaders—or perbaps it would be more proper to say leader, for General Sheri- dan bas no doubt planned the campaign which Crook. Terry and Gibbon are executing—contemplates the combined movement of three separate invading col- umne, Crook leads one from the neighborhood of old Fort C. F. Smith on the south; Terry’s forces move from the east, below the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone, and Gib bon’s forces come fom the northwest. Tho forces of Terry and Gibbon were to make a junction somewhere near the mouth of the Big Little Horn, and then move against the Indians. Crook's command was to come in from the south, ‘Terry and Gibbon, ans jus forcing them into a cul de sac, The tactics of Sitting Bull seem to have boen those pursued by the great Napoiecon in bis famous campaign of 1814, and were the same practised ty Geveral Lee at Richmond in 1864-05, when tbe armirs of Grant and Butler, the one from the Rapidan and the otter from the ora were operating against the confederate capital. In military parlance, ho 1s moving on interior lines, which, being shorter than those operated on by his enemies, enable him to strike them with great rapidity in places r mote from each other. This he seers to have done, himseit across the path of Terry, and with what effect ths melancholy fate of Custer and his command too mainfully tell. Acting on these interior lines, which R seems to know 80 well how to do, he has his ene- mies at immense disadvantage, and before he can be ma- na@uvred or fought out of his position there must be a great sacritice of life. That he will be driven out by one or the other of these means, or both, there can be no doubt. NOW FOR THR TRUE HISTORY of tho “Pictorial Life of Sitting Bull,” drawn by him- self, In 1869-70 I was stationed at Fort Buford, at tho mouth of the Yellowstove, us a part of a garrison up- der the command of Lieutenant Colonel Morrow, Thir- | teenth ‘nfantry, now commanding at Little Rock bar- racks. Colonel Morrow had been successtul in not only fighting the hostile tribes that infested the coun- try around the fort and sometimes attacked detach- ments of troops, but also in winning the confidence of the friendly Indians. He was anxtous to mect Sitting | Bul, who had sent more than one war party to the neighvorhood of the fort, and to arrange for a visit from the Indian chief p nt several Indians as a sort of embassy to his camp. Colonel Morrow pro osed that Sitting Bull should come to Fort | Buford with pot more than ten warriors, under a pledge for his rsonal safety, The spring was approaching. when the sireams would allbe swollen by the frespets, id Sitting Bull de- clined to comme at thattime, but made some mdefnite promise of a visit in the future. By his regard for Colonel Morrow, of whom so much, he sent him a volume of his aatobiozrapby, saying there was another volume which would be sent at another time. The Indian by whom the message and book were sent proved unirue to his trast and sold the book to one Edward Lambert for a few pounds of sugar, Lambert gave it to Dr. Kimball. Tho facts ali leaked out, and Colonel Morrow per- mitted the surgeon to retwin the book for the purpose of’sending it to the Army Maseum at Washington, but directod that two fac-similes of it be made by Corpor: 0. Marston, E company, Thirteenth infantry. Th: was done, and Colonel Murrow bas one of them in bis possession and I have the other. The book is curious, not only as illustrative of the | Jife of a famous Indian, but is valuabie also as an | exponent of Indian pictorial art, and the true h story | a8 to how it came into the possession of the white mun | is worth preserving. { SITTING BULL'S EARLY LAE. ‘This article 1s already long, but 1 wiil add alineabout the early bistory of Sitting Bull, He is a Stoux or Da- kota Indian. For several fo he lived at Fort Rice, on the Missouri River, and was known as a ‘Blanket Indian." This is a term o! scorn or derision amoug the Ind:ans, and js applied to Indians who “‘hang around”’ the militar; jain and wear the white man's blanket instead of the Indian’s buffalo robe, for you mast know | that the robe is the Indian’s badge of manhood. One day, for whatreason is not known, a soldier struck Sitting Bull a blow. — That was the blow in whose train has followed a long list of berotc deeds and which has shaped the Indian policyof the United States, and to which the death of Custer aud his command may be im- | mediately traced. That blow aroused the spirit of a great | Seal whieh until then had lain dormant. He at ence | flew to the desert, where he organized a band from the disaffected of all tribes and made unrelenting war on the whites; and from that from the fails of the Missouri to Fort Randall, and from the borders of Montaua to Devil’s Lake. On the 17th of May, 1968, Sitting Bull attacked the village of | Museoll Sheil, One of the tributaries of the apper Mis- | sourt, I was at the time encamped with a detachment of troops near the town, and but for the aid 1 oftered ho would have taken the piace, He renewed his attack on the 24th and captured nineteen head of cattle, after killog two of my men, who were at the time guarding | the herd. | recaptured tho herd. that be isa brave man and and recent eveuts indicate that he is possessed of some, at least, of the higher qualities ot generaiship. ROBERT NUGENT, Major Twenty-fourth iniaatry. THE THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION. ah ctghnly No, 71 Broapway, New Yors, July 18, 1876. To THs Error or th Henan A writer in your issue of the 17th states that when Custer assumed command of the Third Cavalry vi- vision ‘it had the worst reputation” of any in the Army of the Potomac, 4 in two months it was the crack divison of the army.” This is simply a mistake if not a wilful misrepresentation, and carries with it AD Unjust reflection upon a division well known to have veeu fully up tothe bigh standara of the rest of the Mary aud ¥. “ehudren of a subscriber,”’ send 60 cents irom New Cumberland, Pa Francis Bo An sends 2 conts, as do also, rrspeetively, T. Wilkam, A New Pranswick | Willian Halt, fatte Helen Scott and | Brigade,” A Boor Kx-Confederate, “who respects the inemory of the gallant Custer,” “Three versons that ioved Geueral Custer'—Grube, 1 Weisman—send each Oe nts. The following persons each forward ten cents, nany ik iotters eXpressing griel that they cannot seni dollars instead: —W Milspangh, J. AL MoG., of Mapiewoou, No J.; “twa Littic Giri,” Old Sport Witte Day, C.J. Maler. A Bateher Jersey} Hudson Irvine, “A Philadelphia Reade James in & Backlio, Joh Doe, Calabria, Fraucis P. Troanot, cavalry corps under Sheridan's commani. General Custer was a most gallant and chivairie officer, and did | bis duty bravely ana weil, His reputation rests upon a foundation of noble deeds, and | does not need to be supported by detraction of others. With such brigade commanders as Generals Chayuan an | al Meintosh, and such regimental commanders as Wells, Hammond, Beajammn, Hut, Brinton, Whitaker and others whose hanes are househod words, the | Pherd Cavairy Diveson, when Caster suecceded me in | command of it, was in every respect the equal of any division in theentire army, [tts not too muck vo say that it never failed to do what it was sent ta do, never wos bebind time in battle or march aad never forgot its diveypline in the slightest degree. onrs, The New York Hxratp lately had a notice of an | |, about ten years | | 280, to this he has been the terror of the country, | The Carnelian Again Crosses the Line First in 17m, 93 1-28, GLORY OF A DAY. Enthusiastic Friends Shoulder the Victors and Have a Jollification. ‘“"RAH FOR CORNELL!”’ Saratoca, July 19, 1876. In the early morning the college lads and their friends were out on the broad balconies of the Congress and Union hotels, and the cab and wagon drivers were busy on the street canvassing the merits of their many nondescript vehicles, There was no such rush for the Jake, five miice away from Saratoga, as mado tho re- gatta days of Jast year memorable, and in fact all the excitement of the day, as far as the village was con- cerned, was crowded into the half hour following nine o’clock in the morning and she quarter of an hour suc- ceeding she arrival at Congress Hall of the winning crew—Cornell. By comparison with tho regatta of 1875 the onc of to-day wasa failure. The enthusiasm of the colleges last year infected all classes, trom the waiters at the hotel tables to the dignified dowagers who frequent the hotel balconies, On that occasion, however, thirteen colleges were entered, and the contest vas unprecedented by reason of the large number of idly away from Moon’s to the grandstand, and then directly up one of the lanes to the boats moored on the starting line, three miles up tne lake, off Snake Hill, THE FIRST GUN was fired at 9b. 46m. to order the University crews to launch, and the second nine minutes r to get them into line, A minute and filty seconds later Cornell, with hor bow in a thin white jersey, the other men bare to the waist and all wearing thirty-five cent straw hats and looking uncommonly bucolic, shot around the corner under the bill, and, coming up alongside, was the first toreport. Halt a mmate later Union got afloat at Wesleyan’s raft and came paddling over to her station, her smart magenta and leggings and the nude, brawny backs between setting her of to advantage. Then the alternate white and blue caps { Columbia were seen mi over from their boathouse a mile away to the 7 ward, and when they arrived here Captain Goodwin said:—‘Our rudder wire 1s broken and we must fx All captains bad been cautioned at the Monday meeting to overhaul their gear and test every part of it thoroughly on the night before tne race, “How long will it take?” ive or six minutes,” he replied. “I had put in new ones this morning and looked them over carefully.” After trying to mend them there and finding the effort futile they were given twenty minutes to return 3 2 to quarters, and the‘ other crews, including Harvard, Princeton and Wesleyan, ‘which had all reported meanwhile, were sent 10 cover, the hot sun making it almost necessary. Meanwhile the last ripple had gone from the water. Except one or two small ones faraway over the Green Mountains to the northeast there was hardly acloud inthe sky, and every one was commenting on the superb day and track, Francis, the sculler of Cornell, wus on board the launch, and Mr. Evarts, jooking at bis arm, agreed that it, too, what he had pronounced another row- ing man’s a day or two ago. AN ARM OF THR SRA. Both Columbia and Cornell had agreed to notify the operator at the Snake Hill station to wire word of this unforeseen delay and its cause to the people at the grand stand, and so allay their fears that something might be wrong. In reply to tho question to several of the captains as to whether their men were all right, Weslvyan’s replied that his bow oarsman had been an- noyed in the night with diarrhosa and was still suffering from gripes. At1Oh. 35m. 903, the third gun brought out again first Cornell with her straw hats, and then Princeton and the others, and finally Columbia, THE RACE, “Are you all right?” WCaptain Goodwin—“all right.” When Ethe Qvoats Were all backed promptly up to the line the bows were cautioned to get their boats beaded just in exactly the Tight direction and to do their utmosi to avoid fouling, and at about thirty-five minutes after ten o'clock, no one replying to the question ‘Are you ready !’ the word “Go.” Quickest to get the water, been first to be out and ready for the nell, To the surprise of all the straw come off, but these they were swinging and aft and flying up sharp at tbe fin nd getting more and more ahead of all rivals. Every stroke they took in halfa minute, Sho had put her neigubor behind her all of eight feet; but contrary to all expectations Columbia was not’even second, but over to the lett, in the extreme western lane, bobbing away smoothly and regularly, were the five white handkerchiofs and one red one ofthe six of Harvard. Third, fourth and fifth were the Places assigned her in tho forecast- ing, with Columbia a certain first or second. The guess about Union was nearer right, for here she was a good fourth, so well up on Columbia that it was hard to say which led. The first to show to the rear was Wesleyan, while Princeton was well onto Union, At the RIGHTH OF A MILE FLAGS Cornell, never slackening the burst of thirty-six with which, Yalefashion, she had wisely for a strong crew like hers secured the start, was still leaving ali her ri- at every stroke, and bad already, in this short eighth of a mile, actually drawn her stern clear ahead of Harvard’s bow, and so of everything else on the water. At every stroko she seemed to pick her boat up bodily and sling it viciously forward. Princeton was told the other day that Ler erew lacked what no crew yet lacked that over was fast—'Devil,”” No man could to-day Jay that charge at Cornell’s door, She just had it till it stood out to all eyes, and the Teason she won to-day and won a year ago was because sho rowed as skilfully, 1 not more so, a8 any rival and THE COUR COLLEGE 3 not doing much, and stroke straining altogether too ! her slow thirty-two stroke. Harvard still out-steered much at his our blade. As they drew near the last qvarter Princeton spart- ed brilliantly and picked up fst, but in the next ute the reaction came, and she was back again. Columbia wandered into Cornell’s water, and then abrapuly out again, She was fast getting out of form, one of the midsbipmen looking especially ragged and very much done up. Goodwin was still working away mantully at the stroke, always keeping the pumber well up to 28. Union's form was better than it promised ten minutes before, though three and four were far from parallel, Bancroft, of Harvard, called on his men, and spurted sharply clean up to 40, and then came THR FINEST BURST TO-DAY, for Ostrom was doing the spurt and as an old oar here to-night, keenly alive to the sport and far from eager to seo Cornell win, said, ‘Such spurting as that was never seen here before.'’ Those six men, dull as they had looked toward the end of the second mile, and irregular as they occasionally showed, now quickened and rushed their stroke as though they had been saving all for this final, tremendous effort. “They seemed to aimost pick theiribont out of the water, Again and again they shot her ahead, almost a length ata stroke, and every spurt their red capped rival tried they met 1t with more yet. CORNELL FIRST, They neared the end, apd in a moment were ocross the line, Harvard after them so sharp that the limo judges report but four seconds anda quarter, or but a length and a half between them. But Corneli still had something left in her, for, after hesitating a moment, on she rowed quite a pier below tho stand, while on followed the otber crews in the order of the last two miles, and all glad to at once cease rewing and he on their oars, NO FOULS are claimed or hinted at or thought of, for there were nono. “Anything wrong, Captain Goodwin,” was asked, and ‘*No, sir,” was tle answer, while his men drenche their already wet heads and bodies with the cooling water from the lake. Coruell cheered Harvard, then Harvard choered Cornell and her coach, Mr. Loring, who lay pear by ina skiff. In a moment the winners were high up on stout shoulders, a procession was formed and went along in front of the grand stand, Flags were raised alolt, and yelling and checring wel- comes were liberally poured out. THE TIME, The time, 17m. 14s , is good, but not unusual, cially on that water, pe THE SINGLE SCULL RACE. ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE GALLANT Boys OF _ TTHACA—FRANCIS WINS THE CONTEST IN 13, 42 3-4s.—-‘nan’ FOR THE CoRNELIAN. Samatoaa, July 19, 1876 As soon as the time of the University race was an- nounced from the referee’s boat she sped rapidly to Columbia's quarters, routed out the scullers, got them into line two miles up and off at about half-past eleven o'clock for the single scull race, Again Cornoll swiftly and surely suatched the lead, and again no one could get it from her, her plucky and swurdy young Francis settling at once into a long, steady stroke, opening his hands rather much but putting ahead all the same, Otten he rowed and looked much like Walter Brown, and as he passed the quarter, the threo others nearly abreast behind him, he was alroady away from them more than two good lengths. Keeping steadily on, now looking at Dan- forth of Harvard, on his right, and WREKS, O¥ COLUMBIA, on his left, he wert so smoothly that, though he looked wet, you could hardly see what {t was that made him gain 80. Now, Parmleo lead Danforth slightly, and the latter was barely ahead of Weeks, All pulled letsuroly, and, with the exception of Francis, none show enot light. Columblan gradually dropped tone getty the burly Parmlee, and = Danforth did not seem to mend either, bu not comin, so far as Weeks, who still wont cn ndeeaiy SE. TOWN OF | ¢rewsinvolved. The victory of Cornell then and the general anticipation that this year it would beat all com- petitors as before took out the element of uncertainty, and therefore the clement of interest, out of the struggle. Still, between she hours of nine and ten in the morn- Ing the road to the lake presented a very lively appear- ance, Saratoga abounds in broken down and scedy ooking conveyances. All the wornout and derelict wagons of the country scem to be relegated here. On special occasions like this a desporate attempt 1s made to give them a presentable exterior; but, despite every exertion, the eye ig able to detect tne intrinsic weak- Bess and dilapidation that the thin disguise of paint and paper muslin seeks to conceal, One of these curious carryalls, with over thirty passengers packed like herrings within its stifling interior, keeled over on the ridge of the road this morning amid terrific screaming on tho part of the women and children. No serious injury was sustained by any one, but muslin dresses and alapaca coats suffered terribly. At the grand stand, by the edge of the lake, about 300 persons were scated under the shelter of an awning, which the economy of the Saratoga Rowing Association confines to the contre part of the stand, leaving both ends, several hundred fect in’ length, utterly exposed. By noon the great rove back of the grand stand was filled with buggtes, road wagons, cabs, landaulets and balf a dozen different species of omnibus. Stands for the sale of lager beer and lemonade were erected under the shel- ter of the biggest trees in tho grove, and they dida | royal business, for the heat was great and tho cooling breeze only came at long intervais. At loast half the spectators gathered at this point wore the colors of the | balt dozen crews entered for the principal race of the Gay, showing that they were ehicfly coliege men, and that the interest taken in the matter on the part of the | general public was not very great. THE LAKE AND SURROUNDINGS. As forthe lake and its surroundings, they were all that tho lover of passive rural scenery might desire. Sittiog in front of Moon’s Hotel, and looking through the openings among the old beech trees in the grove in tront, the far-off end of the lake, from whence the | boats took their start, looked like molten silver. Down to the wat edge crept dark masses of timber, while between them bright green meadows and tho fair white | walls of summer cottages were interspersed. For those who took no interest in the race the scenery was an ample and gratifying substitute, ENTHUSIASM. When Cornell in the Un:versity race camo in winner, followed by Harvard second and Columbia third, it was impossible for the maultitade on the stand and in the grove to accept the result in silence, though the heat | might lave dictated that a8 being the wisest course, | They gave three tolerably hearty cheers, but it was as the murmur of a brook to the roar of a mountain tor- | rent compared to the tremendous shout that went upon | the same spot just a year before, when Cornell came in | the winner out of thirteen contestants, That shout | shook the hills and woods as they were never shaken | bofore. As Cornell was also winner in the third and last (the Freshman race) the colors carnelian and white were to be seen on all sides, Tho boys serving out water at the weils instantly adopted them, and all the menials who live on the bounty of visitors thought the | surest passport to patronage was to mount the winning | tints of Corneil om any scrap of ribbon. Arriving in the village alter the race the winning crew was repeat | edly cheered, but the street soon resumed its wonted appearance, except for the rattle now and then of an omnibus bringing bome a lingering party from the lake. . i PREPARING TOK THE START. From daybreak till eight o'clock this morning Sara togn Lake was as smooth as a looking glass and there | Was no promise of Wind Irom any quarter or aught ere than a scorching som. Then a hight breeze rufiled the lower halt or northern of the like inte the smallest ripple, and at hall-pust eight a despatch was sent 10 | town that the first or University race would be started at exactly ton o'clock. Shortly alter nine the referee's | tauneh, the Lady of the Lake, with the officers of toe race on board ond Hon, Will M. Evarts and Hon, &. JAMES Hy WILSON, W. Stoughton, of New York, as guests, steamed rap- | | Work and bot sun were air | whole len, that she rowed harder ‘and stronger, 1t was a plain case of strong men beating weaker ones, Down the second eighth sbe kept to ber thirty-six, and when she reached the quarter mile she had nearly haif a length more on Harvard, whom Wesleyan now began to press & little, while Columbia, like Cornell, was steering a good course, and both Union and Princeton were pull- ing smoothly and evenly, the former not much abead, So they rowed on to the third eighth and then the half mile, Cornell now having opened a gap ahead of the fleet of a clear length or a lead of two lengtas in all, Harvard still taking care of second place, which, tor the first mile at least, scemed to belong to her, she having shaxen clear of Wesleyan in tho next Jane, and keeping her stern opposite Columbia's waist, while Union, on the east, was gamely chasetl by Princeton, and all, save Columbia, continued to steer well. Now came a hazardous step, aud so early in the race, too. Bancroft, the HARVARD STROKE BRGAN TO C. on his men, but it worked well this time, and they had hot struck the five-eighths of a mile flags when at last she was clear of Columbia. E1ther the new wire was not working as well as that of tho latter, as the other day on the Harlom, or did not steer well, or both, at any rate from this point throughout the race while the others steered fairly well, and in some parts admirably, Columbia went zigvagging =o now over, close on to her eastern boundary, now back to her western, and once or twice, ‘when it was too Inte to’ do harm, through, clear into Cornell's water, Notwithstanding ‘her — troubles Union could not catch ber, but was making « most deter- mined race to keep at the head of the second half, while Princeton stayed at five and Wesleyan protected the rear. Until now, and indeed on to the mile, each crew Was rowing its owe style of stroke and rowing it Well; bat, as early in the race as this was, the hard y beginning to tell, Though the water was a dead caim Harvard splashed needlessly. No. m Columbia haa shortened his swing perceptibly and three in Princeton had done likewise, Cornell's thirty-six dropped once to thirty three, but rallied promptly to thirty four and remained there, while the thirty-eight, which Columbia had maintained pretty uniformly from the start, the judge who took thinks at the mile actually once got below thirty-three. At seven-cighths of a mile back Wes- leyan had strack a port oar against one of tho flags, but was not, apparently, hurt by it, whilo AY THE MILE Princeton bad to let go her hold on Union, who was a clear quarter of a mile further, And Cornell's work, too, seemed to tell, tor she no jonger crept away from Harvard, but simply held her own. Princeton now had her stern well up on Wesieyan’s quarter, and was three lengths behind Union, ahead of whom Columbia had half a length of clear water, while Harvard bad a ahead of her and Cornell nearly as much ahead of Harvard. Corneil had al! along been bugging the western side of her jane, but now she veered to the eastward, and, working across it, stayed by the other row of flags, Columbia here making the better vourse of the two, while each of the other crews seemed to keep near the centres of their own courses. The ri was half over, and more than one ere owed that it would pot do as much in the next ball, Union was sleopy and “draggy’’; there was no snap in her work, ant the boat moved languidly on, Vrinceton’s form continued noticeably good, but the pace was telling, for foot by foot she began to slide buck, and the wiry Westeyans, slim a8 they were amidships, were silently working up to her side. Now they collared her and, in the next minute unquestionably showed to the tore. No. 4 im Columbia was looking at bis oar, and his swing was getting short. Nor was this peculiar to him, for most of the work in the boat began to look short and snatchy, Goodwin, as stroke, was alone swinging his shoulders, aud his oar blade each stroke a long enough are. ° CORNELL RVEN FELT 17, though the stroke, stx inches 1ongor aft than Yale's at Springfield, kept good the longest on this She could not increase the two lengths over her foc on the t. while her steering continued jagged. No. 2 rvard felt it also, and was not throwing his indeed, none began to get their heads on as well as the men of Cornell, There bad not been much talking thus far nor any spectators near to send ina friendly cheer. Now Wesleyan's captain called on his men, and they brushed up a httle, but, tired as Union looked, they could not catch her, while Columbia got words of encouragement from tho press over in the east. Positions did not change much at the mile and three quarters, Cornell was now 500 feet abead of the Princeton rear guard, while Wesleyan was but wo lengths im front of the latter, and Union steadied up a bit, cheered, pertiaps, by the Argonauta four who had picked her Gp on the cast and were rowing side by side with ber, Now Cornell strack the first flag down in the third mile, for her steering bad not improved, but it did ber no harm, for they were #0 mounted as to give eusily. Twice Columbia had been over in Cornell's lane and gomg wilily, but cach time she was back so soon that rt did litte hurm. Half a mile from the finish Cornell was leading Harvara by only the same oll two short length: Columbia was over tour Jengths further astern, Union three behind her and ten ahead of Wesleyan, who led Princeton by three more. The’ Wesleyans looked more used up than Princetep, No. 4 looking out of the boat, the waist men and seemed to be nourishing his strength fora later Stage ot the fight. The sight as the four sped on down tho glassy water was really beautiful, and drew hearty encomiums from Mr. Evarts, who entered warmly into the sport and was alive to every turn of it. Till nearly half through it was bard to eay whether it was to be Danforth and then Parmiee or the other way; but at the mile the Harvard man had made sure of it, though ho did not throw bis leg on sv hard as the moro experienced, Francis still kept noticeably steady and looking as if (alter ail as he had never yet spurted) he were rowing a wat raco and at the finish would still have enough to collar hia rival THE HOME MILE. As they began the nome mile the Cornell man had three lengths in his fayor, while Danforth had drawn two away from Parmlee, and he baroly clear of Colum- bia, Danforth still looked the trevhest of the four, and it seemed a pity that tho stalworth Parmlee could not fir up that grand body ot his a hittle, is «= Eldred of the Argonautas over there on the east, for instance, could so well show him. Now the Harvard crew and then their Fresh- men coach picked up their man and shouted ‘Push on,” and he answered *‘I will;” bat Francis only re- sponded by increasing the gap. Parmiee got further away from Weeks, but the latter little fellow hung bravely on, and ag they neared tbe line spurted sharp- ly upon Parmleo and actually almost drew up beside him, when @ fatal crab settled his case for the day and brought him in fresher at fourth than Parmice at third. THE, FINISH. Danforth, who had crossed away over Wesleyan’s Iano into Cornell's, was now working all he kyew, but conid hot, despite the cbeering of the running crowd ashore catch the tougher Corneil man, who, spurting on hand. somely, shot across the finish bere, a winner by hulf a dozen lengths, in 13m, 4248, the Harvard man follow- ing 13 seconds later, Princeton 7 seconds further be- hind, and Colambia 20 seconds a‘ter him. It was a good and fair race, rowed handsomely on its morits, and won by the best man, who, a year or two later, Will bo a very hard one to beat, THE FRESHMAN RACE. STILL ANOTHER VICTORY FOR CORNELL—A SPLENDID CONTEST—TIME 17M. 23 1-2s, HOW THE “YOUNGSTERS” MADE THEIR BOATS LEAP FORWARD, Sarnatooa, July 19, 1876, The freshman race followed tmmediately after the finish of tho single scull contest and closed the day’s sport. It had been prophesied to be the closest of tho day, but while not so and tnrning out differently from the general expectation, it was a splendid race to wit- ness. Cornell and Harvard sent in strong, fine looking crews, speaking well for next year, while Columbia's from the start plainly lacked power, Alter one false start, Harvard not being quite ready, they got away very evenly together at twenty-four minutes to one o'clock. Cornell, as in the other two contests: keeping the centra! Jane, and in both of theso at once tuking the Jead on a strong and telling stroke, and in the first eighth, tothe sur- prise of all, leading both her rivals by nearty three whole lengths. Here again were the heads thrown as bard on as only Cornell throws them. Two ot hermon | had learned the knack last year, and even they made it tell, bat not they alone, for all Knew it, and it certainly helped thei to get their entire weight ito the orrs. As they neared the half mile Harvard drew away a lit- tle from Columbia Cornell got off her iane and on again, and now commenced calling on her men, “HARDER!” iLatOR |! sounding as if a cali to Harvard, who was coming close after, Her men looked very stout and strong, more so even than Harvard's, and answered up well, So they ran on to the mile, Columbia drooping back, Harvard rowing the steadiest and steering best, while Cornell went fastest. as they got to the mile Columbia's stroke caught @ “crab,” and so much of a one that it pinned him down to the water till it looked as though the boat was filling, but she rivhted ina tew seconds and wos away again, dome all she knew to catch up. | “Eyes inthe boat!” yells Harvard, and it was needed too, thongh the others starea quite as much. © From this poimt out Columbia lost ground so fast and made so lar to the eastward, y beyond all the lines, that she was soon out of and a little below the two-mile station was a quarter of a mile behind and almost out of sight. HARVARD, STILt THE PRETTIER to look at, and Cornell, the betier to go, both kept bard at it, Cornel! talking much and ordering to port side frequently. No. 6 of Harvard was already very tired and ont of form, If not cloarly a passenger; but Brig- ham, at stroke, and Crocker, at bow, were slashing away quite as well as the Cornell stroke himself, and ongh four lengths behind, far from being “done up," Cornell was losin, No, reached out sidewas to starboard, despite her, for she sigzagued much, and they kept their relative places. The oars caught the water un- evenly in both boats, Harvard’s Low often getting io ahead. Now her University team picked her up, and the Argonautas Cornell, and both warmed to it aguin, Harvard spurt: lean up to forty, and ber coach int pair oar tooting away on a trumpet like mad, THE PINAL DASH. Still Cornell made a little by the operapon, and ats thirty-five stroke neared the line and crossed it im 17m. 258., ahead of Harvard, while Columbia was dis- tanced. Harvard cheered Cornell and the tatter cheered her back. . Number five in Harvard was tired, but number four in Cornell looked a# if he coul scarcely breathe, his lips chattering and he “panting WW broken-winded horse,” and taking some minutes to get quiet again. SUMMING UP, So closed three as pretty races as were ever rowed on this lake, on perfect water, without foul, aveident or ‘ill feeling; with some surprises, Columbia, for in. stance, losing second place in the University struggle, and Harvard getting it; the latter being beaten in th freshman contest, and Weeks doing indifferently his, 1twas a great day for Cornell, and well may she parade her great new broom in the joliifications to- night, as Baron Von Trump lashed his broom to the masthead when he swept the seas. To sweep the field in such a contest is indeed a thing to be proud of, Yor Columbia it is a “blue”? indeed; for Harvard. fair to middling; for Union bright and encouraging, and for Wesleyan and Princeton nothing much. Harvard drove the winner so closely in the University race that had Yale been here with her best six she would atmost surely have won, and Captain Cook is justiy pleased thereat, a Philadelphia will settle the real merits of his well known stroke, * Captain Goodwin, ot Columbia, wishes it said that neither the steering nor the rudder wire caused the | bad work in his boat, and a similar indisposition ta divulge the real difficulty obtains among one of the freshmen crews. A CORNELL JOULIFICATION. The peopte returning from tho lake after the ro- gatta found the hotels and stores decked with the Cornell colors, but things were rather quiet until seven o'clock, when the Cornell winuers were met on their entrance by a procession of about 200 students, headed by Ha'l’s Boston band, Then, led by the President of the Rowing Association, and with the winners in an omnibus, and the boats in a wagon, the Procession marebed up and down Broadway, a pumberjot the students carrying brooms with the Cornell colora attached. The bands at Congress Hail and the Grand Union were on the plazzas playing and the crowds cheered as the victors passed by, Tho Regatta ball this eyening at the United States, the Grand Union and Congress Hall was attended by the élite of the country, who are among the visitors here. The prize flags wera presented to the winners at the Grand Union at mid- night by William M. Evarte, The athletic games will come off at Glen Mitchell to-tnorrow, the new walks laid out at Woodlea not being in order. OFFICIAL FIGURES. The following aro the official times of the racing:— Time. Mis. Colle; College, = M.S. 1 —Cornell.. Dornell..... 11 00 134—Cornell 10 44—Cornell 10 1" —Cornell, —Cornell. 42 RACE. 21 pr 28M PITULATION. University Race. M. . s 17 013 Union. 17 05% Wesleyan : 17 18% Princeton. = 18 10% Single Scull Race. 13 42% Parmlo: 21 13 56 Columbu 23 Freshman Race. Cornell..... 7 233_ Harvard 37 YACHTING AT NEWPORT. THE FIRST RACK OF THE NEWPORT YACHT CLUB {HIS SEASON—THE SCHEMER WINS THE CUP—ACTUAL TIME 5H. 36m. 445. Newrorr, July 19, 1876, To-day the Newport Yacht Club had their first race, and sailed foracup given by their commodore, Louis L, Lorillard, of Now York, There were five entrics— vin Dimensions, Owner. 45 tt. ra, Winans, Lee. « Fred. P. Sanda, + G Kortrignt, Thoy started with alight southwest wind from the south end of the inner harbor. The course was around Goat Island Light, then to and around the Brenton Reef Lightship, leaving it on the ; Starboard side; thence north, around Gould Island, keeping the @tter on the starboard; then uround the Brenton Reef Lightship again, leaving it on the star- board side, as before; then north to the Goat Island Light; then south, past Long Wharf, where their tine was taxen. Tho course was twenty-seven miles in length. The Schemer had a streak ot luck, and kept the lead from start to finish, leaving all her competitora behind, The time of the Evelyn and Curlew was not taken, they failing to make the race within the required titfe—seven hours, ‘THE FINISH. The following is the final tim Return, Actual Time, Cor'd Time, Name. H. M. 8-H. M S. Schomer.... 5 36 440 4 35 59 Wayward. 5 20 34 4 30 37 Pirate... 5 60 18 4 59 52 The Scheme the cup by time allowance, the Wayward baving to allow her about twelve minutes. YACHTING NOTES. Yacht Tidal Wave, N.Y.Y. Mr. Voorhis, from Greenwich, arrived off Whitestone night of 18th, ree mained until yesterday P. M. and sailed for Glen Cove. Yacht Alice, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Appleton, from New York, passed Whitestone yesterday, crulsing eastward, THE CENTENNIAL TROTTING CIRe CUuIT. Curveaxn, Ohio, July 19, 1876, The first meeting of the Grand Central Trotting Cir. cuit commences in this city next Tuesday, July 25, and continues four days. The purses aggregnte $25,000. Every arrangement has been made to insure success, and the most interesting races ever held in thi rt of the country are anticipated. judd Dob'e's si will be hero, and a number of other noted stables are ex- pected,’ Ou tho second day Lula will trot against time, BASE BALL NOTES. The Chathams defeated tho Hovoken Club yesterday on the Elysian Fields by the following score:— INNINGS, Clubs, Ist, 2d, Sd, 4th, Sth. Gth, 7th, 8th, 9th, Chatham. 22 9 oe 2 2° eo ee 10100 2 8 0 oT ball was played yesterday on tho nds between the Astor Base Rall Club er _— Ball Club, the former winning by to a score of AMUSEMENTS, DON CARLOS AND SUITE AT GILMORE'S GARDEN In one of the cosiost of tho rustic boxes in Gilmore’ Garden, chatting pleasantly with Viscount De Mon- Marquis Ponce De Leon and General Valla, sat Don Carlos, of Spain, last night, fanning himself vigor ously and evidently enjoying the gay and briliant scene, He-had one special compliment paid w him, Mme. Eugenie Pappenheim, the renowned prima donna, who seems equally at home in graad opera or on the concert stage, san; ith overwhelming effect Ardit’s dashing waltz “1/Estasi,” and for an encore, learning that the distinguished representative of Spanish royalty was presoni, she ga' eharacter- istic Spanish song, ‘La Callesora,” When tue first notes of this song were given by the orchostra the Spanish Prince at once ieft bis “summer house’ auc went to the music stand, applauding the fair amgor is the most emphatic manner. The next sen sation he experienced was the wonderful playing of Levy on the cornet. The incomparable virtuose rendered Proc! air and variations, that chevad de ba- Wagers, With such effect that tho entire forth into a spontaneous outhurst of applause. ‘Last Rose of Summer,” in which the tonderest feeling was conveyed, and tho “Mand Waltz,” the most brilliant of the great cornet player's selec: tions, was delivered in a style that was characteristi¢ of the most effective cornet player that the world has ever heard. The Young Apollo Don Carlos to Calcott’s fine Huglish glee, men of England.” The band of Gilmore hoven's overture, “Coriolan' ‘Weber’ layed Bee! 7 lay overture, “Der Freiscbiitz,’? and « Turkish march. Tre baud Improves every week and in time it will reach the dard of the Garde Republicaine of Pars Mr. Gilmore has done wonders with his band. He has ap- Pronched to a nearer degree the- efficiency of the crack bands of Enrope than was ever known in America before, Before many seasous are past he can take his band to Europe without fear of superiority. M, Henri Kowalski, one of the beat pian 1 ve had from the other side of the Atlantic for F a lon, ‘ed Chopin's “Military Polonaise,” opus h bis trained and agile ee the brilliant measures of the work of the Polish poct flashed forth, and the tones of the Weber pano seemed to fill the entire building as with an avalanche of sweet sounds. Seldom has an instrument made such an effect under similar circumstances. ‘There was oue drawback to the concert Jast night, and that was in bringing a cornet player, Mr. Arbuckle, who is the chey d’attaque of Gilmore's Band, forward ax a solo: It ig simply ridiculous to place evy. and the persistency of Mr. Gi wuz Mr. Arbuckle night after night 11