The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1878, Page 5

NEW YORK LORNE AND CANADA Kanucks Discussing the Future of the Dominion. A VICEREGAL COURT. Who Will Pay for the “Es- tablishment ?” HON. MR. MACDOUGALL ON RECIPROCITY The Marquis Interested in the. Herald. Orrawa, Dec. 6, 1878, Now that the new Governor General and the Princess Louise have come to the end of their long journey from Halifax to Ottawa some things may be said of it which it would have been hasty and per- haps ungenial to say before. It was evident from the first hour at Halifax that an unholy truckling was to prevail in connection with the reception and the Journey of the bright young pair whom Lord Beacons- field has sent over to please and perchance amelio- rate the Dominion of Canada, Certain officials in Halifax took pains to promote an impression, since confirmed, that a state and punctilio unexampled on this side of the Atlantic would be the price which Canalians at first would have to pay for the privilege of approaching the Marquis and the Queen’s daughter. An order was issued im reapect to dress at the levée, which was dutifully obeyed in Halifax, but resented and conspicuously disobeyed at Montreal. At the Hali- fax drawing room, where matrons and maidens, old and young, came uncovered from their throats well nigh to the blossoms of Anacreon, it was funny to hear the uniformed aide-de-camp call out, as guest af- ter gnest passed through the last door before the turn which disclosed to them the sight of royalty, “Right glove off! Off with the right glove !” Some Nove Scotia belles nearly fainted with awe as they came in front of the three figures on the dais— the Marquis, the Princéss and the Duke of Edin- burgh. The latter, who, besides being a good sailor andathorough gentleman, is a good fellow; was the only one of the three whose twinkling eyes showed his Sppreciation of the humor of the thing. Visitors generally appeared rather proud of this beginning of the attempt to set up a viceregal court in North America, I could not help thinking that night of Maximilian and poor Carlotta, and of the remark made by the latter to an American gentleman one evening at a reception in Pueblo:— “Ab, yes” (in French, with that swect accent that mo one who ever heard it will forget), “we tind everything ready here, including an aristocracy all prepared with titles. But we have met so many noble people without them that—do you know?—I half suspect the Emperor thinks good men can dispense with them and that he will turn republican some . Gay himself.” FIRST PROTESTS OF THE PRESS, At Montreal the first grumblings were heard of coming thunder, the loudest echo of which comes back in the following article from the Toronto Mail:— % An advertisemen‘ in the Montreal papers of Satur- dey furnishes the Canedian public with some grounds for reflection. At the same time, unfor- tunately, it affords our republican neighbors no little ‘material for ridicule and derision. It is by just such characteristics that an insignificant circumstance may come to attain an importance out of all propor- tions to its intrinsic weight. Colonel Littleton, of the Governor General's staff, appends his name to an advertisement which announces that ladies desirous of being adinitted to the reception held by Her Royal Highness xt half-past nine P.M. on Saturday,.No- 30, ut Windsor Hotel, must wear they present a doctor's ill health, in which case they be — fries the feasted the dress cut ‘square, but in no case are t! appear in highneck ome ee ery ipo Tritt the aber of Indios lesirous of paying their res; to the Princess at Halifax. Should Her Royal Highness ever visit Win- wipeg we venture to think the restrictions will there also be dispensed with. The fashions of lite in Canada cannot be changed at twelve hours’ notice and mil- liners cannot furnish new dresses in a limited space of time, In one country it is the fashion to tattoo, in another to wear rings thiough the nose, in a third full dress is a mere nominal addition to nature's cov- « ering of the vital organs, while elsewhere tne ladies at the top of suciety prove their lofty rank by the pumber of skins they can add to their own. Climate has much to do with the prevailing faxhion in all latitudes, and the climate of Great Britain is as differ- entfrom thet of Canada as the circumstances and conditions of society in Canada are trom those pre- vailing where Queen Victoria holds court. Many estimable ladies, wives of our most prominent citi- zens, have never shown their shoulders in a drawing room, and nearly all Canadian ladies reserve for the privacy of their own dressing room such exhibitions of the human form divine as are too often seen at evening parties in London. J WHY 4 DocTOR's CERTIFICATE. “One struggle more and I am free,’ was the legend ‘under # picture of the belle of the period dressed for court ballat Buckingham Palace, and it was not a caricuture. There is something repugnant to many of our ladies in taking the first step to immodesty, ‘tnd we hold that in all these matters imumodesty is a felative term. A man who has never before appeared in anything but trousers would feel no more aston- ished and shocked at be'yg told he must don kilts than many ladies must hate been taken aback when they heard they must show to the public gaze charms hitherto reserved from man’s bold scrutiny. Custom is 4 second nature, and first nature would, of course, know nothing of concealment; but we repeat that the custom is not one to be learned at twelve hours’ no- tice, while the actual abandonment of it at Halifax, coupled with its prospective absence from the future ceremonial at Winnipex, proves it to be one honored in the breach or observance at pleasure. We have purposely been explicit as to the hour and date of the reception from which ladies in high dresses were banished. The season at Montreal on Bt. Andrew's Day is gencrally unmitigated winter, and our despatches tnform us that the evening in juestion was frosty and inclement. For those, ther Bre. who never wore & low dress at a party, the nent must ave been attended with risk, and we may rest assured very many were swept away by thi fell decree which appeared iu the morning pepore. For we would rather pass over the only condition on which the wearers of square cut dresses were to be admitted. A doctor's certificate is too suggestive of &@ recent controversy in even a less delicate battlefield of woman's rights. If the ladies of Montreal, who, by the by, might have been politely requested to come in low dress, submitted to compliance with this unusual and, in Canada, unheard of custom, the do tora of the city must have re: The price of certificates we will not they have been duly filed and scheduled by the aide- de-camp in waiting we should like te hem. DORS THE MARQUIS INKIFT ON AUSURDITIRG ? And now a truce to ridicule. If from this small in- dication we are to gather that our new rulers mean to surround themselves with the etiquette and paraphernalia of a court, then, with all respect, we express the fear that a great mistake is being made. From ail that has appeared in the press of the cious condescension and unaffected simplicity of ler Royal Highness we are convinced that neither she not the Governor General seriously considered: the effect of an advertisement which was probably concocted by the ladics and officers attached to the household. His Excellency is of too manly aud robust & temperament to tolerate—much less iuitiate—a Policy of social coercion. But we are told that offi- cers of previous jence in the ways of Canada are wttached to his xpressly with the view of avoid- ing such errors as the one under discussion. Be that ‘ag it may, we see in it no less reason to trust that for the future His Excellency will taxe the law into his own hands and regulate the conduct of his subordi- nates. We are a loyal people, favorable to Monarchical institutions; bat we are far removed from St. James’, and # court can take no root in soil where the echo of the axe and logging chain of the nd throngh oss; but whe court, A mock court would be a deplorabl be hed from which the yood sense of all cone will, we feel sure, happily deliver us. We have un- ned ourselves Boos the carliest reems the it 0) poerenlty of calling attention to the presence of adificulty, And emphatically we add that the ladies of Canada, not being accustomed to unbosom themselves, should be allowed access to the daughter of their beloved Queen in the drvss hitherto worn by them on social occasions. Their taste in the matter of millinery has ever been adinired by English visitors, Tt has never been impugned. ATTENTION To THR NEWSPAPERS, 4s for the public notorivty which the viceregal “progress” hos had through the press it would not have been #0 extensive if the new Governor General had taken the advice of some who are nearcat to him and ignored the newspaper correspoud- ents from three countries. The politeness which Placed « special car on the viveregal train at the disposal of the latter gentlemen is understood to have been His Excellency's own, which inade itself felt in this and other connections through an interme- iate atmosphere of pretentiousness and incivility, of which his secretaries were unconscious and which was strange to those who felt its influence, It was inevitable, in consequence of the late time at which Lord Lorne’s invitation was received, that inconventi- ences should be met with on the road; but I believe that all who made the journey were grateful to Mr. Luttrell, Superintendent of the Intercolonial Rail- way: to Mr. Hickson, Managing Director of the Grand Trunk Railway, and expecially to T H. Clark, Superintendent of the Pullman cars throughout the Dominion, for attention to their convenience and comfort. A MODEST YOUNG RULER, ‘The Margtis’ appearance and manner were 50- un- affected and winning that the writer was unprepared for the criticisms which have been provoked by his adoption of a style and ceremony at Ottawa at vari- ance with the circumstances of the citizens. ‘There is little doubt,” says an old resident, “that he will soon be pressed to a compromise between the exelu- siveness which, as the world goes, is the Princess’ birthright and the social rignts which are sure to be claimed by the Canadian people.” Indeed, the policy may be forced on him which he pleasantly recom- mended to your correspondent :— “Don't overdo!” He inquired with some interest about a journey which the writer had taken with the Earl of Dufferin to British Columbia in 1876, and mentioned a book about that couutry since written by a compagnon du voyage. Speaking of that distant land, I supposed that His Excellency, too, would visit it? “Perhaps,” he said. “I am greatly interested in the whole country.” “Though it must seem rather primitive?” “Yes, But it has a good present and a most inter- esting history.” “and a future,” I continued, “which may depend somewhat upon Your Excellency.” ‘The Marquis, smiling, avoided a response, and the dialogue lapsed into a personal vein until he retired. INTERESTED IN THE HERALD. ie Subsequently (the circumstances being such that I have made no effort to tempt him into an “interview” for the delectation of your readers) the new Governor General expressed, a good deal of interest in the HERALD. “I have often wondered,” said he, “at the extraor- dinary enterprise of your paper, and the great quan- tity of matter it prints from all parts of the world.” “Indeed! I thought the wonder and admiration of good Britons were all concentrated on the London Temes,” “But,” said the Marquis, laughing, “it isn’t every newspaper that gives us a new geography of a conti- nent.” (And I must add here the remark of the wittiest of Irishmen—O'Shea, of the London Stand- ard:—'‘A newspaper, be gorra! that will nixt disteover it az well!’’) vellency asked particularly about the internal arrangements of the Hrraxp office, the kind of presses used, their capacity, &c., and other facilities at the disposal of the paper. I took the liberty of assuring him that whenever he should go to New York he might depend, if he should be so inclined, ypon a warm reception at the Henan vaults at midnight or any other hour by the guardian genius of those re- cesses, who had already conducted through them several emperors, princesses, kings, and lesser po- tentates. A VICEREGAL COURT NOT DESIRED. Here at Ottawa, the capital, where the viceregal “progress” has ceased and where the viceregal resi- dence is established at Rideau Hall, a feeling rather prematurely manifests itself which is yet greatly re- strained out of deference to the new comers. There are some wealthy residents, members of the govern- ment and aspiring politicians, who will be snre to cn- courage the establishment of a viccregal court. There are hundreds of parvenues, too, who would delight to be concerned with such an institution and its stately ceremonials. But unless I: greatly mistake the tem- per of the majority of the people, with numbers of whom in various walks of life 1 have taken pains to converse, they would be pleased with the exercise of even # greater deference to the real conditions of Can- adian society than thet-which was shown by the. Earl and Countess of Dufferin. Lord Dufferin was so able @ man, and such a master of diplomacy and tact, that he did with this generous people pretty much what he pleased to do, He was no mere listener, either to Mr. Alexander Mackenzie or Sir John Macdoaaid. There were times when both those distingnished men and their colleagues were glad to obtain his ad- vice and to experience the benefit of his mediation. No less was his social sway and that of his charming Countess acknowledged among people of every rank, who never approached either of them to be reminded of any real or conventional inferiority. The life during Lord Dufferin’s time at Rideau Hall had, therefore, everything to repay those who were ad_ mitted to its pleasures and advantages, and there are many who testify to the concessions of the Countess in favor of guests whose limited means did not per- mit them €o indulge in an unlimited extravagance of dress, cab hire and other details. The prospect of court regulations is diseussed much im this way:— “If there is to be a viceregul court at all,” say those who are interested in this stupendous theme, “let court regulations be so thoroughly enforced that none but rich people, able to conform to thom, can honeatly enter and participate. Then see how Cana dians generally will like that! “But don’t let us have a series of court regulations which, by admitting everybody, wili tempt a large part of the community into extravagance and lead the majority, consisting of clerks in the civil service on insignificant salaries, to actua! ruin. COLONEL LITTLETON'S Tact. I would advise all who are anxious in regard to this matter to wait awhile. Among the gentlemen who surround His Excellency is one whom Lord Duf- ferin greatly prized and respected, namely, Liouten- ant Colonel E. G. P. Littleton, who is retained as Military Secretary. Colonel Littleton is familiar with Canadians and their ways, and he is equally familiar with the highest English usages and tastes, to which some deference is «ue in the presence of the daughter of Queen Victoria, who for the first time takes up her residence in this distant land. Major De Winton, too, the Governor General's private sec- retary has a reputation for good sense which is cer- tainly sustained by an admiruble temper and perfect courtesy. I haven't a doubt that either of these gen- tlemen, especially Colonel Littleton, who has the keonest appreciation from long experience of the right thing to do at the right time in Canada, will gradually ist the ‘naturally affable disposition of Lord Lorne and the Princess to the establishment of # set of social regulations which will be acceptable to all who are really concerned, HOS, Mi, MAGDOUGALL AND THE PRESS. Having dwelt so long on this topic I advert toa very different one, which was brought into view the other evening at the dinner given to the press correspond- ents by Mr, McIntosh, the editor of tho Citizen. Mr. Boyd, of the London Temes, having proposed the health of the Hon. Mr. MacDougall, the latter re- sponded in a speech, which is of so much interest to citizens of the United States an to deserve » partial reproduction :— mend tne ae on the and commanding influence of ¢! reas, expecially of the great journals in England nud ieerten, Wines representatives he had the honor to address, he «aid the presence in Ottewa at the inauguration of a new Governor General of so many of these representa tives proved that the recont constitutional ges by which « number of petty municipal govern ents, jealous of one another, with mutually hostile tarifte, proud of theit own insignificance and making but slow progress in the development of the northern half ot the great continent they oecupied, but did not in any tra govern, Were welded together, 1 and raised into national/ty, have onity, if they have not yet commanded t! approval of the civilized world, ‘That was something to sag Leen mine gf ra bd 4 Ps na to his mind of hear approach of another change, independe: in everything casential to freedom aud industrial de vel mt, under the protecting eye and arm of the © country, The advent of the Mar of » Standing as he does bey Bd the British throne, accomp nied as be ix by the daughter of Her Majesty, introduces ani signalizes the uew departure which confederation has prepared us for in onr rela- tions with the Empire. We are no longer minors, no longer weak and dissevered colonies in colonial office leading strings, but a united, heal vigorous com. munity of free British subjects, loyal to the throne, while we are true to ourselves, constituting by o1 numbers, our national wealth, our extent of terri- pF pees and social organization, our native tory, ows Wek » $e greatest self-governit le e y cof the ‘itis crown, Dut a be wee open: in the presence of tatives of thove great wer, dignity, utility New York and some other Western journals, he would venture, #8 an independent member of Parliament, to say a word or two on the subject of our relations to the American Republic, HONEST REJOLCINGS. “Do not,” said Mr, MacDougall, “misinterpret these demonstrations of loyalty of which you have been witness all along the line from Halifax to the seat of government on the banks of the Ottawa, They are the unprompted, honest, loyal rejoicings of 4 con- tented. prosperous, democratic people over the ocn- lar evidence the occasion furnishes of that security for life and liberty which, Ithink, all history teaches us isto be found in fullest measure under a constitn- tional monarchy like Great Britain. he people of Canala are not aristocrats; they are not even wor- shippers of shoddy; such wealth as we have is too evenly distributed to permit the existence of an aris- tocracy, titled or untitled, in Canada. We are, and must always remain, democrats, but we are not re- publicans, Our loyalty to England is not merely utimental—it is founded on the belicf, which engthens with our growth and experience, that we could not be freer, safer, richer, happier, under any form of government which it would be possible to substitute for that we now possess, But we belong to the American Continent; the peep of the United States and Canada are neigh- ms; intellectually and socially they are fricnds, and God grant they may never again be enemies, (Cheers.) ‘They visit, they trade,they intermarry—no Custom House otticials can forbid those banns—and though governments may build their Chinese walls of exclu- sion for fixeal purposes they cannot prevent the inter- course of opinion, of invention, of science, of relig- ious and social sympathy, nor can they in time of peace, with our extended frontier, wholly interdict the interchange of commodities. For some years the people of these conterminous countries et joyed free trade in their natural produc- tions, I believe that trade wax mutually beneficial; we desired not only to continue but to extend it. You resolved it should cea: You were 40,000,000; we were but 4,000,000; the weaker was compelled to submit. We could not persuade you; knew we could not coerce you. For though we ved, and still believe that, powerful as you may be, you would not subjugate us by arms, we must frankly admit that you are strong enough to prevent us from invad- ing Your maraets against your will with our staple commodities, ‘THE RECIPROCITY QUESTION. “In our ‘Scythian fastnesses,’ as Mr. Seward con- fessed, our hardy Northmen would easily defy the far more harmonious battalions of the South, but when 40,000,000 of people resolved to have free trade 8 no longer we felt that we must accept the sit- and make the best of it. This is what we todo. We have waited some twelve yeurs to see if any party in the United States would advocate n to the reciprocity system of the past, or would propose any reasonable modification or ex- tension of it. We have waited in vain. ‘The dem- ocratie party have secw the control of Con- gress, but we see no evidence of an intention on their to abandon the system of _ protec- tion to home industries. We are compelled, there- fore, much against the will of some among us, to fall into line; to follow your example and to employ our own labor at home, and to manutucture’ everything weean tor ourselves. (‘Hear, hear!') I notice an ex- Reece of anxiety on the faces of some of my Eng- ish auditors. Let me reassure them. A statement has found its way into the English press that we in- tend, in readjusting our tariff, to discriminate against the productions ot the mother count Tknow not where or how that idea was started, but this I will venture to assert, that no government in this country, no public man of any party’ will in our day propose or even patiently listen to such a proposi- tion. (Cheers.) But, on the other hand, we believe that by levying our taxes in such a way as to en- courage the production at home ot every manutac- ture we need, the production of which is not un- suited to our climate and industrial circumstances, we ure not evincing disloyalty either to Canada or to the mother country. (Cheers.) We hold that by promoting the wealth and prosperity of this great dependency of the Empire we are adding to the wealth, the power and the glory of the Empire itself.” (Loud cheers.) O'LEARY-CAMPANA, THE MATCH ‘TO TAKE PLACE IN GILMORE’S GAR- DEN DURING CHRISTMAS WEEK. ‘The arrangements for the six days’ walk between O'Leary and Campana were concluded last night, and the test of the speed and endurance of the two inen will be mado during Christmas week in Gilmore's Garden. Eyer since O'Leary accepted Campana’s challenge of $1,000 a wide, the man covering the most ground to take the stakes and gate money, unless the loser made 450 miles within the six days, in which case he should be entitled to one-fourth of the gate money, there have been a number of gentlemen interesting thomselves in the aifair, with a view to obtaining a slice of the cake. They all appeared to have power to make arrange- ments for the walkers and paid innumerable visits to Mr. Vanderbilt, but transferred their attentions to Mr. Tileston when that gentleman was appointed manager of the Garden by the Harlem Railroud Com- pany. Mr, Tilestou says that about twenty different parties. called to seo. him, anxious to. rent the Garden for the walk, but as none of them appeared to really represent the parties in- terested he invariably asked $5,000 rent for the week in order to get rid of them, Some gentlemen even went over to Philadelphia to interview Al Smith, and one enterprising party, thinking that the Garden people were going to hold out for high prices, went ‘up and secured the Rink for a month, so that he could sublet it to the walkers at an advanced rate, There will now be a chance to secure the Rink for Christmas week at a reduced rent. Yes- tear, there was a good deal of excitement, and Mr. ton held quite a reception at the Garden all day. Al Smith was onsen. but havi been warned about the crowd that were on the lookout to take a part in the game he kept away and never went near the place ail day. Late last evening Al Smith and Mr. Tileston, the manager of the Garden, were brought together, and in half an hour all the arrange- ments were made, Mr. Smith agreeing to pay $2,: for the use of the Garden during the six days’ walk. HOW THE CONTEST WILL BE MANAGED. The walk will commenceat one A.M. on Monday morning, December 23, and continue until one hour after midnight on the following Saturday. The score of the laps willbe kept by the members of some prominent athletic club, in the same manner as it Was managed during the O'Leary and “Lepper” walk. Mr. Smith has secured the right of the barand intends to lease it for the week, provided he secures a man of known reputation who will run it in proper style, if not the pedestrians will run it on their own account. ‘There was quite an excitement in Brooklyn yester- day, as it was rumored that O'Leary and Campana were going to walk their match in the vacant lot ad- joining the City Hall. An application was recently made to the Board of Supervisors by a Mr. David Hatfield, of Washington, for ion to use the lot for a reputable purpose. The ter was referred to the Court House Committee, and as one of the members had heard that the ground was wanted for the O’Leary-Campana walk a sub-committee was appointed to wait on Mr. Hatfield. Tho gentlemen appointed on tho committee are Messrs, Quick and Cullen, and they will see Mr. Hatficld to-day and re- port on Thursday. If the lot is wanted for O'Leary and Campana they may spare themselves the trouble, unless these gentlemen propose to give the residents of Brooklyn an exhibition, as the match will cer- tainly take pl at Gilmore's Garden, RACKETS. GRAND INTERNATIONAL MATCH BETWEEN HENRY BOAKES, OF QUEBEC, AND JOHN MAHON, OF NEW YORE. The galleries of the New York Racket Club Court, corner Sixth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, were crowded to their utmost capacity yesterday afternoon, with members only, no others being admitted, to witness the grand international match between Henry Boakes and Johu Mahon, the respective markers of the Que- bec and New York Racket Club courts. The match was very interesting though rathor one-sided, and the brilliant plays, of which there were many, were heartily applauded. At ten minutes after two P. M. Boakes took his position in ,the left centre and deliv- ered the opening ball to Mahon in the right court. Mahon made w quick return, but Boakes soon scored the first ace on o low hard hit back stroke. In the second inning both men were retired in fine style, without scoring. In the third, however, Boakes added two more aces to his lead of one, making a total of three to nothing in his favor. The fifth inn! a was ® repetition of the second, neither man being able to score, so sharp was the play. Mahon, in the sixth inning, made three aces, two by fine service and the other by an excellent return, Boakes had but little difficulty iu adding the same number of aces to his score in his sixth inning. In the next six innings Boakes ran the game out, while Mahon was ouly able to add a single ace to his score dur- ing that period. In the second game Mahon put forth his best efforts, and the result was tha the close of the eighth juning they were “up sticks: thirteen aces cach. This game was finally won by The next three games, however, were won Following is the score of the match ;— ‘Let, Bd. 5th, ot i aw Mahon. HOLSKE BACK FROM ENGLAND, EK. ©. Holske, the pedestrian, arrived in this city yesterday after # four months’ tour through Eng- land, and is ready to enter into any contest of from ten to fifty miles for the championship of America, Previous to his going to England he held the twenty- five mile championship, having won the silver cup at Elinira in June last. The following month at Buffalo he held the cup against eighteen competitors in the four hours’ walk: against twelve in the ity miles walk, and eight in the twenty-five miles walk, During his stay in land Holske states that he won # four- mile walk at Crawley Sports against twenty-six com- Ree id gained the fifth place in the six days’ alk at Hull.” In the handicaps at Lillie Bridge and at Bow he entered several races, but beinu too heavily | handicapped he was almost invariably defeated. It was, however, conceded by sportsmen in England, that except Bill Perkins, the Enylish champion, Holske was the best walker in that country in cov- texts of from one mile to one hour. His backer at the present time is Frank Lenardson, corner of Greenwich avenue and Perry street, by whom all chal- lenges for the championship will be attended to. THE PRIZE RING. JOHN J. DWYER AND JAMES ELLIOTT, THE BROOKLYN HEAVY WEIGHTS, MATCHED FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF AMERICA—ALL THE PRELIMINARIES ARRANGED. The sporting fraternity had a genuine sensation yesterday, as the rival heavy weights, John J. Dwyer and James Elliott, both of Brooklyn, were matched to fight for the championship of America and $1,000 @ side, The men, together with particulary friends and interested acquaintances, assembled at the Clipper office at one o'clock, making a gathering that re minded a few of those present of the crowds that’ came together in the arrangement of important matches of alike nature in the years gone by, Joe Goxs, Barney Aaron, Billy Edwards, Warry Edwards Mike Henry, Ned Mallahan, Arthur Chambers, Pete Croker, Johnny Reilly, Uncle Bill Tovee, Dooney Harris, Charley Johnson, Johnny Lazarus, Jimmy Frawley and delegations from Philadelphia and Brook- lyn were on hand to take 4 look at the men and to hear the arguments that always precede the drawng up of the articles of agreement, which are necessary in such important matt In one respect the crowd was dis- appointed, as Dwyer and Elliott, with one or two friends each, were taken into another room and the door locked, Here the conference lasted nearly two hours before everything was satisfactorily settled. When Dwyer and Elliott first met and changed a word or two about commonplace matters Dwyer said, looking at the crowd:— “Put you in mind of old times; don’t it, Jim ?’”” d, it does,” returned Elliott, rubbing gother. When in the private room the first stumbling block was the place of fighting. Objections were made many localities named, and at last reasons were giv why the battle should not come off on United Stat soil. Though some locality West or South was the choi of one of the men it was at last mu reed Canada should be the place and of the ground be left with Elliott, as the latter has serious objections to some portions of that territory. Then came the time of fighting, and as each wanted the weather to be of a pleasunt character this point was not very difficult to adjust. Next the manner of the deposits and the appointment of a final stakeholder were dis- cussed, when at last, with few additional but minor matters being agrerd upon, the men signed their names to thé articles, mgh the discussions were of ancarncst nature there was vothing unpleasant said by the men, though an occasional remark was sufficient to show what their feelings were. During an interchange of opinions regarding onc of the prop- oxitions subniitted, Elliott felt that unless it was then settled the whole affair would fall through, saying to eri— “TJ want this to be a fight, John, and I don’t want it to fall through.” ‘Che latter instantly returned:— “Don't be alarmed, Jim; you shall have a fight from me.” Stripped of the superfluous language in which such articles of agreement are usually made out, the match of Dwyer and Eliott, in a nutshell, is as follows The men agree to fight a fair stand up fight for the championship of America and $1.00 a side, according to the new rules of the prize ring, on Thursday, May 8, 1879, in Canada, The first deposit of $250 a side is now in the hands of Mr. Frank Queen, who is acting as temporary stakeholder, and the other deposits will also be made at the C/spper office. The second is due on Thursday, January 6, and will be of $250 a side, and the third and last, of $500 a side, will be posted on Tuesday, April 15. At the time of the second de- it the tinal stakeholder will be named, and at the Fast deposit Elliott must advise his opponcnt of the locality of the fighting ground. The men are re- quired to be in the ring between the hours of ten A. M. and two P. M. or the one absent will forfeit’ the money up. In case of magisterial in- terference before the referee is agreed upon—and the selection of that important official will take place at the ringside—the stakeholder is empowered to name the next place of meeting, which must be on the same day or within the same week. Should the referee be chosen and interruption then occur, that official has the power of naming the next place of meeting. Dwyer is thirty-one years of age and about ive fect nine and a half inches in height. At present he is very heavy, weighing in the neighborhood of 200 junds, but in the ring will strip about 165 pounds. t ix not certain how soon he will go into training, but as # few citizens of Boston have tendered him a ben- efit, he will appear there on the evening of the 2d inst. and wind up with Goss. Etliott is thirty-five years of age, about six feet in height, and in condition will weigh in the neighbor- hood of 170 pounds, He has fought seven times in the ring and is not much the worse for these en- counters. Should nothing occur to provent these men coming together to decide who is the better man it will be a fierce and determined struggle. SAM COLLYER PARDONED. [BY TRLEGRAPA TO THE HERALD] |, Treyton, N. J., Dec, 9,,1873. Samuel Collyer, the well known prize fighter, who was sentenced at Salem county, in this State, on the 3d of November, 1876, for manslaughter, tw six years’ imprisonment, was on Saturday last pardoned. . His term would have lasted until the 1ith of July, 1381. Collyer was born in France, of Scotch parents. He was one of the principal parties in the Weeden- Walker prize fight, which took place in Salem county in 1876, Collyer says he has retired from the prize ring and will go into other business. FLEETWOOD PARK. : The trotting announced to take place at Kleetwood Park yesterday afternoon was postponed on account of the rain until the first fair day. NEW YORK SPORTSMEN, AN INTERESTING MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION YOR THE PROTECTION OF GAME. ‘The first monthly meeting of the winter serics of the New York Association for the Protection of Game was held last evening at the residence of Mr. Charles E. Whitehead, No, 64 West Thirty-filth street, Mr. Robert BR. Roosevelt in the chair. Upon calling the meeting to order, Mr. Roosevelt de- sired to congratulate the members on the success which had attended their efforts during the past year. One fact alone was suificient to make them proud of the organization, and that was the law passed at Albany last winter, making it au offence to use pound nets in Great South Bay. Fishermen in that section had so long used these nets that there were but few fish left. At Fire Island the hotels had suffered because of the poor sport in the bay, and those who had been let- ting boats for a livelihood in the years past had given up the business for want of support. Last season the law was enforced and the result was most yratify- ing. Blue fishing o more was a pleasure there, and he had known some boats in one day to catch as many as 200 0f excellent weight. Thirty men only were in the habit of using the pound nets, and this handfal had been the meaus of V ayenrnd almost us many thousands at defiance until the asso- ciation step} Much yet was to be done, and it Dbehooved the members to be as diligent in the future as they had been in the past in the carrying out of the objects of their organization. Secretary Cuthbert read several communications received since the previous mecting, the majority of thei being from qame constables aud yeutlemen asking about the workings of the society aud the manner in which their prosecutions against offenders were nade. All stich communications had been fully answered. Counsellor Whitehead referred to the condition of the suits on hand and congratulated the society upon the fewer number of offences against the Game laws of the State than in the past. If their sister societies in Boston and Philadelphia would work in unison with them, the chances of the dealers in in this section to dispose of stock on hand when the close season begins w: be materially lessened. Hundreds of barrels of quail and partridge and hundreds of carcases of venison were yearly shipped to neighboring cities when the dealers here were notified that they could not longer dispose of them, There were ini ing statements from many members relative to the system of trapping partridges practised on i, and in sections along the Erie, and = =Harlem — rail- rowds, in direct opposition to the law, and, growing out of the dixcussion, the society empow ered the counsel in the future to prosecute offenders outside of the city of New York, when, in his judg- nt, he deems the case of sufficient importance, The meting then adjourned. RIVERSIDE PARK IMPROVEMENT, ‘The investigation into the manner in which the Riverside Park improvement has been carried out was begun yesterday, The commission of three emi- nent engineers, appointed severally by the Mayor, the Comptroller and the Department of Parks, met and organized, Mr, William H. Haswell acting as chairman, Mr. John Bogart as secret and Mr. William BE, Worthen as general adviser and examiner, An invitation to the Park Commissioners to be pres- ent was responded to by Mr. Smith E. Lane, who said to @ reporter, last night, that his testimony recapitu lated substantially the facts contained in his letter to the Comptroller some weeks since, The commission will, it is said, continue to meet from day to « it will inspect every inch of the new drive carefully, and leave no stoue unturhed to learn the whole trath concerning the matter in question. HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. LITERATURE. TURKEY.” “THE RACES OF EUROPEAN y published a work Messrs. Dodd & Mead have latel; by Rey, Edson L. Clark, entitled “Phe Races of Eu- ropeen Turkey; Their History, Condition and Pros- pects,” in a handy volume of 532 pages, accompanied by a new map showing the results of the San Stefano and Berlin treaties. The work comprises three parts, respoctively treating of the Byzantine Empire, the modern Greeks and the Albanians and the Turkish Slavonians, the Wallachians and the gypsies. The au- thor, 4s appears by the title paye, has previ- ously written a volume on ‘* Arabs and the Turks,” to which this may be considered as a companion. The date of the introduction shows that the work was well under way before the conclu- sion of the late Russo-Turkish war, and serves to ex- plain an apparent anomaly in considering ax “Turk- ish” races the Roumunians, Servians and Mont grins, whose countries no longer form a part of Ei ropean Turkey, ‘The later portions of the book, how- ever, were written since the Treity of Berlin, and bring the datadown to a resent period. The work makes no pretension to original historical research, and its chief historical authorities—Gibbon, Finlay, Neandev and Milman—are not very recondite, As @ compilation the work is judiciously executed; it is well written aud embodies an amount of interesting data which cannot readily be found elsewhere within so small a compass, “THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS AND DESTINY OF THE . ENGLISH LANGUAGE.” Mr. J. W. Bouton, of No, 703 Broadway, has just ready a handsome octavo volume of 700 pages bear- ing the above title and written by the veteran Ger_ man-American philologist, Dr. John A, Weisse, of this city. The book is one of high educational value. It is destined, if we mistake not, to exert a consid- erable influe ‘upon the course of philological study in America, and is worthy of the attentive examination of all professors and teachers in our higher institutions of learning. Representing, as it does, more than thirty years of assiduous research upon the English and its allied languages, both of the classical and Germanic families, it embodies a world of curious statistical exhibits of the most diverse representative styles of English composition from the earliest period of Anglo-Saxon (or rather Kelt- Anglian) literary activity to the present day. Dr. Weisse has enjoyed poculiaradvantayes for the exeeu- tion of his colossal task, Being a natiye of the Ger- manic frontier of France, now incorporated in the German Empire, his classical aud professional studies at Paris, Metz and Brussels, and a professorship which he filled in a Continental college, gave him a thorough familiarity with the languages and litera- ture of Western Europe, while his residence for nearly forty years in America has given him command of all the resources of his adopted tongue. Professor Weisse hus a sincere admiration for the English langaage and regards it as the destined instrument of the civ- ilization of the world. The keynote of the whole work may be found in the citation on the title page from Dr. K, M. Rupp's “Physidlogie der Sprache” :— “The other nations of Europe may esteem ther selves fortunate that the English have not made the discovery of the suitableness of their language for universal adoption.” It is this hidden value of their own language which Dr. Weisse secks to impress upon his readers. A résumé of his doctrines upon this subject was read several years since to the American Philological Society of this city, and was received with genuine and hearty appreciation. Dr. Weisse is by no means an indiscriminate eulogist of the English language—he recognizes the mani- fold limitations to its great career of conquest now existing in the inconsistencies of our orthog- Yaphy, and one of his main objects is to prepare the way for the gradual removal of these irregularities, 80 that the coming generation. may realize the supe- riority of the English language over all others ‘as to the refinement and vigor of its vocabulary, clearne #s of diction, simplicity in grammar and directness in construction.” He himself suggests a method for writing and printing English as it is pronounced, so as to remove the few remaining irregularities from its grammar, and his proposals will doubtless receive the attentive consideration to which they are en- titled at the hands of that considerable band of earnest aud thoughtful ‘men~ and womeu who have for years been laboring in the same general direction. We do not regard Dr. Weisse’s unquestionable erudition as having been always successful in the elucidation of difficult and complex probléms of early linguistic classification. We cannot regard his ‘Ario-Japhetic, Ario-Semitic and Arlo-Hamitic types” or the “Thraco-Pelasgic, Scytho-Gotho-Germanic, ' Gomero- Celtic and Sarmato-Slavonic families” of the first named type as a scientific nomenclature. But this is a mere side issue. with classification of linguistic types and families, but with the analysis of the elements of our Kelt-Anglian speech and the formation of comparative tables, and here he has achieved an unquestionable success, No previous la- borer in this field has equalled him = in the patient analysis and classification of the verbal elements of English style during the Anglo-Saxon (A. D. 449-1200), Franco-English (A. D, 1200-1600) and English (A. D, 1600-1878) periods of our literature, A very important portion of this work, though little suited to consecutive perusal, is that devoted to the analysis of modern styles, which Dr. Weisse divides into didactic, sacred, newspaper, politico-legal, dramatic, historic, poctic, romantic and miseella- neous, showing in each case the existence of a law of general average in the proportions of the Graco-Latin, Gotho-Germanic and Celtic words which constituts their respective vocabularies. In each literary period, and more especially inthe nineteenth century, he has given tabulated extracts from representative writers, including fifty specimens of the present century, thirty of them being American. The chief organs of the American press figure in this exhibit, the Hxnatp being represented by its short leader of March 31, 1870, on ‘*The Proclamation of the Fifteenth Amend- ment,” whereby it appears that the ‘“Humaxp style” consists of fifty-two per cent of Grmeco-Latin words of inherent meaning to forty-eight Gotho-iermanic words, We are agreeably surprised to note that not a single word of “Gomero-Celtic” or “Sarmato-Slavic” origin is traceable in the Hrraty’s vocabulary, which in point of purity is exactly on a par with that of ex-President Grant, and among thirty-nine competitors is surpassed in its Anglo-Saxon only by Professor C. H. Hitchcock and the New Zealand Herald, cach by one per cent, and by Professor W. D. Whitney, Professor Huxley and Lord Dufferin, each scoring two per cént above the Hxnaty. We are sorry to observe that our esteemed contemporary, the New York Observer, heads the list of offenders with a vocabulary consisting of not less than sixty-five per cent of Grwco-Latin words, beating Queen Victoria in that sad eminence by eight per cent and Gibbon by ten per cent. We have vo space to do justice to the vast research displayed by Dr. Weisse in his very readable history of English styles through each successive coutury, or to refer to the wealth of valuable linguistic data seattered broadcast through tho book, but we must not omit to mention that it is accompanied by a really good index, We heartily commend the work to the educational authorities of America, who will find it a neeful work of reference and @ text-book of great value for their higher classes, OVERLAND FREIGHT. For several days past a committee, consisting of Sidney Dillon, president of the Union Pacific Railroad Company; Vice President Huntington, of the Central Pacific Railroad, and D. 8. Babeock, president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have been holding conferences for the purpose of fixing up a new con- tract on overland freight. The old one expired on Saturday last, although the steamer which sails to- morrow comes under it, having been delayed a few days beyond the timo of departure. It is stated that the new contract is to be for the year 1879, and that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company demands under it $56,000 per month— $30,000 for passengers and $25,000 for freight. With this amount monthly the Pacific Mail would have to take $15,000 from the gross earnings of the company to make up the fixed monthly charges due the Panama Railroad Company. ‘The Pacitic Railroad people consider these demands too high, and expréss the opinion that $44,000 month, oF $26,000 for passengers and $19,000 tor freig! a e catia for in Rx cont in ficient on $60,080 per month, Dr. Weisse’s real work is not | | an objec 5 MME. BLAVATSKY. The Author of Isis Unveiled Pre- ‘paring To Go To India AUCTION SALE OF CURIOS What a Theosophist Relates About the Society in New York. ° Ared flag waving yesterday in the rain, at the door of No. 302 West Forty-seventh street, was the visible token of the breaking up of one of the best known and one of the most remarkable places of social resort in New York. The household goods of Mme, H, P. Blavatsky were sold ut auction, and the Lamasene of the Theosophical Society to-day is no more, To @ HERALD reporter one of the members of this remark- able society related the story of its organization im this city about as follows :— Mme. Blavatsky, the author of “Isis Unveiled,” i Jady of Russian birth, who has been a resident of New York for over five years. Her life has been passed mostly in Eastern countries and she is one of the few Europevns of liberal etucation who haye become thoroughly Oriental, not only in tastes and manners, but in religion, At the time of her coming to America she was appointed by the Imperial University of St. Petersburg a commissioner to investigate Spiritual- isia, which subject had ut that time attracted great notice in Russia. Accepting the appointment, she was at once thrown in contact with nearly all the more prominent Spiritualists in the country, as well as the believers in what ordinary people term the sup rnatural, From this circumstance it hap- pened that her house for two years past, has beon the centre of a movement in modern thought which has attracted attention all over the world. The scores of tricksters who, under the name of Spiritual ism, were imposing on the credulous and making a pseudo-fame by clumsy charlatanry found in her one who had studied Eastern psychology together with Eastern re‘igion and who could by no means be imposed upon, To the investigators of Spiritualiem she became known as one who, accepting many of the phenomena as genuine, explained them by a still more surprising philosophy than that of the Sptrit- Ualists themselves. THE THROSOPAICAL soctety, As time went by and the lady became known to many people of the first culture, it was evident thas she was in Amorica for a purpose. One and another who met her, became convinced throngh talking with her that there was truth in what she maintained, Then the surprising feature of her sojourn in this country was made manifest. Practically under her leadership a so 'Y was formed embracing people whe actually belicved in magic, and some of whom professed to have learned” its principles. |The story of the Rosicrucians was told over in New York. ‘The society was of course 2 secret one, but chough of its cbjecta and beliefs was made public to excite the bitte ‘ion of many different classes and the ridicule, or good natured, of many others, While perhaps th ‘Theosophical Soviet lunatics, there were many others, men of science ag well as men of letters, who did not disdain contro- yersy with Thoosophists, and who found that whether lunatics or not, they certainly were not fools. ‘The'inner circle of the society was always veiled in mystery. The Theosophists themselyes did not know which of their number were gmong the initiated. After the first few months of its exlasonce the society had no stated meetings. Many of the original members dropped away, and those who joined afterward had always the privilege of to themselves the fact of their membership, not evea their brother members knowing it. ALL CREEDS ABJURED, So curious an association would necessarily hay Tt was, as the name of the society iteclt implies, a religious motive, or an irreligious one, aa the reader chooses to interpret it. Bitterly in opposition, to Christianity the creed of Theosophy—or rather the plan, for it. pekeowleagoe no crced—is more nearly in accord with the Buddhist belief than with any other known religion of the present age. ‘The society was kept tagether by correspondence and by the se cial influeuce of Mme. Blavatsky’s Salon, Taking a French flat at Eighth avenue and Forty. seventh street she furnished it in the most curious manner and crowded every room with strange trophies of travel, Oddities of all kinds, Siamese idols to Parisian toys, filled her purlor, while stuffed beasts and tropical leaves and grasses adorned: the corners. The house was always open to her friends and their friends, and it was Liberty Hall. A freedom that never became license marked the talk, and religiyus and philosophical controversy al. ways in order. To this parlor came strangers mm all parts of the world, and some of the best knowp citizens of New York were frequent visitars, Unveiled.” the book published “Isis Unyeiled,” the book published « which became well known us an attack on Jogmastie religion and modern science, was the means of at- tracting great numbers of scholars to the place which was named the Lamasery by one of nociety, gitse the ntbeen nicgeeiaiey om Serge Not the peculiar people who pass their lives spparent in studying odduess, but recognized ph ay cf to be found among her guests. ~ Dr. John A. Weisse, the philologist, and Professor Alexander Wilder are among her’ warmest friends, and the Princesa Rackovitz (uow the wite of a New York journalist)and the Countess Paschkoff have beou among her hoaored guests. General Doubleday, of the United States Army; John L. O'Sullivan, the ex-Minister to Porta- gal, and his wife, met there with Methodist bishopa, Catholic priests, artists, actors, infidel writers, jour- nalists, spiritualists, physicians, Freemasons and other notable people. Colonel Chaillé Long, the African explorer, is @ friend of Mine, Blavatsky's uncle, General Faydeyeff, the Russian soldier and diplomatist and favorite of the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, and has a —— visitor at the Lumasery. Masons of tl highest degree were there often, for the lady, with her other attainincats, numbers 4 knowl of = sonry not excelled by many grand masters, and 8) land, sent by John possesses a diploma trom ‘arker, of the highest degree of the rite of A REMARKABLE CHARACTER, The sociai nature of the eveuings spent in the little parlor was a great clement of the success (if it be # success) of the movement, for among those wha went to see the woman there were many who fell under the spell of her eloquence and , for the time at least, theosophists, The itself has achieved ‘a world-wide notoriety, French, German, ‘Turkish, Hindoo and Russian pers’ abound’ in allusions to it, and while ranch societies have been established all ov the world a coalition has been formed between the sophical Socicty and the Arya Samaj of India, which is the great reform Vedic Society, Mme. Blavat avows her connection with secret societies in East and has said for a long time that so soon she should have done what she came to America to do she would return to India, This time, she now ssys, has arrived, and she is making her arrangements to depart at no distant day. ‘Therefore it Was that yesterday the anctioneer’s waved at her door, aud the curios not already of at private sale were sold to the highest a ‘The sale itself was uninteresting, as the weather was bad and few buyers were present. Little money was realized in comparison to the value of. the articles sold, but the lavy herself, as she sat in an inner room and smoked a cigarette, declared she was glad it was over. Whether the Theosophical Society will survive the return of the lady to the heathen, whom she prefers to Christiaus, remains to be seen. ON TRIAL FOR MURDER, In the Hunterdon County Court House, at ton, N. J., was begun yesterday, before Chief Justics Beasley and a jury, the trial of Benjamin Peterson, the negro who, on the morning of May 30 last, shot and killed Peter Dixon, also a negro, at the latter's cabin in the Lowerland Mountains, The particulars of the tragedy, which were published in the Humanp at the time, are briefly as follows:—Peterson’s wife und daughter had left their homo near New Hi just across the line in Pennsylvania, and taken their abode with Dixon and his daughter, At two o'clock on the morning mentioned, Peterson, who was maddened with jealousy, knocked at the door of Dixon's cabin, He had with him a double barrelled gun, which was loaded with se of old fron and nails, and when Dixon opened the door he discharged it full at his head, The unfortunate negro fbqrces- ing in a pool of his own blood and lingered unt next day, when he died, The report of the gun aroused: the female inmates of the house, and while Peterson's wife crawled between the mattresses of the bed on which she had been sleeping with yp the latter sprang from ao we refuge with a neighbor. Peterson strode into oe wife's ig and di LH woman trom hiding ged him not to shoot her then, as secte Be would, but {sega her to get outside door and then fire at her. The and when his wife in th ing in t of the hor peared in the open: fron red at but imlssed “ber. She ran « few and then foll fainti bet it had entirely healed up. indict daughter and several nei tie principal. wilnens et was the daughter of the Bove ra neighbors tested tina vel Me ‘was then until this morning.