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THE GREAT BOAT RACE.

We copy below from the New York Sun a minute account of the great University Boat Race; also statements and opinions from several other sources :—

SCENES ON THE RIVER.

The steamer London Pride was anchored abreast of the Thames Conservatory yacht. The Prinee of Wales, it is affirmed, stood upon ber deck, surrounded by several members of the

PARTICULARS OF A FEARFUL HORROR | the right end of the enisform cartilage, passing AT PHILADELPHIA hrough the liver, and wastoand in the back

" . under the skin; both of these wouuds were fatal;

On Tuesday last, the 24th inst. the city of | another entered the left side six inches below the Philadelphia was the acene of a fearful crime, no

/ armpit; another entered the back one “3 a a de » inches to the left of the spine, and was found tn Sedans a mtd sak ral the spinal column; the fifth entered the outer Themes L. Evans. In addition te the particulars | “4° of the left foot, and was found imbedded in given below it may be remerked that as the! the bones of the foot. policeman reached the dreadful scene, the! —.------ @ + -——_— wounded, prostrate and dying father remarked, | EXTRAORDINARY OPERATION. * Don’t barm my bey, for he did not knew what} iz he was doing ":-— | P 1 niet royal family. All earried large lorgnette ie robably the most astounding surgical| reyal ta a , The family, with the exeeption of Marshall, | opetation he performed on char American | Umprre’s boat war but a few feet distant. Thos. had sat dowa to breakfast, and while partaking

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continent has recently been made in this city | Huy he a, the unpire, was eurrounded bY . ee of the meal they hod entered inte a general diem, , ~ | of dis inguished gestlemen, among thei, Mr, euseion of the conduct and bebaviour of Marshall |

by Dr. G. D Beebe. The circumstances, #5 | Gladatone, Bulwer Lytton, the Count de Paris, for aume time past, and what had better be done | w gather them from ie ce he ‘Joha Stuart Mill, Charles Reade and others nnader the circumstances. They had concluded | PAtent, are briefly these: Mrs J. B.C aien | ate arrangements being under the direction of that the father, after breakiast, should visit Dr. | Tesiding at Lee Centre, Ill , came to this city! the Thames Conservators, that body of gentle Vandyke; who, a tew days since, bad expressed | OD & Visit, and was stopping on Sangamon Nt, men, exerted themselves to the utiueat, to insure his conviction that his son was insane and had| While here she became aware that an cld} “a fair field, aud ne favor,” for the two crew & hetter be sent to the ineane acylum, and obtain | rnptare, from which she had suffered trom| The captains of steamboats on ware we from him @ certificate of bis insanity, on which | time to time for several years, was likely to| served with printed eee ' — : om he could be removed to the asylum. | vive her trouble, and summoned meJical aid. | te come beyond a mark mappe BM y buoys Just ax the conversation had been concluded, | p Leutotan On lied regarded it as a case | 8¢to#s the river, and the river police were active i ] ne aa g iat in keeping back and arresting the progress ot and to whieh many think Marshall had been| of ¢ wind colic,’ bat his treatment not relieving eoaiied Secs dow cl alin hk. an Wigan the swabs pins Teed tarde eel the Pte - = et prescribed limits. In fact, the srrangemeuts ** good morning.” le did not reply to his salu-| “** C1smissed,and Wr. ts oer sige te HOU) were as perfect as mortal man could make thea, tation, but lnoked closely into the faces of all the | ed, who, recognizing the true state of the case, |

CONDITION OF THE CREWS,

: ; ; | requester surg be called, and De. family. He ate pretty h-artily, and while thus | Tequested that a surgeon be ’ 7 iis rated t “ur quartera dur- Saeed the pont helt the ceed all dicosied te| Beebe was accordingly sent vow a a i adnrmaeeeee og . Tet many the second floor, where he changed his gown for| A careful examination of oe ane “eae e | American and English gentlemen called upon a coat, and procuring his bat started down the | the fact that the intestine involved in the) them, but few were admitted, Lt waa freely as front stairway. rupture had alveady mortified, and to allow} the American crew were overtrain.

To the meontime Marshall had alse arisen and | this to remain, would inevitably destroy the |

jeerted that led) The condition of Summons and Lering was etepped out inte the hall, which led directly from | woman’s life. the dining room to the front door.

THe, therefore, decided to re-| the subject of frequent comment. The former

Here he| move so much of the intestine as had ande>| eas suffering from diarrba, and the latter was

| ge -wing draping accasionally oot rs gone decomposition, and, by securing the troubled with an angry boil, The American

Wide eth: laatine ts tre hall Marchal walked) ¢ztremitien-ot the eound intestines. to restore crew, howerer, were quite euufideat | Blaikve

tawards the f-ont danr, ana din the Cothce was| at length the natural passages, and thus pre-| and oo ae , ee ae ees staal Lnglieh atepping into the veetibn'e he drew a revolver! Se7ve the aufortunate lady's life, Assisted by | sonatly tows the long odds i

and fired three shote in rapid succession, The!

Drs L.Dodze. J. S. Mitchell and A. G.Beebe,| Cre’: Kelley was cool and calculating, and father then retreated through the parler to the | this dangerous and difficu!t operation was ac-|

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; te fi: ; : a if ; ‘wohes | Smetican Legation appeared despondent, but heli again and back towarda the dining room,| cordingly performed, and four feet six inches | with thisexception, ail seemed confident of a

And passing fe pantry clutched at the door and|of the intestine were removed from the tight race, with a good equare ebhance for an from that fell inte Mra. Beleher’s arma. She! patient's body, and m Ly now be seen, preserve | Amctione Hbtsde,

laid him on the floor. Marshall followed his/ ed in alcohol in Dr. Beebe's office. Tne! During the day, the Oxfords kept quiet. None father all the way pack, avd as the body was |y- operation completed, the abodomen was cares! but favored friends were weleowed to their head- ing on the floor he bent over it, but said nothing. fully stitched up, the patient enjoined to pre-| quarters, A few of the English nubility and a

Mra, Belcher remarked to him: “ Marshall, see | ; ; ‘ ; : oe a : + oe serve perfect quiet, and to abstain from solid | ialf dozen boating men and collegians remained what you've dene,” to which he did not answer r od . aan os lid | K uc .

‘The young ladies on hearing the shota, and 7 seeing Marsbo/l with the pistol in his hand, ran! astounding ; screaming, some ont into the yard and the athers| "Zh recovered, being now allowed the free- | eut ef the front door The alarm was quickly | dum of her room and a generons diet, which givea and the touse was soon fali of neighbers|i3 heartily relished. What will not the and policemen, one of the latter taking Mafshall| surgeous do next ?—Chicago Tribuue,

into enstedy. and shortly after escorted him ta! the Fifth district station and from there to the! Central, where he is now under confinement. Neither at the time of his arrest nor since has he| —- seemed the least excited. but his face was deadly} The Memphis Ledger of August 21 has the ale To questions propounded to him he re-} followine :

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as it may seem, the lady has weli| their triends were enthusiastic, and freely offer- ; ed two to one on their success, The crew were iu tip-top condition, They based their hopes of victery on their superior bottom, It was gener- j ally conceded that Harvard would take the lead, jand keep it as far asthe Hammersmith Bridge }** But they can’t stay,” said Yarborough, ‘ you way be eure of it.” This seemed to be the geu- eral vpinion of the vast masses of Englishmey that lined the banks of the river. THE BETTING AND THE SPECTATORS,

The Thapes was fringed with yelling specta-

It was mentioned briefly, a few dasa ago, |tors, Every available beat and house-top was Dr. Shapleigh, the Coroner's physician, went | that a woman of Island No. 40, a few miles | covered with men and women, The betting was to the residecve and made a post mortem ex-| above Memphis, had shot a negro who stole| heavy. The long odds offered on Oxford was Binination. }into her room to commit an outrage on her/| freely taken by the Americans aud some of the As to the motive which indaced the son to| person, Fuller particulars have eome to our} English, Keiley says that over a million pounds a, ae they | knowledge, of a thrilling character, and they | sterliog were wagered in London aloue. Many

shoat his father there is none know were always or the r intimat rms <«e the | , : : | adi 2 . y the most intimate termes th are certainly worth recording to go Into the } of the ladies wore the magents culuce of Mar

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Thirteen days have now elapsed, and, | with them until late in the afternoon, All ot}

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ENGLISW COMMENTS ON THR RACE, : .

The London Times of Saturday, reviewing a some length the coutes says: “ The inferiority of the Americans was ip a wost pardenable point, the ateering. Their eex-ewain undoubtedly lost ground, but not enoug) to account for the dis- tance between the boats at the end of the race Until the Americans retrieve thie defeat they must acknowledge that our style of rowing ie the beat. The Americans inet with perfeetly fair play and if Englishmengoto America they will ineet with similar treatment May all the future international struggieabe donducted in the same epirit, and whicbever side wins may the vanguish- ed bave as little reagon to jfeel regret for their defent.” - :

The News dectares if the Harvards did nat command euceras they deserved it, aud hb. pes the Ainerican yachtmen on the Atlantic will avenge the noble defeat of their countrymen,

The Star ways the Americans, will long remem- ber the chivalric bearing of their opponents who, though resolved to win, never forgot that the Harvarda were foe-men worthy of their oars The strife between New and Old England on the river from which the Pilerim Fathers started has a historic side, and appeals to the immagination of the youth of both countries Tf New England had won, the older covntry would have shared in the triumphs of its descendanta The fatee de- eided otherwise We are eure that the Harvards would sooner be beaten by us than by any other nation on the globe,

The Telegraph says that the International boat race was aa gallant and as good adiaplay of man- hood as was ever witnessed in the history of row- ing. The Americans nave lost vo bener. Geod judges think more highly of the Americans thaa they did betere the race. The Americans hoped for a good race, and they bad it fair and honest from the start to the finivh

The Post in its commente ssye: ‘“* The excite- ment in respect to the race eyceeded all expecta- tion The enthusiasuc cheering of the Oxford crew wae natural, but befyre and after the race the Americans received as hearty, therough and well deserved cheets. There could be no aiis- take in this, Knglishwen are so devoted to manly eports that they truly honor the pluck and determination of sustajuing such an ordeal as was witnessed yesterday, If the English row the Americans on their own waters they will eet a similar reception, The same blood annmates both nations, and such rivalry is Only productive of triendly feelings and tends to bamsh sentiments that never should be permitted between nations so nearly alled. In this light the raee may be of more importanee than a mere trial of individual skill. strength and enduranee.” The Post eati- mates the number of people who witnessed the rac? in all pointe at fully one million.

The Pall Mali Gazette of Saturday evening has the following remarks on the race: * Ts have beaten men whose pluck carried them three thousand miles to megenre oars with an English University, whose patience surmounted innumer- able difficulties and dizappointmerta in boat building. whose endurance is almost unparalleled, is for Oxford one of those bappy triumphs in which there is peeuliar boror te the victors with- out humiliation for the yanquished ”

ANOTHER CONTEST PROPOSED,

According to a ¢unuiuinication by telegraph from one of the Harvard men to a friend in New York, after the race, a proposition was advaneed to have avother trial in one week's time. The Oxfords partially agreed to the prvpositiven. Es 8, however, @ matted of great uncertain ty whethor efforts to thateffect will be successful.

An English steamer which arrived at Liverpool trom Atriea a short time since, bad

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son remarking for several davs past that hia): ; 7 | vard, and ventured sovereigns on the skill aad father was the bes! friend he bad on earth. Of| history of the are. The dass of heroic WO~ | endurguee of the Americans, his insanity there don’t seem to be a doubt, his) ™*? are wot numbered. The girl of the THE CREWS ON THE RIVER eondact for ame time past bring such as te com-| Period in this lustance ie nat all eoraste, false ; : P pel his family ‘o eonault Dr, Vandyke aa to his| hair and Grecian Bend. b bo eae — ata on oo Londen ; v) : ad . ; , yat-house at a quarter uur. sir - eondtion. That gentleman, after a few days’| The young lady in this ease is named Shaw | ee” ar - j oad ool ays row examination, proclaimed him insane, and advised Sealy Secah Shute tf | ance was the signal for an immense cheer, which his rergoval to an aaylum. For cata benins | wate nat Sarah Shaw, if we are not mistaken.) was curried up and down both bauks of the river ‘years he bad Leen afflicted with an inflammatory | She wae raised in Memphis, and eo namie! ae mare, As they paddiog toward the Gar and rheumatiem, which lately has taken a a but respectable origin. Her circumstancs iu) Garter their long sweeping body stroke eleited Geom © He bse alen been decided'y anfortuaate| life were such that she had been oblived to | another cheer, and drew out a thousand excla- in business, and since April or May last has|®@t & living by her own exertions. She is} mations of admiration, The sun was shining} done nothing, He wasa married man, and the | (vite young—not more than eighteen or nine-| brightly, aud the water was nearly as smooth as| thought that not only he. but his wife had become | teen years old—and of course is good looking, | 4, presse Scareely a breath of air was ere dependent for the necessaries of li upon others,) 23 brave girls a] ways are. Some time ago she! Phe ae the etardy Englishmen rose and tell | also preyed upon his mind. They had broken up| went to live in the family of Mr. Doe Bate-| 8 the steady sweep of an eagle’e wing. Their} housekeeping, and he hod gone to live with his| man, on Island No. 40. She occupied od! bodies were bare and their ekins were well tan-| fatbe i sho with her friend ; a. ae Die a a ot jned. Turning off at the Star and Garter they | ther. and sho wi er friends at Riverside, N | night, a room adjoining Mr. and Mrs. Bate-| J. They are spoken of aa a very affectionate! ..... eats. di J oe ‘h 1 ms OSS) swept down to the starting post at Putney bridge, | couple, and taey were in the habit of frequently | man's @ little Gaughter of the latter sleeping | where quother cheer wounted the ait and was} SE GI. fence Mees cinen hho ene-| with her. Some two weeks azo, the youns | walted up the river, Their stroke was moderate, | atived the idea that a number of people had | lady thought, one night, that some one tried | aud their faces bore the calm, imperturbed look | conspired to tuke his life, aud among those he| % et into her room, This alarmed her, and | peculiar to English sporting men, elassed his wite, thongh not until yesterday did | the next day Be borrowed Mr. Bateman’s | Five minutes elapsed. The Harvards sported! he express any feeling against her to any of his| pistol from his wife, but did net tell him for | out in the etream. Another cheer flow over the family... He bad just then returned from a visit | fear he would langh at them both. In two or | Yast multitude. but it lacked the vuluine of ‘4, to her, and on entering the house of his father he| three days she returned the pistol, and Mr.| predecessor Naked to tae warst and brenzed, sought his eldest sister. to whom he said that he| Bateman was not to!d thai it had been loaned, |‘. pmerg of the sieeeby rolled in| : - | . ° ° | “he ! «0 f; » ; had been poisoned, and showing a blister on the} The n'ght a‘ier the pistol was returned, the | me ee ace os ; : ‘4 eater with | inside of his upper lip, remarked that was the Sia « selbleaid te thi ¢ a. | warvelous preeisien. own toward the stake-| ; |; young lady was awaKkenc y the Conviction! pat they i with th ace of rater fowl mark of poison. He remarked that he had been | - - oa ey sped Ww! 1e@ grace of & Water lowl,

P . ae : that some one in the besides herself ar gag fc : " all night with his wife and that at the breakfast the little ciri “ake aaa . a 6 oT he waentnee:s0ees Sheik: hendhesehie ane table none of her folke partook of anything. He! oo e girl. ss e listened and listencd, but /aent spasmodic ebvers jn the wake of the gailant was the only one to eat, and his wife had given | ne wean are of her com-\crew The Oxfords spoke not 9 word as the hnm éverything ke had eaten, and that she had | P*t0n and the beating of her own heart.) Harvards ranged themselves at their cide, The administered poison in his food. He was violent | But not being able to dispel the idea, ey 08 | a ee ee ee ee ee at this time in his denunciations of ber. saying 0% & plan to place herse!f on the defensive “ OFF, GENTLEMEN |" that be never intended to live with her,ard draw* | She spoke to her little companion, and told| phe tiny sterna of the spear-like boate were| jug an old broken knife from his bosom said that| her that she must get some water, at the ranged un a level The crews held their vars in

. . ~ | . 2. i. . . F he had threate: ed to kill her with that. He left | Sane instant rising and going into Mr. Bate-| readiness. Not even a whisper was beard. A his <— With the apart, * Oh, she wiil be here} man’s room. Instead of alarming the family, | slight nervousness, however, was observed in the oes 4 ppant it; [told her to come He) as almost any one else would have done, she! movements of Simmons. Loring sat like a sta- a3 Walls Praiie's So Goyer | gently stole Mr. Bateman s pistol from under | tue, eagle-eyed and immovable. Litte Burn- 314 Walout street, with whom he remained his head without disturbing hi an aki ham turtively glanced at the Oxtord cox-swair, t ing him, making y

until about two o'clock, and to whom he detailed | . . . : , . ‘ = , . -¢ | @ noise with her foot to drown the noise cf| 2d silently awaited the word, The English the oceerrences of the night before with his wife. | 3 crew sat with their bodies bent to the front and

j ; ' . “3 | cocking it, returned to bed, and was svon While walking along Walnut street he said te} ty hh wre . - -m ; . . S $0 q|aeme extended, stulid and apparently mdifferent, his father, “ You're the best fmend I've got”) STewthing wae ae feguearly Of @ Bout The Harvard crew had won the toss for the po- His father snid, “ No, there’s Kate” (his wife), | Sleeper. She had but a short time to wait.| ~. , . : ; , : 4 . . : sition, and chose the Middiesex side, the outaide He then exclaimed, * No, she is net. I won’t| A noise was heard at the bedside, and some-| 4 thes evmi-eieale. 3 6 Cloaks . : ‘ of the semicircle, Jt was five o'clock, fourteen live with ber any more.’ They entered the! body caught her by the fvot, and then RPGS | it ten aad bic sae halt seeonds. The tide nd there he saw his wife in the itting | he bed witi h . Ys ©;} mip Aan ixand @ ha onds, lde house, a k ° , H fhe sitting | up on the bed with the stealth and elasticity | was sluggish, and a littl south weet breeze pre- hha bi eines) L “4 aes y ane ‘tte wie} ofa vat, His time had come; she raised ber-| vailed, with the water as smooth a8 a wirror. tah x oe” ‘ : dit 2 oF _— nenars self ap and fired two shots at the bold intruder. | The?e was a moment of dead eilence. about HM. <.ceordingly they, ac companto *Y | Something fell heavily to the floor, and then ** Off, gentlemen! ” said the starter, in a clear the eldest sister, repaired to the parlorsand there y il Mre. Evans related what bad transpired during she heard someboly scrambling out at the | bass vice. : the night befor: She stated that alter she and} door. All became quiet. And they were off—off like the wind, The her Seabend had retired to their room, ha ached | The young lady proceeded to nrouse Mr, )Jdges clicked the springs of their watches, At ace P ; Bateman, who had heard the pistol but did | The same moment ab anxious spectator kuecked and then seized her by the dress with the Jet: | 20t know it was so close.

the. bedstead and the bureau against the dour, When a lizht was | Tom Hughes’s hat inte the water with his elbow. ~ $. ar . - <a ¢ ge , band, and drawing the old knife, enid, © Tuere’s| procured, a pool of blood was found on the | ihe Harvards were the first te eatch the water ; ae ; ; : . | and took the lead, gaining rapidly upon their op a@ mac in that Saratoga trunk. and if he dares to | floor, and in the yard was found an exptring | at i * ual oat you die, and then I die. We will go| neg upirssgn Aeagte PIFINS | povents, making forty-five strokes per minute come y : g | negro, as black, fiendish and hateful as ever} against the Oxtords forty out of the world together. Mind, [il kill you | belonged to a midnizht league. His peedent| = r She then comp'acently replied, “* Marsh, if you're | was settled. He was wounded in the shoulder a going to +" tor, cut me art seruas neta r and in the groin. Both bulls took good effect |, There was a flutter among the vast multitnde the eame time running her finger acrusa tbe lel?! 644 in en hour or so the brute was dead | iting the barks as the Harvards aped to the front. side of her throat, He feemed surprised at this) He had been hired in’ Memphi wie 4 A million eyes were fixed upon their flashing vare coolness, and started back; but in a few minutes | ~° D4G Yece Bired in Memphis a week betore | 4) Bishop's Point, three furlongs frow the bridge, he seized her in the region of the heart and drew | & work on Mr. Bateman’s place ; saw the they bad gamed half a length and were still gain- the hnife seross her upper lip just hard enough | Young lady aud resolved to outrage her jing. ‘Their quick stroke seemed to sing a song of wo break the skin She at the time was tearful of Had she been less firm and determined, he jtriumph, ‘They reached the Willows, and the making any outcry.and be eslwing down shortly. | might have choked her to death and succeeded steru of their boat was even with the bow ef the they retired for the night. After arising in the} without disturbing that sound-sleeping family. morning he acied very strangely, and left them on the first train for the city. She fullowed him in the next train.

Just as they were concluding Marshall came into the parlor, and after a short interview with hie wife, she, acting under the advice of the elder Mr. Evans, lett the house for her home The son then again drew the old knife, which the father took from him and put away in, as be thought, a secure place.

Nothing else transpired, except that the son would occasionally rewark that there waa a con- spiracy to kill him, until night, whe all wert to their reoms, the father taking the son to his bed- ehamber. Both went to bed aud the father fell usleep. About midnight the oid gentleman was aroused by hi» son jumping from the bed and seizing the war! pitcher and excitedly exclaun- ing, * The crowd is bere; they are going to kill me.”’ The father then aitempted te artes and was endeavoring to assure the sen that there was noboed t. when the latter eaid. * Don’t move or I kill you.” Thus the old gentleman was compelied to lie for over an hour during which time he was trying to calm the young man. At length the unfortunate man ran out of the ebamber and down stairs. The father tollowed only to see his son run to the place where the Knife bad been put, and seizing it, brandished it over his head, daring any one to come near bim The father then became alarmed, and returned to his room and locked himself and his daughters in. The son, alter remaining in the lower part of the house for over an hour ascended the stairs and on bis way to the attic, closed ail the win- duwa and bolted the doors At daylight the tamily descended to the dining room, and what transpired there has already been told in this eccount. The weapon with which the borrible tragedy was committed was a revolver, in which ‘there were but three loads, and which had been ‘piven by the son to the father some three or four weeks since, and which had been placed ina ‘bureau drawer by the father, The supposition Gs that the son on coming down from his hiding Pinee this morning had goue to his father's reom,

Oxfords, Here there was an evident slack in their speed, and the Oxtords erept up a quarter ofa length. A nest of-cheers from Beverly rang outa story of English satistaction Tbree quar ters of a mile Was torown to the rear, and still the Awericans held a good jead, At Craven Point the Oxfords doggedly maintained their provoking steady drag, while the Harvards epurted ahead like mad. Dung Wharf and Rose Cottage flew by. Aetreak of daylight was opened between the twe boats. ‘The gap was inereased, until at Crab-tree, a mile and an eighth from the etart. At the Aqueduct the Americans were fuily two lengths abead. They were pulling at the rate of forty three strokes per minute, the Oxfords hold

ing their own at thirty eight strokes Above the point the cox-swain of the Harvaids hugged the Middlesex shore, andthe Oxfords slightly quick- ened their speed. At the Soap Works, a wile aud ahalf from the Aqueduct, they had closed the gap, and Harvard heid a lead of half a length by the skin of their teeth,

HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE

was dead ahead, and beth boats were going for it like terrified water-spiders. The bridge waa reached, and a subdued murmur from the specta- tors above reached the ears of the rowers aa they entered its shadow, From the Soap Works to the bridge Harvard went with magnificent speed, but in shooting the bridge, their distance was lost. Opposite the widdle wall the Oxfords spurted and cuw-e up gradually te the Harvards, but whea opposite * the doves” the boats were found te be too close together, and the Harvards gave way At Chiswick Ait” (24 miles) the boats were “ level.” After proceeding fifty yarde turther the Oxfords began to gain, though tempor- arily, and the Harvards again got even with them.

Oxtord gained rapidly at Chiswick, where it became clear that the pace apparentiy told on the Harvards, who were rather wild at this part of the race. From this point the

OXFORDS RAPIDLY DREW AHEAD,

and in a few strokes obtained a lead of tw0 lengths. The Harvards, rowing -pluckily, held them there for baifa wil, when they fell astern and Oxford at thirty-eight strokes per minute,

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A NEW WONDER,

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4 REVOLUTION IN STAM ENGINES.

The Jersey City Times has a description of a machine, now in operation jn that city, which is destined to work a revolution in one department of mechanical industry—namely'a new steam engine, which, one-quarter of the weight, and occupying one-quarter of the space required for an ordinary ten-horse en- gine, will give the same power, with 25 per cent. less fuel.

This little machine sets at defiance all pre- conceived notions on the subject. Its motive power is all contained within the circumference of a broad stout wheel, about three feet in diameter, revolving upon a hellow shaft which receives the stenm and delivers it alternately into two opposite reciprocal cylinders, and fixed between the centre and the periphery. The power, therefore, instead of being at the centre, presents the singular anomaly of being at the circumference. Or, in other words, the true centre of power is at the periphery ot the wheel. ‘To use a familiar simile, the wheel is like the band or drum of a squirrel cage, in which two squirrels walk consentaneously, one in the usual position, the other in the opposite, bat with the head down, and with a motion similar to that of a fly walking on the ceilinz— beth,of course,is continually reversing positions as the wheel turns It is an application of the simple principle by which, as agyone can see, a grindstone may easily be turned by placing the hand epon its surface,while only with con- siderable muscular exertion a man‘s hand yrasping the shaft can produce the same mo- tion.

The inventor, Mr. Ruset, a Frenchman, resided at Cummunipaw until quite recently,

hen i in ne 2 me moan She cbaserenent where he is still known as the author and | *het Barnes's Bridge (3 1-2 wiles) three lengths “fast tabla and. aon enraged at the manner | Patentee of several useful minor inventions. ahead,

Along Barnes Beach the Harvards refreshed their stroke (Mr. Lorivg) with river-water, there- by retarding the boat The Americans then tried to epurt, but found the effort ineffectual, and the Oxfords getting more of a lead, eventually won the race by four lengths, easing up in the last few strokes and puliing up fresh

THE ENGLISHMEN CRAZY.

The Fimes says, it is expected that a stock company will be formed immediately for the manufacture of the Ruset engine, whose value for all uees requiring lightness of construction, combined with economy of fuel, may be seen by the simple staement that it will give ten- horse power with no more fuel than would be required in a@ caloric engine of two-horse

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which he was te be disposed of, had sought to “prevent his incarceration by kiiling his father Thedeceased was sixty-three yeare of age, and had long. beer tn the real estate business at No 4314, Walnut street. He was well known throughout the city and highly respected, The mourderer is twenty six years of age, and former- “Vy was in the bent and shoe business at Ridge

and Spring Garden street, though antil : And then arose a yell of joy from 500,000

«April or Bayne had been doing a tle i the Ae ach lee Rest cost. And one. haportant | EAglih throw A stranger would have thought ‘trade, He is bighly spoken of by his ac~ f Se: Uhetll Gie-Gnchs Gdited- enn iit to have heard it, that the w British nation quaintances, and all credit him with being an| ‘eure g had but just esea from seme unknown but

either to attain a bigh rate of s or to do heavy hoisting. _

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terrific disaster, Hats were thrown in air, and hands were shaken in congratalation. When English honor was thus satisfied a reyal outburst of huzzas were given the Harvarde.

Jupson’s PILLS.— We give you in this Medi- ‘The Oxfords arrived at the ship at 5 o'clock cine the result of a liletime of Study avd Tria'y 36 minutes 47 seconds, making the 4 1 2 asiies in before this Medicine all others are but Nestrums, 22 minutes 40 1-2 seconds, mencans were We ask you to use them, because we knw their well received at the finish, and returning, landed

eee Severe. His wife is alen represent- 2 ore lovely woman, and oce who ; he attachment. His strange con duct towards br cannot be zceounted for in any

Dr. Shapleieh made the post mortem examin- ation He fond five balls in the 3 one en- the bedy three inches shove and to the left

on board three gisot chasmas or ba- boons, two crocodiles, several monkeys, and other specimens of the natural h story of the country, The baboons were very ferocious, and posseesed of great strength For their sate custody. a s:ronz den with iron bars was provided, aad placed near the forecastle, sv that they eould be con stuntly under the eye of the crew. All went well until the morning of the seeund day out, when a crash was heard and in an instant the large ehasma bad wrenehed se-er- 1b rs off and the next instant was o the torcastie, arm-d with the oars with which he had been confined, Here he paused for a moment, and in a dignified wanner surveyed his eaptors A rope having been got o@ noose was formed and cast over his head, and he struggled hard to extricate bimself, bat without syail Le then atiaeked one of the seamep, w om he se:zed by the arm, and, notwithstanding that several of the men belaboured him with weapons, tue bfute would not relinquish his bold until be bad torn the flesh from above the elbow to near the wrist, and had been rendered insensibie, when he was curried to his den. ——— 20 -_—_-

On the .6th ines}, at 2 a. m., the bark Margaret ot Liverpool, G B .Joha O'Malley, master, trom Quebec to Liverpool with lumber, struck ou the Birch Rocke and be- came a total wreek. The wind taliing light, and the ship beimz heavily laden, the cur- rent drifted her on the reef, where her rudder was knocked off and 8 .e soon bilged, The master and crew were taken to Am- herst in the Mazdalen Islands, by the schooner Annie Lawie, of Yarmouth, and brought with them the sails, running rigging and stores. Two schooners, with the second mate on board one of them, were immediately despatched to save materials ; but or their arrival at the wreck .ound that she had bean plundered the masts cut down, aud @ fire builtin her to destroy all traces of the robbery Tfig'ivate found a portion of the standing rigging in the Caroline. of Yarmouth but the schuoner Hetta B. West,of Gloucester, Mass . had ft with the anchors and three boats. It ss to be hoped that the C stome Officers in Nova Seotia will be on the alert, and seige-the zouds should. ae i most probable, this vessel will attempt to tand them in this Province.

NEWFOUNDLAND RAILWAY.

The recent disasters to vessels attempting to pass Newfoundland are attracting attention to the proposal to make St. John’s the American port for mail and passenger ships between Europe and this country. The correspondent of the St. John Telegraph and Journal writes as follows to that paper :-—

RAILWAY ACROSS NEWFOUNDLAND.

Another proof too ig just furnished that the dangers in crossing the Atlantic lie a'most entire ly between Newfoundland and the American shores, and that to reduce the risk to a minimum for passengers, the construction of a Railway across Newfoundland ts indespensible. The fine port of St. John’s is very easily * made;” first class steamers would make the voyage from a port on the Trish coast to St John’s in four or five days, A railroad to St George’s Bay, and a steam ferry theuge * Shippigan harber, Bay of Chaleur, N. B., would, in less than twenty-four hours more, deposit passengers on the Inter- colonial Railway, by which they could be for warded to all parta of the United States and Canada In the near future this will undoubted ly be the great route of travel.

From Valentia, 9n the west coast of Ire- land, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, is only a 100 hours passage at the present route of ocean steamers, and is in a direct line. The distanee by rail to St. Georze’s Bay is 250 miles; and from that point to Shippigan 246 more, algo in a straight course, which materia!- ly diminishes the risk and difficulty of naviga- tion in thick weather.

There can be but little doubt that the great- er safety and speed of this line of communica- tion, diminishing the time required to transmit mail matter from London to New York by more than two days, must secure the accum- plishment of this work at no distant day, and thus form the means of drawing the new and oid worlds more closely together than at pre- sent. The connection hy the electric wire ordy renders the people on both sides of the Atlante more impatiebt of the delay in making communication in person and by letter, and he will be hailed as a benefactor of the world who can find the méans ‘to sHerten the transit be- tween Europe and America by one third of the

time now cequired to pass from the one to the other. rine 3p Holloway’s Ointment.—Painless Cures,—

Sores, wounds, ulcerations, and other diseases affecting the skin, are amenddble by this cooling and healing unguent. Jt has called forth the loudest praises fron persons whe bad suffered for yeare fiom bad legs abscesses. and chronic ul- cera, after every hope of cure had long paseed away. None but these whe have experienced the soothing eff-et of this Ointment eah form an idea of the comfort it bestows by reetraining in- flammation, and allaying Wherever this Oratment bas been ance weed it bas establiched iis own worth, and has again been eagerly sought for as the ea-iest and safest remedy for all u!-

the . th atemach and virtues, Trial is the touchstone which to at Barnes, The race was . and excited | cereus complaints, In neuralgia, rheumatism Sait coal coker detec aetenk . them worthy. Get vur sina Bold a degree of Sialieelocin Se eet he and gout, the ‘sane ‘applies tion, proporly used, _ eaot. eoteres! abvut ua ich aud a bal? frou by all dealers | iver utterly unknown ip former races. ~ | gives wonderful relief a a . ~ ha oS ae , ‘

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men named Jenkine. who is aleo called Pro~ dso , and the Canadian Blondin, crossed the george below Niagra Falls on @ tight rope on Thuteddy, ising a machine of bie own invention, which looked seniething like a velocipede. It is a dieycle, with wheels three Inches wide, groov- ed one and three quarters of an inch deap, and made heavy and of wood, The two-inch hemp cable was fastened immovably on the American shore, but on the Canada shore coiled areand a windlass. The mau appeared at 2. 30. p. mm, and, mounting bis machine, moved slowly for ward, the repe swaying gently from side to side until the rider bad parsed out abeut fifty feet, when he wae photographed, after which be crawled along at a snail’s pace to the middle of the abyse, where he raised and waved his hat. From the centre to the American shore it was evidently bard to propel the bicycle, The time occupied in passing over the rope waa just eleven minutes, The crowd of sight-seers was very amall and the receipets wore only $350, while the expenses were $1000, This apathy on the part of the public was very unexpeeted, but is highly gratify ing.