The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-30 00:00:00

THE GRAND RACES AT BADEN BADEN.

On entering the course the beauty of the scene
and the utter absence of noise or crowd cannot fail
toimpressth
the stands haveeEnglishmanm been built, and he
ostfavourab,y. Thet
flat on which
course formed, is most beau ifully situated between
fine woods of great extent on the one side, and
lovely hills crowned with foliage and sloping away
gradually into the distant mountains of the Black
Forest. Here and there nestling between them lie,
partially disclosed, towns or villages overhung by
the ruined chateaux of a now civilised aristocracy.
The course itself is excellently kept, every new
arrangement that can give beauty and effect to the
whole has been adopted. No police seemed neces-
sary to keep the people, who lined either side of
the course, from the minutest transgression. As
that admirable horseman, Mr. Mackenzie Grieves
(who had come from Paris to preside), cantered
down the course on a well-bitted chestnut horse, it
was evident that the sports would be marred by
no unruly jockeys. Even the conventional dog did
not put in an appearance. All was as it should be.
Here and there rode a body of cavalry officers in
uniform. On this side was a Prussian, on that an
Austrian, wheeling ti young impatient Arab through
the manifold exercises of the manage. On the bank,
facing the grand stand, in silent expectation of the
coming sport, sat a body of mounted cavalry.
Within the enclosure the racehorses were being led
about, and the jockeys themselves—English boys,
with the well-known English names of Flatman,
Pratt, Bottom, and Kitchener—had the air of ,
simple mortals, like you or me. The stands were
filled moderately with well-dressed persons of both
sexes; and on the lawn in front, and beneath the
flowering shrubs and luxuriant creepers of the
ba,cony, in every variety of charming summer
toilette, were seated crowds of pretty women. Be-
tween the races military bands played the exquisite
music of Rossini and Mozart. The whole wore an
air of enchantment. For the first time in my life
I enjoyed a race without a single alloy. The Derby
has its host of London pleasure-seekers, a motley
crowd of confusion and intemperance; the St. Leger
its Yorkshire Tyke, with his broad dialect and
narrow prejudices. Baden has neither the one nor
the other. It is a small Goodwood, without the
necessary disadvantages of every English course.
In one thing alone we beat them—in the surpassing
loveliness of our English women. We cannot have
their climate. The innocence of racing in its in-
tegrity is gone from us for ever ; but the beauty,
the charm, the unconscious loveliness of an English,t
girl I have never seen equalled, and any approach
to a parallel is a problem hitherto unsolved. If
say that the arrangements for leaving the course
part
of
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the
day'ss orderly
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convince my reader that I was ceista:edn rYsruumoffint yhvher over
ort rsbety:
nor
were neither collared by a policeman man. I
thrown
a van, nor into by a drunokbeiniviPo
on their haunches by an
Hansom cabman, nor pelted
was neither chaffed by a
with eggs or cocoa-ndo.b.y
that hour I was once i
+ The races were to be
finished by P
5 - .112" agnadeD, where I arrived with-
more on my road to ousstboy.
to assist at those enjoyments
out let or hindrance,fullow a day of such very inno-
cent amusement -Once

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Pork and corn continue to be but slightly affected
by the rise, as America produces these commodities
in such vast quantities as to have in ordinary sea-
sons far more than sufficient to supply all ber
wants; but almost every manufactured article and
exotic that men and women require in a civilised
country is rapidly increasing in price. House-
rent, gas, coal, and wood have gone up from
20 to 40 per cent. Coffee has trebled, and tea
almost doubled in value, as represented by paper.
Male and female apparel has reached such an
alarming price that in a few months none but
the ricn will be able to pay tailors' or milliners'
bills, unless the profits of trade, the salaries of offi-
cials, and the wages of labour share in the general
inflation. A coat that in London would cost three
guineas, or four at the utmost, cost from 40 dols. to
50 dole. in New York; and a silk dress that the
most fashionable mercers in Regent-street would be
glad to dispose of for six or seven guineas is priced
in Broadway at 100 dols. A portion of this rise is
consequent upon the quasi-prohibitory tariff, but
it is the premium on gold that causes the principal
enhancement. If unchecked by a return of public
confidence, the premium will shortly reduce trade
with foreign countries to a minimum or destroy it
altogether. New York and all the North have been
in the habit of making merry with what they call
the" dilapidated" condition of the wearing apparel
of Confederate soldiers ; but the day seems to be
approaching when the word " dilapidation" will
describe in better English the condition of many a
once•crowded mart of industry and emporium of
commerce in the Federal States, unless trade can be
restored to its ancient channels, and the war brought
to a satisfactory termination.

Gem M'Clellan has, it appears, received orders
from Washington to advance into the Shenandoah
Valley and offer battle to General Lee at Winches-
ter, or at such other place as the Confederate Com-
mander may think it more advisable to accept. The
idea of winter quarters before or in Washington is
neither tolerable to the President nor tolerated by the
people, though Gem M'Clellan is reported to have
declared his unreadiness, for want of men and arms,
to re-assume the offensive. The truth is that
" Stuart's raid" has alarmed the official and mili-
tary mind. It is not so much for what was done by
the daring invader as for what may be done here-
after if such is the stuff that Southern captains are
made of, that the Administration feels uneasy, and
that Wall-street shares in the discomfort. Mr.
Lincoln and his Secretaries must have experienced
sensations akin to those of Desdemona when Othello
recounted his triumphs, and have formed the wish
" that Heaven had sent them such a man" as Stuart.
But a parallel hero is scarcely to be looked for in the
North. It is only when men fight for their homes
and the independence of their native land that
champions of this calibre can arise to make them-
selves a niche in that aisle of the Temple of His-
tory which is reserved for the romance of war. No
Wallace, Bruce, or William Tell—no Kossuth or
Garibaldi can arise in the Federal ranks. The
cause does not admit of such men. The Federals
may have their Alva or their Haynau in General
Butler, or their Radetzky or their Monk in General
M'Clellan ; but the real heroes of the war, the men
whose names will live in song and story, are the
" Stonewall" Jacksons and the Stuarts. Upon a
similar tenure Washington, though so cold and un-
amiable as a man, holds his lease of fame; and for
the reasons that make the memory of George.. a
111.
s
distasteful to after ages of Americans as well
Englishmen will that of Abraham Lincoln excite
but little enthusiasm in the world and
iSouth
n
North, and go down to the latest ages in the his own
instrument
as that of a man who was the unhappy
of an unhappy di,pute, and wastedalgeainst a kin-
dred people who only desired to heal
better em-
ployed alone the
energies that would have been
ployed in consolidating the emprreu of the North
over the States and territories that still yielded it
the vast wilde
unquestioned allegiance, and over
ness of the
West,, which it was its privilege an r-
W
d
duty to subdue and
te truth with regard to
replenish.
It is difficult to arrive
at
et and Tennes,ee.
To believe the telegrams
the aspect of the war
int Kentucky
that daily arrive, the South
is discomfited in States. To read these tele-
grams by the li-ht h
f
subsequent letters, the dis-
comfiture would seem
to be on the other side.
and Bragg the next ;
and Bragg an
Buell is victoridou
Buell—Buell
one day,
and Bragg strut
their hour upon the
battle-field, and do as much
mischief to each other, and seem all the while to
be as great friend s,as Clown and Pantaloon in a
Christmas Pantomime. As far as the truth can
be ascertained from the conflicting and imperfect
reports that the War Department sees fit to
authorise, or the accommodating newspapers think
it prudent to publish, no decisive actions have
occurred in either State. As regards Kentucky, it
seems that if Buell and Bragg, who were fellow'
students and close friend:, at West Point, would con-
tinue their game for man
months with
y the greatest
possible politeness and good feeling towards each
other, and with the least possible results for their
respective Governments.
The Congressional elections in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and some of the Western States have,
as far as the details are yet known, resulted in a
slight gain to the Democrats. Mr. Nallandigham,
one of the most fearless and outspoken of the
party, has paid the penalty of his too great
courage on behalf of peace by the loss of his seat ;
hut the loss has been counterbalanced on the other
side by the defeat of Mr. Grow, the Speaker of
the House of Representative?. The Republican
and Abolition journals are guilty of the dishonesty
of classifying all members of their owu party as
" Unionists," and all members of the opposite party I

General Butler still rules New Orleans with a rod
of scorpions. Not content with making every man
within his jurisdiction take the oath of allegiance to
the United States or forfeit his property, invalidate
his whole course of business, and become a political
though not a social outlaw, he has just sentenced an
unfortunate ex-policeman to six months' imprison-
ment and hard labour, and to wear an iron chain
and a 241 b. shot attached to his leg, for the offence
of describing himself in an official document as a
supporter of the constitution of the Confederate
States. Butler has a perfect mania for rigour.
Surely if Fort Lafayette is to be permanently
made a Bastille for political prisoners whom it
is the present fashion to consign to its gloomy
walls by lettres de cachet, he ought to be ap-
pointed its governor. Bat perhaps he expects a
higher destiny, and reserves himself, or is reserved
by his present superiors, for the dignified, but not
enviable post of Exterminator-General of the South-
ern people. Extermination is the only logical end of
the war if the North is to be victorious, and General
Butler is so palpably the man for the work that any
other candidate would be a fool who presumed to
run against him.

The exploits of Capt. Semmes, of the Alabama,
whom the Northern journals persist in calling a
pirate, though he no more deserves the name than
Generals Lee, Stuart, " Stonewall" Jackson, or any
other commander of the Northern forces, have ex-
cited great alarm in commercial circles. The rate
of insurance on all American ocean -going vessels
has been raised 5 per cent. to-Jay by the published
report of the captain's achievements, and the cer-
tain result will be, unless the Alabama is cut short
it. her career, to throw all the European and a large
portion of the Asiatic trade of America into British
and other European bottoms. This prospect is the
'reverse of agreeable to the shipping interest of this
port, and of all the cities of the Federal seaboard,
and a loud and rather angry demand is made upon
the government to fit out an expedition to seize the
Alabama, hang the captain, and convert the ship to
Federal uses.