American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-09-11
The 0xforG-Haryard Nuisance.

hC lhVON lbNilNii AiNl'lttF vi pll'b7
berry we have had for Il long time
has been the late sO-called interna-
tional boat race in English waters
from Putney to Mortlakc,. on the
Thames, between the OXfords, of
England, and the HarvardS, Of Cam
bridge. 1t resulted in a defeat OF
the latter, as the world is now Sutii-
GENTLY advised, and we hope the At
lantic cable will be permitted to have
some rest after the arduous labors it
has been made to perform i'll the
task of informing an anxious nation
atty of the progress and result of
that most momcntOuS contest of skill
and endurance. Boston stood on
tiptOe to learn how its destiny was
to be decided, and, after il was made
to succumb to the superior muscle of
the aristocratic sons of its ancestors.
in placed under contribution the
patience of the whole American read
ing public, and has forced it for near
Il fortnight to read daily column or
more of tclegraphic trash in eXplana
ton of how it came TO grief.
The civilized world has been maJle
to share III interest aud anxious con
Germ the fate OF the French EmperOr's
life and a few undergraduates of
Harvard University. We have stood
the thing as long as human cndur
ance could tolerate it, and we pro
test against the intoleTable nuisance
The death Of Napoleon would turn
things upside down everywhere in
Europe, and we have looked dmly
for the bulletins of his precarious
health +; but, above it and before it,
in the cable kilograms Of every great
daily paper we have taken up of late,
has been u colCmn or 50 Of trashy
details of what was going to happen
or had happened i'll the matter of the
race Oh the Thames between the two
dugouts.
We bore it in patience until the
announcement of the resait, when
we had hoped to have some peace ;
but instead of bringing rep0se, the
decision Of the contest only opened
afresh the food gates Of namby pam
by details. Chief of these have been
the reports of the dinner given at
the Crystal Palace in honor Of the
two crews, at which, by the way,
while all the Harvard crew were on
hand, we observe there was only one
of the English crew present.
The Englishman is 4 high feeder
and nothing can take place without
making it "a pretext for a dinner
Aud he is equally spccch-making
animal, as no public dinner can come
off without a fair amount of post
prandial oratory. On This occasion
Mr. Charles Dickens was the chic
speaker, aud the report Of the pro
ceedings is very much like one of hi
own burlesqGcS in the pickWicii pa
pers. In his cxordium he says, il
compliment to the Boston people
that, "nothing was more rCmarkabi,
in these descendants of our fore
fathers than thC inVinciblc dctcrmi
nation with which they Tough
against odds in the late war, and tn
dauntlesS spirit with which the.
stood defeat This is peculiayl
rich, and must have been INTENDED
as sarcasm, il he ever read his coun
tryman RusselPs account Of the bat
tie Of Bull Run. Ifthcy ever Tough
against odds in the late war, histor,
has not recorded it; aud Mr.. D;rken
+ has uttered u romance as Startlin.
as ANY W MS loNplS.
lie was replied to, il seems, ia be
half of the lIrvards. by youn.
man by name o. Simmcns, and W,
could not help thinking, in view 0
their nccssaria'ly purkereL lips aftc,
, defeat that they upprIriitclyrrplict
per simmons. But on OF be riches
speeches Of the occasion was that o
Mr.. Thomas Hughes. Il somcb0d,
whose lofty position ia the worll j.
not designated ia the di,pa'rhr
lie aSsrr ted. in comp imcnt &C. o..
yOung defeated ''that Harvard Iui
vrrSity, in producing James Rus,cl
Lowell, John Lathrop Motley. Rabbi
Waldo Emerson. and Louis Agassiz
had reason ia pride ITSELF Now
wh,t EEL tIewor!d has be % h wet t'c
by the two hrst namrd, s." a,uo
say; hut it is IgnplduCc 10 cttu A.
ASST rs tie prOdrc ion O. q ..E are.
His association With that }. s'IlIa.
is comparatively Dl late date ., Ia,
brought with hlm from EurUp, ID,
rcpu'uliuu which led 10 his engage
H'Hi US |iNitNNbi I'll 1t. u CHS
such az eminent man with MOtle,
.aS production of Harvard is bat
enough, but to add ~ after that o
Emerson is positively harblrous
The suggestion ct Mr.. Bllgiord, j.
, his toast to oar VISITORS ihJ
f hereafter they should use coach il
- thrif training, is good one; bat j
: would have b'pu better If they haD
p used real coach IA their race, rs
, sitting iu one drawn hy a four ii
+ hand, they would have stood NOR
3 chance Of beating the tsiUrdS iha
Q in "a boat. At til" 'ungiusiOn, tn
I reports says there W., y grand di'
play of fire works in honor o. III
o ca ion, thus ENDING the Who'll
thing in ,nu *. II BoSton'S w0un'
: ed pr de has been sufficiently Salvot
we hope We shall hear no more OF /