The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-31
FROM EUROPE.
Panic the Paris BOurse- Alarming Reports
Regarding NapoieOn's Health - Eugenle TO
Hasten Home.

Regarding Nnpoieons Health - Eugene to
Hasten Home.
BIZ the dnglo-A mertcdn Gable.
PARIS, Aug. 3l.-The city was full of rumors
yesterday regarding the condition of the health
of the Emperor Napoleon, and perfect panic
prevails on the Bourse in consequence of the
statements which are made on the subject by
different parties and individuals while these
rumors, which are merely the work of stock
jobbers, are being circulated.
There is no doubt that the state of the health
of the Emperor is really such as to create
anxiety on the part of the public. He suffers
from disease of the bladder. The different poll
teal parties, in and out of the Legislature. are
busily engaged in speculating as to the issue of
this physical affection. The imperial family is
also alarmed. 1t is said that the Empress Eugenie
will hasten back from Corsica Immediately, in
consequence of the receipt of news of such inn
port from home, and that the idea of her trip to
the East will be abandoned.
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte intends, it is said
to make a democratic speech in the Senate some
day during the next ensuing week, but his
friends are opposed to its delivery just now.
They allege that if the present empire should
fall his pretended democracy will not save his
position in the eyes of the French people.
The Empress condemns his conduct towards
such path and issue as being both unwise and
ungrateful.
The international Race-The ''LOndOn Times''
on the COntesL--The Scene and the Struggle
an Editorial Point of View-Pllck and En-
rav of the Hnrvards.
By the FrGncO-Anlercdn Gable.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-The London Times of YES
terday printed the following leader on the late
international boat race:-
The gentle and joyous struggle OF oxford and Har
1869, Will long be remembered on both sides of the
Atlantic, and the story of the day will be of the
first things which the youngster still at school
whose name has been only just put down for the
next vacancy at the oxford house of his father
his tutor will appropriate to himself. 1t viii
be radiation of the university another page in that
book of many stories in which oxford appears
as the flower of the nation, and the nation has the
stock bearing that consummate flower. Nor will
Harvard have less reason to commemorate the gal
antry of her sons. Harvard too is an epitome of
tional history. The English traveller must be
strangely compounded, especially il he acknow-
lodges any obligation to university in his own land,
who is not interested in this Cambridge Of the New
World.
1t is nearly two hundred and fifty years since the
settlers IN New England founded the university on
the banks of Charles river in grateful imitation of
that other the banks of the Cam, where their
spiritual leaders received their early training 1t
two hundred and thirty years since the pious Har-
ward, himself an old Cambridge man, gave it
the endowment which has immOrtaliZed his name.
Ever since Harvard has been the dLna mater of New
England Its brick pile of living rooms, its substan-
tial granite library its old halls adorned with the
portraits of successive Presidents and other
distinguished members, its chapel oppressive with
severe divinity, all encompassed about with UNI
brageous elms and spreading limes are veritable
refreshments to the European visitor for thew sneak
of a past welded to the present in a country
where all else seems to have been newly created
by the men of to-day They exercise too n cor
responding influence over New Englande them
selves. Harvard has educated Boston, just as Bos-
ton has educated the United States The best
culture OF the nation is there. Nor 1t other
than natural impulse OF the training of this school
that 1t should challenge our own oxford to an issue,
which, though OF merely physical training had the
crowning merit OF admitting an exact comparison
between the competitors. The Harvard men are of
the best families Of Massachusetts, although one of
them nominally halls from the Sandwich Islands. II
is understood that this is due TO accidental migra-
ton of his father but three four years since and
like his comrades, his birth, his education and his
descent connect him with Plymouth Rock.
Our men appeared in the ordinary Jerseys, with
short sleeves reaching about third of the way
from the shoulder to the elbow, and the straw
hats familiar to us all. The Harvard men had white
scarfs around their foreheads, with no covering for
the crown OF their heads, and their Jerseys were
cut away above the shoulder 50 to allow
the freest action OF their arms After little
SeVe SaIa jumped ped away and are putting forth H5gG
wonders of power. The superficial view is entirely
in their favor. The Americans in the two steamers
are wildly excited and give peculiar cheer, ah! an
ah The Oxford boat looks torpid by comparison,
but it compels admiration by the perfect evenness
OF it's stroke the iron and steel like aud the almost
superhuman regularity OF It's movement. The energy
OF the Harvard men was magnificent, but there was
a sort OF hutter even at the outset. Nevertheless
they got ahead and they were doing five or six
strokes more to the minute when they cleared their
antagonists II what is were sure presage of what
will be, their victory was certain but time was
the essence OF the struggle. Take young fellow OF
twenty-five, such as many Of us have known and
may know, his pulse knows no change, his thews are
as OF brass, he looks out upon the world with eyes
that have no shadows, he might live TO be hun
dred, but it is million to one that he does not.
Time will beat him. 1t was so with Harvard at the
moment Of their greatest hopes. The experts shook
their heads. IL still 10 to l. Not third of the
course had been Towed when oxford began TO over
smith bridge the oxford bow was in line with Har
ward No. 3.
everybody else the conditions OF the game, and
seeing that everything depended upon Keeping his
crew in their position of advantage he made des-
perate squirt, but the effort, though gallantly
seconded, made the essential unsteadiness of his
crew only more apparent once more, however
"Ah ah! ah!' burst from American lips, but the
dreaded enemy crept on, got fairly abreast, and
S0methng has been said of a mistake on the part
of the Harvard coXswain, and had it happened
nothing could be more pardonaole seeing that cox
swans are absolute novelties IN Harvard experience;
founded Certain, at all events, IL Is mat there was
nothing TO compensate any error OF TINS kind, for the
little Oxford coXswain was as iaultleSs as his men.
Meanwhile the oxford boat got two, three, appa-
rently four lengths ahead. Inc harvard crew stuck
gallant.y TO their work aitnoagn n tney were All
was seen, to the astonislneht or tnose who were
following. The Harvard coXs"alh was seen to drop
his right hand into the water ana splash 1t in the
faces of his men. This man9uyre was re-
peated two or three times, and it is not
loo much to say that something like spasm
0f horror thrilled the breasts of the orthodox
at the sight. The Prea0@instt1g nnS thought, It
must 1e s o he Confession It applied that the % race S
was homeless The winning post was in sight OK
ford Was three lengths ahead, and, "barring acct
dents nothing could save the event. A man row.
m iady in zig did, indeed, at the last moment
mil across the oxford boat and thus deprived OK
Ira Of OF least two lengths-but the victory re-
atned roa unanected in character and circumstances
The match and its issue afford ORD no napt illustration
~ G iSbmen % were heavier and the English coXswan
vas ighter than the Harvard coXswain but it must