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The New York herald., 1871-09-09

Average age s2a years. average weight 1917 pounds
M'KtE GREW, Of PrrTsBuR:. -
Way over on the other or eastward sfie of the
lake, In Mr.. Arnold's pleasant farmhouse, the
NcKee crew. OF Pitsburg. the seconl on The sfolnd
CO. Jurnine since last Saturday I'd lane 70 tne LETT
from the lake road matter of two or three min
utes' walk Their irail paper craft IS sioSed away
when not IN use, aud on either hand these Penn5yi.
vanlaDs 40 their training. have just seen .hesc
green saplings-ior, tuey are SUCH comoared Win
tneir several oDponen's-and talked wlti them
about the test to wmch they Will be subjected
within few hours. They al have local reputa.
uon Of note, but, am inclined 70 think. have not
been cautious enough In Ine matter Oi supply ing
tue demands OF ---.@ nt 1'N4
Their diet anu training ls ABOUT sImilar in essen
tials to that OF the Wards-Jnat Is, their man of
business had 1t laid down tnat tney should pursue
aOout tnem yet tney are conhaent tney wil nos be
last IN the race and VIII render q good account of
themselves alongside the champions oi the world.
COOney MynhardL puiis tue bow oar lie ID
glassDi0wer oy occupation, aud tue ousin; ;ss seems
to have agreed with him, as there is much solliy,
sturdines5 and power In his compact frame. Is
the oar lie does his work well aud pleasantly, but
he ls young In the business OF long pulls. M g's1.
Wm; :, scasrm Tue stroke s taoSSn " 0ut 1 1t%enty-one
has distinguished himsen IN many weii-contested
ski contests and TO my mind his lasting, ing
powers when he Is ali rlgnt are better Than me
scull race OF importance-he beat wm Steen, o:
September, l,oe. he laid out john scott, Of the
same place. In mile dash ana last year. August 8,
was VlctOf IN u matcn wltn HeLry BEST, OI Pitts
burg, nve miles, 56s. He also TOOK part in
four rOaFed race pulling stroke, AT Buffalo this year.
July O. three miles. In winch race the boat he
carried on the hrst prize OF 500. Ike the looks
OF Schdr1 and .tniuk MIN Q Trustworthy standby
when good, honest pulling Is required. HIS is
clearly cut ana smooth wouians. When lac
speaks Is so quiet ana gentle you wonder now this
delcate organization came among tme Knights OF
the Oar from the smoky, dirty PtusDurg district.
Frederick Num- pulls oar NO. Il an 4, like SchaL Is
but twenty one, anu has the same o0yi H. genLe
as his companion. There's good stun IN Rln,
behind them then my knowledge OF laces amounts
to nothing.
Nicholas Denmarsh sils at oar No. 8 and Ii the
Hercules Of the crew. he looks clumsy, but their
coacher whispers 10 me inat lie Is the handiest OI
them ali anu "when wanted Is tlere.n
Their boat ls named the aIckee afer the club to
winch they belong. 1t IL 40 feet inches long. II
inches vide and inches deep; wel.ht, % pounds
and made Of paper.
1--WE amt IN AZ good TX as wo would like Mr..
Reporter, but you can Det we won't De last Ia the
race" Is tnelr parting salutation vi confidence.
THE MEN. 'tF
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Average age, % years; average weight ills pounda
THE ENGLISH CRsws.
The Tyne and TaylOr.Winsnip crews got away
from the snort, conbinx seas Ia Haiilax narbOr as
soon as practicable, aud reached TINS charming
resort on Tuesday evening, coming III 81 quietly
that their presence WAS LOt generally known until
iate NJ night. They were met at the depot by Mr..
morrlssey, ana under MS guidance found exquisite
Quarters ~ the Grand Union until mornlnx, when,
WIN taef boats they HE'D away 70 the lake 70 settle
Their arrival was the beginning Of the excitement
ana their every movement was q matter OF the
closest scrutiny: The bowling alley OF Moon
Hotel was set apart for the slowing 0f their bosts
and In good ume they were at earnest duty. -
u ENGLISH DIETARY.
met them singly few hours alter their ARRIVAL
end thought 9ild still thuk finer specimens Of
humanity never existed tnan these same liz nternen
and watermen OF tho Tyne and Thames. Their
training aud diet diner Ia many particulars from
the American regime. They do not like TO work
much before breakfast, and believe In baths eariv
In the morning. Ale with dinner and tea ut
supper s the extent OF the liquid they are allow ed
TO take and they dote joints and s.eaks ana riDs
OF beef. For them u no pastry, no afternoon coupe
revver, no conee, no vegetables vi moment and no
milk. Theirs Is life OF abstinence aud chastity, OF
nell.abnegatlon ana pure mOraiify.
I'VE OLD uns like TO take little liberty once In
. wape ~ !hs matter Ql Ast" Rel4 keiiY v me-
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line. In Mr.. Newell's "versatIitieg' there ~
much that is true and pure; bus nothing
above the merest commonplace. Bret Harte
10 more original than either Of the Others
but VINO can pretend to say that hts work is any-
thing better than Chinese cheap Iabori In year on
two his rude and uncouth verses Will be forgotten,
and the only wonder viii be how he ever attained
the brief popularity which was allotted him.
Turning from these unheaIthy poets we have be-
fore us the nth series OF "Hans Breltman's Bal
lsds." Breitman, ike the .Heathen -Chinee - waa.
acharacter in his day; but Mr.. Leand's verses were
dOggerel st the start, and now they have degene>
rated into mere unreadable trash. SIMPLE people
n,istook his fearful mixture Of English and German
for the dialect OF tho "Pennsylvauia Dutch. /" and
many persons thought Breitman's adventures very
funny But. aside nom "Hsns Bre.tman's Party"
which was well enough In It's way there is nothing
In che five series Of ballads not written merely to-
sell. And everybody was s'sold' VINO bought them
They possess neither wat nor fancy. and have not O
single commendable quality. But Bretman is more
decent than Hay and the other fellows who call
themselves poets. though We hope m Is not a he
- Nedcr you auoder man
Can pc hooks like de New York rowdies can
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heaviest man IN tne boat. Harry has been sick. the
"blaasted" chins and fever OF Halifax unntting
him for his important work In that harbor But ne
Is better now and takes 10 MS grub and exercise
kindly. Five feet eight and half inches high, ana
weighing one hundred and seventy.slx pounds TO-
in face with large expressive eyes, Coulter looks the
KIND OF lad girl would fall In love with. ana II
recattas he Will carry away many iair heart. His
rowing career oegan when very young but In 1857
he was matched for the first time, and since tnen
az the inside OF a shell. ava L.--
they trust their fortune in the Amerca-lengfh, Al
feet; breadth, Is inches; depth, ia inches weight
1O7 pounds
THE MEN.
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SONS OF TEMPERANCE.

BOSTON, Sept. 8, 1871.
the National Division OF the Sons OF Temperance
has settled the question OF c0lored membership by
the adoption OF the following preamble ana resoiu.
tlon BY 81 TO 80 votes:- 2i ''i"
in the Order OF the Sons Of Temperance under
the Jurisdiction Of National Division, dis
tuciion color former condition, but
aI alike equal before the Law, therefore ltt.
Resolved. That future hcskyn do not deem ex
pedtn 70 Organize separas IN the tsrroy
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THE HOP CROP.

D CHICAGO, III, Sept. 9, 1871.
A special despatch from Madison, Wis.,, says there
Is considerable Excitement in that section among
the hop growers. As hign 1fty cents per pound
has been offered for new hops, snd twenty cents for
last year's growth. Tho qualify THIS year Is pro-
nOunced better than tJr several years, but the
qualtlty IL limited. The estimated crop v only
kLn "A
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THE ERIE CANAL.

LOckPeHT N. Y, Sept 8, 1871.
The despatch sent TO the Associated Press from
here yesterday In relation TO injury to tue Eve
Canal locks was calculated TO mislead boasmen ana
shppers The locks are uninjured. Two gates4
morning by new ones. The north tier of Iock = he
Ing Ia good order. there has been no deas IN navl.
cation. rY N = = - y
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THE COTTON CROP,

MOBILE, Ala., Sept g. 1871.
Many responsible factors In this city have been
Interviewed win reference to the prospects Of the
cotton crop. They all say that tie accounts re-
ceved from their friends In Alabama and MISSISSIPPI
are OF the most unlavorab Character. There is y
general compliant of damages ~ She growing crops
irOni worms rust. The crop variously es,ima.
ted at IRON One-haf 10 twO-lhirds Of last year.
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IL T e r A T U r e !.
The Now School Of American Poetry.

The Now School OF American Poetry.
PoExs: BY Bret Harte. Boston: James R osgood
PIKE COUNTY BALLADS AND OTHER PIECES. BY
John Hay. Boston: James X. Osgood Co.
vERsArLTIEs.. BY r. H. Newell lOrpheus e. Kerrj:
Boston: . Lee 4 Shepard. New YORK: Lee Shepard
HANS BRElTNAN's BALLADS. BY Charles C. Leland
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson b Brothers. W ~
A class Of so-called poets-the bards OF Pike
county. Missouri, and Caiaveras county, California
has recently sprung up which ought to be severely
rebuKed by the intelligence and the responsibility
OF the country. One OF these is man whose name,
we believe is HaJ but II all nesn is grass this Hay
is only stubble He the poet Of irreverent chill.
dren, irredeemable vulRarity and bold and blatant
blasphemy. He teaches irrergion to boys
and girls in the language OF the barroom
and the backwOods, and talks nippantly
not only Of the angels but OF the very throne or the
Most High. Through his verses, which are so
wicked, vulgar and 80 hurtful, there Is vein of
sentimentaliy 10 mawkish that the first impulse is
to turn away from his book in disgust and the sec
ond to pitch it into the re How respectable pub
fishing house In the sanity city OF Boston could be
Induced to bring out book so noxious the spike
County Ballads" we cannot comprehend; but Messrs.
James r.. Osgood d Co. have sent it to us for judg-
ment and perhaps for commendation. This is all
We know or it or It's author outside Of the book itself;
but this s enough for any one to know. lsdfO 9Ll
We are averse to printing profane and wicked
verses In the HERALD; but, having condemned
these wretchede "poems,", we can scarcely avoid
printing q stanza which Is Q condensation OF the
sin and r1baldry and profanity OF the whole col
lection. The lines we have chosen for this pur-
pose are from Q sketch called Little ,Breeches,"
the Little Breeches aforesaid being dirty, tobacco
chewing. precOciously sinful little wretch, whose
father had taken DR.. Greeey's ADVICE and gone
Nest. This little rascal was lost In snowstorm
and found In sheepfold. The question, then, was,
In the hne ana phrenzied language OF our poet.
~How did he git thar ?" And the poetic answer
was "Angels y as the child could never have walked
in that storm. But this Is the moral which our poet
draws from his fearfully illogical deductions:-
O Anal tlank the. .ayirs ntle child. Ioi Er.r
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Average age, Ss years average weight IlH pounds.
THE RACING BOATS.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

want you 10 tell them thoy are tell
ing what is not so. While the Pro.
hlbiilon party contends that our
present Liquor Laws are made
quate, yet it wants them enforced
until laws that go to the root of the
EVIL can be enacted, believing that
q partial remedy for the evil is
better than none at all.
We wish u Republican friends,
who are conendIng that our pres
ent Liquor Laws are all-sufficient,
would go TO work and attempt to
prove 1t by the enforcement of the
laws. Gentlemen, you have the
whole Governmental machinery
of tho County IN your hands, and
have had it for years, and we ask
You why you don't Danish the Traf-
6c from the County If the present
laws are a~ll-suficient E? If you are
Temperance men, as you pretend,
and if you have all the laws need
fui, and having tho power as you
have had for years and years, why
Is it that we of Morgan county have
SO many whisky murders, 50 much
poverty, Indebtedness and taxa
.tion caused by the Traffic Will
the Herald answer these ques-
tions ?
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

of right and protection, and the
support of wrong, that it may live,
sheuld-a at once be broken. Politics
lans and parties should at once be
taught that they do not own the
votes of the people, and they will
be dispensed with when they disre
gard the welfare of the people, and
for the reason that they are not to
be trusted.
The question before us is not one
about which men caa differ. 1t is q
system Of crime that involves every
member of society IN suffering. We
say then that this higher and better
philanthropy triumph ard we shall
have dispersed with the lower ale
most altogether, AID save our mons
ey, time, sympathy and labor for
real and legitimate suffering, such
as cannot be prevented, but must be
borne and cared for. There is the
most imperative demand now for
tho people to move and carry an a.
mendment to u former plan of ac-
ton. Our burdens under this old
system are grevious 10 e.borne.-
We should at once adopt the cheap
and wise philanthropy OF protection
by law and save IA present great
outlay of money, as also the suffer.
ing.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
Road Notice.

Notice is hereby given that a petition
will be presented to the Commissioners Of
Morgan county, at their next Session in
D., 1871, praying for The location
establishment Of a county road on the
following line, to-wit Beginning at the
foot of the hill on land of Joseph Hopes in
Marion township, IN the center of the road
leading from PennsVille to Elliott's Cross
Roads, at or near q big gate on said Hopes
farm thence running up Hopes run $50
called to the forks ofsaii run thence run
nIng a northwesterly course up the west
branch of said run to the west line ofssid
Hopes land ! thence northerly on the line
between lands of said Hopes and William
Elliott to the old county road ; thence ran
ming through land of William Strobe to q
q IA q little east of said Strode's larn ;
thence running with said lane a piece aud
then bearing o northwesterly course until
il intersects the Athens Grade Road near
the line between Penn and Union town
ships, on land of the heirs of James Hum
mel. MANY PETITIONERS.
Feb. 5, l871-w.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
TkAE PRESS.

Recently, ct an entertainment given
by the representatives of the Press, in
Washington city. on the occasion of
John w. Forney's retirement from
journalistic labor at the Capitol, For
ney, in a short speech, said:
eve have the lawyers bound to-
gether by their sheepskins; we have
societies of doctors combined by their
diplomas we have the guilds of the
scholars sealed by their personal at
tachments we have the merchants
with their boards of trade the mon
eyed men with their boards of brok-
ers the farmers with their agricuItu-
raj leagues the mechanics with their
trades unions, and the labor combine
tions extending all over the States
and territories We have the clergy
Protestant and Catholic, Hebrew and
Greek, however divided on other
things, acting together, each in their
special work We have the ladies for
getting their discussions and uniting
at last for suffrage and self-protection;
buteThoeyer has heard of q corpora
ton OF journalists or a guild of editors
that lasted beyond one or two voluble
conventions or a luxurious railroad ex-
cursioL, when they paid their way by
fattery of their entertainers 2
L do not stop to solve the difficulty
or supply the remedy. / state q plain
fact for your reflection. / am talking
10 a most critical audience, and one
that will not certainly accuse me of
hattery, when i say that if We are I'M
derrated by those we are e~ternally
building up, it is because we are not
true to ourselves.
Icannot tell you how much | am
obliged to you for this really generous
compliment. | am not going to say ]
do not deserve it at Your hands ; for
there is not one man in this goodly
company that l do not count as my
personal friend, and to whose house /
would not go, unlimited, if 1 happen
edin this town hungry and poor. /
hope you will all believe, if you come
my road, that my home viii be open,
and my heart warm to welcome you
L feel, therefore, that it is right for US
to be together tonight. l have been,
off and on, a quarter Of century here
away. ] have seen, as you have. a
great many changes, but that which
las most gladdened me is the rapid
rise of our profession. You here at
this board, each man representing o
great paper and so many trustees of
the interests and honor Of your chiefs
not a few fit to be chiefs yourselves
have done much to elevate the char
aafar IT That n-Afo~of0~
s~ponsibility imposed on the correspon-
dents and editors at the capitol makes
them gentlemen It astonishing
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
EeEaI Notice.
Harry vs.. Harry ct al.

Thomas F. Harry and the unknown heirs
of John Harry deceased whose place of res
idence is unknown, and Benjamin F.. Harry
who resides in the county of Vernon in
State of Wisconsin, will take notice that
William T. Harry ofthe county of Morgan
in the State of Ohio, did on the 18th day Of
December, A. d. 1870, file his petition IN
the Court OF Common Pleas within and for
the County of Morgan in said State Of 0nio,
against the said Thomas F. Harry and BEN
jamin F. Harry and many others, setting
forth that said plaintiff in tenant is rom
mon with the said Thomas F. Harry and
Benjamin e Harry and others, and that he
is seized liz fee simple Of the undivided one
tenth CI-l0l part OF the following described
premises to-wit: Situate in said county of
Morgan and State OfOhio, and being TWEEN
ty-four l24] acres including the School
House Lot of The North end ofthe following
premises; the North West part of the North
West Quarter o. Section thirty-iOur 1871
Township eight [Sl, Range thirteen isl
containing forty-hve ISL acres more or
less, aud praying that partition may be
made Of said premises. and the said Thorn
as +. Harry and Benjamin F. Harry and
said unknown heirs Of John Harry deceased
are hereby notified that they are required
to appear and answer said petition on or
before the third Saturday after the 10th
day of March, a D., 1871.
Feb. 3, 7l-6w.1 1T. CREW, Atty.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
The Pittsburgh Post, of the BOT

The Pittsburgh Post, of the Both
ult., says:
ave noticed a short time since,
IN a number of our Radical exchan-
ges, the statement, made to excuse
Grants employment of military
secretaries, that President Jackson
employed Colonel Andrew J. Don>
aldson as his Privats Secretary du-
ring both his terms. During tho
time that Donaldson was attached
TO the Presidential household he
held no military commission what
ever. He was not, however, the
Private Secretary of the President
during his whole term of Office, and
we are not sure that he was, prop
erly speaking, even during a por-
ton of the time.
The gentleman who held the 20.
sit;on Of confidential friend, adviser
and Private Secretary OF President
Jackson during the greater portion
of his term Of Office, was the late
Judge Hayward, OF Ohio, who died
at an advanced age at McConnels-
vile, in that State, a few years
ago.
From a personal acquaintance
with the latter gentleman, the VIII
Ter Is authoritatIvely enabled TO
correct an error that is very gener-
ally accepted SIS an historical fact /;
namely, that President Jackson
was in the habit Of swearing, and
that by the Eternal was a favor
tie oath with hun. The use of tins
expletive, in connection with the
South Carolina notification, is set
dowr, as a fact in history. Nothing
could be further from the truth
Judge Hayward has ~repeatedly as
sured US that during hIs long and
intimate acquaintance with General
Jackson, he never knew him 70 in
dulge in al oath, aid bu. rarely to
exhibit tsmper.
Judge Hayward himself wrote
the celebrated Modification Procla-
nation at Jaekson's suggestion, and
we believe that his family still have
the original copy with the Presi-
dents erasurcs and interlineations.
1t was read to the General in his
private study, before beng prcsen-
ted to the Cabinet, and its entire
gist and bearing was calmly dis
cussed, with none of that frey OK
element exhibited which has gem
orally been ascribed to him, land, +"
in the language of Judge Hayward,
nothing could be more absurd than
the statement that he lost his rea>
SON over SO grave q subject, and
permitted his lips, that were free
from such d~efilements, to be sullIed
by an oath. He was calmest, when
the exIgencies that surrounded him
were the greatest"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
Mrs. GRANTS ThIrd reception

We clip the following from the
Pitts. Gazette, of last Saturday, for
the benefit Of our lady readers, who
are always ANXIOUS to know about
such matters
Mrs. Grants third reception came
off at the White House on Tuesday
afternoon. These receptions are
frequent by both ladies and gentle
men, although the former can go a.
lone and not do violence to propri-
ETY.. Mrs. Grant appeared in the
Blue Room attlred in o rich thick
lavender silk, embroidered with
field flowers, made with round waist
and Maria Antoinette sleeves, and
large bow at the waist behind, edg-
ed with white point lace, big cors
age, finished at the throat by deep
point lace collar, and hair in heavy
crImped braids, among which a
jeweled anigretto spRrkled. Mrs.
Governor Morgan wore the grand
toilette of the occasion. 1t was
costly and Beautiful, and composed
of a black gross gram silk, the front
width almost covered to the waist
by a richly embroidered vine of va
riagated pansies, each row finished
at the side seams with large black
thread-lace bows. From tn1s swept
q court train, which was trimmed
on the bottom with q deep black
thread lace, with . vine Of the same
embroidery above II. A heart shaT-
ed eorsage was finished with white
lace /; from flowing sleeves hung
lace rufles +; large ~solitaries qaiver-
ed IN her ears, and the same costly
gems blazed among the white lace,
lilac velvet and ostrich tips of her
head dress. All the ladIes of the
Cabinet and most of WAshIhgton's
fashion was present. One of the
most distinguished women who paid
her respects to Mrs. Grant, and hon.
ored the large assembly, was Mrs.
Jessie Benton Fremont, the bStter
part of the great "Pathfndcr." of
Pacific Railroad fame. Gen. Fre>
mont may have found n great many
wonders in his terrific explorations,
but the best thing he ever did find
is Jessie" and if he is " crown
cd with immortal bays, 1t will be
because IN their youth they ran a.
Wdy. Although Mrs. Fremont is
below the average hight Of her
country woman, she has q royal
presence and a queenly face. Nei-
Their paint, powder, nor any other
arti6ce of the age conoesls or
enhances the mischief tino has
wrought with her features, and hOr
hoad is crowned with an abundance
of snowy hair, but her countenance
Is lighted up by a pair Of brilliant
eyes, and the dImples that tripped
the pathfinder" still remain.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10

In tho City of GAINESVILLE we can
get az ordinance prohibiting tho
sale OF "rotten meat" upon the ap-
,plicatIon of O name or two, without
any evidence that any one has been
injured by its sale, and a man ap-
pointed to see that Il is obeyed, yet
an ordinance preventing the sale OF
intoxicating drinss Is thought use
less. Is public opinion more thor
o1ghly cultivated upon the question
of "rotten meat" that need deceive
nobody, Gan upon doubled -distill-
ed lightning that sends thousands
hooting to dishonored gravcs,
where the other sets one only 10 vo-
hitting?
Its not public opinion that is at
fault. Our officials Aye scarce of
backbone.