Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1875, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNI: Wi NI Oh n of Carpentor about the Ring, the Senfinel an carofulis refralns from denying an 1L Linw donn from publishing the mort damaging disciosures of the Rue frauds, Notw, as to the Senfinel. from the control of that madna Cnp?nlnr otpAn, an additional that was not a stock-watoring operation, what {82 The $39,000 paid for the stock that gave con ‘Thomaon was oneted ‘Lljig was efMectod by trol of the Seafinel to tho presant managoment was rased Lyt Whisky Ring " and paid to Carpenter and Aurphy, s Iaw partnor, aa for fces. That, at Jeast, wne the form of the transaciion, sid Car- ponter and Murphy aro at orueys for the ling, nnd 1t was againet them and thor disreputable ractico for tho defensa in theso cases that Judge Drummond's striotures weeo dirccted, and from that tmo tho Senfinel ing boen thie super- serviceablo tool of the Rine, even as it now i2, In couclusion—will tha Seutinel tell shether Benator Carpentor virited Madison in 1874, somo timo bafore Sam Rimdskapt was convicted, Aud, after a consultatton with tho defondouts fn the dintillary easo, roturned to Washington, car- rving in their hebalf two projomions far com- rommine, whch bo submitted to Commissioner Douglaea ; whather ono of theso propositions was not a biwd, and tho other contrived to let Eam o Hndskopt out: aleo, whetber in that matter Carpoutar, thon Senator, did not make a mistake and get the wrong prop- omition secepled, to the ureat dix of his clicata ? Will tho Sentmel alea state who was tho messenger from Lhio Milwaukeo Whisky-Riog m 1874 who bore to Warhington the potltion potion up as & dewnfer resort lo savo Rindakopf after hia conviction but be- fore hin _mentewce; and who got tho £1,000 the Ring forwarded to Washingion by that messsnget ; alro what Bonator 1t was who pri-cured fiom Commiesionor Douglas & dispan- wation for Conkling, the boes oflicial tblof, whereby that model oflicisl was permittad to draw full pay during no service for the Govern- oent, aud was alko rddieved from lis duatv of naking daily report us roquired by the rogule- tious. 2 ELSEWHERE. vaper that it tnght be ¢ \ssie of atock in the minority. If | INDIANAPOLIS, TTIOUTEDINGS THERE YERTERDAY. Boecral Disvateh to T Chicaan Lrignme, IxpranaroLs, Ind,, Nov. 80.—Tho first batoh of whisky cases was called in the United States * Court. 'All pleaded guilty save tho Dingham brothors, whose bond was forfoited, The fol- lowing 18 & list of the defendauta: Philip C. Evermine, John E. Philiips, Harrison Mller, David M. Lowis, Ocorge Hagan, John I, Criap, Christopher Corcononr, Wiilliam Montford, Doa- ais O'Rileys, and Col. Simonson, Bantence was reserved until statomeuts could bo board from ttornoys, which will probably be to-morrow. The Dingham brothicra are represanted hr Qon, Shackelfors aod Col. Denby, of Evansvilio, and Lhio other dofendanta by Geu. Denny, of thiscity. Frauk Latkam, whoss arrcet wes aecured yeater- day, was arratgned on au indlctment for rauning an’illtoit st1ll fn Clay County, to which ho en- tored o plea of guilty ; but, there belug mitigat- lug cacumstauces lu the cnse, the Court was veiy lenieat in passing scotesce, a fine of 100 only beine intlicted, James K. Hll, Deputy-Col- lector «f the Fitat District, pleaded not gullty, and ‘mii bo tried next weok. Jobn W. B.ngham did not artlve tiom £t. Louls to-day 08 ¥as expect- ed, but will probably reach hore Wo-moirosw. Mo plended guilly whon arraigned. Tlus alter- noon lensant 8paro sud Hirfin B. Snvder, rey- enuo ofticors of 'atokn, were broughc ta this eity under arrest for conspiracy to defraud tho Government., Pl MUNN ET ALIUS, TAEM INDIUTMENT LFCEIVED 1N TLLINOIS. Nvecwal thapatch to The Chicado Tridune, Femnorierg, 1L, Nov, 80.—~The indictmont which tho Ulited Btates Grand Jury of the Eautern District of Missourl found againet Col. David Muon aud D. T, Livegar, of Cniro, for complicity in tho whieky finuds, has been re- ceived at tho oflice of tho United States District Attorney horo, and a copy lias also beon sent to tho flon, J, D. Ward, of Chicago, for the pur- poeo of effecting tho nrrest of Col. Muon. Mr. VauDoisien, Distriot Attoroey, has telegravhod to Livegar to-day that 1i, preeenco waa dosirablo, and he will be Loro to-morrow or noxt day, Tho indictment has five evunts, tiwo of which charge ccuspiracy and complicity in the crooied busiuess with the dis- tillors wt gngolnwu, and two chargo tuo roceipt of $2,01) trom 8. M. Barton, Distillers’ Agent at 3t. Louir, The fifth charges an illegal use of revenue atam & 1u connection with the distillers at Lebanno, 1L 1t is said that both thess pare ties will be iudicted suvely at the next term of Caourt, a8 Lwo of tho offensos are slloged Lo Lava %een committed i this SBeate. SUBURBAN NEWS: LAKE VIEW. The Doard of Trustoes beld a apecial meeting Mondsy might, all the members being presont ex- capt Commuasioner Goode. Toe Committes ao tho Lako-Shore Drive ro- ported that consuitation with the property-own- cra along tho proposed routa of the drive, snd with the Lincoln Park Comuassioners, Liad result- ed (b (ho application of eaid Commirsioners banded jn with the report. The application aake ed for permission to construct the driveway along the following route : Doginning ot tho prescnt northwest cornor of the Park, about 500 feot west of tho Inke-sboro, and ruboing due north ity Lake Viow svenue to where it strikes thelake- aboro at Melrose stroot, & distanco of one-halt a milo; thenca northwesterly along the shore to Sulzer avenuo, Up to thia pawt the dilvo will ba 100 feet wido. Ifence 1t runs west ou Bulzer avonue, pust the now pumplng-works, with & width of U7 feet o Halsted stroot, Up {hoe latter street it runs !¢ mile to whore 1t wiriken (ho lake-shore, and thenoa northwesterly slang tho shore to the torth town hne. Irom Buizer avenua north he width wifl bo 150 foot, T'ho tollowing resolution was adopted : “That the application this day mado to this Doard by the Conunissioners of Lincoln Fark for leavo to ea- tablish, open, eud construct, s drivewsy slong the sLorn of Lake Michigan e grauted, and the rotto pro- poatd in maid application for suld driveway be ap- proved, snd sald Commussioners requestod 1o causs to o sdopled and prescuted 1o thix Doard for sdoption such furtber orders and ordinsnces as they deemn \ecossary or dvisable Lo accompliah tho ebjocts of mid application, An ordioance will now be drafted by the at- toruey_of the Park Bourd for adoption by the aovm Board a4 & furtlor step lu the prococd- g8, Ordinances wore adoptod for additional water- plpes, a8 follows: A d-iuch pipe-on Montann strect, from Bhollleld to Racine avenue, and a G-inch pipe on the Groen Bay road, from Gruce- 1and avenue 765 foet aouth, with a bydrant at the terminue. A potition for a G-juch pip ou Di- versoy avonue, from Greou Lay fioad to Lake Viow avenue, waa grauted. "The contractora go on manfully with the pipe- 1sying, right through this trying weather, whon 1sying pipo In tho water 13 no child’s play, Mon- day was a hard day for thelr woik, but soma dis- tance nas made even then, A cowplets lino wil) Lo lald on Halstod strect as far south as el mout avento by to-night, and o conpection wil} Dbe made acrogd tho latter streot with the wile of pip-hnn Buefileld avenue by the eud of tho weel ‘Llie 00)d suap Lisa frozen ont tho” masons at the pumping-works, who don's like their elo ed peich on tho chimney with the thermom st zero. As for the inloi-pipe wan, bia chanuel 18 blocked mowt effectually, The schouner Inga- bor’ M. Foriest came mahora eaily yeatorduy moruing, aud is bicely stowed away diraolly be- tween tho plles which form the guard for the Elpa. Blio Lics about 500 feet from the boach, eading suuthoast, in good covdition for beiug pulied off. 1he men cama ashore about U w'clock yesterday moruing in their boat by get- uxfl s line fiom tho sbore, experienclug some difliculty in gettiug through the pack-ice. The propelier Chisrlas Rietz luy off sud ou all mara. iug olusa at band, but was uuable to cowms in uear suough to render auy sssistance. ELMUULST. A course of lectures is ip conlemplation for the winter, woslly by tocul taleut, Frof, W. K. Hauber will deliver tue tivst Woduesday, Dec. 8, Bubject, **Art of Sayiug LLiluge," Tuowas B, Uryuu eutertas the children of the Bundsy-scliool, their jercats, and frieads, Mouday evouing, with pictures shows by the ad of a wmagic-lsutern, u the Lall of tis mansiou, Tue Blissionarv Baciety moots Yaursday st 2 c'clock a¢ Mr. Hagaus' Ar. Jacou Bhephierd has 80ld vue of bis Louses ou the uorth side O the track, ‘Liey are so pleasaut, the grouud so bigh, sud the vitiage ko thny. it 1 a wouacr they are not all sald, Thero in jost enough ot burglary to cause oue ta try doors and windows twice after locking, aud 10 waue up in the pight st any woise loudir thun the dropjaug of & piu. The houss of Mr. Jobu Mewmbes, about a mile vus of tho village, ried by burglare & vight or two ago, but aited 80 gain access furihior than tue cellar, which was cleared of quantities of preserves, aauued fruits, Califoruis wine, otc. Certain rtiod aro snpectsd, And a soarch-warrant la in- fm.n. but not yet rerved. ‘Thero have heen tincsa of otiapts to entor vae or bwo oihier | lionmos alwa, \Ir. and Mre. €., Eorbald, whilo driviag from | the dm vt Lo their resndonce, 2 milgs distaut, met with an necident Mopday evening, In Rome way the ro'ng ne eniatgled and tho hoises backs ed into o dileh, throwing Mr. and Mrs. Soybalt out, averturning he bugay, and fulstuig by falling themselves. Wi'h nesistance, tho cairingo aud horxen wero getten unnght, and tho parties drovoe homa, Mra. Seybold was uninjnrod. At fitat Mr, Hovbold thought binaelf unhure, but wan quiie ) for a fow days. It 18 thought hois not senouely injored, Mr. Albert Diuwnell s ahsent on a short visit | to Lis parents 1n Westorn Iowa, N WIHEATON. Mixs Besslo Nichols gave n party to her young tiends Baturday evoning. dancing. HMr. Artbur Roed loaves for golden Colorado Wednosday, on account of his Lealth, s do- parture will bo much regretted by tho yonng beoplo of this placo, with' whom Lo ia se1y pop: ular. The Botlonian publie me'ating—shich, in othor wotds, means a collego cliub-meeting—wwan nn Linmenna auccess, the chanol Loing crowded Ly the clite of the place. Orationr, dvbates, din- loguon, essays, and music, wero tho antertain- mont of tho ovening. All wero good, and some wera of o high order of excellenco. "['ho onlarged Wheaton Llhnowan Is looked for with futoreat, INTER-OCEANIC SHIP-CANAL. The Vartous IRoutes—A Prefercnce Given to the Nicnragne One. WasuiseToN, Nov. 28.—The Commission ap- pointed by the Becrotary of tho Navy to invosti- gato tho morits of tho various sbip-canal routes for connocting the Pacific and Atlantio Oceaus s ptopared a prolimioary report winetr will be presonted to the President to-morres. Gen. Humphireys, of tha Army; Commodore Am- men, of the Navy, and Capt, Patterson, of tho Coast Survoy, coustituto tho Commission. Tho problom of conoecting tho two oceans hasoceu- pied tho attention, as tho roport says, of atatos- men, navigators, and mariuors for st lonst 76 yeats. Tho enotmous saving ol distiuce, timo, oost, and risk which it would give totbo world has beon carefully tabulated. Thore remalns nothing to show but tho feambility of the route. This, tho Commissioners’ ro- port claime, bas been done in the survess mada upon tho Nicaragua route. Tho Commis- slon examined nll the reports of surveys that Lave been made. Under tho Darlen routo thoro aro mevoral distinet survoys: The Nap-pl, ro- oently reported in theso diapatchos by Licut. Collins § the Calailonis, the Sasardl, and the Ban Blas. Desides thess are the roporta upon the Tchuantepos, tha Nlcaragus, and the Panama rontes. The surveys of the Pansma and Nicara- gna routes woro made by Capt. Lull, of the Navy. Capt. Schufoldt, of the Navy, surveved the Te- huantepea route, and Caot. Beltridge, of the Navy, the others, All thesa gontlemen woro be- fors the commission in its rocont examiuation, and with maps aided in the explaunation of tho reports made by them, Upwarda of 60,000 bas been slready exponded upon theso survoys. It ia now regarded as of the highest importance that thio Unitod Btates take womo action at once 1o carry out tho foasible plana af the sbip c.ulk in order to prevent elthor France or Lnglan from coming io aud reapiog the hovor aud profit of this groat enterprize. The rosult of thia sork cannot ba fally esti- mated. ‘The preat saving v the carryivg trade and the facilitating of tho counections batweon Fastorn Asia and Westorn America with Europs cannot bo roadily surmised. ~ When the caual 18 comploted nearly ono-heif of tho carrving trado of the world will be rovolutlonized. ‘The commission has mado & moat thorough oxamination of all tho evidence betore thewm, sud warmly urge upon Congress the oced of speedy nction, Desides the tostimony of tho naval officora who have mude tho surveys, thev bad also tho testimony of a Civil Comtnission made ttp of Messrs. Walton and Ammen, ana Maj. McFarland, of the Army Engioeer Corps, who bave examinod carofully the feasibility of a ehip canal. In oxamining tho various roporta objoctions of an almost insurmountable vature wore found in all but tho Nicar- sgua ronte. It Ia a longor raute thsn any of the others, with tha exception, perhaps, of the To- huantepee route, bat its other advautages moro thau make up the bLad featuro of length. Itis tho only route whers tho climats s not dan- gerous to hoalth. In tho lowor routea the malans would destroy iho grester pore tion. of the workmen Dbeoforo the ecanal would bo completed. It I8 the only route whero a proper supply of ‘wator conld bo found, Lake Nicaragua upon tuis routo being capable of furnlshing & constant and uni- form Bupply of water. Tho other rontos are very dofecilve in many other ways. Thoey ex~ tond through a worlhless waato of conntry that in fmponsible of development, Tho route thiough Nicarazua {4 reprosonted as the para- diso of Ceutral Americn, aud would roturo une told woaljb uuder proper developmont, ‘Io cont of the ship-canal +ia the caragna routo I8 thus recupitulated by A. G. Menocal, Chief Engineor of Capt. Dull's expedition. The total distanco from tho harbor af Grovtown, or Han Juan del Norte, {8 181 26-100 statnto miles, ‘The coat for the canal for this distance is thus summonzed : Am,6e0,777 . 115,008 3 RoyE] 1 Orand totalisaisiee s seaseconn For the comparatively small sun of sixty-odd millions, the Commireion claims, an enormous 1eturn would bo made. Owno itom alone, it 14 thought, swonld mako the sxpensc of building tho caual s Rood investment, mud that is the ship- mout of Californis products to Enrope aud the ports upou tho Atlantio ooast, but more es- pocially to Lurore, 1forniu ehips large quan= titica of wheat to the European markets at pres- ent. All of this wheat hay to go around by Cape Horn, meeting the daogers of that stormy passage, and encounteriv, ong delay aud prunw that would all Lo obviated by the canal. To nllow any forelgn powor to bulld tnis canal and we pay tolls to them for its use ia s thing which the Commission thinke the people of this country will uot tolorate. Tho report sdvances arguments sustaining tho Nicaragus route, the principal of wbich is that tho climate through which the route passes ia favorablo to the con- struction ang operation of the canal, —_— A Mondate Agninst Sculs and Sen Lionx. Report of the Calyfornia Fish Commission, For many vears tho sea lonu and ueals which inabit the cliffs near tho entrance to the Bay of Bau Francisco have been p.essrved by speoial otisobment, and psuaities imposed oo any jerson who should kill or distuib thom. ‘the Tosult in thatthey are probably now a hundred times as uumerous as they wero ten yoars siuce, and ara to bo found thers in thonsanda. When it [a con. sidered that thoy weigh from 200 to 500 pounds oach, and that they consume at least from 10 t020 pounds of fish daily, it will bs readily meen that the quantity osught at the entrance of tha harbor aud in the Day of Ban Francisco by ihermen I8 emall in proportion to that cou- aumead by thexe auimale, If allowed to incroaso 8t the samo 1ate fur a few more yoars it will bo difieully for either ahad or ealmon to escaps them whlle entering our bay, Tuo fishermen at Vallcfo and Rio Vista roport that they find many of the salmon to Liave been torn by (Lo toeth of tha animals, They l{ipcl! now o eorve no useful purposs other thau to gratify the ourie oaity of sicangers, and we beliovo it would be wall if the lsw which now proteots them were repoaled, aud nino-toutha of them wero allowed tp bashot, thiat their il migut ch-uon of mwhlnerv‘,g \vh: 'v‘r‘«lzll;fidrmue:,.:: ml.llld that lhlullldw be rupnlfd. &nd, if necensary, o re-eusote ter nlog-e AEAIl bave been dosiroyed, o 'eotbes of thous —_— A Shawl«Pin Coughed from Lungs, About » year ago, Mivs Aunis Morkel, vontt, & Gaughicor of B, John Serkar ot Lt t Leesport, I's., wbile crocieliug ae- cidoutally swallowed a lhlwl-k:liu. 13{ iuchun loug, which she hiad in her mouth, A ’phyelcian was sent for, but the pin could not be reesveozod, It bad lodged Io oue of ihe lungs, aud oventaally wuch intlawmativa ensuod, unwh WaH tollowea by a chronis cough, attendod with cou- tidorablo uxpectoration, On Woduesday night last she was aitacked with & sevore coupliug wpoll, which vearly sulfocated ber, whon sudden- 1y a bard substauce was ejected frow ler mouth whick fell ou the tloor. This was piokod up and fotnd to Lea fidsw of & shawl-pio, with tho Lvall; ewallowed o year ago. Bhortly aftor she was selzed with suother cougbing spel), and tho rest of tho pin was thrown {rom ihe lung. pin bad been dividod by corroslon, A very pleasant | ovoning was passed with music, gomes, and | CENTRAL AFRICA, Stanley’s Exploration of the Victoria Niyanza. Speke's Observations and Maps Verificd---At the Mouth of the Shimeeyu, Altacks and Assaults by Iostile Na- tives---Through the Napoleon Chaunel to the Uganda Shores A TRoyal Reception---Salutes, Tlags, Drums, and Soldiery. King Mtesa—-His Court, Guards, and Personnl Appearance, The American Christian Tumbles Islam- ism to the Ground. New York Herald, Nov, 20, By the Europoan mail of the 19th Inst, to band yesterday, wo havo the following interest- ing lotter roporting the travola and oxplorations of Mr. fleory M. Btanloy, commander of the terald aud Telegraph oxvedition in Africa @ THE LETTER. TraoAva, Dresa's CamiTan, Uaaxpa, B , Lox. 32 pEa. 49 sas. 45 seo., N. Lar 0 pra. 82 mrx,, April 12, 1876.—1 write this lotter fn burry, a8 it {a the mere record of a work bogun and not onded.—I mean the exploration of tho Victoria Nigauza. But, briof as it necessarily must be, I am suro it will Intereat thousands of your readers, for it solves the great question, ¢ Is the Victoria Niyanza ono lake, or does it cousist of a group of lakes?" such as Living- stone reportad It to be, In anmwor to the query, I will begin by stating that I have explored, by moans of the Lady Alico, tho wholo of the southern, eastern, and northenstern shores of the Victoris Niyanza, havo ponetrated into evory vay, inlet, and creok thas indent ts shoren, and Lave takon thirty-ssvon observations, so that I foel competent to decide upon the question at isaue, wilhout bias or prejudies to any lypotbe- sis. Ibave a mass of noles rolaling to tho countrics I have visited, and amplo means of making & proper chart, &t my camp at Usuknmn; but I have meither pa- por, parallol rules, mnor any jostrument whatevor, to lay down tho positions I have takon, with me at present, I meroly took an artificial borizon, sextant, chronometer, two an- eroids, boiling-polot apparatus, sounding-line, n fow guns, ammunition, and some provisicns, a8 I wished to make tho bost a8 light 83 possiblo, that she might wark oasily in the stormas of the Niyauza. Dut when I reach camp I propose to draw n correct chart of the Niranzs, and write such noles upon tho soveral countrica I have visited a8 will amply repay petusal and stady, AMERICAN S8URVEY OF THE LAKE, I have already informed you that our camp at EKageby), in Usukuwa, I8 situated in Jongltudo 39 deg. 13 min, enst, and latitude 2 deg. 81 mn, south, Doforo starting on tho exploration of tho lake, I ascettained that Muanza was situatod & few milen went, almost on the same parallel of latitude as Kagohyl. Naw, Muanza is tho point whenco Speko observed the Victoris Niyanza, sand where ha drow his imaglusry sketch of the lake from Information given tv him by tho watives. If you will look at Bpeke's map you will find that it contains two islands,— Ukerewe and Mazitl. Looking at the samo ob- jects from Kagehyl, I would have conaluded that they were Islands myeelf; but a falibful explotation of tho lake hag pioved that thoy aro not {slands, but s longtby promontory of Iand extenalng from toogitude 34 deg. 459{ min, east to longitudo 33 deg, 40 min, 15 seo. cast. That part of the lake tnat 8peko observed from Muanza {8 merely a buge gulf, about 25 wlles wide by 65 miles long. Ia the noble Tako Niyanzs Bpeke loyally added that of Vctoria, as & tribute to ls Bovereign, which let 1o man tako away ; but, 1n order to conueot for- ever HpoLo's name to tho Inke whioh Lo dis. covered, 1 have thought it but simpla Justich to the gallant explorer to call this immense gulf Spoxo Cuilf. It you look again on Speke's wop you will observo how boldly ho haw sketolied the Nivanza, strotohing” eastward aud northoastward. Coosidoring that bo drow It from mero uativo report, which never yob waa exact or clear, I muat say that I do not think nny other man could have arrived so near tho truth. I must confers that I oould not have dona it mysolf, for I could make nothlug of the vaguo aud mythical roports of tho nalives of Kageyl AT TUE MOULT OF TIIE SHINEEYV, Procoeding eastward to the unknowa and fabu- lous distance in the Lady Alce, with a picked crow of elaven men sud o guide, I coasted aluny the southoin coast of the lake, round many a uoble bay, until we came to the mouth of the Shimeoyy, in lopgitudo 83 deg. 83 min. east, latitudo 2 d«{:. 35 miv, south.—by far the nobleat river that empties 1uto tho Jake that we havo yet scon. Tho Bhimeeyn has n longth ot 970 miles, oud Is the extrome southern soios of tho Nile, Befoio empiving 1uto the late it unites with the Luamberri River. whenca it is- euos {u a majestio tlood to Laue Victoria Niyan- 2za. At its mouth it is a mile wide, but cuntracts 08 wa procecd up tho river to 400 yards. Iiven by itself it would mako po insignificant Winte Nulo, Dy aceidont out route through Itaru took ua from its birthplace, a month's march from tho inke, and along mavy a milo of its crooked coureo, urtil by meana of the Lndy Alice wo wera onabled to soa It enter tho Niyanzs, a river | of considerable magnitude, BINA AND MAGU, Detween the mouth of tho Bhimeoyn and Eagobyi Wera two. coutitries—Sima and Ssaue of thosame naturo sy Usukuma, and inbabited by pooples speaking the same disloct, On the eastern oido of tho river is Mazauza, aud beyond Manasa, . AOCTIWARD TO UTUTWA, Coasting slill aloug the southern whore of {he lake, boyund Manssa, wocome to Ututwa, {nhau. ited by & people aking a dilferens languago, uamely, that of the Wajiks. as the Wamanai ara called here, & peopla slunder and tall, carrying formidaoly long kuives and tertible and portoat. ous spears. TUE EXTIEME END OF BYEKE QULP. In lougitude 33 deg. 45 min, 45 seo, onst we came to the extrome ond of Bpeko Gulf, and tuou turned northward pa far as latitude 3 deg, b min, south, whence wo proceeded westwand -‘f- mont in & straicht hine nlong Shashi and Iranbu, in Ukorewe, In louglludo 83 deg. 20 min, eaut wo camo to s strsit—the Iugeji Btralt—which aspatated ouc-halfof Ukerowoe from the othor balf, and by which there is a diroct means of oommunication from Bpeke Gulf with the coun- trioy lyiog north of Ukerows, We did not paus through, but proceeded ‘still westwara, hugging tho bold shores of that part of Ukerowo whi ns‘n iy au istand, &5 far as longitude 82 deg, 40 min, 15 sec, east, whenco, following the lsad, we turned northwest, thouco north, until in latitade 1 deg- B53min, south wo turood esst again, consting slong the northiorn shores ot Ukerewe Islaud until wo camo to the tuvular-topped bluff of Majita (Npeke miscalled this Mazite, or Bazidh, sud fermod i {sland), 10 longitudo 83 dog. 9 miu, 45 seo, eust, and latitude 1 deg, 50 miu, enuth, whonce the luud begiuw to tiend northward of east, North of Kastilsu in Ukerewo lies the lasgo Islaud of Ukurs, which glves {té namo with sows notives tothat part of the Jake lving between it aud Ukerowe. 1t ts about 18 milea long by 14 wido, and 18 nhnbucnvbyulionpm stroug iu charwms snd maglo medicine, From Majita we pass on sguiu tu the north shoie of Shasni, whous soutls conat 14 bounded by Bpeke Gulf, aud beyoud Blashi we como to tho first distries iu Ururd, 1N UBUN, Urun oxtonds from Hlasbl, in lat, 1 deg. 50 min south, to Jab. 0 deg, 40 miu. 0 sue, routh, sud owbeuces the districes of Wyo, Irisu, Uriori, Igeugi, Kuur, Buizati, sud Moliurw, Ita ¢ indentad wout mnunhsy wilhh bays wnd n:::'i: which extend far inland, East of the imuedi The | ate coast live the country ia a_levol plain, which dralned by an fmportant siver oallod Shiats All oftior streama which insna into tho lake rloug tho coant of Urari aro inxivniticant, North of Shirai, the twout northern district of Ururi, begivs THE COUNTRY OF VALYETA, whoro bold and niountalnous shorea form o sttong contrast to the flats of Hluratl and Moluru. 1lere aro mountaing rising sbruptly from the {ake to n height ot 1,000 fert anc moro. I'lus conal ja also vorv crosked mud frreguine, requinng patient and laborinus rowing to ne veatigato ita many beads aud curves, ‘Ihio peo- clu are n tunid aiud piapieto 18 racs, much vosod 7 thelr veighbora, the Warurl, soutt, and Wamaaai, ea-t, and urc loth to talk to strangers, 13 tho Arab elave-denlora of F'angani have not tazteht tham to love pooplo carrying guna, I'ho Wagoyeya, having heen tronblad by the Warard, have loft many mlles of w.lderness bos tweon thewr couutry aud that of their fierce neigbora uninhabited, But Bangoro, the agent of Mee Saba, who prowpted the Waruri Lo wany o dewvilish aot, and han purchased THE IUMAN 810118, Is conetructing in Uketowe a dhow of twenty or thiriy tons burden, with which lio intends to proeecute moro actively his nofarions trade, Nothing would have plensed mo botter than to hiave been commissloned by somo Governtnont to hang all such wratchea whorever found, sud, if over rato deserved death for thuman crimes, _Sungoro, the slave-trador, desorves doath, Kagehvi, in Usukurha, has becoms the weat of the inbuman slave.trade, To this port they arocollected from Sima, Megi, Ukewero, and Ugoyeyn; and wnen Bungoro has tonated lus dhow'sud boistod Lis biood-stained onsiza, tho groat rin will increano tenfold, aud tho eaia- van-road to Unyawyombe will becomo hell's bighway, On the const of Unesoya I expected todiscover & chanvel to another Jake, ad there might bo o gioin of truth in what te Wanguano roporied to Livingstano ; bnt 1 founa nothing of tho sort, oxcopt unusually deep bands in tho sbore, © hich led nowhere, Tho sbreams wero insignificant and undeserving tho namo of rivers, 15LANDS AT THE EQUATOR. A fesw milos from the Equator 1discovered two islauds formed of bogsitic rock aud overgrown with a denso growth of trapical vogetation. One had s natural bridge of rock 30 feat long oud 16 fect wido ; tho other hisd s small cave. In longitudo 84 deg. 49 min, cast, at Nakidime, Ugoeyeys, wo camo to the furthest point east of the Victoris Niyaunza, DARINGO, North of Ugeyera begins Baringo, a small country, extending over about 15 miles of Iati- tudo, lts coast in also romarkablo for dosp in- dentationn and noble bays, sume of which are almont éntiraly closed by Iaud and might woll bs called lakes by uncultivatod Wangusna, Largo islands are also numérous, some of which lie 80 close to the mainiaad that if we bad not huggad ita shoro clozaly wo should have mistaken them for purtiona of tho mamland, North of Dariggo the land fs agatn distingulshed by lofty bilis, cones, and plateaus which ek eastward ino Pj}nln.fl, and boro & now country commeudes— nyars, the langna;:e of whose poopla s totally dintince from that of Usukama, and approaches to that of Uganda and Usoga, THL POPULATION. Unyara accupics the nortucastern coast of the Victoria Niyauza, sud by obeervation tho ox- trome northeastern point of the Niyanza ends in longitude 84 degress 85 minutes east and laii- tudo 33 minutes 43 seconds north. As I intend to send you o chart of the Nivanzs, it {8 needlesa hiere to enter wmto minor detalis, but I may an well montion here thata large portion of tho northeastorn end of tho lake is almosat entiroly closed in by the mhoren of Ugaus and of two islands, Chingn and Usugura, the lacter of which 18 ono of tho lacgest {n the Nivanza. TIIE GEOORALHICAL BITUATION. While Unyara occuplos the northeastern sonst of the Niyanza, Ugana cominences the vorthern coast of the lake from the east, and, running vouthwest a few miles, forms horo s large bay. Ii then tronus westward, aud tho tslaud of Chaga rund directly north and routh for 8 rmles at a distance of 12 milea from the vbpo- site const of Unyara, With but a narrow chan- vel betwoon, Usuguia Isiand runs from the southorn extromity of Chaga, in a south-south- eaaterly directivn, to within 6 milea from the osstern s8horo of tho mam-land, Thus almost & Iako is formed pepar.to from tho Niyanza. North of Chaga Island, Usoga begins with the Iargo districe ot Usows, where wo met with tho fiesc boatile intoution—though not act, as tho ot wiss checkod by show of superior wospons— on tho part of tho natives. Theuce, ay we pro- cood wastward, the distficts of Ugamba, Uvirs, Usamu, and Utamba line the coast of Usoga. Whore Utamba bogins, large lalands agaia bee come (raquent, tho principal of which is Uvuma, au indopondont country, and the'largest iu the Vicloria Niyanza. s FIRAT ATTACR DY NATIVES. At Uviima wo exporionced troachery and hos- tilisy on tho part of the oatives. By show of friondship on thoir patt wo were induced o sall within o fow yards of tho shoro whilo a masa of matives wera btd Yo ambush bebind tho trees, While salling quictly by, cxchanging friondiy grootiogs with thewn, we wors suddenly atiacked with a shower of Iargo rocks, maveralof which struck tho boat ; but the helm being quickly put * lard up," we ahoered from shoro to a safer dintanco, but not boforo ous of the rascals was luid dead Ly = shiot from oue of my revolvers. Aftor proceeding somo intles “we sutered s chiatinel betwaon the Islauds of Uvnma and Bugoyeya, hat close to the shore of Uvuma. Hero™ wo d.scovered a floot of large caucos— thirtoen in number—oarryiug over 10J warriors, armed with shioldd and spoars aud slings. The foremont canos voutuived bawkets of aweet pos tatoes, which tho poople held u, 28 «f they wore demrous to trade, I ordered uty jwoplo tu cense rowing, and as thoro wus but a slight Lrooze we alill bold ou with tho sail and permittud the canoe to approach. BKCOND ATTACK. = ‘Whilo we were bargainiag for potatoes with this canoo. the other canoos came up ynd blookel tha boat, winle the peonle bagan Lo lay bands on everything; but wo found their purposs out, sud I warnod thn canoes away with my gan, ‘T'hey joorad at tbis, aud mmediately seized their spoars and shields, whillo vne canoe Limatened wway with sowo bends thuy had wstojen, and which a man jvsoloutly Leld up to my view, nnd 1nvited us to cateh him, At plglt of this [ ficed, and the mao foil deud fu his canoe, Tho othors rmpnmd to Isunch thoir sjears, but tho ropeate ug rifle wan too much for the orowd of wacriors wno had hastoned liko pirates to rob us; Tlres woro_shot dead, aud, aa thoy rgtreatod, my elo. vhaot ritle smasbod thelr caudss, tho result of which we saw iu the confusion sttendiug eacn shot, After a fuw sbiola from tho big gun we coutinaed on our wav, still hugging the shoro ot Uvuma, for it was uunacessary to fly after such an_oxhibition of iuglorious conduct on the part of thnrteen canoes, coucaimug in tho aggregato aver 16) mou,} In the evoning we anchored in the channel bo- twoon Uvuma and Usogs, In east long, 33 dog, igemln. 16 sce., and north lat. 0 dog. 30 min, 9 noe, NAPOLEOX OHANNEL—NIPON FALLS, Noxt morning, the curront percoptibly grawing Atronger us wo advanced north, we ontered the Napoloon Chaunel that separatoa Usoga from Ugonda, sud then eailod acroes to the Uganda shore. llaving arrivod closs to the land wo ulled dawn sail and rowed toward tho Ripon "alls, the nolaaof whosa rushing wators ssunded loud and clear in our ears, Tho Jake suosled rapialy, and we haltod to survey tho aconoat a #pot balf & milo from tho flrat mass of foam cansed by tho eecaving waters, Bpcko haa baon most socorato 1n hia doscription of the outflow- Ing river, aud bis pencil bas dons fair justice to it. Tho scenory aronnd on tho Usoga and the Uganda bide has nothing of tha sublime about it, but 1tis piccuredquo aud well worthys yvisit. A fow small islands dot the chaonel and lio close suhoro ; whilo at theeotrance of the maiu chan- nol, looklug south, thoe large islands of Uzirl aud Wi stratch obliquely, or routhwest, toward Uvuma, DButtho ovaot the obsorser fa more fascinatad by tho rankaof ewelifog foam aod leaping waters than by tho unevun contour of the land ; svd tha ear 16 altracted by sha rongh masio of their plav, despita the terrors which tho imagination paints to us, aud it absorbs all our sttontion to watch tho smooth, flowing aur- face of the lake, suddenly troken by the rooka of gnolss and henatito which protrude, white and ruddy, sbove the water, and which threaten instant doon to tho unlucky vavigator who would be drilted emong them.” Thore is a charm in the econo thst bolongs to fow such, for this outttowing viver, which the (roat Viatoria Nis yauza dispharces frum its bosow,bocomes kuown to tue world as THE WILITE NILE, Thoogh born amid the wountalos of Ituru, Kargue, sud_ Ugoyeys, it emerges from the wowb of tho Niyanzs tue Hnmui Nile which su- nually resusoitates hed Egypt. From the Jtipon Falls we procsoded along the Soaws of Jkira wontliwost until, gaig the sbore opposite Uzirl, we cosstod wasteily sloug tho ire regular shore of Ugsuda, Arriving at tho llao of Kriva, wo secured guides, who voluntarily offered to couduct us as far as Mtosa's caplial, A MEBHAUL TO X1MU MTESA, Halting awhort thne at the Islaud of Kibibi, wo procosded to Ukatu, whore g snug horieshoe- shaped bay was disooverad. From Ukafu we dispatolied mossengerd Lo Miesa to snuoucce tho arrival of a'wlhita visitor in Ugauda, aflor beinyg most hospitably received with fair worda bLut with ewpty bauds slobg tho comst of Uganda. CORREUTION OF THE MAFS. I was anxlous to dixcover tho wutrance of the DAY, DECEMD | Tanjerri, and qnestionad the nattves long and frequantly abous 11, wafil,peeiring an tutornroter who underatoo 1tha Kiwasraluli, so nseertaing| that thera wan no such rivor a3 Lunforri, that Lunserei meant atill water, anplicablo to any of the wmany lengthy ereeks or narrow Inbass whih indent Lhe consis ot Uganda and 1faoaa. o whicl T conehida that B eke waa mirtufo mad, and that his ' Luajerrt " (s Luaserrd, or still water, At least, wa discoverad no each tivar, oither slugeish or quick, (lowing northwacd whilo in the noluhborhood of * Murchison Creek ' Ldid discover o longg and crooked inlot ealled Mwrau—a Luaserri, or atill water—which ponoltatod sevaral inilos inlaud, the lormination of whish o aaw, Tuoticed & romuvn tide horo during tho morning, For two hours tho walors of this creck flowed mnorth, subsaquently for two haurs it flased molith, and on asking tho people 17 1t wore n nsual alght they sald 1t was, anil was vigible ou all tho inlets on “the coas: of Usanda. TOYAL NAVAL WELCOME. Arriving at Deys, wo were welcomed by a flaot of canoes sent by Altesa to condunot usto Murchi- 8on Creok. On the 4th of April T landad amid a concourao of 2,000 pooplo, who saluted mo with a denfen- ing volloy of musketry and waving of flagu. Katakiro, tho chiof Mukuogu, or officerin Ugan- da, then eonductod moe to comfortable quartors, to'whiclh shortly afterwaids wero brought wixe toon goats, ten oxon, an immense quantity of batinnag, plantains, sweot potataes, besides ogis, chickens, milk, rice, gheo, and Luttor. Afepr rach & royal and bountiful eitt 1 felt more curlosity than over to see tho Ronorous monarch. MTESA'S RECEITION. In the aftornoon Mtows, bioving prepared be- forohand for my reception, sentfo suy tbat e wag ready to rocelva me, Imsuing out of my quartors I found myeelf in a broad stroot 80 foot widoand half , mile long, which waa linod by bia pereonal gnards and attondauts, his Capiaius and their respective rotinues, (o the number of about 8,000, ~ At tho oxtrome end of this streot and fronting It was the King's audienco houss, 1 whoss shadow I saw dimly tho figure of tho King sittiog in a chair, As 1 advanced townrd lum, the soldlera contin- ued to liro their puns. The drums, gxteen 1 numbar, beat 8 fearfnl tompest of mound, aud the tlaga wavod, uutil I became conscioun thal all thiy display was far beyond my merits, and consequontly folt greatly vmbarrassod by so flattering a recoption, Arrived before the audi- enco-Loneo tho King rose,.—a tall and elendor tigure, drossod in Arab costume,—approachnd mo a foi paces, liold out lna baod mutely, whilo the drams continued thelr torrible nolso, and wo stood silently gaziog st eact other & fow min- utes, I, indeed, moro ombarrassed than ever. Bat soon, relieved from tho oppreesive noiso of the huge drums and violenco of the mauy screaming, diacordant fifes, I was invitod to iz, Mtosa ficst shoming the example. followed by his groat Unptains, about ono hundrodl. fn Auwm- or. B YERSONAL APPEARANCE. More at easc, [ survoyod the figure and fea- tures of this poworful monarch. Mtosaiy abont 84 yeara old, tall and siender in build, aa I have already stated, but with broad shoulders, His faco ia very agreosblo and pleasant, and indicates toltigence aud m.dducss. Llis oyes are Iarge, his nosa'nnd mouth aro a grest iwprovamsut upon thoso of tho common lygn of nogro, and approach to thoso of tho Muscat Arah alightly tainted with noaro blood, His teoth are splendid, and gleaming white, MANNEL OF ADDRESI. As soon as Jtoss bogan to speak I bacame captivated by his mannor, for thers waa much of the polish of & truo geutloman about it—jt was at onco amiablo, gracoful, and frieudly, It au- sured mo that in Mtosa I had found a friend, a goucrous King, and an_1ntelligent rulor. 1fo is infinitely superior to Bovd Butghaal, the Arab Sultan of Zanzibar, and he appears 10 mo like o colored gentloman who has vi Europesn gourts, wheuco ho bas caoght a cortain polish avd oaso of manner aud a vast amount of informatioon which ho has collasiad for the im- provement of bia race, If you will recollect that Mtosa Is a native of Contral Africa, and that ho had sesn but thres whito men unbil I came, you will, porhaps, bo a8 much astounished wa [ was, And If you will bat think of the enormous oxtent of ‘country ho rules, oxtendiug from east longicude 31 to east longitude 31, and from north laditudo 1 to esauth latl.ude 3.30, you will perceive tho immeuso intinence he counld wiold toward tho civihzation of Africa. Indecd, 1 could not regard this King or look at him in nuy other light than the Augua- tus by whoso means the light of the Gospal will be bruui(l\t to bonighted Middlo Africa, Undoubtodly the Mtesa of to-day ia vaatly su~ porior to tho valn south whom Spoke and Graut saw, Thero is no butchory of men or women : #nldom oao sullors the extromo punisbmeut. 8 ko and Grant loft him a raw. vain youth, and & acathen, Ilols now a goutlemay, aud, pro- tusiog Islamism, submita to othor laws than his own erratio will, which, we are told, led to severo and fatal consoquoencez Al his Captains aud chief olticers profoss the same orecd, dress in Arab costume, and in other ways affoce Arab custown, Ile bas a guard of 200 meu—ronogadoes trom Uaker's Expedition, Zauzibar dofulcators, o fow Ownui, and tho olect of Ukanda, M8 COUAT, Bolind hia throno, su arm-chair- of nativo manufacturo, tho Royal shicid-besrors, lauce- boarors, aud guu-bearers staud eroct aud stuid, On eithior sido of him aro his ¢rand chiefls aud courtiers, sons of Guvernors of e provinces, chiofs of distrlc:s, oto. Outsida the audicuge- housa tho lengthy lines of warriors begin with tho chiof drummer aud tho nolyy goma beatars, Noxt como tho ecronming fifers, tuo flag and bauuer boarers, tue fusuiers, aud 80 on Boem- ingly ad infioitum with spearmen, Bltesn asked a numosr of questiona about va- rious thiugs, thoreby showlng o vast awmount of curiosity and great intalligoace., GAYETY AND RIJOICTHO, Tho King had arnved at this cawp—Usavara— fourteon days bdloro my mrrival, with this 1m- mouno army of followers, for tho purposs of shouting bude. He now proposed to return, ofter two or thres days' rest, to hia capital ot Ulagalla, or Uragars. Esch day of my stay at Usavara was a eoena of gayety and rejoicing. On the firat mitor my aruyal we Lebold n grand uaval review, — gighiy-four canoos, each munued by from thirty to forty mou, contaluing in tho spgregata about 2,600 won. Wo had oxcollent races, &nd witnessod various munouvres by water, Each Admiral viod with the othor in “oxiolling aloud the giory of \belr monarch, or in exciting admiration from thie -hundrods of spectators oo shore. ‘Lhe King's 800 wives wara pressut on grands taouo, “;x"l wero not tho least important of thoso on shore, OUTDOOR STORT, ‘Tho second day tho Kivg lud bls floot in per- son to shuw mo hia prowesa {o shootiug birds, Wo rowed, or raihor paddled, up * Murcbison Croek," visitiug en route n dhow ho is building for tho navigation of the lako, his ninoco of resi- donce, mud his former capital, Bands, where Bpulko ond Grant found him, JUNTH FOU TUE OLOGBAPRERS, En passant, I may romark that Bnoke oould not vnuubl{ have seou tho whote of the lme menso bay he hua douominated ccack. It 18 true that from s ahort distauce weat of Dwagn, Lts Namszan Enlu:o. np to Mngono, the ex tromity of the bay, a distance of about 8 milos, it might bo tormod o creok, but this distance does mnot approach to oue-Lalf of tho buy, I roRpectfully ~ roquest, geographers, Maosars, Kelth, Johnston, arftl® Biauford ‘especiall to chauge the mamoe of Murohi- BOD Cteok to Marchison Bay, &8s more worthy tue largo area of water now kuowo by the former fuapprociative title. Murchiszn Bay exteadn from north latitude 15 degrees to north {atitude 47 degrees, aud from cast longitude 83 dogrecs 53 minutos to 34 degrees 88 minutes In oxtrome longth, Attho mouth the baycontracts toa width of 4 milen, but within ity gresteat treadth ia 12 miles, Burely such a body of water—as terms go—doserves the more appro- rdna nawne of bay, but I teave it to fair jadg- ng goographers to decide. Kor,tho position of Mtoaa’s capital I Lave takon thired obasrvatjons, throo differeut days, My longitude -gfinnu rotly closely with thut'of Hpoke's, while thero [ but four milos' differouco of Iatitude, THE ABNY, Tha third day the troops of Mteea exerolsed at target practics, and on the fourth day we all maichod for the Grand Capital, the Kibuga of Ugsuda, Ulagalla, or Uragara. MTESA I8 A QUEAT KING, 1o is & monarch who would delight the soul of auy lutolligent Europesn, as ho would sgs 1n u’t]u'u the ho&o oldl:u‘:lml Mrhu. e 1:‘ l}iing of Karagwe, Uyauds, Unyors, Usogs, ant LOTH Each d.quJ. ‘snw somothing whiol 'Lm...uu wmy esloom and ros;ect for him, Ile is fond of lmi- tating Europesus aud grent Kings, which tisit, witha little tuition, would beof sutmouse benelit to bis country. Mo has propared vrosa highways ln the neighborhood of his Capital for the guod titwo that I coming whon some chantable kuros bean will send bim auykind of & wheolod vetitolo. A wo spprosched tho capltal the highway fro s Usavais tucreased 1n widih from 20 foat to 10 fcot. Whon wa arrived at this magmiticent brendtn we viewed tue Caplisl crowniug au e~ fuence commandiug & moss extousive view of a picturesquo sud rioh country toeming with gar- dens of plantains and bansuss, snd besutiful asture land, Of course bula, lhowever argo, lend bus little attraction to a bceno, bus a fall flagetatf and an immenso fsy proved a foature i tha L apo. 1IN THE CAPIfAL. Arrived at tho Capitsl I fcund thab the vast collection of huls ciowning the eminonuca wera (o Moyal Quarters, around which ran fivo svpa- rata palisnden and ciroalar courts, hotwnon which and tho eily way s cirenlar road, ranging from 100 to 211 feot i width, from which radi- ated mx_or ssven magnificont avenues, linod with gardens nud nuta. AT TILE PALACE 1N ATATE, The nott dav afier arrival I wan inteadnead to tho Itogal I'alace in groat stato, None of tho rrimitive _reones visble in Hpoke's book woro visiblo hero. Iho guards, clothed in white cotton dreseses, were by no moans comical, ‘I'he Chiold wore vory respact- ablo-lookine poople, dressed richly iu tha Arab costumo, Tho palacs was & hugo and lolty siructmio, waoll built of grass and cano, whilo tall trunks ot trags upheld tho roof, which way cov- ored with clo.li-shioeting nnkde, THE EOVITIAN KNVOY. . On the fourth day nfter my arrival naws camo that auothor white man was appioaching tho Capital from the aieection of Unyoro, and on the Afth day I had tho extromn plessura of greoting Col. Linank: do Bellofouds, of tho Egyptian rsorvico, who had been dis- patohed by Col. Gordon to Altesa, to malan tranty of commorce Lotwoon him snd tha Egvptian Govornmont. ‘Tha . meotiug, though not su ex- citing as my former monting with the venorablo David Laviogstono, at UJijl, in Novembar, 1371, still may bo said _to be magular and fortunato for all concerned. In Qol. Bellofonds X met n gentioman extromely well Informed, onorgotio, and a gront travolor. flis knowledzo of the countrina botweon Uganda and Kbartoum was most minuto and sccurate, from svhich I cons ciido that but litile of tho goography of Conteal Africa botween the cataracts of tho Nila nud Ugsnda I3 unknown, To which storo of val- uable geographical acquisitions must now be added oy exploiation of the Nilo pources, which our intd the Niranza and the Unyanyumbe rond, u Col. Bollefonus [ also percoived “great good fertuno, for I now hiad tho menns to diapatoh my roports of ghographical discoverica and my lonyg dolayed letles. THE FUTORE, Tho day after to-morrow Lintend to retuen to Usukuma, prosocuting my geograplieal ro- acarches along the wosiern shore of the Victoria Niyanzs, After which I propose to march tho expodition to the Katonga Valley, and thence, afier anothor vimt to Mtous, march direotly woab for Lake Albert Nivaoza, whore I hopo to mect with rome more of tho gallaol subordinates of Col. Gordon, by whom I shall ba able, throngh their courtesy, to sond ssvoral more lotlers do- acriptlve of discoveriea aud adyeatures. * 1 might protract ‘toin lotter indofinite- Iy by dweling :ipcn tho valuo of the servics render to sclenco and the world by Ismaol Pashs, but time will not al- low mo, nor, indoed, I8 it pecessary, as I daro #ay by this tima you have baa ample prools of sthat’has boon dons by Gordon. aker, unfor- tunately, sppoars to in bad odor with all 1 meet. 1lis sovority sud othor acts raceivo uol- versal condomnauons bnt far bo it from mo to add to tho fil report, and 8o I loave what I have beard untold, BPEKE RIGNT—LIVINGSTONE WRONG, Theu, brietly, thus much remains to bo sald. Litviogstone, 1n his toport of tho Niyanza cousistiug of five lakes, was wrong, Bcke, in bis scatement thab tho Niyanza was but ono lake, waa quito corroct. ~ But I beliave that oast of the Niyanza, or rather north. oast of the Niyanza, thero aro othor lakes, thotigh they hayo no connection whatever with tho Niyanza ; nor do I auppose they are of any reat magnitude or oxtend south of Lthe iquatar, {f you ask ms why, I can only nu- mwor that in my opinion thoe rivera ontoring tho Niyanza on tho northaastern shore do not suf- ticioutly drain the vast ares of country lying be- twosn the Nixnnzn snd tho westera versant of the Eastern African mounial ranga, I'rom tho volume of tho Niysuza feeders on the north- eagtern mide I cannoe thiwk that they oxtend furthor than longi:udo 86 negrecs east, which leaves & 1arge tract of country eant to be drained bv othor moans than tho Niyanza, HBab this mesna may very probably be Lhe lub, which ompties its watora in- to tho Indian Ocean, The Sobal cannot possidl: approach noar the Equator. This, howaver, will ba decided deflnitoly by Gordon’s officera, Col. Dellsfonas tnforms me that the Assua, or Asba, is & mero torreut, When you soe my ahart, shiclt will , traco tho courso of the Luamberri and the Shimoeyu, tho rivers which draln tho whole of tho eouth and routheast countrics of tho Niyanzs, you will bs Dotter able to judgo of their importanco and magnitude as sourcos of the Nile. I expact to discover a cousiderablo river southwest } but ali of this will bo baat told in my ooxt letter, Iexny M, Braxver, —I liad almoat forgotten to stato that Lhe a v dopth of tho Nivanza, as yet sscertuined by mo, {8 275 foot. [ huve not yob sounded the contro of tho lake; th.s I ntend to do on my re- turn to Leakuma south, BELIGION AT COURT. z MrEas's Oavital, Uaaxpa, April 14, 1875.—1 bad almost negiocted to laform you and your readera of oue very luterosting subject ronuected with Msesa, which wlll gratify many a philso. thropio Eutopean and American, I havo alroady told you that Mtesa and the whole of his Court profess Islamism, A long Limo ngo, Bome four or flve yoars, Kbhsous Bin Abduliah (the only Arab who romained sith me threo ynars ago, as & 10arguard, when the Arabs disgracofully tled from Mirambo) came to Ugan- da. He wus woalthy, of noble descent, bad n fluo, magoiticont personsl appoarance, aund brought with lLin many & rioh present, suolh as fow Arabe could afford, for Mtoan. The King becamo fmmediatoly fasci. natod with him, and really fo whits men could bo long with the son of Abdulah without being charmed by his pressuce, hia hatdsome, prond featuros, s rioh olive comploxion, nnd hts hboirfity. I confoss I nover saw an Arabor Mutaulman who atiracted me 80 much as Khamiu Bin Abdullah, and 1t Is oo woudor that Mtcsa, meoting a kindied spirit in tho noblo Arab of Muscat, anazed at iho magultlcant figure, the splondor of i apparel, the display of lin woulth, and the number of his elaves, foll in lovo with bim. Kbawin stayed wish Mteva a fall a full yoar, during which timo TIUE KIXQ DECAME A CONVELT TO TiH CREED OF KHAMIS— unmoly, Mobammedanism. Tho Arab clothod Mtosa in tho bost that tua wardrobo offored. _ Ile gave him gold-ombruidored Jackets, floo whito slirls, crinson shppors, #wordy, silk easbies, dsggers, and s rovolviug ritlo, s0 that Bpoke's aud Graut's prosouts seowm- ed quite insigaifizaut, Until L arcived at Mtosa's Conrt the King do- lighted 1o the idoa that ho waa a foilower of lilam; but by oae couversation I flaiter mysol, that L havo tamblod the newly-ratsed raiuios fubrio to thoe ground, and, if 1t wera only fol- lowed by tho arclval of s Cunstian musion here, the CONYZRSION OF MTEHA AND HIS COULT 70 OURIS- TIARITY would bo complete. [ have undermined Islam- {am so much here that Mtesa s detormined henceforth, until e I8 better fnformod, to ob- serva the Chriatiag Sabbach as woll as tho Mos- lom Habbath, and the Fun captains have auani- mously conncuted to I, La e caused the ten commandments of Mores to be weistan on a board for kis datly porusal,~aa AMtean can rend Arabio,—na well 3 the Lord's Praver and .tho goldon commandmont of our Baviour, *Ihou abalt fove thy volghbor as thyself,” This is groas progross for the fow days that I havo ro- umhmf with him, and, though [ am uo missiou- ary, Leball boglu to think that I shall becowe ono if such succoss is 8o feasiblo, TUK GUAND ¥IELD ¥OB OMUISTIAN MISSIONARIRA. Butoh! that some plous, practical misslooary would come horo! What a field and a barvest ripo for tho sicklo of tho Gospel! Micus would give bim snything,—houses, lands, eatsle, lvory, oto. He wight oall s proviuce Lis own in oo day. It I8 not the mere preachor that iswan.ed hote, 'The Hishops of all Groat Vritaln oolleot- ed, with all tho olassla youth of Oxford sud Cambridge, would offeok not\nnq here with the Inteltigent people of Ugands, Jtls tho practical Cliristlan tutor, who csn toach people how to bocoma Christians, curo their diseases, constrict dwelliugs, undersisuds sgriculiure, sud oan turn his hand to nu‘ymln‘L liko & eailor —this is the mau fust wanted lere. Suol & man, if ko can be found, would becowe tho savior of Africa. 1o must Lo tied to no Churoh or sact, but protess God and Ils Bon, and live a blameless Christan, be lnspired by Jiberal priuciples, chatity to all men, and devout faith 1o God. 1amust Mung to 0o uation {n particular, but the ontira white raco, Buchs man or men, Bltoas, l{iufi“nl Usands, Usogs, Uuyaro, and Karagae—a kiugdom 360 geograph- foal miles 1 lnxvl{u- by 50 in breadth—1tvites to came to himn. Ho bas begged me to tell tha white men that, £ they will only cowe to i, he will glvo thewm all they wans, Now, where is thers in all thp Pagan world & MOHN PLOMISING YIELD $OR A MINIION then Ugnude? Col. Linaut de ULellefuuus 18 10y wituese that I apoak the truth, avd 1 know be will currubm&r‘lll Laay. Tue Colouel. though a Frouchman, Calvinist, aud has bacowa ua.i ardont a wall-wisher for tho Waganda s L am, ‘I'sen wiy further spend noediessly vast sums upon black Pagans of Africa who biaye uo esaw- jes of their own people bucoming Chrnstlans be- 010 them P I npeak to the Universittos’ dlission 8t Zsuzibar and to the Froe Meihudiats at Mom- baga, to the leading philsnthropists aud the pioud peopla of Eugllml. Herv, goatlemen, fd your opportunity—embrace it ! The peopls ou the shores of the Niysvza call upon you. Obey your.owb geaurous instincis, and listuu to thew, aud 1 assure you tlat lu oue year you will bavo more couvestds to Christianity than all other nesios united can wumbar, ‘Tluv popula- ton of Mtosn's kinadom is most dense, - mata the numbor of hin subjocts v a,o&;,fim You neod not fosr to spond money npun Auch § misaion, a3 Mtesa ia sole ruler, aod wi) TopAy its cost tonfold with ivory, coffas, ottaraking of & vorv flue qualitv, or in cattle, for tho wenlth of this country in all thess rrmluoln in [mmenso, Tho road hieto [a by tho Nile, or vin Zanzibar, Ugogo, and Unganyambo, Tho former 1oato, rg lony aa Col. Gordon governa the countricaul the Upper Nils, in tho most feambila, With porminsion I would auggost that TIE MIASION BUOULD LRING to Mtomn nu prosents threo or four sults of mil ftary clothes, decorated fronly with Roll om. Dbroidery, with halt s dozan Frouch kepis, s mabro, & baco of pistols, and sultabie amiuun tion ; & guod foliug-pleco and ritla of good quality, as the Ring I8 not m barbirjan; & cheap dinnep norvico of Dritanola ware, sn iron Lod. atond.and connternanes, n fow plocen of cotton ""“"l Louts, &o. For trado it aliould bring fioe bino, blagk and gray woolen cloths, a quantity of military buttons, gold braid and cord, wilk cory of difforent colars, as well ns binding, linon Aug slionting for shlits, tine rod blankols, and g auantity of red clath, a fow chairs and tables, “L'ao piofit aristag from tho salo of thone things would bo enormous. % Tor tho raluston’s uso it should bring with 1t 5 Aupply of bammers, Baws, augurs, chisels, axon, Datchots, ndzes, carpenters’ aud biacksimithg tools, a8 Lha Wagandaare apt pupils; fron dnlig and powdor for blasting purposss, trowals, A coupta of good-sized nn\‘l?u, A forgo And ballm‘m. An_ assorimont of nails and tacks, a plow, npndes, sliovols, picknxas, and a couple of light buggios 08 Bpecunone, and snch: othar amall things s thoir owu common menss would BURe goss. Moat domirable would bo an assortmaut of gardeu-scod aud erain; also whito loal, hin- socd-oil. brushes, o fow volumes of ilustraie] ]anln'ulna.l:n‘n;d{ printa, ? mng;u Inntorn, rookets and photogiaph apparatns, Tha tof tlio wholo nood not. .*,’xmu $5,00.), ol coatisl AlEnny M. Brasvey, WADAI AND DARFOUR, nondence New Yors Herald, Kuanzows, Oct. 6, 1876.—According to Fn. ropean papars Wada{ has now bocomo a tributary gruv ace of Egypt. It fa anid that the Su'tan of Wadal was himsolf the first to propose tils are rango ncat to tho Khodive, 1f this information shoald ve confirmed, it is eaid that ono resuls will bo that Jouraeys of discovery will in fgtura ** enter & new phaso ;" for in the svent of Wads} ‘becoming an actual dependonoy of Ezypta tor. ritory will bo supjected to law whicl has buthier. to boen attended with tho groatest dauger. Bad in reforoncu to this ** now phase ' tha events of the da/ lead us to enteitaiu a vory contrary viaw, At the tima whon tho barbariau Princed of Wadai, Darfour, eto,, exercisod their powers in aa arbitrary manner uclontitio explotors could ap least ponotrato ioto Lhis myaterious region, al. though to retnrn was q]\:m anotlier mAtter, as many oxamples will show ; but since Darfour has been biossed with Egypian laws, tho untor rifiod oxplorer hoy NOT DARED TO TREAD the sacred soil of this mystprious land (Dar. four) nuy moro than the unfaithlul the Kaaha in Mocea. Asn fact, Ican adduce the following: Tho African tiaveler, Lrnst Marno, whou ho asked by letter the pormiselon of the General Qovernor of Darfour to vieit that land, rocoived & very courteous answer, which ana only to be coustrued 48 o invitation. Maroo, oa the 20th of July, journsyed from Khatteum to Darfour, In El Obold, tho chief eily of Kordofan, the Mudir doclared to bim that, sccordiug to highor authority, no one could entor Darfour excopt officera of the Govornment, Marno then wrota to tho above-named General Govornor of Dar- tour Sby name Ismail Pacha), and received a ro- quy adviring bim for tho present uot to proceed Darfour, but to make oxortions Kordofan. Ho nlao sont a telographic mes- uage to Cairo, but recefved an unfavorable an. swor, Ergo, dciontifio explorora enjoy, the now rogime, lowa liberty shau uunder 8 potic rulo of tho black Obiafs. According to this exporieucs, Das four 8 to-day, under tho Ezyptian rulo, hormetically closed, 8o far a8 ecientifio ox- ploration is coucérnod, just as Cnina was, and the nbova quoted words, thatycisntifio travel has * ontored o uow phave,” ate,, reliain very probe Jowmatical, < Mr. Chippendalo has baen obliged, on accona of an absolutply necassary surpical oporation upon the nock, to retury to luropn, and left hore ots tho 13th of August for England, EANEST LINANT DY DELLEFOXDS comploted his journey on tho Victoria Nivanza w+January, Ilo wmet Btanloy ot King Mtesa's— tho Iatter (Stanloy) bad atroady corapletela largo portion of his survey of the lake. Unlor- tunatoly littlo is known of this interosting meet- iug of the two traveidrs, sinco Linuut, wiile on hig return journoy to tho porth, was mssacred betweon Darfour and Kerrl, with abeus forty ot lis pooplo. Lo was wvot sufliciently supplied with smmanition to mieet tho attack of tho sav- agod. Btanley, on loaving Kiog Mtosa, wenb toward tho wost, On tho borders of Ugauda 118 BOLDIERS APPEAR TO [AVE DESERTED MIX, placing him in o very difl:ult position. and it wad onlv with ths proatest dilliculty that he could countinnoe hin journsy. Cot. Ucrdon has, for kome time past, been so- Journing in Dede aud Korrl; the numerois mur- dore and robberios had compolled bim to concens teato sl lus forces undor tho leadership of the woll-known Woado! Mek, who was well acjuail od with tho distriot, aud to givo the esuvages yery sovore losson lu‘nrdor to pus down their hostility, . Maroopulo, woll known silngs tho Daker exps. dition, wag called from Calro’ by Gordon at the commeucomaiit of this voar, o accaptea tho invitatton, and went to Gordow's rosideneo at Lado, o returned from aquatorinl territory o Khartoutn on thy 20 with s iumission, and goos back to hin old l}umura at Cairo, Accoraiug to tho [atest private informatlon from Fauchoda, two Greok “morchanty, whilo on o Lunting oxeursion, vare atiaoked bya troop of Nolnliouk nezroes nand eovorely wonnfod with lances. Tho Schillouks then entorod Faschuda, surprising about twenty soldiers, whom tioy maxsacrod. Two compaules had boen rent thither from Kimrtoum, = According to this it ape pears that the repprt ment abrond, after tho Purks had strangled tho Schillook King, that travelors could journoy in the Behillook territory 1t all dirootiona without escort or arms, rcsts o & very doubtful fouudatioa, THE WEATHER. Wasmxarox, D. U., Dec. 1—1 8. m.—TFot tha Lake lleglon, Upper Mississippl, und Lower Missourl Vallogs, fulling sud stationary.batoma tor, eastorlvito southerly winds, partly cloudy ot oloudy weather, and probably rain or snow, pos- sibly followed in the Northweat by nsing baror- oter afid cold northwesserly winds, LUOAL ODSEQVATION. vinosco, Nov, 29, Bir-| e TWRL [ lmn) iViher, Jvme, [0, w0l T, froalis. .y e0eo [ FAIT, b W Treal Clondy, g Fair, 30,91 oaly, bempoor Bl Gloudys AMaxiniurg thermomelar, 84; nininium, 19, QENEUAL ODSEHYATIONS., Cutidaao, Nov, U0~10:18 p. Bl Station: jHar,|Tar. hind, (fearn Weuther, 62 8, W, freah, {reab, o, .. |Clear; «w|Cloudy, T, 9,80} i B AR, E., fresh, Laven 130,03 lsmn\q. 0,10 JCloudy. — 1utormed Kis Friends Land and Wuter, A Radnorshire (Eng‘{ Iady recently pald & visit to Lior father at Yorksyive, who, befors s was marrled, bad kept $wo or throe shoop dogs, of which she was very foud, Biuce theu ba hss retired from Lusiness snd disposed of ali but one dog, ‘This one met the Isdy with demon- strations of groat delight upon her ar- rival st ber fatgor's houso, aud that wight the dog wen) a dis- taucs of 7 milea to u farm-houso where one of the other doge biad been send (the lstler was blind, but kep s belng sa old favorite). o the mnmnr. wleu the lady went to the door, she £aw uot only tne dog which had glveu lor luch‘: glu! recoptiou the day prorious, but also the ol beau braught by lind one, which bad l'ld.nuywm 'jm il thio other dog to weloome her. uight came, Lhe old blind ouo was takon back (o his bioma by the sstme dug, whick afterwa:ds re- turned, having traveled a diutance of 26 wmilea to give plessura to the old blind oue, Cul. Bake Two additlonal fucts rolative to Mr, Vl\nnl(lul ¥ Baser, lute Arsistant Quartormaster-Geuersl 1o she Dritish Army, receutly convictod of au 1u'- docent assault ou & youug lady in an Evglish rallway spaitment-car, have been published. Firgt, bis effoots, including & war<harger, furals ture, sud artioles of viitu, wero sold by anciou at tho North Camp, Aldershot, the % belug 800 lots, which realized bugh prives; next, the t‘:):l of e bri whn.-'{l ha bas topay, have best fogally *isxed,” bis sollcitor baving theroby oxcessiva obargos Lo the sumound