The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1868, Page 10

10 —————— WASHINGTON. CONTINUED ) FROM , THIRD PAGE. from New York on the 12th of May in answer to an inquiry from Samuel Ward:—“‘l leave at 7:30; will see you early,” He arrived here of course on the morning of the 13th and tel hed on the same aay, as he swears by direction of Wooiey, to Sheridan Bhook:—“Come on by a Savery impeor- wi al ‘telegram should not find Shook at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on the same and hour telegraphed Shook, by order of Wooley:—‘‘You must come here and untangle a snarl between friends at once.”’ ‘What ‘‘snarl” had happened between “friends?” Craig swears he does not know. Shook swears he does not know, and said, although he came in obe- dience to the telegram, he never inquired or was told after he got here what this im, ‘snarl’? was. Sheridan Shook did come, but not until 8. S. Cox had telegraphed by direction of Wooley to Thurlow Weed but as Cox swears without knowledge of its im- rt:—“If you can’t come over, send Sheridan Shook. Important.” This telegram, Thurlow Weed testifies, related to the subject of impeachment, as talked over in his room at the Astor House; and, as he could not come, Shook did come by the morning train of the 1th. So the snare, whatever it was, purchasing the votes of Senators, lepuly, Shafer, telegraphed to craig. to forty-two utes past eleven o’clock A. M. of the 14th that Shook would leave New York “‘to- morrow morning.” Hastings in the mean- ‘ime returned to New York, and the matter for which Weed and Shook were wanted seems not to have been fully arranged until after Shook got to Washington or the “snarl? between friends un- 7 because Wash McLean, on the 13th, tele- graphed to Wooley this inquiry:—“Will Johnson be deposed When will you be here?” Instead of re- plying to him with the assurance of the certainty he ad used to soie of his friends on the 11th, Wooley does not seem to have that confidence that im; n- ment had “gone higher than a kite,” and that certainty which he had expressed before the snarl took place, but in answer tele- phed as follows, under date of the 14th of to Wash McLean, New York:—‘Johnson stock at par. Managers examining witnesses as to corruption of Senators. Hendricks, Van Winkle, Wil- Jey, Trumbull and Johnson met at Chase’s house last aight to form a new party. We have them demoral- ized and bitter. Don’t leave New York till I see you; say by Sunday, certainly.” It would seem, there- fore, that atthe time the Astor House association were rather relying upon the political situation in aid of their efforts, as Webster telegraphed to Thur- low Weed on the 13th a8 follows “The acquittal of President is @ fixed fact already. Re- crimination is indulged in between the im- peachment leaders: and Forney has been com- pein wo resign. The present plan of the impeachers 8 to journ again on Saturday without taking a vote. Thus it is seen with what care Mr. Weed was privately kept informed upon the subject of im- peachment and how scrupulously he watched every varying phase of the trial. But Sheridan Shook, his associate, who had been sent for by three different telegrams—‘Important. Come by first train to un- tangle the snari between _friends”—who was to take the place of Thurlow Weed, who was to be sure to come or send Shook. Important did arrive on the night of the 15th, Weed, as will be seen by Ris testimony, expr swears that this tele- gram to send Shook related to the matter talked over at his room at the Astor House—i. ¢., how Senators’ votes might be purchased to secure ac- quittal. Sheridan Shook, on the contrary, testifies vo your committee that he did not know to what sub- ct all these telegrams reterred, altho after an terview with Weed he obeyed them and came; and that when he arrived here no business was stated to him; that no entanglement was shown him; and he did not even angitive why he should have come, or why he hi been sent for, or What was the important business he was expected to do. Now he was here and the only ostensibie errand he disclosed to the committee was to bring two hun- dred ia cigars, for which Wooley had tele- ‘aphed him on the 14th. If, in the light of the evi- lence above reported and the phic informa- tion disclosed, any member of the House believes this statement him have your committee offended by asking that Wooley be brought to the bar for con- tempt of its authority and his interference with the course of public justice. Whatever entanglement or diMcuity might have existed before the coming of Shook, or doubts upon the minds of the associates as to the President's acquittal, they all vanished during the night after his arrival or long before the time when the friends of the Union had any knowledge upon the subject, while the “whole country was waiting in breathless anxiety for the verdict of the Senate—when the dread award of guilt or innocence Was actually trembling in the balance—the very judgment itself—nay, the very number of votes anit the men who would cast them—were known to the members of this corrupt association and their con- federates. Of this no other evidence is wanting but a single controlling fact. H. 8. Hastings, the Albany party who was ready for business and who had come on at the svlicitation of Wooley, sent through Weed, was anxiously walting at the place of business of Shook, the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue, Thirty-second district, New York, 83 Cedar street, to Jearn what had been the effect of the machinations of Sheridan Shook, whose office he was keeping dur- ing Shook’s absence at the telegraphic request of Wooley, enforced by the command of Weed. Listen to the magnificent diapason of triumph with which Wooley announces to Hastings the assured success of the association under the able leadership of Shook, ‘by a telegram sent from Washington at nine o'clock and thirty-five minutes on the morning of the 16th of May, four hours before the vote could be taken and announced in the Senate:— H. 8. HastTINGs, care Sheridan Shook, 88 Cedar street :— We have beat the Methouist Episcopal Chureb North, hel George Wilkes and fmpenchment. It is believed a vole wi be taken to-day. I doubt it. ¥ Again, so assuted was Wooley that his work was ‘Weil done and that there was nothing more for him to do in Washi mm that at eight o'clock of ‘the same morning (the 16th) he telegraphs his friend 4. 8. G, Burt, New York:—Where is Wash? 1 will dine with Hancock to-night and be at Fifth avenue Sunday morning. Andy ali right.” In view of all this evidence committee have re- rted the accompanying resolve. They have fore- orn to state any other evidence which they have taken, confining tiemselves to that which seemed to atfect and cluster around Wooley in this report, be- cause his case is alone the present subject of inquiry before the House. There is other and most important evidence on the subject of attempted interfer- ence with the course of pubiic justice, the nature and extent of which the committee do not think it proper or just even to indicate until their final rey shall be made, lest they might do justice and the indication of the evidence might cause the avoidance of the witnesses, more than one of whom they have not yet been abie to reach by the summons the House. The committee are of opinion that not only this, but all other investiga- tions by the House in the future, depend for their efticiency upon the action of the House in this case, If Wooley can thus defy, by evasion and [alge swear- ing, the solemn investigation of the House of Kepre- sentatives in matters of the very highest concern- ment, it is diMeult to see how the House can ever hereafter hope with any success to investigate, detect and provide against any other attempted corruption im government atfairs. as report concludes with the following resolu- tion:— , That Charles W, Wooley, a. witness heretofore ned before the Gominittes Of Managers of this ‘and who, a& appears by the report of the Managers, uswat the proper inquiries put to im ju ihe Investigution ordered by the House, and wio the committes movorting w (us order, but haa, in contempt thereof and of the order Of this House, left the city of Washington and remains ab- ent, and has not yetreported himself 40 the committee, be forthwith ed by the Sergeantat-Arina and be brought before the House at its bar by the order of the House, auy dmsued by the Speaker under his hand and the seal of the House, and the ald Wooley be detained by virtue thereof by the Sergeant-at-AFme fint!l be answer {or his comtempt of the order of the House and abide such further order we the House may make in the premines. Mr. BUTLER moved the previous quesiion on the reso'ution, Mr. Brooks regretted that the gentleman made an error in point of tact in his resolution. [He had fallen in the error of saying. a8 was asserted the other day, that Mr. Wooley had left the city. Mr. BUTLER explained that Mr. Wooley had left town, and sent a despaich that he had goue; he went to New York in deflance of the commitree and stayed until jast might. Mr. Brooks—The resolution states that Mr. Wooley 4s not in the city, when he ts, Mr. BUTLER replied that ne hac not reported to the ittee. Brooks called for the reading of the resolu. tion, saying tue words “remains absent" appeared in it. He Loped the gentiewan from Massachusetts Would put the resolution im such @ form that ull Could vove for it, because those on his side of the House did not intend to arraign themselves tn 0; mition to it, ie hoped, too, the gentleman would scrike out the word “proper,” because df it were retained has not attended upon the seasions of it would iinply that the imguiry into private aifairs Wine Proper one. The Managers were not invested Y prerogative fur inquiring tnte private = and when they did so they travelled far be pat any Parliamentary right, and ily did pd exceed Une limit wien, as he understood, in this trrenty nuic#s Was asked Whether he used of the enty-five thousand dotiars drawn by him for the Purpose of securing 4 oe ae be tbswered Nor “te yisbed Dianke, because ye UNeman to Al the two the country had the right hg © know who tuo biank: sponding, Mr. Brooks maid the tee geste eek is ruched said by the testimony of Mr. Weed were by offers of mony, whuse naine ort stated unoitictally to be a Seaator (roma RoUsas (Mr. Pomeroy) and & Senator trom Nevadi Me. Nye — This testimon Yo a ; S Wwhat Colonel Ceoper et, % cote had swo to about certain negotiations respecting the you ‘those same two Senators. The teva of be carried still further a8 & matter of equity dad ality. A caucus of Senators was hel: tr contauding the yp conviction, and at another time thirt, caucus ought to be inquired into an unfolded, 40 that the shou! public know ‘Senators who are sworn to act as ju jarere mae 8 OF jurors were ‘peembiingin caucus to act apon the Ve quest) "i 1 ‘ppeactunent of the Presiiet of the United wacse m rely as 8 OF politicians. He was gratefal to ‘ve gentleman for the time he had already viven bim,\outhe woold be more grateful if he woul a ford Nm, a a member of Congress, an opr ty to exp. WSS #0 opinion op the rents of be picyite tou. ie Cleumed that journalism Wis as ree pe iubic NEW YORK’ HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY ¥6, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. as any other but journg lists could have no right to associate with gentiemen if in every sa excitement here they could be Compelled to every private conversation held in the social circie with public men, When they thus obtain in- formation in the line of their profession, exclusively pertaining to their business pursuits, journalism be- came a8 mnch a pri lon as the con- sultation of a client and his lawyer or a confession to the ; aud in behaif of his profession he we it was the duty of a journalist, despite of ‘all threats of imprisonment or even of death, to decline to impart such _ privi- tegen cermunications except at the command the highest courts of law, and then only as to particular and specific acts. He declared and pro- claimed that the seizure of telegrams was an outrage of private-rights and liberty. The like was never known in any country whatever in time of peace; and would never be submitted toin Et if at tempted in the form it has been here, only wonder was that, considering the freedom of using the telegraph in matters relating to commerce, business aifairs and the most sacred domestic relations, the Managert had not discovered more curious telegrams. le believed that Shes maa sup- ressed @ hundred of other telegrams, while those fore the House were perverted or misrepresented. The surrender of these telegrams by the managers of the telegraph office was most dlagracetul and cowardly, and ought to condemn them in the eyes of the world, He would, he repeated, throw no ob- stacle in the way of the investigation, Let the Mana- gers find everything they may seek. The whole array of names was hot of those connected with his (Mr. Brooks’) party. Shook was eppetnes by President Lincoln. What the politics of Wooley were he did ee know. sti * mpemns anaTer in ‘the Con- erate army; if he ever belol to any army asa General he served as a pegethed rise pe Sa he belonged to any party he belonged to that of the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. BUTLER proj , having now heard from the other side, to move the previous question, Mr. ELDRDIDGE, (dem.) of Wis., rose to a question of order. He found at page 192 of the rules of pro- ceeding that any person summoned as a witness who shall wilfully make, default or refuse to answer questions propounded to him shall, tn addition to pains and penuities, be liable to arrest as for a mis- demeanor. Lf he refuse a report shall be made to tue Speaker, who shail certify the fact before the Attorney for the District of Columbia, He main- tained, therefore, that it was contrary to law to call @ witness before the bar of the House without aifording him an opportunity to show cause why he did not answer the questions. The Managers, in his ys had no right to ask many of the questions, The SPEAKER overruled the point, and said—The* uniform usage from the Twelfth to the present Con- gress was, that when a witness refused to answer a question before a committee authorized to send for persons and Pee he first had an opportunity to explain to the touse. He could not be held to answer for it until the committee presented the ques- ton. This enactment was in 184. Because a wit- ness rejused to testify, the committee reported this bill providing for additional penaltes, As it was at the close of a Congressional term the House could not imprison him beyond the 4th of March, and hence the bill was with the consent of all. Mr. BUTLER wanted to set matters right first in re- gard to inserting the names of the Senators in the Danks. He could only say that other names were in evidence besides those which were omitted. But he would not be drawn into any further statement on the subject. He, however, would make one statement so far as the names he col- lected by the witnesses were disciosed. There were names of Senators voting for conviction who it is said, attempts had been made to bribe Mr. A. or Mr. B., it was of no consequence to justice or tie na- tion whether he succeed or fail. Had it come to this, if you fail in bribing you have full berry to attempt it? He had seen published in the newspa- ers some kind of testimony, which it was supposed ad been given before the committee; but he wished to tat not one word had gone out the committee to the public press to his knowledge, and all the stories in the press were either from men who do not know anything of the proceedings or who attempt to prejudice the investigation. The committee thought proper to be silent on all matters except as to what was neces- sary for tie purposes of public justice, and he, for one, refused to give a single item of any description, sough applied to by gentlemen of tae press. There Was not one ‘substantial yora of ‘truth in the reported testimony of Colonel Cooper which appeared in the Nattonal Intelligencer, One thing more, The committee had been attacked because of what was claimed to be a wholesale seizure of telegraphs. No such wholesale seizure had been made, Tuey did, what in his judgment they had a right to do, according to the law of the land and exactly within the power of the House. They sent a supoena duces tecum to the telegraph to bring their despatches, and asking them to produce telegrams named cr unnamed. The difficulty was the corrupt rascals bad used the fictitious names, such as Pres- cott, Bisuarck, &¢c, instead of their own, and he would say here it was the right of the com- mittee, acting on the part of the ilouse, to take every telegram for the purpose of justice, and no houest man would complain of it, The old adage of his namesake was appropriate here— | No rogue e’er felt the halter draw \ With good opinion of the law, And when they struck the telegrams there was a fluttering among the gold gamblers and tue whiskey jamblers, Who consulted how Senators could be jught. Whatever might be the result of the inves- tigation they had demonstrated to the country that there had been a corrupt conspiracy to buy Senators, If it failed it was not because no corrupt attempt had been made, but because there was too much virtue in the Senate, ‘The unfortunate and humiliating spectacle was presented that there were men in lo government positions ready to meet together receive and entertain § corrupt propo- sitions as to what Senators could be bought. This state of facts was beyond aill per- adventure. Whether they succeeded mayor may not be shown. That was another part of the investi- | tion, Mr. Butler then proceeded to repeat a por- jon of the testimony, adding that there was a teie- gram from Wooley, saying that “impeachment has gone up higher than a kite.” Under those circum- stances they looked at the telegrams and found the remarkable fact that every gol mbler and others who live on boyy the public knew what the votes would be, while honest men did not. Mr. ELpRrtpGe desired to know whether one of the witnesses did not bans ge that impeachment was lost and the verdict would be in favor of the Presi- dent, and that the witness based his opinion ou the length of the face of Manager Butler? And was not this the character of the telegram? Mr. BUTLER replied that there was one Sam Ward, who dined with Wooley, Evarts and Groesbeck, aad who telegraphed to his son on the isti ist. that McOulloch would not sell gold and to buy him $50,000, Ward, on tie morning that the vote was taken, was certain that the Presi- dent would not be convicted. He would read a number of these telegrams:—‘'Ss, W. to W. R. Hedge—Your bet.” On May 6, the day that Wooley sald his business was all arranged, Wooley tele- graphed to 8. M. Barlow, “Ali O. sure.” J. bi. C. telegraphed to |, “Are you quite sure your statement relative to @ particular person is correctY”’ Ward repiied, “I have it from such a source that I will go to the bottomless pit for my belief.” Mr. Butler said there's where he will go. (Laughter.) He could state that at five minutes after twelve o'clock ou the morning ¢ muel Ward telegraphed to tie gold ga street:—"The President's acquittal is © Just met Butler; he was going aiong as if Fort Fisher was not taken.”” (Laughter.) He (Mr, Butler) said he did feel at that time just as he felt when Fort Fisher was not taken. He felt it to be a great caiamity wheo impeachment was defeated by conspirators as it was a great calamity when there was a failure to take that stronghold of the rebeliion. He felt as badiy of the oue as of the other. He was as willing to be twitted for one as well as the other, both cases there Were corruption, perjury: and frau and both the taking of Fort Fisher and the convic- ton of the Present were necessary for the security of the country. This Wooley expressly dyciared that on the night of the 14th of May a meeting was held at the house of the Chief Justice for the purpose of tound- ing a new party. He supposed that for purposes of corruption party bribes are as powerful as woney | bribes, He had yposed that @ Senator could be offered the panei "at a Perea, as easily asa promise of money we. 2, Wooley. kither might be a bribe to swerve (onnest pnr. ses. He desired, like the gentleman from New York, that the invest should be ample and complete, No telegram that did not relate to this impeachment was procured by the Managers either directly or indirectly. Mr. Brooxs inquired why the teman has not brought forward the telegrams of George Wilkes and Th re Tilton, Had ‘them? Mr. BuTLER, in reply to question, said he knew of no acts of disloyalty on the of or Wilkes which led him to Investigate their adairs in any form, the he ke Every man was known ' compen cpt It. 10 kept suspicious company. ver he heard of such and such a bad man, he went to see his tele- vrams, There needed not to be oo of being exposed which ought not to be ex; very government om the nh had @ papers for its own protection, Dit. ELDRIDOR inquired whether the leman had ever known an instance in an! mentary body wherein an in ton woe had that the members of the committee were on one or the same side of the question. Here was a qaestion of iin- inent. Did the gentieman ever know of an Vestigation where both sides were net represented ? Could it be thought fair that the inv should be all on oue side? Would it not be fair to bave both sides represented ? Mr. BurLRR—The question te as to bribery of faseterk 18 which side is the geutioman? Furor Mr, ELDRIDG#—That’s not quite fair in not answer ing my question. I don’t understand the question ie simply if so the Committee of we not the proper persons to inv yee they were investigating e1 en Vhen the gentiemun asks whether I am for bribery | don’t Siopens he is seri- ous. Mr. BUTLER—No? Nor by implication? Mr. Biparoar—t think you would feel indignant were I ask such a@ question. 1 m asked ad it was fair to have a committee all on one si Mr. BuTt.FR—I pever the gentleman was 4n faver of bribery, Therefore the comuittee is on the same side he ie. (Laughter) if we take the oor ye hey committee who have only au ea- jarged commitvee On this subject. '. BAKBR, (rep.) Of 11)., remarked that he was im Peiied by duty to say one Word. [a yis opinion it Was a violauon of paolic justiee, wheretie © oake an inyaest of jmpray conan Hon in regard to a& fig ate Urini, tue power ta the haads of omy | | | text books of diplomacy. | to examine | , dipomatte form. He declared in his piace nie 4 conviction that it was a violation of the fd aenpg the Anglo-sax0a heart and of Anglo-Saxon liberty, He wanted cor- Tuption exposed and ferreted out and brought to the lignt of day. ‘This in ‘ag long as any in- culpation should be carried on; but-here in even if it brought him in opposition to his P friends, he provesied against an ex purte in- quest into a great public transaction. were in one part of the gallery sligit demon- stration of applause, which the speaker checked, ir. BUTLBR—Does the gentleman believe himse! competent to conduct the investigation fairly ? Mr. BAKER—| hope if I were a meinber of the com- mittee I would think myself capable of doing so. Mr. BuTLeR—if the gentleman thinks he would be capable of conciuding the examination fairly he will accord to his associates the same fairness of power. By his remark he shows he can do 80, Will he not say his tes can do the same? This question rises above party. enough of party. When we decide to do anything it is party. ‘hen the other side do anything it is con- scientious judgment. When they vote ayainst iin- hinent, their bread and butter depending on it, it 18 conscientious judgment. Whenever we vote for itit is party. When we investigate fraud they say we cannot do it because it is party; and so it is when we investigate corruption aud bribery. Mr. BAKER—I say | want to elevate these proceed- ings above party, ir, BUTLER demanded the previous question, and ‘under its operation the resolution was agreed Lo. Mr. ELDRIDGE offered a penposilion declaring that the seizure of private and personal teiesrains was violative of the constitution, which provides for the rigitof the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreason- able searches and seizures, and that no war- rants shall issue but upon a probable cause, supported by oath or aflirmation, and par- ticularly describing the place to be searched and tue persons or things to be seized; that such seizure is an outrage ou personal liberty to which no free people can toleraie or submit. Mr. Eldridge moved to suspend tie rules, which was disagreed to, and | 80 the resolution went over until next Monday. The House at five o'clock adjourned unit eleven o'clock to-morrow. THE CHINESE EMBASSY. Mr. Burlingame—His Appointment—His Views—The Embassy—Its Character and Composition—Visit to the Park—To the Pho- tographers—Humor—How They Dine—To the Theatre. In the edition of the HeRatp for Saturday, 23d inst., were published the particulars of the arrival and composition of the imperial embassy from China, to be accredited to the “‘treaty-making Pow- ers,” at the head of which stands our countryman, the Hon. Anson Burlingame, added to which were suggestions as to the policy which it was probable would be pursued by these Oriental and Occidental gentlemen—the latter including Mr. Burlingame and his secretaries, Messrs. Brown and Du Chong—in their communications with the governments to which they were authorized to present their cre- dentials. THE EMBASSY AT THEIR HOTEL. Since the arrival of the .embassy—which is suM- ciently large to command thirty-six rooms of the Westminster Hotel—Mr. Burlingame and family occupying the suit to which the great English novel- ist was assigned on his arrival in this country— possibly on account of the unseasonable weather for this latitude, its members have not made themselves sufficiently conspicuous to attract any particular number of ill-bred or obtrusive sight-seers near them. CHINA AND AMERICA, Should, however, any of the Orientals pass up or down Broadway or any other thoroughfare, always in carriages, pedestrians glance at them with “‘specu- lation in their eyes; comment, perhaps, on their costume, which is not only rich in material, but, as a rule, tasteful in make, and then forget them as individuals, while their minds ponder the wonderfal fact that the most ancient, most populous, and, at the present time, the most exclusive of the nations of the Eastern hemisphere has honored not Mr. Burlingame, but simply through him mediatorially the youngest of the nations—a nation in every aspect the most opposite to it in its views of social as well as political character. Perhaps when we glance a few years anterior to the date of the Hon. Anson Burlingame’s commis- sion as the representative in all other lands of the government of China we may find causes which have materially influenced the minds of the Empe- ror and his near advisers to entrust the conduct of | this delicate mission to our ex-minister. Our policy in Japan, as well as the apparent desire of our gov- ernment through its representatives in China to pur- sue @ straightforward course in its diplo- matic dealings with the people of the Orient, had doubtless, combined with the personal prestige of Mr. Burlingame, much to do in influencing the Chinese governinent in their selection. And they must have been internally convinced that they could not entrust the diplomatic future of China to an abler ana certainly no honester man. MR. BURLINGAME DIPLOMATICALLY CONSIDERED. Mr. Burlingame’s view of the position he holds ts exceedingly modest. He does not regard himseif so much henored as he does the republic throu -h him. As we have dealt with the people of China witnout re- | sorting to chicanery, so in their future in- ternational relations they, with true Oriental polite- ness, desire to express their appreciation by assuring | the government of the United States that it can place unreservedly its honor and its future—for | China, ancient as it is, is to have a future, in which | the civilization of the Occident ia to be eomprehen- sively a part—in the hands of one of its citizens, And’ poiitically, diplomatically, commercially con: sidered, this appointment is, reduced to the measure f ney, Worth @ thousand million dollars to us. iinese believe in us, | in our poiicy, in our honest in our government, nd—langh not—we have been honest, commercially and diplomatically, in our dealings with them. Our treaties are their Upon them are founded all their other compacts, or fa the fature will be con- formed to them, with the other mercantile nations. HOW MR. BURLINGAME REGARDS LIS APPOLNTMENT, Regarding his on geared a4 acceptable to all parties m the United States, and entertaining the view that he is in the diplomatic service of another Power, it is Mr. Burliiagame’s resulve to keep aloof from politics. For the time—that ia, so long as | he has the honor of the Chinese government in his | keeping—he, as its most trusted servant, will regard himself as an alien tothiscouniry. In that capacity, | in his intercourse with the Powers to which he is | accredited, he will endeavor to enter into such com- | Pacts only as will be favorable and profitable to the | parties to them. The interest of Ciina will be urged | on all proper occasions, and itis belief that if | the various nations will eaver frankly, as he doubts | not they will, into dipiomatic relations with him, | China wil all the sooner open up her vast territori to the Christianizing and civilizing induences of t nuiions of the West, AN UNSOUGHT Hoxon. The honor of representing the Chinese empire in | America and Europe, as has already been stated, was Wholly unanticipated by Mr. Burlingame, Within | three days of his pe he did aot even dream of being made the representative of the Emperor anywhere, He had taken ojticial leave of the gov- | erament preparatory to hia return to the United States, and, with his family, was about to embark, When he was invited to a conference with certain itaries of the Cay At this interview they un- their plans and closed by inviting him trust of representing their governinent and peo “ ‘tir the earth.” An honor so unloo! for—so great, so important in its bearings on civilization and on the future of the ancient empire could not be accepted or rejected on the instant. After much ndering in his own mind and conference with the representatives of other Powers, who rejoiced at the unex) dig. nity that was thus put within his grasp, urged upon him the importance of its acceptance, He did accept the mission, believing in 80 he was to be the instrument of conferring @ high upon the great republic, of having expressed through bis person the perfect confidence which the government at Pekin, ruling with tron rod four hundred millions % kina, slaves, have CR honesty fyi , governing with deep soilcitude millions of freemen. TY 7 rf THR RMBASSY. ‘That the Embassy might be creditable alike to the fe ee oped of aaasaat a mn of Mongolians of capacity, were selected. tain! the fatertel of the em- regarded physic: as well as ment al With the exception of Dr. Tyo, physician the members of it are in the prime of Very few of the twenty-seven tals, whom are servants, have reached life’s climacteric. The tojens (whieh, rendered into > lish, means “gre: if in Ped U w to us yeuteritay, Whey have; bot olaco and in this city, Written and forwart to the high digni of @ laudatory character. Grave and pan oa4 thete sttachda are a mor th theirgcom ‘a8 One or two anecdotes Will preventiy Musteates 8 TO THE PARK AND AN ARMORY. ve hinted that since thelr arrival the mem- Re Secon A = big et le may ie of travelling, the unpropitious state of the weather and te dea ce of Mr. rao hot to seein to court the pub! ” much unl Gimseif and associates, as w matter of have been prese Aiionel gy to the rep tation, the Park, whe: ing aside state and rank, they ew themuelves Gu the sward and with much iter @ good roll. They next their small and ind in @ smoke; Pluvius was uot in a pleasant and soon they were necessitated i Scoompanied by of the isited the accom @ gentleman of tl vi e armory of the Seventh regiment, where intelli. gently and minatels. examined the muskets and other accoutremen' but that which them most, apparently, was the practice of members the drum Lat who happened to be present. With the tattoo, long roil, the Adju- tant’s call and the reveille they see: icularly med delighted. They could not have too much of the martial music,” To them it was sweeter than the strains of a Pattior @ Kellogg to the cultivated ear of a Caucasian, Those who were thus martially aroused were of the younger members of the com- pany. The grave gentlemen—those on whose shoul- ders the diguity of the ancient empire is laid, in im- mediate association with Mr. Burlingame and his European secreiaries—could not or would not ex- press pleasure with Tung and Teh, Lien and Ting, foh and Revei, and Kang and Cimmang-_thelr good humored, almond-eyed, talkative attachés, REST FOR ORIENT AND OCCIDENT. On Sunday rest was prescribed to the Orientals as well as to the Occidentals, and yesterday tucir only visits were to the photographers, Gurney and Brady, at 707 and 785 Broadway. VISIT TO BRADY'S. Brady’s gallery, the well known visiting ground of every notable who visits Gotham, was, of course, patronized by the Ambassador and suite in the course of thelr pereginations yesterday—and why not? Brady has an historical collection which has been gathered with great trouble, and on which the collector prides himself highly. Heexhibits to one correct views of the sceues, both of the disasters and victories of the Union troops; perfect likenesses of the best and bravest, the honestest and most d'shonest. of the heroes or notorieties of the war, and even here room is made for Butler, whose only claim to a place in a gallery of art must be his inordinate love for crested spoons; ut history knows no distinction in this respect, truth must be told, for one knows that Bloo who stole a jewelled crown takes as conspicuous a place in the record of the events of the period as does the royal owner whose privilege it was to wear that crown, Other well known faces, recalling uae in the modern history of this coun- try, will also be met with at Brady’s, and to continue the faithfulness of his illustrated story the collector presaiied ‘upon the tirst Americ@n Ambassador of the elestial empire and his suite to grant another addi- tion to his gallery. Accordingly yesterday Mr. Bur- lingame, the mandarins and other members of the emi proceeded to the studio on Broadway and remained there upwards of two hours, in the course of which time the weather became somewhat placa- ble and Mr. Brady was enabled to take a a endia Photograph of the group. At two o'clock, aiter in- specting the pictures and plictogrepoy in the gallery, the party took their departure, evidently well pleased with their visit and the manner of their reception. AT GURNEY’S At Mr. Gurney’s, accompanied by Messrs. Burlin- game, Du Chang and Brown—the first named gentle- man having previously sat for an imperial photo- Seg #xceilencies Chih and Sin, with their followers, Messrs. Tung and Teh, interpreters of Eng- lish; Lien aud ‘Ting, interpreters of French; Tah and Kwei, interpreters of the Muscovite tongue, and Kang and Chwang and Dr. Tso, the physician, sat in grqups, according to their rank or importance in the em! sy, before the camera. In five diferent posi- tions were the meimbers of the are 4 taken, and to-day, doubtless, Messrs. Chih and Siin and their compares will be pleased with their vraisemblance on the large cards of tnis artist, when the photo- graphs, properly toned, will be prepared for exlibi. tion and criticism. ORIENTAL HUMOR. While arranging one of the soe. at this place, Teh, who speaks Hnglish very well, had a lu raps fail from a chair. In his descent, his. cue, or “‘pig-tail,” of very respectable length, flew upward, and the end of it in some manner got entangled on a nail in the wall. Perceiving the oddity of the situa- tion, he at once curled up his body and, witha laugh, reque8ted he might be presented to the Gothamites in that attitude. When they had tired of their visit to Mr. Gurney’s gallery—the ae men of the party supplying themselves ‘with photographs of the ladies wuo appear in the “White Fawu’’—they prepared to return to their hotel. ear the doorway to the street, on their exit, a nuinber of ladies stood to scrutinize them, and while the carriages were being drawn up a tempo- rary halt on the sidewalk was made. A ly stand- ing near the rather handsome form of Tung, torget- ting good breeding in her desire to acquire hirsute knowiedge under difficulties, very deliberately took in her ungloved band his long and elaborately laited cue, biack as coal and almost as coarse as the air ofa “big sale and critically examuued it, Tung eyed the “lady” for a moment, a smile iltumi- nating his broad, flat face as he glanced at her own coifure, and then bowing, said, “All mine! all mine !? The inquisitive feminine retired in disgust, and Mr. Tung, the smile on his dark face deeper aud broader than before, entered the carriage with others of his compatriots and was presently rolied up Broadway. AT DINNER. Without desiring to Jenkinsize our review of the bathe and dqjngs of tiese Orientals during the brief hours of yesterday, it perhaps will not be con- sidered untoward or impolite by even those grave tojens Chih and sin, to present them to the public as they appeared at the dianer table at five o’ciock Bacap tion afternoon. A smail and retired dining room in the Westmins- ter has been placed at the disposal of the embassy. At the head of the room, near the table, is the seat of honor, invariably occupied by the tirst mandarin or tojen Chih, and the lower end or “foot” of the table is reserved for his associate Sin, Between these on the right and on the left in chairs, in a very civilized position, were seated their atvaches and writers and medicine. man, whose importance, doubtiess, is greatly enhanced in the eyes of his countrymen by the large pair of spectacles he Wears on his nose and in close proximity to his eyes. Chih had taken lis seat, with Tung and Teh on his right and leit; and without touching was ciosely in- quiring into the character of the viauds the four Eu- Tropean servitors attired in white waistcoats and Swallow-taiied coats were industriously piling on the table, At this juncture Sun and others of the embassy en. tere i and approached the table, whereupon @his Ex- cellency Chih arose, a8 also did his attachés, and togetuer over the table, their hands resting on its edge, they made @ most profound bow to the new comers ; and these, im return, responded with @ gravity of manner that would have won the heart of a Chestertield, a D’Orsay or Brummell had they been alive aud present. CHOPSTICKS, Our Chinese friends, it perhaps is well to remark, eat very much as people Wio boast a higher civiliza- ton, ‘They certainly use their teeth, and when their food has been thoroughly masticated, swallow it without fear of indigesuon or prospective dyspepsia, Chopsticks they (that i# the Chinese of the embassy) certainly use, but limitediy, With these together, between the thumb and frst and second fingers of the right hand, they take up smail pieces of pickles, and when rice was desired the bowl m wi.ch it was placed was raised to the clin, and, Witi the sticks, a few graius were taken at a time to the mouth. The chopsticks of the Chinaman area Substitute for our fers. Wien with Cuth or Sun it was desirable the diners could and did employ the kniie and fork and spoon with as much grace and a@ptitade ag people to the “manner born.” And now, beiore closing our description of how @ Chinaman eats, let us add that which may be plea sant im the ears of the ladies who linger over the cup atthe evening meal, ‘the Chinese, when they can get them, use both milk or cream and sugar in their tea, We have read that the brother of the Sua and Grand Uncie to te Moon, in his Central Flowery Kingdom, disdaining miik and sugar,invaria- bly swallowed is bobea in its natural state and with, bar ring. the water, its natural flavor. That is an ex- ploded idea. Tajen Chil, Great Man Sun and the possible Mandarins Tung, Teh, Lien and the rest of them take miik and sugar in their brew of the leaf When they can get them, and so questioniess also their sublime muster, the aforesaid relative to the ba moon and the siarry hosts, ¢ Chinese of the embassy sit straight at their meais, talk pleasantly to each other while swallow- ing their rice or while their masticators are mak- ing mince meat of chickens, &c., and use their napains with an air.which clearly onstrates to ‘the looker on hat at the table these are not unknown to the ‘the court of Pekin, There is one littie di between our “outside barbarians” and the civilized ‘@f the world, ‘They pay 80 little attention to fasnion that they ao- Uelr principal meal with ‘soup instead of opening je meai with sou with it! Their physicians are fetther too honest or thete, potas know oo much of hy hake caught mi 108 © NM watery preparedions into their nomschs preiminaty to the introduction of soiias, When the gentlemen of the Orient had satisfled “the inner man” they very deli rose to their feet, bowed gravely to each other their heads— all but one With akull caps—nearly touched, aud then went their several ways. THE SERVANTS OF THR BMBASSY. At the Westminster the servants of the sixteen in number, are spoken of for their cleanliness, deportment, ness, In these respects, we were passed our aiding domestica. WHITE FAWN, @ number of the younger members of the ogether with the visited Niblo’s em! t Garden Yast night to look at scenery end dan 7 with both of which 1. Bu peautinal Wr embassy, in the highest terms ner sur- og I in the pnd in the “owery Vand. They eat cht fell, “nike Oliver Twist they wien ae ne the ‘exclusive Barents Enc uat Seenia ae Fately) and th eather wibard warrant i, of it all & On thelr Feturu trom Washiogtoy: amd 6 departure for Europe, the Navy Works at the Narrows, Governor's Isiand Where will be visited, as will otier places of Interest. These Chinese are not asleep, can assure the reader, Theis almond shaped eyes axe Wide open, and with pencil th hand they meay, for thé benettt ' or Cand eouitry, To ase tiem Wisely From 1433 to 1830, or Four Centuries of Diplematic Review. ‘The inception of the Burlingame Mission has been everywhere interpreted, and justly, as the opening act of a new era in the commercial history and diplo- matic annals of Eastern Asia and especially of the hitherto jealous and exclusive nationality of which he reappears in America as the representative. It has been four hundred.and thirty-six years since the ancient Kathal was closed to European trade by the overthrow of the Byzantian em- pire in¥433, By this event European communication with Eastern Asia was so completely obstructed as to put a temporary stop to the East Indian and East- ern Asiatic trade, which continued for sixty-three years. Portugal was just at this time inthe zenith of commercial importance, and has the honor of having been the first to double the Cape of Good Hope, thereby opening a new passage to the regions of the East. This was effected in 1496, at the same period in which the great Ifalian navigator, fixed in his belief of the spherical shape of the earth, was seeking to open the game regions to European trade by the project of circumnavigation; and in 1496 the Portuguese took Possession of the Malabar coast and also of the peninsula of Malacca. The project of opening trade with the Kathai of the ancient Romans was imme- diately set on foot, and in 1516 a Portuguese adven- turer named Raphael Perestrello, leaving Malacca in a junk, effected a landing in the dominions of the Son of Heaven after a brief voyage. Perestrello, having been successful in his reconnaissance, re- turned and reported to the colonial authorities at Malacca, and upon his representations an expedition was fitted and placed under the command of Fernao Peres de Andrade, ‘This expedition con- sisted of eight vessels and had on board an ambassa- dor nam ires, the first European ambassador who was ever admitted to the imperial city of Pekin. The expedition was permitted to proceed as far as St, John, being heid in close surveillance by the imperial authorities, but finally effected a landing, contrary to imperial ermission, at Ning-po, where an attempt was made ‘0 found a Portuguese colony and trading station, and several vessels were loaded and sent to Malacca. Ning-po was, however, speedily invested by the im- oes forces, nf which the colony was dislodged in 621 and compelled to return to the Malay peninsula. Pires, the ambassador, in the meautime not been very successful in effecting the object of his embassy. Having waited three years at Canton, that function- ary was at last permitted to yrecees to Pekin, when at this juncture of the negotiations the death of the reignin; emperor happened, and Kea-ting ascendeti the celestial throne. Kea-ting was at first minded to st fle Pires and suite by way of appeasi the manes of the deceased, but finally seen his mind and sent the embassy back under close —— to Canton, where the whole retinue, with Pires at its head, was strangled by way of avenging some depredations commitied by Portu- guese iarauders, The following year Meiho Con- tnho, ignorant of the fate of Pires, and sent to supersede him, landed at Ning Po, and, by strata- gein, being decoyed from the vicinity of his vessel, was sil ied, with about two-thirds of the crew of the vessel. Thus ended the first two embassies and their negotiations, the imperial authorities having as an excuse for the strangulation of these functionaries the alleged lawlessness of the Portuguese traders, who were mostly made up of villains of the worst class, marooned to Malacca as convicts, The Malay penin- sula, in fact, Was at this date a sort of Portuguese Botany Bay, and so continued for nearly or quite @ century, though Kea-ting was undoabtedly an enemy of foreigners, and was but too delighted with any excuse for airboaling shy Europeans who might be caught on Celestia: so! In 1420, a century previous to the destruction of these embassies, a more liberal policy had prevailed. This commenced with the reign of Yung-lo, who Was the first to send forth an embassy of similar intent to that which is at present quartered at the Westminster Hotel to the nations of the Western Ocean; and during the reign of his successor, Seuen- tih, several officers of the palace accompanied for- eign traveilers to distant courts for the purpose of negotiating treaties of commerce. One of these, a mandarin named Shing-ho, made an over- land trip with several hundred men to the Bay of Bengal and thence to Arabia Felix, concluding treaties of tribute (trade) with the several Eastern nations on bis route. This was the first em- bassy from the empire to the adjoining nations of which history furnishes any authenuc record, and was for a long time the last. Between the years 1621 and 1534 the Portuguese had ratuer informally succeeded by bribing the man- darins in opehing a considerabie trade at Teen-pax, @ sunall town west of Canton, though their operauons were scrutinized with exceeding vigilance by tue imperial autnorities and an intrigue was speedily set on foot to disiodge them. In ldst tue aim of this intrigue wes consummated, and the centre of trade was transferred to Mac.o, @ small peninsula eight miles im circuit und exceedingly rocky, joined to Heang-sian island by a narrow neck o1 land; and in 1087 the Portuguese were permitted to erect sheds here for the drying of goods wetted by the accidents of asea voyage. A second settlement or trading station was attempted at Ning-po in 1540, and the Portuguese were wgain expelled from the mainland, being only permitted to settie at Mucao on condition of tive hundred taels rental, payable to the Emperor. In 1612 they were rohibited, through the intriguing of the mandarins, om =the erection of buildings at Macao—a prohibition which the mandarins vurned to financial account by winking at the transgression of tue edict on payment of a liberal fee from the builder, in 1582 the authorities, who had hitherto been content with barter, made all duties payabie in siiver, and exacted a duty of six per cent on ali goods exported. Two years previous to this date Canton had only been Opened once a year to traders from Macuo, who were in the habit of sending a deputation thither once a year with an annual tribute of $12,000 for the privilege of trading. In 1630, by special permission, Canton was opened twice a year Lo tie deputation, and this continued to be the rule for several centuries. Macao was at this time a commercial town of con- siderable importance, and might so have remained, . but for the shortsighted and plundering policy of the Portuguese, wo had heid for neariy a quarter of @ century tue Key of the Eastern Asiatic wade. in 1614, Macao lost the trade of the Japanese by a series of impositions rather subversive of commerciai morais, and thence dates the decade of Macao as a trading station, Eight years after Holland, having been successful in along war with Portugal, Was beginning to as- suine considerabie imporwnce as a commercial power, and in 1622 i¢ an atiempt to get posses- sion of Macas, thus commanding the eastern Asiatic mart of tie work, This attempt to seize Macuo was made by Admiral Reyerszon, and was defeated only by the most sturdy and gallant resistance on the part ol the Portuguese. A second effort in 1627 met with no better success; and im 164i the contested penin- sula Was annexed to Spain and became a part of tae Spanish domintons, The fall of the Ming dynasty in 1660 gave tie last coup to the commercial import- ance ‘of Macao, which lingered on for some years (until 1667), when the Engusa and Holiand traders receded the Portuguese in the Canton market and Portugal was compelied to abandon ail pretehsious to exciusiveness in this direction. in 1680 an eveat occurred which marked an era m the history of tis trade—Kang-he declaring the ports of the empire open to ali 1oreigners, an edict which continued in force for nearly or qutie @ quarter of @cenury. In 1717 an opportunity was given to the Portuguese at Macao to recover something of their lost prestige in an offer made by Kang-he to make it the geueral emporium of all foreign wade, which offer was most foolishly rejected by the Portuguese. The oifer was repeated in 1732 and Was again rejected by the short- sighted Portuguese, and from this date Macao ceases to figure as a station of importance tn the trade of the Bastern seas. At this date its shipping numbered twenty-five vessels engaged in ti with Canton, while ten years afier it was hardly mentioned as a trade jon of particular note. ‘The attempts of Hoiland to gain preter og yt 7 = reno te bar force, if necessary. The expedition finally founded stations at Kee-long on the north coast, Jam-suy, at Zac-wam-foo and So-kang, Zam-suy a fort, was built . close! fed, aR EET Anca to open direction Was made in 1614, and was all successful in obtalaing an audience wit pany’ 2 vecest in Japan, rn 161. was oqually 9 agen’ a in w Upon this talinre the ‘Bngilel. abun- doned diplomacy proper and betook themseives to fores, sending Captain Weddell with four ships with fasiriciions to negotiate with force tf Necessary. Coptain Weddell iovad fis Way into the Canton river, | aud after some fighting amd rE severe considerable | and Bro the privilege of the Canton trade. rol Continued under this an mpt was made to ex- instance of the Portuguese at the sum of 24,000 taels ind fait eo “J rtuguese proving wu contract In 1742 the mission of Commodore Ason (English) was undertaken, resulting, however, in iitue van) tage to ene cee bd ane years after L~ esse! in inst six from Holland, four swedish and two » the total being twenty, - ever, the English trade had largely increased and = American stood second, the table making up as OWS — English vessels........ 61 Holland i é American vessels...... 15 Danish vessel". . i The first English embassy to Pekin was under- George Stanton, and arrived tu, Pekin in July 42a and arrived in in The embass: was received with distinguished = sideration, iz even permitted to enter the im- rial presence Without the ceremony of the kow- wy, Ao. ice Lard Manan Teil . ay submit on any terms. In mi rury tool of Macao but was ordered off with a Dombastio prociam proclamas tion by the Emperor, who suspended all trade with the English until the order and terms of the procla- mation should be complied with. This temporary estoppel was, however, soon relieved, and matters. on smoothly until 1813, when, upon the succes- sion of Kea-king to the throne, serious obstructions were in interposed. In 1816 the Lord Amherst Embassy was und but Lord Amherst, refusing to submit to the Kow-tow, was peremptorily ordered from Pekin. From the rather submissive behavior of Admiral Drury in evacuating Macao in obedience to Emporia Proclamation and the non-resenting of the Me offered to Lord Amherst, data became somewhat arrogant, and in 1821 restricted British trade to the Port of Canton and otherwise abridged he iris of English factors. In consequence of this the traders of Canton petitioned Parliament in 1880, from which time an agitation was kept up util a final applica- tion of force was the cousequence, by which argu- mentation the restrictions were in a measure re- moved. From this date the history of English diplo- macy in the East is too familiar to need particular discussion, Russian diplomatic intercourse with Pekin dates from 1692, at Which time an embassy, headed by Yshvants Ides, of which De was Secretary, arrived in Pekin to negotiate in favor of a caravan trade across the desert from Siberla, of which furs formed the staple. Negotiations terminating favor- ably the trade was opened and ‘itted to continue without interruption until 1737, when owing to some impositions on the of Russian traders the traffic was suspended and the privilege withdrawn prowe of the Emperor. Tne difficulty Was settled 1792 and the trade resumed. This negotiation extended only to trade by caravan, how- ever, and it Was not until 1805 that a Russian vessel entered the port of Canton, and came near being col ed by the Emperor for doing so. In 1822 Russia sent her first consul to Canton, In 1305 the first ambassador ever sent to that Power by the United States arrived in Pekin. The embassy was tendered a gorgeous reception. In 1797 not more than three American vessels had ever visited the port of Canton, though as early ag 1788 the Alli- ance, formerly a revolutionary man-of-war and then owned by a commercial house in Philadeiphia, was regularly engaged in the Canton trade. From this sunall America has steadily gained infu- euce at the Imperial court, uni at present an Ameri- can Minister heads the Imperial! Embassy to the treaty Powers ol the West on the grandest mission which has ever been seut forti from the capital at Pekin—a mission wiich is to open the Imperial domain to trade with all freedom and to introduce one-third of the population of the world iato intimate relations with the lon4-tabooed Euro- jun races, @ brief survey of the operations of which from the first opening of trade by the Portuguese has been presented. In their treatment of Europeans the Celestials have not, during the four ceaturies reviewed, proved re- markable for good ‘fai, but rather remark- able for evasion, crafty cunning and subtlety, as well as frequent positive deception. ‘This may be in part accounted for, nowever, by the fact tuat the eariier adventurers were asarule an un- scrupulous set of villains, whose impositions were simply audacious, not to say intolerable. This was stpecially the case with the early Portuguese traders, though it is true to a lesser extent of England and Holand. On the whole, however, {t must be admit- ted that the treatment of the Emyeror’s subjects by Euro; 8 has not been such as to ape Li very pro- found confidence in the sincerity of their inventions except as to profits, and it has been reserved {or an American diplomat to open the vast resources of this: empire, with its 300,000,000 of people, to the com- merce of the world. Here isan Out Dation—old as Egypt almost or quite—witu fixed habits, nxed modes of thought and a government of sew O- cratic organization suaking uands with the youngest nation on the globe almost, with its free theaxht, eiastic habits and thorouguly republican governineut. A strange spectacle, iudeed, When all its concomi- tants are considered, and a strange illustration of the imagnetic power of iree imstituuions in dissoly.ng the hardened grooves of the Uld World and imparting flexibility to its modes of thougit. An eraim tie hisiory of the empire—tre Burlingame mission—may become an era in the history of commerce, European and American, THE CHINESE AND AMERICAN INDEMNITY. [From the Hartford CTE (Governor Heawiey), Y ie It will be remembered that in March of la t year ‘the crew of an American bark was murdered by the savages of Formosa, and that a subsequent attempt to punish the guiity parties was conspicnously un- successful.. The Senate has recently been mformed by Mr. Seward that the Chinese government has taken the matter in hand, and has extorted a bond from the most responsible Formosians. This docu- ment ts so curious that we print it in full:— This agreement being a weateniee furnished by the head men of the Cauton dud bookien villages, Sin- ah-kew, Chang-sin, Ugu-cheoa-who, and tue head men of the four Chenny-ke villages of half-caste, Su- oai-sin. We give this bond before the great men and gentle- men. We stand security for the savage Kooiuts. They unfortunately killed tie crew of the over. Now, the great troops have come to punish them and they repent. Again the ruler of the eiguteen villages, ‘Tooke-took, and the American Consul, having met (o- ether, have come to a friendly uuderstanding. They ave both xl upon a fag to be a sign of peace. From this time any ship from any nation in danger of the elements that will show this flag wili be suc- cored by the savages. None of their crews slia!l be inurdered, but ail will be sent to our head men, and from there to Taiwantoo. We siand security be.ore the court for the eighteen Savage tribes to this end, tuat hereafter no foreigner shall ever be murdered. Should such crime be com- mitted we all will unite, with one heart and body with the soldiers to seize the gullty parties 2 Leas them, and of so dving none of us will e jare to refuse. If foreigners land without necessity and are mur- dered we shali not be responsibie. We give this bond before the court, 9th moon, oth year. er A Young Girl Falls Over a Precipice Nenrly Two Hundred Feet High. About half-past tive o'ciock on Sunday evening an accident of @ most frightful character occurred at Gazzam’s Hill, in Pittsburg, Pa., which resulted in the death of a young girl under singular, ainful circumstances. It seems that M f [cGinniss, aged about sixteen, who resided with ler arents in the locality mentioned, was sitting ay (ie rink of @ precipice overiooking number of iron milis, in company with two other girls, both of whour were several years younger than herself, The hil! at this point rises to an altitude of nearly two hundred feet, and for fully half the distance to the botcoin it is almost gular; then oe, a A if intervenes, passing over whic! le descen yi -~ rp fla to the railroad track below. Whi Miss = McGinniss was cial with her she was suddenly seized w ed A ona nate ‘and in her frst struggles fell over the preci- ww feet from the sumunit her clothing caught and fora moment the unfortu- ded. it Was only a minute, A companions Fe bao = rst ton screams for assistance ~{4 detached from the rock ite fearful, fatal descent, Full hundred feet did it fall, striking as it went rocks leaving here and there fragments of tresses of hair, until it reached, with a F the anelt of tabie mentioned, whence, with a Bound the now Hploas, mangied co! was precipl- the side of the railroad track at the botioun LUTE DIVORORS LEGALLY OBTAINED.—NoN- o's oartion sufficient cause. No: Advice f or publicity; m0 | SHS on obtained, Attorney, &c., 78 Nassau str 0) AL Pardets THE SHELBY 5 {See eee. 8, Lae ; TORT —8: s FN’ m, by I 89, Rai OLAS 4, Mi. a oy Tt uSuiahh 2, Mate ee FRANCK, BMITH & CO. Covington, Ky. Winas 01 S RENTUCKT 8, 38. 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