The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1869, Page 8

12 E————EeEe as ASIA. The Herald Corresyondent in Special Kuterview with the Maha. gajah of Bareda, Deecrption of the Court, Dewan and Personal itive Potentate, Appearance of the His Army, and Iftome Revenne WMesources. March Into n. Russian Advance and oe astern Turkist By the European mau, at this port, we have the Tonowing special correspondence from Brivieh Mata, Gated at Bombay on the 16th aad oth of Octobe detatling the particulars of an tateryiew which took place between the writer and the nous Maha of Baroda, at the court of the lat and embracing @ complete report of the style and splendor in wich the Asiatic potentate dwells and is attended. communication also supplies most important facts the most umpc erhaps, of rehative to t actual march of the Russian forces to Eastern Vur a al Tan and thelr entrance into the territory. Herald Corresponde of Baroda, the Mahe Hils Dewan, His Personal spitn tit Meets and tow i Way=Military, Afiairs. Wf the map of India be carer be noticed that vast as are t British empire in every section of hy no means yet succeeded in absorbing the domi- tons of all tue native rulers, Unacr oue pretext or another each administration has done its bi extirpate the independevt States, a territory being sometimes made by conquest, but more frequently by fraud and bribery, and gene- rally in violation of the most solemn and bindu Rational obligations. In spi of all th Ras been effected in this directio itary prov eas and shameless treachery broken oatiis, about one-third of the soil and one-tourth of tne inhabitants of India stil remain under tne sway of ative princes, These princes, it is true, have been compelled to declare themselves tributary to the English crow», aud have to submit in many mmpor- tant particulars to the dictation of the Buglish resi- @ents at their courts, but so far as the internal gov- ernment of their dominions is co: ned they are Dut seldom interfered with, They exercise, as ten ancestors did, in that old time when Anglo-Saxons ‘were vegetating 1n the German forest the absolute power of life and death over the: ts, and ure restrained onty by that unwritten law which mn India bas alway) n supreme—the “custom of the country.” Every now and then one hears of tt terrible vengeance taken by a jealous rajah upon some frail members of his harem and their midis creet admirers; or perhaps we receive acopy of an absurd prociamation, evitently penned by a brain innocent of the faintest taint of political ecox prohibiting the dealers in gratn or galt trom obtain- ing more than a certain stated price for thei chandise, In short, a diiig sindent of adairs for even tie space of a few mouths w to realize that those old des of} and manners v hare #0 ¢ the mass of hasty waveliers removed from the -truth, and, inde verifled by tho beaten tracks of commun selves what the Nast, und pos the coun ry it has juisitions of subj omy re not #0 ve: @ who choose to stray ou and astorn rulers, 13 like, er FE Alter this brief mntro: jon 1 shail at once pro ceed to narrate the particulars of a visit mind your correspondent a few days ago to his io. Highness the Maharajah, or, ag he is generally, styled, the Gaekwar, of Baroda. ‘ ‘The Gaekwar is, by he: ary right, the raler of one of the richest provinces of Int juzerat. His Kingdom is not a very ancient one, haying bea founded by oue of tho chiefs of the Malirattas (wo or three generations ater the death of Sevajee, and it $s not of very great extent, being less than half tne size of tho state of New York; but ils great fertility and the thickness of its popniation raise it to the dig- nity of the third independent State in India, From One end to the other the soil is wondertully pro- ductive, and all varieties of grain, cotton, jute, tue poppy and every other Indian crop are raised with- out difficulty, and yield abundant harvests. No country in the worid is bett atered, and failure: of the crops are almost unknown, though ccca- sionally a fignt of locusts may devastate a few districts and create a local famme, The population under the Gaekwar’s sceptre can only be epproximately estimated; it probably reaches Detween 2,000,000 and 5,000,00% The city of Baroda alone has 800,000 inhabitants, The annual rev of the country 3s something over three crores of rupees ($1,500,000). ‘That is the amount which yearly comes into the Gaekwar'’s hands; probatly as | Much more is collected from the people and “lost | in transit” to the royal treasury Unamiable and repulsty ter may appear from wha ter, it must be placed to his « 4 the Ga will be stated ia at that b cheerfully welcomed te pas of the ¥ through hts dominions. Not only did he o the construction of the road, but he also gave Wed for tue track and s company the land ne Thanks, therefore, to this, the one angle eign of enlightenment that has brightened his reigu, the Journey between Bombay and Baroda can be accom- plished with comparative comfort tn a liite inore than twelve hours, At the eud of your ride you find yourself m the territory of the railway cotpany, abont half a mile outkide the capital eily of ti Gaekwar's dominions, You stay for We nigit wt Uh Tefveshwent rooms of the station; for, as da bungalow, or traveller's rest, is absolutely of ait lurnilure except the framework of a bed wud a chair aad a uniess you to ina well go iher aod un HERALD € “he enjoym teen NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, ‘up stairs, and J was ushered into # dark, cool chan- ber, scanuly furnished, in which the “lord of the house” was jolding a sortof levée. He rose as we entered, salaamed m response to my bow and salu. tation, and then resimed his seat upon a litte mat on one side of the room. He sat cross-legged, alter the fashion of his people, and was naked, with the exception of a@ colon ctoth reund tis loins. His light complexion (for he was scarcely as dark #8 a Spaniard), the regularity of bis features and the exueme smialluess and delicacy of iis bands and “feet, bespoke both vis high caste and nobie descent, Ina sem) e round bin, a Little space betng lett tor our ehairs, Were seated the Various members of his fainily, Who were keepmg with him the sectur sua renacred obligatory by the death of a relative. inere could not have been far short Of 100 persons piesent, and these were only the more wlustrious yepreseniatives of the family, All of these aud some 200 additional relations Mve in the nouse of their rich connectio ‘rhis 1s, indeed, the general the head of thi system among high-easte Hindoos; fanuy er soure tick Menive of it, is expected to che Maritain ail the ess fortunate branches or ent stock, As the necessaries and luxu- riex of Jie among Us simple merely rice are and curry, ait and a few sweetmeais, the charge thus inctirred is NOt So great as migat be imagined, apd, of course, the people thus provided for render various hous AS Iny acai 44 very i ol rold and Ousiness service: iotabee with the Hind while my host knew searecly a word hon had to go on through the graduated ima Buinbay college wery Variety of the An: xon as “Hindoo Engiish’? with great tre Hngiish, by the way, is souietir dimdoo compialied to me nee tongue ied, conve rhs! ohAry, Oke tat’ yt ue Known (indo using. ny of The “ext and in a book by @ native I read that im a no ratuing of ve- icles disuurbs the continuity 1 thing (hat is decisediy high toned, Joud English.) ‘Thanks to the interpreter, | man- tw convey to amy entertainer various rinnited acts) of my past Ive and y bie future, But the conversation soc enerated, kam 8 1 y host aud bis irieuds of opinions concerning my persoual appearance. ‘To close the visi, thesefore, L opened the serious business of ‘uow Uo sce the Gaekivar.’? My entertainer could not himself present me, but advised that 1 suou.d at », or Prime Minister, As the pendent prince he agreed With me to go direct bo the Ue bngiish poutical customary Headoo hospi Furae of ail, I was ‘ohiet Was then and lasty came the ixings,? inchiding & fresh id, iyto an inter sincared i Lime, some cardamom geeda, eocoanud padines and yarous other condiments, w co { nature 1 am able LO indicale. i nat comput th great relisn; it re and od my Wwetb, bus 1 he iuipoute enough to’spit 1 F tongue , of COUPEE, king leave of my hospitable host 1 was con- ducted over his house, but saw nothing that need be eribed ut. “A JOW caste Inan Was Wailing iowu with some fruit und sweetmeate, le ihe rest was taken down ¢ natives cannot cat wilh us, aud have, Oh Alopted this anuavle plan oF 2c away & Christian gaest wiih several potas of candiés. 1.18 very rude to refuse to a tue to the sii Jewai’s palace is a large brick bnilding, faced AUK, Ad Tus round two Sides O. a quad- The Wud side will probably at some time be built; the fourch 1s open to the str Xcepuon Of a gateway and low wall. palace is prolusely decorated wich wood carvia; aud wall patotings, Passing through the courivarc up a card to his Excellency, which was speed- aswered by the a youth who 4poke very good Engl! nd sald he acted as the vau's secretary, He Was some twenty years of wilh a big prominent nose, a large, low wader- xt A deekied squint, rendered more noticeable lups by the Luge stiver-rimmed spectacles vinat ned bis eyes. polor he was rather light, areas Was a p) tse cotton toza, a huge red turban of cotton cloti, and pearl earrings, sns- pendea from the upper part of the ear. Aficr a great deai of exphuiation hud beea given ag to the objcet of the visit, 1 was conducted through au ante: .in which the servaatés of the yeutieuen ending the Dewan's levee were waiting, then wiih the ) a narrow sinivease (sO narrow that we could only go up them single file), and lastly 100K iny place in the outer hall of audience. io of the room were tie suitors to its consisting of contractors, farmers ot merehants Who had come to complain ments, abd ail the various hangers on n vriewtal Court, They had on tie floor, and were eat man” with Fastern pa- any of thei, Bo doubt, had come there uter day fer weeks. I was ratuer lucky, for tuemse ine plea the Dewan no sooner caught sigit of my Canc face t acd ie Mato iis Inner cha » furnished and th i bave ever seen. jock, With a lon over UL Ws eyes Bb every movement On te ‘side tables were some OMe TAUSIC HOXeS, ONE Of Ure later ortinent Of Orns centre table there was a i opened and 8 @ peaduinm. clocks aud surmounted by a ltieluke wooden fig- ure of an American darky, who, as the tune progressed, binbly éred the atrings of ia pat banjo. Seatieved about in ail direcidious were Various Europea toys—w. figures of Jap dog and Savoyards, a uu emiue aad a tin bor wat similar Uhics. with bad pholograpbs of tue Mahar the Dewan and their respective fatuers, together HQ A number Of cheap Freuen colored prints ( at the Mabilie, crayon drawing copie tue Vrine Minister vo ils Royal Lighuess the Gi war 01 Baroda, BHUl What is the Dewan himself like? Weil, he is a tout, middie-aged Hindoo, wiih a good tempered expression upon bis iace.’ His mouth is wide and al-empticd of its teeth, while such ‘ew stumps as remain are stained biack witi betel; his eyes are Gull; his skin is pitted with smallpox; lis eyebrows nave growo together and form &@ coutindous arch; his lair ia (hick and very black. He was ciresae t in alace shirt and white cotton pajamas (or drawers); @ gold necklace Was tiroWn rouud lis neck and his second toe was encircled with # sliver ring. I had scarcely completed these observations, when the Dewan asked we urough the English-speaking secretary, “What was the rank of my fa.ler in reply, I stated, of course, taat he had no rank at all, and that in New York where { lived we bad neitner ras nor dewans nor zemmdars, and that we only distinctious in society sprang from diterences in wealth aad éducation. I was at once over- whelmed by ® sea of qnestions conceruing the peopié and the institutions of the United states, and for fully half an hour I kept we secretary busy in explaining the general politi- cal framework of the great repabiic, When I told hia Uiat in @ receat War @ “score” and more of 18 a milion) bad mustered round d Stripes, Uke Dewan's oun eyebrows collevion of This is the oMlcial home of K permission to share bien \ ia"? With the Ivc sat Lie dos 4 and grasshoppers wid fleas wad bugs chat have found itu condental Ro. We Were, bt very iy nighe and the succeeding one & “haypy The , by the way, wii ey ave w leir species to be found ia ai rate hotel, ar bh india turnished v Vision of hature whicu greatly ads O! useiuineos, L went to Baroda with a coupie of letter duction (o local native genticuen, given me loading Hinabo of 8 the morning aiter my arriv duly che zine’, or | rou 1 salitod fortl nt them, 7 horse gharec, four-whee.cd Baroda, and this { was unable to pr to conver wary he tw nee, hoy yutiook fi the men class in tie place eruaxcurd, as wily under ti drug wien 4, ie y his ave eyes vt on go need Of 4 4 wud bad cattle wud: That we weu' juide, jaide” ( ine constant bu Hindoo, with | Hanna s Worth of epiun ber his belt, care fi A the wrath of a white man After loug lumbering through narrow, crowded etrests [ arrived at the house of the geuteman i Was seeking, It was ahigi, three story building, with balconies of woodwork, carved vith igns of Howers aud iriit, aud arayous and grote ngures of gods and princes, Tne wali was couied with White plaster and adorned With piciures of tiger elephaaws, Wrestiers and richly uniformed seatin A sepoy [00K up my letéer, aud returned in @ Hite while with the setretary of the goutieman to whom it ‘wos aidréssed. The secretary stated that although bis muster Wes mourning for the death of a near relation, Sowa by: hot therefore come out of his house, he by pleawed t Ae me, We ab one proceoued , but Wha does & ath nsibiy ascended to the middie of his forehead, and ne lv0k ime With evident ine! wut T heen not deta Ou | prised among other things descriptions of green- backs, Commodore Vanderbilt, the great interna- tonal boat rac » Capitol at’ Washington and the of Laverty that surmounts it. J may 8a howeve: ‘hat many things he heard sesined to produce a marked impression upon lis jamd. Last of all, when he axked me how [ got money to live on, and when {told him that a rich man gave tue rupees to wavel from New York to Baroda to write a letter to him about the Gaek- War, the said jetter belug subsequeutly printed in a Wspaper, Lé was lost im astonishment. He grautea my request to be presented tobe Guekwar Wiil (he greatest cheerfulness, made an appoint- iment for te Jollowing day, and sent a sepoy to Show me over the city. Peroca, ax belie a city under the sway of an In- dian rier, exiioiis in a Marked degree the essential Characterisucs of an Indian city—dirt, density of population, beggars, J4@ Of Lie Bree ¥ hav nuevea tat no ene bad roads avd bad odors. sidewalks, and they are 1g “iat a bullock dray can stand rol driving over them. The houses are mostly ia Very dilapiaated coudition, but are frequently ¢ towilh rictiy carved woodwork, ue areatiy 10 height, aud this, probabiy, com: med 1 the White dresses and red turbans a black softhe men, aud the y colored gar- senis of Lhe Women, 18 the ¢ t the slaguiarly picluresque effect they creat the eye. Mere | and there the streets are blocked with o pate, m ti re 401 which the sepoys of the Gaekwar, clad in ragged uilforma of te Karopean pattern. keep goarl. in the centre of tue city one of these gates 14 gurinounted with & huge Englisi clock, juported by the Gackwar and piesented to the inhabitanWs of ti ‘signta” of Baroda are very few. e the war's tigers, @ dozen in wye ones and four cubs. These 1, at the corner of two sire all rowud the place, bud passers-by over it. ‘The ligers aro secured by tern collars Lo stakes 1 Wy sepoy Wook we msiw the Keeper “ste tiem Up. ent, gol up aud laid down in the 2 @x/ubICiON 1s ag his colar being at of excite | ies. The next th ast by the Guek we but lis peo- yvered And, La vere taken @ Motes itarh, bs bower fp iat brough some wud evincing War's palace, Which 13 Kitudied about 4ix ines {te Baroda. As’ wo went sions We constantly men ae passed people evidently golag to or coming trom the court; HOW @ messenger In uilorm, galloplug at Doat-hasie” speed; then a rich vemindar, jour- neyibg from the country to pay his respects to hia jiege lord; and, agai, the Gaekwar's hakcem & Mustulman, beongnig t0 @ family Wich haa for Feneravions watched over fhe hewiti of the Mavara- Jans of Baroda, and been patd tor tuerr wervices ac the rate of Uurty thousand rupees a year. Vhcir Present sovereign only consults European phyat- clans, but, a tie oMee 19 hereditary, he has to pay the bakoom te accustomed stipend, Jt would ve —. mean and ungenerons, 60 the Dewan’s s¢rretary In- forins me, If the iakeem were cut Off t@ list, Last of ull, the Dewan himself dashes by ws, He ts drawn in an open barouche, with 6x hordes and is accou- pamed by amounted guard Of sosue thirty or forty men, While a dozen footrunnersé precede the enure cortege aud clear the way, e Atlast we reach the palacg, which standa in the centre ot # large, oblong quadrangle, bounded on turee sides by loug Maos of low chanam bulidiags. Ouisi te the gate through which we enter there 1s 4 crowd of some S00 Or 400 ragged, dirty, disrepu able jooking natives. ‘These men are loafing abou. 1 the hope of being enlisted i the Gackwar’s army or entering his houveliold im any capacity open Ww Wew, ‘Their looks, as 1 was told atlerwards, ure a truthful ingex of thelr real character, A native State, surrounded on all sides by iiriush territory Baroda i6 the natural haven of refuge for all escaped maieiactors of the neighboring province Byery now and then the Bnglisn Resident claims & number ¢ nianage “not to capture them.?? ‘Lhis polic ever, 8 a very dangerous one to follow. queitly served the British government ag a precext for seizing, on the ground of necessity, the doil- niovs of an independent prince. Right over the gate through which we pass, the eiary informs ime, are the apartments of ie ars lavorite wife, Ie has four wives, but no ciuldven, aud, for well understood reasons, 1b 18 ¢3 tremely luprobable he will ever have any. "God rarely vives rajahs chidven,” saya my conductor, tho when task him what he thinks the reason 1s igolish, His owa master, the Dewan, —only ® couple of daughiers, Tae h Orientals break dowa ther con- 8808. The palace itself 18 @ rather bavdsome looks building, of & curious but not angracefal patte itis built as children buiid card hoases—with © story very mueh smalicr than tae last. First there 18 @ liassiVe platform, upon which 18 raised, space being lelt for averanda on each side, the first story; upon the roof of tiie the second is ulit, space Deis left for a veranda on every side; the ist story Is plied on the second on Une same principle, wilile, crowning the Who.e building, mere 18 w iligit of marble steps leading loa sort of turone, ‘Tue ma terial chiedy employed in building is brick, covered With chuuam, which 1s of Wie best possible quality, and 1 ag While and polished and beaut tul as mare ble. The verandas wre of dark-colored teak wood, and run round each story. The palace is only a couple of years old, aud ix built accordmg to the Gack war's own ideas Of arelitectural propriety. AS We Walk across the courtyard our ears are greeted by the nasal, monotonous chantiag of some posain-malras, ov royal priests, Who are saying pray- ers for the welfare, spiritual aud temporal, oi tie master who feeds and shciters them, Seattered In groups of twos and threes about the yard are muta bevs of gloveniy-loosing servants, ciedning chattics (brazen cooking vessels), aud performmng various biter duties, Which, in Well ordered houses, are usil- ally coutioed to tie least public places avatlabie. Pacing up and own before (ue steps leading into We palace isa sokher, with @ faded biue uni- form, @ rusty velvet skull cap, covered with t nisied gold embroulery, and a huge pair of voots. His cross and Waist belis ave innocent of pipe-cis alid as you get near to him you notice that the mus: ket he is carrying dates back to the beginning of ihe utury, and that its bayonet 18 very rusty, A iltve to ihe right of the steps is @ iltde sentry-box of ua- painted wood. searecly had we got to the top of the steps when the Gaekwar limself came along, attended by a crowd of couruers, In strange contrast to the ia- ropean custom, all tie courliers Were covered, and their master aione enjoyed the luxury of oeing bal headed, My conductor whispered afew words to oue of fhe couruers, and the Gaekwar having stop- ped on secing a stranger, | was 1n due course inwo- duced to him, After a few sentences of welcome Le passed on, having directed a gentioman to show 1¢ over the palage and tien bring me vole durbar. The Geeswar must have been taformed by tne Dewan exactly the character of his visitor, for the courtier assigned to take cure 0: me was editor of @ a Mahratiee newspaper, by name Badsoo Kowlova, lis pay the Gujera¢ Mittra, is in the pay of ino Gaekwar, He speaks perfect Engiitsh, and seemed extremely well intormed ou ati Indian questions. Europe was, of course, asealed bovik vo lim, and America a naing, and nothing more. The palace, large as ibis, 18 ult solely for the use and occupation of the Gackwar, Even .tls wives bave their apartiuents in the other buildings; the Cauekwar and tae Guekwar’s dog are te oniy per- sous privileged to dwell in tie palace itself, ‘ihe firstand second stories are not sub-divided into rooms; the whole of the first is appropriaied as a hail of audience ana the whole of tue second as a ballroom, 1 third story contains @ dintag Toon and the Gaek war's sleeping chamber, The furniture tirougoout is Huropean. The most striking feature an the appointments ia the profusion of colored giass chaudeiters, In tae baiiroow there are a couple of heus, one of which is occupied by the Gack od the otwer by the Gaekwar’s doz during Uieir after noon siesta, The dog, by the way, is an ugly look. ing little White mongrel, a cross between a vicious DUlidog and Some WHkLOWR cane varieties. Having completed the tour of the palace and taken @ general view of thtags from tac murole thyoue at ihe top of the building iy conductor brougit me back to the durbar, as the daily levee of the Gackwar Is terured. ‘the Mauarajah tiaselt sat on a coach, a litte boy, (he son of one of Ler, Bitung at his feet and cons@atly paling wis tuighs, etruking the cuives of hts legs dad sirsgute e.lig out ils toes, A boy to perforin these duilus is # nec aticudané upon an Indian priace, but how the custom sprang Up or weat pleasury tere crimiuals; but the Gackwar’s oilicials hows As thrat a bout no Oae seems e. seated an a € of the i they ail rose and salaamieu, r bimscit rose and shook hands. jun ensued, Which partook greatly o1 the of the interview with the Dewau Uio day The Guek war, However, asked, among Obie tags, if Tataw’t think his country We tha wold, Zo Wien J, of course, replied In the afirma- uve. The personal appearance of the Gackwar is a ratuer delicave topic Lo discuss; but, hospiiaoie ana je as he isto Buropeans, the fearful passions hie allows Lo Miiueuce his conduct towards his = have Blaimped Unenuselves deeply in his fea dic 18 a light-colored, Buiddie-aged man, ex- tremely Biout aud somewuat below the mediam heigat, Whether from tis excessive obesity or, as is reputed, from (he infiruiies produced by iis ex. cesses, LE Walks Wita diieuily, its Kuees secmlag BUT aud Jucapable, and forcing Lim lo adopt a sort of rolling gail, more amusing then graceful. He is said, however, to dunce with litte ditiiculty—at sny rate, ho has dancing lessons every evening. tis neck is very short and his skin hue au unhealtay biue Unge, such a8 one frequently noiices in persous Worn dowa by seusual indulgcice to the list stage of exhaustion, His head is saved, with the excep- ton of around patch of sore hair at the back of tue skull, Lis eyes are bright, bui meanlugiess. His lower lip hangs dowu, bis teeth are all gone and be ouly Wears Iaise oues wheo he receives distin- gushed guesis, and beiow the eyes and round the mouth are innumerable crowsfeet, The general expression of hus face, even wien ne ries LO ligt At up With @ Luan expression, is very dls Ve; aH ALLEL af @ Binile becomes w leer; and thouga maby charitable persons say that the prodo- Mant erement of Ms JeaLures 18 idiocy, It xeeMAa LO resemble more the msauiy of aller aepraviy than hariniess huabeciity. = ‘the Gaek war spends his time almost wholly tn his pace. Le rises at iour in the morning, and begins his day by seeing his Wrestiers. Sometimes iio mime soif Lies a Lal or boxes With them, bat it 1s neeaiess 10 say WHat in these coutests he is invariably the Vic- tor, ft is reported also that be is ratier fond of seriously hurung his wppovents, Alor Wiese exer- cies i@ hus 118 bath Aud dresses for the morulng. Jie has tus breakiast ae ten, aiter which le holds darbar watl twelve. He thea goes to sivep, aud awakes al four to receive the Dewan and iansact necessary business. At seven some European huiies eto the paiace and give li lasts Uuul nlue, He then had lus dine; al cieven reures for the night. On We rare 0 Wiich he drives out he leaves the palace about Uve o'ciock. Such is te daily le of the Gacxwar, jiaving thus described, perb: munuitely, the Court of the Maharaaii, 118 proper to say somes thing 4s to (he general Character o1 Kis government, Native rule, and more especially the rule of this price, 13 heid up by the brivis Authorities aad toe journals that speak for them as the great excuse lor ie Conirol of india by & Kuropean Power. itis comlessed, OVER by Ibs Lriends aud officials, Hat Lue Brita iv iian government is frequenty oppressive; but, say they, 104s a great improvement upon the goverumeut Wat preceued it. No doubt this is to a great eXieuttrue. Nave rolers would never lave juurodiiced the locomotive Or the telegraph; bul, on the other hand, 16 1s provable (hat Lhe diuerenee be- tween tie two 1s mol BY greal as 1s geuLraily sup- poved and claimed fue Gacawar Is @ perfect representative of the Worst type of t b prince, ide bas eluin men ain (rom mere caprice. A few years vor wretch dragged by anu ciepiaat el of Baroda ior some itt ub in ayo his supermendentof Pouce and palied ‘Tae couruers wer floor, but as | eute While tie Gacaw Wis LOUKG KULy OF hornbie crimes puuisiavie Li every laud Wilu de fue Gacawar, iusicad of aiowing tie sentence to be carried out, Commuted Hi toa line of five tacs of rupees and Chen reiistacod the erimal in ns y Arbiirary thes jor ima Kinwry ufeices are auy being levied on vie Ficher Class Of fis sudjccis. Individual instances ( crieiiy and oppression might be cited beyond Shere can be no doabt that the goheral i the Waroda goverument 15 iufainoussy bad. The Gackwarts worst crime, however, 18 nndoubt- edly his conduct towards bis brother—the wale netr to the thrones, ‘The Gaekwar is the econd of three re one of whom died soon after the father, ‘ihe WaLUEr’s Will IK ihe younger son a jarge sum of money, the Savings of years, and amounting to nearly fve scores ipe he Gackwar, pon his ©, $000 dissipated We contents Of his treasury ) id then seized upou the sor + younger vrowier, ‘She latter repeatedly demanued | uoney, and on belag relused aed dist ual i igo towards hig sovereign broiher, aud even weub 0 far, I fe said, a8 draw @ sword upon him. For these ovences he has thrown into @ prison, and the tate of t G war towarda bin los grown to such a leyht 44 to taduce Ue friends of his brother to believe that the Jailer will goon come to a sudden end by poison, Whether Uns suspicion be well founded or vot, however, it ia pretty certain that the imprisoned heir apparent has already aut fered greatly in health froi be luca ation, and will Kpeedily die a natucui deat, 248 Ne iM Te Je Kepresentations to this efect lave beea rade to the Kugii#h Readent, and the latter brougut up an English physician to report upoa the actual flace of the Gaek war's Lrother’s health, This report sioted that the alarm Wos unfounded; ont for rea ron that will be hinted at it is entitied to but ittie Weight Quite jately the Gackwar bas openly au NOVEMBER 18, 1869 nounced his intention of adop' child of @ smail'zemindar, who has succeeded in securing Ms favor, ‘This is illegal according to Tandoo law white a male heir remains, and the English government have refused on this ground to recognice hia a3 the apparent successor to the turoue. ‘To tue adoption of Ubis hoy the jife of the Gaekwar’s brother 1s the sole ovsiacie. How long 1s it likely @ man of such violent passions a3 the Gaek war will permit it to stand in his way ¥ Aithough an Independent prince, the Gaekwar, like all the other bative rulers, is tributary to the British authortues, and has to account to them for his more important acts. He does not recognize the legal obligatlun to do so. but is too prudent to come lo un Open rapture, He 19 coustanuly, bow: ever, carrying on Fo ager squabbles with them, bul when Chings begin to took very periious he backs down, seoures the Engiish Resident to vis side and smooths thines over, But how, it may be asked, does he gain the Englsh Resident over to his side? Weil, although this geutleman wears his Majesty's coat wid 18 supposed lo be an “ollicer and a gentie- man,” it ig more Luan whispered, it Is openty alleged that he ism the receipt of constant bribes frou the Gaekwar, He wasa poor man when he was ap pouited to Baroda a few years ago, and he has had wo live up to his salary ever rince; bat people who profess to be in the confidence of the bank mana- gers say he has, during tals period, remitted to Eng- jand go less than eigiity to one hundred thousand pounds. Jt 18 notorious, Iudeed, Luat his pocket bas been iiled from the AMaharajan’s treasury a8 tho pr f bis wequiesence in various illegal acts of the Baroda governinent, Bat this geutieman, whose nanie ls Colonel Barr, possesses great rufnence with the home and Tudian governments, aad lis peccu dilloes are readtiy overlooked, Hu bad as is the Gackwar’s government, It may be greatly doubied if ihe people he governs would not be niore unbappy under tie British tag. If the tests of peony Se applied to the case tis rule Will be touud to be, om the Whoie, beneiicent. The population 18 risiug, commerce ld Increasing; the local wealth of the country 1s yearly growing larger; tae revenue annually swells in volume, These are the standards by witich the British Indian govern- micnt 14 judged, and why should they not be applied, also, 10 the rile of tie Gaekwar? In individual cuses beyond ail doubt the Baroda government 1s jusinilely the more oppressive; but then, on tue other hand, tt must be taken into agcoant thay tt is in the hands of nen who are not smare enough to reduce public robbery to a science, 28 the Uuglsh ollicials fave succeeded in doug, And, above ail, if musi be remembered Liat the Gaekwar 1s Subject to one great check which ts not allowed to weigh anything th ine scale by his rival ruers—ike “inumemorial usage of the country.” i have forgotten to say that the Gaekwar has a small army of ive yegiments, of 800 mea hy and (hat one of them ts Wutlorined in the Highland dress, ‘The band tor the latter consicts of a corps of bog- pipes. The onicers i Mus army are wosuy Bura- sutus or hall-casies, og his son the Reported Farther Adyance of the Russinns-= They Defent the Kushbegi and Cuter Enste ern Turkistan—Prebable Disturbances in Afghanistan—The Expected Visit of the Duke of Edinvarg—The Wahabee Couspie racy~Arrest of from One to Two Hundred Ringleaders=They Are to be ‘Tried by a Secret Court. BomBay, Oct. 16, 1869, Tho Central Asia question may perhaps become a little clearer and more iateresting if the news that bas just been fashed to us from the north proves be true The Russians, it 1s reported, have he severe engagemout wiih the troups of the Kushbegl, and have advanced (heir frontier into Hastern Turk- istan, or, #9 it used formerly to be called, Chinese Tartary. Only afew months ago the British Indian government made friendiy overtures to ths ruler, who lg now thesole rematning barrier on the north- wert between India and Russia, and the Kushbegt responded by sending dowe a couple of Yarkand merchants, clothed with certain diplomatic powers, These envoys are at the present tiie at Simia, ona visit to the Guvernor Geaeral, and are, perhaps, open- ing negotiations fora treaty of ailiance, similar to that whieh has been conciuded by the Ameer Shere Ali, Thelr master may, possibly, sell lis friendsnip as cheerfully as did the Ameer for a subsidy of a dozen lacs of rupees. But whatever the envoys may be doing it i cleay that they had better make aii convenient speed about it, for the Russians are literally inside thelr gaies., It is not, of course, probavie that the Czar will gobble up the Kushbegi’s territories at a single meal; probably he wiil be sat- Jafled for the present with the possession of the city of Kashgar, which from the news seems (o be now at his mercy, But the ultimate absorption of the whole of Central Asia down to the Himalayas is ceriain, Evyon the genvemen who do not belleve that Rus- ea has any designs, Nnmediate or remote, upon India admit tat the acqnisition by the Czar of the various States Uiat lie between the present froutier and the Hunaiayas 1s tuevitable, Just as tre Britisn government was compelled to extend ite sway over tho whole of India, to insure the peace Of {t8 earlier possessions, 80, say thoy, must Aussia advance in Central Asia until he reaches the borders of a civilized State, Uniess she doea so her barbarous neighbors will be constantly harassing her frontier, There is a great deal of sound sense in thie view, but, on the other haud, why has Russia made such an enormous expenditure to extend her flag over Centrai Asia? Until she entered those bar- ren wastes, which are absolutely worthiess in them. selves, she could protect her citizens with ease against the attacks of the Tartars 4nd Turkumans, lf she Las proposed to berself no other object than the subjugation of these sterile wilderacases sue fad eortainiy paid very dearly for ner Wilstie. But do not the facts of tee case, as well as the contessions of some of her more impradent statesmen, show ciearly that sie has had another object, and that ovject the conquest of India? Neither this decade nor the néxt may give her ‘ie opportunity of consummating her Ullerior purpose, but Russian statesinen are prover- bially patient, and every sep that sue advances towards the south must be watched with interest by all who care to keep tracs of the “larger politics” of the world. ‘There is something almost heroic in her pailent progress forwaru, tu the face of the greatest obstacles and at a terrible cost of biood and treasure, towards an object Ko remoie, The British-Indian statesmen have another source of auxiety in the continued disturbances in Afghan- istan, ‘ihe Ameer they have subsidized and pledged themscives to support 1s tottering on his throne, ‘The news has just come to hand of the death in Persia of the late Amecr, Mosammed Azim Khan, Whos¢ seat ho bas usurped, ‘This, however, adds nothing to the strength of the reigning ruler; for the nephew of Azim Kian, Abdove Raman Kuan, is again reported to be about to take the fleid. And then Sirdar isnak Khan, who was recently defeated i driven Into Turkisian, is gathering a force on owner wide of tne Oxus, ‘There are mdications of ively (ime coraing.”? The grand Gurbar ia honor of the Due of Edin- burg, as | wrote you some months ago, will not be held, owing to the famine which prevails with more or loss severity all over Northern Lindostan, Prince Alfred wiil, however, review speciuen regiments of the native and Wuropean troops at Lahore about the end of February. There wut only be about 6,000 men mustered, and the affair does not bid iai to be of any particular mterest. Liitie by litve tt has leaked ont that tho Wahabee conspiracy, discovered some three or four months Ayo, Wis Ol the most serious magnitude, with raml- fieations ail over 13h India, Burman and the Straits setlements, Ever stuce the plot was brought to Light the detectives have been actively empioyed in macing arrests of the ringicaders, ‘This week an emissary Of the organizadon was arrested as ho landed from the steamer that bad just come from Barmah. Aqovier principal conspirator, for whom a reward of s,0v) rupees had been offered, waa cap- tured at Kamp and several others haye been taken at Lavore. The Wahave@ prisoners in the Various jails aow number, it is sald, between one and two huudved, and they must be disposed of shortly. The trials are to be secret, but as the guilt of the beyond ali doubt, tae ultimate invention governinent with regard to them 19 pretty Weil known, ‘they will be sent to the Andaoians, kome i#iande ia (ha Bay of Leagal used ag a penal settiemout, for lite, It will be noticed chat the Wa- habees are rather worre olf tan the Penians were in Trelaud, even wien that country was under martial law, The Fenians at least e vil a pudlic trial, but the \Wwauuboes will be sentenced by aseoret trie bunal. | in India th as veon HO suspension of tie habeas corpus act, and Anglo-Saxon law is sup- posed to govern Executive; but, in fact, 80 iar ag the patives a1 red, there is no law whut. ever eXivuiug, Except tae will ot the authorities: cases Wilore CXCOpLONA Action Seems LeCEssal governinent taciiy assert te pricipte tuas doos lave no righis that a whiteman {fs bow pospevi,!? is CALIFORNIA. ‘nctsco Alta) yay Says We May be ae pPlantad iteeif here and m of the ¢ y he OX. irofa Jopan. sieamer irteen men, Women aud children. brings Ws Oe Of LO Most expert wilaviats of Japan, sent over by Hugene v to etuay what plants can be seul bere with profit shinting up rice to make Immediate exp nis cultivation, He briugs 4,616 chest nut trees anda bushel of seeds of the same Wee, This invoico 18 for sale and distrioution, We are not at liberty to say much Jn advance, but this 1s pure, that a great many Japanese people, tod by lecters trom the Atazi coiony now here and by otner means, have resolved to leave their country aud make their permacent home tn Califorma, ‘They are tatent upon introducing new agriculiural jjaustries and upon becoinimng citizens of the country. Arrangements are periected to keep then out of the hands of the land speculators, 60 that class of people may just a4 well save themscives J We trouble of running iter them. The Japanese are as inteiligout as we & they ace brave, jucus- trious and economical. They bave a sort of co-cpe- enced agr Van fe rative principle Which maintains the dignity of la. bor and takes away much of its eubservience. They Wil Win auiversal reapect by a sort of heatheniah Babit they ave vi mindog they Own business, ee —TRIPLE SHEET. . AFRICA, Sir Roderick Murchison Letters. To THE Hp:ToR OF THR LoNDON TimEs:— Although a full communication will be made to the Royal Geographical Society on Monday next concerning the last letter of Livingstone, dated the ‘7th of July, 1868, I may at once satisfy public anxiety respecting tho great traveller by stating that, as far as it went, the recent telegram from Bombay was correct, In a letter to myself from Zanzibar, dated the 10th of September, Dr, Kirk has given me sufficient ex- tracts from Livingstone’s letter to him to enable mo to give @ very brief outline of the researches of my lituxirious friend, Dr, Kirk has also forwarded despatches from Livingstone to the Secretaries of State for Foreign Atatrs and India, and also a letver to myself; but when J left Lonaon on Wednesday none of these 1citers had reached thetr destinatt ‘the following i an ouuiine Of the imiormation communicated to me:— Dr. Livingstone had traced a chain of lakes, con- nected by rivers, froin the tracis souto of the Lake ‘Tadganyika to south latitude ten degrees to twelve degrees, and he conjectures that these numerous connectod takes and rivers are the ultlinate southern sources of tio Nile, When he wrote he was about to (rave! northwards to Ujijl, on the eastern shore of Lake ‘Tanganyika, where he expected io tind some tnlormation from home, of which he bad been entirely deprived for two years, a8 Weil as to receive provisions and assistance. As Dr. Kirk adds, ‘*You knew long ago of hia safo arrival at Ujiji,” we may infer” that beiore this thue he wilt have sausfied himself whether any of the South African waters flow tuto the Equatorial Albert Nyauza of Baker, of the existence of woich great lake we now Jearn that Livingstone was cogmzant, if this determination bas been arrived at Liying- stone wiil bave gloriously solved (he great problem of Airican geography, and will bave proved vy actuai Observation that Ptolemy, seventeeu centu- nes really placed the sources of the Nile in about their true latitude, a view which tas of lute years been sustained by Beke, Arrowsuulh and Pine tay. Lan, sir, your obedient servant, RODERICK I, MURCHISON, P. 8,—In consequence of the good will and letiers of the Sultan of Zanzivar our long absect friend has been most hospitably treated by the Arab traders in the Interior, of Who he writes In the :most grate- ful terins, Ur-VakK, PRTeRS FIELD, Nov. 4, 1869. PERSONAL MOVEMCONTS ‘The Crown Princess of Prussia hag shown of late frequent symptoms of insanity, The Duke of Saxony has ordered @ $4,000 carriage from a builder in New York, Alan was divorced at Bath, Me., one day last week, aud married on the next. Georgia grows the tallest men in the United States; New York averages the shortest. ‘The British mint has been striking 20,000 medals for soldiers of the Abyssinian war. Victor Hugo asks a guinea for the poor every time he wiles his autograpii for strangers, Professor Wotfe has collected 120 varieties of shells and eighty of fossils In Fulton county, Mineis, Rothschild spends $16,000 a year on his Chateau Lautie vineyard. its yearly production ts 140 tous, it is reported that ex-Senator Lafayette 8, Fosier, or Connecticut, 18 to be One of the Lew United States Chrewt Judges, Judge Dent leaves Washington for Mississippi to-morrow lo resume his Campaign for the Governor- ship of that State, Among the presents destined by the Sultan for the Empress Hagenie is said to be a splendid Turkish sabre, set with jewels, for the Prince Imperial. John Russeil and wife, of West Concord, N. IL, have been marrica seventy-two years, and have fifty-four grea grandciuidren and one great creat grandchild, Young [turbide, of the Montezuma dynasty, lives in Georgetown, D. C., with ls wife, nee Green, and With tie child that Was for sume Uume adopted by wie Jate Maguuiliag, Reveray Johnson is now in his seventy-fourth year and his wife iain her sixty-seventi. She ba danglter of the late Kobert boone, Govervor of Maryland m 1812. Mr, and Mis, Jolson have twelve children living, forty-elgit grandchildren and four great grandculldren, Private letters report that Senator Oriines has not improved in beaith by his summer in burope. The secoud paralytic shock Was not so BeVere as the first, but tt leit him in @ fecble condition. At last accounts he was geting reaay lor an extended wip oa the Mediterranean, The Thanksgiving dinner at the Executive Mun- Bion to-day Will be atieaded by the President and Mrs. Grant and Mr. Dent, the fatuer of Mra, Grant; General and airs, C, B, Comstock, Gonerai and dirs. F, 7, Dent, General and Mrs. Horace Porter, Juage Louis bent ana wife, General Babcock and wile, Dr. Avexander sharpe and wile aud Masters Dent, Sharpe and Jesse Grantand Miss Nelle Grant. List of Americans registered at the oiice of Bowles Brothers & Oo., 12 Kue de le Paix, Paris, for the week ending November 3, 1589.—New York—Mr. D. hi. Grow, Mr. J. D. Ruseell and iamiliy, du. Leonard Scott, Mra. Colonel James rt, Mr, W. C. Stuart, Master J. M. Stuart, Mr. and Mra. &, C. Joanson, Sir. Olavence E, Jonnson, Mr. A. A. Adee, Mr. and Mrs, ©, 3. Douglas, Bin, EF. iolorook, Mr. George i. Jones, Air, and Mrs, J.T, Farrish, Mr. A. 5. Flint, Mr. A, Biesil, Mrs. J. Eee eile Neva Sier- the Livingstone THE FORENSIC TWINS. House and Gebhard, the Patent Divorce Men=Application to Throw Them Over the Bur—Judge Clerke’s Opinion of the Casere Kecentricities of the Bogus Mewbers of the Legal Profession. Yesterday morning the case of the two paven® divorce lawyers, Orson A, House and Edward Gebe hard, came up before the General Term of the Sue preme Court, present Judges Clerke, Sutherland and. Cardozo, on the return of two orders requiring the parties named to show cause why they should not be dismirsed from the bar for reasons which wilb appear below. ‘The case of Mouse was first taken up an’ the mde {ion was made by Mr, D, l. Waldron on tiie follows ing order to show cause: Atageneral term of the Supreme Court held at the city of New York on the 12th day of November, 1869, present, Thumas W. Clerke, Presidiug Jus- ce; Josiah Sutherland and Alvert Cardozo, jusiie ces. j On the judgment roll in this action in this court of Charlotte B. Nichols agaist Alexander KR. ‘T. Nichois, filed July 14, 188% in the Clerk’s oiice im ‘this city, and on the papers and alfidayits filed im kaid action on September 50, 1869, on the motion to set aside the judginent therein, and on the affle dayits, copies of which have been heretofore served, let Orson A. House, an attorney aud conpselior of tus court, show cause at ihe General Term of suck court, at the pew Court House, in the city ot New York, on the ith day of Novemver inst, at the opening of the court on- that day, why nis name Should not be stricken irom tue roil of attoracys of this court for culpable maitecsauce as au aitorney and couusellor thereof. first—Ny practising fraud aud imposing upon the court in Initiating en? conducting the prosecution of @ false and groundless action tor unworthy and venal purposes. Second—In iraudulently attempung to conceal his connection therewith, by causing it to be msiituved in the pame of auother attorney, and procurmn; Such attorgey to lend him the use of his uame 10) the purpose of said suit, Tivrd—in conniving and coufederating with one Edward D. Gebhard to procure false evidence in said action, Four ti—For procuring an aiiidavit purporting to have been sworn to i ‘ J, Price, as to tho sex- vice of stummons and compiatut in said action when said House well knew that the said servies was not pg gape nor such afidavit in fact veritlod by sald Price, Fifii—lu causing such afidavit to be used on a motion ii such action. Stoth—or imposing on the referee appointed in satd action, by procuring & Witness to appear and testify under a flse aime, and to facts wiich he had reason to believe were false. renth—For causing that and other testimony taken, or purporting to be, before said referee to be Used wt Chainbers on a motion for jud it i sal action, said House weil knowing that such testimony Was in material paiticuiais deceptive, irauduient: and false, For conduct disreputable aud disgraceful to am attorney in publishing or causing to be published an adverlisement Of Which the lolowing Is a copy:— ADSOLUIE DIVORCES OBTAINED IN DIFFERENT Plates; legal everywhere; desertion, fc. sullictent Gatise; no publicity; no ‘charge ‘until divorée obtained ; sug sess warranted; advice free, M. HUURE, Attorney, 78 Nassan street. The particular acts of smisconduct more fully and specifically appear on the papers hereinbciore re- ferred to, On Which this order to suow cause is nade CHARLES E, LOEW, Clerk. Mr. Edwin James, on behalf of House, said he uucerstood from Mr. House, before he had consulted him, that he had filed ceriain afidavits in answer. Mr. House was prepared to meet this charge fully, and the first application he had to make was to ask. their Honors to appoint some tribuaal, in their own discretion, where the witnesses on both sides could be cross-examined viva voce m presence of the de- fendant, He had searched for precedents tu this country m matters of this character, and he could find none, except one to strike an attorney off the rol if he did not account for money received from the hands of his client, I “Grae ham’s Practice” tt would be found that the English practice was adopted, Ther Honora were, of course, familiar wich the proceedings there, wich were analogous to those adopted here, Aridavits were sent in in answer, and the Court, at the request of either party, directed the matter to be referred tothe muster, to give the party an opportunity of examining the witnesses against him. Jie (Mr dames) suggested that the statute which gave the power to the Supreme Court expressly said the party shall bave an opportuuity of being heard. He referred back also to that which was the pajiadiuny of the liverty of Us country—the consitution of the State of New York—which provided that every party accused had a right to bave the “ accusing witnesses brought before — hiner to have them cross-examined, ‘she very Urst and most serious charge against Mr. House was big getiing a person to appear fraudulently aa a witness beiore a referee, Au he desired was an lopartial tnai and an opporvunity to examine witnesses and procure afidavits, Jwige Clerke—We have had considerable expe~ Tieuce rei: to matters of this Kind—that is, send- Ing such cases before a referee, They geucrally come to nothing, and we have, therefore, determined not to grant this application, but we wiil give you another oe Nexe lriday week we will hear you here in court. Mr. James—Two important witnesses are at Mon- woud, Mr. J. Sherwood, Jy, rand Mrs. J. J. Ryan, Mrs. W. Hi. Muburn. Boston—air, itl A. Tichards, Mr, and Mrs. A. 3. Togier, Misa J. Tozer, Miss G, Tozier, Mr. and Mrs, A. tl Bui lock, Miss Bullock, Misa s’anny Bullock, Mr. A, George Bullock, Mr. C. B. Gardner, Mr. John War Mr. Poweil Mason Parkman, Mrs. George Livermore, Mr, ©, ©. Livermore, Mr, George C. Powers, Mrs. A. A. W. Cuminings, Miss Wels, Master Culamings. Mir, and Mrs. 1. Hammond, Cambridge—Mr, aud Mrs. 1. (ell, Miss M. i. Mall, Miss ©. 0. Hall, Chie cago—Mr, N, Ludington and jamily, Mr, F. M. Davis, Mr. H. G, Loomis, Mr. R. J. Stearns, General I’. A, Starring, Mr, Alex. Youug. Philadeiphia—Mr. Le A. Godey, Mr, C. E. Hawiey, Mr. L, 8, Curtis, Mr. M. Me- Michacl, Mr, oud Mrs, ©. L. Hughes. San Francisco— Mr. aud Mrs. J. F. Morse, Rev. Wyatt aod family, Mr. U. Whittell. Michigan—Mr. and Mes. L ndler, Miss Chandler, Gincinnati—Mr. J. Resor and son, Mr. Frank Resor, Virginia—Mr, E. G. Pendleton. Newark— Mr. L. E. Coudict. New Orleans—Mr. J. 8. Pagaud and family. Pittsvurg— Mr. George D, Blair, Auburn—Mr. ©, P. burr, Washington—Mrs. M. L. Horton, Montreai— and Mrs, Chapinan, St. Paul—Mr, Alexander Rai- suy. Sulem—Mrs. D. V. Carpenter. Marshaliiown— Mr. H. &. J, Boartinan, St. Louis—Mr, George 3. Drake and family, | California--Mr. George 0. Powers. Massachusetts—Mr, Ll, Druvy. calied Statey Navy—Mr, B. Noyew. ANOT! RALROAD COPLISION. A Freight Engine Runs Tuto a Passenger Train—Several Persons injured Wrecking of Cara, {Vrom the Davenport (lowa) Gazette, Nov. 15.} Au express train east from Council Bl met with @ serions acorient at Stuart, forty uties weat of Des Moir at ben o’ciock last Friday night, the rest of which was the general sinashing Up of ihe pas- senger coaches aud ihe wounding of a pamber of passengers. ‘Che tram was composed of the sleeping car Colorado, a ladies’ car and tWo other coaches. At Stuart, while the train was at a water tank, & freight train came up behind it, Tug engineer saw tie approaching train, and lomediately whistied of brakes and slurted for- ward. ‘Too late. The freight engine came into the Colorado with tremendous ioree and sent the cars together with a force that staashed in the ends of every one of them and made a crashmg, frigheful poise. The passengers in ihe sleeping coach were ali in imminent danger of their lives. fortunately the concussion sent them ali sprawling upon the fioor, or else, With the breaking of partitions and the jamming together of upartinents, the morcaaty would have beck terrible, Ax il was several ol them were severely Wounded, though Lone seriously, In the ladies’ Car Lig passengers wi thrown to their feet and acrosa the bucks Of seaus and inixed up in @ purely miscellaneous manner, Same resait 4 iho jorward coaches, the passcagers ta wiica wero mostly rer In the baggage the baggageman owes lis nn. injured heat io apie of buffaly robes into which he was piiched With consideravie energy. ‘The ox press measenger, who happenea to be’ Alexander Lumsden, of Chis City, did not gel Off so easily, He aken {row his seat and shot like an ‘arrow ust the forward ead of tne ear, striking head nost. He lay stunued for a moment, ar lis teet and then fell senseless, Howey s00n brougit to, With a blceding aud aching head, At the instant of concussion the engine became detached from the train and went abead, having susiained Do injury, Lie Coloradd aud {ts passengers had e narrow escape fom destruction by bre. When the tre Cugine struck it tus hoadlight of the locomotive wa hile right Into the car, ‘Th t uto the reflecting chamber, and con ing furiously, bortunately tie ou was not pour Upon the Hoor, but just as ib Was COuMencing to ovze through the jotuia Russ Reyaolas, with great presence of mind, aud while woniwn were shrieking fund men groaning, made tls way to the lamp and rolled ts out of the door and away from tie car. Lie Was somewhat scorched durmyg tie Operation, ‘The Colorado and the ladies’ were completely wrecked aud rendered nseiess, The other cars, afver soveral hours’ work, were chained together and ren- dered movable, ‘ike engiue was thea attached and tle train caine on siowly to Des Momes, The train was (ue lere at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, but did not arrive anti! eleven o'ciu ‘The carciessness of the freight engineer ought to sudject hin to a good long term at hard labor in the Peulteatiary, There was the usialred light at tho rear of the Colorado, of the new patent which can be Ren ws iar a6 & head Nght. If he had been within Teach of suiue of the passengers, WhO grew bellige- rent wlen they learned the cause of the accident, he Would have been very roughly treated, ‘the freigit engine was badly bunged up, with two of the passenger cars, was ‘towed’ Lo Nhe re ‘The coaches are power will be | palr shops in this city yesterday. telescoped go fiemly oonsiderabie requirgd an pulling them apart treal, In Canada, and we can’t get their atidavits in so short @ time, The HERALD has been made the medium of communication in this matter by an ad- vertisement which bas appeared tu it, The sons of judges and ex-judges are concerned in the matter, ‘and it wiil take some time to myestigate it. Juage Clerke—the duties of the Court are such that they cannot grant any other day before ine next General Term except Friday week; but the majority of the judges have no objecuon to tet boii cases stand unl the first day of next General Term. ‘They will be ordered on the caiendar for that day, and preferred to any other cause: Mr, dames asked the Court to direct that tie wit- nesses should appear and be examined before thems on that day. Judge Clerke—If the Court should deem it neces- Sury to bave any witnesses appear an order will be granted to that effect. GEBHAKD’S CASK. The case of Gebhard on tue following order to» show cause was then introduced by Messrs. Futlere ton and Brown on beliwif of the detendant:— Ata general term of the Supreme Court held at the city of New York on ie 12th day of November, 1869—present, Thomas W. Clerks, Presiding Jui luce; Josiah Sathertand, Albert Cardozo, Justices, On the judgment roll in this action in this court cf Charlotte B. Nichols against Alexendor KR. F, Nichols, filed July 15, 1569, in the Clerk’s Office of this city, and on the papers and afNidaviis tied in suid action, on soih Septenber, 1869, on the motion to set aside judgment therein and on the afidavits, copies of which have beea heretofore served, let kdward 1, Gebhard, an atiorney and counsellor of this court, show cause at the General Term of such, court, at the new Court ifouse, in the city of New York, on the 17th day of November inst., at the opening of the couré on thatday, why tis name should not he stricken from tie rull of attorneys of tis court. Pir t—or gross and flagrant misconanet in de bauching and abscondmg wii che wife of Aicxande! RW. Stouols, and abusing the process of this cour by procuring @ faise and ygroundieas action to be comineuced ia ler pate for a divorce from her hus band thon base and waofounded charges and false fod mmudulent testimony. Second—Vor contederating and conniving with Orsou A, House in culpable miefvasance as an attor- ney by practising [rand and imposition on tue court in procuring false evidence In sutd action; in procur- ing an afidayit purporting to have been made of the deposit of a summons wid complaint in tie Post Oflice directed (o the defendant in said aciion, whem he well knew that said service had not been made nor the ertidavit im fact verified; m procarin.s an ore der for publication of said summons by taisehoo and Geecit; 1a concealing the pendency of satd ads tion from the deiendunt therein and procuring & re, Port from the releree levorable to the praintuts tm evidence given in @ false” wawe and unioiuded im iuct, he well Knowing by the laws of this siate the Ploiaua was not entitled to a divoree, Teive—Por warvying Charlotte B, Nichols, the wile of Alexander Nichols, knowing seid Alexander fe Ts. Nichols was living, and (oat Ute divorce was false pad frandulently obtained, The pariicalar acis of miscondnet more fully and spectiicaily appear oa the p: 8 hereinbefore re~ ferred Lo, on Witch tus order lo show cause is Made. CHAS. B. LOEW, vown asked for the dismissal of the prout : board for want of jurisdiction, om on the further ground that the papers bad Dow sdou either tie derendant or fils counsel. I eblard Was uo! now 4 practising attorney and Was not ® vesident or New York, and therviove bes youd the jurisdiction of the court. Jodge Clorke—[f be is such a character ae he ls depicted to be itis not proper (hat his haume siowa reruain on the rolls of this court. Mir Pucerton made some remarks in support of his colleague's appileation, and said it woald be exceedinziy improper to disbar a man who was ausent from the State, Aller some further discussion an order was cnicred setiing down the hearmg in both cases for tie flese ay of the next Geaeral Term, the defendanva counsel to be afforded every faciilty for the exauis nutiou of tie papers now ou file. AN ONIGINAL PORTRAIT OF ALBXANDER Pork IN Boston,—At the ate Of the Marquis of festings® estate, in the spring of thie yeur, the Hbrary and portruit gallery collecied by the Karl of Huntington, an ancestor of the Marquis, came to the hammers ‘phe vast debts which the foollsh young Marquis had incarred by gambling, horse racing and other lordiy habita mode it necessary to sell everything belongs ing to the ancestral property. Among the pictures disposed of at the disastrous sale, where almost every thing was sacrificed, was the beautiful poriraig of Alexander Pope painted for the Parl of liuntingy ton by Richardson. It was bought by @ gentiemal of this city and 18 now safely housed in ton. Ht is a cwo-thirds portrait, beauttiully painted, and is in & periect state of preservation. ‘he old oagen frame placed upon it more than a hundred yoars uga ‘Stuy encloses It,—Boston LrUnsert, NUVe Mov