The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1872, Page 3

THE SWAMP ANGELS, The Murder of Colonel Wishart by “Steve” Lowery. The Promise to Meet ths Hofians—Lowery’s Summons and the Meeting Place—The Treacherus Assassins Shoot Him Down While Awaiting the Expected » onference—The Murderer Boasts of the Deed. WILMINGTON, N. C., May 23, 1872, By this evening’s mail I am in receipt of the main particulars of the interview between the “swamp angels” and Colonel Frank Wishart a few days previous to the assassination of the latter. This took place at Moss Neck. On Friday, before bis death, Colonel Wishart was aboard the regular through freight train which arrived at Moss Neck ‘fat three o'clock P, M., and was at “Mat wae vecu- pying aseat in the conducir's car, in the rear of the train. Soon after the train halted the two outlaws, Andrew Strong and Stephen Lowery, ap- proached the car, and recognizing Colonel Wishart, they accosted him in a civil and friendly way, Stephen Lowery inquired whether he had any arms, and went aboard the car to satisfy himself on that point, Andrew Strong remaining on the piazza of the store within a few feet of the train, Andrew was in his shirt sleeves and wore only one pistol in his belt, but Stephen carried in his hand a Spencer rifle, and in his beit five elegant pistols— two Derringers, one Smith & Wesson and two Colts, THE OUTLAW'S INSOLENCE. Entering the car Stephen demanded to see his arms, when Colonel Wishart drew aside the skirt of his coat and displayed the handle of a repeater which he assured the outlaw was the only weapon he carried. Stephen at once made a grab at the pistol as if to snatch it from its place, but Colonel Wishart foiled this attempt by dexterously leaping from the car to the piazza of the store, where the Other outlaw was standing, and confronting Btephen, who was standing in the doorway of the ear from which he had just escaped, and stood with his hand upon his pistol, Stephen and Andrew both now assured him that they meant him no harm and only wished a friendly conference, and at Andrew's request he walked with him behind the store, where they remained for some time in conversation, while Stephen remained on board the car and seemed to take no interest in what was pass- ing between his comrade and Colonel Wishart. THE COLONEL’S RASH PROMISE. As the train was about to move off Colonel Wishart returned to the car, and, meeting Stephen on the platform, the latter was heard to say, “When I send for you again, you come; I'll send a friend for you in a few days, and you come and meet us,’? and Colonel] Wishart promised to do so. ‘The rest of this strange, sad story, with its melan- choly, tragic end, is but too well known. On Thursday morning next, after this interview, a mes- senger (who it was nobody knows or, perhaps, mever will know) bore to Colonel Wishart, at Shoe Heel, the summons which was to lead him away to death. Truc to his word he prepared to obey, and, Saddling his mule, he rode directly, unarmed and alone, to the spot named by the messenger. DISCOVERY OF HIS MANGLED CORPSE, What occurred there was witnessed by no human eye oesides those of the actors in the fearful tragedy; but in tne afternoon of the same day a Citizen of the neighborhood was horrified by the discovery of the body of the gal- lant Wishart, all stark and stiff and coy- ~ ered with gore, lying by the roadside. Two hid. eous. gashing wounds—one through the body, the other through the head—showed how foully he had been murdered. The mule on which he rode stood fastened to a limb near by, and appearances Showed that when shot he wag reclining on the tarth, whittling the end of a smail stick and unsus- pecting of danger. It is probable that these treach- erous and cowardly flends had concealed them- selves in ambush near the spot, and that the first lo timation he had of their presence were the two shots that hurled his brave, unsuspecting soul into eternity, A more cowardly, brutal and cold-blooded murder does not stain the annals of crime among the most barbarous people that inhabit the earth, and yet these men go unpunished for their score of murders, of which this 1s the latest, and in many respects the most startling, go unavenged, fe pg. . SHE MURDERER'S BOAST, . Btephen Lo wery proudly toasis that he committed the murder; that it was he who killed Colonel Wishart. He does this publicly and in the presence pf the friends of the murdered man, and yet no one raises a hand against him or attempts to avenge the death of one who sacrificed his life for the safety of the community. It is notorious that since the foul assassination of Colonel Wishart both An- drew Strong and Stephen Lowery have been fre- quently so drunk at Moss Neck and Shoe Heel depots that some of their ScuMetown friends had + to carry them home. This overbearing demeanor of the outlaws is at: tributed in this section of the country to the fact that they are of mixed negro biood, and hence under the special protection of the radical State government. Why cannot General Grant proclaim martial law in Robeson county and exterminate these notorious outlaws? THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Proceedings of the General Assembly at Detroit, Derrort, May 23, 1872, The Presbyterian General Assembly held a public meeting of great interest last night in behalf of foreign missions. An earnest appeal for the starv- ing Persians was made and a collection taken to aid them, This morning the discussion on the demission of the ministry was resumed and the report strongly opposed in effective speeches, The Rev. Mr. Thompson, of Japan, gave an ac- count of the progress of religious liberty in that country. The standing committee on freedmen presented their report, recommending that the work be con- tinued inthe present form and that an effort be made to raise $125,000 for this object during the present year. His Exoellency Governor Baldwin was received by the Assembly and the courtesies of the house were extended hiin, to which he responded in a brief, graceful speech. «~ Colonel Snowden, of Philadelphia, offered a paper Teapecting the famine in Persia, which was adopted, The General Assembly was occupied during the afternoon in hearing delegates froin foreigh €cclé- sinstical bodies. Addfesses Were made by the Rev. Mr. Gray, of the Canada Pre ay rere Church; v. George — Bell, L. s v0! the Synod of the Presbyteria arch = fn Canada connected rig the Chutch of Scotland; the Rey. Drs, William Milligan and John Marshall Lang, from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and the Rey, Richard Smith, from the Presbyterian Chnreh of Ireland. ‘This evening Governor Baldwin gives the Assem- bly a reception at his mansion, The Church in the South. RicuMonp, Va., May 23, 187: In the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day, Rev. Richard Melivaine, of Lynchburg, Va., was elected Becretary and Treasurer of the Executive Commit- tee of Foreign Missions, The Assombly refused to change the location of the Committee of Publication from Richmond to Nashville. Rev. M. D. Hoge, of Richmond, was elected delegate to the Associate Reform Church in America, and Rev, Mr. Dunwid- - die to the Old School Presbyteria ’ saan ‘esby in Synod of Mis- COLLECTOR STANNARD, Whe Collector for the Vermont District Likely to Undergo a Trial Under a Criminal Prosecution—His Accounts Al- leged to be $42,000 Short. Boston, May 23, 1872, A criminal prosecution has been commenced against General Stannard, the defaulting Collector of Customs of the Vermont district. His accounts are Short to the amount of about $42,000, He is now at liberty on bail, but tt is pre- sunicd he will appear for triat at the next term of the United States Court in Vermont. ae pd left wit Special Agent for Washington on business connected 'd’s case, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1872—TRIPLE SHES&Y. THE SEARCH FOR DR. LIVINGSTONE. —_—_— —— [From the Pittsburg Commercial, May 22] Since the alleged discovery of Dr. Livingstone by one of its correspondents the New York Heratp finds its new building too small for the exercise of its enterprise, and will erect still another on the site of itd old One OR Nassau street, REV. DR. HUSTON. The Accused Preacher Before the ~""" Seeret Tribunal. [From the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard, May 22) | The Doctor's Case Discussed in the Waiting ‘the New York HERALD continues to exult over the success of its expedition to recoyer the long- lost Dr. Livingstone, which it considers assured by the latest despatches, The World, a short timg since, perhaps a little jealous of its enterprisé and success, undertook to make out that the HERALD was going beyond the proper province of the journalist, which, it thought, was to record events, instead of taking part in them. The result, however, justifies the effort, and the HERALD will have the credit of being the pioneer of journalistic exploring, which, doubtless, ts only in tts infancy, Hereafter no great metropolitan journal will be complete without its corps of explorers, something beyond the mere reporters who follow in the track of armies and record the issue of battles amid the crash of artillery and the oharges of opposing hosts. The explorer must be ready at a moment's nuouce to penetrate into tie burning tropics or the icy zone, wherever there is a mystery to be unravelled, a lost traveller to be sought for or a wonder to be investigated. Doubtless If the HERALD had conceived tts idea only a few years sooner the lamented and long-sought Franklin would have been found and safely brought back to his country and his faithful wife. The en- terprise of a journalist, free from red-tape formal- ism, and prompted by individual enterprise and hope of gain, will far ontdo all that government ex- peditions can accomplish. [From the Boston Traveller, May 21.] A despatch from London to the New York HERALD reports that Dr. Livingstone was at Ujiji with Mr. Stanley, the correspondent of that paper, on the Sth of February. This information comes from a HERALD correspondent at Zanzibar, having been brought a portion of the way by 4 runner sent toan African official, but no correspondence from Stanley or Livingstone was received. The story is a proba- ble one, and we trust that the next arrival from Zanzibar will confirm it, and bring letters from the wandering Englishman and the adventurous cor- respondent, Le Messager Franco-Americain, of this city, has the following complimentary comments on the HERALD Livingstone expedition. After giving a résumé of the news about Mr. Stanley’s successful search for Livingstone it says :— In short, it is to the HERALD that we owe the first authentic’ news from the bold explorer, about whose whereabouts there had been so much anxiety. Mr. Stanley, who has found Livingstone, has been sent to Central Africa at the expense of that enterprising journal. The whole matter was at the first considered a joke, but all acknowledge now that the HERALD has incurred larger expense and made more efficacious efforts to find the great explorer than the British government and the Geo- prenbion! Society in London, under whose auspices ivingstone had undertaken his travels. Our con- tempora can now add to its many glorious achievements that of being the first newspaper in the world which has sent a special correspondent to the unknown regions of Central Africa. {From the Hudson (N. Y.) Star, May 22.) The information of the safety of Dr. Livingstone, published in tho New York HERALD some time since, is confirmed by more recent advices. The HERALD correspondent, Stanley, is with the Doctor at Ujiji, and we shall doubtless have the results of the interview in the columns of our enterprising contemporary. {From the Troy Whig, May 22.] We have had an abiding faith that Livingstone would be brought home safe and sound from the scenes of his exploration in Southern Africa. We have read time and again of the death of this re- nowned traveller—how he expired at Unyamyembe, and again at Tanganyika and sti!l later at Zanzi- bar—how he was reported to have been eaten alive by the natives at Bagomoyo; to have been im- prisoned for debt, and to have died of starvation at Kazet; and tg have been obliged to flee in vain for his life to some wilderness, pursued by relentless Washerwomen, who there made short work of him; until at last all the returns were in and the great Dr. Livingstone was no more. But after a while the traveller was again heard from somewhere near Ujiji, and the hearts of the Geographical Society of England got renewed hope, and the late Dr. Murchison, the life-long friend and admirer of Livingstone, urged instant search in be- half of Sciencé and humanity. England was slow to move in such an under- taking, and it remained for American enterprise and daring to overcome what seemed almost in- surmountable obstacles, and to bring joy to thou- sands of people in finding the long missing African explorer, The HERALD exploring expedition has accomplished its mission, and the news is now confirmed by late despatches {hat Living- stone is safe at Zanzibar with Stanley, the expedition. ie Te- chief! of the Américan turn of Livingstone to England will be the occasion of great rejoicing, and the people here have. just reasons for pride in knowing that an American citizen will divide the honors with one of the greatest men of the age. It is now nearly seven years since Dr. Livingstone left England on his last expedition. Since 1868 we have received no intelligence from him. He was given up as lost, and the different rumors in respect to his fate have flown hither thick and fast, and were character- ized by the most peculiar statements. As is gen- erally understood, Dr. Livingstone was determined to solve the mystery which has ever been connected with the Nile, and he went forth determined “to trace the Nile farther south than had been done by any explorer of his own or former times.” What success has attended his efforts during the past seven years we know not. There is no doubt that his toil has been great and his sufferings severe. Dr. Livingstone’s exposure to the dangers of a mighty Continent, a region of which our knowl- edge is at present literally confined to its border, has been such as few if any travellers have ever experienced, Dua Chaillu has ‘old us marvellous stories of the people in that far off country, of their peculiar appearance and their strange manners and customs; of the land and its queer productions, and of animals, a description of which has excited intense wonder and interest; but the story that Livingstone will have to tell will be far more ab- sorbing, snd it is not likely now to be long delayed. The explorer would not have made his way to Zanzibar unless the object of his venturous search fairly | fulfilled. not have consented to join Mr. Stanley and to pro- ceed to Zanzibar unless he had made the great dis- covery and solved the secret which animated his first efforts. We think it highly probable that he will soon be seen in the rooms of the Geographical Society in London, surrounded by hosts of old friends and admirers, and over a giass of brown stout or lemonade he will rehearse such strange and wonderful experiences as fall to few men to endure. And when he first reaches England no conqueror returning from the scene of his victories and the fleld of lis glories, with all the pomp and circumstance of war, could have instore such a jubilant and profound reception as awaits the greatest explorer of this or any age, THE HERALD AND THE WASHINGTON TREATY, men the Gape May (XN, J.) Ocean Wave, May 23.) ‘The New York Heracp of Wednesday furnishes another exhibition of its startling enterprise in having the Washington Treaty corresnjndence tele- graphed from Washington for its eXclusive use. The despatch embraces nearly thirty-nine thousand words, and occupied nearly two full pages of closely printed matter, SPORTSMEN'S CONVENTION, SENECA FALLS, N. Y., May 23, 1872, There is great excitment among the sports- men of the State convened here. This was the third field day. The shooting with ounce shot was continued, The first prize was taken by Schultz, of Tuffalo; the second by Jaens, of Buitalo; fhe third by George Smith, of Buffalo, and the fourth by E. 8. Wakeinan, of fatavia, The shooting of double birds is ook woes § on. The Forester Club, of Buffalo, have so far taken five pr Sportsmen are arriving here by every rain, The Convention closes on Saturday, ALPHA DELTA PHI, . Detroit, Mich, May 23, 1872, The fortieth annual Convention of the Alpha Delta Phi closed its session, held under the auspices of the Peninsular Chapter of the Michigan Univer- sity, in this city, to-day. The Rev. Dr. Ells, of Cleveland, presided. Moses OC, Tyler was elected President for next year, Rev. Dr. Storrs orator and James Russell Lowell poet. The next Convention will be held at Cornell University. The public literary exercises were held in the Oj era House this even- {ug, and were of a brilitant character. An oration had been He would Was delivered by ex-Senator Doolittle, of Wiscon- ain, and a poem was read by Rev, T. Sewall, Presi- dent of Urbana University, the members, to the num participated in a After the exercises r of over a_ hundred, banquet at the Russel] House. Booms—"Lucy” Again Placed Under Eccle- siastical Cross-Firing—Disintarastad Witnesses Called to Corrobo- rate Her Statements—The Day’s Proceedings, BAurimore, May 23, 1872. The investigation of the charges against the Rev. L. D. Huston was resumed this morning at nine o'clock, The members of the Coart, with an eye to the work before them, determined to “make a day” of it, and came to the parsonage provided with cold “swag,” that they might not suffer from the promptings of the inner man. ‘The parlor, which is at present used as a reception room for the female witnesses, was well filled with a bevy ofinterested and chatty ladies, The little Sunday school girl, with her widowed mother, also a mar- ried lady whose testimony 1s alleged to be very damaging to the case of Huston, and a number of friends remained there during a considerable por- tion of the day. fs THE DOCTOR UNDER THE LADIES’ INQUISITION. As usual under such circumstances, conversation did not fag, and a running fire of words enlivened the apartment and attested the interest which the gentle sex always feel in matters connected with the Church, The reverend gentleman (accused) was very elaborately discussed, and as the parties were by no means ardent admirers of the Doctor his rep- utation suffered accordingly. In fact the shreds and tatters into which it was torn by his fair accusers, if put together would make but a pitiable “Dolly Varden.’’ The impression of the ladles seemed to be that the Doctor was having things his own way, and that if the members ofthe Court were not amatch for his astuteness and sagacity, un- doubtedly, if the disposition of his case were en- trusted to them Huston’s trial would be summary and his fate scarcely problematical, They relieved the tedium of conversation by the dixtribution of bonbons and occasional glancing criticisins of each other's toilet, which the reporter is bound to admit were faultless. AN UNPARDONABLE BLUNDER. While eagerly listening to the lispings of one of the ladies, the HexaLp’s writer, in a fit of absent mindedness, inadvertently drew his note book from his clothes, Too late, he discovered his fatal mis- take. In a moment he was pounced upon by one of the brethren, who had left the court room’ for a breath of fresh air, and his occupation being dis- closed he was politely requested to vacate, much to tho disgust of the ladies, who were anxious that the story should appear In the HERALD, “LUCY” AGAIN ON THE STAND. After the preliminary devotional exercises “Lucy the colored woman,” Who occupied the stand the whole of yesterday, was recalled. Lucy is a bright mulatto of comely appearance, and is the girl to whose house Dr. Huston is alleged to have taken one of his victims for his Llicit purposes. She is de- cidedly intelligent and devoted to Huston, who was her former master. She says she is anxious to tell the simple truth and nothing but the truth, She is a sealed volume as to what she knows of the case, and therefore her testimony Wand except that she reiterated her contradiction of Virgin: ja Hopkins’ story, 18 @ mere matter of conjecture. Lucy must have been sub- mitted toa very rigid cross-examination, as sho was not dismissed from the stand until the Court took a recess for lunch, THR ACCUSED COUNSEL RELIEVED. In the course of the morning the Court considered the complaints of the witnesses who have already been examined, but who, owing to the frequent in- terruptions of Huston’s counsel, were confused and unable to give thelr evidence in a manner which would develop the whole truth, It was warmly discussed by the members, and it was finally decided that as no counsel was present to represent the accusers, the privilege should be withdraw from the accused, and hereafter the witnesses will be allowed to tell their tales in thelr own way, and tho investigation will be 80 conducted as to give no further cause for complaint. By this decision, Mr. Monroe has been relieved, and a clergyman will robably be substituted tg watch oyer the in- erests Sf Bie pogus a, At hal pa twelvé o'clock the Court took a recess, and the members applied themselves with vigor to the contents of the little brown paper par- cels which their thoughtful friends and families had inserted into their coat pockets previous to their departure for the quondam parsonage, * JACK CUSHMAN AND MRS, JACK, Upon the reassembling of the tribunal Jack Cush- man, a colored man, and his wife, Lydia, were ex- amined. These witnesses were called upon the art of the defence to corroborate the statement of uey, Which they did. They also said that Vir- ginla Hopkins “had told them that tho story of her seduction ss Huston was falsé, le éxamination of these riers occupied the balance of the day. It is claimed those unfavorable to the accused that the staté- ments of these witnesses were of a very Con tradictory character, while THugton's Toenas insist that their evidence mus— result in the establishment of his innocence, fons Dris- coll, the Sunday school scholar whom Huston is said to have led astray, will be examined to-mor- row, ‘The excitement over the trial is rapidly in- creasing, and the HERALD, having the only full ac- count of the proceedings, is greedily gobbled up, it being almost Impossible to obtain a copy fifteen minutes after the mail reaches Baltimore, ART MATTERS. The Exhibition of Paintings at the Lea. vitt Art Rooms. It would appear that we have not yet reached the end of the art season, for here is another com- petitor for public favor. The present collection is a composite one. Some of the works belonging to tne estate of the late Mr. Gardner, some to an American artist of consiaerable merit, and the water colors almost wholly to Mr. McLean. The combination has enough merit to be interesting, even after the many excellent collections which have been brought under public notice during the past brilliant season. If the | foreign schools are not a8 well represented as might be desired there are at least several very striking examples of artists who have heey eine an American as well as a European fame. One of the best and most spirited Verboeckhovens we have seen in America is es the Gardner pictures, It represents a group of sheep and some poultry, The composition of the groups is marked by more vigor than we usually find in this artist's works, at | the same time that his wonderful teclinical skill is displayed in rendering the fleecy textuse of the woolly hide. The picture was evidently produced when Verboeckhoven was in his prime, as there strength and freedom in the treatment whic is wanting in his later works. Van Schendel is represented by one of those night market scenes in which he so well succeeded. The rendering of the artificial light and the night atmosphere must be admitted to be an artistic achievement, even when we are unable to sympathize with this pecu- liar direction of art aa example of hs progern French school of tollet pictures 1§ fara hed by Mii, Ferrere. A beautiful lady in elegant costume ig | taking the last look in the mirror before setting out for the bail, The figure is well drawn and expres- sive, and is true enough to life. The color is bril- Hant and tender. A brilliant study of flowers (42), by Revoire, deserves gttention. ‘There is also a nieritorious ‘work by Auguste Bonheur, full of charm and picturesgue sentiment. Some works by Koc Racks ué, Lacroix, Gerhard, Cc. we Woul ike to. notice ‘put pare wiil not permit. Mr. Davis, Who is 001 pagatively “inknown to the general public, has quite jarge number of works in various walks in art. We think, however, that he is most successful In his simpler works, His art 1s peculiarly American, and delights most in negro types. In hfs delineation of negro boy life he is especially happy. and his works full of character. American landscape art is rep- resented by such names as Hart, Sontag, Inness, Williamson, &c. Richard contributes two of his characteristic marine pictures. English water color painting is largely represented in Mr, McLean's collection. ‘A Scene from Kenilworth,” by Buckley, is Nha Half particalar attention. e would like to write at greater length of several other paintings in the collection, but want of space will not permit us. TERBIFIC TORNADO IN OHIO, Several Buildings Blown Down and a House With Its Occupants Lifted From the Earth and Carried to a Distance. CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 23, 1872, A tornado of great fury passed over the country north and east of this city about three o'clock yes- terday afternoon, Several houses and barns were demolished. The house of George McMullen, a farmer, was taken up and carried several rods, with the mem- bers of the family in it, all of whom were injured, but not fatally. The tornado was a quarter of a mile in width, Heavy Storm at Fortress Monroe, FORTRESS MONKOR, Va., May 23, 1872, The most violent storm that has visited this place for six years passed over yesterday afternoon, unroofing houses and prostrating trees and fences, It lasted about thirty minutes, and was accompa- nied by rain, hail and lightning. No casualties have yet been reported 1 KYDD'S TREASURE FOUND. Fishing for Silver and Gold in Staaten Island Sound. THE OYSTERMEN IN HIGH LUCK. Spanish Picees of “Bight,” Flemish and Duteh Coins Brought from the Bottom of the Sound by Oyster Tongs, arab ea? Intense Excitement Among the Natives and the Numismatists. For two hundred years every man, woman and child speaking or understanding the English lan- guage has heard of the bold pirate Captain Kidd, or “Kydd,” as the name is correctly spelled, Those who have heard of him have heard of him in connection with terrible deeds of pillage, blood and outrage. Kydd, “as he sailed, as he sailed,” was a Lon- don Cockney, born, aa far as the records tell, about the year 1648, when Europe, from Gibraltar to Moscow, was in dire travail, He was a saflor of the seas from youth, and at an early age had com- mand of one of those old, heavily-pooped East India- menthat Turner, in his flery sketches, made immor- tal. His skill in seamanship brought bis name before the English nation as a bold, daring and successful navigator, and at that time William, Prince of Orange, who sat on the throne of England, with his inherent Dutch thrift and desire to make a little money, through the agency of his Privy Council, organized an association, of which he was one of the principal shareholders, to put down piracy, which was then as much of a profession as politics is now, in the Indian, African and on the coasts of Cuba and Jamaica, Looking around for a man to put down this almost universal system of piracy as it then ex- isted, fame pointed to William Kydd as the only man. He was belleved to fear neither man nor devil, and well he afterward justified his fame. In those days—1695—New York city held rank as a port of entry with Perth Amboy and Elizabeth, N.J. They were three towns with about the same amount of commerce credited to them on the books of the moneyed world. A certain Colonel Richard Livingston, well beloved of His Majesty William IIL, ancestor of the “first family” of New York, had his residence on this island, and suggested to him that Willtam Kydd was the only man to crush the hornets who ravaged English ships on the waters of the Eastern and Western worlds. And behold! on the 10th of April, 1696, a commission is issued to “The trusty and well beloved Captain Kydd, com- Mander of the Adventure Galley’—a vessel of thirty guns, high-pooped and lumbersome as a hogshead of beer in a fresh water pond. The Ad- venture salied from Plymouth, England, ‘in the latter part of April, 1696, and what she did after- ward, definitely and in detail, is mostly lost to man- kind, But enough is known to us to-day to certify that in New Amsterdam he recruited his vessel up to ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN. From thence he sailed into space on wide Indian and African seas, lost to his sense of honor and manhood, plundering here and butchering there, accumulatiny treasures from Spanish galleons, Bortheneed fellow corsairs and English freebooters as well a8 merchant vessels of all nations and all flags. All was fish that came to his net, friend or foe alike, Kydd pode the Mozambique Channel for a thousand miles, between the Island of Madagascar and the eastern shore of Africa, and hunted the Portuguese until they cried God’s imercy on them- selves. He visited the Hindoo and Mussulman set- tiements on the Malabar coast, and filled his vessel with gold, disdaining ivory and cinnamon; and he was heard of fo the sorrow of the dwellers in His- paniola and the Spanish Main. All things, even to @ freehooter’s existence, mus' ne an . Kya had for his crew a most desperat set 0 scoundrels, to whom the name of meroy was a jest and a scom Kyddat heart was a humane fellow, and did not care to shed blood unnecessarily, but his oMcers urged him on. Itis calculated that in his short career of pirate, which lasted nearly five years, he had forciily taken treasures amounting to wenty millions of dollars of the present day. There was no paper money, and specié was carried in enormous quantities in the yessels of that day between the oO and = N Worlds, Kydd tiad made an énemy in the person of the Earl of Lellamont, who was Governor of New York and Massachusetts. The quarrel was about a woman, and it lasted six years. For six years Bellamont waited for his foe. The pirate had a brute on his vessel, a boatswain named Moore, who rebelied in Stoughton, and one da, there was a bitter altercation, and Kydd, in hot blood, lifted a water bucket and smote the life out of his boatswain. Time passed, and the Good Ad- venture galley was captured, and Kydd, with the assistance of the Earl of Bellamont, was hung in chains, at Execution Dock, in his own native city of London, in the year 1701, Kydd, tradition says, was in the habit of deposit- ing the bnik of his a mulated treasures near the city of New York. There is hardly an inlet or a hamlet on the shores of Long Island Sound, Kill nm Kull, Hudson River or Staten Island$ound that not inherited a belief that the famed pirate had uried a portion ot his hard dollars or pieces of “eight on returning from his numerous v ‘The treasure actually recovered by the Ei lamont from Kydd’s vessel amounted to 738 ounces of gold, 847 ounces of silver and several bags of pre- cious stones and silver and gold ornaments, amount- ing at that time, in all, to the enormous sum of £2,000,000, ‘esterday the news was flashed all over the land by telegraph that a considerable sum of KYDD'S MONEY had been found midway in Staten Island Sound, be- tween the estuary of that stream, which is at New- ark Bay, and the point where it debouches into the Raritan Bay and River, Staten Island Sound 1s navigable for vessels of the largest draught, with the exception of a piace at the upper eud, Where there isa sand bar. The depth of water is from twelve tocighteen feet, and the stream, which averages a quarter 6f a mile in width, is flanked by salt meadows on the north shore of Staten Island and on the Jersey shore for the entire length of the stream, a distance of twenty-one miles. ‘The Phila- delphia propeliers and other steamboats from New York city, Perth Amboy, Keyport and other places, pass this way. The Sound is also frequented by oyster boats, the fishermen who own them being engaged in dredg- ing for young oysters, which are transplanted and bedded in Prince’s Bay and in the Virginia inlets until they have attained “oysterhood.” These boats have places for a mast and single sail, and are generally about sixteen fect in length and painted of @ green color, In each boat may be foynd an oyster tongs of iron, with sharp teeth, for clawing the oysters from y @ ba ¥ THEIR MUDDY BED. The oystermen in their boats as a general thing wear a pair of ragged trowsers and a red shirt, and when at work “dredging” for oysters are compelled to lean over the boats and work like as if they were churning butter, rapidly moving to any fro the two slender wooden shafts, At a point below Elizabethport, some few miles in the Sound, there is a narrow stream, known to the eee Syl Creek,” myn rons sluggishly into the Sound, Between this cree} and the brick yard af any, Nyeridas t Curtis the Bupposed treasure of the pirate Kydd was discovered, The first portion was found some days since by an oyster fisherman named Van Peit, and since then there has been a larger amount found by three brophers, oyster fishermen, of the name of Dixon. Van Pelt and his father, another oyster fisherman, while dredging, brought wR Some large Silver coins, rusty with the river's brine and worn on the water's edge, form while in the bed of the sound. The coins were river's brine. The coins were fastened to amall oysters and bore every appearance of having lain there for hundreds of years. From a close observation under a powerful magni- fying glass there is not any coin at present circu- lated {n civilized countries similar to those found at the mouth of Morss’ Creek, There 1s a violent feud existing between the faml- lies of Van Pelt and Dixon, who seem to contest the oyster fishery In the Sound. People in the neigh- borhood belleve that the Dixon family have found @ eat deal of money which they have not accounted fs and the spectmens which they show are not all conclusive of their fair dealing with Leta | seek- ers, But there is one thing certain, and that is, that the coins fished up by the two famijies of Van Pelt and Dixon are genuine, as none of them are much less than two hundred years old. The coins range in date from 1534 to 1687, and are principally of Spanish, Flemish and Fast Indian coinage, pro- ably the plunder of half a dozen nations. It was in this little inlet that Kydd generally concealed his vessel hen he was desirous of visiting New York c 4 secretly. ° Hence 1¢ 18 probable that there ts @ vast amoun’ of treasure lying lid in the bosom of this sheet of water known as Staten Island Sound, which has not yet been touched by the tongs of the oystermen. It heeds a dredging machine, and as there were a swarm of boats yesterday on the ground delvi and dredging it is possible that thousands ‘ot people, when this morning's HERALD reaches them, will visit Elizabethport to see the silver coins for themselves. The oystermen were still finding the tweagure yesterday. and tho most intense excite h ment reigns in Elizabethport and the vleinity. From a few specimens in the possession of Mr, fobert MeCloud, on Ell abet ayenue, slizabeth ity, We have opted lowing inscriptions, some of which ‘¢ héarly obliterated, but which, ander a powerful magnifying glase, shone clear in the dirty silver, One coin, with a lion in a quarter- ine of a shield, about the size of au American OLIN LE OO ODIIDEDIDELEEDLE DE DE DDIEDE LODE DEDEDE Another, with a dragon and keys, silver. ate ne PVs II. OBOE BOB acesesesereapeerecesenieeogeesn Besides these two there are a hundred others that it would need the scholar and skilled numismatist to decipher, and it is hardly possible to ad any of the inscriptions on the coins without the aid of a powerful glass. One is dated 1534, a Spanish American coin of Peruvian make evidently, There are a number of small coins, evidently eaten away with salt water and sand and the wear and tear of the water, On these the single word “HISPANIA” las outlasted | even the gra eur of the nation whose mightiness they at one time typitied so well. “ARMY ORDERS. Changes in the Medical Department. WASHINGTON, May 23, 1872. The following changes in the duties and stations of oMecers of the Army Medical Department are made jurgeon Josiah Simpson, from duty at Fort McHenry, Md., to relieve Surgeon J. Simmons as attending surgeon and examiner of recruits at Baltimore. Surgeon Simmons ts ordered as Medl- cal Director of the Department of the Gulf. Surgeon Charles Page is transferred from the Department of the East to the Department of the Platte. Surgeon Alexander 1B. Hassin is transferred from the De- partment of the South to the Department of the st. The following changes tn Assistant Surgeons are made:—Samuel M. Horton, Willlain E, White- heal and William F, Buchanan from the Department ofthe East to the Department of Te 3. Eliot Ames, from the Department of the FE to the Departinent of Dakota tue Department of the Lakes to the’ Department of the Platte; Harvey E. Brown, from the Department of the Lakes to the Department of Dakota; Samuel S$. Jossup, from the Department » Lakes to the Departinent of Missourl; John H. Bartholf, from the Department of the South to the Department of the Lakes; Alfred D, Wilson, from the Department of the Platte to the Depart- ment of the East; Leonard Y. Loring, from the Department of the Missouri to the Department of East; William M, Notsam, from the Department as to the Department of the Lakes; Calvin from the Department of Arizona to the nent of California; Carioa Cavannatio, from Jepartinent of Texas to duty with the Surgeon General, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Bread and Water in the Navy—Chiefs of Staff? on Foreign Sta. tions. WASHINGTON, Many 23, 1872. The Secretary of the Navy ina circular issued to- day says:— The department has adverted to the frequent use by summary courts martial of punishment by con- finement in double irons. There is another punish- ment—continement on bread and water—which, though authorized by law, is liable to be inadver- tently imposed in cases were consequences not contemplated by the law would ensue, such as per- manent injury to the health of the prisoner, Sum- ue, courts will, therefore, exercise care and dis- cretion in resorting to this punishment, and not award it in any case for a longer period consecu- tively than five days. In a general order issued by the Navy Department to-day It is required that hereafter Ofiicers commanding foreign stations will be ad- dressed ofticially in correspondence as commanding United States naval forces of the station to whlca they are assigned, viz hiefs of stai? wil not be usually assigned to officers commanding stations, The oficer commanding the Ragehip will perform the duties of Chief of Staff in addition to his ordi- nary duties. No survey on a vessel in commission will be held without the authority of the depart- ment, either in our own or in foreign ports, unless the supposed defect shall haye occurred from the vessel getting on shore or from some accidental cause, as collision, for instance. Surveys on ma- chinery, outiits, stores and provisions, will be held as provided for heretofore by navy regulations, The Asiatic Squadron. WASHINGTON, May 23, 1872, Despatches to the Navy Department from Rear Admiral Rodgers, commanding the Asiatic fleet, George P. Jaquette, from | THE LONG STRIKE. The Movement Rapidly but Steadily ; Spreading. GERMANS GAINING GROUND. The Bight-Hour League, the Car Builders ‘and Pianoforte Makers. CARPENTERS’ AID SOCIETY. As anticipated, the strike is spreading in almost every direction, ‘The town will be allve with meet: ings to-night, and next week demonstrations and mass meetings will be in order, Thé movement has now reached and thoroughiy stirred the Ger- man element, and though that moves slowly, it hag a certain ponderosity of might and power that over- bears all ordinary obstructions and watves the con- sideration of time and incidental effects, CABINETMAKERS, CARVERS, VARNISHERS AND UPHOLSTERS, . ‘The Eight Hour League of cabinetmakers, varnishe ers, carvers and upholsterers continued their ses- sion yesterday at Teutonia Hall. Seven cabinet makers’ shops compromised with the men, A committee of 100 men were sent to the Messrs. Loux’s shop in Eighteenth street, but found it guarded by police and could not effect an entrance. There was no collision, however, and the com- es wee determined to lay in wait for tho workmen when they left the shop and force them to join the organization. by At Schuman’s, in Thirteenth street, when tha committee approached the proprietor gent out and got four or five kegs of lager, and the men were soon so busily engaged in drinking the beer that they could not find time to communicate with the committee without. At Pottter & Stymus’, in Forty-second street, out. ot 300 men engaged only one was working ten hours. A mass meeting was held in the hall at half-past two o'clock, at which Mr. Schluter presided, and lengthy speeches were made and received with im. mense enthusiasm and cheer ' A member of the firm of Wiasler & Co. appeared in the hall and stated that he was in favor of the moveme He did not want his men to work ten hours, and he came to beg that 2 committee would be seat down to his shop and clean tt out, making ail the men join the league. ‘This speech was re- ceived with the wildest cheering, THE UPHOLSTERERS, The upholsterers have met with worse luck so far, than any of their brothers of the strike, They complain of ill-treatment, and intend to go out toe morrow with larger committees, At one house a lady received them, and, when told their business, ordered them from the premises with more energy than politeness, Forty-flve manufacturers, some of whom are said to be millionnaires, have surren- dered to their terms. At noon a committee of 100 A. T. Stewart's, but not getting access so easily as expected, became nervously timid and made a hasty retreat, A committee of 200 will be sent to-day and it is expected they will be able to “interview” the men on their way to their work, A commit assent to Police Headquarters to protest to Superintendent Kelso against the man- ey in which the men on strike were treated by the police, A committce was also sent to the oMice of one of the German papers to protest against the language in which they had been referred to. These men are very quict and earnest, THE PIANOFORTE MAKERS The pianoforte makers met at three o'clock yess terday afternoon at Germania Hall, in the Bowery, ‘They were about seven hundred in number, and are, asabody, remarkably flne-looking and intelligent, men. Mr. Sieber was chosen President and made a brief address, The demand made by the pianos forte makers is for the reduction of the time, of labor to cight hours. Upon this issue they are united and decided. The proposition is also broached to demand an increase in the rates of wages, In regard to this there is little uniformity of action or opinions, some desiring an increase of fifteen per cent, while others wish an increase of twenty to tweuty-flve per cent on the rates now was sent to dated Nagasaki, Japan, April 9, inform the depart- ment that the Colorado reached Nagasaki April §, from Amoy and Kong Kong. She would proceed to Yokohatia, where Rear Admiral Jenkins was to re- lieve Admiral Rodgers of the command of the feet. ‘The Benicia was en route to relieve the Alaska at Yokohama. After visiting Foochow and Shanghae she was to take United States Consul Le Gendie | to Foochow, who is to obtaln for Gommander Kimberly an interview with the Viceroy of the Provin Commander Kimberly bears a letter from Admiral Rodgers, expressing satisfaction at the arrangements recently completed by Consul Le Gendie with the Chinese authorities and the chiefof the eighteen tribes of Southern Formosa, who are within the Viceroy’s jurisdiction, provid- ing for the rescue and humane treatment of per- sons shipwrecked upon the Formosa coast. The Ashnelot was at Hong Kong Maych 20, Admiral Rodgers gives an explanation of the past efforts of United States Consul Le Gendie to secure protec- tion to persons thrown upon the Formosa coast and lis subsequent satisfactory arrangements with the Chinese authorities. A’ ng other things effected to protect shipwrecked people from savages was a promise by the Chinese to build a fort and barracks and to maintain a garrison in them, and to build a upon the southern end of the island. 3d of March Admiral Rodgers and his in the Ashuelot to Canton and called upon roy on the 26th. The visit was returned the next day. The Asliuelot will remain at Nong Kong, Canton and Whampoa for about a month, when she will proceed up the coast, touching at the ports of Shanghae amd Nagasaki; thence she will go to the inland sea, where she will pass the summer tn surveying h ports as it t4 desirabt to have a more accurate knowledge of. The Monocacy remains at Shanghae, and the Alaska at Yokohama. The Palos was, at the date of the last report from her, at Tien-tsin, but was at the date of this report probably on the way to Shanghae. The storeship Idaho remained at Yokohama, Matters were yuiet in China and Japan, with the exception of the violent attempt which was made on March 26, by ten armed men, to force an entrance to the Mikato’s palace. The Japanese oficers are very reticent concerning the affair, but it is the general opinion of foreigners that it was an en- deavor by men disaffected toward the policy of the present yoverninent to kill the Mikado, It ts be- lieved there arg many disaifected people in Japan of anti-prozressive and anti-forelgh prefudices, Who would, with an opportunity, attempt the overthrow oa present government and change the public alley, . Pome Beco was at Singapore March 15. She had been detained at Aden two weeks by sickness among the crew. She had orders to proceed to Hong Kong from Singapore, Commander W. W, Low has been detached from the command of Mohican, and Is ple ing orders. Chief Engineer Harman New been detached from the Lancaster, and is granted sick leay ‘dhe Waliapoosa at Portsmonth, N. H. The United States steamer Tallapoosa arrived at | Portsmouth (N. FL) yard yesterday, having on board fifty seamen for the Tuscarora, now fitting for sea, THE ARCADIAN CLUB, ‘The “house warming” of the Arcadian Clab took plece last night, and about a couple of hundred members, either present or prospective, comprising Many of the most eminent local celebrities in art and letters, participated in the festivities. The rooms of the club were handsomely decorated, and the walls were adorned with a number.of choice paintings. The ceremonies were begun by a little introductory speech by Colonel Stebbins, after which Mr. W. H. Hurlburt, who enjoys the honor of having christened the club, explained in a few pithy sentences the aims of the organization. Rey. Hf. W. Beecher then made a short speech, in which he said that, as he understood it, Arcadia was the next thing to heaven, or a sort of earthly paradise, * . Dr. Bellows followed, and approved a cinb of this character as an agency for the support of the resthe- tle and idealistic elements of society against the urely niaterial and commercial spirit. Rev. Di. good Also made a brief speech, in which he com- Mehded the fraternal sentiment that led to the for- mation of clubs. At twelve o'clock Dodworth’s and, 100 pfeces strong, serenaded the club, and the enthusias urally reaeped fever heat. Anon, i aries As Weta il? fest ay: ties of the evening were Henr! Drayton, George Simpson, B.D wier, Mr. Hill, Mr, McDonald and Louls Engel. t may be added that the club yester- day obtained a three years’ lease of the entire house, 62 Union square, in which they at present have quarters. There canbe ng doubt, from the distinguished character of the gathering last even- paid. Again, a large num! object to agitating the question of Wages at this moment. A committee of sixteen was sent to the manufac- tory of Steinway & Sons, but were told they could not be admitted till six o'clock in the evening. Another committee of thirty-two divided into sub- committees, and these visited all the other shops of the city. German only spoken, Evening Session at Teatonia Hall. The evening session of the pianoforte makers, adjourned from Germania Hall, was held at tho ar here wert out seven hundred present and Mr, Sieber preside A great deal of talking was done and it was very interesting to those present who understood the language, The comiuittecs were appointed to visit Stein- ways’ and other shops to-day, It was sti the demand was for a redue- tion of ht hours and an addition of twenty pe rates paid on piece work, A meeting of the pianoforte makers will be held at Germania Hall on Sunday, when committees appointed last night to visit shops and obtain the sentiment of the workmen will report, and an organization be formed for the purpose of a gene- ral strike, The meeting was very enthusiastic. SASH AND BLIND MAKERS, The second meeting of the Sash and Blind Makers? Union was hell at Military Hall last night, with William Bogart in the chair, and Theodore Hen- drick as Secretary. Reports were received from committees, stating that of the twenty-eight shops heard from, includ- ing all the principal ones in the city, only’one re- fused to accede to the eight-hour system. On motion, a rule was adopted under which glaziers, who ‘were steadiiy employed in the shops where sashmakers work, Shall be entitled to the privilege of enrolment tn the union, ‘The President made an address advising the men to stick together and not to accept the balt of ad- ditional pay for lengthening the hours of labor. An old man, he thought it well to say he felt him. self growing younger since in the last week he had been working only eight hours a day. A motion was made and carried that all machine hands should be eligible to membership in the union, Adjourned to meet on Tuesday evening. OAR BUILDERS, The car builders held a meeting last evening at 615 Third avenue. Daniel Kinsella was chosen President; James Tulbridge, Vice President; 8. I. Race, Secretary, and James Cassidy, Treasurer, The President, on taking the chair, said the meet ing was called for the purpose of arranging for a strike. The car builders employed by the Second Avenue Railroad Company had struck for an in- crease of pay aK) Fi 5to $3 They had been denied this, insults he: pes upon them and the shops closed, They hac conferred with the em. ployés of other lines and had been told they had not denianded enough. He had visited every shop Inthe elty and found the men all in favor of the eight-hour movement, Besides a committee from the carpenters have offered us assistance and funds, A MEMBER—We Want eight hours’ time and more wages. ANorHeR MeMpeR—I will work ten hourg if I get more money. THIRD MEMBER—I move we go on astrike to-night. Mr. BeLron thought they would not be Pally aii. fled in striking. @ carpenters had moré on than they. ey Were compelled to go to distant parts of the city to work, while the car builders were employed regularly in ove shop. working in- doors falr weather and foul and all the year round. He finally moved to strike for nine hours. (Cries Of “NO, 10,") pana ganse ated AU Ae ied A Miitnet—fight hours is the law of the State and the law of the nation. SECOND MemBer—We are not organized. Wo have no funds togoon a strike, andI have ning children and can't. stand Lae essure, Let us or- ganize now, and walt a year il we have saved gp I then strike, mR. MeMBen—IE we Walt a year we will then have to strike for nine hours. If we go on now we can strike them for an increase of wages, as all the other unfons intend to do. ) Fourth MeMBER—I move that the car builderg strike for cight hours, The motion Was carried and the meeting ad- Journed, A SINGULAR CASE OF RETRIBUTIOK, BUFFALO, May 23, 1872, Asingular case of apeedy retribution occurred here to-lay. Two track laborers started to walk from Lake View to Buffalo. One of them, name unknown, pretended to be without money. The other, John Connelly, pala for his meals en route, When within five miles of this city the unknown man presented a pistol to Connelly’s head, robbed i that the “Arcadian” is destined to be a most Dritiant success, Although only a month old, it al- ready pumbers 143 members, him of $15, and proceeded on the track, when, @ few minutes afterwards, he was overtaken by @ pessing train and killed,