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LIVINGSTONE. CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE. ‘support himself while attending the Medical and Greek classes. Having informed some religious men of Glasgow of his wishes, he was advised by them to join the London Missionary Society, on ac- count of its unsectarian character. He had in- tended to have worked on assiduously at the factory until he should have acquired ‘enough money to fit himself out for China, but this unprejudiced society made ‘such an impression on him by its unselfish views of the duty of good Christians that he applied for a membership, and succeeded in it, though not until he had passed @ severe examination and satisfled the committee through his thorough knowledge of medicine that-he would be of service in the mis- «elon work. FIRST VOYAGE TO AFRICA. In the year 1840 he embarked on a ship bound to the Cape of Good Hope. This was his first voyage. On arriving at Cape Town he proceeded to Algoa Bay, and from thence inland to the Krouman Mission Station, in the Bechuana country, a distance of 700 miles from Cape Town. After residing at this place for the better part of four years be proposed ‘to Miss Moffat, daughter of Mr. Moffatt, missionary, for her hand in marriage, and was accepted, This union with Miss Moffatt was blessed with three boys anda girl. This is the devoted wife whu ac- ‘companied him on his travels for so many years. ‘ HIS INSTRUCTIONS, The instructions Dr. Livingstone received from ‘the directors of the London Missionary Society were ‘to proceed northward of Krouman and try and benefit some of the tribes in the comparatively un- Known districts of the Beshuana country and morthward still if possivle. His experiences in this remote country are faithfully detailed in his book entitled “Missionary Travels and Researches fin South Africa.” More than two-thirds of that part of Africa south of the equinoctial line was explored by him, Lakes and rivers, deserts and mountains, green valleys and plains were for the first time made known to the world, with the zoology, geography and botany of the countries or districts he visited. A more interesting book of travels than the above mentioned is seldom published. The mysteries of an unexplored continent are revealed ‘to the reader. In the year 1856 he returned from his tour of six- teen years, After arest of two years he returned ‘aud made another journey up the Zambezi and its tributaries. On this extensive tour he discovered Lakes Shirwa and Nyapa, the headwaters of the Nile. In 1864 he returned to England, a bronzed, middle-aged man, but remarkably vigorous, taking | into consideration the unhealthy climate he had | been living in. ' MYSTERY OF HIS JOURNEYINGS. Now we come to the purpose of this letter, which \s to endeavor to resolve the mystery about Living- Stone, or, if not to resolve it, to at least give the atest information about bim. At the time of Livingstone’s arrival from the Zambezi ‘and §6its tributaries great enthusiasm had been caused among the scientific circles of England and America by the important dis- coveries which had attended the investigations of Major Grant and Captain Speke—viz., the discovery of what had so long remained a mystery to the ‘world—the sources of the Great Nile. Sir Samuel Baker and his adventurous lady-wife had pene- ‘trated on each side of the Nile sources, and had ‘ascertained that though Speke and Grant had found ‘one of the main fountainheads, there were others aying in other directions, producing other refluent currents which swelled the Nile to the stately river which joins the Baber el Azreek, or the Blue Nile, The burning deserts that we were told at school trended awny toward the equatorial line and the fabled mountains of the moon, vanished like a dream before the statements of these bold explorers, and became filled up by | vast lakes and fertile regions—an Utopian land, ‘the soil of which no white man had trod upon pre- | viously. Brave Dr. Livingstone, doing God's work | “wherever he went, shedding the light of the Holy Gospel among the heathen tribes who lived south- ‘ward of these places, had attempted to continue his explorations northward on behalf of science, ‘but he had been prevented from accomplishing this | ‘wish of his heart by insufficient means and the too | great depth of his vessel—the Pioneer. He was therefore obliged to return to England to procure a vessel more adapted for the navigation of the shallow rivers that sprung from the direction of the Lake Albert Nyanza. HIS JOURNEY IN 1865. In, 1866 Dr. Livingstone prepared for his third | journey of discoveries along the river Rovuma, to- | wards the northern extremity of the Nyassa Lake, with the intention of ascertaining whether Lake Nyassa and Lake Tanganyika join waters. Lake ‘Tanganyika had never veen visited by any traveller; | ‘Ddut the Doctor had heard of its existence as lying | ina northwesterly direction. If Lake Tanganyika | and Lake Nyassa joined waters, by travelling siill northward toward Lake Albert Nyanza it might be ascertained that Nyanza ‘was not the main fountainhead, but that it sprung from a chain of lakes, consisting of | Nyassa, southward of the Equator, Lake Tangan- yika, Lake Albert Nyanza and other minor lakes. The grand problem would then have been resolved fully, past any doubt, as the whole country south- ward of Lake Nyassa has been sufficiently ex- plored. AWAY. With this object he left Engiand on the 14th of | August, 1865, accompanied by his daughter as far as Paris. From Paris he went to Bombay and | commenced his preparations. From Bombay he | proceeded to Zanzibar, accompanied by two boys | he had picked up in the Shiré country—Chanmaand | ‘Wakotani—as well as by @ number of men from Johanna Islands (one of the Comoro Isles), a mative Havildar (a Sepoy sergeant of India), a few enlisted Sepoys and some Suahili from a school at Bombay. On the 28th of March, 1866, the great explorer and his motley followers crossed over tothe mainland, from the island of Zanzibar, and at once started for the interior by way of the river Rovuma. As he journeyed on let- ters came from him occasionally informing the de- lighted public of his progress, and the extremely interesting incidents which one would naturally suppose would characterize his otherwise loncly | march to the interior. But in December of the | same year the leader of the Johanna men who | had accompanied the Doctor arrived at Zanzibar with a tale which saddened all who heard it—that | Dr. Livingstone, the great African traveller, had | been murdered on the shores of Lake Nyassa, by | ® band of the Ma-zitus. The tale bore such &n appearance of truth about it that very few peo ple, indeed, had the slightest idea of doubting it. He, Moosa, the leader of the Johnna men, alone of | all Livingstone’s party, had escaped to convey the grievous tidings. NEWS OF HIS DEATH BY MURDER. As it may be interesting to know what Moosa‘s ale was the following letter will not be out of | Place published here :— | DESTATOHES FROM DR. SEWARD, HER MAJESTY’S POLITICAL RESIDENT AT ZANZIBAR, TO * LORD STANLEY, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ZANZIBAR, Dec. 10, 1866, My Lorp—I send < the saddest news, Dr. Livingstone, in his despatch from Ngomano, in- formed your Lordship that he stood ‘on’ the Siremenl of the unexplored.” Yet, as if that which should betide him had ‘already thrown its | — he added :—""lt is bnt to say Uttle of the ure, Lord, if the report of some fugitives from hi pare true, ts. brave and Good man ans the threshoid of the anexplored’—he has confronted the future and will never return. He was Slain, so it is alieged, during a sudden and un- Provoked encounter with those very Zulus of | whom he says, in his despatch, that they had laid Waste the country round about him and had “awept away the food from above and tn the nd.” ith an escort reduced totwenty b: er cenet Rage ym a. fd had vaarae § }» that terra incognita between the con- Guence of the Loende and Rovuma rivers, at Nyomano, and the eastern or northcastern uitoral of Lake Nyassa; had crosse:] the jake at #ome point a# yet unascertained; had reached a station named Kompoonda or Mapoonda, on its ‘western, Saga {ts northwestern, shore, and ‘was pushing west or northwest, ‘into | which he crossea; NEW Nyassa bow and arrow, the shield, broad-bladed spears and axes. With Living- stone there were nine or ten muskets; his Jobanna men were resi with their loads far in the rear. The Mafilte ntly came on to fight; there was no parley, no avoidance of the combat; they came on with a'rush, with war cries and rattling on their shields their spears. As Livingstone and his party raised their pieces their onset was for a moment checked, but only for a moment. Livingstone fired and two Zulus were shot dead (his boys fired too, but their fire was harmless); e was in the act of reloading when three Mafilte deaped upon him through the smoke, There was ne resistance—there could be none—and one cruel axe cut from behind him put him out of life. He fell, and when he fell his ter- ror-stricken escort fled, hunted by the Mafilte. One at least of the fugitives escaped; and he, the eye-witness, it is who tells the tale—Ali Moosa, chief of his escort of porters, The rty had left the western shores of Nyassa about five days. They had started from Kompoonda, on the lake’s borders (they left the havildar of Se- poys there hi of dysentery ; Livingstone had dis- missed the other vig of the Bombay ‘Twenty-first at Mataka), and had rested at Marenga, where Liv- ingstone was cautioned not to advance. The next station was Mahlivoora ; an were traversing a fat country, broken by small hills, and abundantly wooded. Indeed, the scene of the tragedy so soon to be con- summated would appear to have been an open forest glade, Livingstone, as usual, led the way, his nine or ten unpractised musketeers at his heels. Ali Moosa had nearly come up with them, having leit his own Johanna men resting with their loads far in the rear. Suddenly we heard Living- stone warn the boys that the Ma-zitus were coming. The boys in turn beckoned Moosa to press forward, Moosa saw the crowd here and there between the trees. . He had just gained the party and sunk down be- hind a tree to deliver his own fire when his leader fell. Moosa fled for his Ife along the path he had come, Meeting his Johanna men, who threw down their loads and in a body really passed Moosa, his escape and that of his party verges on the marvellous, However, at sunset, hey, in groat fear, left thelr forest refuge, and got to the place where they hoped to tind their baggage. It was gone, and then, with inceasing dread, they crept to where the slain traveller lay. Near him, in front, lay the grim Zulus who were killed under his sure aim; here and there lay scat- tered some four dead fugitives of the expedition. That one blow had killed him outright, he had no other wound but this terrible gash; it must have gone, from their description, through the neck and spine up to the throat in front, and it had nearly decapitated him. Death came mercifully in its iu- stan suddenness, for David Livingstone was ever ready. They found him pepe of his pRee clothing, the Ma-zitus had respected him when dead. They dug with some stakes a shallow grave and hid from the starlight the stricken temple of a grand spirit—the body of an apostle, whose martyrdom should make sacred the shores of that sea which his labors made known to us, and which now, baptized with his life’s blood, men should henceforth know as “Lake Livingstone.” HIS _REPUTED DEFENDERS, The names of those who stood before the M: with Livingstone should not be unremembered:— Adams, James Cnooma, Walker, Abraham Pariella, Simon Price, Edward Gardner, Albert Buraher, Lakoombo, Maeowoh Jooma, Ali Moosa. Of these, four were seen dead near the corpse of Livingstone; the rest, save Ali Moosa, are missing. CONCLUSION OF THE DETAIL, The Johanna men made the most of their way back to Komposndo, or Mapoonda, not venturing near any village or station. They lost themselves in the jangle and were fourteen days on their way. At Kompoonda they witnessed the end of the Ha- vildar of Sepoys, Bombay Twenty-first native in- fantry. He alone of all the Indians was faithful. On the threshold of this Consulate at Zanzibar he pledged himself at the moment of starting never to forsake his leader. Nor didhe. To the last he struggied on, worn with dysentery, but broke down hopelessly on the road to Marenga. A day or two later and he would have shawed his leader's fate. Insubordinate, lazy, impracticable and use- less, Livingstone had dismissed the other Sepoys at Mataka. Had they been faithful, like their Havildar, I should not have had to inscribe a record of this sad happening. Their unfitness for African travel might have been predicted. At Kompoonda the Jonanna men were deprived of their weapons by the chief, who also kept the Havildar’s. Here they joined an Arab slave caravan, recrossed the Nyassa and made for Keelwa, the great siave outlet on the Zanzibar coast. But here ier? and when least expected, they encountered the Ma-zitus. They had reached. Keepareygree, eight days southwest of Keelwa, when the appearance of a band of these savages scattered the caravan. Abandoning ivory, slaves, their all, the Arab leaders thought but of saving their lives. The Johanna men again made their escape and reached Keelwa, whence, by the kindness of the Vustoms people, ny were at once sent on to Zanzibar. They arrived here on the 6th of December. RESPECT FOR HIS NAME. It wiil be gratifying to learn to the many and true friends of Dr. Livingstone that when on his sad end being known the British flag was lowered at this Consulate ; the French, the American and Hanseatic Saas were at once flown half-mast high, the Consuls payin; e ig &@ spontaneous tribute to his memory—an ‘xample shortly followed by all the foreign vesseis in the harbor. The Sultan's fl also lowered. I must reserve other details for a subsequent let- ter; but I may state that no papers, effects or relics of Livingstone are likely to be recovered. G. EDWARD SEWARD. POSTSCRIPT. The date of Dr. Livingstone’s death is left as much to conjecture as the place of his grave. All that we certainly know is that he was at Nyomano on the 18th of May last; that he proceeded to Mataka, whence he sent a despatch to thisConsulate. From Mataka he is said to have made for and struck Nyassa, but where, or where Mataka is, cannot be ascertained. The runaway Reuben, with the Sepoys, states that Livingstone left Mataka a few days before they set out on their re- turn journey to Zanzibar. They were one month and twenty days on the road to Keelwa, which they reached during the latter days of September. It may be inferred from this that Livingstone left Mataka about the middle of last July, The Johanna men named six weeks as the probable time of their return journey from Mapoonda to Keelwa with the slave caravan. The fight with the Zulus took place sixteen days before they set out. They reached Keelwa in November, Zanzibar the 6th of December. Roughly, then, we may conjecture the déath of their leader to have happened during September. The statements of our informants as to time, dis- tance and direction are distressingly vague and untrustworthy. G. EDWIN SEWARD. SORROW AND FAITH. The above is the story of his death, condensed from the voluminous evidence voluntarily given by Moosa on his return to Zanzibar. Everybody be- | Heved it, because there could be no reason sug- | gested for unbeiief. The sorrow felt at the reading of this despatch was deep and world-wide. A good man, a brave Christian, the most indefatigable of travellers had died a martyr, just as he stood on the threshold of the unexplored. Dr. Kirk, of Zanzibar, a companion in former years of some of his travels in South Africa, took Moosa under his own special attention, questioned him and cross-examined him in every way, but bare facts only remained, looking more terrible and ghastly as he proceeded. Dr. Kirk confirmed Mr. Seward’s despatch in a very lengthy letter, de- tailing more circumstantially than the Resident the manner of Livingstone’s death. And so it became adeep-settled conviction in the minds of ali that | David Livingstone, the great traveller, was dead, But not by all people was Moosa’s nicely woven story, even the subsequent results, the return of the rest of the Johanna men and the Sepoys to the coast, received without a very large margin. Among these gentlemen was Sir Roderick Murchison, the President of the Society at London, who is regarded as a seer by many learned savans from the fact that he said that “there must be gold in Australja.” Gold was found as predicted, and in such abundant quantities that no sane person can entertain a doubt that he prophesied falsely. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison has had a wide reputation upon this score. He has gestions, theories, paraphrases and what not, and is regarded by the good people of Britain as an extrgordinary old man. Sir Roderick is, indeed, avery learned man, and Sir Roderick did not be- lieve this story, and would not believe it; some in- tuitive knowledge forbade him to do so, which is by no means cleat, why he should not, as mere knowledge by intuition would never be regarded as evidence by any learned judge or jury; but there it ‘was; his instinct forbade him to do so, Next there was Mr. E. D, Young, an African traveller or trader, who came forward and testified that he had once a servant who was & Mahometan, who wasa perfect rascal of a fellow, and the Mahometans of Southern Africa were all very similar in disposition and character to Ali Moosa. Mr, Young also volun- teered to say that he had some doubts of the trath of the story; that he believed it to be a cunning fabrication of Moosa’s and his view of Jo- hanna, Said Mr. Young, might not Moosa and his companions have deserted the Doctor, and ‘without such a tale as this to justify their return could they claim their pay of an English Consul? Their wits had served them sufficiently to palm this narrative off, and it was $0 colored with love and devotion to their master that not one man out of a thousand would doubt its truth. THE ENGLISH EFFORT FOR DISCOVERY. As Moosa’s tale gathered bellevers, so Sir Rod- dangerous ground. when between Marenga and erick’s and Mr. Youna’s statements did, and an ex Geographical | written pamphlets and books full of recondite sug- | YORK pedition was determined upon to penetrate to the exact spot where it was said he was murdered, The expedition was to be composed of one scienti- fic man, one volunteer and two or three employés to work the boat on the rivers. With their usual readiness the wealthy people of England had sub- scribed a sufficient sum to cover all and any ex- penses that might be incurred during the search after Livingstone, On the 12th July, 1867, the little expedition arrived safely at Table Bay, and on the 25th of the same month Her Majesty's steamship Petrel, which con- veyed the party, dropped auchor at the mouth of the Zambezi. in the instructions addressed to Mr. E. D. Young, the leader of this “Livingstone Search Expedition,” Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, the President of the Royal Geographical Society, stated tersely and explicity what was expected of them, thus :— First—That the council of the Boney poe agreed upon sending an expedition towards Lake Nyassa, to ascertain the truth or falsehood of a report re- specting the fate of Dr. Livingstone, and that they had chosen him (Mr. Young) to command it, He was to proceed to the northern shores of Lake Nyassa as soon as possible, in the neighborhood of which it was supposed that post: tive information could be obtained respecting the movements or fate of the Doctor. Third—As he went along he was to notice what- ever was interesting in the country, but was not to let anything lead him from the great object of the search, Fourth—As the latest intelligence of Dr. Living- stone was that he had been at a village between forty and fifty miles to the northwest of the head of the lake, where he was said to have been mur- dered by a tribe of the Ma-zitus, he was to proceed” towards that neighborhood, weigh weil every item of information received, with the various motives which would be likely to prompt the Huropeans, effete Portuguese and natives who lve to give such information. He was also to en- deavor to obtain as many relics as poasible of Liv- ingstone, and to more especially try to see any article that the Doctor would not be likely to part with voluntarily, UP THE ZAMBEZI. With such explicit instructions there could be no possibility of misunderstandings. On the sth of August, 1867, the little steel boat named the Search was pointed up the Zambezi River, and started on her brave duty with the best wishes and hopes of the peoples «m the European and American conti- nents, ‘MRS, LIVINGSTONE’S GRAVE. It is unnecessary to enter into the details of her voyage, as they are foreign to the purpose of this lettery But I may mention that the grave of Mrs. Livingstone, the faithful, courageous wife of a noble man, was visited at Shupanaga, and fixed up appropriately. Along both banks of the Zambezi the dark natives of the country flocked to see their friends, the English, with many anxious inquiries as to the whereabouts of the “Father” (Dr. Living- stone). The good seed sown by this eminent mis- sionary had fallen on ground where it brought forth fruit abundantly. Much evil had been abolished and blessed tranquillity had reigned in consequence in many portions of the continent which he had visited. Much of the slave trade had diminished; in short, Livingstone had morally revolutionized the country. STANLEY'S RESOLVE AND REASONS. Your correspondent is thus particular in his de- sciptions, as having published the letter containing the story of his death, I feel it incumbent on me to disprove it if possible, and cannot do so with better success than by producing before the reader such statements as have been made by Mr. Young and other subsequent information. On the 4th of September the leader of the boat Search first heard of a white man having been seen at Pamfunda, on Lake Pamalombi, and that he had two Ajawa boys with him. But as this lake is far | south of Lake Nyassa it was barely possible that he had drifted so far from the destination agreed upon before the Geographical Society. On the 7th of September Mr. Young arrived at Lake Pamalombi and became convinced that the white man seen south of Lake Nyassa was Living- stone himself. Livingstone had not gone north- ward, as it was expected he would, but to make his travels and researches complete he had proceeded southward. Thus it was the Doctor was found out in several ways—by his naval cap, his mustache, his size, the color of his hair and the goodness which never left him. The two boys also who accompa- nied hiin were instantly identified by their names, which the old chief remembered as Chuma and Wako (short for Wakotani). Moosa was also | known, the Havildar of the Sepoys, and a little dog named Chitani were recognized by the accurate pantomimic description given by the chief. On the 10th of the same month other reports, con- firmatory of those previously received, were hailed by the “searchers” as indubitable proofs that | Moosa’s story was an able and most cunning con- | ception ofa brain prompted by a most cowardly | heart. An empty cartridge case (Enfield) and an iron spoon of English make, marked “Patent.” were brought to Mr. Young. A _ photographic album, with Livingstone’s picture in it, was handed to one of the natives, who remembered the “good white man” who had given him these things, and he was asked to show the man among all those pictures who | mostly resembled him. | leaves curiously, and when he came to Living- stone’s said triumphantly, ‘That is like him; that | is like him, only his dress was not like that.” On the 13th a small English prayer book was brought. Two days afterwards a knife was pro- duced to the searchers, which the natives said the white man had exchanged for some rice. A small village had been discovered by the gentleman volunteer when the Ajawa boy, Wakotani, had been verv ill, where he had laid several weeks while the Doctor had continued his discoveries northward, Mr. Young crossed the southern point of Lake Nyassa at the very point which is known by the Arab crossing where Dr. Livingstone crossed. At | Marengas an account of a white man was had who was immediately identified again as Livingstone, with his dog and his servants, from a native who had helped him over with bis luggage. Mr. Young was directed from here to a village called Pacahoma, where the white man had only seven men with him carrying guns—“Moosa and company being conspicuously absent in this enu- meration of his followers.” When Mr. Young | told the people at Pacahoma that he had come to look after him, the natives said, laughing, ‘Why he is gone to the Bahisa country; how are you to catch him up? it would | take three moon's journey to reach it.’ Mr. Young replied that he had heard he had been killed by the Ma-zitus; but they said, ‘Oh, no, why he went that way on purpose to avoid them, and we know he went far beyond, where it would take monihs to walk.” Now, this spot was a great dis- | tance from that indicated by Moosa. On the 25th of September the searchers reached Mapunda. At this place a book entitled “The First Footsteps in the Way of Knowledge was exhibited, on which was written, “This book belongs to Wakotani, Bombay, 15 December, 1864." The boy had left Mapunda, after long waiting for Livingstone, for the coast. At Chibissa, on the Shire River, on the 18th of October, the pargy of Mr, Young heard that Dr. Livingstone had shot one of the principal chiefs of the Ma-zitu tribe in an encounter he had with him, and that all the Ma-zitas had run away from him in consequence, leaving him to pursue his travels unmolested. LIVINGSTONE’S LETTER FROM UJIJI. The Royal Geographical Society in London rfe- ceived letters from Livingstone himself up to February, 1867, wherein he stated that he had been staying for a long time with Ma Taka, who commands and rules a division of the Ajawa tribe. In October, 1867, Dr. Livingstone was at Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, with the “unexpiored” flelas be- fore him, Whether Lake Tanganyika is an isolated lake, cut off from Lake Albert Nyanza on the north and Lake Nyassa on the south by ranges of moun- tains, or whether these three great reservoirs form 4 chain of lakes contributing each thelr portion to the delivery of Egypt from the deserts which press so closely upon what there remains of fertile land, Dr, Livingstone is bent upon finding out, and, being of a determined disposition and engaged in a labor of love, the great unexplored will be a mystery no longer. REPORT OF HIS COMING HOME. October 20, 1863, there appeared a letter in the London Times from Sir Roderick Murchison, Prest- dent of the Royal Geographical Society, stating that he believed Dr. Livingstone was on his way home, and that there was every brobablijty that by next The native turned over the | it) ¢ Fae. Christm as (1868f the great traveller would be wel- comea by ali England. The report, he said, had emanated from Zanzibar—the island irom whence he started on his travels—and as he had no just Treason why he should not believe it he gave it a8 much credence as possible. STANLEY'S COMMISSION BY THE HERALD. Knowing how very interesting any authentic news of him would be to the public of both conti- nents the New York Hexaup, with that rare energy Which always characterizes its actions, de- spatched your correspondent to find him—Dr. Liv- ingstone, It was a dificult thing to decide as to whether 1 should go to Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa, or to Khartoum, at the confluence of the two Niles, in Upper Nubia. If I went to one place the Doctor might be coming by the other way. There was nothing definite about it. Sir Rod- erick’s published account of a report he had heard was all there was to act by, But something had to be done, and very slight time there remained for action, if Sir Roderick’s letter contained a fact. Egypt was my initial point, and, after debating well the chances of his arrival at both places, I determined upon proceeding as quickly as possible to Zanzibar; because the report said that he was within a week’s march of the Island, Allowing a little margin because it was rumor, and giving it six weeks, I would be in ample time to reach nim at Zanzibar, but then it was my duty to lock the doors of the Nile lest our great traveller should escape in that direction, and accordingly I telegraphed to a gentleman (Greek) residing at Khartoum, Upper Nubia, to send me word directly should anything be heard of the Doctor. Having done which, I was at liberty to proceed to Zanzibar, . FIRST NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN. The following is what I have gleaned from the trouble I have taken, A gentleman at Zanzibar informed me thus :—*Sir Roderick Impey Murchison is @ good old soul and formerly was a man of vast intellect and indomitable powers, but he is becoming 4 old and garrulous, and not very much dependence can be placed upon what he says.” Another one said:—“Pooh! pooh! my dear sir. Livingstone is such an obstinate old fellow that if he thinks there is anything wrong in his journal he will turn right back to the exact spot to verify it; and until his work is well, com- pletely done, there is no hope of his coming, and, having found out the true sources of the Nile, to make sure of the old river, he will go right down it till he finds himself somewhere near Cairo.” Here is another—a written statement—which completely upsets Sir Roderick’s calculations and exposes the origin of the story which misled him:— ISLAND OF ZANZIBAR, Dec. 26, 1868. DEAR SrR—I should be most happy to assist you in any way whatever; but, in reply to your note, I beg to assure you of my candid belief of his non- ey pearance, There is not the slightest probability of his ever coming again to this island. Dr. Kirk, the British Vice Consul here, and who was with Dr. Livingstone for some years during his travels in Africa, thinks it more than probable that he will come out at the Nile and has not the least expecta- tion of having the pleasure of eri him here. In September, 1568, Her Majesty’s ship Octavia, Sir Leopold Heath, C. B., left here, and as I see by the Bombay papers, on her arrival at Trincomalee, which is in Ceylon, reported that when she left Zanzibar Dr. Livingstone was re- ported within a week’s march of the coast. This, if you saw it, probably misled you also to believe he would come here, but it is hardly necssary to say that the statement was without the slightest foundation of truth, and was probably written from some entire misconception by the writer of some conversation which took place between him and Dr. Kirk. Trusting, however, you will succeed on the other side, 1 am, dear sir, very Tespectfully, FRANCIS Rk. WEBB, United States Vice Consul, HOW HE MAY COME OUT. Now, the readers of this letter know really as much of the whereabouts of Dr. Livingstone as I do, but probably from conversations heard from different persons I have greater reasons for judging of the case, and I believe it will be a very long time yet before Dr. Livingstone arrives, and that his re- turn will be by the River Nile. LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR OF UNYANYEMBE. Anglo-Asiatic First Accounts of Stanley’s Success, The Lahore (E. I.) Chronicle of the 21st of May, 1872, published. the following first Anglo-Asiatic reports of Stanley’s success :— ZANZIBAR, April 16, 1872. A slave of Sha rsiboo, Governor of Unyan- acne arrived at Zanzibar on the last day of larch, bringing letters from his master, the Gov- ernor, to His Highness Syed Aurgash. He reports that his master and himself went to a place half- way, between Ujiji and Unyanyembe, and there met a Zanzibar Arab—Syed bin Majid (an old ivory trader)—that his master had a conference with him earn him to go upon an expedi- tion against Marambo (a chief they have been fight- | ing with some five or six months) ; that while his master was writing some letters he (the slave) nad a long talk with the said Syed bin Majid—he (Majid) saying that the Mazungo Inglez (Dr. Livingstone) had, but a few days before he left, arrived at ae from @ cannibal country (name not recollected) and at Ujiji met the Mazungo American (Mr. Stan- ley). Both were well, liv: ng together at Ujiji in the same honse, If this is true it may seem strange to some that Dr. Livingstone or Mr. Stanley did not write or send some message to Zanzibar; but those who know both persons will feel sure they had some private reasons for not doing so. Those who conversed with the messenger in the presence of Abdoolla Narsiboo, brother of the Governor, feel that this re- port of Dr. Livingstone being alive and well, and of Mr. Stanley meeting him, isto be relied upon. The Livingstone expedition profess to doubt it, but Iam told that, with one exception, all the white residents in Zanzibar believe the report to be true. This messenger had not the slightest advantage to ee by concocting a story. He told it first to the other ot his master, to whom he brought letters; and when it was found that he had come from Unyanyembe pcople sent for him and heard as above. He returned to Unyanyembe on April 10, with letters from His Highness, and more than four- teen hundred pounds’ worth of goods for his mas- ter (the Governor of Mo Aare conveying these goods some five or six days from the coast, and then leaving them in charge of another head man, so asto enable him to travel as quickly as Roane to Unyanyembe. By May 10 he ougnt to there. The editor of the Lahore Chronicle having given the above-quoted letter, added the following edito- rial remarks LIVINGSTONE SAFE.—Though the evidence we are now able to offer below does not atford a chain of continous strength, we have sufficient confidence in it to warrant our adopting the heading above, The whole story hangs on the verbal statement of an Arab trader and he not aman of any recognized position; but the next link is much stronger— namely, that nearly all the European residents in Zanzibar have accepted the Arab’s story of Living- stone being safe and well at gut and in the com- pany of Mr. ‘Commissioner Staniey, who we know started from Zanzibar with a full stock of stores and comforts, such as the much-battered explorer might well be in need of. It will be observed, how- ever, that Dr, Livingstone has made his way from the “cannibal country” unaided and alone, so far as Luropean assistance is concerned. We trust that means will be taken to prevent the too tardy “rescue expedition” carrying him off in triamph to London. ivingstone must come to Bombay, whence he started, as we ail remember well, early in 1866, SPAIN. Political Party Resolve Against Monarchism— Amadeus to Make a Provincial Tour—Royal Gage of Challenge to Carlism. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mapnip, July 1, 1872. The republicans have resolved as a party to op- pose every form of monarchical government in Spain, to acknowleage no monarchical authority and to abstain from all elections while monarchy exists in the country. At the same time members of the majority in the Cortes and former members of the Ministry belonging to the conservative party have determined to withdraw from the political arena, CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY AGAINST CARLISM, King Amadeus will soon visit the northern prov- inces of the kingdom, passing through those which have been most disturbed by the Carlist agitation. NEW PRESIDENT OF THE PUBLIO SOHOOL TEACHERS’ ASSOOLATION, At a meeting of the members of the Public School Teachers’ Association held yesterday the ticket headed by Arthur McMullen for President was elected by ‘unanimous vote. The meeting took place in the male department of the Grammar School in Thirtieth street, near Sixth avenue, and, notwithstanding the extreme heat of the day, there was e vory full Of the Momberiy HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 2 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. nONY WASHINGTON. Wasninoton, July 1, 1872, The New Board of Ordnance. During the late session of Congress, a clause was inserted in the Army bill appropriating one hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars forthe manufacture of arms at the National Armory, and providing that no part of this appropriation shall be expended until a breach-loading system for muskets and car- bines shall have been adopted for the military ser- vice, upon the recommendation of a Board, to be appointed by the Secretary of War, which Board Shall consist of not less than five oficers, as follows: One general officer, one ordnance officer, and three oMcers of the line, one to be taken from the cavalry, one from the infantry and one from the artillery, and that the system, when so adopted, shall be the only one to be used by the Ordnance Department in the manufacture of muskets and carbines for the military service, and no royalty shall be paid by the government of the United States for the use of said patent, to any of its om- cers or employés, or for any patent on which said officers or employés may be directly or indirectly interested, In conformity with the above provis- ions a board will assemble in the city of New York, on September 3, 1872, with authority to adfourn to Springfield Armory, in order to avail itself of the resouces of that establishment, which are hereby plnced at its disposal, to consider and recommend for adoption a breech-loading system for muskets and carbines for the military service. The following 1s the detail for the Board :—Briga- dier General A. H. Terry, United States Army; Colonel P, V. Hagner, Ordnance Department; Colonel H. B. Clitz, Tenth infantry; Major M. A, Reno, Seventh cavalry; Captain L. L. Livingston, Third artillery. Second Lieutenant Henry Metcalf, of the Ordnance Department is detailed Recorder of the Board. All persons interested in small arms are invited to submit samples and appear in person. under such rules as may be adopted by the Board. A Board, to consist of Colonel R. H, R. Whitley, of the Ordnance Department; Colonel George W. Getty, Third artillery; Lieutenant Colonel H. G. Wright, Corps of Engineers; Lieutenant Colonel T. T. 8 Laidley, Ordnance Department; Major Tra- man Seymour, Fifth artillery; Major Silas Crispin, Ordnance Department, and First Lieutenant C. E. Dutton, Ordnance Department, has been appointed by the War Department to meet in New York city July 10, for the purpose of examining such models of heavy ordnance as may be presented to it, and of designating and reporting to the Chief of Ordnance such models as may be selected for ex- periments under the following provision of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1872:— That the following sums be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the ‘Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the port of the army for the year ending June 39, 1: jor experiments and tests of heavy rifled ordnance, $270,000; provided that this appropriation shall be applied to at least three models ofheavy ordnance— to be designated by a Board of Officers to be ap- pointes by the Secretary of War, which report shall include both classes of breech and muzzle-loading cannon, and the powder and _ projectiles necessary for testing the same shall be supplied from the stores on hand. The Chief of Ordnance will supply the Board with all information — bearing on the subject under consideration to be found on the files of his bureau, and will extend invitations to all inventors and others interested in heavy rifled ordnance to present their plans and specifications as to a model method of construction, cost, &c., and all other information that may be of assistance to the Board, The Alleged Indian Massacres in Texas. Ithas been reported that “Markewrie” was killed in Texas on the 19th of June. Adjutant General Townsend telegraphed to General Augur to know if there was any truth in the report, and yesterday received the reply, given elsewhere, that he was well on the 20th of June, and was to start on an ex- pedition on the 22d of June. The Civil Service Examinations. The fearfuland wonderful delicacy of the Civil Service competitive examination was recently curi- ously illustrated by the rejection of one of the most meritorious of the applicants for a clerkship in the Treasury Department. The party referred to lost an appointment because he put a decimal point in the wrong place. It was not until the Board had announced their decision that it was discovered that what had been taken for a decimal point was merely the work of a fly. Internal Revenue Regulations. The new tobacco regulations will be issued to- morrow, and the regulations for the government of the distillation and sale of spirits about the 10th instant. Codifying the Revenue Laws. The work of codifying the internal revenue laws progresses favorably, and it is intended to make it | complete in every particular, especially so that when the collection districts are consolidated the officers retained or appointed will experience no difficulty in carrying out the duties of their office. Bringing Houard Home. It is understood that Secretary Fish has suggested | tothe President the policy of bringing Dr. Houard home in one of the vessels of the European squad- ron, a8 a public recognition of his American citizen- ship. Political Pilgrimage to Long Branch. William Murrill, a member of the Louisiana State | Central Committee, of which Mr. Packard is the | chairman, arrived here to-day from New Orleans on | his way to Long Branch to see President Grant on | business connected witn the republican party af- fairs in that State. Personal. Secretary Boutwell resumed his oficial duties in the Treasury Department this morning. Movements of the President. The President is expected to return to Washing- tonin time to hold a Cabinet session on Friday | next. Internal Revenue Receipts. The internal revenue receipts to-day—the first of the new fiscal year—amounted to $1,125,868. The collections for July 1 of last year were $715,795 pores In June, 1871, the collections were $13,220,007 for” June, 1872, the collections were $13,039,000. | FRANCE. The Treaty Negotiation with Prussia for Libera» tion of the National Territory—Regular Money Payments and Endur- ing Patience Required. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Parts, July 1, 1872. The treaty providing for the evacuation of French territory by the German troops, which was signed last Saturday night by Count Rémusat and Count von Arnim, requires the ratification of the Frenclt and German governments within one week after having been signed, One-half milliard francs of the war indemnity are to be paid by the French two months after the rati- fication of the treaty, when the Departments of the Marne and Upper Marne are to be evacuated; the second half of this milliard on the 1st of March, 1873, and one militard francs on the Ist of March, 1874, when the Departments of the Ardennes and Vosges are to be evacuated. The last milliard francs of the indemnity, with the accrued interest thereon, are to be paid on the 1st of March, 1875, when the Departments of the Meuse and Meurthe and the fortress of Belfort are to be evacuated by the Prussians. At the session of the National Assembly to-day M. Goulard, the Minister of Finance, will introduce a bill authorizing a new loan to raise funds to meet the requirements of the treaty. THE PRUSSIAN EVACUATION READ TO THE PARLIA- MENT. In the National Assembly this afternoon sf. Pousat read the text of the treaty for the evacu- ation of France just concluded with Germany. Great disappointment was. felt when it was found that by the clauses of the treaty, although certain districts are to be gradually evacuated, Germany has the right to maintain the fall strength of the army of occupation in France until the war indemnity is entirely liquidated, THE NEW LOAN PROJECT DEFERRED. The Minister of Finance did not submit at tow day's session his pill for raising a new loan to meet the obligations of the treaty. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Footlight Flashes. The present Academy of Music in Chicago was built in thirty-five days, W. H, Lingard and Miss Alice Dunning appear at the Olympic next month, Mrs. Oates has a benefit, a farewell one at that, to-night at the Union Square Theatre. Mr. Sheridan Shook is making extensive arrange- ments for the fall season at the Union Square Theatre. Miss Amy Sedgwick, an English actress of the highest reputation, appears at the Olympic Theatre on September 9 On ait that Wachtel returns here next winter with the celebrated soprano, Madame Mallinger. We fear ‘‘on dit” is mistaken. Mile. Aimee has a bran new opéra boufe come pany, numbering ee BO persons, and will likely appear in the fall at the Olympic. Mile. Tietjens is said to be one of the musical stare engaged for the fall season in this city. She has been a truly great artist in her time. The Fifth Avenue Theatre will be thoroughly ree fitted and redecorated during the summer, and will be brighter and handsomer than ever for the next season, The Pall Mall Gazetle, of London, thus speaks of Madame Lucca’s Selica in “L’Africaine :—“When Selika first steps upon the stage it is hard to believe that the almost too faithful representative of the burning and sunburnt savage woman can be the same charming artist whom we have so often ap- lauded as the artless and sogagin Zerlina in “Fra )iavolo.” Two more diametrically opposite parta can scarcely be conceived than that of Zerlina on the one hand, who in the way of acting has nothing to do exepe to move prettily about the stage, and like Alphonse Karr’s typical women, “s’habiller, babilier et se déshabiller;” and, on the other, Selika, who is a being of another sphere, full of passion and moving in scenes which, serious from the first, become more and more dra- matic until, in the last, a situation is reached whictr is simply sublime. In the duet of the fourth act, as full of deep feeling as anything Meyerbeer ever wrote, the Selika of the night sang with such im- pulse that the audience could not restraim their applause, ill-timed as it undoubtedi was. But Madame Lucca was more perf still in the pathetic and truly poetical scene of the fifth act, which the poor Africaine, but | for the voices of the Geparsing Europeans that break in so cruelly upon her meditations, would have entirely to herself. The scene of the w tree, which may be looked upon as the parent of the four preceding acts. is one of the finest and one } of the most perfectly suited for musical illustration in the whole range of the lyric drama. Every one can understand Meyerbeer’s being struck with it, as it was frst pointed out to him in an old English melodrama, and thereupon determining to base an opera Spon it, or rather to construct an opera, of which the said scene of the forsaken woman dying voluntarily beneath the upas tree should form the climax; but no one can understand the fuil beauty of the scene who has not witnessed its per- formance by Mme. Lucca. Her despair as she looks at the sea, ‘vast and illimitable as her grief,’ om which her treacherous lover is about to sail away from her forever is agonizing; but her closing scene, when, with the voices of consoling spirits im her ears, she lies down and dies, is full of tender-. ness, and, though infinitely touching, by no means horrible. The drama ends as happily as 1s possible, inasmuch as for the poor heart-broken Selika life is impossible; and one leaves the theatre full of compassion for the Queen of Madagascar and with a strong desire to hear Mme. Lucca again at the earliest opportunity.” 1, 1872, of consump- DEVEAU, aged 39 years, 11 months. his late residence, 224 East Thirty-second street, to Upper New Rochelle, on Wednesday, July 3, at cight o'clock A. M. Carriages in waiting for’ the half-past eleven train. (For Other Deaths See Ninth Page.) Have Burnett's Cologne. A Sunstroke.—A Gentleman Knowin; , beauty and comfort of a cool lat avoids f having in his hat the “tip” of Knox. Itis K e brain. th Hatter,” 212 Broadway. cooling to t National Debt Reduction for Janc. The debt statement shows a reduction of $2,000,000 for June. Mail Service to Baltimore. The Postmaster General to-day ordered a mail | service to be placed on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad between Washington and Baltimore, a distance of forty-two and a half miles, commencing | to-morrow, the pay to be fixed hereafter. Business of the Pension Bureau. During the year ending to-day the Pension | Bureau has issued 20,621 certificates of pension to the survivors and widows of the war of 1812, and | rejected 4,394 claims for such pensions; 218,824 communications of various kinds have been sent out from the office in regard to this class of claims, and 64,406 pieces of additional evidence have been received and applied. The number of claims of this class pending July 1, 1871, was 26,190, and 10,361 claims have been received during the year; 11,085 claims of survivors and widows of the war of 1812 | are now pending. The annual outlay arising from the 20,621 pensions granted during the year to sur- vivors and widows of the war of 1812, at the uniform rate of $8 per month, will amount to $1,979,616, A FANATIGAL PHILANTHROPIST. How Squatting Bear Treated His White Missionary Wife—A Massachusetts Lady | Among the Dakota Indians Sr. Louis, Mo., July 1, 1872. The Kansas City Times of the 29th ult. says that Miss Amanda Barber, who married Squatting | Bear, a brute Sioux chief, at Washington in 1867, | and went to Dakota Territory with her husband as a missionary, arrived in that city onthe steamer Fontenelle from Fort Benton on Friday last. After spending three years with the Sioux, suffering gross indignities and being compelled to perform the most menial services, she attempted to escape, but was recaptured and beaten nearly to death by her husband and then sold to a Cheyenne chief for three ponies, She was taken North tn 1870, and remained with the Oheyennes till this spring, when she escaped to Fort Benton. Miss Barber left Kansas City on Friday for her home at Milford, Mass, ‘THE MILWAUKEE PRINTERS’ STRIKE, MILWAUKEE, July 1, 1872. The printers’ strike is weakening. The publish- era adhere to their determination to employ no Union men. 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