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BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF AFRICA. “Complete Chart of Equatorial Explora- tions in the Tropical Continent. Jf LIVINGSTONE’S NEW WORLD 4 ———— "The Orographic and Hydrographic Features of Eastern Africa and the Nilotie Besin. ° — PTOLOMEAN GEOGRAPHY. Grant, Speke, Burton, Baker, Livingstone as Colaborers Towards One Grand Result. —_————+——__-- STANLEY AND “THE MAN OF IROW.” Jo SE ath “The Great Divide” of the Zanibezi and the Upper Nile. ———sbe THE PROBLEM OF THE AGES SOLVED, Flerald “Up Nile” Eix- pedition. —_——————— FURTHER MAP EXPLANATIONS The splenid map, presented to-day to the Herayy readers, graphically portrays the com- bined ané corrected results of all known explora- ‘tions in Equatorial Africa, As an accurate work of art and as the expression of all that geoyraphic science can at present deduce from these exp.ora- tions, it will historically perpetuate the memory of the ilnstrious explorers and cosmographers, who have despised the danger and the toil of research and plunged into the trackless regions of the great ‘tropical continent. It will also serve the addi ional purpose of preserving to fame the great ex- ploits (in which the whole American press must share with the HRRALD) by which the imperiled band uoder Sir Samuel Baker has been sought for by our “Up Nile’ expedition, and by which also the indomitable Livingstone has been found and succorea by the courage of our correspondent, Stanley. A NEW WORLD BROUGHT TO LIGHT. It 1s no exaggeration to say that these charted resu'ts reveal a new world to civilization. Even in his most sanguine moments Columbus was uncon- setous of the immense boon his discovery had con- ferred on the world. It is, doubtless, even so with Livingstone and those who have been the sharers of his labors and the companions of his trials. But the philosophic mind, over! ing the present and peering into the near future, behoids these accom- plished results in their varied relations to tuman Progress, and the developments—moral, social and scientific—that must ere long follow in the blazing track of the explorer. Although the Continent of Africa 1s three times as large as Europe, and nearly eqnals the combined land masses of North and South America, its geog- raphy has, till recently, been scarcely botter known than it was in the times of Phoenician glery and the ea:ly Portuguese adventures of Bar- tholomew Diaz and Vasco di Gama, and absolutely less known to the scientist than the face of, the moon, of which he has exquisite and beautiful photographs, "ME GREAT SECRET, which, from the time of Herodotus, bas ever baMed the-skill and penetration of all geographers and physicists, has been the won erful phonomena which betong to the Nile. On the tangled and mysterious thread of its course nature has strung the richest gems of African geography and hydrography, and It was to the genius of Livingstone that she first disclosed the fact that he who unravelled the mys- tery of the ancient river would be the first to gather these precious pearls of knowledge. The gist of the great problem of the Nile has been to explain how its volume can be sustained, for over fourteen hundred miles, from its junction with the ancertain Atbara, in Lower Nubia, to the Mediterra- nean Sea, without a singlo tributary stream, be- neath a scorching sun and amid the thirsty and burning sands of the desert. We shail presently see how perfectly the discovery of Livingstone, as announced by the HERALD correspondent, unlocks the whole diMculty, and presents the mind, so to speak, With a bird's-eye view of the wuole subject. EXPLANATION O¥ THE MAP. ‘The map is made out from all the reports fur- aished, at dierent times, by the nnmerous Afri- can expiorers, especially -Dr. Livingstone, Sir Sam- nel Baker, Captains Grant, Speke and Burton, the maps of the Royal Geographical Society of London, the data furnished by Dr. Livingstone through Mr. Stanley in all his communications to the Herab, and also irom all the data forwarded us by our “Up Nile’ expedition, sent out from Cairo in search of Sir Samuel Baker. Included in these results will be found the corrections for instrumental errors by the diferent explorers iu determining the al- titudes and elevations of the hich iands and lake levels of the whole country. The corrections are made by several of the ablest English and American scientists, and furnish the means ior constructing an ovographic chart of Eastern Equatorial Afvica. The line of Staniey's route in search of Livingstone, as well as the now famous scene of his fight with Mirambo (indicated by the American flag), the vamp of Livingstoue (marked by the English flag), as also Stanley's camp and headquarters by is national colors, are marked very clearly, The second great expedition of the HeraLp up the Nile is aiso given from Cairo to Korasko, and thence across the Nabian Desert to the Nile and southward to Khartoum, where it was last heard from on its way to fiid Sir Samuel Baker, as also the last reported camp of Sir Samuel. The entire topography of the regions Around lakes Tanganyika, Albert Nyanza and Victoria Nyanza; the hydrograply (so far as given by the latest telegroins and jetters of Stanley and Livingstone) of the Chambezi, the Luapula and ‘the Lualaba, and ali the surrounding country whose drainaze supplies the headwaters of the Nile are also given tn full, Without attempting now to sitpply anything like a blstory or detatiod resumé of the great expeditions of Livingstone and his co-laborers, it may be well for the reader to mention briefly the results obtained by the chief explorera, SUCOESSIVE STEPS iN THE GREAT DISCOVERY. The first light that vroke over the problem of ages was that obtained by the early adven- | tures of Livingstone bringing to our knowil- edge the drainage of tie Lake Nyassa and the upper Zambezi River, and then by the jour- neys of Captain Speke, ip 1858, which led him into a@land where small rivuiets began to flow north. ward into a great (resh water sea lying about four hundred and eighty miles south of Gondokoro, the uppermost well known point on the White Nile, Starting in October, 1960, from the East African coast, Speke and Graut pushed towards Kazeh, and, traversing a country never previously trodden by civilized man, determined that this great fresh water lake, or sea, Victoria Nyaaza, whose south- ern watershed extends to three degrecs south of the Equator, is the reservoir from which the sacred Bahr-El-Abtad, or White Nile, inainly or largely de- scends to Gondokoro and thence by Khartoom into the sandy plains of Egypt. SIR SAMUBL BAKER'S DISCOVERY OF THE ALBERT LAKE, Sines the days of Ptolemy, the Nile was described’ a8 flowing from twagreat lakes, and while Victoria Nyany.a had been tound by Speke to be one of them, it Was reserved for Baker to discover Albert Ny- an’za as the other, and perhaps the most extensive Y. the two, Baker set out in 1961, without avowing “his intention to seek for the sources of the Nile, but with the cherished hope, to use his own words, “as the insignificant worm slowly bores its way into the hardest oak, even 80 I hoped by perseverance to reach the heart of Africa.” Te emploved the first year in exploring all the Nile tributaries from Abyssinia, and thence descended the banks of the Blue Nile to Khartoom, and left this city on the 18th of December, 1864, arriving at Gondokoro after forty-five days’ voyage on the water. After almost incredible su‘ferings and ioug marches southward through a land of misory and malaria, to which his party were constantly ex- Posed on the fatal banks of the White Nile—weak, tottering and exhausted with more than a twelve month’s anxioty, toil and sickness, suddenly upon reaching some rising rronna, THE GREAT RESERVOIR OF TIF NILE burst upon his astontshed and delighted vision. “Var below his view point, some fiiteen hundred feet beneath a precipitous cli of granite, lay my prize so hardly sought. A boundless sea-horizon sonth and southwest; while west the faint blue moun- taing, of abont seven thonsand feet above the water Jevel, hemmed in the giorious expanse of waters.” | Such t# hia own vivid picture of Albert Nyanza, whose waves were rolling npon a beach of sand, hencatn the discoverers gazo, and whose pleasant. waters he drank with gratitale, Speaking of his discovery, the modrat Baker sald:;—“For myself I claim no honor as the discoverer of a source, as 1 believe the mighty Nile may have a thousand sources. The birthplace of that great river is the vast rock basin of the Albert Nyanza, In those profound depths, bosomed in the monntain range of Equatorial Africa, in a region of ten months? rainfall, every drop of water, from the passing in that great reservoir of nature, So vast is its vol- ume of water that no single streim appexrs to in- finonce ita level. Even the great river, from the Victoria (Nyanza) Lake enters the great reservoir absorbed without a perceptible enrrent.” Sir Somnel determined the elevation of the Albert Nyanza to be 2,720 feet, But Mr. Buchan, the emi- nent secretary of the’ Scottish Meteorologie: Society, afterwards corrected the barometri height from Baker's observation, and reduced it to 2,520 feet, which must now be regarded as ita most aceurate measurement, “PTOLEMY’S WESTERN LAKE RESERVOIR OF THE NILE”? To Captains Barton an’! Speke, compantons in ex- exploration, m the years 1857 and 1848, is due the honor of finding another grand reeeptacte of water, which forins the interesting and, as yet, but | imperfectly discovered Lake Tonganyika, This magnificent take, draining @ large and high table land and mountainous region, has been proved to have no immediate connection with Lake Nyassa on the southeast, nor with the Indian Ocean on the toria Nyanza on the north, Nor has any connec- | tion been established between Tanganyika and the Chambezi River, on the sonthern side of the lake. Lake Tanganyika was found to be fresh water, and to receive the streams of the Rusisi on the north, the Marupgu on the south, and other smalicr streams. It is impossible to suppose that the evap- oration from its surface can at all equal, mach less exceed, the immense tropical rainfan which fills its caverns and beds, end the conciuston is there- Jore trresistible that it must discharge itself on its anestern side into some river having a general mert- dional courses The great question which remains for Liy to settle is this :— DOES TANGANYIKA LAKE CONNECT WITH THE NILOTIO BASIN # Ptolemy, the wonderful Greco-Egyptian geog- rapher, A. D. 136, viewing this matter almost in the light of Burton’s researches, ha’ located just such a lake as Tanganyikaon his maps, and given it con- Bection with the head waters of the Nile. It is true that the Ptolomean chart and geography recognize two principal lacustrine reservoirs of the Nile, but they also speak Of otters, and it is highly probable their author alluded to the identical Lake Tangan- yika of our explorers. To clear up this diiticuity two things must be settled. The first and most important of these is the altitude of Tanganyika. Burton fixed this altitude (above the sea) at about eightecn hundred feet, and nearly all writers and cartographers since the. date of his discovery have blindly and undiscriminatingly re- peated him. If Lake Tanganyika is only 1,800 feet above the sea and Albert Nyanza 2,520 feet, it is clear that the former cannot discharge itself into the valley of the Nile and the basin of the Albert Lake without running over seven hundred feet up- hill, The conclusion, therefore, reached by those who accept Burton's figures of 1,800 fect for Tan- ganyika is that this lake empties itself by a westerly channel-way into the upper water- sied of the Congo River, and thence into the Atlantic Occan. There is, how- ever, no logical necessity for such a conclusion, norany known fact to countenance ft, when remember that Burton’s figures are not relied upon, even by himself. The method of determin. ing the height pursued by all these explorers has been by noticing the point of the thermometer at which water boils. Speaking of the particular elevation and drainage of Tanganyika, Burton says very pointedly :— “An objection to the theory that the Tanganyika Lake drains into the Luta Nzigé at once suggests itself, and it would he fatal if reliance could be placed upon it. Iallude to the levels, Lake Trn- ganyika is allowed but 1,844 feet. Captain Speke (page 332 of the Journal of the Royal Geographi- cal Society, vol. Xxxiil.) argues that the Lota Nzig¢ is 2,161 feet, or upwards of three hundred feet above the Tanganyika. But his B. P. (boiling point) observation was made at Paira, 4 station distant from the stream, and even to obtain that altitude he was obliged to add the mean of certain differences, 368 feet; this emendation ts not gener- ally accepted. During our exploration of Tangan- yika the state of our vision would, I am convinced, explain a greater difference than the fraction of a degree. Withont reference to variation of baro- metric pressure, our thermometer had altered from first to last one degree (F.) 535 feet. On our return to Konduchi, a harbor on the eastern coast, our B. P. (boiling point) thermometer boiled at 214 F. This alone would give a diiference of 1,000 feet, My. A.G. Findlay, in hts able paper of 1867, read before the Roya! Geographical Society, says:—‘A single ob- servation of Captain Speke, with what he described to me asa ‘bath’ thermometer, gave, as the eleva- tion of the lake (Tanganyika), 1,844 feet. Bnt thie thermometer, when brought to the coast, read 214 degrees F., instead of 212 degrees.’ ‘Captain Speke's single observation as to the elevation of that lake,’ he again says, ‘is probably erroneous to the extent of the iudex error showed by his thermometer on the sea shore, two degrees, equal ingstone that ‘we must apply the Known correction by Sir Samuel Baker's thermometer to Captain Speke's observation, acknowledged to he imperfe this | will Dring Tanganyika Lake up to 2,844 feet, or 124 | FLET ABOVE THE ALBERT NYANZA According to the latest and more exact correction the Alvert Lake, 324 feet. Keith Johnston, Jr, one of the most judicious aad accurate ofall our physt- cists, in his late “Physical Geography,” does not hesivate to state that “Lake ‘anganyika’s elevation is perhaps 2,800 feet above the sea.”’ Aud Sir Roderick J. Murchison, tn his re- port to the Royal Geographical Society in 1866, aiso | conctudes—"'The aititude of Tanganyika, as given (by @ bad instrument it is true) by Burton and Speke, was very erroneous; for by their measure- Ment ft was more than eight hundred feet velow the level of Alvert Nyanza, as fixed by Baker."” We have, theretore, in view of all these anthori- ties and others, and the mass of circumstantial and cosmographical evidence corroborating them, not hesitated to give to Lake Tanganyika the aiti- tude of 2,850 feet. We are all the more certain that these figures are approximately exact, because it is Well known that this lake is fresh water. Every other’ “gnown lake in the world without an outlet is of a saline character, And itis next to impossible that Tanganyika can have any outict, un less it be to the Westwar’ through what Dr. Livingstone has of Mr. Buchan this shoul be, instead of 124 teet above | shower to the roaring mountain torrent, Is stored | east, nor yet with Lake Albert Nyanza or Lake Vic- | to about 1,000 feet,’ and he thus forcibly conchudes | | Chebango, to which he gave the new name of Loke demonstrated to be the general Upper. Niletic val- ley und basin, After what has now been advanced concerning all the diferent links of discovery which connect themselves with the great discovery and with all the explorations of Equatorial Africa, of which David Livingstone may truly say, Quorum inaxima pars fui, | we are now in a position to capture and command A UNIQUE VIEW of ail Bastern Africa and its hydrographic and oro- dy said that it was reserved to the We have er genins of Livingstone to combine all the researches ans! reeuits o: his feltow expioreis into a harmoni- ous whole. Tm 1965 he prepared for bis present vast undertaking, ont proceeded to Zanzibar. Thence, | on the 28th of March, 1860, he crossed to the main land of Africa and. commenced the march the valley of the Rovema River, Plungt the wilderness of the African tntevior, he was lost aight of tilt found at Ujiit by Staniey, During this long agony of suspenae to the clvilized world Liv- has’ conelnsively settied or discoy- ered one great and a@-important feature of the Nilofte bas.a, rom about the eleventh dere of south lautnds and between tne thirtieth and tt ath meridians of east louritude he fount the bea lwaters of & noble rive’, the Cham- bez!, entirety d.stinet from the Zainbesi, long knowa to geographcrs through his earlier labors; and he has traced this viver Chambezi, through its countless: meanderines and its jacustrine reservoirs, 700 miles westwa around the southern side of Lake Tangepyika and thence northward and west- ward to 2 point within 180 iniles of its provable con- nection with the Albert Nyanza luke, The reader will casily trace the Chambezi on the map, through Lal ngweolo 2nd thence noi thward and vortli- westward, and the delineations on the chart leave nothing ferther to be explained, We have said that the Chambert, after it had be- come the Lnalaba, has a probable, we had ‘almost suid, an unquestioned connection with Albert Ny apva; for, though the great explorer has yet to examine the gap of unvisited and unknown terri- tory on the south of Albert Nyanza and the north and west of Tanganyika, ail the elemeuts and con- ditions now ascertained in the great problem of the ages conspire in forcing the conclusion that, if spared fo science, “the man of iron” will find that the Ludata, after res ‘ing a tributary from Tan- ganyik« on the west. acturlly forms with the Cham- be7i and the Luapnia, the grand upper basin of the N This will make VU CHAIN COMPLETE and, from Cairo and the Nttotic delta, on the Med- iterranexn, to Khartoum, Gondokoro, Alvert Ny- anza, Tenwanyil and far south to Bangweolo and the monotuin streains of the Chambezi, in latitude eleven degrees south, there will not be a single link missing. 11s this compicte chain of physical condl- tlons which alone ean explain the peren the Nile in its unwearled and unexhau flow throngh the fery seas of sand, and beneath the terrific suua of Tropical and Eqvatorial Africa. It is a singular coincidence that the Amazon river is supplicd, like the Nile, by the rainfall on both sides of the Equator, over which line the belt of rains and of greatest previpitation oscil- lates with che sun in declination, When this rain- belt is on the northern side of the Equator and pouring its floors into the streams which le north of the Amazon, the river is swolen, and while, in our winter, the rain-belt is fooding the streams of Prazil south of the Amazon, they maintain its ma- jestic volume to {ts wonted fulness, So also, to compare the Nile with the Amazon, itis now, easy, in the byt of what Livingstone sends us through Stanley, to see that all the won- derfil phenomena of the — former river | are unravelled and explained, While the rainy season floods the Abyssinian mountains and the regtons of Africa north of the Equator, the Egyptian river is full to overflowing, and while the sun is vertical in the southern hemisphere in our winter and the upper basin of the Nile, the Cham- bezi, the Lnalaba and the magnificent system of lakes aronnd thei courses are deluged with rain- fall, the great river is sustained even alon? its most nortuerly limit and pours a noble flood of water past the Pyramids gf Egypt and along the very quays of Cairo. e THE GREAT DIVIDE which determines the climatic and hydrographic character of all Eastern Africa and the Nile- watered regions is thus seen to be found, and is exhibited on the map north of the Upper Zambezi and between the Zambezi and the Chambezi rivers, near the paratlel of ten degrees south latitude, Could this great dividing ridge be removed by some Atlean labor and borne away, the probable result wonld be that the Zambezi would receive all the present drainage of the Chambezi and the Luapula and become a roaring Amazon or Mississippi, while the supplies of water for Tanganyika, Bangweolo and Albert Nyanza, failing to go northward into these States, the southern reservoirs of the Nile would fail to Keep up its enriching and beneficial THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Reassemblage of the Geneva Court of Arbitra- tion—A Lengthy Session—Strict Silence and No Report to the People, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. GENEVA, July 25, 1872, The members of the Alabama Claims Arbitration Tribunal yeersembied in the Hotel de Ville at half, past twel-e o'clock this afternoon, and, alter re- maining to session four hours, adjourned to meet again on Monday next. The rigid secrecy heretofore observed in relation to the proceedings of the Court is stricUy main- tained, and nothing of the least unportance con- cerning the meeting of to-day can be ascertained, HARMONIOUS ACTION. | The rumors that a diMeulty had arisen in the Court of Arbitration are positively contradicted, CATACAZY’S CASE. $a ult) Cae Imperial Russian Decree Dismissing the Ex~- Minister from the Service of the Crown. TELECRAM TO THE NEWYORK HERALD. Sr, PErenspunre, July 25, 1872. The Journal de St. Petersburg to-day publishes an imperial decree dismissing from the diplomatic service of the empire M. de Catacazy, former Rassian Miviater to the United States, and lately stationed at Pa ‘The Journal states that the publication by Cata- eazy of his pamphlet in relation to his imbroglio with Secretary Fish was entirely without the kuiowledge aud against the will of the imperial gov ernment. | FRANCE. ORT ER EES Execution of Communists—Difference of Political Opinion at the Death Post—Trade Strik- ers’ Assault on the Troops and a Fatal Retaliation. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, July 25, 1972. ‘The three Communists convicted of participation in the massacre of the hostages in the Rue Uaxo were shot at Satory to-day. One of the condemned when brought to the place of execution shouted, “A bas la Commune!’ the other two cried “Vive ia Commune! in their last moments. MILITARY FIRE AGAINST ASSAULTING STRIKERS, The coal miners at Denain, in the Department of | the Nord, who are on a strike, made an attack to- | day upon a detachment of troops which had been sent to that place to preserve the peac | The troops were compelled to fire upon their as- sailants, killing one of them and wounding several. | Forty of the attacking miners were arrested and lodged in prison. THE STRIKE EXTENDING AND A RIOTOUS DISPOSITION MANIFESTED, Disturbances were also occasioned last. night by the strikers in the city of Auzin, Department of the Nord. They were, however, easily suppressed by the troops without casualties. Reinforcements of troops have arrived in the department fiom Paris, with tents and provisions, ‘as if for a lengthy stay. President Thiers has written to the Perfects of tho Departments, as well as to the commanding | Generals, instructing them to use their utmost endeavors to maintain order, The disturbances at Auzin were, nevertheless, re- newed this morning, and the troops, who were use their muskets, killing one of the strikers, Otherwise the Department of the Nord, as well as the entire Department of the Somme, are undis- turbed, and the men have made no demands upoa their cmployers, CONJECTURE AS TO CAUSE. ‘The troydles4n the coal mining districts are be- lieved to be fomented by members of the Interna- tonal Society of Bel SPAIN AND FRANCE. SIveuhiy eee eT eae President Thiers’ Preservation of the Border Neutrality. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Panis, July 25, 1872, The French government authorities have scized @ quantity of arms, near the Spanish frontier, which, it is believed, were intended for use by insurrectionists against the government of King Amadeus, volume. This paper must not close without calling atten- tion to the route on the map of THE HERALD “UP-NILE’ EXPEDITION sent out last year from Cairo in search of Sir Samuel Baker and the remnant of his gallant army of explorers under the fag of Egypt. We have already published accounts of the rapid march of our expedition across the Nubian Desert and its ascent of the Nile Valley by ship and steamer to Khartoum, wheuce they are pushing on to the southward on their search for Baker. A few days hence we may have tidings which will cheer the hearts of thousands and throw additional light over the whole fleld of the Middle Nile geography and meteorology. FURTHER PXPLANATIONS OP THE MAP. The summer of 1869 bronght Livingstone on the west of Tanganyika, to the virgin country of Man- yema, an this led him to the diseovery of the two important lakes—Lake Kalmoiondo (in latitnde 6 degrees 30 minutes sonth) and Lake Linco!n (named in honor of the American President), both of which connect with the Lualaba River, and, originally, with the Chambezi. They are thus among the great Nilotic reservoirs of the Southern Hemi- sphere, The 189 miles of yet unexplored territory Ne between the southern end of Albert Nyanza and the polat farthest north attained by Living- stone while on the south and west sides of Tangan- veka. - The Manyema country lies west of Lake Tangan- yika, After resting at 'Jijl from his long travels Livingstone set ont the last of June, 1869, traveiled sonth and southwest in the vicinity of Lake Moero, and coming around the southwestern angle of Tanganyika paused. Thence moving in a westerly and northerly direction he discovered Lake Kamo- | londo, and traced its connection with lakes Moero and Bangweolo on the south by means of the Lna- pala River, which is a continuation of the Chambezi (latitude 11 south), and whieb alterwards has its name altered to the Znalaba River, Dr. Living- stone found a river called the Lockt, running ‘rom the west of Luke Kamolondo, and drawing into this lake the surpins waters of another lake, t Lincoln. Thence moving In 4 northerly direction the greatexplorer reached a point (indicated on the map by the abrnpt termination of the route mark) which is only 180 mites from the southern end of | Lake Albert Nyanza, INDIANS ON THE WARPATH. Brainerd, Minn., Filled with Threaten- ing Chippewas—Governor Austin Call- ing for Troops. CHrcago, DL, July 25, 1872, The St. Paul Deepatch says that despatches were received late last night vy Governor Austin trom Brainerd, Minn, stating that tue town was filled with Chippewa Indians who were threatening trou- bie. They had been ordered to leave, but refused, and the Governor was called upon for troops. Three companies of the First regiment were ordered to leave on a special train this morning and they Will be joined ou the route by other companies of the regiment. The cause of the trouble is supposed to be the hanging hy @ mob of the two murdere:s of Miss McArthut THE MISSOURI LIBERAL CONVENTION, Sr. Louis, Juty 25, 1872. The Liberal State Convention has been cailed to | Tatlroad depot by his son, Lieutenant Frederick D. | closeted durin; meet in Jefferson City on the 2ist of August, at the ag and place as the Democratic State Con- The Home Rule Movement and Its Promoters in Parliament. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, July 26—5:30 A, M. The debate in the House of Commons on the case of Justice Keogh, involving the Irish home rule question, which was to have been brought up to- night, on the motion of Mr. isaac Butt, member for Limerick, has been postponed, THE WEATHER, cence Wan DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF TE CHr iNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26—1 A. M. Probabilities, The low barometer and area of cloud and rain on the lower lakes will move rapidly eastward, with southerly to easterly winds, over the North- ern, Middle and Eastern States. Clearing weather will prevail in the northwest the Upper Mis- sissippi Valley and onthe upper lakes, and ex- tend southwestward tothe Ohio Valley and to the lower Jakes by Friday noon. Clear weather will prevail in the South Atlantic and Guif States, with southerly winds. The Weather in this City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Huduut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building :— A871, 1872, 1871, 1872, 4 3:30 P. M.... 74 86 6P. M. 70 84 Uy 9PM. cp a 7 12h. M. % 16 Average temperature yesterday... 19% Average temperature for corresponding date | lust year... brothel BY A SKUNK. A Woman Dies from a Woand Infiicted by the Animal—Symptoms of Hydroe phobia Manifested Before Death. Newsura, July 25, 1372, About two months ago Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, of the village of Highland Mills, in this county, had a fight with a skunk, which attacked her, and seizing a fluger held on so tenaciously that its jaws had to be furced open to release the finger. The wound healed, an yo tere Was thought of the affair until Tuesday of this week, Wien the arm com- menced swelling. Soon alterwards symptoms re- semblng those of hydrophobia were manifested, the woman povitng at the mouth, snapping an biting, horrified at the sight of water, &c., and re- quiring force to hold her, She died in great agony at eleven o'clock last night, leaving @ family of five small children, MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. President Grant arrived in this city yesterday morning, having come with General Porter by the early train from Washington. He was met at the Grant, United States , of General Sherm: foi we arrived here thi week by the Oceanic put up at the Astor om Europe. The party House, where they took a sly and curious peep into the headquarters of Dr. Greeley’s commit! The President and Lieutenant Grant afterwards started by the half-past nine o'clock boat for Long Branch, but General Porter remained in town and was pelted with stones by the rioters, were forced to | NEW” YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1872—TRIPLH SHEET. CUBA. OMicial Congratulation to the Crown in Madrid. SY Military Disporsion of a Filibuster Invading Eand—Colonial Finance and the Labor Supply—Repiy to an Eng- lish Press Suggestion, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, HAVANA, July 24, vi y Weer, July 25, 1872. ‘Tho steamship Crescent City, from New York, ar- rived this morning. The Captain General and the Casino Espat ol have sent to King Amadeus congratulatory despatcnes on his escape front assassination, FILIBUSTERS DISPERSED, General Riguelme telegraphs o report of an en- gagement of the government troops with the nine- teen remaining members of the Fannie expedition. | ‘Ten of the Mibusters were killed and / who were subsequently executed. escaped are likely to die of hnuger. of arms and a flag were captured, PRESS REPLY TO AN ENGLIS 7 The Diario condemns the London Simes’ article recommending the sate of Cuba, FINANCE AND THE LABOR SUPPLY. Negotiations are in progress to establish a by of the Spanish Bank at the eapital of Porto Importations of Chinamen continue, Two ves- sels arrived last week. OFFICIAL MOVEMENTS, General Portilla, commanding the Cinco Villas hasarvived at Hava Captain Alfan has captured Av revolutionary Postmaster General. nr captured, Several stands in Aguero, the instant. American Contradiction of an Insnrrectionary Report—A General in Danger—Quiet at Tepic, TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK NERALD, San FRANCISCO, July 25, 1 The following Mexican news has been received :— The report that Lozada, of Teple, was in arms against the Mexican government at the head of 10,000 inen is wholly nnfounded, While Lozada was amusing himself by killing fish with Giant powder a cartridge exploded, blowing ; his hand to tragments and destroying one of his eyes, All is quiet at Tepie, ‘The men shot at Mazatlan were conscripts who had revolted. PROSPECT AND PROGRESS. Work on the Guaymas and Tucson Railroad will, it is hoped, be commenced 15 soon as United States Consnl Willard returns trom the City of Mexico to Guaymas with the Executive signature to the con- cession, Citizen Respect tor the Memory of Jua- rez—Political Reconciliation in Vicw of His Opening Grave. Maramoros, July 25, 1872, The pubiic oMces and places of business through- out the city were closed to-day, the national and Consular fags displayed halfinast and minute guns fired in honor of Juare ‘The animosities exhibited during the recent revo- lution have given place toa better feeling. The political opponents of Juarez acknoWledge his great services to the republic, and have untted in the public demonstrations of respect to his memory. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, cll EE Ee ial Ay General James H. Ledlic has quarters at the Gil- sey House. Viscount de Valcourt, of Paris, has arrived at the St. Nichols Hotel. Bishop P. T. O'Reilly, of Springfield, Maas., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. + General Hunter, of Washington, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Congressman William Williams, of Budalo, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor Hoffman yesterday came from the capital to the Clarendon Hotel. Lieutenant Leutze, of the United States Navy, is registered at the Hotfman House. Judge K. F. Bullman, of Louisville, Ky., has ar- rived at the Grand Central Hotel. General Baird, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Governor E. M. McCook yesterday left the Fifth Avenue Hotel on his return to Colorado. Count Zaninni, of the Italian Legation, is among the latest arrivals at the Albemarle Hotel. Count Campo Alegre yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. He is registered as from Havana, Congressman William I. Barnum, of Connecticut, and Frank Hereford, of West Virginia, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. President Grant, Secretary Fish, General Horace Porter and Lieutenant Grant arrived in this city trom Washington early yesterday morning, The President, his son and General Porter had break- fastat the Astor House, and then continued on their way to Long Branch. Secretary Fish went to his residence, up the Hudson. Judge John Van Allen, of Watkins, N. Y., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The Judge was one of the anti- ley, old Bourbon democrats who opposed the suicide of the party” at Baltimore. He has not yet wheeled into line, but is working to secnre the success of the coming Free-Trade Labor-Reform Old- Democratic Convention in Louisville, Baron Stein, who, according to Mr. Bancroft, “kindled the idea of German unity, the spark of which time had fanned into flame,’ has had a memo- rial erected in Nassau, Germany. A few days ago the monument was unveiled in the presence of the Emperor William, the Empress and the Imperial Prince. Minister Bancroft made a speech, which was a hearty eulogy of the character and work of the Baron. Colonel George W. Carter, the late Speaker of the House of Representatives of Louisiana, and Judge E. C. Billings, of New Orleans, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, having come on from Washing- ton. Coionel Carter is said to have made another political pomereault, and to have landed among the friends of Hargeg gree ley. friendly meeting with his whilom foe, Govert Warmothe Trai, ast Tocbbt Waleed bl, “Politica, like misery, mgkes strange bedfellows,” President Thiers’ declaration that after Sedan the only desire of Prussia was to make peace, seems to be borne ont in truth by a letter lately published by the Eelaire newspaper. It purports to have been | written by Prince Bismarck immediately after So- dan, to his wife. After announcing that France was now at the mercy of Prussia, the Prince writes:— “My end, so obstinately and so patiently pursued, is attained; nothing remains but to demand from France—what she cannot refuse—two miliiards, and the dismantling of a number of fortresses that I shall decide upon.”” Anumber of the engineers and officers of the party sent out to survey a route for the proposed interoceanic canal across Nicaragua were yester- day brought to this city by the steamship City of Galveston, from Key West. The chief of this expe- dition, Captain Crossman, of the United States Navy, with six others of its members, met death by drowning in the harbor of Greytown, or San Juan del Norte, some time ago, The names of the gen- tlemen who’ arrived yesterday were:—Lieutenant Goodwin, U. 8. N.; Lieutenant Schitkey, U. 5. N.; J. E. Noel, U. 8. N.; Lieutenant £. H.C. Lintze, U. S.N.; W. W. Rhodes, U.8..N.; Lieutenant J. M. Moser, U. 8, N.; A. G. Menocal, J. F. Crowell, Dr. J. J. W. Elston, L. Norris. ALDERMAN M’MULLIN. Paitapevrmia, July 25, 1872. the an portion of yesterday afternoon with the Collector and the Naval Oficer a) port im General Arthur's room in the Custom ‘ have offered a reward of $2,000 for the arrest of Mara and the “Square Association” $500, » five who | anch | fovernor Zabalza returns to Spain on the Soth | He has thus come into | Alderman McMullin’s condition is more favora- a ~, ble to-night. The Moyamensing Hose Company ec males 3 THE UNBRIBED SENATORS, a A Flood of Light on the St. Do- mingo Annexation Plot. + General Pleasonton the Presi- dent’s Go-Between. Mis Letter to Carl Sehusz on Behalf of Grant To Be Published, Rateian, N, C., July 24, 1872, Mr. Schurz left St. Lonis last niyht and is now oa his way to fulfil his speaking engagements in North Carolina. ‘The overtures mentioncé in his specch were fade to him by General Pleasonton, while Com- te me: ton in New York, where the latter told him, in an interview sought by Pleasonton, that if he would support | missioner of Internal Revenue, Piesson- THE ST, DOMINGO SCHEME all the patronage of the administration in Missourt would be transferred from Drake to himself, More than that, he could have any foreign patronage ho desired, Schurz asked him if he came accredited | from the President, and Pleasonton answered that he did, fully. BRIBERY PURE AND SIMPLE. Sehnrz declined to constder it, but when he go¥ back to Missouri, secing thgt the question of the annexation of St. Domingo was likely to become @ serious point of diffrence, he wrote to Pleasonton, asking him to state more fully the overtures made verbally in New York. Pleasanton answered the letter quite explicitly, and tt ts this which ean be produced, At that time Pleasonton was in hight feather with the administration, and fully possessed its confidence, The letter will he made public im North Carolina, as Schurz has it with him, WASHINGTON. — WASUINGTON, Jnly 25, 1872. Those Timely Documents—More to Come When Wanted—Fan for the Initiated. + A compilation is being made [rom that portion of the rebel archives which have been in possession of the government since the surrender of General Lee, These, with six or eight documents which are part of Jacob Thompson's proceedings and report, will soon be given to tie public, Several of these papers are of far more politic il as well as historical signifl- cance than Thompson’s report, Among them are letters from Holcomb, of Virginia, and Clay, tha as- sociate of Sanders, These present details are of transactions which are referred to in general terms: by Thompson, A search through the files of the War Department has brought to light letters and reports which it ts sald will be unpleasant reading tor some prominent Southerners, New York Custom Houxe Regulations, Some few weeks ago the Secretary of the Treas sury instructed the Collector at New York not to allow the entry of goods by uncertified invoices, ynt to require, where goods arrived without a cer- tifled invoice, that entry should be made by ap- praisement, This order was subsequently modified,, to be entered upon duplicate uncertified invoices on giving bond to produce a certified invoice, and the order was subsequently further modified so as to allow goods paying ad valorem or mixed duties? the same privileg: Local Politics and Parti.Colored Pree tentions. i At the adjourned convention of the Purvis wing of i republican party to-day, the Hon, John W. Lebvhrnes was nominated for delegate to rep resent the District of Columbia in Cong! Colonel N. G. Ordway having positively pr: | the nomination. Laws Bearing on Silver Bars. The following regulations relative to the receipt of! base silver bullion at the Mint of the United State: the branch mints and the Assay Ofice at New York, have been issued from the Treasury Department :— Deductions for loss in refining—First, base silver. bullion of less than 600 fine is not receivable; sec+ ond, from 600 to 750 fine, containing copper as the chief alloying metal, with one or more of the follow- ing substances, viz., lead, antimony, arsenic and sulphur, one and one-quarter per cent on the gross weight of the deposit; third, on bullion 750 or, 900 fine, one per cent; fourth, on bullion below 900 fine, containing copper only as the alloying metals one-quarter per cent; fifth, when lead only is the alloying metal deposits of less fineness than nine hundred thousandths wiil not be received.. The charge for refining, parting and bar making at the Mint of the United States, the branch mints and the Assay Office at New York continue as heretolore. Naval Work and Naval Supplies. ‘The contracts under the bids for furnishing navat supplies, recently opened at the Department, will be awarded in the latter part of next week. The list of the suppites to be furnished is very large, embracing all kinds of materials used in the con- struction of ships at the Navy Yards, the cost of which will be about $400,000 for the present fiscal year. It is probable that as soon as the contracts have been awarded the work at the several Navy Yards will become more active, as the new supplies will be firnished immediately, and the work now suspended for want of supplies will ve resumed. ba Naval Changes. Bas se Rear Admiral Joseph Lanman, lately comman ing the South American fleet, has been placed o} the retired list by reason of long and faithful service, The retirement of this officer promote: Commoender Alex. M. Pennock, now commandin; the Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy Yard, to the grade ot Rear Admiral, and Captain R. H. Wyman, tu charg of the Hydrographic Ofice in this city, to be Com: modore. There will be no promotion to fill th vacany caused by Wyman’s promotion, Congress having at its last session passed a law restorin, Capt. Beaymont to active duty, which increased the list of captains to fifty-one, and the promotion gf Wyman reduces it to filty, the number requiree® by Law." > Livutenant George W. Pigman has been detache t from the Naval Academy and ordered to the Yantic.; First Assistant Engineer Henry Snyder has beer detached from the Philadelphia Navy Yard aud, ordered to the Saranac, Second Assistant Engineer Levi F. Safford hag been detached from the Saranac and ordered homes, Postal Extension on the Kansas Central, ‘The Postmaster General has ordered @ daily mat service upon the Kansas Central Railroad, fro: Leavenworth to Grasshopper Falls, a distance of thirty-five miles, from August 1; also upon Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago road, from fayette to St. Ann, Indiana, a distance of fortyd seven miles, to commence at tue same time, The San Francisco Mint. ‘The followiog 1s the oMcial atatemeht of the dew posits and coinage at the Branch Mint at Sam Francisco during the fiscal year 1871-72:—Gold dee posits—value, $25,351,270 74; allver deposits and purchases—value, $1,030,822 34—total deposits, $20,391,093 17. Gold coinage, $17,790,000; silve! coinage, $955,500—total, $18,746,500. Unparte bars, $7,736,580 26. Total value, $26,482,080 26, A LAND SLIDE IN PITTSBURG, Prrrssura, Pa., July 25, 1872. A heavy land slide occurred this afternoon, ont what is known a8 Boyd's Hill, on the side Second avenue. An immense mass of earth moved down, completely demolishing four new owned by John Mulien, Two other staal The occupants escaped unhurt, are anticipated, and considet unousinoss 1 elt among the Fealdente in the nelgl 80 as to allow goods paying a purely specific duty , v a