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DR. LIVINGSTONE'S DISCOVERIES, —__+___- One of Mr. Stanley’s Critics Taken to Task by Charles Beke. The London Times of the 15th inst. publishes the following letter from Charles Beke, in answer to the “carping criticism” of Mr. Cooley on Doctor Living- stone’s and Mr. Stanley's, the HexaLp explorer’s, report :— Mr. Cooley, in his carping criticism of Doctor Liv- ingstone's iscovertes in the Times of the Sth inst., is only acting up to the system which during many years past has been witnessed by all geographers with regret and indignation. If, a8 he admits, there are in Mr. Staniey’s report “many inaccura- cles attributable probably to the haste of the nar- rator and the weak memory of ls hearer,” he is surely not justified inmcommenting on the Veeder lars of that report as if at vem. Ce a esively recor ANKE is of i himeel!. ou iy? thi in disputing Doc- Independently of Fe ‘a claim to lave estab- Bisa Vetoel the fact that the lished —_conclusivel, Chambezi and vatabezt are totally different rivers, ur correspondent is neither just nor generous, ? be true that, eighty years ago, Dr. Lacerda called the former river the New Zamoezi to distin- ih it from the river of Tete, and that he even Can from the natives of the country that the for- mer trends to the river which runs by the city of the Cazembe; but that accomplished and conscien- tious Portuguese scholar had not atall made up iia mind as to the value of this information, “the truth of which,” said he, only a few days before his Jamented death, “1 neither allow nor disallow.” fsa Mp. Findlay’s notes in the proceedings of the yal Geographical Socicty, xi., 236.) Even as late as the year 1554, when Major Garvitto published at Lisbon his narrative of the second Portuguese mis- op. to the Court of the Cazembe in 1831, he said 10 Muata Cazembe, pp. 191, 192), when 8] sing of Chambezi:—‘“l cannot say where its mouth be; but in any case it must be either in some other great river, which 1 deem the more probable, or else on the coast”’—by which he meant the West Coast of Africa, Dr. Lacerda having im: ed it might be the head of the Cunene! And Major Garvitto then coutinued:—‘“Perhaps it disch; iteelf into the Zainbezi, which Ido not look on as pry ble.” Our knglish traveiler must, there- fore, surely be excused if, when he first saw the Chambezi, he should have erroneously identified it with the Zambezi. And when afterwards, can- didly game Weer: have been mistaken, he found from own personal explorations that there is no connection whatever between the two rivers, he is indisputably entitled to the merit of of this great Aiscovers. But what, after a Mr. Cooley’s own opinion on the subject’ Unie: totally misunderstand him, he still looks on the Chambezi as a tributary of the Zambezi. For the former river is the upper course of the Cy which he makes to fall into his “N’yassi,” the northern portion of which is now ed by him “Nyanza,” and as he contends that “Nyanza and Nyanja (the Tanganyika and Nyassa of br. Livingstone) are one and the same lake,” and as we know tht Nyassa joins the Zambezi by Means of the river Siiré, it follows that, in Mr. Cooley’s estimation, the Chambezi joins the Zam- bezi. ‘ibis is, however, upon the moustrous as- sumption that “the ‘unganyika and Nyassa of Dr. Livingstone are one and the same lake’ —au opinion which, | believe, BO One but its originator, Mr. Cooley himself. ‘That gentieman 1s entitled to the credit of having many years ago directed public attention to the neglected geograpiy of inner Africa; and in 1854 he communicated to the Royal Geographical Society @ very valuab aper on ‘the Geography of N’yassi, or the Great Sea of Southern Africa,’ which was printed in tue fifteenth volume of the society's “Journal.” This monograph, in addition to his pre vious critical labors, and especially his detection of the gross fraud perpetrated on the learned world by M. Vomville in his pretended journey to the Court of the Muata Yanvo, the Muata Cazembe’s is at the present day retained by | neighbor and suzerain, properly placed him in the | first rank among gcographers. Unhappily for his fame, Mr. Cooicy has not kept pace with the progress of geographicul discovery. An idea that there is but one great lake in that part of Alrica—which was natural enough in the first instance-—has become stereotyped on his mind, so that he will not allow facts to convince him to the con- trary. Thus he now dogmatically declares that “all the information collected ‘from natives during mearly three centuries, from Lopes down to Erhardt, assures us that Nyanza and Nyanja (the Tanganyika and Nyassa of Dr. Livingstone) are one and the same lake,” and, consequentiy, all the in- formatiou collec! from natives during the last = of a century, assuring us that they are wo distinct lakes, aud in addition to this the ac- tual explorations of Dr, Livingstone, which de- monstrates this to be the fact, are all to go for mothing! The first persons who contended for the sep- arate existence of two lakes in that part of Africa, at a time when neither Tanganyika nor Nyassa had been discovered, were tue late Baron Bunsen and myself; we having, as | wrote to Pro- fessor Berghain on November 6, 1550 (see my recently published work, “The Idol in Horeb,” page 118), ‘carefully compared Rebmann’s southwest route to Mono-Moezi (Unyamwezi) with that of Liefbensaid, and found them to correspond; so that Cooley has carried the latter too far south.” And in conse- uence of this I expressed my “decided opinion at tue routes to the two lakes, obtained by Mr. Cooley from native sources, had been mixed up and erroneously applied by him to a supposed single jake.” (See Atheneum, July 12, 1866.) Lest it should be imagined by persons unac- quainted with the subject that this is a mere per- #onal question between Mr. Cooley and myself, I deem it only right to refer to what Captain Burton has recently said in his work, “Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast,” volume 1, page 50, respecting Mr. Cooley’s paper ou N’yassi, above mentioned :— His monograph did good by awakening the scientific mind, but it greatly inured popular geowraphy. It un- happily aswerted (p. 1) that in “every part of Bastern Africa to which ovr inquiries have ex:ended snow Is quite anknown.” And the author, having lad down his law, bowed before it, and expected fuct as well as the public todo the same.” He even attacked the text of Ptole: asserting iat the passages treating of the Nile sou and the Lunar tains were an interpolation of a comparatively receut date. * * * Tt was the same with his “Single Sca,” which, under the meaningless and frroncous name, “N'yassi,” again supplanted Ptolemy's cumen onfered the last insulc e lakes, and this last waut of to African geography. T need not foliow Captain Burton further in his strictures on Mr. Cooiey’s opinions. Sufficient ha been suid to warn the unlearned public against ai- | lowing their judgment respecting Dr. Livingstone’ discoveries to be influenced by this geograph criticisins, in which (uniess lam much mistaken) he will be found to stand aione, As an instance of | the uplairness of his criticisin, I may notice his ob- | jection to the apparent discrepancy in the two ac- counts of the size of Lake Moero. the 7imes of November 10, 1869, that lake is mi- putely described as being sixty miles in length and | fifty miles in breadth, with ranges of tree-covered mountains Nanking it on both sides, and receiving two rivulets at its northern end, aud others appa- rently in other And , Decause Mr. Stan- Jey speaks of little lake six miies long,”’ Mr. Cooley wishes it to be believed that this is not an error of the reporter, but is a totally different de- scription under different circumstances; so that this and the other lakes distinctly described by Dr. Livingstone are nothing more thin “the jens and marshes of the Portuguese.” Further, Mr. Cooley says that “Dr. Livingstone tells us that he traced the River Lualaba, running north, then weet, th south, It is,” ys “identi with the Chambezi, which is tue Nile, Congequently, the Nile runs to the north, w ¢t and south, where Dr. Livingstone leaves it.’ Ty.us isa characteristic specimen of your correspondeat’s criticism of not merely opinions but also of matters of fact which may hyppen not to coincide with tis own fancies. {n the first place, this is the report of Mr. Stanley, and it may well be inaccurate for the reasons adinitted by Mr. Cooley himself, But assuming, for argumeut’s sake, that Mr, Stanley has reported—I will not say absolutely, but sab- stantilly correctiy—what Dr. Livingstone told him, what does it amount to? ‘That at the point at which the traveller came upon the broad river— certainly not “where Dr. Livingstone leaves it,” as Mr. Cooley pretends—at that point he found the river running to the north and from the west and south—not oN. n W., then 8.," as Mr. Cooley has it; and that he then worked his way down stream to lati- tude four degrees south, havingifollowed the course of the river several hundred In Dr. Living: | atone’s despatch to Lord Clarendon, published ta | miles till he came | within one handred and eighty miles of that part of | has alread: e pnd ot Baker’s Alpert Nyanza. 1 do not pretend say that this interpretation is correct, inasmuch as Mr. Stanley's words are hot at all clear in several respect conclusion we must wait and see what Dr. Living- e@tone himself says. e concluding T must draw attention to the at Dr, Livingstone’s despatch, published in the Nile wh Ray, the Sout Be! fact th the been traced—that is to | Before coming to any , Times of November 10, 180¥, thougit Of 80 old a | date, contains really more special information than Mr. Stanley's report. This tay be because the re- Porter has oply given a summary of what he was told. But, it may also be on account of Dr. Living- stone's tion, expressed to Lord Clarendon, to allow his observations (and perhaps likew information) to be tampered with before turn home. His words, as printed in th 'y are omitted in the The desecration my posi unknown to the Coundil ba th why I suould adhere to thy re of my own observations till publicatio cause the upseiting of a canoe, or auything me, might 1ead to the entire loss of the discoverics. The announcement in the Bombay newspapers of the receipt of a despatch from Dr. Airk saying that Mr. Stanley was the bearer of a large box fall of correspondence and papers from our traveler will, it is fervently to be hoped, have done away with the possibility of so deplorable a contingency. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES BEKE. have suffered is probally is all the more r i solution fo be the guardian I regret this, be- ReiGaTs. THE RELIEF OF DR. LIVINGTTORE. a The Pablic Press Upon His Late Letters to the Herald. {From the Winona (Minn.) Republican, July 22.) The New YORK HERALD certainly has reason tobe proud of its enterprise in undertaking and carrying out its unique expedition, for without the timely arrival. and assistance of Stanley Livingstone : son of the pereriat 8 y, and the press of the United States, throu; its representatives, will doubtless give him an eva- tion on his return. {From the (sceptical) Boston Advertiser, July 26.) We print this morning what purports to be a let- ter from Dr. Livingstone just received in London. It is expressive of thanks to Mr. Bennett, of the New Yor« HERALD, for the efforts made to reach tum in that almost mythical land of Ujiji, and gives a brief statement of his adventures since he de- parted from civilization. [From the Cumberland (Md,) Daily News, July 23,] Later than this comes the great feat of the Nsw York HERALD, which, while @ proud government stood halting as to its duty, organized, at a heavy expense, an expedition of search for the lost Liv- ingstone. Under the lead of the intrepid Stan- ley the expeditionary corps plunged into the wilds of Africa, where, beset by flood and foul weather, and betrayed and assaulted by treacherous natives, it for months pursued its iat purpose, being rewarded im November last he discovery of the justly famed Doctor at Ujiji. After spending several months with Livingstone the HBRALD man is now on his return home, accompanied by the Doctor's son, and bearing, it is said, such documents as will set at rest doubts of the truthfulness of his narra- tive, which, we must confess, while not doubtin, in the least, read much like romance or the work o} inatior will be @ proud day for Stanley and his at employer as well when he sets foot on English soll after his long, dangerous, arduous, though success- ful tour under the burning suns of Africa, and to the brain which conceived the ente! » NO less be to the nerve which executed, all honor will be lone, [From the (incredulous) Louisville Courier-Journal, Tuly 23.) It is about time for the Nsw YorK HERALD to quit boasting ofits correspondent’s Livingstonian ex- pedition to Ujiji. If the thing is kept up much longer we shall make it a point to hire Monsieur Du Chaillu at fifty dollars a day to lose himself in the wilds of Equatorial Africa and let one of our silver- plated correspondents go in search of [From the (mystical) Poughkeepsie Press, July 20.) The New YorK HERALD, in the Livingstone ex- cltement, became one of the spots on the sun this morning. Itis justly estimated by ‘the Man in the Moon.’ {From the Syracuse Courier (democratic), July 26.) We publish this morning a letter from Dr. Liv- ingstone to Mr. Bennett, of the HeRatp. The daring explorer hand it thrilled him to hear, among other things, that General Grant was elected Presi- dent, The same news “thrilled” Grant's relatives, and has since startled the American people. {From the Norwich (Conn.) Advertiser, July 26.] The cable brings us along letter from Dr. Liv- | ingstone, addressed to the New York HERap, conveying his thanks forthe interest felt in his welfare by that establishment and his admiration of the enterprise of the HERALD’s agent, Mr. Stan- ley. The American nag borne by Stanley, he says, was the first ever seen in those parts of Africa. There is mach more in the letter of @ personal character, and also speaking of the explorer’s ob- servations in the regions where he has tor 50 many years been tarrying. These tidings from Dr, Liv- ingstone have created a great sensation In England. {From the New Haven Journal, July 27.) Another interesting account of life in Africa, purporting to have emanated from the pen of Liv- ingstone, comes to us by cable this morning. It reads wonderfully like the great explorer’s style, except a small portion devoted to the charms of certain African women, whose beauty of face and figure is depicted in glowing terms. This section smacks a trifle of HEkALD Pienipolation. Should it prove no exaggeration, susceptible young gentle- men from the United States had better beware of an African tour in that direction lest they falla victim before these Cleopatras,of the desert. (From the Hartford Times, July 26.) The long-missing geographical explorer is really alive, and the HERALD correspondent’s story is confirmed. The Doctor now speaks for himself. He says the arrival of the HERALD expedition, with its supplies, was most timely; and it seems to have almost saved his life; for he was out of means, dejected and completely broken down. Stanley told him six years’: news of the great world he had so long left behind him; and the Doctor was so astounded at the strange things he heard that it revived him by ving his whole nervous by irhory afillip and a start. is appetite returned, his health began to improve, and he is going ahead with fresh zeal to complete his remarkable discoveries along the great water- shed in Southeastern Aico, where rise the mys- terious fountains of the Nile. This ancient geo- graphical problem the Doctor seems really to have solved; and he will have much to tell—if he lives to get back to England—about the light-colored and semi-civilized natives of that part of Africa, of whom Swedenborg tells us queer things, rather confirma- tory, on the whole, of Stamley’s and Livingstone’s revelations, in his mystical work of heavenly visions. Itis not improbable that one effect of this rescue of Livingstone may be to break up, the slave trade of the East African coast. {From the Hartford Post, July 26.) Direct news from Dr. David Livingstone has been received in the form of a letter of thanks ad- dressed to James Gordon Bennett, of the New York HERALD. The letter is dated at Ujiji, East Africa, November, 1871, and its most interesting portions are the statements of the explorer in regard to the news he received by t@e HERALD representa- ive, Mr. Staniey. Dr. Livingstone alludes to events, which sound very old to us, a8 news to him, aud even the man to whom his letter of thanks 18 addressed, as well as several to whom he refers, have passed from tnis unexplored world to one still less known. The details of the vexa- tions, annoyances, robberies and swindles to which Dr. Livingstone has been subjected awakens a@ sentiment of pity for him, and his sturdy deter- mination to fullll the object. of his mission Induces a feeling of admiration for his tenacity of porpose. There issomething touching in his description of the visit of Stanley when the explorer had almost despaired. He says he hud been bamed. worried, defeated by the faithlessness and desertion of his men and the rokbery of his goods, and he returned to Ujiji after a tramp of between four hundred and five hundred miles beneath a biazing vertical sun “a mere ruckle of bones.” * * * Aiter de- scribing his discoveries of the great watershed of eastern interior Africa, and the finding of fountain heads of four large streams and several extensive lakes, he says he hopes tu be the means of suggest- ing a plan to put a stop to the slave trade that curses that portion of the country. {From the Paterson (N. J.) Guardign, July 26.) A letter from Dr. Livingstone to James Gordon Bennett is published in the HERaLp and other New York papers to-day. It expresses the great ex- plorer’s gratitude for the sending of the expedition under Stanley, explains his tolis and tribulations among the canvibais of the interior of Africa, and sketches his discoveries, which, he says, he is vound to pursue until he finds the sonrces of the Nile, although inciination draws him strongly homeward, [From the Elizabeth (N. J.) Monitor, July 23.) Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, who was recently discovered in East Africa, has forwarded a letter to the New York Hekatp, in which he returns his profound thanks to Mr, Bennett for the kinduess that prompted him to send Stanley in search of him. The letter ts dated in November last, and, by the courtesy of the editor of the HERALD, a) pears simultaneously in the several morning p) ers. Tue letter is so deeply interesting that we have transferred its entire contents to our columns. Dr. Livingstone, nothing daunted, is determined to pursue the result of his investigation, and if he does not succeed in Mis mission—tue discovery of the Nile—it will not be because he is not possessed of a courageous heart. Further intelligence trom him ain due season, and the Doctor he would list of sub- {From the New York Commercial Advertiser (lead- ing editorial), July 27.) From the flurry of polities it is pleasant té&turn to the record of exploration and discovery which the last few days bring us. We have already noticed the fact that the late Nicaragua expedition made surveys of four routes from sea tosea. These are in some respects preferable to the Isthmus line, where there is no water for @ canal, and where a cutting 600 feet deep must be made. In Nicaragua, on the other hand, the highest level is the lake itself, whose waters can be used to supply a canal in botn directions. At one point, however, the sur vey indicated an elevation of forty-seven feet above the lake, but there the level may be fed from the San Juan River. The lake is about one hundred and thirty feet above the ocean. This expedition bed some satisfactory results, and raises ope of ture success in solving the problem of inter- oceanic communication by water. An expedition now about setting forth in the West will continue an examination of the regions west of the one hun- dredth parallel. A thorough and careful survey is sheet kinieras so that Uncle Sam may know more about his farm than he now does, and under. stand Vip how large it is, how it lies, what it is worth for agriculture, and what it bears in vege- | trade ip tation, mines, these bn gg he gad the seas the long vingstone, whom, aD besid the Heratp has taken under its especial » and #0 with the most pro- results. The traveller gives us a ung the trade of Eastern Africa, which there exists in the most revolting form as ‘the sum of all villanies.”” He finds among the negroes of that region who are subject to this horrid trafic “finely formed and in- tellectual heads” and “brave, genuine human souls.” They are not insatiable and bloodthirsty savages, but reasonable and sensible beings. It is after they are made slaves or their friends and rel- atives are kidnapped that they exhibit the features of character uonalty ascribed to them, Dr. Living- tone finds much to admire in the country of which he of the first explorer. The water- shed of 700 miles in length ts filled with springs, which form countless rivulets and im- sing rivers, There are lakes and mountains. ut the streams have one central direction, an that is believed to be the Nile. This problem of 80 many the Doctor has within what he deems easy settlement, and he has pushed away into the Wilderness to resume his restless investigation. The picture of this lonely man, “sticking to his work like a Briton,” is one of sublime interest. The Mere solution of the question of the source of the Nile seems unimportant, but its bearing upon the future of Africa, as ctv! tion is extended there and as commerce and trade open the continent, 1s plain. It is these restless explorers who create Rew worlds, Columbus and Vasco de Gama and their warlike followers, De Soto, Bilboa, the ear! Christian missionaries, were all derided, and utill- tarlanism then asked, as now, to what does all this tend? Three centuries have answered the question and convinced the most sceptical. (From the Brooklyn Union, July 26.) THE HERALD’S TRIUMPH. Up to the present time there have been doubts in the minds of clear-headed men as to the genuine- ness of the HeRaLp’s despatches about the dis- covery of Dr. Livingstone, and these doubts were well founded, for it was very remarkable, and very mysterious, too, that, while so many letters were published from Mr. Stanley, the HERALD’s adven- turous exploring agent, not a line was known to have been received from Dr. Livingstone himself, who would naturally have been most anxious to communicate with his friends and with the English government. But, at last, all doubts are removed by the publication to-day of a letter from Doctor Livingstone to Mr. Bennett, and the triumph of the H®RALD is complete. Every one will rejoice in the successful termination of an en- terprise which at first seemed Quixotic, and which has been treated with flippant jeers and scornful jests untilits triumphant success compels the ad- miration of the world, The letter of the great African explorer is a thoroughly characteristic pro- duction, full of enthusiasm and almost childish frankness of expression. The stout-hearted and simple-minded explorer is the first European since the time of Herodotus who has penetrated into the unknown land where he was found whose solg mis- sion was other than to obtain slaves and ivory, and that magnificent territory which has for ogee been kept from Christianity and civi- lization that the Portuguese and the petty Sultan of Zanzibar may continue the trafic in slaves, The HERALD, Of course, makes the most of its oppor- tunity, and devotes its pages almost exclusively; and it may boast of giving mote important intor- mation to the world about Africa in one day than the Royal Geographical Society has been able to do in twenty years, [From the Brooklyn Eagle, July 26.) ‘Those newspapers which have been clamoring for some time for proof of Mr. Stanley's success and the HERALD's enterprise must certainly be satisfied by the publication to-day of a letter signed “David Livingstone,” and bearing every intrinsic mark of authenticity. Leaving aside the characteristic tendency of the HERALD to magnify what needed no Magnification to’ensure it a place among the phenomenal adventures of the age, and the boshy introduction of Livingstone’s “most highly inter- esting epooial comimunication” by the HERALD agent in London, we come upon @ ‘genuine letter from the explorer himself, the first he has written, or that has reached civilization, for many years. It is brief and graphic. Beginning by thanking Mr, Bennett for the “extreme kindness which prompted him to send’? Mr. Stanley—an extreme kindness which we in New York are apt to think was not un- mixed with an acute perception of the advertising advantages of the mission—the Doctor goes on to explain the condition in which his discoverer found him. Sore ofheart, “battled, worried, defeated and forced to return” when almost within sight of a successful result of a lite’s labors, a mere “ruckle’’ of bones and nearly dying upon his feet, we can imagine the gratitude with which the stern old ex- plorer sighted the American flag— The starry flag of inspiration, and received the rial succor of the brave Stanley. In describing their first meeting, Living- stone writes a few ple, touching words, which show that he has lost among the wilds of Equatorial Africa none of the power which made him cele- brated as a writer before he became world known as anexplorer. “I am as cold and undemonstra- tive as we islanders are usually reported to be,” he says, “but your kindness made my frame thrill.”’ He then gives a brief résumé of his labors and their results—results, we are sorry to believe, sadly out of proportion to the immense energy and heroic persistence he has given to their accomplishment. But there is one paragraph of his letter, having nothing to do with the sources of the Nile, which will interest all who have at heart the progress of human liberty. Livingstone frankly declares that the suppression of tue slave trade on the east coast of Africa 1s a matter of incomparably more moment than the discovery of all the Nile sources together. In this great work he invites the co- operation of the great American republic, The fact of Livingstone’s existence, then, ts settled beyond cavil, But what are the chances of his ultimate success? From hisletter it seems that he has travelled 600 miles of the South Central Africa watershed country; but there are still 100 miles more of it to explore, and this last hundred, as Livingstone says, is the most interesting of the whole. When this task shall have been accom- plished, the explorer must proceed along the banks | of the river formed by the last of the great foun- tains in the watershed country, and this river, as he says, 1s one of several wnich he has heard of frequently, and at “great distances off.” It will in all probability, then, be years yet before the civilized Kast will look upon the features of David Livingstone, for he has determined to accomplish his work or literally perish in the hi peed ae Mean- while the expedition of Stanley will probably have the effect of ris other parties of adventurers to go in search of Livingstone, and possibly to Ppa with #im, sharing his labors and lightening 8 heart. {From the Newark (N. J.) Kegister, July 27.) The most doubting Thomas wiil have certain proof of the discovery of Dr. Livingstone by the HERALD expedition, in reading the admirable and well-deserved letter of thanks to Mr. Bennett from the veteran explorer. He very tersely describes his forlorn condition when, baMed, worried, de- feated and forced to return to Ujiji by the rob- bery of his attendants, when within grasp of his object, the discovery of the source of the Nile and the four historic fountains, he met assistance and sympathy in the person of Mr. Stanley. He then tells how he was cheered and enlivened by the long budget of wondrous news that’ the HERALD man poured into his ears; events that had conden: a century into @ few years, The safe laying of the Atlantic cables, the Franco-Prus- sian war, the French Republic, aud the great strides towards popular liberty everywhere—these and other marvels the newcomer related to his illus- trious companion, aud this had an immediate and beneficial eect upon his injured health. Dr, Liv- ingstone thinks that his discoveries will produce more benefit in the suppression of the African slave nzibar and elsewhere on that continent than all the wealth of learning he will add to geographical science, Our contemporary is to be congratulated upon its brilliant success in this matter. Itis quite right in supposing that the province of a great newspaper can hardly be cir- cumseribed while there 1s anytuing left to kno or ao. . {From the New York Evangelist (Presbyterian), July 25. The satisfaction, almoat amounting to exultation, with which the civilized world has heard—through the enterprise of the New York Herato—of the discovery of Dr. Livingstone, unwillingly arrested in his career of African exploration, has tended to exclude from a just appreciation the real signifi- cance of what he has aimed to accomplish. His story of what he lias seen and endured, considered | nerely a8 one of adventure, cannot be otherwise than of thrilling interest. His contributions to our geographical and scientific knowledge of the interior of a vast and hitherto almost unknown -continent, are invaluable. At the hazard of life and at the risk of almost unimaginable hardship, he cut loose from civilization and plunged into the depths of African wastes, for year alter year, patiently toiling to work out the solution of the great problem that occupied his thoughts. {From the Philadetphia Press, July 27.) Some English travellers and pen-and-ink geo- graphers did not hesitate, when they heard that Dr. Livingstone had not only been heard of, but actually discovered by the adventurous agent of an American newspaper, to express a doubt of the fact in the very strongest language. One of these descendants ot St. Thomas, writing to the Times, triumphantly pointed to the fact that the long-lost had not written to England, and affirming that he should have written, querulously inquired, “Where are his letters?’ Another, who is supposed to be an expert on the subject of Airican exploration, picked a sentence out of Mr. Stanley's first letter, describing how, at Ujijt, in East Africa, he came tip to a party of natives among whom he particularly noticed a gray-bearaed man, evidently an European, ‘‘with a pale face,” whom he saluted with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1872—TRIPLE SHExr. I believe *” and at once, in the desert of Africa, the pilgrim of the Old World and the adventurous fons of the Tw heartily grasped hand in hand. doubters immediately detected an error here. ingstone was in London, some years ”’ they said, “he was dark complexioned.” Perhaps so; butin the midst of an African horde Dr. pamnaseene would be recognizable at once a8 & the first case the doubt is annihilated by the fact that Dr, Livingstone did write several letters to the British government and private friends in England, besides one at least to Mr. J. G. Bennett, of the New YorK Hurap, which, through the cour- bo ¢ ofthis gentleman, was published in the Press and many other newspapers. Mr. Stanley resolved to bring these with him to England, and was pru- dent in decision, Had he entrusted them to the mail and any accident destroyed or mis- laid or detained them, it would probably have been declared, with an “I told-you-so!”” exultation, that his story was a fiction, and that his mission was & myth. The letters and their bearer have arrived in London, and certainty has dispelled all doubt, Livingstone has been discovered and recovered by @ young American, adventurous and able, who was Sent out by the Naw York H&RALp to ascertain the fate of the illustrious man, a British subject, who had not been heard of for years, and whose existence had become a subject of uncertainty and dread. The British government had declined sending an expedition to Africain quest of him; the expense, it was said, would be too considera- ble. Then the New YORK HRRaLD, regardless of the cost, seut an expedition of its own, headed by the young Missourian, Henry M. Stanley. By him the darness was cleared away; and Livingstone, be- sides obtaining an opportunity of communication with “home, sweet home,” received such material aid as has allowed him to prooned in his great self- imposed task of Frogtaph cal discovery. In the whole tory of journalistic enterprise, and the annals are many, there has been nothing to approach this. The New YORK HERALD, by its Staniey-Livingstone expedition, has made the world its debtor. {From the New York Evening Mail, July 27.) There has been considerable criticism of the letter of Dr. Livingstone to Mr. Bennett, transmitted by cable to the HeRaLp and published by that paper yesterday. Some doubts have been thrown on its genuineness, and the style of the letter has been commented upon in a manner not very favorable to the great cxplorer’s literary reputation. To our mind the very peculiarities which have offended the critics are those which establish most strongly the genuineness of the letter, if it were not utterly absurd to suppose that the HeRALp is spending ‘ens of thousands of dollars in cabling forgeries. ‘The second letter, which 1s published fo-aay, is longer and far more important than the first. The cost of its transmission by cable must have been enormous, but the HERALD has made a good investment in the expenditure. This second letter has more singularities of expression than the first, Some inaccuracies and instances of bad grammar must be attributed to the cable operators, but this explanation is far from suiticient for all the luterary blemishes and eccentricities of expression, The right method of accounting for these, in our judgment, 1s that Dr, Livingstone has been for so many years isolated. from civilization that his mind has lost, to a large degree, both the restraints and the examples at forded by reading and daily contact with culti- vated men, He writes like a man who is full of im- portant facts which he wants to communicate with the utmost directness and simplicity, and who does not cure to elaborate his statements for mere literary effect. ‘The letter published by the HkRALD this morning abounds in expressions that are more vigorous than elegant, but it contains a wonderful amount of information, and brings before us vivid pore of the singular peopies among whom Livingstone has lived for so many years. Take his description of the African women as a spect- men of undignified and lively writing. * * * The great curse that has afflicted them, involved them in wars and degraded them has been the slave trade, and the explorer devotes nearly the whole of his letter to this subject, although he also describes the ponerel characteristics of the great table land region of Africa with remarkable vividness, He returns to the slavery question with the evidently earnest remark that “it would be better to lessen human woe than to discover the sources of the Nile,” but his revelations concern- ing the country and the people will do more to ac- celerate the breaking up of the slave trade than the most eloquent appeals, f-§ {From the Boston Post, July 27.) The brief story of Dr. Livingstone’s trials and travels and labors, as told by himself in his letter to Mr. Bennett, isa volume compressed into a sin- gle epistie. It sketches a route of exploration whose dificulties and dangers have never been sur- passed, in working out the task set for him even when its accomplishment seemed forbidden by fate. It tells of a perseverance more than wonderful, and of a persistence truly Scottish in its strength. Shut out from the world for years, surrounded by barbarous nations, attended only by treacherous servants, finding stores and remittances plundered and lost on their way through the jungle before they reaehed him, and even considered at home as one dead and forever out of the reach of human aid, the appearance of his rescuer with ig ery letters, news and encouragement may well have stirred what Dr. Livingstone styles his “coldness and un- demoustrativeness,”’ The letter which he writes in acknowledginent of the kindness that sought him out and put him in the way of continuing his explo- rations is the first word that has been received di- rect from the adventurer since his immurement in the untrodden wilds of Africa; and the fact that it Was called forth by an American and addressed to one of the same nation is a saficlent warrant for a feeling of national pride on our part. 27. 27.) {From the Boston Advertiser, July 27.) We presume that the reception of the letter ad- dressed by Dr. Livingstone to Mr. James Gordon Bennett will dissipate all doubts in regard to the fact of Stanley's discovery. Perhaps if the great African explorer had been more recently from the haunts of civilized men he would have laid less stress on the “kindness” of Stanley’s employer, and been less profuse in his expressions of grati- tude. To him no doubt, however, the relief brought was real, and he could not fe known that the HERALD undertook the expedition rather from a desire to show “enterprise” than from a feeling of commiseration for the lost traveller. Now that we have the story of Dr. Livingstone’s hardship and suifering we are more than ever struck with the indomitable perseverance which led him to carry out to the end his undertaking. He was so grimly in earnest that he put aside the idea of despair as out of the question because it was so ludicrous, Not very logical perh: sy but when was pluck ever logi- cal? He even read Punchand the Saturday »eview for news, and not for amusement, as is the case with most readers of the lightest and heaviest of periodicals, {From the Poughkeepsie Eagle, July 27.) Dr. Livingstongs.—The New York HeRap has accomplished a wonderful feat in the finding of Dr. Livingstone. In this matter it has shown splendid en- terprise, and, with Dr. Livingstone, the whole coun- try will thank young Mr. Bennett for his great gene- rosity and indomitable pluck. That Stanley should be the firstone to find “tne mere ruckle of bones,” as Dr, Livingstone expressed himself, is a t American journalism and Amer importance of which cannot be conjectured. The HexALD has done nobly, and should be justly ac- corded all praise. {From the Trenton (N. J.) Gazette, July 27.] great African explorer, Doctor Livingstone, are conclusively set at rest by the letter which we pub- lish on the first page of to-day’s paper, from the famons travelier to the editor of the New York HERALD, Who organized th for the discovery of th pity that Mr. Bennett, Jew days longer to r from Dr. Livingstone discoverer. It is a could not have lived a ve this gratilying letter ad this triumphant evidence journalistic feat ever undertaken, [From the Troy Whig, July 27. The letter of Dr. Livingstone to James Gordon | Bennett, Jr, is & hands timely relief bronght to him by of the HERALD, take pride in such an achievement; bunt a few days re yenition of the aniey, the agent | ago we read @ column article extracted from a London newspaper pretending to give an account of the discovery of Livingstone, in which the writer contrived not to mention either the HERALD or Staniey. The impression conveyed was that the Doctor had been found by an English expedition | and at British expense, A OASE OF LEAD POISONING. Deputy Coroner Cushman yesterday made a post- mortem examination, at 821 Bleecker street, on the body of Mr. William B, Mitchell, a man forty-two years of age, who died from lead poisoning, De- ceased was employed in an india rubber store in Murray street, and the poison from the white goods had impregnated his system. About ten days ago deceased procured some medicine from a neigh- boring drug store, and his mother seemed to think the dose had hastened h death, but such was mot the case. The atten physician had given a certificate of death from le f isoning, but with that the mother was not satis- led. The post-mortem showed the doctor to have been right in his diagnosis of the case. ORISPINS ON STRIKE. LYNN, Mass., July 27, 1872, Some stx hundred shoemakers, comprising the employés of thirty-flve shops, have struck against @ reduction of wages. The strike, however, is limited in extent, as much the larger proportion of the number of manufacturers have not proposed make a reduction of wages. All doubts as to the discovery and safety of the | stiecess{ul expedition | of the snecessfal accomplishinent of the greatest | The press the world over should | JACOB THOMPSON'S MISSION TO CANADA, | Reasons That Led to the Appointment of the Commissioners to Canada—Jacob Thompson's Despatch from Canada—The Herald (Obtains the Documents in Advance Without Paying $75,000. New York, July 25, 1872, To THE Eprror or THE HERALD:— | Wednesday’s Herp furnished one original docu- ment of those mysterious archives that appear to have been seduiously pursued, carefully guarded, and finally sold to our government for a round sum, as the reward of indefatigable toil. Truly honor and patriotism deserve this liberal recompense, A twice-told tale is ever weary, but Subjects of national interest derive additional im- portance when they are first unveiled, especially since mystery has cloaked the motives of the actors, and envenomed spite only reveals the darker side of the picture, This has been hitherto obscured = to the observation of the public until the Heraup offers the first | information, Like Richelieu, meaner minds would invent conspiracies that they might decapitate enemies—“ stale pretence.” The Period of letires de cachet has passed away, and | the Bastile is overthrown. The infamous inven- tions of bigoted minds are no longer believed by their most besotted followers, and the future circu- lation of mendacious scandal will find its lasting quietus in the erposd that the diligence of the HERALD is able to present to its reaaers in offering a truthful exposition, based on documentary evi- dence, of the true alms and motives of those whose actions have been unjustly criticized, Other stories that have had their propagation and currency in the furor of passion, and have been momentarily accepted as veracious, will, like “Truth crushed to earth, rise again” only to crush their inventors. These creatures of mon- strous birth in incredible proportion (only exceeded | by those whose gullibility of belief acts upon their supposed verity), will finally be extirpated from every mind save those whose systematic prejudice continues to circulate the scandal generated by a keener intelligence. THE REASONS FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF COMMIS: SIONERS TO CANADA. A short, succinct, and truthful record of historic facts is herewith presented, In the month o! May, 18¢4, General Grant was ad- vaneing upon Richmond, His army was supposed to be 300,000 strong, or capable of being reinforced to that number, which was opposed by General Lee with only 80,000 efiective men, Sherman was advancmg upon Johnston, at Chattanooga, with an army supposed to be 150,000 strong, While John- ston’s forces numbered only 40,000. ‘The leading minds of the Confederacy recognized their perilous, if nov forlorn position, and felt the utmost anxiety that the disparity of forces would,, in the end, lead to their overthrow. In this emer- gency diplomacy and arbitration were suggested, and resulted in the appointment of the Comiis- sioners, who afterwards reached Canada, to exer- cise their influence in a final adjustinent, on a peaceiul basis, of the national confict. The South was weary of war, and obviously unable to con- tinue its bloody arbitrament, and it was hoped and jeved that the more pow- erful North, equally sick of the conflict, would be willing to extend the olive branch under motives of @ common humanity and brotherhood. In other words, that by proper approaches they might once again “clasp hands over the bloody chasm,” frater- nize and Cate pie their didiculti¢s on the basis of justice and honor to either party. Some co-opera- tion was needed to effect this end. There was a | stron peace party at the North, and especially in the West. In consequence of information derived from a re- liable source, the Congress of the Confederate States believed that there was an organization in the Northern and Western States, and especially in the latter, consisting of talented men and true patriots— | men who loved their whole country, its constitution | and laws more tiian the mere interests of a section. In the overthrow of the Southern States they saw | the total destruction of the rights of all the Statos and, whether the North or South succeeded, union seemed inevitable. If the North succeede they would, in effect, establish a central- ize despotism; if the South triumphed, they would form an independent confed: eracy. In either case disunion appeared inevitable. Lovers of the Union as formed by our fathers, they thought the time had arrived to as- sert their reserved rights. It was with this party the Commissioners of the Confederacy were ex- pected to treat; and believing, as the Southern Congress did, that all that was necessary to bring this organization into action was a suilicient amount of means to make their true position felt, they Week ate? in secret seasion $1,000,000 to be placed at the disposition of the Commissioners se- lected by the Southern Executive, This sum was too large to be entrusted at one time to a single convoy, a yas transmitted by instalments under | the following authorized letrer:— | We have about alxty escaped, p 8 THE CONFEDERATE ARCHIVES, | 27st china “arias seat rms are defeated a, ore ary do not think 30, o manieare power is too large and will be arawn too actively into it. eir money has become worthless, the fanatics show no symptom of Miemeen 4 Captain — is with me and Is acting with great d! tion, and he possesses my entire confidence. [ greatly rely upon his courage and sagacity. ners, who sre ri for any enterprise, many of them men of first rate iatalt a Bence. The above despatch was forwarded by private hands July 8, 1864, bat owing to the difiicuity of transmission through the lines was not received for a long period. Mr, Benjamin writes complain- ingly of this fact at a much later period, But after ‘the failure of all the plans to negotiate @ peace or to obtain the release of Confederate prisoners, Mr. Thompson signified his desire to withdraw from this arduous field of duty, and the request was accorded, as signified in your correspondence of Wednesday's HERALD. At all events the HERALD has'demonstrated its activity in obtaining primary intelligence even over those pare who are diligent enough to unearth long uried documents, that come like, Banquo’s ghost, unbidden to the feast, and whose profits may yet turn, “like Dead Sea fruit, into ashes upon the lips’? of their acquisitive possessors, ‘The document adduced by your correspondent of Wednesday has its internal marks of veracity. Perhaps this review may bot be wanting in demon- strating the fact that soa ming more was contem- plated in the mission to Canada by distingnished politicians than a mere incendiary enterpriss. Under this view of the conduct of the Commis. sioners in Canada it is apparent from the action at the Niagara Falls Convention that the South ear- nestly desired peace, and was willing to seek its blessing either by arbitration, apo or political influence; sufictent, however, 1s made public to show that the large amount of monty: Aaprpprieted by the Southern Congress was for a diplomatic pur- pose, and not for any mere freebooter’s expedition on the frontier, To attempt to consider acts per- formed as belligerents as crimes against the law of the land will not meet with the sober judgment of posterity. The great idea to be kept in mind In all public acts is only to consent to those enterprises which among civilized nattons have been regarded as justifiable in war. The rules under that code are so loosely drawn, 80 badly detined, and with so many exceptionable precedents, that in viewing the act of an individual belligerent our minds are liable to be biased from relations to the cause which he alms to serve, The mystery which is necessarily involved in the Secret Service Depart- ment leaves u great deal open to conjecture and exaggeration, as well as misinterpretation of the intents that impelled actions, In the absence of known facts everything also trae'is colored by dark surmises, Hesides, the principal representa- tive becomes lable for all the erratic efforts of isoluted parties who have no responsibility attached to their movements, save that which by infallible contagion is fixed upon representative men, When the mind is cieared {rom prejudice and the excitement of the period has passed away a juster verdict will be arrived at than that which has hitherto been at- tached to these movements, and conduct, which otherwise: might be condemned, wiil then be ap- proved—even these abortive efforts to sunder our formerly happily united country. ‘The period of warfare has pas away; recrimination should cease. No good can result from the exhibit of lon; buried documents, either as testimony of national or personal weongs, and their use is only allowable in defence of those unjustly matigned, and should not be allowed in pandering to the malignant pas- sions that blind justice and drive reason from the sway of her legat counsels. Non ignara mati miseris succere disco. ” Letter from Colonel John T. Pickett. No, 1, WASHINGTON, D. ©. 422 F street, July 26, vita} To THE Eprror ov THe HERALD:— Aforthcoming work on the “Diplomacy of the, Rebellion” (so-called) beg now very thoroughly advertised, its editor has written to me with a re- quest to thank the press generally for the many first rate notices given the book in advance of pub- lication; and thus I allay the fears of all who seem to apprehend that the existing administration would fabricate documents to order, With all the shortcomings of the Cabinet I am satis(ed its mem- bers are incapable of so shallow and shabby an ex- pedient, It ought to occur to the mind of any one versed in public or official life that a record dupli- cate of every paper of the least significance must exist in the hands of the agents who originally penned the same, or, if deceased, in the hands of their representatives—the pecullar merit of the documents as delivered consisting in their con- crete, compendions form. And L am now assured that most compicte copies of all the papers at all important have been made since the war, and are in the hands of a compiler in Canada, That person has slept with them—originals and copies—for #ix hed and knows them all, great and small, by r eart. It has.not escaped my notice that not one of the many who have most severely criticised m; action in this matter has intimated what he would have done under the clrcuinstances, Unaided and acting in the iaterest of my client, I cared for and caused to be preserved these docu- ments at great expense to myself alone. The many patriotic gentlemen to whom 1 appealed ior ‘assistance would not contribute a dollar, What right had I or any one else to destroy the material by which history is written? Had Idone so the very men who revile me now would, upon tne inevitable change of administration, have de- nounced the act as one of unqualified Vandalism and its perpetrator asuperserviceable ass. I prefer their hatred to their ridicule, And had not the Dear Sin—I £900,000, whi knowledge r very truly, y telegrain ay wellas by P. JAMIN, Secretary of § Hon. Jacon Tuomrson, Wilmington, N. C. Having thus stated the political movement con- templated, itcan readily be apprehended that a mission of this character was oi the most dignised order, and purely of @ diplomatic nature. If further proof is needed of this the subjoined letter, written in the following winter, will demonstrat the fact. It probably does not appear in the lately purchased archives, for they are, by their saiesinan, claimed to be merely “historical records.” and doubtless valuable only as statistical reports from the Southern Quartermaster and Commissary De- partinents, manifesting upon how smai! a quantity of provisions and army stores an eXteusive army bang possibly subsist for a prolonged pei iod, I bs more appears it will be very readily ex- plained from documents still in existence and in the hands of various parties, that will demonstrate that all the secret service papers were noi de- stroyed in Richmond, but still remain in Canada, and have never yet been sold for a@ price, in bulk, tothe present administration. In order to dispel, however, any doubts us to the | true objects of the mission to Canada, and believing | that at this period a full exhibit of facts may be made without exciting farther pre party, the following authentic document, and the first sent from Canada, is offered as JACOB THOMPSON'S DESPATCH, ‘ving a detailed account of his primary operations in the Provinces :— . July 9, 1864 just opp site Detroit. yi M. Clay was taken sic | is now at St. Catheri ‘There, through the age: an Interview with a reliable and New York city. After th: mi with him T became sarisi the Eastern States, where the war the profit which they think they a | prosecution. Absolutely nothing was p effort to deal with their papers. After remaining two weeks for the arrival of {eame on to this place. Mere 1 met with M, Grand Master of t) and its President, 11 and J was at once in arrans ible gentleman t nd fre ponvers dt ron tion h ed, This gave me an tnsight their principles and. « T Was much pleased w | it, and there was nothing Im it, so far asf was permitted to go, whieh did not meet my hearty approbation, and 1 | | took’ three degrees. TF think they are in fair working grder. All the | expeed | the position tal Thad no sue | touch him, Then they 6 t expe He ts to fi ion has bees postpo sof th the ppperhedi t this movenie) the necting ow hs + in Hyinois 1s 25,00); The © 000; ia Rentacky, un in Todiana, known, but represhr This investigation bers are inc sly a Imovened was mule four weeks a The plan is the imu sized wud 17,009 at who aseorts that fi t place rf, ready tized have complained that they have becn for the wantot money, wich whieh ith the Indi. Hugs onthe | and hold Tne rs there. It | themselves and armed erantped here they have been Suppl Enforts are now maki ana patriots to induce t same day, and by at dianapolis andre Indiana and ¢ a Wesierit conteder the. ina) | piso e Uley will constitu prisoners: it he Rock Island. 1 1 xun sAtistied United Siates t our government should attempt ar . aud F hope such movement will be ion ot Peunsy! Ha inovementcoukl be made by our tr nto Ken: tucky and Missourl the Jatter part of the mouth it would groatly facilitate movements in the We They would occupy all the orgunized troops in this quar ter wid leave the Western suttes no excise, and the whole movement could be made without firing a gun. Tam certain the Viesident will see the importance of | such a movenient at a glance. ‘The people of the North are growing wea but the violent abolitionisty and the preneh nominations (save the Catholics) are as Vigorous in their advocacy ut an cutive extermination. The people of | Canada generally sympatiize with us. If Lee holds his | own around Richmond, and Johnston can waste aud de- feat the army of Sherthan, this fall will make wouderrul developmenis, 1. | MeCletian's late. w | him down with the | We have great suce at Richmond there is no hope of defeating a war ndice to any | writer delivered the documents to the actual stration the holler of them would have tway employed some other agent, and so ld have been delivered, nevertheless, One writer refers to the archives as “ stolen’? documents. Stolen from whom! If I have any vy, logic, or ethics, It would seem to he reverse is the case; for, 80 far tolen, they have been most scrupulously delivered to the rightful owner—the heir-at-luw and | residuary le; anet Confederacy—tne | United States, to wit, It is surely not my fault that | Inany honorable gentlemen, for whom I have @ pro- | found respect personally, should still think the war has to be fought over again. Ido not share in that conviction, and trust it is but a sentiment on their | part, and, being not blinded by partisan or sec- | tional hate, [hope to see bat one government in | this country during my tim: As to the imevitable | war of races, it is not a subject of proper discussion ' at the present time, May [Heaven avert it! | The administration has fired off its the | Jacob ‘Thompson report. It is bad enough; but as | 1 didn’t write it, the “dishonor” of giving It to | history, alter the lapse of near a full decade, is | not clearly apparent to my mind. As well might we hold ‘Tacitus and Gibbon responsible for Nero! ‘That is the only paper in the entire batch at all | disereditable to the three or four men who ran Incapacity and blunders | the Confederate machine. abound, no doubt; but that stupendous crime | against humanity stands alone, So, shouid any- ; Ching ei a disgraceful character appear, the | venomous old spider, who sits in his well-woven | web up yonder in Canada, would saliy forth wrachiully and annihilate the feeb Finally, | am stil firmiy persa duty of the ernment to acquire the it Was mine to preserve and restore it. I shall abide | by that action and seek to shirk no responsibility, rsonal or otherwise, and can only say to my assail- language of the great aad good Horace 8; you lie!’ The docu- ¢ history of the United es, Let us respect them as such. Shonid they ra the means of defeating scalawag claimants heir carpet-bug attorneys | shall be giad of it. JOUN T. PIOKETY, CARL VOGT. ° and Hine ite lacryme. The Application for Carl Vogts Dis charge Denied—Sult Inatituted by «a Daughter of the Mardered Nobleman to Recover Some of the Stolen Securl- ticceDeliverance from Darance Vile and Rearrest. se of Carl Vogt, charged with the nmrder of ian nobleman di Bianco and stealing some 000 worth of securities, the property of murdered man, and then tiring the lat villa, near Brussels, to al his ain yest in the Supreme ore Judge Pratt. An appli- cation, it will be remembered, was made & days since tor his release from the City Prison, where he has been confined ever since his arrest, the ter's crimes, came up Court Chambers ‘ on the ground of his not having been brought to trial within a reasonable Lime after bis indictment. Judge Pratt rendered his decision upon this appit- cation, denying the same and dismissing the writ of habeas corpus upon which the writ was granted, He added that this decision would not prevent an application for lus discharge on bail. tt was evident that the above decision was unex- by Vogt, for he betrayed considerable emotion on the announcement being made to him by his counsel, Messrs. John H. Anthon and William F. Kintzing, who likewise were quite equally as- tonished, for they thought they had made out a strong case in his favor. But their surprise was not destined to terminate here, to say nothing of the extra shock to the prisoner. Just as the forme! were agitating in their minds the subject of applying to the Court for Vogts discharge on bail, the annonocement Was made of & warrant of arrest having been granted against him in a civil suit commenced in the Supreme Court by the daughter of the mur- dered Count, Stephant Duval de oe | Vogt, to recover 50,600 francs, part of the alleged stolen securities which he refused to deliver up, and is said to have deposited with various persons in this country. 4 An order of arrest wa tsaued by Judge Pratt in this suit, and batied fixed at $50,000. This order will not, however, be served unless bat! should be found and Vogt released on the other application. | Vogt's counsel are endeavoring to procure bail, | previous to making another application to Court pected