The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1872, Page 8

“THE HERALD LIVINGSTONE EXPEDITION. Continued Comments of the English Press on Stanley’s Success. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST TN, 1872. communication, We must allude with mingled pain and pleasure to the letter which we also publish from the Doctor’s son—with pain, be- cause the one drawback to our pleasure at the termination of all doubts and fears in connection with Livingstone has been the charge of neglect brought against Dr. Kirk, the British representa- tive at Zanzibar. Nothing but a deep sense of duty caused us to give publicity to those serious and cir- cumstantial accusations which were made, through JHE DISCOVERER DISCOVERED | mr. stanicy, py the iustrious explorer. We Characteristics of the People in the Interior of Africa. THE ZANZIBAR SLAVE TRADE The Dark Beauties of Lua- laba Vale. DR. EIVINGSTONE AND DR. KIRK. {From the London Times, July 29.} ‘The discoverer has at last been discovered, and ‘Whe inquisitive mind of our race once more finds ‘Macif on the track of the great problem which has | cholera and perpe ‘@ccupied geographers—and many besides geog- waphers—since the beginning of history. There ‘fs not only news, bet letters from Dr. Living- tone, still at their date able, ardent, hopeful and persevering. The great traveller has learned to laugh at despair, and sees in the prospect of utter Geastitution in the midst of savage and barbarous ‘tribes only a new and ridiculous phase of his sin- gular career. It appears to have been a matter of ‘oomparative indifference to Dr. Livingstone whether, he had to distribute the gifts of ivitization to tribes fully able to appreciate them or to supplicate aid and hospitality from @hiefs who cannot 60 well appreciate his errand. Reduced to a mere “ruckle of bones,” footsore, plundered by everybody of everything and having mo cholee but to trust those who could not be trusted, he was still, last February, rejoicing in the hope of describing one day to the civilized world ‘the great watershed of Southern Africa. Much more he has to describe, but, pursued by the old fate of Airican explorers, he has found himself riven back at the most interesting point of his @iscoveries. Six hundred miles of the mystcrious watershed he had traversed, but so far has had to relinquish the remaining hundred, the most interest- ing of the whole, whence, from a source oid as history, flow four streams, soon becoming great rivers—two running northward towards Egypt, two southward into inner Ethiopia. Dr. Living- etone was longing for home, but all his life this vision had been before him; he had been assured of its certainty and it had become the real home of his hopes and affections. Plundeved by carriers, cheated by servants and mercantile agents, at downright war with slave-dealing Sultans, and with his supplies equally dissipated on the journey or at the depot and .never reaching him, he was clinging to the greatnope of his life and still be- Meving it within reach, We are permitted to hope that the man who has survived such difficulties, and who in a charmed region himself bears a charmed life, will one day return and supply the Jong gap in his story. Yet how he can do it even then is hard to be conceived. They who live at home know how much they are dependent on common comforts for even such slight Work as cor- Fespondence or a journal. The work which half the ‘world now expects, and will certainly read when it appears, has to be substantially composed in a region where it is no slight achievement of endur- a@nce and sagacity to retain one’s life and senses and to advance half a dozen miles a day. But we have yet to learn something else as won- @erfui as anything even in Dr. Livingstone’s own adventures and fortunes. If there be one thing we ehould have thought beyond the power of any soll- | tary individual !t would be to find a given man in | interior of Africa looked for simply because | not heard of. For years have people at home been indulging in the Wildest guesses as to the posi- tion and the possible plans and intentions of Dr. | Livingstone, and Mr. Stanley seems to have struck | on his trail at once with the instinct of a Red Indian, ~ Geographical societies have met and met, | and talked and taiked, and an expedition has been sent out carefully selected in men and material, By far the most probable account of the long silence ‘was that the great traveller had met with the too common fate of travelicis; indeed, it had been positively and circumstantially related. An enter- prising hewspaper proprietor picks his man and asks him to go and look for Livingstone, Fortu- mately the man thus invited is equal to the task. He sets off and does it while others are idly talking or slowly planning. Africa ts a very wide target, but Mr. Stanley hit the bull's-eye at once, One knew weil enough that it was a country to lose one’s self in; indeed, Dr. Livingstone is one more instance of that, but not that it was a country in which you could look fora man, find | itm in the crowd of a market place, and accost him with, ‘I presume it is Dr. Livingstone I am speak- ing to?” With this individual energy and dcci- sive success the sudden and early collapse of the “expedition” presents a ludicrous contrast. We have no wish to be hard on Mr. New and his associ- ates, but the comparison of his letter with that of Dr. Livingstone, placed on Saturday in the adjoin- column, cannot fail to suggest some refiections. The “expedition” started, it seems, aii well from Zanzibar, alter the official relations of the mcem- bers had been carefully and distinctly de- fined, with due provision for emergencies. Perhaps the men were ill assorted, but they knew it, and took it all into account. In henner the channei between Zanzibar and the mainland they got a rough tossing and ducking, and on land- ing the next day found they had been anticipated, and that Dr. Livingstone had been discovered. Ordinary readers, whose spirits have not been broken by a by oe at sea in an open boat, and whose tempers have not been rufiied by a few hours of ill-sorted companionship, will perhaps | think that the “expedition” was to be congratn- Jated, inasmuch as it had got the scent at once, and had only to follow itup. The “expedition” must have understood, we should think, and even Doped as a condition of success, that it would one @ay have certain and reliable news of Dr. Livingstone, and that the news would be valuable, because leading to the object itself. The search was still open, with the great advantage of being and distracted by no doubt. We cannot conceive why it did not proc just as it ‘was, and under the origina! name—“the Living- stone Search and Kelief Expedition.” It certainly | had got to find Livingstone and neip him; nay, for gught we know, he may have perished long be‘ore this for want of the very help the “expedition” was sent to give if it could find him, These gentie- men, however, assumed at once that there was no Jonger a search to be made, Dr. Livingstone had been found. The question now was whether he was to be relieved, and whether those who had ners themselves to jook for him and relieve him were bound by that piedge to relieve him now they knew where he was, We really should have thought there was no doubt about it. However, they began to @ebate, to back out, to make objections, and one after another to withdraw ‘rom the “expedition,” Or, ax it is ingeniously put, to decline the simple conduct of supplies. Mr. New had with some dim- culty seco his way to a “search,” but thought “relief” hardly sufficient to call for the sacrifice of bis ordinary employment, or of a meditated return to this country. Ifthe Doctor returns home safe we shall probably hear no more of the “expedi- ton,” if not it will have to stana some unpleasant eriticizm. But even if we never see Dr. La Miy aed again one great illusion is dispelled, and the long mys ‘ery that hung over Africa is no more. A man can ‘traverse the continent in many directions, make his way under diliicuities, and survive to be found, and even to tell his tale, even if it only be the old African tale of Foguery abd barbarism. Could a solitary man traverse any other quarter of the world and live to tell his tale? Certainly he could not make his Way Without money or friends. lf we are to judge frdém the present rate of progress, the next generation, or at icast the next after, will see a railway bt across the great watershed of Bouthern rica, joinii the two oceans, The torrid zone is not uninhabitable, nor are its people inhospitable. The climate is bearable, the country | fertile, the native races quite as amenable | toproper treatinent as native Taces usu: ere. Dr. Livingstone has spent not far from | half his life there, and evidently thinks that if we can get tne Portuguese and the half-caste Moslems to leave the people alone | they may be made a good deal of—at least, made id friends. Should that time come, the name of Fivingstone will have a place among earth’s found- ers aud benefactors. Fifty years ago it was thought as impossible to open up Africa as to break through the wall of China or make a@ landing in Japan. These aud twenty otber impossibilities have since been tried aud overcome, We sbali ope day enter the beart of Africa and wonder that it should ever be a mystery. it may even prove a nearer and more useful India, with eyual iadustrial resources and habitable regions. ‘That we can even call this pos ‘Bible we Owe to Dr. Livingstone, [From the London Veiegraph, July 29.) Our pages are to-day once more euriched with the best of all romance writing, thet is to say, with true stories of unknown lands, wonderful ad- ventures, and people whose very names and existences are pow jor the first time mentioned in our ears. Dr. Livingstone’s second letter w the editor of the New York HERALD js 48 full of fascina- tion for the genera) public as for men of science apxiously warned the public against forming pre- cipitate conclusions on the matter, while at the same time we pointed out that as these complaints were part of the narrative, as they were known and had been repeated to Br. Kirk, the best way was not to hush up such troubles, but to bring them out into the light, and to let the truth, if ble, be ascer- taine The letter from Dr. Livingstone’s son appears to furnish the beginning of a satisfactory explanation. It is a most honorable and high- hearted from the writer in favor of the very man whom his father so flatly accuses, and it ia written, we must remember, r very recent intercourse with Dr. Kirk. Mr. Livingstone tepti- flies unmistakably to the zeal and interest shown by our resident at Zanzibar, and he seems to us to alaaipate half the Fog tage” 8 by pointing out the reserve and coldness alleged against date from the time when Dr. Kirk had been made aware of the traveller’s complaints and suspicions, Of course, the Resident would be somewhat forced in such a@ case to fall back upon his official ition until he had vindi- cated himgelf; all that would remain to be accounted for would be the mistakes and delays in sending up men and supplies. Cpon ths head itis plaka snes local difficulties might reckon for @ vast di Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji or Manyema could not, of cou! know what obstacles war, incertitude as to his exist. ence and whereabouts would place in the way of transmitting help. After this letter from his own son, who speek, 80 warmly and confidently as to the good intentions of the Resident, there is no further need to claim for that gentleman an im- Partial consideration at the hands of the British public. Livingstone himself is the likeliest per- son to be giad hereafter that it was written, and to allow that he has not dope justice to our representative. It is tolerably clear that the extraordinary natural difficulties and embar- rassments of the African coast explains the discrep- ancy between what was effected and what was ex- pected; and the least which we can do, after so gen- erous a disavowal of ee judgment, is to await the full explanation of Dr. Kirk, and to believe and hope meanwhile that, when all is known, he and the great traveller will become as good friends ain as ever. jut, quitting gladly this entirely subordinate art of the subject, we must congratulate the pub- lic on the pleasure which the second and most charming letter irom the Doctor will afford. Not the least striking feature about it is its capital style and a general bonkomie of manner and expression. In spite of the desperate perils re- lated and the dreadful scenes which it paints, the joy with which the writer has been filled by the arrival of succour and by the prospect of consum- mating his discoveries and doing measureless good to Africa, positively irradiates the entire produc- tion. Livingstone is clearly once again in splendid spirits, and certainly makes a first-rate newspaper correspondent. Some of the philosophers of the “Anthropological,” indeed, will scarcely enjoy the humorous pokes he gives them in comparison with those magnificent cannibals, the Manyema. But the great traveller has. eeen in these Libyan Highiands the true African, of ancient Egyptian rather than of modern Negroid breed and type, and what he writes about the race fills us with a deeper abhor- rence of the slave trade, anda new sense of what this dark continent may become when it takes its long-deferred place in civilization. The Doctor is quite “gallant” about the black ladies; the Queen of Cazembe, he avers, would be considered a beauty even in Paris or London, and the women of the Lualaba vale, he deciares, are often absolutely “lovely.” Of course it requires some practice to be able to look over such little facts as jet black skins, woolly hair, cannibalism, polygamy, and so on; but white people must admire these Manyema, who never molest trading parties of women, even when they are fighting with each other, and who have thus carried out that which our Treaty of Paris has left among ourselves & mere theory. Again, what capacities for emotion and moral training must reside in a race like these poor creatures, whom the Doctor describes as “dying of a broken heart” when they saw the broad Lualaba roll be- tween them and their home! And could anything be more pathetic than the explanation which Liv- ingstone gives of the laughter heard from the cap- tured men and women of Londa’? The poor souls were making “merry” over the idea that, when they were dead, there would be no heavy yokes on their necks, and that their indignant spirits would be able to return to haunt and kill their persecu- tors. The letter now published, we predict, will be the deadliest blow ever struck against the vile system of murder and kidnapping which ts kept up by the Hindoo Bunyahs and the Zanzibar govern- ment. Other topics of interest are rife in this de- lightful communication. The effect of those amazing guns on the interior tribes—“tie lord of the light gray parrot with the scarlet tall”—the tantalizing plentifulness of ivory in Manyema—the marvelious fertility of its soili—the wsthetics ot cannibalism—the existence of the gorilla (soko) in East and Central Africa, with a variety of other subjects, attract us; but we leave them to the happy public. The geographical discoveries of these three silent yea's are here set down with such clearness that, if we never heard a word more, the gain to science would still be vast, What ‘Livingstone calle the “watershed” of the Nile extends some seven hundred and fifty miles westward and cast- ward—a forest-clad belt of upland from 4,000 to 5,000 feet above the sea. The springs here are “innumerable,” and they all converge into streams flowing towards ap immense valley. In this valiey three rivers form, which unite into the Luaiaba. ‘The Chambezi, the Luapula and the Lualaba flow finally into the Lake Kamolondo, This is the fourth of the new lakes to the westward which Livingstone has found. There is a filth, he believes, about three hun- dred and seventy miles west of Uyij!, and the Doctor belie that the Lualava runs through and out of this “unknown water,” to be cailed the Babr Ghazal, or western branch of the Nile. Now, the Bahr Ghazal enters what we have called the Nile, between Gondokoro and Khartoum, and the Doctor thinks that there is properly no Mile at all, except the Lualaba, until that point is reached, ifthe Lualaba really finds itsentrance there. It cannot run into Tanganyika; levels fortid and hydrostatic laws. It does not turn westward to form the Congo, for the land keeps lofty on that side and the great river flows decisively north, Livingstone says, “I may be mistaken;” and it is plain to all who have foliowed African discovery and possess good maps that nothing is quite certain yet. But the undaunted missionary is gone, with iresh courage and—what is more necessary to such a man—tresh stores, to find out what becomes of the Lualaba during the blank 200 miles, and also to investigate that most ancient of geodctical myths, the hi spoken of by the priests of Sais, where four fountains rise, giving origin to four full grown rivers. While the brave and famous traveller “cracks his last nut’ in these wilds, we have here matter enough for many & “hot night” at the “Roya! Geographical ;” and to the geographers we now commend the letter, perhaps the most inte- resting ever received “in this connection” since the writing of the second book of Herodotus, [From the London Morning Post, July 29.) Last year a select committee of the House of Commons communicated to the country that the slave trade had been resuscitated and was being carried on in the islands of Pemba ana Zanzibar and that treaties between the Queen and the Sul- tan of Zanzibar positively fostered the trade. After all that Wilberforce, Clarkson, Brougham, Mackin- tosh and Horner had done Englishmen were not prepared to learn that the same odious trafic, marked by the same features of satanic cruelty, was flourishing under the sanction of formal con- tracts between their own country and a wretched little African kingdom like Zanzibar. But go it is. From the East Coast of Africa 97,200 unfortunate creatures had been forcibly dragged away inte slavery between 1962 and 1867, and the Sultan of Zanzibar levied a duty of $4 50 on each slave landed on that island, The slaves were entered at the Custom House at Kilwa just as baies of cotton might be, and the Sultan had the satisfaction of de- riving from that living source an income of £20,000 ayear. “Originally the slaves sold were brought from the opposite sea coast, but now they come from not less than 600 miles inland.”’ Dr. Living- stone affirms that in certain villages through which he passed in 1851 the sound of cotton mills could be heard, but that when he passed again through them in 1861 “the curse as from above" had caused them to be “overrun with wild beasts.” This change was not visible on the coast alone. It had gone in- land to Lake Nyasea and towards the “four fountains which arise from an carthen mound.” In tact, it is the old system of the siave hunts of the King of Dahomey on the West Coast revived on the East, The hunts were attended by the King in person, He went forth with his army and pursued the sport for two or three months in each year, His prey were the detached and feebie tribes living on the confines of his dominion, He worked In detail He assaulted and captured each tribe one by one; and when he bad thus sacked the Crooms contigue ous to his territory of their human treasure his Jeats of spoliation would be extended to dis tances varying from twelve to twenty-ionr days? march from his capital of Abomey. A battie was seldom fought, In truth the Airican is no warrior. War is not his vein. The African King has a keener relish for an unresisting or impotent quarry which he can change into money than for the distinctions of atriumph which may dazzle but which must cost hiun the tives of bis troops, On this principle of cautious strategy the King of Dahomey com- menced and ended his operations; and he returned fm all parte of the world. But, before we speak of ‘she discyyeries appounced in this most wieresting to Abomey uine times out of ten without loss either to lis own side or to the side of the enemy, The Recorder of Lopden # 4 at the Mansion Honse on Thuraday that by the net ‘of £8,000 a year tothe Sultan of Zanzibar suppression of the slave trade on the east coast could be secured. Is the Recorder so sure of that? African kings and and suitans are not in the habit of accepting £8,000 @ year in liew of £20,000; neither are they, when it suits them, overserupulous in the infri ment of their contracts, the occasion when the English Commissioners sent to Abomey mooted the abolition of the slave trade on the west coast the countenance of the King fell. He could make no reply to the commissioners for many | minntes, not. that he evor wa- vered in his determination to retain the in its integrity, but he was speechicas on account of the difficulty presented to him in electing the least offensive mode of flatly declining to abandon something over forty thousand pounds a year for a much smaller sum offered him by the Foreign Office on his relinguishment of the trade, When lie LT ie the train of his argument was to justify hime! the refusal to be a party to a treaty extinguishing the trade in his slaves, “I hear that the expenses: of the English government are great,’ he said to the Commissioners. Would the English ernment “give up at once the chief source of ite revenue without some equivalent provision for reat their expenses? 1 cannot believe that it would. No more will I reduce myself to beggary. The sum which you offer me will not pay my own ex- pensea for a week; and even if the English govern- Ment should give me every year a sum equal to m: resent income I should always think o! my bers ey pees dependener, and aaauie fi ny ane ulty in emp! my peo; gro’ coffee and cotton, However Iwill consider myself bound to try all that I can to meet the wishes of the English government.” Might not the Sultan of Zanzibar—would he not—ansWer our overtures in @ similar strain? No one could withhold from the reasoning of the King of Dahomey an inward acknowledgement of the justness of his objections; but every one could meet is objections in part by helping lilm to understand that the foreigner would not a large sum of money for @ siave if the | the slave in another quarter of the globe did not compensate for the of the outlay. This fort of counter logic was pressed on the King. He readily yielded his assent to the pny lief of a vast increase in his revenue if the slaves sold for exportation were employed at home in the cultivation and production of articles wanted in Europe. But the King, while admitting the goodness of the case of the Commissioners, could not divest his mind of the confusion which would be created in bis kingdom by the absence of skill among his people to conduct hovel agricul- tural and commercial operations, and by the length of time which would be required to consoli- date the process of a system so entirely pew. So far as the King was concerned, the slave trade died uway and his nefarious gains disappeared, because we exacted the strictest observation of treaties, and because a modification was wrought in the system of slaving in Cuba on the part of Spain. The core of the disease was thus touched, and the source whence the polluting current fowed soon dried up. At the conclusion of his letter to Mr. Bennett Dr, Livingstone puts on record his contempt for the “slaving privileges” of the Sultan of Zanzibar, and sconngty. recurs to the “blight” which the “curse” of the slave trade is casting over “he fine country” where he has dwelt since 1865, “The truly woful sight” of “man’s inhumanity to man” made the “sore heart still sorer.” It would be asiur on our ‘John-Bullish tenacity” and a ne- gation of the principle to which every government worthy of the name and sanctity of government has assented, were England to permit an insignificant barbarian like the Sultan of Zanzibar to defy the diplomatic remonstrances which she can straight- forwardly and firmly use to root out a debasing commerce intolerant to the active sense of justice pervading. the entire human family. That we should fear any permanent obstruction from Portugal is im- possible, for, as Dr, Livingstone most aptly suggests, “the rights of the Crown of Portugal” are mythi- cal. Portugal has affected to ve mistress of “rights,” ag well a8 of tangible dominion, in East- ern Africa; but the “rights” can neither be sub- stantiated, according to the loosest reading of in- ternational law, nor can ‘they for a moment claim, much less maintain, a definite respect from the petty black tyrants whose lands fringe the sea line. ortugal docs certainly turn to that phantom of her “rights” when she geeks to circumvent the pur- suits of individuals likely to be subversive of her own way of doing things, under the shelter and silenee of the jungle; but, even #0, she can only effectively turn to them with the acquiescence of the heads of the native tribes, That she can set the views or the compassionate intervention of a Lee like England at nought is out of the ques- tion, Whatsover the government may therefore do in regard to the slave trade perpetuated under the auspices of the Sultan of Zanzibar care shonid be taken to avoid the errors which we have committed on the west coast. To suppress the trade we sent @ fleet at a cost of £500,000 a year, but the distress. ing duty remained to confess that the blockade of the West African coast was no summary check to the trade. The retention of our West African squadron was a double evil. In the first place the slave merchant knew that he would certainly lose a portion of his cargoes by capture; and to een a margin for that inevitable contingency is orders to the slave-hunting chiefs were always on the increase. In the second place, the precau- tions needed to evade the vigilance of the cruisers obliged the merchant to crain the slaves into the stifling holds of small vessels, Before the vessels could reach their destination the slaves had died by thousands from suffocation. General Rigby, our former Consul at Zanzibar, bears testimony which is identical; for “he had seen vesseis arrive with hundreds of poor creatures, naked, and packed as close as herrings in a barrel.” If the Sultan of Zan- zibar is really content to part with £20,000 a year and to have an annual stipend of £8,000 in its stead, let us close with him. But, be the merchandise what it may, whether human flesh or calico, the spirit of trade is to jet the supply wait on the de- mand. Stop the demand and the supply must cease, {From the Manchester Guardian, July 29.) Dr. Livingstone’s letter to Mr. Gordon Bennett, which we published on Saturday, forces upon our attention a subject which can be matter of no agreeable examination for any Englishman, Every man who enters upon such @ task as that which Livingstone undertook does so literally with his life in his hand, At the best it must be a work at- tended with privation and danger. He goes into a terra incognita where everything is against him— the climate, savage races anid the impossibility of keeping up a safe line of communication with the civilized world, Livingstone is not the man to utter childish complaints or to grumble because he has not peen solicitously followed about by people eager to minister to his wants. He 1s made of sterner stuff, and has atruer appreciation of all that is involved in the mission which he has volun- tarily imposed upon himself. If we find him with a grievance we shall do well to look into it; we may fee) assured that it is the offspring neither of wounded vanity nor of a sickly concern for personal comfort. For once he has a grievance, and it can- not be lightly dismissed. Although the Foreign OMee, for reasons which it was dificult to combat, declined to undertake an expedition in search of the lost traveller, it is well known that Lord Gran- ville has always shown a disposition to assist the Geographical Society in their efforts to rolve the secret of Livingstone’s fate. We have been authoritatively told, time after time, that the British Consul at Zanzibar had received instructions to do everything in his power to send on supplies and otherwise to further the work which Livingstone had in hand. The charge which is now made against Dr. Kirk is that he has not acted up to the spirit—we say nothing of the letter—of his instructions. Ht would be obviously most unjust to pronounce judgment upon an official who has had no oppor- tunity of being heard, but this is a case in which the country will certainly require a searching inves- tigation, The Daily 7riegraph had already made us aware of Mr. Staniey’s views on this subject. We have now Dr. Livingstone's letter, and there can no longer be any doubt that a case for inquiry has been made out, Living- stone tells us that Stanley found him at Ujiitina “forlorn condition.” He had come thither “off a tramp of between four and five hundred miles be- neath a blazing, vertical sun, having been bailed, worrted, defeated and forced to return when almost in sight of the end of the geographical part of my mission, by a nuinber of half-caste Mosiem slaves, sent to me from Zanzibar instead of men.” He reached Ujiji “a mere ruckle of bones.’ He “thonght he was dying on his fect’'"—a remarkable conjession from such a man. But he arrived at his bg only to discover that he had still to contend with the adverse fate which had sent him “a number of half-caste Moslem slaves instead of men.” “I found,’ he says, “that some £600 worth of goods 1 had ordered from Zan- zibar hed unaccountably been entrusted to @ drunken haif-casie Moslem tailor, who, after squan- dering them jor sixteen montis on the way to Ujiji, finished up by selling of al) thatremained ior slaves aud ivory for hirseif.” This rascal knew that Liv- ingstone was alive, but by means of certain divina- tions and jJalse reports he appears to have per- suaded the Governor of Unyanyembe—who probably shared the plunder—that he was dead. Living- stone admits that this made iim “miserable.” There he was—a@ white man, with sity of maintaining prestige of his race—in a@ state of reat weakness” and “destitute of Gynt save a few varter cloths and beads he had t the precaution to leave there in case of extreme nee But happily relief was athand. It was not the relief he had aright to expect; but we may at least be thanktul—Liv- ingstone was, we are sire—that in default on our par succor Was brougit by uo stranger, but by a insman from the other side of the Atlantic. What our own agents on the coast could not achieve was done by a correspondent of the New YoRK HERALD; and itis humiliating to read, as we do towards the close of Livingstone’s letter to Mr. Bennett:— “Five hundred pounds worth of goods have again unaccountadly been entrusted to slaves, and have been over @ year OD the way, instead of four months, I must go to Where they lie (Unyanyembe), at My, Stanley’s and your expense, ere I can put the natura: completion to my work.”’ So far we have been quoting the ipsissima verda of Dr. Livingstone. We now turn to Mr, Stanley, as he is reported by a correspondent of the Daily Telegrapi It is evident from Livingatone's sebber thab Dr, Kirk bad entrusted she stores to of all that is im ) the mi pl utterly unworthy hands. That, of course, is capabie of a very simple explanation, It may have been a mere error of judgment, But Mr. Stanley carries us to @ point much this. He charges Dr. Kirk with not only putt the goods unsafe custody, delaying their transmission from Zanzibar. More- over, we read in the Datly Telegraph that “Dr. Kirk does not seem, from conversations which Mr. Stanley reports, to have ever reposed fall con- fidence in Dr. Livingstone or to have had relations of sympathy with him.” ‘This is a very grave state- Ment, and it becomes all the more serious from What follows:—!'his apparent lack of enterprise and sympathy on the part of Dr. Kirk,” writes the correspondent of the 4 “sormed the sub- ject of conversation between Dr. Livingstone and Ir. Stanley, The latter ascribed it to apathy; but Dr. Livingstone said ‘No; it is jealousy.’ ‘How cam thit be? asked Stanley. Living- stone answered, ‘You do not know the circumstances of this expedition of which I have charge) At my request it was offered by Dr. an ) Murchison to Dr. Kirk. He refused it?” is ‘e propounds an almost incredible ex- Planation of the very disagreeable facts which crop up at every point in the consideration of this sub- ject. It suggests a baseness of motive and spirit which will not be readily accepted by the public. The very least we are bound to do is to suspend jodamgne until Dr, Kirk’s defence is before us. It is gute possible that Mr. Stanley may have mis- lerstood §=Dr. Livingstone, or that the Telegrapi’s correspondent may have misre- ported Mr, Stunley. Dr. Kirk is himselt a traveller, and, as every one knows who is acquainted with the transactions of the Geo- graphical Society, no class of men better deserve the appellation of the genus irr than the people who owe what reputation they may possess to what they have done in the field of exploration. in the present case, however, there are circumstances which forbid us to deal summarily with Dr. Kirk’s conduct. To say nothing of the injustice of con- dewmning @ man upheard, there of al}, Dr. eT) high ane baggie Soe nto be taken ‘account; and, next place, Livingstone ‘Was an object of such intense interest that, even if We could conceive fhe Sonash at Zanzibar capahie ~in the statements in Telegraph, he must have been conscious that no ld on his would be per- Mitted to escape scrutiny. it, in fact, detection and punishment would be inevitable. That Dr. Kirk has failed todo what might have been done and what others have actually done admits of no gpacsions but that is quite a ditterent thing from leliberately designing to thwart Dr. Livingstone in his enterprise. From first to last, indeed, we have bungled sadly in all that we have done for the Telief Of our brave countryman, The story of the expedition sent out by the Geographical Society, as told by Mr. New, one of its Mernbers, discloses ‘a8 melancholy a muddie as may be found in the whole history of British expeditions, -Mr. Stanley relieved it of ‘the duty of ascertaining whether Livingstone was dead or alive, but Lieutenant Dawson and BIE pONy, might at least have gone on with or forwarded sup- Plies to Ujij But no; even that duty had to be rformed by the commissioner of the New York ERALD. Our magnificently equipped expedition did simply nothing; and it was reserved for Mr. Stanley, alter his return to the coast, to organize @ Caravan with stores for Dr. Livingstone. ‘*Besore We left Zanzibar,’ says Mr. New, “a caravan num- bering fifty-seven men was packed, signed, sealed, addressed and despatched, like so many packets of useful commodities, to the service and succour etd. Livingstone.” What says England to all o [From the Leeds Mercury, July 29.] The success of Mr, Stanicy in his search for Dr. Livingstone is one of the most brilliant chapters in the history of newspaper enterprise. The expedi- tion was an unprecedented one, and when it was first reported in this country there were few who did not laugh at itasa Yankee notion, conceived and started for the glorification of the New YORK HERALD and to gratify the vanity of Mr. James Gordon Bennett. The result has shown not only how little there was to laugh at, but how much there was to admire in such @ project. Mr. Bennett, with the unstinted liberality which has characterized his management of the HERALD whenever anything great was to be attempted, gave Mr. Stanley unlimited power to draw upon him for funds, and he was fortunate in finding in Mr. Stanley a special correspondent worthy of his confidence, Though often bafied, Mr. Stanley was never beaten; and while English moncy was being wasted in fruitless expeditions he was pushing his way into the interior of Africa, and he never rested, save from sickness, until he met Dr. Living- stone at Uj}iji, He brought new life to the great explorer at a time when he was worn out, and but for Mr. Stanley’s arrival it ts probable that Dr. Livingstone would have sunk under the weariness which disappointment and worry had brought mpon him. From the day Mr. Stanley met him he improved, and when the fatter left Ujijt Livingstone was once more a hale, hearty man, iull of confidence and of hope. The stor which Mr. Stanley brought back with him has al- ready been told in part, and we know that no praise can exceed that which is due to him for the weal, the ability and the judgment with which he carried out his work. On his return to the coast, while the Engiish expedition, sent out under Licu- tenant Dawson, was hastening to a wretched collapse, he organized @ caravan, unassisted by the English Consul, and despatched it to the inte- rior. Compared with the despatches Mr. Stanley has sent home and the statements he has made, the letter which the Rev. Mr. New has addressed to the Times, and which we quote in another column, records one of the most humiliating incidents in a series of failures that make one binsh for the English name. It is sad to think that the discovery Livingstone by an American should have to light so much cause for censure on Eng- pacity. As to Mr. Stanley himself, we have no doubt as to the reception he will mect with in this country. He has been as generous as he has becn brave, and neither the one nor the other will be forgotten in EB) id, As journalists, indebted in common With our contemporarics to the cour- tesy of Mr. Bennett and Dr. Hosmer, the English correspondent of the HERALD, we cannot but feel proud that what has been so nobly done has been done by a press man, and that a newspaper pro- prietor has not shrank from sharing with his Zuro- pean contemporaries the fruits of his own enter- prise. DR. LIVINGSTONE AND DR. KIRK. The name of Dr. Kirk, the English Consular Agent at Zanzibar, has been brought prominently and not altogether favorably before the British public. Dr. Livingstone, in his letters, makes rather serious charges against him. The following letters, ad- dressed to the Editor of the London Times, show that Dr. Kirk is not without friends, who still be- lieve in him and feel satisfied that the Doctor can make satisfactory explanations. Among the letters is one FROM DR, LIVINGSTONE’S SON. The extreme joy afforded to me during my so- journ at Zanzibar by the news of my father’s safety was paintully marred by the sad, and iam thoroughly convinced erroneous, opinions preva- Jent in his mind during Mr. Staniey’s travels with him in respect of his old and trusty friend, Dr. John Kirk. Betore leaving Zanzibar I did my utmost, by writing to Dr. Livingstone, to place him in posses- sion of that which [devoutly hope may neutralize influences under which he labored, and also tend to reunite those oid bonds of friendship which never shonid have been imperilled by misconc cp. tions, I live in hopes that my letters, now half. way to him, may convince him of what I have said regarding the exertions made by Dr. Kirk during the time in which, in common with Her Majesty's political agent, Mr. Churchill, and Dr, Seward, he strove to relieve my father, through the agency of the Arabs at Zanzibar, and likewise as to the aifee- tion always felt towards him. Such publicity is bein; mee to statements made respecting Dr. Kirk that I beg the favor of your inserting these few lines about him as soon 88 you can possibly grant me this favor. Iam, sir, yours faith! ay W. OSWELI LIVINGSTONE. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, July 27. FROM LIRUTENANT TENN, My attention has been drawn to the letter of the Rev. Mr. New in your columns of Saturday last, in which reflections are cast upon the Livingstone Search and Relief Expedition, and statements are made the accuracy of which cannot be admitted, I trust, therefore, that the ba with its usual gence of justice, will withhold its opinion until all the official correspondence now before the Royal Geographical Society has been published, Mr. New's letter itself shows that he dectined to fulfll the terms of his written contract and to serve under the second in command, if from any cause Lieutenant Dawson was prevented from headin, the expedition, Under the circumstances whic! occurred, aud te responsibility being thus thrown upon me, it is clear that I could not in duty dele- gate it to another, even if I had desired to do so, ‘Without resigning myself, Iam sorry that Mr. New should have formed the idea that he couid not act in concert with me—a difficulty that has not before occurred to any one else in my twelve years’ ser- vice in the navy, 1am, sit, your obedient servant, WILLIAM TIENN Lieutenant, Royal Navy, UNITED LiutEL, CHARLES St,, . JAMES’, July 28, FROM CAPTAIN PARIST Srr—I cannot w the name and character of my friend, Dr. K. of Zanzibar, to be attacked withont protesting against such a calumny. I was senior naval Officer on the East coast of Africa for nearly two yea During the greater part of the time the cholera was raging on the coast to such an extent that it was deemed advisable to suspend allactive operations for the suppression oj the slave trade on that part of the coust. My duties, nevertheless, kept me constantly in communication with Dr. Kirk, Who during ali that time never left his post, and t can testify to his zeal in everything and ail matters connected with his old friend and companion, Dr. Livingstoue, to whom he was most devotedly attached; but Dr. Kirk is so weil known as a public man, one whose deeds and actions speak for themselves, that he requires no cham- pion, bat stands on his own merits. His services are well known and duly apprectated by the bome and indian governments, who, I feel sire, will do him justice. I remain, sir, your obedient servant, JOHN PARISH, Captain Royal Navy, GaRLANT’s HOTBL, SUFFOLK STREBT, July 26, a LEGAL RAID ON BURGLARS, Convietion of Two Professional Bur- Glars—Judge Bedford Sends Them to the State Prison—Failure of the “Clown Town” Association to Establish an Alibi... It will have been observed by those of our readers who have perused the reports of the proceedings in the General Sessions during the week that the Prosecuting oMcers have been making war upon burglars, and their vigorous efforts to bring that dangerous class ef criminals who take advantage of the absence of citizens in the country to break into their unoccupied houses, have been ably seconded by Judge Bedford. Not less than seven burglars were convicted last week, the sentences ranging from twenty down to five years’ incarcera- tion in the State Prison. ‘The Court sat yes- terday in order to finish the trial burglary case commenced on Friday afternoon, which, thanks to the exertions of District Attorney Fellows, also resnited in the conviction of the criminals, who were zealously defended by Mr. Kintzing. The accused gave their names 2s James Spencer and John Reilly, who were indicted for effecting a burglarious entry into the dweiling house of Benjamin L. Southack, No. 236 Fifth ave- nue, on the evening of the 25th of June. The evi- dence taken on the trial was interesting, as will be seen by the following synopsis of 1t:—Mr. Southack Was first called to prove that his house was unoc- cupied on the night in question; that it was securely fastened when he left, but was subse- quently entered by breaking the basement door, and $1,000 worth of property stolen. This consisted of a camel’s hair'shawl, @ muff,a@ sack; and other portable valuable property, The next witness was a colored porter, named Charlea White, who was employed by Newman & Capron, corner of Twenty-eighth street and Brond- way. who said that between seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, the 25th of June, when pass- ing Mr. Southack’s house he observed three men trying todo something to the basement door, and saw two men on the sidewalk, whom he afterwards identified to be the prisoners, Officer Manning testified that he arrested Spencer and Reilly on the following Friday, at two o’clock in the morning, and upon searching Spencer he found in nis pocket. a very large loaded pistol, a pair of nippers and a gimlet. This closed the case for the people. James Spencer took the stand and swore that he lived in Fourth street; was home the night of the burglary; got the pistol trom a man in ‘I'wentieth street, and found the nippers two days before he was arrested, Reilly also denied know! anything about the burglary, and said that on Tuesday evening, June 25, he was playing cards in a liquor saloon in Tenth avenue, having previously attended a meeting of the “Clown Town Rangers,” of which he was a member. The prisoners set up as a defence an alibi, which Reilly attempted to establish by several members of the “Clown Town” Association, Who told the same story. It appeared from Mr. Fellows’ cross-examination Bay this association was formerly a target com- any. Spencer, alias Sweeny, sought to prove his inno- cence by calling his mother and sister and a Miss Masters, all of whom swore that he was at home on the night of the 25th of June, After the summing up and an impartial reltera- tion of the evidence by his Honor, the jury ren- marca @ verdict of guilty of burgiary in the third legree, Mr. Fellows, in moving for sentence, said that the prisoners were well Known thieves and there was another indictment against them for carrying bur- glars’ tools, OMcer Manning was recalled by the City Judge, and informed him that the general character of the members of the Clown Town Association was bad and that when he arrested Spencer he threatened that he (the officer) would hear from him in a week. Judge Bedford, in passing sentence, said that he had no doubt when Spencer armed himself with the loaded pistol and burglarious implements he went forth to break into dwelling houses and, if needs be, to take life. His Honor suggested to the District Attorney the Propriety of making out a special cal- endar of burglary cases two or three days this week, and he promised that every burglar convicted Would be sentenced to the full term, NEW YORK CITY. The police made 1,841 arrests during the past week. There were 1,498 lodgers in the station houses last week. The free reading room of the Cooper Union will reopen for visitors to-morrow (Monday). The body of an infant was found in the North River, foot of Christie street, yesterday. The Coro- ner was notified. Bernard Smythe, the Collector of Taxes, has been removed by Comptroller Green, His successor is not yet appointed, The vital statistics during the week ending at noon yesterday were 645 deaths, 393 births, 106 mar- Tiages and 86 still births, Michael Malone, thirty-five years of age, a laborer, fell from the fourth story scaffolding of the new building 66 Third avenue, yesterday morning, and Was almost instantly killed. The Coroner was no- tified. At the Tombs yesterday an examination was had in the case of Edward E. Kenrick, a broker, charged with having in his possession bonds stolen from a bank in Woodstock, Conn., in 1871. The case was adjourned to Monday morning. Thomas Wilson, who keeps a stand outside the railing of the Dutch church, corner of Fulton and William streets, was brought before Alderman Coman yesterday charged by Anthony Comstock with offering an obscene book for sale toa young lad. He was held for trial. The laborers and men employed on the boulevards and avenues in the upper part of the city are be- coming uneasy in consequence of their not receiv. ing their pay regularly. The pay rolls were sent by Commissioner Van Nort to the Comptroller some eight days since, and are still unpaid. Andrew Haggerty was arraigned at the York- ville Police Court yesterday by Officer James, of the Twenty-first precinct, he having beaten Owen Dolan, of 416 East Forty-second street so badly that nis life is in danger. He was held in $1,000 bail to appear for examination, Robert Moore, of Bridgeport, was held for trial yesterday at the Yorkville Police Court for stcal- ing from George N. Schuyler, of Sixtieth street, a horse and wagon, which have beenrecovered. The accused denied that he ‘had stolen the property. He wanted to take a drive, he said, Richard C. Beamish, Clerk of the Chambers of the Supreme Court, has recovered the books which were missing at Judge Barnard’s trial in Saratoga. It seems that Mr. Chaffeo, clerk of the Fifth Avenne Hotel, received them from Mr. Prince, of the Judi- ciary Committee, and did not know to whom to re- turn them. The flag over the Stock Exchange was displayed at halt mast yesterday as @ mark of respect to the Jate Oswald Cammann, who was formerly connected with the firm of Cammann & Whitehouse and more ate te wae partner of the house of Cammann & Co. He was one of the oldest and most y members of the Board. sistas James Donahue, Superintendent of the Free Labor Bureau, Nos. 8 and 10 Clinton place, makes the following report of business for the week end- ing August 10:—Applications for employment, 1,019, of these there were 282 mates and 737 females; male help required, 247; female, 810; situations rocured for 213 maies and 675 fem: ; Whale pum- r Of situations procured for the week, $83, Fire Marshal McSpedon reports ninetecu fires for the week ending August 10, 1872, at noon. ‘The estimated loss is $26,785 and amount of insurance 361,500. The causes of the several fires were as ilows :—Carelessness of occupants and employés, ; children playing with matches, 2; defective dues, 2; foui chimney, 1; grease boiling over on stove, 1} kerosene Jamp explosion, 1; malicious mischict, 2; overheated stove pipe, 1; sparks from forge, 1; hot ascertained, 1, After Joseph Lynch, who had been held in $1,000 bail to answer on Friday, at the Yorkville Police Court, for interfering with carpenters working on the ten-hour principle, got his Mberty he took to drink until he got intoxicated. He then quar. relled with some other members of the eight-hour movement. Omcer Webb, of the Nineteenth pre. ciuct, arrested him, but in doing #0 was assaulted by Lynch, who was held in $1,000 bail to answer therefor yesterday at the Yorkville Police Court, DEPARTURE OF THE INDIANS, Yesterday the noble savages belonging to the Brulé Sionx tribe, who have been lately honoring the Grand Central Hotel Lea their residence, took their departure for St. Louis by the seven o'ciock train on the Erie Railroad, where they will remain for @ fortnight on their way to Laramie, DEPARTURE OF THE FRENCH BAND. An Interesting Scene in the Bay Yesterdsy—& Sad Scene of Departure—Frenchmen Kis» ing Each Other—The Last of the Garde Republicaine. Precisely at half-past nine o'clock yesterday morh- | ing the noble French steamer Washington (formerly” Napoicon III.) cast loose her moorings from pier 60 North River and steamed into the Hudson. To de-- pict the enthusiasm on the wharf ig no light task; gray beards, women and children, joined in the chorus of “Vive la France,” till the welkin rang. On board the steamer mirth, merriment and expressed wishes of mecting again, should the | so ordain, was the order of things. To witness | @ French of a) leave-taking is the oOnmly way tol realize its earnestness. Men hugging each other,_| and when the final movement of departure dre near, kissing each other frantically on either cheek and giving the loudest smacks possi Nor were the fair sex absent in the drama whiel was being enacted. Frenchwomen, who hi migrated years back to Gotham, found long cousins, of first, second and third degree, an great was the sorrow exhibited at the leave-tak-{ ing. Whether Sternes dictum applies “that they! manage these things better in France” applies! to leave-takings 18 an open question,’ but. certain it is thelr excitability, high,! strong grief, and untempered sorrow, was a Cl acteristic of the parting scene, In the centre of one of these tempests of the heart was to be Mr. Joseph Strauss, an old Algerian soldier, the latel Jourdan, who was seen presenting to Monste Panlus, the director of the band, a photograph o his worthy self, decorations and all. It appet Mr. Strauss’ mother was born at Gandarehoign! Alsace, two miles distant from where the bal of Worth was fought in the late Franco- German contest, and in which happy hamlet the mother of Monsieur Paulus also saw the light.; Champagne corks popped from instant to instant,/ and a casual observer might have believed the gathering to be a marriage ceremony instead of a departure for the Old World. Mr. Mackenzie, the’ agent of the ‘Transatlantic Company, stood at the gangway which led to the deek of the Washingtor and warned the curious off who came with the im~ etuous desire of visiting their friends, and, per aps, being carried down to Sanay Hook belore their, enthusiasm had suMctently cooled to cause them to think that they were dwellers of the New World an@ not prospective residents in the Old. At length the} ast embrace had been given and the shrill whistle! of the steamer made it Known that departure was the word. Ata rapid rate the visitors made for the shore and the steumer’s deck merely held its pas- sengers, The mail was on board, the boatswain’a whistle was heard and the ropes were thrown ashore which held the noble craft to ite mooring. As the last connection which bound the New: World to the Old was thrown ashore an American’ hurrah went aloft trom those on board, while the French Band, stationed amidship, opened their lungs and gave tlree huzzas, supplemented by & terrible tiger! Meanwhile, the captain of the Sleepy Hollow was not idle, for the gong had been, struck in the engineer's room, and the fleet craft also headed from her wharf into the Hudson, and almost simultaneously the two vessels glided into midstream. The French Band on the Washington played the soul-stir- ring ‘“Marseillaise Hymn,” and the jourpey\ towards La belle France was commenced. Whistles rent the air from all the puny steamer flo- tila in the neighborhood, and the two vessels bounded away in the outgoing. tide. The Sleepy Hollow was gaily decorated with tri-color bunting) around her decks, while the well-loved red, white and blue floated proudly aloft. One huge colossal cry of farewell was heard from the hundreds of Frenchmen and Frenchwomen remaining on the wharf, and both vessels were scen gliding ove! the Hudson, side by side, bound for Sandy Hook, while the “Marscillaise Hymn” floated in the air as & last remembrauce of the best foreign band that has ever played in this country. It was their last ap- pearance, probably, forever and a on. and Frenchy residents who have made this a their home felt, sadness at iosing sight of the able musical repre-. sentatives of the Fatherland, Simultaneously the, band of the Guard Lafayette struck up “Should) Auld Acquaintance be Forgot” and ‘Goodby, John.’?) Thus, with alternate airs down the bay, with the shipping dipping its colors as the gay procession; passed, the vessels swept down the bay. Past Staten Island, the “Gem of the Bay,” o1 they progressed through the Narrows, with Lon, Islund and its pleasant scenery on the port side,) till Sandy Hook is reached. Bouquets were thro’ across the intervening chasm between the two ves~ sels, airs gay, sentimental and comic were played, when “La Soyeuse Garde,” to quote the famous Launcelot, bade farewell to all that was Americal Returning to New York, mourning was forgotten,, and dancing took place on board the Sleepy Hollow till the wharf was reached. The Washington was followed by the Abyssinia, City of New York, Egypt and a vessel belonging to the Anchor line. THE OENTRAL PARK HOAX. The Horsewomen Who Did Not Ride, and the Disappointed Crowds Who Came to See Them. A number of people gathered at the Fifth avenue entrance to the Central Park yesterday afternoon: to witness the contest between the five women, or: “Jadies,” as they had announced themselves, who: were to appear dressed in Bloomer costume, The people of New York dearly love to be humbuggedi and hoaxed, and consequently there must have: been five or six hundred persons, mostly of the! female sex, assembled at the Fifth avenue entrance: togeta glimpse of the adventurous horsewomen.! Three o’clock had been fixed as the hour when they were to make their début; but four,| five, and even six o'clock came aud there was no sign of the feminine cavaliers.| Questions were asked by the dozen of the brittle-headed and extremely officious policeman who is detailed to watch this gate, and surly an- swers were returned to the effect that he thought. that the thing was a “damned good joke on all! hands.” The bewspaper which was silly enough to’ to start this stupid joke has made itself conspicu- ous for years past in getting up such ridiculous: stuff, and the fiye ho ree Tome ad RQ existence Whatever, except in the brain of the wre oy It is more than doubtful if any respectable w6- men in their senses could be brought together to ride man fashion in view of thousands of people in. Central Park. ‘this would be going too far for a joke. Besides the cross-legged position is too unwomanly for any lady with any pretension’ to modesty or any desire to deserve man’s ads miration, and no woman wfll dare to faco the alternative of losing man’s regard merely: togratily the curiosity of a thousand ldlers ang, coarse loungers, who are always looking fora sen- sation. It was nearly dark beiore the last specta- tor left the Park, and still the horsewomen did not: Re in an appeerance up to that time. Besides, it is known that the police would be compelled to, arrest any woman who would appear in public: wearing man’s apparel or who eed aa attempt to. gather a crowd, on the ground of being guilty of disorderly conduct. At any rate it is more than! doubtful If any woman ever intended to ride cross. legged in the Park, and as Plantamour’s comet is to smash things into smithereens on Monday next, it is probable that they will never have another. opportunity to test their ine horsemanship in.thiss city. ai . et A POLICEMAN SHOOTS BI Bia + OMcer Charles Simonton, of the Paterson police force, while pursuing @ fleeing prisoner on Friday: night, undertook to discharge his revolver in the: air to frighten the man and induce him to stop under the idea that the shots were being atmed at him; but just as he ratsea the pistol in the air the officer stumbled heels over head over a heap of rubbish, The revolver went off, sending the bullet through Simonton’s hand. The first finger of the left hand was shattered to pieces and the hand otherwise injured, pi ep there is no probability of the member being disabled further than by the loss of the finger. It is exceedingly fortunate, under the circumstances, that the accidental shok Gid not take fatal effect. PATERSON (N. J.) ITEMS, The Paterson Aldermen have yet received no» reply to the offer to exempt the Erle Rajlway Com-- pany from taxation for ten years if they would build their new repair shops in that city, As a cataract, the Passaic Falls are not at present” @ success, there not being enough water going over the precipice to merit the name, | In the Paterson Courts yesterday Barbara Rolb: Was sentence: to the State Prison for six months for the larceny of gz0 i street pode 'y Of $20 Worih of goods from a Main. ie old Paterson court room has been renovated! nd repainted like the interior of our Opera Sones Large quantics of peaches are now being takem direct to Paterson, Via the Boonton Branch of the: eres, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The Midland Railroad now takes the Paterson eople to the Cortiandt street ferry at Jersey City in the same time that the Erie goes to Long Dock. The Midiand wanted to lower the fare, but the Erie Tefused them the privilege of crossing its track, West of the tunnel, if they did. Consequently, the Midjana tg building @ trestie Work to run over the Erie track, up in the air, at that point, and when this is ready the fate will be reduced and for the first time on record Paterson will have the benefit of real competing lines between that city and New ‘ork. William Smith, who escaped from the Paterson jail, where he was confined on a charge of larceny, pik Lecomantioce Wes woo on oan night ‘a to his old quarters, He ia a pr able candidate Jor the State Prison. mn Private Secretary of the Superintendent of Police: — Ld TERT eet eR EERO icp an cnt on ae a