The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1872, Page 8

s —_—_—_—- Phe Courtyards To Be Destroyed—The Street ‘Widened to Sixty Foot, with Twenty Feet | Thedan and | fSidewalke—How the Matter Stands at a Present—A Bitter War Expected, PROPOSED WIDENING OF BROADWAY, ‘The recent opening by the Board of Aldermen of question of widening Fifth avenue from Wash- Park to Thirty-fourth street, has created derable alarm on the part of many o! the property owners on the avenue, as it is the inten- Tien of the instigators of this movement to repos- peas fifteen feet on either side of the avenue, now sed by the owners of property as courtyards, and extend the sidewalks up to the line of the walks. Many have not hesitated to denounce this as a job to bleed them, but Alderman Conover, who moved $he resolution in the Board, declares most em- phatically that in opening the question he 1s inftu- @mced only by the wants of the travelling public, That the matter may be more clearly understood, is proper to give a resumé of previous legislation the premises. It appears that in 1832 the Common Council gave to the property owners on the avenue fifteen feet either side to be used solely for courtyards. covered that portion of the avenue lying be- tween Sixth street and Twenty-first street. This given on the condition that the property should revert to the city when, in the opinion of the Common Council, it was needed for the accommo- @ation of public travel. In 1844 the same privilege ‘Was given, under the same restrictions, to the pro- erty owners between Twonty-second and Forty- pevend streets. $m expectation that they would not be interfered with mapy of the owners of the elegant residences @n the avenue have, at great expense, fitted up pourtyards on these fifteen feet of public property. In 1866 an effort wag made in the Common Council So repossess these fiftesx feet, but the residents on the avenue and the press roused such a storm Bernt their ears for attempting to Corey the auty of the avenue that the Aldertkon abandoned ie attempt to widen the street. The Committee of the Board of Aldermen to whom the resolution was referred in 1866 made en cx- sao report, in which appeared the following ‘The fact that while the Common Council in granting the privilege had yery wisely limited its use for the pur- of a courtyard only, and cxrpreaely. provided for its peal when the present necessities for accommodates vel shall occur, the owners of the property have, wit @unanimity of principle and purpose truly macvaiiots, nd with a modesty that reflects credit upon thelr mo- tives, taken entire possession of the ground allowed them, grecting and extending their stoops and areas the entiné irty feet of the sidewalk, and in some instances, with an exceeding modesty and a profound anxiety, your com- ittee supposes to further adorn the avenue, have taken ec, Cayn4 even three feet beyond the point mamed in privilege for the above purpose. Since 1866 no steps have been taken to repossess the thirty feet until March last, when Alderman Conover offered the following :— Whereas the subject of giving greater facility for ve- alcle travelon tne Firth ayenon sou of Tiirty-fourth Gireet, is becoming dafly of more and more importance, and the absolute necessity 1s daily becoming more and More apparent, particularly since the extension of that @vense across Washington square, and its extension ithwardly to Canal street, which has added vastly to e vehicle anil other travel on said avenue, leading as docs directly to the Central Park: and whereas carringeway of said avenuc, was, resto fo. {ta original width every present desired facility travel would be secured, but Inasmuch as the owners e ave heretofore objected strenuously, and are reluctant to permit the repeal of the given Sy by the Common Connell, b; jual an jowalks to the ed might be effected without Beming such or any opposition, and without seriously terfering with the owners’ convenience or occastening y violent or aep effects upon the value of ticir operty,, as wou be the case were a gencral or imme- restoration provided for; be it therefore Resolved, That hereafter all buildings erected, en- Jarged, altered or improved on either side of orp anue, south of Thirty-fourth street, shall be so erected, altered or improved, in f° rence to the pro- tions beyond the house or stoop line and the construc- of vaults, aa to conform to the original lines wn for the width and sidewalks of the Sarrlagewey. Senate Goer care be faa a infringement pbetacle butte tar nage ihre tract, in the slightest Scare. the width of th ke oF. way of a vy wo and establ ‘act or ordinance the Ce the city of New York hereto. paseed to the contrary notwithstanding. This was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. At @ more recent session of the Board the Dreamble and resolution was taken up and refer- to the Committee on Streets, composed of srs. Radde, Joyce and Plunkitt, who will sit on e 3d fgc torial to consider the subject and Prepare are : lerman Conover declares that since the widen- fe cf Chraroh street opens up a broad street to fashington Park, the travel is likely to go through Bouth and North Fifth avenue, and a necessity @aunes ior Widenin: al thay portion between Wash- igton Park and irty-fourth street. He is in vor of giving the property Owners a street sixty et wide, with twenty foot sidewalks on either le. It is charged that property owners are vio- iting the privilege given them in erecting stoops on this space of fifteen erp nee was set apart for courtyards, and hence another reason for the city repossessing the property. It is antict- ted that there will be a bitter fight between the rly owners and the Aldermen over the pro- estruction of their courtyards and lawns fore final action on the part of the civil author- On the 25th of March Alderman Conover made similar movement, looking to the widening of Srondway. The preamble and resolution reads:— Whereas it between Sev- Pte 4 apparent that agin 64 2 enth and Tw woul atly im- tnd whereas the K nay -socond streets, roved by reo ¢ arrlageway ; mdition of the buildings on the east side of Broadway, een the above named streets, Is such as must soon fompel them to y to, more suitable buildings to of trade; therefore be it meet the requiremen Resolved, That the Board of Street Opening and Im- ‘Senvement be requested {| once tohave ay 2 awn. m9 oF lessees Of the property on the dasterly side of Broad i between. Seventeenth and Twenty-secon t streets, to yuildings back twenty-five feet from their pres- they may rebuild or alter the some, io ord et may be added to the present ca; ty-five Siagewa, ‘This was referred to the same committee for an early report. The Common Council, however, have no power to widen Broadway. They can only re- commend it to the Board of Street Openings, ereated under the last charter. TOMBS POLICE COURT. The Minneapolis Bond Case. Before Justice Dowling. ‘The examination room of the Tombs Police Court ‘was crowded yesterday afternoon, the excitement being caused by the case of Spencer Pettus and Dr. 4. J. Parks, A number of police detectives and lawyers were spectators. Mr. Abe Hummel was counsel for the prisoner, two Boston lawyers ap- peared for Dr. Parks and Assistant District At- worney Sullivan for the people. ‘The facta of this case have alreafy been pub- Wehed in the Hexacp, and the testimony of the two first witnesses examincd—Rufus J. Baldwin, eashier of the State National Bank of Minneapolis, from which bank the bonds were stolen, and De tective Sampson, who arrested Pettus and Parks— Merely narrated the circumstances of the cave as they have already appeared. Dr. Parks, one of the prisoners, was placed on the stand, and he testified as follows:—i am a railroad contractor; reside at 446 West Fourteenth street, end keep an office at 52 Broudway; these bonds in question were brought to my office by Spencer Pet- fas two weeks ago last Thursday or Friday; seven- teen of them were of the denomination of $500 each, and thirty of the denomination of $250 each; Pettus told me that he wanted me to se!) them, but @id not know the value of them; ne belie’ they were worth sixty cepts on the doll he sald he t the St. Paul and Pacific bonds irom a contractor mi Sioux City, lowa; I was to recetve five per cent commission on the sale; the lowest limit he t on the bonds was fifiy-elght cents; he said bought the bonds from the contractor, whose ante {have forgotten; this contractor was in tho it of selling him bonds; I took the bonds to Pine Btreet to a friend, who went with me to Jay Cooke & Oo.; they told me that they were not buying, but that the bonds were worth about sixty cents; I then placed them in the hands of Mr. Eufenger, Po during that interval | was arrested; Ihad the nds in my possession four five days; Pettus came to me to aek mo about them and f told him Bt were in the hands ofa first class man; he sald Wanted $4,500 as soon as possible, as he wanted 2 pay what he owed on bonds; I had m Pettus siveo last April; I had ree transactions with him in all; some April @ man $1,600 to me through ancther party to sell; I ¢ ft for @ week, and the result was that it could Bot be pogetnce’, and I returned it to Pettus, who said it belonged to him; George R Sampson was nt when Pettus brought the bonds to me, and have seen in the oflico What passed between *brceeexamined by Abe Humme!—I came to this @ity about the ist of September, 1871; have not Seles broker, except In th ope with Pettus; Boyer bad aby transacuon mde a6 a broker in brought @ note 1 over to the officer, who locked him wv morning Hall pleaded not claimed he never in his before I met Pettus; I don't books 7 tractor; made a tel : ortne uumber and oMce; it was on a Rebate ieietine sates road; nad with him relative to the bonds; a man calied on me rela- tive to these it three weeks prior to my arrest; he did not te me they were stolen, but said that the Trost Company had conceded them to be and would not canvert them; I told him that ay | came from a mag named Boles. or Ramsay; I did not say that I had bought them from but that I had got them fram Spencer Pettus and that he had 8 Fe'sapie, ‘the Diswiet Attorney of ' ne} this 1s the firat time I have ever been never was in a jail at Memphis; I gave and Neotia bonds to Mr. Warner, who gave them to Colonel Parkland; before I had business with Spencer Pettus he gave me some references; re- ceived no certificate from him as to where he got the bonds; I am not certain as to whether I re- er any written authority from him to sell the The witness here yienented the contract under which he is engaged with Colonel J. W. D, Geo N. cane George W. Wallace, of Phila- delphia, and H. B. Witson, in bullding @ railroad, none of whom have any other business in this city. The next witness was James R. Sampson, who corroborated the testimony of Park, so far as allu- sion to himself was concerned, and testified to the aracter of Park so far as he knew him. Mr. Hummel then addressed the Court, summing up the testimony and arguing from it that Park in ace possession the stolen bonds were found, was the guilty and tat his client, Pettus, ‘Whose previous record was bad, was simply made use of to screen Park from the offence charged. Tu Dow! Though there is no evidence showing that Pettus was ed in the tarceny of the bonds at _Minneapo! nor, except the testimony of Park’s, that Pettus had the bonds. in his yet all the cir. mn, cumstances give corroboratory testimony of Park’s evidence, appearance with the package at Park’s office and the circumstances surrounding his arrest, all thin, considered, should make me hesitate to prevent this cage from folng before the Grand Jury, and I, therefore, send e case before the Grand Jury for their considera- tion. The prisoner stands committed without bail. Mr. Hummel—And how about the prisoner Parks, your honor? Jui Dowling—I commit Dr. Parks for trial in default of his giving $5,000 bail, THE MISSISSIPPI COUNTERFEITING CASE. In this case, the facts of which, like the above, have been already published in the H#RALD, an ex- amination was helt yesterday before Judge Dowling. The testimony taken was that of Henry Musgrove, Auditor of the State of Mississippi; John F. Wag- ner, the engraver; and Hugo Missig, the lager beer saloon keeper, through whom Thomas Cunningham, the accused, got the dies executed, The en taken was snes a the story the HERALD has given of the ner swore to ha’ done the work, and that in some of the signatures he had been ‘imposed upon by letters purporting to give him authority to en- grave the names. isaig swore to having, on the Tepresentations of Cunningham, got the dies executed, Furthermore, Auditor Musgrove testi- fied that Cunningham admitted to him here in New York that he had got two of the warrants per- fected, and that these, with the residue of the 1,000 blanks, had n sent on to Jackson, Miss. Judge Dowuzg committed Cunningham for trial witsout bail, JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT oo The Watch Retarns—An Eye Knocked Out—Kicked Into the Hospitah-A New Way of Collecting Old Debts—4 Wife Beater Arrested—Smoking on Street Cars—Petit Larcenics. Justice Fowler presided at tite above court yes- terday morning in Meu of Justi¢s Ledwith, ths regular magistrate. He accommodated thirty-nine prisoners with his opinion as to their guilt or tano- cence, Twenty-three of these were locked up and sixteen discharged. Of the number arraigned twenty-four were males and fifteen females. Twelve were arrested for intoxication, ten for disorderly conduct, four for being drunk and disorderiy, three for assault and battery, three for grand larceny, two for petit larceny, two for vagrancy, one for in- sanity, one for felonious assault and battery, and one for malicious mischief, AN BYE KNOCKED ovr. din William Hall is @ notorious character who gains a subsistence as bartender in the low dens that in- feat Greene street. He has been arrested repeat- edly for his brutality while under the influence of Mquor. He was presented yesterday morning by OMicer Wandling, of the Eighth precinct, on a charge Of felonious assault. Louts Droock; e hum- ble-looking German, residing at 116 West Thirty- fifth street, appeared as complainant and stated that while sitting in Holler’s groggery in Greene street, Thursday night, playing cards with some friends, the prisoner entered under the influence of liquor. After remaining a short time he became abusive, and, “ett a tumbler from the counter, came to the table where he was seated and without any, provocation whatever struck him in the eye, cutting it in such a manner that the ball rolled out n his cheek. He was finally secured and handed P. Yesterday lity to the charge and ife before saw the com. Mainant, He was locked up in default of $1,000 bail appear for trial. KICKED INTO THE HOSPITAL. Enos B. Simonson, residing at 25 Jane street, was ‘beat and kicked in a brutal manner, on the corner of Eighth avenue and Jane street, atan early hour yesterday morning. Several persons who were passing testified that at half-past one in the morn- Ing the a eg was attacked at the above corner by William nce of Spring street, and a com] jon, who made + escape. It is claimed Malloy knocked him down, while his companion kicked him until he became insensible, The prisoner was arrested by Officer Ferdun, of the Charles street station. The injured man, after being at- tended by a police surgeon, was sent to Bellevue Hospital in an ambulance, where he is at present confined. loy denied the charge, but was com- mitted to awalt the result of the injuries. A. NEW WAY OF COLLECTING OLD DEBTS, Jane Prince, Malica Prince and Charlotte Hannah, all colored washerwomen, residing at 211 Wooster street, Were arrested Thursday night by Officers Brody and Colton, of the Mercer street station, on “* Poly and Francis Livingston, Complaints OF Pus sue, 7, *hargad that (hoy boarders at 50 Bond street, WNo vu... visited their rooms Thuraday afternoon alid stole a quantity of clothing valued at $50, The prisoneré admitted taking the clothes, but claimed they hed aright to do so, as they had done washing for the complainants, and, not being able to get their money, had seized on the property and were de- termined to hold it as security for their money. The Justice informed them they had no right to do such a thing, and committed them to answer, ‘A WIFE-BEATER ARRESTED. Annie Clarke, @ corpulent looking female, resid- ing at 78 Carmine street, made her appearence before the bench with her head and face hand- somely frescoed. When asked as to how she came to be 80 handsomely ornamented, she replied that her husband, Pete, a diminutive-looking specimen of humanity, who stood trembling before the bar, had come home drunk on Thursday night and amused himself hy demonstrating to her how he would have eee en O’Baldwin had he been in the ring with him; that she had often had him arrested before for similar abuse, and let up on him, but this time she was determined to give him the full extent of the law. She also stated while standing in front of the Captain’s desk in the station house, preferring a complaint against him, he had hit her in the face with his fist, knocking her on the for. Officer Howell, of the Greenwich street station, who arrested Clark, corroborated this statement. ‘The risoner was Jocked up in default ot $1,000 ball for is future food behavior, and will have a chance to practice breaking stones in the quarry on Black- weil's Island, instead of women’s heads, THE DANGER OF SMOKING ON STREET CARS. Thomas Flynn. a young man residing at the cor- ner of Eighty-seventh street and First avenne, on Thursday night stationed himself on_ the front platform of car No, 53, of the Third avenue line, and insisted on puffing huge volumes of smoke into the car, to the great disgust of several lady passengers and in violation of the rules of the company. John Cole, driver of the car, several times politely asked him to throw away the cigar, but this he re- fused to io, and kept on puffing away in a manner that would have made tho great gift-taker envions had he witnessed him. The car was finally stopped and Flynn told he must either stop smoking or get off. He paid no attention to Cole’s demand, who undertook to put him off, Flynn seized him and nearly had him over the front dashboard under the horses’ heels when the pas- sengers came to his assistance and handed Fiynn over to Officer Gijgur. He was committed in de- fault of $600 bail to answer the charge at the Spe- clal Sessions, repetition of affair, PETIT LARCEN 5 Maria Grew was locked up, charged with stealing twenty-two cloth caps from Isadore & Hein, of 64 Attorney street, Ppl) morning. Officer Cal- houn, of the Eighth precinct, testitled to finding the Digperty in the prisoner's possession. lurtha Briggs pleaded gullty to stealing a quan- tity of clothing, vaiued at $20, from Mary Just, of 103 South Fifth avenue, on Wednesday. She wis fully committed to answer at the Special Sessions. THE HUB'S GREAT PANJANDRUM, Boston, Angust 23, 1872, The Executive Committee set forth their labili- ties Incurred for the International Musical Festival and Peace Jublice at about $650,000, The receipts were $440,000, leaving # deficit of $210,000. To Meet this and give a substantial testimonial to Mr. Gilmore it iy ag to give a grand concert aud ball, October 10, With one hum shousund of which, drawn by lot, enancge three dollar tickets, 6x Wall drew the Coliseum aud appurt SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, | WE EAST AFRICAN’ SLAVE TRADE. President Balta’s Death and Its Lessons to the Governing Classes and Peoples. Amerioan Travel—Naval News—Colombia’s Mis- sion to Washington—Specie for England— Popular Progress in the Republics, By. the arrival of the steamship Henry Chauncey, from Aspinwall, at this port yesterday, we have the following interesting résumé of the latest news from Central sad South America and the State of Colombia, ‘The Panama Herats Qf the 14th of August supplies the following items :— Among the arrivals % the Gfand Hotel we notice lon. the fol E |. B. Blaty, United States Minister to ta Rica, en route to San José; Mr. J. Dreyfus, of the banking house of yrs & i on his way to Lima; Mr. 8. K. Holman, oF Francisco, who visits this neighborhood on business of the Pacific Mall Steam Company; Captain E. M. Leeds, of the Royal Mail Com} 'g service, and Captain J. A. Gray, of the Steam- ship Company. Lieutenants R. B. Peck and George W. Coster, Ps pooraagg J, 0, Burnett and Midshipman C. D. Galloway, of the United States steamship California, are among the passengers for New York per Henry Chauncey to-day, on leave of absence, cua jul, Captain Battle, from termediate Forts, arrived at Pan- ur exchanges from lor contain nothing of general interest. The British steam corvette Scyila, sixteen guns, 1,467 tons, 400 horse power, Captain ©. R. F. Boxer, last from the Mexican coast, arrived at Panama on the 6th instant, with $88,000. She will remain here for orders. From Central America we are assured that the unity of views and action which now binds together Guatemala, Salvador and Honduras are so many solid guarantees against any ible future success of the party of reaction and retrogradism which sceks fomenting personal aubition of traitorous governors to secure their own ends and the servility of the populace. The weather, which was very rainy a few om Ago, now has almost the aspect of Summer. eo Col eras have lald aside their nightcaps of clouds and show their outlines weil defined, Colombia’s Mission to Washington. ‘From the Panama Star, August 14.) Sofior Don Carlos Martin, Mister from this Re. public to the United States of America, is at pres- ent in this city en route to Was! fon, accom- panied by his family and secretary. Mr. Martin arrived here on the 4th instant, and we under- stand remained over one steamer for the purpoge ol Investigating the question of the sefzure and de- tention of the steamship Montijo and Messrs. Schuber’s claims for damage for same, and also to examine the matter of the Edgar Stuart. Mr. Martin, we hear, proceeds on his journey per steam- ship Henry Chauncey, to sail to-day or to-moriew. President Balta’s Death and Its Lesson. {From the Panama Herald, August 14.) ‘The assassination of President Balta of Peru is not an event for a nine days’ wonder, but a lesson not to be forgotten. His life may be said to have been brought to a premature end by the false po- litical measures he adopted as well as the princt- les he abandoned. The counsels of false friends led him astray and the assaults he pernees, them tomake on the constitution and rights of tue people undermined the wall whioh fell upon and crushed them. As a general rul ith Colombia as the only exce;tion, in all the ish-American republics the army is the most prominent object and the chief solitude of the government. Revolutions enera!!y begin with the army and are ended by it. e present inecance in Peru is an exception to that rule, Against the just indignation of the peo- ple the a ‘was powerless, The desperation of Tight agains! might ted, fa it always will do, sooner or later, to the victory of the former, The pubitc life of Don José Balta defore he was’ cleckod to the Presidency, and whic’ consisted of a long list of services to his country, sill offers many points of view that are at once Tasning and in- structive. At the peganiey, of his military career, when he took part in the military 'y operations yrough! about by the invasion of Peru by ita Cruz, poung Balta was remarked as much for his subordination and discipline as for his bravery and intelligence in. the field of battle. What convictions were strength- ened and pantins adopted for the future during his riod of retirement after of Palma we are left judge More or less from the color of the events of his subsequent career. His patriotic exertions in repelling. attack of the niarda on 2a of May entitle him still more tothe regards. grote of his countrymen. expressed his dislike of dictators, and proved it by aiding in the over- throw of Prado and the restoration of the constitu- tion of 1860, But the hour of his own temptation had not yet arrived. Elected President himself he did and allowed to be done pote which in the quiet moments of his previous life he probably did not believe himself capable of. * * ® But the ople, Brutus like, arose, and dashed to pieces he would-be Ciesar of Peru, who had already made one sad stab at the liberties of the nation. Like the ancient headsman, holding up the bleed- ing head of a traitor, they have prociaimed in language not to be misunderstood, ‘thus shall be served all those who try to enslave their country.” The evil that men do 1s said to live after them, but if the death of Balta verminates forever the nscen- dancy of the sabre and tnaugurates the golden era of constitutional Mbe:ty, he will not have died in vain, ¢ Guatemala, The government has ordered that the ex-convent of San Francisco be prepared for the Custom House and other government oftices, reserving habitations for the parish curate and a school capable of con- taining 600 children. Government has put itself in relation with Mr. Stanley McNider, who hag constructed the greater part of the telegraph lines of Salvador, with the object of extending tho system through. out the republic of Guatemala. ix lines are Tequired, with twenty-five stations, ‘The total length will be about five hun- dred miles of ine. Mr. McNider offers to construct the 500 miles at the rate of $160 per mile, or devel for the whole, giving also instructions to forty young men whom the government will name. Honduras. The provisional government hag sent to recall in all haste Generals Van Severen and Streber. At Srasent. there are 800 men in Comayagua. S4 Tandnraa dastarcd The present Over rec. commpree woeew oul on the 2tth of Jily, General Medinita and ail those who aided him traitors, San Salvador. Later notices to the 20th of suly assert that Me- dina was defeated at Potrerillos and retreated towards the frontiers, Costa Rica. The government of Costa Rica had given orders that the steamers of Mr. Hollenbeck should not be molested or the navigation of the waters Of Nicara- gua be in any way interfered with. The committee of the Congress of Costa Rica, to whom was referred the question of the ad- mission of Jesuits into the country, has approved the act of the government in refusing admission to members of the Company of Jesus. FATALLY CRUSHED BY A RAIL OAB, An inquest was yester held by Coroner Schir- mer on the body of John Erhardt, a German, who on the evening of the 2ist inst. was run over corner of Fifth street and Second avenue by car No. 89 of the Second avenue line, and fatally in- jured. Deceased, who appeared to be intoxicated, attempted to cross the street in advance of the horses, stumbled and fell on the track, and not- withstanding the driver cried out to deceased and applied the brakes, he was unabie to prevent the car passing over his body. Officer Waters, of the Seventeenth precinct, witnessed the occurrence, and endeavored to drag Erhardt from under the car and save his life, but could not. The testimony showed there was no blame attached to the driver, | and a verdict of accidental death was rendered by | the jury. The deceased seemed to have no home | or friends, TRE DEATH OF MRS, COSGROVE, Coroner Schirmer yesterday held an inquest on the case of Mrs. Margaret Cosgrove, late of 220 Ninth avenue, whose death, it was alleged, had of her husband, Philip Cosgrove. Deputy Coroner Joseph Cushman, M. D., made & post-mortem examination on the body | Of deceased, on which he found some contused wounds of recent date, but not serious in their character. In the Doctor's opinion death eusued trom Bright's disease of the kidneys, and such was the verdict of the jury. word of testimony to show that the deceased ever beat his wife. Mr. Co: ve was honorably dis- charged by the Coroner immediately after the find- ing of thé jury. Mr. Cosgrove, who nupeees to be espectable man, is an oficer of the Superior eta salary Of $1,200 # year, and was an es- pe pet of the late Judge MeCunn. AN OIL TANK STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, PHILADELPUTA, August 23, 1872. During the electric storm last evening the light+ ning struck a crude oil tank fn the establishment ofTaber & Harbert, near Hestonville. The man- hole of the tank was open and the oil ignited, but three firemen who were present courageously re- placed the manhole cover and plastered the edges with clay, thas smothering the Names, Henry Vansant, the watchman of the establishment, was somwhat stunned by the lhining voit, bul pot pertously injured, been hastened by violence, received at the hands | ‘There was not & | infamous notoriety to which their oupidity dad their satanic acts of slaving have entii!ed them. So terrible is the character gained by those Zan- zibar gentry among the inoffensive paspls in Cen- tral Africa that on going among a dwell near the confluence of the Luamo and the Lualaba, Dr. Livingstone himself, being unkuowa, an not make good his claim to be innocent o | slaving. Voice of the English Press on Queen Victoria's Speech Regarding the Suppression of the Slave Trade on the East- ern Coast of Africa. The London Times of the 12th inst. considers “the most ificant paragraph of the royal speech is that in which Her Majesty informs the two Houses of a novel enterprise contemplated by the Ministry:—‘Government has taken steps to repare the way for deal! more effectually with he slave trade on the East Coast of Africa.’ Steps intended to prepare the way for action maybe a a, off from action itself, but we suppose we 8! be in error if we connect this announce- ment with the recent discovery of Dr. Livingstone and with the despatches to the Foreign Onice prenget by Mr. Stanley from the great traveller. Not we suppose there is any definite design at this moment of a joint ex! ion witn France into Bastern Africa; but neither was there any de- send an expedition against the Emperor The- when letters were first exchanged with him and Consul Cameron was accredited to his Court. It is 80 easy to slide from step to rok with the best of all ene motives and to find ourselves at le a position from which we cannot retreat ‘with honor or even with safety, that we may be Peugonably jealous of the beginnings of a policy ot wi we do not see the end. It is, therefore, un- fortund%e rhat this first intimation of unknown de- signs shoui+;ave been made in the speech which closed the aise of Parliament. We hope the Ministry will see the propriety of relieving the anx- jety that most otherwijge arise by a frank statement of their intentions; for we are convinced they will in largely by taking the canntry into their canf- ence in the matter, They Will be warmly su) ported if their plans are such as command assen and if they are of ifferent charactes they wil learn the objections to them before it is tog late to prevent mischief.” From the London Daily News, August 12.) * ® letters The influence of the new Ltyvingstone nifeste itself in the paragrapft jn the leen’s apeech respecting the East Coast of Africa. e ernment hopes to be able to deal more @ ally with the slave trade on that coast than it hag hitherto done. On the West Coast of Africa the lave trade has to a great extent been sup- pressed, and thatf rthe most part by the influ- ence exercised by the European settlements. The slave hunti of Eastern Africa is kept up hy Araos, with the assistance of Indian subjects of the Queen, called Banians. “The Baman British subjects,” says Livingstone, “have long been and are now the chief propagators of the Zan- zibar slave trade; their money, and often their muskets, gunpowder, vals, fifnts, beads, brass- wire and calico, are annually advanced to the Arans at enormous interest for the murderous work of slaving, of the nature of which every Banian is fully aware.’ Elsewhere he says:—The captives are not traded for, put murdered for, and the gangs that aro dragged coastwards to enrich the Banians are usually not slaves, but captive free people. The captives are sold for ivory, at the rate of about eight captives to two tusks.” No doubt much Judgment will be requisite in so dealing with this Matter as to keep us clear of obligations which it would not be fair to our taxpayers to undertake. But @ Power wh.ch counts its snbjects by hundreds of maillions in the peninsula of India ought to have influence sufficient to put an end to the slave trade on the shores of the Indian Ocean. {From the London Post, August al With a promptitude and fulness which leave no room for complaint the Foreign Office have given the letters of Dr. Livingstone to the public for | aU and no letters, perhaps, of recent times ave raised and retained such {ntense and general interest. Although the people of whom the illus- trious traveller writes are possible cannibals and the certain half-cast children of vagrant Moham- medan Arabs and negro women, the story told by his skilful pen rivets the attention by the uncon- scious betrayal of the heroic spirit and the energy which underlie his inexhaustible cheerfulness and his bursts of humor amid all manner of privations. If his primary task were to trace out the grand secret of the origin of the Nile, Dr. Livingstone does not pee the resolution of doing what he was sent by the Geographical to do to turn him away from the thoughts and vocation of the philan- thropy which ruied his conduct when he was no more than an Obscure missionary. He has thvoked the compassion of Europe for those poor creatures on whom the ruthlessness of the slave trade has fallen ‘as @ curse from above;” and he has as worthily roused the indignation of every kindly heart against the East African Moslem. “The Manyema cannibals,” he writes, “among whom I spent more than two years, are innocents com- pared with our Banian fellow subjects, By thelr Arab nts they compass the destruction of more human lives in one year than the Manyema do for theig feshpote in ten.’’ To the Manyema he appears to have a tender inclination, and of them he remarks, Re EN pannibals ead are not ostentatiously so. The neighboring tribes all assert that they are men eaters, and they tremselves laughingly admit the w ebat of a gorilla or soko—the first I knew of its existence here, and this they do eat.” Dr. ee eg is very rproncriy, therefore, re- solved that the Bantans of Zaccibar, whd ard pro- tected British subjects, shail havé fut credit for the vibe which “The women here,” says the Doctor, “were particularly outspoken in asserting our identity with the cruel strangers. On calling to one vociferous lady, who gave me the head trader's name, to Jook at my color and see if it were the same as his, she replied, with a bitter little laugh, ‘Then you must be his father.’ The Banians are not only sunk to the depths of demoralization, so far ag they themselves are concerned, but they demoralize the natives with whom they come in contact. “The Manyema are bad, bad, bad, awfully bad and cannibals,’ but they are angels to the cunning Indians who are at the bottom of the whole system now revealed to us under the novel title of “butchee.” If the chiefs of the tribes inland do not, like the Banians, deal in wholesale murder, the; vo learned from their Mohammedan hunters how to plunder. ‘Mr. Stan- ley was mulcted,” observes Dr, Livingstone to Lord Granville, ‘of one thougand six hundred yards of superior calico between the sea and Ujiji, aud we made a détour of three hundred miles to avoid eee among people accustomed to rabs. Dr. Livingstone concetver tnat the Fast African slave trade can be antinflated “if the native Chris- tians of one OF MGré of the English settlements on the West Coast, which have fully accom- Piished the objects of their establishment in Brppresalng the Blave trade, could be induced by voluatary emigration to remove to some healthy spot on the East Const.” The social condition of the African will always act asa bar to emigration. Tho soil of Africa is fertile and the continent 1s 60 vast and 80 C echgs Ae ae ra that there ts plent: of space to move. None of the necessaries of life are beyond the reach of the humblest peasant; but, on the contrary, they are so easily obtained that they become an actual obstacle to the seeking of a new fleid of enterpri: tal lack of wants effectually removes the tt S 8S Soguier iy toil, and contentment and plenty deprive the at- tractive stories related of emigration of the chatm they ty otherwise 38. Au African mother keeps also her authority over her daughter with a wonderful tenacity. Marriage does not relax the charm and strength of the maternal tie. Where is the African mother who would consent to the migration of her daughter from the West to the Fast Coast? No wrong can quench the intense devotion of the African to home. In Cn pes with this absorbing love, the stubborn fact arises that marriages, such as they are, are contracted at a very early age, and it seems that the contraction of marriages at so early an age possesses the pecuilarity of binding the African more and more to the place of his nativity. It 1s true that Dr. Livingstone specially bargains that the emigrants shall be Christians; but no native of the West Coast was ever yet ‘so completely Christian as to forget and forswear the customs and traditions of his country, The iniquities of the slave trade on the West African Coast were never frowned down by the infusion of Christian tenets into the character of the African; but to the forts standing now in venerable neglect bag the gold coast we owe the total suppression of the trade from the French stronghold of Assinie to our owa once splendid old fortress of Christiansborg at Accra. The forts which achieved such a resuit cost the Imperial and military expenditure, from the salary of the Governor down to the pay © adrummer boy. Should the Sultan of Zanzibar object to accept our terms for the extinction of the slave trade we had then better bridie a smail section of the coast on the mainland with block houses es we bridied the gold coast with forts, Let the block houses be from ten to fifteen miles asunder, accord- ing to the undulations of the sea line, and let two armed steamers be commissioned to keep watch upon the waters. This would very soon bring the Banlans to their senses, and the Sultan of Zanzibar would bave to understand that his “heavy subsidy” i ~ rulexy of Muscat must not be paid in human ood. Dr. Livingstone is opposed to the introduction of “Europeans, even as missionaries,” among the set- tlers on the East Coast. No doubt “brandy, black women and lazy inactivity” have played their part in the shortening of European life im Africa; but were it not for the Christianity upheld by the constant presence of the English- man on the West Coast, the principice or truth and justice would have languished and died in twelve months after they were revealed, Things may bear another reading on the East Coaat; but our settlements of Sierra Leone, the Gambia, the gold cosst and Lagos Indicate nobler results on the West Coast than that the “Inglish, in new climates, reveal themseives to be born fools,” No plan of native emigration, though the members may be Christlan, would answer wilcss the resident leaders were Iuropeans; and !f one mental attribute is more wanting to We native African than another, it t# that very attribute of which the pul ot emigration stand #0 emi- nently in need—the attribute of organization. Any el 3 but they’hke to impose on the credulous, showed the skill of @ recent victim to horrify one of . ‘te be the skal; AUGUST 24, 1872—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Doctor Livingstone would be sare to fail; and, per- 7 haps, when he comes back full of his ext be pa aed cae calmly with us, he will 100, re ae ee So we e Queen’a spec! slave trade from Eastern Africa is a remarkable proof of the interest winch Dr. Livingstone’s ad- ventures and sufferings have awakened. That great traveller has in fact revolutionized our no- tions of the races inhabiting the greatest part of the African continent almost as much as he and his compeers have altered our ideas of its physical character, Except perhaps the youngest genera- tion ainong them, Englitshmen have had to obliterate from their minds the rather dim picture of A: which they formed in their childhood, and to con- ceive a8 a land of humid air and great waters the country which they had vaguely associated with sand and drought. Concurrently with this change of view Hee have had to modify their notions of the state of the human society im this vast and poouious, Continent. Until quite reeently if the to giishman of ordinary information had been asked Say how African ‘society was oi ized, he would have replied that it consis in mixed hordes of barbarians, under bloody and fantastic tyrannies. Body guards of Amazons, manhunts and massacres, State ceremonies, which took the form of wholesale executions, it have seemed mere hideous {nventions if’ un joubtedly trust- worthy writers had not descrived them from per- sonal observation. But Dr. Livingstone, pene- trating farther into the interior, has shown that all this tiasue of sanguinary monstrosi- tles is the mere fringe of African society. The multitudinonus negroes of the inland countrics he finds to be a very shone People, living under patri- archal governments In communities so small as hardly to amount to tribes, According to the ac- counts he has given of them they quarrel aingu- larly little, shed Very little blood, and lead a pea ful and contented ilfe, troubled only by the pr petual fear of witchcraft. The sanguinary mon- archies near the coast do really exist, but they are the corruption of native African society, They seem, in fact, to be exclusively the creation of slave-hunting, What Dr. Livingstone seems to have proved is that the trade in slaves so breaks up the primitive communities of negroes that they have no power of reorganizing them- selves, except IM sto abner ea Dahomey and Ashantee. The demand for the negro a8 servant or slave, on the score of his hysisal strength, powers of endurance and docili- % ‘a old han Christianity so far aa some parts of frica are concsined; and it is hardly matter for wonder that profoun+ modifications have been pro- duced both of society ahd of the individual. Dr. Livingstone, indeed, would seem nearly to have ipesenaded himaelf that the Nat-nosed and progna- hous negro who is almost Sanomyaly known to Europeans is a degeneration from a higher physi- cal type which hae been produced by the slave trade. Itgeems at any rate certain that, though through great distances from both the African coasts *‘the blacks forever weep,” there are vast pulations in the interior who are still in the e1 joyment of much simple happiness. ‘The justifica- tion, therefore, for stopping the East African maritime slave trade, if we are able to do it, is that it 1s one stage of a process which is turning socleties of simple and contented cultivators into miscellaneous hordes of brutalized savages under cruel and bloody oppressors. A great mass of hu- man happiness is vearly collapsing; a vast amount of human misery is yearly forming itself; and this transformation of the negro populations affords a far better excuse for forcibly putting down the tramc than the mere sufferings of the passage from. Africa to the Arabian slave marts. There seems little doubt that the trade can be put down, even without the establishment of a free negro community on the Eastern Coast as proposed by Dr. Livingstone and Sir Bartle Frere. The only luera' markets for slaves are now the over- sea markets of the Eastern Mohammedan States, and if the access to these can be prevented there is every reason to believe that slave-dealing and slave-hunting in Africa will dwindle to insig- nificant dimensions, Great Britain has long been accustomed to treat the maritime slave trade as piracy, and the only government which once stren- uously resisted this principle—the United States of America—now publicly patronizes it. If all the waters on the East African coast were open to the British cruisers of the squadron ordinarily sta- tioned at Trincomalee they would probably make short work of the maritime trade; but unfortu- nately this does not seem to be the case, and there appear tobe certain waters under the sovereignty of the Sultan of Zanzibar into which British ships are prevented from entering under the pro- visions of a treaty to which the English govern- ment is & party. It thus hap) ns that Zanzibar has become the chief, tf not the exclusive, lead uarters of a tolerably secure trafic in negroes ‘om the East Coast of Africa. At first sight there would seem to be no difficulty in putting an end to this treaty; but we believe that a further hitch arises through engagements with the Sultan which belong to the intricacies of Anglo-Indian diplomacy. The Sultan, as has been explainea at some length in Captain Burton's recent Recneason: represents @ younger branch of the Sultans or Imams of Mus- cat in Eastern Arabia, who have long been under the special protection of the British government, and whose authority is the keystone of British as- cendancy in the Persian Gulf, Muscat avd Zangl- bar, though divided by so many miles of stormy sea, were once under the same be Mer ty. the but théere about such States, and this Lord ¢ ie ED & quarrel Renal. ii | government about £17,000 a year, and in that sum | was included the civil | swiuging around with the ebb and flow of the tides, Governor General of India, is understood to have appeased by assigning Mnscat to one pretender and Zanzibar to the other. Unfortunately, as it Row turns out, the Governor General decided that Zanzibar should every year pay to Muscat a tribute or subsidy as a mark of semi-feudal dependence, and this payment appears to be the real source of the present difficulty. The Sultan of Zanzibar deter | maintains his right to license the mari- ‘ime trafic in slaves on the plea that the export duty merely reimburses him for the tribute which he has to make good under the diplomatic arrange- ments of the British government, and he alleges what he simply cannot afford for this reason to Open the waters of Zanzibar to British ships of war. In order therefore to put down the trade, England must apparently not only employ her own vessels, but\must buy up the vested Interests of the ruler from whose harbors the exportation takes place. On the who!4, if the suppression of the trade is a mere matter of money, this country may be reason- ably expected to make some sacrifice for it. We have waged war too long, too publicly and too ear- nestly ou the siave trade to able to withdraw with honor from our campaign ‘ainst it. At the same time, if the arguments for the moral defenai- bility for our policy had to be restated, we do not think they would be altogether the same as those which were so passionately urged by the adversarics of the trade from the Western Coast. Slavery is not in the Eastern Mohammedan countries a mere system of oppression practised by speculators for commercial gain. It 13 an institution coeval with Oriental ‘soctety, of which the history has never been interropted. There {a little or no Je te against the color of the negro in those rey a ions, the treatment he receives is not materially rent from that of the freeman, and on his emancipation he may ris \to such honor and dig- nity as are attainable by Ori But the suffer- ings of the maritime tran: are only leas than those of the famous Middle age, because the former is shorter, and the demeralization, debase- ment and disorganization of the Afrfcan communi- ties are, on the evidence of Dr. Livingstone, as cer- tainly and as extensively produced by the trade on one coast as on the other. Here licéour true justi- fication for intervention, THE FRIGATE NUMANOIA. a od Has Sho Dragged Her Anchorf—An In- vestigation to be Madc—Whd | is Right? There were no new developments yesterday in. reference to the frigate Numancia, which was re- ported in yesterday's HERaLp as having grounded on Monday night at her anchorage off the South- west Spit, and no further communication passed between her commander and the Health Officer yes- terday onthe subject. Up to four o’clock yesterday afternoon the Spanish Consul had not received any further information in regard to the matter than that contained in yesterday's report, the same facts having been communicated to him officially by Deputy Heaith OMcer Mosher. The pliots generally are all agog on the subject, and say that the only way in which they can account for her grounding | is that she has dragged her anchors without the | knowledge of her officers, and so changed her po- sition, The communication was made to Dr. Mosher by the commander of the ship through an inter- reter, Lieutenant Fernandez, who speaks excel- lent English, and there ts not any reasonable prob- ability of a mistake being made ia the interpre- ation, Pilot Commissioner Binnt stated yesterday that he did not believe the Numancia had grounded, unless she had dragged her anchors, and the steamer Arago was seat down yesterday at the in- stance of the Pilot Commission to ascertain and report officially upon the facts, The Arago in charge of Professor Mitchell, of the United States Coast Survey, and before her return; which will probably be this evening, she will make numerous and verified soundings in the vicinity of the Numan- cla. It 13 a fact that the Numancia while lying in the Narrows fouled her anchor, and when she wis leay- ing for her present anchorage it was found that her cable had made sometiiug like ten turns around the anchor, This had doubtless occurred by her Ifa similar mishap has befallen her at the South- | West Spit it is not unlikely that sho has “lifted” her anchor, which, it is said, a vessel of her great dimensions might readtly do, When the pilots left the Numancia off the Southwest Spit they leit her with tho chan. nel ghts open, and a tug captain who went down the bay on Tuesday or Wednesaay last states that when he saw the Numancia she had the lishts in line, This would seem to indicate, if the frets are correctly stated on both sides, that the frigate must have dragged her anchor. Seafaring men frankly express the opinion that the ba proper way to q secure such a yessel 9 to taoor her, head aod stern, By the Cuina mall we learn that @ gang of high- waymen ave attacked the Village of Als, iu the Provinee of Zambales, killing the Governor of the lace and some othr people and retiring with the 1 petiioment lounded om the hints thrown out by boot. alles wettuud fire to acTeras housen. Another Letter from the Great African to a Friend. The unabated interest which still prevalis in re. lation to Dr. Livingstone induces me, in deference to the suggestion of several friends, to offer the following extracts from his letters recently re. ceived. The earlier letter is almost @ literary curiosity. It 1s very closely written upon leaves cut out of his Bombay check book, and both of them carry with them indubitable evidence of their genuineness. I rejoice to observe that Sir Bartle Frere has added the weight of his influence to the earnest recommendation of Dr. Livingstone, con- tained in the postscript written tn the present year, in favor of encouraging settlements of native Christians on the east coast of Africa, to which Dr. Livingstone evidently attaches so much ime portance. * J, B. BRAITHWAITE, j LINCOLY’s Inn, August 12. ’ : MANYEMA CouUNTRY, say 180 miles west of Usi31, Nov., 1879, My DEAR FRIEND—Want of paper leads me to a leafout of my Bombay check book in order five you and our friends some information, If y lave received previous letters you will readily: take this as the thread of my story that I am t il to follow. Down the central line of drainage of the, great Nile valley a great lacustrine river, which name Webb’s Lual in extant specimen of those which in prehistoric times abounded in Africa, and whose beds are still known in the south as “Melapo,”' in the north as “Wadys’—both words me .ning the same thing—river channels in which no water ever now flows, The third line of drain. age lies west of this, and is formed hy to large rivers, each having the same netive name of Lualaba, An English epithet secmed necessary, 30 J have named them by anttetpation after Sir Bartle Frere and Mr. T. Young ‘These two Lualabas unite snd form a large lake, which 1am _ fain to call Lake Lincoln. Look ng backs southwards from Lake Lin- gin to the watershed, we have a remarkabie mound. ‘om which four gushing fountains rise, each the’ source of a tarseriver, though not more than ten miles path Two on the northern side become Bartle Frere’s and Young's at mvers, ‘'woon the south side from the Liambia, or Uppss Zambezi— the larger one, at which a man cannot }o seen’ aci 1 name atter Lord Palmerston; the wsser, which, lower down, becomes the Kafue, I call atc? my old friend and fellow traveller Osweil. You. know that Sir Bartle Frere abolished slavery in’ Upper India, Soinde, or Seindiah. Lord Palmerston worked for many a long year unwea: iedly to stop the slave trade, and Mr. Lincoln by passing the amendment of the United States constitution gave frecdom to 4,000,000 slaves. We live too near the events in which these three good men acted to ap- preciate the greatness of their work. Palmerston and Lincoln are no longer among us; but in givi all the honor tn my power I desire to piace, ag 1 Were, my poor little garland of love on their tombs. It is almost premature to make use of their names before I have reached the mound, bat I have heard of it when 200 miles distant on the south- west; again when 190 miles from itt om the southeast and east; again when 180 miles distant on the northeast; and now on the north-northeast, many intelligent Arabs, who have visited the spot and had their wonder excited ag: much as the natives, give substantially the same information. It is probably the locality of the. fountains mentioned to Herodotus by the secretary: of Minerva in the oly. of Sais, in Egypt—‘fountaini which it was impossible to fathom, and fro: whic half the water tlowed north to Egypt, the other half south to Inner Ethiopia.” * * * | have been sorely hindered by the worst set of attendants I ever travelied with. Here, In the cannibal co try, no one will go into the next district for f they say, of being killed and eaten. Elsewhere | could get the country people to carry froin village to village, and was comparatively independent after the fight.of Yohanna men from terror of the marauding Mazitu or Batuta left me with a few. petted, coddied and spoilt liberated slaves, Here I ‘Was at their mercy, and they took full advantage of the situation, and even became eager slavehunterd of thelr countrymen. I have to walt for other men) from the coast. If they arrive, four or five montha will fish all T have to do to make a complete work of the exploration. HadI known all the hunger, eter toll and time required I might have | peda & straight walstcoat to under he task; but, having taken it in hand, I could not bear to be beaten by diMiculties, I had to feel way, and every step of my way. and was general groping in the dark, for who cared where the rive! ran? My plan was to come across the head Lake Nyasse, examine the watershed, and in two years begin a benevolent mission on the slope back again to the sca. Had I left at tie end of two pK Tcould have given little more light than tl rtuguese, who, in three slaving visits to Casembe, Inquired for slaves and heard of nothing: else. asked about the waters till almost afraid being set down as afilcted with hydrocephalus, and many a weary foot I trod ere ge a leas, idea of the ancient problem of the drainage. watershed is in latitude 10 12 degrees south. Thence the springs of the Nile do unquestionably grise.- The length of the watershed from weet to east is, between sevcn hundred and eignt hundred miles, This is where ‘put it, amd the mountaius a t~only about seven ttousand feet above the sea—- are his Xountains of tne Noon. I feel a ittle thank-) fal to O!d Nile for so hiding-his big head as to leat all so-called theoretical discoverers out in cold. * * % The little rivev. that comes out the Victoria Nyanza, less bya full half than the Shire out of Nyassa, would not accennt [or the Ni Webb’s Lualaba, from four to eight thouvand yards, wide, and alwaysdeep; and again, Young's Lua laba, of equally large proportions, wavw! give a abundant suppiy of water for iInundation®. and for the enormous evaporation of a river almcst withe out amuents, for a distance in latitude aud wngh tude of about three thousand miles, * * * Mi ie a rediscovery of what sunk into oblivion abouts two thousand years ago. This Is alll can, in coms, mon modesty, fairly claim. One line of draina; was unknown even to Ptolemy—that is mine, unti}. it be found that the ancient explorers from who! Ptolemy collected his geography knew it before did, A map of the Ethiopian goid miues is the ol est in the world, and of the time of Sethos II. It may have it. Iam thankful toa kind Providence, for enabling me to do what may refect honor on m: children, if not on my country. It is not without, anxious care that [have stuck to my work with John Bullish tenacity. The only thing I conld feel sure of, in the absence of all letters, suve a fe three-year.olds in 1869, was this—that you and my lends would approve iny doing well whatever I did. The discovery ia somé- what akin to that of the Northwest Paw e; but in this we have what emperors, kings, Ae losophere, all the great minds of autiquity jonged to know, and longed in vain, In audition to the almost iunumerable fountains wheuce flows the famous river * * * if should find anything to confirm the Pha old documents, the tures of truth, I would feel my toll well rewardes These are my day dreams; the reality reveals sore bared an bd od ° * Postscript to a letter written long age in Man- ie country of the cannibals, the sti of Jan- uary, 1872:— In the enclosure you will find a full account of my fairs, * * * T am now anxious on another matter—the plan which I am abont to advance of removing one of the English settlements of the Weat Coast, by voluntary emigration of the native: Christians, to a hoalthy spot on this side of the Con. tinent. ‘hen*l say English settlement I don’t mean a settlement of English people, but one thonc dstabitshmenta in the west which have filled their end. The settlements referred to have, fully acoomplished the ends of thelr cstabdlishment in th total suppression of the Alave trade wherever thelr Influence éxtended, Colénét ore* ysmaibie fwiy confirms this, and he id this was proved by the suppression as complete where they were,’ though unvisited Ls men-of-war, as in arts to which these ships habitually resorted. Now, the siave trade is as rife on the Kast Coast as ever * was on the West, and we have noue of the moral influence which Christian estabiishments carry along with them. * * Were tiey directed to come from our own settlements to Momb: which is ouxs already, they would bring the moi element, which in the Moslem inhabitants is dormant and ultimately frown down the mean da icity which new cnabics our Banian B.itish sul jects to carry on by their money all the slave trade that is carried on. The only additional e what ia now incurred would be the pase. officiais in men-of-wax, The success of the Wost is unquestionable, and the ccs: aiton of the slave trade ail aroutd the settlements ts worth all the expense which ha becn borne by govern- ment and missionary socictes, Let us ¢ these instruments here. Whenevér English m'osionaries are established traders are welconed and pro. tected. * * We need native Ouristians t D aihuse morality. * * Thave still a little work b me t eat deal of tims and money to make a complete finish up of th@ronrce, Ludha, * * It hasentatled twin ‘come Nile, I have lost a by @ Banian called tramping of 1,800 miles on me; but all right at last, { hope. ‘ The Great Traveller's Geography Brought to Task. Now that the greater portion of Dr. Livingstone’ despatches have been published, we are Sole ‘a glean some geography from them, Ilia late discoy- eries co it of a series of lakes and rivers owing in 4 more or less northerly direction from twelve degrees south latitude and between the thirtieth, and twenty-Ath conress of east longitude; ti valley through which they pass he cally the Valle of tie Nile. Dr. Livingstone tells us that their itl. tude is lower than either tho Tanganyika or the Albert Nyanga Lakes; be believes they join the Nile at nive degrees north jatitude by the river Bahr el Gazal; but this conclusion is simply ime possible, Therefore, where do Dr. Livingstone’s rivers of 2,000 yards wide flow to? Suppose we ascend the Nile by stcamer from pt in search of thom, and keep onr eyo on ita western bank, the frst water met with—l spoak of rivers and not of rivulets—is the Bair el Gazal, at nine de- grees north latitude—the very river which is supe qoeee by Dr. Livingstone to be if waters from twel) rees south latitude; but this river ta not na geble ail the year round, it contributes little w CONTINUED ON WINTH PAGE,.