The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1872, Page 4

} } | } fiaughter, Mrs, Hayes, written on reading the Doctor's first letter to the editor of the Bers ull ra Sha nna hae a Seconing ond Wills wes kindly granted, with the additional — ‘of allowing me to make any use of roper. Be amin ink it Worthy of appearing in your valu- able paper you will greatly oblige yours, very i v, ROBERT MOFFAT. Eprsuran, August 5, 1872, JULY 29, 1872. . o: 2 I omitted to say yesterday how much I have been struck by, dnd how deeply I have loved and admired ‘the enclosed grand letter of Dr. Lavingstone’s. This letter does one good, and lifts up one’s faith and hope In one’s race. It is full of simplicity, humanity and godliness. How much there is in it! and what traly manly proportions it discloses in the mind of the writer! Look at his pitiful yearning over the wenes af vice and misery he had seen, ‘The sore art made stil sorer’ by “man's inhumanity to man,” Look at the perfectly sim- ple. yet forcible description of his own robbe famished and desolate state, “dying on h * Look at the grand sweep of his eograph mission and its results, the discovery of “the watershed of South Central Africa, over seven hundred miles in length.” Look at his thirsty genius peering after the “waters,” in in which he saw the future sources or civil tion and Christianity, while all those around him hungered only for “slaves and ivory.” Look at his touch when speculating upon the mysteries of that seventh hundred of miles which he conid not reach, as to whether the two sow there “were not those sources of the Nile mentioned by the secretary of Minerva to Herodotus.” Look at his wholesome, natural and always national heart aud mind, overpowered by the interest of the great events which had con- vulsed the Continent and America since 1868, And, lastly, Jook at the turn which the great, good, grateful man gives to his acknowledgments | of the special help and kindness he had received through Mr. Stanley from Am and his recognition of their nation’s greatness tn having put down domestic slay “Now that you have done with domestic slavery forever, lend us ‘our powerlul aid towards this great object.’’ nis is better, and higher, and larger than our habits of carping at He would use America for freeing Like the tree planted by the water side, whos leaves shall not wither, this good man, with his | heart in its right place, and @l his faculties snbor- dinate tothe highest objects, able to see things and to care for thei in their true proportions, acts strongly and throws toods of light far wide ‘on work to be undertaken done of all kinds, in civilization and in Christianit: because himself purged from worldliness and si ishness (the besetting sins of our high English civil- ization) his genius is steeped in singieness of mind and his endeavors bent under the noble urpose of a single eye. Ido not think a human Bana could have penned a nobler letter, * * * LAKE TANGANYIKA. pee Ree Mr. Stanley’s Address Before the British Scientific Society at Brighton. ia oh PFN PICTURE OF LIVINGSTONE. The Great Traveller and the Herald Corre- spondent Exploring Lake Tanganyika, NEE, THE RUSIZI ee ee RIVER. The following paper was read pefore the geo- graphical section of the British Association for the Advancement ot Sc ce at the meeting at Bright- on, August 15, by Henry M. Stauley, correspondent of the New York HeraLp:— iENTLEMEN OF THE RoyAr G Soctr- ry—I have invited to deliv is here before you her Lo read a paper on the Tangan- ika, Responding to that invitation Lcame here; but beso! tering upon that subject, which seems | to interest this scientific ‘emblage, perinit me to | say something of your “distinguished medallist” | and associate, Dr. David Living: ne. T found him | in the manner ‘already described, the story of | which, in brief, is familiar to everybody. He was but little improved in h , and but a little better than the “ruckle of bones” he came to Ujiji. With | the story of his sutterings, his perils, and many narrow escapes by himself, the related, as they were, man who had endured all these and stil! lived, I sympath . What he suffered far eclipse: nat which Ulysses suilered, and Livingstone necds but a narrator like Homer to make his name as immortal as the Greek hero's; and, to mak other comparison, Lean liken his detractors in England and Germany only to the suiters who took advantage of Ulysses’ abse to | slander him and torment his poor wife. The man | lives not wo is more single minded than Living- stone—who has worked harder, been more perse- | vering in so good a cause as Livingstone—and the | man lives not who deserves @ higher reward, Be- fore going to Central Airica in search of Liv- ingstone I believed almost everything I heard or read ebout him, Never was a man more gullible thaa I. I believed it possible that the facetious gentleman's story, who said that Livingstone had married an African | princess, might be correct. I believed, or was | nearly believing, the gentioman who told me per- sonally that Livingstone was a narrow-minded, crabbed soul, with whom no man could travel in peace ; that Livingstone kept no journals nor notes, and that if he died his discoveries would surely be lost to the world, I believed then with the gentle- man that Livingstone ought to come home and let @ younger man—that same gentleman, for in- stance—go and finish the work that Livingstone had begun. Also, inconsistent as it may seem—but I warn youggain that 1 was exceedingly gullible— I believed fiat this man Livingstone was aided ina most energetic manner; that he had his letters from his children and friends sent to him regularly and that stores. were sent to him monthly aud quarterly—in fact, that he was quite comfortably | established and settled at Ujiji, I believed also | that every man, woman and chil England ad- mired and loved this man exceedingly. | was deeply impressed with these views of things when James Gordon Bennett, Jr., of the New York HEPALD, told me in a few words to go after Living- stone, to find him and bring what news I couia of him. I simply replied with a few monosyliabies in the affirmative, though I thought it might prove a very hard task. What if Livingstone retused to see me or hear me? “Nomatter,” sald to myself, in my innocence, “T shail be successful if I oniy see | Dim.” You Zourselves gentlemen, know how I would stand to-day if 1 had come’ back from the Tanganyika without a word from him, since but few believed me when Livingstone’s own letters appeared. But how fallacious were all my beliets! jow that I know the uprightness and virtue of the , I wonder how it wi possible that | could believe that Dr. Yavid ~ Living- Stone was married to an African princess and had ttled down. Now, that I know the stri ty of his nature, the God-fearing heart of the feel ashamed that l entertained such tho im. Now that I know Livingstone’s excessive | smlability, his mild temper, the love he entertains r his fellow-men, white or black, his pure Chris- lan character, { wonder now why this man was igned. I wonder now whether Livingstone is me Man whom a former fellow traveller of called a tyrant and an unbearable companion, we ‘onder now whether this is the traveller whom [ eved to be decrepid and too old to follow up his discoveries, whom a younger man ought to dis- » How that I have become acquainted with his ithusiasm, his tron constitution, his sturdy frame, Sar iteort s endurance. I aye, been made aware, @ newspaper published in London, called the Standard, that there are “confusion will be cleared up w’ Association mects and Mr. Stanley's story is sub- = iia sifting and cross-exainination of the ‘perts in African discovery.” What confusion may have fallen into through some story I Peeeleaia T cannot at present anegne, but proba after rise and the reading of this paper the “experts” will Og ogg if it lies in my power to lain away “contusion” I shail be most py to do so, There are also some such ques- | tions as the following propounded :—Why did not | LA tone return with Mr. eoey ? yy was the traveller so uncommunicative to all but the fiiv YORE HERALD? did not the relief expedition go on and relievehim?’ What has Dr. Kirk been doing all this time at Zanzibar ¢ BEBE 428 FOUB QUESTIONS WHIGH ADMIT OF VERY EASY SOLUTION. 0 the rat I would answer, because he dia not t_ to come with Mr. Stanley; and, may I ask, Mr, Stanley Dr. Livingstone’s keeper, that as ‘as he found him he should box bim up Ae ge baad side up with care ?" would answer that Dr. Livingstone not aware that there was another correspondent it ip iged interview when he imparted his in- ion to the correspondent of the New YORK To the third question, “Why did not the relief expedition go on and relieve hin?’ | would answer that Livingstone was already relieved, and Reeded no stores. To the fourth question, “What has Dr, Kirk been doing al! this time at Zanzibar 7" 1 would reply that Dr. Kirk's relations in England ee, know what he has been doing ter than I do. Also, in an- swer to that article in the Standard, and to similar articles in other newspapers, I must confess that 1 cannot see wherein those letters of Dr. Livingstone to Mr. James Gordon Bennet are disturbing, gro- ne or unexpected, unless the editors believed that Dr. Livingstone was dead and that his ghost now haunts them and disturbs their dreams. We | softly over the picturesque scene, son's letter Is “most discouraging; that the only theory to be gleaned from Dr. Livingstone’s letters “simply impossible ;” that the Standard, echoin the opi is “more in the dar! jon of geographe than ever.” Here isa field for explanation, had one only time or space in sfich a paper as this to explain. Let us hope that geographers who are in the dark will come forward to demand to be ad- mitted into the light, But, leaving these tremen- dous questions to a subsequent moment, let us now turn our attention to that large body of water called the TANGANYIKA, England is the first and foremost country in Afri- can discoveries. Her sons are known to have plunged through jungles, travelled over plains, mountains and valleys, to have marched through the most awful wildernesses to resolve the many probiems which have arisen from time to time con- cerning Central Africa, The noblest heroes of geo- | graphy have been of tnat land. She reckons Bruce, bt gk Lander, Ritchie, Mungo Park, Laing, Baikie, Speke, Burton, Grant, Baker and’ Living: stone ‘as her sons, ‘Many of these have fallen stricken to death by the poisonous malaria of the lands through which they travelled, Who has re- corded their last words, their last sighs? Who has related the agonies they must have suifered—their suferings while they lived? What monuments mark their losely resting places? Where 18 he that can point the exact locatities where they died? Look at that skeleton ofacontinent! We can only say they died in that unknown centre of Africa—that great broad biank between the eastern and western coasts. Before L brought with me producible proofs in the shape of letters, his journal, his broken chronometers, his useless watches, his box of curiosities, 1t was be- lieved by all, with the exception of a few, that the most glorious name among the geographicai heroes—the most glorious name among fearless missionaries—had oeen added to the martyro‘ogy list; it was believed that the tllustrious Livingstone had at last succumbed to the many fatal influences that are ever at work in that awful heart of Africa. It wasin my search for this illustrious explorer, which now has ended so happily—far more successfully than I could ever have antici- pated—that I came to the shores of this great luke, the Tanganyika, At a@ little port, or Dunder, called Uji, in the district of Ujiji,'my efforts were crowned with success. If you will glance at the southeastern shore of the Tanganyika you will find it a blank; but I must now be per- mitted to fill it with rivers and streams and marshes and mountain ranges, I must people it with powerful trives, with Wafipa, Wakawendi, Wakonongo and Wanyamwezi; more to the s with ferocious Watula and predatory Waror to the north with Mana Msengi, Wangondo and | Waluriba, Before coming to the Malagarazi I had to pass through Southern Wavinza, Crossing that | river, and after a day’s march north, I entered | Ubha, a broad plain country, extending from Uvinza north to Urundi and the lands inhabited by the Northern Watuta, Three long marches through Ubha brought me to the beautiful country of Ukaranga, and a steady tramp of twenty miles further westward brought me to the divisional | line between Ukaranga and Ujiji, the Liuche Vaticy, or Ruche, as Burton has it. Five miles further west- ward brought us to the summit of a smooth hilly ridge, and the town of Ujiji embowered in the palins lay at our feet, and beyond was the silver lake, the Tanganyika, and beyond the broad belt of water towered the darkly purple mountains of Ugoma and Ukaramba. To very many here, per- haps, African names have no interest, but to those who have travelled in Africa each name brings a recoliection--each word has a distinct meaning; sometimes the recollections are pleasing, some- NG RECOLLECTIONS AND BITTER MEMORIES. menuion Ujiji, that little port on the Tangan- yika almost hidden by palm groves, with the rest- less, plangent surf rolling ever the sandy beach, is recalled as vividly to my mind as if I yet stood on that hilltop looking adown upon it, and where a few minutes later 1 met the illustrious Livingstone. If I think of Unyanyembe instantly I recollect the irettul, peevish and impatient life I led there until I summoned courage, collected my men and marched to the south to see Livingstone or to die. If J think of Uko- nongo, recollections of our rapld marches, of fam- ine, of hot suns, of surprises nom enemies, of mu- tiny among my men, of feeding upon wild fruit, of a desperate sh into the jungle. If I think of Ukawendi, I sce a glorious land of lovely valleys and green mountains and forests of tall trees, the march under their twilight shades, and the exuber- ant chant of my peonls as we gayly tramped to- wards the north, lil think of Southern Uvinza, L see mountains of hematite of iron—I see enormous masses of disintegrated rock, great chasms, deep ravines, a bleakness and desolation as of death. If I think of the Malagarazi, 1 can see the river, with its fatal reptiles and snorting hippopotamt; I can see the salt plains stretching on either side, And if 1 think of Ubha,*recollections of the many trials we underwent; of the turbulent, contumacious crowds, the stealthy march at midnight through their villages; the preparations for battle, the alarm and the happy escape, culminating tn THE HAPPY MEETING WITH LIVINGSTONE. There, in that open square, surrounded by hun- dreds of curtous natives, stands the worn-out, pale- faced, gray-bearded and bent form of my great companion, There stand the sullen-eyed Arabs, in their suowy dresses, girdled, stroking their long beards, wondering Why [ came, There stand the Wajiji, children of the Tanganyika, side by side with the Wanyamwezi, with the tierce and turbu- lent Warundi, with Livingstone and myself in the centre. Yes, I note it ail, with the sunlight falling Thear the low rustling of the palm murmur of the surf, the branches, I note the hush that has crept over the multitudes as we two clasp hands, To me, at least, these strange names have an ene during significance and a romance blended with the sounds, The connection between the Tanganyika and the Albert Nyanza was a subject of interest to all geographers before 1 went to Central Africa. L recollect the very many hypotheses raised upon this subject. Livingstone even was almost sure that the Albert Nyanza was no more than a lower Tanganyika, and indeed he had a very good reason for believing so, He had perceived a constant flow northward, All the Arabs and natives persisted in declaring that the Rusizi ran out of the Lake Tanganyika. Consider- ing also that there was a tradition that Armanika, grandiather of Rumanika, present King of Karagwe, had thought of deepening the Kitangule flowing from the west to the Victoria Nyanza, in order to permit his canoes to proceed to Ujiji for trading purposes, I cannot see why he was not justified in thinking that there was some connection between the Tanganyika and the Albert Lake or be- tween the Tanganyika and the Victoria. Before I arrived at Ujijt he had never been to the north end of the Tanganyika; but as soon as I mentioned the interest and importance attached to it, and offered to escort him thither, he lost no time in preparing for the journey. Said he, in ex- cuse for not having visited the northern head pre- viously, ‘I never regarded {t as of any importance. The central line of dramage absorbed all my atten- tion and mean: TRNEY TO THE HEAD OF THE LAKE ibe here; it befits more Livingstone used to callita and I believe he writes of it in that sense to ‘anville, I heartily concur with him, though the picnic had its drawbacks. As we hugged the coast of Ujiji and Urundi, looking sharply to every little inlet and creek for the outlet that was said to be somewhere in a day’s pulling, we would pass by from fifteen to twenty miles of coun- t As we left our camp at dawn, after despatching our breakfast of Mocha coffee and dourra pancakes, with the men gayly shouting and chanting their lively chorus, echoing among the great mountains that rose up ‘sometimes 2,000 and 3,000 feet above our heads, we did not know that our next camping place might be in am enemy's country. Who could guarantee our lives while camping in the country of Urundi? Several times we were in danger, Twice we were obliged to y— twice our men kept watch all night lest we might | be surprised while asleep. Twice during the noon- day heats we drank the exhilarating bohea with our eyes and ears painfully on the alert, tor the enemy we knew to be on the search for us. These | were some of the drawbacks to the pleasure of the picnic. It took us ten days’ hard pulling to reach the head of the lake, a distance of nearly one hundred geographical’ miles from Ui, Two days suM@ced for the coast of Ujiji, the re- maining eight we were pelts along the bold | shores of Urundi, which gradually inclined to the eastward, the western ranges, ever bold and high, looking like a huge blue-black barrier some thirty miles West of us, to all appearances impenetrable and impassab Ifthe waters of the Tanganyika could be drainedout, and we were to stand upon the summit of those great peaks, whioh rise ab- pata! out of the lake, @ most wonderful scene would be presented to us. We should see an extraor- dinary deep chasm from five thousand to seven thousand feet deep, with the large island of Ub- wari rising like another Magdala from the awful depths around it; for I think that the greatest depth of that lake is near three thousand deep. TAKING SOUNDINGS, Only two miles from shore I sounded, and though I let down 620 feet of line I found no bottom. Liv- ingstone sounded when crossing the Tanganyika from the westward, and found no bottom with 1,800 feet of line, The mountains around the northern half of the Tanganyika fold around 80 close, with no avenue whatever for the escape of waters save the narrow valleys and ravines which admit rivers and streams into the lake, that were it possible to force the water into a higher aititude of 900 feet above its present level its dimensions would not be increased very considerably. The vailey of the Nalagarazt would then be a narrow deep arm of tbe lake, and the Rusizi would be a northern arm, orooked and tortuous, of sixty or seventy miles in length. The evening before we saw the Rusizi a freedman of Zanzibar was asked which WAY THE RIVER RAN— out of the lake or into it? The man swore that he had been on the river but the day before, and that it ran out of the lake. Here was an announce- ment calculated to shake the most sceptioal. I thought the news too good ¢o be true, L should certainly have preferred that the river ran out of the lake into either the Victoria or the Albert. The night we heard this announcement made so ear- nestly Livingstone and myself sat up very late, speculating as to where it went. We resolved, if it flowed into the Victoria Nyanza, to proceed with itto that lake, and then strike south to Unyam- yembe, and, if It flowed into the Albert Lake, to pro- ceed tnto the Albert and cruise all around it, in the hope of meeting Baker. As there was war between the rival tribes inhabiting the banks of the Rusizi, the King Mokamba advised us to proceed to his brother's village in Mugehawa by hight, which was situated about eight hundred are also told that “DK. LIVINGSTONE’S REPORTS Gre strangely incoherent;” that Sir Hepry Rawlin- yards from the river, on the right bank. Just after dark we started, and in the morning we arrived at Mugehawa, After a “up of coffee we manned our NEW YORK HERALD, ‘TUESDAY, canoe, and having pre our guite-we started for the mouth of tren In about fiiteen min- utes we were entering a little about & mile wide, and saw before us to the north a dense brake of papyrus and matete cane, Until we were close to this brake we could not detect tho’ slightest opening for a river such as we imagined the to be. We followed some canoes which were dis- appearing mysteriously and suspiciously through some gaps in the dense brake. Pulling nr Ay we found ourselves in what afterwards proved THE CENTRAL MOUTH OF THE RIVER. All doubt as to what the Rusizi was vanished at once and forever before that strong brown flood which tasked our exertions to the utmost ag we pulled 4 T once doubted, as I seized an oar, that we should ever be able to ascend; but alter a hard quarter of an hour’s pulling the river broadened, and a little higher up we saw it widen into lagoons on either side, The alluvial plain through which the river makes its exit into the lake is about | twelve miles wide, and narrows into a point after a length of fifteen miles, or a narrow valley folded in by the eastern and western ranges, which here meet at a distance of a couple of miles, The west- ern range, which inclines to the eastward, halts abruptly, and a portion of it runs sharply north- westward, while the eastern range inclines west- ward, and after overlapping the western range shoots off northwestward, where it is lost amid a perfect jumble of mountains, The chief Rubinga, living at Mugihewa, is the principal chief in Usige. He isa great traveller. Born in Urundi, he has been to Karagwa and Ruanda, and came to Usige when quite a young man. Though a pleasant se in his way, he shared in our enthu- siasm as if he had been an Associate of the Koyal Geographical Society, and entered very readily into a discussion about the mooted points which still re- mnained unsolved. SOME FACTS ABOUT THE RUSIZI, Briefly, he said that the Rusizi rose from the Lake Kivo, a lake fi/tgen miles in length and about eight in breadth. Kwangsibura was the chief of the district in northeastern Urundi, which gives its name to the lake, Through agapin a mountain the river Rusizi escaped out of Lake Kivo, On leaving Kivo Lage it is called Kwangeregere. It then runs Mirough the district of Unyambungu, and becomes known as the Rusizi, or Lu- sizii A day’s march from Magihea, or say twenty miles north of the mouth, tt is joined by the Luanda, or Ruanda, flowing from a northwesterly ‘om which I gather that the river L led after the name of the country— Ruanda, said to be famous for its copper mines, Besides the Luanda there are seventeen other streains which contribute to the Rusizi; these are the Mpanda, Karindwa, Wa Kanigi, Kaginissi, Ka- ira, Niamagana, Nya Kagunda, Ruviro, Kavimvira, Mujove, Ruhuhha, Mukindu, Sange, Rubtrizi, Kirtba. Usige, a district of Urundi occupying the head of the lake, extends two marciies into the north, or 3) miles; after which comes what is called Urundi Proper for another two days’ march; and directly north of that is Ruanda, avery large country, almost equal in size to Vrundi. Rubinga had been six days to the north a. ‘There were some in his tribe who had gone further, but from no one could we obtain any intelligence of a lake or of a large body of water, such as the Albert anza, being to the north. Sir Samuel Baker has sketched the lake as being within one north of the Tanganyika; but it is obvious that its length is not so great as it is represente |, thongh it might extend thirty or forty miles south of Vacovia, ‘uanda, as represented to us by Rubinga, Mokamba, chiefs of Usige, and their elders, 18 an exceedingly mountainous country, with extensive con Tee mines. t occupies that whole district north of Urandi Proper, between Mutumbi on the west and Urundi on the east and Itara on the nor Of the countries lying north of Ruanda we could obtain no information. West of ‘Urundi is the extreme frontier of Man- yema, which even here has been heard of, In re- turning to Ujijt after the satisfactory solution of the River Rusizi, we coasted DOWN THE WESTERN SHORE OF THE TANGANYIKA, and came to Uvira at necng the followin; We were shown the sandy canoes of Burton and Speke had ré little south of this, rises the lofty pe: fully 4,500 feet above the level of the lake, the Chief of Uvira, still lives in the village he occu- pied when Burton and Speke visited his dominions. ‘A day’s march, or fifteen miles south of this, Uvira narrows down to the alluvial plains formed by the numerous streams which dash down the slopes of the western range, while the mountainous country is known as Ubembe, the land of the cannibals, who seldom. visit the canoes of the traders, South of Uvira is Usansi, peopled by a race extremely cannabalistic in its taste, as the Doctor and myself had very good reason to know. I think if we had a few sick or old men among our party we could have disposed of them to advantage, or we might have exchanged them for vegetables, which would have been most welcome to us. From Usansi we struck off across the lake, and, rowing all night, at dawn we arrived at @ port in Southern Urundi. Three days afterward we were welcomed by the Arab traders of Ujiji,as we once more set foot on the beach near that bunder, We have thus coasted around the northern half of the Tangan- yika, and I might inform ‘you of other tribes who dwell on its shores; but the principal subject of my paper was to show you how we settled that vexed question, “Was the Kusizi an eifiuent or an infu- ent? ‘There is, then, nothing more to be said on that points e e cont USION. But, gentlemen, [ must ask your permission to deliver a message from your great associate Liv- ingstone, who long before this has left Unyanyembe, and is proceeding to the scene of his late discov- eries. He told me to tell you that he wants no com- panion now; that he requires no more stores; that when he has satisfied himself of the sources of the Nile he will come home and give you such reports ‘as will satisfy you. With plenty of stores and over seventy good men, well armed and equipped, he is now en route to Ufipa, healthy and strong and as enthusiastic as ever. Having delivered my mes- sage, I conclude with thanking you for the attention with which you have listened to me. THE DOUBTING THOMASES REBUKED. {From the Philadeiphia Age, August 24,] The men who doubt the truth of Stanley's finding Dr. Livingstone are blockheads, and deserve no better treatment than Mungo Park gave to the man who ridiculed his statement that the Abys- sinians eat raw steaks. Park went to him with a huge broadsword and a pound of raw beef and made him eat it. He then saw nothing incredible in the statement, LONG BRANCH RACES. The entries for the grand steeplechase to come off on Thursdsy next are Sorrel Dan, Flora Mc- Ivor, Lochiel, Lochinvar, Vesuvius, Lobelia, Blind Tom, Astronomer, Tammany and Gao. The race for the four-mile heats has for entries Arizona, Gao, Frank Hampton, Flora Mclvor, Ger- alt, Milesian, Defender and Cadence. It will be seen that some of the horses are en- tered in both events, and it is very improbable that they will run in more than one; but we should judge that all that are entered for the four-mile heats will start. This will make a good race and one that will give great satisfaction to gentlemen who still are fond of the old style of racing. TROTTING AT PROSPECT PARK PAIR GROUNDS, Two trotting contests came off at the popular track near the sea yesterday afternoon, the first being a sweepstakes of $150, mile heats, best three in five, between the brown mare Ida, in harness, bay gelding Abe, in harness, and brown gelding Dan Bryant, to wagon. The horses trotted four heats, and ‘the race was won by Ida. The second race Was a match for $2,000, mile heats, best three in five, to wagons, between the gray gelding Tele- graph and brown mare Belle of Vermont. ‘The winner was the favorite in the first race, but not in the second, Hos oo won the match, but he had such a questionable way of going that the judges took one heat away from him and gave it to the mare. The lollowing are the SUMMARIES, Prospect PARK FAIR GROUND ASSOCIATION, —Sweepstakes $150; mile heats, best i M. Rogers? D. g Al Quarter, Hats. First heat 42h 1:24 Second het 43 1:25 Third heat. 42% 1:22 Fourth heat 43 Mg fe 1:2636 2:52 $200; mile heats, best three in five; to wagon. fa D. Dunley’s g. g. Tell 1) Pore 1121 M. Rogers’ br. m. Belle of Vermont. 2312 TIME. Same Day.—' Quarter, First heat.. ry eat Me Second heat. + 43) 2:47 5 Third heat 4g 214% No time, Fourth heat. or 44 1:24)5 2:49 *No time given, as the heat was taken away from Tele- graph for running and given to the mare who came in two lengths behin THE INTERNATIONAL ORIOKET GAME, The gentiemen comprising the ‘English Eleven,” who crossed to Canada to play a cricket game, have been challenged by the St. George's Club of New York, and the challenge was accepted. The match will take place at the St. George Cricket grounds, in Hoboken, on the 17th and 18th of September. ANOTHER RAILROAD LINK BETWEEN NEWARK AND NEW YORK. To-day the branch of the Erio Railroad connect- ing Newark with New York will be opened to the travelling public, thus adding another to the rail- road links which now bind the two cities together, making their respective City Halls nearer to ‘h | other, viewed solely as ® matter of time, than is Thirtieth street with the Battery. The new line has its depot so far up town in Newark that it will be a convenience for the public, and will hel spur up the other companies to more consideration for passengers. The rate of commutation is lower pane the other lines, belag about (en cepts per THAT CATACAZY AFFAIR. Minister Curtin's Opinion of How Miserably the State Department Blundered. Fish Hash with Sauce Tartarre—Does the Ameri- can Secretary of State Know the Rudiments of Diplomatic Intercourse t—Strange Position of Bancroft Davis—A Four Months’ Despatch. Lonpon, August 13, 1872, ‘The following facts will assist in the solution of this great International Conundrum:—A distin- guished American travelling in Russia recently’ heard the Chancellor of the Emptre express his opinion freely on the Catacazy difficulty, and was surprised to hear him say that but for a blunder the affair could never have assumed any impor- tant proportions. Prince Gortschakoff sald :—‘The recall of Mr. Cata- cazy might at the right time have been settled in an hour.’’ “How so?" was the natural and startled query of the gentleman, who vividly remembered for how many hours the disgraceful subject had lingered on the stage. “Simply by Mr. Fish properly instructing Mr. Cur- tin, your Minister here, or by leaving him to exer- cise a just discretion with the instructions given.’” GORTSCHAKOFF'S HISTORY OF SWiK OATACAZY AFFAIR, Some further conversation brought out the his- tory of the difficulty from the Prince’s point of view, pretty nearly as follows:— Mr. Fish wrote to Mr. Curtin to demand the re- call of Mr, Catacazy in July. At the time the des- patch was received tn St. Petersburg the Emperor and Prince Gortschakoff were both away, and the Foreign Office was in. charge of Mr. Westmann, thia gentleman, though nominally in charge, could not venture to take responsibility upon a subject of such importance as the recall ofan ambassador, and the least ac- quaintance with Russia and Russian political life would have made this evident to any person. Mr, Curtin, of course, knew that his letter could not even be received by this locum tenens, and yet even our diplomatic service has enough red tape in it to keep our Minister from going to the Prince, who was then in Germany, without authority from Washington. So Mr. Curtin telegraphed ask- ing authority to go to the Prince, and received in reply an order to deposit his note with the person in charge of the Foreign Office at St. Petersburg—as if it were a subpeena, that could be legally held as served when left at the man’s residence. Out of this primary stupidity all the rest naturally grew. WHY THE DELAY ? Mr. Westmann could not move, and the letter waited the return of Prince Gortschakoff; but by the time the Prince had returned to his post a reason had arisen for the Emperor's wishing that Mr. Catacazy should remain for a while longer at Wash- ington. There was, therefore, in October an ob- stacle to an immediate compliance with the request of the United States government, though this obstacle could scarcely be sald to exist in July, and provision to overcome it could then have been readily made, THE VISIT OF ALEXIS, The Grand Duke Alexis was just then, it will be remembered, about to visit the United States. It was necessary to have a Russian Minister in Amer- ica during that visit, and it was then too late to name a new one. His Majesty the Emperor, there, fore, in order that the contemplated visit might be made, and in order that the sudden relinquishing of the visit might not create a scandal through the world, requested that his Minister should be per- mitted to remain during his son's visit. It will be remembered this concession was made by our gov- ernment, but made in such a grudging and pitiful spirit, and was loaded with conditions which in their very nature impugned the good faith and veracity of the Emperor of Russia. SHORT-SIGHTED WISDOM. The distinguished American could but reflect once more on the little wisdom with which the world is governed, and could not but regret that the part of the world in which ho felt most interest seemed a little worse off than the other parts in this respect. It struck him also as a noteworthy circumstance that Prince Gortschakof was wonder- fully well acquainted with the confents of the despatches that passed between Mr. Curtin and his government. BANCROFT DAVIS’ FINGER IN THE PIR. Now the fact that those stages of the Catacazy diMiculty which at one moment seemed to threaten the good relations of the two countries had all arisen out of the ignorant blunder of not authorizing Mr. Curtin to follow Gortscha- kof, did not remain @ secret with the gentleman who heard it from the Prince, and in its peregrinations of Europe it reached Geneva, where it came to the ears of Mr. Bancroft Davis, This gentleman immediately gave the story a flat denial—said it was all untrue, and that no such des- patches or telegrams as described ever passed be- tween the State Department and Mr. Curtin. WHOSE BLUNDER WAS IT ? Hereupon there was, it is evident, an open ques- tion of veracity between the two governments, for Gortschakoff is the Russian government, and evi- dently Mr. Bancroft Davis is the United States gov- ernment in the same sense. Hearing of this dif- ference, and understanding that our representative in St. Petersburg had blundered if he had not asked for authority to go to the Prince, and that Fish had blundered still more if the authority had not been given. I deter- mined, in search of further information, to call on a gentleman who [ thought might have some knowl- edge of the subject. This is Governor Curtin, now in London, on his homeward journey. I found the Governor at the Langham, of course, for all Amer- icans go there, probably because it is the worst kept hotel London can boast. AN INTHRVIEW WITH GOVERNOR CURTIN. The first subject we touched upon was Stanley and the HeRa.p African expedition; for just now it is impossible to get at any other subject except through that, Mr. Curtin expressed with great warmth his admiration of that splendid exterprise— of the munificence with which it was set on footand the energy and perseverance with which it was car- Tied to a successful issue. GOVERNOR OURTIN AND MR. FISH'S DESPATCH. “Governor,” I said, ‘when did you get the despatch instructing you to requeat the recall of Mr. Catacazy from Washington ?"’ “In the month of July, 1871,’ was the answer. “Was Prince Goptschako then in St. Peters- burg?” “No, sir; he was in Germany. Nobody of the Court or the fashionable world would remain in St. Petersburg in the Summer, It is very unhealthy. “Well, Governor,” I continued, “what, then, did you do with the despatch ?" “Why, sir, I was in some trouble about it. There ‘was nobody at the Foreign Office authorized to transact business so important as that. The person in charge, Mr, Westmann, would not have dared to receive my despatch. And I could not go to Gortschakoff because a rule of our government for- bids @ minister leaving without permission the country to whose government he is accredited.” “What did you do?!’ “Well, thanks to the wonderful inventions of our time, Washington is only one day distant from St. Petersburg. I telegraphed to the Department.” “What did you telegraph?’ “1 stated the dificulty and Princo Gortschakofl.”’ “And what answer did you receive?” “I recelved an order to present the despatch to whoever might be at the Foreign Office.” “Was that a judicious order?” FISH'S WANT OF ACQUAINTANCE WITH DIPLOMATIC USAGE, “A judicious order! Why, no, sir; clearly not. It was not the answer I expected. The Department seems to have supposed that the person in charge could have received any despatch as if it werea letter from the postman, and have telegraphed the contents to Prince Gortschakoff, and sent to me a few hours later a note with his answer; Dut I need hardly tell you that such a view ts founded on want of acquaintance with diplomatic usage, for Ln sucha ed if I should go to AUGUST 27, 1872.-TRIPLE ' SHEET. — case the person in charge simply refuses to receive & despatch of great importance. It is not always certain that the government will receive every despatch presented, and a subordinate, therefore, dares not commit his government even that far. Thus the office does not get oficial pos- session of your despatch, and therefore cannot wire it, and the supposed operation fails at the very first step,” “Your instructions, therefore, not permitting you to leave the Russian territory, practically com- pelled you to hold the letter until the Prince's re- turn ¢”" “Exactly.” “How much difference in time was there thus made in the delivery ¢" “About four months. [received the despatch in July, and the Prince returned in October.” “I suppose, Governor, the certainty of your hav- ing telegraphed to Washington about following Gortschakoff is beyond all doubt, and that the fact must be well known in the State Department?” “Nothing can be better known in the State De- partment, above all, for the despatches themselves have been printed in the executive documents of the Forty-seventh Congress.” DIPLOMATIC STUPIDITY, From all of which it is pretty clear that our bril- Mant State Department not only gave a stupid order on a very important subject, which it does frequently, but that it furthermore, in the person of one of its prominent members, denies the thing with strong assertion in face of the printed evi- dence of the fact. THE RECEPTION OF PRINCE ALEXIS IN AMERICA, I had some further agreeable conversation with Mr. Curtin, in the course of which he referred very Particularly to the reception in Russia of the news of Alexis’ arrival in New York, ph “I am of opinion,” he said, “that there has not been enough said about that. Mr. Bennett's de- spatch reached me nine hours before any official news came. People at the Court, you must know, had become very gloomy—the Prince had been out so long—and day after day and week after week went on without bringing a word, until people had fairly given him up for lost. Suddenly I received a despatch announcing the arrival, signed ‘Bennett.’ I sent it to Gortschakott, and it went to the Empe- ror and Empress, and made them ail happy. In a moment, as it were, that little telegram changed the whole aspect of the city. It was good piece of thoughtfulness to send it, and they felt grateful. I wrote a letter to Mr. Bennett expressing the thanks of the Emperor, by request, of course, of Prince Gortschakof’”’ THE TELEGRAPH IN AUSTRALIA, The Indo-Australian Cable Utilized—A Message Forwarded to London. Sypyey, N.S. W., July 5, 1872. Tam at length enabled to announce the fact that the Indo-Australian Company's cable, after lying idte for months at the bottom of the Java Sea, has been utilized, , Ere this letter reaches the Empire City news transmitted by it from the antipodes to the older World will be familiar to the readers of the HERALD, and many will suppose that communication by wire is complete to the capitals of Australia; such, how- ever, is not the case. On the 20th ult. a despatch ‘was received from Mr. Todd, superintendent of the land line and construction parties, under date May 22. Mr. Todd was then in Northern Australia, and reported having sent a message through to London and obtained a reply within two days. Agap of 150 miles of the mest diMcult portion had to be connect- ed, and he anticipated that not before September would it be complete. Three parties were working upon it, but owing to the obstacles which had to be surmounted in transmission of material, rations, &c., progress was very slow. Arrangements were at once made to bring a horse despatch into requi- sition, and for a time obviate the complaints made by the cable Poneto and the public that the gov- ernment of South Australia had not kept faith, though they had a margin of six months between the time they were bound to have their share of the work completed and the present date. FIRST DESPATCHES. The first telegrams were received for transmis- sion from this end on the 25th ult. When they will reach England is problematical. It is admitted that even when thorougly completed communication is almost certain to be frequently interrupted, and that at seasons it will be impossible to effect repairs in a reasonable time, so that until there is an alter- native cable via Queensland very little dependence can be placed upon regularity of transmission. THE PHILADELPHIA MOYAMENSINGS, The Old Firemen Seeking to Avenge the Assault Upon Their Chief, McMullin— Dougherty Killed for Slandering Him— How the Would-be Assassin Was Sent to His Account. PHILADELPHIA, August 26, 1872. James Douherty, Mara’s accomplice in the attempt- ed assassination of Revenue Detective Brooks, three years ago, was met last evening by James Kane and five others, members of the Moyamensing Hose Company, who demanded an explanation of some- thing he had been known to utter against Alder- man McMullin. After Dougherty had been par- doned by the Governor a few months since, releas- ing him from serving out the full term of imprison- ment imposed for participation in the above affair, it appears he has been in the habit of denouncing McMullin in all kinds of charges. The charges reached the ears of the Moyamensings, and being desirous of avenging the assault upon their leader by Dougherty’s partner in crime, they were glad of an opportunity to have the matter out. Dougherty refused to give any explanation concerning his statements in refer- ence to McMullin, whereupon Kane piunged a knife into his stomach, creating a terrible wound, from which he died this morning. He refused to make any disclosures about his rgd though conscious that his injury was tay Kane was identified by a witness of the assault and arrested. ARREST OF A LONDON MERCHANT, Alleged Absconding of a Bankrupt with the Property Taken Possession of by a ‘Trustee in London, Some days ago A. Odien Salter, counsel for W. L. C. Browne, of London, England, applied for a war- rant before Judge Loew, of the Court of Common Pleas, for one William Tucker, of London, England, a bankrupt, who is charged with fraud, The am- davit charges that the creditors of Tucker applied to the English Court of Bankruptcy and got an order putting complainant (Browne) in possession of the property of Tucker, as trustee for the credit- ors; that subsequently Tucker shipped to this city fifty-two cases of wines, whiskeys, &c. worth $25,000, and passed the name ol Langley; that on his arrivalin New York, under the name of William Bond, he attempted to lease e@atore to dispose of the property, with the inten- tion of defrauding tne creditors, The complaint was made on information supplied by cabie. Yes- terday Deputy Sheriff Keyes arrested Mr. Tucker, who declares he is innocent of the charge. He as- sured the Sheriff that he closed up his bankruptcy business before leaving and arrived here three weeks ago on the steamship Egypt. The officer discovered that he did come on tie Rayo whereas the cable despatch announced that Tucker, alias Langley, alias Bond, satled on the Hel- vetia, which arrived yesterday week. What makes the case moré singular is the dis- covery that another man, named Langley. did arrive on the Helvetia, and it is possible that Mr. Tucker ig hy be the guilty man he is de- scribed to be. ere has evident! nm a serious mistake made in the telegraphic Intelligence sent. Mr. Tucker is, in the meantime, held to await ex- planations from the London trustee ef the estate, PREACHING AT -LONG BRANOH. LONG BRANCH, August 26, 1872. Rev. Dr. Newman and wife and Rev. Dr. Muhlen- berg are guests of President Grant, at his cottage. ‘The latter preached, by invitation, in the parlors of the West End Hotel last evening, to a large con- gregation, on the subject of ‘Religion and Science.” A large number of prominent men from all parts of the country are here, KILLED BY A THUNDERBOLT. Fort Paty, N. Y., August 26, 1872, During a violent thunder storm on Sunday night @ thunderbolt knocked a horse and buggy, in which were riding Isaac Vanderveer and Gotlieb Ludwig, from the towpath into the canal. The horse was found dead this morning, and search is now being made for the two men. A SUSPEOTED MURDER. ALBANY,N. Y., August 26, 1872, W. A. Chapman, a travelling agent for Johnson, Fry & (o., booksellers, of New York, was found dead in @ creek at Amsterdam under circum- stances which give rise to the furpicion that he was murdered. An inquest is being heia, veo ADIEU 0 CIVILIZATION: The Latest from the United States North Polar Expedition. THE POLARIS AT TOSSAC, GREENLAND. Captain Hall Buying Dogs at King-i-toke. HOSPITALITIES FROM DANISH OFFICIALS. Splendid Prospects and Departure of the Ex- podition for the “High Latitudes.” WASHINGTON, August 26, 1872. The Secretary of the Navy has received a very im- teresting despatch from Captain ©. F. Hall, com- manding the North Pole Expedition, dated at Toa- sac, Greenland, August 2%, 1871. Although this despatch is but two or three days later than those received by the Congress from Captain Hall last Summer, it is of great interest, and gives @n account of the completion of his outfit and preparations for his Arctic voyage. It comes by way of Copenhagen, and has been a year en route, It is therefore the latest oficial information from the great explorer :— LATITUDE 73 21 10, LONGITUDE 56 5 45 W., UNITED STATES STEAMSHIP POLARIS, Tossac ON TUS-SU-IS-SAK, Greenland, August 22, 1871, Srr—I have the honor to report my proceedings since the dates August 20 and 21 of my last commu- nication, written at Upper Uppernavik. It was half-past eight P. M. of Augyst 21 when we left the harbor of Uppernavik, having on board Governor Elberg, of whom I made previous men- tion, and several of his people, bound for this place on a visit After steaming twelve miles to the northwest and west- ward we hauled up in front of a small island set tlement called King-i-toke, where Governor Elberg and myself, with a boat's crew, went ashore te purchase dogs, furs and other requisites for the ex- pedition. I was able, after considerable difficulty, to get eleven dogs to add to the number already possessed by the Polaris. Having spent twe hours at King-1-Toke we returned aboard. At one A. M., August 22, renewed our voyage for Tossac, making our way, by the aid of good native pilots, among the numerous reefs, rocks and islands with which Uppernavik and vicinity abound. At half: past five A. M. of the 22d we arrived at Tossac. At once I called on Jensen, and to my astonishment and disappointment found that a mistake had been made in any one of us expecting that his consent could be obtained to leave hia home at the present time. A PROFESSIONAL DOG-DRIVER ENGAGED, By the full consent and co-operation of the gev- ernment authorities of Denmark resident im Greenland, I have concluded a contract with Hans Christian, by which he enters the ser- vice of the United States North Polar Expedition aa dog-driver, hunter and servant. The wife and three children are to accompany Hans. The pros pects of the expedition are fine; the weather beaw tiful, clear and unexceptionally warm. Every pre-« paration has been made to bid farewell to civiliza- tion for several years, if need be, to accomplish our purpose. Our coal bunkers are not only full, but we have full ten tons yet on deck, besides wood, planks, tar and rosin in considerable quan- tities, that can be used for steaming purposes in any emergency. Never was an Arctic expedition more completely fitted out than this. STEAMING QUALITIES OF THE POLARIS. The progress of the Polaris so far has been quite favorable, making exceedingly good passages from port to port—first from Washington to New York, thence to New London; them to St. Johns, N. F, and thence te Greenland. First to Fiscanaes, then to Holstein- berg, thence to Godhavn, Upernavik and this port Tossac, the last link binding us to the land of civil- ization. The actual steaming or sailing time of the Polaria from Washington to New York was sixty hours, and from the latter place to this—the most northern civilized settlement of the world, unless there be one for us to discover at or near the North Pole—has been twenty days, seven hours and thirty minutes, There is every reason to rejoice that everything pertaining to the expedition, under the rulings of High Heaven, is in a far more prosperous and substantially successful condition than even I have hoped or prayed for. We are making every effort to leave here to-mor« row. I will at the latest moment resume my place in continuing this communication, DETAINED BY A FOG. EVENING, August 23, 1871.—We did not get under way to-day, as expected, because a heavy, dark fog has prevailed all day, and the same now con- tinues. The venture of steaming out intoasea of undefined reefs and sunken rocks, under the present circumstances could not be under- taken. The full number of dogs, sixty, required for the expedition, is now made up. At the seve- ral,ports of Greenland where we have stopped we have deen successful in obtaining proper food for the dogs, August 24—1P, M. AWAY FOR THE UNKNOWN REGIONS. The fog still continues, and I decide we cannot walt longer for its dispersion, for a longer delay will make it doubtful of the expedition securing the very high latitude I desire to obtain before entering into winter quarters. A good pilot has offered to do his very best in con- ducting the Polaris outside of the most imminent danger of the reefs and rocks, Now, half-past one one P. M., the anchor of the Polaris has just been weighed, and not again will it go down till, as I trust and pray, a higher, a far higher latitude, has been attained than ever before by civilized man. Governor El- berg is about accompanying us out of the harbor and seaward, He leaves us when the pilot does. A TRIBUTE TO GOVERNOR ELBERG. Governor Lowertz Elberg has rendered to this expedition much service, and long will I remember him for his great kindness, Iam sure you and my country will fully appreciate the hospitality and co-operation of the Danish officials in Greenland, as relating to our North Polar expedition. Now, the Polaris bids ADIBU TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD. Governor Elberg leaves us, promising to take these despatches back to Uppernavik, and to send them toour Minister at Copenhagen by the next ship, which opportunity may not be until next year. God be with us. Yours ever, C.F. HALL. To Groras M. RoBESON, Secretary of the Navy, Washington. OFFICERS OF THE POLARIS. List of commander, oMcers and crew of the United States North Polar Expedition on board steamer Polaris on leaving Tossac for the North Pole :— ©. F, Hall, Commander; Sidney 0. Buddington, Salling and Ice Master; H. 0. Tyson, assistant navigator; H. ©. Cheater, first mate; Wil- liam Morton, second mate; Emil Schuman, chief engineer; A. 4 Odell, assistant engli- neer; W. F. Campbell, fireman; John W. Booth, fireman: John Heron, steward; William Jackson, cook ; Nathan J. Coffin, carpenter; Herman Stemons, seaman ; Frederick Anting, seaman; J. W. ©. Kruger, seaman; Henry Hobby, seaman Joseph B. Mauch, seaman; G. W. Linguist, seaman; Pet Johnson, seaman; William Nidemann, seaman; Frederick Jamka, seaman; Noah Hayes, sea: man. Emil Bessels, surgeon and chlet of scientific corps; KR. > D. Bryan, astron. omer and chaplain; Frederick Meyer, me- teorologist, &c.; Joe, Esquimaux interpreter and general assistant; ‘Hanah, Esquim: inter. Lge and general assistant; Puny, daughter of joe and Hannah; Hans Christian, dog driver, hunter, &c.; wife ofHians Christian, three children of Hand Christian—in all thirty-nine souls ©. F, HAL Commanding North Polar Rxpedition, United bea steamer Polaris, August 24, 1871, steaming out of Tole on, secretary Uulted States Navy, Gzores