The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1872, Page 8

Men then 2 Pei then to In then to the Mauritia then 8 Seychelles and” zanaibar, 8 HONORS TO MR. STANLEY. w that which to us as truth, because we know that you mee kerantonas ns exaggerate. We the then know that you have never captivated our ears with any imaginative stories. Yea never were one of At Zanzibar né was just as much a to me Whose who drew the usual bow of the traveller.’ ‘Ho Is Entertained at the Former Residence of | ever. No man could tell me what become of | (Alaugh.) Now, I have said that these doubts, in Scotland, and Pre- ie. ho yee ak he ip-elive 1) -“ know not.” | thie , this absurd criticism, have Detar Livingston, ret tra ga P tor oie Fone ete | Eat Seat ss Bees tate Pease sented with the of the j yeammand over.” “Where do yOu think he can be ?”” to. dispute Dr. Livingstone’s. theory. In p I cannot tell you.” But the point I deter. ie first place, I not @ man to hear / | mined to make for ‘was Ojiji, for there he had | Dr. Livingstoue’s . To hear these gentle- [From the Glasgow Herald, Oct. 25.} een heard of in Ii bellev men at Brighton taiking about their theories har. Stanicy was the guest of the Lord Profost seach thas polasar a nikal could foltow ‘con the source of the Nile! Theories, jon Wednesday night, and left the clty yestérday | *) tnat region he hag lately discovered ana writton | against positive iets Terk “tea iat thre are wes woorning by the cleven o’clock train for Hamilton, | about and diactosed to the world. I will not reeap- | ographers who can manufacture mountains with Owing to its Deing the fist day in the alty the | {'ret‘with ou my way-ct mean to-do thas to-night; | DUEDE: Livugetone: after euiny-Ae goons hard —| 3 . after rty-five yeal train was late in starting, and it was past the hour | go'| wilt strike briefly wcross Central Africa to that | labor, has never yet been able to remove the 80 for the commencement of the proceedings cre Mr. | little hill, the fact, of the riads we orossed, mightess ant a let alone a mountain, You will Stanley arrived in Hamilton. There were large we marched down with the exuberance ifyou bny Keith Johnston’s latest map, that of heroes—men who thought much of dray ‘with a vindictiveness which [ can- erowds of people at the station and the Town | themscives — men Who thought that thelr | not andemimand nt all, as if he were determined to Hall, and at both places he received a very cordial | mission might possibly be on the eve of | dispute. moines jtone—an enormous range of welcome. Mr. Stanley entered the hall about half- socmennnekenir Ot, a snd 4 Gown Mint see Hoes. noe iy aa a oe ger ane ae e Bul of wel , order jow, Dr. Living- past twelve, and was received with hearty cheers. | had just caught slight pses of the gun Drown stone, F have got you. You edanot run the river Be was accompanied to the platform by Provost Ww. A. Dykes, who presided; Mr. Oswell Living- ness of the beehive village beneath, I looked and wondered, and said, “In which of these houses is that man—that being—that. white man with the over that mountain.” (Laughter.) Well, now, What does it matter to Dr. Livingstone which = the Lualaba runs? If it runs to theCongo he will stone, the youngest son of Dr. Livingstone; the | whiskers of which I have heard?” My men shouted. | come and say it is the Congo; wf it runs to the Nile Magistrates and Town Council, the Water Commis- | They partook of the enthusiasm which animated | he will tell you it is the Nile. You accept it just as sioncra, Mr, E, P, Dykes, Town Clerk; Mr. John | ™¢—they shared in the hope that on thi = you like, id really he taught me to bow An down in silence to the criticisms that were passed upon me in Brighton. He said, “What does it matter, my dear fellow; they will never change would we see our mission accomplished; an “Good morning, ” Meek, of Fortisset; Mr. S. S, Robertson, Jr. of » Bir ing from such a black denly I heard a voice sayin; Lawhead; the Very Rev. Dean Henderson, Rev. Such a salutation, emanat and barbarous group, was of course most extraor- | the course of the river, let them criticise Messrs. Danaher and Caig, Major Austine, Cap- dinary, and I t ererore turned, with my curiosit; @8 much:as they like.’ * (Laughter. And I ‘taine Simpson, Reith and Mackay; Drs. Naismith, a the highest pitch, and sal Who are you, alr,” Believe it. But in order to show Mr. edith Jonn- Loudon, Lennox, Marshall and Robertson; Messrs, | “I am Suze, the servant oO} » Livingstone.’ ston am not going to have the ran; “What, is Dr. Livingstone here?” “Sure, sure, he | mountains so drawn as to prevent the Lualaba from %. anderson, W. Brown, R, Archibald, J. G. M’Cub- | i.4/""ino you mente to. aay Dr, Livingstone is in | flowing into the Nile, [have drawé that quite bing, J. C. Kay, J. Wylle (Coatbridge), J. Ness | this village?” “You, I loft him just now." “Good the ‘other way. — danghter) ip order to prove to Mr q@Bmotyre Works), &. The Misses Livingstone | morning, sir,” said another one. “Hallo! who e] lohnston that, ie can manufacture moun- 4 are you?” 44) name is ” “Are you | tains, I can also do it—(laughter)—in order to ‘wero present m the body of the hall. There was &| Shas the friend! of Waikotani?” ‘Yes,” says Me. Prove to Mr. Keith Jounston t t, if he oar wing the Lualaba into the Congo, I can also, witl the same ease and rapidity, bring it to the Nile. (Renewed laughter.) ‘hen it comes to theories why you and I can indulge in any vain fancies we like. But I you to consider, to analyze the motives that underlie this adverse criticism, and doing so you wi!l come to see, as I saw, that they are born of hostility and of opposition; they are I said to Suze, “Run and teil Dr. Livingstone Iam coming,” and he shot off hke a madman, with bis turban trailing behind him in the breeze, We march on, We have arrived at @ dense group of Arabs, who are waiting our arrival with the ut- most expectation—the utmost curiosity. They de- sire to hear of their friends who have fallen in the battles with Mirambo, of the condition of their Jarge attendance on the occasion, the hall being quite filled, Provost Dyxss, in opening the proceedings, waid:—Gentlemen of the Town Council and ladies and gentlemen, nearly sixteen years ago this Coun- ‘eM met to do all the honor it could to a great man, Fane ae ey ee on ee eae a ay eeretTTag for any | tiem? Here is on venerable loostey iriend Can: et e) \- these Arabs, all eae jack men, waitin; for m: I \- Bride, Te had returned after an absence of sevon- | Sune Arid til hoes Dire of that group is the | sure Bunkum, He sits in a British-made easy teen years spent in missionary work and scientific | grand figure that I have been after. As 1 see him | chair, padded most beautifully, He has got ressed In a faded blue cap, with a band of gold explorations in Central Africa, and his home- - lace round it, I say to if, “The myth is indeed his Ros I dare say, painted with frescoes, which coming then was looked upon as life from the dead. in are also introduced round the walls of his library, @ fact, and the fact is a living man,’ and that is | where he delights to ponder over the huge tomes No mark of regard that could be shown was omit- | «py, Livingstone, I presume.” (Laughter.) He | of science. Oh, he 1s a terrible looking savan! You ted, and wherever he went, from the metropolis to | said “Yes.” (Applause and laughter.) The jo; can tell that by a glimpse at his head; andI for the humblest village, he was welcomed and | that I experienced at that moment was also shared | one would not dare to open one of these huge tomes lest I should find somethin, plex me awfully, (Laughter.) But when he shakes that ponderous head with all the awe, all the posi- tive dogmatism of a Jupiter, wh cannot be mis- taken in whatever he may say—why, then, pont little me; I must tremble, I suppose. (Laugh * No; because knowing that truth will prevail, know that whatever our friend Censure Bunkum in his venerable head may imagine, it will be as nothing against Livingstone’s assertion when he comes home. (Applause.) And we had another one, our friend Mr. Cad Junior, who came on the plat- form at Brighton and sald, “Mr, Stanley, may I ask you, before this audience, why Dr, Livingstone settles in this arbitrary manner that the Nile starts at latitude 12 south?’ (A laugh.) But my dear friend, Mr. Cad Junior, you know, has not listened to my tale. He does not understand what I have told him, Those classical names that I have filled his brain with, have all passed. He does not think of them, but he thinks ne ought to have somethin, to say adverse to Dr. Livingstone. Well, then, said to the ladies and gentlemen of Brighton, just as I would say to you, ladies and Benteanen, “y in by that white man with the gray whiskers, the report of whom I heard on the Melagarazi River. You see the joy lighting up the man’s eye as he speaks that short English syllabic Pere “Yes.” No longer to me was there rig ing of honored. All vied in testifying their admiration that would per- for the large-hearted and enterprising missionary, the fearless traveller and the modest Christian gentleman. (Applause.) You all know to whom ‘these words are appropriate; and many here will remember the reception which Dr. Livingstone re- ceived in this town—a reception such as had not before been accorded to any one. The recollection of that event and of the part which, as a member of this Council, I was then privileged to take in it, combined with the personal regard which I after- ‘wards formed for him, enhance exceedingly the pleasure I have in presiding on this most interest- mg occasion. (Applause.) Again, after sixteen years, we are met as a Council, surrounded by such a representation of the community as we never be- fore were favored with, todo honor to another interest excepting this white man. I lon; to hear from his own lips what he had done—how he had passed his days during those many years after he had long been thought to be dead. So we sat together in that verandah, side by side. The Arabs were also there. They wished to survey him and me, and until the sun had fallen behind the western horizon, until it had bathed the whole blue barrier beyond the Tanganyika, until the great palm trees. of Ujiji were covered with darkness, there we sat— the myth, nowa fact, andI, I Nave been listen- ing to his story, what @ history! What a history of a man’s triumphs over the sufferings that white men must experience in that country— what a history of privations, of difficulties! You sitting here cannot realize them. Go there and learn; go there and experience, just for two weeks, what he has experienced for the last thirty-five years. (Applause.) And when that E mad whose name.will not anly be forever Wake | cen” tole you the story, you of all -men Positively do not understand the question.” z im after times with that of our townsman, Dr, | will know how to Bpprecia\ it—will know ivingstone has marched from the place where the Livingstone, but will always be cited whenever | then that it is a truthful history. After he has river was born, from that glorious range of the Serra Macksigna, in Lunda, away by 70 degrees of latitude, and still hears of it going onward, flowing serene and grand on its northerly course towards e Nile, this river can be none other than the Nile. The only fale my dear sir, is not why Dr. Livingstone 8 arbitrarily Settle the source of the Nile at 10 and 12 south—the question, for a reply to which you and I must wait, is whether these altitudes are correct? It these altitudes are correct, then the 1s wanted an example of nobleness, bravery and success. (Applause.) It is not my duty to-day, however willing I might be, to follow the wander- ings and history of the brave, F°O8, man who, six- teen years ago, was enrolled a burgess here. I trast the day is now near when he will return and delight the world with his own narrative. (Ap- lause.) Still, I cannot but advert to the deep in- erest—the painful interest, I must say—which told you you will best know how to sympathize with him. I have bronans to him a bundle of let- ters containing news of his home, news of his fam- ily, news of his friends, news of the great world of the white men; and seeing that he desires to read, I say to ‘the Doctor, “You had better retire and read these letters, and, while I wish you’ food night, permit me to hope that there is noth- ng, Rae. goods mews for ju.” And 80 we fall of his ste- a@uring most of these long years has invested his | part, In m Lualaba cannot be the Nile, but if Dr, Livingstone’s name. | do not know that there ever was a manin | ries. ‘My friends a1 well, my children are all | altitudes are wrong the Lualaba must be the Nile. ‘whose own person and work there have centred so | happy, the world is going slong as usual; but | I have not the slightest doubt that it is the Nile, much of interest and anxiety as in Dr. Livingstone. | what changes!” I must congratulate him. And | only his barometers and thermometers are not Nor dol know that there ever was such ancther | so day b; "day glides past while I sit listening to his gui é 80 new as when he started by the Rovuma ease where hope so triumphantly hoped agetoat story. tt is ‘80 interesting that althar 80 far ‘iver. But, ladies and ann enaees am not goin hepe. (Applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, I know | as the terms of Mr. Bennett’s commission to me | to detain you, because I intend to tell a magnifi- ou will not blame me for saying so much of Dr. vingstone, and so long delaying mention of our guest of to-day. To him I feel I need make no apology, for! know his own feeling in the matter, and I must say that I deem it one of tne noblest features of his character that, notwithstanding the brilliancy of his own great achievement, he cent story to-night; only I have one more iriend that I must attend to. Did you never hear of a gentleman who, something like twelve years ago, started to discover a lake called Beant and spent £2,000 on the expedition? He set out for ‘ica, with all the enthusiasm of Europeans going to that land; he got half wi there and then turned extended, I may, at the close of a week, say, “‘ dear Dr. Livingstone, tpermit me to wish you good- by; Ihave done my duty; I have notl more to do here”— (applause) —t me to love him, so taught me to admire him, that I cannot part with him without finding out what I can do further for him. And I “Doctor, there seems contented to stand in the shadow of Dr. | is one thing which your friends. ‘the Royal Geo- | back. ‘Those little villages which you and I Livingstone. (Loud applause.) Ishall not detain raphical Society wish you to perform, anu that is | don't care that about—(the lecturer here snap- jou much longer. Ihave a topic no doubt such as % iscover the Connection between the Lake Tan- | ping his fingers)—he has ses down with The’ most ‘astronomical precision, but that which he set out to do was neglected. He went to discover Lake Ngami, and he spent £2,000 on it. Now, almost about the same time, Dr. Liv- ingstone was coming forward round in the Kala- bari Desert, and he discovered Lake Ngami. He did discover it. And the first news this gentleman hears after his arrival in el oy) alter Living- stone had gone to Loanda, and had crossed the Ai- to Quilo: is it Ngami has been found. Ana °thig mn a not oiten accorded to a speaker, but I know too well and too truly your sympathies with the real ause of your presence to-day to occupy much more of your time. You are all familiar with the outlines of Mr. Stanley's great and successful enterprise, and all impatient to have these outlines filled they will soon be from his own lips and pen. lt was & at enterprise, and I am safe to say that, when viewed in its origin, its conduct and its resnit, itis the most won- ganyika and the Albert Nyanza, and £0 to solve the problem which puzzles the geographers at home.” “What, do they attach so much importance to that?” “Indeed they do.” “I never thought it of much importance, but if they want me to go there I shall most readily do so.” These very expressions tell you the kind of man whom you have delighted to honor, the kind of man whom you are proud to call atownsman, (Applause.) Iask you, gentle- men—you with brawny arms and stalwart frames— derful of the kind the world has ever seen. (Ap- | I ask you what you would have done had you been gays, “Con- plause.) It was agreat scene in visti vi history | battling with the savages of Africa for six years and | found that olé-~matrt ‘He has discovered Lake when, in the dreadful Indian mutiny, Sir Colin | then found the means to go home? You would | Ngami. That which I failed todo he has done.’’ ra Campbell was sent for by the Queen and entrusted | nave said, ‘My dear Mr. Stanley, Iam very glad to | Ever since then that gentleman has been sys- ‘with the military command there. He accepted it | see you. I will go home directly.” (Laughter | tematically opposed to Livingstone, and, of course, at once, and when asked how soon he could go he | and applause.) But he does noi “qe | he of all others must dispute me if I dared uphold answered, “To-night;” and he went. And, as aj| they expect this of me I shall certaini, the theories of Dr. Livingstone. When | have told arta that night scene in the Paris hotel, | go. ‘There you see the principle which | him my story, and defended Dr. Livingstone hen Mr. Bennett commissioned his corre- 4 erned the man through his life—there you | from the unkind criticisms that had been spondent to go into the heart of Africa | see iiis self-abnegation, his self-denial. He says— | upon him by that gentleman and his ilk, he and look for Dr. Liv: tone, is a companion | “if they think I should go I shall certainly do so,’’ a, With the most charming suavity in the world, “Weare much obliged to Mr. Stanley, but we do not want sensational stories; we want facts,” (Laughter and whee Such facts, I Suppose as he brought about these unknown villages—al at @ little village that to-day is and to-morrow is no more, bearing one of those classical names away down by the Kalabari Desert. Now, that gentle- man also disputed that I should get the medal. Well, of course, it was only a piece of the opposi- tion. He is consistent there, anyhow. But, fortu- iece not unworthy of the other. Both stories Indicate the same noble character. The one brave man, in his loyalty to his Sovereign and his country, accepted his command and went and conquered; and the other, loyal to the best feel- ings of his nature, took his orders, and with them took his life in his hand and went, and he also triumphed. (Applause.) I must now advert to what, from being a painful subject, has come to throw the great work on Mr. Stanley into even finer relief—I mean the scepticism with which his narrative was at first in some quarters received. There was but little of it here, as you know, Per- haps our smaller geographical knowledge (a laugh) may account for our greater faith—perhaps our greater regard for Dr. Livingstone, (‘‘Hear, hear,” and applause.) But that may rest, All are now at one, and amends have been honorably made to our The man has forgotten that he has been out six years, and that he has done enough to merit the reward which his countrymen are so anxious to ve him. Most men would have said so, But a e, with all the enthusiasm of a schoolboy, or o! @ young warrior bounding on to the battle-field, says—"I am ready whenever you are.” “Very well, then, Doctor, sup) we go to-morrow?” “I am ready.” After that we goto et tk and there is no necessity for me to doubt that the whole thing will tarm out @ success, since I have Dr. Livingstone at my side. (Applause) Aiter resolv- lees problem of Tanganyika we make our way to Unyanyembe, and there I leave him, but with a promise that the message he has charged me to de- liver shall be delivered faithfully; that the jour- nals he has consigned to my care shall be consigned to the one whom he has commanded me to give The Royal Geographers are not all easy-chair geographers—not a bit of it. You will find some of them penetrat China, some of them in South Africa, in Central Africa, in Mecca, in Mesopo- tamia; you will find others at Nineveh, others in Chinese Tartary, and others in Turkistan. These we may not call easy-chair geographers. We brave friend and graciously accepted. Veo res) them to; that the mission he has asked of me shall | only call easy-chair geographers those who Nor need we try to conceal the feeling of | be {ulfilled. I go, inspired by the thought that | theorize about African geography, who know offended national pride (a laugh) which cer- | the old man will be sitting day after day, week | not the difference between Unyanyembe and tainly was cherished in some quarters, if too silly to find distinct expression, It has heen re- lieved, however, by a strong dash of the absurd, How strange that at this time of day, in these times of millennial antictpations, such wretched narrowness of feeling should exist in any breast! 1 think I may assure Mr. Stanley that our patriotism does not flow in such narrow channels, (Hear, hear.”’) in and again, in thinking over that lon, ami painful and dangerous march of his, have found myself pondering over the story of the man who “went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.” 1 cannot well account for the association in my mind, Jor the cases are not quite parallel. jobody “passed by’ Dr. Livingstone, unless, perhaps, it ‘were the Chancellor of the Exchequor—(laugh- ter)—but there seems to have been some amongst alter week and month after month in the veran- dah of that house in Unyanyembe. which I know so well, thinking and hoping and praying that Imay reach the coast safe and well, and that the men he has desired me to send to him will reach him in time, counting the days—and the days seem long to him. He has rested at Unyanyembe the same time as I rested when that cloud overcast me—when | lingered there, on account of the war Ujiji; who know not the difference between the Lake Nyassa and the Lake Victoria Nyanza, who know not the difference between @ Victoria Nyanza and Lake Albert Nyanza, between the Loechi River and the Lokal River, and who, with- out having been within four thousand miles of the lace, feel themselves perfectly competent, sitting in their easy chairs at home, to settle everything resneceng Fast African and Central African geo- with Mirambo, three months, and sat in that FaRhY; low, gentlemen, my Lay ge elles verandah looking at the hills before me, and ever have forgiven the suave and smooth and smiling wishing that something would come up in order to | gentleman who said he did not want any sensa- impel me into action. And 80, impelied onward | tional stories. I have forgiven the gentleman who by the thought of the man who is waiting for me, | said the Lualaba must end ina marsh, I have for- given the gentleman who drew that sinister range of mountains along eight degrees of latitude. have forgiven every one of them,and I am now be- I march from Unyanyembe to Zanzibar in thirty-five days, whereas it took me ninety-two eye to go up. And there [ hear that the friend whom he has charged us of so intense a patriotism that they were | me to communicate with as soon as I should arrive Geng receive the honors that English people fnclined to “pass by” the American who had | in a civilized ee ee Roderick Murchison—is | think I deserve. (Applause.) I assure you that I ventured to relieve our countryman. ‘Turning | dead. Before I left bar I had the happiness | should have been perfectly contented to receive to Mr. Stanley, the Provost ‘continued :—Mr. | to send him that relief, those supplies, those little | the thanks of Dr, Livingstone alone. I should have Stanley, the people of this town, cherishing the | luxuries, which will comfort him on the way; and, | been perfectly contented had Mr. Bennett said, vegard they have always had for ‘Dr. Livingstone, | betier than all, the men who will escort him to | ‘You have done your duty well.” (Applause. But and pride in his association with the place, were not those regions he desires to discover, and where he | if desires to complete the duties set down for him | ri by his now dead friend. And so I came trom Zanzibar, after having done my duty to the Doctor, people must do me honor, why, then, { will ‘eluse it. (Laughter and app! ek If the Royal Geographical Society will give me the of 1872, permit me to assure you, my dear ladies and gentlemen, that I will regard that as a me- mento of my journey to Ujiji—as a thing to be re- tained’with due honor, knowing the reason why it Was bestowed. And if the Corporation of the city of Gl ww invite me to luncheon, and if Mr, Pro- yostand the Corporation of the town of Hamil- ton—who are so proud of calling Dr. Livingstone their townsman—say to me, “Mr, Stanley, you must come here and be a burgess of the town,” I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, I am not the deeply interested witnesses of the great enterprise jou 80 nobly took in hand, so bravely carried “he ig and so brilliantly and successfully com- pleted. The Town Council of Hamilton, knowing | I came to Seychelles, to Aden and to Marseill ‘the feeling which the community entertained, una- | and I then for the first time heard how the Englisi nimously resolved to express the admiration and eople regarded my mission. Up till this time I the thanks of the corporationin the only way at Ba been flattering myself with the hope that at their command—by pane te | ou with the free- | least the Americans would give me credit for dom of the burgh. I need hardly say that the en- | having done my duty, and I thought that, perhaps, rolling of your name among the honorary burgesses | the English people would not regard my mission as Of the town carries with it no material advantage. | having been a failure; but I regretted—regret, that It is only an honor. Ido not use the expression | is not the word—l was astonished to hear that empty honor; for where honor is deserved, as in | they regardedit with feelings of jealousy, You Eng- your case, it can never be empty. (Applause.) In | lishmen, you Scotchmen, who believe that this Dr. | person to refuse it. . (Applause and laughter.) You our burgess roil your name will stand beside many | Livingstone {s @ man whom allmen should honor— | see I have willing signed name, I Worthy names. If 1 mistake not, the last is the ou regret that a man relieved him? Impossible! | have willingly received that certificate mame of the brave officer wh. commanded our gal- ‘ould you not have done the same? If you saw | of my burgessship which Mr. Pro- lant Seventy-cighth in the Relief of Lucknow. | a child falling in the tter would you not stretch | vost and the Corporation of the town of (Applause.) This casket contains the certiticate of our citizenship, and I can assure you that we y forth your hand and lift it up? If vou saw honest shall cherish the name which! will ask you to in- penury would you not give the wherewithal to relieve it? It you sawa man In distress would you Hamilton have been pleased to give me. IfI were to go on detailing iny thanks 1 would occupy you for hours, ang days, and weeks and months, scribe in our roil with feelings of the highest honor | not comfort iim? I am sure you would. ly, | (Laughter.) But you must understand that m: and regard. The Provost concluded amid loud and | then, do you (not you | gtk who ait here | heart is full; J] thank you. CanIdo more? Can y prolonged cheering. listening to me now, but I mean by you the people | pile on the {hanks ¢ What good would it do you’ The box enclosing the burgess ticket is of silver, | of England), why should you ee that any! Laughter.) You must understand me, once and and oblong in form, ornamented with the arms of | even although not of your o7 ‘country, shou! id r all, whem I use the simple expression, I thank the burgh of Hamilton, engraved in the centre of @ | have gone forward and done that which you would | you from my heart. There are only one or two brightly polished shield surrounded with a band of Scorch thistles in relief on a frosted ground, At the request of the Provost, Mr. Stanley in- ‘*cribed his name in the register of burgesses. pplause,) words more that I need add to-day. I say it has been an honor to me that you have come here to listen to me—you ladies and Wyte whose hearts are in the right place, and such a wellbred have done yourselves? (A) You say that Lhave done that which you wished to do. I be; ‘our pardon iff refer to the fact that Sir Roderic! jurchison said, even one year atter [had started— Provost Dyxes then said:—In conformity with | that is Koay in 1870—that Dr. Livingstone was not | audience as you are—(a laugh)—you whol know rule, sir, you swear that you will discharge the { lost, and that he did not intend to send an | will receive Dr. Livingstone with all the éclat that I Office of a burgess eee expedition to relieve him. Since, with undyi hope the city of New York will give him when he Mr. STANLBY (smniling) —Yes. faith in the man’s herculean ener; ant comes over. fipplanse.) Mr. Erovost Dykes and Mr. SranLEy, who was received with enthusiasm, gaat frame, Sir Roderick Murchison believed | Corporation of Hamilton, I thank you also, (Loud the audience rising and cheering, t—Mr. Pro- hat Livingstone would come home safe, and since | applause.) ‘Yost and Corporation, ladies and gentiemen of the town of Hamilton, permit me to respond to the wery fattering and complimentary remarks be- Btowed on me and my mission by Mr. Provost he said in 1870, @ year aftér I had started, that vost DyKEs—The very interesting address he did not intend to send an expedition Te- yeu have just heard from Mr. Staniey terminate: lieve the great traveller—in these circumstances, I } the procecdings at this time, ‘ou should not regret that I dtd it for you. The audience then separated. say, Dykes. 1 have returned to you to- ha yn But the feeling to which I have re- PUBLIC DINNER. qguered no enemies, I have rar trium) over | tel and gentlemen, was only momentary ; At the close of the proceedings of the day the personal dangers, and over the “al of | it has all died away now. (Appiause.) We re- | Town Hall was transformed by Mr. Spalding, of the pote and Central Africa, (A .) The | celve communications from Dr. Livingstone pretty | Commercial Hotel, and his assistants, into an ele- mission that I uudertook was one that sui my oa Rag ay and knowing, as! do, the countr' os banqueting room. Hither came, shortly after ag enthusiasm; and when Mr. Bennett.told me | which is going through, being able to marc! ve o'clock, @ numerous company, covers being in Paris to go and find Livingstone, though J won- | after him, ie Racy, * arar day, as he plodson- | laid for about a hundred gentlemen, The chair dered at frst at the remarkable eccentricity of the | ward to Katanga, may pen - ‘you that | was occupied by Provost Dykes, who was supported command, it was not in my nature to say, ‘No, } vefore this season in 1474 you will see Dr. Living- | by Mr. Stanley, the guest of the evening; Major he It was not in me to say, “Please appoint | @tgne in Hamilton. P) .) That he will «i Hamilton, M. B. for South Tanarksuire sir We 01 her 2080, ’ for in that case (since I have been | is impossible. (Laughter.) That he will fail—mot | Oswell Livingstone, the Rev. J. T, McFariane, ecess{u!) I would have lost the great honor now | he, A’ I over his wistory in my mind, and | Major Austive, Oak Loage ; Mr. 8, '8, Robertson, of paid me. m confess that to me Dr. Livingstone was | take inxo consideration that that which he under- | Lawhead, and Mr. Thomas Anderson, banker. ‘the amyth. Ihad never seen him. I had only heard | took to 40 he fulfilled, I have not one iota of doubt | duties of (etd were discharged by Ballies him spoken of with reverence and with deep | respectii Ls 18 ant burn, “Al diessing having be¢n what Dr. Livingstone and I admiration and sincere regard, ou wil among the irae who wilt veil him Thad never se ‘Dr. dl by the Rev. Mr. MoFariane, an excellent any person who had talked with him, and th ivingatone, we did pot doubt when you said. | dinner was par of, Thereafter, Jore to me he was nothing more than a myth, If! | the Lualava’ the Nile, We believed that The CHALNMAN ted that letters expressive foun? = then he would prove to me to be an you would find out all about it, and | of regret for been received from Mr. at. And 80, in blissful ignorance of whatt said | Come and tell’ what it is; and we | Henry Glassford Bell, iT of Lanarkshire ; 4 would undertake, I ee the commission, | will sit at your feet ike the ‘Giscipie at the feet of | Hozier, the Convener of the. 00 Bod that very night .Colebrooke, M, P., Lord Ligutenant o the or on my way | Gamulicl We will llaten to your story Aud accept » nately, the Royal Geographers are not all like him. |, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 ISTZ—TRIPLE Stricter Mr. Merry, M. P., and My. Tpomas Uvingstons, wha, sone now consid recovered from nig severe illness, was yet unable to their The Provost went on to Seshering: Shas e' FOPOKe first toast on the list, that jueen,’? yomerk nig ae Suete whose Ne ca. the seta tal Gxtenced = ee Le 16 recogni nm to Mr, Stanley for the able pat he had layed in WY Cred - her devoted subject. u8e. "hie ORATRMAN afterwards gave “The President of the United States,” Bailie CasskLLs proposed “The , Navy and Auxiliary Forces,” to which Major ton re- a. Balile THonBuRN gave “Both Houses of Parlisr ment,” coupled with the name of Major Hamilton, who replied, The Ciarman, in proposing the toast of the evening—“The Health of Mr, Stanley”—said they had not only a new subject that night, but one of the greatest interest to every one of them. knew the reason that in this town they so exceed- ingly appreciated the great achievements of Mr, ni eee) It would have been remiss if the: had failed to pay all the honor they could to him, an: to omit doing so would have been impossible in that community, for if the Town Council had not taken up the matter, the public themselves would have taken the initiative. (Applause.) Mr, Stanley by his heroic achievements had recommended himseif one who loved and ¢ Chairman further said he believed he had reached the bottom of Mr. Stanley’s motives when he said that he set out on his mission out of loyalty to tne ipers feelings of our common nature, {Applanse,) le concluded by pecponing Mr. Stanley’s health, ir, STANLEY, in the course of his reply, said :— You all know my feelings and sentiments in ‘a to Dr. Livingstone and his discovery, I might ask yee i" do I feel angered at the jealousy which the English people have exhibited?’ Why, you know the English people are very apt to be More jealous than any other Peo) le in the world. faneeny Do you doubt it’ low did you treat james Bruce when he came back from Abyssinia? When he told you tnat he saw live bullocks pros- trated on the ground, and steaks cut out of their living bodies, and when he told you that he saw that eaten and the wound plastered over ‘ou greeted him with the loud and untversa! aw. Leer hope For eighteen years poor James Bruce Kept MSS, to himself. He would not write it, becanse, though he did write it, he said, “I may as well drive a nail into an anvil as sense into these Pee He was a Scotchman. Then why should feel jealous ? why should I feel angry or in any Way hurt? Then there was that poor nchman, René Caillie—one of the greatest travellers, ex- cepting Dr. Livingstone, who have ever set foot in Africa, He crossed the Continent of Africa, and he told you that the Desert of Sahara was not all one grand expanse of sand. You laughed at him also, ou would not believe him. Then you sent Major Laing, there. He came back, and he told you the very same thing, and then you believed it, After you be- Heved did you make up for your doubts? What did you say to James Bruce, who for eighteen ears had suffered all that you jealous people like 0 give ? And yet, gentlemen, this was only pum- ber two, Then Paul Du Chailiu said he had seen gorillas. He got into trouble, and people said, ‘He never saw @ gorilla,’? That is just what Dr. Livingstone, when he comes home, will receive—if not here, at least from some in the south of this country. He will tell you that he saw the a, and the people will tell him—“No, you did not; it was a chimpanzee,”” In view of this, I would especially counsel any ardent young gen- tleman here, or any enthusiastic aged soul here, never to take up his staff to goto Africa and do anything very grand, unless he is bag to meet detractors when he comes back. you were to say you saw the Mount Keniniea, some- body woul Bay. “No, you aid not; it was Kilena, at the northern head of Lake Tanganyika.” If you were to say you saw Kinyan they would tell you it was Kilamon If you were to say, “I have dis- covered Lutigi, that flows from Lake Tanganyika,” somebody would say that it fows not from Lake Tan ka, but from another lake. The whole expedition was really @ detail of our marches. If you add twenty-three fevers there to it and eleven narrow escapes from death, and a million annoy- ances every day, and fervid sun of the Equator, and the insults you are receiving from the Ugogi, and the ver fehe food that was to sustain you, you will hen be apt to aay, “Really it does not deserve all this jealousy.” Now, iflonly cast my mind back where Dr. Livingstone is —why, 1 could al- most point out the identical t where the old traveller is even now—and as I fancy his condition and look around the remnants of feast I am inclined to say, ‘‘What a pity it is that the old man would not be tempted to come back with me to érink this deat this delicious food and What a pity it Is tha and come home! follows you where thinking of even on the mi with your stick in sun beats on you and th The men are all silent, nd their nature to think of thelr wives and the little ones they left behind. In the same way, when you think also of that country you love to call your own, you show yourself bart and parcel of the human nature with which you are surrounded, When we start from our camp in the. pening. and ve the word to march, it , tramp, wae, th the forest in dead silence, in Indian Aiep ear pdt v4 You are constantly ‘try: Half of the day, onr head down, and, myou march on. The forest rubs you up. Every now and then some ww bas thought, and immediately breaks out into son; Then the whole caravan breaks out into sond and the great forest rings with the chorus. When the song is ended we go on in that silent Indian file again till perhaps we sight a village. We do not know what the village is. Is it hostile or is it friendly? Those are the first questions we ask each other. And the way to find that out is to break into song. The natives hear the strains. If they are friendly they come out and join us; if they are hostile the; shut the doors, and as we file past the wicket an the fences we see the scowling faces behind the alisades. Then we get intocamp, ‘Now, boys,” “Pitch the tent and let us have a cup of tea.” ‘That tea is all our refreshment. It is our beer, our champagne and our wine; and after the tea we lie down on the kai take out our pipes and smoke. After a smoke we take out our note books and make a.record of everything we have found out on the road. t would probably take an hour or half an hour. It is hard work, and you feel so vexed with yourself that it requires consid- erable id to go on with the duty. Any man who id keep @ correct bra after march- ing every day deserves very high commenda- re tion. It has been said that Dr. bg tod kept no notes and no observations, Now I know I used to see Livingstone take his note book almost every night, and how often during the thirty-five years he had been doing that—over and over jain—I cannot tell. lt might, perha) son er silly for any 2 to piite *Marched seven hours, course 8.8.W,;? “ ed. three a half hours, course N.N.E.,”) and write certain remarks, as ‘Forest, much tumbiea over @ buffalo, rolled over an él shot a grouse, stuck a pig,” and so on. Pie oo geal You associate all these together, an to write your book these are living facts. that a chain of association immediately rans through the mind as you cail them up, and things you do not tnink of at all while you were Pet down your notes you remember just as clearly as the moment they ti ed. Gentiemen,! sit down by again thanking you for your very kind recep- on. ee applause.) ‘The CHAIRMAN proposed “The Health of Dr, Liv- ingstone,” and, after referring to the successful exertions of Mr. Stanley to relieve their friend, the Chairman said it was a great tification to him to have been the means of introducing Miss Liv- ingstone to Mr. Stanley; and, as he id, the only d ‘@-wanting was the goatskin on which her father and Mr. Jey squatted after they hud got by themselves on the day of that memorable meet- ing. eer te and celal) The Chairman concluded by stating that, whatever had been said about the expedition which broke up at Zanzibar, ire seal ae not lie with Mr. Oswell Livingstone, plause.| MF, Oswatt, LIVINGSTONE Teplied on behalfof his father, and remarked that he was sorry to hear the Tumor that ,there was @ disagreement between himself and Mr. Stanley. There never had been any disagreement between them whatever, for he would ever retain a warm heart to Mr. St for - 2 Pata he had renaered to his father. (Ap- ) . Mr. STANLEY rose and said—I wish to add @ word to what has just been said by the Chairman. I Will add my most emphatic denial that Mr. Oswell Livingstone had anything whatever to do with the return of the Livingstone Search and Rellef Ex- pedition from Zanzibar. (Applause.) He of all other men would have gone on, and he desired to do. 80. (Applause.) It was a matter of wonder to me that there was a Livingstone Search and Relief tion at all, When I was four days’ march irom Bagamoyo, on my return Livingstone, I heard that there were many white men at hand. 1 asked, “Who are they? You must be srs Eaten nagaey, ad wey Ae 3 “they are folte to ook for ous “For met" I exclaimed. ell, I thought it was extraordinary that mem should come looking for me, because 1 was not aware I was lost. (Laughter.) I marched two days more, and I met the messengers I had sent down to the coast. They white men were Rogitekinss, and on the fourth day after I left man in white flannels si sort of ornamental air about him; and in this man, who was a young Englishman, came forward nd said, “I Cae aeat oh OU, Upon Jour pe fect success.” ¢ you,” I re] ; ‘he | ask whom I have the honor of ‘addressing “I am,” said he, “Lieutenant Henn, 0: the Royal Navy. I congratulate yor witn all heart; but hae Dr. Livingstone got all he wante?” “Yes. “Is he quite well?” “Quite well,” Lreplied. “Does he want anything else 7” ‘ jo.” “You are sure he has “Well, I have got a list in m: that he desires to have, an ot Oat hag | ” et of a few things if you bave got these he will take them. J don’t vhink, although you led all London before him, % it would be of use to piD, ile gee fA age get men to carry thei $ a few luxuries.” “Oh,” gald Mr. Henn, ifon’t: ove the or “To tell the le use Of he | going. truth,” I replied, ‘I don’t either; tes! g dom op you have got your own orders, and I don’t know what these arc,’ “This is a Livingstone search expedi- tion, and if he is searched for and if he ie reheved, why, the object of the e: ition Is ended. 1 know what I will do,” he adde fo tees to Zan- sibariand resign.’ So he went bac vanadar, aud alter coupulting With Dr. Kirk he resigned, ‘Very well; ff remained-thefl With Oawénl Living. He was on with the ition, return until he had seen his father at That would have been so if Mr. Os- well Livingstone had been in ee ? good heal at that time he was not, He was no more in his then condition of health to have crossed olo swamp—with water up to the breast for days together—to have gone over the plain, or across the burning piain of Ugogo, than he Was to fly. (Applause.) Yethe would ce. I told him, “Now, then, you may go on. Your father Joves you 80 much that he will come five, atx, or seven days’ march to meet you.” He had made up his mind to go, and for two weeks, during which the expedition was gering ready, Re kept up that idea. But by this time Dr. physician and the tone, said to him, ‘Now it is to Unyanyembe than ‘ou to fiy; you had better go back.” said, “No, I prefer to go ony” but eventually he consented forego the journey for — reasons, The rat vas thas it was not ‘abso necessary for to ause father was relieved; the second was that he was siok; and the third wae that Dr. Kirk, his friend and his father’s friend algo, thought it better for him not to go from @ medical point of view. (Hear, hear.) * I therefore say that he did perfectly right in coming home, repeats.) If he had gone on he would also have en perfectly ras, and his father would have been proud to see but his father knows that if Oswell Livingstone ‘had not very good reasons for returning, Oswell Living- stone would not have returned, (Applause.) The other toasts were “The Clergy,” “The Pro- Yost, Magistrates and Town Counell of Hamilton,” ‘Chairman, ” »”? and “Crouplers.” In the eyening Mr. Stanley delivered a lectu e re on the eindieg of Living: tone” in ‘the ‘Free Church. There was a crowded audience. Major Hamilton, M. P., oecupied the chair, and briefly introduced the lecturer. Mr, Stanley gave a nar- rative of the early career and travels of Dr. Liv- ingstone, and spoke of his pant self-abnegation, of the reports of his death, of the uneasiness which existed in this country in re; to his safety, and of the circumstances which led to the fitting out of the New York HERALD expedition. He then re- ferred to the events which led tothe finding of bere gery: to the scepticism which at first pre- vailed, and matrerly to his (Mr. Stanley's) own re- ception in En; The principa! part of his lec- ture was in et a@repetition of what was given at the midday meeting. The lecturer received a very enthusiastic vote of thanks at the close, and a similar compliment having been paid to the chair- roceedings man the p) terminated, THE NEW YORK OUSTOM HOUSE. ———_-—___ After the Election—Jubilant Feelings on the Result—The Political Battle Over, Business Again the Order of the Day— Civil Service Examinations To Be Re- sumed At Once—Important .Decision Concerning Importations of Wool Doings of the Warehousing Bureau for the Month of October. Now that the smoké ot the hotly contested po- litical battle has cleared away, the Custom House, although always busy, has assumed its animated condition once more. Every employé, from mes- senger up, was heartily interested in the re-elec- tion of the present incumbent of the White House, and each one contributed his very best to help on the result. it is only human to suppose that the atest enthusiasm prevails among the force employed here, consequent upon the great victory achieved by the administration arty, ® THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONS of the various bureaus will now begin their labors anew, and undertake competitive examinations for places that have been vacant for some time, but could not be filled Owing to the pressure of busi- ness consequent ppon. the great labors entailed on every division Lh e late new tariff, which took effect in fas rd . There are at present several hundred applications on file from candidates desir- ous to show their proficiency, and, if found com} tent, to receive a commission in the United States civil service, IMINATING DUTY ON WOOL. On the 24 day of October Collector Arthur wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the conflicting regulations in regard to duties on wool. ion having been rendered by the Secretary of the Treas in @ case coming from the Collector at Boston, General Arthur requested the same from the department in order to regulate the matter from bis office. The following answer was received yesterday by Collector Arthur :— Tressuny Daranranyn } ‘Wasmincron, D. C., Nov. 4, 1872. Sin—Your letter of the 2d ultimo was duly received re- auesting to be informed ag to whether East India wools poe Wg) trom Europe, whieh remain in bond, duties un- paid, or in publi unentered on October 1 may be without the payment of ten per pul Cent discriminating dy. cent discriminat In replys, have to say, that the law of June 6, 1872, pro- vides that from and after the ist day of October there shall be levied, collected and paid on all goods, wares and merchandise, except wool, raw cotton and raw silk, which aré produced east ot the Cape ot Good Hope, and pues from places west thereot, a duty of ten per cent ‘valo d m toany other duties which may be x oes not provide that on and after the ty on wool shail be collected, ight section o dc or publ fered yethout ame peri mt discriminati: cent discriminatin, duty, ei . be : Of overned accordingly. . F, HARTLEY, Acting Secretary, Collector ‘Antuur, Custom House, New York. THE WAREHOUSE DEPARTMENT connected with the Thira division of the Custom House shows the following, exhibit for the month of October:— Ware! 5 1,972 Immediate ment... 431 Warehouse and transportation. 42 Foreign exports. 85 Re hi 101 101 3 canada export “=| an tured, in bond 6 For consumption....... 8, Duties paid on ‘the same $5,100,277 e-] Rewarehouse. Withdrawals for transportation. Withdrawals for export to foreign countri Rewarehouse for export to foreign countri Rewarehouse for export to Canad. Rewarehouse....... lations haat Entries on hand, October 1 Received in October..... Total: Entries liquidated in Oct 3,063 Entries awaiting returns... 104 Se ee F ady for liquidation. ......+. ts 173 Total...... a 8,535 MASSACHUSETTS AND THE OENTENNIAL OELEBRATION, Boston, Nov. 7, 1872, There was a meeting to-day of the corporators designated for Massachusetts to provide for the Centennial Anniversary of Independence, at which the act of Congress defining the duty of the cor- orators was read and discussed, and, on motion of Robert C. Winthrop, a committee was appointed to select such national banks in Massachusetts as they may see fit to act as Sn agi for soliciting sub- scriptions to the stock of the corporation, the shares being fixed at $10 each. ie amount Pate to Massachusetts to raise is $377,960 of $10,000,000 for the whole country. ALLEGED DEATH FROM VIOLENCE, The Twentieth precinct police yesterday after- noon informed Coroner Young that Michael Mackie, @ man forty-eight years of age and born in Ire- land, had been found dead in bed at his residence, 639 West Thirty-ninth street. It seemed to be the impression that the death of Mackie had been ac- celerated by injuries received in a fight with an unknown man on the 4th instant, Deputy Coroner Mareh will make o post-mortem examination on the body and thus devermine the cause of death. The matter will be thoroughly investigated before Coroner Young, and in the meantime the police will take prompt action towards securing the al- leged fugitive assailant. NEWS ITEMS, The city railroad cars in Albany are drawn by mules. ‘The Chicago Times says there is not a well horse in that city. Potatoes are selling for fifteen cents @ bushel in some parts of lowa, Ninety thousand barrels of pork are “cornered” in Chicago for a rise, ain The OW Dominion magacing published at Rich- = Va., employs none but old folks a8 contribu- 78. “Down in the coal mines” it is reported that a = es Pe price of the black diamonds may be soon jooked for. Another novel election bet is to be paid in Nor- walk, Conn, ‘The loser is to swallow @ doze un- eggs. salable The horse gough ing worse in some of the Western cities pa cate and wheelberrows are in demand, pe vie At Ni Falls, where the horse disease first landed in this country from Canada, hardly any evidence of the epidemic remains. abhonieelggel Tho next Legislature of Massachusetta Ww! a United tates Senator in place of Henry x wee Vice President elect. The term expires in Dam: the amount of a million dollars aro to inst the Union Pacitic claime: 7 a GU a agail a aon dane by the Kan Cy acl, .ePimination against it in the travsportation of Sreight and passengers ST. BARTHOLOMEW. The Pew Sale Last Night=—The New Church in Madison Avenue. St. Bartholomew's church, @ place of worship for the wealthy, was opened last night, and its pews were sold at auction to the highest bidders. It is @ sumptuous place for kneeling in apparently, and it was resplendent in its display of semi- barbarous color and its bright glow of gas light, The attendance was quite large, comprehend- ding some very aged folk, a few world’s people with eye-glasses and @ smal percentage of beautiful women. All seemed in the best of spirits and- caught the bad jokes vouchsafed them with an eager relish. A professional auctioneer occupied the reader’s desk. He was fresh from the “seized goods” and cotton sales IN HANOVER SQUARE. He readily quoted and with an inaeseribable ‘unction the mercantile and slang phrases of his calling, which seemed strangely out of place in the gilded temple. Still he kept the audience in @ continuous giggle. The struggle of fashionable and’ Wealthy people to obtain a place near to God was earnest and full of — self sacrificing spirit, but nevertheless comical. The pan d rice paid for yu by the well-to-do was $225, In the sanctuary and those very conspicuous and honorable to occup} in the temple of the Lord were knocked down 80 high a as $1,500, THE FIRST PEW 80LD brought this price and was numbered 17, while one directly in front of the rector and pulpit.and opposite is pew (No, 4) brought on! remium. The real price paid for No, pin and for No. 4 $2,600, e rattle of the auctioneer’s hammer (metae by Elise speaking) and the glib vibrations of his ongue seemed strangely out of place in a house typical of that where 1,900 years ago Jesus over- threw the stands of the money changers, THEY DEFILED HIS FATHER'S HOUS Of course, there was no disrespect intended in the auction sale last night, and Sena of course, “to the pure all things are pure.’’ the litue dissipation of rivalry and delicious uncertainty of results went on, and every one seemed as pleased as one \tnessing the end of @ modern comedy or reading the last page of acheap novel, where, strangely enongh, all the characters are by some miracle strange! preserved and brought out in new colors and wit awhole skin, There was ajoke and the end of the evening's entertainment, when a pew—a mate to the $4,750 one —was handed over to a gentleman not interested in the first race at the reduced— almost ruinous—price of $3,550, NEW YORK CITY. The body of an unknown man, about twenty-eight. years of age, was yesterday found floating in the water off Governor's Island by some soldiers in a rowboat who were co over to the city. The remains were sent to the Morgue, and an inquest: will be held by Coroner Keenan, Coroner Keenan was yesterday called to the Fourteenth precinct station house to hold an in- quest on the body of Patrick Goleman, forty-three ears of born in Ireland, who was taken sick inthe ‘alles way of premises 266 Mott street. The body was conveyed to 218 Mott street. James Caldwell, a man fifty-three years of aga and born in Ireland, arrested by the Fourteenth precinct police on a charge of intoxication, subse- quently died in the cell where he had been con- ined. Caldwell was found dead by Doorman Ryan. Coroner Keenan was notified to hold an inquest ‘The Commissioners of Docks met yesterday afters noon, John T. Agnew, the-President, in the chair, The Executive Committee recommended that a tem- porary pier be built at the foot of Twenty-fourth street, North River. - Adopted. The Committee recommended that the rent to be paid by the Old Dominion line of steamers be fixed at $2,000 per annum. Adopted. Permission was granted to the Erie Railway, to build a temporary shed for the rotection of passengers between piers 30 and 31, 01 iver. At the Yorkville Police Qourt yesterday John Lawson, of 426 Feurth avenue, was arraigned charged with keeping a policy shop in Twenty-sixth street, near Sixth avenue. The complainant is one Michael Conroy, who lives in the neighborhood, and who says that he purchased ofthe prisoner a tlekes, for thirty cents on the Kentucky Lottery, which ticket entitled him to $30; but these $30 the ac- cused refused to give him, and this complaint hag been theresult, Lawson gave bail in $500 to stand his trial. election At the semi-annual of officera of the War Veteran’s Pension Society, held yesterday, Major John D. Terry was elected Presiden’ Captain ©. G. Montyne,, late of the Second New York Artillery, Secretary; Major General J. C. Robinson, Treasurer, and Colo- nel O. H, Houghten, Chairman oi the Board of Man- agers. This society 18 0! 1d on the mutual benefit plan, and admits soldiers’ widows to mem- bership and now numbers about one hundred and fifty members. The hall of St. Francis Xavier's college was filled last evening by a fashionable audience, who came to hear Prof. J. H. Pepper, of the London Royal Polytechnic, deliver a lecture on the alchemists and charlatans of the Middle Ages. The transmutation of metals, the apparent contradiction of science and the devices of the earlier alchemists were explained and illustrated in an able manner. Many brilant experiments were made, to the manifest delight of the assemblage. The lecturer Junged his hands into molten lead and boiling wa- er, and his bare-footed assistant walked on red- hot blocks of metal. Professor tat r said that the mode of giving scientific evidence in law courts should be changed. A series of lectures on chemistry will be delivered in the College hall by Mr, Pepper. BROOKLYN AFFAIRS. A Man Shot by His Wife. During an altercation between Gordon Bess ana his wife, at their residence, 129 Navy street, on Wednesday night, Mrs. Bess produced a pistol and discharged it at her husband. The ball entered his arm and caused a severe though not dangerous wound, The report of the pistol attracted the ay and Mrs, Bess was arrested and locked up answer. The Van Syckel Poisoning Case. Coroner Jones will resume the inquest on Mom day night over the body of Mrs, Van Syckel, who, it is alleged, was poisoned by her husband. Yester+ day Professor Anton, who has been making the analysis of the stomach, reported that he had com- pleted the work and had found sufficient poison to. cause death. The case excites considerable inter- eat, as the parties are well known in Brocklyn,. Yan Syckel is in the county jail awaiting the result, Burglars Frustrated. A noise on the third floor of Wechler & Abra ham’s dry goods store on Fulton streeton Wed- nesday night attracted the attention of one of the- clerks, who found, on examination, that three- burglars were at work pac! some of the cost! silks and velvets in bags. The clerk ran to the fir recinct station house and notified the police. The urglars were oe warned by some one dn the lookout for them, for when the po:ice reached the store the burglars had taken their departure, leaving their tools and plunder behind, Derelict Canvassers. It is evident now that some of the canvassers have violated the law in regard to making their returns. The vote bas been soclose in regard to. the local candidates that a missing district puts them in doubt in regard to the result, and the anxiety of these parties was manifested yesterday by their presence at Police Headquarters and their «diligent search for missing figures. The regular democracy declared at first that the entire city and county ticket ‘was elected, but yes terday the figures which were received showed that Williams, the republican candidate, is elected by about one Abeta te lithe It was also thought N. B. Morse was ¢! Justice of the Second Police district, but as far as could be learned yesterday it would appear that John A. Taylor, the republican candidate, is elected by a small majority. It is impossible to tell, as there have been no returns received from four districts im the Fifteenth ward, and the a Seventh and Eleventh wards are still short a district eacn. President Jourdan, of the Police Board, says that. derelict can vassers will be punished, LOOAL OPTION IN JEBSEY. The Supreme Court Decides That the Local Option Act Is Com ational, The question of the constitutionality of submit. ting the question, ‘License or no license,” to the voters of any city, town or district in New Jersey came before the Supreme Court at Trenton yester- day. It will be remembered that an agitation on this question arose two years ago, and it was only allayed by the opinion of Attorney General Gil- christ that such a proceeding was unconstitutional. When this opinion was submitted to the Legista- ture the bill introduced on the subject was set aside, The localities most aitactad A the agita- tion were Chatham and Camden, ie Supreme Court now decides that an act to submit 3 tion, “License or no Jicense,” is constitution: