The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1874, Page 4

4 ASHANTEE. —— The Herald Correspondent Pays a Visit to Commissioner Glover. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAN. | A. Splendid Trip Up| the Volta. FINAL PREPARATIONS, The Military Expedients | Decided Upon. | | | } COOMASSIE’S DOOM Av Moura or tug VoLra, ADDA Fort, Dec, 14, 187% ‘The military camp at Adda Forh was the near- est thing 1 had seen since 1 joined the purposed expedition to Coomassie approaching a warlike as- pect. Cape Coast Castle, with its commissariat surroundings, the Government House and its res- | ident, Sir Garnet, surrounded by a brilliant staty; | the medical hospitals, with their officials; the long frray 0! hospital and control huts, marked au mumbered and guarded, were all well enough; but they did not awaken the eye and mind accustomed to a long series of military scenes so effectively as did one glance at the trimly set bell tents, ‘the well ordered arrays of clothnouses, the lines of sable soldiery at drill, the outdoor piles of govern- Ment stores, the row of cannon, open mouthed | and ready pointed toward the very distant enemy, and the constant incoming and outgoing of mili- tary orderlies. We were awakened very early at Commissioner GLOVER’S CAMP. Soldiers may not sleep late, newspaper corre- Spondents in soldiers’ camps must wake early, | ‘whether they will or not, At five A. M. we strug- gied hard to try and sleep, despite the premonitory rolls of a large drum, and had in a measure succeeded, or, perhaps, we would finally have succeeded had we not, ten minutes ater, been suddenly startled with a full blown Dugle blast close to our ears, which drove all de- sire to sleep Well away. The Governor's voice was ‘heard caliing for his coffee ; his gallant subordinate, Goldsworthy, balloed with lungfu! force tor his un- ‘usually dilatory servant; the Commissary screamed tor his chocolate; a Haussa sergeant was cither re~ citing orders or bravely addressing a relief guard, and the hum of a stirring camp was bruited into ‘our ears by the morning air. Before I—to speak personally—had quite recovered the full use of my facuities Governor Glover had dressed, drunk his coffee and had gone, A desire, growing stronger every minute, to watch the strange man had more effect in rousing me than my coffee had. CAMP LIFE. “Which way has the Governor gone, boy?” 1 asked of a colored menial adjunct of the Gov- ernor’s staff, named Sam. “Ah! Masr, de Gobner, sir, he gone “way; p’raps Tibber, p’raps town, p’raps Yoruba, p’raps Haussa @alaver, p’raps Accra; Do tell, no savey.”” it Was not yet daylight, but I sauntered towards the river, whose noble breadth was overhung by a thick haze, Whose jurthest bank was along, black line of mangroves. The stream was but 300 yards from the camp. The landing place was about 500 yards trom headquarters, I soon discerned the sturay form of Governor Glover striding hither @nd thither, and recognized his cool, calm voice giving orders. He was superintending personally the loading of the Lady of the Lake ior an up- wiver trip with ammunition ; he was giving orders % a blacksmith; he was showing a carpenter what his day's duties were to be; he was speak- | ing to the engineer about his boilers; he was telling the colored captain at hour to he ready, what bars to avoid; he was assisting a man to lift his box of ammunition on his shoulder; he was listen- | ing to a Yoruba’s complaint about some unfairness | in the distribution of accoutrements; he was in- | Specting the crews of the steam launches; he was | directing some of the steamboat men how to treat | | tumbled over, to crowds drawn together by the vociferous merri- | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. [ were to be tniormed of all aud everything con- cerning tt. THE LADY OF THE LAKR was apout to ascend the Volta River to the second post, occupied by a portion of Governor Glover's expedition. The Governor kindly asked uf we should like to visit the frst and second posts, for. it we did, we were weicome to proceed in com- pany with Captain Goldsworthy, Of course we in- stantly accepted. Captaia Goldsworthy conveyed some mess dishes an! what provisions and wines bis mess could furnish. Isaw the gallant soldier was fidgeting about, desirous of making the trip enjoyable to his visitors. Before we started some amusement was affordea by the antics and pagnacity of THE WILD CATTLE Commissary Bliaselt had procured from tribes to leeward of the Volta River, The stout Mahom- etan soldiers of Glover were special objects of hatred to these cattle—the largest of which, though fuil grown, was not as large as an Ameri- can year-old heifer, They were butted rearward and jrontward, were dashed at on the fanks and the intense enjoyment of the ent which first signalled the onset of the cattle and the defeat of the Haussas. Reinforce- ments of the uniforthed warriors arriving, with long cous of rope, however, m after a few meffectual struggles, against over- whelming numbers finally captured, bound, fore and hind legs, and dragged ignomin- | tously along the gangway planks to the lower | decks, and the steamer swung to midstream, and soon revolved her paddles, until, neartng Dotben’s Point and the surty bar, she rounded the extremity of Kenneay’s Islana, and | With her stern pointed up river, noble current of the Volta. and shot down stream breasted the THE vowta, q | Rear the mouth, is from two to three miles wide, | unless, indeed, you dare call the lagoon, formed by the confluence of the Volta and the Troyeng River amouth, when you may say it is nearer thirty miles wide, Audah side of the Volta, to Richard’s Point, on the | Opposite side of tne Volta, ia but a mile and a half. From Doiben’s Point, on the These two points, however, are the eastern and | western extremities of narrow sand spits, which, with the exception of the mile and a half of river exit to the sea, enclose a large area of water, where are numerous islands cvergrown with man- grove and varied bus, the resort of numerous aquatic birds and crocodiles. THE VOLTA NEEDS EXPLORING, and as we ascend it from the sea 1t must be de- scribed reversely to how it should be described, because we are ignorant of its source and course above Pong, otherwise we might take your read- ers from its cavernous birthplace or its natal dell in some faraway mountain range in the interior and glide downwards, singing of its charms as the current, how rapid, now slow, bore us on. We might give them glimpses of the picturesque and inspiring scenes through which tt rushed, of new countries as yet untouched by a travetler’s pen, of strange animal and vegetable productions and of the river’s numerous affluents. But above Pong we Know naught of this river, and very few, if any, of your readers know anything of its mouth. You ali can imagine what a river like the Volta must be near its mouth. It isan African tropical river of some magnitude, not as large as the Nile, the Congo or the Niger. It is as wide, when from bank to bavk of mainland you see its breadth, as the Missouri is at Omaha, as the Hudson is at Sing Sivg or as the Thames is at Greenwich. I should say it was altogether as large a stream, as many | river to survey the actions of his men, andaccord- | countries? Are they not conversant With a certain miles in length, as the Hudson—not so deep nor so uselul for navigation. The Volta has all the characteristics of a second class African tropical river. Its course is way- ward, running at random around numerous low islets in Midstream, at one time giving you a view of a long oblique stretch of water, a mile wide and three or four or five miles in length, with a shallow depth averaging nine feet, because a vast qnantity of water has been absorbed by the creek- | like channels which separate the islands (rom each other and into the innumerable small arteries which lead to the broad lagoon. TUB BANKS OF THE MAINLAND are fringed with the indispensable and everlasting mangrove, while the low islands appear to be dark, glooiny, forbidding masses of the same bush, fit lairs of the amphibious monsters with which the African rivers of the tropics swarm. Were ver you able to so crane your neck as to look over the | dark mangrove lines on either side you would see @ vast extent of morass half shaded by dense over- | Accra, travelled through the country lying be- | by the Pope, and we demand that you, the ultra- hanging clumps of bush, vivid green, thick buibous- leafed plants, only inhabited by crocodiles, igua- mas and aquatic birds. No sign of man or vestige of cultivation would be seem in all the wilderness, because natare’a laws will not permit | turned | the tables on the valorous beeves; they were, — which the Commissioner thinks will be a very casy matter. About five P, M. we arrived within view of Blap- | pab, the second point on the Volta chosen by | Glover. The aspect of the country changes for | the better about Blappah. The mangroves have been gradually thinning and have now finally dis- appeared. Stately silk cotton trees, down aud | Guinea palms iord it over flelds of waving corn, | cassava millet, plantain, &c,, undisturbed by the | aggressions of the mangrove and the shrubs of the | morass, Little hilla begin to show their crests | above the river bank, and villages are more tre- quent. The atmosphere ts more salubrious, the | river current is swifter and browner, the banks are higher and the red, clayey earth begins to show itself. IN DANGBROUS QUARTERS, » Shortly after being warned that we might expect ashot any moment from the enemy's side, and | after placing the rocket troughs in order and pre- paring the Armstrongs, the steamer hugged the right bank, and, rounding a point, Blappah Camp | became visibie. They were a gallant, hearty set of fellows who welcomed us at Blappan landing. ‘Sartorius, 4 Captain in the Sixth Bengal cavalry and son of Admiral Sartorius, of the Roya! Navy, is a man who, like Glover, was evidently cut out for the place he now Olis, He ts of Herculean frame, which has been rendered tougher and better adapted to | withstand the shocks of the climate by a lifelong course of athletic exercises, The pugnacious spirit | predominates in him, and one of his temperament would be out of his sphere in any other condition | of iife than the one which would enable him to en- joy his shooting, his fighting, his riding and outdoor exercises without limit or end. Icould tell by the way his eyes constautly sought the other side of the river, where a group of the enemy was | impudently regarding the debarkation of our | party and the landing of the bullocks, by the way they flashed with a grim humor, meantime wrinkling the corners, that poor Sartonus was hankering for the time when Glover would tell him, “ross the river, dear Sartorius: and slay them.’ It did not need him to tell us how tired he was of staying at Blappah; how he | | was suffering from the inactivity whicn he could not heip. We had seen his impatience in nis face. | Sartorius reminded me by his physique of Guy Livingstone and that class of large-limbed, reso- | lute, undaunted heroes Laurence delights to de- scribe, When the fight with the Awunahs and Aquamus begins [ am sure they will be as muct surprised at the vigor of this English officer as they will be by the spiteful and alarming hiss of Haie’s | rocket, | Lhave described to you | CAPTAIN SARTORIUS | first, becanse he is the chief of tne forces at Blap- pan; but his brother officers are no meanly tormed men either—especially one Lieutenant Moore, of the Royal Navy, @ tall, long-limbed, energetic fel- Jow, with the lives and vivacity of 100 common meniu him, His long boots fitted wich his body from one end of the camp to the other ina sur- | prising way. The man seemed to be everywhere at one time. Surely, though Glover has but ten officers with him, he cannot say but that he has selected the very fittest men he could wish to as- | sist him in his enterprise, for ten such men as I | have seen with him are worth 100 ordinary men; and, so loug as they retain their health, I have no doubt Glover will effect, with their aid, what he has determined upon. Sartorius thought, with Captain Goldsworthy, that the enemy should not be permitted to stand | quietly and undisturbed on the other side of the ingly sent a nine-pound siell and a Hale's rocket | one after another at the curious and over-imuch unconcerned’ group, Which had the effect o1 dis- persing the insolents in a very precipitate manner | in all directions. Sartorius said, after the excite- ment was over, he wished he could show us betier fun, >ut if we only stayed a week with him he woud enable us to see how his men would punish | that party across the river. | The exact number in his camp on that day, as Made out oy the sergeants, was 2,948, copsisting of Aquapims, Crobbos, a few Crepees, Haussas | and Yorubas, all of which, Captaim Sartorius as- for our special informaticn, the next morning. Unfortunately, however, the next morning a tor- nado get in, accompanied by a heavy shower of rain, which: entirely precluded the possibility of muster or manwuvre. Captain Sartorius, under directions from Glover, while lis chief was compelled to be inactive at tween Accra and Pesse, on the Volta, above the rapids, aud his map of lis rowfe furnishes invalu- abie information concerning little known lands. le says the country lying between Accra and Akrapong is in the main an open country, inter- he wild bullocks; he was questioning the commis- | tnay man shall breathe the fatal air of those gpersed with hills, until, on approaching Akrapong, sariat officer about his supplies; he was rebuking ‘the Accra King ‘tarkey for the dilatoriness of his tmen ; he was specifying the day’s duties to a Haussa | @ergeant; he was here, there, everywhere, alert, | ‘@ctive, prompt, industrious; he was General-in- er, military secretary, pilot, captain, engineer, general supervisor of all things, overseer over all ane, conductor of great and small things, a most wemarkable man, and, as I said in my first letter, the inspiring force of bis army. I was led to ask myself, by the varied scenes in which I saw wim engaged within an hour, “What on earth would become of the expedition if this ready-handed, ready- ‘witted, energetic commander and supervisor ‘were to tall sick and be incapacitated for duty?’ He has good, able, clever men—a few—under | him; but, capabie as they may be, there is only one | Glover. The Haussas, the Yorubas, the Accras and Aquapims wil! tell you that there is but one “Goll. | bur” whom they will obey. “English ofMfcers very g00d, sir, but they no Captain Golibar. I don’t suppose they would actually disobey Ca tain Goldsworthy or Captaim Sartorius—they have too Much respect for the men chosen by the Chief | to accompany him—but they have not become so Antimateiy acquainted with these ofMicers; they have not been the objects of such solicitude with | them as with their dear old “Golibar.”” “Golibar’ | brought them out of the jungle and marsh of the | Niger country, treated them kindly, fed and dressed them, made them soidiers and endeared himself to them. He has ied them to victories against thetr perverse brothers of the savage bush, counselled them, given them sel! respect, made them feel they were men and soldiers of the Britisy Queen; vat | Glover’a subs have notas yet. This is why 1 was led to think of the cousequences resulting from Glover's sickness. Tam glad I undertook to explain Glover's where- abouts. It has been a pleasure to me to have seen this great man in camp, where A GREAT MAN May best be seen, Ishailever think of the time when my eyes first lighted on the kindly face—tne massive features with the genius of commanding men lighting up every lineament, on the sturdy form 60 full of energy—as an event, Glover, {5 my opinion, is really a great man. He bas the elements of greatness in bim; perhaps he would not shine in the small details of an army, Such as & man well e€dueated in the purely military line would; but doubt that I shall soon see his equal om the West Coast of Af in the purely administrative and the organizing line. Sir Garnet J. Wolseley Would, perhaps, strike an observer as being the More brilliant of the two, but General Glover's #Teater power and soidity would be acknowledged as being very marked. | A MAN WHO INSPIRES ONE'S APFECTIONS. } Glover compels men to love him. There is Something specially attractive in him. All who come in contact with him thaw be‘ore his genial Kindiiness of manner. There is no affectation about him. He is a plain, hearty, genuine man. He is not one to endeavor to make men believe that his mission in Africa is one of universal im- portance; that a word of explanation respecting his intentions and purposes would destroy the Whole subUe machinery of his campaign. Oh, no; he speaks without reserve, answers all questions about his mission as if his mission were really a public one, to be canvassed, talked of, criticised by the public which sent nim out. On an enter- prise like this he does not think that it would in-” jure bis reputation or bis mission if the British or | American vublic were told something about tt. | side and aurike northeasterly to hem in the enemy, | ceedings with a or | earth. marshes and live, as yet. To live there would be ) like eating of the forbidden fruit. The black vege- | which, for table mould of the morass is still in astate of | equal on the West Coast of Africa. Beyond Akra- | Tne air and light which belong to the | chaos. the hills become attached and form a range salubrity and fertility, has no pong, to Pong or Amedika, lying near the rapids sured us that night, would be drawn out in muster, | BISMARCK ACCUSED. The Fierce Parliamentary Debat? in the Prussian Lower House. Ae Ne Prince Bismarck and the German Catholics. BERLIN, Jan, 17, 1874, The Prussian Lower House waa, on the 16th: of | January, the scene of one of those exciting debates which do sometimes occur when Prince Bismarck has an opportunity of unbottiing bis wrath upon | pis foea, The Prince-Premier has very frequently given his views aa regards the position to be main- | tained by che Prussian State as against the Catholic Church, Inthe recent debate he again touched | this all-exciting question of supremacy. He was | called out to the debate in a very peculiar manner, Herr von Mallinckrodt, one-of the most prominent wtramontane leaders in the Lower House, had been speaking on the previous day at length on education, and in the course of his remarks quea- tioned the government as to its conduct in instl- tuting an inquisition in regard to the politica of Roman Catholic elementary teachers in some dis- tricts of the Rhineland, Herr von Mallinckrodt took the opportunity of making a very serious Charge against the Chancellor—a charge which he had gathered from La Marmora’s revelations, and which noone in Germany would | have believed even if it had not been at once in- dignantly denied. He said that the ultramontanes were as faithtul patriots a8 Prince Bismarck him- self, and then asked, amid great uproar, ‘What must be the feelings of these devoted patriots on unding themselves coerced by the Cabinet?—a Cab- inet presided over by a statesman who, when pre- | paring for the Austrian war, toid the Italian Gene- ral Govone that he did not object to give the Rnine province up altogether to France as a sop thrown to Cerberus.” Prince s#ismarck, on entering the House on the following day, replied in a set speech. His utterances were directed not only against Herr von Mallinckrodt, but to the entire ultramontane party, and in part to France. The substance of the Chancellor's reply is as follows :— PRINCE BISMARCK’S SPEECH, I find myself compelled to declare that the state- ment of Herr von Mallinckrodt with reference to an alleged transaction between General Govone and myself is an infamous lie. Of course itis not Herr von Ma'linckrodt who told the lie. Of course he repeated only a ialsehood invented by some- body else. However, a8 the story has been in- vented with malice’ prepense, it might perhaps have been expected that Herr von Mallinckrodt would have reflected twice before fathering it. 1 have never allowed any one to hope that I should be able to bring myself to consent vo the cession of a single village or a single acre of land, The fic- tion circulated at my eXpense 1s a downright and daring lie, got up to blacken my reputation in the eyes of my countrymen. (Prolonged cheers.) Once upon this subject I should like to say a few words on an incident which occurred at erday’s sitting, when I was uniortu- _Rately absent. A. gentleman belonging to the Same party as Herr von Mallinckrodt | chose vo attack me as a man and a statesman, He, too, did 30 in connection with foreign politics, | censuring my conduct most severely. May! perhaps | suggest to the gentlemen opposite that as a mem. ber 01 a government which they will be the last to deny is a divinely appointed institution 1 have | Some claim to decent treatment at their hands? | May I lay claim to this privilege, ii not in comestic, at least in ioreign affairs? Do they not really per- ceive that they are acting an unhapdsome part in calumniating me in connection with matters cal- culated to attract the particular attention of other proverb referring ‘to the bird who fouls his own nest? Surely ii 1 am to believe tiat the pious gen- tlemen opposite are more especially engaged in delence of truth, religion and Christianity than others £ must beg o1 them to be a littie more cautious in repeating all manner of stories, derived by them irom questionable sources. I am led to offer these remarks by Herr von Schorlemer’s ac- cosations yesterday. His first accusation was com- paratively mild, He began by charging me with contradicting myself, He satd [| had formerly acknowledged the necessity of respecting | THE DOGMA OF INFALLIBILITY, a dogma accepted by millions of Roman Catholics; and he asserted, turther, that I was now acting. contrary to my first intentions and promises. The | ove is true; the other is dot. Even now I acknowl- edge it as my duty to respect the dogmas of the — atnolic Church a8 dogmas, and I have never in- | terlered with anybody tor believing in them, But, | if the infailibility dogma {is so interpreted as to lead to the establishment of an ecclesiastical im- ‘ium in imperio, it it occasions the setting aside of the laws of this country, because unapproved by the Vatican, I am naturally driven to assert the legitimate supremacy of the State. We Prot- estants are under the conviction that this Kingdom of Prussia ought not to be ruled Montane section of the Roman Catnolics, respect our convictions as we do yours. Uniortunately, however, you ure accustomed to complain of op- | pression Whenever not permitted to lord it over otners. I am now coming to the principal point. Herr von Schoriemer maintains that though tne German bishops have declined to obey the laws of their country I have no right to denounce this extraordinary conduct a8 revolutionary. He asserts that I, the Chancellor of the German Empire, have myseif proved the greatest revolu- tionist of the day. To substantiate his assertion he says that I destroyed the German confederacy, | that I tried to foment rebellion among the Hun- 7 a | habitable portion of the globe may not enter until of the Volta, the land is exceedingly diversified by | garian and Dalmatian regiments of Austria in 1866, Chief, Quartermaster General, cémmissariat ofl- | Joytie, slow the monld shall have been transformed | wooded plain, hill and dale. North of Pong—the aud that I formed a ea a cH legion in the same momentous year. Now I declare I regard Herr by the processes of nature into healthy, productive | country becomes open again, entirely devoid Of yon schoriemer a8 a most absolutely veracious it until time shall have prepared it for him, Man fies the vicinity, and wisely leaves | bush—clumps of forest make travel agreeable and pleasant. The traveller ts protected from the heat ‘Thongi we on board the steamer hurry by this | of the sun, while being free from the annoyances fatal district, the wind waits the deathly exhala- tions towards us, and in its unrelenting embrace | we are involved for a time, when the alga are de- posited in the lungs and the stomach to incubate and torture the frame with the rackiags, the tor - Ments and agonies of perhaps a remittent fever, which will last four or five days, and show us the verge of the dark pit so many poor bodies have already barely escaped on this Ashantee expe- dition. Even while we hurry by we feel the induence of the forbidden region we feel UNUSUAL LASSITUDE OF FRAME, are conscious that a veil of death bangs over us, and sensible that for breathing that noxious air we shall suffer. creased in height, and the Mangrove roots stand revealed in all busnes seem as if they grew on stilts, for so the mud-painted stems appear, entangled among one another and disgustingly naked, and below them 1s the rich, deep alluvial deposit of the river fer- menting in the fervid san, and adding still more to the disease which has begun to permeate our frames. THE HUNTER’S PARADISE. Despite, however, the sad reality of the pictare Ihave attempted to give you, any one fond of gun- ning and solitude would here find ample oppor- | tunities for the exercise of his skill with the gun, | and ample space in the broad stream, in the mazy, sluggish creeks and bayous to induige in the luxury of thorough solitartness. Here are croco- diles and’ hippopotami, divers, cranes, pelicans, storks, whydahs, paddybirds and tbises by thou- sands, & man in time might slaugtter a pile of birds as bigh as Cheops’ Pyramid and still leave a vast umber for his successor. From the upper point of Kennedy's Island, where @ good view of the main river is to be seen, I can see that the banks on both sides are as thick with divers and why- dahs asthe mangrove branches are able to bear. On @ single branch I see as many as ten divers resting, and above their heads, resting on higher branches, are so many white paddybirds that it seems as though they had been rained thereon, and the two linea of mangrove stretch, I snould say, three miles up on either side. About twoP. M, the steamer arrived opposite Gravie Point, the site of THE FIRST CAMP BEYOND ADDAH. The intelligent colored officer, Mr. Robert Banner- man, whose presence with Commissioner Grover is a cause of great satisfaction to the Accras, came aboard and saluted Captain Goldsworthy, formed him, in answer to a question propounded to him by his superior, that there were 2,000 na- tives armed, equipped and organized at the camp. The camp was in a satisfactory state. nothing, but the men were somewhat impatient to ve on the move against their enemies, and in- It lacked Gravie Point is to be heid until the arrival of Glover’ force of Accras, Haussas and Yorubas, when, after garrisoning it with a cuuple of hun- | be furnished by private donations from the differ- dred men, the Point will be abandoned by the main bodies, which intend to cross to the opposite It is low tide; the river has de- their hideous deformity. The With enough powder and ammunition | Captain Sartorius thinks that THE STEAM LAUNCHES may be easily drawn over the rocks of the rapids, | by which an advance of the expedition will be ad- | Vantageously made, by means of the river as far | a8 Pesse. From Pesse three moderate marches Will enable the expedition to reach the Prah, whence no difficulties interpose beyond to Coo- | Massie. | After the most generous hospitality had been shown to us by the Captain aud his brother officers | we descended the river next morning, and arrived without incident at Adda Forh, where the Com- missioner and Chief of the expedition was ready to welcome us with the news that all the Accras had | of the jungie. joined him, and to prophesy that in tour days Adda | Forh would be a deserted camp, 1 hope that Governor Glover will be able to make _ his prophecy good; but, after some experience of | the native African, I am not prepared to be 80 | Sanguine as to say that on the fifth day from to- day the Governor will have departed to the war. ! Tincline to the opinion that perhaps within eight | days he will be ready, and, once having started, | | the great obstacle to rapid travel and movement | of forces has been removed, and he may be able, if he will be stern and uncompromising with the dilatory chiefs and permit of no delays, to be on the Prah even before the end of this month. To-morrow I return by the Dauntless to Cape Coast Castle, at which point, perhaps, there may be py this time something interesting to send to you. So far this Ashantee expedition has been singularly devoid of interesting incidents, which May be ascribed to the fact that the expedition has not as yet begun. BAPTIST HOME FOR THE AGED, The Treasurer's Report for the Year 1872—The Building Soon To Be Occu- pled. A meeting of the Ladies’ Home Society, of the Baptist churches of New York city, was held at the Fifth avenue Baptist church, Forty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, yesterday afternoon. Tne fol- lowing ladies were elected officers for 1874:—First Directress, Mrs. D. ©. Hays; Second Directress, Mrs. 8. M. Ambler; Third Pirectress, Mrs. W. D- Murphy; Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Bruce; Correspond- Ing Secretary, Mrs. T. R. Butler; Recording Secre- | tary, Mra. William J, Todd. ‘The Treasurer’s report, which was read, tained the joliowing items ;— RECKIPTS. Whole receipts for current expenses con- Wuole receipts tor buildimg expenses wean Total... Current expenses.. . 356 Building expenses % ry The new Home bullding, which is sttuated tn Sixty-eighth street, near the new Normal School, is ready for occupancy. The house is not furnished ag yet, and, owing to the streets being upgraded, there is no gas or water to be tad, The home is to ent Baptist churenes in tne city. At the close of | the meeting Dr, Armitage made a few remarks on | the success of the enterprise, and clomedt the gro r. | individual. I hold him to be @ man not in the | | least degree tinctured with the principles of cer- tain monastic orders, fighting with him on the they apprehend their faith to be at stake. Yet I am forced to teil Herr von Schorle- mer that perfect veracity, im my opinion, implies an earnest endeavor to ascertain the cor- | Tectness of the 1acts on which one’s opinions are 1ounded. [am obliged to add that, whatever Herr von Schorlemer’s love of truth, a man who has | | such an utter contempt for tacts as he has, and | who cares so little to find out what is what, de- Serves DO Credit, And must be prepared to see lis allegations slighted by more careiul and more scrupulous minds. THE WAR OF 1806. It is true I aspired to the reform of the late fed- eral institutions, but 1 did so im a perfectly legal way, and only when violence was olfered recoim- mended the fighting it out. it is not J, thereiore, who have destroyed the old federal institutions, but the party which inciudes the political iriends of Herr von Schorlemer. It 18, however, not true that I tried to instigate the Hungaro-Dalma- tian regiments to revellion in 1866. Herr Von sSchorlemer has politely asked me to preys. my iunocence on this head. Had e not better ask me to prove that it ig the sun which 18 af this moment illuminating the universe? It would be difficult for me to prove the latter iact, or the jormer either, theoretically, and at a moment’s notice; but the fact 1s none the less generally known, aud does notadmit of a | doubt with sensible and well-informed Youn Then, as regards the Hungarian Legion, I admit that on the very eve of the war | received an offer with reference to the formation of such a body. I declined to resort to the step at the time, though Lincurred no small respoustbuity from tais refusal, seeing We had tocontend against so powerful a | State as Austria. In those days I stili hoped to compromise the matter, and, even aiter our troops bad begun to march, begged to submit to His Apos- tolic Majesty propositions which might have speediiy led to an agreement. Only when, after the battle of Sadowa, the Emperor Napoleon tele- graphed to us im such @ style as to ; render his immediate active interference very likely indeed, the situation assumed an aspect in which 1 did not think myself justitled in rerusing help from any quarter whatsoever. Geutiemen, \ we happened to be at war with Austria at that time. I submit to you the question whether, being at war, we were not perfectly entitled, by all the rules and usages of international jaw, to allow a portion of the Austrian prisoners to be formed into @ body to co-operate with us against the Just imagine our being at war with France. Imagine the Comte de Chambord or somebody else whom the French had accepted as their master, fighting us in alliance with other elements ar- rayed on the ultramontane side. if the French government were under these circumstances to endeavor to organize @ legion out of German Catholic prisoners captured in the war would Herr von Schoriemer ve prepared to blame Henri .? The Germans, certainly, who allowed them- selyes to be used for such a purpose, would be revo- lutionists, if not something worse, but the enemy who turned them to account could not be rée- proacted (or tue breach 0. any recoguized practice | OF law. | A Short interruption here occurred. Some members objected to the debate being broken by a discussion of this heterogeneous nature. Here Windhorst (ultramontane) protested that Prince gym; | Bismarck bad no right to refer to @ statement made during the previous day's debate, Then, amid 4 storm of applause from the other section of the nouse, Lasker rose and declared that @ Minister “against whom the terrible acc tion of treason against his country had been levelled, and who did not allow an hour to pass without char- acterizing that reproach before both Germany and foreign lauds as @ shameful falsehood, merited no biame, but, indeed, deserved well of his country.” Thereupon, Mallinckrodt stated that his assertions | were based upon the revelations of La Marmora, | against me in Germany,-and have still less time to | country at heart, and, supposing that honor to | Napoleon for the cession of a single village. I same side and deeming all means fair where | | the Itauan Premier. “If, added Herr vou Mal- Mnckrodt, “General La Marmora's statement were | now called a lie, all he could do was ¢o transfer the reproach to the author of the book as the party whom it concerned. It would soon be seen whether General La Marmora was in a position to substantiate what he affirmed. As far as he was concerned, he would not have repeated the Italian's account of the matter had it been pre- viously contradicted by Prince Bismarck. As it was, he confessed he bad believed in it.” Then Bismarck rose again. LA MARMORA’S REVELATIONS. Herr von Mallinckrodt has a pecuilar habit—a habit, I must say, intimately connected with the entire tactics of his party—of retreating from an advanced postition the moment the bullets begin to fall a little too thick to be pleasant, A censure has been pronounced upon him, and his apology con- sists in endorsing and, so to’ say, transferring the bill, of censure to somebody else. The gentieman to whom he hands over this un- common present is, however, no longer & premier or a general, but only a private person, Who has taken the liberty of publishing documents communicated to him ip his previous official ca- pacity. At Rome his conduct tn this particular is regarded a8 80 very wrong that, when I inquired whether it was in accordance with Italian law, I received the reply that there was unfortunately no clause in the criminal code which applied to the deed, but that the necessity of enacting one was gee admitted alter’ what had happened. lowever, let M. La Marmora be who or what he may, | am surprised'that Herr von Mallinckrodt should bring himseit to rely upon the evidence of an enemy to this country rather than upon the evidence of facts. In his whole bebavior towards us M. La Marmora has so openly shown himself hostile to Prussia and Germany ‘at large that if 1 chose to write books upon him I can assure you they would not be of a very pleasant de- scription. But for my reluctance to publish the transactions with the other parties concerned in the matter I should find it dificult to resist the Vemptation of letting the world know something about M. La Marmora’s doings. Herr von Maliinck- rodt says that his belief was founded upon my not answering the accusations preferred by M. La Marmora in his notorious comments upon a-collec- tion of surreptitious!) abstracted documents. Well, gentlemen, I have toown that I cannot afford to take either the time or the trouble to contradict all the stories related and printed against me. I alm proud to say that, in py resolute vindication of the interests of King and country, I have made more enemies than any one else in this German land. I am the most intensely hated person in this country, and, considering the motives animating my enemies, I glory in their ha- tred, (Cneers.) I am delighted to see my last assertion confirmed by Herr von Mallinckrodt com- plucently nodding at me. Iam really glad he does me the justice of admitting any proposition of mine. Ican read but a small portion of what is printed con over French and Italian attacks. I have learned to look down upon the calumnies of the foreigner with haughty contempt, and | am airaid 1 shall have to apply the same feeling nearer home, if cer- tain persons go on as they have begun. However, Ihave deemed it my duty in the present instance to repel the imputations of members of thus House, and I have done 80 at once, to prevent their assev- erations being commented upon without my flat denial. If I could have known yesterday that Herr von Schorlemer was going to say what he did say I should have been present. But how could I have an inkling of it when the order of the day was “the Civil Marriage bill,” and not “the circulation of jaisehoods about the Premier ?” Von Mallinckrodt, seemingly not inclined to let the subject drop, remarked that “if M. La Marmora was no longer @ general ana a premier he had been voth, and it would be very interesting to learn what he had to say in proof of his assertion, The question at issue Was not whether M. La Mar- mora was a minister, but whether he was a trust- worthy witness, Government and Parliament were equally obliged to have the honor of the have been stained by an act of the government, it | devolved upon Parliament to expose the deed.” ‘This called trom Bismarck a very flerce rejoinder :— T sincerely bd that the very peculiar tactics of the preceding speaker force me again to the front. Alter what he has now said, however, I can- not keep back the remark that by hls last words he has returned to ground made untenavle by the bullets I have snot against M. La Marimora., Not} many minutes ago Herr von Mallinck- | rodt admitted that if 1 had contradicted M. La Marmora before this he would not have believed the Italian General. But now again he speaks in such a Way that there will be few in this Assembly prepared to deny that he wisnes to make peopie persist in believing in the said General’s at- tacks, ‘his is what I cali very exceptional aud ex- ceptionable conduct in a member of this House. It 1s the more blamable inasmuch as the accusations heonees by M.La Marmora are couched in such vague and iudefinite language that tt seems to me the statement of Herr Von Mallinckrodt is much more confident Sng painted than the authority he relies upon, But Hefr von Mallinckrodt not only converts the hints and innuendoes of an apocryphal author into definite assertions; he does this in the teeth of nis own previous retractations—in the teeth of fact itself, I can, therefore, only repeat that 1 never entered into negotiations with the Emperor could nave easily reconciled that potentate our politics bad 1 made him the slightest concession of this nature. But I always abhorrea any arrangement of the kind as @ stain upon our national honor, and I never would even encourage tne idea for a moment. Or does Herr von Mallinck- | Todt suspect that I made 4 proposition and that | the late sovereign of the French was too coy to accept? Is Herr von Mallinckrodt going to teil us that the Emperor Napoleon, being a German Db; education, was too gratetuily attached to the lan to whicn he owed his culture to lend @ hand in dis- membering it? Does Herr von Mallinckrodt be- heve that the Stuttgart reminiscences of his youth prevented that Emperor trom listening to my ove tures + But I must close. All this is really too ab- surd for me to have to dilate upon. Let Herr von | Mallinckrodt exert himseif ever so much to induce others to believe what he has just said he no longer believes himself, he will hardly succeed again in bringing me to defend myself against accusations the real nature of which cannot be fitly described in Parliamentary language. I rely upon the press to give those accusations the mame they deserve. THE SNOW. | Monday’s snow storm, which continued with | more or less fury througn the night, moderated | yesterday morning into sleet, and later became a | drizzling rain, causing inconvenience and delay to citizens going to their daily avocations, and for- bidding the appearance of pleasure seekers in the streets. By running cars with double teams and at longer intervals the street railroad lines all kept their tracks clear and carried loads which, between sitting. and standing passengers, made comfort impossible and breathing anything but satisfactory. Stage horses had their endurance severely tested as they stumbled and slipped in the snow on the icy pavements, pulling stages which | usually had only room for “one more” passenger. | Drays and express wagons worked with doupled | teams, choking tne busy streets and putting peo- ple out of humor by biocks and confusion. Pedes- irians were all in a hurry, while the sidewalks were icy and the crossings irom ankle to halt leg — deep in heavy slushy spow, About noon the storm took arecess. At two o'clock it came again in light, fleecy snow. At four o’clock we had w short, | bright gleam of sunshine, gilding the western win- dows, but the clouds came again before sunset, and soon after cleared away again, whe evening being clear and but moderateiy cold. No unusual delay was caused in the arrival of trains on the several railroads, THE PILOT COMMISSIONERS, The Stranding of the Lavalle. The Pilot Commissioners held their regular meeting yesterday, Captain Snow presiding. Charles H. Carroll, the pilot in charge of the French ship Alexander Lavalle, which ran ashore off Southampton, Long Island, was examined, and testified that Captain Cortoise, the commander of the vessel, was led astray bj the compass, and the man who heaved tne lead read the sign wrong, ‘The consequence was that the vessel was believed to be thirty-five miles from land, when she was really near the shore. Tae pilot was exonerated from all blame. AROUND THE CITY HALL John A, Strahan, formerly counsel to the Comp- troller, has been selected by the Board of Supervi- sors to go to Alvany and argue before the Court of Appeals the question as to the power of the Super- visors being final in auditing bills, action upon which was taken by the Board on Monda Comp- troller Green holds that he has the power to supe: vise the Supervisors’ actions as a Board, Mrs. General Eaton, & jady of some prominence during the war as a heroine, calied upon the Mayor yesterday, CITY AND COUNTY TREASURY, | Comptroller Green reports the following disburse- ments and receipts o! the treasury yesterday :— | RECEIPTS, f 187% and interest........060 “ Ts Of taxes, assessments and interest.. From collection of assessinents and interest. From twarket rents and ( | From water rent From licenses, r's OF From tees, &c., ot From fees, &c rior Court, +» Supt stenographer's tees, supe istrict courts From Frou fees and fines, Total. se... DISDGRSV MENTS. Claims paid (number of warrants 12). DE Wee csvoevsrasdseg % Pay rolls (aamber of wai wo. $109,082 49,039 | susriza | | ‘Total (number of warrants 256) THE TEXAS ROAD TO THE PACIFIC. + A Call for the Projectors of the 1% ry Pacific Railroad—Where Are They t— Now Is Their Time. To THE Epitor OF THE HERALD :— Where are the people of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, and what are they doing t What has become of Colonel Thomas A. Scott and his European loan for pushing through and com- pleting this great and in all respects truly national public work ? It is time to ask these questions and to have these questions answered, The termination in Texas of the dismal inter- regnum of traud and violence and chicanery, under which for several years past the resources of that magnificent Commonwealth have been lying pros- trate and fallow, ought to be the commencement of an active prosecution of the enterprise which w to link the Gulf of Mexico, our American Mediter- ranean, with the Pacific. So long as President Grant and the radical majority in Congress chose to keep the nation’s armed heel on the neck of the great Southwest tt was idte te expect that capital would flow in that direction, It is not the natural resources of a country whiou make it prosperous and attractive, else were the vast savannas and the superb forest lands of Brazil to-day a stronger magnet for the savings of Europe than the sandy barrens of Northern Prussia or the submerged fats of Holland. It ts the vigor of law and the life of liberty which make stony ground fertile. It is the absence of that vigor and that life which condemns the richest acres to lie idle and undeveloped, No one has ever questioned the resources, the literally inex- haustible wealth, of the noble region which stretches between Louisiana and the Rio Grande, due north. When Texa’ gave -herself to us, and the instructive common sense of the Amer- ican people accepted and ratified the contract she proposed, despite the howls of fanatics and demagogues, she brought to our national domain @ realm equal in extent to the Republic of France, lying under latitudes more genial even than those which smile over the fair land of Scottisn Mary, and possessing within its single borders al- most all the resources for the support and enrich- ment of mankind that are to be found scattered elsewhere through the diferent States of the Unton. It is aland of cotton and a land of corn, 4 land of cattle and a land of coal. In Northeastern Texaa an area of territory larger than the whole State of South Carolina, a well watered sundstone region ia filled with noble forests of white and yellow pine, and the valuable pitcn pine which makes North Carolina famous in all the geographies for “tar, pitch, turpentine and lamber” grows over millions of acres in this region and in the con- terminous region of Western Louisiana. Excellent iron ore, red hematite, abounds in the State, and coal has been found in many differevt parts of it, needing only capital and a system of communica- tion to bring it actively into the devolopment ef the wealth of the country. During the civil war ‘Texas was comparatively free from the evils of that dreadful conflict. When the national forces be; to press home upon the heart of the rebellion thousands of planters and small landholders at the Souta, growing alarmed for the stability of their cardvoard Confederacy, leit tneir homes and emi grated with their household gods to Texas. In this way it came to pass that Texas alone, of all the Southern States, emerged from the fiery furnace of the war absolutely richer | and more populous than she had been when she entered it. ‘The pacification of such a State ought to have been, and with common prudence should have been, @ work not of years, but of months or weeks. It is a disgrace to the nation that nearly ten years should have been allowed to elapse alter the last shot was fired in anger between the soldiers of the North and the soldiers of the South before the people of Texas came into the lawful control of their own resources and their own affairs, without which n0 commonwealth can com- mand, or ought to command, the contidence of the financial and commercial world. However, right has begun to be done at last. President Grant has publicly washed his hands of the carpet-baggit Tascality of the Southwest. Flanagan must su continue for a time, we suppose, to en- lighten the Senate and keep Sherman and Sumner and Thurman and all the less cultivated of his colleagaes up to his own loity standard of intellectual aspiration in his capacity of chairman ol the Senate Committee on Education. But that will be a small maiter if only the people whose business it is to do so will but resolutely take hold of the magnificent ratiroad work which lies before us to be donein Texas, That work has been well begun. But in this case well begun is not halfended, A line of nearly or uite 1,600 miles needs to be carried out to the cific before the nation can fairly vegin to avail itself of the enormons advantages of our great Ter- ritories of the southwest. That line will carry with it when completed all manner of vexatious ques- tions and drop them comtortably into the Pacific Ocean to be heard of no more. It will make every cattle owner and land owner from the Rio Grande to the Mississippi a direct partner in the prosperity of New York on the one side and of San Francisco and San Diego on the other. Instead of compet- ing with, the line, in he geod hands, ; will really aid immensely in developing and strengthening the existing lines to the Pacific. To talk of injury to the interests of the Central Pacitic Railway irom the completion of the Texas Pacific Ratiway is like talking of injury to the New York Central Ratlway from the Baltimore and Ohio. Does any man 1n his senses suppose that Buffalo is impover- ished by the development of Cincinnati? Even Chicago and St. Louis, which are perpetually fighting each other in the local journals as savacely as Pisa and Genoa used to fight each other witl galleys and condotturie, are really—il they had bat the sense to see it—allies, and not rivals, The Indian question, that perpetuat foun- tain of squabbles and exXtravagances, of corruption and demoralization, would be lurther advanced towards a national settlement | In a single day by the fine locomotive which shall traverse the Continent through Arizona than it could be in a decade by the combined forty: om ony! of all the Peace Commissioners in the Union. ne immense impulse which the opening of the commerce of Southern California through San Diego would give to the Americanization of North- ern and Pacitic Mexico would guarantee us 17 any future difMculties in that quarter, while it | would put forward by twenty years the growth of our power on the Pacific coast generally. Where, then, we repeat, are the men who have under- taken this colossal enterprise? Let the nation hear irom them as to their plans, hopes, purposes, resources. Let them come forward, now that their hands are clear, and let us see what can be done, and how it can best be done, to facilitate and se- cure the doing of a work absolutely necessary to the glory as Well as the greatness, to the consolt- dation a8 well as to the development, of the Re- public. . A MISSIONARY ENTERTAINMENT. In spite of the forbidding weather yesterday af ternoon and evening a govdiy representation of our charitable citizens, their wives and young peo- ple visited St. Paul’s chapel, corner of Fourth ave- hue and Twenty-second street, to enjoy an enter- tainment for the benent of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society. A display of fine photographic pictures, representing scenes, buildings and other Objects of terest, by the aid of stereoscopic in- struments and another optical device with a long | name, unpronounceable and almost impossible to write, Was the chief feature o1 attracuon. it en abled the observers to exawine in detail, without the vexations ol travel, the most prominent sights which draw so many Americans to the historic points of Europe, besides giving as well views of scenes in the lurther East, which only a few for- junate travellers can see on the spot. There was music, good company and, though last not least, a tempting table, 60 that none went away looking sad or sour. THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADERS! SOOIETY- The wholesale dealers in spirits and wine held their general meeting yesterday afternoon, at their rooms, No. 36 Beaver street, the president of the society, Mr. Charles Bellows, presiding, and Philip Bonlort acting as secretary. There was quite a large attendance of members of the trade, among whom were many of the oldest importers of New York. The Legisiative Committee reported through their chairman, Mr. William M. Filess, the results o their late visit to Washington relative to tue duties on still wines, They stated that they haa waited on the Committee of Ways and Means, and that they had also a conversation with Commissioner Douglass relative to the wine and spirit trage, in which he expressed himseif willing to acgept, so far as he was concerned, any change that would benefit the merchants and at | the same time protect the government. Mr. Fliess stated that the many annoyances that importers are put to Commissioner Dougiasa ac- knowledged should be stopped, and, further, that the Secretary Of the Treasury had signified his m- tention to ald the society in carrying out its ob- ects. ! A communication was received from Dunville & Co,, of Philadeiphia, stating that a firm under the utle of Jacoby & Co., of the same place, were coun- | terfeiting thei stock of Dutch and Irish whiskey: and asking the association to prosecute them, The matter was referred to the Committee on Com- plaints. Messrs, Galway & Co, proposed several firms in Spain as honorary members of the society, Whielt was carried, and a resolution was passed request- ing ail members of the society to communicate with dealers abroad and asking them to become members, after which the society adjourned, This society has no connection with any liquor dealers’ association im New York. as beretoiore reported,