The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1874, Page 4

77 ASHANTEE. Herald Special Correspondence from Cape Coast Castle. THE HIGHLANDERS Final Preparations for the March on Coomassie, “HE ONLY DIED OF DRINK!” | | | Care Coast CasTLE, Wesr Coast oF AFRICA, Deo, 24, 1873, Arriving trom «dd Forh I tound that the white troopa, consisting of the Rifle Brigade, the Twenty- tnird Fusiiters and the Forty-second Highlanders— the black Watch—had at last come, to the immense satisfaction of Sir Garnet and his stad and the press correspondents, Three troop ships—the amar, Himalaya and the Sarmatian—conveyed the soldiers from their natal shores to the African oust. 1 HAD ALWAYS A STRONG DESIRE TC SEB the Highlanders iu their kilts; aud irom my know!- edge of Africans I was pretty certain that tne sight of Such a splendid bouy of kilted men would ha fine effect ou the native mind; but on visit- ing the Sarmatian I learned to my regret that they had left their kilts benind them, and that they were breeched like ordinary British soldiers, in the unpicturesque Narioik gray. ‘Ihe cause was, lam told, that the kilts were not fit for bush work; | that the authorities feared that thorns and cacti would bave so wounded the epidermis of the sol- | diers that they would in @ short tume be disabied trom active service. | To me, an old campaigner on the West Coast of Atrica—having been here now seven weeks—is was amusing to watch the officers’ faces, They are | mostiy all young men, of very goed families, with | cream-colored complexions, light hair and whis- | kers, agif they had all been turned out of one | mould, they appear so very much alike. They all | seem weighed duwn by the pervading thought:— “How shail stand the climate? and their fea- tures consequently are cast in an interesting pen- sive melancholy. Not that they are a bit afraid of the climate or of however adverse a future, but they have heard so muctr about the disagreeable climate that they naturally feel anxious about it. Each has taken great efforts to study the very latest precautionary measures suggested by the seers, who, fortunately or unfortunately, have been to Africa and still survive, and whose effusive corre- spondence on the Airican climate have done more barm than good, With a natveté quite interesting, these young Highland officers tell you of the little plans they have adopted to guard against the ac- cursed fever, of the good advice which some friends have been kind enough to give them, which they thimk the best thing inthe world, One beardless boy, whose soit face and pure complexion neither sun bas tanned nor wind embrowned, tells us con- fidenttally that he has adopted the mosquito bar plan. “They tell me it is a sure protection against jever. What do you think of it?’ Anotner— an interesting, verdant youth—tells us he means to stick to quinine. “Two grains in a glass of suerry, taken each morning belore coffee or choco- late, will do the joo sure pop, won't 1t—don’t you think so"? he asks anxiously. Another, a fleshy, stalwart young man, whose muscles have found ere this ample exercise over Scotch moors, is de- termined to eschew all liquors. A PRACTICAL YOUTH. “None of your brandies, sodas, sherries, gins or anything of that sort for me. My opinion is that people wouldn't die of it were it not that they kill themselves by drinking.’’ This he delivers with the air of one who knew aj] avout it long before Adam was created; and to prove how brave his resolutions are he bawis out to the steward to brew him a “nice lemonade mixture.” The stew- ards of the Sarmatian complained to me that dur- ing the voyage the officers drank nothing but lem- ouade. “Hi never se’ed suc’! a teetotal set hin my life,” uttered a Cockney waiter as lie passed by me vearing a tray loaded with lemonade mixtures, Iuever saw such a number of SOFT-FACED OFFICERS belonging to any regiment. It may be that the older officers have wisely stayed at home, think- ing that but very littie credit could be gained by such & campaign as this; and from the tendency ol several authorities on the climate question— some of whom are now at Cape Coast—to decry the character of the untortunate dead, they may ve right not to come out and risk their lives to earn ‘the epitaph, “He died of drink.” j I was at a party the otber night, and the name ofa fine young atticer who bad lately died of African fever was mentioned. The English press has proclaimed bis name and deeds, and bestowed on him an enviable character, such as an oficer dying in the cause of his country would be am- bitious to leave behind him for the satisiaction of his friends and the glory of his profession, but i was never more shocked in my life than when one of the party uttered the now common expres- sion, “YES, HE DIED OF DRINK, POOR FELLOW |” The reading world believes that man to have died a hero, though comparatively a humble one; but the world oi Cape Coast takes a diferent view and says he d.ed because “he was a drunkurd.”* MR. STANLEY LIKELY TO BE SHOT. I begin to feel anxious on my own account now— for lam sure that if I die i shail only have died in the cause of journalism—that my friends may be conrforted with the general expression, “He died of drink.” There is but one way of dying in this country to avoid leaving a character for drunken- bess belind me, and that is io get myself decently shot a8 quickly a8 possible, an aiternative that I am very likely to try—perhaps. But Iwas speaking of the wisely stayed at home. veterans who had I don’t know that they have, for i shoud hardly think they would under any circumstances; but I must, therefore, come to the conclusion that tere is no officer of the Forty- second Highianders, unless it be the Colonel, Sir Archibald Allison, who has seen service. How these young butterfaces will stand the climate and how they will bear up under privations in the African tropics must be left for future letters to tell, They will do their duty, no doubt, and up to the moment of debarkation and the day of depar- ture for the interior the British government will assist nature, with prudent wisdom and cure, to retain what energy they posses tor the fulfilment or that @uty. The white regiments will remain quartered on board the transports—nay, they have already departed the roadstead seaward for a cruise, which is to last ten days. Meantime, during this cruise, Sir Garnet Woiseley will hurry the final preparations for THE GRRAT MARCH. The road has already been cleared of bush as ‘ar aa the Prah River, Stores, in jarge quantities, are being conveyed to Prahsu, the frontier post of the Protectorate, situated on the hither side of the Pra. ‘Ibere are probably some 4,000 carriers altogether engaged In the Work of transport, aud each station is amply furnished with a supply of stores, The arrangements of hospitals for the sick are superb, and a strong force of medical mea has been placed at each camp. | The British government bas been LAVISH IN THE OUTFIT for this campaign. Every imaginable thing requisite for soldiers in heaith and in sickness is to be jound here in abundance. As yet | have not heard of a single deficient articie, though I have heard of the arrival of many uon but that is a smail fault. MR. STANLEY PROMISES A “TREAT,” Sir Garnet Woiseley leaves C: Prah on the 27th of this month. The staff leaves on the 26th, I also intend to depart for the front on the 26th and will pusk on as far as the Pray River, and promise you to let you know everything of interest, Excepting a description of the coun- try and the camps I do not expect that there will be much of iaterest attached to an eighty mile March; we intercat of we campaign when tue | ssary articles; Coast for the NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1874——TRIPLE SHEXT, white troops shall have crossed the Prah and shall begin to struggle through the bushes of Ashantee land, peppered by iron sluga—that ia the lively time to which I am looking forward, Thence to Coomassie and back your correspondent may wax graphic—nay, special, You may as well accept tt as a fact that COOMASSIB WILL FALL. So farasI can see the General commanding is thoroughly prepared. He has sumcient reliable troops to conquer ail Africa. The dificulty of ear- Tiers has been tided over by the decision of the General. Those who volunteered for the task were accepted on wage, while those who retused were competled to the service. On the 23d Sir Garnet proceeded to Chamah, at the mouth of the Pra, in the fagship of the African squadron, the Active. He expected to have to rebombard the village which behaved 80 treacherously to Commerell, the Commodore, but he found no inhabitant on the beach, though he landed with a force of marines t@ search for the Datives, who have been 80 vicious, We hear that the African mail steamer, the Soudan, has been lost between Madeira and Sierra Leone. She had on board £15,000 in specie for the use of Sir Garnet, who is without any money at present, having sent his cash lately down to Glover. THE COLUMNS. In one of my last letters 1 said thas Sir Garnet had intormed Commissioner Glover that he must meet him at Prahsu January 15. This turns out tobe anerror. Glover is to pe on the Prah by January 15, and, as this river, or a branch of it, runs diagonally across the country from northeast to southwest, Glover will be able to reach the Prah within three days aiter leaving the Volta, and | both forces will then continue their march to | Coomassie along two lines of a triangle, the apex being the capital of Ashantee. SOUTH AMERICA. The Peruvian Government Victorious Over the Bank Speculators and Mo. nopoiists—Moneyed Corporations More Closely Identitied with the State—Com- merce, Crops and Customs—Revenuc— American Exploration in Bolivia— Telegraph Extension. Lima, Jan. 5, 1874. | The struggle between the government and the | banks 1s over, and the administration policy is crowned with success, Some account was given in my last correspondence of the decree of the 18th of December, oraering tne banks of issue to | purchase seventy per cent of their paid up capital | in government paper, to be heid as a guarantee to the public, and to place upon one side the remain- ing thirty per cent in coin or bullion for the pur- pose of redeeming their notes when it might become necessary. A loud ourish was made by the President with respect to the ‘paternal care’’ of the Executive towards pro- tecting the interests of the people, but 1t was easy to penetrate the cause of action- the simple pro- vision of funds for the national Treasury. At first the banks proposed making a stand “against the measure; they not having been consulted regard- ing its expediency, nor even notified respecting its appearance, the whole matter assumed so much of the character of a forced loan that the opposition was general. But when it came to be | considered that if any bank refused to acquiesce in the views of the President its notes would be refused by all government offices, and the conse- quence would probably be a run, prudence took we piace of indignation, and the iustitations, call- ing together their shareholders, resolved to accept the situation, Thus the vaults of the exchequer wul be supplied with nearly SIX MILLIONS OF SOLES, asum sufficient to pay off the more pressing in- ternal devts and to relieve the Mimister of Finai from anxiety for aiew months to come. It ce tainly appears somewhat arbitrary, nevertheless, to compel the banks to buy government obiigauons at ninety-two per cent when their value in the market rapges Irom seventy to seventy-seven per cent only, One eXcellent result will follow, we public works will receive new impetus and the pensioners on tue State, widows, orplians and re- lired list, will be paid the long avrears due them, In tue meantime the banks ure supposed to have received additional s.rength irom their invest- ment in government securities. The question has been asked and not repiied to, Who furnishes guar- vee to the government? COMMERCE AND THE CRors. atastandsull. The cotton crops in the ave failed, and the report irom the sugar is not flattering. The President 1s ap- y tearful of enforcing the law passed by known as the £stanco, or limiting tue ion of bitrate Of soda. An illegal outward y ‘n cents per quintal has been in opera- tlon since September last, M spite Of the protests and opposition made to it. Owing to the enorthous amounts o/ tie article shipped to Europe, in order to esc im of tne Estanco, the price of itr: jallen to suca a ridiculously low figure xporters have suffered heavy losses. It ls probable that one of the first steps taken by Congress in July hext willbe the repeal of the law. AM N ENTERPRISE IN BOLIVIA. Further iavorabie intelligence bas been received from Col Church’s undertaking in Bolivia. Colonel Markbreit, (he managing agent in La Paz, Was in receipt of acommunication irom tne En- gineer-in-Chief, in Which the tact was stated that a new route had been discovered around the falls of the Madeira rT, lessening the length of tue railway to be constructed by iifty odd miles. The government Still manilested its Warm interest in the undertaking, the President especially evinc- to protect and further the at his command, Noth- rding Mr. Piper, whose whereabouts & matter of speculation for some me past. Neither bad the government Bolivia replied dnally to the request made by the courageous wue o! Mr. Piper, of Which an account has been already given to the HERALD, It may be that t report published from Rio Janeiro to the eect that the story of Piper's death at the hands of the Indians was unfounded is erroneous. A CONCESSION made to a Spanist gentieman by Congress for lusive mouopoly in all telegraphic jand and marine lines to be laid within the jurisdiction of | the Reput Tuis Will clash, ina Measure, with | the project of the Telegraph Works Company of London to lay a cable trom Pisco, in Peru, to Cal- | dera, in Chile, passing through Bolivian waters; but possibly sume arrangement may be arrived at. 87. JOHN'S GUILD. Trad North esta: parent Congr scheme with a ing more Wa An Appeal to the Rich for the Poor, The Association of St. John’s Guild long ago won the hearty approval of the people and the press, by its manly and energetic action in the case of sudden public calamity, and its womanly tender ness towards little children and their sick and dying mothers, Composed of volunteers, who are themselves large givers to charity, each member pursuing a weekly, semi-weekly or daily round of visits to all the tenements in his or her neighborhood—the society reaches at once the most pressing cases as it sounds tle jowest depths of misery. One Jact ulone accounts for the warm feeling of sympathy the public has always :elt for this guild—tnat it asks no question of creed, country or color, but dispenses ireely with the one hand to the poor, Inckless and broken, what it receives with the other trom the rich, prosperous aud happy. ‘yuia society has no reserve fand, and only de- pends for ifs expenditure upon the little sums it receives from day today. Were there bigh sala- ried officers to support in private establisaments and costly offices the poor would soon be overwhelmed and lost; but no rent is paid jor the rooms (at St. Joan’s Chapel) and no oMicer or member of the guild receives so much as a farthing. Every dime and every doilar finds 118 Way, in fuel to cold rooms, in food to hungry mouths and in medicines and delicacies to the palates of the sick, and every old coat and dress beips to cover some poor, shivering form, sometimes of heipless age and sometimes of struggling beauty, To-day, in the midst of a clang of voices trom ‘hungry institutions, St. John’s Guild modestly stands in the outskirts of tue throng, with a tora and broken hat, to pick up the crumbs from the tables of the rich. And not only do they cry out for he jor those whom they enumerate in their appeal for aid, but for the thousands whom recent inves- tigation has shown to be homeless and hungry, | denied by the so-called benevolent associations of workingmen and others, and left to prowl about | the streets, seeking lodgings in the station houses and streets, The HERALD day by day presents pictures of life to the public tuat show full well the great need for action in this extremity, to which the working- men have been, by the panic and loss of employ- ment, reduced, St. Joha’s Guild make, under these circumstances, tne following appeal to ihe public:— “We are without money, which means that we are without food for the starving, without medicine for the bg ts of cellars or garrets, who s three Wotnen have revently perished, dest | threshold of the Guild. ‘Man, pity the poor.’ | Money may besent—and the earlier the better—to ©. | Tresident Merchanw’ Fire insurance | i Broadway; George J. W. Zabriskie, People's. Bank, corner Canai and Thompson ‘J.8. Davies (Sheldon & Co.'s), 677 Broadwa Hl. Weston, DD. Haat Forty ftth street, of cloth: ing, food, groceries, vegetavies, AG, and medicmes, inuy be sent) Kev. Alvah Wiswall Master, 8. J, G., 56 John’s chapel, Varick sreul, catys i ¥. B. Ostrander, © 49 CUBA. The Battle of Melones Reported by the Spaniards. The Most Severe Contest in the District of Gi- bara—How the Insurgents Are Tracked and What Happens to the Trackers—One Hundred and Fifty-two Officers and Men Killed and Wounded—Pepillo Castellanos Among the Dead. HAVANA, Jan. 29, 1874, The following ts the sem!-official Spanish account of the battle of Melones, tn the district of Gibara, undoubtedly the severest engagement that has taken place in that jurisdiction, and, discounting from the natural desire to make as good a story for themselves as possible, shows that the insurgents cope advantageously with the disciplined spanish army TRACKING INSURGENTS AND WLAT CAME OF IT. Colonel Federico Esponda found himself on the 9th day of January in Jumicum, in the command of @ column composed of eighty-seven men of tho Tufas guerillas, the same number of those of Hol- guin, 188 of the regiment Espaia, 144 of the Havana and 164 of the battalion of Matanzas, forming @ total number of 670 combatants, At six in the morning he started on the march, follow- ing the trail of the insurgents, and upon arriving on the hill La Vigia distinguished considerable smoke, which gave him to understand the prox- imity of those he had been following since the | day previous, Ateight o'clock in the morning, at the time of the column coming through a dense forest, the advance guard of THE INSURGENTS OPENED FIRR. Colonel Esponda immediately ordered out hia flankers, and with the main body of his columao and under great dificulties he took the direction towards the River Melones, Here the insurgents kept up a heavy fire to prevent the column from crossing the river. The Spanish forces, however, kept on, and crossed the river to dnd themselves in a clearing belore an extensive abattis of trees, and behind these a large intrenched encampment occupied by the insurgents to the number of 1,800 or 2,000 men. CHARGING THR POSITION. One hundred mea of the regiment Espatia, and with the rest of the column following, charged the positions of the insurgents and took them at the point of the bayonet, the insurgents leaving seven- , teen dead, a large quantity of 100d, some live cat- tle and horses. REPORT OF THE BATTLE. The report says:—In this rude combat, which lasted half an hour, we bad to lament many misfortunes. wounded; the gallant Major Fernandez and over eighty more, between officers and men, Watered the ground with their blood. The persecution was kept up during an en- tire hour, and atterward we encamped close to the river to attend to the wounded and give the neces- sary rest to the soldiers, Atter the engagement had apparently been concluded the insurgents re- turned in large groups to harass the troops. The advanced posts of the camp answered their fire, and very svon the firing became general. Colonel Esponda, finding himself again attacked with half of his ammunition gone and the ioss of eighty men between killed and wounded, the lat- ter requiring the attendance of part of his forces, and examining with calmness the formidabie posi- tions Which the enemy had 10 their rear, and the advantages they might obtain ii he again accepted u combat, be conciuded to commence the dificult movement of his RETREAT 1n the direction of Jumicum, embarrassed with his | wounded aud dead, lalf of the column protected the wounded, and the rest, under the immediate orders ot the brave Esponda, protected tuis hazardous Movement, repressing the enemy, wuo boldly came upon us, it bemg necessary at one time to make general charge With the bayonet, close to the position the enemy eccupted, so as to intunidate them, A group of the enemy’s cavalry commenced to engage’ us, and ‘it was Necessary to take up positious on the various heights of the road to repulse their attacks, In these we suffered & SITUATION WAS VERY CRITICAL. The enemy in cousiderable numbers, our ammuni- ton very scarce, the dead and wounded had to be carried on shouiders, not a single horse remaining cept the chiel’s. In this terrible moment ap- at about half a league's distance, the voiun- ‘airy irom Fray Benito, and, taking advan- Tage Ol the entuusiasm this caused among our troops, Lieutenant Colonel Lorenzo gathered sixty men of his battalion and, marching 500 paces tow- ards the rear guard, took up positions, imme- diately after the same was done by Lieutenant Colonel Chavarri, who at the same time, was Iol- | lowed by the regiment Havana; these torces advan- lageousiy placed im echelon, the entire column re- treated nearly a league, no’ echelon having at any time more than 100 men and the rearmost carry- ing dead and wounded pick-a-back. ‘The eneny, who stili attempted several attacks, was SEVERELY PUNISHED by the fire from the echelons, ‘wuo allowed them to make their aim more deadly, and heed of his inabilty to conquer’ that nandiul of **braves,” he detiniteiy retired, leaving the column in position, trom which it continued to | Jamicum, This day has been a glorious one for the officers and soldiers and itor Colonel Esponda, who aad the honor of commanding tuem, suffered by our forces consist in five oMcers killed and thirtecn wounded; thirty-one killed and 103 wounded of the troops. Those of tne enemy, it can be assured, have been 200 between killed and wounded, among the former the insurgent Chief, Pepillo Castellanos, Who, with several others, were carried away by the troops and identified ‘after- wards. The foregomg 1s a verbatim translation, which, while acknowledging a deieat, still maintains that the insurgents “must” have suffered “most.’? The imsurgents undoubtedly can teil a different story. BRITISH WEST IXDiLS, Steamships’ Commanication with New York—Executive Changes in Trinidad. KinGstox, Jam., Jan. 28, 1874. The government of this tsland has notifiea the | Atlas Steamship Company that the contract with them for the conveyance of mails and passengers between that place and New York, will terminate in June. This company is now running two steamers @ month, and getting excellent freight each way, so that they will continue to run without the subsidy which they now enjoy. The Pacific Mail Company, however, fas taken advantage of the break in the Atlas Company's contract to put in a proposition of their own, yiz:—ior a reasonable subsidy their sieamers will call here going to and returning from Colon. Tiiis causes very gen- eral satisfaction throughout t! The question of a subsidy rests, however, with the government and not with the peuple, who have little or no voice in the matier. The existence of a cable between Jamaica aud Colon, whica gives | three days’ notice Of steamers coming, overrides all the former objections as to regularity and in- convenience to slippers. Trinidad, Itis reported that Mr. Longdon, Governor of Trinidad, has been promoted to ve Governor of Demerara, and that Mr. Cairas, of Honduras, will succeed Mr. Longdon in Trinidad, Mr. Rushworth returns to Jamaica as Colonial Secretary. SEVENTH REGIMENT CHARITY FUND, It appears from the following letter that the | money raised by the Seventh regiment for charl, table purposes has been donated to the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. The regiment found it a very dificult and delicate matter to decide between the claims of the 200 benevolent institutions of the city, and fiually decided to give the whole unt to one of the oldest and most reliavie charitable associas tons, Wnich has the confidence all classes of ol Hue joliowing is the letter of Colonel Hrapguantens Seventn Reaiwext, N. G.S New Y eb. 4, 135i, Ropert B. Mixtory, Esq. Treasurer, 4 ihe Woard of Officers Having decided to ew York Association tor Improving the Col on the entire net receipts Seventh varity ball at the u on the ili day of January honor to forward herewith a check of the regimental treasury for the amount, $4,261 #6. In making tis dispoation of iis iund the regiment 1% miiuenced by the iact that your asoviatien is not local or sectarian in its (extends its operations sullering poor of every act also that your associa= itable efforts to the distribution of el and clothing to the destitute, and has & com- dan experienced organization for that purpose, son for entrusting to your care the giment lor the immediate relie( of regiment dditional re sund raised by this the poor during the present winter Hoping that this action of the Hoard of Officers of this regiment will be approved by ail who are interested in the various charitabw: institutions which honor and dis- Unguish this city, 1 remain, with great respect, yours truly, EMMONS CLaAkl Colonel Commanding Seventh regiment, NG, The valiant Esponda was | THE LOUISIANA USURPATION. Ex-Governor Hebert’s Complaisance and What It Is Worth. THE QUESTION OF A NEW ELECTION. ——— The Popular Wish, the Duty of Oongress and the Neceasity of the Re- publican Party. WasuiNaton, Feb. 3, 1874. To rug Epitos of THR HEeRALD:— ‘There seems to be a sincere destre on the part of Members of Congress ani the press of the country to know how the people of Louisiana think and feel in regard to the proposed ordering of a new election in that State. Mr. Kellogg and nis friends, or rather the beneficiaries of hia usurpation, for he has no friends either among the blacks or | whites, are employing every means, foul and fair, tocreate the impression that the people of the State deprecate any such action on the part of Congress, They nave industriously circulated tn this city the report that the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce entertains and has expressed this view of the matter, which is absvlutely false, and have finally succeeded in inducing BX-GOVBENOR P. 0. HEBERT to write a letter to the same eifect. The friends of that gentleman will sincerely regret the tll-ad- vised step that he has taken, not only because it | places him in antagonism to the wishes oi ali his fellow citizens, white and colored, who are long- ing for the establishment of some responsible | government in the State, but also because the fact | that he holds the office of Levee Commissioner, | | worth $6,000 a year, on the board of which General Longstreet is a member, will not unnaturally sub- ject him tothe suspicion that his judgment is affected by his intimate association with the im- mediate authors of the Louisiana outrage. I oan- | not say that I believe his motives to be anything | but honorable, but 1 do know that he wholly and | entirely misrepresents the sentiments of those citi- zeus of Louisiana whose opinions are entitled to | consideration when he depicts them as being willing to condone a great political crime, and to bend their necks to the yoke of a corrupt usurpa- tion—tor what? In order that Congress may ve spared the necessity of setting a dangerous prec- edent by interference in State affairs, Has ex- Governor Hévert been asleep since 1865 that he now recoils with dismay from the danger of such a precedent being established? Danger, forsootn! | There is neither sincerity nor common sense in | this plea, and T leave it to Mr. Hébert to explain | to his friends (I will not say to his constituents, for | IE REPRESENTS NOBODY IN LOUISIANA), how he can with honor urge the perpetuation of an infamous wrong upon the political rights and | liberties of his fellow citizens, effected by federal interierence, lest a dangerous precedent be set. Set by whom? By the republican party, which has never heretotore quailed before the responsibility of acting in obedience to their “higher law’ of right and justice, even when the constitution stood | in their way—which it certainly does not in this in- stance, Mr. Hébert says that our troubles may be settled at the election in November next for mem- bers of tne Legislature. This is utterly untrue. In the first piace, WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG WILL HAVE COMPLETE CON- TROL OF THER WHOLE MACHINERY OF THE NOVEM- | BER ELECTION, and his returning board will not be a whit more scrupulous In its canvass of the returns than was the notorious Lynch-Hawkins board in December, | 1872. Jn the second place, only one-half the members of the Senate will be elected at that time, the other half “holding over,’ and these latter being | bound over hand and foot to Kellozg and his asso- ciates, it will be utterly impossible to remove him by impeachment, which requires the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators. In the third place, if Kellogg were impeached and removed, he would be succeeded by the Hon. | Caius Caesar Antoine, who has no more title to the oMce of Lieutenant Governor than Keilogg has to that of Governor. | Inthe fourth place, the general State officers | | hold their positions under our constitution for four | years, and they cannot be affected by the election | in November next. What, then, becomes of Mr. Hébert’s statement that the grievances com- plained of can be settled without Congressional action under the constitution and laws of Louisiana ? Mr. Editor, we have reached a point in this Louisiana controversy where If BECOMES THE IMPERATIVE DUTY OF CONGRESS TO ACT. | The position of the administration in the matter | | was yesterday clearly and unmistakably defined | in the Senate by Mr. Frelinghuysen. It points directly to the rejection of Mr. Pinchback, who has | a tar better title to recognition than Mr. Kellogg, | because he does represent a large portion of tne | people of Louisiana, and total inaction upon the | question of the legality of the Kellogg government. | But can a republican Congress afford to take so | humiliating and timorous a course? If the State | of tlinols or Iowa or some other great State of the North or West were an applicant for redress at the | bar of Congress it would not dare to turn a deaf ear to its demands. But Louisiana is not in a posi- tion to demand anything; her representatives can only beg and humbly sue ior a modicum of justice, and I do not hesitate to say that it would be cow- ardly and contemptile on the part of Congress to spurn our appeal. Abject servility towards the strong; arrogance and contempt towards the weak—is this to be the motto of the Forty-third | Congress, the oficial representative of the great republican party ? We have presented petitions signed by thou- | sands of tire best citizens of Louisiana, asking 1or relief from the Kellogg usurpation, and Congress, | by its inaction, has thus far coniessed its incom- | | petency to deal with the great political problem submitted for its solution. | WHEN A PARTY LOSES ITS MORAL COURAGE ITS DOOM IS SEALED, Hitherto the republican party has been more | ready to resort to forced interpretations ofthe | constitution than to shrink from responsibility; | but now its representatives are forcing it into the | | humiliating atutude of inaction and supineness in the presence ofa great outrage upon republican and representative institutions, Will the rank and file of the party and its press accept the rdle thus | marked out for the party by its leaders. If they do, the boldness of the party has departed, and with its boldness goes its prestige. | . Congress does not dare to justify the Louisiana | {nfamy since its enormity has been disclosed in its | detaiis by the able and patriotic speech of Senator | Carpenter, and yet it has not the courage to re- dress the wrong. When old Thaddeus stevens, during the discussion of a contested election case | mthe House, defantly cried out, “What is the | | use of talking about the constitution ? What's the | name of our fellow? Vote him in!’ the indigna- | tion which his contemptuous disregard of right | and justice aroused was somewhat tempered by admiration for his boldness. But for | A CONGRESS WHICH TIMIDLY FOLDS ITS HANDS | when prqught face to face with a crying outrage upon the rights of American citizens, and whim- peringly exclaims, “Your cause is just, bat we are not equal to the emergency and cannot help | you,’’ one can feel nothing but pity. ‘The country may rest assured that all manhood | and courage have not been crushed out of the | people of Louisiana by oppression, They know their rights. and will not consent to being cheated | out of them, It may be unhesitatingly stated that | nobody in Loutsiana at this juncture is opposed to the ordering of a new election, excepting those | who are directly or indirectly interested in the maintenance of the Kellogg usurpation. The New Orleans Times and Republican, the Kellogg organs, are opposed toit. The Picayune and Bee, the organs of the people, favor it as the only means of | obtaining for their State @ government that wil; be acquiesced in, The large and most respecta- ble Gonvention of the people, which was held at | | Schools Nos, 45, 46, 47 and 48. | that it is the only trustworthy paper for news. Ls | there will be at! New Orieans on November 24 and 25 last, desired such action on the part of Congress, in default of the recognition of the McEnery government, and it 1 idle to expect quiet, order and pros- perity to be re-established in Louisiana until the people are reiteved from the galling usurpation that has been imposed upon them by the tederal army end judiciary and a republican administra- tion, Respectiully yours, ALBERT C. JANIN. BOARD OF EDUCATION. eo Ee Economy in Regard to New Schools— Removal of the Bodies from the Old First Street Churchyard—An Impor- tant Report To Be Made—The New Teachers in the A ea Dis' A meeting of the Board of Education was held yesterday aiternoon, Mr. Noilsov, President, in the chair, Areport from the City Supermtendent, in ac- cordance with @ resolution previously adopted relative to economy in the opening of new schools, “recommended that in the case of sinall schools the experiment should be tried of placing botn or all the departments under one principal." The re- port was referred, Proposals for the removing of the bodies from part of the ola First street Presbyterian church- yard (the church being now a schoul house) were received as follows :—For removing to Cyprus Hills, $5,490; to Woodlawn, $5,000; to Evergreens, $4,950, The proposals were reierred to tue Commitice on Finance. ‘The following resolution was passed :— Resolved, That the Clork of the Board be directed to ascertain and report at the next regular mveting— Fire—the number ot pupiis in each of the public schoo! 7 — study the French and German languages, respectively. Second— ihe number of classes in each of the schools in which the Freuch and German languages are taught, respeciively. Therd—ie number of regular assistant teachers who are omployed im waching the German language. The following named persons were appointed as teachers in the Westchester district, embracing the Twenty-third and ‘wenty-lourta wards :—For the Twenty-third ward, as Principals, Jonathan Hyatt, Caroline L, Hurdy, Joun B, moore, Mra. M. L. Van Law, William B. Silber, Mrs. Sarah M. Kheins, Miss Kate Morris; as Vice Principals, Miss Imogene Upson and Miss Mary Morris. For the Trent onan ward, as Principals, George H. Al- bro, Miss Lizzie H. Thomson, Wiliam H. Kennard, Miss Selina A. Flynn, James Buchout, Mrs. Louisa Upson, Miss Adelaide M, Sheak and Miss Mary A. Guchrist, The Jollowing resolution in connection with the above was adopted :— But that in cases where an increase of salary has been made, said increase to take place from the date of the passage of thus resolution. The Committee on Sites and New Buildings re- ported that the schools in the Twenty-tird and ‘wenty-lourth wards be designated and known as follows:—Kor Twenty-third ward, Grammar School No. 1, at Mott Haven, to be known as Grammar School No, 60; No, 3, at Morrisania, a3 No. 61; No. 4, at Melrose, a3 No. 62; Primary Schooi, at Clare- mont, to be Known as No, 43; at East Morrisania, as No. 44. For ?wenty-iourth ward, the Grammar schools at Tremont, Fordham, West Farms, Kings- bridge and Mosholm are to be known as Grammar schools Nos, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, and the Primary schools at Mount Hope, Spuyten Duyvil, Williams. bridge and Belmont to be known as Primary The report was adopted, A vast amount of routine business was trans- acted, which was of no public interest, and the Board adjourned at seven o’clock P. M. AROUND THE OITY HALL George Law, the President of the Eighth Avenue Ratlroad Company, accompanied by Mr. Butier, the President of the Sixth avenue line, were in cousul- tation with Mayor Havemeyer yesterday aiter- noon in relation to paying licenses for the running of cars on their respective roads, ‘he fee to be paid the city is $50 tor each car, but Mr. Law thougtt this should be paid only for those run, and not for those in the repair shop. The head of the Bureau of Licenses was sent for and it was decided tiat under the law each car running or to be run should pay the fee, Mr. Butler will to-day pay licenses for seventy-three cars, amounting to $3,650, aud Mr. Law gave his check to tie Mayor for $5,500, being the license fee ior eleven cars more than jast year. The other lines are expected to pay up in a few days, Amessenger named Rafferty, in the Comptrol- ler’s Office, was yesterday discharged to decrease the expenses oi the department. His salary was 800, ‘The Corporation Counsel being too much engaged to attend to it, the Mayor, under the resoiution passed at the last meeting of the Board oi Super- visors, Will immediately employ counsel to resist claims which he considers traudulent and which have been resisted under mandamus, Pending the setciement o1,the reorganization of the Board of Assistant Aldermen the Finance De- partment bas reiused to pay the salaries of the clerks of the Board. A decision, it is thought, will be given in the matter next Saturday. ABT MATTERS Stray Notes. A Boston paper remarks:—“The friends of Mil, more, the sculptor, will be glad to learn that since his sojourn in the Eternal City he has been steadily adding new sprigs to his laurels, His latest tri- umph was & commission to execute a portrait bust of the Pope, the sittings for which were given in the private library of the Vatican. The Pope was astonished at the youth of the artist and expressed lumseif as highly pleased with the work. | It is pro nounced by the artists and clerics in Kome to be * the best likeness ever made of Pius [X.” Mrs, Ettie L. Rice has on exhibition at Mr. E. C, Cahiil'’s art gallery, No, 56 East Twenty-third street, several careiully executed pictures and sketches, the scenes of Which are laid in Central Park. The most noticeable is an oil painting rep- resenting the upper lak There are also repre- Sentatlons o1 the aqueduct, the mall and the music stand and adjacent scenery. Some water color drawings by Mesdag, Louis | Gallait, Blommers, Simonetti, Israels, Fortuny, Dobson, Whymper, Edmund Warren, Sic John Gil- bert, Magford, Dodgson and Danby have recently been extibited at tne McLean Gallery, London, An exhibibition of original paintings on pottery, by Messrs, Culeman, Ludovict, Lessore, Solon-Miles und Bouguet, is now to be enjoyed there. Mr. Edward H. Barker is preparing the memoirs of his grandiather, the iamous Thomas Barker, of Bath, the painter of “fhe Woodman.” The late Jonn Philip's “Prayer in Spain” has been engraved by T, Oldham Barlow. Oniy artists? proots will be struck, and these will be limited to 500, the plates veing then destroyed. R. of No, 31 Union square, has dis- play Bierstadt, Bellows, Story, Eastman Johnson and Mcbntes. Bierstadt’s 18'a large oil painting repre- senting a scene in the Yosemite, THE ICE CROP, POUGHKEEPSIE, Feb, 3, 1874. The weather here jor the past week has been very cold, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday being the coldest days of the season. The ice 1s forming rapidly, and is already ten to eleven inches thick, and most of the ice companies are getting ready to commence cutting. J. Clark, of Stuyvesant, is reported to be already at work, tie ice being irom nine to ten inches thick and very clear, The ther- mometer here Tuesday morning stood at eight de- grees below zero. The inhabitants say that they have not had such severe weather for several years, and further say that the ice companies need have NO FEAR OF A PATLURE of the ice crop. At East Albany Monday night thermometer stood at tweive degrees below 0. Reports from Barrytown, Tivoli, Rhinebeck, Peekskill and Tarrytown state that the ther: ‘mometer ranged from six to thirteen degrees be- Jow zero. The ice at Tivoli 1s strong enougn to beara horse and team, and is as clear as crystal, Pas. sengers are crossing on the ice. At Barrytown the ice is nine inches thick, The Newark pany is getting ready to commence cut snow which has falien here will not incommode the ice cutters, 80 that the people at large peed not have any ear of a scarcity o1 the crop, which so many wisea predicted wonld ‘The people here say that the HERALD was tl paper that gave a hopeul view of the ca e IF NO MORE SNOW FALL stored in the sheds 01 the various ice companies at the end of the present week, 1 workmen are ready to com- mence cutting a8 soon as ordered, The Washing- ton Ice Company has twice as many men at pres- ent engaged as any other company. This company heeds at least 260,000 tons ior and Jersey City. ‘The Knickerbucke wants about | 0) tons for the same locality. ‘Taking tt all together, | think there need be no serious alarm about the ice crop. St 30,000 to | ANNIVERSARY MASS POR THE LATE VICAR GENERAL, Asolemn requiem mass, to which the attena- ance of the reverend clergy 1s invited, will be cele- brated at St. Patrick's Cataedral to-morrow morn- ing, it being the anniversary of the death of the late Very tev. Wiliam Starrs, formerly Vicar Gen- eral of this diocese. The Most Reverend Archbishop will be present gud give the absolution, past lew days new works by | ry small. | York, Brooklyn | Ice Company | | pught go. GADSHILL'S MASKERS. The Robbery on the Iron Moun- tain Railroad. THE CONDUCTOR’S ACCOUNT How the Robbers Went Through the Train and the Passengers. Areporter of the St. Louis Globe interviewed the conductor of the train of the Iron Mountain Railroad which was rovbed on Saturday last at « station called Gadshill, and obtained the following information :— “Tell me ali about this thing, Mr. Alford," said the reporter. “Commence at your start {rot Louis and relate the circumstances in detail.” “Well, 1 ran out train No, 7, the Littie Kock ex- press, and started irom Plum street at ten min utes of ten Saturday morning. We got behind, and when we reached Gadshill, 120 miles from St, Louis, we were ap hour late, Gadshiilis a regular stopping place, though there tg no station there— only a platiorm, 1t is 4 small ylace, of no account and there are only afew houses. There used to be @ mill there.” “A grist mill “Grisumill ? No. They'll never have a gristmilt there in the world; 8 sawmill. The country around the:e is heavily timbered, und it is just the pluce for a sawmill or—a robbery." “Of what was your train composed ¢* “Four cars; “a mail, baggaze and express car, ali in one, two coaches and a sleeper. 1 reckon we had twenty-five passengers in all, five of them ladies. We were due at Gadshill at six minutes past jour, but we didn’t get there until a quarter ot five. As Wwe approuched the town the engineer noticed @ red flag and whistied down, I was on the step of the car and saw the flag, and jumped of belore the train had fully stopped, lor | thought the track was torn up or there was some other difl- cuity, because a red flag means danger. Aa I struck the piatforia I noticed the train ronning on the side track, Tue northern switch hi been opened and so had the southern, and when we got on the side track we were stuck, for had we started (orward or back, we would have run off the track. Just as 1 jumped of a man grabbed by the collar and jammed a pistol in my lace. He was a huge six-(ooter, and his face was covered witha mask made of white cloth, with holes cus for his eyes and mouth. Here, I'll show you, and taking the reporter’s handkerchief Alford ae it over his face, tucking the lower corners in est. i “How many men were there in the party ?" “rpere were only five, and the funniest be | was they had captured the town first and pull every man, woman and child out of the hous ‘They had built @ big bonfire near the platiorm, and there were the innabitants crowded around it trying to keep warm, ‘The robbers stood over them, on guard, all armed with from two to three navy revulvers, and three of them had double- barrelied sbotguns. Woen the fellow grabbed me 1 didn’t know what to make of it.” “Werea’t you irightened ?"” “Well, J reckon 1 was somewhat trightened he put me right at my ease—he comforted me." “What did he say?” “Stand still, or I'll blow the top of your damned head off’ L stood stl. I saw two oi the gang jump on tne engine, and they made the engineer ‘and fireman get down, They were brought to where 1 stood, and the robber covered us with @ pistol. He spoke to those who looked out at the windows, and told them if @ shot was fired he would kill the conductor. That was me. One of them stood on the opposite side of the train, and ag the passengers put their heads out he told them to take those Weads back again or they'd lose ’em. ie had @& double-barrelled siotgun, and Idon’t think he was fooling any, ‘wo of them went into the baggage car and hauled out the baggageman aud a brakeman, These they put ander the seme guard that had me. There was another brakeman, but he got into the sleeping car and stayed there. They theu went into the mail apartment and demanded the regis- terered packages of the mailagent, They rum- Maged through the letters and picked out those that had been registered, and brought the agent out on to the platform and handed him over to the guard, Toe express messenger Was the next mai and aa they went into his room he covered one them witha pistol, but another drew a@ bead on him with a gun and instructed him to lay that pistol down gently. He did so. Then they ae- manded his Keys, opened the safe and took out the money packages. ‘hey took out one packet marked “Watch,” but when they opened it and found it to be a silver watch they dropped it. They put the other packages into bags and then went through the baggage boxes. They opened my satchel and took out my pistol, Alter that exploit thev went through the train, They weren't careful with passengers. They punched them im the ribs with pistols and pointed their shooting-irons into their faces. Not a man es- caped them. Every one was robbed, thuugi they only took one gold watch, several had fine watches, but the tieves passed them over, There were three tadies in the ladies’ coach and two in the sleeper; one of the latter, Mrs. Scots, of Penn- sylvania, bound irom St. Louis to Hot Springs with her son, was robbed of $400, leaving her only tem cents, One other lady was relieved of three pocket handkerchieis, but that was all. Ste tas @ mag- nificent goid watch and heavy cnain, but they didn’t tuke it. They didn’t seem to care tor watches. The one they took belonged Lo @ man who wouldn’t give his name.’ “Do you Know the names of those who were robbed and the amounts taken?!” “hey got $1,080 in money packages from the ex- precs car, Adams’ express; $7 50 irom Silas terry $104 25 from C, D. Henry; $30 from G. L. Dart; $200 irom Mr. Lincoln; $200 from Mr. Moran; $20 trom O. 8, Neweil, sleeping car conductor; $15 in money, @ ring Valued at $30 and a pin valucd 4& $100, vom W. A. McLanan; $2 from James John- son, porter of tne sleeping car; $40 from the trata boy and $50 from me. They took my watch, but the baggage man said, ‘For God’s sake, doa’t tase his watch, it was a present to him,’ and the cap- tain ordered them to give it back. Tney seemed to be under the control o1 the captain, and gave the watch back to me.”” “Did they get anytuing from any of the citizens of Gadsbul?”? “They took $800 and a rifle from one man, but 3 did not hear of any other, We had a member of the Legisiature on our train, whose son Was Wait- ing jor him at Gadshill, He was under guard when we got there, and 1 don’t know Wuether he or i father was robbed or not.’ “pid they touch apy baggage?” “No, they did not stop for taat. Mr, Morley, our chief engineer, was on the train, and Le expostu- lated with them, but they told him to sit down aud shut his head and mind his business.” “That Was his business, wasn’t 1b??? “1 think so, and so did he, but they didn’t seem to agree with him. He asked them to restore the property they had taken, but they shoved a pistol under his nose and ordered him to keep quiet. When tney took the money trom the express car one of them asked the express agent for his reveips book. He gave it up and the robber wrote ns ‘Robbed at Gadsnill.? Said he, ‘I think I have hi the honor of writing iM this buok betore.’ The agent has been robbed five times and he thinkg tis tellow had something to do with it. [ shouldn’t wonder if he nad. I think they were all old at the business, When I thought they had got about througn I asked tuem if £ ‘Yhey said yes, and | sent a man to shut the northern switch and went myseif to snut the southern. ‘hey had bent the rod so that Lhad to get a board and straighten it, This took me some time, and in the meanwhile they made om. ‘Tuey went in a westerly direction to where their horses stood, and made olf as Jast ag they could. Belore they went they shook hands with the en neer, and told him always to stop when he sees & red flag. He told them lie always did. The engi- neer is named William Wetton und the fireman's name is Campbeli—I don’t know his first name. One thing I jorgot. Belore their departure the} wrote outa telegram tor the St, Louis Des] and gave it to a passenger Lo send through. They sald that paper has inisrepresented them on one occasion, and they Wanted to put it in possession Of ail the sa i telegraphed tne despa:ch to the raiiroad office in St. Lows and an operator took tt ol the wire and sent it to the epublican and Times as a special.’ ‘ “How long had they been waiting there for yout’? “about two pours. It took them forty minutes to go through us, and in that time they made abous $2,400, besides Gu a joey a and the $800 they took trom the Gads: han, “T have heard that Mandevilie had $10,000 on the bev nel sent ine Sera got it; do you know anything about that “NO; F never heard that before. Ke might have had it'in big trunk, but don’t taink he did.” ave you any clew to the (dentity of the rob- s—any theory of who they are?” “[ tnink they are the saine gang that robbed the Hot Springs stage about two weeks ago, and the Jowa train some time past. They took dinner at Moark on ‘Tuesday, and at Hot Springs on Friday. ‘nat is the only trace of them we have now.” ‘When did you come back 7? “] went on to Piedmont and telegraphed from there, and then went to the State line, aud came but | pack this afternoon.” Alford is & quiet man, with @ humorous style of describing Wuat he sees, and told tus story to the Globe in &@ quaint bus straigutforward manner. He isu man ol herve and a man oi strong common sense. He evidently has reason for believing those who attacked him to be the fowa train roobers. in his narrative there was no bragging. He seemed to accept Wie inevilavie situation aud make the most ol it. And so these bands of thieves seem to make Missouri their home; intend to stay here; get their money here aud spend it here, Perhaps some effort will be made to catch and punish them, aud perhaps not, In the meantime the travelling pub- lic are to rejoice at the prospect of some enliven- ment Of an otherwise monotonous railroad trip. Among the articles furnished to the House of Deiegates of the District of Columbia by a hotel keeper in Washington are sandwiches, spring chickens, Crabs, oysters, Whiskey, gin, Wine, cigars and packs of cards, amounting to over $1,000, im- cluding breakage and 1033 of BADKILA,