The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1874, Page 8

BRAZIL. Condition of the Imperialist Relations Towards the Argentine Confederation, —__-——_—— Active Preparations for War—Cabinet Relations to the Catholic Church—The Special Mission to Rome and Correspondence with the Vatican—Impending Prosecution ofthe Bishop of Pernambuco. 20, Feb. 7, 2874. south, and the Rio JANE ‘The cloud is still darkening Brazilian government has resolved to take imme- date meascres in preparation for a war judged almost inevitable, but wolch the President of the Counct) has declared to his friends will, under po circumstances, be commenced by Brazil, which will await an open act of hostility Irom the argen- tine Coniederation before drawing tne sword. Measures tor preparation, Paragnay, the re-establishment of the suppressed | Fuver Platte naval station and an active recratt mg and impressment for the army and navy, for the latter of which foreign seamen are invited to serve one year, Admiral the Baron da Laguua left Rio on the Sst ult. to ¢ command of the River | Fiatte squadron, now consisting of two corvettes and several gunboats, Dut which is to be very soon strengthened by the iron-clads and monitors Brazil, Marize e Barros and Babia and the corvette Magé, now getting ready in all haste at Rio, afld by other vi recalied from their re- spective stations or commissions. As for arms and munitions, tuey are now in abundance, The maga- | zine in the harbor powder in store, and The Combiain (Belgian) breech-loader has been Giually adopted for the army and introduced in large numuers, the Spencer being used in the nav: mstrong and Whitworth cannon are ready for heavy work, and a considerable number of bronze fleld cannon have been constructed in the Rio arsenals, whose climneys have been vomit- ang smoke night and day for months past. In ad- dition German ironmen bave been brought out to | work the iron founderies at Ypanema, in St. Paulo, whose fine iron will serve to render Brazil inde- pendent of ioreign supplies in case of interruptions from abroad. THE MOTIVES actuating the Brazilian government to take imme- diate measures for increasing ner Jand and naval forces in the River Platte and its aMuents seem to be chiefy the fear that the Argentine government is meditating a coup de main on Paraguay, or more probably to seize the island of Atajo, on which is the Brazilian naval depot at the mouth of the Paraguay, and which, though formerly de facto Paraguayan territory, is claimed by the Argentiue government as Argentine territory. Gainza, the Argentine Minister of War, still remains in Entre Rios, on the Parana, with the Argentine army, of some 8,000 men, although the Entre Rian civil war is entirely over, and although the large cannon | in the John Patten, from Boston, are still rusting im the hola of that vessel, irom the incapacity of the Argentine engineers to bandle them. Three steamers arrived from Enrope last week at Buenos Ayres with large remittances of cannon and rifles tor the Argentine government. It tsaiso said that some American military engineers are now at work there upon plans for the tortification of Martin Garcia and points on the Parana. Another motive for apprehension ties in the probability of the election, February 1, of Alsina as President of the Confederation, Alsina’s canyass has been carried on with the war cries of “Death to the gringos (foreigners) and to the traitors who have sold us to Brazil!’ and biooay nes were expected to occur at Buenos Ayres as well a3 other places. If, as is probable, Al: Gaucho fanaticism and hatred of foreigners will be in the ascendant aud in combination with that just of territory which fatiers the national pride and makes the difficulty of the ation with Brazil. Brazil cannot, at present, abandon the iree navigation of the La Plata rivers, so neces- sary to the safety and commerce of one-fourth of the Empire, and she considers the independence of Paraguay an indispensable requisite to msure that freedom. And Paraguay, in her view, cannot be independent, if the ar- gentines, establishing themselves oppo: Asuncion, merely divided from it by the River Paraguay, are enabled to foster revolutions at the unhappy Republic's very door. Hence the deter- mination of the Brazilian government not to per- mit the Coniederation to extort the whole western side of the Paraguay trom the Republic, which in- tention to extort the Argentine Congress has openly countenanced by reiusing to ratify the treaty of boundaries made by Mitre with the Par- aguayan government, w leit the latter Chaco to the north of the Plcomayo. The cause ot Paraguay is, therefore, in Bri n eyes, the cause of Brazil, and thus, for the sake of a few equare leagues of territory, which will infalibiy, beiore ten years, become Argentine territory by the natural course of Paraguayan entry into the Confederation, the too eager cupidity of the Con- jederation is provoking a war which may have re- markavie consequences, and ts sure to be deeply ruinous to the River Platte commerce, and poss to that of Braz. However, I believe that the Bra- the war, and perhaps it muy still be, though at present the atmosphere is heavily THE RELIGIOCS QUESTION, February 1 the imperial government pubiis in rejation to the Penedo lowing :— The imperial government resolved ne to send Pieni pc special mission ro e, to avert the most grave consequences conflict aroused by the reverend prelates, tue ernamouco and Para. The nature of (he conflict were shown by (hese documents:—the advice of June 12 of last yea addressed by the Minister of the Empire to th former of those prelates, im consequence of the Jurtherance giveu to the appeal to the Crown; the consult of tue Section of Affairs of the Empire of the Conner state, and the reply and subsequent acts of D. Vital. Tue emergency was the more serious because she visbops consideret themselves authorized and encouraged in t of the Catholic Churcn. te ments the Minister of tue intent aud eu the visible Chief to those docu- n ACairs epitomized PlomAue mtssion to vhe Holy See in owing words, textually taken from the insiructions ‘o Raron de Penedo:— “Explain to tie Cardiual s¢ ary. and very pare ticularly to His Hou has occnrred here, point out the ¢ result (rou The continuance of suc! al acts, and try to mdue: Pope to av Thatne tue bishops in t recommend to t cepis of the ec rues which have always Uy tions of the Chi with miocest times (must warn you th dered tue pre and, if neve ite disposal, waiting jor the your zeal and cise sary, ans . Without n confided to When charging you WIN this missiou it dues not think of suspending the action of the laws, It 1s its duty to make them he carried ont. Whar the governr to prevent the ovcurrence of sill gray ‘ he order for tae prosecu published, peruaps ve you, ur communica- Ww 4 10K al ove § just and tions to the Uards erate but firm Jangt 4s not asking a lavor; ters into no compromise. In iujfiiment ef apd in conformity witn his #tructions the Brazilian Envoy sent the me dum published below to the Cardinal secrets His Holiness. The official reply to tuts mant tion in the name of the imperial governmen given alter many conferences, in which the facts Well discussed, ows the memorandum. reply 18 compietod by the tenor of (be note it rh Baron de Penedo has given account of t It of the wissic nf tohim. The news ' been received by mperial government WIth great satisfaction. MOTE OF BARON PENRO. Kome, Ger, 29, 1873, The undersigne?, Envoy Extaoruinaty aud Minister F yotentiary OF Hie Majesty the Km- eror of Braz | mission to the Holy See, we the Honor t to tie Most Rey, Emit which have already | © been taken, are the sending 0! more troops to | | Emperor. He demed | ofthe episcopal munus, cast invectives upon thore rights | of the sovereignty of Brazil—declared himself, in fact, in | | | in Brazil. of Rio has about 300 tons of | the milis are at ful! work. | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. annexed memorandum, | caer en his late conlerence. ‘of you to please to submit | Holy Father, to | of S decialod ao as 18 desirable in this grave and | disquieting question. 1 this occasion, &c. a The undersigned profits phy De PNEDO.”” Ce 7 | Yo His Eminence Monsignor Cardinal ANTONELLIL MEMORANDUM. The extraordinary events occurred of late in Brazil’ tm consequence of the grave conflicts excited hy the Fever. eud Bishop of Olinda, followed by some prelates of other dioceses, must naturally reclaim the serious attent and the legrnmate interference of the ating Brea n: ment. (hese lamentable events have had the greatest publicity in all the country, apd iust certain come to the knowledge of the Holy ea raretore 8 hot proper to doubt that they have affected the supreme | chiet of the Universal Church. The conflict took ite | from the sentence of the reverend Bishop of Olinda, | which judyed interdicted @ brotherhood of the city of | Recite because it had not undertaken to expel a brother | notoriously a Freemason, aa the reverend Bishop says, and every other Mason belonging to it. Mecem. | ber as i872) The Rating Beard of the brotherhood ound itself ‘unable to ‘ulti the episcopal command, In view of its engagement. The reverend Bishop insisted (Janu fisi# ih his resolution and, before. the brotherh could reply to the communication intimated to it, im | posed the ‘pei aly of interdiction upon ail the corpor: tion. (January 1, 1873.) The brotherhood appealed to | ° Crown from this sentence, in conformity with the | ys of the Empire. And, when questioned on the case, order of the President ‘ot the Province, the reverend Bishop confined bimselt to the declaration, “That such ppeal was condemned by various decisions of the .” Thus he prererred to let his case go by default han give @ prooi of submission to the Jaws of the try. Aiter consniting the Council of State, His Majesty, the crOr Was Pleased to give relfet in the appeal: | Thils imperial resolution was communicated by the Minister or the Empire to the reverend Bishop: but the reply of the 6th of duly was one of formal disobedience to the the legitimacy of the deneplacitum and of the appeal to the Crown, and, reproducing the subversive doctrines previously proclaimed, with abuse complete opposition to the powers of the State, In fact he had already, in his pastoral of February 2, combated the bencplacituvi, saying “that no one who prized himself a an obedient Son of the Church cowid aduut it” A sovereiga right, consecrated by immemorial laws of the, Portuguese Monarchy, maintained by the constitution of the Empire for almost half a century and respected by ail the bishops of Brazil, was solewnly disrespected by the reverend Bishop of Olinda. Commencing his religious ‘restoration by the con- demnation of Freemasonry the reverend preiate w- | voked bulls which had never obtained the benepiacitum Without entering upen an examination of the institution condemned by the Chureh, it must be said that in érazil it has never shown itsels Hostile to religion nor subject to the reasons which had led to itscondemna- . ‘This isa tact which is in the conscience of all wh know what the association is in Brazil, and various m: | notable for their virtues and feelings of piety have b longed to it, Putting aside the abuse in irnoring the tr perial Peneplacitun, had the reverend Bishop coniin | Bimsell to exhorunig hig diocesans to abandon a society | which the Holy See had deciared an enemy to religion, reminding the faithful of ecclesiastical penalties | and censures, and even comminating them, this would have been a mere auestion of conscience, cireum- | scribed within belie in the prescriptions of the Chu But when the penalties pass on to have external effects the confuet between the spiritual command and the civil law begins. To seek to give such effects to those penaities is in Brazil to gu counter to the fundamental principles of the constitution—to such, among others, a3 the right not to be persecuted for reasons of religion.” In applying, as the reverend Bishop did, the penalty of in- terdiction to a whole brotherhood because of its not hav- ing expelled the Masons from it, he went-outside his Jurisdiction. he requiring a temporal eect tor a merciy | spiritual penalty, contrary to the nature of the penalty | and in opposition to the civil law. | ‘The brotherhoods in Brazil are not under the e: direction and jurisdiction of the bishops, They are in- | stitutions governed by engagements approved by the | | civil power and by the ordinaries in the purely spiritual part. In everything besides the latter they are under the juris icticn of the temporal power by means of | special judges, called judges of chapels, who watch ov: er, tie execution of the engagements, the administration of | the property, admission and exciusion ot brothers, &c., This conjunct approval ot the two powers neces: rily gives a mixed nature to the brotherhoods, The en- EB ment did not contain disqualification of Masous to long t9 it and the Bisdop couig not, without Fay con. sent of the civil power, vislate the essentially Mmilvid. ble engagement, changing the conditions of ihe associa: tion's existence, besides causing temporal detriment and rivation as eMects of a spiritual penaity. Thereiore sertion is not admissible that the reverend Bishop nerely altered the engagement in the part relating to his jurisdiction, when, In virtue of the inter- dict, he deprived Masons of the exercise of worshlp. The brotherhood was under the legal impossibility of obeying the episcopal command without offending. its organic constitution, and had it done so the Judge of Chipels would have had to undo tt. | | ‘The excess of jurisdiction ‘and the usurpation of the | temporal power justified. therefore. the appeal taken 9 | the Crown by the interdicted brotherhood. It is not | permissible to discuss a constituted right, inherent in the national sovereignty, Not less ancient than the benep cituut and never placed in doubt by the Brazilian Kpis. | copacy. However, it has to be remembered that since | the decree of March 25, 1897, this prerogative of Lie Crown has not been only, as in the old Portuguese legis: lation, & special means against abuses of the ecciesiasti- cal authority, but has been rendered likewise & guarantee to the latter against the civil power. In tact, that famous decree established recrprocity in | the appeal to the Crown as a remedy tor the excesses of | the temporal authority against the prerogatives ot the Church or against the rights of its ministers in relation | w worship, Thatlaw made stil another innovation in | favor of the Church when it abolished appeal to. the | Crown’ against the bishops in the cases Of stspension . Thns, far trom veing vexatious Dhurch, the appeal to the Grown ts another ele ment of liberty, peace and harmony introduced into the modern legislation of the Empire ior the of the two Powers. In this particular the fra arch 1s that best guaranteed by the State, and ‘has least to fear for its independence, & i } To just ify his procedure, the reverend bishov pretends veel} with the Driel of May 2 ot the current in he opines himself tuily approvea of by ess. Asserting in favor of his acts the support and encouragement of the sapreme chief of the Church, he opposes tle provisions of the bret to the laws of the State. Without hesitation and with manitest contempt of 8 preceding beneplacttum, he gave it at once publicity and execution. The imperial government cannot believe thatsuch a an be approved of by ¢ being con hat 11 cannot wish to the Empi turbal hose extent meas on the contrary istrously invoked, -erve s to cover neither be foreseen nor hose venerable letters sosin- i more, if possible, té. confirm | this couviction of the Imperial government, and_to ren- der patent that the Holy See was foreign (o all the acts of the reverend bishop, acts imputable only to oxagger- aied zeal. Ii,in place of having asked a post {ac counsel from the chief of the Chureh, he had not antic pated it, allowing himself to draw’ on & thoughiless struggle, the — reveren bishop — would uot have | suddenly launched those mass exeentions reected by the Holy See in that saine bri Wiat the Holy Father recommended in it was modera: clemency in the application of censures, order- ing their suspension for a yeur, in order to t te ruin of so many souls and to spare the prelate | the sity of using rigor.” This paternal precept oe pproves of @ proceeding as severe as it was ated. So much canrot be said ot the provisions | the brief. which refer to the brotherhoods, To sup- ae thatthe brief conceded to him arbit: and un: | united authorization to dissolve aud create brot hoods, as the reverend bisbop asserts, wonld be sume as exctuding the temporal power, on whose « jon chietly depend the coustitutive acis of those associa- tion oni Itthe order of the brief were taken literally it woul become absolucely inudinissible; but it caunot be i e Holy See could command the odo What by the laws of the state they may not mi the sparitor the order the agreement and the | Tvention of the two powers never was neous proveca Astical authority gives motives to suppe i resisiance to the rights of the State. Despite the mea: which the government p the those as ne purpose ¥ ofa situauon red. conerarences, From what been said are resulting from this st closed, worship suppressed, the cle Susperisions ¢4 infurmatn conscientia, & this means to disobey the goveraimé repute, and still more, the authority fering ip these struggies be bie siruggles for by and impiety, The the conscience of ¢ der menaced. Iready provoked against the diocesan preli lamentable inauiiestations of May M4 in the capital Pernambuco. In directing itself to the Holy See the { ey pitvited | by the episcopal ot the Church, sut- nthe woe power: hand easily conducive it perial gover t is giving @ further proof of attachment to the Catholic religion, whose best | advocaie it believes itself to -b ment. It desires no more than the ration of and good had always exis cclesisitcal au b irefal inc zi at th nopes that the the Charch will his high wi affection for an empire destin vtative of Catholicism in conflicts and to prevent re uuption of still greater proportions. THE TRUK SPIRIT OF THE HOLY se and bis words, tor 1 is known in this grave emergency rio il iterpreted, will remove the attacks upon the laws of the State * Holy see, the bishops will m: raprudent excesse: e Church, and may shake belie rial government will spare no effort to issensions now dividing the tiock of the ther countries, from rising amid an essen , a8 Brazil is. 0 BARON DE PENRDO ANTONELLI IN THE APARTMENTS THE VATICAN, Seereiary of # memorandyin re ney with your prized note ot © and, after having examin he conteote of the document, : { promptly bringing to the knowledge of 4 circumstantial relation of them. His pretext Couns warmly depioring the comfict in Brazil ihe ecclesiastical and the civil powers, the 1 circumstances giving riveto it and the un- lees whieh have resulted of may result in eh ction that the im. ne chiet of | ve th oO he Cathohe of adhesion t fo put an end ce t rhe sane t a en the two Powers |ine 6 prosperity of the Church a Holy Fach ly apprecia justly e by the 4 fs it bi by ths ing nal government and | 4, and having present | 1 May of the f Olinda and hich, in minate the unpei of all the obstacles which might delay the pr ration of the denied concord, amd will ia vhs r the ben/cnant measures of the Roly see. rdinal jadges it superfluows, when | pes, ute t { ging the above to the Knowledge ot Your Lxcetloncy | to make any observation apon what the says in respect to the henrplicifum to wht Uivnie subvert the decrees of councys, mem rT andniiw AVOR OVE | Out the whole of the colonies by the announcement | at the end of 1849, after which all traces of them | Leichardt expedition, ‘anquillity of | currea. , thousand miles of swamp and plala and jungle, letters and every other ecclesiastical constitution, and also in respect © me appen, to the Crown, it being’ we!l kuown what are the iples professed by the Holy See ee dersigwed Osrdival ‘ofits, therefore, b; this | opportunity to to Your 5: visC the aes. ances of his distinct consideration. ANTONELLI, To Baron De Punepo, &c., &c, | The language of tne clerical organ, the Apostolo, is peculiar now, It denies that the letter of the roe has been sent to the Bishop of Olinda, although the nuncio had oi informed the | imperial government that he had deiivered it to | the Bishop of Olinda. It is current, moreover, that | the Bishop of Olmnaa is extremely enraged with the procedure of the Holy See, and has declared that, if his acts be disapproved of through the in- Muence of the $1,000, said to have been dis tributed by Baron de Penedo among the congré- ation of cardinals and other influences it, Rote @ will cast of the mitre and retire into lls cbt! vent, _ . eh here HE PROSECUTION OP THR BISHOP OF OLINDA ts going on with all due speea, and next week his trial will probably take piace. he general opinion is that he will be at once pardoned if condemned, but there are persons who declare that the Emperor has said thathe never would giter him, because of the insoience ot his reply to his letter. | ‘That of the Bishop of Para ts also in’ progress, but he is expected here. He had resolved to give in his reply personally to the intimation of the | Supreme Court, THE LIVINGSTONE QF THE ANTIPODES, RENE AR O20 4 The Mystery of Leichardt’s Fate Said to Have Been Cleared Up—Fublic Excitement Over the News—Relics of the Explorer Brought in by the Searcher. | SYDNEY, Feb. 14, 1874. | Intense excitement has been created through- | that the mystery which surrounded the fate of the | last explorer Lefchardt and his companions has | been cleared away, and that ene of the party still | survives, after twenty-four years’ residence with | the blacks. . BISTORY, Letchardt’s exploring expedition started from Sydney in 1847, with the intention of crossing Australia from eastto west, and was heard from disappeared. Various were the surmises as to their fate, and numerous the efforts to discover them, until at last it was believed that they must | have all been swept away by one of the periodical | foods common to all parts of this continent. After | a@ lapse of twenty years a man named Andrew | Hume was sent to this city under sentence of ten | years for robbing under arms, aileged to have been committed on a station on the unorth- | western border of New South Wales. Hume protested his innocence, giving as a proof the statement that he had not been within the confines of civilization fora number of years, and that when the robbery was com- | mitted he was in Central Australia, near the over- land telegraph line, aiter having been previously in the vicinity of Sturt’s Creek, where he had found traces of white men, Alter rigid cross-examina- tion bya member of the government and several persons familiar with a portion of the country he had | passed through, Hume offered to go back and re- | cover certain relics which he had found and placed | in acache. Liberty was given him in 1871, a | passage provided for him in@ steamer bound to | Carpentaria, and there he ise ppentes, for a time. No tidings having been heard of the ex-convict for | more than two years many persons imagined that a clever scoundrel had tricked the government | ont of a ticket of leave, when a telegram was | received ‘rom Brisbane announcing that Andrew | Hume had arrived there, bringing news of the GEOGRAPHY. | On looking at a modern map of Australia, Vic- toria River will be found at the northwest corner. Hume made his way there alone, aiter leaving Port Darwin, then travelled to Sturt’s Creek, and , at its head waters feli in with a native tribe with whom Was an aged white man. This proved to | be Mr, Classan, a brother-in-law of Dr. Leichardt, | and second in commend of the expedition. ‘THE REPORT, His tale is that he leit the camp one morning to look lor water, and, on his return, found that | during bis temporary absence the men aad wu- | tinted, violently assaulted their leader, and, after taking forcible possession of all the horses, equip- | &c., proceeded in the direction of South lia, Letchardt died five days later, and , Classan was found by the blacks, who took him into their tribe and adopted him as their medicine man. He subsequently learned that the mutineers were | attacked by the natives and all massacred. Clas- San Was Very anxious to return with Hume, but Was prevented by tne blacks, and, alter severalun- | successful efforts to carry him off, Hume was com- | pelled to return alone, bringing with him Leicn.- | harav’s watch, quadrant, part of his journal and | @ Darrative supplied by Classan relating to the ex- | pedition. Hume asserts that about six monthsago he came across fliteen camels travelling along the telegraph | route, and believes that they were those taken from South Australia by Major Warourton and party in | thelr attempt to explore the country west of Monnt Stuart, | ‘This last named expedition is also missing. STANLEY ON LIVINGSTONE. vp ih tie To THE Eprrorn OF THE LONDON DatLy News:— | Sin—Upon arriving at St. Vincent I heard, to my great grief, the news of the death of Livingstone. | J read eagerly every word of the story, as pub- | lished in the Daily News, hoping that 1 might be | able to proclaim it as belonging to one of those | canards which we have heard so often, emanating \ from both the Eastern and Western coasts of Arica, and I discovered with infinite satisfaction | that there was as much cause to doubt the report | as to believe in It. So far as I could gieantrom the Daily News there was nothing positively known of | how and where the death of the great traveller oc- It originated, the report said, from the lips of one named Chumah, who had appeared at Unyanyembe alone with the statement that Liv- | | ingstone had perished from disease on the shores of Lake Bangweolo; that he himself had hastened | on to Unyanyembe to obtain relief for his | half starved companions, who were distant | some twenty days’ march from — Unyan- | yembe, slowly advancing along the road | tuitner, pearing the body of the traveller, I | knew Chuman well, he having served Livingstone | and myself for over four months; but though I } knew him to be a faithful servant of his master, having followed his varying fortunes through iriendly and uniriendly countries over many a imah was not an tmmaculate charac: He would offend his old master sometimes, and he even deserted him tn Rua at a time of utmost need to Livingstone; and, as offence, indolence or revel- lion merits punishment, I suspected that Chuman had been committing some wrong and had been punished for it, and had, in consequence, deserted him in the eighth year of his service. 1 was satis. fied that the report of Livingstone’s death was | fuise, since no one bunt Chumah vouched tor it, I was prepared to give credit to him tor beinga greater adept at deception than the traitor Musa, of Johanna, for in the story he had accounted | plausibly enough for his master's death, by ascribe ing the cause of it to the only blemish in Living= | iron constitutton—viz., liability to dysen- | tery. But since Ihave arrived in Engiand, and | have read and re-read the various letters and re- | ports published, Tam compelled to hetieve, much agaist my will, that the weary pilgrimage of poor Livingstone is ended, and that le will never see the mourning friends he bas lett hetind him, “tf will all right at tomed to say to me contuitatly when any . ence was madeto his returning home. ‘fy this faith he breathed into me the strong hope that he would live to return untii i became also tirm in the | behef that be was destined to receive the laurels | the Christian world was ready to shower upon him | in perso Though thin and pale and tearfully seeble when the New Youre HERALD expedition ap. | peared at Ujji, wiih ample means of retiet and ; good news for him alter his long tramp trom the borders of the Unknown Lake, he was so far re- covered im health and strength whe months’ journeyings with mm, { turned aw: him to execute his wishes at Zanzibar, that believed that few men who hy filty-ninth year had a better i twenty years more than he had then—on the 14th | of March, 1872, Yet itseems that while 1 have been congratulating myself that Livingstone would | | \ i firmly A completed their chance of living Lag in England abont May of this year, that he died eleven o1onihs ago, as he was striving to reach the north end of Lake Bangweolo. has died with the full measure of years and honors on his head; died bearing his Great Master's yoxe on him, a faithfal and willing servitoy, retaining | his early views of the dnttes of a nonle tile to his last breath, cherishing love and trrenaship tor ail | of human under the sun. Poor old mau! Honor But he | be to his ashes! It is now asked what he has done since he leit England in 1866, and whether ali he has done witt | ever be made known, and how muen of te knowl edge thought to be gained by his iabor is lost y To. the first quesuon would answer, that a short | vest’ of Dis Mscoveries, such vs he gave me, and | such as f obtained from the study of his map, has been already published, TO che second question L would ans a copious recurd Of | 1872, when we arrived at | Bia fourna cove! extending over a period of six years, which I G to Eo a A 1, 1872, i safe in the hesiaee Miss oe vibestone, bis daughter. This ns the day he bet Zanzibar in December, 11 to the 13th 0! od 1872, it embraces his discoveries from the mout! of the Rovuma River on the Eaat Coast of Africa to the Nyassa Lake; those ‘made Nvassa Lake in the bew lands: weet of Nvassa, in the districts of the sete Bobisa, Bobem- ba, the Wa Mar -Cazembe Rua, Mapyuema- Waguhhah, up to Ujiji, where he arrived the 23d of October, 1871. It alio contains his discoveries made while he journeyed with me, from about the middle of November, 1871, to the 16th of February, Unyanyembe, be PRN ED Kod this “may sopear yes age 5 u vn a Pambeta dataits area the aioe ke cane may have a conception ot the value of which now lics in the strong room of & Glasgow bank, and which waa sealed by me the evening of the 16th March, 1872, They will be pre- pared to appreciate the treasure which must now, according to Livingstone’s fastructions, see the light; they will be able to judge for themselves what Livingstone has Notts ‘of the lengthy of the journey the brave heart accomplished, ‘6 shall enjo hs humorgus descriptions of native charac- On, ve Witt him at inhumanity, and revel with im in the Midst of sublime scenery in the unri- vailed land of the Wa-manyuema and War' We shall know what rivers, it races, what coun- tries, What riches there are which fascinated him and detained him until death. But though we have all these in England, there are many inter- esting bits of paper written with his biood for want of ink, scraps of newspapers closely written o" field notebooks, hasty jottings here and there, which will be brought to England soon, let us hope, by Lieutenant Murphy, which will add immensely even to the value of the ponderous journal already in hand, Mr, Murphy must also be bringing the map of Livingstone, which is a treasure in ttsell, | tor [Know that the traveller took that with him to | assist Nim in the discoveries he intended to make, aiter he should have received the men and jittle uxuries which I was requested to send hun ‘rom Zanzibar, i Livingstone was a laborious note-taker. A little note book was always at hand to jot down ou the march what observations he made—which were faithfully copied, or improved upon in the big jour- nal after his arrivalin camp, And as Livingstone | set great store upon these, they must ve of vatue, and contain mach additional information. Besides this record of a journey ex‘ending over a length of 8,300 miles, and which it, must be remembered, is already in England, there is this last journey from Unyanyembe, begun 2d of August 1872 and ending about May, 1873, the notes about which Mr, Mur- phy must have in his possession, It is of a period of 273 days or thereabouts, which, at the moderate rate of four miles per day, gives us 1,022 miles, much of which is through a country never trod by white men before, When all these notes-have been gathered and placed at the disposition of the compiler, there remains the tin box lelt at Ujiji, in the charge of Moent Kheri, @ true Arad iriend of Livingstone’s, residing in that village, to obtain which Lieuten- ant Cameron has proceeded to Ujiji, and which ought to be in eaeend by the end of May at tne furthest, provided Lieutenant Cameron is but moueratel; ick In his movements, But the compiler, e who he may, will never be able to give us a tithe of the wealth of Livingstone’s ex- perience, tral Africa mapped ont, With most of its promt- neut features revealed, we sha!) inevitably lose the benefit of the traveller's ripe observations, and shall feel the loss, With the additional knowledge gained by Schweinturth’s travels Livingstone would have been able, perhaps, after weighing carefully his evidence, to decide at ouce whether the great Lualaba River belongs to the Nile or to the Congo. It was his intense destre to settle the vexed question which withheld him irom embracing the tempting opportunity fo re- turn home. Since he lett Payanyembe on his last journey we have heard notnihg from him. Cara- vans oi eden rte i no TOEDIEr snk furtigr than drop age to village, after a mos orate inanner, leading southward of Utipa. Leaving Unyanyembe August 2 he would arrive about the 12th or the 15th at Mamanyera, in South- ern Unyamwezi, About the 24th he would, passing by Mrera, be close on the trontiers of Ukonongo. From Mrera two roads run in a southerly direc- tion, If he chose the direct southern road he would be lost sooa in the unknown land of the Western Warundl. Ifhe chose the southwesterly Toad, a8 most probably he did, he would arriy about the 30th September at Ufipa, having crossed tue undiscovered Rungwa River, Toward the lat- ter part of November Livingstone would be round- | ing the southeastern extremity of Lake Liempa. Beyond this point Livingstone would be on his old ground, having resolyed the problem whether here is any stream flowing eastward from the ‘anganyika, 2nd would be in the Bobisa country, whence the southeastern extremity of Lake Bangweolo might be reached by the latter part of January, 1873. His subsequent efforts, after a short rest, must have been made in crossing the numerous oozy Marshes whence spring the afilu- ents of Bangweolo, on the eastern side, in attempting to discover a crossing place to the other side of the great lake, beyond which he be- lieved the fountains of Herodotus to be located, Failing to find means of crossing he must have urged Way northward across the miry region, restingevery two or turee days, then resoiutely rising to continue his anxious search, until, worn in body and mind, he came to a Village neer the north end, where the lake discharges its surplus waters by the Luapula River, wien finding the disease Which harassed him on his journey {rom | the Lualaba to the hut at Ujiji, where I found him, | overpowering the hardy frame and dauntiess mina, he must have calied around him his taithiul ser- vants, Susi, Chumah, Mabruki, é&c., and, alter charging them, more epoch si, What dispo- sitions to make reapecting bis body, be must have blessed them and dicd, Ihave only one more remark to make—apolo- [Sei the meanwhile for the length of thts let- ter. Many newspapers have been entirely misied about the age of Livingstone. On the 13th of March, 1872, the Doctor imormed me he had just passed his iity-ninth year. in is73 | waa informed by Mr. John Livingstone that his brother David was born the 10th of March. 1813. if Dr. Livingstone died in May, 1873, he was in his sixty-first year. 1 have the honor to ve yours, &c., Lonbon, March 1. HENKY M. STANLEY, Rivers ee. SALE OF BARON ROTHSCHILD’S STUD, pei al & NEWMARKET, England, March 19, 1874, There was @ large attendance at Newmarket to- day to see the sale and disposition of Baron Rothschild’s stud of race horses, brought under the hammer by Mr. Tattersall in the paddock at the rear of the stabies attached to Mentmore House. The sale commenced shortly betore two P. M., previous to which Mr. Tattersall | entertained all who were present, including those » who arrived by the special fast train from St. Pan- | cras, to ao exceilent luncheon, with champagne ana other wines, which were provided in the large coffee room of the Rutland Arms by Mr, Stebbing. Ample justice having been aone tot Juncueon, an adjourning took place to the sa Among those present wer any, Lord Roseberry, the Hon, Admiral Rons, ord A. Paget, Count Lehndori, General Laddrit: Mr. Blammon, Mr. Beuuimont, Captuin Olive: Mersrs. Boltazze (2), Graham Farrman, R. V, Rothschild, H. Saville Letevre, Hewitt, W. Ports- man, Dobede, H, Jones, W, Biinkiron, ke, All tne Newmarket trainers were present. Among those from tae country were Saunders, W. Goiter and Scott. ‘Ihe thirteen yearlings made £7,215, being an ay- erage of £595 each, the highest price bemg given by Mr. Toy, who, 1¢ was understood, was buying on commission Tom Jemmy, on belaif of Mr. Lefevre, | who gave 1,300 guineas for the two-year-old coit | Taneria, which Was the second highest price; but none of them possessed the splendid shape of Ve- dometer, bought by Mr. Toy for £1,900. Of the three-year-olds, Beaconield and Cat's Eye, 650 guineas and 620 guineas respectively. Marsworth was then put up with a@ reserve of £5,000 on him, which bid was at once tied by Count Lelndor! for the German government. ‘This horse will not be put into trainiag, bat will go to the | stud at Grakehner, in East Prussia, where there are about 150 brood mares, Mr. Padwick’s horses then sneceeded Baron Rothschila’s. Lord Roseberry pave £2,500 for Couronne-de-Fer, who a short time since was first favorite for the Derby, and Mr. Cotton bought Packington for 860 guineas. ‘The entire amonnt realtzed Dy Baron Rothschild’s | horses was 14,306 guineas, and an average of 715 ‘ameas each, Princess was bought by Mr. B. ‘lian tor 140 guineas; Heien, by Mr. Fay, 5380 guin- eas; Pamello, by My. Fay, guineas; Coomas- ste, by Mr. Fay, £1,060 400 guineas; Darwin, by Mr. Scott, 400 guineas; Velvet Lawn, by Mr. Davison, 210 guineas; Huxley, by Mr. Pedaic, 45 guineas; Tancred, by T. Jenning, 1,300 guineas; Cartmelion, by Mr. Fay, 800 guineas; Vendometer, by Mr. ray, 1,900 guineas; Lady Mary, by Mr. Witheriey, 400 guineas; Ozarina, by Fay, 270 guineas; Kinston, by Mr. Velidie, 80 guineas; Hesthorpe, by Mr. Heaste, 70 guineas; Beaconsfield, by Mr, Fay, 669 guineas; Cat's bye, by Mr. Whitta- ker, 620 guineas. Marsworth (who has held the piace of first favorite tor the Derby during the greater part of the winter months) was ultimately knocked down to Count Lenndorf tor £6,000, FUNERAL OF COLONEL FERRIS, On Tuesday, the 7th tust., the funeral of the late | Coionel Thomas T. Ferris will take place trom Grace church, at tweive o'clock M., under a mili- tary escort composed of the Old Guard, Major George W. McLean; Ninth regiment, Colonet Charles R. Braine, and the Washington Gray Troop, Captain Wylie. Colonel Ferris.was jor many years identified with the militia of this city ; was ciptain of the famous City Guard sn its palmy days; was very instrumental in organizing the Ninth regi- | ment and was its first heatenant colonel, and took a prominent part iy all matters connected with the citizen soldiery. Some two years siece he visitea Kurope with his famtiuy, fis health having become impaired, He continued to decline, and, while making Parts his temporary home, ins lauily were bereaved by his death, The remains having ar- rived in this city, his jormer companions unite tn paying this jist sad tribute to his memory, Itis roquested, ont of respect to the triends of the de- ceased, that the hoteis and other putidings on Broadway display their flags at halt-mast on the | The Ime of march will be from Browiway to South terry, wnciery, Gay of the fnneral wee church down tucnve to Grecnwoud Though we may have the whole of Cen- | which was | —Prince Baih- | arston, by Lord Roseberry, | THE UNITED STATES SENATE. Has It Deteriornted or Improved Since the Deluge!—The Old Giants Missing, but the Average Calibre of the Members En- larged—A Comparison of the Senate of 1850 with That of 1874—A Transformation Scene from | the Fiftegnth Amendment + The Debate on the Money Question. Wasnincton, March 31, 1 The impression widely prevails that the United States Senate of 1874, compared with that of the old pro-siavery régime, which was swept away by the deluge of our great Southern Rebellion, is a boay of small politicians and commonplace men, representing only party expediences, caucus in- trigues, the power of money or some lucky chances in the chapter of accidents, This general opinion, though practically trne, 1s essentially @ mistake. It is true that the giants of the Senate have disap- peared; trne that through adroit intrigues or mouey or lucky accidents many seats in the chamber are now occupied; but it 1s also true that the average intellectual calibre, qualifications and practical experience of the members have been greatly enlarged, Any man, for example, con- versunt with the elements of the Senate of 1849-50— that Senate which marks the last of the com- promises with Southern slavery and the veginning of the end—will be satisded, trom the observa- tions of aday or two from the Senate galleries at this time, that, though the peers of the old guants of the Chamber are wanving, there 1s in the body, collectively, & manifest Improvement, there is an improvement corresponding with the advance of the country from the Fugitive Slave law to the fifteenth amendment. A STARTLING TRANSFORMATION, The impartial critic of the Senate of 1850, m look- l tion and more of the shop in the equipment of the members and in thetr bearing towards each other, He will see in the faces of the Senators, and In the tone and temper of the debates, that much has been gained in the virtues of moderation, decorum and dignity. He wil! observe that the proportion of venerable bala heads and thoughtful gray beards in the chamber ts very large; that toward their elders; that with the eud of the vio- lent and desperate confict over slavery there Was an end to the flerce passions and personalities which in the old time irequentiy led to brutal col- lisions or deadly chatlenges on the Noor, In short, the change in the morale and espril du corps of the Senate within the period indicated is quite as remarkable and gratifying as that which Dickens discovered as having occurred tn America and the Americans in the interval between his tirst and his second visit to this country, THE SENATE OF 1850. What was the composition of the Senate of 180? It embraced such, men as Clay, Webster, Calhoun, | Benton, Seward, Chase, Casa, Donglas, Hale, Ham- aconfilct which even in those compromise meas. | ures was drifting to “the perilous edge of battle.” That Senate gave us the last hopeful ~Yustment door to the war. States and fifteen slave States, and the admission i | of California as_a free State turning the seale ‘ea | the South first to “bleeding Kansas’ and then to | Fort Sumter, From 1860 tlie great revolution set | in; from 1850 the giants of the Senate began to | drop off, and now they have all disappeared. The conditions which developed these no longer exist, | and these political Gollaths have simply become impossible under the new order of things. We no jonger want a towering mediator between tie | North and South like Clay, for the bayones has settled the slavery and the negro questions. We Want no more a great constitutional expounder like stitution is no ger Greek to th reader as a charter of liberty, Ted is no open- ing for @ sectional abstractionlst and revolutionist luke Calhoun, tor he fas nothing to build upon, THE DAY OF GIANTS PASSED, So it ts that sucn overshadowing orators and | Oracles as we had in the Senate of 1850 are not to | be found in the Senate of 1874. The constitution ij | has been made 80 plain on the basis of liberty and equality, the masses of the people have becoine so far enlightened, from the diifuston ot £xed facts, tree thought, free speneh aud pubiic documents, | that tue old time political orator finds his vocation gone. é telegraph has abolished bin. are 40,000 volumes of his rubbish in the Library of Congress, Which have become useless’, except as marking the drift of an epoch betore the flood. Tire constitutional abstractions of Calhoun, the argu- ments of Webster and the pleadings of Ciay are as dusty in their plgeonholes as the windy rhapsodics of Andy Johnson while “swinging round the c: cle? THR AGE OF ORATORY GONE. The age of oratory, lke the age of chivalry, is gone, Our jubilees of political poetry, maugurated }) Will observe that there is less of the planta. | the younger members are modest and deferential | Indeed, | ing down irom the galleries upon the Senaie of » Webster; for, slavery belug stricken out, the cq! ae ih fs “eSninnd | duties, as there are to be a number of entertain- | | among them the lin, Corwin, Dayton, Mason, Hunter, Badger, Ber- | rien, Soulé, Foote and Jef Davis—hostile forces in | on slavery in behalf of peace, and it «ened the | There were then Steen iree | Stewart's magniacent néW hétisé ‘on Naval crete? There | | | With the log cabin and hard cider campaign of | | 1840, ended, we may say, with the melaucholy | minstreisy which hurned the lamentea Greeley to | us grave, The fiiteenth amendment has made | the political orator a ‘sounding brass and a tink- | ling cymbal.” | drama, or an owl in the open field at daylight, he ; has remained abroad too tate, and he is blinded and silenced by the strange glare and noises | time, has undergone a gr aut transformation. Almost insensibly to itseif it has come down trom around him, The United states Senate, mean- | the lofty declamation and wiittering processions of | the forum to the bard facts and testimony of an investigating committee, neceutly, in the discus- | sion of a certain bill, we had sume feeble disp!a, o1 the spread eagle and ‘‘Hatl Cotumbia;’? but as they were followed by appropriate apologies, these | odsolete ebullitions of patriotism were excused. | | And yet, while the venerabie Senator Cameron | was telling how the old bell of ladependence Hail rang out the glad Udings of the birth , of 2 great nation, and how this nauon has grown in strength and weauty ull its glory dlls the whole earth, it evidently warmed tie old boys around hin itke the chorus of the “star Spaugied Ban- ” But it was a gleam of glory which in a ment passed away under the shadow of the mighty dollar. ‘Flow much will this thing cost was too much for the eloquence of Cameron, i THE DOMINANT PARTY WITHOUT A LEADER. | But tf eloquence has become a thing of the past, if long orations of wind and gas have been dis- placed by hard tacts and figures, how ts it that trom the first week of December lust to the fourth Week of March this reconstrucied Senate has been upied chiefly in a powwow, a seemingly end- Jess and purposeless powwow, on the currency | qnestion which has sickenéd the country’ Under | tne halcyon administration of Captain Tyler, | Henry lay, in the course of a few weeks, pushed \ | through both houses a bili estavishing a Nattonal Bank. Jf the Senate has improved as a boay for business, how are we to account Jor this success of Clay m the old time and tue recent delay of Sherman to get bis financial scheme into the form | of ® bill, alier nearly jour months have been | Wasted in beating the bush? A jew words wil | serve a8 an answer to this question, Clay was | the leader and the embouiment of tne old | whig arty—the party at the time of his | Rank bill which held a working majority in both houses. [is word was the law to tis party, and he | had oaly the opposition party to contend against ja pusting throogn his bil. Now the dominant | party has no recognized jeaier in the Senate or | the tlouse, and it is all adriit on these questions of | taxation, the banks and the currency. The Sen- | ate was like areguiar army witha general at its | head; now it isa body of tree militiamen, each | man acting as his own captain, sierman awaits | the mstroctions o! the Senate; the Senate. 1 | man acting jor himself, finds it dificult to agr | Upon any wsirictions. As a jast resort they lave | resolved to drift to an agre it. { DRIFTING TO A SETTLEMENT OF THE FIN. 7 | | Nevertheless the time expended up these tedious debates has pot been wholly profitiess, thougu moat of it may be charged to Buncombe, Equalit. now the supreme law of the iand, is the suprer law of the Senate. Accordingly every Se! claiming @ hearing must be heard, and every mi ber undertaking a speech thinks ‘be can eniighte the body or gratity his tituents, 8 al least | the differences to be adjusted are understood ; and , tins, a8 party lines have disappeared in this con- | troversy, there 18 the prospect of a compromis | based, regardless of party considerations, the general interests o! the country. At all events, without a recognized leader, republican or gemo- cratic, in this debate, and wit of action, the Senate has been driiling to & settiv- ment, WHO ARE IN THE OLD PLACKS, The transiormation scene presented between the Senate as it was in 1850 and the Senate as it is in 1874 to a looker-on from the galleries who passed through the protracted strugule ou Clay’s compro- mises 18 very ijnpressive. According to the distri- bution of the Senators of 1850 i the old chamber we find the portly Pratt, of Indiana, in the place of Henry Clay; Carl Schurz in vhe place of Wev- | stantial statesman of Kentucky Im the piace of Benton, Bayard, of Delaware, in the place of Jet Davis; the chair of Sumner in the place of | tur irom Isis to 184% ‘Phe reconstruction of tie hont any party ue | » pon | ster, Sherman in the place of Calhoun, the sub- | Seward, Morton in the place of Cass, Stewart, of | Nevada, in the place ot Douglas; Saulsbury In the | place of Ohase, and Ferry, of Michigan, in the place ot sani Hl Texas, The only member of | the = O18 1891 won the fioor is Hamlin, of Maine, thongh the venerabie Cameron was a Sena. Like the relic of the legitimate | tons we have in Edmunds, Con! Boutwell, Morton, Frel! huysen, Carpenter, Schurz, B . ard, Thorman, jon and ail the needful ements for the utilitarian live in of law, In'refakeuce to bak pollticel furtic, tals Senate: rial contest on the curreney inerks. the ‘transiion fret apr Cot @ one will appear least three parties 1 com fall elections. The Senate, meantime, is greauy, improved, in becoming @ body of free debaters aud of comparatively independent men. CAPITAL SOCIETY. The Shadow of Death Saddening Life at tha Repnblican Court—Charles Sumner’s Biographers—Charitable Entertain- ments—Sport Along the Potomac. Wasuinoton, April 2, 1874, Our Lenten season of penitence and prayer was more than usually solemn this year, as the augel of death had cast deep shadows over the metropolis, Senator Sumner, Judge Dent, who was a brother of Mrs, Grant; the mother of Gen- eral Babcock, and the father of Mrs, Judge Fisher, with scores of leas prominent persons, have been called to their long homes, There were also sin- cere regrets for the loss of ex-President Fillmore, Who was a popular occupant of the White House, and who aided in the introduction of pure water during his administration, CHARLES SUMNER had passed so much of the past quarter of a cen- tury here—the last ten years householder— that he was regarded as a citizen. Of late the old prejudices against him on account of his opi- nions had been dlapelled, and the old families treated him with great courtesy, Since his depo- sition from the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela- tions he had occasionally dined out, and,had given two or three dinners a week to a few friends. Among other literary curiosi- ties which he has left 1s @ printed copy of & speech which he wrote in 1872, narrating minutely the estrangement between himself and Secretary Fish, as seen from his standpoint, He intended to have delivered it im the Senate, and had it put into type at the ofice of the Congres- sional Globe, that he might send slips in advance to the New York HERALD and some other papers, as was his custom when he made a prepared speech, But some of his friends heard of it and persuaded him to keep it back foratime, It has never appeared. SUMNER'S BIOGRAPTERS will have sucha mass of material, especially of correspondence, as has never been left by any man in this country, except Washington. Dr. Pheips, of Boston, began the task three or four years ago, but was not acceptable to Sumner’s friends, ©. Edwards Lester is now engaged ona biography of the Massachusetts Senator, and George Alired Townsend is preparing a record of his eventful life. CHARITABLE ENTERTAINMENTS Telleved the monotony of Lent and aided the treasuries of several charitable institutions, “homes” of the Episcopal churches, Four of these entertainments, given at the house of Mrs. Admiral Dahigren, netted nearly $1,000, and on Faster Monday there is to be one at the house of Mrs. Ross Ray, which is ex- pected to be very successful, Soon after Easter private theatricals will be given at Willara's Hall, for the benefit of the ‘ome’ of the Church of the Epiphany, in which the Misses Loring and Calderon { Centiste-yillbe the Jeeding performers. AR titer on the 7th ‘of April will ome the annual Ball, which is sure to be a success, As for BALIS, HOPS AND GERMANS, they have been unknown since Ash Wednesday, and the poor old chaperons, who were jaded and tired, have been able to retire early, instead of sitting up until two or three o'clock, nodding in time to the rhythm of dance music. After Easter, however, fhe old dames must resume their weary arity ments, especially & house-warming ball at. Senater and a ball by the Beales in the renovated Decatur mansion on Lafayette square. EQUESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR. Meanwhile les demoiselles have been regaining health and color by out of door exercises. Miss Nellie Grant takes a datly drive in her phacton, and there are a score o1 other young ladies who may be seen driving their teams every pleasant afternoon, A lew prejer the saddle, but the society men don’t Jancy escorting them, as the hire of horses is ex- pensive, and riding gets their exquisite pantaloons out of shape, you know, COMING EVENTS, Society is rejoicing over the announcement that Mrs, General Williams (previously Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas) is soon toreturn here ona visit, after quite an exile at some prairie post where her hns- band is stationed. We have also Mrs. Chief Justice Waite, who will occupy the lower story of the Pomeroy house, now a portion of the Arlington. And it is whispered that a gallant naval officer will soon wed adanughter of a gallant General of the army, thus uniting the two arms of the service, PISCATORIAL, The disciples of Izaak Walton have always been abundant hereabouts, with such leaders as Timo- thy Pickering, Daniel Webster and Chancellor Bibb. Below the city the Potomac is well stocked with shad and herring, large quantities of which are caught in nets; while at the Littie Falls, juss above Georgetown, those who “throw the fly” find striped and black bass and an occasional salmor, while trout are found toward Harper's Ferry. Ip ante-belln times parties of citizens and Congress- men used to charter a steamboat for a Saturday's excursion to the fishing grounds below Mount Ver- non, taking along a caterer, waiters, cooks, liquors and plaving cards, Poker and julips enlivened the trip down, and the feature of the feast was planked shad, the fish being split open, natied around the edges to a seasoned oaken board and roasted be- fore a wood fire just as a johnnycake ts baked, It Was a treat for epicures, and after it had been well washed down poker and julips enlivened the home- ward trip. As the wharf was neared the remain- ing stock of liquors was measured, and an assess- ment was theu inade on each one of the party for his pro rata suare of all expenses, which was always paid, DEADHEAD DINNERS were unknown in those days, but now at least a score of Congressmen and other high oMctals are dined and wined every day at Welcker’s—the large private room being thus made a Golgotba, or place of skulls, The most noted of the hospitaltous lob- byists has the legs of the leading men of the land under nis table, and the créme dela créme of the diplomatic corps enjoy his repasts, 80 charmingly Seasoned with Attic salt, Nor does ne ever solicit a vote in return or directly ask any favor, although he may adrottly mould the opinions of his guests on important top! GENERAL SCHENCK has been warmly greeted here, and has every night met some of his old Congressional friends at din- ner. Sir Edward Thornton gave him a spiendid banquet; for the General has always spoken well of sir Edward in London, and nas done some kind acts for him there. General Schenck has been improved in personal appearance by British beef and beer, and is in excellent spirits. One of his best stories is that of his initiation of some of the nobility into the mysteries of draw poker. THE LATE EMPEROR NAPOLEOK III, REFORM CLUB, PALL MALL, LONDON, 8. W, ‘Maren 19) 1874, To THe Epiton of THE HERALD:— Will you permit me, through the columns ot your tnfiuential journal, to awk any gentieman in America who may have Known the late Emperor Napoleon when he was in the United States, nearly forty years ago, for any particulars of his sojourn they may reraember, I am told that an American gentleman iately wrote a vindication of the Em- ror’é conduct and manner of Iite in New Yerk, put Lcannot find his lerter in our papers. I think that all who knew Emperor Napoleon Ml. per- sonaliy will be glad to testify to the dignity and goodness of his character undér all circamstances. 1} shall be thankful for any communications on this sutject addressed to me here, and beg to remain, Si, your taltiius servant, BLANCHARD JERROLD.