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LITERATUR ‘THE HEART OF AFRICA, A New Book of Travel and Adventure—The Af- | Most pronounced cannibals. They carry on rican Slave Trade—The Upper Nile Region— The Pygmies of Homer and Herodotus, ‘The Messrs. Harper have pubilshed, with much wealth of illustration and typography, this famous ook of Dr. Schweinfurth. Within the past few years public attention has been almost irresistibly attracted to the great mysterious “teart of Africa.” Several English and German expioring expeditions have kept our interest awake, and the sad fate of some of the bold African pioneers has clothed the desert interior with @ melancholy interest. Just at this moment the African sphinx has demanded another sacrifice, the greatest of them al. The missionary Wanderer who was so miraculously found and aed by Staniey a few years ago, Ras been placed among Engiland’s greatest @ead in Westminster Abbey. How much it is to be regretted that the great laborer refused ‘e accompany Stanley back again to civilization, ‘Where he could have published the results of his many years of travel and toll, and, perhaps, thrown some light on the purposes of bis life! ‘While the English were preparing to receive the corpse of their great traveller, the Germans—and the English, too, for that matter—were perusing the Fich results of one of their younger race of Alrican travellers, who, after three years of studies and Wanderings in the “Heart of Africa,” has returned in life and health to his friends. Dr. Georg Schweinfurtn is, of course, well known already to readers of the HeRatp, but we think we can hardly do & greater act of justice to a famous traveller and to our own readers tuan by giving some account of these, two of the most valuable volumes of African travel ever publisied, ‘(HE HEART OF AFRICA,” In giving welcome to Dr. Schweinfurth’s work on Alrica we have to thank him for a conscien- ‘ously written book, fuil of rich ethnological, botanical and geographical material, well arranged and elucidated, Dr. Schweinfurth 1s a acientific traveller. He does not rush across the country on banting expeditions, but, after reaching countnes and peoples previously known only to us from the legends of the slave dealers or the myths of an- tiquity, brings back with him rich collections and carefully made drawings of all that he has seen and done, imbuing us with the enthustasm with which he 1s himself mspired. The result of Dr. Schweinfurth’s travels, which lasted from 1868 to 1871, May be summed up as follows :—After spend- ing several months on the shores of the Red Sea during his first African journey, he followed, on his second, the course of the White Nile and the Bahr-el-Ghazal, through the countries of the Shillooks, the Denka, the Bongo, the Niam-Niams—once fabled as tailed men—to the capital of King Munza, the monarch of the Monbuttos. This was the extent of his Journey, between the second and third parallels of north latitude, thongh he gained vaiuable and curious information while there respecting a race f pygmies called the akka, dwelling stul further | south of King Munza’s dominions. His discovery Of the pygmies, who were previously thought to be fabulous, when mentioned by Herodotus and the ancient poets, is his greatest ethnological re- sult, He was unfortunately unable, chiefly froma lack of funds and by reason that a war broke out between the traders and the natives, to accomplish | his purpose of visiting the lands beyond Monbutto | and Momos, which are in sight of the hills bound ing the Mwootan or Albert Nyauza. Had he | done this he would have come to the Point reached by Livingstone. His nearest &@pproach to the Englian traveller's field was over | #00 miles. Dr. Schweinfurth’s observations led him to the conclusion that the Lualaba does not flow into the Nile, as Livingstone had supposed, but into the southern section of rivers. Crossing the western watershed of the Nile and arriving at ‘the point where the Lualabe must come tf tt tows | northward at‘all, and not into the Nyanza, he found thd Welle, the Keebaly, the Gadda and all the streams of the land flowing to the west, and proba- bly to the Shary—proving the existence of a sepa- Fate river system, and not the continued channel of the Bahr-el-Ghasal. THE EXPLORER’S LIFE. Winwood Reade prefaces the English translation of the work with a brief introduction. From this we learn that Dr. Schwelnfurth was born at Riga, in the year 1836, and was the son of a merchant. He studied at Heidelberg and Berlin, where he graduated as doctor of philosophy. Always in- tensely devoted to the study of botany, his mind became attracted to Africa in a curious manner. In 1860 the botanical collections of Baron Von Barmin, who found his-death in the Nile, were | taken to Germany, and young Schweinfurth was en- trasted with the task of arranging them. From | these dry. corpses he gained enthusiasm | for African travel and research. In 1863 | he left Berlin for Egypt and spent nearly three | years botanizing in the Nile Delta, along the shores | Of the Red Sea, the Highlands of Abyssinia, and about Khartoom. Returning to Germany with his magnificent botanical collections, he submitted to | the Royal Academy of Science in Bertin a plan for ‘the botanical exploration of the equatorial districts | to the west of the Nile, After the death of Alcx- { ander von Humboidt the “Humboldt Institution of | Natural Philosophy and Traveis” had becn called into life, the object of which was to promote scien- tific travel. The Royal Academy had the power of | Geciding on the undertaking, and Dr. Schweinfurth | received as donation the accumulated tunds of the institution during the past five years. SOHWEINFURTH’S RECENT EXPLORATIONS. In 1868 he again landed in Egypt. We follow | him to his arrival at Khartoom, where he made Dis arrangements, aided by the Governor Gen- eral, to travel in the company of an ivory trader named Ghattas, a Coptic Christian. In tact, Ghattas was made responsible for the Doctor's safe conduct and return. One of the richest sources of tvory fds the Khartoom merchants is the country of the Niam-Niams, and to this Ghattas was going. Thither, too, went Schwein- forth, via the Bahr-el-ahazal, or Gazelle River. This river is on pretty well known ground, bat Schweinfurtn gives it a fresh interest with his en- tertaining account of the voyage, his descriptions of scenery and peoples upon the shores. Mem- | ories of beantiful Alexandra Tinné are called up Bll along the route. Among the treacherous Shil- | these are only reserved to fail victims on a laier | attached to Munza’s residence. | Akkas and. the other pygmy tribes like the Bush- looks it was where she, tiring of the monotony of | the voyage, would ride on the shore througn their | villages, when the people clapped their hands and | Cried :—‘See! she is the daughter of the Sultaa!” | Arriving in the Meschera, or landing place, a so- | Journ of eighteen days was made until the arrival | of Ghattas’ second boat, when the land jourucy commenced for the principal seriba of Ghattas— — for this trader owned half a dozen trading head- | quarters hereabouts and in various parts of the | northern Bongo country. In the principal and | subordinate seribas Schweinfurth spent some Months botanising, sketching and gatnering in- | formation and making excursions. To the Bongos | he devotes a very interesting chapter. Making | the friendship of a trader, Avoo Sammet, Dr. Behwelnfarth determined to proceed with his retinue to the country of the Niam-Niams, Pro- ceeding then through the Mittoo country he ar- rived finally among this interesting and curious | people—one of the chief ctinological objects of nis | journcyings, | NIAM-NIAMS AND MONBUTTOS, | The Niam-Niams occupy the country between ‘the fourth and sixth degrees of northern latitude. They were long reputed to be adorned by nature ‘with tails, but this is simply an elegant artificial appendage. The most interesting portion of Dr. Schweiniurth’s book is undoubtedly that devoted to his sojourn at the court of King Munza of the Mon- buttos, to whom we are introduced on many inter- esting occasions. The Doctor’s method of making his collection is instructive. “Bring your ‘weapons,’ says he to the Monbuttos, -‘and the pro~ Guce of your handicraft, your ornaments and tools, and I will give you beautiful things in return; PENG 6 ICU OL LIVELOLSEN, AUG IRE JomvgD of.) of Hao Aames,” The comply haw deed WB favor ak) Then Law Royal | esting even had he not lost quantities of notes and | | drawings and collections in a conflagration at one ‘7,000 barometrical observations; all my Journals, the trees sking and skulle of animals, put above all bring the human skulls what remain over from your meals; they are of no use to you. Bring them and I will give you copper in exchange,” But the Doctor’s trouble about human skulls was that he could find very few entire, hav- ing been amashed in to get at the brains—a Mon- butto delicacy. These Monbutto people are warfare with neighboring and leas intellectual tribes for the purpose of capturing homan fesh. When they have made a successful raid they drive their prisoners before them, without remoree, as butchers would drive sheep:to the shambles, and day to their horrible and sickening greediness, ‘The Doctor adds that during his residence at Munza's court, there was a rumor current that a Uttle child was sacrificed every day fer the royal appetite. The traveller was horrified by seeing human fesh in ali places ana at all ‘times, In the pot over the fire, or limbs suspended in the open air to dry or over the embers for the purpose of being smoked. The result of this horrid custom was that Dr. Schweinfurth obtained a rich collection of skulls, which are now in the pos- session of the Angtomical Museum at Berlin. Nevertheless Schweinfarth considers tne Mon- buttos “a noble race of men—men who display a certain natural prida and are endowed with an intellect and judgment such as few natives of the African wilderness can boast.” The chapters de- | voted to the Monbuttos are illustrated with pic- tures of their weapons, utensils, huts, skulls, and almost everything curious or interesting belong- ing to them, THE FABLED PYGMIES OF HOMER AND HERODOTUS. It was while residing at King Munza’s court that Dr. Sehweinfurth first saw @ specimen of the tabled dwarfs, the Akta, who reside to the south of King Munza’s capital. The traveller's mind had been excited on the subject of “pygmtes’ all along the voyage of the Upper Nile and the Gazelle. The Nubtan boatmen dectared to him of the existence far south of the Niam-Niams of a race of dwarfs three feet in height, and who wore beards so long that they reached to their knees. Then he recalled the mention made of “pygmies” by Homer, in bis “‘Mitad.!? To warmer seas the cranes embodied fly. With noise and order, through the midway sky; To pygmy nations wounds and death they bring, And all the war descends upon the wing. Herodotus speaks of them and more distinctly Aristotle:—“The cranes fly to thg lakes above Egypt, from which flows the Nile; there dwelt the Pygmies, and this Is no fable, but the pure truth; there, Just as we are told, do men and horses, of diminutive size, dwell im caves.” Dwarfs had repeatedly been seen in the capacity of buffoons or fools at the various Niam,Niam courts, Speke had became acquainted with one at the Court of Kamrasi, but no one believed that whole series of tribes, Whose average height was far below an average, did really exist in Central Africa. Schweinfarth found such @ court fool, or buffoon, He found his heignth to be four feet ten inches, which he as- sumed to be the average height of his race. After awhile, when the little people got over their ‘tmidity, several others came to see the traveller, and let themselves be measured and examined. The Monbutto army appears to include @ corps of these little warriors, One day an expedition returned to King Munza’s residence, and besides the regu- lar soldiers acorps of armed pygmies helped to bear im the trophies. ‘Toward sunset,” says Dr. Schweinfurth, ‘I was passing along the extensive village, on my return to my quarters, when just as Treached the wide open space in front of the royal | halls I found yself surrounded by what 1 conjec- | tured must be a crowd of impudent boys, who re- ceived me with a sort of bravado fight, They pointed their arrows toward me and behaved gen- | erally in @ manner at which I'cou)d not help feel- ing somewhat irritated. as it betokened unwar- rantable liberty and intentional disrespect. My | apprehension was soon corrected by the Niam-Niam | people aboat mo, ‘They are Tikketikke (Akka),’ gald they; ‘you imagine they are boys, but in ‘ruth they are men; nay, men that can fight.” Next morning, when the Doctor sought up the dwarfs they had gone and he saw them no more. He obtained posseggion of'one Akka and brought bam 9s far an mi, Ware he died from too good living. The portrait of the Doctor’s protégé shows a head whose facial angle Is little better than that of @ chimpanzee, Untortunately tor ethnological science Dr. Schweinfurth was unable to penetrate further southwards. Had he gone on, who knows but that he would have discovered others and still more interesting specimens of humanity—perhaps those wonderful peo- ple “who use their {eet for umbrellas,’ or those curious subjects who “eat their fathers and curse the sun.” May be he could bave found the “missing link’? that is want- ing to establish our relationship with the ape, al- though the Akkas are near enough for our com- fort. God preserve the world from newer discoy- ries in this direction, so that our self-respect be not wounded. Dr. Schweinfurth says that the men of South Africa, are the scattered remains of an aboriginal population now becoming extinct. Dr, Schweinfurth sees many points of resemblance | between the Akkas and the Bushmen of South Arica and other dwarf tribes as bearing out this | assumption, A DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION. Dr. Schweinfurth's return journey then com- mences. It was with @ sad and heavy heart that he began retracing his steps toward the north. A comparatively short journey would (he says) have brought him to the sources of the ‘three great rivers of the west, the only streams that are abso- lutely closed to our geographical knowledge—the | Benwe, the Ogawai and the Congo.”...,“Distant asIwas, hardly more than 460 miles trom the limit that had been reached by Livingstone, I | could discern, as I fondly imagined, from Munza’s residence, a path clearly open toward the south- west which would condact me tothe Congo anil to the States of the mighty Mwata Yanvo. It appeared to me to be @ path that, once ex- plored, would solve the remaining problems of the | heart of Africa as decidedly as the sword of Alex- { ander severed the Gordian knot; and now, just, | when there was only one more district to be tra! versed, and that not larger than what we had | already passed since leaving the Gazelle, to be | obliged to abandon turther progress and to leave | the mysterious secrets still unraveled was a hard- ship towhich it was impossivle patiently to sub- | mit.” Though it would have deen diMcuit for a trading caravan to travel furtuer than the limitsot King Munza’s dominions, Dr. Schweinfurth sees no obstacle7in the way of any single traveller pro- ceeding unhindered down. the Welle, as far as Baghirmy, since the population are all well dis- posed as regards the white man, We regret with the Doctor that his purposes were here thwarted. | Yet we are thankful to him for the mass of vaina- ble information he has brought us, but can hardly imagine how his work could have been more inter- of Shatta’s settlements, that consumed all his manuscripts, journals and records, in comparison with which the loss of ail the effects in my hut ap- peared utterly insignificant, though they were the | burdens of a hundred bearers, Speaking of the | fire, he says:—"As the sun sank low we began to make a search for anything tha: might have been spared amidst the still glowing embers of the huts, I had saved littie beyond my life. AsI stood gaz- ing upon the piles of ashes I could not help reckon- ing up the accumulation of my labors which had there, beneath them all, been buried in this hap- less destiny. All the produce of my recent jour- ney; all the emtomological collection that I had made with such constant interest; ail the ex- amples of native industry, which I had procured ‘with 80 much care; all my registers of meteorologt- cal events, which had been kept day’ by day and without interruption ever since my first departure from Suakin, and in which I had inscribed some | ‘with their detatied narrative of the transactions of 925 days; all my elaborate measurements of the Dodies of the natives, which I had been at so much pains and expense to induce them to permit; all my vocabularies, which it had been sach a tedious business to compile; everything, in the course of a single hour, everything was gone, the plunder on whlen they row; bring the | making Dr. | how it was the Suitan of Zanzibar ‘Schweinrurth’s book # popular one, in- stead of ap eminently scientific one. THE APRICAN SLAVE TRADE We would hke to give Dr. Schweinfurth’s optn- ions about Airican slavery and his suggestions tor preventing the system, but space forvids, In brief he suggests :— 1. Egypt not having the power to suppress the slave trade, the country be placed under an ad- Ministration. formed on the European principle and to appoint Europeans to fill the highest posts. 2. To appoint commissioners of slaves, who should travel about the provinces and keep watch pon all the highways of the slave trade, They should be invested with the J/ullest authority and Tank above the local officials; should have power of arresting slave dealers, releasing slaves and re- ‘turning them to their homes. % To place the negro countries which suffer most from the slave trade under the protection of European governments by founding States ex- Pressly for their defence, 4, To introduce @ Chinese tmmigration into the Mahometan countries of Africa, of which the Population gives little attention to agricuiture, Dr. Schweinfurth does not entertain a very high opinion of the Khedive’s ability or willingness to co-operate in preventing the slave trade. So much has oflate been said on this supject, how- ever, that we forbear to discuss the subject at length, We have for the present, we imagine, miven enough to show the high character of Dr. Schweinfurth’s work, and earnestly recommend all persons interested in Africa and its peoples to read it, The work of the quiet, painstaking, enthusiastic German scientist and traveller will be found & most entertaining and instructive narra- tive even in an English dress. *Tne HEART OF AFRICA: Three years’ travels and adventures in the unexplored regions of Cen- tral Africa, from 1868 to 1871, Py Dr. G. Schwetn- farth, Translated by Elien E. Brewer, With an introduction by Winwoode Reade, In two vol- umes. With maps and woodcut {lustrations, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1374, THE EAST AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. ea Grand Council of Philanthropists at Stafford House, England—Livingstone’s Mission- ary Ideas Vindicated—Mr. H. M. Stanley's Plan, LONnon, May 12, 1874, By kind permission of the Dake and Duchess of Sutherland a meeting was held at Statford House this evening to consider the question of the Bast African slave trade. Cards of invitation were issued in the name of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Those invited assempled in the spacious hall, the stairway and gallery lined by ladies and gentlemen numbering probably about 1,000, Among those present were Sir Thomas | Fowell Buxton; Mr. A, Arnold, editor of the Zcho ; Hon. A, Kennard, M. P,; Mr. W. McArthur, M. P.; Mr. Edwin Arnold, editor of the Daély Telegraph; Sir J. H. Kennaway, Bart; Rev. Dr. Moffat, D. D.; Captain sir John Glover, Right Hon, W. E. Forster, i M. P.; Sir Bartle Frere, the Bishops of Gloucester and Bristol, Henry M, Stanley, Venerable Arch- deacon Bickersteth, Dean of Westminster; Rev. Horace Waller, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Rey. Canon | Conway, the Dean of Canterbury, Rev. J. Davies, Secretary Evangelical Alliance; the recently created Duke of Westmipster, Mr. M. J. Stewart, | M.P.; Mr. E, Senkins, M. P. (Ginx’s Baby); The O'Donoghue, M. P.; Sir F, Arthur, Rajah Brooke, Count Gurdoponi Visconti, the Bishop of Ripon, Mr. J. W. Pease, M. P,; Mr. W. J. Kay- Shuttleworth, M. P.; Lord and Lady Dynevor, Mr. W. J. Charley, M, P.; the Bishop of Peterboro (the eloquent Dr. Magee), Mr. J. Holmes, M. P. for Hackney, the borough which also returns Professor Fawcett; Sir Walter Sterling, Lady Dekin, Count Beust and many other persons of note. Not only was the hall filed with Jadies and gentlemen, but every step of the magnificent staircase was occu- pied, and the landings at the top were also crowded with the élite of London society. Every- body of note was there, and long before the time for commencing a long string of carriages were waiting outside to put down their distinguished occupants, THE CHAIRMAN. His Serene Highness the Duke of Teck, who presided, is a tall, handsome, dark man, witha heavy black mustache, and his English is decidedly foreign. Itis diMcult at times where I sit below him in the hall even to hear his voice, as he stands half way up the staircase; but a sentence or two comes down plainly as he asks “our sympathy for our suffering African brethren” and begs us to do all in our power to help to pat down an evil | “which it was evident was only scotched, not kuled,” THR SPERCHES. The next speaker is announced as Sir John Glover, whom we remember as the Captain Glover whose exploits on the Gold Coast have made his name familiar to every Englishman. He has been recently knighted in acknowledgment of fus distinguished services. In any ordinary Eng- lish assembly he would have been received with’ ringing cheers, but this aristocratic meeting only showed its appreciation of his merits by a soft murmur, broken here and there by the clap- pin or Kid gloved hands, A stout, broad uilt, red faced man is the African hero, and, lke another great general who by the African campaign has added yet other laurels to the many he had won before, Sir Garnet Wolseley, he is a better fighter than speaker. In proof of the good effect of settled government in Africa he quotes us a number of statistics aa to the trade of the port of Lagos, We listen a few minutes to innumerable figures about cotton and palm oil and exports and imporws. SIR BABTLE FRERE’S RESOLUTION. Then, suddenly, Sir John gives piace to Sir Bartle Frere, who 18 one of the “great guns” of the meet- ing. He moved the first resolution, which I give as a specimen of English composition — ‘That the final suppression of the slave trade should be *| fan object of deepest importance to ull civilised nations, and the slave trade still existing on the Kast Coast of Arica is not only ruinous to the country itself, but ts en- tirely opposed to the fortunes and inte of all civil ized countries, preventing, as it does, the introduction and spread of Christianity and elvilization and the de velopment of lawful comimeree. As Sir Bartle speaks one begins to understand ve way, and at last signed a treaty he had at first refused to look at. He was simply talked down. His voice is low, and ag he goes on, with a number of inter- Minable details about the differences between the East Coast, where the slave trade exists, and the West, where it has been suppressed, his audience paiesenge # grows weary, and an old lady next me makes franti¢ efforts to keep awake, which are also a failure; but when he turns from a subject of which his hearers poner know nothing and | begins to explain why Kngland should take the suppression of this trafic ay in hand we | are again interested, ‘It is England’s duty,” be ys, ‘first because she did much in the old times it to increase the slave trade, if she did. not rst start it. For this she must now do pen- ance.” Further, ‘she has swept the pirates from those seas, who themselves made the slave trade almost impossible, and she is bound—and the paradox is amusing—to take their place.” Then we have a few words of apology for the much abused potentate, the Sultan of Zanzibar, who, like most other rulers, is tied down by precedent, and when willing to do what is right is uuabie to do so because of the customs of his forefathers. However, at Sir Bartle Frere’s ifiatigation, he has broken the cifain and we are asked to take care that he is allowed no more t fall back into his gid ways. A AUSTRIAN AND ITALIAN OPINION, Count Beust, the Austrian Minister, follows, Speaking English which no one couid make out, and his colleague, Chevalier Cadonia, the Italia | Ambassador, comes next, speaking in Italian, ‘About @ dozen people iu the place know the lan: guage, and the rest make ludicrous efforts to juce their neighbors to suppose that they also are accomplished linguists. He makes a long speech, tui of Nue sounding words and soft, liquid accents; but what it all meant I confeas{ Nave not the slightest idea, although it was pleasant to sit and listen to ENGLISH SUPPORT. Mr. W. C. Forster, the Education Minister in the late government and the ‘conservative member for Bradford,” ashe was recently described, toliows, ae ha sy style, which is a pleasant change. He insists strongly that whatever govern- ment ta in pow t Ve ti - policy of the nation as re- is the That is the opinion of the nation at de is the same—that it must be | jut down. jarge, and no single British taxpayer, be veclarés, | Will mind the extra expense, APPROVAL OF THE CHURCH. Right Rev. Dr. Magee, the Bishop of Peter- borough, proposes another resolution expressing | @ hope that the proceeding pursued on the west- ern coast of Africa will be also adopted on the east, ior he evidently thinks the great work of | evangelization must be carried on among the | liberated slaves after the plan of Sterra Leone, LIVINGSTONE’S REPRESENTAT! ‘Sr. Moffatt, Livingstone’s father-in-! ‘@ vener- able old man, with a long, white beard—who haw worked, he tells us, for fifty-three years iu the country, says a few words, MR. A. M, STANLEY'S SPRRBCH AND CURE. HWahosse culls wh Ms, My My) reviously chatting quietly with me C7 get 1 think—I y— ‘Bur- dett Coutts. Other speakers had dealt in some- what vague generalities but took a different Une, and at once read out his trade at once, ee aad sharp is wo! every trader entering the country bound over in a heavy penalty not to dealin slaves. He would have every man convicted on the evidence of three respectable persous ve dealing heavil ined, and he woua Ly every Wer tried by a court cot of all the oMcers of the ship or ships which captured the Consul General at ite head, and if “found guilty summarily bung.” ‘This seemed thoroughly to meet the approval of the meeung, and elicited what one must call ‘foud applause.” Further, Mr. Stanley would have trading stations on Lake Nyassa, saupested by @ society to be founded for the purpose In Eng- HE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND. The Duke of Sutherland, our host, a bluff, bearded Englishman, evidently much more at home on the deck of a yachs than on the platiorm, reud some brief remarks, in which he defend ‘the Khedive of Egypt from the charge of supine- ness in the matter, declaring that he “does all in his power to pat the sla’ rade down.” The Duke of Sutherland proposes a vote of thanks to Prince of Teck, who responds by grace- fully thanking the Dake for his kindness in receiving the company, and then the audience breaks up and wander: ‘ay to look at the magnificent pic tures and statuary, the fine old china nd mar- quoter work, for which Staiford House is 40 cele- NEW YORK CITY. An unknown map, supposed to ve a German, about thirty-seven years of age, and dressed in black pants and plaid shirt, committed suicide yesterday morning by Jumping into the river from pier 41 North River. His body was recovered shortly afterward 4nd sent to the Morgue. Coroner Croker was requested to hold an in- quest yesterday, at Bellevue Hospital, upon Aaron Block, aged forty-five years, a commission mer- chant, lately residing at No. 21 Canton street, Brooklyn, who died trom mjurtes recelved about three weeks ago by being thrown out of a Wagon, Detective Dunn arrested Emi) Eisman yesterday and locked him up atthe Central Office. He is charged with stealing 8 watch and chain vaiued at $400, the property of a member of a variety | company that performed on Saturday night at the | Brookiya lemy of Music. ‘The prisoner will be | arraigned at the Tombs Police Court this morning. | Detective O'Connor, of the Eleventn precinct, found a box, yesterday, containing a quantity of human bones, in the basement of No. 639 Sixth street. They were sent to the Morgue, and are supposed to belong to some surgeon in the neigh- | BER OCs who was using them for anatomical | studies. BROOKLYN. At an early hour yesterday morning a lighter, laden with jute in bales, filled with water and sunk at her moorings, in front of the Empire Stores. A portion of the cargo was saved by the police, Mrs. Susan Everett, M.D., commences s-course of lectures this afternoon in the Strong place Baptist church. Subject—“Better Health for Women and Children.” The lecture to-day will be Sree, Charles Goetez, forty years of age, residing at | No. 195 Atlantic avenue, was run over by @ grocery | cart on Fulton avenue last Saturday night apd | fatally injured. The driver, Charles Ayres, was | arrested and locked up, The injured man was re- moved to the City Hospital. A post-mortem examination was made yesterday | on the body of Captain Jeremiah Smith, of the schooner Port au Platte, who died while on the | voyage to Point Hayti on mraday last, about seventy-five miles Ohiside of Ma trook, Death resulted from apoplexy, and a coroner’s jury ren- dered a verdict in accordance. The Germans of the City of Churches have made most extensive preparations for the observance of Pfingst Monday. On Saturday they applied to the Commissioners of Police for permission to parade | on Sunday and recetve the New Haven German s0- cieties, who were expected to arrive from that city. The police authorities declined to grant the desired privilege, and the delegation then waited on Mayor Hunter, who granted thetr request. LONG ISLAND. a Pyingsten, or the beginning of the Whitsuntied festival, was, as usual, generally observed by the German population on the island, The morning trains on all the railroads were crowded, and especially on the South Side road, where a large amount of extra rolling stock was brought into | Tequisition to accommodate excursionists visiting Bresiau and other poiuts on the line. To-day there will be a special observance of Whit Monday at Breslau, in which the Liederkranz and Arion societies will take prominent part, ‘The summer time table of the Long Island Rai Toad goes to effect to-day. There will be an ad- ditional number of trains to Rockaway, as weil as increased facilities of travel on the main line and the other branches, The summer arrangement of | the South Side Railroad will go into effect next Monday, when there will be additional as well as earlier and later trains, the last train from New York leaving the depot, at the foot of South Eighth Williamsburg, at half-past seven o'clock | The number of Sunday trains will also be ( increased, it being the purpose of the manage- | ment to run special trains, Right Rev. John Laughlin, Bishop of Brooklyn, | has authorized @ mission to de heid at St. Joseph’s chareh, Hewlets statton, on the Rockaway Beach and VaHey Stream branch of the Long Island Rail- road, The mission, which will be the first ever held in that section of the country, will be con- | ducted by one of the Redemptorist Fathers or Third street, New York, and will commence on Trinity Sunday and terminate on the Feast of Cor- us Christi, the Thursday following. The Rev J. or;ris, pastor of St. Joseph’s, anticipates a num- ber of city visitors, who will have an excellent op- portunity to go on @ religious retreat in the quiet of the country. NEW JERSEY. EME Be ‘The Hudson county Lanatic Asylum, at Snake Bil), is to be enlarged. Although the Compulsory Hducation bill has be- come a law there are 800 children in the Fourth district of Jersey Uity alone for whom there is no school accommodation, An effort will be made at the next session of the Legislature to have a bill passed providing for the erection of a State Prison at Snake Hill, Hadson county. The convict labor ia the quarries would goon liquidate the investment, The new Board of Chosen Freehoiders of Hud- son county are greatly embarrassed on account of | the legacy of extravagance bequeathed them by | the late Board, The investigation which is being made by the committee on the Penitentiary Has thus far elicited some facts which will startle the | taxpayers when published, The Erie Railway Company having been pre- | vented from laying @ horse car track for their new | line through Jersey City, their counsel have been { instructed to apply to the courts at once, Super- | intendent Brown went to Newark on Saturday for the parpose of having an injunction applied for to the Chancellor. THE STAGE DRIVERS, No Stages to be Run To-day. Yesterday there was a full and very enthusiastic meeting of the stage drivers at 216 East Forty- | first street to hear the reports of the committees , which were deputed on the Sunday previous to | wait on the employers and notify them that the men refused to work at the oki terms. The Chair. man called the meeting to order and after the min- utes of the previous meeting were read the several | committees through their chairmen reported that they had called upon the employers and represented | to them the demand of the men. In each case the employers had refused to accede to the terms de- manded of $8 per diea. ‘On the strength of these reports the meeting passed & Unanimous resolution that they would strike on Monday (to-day) and ~~. whe em- | joyers thatthe men considered they had given ‘hem ample warning of their intention. One ex- ception Was made jin favor of the Fourteenth street line, because the men were not present at the meeting of the previons Sunday. They will be allowed to run two trips ta the moruing as the em- ployers had not been apprised of the intention of striking. The meeting then adjourned. ‘the citizens of New York who travel by stages | will, therefore, have to stop riding to-day, uniesa the Lalo Aig should unexpectedly get extramen | to-day at the old rates, which 1s not probable. Both | sides seem to be determined. ‘The drivers cer. | tainly are, as judged by their earnest mauuer and | vone al Yeuyerday's Mectitds NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. Judge Lynch Among the Furtes—A Poor Hebrew Summarily Hanged on a Mississipp] Steamboat by # Vigilance Committee. {From the Memphis Appeal, May 12.) A few days ago the Appeal stated that Sam Bur- Man, supposed to have stolen a lot of jewelry from &® passenger on the steamer Clarkaville, was swung up with @ cord on the hoat when near Helena. Burman, who lives at Louisville, Ky., yesterday swore out a warrant before Justice R. B. Miller, and haa Hevry Powers, mate of the Clarksville, arrested for attempting to hang him. The mate was acting captain of the steamer, and after | Burman was swung up with the rope seized a | monkey-wrench and extorted @ confession from bim that he stole the jewelry and then threw it overboard. The captain, Heury Powers, stated to Justice Miller that he had no doubt but that Burman stole the jewelry, and that he ought to have hanged bim, as there is no law in Arkansas, the theft having been committed within ‘the juriadiction of that State. Burman was put Off the boat at a wood yard above Helena. Powers Was required to give $2,000 ball for his appear- anoe before Justice Miller, at one o'clock thi Boon, The man who lost tue jewelry isa ter- Swede named Harrold Or. Rearing, to tne above matter, Oolone] A. H. | jasa, the attorney for young Burman, far- | agi Dishes the following statement of tac —It seems that a paragraph in reference to tuiy affair ap- ared in a city paper under the caption, “Judge yncu on the Kiver; How Thieves Are Served by Texans,” which doea rank injustice to Samuel | Burman, 6 victim of a summary process, | which was applied vy what is there termed ‘Texans," The reporter was no doubt imposed upon by the source from which he derived his in- formation, and we do simple justice by offering some of the facts developed in the testimony pre- sented before Justice R. B. Miller, before whom the boy w: rraigned. On Saturday Borman took passage at Little Rock, stating at the tume that he acd but $2 50, which the clerk, O'Neil, a kind hearted fellow, consented to accept in payment of hia passage to Memphis, On the way, and not far below Helena, a deck passenger claimed that he had lost some jewelry, consisting of worn out gold trinkets, which he Valued at $600, and, without knowing who to charge with the larceny, if there was any, he Pitched upon the boy Burman, perhaps at the in- stigation of the real thief, Burman stoutly denied bis gailt. @ very short while the boast landed at the wharf at Helena, and after again ee under headway the captain in command ‘ad the boy arrested, organized a lynoh jury, and, 4t is said, played the double role of judge and cap- vain, and after the worse than mockery of a trial | condemned the poor boy to be hanged, They de- | manded of him a confession of guilt, which he stoutly re! and tearfully persisted in deciar- ing his ianocence, The captain, however, coolly ordered a gallows to be erected, ana personally superintended the delectable job of execution, exclaiming, as is said, which we hope for the honor of bumanity is untrue:—“Hang the d—d Jew. He ought to be hanged.” Accordingly he (the “d—d Jew”) was hanged until his face turned black, aud bis tongue protraded from his mouth. He was then cut down, only again to be ignomintously suspended. As he was about being drawn up the last time, all he was per- mitted to eh, ‘was, “Send my remains to my father, No. 35 Green street, Louisville.” Again he ‘was cut down at the instigation of some kind Samaritan, bat when life was nearly extinct. This outrage, a8 might be readily supposed, would have satistied the bloody appetites of the “Tnugs,”’ at whose mercy the poor Hebrew boy was placed. On the contrary, the boat (Clarksville) was hurried on her watery path to a desolate island, perhaps tenantless, and covered with water, aud there | poor. Burman was hurried off with his hands tied | ehind him, without food or shelter, and with the | damping brand of the halter deeply buried | in his delicate white skin. Through the waste of waters and the siient (forest he wandered, until fortunately he met with @ coiored man (who knows his name?) to | whom he told the story of tis wrongs and distress. | The generous pegro nes the youth to Riad, he bt) Top sym | SHabling him to reach Me! | 2 Augtin or its nel faliyraaa on When here he was furnished with means to go to his parents tn Louisvill qho occupy, it is due to him and se) to say, Af unquestioned position of respectabilt' <4 ‘While fomtar | nis way to the Memphis and Ohio Rallroad depot he was again arrested and brought before Justice Miller on the same charge as belore detailed, and upon a full | hearing was honorably discharged. Such is a yee @nd, as it reached us from one of his counsel, a truthful account of this unfortunate affair—one which all good peo- ple must regret warranted outrage upon law and humanity. As a friend of Texas and its citizens wo repel the foul insult offered a brave people by denominating the perpetrators of this crime, “Texans.” Good are sometimes thonghtiessly led to commit wronga of this sharacet, but we rene re that Be ees ordinary ings, Whatever us OF will fail to abuddler when hei the watchwor of the occasion, “Hang the d—d Jew!” Such are statements emanating from the young Hebrew and his Iriends, and on the trial these statements were fully sustained and corroborated. We hope, however, that the officers of the boat may vindicate themselves before the penber tribunals and at the bar of an outraged public opinion. (OTHER ACCOUNT. AN ary of this outrage the Ledger of yesterday, | unde: r the head of “Judge Lynch on the River,” | has the following article:—‘‘On the last trip of the , Clarkevitle irom Little Rock to this city a deck assenger Was robbed of $4601n gold. When the at arrived near Helena a vigilance committee was formed on board and 8 mau named 8, Burman, hailing from Louisville, was arrested. He was regularly tried, and the testimony seemed to fasten it upon him. The jury senterced him to be janged unless he gave up the money. This he re- fused to do, denying all knowledge of the robbery. | A biock and rope was rigged up and a number | of Texans on board wok charge of the ceremony of strangulation. Burman was pulled | up so that his toes touched the deck, and he re- | mained suspended until ne became black in the Jace; he was then lowered and interrogated, This , time he said thathe had thrown the gold over- | board. The men determined to swing him again. Ere he ieft the deck he said, Good by; | send my body to Louisville,” and he was swung | up. Some persons on board prevailed on the vig- ; ilance committee to lower the prisoner. When 80 | done he was oncOnscious, and it was with dit. | culty that he was restored to life. Burman was put ashore with his hands tied behind his back at 5 woodpile oo an isiand some distance avove elena. FATAL SHOOTING. CoLumBIA, Pa, May 24, 1874, Julius L, Shaman, a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, from Lancaster county, Was shot and | mortally wounded by Jacob Wittmer, at Washing- ton, Lancaster county, last evening. Wittmer was intoxicated, and threatened to ; shoot his wife, when Shuman entered Wittner’s , house and interfered. The ball entered his abdomen and lodged in his spine. The wound is considered mortal. Wittmer Was arrested and jailed at Lancaster, “YAGHTING NOTE, — Yacht Phantom, N. Y. Y. ©. Mr. William Osgood, | from New London, passea Whitestone yesterday, enroute for New York. TROTTING AT BEACON PARK. Boston, May 23, 1874. The spring meeting at Beacon Park, which was postponed irom Thursday Jast on account of rain, was continued to-day. The weather was delight ful and the attendance large. There was but one Tace on the original programme, but the race for 2:34 horses Was taken from tne closing day's pro- gramme, thus making a /uil afternoun’s sport, 1 THE FIRST TROT. Purse $400; for horses that had never beaten 2:20; mile heats, three in five, in harness. STARTERS, G. H. Bailey’s b. g. Sheppard Knapp, Jr. Worcester’s ch, 8. Colonel Moulton Dustin’s br. g. Frank Palme: D, Bigiey’s ch. m. Fanny Time, 2:31 5—2: 2 Colonel Moulton was the iavorite before the Start, and after the first heat sold at large odds, | THE SECOND TROT. Purse $250; for horses that had never beaten 2:34, mile heats, best three in five, in karness, STARTERS, Beckler’s cb, m, Flora Belle. Garroil’s br. m. Jubilee Lambert Woodward's b. 8. John Lambert... Moshler’s bik. m. Bell Dean... ‘Time, 2 :34—2 :32 \q—: Six horses started of the eight entered, | TROTTING AND PACING IN CALIFORNIA, | OAKLAND PARK, 16.—Match $4,000, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, ‘ ¢ QO, A. Hickok named b, m, Elia vewis....... 1 1 'T. McOtellan nanied b. 2 Time, 2: E q f Same DAY.—Purse $100, three-quarters of a mile heats, best three im five. T. Kennedy’s 8. m. Capitola (pacer), to Wagon. D. Green's b. in harness T. McCiellan’s ip harness: Time, 1:49—1 : SALE OF EFANOY OATTLE, aves i 2 t2ii1 133 | An imported bull, the Second Duke of Hilinurst, The sale of Colonel King's Lyndale herd at Chicago, Ml, On the 2st inst., realized $128,000, out of Duchess Ninety-seventh, by Sixth Duke of Geneva, fetched $14,000, ie Was bought by and condemn a8 an un- | men | | pulled out fifty cents abd paid tor two drinks, 8 A TERRIBLE CRIME. A Negro Servant Brains His Wife and Attexmpts to Burn the Remains—The Cremation Providentially Prevented. LYNCHBURG, Va. May 19, 1674. Crime seams to increase among the colored race in proportion to the years of their emancipa- tion, and to-day I have to chronicle one of the most cold-blooded, deliberate and fiendish murders, by @ “man and brother” that ever stained the an- nals of Virginia. About one mile and a half from the corporate limits of this city lives Mr. Prank T, Lee, m whose employment as servants were Rich- ard Coleman and his wife Jane. Of late, from all {aascan now be gathered, the marital relations of the couple were anything but happy or even agree- able. The green-cyed monster jealousy principally caused the domestic tribulations of Richard, added to which Jane, being rathem positive and deter- mined to do as she pleased, refused to surrender to her spouse and lord her monthly wages and other litste financtal perquisives that fell into her hands tn the course of events. Such a state of @ffairs soon produced great family discord, which finally culminated in o tragedy on Sun- day nignt last. Supper time—say vetween eight and nine P. M.—had arrived in Mr. Lee’s family, and Jane had cooked the meal, as was ber wont. Her husband Richard was present in tne klscnen, and during the cooking process he repeatedly requested his wife nos to go to church that night, as she had said she would, Probably Richard suspected that her main object in going to church was to meetsome more fav- ored rival in her affections, She replied that she would go; whereupon, exercising his authority as @ husband, he sternly forbade her to go. To this sbe answered defiantly, “I will go now, anyhow.’? MURDER AND ATTEMPTED CREMASTON. What occurred alter this open rupture is not Positively known, but in a few minutes a house girl named Sylvia Cox came from tne dining room to the kitchen after the last supply of biscuits for the supper table. When sne had gone out Jane Went up stairs to her room to dress for chureh. Richard followed her stealtnily with an iron bar in kis hand, and as soon as she had gained ter room he was close behind her, He Closed the door, and from the rear dealt his wife several terrific blows with the iron bar on the right temple, each blow crushing in the frontal bones, and any of them sufficient to cause death. The poor woman fell to the ground @ corpse, but the fiend continued his blows on the left side Of the head until he had administered fully seventeen and his victim’s head had become @ shapeless mass. One migit think the murderer Would have at once fled; but not so with Richard. He was calculating deliberately and methodically, and, though within whispering distance of 4 num- ber of gen he resoived to hide the evidence of his guilt beyond the possibility of a doubt by the commission of another terrivie and heinous crime. Proceeding Cee he took the quit off the bed in the room and qui ei wrapped the pose of his murdered wiie in it. He tien deposited it ip the centre of the room on the floor, atter which, with devilish cunning and ingenuity, he hastened to complete the terrible work of the night. Seizing the kerosene oil lamp, he quickl; Temoved the portion of it through which the wic! passed, and poured the flutd over the quilt which enveloped the murdered body of his wile. With the lighted wick, which he held in one hand, he set fire to the body, which, had it not been providen- tially discovered afterwards, would soon have been cremated without the ail of any scientific accom- animents, This concluded, the murderer closed he door and descended the stairs and hid to watch tue success of his plans or await developments, DINCOVERY OF TEM FAR: Shortly afterwards, probably about nine o’clock, when supper Was over, Sylvia Cox, the house girl, came to [he xitchen, and not finding Jane there ascended the stairs to herroom. Upon opening the door she was nearly stifled vy’a dense nause- pring smoke which burst from the room, and, igbbeng te? @volume of flame which shot up ma a Rect }ying on the floor im the centre the fecent eile she quickly ran back to the house and breathlessiy related to Mr. Lee what she had seen, That gentleman promptly rushed out to the yard and up (he statra to Jane’s room, where, finding the house was on fire, he began ballooing loudly for help and firing his pistol at the same time. With commendabie presence of mind, however, he seized a bucket, procured water, and, with the aid of the girl, soon Succeeded in pulting the fire out, by which time a large number of the neighbors, servants and others assembled at the scene of the outrage and | murder. Among them was Richard, who ¢x- claimed, in an agitated tone of voice, “ Phe nok pe MATTER 177 cua a on being informed he moaning an | grooning in an ap) chelewicase manner, | 80 much 80, Indeed, that he had to be removed from the scene. The next day & Voroner’s inquest was held, wnen the facts above stated were proven | so conclusively that the colored people present | procured a rope with which to summarily hang the | murderer, and, but for the opportune arrival of constable and posse, the threat would nave been undoubtedly carried into execution. Richard was placed in jati tn this city forsafe keeping until he could be sent to the County Jail without fear of being rescued. ‘The colored people are highly in- censed over this terrible crime, ‘A SATURDAY NIGHT MURDER. Men So NS: William Belfort Stabbed in a Street Quarrel. At about ten o'clock on Saturday night a young man named William Belfort paid a visit to some friends in Moore street, Williamsburg. After re- maining a short time he started down the strect and on the way encountered two men, named Peter and John Kiinemef, father and son, An altercation took place and a struggle ensued, during which Belfort received a stab in the head gt the hands of nis assafiants, who immediate), ranaway. The wounded man Was picked up an carried into the house of a friend near by and & physician summoned, who dressed the wound of the insensible man, who remained in that condi- tion until midnight, when he expired. Officer Charles Frost, of the Sixth precinct, upon peng | intormed of what had occurred, at once made | search for the assailants, and succeeded vo finding §=them at their residence, | No, 90 Moore street, and arrested the young | man, John Kiinemer. On the way to the station house the young man firmiy denied naving stab- bed Belfort, and said if there was any cutting done it must have been done by his fatner. Another officer was sent alter the elder Klinemer, but on searching the house it was jound that he had made bjs escape, and up to @ late hour last night he had not veen captured. Yesterday morn- ing Dr. Joseph Creamer taade a post-mortem ex- , amimation of the body, and found a stab wound immediately over the lett eye, penetrating into the brain three inches, and gave it as his crmien that death resulted irom compression of the brain, produced by internal hemorrbage, | Belfort, the murdered man, was twenty-two years of age, & coach driver, He resided with his. parents at the corner of Debevoise and Morrel street, and was generally respected, The prisoner, John Klinemer, ts twenty-two Y ears of age, a laborer, und has a bad character. | A PATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. The Wounded Man’s Ante-mortem State> | } ment. | Coroner Croker was calied to Bellevue Hospital | yesterday morning to take the ante-mortem state- ment of Thomas U’Connell,'a young man tweniy- six years of age, residing at No. 557 West Thirty- second street, Who Was shot in the left breast and fatally wounded by John Smarrigh, an Italian, in the. latver’s saloon, No, 653 West Thirty-second street. O'Connell, who Was rapidly sinking, made the following statemen' Last night, between twelve and one o'clock, I was coming down Thirty-sixth street, olny toward my home in Thirty second street, with a ujan named James Shand ley. W ‘going down Tenth avenue Shandiey to me, ‘Come, Tommy, the Italians are open, let ‘us go in and taxe adrink.”' We went to Smarrigh's place ou Thirty-second street. Shandicy asked the Italian for a drink, but the latter refused to give him any as Shandle: said tie had no money, I put my hand in my pocket ‘and then came out, leaving Shandiey inside, and while | was talking toa man at the door Shandiy called out for me to come in. {wont in, and he sald, “Tommy. have you got ten cents around your” I said."Yes,"" and: while I was putting my hard in my pocket to get the ten cents the bar tender pulled outa reveiver froma 4 Lsald. “Shandiey. Dm shot £ don’t ku Sbandley had any quarrel with him when door or not. The man who shot ye was the proprietor of an Mallen boarding house on Thirty-second sirect near Eleventh avenue. 1 Rever had any quarrel wit man and [cannot say whether he {ntentled to shoot or Shandiey, but I saw tii ve, Ce les revolver out of he anpeared 1008 i i had only tak four glasses of beet during ie whole evening. (Ifa | fince last Seplombers Y perved about seven years in the | sino 1 nt United States Army and Sav; aim about twenty-three was born in or age when I came to this is Smarrigh, who was arrested shortly shooting, {stocked up in the West Thirty-seventh street Poltce station to awatt the reault of O'Con~ nell’s injuries. Shandiey 1s algo detained by Cap- tain McDonnell as a witness. FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA, PHILADELPHIA, May 24, 1874, Darly this srarring the sash and planing milt of Hazel & Ca, corner Righth street and Girard ave nue, was totally destroyed by fire, with a large stock of lumber ahd valuable mackizery. Lose George Robbing, of London, England, and will, itis Supposed, be taken back to the laud of pia Wirilk 25,000 tO $30,000; Insured jor $10,000 in the Fire J Sosccisui0n of Philadelphia and Lycoming Mutual