The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1874, Page 3

\. UNEXPLORED AFRICA. An Anglo-American Jouraalis- tic Expedition. ae David Livingstone’s Work | trai atrican geography has become more fasei- £ = To Be Completed. en MR. H. M. STANLEY’S MISSION }rom the London Daily Telegraph, Jnly 4, 1874.) We are in a position this morning to announce that arrangements have been concluded between the proprietors of the Dauy Telegraphand Mr. Bennett, proprietor of the New YoRK HERALD, un- der which an expedition wil! at once be despatch to Alrica with the object o1 investigating and re- porting upon the haunts of the slave traders; of pursuing to fulfilment the maguifiesnt discoveries of the great explorer, Dr. Livingstone, and of com- pleting, if possiole, the remaining probiems ot Central African geography, This expedition has been undertaken by and will be under the sole command of Mr.. Henry M. Stanley, whose successful journey “in search of Living- stone,” upon the suggestion and at the charge of the proprietor of the New YORK HERALD, was the means of succoring the illus- trious traveller, and secured to science the frait of his researches, while it enabled our distin- guished countryman to prosecute his latest inves- tigations, Mr. Stanley will ina short ‘time leave England fully equipped with boats, arms, stores, and aj! tue provision necessary for a thorough ana protracted African expedition. Cominissioued by the Daily Telegraph apd the New York HERALD in concert, he will represent the two nations Whose common interest in the regeneration ot Airica was so well illustrated when the lost English explorer was rediscovered by the ener- getic American correspondent, In that memorabie journey Mr. Stan'ey displayed the best qualities of an Airican traveller; and with no inconsiderable Fesources at his disposal to retniorce his own com- plete acquaintance with the conditions of African | travel, it may be hoped that very important re- wults will accrue from thts updertaxing to the ad- Vantage of science, humaoity and civilization. We cannot, indeed, be mistaken in believing that the enterprise thus planned will be held by general opinion—not only here and in the United States, bur throughout Europe—as one worthy to engage the efforts of modern journalism, The sphere of the press, asa minister to public in- teres's and sentiments, 1s, of necessity, enlarging g@iong with the widening range of those interests and sentiments, and while American liberality has well earned the right to snare in reaping the fruits of Livingstone’s work, the hun'ing-ont of the African slave trade and the solution of the yet abiding mystery of the central portion of that | continent are topics which obviously concern and attract every intelligent Englishman. To bring to light the wickedness of the trafic in human flesh is the best road towards its abolition; and we cherish the hope that this joint en- terprise may furnish valuable information to the Legislature and to the British government, whose credit is bound up with the final success of the movement set on oot by the treaty of Sir Bartle Frere. At present, as 18 only too well known, that treaty, concluded with the Sultan of Zanzibar, has not obtained the results expected. An infamous and lucrative trafic, but impertectly revevled by the oMcial intormation recently com- municated to Parliament, still tnrives along the East African shores, and it will be part of the instructions of our joint commissioner to see with | his own eyes, a8 far as possibic, the methods, the haunts and the character of this uefarious trade, beiore advancing into the interior, Tais was as- suredly one of the duties bequeathed to us by the noble-minded Livingstone. Everybody knows that the burning desire to ria Africa o1 that curse, the slave driver, lay even nearer to the great ex- plorer’s heart than his ambition to unlock her hidden secrets aud to fill up the vast mys- terious blank spaces of her map. For this he chiefly toiled—for this he sought to make his name weighty, and his voice far heard—in order that, Hving or dying, it thight be strong to urge Eng- Jand on to the completion of ber historical duty. In the sermon which Dean Stanley delivered over the newly closed grave of this great man the sub- joined words occurred :—‘‘There arose in his noble breast, as he wandered on among them, the pas- sionate wish, ever mounting to a higher and yet | higher pitch of burning indignation and fierce de- termination, to expose, and exposing, to strike a fatal biow, at that monster evii which, by general testimony, is the one prevailing cause of African misery and degradation—tne European and Asiatic slave trade. He grappled witn it vigorously, and “§t recognized in bim its most formidable foe. In the struggle be perished, too soon, alas! for him to know | how nearly he had succceded—not, we trust, too soon for us to secure that his success shall be accom- plished, so that the work which m its commence- ment and continued inspiration was the brightest side of the name of Wilberforce shail in its com- pletion shed the chief gloryon the name of Liv- ingetone.”” It is one of the bequests, we say, of Livingstone to the English speaking peoples that | they should let the light im upon this evil and ex- tirpate it; and, therCfore, one steadfast object recommended to Mr. Staniey—who, perhaps, more than any other man. nas the right to “administer to Livingstone’s testament"’—will be to search out and reveal what this slave tramc really is in its “dark places.” The second and scarcely less momentous pe- quest of the jliustrious dead is as certainly the completion of his geographical researches. This g@uty also stands intimately connected with the future regeneration of Africa; indeed, the two ‘undertakings belong naturally to each other, for when Africa shall once be delivered from the !m- * memorial terror of the slavers, then ber uprise | most depend upon her natural resources and lines of internal communication. Livingstone always saw and felt how intimately his mission of human- tanor of love and anty were s0 mucn more thor- oughly consummated than he knew! He 3 wont to say jn ail his difficulues and doubts, “It will all come right at last.” In the velief that it will come right we are going to send the white man who was with him last, and whom he has blessed and called ‘a8 good as a son to me,” upon the track of his failing footsteps to see if we can help Africa and geography, and finish Living- stone's tasi. At this moment, in truth, the problem of Cen- nating, more absorbing, more important than ever before. Livingstone has hunted this sphinx of serence into a kind of cornur, and six degrees of longitude westward of Lake Tanganyika now contain the solution upon which the juture o! Alrica depends. Five magnificent jakes—tne smallest of them, probably, as big as Michigan— and a long, superb, connecting lacustrine river, threading these lakes from the vast Usango plateau south of Tanganyika to the iniand seas of Bangweolo, Moero, Kamolondo and the “Un- known Water’’—have been made known to us by the same adventurous journey of rescue which prolonged the life of Livingstone. These glo- rious iresh-water seas, with the lordly river which strings them together, and with that other broad stream which tssues from Lake Lincoin and joins the Lualaba—do they run northward to the Nyanzas and the Nile, or westward to the Congo? Does Tanganyike ‘ind some western out- let whereby to add her waves to them, or are Tan- ganyika and Nyanza one; or else by what strange reason do her deep and monuntain-shadowed waters remain so sweet and iresh ? These are not merely probiems of the geographer’s study—qnes- tions to while away an evening of the Royal Geo- graphical Society. Upon the right answer to tiem depends the proper road into tae heart of Africa— the destined direction of that commerce which will some day rescue her an@ give her a place among the civilized continents, And when we add to these primary inquiries the deeply interesting secondary queries about the Katanga copper mines, those mysterious “Four Fountains.’ and the underground habitations near Moero, it will be seen at wnat an intensely mteresting stage of Atri. can discovery the expedition ol the New York HERALD and of the Daily Telegraph sets tort. Jt 19 true that the flela of exploration is not quite at this moment deserted, Iu Maren, 1873, Livu- tenant Cameron was commissioned by Sir Barve Frere, on behalf of the Royal Geographical Soci- ety, to take supplies and means ‘o Livingsione, | Who Was at that time, though none knew ii, near to die at Naia. Accompanied by Messrs. Dillon and Murphy, this expedition started, but only to encounter @ ran of iil luck and difficulties which brought its resources so low that at Unyanyembe it was already nearly bankrupt. To proceed at all | Lieutenant Cameron bad to draw largely upon the | Royal Geographical Society and to buy his clon at @ ruinous price; and when, with great courage and perseverance, be was at last going forward, the sad news came to him that the Doctor was dead, Of his two companions Dr. Diilon died overwrought by suffering, and Mr, Murphy | resigned and came back to Zanzibar, Cam- eron went forward to fetch the papers and effects of Livingstone left at Ujiji, and reached that place in February of the present year. But | he is, although not aware of it, no longer nuw the emissary of the society, That body had never ex- pected to incur the heavy losses of the upward march; and although its hesitation to honor Lieu- tenant Cameron’s drafts, felt and sustained at first, was very properly surmounted in the end, still, with many other objects to follow, and the papers of Livingstone secureg, it eventually re- solved not to extend the journey of Lieutenant Cameron or incur any further expense. Letters to this effect have gone alter him, which reached Unyanyembe in June and Ujiji in July, so that while we write the communication 1s perhaps being delivered to this gallant oMcer which ac: quainta him with the hard trnth that he is no longer in the service of the society. He has faced @ hundred obstacles with the highest courage, and deserved, we cannot help thinking, a somewhat stouter support; and it will certainly be one of the instructions of our commissioner, as it would obviously accord with his own inclination, to be of use to the brave young explorer if opporturity } should offer. As to the chance of Cameron’s solv- ing the trans-Tanganyika probiem, it is, we fear, ity and his scientific researches were linked to- | gether; and the patient t1 ier who found rest at last in Ilala worked for the future of Airica as directly as the fearless pen which brought an knglish Plenipotentiary to Zanzibar | and the faithfal hand which toid us the truth abont slavery. In the course of his vast wanderings Livingstone wrought also, a stupendous work for science; but he left it necessarily incomplete. ‘The same eloquent discourse already quoted con- tains the foliowing passage :—The blank of unex: | plored regions which in every earlier map formed | the heart of Africa ts now disclosed to us, adorned with those magnificent forests, that chain of Jakes, ‘glittering’—to use the native expression— ‘ike stars in the desert;’ those falls, more splendid, we are told, even than Niagara, which no eye of civilized man had ever before beheld, where above the far resounding thunder of the cataract and the flying comets of snow white foam, and the rising columns of ever ascending spray, and the bright rainbows arching over the | elonds, the simple natives had for centuries seen the emblem—the glorious embiem—ol everlasting Detty—the unchangeable seated enthroned above | the cbangeable. And to Livimgstone’s untiring exertions, continued down to the very last efforts of exhausted nature, We owe the gradual limita- tion of the basin within which must at last be found those hidden fountains that have jared on ‘gavelier after traveller, and nave hitherto bamed them all.” Dean Stanley is quite right; the secret of the Nile—that is to say the key to the com- mercial road of Central Africa—has yet to be found. Burton and Speke, Grant and Baker, and even Livingstone himself have, with all their splendid discoveries, still left the ancient mystery unrevealed; it has ever more deeply re- ceded as each of them approached It, the ultimate Possibilities always becoming grander with each disappointment. Thus it may yet prove that the far-off Lake Bangweolo, near whose shore the areat explorer died, sends its waters to the won- deriul Nile. How that would enhance the pathos and the glory of his death, if it should turn out that Providence gave him his summons when bis | | not strong. He was to bouton the lake for two | months, and to make an excursion into Manyema, | say down to May or June. Then, if he waited at | Ujtii for letters, it would only be to receive that | little cheering one from Saville row, practically | recalling him, while if he went forward without | any news, his resources, probably, Would not carry | him far unless he met with much better fortune | than in tne first part of his trip. Meantime, his friends at home. have collected £600, which will sul tice to pay for his return journey from Lake Tan- ganyika to Zanzibar, and notice of this has been transmitted to the coast. If he can, by any stroke of pluck or luck, find the way northward to | Gordon, he will have solved one prob- Jem of Alrican geography, and shown himsell by a fresh prool, which was not needed, what all know him to be—a brave man; but it is extremely improbable that be has means for any such journey, and much more likely that, not pos- sessing them, and receiving the letter of dismissal, he will have turned homeward by next Christ- mas, so that our expedition may perhaps have the pleasure of rendering service to him—possibiy, in- deed, very timely service. Meanwhile, the letters received from Cameron at Ujiji render the great proviem of the Nile and the lakes more fascinating than ever. His obser- vations show that Speke was quite wrong in putting Tanganyika only 1,844 feet above the sea level. Livingstone was right; it is about 2,800 fect; and, seeing that the same elevation, or nearly so, is given for the Albert Nyanza—the difference between Cameron’s and Baker's esti- mate for the respective lakes is only twenty feet—the old possibility returns that Tangan- yika and Nyanza may, aiter all, be one. This was the report heard by Sir Samuel Baker at | Faloro, and telegraphed first to these columns; and if it were only true—if even the Lualaba and | the southern lakes ran into the Nyanza—then | Livingstone, after all, did find the real and ulti- | mate fountains of the River of Egypt, and you may sail @ boat, with certain portages, from Alex- andria to the uplands of Usango, in the twelfth de- gree of latitude south of the Equator. And this would mean that Africa, at the moment of her de- livery trom the slave hunters, had fair and beauti- fi and healthy highways all ready and open to the north and to the east. If, on the contrary, the great inland seas and rivers of Manyema go west- ward to the Congo, it would still be deeply inter- esting,and important to ascertain the fact. In | every aspect, for every reason, irom every point of view, the sad continent seems to wait for the reading of this riddle. Then comes her long-deierred time of light and life! Sir Samuel Baker, deiivoring recently the Rede lecture at Cambridge, said:—«“she will awake when tie first steam launch is seen npon the Albert Nyanza,”’ and he added that nowhere in the world does scenery exist more beautiful, or soil more fertile, or Climate more healthy to the temperate and strong, than those vast and diverst- fied highlands of Central Africa which enclose | these glorious, sparkling seas of sweet water, and | feed the mighty rivers whose course is so far-wind- ing that to this day no man has yet traversed them from mouth to fountain, In full, and we hope weil justified, confidence, then, that our joint expedition will have the good wishes of all men, we are about to send it forth, Alrica is vast, doubtiu and dangerous, and tie best preparations cannot insure success, nor can the stontest manhood command it. But what- ever good equipment and suMcient resources can do worthily to continue Livingstone’s work will not be wanting, and the commissioner employed will be a man who loves the great trav- eller’s memory, who rejoices to follow in his | footsteps, and who has displayed those personal qualities which can best overcome the hundred perils ofan explorer, It was when Sir Roderick | Murchison reluctantly announced, in 1871, that the Royal Geographical Society had no further inten- tion of sending after Livingstone that the New York HERALD despatched Mr, Stanley, with the re- | suit of rescuing the good missionary, sustaining | him in his last journey and securing for his coun- | | | | | i} i try and jor science the rich fruits of his research, | ‘The society must not be blamed though another traveller ts isolated and an Airtcan exploration again suspended; its means are not inexhaustible, and it has done much and well for science, But the ie work of Livingstone, in its two axpects of! humanity and discovery, is not @ thifig that must or can be droppec; and there ore it is that, in this friendly alliance of resource and purpose, the pro- prietors of the two journals concerned have con- cluded their present arrangements, OUR CE LESTIAL ROCK<T. oe A Big Headed Visitor in 1864—Terrestrial Facts end Fancies Concerning Comets, Their Purposes, Possibilities and Results, Last evening the oohict mate another brilliant appearance in the heave 8, and the usual groups oi curious stargazers assembled to watch the mys- terious visitor. -At times the rays of light emitted from tie tuliseemed to expand and torm, an [lu minated “Prince’s Feather; and, again, the rays would contract and pierce each other through and through Ike brilliant lances, The interest in this Wondrous vagrant orb secs to increase daily, and the mass of correspondence received from all parts 0; foe coantry asking ana giving in- formation is surprising, References have already been made in the HeraLp to the remarkable comets that have developed themselves in the glory of the heavens during the present contmry. | Kepler has asserted that these luminous bodies | are scattered throngh space with as much profue sion as fishes in the ocean, and Arago estimated | the number that traverse the soiar at 17,500,000. Most of the comets have Visited the celestial regions occupied by our | world for tie first time, and i’ they have »iready | been with us their visits happened at perto:s so | remote trom ours that no human obver' jons | have been handed down to us, even if mao tnen | existed on earth, A comet that makes its pe m& nent home in the solar systent sn he most literal sense of the term—gradua! destruction and | becomes dispersed all over its orbit or path through the heavens, The appearance of the | comet of 1811 made ane sensation; those of 1825 and ts ere remarkably brilliant, | Donatl’s of 3858 and ‘Tebbvuts? of 1801 were among | the most magniticont on record, The two latter Were as bright as the stead'ly beaming mass of | Jupiter, and were objects, ike the metor now shin- ing during the present summer nights in the | | thoughts that do not start except in presence of porteptous and mysterions apparitions, lowing close on Tebbuts’ comet came unknown depths of space that discovered by | Rosa, in Rone, during the month of July, | 1862, Although not competing im brilhancy or dimensions with either or th to observers tt presented many fe rom the | atures of great of 100,000 miles an THE LENGTH OF ITS TAIL 3,000,000 OF MILES, It appeared between the well Known pointers and the equally well known pole star, and was not | far removed from the position occupied by the | great comet of 1861, though the two objects were | entirely distinct and different. It came nearest | to the earth on August 23, travelling at the rare of 2,000,000 milesa day. It remained visible up to the middle of September, and on the 11th of | that month crossed the piane of the ecliptic at a point rather more than 2,000,000 miles from the path of the earth, A few days after its first ap- | pearance a faint jet of light was noticed as pro- ceeding from it towards the left, and this was in every respect similar to the fantail or sector seen | to such perfection in Donati’s and the comet of the | year before. The tail was faint and slender, and | the head attached to it like a thin bulbous root or stalk—a pecuilarity rarely witnessed celestial phenonema, On August in such | 188: 28, exceediuyly grand luminous jets, ever changing. | lim in the name of Shotwell, and in order to get | were plainly seen proceeding irom tne nucleus, Jike a gastlame from an Arcand burner, This em: nation, nearly in the direction of the sun, much | esempled that exhibited by Halley’ omet in L and continued several days. The whole | aspect of Rosa's meteor was very like that of a roc en turned aside from its course by @ strong wind, THE COMET OF 1864, The comet of 1464 was visible in August, and had a head auusuaily large. 4th of that month, it resembled a dull blurred star of the tnird magnitude, bat in the telescope it appeared as a cizcniar mass of nebulous mitter, with a central condensation. There was a faint tall, but it presented no special features o! interest. | ENCKE’S COMET, | interesting of that class, having | at sbort periods appeared to great advan- tage. On Angust 14, 1868, it was visible | at the Washington (D. C.) Observatory. b- ginning with Mechain, who, in 1786, at Paris, discovered the meteor, 1t was followed in later years by Miss Caroline Herschel, sister of the cele- | rated Sir W. Herschel; by Thulis, at Marseliles, | and Pons, of the same city, Encke, in 1819, found | that the true form o1 its orbit was elliptical, and that it had a period of three and one-third years. | On looking over a catalogue of all the comets tnen | Known he was struck with the similarity which the elements obtained by him bore to those of the comets of 1785, 1795 and 1805, and was seized with by far the most the idea that the one then under investiga. | tion was identical with them. He was | able to assure himself that the comet of | 1818 was the same as the three above menttoned, | and also that between 1786 and 1818 it had passed at its nearest distance from the sun seven times without being seen. Encke then turned his atien- tion to tts next return, and he announced that it would arrive at perihelion on May 24, 1822, after being revarded about eight days by the influence of the planet Jupiter, So completely were these caiculations fulfilled that astronomers universally , attacned the name oi Encke to the comet of 1819, | not only as an acknowledgment of his diligence and success in the performance of some ot the most intricate and laborious computations that occur in practical astronomy, but also to mark | the epoch of the first decection oi a comet of short period—one of no ordinary importance in this de- partment of science. ‘The comet nas regularly ap- , peared since, though not always visible, in the | northern hemisphere. The contraction of | the comet’s orbit i8 continually progres: ing, and it is cenjectured that after many | ages it may be at Inst cipitated on the sun, In | ‘1988 it reached its perthelion september 15, and its | hearest approach to the earth Was on August 27. In the year 1825, when it passed over the same path among the stars, it presented a much larger | appearance. AU REVOIR. Several new comets were discovered during the succeeding ‘our years, but none of them were of any importance. We are now on the eve of bid- ding farewell to Coggia’s luminary, which, as it Moves iurther away, will lose the great velocity with which it now rushes along the sky. indeed, When it gets at its greatest distance from the sun, | it will travel ata very slow pace, probably not making more than 140 miles a day, or less than six miles an hour, as was the case with the comet of 1680, We may well stop a moment to consider that people in every part 01 the gloce we innhavit, Woere Coggia’s comet 1s visible, are gazing with wonder, and no doubt in many places witn fear, at this unusual object, whose burning tail flouts the polar star and whose fierce body threatens at-ack on the brightest of the constellations. Such reflections must stir op profound sentiments oO! awe and teach us how insignificant is the earth in comparison li the incouceivable vastness of the Universe, and how grea! is our dependence on the Almighty Lord and Creator ot ail things, visible and invisivie. | ASSAULTING AN OFFICER. | Jacob Ernest and his irish wife, Bridget, quar- | relled in their apartments at No. 87 Chariton street, on Wednesday nivbt. Bridget severely, when her screams attracted the attention of Oficer John Noble, of the Twenty- | eighth precinct. The oficer, on entering, found the wile on the floor and the husband standing over her, On attempting to arrest him Ernest. suddenly seized a pair of shears and stabbed the oimcer in the left breast. He did not relinquish hus hold, however, and carried Ernest to the sta- tion house. He was hela in $600 bail to answer the charge of wile-beating and in $1,000 Jor as- saulting an oMcer, NEW YORK AS8aY OFFICE, The New York Assay Office furnishes some very | interesting statistics, Thirty million dollars gold | (bullion) were operated upon in the last eightcen | months and $7,500,000 silver, The shipments of silver from New York to Philadelphia amount to several tons a month, Last year there passed | through the laboratory forty tons of gold, worth | about $600,000 each, Most silver carries gold, and | the presence of gold 1% especiaily noticed in the silver ores of Utan and Nevada. The Assay Office does not recetve crude ores of any Kind, only bul- loo, which signifies either coin or bars. Many of | the jewellers send samples oi their goods to the Assay UMice in order to test their value, A lew days ago & magnificent golden chalice trom a Mex- ican convent was thrown ito the crucibie, and old famiy plate frequently meets the same fate. | During tae last twenty years gold bars to the amount of over $219,000, 000 and silver bars to the amount of $15,400,000 Were manuiactured im the New York Assay OMice, . | | bar, whom he denominated an adveuturess, | extraordinary couversitional | eral years, | most iresistibie power over General Roddy, | | whica brougit him almost to poveriy. named, yet | went to ms room stealthily, opened ms trunk | yisitor took these compliments and attentions as ; eo tHe at i | and stole his private papers, shook them in his interest. The ameter of its coma was u rds | jae 7 e Q e! Ss upwards | jace and threatened to expose himself as well as | geruai business affat To the naked eye, on the | y’ | tel, where they breakfasted together; that he paid “THE WONDERFUL WOMAN” ON TRIAL, — ee Miss Shotwell, alias Mrs. with Grand Larceny—Interesting His- tory of the “Adventuress” and General Roddy—Testimony for the Prosecution. It will be remembered that in last Monday’s HERALD @ graphic description was given ef & wonderiul woman,’ who was arraigned at the r of the General Sessions upon a charge of grand larceny, indicted under the name of “Fanny A. Shotwell, alias Carlotta F, Shotwell, alias Carlotta F, Roddy.” The accused was placed at the war yesterday and the trial commenzed before Judge | Sutherland, Miss Shotwell or Mrs. Roddy is a petite brunette, and Yas attired in mourning. She occupied @ sea\ oy her counsel, tie affable and “silver-topgded” Algernon 8, Sullivan. There was no diffeuity experienced in procuring a jury, and 4a® only question propounded to them by Assist- ant Disirict Attorney Lyon was whetner they were men of iamiies. After tae jurors were sworn Mr. Lyon informed His Hunor that Juage Fulierton and Mr, (“Johnny”) Davenport had been designated to take the active management of the | case on bebalf of the prosecution, as tt involved | the knowledge of a great many facts and circum stances which it was tupossibie for nim to acquire in the conduct of the business oj the Cuurt, Roddy, Charged | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. - HEAVY CONFIDENCE OPERATIONS, Story of a Visit to Richmond by a Bogus Agent of Cor- nelius Vanderbi EXTENSIVE pia TE The Commodore’s Name Forged for Half a Million of Dollars—Arrest and Ex- amination of the Forzer. RicuMonD, Va., July 14, 1°74, This city is periodically visited by vagabvonds of every grade knewn to the extensive criminal cal- endar 0! the country, from the mean sneak thief and pickpocket to the highest proJcient in the art of forging and swindling; but, owing to an ex- emplary police force anda sharp corps of detec tives, this class of expert gentry seldom make their raids here profitable. They are soon “spotted” alter their arrival, and if not lockea up at once they receive a quiet intimation to go and THR PROSKCUTING COUNSEL'S STATEMENT. Judge Fauilerton, “in furtherance of the ends of justice” ana not in copsequence o! the payment, as Mr. Skimpole would say, Of a “4ittle bill’ by the prosecuting Witness, proceeded in adramatic and pathetic manner to give a general and interesting system | nisiory o1 General Roddy and the prisoner at the | He | said the jury would be surprised to learn that she was only charged with stealing an opera glass, some private papers and seven Engiish sovereigns, the total value of which was about $60. The ac- cused was a woman Of more than ordinary ability, well brought up, educated, possessed powers and without personal attractions. General Roddy was introduced to her by a mutual lady friend in this city in 1867, and the acquaintance- ship grew into an intimacy that continued for sev- By her extraordinary powers of fascl- nation, he alleged, she was enabled to wield an al- at first asking small sums, and when her imperious de- mands for larger amounts were aot met she ceased playing the angel, her wings disappeared, and | firmament, of silent contemplation to awaken | then she showed her claws, threatening his expo- | cordially sure to wife and children, Sne knew at her first Fo | introduction that he was married and nad a | peing family. From place to place in this city and to various other 8 she followed him, demanding money, and receiving im the aggregate $50,000, This woman others. In 1872 they dissuived all relationship, at witch time he gave her @ bond of a railroad corpo- | ration of great valine, agreeing within the time to | give her the property named in it, Soon after she | | commenced a suit, without any warning, knowing that that would lead to an investigation and to exposure. The General, not wishing to engage in this litigation, effected a settlement with ber, she | agreeing to deliver the bond, but failed to keep her promise, Inashort time the prisoner com- menced another action upon the same paper. More blood money was demanded and more came, and the bond was given up. She then adopted | another line of attuck and wrote to his wife, and, worn Out and hall insane, the General took a steamer to Europe. Wuile there, happening to take up a copy of the HrraLp, he read an account of ihe arrest of a man named Everett ior stealing the property of the prisoner, which turned out to be the bond that he had deposited with orner valuable papers in his trunk. On the night be.ore he went to Kurope the accused had entered bis room and stolen the bond. she commenced lawsuits against rid of her be went to ‘layior’s Hotel in Jersey City; but she followed him there, and whenever he went to Wasuington she would go tuo. Ih he tok to himseli the wivgs of the mornthg and few tothe uttermost parts of the carth the woman at the bar beset his path. he would cing to ms carriage | and be dragged through the streets and sit for | hours at nis room door in notels. The celebrated ) Brinckley divorce trial suggested to the prisoner the | idea that she could pretend to be the wile of Gen- eral Roddy ; and accu rdingly she visited his place of business and demanded a certain amount of money frum his partner, which was refused, whereupon Miss Shotwell threatened to destroy Mr. Koddy and lis business, When she next met the General sne | Stated some things that he knew no other person | was aware O!, and which only could have been learned trom his private papers, that he suppusea were placed beyond her reach in Jersey City. When asked how she got that informarion the apt | reply was, ‘lam smarter than you think I aim.’? | chase of their fouring m He then found out that his papers, an op and seven English goia sovereigns stolen, and, urged by his trienda, legal procee: were instituted and an indictment found by Grand Jury. A search warrant was issue partor the stolen property was iound in her pos- session, era glass within her clutches; she was not the victim of tne complainant's inst, but an aaventuress and one who levies blackmail upon those who get within | her power, WITNESSES. Captain Byrne and Sergeant Williams were ex- | amined. The substance of their evidence was that Justice Morgan had furnished them witt a search warrant and they proceeded to the house or Mrs, Waring, No. 42 Fast Twellth street, on the lith of June, where Miss Shotwell occupied apart- ments on the second floor. She insisted that her name was Reddy, denied taking the property men- tioned in the warrant and suid the things belonged to her husbana; that she was sick and used the money to pay the doctor. The Captain searched and found a large bundle of papers which he took oxsession Of when he urrested her; suvsequently x, Koddy went to the station house and identitied the papers. When conveying her to the prison sne toid she Captain that mr. Roady caused malpractice to be wrougit upon her twelve times, that a week belore that she had @ natural miscarnage and he had neariy killed ber; that it woula be tajurious to her heaith to rematu long in prison and she wanted | to be tried immediately; she threatened to horse- | whip nim if he appeared in court, While at JeNerson Market Cou.t she imiormed the Captain that Mrs. Waring knew where the opera glass was, and the sergeant afterward traced it toa house im Frank- un avenue, brooklyn, and recovered it. On bis cross-examination by Mr. Sullivan, the Captain said that Mr. Davenport had spoken to him about the casa; the prisoner when arrested was very mech excited and LE exclaiming, “He has ruined me,” and said that her life and charac- ter were in those papers; she said that General Roddy and herself bad ilved together a long time, and while admitting that sne took the things de- nied having perpetrated larceny. Tue comp aimant, Phillip D. Roddy, was tne next: witness. He was Shown the opera glass and a bundle of private papers which he identified as being in @ trank in Lis room at Taylor's Hotel, in Jersey City, and which were abstracted from it, together with seven Enghsb sovereigns, in March jJast; he asked the prisoner, Who was at the Aah- jand Hoase, how she got into his trunk, and the eply was, “Roddy, lam smarter than you are ;”’ at an antecedent conversation he had complained of @ hvtvi bill that was presented to him tor pay- ment, when he said, “i will pay no more; she re- phed, “Y u will you; ne urged per to return promising to do Pg u them, Dut she declined, adding $3,000, and bo less than that would do her any good; he threatened to take out a search Warrant, which Was mot with the remark, “Lf you do I wiil put a couple of bullets throuvn you, for I have been advised to that course.’ She took the opera glass from his room In Washington while he was sick in bed, but got it agaim on the Ist of March. nis papers, I" she. restored that she wanted and never promised to marry her; that he had a wiie and five children, and she Knew it when he became acquainted with her in 1367, at the house of Mrs, Waring. Mr. Sullivan subjected the General to a rigid but courreously conducted cross-examination. Mr. Roddy said he was forty-eight years old; that last January he returned from Washington with the deiendant and proceeded to Ts for her room at the Asniand where she stayed for two months; went to his home in Alabama, and upon retuning to New rk he visited her at the Ashland House about once a week; that he stopped at the St, James Hotel when in Wash- ington, but did not occupy the same room with her; he gave her an agreement, in 18/0, to deliver to her, aiter & year an amount equal w $50,000 value, & second mortgage bond of tle Selma and Guit Raliroad, conditioned that she would ccase taking chloroform and spirituous liquor tor one year, and she gave him a bond that the agreement, would be void if she did not comply with bis re- ped they were then boarding together at Mrs. ‘uller’s, in New York. Mr. Sullivan offered to prove that from 1868 down to the tame of the alleged larceny the reia- | | tions of the complainant and the prisoner were as | turns outio be an old and accomplished forger. intimate as if they were man and wife, ana that she was allowed to share in his personal property. Judge Sutheriand said that he was not going to permit @ theatrical entertainment for the benefit | of the public, but would simply allow the counsel | weighiug about 180 pounds. He is to prove that Mr. Roddy lived with her as his wife Othe witness emphaticall; phatically said that since 1868 hi and the accused had not Cohabited together. i The cage will be resummed this morning. ot | been | Mr. Fullerton, 1n closing his address, said | hat this was not the only married man she had | pay just what! piease; Thave got | ri The | Jacob was beating | witness said he was not married to the prisoner, | House, | he | | stand not upon the order of their going, a bint | they generally take in the most agreeable anc | promot manner. The latest of these individuals who honored Richmond with a visit tor a while somewhat puzzied the officers by the magnitude of his proposed operations an@ by the bland, but effectively businesslike and bold course he adopted. MR, JAMES K, VAN NESS | made his début here about a week ago, registering | | himeeif from New York at one o/ (he leading hotels, | After leisurely acquaintiny himself tioronghly with | the various manulacturing establishments of the INVESTMENTS MADE. | 3 ! of the most approved order. It ta stated here th: he forged Vander vilc’s name once betore for $7! received the mouey, Was capcured, convicter sentenced to the State Prisou of New York aeven years, which term he served in that institu tion. His operations since that time nave chiefly | veen confined to the West aud Sout, where they | have been quite extensive, in New Orleans he is said to have raised a check on Wells, Fargo & Co., for $9,000, and it 18 beheved here there are & pume ber of rewards for his arrest. SHERIDAN’S RED FIENDS. The Sioox of the Wind River Country im Hattle—Why Sheridan Ordered the Destruction of the Red Devil | Revolting Murders and Craelties Per. petrated by them. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writing from Omaha, July 10, supplies the following :— The telegraphic despatches of the 9th of July gave a@briefaccount of a battle tought with Indians im | the Wind River country on the 4th of Jujy. The | telegram stated that the attack was made by re- | quest of the Avent of the Shosnone Indians, Dr. ‘mes Irwin; 20d General Sheridan in esubsequent despaten, gave some reasons (or the ordering 01 the | attack. but did not at ail enter into detatis, tus case is may weil be said that vengeance wat | slow, but it came at last, and the blood of mnocent men, women and children, which has cried from the ground tor yeurs, has been avenged. ‘The writer knew these Indians well, and a more JODTHIRSTY SET OF VILLAINS did not live upon the iace of the earth. They were tue ofscourings Of the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe nations, and have jong lived on the head of the Powder River, their hand againss every man and every man’s hand against thom. ‘Almost every spring and fall tor five years they Would come down to the Wind River Valiey, mur- dex, pillage and burn, until troops, citizens a iriendiy Indians in suiticient numbers were gatuered to drive them out. How many white people they have kilied it would be im vossible to tell, bay L remember (he names 0: some and Will give them here. | (Then tollows the names of forty persons mur- | dered by them.—Ep, HekaLp.) ome of these murders were most atrocions Mr. Skinuer, wo lived on the North Fork of Big Popougic, saw some Indians driving off his horses, and Went out to remonstrate with them, when they 1 in his own dooryard, no less than f the respec anterprise not Ninn de | A the uatnre of the respective enterprises | fon palis bem dred into his body, Mr. Skimner in which they were onqaged, he next proceeded to no aris When Killed, and was wholly delence- introduce himself to some of the leading merchants Soon alter killing sk.nuer the Indians went aud ousiness men. He was not long in imgratiat- | ing himseit inte the favor of Mr. Willian H. Cow. ardin, a large insurance and bank office trusted and absolute agent of no less a person than Commodore C, Vanderbilt, of New York. Te stated that Le came at the express instance of Mr. Vanderbtlt, to make cerfaim mvyestments ia Richmond, principally in Mowing mulls and other manufacturing establishments. Le was 1 welcomed by Mr. Cowardin, expressed himself highiy honored at the recipient of this pre!iminary | call, adding that he would deem tt only too great | @ pleasure to aid the gentleman in any way that ; Was possible, and was otherwise proiuse and | assiduous in bis attentions, The distinguished t who | a matter of course, nd then proceeding to discuss | , he somewhat astonisned | Mr. Cowardin by the Knowledge he evinced of the | Various manuactories of the city, If the latter gentleman ever entertained any doubts as to the up to that time, they were now dispelled, and he invited THE AGENT OF MB. VANDERBILT some of the property he proposed to purchase. | This the agent readily agreed to, and Mr. Cowardin spent the greater portion of the day in exhibiting the mills and factories of tue city to the distin- plaining to him the rising business prospects of Richmond—a theme its worthy merchants never tire o1—inevitably winding up wiih the remark, “All we want 1s capital.’” When tuey had made the tour of the city, Mr. Cowardin invited his guest to dine, which he at first emphatically declined, but atterwards was forced to accept, and a prominent restaurant | past, regardiess of expense. It was while d cussing this me 1 that Mr, Van Ness casnally ex- | hinited to the astonished eyes of his host a CERTIFIED CHECK OF C. VANDERBILT, | on a New York bank, in tavor of him (Van Ness) | for $100,000, then another and auother, until Mr. Cowardin saw paper that representea over $500,000, He still entertained no rea! suspicions | or the “agent”, and they separated, and it was not for sometime afterwards that Mr, Cowardin's eyes became opened so lar as even to question | himself whether .* Would not ve right to ascertain from New York by telegraph whether Mr. Van | be. This much light having dawned upon him he | determined 10 use the wires and satisfy himself as | to the real or bogus character of Van Ness. before he did, however, that enterprising agent | and representative of the Commodore’s capital proceeaed to invest liberally, and he soon suc- ceedea in closing an agreement with Messrs. Walker & Saunders, of Manchester, for the pur- ils, located om that en- ' terprising little manmacturing town. There was not much banter or cavil about the price. Van Nessa knew the cash value of the mills before he | proposed.to purchase, and after a conjerence be- | tween the partuers as to terms, &c., the latter being of course cash, the bargain was settled in a manner entirely satisiactory to all concerned, Pushing his spirit o1 enterprise, he next visited Messrs. Dunlop & McCance, with a@ view to the purchase of their fouring mills, but these gentie- men refused to sell even to such @ great man as | Commodore Vanderbilt. Not content yet and de- | termined to promote THE PROSPERITY OF RICHMOND by investments, he next visited the President and directors of the Richmond Paper Mtl Company, and, alter introdaciy himself, he proposed | MkeWwise to purcuase their establishment. Here quite a prolonged discussion took place between the officers of the company and Van Ness. Thew | could not agree as to certain conditions which the former wished to exact, nor as to the precise amount to be paid, but atlength they came to a conditional agreement to entertain his proposi- | tion, and this ended the investments of Commo- | dore Vanderbilt’s agent in Richmond. In the course of lis financial perambniations Van Ness was introduced to Messrs. Goddin and Apperson, two of the leading wealthy real estate agents tu the city, and aiter the usual common- | place remarks Van Ness said: t's very hot down here, ssively 80,° it is in New York.”” “Oh,” said Van Ness, “yes itis; there you can | enjoy yourself better. Neely (meaning Cornelius) | and Tused to ride out, take a basket of cham- ‘we passed the time very pleasantly indeed.” |. Pausing tor @ moment as if contemplating with | Tapture the pleasant hours he had spent with | “Neely”? he resumed:—‘Necly, though, is a lazy | dog. Can't get him to anything, very lazy dog; | but Ihumor him init, He’s @ good tellow aiter all, a very good fellow is Neely.” This impressed the [a with an exalted financial idea of Van Ness’ importance, and, no doubt, had he asked one of them to step to 4 bank | and have a check of his for $10,000 cashed at the time any of them would have done so with alacrity. These transactions took place mostly on Friday, ; she 10th inst., and on Saturday foliowing the worthy Van Ness came to grief. It should be | stated, however, that in all his negotiations he | nad uever tendered any of the checks he had tn | payment, but had merely exnibifed them as well a8 a power of attorney of Commodore Vandervilt authorizing Mim to purchase certain property in | this cry to the amount oF $800,000, Mr. Cowardin having telegraphed to his correspondent in New York to ascertain whether Van Ness was the | authorized agent of Commodore Vanderbilt to purchase extensive flouring mills here recetved in repiy the information that that person was | AN IMPOSDOR AND SWINDLER, | Ris “little game,’ as exposed, turned out to be ' as tollows:—After the purchase of the mulls he would then call upon Mr. Cowardin to cash one of his cuecks to, make a payuient. The check once cashed, Van Ness would be non est, and the hap- Jess banker would be minus the amount paid— obably $20,000 or $30,000, As soon as Mr. Cowardin had received the despatch trom New York he lost no time in informing Chief of Devec- | aroused about Van Ness, at once made | charging him with forgery and with ondeavoring | to utter forged paper. | Upon this affidavit a war- rant jor the arrest of Van Ness was issued, and OMficers Knox and Wren proceeded to the hotel | where he was stopping, but fouud him aosent. | They called again, however, and were received With the most “cntidlike and biand’’ smile that Van Ness could give. He expressed no surprise at bis ) Arrest, but told the oficers they were too quick | and that he wanted a lawyer, and showed that he was an old hand in the forgery and swindling | business. When searched the officers found upon him @ large bunch of burglars’ keys, numbering about twenty-five in all, severai being sate | keys; tour dratts, “co, Vanderbilt,”? j tanging in amounts from oo to | $59,000, the whole amounting to $160,000, and | About $12 In cash, all the ready money possessed by the agent of such vast capital, He was taken to the staiion house and committed for triai, but & preliminary examination has been postponed at iis instance until Tuesday next, the 21st inst, Wo aliow him to procure witnesses VAN NESS, ALIAS LIVINGSTON, | He is about sixty-five years old, of a genteel, veue- | Table but cat itke appearance, wearing & perpetual smile, smail gray side whiskers, gray hair and eyes to match, about five feet nine inches high and yey be ac- 8 | companied by & Woman whom he s ter, but who it is suspected is the actual forger ex- | pert that does the writing, forging, &c. He is said to be connected with some of the best families in | New York, bul nas Jong been known as a swindler honesty of his visitor's motives, which he did not | to take a ride with him in his buggy to examine | guished representative of vast capital, and in ex- | keeper was ordered to serve up a sumptuous re- | Ness was really what he represented hitseit to | Bat | “Yes,” said Mr. Goddin, “it is, but no hotter than pagne and servant along, with plenty efice, ana | uves Knox, who, having his suspictons previously | oath | to the place of Mr, Williams, aud took Ms horses. They then attempied to euter tae nouse, and Mr. Wiltama objected; but, on being assured they were Imendly, he let them im, when they took Willams prisoner. While mdaing along in Indian = fie the Indian behind lim fired at Mr. Wiliams aid shot him through They then returned to Williams? ‘ana = murdered Mr. Oogurn and uel Kyler, Who thongut they were .riendly In- ‘Vhey hext rode to the evossing of North met James Holt, a United States Iped Lum. ‘This man was Jo't, of Kentucky, ad a nepnew of J Joseph Holt, Umted States Army. On the day they surrounced the cabin of Mr. Camp, @ Killed bim, $)lis open bis head With an axe, took Our the Oralns aod SMEARED THEM OVER HIS PACB. Then they sinck a pick into his he \d, drove a stake througi is body and stuck au axe into his back, leaving the ghastly remains on his dvorstep. When Mr. Cogurn 118 brains were complete: blown out ace biack aud ourned wit powder, indicating that the fends who killed him had tnrhst their pistols inte his iace and tlred. Frank Lwin, a oright poy of seventeen, and the only son of Dr. James Irwin, of Atlantic, started one morning eariy to go to Miners’ Delight, four miles distant; and, when between the two places, he met tour Indians, wno made trieudly signs, and | he allowed them to come up to him, They at once knocked him down, stripped him naked, shot four | arrows into his body, and leit the poor boy for dead, With the arrows sticking in his breast, and naked, he walked and crawled back towards At- | Jantic, unt! he meta citizen, who carried him in | his arms to the village. Did General Sheridan | hear Mrs, Irwin, the poor, heart-broken mother of | the boy, tell, im her wild, haif trenzied way, about the loss of her son ? Perhaps he did, for he was | wishin a mile of ner house when at Camp Brown, and, if he listened to any such tale as the writer | once beard from the lps of that mother, it is litue wonder that he ordered Captain Terry to send out | his troops and SLAY THE INRUMAN BEASTS who killed her boy. Dr. Bard, Harvey Morgan and Mr, Mason, tnree citizens of Wind River and South Pass, were on their way from South Pass to the United States camp on the Big eg, ope River, and when becween the Big and Littic Popoagte, aud distant only ten miies irom the camp, they were surrounded Stoux and killed. They were at the thme, and carrying the When found they were strip- One of the lorewheels of the wagon rested on the breast of | Dr. Bard, and, while held in that position, he had been scalped alive. In his writhings aud struggles: he had torn deep holes in the ground with lis | hands, Morgan laid near the wagon, naked and scaiped. The hammer had been taken out of the doubletree of the wagon and the tron handle of | driven into his temple and through the head, pin- | ning it to the ground, It was so firmly imbedded im | the bones of the skull that it could uot be drawn out, | and was buried with him, Morgan’s thighs had been cut open and the sinews taken out, probably for bow strings. Mr. Mason had an iron rod three | feet iong lorced up his person; his legs were splitopen and the sinews drawn out. Nearly all | these barbarities were undoubtedly perpetrated i WHILE THE MEN WERE ALIVE, | or continued until death relieved them irom their sufcrings, Nor were these all, but other indigni- ues Were perpetrated upon the bodies too iude- | cent and horrible to relate, Mrs. Richards aud her niece, Mrs. Hall, lived | alone on the banks of the Popoagie. They had a | ttle garden and a few cows, and were kind and | tnofensive women. The Indians, both nostile and | triendly, knew them, and they gaye to all out of | their ifttle store. One day last summer some In- dians came down from the hills, suot these poor women in cold blood and mutilated their bodies. Mr. Keenan was driving into Miners’ Delight | with a load of hay, when fifteen indians, hid by the | roadside, sprang upon him, ° killed him and ranofr ' his mutes, He left a wife and tour little children } in indigent circumstances to mourn jorhim, 1 could recite a dozen more instauces of the HORRIBLE CRUELTY, TREACHERY AND BRUTALITY of these Indians; but let these suMfce. Ido not | assert positively that the Indians who commitied these murders all belonged to the band General Sheridan ordered Captain Terry to destroy; but many of them did. When the Indians came down on the Wind River Valley they always came from the head of the Powder River, and there was where the band lived that General Sheridan ordered de- stroyed. Alter raiding the valleys they fell back to the Powder River, and many of the horses stolen about South Pass, Atlantic and Miners’ Delight | W_re known to be im the camp ot-this band. | ‘They are said to be the Indians who killea “Frenchy,” and to have boasted of it aiterwards. “Brenchy? Was a poor oid Frenchman, who lived at Cottonwood, midway between Miners’ Delight and Little Popoagte. His was the only house for | eleven miles,ana in a lonely abd dangerous piace. He had a little garden and a cabin, and gave to In- dians and white men alike. He kept no arms, and, | when remonstrated witn and advised of his danger, he said, “No one will hurt Frencny. He never did any harm to Indian or white man.’ His cabin was always open to all, and he fed the passing Indians | as bi as he had any potatoes, ourn or meat for Ulmself, One spring day, while he was plantin, potatoes in his garden, four or five Indians rushe: | down Irom the hills, shot “Frenchy,” drove a pick into nis head, stripped his body naked and left nm. He sleeps in the garden devoted to the purpose | of raising food for the very Indians who rilled im. | A hunter who had otten partaken of “Frenchy's” bonnty was 80 indignant at this murder that he went over into the Sicux country, killed 4 war- rior, scalped him, and, bringing back the scalp, nailed it over “Frenchy's? cabin door and wrote underneath, on a board, with @ coal, in rude letiers, “VENJENCE FUR FRENCHY." “Frenehy’s” real name was Devereaux. He claimed bis father was a General under the First Napoleon, and suid, a short time befere his death, \ he had a brother living in Canada. Whether the Indians were guilty of all charged Against them or not, they were gullty of mach and an example was sadly needed in the Wind River country, The great Lieutenant General came, saw, comprehended in a moment and acted, ey, @ setiler in those ffr-off valleys wilh write over his door the word “Revenged,” and many a woman and child will sleep soundly at night wbo has not lain down for years without the fear of being waked up by the warhoup. Fork. soidier, aS0n Gene sam poor old hunter, United States mail. ped naked and borribiy mutilated, | Citizens of Colorado and New ‘ico Asking Protection. WASHINGTON, July 16, 1874, A petition has been received at the War Depart- ment, signed by 114 citizens of Colorado and New Mexico, asking for protection from the Indians, MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS About midnight of Wednesday Mr, James A. Ter« hune, of No. 416 West Twenty-eighth street, was aroused (rom his sleep by @ noise in the basement of his residence, which evidently indicated the presence of intruders. A hasty examination dis- closed the fact that a panel in the front door of the basement had been broken in and a gold watch, jewelry, silk dresses and other articles of vaine worth about $500 been carried of Officer | Le Roy Stevens, of the Twentieth precinct, was summoned and captured @ man named Frank McKenna, alias Woods, Just as he was emerg- ing from the house a con/ederate, named William | Johnson, escaped through the rear, and, | the mitermediate fences, remained secreted rear of No, 404 in the same str until day! ight, when he was discovered by @ domestic named Margaret O'Donneil. Me promptly informed her that le was a detective searching for burglars, and on this representation she allowed him to pass our, A watch, Rowever, bad been kept on the Neighborhood, and Ofticer Waters followed him up to the corner of Twenty-ninth street and Ninth | avenue, when he took him into cust . The | prisoners were held for trial in default $3,000 Hail,