The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1874, Page 4

FORMOSA. Forees in a Position to Terms. ese The Jap Bring the Pirates to A Base of Supplies Secured Through Nishion Bay. A FORMOSAN WEDDING, Severe! Couterenees with Friendly Chiefs and an Alliauee Against the Bontan Warriors. PEN PICIURES OF SAVAGE LIFE. A Confer:noo Arranged and a New Landing Place Secured—The Morals of the Coun- try—Curicus Wedding Ceremonies. CAMP NEAR Stax1ao, June 10, 1874, For the past iew days the troops have rested and refre themselves. Much more has been | accomplished in a single month than was actually laid out for tue entire work of baif ayear. The plaus agreed apon in Jeddo never contemplated an advance into the intertor during the present summer. in the prevailing ignorance as to num- bers and resources of the hostile tribes it was though) prudent to occupy the first few months in establishing a fortified camp upon the coast and forming atvantageous relations with such of the aborigines as seemed well disposed, % the excessive heat would in- capacitate the men from active operations. But these precautions, though undoubtedly judiciously devised, have all proved needless. After tne first week tt became obvious that no attacks would be attempved by the savages, and the line of earth- works was lettin a naif finished condition, The skirmish of M4 although brought about by un- expecte circumstances, showed the utter Mability of the Boutan warrtors to make @ stand against the Japanese, and more. over, produced a restless excitement that could not have nm easily allayed in any other way than by sanctioning a general advance. The heat, although much greater during the daytime than 4m aby part of Japan, was lound to be not abso- lntely imtolerable—parly owing amorded by the cool nights, The expediency of departing from the original purpose will not now ‘be questioned. The greater part of the task of panisiing ‘he Boutans aad their companions, and teaching sive castaways, 18 already effected. Chinese ofMcials were here, three weeks ago, they expressed ndant sympathy with the purposes of the expecition, but politely doubted its eMcacy. Whey suid their own government lad some time ago undertaken the subjugation oj the savages in @ war which bad lasted over a dozen years, and had then abandoned the enterprise as hopeless. clear enough that the Boutans velieved them- selves invincible, and all their neighbors looked wito an imecredulty that was hardly dis- guised upon tue pretension of penetrating their hitherto inaccessible mountain wilds. But in less than thircy days from the time of disembarking ‘the chi holds and Most of the triputary @ aggressive tribes were in ashes, habitants scattered in the hills, and their Jands in possession of the enemy they had defied. It is true t none Of these events would have taken place but for the haste of the savages to attack the Japan long beiore any atvempt had been made to approach ther territory. Apart from the original claim for retaliation—that of tue slau; of the Linkia Isienders—t first and repeated provecations came from the Boutans. Then the exa oD of had offered any sign of repentance belore the March of the first day of this month began bosttli- ues wou been stayed and a pacific means Of settling ali the questions at issue would have been adopted. it was only necessary for them vo give « reasonable guarantee for their good be- ur would supply 4 safeguard against an infracuon of faith on their part to escape the heavy indicnons that have now belallen them. RENCE WITH THE FRIENDLY TRIBES. amount of work yet remains to be done, im a military way, but it will be carried out by detachments in various localities, With a view to establishing ports on the eastern pall coust, aud thus complctely eucircling the dis- persed fugitives, a third confer with the “head of the friendly trit $ arranged, er, Johns and guide, Miya, them on the 6th inst. On ia, accom- stance La DOL S to the in- m. They were nowtled of th ne back to which, 3 ome hesitation, tney wisely concluded to do, If they had kept them the presence of so large a must have become known to the soldiers erally, and it would have t in their prox- ¢ e to avert pi e the superfluous attena- the “chiefs” ed’ xiety to have their interview at once, to get it o 4 speeully as possible and to start off for their homes beiore ding meeting had been they found an exc and most su precedent to be foliowed torever. This was er, the view of the Japanese ¢ who} le fancy for noe excursions of the sort, and the visitors we requested to wait un They did so, although with great rein of them remaining awake and keepin, night. LOOSZ IDEAS OF MORALITY, Ibis possible that the festivities in which the people of Sialiao were just then engaged had some- thing to do w eir wakefulness. For two or three days the house of Miya had been, and still was, the contre of a wedaing celebration of some Importance. A grandson of the aged “headman,” and nepiew of Miya, Was the bridegroom The bride wasa daughter of one of the subjects of Issa, a native of Sawali. This custom of intermarriage between the two races—the M ike inhabitants of the interior and tue Chinese of the coast—is not uncommon. 1 am told, indeed, that the women of all tribes are allowed to circulate freely in every part of tue peninsula, even where no mutual in- tercourse is carried on among the men. Ji this iixture of blood has been of long continuance itis surprising so much distrust and hatrea ex- ists betw © opposite branches of the popula- tion, and hardly less remarkable that each should Still preserve such widely diferent pecultarities of appearance, habits and individual character. The savages have nothing whatever of the Chinaman in their exterior aspect, and their ways of life are totally antagonistic. The divergence ot their dis- position is most strikingly shown in the contrast between the insatiate greed of the west coast peo- ple and the indifference to gain of the mountain. eers. In spite of the cruelty, ferocity and ignorance of the latter, and notwithstanning the euperior approach io Civilization of the Ciinese-spoaking community, it ts impossible not to recog p the higher average of natural qualities in tue rnder race. They are open in the avowal of the enmity which the Chinese secretly ana eraftily cherish, and they aro respectable in the fact that their pledges are, to some extent, trust. worthy. What they promise they adhere to with Feasonabie rae te regards intermarriage, 1 qm inclined to heiista It was also | to the reitet” em the penalty of murdering inoffen- | When the | redress became inevitable: had to be done, it was well it was | Playing which the natives were to guard them- lt 1s nevertheless true that if they and to accede to such terms as | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, } orfen seek Wives tm the mterior the savages pre- fer to mate among themselves. When they allow | their daughters to form outside alhances the | Yathers receive what they consider sufficient pecu- | ntary equivalents. | A WEDDING CEREMONY. | Feeling some curiosity in the matter of this we | ding jublec—which could not well be satisfied be- fore without offending ¢ne Prejudices of the na- | ves, who do%Si Tike to have their social wyste- “Fies woo closely scrutinized—I walked over to Sia ; tao at en earher hour than that fixed for the | interview. The premises bore signs of a somewhat | late agitation the night before, and most of the | jubiiants were asleep. The street in front of Miya’s house was covered by an awnimg, stretched | from bis roof to that of the buriding oppo | site, and the avenues of approach, from all | directions, were guarded by littie tables on | which religious emblems were placed. In ‘ front of the large shrine within doors two | enormous candies of red tallow were still burning. | Phe interior courtyard, like the street tn iront, | was covered with canvas, and all the space usually left open was diled with tables, upon which lay | the débris of a profuse supper. A Variety of more or iess musical instruments—gongs, cymbais, | drums and Chinese flutes and violius—showed that the coarser dehghts of the entertainment had been chastened by the refinements of art, 4s the banquet balls were deserted, 80, as a matter of course, were the tones of these “savage breast- soothing” implements hushed. The visitors from | the mountains were wide awake and on the alert, | but most of the people of the locality were deep | in dreams. In the course of baif an bour they awoke in @ body, one might say, and simul- taneously sought breakfast, which a few of the | women nad prepared tn the outnouses. The | presence of the savage “nead men” was evidently restraint upon them, aud the venerable Mirja Pere more than once took Jounson aside to inquire when the business of the day would be over and their unwelcome guests gone. A CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. 1 personally was an object of distrust and sus- Picion, owing to an unfounded apprehension that Iwas bent on seeing the bride; but when that | tuusion was dispelled and the conviction gained ground that I was careless in the matter, 1 was urged by everybody to go in and “interview” her, So, indeed, I did, in a brief and imperfect fashion, Sne was in the best chamber of the establishment, Seated upon the edge of the Led, which was occu- pied by two sleeping matrons of the household. | The period of undivided wedded life bad not yet | arrived, and the bridegroom was not suffered to | | approach the apartment tu which his (uture com- | panion was seciuded, I saw him hovering at a | distance, dressed in white, and otherwise con- spicuous by an excessively depressea demeanor, The young woman was also in white, with an | amazing headdress, consisting of a circie of | bilver, from which long, tassei-like ornaments of | crystal and polished metal hung down for several inches so thickly that it was difficalt | to discover a feature of her counten- ance. Presently, as I was sitting opposite | her, she rose and brought me @ tray contaming sweetmeats, bending over and reveal- ing ber face as she presented it, It was not start- | ling enough in its beauty to warrant a pilgrimage | to Sawali in search of Kindrea charms, but it was | fresh and good-humored in expression, and very | well suited the buxom figure to whitch it belonged, | and was without the lines of tattooing on the cheek which are said to distinguish the majority of | the Formosan women. | THE ALLIANCE AGAINST, THE OUTLAWS. | The chiefs had finished their breaktast before the | arrival of the Japanese officers, who had been de- tained by a visit from two “head men” that had chosen the wise course of going independently and directly to General Saigo with a statement which | | they destred to make on bebalf of their people. These were the leaders of the Kuchilait and Kaotan. Their purpose was to declare that no vio- lence \oward the Japanese had been meditated or executed by them, and to ask that they should be protected from molestation. They were well received and promised that proper mauiry shoud be made and every consideration given to their case. The general conf pe GlG not occupy much time. The prin- cipal business On hano was the distripution of the Protecting fags that had becn promised, by dis- selves against uniriendly visitations. These were received by Issa, Of Sawali; Kalutoi, of Mantsin; Sinjto, of Pakolut; Lulin, of Loput; Pinal, of Lingiuan; Minat, of TuilasoX, and a representa- tive of the Koalut leader. The Koalut chief hnn- sell was still shy of appearing while a cloud hung over his reputation, and even bis messenger was , timid and reserved. ANOTHER LANDING PLACE SECURED. The question then arose as to the temporary Occupancy of a piece of land on the eastern shore, | as an additional poiut of departure against the hostile tribes, in case they should long maintain | thetr defiant attitude, Gently not an agreeable one, but tt was acceded to after some discussion, Without embarassing con- ditions of any sort. Offers of payment were made, but the chiefs declmed compensation, with the carelessness togain which I have spoken of as char- acte ic 6: them. They were fiuaily invited to walk over to the camp and visit the Generai’s teut—a suggestion which almost threw them into a panic, It was plain that they placed very little confidence, up to this time, im the fair intentions ot those with whom they were deaiing, T deavored to conceal their perturbation, and as a reason for refusing that they bad ready remained over night sway their villages, which was an ae abandonment of thelr usages, they Were anxious to get home as soon as possible to allay the apprenensions of their peo- ple. Hints of the presents that were awaiting them at headquarters did not aff their resolu- tion, and it seemed impossible to move them, when suddeniy Issa, stirred by what impulse I cannot imagine, unless 11 may have been the recol- lection of having made promise at the time of his last visit, announced that he would go. Most of the others then assented, and a hesitating, undecided and , timorons line of march was taken up toward the Japanese station. The readiest of the party was Sinjio of Pakolut, who kept well alead, and, if ne aid not feel perfectly at ease preserved the appear- ance of being entirey so. The gentleman from al- irom unprece- and that Boutan, however, was in great trepidation, and | not only hung back from the start, but tried to conceul himself behind the houses and in the door- ways of Siallo, and clearly believed himself in | THE MOST AWKWARD ECRAPB OF HIS LIFE. It required @ protusion of encouraging gestures | to get lim into the boat to cross the river, and when he was there, although he maintained his muscular composure, nis eyes rolled wildly, and the perspiration ran from bimin streams, After reaching tne General's tent, they all manifested the same eagerness to get away. They would wait for no refreshment and stayed only long enough to glance at the Gatling guna, which they begged might not be fired, and to recelve a few gifts of colored cloths and pictures, The Koalut man did not enter joyously into any of the proceedings, but hovered aloof, and seemed to have @ superstitions dread of putting himselr within auy kind of inclosure, however siightly | defined. Issa, on the other hand, suowed a dispost- tion to take advantage of tho situation by asking for a doctor to examine his eyes, It appears that his sight, like that of many of the Isiguders, 8 se- fiously impaired, @ Circumstance which accounta | for a certain singular expresston of face whieh 1 mentioned in an eariier letter. One of the sar- | geons applied a lotion vo the inside of pis lids. He bore the operation with equanimity, and desougns | gavotte of the mixture for future use, The visit ‘was broaghbt to an end a little after noon, and the eeven chiefs retired with their fags and prosents, the Kuchilai and Kaotan, “head = meu,' | accompanying them, similarly equipped. Just as | they went away @ regimental parade was taking place, and the regular and symmetrical mov ments of a thousand men—in ornamental “drill the Japanese are perfect—made @ great impres- sion on the mountaineers, But a mere display of | tactics would never have brought them to the | Sense of heipiessness which they now feel; that is Ali due to the successive expioita that have broken Saes Walle the coaas men | down their selfasanrance—the forcing af “Stone | sudden This proposal was evi- | } Gave,” the slaying of the Boutan cmter and the | overrenning of the country, which they thought could be deiended against invaders to ai eternity. Expedition to the New Landing Place in Nishin Bay—Friendly Reception by the Natives=The Jocularity of the Chie&—A People Without Spelling Books—An Imprompta janquet on the Ahore, - NISHIN BAY, NEAR TUILASOK, East Coust of Formosa, June 12, m=.) The arrangement for the occupation of & pioce of land on the east coast was made on the orb inst., acd on the 10th tt was decided to send round & Small force in the Nishin to a point already visited and examined for a distance. The tndefatigable ana plucky interpreter, Jonnson, was sent, with hiya, to notify the inhabitants of Tutlasok and the Reighborhood of the proposed new encampment, and, on the morning of the 1ith, the Nishin started, with fifty marines on board, ‘This little excursion was putin the hands of Admiral Skamatsu, as- sisted by Major Fukusima, On this voyage I be- lieve that foreigners satied for the first timein a | ¢apanese man-ol-war, It ts needless to say that | the greatest courtesy was shown to the American guests. The officers of this ship are gentlemen of rather exceptional culture, many of them under- standing several languages, and one of them, in particular, speaking English with as much purity ofaccent and fuency as if it were his mother tongue. The passage occupied only a few hours— from ten in the morning till three in the afternoon. About twelve the bay tn which the Rover tragedy took place was passed, This, though not more than a miile in depth, 18 said to be the largest inlet of the whole isiand, The lUttle indentation from which [date this letter is not mdicated in the charts, and is @ aiscovery of the Nishin, made in the trip of three weeks ago, when she was fired upon (rom the shore. It affords a very slight pro- | tection from gales, and I presume is only valuable as one Of the few available points of debarkation along the coast. EVIDENCES OF CONFIDENCE, As the frigate dropped anchor a group of men Was Seen on the Leach with three of the flags that | bad been distributed two days before, This showed that they were disposed to put the pledges of good | treatment to an early test. The landing was not | effected without aimiculty, the surf being rather high. Everybody was more or Jess wet, and tho | American Commodore was swept clean overboard. | Bui, as 1 have oiten remarked, this 18 an experience which does not come amiss under the scorching sun of the tropics We Snally found our way into the mouth of a little river, not far from the bank of which were | gathered Issa, Pinjio and Lulin, with a few of their followers, ‘hey had seen our approach from & considerable distance further south, and nad run | along the shore, with their flags, to meet us. They had built a fire, with what earchly or un- ) earthly design we could not thea conjecture, near | which they exhorted us to sit down, and seemed solnewhat concerned at our unwillingness to sub- Ject ourseives to their artificial heat, in addition to that which naturally blazed upon us. All of the natives Were more carelessly attired than on thelr ceremonia! visits to Piallao, and not only ap- peared without ornaments, but with very little clothing of any sort. They were m much better humor than they had ever before seemed, owing, 1 suppose, to their freedom from all ressraimt and the consciousness that their feet were on their native sage brush, Most of them exhibited A TENDENCY 10 UNINTELLIGIBLE JOCULARITY, Issa being the exception. He still preserved his impertarbable solidity, but the amity of his senth ments was tndicated by bis wearing the sword that had been given him by Saigo. In conse quence of some misunderstanding as to the place of meeting Johnson did not promptly appear to | inverpret, and meanwhile the fifty marines were landed, together with an equal number of sailors, | Littie excursions were made to Tuilisok, the oid | home of Tokitok, and to other villages within a | mile of the shore. ‘This region is more attractive im appearance than the country round about Li- angkiao, the hills rising rapidly from the water’s edge, and being covered with thick and varie- | gated verdure. On the sands there were sigus of | aD avocation which the savages have not gener- | ally becn supposed to follow. Fishing nets were stretched upon frames, ana “catamarans” were | propped up on their edges, ready fur launching. dn the centre of the beach there was a suspicious looking line of elevated sand, aboat two feet high and thirty feet long, just at the spot where the Nishin was fired apon. It had most probably | been thrown up as @ breastwork, from which to | repel any attempts to land at that tune, and the position was well enough chosen for that purpose, 48a. Way of retreat to the hills lying exactly be- | hind it. | A QUESTION OF RACK | As the afternoon passed numbers of the natives | came in from various directions, some belonging _ to the flerce race which we usually speak of as aboriginal, and others of Chinese descent. The former are aiways easily distinguished by their distended ears, the lobes of many of which are stretched around pieces of circular metal or stone not less in circumference than a Mexican dollar, It may hereafter become a question whether any connection can be traced between these people and the Japanese—who are known to have occu- pied Formosa ages ago—by means of these pro- digious ears. There are in Japan tnnumerabie pictures and bronzes representing early heroes, saints, &c., in which the lower part of this featare is disproportionately large and drooping, and | Sometimes consists of @ mere rim, which ts pre- cisely the cage here. The famous statue of Dai Butsa, at Kamakura, is an example in point. AN UNWRITTEN LANGUAGE, All the new comers were heavily armed, but all were prompt in their invariable salutation of iriend- giup, whieh consists in piacing the hand upon the preast to slnily, they say, that the heart ts good, Some of the Chinamen knew how to write, and amused themselves by tracing simple characters in the sand. A few of the savages could under- stand a little Chinese, but couid not write or read. Their own language has no written form, so far as 1 can learn, Mutual communication was extremely disjointed and inconerent until the arrival of the interpreters, when ali was smooth again, The | camping ground was selected and approved, the “headman” of Tutlasok again refusing to be re- munerated. Laver in the day a Koalut warrior ; marched in among us, who we were assured this | ‘ume beyond 4 question was the chief himself, He Was near bis OWD domain now, and if not without | reproach was devoid of fear, He was a littie man, this leader of the most bloodthirsty tribe, except the Boutans, in the peninsula, with arather effeminate face, large, mild eyes, and @ wreath of wild flowers tasteiuily woven into his | hair. One of bis compactons hada somewhat | similar, though more extensive decoration, com | posed of leaves and twigs, The youag inheritor of the Majesty of Tuilasok was adorned with @ pheasant’s plume of great length. His brother, Toketok's youngest son, Was unembellished except by his fine, intelligent brow and beautiful eyes, He was the only handsome savage of the lot, unless the Koalut chief might put in @ claim to partial rivalry, and would hardly have @ blemish to his countenance Were it not for the bored ears and the lips stained with betel nut juice, A SAVAGE PLAST ON THE SEASHORE. ‘Toward supset a fresh party was seon advancing | over the hills, bearing tubs and baskels and pack- ) ages Of Various stapes and dimensions. 1t was | easy to see that a primitive feast was impeuding, | not astately banquet with pig and chicken but @ } neat imprompta repast on approved al sresco sav- | age principles. There was rice and there were eggs, and, especially, there were great vessels of sweet potato samshu, for the last touches to the | preparation of which we now saw that the fire | was to be made available. It was reveated and | then handed around with persistent, not to say oppressive, hospitality. The uquor was not par- ‘icularly palatable but was extremely potent, with | & favor not unlike very inierior lrish wuiskey. | Our hosts expressed much regret that we refused to join them in every “round,” ut, | think, com- soled sheinselves with she reflection tl there would be more left for themselves, The process | of emptying and refilling the cups was platoly par sued with what Dr. Johnsen dectared to be the ouly aim of drinking, and she consequences were speedily apparent im the growing hilarity end devejanment of affectionate tem- | the Rutgers street whart. | chiev’s heaith and | dames Sweety, aud other agres and hid given 4p all idea of hastening his depart. | AUGUST 20, 1874.--TRIPLE SHEET, aerness on all aides. Issa himself, the sierp) «6 and) = unbending, began to make Jokes He severai times distorted his face into what was meant to be asmile. When he under. took to wecompany us to our boats he kicked about the sand involuntarily, and pretended ne bad done tt out of Rare . usness, The last L Saw Of Dim he was to Walk throngn @ fisn- ing D**Toat hung in his way, but of which he was as obitvious as, for the moment, he was of the ancient feuds OF hi Yee galonishng thing avout this transaction was { “aking piace—as a demonstration of thorougn good feel- ing—on @ shore Which had never before been ap- proached by strangers with impunity, and in a spot which only twenty days before had witnessed 4 murderous attempt on the part of the mbabl- tants against the very guests of the present mo- ment. To-day the Japanese officers are engaged in es- tablishing their camp. An English gunboat has followed us around trom Liangkiao Bay, and lies @t anchor just outside of us. The Nisbin will re- turn to the western side of the island to-morrow. The Camp Moved to a More Healthy Lo- cality—British War Vessels Hornet, Thalia and Dwart at Sialio—Prospects ot a Treaty of Peace. New Camp, NEAR Sraxio, June 16, 1874, The ground first occupied between the two riv- ers of Liangkiao valiey having been found tncon- venient, unhealthy and generally uusuitable, a new encampment was laid out about the middie of last month and prepared with a good deal of care under the direction of Hirano, of the quartermas- ter’s department. Several houses havo been built for hospitals and for oMcers’ quarters, which, con- sidering the limited resources at hand, are down- Tight palatial in their amplitude and comfort. At least they seem so to persons who have been alternately stifled and half drowned tn bell tents for a month, The hospital patients were brought over a fortnight ago, and it speaks highly ior the skill of the Japanese surgeons that Not one of the wounded men has died, and most of them are well om their way to recovery. The doctors of the English ships say very handsome things of the way in which the injuries have been dressed and treated. I am glad to have such variously corroborating evidence of the cleverness Of our surgeons, for they are such gallant fellows on @ march that one likes to have his good opin- fon of them confirmed in all ways. They go forth armed not only with the instruments of their call- ing, but also with swords girded and riflesin hand, ready for operations of the most divergent charac- ter, either in or out of their line, Most of the wounded men were sent to-Nagasak! on the 14th inst. On the same ship General Jani re- turned to Japan. Admirat Akamatsu and Major Fukusima sailed in the Nishin this morning for China, the bearers of a communication to the Jap- anese Ambassador at Pekin. TWO SHIPS OF WAR IN THE VICINITY. Two English ships of war, besides the Hornet, have commenced 4 Series of observations tn wis vicimty, They are the Thaliaand the Dwari A Chinese frigate made a brief call on the 13th, re- maining only a few hours, A messenger has just come in from the chiefs of Kusukut and Peign, the former known and the latter belteved to be allies of the Boutans, an- nouncing their desire to treat for peace. They will be received in # day or two. Nothing is heard from the Boutans further than indirect reports that they are disunited, and equally destrous to make overtures, though apprehensive as to their reception. THE TENTH POOR CHILDRI 9S PICNIC. More Than Two Thousand Little Ones Out for a Holiday. The children of the Seventh ward had an ex- ceedingly pleasant trip yesterday up the Hudson to Excelsior Grove. The number received on | board by Mr. Williams was no less than 2,147, and several others had to be left in disappointment on Just as tne Chicago was Tounding the Battery point she was passed by the floating hospitai barge, with its freignt of little patients, proceeding on its charitable errand up the East River, and again, uot far from the same place, was encountered by tt on the return. On both oc- veasions a hearty exchange of signals, waving of | Kerchiefs and other tokens of mutual congratula- ‘ion took pluce. The ‘sail was delightful, the day particularly enjoyavie. Tnere was no variation—tnere could be no improvement in the usual arrangements of Mr. Williams for the accommodation of his little guests. The only feature, perhaps, exceptionally noticeable in this excursion wus the wholly unrestrained boisterous huarity of the young folk trom beginning to end of the journey. r. Daisy's extibition of Punch and Judy was on this occasion en improvisation of quite modera and familiar topics—one of the filustrious characters of the drama rusning unex- pectedly into the request of a chorus from all pres- ent, auswered tn @ moment by the unison of a couple of thousand juvenile voices, maxing the leafy grove ring with “Digging dusky diamonda underneath the ground,” an air apparently rival- ling “Mulligan’s Guards” in their estimation, The manager was ably assisted in the care of the chilaren by Captain Siebert and ten officers from his precinct, with Odicers Munier, Hitch- cock and three others trom the City Hall. Dr. Hans Powell and Dr. Needham were the medical volunteers of the day. After a stay of some four hours at the grove the expedition made for home, leisurely moving down the river. Laughter, chat- ter, singing, dancing, with the unuring music of Mr. Stiegler’s band, so filed with mirth the return’ voyage that It could be hardly credited by happy youns ones when the plier was reached that the time was nearly seven o'clock, ‘The day’s amusemeut wound up with a procession to the Madison strect station, and on arrival there @grand unanimous chorus of the “Dusky Dia- mond” and ‘fae Guards” again, The expenses for the day were $763 21, making an average of about thirty-six cents per caput. This was the tenth exctirsion of those given this year, for which the total cost amounts to $7,006 23. The number of children taken on these ten days was 20,879, thus making the individual cost for each boy and girl who enjoyed therby a genuine holiday amount to the insignificent sum of tnirty-six cents, a re- markable exhibit of economy aud excellent man- agement on the part of those intrusted with tue conduct of this excellent charity. EXOURSION OF THE HEBREW OBILDREN, The second excursion of the poor Hebrew chil- dren of this city will take place to-day, the barge Wm. J. Haskett starting from the foot of Kast Eighth street at seven A. M. and foot of Bast Seventy-nintb street at half-past seven for Gien- wood, Long Island. Should the committee re- ceive funds sufficient for anotner excursion, moth- | ers, with their babes, a8 also poor men and chil- dren,’ will be taken. FLOATING HOSPITAL Sick Childre Fand. ‘The following additional contributions have been received by Rev, Alvah Wiswall, Master of St. John’s Guild, and handed to Henry C. DeWitt, Almoner :— THROUGH NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY. Anna M. Noyes. ........ 06... seseeeesee $10 00 SENT TO GUILD 6 John and Hugh Au pithineloss. Destitute Excursion Total seeeresseseasees Amount previously acknowledged 2 3,042 10 Gra Cota i056. sceesseeessscese 081 10 Contributions to the june are earne solicited ; at once, and may be sent to New York HERALD, Mayor Havemeyer, City Hal: Araoid, Constavie & No, $85 Broadway; D. Appleton ©0., NO. 561 Broadway; August Belmont . A 3 street; David Salomon, G No, 120 Broadway street, or Rev. Aval Guild,’ No. 62 Varick stree DOESN'T INTEND TO RURRY HOME, Peter B, Sweeny has not yet reached the hos- pitable shores of Manhattan Island, It is not tikely that be will see New York this sammer if alt reports are Well founded, A HERALD reporter yes terday asked alter the distinguished ex-lammany desired to know something about his proposed vialt to these shores, and was informed by an old friend whose relations witn Mr. Sweeny are of the closest order that the lat- ter gentieman was in Parie yet with 0s brother, le companions, %, No, 63 St. John’s ure from that jestive city. He also pronounced the publisned story to the effect that Mr. Peter B. Sweeny Was 8000 coming Nome as & regular hoax, and auod that the distinguisued gentleman eater. ned no such tdea, If ts nardly probable that we aii Kee him here veiore she ¢avirauon Of another ear At cast. $18) 0 | NEW YORK CITY. The Catholle Cemetery at Ward’s Island is to be consecrated to-day, The Eighth regiment, N.G.5.N.Y., will proceed to-day to the ranges of the National Rifle Assocta- ton, Creedmoor, for ball practice. ‘The Erholung Society, a popular Hebrew organi uation, wh ave Tu promenade concert ang Tea pisuve iestuval at Terrace Garden on snwsday evening, A grand concert will be given on Saturday, August 22, at eight P. M., at the Mansion House, Long Branob, in ald of the Free Training Schools 4or Woinen in East Tenth street. A selection of pieces entirely from Wagner's muste will: be given this evening at Theodore Thomas' concert tn Central Park Garden. This 1s the one hundredth of these coucerts. A solemn high requiem mass was celebrated yesterday at the Cuurch of the ‘Transfiguration, Mott street, for Miss Rate McGuire, who Was acci- dentally drowned while batuing at Coney Island. Mr. Bergh’s society offer $200 reward for infor mation leading to the arrest and conviction of the pene or persons who stabbed and killed Dwyer’s jorses at the foot of Forty-ninth street, Hast River, on the night of the 17th inst. Frank Dunievy, aged twenty-three, residing at No, 85 Carmine street, who accidentaily fell from the fourth story window of his house to the sidewalk on Tuesday last, died at Bellevue Hos- Pital yesterday alternoon, at two o’clock. A bale of cotton from Tate county, Mississippl, being a sample gathered on the 11th inst., was yesterday exhibited in tront of the Cotton Ex- change. This is the earitest yield in nine years. The ext earliest was grown in Alabama in 15872, and received here August 16. The temperance advocates in this city will send delegates to the coming convention, which meets in Utica on the, 23d of September, Each Assem- bly district is entitied to three delegates, Tho convention wili be composed of temperance voters Of the State who have not co-operated with @ third party movement. A spectal meeting of the New York Board of Steam Navigation was held yesterday at the ChamberofCommerce. Delegates were appointed to attend the third annual meeting of the Board of Steam Navigation at BuiTalo on the 2d of sep- tember next. The constitution and bylaws as amended were adopted and ordered to be pub- lished, An Englishman, whose dog was snatched up and hurried off to the dog pound, found it would not be restored without the payment of $8, to which, after considerable grumbitng, he consented. He called yesterday at tae Mayor's office, requirin; the repayment of this sum, and being iniorme that redress was not possible was exceedingly dis- gusted. At about ten o'clock last night August Pressic, aged thirteen, residing at No. 99 Third avenue, while playing in front of nis house was run over | by a Third avenue car. ‘the wheels passed over | one of his arms above the eloow, breaking 1% An ambulance was called and the injured buy removed | to Bellevue Hospitat, The number of the car was not ascertained. At the annua! meeting yesterday of the stock- holders of the Atlantio and Pacific Railroad the following Board of Directors was elected for the ensuing year:—Andrew Pierce, Thomas T. Buck- ley, Joseph Seligman, Andrew Y. Stone, Wilham H. Coffin, Clinton B. Fisk, David Salomon, Ourne- ltus J, Berzen, James D, Fisn, D. R. Garrison, Charles P. Cooteau, Thomas W. Pierce and Henry BP, Verhaven. ‘ There 18 another vessel high and dry on the | southerly end of Hart Island; this is the sixth | gince April, It is said to be one of the most dan- gerous places on Long Island shore. Two years | since a large quantity of stone was placed there as & lighthouse foundation, but now iis stated thas one 16 to be erected on ‘Stepping Stones,” one mue south, It is to be hoped that this will not oe done, but the lighthouse erected on the spot shown to be so dangerous. The “Peabody Home and Reform Relief Assocta- tion” solicit subscriptions to their worthy charity. ‘Their charter not only provides a home for the | aged women, but furnishes food and medical at | tendance to the aged aud sick poor outside o: their | bome. It is @ lamentubie !act that the society | funds have neen exausted over two mouths. Sub- scriptions may be sent to the Treasurer, M. Ne Baker, M. D., No. 303 East Lighteenth street, or groceries, &¢.. &¢., to the Home, corner of Thirty- | tuird street and Lexington av BROOKLYN. James Keenan was arrested yesterday on Ray- mond street for stabbing Dennis McFol in the fatal. Daniel Sweeny, a young man, residing in Van | Brunt street, near Tremont, was struck on the | head while bathing yesterday by the screw of the tugboat Warnock, off the foot of Partition street, He was, it ts feared, fatally tnjured, and is now an inmate o1 the Vollege Hospital, Several hundred dollars’ worth of old brass, cop | per and rigging was stolen irom the Brooklyn | Navy Yard a jew days ago, and two men atcached to acoal barge which had been in the nanit of car- rytng coal to the yard were suspected of the thet. ‘They were disenarged from their positions. Mr. Edward W. Fiske, a member of the Board of Prospect Park Commissioners and an influential citizen Of Brooklyn, dled at his residence, No. 164 Park piace, yesterday. Deceased, who was in the siXty-nintn year of bis age, was a repuolican in poi- itics and was highly respected. His iuneral wil take place to-morrow alternoon. The Kings County Commissioners of Charities | met yesterday, and resoived upon discharging Kn- | gineer Patrick Uarr, of the Lunatic Asylum, against whom charges of immorality were pre- Jerred_ by several of the nurses, They also dis- pensed with the services of several employéa, re- ducing the salary expenditures $6,000 per annum, LONG ISLAND. | Mr. George Hudson, of Riverhead, has been ap- | pointed Under Sherif of Suyolk county, vice J. Henry Perkins, resigned. George Roberts and James McCue, two Fourth ward roughs, attacked Dennis Carroll yesterday tn Hunter's Point, and but for the timely arriva: of Officers Parks and Ward would have brutaliy beaten him, MuCue was discharged, but Roberts was fined $20 and committed unul paid, Yesterday morning about ten o'clock the train | on Atlantic avenue, bound to Jamaica, while cross- ing Bennett avenue ranintoa horse and wagon | driven by G, potted of Cypress Hills, The horse | was instantly killed, the wagon demolished and Mr. Spirting seriously imjured. He was taken none and attended by Dr. Wright, of East New | York. STATEN ISLAND. John McCaffrey, of Broad street, Stapleton, wa: yesterday arraigned before Justice Kassuer on the charge of robbery, in snatching a $2 bill out of the hand of a young woman named Louisa Smith, of that vitlage. The Justice fined the | prisoner $40, which was paid and the accused was | aliowed Lo go at liberty. NEW JERSEY. The appropriation for the Police Department in Jersey City for the ensuing year ts $433,750. | Smith,” who will be rinety-three years o} age on the 27th Inst. She is still able to go about visiting | her friends. The Democratic State Convention, which will be held at Trenton on the 15th of next month, it is said will be composed of 1,557 delegates, probably the largest ever held in the State, | Whe Trenton Vo\untecr Fire Department had a | grand street parade yesterday in honor of the re- turn home trom a West tour of No. 1 Hose company. Ali of the engine and hose houses were gayly decorated with Streamers and appro- | priate mottoes, and th ets ou the youte of tne | Parade Were iiued With a Vast concourse of spec. tators, In the evening a banquet Was given to the | Teturned firemen at Taylor Hai. . | During a circus performance in Jersey City on | Tuesday night Detective Watson arrested a man | about fifty years of age for making improper ad- | Vances tO @ little girl thirteen years old, He handed a card to the child containing a pass to the circus, with the nan “John Re Doty” added, He wae brought up tor e wination yesterday, but as tuere Was no evidence showmg what Propositions le made to the child he was dis charged. | A peculiar lawsuit is jnst being commenced in | Trenton, A woman named Mary Van Doren sues | one Peter R. Wymer for $100 damages, which she | alleges she has suffered by reason of defendant’s | bees having committed depredations on her cab- bage garden and dwelling house. Mary keeps ® | boarding bouse, and she Jurther alleges that said does have beca in the habit of alghting on her boardera’ heads, to the infinite annoyance of the latter, While at their meais, | Tight breast wich @ penknife, The wound is not | | People | would probably doubie 1ts membersuip. _ of Jersey City known as Bergen Hill, THE JERSEY GRANGERS. Grand Open Air Reunion in Somerset County, pus Organixation of a District Council—A “Basket Picnic’—How the Jersey Farmers Are Organizing for Self,Protection. For about a year orso there has béet fiero and there @ mention that the farmers of New Jersey had begun to emulate their fellow husbandmen of the Western States in the organization of grangera; but heretofore there has been procured for pub- lication no reliable general and specific informa- tion on the subject. It was the mission yesterday of 8 HERALD representative to fii this blank in the history of the grange movement, to accomplish which @ visit was made to a place called Horlin- gen, located in the west of tho State, in the town- ship of Montgomery and county of Somerset. There yesterday gathered the members of some eighteen granges and their fricnas and relatives, forming 10 all &@ body of ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE, ‘The occasion of the gathering was ‘half pleasure and half profit’—as one of the leading grangers described it, The profitable portion occupied the forenoon from ten till twelve o'clock and consisted of a secret meeting of the members in Montgomery Hall tn the village. This 1ecting was very largely attended and was presided over by Mortimer Whitehead, the oldest granger in the State, Master of Somerset Grange, Deputy of the State Grange and a charter member of Pioneer Grange, of New Brunswick, the first organized in New Jersey. The principal business of the meeting was the organi- gation ofa District Council, a sort of CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMIMITER empowered to act tor the four counties repre- senlied—namely, Mercer, Somerset, Middlesex and Hunterdon, The committee was made up of the masters of the me epee granges represented. After the secret meeting was closed tue grangers repaired in curriages to Van Aiken's Grove, a finely. shuded space of about twenty-fve acres, Here had assembled the wives, daughters and sweet- hearts of the Jersey FOLLOWERS OF FATHER ADAM'S CALLING in great numbers and arrayed every one of them in their best biband tucker.’ There was also om hand @ fine brass band from New Brunswick, which throughout the aiternoon contributed In no meonsiderabdle degree to the pleasure of the occa- sion, discoursiog popular airs during the progress of the Paseab panto, and between te speecnes which followed the Jeasting. In the centre of the coe) s Tough board platform tor speakers had en erected, and around this seats and benches for the use Of feasters and listeners, Viewed from the platiorm THE SCENE ABOUT FOUR O'CLOCK was picturesque and interesting as weil as deeply significant of the power, imfuence and numbers of this hitherto unknown quantity in tne body politio of New Jersey. The grangers wore sashes and aprons cnt alter the style of Freemasons’ “lamb- skins’? and embroidered with ploughs. h grange Was distinguished in its memoership by the color and embroidery of their regalia. Beiween two aud three e’clock the intellectuat prgetiges in the grove were opened with prayer y Rev. Dr. Steele, of New Brunswick. The open- ing speech was made by Grange Master Mortimer Whitehead, of Somerset Grange No. 7, who stated that the objects of the meeting were pleasure and profit—pleasure in the gathering together of sa many happy families, affording a delightful oppor tunity for a friendly and social interchanges profit in the results accomplished im the Btrictly Grangers’ meeting in the forenoon as upove rejerred to. Remarks were also made, elaborative of the aims and objects of the grange movement, by Mr. Welling, of Mercer county; Mr. Dye, also of Mercer; Mr, Pennyea, of Har.ingim Grange; Professor J. N. Voorhees, of Somerset county; Rev. Mr. Gardner, of Harlingin; Mr. Hen- derson, Master Pioneer Grange of New Brunswick; Mr. Kreusun, Master oi Ewing Grange, Mercer county; Mr. S. Cox, of Hunterdon county, and George W. Thompson, sistant Steward of the National Grange. Mr. Thompson did not make @ Speech exactly, but read with effect, THE GRANGERS! DRCLARATION OF PRINCIPLES, PS promulgated by the National Grange constitu ing the grangers’ platiorm througiout the United States, Dominic Gardner, tn his remarks, said that uf the organization of the grangers had ac- complished no more good tan to bring together in brorherly harmony 60 many it would have accomplished = & good mission. Aiter the proceedings closed, and the people had begun to. stream homeward in their carriages. wagons and catry- alis, the HERALD representative had AN INTERVIEW WITH THE 3038 GRANGER present, ir. Mortimer Wattehead, who expressed gratilication to have an opportemty to let the rangers of America know, through the HenaLp, What che grangers of New Jersey were about, Ho Said the grangers were so well pleased with the manner in Wiich the great American journal had edilorially treated their oranization that at their Meeting last year they passed A VOTE OF THANKS TO THE HERALD. Three years ago the lirst grauge Was organized in New Jersey—the Pioneer, of New Brunswick. For a year or two the work of organization was very slow, farmers being linpressed with the idea that there were politics in the matter, Last Jun- uary at the meeting m Camden there were re- orted only forty granges.. Since then they ads increased very rapidiy ana wee continuing to tnerease, Now they had some e.gaty granges and @ membership of about 5,000, Mr. Whitehead declared that no politics or religion were permitted any place in the proceed- jogs or spirit of the organization. ‘The objects, he said, Were mutual beneiit and improvement tn their materiai condition, cheapness in the buying of their farming machinery, seeds, tertilizers, soWing maciiues, &c., and in selling also, Some granges had this year saved over $1,000 in the pur- chase of the things enumerated. The grange movement in New Jersey is, in a word, @ grand co- Operative sale and purchase system. Mr. White- head said that tue movement Was now spreading With rapidity throughout the State, and Ng wid in De~ cemober there 1a to be a grand gathering of alt tae granges in the State at New ranswick. IMPORTANT CHANCERY DECISION, Property Holders in Jersey City Saved trom Ruin. The Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad Com- peny are constracting a tunne: through that part They con- tracted for the purchase of property to the amount of $300,000. That contract they refased to fulfil, and they appealed to the Court of Chancery to grant them possession of the lands by condem- nation, on the ground that the title was defective. They set up the plea that Mr. Bacot, one of the parties to the transier twenty three years ago, was in the insane asyium when he signed the deed, and that the transfer was there- jore void, Mr. W. E. Kogers, on the part of the property holders, appeared before Chancellor Run- yon and argued the cause. He admitted that Bacot Was in the asyluin, and if he was insane then his act was void, because ander the laws of New Jer- sey the deed of a married woman unless her hus- band joined in it is Vola and the tithe would still stand in Mrs. Bacot or her heirs, The present holders, Who have expended large sums in im- proving and buliding upon the property, would thus flud themselves without a title. ‘The Ciancellor has at length decided that Mr. Bacot. had sutiicient nutnd, memory and under. standing to understand the said deed and to Jegaliy execute the same, and that “said deed is and snali tor ever be unvoidable aud conclusive. This decision is of vital importance, especially to numerous smali poiders on Jersey City Heights. The raliroad company commenced yesterday to pay off these holders according to the original contract. | he Hudson | The oldest person in Saiem county is “Aunt Mary | br Arenas hint trcks Py and Four Men Drowned. POUGHKEEPSIE, August 19, 1874 Five young men got off the iorty-elght minutes past three train at Peokskill, this afternoon, trom Youkers, intending to tntercept the steam ferry- | voat for lona Island, where they expected to join the excursion steamer Wyommg and a barge, The steamboat had gone, and they hired Mr. Os borne, & boat builder, to take them over. When off Kouhook they saw the steamer Wyoming had lett to go south. They urged Osvorne to row upto the barge aiongside the steawuer anda put them on board, He tried to do 80, when his boat was strack by a fender on the barge and upset, and alt were thrown into the water. A lad named James Kane, who was towing behind the Wyoming in @ | small boat, cut his poat 1oose and hurried to the | one of the young men. | rescue. He succeeded in saving Mr. Osvorne and He says he saw two of the young met drown, deing Gnable to reach them, and he says further that the other two were aiso undoubtedly drowned, as they were not seen at- verward. ‘Tpe steamer did not stop, bat moved om down the river, It is said the excursion steam ets, but an attempt to get ini by telegraph has jailed. The le says the atruggie oi the young meu {n the water ter- rible to behold, “None of tue bodies tuve yet been recovered. PROSTRATED BY THE HEAT, An unknown man, apparently thirty-five years of age, Was prostrated by the heat near the Har- lem Bridge yesterday, shortly before noon. He was taken (0 @ neighboring ding store and a phy siclan summoned, under Whose treatwent be re vived suilicientiy to warrant ius being taken to his home in Williawsbura. r was from Yonk+