The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1874, Page 3

DISARMING THE REDS, ‘Another Severe Chastisement for the Indians: MORE FIGHTING ON THE WASHITA Unfriendly Savages Converted Into Cringing Captives. TWO BRILLIANT CHARGES, fete furrender of Arms and Horses to aienin, eneral Davidson. Qublican 2. Wte—A Big Tt. ores iy tae FIELD, ‘eq 10th Inst. August 29, 1874, } The eveutmxy Cover Hous, 8. 71st of August nd the warlike tratya other counties onrt of the | hostile Kiowas and Not. over the excitemvn this | Correspondence up to midiag the election of agd | early on ye morning of the 2h Auwi nton, from thet tertaning ead dloodtnil'! ER Brody sce wnt Mods: Reg) sink ugee cquaw, and , Drst set | iw ~waiivy, trader at this post, ‘This anhuuncement was to the eflect that the war- \ Fiore, having sent of for reiniorcements, would ‘appear 4t early dawn in full force and proceed to | “clean out this agency, and then go for the Caddoes,” who were supposed to have helped the Wnited States torces in saving the commis- wary, which had been fired by Lone Wolf's own hand, the flames having been ex- ‘tinguished by the timely arrival of Cap- tain Carpenter's company, who gallantly @rove out the Indians, advancing on them at a “double quick,’?as dismounted skirmishers, Not excepting many very good skirmishes witnessed @uring the late war, your correspondent never saw anything done more neatiy and promptly than ‘Was this charge. Surely enough, the infuriated vedsking appeared on the hill in the morning, aa- | Vancing steadily in close ranks to the number of } about five hundred, on our extreme right, | siter some slight yelling and commotion, | covered with war paint, and tneir horse's | falls plaited and sides streaked with | Givers war colors, Simultaneously they firea the i prairie along our centre front. The Games rolled | Bp from the prairie bottom with wonderful rap- | Adity, enveloping our camp with blinding smoke { and stifling heat, while the wind was vlowing a i gale just in the right direction to s2cond their | purposes. The situation tor the time being looked | equally in the extreme. The announcement of | the appearance of the Ind‘ans was made at the | same time, while General Davidson was sipping a | 8p of cofice in his tent, and the men were getting | the first they bud had toeat or drink in twenty- | four hours. He was equal to the emergency and | at once ordered Captain Carpenter to proceed to the centrai point oi attack and Captain Viele to | the right, with Little’s company to support tue centre. Colonel Lawson was ordered meantime to Proceed with a small detaii of dismounted cavalry anda infautry to check THE COURSE OF THE FIRE | that was striding down upon us ata great rate, and | which he accomplished with an almost berculean | effort, working himself along with his men and Sturting anotuer tire to ight its counterpart and Deating # out at the same time. Tne welcome news was shortly brought that he nad succeeded | im staying its onward course toward us and direct- | tng it to the lett and westward of our encampment, | Where, however, the saving of the sawmill was @espaired oi, though fortanuately it was not con- sumed, as there was @ considerable area about it stamped Yown, which kept the flames at a harm- Jesg-distiuuce. It was a magnificent though annoy- ing sigut to witness that LEAPING OCEAN OF FLAME sarge upward over fifty feet nigh, shooting tts scething and devouring billows through and over the woods bordering our camp and the dry corn | field, on which We alone relied for forage, the cat Held on the opposite bank of the Washita being beld bythe Indians, who were in the woods to the right of Black Beaver’s house. While this was go- ing on Carpenter with bis company dashed up the steep hillside at a gallop, and reaching the crest was just in the nick of time, with nothing to spare, in meeting a large body of Inaians | evidently detached from their column on the | Fight, with the intention of swooping down upon us when our attention shonid be attracted by | that demonstration, A few moments more and | the situation would have been critical, the Indians | would have temporarily pierced our centre and, | i covered by the underbrush, would have been enabled by aright and leit oblique fire to rake our line, A BRILLIANT CHARGE. varpenter charged the Indian column with im- pernous force, delivering a well directed and gen- erul fire in volleys that made the woods ring and the Indians fly in the most precipitate confusion. | Tueir discomfiture was evidenced by the disorder in which they fied, leaving behind on the field | among other things, a mugnificent and costly war bonnet, which has been the aimired cynosure of all the Indians who have been enabled to don it and criticisingly examiucd with @ kind of homage, awe and rey- | erence. It was worn by whoever Is acting as | the leading chief of the band, supposed to be either | Lone Wolf or Big Red Food. Carpeuter, then dis- mounting the larger part of his company, de- } ployed them as skirmishers, and, giving the com- | ’ delivered volley after Volley upon the scampering Indiaus as they took to the distant prairie and cover of the woods out ofrifie shot, They bad evidently caught a Tartar 4m Carpenter, with bis company, and were, no doubt, taken very much by surprise. The move- ment Was most opportune, and it is not saying too mucii to assert that antold disaster to the women, children and buildings of the agency was averted by the judgmept of General Davidson and the | timely action under wis orders of Captain Car- | pebie:. | ANOTHER SUCCESSPUL DASH. | At the sime time Captain Viele sprung up the | steep and almost mountainous sides of the de- | clivity on our right leading to Shirley's trading store, wiiere the Inditns were driving in the few pickets who iad been placed there the night be- tore in the rife pit accompanied by a few of the citizens. Slap-dash went Viele and the swarthy men under film up through the defile, cut out of a brown sanistone; then up one ridge higher, where they deployed into lime, Bang went irom their rifles such a dose as the indians did not expect a@t that particular moment, Pell-mell, too, they whirled, sverul of their number dropping out of tuelz saddes, but they were as rapidly caught up and carred of by their unharmed comrades, | thus exbibiting a religious observance of the rule | ever to have their dead or wounded on the eld, THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, tm thes¢ two very handsomely executed dashes, ag bear ai 1 cam glean the facts (rom every source, some filten or twenty indians are believed to have beet killed, with the proportion of wounded, while among the troops but one man was wounded throvgh the wrist. This soldier says that ke mw the Indian wuo fired ou him “urop wuder his bead? Sharp picket firing trom the direction of the Washita, nd occasionally on our jeit and rear, was heat, which was intended as a diversion, and, in fet, when you take into consideration the differentmovements made hy the Indians in this | and yestrday’s fighting it will be rewatiy per- colvéd tint they started into the fight witn somo cousiderasle idea of strategy, and wonld have carried tt out To some effect if General Davidson | sud his troops had not been constantiy on the qui vive for nearly forty hours, THE SUPPLIFG FROM FORT SILL, ‘The Ammunition had been fast giving oat, as the Bripz Wa frenneps and Navy. 200 some Avpre- | met the chiels of the absent tribes while in henstons were aroused lest the men micht fat | Short, sut alter having triea in vain in every | quarter for trusty scout or Indian to send into Fort Sill for more supplies and stores a daring and skilled man im the person of Mike Gordon, @ | fellow bold a8 @ lion and reckless as a wild horse, Volunteered the wight before to go to camp with | despatches, which he succeeded in carrying through safely, and in the remarkably short time of @ little over twenty-four hourahe made the journey of seventy miles. He was well armed and | on a feet borse, revurning, to our great joy and Teltef, at early dawn on the following with Lieutenant W. H. Beck, the rapid, business-like and energetic Quarterinaster of the post and a train of seventeen wagons, containing 10,000 additional rounds of ammunition, forage and | rations for the men and additional ambulances to care for our wounded, who were only four in pum- ber and only slightly hurt. But one death from wounds has occurred in the command thus ‘ar and that was the taking off of “Dan,” the veteran steed and old campaigner of the government interpreter, who was mortally Wounded in the Orst day’s action, to the great cha- grin and regret of of hia devoted owuer, who had | ridden him on many a hazardous errand, The old charger never ate alter he was agruck, ut lying down, unsaddied, near your corsespondest, when Wwe came to a halt, he looked ugutterably sorrow. fui, as ti his day of doom had. come. He lingered , until morning where he lay, and When the bugle “reveille? was sounded the sturdy old war horse rose up like @ soldier and walking over among the troopers’ horses, tied in line slong the fence, he stood a few moments and then, with a convulsive tremor and loud snorting, suddenly sunk down and died. Every one was, of course, eorry and sympathized witn his master, who vasued Dim most highly. Lieutenant Kelley closed the day’s fighting when he went to the oat field for forage. Being fred on from the woods, he returned the compliment with alacrity and for some time kept up a spinted fusillade, but being severely pressed and having only a small force he retired to this side of the Washita, waen be was reimlorced ana went for- ward again without further molestation, AN INDIAN JOAN OF ARC. ‘The Indian squaw, Tatt-toe, who was the only one who, with her fine boy of about seven sum- mers, had taken refuge with us, had, like Mike Gordon, bravely performed her mission, Under instructions from Geaeral Davidson she went out on the night of the 21st to tell the irtendly Indians who had fed thelr settlements in consternation and had kept clear of the fighting to come in, as | they would not be molested aad the United States troops would protect and befriend them, The brave little woman (rotund in form, about five feet three inches high, and with a shrewd, contracting, deliberative eye), as Soon as she was satisficd of the rellability of | General Davidson’s intentions, being supplied with @ horse and some rations, mounted at dusk and went out to the niding places of the refugees, remarking, however, with some apprehension, that she would go, but supposed the Kiowas wouid kill her. Here is a lesson for your Peace Commissioners; and in this little Woman, savage though she Was, there was more than a Joan ot Arc’s fortitude when she’ signified thet for her people she would go out and risk her life, showing once more that beautiful and unintimidated spirit of seli-sacrifice which has crowned her sex the world over, to the shame of ungrateiul and selfish | man. This brawny DARK-SKINNED ANGEL OF PEACE returned and reported that she had fortunately t i council, and that they signified that they would come im under a flag of truce, Here was a bloodless victory and much well founded apprehension was set at rest, lor up to this it was not positively known whether the vile machinations of Lone Wolf and his lying repre- sentations had not gone far toward demoralizing all the surrounding Indian tribes; and this, if the | case, would certainly have made serious work and invoived in great diMenulty the question to be set- tled—of dividing the hostile from tne friendly In- Giang on tue reservations, Everything was gotten in order for a peace demonstration in the form of the usual powwow under the broad-spreading, beautiful shade trees in irontof the agency school- house. Benches and chairs were brought out, and plenty of cool water, without the fire in it, was prepared for the thirsty Indians, because water ts { @ rarity now in this country of drought. General Davidson summoned his staf! and ofiicers, who, seated with his interpreter, your correspondent on his rigit, awaited in council the coming of the un- lettered savages, who are modified in their repul- siveness by tbe presumption of being 80-CALLED. FRIENDLY INDIANS. and prevent them from having their buitdings burned, 1 would like to have you come ip and live a& the Agency until the trouble 1 all over. Come into the Agency and put your camps where we will know all the good Indians are together. I ask you now tf I haven’t told you the truth? Speak out, or forever hereatter hold your peace. I burned the camp of the Noconees purposely, put saved yours, SUCCESS OF THE TALK. An Indtan witha very unpronounceable name re- | plied at some length to Gener:1 Davidson, but his remarks were not very intelligible, and there Is no | Mme to translate them before (he mail starts. After the talk Was over the Inatans sat about and chatted forsome time, mede arrangements where they would move their camps 80 as to be un- der our guns and in the near vicinity, having re- Solved to leave the scene of our late battie ground, as they esteem it “not good medicine,” and then they rode of apparently pleasea and well satisied with getting some rations from General Davidson. Later in the day A MORE IMPORTANT INTERVIEW ‘was had with Cheever, lron Mountain and another chief, in which they proceeded to intercede in be- half of Issa-nau-t-ka and his -band, who had hastily jomed tue hostile Indians on the vreaking Out of the excitement, They said he was anxious to surrender himself and people as prisoners, turn over their arms and proceed into camp, with their Stock, and await the action of the authorities at Washington. Generai Davidson, having examinea {nto the good faith of their representations and dehberated on them, decided toaccept their offer and on the next morning to receive them as prisoners of war at Cedar Creek, to march back with his column to Fort sill. MARCHING BACK TO FORT SILL. The following day Genera! Davidson struck tents and marched back for Fort Sul witn his column, leaving two companies o! infantry and one of cav- alry to protect the Wichita Agency, alter naving flanks and otber vulnerable points, so that it can now be held against a heavy attacking force, The band of Issa-nau-i-ka met General Davidson's col- umo as agreed upon, and, striking camp, which Was @ bumorous and interesting sight, accom- panied him to Fort Sill, alter having given up their arms. The importance of this measure cannot be ex- aggerated. It is the first step in the direction ofa real peace. It is the first time that such a thing has ever been done with the (Indians ‘and may be regarded as the initial point of a new departure ‘m the direction of disarming the Indians and tak- ing their norses, which are two of the most vitally essential and absolutely necessary measures to facilitate the transforming of their habits and tastes from those of a hunting to those of an agri- leading to civilization. Gayly went the march after this great triumph im the direction of peace, and the troops marched forward cheerily over the broad prairie. THE NEW CAMPAIGN, General Davidson arrived safely in camp, turned over his captured Indians to Indian Agent Ha- warth, dismissed his men tothe qutet rest which they needed, and Is now preparing for his grand general campaign march of the season, starting about the 1st of Septemaer, But one death oc- curred on the recent march, which was from ex- haustion and the effects of the heat. The obtain- ing of a good band of Indian scouts, which was very necessary, Was not rendered feasible until the assertion of our strength, most of those sought declining gut of fear or doubt as to how much ofa demonstration would be made by the government. army and who speaks English well, 1s the principai one employed. Those secured are a handsome, Mine looking set of fellows and will be of great ad- Vantage on the march. But ten are paid, the rest volunteering, making twenty-two in all. PROPORTIONS OF THE WAR. Indian Agent Miles reports the morale of the ties, The Oheyennes are also despaired of for peace. Acting Special Agent J. A. Covington, of | under date of the 20th:—“We hear with” re- undoubtedly taken a large share in the murderous proceedings of the past few months, are being en- rolled as friendiy Indians at the two lower agen- cies. Should this be the case, and I can scarcely credit the statement, it will, in a measure, nullity hostile Indians. Little Robe, witn White Shield, Pawnee and thirty lodges of Cheyennes, this Agency on the 15th inst., having left the main Cheyenne camp seven days previousty.” He re- But friendship for the white man among them 18 of doubtiul significance and not thoroughly un- | derstood, nor can it be relied on. The Indian ts controlled py his fears, not his loves, and the un- questtonably asserted force of Uncie Sam’s power | ig the only thing Jor which he has respect, if not attachment, Tne infuences arising irom a whole. | some regard for superior strength and ability | combined with numbers are about the only , Shelves under the eaves of which it 18 safe to hope | for salety or protection, The white man has not and never will have, except in rare cases, any part of the Indian‘s heart. | At last the Indians came in in a detachment, as Ube dust on the road gave presage, looking some- what like a cavalcade of Spanish cavaliers. Tney rode into our midst with a white flag on a pole, which looked in strange and picturesque contrast with their variegated colors and war paint, They all wear war paint when dressed up, as it ig part | of their costume and etiquette. ‘ THE Powwow. | AS 800n as the red men were seated around in a | circle—the most conspicuous among them being | | Kicking Bird, Toshaway, Iron Mountain, Black Beaver, Asa-habet, Asa-to-het and Big Bucalo | Good, chiefs of the Comanches, Caddos, Kechis, Towaconies and bands of Washita, representing | 1,500 to 1,600 Indians—General Davidson proceeded | vo address them, through nis interpreter, as [ol- lows:— “When the President found that there were a great many bad Indians—Comanches, Kiowaa and others—he determined to separate them. He wanted to bring the good Indjans of his tribes to | the agencies, and to go for the bad ones on the | plains. Ibegan last month to separate the good | and bad at Fort Sil! and to make an enrolment of | them, giving orders not to let anybody come tn who did not come and surrender his arms. Awasting the decision of the Great Father I fixed on August 3 ag the last day on whith any of these Indians could come in. The Klowas and Comanches have been told, time and ume again, the conditions under which they could come in—that is, to give up their arms. The sale kind of a Message Was sent to Asamanica. Last Friday Captain Lawson sent word that the Noconees had come here, where they did not be- | long. The Washita agent also sent me word that he did not want them here; they bad no business | tocome here or to Fort Sill without complying with instructions to give up their arms according to the orders of the Great Father. Assoonas I got this news 1 got in the saddle to come here and | take the Noconees as prisoners to where they be- long. When I got bere I met all the Caddoes, Washitas and Kiowas as friends, 1 sent for the chief of the Noconees and told him what my instruc- tions were, He promised me to go to Fort Sill. Believing in the fellow’s word I sent him to his camp with a guard, and as soon as he broke away my guard fred at him. So soon as 1 mounted my troops to go through the Noconee camps, | THE COWARDLY, THIEVING KIOWAS fired into the backs of my soldiers. - I never was so bothered in my lile to know what todo, Ii they had been all hostile men I could have determined; but I did not want to burt friends. You know the rest—how the Kiowas fred at me from all sides, burned forage and tried to burn buildings, I didn’t come after Kiowas, I came aiter Noconees, ‘These very Kiowas, who did this mischief, were men with papers in their pockets, and were told | not, to leave the Fort Sill Reservation, The gov- ernment is going to make this @ big war and final | against all these bad Indians, and they want to gatuer together all friendiy Indians at the agen- cies to keep them out of trouble. When I go away Jrom here alter these bad Indians I am going to eave troona here to Mroteat tia anand Indians i 4 abe | there should be here. | ernments ports the presence of quite a number of Kiowas and Comanches in the camp when he left. also says that Lone Woll, of the Kiowas, and Sab-i-nau-i-ca, of the Comanches, are we moving leaders of the war, as well as Bird Medicine, Big Bow and a host of lesser lights. Big Bow and Lone Wolf have each made two successful raids into Texas stnce April. By@ small party of Cheyenne’, just in direct from the main camp, we are enabled to fortified tt with good works on its right and left | cultural lile. They will then be placed on the road | Towaconie Jim, a Caddo, who has served in our | Arapanoes doubtml, and he seems to have serious | | | | | | |} | | One Who passes, 80 we gave up our attempt Lo pass | Of Public amusement wheve art and taste are pre- | | @ pleasant alternoon in the Park and went home, | dominant, | } | i | \ | the young men and the girls play a game of cro- | 1! every sense of the word. | | - NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. THE CROQUET WAR. A Citizen’s Comptaint—He Wants to En- . Joy the Grass and the Shade. To THE EpiToR or THE HERAL Many thanks for the work you are doing tn agi. tating the question as to whether gentlemen shall be allowed to play croquet or not. But won't you go further, and urge that people be allowed to use Ceutral Park as Prospect Park is used? My expe- Tience has been very unpieasant in the Par! Sunday betore last, wishing to get @ taste of the i country without taking eeveral hours of travelling to get to it, I went with a lady to the upper end of the Park, thinking that there, where the grassis | not kept as a lawn there, would be no objection to siting it. We went above Mount incent, | found @ cosey place among the rocks overlooking the ake, and alter syreading our wraps on the | experiments shall b ciation of Dante should be inscribed over its terrible por During the winter of 1867 I made an ineffectual at to obtain such logislation. at Albany ‘as would imtticn these horrors: but, unhappily, it was at a time when the State Medical Convention’ was being held theres and that body, on learning of my purpose, not only employed {ts vast influence to de/eat It bur succaniog ie incorvorating in my bill the todowing section, which the pubile should know, accounts for the seeming indif? ference which this society waintains with regard to this terrible subject Laws or }867—voR THR MORR RPFROTUAL PREVENTION OF CROKLETY TO ANIMALS, Sxctiow 95—Nothing in this act contained shall be con- straed to prolibit or interfere with any properly cons ducted scientific experiments or investigations, which | rformed onty under the authority | of the taculty of soine regularly Incorporated medical college or university of the State ot New York. am, &c., HENRY BERGH, President. AMUSEMENTS. Lyceum Theatre—Opera Bouffe. Messrs. Grau & Chizzola, the managers of this rock, sat down and vegan reading, We had been there hardly fliteen minutes when one of the Park police discovered us and roughly ordered us off, telling us that li we wanted to sitduwu we couid use the benches beside the walks, It is not pleas: | ADtto sit on exhibition, to be stared at hy every | jeeling that aiier all the money that has been Spent on It We had in return only a “show” piace, @ very good kind of @ place ior the wealthy to | drive i, but a Very unsatisiactory place to those who were unable to drive there, Wii uot the Commissioners allow us to sit on the grass under the trees? HOWARD, An Old Boy Protests Against Ry: Tyranny. | To THE Epiror oF THe HeRALD:— ! This little matter of croquet in the Park, in which the “old boys’ are so oiten mentioned, has | | grown to be a nuisance to the “old boys.” We | in peculiar civil trials, there are times when the | hike the giris well enough, probably as well as we | aid when we were younger. We can’t help being | Old; but there ts nO use throwing the jact mm our teeth, and we think the girls rather like us for our | experience in hile. Goa bless them: We would like to DIAN croquer with them in Centra! Park, if | Potentate Kyan would allow it. “Does he want | Guarantees Of good behavior; he can have them, security also, and appeals irom tne girls besides. Weh, there is one consolation—if we can’t play | croquet with the girls in the Park, if Swedenborz ig right we will play with them hereafter. AN/I-RYAN, Chicago Not So Mean. To THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— Ihave read with interest your articles on the croquet question, It ts real hard that gentlemen are not allowed to play with the ladies in we | Park, Really, sir, 1 think croquet possesses no in- terest as @ game unless both ladies and gentlemen | can parucipate. Asa rule the ladies, in my esti- j-Mation, are more fascinating than the game. And | a lady has just told me that she would never play | unless gentiemen could take apart. How long, | Jet me ask, is this horrid Board o1 Park Commis- | sioners to continue in power? [have just come | here trom the West to live, and occupy limited quarters ia an uptown boarding house. We have | Ro place or opportunity to play croquet there, | and if the privilege of playing in the Park ts not extended us, in the Dame of common sense what shall we do? By the gods, Chicago would never | be guilty of such meanness as to deny to any por- tion of her citizens the pleasure of playing | croquet With the woman he loved. AN?TI-MONOPOLY, An Indignant Grandmother. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— \ I have seen with great admiration the able | | efforts of the HERALD to bring the young folks to- | bY @ 1arce Of “Married Lile,” which brought a very gether at playing croquet in Central Park. In the nime of Heaven, sir, where is the harm in having | quet together? There are some people, though, | that Make harm out of everything. Now, you | know just as well as any ove that in this town the | girls dou’t get a fair chance. Sorry, indeed, am | that my daughter Jane ever brought her tamily to | tnis big city. In the very last confidential conver- | sation I had with her she assared me that though ; all the young men promise to call, and sometimes apprebensions of their breaking out into hostili- | | for the occasion 27 ( the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Agency, writes here | } gret that the Kiowas and Comanches, who Dave — the success of the whole movement against the | He | of whom I aim assured are do call, to see the girs, yet {6 ts such a ceremonial Ineeting that nothing ever comes of it. It grieves | My grandmother's heart to see my poor aear granddaughters, now past twenty and stil with the same prospect for marriage , beiore them as they had five years ago. I know other families, very many of them, too, and tney | are situated just as we are. What'are we to do? We can’t go out on the sidewaiks and say, “Here | are girls, gentlemen, wanting husbands; come | and take a look at them, they are nicely fixed up No, sir, that would not do, as you will readily see. it here is @ chauce in thi croquet playing in the Park; it is just the very | thing to show off young jadiex to Wantage and to afford them an Opportunity to practise those little winning ways which their grandmothers used Lo practise before tueir mothers were born when they got the chance. And yet ignoran selfish old bachelors, to whom, sir, nO good at al cuuld come from this harmless and beautiful game Ol croquet in Central Park—because their hard old hearts never can soften to a woman’s smiles and ways—are to interfere and to be allowed to interfere in preventing these blessed meetings of tne young folk, from which would come so great relief to anxious parents’? minds and #0 arrived at | much ultimate happiness to the young gentiemen | and young ladies themseives. It is a pity that ; young men in this city do not marry much more ! than they at present do. As you know, sir, tne | young gentlemen in the HekaLb omee, nearly all | arried men, are much | better off and infinitely mbre settled down than vhey were when they were single, and this is a ; fact which employers ought all to remember. locate them as camped thirty miles south of the | Antelope Hills, near the oid Wichita battle ground, They are undoubtedly being driven in by scarcity of water and the approach of a column oi cavalry, seen in the direction of Fort Bascomb, The proportions of the Indian war are increas- ing, and unless something now unknown occurs toalter thingsa “vigscrimmage” may be expected, | and the last ditch for “Lo, the poor Indian!” | But there are not by any means as many troops as Each column, to be fully effective, should have at least 1,000 Nghting men, while the number falls much below tiris, INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE, Mr. Joseph H. Blackfau, Superintendent of the United States Mails, wil leave this city to-day to represent this country at the Postal Congress to meet at Berne, Switzerland, on the 15th inst. This Congress was originally called by Germany, | | | | ; which government desired to bring about compicte | unity of action not only between diferent parts of Europe, but foreign countries as well. Russia ob- jected to coming in; hence a postponement for another year, until the present time. The grand object in view is to abolish accounts between gov- | ernments concerning postal matters of whatever kind, thus leaving each government to collect its | own Leatly and deliver the mans of other io ree of charge. In this way there will be an end to many disagreeable entangiements and perplexing complications. Or it might be said that the object is to secure uniformity of charges and thoroughly reciprocal rela: tions between different nations in their postal intercourse, Another way of presenting the sub- | ject 1s to regard all countries as forming a com- mon postal territory, in witch transit charges Shall be avohshed on opened or closea mails trans- muitted through intermediate countries, This phase of the subject will, no doubt, be dis- cussed, though the principle involved, as thus | stated, cannot be expected to receive the approval ofthe United states. Tne uniairness of its applt- cation appears at once when the short mail routes of Europe are compared with the enormous stretches of territory which the American mail routes include—that to Australia, for example, Representatives to the approaching Congress at Berne will consist mainly o/ Postmaster Generals of Various countries, or their equivalent in rank, whatever their name—the chief postal officials. The tormer Postmaster General, Creswell, made complete arrangements to attend, shared the disappointment with others, THE SALOON KEEPERS, The Brewers and Liquor Deale: Convention. The Central Organization of the German saloon keepers, who, during the past year, have formed an organization in each ward for the protection * State @ year ago, but |* Now, Mr, Editor, any young couple onght io be able to live on $508 Week, or at least on $60 a week, and every means ought to be used, espe- | cially by old people like myseli, to encourage them to embrace the married state of iife. Any indus. trions young man, I presume, is able to make tue amount of salary per week above specified, and | Why, then, in the name of all that's good, don’t they get married. For my part I say let us try | croquet in Central Park. GRANDMOTHER, © | BERGH ON SCIENCE. He Wants to Know About the Experi- ments on Animal Life at Bellevue | Hospital College. Not content with exercising a general super- vision over dog fights, pigeon shooting, horse | beating and cruelty in the slaughter houses, Mr. | Bergh, the body, heart and brains of the Society » jor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is now extending his criticisms to the mode in which ex- periments are made by the scientists into the economies of animal iife and the tunctions and action of the various organs, with their relation to health and disease, In this view he has just ad- dressed the following tetter to Professor Flint, Jr., of Bellevue, Hospital College :— AMERICAN SOCIRTY FOR THR PREVENTION or ? om VADQUARIIRS FouRTa AvaNur, | T KOOND STKERT, August Ji, 1874." ) Sin—I take the ‘liberty of inviti the enclosed articl¢, extracted trom the New York Sun- doy Denocrat of the §0vn ins, ‘The writer seems to speak from personal observation, and 1 wouid esteem ita favor it you would either deny or avow his assertions. it may not have escaped your recollection that! ventured. to address you, a few years ago, on the sublect. which proupts ‘the’ present communication. In that. corre: spondence you Were Kind enough t0 assure me that the alleged cruelues of the dissecting room were greatly ex aggerated, while you did not deny that tha: branch of physiology under Your direction was not entirely. tree your attentien to | trom the charge of performing experiments on dumb an. inais without the use of anastheties, You will uot tail to perceive that if the experiments referred to by the writer of the article in question are performed oy your sanction at Bellevue great parbarity is the consequence. Itis maintained by the most eruinent physiologisis of the world that vivisection is not only a cruelty but a scien tifle tailure, since the information sought to be obtained thereby ivn0 more attainable while the body w writh- ing in agony than the correct hour of the day can be re- corded bythe clock while the machinery is disordered. Bui l gofurcher and declare that however accurate tb results may be, the repetition of these depiorabl butcheries Is needless, tor the reason that the kuowledge thns acquired is already exhausted and given to the world in numerous earned treatives aud visibly demonstrated by mechanical preparations, rivalling the anatomy of nature itself. Lites bodie furnish ail the evidence neces fore. these revolting scénes serve no other p ose than or the young student the dem ) lieing ex. usiant on the enactment of @ brutal practi- Ta A moral polutot yiew 13 it wise, is it cal tragedy, ute, fo thus extinguish within ee, breast of the fiture actitioner—he that is destino some time to pene- rivacy of domestic yy and compassion through such territ manity and public policy re- spond, Not Even though these living dissections were productive | of ail that tieir advocaies claim tor mn, in the lan- ; fusee of alearned writer on this Hus abject,’ “mankind ve no right to information thus acquired.” The bonef- ent Creator never designed that an immortal work of His hand should be thus tortured and disfigured ever in the investigation of His physical laws. According to | my informant, numerous races of animals are at times of the trace under the operations of the Excise | law, held @ meeting at the Germania Assembiy Rooms yesterday to complete the arrangements for & muss meeting, Which is to come off during bext week, for the purpose of adopting resolu- tons to be submitted to the State Convention of the Brewers and Liquor Dealers’ organizations. This Convention will be held at Syra- cuse on the 16th inst, and a committee Was .ppointed to represent the city organization at the State Convention. ‘The delegation was composed of jor Sauer, Martin Nachtmann, Charles Kinkel, Jos, Fricke and George Gruen- wald, The principal objecc of tats Liquor Dealers and Brewers’ State Convention will be to exert an influenge on the election of members of the Legisiature, with a view of having a uniform ex- cise law passed for the whole State, and a law providing tor tne election of Excise Commis. sioners in each county, a8 a means to insure pro- tection jor the bear and Uavor tradic, to be found within your operatn, premises im various , mutation and torture; stages of torture; “some are to be seen with ihe crantum removed and the brainy taken out:” another, “its abaomen opened, and the Yoswels leading to’ the lver tied. in’ such a | manner 4s to allow nothing to enter or escape | by the main channel!” “the agony of this poor creature. in particular,” says the writer, “luring this nt, Which Was prolonged six weeks, Was tome. lating, amd its disina) howls were trightiu its whole irame was racked to pieces.” ne eriment WAS Chat of a goat with its back opened to thesspinal marrow, in the attempt to pertorm | & flondish operation which forty vears Heture had been | effected and Known to all the médical world. While | Tending these irightful atroctties, perpetrated on. tuo gent, unotleading animals, the inquiry springs to the | lips, Can ‘ators’ of them be human beings? Can the brain that conceives them, the heart. shat tole erates and the hand that execites them beloug to that being who, it is said, was made in God's own image? As ® natural and inevitalie sequence to these dark deeva. of which the defenceiess brute is he Victim, rumor ascribes to the hospitas in question the in: | fiction of cragities on the unfortunate huinan beings whom accident brings within its walis as merciless in Be extrame ami whinh | reve writs that the denuu- an | dep house, are young men makiog their first essay in | the management of @ metropolitan theatre, One | of them, at least, has shown in the Rubinstein and | Salvini seasons a disposition towards a standard | It must be, therefore, a matter of Tegret to those who wouid wish those young men to succeed in their present undertaking to find that they inaugurated their first season with @ mass ef French filth under the guise of | op'ra boufe that reaches even a lower | yt of moral turpitude than the testimony | taken before the Plymouth church Investigating | Committee, and which vo lady can hear without | Jeeiings of shame and disgust. It would be idle to | mention moratity in the same breath with opéra | bouge with very lew exceptions; but even in the | wiid license of the stage Oo! to-day there should be | some limit, In the worst cases before tue courts, | the In | » Judge wishes tators to retire, “La Timbale d’Argeni? tne word = inde- i cency, a3 appiies to the dialogne, may be considered as mild. The good sense of | the public, had tie French language been | better known and had not a supposititious knowl- edze of it without good joundation led some | astray, should Nave caused them to hiss the | piece off the stage the very first nignt, The music, good as ertainly 18, Mts it avout as well as the cioak of Raleigh did the mud-puddle over | which he threw it for the favor of good Queen j{ Beas, Ibis thoroughly opera comique music and , possesses not a sparkle of the Offenbacn, Lecocq 3 THE MEDICAL CENSORS, The New Law to Regulate the Practice of Medicine and Surgery. The New Law of Registration To Be Enforced. OPINION OF A CENSOR, Quacks of high and low degree wi!l have herd me of it this coming fal. The medicai censors - are after them with a sharp stick, as the saying 1s, and the head o: many a bogus practitioner, man and woman, Wili disappear by the relentless dis- secting knife furnished under the new jaw, and | bandied skiltuily by those intrustea with the operation. Beyond doubt New York pas suffered long and severely from REGIMENTS OF IMPOSTORS | whose ignorance, fraudulent pretences and ras cality have increased the death roti vo an alarm- ing extent. For years past this state of affairs has existed, and scores of sham doctors, revelling tm money at the expense of the public, fave defiantly carried on tueir practices, There was not, apparently, any authority to prevent their doing 80, and despite the most earnest appeals by eminent physict:ns, who more than others appreciated the dangers of the situ- ation, tue Legisiature {failed to do anything toward remedying the evils complained of. Every- body remembers the fidgety periodical efforts of the Board of Health and the police to overhaul a class of practitioners against whom the com- muuity cried in vain for protection. Their feeble attempts in that direction, though, perhaps, tem- Porarily successful in checking the boid and broad daylight acts of imposition on the part of UNLICENSED AND INCOMPETENT PERSONS, 2 | was fall of clever hits, rich humor and side-split- | | order, and the veriest cynic could not heip burst- or Herve fire, For the sake 01 decency the man- agers should cleanse their boards of this ilissmeii- | DeVer resulted in any permanent benefit. On the ing stuf and piace delure a generous public some- | 22d of June last, however, anew law came into thing more in accordance with pubuc taste. operation which must have been hailed with ae | delight by the members of the medical profession. San Francisco Minstrels. Should its provisions be rmdly and fearlessly The popular trio, Birch, Wambold and Backus, | ensorced, as doubtless they will be, there is read- who seem to be the very Incarnation of fun and ! be Mate ah fis MOTI cannes fing 2 1 \ i 1c 18 concerned. It was ex- Jollity, have established themselves in very com- | pisined at the meeting Of the Board of Health on fortable quarters on Broadway, above Twenty- | Hes = and so iar has worked Aone eighth street, Theirnew hallis very pretty and . It is not uniike the movement successfully adopt cosey and roomy enough with The opening bill tne Sianioet Oy HOeLCER SIE AONE Dee Sine, THE FIRST SECTION Backus | Of this act every practitioner of medicine or sur th gery in the State of New York ts required to nave @ | gilcense to practise in some form. He may be Eugene Tre- | either a licentiate of some medical society or @ udolpb, Were , graduate of some chartered medical school, or he tung jokes, for which Birch and were mainly responsible, The baliads in first part, sung by A. H. Pelham, maine, D.’8, Wambold and Carl | sung im a style superior to the general | must obtein certificate of the’ New standard of negro minstrel vocalists, and | York medical societies of the State re- Mackin and uson were very amusing . cognized by law. Tuts certificate must be re song and dance performers. A screaming lecture | on Temperance” by Add Ryman was (he next in | corded by tne County Clerk. The censors in this instance, who are appoimted by the Medi- cal Society o1 the City of New York, are composed ing his sides at Birch and Backos in “Parlor.! of Dr, Julius Von Meyer, Chairman; Dr. Hadyn, Theatrica's.” A capital burlesque on a scene | Dr. W. Archer, Dr. A. Archer and Dr. Kunze, Sec- irom “hi ‘Trovatore,” in which Ricardo made the | retary. The powers and best negro minstiel prima donna that the boards | DUTIES OF THE CENSORS of cork have ever seen in tnis city, was foilowed | consist, in tne first place, ot Qotiying all practt tioners of medicine and surgery of the laws ana ; Fequirements of this act. In other words, they must see that every physician ingthis city Is tees tered in the proper quarter. the production of an authentic diploma or ceruficate will of course be \ Pein those eae neither will be . . | Summoned before the Bourd of Censors tor exam- = bicweshiderd ? Sreganys aaaes { ination. If within the time prescribed the per- “Marie Antoinette,’ @ tragedy, purporting to be | gong ilable do not comply with the Jaw and present historical, was produced at this house iast night, | themselves for examination proceedings will at with Mrs, F, W. Lander in the title role, Of the | once be taken and the offender will be handed rcies of the District Attorney. piece Uttle that is favorubie can be said, It is ex, | °VeF 6 the me! y THE PROSECUTIONS tremely sad, and possesses neither the merit of , will be conducted in the game oi the People upos being well written nor cleverly contrived. It is one , the complaint of the Board of Censors. And now of & class of pretended historical plays which aim for the class of people agaist whom the law will chiefly at the perversion of history in order operate most severely. It will readily be observed that the more periect the registration of pbysi- to win sympathy from ignorance for a char- | cians and surgeons the more effectually can the acter the author has sought to clothe | provisions of the law be eniorced, Itis plaly that witha moral grandeur to which the real person , those having @ diploma, license or ceruficate— had no claim Whatever. Apart, however, trom the , every one of which, by the way, wili be thoroughly fault of inaccuracy the play has others less par- | examined by the censors and rejected if neces- donable irom a dramatic standpoint, and which | sary—will have no hesitation in coniing lorward, would be sumMcient to prevent its acquiring popu- | while those for whom tne law Is specially de- larity unless by the aid of phenomena! dramatic | signed—rauds, manipulators and the owners of | genius, Mra. Lander, who undertook the | bogus degree’—will naturaily sbrink from any con- ‘role of the unfortunate Queen, invested | tact with a body that wili thoroughiy investigate {1% with much womanly feeling and dignity, | their claims to hang outa shingle. Yo be sure In the closing scenes especially there were maty | GENUINB SPECIALTY MEN, | passages of Gudoubied dramatic torce which did | whohave no degree at all, but who from long not fall to receive acknowledgment at the hands , practice have wou reputation, will bave little to of @ select and intelligent audience, Mr. J. H. | Tear, but they will, nevertheless, to | Taylor as Louis XVL gave a well balanced and | a strict examination tu the pariicuiar vranches of careiul interpretation of the weak and somewhat | the medical artin which they may have become amiable victim of his ancestor’s crimes, Mr. De | proficient and obtain @ certilicate accordingly. | Groot’s Simon, the cobbler, was also «fair per- The main object, iu other words, is to jerret out formance, but the Sauce of Mr. Ahrendt was g | and punish a ciass of persons who pretena to have stupid burlesque that ought not to be tolerated | authority to practise med.cine they never earned. even in a hastily organized company. The setting | The law undoubcedty entails @ large responsibility. and appolutments of tne play were remarkably | on the medical societies; but Where 80 much gen- laughable performance to anend. The san Fran- cisco Minstrels have begun @ season which prom- ises to be,and certainly deserves to be successiul ‘ registered his name as George Haviland, New good. Musical and Dramatic Notes. Verdi ts at his home in Bussetto. The last matinée of “Belle Lamar” takes place to-day. Hans Von Bulow plays in London instead of New York this fail. ‘Thanks, Operas in the popular style will Gnd favor for the future at the Chatelet, Paris, Shakespeare's “Cortolanus” will be brought out this month in German at Frankéort, Mr. S. Behrens will assist Signor Muzio in the direction of the italian opera this season. Itis said that Oliver Doud Byron will open in November with anew play by Dion Boucicauit. A prominent concert and ball was given at the Pavilion Hotel, New Brighton, last aight. The music Was under the excellent direction of P. Ss. Gilmore. Miss Bessie Darling has purchased a new drama entitled “Her Face Her Fortune,” by Mr. George Darretl, and will start on her tour September 18, supported by an excellent company. The “Fast Family” is to be produced at the Filth Avenue Theatre to-night, Itis eight years since | this superb comedy of contemporaneous Iife was produced 80 successtully at Wallack’s Theatre, and made a hit in the home of old comedy—being received as a fit and proper comparison to the dashing satires of Sheridan, Congreve and vol- man. At Mr. Daly's theatre the piece will intro- duce Miss Ada Dyas and Mr, Hawkins, as well as other members of the company, for the first time | this season, It will also bring forward Bijou Heron in the part of Fanfare, the precious young miss of the period, The “Fast Family” is to be offered only three evenings, On Wednesday next Marte Wilton’s version of the “School for Scandai” | will be produced by Mr. Daly, after an ciaborate | preparation, The piece ‘rom which Mr. Daly modeis bis production has run over 200 nights in London, | Mme. Janauschek will commence her fareweil tour through the United States on October 5, open- | ing the season at the National Theatre, Washing- | ton, Mine. Janauschek, during her summer vava- tion in Europe, bas not been idle, for she has studied several new pieces to add to ner already extensive repertoire, which now consists of “Mary | Stuart,” “Deboran,’? “Fazio, “Winter's Tale,” | “Medea,” “Macbeth,” ‘Adrienne the Actress,’ hesney Wola” (Bieak House), “Henry VIL." | The new pieces are, “Was Sie to Blame? “TL, Tentation,” “Mina Sforza,” “Earl ot Essex” and | “Phédre.” Mme, Janauschek wili be assisted by | the fohowing first class artists:—George D, Chap. | lia, John Morton, James Taylor, A. D, Byadiey, J. | O. Sefton, J, B. Aston, W. G. Shine, B. Mortimer, + F, Lascelles, Misses Minmie Monk, Kate Fletcher, } May Montello. Mme. Janauschek, after making | ap extended tour through the States, will. play a short engagement in New York and vid @ final adieg to America in San Francisco. SUICIDE OF A BROOKLYNITE, At about haif-past seven o'clock Thursday eve- | ning, a Well dressed and apparently respectavie ; man walked ito the office of the West side Hotel, corner Fifteenth street and Sixth avenue, and York; requested a room where he (Haviland) would not be disturbed, remarking that he was | very tired. He was accordingly conducted to one. When the porter rapped at his door the next Morning ho response was given, and it was sup. posed that he was sleeping soundiy, 80 no further abrention was paid to nim until nine o'clock Inst hight, When suspecting that ail was aot right, the hotel clerk, unabie to obtain any answer to his { repeated knocks, forced an entrance into the toom and there found the man lying on the bed dead, while by his side, on @ chair, were two empty botties labelled iaudanum, that told the tale of suicide; some cards and papers found in his coat pockets owed that he was au agent for the house of soutelieau & Son, doing business in thes city, and gave his residence No, 121 Court street, Hrooklyn. No cause could be assigne eae act Coroner Woltman was promptly Bot | with the most desirable resuita, ! Suel | eral benefit will ensue from a rigid eniorcement of | ite provisions the result can readuiy be anticipated. | In conversation yesterday witn a HeRalD repre- | Sentative Dr. Von Meyer discussed the wuole sub- Ject at lengib. He said tuat THE CENSORS | would leave nothing undone to realize the intent | of the law. Aiready filty-tive persons had been | detected in violating its provisions. The oifend- ers, he said, would be attended tu at the proper tine, He dwelt severely on the evils which had resulted from the lack o1 proper legisiation, but be entertained bopes that the day ol the vogus or tlle. gal practitioner was drawing to a close. In de- | scribing the different classes of people who worked | most evilon unwary and j{volish patienia, he re- | lerred to the practices of certain men and wo- { men in thts city who had worked ruin and desolation in many ® household. All these | parties were known, and would have to appear before the Board of Censors ior examination. ! Dr. Von Meyer states that such persons, eed temporarily restrained from following their. ; business, were well known aud would be strictly | Watehed, so that they could qoorcely cacape the | penalties prescribed by law. Ofé woman, he re- | marked, had already offered the sum of $500 if ghe would be allowed to pass the Board of , Censore— i} A SIGNIFICANT FACT, } as Showing how much the ordeal was dreaded by those who had good resson to doso. Then there Were others. such as those professing to nave cer- tain Speciaities, out who in reality were entirely ignorant of the lirst principles of medicine or sur- | gery. These, too, would be examiued by the oard, and, Ui ound wanting, woula be compelled to desist by the intervention of the law. “One | Jellow comes to me,” continued the Doctor, “say: ing, ‘I don’t profess to be a physician—I'm only a, | Inanipulator; I don't prescrive.’ ‘But,’ said 1, ‘you call yourself aN M. D., and if you are not doctor you receive money under Jranduieat pretences.’ “Another ciaims to cure this and that, and wnen interrogated snows | kuown of barbers and carpenters to Signs intimating that they were medical prac- titioners, and Who knows how many people died under their haudst ‘Then there are others wno purchase diplomas wituout having ever studied medicine, ‘They are, | am sorry to say, very easily procured. Others have in tueir possession FORGED DIPLOMAS, id what do you think?—that forged dipiomas on the University of Munich are actually ie in New York. They are gotten up well and re semble the original documents, and might easily deceive one not well acquainted with the juality of the paper on which tney are printed. Hut the Women are decidedly the worst, and proper ste] have been taken to detect and ‘punish them. You See there is no escape. Kverypody calling him- self or nerseif a doctor’ must be properly regis-" tered. The Board of Healtn will not receive certificate Of death without the signer is @ tho! oughly qualified physician. 1 have Kuown of case: where the only authority claimed by some to ‘call themselves doctors was the fact that the Board of Health received their certificates of death. We have made ample pro- vision for all these cases, Nobody can ve affected by the law who does not deserve to be, and alto- gether the act of the Legisiature will be attended We shall pay par- ticular attention to those women who call them- selves CLAIRVOY ANTS, many of whom continne to lure unfortunate per- 8008 to tuetr dens under various guises, In iact, every one professing to cure disease will be .pelied to comply with the provisions of tpe wero Dr. Von Meyer's opinions in brief on this - important topic. There is an evident desire on the be medicai profession generaily, now that ture has afforded the weicome oppor- tunity, Of rooting out and driving forth on the nighw: ee injamy the lepers that have crept inte its rau MERTING OF PHYSICIANS, It may be added that the third a meet ing of the Board of Censors of the Eclecuc M cal College of this city will be held on Friday next %0 oe of she wennay te pI ous tO registry at he oMice of the Lounty Clerk, in pursuance of law recently passed, fiche as: THIEVES ARRESTED, Charles Wells, of No, 127 East Ninth street, and doun C; Burnell, of No, 117 East Seventh street, were arrested yesterday morning by Captain Byrnes, of the Fifteenth precinct, on a charge of being implicated in the robbery of John McNi OC No, $8 Prince street, from whom they stole fine handkerchieis. be Will oe taken to vo-day. In the house of Joan Zetter, Who was ar iaue robbers at MRS EAE athe ee Ty, Was found @ lot o! a ceeds of » robbery of Getbert’s store. 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