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

DISARMING THE REDS, ‘Another Severe Chastisement for the Indians: ‘MORE FIGHTING ON THE WASHITA. Unfriendly Savages Converted Into Cringing Captives. TWO BRILLIANT CHARGES, se furrender of Arms and Horses to General Davidson. "TERS: IN THE FIELD, } August 29, 1874, The eveut.. "\st of August and the warlike tra: ort of the | hostile Kiowas and Nov. _ ‘n this | Correspondence up to midni, sod | early on ybe morning of the 2! ¥ ~ S UB cis: ah ~wasity, trader at this post, i ‘This anhuuacement was to the effect that the war- | Tiors, having sent of tor reiniorcements, would | appear wt early dawn in full force and proceed to | ugee equaw, and “cieam out this agency, and then go for the ‘Caddoes,” who were supposed to have helped the Wnited States jorces in saving the commis. ®ary, which had been fired by Lone Woll'’s own hand, the flames having been ex- tinguished by the timely arrival of Cap- tain Carpenter’s company, who gallantly Grove 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 @aw anything done more neatiy and promptly than Was this charge. Surely enough, the infuriated redskins appeared on the hill in the morning, ad- Vancing steadily in close ranks to the number of about five hundred, on our extreme right, agiter some slight yelling and commotion, covered with war paint, and tneir horse's tails plaited and sides streaked with Givers war colors, Simultaneously they firea the prairie along our centre front. The fames rolled | wp from the prairie bottom with wonderful rap- | adity, enveloping our camp with blinding smoke { and stifing heat, while the wind was blowing a | gale just in the right direction to second their | Purposes. The situation for the time being looked | ®qually in the extreme. The announcement of | the appearance of the Ind‘ans was made at the same time, while General Davidson was sipping a eQp of cofice in his tent, and the men were getting ‘the first they bad had to eat or drink in twenty- four hours. He was equal to the emergency and at once ordered Captain Carpenter to proceed to the cen:rai puint oi attack and Captain Viele to the right, with Little’s company to support the centre. Oolone! Lawson was ordered meantime to Proceed with a small detalii of dismounted cavalry and infautry to check THE COURSE OF THE FIRE | that was striding down upon us ata great rate, and Which he accomplished with an almost herculean effort, working himself along with his men and Starting anotuer tire to fight its counterpart and beating # out at the same time. The welcome news was shortly brought that he nad succeeded in staying its onward course toward us and direct- ing it to the left and westward of our encampment, Where, however, the saving of the sawmill was @espaired oi, though fortunately it was not con- sumed, as there was a considerable area about it stamped gown, which kept the flames at a harm- | Jess distiuce. It was a magnificent thouga annoy- ing sight to witness that LEAPING OCEAN OF FLAME surge 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 oat Held on the opposite bank of the Washita being held by:the Indians, who were in the woods to the right of Black Beaver’s house. While this was go- | ing on Carpenter with his company dashed up | the steep hillside at a gallop, and reaching the crest was just in the nick of time, with nothing ; Sunk down and died, Rensions were aroused lest the men mizht falt Short. sut after baving triea in vain in every quarter for a 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, a fellow bold a8 @ Mon and reckless as a wild horse, volunteered the bight before to go to camp with despatches, which he succeeded in carrying through safely, and in the remarkably sbort time Of @ little over twenty-four hourahe made the journey of seventy miles. He was well armed and on a feet borse, returning, to our great joy and relief, at early dawn on the following day, with Lieutenant W. H. Beck, the rapid, pasiness-like and energetic Quarterinaster of the post and a train of seventeen wagons, containing 10,000 additional rounds of ammunition, forage and Tations for the men and additional ambulances to care for our wounded, who were only four in Dum- ber and only shghtily burt, 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 frst day’s action, to the great cha- grin and regret of of hie devoted owner, who had ridden him on many a hazardous errand, The old charger never ate alter he was asruck, Sut lying down, unsaddied, near your corfespondest, when we came toa halt, be looked umutterably sorrow. fui, as 11 hia day of doom had. come. 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 along the fence, he stood a few moments and then, with a convulsive tremor and loud snorting, suddenly Every one was, of course, sorry and sympathized witn his master, who vaiued him most highly. Lieutenant Kelley closed the day’s fighting when he went to the oat fleld for forage. alacrity and for some time kept up a spirited fusillade, but being severely pressed and having only a small force he retired to this side of the Washita, when he was reinlorced ana went for- ward again without further molestation. AN INDIAN JOAN OF ARC. The Indian squaw, Tait-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 Gegeral Davidson she went out ou the night of the 21st to tell the irtendly Indians who had fled their settlements in consternation and had kept clear of the fighting to come in, as they would not be molested and 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 satisfied of the reliability of General Davidson’s intentions, being supplied with a horse and some rations, mounted at dusk and went out to the hiding places of the refugees, remarking, however, with some apprehension, that she would go, but supposed the Kiowas wouid kill ner, Here is a lesson for your Peace Commissioners; and in this littie woman, savage though she was, there was more than a Joan of Are’s fortitude when she’ signified that for her | people she would go out and risk her life, showing once more that beautiful and unintimidated spirit of sell-sacrifice which has crowned her sex the world over, to the shame of ungrateiul and selfish man. This brawny DARGE-SKINNED ANGEL OF PEACE returned and reported that she had fortunately met the cmieis of the absent tribes while in council, and that they sigoified that they would come im under a flag of truce, Here was a@ bloodiess victory and much well founded apprehension was set at rest, for up to this 1t 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 tnis, if the case, would certainly have made serious work and tled—of dividing the hostile from tne friendly In- in order for ® peace demonstration in the form of the usual powwow under the broad-spreadiny beautiful shade trees in trontor 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 is @ rarity now in this country of drought. General He lingered , Being fred on | | from the woods, he returned the compliment with involved in great difficulty the question to be set- | Gians on tue reservations, Everything was gotten | | the Arapahge.and Cheyenne Agency, writes here | | and prevent them from having their buitdings | burned. 1 would like to have you come in and ‘ Ive a the Agency until the trouble 1s all over. Come into the Agency and put your camps where we will know all the good Indians are together. I ask you now 1! I haven't told you the truth? Speak out, or forever hereafter hold your peace. 1 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 lotelligible, and there Is no time to translate them before the mail starts. After the talk was over the Indians 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 off apparently pleasea and well ' satisied with getting some rations from General ; Davidson. Later in the day 4 MORE IMPORTANT INTERVIEW ‘Was had with Cheever, Iron Mountain and another | chief, in which they proceeded to intercede in be- } half of Issa-nau-i-ka and his band, who had | hastily jommed tne hostile Indians on the breaking i | | | 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 examined | into the good faith of their representations and | ; delberated 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 bis column to Fort sill. MARCHING BACK TO FORT SILL. The following day General Davidson struck tents and marched back for Fort Sili witn his column, leaving two companies of infantry and one of cay- alry to protect the Wichita Agency, alter naving fortified it with good works on its right and left flanks and otber vulnerable points, so that it can now be held against a heavy attacking force. The band of Issa-nau-l-ka met General Davidson's col- umn a8 agreed upon, and, striking camp, which | Was a humorous and interesting sight, accom- panied him to Fort Sill, after 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. Itis the first time that such a thing has ever been done with the Indians ‘and may be regarded as the initial point of @ new departure in 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- cultural lie. They will then be placed on the road 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 quiet rest which | the jake, and alter s)reading our wraps on the | teeth, and we think the girls rather like us for our | - NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. . Joy the Grass and the Shade. To THE EDITOR or THE HERALD:— Many thanks for the work you are doing in agi. tating the question as to whether gentlemen shall be allowed to play croquet or not, But won’t you go further, and arge that people be allowed to use Ceutral Park as Prospect Park ia used? My expe- rience has been very unpieasant im the Park. | Sunday betore last, wishing to get a taste of the | country without taking geveral hours of travelling to wet to it, I went with a lady to the upper end of the Park, sinking that there, where the grass is not kept as a lawn there, would be no objection to sitting upon tt, We went above Mount St. Vincent, | found a cosey place among the rocks overlooking | rock, sat down and vegan readmg, We had been there hardly fliteea minutes when one of the Park police discovered us and rougply ord telling us that li we wanted to sitdown we coud use the benches beside the Walks, It is not pleas- antto sit on exhibition, to be stared at by every ohe Who passes, 80 We gave up our attempt Lo pass | @ pleasant alternoon in the Park and went home, | jeeling that aiter all the money that has been Spent on It we had in return only a “stow” piace, @ very good kind of @ place tor the wealthy to drive 1p, but @ very unsatisiactory place to those who were unable to drive there. Will uot the Commissioners ailow us to sit on the grass under tue trees? HOWARD, An Old Boy Protests Against Ryan’s Tyranny. To THE Epiror or THe HeRALD:— This little matter of croquet tn the Park, in which the “old boys’? are so oiten mentioned, has grown to be a nuisance to the “old boys.” We hke the girls well enough, probably as well as we aid when we were younger. We can’t help being | Old; but there 1s no use throwing the Jact in our | experience in lite, Goa bless them! We would hike to Bisy ccogtet with them in Central Park, uf | Potentate Ryan would allow it. ‘Does he want guarantees of good behavior ;” he can have them, | security algo, aud appeals irom the girls besides. Well, there is one consolation—if we can’t play | croquet with the girls in the Park, if Swedenborg 4s right we will play with them hereafter. ANTI-RYAN, Chicago Not So Mean. | To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Inave read with interest your articles on the croquet question. It ts real hard that gentlemen are not allowed to play with the ladies in the 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- |-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, | let me ask, is this horrid Board o! Park Commis- | | sioners to continue in power? I have just come | | here trom the West to live, and occupy limited quarters ia an uptown boarding house. We have ; | 20 place nor opportunity to piay croquet there, | and if the privilege of playing in the Park ts not extended us, in the name of common sense what shall we do? By the gods, Chicago would never | be guilty ol such meanness as to deny to any por- tion of her citizens the pleasure of playing croquet with the woman he love AN'TI-MONOPOLY. An Indignant Grandmother. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: | they needed, and is now preparing for his grand general campaign march of the season, starting about the Ist of Septemser. 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 | dechining gut of fear or doubt as to how much ofa | demonstration would be made by the government. ; Towaconie Jim, a Caddo, who has served in our | army and who speaks English well, 1s the principai | one employed. Those secured are a handsome, | fine looking set of fellows and will be of great ad- Vantage on the march. Bue ten are paid, the rest volunteering, making twenty-two in all, PROPORTIONS OF THE WAR, | Arapanoes doubtful, and he seems to have serious apprebensions of their breaking out into hostili- ties, The Cheyennes are also despaired of for peace, Acting Special Agent J. A. Covington, of under date of the 20th:—“We hear with “re- | gret that the Kiowas and Comanches, who have ; undoubtedly taken a large share in the murderous proceedings of the past few months, are being en- { rolled as friendiy Indians a: the two lower agen- cies. Should this be the case, and I can scarcely | | | Indian Agent Miles reports the morale of the | | Davidson summoned his staf! and officers, who, | credit the statement, it will, in a measure, nullify | efforts of the HERALD to bring the young folks to- | gether at playing croquet in Central Park. In the name of Heaven, sir, where is the harm tn having | the young men and the girls play a game of cro- quet together? There are some people, though, | that make harm out of everything. Now, know just as well as any oue that in this town the | girls don’t get a fair chance. Sorry, indeed, I am | that my daughter Jane ever brought her Jamily to this 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 do call, to see the giris, yet it 1s such a ceremonial meeting that nothing ever comes of it. It grieves. | my grandmother's heart to see my | dear granddaughters, uow past twenty und stl witu the same prospect for marriage beiore them as they had five years ago. other families, very many of them, too, and they | are situated just as we are. What'are we to do? | We can’t go out on the sidewalks and say, ‘Here | ave girls, gentlemen, wanting husbands; come | aud take a look at them, they are nicely fixed up | for the occasion 2” No, sir, that would not do, a3 you will readily see. But here is a chance in this croquet playing in the Park; it is just the very | thing to show off young ladiea:to Wantage and | to afford them an opportunity to practise those little winning ways which their grandmothers used Lo practise before their mothers were born | when they got the chance. And yet ignoran selfish old bachelors, to whom, sir, RO good at al cvuld come from this harmless and beautiful game Oi croquet in Central Park—because their hard old hearts never can soften to a woman’s sintles and ways—are to interfere and to be allowed to | house, are young men makiog their first essay in 1 depth | taken before the Plymouth church Investigating has existed, | Music, good as it certainly 1s, fits tt about as well | I bave seen with great admiration the able | you | poor | I know | 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 the presumption of being 80-CALLED FRIENDLY INDIANS, But friendship for the white man among them to spare, in meeting a large body of Inaians evidently detached irom their column on the | Fight, with the intention of swooping down upon us when our attention shoud 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, | covered by the underbrush, would have been | enabled by aright aud lest oblique fire to rake | our line. | A BRILLIANT CHARGE. | varpenter charged the Indian column with im- | Pernous force, delivering a well directed and gen. | eral fire in volleys that made the woods ring and | the Indians fly in the most precipitate confusion. | ‘Their discomfiture was evidenced by the disorder | in which they fled, 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 ave been enabled to don it and criticisingly examined with @ kind of homage, awe and rev- 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. Carpenter, then dis- mounting the larger part of his company, de- ployed them as sktrmisners, and, giving the com- mand to “double quick,’ 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 in 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 much to assert that untold disaster to the women, children and buildings of the agency was averted by the judgmept of General Davidson and the timely action under lis orders of Captain Car- peter. ANOTHER SUCCESSVUL DASH. At the sime time Captain Viele sprung up the steep and aimost mountainous sides of the de- clivity on our right leading to Shirley's trading Btore, where the Indians were driving in the few pickets who bad been placed there the night be- fore in therife pit accompanied by a few of the eitizens, slap-dash went Viele and the swarthy men under him up through the defile, cut out of a brown santstone; then up one ridge higher, where They deployed into line. Bang went irom their rifes such a dose as the Indians did not expect at that particular moment. Pell-mell, too, they whirled, vera! of their number dropping out of tueiz saddics, but they were as rapidly caught up and carred of by their unharmed comrades, | thus exbibiting a religious observance of the rule never to have their dead or wounded on the teld, THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, in these two very handsomely executed dashes, ag bear a 1 can giean the facts [rom every source, some fiften or twenty Indians are believed to have beck killed, with the proportion of wounded, whe anong the troops but one man was wounded throvgh the wrist, This soldier says that ke mw the Indian wuo fired on him “urop | under his bead.” Sharp picket firing trom the direction of the ‘Washita,wnd occasionally on our leit and rear, was heat, which was intended as a diversion, and, in fet, when you take nto consideration the differentmovements made by the Indians in this | aud yestrday’s fighting it will be readily per- colvéd tint they started into the fight with some cousiderasle idea of strategy, and would have carried tt out ‘to some effect if General Davidson and his troops had not been constanuy on the qui vive for nearly torty hours, THE SUPPLIFG FROM FORT sIL1, The ammunition had been fast giving out, as the Ore Was SrenneDs and heavy. 2nd skome avpre- is of doubtful 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 Uncle Sam’s power is the only thing Jor which he has respect, if not attachment, Tne influences 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 the dust on the road gave presage, looking some- What like a cavalcade of Spanish cavaliers, Tuey 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 is part of their costume and etiquette. : THE Powwow. As soon 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 Burttalo Good, chiefs of the Comanches, Caddos, Kechis, Towaconies and bands of Washita, representing 1,600 to 1,600 Indians—General Davidson proceeded to address them, through his interpreter, as [ol- lows:— “When the President found that there werea great many bad Indians—Comanches, Kiowas and others—he determined to separate them. He wanted to bring the good Indians of bis 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 Sill and to make an enrolment of them, giving orders not to let anybody come in who did not come and surrender his arms, Awaiting the decision of the Great Father I fixed on August 8 as the last day on whith any of these Indians could come in. The Kiowas and Comanches have been told, time and tme again, the conditions under which they could come in—that is, to give up their arms. The same 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 had no business tocome here or to Fort Sill without complying | with istructions to give up tueir arms according to the orders of the Great Father. Assoonas I got this news I got in the saddle to come here and take the Noconees as prisoners to where they be- long. When I got here I met all the Caddoes, Washitas and Kiowas as friends, 1 sent for the chief of the Noconees aud 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 I mounted my troops to go through tne Noconee camps, THR COWARDLY, THIEVING KIOWAS fired into the backs of my soldiers. -I never was so bothered in my lile to know what todo, Ji 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 ana tried to burn buildings. I didn’t come after Kiowas, I came alter Noconees, ‘These very Kiowas, who did this mischie(, 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 a big war and final against all these bad Indians, and they want to gather together all friendly Jndians at the agen- cies to keep them out of trouble. When Igo away from here alter these bad Indians [ am going to ve traona here to Protest tia @nnd Indians the success of the whole movement against the | interfere in Lo ge hae ge espe meetings of | hostile Indians, Little Robe, witn White Shield, , te young folk, from which would come 80 great Pawnee and thirty lodges of Cheyennes, arrived at | OEE TERE OLE Sete anne cletion ot Dante should be inscribed over its terrible porta: During the winter of 1867 I made an ineffectual attem, to obtain such legislation at Albany as would mit these horrors: but, auhappily, it was at 4 time wi the State Medical Convention was being held there; and that body, on learning of my purpose, not only employed ite vast influence to deseat It, but succeeded incorborating in my bill the folowing section. which, the public should know, accounts for the seeming indif. ference which this sowety maintains with regard to this terrible subject:— LaWs OF )807—POR THR MORR RFFECTUAL PREVENTION OF CROKUTY TO ANIMALS, Sxcrron 95—Nothing in this act contained shall be con- straed to prohibit of interfere with any properly con- ducted scientific experiments or investigations, which experiments shall be performed only onder the authority ofthe faculty of some regularly Incorporated medical college or university of the State of New York. Tain, &¢., HENRY BERGH, President, AMUSEMENTS. Lyceum Theatre—Opera Bouffe. Messrs. Grau & Chizzola, the managers of this 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 a hard time of it this coming fall. The medical censors ; are after them with @ sharp stick, as the saying {s, ; and the head o! many a bogus practitioner, man | and woman, wili disappear by the relentless dis- secting knife furnished under the new law, and handled skiltuily by those intrustea with the operation. Beyond doubt New York bas suffered long and severely from REGIMENTS OF IMPOSTORS | Whose ignorance, fraudulent pretences and ras | cality have increased the death ro! to an alarm- even a lower | ing extent. For years past this state of affairs and scores of sham doctors, Commusiae,, snd wee no wae pan eae renee | revelling tm money at the expense of the eat ga tae the same breath ‘with opera public, rave defiantly carried’on their practices, bouge with very lew eXceptions; buteven inthe , There was not, apparently, any authority to Wiid license of ‘the stage of to-day there sould be | prevent their doing so, amd despite the most sore limit, In the worst cases before the courts, | in peculiar ctvil trials, there are times when the | Carnes appeals by eminent physict:ns, who more the management of @ metropolitan theatre. One of the, at least, has shown in the Rubinstein and Salvini seasons a disposition towards a standard of public amusement wheve art and taste are pre- | dominant, 1t 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 imaugurated their first season with @ mass ef French filth under the guise of an op’ra bouge that reaches ! of moral turpitude than the testimony Judge wishes the spectators to retire. In | than others appreciated the dangers of the situ- “La Timbale d'Argent” the word inde- | ation, tne Legislature failed to do anything Fee nett ere ened lg, Fhe diaiogne, | May | toward remedying tue evils complained of, Every- the public, had the French language been | body remembers the fidgety periodical efforts of better known and had not a supposititious knowl- | the Board of Health and the police to overhaul edue of it without good jioundation led some astray, shouid Nave Caused them to hiss the | # Class of practitioners against whom the com- piece of the stage the very first nigni, The munity cried in vain for protection, Their feebie attempts in that direction, though, perhaps, tem- Porarily success/ul in checking the bold and broad as the cloak of Raleigh did the mud-puddle over | which he threw it for the favor oi good Queen | Bess. Itis thoroughly opera comique music and , daylight acts of imposition on the part of een Ards fe sparkle a Bp psubere, Lecocq UNLICENSED AND INCOMPETENT PERSONS, or Herve fire. For the sake of decency the man- agers should cleanse their boards of this Iii-smeil- | Dever resulted in any permanent beuedt, On the ing stuf and piace defore a generous public some- | 22d of June last, however, anew law came into thing more in accordance with pubic taste. operation which must have been hailed with delight by the members of the medical profession. San Francisco Minstrels. | Should its provisions be rigidly and. reariessly The popular trio, Birch, Wambold and Backus, | en/orced, as doubtless they will be, there is red- Who seem to be the very incarnation of fun and | eg Sepa Tne Le Seeataeeeter eh oe a \ H ci rned. E Jolly, Wave savablished: Sas mivel yom. tO Yery, oun: plained at the mecting of the Board of «Health on fortable quarters on Broadway, above Twenty- | ey last and so far has worked admirably, eighth street, Theirnew hallis very pretty and . [tis not unlike the movement successfully adopted covey and roomy enough withal. The opentng bin | 1, felation to the druggists some time since, was fall of clever hits, rich humor and side-split- | THE FIRST SECTION ting jokes, for which Birch and Backus | Of this act every practitioner of medicine or sur ery in the State of New York ls required to huve were matnly responsible, The baliads in the Hie practise in some form. He may be first part, sung by A. H. Pelham, Eugene Tre- | either a licentiate of some medical society or a maine, D, 8. Wambola and Cari Rudolph, were , graduate of some chartered medical school, or he | sung In a style superior to the general | must obtein a certificate of the New | Standard of negro minstrel vocalists, and | York medical societies of the State re- ) Mackm and Wilson were very amusing | cognized by law. Tuts certificate must be re- | Song and dance performers, A screaming lecture , corded by the County Clerk. The censors on *‘Temperance” by Add Ryman was ihe next in | in this instance, who are appointed vy the Medi- | order, and the veriest cynic could not heip burst- | cai Society or the City of New York, are composed ing his sides at Birca and Backas in “Parior | of Dr. Julius Von Meyer, Chairman; Dr. Hadyn, Theatrica's.” A capital burlesque on a sceue | Dr, W. Archer, Dr. A. Archer and Dr. Kunze, Sec- | trom “Il 'frovatore,” in which Ricardo made the | retary. The powers and ; best negro minstiel prima donna that the boards | DUTIES OF THE OKNSORS of cork ha er seen in this city, was foilowed | consist, in tne first place, of notilying al) practt | by a sarce of “Married Life,” which brought a very | tioners of medicine and surgery of the jaws ana | laughable performance to anend. The San Fran- | requirements of this act. In other words, they cisco Minstrels have begun @ season which prom- | must see that every physician inthis city Is Yh | tses to be,and certainly deserves to be successiul | tered in the proper quarter. (he producuon of an | lu every sense of the word, | authentic diploma or ceruficate wili of course be necessary, and those fener neither will be | summoned before the Board of Censors tor exam ination. If within the time prescribed the per- sons liable Go not comply with the law and present themselves for examination proceedings will at once be taken and the offender will be handed | Mrs. Conway’s Brooklyn Theatre. | “Marie Antoinette,” a tragedy, purporting to be | | historical, was produced at this house last night, | | with Mrs, F, W. Lander in the title role. Of the over to the mercies of the District Attorney. | Piece little that is favorable can be said, It is ex, | TRE PROSECUTIONS i | tremely saa, and possesses neither the ment of | va be eontiagted an she same 3t she-weon le Wpos 5 clever’ ¢ complaint of the Boar De . Deng Mein WELL Nea EDN Sie NeNy papas os, Leae CAP, for the class of people against whom the law will of a class of pretended historical plays which aim operate most severely. It will readily be observed | chiefly at the perversion of history in order that the more periect the registration of physi- to win sympathy from ignorance for a char- | cians and surgeons the more efectuaily can the acter the author has sought to clothe | provisions of the law be eniorced, 1tis platy that witha moral grandeur to which the real person , those having a diploma, livense or ceruficate— had no claim whatever. Apart, however, trom the , every one of which, by the way, will be thoroughly | 1ault 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 coming lorward, | would be sumMcient to prevent {ts acquiring popu- | while those for whom the law ts specially de- | larity unless by the aid of phenomena! dramatic | signed—irauds, manipulators and the owners of | genus. Mra. Lander, who undertook the | bogus degrees—will naturaily shrink from any con- ‘role of the unfortunate Queen, invested | tact with a body that will tuoroughiy investigate | 1t with much womanly feeling and dignity. | weir claims to hang outa shingle. To be sure In the closing scenosa especially there were maty GENUINB SPECIALTY MEN, | passages of undoubted dramatic torce which did | who have no degree at all, but who from long ; Rot fall to receive acknowledgment at the hands , practice have won reputation, will bave little to | of @ select and intelligent audience. Mr. J. H. | fear, but they will, nevertheless, have to undergo | Taylor as Louls XVL gave a well balanced and ' & strict examination ip the pariicuiar oranches of | Careiul interpretation of the weak and somewhat | the medical art in which they may have become | amiable victim of his ancestor’s crimes. Mr. De | proficient and obtain a certilicate accordingly. | Groot’s Simon, the cobbler, was also a fair per- The main object, in other words, is to ierret out formance, but the Sauce of Mr. Ahrendt was a , and punish a ciass 0! persons who pretend to bave Stupid burlesque that ought not to ve tolerated | authority to practise Med.cine they never earned. even in @ hastily organized company. The setting The law undoubtedly entails a large responsibility and appointments of tne play were remarkably | on the medical societies; but where so much gen- good, | eral benefit will ensue from a rigid eniorcement of | ite provisions the result can readily be anticipated. with a HERALD repree iscussed the whole sud- Musical and Dramatic Notes. | In conversation yesterda: f much ultimate happiness to the young gentlemen | tnis Agency on the 15th inst., having left the main 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, tue young gentlemen in the HERALD oMee, nearly all | of whom I aim assured are married men, are mach better of and infinitely mbre settled down than they were when they were single, and this is a ; fact which employers ought all to remember. Now, Mr. Editor, any young couple ought io be abie to live on $50 a Week, or aticast on $60 a Cheyenne camp seven days previous!y.” He re- ; Ports the presence of quite a number of Kiowas and Comanches in the camp when he left. He | also says that Lone Wol!, of tne Kiowas, | and Sab-i-nau-i-ca, of the Comanches, are tue moving leaders of the war, as well as Bird Medicine, Big Bow and a host of lesser lights. each made two success(ul raids into Texas since | April. By @ small party of Cheyenne’, just in | direct from the main camp, we are enabled to locate them as camped thirty miles south of the | Antelope Hills, near the ond Wichita battle | ground. They are undoubtedly being driven in | by scarcity of water and the approach of a column oi cavalry, seen im the direction of Fort Bascomb. . The proportions of the Indian war are increas- ing, and unless something now unknown occurs toulter thingsa “big scrimmage” may be expected, and the last ditch for “Lo, the poor Indian!” | But there are not by any means as many troops as | there should be here. Each column, to be fully | effective, should have at least 1,000 fighting men, | while the number falls much below this. | INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE, | Mr. Joseph H. Blackfau, Superintendent of the | United States Mails, wiil 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 complete unity of action not only between different 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 postage and deliver the matis of other gov- | ernments free 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 nattons in their postal | | intercourse, Another way of presenting the sub- ject is to regard all countries as forming a com- mitted 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 of the 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 o/ varions countries, or their equivalent in rank, | whatever their name—the chief postul oMctals. complete arrangements to attend, a year ago, but | shared the disappointment with others, THE SALOON KEEPERS, i Convention. | The Central Organization of the German saloon Keepers, who, during the past year, have formed an organization in each ward for the protection of the trane under the operations of tne Excise law, beld a meeting at the Germania Assembiy Rooms yesterday to complete the arrangements for & mass meeting, which is to come off during next week, for the purpose of adopting resolu- tions to be submitted to the State Convention of the Brewers and Liquor Dealers’ organizations. This Convention will be hela at Syra- cuse on the 16th inst, and a commitiee Was appointed to represent the city organization at the State Convention. ‘fhe delegation was composed of jor Sauer, Martin Nachtmann, Charles Kinkel, Jos, Fricke and George Gruel wald, The principal Object of tats Liquor Deale: and Brewers’ State Convention will be toexert an influenge on the election of members of the Legisiature, with @ view of having @ uniform ex- cise law passed for the whole State, and a law Providing tor the election of Excise Commis. stoners in each county, a8 @ means to wsare Dro- tection jor the bear and Wanor tradic, Big Bow and Lone Wolf have | mon postal territory, in which transit charges | ! shall be avolished on opened or closed mails trans- The tormer Postmaster General, Creswell, made | The Brewers and Liquor Dealers’ State | cially by old people ltke myself, to encourage them to embrace the married state of life. Any indus- trious young man, I presume, is able to make the amount of salary per week above specified, and why, then, in the name of all that’s good, don’t | For my part | say let ua try they get married, GRANDMOTHER, croquet i Central Park. BERGH ON SCIENCE. He Wants to Know About the Experi- ments on Animal Life at Bellevue | Hospital College. | Not content wit 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 | | tor the Prevention of Crueity to Animals, is now | extending his criticisms to the mode in which ex- periments are made by the scientists into the economies of animal life 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 SoCKRTY roR TUE PREVENTION OF) CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, Hiapguanters FounTi AEN! CORNER TWENTYSKCOND STKERT, August Ji, 15 | Dr. Austin Puist, Jr. Sm—lI take the ‘liberty of inviting your attentien to the enclosed article, extracted trom the New York Sin- | doy Democrat of the 30th inst. ‘The writer seems to speak from personal observation, and I would esteem ita favor it you would either deny or avow his assertions. It may | not have escaped your recollection thatl ventured to address you, a few years ago, on the subject which | prouipts “the present communication. In that corre- spondence you were kind enough to assure me that th | alleged cruelues of the dissecting roo were greatl: | aggerated, while you did not deny that that branch o | plysiology ander your direction was not entirely. tree | trom the charge of performing experiments onduind an. | imals without the use of anasthettes. You will not tail to perceive that if the experiments referred to by the writer of the article in question are performed by your sanction at Bellevue great barburity is the consequence, maintained by the most eminent physiologisis of the world that vivisection is not ouly a cruelty bit a scien title railure, since the information sought to be obtained | thereby ix no more attainable wnlie the body u writh- ing in age than the correct hour of the day can be re- | corded by'the clock while the machinery is disordered. Buc i gofurher and declare that however accurate the results. may be, the repetition of these deplorable buicheries is needless, for the reason that the kuowledge this acquired is already exhausted and given to the world in numerous learned trea! 8 aod visibly demonstrated by mechanical preparations, Tivalling the anutowy of nature itself. Lifewss bodies furnish ail the evidence ne ary. At the best, thare- | fore these re pose thap | to procure tor the young lieing ex citement attendant on the enactment of @ brutal practi- cal traweete inva moral polit of Yiew 1s IF wise. is it ¢, fo thus extinguish within the breast of the future (spractitioner—he that is dest time to pene- trate professionally the most sacred privacy of domestic life—the holy insttkers of pity and compassion through such ferriMie agencies? Humanity and public policy re- | spond, No | TRven though these living Aistections were productive | of ail that tieir advocaies claim tor them, in the lan. | uage of alearned writer on this snbject, “mankind , | have no right to intormation thus acquired,’ The bonet: | jcent Creator never designed 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 ri Sof animals are at times + to be found within your operating premises in various | | stages of mutiiation and torture; “some are to be | seen with he cranium removed and the ‘brain \ another, “its abaomen opened, and the ing to’ the ver tied in’ such manner a8 to aiiow nothing to enter or escape | y the main channel!” “the agony of ‘this poor | | creature. in particular,’ says the writer, “during ‘this xperiment, which Was prolonged six weeks, was some. | thing excruciating, and its diama) howls were trighttul | to hear, as its whole (rame was racked to pieces.” A other experiment was that of @ goat with its back | opened to the-spinal marrow, in the attempt to pertorm | & flendish operation which forty vears betore had been | effected and kuown to all the médical world. While | reading these frightful atrocities, perpetrated on uo: | cent, unofleading animals, the inquiry springs to the | lips, Can the perpetrators of them be humat beings? Can the brain that conceives them, the heart. that tale erates and the hand that executes them bel to that being Who, it is said, was made in cod’s own imaget As ® natural and inevitabie sequence to these dark deots. of which the defenceiess brute is the victim, rumor ascribes to the hospitas in question the in- | fiction of craeities on the anfortunate human beings coident brings within its Walls a¢ merciless In treme am) whinh j rene writs that the depun week, and every means ought to be used, espe- | 2 | would not be disturbed, Verdi is at hia 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 tue popular style will Gnd favor for , the future a the Chatelet, Paris. ‘ Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” will be brought out this month in German at Frankiort. Mr. S. Behrens will assist Signor Muzio in the direction of the Italian opera this season, It is said that Oliver Doud Byron will open in | November with anew play by Dion Boucicauit. A promument concert and ball was given at the Pavilion Hotel, New Brighton, last aigit. The music was under the excellent direction of P. S. Gilmore. Miss Bessie Darling has purchased a new drama | entitled “Her Face Her Fortune,” by Mr. George Darrell, and will start on her tour September 13, supported by an excellent company. The “Fast Family” is to be produced at the Futh i A this superb comedy of contemporaneous life was produced 80 successfully 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 Uol- 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 ia the part of Fanfare, the precious young | miss of the period, The ‘Fast Family” is to be | offered oniy three evenings, On Wednesday next | Marte Wilton’s version of the “School for Scandal’ | wiil be produced by Mr. Daly, after an elaborate | preparation. The ptece from 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. Mme. Javausciek, during her summer vaca- tion in Europe, has not been idle, for she has studied several new pieces to add to ner already extensive répertoire, which now consists of “Mary | art,’? ‘Deborah,’ io,” “Winter's Tale,’ Medea,” “Macbeth,” “Adrienne the Actress,” | “ohesney Wold” (Bieak House), “Henry VILL. | The new pleces are, “Was Sie to Blame? “La Tentation,” “Mina Sforza,’ “Earl or Essex’? and | “phédre.” Mme. Janauschek wili be assisted by | the fohowing first class artists:~George D, Chap- lin, John Morton, James Taylor, A. D. Byadley, J. | O. Sefton, J, B. Asiiton, W. G. Shine, E. Mortimer, | F. Lascelles, Misses Minnie Monk, Kate Vletcher, May Montelio, Mme. Janauschek, after making ap extended tour through tbe States, will. play a short engagement in New York and vid @ tinal adieu to America in San Francisco. | pe SUICIDE OF A BROOKLYNITE, { At about naif-past seven o'clock Thursday eve- | ning, a well dressed and apparently respectabie | man waiked ito the office of the West Side Hotel, corner Fifteenth street and Sixth avenue, and registered his name as George Haviland, New York; requested a room where he (Haviland) remarking that he was | 'y tired. He was accordingly conducted to one. | When the porter rapped at his door whe next morning no response was given, and it was sup. posed that he Was ae soundiy, 80 no further attention was paid to him until nine o'clock last night, When suspecting that ail Was not right, the hotel clerk, unable to obtain any answer to his | repeated knovks, forced an entrance into the room and there found the man lying on the bed dead, While by his side, on a@ » Were two empty botties labelled iaudanum, that told the tale of Suicide; some cards and papers found in his coat pockets showed that he was an agent for the house of soutelieau & Son, doing business in thes city, and gave his residence as No. 121 Court i srooklyn. NO cause could be assigne for the rash ach Coroner Woltman was promptly Dotisods ¢ venue Theatre to-night. Itis eight years since | } Sentative Dr. Von Meyer Ject at lengib. He said tu: THE CENSORS | would leave nothing undone to realize the intent | of the law. Aiready fiity-tive persons had been | detected in violating its provisions. The oifend- | ers, he said, would be attended tu at the proper time, He dwelt severely on the evils which had resulted from the lack or proper legisiation, bat be ' entertained hopes that the day o! the bogus or ile. ; @al practitioner was drawing to a close. In de- | scribing the different classes of people who wor! | most evilon unwary and foolish patienis, he ferred to the practices of certain men and wo- men in this city who bad worked ruin and desolation in many @ household. Aji these | parties were known, and would have to appear before the Board of Censors jor examination. Dr. Von Meyer states that such persons, though temporarily restrained from following their ; business, were well known and would be strictly { tehed, 80 Liat they could gcarce| e the | pet : baa w ia, Pe | penalties prescribed by law. | marked, bad already offered the sum of if ghe would be allowed to pass tue Board of Censors— | A SIGNIPICANT 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 have cer- tain speciaities, out who in reality were entirely ignorant of the lirst principles of medicine or sur- ery. These, too, would be examimed by the oard, and, i round wanting, woula be compelled to desist by the intervention of the law. “One | Jellow comes to me," continued the Doctor, “gay- ing, ‘I don’t profess to be a physician—I’m only a, | manipulator; I] don't prescribe.’ ‘But,’ said 1, ‘you call yourself AN M. Dey and if’ you are not a doctor you receive money under Jranduient pretences.’ Another claims to cure this and that, and when interrogated snows not the remotest knowledge of the subject. | have Kuown of barbers and carpenters to hang out Signs intimating that they were medical prac- titioners, and Who Knows how many people died under thetr hands’ Then there are others who purenase diplomas wituout having ever studied medicine, They are, | am sorry to say, very easly procured. Others have in their possession FORGED DIPLOMAS, and what do you think?—that forged diplomas on the University of Munich are actually pr in New York. They are gotten up well and re semble the original documents, and might easily deceive one not well acquainted with the quality of the paper on which tney are printed. But the Women are decidedly the worst, and proper steps have been taken to detect and punish them. You See there is no escape., Everydody calling him- self or herself a doctor” must be property regis-" tered. The Board of Healtn will not receive a certificate of death without the signer is a thor- oughly qualified physician, 1 have Known of cases Where the only authority claimed by some to themselves doctors was fact that the Board of Health received their Certificates of death. We have made ample pro- vision for all these cases. Nobody can de affected by the law Who does not deserve to be, and alto- wether the act of the Legislature will be atrended With the most desirable resuits, We shall pay par- ticular attention to those women who cali them- selves CLAIRVOYANTS, many of whom continue to lure unfortunate per- 8008 to their dens under various guises. In tact, every one professing to cure discase will be com- Ligd to comply with the provisions of jaw.” ‘Such wero Dr. Von Meyer's opinions in brief on this « important topic. There is an evident desire on the part of the medicai profession generally, now that the Legisiature has afforded the welcome oppor- tunity, Of rooting out and ey J forth on the Dighway of iniamy the lepers that bave crept inte its ranks. MEETING OF PHYSICIANS, It may be adiced that the third adjourned Ing of the Board of Censors of the Eclectic M ca} College of this city will be held on Friday next consider the qualifications previous to registry at the office of the Lounty Clerk, in pursuance of the law recently passed, THIEVES ARRESTED, Charies Wells, of No. 127 East Ninth street, and Yohn ; Burnell, of No. 117 East Seventh street, were arrested yesterday morning by Captein Byrnes, of the Fifteenth precinct, on a charge of being tapticsted in the robbery of John meee, of No, 88 Prince treet, from whom they stole fine handkerchieis. 1 Will oe taken to court to-day. In the house of Joan Zetter, wo was ar ‘ane robbery, Was found @ lot o Ceeds of robbery of eibert's store. 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