The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1874, Page 5

’ i} THE TENNESSEE TERROR. The Whites and Blacks Anxious to Live on Terms of Friendship. BOTH PARTIES DISTRUSTFUL The Responsibility of Democrats and the Evil Influences of Carpet-Baggers, pee. eee EX-GOVERNOR HARRIS ON THE SITUATION The Political Canvass—Andy Johnson To Bo Resuscitated for the Senate. MEMPnis, Sept. 2, 1874, After travelling over almost the whole State of Tennessee to endeavor to find out whether there is a war of races inthis part of the country I calmly settled down here for a day to try and al- gestresuits. If there is any deep-seated trouble anywhere between the races Western Tennessee and Northern Mississippi are the places to find it, Within @ radius of a hundred miles around Memphis nearly all the recent riots have occurred. Somervilie, where the first riot occurred, is ona lateral branch of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, about filty miles distant. Austin, Miss., Which was next to follow with its war o/ races, 18 on the river, about eighty miles below. Gibson county, where there has been the most terrible €mette of ail, ia only four or five hours? ride. Each Of these events has caused a great deal of excite- ment here among both blacks and whites, and the effect of that excitement has been tn every in- stance to decpen whatever animosity exists be- tween the races. Alarm and fear are com- mon to both sides, and I believe the alarm @nd fear are unfounded on the part of either. I have mingled yery largely with the people of this section, andI 9m convinced that itis the desire of the great body of the whites to live on terms Of peace and friendship with the negroes. The whites, on the other hand, do the negroes the Justice of saying that this feeling is tully recipro- cated on the part of the blacks, At the same time it 1s plain even to the most careless observer that there is a want of contidence between the races. As an illustration of tiuis singular state of feeling it may be mentioned that just pefore the recent local elections in this county there was a good deal of excitement among both blacks and whites in this city. Tue women and chiidren were seriously alarmed, and many of the men actually believed that an attack was meditated by the negroes. The negroes, too, were in dread of some wrong from the whites, On both sides the alarm and excite- ment were without cause, and sprung solely from the iecling of distrust wlich underlies the firmest desire to maiutain peice and order in the com- munity. In consequence of this even the efforts to keep the peace often tead toward breaking it, and it thus happens that a circumstance trivial 1p itself may convulse a whole county. THE CAUSES OF THE RECENT LISTURBANCES, All the recent disturbances, bosh in this State and in Mississippi, sprung from comparatively slgitcanses. At the outset the whites were al- Ways in the wro! In every case, however, it Was not long until the negroes had put themselves in an equally faise position, At Somerville there Was an altercation between a white man and a negro in which the negro was killed. At Auatin the circumstances were precisely similar, except that the white man’s bullet missed the negro for Whom it was intended and killed a colored chia. At Pickettville the trouble arose out of a dispute over a roast pig. Allof these events unduly ex- Cited the negroes, as they were well calculated to do. Asa rule the colored people reason ouly from their feelings. When smarting under an oatrage the slow processes of the law ure hateful to them, especially if the law 1s loosely or partiaily admin- istered. They, arc then too apt to indulge in threats aimed at the wiole white population. The ‘Whites, on the other hand, are too apt to accept this idle talk as the revelation of a deep-seated purpose and to telegraph in every direc- tion jor help against a threatened up- rising. This was the case at Somerville. After the killing of the negro and the arrest of his murderer some inflammatory talk was indulged in, The community was at once greatiy excited ana there were stories of bands of armed negroes being ready to march upon and destroy the town. The theories of negro organization which tind such ready acceptance in these parts added to the excitement and alarm. Despatches were at once sent to this city for aid, and three military companies immediately started irom Memphis forthe seat of war. When the Memphis soldiery arrived at the scene of the dis- turbances they found, everything quiet. There “was notanegro in arms or likely to be. The whole thing was only a big scare. At Austin, how- ever, matters did not terminate so fortunately. Tnere the negroes were incensed because Dr. Smith, the murderer of the negro child, was ad- mitted to bail instead of being locked up in jail as he should have been. In their exasperation they seized the town and sacked it. In this case, thougn many excesses were cominitted, there was not actaa! war; but the affair was rather a vicious carouse, the negroes scattering when their ex- cesses were over. When the Memphis soldiers ar- rived next morning there was nobody to dgnt, and peace and quiet were soon restored, The wrongiul act of the negroes at Pickettville was in banding together to kill a party of white men against whom they hada grudge. But in every case there was an excitihg cause for the misdeeds of tue negroes, which itis easy-to overiook in de- termining the responsibility for the disturbances. FALSE AND FICKLE FATE. A false and fickle fate seems to attend upon the people of the South. The best people of both races become igvolved in issuesto which they had no intention ot committing themselves. Ac- cidents precipitate conflicts which nobody ex- pected or cesired, except the handiul of uneasy Spirits who are always glad of an opportunity to create trouble. Of these, as they exist in this part of the country, Ispoke in a former letter. They are not the bola, bad men of the cities, nor are they the desperadoes of the rivers and tiver towns. Neither do they belong to the class that was known among the negroes as “voor white trash” before the war. They are generally coun- try gentlemen or country gentlemen’s sons, who ride their own horses and always have a pistol handy. I am fully persvaded that at least one-half of the woes of the South attributed to carpet buggers and negro rule, are directly traceable to tuis vicious practice of carrying concealed weap- ons. it is @ fashion which will not allow old fashioned fisticuffs to decide a dispute. In a quarrel the first to draw his one gets the better of his antavonist. im such @& state of society the negro has not equal chance with the white man, he quarrels with Is white brother there 1s every reason to expect @ negro iuneral. It was negro Who got buried at Somerville. At Austin it ‘Was a negro baby. And there seems to be one kind of punishment for the negro and another for the whites. If a negro shoots somevody or even threat ens to shoot someboay, Le goes to juil. lia white man kills a negro the probabilities are that he will be released on bail. Dr. Smith’s bail bond at Aus- tin was for only $2,000, A negro was worth as much as that When he was a siave. Even i the hegro is inferior in intellect to the white man he cannot fail to perceive how unequal 1s this kind of justice, and it is vot to be wondered at that he should rebel ist It, especially if he has been the witness or the victim of many petty oppres- sions on the part of the whites, ‘hat he 18 very kindly treated on the part of most of the white People is undoubtedly trne, A very eminent law- yer of this city told me this morning that he never turned @ negro away who had a cause and tue right on his side, though {t would be vain to ex- pect a fee, while he was compelied to decline many causes offered him by white men for the want of time to attend to them. This spirit of helpfulness toward the hegro, he assured me, was general, end Ido nbt donbt it, But the few ‘bad men undo all , this g00d work, and precipitate troubles like those which recently occurred, and thus bring evils upon both races which are not easily cured. A WHITE MAN'S VIEW OF THE TRENTON AFFATR. When the naanle 40k ta Qatranwer Qi, pn character he had made in lege by Chea tham’s Jk banesesa Jotte they speak in vars guarded terms. Even the | Megroes ure reticent. But when they converse | amoug themselves they speak Very boldly and dl- rectly. I buve learned more about the real condi- | tion of the couutry and the jeelings o/ the people from the casual conversations carried on in my presence than from any Of the distinguished gen- tlemen upon whom J have called, For tnstance, this morning, as 1 Was returning from @ visit to & {ricnd in the outskirts of the «ity, 1 met two men to whom | was eutirely unknown. One of them descriped himself as in favor of a white man’s arty. and he then proceeded to denounce what é called the disgraceiul acts Oj his party with @ jerocity 1 never heard trom a party man beiore. if he bad not asserted to the contrary J snould have mis‘aken him for @ feariully outspoken and deluded radical, Speaking of the Treniou affair, he said it Was not oniy a disgrace to the State, but that the acuon of the mob was directi: chargeabie upon the democratic party. t Would not do to aliezse that it was ali owing to the carpet-baggers, Such @& device was too thin to be accepted by anybody. The negroes at Pickettville he declared had killed no one, and as they had had no trial it was un- Jair to assume even that they were guilty of any crime, ‘They were in Jail and the courts were open, If they had committed any offence there was ample power in Gibson county to punisn them. Democrats, he said, are tn office there. ‘the Attorney Generalis a democrat. The judges and even the juries are democratic. Nobody pretended there was any fear of an atiempt at the rescue of the prisoners by the negroes, It would have been an eusy matter to let the law take its course. But for the action of the mob the whole country would have been spared this great shame und everybody would have been tue beiter jor it, Though he was himseli a democrat he had po sympathy with this spirit of lawless- ness, and he was ready to insist that the demo- crauic party mugt take the responsibility tor crimes ike thisor stamp them out altogether, especially in the counties where the party is in the majority. His whole speech was so positive and direct thatit could not fail to make a deep impression upon me, and aiter my return to my hotel | jotted 1t down as & specimen oi the way men talk in Memphis, ANOTHER VIEW BY ANOTHER MAN, I bad scarcely finished my memoranda of the foregoing conversation, when agentieman to whom 1 nad been casually presented, gave me an entirely different view of aflairs, He did not speak directly Oi the action of the mob in tue Trenton massacre, but of the condition oi things generally. Accora- ing to his view the curpet-baggers had caused all the trouble by fling the heads of the negroes with erroneous doctrines, and exciting 1n them bitter Jeelings toward the whites, Coming here com- plete strangers and without character, many of them being unable to obtain credit ior so much as @ CleaD siirt at their homes in the North, they had managed to get contro) o1 the negro element undhad used the negro vote for their own purposes, bankrupted the State, Figo the city and county enormously in debt and ruined everything und everybody. Whenever they succeeded in emproli- ing the negroes in troubie with the whives, they ran away aud left the blacks to their fate. “Owing to their machinations,” he said, “we have been compelled to kill a lot of the negroes several umes.” I doubt if he would have made this latter assertion if be had known I was a chiel amang ?em tasin’ notes, but, regarding meas a gentleman traveliisg wt my leisure, there was no motive Jor un- usual reticence. Much of what he told me, indeed 1 may say ail that he said was true, I have no doubt. His complaints of the carpet-baggers were founded in only too much reason, and is picture of the sad condition of things in the State was, I be- lieve, not overdrawn. But to any one wio is here aud can see for himself it falis tu be @ satisfactory explanation of the relations of the races, Tne carpet-baggers who have not gone away are powerless. Even the megroes have lost confidence in them as leaders and guides. This fact he ad- mitted in the course of tne conversation, ani he even expressed a belief that the negroes herealter might be induced to vote with the wuites, In tnis, 1 think, he is a little too sanguine, His views or the iuture | regarded as possessing no importance whatever, and his opinions Cf the past are only im- portant as indicating the standpoit trom which many people in essee discuss the present atti- tude of auairs, They argue from the past instead Oi looking solely at the present, and they are pos- sessed with the idea that in order to keep the blacks in order it sometimes becomes necessury to kul a fot 0: negroes. When an accident of this kind occurs—ior | do not believe they ever kill the negroes irom a long premeditated design—they dress up the story in Its most presentable shape, and, while seeming to hoid the mirror up to nature, contrive to make the black face look more ferociously out of the gluss than the white coun- tenance at its side, NEW THEORIES ABOUT THE MASKED MOB, This view of the case is pecuilarly enforced by the new theories which are advanced in regard to the masked mob which attacked Trenton Jat, In | the bewinning nobody doubted that the maskers were an organization of tne Ku Klux order, I see no reason to dount it now, Since the murder, how- ever, the question has been ratsed whether the murderers were not negroes or friends of the ne- groes. It is claimed tauat the six wuo were killed are the six wuo turned State’s evidence against their companions and revealed the designs of the band which fired upon the two young men, War- ren and Morgan, I heard this story while I was at Humboldt, but 1 could get no satistactory evidence as to the identity of the murdered negroes with the witnesses tor the Commonwealth. There waz also a story that two of the ten negroes who are supposed to have escaped were seen in the neigh- vorhood. Now, the same story In regard to the They | SiX witnesses comes here from Milan with the ad- aitional assertion that one of the ten has written to his wife trom an adjoining county. Five of the ten are also reported as having been seen some- Where else. These stories have not yet got into the newspapers here, and if theyare true it 13 strange that no reference as made to them at the meeting Sf citizens which took place at Pickettvilie on beating These citizens, in their resolutions, denounced the firin upon the two white men by the band ol arme negroes and the outrage at Trenton Jull, and com- pears bitterly of injustice done them by the lemphis and Nashvilie press in charging them, by implication, with lawlessness and disorder. — In their speeches they denounced the Ku Klux, but nobody suggested that there might be a biack or radical Ku siuxcapable ot moving with all the celerity and secrecy of ihe old organization. The mob which attacked the jail was not iewer in num- ber thana hundred. They came from novody knew where and they went nobody knows whither. It is the testimony oj the Sheriif of Gibson county that they were white men, It is apparently im- possible that a mob of white men, Iriends of the negro, should bave been assembied on such short notice and have acted with such extreme secrecy and deadly effect, The six witnesses, ti indeed they were the six witnesses who were killed, may have been shot by accident, and itis just as iikely that a party diabolical enougn to kill anybody as these men were Killed would select them as their victims as that the other tmprobubillty should Bap pen. In order to sustain this new theory it is hecessary to assume that the organization and ability of the old Ku Klux have chaaged sides, and that the whites are now in deadly peril from the secret avd thoroughly formed purposes or the blacks. ‘The thing 18 imadmuissibie in any sense. Such an organiza‘ion couid not be formed at all; and even il it could be formed tt could not commit such a dastardly outrage a3 that at Trenton with- out the conspiracy being unmasked ina day. Yet many people give ear, il not credence, to this new theory ; and this reminds me of a conversation I had vbis mofning with ex-Governor Harris upon this and other topics. A TALK WITH ISHAM G. HARRIS. Ex-Governor Harris 18 very much absorbed in his law business and practically out of politics; but he still has a very great, if not active, interest in public affairs, and at the instance of a iniend he named a time for me to call upon him. I went, and iound nim at nis office ready to receive me. ‘The conversation was quite iniormal, and on the Governor's part it was especially remarkable tor tue tone of candor, moderation and earnestness which pervaded all his opinions. As regards the third term idea Governor Harris thinks there is not more than one man in Memphis who riousl; favors it. There, however, is one. I did not ask him whether this man i «tie Postmaster, @ tat, putty-faced old gentleman, who stands about the hotels ana looks as if he could enjoy any number of terms of office. Tne ratio of third-term men in the State, the ex-Governor thinks, about one in ten thousand. In toig estamate, however, he wishes to be understood as speaking of the abstract question—of tne principle as a policy. But General Grant, ho says, has made many iriends in the State within the last year or two. There is less partisanship in ‘tennes- see than ever before—not less interest in politics, * but more moderation—and less disposition 10 criticise public measures in advance, but rather to judge them by theu results. In all this he sees signs for great encouragement, At this point the conversation turned upon the recent troubles in Tennessee and Mississippi. He rapidly sketched the history of these events, and of the peace meeting held in this city a iew weeks ago, pointing out the apparently insignificant circumstances which tended to irritate if not embitter poth races. He especially reierred to inflammatory speeches, whenever they are imuuiged in, a8 @ source of much ill feeling. At the peace meeting some of tne negro leaders— intelligent men and good speakers—interlarded their speeches, with complaints of the treatment their race Lad received at the hands of tne whites, and with innuendos aimed at the military compa- nies which had gone irom this city to Somerviile and Austin, eing himself called upon tor a speech—the first of @ political or semi-polttical years—he rebuked arm; but declares that he was equully ready to rebuke any hale 4 which might be done to the blacks. He had hear of the new theories which are broached in regard to the Trenton afair, bat upon this point he seemed inclined to express no opinion, as he said he did not regard the information he had received as sufficiently iull and certain to warrant a con. clusion, In the course of the conversation ne told me nothiug that was absolutely new to me, but his tone of moderation, which I accepted as indic- alive of the general feeling among the better Classes in the State, 80 impressed me that I regard tne interview as very important, in the present condition of the South the indication of teeling takes precedence of the expression of opinion, | and moderation is the greatest virtue if it takes Jorm in deeds as Wek as in words, ‘ THE STATE CANVASS. The State canvass in Tennessee is becoming very active on the part oi the democrats, The nomina- tion of Judge Porter is well received, and it is generally believed he will be elected. He is & jawyer profession and served on General this spirit, as caiculated to do staf during the war. The nominations akg alan hynd xanidly completed. 16. 1s amusing to read in the newspapers here of the bilities and virtues of the different candidates, "All concede,” says the Appeal, “that Judge Porter is an abie man and an honest one. No power can bribe him; no ailurements seduce bim from the patn of ois conscientions convictions. No ringa or cliques Will be able to control bis course on any point, He will faituintly seek to know his duty to the people aud to the State, and he will go forward and perforin it, be the consequences what they may.” Of General George C. Dibreil, the aemo- cratic candiaate for Congress tn the Chatta- nooga district, tue same paper says:—*He served uuder General Forrest during the late war and Was @ gallant soldier, He bas talent of a high order.” eaking of Mr. John F, House, the candidate in the Eighth aistric the Appeal says that “when elected, 28 he will be, our old Commonwealth can point once more to one of her brightest jewels in tle Congress of the United States.” From all that 1 hear fam almost tempted to believe that House will be bigger than the House itself, ‘There are no direct or inportant issues involved in the canvass, men and not meas- ures taking precedence in the minds Of the people. ‘The divisions and dissenzions of two years ago are heaied, it being understood that the late Andrew Jobnson is to be resuscitated for the United States Senate in the place of the moribund Brownlow. Johnson has Many warm irienas and many bitter encunes in the State, and it is the great purpose of his friends to elect tim to the Senate once more. They think or affect to think that he is needed at Washington, He may be elected, but there will be ae Ray times before that result is accom- plished, The Effect of President Grant’s Action Upon the Peopie—Sentiments of the Press—Governor Brown’s Determina- tion to Restore Order—Details of Mur- ders and Assassinations in thy State. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 3, 1874, It 18 quite probable that the letter of Attorney General Williams, with reference to stationing United States troops at different and convenient points in the districts of the South for tne purpose of giving the marshals all need{ul aid, wili proba- bly more alarm the people in this State than the ultimate issue of the affair may warrant. In an editcrial to appear in the Nashville Banner to mor- row morning the following sentiments are ex- pressed :— Meanwnile, this action of the United States government should serve asa Umely warning to those communities in which recent ouuriges have been perpet froin which, to the uuer amazement of the g) the entire people of Tennessee, there huve even been sent forth for publication certam pleas ot palliation and extenuation, rot to say justificatio In those communities wher curred and the perpetrators So far escaped they may rest assured that the inilitary will be among them very soon, if the lawless perpetrators are not detected and arrested, and the time Is short. When the military e once undertaken the matter, arrests will be made, tribunals possibly organized, irresponsible testimon: furnished without stint, and the scenes that made North Varolina so very unpleasant will possibly be re-enacted. ‘The warning given is that no delay should be suftered by the good ellizens of Gibson and other unfortunate coun- ties iu their elforts to expose those who are really re- ‘ages have oc- sponsible for the impending trouble to themselves, who | had naught to do with it. ‘The pressure 13 now s0 strong in favor of Gover- nor Brown’s going to Trenton and personally con- ducting the investigation 0; the recent massacre at that point thatitis not at all improbable but that he will yield to the demand and take upon bimseli that responsibility. In a conversation had with him to-day he said he would spend every dol- lar paid into the State Treasury but what he would preserve order and bring all criminals in Tennes- see to Justice, He would have the law enforced at any cost and at any sacrifice. Major Wilkes, his private secretary, Was engaged to-day in mailing bis recent proclamation addressed to the judicial, ministerial and all peace officers in the State. They were first mailed to the 200 sheriifs, chancellors, judges and attor- ney generals, and to the 1,500 constables. He says that no officer shall go uninstructed as to his duties if he can help it, His course is approved by the great mass of citizens, who express a de- cided willingness to support him in any measure looking to the final suppression of crime. Ten- nessee seems recently to have been cursed with AN EPIDEMIC OF HORRORS. Outrage, murder and assassination have followed in quick succession; and yet I have to add an- other and another, and still another, to the roll ol death. ‘Ihe people are crying aloud, “And shall these things never end ?”’ and are the more deter- mined to suppress crime, which now seems, in spite of all that can be done, to breed contagion, In the Sixth Civil district there lived a map, happy in the enjoyment of the comtorts with which he had, by dint of hard labor, surrounded himself. He bad a loving wile, who had shared tn all his toils and who had borne him five children, none of whom had yet gotten far in their teens. Lon Bates Was a carpenter, an honest workman. After com- leting his day’s Jabor at a neighbor’s named eynolds, on the 1st inst., he started home with ail those happy thoughts which compass the mind of those who know that loving hearts await their coming. That he mighs the sooner reach his des- tination he crossed Reynolds’ farm and stopped at a fence, on the opposite side of which was a heavy growth of forest trees, The sup had gone down and day was fast fading into night, He struck a match upon a rail and touched the blaze to his pipe. He then mounted the fence, and while sitting there smoking, and, not having the remotest idea that there was any one but him- self in that vicinity, he was suddenly startled by the report of a gun not far distant in the woods; he felt the hot ball PASS YHROUGH HIS sToMACH, grew dizzy and fell heavily to the earth. By his cries he’ attracted the attention of some of his neighbors, who came to his relief and conveyed him home, where he died soon COL Es the above facts. He said he no = con- ception as to who could aave com- mitted the aeed. He heard neither the rustling of the leaves nor the cracking of a twig. ‘The report of the gun was all that had reached his ear; he jelt himself going and fell, though at- tempting in vain to brace himself and prevent the all. For some time past a large number of workmen have been employed by Mr. Hugh Carlisle, pridge contractor, on the Cincinnati and Chattanooga Rail- Toad. These men, like all railroad employés when working at a distance from @ city, lived in cam and cooked their own meals, Near the camp stoo @ groggery, the proprietors of which induced those hard working, industrious men to spend their evenings there. The men were fast growing demoralized, and the contractor eudeavored to induce the proprietors to cease the trafilc, in which they were engaged without licenses, but they persistently retused to do so, Finding remonstrance useless, he posi- tiveiy forbade their selling liquor of any kind to his men, but without effect. Carlisle, as a last re- source, concluded to inform the authorities of the town nearest to the camps of their unlawful trafic, and apply for relief, With that determina- tiou, and with his mind fully made up for any emergency, he started last Tuesday morning to the nearest town, arriving at which place he transacted the business nearest his heart and started homeward with his mind very much relieved by the interview he had with the authorities, who promised to suppress the grog- geries. While passing along a road noted for its Tuggedness ne suddenly heard a slight rustie in a recess to one side as if of @ person using his feet, but owing to the thickness of the underbrush he Was unable to discover the cause. Thinking little of the circumstance he again started on ‘d, when, almost simultaneously, the sharp crack of several shots was heard, a8 Many bullets, unérr. ing and switt, sped on thetr deathly errand, the lonely traveller fell to the earth with a dull thud, the murderer's work was finished and the soul of Hugh Carlisie went to meet its God, A man named Pat Lyon was arrested ia Nelson county and lodged in the jail at Lebanon yester- day on the charge oi having murdered Julia Hay- den, the colored school teacher, at the house of Embry Lowe, near Hartsville, Trousdale county, on the night of the 2ist of August. Bowen Saun- ders, charged with another murder, who was re- cently brought here irom Lebanon and placed in our jail for saiekeeping, is ajso implicated in the murder of Julia Hayden. The authorities are now actively engaged in the investigation of the mat- ter, and further developments oe expected. George Burns (colored) was mé@rdered by George Stevens (colored) at the close of a colored fancy ball here this morning. “ BISMAROK’S FIRST REBUFF, (London (August 26) correspondence of Liverpool ‘ Courter.) An American statesman of some celebrity, now in London, remarked to me to-day that Prince Bia- marck had received his first rebutf, in his attempt to play the great part of arbiter of Europe, from the United States, and ms second fromthe km- peror of Russia; and that this was not the first time, nor would it be the last, when the United States and Russia had acted, or would act, to- gether. My interlocutor added that he had rea. son to believe that the story concerning Prince Bismarck’s demands upon Spain tor the cession of Porto Rico was quite true, notwitistanding the denials from Berlin and Madrid, ‘THE OOOLIE TRADE. The British Government Emigration Board have issued their return giving the number and names of the ships empioyed in the coolie trade between India and China and the British West Indies, the number of laborers who embarked in each, with a list of the births and deaths on the voyages irom the Ist of January, 1: to the end of February in the current year. “Within that time fifty-nine vo; ages were made f.om India, and 27,086 cooli sailed irom their native land jor our western pos- Sessions. One hundred and seventy-six births took Pod among these humble passengers, and 1,162 of hem died betore reaching their destination. Of the Inaians who embarked by far the largest num- ber were bound for British Guiana; 7,209 proceeded to Trinidad, while only 8,010 were destined for Ja- maica. A singie cargo of laboring emigrants leit China, and consisted of 388 individuals, Wav Went 49 Guiana”? SEA CLIFF ENCAMPMENT. Close of the Camp Meeting Campaign— | Scenes and Incidents—A Ministerial | Wordy War—Brother Beole’s Big Dog— Curiosities of Prayer—A Polyglot Musi- | cal Scheme for Next Year. Sea Curr, L. 1, Sept. 5, 1874, To-morrow Will close the third of tne series of camp mectings heid in this grove during the sum- | mer of 1874, Dr. J. F, Hurst, of Drew Seminary, | Madison, N. J., is expected to preach in the morn- Ing, and Dr. Lightburn, of Baltimore, Md., in the | aiternoon, The evening is to be occupied by Rev. Mr. Boole and Amanda Smith, the eloquent col- ored sister, who is staying on the ground, and per- haps by others. This programme, however, may be changed betore the sun rises to-morrow, as many other plans and schemes for this encampment have been before. Yesterday Rev. John 8, Willis, of Stamford, preached in the morning and Dr. Lightburn im the afternoon, and a miscellaneous meeting was held m the evening. On Friday morning Dr, Foss, of Harlem, preached an able sermon from the words, “He tnat hath seen Me hath seen the Father also,” and in the afternoon Dr. Autlif, of Lonaon, preached, and in the even- ing Rev. John Atkinson, of Jersey City, discoursed on “The Personality of Clrist,” irom the words, “Lam the first and the last; I am He that liveth and was dead; and behold I am alive for evermore, amen; and have the keys of hell and of death,” It | was a plain, practical discourse, designed to help the faith of believers in an ever-living Christ, The great sermons of this camp meeting had, however, been delivered earlier in the week vy Drs. E. 0. Haven and T. M. Eddy on Sunday morn- ig and aiternvon; Rev. Wiillam Lloyd, of Pough- keepsie, on ‘luesday afternoon; Rev. S. H. Piatt, of Brooklyn, on Wednesday morning, and Rev. Dr. Stratton, on Thursday morning. ‘These were | thoughtiul and brilliant productions, and were worthy of far Jarger audiences than listened to them. The discourses of Drs, Haven and Eddy were somewhat dry and metaphysical for the average camp meeting congregation, but they were withal very instructive and profitable, ‘There was little or no occasion for preacning SERMONS TO SINNERS, for there were very few of that class, as usually denominated, at any time present during the meetings, Hence nearly all the discouires were directed to the establishing of bellevers 1m theirfaith, And on this line were the sermons of Rey. Mr. Lloyd on the doctrine of the soul’s immortality; of Rev. S. H, Platt on the measure of God’s ability to do for us “exceeding abundant above all that we can ask or think.” Able sermons were delivered also by Rey, William McAhster, Rev. Alfred Taylor (’resbyterian), Kev. W. W. Hammond (Baptist), of Jersey City; Rev, ©. 8, Wuliams, of Biruingham, Conn. ; Rey. George H. Anderson, of Williamsburg, and others, But none struck the emotional coras of the people like those of Revs. McAlister and Lioyd on Tues- day, Platt on Wednesday and Stratto. on Thurs- day. Messrs. Lioyd and McAlis:er’s sermons seemed to have been fitted imto each otier, and the latter, leading of on Tuesday morning jor the first time during the meetings, awak- ened the enthusiasm of the congregation with a discourse on the sufferings of God’s people and the present and effectual heip they find in God, pre- paring the way for his Poughkeepsie brotnor to present the clearest and most comprehensive statement ef the doctrine of the soul’s immortality, together With @ refutation of the objections raised to 1t, that I have ever beard condensed imto one sermon, ‘The tide of emotion and enthusiasm thus aroused continued to rise and swell untii Wedues- day morning, When Mr, Piavt, with his grand pre- sentation of God’s ability a3 an inspiration tu the Christian’s faith, swept as it were everything be- fore him. He gave the reins to his imagination, and with it soared his hearers uoul the encanp- Ment sounded and resounded with “halieiwahs,”? “glorys” and “amens” from 500 or 600 voices. A TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION, Thursday was, however, the real field day or this encampment. From New York and Brooklyn taere Came up by the boats aoout 1,500 peopie. From Norwalk, Conn., came 450; from the sur- rounding villages and farm houses there came a Jew hundred more, wno, togetier witn the num- bers staying on the camp ground, lormed a con- gregation 01 4,000 or 5,000 persons, Who listened in the morning to Dr, Stratton’s able and lorcible presentation of the doctrine of the uncnangeable- ness of Cnrist, based upou the words, ‘Jesus Curist the same yesterday, to-day and for ever.” ‘The temperance ladies, who have been labor- ing so long and so faitniully im tus cause in New York and Brvoklyn, took the rest or the day to set forth im their own way the cnaracter of the work im whicn they are engaged and the results of the same. Mrs, John Hartt, of Brookiyn, led the devotions for tis service in the afternoon with a very pathetic prayer, and Mrs, Mary A. Jonuson, Of the same city, followed with an address replete with inci- dents of crusade work in the City of Churches, Mrs. Jucksun, of New York, aiso spoke briefly of the work there. Inthe evening a Miss Oliver, of Onio, thrilled the people wita her sharp witticisms and her fine, clear voice and perfect delivery. Sue ave some account o; the temperance work in the vest. ‘Ihe Rev. Mr. Boole and Mrs. boole spoke on the same great theme, and Amuuda Smith, the eloquent colored woman, also spoke and sang some hymus 1D her own peculiar styie. CURIOSITIES IN PRAYER. Between the preacaing services irom day to day prayer meetings were held sumetimes in the tab- ernacie and sometimes in tents. Commencing at five o’ciock in the morning a prayer and experi- ence meeting was heid for one hour daily in Sister Brown’s tent; another meeting was heid iw the tabernacle dally at nine A. M., and a young peo- ple’s meeting in the Washington square prayec tent at six P.M. heid also at the Close of tue afternoon and evenin: services and occasionally in the Uld Ladies’ Home near by. At one 0) tuese meetings in the taberna- cle last Tuesday @ veneravle uoctor ol divinity was telling the Lord in prayer what @ hard time they had to get the masses up to the camp ground to hear the Gospel, aud in his intense anxiety for the salvation of the said masses he broke out in this strain:—“Inskip 1s goue away irom us. soole is indisposed (air. Boole had complained of an affection of the head or brain that aay) ; We Do longer hear the voice ot Palmer or his wife. Come Thou, O Lord, and lead us unto victory.’? The absurdity of the prayer was 80 apparent tuat several persons spoke amusingly of it in my hearing alterward, had Jnskip or Boole or might, according to this brother's thevlugy, get aloug very comiortably without tne Lord. but hav ing no one else to fail back upon tiey must now lean on the arm of the Alaughty. At anotuer meet- ing the same person objected to the singing of that old hymn, *fhere is a iountain,” &c., vecause the Church has sung it jor 100 years more or iess, aud it always seemed to him to indicate musical | laziness. He did not want forever to hear about a fountain tilled with blood, aad singers should | consider the appropriateness of their songs and ive something new and fitted to the experience. fhe Doctor bad nardly taken his seat when halt a dozen persons were on their feet “polishing him off,” a8 one of the brethren expressed it, and de- fending that old hymn, so that he has kept ratuer quiet ever since, A MINISTERIAL “MILL,” On Thursday evening a gort of ministerial fight took place in the hotel, in which, however, tongues and not fists were the Weapous used, ihey had had a good time with the temperance crusaders in the taberuacie, and apout hali-past ten P.M. Mr. | Trusiow, one Ol the trustees, came toward the hotel, in whose parlor he saw what seemed to him | to be theatrical performances, He objected to it, bat felt timid about ordering it stopped. As he walked away he met Mr. Boole, whom he informed of the circumstances, and that gentieman, with more courage than disvretion, Jumped into the parlor and ordered the tun to cease. There were present a Jew young ladies, Revs. Messrs. Millaru, of Syracuse; Alired Tayior, of Brooklyn, and Mr. Hammond, of Jersey City, together wita Mr. Jardine, the organ builder, of New 1ork; Mme. vemorest’s husband, son and daughter, and some other persons, Who amused themseives eariler in the evening With @ kind of *Biindman's Bua’? game; but at tus particular moment young Dem - rest was reciting # piece that Mr. Buole himself recited in the same place two weeks before without Offence to avy one. When, thereiore, Mr. Boole | ordered the entertainment to cease, he aroused a | storm of indignation that found vent in some | soarp sarcasms from Mr, Millard, Mr. Taylor, ur. { Hammond and others. Mrs, Boole stoou up nobly | in deience of her hu d, and the verbal war was | short, sherp and decisive. A victory was claimed by the unsanctified, who, as if 1a mockery, tola Brotner Boole they had been waiting for him to lead their family devotion and asked him if he would not do it then. He turned away abruptly with the re- mark that be Was not then in the praying mood, Mr. Boole is the owner of a very tine dog, which he Keeps ou the ground contrary to the rues of the association, and the brethren whom he was | him that he should practice what he preached in | relation to dogs at large. The company immedi- | ately held (amily devotion in the parlor wou there. | alter retired for the night. A POLYGLOT SCHEME FOR 1875, The trustees held & prolonged mee cing last night | and endorsed a polygiot musicai scheme ior next | summer, preseated by Dr. Du Puy. It is briefly | this :— In tue early part of next Juiy the reguiar | camp meeting 1s +o come off at Sea Cli. Their ex- | perience with @ September meeting this year dues bot warrant @ repetition im 1875. Immediately atter the camp Meesing @ grand musical conven- tou 18 to gather there for twenty days, Arrange- ments will be made for a musical jubilee or “jamboree” that will eclipse Gilmore’s Boston affair, and rom 60,000 to 100,000 people are expected to attend. Boarding cottages and tents will be erected beforehand and the ex- And beside these meetings were | if they wad | the Pulmers they | heavens,” Deuse vs Living is to be notched down to $1 per a Will not be set aside, His Compensation will come, | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1874.—-TRIPLE SHEET, day. The great tabernacle is to be enlarged p: Janey awnings and @ fence around its horticui- tural adjuncts. These, too, will be increased and beautified. Between five hundred and one thou- sand of the best musical artists of Europe ana America are to be invited here, and ail kinds of musical instruments, trom a penny jewsharp to a mammoth organ—including sackbut, psulcery, dulcimer and ail kinds of music referred to in Scripture, anvils, bells, &c.—will be in- troduced. The grand affair will comprise three departments—namely, recreation, which 18 to include boating, fishing, bathing, croqueting and excursions on @ pieasure steamer that will be provided; normal instruction, in which the | Musical experts will give daily rehearsais and in- structions to those who are less expert than they, and, lastly, @ series of grand concerts, vocal and instrumental, in which all those voices and all those instruments will combine to swell the praises of Jehovah. Dr. Tourjee, of Boston, who has heartily endorsed the scheme aiready, is likely to have charge of the musical details. The carrying out of this affair will cost $15,000 or 20,000; but moneyed men, it is said, staud ready tolurther it, After this event comes off then look out for the millennium, A COLORED CAMP MEETING. Any camp meeting is a curious and interesting sight in any circumstance, but a colore¢ camp meeting has even more than usual claims to public notice, The character of the negro is so enthusiastic and so buoyant that in moments of religious fervor it rises to a height of excitement of which our colder Saxon nature is utterly in- capable, And while we seem to be gradually losing our faith so much that mm the regular Methodist comp meetings there is not one tithe of the old time fervor, the colored religionists stil cling to some of the bygone tra- ditions of the creed and often let their exuberance of feeling lead them to what may seem extravagance with the mere looker on, It is this very exuberance which has been the cause of the mockery which is sometimes indulged in at their expense, and we do not pause to think that such mockery at such a time may do incalculable harm, for the religious idea once destroyed never comes back, while we must all avow that its pos- session among the masses is a desirability, if nota necessity, and that a8 a mere matter of good gov- ernment its inculcation is praiseworthy instead of its destruction, Every population is betrer for being religious, and in the orderly conduct of the colored population in this city we may see to a great extent the effect of such training. There is at present going on & colored camp Meeting at @ place on Staten Island known as Winant's Grove, on the Morning Star road, m the town of Nortifleld, Staten Island, The location is reached by boat from Dey street to Elm Park and then by stages to the grove. Itis @ pretty spot and well adapted for % camp meeting of the Kind. ‘The country about the spot ts flat, but with a slope toward the water and scenery of more than ordi- nary attractiveness around. The camp meeting itself was started last Saturday week. and since that time has been more than well patronizea by crowds of people who have not oniy gone there from this city, but also from all tne country around, including the Island itself and New Jersey. It is, properly speaking, an offspring of the Zion colored Methodist Episcopal church in Bleecker street, and the pastor of that church, the Rev. Jacob Thomas, has the spiritual and tem- poral direction of the whole aifair, assisied by Deacon Phillips, a colored gentleman of no small activity. Both have worked with no small en- thusiasm in all the muititudinous detais which are necessary if it be wished to make a camp meeting a success. Some thirty tents were hired by the pastor, and all were erected in the enclos- ure of the grove, and besides, several of the con- gregation and others outside the congregation, ‘With the permission of the committee, have brought tents and erected rhem on tne spot. It makes up, indeed, an encampment of no small proportions. Besides Rev. Jacob Thomas, who bas been the rincipal agent in the whole affair (and well has he done his work) there have been numerous col- ored preachers on the ground during the week, among them the Rev. H. Decker, of ‘Tarrytown ; Wilhams, of Brooklyn; Charles tobertson, Henry Dumpson and Jaspar Barkrof, all men of sub- stance and standing in the Church. ‘These have divided up the work among themselves of con- ducting the services and the meetings. There have been two services each day, besides prayer meetings morning and night, and alter these tne regular exhortations. Yesterday the services were conducted by the Rev. Jacob Thomas. 1t was a picturesque Scene irom morning to night, aud particularly as Qhe services were proceeding. Then the crowd in attendance—numbering, possibly, 900 persons, and including no smal sprinkling of whites—all gath- ered aloug the benches and around the preacher's platforin, and the various eating booths were de- serted for the time being, Stages were constantly coming up crowded with passengers, all anxiously gle rural enjoyment with religious exercise. The praying was very fervent, and all bowed their heads in humble thanktulness as the voices of the men of God resounded through the trees and over the greensward. The hymns rung out with ail the oid meiody so peculiar to the colored race and sounded curiously in this Open space, with the heavens above and the trees waving a faint ac- companiment to the song of praise and peace. There was something inspiring in the scene and one could bot help feeling better for the experi- ence, Momentary though it may have been. Then jollowed the sermon, which was short and to the point, and again the singing. The exuortation Was then proceeded with and was a strong plea for aie and the benefits 18 brought to the hungry soul, There has been no particular revival at the present meeting, though a strong re- ligious spirit has been manifested by the attendants, Alter the meeting the crowd broke up and repaired to the tents ior dinner, the regular restaurant booths doing a rushing business jor the time and hardly able to supply the rush or custom, which was excessive, Again in the a(ter- noon another service took piace. During the week the attendance has been large and very respectable. Some of the wealthy colored people of the city have been present; it bas been mainly made up of tne congregation of | the Zion church, and altogether it hus been a promising success, both religious and pecuniary. ‘The attendance was very large, as itis the last Sunday 61 the meeting. On ‘uesday the camp meeting will finally break up. THE RELATIONS OF BUSSIA AND GER MANY, The Vienna correspondent of the astern Budget writes (August 25) as jollows:— An alarmist article, dated from Berlin, in the German St. Petersburg Gazette, is a good deal | talked about here. The writer says that an im- | pression prevails in the Prussian capital that a coterie oi nignly placed personages in Austria are striving to loosen the bonds which nave so long existed between Russia aud Prussia in order to set Austria in the place of Germany as the ally of the Czar. It is wellknown at Berlin, the writer adds, that these manceuvrings oaly proceed from feudal and federalist circles; but their influence is easily recognizable, even in the Austrian semi- official press, and they are being eagerly watched by Prussian politicians, who do not doubt the honor of Count Andraasy and know that hie retire- meut would be the inevitable consequence of the above projects being in any way successiul. Peo- ple here at Vienna think it somewhat remarkable that Prussian politicians should attach so much importance to machinations of which very little is heard or said in Austria ltself, and if the authors Teal object was, as he says, to warn Prussia’s ene- mies, it keems strange that he should have selected @ Kussian paper for that purpose, espectally as it is not long since the Mir and Golos (which, like the German St. Petersburg Gazette, are said to be inspired from official quarters) declared that an Austro-Russian alliance could only be sincere and permanent i the ultramontanes and federalists are placed at the nead of affairs in Austria, A ROMANCE OF THE ORANGE GROVES, The New Orleans Times tells a very interesting but pathetic story of the life of an orange planter named Landman. Thirty years ago he came into possession, as a squatter, of the Island of Chentere on the Gulf coast. He was at that time very young and {ull of enterprise. By hard labor, year after year, he succeeded in raising one of the largest and finest orange orchards in Louisiana, although he worked alone for years. Alter a time he married and took his wife to the island, and jor years they enjoyed one of the happiest of homes. Children were born to them, and their work was remunerative, so that they iid up ae handsome sum, alone again. Brooding upon his troubles, he lancied that the spirits of the dead were about him, and soon he became an ardeut believer in Spiritnalism, At this point, some greedy land speculators discovered that he had no Valid litle to Ms iand, and set abvut in the courts 83 the Old man of his isiaud home, He would not retain counsel, but relied upon the spir- its to help him manage hts case. Of course tuere could be but one issue to the case, There wus | practically no de.ence at al. His spirit friends did uot help him, He lost hits home where he had lived tor tuirty years, and where lus Wie and cmidren were Luried, When the judge avnounced his dud- ing and decree the poor Ola man arose in court, and his sole reply was:—‘Please your Honor, there 48 no redress for me in earthly courts; I therefore Qppeal my cause to the higher court ‘of the third Ths 18 ao appeal which canuot and seeking the encampment sand determined to min-- dhoo sickness came, and, one by | veloped imto & stately, arresting in another Violation of rules reminded | one, all the family died until the fatner was leit | 5 LIBBY DORIS, The Woman Who Could Not Get Into the Tombs. POLICE BUNGLING. A fortnight ago the celevrated Libby Doris was arrested at her residence in West Filteenth street by Captain Tynan, of the Eighteenth pre- cinet police, She was conducted to the private room of Captain Tynan in tie station house and desired to be seated. With the Captain in the apartment at the time was an aged, gray-haired gentleman. His lips were thin, bis nose was sharp, his eyes smail and twinkling, his shoul+ ders bent and his head a good deal thrown forward, At Libby’s entrance the old geni'eman The Religious Turnout at Winant’s | put on @ look of searching intensity, Grove, Staten Island—Prayer, Song | 404 While the Captain put a few grum questious to and Preaching—A Successful Meeting— the woman he seemed to contemplate ner nar= Scenes and Sentiment. . rowiy. Presently he shook bis head, and then Libby Doris understood she was unde: examina- tion for recognition, The old gentiem.n, it ape peared, had been indiscreet in the quality of some recently acquired acquaintance, and had suterea. some pecuniary disadvantage in cousequence, | With FLOODS OF VIRTUOUS TEARS pouring down the well marked ridges of his coun- tenance, he appealed to the police. Youth might be rash and unforeseeing; could not age be some- times foolish too? It could, it would and it was, Youth would ve precipitate and bear the conse- quences, Age had managed to establish the value of money in the course of Jong labor to acquire it aud could not vear to lose much by its own follies. The old gentleman reasoned as he supplicated the police ior assistance to get back his lost treasure; that it was hard to sacrifice 80 much for just one little step aside from the paths of rectitude; $140 his fall had cost him, A young man might take no notice of such a loss, youth was so reckless, trusting and ambitious, but an old man, having grandchildren, mast—at all events, in the matter of money—think of his family obligations, The police were melted by the appeal, the tears, the wretchedness of the old man, and endeavored to console him A description of the acquaintance that had been 80 fatal © him was acquired and officers despatched tohunther up. ‘Tne accident occurred in Twenty- third street. Ne one could be found in that local- ity at all answering the points indicated. Ina moment of sudden brilliancy ov stupidity as the case may tarn out, a memoer of the detective force was appealed to. The description said the woman was VERY BEAUTIFUL, had magnificent hatr and most perfectly moulded hands, But One woman coming at all near that approach to perfection that had ever been in the ciutch of the authorities was Libby Doris. Like drowning men in a lofty, tossing sea rushing to- ward a fast receding plank, they pounced upon Libby. The detective hunted up her record and peculiarities among the archives of nia bureau and gave the iniormation to the Captain. So far, so good; the thing was how to catch her, That was not so easily done, as she had retired into private iife and left no dis- tinguishing tratl behind her. Some one at length saw her on the street, followed her to her house and gave botice to the Captain. Then the little scene in the station house was arranged. A mes- senger was despatched for the old gentleman; th Captain put on bis newest uniform and most dig- nilled —_ eifect. A_ detective was sent for Libby and she was moved in upon this tableau of so much impressiveness to be dismayed. But she was not irightened, noi even cowed, and with an air of firm consciousness of innocence asked Why she was brought there. ‘The old gentieman fatied to recognize her as the party he was sorrowing tor, and Catastrophe No. 1 to the police had arrived. Too much powder had been exploded, however, to let the matter drop there. If Libby was NOT A CULPRIT, the police argued, as she lad veen arrested she might Know the culprit. Now she must know Something about somebody. She could not and | she would not, so she was trotted to Court. There the magistrate blundered even worse than the olice, and they managed to bring catastrophe 0. 2 to a climax. However, as something might turn up that might in some way ald them, she was remanded back to the station house. In the meantime six other persons were arrested for the same of- fence. The acuteness of the police fastened the crime on each one, yet their talents were inade- quate to the procuring of sufficient evidence to fasten any signs of guilt on any ol them. All were liberated after a time but Libby Doris. She was sent to the Tombs through the magistrate’s care- dessness; there the case went before Judge Donohue, with what result the public is already aware. From Judge Donohue’s court she Was returned to the Tombs. Warden Quinn would not take her, saying he did pot want tobe ar- rested for false imprisonment. The presiding Magistrate at the Police Court would gr' no commitment for her custody, telling her t in- terfering with her liberty appeared to be danger- ous. She was then carted about town, and every one refusing to lock her up in his place, she was finally ACCOMMODATED WITH A CELL at the First precinct station house, On Friday af- ternoon she was conveyed to Police Headquarters. Superintendent Wailing did not at all relish the idea o1 having her there, but as he could not het; himself he tent her a cell. On the way to Mul- berry street arepresentative of the HERALD met her, and conversation was opened. “You are still in custody I see?” “Yes; and why I snould be is @ mystery to me. I have done nothing to warrant the treatment I have received, and some of the police authorities perhaps flad that out before I get done.” “It 18 possibie, then, @ suit for false imprison- ment will result in this matter?” “I can’t say anything about that just now; but E can tell you that some of the most influential men in this Community nave sent me word of their readiness to take up my case.’” “It 18 @ couple of years now, Libby, since you were before the public?” “f very much regret I ever was before them in that , but since the time the newspaper gen- tlemen, who were always very kind to me, made so much of me | have been itving very quietly with some friends of my family, working hard ior my living, and the police nad no right to interfere with me. But that’s the way; once get into trou- ble and you are likely to be suspected all your life long. Ihave notuing to say agairst any one, but I think (crying bitterly) it 18 too bad I should be MADE A SCAPEGOAT ofin this way for other people. I have done nothing wrong. idon’t wish to do any wrong, and if they will only let me alone I won't bother them, en | was in prisom { met a lady who be- came a true friend to me. to cut off my hair and make myself look ugly and I would escape, she said, a great deal of annoyance, ‘That was good advica, and I meant to take it; bat when I came to do it I couldn’t. My hair isso very beautiful 1 am proud of it and I could not bear to rt with it. Butshe was right and I knew it. len are so jealous of anything like personal ad- vantage in anything that does not belong to them, and so they hunt me down; but this time I think they have made a mistake,” “It was said you were married, What has be- come of your husband ?”” “Oh, well, they have said so many things about e. i never was married, but 1 may besoon I have had a good offer irom a man who is in a posi- tion to do ali for me I could desire. My wants are not many, but Ihave hesitated to take lim because 1 the things im my past life. You know I would not like to see him regret, alter @ few years, having made me wife, For that reason I am giving him plenty of time | to think about it. He sent me word yesterday that my being persecuted asl am only the more endeared me to him, and the moment he arrives in town he will come to visit me. Iam not afraid of the police, for I have plenty of frienus, able, Teady and willing to help me. That Mme. St. Valerie, you remember, was a canning woman. | I have “since learned the tricks sne put m_ practice to ruin me, and PF learned, too, the value of keeping in a good way of Ile, though It don’t really seem to be much use to me. By the way, I nave become very fond of read- ing, and if you have any books to spare send me some to the Central OM ‘not novels, unless they are very good ones—but anything in the way or French or Aureriban history would be very weicome.” “What are they going to do with you now?” “Pm sare I can’t tell you. I will quietly watt | and see, and then let my iriends take what action | they think best.’” Libby 18 more beautiful than ever. and sensitive woman of two She recommended mo The young ars ago has de- ly com} a woman—of good address, polished manners, and Most courteous demeanor, She was presented to Superintendent Walling on arriving at Police Headquarters, and was then locked up tn her old cell, Mr. Luther, the turnke: glad to see her, So Mee “BOND ROBBERY, Mr. Chas, Jansen, of No. 441 West Twenty-eighth Street, was robbed yesterday afternoon in the Cen- tral Park, while iooking at the animals, of bonds Valued at $15,000, He left bis house in company with @ friend to stroll in the Park, and went to see the menagerie, The bonds were in the back poc- ket of his coat, and were taken irom him during @ Go Naae ene of Le of the . He ep ond Inspector McDermo' vening, au the detectives Were given @ iist oi the bonds, with instructions to hunt tor them,