The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1874, Page 4

a 4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATU “TOE INDIAN CAMPAIGN, Details of the Movements of Gen- eral Miles’ Expedition. TERRIBLE MARCH THROUGH A DESERT J nsnal, about two miles in advance. The com- mand emerged trom the brokeo country, striking and crossing @ long level plain, bordered on tne south side by steep, heavy oluds, which skirt the Staked Piains, The trail led to an opening thro tho bluffs, and at eight o'clock Lieutenant Baldwin's detachment of scouts entered the hil's. Instantly a band of about 250 Indians charged upon them from the bluffs on etther side, and THE FIGHT OPENED. At that moment swarms of redskins sprang from concealed places and lined the plums, The scouts stood wheir ground, and poured into the advancing foe a deadly fire, emptying, at the first volley, two saddies, it was evident that the Indians meant to surrouna ant massacre OF CAp- ture the party. They attempted the old game of circling (turning the fauks), but this was pre- vented by the energetic and rapid mapper in which the column was brought up. Upon heare ing the first volley tie column fairly few to the spot, led by the gallant commander, who deployed tnto line on the gallop and charged the bluits without halting, cavairy on the right and lett, 1u- fantry centre. Lieutenant Pope’s battery was ed on elevated ground in rear of the line, As Brilliant Attack of the Troops Upon the Entrenched Savages. SUCCESSFUL USE CF THE ARTILLERY. ON BASTLE CREEK, PaN HANDLE, Texas, Sept. 5, 1874, HIRADQUARTERS INDIAN EXPEDITION, { post Your correspondent joined this command early | Pye scouts could do so they formed on the | in August at Fort Dodge, Kansas, At that thine it was fitting out for a protractea campaign against hostile Indians, who for the two months previ had been murdering pioneer settlers, stealing cattle and horses in Southern and Western Kau- sas, Eastern Colorado and Northern Texas it was evident that all the savage tribes in the In- dian Territory were engaged in these murdering | extreme left, It was @ brilliant sight to witness | the rapidity and precision with which the columa | was thrown into lime and the charge, fully ilius- trating the extreme coolness and capacity of the commander under the most exciting circum. | stances and the good effect of years ol discipiine and drill on the part of the troops. Colonel Comp- ederated, their depreda- pili \ qiciagetie papubrnaph ae pe pitts in | ne of steep, ragged bluffs, almost unapproacha- | extending over a vast erie all directions, Indian agents were driven from their % e teeth of a heav: Aeoncies aod employes wile ald seaiped. Only | Pe eae emomy ell mell Into the the presence o! troops at or near some agencies | ; reat difficulties expe- Prevented the uprising of large bodies of treach- | CORY0TS bashes paneipr on ee ne ane erons redskins. ‘The young braves from the Chey- | Pre sng anol praise is duo the troops for the | enne, Arapatioe, Comanche, Kiowa and Apache | 1. rinea, effective manner with which it was | tribes could not be controlied by their old cmefs, | 7” é s ates and took the Heid in open hostilities, ‘The peace accomplished. The nills are so steep and ragzed a ct Les to ad- | policy, of Which so much has been favorably re- | Lagi th See ee ie palate ted, was found non-effective, ana the authori. | Y&n° tae course to the top, yet at ties were satisfied that only a severe thrashing ns! a was in his Nace, weeid wack these Zndlane\ta;reapect the tnasrac: | 10 Custanghey eyecn: man wae’ t D 5 nihustastically bent on driving or exterminating | tions of their agents and the authority of the goy- | CH thustastical at * FOF RE BOV- | he savages concealed at the top, The Indians ' | stood their ground until the line had nearly gained ‘Accordingly four coiumns of troops were or- | St0% ! ane ee : 2 | the brow of the bluff, but the charge was so deter. | dered to take the field, with the view to punish | with terrible force the heatile ands. Une column, | Med and the volleys poured into them 8) ells’ ive that afver some little show of bravery they consisting of 800 cavalry and infantry, with artil- | lery, comtnanded by Brevet Major General Nelson A. Miles, Colonel Fifth infantry, concentrated at Fort Dodge, to march to the Antelope Hills, via Camp Supply. Avother force co-operating, com- | This SCATTERING OF THE REDSKINS caused an extension of the lines, which were ; Bain | somewhat over three miles in length, the | manne By ee BigeaR is Bs eae Major, | eavalry galloping in pursuit of the retreat- | LL ass liaicniaedl sen ccatay Pegs geeseerng ing enemy through ceep canyons, scaling | New Mexico, to march east across the Pan Handle | yy 0@s aimost inaccessivie, now and then of Te. Brevet Brigadier General Ronald Mc- Kenzie, Colonel Fourti cavalry, commands a col- umn to marca north from Fort Concho, Texas, while Brevet Brigadier Genera! George P. Buell, Lieutenant Colonel Eleventh injantry, commands & force to march west, the idea evidently being to hem the Indians in on all sides and strike them wherever found, As these troops are operating charging and carrying some stronghold occu- pied by a force of Indians, on and on through | an apparently impassable country, until the sav- | ages, pressed So closely that they could not reform, | were demoralized andin full fight. They were | eriven thirteen miles to the south bank of Red | | River, the fight and pursuit ‘asting until two | in @ atrotch of country 600 miles aquare, over o'clock in the aiternoon. it was evident that the | every portion Qt which: Iona ara pare some | Bans had some object in attacking the column, idea of the magnitude of the underraking ma | and it was rightly conjectured that in doing so formed, particularly in @ country so barren and | (being followed so closely) they sought to delay destitute of water and grass as is this section, the command until their iamilies could be got out ‘ 2 * ofthe way. During the pursuit and about eignt In addition to the troops there was | miles from the battiefield their burning camps | H ont of sc rirs tens | Davee wk ees meee Bie | were passed, At least three hundred lodges were | +e bo fantry, commanding, | 4, ysu,0s, fired by the Indians in their hurry toget | and abouts one hundred citizens, all well | = away. Quantities of dried buffalo meat, camp armed and equipped, serving as teamsters, | \onsis and all sorts of Indian implements tell guides, scouts, &c, among whom were | Us : ei twenty Delaware Indians employed as scouts, | dara ea as troorts #28 nee aes rty et Palling Leaf, the old Delaware chief, included, | THe trail to the rl The Wagon train numbered sixty wagons and five | Property» snd amsoy) dena: and” wounded: Ponies vices cs a / " | Were found aloug the route. ‘aides ra are ee! ecitegs Se aaeniee | During the fight General Miles, monnted on his | With this limited transportation there was artis | ‘@Vorite mare Virginis—whien many of his old | show ior much personal comtort for either officers | Command will remember as the beauti/nl animal | or men. Jn ord:nary campaigns tentage ts allowea, | "¢ TOde during the last year of the war—galloped but m the work aid out for this flying column | along the lines, attending personally to the the tuxury of tent.was not to besnought of ana | Mnctest, detalle of the stuck: and Subsequent | movement o! the troops, ably assisted by his | seller flys such as were used during the war | were strapped to knapsacks and saddles, Adjusant, Lieutenant Baird, and Aid, Lieutenant THE PERSONNEL OF THE EXPEDITION, The General commanding the expedition will be | favorably remembered by many of the HERALD | readers as the deservedly popular and gallant | commavder of the First division, Second (‘“Han- cock’s figuting”) corps. Joinimg the Army of the left wings respectively. Many INCIDENTS OF THE DAY'S WORK are deserving of mention, and reflect great credit | jantry was displayed by the entire command. | 4 | Lieutenant Pope, Fifth infantry, per/ormed spien- ‘otomac as Cupta i ices eal been i a ae ae | did service with nis battery during the charge, fie tet. 1, prt piel a major ‘deaeral | throwing percussion sheils from his Parrotts and | te Vhkctitlate:. Ok Ake Wee ‘ie ier vce | balls from the Gatlings at knots of Indians gath. | of the: ‘Gommaods the greater iMbeRGmeny 1rooe rete ee ear eee teen i A | atevery shot. It was, provably, the first instance | hard service during the War, ana since have been | constantly employed in ensive Indian opera: | In whacn the Gatling had ever been effectualiy used Z | in an Indian campaign. To illustrate the accu- | tions in Texas sas, New Mexicc | | prasnasircipcagtacig apoio racy of his practice, one gun was trained and Territory—experience that bas proved invaluable | 3 a o nuit, during te last ten days, eect at an Indian, mounted, on a biuif, at iong The expedition marched to Camp Supply, on the government trail, in battalions, the better to fa- cilitate the move, Lieutenant Baldwin's scouts | ments. The charge of the right wing, under Colo- t nel Compton, was a magnificent spectacle. The men having been despatcued at once Jor tue Kec hg been desparcued at once ior the Red River | aavqnced nandsomely to the work, with shells country. ‘he First battalion, under the command |} A aeHibkagavecl tele Mendon aia of Colonel Bristol, Filth infantry, started on the | tearing and sirieking . herons yd Tth of August, followed b ajor Lszoan, Fifth ine | te biuf. Major Chaffee, of Colonel Biddie’s wing, fantry, on the 10th of August, escorting portions | pri yess bees e Sue ye sentir Bu ie of the supply train, the main column, under Gen- | 1°e? be, Pa be srenifiarne ae ret a ae, eral Miles, leaving Fort Dodge on the 13th and ar- | ONG BND lets Se ks Week, BIRTHS riving at Sappiy on the 18tb of August. ‘The’| 1 BN Delete ai aflet coe ster 3 ground was parched and dusty, with no water | TY) of the centre, with iniabiry, Chante bated in bis front, lodging an exceeaingly trouble- Save alittie in pools and beds o1 streams, long ks consesiog t distances apart, on tne trail, impregnated with | Some force sea aes alkali. No rain had fallen for months. The troops HE SCOUTS, r oute and animals suffered severely irom excessive under the direction of Lieutenant Baldwin, acted more or less independently during the day, always at the front and in positions of great danger. Of thirst, aggray: d by the dust and heat, At Camp Supply the column halted tor one way to repleuish : 4 the stock of supplies and to prepare Gnaily for tne | ‘¢ Indian scouts, Falling peal ee Olt Sane long march into che wilderness that stretches | Past Seventy years of age, was particularly con- spieuous, At one time he was encircled by Co- manches, who poured at him a heavy shower of balls. The old man gat erect and defiant upon his horse, occasionally bringing his rifie to tne shoul- ver and emptying @ saddle, but never flincting or relaxing jor @ moment his firmpess and manly bearing. Of the white scouts, Lem. Wilson, Ira hundreds of miles in 4 Soutlh-southwesterly direc- mm. On the morning of the lyti, at an eariy hour, the coiamn was in motion, taking the old Indian trail running to the Antelope I Lieu- tenant Baldwin's scouts had preceded tae troops for some days, scouring the country for mites on either side of the trail, singly or in parties of two orthrec. Evidences of the presence of Indians were seen on ail sides, and frequently pickets, with flela glasses, were descried lurking behind | the bluffs, watcaing the progress of the command, No large band was encountered, however, and the line of murch lay through a broken couutry simt- lar in most respects to the plains in general, with the exception that be:ter water and more wood was found during the first few days. On the 26th Lieatenaut Baldwin, Fifth infantry, and a party of Scouts ior the first time reported, having had, during their abseuce, near Adobe Walls, Texas, TWO FIGHTS WITH INDIANS, sustaining no joss, but inficting a loss of several killed and wounded upon the enemy, ‘hey re- ported the main camp Of hostile Ludians south of tue Antelope Hills, on the headwaters of the tribu- taries of Red River. Now te chase vegan, the trail runuing southwest, crossing Custer's (1368) at right angles uear the north fork of River, Camp was broken daily at five o'clock A, M., and the command, with train, marched twenty-five miles daily, experiencing bardships and privations seldom endured, No water was discovered iu the beds of streams and only at long intervals were found holes of stagnant water, impregnated with gypsum and o; the consistency of syrup. Men rusted in (renzy and drank, only to find their (hirst increased ratuer than slacked. Even coifee dolled in (t was found so bitter that it could not be drank, The heat was uuendurable, the thermom- eter ranging above one hundred degrees daily. The march was simply @ terrible journey through a barren waste—iesert as it is, On the 27th the Main [udian trail was struck at the Sweetwater and folmwed. The morning of the 28th it was plain that the savages were out a short distance ahead, | ‘The main train was this day leit behind in order to expedite the column, in charge of Colonel Bristol, with two companies, © and D, to guard it, Only five ammunition wagons and two amba- lances accompanied tue columu, The trail grew | | fresher and fresher and indicated the passage of {yonal resentment. If the H&RALD Will only cor- Jarge numbers Of Indians, The troops were elated | rect this class of dishonest and unscrupulous poli. at the prospect of meeting the toe, new lie was ticitns and deleat their aspirations for place ang iniused, and during the ensuing two days they guisned themselves, Thus ended the firat battle of the campaign. Our loss was one cavalry sergeant and two men wound- ed, while that inflicted upon the Indians was ac least thirty. It had, up to this fight, been regarded an impossibility to operate successiully against Indians at tiis seasoa ofthe year. When grass can be had for their ponies and buffaloes are plenty the savages roam at will in this section, “If you want to find Indians go tor them in | winter” is an oldexpression in the army. This | has been the experience of troops heretolore. On the 31st General Miles with the cavairy crossed the Red River and following the trail penetrated a distance of thirty miles into the Staked Plains. On the route the bodies of seventeen dead Indians, together with abandoned property of all sorts, were passed, which fact not only provea their great loss and severe punisiment the day previous, but indicated as well their complete rout and de- moralization, Unless pushed to the death an lndian never permits @ dead body to fall into the hands of an enemy. In the reconnoissance the main force of the In- ns was discovered and estimated at about including families, Tue scarcity of supplies rendered it necessary for the column to retarn to @ point neare 2 base, When refitted and some- what recuperated we shall make another ana longer moy' | WHAT THE HERALD SHOULD DO, | (From the Petersburg Index and Appeal.) | The whole fault lies witn the radical party, | whicn docs not desire peace and which schemes and conspires to prevent peace. The only element in which their party flourisues—born aa it was oF strive and in strife—is strife; and they have no idea of abandoning their hold on power while sian- der ofthe South and bogus outrages and fabri- cated violations of the Jaw can fire the Northern and keep alive the old time fame o! sec- a power, there would be no oceasion for a Lew national convention, There is but one spectre marched sixty-five miles. In such a country sucn wluich rises between the Republic and its rewliza- marching seems incredible, iniantry and cavalry | WON Of the dream of peace, and that red spectre marehing together. On the morning of the stn {He radical party, wich must Brat be Me bene the column started at four o’clock. the scouts. ag | mercy. ton led the right wing and Colonel Biddle the leit. | and thieving raids upon the ‘rontier settlements, | v1) ives, gecupiea by about $00 Indians, were a | stantly going out of the country down to Septem- til the trcops sprang unfinchingly to the | temporary depression of trade. Such losses must the moment of | slight resistance was followed by sixty arrests. At | Meze, near Montpelier, a similar occurrence led to turned, completely routed, flying in all directions. | hours, however, sil was quiet, | eMfictousness of the municipality. | will spring—the United States of Europe—tne | unimpaired by her recent disusters. Paris is the | signatures of one thousand Roumanians, who t Wetmore, who carried his orders to the right aud | taking Nice and Savoy, but not Germany for tak. | | upon the officers and men engaged. Much gal- | Paris, where he was of course credit | is highly provable that they will fy at each other's When fired the shell entered the pony, and | throats. exploded aud blew both animal and rider into frag. | Which Wing and W. F, Scnmailser, particularly distin- ; FRANCE. |How MacMahon May Prolong His Term of Office. | Domestic Joy for the Divine Right Princes. ee | Citizens in Contact with the | Military. PARIS, Sept. 11, 1874, The Duchess of Chartres has been delivered of ason, It 1s hazardous to criticise the economy of nature, but the supply of Orleans princes does seem to be greatly in excess of the demand. Should the Count of Paris ever come to the throne there is no fear lest he shoul be seized with the | panic which feil on George IV., of England, and made him issue a royal order to bis brother to get married with all possible speed, lest the House of Hanover should come to an abrupt termination. REACTIONARY SCHEMES, Probably the enormous sums which were con- | | | ber last are suMcient to account for the present tell on France for a time, however little Germany may gain. The 4th of September was celebrated throughoat the South o! France. At Périgueux | the police thought fit to disturb a banquet held in honor o: the day in a remote quarter of the town, Some two hundred persons were pres:nt, but by the coniession of the authorities there was not the slightest appearance of ariot, Neverthe- | less the assembly was ordered to disperse, and a AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE MILITARY, in which nineteen persons were wounded, one mortally. Some prisoners were led by the soldiers to their barracks, which the mob then threatened to burn down, The terrible word peiroleum began to be heard again. In a fow The peace would probably never have been broken but for the It workingmen are not allowed to sing the “Marselllatse” and drink their wine to the heaith of the Republic they will do worse. vicroR HUGO is said by some malicious person to have addressed a letter to the Peace Congress sitting at Geneva, Jrom which the f.llowing is an extrac Every congress is a reunion, every reunion is union, every union is a progress, Congress, pro- gress—two great things wuich rhyme, aud rhyme is reagon, You want peace ani hberiy, Sodo 1. Peace and liberty! Grandiose and luminous— pleonasm. Peace 1s liberty; liberty is peace. To desire one ts to desire the Other. The one is the other; the other 18 the one. does not wish for 1t? Peace and ltoerty are the twin sisters from whose embraces the communion of youth communion ol men, You have selected Geueva as the lying-in bospital of your grand conceptions, You were right, Voitaire took reiuge in the bosom of Geneva—tnat flea of genius, whose bites arousea sleeping people. Geneva 18 \esy great jor having given Lirth to Rousseau. Health and prosperity. These words, which are, at least very charac- teristic of the author, will be recéived with pro- found reverence by the whole Latin race as a few lines of Emerson or Carlyle would be by men of Anglo-Saxon origin, The intellectual and moral influence of France on Southern Europe remains eye—the soul of the nations which owe birth and language to old Rome. A striking instance of the Gepth of this feeling has just been given in the presentation of a gold medal to M. Thiers, accom- panied by an address to which are appended the ank | the ex-President for having liberated the soil of France. Even Garibaldi could forgive France for ing Alsace-Lorraine, BUSSIAN ROYALTY. The Grand Duke Constantine bas passed through | with a mission of mysterious import. A grand dinner was given by Marshal MacMahon tn his honor. It was remarked that the Prince, though cordial in his demeanor to the Marslal, was extremely re- served on politica! questions. Tne policy of Rus- sia must be to a great extent the policy of the Czar, and a French Republic has no chance of winning the sympathies of Alexander the Second. When the Russian and German nat.ons break loose from the control of their reigning houses it Then France may obtain the alliance alone, a8 she knows, can give her back her lost provinces. But while the present cordial anderstanding continues be- tween the Courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg there appears to be no danger Of the peace of Europe | being broken. Indeed, aiter all has been said | about the wars which dynastic ambition bas kindled, in this age it is crowns that are peaceiul | and peoples warlike, | The Crimean war was 83 mach the work of the English press as of the Emperor Napoleon, while | the war of 1870 was forced on that sovereign by | the journalists of Paris, The attack of Aastria | and Prussia on Denmark was loudly applauded by | tne German democracy, nor would Bismarck have | ventured on the struggle of 1866 if he had nottelt | qeniers.” sure that the nation was with tim. Our own civil war was due to no monarchical intrigues, The race of modern Kings las not the strength among them to fight four years tor a great idea. Why should kings go to war? They have nothing to gain and all to lose by it, On the other hand, the United States. It ts diMeult ito believe that the German people, who are thoroughly good-natured, are hot ashamed of the countenance given to & wretched apy, the very type of a mouchara under the Second Empire. A GSRMAN BUREAUORAT 1s, according to Bismarck bimsel!, the most con- temptinle of beings, ready to bully or to fawn, aa the quality of a visitor may sugg.st. One cannot but tancy that some of these gentry have received orders to treat the French roughly and to make them feel that they are conquered. This policy may be pursued too tar. THE NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR AT MADRID ts M. de Chandordy, who seems desirous of inherit- img the blessing pronounced on those of whom all men speak well, Atier a successful diplomatic ca- reer under the imperial government he became Gambetia’s Minister tor Foreign Affairs at Tours, ‘The Duke de Broglie turned the Legation at Berne inco an embassy for him, and now the Duke De- cazes sends him to the post of honor at Madrid. The secret of his promotion is said to be that he has brains, and it is added the Cabinet of Beritn ts far {rom pleased at the appointment, fearing M. de Chandordy may counteract the influence of Count Hatzield, the representative of Germany. lcannot help thinking that the Count de Chan- dordy must be a ladies’ man, No mere talent will explain such extraordinary good fortune, THR HARVEST, Thanks to @ brilliant sun the crops have been abundant, and France cau now return to the foreigner the wheat she has received from abroad. Not leas than $54,000,000 has been expended this year on foreign corn. export trade for the first seven months of 1874 has amounted to $319,200,000, being $16,000,000 less than during the corresponding period of 1873. The republican papers attrivute the decrease to the unsettled state of tne political atmosphere since the accession of Marstal MacMahon to the Presidency, but though capital is proverbially timid it is diMcult to see what cause of alarm there tsat the present. Whichever party isin power is studious to 1oster the interests of trade, and the moneyed men of France can make their wishes very ciearly known when it suits them. It was even rumored that when the last three mil- liards of the indemnity were being ratsed the bankers who took up-the loan exacted 8 sort of promise from the leaders of the conservative sec- tions in the Assembly that they would not at- vempt to drag the country into a war with Italy. BOOKSELLERS’ CONVENTION. Organization of the Trade Into a Cen- tral Association—Its Composition and Officers. For two days past the leading publishers and dealers in books have met at the Grand Central Hotel tor the purpose of adopting measures for the protection of the trade. For years the sale of books has been encroached upon by fancy goods men, dealers in boots, shoes, dry goods and other commodities outside of publica- tions, In numerous instances such per- sons would aad books to their retail stock and dispose of them at rates lower than the publisher could produce tnem, mereiy for the purpose of inducing other trade. The organ- ization of yesterday will tend to obviate this evil, as it commits the publishers and book jobbers toa certain policy (rom which they cannot depart without violating every principle of mercantile honor and rectitude. The newly adopted constitu- tion and bylaws are now the rules by which sellers and purchasers have to be guided, and any vioia- tion of the same will subject the offender to severe penalties, ‘rhe Convention was @ most respectable and infiuential body. Nearly every publishing house or any note in the Eastern States was represented, either directly or indirectly. Among those present were che joliowing:—Messrs. A. ©. Armstrong, of Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York; Walter 8. Appleton, of D. Appleton & Co., New York; A. C. Barnes, of A. S. Barnes & Co., New York; Isaac E. Sheldon, of Sheldon & Co., New York; George R. Lockwood, late oi Roe, Lockwood & Co., New York; Peter Carter, of Carter Brothers, New Yor; Orange Judd, of the Judd Puolishing Compaay, New York; Charies T. Dillingham, of Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, New York; C. W. Christern, New York; J. S. Baker, of Baker, Pratt & Co., New York; F. #. Ginn, of Ginn Brothers, New York; James Miller, New York; Edward McLoughlin, of McLoughlin Brothers, New York; P. Farrelly, of the American News Company, New Yor! . O. Houghton, of Hurd & Houghton, New York; J. R. Putnam, of J. K, Putnam’s Suns, New York; Charies A. Clapp, of E. B, button & Co., New York; E. J. Hale, of Hale & Son, New York; Witam B, Dick and A. T. Sm.th, of Dick & Fitzgerald, New York; William Lee, of Lee & Shepard, Boston; Benjamin H. Ticknor, of James R, Osgood & Co. (lace ‘Tickoor & Fieids), Boston; Edmund Claxton, of Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, Philadetpmia; Joseph M. Cushing, of Cushing & Batiey, Baitimore; H. GC, Turubail, of Turnbull Brothers, Baltimore; J. B, Piet and T. Newton Kurz, of Baltimore. The meeting organized by appointing Mr. Isaac E. Sheldon to the chair and Mr. George R. Lockwood as secretary. Mr. A. U. Chairman of the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, made his report and submitted a project of the same, which, alter an immense amount of debate, was Anally adopted. The most important portion of the bylaws adopted was the Jollowing clause :— The Executive Committee, after consuitation with each publisher, shall recommend to the association a scale of maximum discounts to be given to booksellers by book jobbers, and also a scale of maximum discouns: to be given to ministers, teachers, schools, libraries, pro- fessional men generally and other large buyers outside of the trade, aud when adopted shall cause the same to be printed tor distribution among the members of this association only, In defining the term “booksellers,” the organi- zation decided that such are ‘ieaiers in books only, OF priucipaliy books and stationery only, drugs, books and stationery only and news- ‘The name of the new organization is the Central Bookseliers’ As-Ociation, and it iuciudes among Its members the publishers, jobbers and dealers in this and neighboring cities. Mr. Joseph K, Cushing, a8 chairman of the spe- cial committee to nominate officers, reported the following gentlemen as permanent officers, viz.:— | A. ©. Barnes, President; P, M, Hale, secretary and The general import and | RDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874,—TRIPI | rocky that my mule cast one shoe and broke Barnes, as | | Vera may also be reached from the French President of a Repubiic, 1f he is an ambitious | Treasurer ; Walter S. meer: J, 8. Baker, Charles | man, may seek in a war his only chance of remain- ingin power, AS | THE SEPTENNATE DRAWS TO A CLOSE MacMahon may begin to reflect on the best means of prolonging his tenure of oMce. He will | nave only slightly exceeded the Psalmtst’s term of | the position <9 which he was chosen. life in 1880, and, should the French army be recon structed by that time, who knows but that the | vision of a dictatorship to the end of his days, or | even an imperial crown, may tempt the victor of | Magenta to try and do something great for hi country (and for himself), He has received @ sword of bonor for losing the battle of Reichshof- fen with honor. Fora victory over the Germans, for the recapture of Metz, there is no reward his countrymen would grudge. | It is true that, by the constitution of the Repub- lic, the National Aseembly has the exclusive power of declaring war; but it is not difficult fora head ofthe executive in France to goad a neighvoring government into breaking tie peace, when there remains nothing for the representatives of the people but to devise new taxes and vote patriotic address. At present, it must be con- fessea, there is more likelihood of France being at length provoked into hostilities than of her seexing to excite them. The circumstances | which led to the arrest of M. About must be fresh in the recoliection of your readers, A similar incident bas just occurred at Wiesbaden, Two | French priests were on boara @ Rhine steamer, anda German was pointing out to them the | ‘peauties of the scenery. Passing by the Castic of Bierbrich, one of the priests asked to whom it | | belonged, and was told by his informant that it | | had once peen the property of the Duke of Nas- #au, but hac since been added to the domains of the Emperor William, “Ab! he has; stoien it like everything else,” observed the juckless priest, His German acquaintance immediately com- | plained to tue Captain of the vessel, who pooh- poohed the matter. At the next landing stage, however, the German denounced the priest to the authorities. He Was arrested and lay for a month in prison AWAITING IIIS TRIAL. He was arraigned jor insulting the Emperor, and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Americans, therefore, had better be carefal | in tueir language while on board a Rhine steamer, lest a zealous German should take it on | himself to lock one of tuem up for a month with- , T. Dillingham, Executive Cominittee ; William Lee, Boston; Isaac E. Sheldon, New York; Edmund Claxton, Piiladeiphia, Arbitration Commitcee, The recommendations were adopted and the of- ficers as proposed duly elected. ‘The President, in assuming the chair, to a few well chosen remarks promised to do his duty in On motion of Mr, James Miller a vote of thanks was passed to the temporary ofiicers. On motion of Mr. Cushing the Executive Cum- mittee was instructed to report a schedule of dis- which i to take place in about two wecks.. Messrs. Lee, Ciaxton, Sheldon and others ad- dressed the meeting, after which the assembly ad- journed. The greatest good to the book trade is ‘@ugured from this new organization. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. M, EMILE DE CIRAnDrIN, notwithstanding his ad- vanced age, has undertaken the chief editorial di- rection of Za France, and be will enter upon his duties on November 1. AN ENGLISH translation of Professor Ribat’s im- portant work on ‘Heredity, a Psychological Study of its Phenomena, Laws and Consequences,” will be issued soon. A Racy Sportina Boox, by “The Vid Shekarry,” ig out in London, under tue title of “The Forest and the Field,” The author has the trae nomadic spirit, and telis his stories of hunting most vividly, Tne LoNnDON Spectator calls Professor Jonn Bas- com’s Lowell lectures on English literature ‘‘tedi- ous and unsatisfactory.” Rev. A. B. Muacnam, the Peace Commisstoner who was nearly killed by Captain Jack's Modocs, “rhe Wigwam and Warpath.” are promised by Osgood & Uo, HaZLitt's excellent life of Napoleon, long out of print, will be republished by Lippincott in three handsome volumes, GENERAL CuSTER's book, “My Life on the Plains,” will shortly be issued by Sheldon & Co. ‘Tur Fortnightly Review bas been purchased by A. Dilke, a brother of Sir Charles Dilke, who owns the Atheneum and the Gardeners’ Chronicle, AN IMPORTANT new book on Lorenzo de Medici, by A, de Reumout, has appeared in Germany, ana Will be valuable to allstudents of italian history, Mag, Suyruez’s “fen Months in the Fiji Islands” 1s full of enticing descriptions, Mx, SWINBURNE is writing @ critical essay of the life and works of George Chapman, to, be preflaed out @ trial. But Kuropean authorities are very | cautious af nlaving snen tricks oa citizens Of tha | w) the new edition of his Wripnds counts at the hext meeting of the association, | much importance in the present war. The Carlists | 18 writiog @ book about the Indians, to be called | Mr, JOHN MORLEY’s essays “On Compromise” | , tron ore, | all the same; but when he learned | had a pass | or sixty pleces, for all the needs of the ensuing | campaign. | square miles over Which the rainfall has been de- that they should, with such insuficient means, | LE SHEET. pounds; Vavasseur, nine centimetres, twenty pounds; Woolwich, six centimetres, twel pounds, and shells for a Spanish rifed gun ef eight centimetres, besides bomos of twenty-four and thirty-two pounds, The iron for these shells’ is made at a smelting furnace apout two miles away, the fuses and percussions are made at Aspatia, Where the Carlists have established a can~ non foundry, and tue lead snd other material come trom France, DON CARLOS CANNON FOUNDRY. A Correspondent at Vera, in the Valley of the Bidassoa. VERA 1s only forty miles from rampeluna, General Morte ones’ headquarters, It 18 only twenty from St. Sebastian, eighteen from Hernan and ten from lrun, which places are all held by the troops of Serrano, and yet no attempt has ever been made to burn this ‘shell manufactory, which is of suck importance to the Carlists, This fact alone is & sutticlent commentary on the apathy aud inca- pacity of Spanish officers ss compared with the daring and nardibood displayed py the Carliste. A Romantic Trip Across the French Frontier. The Royalist Bourbon Arsenal and Its Resources. Vera, Sept. 8, 1874, Vera {s a village of 1,809 inhabitants, situated in the valley of the Bidassoa, about ten miles trom the sea. It ts only two miles from the French frontier, trom which it is separated by & spur of the Pyrenees, impassable for vehicles, bat easy for mules; and it 1s by this route that agrest part of the articles termed contraband of war find their way into the Cariist lines, A MOUNTAIN TRIP BY A HERALD SPECIAL COBRR- SPONDENT. Having crossed once by the high road to Pampe- luna, | had some curtosity to try the mountain route and see what observations would be thrown in my way. I accordingly procured a couple of mules in St. Juan de Luz and started one morning just at sunrise, The road was as bad as it well could be, being for the most part a mere bridie path, rough, crooked and stony; but the ride was, nevertheless, avery pleasant one, The way was lined on either side with hedges of blackberry bushes, of whose rich black iruit you could eat your Mii from the saddle, taking at the same time a shower bath oj dew, aclightiully refreshing in the cool morning air, and getting your hands scratched till they bied into the bargain, AT A CRITICAL POINT IN THE DIVIDING LINE, Jn an hour and a half you reach the French Cus- THE SUMMER RAINFALL. Scientific Report of the Supply of Raim During the Months of July and Aa. gust—from the Great Pluins to the Atlantic Seaboard. WASHINGTON, Sept, 24, 1874. Jam indebted to the Chief Signal OMicer for the following important data on the summer rai- fall:— Acareful comparison of the Signal Service re+ ports, both regular and volunteer, shows the fol- lowing state of the raintall during the montns of July and August over the entire districts extend- ing eastward from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, The deficiencies of rains fall which exceed one inch and @ half are com siderca as partial droughts, Beginning the survey oi this whole region at the Northwest, 1t is found that in MINNESOTA there was for July large deficiency of rainfatl, amounting to 3,10 inches; but in August this de- ficiency was partly made up by unusual prectpi- tation, Summing up, howevor, the total rainfall for both July and August, there still remains @ deficiency of 1.6) Inches in the sixty-two days of tom House, situated in pleasant litte val- | oi ycrvation—that is to say im this last named ley which here comes down out of the | Jorioa there were 1.60 inches less of rain than mountains, There are four or five houses usually falls, This fact proves that there Mas been a partial drougit in the State, Turning next to the here, empowered in iruit trees, and a post of soldiers who look after smugglers and are sup- posed to prevent the exportation of all articles considered contraband of war into Spain, 1 can- not say they look very closely aiter people going into Spain, whatever they may do to those coming back, for I had passed the Custom House fully a hundred yards before I was even seen, A gendarme at last happened to look around, saw me and requested me to halt, which L accordingly did. LOWER MISSOURI VALLEY, the rain registers show that both in July an@ August there was less rain than deual. The totat deficiency of precipitation, as compared with the average of many years, was 0.85 of an inch, abous equally distributed throughout the growing sea gon. Special drough‘s were reported in July from Missourt aud Kansas, and tie summer may be considered, thereiore, unusually dry tn this whole section drained into the great river, Still the total ceficiency of moistare 1s only about one-half that reported trom Minnesota for the same period. ‘The total area of tnis section under observation may be put down as about that of the State of Missouri, of which, probably, not one-nalf had # deficiency of ram exceeding one inch anda half Coming next to TUE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, the returns show a deficiency of moisture in July and anexcess in August. But the excess does not balance the defiziency by 1.55 inches, indi- cating @ serious drought throughout this district, FRENCH OFFICIAL ETIQUETTE, Iwas somewhat amused at his vehavior when he came up, He was very polite, not knowing, of course, but that I might be some great personage in disguise, of which there are a good many crossing the frontier these days, and commenced asking me questions in a way that made it evident he wished to ascertain whether | haa any papers before committing himself by demanding them. I am thoroughly convinced that if 1 had not had the scratch of a pen to show I would have passed port he instantly assumed that air of importance which a French gendarme knows so well how to ! ay be ‘oximate); put on, and ordered me in asevere tone to pro- wboke: FOpOUNE Be Sees aes be thcliehestt tha he State or Il duce it, evidently glau that I was en régte, and | qpeinatet ar eyeny Poteet al teia tn Cat | about 50,000 square miles, In tae SEM REE ee THE OWJO VALLEY AND TENNESSEE OVER THE POINT OP DEMARKATION—WIERE NEXT? the condition of things has been brighter, the rain- A balf an hoor laier I passed the stone marking bee beet bales Be Lae eee ibelaote tant the frontier, It was in a littie rocky, woody aetl, | {7 MLN FOI | the neuvy rains in Tennessee, down which a little stream came tumbling and boaey ee sa h 1 brawling, making enough noise for a large river; which bring up the figures for the whole district the moauiaiaa on efthoinait ware. covorea: witn | Tita whieh At 1s! clan an ee oaireee tecex ina Re GLE penm mite: 'and"averye | one ee eee Onto'Valley aid not where were paths traversing them in all direc- receive its usual amount of rain eitherin July or August. Special droughts prevailed in Kentucky s | tions. It would certainly be a dimcuit ) airing suly and more generally over the Ohio Vale task to prevent mules, = though ~~ loaded | 1 quring tne latter part of August, ‘he total with arms and munitions of war, trom |? Ls 3 area of partial drought in this valley may be eatt- mated at 20,000 square miles, THR UPPER LAKE REGION also shows an abnormal scarcity of rain, both im July and August, to which there is no offset. The total deficiency 18 1.15 inches for the sixty-two days considered; and, while this seems to have fallen unilormly on the whole region, instead of being confined to spots, the area in which the pre- cipauion has been one and a half inches below the average may be computed as approximating 40,000 square miles. The total condensation over THE LOWER LAKE REGION is marked by the same scarcity. Thougn there was a slight excess o' rain in July, the August dry- ness more than counterbalanced tt and catdown the total 0.90 of an inch below the mean of many years, THE DESCENT Droughts occurred in this section during the last 1s by a path as steep if not as rocky as the ascent, | Part of August, and the total area in which the and required about the same iength of time, ana | Precipitation has been one and a half inches below Tarriveaa¢ Vera atnine in the morning, aiter'a | SiG Svoraee, probably does ‘nos call ar‘anore of 20,000 square miles, three hours’ march trom St. Juan de Luz. Casting the cye sovtnward the figures show for THE TOWN OF VERA, passing the trontier here, especially in the night, when it 1s remembered that the frontier is only two hours from St. Juan de Luz; that the whole aistance may, therefore, be made between mid- night and daylight; that any quantity of arms and munitions may be sent to St. Juan de Luz as ordinary merchandise, subject to no right of in- spection by the police. The ascent to the top of the mountain takes about half an hour by a road so another in accomplishing it. One is well repaid the trouble, however, by the splendid view obtained from the top—a view comprising a vast extent of country on both sides of the frontier, ag well as the towns of Vera (neatled down in its little valley), Behobie, Hendoze, Fontarabla and the ocean. THE WESTERN GULF STATES a large excess of rain tor July, amounting to four inches, but for August a deficiency of over three | inches. It 18 pleasing to no.tce that the total tor tiie sixty-two days 1s 1D Javor of the district, sho’ ing an excess of 0.8 0! an inch. Special droughts, = nave prevailed in Texas, o frontier town of Behobie, near the sea, on the panks of the Bidassoa, which here forms the frontier between France and Spain. From this point two good macadamized roads, following either bank of the river, lead to the place and branch off to other points, In spite of its somewhat unpleasant reputation in connection | with the s:nister Santa Cruz, who made it for along time his neadguarters, Vera is a pretty, pleasant | little place—pleasant on account of its isolation; its quiet air of content; tne ciear, pure mountain stream that goes brawling through its streets; the clatter of the mill, which may be heard this quiet, | sunny afternoon mingling with the ring of the anvil in the blacksmith’s shop around the corner, whore my mule ts being shod, It is especially pleasant, too, after the French seaside places, becanse the people have not yet learned to look upon you as their natural prey, to regard you as their bread and butter, and do not, therefore, lay themselves out, as in Biarritz, to make their living out of you. The mountains around are full of and there are several tron furnaces | and factories in the vicinity. Indeed, it is owing to this reason that the place has lately assumed so THE EASTERN GULF STATES the rainfall hus been normal, if we combine the excess of July wiln the deficiency of August, TUB SOUTH ATLANTIC STATES nave snffered around deilcieucy of 1,00 inch m the sixty-'wo days. During August this was doubied, the August raimiall being 2.20 incues short o1 the average Jor tis month, Tue drought districts may, therelure, be put down as covering @n area OL country approximating 95,000 square wiles, For the MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES the data furnished show that the total rainfall for July and August tell 125 tuches below the normat or average lor ney years. This deficiency oc- curred almost entirely in August, the July returns showing a hormal precipitation, The chief areas of the August drought in tne Midule States are in Southern Maryland and Northern Virginia, tn the western and northeastern portion of Peunsyl- vanta, and in that part of New York lying west of the Hudson River, There was a@ large deficiency ol raip in the St. Lawrence Valley and Northern New York. The total area which has bad a de- ticient rainfall in the Middle States may be esti- mated at 40,000 square miles. ihe exceptional returns are most marked here there has heeu, Inthe sixty-two days con- | where there has been, in the sixty-two da: have turned one of these factories into a foundry | sidered, au abnormal excess of rain, amounting in for the manufacture of shells and are already all 0 3.56 inches. 1 has tallen mostly near the turning out shelis of four or five diderent kinds at | © a rate sufficient to supply their cannon, some fiity Oust, Approximately, therefore, there has been 10 all sections east of the great piains, and et 4 from the Gulf to the iakes, an area of 380, ficient, as compared with the average of many years; and this deficiency has been abvut one and @ hall inches for the pertod of two moutos, July and August. Butin all these estimates of super- ficial area no regard has beeu had to land in cule tivation, but only to the entire geographical area or ett AMERICAN EXPLORATION IN OHINA- Cruise of the United States Steamer Ashuelot--A Naval Party Footing it Overland—Sixty Thousand People Gaz- ing at the Free Flag. [From the China (London) Telegraph, Sept. 14] ‘The United States steamer Ashuclot, Com. mander Matthews, returned to Shanghai on the 2ist of July, aller a cruise of over 4 mouth in the | waters of the Yang-taze, above Hankow. ‘The Ashuelot left Shanghai on the 12th of June, voyaged up the river for a distance of over 1,000 miles, or more than 360 miles above Hankow, and, consideravly above the point hitherto reached by THE ROYALIST ARMS AND MUNITIONS FOUNDRY. 1 bave just inspected the place and have found itin a more advanced state of activity than I had supposed. It has only been in operation about two months, and as yet one snail water wheel is sufficient to drive all the machinery in operation, Toany one who has seen the great factories of Woolwich, it has, 0! course, a very primitive look, and more resembles 4 toy house in its proportions than a shellioundry, Everything is on a miniatare scale, from the puny little waterwheel to the little two pound Whitworth shells scarcely more than an inch in diameter. But, incomplete as the machinery Is, the Carlists manage to turn out 300 shelis, of different calibres, here per day; and it is only another proof of their untiring activity nevertheiess accomplish 30 much, Three hundred ghells per day is enough to keep up the war as itis now carried on, without counting those that foreign vessels. come in irom other countries, But this is only the Alter having anchored at Ichang, where cere~ beginning. Machinery has already arrived which, | moniai visits were exchanged between the oficera, when in operation, wili increase the capacity of aud the Bl hae ovher baw iegpenniinn ae the | city, @ party from the sip went overland on am the place about tenfold, and there is a fine water sasloring expedition, and met with ihe greatest power which can drive, when in working con- kKimuness and good feeling everywhere, The ex- dition, even more macyinery than they will have, | cursion extended over several days, and after the At present they have 118 men employed. Their return of tue party steam was raised and the Asouelot ran up to the gorges oi the Yang-tsze. pay 18 one franc each per day all around, with | Ac one time tue crowds avout the shi Tations, and wien the number of shells they turn | Were $0 great, and became so neunyeniens . , r to those on board, that It became necessary for Led adel Mian el Rabid nt dada Shaded th | Woutal to issue # hotitication to prevent any aoe seen that Don Carlos is making a little money go @ | noyance, At another stage of the Asnuelot’s prog. long way. ress the assemblage along the banks of the river was computed at 50,000 Co 6,000, mmense num bers having re: d to Iohang trom the districts ground to see the extraordinary visitor. The Ashuelot reports that as far as she had Teachied water Was sound fit to foal any steamer or tea ship visiting (ms coast. She also reports portions of the country above Hankaw aa vers, THE SHELLS they are now making are the Whitworth, calibre Seven cenumetres short and the same calibre long, Weighing about ten pounds; Whitworth, seven centimetres, weighing twelve pounds; Vavasseur, Krupp avstem, caubre seven centimetres. twelve | much tuundeted.