The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1874, Page 3

AFRICA. Mr. Henry M. Stanley's Present Expedition. THE SLAVE TRADERS. The Great Work of the Sultan of Zanzibar. EXPLORING THE RUFIJI. The Prospective Commerce of Dar Salaam. ‘ZaNalBaR, East Coast of Africa, Oct, 19, 1874 As 1 #it down to the table and take up tne writ. ing implements to record my experiences of the last few weeks a wisn darts to my mind—that the art of writing wag never invented, It ts true. Writing to me is such a labor at this moment. I bave but the day before yesterday returned from the exploration of the Rufiji River and its deita— returned only in time to be compelled to write to you of what Ihave seen, because if I do not take advantage of the four days of grace given me by the stay of the mail steamer in port you and Your readers would have to wait another month before iniormation could be received by you of the movements of your “Commissioner.” Yet would I giadly avail myself of some excuse—a reasonable excuse—to postpone writing to you for various rea- Sons. One main reason is that itis exceedingly hot and the perspiration is unrestrainable, and a feel- NEW YURK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1874 dashed past the dhows bound for the coast of the Mainland, Owing to the head wind we were com- pelled to pay close attention to our course and Keep a good lookout to avoid the numerous reefs and sand patches which make the navigation of the seain the vicinitya aimcult anda perplexing task to @ novice. No sooner had we passed by the pale green waters of the South Lackbrey bank than the Northern Harps indicated their presence by their gleaming tops of sand and a thousand short sbow-crested waves, wnich tumbled tumultuously over their low sloping shores; while on our star- board side the Hamisa bank and its dangerous neighbors showed ‘horrent enough by many an angry looking wave, A short haif hour of swift sailing brought us in the neighborhood of the ugly dark coral redfs, strangely called tne “Cow Reefs,” which cover an area of about three square Miles, The heim was pressed hard down, and the Wave was forced almost in the very teeth of the rising gale. Not anti) the last white crest over the Teets had disappeared from Vion . Were We relieved |e. from anxiety and able to ehare in the general en- thuBtasm ‘of the'tfew at the perfect behavior of the tiny vessel. Shortly after dark we anchored at a point a few miles north of Mbwenni and disposed ourselves to Sleep as best we could, the surf sounding drearily Monotonous in our ears, and a faint rumor of tne noises of the night which are caused by the myriad insects of tropical Africa reaching us only during the panses of the heavy suri-beats. At dawn we were wakened, thoroughly damp and cold from the night dew, and one of tae young Englishmen was soon obliged to lie down again from his first attack of fever. It struck me at this moment that we were engaged In rather a foolish trip if we intended to tramp into the interior, and | that to brave the malaria of the Rofiji delta just as We ought to be sparing of the health and en- | ergy we brought from Europe was not a wise pro- ceeding. This thought, however, was but the con- sequence of the misery in which we had passed the night and the damp cold we then experienced, | It was soon stilled, however, by the genial warmth of the rising sun and by the bright green appear- ance of the palms and patches of forest which lined the shore. With a favorable land breeze we sailed south- | MURDEROUS MINERS. Unoffending Citizens Threatened With Death. LETTERS FROM THE GANGS. “Raw Heads and Bloodv Bones.” A Terrible Condition of Society Described. SCRANTON, Pa,, Dec. 1, 1874. “Mr, Hexry Littie—The reason of so many warnings and ne'er a blow, you had iriends in the trade, You are a doomed man. Prepare to meet your God.—Moon- RAKBR” “Put Yourselt in His Place.” “The American reader of the popular work quoted from above, as he read these threatening lines, no doubt regarded them as the dovelopment of a Sensational school of fiction, or, tf he gave them the slightest credence, thanked heaven that he lived in a land in which no such epistles could be penned, In my former communications from this neighborhood I simpiy endeavored to portray the | scenes I witnessed with my own eyes and to represent the condition of society, which, 1 ciaim, | no one who has not studied them ts competent to contradict; but I have yet @ mission to fulfil in which the improbable becomes real and in which fiction becomes fact. THE MOLLY WGUIRES. A reverend gentieman on Friday last, in a letter dated at Mahoney City, many miles from this point, denied the existence of any organized bands of murderous banditti, and backed up his argu- Ments irom his own personal experience ami ng those with whom the ‘Mollies” are supposed to have originated, Wtthout attempting to dispute his arguments as they apply to that particular AMUSEMENTS. The Past Opera Season. On Monday, September 28, Mr. Max Strakosch commenced a season of Italian opera, of thirty nights amd ten matinées, at the Academy of Music, Hig company consisted of six prime donne, Mile. Albani, Mile. Heilbron, Mile. Marest, Madame Po- tentini, Mile, Donadio and Miss Annie Louise Cary; Wuree tenors, Messrs, Carpi, Debassint and Ben. fratelli; two baritones, Messrs. Del Puente and Taghapietra, and two basses, Messrs. Piorini and Scolara, with the usual number of singers for small roles, a large chorus and an orchestra j under the direction of Messrs, Muzto and Behrens. The season was not # successiul one financially, owing to several reasons. The princt- Ppalones which may be adduced were the con- stant representations of old, worn-out operas, which at the present day are only atiractive with star casts, the reaction of pubitc feeling alter the exciting season of last spring, when the grandest operatio attractions were given night after night, and the undue prominence given to Verdi’s “Requiem Mass,” @ work which should never have been given during a regular oper. Season There were twenty-seven subscriptl on periofiit: ances and eight matinées during the season | which has just closea, and the works brought out , May be distributed ag. ollows:—Verdi—"Travi- | ata,” twice; ‘ovatore,” three times; ‘“AYda,’? pat) times; “Prnant,’? threé times, “Rigoletto,” { Twiee, an equiemh siass,” once; total tor Verdi, sixteen performances, Marchetti—*Ruy | Blas,” four times. Donizetti—Lucia,” twice; “Doughter o1 the Regiment,” twice. Thomas— | “Mignon,” three times. Gounod—“Faust,’’ twice. Bellini—*Sonnambula,” twice. Wagner—Lonen- rin,” twice, Kossini—*Barber of seville.’’ once, lotuw—“Martha,” once. 1t will be seen trom this list what an undue prominence was given to the | hackueyed works of Verdi aud to the Italian | School generally, If Verdi oe such a favorite with the director tt would have been more judicious to have brought out sucn works as ‘Don Carlos,” “Porza del Destino” and “1 Lomoarai,” than op- | eras which people are now tired ol. The uovelty | Of the season in the operatic line, “Ruy blas,)? proved an utter fuilure irom the inuerent wortu- | dessness of the music, It was uufortunace for Mr. Strakosch that he was obliged to postpone until | the last two nights of the season the only real | attracuon, “Lohengrin,” It took Dearly a score | ol rehearsais to present Verdi’s mass, and “the | game was not worth the candle.” Twenty rehear- sais Would fave suiticed tu have bruugut ont “IL 3 ‘It's a wise child that knows his own father,’ but there's DO mistake about the parentage here.” ie Rappose he naturally imitates bis tather after seeing “No, that can’t be, because Macready carefull his children Knowing that he is af actor. pre~ don't ay misunderstand his position. Decause he takes such an elevated view of his art that he fears {t belng misrepresented 10 them. He thinks and rightly too, that there is no smail merit in being able to interpret properly the conceptions of d great mind, and he who gives breathing and mov. ing Ife, who embodies with reailty and stamps with ine + dividuality, the poet's aerial creations, must be Nimsecl? gadawed with some of this majesie lignt by re- fiction, He fears that servants or such like may | Speak of acting to his ehiidren in such away us tein. | presson their small minds & low i of a profession which he believ 90 ull of dignity and moving power when nobly ‘acted’ up to I the time is st when actors were runked as vagabonds aud authors Grub street hacks cringeing in servile subm to uculent publispers or danaling an search of a dinner in ~the apte-room of some addle-headed nobleman. It bagks onnighighed the understanding, so likewise the stage has | its purpose, next to the pulpit, fo elevate and reine ty acing more palpably aud forcibly before us the gran- ur of human passions,”” wre still, the Rev, Mr. Talmage may have access (0 @ private copy of Macready’s works and de fight | In his citation and I wrong. I much prefer the | latter alternative than to oe made to feel thata Christian clergyman should be guilty of the crimon | Jalsi of passing off as genuine that which Le knows to be forged, R New York, Dec, 1, 1874, THE HUGUENOTS IN NEW YORK. Paper Read by Dr. Baird Before the Historical Socicty. A large and appreciative audience assembled tn | the library of the New York Historical Society last | evening to hear Dr. Charles M. Baird, of Rye, read & paper on the “Huguenots in New York.” [he paper | began with a short statement of the causes that | led to this emigration—the appressive measures | Of the government of Louis XIV. in France witn reference to the numerous subjects of his king- dom who professed the Reiormed or Calvanistio faith, These measures culminated in 1685 in | the revocation of the edict of Nantes, | by whicao all the liberties till then granted them were recalled, and the exercise uf their religion was rigidly forbidden. Belore this event acon- that they s siueraple emigration had aiready taken place, be- | ginning with the arrival o. some Walloon families | among the frst settlers 0: New York, in 1623, Par- | ties of Huguenots came over trom time to time— some remaining tn the city, otuers establisming | themselves in Brooklyn and Isiand, ou Staten Island and at New Paltz, in Ulster county. But the principal movement took Bushwick, Long | ing of lasgitude and ennui which has succeeded the ward, clinging to the shore as closely as possible | return to Zanzibar from our exploration of the that we micht lose nothing of the riant beauty of locality in which ne resides, I deem 1t but right to state that from the section oj the country in which | Proieta,”’ with Miss Cary, one of the most reliabie | piace in the course 0: tle two years succeeaing and popular artisis we Dave had here for years, a3 | the revocation of the edict of Nantes, or in 16:6 Rufiji is inimical to physical exertion or mental thought. Besides, every few moments I am trou- bled by the arrival of volunteers for the expedition into the interior, the rumor of its intended depar- ture having stirred up an herotc desire in the minds of the able-bodied and poor people, resi- Gents of this town, to visit the distant regions of Africa, where the tribes are called pagans; where elephants—and consequently ivory—are nu- merous; woeie there are vast extents of level country “covered” with game of all kinds, volunteers come to make ‘snauri’—to hold a Palaver or talk—to question me respecting the amount of pay I can afford to give them, the probable duration of the journey I propose to make, the countries I propuse to visit, @nd other things of like nature. These volun- teers are not to be despised; they are not to be told to depart without words ot a concilla- tory and friendly kind, for out of this class the Members of the expedition must be selected, Without whom its objects could never be con- summated,. This palaver, therefore, requires time, tact and patience; and though I am in+ wardly tuming and storming at these several in- te:ruptions J endeavor to commend myself cheer- fuliy to my fate, hoping that my apparent placable isposition will invite confidence on the part of the volunteers, and that my excuses, which I hum- bly tender, may conciilate the editors of the Daily Zelegraph and the New YoRK HERALD for the brevity of this letter or the sterility of its informa- tion. Ever since my march to Ujiji in search of Dr. Liv- ‘ngstone I have entertained a desire that I might be permitted to explore that most promising of all East Alrican rivers—tie Rufiji. Burton, my heroic Predecessor in Alrica, had, with his usual in- dustry, collected much valuable information respecting this river; and when, subse. quettiy, 1 heard irom the natives that all the small streams to the south of that country were received by the Rwaha, or Rufiji—that tho | Kisigo, an important river ta Urori, which is south of Ugogo, also emptied into the Rwaha—l mentally Placed the Rufiji among the list of those rivers Whose navigation benefits commerce and the world. Lentertained tne opinion that the Rafiji was a river worthy of exploration; that it was a Fiver likely to beveflt East and that portion of Central Africa contiguous to It; that by its means the Gospei might find readier and more feasible access into the interior than by any other route, not even excluding the Wamt River, whose utmost lmit of navigation I place at Mbumi-Usagara, at the foot of the Usagara Mountains; that by means of this noble stream the white merchants of Europe and America might exchange their cottons and beads for the valuable products of the imrerior. I eay this was my opinion, until I saw in some geographical publication two several accounts of explorations of the Rufji. ‘The first purported to be an account of an explora- tion made by Dr. John Kirk and Captain Wharton, of the surveying ship Shearwater, in a steam launch; the second was made by Captain Elton, first assistant to the Political Agent at Zanzibar, who proceeded inland from Sumanga, on the north wide of the Kikunia mouth of the Ruiiji. Messrs, Kirk and Wharton proceeded as far as Fagulia, wnich I presume to be the same as that which the natives call Agunia, or near tt. Captain Elton reached Mpenbeno, ten miles higher up the river. All these gentiemen expressed themselves emphatically against the possibility of utilizing ‘the Rufiji River. Of course after such emphatic expressions of opinion I dared not hope that I would return from the Rufiji with any better opinion ofits. The following letter will show what my impressions of the navigable utility of the Bufji are, with which 1 venture to say nine-tenths of American river steamboat captains would at once agree if they were called upon to examine andgeport apon the river: At half-past three P, M. of the 30th September [ sailed from Zanzibar in the Yarmoath yawl Wave, bound south, The yawl was purchased for the purpose of exploring the portion of East Africa which I considered to be of most interest to the philanthropic and commercial pubiic of England and America. Through the courtesy and kindness of the gentlemen of thé Peninsular and Oriental oMce, on Leadenhall street, and those of the British India Steam Navigation office—more es- pecially Captain Bayley, of the former, and Messrs. Mackinnon and Dawes, of the latter—I was enabied to have her safely shipped and landea at Zanzibar Without damage, though she was a large and heavy boat. Her dimensions were 41 feet length and 9 feet beam; with her deep rudder ghipped she drew five feet, which we a/terward found vo be a disadvantage. Had I been wiser I should have ordered a second rudder, specially made (or river navigation, to be exchanged on en- tering the river for the sea rudder, The crew of the Wave mustered, beside myself, two efficient, industrious and willing young Eng- Ushmen, Francis and Edward Pocock, twenty-tour Wangwana or freemen of Zanzibar, armed with Snider rifes, two black cabin boys and a@ cabin passenger in the shape of a thoroughbred English bull terrier, Jack, who for his fare and passage ‘was to make mimself useiul at night while on the Rufji to warn off midnight plunderers. If you add as stores two casks of water, @ thousand pounds of rice and some cabin provisions for the whites, it will be seen that she was a boat of some capacity. Several officers of the cruising fleet at Zanzibar Who had seen her at anchor in port nad spoken highly of her, and some had said that she was just the kind of boat Her Mayesty’s cruisers on the Kast Coast of Africa ought to be supplied with for slave dnow catching in shallow waters. After a three weeks’ trial of this kind of boat I am inclined to the game opinion. With a moderate monsoon breeze she travels faster than any steam launch that ever came to Zanzibar could. Asan instance of her sailing qualities it is worth mention that ona ran from Bagamoyo to Zanzibar, a distance of about twenty-five miles, the Wave beat a large dhow by two hours, After rounding Shangani Point we were favored ‘with a stiff breeze from the southeast and steered fot Mbwenni, on the mainiand. The natives yelled sheir apvrobetion of the anecd pt which the Wave These | port for trade, and in the harbor of Dar Salaam the varied and interesting bits of land scenery. Some people way, perhaps, object to the term “Interesting,’? applied to East African scenery, | but I maintain thata cluster of palms, overtop- | ping an humble little fishing village, with a hack- ground of dense jungle, swathed in deep dark | | green, and a foreground of a white, sandy beach, | laved with ocean waves, deserve to be termed in- | teresting. The palms and sea contribute that which makes the picture one of interest. Without the palms the background would become a mere jangle; without the sea before it the sandy beach would represent nothing but sterility. Taken in this sense, then, in coasting southward Dumbers of such scenes are revealed, becom- | Ing Only more interesting when a more important town comes to view, with numbers of square | white houses, like so many white painted blocks | Of wood under the ever beautiful palm groves, Such a town is Mowenni, near Cape Thomas. From Mowenni southward to Dar Salaam the coast retains the characteristics already spoken of. Small dark brown huts, clustered under the shade of a tree of ample foliage and enormous | girth, are frequent, separated by jungle, through which @ narrow footpath runs, serving as the commercial highway along the seaboard, Soon after passing Konduchi, at a distance of forty-one miles south of Zanzibar, we come to Dar Salaam. This town possesses some interest as | the creation of the Jate Seyyid Majid, Sultan of Zanzibar. As we round Condogo Point a group of islands make their appearance, consisting of Sinda and its neighboring isiets, and westward | Of these & ridge of tall trees isseen, The tail trees are cocoa palms, and the presence of such a large plantation indicates in East Africa a town of some importance and magnitude. ‘This is precisely What Dar Salaam was intended to be by Seyyid Majid. He found a fishing village of a iew bumbie Duta the possessor of an ample harbor where three times the numeer of his naval and mercantile feet Might ie #%anchor secure irom the dangers of wind anda boisterous sea, and he at once con- ceived the project of making this dshing village a seaport and the depot for his Central Airican trade, He sent his laborers and slaves to clear the neigh- borheod of the jungle, which had voraciously swal- lowed every portion of cultivable ground close } to the waters edge. He then caused 200,000 cocoa palms to be planted, whicn | in time, if carefully looked after and nour- | ished, would bring him in @ revenue of trom $150,000 to $200,000. A palace was built as a resi- | dence tor him, and a fort or barracks tor his | officers and soldiers. Influential Arabs engaged in commerce were also invited to follow his ex- ample and take lots for building purposes, | Several chose to do so, and about a dozen impos- ing edifices, compared to the former humble fish- ing huts, gleamed white and large in contrast to the green fronds of the palms. To those of | sanguine disposition euch @ scene must have ase | sured them that commercial progress was begun | in earnest in East Africa, and that Seyyid Majid was a wise and energetic prince. In reality, the sultan of Zanzibar had inauga- rated a work which all Europeans who look ve- yond home could heartilycommend. The trade with Central Africa was being rapidly developed; large consignments of ivory from new regions | were constantly arriving at Zanzibar. New copal diggings were discovered near Dar | Salaam, and to the westward and southward. What the Sultan’s dominions lacked was a proper | } he had found aeep water and roomy anchorage, | easy of access [rom Zanzibar and centraiiy iocaved for the southern and northern towns. The sea- coast towns wheuce the caravans departed for the interior In search of ivory labored under va- rious disadvantages. Mombasa, to the north, thongh possessing a moderately good harbor, was limited to the west by the vast hunting and ma- rauding grounds of the Masai; to the north oy the intractable Gallas, while to the south other towns claimed to be as good starting-points for Africa as Mombasa. Saadani, Whindi and Bagamoyo were dangerous ports jor vessels, the approaches to | each injested with reefs and sand banks. Mboa- maji, to the south of Dar Salaam, had a similar disadvantage, while Kilwa was too jar removed trom Zanzibar, Everything promised fatriy well for the success of Dar Salaam as @ tuture rival to Zanzibar until Seyyid Majid died, Then all the fine schemes relating to its prosperity perished as it became known that Seyyid Burghash, his successor, did not share in the views of hia predecessor. The palace, the barracks, the houses, the palm grove, the fine harbor, with its deep, still, green water, are here to this day as Seyyid Majid’s last effort left them, silent and comparatively deserted. | Not one house bas been built here since his death. The Arabs who did bnild bouses preferred to remain in Zanzibar. A few months ago the question was agitated tn England as to what could be done with the treed slaves, and I remember that some suggested Dar Salaam as the most eligible place where they | might be settled ana instructed in useiul arts of | industry, with which, after @ visit to tne port, I | agree. Here are good, roomy houses already built, but unimhabited, A large area of ground already cleared of jungle, but comparatively un- cultivated, a capacious and deep harbor, likely to suffice ior the harboring of all vessels which may engage in Kast African commerce for the next hunarea years, above which at present not a single flag waves. 1am informed that about 600 slaves have "been captured within the last six months in the’Mo- zambique Channel by British craisers, Now the question may be asked, Wnat has been done with those slaves? Have phey been, as usual, leased out to Mauritius sugar planters at so many dollars @ head to remunerate the government for the ex- pense it undertook to ft their men-ol-war tor these slave hunting expeditions? Let us hope not, but we may as Well be told what becomes of the freed slaves. From the silent harbor of Dar Salaam we sailed next day, with the same stubborn headwiod against us. We tacked and retacked for twelve | mortal hours, sometimes dashing the spray over our bows with long lines of reeis close to our lee, and sometimes plunging in the deep biue of the ocean; and at night we anchored under the sha- { Kimbigi Head threw sorore the 29 GRNBY Mi, STANLEY. Tam now writing such murderous bands do exist, and that they are daily and nightly performing their bloody work, I do not know, nor fs it possi+ ble to discover, by what names these desperadoes call themselves, but whenever any fleudish deed of theirs ts fulfilled, whenever their base, inhuman mtent has been accumplisbed and whenever a mutilated or “crucified” corpse is found, the plot of the murder apd the circumstances ‘01 its rightful culmination 18 always ascribed to the Molly McGuires. Murderous gangs, either organ- iged or meeting by chance, do riot in the cval regions, anu, aiter the evidence given below, let those deny 1t who can, ‘SHE PROOF, From time to time many prominent gentlemen residing in this locality have received tireaten- ing and brutal letters order:ng them to Vacate the neighborhood within a given period or else submit themselves to the pangs of sntfering and death. Many oi these letters have falien into the possession of your cor- responuent, [and here they will be fuund exactly Qs they were written. The following Was addressed, to Vonstable Adam Pfiefer:— Mister adam fifer esq of hyde park you take noatis to leave hyde park im ten days irom this tume or git your cofin reddy. by order of the president. LETTER TO AN EDITOR. Again, the editor Of one of the representative | newspapers here has been treated to tue following murderous threa; IN, SCRANTON, Pa.— You had better discontinue your attacts upon the mollie mucquires and jeeve for the simple re. son that if you on’t you willbe the subject of a | cornor’s inquest the same as Monagen was. There will be an eye on you in the tuture, and tue first chance they git they will put a nire thro your hart, You nad better leeve this country and do it soon. A81 give you this advise as you done mea good turn once. MOLLIE MAUGUIRE, ANOTHER LETTER. Mr. Heermans, a very wealthy gentleman of Hyde Park, @ district witain tue city’s imu, has also received & murderous epistic, reading as fol- lows :— Mx, HEERMANS—If you don’t leeve town in tenn days wea will kill you, M. M. STILL ANOTHER. A very prominent gentleman residing here, who | asks me ior particular reasons to withuold nis name, has been the recipient of the letter given OW :— Mr.—If you don’t git out of these parts in ten days you will ve killed and your tombstone will be this:— OTHER LETTERS, In addition to tne ubove many other citizens of Scranton have from time to t'me received threat- ening correspondence, among whom imay men- tion Judge Ward and Dr. J, W. Gibbs. The crude, rough cuts given above are exact copies of to cofiins and skulls that were appended to the let- ters and are reproduced herein for the first time. NO EXAGGERATION, The correspondence in these columns during the past few days has been so unusual as to partake Of strong comment; but as a proof of the authen- ticity of my letters concerning the condition of society here, { append the lollowing editorial irom the Scranton Free Press, Which is one of the leading and representative sheets of the city:— Murder runs riot and bloodshed is an everyday occur- Tence, while the shooting of firearms is heard upon the sreets every night of the year, The auitorities fre. quently awake in the moraing to find the body of 4 man lying in the public streets, cold and stiff, woltering in hisgore. He had been murdered some time during the Previous nicht, by whom no one save the perpetra- tors know, and’ no one, interests himself to find out A regular fight in which ten ora dozen take sides and use clubs, stones and pistols, is a regular Sunday night occurrence down about John Horn’s—and this is only four blocks from the very centre of the city. No one is ever arrested there. No complaints are ever entered. Mr. Horn sears to complain-or the desperadoes who break in is Windows and sinash up his turnifure for fear that they in turn will complam of him Keeping his house open on Sunday in violation of law. Ivis all nonsense to try to cover up and hide the true state of, society here. Tt is lawless beyond precedent, desperate beyond measure, murderous beyond imagination, The Times arks that “Strangers who read account unacquainted with the woul y have an idea that the coat regions a ‘ost equal to the Western frontier.” The writer of tits has ilved ‘on the Western tronuers—on the very borders of civilizatiou—and he never yeu saw & State of society more dangerous to business, to ife and the peaceful pursuits of happiness than ine Luzerne coal regiuns. The business men of Scranton owe it to themselves ‘and to the community generally to take prompt and active measures to bring about such a revolution in the government of the city as will mete out swift punishment to the desperadoes who have mado the name ot the third city im the State synonymous with every bloody deed on the criminal calendar. Thus.tt Will be seen that the condition of so- ciety 18 precisely as | have represented 1. During the past torty years one hundred and twenty-three murders have been committed and only tree men have been hanged, Within four years twenty-four murders have occurred and no man executed at all. Most of the murderers escaped; only two were arraigned, one was acquitted and the other imprisoned for only a iew months, Every man in Scranton who ventures upon the street at night carries a revolver, and, with the recent marders, riots and crucifixtons, if ® worse state of society exists anywhere your correspondent would lke toaknow Where it ls? | Fides, or “The Flying Dutchinan,” with Aloani, | aud 1687, when large bodies of Huguenots camo The latter artist achieved, during the sea- | over, a portion of them from England, where they , son, & genuine success, and she may be | had frat taken refuge, and another very consider. j relied upon as @ strung attraction wherever ; able portion from the French West Indies, the She appears, She ts yet young und ner voice has | not attained its iuil power, but her natural | talents and jer periect school will yet constitute | her the first artist on the operatic stage. Mr. | Strakosch will give his subscribers their last three | | niguts o! opera daring Christmas week, We trust | that in the spring the ruinous policy of too mucao Verdi and candy opera generaliy will be aoan- | doned ior novelties and grauud works, The very last appearance of the Strakosch com- pany iu this city took place last evening at tie , Academy o1 Music, for the benetlt of the Ladies’ Bikur Cholim society, The opera of “Faust” was giveu with Mile. Heilbron as Marguerite, Miss Cary | as Sieve), De Bassini as Faust, ‘Vagliapietra as Val- entine and Fiorini a8 Mepuistopleles, Lhe house Wus crowded irom parquet to dome, and (he per- ! formance was unusually attractive, especially in | the cases of Heilbron, Cary, De Bassin and Tagiiae | pietra, The chorus and orciestra under the skil- | Iul direction of Mr, 5, Behrens, who has proved himseli this fall an accomplished conductor, gave universal satisiaction. The soctety netted a great | deat of money by this pertormance, which the manager Oi the opera would like to have gained | during the last disastrous season, Niblo’s Theatre. islands of st. Christopher, Martinique and Guade- Joupe, to whicn they bad fed from France. ‘tho paper reiated very fully tae particulars of this two- claimed, was now lor che first time vruught to light a8 an historical fact. Tne circumstances of | the arrival of these reiugees in our city, and of thel: settlements here and at New Rochelle and elsewhere were miuutely narrated, and an ac- count was given o/ the four or five Huguenot | churches tounded In this province. It wus also | sachusetts and Rhode Isiand eventually came ior the most part to New York, which thus became | the principal retuge of the persecuted French in America, and where they formed a large fraction | of tue population. The paper ciosed with an an- | alysis ul the Huguenot character, and an esti- Mate of its influence on that of our people, THE GLENDENNING TRIAL, | The Summing Up Completed on Both Sides=-The Case To Go Belore the Presbytery To-Day. f At the session of the Jersey City Presbytery Under the title of “Norman Lesite,” what ta at this house. | in this city and party im Italy at the beginning | of this century. It would be loss of time to attempt a description of the plot. All the incidents are borrowed from the lugubrious drama with which Bowery au- | dences are familiar, “Norman Leslie’ 18 by lar the dullest attempt at play making we have ever | witnessed. Itis the quintesseuce ol inauity, and ; the enly wonder is how any persons, of even moderate intelligence, should have undertaken to | produce # stage representatiou so entirely lacking in interest, If the play deserved to be placed among the curiosities of Kterature the acvors were scarcely less deserving of embaimment. Iv 18 @ treat to see 80 distinguished a collection of people skilled inthe art of “how not todo,” Bat it was one that could very weil be dispensed with, The whole affair Was most oppressive, and the managers are likely to find out that Norman Leslie is @ pretty heavy load tu carry. Mr. Roberts’ Readings. Mr. Roberts gave bis second reading on Monday evening, at Association Hull, to a large and intelli- gent audience. He pussesses an exceptionally ous, which were given showed tile training to which it has been subjected. His versatility is surprising and enabled him to piease every class of his hearers, who rewarded bis efforts with vehement applause. In his reading of Marc Antony's speech irom “Julius Cxsar” he made several new points, whicn his cultured hearers were quick to recognize. “Samson's Description Of tue Slaying of tue Lion” was a splendid piece of declamation, the “Pibroch of Donald Diu” was a ringing war cry and the “Death of the Old Year’? exhibited the pathetic power of the reader and his sympathetic appreciation of the peet’s meaning. | His humorous pieces kept the audience in @ pieas+ ent rmppie of laughter, the weeping of the “Little Vulgar Boy,” the Ne eae ol the “Ladies of Tippity Wippity Tol the Roi Loo,” and the pompous bragga- | docio of tne “Wind,” in Macdonald’s poem, elicit- ing special approval, Mr. Roberts ciearly ranks among the first of | readers and shouid be patronized by all who love | nis art. His last entertainment will be given on ‘Thursday next. Musical and Dramatic Notes. Miss Sophie dleilbron commences her piano re- | citals at Steinway Hall on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Theodore Thomas will give a classical matin¢ée at Steinway Hail on the 19th inst., with Miss Cranch and Mr. Jacobsoin as soloists. | Miss Jennie Hughes commenced an engagement at the Globe Theatre this week and appeared in some vocal selections, the principal one being a German song, "Mein Leid.” Her voice has gained much in power, expression and cultivation since last season, and she received a half dozen encores, | Mr. J.N. Pattison lectured last night at DeGarmo | Hall on Felix Mendelssobn-Bartholay and tlus- | uated the characteristics of the great composer by selections from his “Songs Without Words,’? the music of which he played in a masterly maus | ner. The hali was crowded and the leccurer-pian- ist was abundantly applaudea, Mr. Max Maretzek will introduce the best pupils of the New York Conservatory of Music in a sacred concert at the Academy of Masic on the 20th inst. The “Stabat Mater’ of Rossini and selections | from Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn will make | up the programme, High expectations are formed of two new prime donne—Miss Randall, of Wash- ington, and Miss Hofman, of Chicago. opera to be givén by the pupils of the Conservatory will be “Martha,’? Talmage on Macready. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Permit me through your columns to address a question to the Rey. Dr. Talmage, In his sermon of last Sunday, according to the HERALD report— no doubt accurate=he said:—‘E only say what | Many actors have said to me in private and what one of the greatest actors (Macready) wrote previous to his death. He said in that letter, | which I have seen in his works, ‘1 desire no child ot mine ever to enter @ theatre or (o associate ia | any Way with any actor or actress,’” Lhave no rigut to ask woo the “many actors’? } are who make Mr, Talmage their confessor, but I | do ask Where did he find Macready’s “works,” and what is the authority for the precise words he | puts in his mouth or attributes to nis peo, Lhave heard of no such “works.’? There are to pe pub- lisned before very long by Mr. McMillan, Macready’s “Reminiscences of a Theatrical Lite,” which does not look as 1 he were ashamed of it. It was my good fortune to enjoy his friendship and confidence both im this country and in England, and certainly no such thought was ever hinted at. I have heard “lawyers” and “doctors” and, it may be, “preachers,” say they did not wisi their cail- dren to loilow their paths im life, And this Mr. Mucready may have said as to hts, This, however, is very diferent irom the loathing atéributed to hum by the Brooklyn crusader. Mr. Talmage has, robably, in his misty recollection, or else as wil- ully, misrepresented the tollowing passage irom tue “Kemipiscences of Dickens,” lately reproduced in Mr. stodaard’s “Bric-a-Brac,” which realiy tells a very different story :— day on the sands and stood to Watch the gampbols of bia children at play with the 1ittle they had butic | Mucreadys. & mimic tort, and young | Macready was defending it against a storming parti headed “by (harley Dickens the besioved. castoliai mts ee, with head trencaant biade. Mr. ‘ty iaughs, and point. on, Macdui! and jold, enough!" vid you hus paver im ‘Macbeth?’ | threw himself ere d his | ing to the boy, exclulmes, dashed be he who first cries, | ever see such @ miulature of called on the bills four act arama was produced | Its action is supposed to pass partly | tne voice, and the selections, serious and humor- | The first | yestercay Mr. Wall summed ap in an elaborate argument for the defence in the Giendeuning trial. | Mr, French, taken by commission, and Mr. Glen- denning’s answer in rebuttal Then ‘ollowed | devotional exercises for half an hour. A re- cess was taken, and a lively debate took place on the proposition of Dr. Imbrie, for ine prosecu- | ton, to reply to certain strictures of tue commit. tee for the deience, which be considered uowar- ranted, It was finally decided that Dr. Imbrie ve allowed torepiy aod tnat tue defence migat an- Swer tim. This point having been sevted, a dis- cussion took piace regarding the manuer in which the members should render the verdict aud ihe ume allowed them for deliveration, It was finally determined that each memver be allowed to speak filteen minutes in explaining his vote, though several members waissented from the proposition. All the other motions | having been rejected, the roll of members was about to be called, but owin, this morning Was atiupted. Several clergymen | expressed tucir opinion that py this arrangement | the case will be concluded and u verdict rendered | this aiternoon. Some oj the memoers will record | their verdict simply without airing their oratory. They decline, however, to express any opinion on the merits of the case in advance, as tiat would Tender a member labile to impeachment. The | prosecution have thus far deciined to set orth their protest in writing, but it is believed they Will do 80 bu-day, COMPLIMENTARY PRESENTATION, The members of Sedgwick Post, No. 11, met at their rooms last pignt, No. 20 St. Mark’s piace, for the purpose of presenting to their Commander, Colonel A. W. Sheldon, a gold chain. the chain | Was @ massive one, and mide expressiy lor the | Salant colouel, A large gatuering of other Post | members were present, and after a few new as- pirants for honors had been sworn in tne presen- tation took piace, The presentation speech was made by Major Frank M. Ulark, in which he | alluded to the fact that Sedgwick Post was the | oldest im the United States, and that irom ib | sprang all the other Posts. Alter the important business of the evening had been transacted the | Members and invited guests Sat down to a superb | supper. Tousts OAtting fur the occasion were pro- | posed and responded to, and not untii a iate hour did the members of the glorious old Army ol tne Republic seek taeir homes, | FUNERAL OF MR. STURGES, | The funeral services in honor of the late emi- nent merchant, Jonathan Sturges, hela yesteraay afternoon at the Uollegiate Reformed church, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, were very largely attended by the old and best known rep- resentatives of New York business and social circles. The National Academy of Design, of | which Mr. Sturges was an old and vained member, | were present in & body a a testimonial to the | high worth of the deceased. Resolutions of sym- | pathy for the family aod regret ior their own loss | Were passed by tne Lmporters and Grocers’ Board | of Trade and by severa! of the corporate bodies with which Mr. Sturges had been associated. Re- ligious services were conducted according to the | rites of the Dutch Church, of which he was an | active worker, Ali the ceremonies were marked | by devotion and the allusions to the departed citizen Were warmly affectionate and respectul, PEDESTRIANISM. To-day Professor Judd gives & preliminary ex- hibition of his powers as a walker at the Rink, on the occasion of the measurement of the track by ; Clty Surveyor Smith, prelimtary to nis attempt to walk 600 miles in six days and a half. During the exhibition Professor Judd wil walk a quarter ofa mile back wards and a quarter of a inile carry- ing an anvil weighing upwards of 100 pounds, He will be attended during the walk by Dr, Budd, of Bellevue Hospital, and several other jeading Paysicians, THE TRENTON POTTERS. Resolutions Adopted in Mass Meeting |) Declaring in Favor of the Continu. ance of a Protective Tarif—The Difti- culties Settled. The pottery operatives of Trenton, J, ag. sembled {In mass meeting last night for the pur- pose of perfecting a union which was organized a few daysago. In order fo conciliate matters be- tween themselves and tueir employers in refer+ ence to the late misunderstanding about wages, and also to set themseives fairly oa the record as to the principles which will govern them im the ijuture, the following preamble and resojutions were adopted :—- Whereas no reduction in wa-:es will take place at the potteries, as we learn by the indefinite posivonement ofthe conference meeting: and, whereas, such an ar- gument as this in favor of protective tariff is not with: outiw effect; and, whereas, the way we are at prosent situated, shonld questions of a serious character arise, grave complications and misunderstandings might occur to the loss of both parties; theretore, be it Resolved, That the good feeling w irmony that have happily prevailed between empio; wd employes at the potteries remain uubroken. Resolved, That we throw all our moral force with the manufacturers in muintaining the present tarifl un- changed, being convinced, principally trom the above Teasoll that it 1s to our own mutual tntercat fey esolved. That we earnestly reco efi tion of @ board of arbitration to settle all future dis- putes. As the foregotn: ments otavout Tao operatives, their importis considered significant at this time, BUIOIDE OF A WOMAN. Yesterday afternoon, at abont hali-past three o’clock, Mrs, Adolphine Baumgariner committed suicide at her residence No. 189 West Nineteenth street by shooting herse!f in the abdomen. The on of the actis unknown, bat her husband believes that Mrs, Baumgartner’s mind was de. | ranged. Told emigration, the latter part of which. it was | | Shown that the Huguénots who first went to Mas- | Mr, Fisher then read the testimony of tue Rev. | to the taceness of Une hour (!our o’clock) & motion to adjourn ull solutions eXpress the senti- | GERMANY. The Latest Phases of | the Church War. |The “Man of Blood and Iron? | Fighting in Armor. CATHOLICS RESISTING EARNESTLYY Bent, Nov. 17, 1874. The relations of Church and State are at present | Teceiving weir full share of attention amon; | Buropean nations, and nowhere more than Germany. This couniry became the battlegroun | for the two Powers in the Middle Ages, wiei | Pope ana Kaiser disputed about the rignt of inv titure; and it seems likely that in the somew! | Similar contest between ultramontanism and thet civil powers it will again enjoy its old distinction,| | Then the question was one avout fat acrea, ss | day it is one somewhat more spiritual, and so fi | the world is a gainer. How far the priest owe: | allegiance to the government ander which hi | lives, which levies taxes for ms benefit ant | which endows him with privileges dente: { | t to his flock, 18 the question of to-day, an none will deny that it is an important one. Whether he shall be permitted to make a tribune, | of his pulpit and proceed to pass Judgment upo! | those who proviae for bis maintenance, appears ta | be the light in which Prince Bismarck views 1! | That he came to the conclusion that if the Kalse: | 18 not superior to grammar, he is at least superio! to clerical criticism mast, under the cir stances, be cousidered very natural. It is ow three years since the Prussian govern } Ment, under the guidance of Bismarck, entere on its crusade against the priesthood of the Romi Church, and especialiy against the Pope and th | | Supporters of his infallivility. The Folk lawi | passed oy the Prussian OUhambers near! two years ago, though ostensibly directe | Sgainat the clergy of ail denominations, were | reality atmed at the ultramontane partisans the Papacy only. As the readers of the em | know, they make it an offence tor any “servant | religion” to promulgate the dogma of ANLALADILtyg§ | on the ground that the dogma isa denial of thal | authority of the King. Farther, they pronibit tha | discussion of any politica! question from the pulpig or the advising of the congregation in any mattes \ wherein the Stute is concerned, and provide varle ous penalties inthe shape of dne and imprisoné | ment and removal. The prosecutions which hava | taken place under them have been given to oug | readers irom tume to time. They were imitate in accordance with hints irom Berlin, in vanou other states of the Empire, but the government | there veing Catnolic no earnest efforts have bee: made to enforce them as tn Prussia, | The Catholic population in the kingdom Is In ! smail minority, and by themselves they have no chance of escaping from such legislation; but th vigor and harshness with which these laws bav. been put into operativn amoug them have aroused | the sympatny of taeir coreligionists tn the variou: parts of the Empire to such ab extent that for ti | Bake of not alienating them Saniroly as he ha: already done tn part, Bismarck may be compel) to ask for their repeal, or, at least, lor their modis, ficauon. Li must be confessed that, if we look at the chare acter of the man who Is at the heim of affairs, wal can discern but little encouragement sor such hope. Waea, eight years ago, Bismarck set ou for the sevea weeks’ campaign in Bohemia he is popularly credited with taking witty him in bis vest pocket a small revolver cura ryiug @ bullet large enough to wait am | Ordivary mortal to the bitter side of eternity. 1" other words, it was and ts still believed that 1! Austria bad been successiul at Sadowa Bismarckt would have been iound among the Prussian slalmy on the fleld of battle. This may be true or tt ma, not, but it certainly shows the quality of the ma: Wohat be undertakes to do he means todo. Suce cess is essential to him, Now he has undertakeny vo rule the priesthood, and the chances of his giv< ing up the task so long as there ts a possibiuty off bis accomplisuing it are very sught. Popular dis~ Satistaction he has withstood beiore. When he se out on bis purpose o1 making Prussia the ruler 0! Germany and the foremost military power he en countered the almost solid Opposition of the peos ple outside of the ranks Of the uoviltty, He atooi | dri then; 1s he likely to do otherwise now? Au if he does not what are the probabilities of | being driveu irom power? | As his supporters he has the vast majority of the: German middle class~ merchants, bankers, manu-, fJacturers and the members of the various learned pore on next the artisan class in the cities. | Upon these he may count implicitly. They believe in him and will vote in his tavor whenever necer« | sury. They have seen him successiul in every | thing he has undertaken so far, and nis good iore | tune has radiated ttself upon them. Belore 186a his greatest eueimies, tney now give im credit ior’ ' seeing further into the iuture than fe auere of ‘They are prosperous, and ascribe a large sbare o! their prosperity to bis poicy. But they do not Jorm & majority of the natiun. They cannot, wiil= out extraneons aid, give him a majority in the Legislative Champers, ‘hat aid can only come frouz, | one source, and that is the rural districts. bug there the “Junker” is sti!l poweriul. Feudal notions of personai loyalty still survive among the pease ansry, and they are very apt to vote ag the thors oughly but Darrowiy educated lord of the manor Wishes them to. And hefce the attitude o! thist class becomes a matter of the first importance. Tue “Junkers,” accordiug to their own accoun: the direct descendants of the knights who laid th foundations 0; the present Prussiun kingdom, and oe entitled by right divine to all tha; good things in tt, are almost orthodox Protestants: to a man, and consequently bear not mucn love ta the Cutuollc clergy; bat they see with aiarm thet liberal iendencies of the day encouraged by th man who began political life in their ranks an | Who 18 DoW at the head of affuirs, Like Von Arni | who is one ol themselves, they “view wit horror the spread of republicanism.” stay such a calamity they join with anybod in opposing every one whom they tancy doe anything to favor its coming. Poor and proud, very many Of them are, they do not fancy the ide: oi giving Up tae practical monopoly, which the at present enjoy, Of furnishing the “ihe vane wita officers for the army and Jor the vario' civil depariments, They are only wise in thet generauon iu sapposing that if Iiberalism make: | why greater progress they will have to scrambi | with the common herd for the crumbs that fail from the governmental tables, Whether they cai arrest the march of events by joing bands wit those whose coinplaint against the Prince Chan cellor i8 Of & nore disinterested nature is @ quess tion which every ove can auswer jor himseif, Tir case of Vou Arnim seems to have been taken up v; some of their journals as & goon cause JOT & quarrel with the Prince, and owing to tn former’s popularity at the court he seems likel; | to become tueir leader—provided, of course, una! he gets out of his present embarrassments with, | outany damage (o bis revutation asaman o | honor, \ That the “Junkers” hold the balance of powe' between tie Catholics aud the supporters of thi ecclesiastical policy of f&Tince Bismarck there i: no doubt, fhe only question is, cam of wil they, high Protestants as the bulk of them are,| form an alliance with the former, conceuing ta them a Mouificat.on or repeal of the Folk laws im: consideration Of sapport in checking liberalism.! Von Arnim hunself has expressed opinions more} hostile to the Catholics than Bismarck, and se ne and any party which accepts him for a leader, can ally iiseli with ultramontane champions of Papal mafalibility 18 not iy seen. Fuiling & union of tuese two eiements, Bismare! and iy anti-clerical policy are sate irom paritar' mentary interference, and it remain’ with vial whether he will bow belore the storm which ii has raised or whetuer he will weather it, Catholi south Gerwany is evident Viewing witn somes | thing like uneasiness the proceedings of Prote | estant Prussia, /earmg that her turn may coma some day; that her own governments may compelled to vigorously eniorce the laws alread: on the statute books, apd thus deprive an ufailie bie Pope oi ail but surreptitious means ior Come municating with the Jaithiu. Bat at present South Germany 18 but indirectly interested mm tha matter, Sie still chales under the thoughe that the -nrst place 1M the Empire velongd to the Prussiaus, @ peopie who, altnougm speaking the same language ap themeeives they ! never have regarded with very Kindly Jeelingsy | The brilliance victories achieved under leadership over unfortunate France, in grea | measure objiterated their own defeat tour yeara | berore, but the old sores are again being opened and tt is just possivie that Prince Bismarck will see the dangerous nature of the coast on whic | be is Steering the uew Empire. If he does not, 1 | is agato possible that the old b belo to Ping he has brought the tmperiat iguity, wul, But ol | this last there is but a very slight probability. Tn | Emperor-King ts supposed to be very sirongly 4 | tached, by both gratitude and coundence, to bi: chancellor; and a8 paritamentary government ba: ; hob been introduced into Prussia Bismarck mu; hoid the heim in spite of a Parliamentary opposi+ Uon, a8 be did belore. “ lithe “Arnim movement,” a8 we may now cal | It gains any Leadway— which it will not do unie the old “Junker,” or high yor? party. is og | Cc go into open opposition to the as the; have been jor some time in secret—au re will doubtless, be made to come to some agreemen with tue Uatholics, {fsaccessful, there 18 uo tell ing what nay happen, Bismarck is geting old, | and it he has not set fis heart on seetug nis | foward the ultramontanes triumpnanty ne ke the occasion ior retiring irom the Ministry at least, If he should conclude “suck,” t will be & task worthy of half a ) Vou arnims to get bim oa €