The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1875, Page 6

6B THE AMERICAN TEAM. The Team and the Wim- bledon Meeting. SIARP PRACTICE BY BRITISH RIFLEMEN. A Warm Welcome Home for the Victors. ALL ABOUT BULL’S-EYES. No event of national importance has occurred of late to claim so large a share of public attention as the re- cent international rifle maich. Even now, in public places and private offices throughout the city, the great contest at Dollymount and the victories on Wimbledon Common are still the theme of conversation, Men who ‘until lately have looked with indifference upon local prac- tice matches are becoming interested from one cause or smother in the doings of our representative riflemen. Even gentlemen like Mr. A. T. Stewart, who probably ever expect to participate actively themselves in the man!y and amusing exercise of rifle practice, have been Iiberal in subscribing to the American team fund. Mr. Btewart presented the sum of $1,000 in aid of it Our lato victories were the frst trials abroad which Americans had made as marksmen, Great things were expected from them as rifemen; and ‘American breech-loading arms, which had years ago acquired a world-wide celebrity, were on trial side by side with the best guns that European mechan- feal ingenuity could produce. Both our guns and the men who handled thetn have maintained a decided superiority over everything that had thus far been Drought against them. And now, though the late friendiy contests, with their accompanying marked hos- pitalities in Ireland, are things of the pust, they will + Bot soon be forgotten. It was at Orst thought that the Wimbledon Council, in imitation of the liberal example shown by the Irish, who set the rules of their association aside to admit the Americans into the match for the ‘‘All Ireland Challenge Bhieid,”’ would have asked Colonel Gildersieeve and the American wam to enter the lists for THE ELCHO SHIELD. ‘We know, however, that the Englishmen did nothing ef the kind. They not only excluded the Americans from firing in the great event of the Wimbledon meet ing, but showed no disposition at all to try conclusions ‘with “The Yankees.’’ The Lloyds Cup was offered on condition that it should become an international trophy; but some strangely mysterious power stepped in secretly to put am end to the pending arrangements, and, as the public ere aware, the contest never came off. The truth of the matter is that the British riflemen, Onding they could get no cheap victory over the American team, and fear- Ang defeat in the event of a contest, thought it well to throw in the way obstacies of their own creation, thus putting it out of the power of our team to accept any conditions that had been proposed for a new inter. Mational match. The Englishmen had an idea that a Match could be made by allowing them to seloct a team from THE BEST sHOTS ‘among the British and the Irish eighta The Americans very naturally refused their consent to this condition, believing that the people of Ireland and of Scotland, being entirely distinct from those of England, should enter the contest on their separate merits, as hereto- fore. Major Leech knew well what he was saying when, after the AMERICAN VICTORY AT DOLLYMOUNT, he declared that there is no team in Great Britain who could successfully compete with the Americans. Those Spiendid rifemen whom our team had met and defeated near Dublin and at Clandeboy amply verified the woras of Leech by carrying off the Eloho Bhield soon after- ward at Wimbledon. The Americans beat the Irish, and the Irieh defeated both the English and Scotch. ‘A re- markable fact, too, is that the Irishmen carried off the honors this year on the highest team score that has ever been un the of the Elcho Shield mach Pulton having carried off the RIFLE ST. LEGER Bweepstakes on the highest score that has ever been Made for them, the fears of the Wimbledon crack shots ‘Were justified; and it appears to have been now deter- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1875.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, Magen, teach te Mende and’ admirers 2 the team Wwe came to Bland ‘em Of Bar" expremod ts aay tts Tatiigeden THE AMIN THM. JES THE BLACK HILLS. FSS] THE CODE. ER Satay May Rave chance to publicly thank them for what they have achieved abi ‘AS & matter of course, & steamboat and a band of music should meet our return Ing friends at Sandy Hook, ; Colonel George W. Wingate, General Inspector of Rifte Practice in the State National Guard, and who was Cap- tain of the American team last year, believes that noth- ing can be too good for the American team of 1875, who have conducted themselves. through many delicate and difficult situations in Ireland and in England in that high-toned, chivalrous way which should always distin- guish the true American gentleman. Too high an esti- mate can hardly be put upon what they have done in Ireland; and it would not be too much to honor their return home with the most signal domonstrations of welcome, Bat something more substantial than parades or oratious should WELCOME THE TRAM BACK. An appropriate piece of plate should be made to com- memorate their victory, and a copy given to each man in the team and reserve, COLONEL VOSS, ofthe Seventy-first regiment, thinks the victory Gildersleeve ai Belfast beyond’ all praise, This mi for the Mayor and Citizens’ Cup was the most exciting and closely contested one of any in which the Ameri- cans had Deen engaged. In this competition the Ameri- cans shot each one for himself, on his individual merits, To make nineteen points out of a possible twenty, in five shots at 1,000 yards, and then successfully shoot off two ties, is an'achievement which does the Captain of the American team infinite honor. We know the warmth of the reception was attributable to the liking which Irishmen have always more or less manifested for the PREE INSTITUTIONS OF REPUBLICAN AMERICA. Colonel Clarke, of the Seventh regiment, National Guard, expressed’ his great satisfaction at the results of the late international rifie match, and also for the hospita- bie, friendly way in which the people of Ireland had shown their undoubted good will toward America. This match and others of lesser note that are coming up now constantly will compel great attention tarrifle practice on the part of the National Guard all over the Union, A little more than two years ago practice was commenced at Creedmoor. Before the establishment of the new ranges a militia man might serve out bis seven or five years term of enlistment without really making the ac- Quaintance of his musket. He might be taught the man- ual of arms and go through it well enough, but not know anything of holding or fSringarite, Now there is no National Guardsman who would not be ashamed to confess that he could not hold and fire his ritle in a soldierly way. The good work begun at Creedmoor is spreading its influence everywhere in the country, and it would almost appear to be now within our power to make good, efficient soldiers for the tield without hav- ing to begin at the foundation and build an army up while in campaign. The hundred thousand welcomes with which the team were received in Ireland are very GRATIVYING TO RVERY AMERICAN, The people there received our fellow citizens with every demonstration of friendly respect without ‘making fools of themselves” as the Americans did when Kos- suth, the Prince of Wales and some similar personages visited us here. But over the water they are an older people and more accustomed to this kind of thing, BULL'S BYE TALK. “I say, Bill, come here!’’ said a countrymen to his friend, pausing before a copy of the HeRaip targets of the international rifle match. “What dew yer think of this ’eret Why, blessed if they be’nt a makin’ bull’s eyes every pop at a thousand yards, ”” “Why, D've seed some tol’ble good turkey shootin’? down our way, but it aint nowhar compared to this T'll de sworn if here aint a feller curled up lke @ poo- dle on a mat, with a rifle tween the critter’s legs! Ful- ton—ob! that’s that chap Fulton; he as makes all them fine targets at—where d’ye call it,’ Creedmoor?” And 80 the friends went away, admiring the “new- fangled ways 0’ doing things DOWN AT CREEDMOOR.”” “How in thunder did the old man do it?” saida passer-by, who was looking at Colonel Bodine’s extraor- dinary score of fourteen buil’s eyes and a close centre out of fifteen shots at 900 yards. This is, perhaps, one of the moet remarkable scores on record.” ft neve? has been equalled at Wimbledon, and is not likely to be tied, much less beaten, very soon. The same number of points was formerly made on the 800 yards range at Creedmoor by both Bodine and Gildersleeva, ‘The score of the latter was considered the better one, as he commenced with a centre and made a clean run of four- teen bull’s eyes in succession, while the centre or three Polnt shot of Bodine's score Wwas the twelfth round he if PREPARATIONS FOR THE RECEPTION. The Joint Committece of the National Rifle Associa- tion and the Amateur Rifle Club are actively pushing ahead preparations for the reception of the team in this city. The steamship City of Chester sails from Liver- pool to-morrow; and Colonel Gildersleeve, with his victorious companions, who will embark on her, are expected here on the Zist inst The Joint Committee intend to have their arrangements completed by next Monday. Mr. R. Johnson has received, in addition to subscriptions already on hand, the following sums:— Joseph L Doughew, $50; Judge W. C. Barrett, $25; Chamberlain J. Nelson Tappan, $25; Colonel George McClure, $20; Dr. S. H. Everett, of New Orleans, $20; Henry Tileston, $10; W. Graham, $10; Edward John: ston, $20. The Committee on Procession appointed by the Joint Committee of the National Rifle Association and Ama- teur Rifle Club were to have met yesterday at No. 99 Naszau street, for the purpose of receiving communica- tions from the organizations desiring to take part in the reception of the American rifle team; but, as Captain Casey was the only member of the committee present, no business of an official character was transacted. Captain Casey stated that communications have al- ready been received from the Ninth, Twelfth, Sixty- ninth and Twonty-seventh regiments, the latter from Poughkeepsie, the home of Colonel Bodine, from the New York Schuetzen Corps and from the American Off- hand Rifle Club, all of which organizations ask for places in the parade; and that he expected that several other societies will apply for positions before Monday next, on which day the Joint Mined that they should shoot in unimportant matches only. Nevertheless, Gildersieeve, Coleman and Canfield ‘carried off prizes of more or less value from the best men that could be put against them. ‘THE INTERNATIONAL RIFLE CONVENTION. ‘When the American team wok their departure for Jreland they had with them power to represent the National Rifle Association and tho Amateur Kifle Club in any initiatory meeting which might be held at Wimble- don for the purpose of establishing an annual interna- tional convention of riflemen. The Irish also warmly Supported this idea; but it seems that the matter was Killed in the bud at Wimbledon. Steps have been taken with the intention of organizing for an international rifle match next year at Philadelphia; but the great idea ‘of forming such a congress has been allowed to rest in abeyance. Perhaps it will remain for cosmopolitan America to be the principal instrument in carrying out ‘this grand scheme. WELCOME HOMR THE TRAM. ‘The National Rifle Association and the Amatenr Rifle Club have joined hands tn making arrangements for the Feception of the American team.. The proceedings of the joint committees of these organizations have been already published in the columns of the Huxaun. It Row remains to put on record the views of some promi- ent citizens touching the way in which our ridemen whould be received. WHAT TYR PROPLE Say. “Why, sir,” said Major General Shuler to the writer, “this will give such an impetus to riffle shooting a3 mever bas before been experienced in this country. | Rifle ranges will go up in all the States, and men of | science who have heretofore hesitated to identify them- | selves with the rifle movement will join i, Yankee | ingenuity will yearly add something new to our present cousiderable knowledge of the art of rifie shooting, and | ere many years go by American riflemen will lea the | world, There is no feason why initiatory steps should | not be taken this year for the purpose of holding an | anuual ‘One year {t can be beld at Wimbledon, another at Croed- moor, a third at Dublin, on the Continent, or any other lace’ that may be agreed upon. There should be at t one great international match every year, at which the riflemen of all nations might be represented. The treatinent of the Americans in Ireland ig such as to com- mand the admiration and respect of every American | ‘who bas watched the triumphal progress, so w say, of | the American team during their entire stay in | the Green Isle. From the Lord Mayor of Dublin, | ‘nd that most respected and learned corporation, | Trinity College, down w the masses of the people, all have bustened to show their exalted appre: Glation of our great Republic and her gloriously free stitutions by heaping upon our fellow citizens compos. tng the American team every mark of distinction and | Feapectful friendship within the power of a generous | people to bestow. This and ather interchanges of hos- | ities will be found exceedingly useful in making | nations better acquainted with cach other. Through | ‘one cause or another Irishmen, as a general rule, have | not been what might be cailed popular with Americana. | Perhaps the two people did not know enough of cach ther to mutually acknowledge and respect their di | INTERNATIONAL RIPLIE CONVENTION. | | | lishing good qualities, This visit of out team to Ire | id has done more to kill old prejudices in the Ameri- can mind than anything else that could have bappened. Ask an American now what he thinks of IRELAND AND THE IiISH, and be will at oncs show himself to be the friend of that ‘warm-hearted people who have treated bis country- men with such hospitality. The Americans, on their part, were fortunate in being at this time rep- Fesented by men of intelligence and moderato views, who understand thoroughly what is due to them- Selves and to others. No doubt they will get a brilliant Feception upon their return, and they deserve it It does not seem,” concluded ‘the General, “that mili- tary display ts either necessary or called for in any demonstration which may te made, Even if sach @ Step were resolved upon the uncertainty about the time of the team’s arrival would be an obstacle in the way. Something more substantial than an empty parade ehouid testify our regard for the American team.” ALDERMAN EUWARD GILON, ‘who is Colonel of the Fifty-fifth regiment of the First ivision, N.G.S.N.Y., says that the international rife match between the United States and ireland will tend to draw more clorcly the bonds of friendship between ‘Doth countries, and allay, !f not entirely eradi any Prejudices which may have existed on either mide. No (American citizen can read without a thrill of delightful Pride of the magnificent manner in which THR AERICAN ThAM ‘were received aod entertained im ireland. We can. fot help admiring the good grace, amounting to magna- jt f imity, with which the Irishmen accepted defeat at the ds Of the Americans. They bore themselves with such of friendly politeness as to leave the im- of two nations ube result cannot be otherwise than bene- Ocial to both, The widespread notoriety which these matches have received, thanks to the press, will greatly populariae rifle abooting, and every State in the Unioa je sure to have i rango where the militia will be re- w j thereby tho better fitting themavives ‘of the people’s peace and the bul- wark of @ form of goverument Colonel Bion further stated that be did not favor a pubiie ~~ aa the streew of tho city apon of the team’s return. it would look too much like self-iandation and detract from the dignity aud mmportance of Lue event Rather | money, $52. The fraud was discovered when the pay- {t was @ greater howor to lose than wt fr the presence of feelings like these between the people | Committee meets, and as he will have to submit his re- port to them then ‘no other requests for positions received after that day would be entertained. Captain Casoy further suid that in all probability General Ward would be invited to assume command of the procession, bis staf acting as aids. RAPID TRANSIT. The Commissioners of Rapid Transit were kept busy yesterday examining papers and models, and General J. E. Sewell was the only person granted a hearing. Models were received from James G. Wilson and D J. Mitchell. Plans were offered by J. G. Wilson, D. A. Morris, C. W. Scholl and F. W. Weiss. Letters were received from the Detroit Bridge and Iron Works and per C. W. Scholl. A patent double treadwheel waz ex- hibited by Mr. D. S. Tuthill and favorably looked upon by the Commissionera. The benefits claimed for it aro— it prevents the breaking of rails, stops the bouncing up of the ends of rails at the joint while the wheels are passing. It does away with the necessity of tamping joint tes and keeps the fish plate more secure the rail and strains the bolt but very little It saves car wheels from the blows by the jumping af the end of the rail. All that is necessary to fit these wheels for use is to place a short Piece of rail at each joint, bevelled at the ends, the whole Festing on four ties. It is claimed that the double treadwheel saves the points of frogs, and will pass a car uietly through a frog withont the least jar, lt ls expe. cially adapted to street railways, as itlessens the ex- penses of running the road, and, by the easy motion it gives, adds to the comfort of the passengers, ALLEGED FORGERY. A WOREMAN CHARGED WITH FORGING AN ORDER FOR WAGES, On the 7th of July last a man appeared at the office of the Southern Railroad Company of Long Island and presented an order for Michael Sullivan’s wages, saying that his wifo and child were then dead. Mr. Hoyt, the cashier, told the man to take It to another official to be indorsed, which was done, and on the same day paid the rolls were made out. Complaint was mado against George W. Davis, a half-witted workman who had been discharged, and he was arrested on a charge of forgery. Yesterday his exatnination took place before Justico Walsh, in Brooklyn, The testimony was very positive against him. William H. Hoyt, cashier of the Southern Railroad of Long Island, testified:—A man came to my oflice with the order now shown for his pay; recognized it as in the handwriting of Edward Doyle, addressed to Mr. | | Barton, Superintendent; I glanced at it and said it must | be certified by Mr, Moore or Mr. Barton; I think this | was on the 6th or 7th of July; he came back next morn- ing; [told him th rolls had been sent to New York | and he came back with an order to pay; he said he could not write and i paid him $32 60; he made his mark; Mr. Howo and Mr. King were in the office when | | I paid the money, ugene Howe, Rockville Centre, L. 1, said he saw defendant present the order and’ Mr, Hoyt pay the money. | John A. King, Jamaica, porter at the South Eighth | street depot, saw prisoner working on the roud in June; | ‘Was present on the 7th or 8th of July defendant | came there twice; saw bim present an order, but do not know what the order was; heard the name of Michael | | Bulltvan mentioned; saw him get the money; I recog. | nizo him positively; his face was not familias to me; 1 | did not know his name at that time; Mr. H. ©. Poppen- | husen wold me to make the complaint; never saw the | forged order before to-d Bdward Doyle, of Jamaica, said:—The order is not in my handwriting. I am foreman. Michael Suilivan | was employed by me on the 7th of July. Mrs. Clark, sister of the defendant, testified that ho left her house, at Jamaica, July 7, and walked to the | Bushwick depot to get his money, but did not get it; that be came home in the evening and had 20 money between the 7th and the 16th of July. Defendant testified that foreman Doyle discharged him July , sent tim to look for his money July 6, and again on July 7, when he waited from ten to tho o*clock at the Bushwick depot to see Mr. Wright, bat did not | see him; he swore positively that he did uot forge the | order shown or draw money on it, and did not go to the South Eighth sureet office on July 7, or at any other time; that be bad never been there, and never got any | money from the company that he did not carn. The accused was beid to await the action of the Grand Jury. | A BLAZE IN CHARLES STREET. Yesterday morning a fire broke out at No. 64 Charles | street, aliquor store, occupied by John Lanergan, The entire contents of the place were consumed. The Jous suatained is about $800, Lanergan has been ar- rested on account of certain surpicious circumstances amending the fire, Slow Progress of the Work of the Scientific Expedition, PERSONAL INTEREST VS. OFFICIAL DUTY. Details of the Gold-Find in the Va- rious Placers and Bars. THE MINERS GENERALLY DISCOURAGED Camp Crook, on Rarip Creek, BLack Aris, July 27, 1875, via Fort Lanamig, August 3, 1875. } ‘The expedition for the exploration of the Black Hills has been in the field somewhat more than two months, and has made slow progress in the accomplishment of tg mission, Under a more energetic scientific leader- ship it ought long ago to have determined the confines of the auriferous district and have reached the northern- most limit of its researches, Instead of unremitting ac- tivity, however, the scientific gentleman who is respon- sible for the success of the investigation has shown a predilection for apparently aimless wandering about the country, apart from the main body of the expedition, doubtless to enjoy in rapt solitude a poetic contempla- tion of the rare beauties of nature, The results of these wanderings are meagre, From superficial examinations, none of which reached to the solid bed of the rock, Mr. Jenney originally made a very positive report in regard to the gold deposit in Custer’s Gulch, along French Creek, declaring, with only an imperfect knowledge of the facts, that the placer diggings would scarcely afford remuneration for labor. The haste with which he made known this opinion was remarkable, But he did not succeed in discouraging the hundreds of inquiring minds about him from pushing forward an honest investigation of the mineral resources of tho region, When Mr, Jenney started out upon a lonely excursion northward, leaving the main body in camp, and found near Spring Creek a “par? which yielded gold, he quiety began mining operations and squatted thereon for many days in secure seclusion, But the quiet of his retreat was suddenly disturbed by an influx of miners, and as suddenly Mr, Walter P. Jenney bethought him that he would ride down to Camp Harvey, report his success and return with part of the military escort. But already the pub- lic of the Black Hills knew the pleasant litte game by which government service and somebody's PRRSONAL INTERESTS were so skilfully blended that the unscientific mind could not perhaps distinguish between them. Mr. Jen- ney evidently feels it sadly that he ts burdened and trammelled by a large military escort, not, as he an- ticipated before the expedition set out, under his indi vidual command, which prevents him from preserving adegree of secrecy as to his researches, considered, perhaps, to be desirable by the all-powerful Indian Ring. ‘The best laid plans o’ mice and men Gang aft agley, and the pleasant little schemes fondly erected upon hopes inspired by this expedition belong to the cate- gory of dissolving air castles, The fresh discoveries of gold on Spring and Rapid creeks created a whirl of excitement, which had the usual duration of such episodes in the histories of min- ing regions, The first statements were exaggerated. ‘That peculiar frenzy inspired by the dazzling effect of the yellow metal on the heated Imagination is an ept- demic from which few of the most sensible minds are exempt. On Spring Creek only two ‘bars’? have been found which indicate @ moderate degree of richness. One of these has been well worked by Mr. Jenney and his mining assistants, Its recent product has been very small, The other “pay streak’ yielded barely what was entitled to be called “pay dirt” tn miners’ par- lance, and {s now said to be exhausted. Here I may mention an amusing example of the aptness and signifi- cance of VULGAR NOMENCLATURE, Innumerable names have sprung into existence within a few weeks representing localities and features of the landscape, even the less prominent of which the un- taught are fond of designating by association of char- acteristic ideas, The claim last mentioned was no sooner fourd to contain considerable wealth than it was sorely coveted by scores of miners, and threats were freely made by them to dispossess the original squatters, They could not, however, shake the sense of righteous possession felt by the latter, and an old man, gray haired and bearded, spokesman among them, who bas aided in “working” many @ gulch in the Goiden State, and who holds @ share of this bouanza, wok the initiative of defi- ance. “Let "em come,” says he. ‘On this here bar ['m goin’ to live or die. Yes, sir, an’ I’) stand ‘em off this here claim as long’s the Lord ‘Il let me puil a trigger.” With the long, heavy-barrelled rifle which he grasped he gave emphasis to these words, Henceforward the rough seekers after fortune were less vociferous of their proposed invasion of the claim, and ‘Stand ‘em Off Bar” willbe the name by which that 300 feet of mining ground will be known in the pages of history, Halfa mile above this camp, on the right bank of Rapid Creek, is a placer of which great hopes have been entertained, little of which has yet been realized. A party of four men are “drifting” a tunnel into the bank, Put have as yet obtained but meagre specimens of gold, although what they have found consists of coarse parti- clea, It is of the kind denominated by Californians “RUSTY GoD,” being encrusted with a black substance. The average quantity obtained from a pan full of the soil is insignill- cant, bat by means of sluicing this particular “pay: streak” may prove profitable fora short time. It is sure to be exhausted soon, however. The finding of snch a placer is but a stroke of good luck among a thou- sand disappointments. It creates a furore which laste for a week, and draws bundreds of miners from their original claims, but to find, perhaps, in the same gulch where the brilhant discovery is made, and but a few fect away, nought but baffled hope. ‘Presently they will learn that the Black Hills is not a country for the poor man's delving, except as an agriculturist. Mining will prove successful here only by a judicious use of capital The only {nstances of an RNOOURAGING YIELD OP GOLD have been those in which weeks of diligent toil have been rewarded by aday or two of brilliant success and subsequent nearly barren results. The proportion of unrequited labor is so great that !t dissipates profit On Lieutenant Colonel Dodge vouching for its truth T gave the statement in a former letter that the six miners operating a sluice on the ‘Bear Hole Claim” in Custer’s Gulch had in one day got thirty-one penny- weights of gold, Subsequent investigation proves that the ‘honest miners’ skilfully practised deception upon the commanding officer and caused to be weighed in his presence the result of three or four days’ labor as that of one, The evident object of the majority of the squatters upon this Indian reservation is to hold as many claims as is possible until the conclusion of a bargain with the Sioux may give them titles, when, un- der the spur of a gold excitement, they may readily sell them to capitalists. I thoroughly believe that they recognize the futility of poor men attempting to mine by the crude means which they alone possess. Those who have had little experience do not dissemblo their uuragement, and numbers of them are gradually of the Hills. The old miners who hold claims, however, profess a greater confidence than they foci and are looking forward to profitable speculation after the Indian negotiations are consuinmated. If the government finally opens the country to settloment in- vestment in mineral lands here should be made with the greatest caution. MOVING NORTHWARD. On Sunday, the 25th, the detachment of the expe- dition remaining at Camp Harney, Captain William Hawley mmanding, broke camp at five o’clock A. M.. and commenced the march northward, in the track of the advance companies which had gone forward with Colonel Dodge, The new trail diver toward the east from the one made by General Cust last summer and passes through scenery of a different and wilder character, Passing over the ridges and mesaa north of French Creek we entered & ravine, deep and narrow, and soon reached the head of a rn branch of Spring Creek, which, by a mistake of U | supposed to be Rapid Creek, where we crossed it, going | southward, in June. rail descends through @ con- | tinually deepening ravine, through brakes and woods and weed-choked bottoms, and it crosses the stream no less than twenty-eeven’ times. Many of the fords arobut a few yards apart. The muin creek is fro quently reinforced by smail tributaries which drain the springs in the mountain sides. The gorge is so narrow that the mountains seem higher than ubey are, The map-wise, Was | trail winds amid a dense growth of red willows, wild | rosebushes and othe ubvery high aa the head of a | man on a horse. The oe Of the water fn calm shal- lows of the stream is adorned by clusters of pure white | blossoms, floating like waver but they are much smaller, The piant, which ws entirely immersed, | has the appearance of mous, The saowy gems look vory j bewutiful, ses of by she sparkles of the rippling current Rudo and ragged-looking miners camps are scattered along Creek and Ite southern branch. The ¢ pear to exist in the veriest poverty. A f of decayed and torn canvas often is their only abode; many of them sleep under their wagons, others within ther and many with no covering whatever. It isa puzzle to account for the persistency that leads such men vo remain in ® country that gives them go little promise of alleviation of their poverty, Many men who rushed over Bpring Cresk during the excitement have already ro turned 0 Cyalar’s Guich Thetraces of Weir former other sentiment than discou ragement After a march of eighteen miles we oma portion of the Free, which is very narrow and wild, called on lo. About the ‘middle of the afternoon we Passed close by the BASE OV MARNEY’S PEAK, of which a party was then engaged ‘in making the ascent, their wagons being parked in the valley under a foe eaters, The summit of * — pwored over us in gray niticenca, here seeming loftier than from any other point. of observation. - The next morning IT arrived at Camp Crook at eleven o'clock, having made a short stop atthe infantry camp in “Jenney's Gulch” on Spring _ Creék. yon Diablo is a magnificent bit of scenery, wild, gloomily repellant and even startin; All along through tho gorge of Spring Creck the echoes had asserted them- selves vociferously, and es; y when the thunder rolled around the sky. This was painfully suggestive when we reached a point called Lightning Hill, where an officer, his little son and twa soldiers were, about two weeks ago, severely shocked by electricity, The remains of a horse killed at the time lay at the foot of a scarred pine tree. But, as the wagon train was slowly winding through the Canyon Diablo, the loud clanging of wheels upon boulders, the piercing crack of the mule drivers’ whips and the ripe oaths roliing from their reverberative mouths were taken up and swollen by the echoes into a dreadful CHAOS OF NOISES. As the canyon is entered it appears to the beholder to be walled up at the northern end of the vista by a large butte, whose side is a perpendicular precipive. The little space between the lofty walls is crowded with rank shrubbery. All place of egress is hidden until it is discovered @ few feet before one by turning sharply to the right, At the very angle the stream is again to be forded. Gradually descending into a between the hills broad enough to be called a ley wo found Be nna feo Pegg ee at 2 end. The trail beyond, between Spring creeks, is continually up and down hall through eae young woods and narrow ravines, It also crosses a district devoid of timber and consisting of steep mound-shaped hills, separated by eee a intersecting at all angles, Some of those mounds exhibit siatey iron ore in abundance, Some of it has the appearance of being nearly pure and of having suddenly solidified from & molten condition. Possibly it was thrown from vol- canoes now extinct, A few miles north of French Creok the visible rock becomes solely slata, with occa- sional beds of quarta Further north !t shows strong symptoms of iron over a wide region. Tho strata are in- variably vertical, and the masses of rock appear to be mere bundles of rectangular columns, which readily fall apart at a touch of the hand, as uf they had been splin- tered by the lightning. THE THUNDER is remarkably loud among these hills, and {t may be the bolts are attracted by the deposits of iron. Six men of Captain John Mix's compan; ird cavalry) last evening came into camp, bringing a message from the General commanding this military de- partment to Lieutenant Colonel Dodge, 1t was dated on the Niobrara River, July 22, and was to the purport that General Crook was on his way to visit the expedi- tion, accompanied by Major Stanton, Paymaster, and ex- General Smith, of Chicago, Their arrival is expected to-morrow, and General Crook’s coming probably sig- nifies some decided move in the policy of the govern- ment concerning the Black Hills, A THEATRICAL IMBROGLIO., HOW DION BOUCICAULT DEYEATED A PLOT AND ESCAPED ANNOYANCE, Last Tuesday a young lawyer standing at the desk of the Superior Court, Chambers, ascertained that an order of arrest had been granted against Mr, Dion Boucicault, at the suit of Robert McWade, on @ charge of libel, which is given below. ‘he attorney saw by the looks of the applicant for the order that mischief was meant, and immediately told Mr. Boucicault’s counsel, Mr. A. Oakey Hall, of what had transpired. The counsellor in question, knowing that Mr. Boucicault had been four months in the city after the publication of the alleged bel without any action being taken upon {t, concluded that the arrest of that gentleman upon tho eve of his going to Europe was malicious, and determined to thwart it—the more 80 as it was evidently the plaintif’s intention for the Sheriff to lodge Mr. Boucicault in Ludlow Street Jail. Under advice of his counsel Mr. Boucicault left Now York for Jersey City, in order to escape annoyance, but instructed Mr. Hall, out of respect to the Court, to immediately appear and defend the suit and justify it, Mr, Hall advised him further to be ready to voluntarily tender a bond lest it should be said he was absconding, HIRING A TUGBOAT, Yesterday morning the plaintit's counsel, at an ex- pense of $25, hired a tugboat to board the’ Bothnia in the bay, but upon learning that the Bothnia would leayo her dock at a rapid rate and could not be caught by tho tugboat, he concluded not to send out his boat in’ pur- suit, but to let the Deputy Sheriff, holding the order of arrest, go to the Cunard dock’ and “interview” Mr. Boucicault there. This was done, and Mr. Boucicault was found surrounded by numerous friends; the Deputy Sherif made no attempt to arrest him, for such an act would have been illegal on account of ‘being in another State, MoGonigle, the Deputy Sheritf, politely informed Mr. Boucicault the papers he held and showed them; whereupon Boucicault informed him of his previous determination to make suitable appearance, and out of respect to the Court, and to prevent any suspicion of attempting to elude its tera} he was willing to give bai. Mr. John i Peon, of No. 20 East Fifteenth street, who had goue to see Mr. Boucicault off, was on board,’and plain- Ui’s attorney agreed to take him and John McCullough as bondsmen in the amount required—$1,000 In con- versation with @ H&RALD reporter his counsel said that the whole affair is a malicious farce, for Mr. Boucicault is a naturalized American citizen, owns property to a large extent in this city, and it was publicly known that he was to return to New York next September, THE COMPLAINT. ‘The complaint upon which this order was granted sets forth the following facts:— That the plaintiff was, at the time of the mentioned grievances, engaged in the business of drainatic author, actor and theatrical delineator, and was also. the author, composer and originator’ of the drama known te “Hip Vau Winkle; or, The Sleep of Twenty Years,” which had been copyrighted by Mr. McWade. That the same was of great value. Defendant also at the same time a dramatic author, claiming to have composed the "Shuugh- raun,” and that Josh Hart was the owuer of another play called “Skivbecah,” which was claimed by Boucicault to 6 au infringement upon the “Shaughraun” so owned by the latter, Mr. Boucicault commenced an action in the Superior Court’ against Hart, An injunction was granted against Hart by which he was restrained from further exhibiting his drama of “The Skibbeeah” at bis the That on the 18th day of February, 1875, the d Boncicault, by reason of certain rumors, reports isms made by several persons and published in the New York daily and weekly papers, relating to the termination of the matters in faaue ‘and determined in the Superior Court, maliciously composed and published, or caused to be published, ander his own name and signature in the New Youk Hawai Jowing letter :— ROUCICAULT AGAINST HART, To me Eprror oy tuk Henan — A report has been Industriously efrealated that the Tudge in my case against Joshua [art granted me somethin called 'a “special injunction.» There waa nothing spect about it. He granted me ali I asked for. I caught the de- fendant with my, stolen property on his person. “The judge made him give it up. There was some other property, fslso stolen ‘goods, found in'the ‘pockets of the thief an the fol- because I made no claim on that he triumphs in Jt, Possession, | ‘The decision sustains my copy- right and dismisses the defendant's plea that my play was Bot original. ‘The bond given by me is the usual security ro- quired from all complainants’ who succeed in getting an \n- Junction, There is nothin ‘cept that I stopped the per at Hart's Theatre, and damages as actively as Tecan. Meanwhile | beg to draw at- tention to an advertisement in your advertising columns which {s very special In the interest of every respectable manager in the United States, in the interest of the dramatic literature of the country, I have resolved to pursue and ex: terminate theso impudent pirates and audacious thieves, who prowl around the purlieus of the drama to seiae on every suc- cess, They infosted the career of Mr. Joseph Jefferson, and [ am sorry to add their manifest importunce in his case—T_al- lnde particularly to the ease of ‘one Robert MeWade—was rather encouraged and supported by some vf the press, im stoud of boimg held up to just reprobation. Yours truly, DION BOUCICAULS, New York, Feb, 17, 1875. The complaint further goes on to state that the do- fendant, Boucicault, thereby intended and caused it to | be believed by all readers of the Henao that plaintiff | had been guilty of plagiarism and bad wron fully ap- propriated to his own use the play of “Rip Van Winkle; that plaintiff had been greatly injured by this publica- tion asa dramatic author, and that the value of his play had boen decreased tothe amount of $10,000, and | Judgment is asked for this sum Annexed to the complaint is the afMdavit of Mr. Me- Wade, who states that he is a resident of the city of Baf- falo, and setting forth all the main points alleged in the complaint. He cites the fact of Mr. Boucicault’s tn- tended departure for London to fill an engagoment as ground for the issuing of the order of arrest. This afl- davit concludes with @ paragraph from the Henao of August 9, bearing upon this departare, as follows :— Mr. H. J. Montagna, the ctor, arrived at the Hoffina House yesterday from San Francisco, and will sailfor Eng. land on’ Wednesday, in company with Mr. Dion Boucicault | and Mr, Joun McCollough, Mr. T. Allston Brown also makes an afMdavyit that his attention was called to the letter in the Herap tn Feb. | ruary last and that ho is well acquainted with Mn Rob- ert McWade, Deponent alleges that when he read this article he knew the person alluded to as “Robert Mo- Wado” was intended for and referred to Robert McWado, the plaintiff in the present action. i THE DEPEXCE. On behalf of defendant his counsel stated that an ane ewer will be put in justifying the libel, and, if the de- fendant dare bring his case in court, wili prove that Mc- Wade's version of “Rip Van Winkle” ie a distinct series of purloinings of Mr. Boncicault’s “situations” and business, and also Mr. Joseph Joflerson's well known rendering of that character. RAISE THE TRACKS. ‘The special committee of the Board of Aldermen of Jorsey City have had an interview with Mr. Sowell, of | the Pennsylvania Railroad, in referonce to the elevation of the tracks above the streets in Jersey City. That gen- | tleman concurred with the committee that the chango ‘was a most desirable one, and he would recommend ft to the directora, The only question for the city on the ong hand and the railroad company on the other to do- tormino was the proportion of the expense which each should bear. He su therefore, -that the com- mitteo should hold a conference with Colonel Scots, who would meet them in New York. Thus far, however, the committee have been unable to see Mr, Scott, The frequency of accidents resulting in loxs of lif at Jersey to-day 1 press my suit against him for City, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, has become alarm ing, and some measure like that proposed must sooner | or later be adopred, , The Rochefort and Cassagnac Fizzled Duel. PISTOLS AT FIVE PACES. Raw Head and Bloody Bones on Paper. Below are the letters exchanged between these gentle- men, and it will be seen by the character of the corre- spondence that {t was from the first a mere interchange of hard words, without any likelihood of other results:-— ROCHEFORT TO CASSAGNAG, Juny 10, 1875, | To M. Pav, pe Cassaanac:— After many vain efforts I have finally obtained several numbers that I sought of the Pays. The number or November 7, 1872, contains over your signature this phrase of reference to me:— “It was he who hurled forward ¢he hordes of the Commune, taking care wo keep himself safely behind and to run away afterward. Here, then, is a vile wretch,” In the number of the 18th of the same month occurs this instinctive and insulting paragraph :— “When the brave and energetic Floarens would have cast upon Paris the hordes that bore the coffin of Victor Noir you found a means of getting promptly out of the way; and it was for you that Victor Noir got himself killed.”” ‘This article terminates thus:— “If ever you are pardoned you will have at your re- turn a brilliant choice, an immense choice, M. Henri Rochefort, {f it shall then be agreeable to you to look up the persons who would like to have the honor of killing you like a mad dog, as you are,” These words, for which I now demand reparation, contain in themselves your engagement to meet the consequences from which it is now impossible for you to withdraw. Pleaso to start for Geneva immediately, therefore, with your seconds, Mine await you. You cannot invoke in this case such pretexts as those that availed you in the case of Clemenceau, I have not been pardoned, for pardon is extended only to those who wish it; but I am free, and I exact the reparation that you in advance have declared yourself prepared to accord, and I request further that you will not have your honorable father inform the police. My two friends, Puissant and Bouvier, who bear this, will receive your response, HENRI ROCHEFORT, + 5 Rue des Alpes, Geneva, CASSAGNAC TO ROCHEVORT, To this Mr. Cassagnac responded as follows:— To M. Henri Rocuxrorr:— You are right, sir, In signing the article which you: recall to my remembrance, I signed a bill of exchange. It is true you have not hastened to present it, and that you have let a year and a half slip away without calling at the cashier’s little window; but I always pay, no mat- ter what the circumstances, when in debt, and I will pay now, be certain of it, at sight and ready money. Only let me recall to you under what circumstances I wrote the words which seem to have taken so long to. affect you. This may be useful in so far as it will show that the quarrel comes from your side and is none of mine. On the 16th of November, 1872, and not, as you say the 7th, you wrote in-a letter published In the Zvene- ment, and alluding to me, “l am convinced that those who abuse to-day while 1 am between four walls, would be the first to offer me their grovelling excuses if I were free,” Tt was to this bombastic and noisy burst that I answered as you have seen. Well, now you are free ; you call upon me, and I ac- cept, And if I take you, though I have refused the more pitiful communists of the Republique Francaise, itis that Tam not in debt to them, andto youl am. You are not pardoned it {s true, and I could stand behind that trifle if I chose; but I am not fond of haggling about words, and with you republicans one must not havo too many scruples. If one refuses as an adversary every republican who is condemned to death on the gal- leys he will have to give up fighting. More than this, you are @ great personage, str, and have been all that a republican can be with good luck and good friends, You have been successively and ad- vancingly—first, a deputy, then a member of the gov- ernment of the 4th September and then sentenced to hard labor; 80 you see you are a man who should meet the requirements of the most difficult taste, This is why I do not hesitate. And—you sce how amiable I am—to give you a chance to escape and return to the galleys, I leavo to you without discussion the choice of weapons, Ifyou were a well bred person you would neither have spoken of the police nor of my father. The police, Ican understand, may justly oceupy a large Space in the thoughts of an escaped criminal like your- self—whose departuro has been saluted by the cannon of Brest or Toulon, and who has decorated with a yel- Jow feather his green cap of a galley slave. But what necessity was there to mingle my father’s name with a quarrel in which he has no coneern? He has over me the great advantage that he {s without the honor of your acquaintance; and formerly, as you know, he did not prevent me from putting a bullet into you. ' Have also the honesty to acknowledge that if any one | risks in all this a disagreeable Intervention, it is not you who are ina foreign country and beyond the reach of this police—but me coming to meet you tn your lurking place—the resort and refuge of all the assassins aud in- cendiaries of the Commune. But since you are so good as to give me a piece of advice, permit me, that I may not be behindhand, to give you two, First—Don't wear medals again, That was good once, but it would not be fair a second time, And as I don’t want to keep shooting at you in this way I desire earnestly that that too easy means of wearing armor may not save your life a second time as ft has already done once. Second—Do not forget your smelling bottle. Your fainting fits are sufficiently celebrated already, and I should be sorry to go so far merely to assist in cutting your corsets and bringing you to, You are so dreadfully nervous, you know. What ahurry you are in, as ifyou feared I would not come by the first train. Be a little calm, dear sir; you will lose nothing by waiting, and, como when I may, it will be too soon for you. Know that danger ts not to be swallowed precipitately like a medicine ‘and that a week more or less will not add grievously to the seventy weeks you have taken, not to hunt up papers that yon had already, but to fortify, I know, your arm and your heart, for which I cannot blame you. ‘The seconds are the Prince Alexandre de Wagram and the Count Maurice d’Herisson. 1 require but one concession from you, but I require it imperiously, It ts that you will delegate two of your friends to meet them here, not at Genova That is more regular, and the least you can do in the circum- stances, For tn fact this is the only means I have to be certain that I do not put the honorable gentlemen who act for me tn relation with fugitives from justice; and, finally, it ts enongh to have one rascal in such an affair, and you are in {t, PAUL DE CASSAGNAC. These are tho letters, pithy enough, but not the letters of men who mean w fight, and below is the | process verbal, drawn up by the seconds on either side:— Ta consequence of two articles published in the Pays of the 7th and 16th of November, 1872, during tho cap- tivity of M. Henri Rochefort, he has demanded of M, Paul do Cassagnac, by a letter dated July 10, 1875, a reparation by arms, M. Paul de Cassagnae, having aceepted by letter, dated the 13th of the same month, MM. Perrin and Ordinaire, membors of the Natioval Assembly, representing M. Rochefort, and the Prince Alexander de Wagram and the Count d’Herisson, representing M. de Cassagnac, met to arrange the particulars, M. de Cassagnac having abandoned, without discussion, the choice of arms to M, Rochefort, the discussion was ¢ simply on the conditions of the cembat, ‘The seconds of M. Rochefort, holding that their friend was the tnsulted man, and shat as such he bad not only the right to choose the arma, but vo dictate the condi- tions, asked that the dnel should take place with rifled pistols at five yards, the parties to fire at the word of command, The seconds of M, de OCassagnac responded that this arms it would be muzzle to muzzle, and that even if M./ Cassagnac should declare himself willing to accept sucht @ duel they would withdraw and not consent by theit Presence toa combat that must insure the death of botlat gentlemen, They saw no grave objection to shooting at the but thought it less satisfactory than to permit the come batants to advance a certain distance and fire at will. M. Rochefort's seconds coutd not see the objections made tn the same light; they thought the firing by thot word of command more controllable than the other, aw the parties could neither fire before one word nor after’ another. They added that the conditions were chosen! by M. Rochefort, that the affair might be as grave aa! possible. ; M. Cassagnac’s seconds answered that the gravity oft the case was not in the means but in the result, and. proposed a duel with rifled pistols at thirty-five paces, each combatant having the right to advancefive pacest and fire at will and indefinitely till one should be downg, otherwise a due! with the sword, M. Rochefort’s seconds declined these conditions, considering that their principal had the right to impose» his own, Parts, July 27, 1875. F. ORDINAIRE, GEORGES PERRIN, NEW YORK CITY. Count IRISSON D’HERRISON, ALEX., Princo of Wagram, Mr. Ruggles, the corporation attorney, resigned yes terday, to make way, it is understood, for Colonel John» R, Fellows, Yesterday morning Francis McLaughlin, eight years: of age, fell off the dock at the foot of Sixty-tirst street) and was drowned. ‘The body was recovered yesterday: afternoon, ’ Josiah Carpenter, a Bible agent, charged with opening a letter addressed to J. A. Westfall, a former agent, was discharged by Commissioner Shields, the evidence show- ing no guilty intent, ‘The body of an unknown female child, aged about ten months, was found floating in the Eust River, at the foot of Thirty-third street, yesterday morning. The child wore a plaid skirt, dark dress, red stockings and morocco shoes, The body is at the Morgua. The Lawrence McCormick Association of the Nine~ teenth ward gives its annual picnic on Saturday next at Schutzen Park. The committee has made all necessa) arrangements in order to secure a pleasant time for : members of the association and their friends, BROOKLYN. ‘The inquest in the Maxwoll wife murdor case will bor held to-day before Coroner Simms, Peter Marks and Julius Bulger were sent to jail by Justice Eames yesterday to await examination on the charge of assaulting Officers Hamilton and Freestone, The lately retired Collector of Taxes and Assessments, Mr, Lemuel Burrows, was yesterday the recipient of a gold watch and chain from the clerks of the Tax Office. The contract of Patrick Shea for the removal of dead animals and night soil, for the sum of $22,750, wag signed by the President of the Health Board yesterday morning. ‘The Gnancial returns of the Civil Justices’ Courts off Brooklyn during the past month were as follows:—Jus~ tice Delmar, $263 50; Justice Riley, $244 Morse, $241 03, There are 500 men employed in the construction de- partment of the Navy Yard. The planking of the new sloop-of-war Trenton is progressing rapidly, and the Swatara and Intrepid are being overhauled." The members of Company I, Fourteenth regiment, will parade to-day at the funeral of Lieutenant John Ff Young, of that organization, The funeral takes placet at two o'clock, from the late residence of the deceased,‘ No, 10 Cumberland street, Justice Delmar yesterday committed Charles M¢ Donough, of No, 306 Van Brunt street, to juil, for sane bing James Thomas, of No. 235 Conover strect, in the face with an icepick. The wound, though it disigures ‘Thomas, is not dangerous, : Charles Harrington, seventeen years of age, appeared! before Justice Riloy yesterday, and besought the Judge: to issue @ warrant for the arrest of his father, who is m night watchman. His father had refused to support him, he said, and "his heart was sore.” Tho tend youth was referred to the Commissioners of Charities LONG ISLAND. A new schoolhouse is tn course of construction ati Water Mill, town of Southampton It will have a towert and bell. ‘ As the Fire Department of East New York proposes to throw up its charter and disband, there is a move~ ment for the organization of a town fire brigade, use the old apparatus and such other as the town see fit to furnish them, STATEN ISLAND. ‘There ts to be some good trotting at Sea View Parkg New Dorp, to-day. Two valuable trotting horses on keep died at Seat View Park yesterday. ‘Tho Western Union Telegraph Company will open branch office at the Garner Dock, Stapleton, this week. ( ‘St. John’s church at Clifton will be closed on Sundayt next In consequence of repairs, and will remain closed until the end of the month, NEW JERSEY. George Seymour, who was so severely beaten Peter Fox, in Jersey City, hag been pronounced out of danger, Justice Davis, therefore, admitted Fox to yesterday. Richard Williams, a watchman in the Lafayette Pij Works at Jersey City, was committed for trial y on the charge of attempting to shoot Jaines Bloy and boy In his employ. It was suggested on tho part of the dejonce that Williams is insane, County Physician Stont ia engaged in investigating thet cause of the death of Mr. Stephen K. Jerolamen, off Kearney, who was a member of the Board of Freehold era. His property ts valued at $100,000, and. is will ta contested by his widow, His death occurred under very: suspicious circumstances, Messrs, Curran and Heritage, two of the three meme. bers of the Committoe on the Penitentiary at Snake Hill, have discharged a keeper named Albert Kratz, and the baker, Michael Brown, because they testified against: Warden Post in the investigation now in progress. Mr. Wickham, chairman of the committeo, provested loudly against this action. The work of excavating Periwig Cut, in the Delawarer River, above Bordentown, hus been resumed, Two more cuts are to be made through the entire length off the obstruction, in order to widen the channel of the river, When the work is completed large vessels cam proceed to South Trenton and Lamberton, where several, wharves are to be erected. The monument erected on the grave of poor Mary” Pomeroy by the ladies of Jersey City Heights will be dedicated on Saturday afternoon at five o'clock. Thor religious services will be conducted by the Rev, Mr./ Tunison. Arrangetnents have been made by the! ladies’ committee to have the ceremony carried out. with great solemnity, During a quarrel over a trifling matter, betweem Abraham Fouser and William Ring, in Kossuth street, Union Hill, on Tuesday night, the latter rushed into hig house and speedily returned with a large knife an@ sprang upon Fouser. A crowd of citizens who had as- sembied put themselves between the combatants. Tt wna with difficuity that Constable Riesenberg wrested) the weapon from Ring. He was committed to await. the action of the Grand Jury, In view of the repeated frauds perpetrated on the tax~ payers of Hudson county, the election of the Director« at- Large of the Board of Chosen Freeholders 1s attract. ing great attention among the peopic. He will be elected under the new act and will hold oflice for two years, Among the prominent candidwes are Mr, O'Reilly, who struck down the frauds iu the County Jail, and Mr, A. J, Ditmar, Until final action be takem by the freeholders ow the outrages a the Penitentiary the chances of the former cannot be calculaved. THE FIREMEN PARTLY ‘The firemen were all paid off yesterday for the montly of July, The month of June still hangs fire, Whag money the men received yesterday amounts wo hardly enough to pay their back rents, grocery and other bills, The Comptroller holds the June payroils, stateg that he cannot pay the men anti! the Mayor signs them, THE FIREMEN’S STATE CONVENTION, ‘The annual Convention of the State Firemen’s Assos clation will be held in the olty of Poughkeepsie om ‘Tuesday next, About 600 delegates will be present and several very important matters will be brought before the meeting. The deicgates are composed of men from both the paid and volnnteor departments throughout tho State, mostly commissioners, chief engincers wn presidents or representatives of fre boards. Great Preparations are being made te five the delegates PAID, < jearty reception by the firemen of Poughkeopsie. They will visit Newburg by invitation of the dremea Wat city. ~~