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4 JAPAN AND CORE. The Relations Between the Two Nations as Far as Historically Known. CORFAN DESIRE FOR INDEPENDENCE. Prolonged Suspension of Tribute-- Will There Be War? HOW AMERICAN TRAVELLERS FARE. Toxio, August 24, 1875, To Corea or not to Corea—that is the question. None other seems worthy of serious consideration just now by those who take active interest in Japanese politics, Foreigners, who have no means of arriving at any accu- rate decision, nevertheless amuse themselves by decid- ing the matter in a dozen different ways each week, Merchants, newspaper writers and diplomatic func- tionaries have thrown the subject into all possible con- fusion by settling it off-hand, every one according to his, momentary interest or casual fancy. Nothing is positively known except that everything is absolutely, anknown, and the ignorance is by no means confined to foreign circles, ‘The Japanese themselves, outside of a narrow offictnl boundary, are equally in the dark, The faculty of keeping secrets of State is one in which this government ig attaining great proficieucy, It long ago dearned the necessity of doing so, if it ever wished to carry through any important project without interfer- ence or molestation from Western representatives, and in this instance it has surrounded itself with a mystery which no ingenuity or porsist- ence fas been able to penetrata More than six months ego an order was privately circulated pro- ceeding from the highest authority and peremptorily forbidding any Japanese in the public service, of what ever rank, to hold conversation with strangers upon the ‘topre of Corea, The injunction has been faithfully | obeyed, and ad this day there are pot five foreigners ‘who have agtimmer of light as to the parposes of the mative rulers. Even their own employés from abroad have been excluded from confidence, in some cases be- cause their trustworthiness is doubted, in others be- | cause their discretion is questionable. So there is nothing bat rumor to rest upon, and, as this is guided | entirely by conjecture, it natu takes the wildest | ‘and most audacious forms. Perhaps, in the absence of | voertifled facts, the best assistance to a clear view of the question may be aifordea by a brief statement of the few RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND COREA, Bo far as they are historically known. The first nstance of formal intercourse, authentically recorded, occurred in the reign of the Mikado Suijin, the tenth wf the dynasty which still holds the throne, thirty-three years before Christ. At this time a mes~ senger from Amana, one of the kingdoms into which Corea was then subdivided, visited Japan, bearing Presents, and expressing a desire for the interchange of such treaties as were then recognized. This envoy [| femained three years, and was looked upon as the Fepresentative of a State that acknowledged itself to be tributary. He was followed, during several suc- | cessive reigns, by similar ambassadors. It is related ‘that a son of the twelfth Emperor, Keiko, led an army through the otber kingdoms of Corea, in the ,frst cen- tury of our era, and reduced them all to submission ; but this appears to be less clearly established than other events of the period. The expedition of the £mpress Tingo, in the third century, however, is ani- versally accepéed as an historical fact, This Amazonian ruler overrun the whole of the peninsula and brought it to such a state of subjection that for ages after no | thought of omitting the regular tributary embassies ‘was ever entertained. They were continued without | interruption until toward the end of the sixteenth cen- tury, when the Coreans showed the disposition to’ de- clare a preference for China. The military chieftain of that date, Taiko, sent a formidable army to chastise them, and not only secured aa immediate renewal of | t the tributes, but held for several yoars a large portion | of Corean territory as well. Some of the presents sent to his successor, Iyeyasu, in the seventeenth century, massive works in brozze and éilver, are to this day ex- hibited in and around the great temples of Nikwo, in the interior of Japan. Again for many years tho messengers of submission brought their offerings, and the practice was not set aside until the overthrow of the Taikun’s family, military chiefiains, in 186% Smce then Lave never been renewed. The Japanese have pre served the little spot of land in which their own repre. sentatives have resided, and, in spite of many allega- tions to the contrary, have never been seriously mo- Jested. They have, indeed, been allowed to go, under Protection and surveillance, into various parts of the | country. There have been several reports of violence | ‘and menace attempted by the Corcan officials, but these @re without foun Indications of indifference to | Japanese dictation and a determination to assert a com- | plete independence have, been frequent. | on, however, ‘The Chinese government has jvst no opportunity of en- + couraging the Coreans in their resistance to Japancse | demands. In the autumn of 1874, when the High Com. | missioner Okubo was engaged in the settlement of the | Formosa affair in Pckin, they sent a false notice that an alliance had been contracted between the United , States, France and Japan for the destruction of the | peninsula kingdom; and when @ tefrified party came | from the capital of the threutoned State, asking for ex- | Planations and advice, the Tsung |i Yamen COUNSELED AN IMMEDIATE COMPLLANCE | with the requirements of the American and Eoropean Powers, but a bold defiance in case Japan should at- | tempt an attack. Upto this time, however, it is tol- | erably clear that Corea has no évidence that Japan | contemplates an attack. been sent thither at intervals from the Foreign Office | have been empowered to make no hostile demonstra. | tions, but instructed to confine themselves to examina- tion and inguiry. In the present temper af the Por- | eign Office, indeed, it is not possible that any of its | attachés should be allowed to assume an offensive | stand, But there is littie reason tw doubt that other | powerful departments aro sufficiently favorable to the | general scheme of an expedition which shall certainly | be on a Scale so large as to make aggressive operations | easy in case they should be thought advisable, t does not appear that the vehement advocates of this Movement were ortginally of the high official class; but they were men of snc influence and power that their representations can hardly be disre- garded. Unqnestiouabiy, the government is sorely | divided on this harassing point How the debates will terminate it is impossible to say. The torce of nuinbera is in favor of letting the turbulent spirits have their way, and @iving sanction to an enterprise at least for the opening if not the conquest of Corea; the weight of intelligent jadgment is in the opposite direction. He would be a bold prophet, even among the members of the Cabinet themselves, who would venture to foretell the result of the aaxious deliberations that absord av- tention upon this subject almost to the present exclu- sion of ali others, If an army should be sent it will be on the distinct ground that Corea has rendered herself liable to punishment for her prolonged suspension of the tributes and her repeated refusals, not always | courteously conveyed, to new the vid reiatvonslup or way to any other form of intereourse. But it iffioult to imagine that the instigators of the iuspired by somewhat dillereas motives, which will never be £0 openly proclaimed, The unfortunate affair, in which Judge Richardson, of the Court of Claims, and Commander Lewis, of the | ernment lands; I told him United States steamer Yantic, were put to great annoy: “It that is your depend nce and inconvenience, and compelled to abandon a | be like mine, three by six; that’s about the land I ex- Pleasure trip in the country upon which they had just | pect to get, and that will be your land, | am fearful.’” Started, has probabiy been already reported. Th The defence introduced no testimony; there was no | ds one which, however disagreeable it may have been to | argument by counsel, The Judge charged that the | the American gentiemen, was far more vexatious to the horities at Tokio, Messrs. Richardson and Lewis just started upon a short journey to various places of interest, ail of wuich le within the limits recognized | by treaty as PREE TO PORRIGN VISITATION. At their first resting © they were stopped and compelled to return to Yokohama, on the alleged ground that orders had been given to prevent all strangers from | sojourning in that part of the counwy. Personally they | ‘were treated of deference and considera. | with every mark tion; but the act itself, without regard to the manner in Repetto ins ow Was an affront that could not be Te was heapi of in Tokio before any | complaint had been made, sod the ewittest measures ‘were taken to bring the offenders t account. The in- ‘vestigation which followed showed that a few subordi- nate officials, new to posts, bad wotally miscon- ceived the instructions By which they were ordered to late their movements. These were dismissed and subjected to suitable punishment. Ample assurances ‘of regret were given by the proper officers of the cen. tral government and every satisfaction that conld hare Deen desired was spontaneously accorded. Extraord|. ary efforts wore made on the part of t) “nglist com- Munity to persuade the Americans to look upon the | affair as a editated national outrage, and the oid war cries of gunboats and indemulties were freely cir- culated. It is really fortunate for the Japanese that the persons thus dealt with were citizens of the United States. If they had represented any other nation- ality the event would assuredly have been ™ the excuse for imposing humiliations and degradations upon this government, And if Shey bad Lappened Wo be English there would have been he line of | they | The messengers that have / NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1875..—TRIPLE SHEET. an explosion, the echoes of which must have resounded all over the world. Sir Harry Parkes would have dashed into the Foreign Vitice, shaken his st in th Minister's faco—ut least, ag he has done so before, it is pot unreasonable to beMeve he would do tt again—and exhausted all the energies of his passionate and petvu- lant nature to produce a state of feeling that would e: tude every hope of an immediate amicable settlement Negotiations would follow, supported by threats and criminations, and the whole would have resulted in fresh demonstration of British force and arrogance by way of Western triumph over the present weakness of Japan. The government are fully aware of their good fortune in the accidental circumstance of their having to deal only with Americana, The torments they might have been put to under other conditions are well understood, and it is pretty clear that they will take | ig means to prevent a recurrence of any such mis- ee THE GEORGIA INSURRECTION, Bh IE Ee A CLOSING TESTIMONY AS TO THE RECENT TROU- BLE—THE NEGROES’ IDEA OF GRANT AS A UNIVERSAL FATHER—HOW THE CARPET- BAGGERS PLAYED UPON THE CREDULITY OF THE FIELD HANDS. Avausra, Ga, Sept. 21, 1875. All the facts about the negro insurrectionary move- ment of August last in this general section of Georgia aad the legal proceedings at Sandersville in consequence were duly laid before your readers and are now an old story, but it may not be amiss to add that some sub- Sequent prosecutions growing out of the same affair were had some ten days since In Johnson county, and from the testimony taken there an insight of some interest into the great problem of the negro is obtain- able. One Jack Hicks was put upon trial, and from the evidence I make some extracts, omitting questions and using the words of witnesses as far as possible, John Chillis, colored, sworn—They have a secret meeting in Johnson; the society was called Brotheren; it is hard to say its object; they was to have something— a sort of equal rights; at the beginning they said there was a Civil Rights bill ; that the colored [white ?] people was not willing to receive it, and they was to make up some money and send three or four men from cach district to Waynesboro; they were to see about this Civil Rights bill; Cordy Harris and Francis Murkeeon went; to bea member of my com- pany a man had to pay fifty cents; you can’t be a mem- ber ull you paid; the oath was that all that was said at the meeting you were to keep inside you; to keep it with you; never to let it go through your teeth; the punishment (for violation of oath) was that you were t be punished according to law; some did say, “chop your head of;" after Murkeson came back he called & meeting to let us know what was their business; he said the lands were government lands, and would be di- vided; that he had been down yonder and that they told him to come back and get up all good, sound-bot, tomed men, and hold a secret meeting and raise a treas- ury; that’s what he said; we was to quit working the roads under white overseers and such as that; we was to quit letting white folks sell our cotton; that was what he said that night; we was to have forty acres and a mule. Q Tet! just what he said? A. That's what he said. . Just give me time to think; I want to tell all about it; he said, march over the road by Dr. Haines’, and through his yard, and we was to come to this place, and they was to kill from the cradle up when they started. Q Kill whom? niggers. Q From the cradle up? A. Yes, sir; they said, “Kill from the cradle up.”” Cross-examined—t didn’t jine; didn’t have fifty cents; didn’t have five cents to throw away; the oath was, “Hold up your right band; you will take the meeting with you—all that’s done; keep this meeting with you; all that is done in it keep with you; let nothing wear through your teeth outside the meetin, if you do—that’s the first word, chop your head off: all that jined was to get the full secreta; I didn't j and @idn’t get them; I didn’t hear gil; I might have heard more, but I went far enough to it didn’t suit me, and I backed out. Jacob Moorman, colored, sworn—Know of one col- ored military company; don't know whether to call it | secret or not; am first lieutenant; we called it the | | ‘Band of Brothers,” the prisoner was a member, but he didn’t have to muster or drill; he said he had a kind of complaint; when we first got up the company— when we first started—Murkeson and Harris said | that the radical men wanted to reveive (defeat?) the | | Civil Rights bill in Washington; if that was the case | they was gotng to cut loose; we made-up money to | send them off; when Murkesou came back be said | they were here to tell us ail about it; he got on the stand and made us a speech; he said be would tell us our right; he said ' it was not right to work the road under a white overseer; if a white man came around for you to work the road you musn’t | doit; ifawhite man wouldn't work under a colored overseer thea he must work his end of the road and the colored people work theirs; he said, your privi- Jege, if you ride on the train, is in the white folks car; if the Conductor puts you off that isa fine; then he goes on to say that if we made the crops ourselves, we were to geil them ourselves; he said it was against the law for the white men to sell your cotton without your leave; that was your privilege; I can’t | think of ali his spsech now; ‘ie goes on to say he will | | teil us how to vote; vote forGrant; not vote for no other white man ‘excepting Grant; then he said if we vote for Grant he would become kiag, and all of this land would be his, and instead of giving one-third, one-fourth, or one-half as (in) general to white men, we would only give one-tenth to Grant—{the reference here is to the custom in Georgia of negro tenants giving from a quarter to a half of their crops to the landlord; Grant, being universal landlord, was only to require | a tenth}—te said we were to forty acres of land; he said we would get {t in ao other way than by electing Grant, and he would sell us land at govern- ment prices and’ give us time to pay for it; also give him one-teath; all, white and black, would have to do this; Murkeson and Harris were leadors; we were ruled by what they said; Murkeson said we must go w Sandersville, and there Wesley Simmons would let us into the light of the whole; after that day, when we all got disappointed, then.thoy said, Murkeson said, and Harris, oo, that four weeks from then we would | have it over—[the reference hore is to an attempted military meeting at the Court House, in Sandersvitle, July 24, 1875, prevented by the local authorities|—and that th next time we would succeed in the Court House; Murkeson told us we were to go to transact our business, and if we were not allowed to transact our busurss we would raise war and slay as we came. @ Silay whom? A. The whites, of course. Q Did he say the whites? A. No, sir; he said if we were nut allowed to transact our business we would Taige war and slay a8 we came. Cross-examined—Our first meeting was along in corn- planting time; there were sixteen or seventeen or twenty there; the object was only to drill aad have amusoment; that’s what he said; one of the objects was to vote together. Q. Was it organized for the purpose of resisting any of the laws of the Stave of Georgia’ A. No, sir; i was not at that wme. @ Apany time? A. No, sir; woll, sir, after wo got the orders about these letters we thought we would have to go ino it, (The letier is the “cill the wites” order. } Q Did you ever intend to oppose by violence the laws of the State? Is that what you under- stood you wore todo? A. No, sir, we didn't; not more than that we meant to carry out the orders about the Jeviera, | Q Murkeeon said you were to transact your business | A. The white people and democrat have found homes at the South, Its signif- cation is as well defined as that of black man er white man; and it m in Mississippi just what it means all over the South. It embraces that class of political adventurers who came to the South immedi- ately after the war ana by dishonest means obtained ession of our State governments and have admin- istered them for the most corrupt, selfish and sordid ends, and who have done more to destroy us, to alien- ate the races and keep alive sectional animosity than the war and all things else combined. I did call uj the negroes and whites, democrats and honest repabli- cans of Mississippi, to unite at the to drive from ower this class of men who ve cursed that tate with what 1 sincerely believe to be the worst government that existe in earth. It is to be regretted that a paper so tial and usually so impartial should have led one atthe North to suppose that the democrats of Mississippi, in seeking to unite all classes in the effort to rescue the State from the control of these bad men, are making war upon all Northern citizeus in the State. Nothing is more untrue, and therefore nothing is more unjust. 1 am, very respectfully, J.B, GORDON. [The telegraph reported Senator Gordon as having ut- tered what seemed to us hasty words, and it was on that report we commented. Of course we had no de- sire to do injustice to Senator Gordon.) .» GENERAL BUTLER ON FINANCE. The Board of Trade has received the following letter from General Butler:— Boston, Sept. 22, 1875. Duan Sim—I have the honor to acknowledge the re- ceipt of yours, inclosing an invitation to. deliver a lec- ture ou finance and the currency on the Mth of October next, The importance of the subject, the fact that my views of the financial necessities of the country differ, prob- ably, from those of many of the Board of Trade, and certainly from the platiorms of the political party with which @ have been accustomed to act, decide me to break my determination not at present to take part in any public discussions which might seem to have a po- litical bearing. With many thanks for the honor, I will endeavor, health permitting, to be with the Board of Trade on the 14th of October. Ifound your note at my office in Boston on my re- turn from a Western journey on public duty, which is my apology for the delay in answering it. 1 have the honor to be, ver: an a B A F, BUTLER. Wautace P. Groom, Actuary Board of Trade, Nos. 17 and 19 Broad) New York city. NEW JERSEY POLITICS. ACTIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE FALL CAM- PAIGN—THE TWO PARTIES IN ACCORD ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTION—THE PROSPECTS IN THE LEGISLATURE—THE SCHOOL QUESTION. Trenton, N. J., Sept. 24, 1875, Both political parties in this State are commencing to make active preparations for the approaching fall campaign. Calls have been issued by them in nearly all of the counties for conventions to nominate candidates for the various oilices to be filled. Besides the election of a new Legislature, with the exception of thirteen Senators who hold over, a Sheriff has to be chosen in each county, in order to conform to one of the constitutional amend- ments recently adopted. This will add renewed vigor to the canvass, as there are many self-sacrificing men who are only too willing to share the spoils of this. lu" crative office. Of the thirteen Senators who hold over six are democrats and seven are republicans. The Sen- ate consists altogether of twenty-one members. O¢ eight Senators chosen in the last Legislature six were republicans and two democrats. The counties im which the contesta are to take place are Essex, Monmouth, Union, War- ren, Somerset, Gloucester, Salem and Camden. Warren aud Monmouth counties are overwhelmingly democratic. In the other six, with the exception of Camden, which is largely republican, the party lines aro pretty evenly drawn, and in each of them a close contest may be expected. At the last Gubernatorial election all of these counties, with the exception of Camden and Gloucester, gave respectable majorities for the democratic candidate, Governor Bedle, As regards ‘THE FINANCIAL QUESTION both parties harmonize in favor of bard money and contraction. Purely local issues will govern the con- test if the hue and cry raised by the republican press in regard to the school question and the alleged ad- vances of the Catholics does not interfere, But it is surmised that the recent vote on the constitutional amendments has settled these latter issues as demon- strating that the people of the State repudiate auy at- tempt by any sect to dabble religion with politics. ‘THE LEGISLATURE, The democrats say they will elect their mon in the counties of Union, Monmouth, Wari Salem and, perhaps, Gloucester, which wii insure them a working majority in the Senate. Many of them say that they will carry Essex county. With six Sena- dors holding over, all they need is five of the new ones to secure them the control of the Senate, They are very confident that the House of Assem- bly will be largely democratic, as they had 41 representatives in body last year to 19 republi- cans. In Monmouth county George W. Patterson, late member of Assembly, is the most prominent candidate spoken of in connection with the Senate, his only oppo- nent, so far as heard from, being William H. Henrick- bon, thelate incumbent. Itis conceded that Mr. Pat- terson, who is a pronounced democrat and of anti- rfonopoly record, will be chosen, if not without opposition, at least by a large majority. The republicans, being greatly in the mi- nority, will make no nomination, but they may rally to the support of an independent candidate, In Camden county General W. J. Sewell, the late incumbent, will be re-elected by @ large majority. Isis not likely he will meet with any opposition, In Warren county Judge Sharp, a democrat, looms up as a prominent candidate, while in Somerset county ex-Assemblyman John G. Schenck, republican, will make a bitter con- test. In Essex ‘county ex-Assemblymen David Dodd and Julius C. Fitzgeraid are looking for the democratic nomination, while ex-Assemblyman Kirk is likely to be the republican nominee. In Gloucester county Sena- tor Hopkins is working hard for a re- nomination. In Union county Captain William HK. Gill will be the democratic standard bearer, and ex- Congressman Amos Clark the republican one, In this latter county there will be an unusually lively contest, The first week of next month will determine positively who the various candidates will be, as the county con- ventions will have all made their nominations by that time, . GERMAN ANTI-TAMMANYITES. The following resolution was reported by the Ex- ecutive Committee of the German-American Independ- ent Citizens’ Association to the General Committee at Beethoven Hall last evening:— Resolved, That we support the candidates nominated at Syracuse, hotwithatanding the unwarranted aud unjustifi- able ‘slight with which the contesting delegations were treated, and that the defeat of the Tammany combination is as great @ duty ae the support we deem due to ato jcket. WEALTH OF KINGS COUNTY. VALUE OF REAL ESTATE IN THE WARDS AND COUNTY TOWNS—INCREASE IN VALUATION. Yesterday the Committee of the Kings County Board of Supervisors on Equalization of Taxes met and in- spected the assessment rolls of the wards and county } even if you had to kill others to dois? A. Yes, sir—if | we, had to raise a war, . Jobn McAtiee, white, sworn—Know the prisoner; he toki me Le was in a colored military company; he toid | me he was going to come out of the company, going to previousiy to that he told me he couldn't come | Out without signing a lie bili, and he wouldn't do that; | | atter a good, long time our conversation came up; { said, “Jake, you didn’t yet into Sandersville as easy as | you’ thougit you would;” he said, ‘No, they had it | pretty well fortitied with inen;”” he kaid that in about | three works trom then there would be pretty hot times; | weeks there would be fight | he had to go he should hold a level gun; | he was living with me. | “Richmond Flanders, colored, sworn—Know the | prisoner; asked Lim what the intontion of all this meet- ing was; he asked me, didn't | know all these were gov- evidence was insufficient to convict, and the jury found | “Not guilty.” The rest of the prisor were then discharged, and so ended the trials, after disclosing, as did the previous proceedings at Sandewrsvilie, a phenomenon worthy the attention alike of statesmen and metaphysicians. | LETTER FROM SENATOR GORDON. Artayta, Ga, Sept. 19, 1875. To Tax Eprron ov m8 Henaup:— An oditorial in your issue of the 9th inst, does me an yang which is @ matter of small consequence; but |" also misrepresents the democrats of Mississipp1, | which is a matter of grave consequence, The misap- | prehension into which you have fallen may mislead | many of the Northern people as to the nature of the contest in Missfeippi. Will you, therefore, permit me through your coluinns to inake a correction, which would have been made earlier but for my absence ? | In alluding to a speech made by myself at Holly Springs, Miss, you represent me as calling upon the | negroes to join the whites in driving out the carpet. | daggers, and you then slate that the term carpet | bagger includes all Northern men. [tis not true that | J asked the negroes or whites at Holly Springs of olse- wuere to unite in driving out Northern men. I hope tt is wot necessary fot me to way that my whole course since the war, in public and with such an assumption, rivate, is in direct conflict ‘or is it true that the term towns of Brooklyn, The valuation of taxable property in Brooklyn for 1874 was:—Real estate, $204,132,303; personal property, $16,156,304, making a total of *$220,209,107. For 1875 the valuation is:—Real estate, $208, $89,620; personal, $16,287,125, Total, $225,176,755, showing a net increase of $4,907,648. In New Utrecht there was an merease of $4,915 in the value of the real estate, The decrease in value at Flatbush was $44,000, In Gravesend there was a decrease of $5,000 in personal property, but an increase in the real yalue of $15,000, being a net increase of $10,000. There was an increase of $13,000 in real estate in Flatlands, There was, Mr. Cadiey, Clerk of the Board of Super- visors, said, an increase of nearly $5,000,000 in the value of real estate in the county. There is a decreas of value, however, in property in the Second, Fourth, Sixth and Twelfth war The following total ex- hibits the valuation of property taxed in the wards and county towns as returned by the Board of Assessors for ‘Real carpet-bagger imcludes all Northera men who Personal Ward. Valuation. Valuation. Total. Increase. te +. $21,154,840 $7,092,839 $25,24 9 $283,747 2. 6 pet 2 9,599,510 209,530 4 7,007,485 _ 6. 4,506,200 17,580 6 16,942,320 pd % 13,831,565 686,115 6. 4,009,354 140,067 9 4,600,195 165,625 10. 8)893,435 196,570 9,081,175 7,940 7 7,424,839 =_ 10,473,600 1,577,620 12/061,280 198,353 6,892,185 0,000 5,952,185 210,560 4,451,490 45,500 4,496,900 112,285 6,230,140 11,000 6,291,140 245,385 6, ¥ 6,858,359 280,936 ry 5,009,194 826,001 10, 10,742,820 6A, “, 15,928,450 101,081 % 7,903,212 272,686 12, 12'540,177 638,017 6,508, 101 6,683,60L 188,145 8,047,872 8/228,572 120,466 5,330,583 46,000 5,995,883 485,159 Totals, ....$204,989,680 16,287,125 225,176,756 6,202,593 Net increase of $4,907,645, N. Utrecht, $1,883,880 $290,700 $2,174,590 $4,915 Fiatbueh, , 4,012,009 677,625 = 4,680,7: = resend. 976,429 80,055 1,066,464 9,075 Flatlands. , 9L7.290 149,200 1,006,400 14,800 SAD FATE OF TWO OYSTERMEN. THEIR BOAT FOUNDERS IN A STORM OFF THE HARBOR AT COS COB—I8 PIOKED UP BY A PASSING BOATMAN—NO TRACE OF THE MISS- ING MEN. ' Wasrrorr, Conn., Sept. 23, 1875. The particulars of a distressing casualty, by which two oystermen, Lawrence Leet Haynes, aged forty-five years, and Theodore Lauthenbach, aged twenty, both residents of this place, lost their lives, have been re- ceived here, Mr, Haynes had been for somo timo en- gaged in transporting oyster seed from Westport Har- bor to the beds off City Island, and was on his way thence with a loaded boat at the time he met his fate, He left this harbor at one o'clock Thursday, 16th inst., in the Bluebigd, a two-masted sharpie, twenty-five feet in length, and was accompanied by Mr, Laathenbach. They had on board fifty-seven bushels of oysters. The wind drew from the soutbeast, scarcely strong enough to enable them to stem the tide, which at that time was setting up the Sound, Toward night thoy had made scarcely twelve miles of their journey, Clouds now thickened, rain began falling, the wind increased to a gale, and darkness coming in it is supposed the craft was struck by the rolling waves, and, becoming unmanageable, sunk, The boat on which the unfortunate men set out was révovered on Friday, the 17th, in eighteen feet of water, by Captain Theodore Clark, of the schooner Adeline, who was towing a vessel from Cos Cob to Stamford. His attention was drawn toward the spot by the sails of tho Bluebird, which floated upon the water about a cable’s length from shore, The tide favoring the Captain ran his vessel down to the wreck, and, rigging a grapple, succeeded in making fast to the Bluebird’s anchor line, and with the aid of bis crew hauled the boat stern foremost out of the water. In doing so the cargo of oysters was unshipped, only three or four of the fifty-seven bushels remaining at the stern. Captain Clark took measures to buil out the craft, and on opening the cabin expected to find the dead bodies of the missing men, but nothing of them could be seen, In the cabin was found a valise, which, on being broken open, disclosed a letter with Theodore Lauthenbach’s name upon it, Also ® memoranda, evidently Mr, Haynes’, containing an entry of the oys- ter cargo, number of bushels, price, @estination, yo Captain Clark knew Sania, of course, of the circum- stances under which the Bluebird came to her fate, aud he Ng rasp to dofer his trip to Stamford and re- turn to Cob with the wreck. On arriving there a Mr. Williams recognized the Bluebird as belonging to Mr. Haynes, Hoe proceeded to Westport and informed Messrs. Eli Bradloy, James and Harry Allon, Corne- lius Kemper, and James Snagg, of whom Mr. Haynes had pu od oysters, thinkiag to throw light on what appeared to be a mystery, They could eS no clew to the missing men further than that they left Westport on ‘Thursday afternoon. Inquiry was'made of Mr. James Haynes, father of deceased, and of deceased’s son, Clarence L. Haynes, with a like result, The authorities at Cos Cob have taken measures to 8 in harbor and among the adjacent islands, and are still so engaged with a view to the recovery of the missing men; but thus far they have met with no success, A theory was indulged “4 the men might have been picked up by some passing vessel and carried to a dis- tant port, from whence they would soon appear to their friends safe and sound; but as the foundering took place during a storm at night, and near a rocky, dan- gerous shore, and so long a time elapsing since the casualty with no tidings obtained, there can be little, if any, doubt that both mon perished. The family of the deceased in this their affliction have the sympathy of this entire community. Mr. Haynes, the deceased, was a native of Unadilla, N. Y.; served three years during the late war as chief musician in the band Attached to the 121st regiment, N.Y.S.V., and was honorably discharged. He was wounded in the right jung by @ musket ball during an action in which his regiment was engaged, and carried the ball with him to his watery grave, He had resided in Westport about four years. Mr. Lauthenbach was a native of Germany. He formerly engaged in the business of cigar making with a Mr. Pitzer, of Westport, and had but recently become an oysterman. The father and son of the deceased will to-morrow proceed to Cos Cob harbor, with the view of making a renewed search for the two missing men. A FICTITIOUS DEATH. AN ATTEMPT TO @EFRAUD A LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY—A TIMELY DISCOVERY OF THE SUPPOSED DEAD MAN—HIS ARREST AND CON- VICTION FOR EMBEZZLEMENT AND CONSPIRACY. Osweao, Sept, 23, 1875, On the 21st day of June last a man named Alexander Queal, of this city, insured bis life in the Travelers? Accident Insurance Company of Hartford for $3,000. Queal was a driver of one of the Delaware and Lacka- wanna Express Company's wagons, a man well known and of good character. Six months before he was mar- ried to a young lady of Oswego, named De Mars, and the prospects were that he wouldin ashort time be promoted to a higher position in the express company’s employ and one of considerable responsibility, About eight o’clock on the evening of the day after the insurance was effected Queal, in company with his brother-in-law, Frank De Mars, and another man named John Gorman, started out fora sail in Lake Ontario, The day had been a very stormy one, and at the time the party embarked the lake was exceedingly rough. The wind was blowing almost a gale from the shore, and the idea of the men embarking in a gail boat upon the lake was looked upon as a most dangerous and foolhardy freak. The boat was burely large enough to hold the three, and was soon out of sight of those on shore. Nothing | was heard or seen of the boat again, but about mid- | night De Mars and Gorman appeared in this city. Their clothing was soaked and bedraggled, and they presented ‘a most pitiable appearance. They said that after sail- ing some four miles down the lake it was thought best | to put aboat and return home, In attempting to do so tho boat capsized, and ali three were thrown into the Inke. Queal, they said, kept up for a short time, but finally sank and they ‘saw him no more, De Mars and Gorman managed to reach the shore, which was distant about a mile, and returned to Oswego on foot. The slightest question was not raised against the truth of this story, and Queal’s friends lamented him as lost His young wile was almost frantic with grief, and the aflair threw # gloom over a large portion of the city. jueal, besides driving one of the express company’s was also intrusted by it to make collections, lected some $200, which he turned. This, it was sn} his person, and that it was his imtention to pay itover the next day, as was his custom. His wife was left in destitute circumstances, and although his life was insured for $3,000 the express company in- formed the widow that there would be no demand made on that for the eo % SS epeuien tie th ‘ In due time Mrs. Queal ap for the {peur e money called for by the par ci te has bu: ’s life, The insurance company noti- fied its agent in Oswego to the amount in sixty days after the presentation of the proofs of death. This was pronounced satistac- tory, and the money was to be paid on the 22d of On the 16th of August a merchant of this city Pm ie some business which called him to Carthage, Jeffer- son county. Stopping at one of the hotels of the place he was considerably astonished to discover in a man ‘who sat near bim at the dinuer table no less a person- age than Aloxander Queal, whom ail Oswego supposed w be at the bottom of Lake Ontario. The man was disguised, but there was no doubt of | his identity, and the Merphapt at once procured his arrest. He was brought to this city, where he was arraigned for preliminary examination On.charge of de- frauding the express company of $200 and of gonspir- ing to defraud the insurance company of $3,0 De Mars and Gorman were arrested and held to bad on thé latier charge. Letters were found on Queal’s person written to him by his wife, and addressed to him under assumed names, showing that se, too, was in the con- spiracy. On the preliminary examination De Mars and Gor- Queal to be drowned, and Queal swore that he swam away from his companions and reached shore, but that the former knew nothing of his escape. The three were put under bonds to appear for trial, which has just ended at the September session of the Oyer and Terminer Court of this county, before Judge Hardin. The main direct evidence inst the conspirators was that of John falonoy, discovered since the preliminrry examination Maloney is a quarryman and works near the lake whe: the party landed. “He swore that the three came ashore together and were seen by him. They, fearing this fact hs and dostroy the success of their scheme, bribed Maloney to keep quiet with the promise that they would y him $200 as soon as tho insurance money was Piahded over to thom. Maloney says he would never have ‘“peached”? if he had got the money. ‘A verdict of guilty was found against Queal on both char; ot influence of her hu: were tuken against her, pronounced. DELANEY, THE MURDERER. Sentence has not yet been In his attempt to escape from the Hempstead Jail, a few days ago, the murderer Delaney, who is a powerfuy fellow, succeeded in pulling the staple out of the floor, to | The mill has lately been run by | whose loss is about $30,000, on whi which his leg waa chained, and sprung the bolt on his coll door somewhat, A new staple has been put in the floor, driven into a heavy oak beam, and he is now con- fined by both legs with riveted shackles, besides being handcuffed. DIED IN A Fit. Officer Kush, of the mounted squad, yesterday after. 1oon found @ woman, supposed to be Jane Taylor, of No. 832 East Thirty-eighth street, ina fit, at Madison avenue and Thirty-third street, and took her to. the ‘Twenty-ninth precinct station house, in West Thirtieth street, where she dicd, The Qoroner was notilied hold ap ingucal NEW YORK CITY. Yesterday, September 24, was the sixth anniversary of “Black Priday.”” . William Jackson, aged six years, fell from the roof of his reside: No. 62 Salli street pe tyentey ce, Sullivan t, and fractured The steamship Neckar, Captain Meyer, from Bremen, via Southampton, arrived at yesterday, than nine ante Somehatyy i sayy ‘Tho opening lecture of the College of Pharmacy will be delivered by Professor Charles F. Chandler, on Mon- day evening noxt, at half-past seven o'clock. Michael Hintz, of No, 630 East Eleventh street, had his hand crushed yesterday by some machii at the iirebrick factory No, 635 Kast Fifteenth rece” John Krop, of No. 144 Baxter street, was run over by 4 truck in Canal street, yesterday afternoon, and had his leg broken He was taken to the Park Hospital by the police of the Fifth precinct. Hon, W. W. Belknap, United States Secretary of War, and Captain J. C. Meyer, of the steamship Neckar, visited the Post Office yesterday, and were escorted through the building by Postmaster James, BROOKLYN. Justice Walsh yesterday fined Adolph Panic, captain of yacht, $50 upon conviction of insulting a lady on Fulton street, A decree of absolute divorce was entered yesterday against Sophia Spitz in the suit brought by her hus- band. The parties, who reside in the Eastern district, are about forty-five years old. A horse attached to one of the Board of Health’s wagons took fright in Court street yesterday and ran away. The vebicle was broken, and Officer McGirr and the driver were severely gare John Farrell pleaded guilty to the larceny of wearing apparel from the apartments of M. McNulty, No. 105 Wyckoff street, yesterday, before Judge Delmar, and was committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. There were 281 deaths in Brooklyn during the past week. Smallpox carried off 13; diphtheria, 23; croup, 10; diarrhoa, 14; cholera infantum, 45; consumption, 26; bronchitis, 6; dysentery, 4, and whooping cough, 6. A certificate of incorporation was filed yesterday in the County Clerk's office of the Brooklyn Engineers? Protective Association. The object is to protect the rights and interests of competent engineers, and the mutual aid of members of the association, Andrew Donovan, a youth of eighteen years, was held to await examination by Justice Eames, yesterday, at the instance of his father, Dennis, who accuses him of having stolen a watch and $40 in money from his place of residence, No, 257 North Sixth street William Beck was arrested yesterday on the charge of keeping a policy shop at No, 12 Veranda place. The books and slips were captured, and the accused, when taken into custody, admitted having sold policy tickets in the Kentucky, Henry and Old Kentucky lotteries. Action for $1,000 damages was brought by Mary Gillen against John H. Shultz for injuries sustained on July 31, when she was run over by a horse and wagon, driven by the defendant, on Bedford avenue, The Jay rendered a verdict in the sum of $120 for the plain John McCauly, a liquor dealer, who was charged with arson, being accused of having set fire to his store and dwelling, at No, 54 Walcott street, on the night of the 17th inst., was tried before Justice Delmar yester- day. As there was no evidence of his having set fre to the place he*was discharged. STATEN ISLAND. The bush meeting of the colored Methodists who se- ceded from the Zion church at Rossville, held in Latou- rette’s woods, closed yesterday. The horse disease prevails to some extent upon Staten Island. One horse at Clifton yesterday, which was apparently suffering from lockjaw, was ordered to be shot by the horse doctor. ‘A kerosene lamp exploded at the residence of Mr. John Secresta, on First avenue, Tomkinsville, on Thursday night, setting fire to the building, but tho flames were extinguished before much damage was jone. ‘The body of Mrs. Rachel Rutan, who perished at the burning of her son’s house at Tottenville, on Thursday morning, was found in the ruins when tho fire snb- sided, and will be buried in the family lot in the old churchyard at Tottenville, Mr. Rutan had an insurance of $3,500 on the property in the Yonkers Insurance Company. ‘The delegates to the Richmond County Repablican Convention will assemble at Schwartzkof’s Hall, Chf- ton, at two o’clock this afternoon, for the purpose of making the county nominations. The probable candi- dates are:—For County Judge and Surrogate, John H, Headley, of Westfield; for Assembly, Kuecland Towns- end, of Soutntield; for County Clerk, R. Channing Moore; for School Commissioner, the Hev. Dr. Brown- oe. FIRES IN NEW JERSEY. CARPET MILL BURNED—THE FIRE OF MYSTE- RIOUS ORIGIN—LOSS ESTIMATED AT SEVENTY- FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, At an early hour yesterday morning the carpet mill of James Jackson, at Little Falls, near Paterson, was entirely destroyed by fire, involving a loss of some $75,000. How the fire started as the place was almo: completely envel- oped in flames before the watchman in the building } discovered them. But fow things were saved. nett & Smith, there was about $16,000 insurance. Mr. Jackson’s loss is about $50,009, On which there was no insurance whatever, The mill was a three story brick building, about 140x50, the lower story being of brick and the others of wood, ' Mr. Jackson 13 peculigrly unfortunate, not long since hav- ing lost $72,000 by the failure of Héyt, Sprague & Co., of New York. ‘On Thursday afternoon the large barns on the Mer- cilis property in Market street, Paterson, were de- stroyed by fire. They were filled with a’ large and valuable stock of grain and feed. ‘Tne adjoining houses were only saved by the most urgent exertions. FOREIGN MAILS. The following changes have been made in the time of the departure from New York of steamers with foreign mails:—The steamer Etna, instead of the steamer At. jas, will leave to-day for Kingston and New Granada The Atlas willleave on the 2vth inst. with the mails for Hayti only. ANOTHER DAILY PRAYER MEETING. Daily prayer meetings are to be held at noon, beginning on Monday next, at Lyric Hall, Sixth ave- nue, between Forty-first and Forty-second streets. Rev, Dr. John Hall, Rev, Dr. Taylor, Bishop Cummins and other well known divines have signified their approval of the object, and will make announcements of the prayer meeting from their pulpits on Sunday noxt, ELECTION FRAUDS, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF JERSEY JUSTICE. The contested election case of William Stuhr vs. James Curran, which has been on trial for the past two days in the Circuit Court at Jersey City, before Judge Knapp, was concluded yesterday afternoon, Mr. Stuhr was elected a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders from Hoboken, but was counted out by corrupt judges, The Grand Jury fndloted the guilty parties, Howell and Dwyer—the lai- tera member of the Common Council—and they were conwicted and sent tothe Penitentiary. Stul Ourran retained the seat and Mr. Stuhr appealed to the courts. ‘The case was given to the jury at hal peat tour yester- day afternoon and at half-past seven they returned a verdict awarding the seat w Mr. Stuhr, A meeting of the Democratic General Committee has been called for the purpose of taking action on the motion to expel Cur- ran for his action in sustaining Warden Post, of the Penitentiary at Snake Hull, in the fuce of grave charges | which were proved. SUICIDE OF A TAILOR. Four months ago a tailor named Newbarn opened a shop on Jersey City Heights, Business was dull, how- ever, and no trade came to him, He has long been despondent and threatened suicide, Last night bre took se of strychnine and yesterday morning was found dead in his County Physician Stout, in makin ‘an examination of thé remains, discovered enoug! ison to have killed several men. The deceased jeaves @ large family in poor circumstances. THE HORSE DISEASE IN JERSEY. ‘The disease among the horses in Jersey is epreading rapidly. During the last foar days the number of ‘horses affected in Jorsey City was about 500, In Mer- cer, Cumberland, Somerset, Salem and Cape May tho disease has been pronounced to be of the cerebro spinal meningitis type, and the umber of deaths is:set down at fourteen per cent. ROBBED IN A FERRY HOUSE. John Clute was arrested by Officer Hanrahan in the ferry house at Hoboken yesterday for robbing one Samuel Jackson while the latter was lying asleep on one of the benches. The victim was also conveyed to the station for drunkenness. Jackson was sent to the County Jail for ten days, and the thief, in whose session the money was found, was col io of Wail to await the action of (he Grand Jury. is not known, | LITERARY CHAT. ‘The London Academy, in a review of “General Sher- man’s Memoirs,” is forcil@y strack with the differences of speech growing up in the United States, which, it says, must one day make the American language a sep- arate tongue. Sherman's book, it says, has a most dis- tinct accent, Sherman's simplicity, frankness and high patriotism are lauded. Says the Academy:—‘Hie humanity is as marked as his sagacity, and, wo may add, as his modesty.” Chatto’s “History of Wood Engraving” is to be brought out in a third and enlarged edition, with the original 445 illustrations, ‘The English Dialect Society has three glossarios a press. The Putnams will soon issue Latouche's “Travels in Portugal,” photographically illustrated, Mr. Justin Winsor's “Bibliography of the Original Quartos and Folios of Shakespeare” will bo broughs out by Osgood & Co, in the fall. It will contain no less than sixty-eight beliotype illustrations of title pages, &c., and will be a careful and critical description of ail the early printed editions of Shakespeare's plays, with an account of the Pincipal collections of these rare edi- tions in Europe and America, , Mr. A. H. Huth’s new book, “The Marriage of Neat Kin,” balances the authorities and scientific facts as to consanguineous marriages, and comes to the conclusion that they are not generally injurious, Mr. George Dar- win, son of the author of the Darwinian theory, in a re- view of Mr. Huth’s book, says that nine years’ experi- ments on the crossing of plants appears to him abso- lutely conclusive as to the advantages of cross-fortiliza- tion to plants, The Congress of German Journalists, at Bremen, the last week in August, adopted this sensible resolution;— “The Congress of Journalists declares tho anonymity of the press to be aright which its highest duties render it imperative to maintain, and which should only be waived when a strict adherence to it would favor tho impunity of crime.” " ‘The woman’s rights question is taken up by Golonel H. Conwell in a plea entitled “‘Woman and the Law,” from the press of Henry L. Shepard & Co., of Boston, A handsomely illustrated volume on “Tho Life and Times of Captain Thomas Rowlandson,” the famous caricaturist, whose laughable colored plates amused the last generation, will soon appear in London, The value of great libraries, rich not only in books but in manuscripts, journals and pamphlets, is shown in the announcement that, Professor Boutiny, of the Paris School of Political Sciences, has arrived in Lon- don to make a thorough research at the British Mu- seum into the history of the Englizh constitution. Lee & Shepard will soon print “A Quaker Among the Indians,’” which embraces a plea for the red man in an account of the author's three years’ life among various tribes. Princo Leopold, son of Queen Victoria, has presented ® copy of the newly printed parallel text quarto of “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare's first tragedy, to every member of the new Shakespeare Society. The late Kart Andrée, the well known German jour- nalist, who died in August, was the author of a valua- ble geography of the commerce of the world and founder of the Globus, a periodical devoted to ethnol- ogy, geology and topography. A correspondent in Virginia writes t@ the London Academy that until the great university founded by be- quest of Mr. Johns Hopkins, of Baltimore, goes into operation, the University of Virginia “is, as far as it goes, the only true university in the land.” The quali- fication ‘as far as it goes’? is well put. The “Great Bonanza” has got into literature as the taking title of an illustrated quarto, containing exciting stories of adventure, Lee & Shepard, publishers, “The New Don Quixote,” translated from the brill- fant French original of Alphonse Daudet, is published by W. F. Gill & Co, Dr. Allibone’s volume of “Prose Quotations” is in a forward state of preparation in Lippincott’s press. Rev. Lyman Abbott’s ‘Commentary on the New Testament,” a clear and scholarly work, is passing through the press of A. 8. Barnes & Co, Austria has only twelve public libraries, and six ot them belong to universities. Hence the Austrfan press is demanding more, The last publication of the “Palestine Exploration Fund” contains a sparkling article by Captain Burton om the region lying beyond Jordan. Three volumes of Sainte-Beuve’s “Premiers Lundis,” consisting of the great critic's early articles, have beon gathered and published by his secretary. ‘The latest book by MM. -Erckmann-Chatrian ts “Brigadier Frédéric; a Story of an Alsacian Exile.” These literary Alsacians are Frenchmen who refuse ta become Germans, and this latest novel is as natural, aa autobiographical and as fiercely penned as any of theie previous fictions of the Franco-German war, ‘The small city of Leipsic, in Saxony, so swarms with books that it has a university library of 350,000 volumes, also a town library of 100,000. “Cumbriana; or, Fragments of Cumberland Life,” ta an amusing collection of anecdotes, legends and folk lore, illustrating manners and customs in the English lake country. ay The London Bookseller has a review of a parcel ot Confederate schoolbooks, picked up in the South by an Englishman. Among them it finds a ‘Dixie Arith- motic,” with these rather astonishing problems :— If one Confederate soldier can whip twenty-seven Yankees, how mi soldiers ean whip forty-nine Yankees? A Confederate soldier captured twenty-eight Yankees each day for nine consecutive days; how many did he capture in all? A “Modern Geography,” printed at Atlanta, 1862, declares that “the African or black race is found in all parts of Africa, and in America, where they have been brought and humanely reduced to their proper normal condition of slavery.” This “modern geography” haa become rather ancient since 1862. M. Léon Dumont, whose essay on laughter was very successful, has now issued his “Théorie Scientifique de Ja Sensibilité.” A series of beantiful water color drawings illustrating Milton’s minor poems will be published by Mr. Samuel Palmer, of London. A new “find”? is a lot of letters of Sarah Jonnings (Duchess of Marlborough), the lady whom Pope accused of having passed . From loveless youth to unrespected age, No passion gratified except her rage. They will be printed as “The Private Correspondence of Sarah, Duchoss of Marlborough.” Miss Frances Power Cobbe is devoting her competent pen to the agitation popularly known uuder the title of “Women’s Rights,” SUPRLEMENTARY BOOK FAIR, The Committee on Book Fairs appointed by the American Book Trade Association announce in a cireu- Jar letter that a supplementary fair will be held for one week, beginning on Thursday, October 21, at the Book- sellers’ Exchange and Clearing House, in Clinton Hall, Astor place, under the direction of Messrs. George A. Leavitt & Co., managers, BOOKS RECEIVED. Scripture Revelations. By Halsey R. Stevens, Newbarg, Hoalth Pragments; or, Stops Towards a True Life. B; George H. and Susan’ Everett, New York; Charles ew By Mar. Bomerby. Marston Sou d& North Star and the Soathern Cross. 2 vol London; Sampson, Low, yo Wasted Resources. B; “oh a Hargreaves. New ork: National Ts ‘ance Society. Manca of Aleebrae By Willlam ti. Peck. New “York: A, S. Barnes & Co. nnsndeslichsaadiadeetial ENGLISH STAGE COACHING, — Acorrespondent writes us of his experience in this line of amusement:— I read with much interest your London correspond- ent’s letter on the revival of English stage coaching. Thad the pleasare of a ride to Virginia Water, last month, in the coach owned and driven by Captain Delancey Kane, a descendant of one of our best Kaicker- bocket ilies, Captain Kane is regarded as one of the most expert whips that drive ont uf London, as he ja certainly one of the most agreeable of gentlemen. Enjoyin, UF inf income, he with some wealthy Eng- int Fontionnen fin a pleasant recreation ip a, the traditions of the days of old Tony Wellor. doubt, however, whether Tony's horses were as fine, or as often changed, or his drag as elaborately gotten up ag these more modern ones, I can think of no pleas- anter way of seeing rural England than from the top ef one of these es, Dowling along at @ merry ag we did ina htful early autumn Kow, Richmond, Hampton Court, Suabury, Chertsey, &c.; through English lanes embowered with luxuriant foliage; over highways and through hedge-lined by- ways, to the beautiful lake of ty Wat tho favorite summer resort of Georgs IV., and probably the most picturesque spot in the Royal Windsor Park. Arriving at the Wheatsheaf {nn our host awaits our coming with a generous lunch, which wo are all ina condition to do ample justice to after our charming oorning’s cide,