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8 THE COURTS. The Will of William B. As- tor’s Granddaughter. What Is to Become of a Con- tractor’s Estate? Interesting Decision by Surro- gate Hutchings. The Suit Against the Manhattan Quotation Telegraph Company. ‘The will of Mrs. Margaret A. Chanler, granddaughter of the late William B, Astor, and wife of J. Winthrop Chanler, and who died quite recently, was admitted to probate yesterday, The will is dated April 20, 2872, and ie witnessed by Edgar 8. Van Winkle and Charles H. Brush, The estate is avery large one, the full value of which cannot now be definitely ascertained. The vatk of the property is left to the busband of the de- ceased, suitable provision being magle for the children, The deceased left a family of ten children, six boys and four girls, all of whom are under fourteen years ofage, Relieved of the legal verbiage which necessarily attaches to such a paper, the will reads as follows:— First—In execution of the powers reserved to me in the settlement of my estate, bearing date the 3st of March, A. D. 1860, whereof John Jacob Astor, William Astor and George De Forrest Lord are trustees, I be- queath ae follows’ — L To my said husband, J. Winthrop Chanler, $56,000, out ef the personal property in the instru- Ment expressed to have been given or granted by mo. 2 Out of the residue of said personal estate an amnu- ity of $10,000°to my father, Samuel Ward, Esq, in quar- terly instalments, for his own personal use. @ Should J.die lawing issue me surviving, I bo- qneaih al! the personal estate by the said scttlcment, which at the time of my death shall be at my dispesal, the preceding provisions being first satisfied, vo my children, share aud share alike, 4. I bequeath to my executor, hereinafter named, all the lots of land and_real estate in the city of New York devised to me directly or by inheritance, under the set- tlement shortly after my mother’s marriage, dated Feb- reary 16, 1838, and also all the iands granted to me by the Commonalty of New York about August 26, 1847, and t6 receive the rents and profits thereof, upon the following trusts:—To pay each and every year, in quarterly payments, commencing from the date of the probate of thie will, to my daughters, share and share alike, the sum of $5,000; and upon the further trust, in like matter and perieds, to pay over the residue of said rents and profits to my eons, share and share alike. Second—Under and by virtue of the powers conferred upon me in and by acertain aeed of trast made and executed between William Backhouse Astor, of the first part, John Jacob Astor, Jr., William Astor and George De Forrest Lora, of the second part, and my- celf, of the third part, and Learing date of October 28 ‘4866, 1 bequeath out of the capital the funds held in trust for me, under the said deed of trust, the sum of 000 to my husband, J. Winthrop Chanl Third—Out of my estate, other than t ie em- braced in and covered by said settliemes!s, | bequeath “as fellows :. 1. To Nancy Richards, who has been my faithful nurse, $6,000, 2 J also bequeath to the executor of this will $4,000 in truet, to invest the same fn public stocks of the United States and apply the net income to the use of ‘the sekl Nancy Richards; and on ner death, I be- queath the said sum to my husband. Subject to the fulfilment of the preceding gifts to or for tbe éaid Nancy Richards I give and bequeath as follows :— y To the Rev. John W. Moore, rector of Christ church, tn Lower Red Huok, Dutchess county, N. ¥., To my friend, Miss Alice Patterson, daughter of the late Mrs, Helen Patterson, $500. To the Ladies’ Depository, of which Mrs. Thomas Addis Emmet is now the head, $250. To St. Luke’s Hospital, of New York, $500. To the Society for Foreign Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church $500. To the New York €hildren’s Aid Society $500, To the Mission School and Chapel of St, Mark’s church $500. Fourth—I give and bequeath to my husband, J. Win- throp Chanler, all of the bonds and all other evidences of indebtedness of the United States which may be registered in the Treasury Department in my name not embraced in said settement or deed of trust. Fifth—Ail the rest, residue and remainder of the reat and persona! estate, I bequeath to my husband J. Win- throp Chanler, hig hetre and assigns, absolutely and forever. ‘Sixth hereby nominate and appoint my said bus band, J. Winthrop Chanler, executor of this my Iast will, and trogtee under the same, and guardian of the persons and estates of my infant children, A partial hearing in the matter of the probate of the will of the late William B. Astor was had yesterday be- fore Chicf Clerk Sehaick. The depositions of sey- eral of the subscribing witnesses were taken, after which, owing to the unavoidable absence ofone of their pumber, the further hearing was continued until to-morrow moruing. A CONTRACTOR'S ESTATE. A decision was yesterday rendered by Surrogate Hutchings in the matter of the contested will of the lato John I, Brown, which has occupied the attention ofthe Court for some months past, The decision reads; — John L. Brown, whose will is the subject of contest in the eas before me, died on the 2th day of Mareb, 1875, in the seventieth year of his age. The instrument offered for probate was executed by him on the Sth day of February preceding, and it provides that after the payment of his debts,’ funeral expenses 4d expenses of administration, the residue of his tate, real and personal, shall go to “his wife, Han- nab ©. Brown,’ during her natural life, with remainder over to hix “son and only child, John L. Brown,” and appoints the said “wife and son’’ as the executors of bis will Immediately after the death of the testator the paper was offered for probate, and, on the oaths of Hannah E. atd John L. Brown (who in this proceeding baz been known as John L. Brown, Jr.), that they were the wife and child respectively and only heirs of the de- cedent, it was admitted to probate. Subsequently an application was made by one Mary Ann Brown, who claimed Lo be the widow, and by three of his sisters, who alleged that they were the only heirs of the de- cedent, and upon such allegation the probate was sct aside and the validity of the instrument was brought before me for determination. From the evidence it ap- pears that the decedent was married in September, 1828, to Mary Ann Pickering, who remained his ac- knowledged wife until 1853, when she was discarded b; hit, and he commenced to openly live with Hannah KE. Pickering, the divorced wife of Mary Ann’s brother, Hannah at once taking the decedent's name, and being thereafter known as Hannah E. Brown; and she was in- troduced into society and to his family, and was always recognized by the decedent and others ag his wife. A forma! paper of separation was executed between the decedent and Mary Ann in 1855, which, after reciting that they were desirous of and had mutually agreed to separate and live apart for the remainder of their lives, h with the full consent of the other, and having for some time lived apart, provides for the payment by the decedent to his wite Mary Aun the sum of $10,000, and the gift to her of all of er personal effects, wardrobe, Joweiry, plate and household furniture, and all other property which she has or may become possessed of, each agreeing not to interfere with the liberty, comfort or happiness of the other, Indeed, there is no question, under the evidence, but that the decedent knew that Mary Ann and none other was his lawful wife, and in the x before me she must be held to be his widow. Had he died intestate she would not only bave been entitled to her dower rights in his real estate, but, the marriage being without issue living, she would be entitled to a distributive share in his personal property, under the statutes of this State. But bbe decedent was intervened by a testamentary inétru- ment which is offered for probate, inwhich he makes Hannah E. and John L. Browa, Jr., his legatees, and which instrument, if it be valid, must silence the claims of his wife and collateral kindred to be recognized distributecs of his bounty, except that the widow, Mary Ann, cinnot be divested of her dower rights in the real property of which the decedent died seized. But the paper is contested upon allegations of want of testa- mentary Capacity in the decedent and undue influence exerted upon him by Hannah E. and Jotun L. Brown, Jr., the sole legatees thereunder. But in discarding his wife it is evident that the decedent began to live openly with Hannah E., with whom he had been for several years cohabiting privately, and that he ave her forth to the world as his wife. joubtiess, so far as affection was concerned, sbe was to him his wi! she was the mother of bis son; and for her and’ the son he undoubtedly entertained all the affection charactoristic of a husband and father. His whole language and conduct as proven convince mo that his sentiments toward them were of abiding affection, while toward his wife Mary Ann there was no recognition by him of any Tightful ciate upon bis bounty, and that whatever he did for her alter their separation Was regarded by him as gratuit Under the cirenmstances of the case jt is not umreasol able that the decedent shonid have selected Hannah E. Brown as the beneficiary during her life of the income of his estate, and his son, Jobin 1. Brown, Jr, of the remainder over afer her death. The son he designates ag bis only child, and for several years he had been associated with the deccdent in the mauagement of his business. The affection of a parent js often superior to all other sentiments, and certainly the evidence jn this case shows that for over twenty years his Jove for his wife had been superseded by a rinilar sen timent for another, who was the mother of hie son. If he had ignored them, and capecially his poly child, presumption of mental — rment world have been almost conclusive. As to the claims of the other con testants, the sisters of tne decedent, while it is true they are lawful next of kin, it is a matter of overyday experience that the affection which exists on the part of aman for bag tie or rt one 7 in the Jight of a wi espec! rac more aot conte than on which is ii the relation of brother and sister; and it is evident that with the decedent the greatest objects of his afection wore Hannah &, and John 1. Brown dr, who for twenty-t oe he had held eut to the world is and som and NEW YORK HERALD, THUKSDAY, DECEMBKK 30, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. he entertained no ni friendship, Sie csi of tly ~~ 3 nized, After the best pny os Ihave been able give the facts of this case, I have come to the conclu- fion that the decedent, John L. Brown, however pert odically he may have manifested characteristics denot- ing mental impairment, was, at the time of the oxecu- tion of the paper propounded as his will, of sufficient capacity to comprehend pertectly the condition ef his property, his relations to the persons who were or shor ht have been the objects of his bounty ‘and bearing of the provisions of the will. ‘A deerce will, therefore, be entered admithog the in- strument offered to probate. A TELEGRAPH COMPANY IN COURT. In the case of J. J. Kiernan against the Manbattan Quotation Telegraph Company, which was uried in April last, in the Special Term, Supreme Court, Judge Van Brunt presiding, the counsel summed up yesterday. The plaintiff, it appeared, had made arrangements with the Gola and Stock Telograph Company to secure by cable early news ot the condition of the English and French markets tor certain customers. The suit was brought to enjoin the defendants—one of whom was F. A. Abbott—from publishing messages received by the plaintiff! under his agreement until a reasonable time had elapsed for the distribution of his telegrams, half an hour being the stipulated time allowed for that pur- pose. The complaint set forth that the Manhattan Com- ny had entered into an arrangement with Abbott, well nowing he had no direct means of communication with foreign markets, to furnish information to them, and that he took his news in great part from the bulletin boards of the Stock and Quotation exchanges, and, altering them slighty in form, delivered them to the Manhattan Telegraph Com- pany Plaintiff alleged that on several occasions Ab- out fell into a trap which was laid for his detection in so doing, and that the Manhattan Telegraph Company followed the bulletin board both in an original mistake and the subsequent correction, In the course of the trial Abbott admitted that he received no direct cable messages, but that among the sources of his informa- tion were the bulletin boards of the Exchange, the tape ot the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company and Jay Cooke ana others, who furnished him with their de- spatches. The Manhattan Telegraph Company denied any knowledge of Abbott having taken his reports from the plaintiffs tape. The case substantially turned on the question as to the right of parties to take tele- graphic messages procured to be sent by one party im- mediately after the pubjication on bulietins or on tapes, or, in fact, whether such publication was an abandon: ment to the public of the iformation given, The Court took the papers and reserved decision. “THE FLATTERER IN COURT. The examination in the case of Mr. Joseph Howard, editor of the Star, for alleged assault and battery upon John Franz, restaurant keeper, came up yesterday, be- fore Justice Bixby, at the Tombs, The affair grow out of a visit paid by Mr. Franz to the Star office for tho purpose of collecting a oill trom Mr, Smith, the publisher. Mr. Franz, it appeared, during the examination, was unwarrantably abusive and threateningly aggressive, and Mr. Howard, who was vainly attempting to interview him, suddenly took a peremptory mood and ordered him out. Franz would Bot “No, not for six policemen.”’ There was a Nttle tussel and all was over. Mr. Howard’s cane was lost in the méice. After the evidence on both sides was in, Mr. W. H. Kintai counsel for Mr. Heward, moved for the defendant's discharge. Justice Bixby, remarking = a quiet way that it wasn’t much of a case, ai ima, DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, By Judge Donehae. Stutz ve. Green.—Motion granted, Whalen va. Burke.—Memorandum, Broadway vs. Eisner.—Granted. Hunter vs. Central Railroad Company of New Jer- sey.—Motion granted. Memorandum. Danser ve. New York Metropolitan Gaslight Com- paoy, &e.; im the motion of Hall.—Motions denied. By Judge Lawrence. Delaney vs. Maloney.—Motion denied without costs. Bernhard vs. Monhan.—The order heretofore cn- tered will be modified soas to recite the papers, and affidavits read on the motion by either party. There is no good reason for any other change. Matter of the North American Insurance Company.— Memorandum, SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT—PaRT 2, By Judge Van Vorst, Hatfield vs. Macy et al.—Memorandum, Dunphy vs. The Mayor, &c,—Findings allowed, SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT—PART 3, By Judge Van Voret. Sheriden vs. The Mayor, &—Case and amendments settled. By Judge Lawrence. Poillon vs, Volkening.—Motion for a new trial denied. Memorandum, COMMON PLEAS—IN EQUITY. By Judge Larremore. Davis vs. American society fOr the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. —Finaings filed. Sauxay vs. Hamel.—Case settled, COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. By Judge J. F. Daly. Jobneon vs. Morgan.—Memorandum on settlement of case. By Judge Loew. Young vs. Murray.—Motion denied, Larru ys. Levine.—Order pe set Richter Sager.—Form of judgment settled. SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. The government began suit yesterday in the United States District Court against John T. Lee, tormerly an assistant paymaster in the navy, and his bondsmen, Thomas Stacey and P.S. Mills, to recover $45,000 which it is alleged was due from the former at the time his accounts were closed. . Suit was begun yesterday in the United States Dis- trict Court by the government against the Market Na tional Bank and G, W. Melyin to recover. $100 on ac- count of the fraudulent indorsement of a check. It was given to one Charles Ragan, an applicant for bounty money, whose claim was prosecuted by Melvin. In the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, before Judge Donohue, George M. Muxwell, alias George W. Matsoll, alias Lewis L. Pillsbury, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner was sentenced by the Special Sessions Court to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for six months and a e of $100 on a charge of petit larceny. He now seeks a discharge on the ground that the Conrt had no jurisdiction to try him, and also that he was not guilty of the offence, The Court granted the writ, Another and entirely new suit growing out of the famous Jume! will case bas been commenced by George HH. Dilks against Nelson Chase, to recover from him compensation for alleged services as a detective in working up the Jumel case. The complaint sets forth that he was thus employed for fifty days at $10 a day. A motion was yesterday made by Messrs. Scudder & Carier, defendant’s attorneys, for a bill of particulars on the ground that they could not prepare an answer without it, Ex-Judge Curtis in re- ply urged that the contract as declared on was specific and definite asto time and the value of the services rendered, and could not be made more soon the plead- ings. Judge Sedgwick, of the Superior Court, before whom the motion was argued, reserved luis d The full particulars of the suit of O’Gor: Kamak have been heretofore fully published in the Herarp, The plaintifY claims that the defendant, taking advantage of his weakness for liquor, mduced him, while in the first stage ol delirium tremens, to sign'a deed for his house to Kamak. The only ques- tion in dispnte was whether the plaintiff was sane or insane at the time. The case, which has been on trial before Judge Larremore, of the Court of Common Pleas, for three weeks past, came to a conclusion late on Tuesday evening. The jury, as in a former trial of the case, were unable to agree. WASHINGTON PLACE POLICE COURT. Before Judge Kilbreth. EMBEZZLEMENT. William Russell, an employé of Messrs. J. C. John- ston & Co., of Broadway and Twenty-second street, was held in $300 to answer for embezzling $25 from that firm, Russell collected the money from Mrs. Dunlap, of No. 35 West Thirty-eighth street. In his defence he said that the money was stolen from him on a Sixth avenue car. PICKPOCKETS ON BROADWAY. Detectives Haley and Thetopson yesterday arrested Henry Nelson, of No. 396 Peari street, for larceny from the person. The detectives had watched the prisoner for about an hour, their curiosity being excited by his culiar actions. Finally Detective Haley saw him put is hand into a gentleman's pocket and withdraw it with some money. The arrest was then made, and the complainant in the ca 64 Kast Ninth street, ide’ on the prisoner as his. Nelson was ho trial, BURGLARY IN TWENTY-NINTH STREET. Elias McKnight, of Eighth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, was held in $1,000 to answer for burglariously entering the apartments of Mrs. Mary Anne Smith, at No. 442 West Twenty-ninth street, and stealing thero- from $8 worth of blankets and clothing. The prisoner denied the charge of burglary, but admitted stealing the clothing. Mr. Felix Effrey, o ded the money ($2 60) fou id in $1,000 for DISORDERLY CONDUCT. On Tuesday evening Michael Ryan, of No. 22 Varick street, met Annie McDonnell and accompanied her to her room at No, 66 Sullivan street. After leaving the house he found he had Yost some money—hLow much he did not know. He caused Annie's arrest, but as he could not swear to the alleged larceny she was sent to the Island for disorderly conduct in default of $1,000 bail for future good behavior. POLICE COURT NOTES. At Washington Place Police Court yesterday Jud, Kilbreth held Thomas ©. Boardman for assaulting Mary Dearvon, of No, 403 Canal streot, with whom he has lived for ten years. The chief witness-against the pris- oner was his own little daughter, aged four years. William Keliy way held in far aisallng bwo boys’, coats, valued at $10, from William Mohiman, of No. 244 Sixth avenue. ‘At Essex Market Police Court yesterday Judge Otter- bourg held Mary Beanet, of ‘No, 203 Bowery, in $1,000 bail to answ of Ee ong $28 from Matthew Shiels, of No. 18@ Mulberry 8! thete were three cases at Essex Market and five cases at Washington Place Court of violation of the Excise law. Each prisoner was held in $100 bail to answer. At the Tombs Police Court yesterday Kate Smith, of No. 250 West Houston street, was held in default of $300 bail to answer for stealing $28 worth of clothing from the premises of Mary Quinn, No. 19 Bieecker strect COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Scpxewe Court—Cnannens—Held by Judge Brady.— 2, 56, 82, 128, 130, 131, 134, 140, 155, 174, 186, 202, 287, 288, 297, 305, 208, 214, 223, '262, 267, 268,’ 270, 06, 807, 808, 818, S10,’ PROSTITUTING THE PRESS. The methods adopted in promoting the Northern Pa- cific Railroad sebeme are partially disclosed by the testimony of the assignee of Jay Cooke & Co., which was taken in Philadetphia on Friday last for use by the defence in the suit of Henry ©. Bowen against tbe Brooklyn Eagle, The official record of the testi- mony taken by the commission was yesterday returned to the Brooklyn City Court. Mr. Edwin M. Lewis, the assignee of Jay Cooke & Co., made a deposition in which he certified to’ the correctness of certain docu- ments which he submitted, These documents are im- portant in that they fully demonstrate the fact that the cunning backers of the Northern Pacific scheme keenly appreciated the advisability of securing the influence of the religious press to be exerted in furtherance of their objects. Among the papers secured was Mr. Bowen's Independent, HOW IT WAS DONE is shown by the contract given below:— Jay Cooke & Co., BaNkERs, PHILADELPHIA AND WasuinctoN. 1M Sovra > Street, Pur.apeELraia, Dee. 19, 187 h permanently identify yourself, your paper, and Mr, <ibbe aud your nephew with the interest of the North- ern Pacitic Railroad Company is as follows:—On your part you give us all the sales of bonds by the ma- chinery of the papers under your control. You give your services 28 editors or agents to go and work for ibe interest of the bonds from time to time, as we may. need your services out of New York and Brooklyn. You disconnect yourselves from all other enterprises, and work this one with all your accustomed energy and faithfulness. You Bive the ex- elusive fnterest and — fnfluence of your money columns and editorial coluwnns to’ the enterprise and bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad, and in all respects in good faith, you and yours are to be enlisted for the whole period of the loan, or until we eventually agree to relinquish this arrangement. On our part we agree to alfow you six per cent cash, and ten per cent stock commissions on ull sales made by you and your machinery, subject to the instractions to allowances, &c., sent toall agents. We pay to ou oue per cent commission in stock in the aggregate of original eales of bonds in the United States, stock in all cases to be delivered, but held in our name accord- ing to our contract with the company by power of at- torney. We to pay, AS TO OTHER AGENTS, all advertising bills authorized by us. We to hold $56,000 on the original subscription to the $5,600,000 fund ‘for your benelit,”” and as soon as $3,000,000 bonds shall be Wisposed of’ through the agencies we to credit you $10,000 on said subscription; and again, as often as such further sum of $3,000,000 bonds is subscribed for as above, a like sum of $10,000 is to be credited, until the sum of $60,000 is thus earned by the gale of $18,000,000 of bonds by the agent. " After- ward you -are to continue your services in all respects as stated above without further compensation than the one per cent in stock on all sales in the United States and the regular commission on guch as you sell yourselves, When required to travel and work for us outside of New York and Brooklyn you will receive PAY FOR YOUR TRAVELLING EXPENSES, We will advance you on 2d January, 1871, $12,000 of the Northern Pacific bonas on account and allowance, JAY COOKE & CO, The above is correct and will be adhered to by mo. HENRY ©, BOWEN. Following this agreement is a document, dated Sep- tember 8, 1873, certifying that the terms of the contract having been fulfilled, it. was thereby cancelled. This latter paper was also signed by the banking firm and Bowen. Accompanying it is an indorsement of the agreement by If. C. Bowen and W. C. Kibbe, The latter, who ig mentioned in the contract as one of Cooke & Co.’s agents, was to receive from Bowen one- third of the proceeds of the venture, The next document is a letter from Bowen to Cooke & Co. denying that he owed them $46,000 for stocks, as stated by their secretary. A receipt for $56,000, the amount of Bowen's subscription to the Northern Pacific Railroad stock, is next in order. Following this are extracts from the ledger of Jay Cooke & Co., giving in full the figures paid Bowen inthe stock of the Northern Pacific Rail- road, because of his “editorial” and other labors in fecting sales of their paper. THE MOULTON INDICTMENT, In extenuation of the act and the spirit that prompted Mr. Beecher to go before the Grand Jury in October, 1874, and make affidavit against Francis D. Mouiton for slander it is now asserted that the records will prove that the case was put onthe Grand Jury calendar in the regular way, and that when the pastor of Plymouth church appeared before the jury it was in compliance toasubpona. The entering of the nolle prosequi was proposed by and was within the province of the District ‘Attorney. HARD WORK NOT REWARDED. A bold but unsuccessful attempt at burglary on the store of Taylor, Gibson & Wilson, dealers in tailors? trimmings, at No, 428 Broadway, was discovered yes- terday morning. Shortly after the store was opened the porter noticed a hole in the partition separating the store from a staircase. His curiosity being aroused he made an examination, and found that the brick wail in the rear had been broken through from an adjoining building, No. 43 Crosby street. He also found a burg Jar’s brace, bit and jimmy, a basket, a chisel, several bags, a candle and an empty bottle that smelled strongly oy. e Crosby street building which was made the basis of operations by the burglars is a dilapidated tenement house, occupied mainly by Malian ragpickers and organ grinders. Some three weeks since two suspicious- looking men rented one of the rooms in the building. Their occupation was unknown, An examination of this room, which adjoins the rear wall of No, 428 Broome street, revealed their work. They had re- moved a sufficient nuinber of the bricks to allow the passage of a man and had evidently thus got into the Broadway building. Finding their prospects of booty slim or being frightened off they abandoned their de- signs, leaving their kitof tools behind. RECORD OF CRIME. Some unknown sneak thief entered the store of Freedman & Woodrnff, at No, 281 Broadway, and stole five beaver overcoats, The property was valued at $150, The showcase in front of Glokner & Rank’'s shoe store, at No. 628 Sixth avenue, was broken open by thieves and robbed of $16 worth of boots. John F. Burk, of No. 93 South Fifth avenue, while in company with an unknown man, at No. 59 Thompson street, was robbed by him of @ gold watch and chain valued at $112, The apartinents occupied by Louis Miller, at No. 250 Fighth avenue, were robbed by thicves of $69 worth of clothing. The shoe store of Corneliug Ridgrouse, at No. 23 Leonard street, was robbed by burglars of $14 worth of property. Some unkgown thief stole $50 worth of wearing apparel from the rooms of Charles Wakefield, at No, 103 Greenwich street. Benjamin F. Raynor, of Port Jefferson, L. I., a prin- ter, about twenty years’ of age, who lately published a local paper at Islip, was arrested on Sunday for lar- ceny. Last Friday morning Raynor entered the store of Messrs. Smith & Bedell, at Freeport, and asked per- mission to write a letter. He was invited to take a seat at a desk, beneath which was safe, with the door unlocked. Mr, Smith stepped out, and on bis return saw Raynor leaving the store, Some hours later Mr. Smith discovered that his safe had been robbed of $130 in money and $400 in checks. Raynor was arrested in the Sunday school of the Rockville Contre Methodist Episcopal church, in which he had lately been quite ac- tive, having within the last week prolessed to be con. verted. After his arreat he confessed the thelt, and led the officer to a place in the woods where the checks were secreted, and to another place, where $85 of the money was hidden. He had spent the balance in pres- ents forayoung lady. It ig believed he broke into ard robbed the railroad ticket office at Bellevue some week: ago. On being arraigned before a justice of the peace he waived examination and was committed in default of $1,000 bail. An officer of the Third precinct, Brooklyn, arrested John Crowin, » liquor dealer, residing at No. 108 Tuird street, yesterday, for attempting to shoot one Barthol- omew Donovan ‘during an altercation about certain money matters Aplumber, named Alexander Patlas, living at No. 231 Smith street, Brooklyn, was taken into custody yestorday 6n complaint of Albert W, Ladd, of No. #34 Union street, who accused him of stealin, arble washstand and other articles, valued at $50. Justice Delmar, of Brooklyn, yesterday held Jane Bradley to await the action of the Graud Jury on a charge of stealing a silk dress, worth’$75, from her employer. Michael Purcell and Theodore Jackson were held for examination by Justice Semler, Brooklyn, yesterday for agsaulting Peter Curran, of No, 189 Walworth street, by striking him on the head with a slungehot, Edward Volkner and Henry Blanthorn, two Ger- mang, Were arrested on suspicion of burglariously en- rook the house of Samuel Klotz, 168 Scholes street, Brooklyn, Two sneak thieves proceeded up Newark avenue, Jer sey City, last evening about #ix o'clock. One of them snatched a pair of shoes that were hanging in front of the store of Robert Smith and ran off. Smith followed and captured him. ‘The fellow had a clasp knife opened in bis right hand, The other thief ran off with a pair of sboes from a shoe store on the opposite side of, the avenue, but was arrested. They gave their names as Robert Smith aad William Hefernam, SPANISH RULE IN CUBA. BREACHES OF ALL CONSTITUTIONAL PLEDGES, PROCLAMATIONS AND PROMISES—HOW THE VOLUNTEERS RULE AND HOW THEY PLUNDER PROPERTY—SENOR EMBIL'S AFFAIR A CASE IN POINT—AMERICAN PROPERTY UNDER SEQUES- ‘TRATION, Havana, Dec, 22, 1875. What means the Spanish ‘constitutional’ treaties, the decrees of the Madrid government, solemn sen- tences given by a Captain General as President of all the courts of justice and of leading men that are Premiers—as General Jovelinar—all laws, agreements, oaths, what all these mean for the Spanish volunteers that command in Cuba, will be understood by a graphic case that I put as an example of the Spanish system of rule in the island of Cuba, thus:— The President of the Spanish Republic, Sefor Pi Margall, published the following :— DECRRE OF JULY 12, 1873. ARTICLE 1.—Are declared raised from the date when the present decree, published in the Gaceta de Madrid, reaches the capital of the island of Cuba, all the seiz- ures of property belonging to persons of that island, insurgents or unfuithful, and realized by gubernative disposition, in consequence of the decree of the 20th April, 1869. ‘ART. 2.—The property released in virtue of the pro- visions of the preceding article will be returned forth- with to their owners or their legitimate representa- tives, without requiring of them in so doing other jus- tification or formality than those strictly necessary to credit the restitution or legitimate the personality. ‘The preamble to this decree says:— No politica) consideration grants to any government the right to deprive the citizens deviating from the right path in social life, of the hevessary moans of sub- sistence, and to place their families in the hard neces sity of bogging for the daily bread abundantly farnished heretofore by their labor and economy. Besides these considerations there existe in the laws of nations no precept, no Peding g authorizing such expropriations as carry with them the seal of confiscation, nor is such & proceedivg admissible in sound judicial theory, nor does even the exceptional condition of war autlorize, under any conception, the adoption of preventive measures of 0 vast transcendency, the effects of which, on the er hand, will be and will necessarily be entirely opposed to the very object that inspired them. OFFICIAL PLEDGES. Not only wag this notification, made during the com- mand of Goneral Pieltain, also disobeyed, but, what is still more surprising, the General ordered, on the 3d of September, to realize on the property under soizure, Other and more notifications, personal and by telegraph, followed, Spain apparently wishing to disclaim the re- sponsibility of such acts, Finally, and to reduce this narration, I have been shown, in acopy of the Diario de la Marina of Havana, THE DECREB given by the “Minister of the Colonies, Seftor Soler, during his visit to Havana, addressed to Captain Gen. eral Jovellar, which says, literally, the following:— ‘The government of the Republic resolved to procure the faithful observance of the treaties and conventions celebrated by Spain with foreign nations, desirous of avoiding all motive of claims from the citizens of such nations, and moved by the reasons presented to the Council of Ministers when addressipe to Your Excel- lency’s predecessor in command of this island the tele- gram of the 15th September last, has thought fit to resolve that Your Excellency order the immediate and faithful compiiance with the measure dictated by the Ministry under my charge, ordering the raising of the seine of the property of foreign citizens, made in obedience to @ gubernative resolution, in order that frow this moment the parties interested may enter in possession of their property, JOVELLAR'S COMMUNICATION TO SENOR M. BMDBIL. As even more personal we copy the original communication directed to Sefor Miguel Embil, through his agent, by General Jovellar, under the game date as the decree of the Minister of the Colonies, signed by his authorized secretary, with the official seal of the Gobierno Superior Politico de la Isla de Cuba Seereturyship, and the usual formalities giving legal force, and the certificate of the Spanish Consul in this city of the 27th May last, which says:— Political—Under this date I say to His Excellency the Vice President of the Junta of the Debt what fol- lows:— Hie Excellency the Superior Political Governor, in view of the report made by that Committeo of the Treasary Department on the 10th of July of this year, Jeaving to his superior resolution the classification of the case of Don Miguel Embil, bas thought fit to de- cree—there not existing against said individual proofs sufficient to justify his culpability—that it be classified in second category, and that, as a consequence of this, the seizure of his property be raised, and these deliv- ered to said party or to his legitimate attorney. Which, by order of His Excellency, | transmit to you for your knowledge. God protect you many years, E, COROMINAS CORNELL. Havana, Nov, 24, 1873. Senior Doy Micust Exp. or his attorney, Dr. C, De BE, THE ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION to the Vice President of the Junta of the Debt was issued at the same time and duly delivered. THE RESULTS. We shall not add that instead of Mr. Embil's prop- erty being surrendered under the same General Jovel- Jar and his successors, and during his Presidency of the Council in Madrid, they have not continued to col- ject revenues and dividends and credits for his account that aggregate a total collected and used for over $3,000,000 mm gold, but evea the machinery of his plantation was taken and transferred to that of one of the aides de camp of the Captain Géneral, after the furce of a public auction, caltfg all iron’ which was there machinery. Ana equa! action is taken with property of AMERICAN CITIZENS under sequestration for an enormous amount. this indifference be continued by the United States Government longer? Is it not time to enforce the con- Ptitution, the treaty, the decrees of the Madrid govern- ment on the spot, and force the volunteers to surrender at once ail property sequestrated and pay immediately the damages? Can W GUINEA. DETAILS OF THE MACLEAY EXPLORING EXPE- DITION—THE SOIL AND THE NATIVES—MAN- NERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE. [From the Melbourne Herald, November 9.] Mr. Macleay, the leader of the expedition that started in the Chevert, intending to explore New Guinea, but which was broken up in consequence of internal disagreement, hus given a lengthy account of the voyage to the Sydney Morning Herald, RESULTS OF THE JOURNEY. He states that after five days’ unremitting work in sounding and buoying the way through a mass of reefs nearly twelve miles in extent they dropped anchor about a mile and a half from the mouth of Katow River and village of Mohatta. Next morning they were vis- ited by two canoes, with about twelve men in each. They came on board with the utmost confidence, and though they could only previously have seen vessels of small aize they did not testify much surprise, Shortly afterward the vessel’s company landed, to the number of twenty-two, and were received at the vil- lage by the elder members of the tribe, seated in a circle upon a large piece of new. matting, THE VILLAGE consisted of seven housee, exactly of the kind de- scribed by Jukes in the voyage of the Fly. Each house was Dy) y or 100 fect long, elevated about six feet from the ground, and covered with a thick thatch, The ends were open, and on each side were sleeping places ofthe inmates. Each house would easily contain filty people, which would make the population of Maino village ¢ The houses are built close to the sea, and are everywhere surrounded by mud, filth, and stench, THE PROPLE are powerful and well made, jet black, with straight foreheads snd Jewish noses, ‘and without the project- ing jaws of the Australian. The hair is woolly, but grows in small tufts, which, when long, form close compact ringlets, and it is not an uncommon thing for the people, not only here but at Warrior and Darnley Islands, to cut off their bair when thus grown into ringlets and convert it into a wig for their owa use. The men have no clothing or covering o any kind, Some of them are marked, like the Austral jang, with seame on the shoulders, and they all cu the lobes of their ears into fanciful shapes, and pierce the rim all round and ornament it with colored wool ir fibre. The women were seon little of, but enough to satisfy ra that they were no beauties. They are the hewers of wood and drawers of water, !he duties of the men being confined to fishing, Runting and fi y covering round the ling ts th em fond of ornaments THE CHIEE WAPONS of these people are bows and arrows of a very formi dable description, Th bows are of bamboo, vory like those used by English archers, and strang in ty: same way, and the arrows are over four feet long, had can be used effectively at a distance of 120 yards. mitted. Like the woolly haired races of Fiji and tle Now Hebrides, of which they are probably a variety, these people use kaya, They are GREAT NAVIGATORS, ng distances in their canoes, whic) are of great vndare made from the excavated trunks of large coral trees (trythrina), Their supply of animal food is chiefly trom the pigs, which are very num ous, both im a wild and tame state, I saw no indica tion among them of cannibalism, though huchan skalle were not an uncommon ornament in their \ouses, ‘THE APPEARANCE OF THK COUNTIY is the same everywhere. From where the ship lay the coast line of New Guinea could be seen, from Saibai Island on the west to Grietow Teland on tie cast, a dis- tance of thirty miles, and the uniformity was perfect. The same absolutely level mud flat, without the shghtest apparent rise as far as the e» could reach, and all densely covered with trees of all \inds and sizes. The following day Mr, Macleay attomed the naviga- tion of the river, which, from 200 yar's at ity mouth, narrowed to thirty yards, batat abow eight or nine miles distance he wee rarmgpelied » returo. being and go by a tree ofgreat size which had fallen, or been felled, across the river, and which it was impossible to cut through with tomahawks, After describing the difficulties of the navigation and visit to Yale I¢land, &c., Mr. Macleay states that he is satisfied that dread of hostility from the natives need be no bar to the exploration of New Guinea, THE SCHOOLS QUESTION. CATHOLIC ECCLESIASTICAL OPPOSITION TO THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN AUSTRALASTA— PRIESTLY POLITICS. [From the Melbourne (Australia) Argus, Nov. 3.) The “drum ecclesiastic”” has been beaten so vigor- ously of late in the Roman Catholic camp againet the Education act, that consequences have ensued which possibly were not contemplated by the ordinarily astute drummers, Every political question has been de- clared by Archhishop Goold and his lieutenants to be subordinate to the one great object of securjng the overthrow of the existing State system of education. Hence it follows that any candidate who is sup- josed to be receiving what termed the Roman Catholic vote, finds it necessary to make a sort of public apology for the doubtful honor and explain thay he uiltiess of the intentions which the reception of such vote would seem to indicate, The Minister of Railways, at Bal- larat, on Monday night, found himself in this predica- ment, He doubtless dreams as little of attempting & return to denominational education as does any other sensible politician. Still, he finds it incumbent upon him to say so, and to offer reasons for his being fa- vored with this baleful yote other than a design on his part to secure a portion of the State grant for the propagation of a belief in the Pope’s infallibility and the necessity of exorcising witches, It 1s a humiliating thing for him to bave to do, but he did it under the circumstances as gracefully as possible. This is a disagreeable issue of ‘the recent priestly agitation, There is as little likelibood as ever of the colony retrograding to denominationalism, but the Roman Catholic vote has come to be regarded with more than ordinary suspicion, and the person on whom it 18 conferred is likely to be injured rather tan bene- fited by it. Wecan but hope, however, that no one at Ballarat will be induced to distrust Mr. Jones be- cause of this absurd patronage. Moreover, there is strong reason to suppose that there, as elsewhere, the “Roman Catholic vote” is less compact than is com. monly believed, and that no inconsiderable section of | that Communion have the courage and wisdom to yote as citizens and not as Papists, Our political difficulties are vexatious enough without being further compli- cated by the intrusion of sectarian bitternesses, NAVAL AFFAIRS. LAUNCH OF THE FRIGATE TRENTON TO-DAY— ARRANGEMENTS FOR A PUBLIC VIEW—A GALA DAY EXPECTED—THE STORESAIP SUPPLY READY FOR SEA—LIST OF OFFICERS-—-MOVE- MENTS OF OUR FOREIGN SQUADRONS. The Brooklyn Navy Yard at present presents an ap- pearance of unusual activity and bustle, due, prob- ably, to the fact that to-day the fine frigate Trenton, twelve guns, is to be launched. Ships are not now built and put into the water at our great navy yard in the same number that they were during the lively times of the late war, when a launch was a matter of no particular importance, and when the yard was thronged with busy workmen and the air was filled with the sounds of the adze and hammer, A launch now is a decided event in its dull, dreamy life, and itis not atall strange that the Trenton’s dash into her des- tined element should stir officials and workmen in an unwonted way. ‘Yesterday every one was in some way or another en- gaged in completing preparations for the great event. Hundreds of men were at work pauing down scaflolds, driving wedges, clearing away obstacles, erecting plat- forms for spectators and, in general, getting ready for the great launch. At sundown everything save a few minor preparations was in order, and if nothing occurs of an unforeseen nature to prevent, the new frigate, on which so many expeciations are bused, will float in the Wallabout, ready to be placed in dock and prepared for sea. Arrangements have been perfected, under the orders of Vice Admiral Rowan, a, which the public ™may witness the Jaunch under the most favorable circumstances. It will be admitted to the yard about nine o'clock A, M., and will find good points of observation near and about the dry dock, past which the ship will move. The officersof the yard and friends will be received upon the corvette’ Delaware, where the band will be stationed, while others may se- cure a good look-out ou the Susquehanna, lying outside the Delaware. It is expected that a large number of ladies from New York, Brooklyn and neighboring cities and towns will be present to grace the occasion. Miss Parker, daughter of ex-Governor Parker, of New Jer- sey, has been selécted to name the ship as she leaves her'ways. The affair, which will take place at ten ‘A. M., promises to be very brilliant and successful, The store ship Supply was placed in commission on Tuesday by Captain Yemple, and will the pennant of Commander G. W. She is partially filled with supplies for the European squadron, Will doubtless complete BET Cargo a5 an early day. Officers and men were on board yesterday gollig through the unpleasant process of }+sbakin, down,” preparatory for sea. The Supply is an ol fashioned sailing ship, small bat comfortaole, and has displayed her flag in almost overy forelgn sea.” She will probably look into some of the Italian ports to pick up such articles of American production as may be ready for the Centennial Exposition, although in naval eircles it is still generally believed that the steam sloop of war Powhatan, Captain Jouett, will carry out her original instructions, as ber return can be more certainly counted on than that of availing ship. The following tsa full and complete list of the officers of the Supply ; Commander—G. W. Hayward. Lieutenant and Executive Oficer—Mi. E. Nichola, Lirutenant and Naviga‘or—W. H. Webb. Ensigns—J, C. Cresap, A. T. Freeman and B, F, Rine- hart, Past Assistant Surgeon—H. Aulick. Past Assistant Paymaster—E. N. Whitehouse, Boatswain— James ‘Acting Carpenter—G. W. Captain's Clerk—Josse Middleton, Paymaster's Clerk—David Mowat ‘The Supply carrics only two small howilzers anda crew of fifty-two men. The torpedo boat Intrepid, Commander Huntington, arrived on Tuesday from Newport. She will probably be laid alongside the dock for the winter, unless somo contingency should arise to call her into active service. She will be coaled and kept in efficient condition for immediate service. The frigate Congress and the corvette Juniata are daily expected ai. Port Royal. The Brooklyn and Monongabela, of the South Atlantic squadron, will probably rendezvous at Key West. There are as yet no evidences of any inclination to put out of commission any ship afloat, OUR MODEL POLICE. WHAT I8 THOUGHT AT THE CENTRAL OFFICE OF THE CASSIDY OUTRAGE CASE. Mr. Cassidy, the victim of the latest police outrage, is about to prefer charges against acting Sergeant Flannigan and officer Keeling, of the Twenty-seventh precinct, for arresting and detaining him in a cell trom Friday nght until Sunday morning. For the pur- pose of sacertaining the rules governing cases of this kind—tlat is, cases of arrest on suspicion—a Herauo reporter called upon one of the Police Commissioners yesterday for information, The Cominissioner un- hesitatingly said that if Mr. Cassidy’s account of his treatment by the police of the Twenty-seventh pre- cinct was true the Sergeant, as well as the officer, had exceeded his duty and was censurable, to say the least, A pelice sergeant is required, the Commissioner said, to exercise a great deal of discretion in cases of this kini, and if this official isa man whose ability and in- cligence is not above mediocrity it cannot reasonably beexpected that he will always decide in a manner cal- cuated to reflect credit upon the department, Kale 688 of the Police Manual reads as follow: AL c@mmon law (which is the basis of all the laws of this State and which remains in force, except where changed by statute) officers for the protection of the peace have authority to arrest and detain in custody, jor examsmation, persons found jn the streets at night, whom they may reasonably suspect of felony, although there is no positive proof of their having actually com- mitted such offence. ’? “Under this rule,” continued the Commissioner, “officers, sergeants and captains have the right to ar- rest a person on suspicion, but they should exercise the utmost judgment. Where a man has been arrested and be can and does give a straightforward account of himself, as was the case with Mr. Cassidy, the sergeant | or captain should promptly discharge hiin,”” Rule 690 bears upon this point and is as follows :—“If 4 policeman arrest a person whom he has good cause and reasonable grounds to suspect of having committed a felony, and if the arrest is made discreetly and fairly and not from any malice, he will be justified, even though it afterward appear that no felony was com- But the members of the force must remember to be cautions in such cases, as their defence rests solely on the reasonableness of the suspicions that led to their making the arrest. ”” The Commissioner held that under the existing rules, or indeed in any case, the mombers of the police force should be intelligent, The examination of captains and sergeants now going on before the Commissioners, the Superintendent and the Inspectors, has already dis- closed the fact that a very large majority of those ex- amined are unfit to hold their positions, and, ag the Commissioner said, ‘‘wore too ignorant to ever have been appointed to the force as ordinary trolmen.” Acting Sergeant Flannigan has never been bela in very high esteem by the department as regards his intelli- gence and ability; and the Commissioner with whom the HeRaLp reporter conversed said ho was tp no way surprised at the action he (Fjannigan) had taken in the Cassidy case, FELL THROUGH A HATCHWAY. Abont twelv® o'clock on Tuesday night, ag Charles Boddington, a Jersey pilot, of pilot boat Nye, No. 2, was walking on the deck of a vessel he was taking to sea he slipped and fell through an open hatch, a dis- ce of twelve feet, breaking one of his feet and otherwise seriously injuring himself, After regaining consciousness ho was removed to Tompkinaville, 8. I. where he had his wounds dressed. was 6 his home in Jersey City resterdan, 4 INDIAN MANAGEMENT The Early Methods of Deal« ing with Mr, Lo, OFFICERS AND THEIR PAY. Status of the Savage Tribes in Relation to the United States, : ABORIGINAL DELEGATIONS TO WASHINGTON, The Indian is a personage of more consequence than 4s generally conceded to him, On his account, mainly, the Interior Department was récently reduced to w mere acephalous concourse of atoms until the President. “put a head on it” in the shape of the ex-Senator from. Michigan, Then followed official decapitations too numerous to particularize, and sudden choppings and: changiogs, all of which may fairly be considered ag, sacrificial offerings at the shrine ef Lo, Under these, circumstances the following sketch of the Indian De- partment, carefully compiled from authentic sources! will be found of more than passing interest to tho gene eral reader, ‘THE OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER. From the close of the Revolutionary War down to 1833) any “Indian affairs” that required attention were coms’ monly confided to a few officers and men, who attended! to them with varying success, sometimes recelving| rough treatment at the hands of their red brothers, but: more frequently “making things lively” for the abo»! rigines, as at Tippecanoe in 1811, at Talloosahatchie: and Talladega in 1813, and subsequently at various) places of less renown, On July 9, 1832, the Black Hawk war having just been’ inaugurated by the defeat of Majer Stillman, of the Fifth! Tilinois mounted volunteers, by a pand of the Sac In- dians under Black Hawk himself, Congress created the! offiée of Commissioner of Indian Affairs. That official! was charged, under the direction of the Secretary of War, with the management of all Indian affairs and of; all matters arising out of Indian relations. He com-, menced work with twelve clerks and two messengers, | and an appropriation for all purposes of a little more than $2,100,000, From this germ the Indian Department has in forty-three years grown to its pres- ent dimensions of one Commissioner, one Chief Clerk, forty-six clerks and six messengers, with am annual ap- propriation of $69,800 for clerk hire, $8,000 for sta« tionery and about $6,000,000 for the Indian service at. Jarge, In addition to the clerks in the Indian Office, proper there are half a dozen in the office of the Secre- tary of the Interior and at least fourteen more in the’ Treasury Department, who are engaged on business re- lating exclusively to the Indian servico, and whose gal- aries will swell the total amount paid for clerk bire to! at least $100,000 per annum, THE SERVICE FIRST ORGANIZED. Under orders from President Jackson, issued in compli‘ ance with the act of June 20, 1834, ‘fo provide for the organization of the Department of Indian Affairs,” the Secretary of War organized the Indian service into two superintendencies, two acting superintendencies, tem agencies, three acting agencies and thirteen sub-agen- cies, wiih thirty-five interpreters, as follows :— Superintendency of Wisconsin Territory.—This em- braced all Indians in Wisconsin Territory, except the’ Sioux of the Upper Missouri, the Mandans and the tribes and bands north of them on the Missouri. The agencies were:—Agency for the Sacs and Foxes, agency’ of St. Peter’s and sub-agencies Prairle du Chien, Green Bay, La Pointe and Crow Wing River. Number of inter« preters allowed, eight. Superintendency of St. Louis.—This superintendency had control of tho tribes and bands excepted from that of Wisconsin Territory and of the Ottawas, Chippewas, and Pottawattomies, and all other Indians couth of thee Missouri River, with agencies, &c., as follows:—Agency of Fort Leavenworth, agency and sub-agency of Council’ ulus, agency ana’ wuV-agency or the Upper Missouri, sub-agencies of the Great Nemaha and Osage River. Number of interpreters, thirteen. ‘The Acting Superintendency of Michigan included all the Indians in that State and the Ottawas of Maumeey Ohio, and embraced the agency of Michilimackinae and! the sub-agency of Sault Sto. Marie, and employed five interpreters, The Acting Superintendency of the Western Territory included all the Indians south of the Missouri River: and the southern line of the St. Louis superintendency, and as far west as the Rocky Mountains, and i-) cluded the following agencies :—Agency of the Choce taws, agency of the Crevks, agency of the Cherokees, sub-agency of the Osages and sub-ayency of the Neosho, Interpreters, six. Miscellaneous agencies, in addition to the above, wero authorized as follows, with threo interpreter: Agency of the Chickasaws, at Pontotoc, Miss. is Sub-agency for the Wyandotts, at Upper Sandusky, 0. Sub-agency at Buffulo, N. ¥., for the Senecas and other natives in that State, Acting agency for the Pottawattomies and other tribes in Indiana, at Logansport, Acting agency at Chicago for the united natives of Ottawas, Chippewas and Pottawattomies, in Ilinois and Michigan. Acting agency for the eastern Cherokees, at Calhoun, Tenn. ‘The organization as given above continued substan- tally the same go long as the Indian Department re- mained under the contro! ot the war authorities, When the Interior Department was created (act March 8, 1819) the supervisory ard appellate powers thereto. fore exercised by the Sécrotary of War were transferre to the new Secretary of the literior. Various changes and additions were made during the twenty years be- {ween 1849 and 1800, the most traportant of which were the establishment of superintendencies and agencies in California, Oregon, New Mexico and Utab. On March 3, 1869, there were eleven superintendents, fity-nine ayents and five sub-agents, as follows:— ‘Superintendente—Two for the tribes east of the Rocky Mountains and one cach for Oregon, Washington Terri- tory, New Mexico, Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona, Montana and Idaho. Agents—Callfornia, 8; Lolorado, 1;° Oregon, 8; New Mexico, 7; Utah, 3; New York, 1; Washington 'Terri- tory, 6; Nevada, 1; Kansas, 1; Delaware Indians, 1; Crows, 1; Kiowas, ‘Apaches and Comanches, 1; Indlan at Green Bay, Wis., 1; Poncas 1; Pawnees, 1; Sioux, 25 Saco and Foxes, 1; tribes east of the Rocky Mountains, 21; Upper Missouri Indians, 2; Wichitas and neighbor: ing tribes, 1. Sub-agents—Three in Oregon and 2 in Washington Territory. During part of the years 1869 and 1870 the duties of superintendents and agents were performed by officers of the army, rendered supernumerary by the consolida- tion of infantry regiments. In 1871 the number of superintendencies had becn decreased to 8 and the agencies increased to 61, with 3 sub-agencies and 11 special agencies, everal important changes have been made since then, and under the PRESENT ORGANIZATION the Indian service is manipulated by three inspec- tors, two superintendents (both Quakers), seventy agents, twelve special agents and seventy-eight inter- proters. The inspectors go on voyages of discovery, or “tours of inspection,”’ under instructions from the Ine dian Department, for which they are allowed, in addi- tion to thoir pay, actual travelling expenses, not to ex- ceed ten cents per mile, The superintenden # sta tioned at Lawrence, Kan. (Enoch Hoag), and Omaha, Neb. (Barclay White). The agents aro scattoved over twenty-one States and Territories, as follows :—Jn Ari- zona ‘there ure seven, in California four, Colorado three, Dakota twelve, lowa one, Idaho two, Indian Ter- ritory eight, Kansas one, Michigan one, M¥nesota three, Montana seven, rth Carolma one, Nevada two, NewaMexico five,’ Nebraska gix, New York pne, Oregon seven, Utah one, Wisconsin two, Wyoming one, Washington Territory seven. BONDS AND PAY PAST AND PRESENT, In the primitive state of Indian affairs agents were required to give bonds in ths penal sum of $2,000 and sub-agents $1,000, The bonds now range froin $5,000 to $150,000, and even more; but these amounts can- not be considered excessive when the largo advances made to superinterdeuts and agents are considered. Under the old régime disbursements ag a rule were made by officers of the army, three of whom were specially detailod as Indian disbursing agents, viz. : Major John Garland, Quartermaster’s Department, Detroit, Mich, Captain Ethan A. Hitchcock, First infantry, at SH Louis, Mo. Captain R. D.C. Collins, Quartermaster’s Depart- ment, at Little Rock, Ark. ‘These officers received their funds direct from the ‘Treasur: d supplied such sam: were needed to those assistant quartermasters and assistant coms missaries who were charged with the duty of making disbursements in detail at the several agencies and agoncics. The old pay of superintendents and ager was $1,500 per annum and sub-agents $760, with act travelling expenses for journeys. performed under orders from competent sources, The present pay is:—Indian inspectors, $3,000 pee seeere Co berintan ts, $2,000 agents and special agents, ot (except the Iowa, who receives only $500); Interproters, $400... $500. Actual travelling expenses are allowed t spectors, superintendents and agents when the trav Jing has been authorized, T REATIES, Thero are about one hundred treaties ji force be. tween the Unifed States and Indian mations, tribes aud fOONTINUED ON NINTH PAGEL. re : ‘