The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1876, Page 5

ty, jody 2 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1876.—TRIPLE CAMERON. An Interview with the English z Explorer. RUMORS OF STANLEY. Liverpoon, April 3, 1876, ‘The busy city of Liverpool seemed the quietest of Country hamlets yesterday morning. It was Sunday, and the day is absolutely one of rest im England. But the strictly drawn lines of clerical propriety aid not Prevent the great commercial city trom flocking to the landing stage on yesterday aiternoon to welcome home Lieutenant Cameron, the latest among the explorers of Central Africa, He returned alter an absence of more than three years, during which be bas crossed that greatest of all peninsulas. The object of his @riginal commission is so well kn that it need only be referred to, He was engaged by the Royal Geo- graphical Society to carry relief to Dr. Livingstone, and accomplished his arduous duty only to find the man dead whom he had gone to succor, He sent the body of the great missionary back to England and then slarted on bis journey of discovery, which ended only in November last. Of the reception of Lieutenant Cameron yesterday and the hearty welcome which was given him by the Mayor the cable has already informed you. Afler these impressive ceremenies were ended he drove to the house of his cousin at No, 9 Sandon ter- race, where 1 by previous appointment called upon dim last evening. MEETING THE EXPLORER. I sent in my card and was cordially received by Lieutenant Cameron in person, He was in the best of humor and did not display the slightest aversion to an interview. Aiter congratulatipg bim upon his sale return, which he warmly acknowledged, I asked for some details regarding bis march from Tanganyika to tho West Coast, ‘ “My first duty, I do not need to tell you,” the Licutenant began, ‘is to the Royal Geographical So- ciety, which equipped and sent me out; but I shall be glad to give you any information regarding my journey _ Which shall not anticipate thd report I am to make to that body. Iam only sorry that 1 was not able to ob- tain some authenttc NEWS FROM MR. STANLEY, for it I had I should not tee! justified in withbolding it from the New York’ Hmnaup.”” “You left Zanzibar on May 29, 1873, and Ujiji on Tan- fanyika about a year later, as we are informed. How did you proceed from that point?” 1 asked. “As you are doubtiess aware the original object of the expedition was to relieve Dr. Livingstone; but when -Wo met the corpse of the good old gentleman there waa nothing left in that direction for us to do, His remains were forwarded to England, and I then determined to follow up the river Lualaba to its mouth and forever Bettie the question regarding its . IDENTITY “WITH THE CONGO, With this design I went to Nyangwé, on the Lower Luaiaba, or, as it is known at that particular point, the Ugarowwa, This village is on the Manyuema side of the river, and'is well known in African exploration.”” “I want to ask a question about the Tanganyika before we finally leave it, Did you not make an ex- Pploration of its west coast?” “I traversed the country. below the southern end of the lake; and again, after my return to Ujiji, in tito spring of 1874, crossed to Ruanda.*’ “That is the point to which I had especial reference. Did you, as has been reported, find an outlet to the great lake of Burton and Speke ?*? THE LUALABA PROBLEM. “There is a stream flowing out of Tanganyika toward the Atlantic coast in a wido, steady and rapid current. This important river is called by the natives the Luvu- ba, or Lukuga. 1 secured a boat at Ruanda and pushed down this stream, hoping, as [ confidently believe to this hour, that the current would lead me into the Lu- Maba and flnally ito the Congo. But at the endoft a lew mites we encountered an insurmountable barricr of rushes and grass, under waich the river disappeared for a long distance, . We observed great pieces of umber carried down by the stream and sucked ander the float- ing sod, The current was running at that point fully ten knots, or about eleven miles per hour, Regretiully Lwas compelied to return to tne great lake; but the head man of the tribe encountered at the beginning o the stream assured me that the stream could be fol_ + lowed by a few difficult portages to the Lualaba.” DIFFICULTIES OF EXPLORATION. “Returning to Nyangwé, then, you made your final start 2? j “Yes. There I encountered the great disappoiot- mont of my trip. I found it impossible to obtain voats for money or by begging. No materials were obtainaple wherewith to build them, Tho natives would rather part with their wives and children than their boats, and whereas I might have bought balf a dozen families for a few pounds I could not get a boat for 100 guineas. Thence I went with a caravan of Portuguese traders to Kilemba, This route lay toward the south two de- grecs, or from four to six south latitade. It is sit. nated in the middle of Urua. I was able to settle lor- ever before leaving Nyaugwé that the LUALAUA I$ NOT A FEEDER OF THR NILE, The river at that point was only 1,400 feet above the | sea level, This ended the mystery of the Lualaba as far as its northern cutiet. 1 kn@w then that its mouth, or that of the stream into which it debouched, was to be found somewhere along the Atlantic coast. I would have given the wealth of Monte Cristo, bad! pos- sessed it, for the means of solving that simple problem, tt Mr, Stanley can only force his way from the Albert Niyanza across to Nyangwé, and can LAUNCH THE LADY ALICE upon the Lualaba at that point he can land her in the ocean within three months, Of that I am as sure as that Lsivhere. He cau fully verify the one great dream of my life, which was 80 nearly within my grasp that [ feel keenly the impossibility to me of verifying it,” BETWEEN KILEMBA AND THE COAST. “The country between Kilemba and the coast was mostly unexplored?” “The roate which | followed was mostly new, al- though I crossed the ine ofLivingst6ne, and, noar the Atlantic coast, of Magyar’s trip in 1850," “How long did you remaio at Kilemba?’’ “{ made my home withan Arab and did not get away on my final tramp until Juve, 1875. I then de- termined to follow the line of tho watershed, between the Zambesi and the Congo. Thjs plan I carried out * wntil tho day ja last November when I set foot in Ben- galee,”” : ‘Picase give the route in stages as you made it.”* ‘From Ktlemba I struck to the westward, over a caravan trail, till] reached a large stream, said to be “the Loman}, along whose eastern bank I had before travelled on my way from Nyangwe. AMONG THR NATIVES, The towns were very close together, recurring every five or ten mifes, and were, in some instances, quite large. The natives appeated to be gregarious in their Instincts and to desire mach rather to herd together in villages than to ravage the neighboring country. They | were in decided contrast to the tribes encountered on the castward of Tanganyika, An easy stage of forty miles brought me to Kasoro; thence I turned to the fouthward, and, after a walk of about fifty miles, came to Luwinda, on the Kiluitai branch of the Lovot river, which, you may remotber, flows into lake Kikonja, thas forming the nucleus of another system of streams which, finally, uuite about two degrees iurthor north in the Luslaba,” “Excuse mo, Lieutenant,” said I, thoroughly do- spondent; ‘but had the natives in that region organ- {acd any ‘spelling bee: The genial traveller laughed and took the gentle hint, He kindly spelled out the names from this point on- ward. ACROSS THE BLACK CONTINENT. “7 must pasa on rapidly trom this porat two rea- sous.’ First, because the distance is great, and, second, because 1 mitst not tell you too much,” re- sumed the sunburned hero merrily, “From Luwinds an easy stage brought us to Langa Mandi’s trading village, where I res:ed, thence: forward toward tho youth west, crossing innumerable streams, to Kitongo, ajourney of about nincty miles Forward again, now crossing streams alternately flowing to the eastward and the westward. Great bills were seen occasiouahy oif to the southeast, but following the Wongo water- vsied—or what I believe to be it—we continued stilt southwest through Kirwa, -Kalesombe, Dosefu to Kiseuga, It is almost gafo to say thet the pames of tl three-fourths of the towns of that region begin with either Lor K. The distance in this stage is about 325 miles, Streams of considerable size exist every few miles.’” DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY. “Can't you tell me something about the country?” “1 can simply say that it was a very interesting region. A journey of about ninety-five miles, almost due west, brought us to Katundango, thence 180 miles brought us to the village of Peho, in Kivokwe. From that point 540 miles of a journey, by way of Bibi, brought us to Benguela in November last, I could have reached home by Christmas, only that I feared to encounter the English winter after three years im a southern climate,’? “Can you not toll me something of the great oppor- tunities for commerce in the Congo-Lualaba and Tan- ganyika regions, it they are opened up by Euro or American capital ?”’ Lasked, “I can only say that there are vast stores of com- mercial wealth within the reach of the enterprise of modern days.” STANLEY, “Did you hear anything of Stanley?” “Yes, [heard of him severai times. Of course he was away to the northward of my most northerly Doint. Poor fellow, he bas a desperate class of people todeal with, and apy one less determined than he would have been swept out of existence long ago. Several traders whom I saw at Nyangwé spoke of him. They bad heard ef him at Mtes: He was described asa short, heavy set white man, tn white clothes—in fact, Lam absolutely certain from many other tacts Stated by them that they were spoaking of Stanley. RUMORS OF STANLEY, “The headmen and Portuguese tradors of the Lualaba region are deeply interested in Stanley’s trip, and fre- quent inquiries were made for him in Nyangwé, HH he is fortanate enough to get through to that point from the Albert Lake region be will find very good friends, who will furnish nim provisions and all unecessary outfit. Dugumbe, the head man of the settlers at Nyangwe would do anything for him in his power, With his aid Stanley can get beats and practically solve forever the great Congo- Luataba question. Ido hope nothing will happen to the intrepid feliow. 1 heard many rumors about the DESERTION OF HIS MEN and the desperate straits to which he had been re- duced ; but such reports always in circulation, and there was no means of either verifying or disproving them. 1 can say only this, that if bis men have lost heart and begun to desert the case is very serious. It will not do any goodto knock a few of them on the hend. Tho rest will simply sit down and Shuke their heads, but go further they will not. I can tell you, from the bitterest of experience, that it is a dreadful position to find one’s seif in—alone in the wilderness—among human wild beasis, hundreds of miles between you and succor, and starvation staring you in the fac». Butl have only looked at the very worst side ofthe picture. I have hope that Stanley will come out all right, and I am sure that in the bot- tom of my heart hope so.” “What did you do witn the men whom you brought through with you from Zanzibar to the West Coast, Lieutevant ?” I asked, “I sent them around the Cape in a schooner, and they are probably at home by this time.” Again shuking the Lieutenant by the hand, I bade him farewell, ‘THE EXPLORER’S HISTORY. Lieutenant Cameron is a native of Weymouth, in Dorsetshire, and was born in the year 1844 His father is the Rev. J. 8 Cameron, rector of Shoreham, in Kent, and Colonel Cameron, of the Forty-second regi- ment, was his grandfather, At an early age he en- tered tho navy as a cadet, and afterward served as a midshipman under the Duke of Ediuburgh. In this capacity be won the admiration of his superior oflcers by some special service, and it was proposed to pro- mote hitn to a higher rank. This, bowover, was op- pored on the ground of the service ren- dered being one not actually rendered for the bvenelit of the navy. He obtainea his heutenantey not long afterward. He served in the Abyssinian war with distinction, and was pre- sented with a gold medal in recognition of tne zeal ho displayed while on board the ship Star in suppressing the slave trade, He lett England on the 30th of No- vember, 1872, engaged in Sir Bartle Frere’s mission, and iu the month of March of the year 1873 he fairly started.in the service which he has now accomplishod, ¥ A BANQUET, Thore was a banquet giveu to Cameron this morning at the City Hall, and im response to a toast Licutenant Cameron responded as follows :— 1 thauk you from the bottom of my beart forthe kind and cordial way in which you have drunk my health, I have been welcomed in a way which has surpassed auything which I expected, or which I aad any right to expect. I congratulate myself.on having coine to Liverpool, for | believe your town bas more to do with Africa than any other part of the United Kingdom, All the trade of the West Coast is, | know, | practically in your hands. In my iong journeys, as I have said, 1 was sustained by the thought that the peo- ple of England wouid not desert me, ani { need not say that your reception has proved that my behof was true, (‘*Hear, hear!’’) I lett England on the 30th of November, 1812, and went to Zanzibar with Sir Bartle Frere's mission. There were four of us—myself, Mr. Murphy, Dr. Dilion and Mr. Moffatt, a nephew of Livingstone, who was too young for the hardships of the journey. After a great deal of difficulty in getting men I started with my frst caravan in company with Dr. Dillon in March, 1873, leaving Murphy and Moffatt be- hind, Moffatt unfortunately died betore he rejomed us, but Murphy went on with us over countries travelled through belore by Burton and Speke and Stanley, to Unyanyembe. Here Dr, Dillon was taken il and haa to go vack, and | bad difficulties with some of the natives, who olfered opposition, Let me say here that 1} was not with the better class of Arabs, whom | have found to be, in the best sense of the word, gentlemer | On Livingstone’s body coming in Dillon and urphy went back with 1t, and I, alter much delay, travelied by the same route as Burton and Stanley to Uji. Thero I met Arabs aga'n, and received aid at their bands. I spent over two months then i surveying Tanganyiki aud alter roundiug its southern end | found out—what had always believed there must be—an outlet on is western'shore. Thence | went to Nyangwo, Living- stone’s Inrthest,and found out that this outiet—the Lukuga—joined the Lualaba, which is really the bead waters of the Congo, Alter in vain trying to get boats, I went with an Arab, Hamed-ib-Hamed, to his camp to try to werk wy way to Lake Sankarra, into which the Luaiaba falls; bat the chief on the opposite bank of the Lomami refused me a passage, { then worked away to the southto where I thought there were Portuguese traders and the country of Kasonga, whoischiefofUrna 1 found another Arab, Jumab- HugSalie, who was very kind tome. Here [ fell in with a Portuguese subject named Aloiz, who said he was going direct to the coast; but he was unreliable, and delayed me more than six months, During that time I was able to visit one lake, another named Kussali, which is one of | atfluents ofthe Congo. | afterwara followed down the water parting between the Zambesi and tue Congo | anit gotinto Congo basin, and my examination en- abies me to Say that they constitute one of the most magnificent systems of internai water communications in the world. The Tanganyt Ind the Congo could be Joined jor (he purposes of navigation by a canal thirty miles in length. fhe crehes of the country are un- spenkable, and could pot attempt to describe them now; but'Tam sure that the centre of Africa, especially on the west side o/ the Tanganyika, is destined one day to be the scene of civilization and productive trade, From its minoeral wealth and agricuitutal capabthities it will be one of the granaries of the world and the scene of iron manufactares when other parte of the world toward hastening the opening Up of this part of Atries Lshall consider myself amply repaid. (Loud cheers.) THE LATEST IN BOOTS. There is an old and tignificant saw which says “There is nothing like leather.” As a fact the need of this now judispensable commodity must have boen carly felt, inasmuch a8 we have no authentic record of its invention any more thau of that of Uke fiddic, the gallows, the poticeman’s club or any of the other luxu- } fies of civilized life, The ox, the sheep, the horse, the pig and other quadrapeds have, up to the present, aup- plied inost of the leather used in the world. Simple people may have imagined that such was always to be the case, and never suspected that the ekins of the | aiiigatow, the anaconda, the catfish, &¢., would be im- | pressed wnto the service of novelty mongers and figures upon the feet of leather cognoscenti. Man is, how- ever, gitted with a kind of perverse ingenuity; other. | wise, how ageoant for such flagrant departures from the ‘natural order as aro evidenced tn the plug hat, lobster salad, crooked whiskey and John Keily? To this oblique thstinct we probably i huvest and most atrocious torm of taventt namely, leather, At the first biush of the thr the | statement that this been done would be treated as the igment of a disordered brain, But it is sober, pisin, solid fact To New York belongs the queetionable credit of having nurtured the genius who could turn bis inventive talent to no better acgount then in actually tanning the hide of a fellow creature, and, What makes the matter more repulsive, of a poor follow wito lost his lite by accident. The skin tauued our mventive frend Mr, HA, Mabrephole hands vn leather over to a shoemaker, aud, as i appears, the Smithsonian lusticabi request of tie ingent@ns tanner fs that t atthe Centennial Extibiuton iw wuthenticity of the incts here recited was vouched for to the writer last night by those certain of their tewth, 1s this nots proper occasion to ask, What next? to see | the | have been worked out; and if my journey does anything | jed for the | perversity— | that of converting the human skin into | CONKLING. | SENATOR CONKLING AS THE NEW YORK CANDI- DATE. f [From the New York Sun, April 15.) There is one argument in favor of Mr. Conkling’s nomination which bis supporters have not urged with adequate zeal, It is just sixty years since the party opposed to the democracy selected its Presidential can- didate from the State of New York. In 1816 the fed- eralists ran Rufus King, of this State, asa sort of for- | Jorn hope against’ James Monroe, but svithout the slightest expectation of electing him. 1m the long pe- | riod which has since intervened, and during which the federalists passed away and the whig party rose and, after an illustrious career, disappeared, and the repub- Kean party was formed and finally came into power and has ruled the country for sixteet years, the Presidential candidate of the anti-demveratic party has never been a citizen of New York. And yet all through this eventful epoch in the bistory of the Da- tion New York has been in every particular the fore- n the Union, and at nearly every Prosi- jal election her vote has decided the contest, Tn view of these striking facts may not the friends of Senator Conkling insist that his nomination would be anact of simple justice to the republicans of New York? The opposition to the democracy for two gen- erations past has selected its candidates for President from Massachusetts, Kentucky, Obio, Louisiana, New Jersey, California and Iilinoi#, and even twice from Massachusetts, twice from Kentucky, and four times from Hiinow, but not once from the State which in wealth, commerce, trade, and almost in population, has been the equal of allof them combined, And the nomi- nation of this party for Vice President has only been accorded to New York twice in these sixty years. A very vigorous effort was made to repair this wrong to New ork im 1860, Governor Seward was pressed upon the Chicago Convention as the favorite of the State in which he was born and in whose affairs he had taken so conspicuons a part. But the appeal was In vain. The Convention at Cincinnati will afford an opportunity for rectifying this inequality and recog- nizing the claims of this great State. We presume the friends of Senator Conkling will not fail to take possession of the argument we propownd, or to make the most of it at the approachtng Sonven- tion, CONKLING’S CHANCE, {From the Nashville (Tenv.) Banner. ] A month or so ago the name of Senator Conkling was hardly ever mentioned in connection with the repub- lican nomination for the Presidency; to-day he looms ‘Up as perhaps the strongest candidate on the republican side, Conkling will have the New York delegation very nearly solid, and it is undetstood that he will also re- ceive the vote of Pennsylvania after the first ballot, together with New Jersey and Rhode island. His friends calou!ate also upon the vote of the Southern States, most of which are now claimed for Morton, but are almost certain to be brought over to Conkling. Tne Conkling managers calculate that Blaine and Morton aro now virtually out of the race, On the whole, we trust that Conkling will be nominated. The Raleigh (N. C.) News, a democratic newspaper, says CONKLING FOR PRESIDENT, The New York Henracp has unusual sagacity in read- ing the signs of thetimes. In its long carcer it has rarely failed in its Thayne ppenen Therefore, when the HgRatp so boldly foreshadows the nomination ot Mr. Conkling as the republican candidate for the Presi- deucy, the divination must be received with due re- spect, The Piedmont Virginian says:— The prospect for the democracy is not bright, A Conkling or evena Blaine administration would bea third term in a modified form, but modified in the right direction—t! toward relative purity and honesty— for never agai! our time can the rottenness of Grant be repeated, That wus the gathered corruption of long yeurs which bas been laid bare less by the lancet of investigation than, by the natural bursting of the ab- scess when fully ripe. Rid of these peccant humors the country is ob the road to health. We may be suro of that. ‘ In the course of an article on Presidential candidates the Syracuse Journal says:— Conkling has more positive strength than any other candidate. This is recognized by Iriend and toe alike. He is a statesman rather than a politic ; he ts recog- nized as tho ablest man in the Senate; his record is clean and he can be trusted, To quote the languago of one of the best and most experienced judges of men iu Washington, “Conkling has culture equal to Webster, and would havo his weight if the status of the Senate ‘was as low now ag in Webster’s time. Ho ig compara- ble to Clay or Calboun, or any other man of that rank,’’ WILLIAM C. BARRETT. HIS RECORD IN DUBLIN AS AN ATTORNEY THE QUESTION OF WNAME—NO ‘‘CARTER’ KNOWN OR RECORDED, Dunit, April 5, 1875, The law regulating the admission of persons to. prac« tice as attorneys in the Irish courts is not the samo now as it was forty or fifty yearsago. If any ono now desires to know the circumstances under which person was qualified and admitted an attorney ho need only to take himself to the offices of the *Incorpo- rated Societwof the Attorneys and Solicitors of Ire Jand,’’ who, since 1866, are chargea with looking after the preliminaries of admission. Things were different tn 1831, and for five and thirty years after. Then a young man was admitted to practice by each particular court, whose officer ho became in virtue of his admis- sion. Each court had its own separate ‘Roll, and unless one knew to which court an attorney belongoa it was impossible to ascertain anything about him, or, if he was guilty of misconduct, to make him amenabie. A search through the several “Lists” of the threo Superior Courts, which are in the custody of the Chicf Clerk of each court respectively showed that “W. C. Barrett’? was admitted an attorney in the Court of Exchequer, Dublin, on “May 20, 1881."7 The documents of that time—tive and forty years ago—are not kept in the offices of the Exchequcr Court, but in the Public Record office. A search there among the musty Ex- chequer records, wnich are stowed away in great open iron gallerses, upon lattice-work iron shelves for pur- poses of ventilation, exhumed two sets of documents connected with the history of W. C. Barrett. One was the great vellum “Roll of Oaths of Attorneys,” bear- ing the manuscript oaths taken by each person on his admission as an attorney by the Court of Exchequer, | with the respective autograph signatures. Under date of May 20, 1831, there appears tho following entry :— “IN OPEN COURT—WM. ©. BARRETT.” The other set of documents found among the Ex- chequer archives was the ‘fie of documents relating to the adinission of attorneys, in the Court of Ex- chequer for Easter Terin 1331.” Among thom was a packet of papers, ‘“‘grimed with the dust of years,” concerning ‘Willian Carter Barrett, gentleman,” and including five distinct documents, viz. :— Sa few years ago arranged a tariff providing that all city of Dublin, watlee unto this depot gent Fenttoman. was Donne PTY MOLTON. Pworn betore me this 1th day of May, Lil. GN CATHILEW: Secondary | The fifth was a certificate trom the proper revenue oficer that “Wilham Carter Barrett, gentleman, paid the legal duty- upon admission as an attorney. | Jt will be observed that he is always designated “William Carter Barrett," but that he signs himself, William v. Barrott.” to the afiidayit of mode of signature. hen no foundation for the saggestion that rrett’? may have dropped the final have been admitted under the name of “Carter.” It is clear that this was not 80, Moreover, ¢ the lists of attorneys of the Dubl 1820 and 1856, any one at all named further be stated Ubat there does not appear any wher inthe records the shghtest imputation ugainst the conduct of this “Witham C, Barrett,’? admitted ap ate torney on May 20, 1831, Finally, it is worth observing how his own statement of parentage, sworn in his affidavit of “Posting Notices" (C) gives exactly the same accountas has appeared in the Henao, THY BARRETT FAMILY, With respect to W. C. Barrett's uncles, brothers of his father, George C. Barrett, a search was made in the Fritish army list, It is not easy to find army ltsts of | the early years of this*contury; but permission was given to inspect those which are kept for record in the Lord Lieuteuant’s library, Dublin Castle, All the early lists record “William C. Barrett” as “surgeon in the Galway county (or Eleventh) regiment (militia),’’ his commission bearing date 1798, Of the other brother the following particulars can be found in the lists:— “John Carter Barrett, Ensign: (commission dated 20th July, 1809) in the Fifty-sccond (or the Oxfordshire) regiment of tout (reguiars).’? Lieutenant in the same regiment 9th May, 1811. He served at Waterloo, and received the Waterloo medal, On May 13, 1824, he | was transferred to the Ninety-etghth regiment of foot, On June 24, 1827, he was placed on half pay, and next day promoted to the rank of Captain inthearmy. Any one acquainted with the British army -knows how im- possible it would have been for an officer—and here there were two brothers—to remain for 80 many years in the service under @ [alse name, or to make any in his name without the sanction of the Horse certainly would not be given unless for Is If ANOTHER RING? AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS SAY OF COURSE IT 18, BUT GERMAN IMPORTERS DENY-—A STORY OF THE ALLEGED UNDERVALUATION OF IM- PORTED CORSETS. For about six years, it is alloged, thor has existed ‘acorrupt combination among manufacturers in Ger, many of woven corsets and certain German importers in this city who deal in those articles. It is charged that Atmcrican houses are upable to purchase any of the products of the German nouses, which are located at Wartemberg, Cronstadt, Stuttgart and Gottingen, ahd other manufacturing centres, and import them to this country, for the simple reason that tho manufacturers refuso to fill orders excopt through | their American branch houses or agents, who, it is be, lieved, are generally partners in the manufactories. It fe declared that if the goods were sold indiscrim. inately to American buyers m Germany no combina- tion could exist—that there would be no reason for Its existence, as its only purpose ts to deprive tho United States of the revenue justly due them under the law from imported goods) The theory of tho morchants who are unable to compete with tho alleged combina-” ton is that the Gerinan houses, relying upon the tm- possibility of our Customs authorities obtaining proot ota FOREIGN VALUATION OF TIR GooDs havo systematically undervalued their exportations to tho American market. To check this system of in- voicing high priced goods at low values, which, it is claimed, has driven out of the corset trade some of the largest and wealthiest houses in this city, Congress goods below the cost of $6 shall pay a specific tariff of $2, and those above the cost of $6 thirty-tive per cent ad valorem. The alleged facts as to a combination of German manutacturers and New York importers were, a few weeks ago, brought to the attention of District Attorney Bliss and Collector Arthur, and inquirtes were” msti- titted by them to determine whether these German houses were sending im their goods at unduly low | valuations. The fact that corsets which are sold hero at from $12 to $16 50 por dozen were in some instances fnvoiced at less than $6, and that others, selling here | for trom $20 to $32 per dozen, were invoiced at less than $12 per dozen, excited the suspicion of the Cus- | toms authorities, and, in consequence, during the past | four weeks several large invoices of corsets cousigned to German bouses in this city have been detained for reappraisement. The authorities have had great difi- culty in ascertaining the i REAL VALUK OY THE ARTICLES. Tn.thia dilemma.they called in experts ong: in the trade to estimate values. Among these geutiomen wero Measrs, Sergeant and Fenton, of A. T. Stowart’s; George C, Batcheller, of Thomson, Lang & Co., and Mears. Lyall and Burkett, of the United States Corset Gompany, in West Twenty-third street, The values | placed upon the goods by those gentlemen differed somewhat, but all ig or that they wero invoiced be- Jow the real valge, To-day General Appraiser Ketcham will call in appraisers to fix the values of the goods tm- ported by three of the German houses, Ifthe ap- praisement be raised on this examination it will rest with the government officers to condemn the goods or release (hem on the payment of the duties in accord- ance with the tncreased valuations. District Attorney Bliss is understood to have de- clared that he will detain for reappraisement all corsets enterifg tho port, no matter who they belong to; and | it is likely that with a view of preventing any trrogu- Jarities in the future on a great bill he sent by the government to Germany to fix a valuation on all goods of this class manufactured for the American trade, un- Joss vaiues can be settled here, The rter called upon Messrs. Sergeant and Fenton, The former, who ty at the bead of the whole- gale notion department of A. T. Stewart's establish. ment, stated that about the fall of the year We ‘went out to get the prices ot such goods ag they had been in the habit of importing from Europe. He got from _ several | agents of importers their prices, which showed thathe | could buy corsets cheaper from them than he could ; import. In some instances these agents actually | offered to sell at prices which they admitted were below the market value. He was ordered by Mr. Libby to | appear before Mr. Mead, the examiner who passed these | importations, about the 1st of March. Mr, Fenton and | Mr. Batcheller were there as experis, as was also Mr, Lyall, of the United States Corset Company. They compared samples of their own goods with tho im- ried Gortnan article, and they estimated that thero | faa been a general UNPERVALUATION OF FORTY-THREE PER CENT of the German articles, while some brands were even more undervalued, There was every evidence of a corrupt combination, as aresuit of which their bouse | ‘A. T. Stewart's) was literally driven out of the mar- et. Mr. Fenton confirmed Mr. Sergeant's statements throughoul. Mr. Ketcham, of Mills & Gibbs, stated that he had beon invited to value the goods, but declined, as he did | not Wish to get thedll-wtil of parties in the trade, For | about six years four or fye firms, he said, bad bad a | monopoly of the American trace in these German | corsets, and American importers could only buy | through their agents. He expressed the beliet that | AL Petition to the Court pa his admission to practice as an attorney. This is indorsed:—~Petition of William Carter Barrett, gentleman,” and is a8 tollows: Tu. the Right Honorable ‘and Honorable the Chancellor Treasurer Lord Cuief Baron aud the ot the barunsof Court of Exchequer in tition of William Carter Barrett showeth :— petitioner w man, one of the atwrneys, for the term the profession of ingly served 4 | nti } term ol five years, trom cig \ thousand ei wenty- and diligently. Vetitioner, therefore, hopes this honura Court will admit him an attorney thereof, ‘May it therefore please your Lurdships to admit your pet! tioner, an attoruey‘of sh8 honorable Court, he havin wi uired by the jate act w! ion of the admienion of an attorney. will pray. WILLLAM CARTER BARRETT. We numbly certify that we have, pursunnt to the statute, inquired and examined into the nroFAls and qualifications of | the above William Carter Barrett, gentleman, and think ‘a propor person to become an attoraey of this honorable Court. his 16th day of May, 1891. i bo any 7 Of NO OWERT RERVE! Ww LONG, i We certify that wo have examined the before-named William Carter Barrett, geutleman, and think him a proper person to An Aitorney of this houvrable Court. Dated this loth day of May, be | J. PAKHAN, WILLIAM STEWART, t APTIDAYIT OF WILLIAM .C. BARRETT, GENTLEMAN, ¥@ EE: William Carter Barrett, ers eity of Dablin, gentleman, upward of iwenty-one years, maketh oath aad saith Virtue of Indentuses of Apprentice suned) i {3 ene Sworn before me thie 1ich da E| of Say . CATHREW, Secondary. OF Lee atle. jeorgs, Carter Barrett, of Deechrens fat it Bedinte Loughren, in the connty of Galfeay, Barrett, other ‘i in the of His Majesty's cor ig {rte eh, and Kienoanse waa Bolleltor of Tite Majesty’ | of Chancery in Ireland, do intend applying in tl anys after ioxt Easter Term to be admitted and sworn an at- ot the said Court of Exchequer, parsuant to the “Hiedhivabas tara a ly . OF APH WILLIAM C. BARRETT. Kactty Excneqren.—William Carter Barrett, of theeity | ‘aged upward of sixteen sents, makein oath and deponent, on the 1th day of April last, . waithy chia euch true copy of the above recited: wy . ro. Te te ce hie peal | D.} . ff arniparrt of stn, out0x. 40 nom. c. RANREFY suRvED Equrry Excuxaven,— lin, gentieman, one of dhe at Whe 164s dar of June, 1600, spear oe weit of sald | | Providence, to destroy the trade of the im- | porters and force the domestic manufactures | upon the market. Several declared it as tweir ‘ur. | belief that the government has no case and that thy ex- | | invoiced prices, adding five per cent as commission. there were some irregularities, but he declined to par- teularize firms or the manner of conducting the busi- ness SO as to cut of open competition. Mr. Batehetiet, of Thomson, Lang & Co., admitted | that ire had, been called in and had fixed values, but he declined to state What his experiences were until after | bis further examination on Mond: The reporter calied upon members of allthe FIRMB ALLEGED TO NE IMPLICATED in these undervaluations, and all of them most em- | pbatically deciared that the goods were not under- invoteed. All agreed in the expresston of the opinion that it is a conspiracy on the part of some one tnicr- ested in three American corset manufactories, two of which are in this city, and the other in amination to-day will resalt in their complete vindica- tion trom the tmpatation of attempting to defraud the government by invoicing their goods at a low rate, une firm that they and two other houses had written a letter to the District Attorney guaranteeing | to fill orders for any number ot German corsets at the DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLISS’ STATEMENT. District Attorney Biiss jed to the reporter that ail the part he had ip the matter was simply this:——I¢ was represented to him by several merchants that woven corsets Were being imported much below their real valaation, and that an examination would estab- “turf track at Cambridge, | whether a series of gi | sion. fish that fnet, communicated with the Collector and requested him on the arrival ot hextimportation | to nouly him, Tue Collector a tew days later informed | him of the entry of a jarge invoice for one of the corset importing firms, and be at once ordered the corsots to the pablic stores for examination and aj pruisement, fe then secured specimens of the = and had the experts value them. The resuit convinced him that sume of the brands were greatly undervalued, Here his connection with the case ended for the pres- ent, as tho examination to be made to-day is ander the auspic@s of the custome authorities. | TESTING A NOVEL BOILER. A test was made on Saturday, at No, 247 West Forty- seventh street, of a new and decidedly novel steam vorler, This is callod the Pierce rotary tubular boiler. 1; is 6 feet long and 4 in diameter, and has 18 four-inch tubes and 18 threg and a half-inch tuber running lengthwise throagh it, It revolves over the Oro on two trunotons, whieh turn on friction rojlers. The water is injected through a pipe running through one tr and (he steam comes out through a similar pipe other trungion, The boiler is kept revolving al trus has all ity surface continually presented ‘There are a series of iron buckets inside the boiler and half surrounding the tubes, which carry much of Cpt AX the revolutions and scauier over the surface of the boiler. way the boiler, not ‘ie dimioutive ha Wed made to produce sufficient » ran a ninety. power engine. Of coutse but very litie fuel is com SHEET. ATHLETICS. “NEW TRACK TO BE LAID OUT AT SABATOGA FOR THE COLLEGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION—THE GROUND, ITS LOCATION AND ADVANTAGES PROBABILITY OF INVITING BRITISH AMATEURS TO COMYETE. ¢ SaRaToca Srxixcs, April 11, 1876. Two members of the Committee on Athletic Sports of the Intescollegiate Athletic Association visited Saratoga yesterday to make arrangements for the next summer meeting, which will oceur on the day follow. ing the boat race. The two committeemen, Messrs, G. Creighton Webb, of Yale, and G W. Groen, of Harvard, | were received by the delegates of the Saratoga Associa. tion, Messrs, Eustico and Wright, and taking @ carriage went on a tour of inspection to the spots selected as Most suitable for the preparation of A REGULAR ATHLETIC TRACK. It was decided to lay a quarter mile course on the | lot bordered by the railroad track and Ballston ave- nue atits junction with New street, The field i level one; its situation is in every way adapted to the Purpose, and, as it is within ten minutes’ walk of Congress Hall, it will be far more convenient for both Spectators and contestants than the Glea Mitchell, course, In the next fleld there is a large yrove 0 © pines, which will de a delightful spot for the men who train near by to lounge in after tho daily spia. The track will be a quarter mile one, laid with ashes, and Provably arranged In au oval, like the track of the ndon ic Club at Liihe Bridge and the famous Englund. ACCOMMODATIONS, It is propased to build a grand stand for spectators on tho h.mestreteb, with dressing rooms underveath it for the athictes, The tield is such a level one that the men can be watehed all the way around, and in the walking races especially, where there has always been trouble in keeping a strict lookout for the feat of the coniestants, there will on this track be no difficulty, All the sprint races will Le rua on the ash path, except the 120 yards hurdle race, This will bo run on a grass “crease” prepared with sod.in the middio of the oval. Besides the dressing rooms there will be a tent put up forthe mento restm, The driveway trom the road will lead directly up to the grand stand, which will be built facing away from the sun. INVITE THE BRITISHERS, Several colleges are in favor of acting on the Henauv’s suggestion in inviting the English amateurs to take part, If this be done there cari be tittle doubt of making the next meeting a grand success, NAL GAME, The baso ball season of 1876 bas practically opened, and again the up of the foul ball ts heard in the land, Already the amateurs and professionals of the East and West lave begun to air their uniforms and select their bats to be used during what promises to be the busiest buse ball season on record. On Saturday last no little life (and rustiness) was exhibited by the ball players of this vicinty at Prospect Park and the Capi- toline grounds, Brooklyn; the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, and at Melrose, The professionals generally took advantage of last week's fino weather to prac- Use on the amateur nines in their respective’ neighborhoods, The Mutuals, of Brooklyn, have been engaging in contests with tho best amateurs of that city, and havo been showing some very heavy batting and good fielding. The ovent of the week was the easy manner in which they de- feaied the Arlington nino, of this city, on Thursday. ‘The Arlingtons have procured a team remarkablo in Playing strength, and the fact of the Mutuals beating them by a score of 33 to 8 has excited universal sur- prise among the fraternity.. The’ Brooklyn protes- sional clnd hus already displayed somo fine play, and they should stand high on the record of the League clubs at the end of the season, The Hartiords have displayed their powers against the Trinity College nine, and, although on one occa- sion last week they loaned the college boys Cummings ‘and Harbridge to pitch and catch, they scored an easy victory. The Bostons and New. Havens played two games last week, one inthe bome city of each club, andthe Bostuns won both. The Athletic, St. Louts, Chicago, Cincinnatt and Lonisvilte clubs, also, have been at work, aud some admirable play, considering the early season, has been exhibit Al. Reach has resigned the position of manager ot the Athletic Cinb, of Philadelphia, and Al, Wright has deen elected in his st Ata meeting of.the Athletics, held in the early par’ st week, the question as to més should be arranged with the Puiladeiphias came up and created a stormy discus- It was decided, however, to not participate in any game with that club, ‘The most iteresting games that will be played in this vicinity during the present year will be those ve- tween the amateur Arlington and Chelsea clubs, the former representing this city and the latter Brooklyn. jubs hus a gironger nine than ever pro- THE NATION Fe other, n they play the public can rely upon each side doing its best to win, and as cither nine is composed of really first class players interesting contests may be anticipated, For the benetit of lovers of the national game, when playod honestly, these clubs should mak: Special arrangement whereb Of at least five games instea GRXCO-ROMAN WRESTLING. of the customary three, Articles of agreement have been drawn up and signed between Wiillam J. Austin and Harry Howard | for a Greco-Roman wrestling match, best three in tive, for $250 a side (play or pay) and the light weight cham- ptonship of America. Fifty dollars w side as forfeit Money were placed in the hands of Mr. R. A. neil, who Was mutually agreed upon as stakeholder. The remainder of the stakes is to be deposited on Wednes. day, April 26, Neither man is to scale over 140 pounds The match will take place on Saturday, April | 29, at any hall in this city. THE , BICYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP. Mr. Stanton, the English bicycle champion, will ride filty miles this evening against Mr. McClellan, the American champwn. ‘he contest will commence at seven o'clock P. M., in the American Institute build- ing, Sixty-third street and Third avenue. * The match is tor $700 and the championship.. Mr. Stanton has been riding daily in the Institute and the Park, ana ex- pects to make the distance in about three hours, YACHTING NOTE. Yacht Meta, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Isclin, from Now York, passed Heavy Whitestone Telegraph station yesterday en route tor Greenport, BOATING NOTES. The scason on the Harlem is now fairly open and the boys have begun their practice work, Mr. A. P. Loring, stroke of the Harvard eight-oared, will not be likely to row this summer, ‘The Argonauts, of Canada, intend to visit Philadel- phia next summer and row at the Centennial. The New York Rowing Club are néw in possession of their uew boathouse on the Harlem. The Avalostan and Potomac clube, of Washington, will caca have a ten-oared barge this season. It is likely that Faulkner and Regan, of Boston, will | | have a pair-oared race with Bigln and Plaisted. The Narragavsett Ciub, of Providence, leok forward to a very lively season and are preparing wecordingly. Fred Eldred, of the Argongutas, 1s spending a coapio of weeks at home. The Hariem Regatta Association is determined to make the apring regatta of '76 a success, The Excelsior Boat Club, of Detroit, has a member- ship of fifty-two and a cash account of yer $6,000, ‘dhe Stuck Exchange Rowing Club intend to have a six-oared gig built for the Harlem regatia, The midshipmen of the Naval Academy and tho Potomacs wili havo a mateh race this year, The monthly sculling races tor the junior and senior | championship of the Nauiilus Cluy commence uext | mont Josh Ward and his partner will give some of the crack pair cars @ chance to test their metal nest season. POLO AND GUN CLUBS. {From the London Post, April 3) ‘The shooting enclosure at Hurlingham will be opened for tne season on Wednesday and on Saturday the Guo Cinv will also commence proceedings, The Inter- national Gun and Polo Club will bave polo, shooting and polo pony races at Brighton on Enstor Monday and Tuesday, and at Cheitentiam on the Ist and 2d of May there will be polo and races with polo ponies, but no shooting. The Executive wii then proceed to Berlin x days’ polo and shooting meeting of Ming peraee ¢. methane Although the eat closed on the ch applica. ons continue wo be received. The s oF the layers which were forwarded to Berlin are expected every day and on theif arrival will be As there are four fuil inilitary teams entered a third ef the civilians can be \akea, BRITISH ARMY SPORTS, {From the London Post, April 4) A grand military athietic meeting will be held at Lithebridge the 9tn and 10th June next for the benefit of tho Royal Cambridge Asylum and the Sol- diers? Daughters’ Selfool at Hampstead. The moeting will be under the patronage of the Queen, and most probably of the I’rince and Princess of Wales. The therto received by the committee managing th of SSO T eke ste only about each is confident that it can defeat the | thorr series shall consist | published, | SHORETARY BRISTOW, | ——_-—___ Interview with the Distinguished Kentuekian at His Home in Louisville, —_—_-—_—_. HIS REPORTED RESIGNATION DENIED, The Alleged Meeting With Politicians in Cincinnati: a Canard, A SOUTHERN EDITOR ON THE SOUTH, Forcible Opinions on the Presidential Question Forcbly Expressed, \ engine! \ Loursviiag, Ky., April 14, 1876. i As the air of the West particularly has of late beet filled with raimors growing out of the tact of Seere- tary Bristow's visit to bis home Imthis city, the more prominent of which will be alludéd to in the sequel, your reporter sought the subject of them at the Galt House to-day, with a view of ascertaining their truthful- ness and of obtaming such information from the distine guished foo of the Whiskey Ring as he ight choose to impart concerning the important political questions of the hour, The HxraLp representative was ushered into a handsome private parlor on the second floor, where Mr, Bristow received him with that peculiarly brusque courtesy which characterizes tho famous Kontuckian, “T have called, Mr, Secretary,” said the reporter, to ask whether there ts any truth im the report thas you are going out of office ?”” ‘Tho Secretary smiled, ‘That is a little ambignous,’® he replied. “If you mean to inquire whether I have resigned’? —— “T have not.’’ “There is a report in Washington that you have.” “There are many reporters in Washington,” he ob. served, and then added:-—"Of course, a man can’t ex- pec hold office always, or Know precisely when he 1s going out; but I may say that I expect and hope to go out the 4th of next March.’ “Then your visit to Kentucky has no politleal sige nificance ?"" “E certainly thought it had not unty my arrival here, T thought I came to look after some private business; to pass a week among my own people and generally to get away from the turmoil of business and rest myself, I see by the papors, however, that there is a mystery, and that I have ulterior plans.” What about that Cincinnati conterence?”? “There was no conference,” “Did you not slay over in Cincinnatl, where you were met by Mr. Watterson, who, in company with Mr. Hale stead and Mr. Richard Smith, passed the evening with your” ‘The Secretary laughed, ‘Do they say that?” ho said. Being told that they did, he continued :— “There was a delay of two pours, which obliged me to lie over in Cincinnati. I saw nether Mr, Halstead nor Mr, Watterson, Since my arrival here Mr. Watter- son tells me that be was in Cmeinnati, in compan; with Mr. Haldeman, on private business. They | Cincinnati two hours before 1 got there,’ “Then tere ts no truth in,the rumor that the Couriers Journal is going to come out for Bristow ?’” “{ do not know what the Courier-Journal is goif’g to do, but I think it pretty sate to say that it isn’t for Bristow. Ithas declared that it 1s not over and over It is a democratic paper, pledged to support tho nis nominee, While [ atm tadebted to it for consideration and friendly treatment, that is, when FT have been assailed in my. private character, it has not *hastenod to believe mo a thief in advance of the proof, | but has diseredited charges against me; this ts to b¢ | get down to its fairness, and to the {ack that Mr, Watterson and Mr. Haldeman are my neighbors, who know me, and could not be induced to lie about me;"? “Then ail th are false t’” “Absolutely s Mr. Bristow spoke pleasantly apon general topics, but was reticent as to the Presidential question, He betrayed no anxiety or uneasiness, seeming to think | slightingly of the movement in his favor, AT THR COURIER-JOURXAL OFFICE. Failing to get_ anything more of interest from him, your reporter repaired to the Courier-Journal build ing, Where be found Mr. Haldeman bard at work in the counting room, In answer to a question about tho cinnati conference Mr, Haldeman said:— yh, don’t bother me about any such foolishness, > and see Mr. Watterson, He’ ll tell you all you want 0 know,"” The reporter found Mr. Watterson in his room, or these are a suite the handsomest in the lugs arched and frescoed; gorgeous chande- hers; rich panels, carpets and bronzes, reminding ove h salon instead of an editorial office, Being od as to the points above mentioned Sr, corroborated with emphasis what Mr. Bris- ud, observing that the whole story was “a e, made out of whole but dirty cloth.’ “Is there no contingency under which th Journal would support Mr. Bristow?” | porter. [ "sNone,” replied Mr, Watterson, “that 1 can cone | ' ceive. If Bristow is honest, and if we are honest, how can we come together? He 1s treme radical re publican by couviction, The Courier-Journal ts and always has been doefrinaire, bard money, home rule, {ree trade paper. Mr. Haldeman is very fond of Bristow, admires and respects him, { do not know him so well, but I kuow him well enough to appreciate his maptiness, integrity, courage and candor. 1 don’t | nesttaté to ase such expressions in writtag about bimy and | THR DRIVELLING IDIOTS | take these for concessions of opinion, when, in | Teahty, Bristow and I scarcely agree upon a single | political idea. My notion is that neither of us are | thieves, and that 1s one bond of good will, He is the | only honest republican, and I am the one democrat | who is not affaid to talk out in meeun’. That 1s the | whole of it. Weare gomg to publish a life of Bristow | in afew days—a good old, whacking, high pressure, | radical life.” That will eet the poor fools bowling again, ‘The publication will sow conclusively why we cannot | Support Bristow. But such bial ites a4 BickBam | and such adventurers as the Cincinnatt Enquirer will let themselves to lustily, followed by Tray, Blancha and Sweetheart in the rural districts. That ie the | penalty a man pays for doing as be pleases and decline | Ing to consult other people in the management of hig | own business.” “Who is the South for as @ Presidential candidate?" “For nobody, Tho South bas been so misled and demoralized the last ten years that the people know | not where to go or what to think or how todo, They / have beon—these poor Southern people— { THK PREY OF THE POLITICIANS, Tho Sonth is nothing if not sentimental, and, banking upon this, the Bourbons of both parties have done a | thriving business. Unfortunately for the South, the | public men of its choice have steadily spat agains! he | wind, fan | the Spanish prot th in every Instance, | When a man lke Lamar or Gordon or Ransom hag appeared, the people h But for ove Lamar there are a dozen Nasbys, who, ia the absence of some one to meet and expose them, hava easily carried the crossroads. So no one can tell what vent the middlemen, the mercenaries and the ————« | may give the South.’? | TILDEN'S CHASCES. | | ‘What are eee Teen te ha re ghte they ought to le }@ repre. 4 of the only rule of theory or practice by which the South can get on its feet —administra- | tive reform. He is, besides, an old line Jeffersonian | democrat and strict constructionist, who should be a | favorite even with the Bourbons, But there ts least conviction where there is most asseveration and ox- | action, Tilden is nota gushy, mushy drivel He ta | too able, upright and dry fot the professional bummer | with the rated shirt and the ‘be gads’ah!’ He js a | New Yorker, and the fools think they can get on with+ | out New York.” | _ “Do you think, if nominated, he could be elected?" } “Tthink he could beat any republican except Bris- tow, and I think he is the only democrat who coulé give Bristow a race.’ | “Then you are for Tilden?” “Lam, without reserve. Bat, being no politician ot partisan, | only express a belief that he is the man to | win with, both asa matter of prmeciple and expedi- ency. The election or rejection of a mau is of the | slightest personal concern to me. Individually, [ can- bot prof, ys! the nomination of any man, Mr, Haldos man and I have a large business here; we have im- curred mutual debts, we are mt upon each other, and the rise and fall of mem and parties outside of our business cannot affect as, Neither ot us wane office or patronage or would of could acceptit. It is our purpose always to pursue a straightforward course, | regurdicss of consequences, and im this spirit we have e right often in the faco of wor, bas I vindication and vievory. Tho West fe ocrats, and might a8 well bo sbandonels hope isin the East, the Pacific States the South, | leit to mg io vase made way, itn by the ; nb ove ef itatsiond ? ‘Uh, 1 any v am sured ‘don With wi which was interrupted on 4 reporter. | did the job in Ohio i | tadiae The little there bout Bowles placidly to hina im Rcvig AC “a