The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1876, Page 8

“GONG 10 THR WAR | March of the Main Detachment of Crook’s Expedition. pling Th a8 THE RENDEZVOUS AT FORT FETTERMAN. Glimpses ye Watchful dians on the Way. In- Description of a Country Little Described Heretofore. eee SAVAGERY IRREPRESSIBLE, Delay of the Force in Starting for the Stinking Water. Font Futranmas, May 27, 1876 The men of the Territories and ultra-Missourt States look upon the Indian, as he now exists on the plains of Dakotab ard Wyoming, as human only in his strictly physical traits of form, anatomy and phystology. It is impossible, after having some experience of frontier Nfe, not to join, partialty at least, in this belief, WESTERN IPLUS, “People who have not personally become acquainted With the Sioux, Arapahoe or Cheyenne races,” was said to me yesterday, ‘may be amused by romances setting forth the nobility of the red man as ho appears im the classic literature of the past 300 years, but they Dave very dim ideas of the animal in his real state, In | his bodily —tnstinots he 18 devoted to | sensual satiety, and in his mental to ven- geance, treachery and murder, Long antagonism to the pale faces, traditionary hatred imparted from generation to generation through his very blood, echoed in the monotonous crooning of his nursing mother, the refrain of the rude revelry of bis tribe, tho spirit of their war dances, their wails tor the dead, all embittered by dependency upon the government for food dealt to him as to cattle, have wade the chief Impulse within him that which prompts him to torture, mutilate and butcher the enemy of bis existence. He | has become a fiend. The mouid of man Is ONLY A DISGUISE ‘His wrongs have turned the quiescent devil, which sombre fanatics say is incarnate in all humankind at birth, into a spirit of active malevolence, never soft | ened by generosity. The little of divine that clings to toan in the smal'est remnant of his shattered soul prompts him to impationce of mero jastice. He 1s an entity in human form outside the palo of ethic law. Vengeance being his creed, a process of extermination to be enforced so long as he remains unsubjected would De justifiabie.”” : SCARED BLACK MILLERS: Tho view of the situation on this frontier just repro- | uch of the public sentiment. The | , however, in my opinion, is exag- | duced illustrates u terror of the Siow gerated. 1t is noticeable that those who express it most strovgly are those “honest” miners who have been most eager to invade the Black Hills. They are returning to civilization in swarms, panic stricken by the crack of Indian rifles and dis- gusted with fortune. On the road from Cheyenne to this point I met dejected looking — parties who answered inquiries with noariy unanimous frankness. ‘They repeated the glory of the fight on In- dian Creek and the murders in the Black Hills, which has been already published. When asked, “Did you find any gold?’ the reply usnally was of the purport, “ butadarned sight too many Indians.” They reported another chief killed at Indian Creek, named Featberhwad. “TENDER FRKT,"? Some satirical ‘boy in blue’? in repartee applied to them the contemptuous sobriquet which they had previotsly freely bestowed on Eastern men who have been attracted hither by the rumor of gold. “So You've turned tender-feet, ‘ave yo? Don’t like the Black ‘ills “swell’s ye did, do ye!” On the next day this taunt in a hundred different forms was flaug at the woe-begone pilgrims whom we met plodding along beside their halt empty wagons and wearied horses, They, however, accepted the fibes made at their expense with true Western com- Placency and laughed in turn. “Well, my man,’ saié the Colonel to a red-facod Yankeo, “is there any gold up yonder?” “There's gold there, sir, bat | don’t want any of it fist now,” be said, with a grin, ACTUAL GOLD pvst.* Si Ilva, a veteran ininer, exhibited to me two vials filled with gold dust and a bit of quartz containing small particies of the metal, visible to the naked eye, He said the situation of the settlements in the Black Hills is daily growing more serious and that an evacue ation must take place. There are « great many families there now, the women living im constant terror, and they look anxiously for protection trom the military, It is understood that Captain Egan will probably be mmployed in that service in or near the Hills. A WET DAY IN CAMP, As the column moved north rumors of glimpses of Indians met us atthe ranches. At the second camp Polonel Royall received an order trom General Crook thanging the route of the.detachment so that it would pross the Platte, now raging with the melted mountain snows and the spring deluge, over the now iron bridge tt Fort Laramie instead of at Fort Fetterman, where there would bo great danger of drowning soldiers tnd horses, Five companies, under command of Cot- one! Mills, of the Third cavalry, were overtaken at Hunton’s ranch, and the troops from Fort Russell were thus united in one column. A pitiless cold storm of rain kept us in camp aday, because of the consideration aue to the pack mules, whose backs, if they travelled in the wet, would bocome sore. T which rattled on the tents from the clouds echoed tho | gloomy symphouy of our thoughts as we Jay in Diankets ander canvas, with single minded as- pirations after comfort, The clouds toward evening tordsy thinned, however, and tho bobolinks, whose favorite home seems to bo tn this altitude, burst into eager song as thoy rose from the soaked sedge brush and executed winged acrodatic feats iu the air, tumbling and fluttering im very gl Instinetively knots of people gathered in the officers’ tonts where there were fires of cottonwood and socia- dility found tongue, The bandying of jests and the Sghirng over of the Iast campaign formed a savory melange for mental diversion. It can be said of the oflicers of this expedition that they are well aware of the task before them, and ato not likely to repeat the blunders of the winter cam- paign, if, indeed, there wero blunders, whieh i a question to be finaily determmed by the trial of Colonel Reynolds and Captain Moore, now under arrest. A full comprenension of their duiy seems to distinguish them, and it may be hoped that the aneatistectory fruits of the former expedition may lead to more substantial results Guring the sammer, through the experience guimed, Even if the ludians are not again menaced with an. Hihiiation, throwgh a fortunate surprise, It is not prov- able that they will be able to boast of another precip. tate withdrawal of their enemy, as this campaign has been more maturely planned and organized than the Previous one. BRGINNING OF THE MARCH, I wok my departure from Fort Russell on the 19th, ‘with the officers of the colamn moving to the muster Of the forces of the expadition at Fort Fetterman. The exodus of the troops from the post was made with music by the regimental band, and the ladies of the garrison waved their handserchiets in token of heart- soit wishes tor victory and safo return, Colouel Royall, Quartermaster Drew, Captains Wells and Sartorius and Lveutenant Lemisy were the principal officers with the command. Tho first encampment wae made on | Lodge Pole Creek after a march of eighteon miles, | with wagons and tcams, confirmed the preceded from tho north. « party of Black Hii stopped there for the night, and gloomy = impression whieh had ail the wows we had heard from Ba the «berrcom of the sauch was the edor | Companies A, B, R wud J, of she Second cavalry, and | Jeaves « wile and gino | his Dakota mother, turned | toward the white men who accosted persistent dropping | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 18 or frontier whiskey and tobaceo and the burden of conversation was the constant prediction of a prolonged war with the Sioux. Shaggy headed miners told over and over those tales of mutilation which the telegraph bas announced, and they lest no flavor of the horrible in the rude but forcible rhetoric of the plainsmen, They prophesied a desperate ex- perience for the soldiers, LOUIS RICHARDS. Louis Richards’ escort of four red men, relatives of sullen countenances them in their tepee on the bank of the Laramie River, near the post. To the greeting of “How, Cola?’ synonymous with “How do you do, friend?” they answered only with the guttural sy’ ie, “Ugh!" without the usual smile and {riendly emphasis, The Sioux hate Louis since bis part in the winter campaign of General Crook, They distrasigs him in the fall of 1875, when be interpreted to them the sayings of the white commissioners at the great council, with a paltry hundred soldiers at his back. But now they are yearning for his scalp, and i ts certain that only the sentiment of kinship and not one of friendliness tor the whites tmpelied his four dusky cousins to guard him safely to Fort Laramie. He brought with him the remnant of his herd of ponies and cows, bis squaws and children, and evidently bad bidden adieu to nisold home near the agency. His deep Indian stoicism permitted no betrayal of regret. His Statements confirmed the impression made by the moody gloom of his compauions, that the Sioux | emeute was to be a national one, and A DESPERATE STROKE for Mberty. According to him, when General Crook conferred with the chiefs on the White Earth River, Red Cloud, laying aside’ the deep diplomatic manner which has become bis second nature since his familiar- ity with the whites, sard:— The Gray Fox must understand that the Dakotas, and especially the Og-al-la-laa have many warriors, many guns and pont They are brave and ready to fight for their country. They are not afraid of the soldiers nor of their cliet. Many braves are ready to moet them. Every lodge will tend its young men, and they ail will say of the Great Father's dogs, “Lot them come!” Such 1s the expression of the chief whoso name in these latter days has been used as a synonym of savage docliity and friendsinp. Moc-pea-lu-tah has not ut- tered so bold a speech since 1868; and the memory of his implication in the frightful massacre near Fort Phil Kearny bad nearly died out of the minds of all save whe frontiersmen, who never forget the guilt of the Indian nor fail to striving to surpass 1t with their own, Tactturo and wily, even for an Indian, he bas dissem- died toward the government for six yeara True, he has complained of his food, of his ammunition and of the unscrupulous invasion of his country, and has sought to find, throngh the Great Father, the ear of justice, But tho current of his feeling bas run deeper than the mero shallows of discontent that the white man has thought to sound with bis hypocrisy. Long after the treaty of Fort Laramie, by which the government, with folly ever since condemned, aban- doned the chain ot military posts erected to protect the emigrant ruad to Oregon and Montana, Red Cloud, Red Dog, Red Face and the other warriors concerned in the death of Fettorman’s brave men showed out- ward satisfaction and good wiil, But the corruption and Infamy of agents, the pertidy and vacillating duplicity of government and the selfish and persistent encroachments of citizens havo graduaily changed the wisest spirits of the Sioux people, who before have al- ways counselled peac>, into BROODING GENII OF MALRVOLENCR. Their trust in the.paternity of the government has been converted into contempt for its professions and its power, The former have never been fulfilled; the lat- ter nevor adequately exerted. The/ relinquishment of forts Reno, Phil Kearny and C, F, Smith flattered their sense of prowess, and the failure to punish sub- sequent violations of the treaty bas ‘bolittled the army ana its officers in their oyes, Tho miscarriage of the winter campaign bas been to confirm them in their vainglory. They ascribe the hasty withdrawal of General Crook trom their country to fear instead of its real cause, the con- sumption of his supplies and the exhaustion of his troops and animals, Tho better and more prudent In- dians have, if constant rumor and report from the agencies aro to be believed, imbibed the mad and des- perate spirit of the Northern braves, Red Cioud is the type of the best of bis race, and it can be guessed, therefore, how widespread among them is the senti- mont betrayed in his half warning speech. THE TRUE CAUSE of the Sioux dificolty is the comprehension now fally matured in the minds of the Indians that all hope of continued existence as a race Is henceforth a chimera if they do not fight for their country, To them the white man ts devoid of the instiact of justice, and the oppression of his simpler brother appears unworthy and repug- nant. They believe that the white man denies them the right ot being, and with such a cause the Sioux will make the Jast great effort for the saivation of their race from the extermination which their fatefal prophecy has forecast, Only the old men of the tribes shrink from war, though they all, in spirit, favor a last trial of strength; and the young men aro impelled, as by an irresistiblo passion, to slay the whites, Tho majority of the Indians remaining at the agencies aro too old to fight or hant, and thetr support by the gov- ernment is an advantage to their brethren on the war- path, who even leave their wives, mothers and children under the protection of the agents while they go forth to battle against the government, THE ORGANIZATION. The following is the general ordor to be tesued to- morrow appertaining to the organizatton of the expe- dition :— Hxanquawters Big Mone axp) Yentowstoxe Exrenition, Font Ferrenwan, Wy. T., May 28, 1896, § HNERAL ORDERS NO rganization of th watone expeditio VW. B. Royall, cavalry battalion: ¢ Chamber roops composing ed cavalry, will . Fourth infantry, will com- alion. Major A. W. Evans Third cavalry, will command the battalion composed of companies of the Third cavalry, re porting to Lieutenant Royall, TV. Captain He BLN econd cavalry, will command the Battalion composed af, companies of the Second Fepnas, to Lieutenant Colonel Royall, Y, The following named officers compose tho expedition stait:— H, Nickerson, Twenty-third infantry, aldede- M, Rand Captain W. Stanton, corps of eng! Captain Furey, assistant) qua master; First Lieutenant J. W, iubt Ing commissary of subsistence ; Ase Hartwuff, medical director. ‘ Brigadier Genoral eomn THB EXPRDITION. Tho general staf of the expedition ts as follows:— Brigadier General George Crook ia command; Captain A. I Nickerson, of the Twenty third infantry regi tJ, G Rourke, ef the Third ‘aptain Jobn V. Fuhry, quarter. Randall, of the Twenty- ing expedition, ment, and alry, aides. ic-camp; ster; Captain George M. nm third infariry, euief of scouts; Dr, Albert Harteut, chief surgeon; Captain William @, Stanton, chief engineer, and Colonel W. BR. Royall, of the Third cavalry, —exeentivo commandant of the troops Tom Moore is chief packer and Captain Charies Russel! ehtef of transpor- tation, Colonel Royait’s staff consists of Ltentenant H.R. Lemley, of the Third cavalry, adjutant, and Lieutenant @, A. Drow, qnartern THE FORCRS Major A. W. Evans, of the Third cavalry, has charge of the troops going from Medicine Bow to Fort Fetter. man, There the variwts bodies concentrate. The expedition, when leaving Fort Fetterman, will be con- stituted of the followlng companies ~~ A, Third cavalry, Lieutenant Lawson commanding, B, Taird cavairy, Captain Mienhold, , Third cayairy, Captain Van Viret, Captain Henry. y, Captain Sartorius, wentenant Reynolds Lieutenant Crawford, 1, Third cavairy, Lientenant ¥room. I; Third cavairy, Captain Andrews, M, Third cavalry, Captain Mills, A, Second cavairy, Captain Dewees, icy, Captain Noyes. , Lientonant swigert plain Wells, The subaiteras serving in the cavalry column will bo Lieutenants Libby, Morton, Paul, Schwatke, Simpson, Von Lurdwits, Foster, Chase, Huntington, O° Brn Pierson and Kingsbury, ‘Tho infantry will consist of compames C,H and G of the Ninth regiment, and two companies of the Fourth, commanded respectively by Captains Manson end Burrows, Burt, Coats and Luba, with Liettonants Delaney, Capron, Carpenter, Robertson and Rob} inson, This portion of the force will probably be employed during the campaign in guarding the sup- plies and wagons at a permanont base, to be selected near Fort Phil Kearney or Fort Rena Ail the force under General Crook will number about 1,100 men. or. | quarter past eight battali companies A, D, E, F and M, of the Third, wore in the former expedition. MUNITIONS OF WAR, There are five pack trains, containing altogether 320 mules, and carrying 64,000 pounds of forage, rations and ammunition. The wagon train contains 100 wagons, and is Joaded with 850,000 pounds, ~ THE EXHIBITION, THE CHAOS OF THE WORLD'S FAIR ASSUMING YORM AND UORDER-—DESCRIPTION OF THE TUNISIAN CAFE—ATTRACTIONS FOR BAT- URDAY—PRESIDENT HAWLEY'S | RECEPTION THIS EVENING. Puraperrnta, June 8, 1876. A most noticeable feature of the attendance at the Centennial grounds to-day was the largely increased Proportion of visitors from a distance, many of these being the friends and families of members of the sev- eral organizations receatly in convention in this city, Of those who come vo Philadelphia as delegates to a re- union, whether of a bustness or social nature, very few come entirely alone, and fewer still return home immodiately after adjournment; for even where visitors have been wrongly Impressed by false statements con- cerning the magnificent enterprise, they soon learn of the error into which they have been led, gnd nothing but the most immediate necessity can call them away from the city belore at least a few days have becn spent amid the splendid display made by two conti- nents, While the attendance is much increased by these causes it 18 the after effect which ts really the Most !mportant. The glowing accounts carried to their friends and acquaintances at home will bring bere thousands and tens of thousands who might other- wise halt between two opivions until the cloge of the Exhibition, The number of our own citizens who took advantage of the delignttul weather to make another visit to the grounds war also large, but when compared with the throngs of strangers present tho Philadelphians were. m a decided minority, To- morrow and Saturday this ratio will probably be reversed, as tho last two days of the- week are favorites with tho residonts of tho Quaker City, and are, of course, the ¢ which persons from the country find the most conveutent for a homeward journey, The alwost numberless departinents, ba- Teans and subdivisions into which tt was found neces- sary to divide such an unparalleled undertaking are rapidly becomiug more familiar with the doties of their co-workers, and now that the number!ess labor- ers in the mighty enterprise begin to fully realize wher corelation they have become more like, the parts of some grand whole than the separate and distinct units which formerly created so much ipconventence, This change is a gratifying one, and from now onward tho multitudinous details of the Exhibition will probably arrange themeelves one within the other like the cog- wheels of some gigantic triumph of méchanism, THE TCNISIANS. North of the western end of Machinery Hailare com- ,Ploted two curious structures, to be used as a Tunivian cofé and bazaar, The larger building, octagonal in stiape and cappea by an eight-panelled and much elon- is moat fancifuily ornamented with odd designs, panelled in red, blue and black, and relieved with numberless intersecting burs of green and gold On the blick pannels beneath the win- dows appears the inscription, ‘Tunisoe’s Coffee,” and above and = below these are yellow stars, crescents and open hands with the paims out- ward, None of the Tunisians in attendance can speak English with sufficient fluency to make themselves more than pariully understood; but one intelligent and imposing looking personage in a white turban, be- spangled gown and flowing (rowsers, stated that ina few days the café would be opened, when, in addition to the iragrant beverage as prepared by the Tunisians, visitors would be entertained with Arabian music, dancing and feats of legerdemain, Though the win- dows of. the building look rather contracted for warm weather, the doors are high and wide, and the roof is so a as. to keep up a continual circulation of air, The bazaar, a much sinaller structure, consists chiefly of one thin wall aud aroof supported on the remaining sider by slender columns. A high counter runs around the inside of tho structure, and upon this an erverprising Arab has been engaged in arranging in the most attractive manner an endless number and variety of knicknacks, some being of actual utfiity, others of great beauty but of no pos- sible use, while others possessed only the uncertain yalue of being strange and outlandist. Tho bazaar, Ike the café, is painted in bright colors and adorned with gorgoously tinted designs of hitherto unthought of patterns. With the Turkish @ little distance to the south, and the Syrian waar im full op- eration near at hand,'the colleetion ot Oriental cos- tumes, curiosities and people in this part of the grounds will doubtless prove exceptionally attractive, CENTRNSIAL President Hawley, of the Centennial Commission, will give areception to-morrow evening in she mai hall of the Judges’ Pavillion, for which a large number of invitations have been iseued, the object being to facilitate the work of the group juries of award pW cag moting social intercourse between the. judges, and be- ony them and others holding official relations to them. ‘The project of holding a series of international Con- gtesses under the auspices of the Centennial Mahaxe- ment has been virtually abandoned, action upon the subject having been so long deferred as to be regarded by its projectors as now impracticable, For Machinery Hall, on Saturday, among other al ns advertised are the following : periormance by Professor Box- performance in the hydranlic annex ya Mr. Merriman in the life-saving dress used by Captatu Boyton in his famous Channel trip; the cata- ract in full operation between stx snd half-past seven o'clock, and the running of the machinery and lighting of the burlding after five o’clock for the first time, Two immense cheeses, made in Buflalo, N. Y., one of twelve and another of fourteen tons weight, have been built o1 daring the entire Exhibition. They are ten or twelve feet high and are bound with tron hoops one iach thick. The admissions for Wednesday were as follows: Compiimentary, exhibitors, &c.....,. 13,875 Cash.. ++ 31,673 Total......0+ In Agricultaral Hall the steam engines have’ been started and power will probably be applied to-morrow to the agricultural machines, such as mowers, reapers, ihreshing machines, straw cutters, feed cutters, corn milis, fans, &e., for ‘tho purpose of showing their me- chanical action when in use Two solid silver bowls, valued at $100 cach, will _be xiven by the Phiadelphia Sporting Club as priaes for the best setter dog of any breed over ove year old, and for the best poinier dog of any woizlt over one year old in the dog how. ‘Two plates of “Boyton No. 30" rre among the straw- | verry oxhibits in Agricultaral Hall. ‘hoy are of tm- mense size, the largest being four and a halt inches in circumference. The students of the Massachusetts Inatitute of Teche nology will arrive in thi city this morning at seven o'clock, and will eneamp ea the grounds of the Univer. sity of Penneyivania, where 180 tents fave been pitched. ‘The first, three days will be devoted to gem- eral observation of the Exhibition, Then the pupils, under the direction of the facuity of the anstituner will devote ther time to research in branches, Professors Ordway and Richards the investigations Protessor Win irecting mining (civil and mechanical); on chemistry, Protessor Ware on architecture, essors Aikinson and Howison on seienco and literature. A code of resolutions has been adopted calculated to enforce strict arn nine o’e sek guard mounting. ch will be part wnd diver at Massactsetts institute, are now here, and the encam ment is ander the immediate charge ‘of Lieutenant L. Zalinski. DELIBERATE MURDER. A GUNSMITI BHOOTS A COMPANION THROUGH THE HRAD FOR PULLING H18 COAT, Ricnwosp, Va., Juno 7, 1876, To-night, Just before nive o’elock, on Main street, James Faherty, a gonsmith, shot and instantly killed & young man named Charjes Childs, a machinist, Childs stopped work about six o'clock this evening and started up town. On the way he took sever drinks. About eight o'clock be met with Faherty somewhere in the neighborhood of Locust alley. James Gibhin, the proprietor of a saloon at No, 1,426 Main street, saw the two coming down Locust alley, when, upon reaching Matn street, they stopped and entered into conversation. In a few moments he heara Faberty charge Childs with “palling bis coaw this remark Childs turned away and direction of Giblin’s door. Faberty the street, bat after goiby a few steps turned back, re- marking at the samo time to Childs, “You pulled my coat,” Childs turned about as if to reply, when horty Grew a pistol and fired. Childs felt dead on the pavement. Fuberty was arrested and conveyed to tho First precinct stanion bonse, The Coroner, upou examination, ascertained that the ball had entered the forehead jnst above the left eye and lodged in the brown. Faherty is said to be a desperate character, He attempted somo years to take the life of a feliow workman in Peversburg, Vac THE RAIL Mr. Michacl O'Conner, who, tn attempting to leave a train while it was im motion at the Richmond Hill sta- tion of the Southern Railroad, on Wednesday evenit fell under the wheels and bad both legs cut off, @ early yester morning trom shock and the exuaus- high bridge crossing of the Long Island childrea, platforor cars, upon which they will be kept | . AND A. M. YESTERDAY'S SESSION OF THE GRAND LODGE— ELECTION OF GRAND OFFICERS. The Grand Lodge of the Siate of New York reassem- bled at nine o’clock, Grand Master Thorne in the east, The minutes of the sessions of Wednesday were read and approve 4, ‘The Master of Lafayette Lodge was on motion added to the Committee on unveiling the statue of General Lafayette in Central Park, The Finance Committee presented their report making appropriations for the next year, including $2,000 to the Board of Relief of New York, $1,000 to Brooklyn, W. D.; $800 to Brooklyn, E. D.; $800 to Buffato, $400 t0 Albany, $150 to Lockport, $200 to Troy, $3,500 satary to the Grand Secretary, $600 to the Grand Treasurer, $1,500 to the Clerk to the Graud Secretary, $200 salary to the Grand Pursuivant and Grand Tiler, each; $1,500 salary to the Grapd Lecturer avd $400 tor his travelling expenses. The Committee reported that it was not expedient to change the rate of taxation for subordinate lodges. The report of the Finance Committee was laid over. The hour set apart for the election of Grand Officers having arrived, the Grand Lodge was cleared of all but members and representatives of otber grand bodies, and the Grand Masters appointed as tellers RW, Henry D. Walker, W. Broa. James Ten Eyk and T. G. smth, M. Isaac Phillips pominated for the office oc! Grand Muster R. W. Deputy Grand Master James W. Husted, who, he said, nad ever been a zealous Mason, a good olficer and'abovo alla true man. This nomination was seconded by several prominent brethren, and there being no opposition Mr. Husted was unanimonsly elected Grand ter of Masons of the State of New York for the ensuing year. On being officially informed of his election Mr. Husted ad- aressed the Grand Lodge. He said he bad held offices which any man might be proud of, but no election ever gave him more pleasure than this, Then thanking them for the honor he said he for one thought tpat hereafter one year's service as Grand Master will eafice for any man. " The Committee on Work and Lectures reported that they approved of the Grand Lecturer’s work and rec: ommended that be remain in the district in which hi lectures two days 80 28 to be better enabled to give instructions. The recommendation was agreed to by the Grand Lodge, After a recess the Grand Lodge reaxsembled shortly afier threo o’ciock, and R. W. Joseph J. Coueb was elected R, W. Deputy Grand Master for the ensuing Nae “an Couch in a short speech gratetully accepted the office. oD W, Jesse B. Anthony was re-elected Sentor Grand ard R. W. Levi M. Gano, RW. John D. Williams and Benjamin Flagler were nominated for the office of Junior Grand Warden. The election is to take place to-day. The Grand Lodge meets at nine o'clock this a ABOUT HATS. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LITTLE JOHNNY AND POLICEMEN’S AND LETTER CARRIERS’ TILES, The policemen were recently ordered to provide themselves with black felt hais of the Derby style be- foro June 15. On that day the force will appear in summor uniform. A low growl from the patrolmen and officers followed the announcement of the order be- cause nearly every man bought a Panama bat last year in accordance with the regulations, and that property is new useless to them, Then the men were ordered to purchaso the new hats from the hat room at Police Headquarters. A Hxnavop reporter examined the hats yesterday and listened to the remarks of the men as they paid $2 50 each and received a heavy black Derby, trimmed and lined with black and containing a glazed sweat leather. The tip bas on it in gilt letters ‘Potico Department.” men found fauit with the hats because of tele e a gloves during the summe! keep their hand coverings immaculate, but they say they cannot do this if they wear the Derby hats, The hats are too beavy and the color objectionable for the summer. So much fault finding gave rise to a sns- piciop that there was a ‘Belknap’ somewhere. In- quiries developed the tact that the contract for ranking the bats was not advertised so that the manufacturing hatters could compete for it, It was given, it is said, toa retail hatter, a brother of Commissioner John 1, Daveuport, who had it tilled by Messrs, Crofut & Knapp, manufacturers, of South Norwalk, Conn, Several prom: inent manufacturers who had examined the new police uniform hat told the reporter that the contract would have been taken readily by them at $24 per dozen. Yet it is fact that the officers have to pay now at the rato of $30 per dozen. ANOTHER HAT STORY. By directions trom the department at Washington a certain hat was ordered to be worn by the letter car- in New York city, The hats are made of rabbit Similar hats can’ be bought on the street for $2, Department at Washington requires the men to wear precisely the hats selected for them, and to pay $2 37 euch. Strange as it may appear, it 1s said that tho gentleman who received the contract was the said vrother oi John I. Davenport. Hatters say that when the hight rabbit bair hats of the letter carriers get wet they will be elegantly mottied with yellow, while those to be worn by the police wiil turn brown, MISSING. George Mehl, aged eleven years, Miller Norris, ten, and Frank White, fifteen, all living at 161 Second street, have been missing since Wednesday afternoon, at which time they left the house together. It is feared that they were drowned of the Battery. On the same even. ing a boat containing three unknown boys was upset in a collision with a steamtug. The police have also been notified of the absence of Katie Miller, aged twenty years, a servant in ibe em- ploy of J. J. Stein, nt No, 202 East Twenty-Afth street, who has been missing since the 6th inst. CORONERS’. CASES. Yesterday afternoon Officer Nevins, of the Thirtieth Pprecinet, found the naked body of a boy about twelve years old floating in the North River. It was soon afier identified as that of Alfred Bright, an inmate of the Leak and Watts Orphan Asylum, at] 10th street and Tenth nue, who was drowned last Wednesday while bathing. George Radler, aged Alicen years, of No. 237 South Second street, Brooklyn, accidentally fell through tho hatchway of No. 59 Beekman street yesterday afer- noon Irom the fourth to the frst floor and was almost instantly killed, The Coroner was notified to hold inquest. ‘Alexander McAlister, aged thirty-two, a sailor, was esterday carried trom pior No. 20, North River, in an Insensible condition to the Chatmbers Street Hospital, where he died soon after his arrival. Coroner Woit- man will investigate, Jonathan Mlingwood, aged sixty-seven, English, went to the Almshonse, April 18, 1869. He died there sud- dently on the 6th inst. Coroner Eickhofl has the case. James Smith, aged filty, of No. 109 Sammit street, Brooklyn, died suddenly yesterday morning, at the Albany Lron Works, No. 126 Washingion street, Cor- oner Eickbofl was nocitled, ONE WAY ‘TO GET.A CHURCH ORGAN. A church in Newmarket, that great racing contro of Fogiand, is in want ofan organ, and tho way its tras. | tees propose to secure it is thus told by the London Sporting Times, 27th wt, :=- This is Newmarket all over. Dullingham has a eburch, and the church wants no organ. In order to supply this want a raceborse {s to be railled for—sala- din—200 chances, $5 each, It will be approoriate to the event if the horse is a bigh blower. THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE DISPUTE. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment held a special meeting yesteriay to consider the matter of an Appropriation of $1,000,000 for the Brooklyn bridge, Messrs. Milicr and Rich, on benaif of the warehouse men, appeared, and in a brief argument opposed the ap- priation. Heary C. Marphy, Presidens of the ridge Company, argued im support of the appropria- tion, and 1 was ordered that the bonds shouid is Comptroilor Green voting “*No." A SAD OAS& Last Tnesday evening Mis, Bohnerverger died at Third avenuo and is7th street of puerperal iever. Her husoand went out to make arrangoments for the fa} nerai, but did not return. The neighbors buried the deceased, and Ler three children were committed to the tender mercies of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, AN UNPROFILABLE SWINDLE John Graves was yesterday evening brought tothe Cene tral Office by Detective Heidelberg, Chiet of the Private Detective Department in tre Exposition building at Philadeiphia, Graves was charged with swindling a man i this city out of $150 by representing himself to be Commissioner Erbardt and promising to give hima position on the police force, Graves rau away trom the city and went to Philadelphia, Commissioner Erhardt discovered lis whereabouts ond communicated the Incts to the detective who arrested the prison. t. SAVED FROM DROWNING. Yesterday afternoon, as the steamboat Sylvan Dell was passing the middic of Blackwell's Island, on the Kast River, Captain Withezone noticed a sailboat upset, a short distance away, and three persons struggling in the river. Hurrymg to their reseve he succeeded, hy the ard of the deck hands, m rescuing Charles Covliy and his daughter Annie, aged tcp years, The third ee Sam Weeks, of south Fonrth street, Will meburg, Was Toscued by Detective Thompson, of, the atthe time looking ont ! who happened to be on the Sylvan Deli Breyton a ‘The boat was upset by a sudden shifting of bor boou, h 76.—TRIPLE SHEET. PRISON CONGRESS. STATE INSTITUTIONS FOR DEPENDENT CHII- DREN—INSANITY AND CRIME—THE WEST OB- JECT TO NEW YORK'S PAUPERS. The attendance at the consultations of the Prison Reform Congress yesterday was somewhat smaller than on the first day. Proceedings were opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Miller, Resolutions were introduced by Mr, C. F. Coffin, of Indiana, directing attention to cer- tain newspapers published in the interests of prison reform, * Rev. Marcus Ames, ex-Superintendent of the State Industrial Retorm Senool for girls at Lancaster, Mass., and Mr. H. A, Montiort, Superintendent of the House of Refuge at Cincinnati, Ohio, made addresses upon the relative merits of family and congregate schools for the reformation of the young, and whether the two principles could be combined with advantage. Mr. Ames defended the family system, contending that the influence exercised upon the children by the teachers was under it more constant, strong and direot than it could possibly be under the congregate system. Mr. Montiors, on the other hand, was in favor of the family system for the reason that less space was re- quired for the inmates; the advantages of Sabbath schools and emivent ministerial aid could be more Teadily utilized 10 the advantage of children, and because the friends of the children could often visit them, and by the means of concerts and other enter- tainments they could bave rational and needed relaxa- tion, “ Rey, B, L. Cludien, of Ohio, described the working of both institutions in that State. The balance was in favor of the family pian, Mr. F. H. Fessenden, of Connecticut, read a paper in which he recommended that reformatory institutions should not be supported exclusively, either by the people directly or by the State. He advocated a uvion of the two systems. Rev. Mr. Tilton, of Wisconsin, thought the English system could not succeed here. Our people were grow- {2g more and more averse toextending State ald to private institutions, particulary if sectarian, Mr, Chamberiain, of Ohio, said a word in defence of the family system. Mr, Van Moter toid of the thousands of children he, as manager of tho Howard Mission, had taken to the West and how well they bad done. Mr. Talcott, of Rhode Island, made a few remarke tn the hig ofa thanksgiving for the good work accom- phsbe Mr. J. F. Culver, of Illinots. said he had placed children from New York under the direction of Mr. Wright, of this city, in Livington county, in his State. Out of a large number he knew of but two who turned out bad, r. Wyman, Of Nebraska, said they had no reforma- tory in that State, nothing but the Penitentiary. He thought committees should be appointed at Washing- ton tu investigate the condition of eacn State. Mrs, C, F, CoMa, of Indiana, wished New York would retain all ite pauper children witnin its own limits and Not fist them upon Indiana and other Western Statos. They had enough to do out there to care for their own, Mr. ©. L. Brace, of the Children’s Aid Society, of this city, rose to defend the practice of that institution, Only tive per cent of its children, be said, turned out bad, while ol the protégés of the famous institution at Mettrai, in France, ton per cent earned bad records, * Mr. E.C, Wines, corrected the gentloman by assuring him the “failures’’ of the latter institution were less than five per cent. Mr, Brace acknowledged tne correc- tion and concladed his remarks, Mr, Wines described the widespread influence of the institution of Mettrai, with which he is thoroughly fa- miliar, 04 Mrs, Cofflu started out to reply to Mr. Brace’s de- fenve of bis institution, *‘I.don't want you, Mr. Bracs,’” she said, ‘to think that I consider you are a failure bo- ouuse all your children do not turn out well. But I will say that our ptisons are,more than half filled with New Yorkers.” (Sensation, Mr. Griffiths, ot Maryland, concarred in the senti- ments of Mrs. Coffin with respect to sending dependent children to the West A recc 6s was then taken till two o'clock, AFTERNOON SESSION. Upon reassembling, Mr. F. B. Sanborn, Chairman of the Business Committee, offered the following resolu- tions, which were unanimously adopted :— Resolved, That in order to disseminate more widely the views and opinions of this Congress, and to awaken a more general Intorest in the subject of prison reform on the part of the public at large, it fs recommended to the delezates from each State to pare, aiter their return home, w brief of, attable for publi- to be as widely ay be pruct solved, That four special committees be appointed to co-operate with the Board of Directors ot the assuctation in the preparation of the Fifth Criminal Congress—namely, a committee of wardens of penitentarics, x committee ‘of superintendents of reformatorics, mittee of officers ietien, a committee of members or secretaries boards of public charity and of privon inspectors. id committees to consist of four members with power to fill vacancles and transact business by their chrair- Inan through correspondence with the other members of the eommit , That inasmuch aa the ides of the International Prison Congress originated with this association, we plede ourselves to do ail in our power to secure the complete suc- cess of the approaching Congress to be held in stockholm daring the month of August, 1877, and to this ond we recom- mend the appointment by each of the different States of the jon of saltable and competent persons who are experts in ison discipline to represent such States offieialiy at Stock- holm, at the expense of the States, and we will urge this f the several State Legislatures Mr. C. D. Randall, of the State Public School at Cold- water, Mich,, read acareiully preparea paper on “Site Institutions for Dependent Children,” He fetailed at considerable length the principles on which such in- stitutions are conducted in bis State and recommended the system to the curetul consideration of the Con- TesK, € Mr. Van Meter asked the speaker whether he knew | observ: of anychildren in his institution coming from the Howard Mission, with which be has been so long con- nected. Mr. Randall not being well envugh informed 10 answer @ question of that nature, Mr. Van Meter asked whether there was aby gentleman from the West present who could say definitely that he knew of children in the reformasories of that section who had been sent out by Mr. Van Meter’s society. The Chair curtly remarked that such questions pro- pounded vaguely to tne whole Congress while go many papers remained to be read were not in order, where- upon the interrogator subsided, Mr. F. B Sanborn, of Massachusetts, read a paper upon the expeaiency of States establishing visiting agencies for their juvenile wards, in which he gave a graphic description of the workiugs of the reformatory machinery of his State, At the conclusion of Mr. Sanborn’s paper the Chair remarked that, as the subject of “Preventive and Re- formatory Work’? was now concluaed, so far as the Feading of papers went, the subject was open for ais cussion. Mr. Van Meter, ia the body of the hall, arose to apiopouna another interroga- ‘mes obtained the floor and tory, but’ Mr. B.C de- hould be allowed to speak, The clared that Mr. Van Mete! as be had arisen before the motion was made, gentieman reterred to thereupon rose ‘and said:— “1 only wanted to ask how mach New York has taxed the Wost.”” No attention wag paid to the quéstion, and ex-Gover- nor Emory Washburn, professor in the law departunent of Harvard College, Mass., was introduced. He read a logically written essay, in which he argued that it would be desirable and expedient to limit the definition d punishment of crimes by a prescribed code to ihe ton of the commou law, inda Gilbert, of this city, remarked that the chiet business of this and other Congresses seemed to ve to diveuss the failings of our present system with- ous supplying any remedy. INSANITY AND CRIME. Chiet Justice Daly, of the Court of Common Picas, was announced to read a paper upon the relations be- tween erime and insanity, The Jadge saia he wished to suggest the necessity of inquiry rather than to make it himself, He reterred to the superiority of the Buropean methods of dealing with this and kindred eadjects. In Englund, where the Parliament sat tor eight years if not prorogued, time was afforded tor lengthened and intelngent investigation and to lound Jogisiation upon such investigation, while in our coun- try, Where the Legislatures bold such short sessions, it ts impossibie for them to acquire experience on snch a subject. The speaker pointed ont the impertection of our laws tn respect to the statatory detinition of insanity, whieh make no distinction vetween total and partial derangement of the mental faculties. A man, he claimed, amght be periectly sane upon every subject but one, yet, 1 be committed a erime in connection i, be should not be held responsibie. The m- jou inlo & Man's sanity should be made with re erence to (he part.cular case with which bo was con- nected. After reterring to cases with which he had been concerned im bis judicial capacity, Judge Daly coneluded by saying Laat bis own impression 1s that the best mode of examining an alleged or sapposed lunatic is that atopted ja some European countries, of — baving an — investigation — by competent medical men before tr in ail cases, because such an investigation must be exceedingly minute in every purticulur, 19 4 mavter of you and of special knowledge upon the part of thos: tbat make it therefore can be ascertained with more accuracy and certainty in this could be during that emotional Ubing call a4 trial, where the jury are influenced by the ingenuity of coun- sel and where so mauy things are brought 10 bear upon them that should not enter into such an Inquiry, The Congress then adjourned till vight o'clock in the evening. THE EVENING'’s WORK. The featore of the evening sossion was the reading, by F. B. Sanborn, of a paper sent in by James Freeman Clark. There was some trouvie about tts admission, a8 twas decvied on the first day w read no papers ho authors of which were not present, Tho gist 01 the paper was a ples for graded prisons so that a criminal would go in at the lowest and come out at the highest aredeemed man. The greater part of the evening was apent ina general discussion on what suould be the dise|phine inside of the penitentiary, TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME, At the session this morning a paper on the treatment of habitaal criminals wili be read by Herwick Baker, of Engiand, and Hon. R. C. Pittman, of Massachusetts, In the afternoon Henry Cardier, of Pennaylvania, will read au essay on labor in prisons, Z. Brockway, | aati }. Ln Mul of Massachusetts, will read ono on the classitieats: in, of Pee agge apr about the care of these subjects will be opem for '¢ “REAL ‘ESTATE. é P —_ J The most ffoportant gale at the Exchange yesterday was that of the building known as the Church of the Disciples (Dr, Hepworth’s), on the southeast corner ot Forty-Afth stregt and Madison avenue, with lot, 100.5% 125, It was a foreclosure sale and had been previously adjourned several times, The mortgage on the prop- erty amounted to $1°0,000, with interest trom Septem- ber 18, 1875. The highest bia was $4,000 over the ortgage, and for that sum it was struck down to the defendants, It was said to have been purchased tor the benefit of the bondbolders, whose bonds are sup- posed to aggregate about $75,000, The other sales of the day, all being in foreclosure, were as follows:— RY. Bsroctt alts it Saas on east side of Pas- sage avenne (Twenty. ward), near Westchester Rualiroad street, for $1,625, to O. a, OReilly, A, J. Bleecker & Son sold @ house, with lot 29.1x80, on cast side of Washington street, 106 feet south uf Barclay street, for $11,000 over a mortgage of $15,000, with ititerest from Febraary 15, 1876, to John Suliivan; also an irregular plot of about tive lots, 120x119x100, on southeast corner of West and Bank strecis, fur $8,000 over a mortgage of $50,000, with interest trom aay 5, 1876, to John O. Stevens, y “liam Kennelly sald two houses, with lots 54x 100.5, on south side of Forty-fifth street, petween First and Second avenues, for $14,770 each, to the plaintift, James M. Miller sold one biock of ground, bounded by 13 and 182d streets, Cypress avenue and the estate of P. J. Morris, for $12,000, snd one 820x275, bounded by 180th and 18st streois, Cyprest avenue and same estate, for $15,000, to R. C, Emboy, TRANSPERS. 284 and 2h6 ; also 18th st. and S8cdoha g- Astor and AY, 8, 6 Ceeil and wite to nya rge H. Bh Front st., No, 202, 28373.6; Edward ©. Gray and wile to William A. Gray, fj 112th st, n, 6, 295 ft, w. of Sd a garct E. Johnson and others to Lexington av. Ly ty. 8, of Kichard Mi executor, to x 100. Vreeland... 28th wt. 19.93 K, C, Burtsell n. «., 303, ‘i John oGuire and wite und others to John McCool... 28,000 aut tee nw comer of 2d wv., S0x100; Thomas SAL He ey BO fe we of dav, 18089; Gunter Sto, 8. Sey w, of 2d av. ‘AE Bohols aud wile to John A. Halsey, seve 14,000 eS. ‘Tyears; James Moore - + 1,001 MORTGAGES W., to Oscar C, Ferris (executor) and LEAs! 11th av.,n. 0. corner of 47th st tol ‘B. Guest ‘others, s, w. corner of 9th ay. and 70th st.; 5 yeurs 5,008 ‘same. p. w. corner of 9th av. and 79th Roieii' i. iwaveik “°™ to jauvelt, 12,000 hus! to Al id Ward) ; 3 years . G. and husband, tog fe, . between Ist and ay. A; one year. Baurabai and wife, to L. Gusthal, n, Sedo ne ATE RR er eae fy md husband. to A.B. hamel, ss ‘Uthat, Dolween 7th and Sth ave. :aix months, =, 8000 Link. Frederick and wife, to Charles White an others, 0. &. of Hudson and Christoph 502 to 508, n. 8. of Christopher st., one year. oa Oppenheimer, Fannie penheimer, n. x. 0th x Paulixon, John P. and wil of B4uh t., w. of Oth 2 2 Same to of sth'ay., 8. ar, Pinekn 0 Oscar Ferris (executor), s. ss. of SOth wt 6th av.; 6 months n+ 10,000 Same to same, & & of SMH st, 6 of 6th av.; 6 m'ths 10,0 Ross, Mary ‘and husband, to George G. Dewittdr, Cirusteo),'& & of 27th st., 6, of 2d & ight Riss, Albert J., to Emma J, Dowling, s e. corner of 2d av. ard 75th st - 6,000 Sothern » As, to ) o 11th ay. and 87th st, 13,000 ht + 18,000 stierwoot, J stay erwood, James ment), 8. 8. 46th st., 10.000 PNEUMATIC TUBES. THE PROGRESS MADE IN LAYING THEM—HOW THE MESSAGES ARE TO BE SENT AND WHERE. In about a fortnight the Western Union Telegraph Company will have in operation a system of pocumatic tubes for carrying messages to the lower part of tho city, which, on account of the groat saving of time, will be of great benefit to the business community. These tubes are made of brass, are two anda quarter inches dn digmeter, ana will ran from the operating room on the eighth story of the central office, northwest corner of Broadway and Dey strect, to No. 14 Broad street, No, 132 Pearl street and the Cotton Exchange. All theso tubes are laid three feet | below the surface of the street Those connecting with No. 14 Broad street, of which there are two, run down Broadway to Wall street, through Wall street to Broad and thence to No. 14; those to No. 134 Peart street and Cotton Exchange run down Broadway to Maiden lane, through Maiden Jana so Poarl street, Ubrough Pearl street to 134, thence to the Cutten Ex. change, The tubes are bent #0 us to form a pericct segment of a circle, with a radius of twelve feet. The tubes running to the Cotton Exchango are 3,000 feet_ in length, and those to No, 14 Broad vtreet about 1,500 feet, ‘They will be worked by a fifty-horse power doplex engine, which does double work, as it both compresses and exliausts the air in two large reservoirs or iron pipes eight imches in diameter that run from the basement tu the operating room, The tubes con- hect with these reservoirs by valves, The cg going from the central office are sent by the forco of compressed air; those coming to it are drawn by the force of suction, the air beipg exhaust one pipo while’ it is compressed other, A round box made of gutta perc! and covered with felt contains the messages, fifty of which can be put into this box, which tite snugly in the tube, The time required to convey the Central office to No, 14 Broad street or the Exchange 1# but thirty seconds. Thus 6,000 messaget could, if necessary, be o.nveyed in one hour, In ume~ 1 is intended to extend this systom of pneumatic tubor to the St. Nicholas Hotel aud different points up town, In London there are thirty of these tubes in opera- tion, and in France and Germany they are also used ex- tensively. In London,.bowever, the tubes are made of lead covered with iron, and in Germany of iron alone, Mr. George B, Prescott, the electrician of the company, who examined approved of all tho desi superintended the construction of th confident that it will prove a great ct repBy the outlay in the saving of time and money. A NEW COMMISSIOD The Commission on Armories and Drill Rooms, cre- ated under chapter 429, Laws 1876, consisting of the Mayor, the Comptroller and Commissioner Andrews, of the Tax Department, met yesterday 10 the Comptrol ler’s office for organization. On motion of Mr. Greco the Mayor was clectea chairman. Mr. Eliot MeCor- mick was elected secretary pro tem. One claim for at armory lease was presented, and the board adjourned subject to the call of the chair or any two embers, INVESTIGATING A DEPARTMENT, The Board of Aldermen yesterday, on motion od Alderman John Reilly, instructed the Committee on Fire and Buildings to investigate the working of the Department of Buildings, particularly with reference to the loss of life occasioned by alleged gross ineffi- ciency in that depart during the incumbency of the present superiniendent, and the expenditure of public moneys appropriated for said rement for salaries and other purposes, and report result te the Board as soon as possibie, GONE TO THE COUNTRY. Uncle Danicl Drew's examination in the bankruptcy Proceedings was set down for yesterday morning, at bie house, at teno’clock. A few minutes before that hour Mr. Simon H. Sterne, counsel for the assignee, rang the door bell of No, 41 Union square, His summons was responded to by a domestic, who said that her master had that morning eae up to Pat county," meanmg Patnam county. ir. Sterpe was somewhat tuken aback by (his dnexpected announcement, but de. termined to wait atthe house uptil the arrival of Register Williams. While waiting he took piano in the ‘lor, and caimly proceeded to play “Rogue's March” and “Home, Sweet Home,” without variations. Yet the examination of Uncle Daniel will take place, AS soon as the bankrupt becomes comfortably en- sconced at his country retreat the Register and law. yers will visit him there and go on with the cx amining. ANTI-BANANA SKIN RESOLUTION, Alaerman Morris, 1m the Board of Aldermen, yestere day offered the following :-- Resolved, That the Committ Law Do} tstiereby iusteacte -o inquire into the neceselty ef tmpeoteg ail persons ioaund cuilty of throwl the side’ walks in apy of thi places in thispity. taf a coos balOetenenren: Ne yihing of «nature caleula dine, oF that ti ta endanger the life o liebe of aap ntrian by seppiig thereon, such as the skin ‘of any and, if cogsidored advisable or in the public iw to repgrt the necessary ordin prohibit the , under a Hiting penalty for tion thereot : ‘The resolation was referred to the Comaitteo on Law Department praetl oe A POOR WOMAN ROBBED. ee Captain Sanuders, of the Twenty seventh preeinet, was waited upon Wednesday night by Catharine Srowe, a young German woman just arrived from Dow troit on her way to Gerinany, who stated that her Pocket had been pieked oF #250 0b the train. ‘She wee De Penmiess, and coud conunue her journey, Wectives were pus to Work on the ed ..