The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1876, Page 2

‘4 CUSTER. LAST HIGHT pe EG RN Some New and Interest- ing Details. WHERE THE MEN FELL. How They Were Buried and the Spots Marked. THE DARING OF CUSTER. Beset on Every Side, but Fighting to the Lat While Wounaed. A Nearly Perfect List of Killed and Wounded. We have received the following brief but highly im- teresting and limportant communication from an officer bigh against the Indians, and who enjoyed the amplest in commanil, attached to the forces operating facilities for obtaining reliable information :— Biamaxck, D. 'T., July.12, 1876. You have already had from your able correspondents with Terry, Crook and Gibbon graphic accounts of our late engagements with the lodians, I will not encum- ber your columns, thereiore, with minute detalis; but permit me to sond you some facts which, trom the na- ture of the case, have not yet tound their way into print, THR KILLED AND WOUNDED, As the most interesting and importaat Information, T begin with a list of the killed and wounded, It 18 im- possible to give the full names of all the soldiers killed or where they enlisted. The following list 1* not quite eomplete, as 1 am informed the Medical Director of General Terry’s staf! has bad reported to him the bames of 315 killed and wounded; but I am unable to tell whose names have been omitted from the above lists, They are as complete as they can be made at Mais time; but they do not include the names of Nimble Boyer, the guide; Mr. Read, Mr. Kellogg and a few others: THE KILLED. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer, First Lieutenant and Adjutant W. W. Cook, Assistant Surgeon Lord, ‘Acting Assisting Surgeon De Wolt, COMPANY A. Corporal James Dallas, Private J. E. Armstrong, Private James Drinan, Private William Moody, Private James McDonald, Private Richard Raf ins, Private John Sullivan, Private Thos, P, Switzer, COMPANY & Ben- Second Lieutenant jamin Hodgson, Private Richard Doran, Private George Mark. COMPANY @ Captain T. W. Custer. Second Licutenant Harringea. First sergeant Baba. Sergeant Fin! Corporal Foley Corporal French. Corporai Ryan Provaces Allan, Ruseel!, Criddle, King, Mayer (Lrst), Lewis, Mayer (second), Bucknall, Wright, Eisman, Bamei, Farraud, Van Alien, Hatiassall, Brigbfleid, St. Jona, Yhadius, Engle Bhort, COMPANT B Farrier Charles Vincent, Private Patrick Goiden, Private Edward Howson. COMPANT & First Lieutenant AE. Smith, second Lieutenant J. Sturgia First Sergeant Hameyer, First Sergeaut Egded, Firat Sergeant James Corporais. Hagan, Blom, Musou, Meyer, Trumpeters. McElroy, Money. Privites. Baker, Henderson (first), Boyle, henderson, (second), Baeth, Laddivar, Connor, Conner, During, Rood, mith, (frst), Smith, (second), Smith, (ohird | Sulla, ‘Taw, Kurebt. company ¥ Captain G, W. Yates, zenant W. Van Reilly, First Sergeant Kenny. Sergeants. Murray, Wilkinson, Vickory, Corporais. Coleman, Brioly, Far, B Seth, Braadon, Manning—100. Taman, J 'rvvates. Atcheson, Brown, Brady, Cather, Gardner, Lurnag, Mouroe . Saunders, Kelley, Brace, Barham, Carney, Douneilly, Hawmoa, Knauh Losse, Madison, Ruaden, Biclous, Warren Lesack, COMPANY a First Lieutenant Danie! seiusosh, Sergeant Kdward Botzed, Sergeant Martia Considine, Hageman, Corporais James Martin and Otto Farrier Benjamin Weil, Privates Rogers, Stanley, Moro, Seailerman, MeGinnese. COMPAYY Corporal George Lee. Privates Julian D. Jon Thomas E. Maldot comPANT & Captain M. W. Keogh, Firs\ Lieutenant J. E. Porter, First Sergeant Frank BE. Varden, Cerporai Samu Trumpeter John ‘Trumpeter John Patton, Blacksmith Henry A. Bailey. . Sap) McGucker, Privates. Jon Berry, Vhomas P. Dowuing, David C. Giliitne, Eaward P, Holcomb, Adam Hicksmer, Joseph F. Broadhurst, Jobin Connors. Edward C. Driscoll, Geo ge H. Gross, Marion E. Horn, Patrick Koilly. Frederick Leoman, Henry Lebina: Kuward P. Lioyd, Archibald Mclihargey, Jotun Mitchell, dacob Noshang Jona O'Bryan, Jonn Parker, Felix J. Pruted, George Post, Jawes Quinn, William Rug, Joun W. Rossbery, Darwin L. Syonus, James E. Troy, Charies Vou Brauner, Witham B. Whaley, COMPANY &. First Sergeant Dewi.t Winney, Sergeant Robert Hughes, Corporal Jovo J. Caiiaban, Trumpeter Julius Heimar, Private U, T Clair. COMPANY ty Lieutenant Calhoun, First Sergeaut Buller, Sergeant Warran, Corporal Harrison, Corpora: Gilbert, Corporal Setiler, ‘Trumpeter Wash, Adams, McGue, Scott Perkins, Dye, Galvin, : Hamilton, Snow, Miller, Vitler, Heath, Crostield, Haugge, Tovering, Sehmiat, Semenson, Assadely, Cheevers, Maxwell, ‘Tarbox, Cusham, / A Harrington, | Kuvanaugh, Mahoney, | Simon, Reiboid, O'Connell. COMPANY M. Sergeant F. O’Harra, Corporal Henry M. Scollin, Corporal Frederick Scringed. Privates. Henry Klotzburgher, William D. Meyea David Gomers Henry Turley. Henry Gordon, George Lawrence, George E. Smith, James Tanner, Henry 0. Voight, Total killed, 247. THE WOUNDUD. COMPANY A. First Sergeant William Hey. Corporal George H. King. Privates, Jacob Deal, Francis M. Rieves, Samuel Foster, Elijah T. Stroud. ¥reak Homestead, COMPANY B Corporal William M. Sich. Private Charles Cunmniogham, COMPANY ©. Privates, | Bennet, Thompson, | MeGaire, Whittaker. | COMPANY D. | Patrick MeDonald. | COMPANY #. | James T. Reilly. coRraNy o. Charles Camel, Joba Morrison, COMPANY a First Sergeant Josoph MoCarny. Sergeant Patrick Connolly. Sergeant Thomas McLaughlin, | Sergeant John Pabi. Trumpeter William Ramil, Sadler Otto Voight James P. Boyle, | Jobn MeVey, Privates. Thomas itughes, Jonn Maller, Joun Phillips, Samuel Severs, Wiliam C, Willtams, Charles Windolph, Henry Biskiey, Charles H. Bishop, Alexander B. Iistop, Jobn Cooper, Henry Black, | William Farley, | Wilham George, | COMPANY 1. | Private David Coony. | COMPANY K. } Privates. | Patrick Corcoran, Max Millke Michael Madden, | COMPANY L, Private Marshall =. COMPANY M. Sergeant Patrick Carey, Sergeant Charies White, Blacksmith Daniel Newhall. Privates. Thomas P. Varmer, James Wilbur, Charies Werdmann, Frank Braun, John Hl. Meir, » Wiliam E Morris, Roman Rutter, ‘Total wounded, 53. RECAPITULATION. Officers kiMed ; Acting Assistan Soldiers, Total killed, Wounded. Total loss. WHERK THEY WERE BURIED. The officers and men of Custer’s command were duried on the 28th of June where they fell, Colonel | Reno, with the survivors of the seventh Cavalry regi- | Ment, performing the last sad rites over the bodies of their dead comrades. The scene was sad in the ex- treme, and many of the men shed tears while laying away to rest a beloved comrade. | THY SPOT WHERE CUSTER Lins. Custer was buried among his officers, and many crowded forward for a long last look at the well known form and features of the great cavalry leader, He | Seemed only siecping, and a perfect calm was on the face and a smile about the lips as if he were bidding his friends a pleasant goodby. All the officers’ graves were marked by hollow sticks, sunk deep in the ground, contaming the names of the dea/ It was known the Indians would remove any surtace marks placed over the graves, but it 1s not believed thoy wil disturb the bodies, and they can easily be identified by means of the sticks at any time friends may wish to remove them Kast, The Indian dead were not dis- turbed, and it ts not at all hkely they will molost our doud, as they are very superstitious about such things and take great care of the dead. Tt appears Captain Miles W. Keough, Seventh cav- alry, bad a presentiment of bis approaching death. | Just before the expedition started he came to an | officer who had once been a lawyer, and asked him if be could draw up a will in proper form, and on the | | officer answering in the atlirmative Captain Keough said, “I don’t know what muy happen to me, and as I | have not disposed of some things I have I want to make a will.” The will was drawn up, signed by Keough, witnessed and sealed apin an envelope. It | was then handed by Keough to the officer who bad drawn it up, and the Captain said, “If anything should defall me open the envelope and send the papers to my sister. "" the north of Ireland, and bad $10,000 insurance on his life. He was unmarried, but leaves a brother and sis- ter in this country and one brother in Ireland. Keough | was a fine soldier and one of the handsomest men in the ariny. THE ONLY SURVIVOR. The Crow Indian Carly is believed to be the only sur- | Vivor of the 250 men who went into action with Custer. | He is very clear in his knowledge of the fight, and has | madeastatement. He says he went down with two other Crows and went into action with Custer. The General, he says, kept down the river on the north bank tour miles, afler Reno had crossed to the south side above. Custer’s object was to cut off the Indians. He thought Reno would drive down the valley and at the same time attack the village on two sides, be be- leving Reno would take it at the upper end, while he (Custer) would go im at the lower end, Custer had to go further down the river and further than be wished on accouut of the steep bank along the north side; but at last he found a ford and dashed for it The Indians met him and poured tn a heavy fire | trom across the narrow river, Custer dismounted to fight on foot, dut could mot get his skirmishers over the stream, Meantime hundreds of Indians, on foot and on ponies, poured over the river, which was only about three feet deep, and filled the ravines on each eide of Custer's men. Custer then fell back to some high ground behind him and seized the ravines | | tn bis immediate vieinity. The Indians completely sur- rounded Custer and poured in aterrible fire on all sides. | They charged Custer on foot in vast numbers, but wore } Again and again driven back. The fight began about | two o'clock, and lasted, Curly says, almost until the fun went down over the hills, The men fought des- perately, and after the ammunition in their belts was exhausted went to their saddlebags, got more and con- tinued the fight. Curly says more Indians were killed than Custer had men. He also says the big ebief (Cus- | | | wounded, and went about encouraging his soldiers to fight on. He got a shot in the left side and sat down, with bis pistol in his hand. Another shot struck Cus- ‘erin the breast and he tell over, The last offeer | Killed was aman whe rode a white borse (believed to ve Lieutenant Cook, Adjutant of the Seventh, as Lieu- Anis Cook and Calhoun wore the only officers who rode white norses, and Licutenant Calhoon was found | ! | i | | dead on the ekirmish fine, nour the ford, | and probably fell early in tho —_ action). } Curly says when he saw Castor hopelessly #ur bianket, pat it on and worked up a ravine, and when the Sioux charged he got among them aud they dié not koow Bim from ope of their own men. Thi were forme mounted Sionx, and seeing one fall Curly ran to | him, mounted nis pony and galloped down, as if going toward the white men, but went up @ ravine and got away. He says as be rode off he saw, when nearly « niile from the battle fleld, a dozen or more soldiers in a Tavine fighting with Sioux all arouna them. He thinks all were killed, as they were ontnumbered five wo one and appareatiy dismounted. These men were no douvt part of the thirty-Gve missing men reported in the official despatches of General Terry. Cariy says be saw one cavalry soldier who had got away. He was well { mouoted, but shot through both bips, and Curly thinks he died of his wounds, svarved to death tn the | dad lands, or more likely his trail was followed and be | killed by the Sioux. Curly did noi leave Custer until the battie was nearly over, and be describes it as de: Pperate in the extreme. He is quite sure the Indians bad more killed than Custer bad white mom with bin, Captain Keough owned a fine property in | away trom Reno | ter) lived until nearly all his men had been killed or | rounded he watched hix opportunity, got a Sioux. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1876.—TRIPLE SHE ET. and says the soldiers fought on until the last man fell. ‘The otber Crow Indians in the battle were killed. CUSTER’S BATTLEFIELD. LETTER FROM AN EYE-WITNESS--AN OFFICER WHO WAS ON THE GROUND—THE MASSACRE A KCENE OF HORROR. [From the St Paul Pioneer-Press, July 22.) Lieutenant Alfred B. Johnson, son of oar well knov n townsman, General R. W. Johnson, who is con- nected with General Gibben’s command under Gen- eral Terry, writes along and interesting private letter to his father, in which maoy original particulars are given as to events which transpired on the day or two unmediately succeeding Generat Custer and his gallant comrades rodeo down into the valley of death. Lieutenant battlefield, as well as what he saw on that bloody ground alger the Indians were driven away, throw 6 new light Upon an occurrence which is now at- | tracting the attention of the whole otvilized world. It | 48 proper to retnark that the letter was not writen for make copious extracts from the private lover of his son, Lieutenant Johnson says:— Vur command artived at Fort Pease on the 24th of June, ang found there the Far West with General Terry ; und staff on board, Orders were issued at once to take #1x days rations with pack mules and cross the the river lor a trip up the Little Big Horn, About | bud eflected a crossing and stood ready for any serv | Fequired of 1 On the morning of the 26th (sunday) | General Terry placed the commaud in motion along the margin of Tullock’s Fork, After a somewhat circuit ous march we struck the Little Big Horn oa tho 26th, a few miles from its mouth. Here it was roported that there was a denge, heavy smoke to be seen a to ail. twenty-(wo miles in the hot, burning sun were getting quite tired, but when they saw the immense dojumn of smoke rising in the distance (about 1 miles off), ed up wonderfully and marclieu olf as if they were fresh trom camp. Tho Crow scouts in the meantime hau come tn on the dead run, headed by Bravo, a white man living with them, and reported that the Indians | were killing soldiers iu great oumbers, but their report could not be believed. Toward ning could see Inaians on the blufls in large num vers, flying around and watching every movement | mado by us. They moved their main coluinns vy fours | with as much regularity and precision as a regiment of | cavalry, One company of cavalry was sent on a side lull to wateh their movements, and when the Indians | saw them they yelled out, or rather some white ma their column did, Come’ on, damn you; we are ready | for you!” At mine o'clock P.M. dered to encamp for | picketmg our animais and establishing our | guards, we rolled ourselves in our one blanket and were soon asleep, Early on the morning of the | 2van the column was in inotion heading for ti Smoke cloud, which did not seem to be very far dis- tant. Lying’ between us and the smoke was a dense || grove of umber, which was entered cautiously and thoroughly exumined before the tnain body marched | through tt Having passed through the timber we | came toa level pisin, and there our advanced guard succeeded in finding’ out that General Reno and his command wore entrenched on a bill and had been u' rounded by Indians for several days, Our march w: continued over a beautiiul picee of country, the very | camping ground the Indians had lett the night before, Our approach having been discovered they concluded to leave, and trom the looks of things they must have | left in great haste and in much contusion, * * Their camp was fully four miles long and three- fourths of @ mile wide, and all along our murch were | Indications of a very hasty flight, for they left lodge | poles, a set of which are worth ‘as much asa pony, | camp kettles, tin cups, tin pans, any quantity of axes, | afew guns, buffalo robes and some of their dead in two standing lodges; also many cavairy saddies, carbine slings, bridle bits, cured meat, &c There were not less tan 200 wagou loads of stores abandoned by them. | Near this spot we found twenty-five dead soldiers. bis was the first positive evidence we had that a battle had been fought. A ull further march of two miles brought | us to the base of the hill upon which Reno and the survivors of his seven companies were, and such a sight I never saw belore. ‘The gallant men who bad | fallen had been exposed to the hot sun for two days | and were in @ feariul condition. I am clearly of the | opinion that General Cuater did not know the extent of | this camp When he separated from Reno he sud, | “go ahead, J will.be with you" (which were the last | wer spoke to Reno.) Reno went forward ompanies, while Custer, with five compa- | mes, went round a ridge, intending to attack in the | rear, (Four companies Werewabout four miles in the | rear, with the pack-train guard.) Reno did continue, -| crossed the river and attacked, but was so outnumbered | that he was forced to tall back and recross the | river, and take position on 4 high hill Here | he was jotued by the pack-train guard. General Cus- | ter went around to attack, as he supposed, in the rear, | but was met by such overwhelming numbers that he | was not able to carry ou: his plans, and there his en- | tre command fell, ‘There are twenty-five or thirty | missing, whose bodies cannot be found; whether they e-caped or not is not known, but certain it is that no. | | one who was with Cusier has been seen to tell of the | horrors of that dreadful conflict, which is without a parallel in our history. Poor Custer’s troubles in this world are over. He | fell like a gallant soldier as he was, and the savages recognizing hin asa ‘great brave’ refused to scalp oF | otherwise mutilate his person. When Reno got 18 command on the hill he vegan to fortify a8 best be could, using knives and tin cups for picks and shovels, but his | | breastworks were of little service to nim, as the Indians would charge within twenty yards of his line, deliver | | their Gre, generally killing or wounding some at every | charge. Yhe Lndians, finding they could uot dislodge the com- | mand, undertook to bur them out by firing the grass | | and limber, bat ttas failed of success. it bas been | estimated by those who seem to know that there were about 1,200 lodges, and {rom 4,000 to 4,000 warriors in the camp, mak:ng a force too large for the glorious | Seventh cavalry. The regiment, however, did mag- | | nificentiy, wilicting a very b y loss upon the Sioux | um kihed and wounded, Had it not been jor the ap- | | proach of Generais Terry and Gibbon I fear it would | | nave been asad thing for Reno and the brave men , under bi8 command, not one of whom would have escaped, in all probability. | You would be surprised to see tho small piece of | ground it took to hold Custer’s dead. They feil just | where they fought, and the space where over 200 men were piled up was not Much over two or three times larger than our (General Johnston’s) yard. ‘The men, | | horses and mnules were piled up over and across and | | under each other, preseating one of the most norrible | sights Lever saw. De Rudio was cnt off trom bis regi | ment and surrounded by Indians for about forty hours, | during which time he bad nothing to eat, | | “Lieatenants Done, English, Kendrick, Edgerly and | | myself had charge of transporting the wounded from | che battlefield. “Litters and other conveyances were | improvised, and by taking nignt marches we suc- cocded in getting them to the boat at the mouth of the | Litue Big Horn with as little suffering as wns possible under the circumstances. Sitting sail and his foliow- | ers are now somewhere on the Big Horu, and if they | remain there can be easily reached, bat should they | scatter and flee to the fig Horn Mountaius it will be a | ditlicult matter to overtake them. However, Geuerals Terry, Gibbon and Crook are old campaigners and will strike a telling blow with au tron band suould an op- portunity present ‘itselt. GENERAL STURGIS. AN IOWA VOLUNTEER PAYS HIS RESPECTS TO cUSTER’s TRADUCER. Cmtcaco, July 22, 187 To Tae Kpiror ov THX CittcaGo Taimunx:— Your daily of the 19th inst, coutaing a letter from | your St Louts correspondent relating. what Generay | Sturgy 4 to him on the 18th about General Custer. ] The substance of Sturgis’ remarks isan ins‘naation | qnat General Custer was a coward, because (as be avers) “the bodies of 800 or moro soldiers were found piled | up in a little ravine, white benind were found | those of Custer and his ‘chosen officers’ What | 4 spectacle,” te says, “it would bave been to find 300 ‘soldiers collected on one side, and, | im the rear, the commander o! the j:ttle force sur- rounded by its officers! Mind, I don’t want to impugn their bravery!” Ob, no! eise to, He then flings in the assertion that “Cusver was insanely ambitious of glory,” and that -‘Custer’s the command was o' the night, and, after | | | } | | luck aiforae a good clew to his ruling passion." Griti- cises “Cusier's want of judgment, wuich drew these | men into @ trap,’ and then says that “ihe records” show tim (Sturgis) to have bee one of tho “most successial Indian fighters that “im 1860 be followed the lowas and Comanches so that their camps were entirely broken up and they caused no further troubla" “He aiso | says that he told somebody in St Paul | two years ago that ke “didu't belfeve Caster knew eufficrent of the Indian character to ight them to ad- was liable to be led into a trap, in which git) told the gentleman there would be no to tell the tala’’ And then congratulates if that now, at ine Gret important attack, prophecy is tulfilled,”’ ana winds up by asserting that General Custer was unpopular with bis troops, was @ tyrant, and bad no regard tor the soldiers under him. Now, Mr. Editor, cowardice in the face of | the enemy is, under the laws of war, | punishable with death It ought also 10 j be the jaw that @ cowardiy attack op the reputation of a dead ‘soldier — should bi oe iave =We regard with contempt the ora child, or aay one much jd not able to defend himsell We call dand aastard because be mutilates jess victims, and yet these Acts are brave and honorable compared with rending by faischood or cunning tnuendo the soidierly charac- ter of one who, so far as we Know, died iighting with bis face to the enemy, with flashing Uiade and strain- ing nerve to the very last “But,” says General Stur- gis, “mina, Idon’t want to impugn (their bravery!” To add that remark to what be had already sad was an a thief and in tae uext breath | averring he did to impugn his Honesty | Now, sir, General Custer was bound by no ties to me other than those which kortied him to every soldier of | ourcountry. Bat, as soldiers, we do clam bim a rade aad © brother, of whose every record we are Proud; and, sir, In the name of the comrades with whom be fought, and to whom his presence at the boad of their column was an inspiration which told Hike a lightning flash on the enemy in many a charge and bate, | deny that he was a “tyrant” of regarded “ankindlys by his men.” The attempt to stam Dim with cowardice needs no denial, The unanimous | the time when | But he means for every one | | | | | ! | publication, and that General Jobuson has rejuctautly | | allowed the Pioneer-Prese and Iribune reporter to | | Rightfall the entire command (cavalry and intantry) | 2 little in advance, and 1p a'short time it became visibie | The men who bad aireauy made a march of | { ‘* | Wil stand before the force which Terry and Crook can | not always tm proportion to the sympathies of the | | whose nimes you find on the | raised this amount ina few bours and could mako it | i | ! ) | | | | 1 | was a stranger to fear, who went to battle with an eye | General, which shail be injurious to the latter. To as- | broken and scattered in utter rout and contusion, and Johnson was connected with the party under General Gibbon which went to the relief of General Reno, and | his description of the situation as he approached the | | challenged | whereas | Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan as its president, for ever Leard of bim refutes that, and ‘*Custel luck,” as General irgis sneeringly styles Custer’s success, was what naturally resulted to a soldier whose heart gleaming like 4 blazing star, aud whose arm was ever found in the thickest of the fight, dealing blows bouh well directed and resistiess, General Sturgis’ object seoms to be to get bafore the mind of bis listener a comparison of his “record” with that of tue dead sint General Sturgis’ memory in this iaudabie effort, 1 would suggest to your correspondent in his next inter view to ask General Sturgis if, in the sammer of 1864, he did not march out of Memphis, Tenn., at the head of a fine division of from 7,000 to 10,000 men to at- tack General Forrest (a rebel cavairy general known to be neur and supposed Ww have about the same num- ber of men), and if he did not march with the most | indifferent ignorance right into ‘a trap’ set for hin by Forrest, get caught by surprise 60 completely that his entire command, without striking a blow, was what were rot captured sent flying back to Memphis in little detached parties, like a flock of scared sheep betore a pack of wol minos guns, knapsacks, artillery, baggage ragous’ And’ ask him if he ‘and a ef bis chosen officers’? were not among the first to arrive ip Memphis, and if he was not seen th ext day afier his revurn piaying billiards in a loon there, while his weary, bunted soldiers were straggling into town every now and then in little detached parties, while their wounded and dead comrades still lay on the feld of rout (mot battle). And if he did not remain ‘be nind’’ in Memphis while General A, J. Smith went, | with no greater numper of men and administered « sound drubbing to Forrest on the fleld of Tupalo. And, when this ‘successful Indian fighter’ bas answered | these questious, ask him if he remembers winning the | 1 of bis soldiers Ly ordering & private of tho | Second Karsas Voiunteers to be lashed to the wheel of | a cannoa and scourged with twenty lashes on his bare back, and, when be failed to find a man im that regi- ment who would execute the sentence, ordering two “regulurs” from bis own regiment to come and do the job, while he stood by to see that it was well ‘laid on;” | and {f, when all things were ready, an officer of the Se ond Kansas, at the head of his battalion, under arms, did not step forward and tell Genera! Sturgis that the sound of the first biow on their comrade’s back was the signal for bis battaliou to riddie the ‘generous, beloved General’ with bullets, and if the said General's cheek didn’t blanch with fear when he cast his eyes down the consiantly lengthening line of stern trontters- teu who faced him, and if Le didn't walk off, leaving thein to free their gawhipped comrade, When he shall buve answered all this to the satistaction of your cor- reapondent aud the readers of bis vituperative story, aud then poinied to any authenticated instance where he bas been entitled to the name of warrior, it may be a little less indecent for him to make comparisons be- tween himself and General Custer, But until then he should “lay bis mouth ty the dust.” & A. SHERBURNE, Formerly of the Twenty-seventh Iowa Infantry Vol- untecrs. SITTING BULL'S COUNTRY. [From the St. Paul Pioncer Press, July 22.) Bismakcr, D. ., July 20, 1876. ‘Tho steamer Josephine arrived this morning, with despatches trom General Terry. The command is re- ported well, The Far West reached the mouth of the Big Horn (Terry's camp) on Mondi A BATTERY WANTED. Colonel Hughes will remain here some days, super- intending the shipment of reinforcements and supplies. General Terry bas made a requisition for a battery, which Colonel Hughes hopes to take back with him It is beleved that art liery will be needed to shell the Indians (rom their position in the mouutains. 11 ia not generally believed in Terry’s command that the indians bring against them, and therefore all this preparation will go for naught. SITTING BULL ‘The Colonel does not believe Sitting Ball was killed, but concedes that the facts of the battle must come | through the agency, and that the news may be re- liable, The Powder River supply depot has been moved to the mouth of the Big Horn, and active preparations are going on for the establishment of the new posts It is thought in military circlea that a winter cam- paign will be necessary in order to subdue the Indians THR ZorrERs. Myriads of grasshoppers have been passing south- east fortwo days, flying high. This evening they are alighting on the prairie two miles east of Bismarck in clouds, They pave the appearance of volumes of smoke arising from burning prairies. They have done | no damage here so far, and the locality where thoy are | going 1s not settled. RETURN OF BLACK HILLERS, Mr. Twitchell, of Swift county, Minnesota; Benjamin Hazen, and others havo just arrived trom the Black Hills.’ Twitchell traded bis claim for a span of horses, and {8 en route for home, sufficiently well amused with the Black Hills. He few claims are paying big— from $10 to $2,200 per day, and the Wheeler Brothers have actually cleared ONK HUNDRED AND RIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS within the past three months, and their claim will last some time yet. A dozen or two others are making big money; others earning from $3 to $7 per day, but a majority are die and many are destitute. They say there is no trath in the recent report of a mining camp being raided and several killed by the Indians, but street shooting at Deadwood is of trequent occurrence, aud reveral murders growing out of claim-jumpings have been perpetrated, A staff officer in/orms me that the occupation of the Black Hills by the miners 18 an clement of strength in the operations against the Indians, as it was feared | they would fall back on the Black Hills, He regards it equal almost to a column of (roops operating in that vicinity. THE CUSTER YESTERDAY'S ADDITIONS TO THE FUND. Fach day continues to bring its mite to increase the Custer monument fund, Tho amounts forwarded are donors, whose purses are not in a condition to permit them to be as generous as they would like to be. The letters received continue, too, as fuil of sorrow for the brave soldier as when the news of the slaughter first reached us. In yesterday’s report the employés of tho Parker City Oil Exchange were, by mistake, credited with having torwarded $150, while the amount of, their sub- scription was but $75, This makes the grand total ro- ceived up to yesterday $3,807 80. The contribution of George and Mel announced as $1 in the Heratv of the 21st inat, should bave been $1 50. FROM WARREN, O10. Orrick ov G. P. & L. F. Hester, ATTORNSYS-AT-Law, WARREN, Onto, July 24, 1876. To tus Epitog or tHe Heesty:— Please tina inciosed my draft for $50, subscribed tor the Custer monument by citizens of Warren, Ohio, algo inciosed. ten times as large I! necessary. epectiully, GEORGE P, HUNTER Believing it to be a great privilege and a patriotic | duty to bold in grateful remembrauce the names of nuble men, aud particularly those who brave death in fighting the battles of our country, and believing the | laie General George A. Custer, who was killed, with nearly bis whoie iamily, on the 24h day of June last, whi'e discharging fis duty ina way that has 80 often the admiration aud love of his turnishe such a name; and association bas deen formed, with Rei ) countrymen, the purpose of receiving subscriptions and erecting & monument to the memory of the lato General Custer and the brave men who died with bun,» Now, therelore, the anversigned citizens of the city of Warren, Ouio, subscribe the amounts set opposite their names, for the object aloresuid, and direct that the fund be expended vy the Custer Monument Associ auiol Warrky, 0! George P Hunter, $1; ¢ Yeowans, $1; 4. A.’ House, $1; S. M. Laird, $1; Edward Spear, $1; 5. L. Hunt & Son, $1; Ad bons, $1; D. M. Lazarus, James Reed & Sons, $1; Kirkam M. Fitch, $1; Sdward © Webb, $1; W. Packard & Co., 3 hii, July 20, 1876 orge B. Kennedy, $1; Albert all & Mackey, $1; $1; Kirk & Christy, ss & Co, $1; Dr, Giv- $1; Van Wabrasen, $1; Hoyt, Bradford & Co., $1 Smith, $1; Peter | Guuleuger & Bro., $1; Howard Smith, 0c. ; G. Parks, 50c.; City Be Store, 500; George Adams, 500; MC. Hart, | $1; 'F. Heimer, $1; H. Bobi, 500; An: | drew Artmaa, %, Db, Johnson, $1; lddings & Mor- gan, $1; James ii, Smith, $1;'A Wentz, $1; Wiliam | Stiles’ Sons, 91; L. © Jones, $i; W. B Tylor, $1; Tiad, Ackier, $1; Charies A. Harrington, $1; Jonn Graham, 50 ceuts; Jono L. Kerndban, 00 cents; W. W. Woicott, 60 cents; D. M. Laun, 50 cents; wold, $1: H. G. Stratton & Co., 60 cents; J. R Har. mon, 50 comts; Wm. Bartlett, 81; W. B. King, 60 cou Truesdell & Townsend, $1; U. C. shompson, $1; Phin- eas Chase, $1; William Kiteze!, $1; Humphrey Harsh, $1; John M. Stecl, $1; W. H. Mohanson & Co., $1; 0. HL. ‘Hugstadt, 60 cents; D. Bishop, $1; James M'Con- nell, $1; Kneeland Gros, $1; F. M. Lease, 60 cents. Total amount, $40. THE LABORERS’ STTH The following laboring men send ve cents James Buig r, Nicholas W. , John reli, Browneli, Hhomas McCarthy, Daniel Coyle, John Speil- man, Charles Duffy, Jeferson Wilmart, Bdward Mar. | tin, George Walsh, William Gelshannen, Richi Williams, John J, McCarthy aud Jobn Stad. Total, 75 conis, RECAPITULATION. Citizens of Warren, Ohio. $50 00 3 50 % tains... ‘ to | Cwesar Scipio Jones, a evlored youth. .... we) H. J. G., a Jefferson City, Mo., schoolboy ‘ 2%! George and Mel, of York, Pa (sent on 2ist | inst. $1 50, only $1 of which was acknowl ! @iged) oc. ..6. Cy ess eseveuve * 50 | Willis Ellis, a colored coachmen, . a Mamie M., a New York school girl. le Ligne M., another New York school 16 Sarah MoNany . be Ten littie boys. ‘ Ww Total ........4. os eee $58 TS Previously acknowledged (less rror by duplication... seeeeeseee sesesee 8,807 80 GPAEG LOUD. ss seeccsessee cae vase eneees es SORT 05 testimony of all who served with him and of all who | | which you consider im cerwuin | be possible—so iar from thipking such au expression ENGLAND AND THE EAST eerie tone mre The Speech of Earl Derby to the Liberal Deputation. of the Contending Peoples. Position England Toward EFFORTS FOR PEACE. [From the London Daily Telegraph, July 15, 1876.) A “national deputation” in favor of ‘non-interven- tion in the Eastern question” waited on the Earl of Derby ut the Foreign Office yesterday to present a me- morial expressive of their views and to elicit a state- ment from the noble lord with regard to the position Of affairs in the East. Among the memoriahsts were Mr. Joho Bright, Sir T, Chambers, Sir A. Lusk, Mr. J. Ho!me, Mr. J. Chamberlain, Mr. J. Cowen, Mr. A. J. Mundella and other members of Parhament. Mr. Jobo Bright introduced the deputation, and after speeches by Mr. Bright and several other gentlemen, the tullow- ing memorial was presented :— My Lord—We have nsked permission, represonting, as we believe, a very Inrge amount of pablic opinion ia tht try, to wait upon Your Lordship co expre: ep in Fetorenee to tie present coudition of affairs im tl of Burope, While deploriag the insurrection that laa in the Luropeun provineos of Turkey, it is im- possible to doubt that this has been occasioned by a system of malgovernmont so grows and persistentiy continued in such fMagant violation of promises and pledces solemnly given, and frequently renewed, as to ren- der any prospect of ii ous hopeless. We have Satisiaction eee word spoken by Your Lordshi le, if we could, Suternal quarr by Her Mujesty’s go une hh otiier Powers to effect that Feconeiliation have proved unsuccessful, and we wish to express to Your Lordship und to the ment our profound conviction thus our country woul Justified on pholding, even by its moral in- “‘Huence, far lens by foree of the Turkish auth c with its own evoit could not acquit our- nilic opinion of the Civilized world, if we who'claim, and justly claim, to be the friends of relighous and political were to power in helping to fasten on the neck? of the oppresse subjects of the Porte @ yoke which neither they uor their fathers were able ta beur. We do not believe that Great Britain bas any true and lasting interests to subserve hy such an alliance with « cruel wnd immoral despoti<m as will make its name to be execrated by the millious of Chri: iu ull parts of European Turkey. We venture, therefore. to ress un earnest hope that the government will observe a ‘of atrict neutrality, except when it may be able to {nterposo its friendly oilices to mitigate tho horrors and tu hasten the close of the conflict that is now raging, The memorial was signed by forty members of Parlia- ment and 670 other yentlomen from ail paris of Great Britain—gentlemen from Mauchestr, Liverpool, Shef- field, Bristol, Cork, Belfast aod all the great centres, tt Wi | These memoralisis were magistrates, mayors, town councillors, manulacturers and clergymen. EARL DERBY’S REPLY. The Earl of Derby. who was reveived with cheers, sald:—Gentlemen, I am not paying you an idie cor pliment when I ‘say that, in all my Parliamentary ex- perience, whother as a “Minister recetving deputations or as a member of Parliament attending them, I never | have bad the pleasure of meeting avy more important deputation than ths, whether I regard the per- sous who compose ‘it, the representative char- acter in which they come here, the weight and force of the pubdiic opinion of which they are undoubtedly the embodiment, or the gravity and importance of the subject upon which you dosire to speak, (Applause) 1 have read your memo- rial with careful attention; L have lsteved to ail that has been said T cannot sufficiently express my approval, if { may say so, of the brevity and terseness with which i has been said. And 1 have no hesitation im telling you, in reply, that al- though there are some expressions iu the memurial with which | cannot concur, and some things are said as ty which I should prefer to reserve my opinions; still as regards the material part of the question and the conclusion to which you come—namely, your de- sire that Her Majesty’s government should obscrve a policy of strict neutrality, except when we may be *ab’e tv interpose our triendly offices to mitigate the horrors and to ten the close of the conflict that is now raging’—I say as regards that expression of opinion, YOUR’ PRELING I8 ABSOLUTELY AND ENTIRELY MINE. (Cheers) I noted what was sau by your distinguished leader, Mr. Bright, as to there beg 00 disposition to express —suspl- sion or throw diame on the — government, and for my own part, so far from thinking that you are doing anything unwise or premature wien you come bere to express your opinions im regard to events which you do hot suppose are impending, but contingencies 10 of opimion on your part Premature, I think that any Minister would be glad to know im time what your opinion (“Hear”) I have often thought that it 1s one of the most difficult parts of the duty of a Minister, that being, as he 1s m practice, a servant ot the Parliament and of the public, as well as of the Crown, he doesnct always receive bis instructions trom his em- pioyers, but is leit to guess at what 11 is they desire, and only ascertains their real opinion when he finds he has goue against it, (Laughter.). I hope there is no risk of thatkind im ourcase, (“Hear."’) 1 wilijust com- ment on one remark made by a gentleman who spoke bere, who, while admitting that reticence ts necessary While negotiations are going On, said no thought the silence of the governme.t had been unfortunate Now, I must beg you to remember that, in the first place, I Dave not retused to answer the questions that have been put to me in Parliament, and in the next placo—whicn is perbaps more importani—that the silence we have maintained was simply maintained so long as those ne- gotiaiions we: going on which many people expected, though I canncysee why, would end in preventing war, There would have been’ an obvious inconvenience 80 long as there was hope of the quarrel being settled by pacific meang {n publishing many expressions of opin- ton which could not fail to stimulate passion on both sides; but on the day when it became evident that our hopes were in vain, that the crisis had come, and that war, nothwithstanding the efforts of Kurope, was about to take place, we atated at ouce that all cause for reserve’ was at an end. We are now prepared to lay the correspot.dence before Parliament—indeed, if i 18 not already on ine tables, it will be so im tue course of a few days. the de- lay which bas taken place being solely on account of” the voluminous character of the correspondence, (Hear. "") I think, if | understand you aright, that you come bere to express the apprehension which you * think is wide'y entertained that in consequence of the turn events ure taking, and something our government may have done or abstained from doing, we might find ourseives committed to support one parii- cular party to the quarrel, A gentioman whom I always lixten to with respect—a gentieman who sits on my own side in Pariwinent—has named two circom- stances which tended, as be thought, to produce that impression on the public mind. One of these circum. stances was OUR KEVUSAL TO JOIN IN THR BERLIN MEMORANDUM, noi note, becanse the note was uever presented. The other circumsiane® was our sending up ships of war to Besika Bay. It was said that these acts indicated our readiness to take part in protecting Turkey. in regard to the Berlin memorandum, the reason why we declined to join in its presen- tation wili be found stated in the papers when they are laid betore Parliament. 1 need not go into it fully now, aud it will be enough to say that our refusal was solely on the ground which I stavea the other day in the House of Lords, namely, that we thought the par- ticular plan proposed in ‘the Memgraudum was one which would not work. (Heir.) We did not betie tuat the Porte would be wiiling to accept it, and we did not think that a considerable body of the insurgents would accept it More than ‘that, Knowing, as we did, that the Memorandum was the result of & compromise come to by governments who, although anxious to act together, were not entirely agreed as to the course that should be taken, we entertained the apprehension that if itcame to be worked out tm practice the different parties might put diferent constructions on the same words, and that it would end, end, io a general misu was our answer in the m ear. ) er, aud, though | must not violate official confidences, ! think | may say that I think our action bas not been yiowed with distavor, even im quarters where it was at first not under- stood. ) With regard to bringing up ail the fivot to Besika Bay, there again you will bave advantage in the papers of amore full and detailed expinnation than it ts pos- sible for me to give bere; bat | may say this in passing that the construction pat upon it would have been very different if those yho criticisea it bad been following up step by step the course of events which led to iu (*Hear!’) At the lime when it was supposed the Presentation of the Berlin note was about to take place, and when tt of the jate Sultan was impend- ing the state of things at Constantinople aud ib the country Doar was caiculaied to inspite serious appre- heusion as to what might ensue, ‘The lute Sultan was weil Known {o be in a condition not tar from insanity tL was votorious that discontent and disaffec- tion unaniieusiy provailed, = The — wildest re- jorts were circulated as to the intentions of the owers and the steps to be taken by them against Mo- bammedans asa body; in short, the staie of excite. ment Was so general that 1t was impossible for any one ing out of 4 SANGUINARY CIVIL WAR, accompanied by a massacre of Christian subjects. Pre- vious (0 (Dis two foreign consis had been murdered ander circumstances whieh showed a strong and gen- eral pubhe excitement Under those circumstances the ambaseadors of the various great Powers met to- gether, and, alter consulting for the common safosy, uboDimousiy agreed as te the expediency of obtaining for unofiending persons such armed force as It was pos- sible to proc the initial in the matter was thereiore tuken from Constantinople, here, although [ take the responsibility of 1 W is, perhaps, more important to recolicet 1s that th Was not taken by the English government nor by English Amb ssador; it wae a step taken by us as one nd hot Irom uit oO! and acting in concert with the other Powers. When you talk of fieets it happens that our, consid. erably the biggost; but the facts are gent asl bave stated ‘them, ang i tink you will admit that chey do not lead to the inferences which bave been popu- larly drawn, (‘‘Hear!”) Now, I quite agree in whas was said by the gentleman who spoke tersely, and much to the purpose. as to the necessary limits hu- man sagacity in political matters. We can see what ia imruediately betore as—I do not kpow that all of us can even do that—(laughter)—but it is diMeult to | Judge beyond that. So tar aé it 1 possible lor any 0! to judge, however, 1 think itis the most im thiag in the world that, in consequence of the events now passing in the Turkish Empire, agenora! European war will eueue. (Cleers,) That seetns to be one of those hypotheses whieh Is so remote as to be scarcely worth speculating upon. | do notsee THE QUARTER PROM WHICH A WAR WOULD COME, One must discuss with some reserve the position and the tendencies ef foreign governments, France and | Italy, for Gnancial ava other reasons, are utterly indis- posed to take any step which would create a general war. It is well known teat the German governme: and the German people as weil, baying ng iteres: which directly connect them with the Fast, this question with far less interest than has been ced im other places, In point of fact I do not think 1 shail be going beyond the trath jf 1 say they only regard it as important im this point of view, just in so far aa it may lead to complica- tions im other parts of Europe. There only remain Austria and Russia. Now I will not so insult pe understanding as to assume that there can be any’ | here who supposes that England wants to go to wi (Applause.) Against our inclination we might be drawn into it, but a European war would be of the greatest of misfortunes, Well, Austria has a position which has peculiari ses and difficulties of tsown. She has a system of adininistration whieh, under her cir- cumstances, is no doubt a necessity, but which renders it difficult tor ber lo begin undertakings of an aggressive paiure. She has in her Empire great diversity of races, | as we all know, and as her interests and ner security would be endangered by a great cqnvulsion in that part of Europe, almost as much as those of Turkey, you may be sure that the Austrian government will not de- sire to break the peace. (‘Hear!”) What about the government and the peoplo of Russia’ Everybody knows that there is among a large part of the Ri population a very strong sympathy with the movement which 1s vow going on in Turkey. ( There are no doubt many powerful bodies whieh desire not merely the relief of oppression, but THE FORMATION OP AN IMPORTANT SLAVONIC EMPIRE under Russian guidance. If, however, one thing ts | certain in t: is world it is that the Emperor et Russia, upon Whose personal will and disposition more tarns than on thatofany other man, 18 a sincere lover of peace, (Cheers) The condition of Russian finance, dificulties more than we are aware of here of Rus administration and various other causes which | ne not go into, would make an aggressive policy at th resent time utterly unsuited to the interests of the ussian Empire, (*Hear.”) If any additional evidence asto the trath of what I am saying were wanted [ should find it in the fact of that under- standing to which I have referred—I mean. that understanding arrived at by the Emperors ot Austria and Russian in their recent inter- view, that understanding proceeding exactly upon the basi ‘hich you lay down, and which I assent to— namely, that of rigid absolute non-intorvention while this struggle continues, such non-intervention not, of course, excluaing any efforts that may seem cal- culated to lead to good results, efforts of mediation. I understand it is expressly added to the arrangement come to that if anything is attempted it 18 to be done if possible by concert of ali the great European Powers Gentlemen, 1 say again 1 do not see what, under these circumstances, there is to lead to war. (Cheers). You do not think that we have nothing to do with the East, that we mean to give no advice, exercise no influence and profess en- tire indifference to what is going on. In ponnt of fact, since | entered this room some gentlemen h: spoken 1n an exactly opposite sense. The doctrine of absolute jodifference is not one which this country ever b: professed, and I do not think it is one which would be popular with the nation at iarge. (Hear.) WE HAVE A GREAT POSITION IN EUROPE, and, with nations as with individuals, a great position involves great responsibilities, We cannot ab- solutely decline to accept our responsibili- ties—(hear)—tor if every nation that had reached & certain etage of civilization were to adopt the principle of non-Intervention in its absolute and ex- treme form, and say, “‘We will never meddle in apy international questions¢ unless our own interests aro touched,’ the eflect of that would be to leave the regu- lation of ali international affairs to nations which have not reached that state of civilization. (Hear.) If the voice of England in questions such as those which we aro now discussing were to be silenced altogether there would be one voice less heard 01 the side of pence. (Hear, hear.) No one is more strongly in favor of — non-in- tervention, within reasonabie limits, than I am— (hear, hear)—but we must push no doctrine to extremes, and an absolute declaration of non-intervention on all occa- sions would be a prociamation of international apathy, and I need not tell you that international apathy does not mean either peace or progress, I believe you wish me to deal with you frankly. We have done what was in our power to prevent vhis war trom breaking ont. in that we have failed, We shall now do all in our power to keep the war within certain limits, As regards intervention between Turkey and the subjects of the Porte, or between Turkey and its dependent States, that 18 a qac¢stion which bas never becn entrotained. We have etdeavored to press that view upon others, and I think we shall succeed. If, as has been sajd, Turkey is now in a state of decay {rom internal causes, I pro- nounce no opinion upon that; but It it be so, it is clear that merely external assistance would be no remedy. (Cheers.) The utmost that can be asked of us is that we should undertake to see fair play. We undoubtedly undertook twenty years ago to guarantee the Sick Mau against murder, but we never guaranteed him against suicide or morial diseaso, (‘‘Hear, hear, and laughter.) That is our position. As regards th war which is now going on we shall not interven We shail do our utmost, if necessary, to discourage others from intervening; but I do not tumk that onder present circumstances that will be necessary. If an opportunity for mediation should present liself, and that does not seem to be an unlikely event, we shall gladly avail ourselves of it; but while retainin, are bound to do, our own freedom of action and jud ment, we attach quite as mach importance as the other Powers with whom we have acted to that eral un- derstanding among great European States which is the best and surest guarantee of peace. (Cheers) Mr, Bright thanked the noble Karl tor the statement he had made to the deputation, a statement which he wag sure would be received with the most intense sat- isfaction throughout the country, and wouid tend to revive those commercial and industrial interests which from some cause or other had lately been considerably depressed, (Cheers.) ‘Tho doicgation then withdrew, DRY GOODS AUCTION. ‘There was another large dry goods sale yesterday at the salesrooms of Townsend, Montant-& Co, The goods consisted of dannels, meitons, tweeds, cotton goods, &c,, of which 10,000 cases were offered for sale, Most of the iarge houses in the trade had representa tives present, The conditions of the sale wero ap- proved notes at four months for allsams over $100, and cash for sums under. The foliowing are some of the prices reaiized:—One lot of 126 cases of Loweil | 10-4 brown sheeting brought Ibe. a 15440 per yard, A Another lot of the same sort brought 17¢. a 1734 lot of 139 cases of Lancaster 10-6 brown she sold at l4',c, and a smaiier lot the brought 16 %c. 6%c.. Monadnock 3-4 brown sheet ings sold for 12%¢.; the same brand, 9-4, M. S., brought 13% ¢., and 23 cases of the same, 5-4, bleached, M.S, sold for 14%. Fuity bates Clark’s mills indigo blue denims, extra heavy, marked 1,207, went for 1 30 bales more at 12\c,;60 more, brown, 11%, #120. and 20 bales striped, 113gc. a 115;¢. One hundred balet of No. 2, 23-inch plain scarlet funnel, E. W. W., sold at 14‘sc. a 147,¢., and 70 bales of same, marked We F., went at I6c. Some bales of Talbot 3-4 plain scarlet diamond M, wentat 19c. Other goods went at equally low rates, the prices averaging throughout ‘about tea percent in advance of those realized ut last week's auctions, POLICE BOARD. The Board of Police met yesterday afternoon, when the following patrolmen were promoted to roundsmen and sent to the precincts opposite their names:—Charies H. Fuller, of the Twenty-filth, to the Eightn; William O'Toole, of the Fourth, to the Tenth; Jonna Piggott, of the Twenty-fifth. to the Fifteenth; Charles A. Reinisch, of tho Central Office. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Several firemen having been injarod by falling down hatchways which had been carelossly left open by the occupants of buildings io the lower part of the city, the Fire Commissioners are about to take measures to enforce the jaw ca this subject. The Board will aiso consider several complaints that have been made against the drivers of steamers, tenders and tracks, on account of their carelessness in driving, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. Comptroiler Green figned warrants yesterday on the following accounts and transmitted the same to the Mayor for his counter signature:— luterest on the city debt. $8,770 Laying Croton water pipes 6,065 Assessment tand, 128,369 The Comptrotier al paid yesterday the lavorers engaged in laying Croton water pipes for the twa weeks eading July 15. The rolls amounted to $5,065, HIS LAS? LEAP. On Thursday night last an onknown man plunged of the ferryboat Hoboken, while on her way from | Christopher street to Hoboken, and was drowned. As to (eel assured that it might not have led to the break- | be sprang into the water he shouted ont, ‘Goodb; ail! Before taking tis taial leap he irew bis, oom and hat on the deck of the boat. Yesterday they wero recognized as the property of Reinhardt Greschen, of No, 400 West Filtiett street, who 18 reported to have lost mach money recentiy at ihe gambling table, The deceased leaves a wife and two children. THE FLOATING HOSPITAL. Yesterday the Floating Hospital was towed out on ite eleventh excursion, through the benevolence of the petroleum trade, with 1,294 little oes on board, The sick were tenderly cated for by a corps of volunteer physicians and careiul ourkes. Wholesome foot was | prepared for those who could pertake of it, and musia was furnished to animate aud cheer the comvalescent, The cool breezes vi the water did the rest