The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1877, Page 5

THE SURRENDERED HOSTILES. Scenes of Indian Life at Red Cloud Agency. THE SAVAGE DRAMA. The New Indian Policy on Trial, . Rep Croup Acxycy, Neb., May 2, 1877. Your correspondent reached this place on the 25th of last month after a sufficiently tiresome rid® of twenty-seven hours by stage from Sidney, Neb, a Dustling and, pretentious village on the line of the Union Pacific Ratlroud, From that point to the Red Cloud Agency the road runs nearly due north, passing through a well-watered region, apparently fincly Suited for grazing purposes. Tho stage had a dozen Passongers, all, excepting your correspondent, bound for the Biaék “Hills, while at short intervals along the oad heavy trains were passea having the sume des- tunation, ag Upon reaching this point it was found that the very rainy weatber which has prevailed for some weoks Past had considerably delayed the progress of Crazy Horso’s band, which, instead of getting to the agency by the 28th of April, as at tirst expected, would not be ble tv make tho journey until a week later. The in- tervening time, however, could not prove wearisome, especially to a stranger who might be able to find in tho customs und manoors of the Indians much of in- terest to employ his pen. THE SURRENDERED NOSTILES, The first visit made was to the camp of the Chey- ennes, Whowurrendercd here under their old chief, Dull Knife, about three weeks since, They numbor nearly six hundred, and aro a fine looking race, the men being tall and soldierly and tho children vory bright in appearance, The womev, who do all the drudgery about the lodges, are generally haggard and cCareworn, These people are entirely destitute, and Dayen’t even tho commonest necessaries of life. Their village was dostroyed by General Crook’s cavalry in November last, under command of General Macken- zie, who wus led to tho canyon in which the Chey- ennes wore hvingyby the company of Sioux and Ara- pahoes and friendly Cheyenne soldiers enlisted in the United States service. The Cheyennes say thoy suffered terribly in that engagement, their Village of 200 lodges was burned to the ground, ana ery thing thoy nad ‘n the world destroyed. ‘Thirty ot their warriors were killod and forty wounded, whilo noxt only to that in severity was the loss of nearly two- thirds of their herd of ponies, killed, wounded and captured by the sroops, As this happened in the lat- ter part of November, and as the winters in Wyoming aro exceptionally severe, the sufferings and privations of the Uhoyennes may be imagined better than de- scribed, When tho Cheyennes discovered that the white men had made an alliance with somo of their own people thoir courage began to fat. They could not procure food for their women and children, because Touch of their ammunition and many of their guns bad fallen ipto the hands ofthe troops. They had been driven from their village at daylight, and very many of thom had not saved even a blanket. They were encumbered with wounded, for whom they could provide nothing. Added to all this was tho appalling thought thatthe ‘roops might burst in upon them again at. @vy momen Accordingly a large body, num- bering some hundreds, under one of their priv- cipal chief, Little Wolf, came into Red Cloud Agoncy early in March, and made an unconditional surrender, only asking permission to sond runners out to the rest of their band apd tell them they too would be allowed to surrender, ‘be Cheyennes complained witb mych bitterness of the unkindness of the Northern Sioux, who bad not treated them with any ‘generosity in the hour of their suffering. They wished ‘to retaliute upon the Sioux by enlisting as soldiers in the ranks of the white man and going out to destroy Crazy Horse's village. SPOTTED TAIL'S FRISNDSINP, It was to frustrate this movement that Spotted Tati, head chief of the Sioux, devermined to go out in person to meet Crazy Horse aud induce him to sur- vender before the white man and his flerce Cheyenne alites could swoop down upon bim. A word ubout tho Indian soldiers may not be out of place. They number oniy 209, but are picked out from among all the In- “dinns at the Red Cloud and Spotted ‘Tall agencies, and May be taken as representative men of the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahoe nations. They are mus- jtered in ad paid exactly the sume as white soldiers, but are not drill probably Decauso they naturally know moro avout cavairy tac- ties than any officer in the army. They are divided iuto four companies, each of which is kept under charge of a commissioned officer, while the warrant or Bon-comnissioned officers are full-blooded Indians. The government supplies them with arms and ammu- Bition, but the Indians provide their own ponies. As an internal police they are most effective, as your cor- respondent can assert from his own knowledge, Their Invaluable qualities as scouts and guides is testified to by all the officers and soldiers who have campaigned in thor company; wonderlul stories are related of their keenness of vision, their powers of endurance and their skill as riders and marksmen, Since your cor- respondent bas been here not a day has elapsed with- out their bringing up to the military headquarters one, two, three or half adozen youag warriors who be- longed tv the Northern bands and who had come into the agency. These have aiways been disarmed and tivir ponies taken from them, While their names and uumbers have been duly registered. ‘ue Indian soldiers claim that they wish to haye peace, but that the Northern Sioux have always kept Ab war and tnat the only way to bring the bostiles to tovir seases 16 for tho agency Iudiacs to join the white soluiers, DIVIDE AND CONQUER. This plan of making Indiaus dyht Indians ts the key- stone of the wonderful success General Crook bas met with in bis management of the wild tribes, From all accounts he does not place much depenuence in the lity of United States troops to cope alone with the aborigines of the plains, Aud there is much justice In this idea, if what army peopie say is haif true [t is agserted that at this prosent moment fully one-third ot the regular army 1s composed of raw recruits who touldn’t hit a barn door at thirty paces three titnes out of five, and who, when toid to get upon a horse ap. prouch him with an air of despondency as if they were about to mount a crocodile, ‘These are the men our tion sends into the fleld to conquer Indians who been born on horseback, who shoot down their gaine while at jull run, whose greatest trophy is the alp of the enemy siain in single combat, © Under- Stand, in writing the above there ts no intention of casting odium upon the regular army; its oflicers bear a bigh reputation, aud that reputation bas been Rained under ,reat disidvantages; but it is no more than just to point out the exact condition of affairs on the frontier, so tbat people in the East inay have their eyes opened. ludeed, one of the surrendered Minne- conjou warriors said yesterday :—"*We wunt to shake hands now. We dov’t want any more fighting. Wo e hot wiraid of the white soldiers, We can always siecp well when they come after us, But now that this chief (meaning Geueral Crook) has brought our own people out against us we can’t Oght. We aro so Airaid wo can’t sleeps and our squaws and children can’t sleep because they are uirald wll the time. They are afraid that our villages may bo attucked at brouk of aay and destroyed like the Ctreyenne village was last winter (by Goneral Mackenzio) When a strange Bioux comes into our village we aro all afraid he is ouo of General Crook's spies, and wo set young men to watch him while with us and vo follow him back to ¢ Where he goes." ‘THK WUITR CIIRPS. ‘The general management of Lue Indian companies is upder the care of Licutenant Ciark, of the Second cavairy, and Colonel Randell, of the Twenty-ftth ine fantry, both members of General Crovk’s étall, who have had great experience upon the fronuer’ and evince excellent quaiifications for the positions they hold. Tho muster roll of these Indian soldiers reads like a page from one of Cooper's nov First Sergeants Spoited Tail, Sharp i dor and Red Cloud; Sergeants ps the Battio, Pretty-Voiced Bull, Yellow Shirt, Little Wolf, Fire Grow, Young Man Afraid of His’ Horses and ‘Ragle Yau; Corporals Dull Knife, Standing Kik, Yellow Gear, Roman Nose, Makes thom'Stund Up, Ciiinvs the Hill, Broken Jaw, Black Foot, Pawnee Killer, and so on to theend, The 200 privates bear equally bigh sounding names as the above, but as they are not so prominent in their tribes the list may be omitted, WHAT THK KED CHIMP WANTS Noarly every one of those mentioned is distinguished looking, and all have claims to prowineuce among their own people, us legisiatora as well ag warrio Spotted Tail, wuo has come more prominently betore the Eastern puplic than any of the others, is the prin- sipal chief of the Sioux nation, and by birth a Bruté Sioux. Me 18 between forty and dity years old, about ediam height and build, with a countenance ex- pressive of intelligence, kindness and resolution, He tw extremely desirous of having all the Indians suit. ubly placed on reservations and taught the arts of labor. He wants tho’ government to send honest traders to bis reservation, ana doesn’t appear w un- derstand how it is ap Indian can get no more than $2 ing to have them sent, 1t seems that many years ago a band of missionarios of that persuasion, under the leadership of Smet, or “Father De et,” ied, came among these wild Indians and labored in this forbidding part of the Lord’s vineyard until thoy diod, The In- dians are said to cherish their memory to this day. Spotted Tail also asks that army officers jain in charge of his ageucy; he says he wants hia children “to get enough to eut and to keep fat”? The impres- sion strangers receive of Spotted Tail and the other chiefs 15 thut they are generally a very ‘‘ievel-headed”’ setof men, and that if they could be made to respect our government they would be glad to cultivate its iriendship and imitate the mode of lile of our people. But they see we are dilatory in war, that our army is very small and scattered in petty garrisons; hence they have never teared us ip battie, while they Mind that in peace our faith is punic and that our promises are written in water. ,1t is more than ten years since wi promised to instruct them in the urts of civilizition, but nothing has ever been done, and with the excep- tion of teaching them to nake bread and oveps to bake it tn, which General Crook has commenced, it is hard to gay that anything is about to be done, ‘A PRACTICAL BUGGESTION, Your correspondent doesn’t pretend to any great amount of knowledye tn Indian affairs, and bas not been tong enough West to give the government any valuable lessons as to the way in which its wards should be managed; yet the concurrent testamuny of everybody points strongly to che necessity of com- Meneing with the children, The great obstacle to this plan 18 that the youngst too much under the influence of their parents. Then why not tako them away from that influencer Why not establish in the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska or some such central poiut, where lund is cheap and good, a government jarm and workshop capable of accommodating 500 or 600 Indian boys and giris, 8e- lected irom the different tribes, to be taught English exclusively, to be instructed in suitable handicralts, as well as in farming avd vegetable gar- dening, aod at the end of their course of siudy to be sent back to their people? This idea is very crude and almost without shape, but if tho HuRa.p will only take it up, criticism will soou refine und polish ij The Indian boys, alter graduation, could be admitted into the ranks of the Indiwn soidiery, as long as any such might be neces- sary, und the girls could be employed teach their young companions how to sew, bake, stew and roast, or whatever else they themselves bad jearned. ‘Lhe idea entertained by sapy very well informed people that the Indian is a stolid and impassive creature, without joy or amusement in bis life, 18 erroneous and without foundation, The “red men’? when among themselves are very jovial and fond of games and dances. The young people are expert iu the pastirue, calied in English, “shinuy.” Both sexes take part; sometimes as many as 800 may bo seen swarming over the hillocks and sending the ball lorward bundreas of feevata stroke, ‘Their dances are curtous and inter- esting and may be regarded 48 a substitute lor tue drama, ball and concert of civilized races, INDIAN, AMUSEMENTS. Tho ‘Omaha dance” is pertormed by fo: filty to seventy-five persons, who belong to regularly organ ized companies in each nation, ‘These pertorters are arrayed most fantastically and grotesquely, each 1n- dividual giving full rem to his fancy in tho matter of dress, no two having uny decoration in common, except the beaddresses, which are uuiiorm, and the strings and ropes ot b gach one wraps about him, The pe: formers divest tho upper part of the body ot nearly all clothing, compensating for its absence by an exirava- use Gr paint, Their dresses aro 80 “low-necked,"? in tact, that were it not tor the difference of sex it would be easy to imagine one’s self at a ‘ull dross’? reception in Washington or New York. The Indian men share the opinion beld by so many amiubie young white ladies, that the less dress one wears the bet- ter prepared ar. they to assist at a testive meeting; the young {ndian girls, on the other hand, offer a good ex- ample tor the imitation of their Eastern sisters, and some of them at least look just as well, But to got back to the “Omaha dance.’ Tne young men are painted from head to foot in stripes and daubs of ver- milion, purple and yellow, their faces as hideous as pigments can make them, and each man determined to outdo his fellows in screeching and stamping, The erformers stund in a.large circle, While near by may 6 seen a group of women and men Who aro to act as “chorus”? Three or four masters of the feast, or major domos, mounted on ponies, next mako their ap- pearance. ‘Thesv are dressed with a wealth of barbaric maguificoncs, Ewch wears a ‘war bonnet” or hat, consisting of a circlet of engle feathers and ‘streamer’ of scarlet clot, ornamented with ieathers, trailing down to the ground. It is about as beautiful a beau- dress as man oould devise, and the wearers look as it they felt tho importance attached to the right to use them, INDIAN DRAMA, A yelp from cno of he masters of ceremonies causus all the dancers vo stand erect; another signal, and all, dancers and chorus alike, brenk intoa dirge-like chant, ending with a shrill, stridulous war whoop, atter which a rush is made toward the centre of the circle and a regular old-lashioned plantativn “breakdown” is commenced, and kept up for at least five minutes, every warrior brandishing his tomabawk and yelping likeawolf. This ends the first division ot the dauce, The choristers keep silent aud the dancers remain steady 1n heir places, while oue of their uumber 13 conducted within tho circle, and the spectators are In- formed that Black Bird will show how he stole borses from the Pawnees; bow they discovered him-—— the method of his flight; how the Pawnees overhaul bim—bis fight; how he fails wounded and 1 about to drop under the scalping Knife, when Charging Crow rushes in, beats off the enemy and saves his friend. The breathless spectators look on the pantomime, true to life, proceeds, It 18 not casy to represent vividly in writing what the savage por- trayed so artistically in dumb show, Ho went through the motions of creeping in upon the enemy’s herd, seizing one Oi their animals, mounting it and driving off a number. But the sound of the war whoop tells him his escape is not to be easy. He caste a hasty lock behind, only to see the enemy hot upon Lis track, Vainly he plies the whip, vainly be urges on- ward his flying beast. It 1s a race for lite, but the gon), death, shall soon be reached. The enemy have surrounded him, he fights with desperation, but in vain, He falls," overcome by wounds, and swoons away; the feelings of the excited spoctators are by this time Wrought up to tho highest piten, and cus the deiiverer, in the person of tho “Charging Wow,” makes a bold rush into the midst of the enemy and puis them te flight their enthusiasm finds vert in pro- Jongea howls ana ululation, Charging Crow leads Black wird to his place tn the circle, while the chorus resumes its well meant but poorly managed efforts in music, aided by the pounding of druma and shaking of rattles, which to the Indian mind is melody more barmonious than the Symphonies of Beethoven, CHARITY. Old women step into the ring and spread upon the ground biankets and pleces of ico tor the use of the poor and infirm, who can come in and help the selves, The generosny of the Indians to each oth, pot Tae occasions 01 festivity is @ plousing featare which lights up the generally saturuine uspect of character ascribed to them, The *“Omaba dance” js quite jong, lasting three and even four bours. It at tracts immense crowds of women and children, not seldom numbering thousands, Indeed, the swarm of youngsters in an Indian village js only equalled by the pack otf curs of low deireo which assail the pedostrian, poacoably passing along the village street, It is somo consola- tion to Know that the Indians eat the ugiy ttle brutes (the dogs, not tho childrea), and that when any un- usual event is to be commemorated a dozen or 80 of mangy pups are strangled and cast into the melting pot. THe “SQUAW DANCr.” Another dance given during the past woek in called the squaw cance,’’ none but women being allowed to participate. This is remarkable for nothing except the beautitul dresses worn by the dancers. These ure long gowns, reaching {rom tho neck to the teet and literally encrusted with beads, From the cullar to the waist the beads form a solid coat of mail; the sleeves, likewise, are studded with the tiny crystals, while the skirt and waist are profusely ornamented. These dresses are very pretty 1 theingelves and becoming to their wearers, One privilege the squaws have in (his dance t# to choose partners Irom the male bystander the handsomest only are supposed to be sclecie Your special had a very warrow escapo; an old squaw pondered in doubt tor a long while, bat finaily walked off wish a croge-eyed man just in from the Black Hills, The‘third dunce given this week was by the Chey- enpes alone, ‘they call 1b the “spoon”? dance, It varies slightly trom the “Omaba,” principally in having a more liberal allowance Of rattle acd bi-s drum, The dresses used wero nearly all of red cloth, which they borrowed from the Sioux. THY NEW EXPERIMENT, Itis now proper to make a tew remarks touching the probabie chances of war in this part of the coun- try during the coming summer, Of course Crook's administration of Indian affairs, so far ag it applies to the Sioux, mast be looked upon bold experiment, But like cvery otuer experiment, no matter bow bold, its success will demonsirate its value. It ty no more than simple justice to Cri fo gay that be has pursued in other departments and with Marked success the samo course ho has followed since coming to the valley of tho Platte, He endeavored last spring to enlist a body of friendly Sioux ut this agency, but was prevented by Inspector Vandever. The miserable fizzie of the sum- mer’s campaign showed that somebody was wrong, and the brilliancy of that undertaken later in tue fall, alter the Indians had been turned over to the military and began to assist them, proved that Cruok was right The only way to tight the American Indians, with our miserable peace estavlisuinent, is to make them fight each other, A great deal bas been said in this connection of the “hardy mountaineer,” Of the Claims of this mythical individual to @ position of eminence as an indiun fighter it 18 not the province ot & pew arrival in tho Western country to speak with confidence; but it does iook us if a brilliant opportu- nity for the h. im, aforesaid to distinguish himself tn bis favorite capacity was lowt inthe Black Hills the other day, when a smail party of not more than thirty Indians kept 2,000 men in Deadwood im avject terror until a litte detachment of cavalry could be hurried out to their assistence trom this post, The relative vaines of the civil agent and miitury agent have been brought to @ crucial test at the Sioux agencies. Where tue civil agent “ estimated’? yesterday that there wero 8,000 Indians, the military officiai will to-day “count” 6,500 or 5,600, Somebody fouad the Red Cloud and Spotted Tati agencies @ nest-ogg of plunder and protli, aud if military rule bas done pothing more than in- troduce an element of honesty into Indian administra- tion, it has done much, Truly there must bo good men among Indian agents, and there must be bad o: aimeng army officera. The churches cannot alw: make bad nominations, and the military commanders aro not always certain to make suitable selections, Yot, that there ts a difference in favor of tuo uriny, and largely in thoir favor, 18 generally admitted, The reason of this diflerence may be found in the fact, not that the army officer is constitutionally more honest or more capable than the representatives ot the religions creeds, but rather in the circumstances of bis life; he holds his commission as ,long a8 he behaves himsell feels that there ts attacled to ita social jp to be hastily jeopardized, lis jong expe ce on the have priesis of the Roman Catholic Church como for a hide when a white man gots $3 He wishos to among lus people, Ho says he ts almost tired of ask. frontiers in looking alter a company of men, seeing that they are properly clothed and Jed, and atienaing to all the details and accounts of garrison discipline, | driver was urresiod and locked up, ualify him beyond most men for the care of Indians. rt is absurd to say that army officers are the only men to manage Indian agencies, but it is not absurd to as- sert that more first class agents cau bo found by detail. ing selected officers than by any other method yet tried. The presence of soldiers on the reservations seems to have a salutary effect. Tbe agent has force to back him, and the ill-disposed Indian kuows it, He doesn’t tear the soldier in the depths of the mountains or in the brakes of Powder River, but be does stand ip awe of him drawn up im live ready to do the bidding on the reservation. The methodical, business- like way tho army officers have of managing aflairs merits attention, First, they enlist a body of In- dians a8 scouts to discover the hiding places of the hostile bands and to run olf their horses and help in burning their village. Then, when the hostile Chey- enne and Sioux tee! that they vave bad enough of war d come in to surrender, the ludian soldiers “round hem up’’ and take away their arms and pouies. They keep order iu the camps. The pay they receive rom the puymaster is sufficient to give them @ bigh Piace in the of their people and to make the posi- tion of Indian soldier eagerly sougut after, ‘The instruction of the aborigines in tho useful arts, first of which is tho making of good bread, must not be contemned, and if General Crook succeeds, a8 every friend of peace aud humanity will hope he may, 1b restraining the Sioux from war and in leading them by the band ove or two steps ulong the path of prog- ress, he will have dono wliat no general of our army has ever before done and which very tew huve attempted, Tho total number of Sioux and Cheyenves surrender- iny at these agencies, in the past six weeks, is not far from 2,500—m women and children—which number will be tncreased by 1,300 to 1,500 when Crazy Horse's band shall arrive here, the day after to-morrow, General Crook, with several of bis staff officers, left here on the 28th ult., en route to Chicago, there to arrange with General Sheridan a plan tor the manage- ment and maintenance of this great accession to the agencies. What Crook’s views are is vot known, but his past success justifies the sanguine predictions of his bumerous admirers on the frontier that he will soon have “things straightened out all mghy’”? ART MATTERS. SALE OF BARON GRANT'S COLLECTION, The following 13 a detailed list of prices obtained tn the first day’s sale of Baron Grant’s coliection of pice tures, which were lately sold in Londou by Christie & Manson THE WATER COLORS. The water color drawings were trat disposed of. Birkét Foster's Teaching Polly to Dance, said to have ‘cost $2,300, fell to the bid of Mr. Agnew at $1,400. ‘Two of Louis Haghe’s drawings were next offered. The tirst, the Interior of Milan Cathedral, was bought by Dr. Pocock jor $1,026, while the second, A happy ‘Prio, did not get beyond the second hid of $745 by Mr. Agnew. A pair by W. Huot realized the mighest prices of the day fer water colors, ‘ihe first was Grace Belore Meat—a ploughboy sitting down on an empty barrel to his dinner of bacon and potatoes. Lt realized somothing like $2,000 at the Farnworth sale, aad when. put up at $240 jumped ata bid to $1,000, from which Point a spirited competition took place, resulting in dir, Agnew becoming its possessor at $1,560. Tho second was Summer Flowers and Karly Fruits, which tell 0 Mr. Agnew at $1,900, ihe ame gentieman pur- chasing the next lot by Cattermolea, The Baron's Hall, well known from the engraving. It is said to have been purchased by the late Sir F. G, Moon trom the arust, and it was sold at bis sale tor $2,100; Mr. Agnew obtained it for $1,400, THE PICTURES. There was a spirited competition for a charming picture by F. D, Hardy, The Quartewte yj; trom $1,900, the upset price, ix was run up at once to $3,500, and then fell at an advance of $300 nore to Mr. White, J. 'f. Linnell’s Opening the Gato was sold, after a sbarp competition, to Mr, Agnew for $3,150 J. R. Her- berv’s, R.A, The Holy Family, exuibited in 1360, und which realized something like $3,600 at the Furnworth sale, did not get beyond $42,200. Tho Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania, by D: Maclise, R.A., for which Mr. Grant is suid to have given $3,750, fetched loss than half that sum, falling for $1,750 to Mr. Hildyara, A noble pair of pictures by R, Ansdell, ‘The Wounded Ram, with view ot Loch Frieg and Scotch Sheep, were bought by Mr. Agnew tor $2,575 and $2,625, Herm- tone, by C. R. Leshe, R.A., fetches $1,750 trom Mr. Agnew. David Roberts’ grand View of Jerusalem, which came from tue collection of the Earl ot Warwick, was bought by Mr, Gilbert for $1,675, the same gen- tleman acquiring Joho Linnell’s Collecting the Fiock tor $2,750, ‘The prices of the principal remaining pictures wero as tollows:—King Charles I, Leaving Westminstor Hall after Sentence of Deuth, by sir J. Gubert, R. A, $3,200; Faistaif Personating the King, by C. RK. Lesh K.'A., $7,250; Tho Head of the House ef Prayer, by F. Goodall, KR, A., exhibited in 1872, $5,760; Sterne’s Maria, by W. P. Frith, $2,500; The Road to Seville, by R. Ansdell, R. A., 23,300; J.'C, Hook’s Are Chimney Sweepers Always Black? purchased at the Farnsworth | sale for $7,500, $5.6 Jlarkson Stanteld’s Lago di Gar- da, $5,600; K. M. Ward’s The Last Sleep of Argyle, from which tho engraving was executed and whicu realjzed some few years since at Mr. Bickneil’s sale $8.5u0, $4,600; the samo artist's companion picture, The xe: culton of Montrose, $4,000; Dycu’s Gardeu of Geth- mane, $1,%: ho sawe artist’s George Horbert at emerton, $5,200; Jobo Puillips’ The Scotch Baptism, Sold at the lato Mr, Eden’s sale for $9,000, $7,500. Then followed ono of the same artist's chefs d’@uvre, which realized $9,000. who bought most of tho foregoing, foie Jowed up bis comprehensive biddings by acquiring for $12,750 Stansfiela’s Moruing After the Wreck, which is $1,250 uuder what it was sold for in 18 ‘The samo artiat’s great work, The Battie of Roverado, for which Mr. Grant paid something ooar $20,000, ouly reached $12,000, and his Eddystouo Lighthouse fotched $3,750, This picture was painted as a drop curtain on’ the occasion of Wilkie Collins’ litle play of “The Lig! house’’ being privately performed at Charles Dicke residence, and at the sale alter the noveliat’s deacn tt was bought for $5,250. The lustuf Mr. Aguew's pur- chusos were a Coast Sceno, by Auguste Bouheur, $2,000, and Ary Scbefter’s Hebe, $6,850, anu Tho Guour, $2,100." The other pictures of ‘noto were Leader's Mountain Solitude, $2,550, bought by Mr. Pernant; J, C. Horsiey’s Stulen, $2,000, by Mr, Huld- yard; W. P. Frith’s The Miniature, $1,800, bougit by Mr. Cox; T. S. Cooper's Highland’ cattle scene, Chil- . $2,650, by Mr. Pernant;, Calderon's ® Ss dron uf the Mi Queen of the Tournament, $3,050, by Mr. Frith, and Joho Lannell’s Balaam and the Angel, $2,250, bought by Mr. Lioyd. Mr. Govpil purchased the’ picture which realizea the highest prize in the sale—namely, Li Lotteria Nacional, by John Phillips, R. A., which was purchased by Mr. Grant from the Manley Hall col« lection, its cost bong $20,000. GL. Dyckman’s | Mary at the Foot of the Cross, from the samo collec- | tio, went to Mr. Hibbert for $1,850, and J, laruel’s ‘The First Suil, for $5,000 to Mr. Vokins, ART NOTES, General di Cesnola will be present at the regular an- nual meeting of the Metropolitan Muveum of Art Cor- poration which takes placo on Monday next, in tho temporary building on Fourteenth streot, BRIC-A-BRAC AND RUGS. The sale of Oriental works of art, &c., by the Messrs, Leavitt was continued at their salesrooin, in Astor place, yesterday. The attendance and bidding were better than on Wednesday afternoon, though still not quite up tothe mark. .No very high prices were fetched, the largest for any single article being $100 which was given for a fine large covered bow! of Soo- chow lacquer, seventeen foches in dinmeter. The stand was of obony, and the workmanship of the en- tire piece remarkably fine. An Albanian suit of cloth | and velvet, elavorately embroiderod with gold, brought $55. A flue old pair of Japaneso cioi- | THE BENCH SHOW. CONTINUED SUCCESS OF THE GILMORE'’S —GARDEN—WINNERS SPECIAL PRIZES, ‘The dog show continues the rage of the town. It bas drawn beyond all conception, aud what Is particu- Jarly pleasant everybody, dogs ana all, seem satistied. “Gone to the dogs” has been oftener heard about EXHIBITION AT OF ‘THE town since Tues last than ever before, and if the expression was not understood the hearer would consider that Gotham was plunging headlong to destruction. Twenty thousand Visitors is Dot an exaggoration of yesterday’s continu- ous gathering, Ladies and children flooded the gar- den in almost countless numbers in the morning, and. as the day wore on the sterver sex be- gan to flow in by hundreds, and then again when the vast enclosure was lighted up the bustling throngs seemed more like # vast boliaay mul- titude, with every individual in their best bib and tucker. Really, not to visit the dog show bas become to be an unpardonable offence, and so, taking this view of the case among many others, the manage- ment decided to extend the exhibition until to- night And in doing this they have concluded, after deducting the day’s expen: to give tho Proceeds of all tickets sold from ten A.M. to ten P. M. to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to An- imals for the purpose of establishing a home for lost dogs, This done, and the idea js a capital one, Mayor Ely will possibly be saved the trouble of arranging a plan for the killing of homeless canines, a miatter said to have Seriously troubled His Honor since tho pas. snge of tho recent Dog law by the Board of Aldermen, The usual incidents of the show were namerous yesterday, but when Mr. Wagstaff’s Dash, class 14, und some other equally determined animal, came to tbe conclusion that a fi,ht would stir up matters con- siderably, aud proceeded to pitch into each other, Supermiecndent Lincoln decided to curtail their am- bitious designs and give them less liberty. Perha; yesterday’s brict dog ight had more lady spectators than any similar battio ever de in this country, MORK WINNERS, The judges were very busy until late in the evening with the dogs cntored for the special classes. Some of the awaras were as follows:— No, 1. For the best setter, of any breed, dug or bitch, in the show—Silver cup, vaine $150, L. mith's (Strath. roy, Canads,) Paris, bine be ster, out of Dar N Best poiuter, of A \breech-londi A He, Manulacturet by Greener, 3. Be Dill ake ( Mind.) Royal Van, wiilte and livery ticked, by Kangor, oui ot Dolly, No st brace of sotters—Siiver cuo, $150. Mrs. R. A. New York) Nip and ‘ed und white, by Border, owt of Kaymond’s Bonnet Varro, 4, Best brace'of pointers—Fly rod, 350, Edmund Or- Brooklyn) Kose wud Bush, lemon and white, by Steele’s Flake, out of Lilly, No, 5. Best collection of sporting dogs exhibited by ono A Nichols & Lefevre breech-loader, $100; J) 0 (dina. Mo.,) Edina kennel collection, No, 6. Best English setter sint dog, to be shown with two of his get—Shot gun, $100; L. H. Smith's (Strathroy, Can.) Lelceater, lemon wid waite, by Liewellin's dam, out ot . 7. Best Irish setter, same condition as above—silver cup, $100, Arnold Burges’ (Hillsdale, Mich.) Rufus, red, by Shot, out of Trench’ vai setter brood bitch, with two ot ‘sman's travelling truuk. Krdmann A. ony —$50 spc Her averg's Conners, No. 12. Best red Irish setter brood biteh, same conditions as ubove, $50 silver tly book; John I, De (Now York) oy. Nor ld Bet Pelntor brood biteh, same conaitions, $50 sflver cup: J. Addisof’ Xmitn’s (Baltimore) Lillie, by Lau eustor’s Sum, out of Lille. No. 15, Beat English sott tivo dar, $50 silver cup Tuck. No, 16, Best nat New Jersey—8: by an imported dog and na- R.A. MeCurdy's (New York) English setter, owned in New York cuse of stuffed birds. Theodore Mor- ay. 7. Best setter bred in the United States—$60 bass D, Olcott's (Albany, } M ; B st nacive sett uppy--$25 revoly Thoodore rouse, by Jue, out of Puss Xo. 19. —Heat Trial actter puppy—€25 opera glass. 1. Le Grand Cannon's (New York) Guy, by Piunket, out of ‘—Bost native English sctter puppy. under one cleaning {mplements. J. W. Foster's (Lees- dou. by Hock, oat of Kirby. ae setter’ puppy; silver an t ver—-Morton. Criinell's (New. York) Rex, by Monarch, out of champion Lou, The money prizes in the open classes wero pre- sented from tho platform last evening. The epecial prizes will be handed to the winners this morning. ‘DOG LICENSES, The patrons of dogs of all breeds and descriptions continued to throng the City Hall yesterday in order to procure necessary licenses, Five hundred addi- tonal tags were issued. Among the applicants were Judgo C. P. Daly, A, De Cordova, GC. W. Barker, Will- iam J. Reid, George A, Leavitt and Fietcher Harper, Bull pups, Nowfoundlands, Skye terriers, black und tans, and a fow Spitz dugs were decorated with tags Licenses to the numbor of 1,850 had been f¥sued up to the time for closing tho Permit Bureau yesterday, MAD DOGS ABOUT BOSTON. FURIOUS NEWFOUNDLANDS IN THE STREETS— SEVERAL PERSONS SEVERELY BITTEN, Bostoy, Masa, May 10, 1877. Boston and its immediato vicinity 1s very seriously and justly alarmed at the numerous cases of hydro- phobia which are being daily reported. The symptoms of this dreaded disease do not seem to be wholly con- fined to the dangerous Spitz, but canes of all breeds Appear to be moro or leas affected, Scarcely a day passes bat several cases aro recorded, cither in the city or in the country immediately surrounding. Yes- terday afternoon the Jamaica Plain district was so stirred up that the whole community seemed panic stricken for a few hours. The furious animal which caused the commotion was of the Newloundfaud breed, and im his mad career crowded street he bit no aod also three or four dogs which came in bis way. He was pursued by mounted police and @ crowd of nearly a hundred armed citizens, aud, alter an bour’s chase, the dangerous animal was cornered and shot, Among those bitten were a lad named Edward Hunt, a leer carrier named Thomas Lafey, and tour small children returning trom school, whose names were not learned. Tho other dogs which the mad oue wounded wero killed this foreuvon, Another animal, aiso of the d longing in tho South End, ere crowded streets yesterday afternoon, and before he was killed no less than three children were seriously bitten by him, 8 than balf a BASEBALL. Several hundred spectators assembled at tho Centen- | return game between tke Resolutes, of Elizabeth, ana Alaskas, of this city, Both clubs are members of the International Association, In the second innings the Alaskas became demoralized, letting tne Resolute, score seven runs On but three saie hits, The foliowing sonné cnamel motal vases, twenty-four inches high, brought $60. A fine casnmere carpet, | 8xW5g feet, sold for $50, and an ancient Mecca rug, | about 4x6 feet, for $47 50, =A fine pair of Japanese | bronze vases, two feet In height, and beautitully curved, Drought $46; a cashmere carpet, 7x tect brought $61, and abother, a trifle larger, $44 50; two Bokhara silk rugs, avout 4x0 tect, vrougut $6 | each, and another of siintinr ize $34; a caruman por- | tiére, 6x12 feet, with yellow ground, $23; a tively decorated Yakonin porcelain tea service, ‘lorty-two pieces, $30; decorated Satauina /éte-a-téte set, even | picces, $23; threo old Daghistan rugs, $25, $35 and | $32; black cloth table cover, embroidered in silk, #'x feet square 7; another, silk apd gold serail work, filty-four inches square, $36, Four mosuic cloth win dow curtains brought cach, a silk embroidered mosaic cloth soia cover, $30, The sale will be concluded this afternoon. BOOKS AT BANGS’, The prices fetched for the Slevin library, at Bangs’, yosterday, wero better than on tho day before, The | following aro somo of them:—Moyrick’s “Engraved Ilustrations ot Ancient Armor,” two volumes, $11 ; Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” with Martin’s illustrations, large paper, $3 25; Molloy’s “Lucerna Fidelium,” the first book printed im Irish, 1676, $6 50; Monette’s “History ofthe Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi,” two volumes, $11; Count de Montw Jembert’s “The Monks of the West,” five volumes, $1157; “Humana Sauls Monumenta,” printed tn Ant- werp it , $7 60; Montiaucon’s * Antiquity Explained and Represented in Sculpiures,” tive volumes, $48; | “he Antiquities of ltaly,’’ by the same author, $4 50; ravels from Paris to Italy,’ also by the satne author, | seventy cents; Lord Jotio Russeil’s “Memoirs of Thomas Moore,’’ $12; Mooroe’s “Irish Melodies,’’ illus- | by Danyel Macii 75; @ rare edition of tho ngli,’”? printed in 1506, Mosen’s Dictionarie Historiquo,” in eight Amsterdam, 1740, $15; J. O’Donovan’s “An- nals of tho Kingdom of Ireland,’ five volumes, $30; O'Dopovan's “Grammar of the Irish Langnage,” $0 75; first edition of Robert Parson's “Treatise of the Gon: ve gland irom Paganis othe Christian Religion,” $9 75, Bernard Picart ‘Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World,” $33; Prerowi’s ‘Jerus ” $15; “The Pitti Gullery,”? tour volam traits of the Femate Aristocracy of the € Victoria,’ $20; Pugin’s “Glossary of Ecciesiastical Oroament, $11; David Ramsey's “History of South | Carolina,” $13, | DEATH ON THE STREET, John Fox, seven years of ago, of No, 425 Warren sireet, Brooklyn, attempted to cross Court street yos- terday alternoon as car No, 166, of the Court sirect line, driven very rapidly by William Hoag, was passing Warren street. Belore the car could be stopped the child was knocked duwn and two whoeis of tho vobicio | tween the Boston and St. Louis clubs, played yo: | to a lap in 4s the score Clubs. 1st, 2d. Bd, 4th 5th, 6th Tth, Bh, 9h, 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 O13 OT. 0.070 0,051 O—8 The second League champtonship game between the Chicayo White stockings and Hartford Llues, of Brook. lyu, played yesterday at Chicago, resulted in favor of the Hartfords by the following score :— Cluos. Ist, 2d. Bd, AUL, Sth, Oth, TH. 8th. Oth, 0. 09°38 2 of 00 Std ord, . -0 1 0 6 0 0 7 0 Omid The first of the champlonahip games between ihe Louisville and Cincinnati clubs touk place yesterday at Louisville The following 18 the score;— Club Ist. 2d. 3d. 40h, Sth, GUA, Tth. BUA. 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 449 | Cinermaan . COR POL ae TORE A a pee P| The second gamo of tho championship series be. day, at 8% Louis, resulted as follow: Cubs, i Bd. ah, Sth, Oth. Tth, Bh th, 1100 9 2 0 06 0 0 0 2 8 O 0 05 1 prise and Resolutes play at Eliza. beth; Mancnester and Harvard, at Boston; Star of Syracuse and Tecumseh, Londop, Canada; Live Ouks and Aubarna, at Auburn; Indianapolis and Fair- Danks, at Indianapolis; and Rochester and Erie, at Rochester, YEN-MILE WALKING MATCH. Upward of 300 people congregated at the grounds of the Scottish Athletic Club, Fifty-fourth strect and Eighth avenue, yesterday evening to witness the ten- mile walking match betwoen William Brown and Wil- lam Leonardson, both members of the above naned club, The contest was for a valuable gold medal. Bhortly after five o'clock, the hour appointed for the start, the men appeared upon the track, dressed in the usual racing costume On getting the word Leonardson, was the first to show in front, going in with a lead of a yard, whicn he increased to titteen be- fore the completion of the first mile, which was done in Sip. 248, At the end of the secoud mijo Leonardaon had gained fully 100 yards upon his opponent. Tho time for the two miles was lim. 24. Leonardson gained another fifty yards in tho fourth mile, The ume of the five miles was 45m. 246, Brown pulled up on the loader and reduced his advantage the seventh mile, Leonardson'’s timo for the sevon miles was 64m. 3s.; Brown's, 65in, 68. Half a mile further on Brown got even with his antogons nd after a sight brash he took the Jead, finwhing bie eighth onardson nearly a tninute bei Loonardson fell further m the re te in db, 14m, J24e, In the noxt lap d dropped alto- | gether when Brown passed him the second jap of the ninth mile, Brown Kept on and finished hie niath milo io Lh. ddim. 568, and bis tenth in Lb, d6m, lbs, ATHLETIC SPORTS. The open handicap gune of the New York Athletic Club, to be decided on the grounds at Mott Havon on to-morrow (Saturday) alternoon, closed remarkably passed over his body, He was instantly killed, The well and grand sport may be oxpected. In tho 100 A yarda dash Where aro uinotecn gntrics, and among them, nial Grounds, Jersey City, yesterday, to witness the | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY ll, 1877.~TRIPLE SHEET. | can nover leave their business long enough to go out many fiyers. The half milo run brings out eleven good oncs, W. Duify and EF, C, Lamontagne being seratch men, Tue milo walk has (wenty-one entries, Dan M. Stern being on the scrateh. The 220 yards rua, for the club championship, has the brotn- ers Lamontagne, Merrit, Colgate anu Park yn the ist, and if all appear a close and interesting struggle will bo the result, KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION RACES. . Laxinotox, Ky., May 10, 1877. The fair weather of the past tew days has mado everything favorable in racing circles here. The track of the Kentucky Asrociation 16 getting in better condi- tion every duy, and by Saturday next, the first day | of the races, if the weather continues bright, | everything will be in perfect condition, The Phenix Hotel Stakes, to be run on that day, will bring out a dozen or more of as fine three-year-olds as the Blue Grass region bas ever producyt, The contest will be a race of one and one-eighth miles, with a probability that the time record will be reduced close down to 1:40, ntatives of the Japanese government who have bought largely of thoroughbred horses and cattie in this section are vow in Cynthiana, but will return here in time fo atiend the races. Numbers of strangers trom all parts of this country and Canada are arriving by every train aud the attendance 1s expected to be very large. Thereure more horees at the racecourse (han have ever been known to be here at any one time betore. BALTIMORE RACES. Bavrimors, Md,, May 10, 1877, Tho following horses have been declared out of the Handicap Stakes tor four-year-olds, to be run at this city May 22:—Freebootcr, 112 Iba,; Waco, 106 Ibe ; Steptoe, 101 Ibs. ; Durango, 95 lbs.; Danville, 97 1bs., and Warlock, 110 lbs, Viator vas seen thrown out of training and will not start for the Baltimore Cup. THE BREEDERS’ TROLTING MEET- ING. The entries forthe maugural m®eting of the Na- tonal Association of the Trotting Horse Breeders, which closed on the 1st inst,. are, in tho aggregate, as follows :. Three-year-old class. foals of 1874, twenty entries, Four-year-old ciass, fouls of 1873, fiteen entries, Five-year-oid class, toals of 1872, five eptries, Six-year-old cluss, foals of 1871, Ave entries. Stallions that have never beaten 2:20, three entries, Stallions that have never beaten 2:26, seven entries, allions that have never beaten 2:40, live entrie Groen Horse Stake, four eutries, one of which notice of withdrawal on the day of entry. Upward of sixty different horses bave entered for the several events, of which detailed statements of names, marks and pedigrees will be given in a few days. ve THE WITHERS STAKES, Messrs. William Loyell & Co,, of Jersey City, havo opened a betting book on the Withers Stakes, ono mile, to be run on the first day of the spring meeting of the American Jockey Club. Tho odds offered are as below ;--- THK WITHERS STAKE! Leonard. 4tol W. J. Hig + 10tol Rille, 6tol General Joues... . 12 tol Cloverbrook . 7101 Lizate Berry colt.. 12 to 1 Princeton Ttol Madge Duko ~ wl Bombaat. Ttol Carry Atherton c., 15 tol Frederick the G’t, 8t01 Broadway. 15 tol 9to1 Mattio 16 tol 1 Chance o 15 to 1 1 Morphine, 18 to1 1 Stringtown .» tol Peto Reed seers 20001 Belle of Crawlord, 26 to 1 THE “TALLY-HO.” Ten gontlemen and threo ladies made up the “load”? of the New Rochelle coach yesterday. These wero Mr. and Mrs. Kernochan, Miss Kornochan, sr. Ker- Nochan, Miss Potter, Mr. Potter, Mr. O. Iselin, Mr. Otis, Mr. De Rahm, Mr. Kimball, Mr. Fritsch, Mr. Nott aod Mr, Proudfit, All lunched at the Huguenot House, and rpturned delighted with the trip. Those who intend taking this journey, and have not secured places, wiil bear in mind that the books are constantly open at the Brunswick Hotel, where all information way be obiained. AMATEUR REGATTA. HOW DECORATION DAY WILL BE OBSERVED AT WEST RUTHERFURD PARK. Arrangements are in progress to give the amateur oarsmen of New York and vicinity an opportunity to take part ina regatta on tho Passaic River, afternoon of Decoration Day, Weduosday, 30th inst. Those in charge gf tho proposed event aro boating men ot ability and experience, men who bave fought many aquatic battles of note, so that there is no likelihood of there being either hitch or mismanagement in the affair, Toe races will bo rowed at West Rutherford Park and will be as follows First—Pair oared gigs ; set of colors, Second—Singie scuil snclis; gold badgo, Third—Four oared shells; set of colors, Fourth—Pair oared shells; gold lockets, FifthSix oared gigs; set of colors. All races will be one and a haif miles with one turn, and entries can be made to Mr, Edward Sinith, No. 96 Broadway, this city, on or before the 20th inst. Thero are ample accommodatious at West Kathertord Park for all comers. A spacious boat bouse aud dressing rooms, with all factiities, will be found, and the E: Ratiway bas agroed to transport boats ata very reason- able charge. The first race wiil be calied at ove P. M. the prizes are announced for th: The Regatta Committee coi Argonauta Rowing Association baka Boat Clu! voning, sot Edward Smith, c. D. Jones, Seawan- . H, Jasper, ‘Bayonne Rowing Asso- ciation, aud J, Y. Morthaier, Rutheriurd Park Rowing Association, Mr, Leander Waterbury has consentea tu serve as roferce. THE FOURTH OF JULY REGATTA, uw Youn, May 9, 1877, To Tux Epitor or Tur Henan Keep tne ball rolling for the Fourth of July re- gatta on the Hudson, become an annual institution, The litte boys aro saustied with their firecrackers, but the majority of tho big boys bhvo nothing of real interest 10 occupy their timo besides the parade, and that would jose Much ofits attraction in the eventola grand regatta on the Hudson with a lew good crews ou the programme, aud then also there are many devotees to the oar who ol town to a and for that reason, as well as others, have never seen any of the crack oaraimen, who never row here because there ai enter ib these waters, There are many fine clubs who turn out first rato material for racing in Brooklyn, New York and some on the Jersey shore, as well as the Neptunes, who will float oue of the finest tours ever turned outin thiscountry, Lot the Northwestern row a race with this crew pext Fourth on this course, ‘There is no finer in tho country, and it will be suc success as they never dreamed of, Let the A Neptunes, Columpias and a few others take the matter in band and appoint a committee to consider the matter and its ieasibility, aud 1 foretell it a success, Truly yours, OARSMAN, YACHTING NO'TE. The sloop yacht Hope, B.Y.C., Mr. Swann, from New York, passed the Hgkap Telegraph station at Whitestone yesterday en route to Greenpoint, L. L. THE FIL UE RESERVOIR COMMISSIONER CAMPBELL RECOMMENDS TEAR- A PUBLIC PARK. The following are tho principal items of interest in the report of Commissioner Campbell, of the Depart. ment of Public Works, tor the quarter ending March 21, ult.s— Tho expenditures for the quarter in all the various accounts were, For the first quarter of 18° For the first quarter of 1875, For tne first quarter of 1874. 1,74 consequence of and with a view to re great wa amine the plumbing im houses and report waste. Forty-two thousand one hundred and sixty-nine BSS,054 45 TA 49 dy the waste occurred neglect, Tue Commissioner's report concludes as toi- lows A short time ain my attention was called by Comptroller ion whether the distribating res and Fitth avenue could be di Tinde oherwise ay: O department bas ha a mes during pot years, withont taking detinit action thereon, In consultation with the Chief Engineer L ed the subject, and have come to the co: old reservoir is no longer necessary as a yetem. Its capacity fs only 20,000,000 gallons, reservoirs in the Central Park bold 1,250,000,000 nt of the Forty-second street reser- ire the rearrangement of certain *, ® cost.of abous 910,000, while # suving of 82,500 & Will be effected in superintendence and talntonance: reservoir occupion 6 of 450 foot wide on Fifth avenne by 500 feet deep, measured on Fortieth and Forty- d streets, of about five and one-fourth id be opened wi rly from Fifth there would remain elgoty lots the city and availavie tor y be valued at ove the reserv: while th gallons, The abanaonm merely ot 100 by Duliding purpores whicn u Should it be decided to rr «r should, 1n wy opinion, be added to Reservoir sqinre wad wie pios Feserved ‘ne ® pablic park, The dimens such « park would be 920 feet by 450 fees, havin of nearly ten ncros. It ix situated on elevated ground, about midway betweon Madivon squaxg and Central Park and would become an appropriate and conspicnous place d wintuary. Untortunately an aren sharp. A grand regatta ball and the presentation of | | bis assistants both offices have been cleared from If 16 18 onco started it will | no races they can | ING IT DOWN—THE GROUND TO Bé USED As | ve 1,344,877 39 | of water, Inspectors were appointed to ex. | houses Wero visited and 6,068 cuses were found where | from detective plumbing or wilful | Will meet the same fate as that which beleil the hap- | , OUR COMPLAINT BOOK. (Norz,—Letters intended for this colum! must be accompanied by the writer's full name: to insure attention, Complainants who are unwilling to comply with this rule simply waste time in writing — Eo, Henavo.} P GOOD FOR THE POST OFFICZ. To tux Epiror or tax Hexatp: Referring to the complaint in the Haran of the 7th inet concerning the delay im delivering a letter (marled t Brooklyn) from tho New York Post Office, 1 beg ta state that through the kindgess of the Postmaster and blame in the matter, spac Trusting will aliow this a will oblige one who bas no CONUNDRUM, A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE ‘COMPLAINT BOOK,” To tax Eprror ov tux Henatp:— If your “Complaint Book"? is open to all complaints allow me to complain against the use of nearly ane tire column for the publication of a parcel of ungram. matical, silly and sometimes untrue growls, Piease KLOp 1b, dod tostead give us something that will enter- tain, 1ustruct aod amuse, HANOVER. A NEW DUMPING GROUND, ‘to tne® Epiroe or tas Herary:— 1 would cali attention of the health authorities, through the medium of your journal, to ‘Sure death” now being planted on the surface of the outrageous oil docks at Sixty-seventh street, on the west side, which are being Glied ip with all the refuse of Sircet already is quite impassable, ‘rhe health authori. ties would do weil to investigate the new dumping ground, at any hour trom one o'clock A. M. to three A. M., olf Sixty-seventh street, ip the channel. ONE WHO SEES, DOMESTIC SERVANTS, To tae Epirok or tuk Heranp:— Allow me to say a jew words in regard to tho class of servants that are going around. The offices are crowded, but they ask $16 a month and nothing to do. Clothes are just as cheap as they used to be when we paid them $5, I wish you could’ give us some advice! how to remedy the aggravation wih servants, My suggestion would be for all the ladies to form a club, abu Bot pay apy more than $8 or $0 per aks | re ; FERRY TICKET BUNDLES. To Tae Eviron ov THe Heraups— Tho Union Ferry Company always gives sixteen tickets and one passage fur twenty-five cents. This morning | handed in twenty-five cents and found only Ubirteon, I nanded them back, another was then given me, and that also coutainod thirteen. 1 handed that back and was told to count them. Tne third time there were sixteen. 1 noticed the two packages that wero short wero put back ngain with the full onéa Please caution others in your valuabio 2 Pe. Book’ to COUNT THEIR TICKETS, THE HARLEM BOATS, To tne Epitor oy tue Hupatp:— 1 saw with pleasuro tho article of *Yorkvulér iz - your issue of to-day, and it has been @ surprise to me that there has not been a meeting called before this ta petition the Harlom Steam Navigation Company to land their boats at Enghty-fourth street, as a great many others, like myself, have moved from down @wn to Yorkville, expecting that we would bave the ploasure of going to and trom our business by the boats, b alas! tound on going to take the boas.o@ Monday, April 29, that the company had discontinued stopping at Eiguty-fourth street, and, on inquiring, found the Teusou Was Ol account of the company not. making enough by stopping at Yorkville, Now, | would sug- gost (hat the Company issue tickets—z00d for one day Only—at sixteen conus per day, Sundays exciuded, which, [ think, » @ tair compensation, and they aii: Had that the Yorkyillo pies bo a8 protitabie as tho Harlem, EIGHTY-FOUKTH SrREEr, OMNIBUS DANGERS, To Tux Epiror or THe Herap:— I desire through your **Compiaint Book’? to call at- tention to the now almost universal custom among stage drivers of refus’ng to come toa stop elther ta allow passengers to enter or leave the stage, often en. dangering the lives of passengers thereby. My atton- tion was called particularly to this on Suturday morn- ing last, when, but for the fact of my being about to enter the stage, a lady about to leave it would have been precipated to the pavement. This occurred on Broadway, near Ninth street, and the stage wae one of the Broadway and Fifth avenue line, T. J.C, A WORD TO THE BUREAU OF ENCUMBRANCES, To tnx Epiror or tux HenaLy:— Will you please allow me to occupy a small space in your “Complaint Book’? in calling the attention of the Bureau of Encumbrances to the fact that on Tweltth street, between First avenue and avenue A, a line of old caris and wagons encumbers the street on both sides, 1 have counted forty-two old carts wagons, many of them being undt for use, stored hero by per- sons residing In other parts of tho city. if TAXPAYER, MURDERERS’ ALLEY. To tux Eviron or tux Hexany:— Seeing that your ‘Complaint Book” has been very valuable to tho people, I beg teave to say that there ta an alleyway at No, 185 Chrystie street where a lot of loafers and thieves congregate, It is worth a man’s life to pags there fate at night Scarcely a man but you hear ‘*Watch!’? and *Murder!”’ called ou! when the neighbors are asleep in bed, to thelr gre annoyance, The place has been reported to the station house, but they do pot seem to take any notice of in I, therefore, appeal to yor THE CENTRAL PARK CARRIAGES, To tne Epitor oy THE HERALD :— I take this opportunity of calling your attention to what I consider a falso representation, and therefore aswindle upon the pleasure seekers to Central Park, and that isthe manner ia which the Central Park carriages convey persons patronizing them through tho Park. They profess, if I undorstand it aright, to make the circuit of the Park for twenty-five cents a passenger, and which mast pay them well tu tho course of the year, even should they do as they agreed to; but, insteud of doing as they represent, this is the experience of mysetf and triend: hey the corner of Filty-ninth street and Fitth or Eighth avenues, as the case may bo, and drive most directly to Mount St. Vincent, and thea about over tho same course on return trips. Now, we think ft ts about ume that this matter was sitved by tho Centra! Park Commissioners and see that ubiiG get in return what they pay for. 1t looks as though the hotel and carriage proprietors wero playing im euch other's hands ONE WHO IS FOR REFORM. A NEW WAY OF COLLECTING PARES, To tux Evitor ov tH8 Heranp:— While riding in the Sixt bh avonae car No. 24, con ductor No. 98, on Tuesday night, and having no small change | handed him a two-dollar bill, telling him that was ail Lbad, Instead of speaking to mo like a gentle, man be threw me off the car and made me run a biock aller ny money, cA 3 4 HINT FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC ‘WORKS, ‘Yo Tae Error ov Tne Heraup:— I beg to call attention to the actions of the Belt Rail- road Company in stopping the sewer at the corner of South and Clinton streets and paving the same so that the water cannot run off, When it rains it is impasse adie tor people and in warm weather will be very offensive. H.W. D, ELEVATED RAILROAD TANGER SIGNALS, To tie Epiton ov Tax HxeeaLp:— Why is it that the stockholders of the Greenwich Street Elevated Railroad are not compelled to uso signals (be they whistles or belJs) on their cars to be used in case of danger? If such had been tho case the teartul affair which bappened on Wednesday in Four. teenth street, in which one of the men employed o1 the road jost his lite, would have nover occurred. It often observed that at times when the road is being repaired the train approaches so suddenly that if the men on the top of the road are not any too quick they less painter. A little attention to this subject might be tho means of saving many @ human Iifo, WILL, COMPTROLLER KELLY PLEASE EXPLAIN} To Tix Evrton ov tux Henaip:— In looking over your valuable paper this morning} noticed an articlo headed ‘Important to Taxpayers,’” stating Comptroller Kelly gives notice to taxpayers that they have only afew days left which allows them to pay thoir taxes fa arroars, with Interest at the rate of seven percent, Now, I patd my tax on the 23d of Jast month for 1876, My tax bill was $70 and the in- terest on it was $442 Surprised and at a lossto know how tho Interest could amount to that mach, I went again the next day to the Tax Office to inquire about it; the gentioman at the window very curiy ro- plidd that the bill was all right, the intorest w twelve por cont, and interest was charged from tue day the books were given to tho receiver, TT. AM, STREET LAMP SIGNS, To run Eprtor ov tHe Henauy:— 1 should like to know whose duty it I# to see that the corner lamp posts are properly marked with the names of the different streots, Yesterday a lady friend of ell to increase once ‘with jealous care mino (a stranger in the city) was irom twelvo o'clock to three going from tho Post Oifico to Fulton ferry, ati owing to the fact that not ono lamp in ten bas an iu- tolligwie name thereon, Hd, Le