The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1877, Page 15

* alleged breach of promise of THE COURTS. Grand Opening of the Legal New Year in the Courts. —_- PRESSURE OF HEAVY CALENDARS, Sharp Judicial Criticism Upon Western Railroad Management. A FARCE ON JUSTICE. ‘The legal new year begins to-morrow. Tho three Months’ vacation has ended and our judges again re- Bume their judicial duties, Travels abroad, pleasant Sojourns at the seaside or in sbady nooks in the coun- try, outdoor sports, climbing of mountains, hunting, Gehing, long walks, pleasant drives, in short beulthtal Fecreations of all sorts, have no doubt giveu them new health and renewed vigor for their onerous work on the bench. Lawyers have likewise avatlod themsclves of the vacation to recuperate their wasted ener- gles and come back cuger to resumo their Professional strifes in the legal arena. A most casual glance at the daily papers shows, however, that the courts have not been altogether ata standstill. In japreme Court, Chambers, and at Special Terms of the Buperior Court and Court of Common Pleas, which have been in session all summer, most important mo- tions have been argued and decided, The latter two courts have been held by judges of those courts, but the burden of the work in Supreme Coart, Chambers, hus been done by Judgo West- brook, of Ulster county. Whilo all the other Eireme Court judges of this city havo been bas joying their vacation out of town Judge Donohue a absent only cight days, but he isa judge whom bard work does not seem to worry much, “Little or no work, however, te courts seem to be a necessity. A glance at the starements given below ot the number of Bases awaiting (rial shows that litigation is by no means onee It seems almost a pity that the Buggestive bint of Dryden 16 xo litte realized :— terminate the cause the expense of Long litigious laws, ere suits are traversed aud so little won, ‘That he who conquers iy but last outdone, But with human uature as at present constituted and bo Immediate sigus of the millennium the provability is that courts, judgos ang lawyers will continue to comprise an impo! § feature in our advauced cry- ization, All the udurs are weighed gown with cases, Oa the Circuit calendar of the Supreme Court there are 2,470 cuses, 01 wuoich number 460 cuses have been put on during the vacation. Betore gome of these cases reach a tinal judgment new judges will have reach ue bench, and the presuat litigants, ike Jono body, will lie moulderiag in the grave—the Hiugious fight, however, Leing as actively kept up by * their legal heirs and representatives, 1t is uuneces- Bary to state Lhat these suis represent every class of Litigation, suits on contracts and promissory Dotes, ite against the city and corporatiens, wud so on down to gulls tor divorce and arriage, On the Gen- rm calendar there are 327 cases, of which 63 are preierred causes, 86 cnumeruted and 164 non-enu- merated causes, The Special Tern calendar hag 250 cases. The assignments in the Supremo Court are Davis, Brady and Daniels; General orm, Judge Vau Vorst; Special Term, Judges barrett an Dovohue; Chambers, Part, Circuit, Judges Dunobue ‘end Barrett, aud Part 4, Judge Lawrence, 1 is not known yet who will hola Part 3, Circuit. ‘The General «Term “judges, after Tuesday, will nave to adjoura tem- porurily 10 order to n eet in convention on Wednesday in Albany, 10 revise the rules of the SupremeCourt. The Court of Oyer and Terminer docs not meet until No- vember, Whon it will be held by Judge Brady. ‘There sre sevoral homicide cages awaiting trial 1 this court, The trint.ot Neiwou A, Gesner, the alloged torger, has Also been removed to this tribunal, In the Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas the calendars are equally formiduble, and wheu added to those in the other branch of this court make up a Sum total which 1s absolutely appalliag. The Special Teri of the Superior Court will ve Held vy Judge Freedman and the three Trial ‘erms by Judges Spoir, Curtis and Seagwick respectively, No notice of the Muceting of the General Term of this Court has yot been giveo, In the Court of Common Pleas Judge Robinson will hold Equity im, Judge Larremoro Part 2, Trial form, and Jadge J. F, Daly Part 3 ‘The Geueral Lerm of this Court does not meet until No- vember. In the United States Circuit Court tne term will Commence vp ibe 1 of Uctober. On that day, at eleven o'clock A. M., Judge Johnson will call the ad- muralty calendar, At hali-pust oue P, M. Judge Ship- Mun, in (he sa court, will call) the jury calendar, ‘The equity calendar in this court will not be called until November next. The criminal branch of the court will bo held by Judge Benedict, and will not commence until tho 10th, On this calendar are Muny cases which havp been already nowced in the Hkrap, as to indictments haying been found ‘Werein, ingluding a number of special tax cases. The Uuited States District Court will be held by Judge Blatchford, aod will open on Tuesday, with the call of the admiralty calendar. The tirst case to be taken up {u that of the steamship Nevada, which was partially tried and Jolt uniinished at the commencement of tue Bummer vacation, The same Judge will to-morrow call the calender of returos in bankruptcy cases, The Murine Cdurt, as ueurly ull the others, will open ‘with all the machinery in motion, Part lo! the 'Trial Terms will be beld vy Judge Sinnott, l’artz by Judgo Bue , Part 3 by Judge Alker and Chambers vy Judge McAdam. The General Term will bo held on the last Monday of tho month by Chie! Justice Shea and Judges Goepp ana Sinnott The general calenuar of the court, notwithstanding an increase of business, is how lowor than it was at the same time the previous eur, 5 if The Surrogate’s Court, which may bo said nevor to shut, will open ag usual on the trstday of the term ‘with the call of the motion calendar, The most im- portant case expected to come up before this Court during the torm is the contest over the wili of the lute Cornelius Vanderbilt, ‘The two branches of the Court of General Sessions term to-morrow, Recorder land Judge Sutherland in dersieeve having finished tue Sep- tember term on Friday. The calendars are heavy, several important criminal cases being set down for trial Iv is gratifying to note that the prompiness with which the large amount of criminal business in connection with these courts bus been despatched has had the effect of clearing out the Tombs, Prisoners are no longer kept awaiting trial, for in many instances leas wre oflered on tue same day ijudictments are found, and in cases where the accused 18 ready no de- Jay whatever is experienced, 1 will be remembered that this Court continued its sittings througtiout July and August, Tho system us now pursued 1s auwended Witu the best possible results. WESTERN RAILRUAD MANAGEMENT. Before Judge Donohue, holding Supreme Court, Bpecial Teri, there was tried in June last the suit brought by General Daniel E, Sickles and others against Benjamin Kichardsou and others. The Chi- ugo, Saginaw and Canada Railroad Company agreed in 1873 to raise $6,000,000 by first mortgage bonds, of which plaintiffs hold more than $200,000 worth The complaint alieges that in Tune, 1876, Mr. Richardson, managing director, cuused his private secretary to be made secretary ol the company, the company boing then insolvent. Plaiwtiffs say that by a fraudulent conspiracy tho sec- rotary, Elwell, transterred to Kicburdson individually 200 vouds on which he hold a lieu for advances to the Company; that Richardson got judgmeut, bought 10 the whote unissued 3,574 bunds at sherifl’s saie, and proposed to nogotlate them, wherefore pisintifls gow a receiver and temporary injunction. The Judge yes- terday gave bis decision in the case, embudying the fame in the opinion which 16 given below 1m iuli;— Lu Unis case tuo bill seeks to Bet aside the trauster to the defendant, Richardson, aud cancel certain vouds ued by tue corporation, defendant. Atl the puruies v appeared and tue priueipal here, and of the tr and the otner carries on bu: here, The business of the Tuad, except its runuing, scems to have been carried on here. ‘ihe facts us disclosed vy the evidenve seem to be clear, Richardson bad advanced a large sun to the company. 1 was evident, and bad been a mutter of consultavion and consideration, that the company ‘Was insoiveut Aud Fesolutions to pus It into a recelver’s hand had been framed and considere., Richarugon had the management of the roud, and with Biweil Seems to Lave run it. Kvideutly with a view tu subse- ucnt proceedings on tho 7.u of the month Ri Du resignation Which, on bie Sth, Was au @ SUING INECLINY, HOLILE Of Which «id NOL rexe Adinitted President (tue answer admits Kelly to nave Deen Presiden, aud whicu notice seems uot to have Deen intended to reach Lim, At this meeting Kiweill, Who had acted us Richardson's agent, was put in Richardsou’s piace und resoiutivis were passed Jeaving the liquidation and payment of tue claim to Elwell, Even the somewhat general authority be had Wag exceeded in the mode of giving the Hotes wiien the President was not culled on to sigu. While auit Was proparing vn these the bonds seized wlterward wero by the procurement of Kiwell and his trends put where they could be eastiy reached, aod Where bo knowlodge of tue levy could reach the President, ‘Ou the juaginen: wUre Was mace Ou Lhe gutions of the delendunt in the execution + Gs matter of tact, all that cution, It seems ty me that the Proceeding Of the gale of the obligations of the com- pany ou « Judgment against them was, to use a mild term, a farce ob jusuce The bonds were all sold on the judgwent aud tho deiendant, Richardson, now holds them, claiming the right ty them as lis prop- erty, The plaivul claims that the whole proceeding was fraudulent and the bonds should be ordured to bo And sa Whi a0 5 vancelied, The vouds are negotiable, dhe vilurt by moans of a judgment for less than $200,0U0 to obtain of veured claim of $3,550,000 has, I think, vo precedent tn law of equity to sustal BustelD sUCh & Lrausdction Would be An outrage ou the Z the bounds were valid on | Jaw. All the bonds having been gurrendered to the fland sold by him under the execution must be included in the result, As to the $2,950,000, 1 do not ik the counsel seriously inten to sustain de- fendal claim of . defendant claims that the Court canuot i favor of the party plaintiff army 88 ment interelere to ive do ok this we asked taken nor supported by authorit, question 18 aiso raised that 1 ere, can be adjustod ip equities set up b suit to foreclose brot y the trustees, We have the bonds here and the parties here, and if the bonds are suffered +o get out of our control (hey may, when presented in the trustees suit, De iu the hands of bona fide holders It follows from these tacts that the plaintiffs aro entitled to a judgment declaring the bonds in the hands of the receiver void and that adecrce mast be entered cancelling them. Questions of costs of the parties will ve disposed of when the Hndings are settled. gly fenatonastie A SOMEWHAT MIXED CASE. On the 15sh of November, 1869, William Krekeler purchased the property No, 414 Kast Eleventh street for a consideration of mortgage of $2,500 on a house owned by o18 wife and money collected for rents from the estate of his wife, Margarot M. Krekeler, He cou- veyed this property in June, 1870, to Henry W. Thauile, who conveyed the same to Maria Stoddart, August 9, 1870, Sho entered into a contract with Mra, Krekeler to convey the property to the latter, and did so con-* vey it to Mra, Krekeler on tho 13th of August, 1870, The contract for the sale of the property to Mra, Krekeler was duly recorded, Mrs. Kre- keler omitted to register ner deeds. Thaulo took advantage of ghe omission and he called at Mra, Krekeler’s house aud asked ber to show him the deeds whicb he had received trom Maria Sto/dart, and when he got bold of them he immediately fled trom the houge and wok the deeds with him. He then con- veyed tne property to Metta Heinecke, nis house- keeper, and she conveyed it to Henry Wessel. Mra, Krekeler then brought an action in tho Court of Com- mon Pleas to set aside the last two conveyances as fraudulent. ‘The case camo on for trial before Justice STANLEY. JUST TRIBUTES FROM THE SCIENTIFIC AMEBI- CAN AND OTHER JOUBNALS—THE NAVIGATION OF THE CONGO. [From the Gold Hill (Nev.) News, Sept. 21.] Henry M, Stanley, the journalistic explorer, been heard from again. He bas traced tho Lualaba River, which bas been a source of so much mystery and disappointment to the adventurers who have pre- ceded him, along its entire course, and he now de- clares it to be simply a part of the Congo River. Thus he has solved one of the great problems of the goog- raphy of Central Airica, In his journeys since last heard from he has encountered obstucies which vould only be overcome by a plucky, energetic man like bimsell. The natives have proved postile, refused offers of presents and iriendsbip, and be has been forced literally to fight his way through them. Disease attacked bis men, and se bave been left deud in ‘She deserts of Africa. Oftentimes falls were encoun- Jor miles around wien, bewing dense aad almost impenetrad! conquered every difficulty and placed his nam explorers. Most among can He is an honor to journalism, an bonor to his couctry and an honor to the world, {From the Bridgeport (Conn.), Sept, 26.) ‘The Now York Graphic very propefly rebukes those Journals which bave found ap outlet for spite and jealousy in envious and belitting comments on the work of Stanley, tho Alrican explorer, Because Mr. Stanley was seut out by Mr. Bennott, of the Heaup, and because he seconded the unparalleled enterprise and public spirit of Mr. Bennett with a zeal, ardor aud indomitable perseverance which stopped uowhere short of success, and which resulted im the greatest achievement with which the journalistic profession bas ever been credited, we should be proud of bis loow, when 0 decision was given to the effect | Work aud his renown, Faller tasn to display our own Hee ae Uy Thaule, ‘Hoinehke’ iad Wes: | *malluoss by belittling either. If the labors and sel to Mra, Krekoler,” and that the latter | S@ discoveries | of Speke, Grunt, Livingstone should pay Thaule $433 ZL, From this decree Mra, | SUG Grier) exblorera, are | worthy | of | praise Krexelor appeuled 10 tho Common Pleas, General Term. | {iy Jamo’ reasons are the chterprise of Mr 1b the meantime she caused the arrest and indictment of Thaule for the larceny of ber deeds, and it seems he escay without a trial His counsel, Mr. D, M. Fortor, rurnished the District Attoruey with a copy ot the decree of the Court of Common Pleas, and upon the strength of that decree the District Attorney entered a nolle prosequ: on the indictment against Thaule, assigning his reasons as predicated upon th dvcree, Thaule then commenced an action against Mre, Krekeler for malicious prosecation, and recovered a verdict for damages in the sum of $3,500, After thi juugment was rendered Mrs, Krekeler employed Poter Mitchell and Adolph Cohen a8 ber counsel to argue ber case 1p the General ferm of the Court of Common Picas, and they succesded 10 reversing the judgment of tho Special Term, and now follow up tho victory by wak- ing a motion belore Judge Dunouue, in Sapeems Court, Chambers, yesterday, ler a new trial in the malicious rowxecution case, Counsel argued at length that the istrict Attorney, in entering a nolle prosequi, acted upon talse premises, as tho judgment of the Common Pleas clearly showed. He claimed that both in law juity the defendant should have a new trial renuously opposed the motion in u vigorous argument, when Judge Donohue took the papers, re- serving his decision, SUMMARY OF LAW CASES, Jacob Kohier, an ex-deputy sheriff, was brought be- foro United States Commissioner Deuel yesterday, charged with carrying on the liquor business without having paid tho government special tax. He gave buil to answer in the sum of $500. Andrew Kernsen, Julius Mollisen and Orloff John- son, sailors on board the Norwogian bark Kiora, were brought before United States Commissioner Bets yes- terday, on acharge of desertion, They were held to await the action of the Consul ot Sweden and Norway. Michael Fitzsimmons was brougut before United Staves Commissioner Shields yesterday, charged with pesiins Roonuvertait five-doliur bill on the National jank of Tamaqua, Alter au examination it appeared he had no knowiedgo that the -bill was a countorfeit, ‘He was discharged. Michael Garvin a good many years ago made a con- tract with the city for repairing sewers, the bill amounting to $37,968. Mr, Ephraim L. Brown, as signee Of the claim, brought sult against the city to recover this sum. In June last the case was tried b fore Judge Westbrook, wuen a motion was made on Deualf of tho city todiemiss tbe complaint. Judge Westbrook yestorduy gave bis decision denying the motion aod allowing the evidence to be taken. Jadge Donohue yesterday, on application of Mr, Witham F. Kintziug, granted a writ of babeas corpus in the case of Henry Hardy, who is now in the cus tody of the Police Commissioners, awaiting # requi- sition to answer a charge of larcony committed in Onie. The femone avsse his innocence of the charge. ‘Tho case will come up for a hearipg vo Monday- DECISIONS. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, By Judge Westbrook. Field vs. Field.—Up to this date order of Justice Gilbert must ve complied with, From this time, $10 por week; $1Q0 tor costs. Julian va. Humphry.—Tho order was signed by con- wont, aud it will not be opened on simple quesuen of costs, Cotter va. Knovland.—Attachment must bo signed by attorney aud by clgrk, with soal of Court, aan vs. Levy.—Motion to dismiss proceedings refused, Sparks vs. Skillman.—Rule 28 doos not apply. Scheely vs. Ziuk.—Motion denied. Memorandum, Lyuch-vs, Cremieu.—Granted, Jackson vs, Kitchen; Kane vs. Nelson,—Momoran- juin. Devoe va, Devoe; O'Neill vs, Pardy.—Orders graxted, Laflm & Rand Powder Company vs. McAndrew; Geery va, Geery. —Motion denied. SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. By Judge Donchue, Sickles ot al. vs. Richardson et al.—Judgment for Plaintiils, Opinion. By Judge Van Vorat. Frucanfl, &., va Skiduy et al. —Decree signed SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIL—PaRT 3. By Judge Westbrook. Brown, &., vs. The Mayor, &c,—Opinion. MARINE COURT—CHAMBERS, Bennett and the labors und discoveries of Mr, Stanloy Worthy of udwiration und respect, aud oo amount of savering comment by jealous contemporaries cap rob eituer of all the honors to which they are so justly en- titled, It is particularly appropriate that in this caso American journals should be at least Just, if not gon- erous, [From tho Montreal (Quebec) Herald, Sept. 27.) There can be little douvt as to Stanley’s complete Success in traciug the Lualaba, and proving it wo bo ideutical with the Congo, when Sir Rutberlord Alcock, the Provident of the Royal Geographical Socicty, sends him a telegram complimenting him oa bis great suc- cess. Such recoguition mus; be pleasing, uot only to Stanley, but to ail bis brethren of the press, Britwh or American, (From the scientific American. } Thanks to Staniey’s pluck and energy the woll founded belief that Livingstone’s Lualaba was no other than the Convo has now been fully justified, aud” heacetorth the Congo must rauk with the three or jour great rivers of the globe. Itis to Africa what the Amuzon is to South America, the Missiesippi to North Amorica, the Yang-Wse Kiang to Asia. It certainly ex- ceeds the Nile in volume, and possibly alwo in area of drainage, Rising iu the upland uorh of Lake Nyassa it flows northerly through the great interior basin of Africa until it reaghes a point about the second degr of north latitude (longitude 24 deyrecs east), when it awerves to the westward, then to the southwest ward until tt approaches the coast. Where Living- stone was siopped the Lualava was a noble stream irom 2,000 tu 6,000 yards wide; ufter making the great bend hear the Equator it developes into wo sull brouder siream, frou two to ten mies wide, choked with isinuds, At the cataracts, where Tiver breaks through the coast mouutaing, the stream arrows to 600 yurds or ivs8; taen spreads out into a Drow stream irow two to lour niles wide, with w cur. Tent flowing about three miles au hour, ‘The volume Ol Water dischurged 1s cuormous, Captain Tuckey’s estimato—zZ,000,000 cubic feet @ miputo—is probably not far irom the truth, At ite mouth the Congo is 1,000 fect deep, aud the water hus Deena ound to be perivetly iresh nine miles irom the coast, For forty miles out the sca is perceptibly iresnened by the vast volume of fresh water Poured into il, ‘Tne tide is felt us iar us the lirst cuta- Tuot, 140 wiles up the river, 1u 18 lower cuurse tue river spreads Out into extensive swamps Covered With inanyrove abd palm trees, The tirss successful ex- plorer of the Lower Congo was Captain Tuckey, who asceuded the river tu w consideravie distuuce above ‘ue Cataracts, When he was lorced to turn buck. His beliet was that tue Congo drained some urge lakes north of the Equator aud was # continuation of the Niger, Iho next iv reacu the cataract was Captain Huut, of tue Briush steamer Alocio, iv 1857, Six years Jater Captonm Burton attained the same point Ln 1872 Lieutenuns Granvy’s expedition lor the reviel of Living- stone uucenaed welll iurther, but was recalied in cousequeuce of Livingstoce’g@death. Cumerou’s fail- ure 0 descend the river is trea in the memory of all, He was forced to tuke & more soutierly course to the coast by the opposition of the canaibul tribes, through whose territury Stanloy’s progress was w cou- Unuous Lattiec, The Geruan expedition under vou Homeyer, which started im 1876 to explol Lower Congo'to prepare the way tur Germun colon! zation, will provably be heard trom througu Staley, when Uctailé ure received of ls Lazardous yet success- ful journey. One important potas in connection with the iuture of tue Congo is aiready appureut; Came- Tou’s gcheme lor the development ol Lie great interior basin by weans of steam uavigation is likely to ve jong delayed. he great cataructs near the Equator, not less than those near tue cous, mast ever presul serious ovstructions to Lhe commercial development of the interior, [From the Nashville (fenu,) Banner, Sept, 26.) New York HxgaLb bad sont out a correspondent to fod Livingstone iu the bears of the great African con- tiuent our wonder was excited. Such euterprise had never before been showa by any vewspaper. ‘The Hekatp bad undertaken, ag 4 mattor of business, to bear the expense that Lad before been assumod only by governments or bad fallon upon geographical so- By Justice Sheridan, cities, ihe results of this enterprise may well in- eqotrPenter v8 Harrison.—Motion denied, without | crease our wouder, Stauley’s discoveries, thougn Kart vs. Herman.—Motion granted. | bait upon the furmer explorations of Living: Foley vs. Folcy.—Mr. Reger A. Pryor appointed re- | stone, Cumerou, Burton aud Speke, may well ceiver. be suid to surpass ut their cflorts, because Scerhng vs. London Printing and Publishing Com- pany.—Motion dented, | Regus va. Bakor, —Mr, George W. Palmer appointed receiver. Bigler v8. Dabin,—Justification approved. | Soiomon vs, Hillensiem,—Oefendant discharged on | is own recognizance, | he bas succooued in solving the diflicult and important proviems that arose frum the publications of weir re- searches. ‘Ibe wap of Ceutral Alrica, as leit by tue, 18 & patchwork of discoanected lakes, riversund moun: | taiu ranges, Slaniey hus brought order out of this coniusion in 4 manner cailing Jur our highest admire. tion, if we consider either the dificuities or dangers of By Judge Goepp, bis jouroey, It 1s indeed 4 great achievemont to have Weat vs. Lynch,—Motion denied, with $10 cot beeu the tirst 10 prove that the heud waters of the Opinion. | river, probably longest knowa in listory, ure supplied by & succession of great iresh water lakes like ; a those that teed our St. wrenee, wud = w FELL FROM A LADDER. have traced the connections between these lakes with i such certamty that the name of the Alexauura Nile Willign Ward, a plasterer, whiloat work in finish- | wuy be contiuently given oue of them, hen vo have ing the walls of cne of the United States Court rooms, yesterday, fell irom a ladder and sustained a severo scalp wound and a dislocation of the shoulder, He was removed to the Chambers Street Hospitai, but his in- | juries were nut cousidered fatal, THE CONFEDsRALE TREASURE. DESPERATE MEASURES TAKEN TO FIND IT IN GLORGIA—A BARBER'S MYSTERIOUS BANS OF GOLD. [Atlanta (Ga) correspondenco of tho Cincinnati En- quirer.) Ever since Jeil. Davis was captured in Georgia it has been believed Ly many that the treasure, by which 1s meant the specie, of the dissolving Confederate goy- ernment was buried somewhere tn the State, this treasure in the neighborhood of Washiugton, Wilkes county, the home of Gevera! Robert Toombs. A great deai of ground bas been turned over in the | hopeices search for (his ass of gold, and an ongineer high im positioa in the Confederate army spent months, soure years ago, in Northern Alabama, trying to locate a point at wuich he claimed # large amount of specie had beeu buried. A few days since a loquacious barber tn Washington asked a customer how much 4 bar of gold was worth, Tho customer, 10 wstomisyment, asked bin why ho asked such 4 quesuon, ‘The barber replied that he simply asked tor curiosity. ‘Lhe customer at ouce sus- pecied that Evans (ive barber) had discovered twe hiding place of the Confederate treasure, ‘The there suspicion tuade Evaus a here, tie Was feasted, putved und pumped, He never said a thing, However, Leyoud contessing that he did have some vars of gold ty Keli, He was Ged up one night aud forced to wate a spot at which the treasure could be found, tts captors re. Joased Hin wna made for tue designated lycality, waere they dug for hours, but to uv purpose. Evans hus Veen perpetyuily wttacked om the subject, but has roux maimed stubboruly eileut, A surprisiug toing In connection with this mad | seurcu occurred wm Augusta on egro May named Bouker Hill was 1 Lhe Cent at Weanesday, A tg in the yard tue browd daylight, ow w down, wud the poliee and people swarined rove th lo. When the kidnappers vaw that thay were so hoviy pursaed they dropped thet -victiin, slipped through the gute and, jumping into a carriage, drove oll © rapidly (vat they could not ve captured. The Teason lor this daring attempt ab abduction was simply thas Booker had been to Washingion and nad been seen 10 Giese and confidential conversation with Evans, the mysterious barber of that ett, here 18 httle doube t uite amount of muney or xoid bars was 8¢ His POINL, or soMEWhere Hear 1h during the Inst days of the comloueracy, and itis pose | sible Luat the present search may eveutuace tn some. thing. A sort | Of tradition bas located the hiding place of much of | | crosvou tue western rin of the great basin draimed by | them, end to have demonstrated tbat auotuer great | system of lakes aud fivers 18 separate aud distinct from Ue one ulready described, to have toltowed the course of the Lualaba northwaru till is crossed the Equator, | theuce around its great bend Wil it turns toward tie | southwest und finally proves to ve the great | Congo River of Westeru Africa is @ teat ior } tue word to admire, When we remembor that all | this was done in 4 country where, fur want of roads, boats must be carried i sections upon the backs of | men for protection; the explorer must be excorted by | asinali army of iguvrunt savages, tgdting at almost | every step; that mumuls large enough to attack und | destroy lurge bouts ure to be found, aud poisonous tn- | sects Kilt ail manner of beasts ot ourdew; where the climate self 1s death to most white men, we can theu begin, to appreciate the Courage, aud enduracce | suown vy Sianiey aud t> admire the iuwwiligence which set bum about lis work, [From the Halilax (N, 3.) Curontele, Sept. 26.] And now thero is Bo doubt that ho 1s eutitied to rank with tue ieaders of African explorations, having, thanks to @ better equipment than any of bis proue- cessors cnjoyed and to his own pluck and energy— qualities which caunot be denied bim—traversed the Alricun continent {rom east tu West and delinitely set- tled the identity of the Luaiaba of Livingstoue and Cameron with the Congo of goographers, Livutonant | Cameron had, in bis famous march from ocean to ocean, gained the Lenor of being the first to span tho mysterious continent; be hud taken up the Luatava River at tue point where it issues from | tue mighty Lake Tanganyika and followed 11s course for a considerable distance, till, inueea, doubt io Mis mind that be had discovered the heud waers of the Cougo, but the diffculues ne encou: Wered Were so greut us to bar further progress wioug the | bauks o/ the river, waa hy accordingly struck off tu a xouchwesterly direction, reaching the west coast 500 | miles below the mouth of the Congo. Stanley bas | ubno what Cameron iaied to du—be furiowed the Lua Jaba uutl under the name of Congo tt fell into the Atuntic Nor was bis success aceomplisbeu with spite ot the he bad in ‘vhe hostility banks of the grout river iu the middle of the stream ‘ur whoie days he could not e of the tribes imuabiting U | compelled him to kee fight his way along. dozing the fay. Ilo was suudeniy seized by | fect u landiiy, much as he required to do so Le procu three men, who entered the yard from tue back way, | food for Lis purty, abd TH Was not Until he reached we | wid douvied up and bustied out ot the yard. te | lower districts wuere traders bad penotrated, that he screamed jastily, despite (heir attempts to Choke him | could uave recourse to peacetul instead of warlike | modes ol intercours: tis progress wus also intor- | Fupted by a series of cascades lyimy near the Equator, | past wien be bad periuree tu make a portage, oo sight walter considering the nature of the country and the buik—oof the impedi« | menta ho was burdened with, Mis achievewents | are, this time, really murvollous, for tm addition to u solution of the Laulaba-Coago problem be has Iurgely added 10 te oxuct knowledge of the groat | Lakes Victoria, which be cireunmavigated, Aivert, | the southern cud of wich be explored, aud’ Tangan: Jika, tue survey of Which he repeated, He certainly | did not accomplish ali this without loss, for out of the | 440 mon winich composed his party wheu De warted Wnen it was announced, a few years since, that the | from Zanzibar only 115 reached E:mboma, desertion, Poisoned arrows and disease having combined to deci- mate the expedition, But the success which has crowued bis efforts, and the valuable contributions be bas been bled to mal geographical science, to will amply repay him for the fatigues and dangers ho has uudergone, {rom the Banner and Tradesman, Sept. 26.) Every American may well be proud of Heury M. Stanley, who, having penetrated into Africa at Zanzi- bar, on the Eastern coast, alter three years of stray | against fever und savages and diificuitios of every kind, bas em d triumphantly at Emboma, on th | Western or Atlantic coast. His acnievewent is @ bi | Moual glory, for he eminently displays the aggrersive, pioneering, go-ahead spirit which is a characterisuc of his countrymen, [From the Christian at Work. | Mr, Stanley certainly stands forth as one of tne most notable discoverers of the couuiry. tainly tho no! ot crossed the entire continent of Alrica, following the Lualaba of Livingstone until it became the Congo and debouched into the Atlantic, is an achievement ks fortunate as it is most remarkable. Through desolate forests and opposed by anoatile tribes, now trampling the edge of the stream, now forced to take to bis boats, Mr. Stanley pushed ahead, deserted by bis guides and with but 115 survivors of the 350 mon with which ho feft Zanzibar in November, 1874. The achievement, as we have said, 1s most re- markabio; it wereditable to the enterprise and lib erality of the proprictor of the HxkaLp, and stamps itself ag an event in geographic researcu; for brave daring and succosstul accomplishment it is well nigh Unsurpassed, AFRICAN DISCOVERIES. BBOM LIVINGSTONE’S ZAMBEZI TO STANLKY'S CONGO—THE SCIPIO AFRICANUS OF THE NEW YORK HERALD AND THE LONDON TELEGRAPH. Gaxnison’s, on THe Hupsow, N, Y. Sept, 22,'1877, } To tie Epitor ov Tux HERALD Completely eclipsing, and a most gratifying diversion from the shocking buteheries aud barbarities of the war in Tarkoy, was, to the guests of this Highland house the other morning, the surprising and welcome news io the Hexaxp of the crowning triumph of Stan- loy’s African explorations, The general opinion ex- pressed from the roading of tho brief cable report of this hazardous and perilous undertaking, avd of the complete success of Stanley in accomplishing it, was ‘hat it advances him in the roll of Atrican explorors to the head, or next to the head, of the front rank of tho legion of honor; and that in the imperishable houors ho has thus achieved, the New Youk Hexarp and the London Telegraph will henceforth be asso- ciated as aro Ferdinand and Isabella with the during adventures and New World discoveries of Columous, thrown upon the previously unknown regions ot Central Africa from Livingstone’s first ex- Plorations ucross the continent, from west to east, svuth of the Equator, to Stanley's splendid achieve- ments fn crossing the continent trom the east to the weat, on both sides of the line! From Livingstone’s first important South Alrican discoveries the chief southern tributary of the Congo was placou ou thu map as, with its aflluents, all that there was of that | great river, At that time, of all that grest interior equatorial system of lakes and rivers, only a few years ago discovered by Livingstone, nothing was known. and lakes, including the numberiess sources and equatorial lakes of the Nile, ws a blank on the map of Africa, Livingstone’a first important movemeut 40 connection with that great and bountifully watered equatorial plateau, was bis finding of the imperial Zambezi Rivor, and tho tracing ot its course from ite sources to the Indian Ucean. ‘This was the first of the three great rivers draining said vast equatorial’ pla- teau whose course irom its sources to ite outlet was defluitely determined. But, still, even Livingstone was ignorant of the important fact that that elevated equatorial plateau was tho roof of the continent, aud that tho lottier mountains scattered over it and around it wore only its domes and towers. SPEKK AND GRANT AND BAKER, Speke and Grant, in 1861-62, electrified the civilized world with their discovery of that groat equatorial reservoir of the Nile, which in honor of their soveroiga they named the Victoria Niyanza, A year or more later Baker, ascending the Nite, discovered the twin lake of the Victoria, which, in honor of the Pemce Consort, he named the Albert Ni- yanza, irom which gracelul compliment to the Prince, Mister became = Sir Samuel Gaker, when, for a time, the world accepted these dissov- wries a8 @ satlsiuctory seulement of tue Nile sources, a mystery which had puzzled the wise men of the East und of the West from tho time of Moses down to our own day. BURTON. Meantime that learneu traveller, Burton, frow tour to lve hundred miles to the southwest of the Victoria Luke, having separated trom Spoke aad Grant, was luxuriating over the charms of the beautiul Lake ‘Tungauyika, the queen on the border of Livingstoue’s interior systew of iakes and rivers. Burton left wie Dewutiful lake satistied tuat, from its aluitude and lati- tudes, wad that ud it hes ieugtuwise, stretcued along some three hundred miles frous the northwest to the southeast, 1t must be discharged invo the Indian Ocean, TWO NILK PROULEMS HOLVED BY WAKER, In 1861-2-8 baker, {rou uctual observation settled two ol the mysteries of the old Nile, waich had been to geographers conjectures througu ® period of four or live thousand yeurs, ‘These mysteries were first the ‘Annual aud fertiizing inuadations of rainiess Egypt by a river Howing (hrough a boundiess aod raiuless desert, and second, tue otherwise heavy and uatailing volume Of Whe great river Lorough all tue year. Whence this auuual Ezyptian inuodaiion ? and whence this beavy 4nd Uniailing stream through all the year, of « Fiver owing for 1,500 Miles through # rainiess desert, and without. @ tributary? Buker, from actual ob- | wervation, discovered that tne annual flooding ot Kyypt comes trom spring floods dosconding tuto the Nile, chiclly through iue Atoura River from she deluging Vernal raius oo the loity mountains of Abyssinw, He next discovered that the heavy and con- Slaut stream Of the Nile through all the year comes from (ky abounding raius of its great equatorial busin, jor he found the volume of the riverat Cairo 1u whut wo muy cail tue dry season of Egypt less than ball its volume 2,000 wiles further up (he stream, Next Ube question was raised, Are the Victoria and Albert lakes the fountain heads of ue Niley With the tinding of Livingstone by ley (an event of the first importance in convection with ail theso subsequent Airican explorations), and from the ‘ought before the world uf the brave old missionary and explorer’s discoveries west of the Tanganyika, of bis Vast interior cieyated basin of lukes aud rivers, coveripg au area larger tuan | that of halt the terrnory of the United States east of the Mississippr Iiver, with the news of these discoveries, Wo say, Dbrougnt from Livingstone by Stanley, the opinion was widely «iftusod that the sources of the Nile were probably io this great busin, and from six to seven aundred miles soutu of the Victuria wud Alvert inkee, Had not Liv- gstone discovered that the general drainage of said great \nterior basin Was contred in the river Lualaba, ao tmperial stream, the course of which was north: ward, ut the point wuere he hud icftit, the river piainly heading for # junction with the Nile? Duabts aud con- jectures followed; but, trom comparing the measure. incon of the respective levels above the sea of the Lakes Luutaba could not ne the Nile, aud that tt was, probably, the Congo. Possibly, however, i was an indepenuent river, flowing int the AUantic Dorth of the Congo, or into some great mtorior salt lake which no explorer hud yet seen or heard of, ‘To settle this question and to determine, as far as practi actual length and breadth, boundaries, bays, drainage, tributaries, &c., of the Lakes Vieworm and Albert, and the ‘Tanganyika and Livingst interior re, 1) WOW appears, the Herculean labors undertaken and heroically accomplished by Stanley in this lave marvellous expeaition terminaung at the mouth of the Congo. SUMMING UP THRSK DISCOVERIES. From Livingstone’s Zambezi to Stanley's Congo, they substuntially settie ail Whe pro-existing mysteries, doubis and conjectures touching the sources und ti drainage of tbe Nile, and they fill with populous tri d with three different systems of splendid rivors and | lakes an immense region In the beurt of Africa Li fore represented on the inaps of the con biaok, From Livingsione to Stanley, includin, discoveries of Speke and Grant, Bartow, Baker, Scoweinfurta, Gordon and bis colleagues and others, these facts Lave been established :— (hat the utmost sources of the Nie are the hends of the cmiet tribuiaries of the Victoria Niyauza, and that one of them, the Shimeeyu, extends to the fourth de- groo of south iutiude stanley. |" Phas the annual ipundation of Egypt comes trom the, heavy spring rains over all tho extensive mountain system of Abyssinia—iaker, ‘That tue uaiailivg stream Of the great river through ind burping desert of 1,600 mile ormous rainfall of the runy suker, ‘That from its utmost source to the soa the Nilo largest river iu the world, und that its tributaries are As HUMeroUs us those Ol toe Mississippl.—speke, Grant, Baker, Schweinfarth and Stanley. ‘That the Loke Tanganyika has really U0 fixed outlet; basin of plat which there is bo established Outilowing river,—Stan- ley. That Livingstone’s imperial river, tho Loaiaba, Which to his death he beiteved was the Nile, Is & Congo, and that with the enormous drainage of bis 1 terior basin of iakes and rivers thus added to the Congo it vecomes one of the great rivers of Ul World, being from two to ten miles wide 1,000 miles from (he sen,—stanley, That the gy Coniral Alrican lacustrine plateau, though ton times lurger, may be compared with tbat ot Minnesota; lor while in the latter we have the sources gf the Ked Kiver of the North, the St. Laws Fence and the Mississippi, wo bave in tue former whe his having successfully | And what a flood of light bas been | ‘The vast expanse of country occupied by those rivers | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1877—-QUINTUPLE SHEET. bead of the Zambezi, the Nile and the Congo, each flowing to a differen sea, ‘That frou all these Airican discoveries there have j been revealed to the civilized world mauy rich and ex- | tensive countries, with an ageregate of not less thau Ofty mithons of people, such as they are, Hore we are asked the question :— wat is alt Ths woRrTu? ‘Time will tell, We know that from the discoveries finding of Livingstoue, of the horrors of the #asi and Central African siave trade, that active | measures bave veen udoptea for the suppression of this 1ufatgous tratlie by the British government, which, | in catting off U kets, have already newly put AD end to the business of the slave catchers. Colonies of white settiers in dee time wil be established in those fertile countries of Contral Alrica, new markets (or the goods of our manufacturers apd merchants wiil thus be opened 1p exchange for the tropical products of Atrica with the building of rail- Ways apd steamboats for the purposes of this African traffic, The great equatorial plateau of Africa is from two to throw thousand feet above the sea, an wititude which gives ita compar: climate, adapted to colonization by white m know from these African discoveries, trom Li Jey’s iuciasive, that tur civilized men and enterprising whites or blacks thore is room in Africa tor a hundred Billion of them. Tue pathGoders of civilization are among the first of our public beneli und Bence the lasting bovors achieved by Stanley und Lis outiitiers—the New York HERALD and the Loudon Telegraph—in these late heroic African researches from ve ludian to the Atiautic Ocean, WwW. JOSEPH’S WARFARE. MASSACRE OF FRKIGHTERS ON DIRCH CREEK, MONTANA—STORIES OF THE SURVIVORS—INe TERVIEW WITH THK CHIB¥, WHO WHLTS HIS CHOLER WItH WISKEY—-HORRIDLE SCENES. (From the Helena (, T.) Independent, Sept. 16.) The treightiug party consisted of Alvert Green, James Hayden, Daniel Combs, two strangers and two Chinamen, They were eucamped tor dinner oo Bireh Creek, titty-llve miles below the Junction, when sur- prised, I am indebted to Colonel George L. Shoup, who headed the party tbat found and buried the uu- fortunate men, und to woom Lyons and the Chiuamen Totated their adveavures, for the following full par teulare:—Alvert K. Lyons, a herder, from Round Lost River to Birch Creek in search of it, had fallen in with the treigutera a little while before noon and camped with them. They had turned out near the greck aud below a bend, had finished dinner and wero lying under the wagons, wuen, startled by te quick (ramp of horses, they made an cilort to yet inty the | wagons to tueir arms; but before tuey nad reached them the Iudivus, fifty-six iu number, riding four abreast aud commanaed by «4 hall-vreed, rode uround the bend of brush, halted and covered them with tuoi guos The hali-breed threw up his hard, sayiny, “Dou't shoot; we git soldiers, not citizens.”? Lyons iuquired of the leader, “Are you the leader?” to wuich be replod, “N 1 at con mander of the Indian warriors; but L will introduge you tothe chief.'’ ‘The leader ordered dinner, ufter Which he ordered them tw hitch up and drive w the mata Indian camp, bwo aod a hall wiles distant, AN INTREVIEW WITH JOSEPH, On their arrival there the mules and horses were turned out with the Ludiau hord and the white men tu- soph reimurked, 1 suppose you have heard of me!” to which Lyons roplied, "Yes, L huve beard and read of ‘ou,’ joaupit (to Lyons)—Whore are the Snake Lodians? Lyoxs—At Fort Matt Agency. Josxvu—l suppose the soidiers are keeping them there? Lyoxs—I think they come and go as they please, Joskei—How many svldiers are at the agency ¢ Lyo: 1 do not kuow, WdUISKKY PROVES FATAL TO THK WHITES, Following this tuterview the Indians began buying | flour from Green ut $2 per sack und paying thercior, Which seemed to give the men some eucouragement to hope fur release; but im a litte wuile unotuer Tudiau came to the wagou und wanted to buy tour ut whoidsaie, olfering $1 50 per sack lor ten sacks. Alter #ome purleying Green decided to let him have bio avoid trouble, His $2 customers standing near by aifected great indignation, One Of them taking Green | by the Wilskers and jerking hin around somowhat | roughly, but Green thoughs beat not lo resent 11 ‘About Wis time Joseph called tor whiakey, aud H don remarked, **Wiiskey 1s not Very goud lor Ludians, Joseph replied, “Setgit out, sir; LE will not cali for it axa.” Of courve the wikey was forsucoming, and Joseph, the ball-breed, und @ majoruy of the Inciuns drank to excess, Whitebird and Locking Glass did) vot driuk acythiog, Lyons, Lave aug become convinced that toe fudians in tended (o kill them, advised an eflurt to escape, and on bis part Kept walking around trying 10 get tur enough from camp to make a break tor the brush, ‘but wus so closely wulched wud so often ordered back 10 the wagons that be began to feur the worst. At lust, however, just about sunset, Le got some distance from the camp, when an Indiau rode up and ordered nim back to camp, at the sume time taking trom him tis koife. Just then a commotion at the wagons at- tracted the Indian's attenuon and Lyous ran for the brush, crossed the creek und couceaied mingelf on the Opposite side. A search was made for him, und before it Was given up One party passed within ten feet of him, He remained conceaied untii wbout ten P.M, having heard eeveral rifle reports; but now the camp seemed to be quiet, und thinking 1 a good time to fly ue started for the West Mounties, become bewildered he wandered —uround four without food or — water, he the Boise crossing — ol days whea came to Creek, and taking new observations of the country started for Litto Lost River, shooting Ho bad a smali five. ol which the indians had not discove: Shoup 3 his uthor turce shots Were wasted on ducks without getting any, Un the seventh day be arrived at Richardson's cavin, whore he obtamed bis lirst food. Lyons bad been one of General Couuor’s scouts and had been cousidered Tesolute, determined fellow, but he came in a wreck of his former sel!, completely unnerved, THX CHINAMKN’S STORY. All information bad to be obtained from the China- men. ‘They report that about dark the Indians iold the while meu to get on horses and leave. The horses were given them but no saddies, They mounted and left, several lodians accompanying them out of camp, About an bour after their departure aa Ludiau hit one Of the Cuinamen on the side of the face, Knocking Win down, aud purting vue toot vn his neck tovk 4 knife, aod wh loved, “What for you killee me? me nu oztiee lojuus’? Just thea anocier Indiwn interfered, re- Jeased the Chinaman and told them ty leave quickly or they wouid be too lite. They struck oud ut ouce for the suge brush, but were jollowed by ine Indian who bad atiempted to Kill them, Not tiuding tuein the Indian returned to cuiny, aud ia about hall an hour the lndians that bad gone out with the white men re- turned with the horses the men nad rode out, Une of the Cuinamen having heard the report of guns they they »track out at once and afoot tor Junction, where they arrived unburt but badly scared. THE SCKNK OF TUR MASDACKR, Nothing further was kuowo uaiil Colonel Shoup’s party reached thw scene of the massacre. They (ound tat the wagous una nearly wil of the destrucuvle goods had been carried off. he fore wheeis and axic and undorbeath wus lytag Green's dog. Un searcuing lor tue bodies of the men they were lound as beiow de- | seribeu -— Albert Greon, found in the creek, stabbed in tho Vallgy, having lost some stock, hud come over yi | troduced to Joseph, Whitebirs and Looking Glass, Jo- | Having | tor | Birch | . | im allairections. Most of ‘about (0 cut bis throat the Chinaman ejacu- | concluded that tue men must ave been killed, wud | } of one wagon had escaped the geueral conflagration, | Bis) OUR COMPLAINT BOOK. \ [Norm —Lettors intended tor this column must be accompanied by tho writer's full name and address to insure attention, Complainagts who are uuwiiling to comply with this rule simply waste time im writing. Write on onsy one side of the paper. —Ev. Hugaup.) BREEDING MALARIA, To rus Eoiror ov rae Henaro:— ‘The sewers in the neighborhood of Nos, 379 and 372 Grand street have pot been cleaned for @ jong time, ‘The smell trom them is so bad as to render the Delabe borhood wularious J.D. THE CALMEN’S PETITION, To rue Eptrox ov Tue Henatp Allow me to make a complaint in regard to the hole at the corner of Water and Murket street, Cannot the Department of Streets do us poor carmen a favor by filing it up, CABMAN, A FORGOTTEN Law, To tax Epirow oy tHe Hewatp;— What bas become of the law prescribing that the Bames of the sirccts shal! be placed on the corner houses of each block? No ono scems to pay apy at- tention to itwow, Why is it not eutorced Cs CITIZEN, AN INJURY TO PROPELTY. To tux Epiton ov tux Heeatp:— Allow ine 4s @ property bolder to call your attention to our Croton water supply. It is Bo wonder our up. | town builds are idic, Tenants are vacating York- | ville every Gay because they cannot get waor on the third doors, Fr JEYPERBON MARKET'S BELL AND CLOCK, To tux Eptrow ov tHe MeRALD:— Why can’t the clock of Jeflerson Market Court Hous ‘be illuminated at night the same as the one at the Cuy Hall, aud the bell tixed to strike the hours automati- cully? bis would be loss trouble to the Fire Depart- ment aud of more service to the resideuts of the vicinity, D RENWICK STREET BARRICADE. To rhe Eviton ov rus Heratp:— For months past more than half the width of Reve wick strvet in front of @ private stable has been barri caded by a large anused truck, It still stands, a nuis- ance, a detriment wud @ violation of law, Notwith- standing, It 18 and bas been daily passed by tho poties whose duty it 1s to abate it, G8, B BROKEN PROMISES. To tux Epiror ov tux HeRaLo:— Ashort Ume since there was a complaint that the Elevated Railroad Company aid pot ruu trains late | enough. I would like to ask why the promise made some Lime ago in response to 4 numerously signed pe- Lition that they would run eveniwg trains upon the completioa of the loug switch tas not been kept? LATE TRAINS, SAVE THE + WATER, To Tux Evitok or tue Hekaup:— Why do vot the authorities take the same measures to prevent the waste of the Croton water now that they dida year ago? Thon the er was no lower than it is At present, and the police officers gave notice at every house that it must not be used with the howe, (Saturday) moroimg the hose was used as gene when tho reservoirs were full. CROILON WA A HOBOKEN COMPLAINT, To Tux Eprron ov Tas Heraio:— Aliow mo to call the attention of the proper author- ities to the manner in which the ash carts of Hoboken o managed, In First strect they do nut come down below Graud street, which compels residents to throw thor garbage tuto the street or the troe lots, from whieh a fearful smeli arises. If caught in the act of | throwing wafwage iio the tree lous x person is arrested, Caunet toe eatts be compelled to xo all through First wtreet o@ that this nuisance may be slopped t READER, REBELLION OF THE READEXS, To Tae Evitor or Tuk HenaLp:— Asa member of the Mereantiio Library for the past seven years, using the reading room only, I fully co- incide with your correspondent “W. HN.’ regarding the withdrawal from tne library, As the time fo | renewal approaches, action should be taken immedi- ately. I, ur one, sball certaiuly pot sabscribe any more aad shall persuade all my friends to follow my | example. Verhaps we muy succeed in bringing tho | managers to their senses aud the old reading room | back to its patrons, FOL, M, AN UPIOWN SAHARA, To tux Epiror oy tue HeeaLp:— Can you not say 4 few,words 1n rogard to the suffer ings of the residents on the Windsor block, The dust iw intolerable, We are obliged to keep our windows | closed wll the tine, as the dust comes pouring in of us oo front, tauk and rear, A fow evenings since the sweepers gathered some of the dirt ou Madisou ave- nuo in heaps, and it lay in this condition all the next day, when she venicles and the Wind scattered it again dirt 4 dropped trow the wagons loading at Forty-dfth strees and Madison avenue, If these wayons Were prevented from scat- | tering this dirt along the avenue in tais nelghvorhood | our complamts woald cease. ‘There ia a elty ordi- | nance to prevent this, If something t% uot soon done dD for us we will ail soon be buried here, THE WAIER FAMINE. To tHe Epitor ov THR HERaL: L noticed a few days ago a complaint about Croton water in Seveuty-ninth street, Iam a resident of that street, abd the trouble I have undergone is unenaur ale. I can positively say that im threo years, with the exception of two weeks last May, I have hud no wates above the second story, in tho third story I | bave a closet und bath, and I am compelled to pay my water assossment—$7 70—annually, not- withstanding it is never used. To coimplain to the Commissioner of Puolic Works I have found useless. Your correspondent asserts that a acrow is loose. | agree with him. For some time IT havo been unable to get water abuvo my kiichen, | and even there the flow is limited. I have beard it fo. | Umnated that an appropriation js needed to buy mo: | water property; the idea is good, but why uot use what we have? I have Known our reservoir to be full to its capacity and thon we did not have tho suppiy | we should bave had, What can be done now to help Us 18 the question? WATER WANTED. EXTORTIONATE CHARGES IN ELIZABETH, Ne J To tak Evrron ov tae Herat Your correspondent *Fardels’’ was extremely mold. the extortious practised in Elizabeth, N, J. It ts the practice of the water company to make their outrageous charges of Albers and Tungunyika, it became evident that the | the only great fresh water lako~iu the worid trom | Tight side, bis pockets emptied, Hayden anu Combs, found pix rods above, On the Opposite side of the creck from the Wagons, close together, Hayden was shot in several places; the stock of a gun Was found under him, the barrel by his side, aud bis juce ali battered vo pieces, Combs was shut in several places, stabbed tu the neck, his arm badly cut, and 4 vlucksnuke in UIs haud cut square off, The strauger, Wane, was ound | five rods wvove in the brush, suot in tnree places, | Whito Was passenger irom Corine, late of Cal fornia. Wheu found he had a white sik handker- chief, with “W’? stamped in one corner; bis pockets had been rifled, but tu tho watch pocket of his panta- | loons tuey found $40 in currency. He was probably | $10, $15 to $30 per your for a house, accordirg as 1% nay be two or three stories high, or under ur over | thirty feet Wide, and $5 extra ior bath, $5 fer each closet and $4 for a street washer, all 1 udvanes, and if not paid before the first day of the period tor which charged the water is promptly cut off, to the imminent dungor of life and property from expiosion of boilers, ‘two explosions from this cause nave occurred within tho knowledge of the writer. ‘To introduce water ap- other outrage 1s perpetrated in the charge for tapping the main, trom $3 50 to $6 tor from 4 half inch to one | | H {in biw expressions and understated | | | | from twenty-live to thirty-live years of age, live | inch tap, on which the company Iniorms remonstrania feet nine inches nigh, slender, complexion durk, | that they make very small profiia Why they should ith thin chin whiskers wad mustacue, Tue other | make any profit or any charye—since it ts done to sell Stranger bad fallen in with the tram at ke River; | their merchandise—on water tn this case [ fail to soe, as riding a dark Lrown horse, Wuite face, and wad a red” puck mule. He was about tive feet eight inches high, weight about 170 pounds; had thin, sbort, light brown whiskers aud dark buir, His body was found about one mile ubove the others, shot througn the gi0g upward as though he vad been riding ing forward, A white linen handkerchief “Sigeon” siainped im one corue? was iound vy his side, wud a package of greeubacks containing $60 Was found sewed im betweeu tho liwing and the clot | Of bis pants on the opposite side trom the bip pocket. The pockets of ull had been empticd, bat 4 silver watch aod turee half dollars had been overlooked oa On the otheg points “Fardels” ix truthful to a most modest degree; vut | cannot ask your space for turther aetaily, coninihg myself tor the present to the water outrage. | must not, however, omit ssying that the water supplied is only fit tor washing Purpose ANSWLR. OPEN THE GATES, To tak Evrror oy tuk Heraro:— Inthe Hiknato of the 26th thoro is a request that Hayden. The bodies were found and Luried on the | the Central Park be kept opea uatil eleven or twelve fourtu day. | ota ogee . Vornbs” dog had carried a bone up from the wrook | O'clock ¥. M. during she'falland winter, 1 bys and was keeping watch over his deau mastor. spectfully inform those whose business or pleasure causes tuem to cross tho park alter nine o'clock P. M. that them en broached to several o Aldermen, a% well as ‘to Commissioner Mortin; | i there i @ petition to tue san fleet whieu y person wishing to do so may sign at No. 206 Wost street, New York, If the public will wuke up to this matter womething will be accomplisned. x The report that Colune! Shoup had compromised | With the bostiles was wituuul the slightest foundation in fact, Un the contrary, he, With lis evn forty inen, Was under arms aod on the alert tor days, and he bad the promise of forty Bannoc! ‘Yeu Doy, in the event of a tight. The fiuhuing toree of the Lembi country Was wot great enough to sately at- tuck the Ludianus, vut they ec ore in dread from sins quarter tua from command, as | Loko. metab RAILROADS | bt ° | bay bald up sortifications the might they camped on | To rae Evivon op wie Haaasos— a ae ney "4 | In reply to your correspondent ‘s,” in roferonee to A KALD ON KT LARAMIE, so-called “railroud mismanagement” 1 wish to say that 1 distinctly remember the individual—an over- grow youth of the “shoddy-swell’’ persuasion—wno made himself odiously conspicuous ou the ovcasion alluded to, yet whom I treated courteously, giving bun such information as he sought and foruebing him with « tine table, which showed that he could retaru tw Kust New York from Rockaway by 6:14 TP, SL, [From the Cheyenne (Wy. 7.) Leader, Supt. 22.) A tew days ago the military and civilians at Fort Laramie were astonished at the sight of a huge elk, cu ran out of tae underbrush io the Piutte bottom aud charged directly through the paraue ground, ‘ihe | untlered monster was pursued vy a pack of dogs of ail sizes, and alter clearing the buildings one ca- | instead of 7:10, o8 He states ‘The truth of tho nine, bolder than his fellows, nipped at bis heel, When = maior 1 be changed lis mind alter purehas- the clk Whirled, threw down uis antlers, Hapaled ing the ticket, and because 1 would not three or fourol bis pursuers, then, witing his band- refund his money he becume very demon- ive, und tried to blame both mo and the tine. for bis own fickie-mindeduess, 1 do not know B.’? stunds lor, but should suppose thut “Ban- Hiasterer’’ must be his wan raid 10 sng 6 LO wequITing & \ittle Come i vi abusing rasiroud officials through thy press, le would ve doing himsel! & service pau the public 4 kindness vy suppressing his cacarthes carpendi, JG, FARR, Agents Kast New York, Sept, 27, 1877. some bead quickly be Wirew them inuny yards away, wo dogs were Killed by the goring and iall, while two | of three others were trampied to death, Not n minutes eta ve a dozen oillc ounted wud in live . eaploded, With vO perceptible eilvct except Lo inerease ‘ue speed of the forest monarch, wnd alter weuring out their horses in | a two hours’ run the pursders gave up the chase avd | returned to the fort, leaving the clk to seek some Quiet gruging spur va the boundives pias. what comb’? 0 he 18 evideutly ashamed of