The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1877, Page 3

STANLEY'S LETTERS, First Written Communication from the Explorer from West Africa. A TIRED TRAVELLER Thanksgiving to God, Congratulations to the Herald and Daily Telegraph. THE MIGHTY CONGO Missionaries for the East and Traders. for the West Coast. A MAGNIFICENT MARKET The Great and Mysterious Affluent ' of the Lualaba, UETTERS WRITTEN AT NYANGWE. Disposing of the Theories of. Sir Samuel Baker. CAMERON'S PLUCK COMPLIMENTED, Thwarted and Delayed by Sick- ness and Desertion, ONDAUNTED BY DIFFICULTY AND DANGER. “A Very Strong Tribe Indeed That Can Turn Us Back Now.” TRUSTING LUCK AND DARING FATE Arnica, Nzar Mours or Coxco Rives, August 13, 1877. To tux Eprrors ory raz Nzw York Hrratp aup THE Dairy TztecRaPE:— Mr. Thomas H. Price, of the great firm of Messrs. Hatton & Cookson, of Liverpool, is about to go home to recruit his health after @ protracted stay on the West Coast of Africa, and he has kindly offered his services to take to England any despatches or letters I may have for you. While I would gladly avail myself of this opportunity, still lam 80 prostrated just now, and, I may say, so excited at the sight of white faces, and the &cores of “Welcomes” I hear, and go con- fused with the good things of’ this life they preas oh me, that, with the keenest desire to do my duty to you, I yet am constrained to ask you not to exact too much from your very willing servant, but to give him a week’s breath. Anything very. important. or- in- Kasrxpa, or Oasenpa, Wrest Cosst = teresting relating to the discoveries I have: made from the point. where. Livingstone left off (Nyanzwe in Manyema), I shall defer until my nerves, strained so Jong, have ‘become a little more composed. Isend you duplicates of letters written at Nyangwe, and despatched to the East Coast by couriers of Mohammed bin Said, Novem- ber, 1876, just ten months ago. The originals may not have arrived in Europe, in which case you may publish the dupli- cates. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANESGIVING, I cannot refrain from congratulating you upon the pertect success which has attended the explorations of the Anglo-American ex- pedition despatched by you from Zanzibar. The instructions, though onerous, have been faithfully and literally performed. These, I must remind you, were to complete the discoveries of Captain. J. Hanning Speke | and Captain (now-: Colonel) “Grant, of the sources of the Nile; to circumnavigate lakes *Victoriaand Tanganyika, and’by the explora- tions of the latter lake to complete the dis- soveries of Captains Burton and Speke, and, lastly, to complete the discoverios of Dr. Livingstone. With a feeling of intense gratitute to Divine Providence, who has so miraculously saved me and my people from the terrors of slavery, from the pangs of cruel death at the hands of cannibals, after five months’ daily toil through fifty-seven cataracts, falls and rapids—who inspired us with man- liness sufficient to oppose the hosts of sav- ages, and, out of thirty-two battles, brought us safe across unknown Africa to the Atlan- tic Ocean—I inform you that the work of the Anglo-American Expedition which you commissioned me to perform has been per- formed to the very letter. Other explora- tions we imposed on ourselves, but their successful prosetution depended on your means, and the fruits of all our long labors gre due‘to you, A GRGAT HIGHWAY OF COMMERCE. Large os the number of cataracts and rapids mentioned above may be, we have discovered that the great highway of com- merce to broad Africa is the Congo, and happy will that Power seem which shall se- cure for itself a locality tor a depot’ at the extrome limit of the navigation of¢he Lower Congo, and establish there a people sucli as | the freed slaves, to assist it in enriching it- self, the poor races employed in the ser- vice, and the redemption of the splendid NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1877 - TRIPLE SHEET. central basin of the continent by sound and legitimate commerce. MISSIONARIES AND TRADERS. So faras I have been permitted to ob- serve I find that Eastern Central Atrica and Western Central Africa must be acted on by two different influences. While all Afri- cans, naturally, as savages, would more readily appreciate the trader than the mis- sionary, still the missionary would be the most powerful agent in East Central Africa; while in West Central Africa the trader must precede the missionary. The reasons for this are obvious at a glance. In Enst Central Africa the people are gathered under powerful emperors and kings—the great Empire of Uganda, which has an estimated population of 5,000,000 ; the great Empire of Ruanda, with an equal estimated population; the Empire of Urundi, with about 3,000,000; the King- doms of Usagara, the two Usuis, Unyoro, Karagwe and Usongora and Ukerewe—all of these empires and kingdoms governed despotically, subject to the will of their re- In his worthy efforts for the moral improvement of these be- nighted races the missionary, using a dis- creet judgment, can soon secure the good will, assistance and protection of the su- preme powers of these countries. In West Central Africa, from Lake Tangan- yika to the mouth of the Congo River, the peoples are gathered in small, insignificant districts, towns or villages, each governed by its respective chief, As we approach nearer the West Coast the explorer dares not begin to classify the people after the usual manner employed in Africa, as the districts are so small, the population so great, the number of villages so confusing, that there are as many kings ruling over a hundred-acre plot as there are officials in Greece, all animated by an intense thirst for trade and distinguished for their idola- try, hostility to each other and foolish pride. The love of trade and barter is, however, universal, as I shall be able to ex- plain in a subsequent letter. A MAGNIFICENT MARKET, Setting aside the contributions of our ex- pedition to geography, the grandest dis- covery it has made is the great field for trade it has opened to the world, especially to the English, French, Germans and Americans, the English especially, for greater attention to those fabrics and wares generally purchased by Africans on the West Coast. In round numbers—I shall be more exact in another. letter—you have thrown open to commerce an area embracing over six hundred thousand square miles, which contains. nearly two. miles of.an uninterrupted course of water communica- tion, divided among the Upper Congo and its magnificent affluents. It will take a long time to makeup my map, butI promise you a rough sketch of the unknown half of Africa, now revealed for the first time, and you will find that in this brief letter that I am underestimating the merits of this new field for commerce. I will show you, when Thave had time to arrange my notes, how near we are to extensive gold and copper fields, and what products merchants may expect in return for their fabrics. spective monarchs, GEOGRAPHICAL SUCCESSES, For those interested in geography I may say that one time I never dreamed that you could hear anything of me until some time in 1878 or 1879, for my wonderful river con- tinued a northerly course two degrees north of the Equator, sometimes taking great bends easterly, until I thought sometimes that I should soon be in the neighborhood of Jebel Kumr (the Mountains of the Moon), in which case I should either have to re- solve, after reaching five degrees north lati- tude, to force my way toward Gondokoro through the wild Baris who aie fighting with Gordon Pacha, or continue-on my way north to some great lnke, and ultimately perchance the Niger. At the Equator the Lualaba turned north- northeast, as if it really had, by some un- known means—unless all aneroids and ba- rometers were wrong—a connection with the Albert Niyanza, and I hurrahed rather prematurely for Livingstone. This north- northeast course did not last long, for the Lualaba was simply collecting its force to tilt against a monntain, where, of course, there was the wildest scene imaginable, WHENCE THIS GREAT RIVER? Now, in regard to geographical problems, Ihave been flattering myself that I have settled all problems that were given out in 1874, the year I left England for Africa; but I fear, unless Gordon Pecha and his subs— who, by the by, threatened to be foarfully energetic when I was in Uganda and met Colonel de Bellefonds—can resolve the ques- tion that I must indicate one more problem to be settled by those who cun settle it. North of the Equator, while we were glid- ing down the river very quietly indeed, close tothe right bank, we suddenly came to the second greatest affluent of the Lualaba— at the mouth 2,000 yards wide—coming from a little north of east. A HOSTILE CANOE FLEET, We had good cause to remember this river, for in midstream we had the second toughest fight ofall, A floct of canoes, fifty-four in number, came down on us with such deter- mined ferocity that four of our canoes-began to give way and run. One of the enemy's canoes contained over eighty paddlers; a platform at the bow, for the best warriors, held ten men; eight steersmen, with ten- feet paddles, steered the great war vessel, while from stem to sterm ¢here ran @ broad planking, along which the prin- cipal chiefs danced up and down, giv- ing rehearsal to what they proposed todo with us. In half an hour the fight was decided in our favor, of course, or we should not write to you to-day. This great affluent puzzles me a good deal. Can it possibly come from the Albert Niyanza? Or is that gulf I discovered in 25 min. N. lat. a separate lake, giving birth to this affluent of the Lualaba? Or is it merely the Welle of Schweinfiirth ? NO NEWS FROM KUROPE, The people at home can best say which it is, for lam ignorant of everything that has transpired since November, 1874. Neither letters nor newspapers have reached me, except a wreck of a few Illustrated London News, sent to me by Colonel Gordon, in the early part of 1875, from Ismailia; but these contained no geographical news. If Gordon Pacha and his officers have ex- plored the Albert Niyanza, as Colonel de Bellefonds informed me they were about to do, the question is easily answered as re- gards the Albert Lake; but if they have not, one may build any number of hypotheses without being censured by authority. One may say that the Albert Lake is possibly not a reservoir of the Nile alone, but also of the Congo; that the Lake Victoria, on which I spent such laborious toil, not unaccom- panied with frequent dangers, is also not only a reservoir of the Nile, but of the Con- go; and proceed in this strain until every- thing is muddled with theories again, And I remember that Colonel de Bellefonds had something to say about the uncertainty— putting it mildly—of Sir Samuel Baker's discoveries, But, as I remarked before, the geographers at home can best determine all these questions, for they gather the news from all points, and the best thing an ex- plorer can do is to leave it all to them, INACCURATE MAPS AND CHARTS, Another thing I must hint to you about— for, as I told you, this is a letter or note written very hurriedly, upon a very excit- ing occasion; I cannot enter into details now—the incorrectness, or rather the in- famous inaccuracy, of the chart of Western Atrica, The chartmaker may be to blame, after all; but if he can produce his authority and thesource of his information he is saved from the serious charge of having published much of his work upon hearsay, without marking his information as*‘sach.” I:dare not imagine Captain Tuckey to be responsi- ble for these errors. Ishould much rather accuse Portuguese traders, who might be presumed to be very uncertain about the meaning of the words “geographical accu- racy." In plainer terms, nothing that can be seen on your map of Western Africa twenty miles east of Yellala Falls is correct, It is a simple show of names that I hear nothing about and a wild wavy line marked deeply black which pretends to be the Congo. We have also just above the Falls of Yellala a sketch of a river four or five miles wide, with islands, the whole of which I shall be able to show you is sheer nonsense, and anybody who doubts it need only spend £100 to satisfy himself by a personal investigation. Be- sides the enormous amount of internal sat- isfaction he will receive he will have a pleasant five days’ walk through a pictur- esque country. FATAL ERRORS IN THE MAPS, You will be surprised and grieved to hear, however, that to these errors on this map I owe the loss of one of the most gentle souls, and withal ono of the bravest-—Francis Po- cock—along with fifteen of my people, two narrow, escapes. of myself, the loss of about $18,000 worth of ivory, twelve canoes, a mutiny of my command and the.almost total tuin of the expedition, besides dislocated limbs, bruises without number and a wear- ing anxiety during five months which has made me an old man in my thirty-fifth year. JOY AT A GREAT DELIVERANCE. But the gracious God bo thanked, who has delivered us from ‘the mouth of hell and the jaws of death!" We are now safe, and the merchants on the West Coast are doing their very best to make us feel at home. About sixty of my people are suffer- ing severely from scurvy, others from dropsy, dysentery, &&, One young fellow just lived to reach the ocean. Another has gone mad for joy and has taken to the bush and become lost, and I myself am so pros- trated with weakness that I must once again ask you to excuse me for a few days, HENRY M. STANLEY, Conducting Anglo-American Expedition. DUPLICATFS OF A LETTER SENT BY STAN- LEY TO ZANZIBAR FROM NYANGWE, IN CARE OF AN ATAB MERCHANT—SIR SAMUEL BA- KER'S MISTAKES REGARDING ALBERT Ni+ YANZA AND TANGANYIEA—UNRELIABLE NA- TIVE AND ARAB TESTIMONY AND DESCRIP- TION. Nyanowz Manrzma, Cenraat, Arnqoa, Oct. 30, 1876, ' To ray Epitons or tar New York Hepatp ayp Losvoy Dauy Tevxonara :— In repacking my baggage and reducing it for our journey to the unknown regions west of here I came across Sir Samuel Ba- ker's letter, given by Sir Bartle Frere to the Times. I had forgotten all about the letter, otherwise I should have written to you long ago. But it is not yet too late, as no doubt Sir Samuel Baker has published his book and maintains the same theories divulged in this letter. Perhaps absence from Af- rica has but deepened his impression and caused hit at last to believe his theories to be facts, You may be able to compare these re- marks with such as he may have made in his book. “Albert Niyanza, Congratulate Mr. Find- lay from me. His theory is correct, This lake is a simple continuation of Tangan- ‘| yika, I had frequent conversations with two native merchants of Karagwe, who pur- chased ivory for their King Rumanika. “These men had on several occasions ar rived from Karagwe by boat via the M’woo- tan Nzige (Albert Niyanza). They describe the lake as immensely wide in some por- tions, but varying in an irregular manner. In some places it narrows suddenly and then again enlarges to a great width, For a return voyage from Masindi to Karagwe by lake the merchants’ route is as follows:— “Masindi, two days’ march west to Chi- bero, on the Albert Niyanza. From Chi- bero, by boat, you pass in succession to the south Minyoro (Speke’s Unyoro), Kabbo- you, Tambooki, M’Pororo (boat stops), and in two days’ overland march east you reach Karagwe, about 3 dgs. S. L., Ruanda, Ba- roondi (Speke’s Urundi?), Chibbogora, Wa- tuta, Machoonda. “‘Ujiji is well known to be on the M'woo- tan Nzige—i. e., Albert Niyanza.” AN ABSURD THEORY DISPOSED OF, These statements would not need reply were they merely on native authority in- stead of having the high support of Sir Sam- uel Baker. I remember that the first time Iread the latter I felt somewhat ‘‘dashed” at the long list of native names which Sir Samuel set forth as names of stations which were said to link the two lakes—Tanganyika and the Albert, There were many I had never heard of, and to disprove the native evidence furnished by Baker, besides my own exploration of the north end of the Tanganyika, a better knowledge of the locali- ties of those stations was desirable, which I am happy to say I have obtained by my late explorations in the region between Lakes Viotoria and Albert. After the names of the stations according to Bir 8. Baker, he adds :— ‘Beyond Machoonda the merchants know nothing, except that the take extends to the south for an unknown distance.” It was plain to me that Sir Samuel placed too much confidence in native information, for, alas! Ihave had ascore of times such good cause to distrust all native and Arab information that I have made ita rule to take everything as doubtful. RATHER MIXED. These two ‘‘merchants” had teken Sir Samuel over five lakes—the Albert, the Tan- ganyika, the Upper Alexandra Niyanza, the Lower Alexandra Niyanza and the Victoria, They had given the names of largo countries for stations, and mixed the names of dead kings with names of insignificant stations, Let us, with the clear light thrown on this mass of error, by exploration endeavor to set things geographically right. Masindi, one of the capitals of Kabba Rega, King of Unyoro, it is said to’ be two days’ march to the Albert Niyanza, toa place called Chibero. Thence you are said to voyageina boat along Unyoro, Kabboyou and Tambooki. This latter I take to mean M'tambuko, King of Ankori or Usayara, whose country, though it does not extend to Lake Albert, runs parallel with it between Seuthern Uganda and some small lake districts. From Tambooki, or M'tambuko’s you aro supposed to reach Mpororo, where the boat stops, and a two days’ merch overland brings you to Karngwe. The distance might prob- ably be done in two days’ march, but would strain any ordinary man’s powers to perform the distance in thattime, but it might be doubted whether two bodies of water, or lnkes, separated by a two days’ land march, could be supposed to be connected. From Karagwe you are said to reach Ru- anda, Having marched east to Karagwe, you are now compelled to go west to Ruanda, thence to Urundi South. Having gone south of Ruanda to Urundi, you must now turn about forty miles northeast to Chibbo- gora, which I take to mean Kibogora, King of Western Usui. From Kibogora’s you proceed to ‘‘Watuta,” station or a country, but a marauding tribe occupying Ugomba between Unyamwezo and Ubba, Finally, from ‘Watuta” you proceed to Machunda; that isto say, east 120 geographical miles to Machunda’s, who was formerly King of Ukerowe, on Lake Victoria ! From which is not a “SLAYING THE SLAIN.” | There are several other points in his letter which might be criticised, but I am per- haps “slaying the slain.” I quite believe no errors would be found in the descriptions of districts and positions of localities over which Sit Samuel has personally travelled, andI believe he has done his utmost to maintain that standard of rigid accuracy which Burton, Speke, Grant, Winwood Reade and Livingstone formed ; but beliefs and hypotheses are perilous luxuries in Africa, CAMERON COMPLIMENTED. I address myself now to a more pleasant task—viz,, that of giving you my glad tri- bute to a much younger traveller than Sir Samuel Baker—Lieutenant Cameron. Mr. Waller, of the Royal Geographical Society, is very partial tothe word “pluck,” it appears, Ho said Mr. Cameron showed great pluck in discovering the Lukuga. I do not exactly know what he meant by the word in con- nection with the discovery of the Lukuga, but he may use the word very properly in connection with Cameron's march from Ny- angwe to the unknown regions southwest of here, If Arabs are to be believed, he has shown a most brilliant example of pluck— determined courageamounting to pure reck- lessness of life. Iam told he had but little ammunition left. Considering that he wasin this position in the very heart of Africa, at least six months’ journey from either coast, and that he preferredto goon thus unprepared through an unknown region, I can only look at his feat as one of the most signal in- stances of high courage and duty in the annals of African exploration, I wish the young and gallant traveller the happiest success, SICKNESS AND DESERTION, A day or two before leaving Ujiji I wrote to you to say that I was compelled to leave off letter writing to attend to my sick peo- ple and prepare for my journey to Man- yema. I lost eight good men from small- pox, but I suffered greater loss the day I finally set out from Ujiji, for forty-three de- sertions took place, Atone time! imagined that there was a conspiracy to finish the journey at Ujiji. There was, at least, a kind of panic among those who remained; for, as the desertions were announced, I heard the men ask one another in fear what it all meant, and my suspicions seemed to discover a kind of regret in their faces that they had not deserted also, To prevent the contagion of desertion I clapped thirty-two doubtful cases in irons, and, after driving them into the canoes, compelled the canoes to set off at once for Ukaranga. I believe that it is to this sum- mary, unhesitating method I owe what is left of a once powerful expedition. The time spent by me in exploring and circnm- navigating Lake Tanganyika served to de- moralize the people. They were daily lis- tening open-mouthed to the terrible stories of the cannibals of Manyema, and the fear of being eaten caused the simple fools to quiver with anxiety. OONFIDENCE RETURN Until I arrived in Uguhta, and, indeed, until I had bidden adieu to the Tan- ganyika, my people made me feel as though I had become a slave driver, The camp exhibited nothing but sadness and gloom. The usual merriment, the broad jest and loud, reckless laugh were wanting. Many had lost their comrades and mess- mates, the messes had not yet been reor- ganized and the men seemed to be shy of one another. But as we increased the distance between our camps and the Tanganyika all this gloomy feeling wore away, and, inspired by rapid, strenuous marching, before wo reached Bambarre or Kabambarre the peo- ple had resumed their former cheery looks, and slyly laughed at themselves for having been frightened by the stories about the man-enters of Manyema, I forgot to say that even Kalulu was also one of tho deserters; but he and four others were sub- sequently recovered. From Kabambarro we followed the Luama River to its conflu- ence with the Lualaba, thence followed the latter river to Nyangwe, which place we reached in the unprecedentedly short time of forty days, or twenty-eight marches from the Tanganyika. “AN-UNENOWN AND MYSTERIOUS LAND. Though Ihave not had the pleasure of reading Livingstone’s journal you must have had. I cannot hope to add much to any- thing he has said. I reserve myself for tho unknown west of Nyangwe, because I shall have then something worth writing about— new, virgin ground, of which not a whisper has reached the world outside, about which even everybody in Nyangwe is ignorant—a region which Livingstone panted to reach, but could not, and which Cameron promised to explore, but did not. The region is all involved in mystery; the intense supersti- tion of the Africans hns tolded it with awe- some gloom. UNCANNY INHABITANTS, It is peopled by their stories with terribly vicious dwarfs, striped like zebras, who deal certain death with poisoned arrows, who are nomads and live on elephants, A great forest stretches no one knows how far north—certainly no one has seen the end of it—through which one may travel days and days and weeks and months without ever seeing the sun; and the great river Lualaba continues north, ever north; and it is possible, the Arabs and their slaves say, the Lualaba may reach the salt sea, SPECULATIONS AS TO THE LUALABA, After listening to the Arab who has journeyed furthest north I do not wonder at Livingstone’s fixed idea that this Luainba is the Nile, ‘This man, who has reached a dis- tance of fifteon marchos north of hore, 8 through Pe Soctaned that he struck the Lualaba, and at that distance the river had decided curve, going north-northeast. As this man’s statement was corroborated by his companions I am bound to believe him; but it suggested to my mind, not that it haa a connection with the Albert Niyanza, or the Bahr Gazelle, or with the Nile at all, but that it continues in a northerly direction to some point near the Equator, where it is ree ceived by an equally great river, having ite rise in the Djebel Kumr of the Arabs, or the Luna Montes of Ptolemy, and from that point flows southwesterly into the river known as the Congo, This is my deliberate opinion at the present time, and it has caused me to make decided changes in the programme of the travels before me, THE DIFFICULTY AND GLORY OF THE ENTER PRISE. Should my opinion be confirmed I should, by following the Lualaba so far north, be taking the expedition beyond all power of aid or supplies from any quarter. Such a long distance beyond all calculation would waste every article we could possibly exe change for food. If the mere purpose of thig expedition was to cross Africa, with the ute most confidence declare to you that I could reach San Salvador in six months from Nys angwe; but I should then, liké Cameron, have left the question of the Lualaba just where Livingstone left it, to be discussed upon the grounds of each man’s opinions, IfI merely struck direct west for San Sale vador, how could I prove that the Lualaba is the Congo, or that it is not the Congo, but the Nile or the Niger—whichever it may be? I , should forfeit all right to be heard upon the subject or to be considered as one able to confirm any of the theories broached’ upon the subject, This would be lamentable, “IT CANNOT BE THE NILE.” My opinion about the Lualaba is that it cannot be the Nile, despite its northerly trend, It is too mighty a river here to be the Nile. I have crossed it, sounded it, tested its current, taken its altitude, deliberately compared it in my mind to the Nile, and my conviction is strong that there is sufficient water in it to make three rivers such as the Nile, Yet it may, though it is highly im- probable, throw out a branch to the Bahr el Gazelle, It is improbable, because it would be extraordinary; yet may be so, as there ara more wonders in Africa than are dreamed o;~ in the common philosophy of geography, Instance the Tanganyika! I PROPOSE TO STICK TO THE LUATABA. But, as neither conjectures, dreams, the ories nor opinions will make one post tive geographical fact, I propose t¢ stick to the lLualaba, come _ faij or come foul, fortune or misfortune and, that I maynot be driven back by force, I have recruited the expedition to one hun- dred and forty rifles and muskets ap- seventy spears. The desertions and death, from smallpox at Ujiji had thinned my com> mand to such a degree that we should have been onlya sop for a ferocious tribe, Our exe Ppedition, with the late reinforcement, is now as strong ss when it drove its way through Ituru and Iramba and twice crossed hostile Unyoro, WON'T BE TURNED BACK. It must be ao very strong tribe indeed that can drive us back now, But what savages cannot do hunger may, if the Lualaba continues running so far north of the Equator, I have ame ple supplies for six months. Beyond thas period Heaven knows what will become of. us if we find ourselves at the confluence of these two rivers, the Lualaba and the une known river, so far out of the way ot supe plies, with not a single bead or cowrie:to buy food! However, my naturally sane guine temperament has made me sing of the doggerel of Trust to luck and stare Fate in the face; Alsy’s the hoart if it’s in the right place, HENRY M STANLEY, P. 8.—I leave two letters in the hands of my friend Abed bin Salim, addressed tq you. He promises to forward them to the East Coast at the earliest opportunity. I am well aware that such opportunities come very seldom, but I trust that you will ree ceive them at least within twelve months, aM S& A MISSING HUSBAND, A MAN LEAVES FOR FRANCE TO SECURE A FOR TUNE, BUT NEITHER WRITES NOR RETUBNG TO HIS WIFE. {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Nasnva, N. H., Oct. 8, 1877, About two months ago Mr. Emire Reber, of this city, Dookkeeper for the Boston, Lowell and Neshue Rath road Corporation, at the office in Boston, was advised by cabtegram of the death of # brother in France, and, there being a largo catate to be divided between him. nd brothor, his presence was requested a8 to his departure som: offered him $0,000 for hie elat he rofused, He sailed from Ne company ing bim to the steamer ance that be would write to her while on the voyage and again iomediatoly upon bis arrival mm Fracee, er has returned to this country and other ave arrived and departed and no tidings have been received. The wife, a German iady, hes no knowledge of the placo in France to which he was destined, and sho and the friends of Mr, aro good deal alarmed concerning his safety. Various probabilities are discussed. It ismentioned he may bave veen foully dealt with; that there wag some trick to secure bis return to France because of family unpleasantness with the government, and that the Phitwaeiphia parties are concerned some way 1% his absence. ARREST OF COU NTERFEITERS, : Puvapsirma, Oct 4, 1877, United States secret service officers to-day arrested At No, 928 Darien street Thomed Van Foster, alias ra and Thomas Lewis, two notorious souster. foiters, A number of plaster of Parm moulds and a ge quantity of counteriet quarters, balves and rtd dollars and implements in their pe th tare were also oo toe Tho priscaets were COR mitted in default of $2,000 bail each,