The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1877, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1877.—TRIPLE ‘try Quaking Asps; in the eastern part of the country they call them Silver Aspens.’ “Hab! A great white chief, whom I met once, epoke these words. ‘Silver Aspen: ’ trees that shake; ‘those wore the Long Hair’s soldier “You do not mean that they trembled before your people because they were afraid??? “They were brave men, They were tired. They were too sired.’* “How did they act? How did they behave them- selves?” Atthis Sitting Bull again arose, my seat, as did the other persons tn the room, the stenographer. A8 GOOD MEN AS EVER FOUGHT. “Your people,” satd Sitting Bull, extending bis ght hand, “were killed, I tet! no lies about dead men, These men who came with tho Long hair were as good men as ever fought When they rode up their horses were tired and thoy were tired. When they and firmly 1 also arose from xcept | got off from their horses they could not ‘on their fect. They swayed to and fro—so my young men have told me—like the limbs of cypresses tn @ great wind Some of thom staggered undor the weight of their guns, Bat they began to fight once; but by this me, as I have nid, our camps were aroused, and there wore plenty of warriors to meet them. They fired with needle guns We ro- plied with magazine guos—repeating rifies 1 was go (and here Sitting Bull illustrated by patting nis palms together with the rapidity ofa fusitiade) Our young men rained lead across the river and drove the white braves back.” “and then?’ “and then they rushed across themselves.” “aud then?” “And then they foand that they had s good deal bo do.” “Was there at that time some doabt about the issue of the battle, whether you would whip the Long Hair or not?” “There wae so much doubt about It that I started down there (here again pointing to the map) to tell the squaws to pack up the lodges and get ready to move away."” “You wore on that expedition, then, after the big Gght bad fairly begun??? “Yes.” “You did not personally witness the rest of the big ght? You were not engaged in it?” “No, I bave beard of it trom the warriors.” HOW OUSTER WAS SURROUNDED. “When the great crowds vf your young men crossed the river in front of the Long Hair what did thoy do? Did they attemptto assault him directly in bis tront t”” “AU first they did, butalterward they found tt bet- ter totry and got around him. They formed them- elves on all sides of him except just at his back.’’ “How jong did {t take them to put themsel around his flanks?” “As long as it takes the gua to travel from here to here” (indicating some marks upon bis arm with which appurently he 1s used to gauge the progress of the shadow of his Jodge across his arm, and probably meaning halt an hour, An Indian bas no more definite Way than this to express the lapse of time). “The trouvle was with the soldiers,” he continued; *“tbey were 69 exhausted and their horses bothered them so much that they could not take good aim. Some of their horses broke away frow them and left When the Long Hair, the General, found that he was 60 outnumbered them to stana and drop and die. and threatened on his flanks, he took the best courso he could baye taken, The bugle blew. it wag an prder to fall back. All the men fell back fghtiug and dropping. They could not fre fast enough, though. But from our side it was go,” said Sitting Bull, and hore he clapped bis hands rapidly twice a second to express with what quickness and continuance the balis flew from the Henry and Winchester rifes wielded by the Indians. “They could not stand up under suct n fire,’” he added. “Were any military tactics shown? Did the Long Haired Chief make any disposition of bis soldiers, or did it seem as though they retreated all together, helter tkelter, fighting tor their lives?" NO COWARDS ON KITHER SIDR. Some great chief the while, They would fail bavk across a coulie and make a fresh stand “They kept in preity good order, must have commanded them ail beyond on higher ground. The map 1 pretty nearly right It shows where the white men stopped and Jougbt betore they wore all Killed. 1 think that is right—down there to the left, justabovethe Little Big Horn, There was one party driven out there, away from the rest, and there a great many men were killed, Tue places marked on the map are pretty nearly the places where all wore killed,”” “Did the woole command keep on fighting until the last?” “Bvery man, so far as my people could sco. There ‘were no cowards on either side.’” | Cowards! One would think not. The best testi- mony ftom oue who has examined the battle fleid and the line of Custer’s retreatis as follows: — From this point (the north bank of the Little Big Horn, where Custer was forced back by overpowering numbere) bo was driven back to make successive His live of retreat Stretches from the river to the spot indicated on the map as that where he fell, On the lino of retreat Cal- + Btands on the hi fF ground, houn’s company seems to have beon thrown across it to check the Indians, At a distance of about three- boun’s company lay dead, in an irregular line, Cal- oun and Crittenden in piace in the rear. About a tnile beyond this, on the ridge parallel to the stream, still following tho line of retreat indicated on the map, Keogh’s company was slaughtered in position, his Tight resting on the hill where Custer fell, and whieu feems to have been held by Yates’ company, quarters of a mile fromthe river the whole of Cal- | i} | the most prominent part of the ridge Custer made bis last desperate stand. Here, with Captain Yates, Colonel Cook, ptain Custer, Lieutenant | Riley and others and thirty-two men of Yates? | command, he went down, fighting heroicuily to the fast, against (he tremendous odds which assailed tuem pn all sides, Vituation a desperate one, they killed their horses tor It's believed by some that, fuding the abarricade. From the point where Custer fell the fme of retreat aga through a ravine, and aloug this line im the ravine n doubles back toward tho river bwenty-thres bodies of Smith’s company were found, | Where this line terminates, near the river, are found the dead men and horses of Captain Custer’s company, | commingied with Smith's, and the situation of tho | dead indicates that some desperate attempt was made to make a stand near the river or to gain the woods, DOKATION OF THR FIGUT. 1 Inquired of Sitting Bull:—“ilow Jong did this big fight continue?” “fhe sun was there,” he answored, pointing to ‘within two hours from the western horizon, “You cannot certainly depend,” here observed Ma- 8 Walsh, “upou Sitting Bull's or any other Tadiau’s Btatewent In regard to time or bumbers. But bis an- swer, indeed ajl vis answers, exactly correspond with | eke replies to similar questions of My own, If you | | those perilous three hours, although, according to | will proceed you will obtain from him im @ few mo- | across the bluffs beyond the river the flight of the In- ments some important testimon; I went on to interrogate Sitting Bull: “This pig fight, then, extended through three hours?” “Through most of the going forward of the sua. “Where was thie Long Hair the most of the time?’ «1 nave talked with my people; I cannot find one who saw the Long Hair until just before he died, Ho did not wear his long hair as he used to wear tt, His hair was lie yours”? eaid Sitting Bull, playtully touching my forehead with bis taper dogers, “Tt was short, but it was of the color ef the grass when the frost comes,” “Did you hear from your people bow he died? Dia he die on horseback ?”” “No, None of them died on horseback,’? “All were dismounted ?” “Yes.” “and Custer, the Long Hair?” THM LAST TO DIR “Well, I have understood that thei many brave men In that fight, and that from time to time, while it was going on, they were shot down like pigs) They conia not help themselves, Qne by one the officers tell I believe the Long Hair rode across once from this piace down here (meaning the place where Tom Custer’s and Smith’s companies were killed) to this place up here (indicating the spot on the map where Custer fell), but 1 am not sure about this, Any way it w: sata that up there where the last fight took place, where the last stand was made, the Long Hatr stood lke a sheaf of corn with all the ears fallen around him.” “Nos wounded?” “No.7 “How many stood by him?” **A few. “When did he fall?” “He killed » man when he fell, He laughed,’” were a groat “You mean he cried out,” “No, he laughed; he had fired bis last shot.” “From a carbinet”? “No, a pistol.” “Did he stand up after he first fell?” “He rose up on his bands and tried another shot, but bis pistol would not go off,” “Was any one else standing up when he fell down ?”” “One man was kneeling; that wasall, But ne died detore the Long: Hair, All this was far up on the bluffs, far away trom the Sioux encampments, I did not see it, Itis told tome, But it is true,”’ NOT SCALPED, “The Long Hair was oot scalped ?”” “No. My peoplo did not want bis scalp.” “Why?” “Lhave said; he was a great cbiet.’? “Did you at any time,’I persisted, ‘during the progress of the ight believe that your people would get the worst of itr’? “at one time, ag 1 have told you, I started down to teilthe squaws to strike the lodges. 1 was then on my way up to the right end of the camp, where the first attack was made on us But before 1 reached thatendof the camp where the Minneconjou and ¥ brief "in consideration of Uncpapa squaws and children were and where some of the other squaws—Cheyennes and Ogallalas—had gone, l was overtaken by one of the young warriors, who had just come down from the fight, He called outto me, He said;— 4+ (No use to leave camp; every white man is killed,” So 1 stopped and went no further, 1 turaed back, and by and by I met the warriors returning.” “But in the meantime,” 1 asked. “Were there no warriorg.occupied up here at the right end of the camp? Wus nobody leit, except the squaws and the children and the old men, to take care of that ena of the camp! Was nobody ready to defend it against tho soldiers in those intrenchmeats up there”? “Ob,” replied Sitting Bull again, “there was no need to waste warriors in that direction, There were ocly a few soldicrs there in those 1ntrenchments, ana we knew they wouldn't dare to come out,”? POOR CUSTER’S TLL LUCK, In face of the facts this statement of Sitting Bull sounds like satire, For, all through that flerce after- noon, when General George A. Custer was advanciog, retreating, fighting, until he felt with his glorious comrades around him, he was fighting according to a plan of battie which be had previously marked out, anda part of which Reno failed 10. be said of Custer’s ‘splendid rashness,” whatever Whatever may liberty be may have taken in tterpreting the orders of his superior oilicer, this at least becomes clear, that whon he entered upon hig last engagement he tad a concerted plan. Having by the fury of his own assaults drawn ail or next to all the warriors in Sitting Bull’s encampment to bis own front he awaited, fighting against tearful odds for three hours, the support, tho attack in an- other direction of the o‘ficer to whom he bad intrusted the guidance of more than one-fourth of bis command, ‘That oflicer, having at the outset received a cueck, was restrained withio his citadel during the last two of Suiting Bull, there were none but squaws, old men and little Indian children in front of him. By a renewed assault at that time, when the Indians believed that the bluifs he occupied were almost lorsaken, he might have swept through the Sioux camp hke a hurricane, putting its inmates to flight, Ten, by attacking in their rear the warriors who were pursuing Custer he would probably have saved his chief, the battle ana the day, minutes alter their camp The Indians would not have fought fitteen Their affection for their squaws and children is almost in- | had been taken, conceivably tender. They would have forsaken victory itself to rush back and protect the inmates of their | nomadic homes, Nor dol One has no right, with this slight knowledge, to judge an of- But Rono stuck to bis strong position, wish to be considered here as blaming bim, ficer, He bad been singed by fire early in the after. noon, and a burned child dreads the fre, Moreover, after Custer bad been done tor Reno was again bard pushed, as wo know, Sitting Bull supposes that somehow @ remuant of Custer’s command retroated back again to the biuffs occupied by Keno, and that those men repelled the Sioux in the Ggut whieh took place later on those dlufts, A WeKo'S DEATH. While the big fight was going on,’ I asked Sitting ull, “could (he sound of the firing bave been heard as tar as Lhose Intrenchments on the right?” “The squaws who wore gathered down In the valley of the river beard them. The guns could have been heard three miles ana more,"? Sitting Bull and bis chiefs aid wot think there were “any men’? m those Intrenchments on the right of their camp while they were overwhelming Custer, They leit their squaws In thoir Jodges, unprotected, rightin sight of Reno aad nis troops, Reno lw And, while there, Custer, bis brothers, his brother-in- law, his nephew and the soldiers whom he could trust stood surrounded, tyhting weir jast battle, Every moment, one wiust believe, Custer expected to hear, down the valley, the discharges of Reao’a carbines, dian encampment, Every instant he mast have pected that succor, that assistance, which would give bim triumph, He waited, he stood, vainly, In the micast of bis kindred, with ali bis soldiere laid prostrate around him, with the thought of bis wife in bis brain, with the phantasmagoria of oarbaric faces, figures and costumes about bim, he sank, laughing at death, as Sitting Bull describes. Heroic soul! Good general! Patriot! Let those nly who have dared to stand for hours In death’s Presence, wivh bullets smging afound thems, with the UiNéiitiond of & fatal or mutilating woutia det every Second m the neighboring air, with homes and fair faces in their memories meanwhile, and with the con- sciousness that, dying, they are likely to procure for themselves more pity than admiration—let these men only judge of Custer and bis fall But let those men who never stepped across the thresholds of luxurious bomes, and who know nothing of this wild Northwest and 18 denizens forbear, ADIBU KING BULL. As Sitting Bul) arose to gol asked him whether he bad she stomach for any more battles with the Ameri- cans. He answered:— “1 do not want any ght”? “You mean not now?” He laughed quite heartily. “No; not this winter,” “Are your young bravi “You will seo,” "When?” “1 cunnot say.” “1 bave not seen your people, Would I be welcome at your camp?” » After gazing at the ceiling for a few moments Sit- ting Bull responded:— “41 will not be pleased, willing to taht?” Tho young men would not be pleased, You came with this party (alluding to the United States Commissioners) and you can go back with them. I have said enough.” With this Sitting Bull wrapped bis blanket arouna him and, after gracefully shaking hands, strode to tho door, Then he placed bis fox-skin cap upon his head and I bade him adieu, STANLEY'S LAST LETTER, (From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov, 14.) The advantage of the telegraph over the ola mail system was illustrated compuratively a few weeks ago, when the New York Hekarp published at cousidera- abie extent the first news of its explorer, Mr, Stanley, since he plunged from Zanzibar into the heart of Africa, making his Journey westward. The despatches received from him on the West Coust were necossariiy the rich experionces and manifold adventures through which he had passed since he disappeared trom civilization at one side of the continent to reappear on the Atlantic seaboard, They announced in general terms the fact of bis dis- covery that the Lualaba was but aconuinuation of the Congo iver, and that he had followed the im for 1,800 miles from Nygugwe to tne had lost several natives and one Euro- pean of his exploring party; bud noted the commercial advantages which the river opened up, und detinitely located the obstructions to navigation, ‘The inteiligence that be was still alive and weil aud had continued to prosecate the explorations in spiie of all sorts v1 discouraging circumstances was received with no little iuterest, His silence had become alarm- ing and fears of his failure were entertained, These were, of course, dissipated by the first cable despatch from London, which summarized bis perlormauces, ‘This morning the HERALD published two interesting letters, oue giving ample details of bis march and the otber the incidents of the death by drowning ot Francis Pocock. The former 18 dated september 7, the later september 1. The more recent letier is more ipteresting Irom tho fact that its details ure of Greater general importance. Tne course of the Luaiava from Nyangwe is in gen- eral northwest, till 11 reaches a point four degrees north of the Equator and twenty-three degrees west of the meridian, Here it makes a grand, ulmost semi- circular, Weep, and rushes over some six!y main cat- aracts to the Atianuc, in @ southwesterly direction. lis entire length from the lake, in which it 08 1 rise, 1s 2,900 mties, or 1,800 miles irom Ny¥angwe, draining Lbrough its tributaries a Vast area of dountry, 860,000 square miles in extent, a country remarkabie tor the commerciai character of the natives, tor its production of whut hus recently been looked upon as an almost extinct product—viz, ivory—and lor ite cottou, indiu rubber and other African vogetables, Jt 18, Says the expiorer, the grand highway of com- merce to West Central’ Africa, aud will shortly pre- gent to the civilized world a very important political question—namely, as to its control. Protection must be given Lo iraders who ascend it, and the question as to who shall assume the responsibility of the pro- tectorute is already becoming serious. Ths, howover, 18 upurt from the purpose of Mr, Stanley’s lavors, He bas accomplished @ feat which vo amount of sneering can belittia It has been claimed that the identification of tue Lualaba and Congo rivers ig not of any great importance, This 1 obviously a mistake, for by proving them to be the Sume stream the explorer brings to tue Atiantic coast all the wealth of the centre of Africa, through which in its inciplency tue great river flows, His observa- Lions, Moreover, Will be 1ound of great eervice to com- merce iu xuidiug the pioneer trading feeis which will open up intercourse witn the natives. His coutribu- tion to the practical knowledge of this hitherto unex- plored und fertde region cannot be too bighiy est- tiated, nor can the enterprise of the two newspapers, the Nsw York Hinarv and the Londoa Leleyraph, which equpped him for the undertaking, be lighuy valued, A DINNicR TO MK, STORY. . A party of twenty-seven gentlemen, desirous of doing houor to Mr, William W. Story, entertained bin at diner at the Union League Club Houso last even- ing. The party consisted of George Wiiliam Curtis, James Graut Wilson, Joun Taylor Johnsou, E. Ran- dolph Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph H. Choate, Frederick Law Olmstead, Theo. Shillaber, Daniel Huntington, William &, Vodge, Jr.; Thomas Hicks, Jobn Jay, Charles O'Conor, Sidney Webster, Charles P. Daly, Parke Godwin, A, Thorndike Rico, Vincenzo Botia, Whitelaw Reid, Edward L. Godkin, Charles Watroas, John Bigelow,’ William Allen Butler, Wiliam 3. Mayo, John A. GC, Gray aud Attoruey Gonerwl Fairchild,’ The guests were Sir. Story and his fon. The following letter was sont by Mr, William Cullen Bryant, who could not attend the diner: Kosn To tux CoMMmurTeK OF ARMANURMEN Mx. Story GENTLEMEN —I cannot be prese t xiven to Mr, story, eminent, like Michae In the sister of sculpture and poetry. But I ius his works in ph these arts warmly ip this retreat as were with yi near the words in which comed to the chief city of bis mative country. Tam. genth men, fuithtully yours, W.G. BRYANT. Letters of apology were also read from General Me- Cleiian and Bayard Taylor, When the clotb bad been removed Mr O'Couor, who presid Charles proposed the health of the guest in appropriately eulogisuic terms, To this Mr. Story responded briefly. The eveuing was mostly speut im pleasant chat and quiet, social converse, Long specches were not in order, for Savannah yesterday alternoon to seek relaxation and recuperation in a milder climate, Abouy midday he appesred in some of bis oid downtown haunts, where he was grected by many friends, but belore two o’clock be went on board (he steamer, at pier 16 River, A reporter of the Heap called upon uatoron the ship and found him sitting forward, nly chatting with «few {rien In respon to tue reporter's inquiries Mr. Morrissey said: am going to Savanush, perbaps farther, for the benent of my health—iu iach my physician insists upon the Journey, Lam getting along’ so well toward my rex covery that he does not want me to take the risk of a relapse from the early storms, From Savanna | do not know where | shail go—the weather will be my only gwade iu that matier.”’ In addition the Senator said bis canvass bad been more than usually arduous, owing (0 His Own previous iliness and to \he tact tab & man of navional reputation Like Mr, Schell was pitted against Dim. Mrs. Morrissey’s her from going With ler husbind ana he travels alone, He will be absent five or Bix weeks. SIILL iN THE 8k ERVICE, Edwin 8. Condit, who 1s alleged to have forged the name of a Newark journalist in connection with @ telegraphic despatou last apring, with the desiga of ting failroad stocks in Wall street, and who is also accused of baving, tor a similar parpose, circus lated the bugis despateh representing prematurely the deta of the late Commodore Vandervit, bas turned up iu Newark oa 4 uew charge He was wi rested tn that city last eveuing on a charge of em- bezziemeut preferred by Mrs. Mary €. Smith, of No 88 Dowling street. Mrs. Smith atieges that abe gave Condit authority to collect $i due ber husband by P. W. Vail & Co, wark batters, and that ne collected the mouey and appropriated it to bis own use, After & briel ineurveraiion in the ceils oF the Second pre- cinet station house at Newark Uonuit's treud came to is relief and furnished bail jor bis uppearance before Livery moment be must bave expovted to diecorn | the polico mugisicate for examination, LECTURES. DISCOURSES YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND EVEN- ING—J, LEONARD CORNING ON ‘‘ANCIENT ART IN THE ORTENT.” Association Hall was well filled yesterday by an audience composed principally of ladies, assembled to hear the second lecture on “Art” by Professor J. Leonard Corning. ‘Ancient Art in the Orient’’ was the subject cbogen, and the jecturer commenced by drawing attention to the fact that iu gathering the widely scattered relies upon which anything like an historical record could be constructed of tnis primary period of ars he would be obliged to omit all chrono- Jogieal order of sequence. Chronologically speak- ing, he said, some of the grandest art triumphs are found in the remotest antiquity, The original art forms in every department aisappeared from the face of the earth a prior to the date of the oldest extant monuments, Barbarism is the same in its es- { Beutial elements in all ages and countries, and what ‘the rudimenta} art forms ‘and have been in apy re- gion of the earth that, essentially, they must have been im those tar off epochs of which neither history nor tradition have any record» The art instinct being inherent ip the nature of man it must naturally be inferred that art forms date back to a period nearly coeva! with the origin of the race, an being in the beginning a pure utilitarian, without esthetic maui- festation, bis material wants preceded the ue- velopment of taste. He was first a builder, and 80 architecture precedes other aria, Evon ip tropi- cal climes—the supposed birthplace of primeval mau— sueler from the elements was necessary. The theory of Sharpe is that when the workinen of the Egyptian quarries found the cave growing larger avd un: \uey lettucolumn to support tho superincumb mass, The rocreaging size, us they worked, necei sitated other columns and these are the first architec- vs were used for tombs external columns formed the tural forms When these cavi bhi nd Sel in rows, SHEET. jaarries are abandoned before pelng properly worked. ‘he lecturer also described at some lengtn the lime- stone regions, and during bis remarks slated that the limestone at'the bead of New York Bay and that ‘Across the Hudson at stony Pointare remaing of ancient 8 such ag are to be still seen on lorida ‘elsewhere in the West Indios, while the biaish an: shales of Stony Potut and Peokskill Hay are remains of ancient mud asure seen at Rockaway beach and Covey ed that large quantities of the Very best stetuary marvle was exported from New York and other parts of the United States to Italy. ‘THE YOSEMITE VALLEY.” ‘The Rev. Dr. O, H, Tiffany delivered his very inter- esting lecture on the ‘Yosemite Valley” at the Allen Street Methodist Episcopal Church lastevening. The Doctor was very eloquent in praise of the natural bei ties and advantages of the jand of the big trees, and alluded to the Christian work that should be accom- plished there, There was a large audionce in attend- noe, composed of the élite of Methodisin 1p this otty. Several bishops of the Church and members of the General Missionary Commitvee of the United States, now in session in this city, were present THE FREE TRADE CLUB, The usual weckly meeting of the New York Free ‘Trade Club was held last evening at the club rooms, No. 141 West Twenty-first street, A paper was to have been read on the subject, **What 1s Free Trade?” by Mr. Stewart Glyno; but that gentleman was un- avoidably absent, 80 that tho meeting w id of general interest, Lt was announced that next Thurs- evening Mr. Eugene R. Leland would read betore the club a paper on the subject of ‘Life Insurance.” YALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, The first social meeting of the present season of the Yalo Alumni Association will take place this evening at Delmonico’s, One of the teavures of the entertain- meut will be a paper on “Some Popular Errors About Our Indians” oy Colonel Garrett Mailery, of the Class portico making the second architectural element, tho | of 1850, of the Department of tho Laterior, Wash ing- rudiment ot the Greek pronaaz, When a limestone | ton. Colonel Maliery has had some recent experi. Too! was 10 danger ol crusbling, a beam wasiaid across | ences among the Indians, and what ho has to say will se the Cai @ rudimentary architrave or the Greek epist; TINCT THB SAME EVERYWHERE, Man’s shelter provided tur, bis instinct for wor- sbipping & superior being and sense of immortality. are found expressed in the relics of ali natious apd countries, their art forms being universal and essen- ually the sat dialect, whether in the Soutn Sea Isiunds, on shores of the Mississippi, among Ccluc or Scandinavian tribes, unoient Greece and Etruria, am the Fiji savages or extinct races of Mexico or Peru, That the worskipping instinct and sense of immortality are primary endowments of man is shown iu bis early uttempts to embody the ideal in material form, Like every other human seatiment, vhese need the guidance of reason. This phase of Luman nature hus in its outward expression covered the eurth with monuments, and nine-tenths of the whole bistory of art 18 un expression of man’s Tolig- jous pature, The dim suggestions show man’s symbolize is faith in the im- mortality of bis spu life, and also show that it has never beeu Jost until the refinemenis of philosophy paralyzed the moral pature. Greece had it and lost it, and Egypt gave it back with other elements of culture and civilization, ‘The first art Monuments were memorials of the dead, the rudi- mental (orms being the tumulus, a mound of earth or stone of no definite shape, Many of these uro found iu Northern and Western Europe, in the ancicut settie- ments of Celtic and North German tribes. No detinite duta cum be maue of them, Kugler attributing them to @ period gome centuries belore the Christian era, when @ usiou took pluce between these tribe: and the races of Sousheru Kurope. Que of these, the Silsbury tumuli, of Wiltshire, Kogland, 1s bell shaped and 200 feot bigh, The single sualt 18 next in oruer, that of Locmariaker, in Bretagne, vere sixty feet high. The union of stones in Various forms come next, as seen in the Soimen of Tours and Carnac and the Stone- henge ruins near Sulisbury, England, The material expression of the worshipping isuinct must Lave been almost coeval with the commemoration of the dead, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, Painting evigeutly autedated sculpture, the bas-ro- Nefs of Egypt appearing to have been cut trom out- lives and progressing uaotil the compicte statue wi carved. Beginning with Egypt, the cradle of art, science and literature, [rom tue Delia of the Nile to Nubia, civilization found its way to other coun- tries. Napoleon 1, uid the world immense service 10 having a oumber of scicntide men with the armies during bis African campaign. Toe Rosetta stone foaad near the moutp of the Nile 10 1799, by M. Bouchard, ‘was Written in three laugunages, the hierogly phics, or language ot the priests; Denetic, or dialect of the Egyptian people, aud the Greek, which was the lun- guage of the conquerors of the nation, This furnished tne key to the Egyptian monumental inscripuons, The pyramids of Abuser aad Dasbur are of toe pe- riod 3,338 yeurs belure tue Christiau era, trom which time Co the Christian era the art culture of Egypt was several Limes lust and resuscitated by the incursions of tue Hykos, their expulsion and their subjugation, 1;000 years later, by the Persiaus, and utterward, a fow years betore the Christian era, by tue Romans, when ihoir individuality was lost. ‘The pyramias built us tombs for the Hgypuan rulers are wo weli kuown to need description, This nation gave to their tombs all the most sublime expression they were capable of. ‘Lhe interiors were decorated with paimtings of scencs ot daily ite and auimals’ beads with buman bodies attached, individual portraiture being prouiv- ited, One distinguisuing fowiure between Egyptian und Assyrian art is that in Egyptian art the nead of @n auimal or bird is placed on 4 human body, while & the reverse is tue case in Assyrian art, aod the buman head 14 piaced on the body of au animal, The stavuury of The Sphinx Hgyptis coeval with 118 architecture, ot ‘Memphis, dating, uccording to come writers, b fore the Pyramids, tho co.ossal Memoons af Thebder, und the vocul Memuons of Strabo are exainples, Tne cities of Nimeveh and Babylon flourished ut the time of the best Period ot Egyptian art, as may be seen by the Temple of Baal aud hanging gardens of Semiramis. In the Srst epochs Assyria had au Independent art, but it was Jost at a jater period by contact with tho Egyptians, Tuer sculpture aud archiiecture jacked its colossal proportions, havo ‘as too commercial a pluce to buve an art record, while tho art of Israel was meagre on accouut of the Jews prohibiting the making of images oa the ground of idolatry. Indian art was ideotined with Buddhism apa Brabmauisw, and influenced by the mode of I:fe of those leaders, “LONDON'S LIGHIS AND SHADES.” Mr, William Noble, of London, England, lectured last nigot before the Young Men's Christian Associa. tion, at Association Hall, Brooklyn, on the “Lights and Shades of London Life.” Mr. Noble bugan by en- tertaiming nis hearers with some selections of tunes and |mitations of natural sounds, which he played on the accordeon, This exercise, although somewhat of a surprise, pul the audience all in good humor and brought them en rapport with tbe lecturer. The speaker begac by saying that it would be 11 possi- ble to delineate all the phuses of Lonaon life in uo evening. He had learned moreabout London trom oud edition of an American pewspaper than be conid glean the gospel interested themselves more in suppressing the liquor trafic in London than in sending dut mis- sionaries to loreigh countries. The saloons in London were all open Sundays, (he Koglish busied themselves jn Sending Bibles to foreign countries, but they also t them fire water, whieh demoralized them, it arity should begin at howe, It was tin London which stood in the way 61 Christian progress. Loudon was the most lonely place in the world. There were so many people there that one felt more thay ever the want of sympat Fashion was killing Bagland and Ireland; custem was kiliing London and some of our American cities too, “JOUBNEYINGS THBOUGH JAPAN.” A large audience greeted Professor E. Warren Clark, who last evening delivered a lecture, at the Central Baptist Church, under the heading of “Journeyings Through Japan.’”? The lecture was illustrated by views of tho country, its mbabitants and their cose tumes &, which were thrown on a canvas screen in front of the pulpit by means of a magte Jaotern, In the course of bis observavions the lecturer said thatthe Was reiustaied at toeexpenee of power lost by the Mikado, The missionary lavors of (he Jesuits, unger Father Xavier, in the sixtcenti cenvury, uearly suc- an edict was launched against that “bated sect called the Curistians. From that time until very reconuy Christianity was banished the country under pain of death to any one who might profess i, In alluding to some customa of the Japanese, the lecturer said that all Kinds of taxes were paid ju rice, Laud ouly w taxed, not the individua e former was perm t, the latter was not so. A custom worthy of Imitation 18 that where @ tree ts cut down apotber must be planted in tts stead, The lecturer lived for over year in a Bouddiet temple, afterward a house was built for him, The Japanese College, to which ne was attached, bad 360 students of ull classes peach This sent of the urts and learning was calle ko, oF groat school of learning, MARBLES OF NEW YORK. The members of the polytechnic branch of the American Institute were entertained last evening at Cooper Institute vy Dr. R. P. Stevens, who deitvored fn interesting lecture upon the “Marbles of New York.” The speaker in describing the novel folding of the limestone explained t there were nine dis- {inet beas of marble travelling southonst from the Highlands and running 19 parallel bands northeast and south west, ali being essentially the same at Sing Sing, Hastings, High Bridge, Stony Point and Pook. ski, Marbie well selected forms the best burd- ing material that can be used. The greater part of the marbie in jew York State is found to be wedged into gneiss rock or soit and ap- A paboubhy. s0bben, mainly bo the result of his own personal observations, MRE, AND MRS. WHITE. MABRIAGE OF MISS CARRIE DE NYSE TO HER ALLEGED SEDUCER, WHO IS ARRESTED AND YIMLDS TO THY PERSUASION OF THE LAW. Miss Carrie De Nyse, the particulars of whose elope- ment were given in the HkRaup yesterday, was mar- ried by Justico Riley, in the court room, corner of Myrtle and Clarmont avenues, Brooklyn, at half-past five o'clock last evening. The young lady's father, Mr. John De Nyse, accompanied by Officer Shaug- nesey, who was armed with a warrant for the arrest of Mr, White on the charge of abducting Miss Carrio from her home, entered the Grand Union Hotel, of thiscity, about half-past ten o’clock yesterday morning and pro- ceeded to room No, 275, which Mr, White and the young lady have occupied since Wednvsday last. Shauguessy knocked at the door, and an answer was given in a voice that Mr. De Nyse recognized as White's, who manifesved his unwillingness to admit the officer, Mr. Garrison, the proprietor of the hotel, was ap pealed to, and that gentleman immediately proceeded to the room, and after a short conversation with Mr, Garrison, the officor was admitted and White was formally arrested. Mr. De Nyse then asked White in the presence of Mr, Garrison aud Shaughnessy to say where the marriage had taken place, or produce the certilicate. This White reiused to do, but sug- eated that he, with Shaughnessy aud Mr. aud Miss Be Nyse, proceed to the office of bis lawyer, Mr. Fred- eric A. Ward, 150 Broadway. After a consultation with bis chent, Mr. Ward iniormed Mr, De Nyse that Mr, White and his daughter were man and wife in accordance With the laws of the Stute, and asked bim if hig assurance of that, as a lawyer, was not suflicient for him to withdraw tne charge of abduction, Mr, De Nyse replied in the negative, but expressed bis will- ingness to take the assurance of Judge Riley to that ellect, JUDGE RILEY SETTLES IT. A further consultation took place between Mr, White and Mr. Ward, the resuit of which was an ad- journment to Judge Riley’s court room. There White ‘pleaded not guilty to the charge of abduction, waived an examination, aud was adinitted to ball in $3,500, 4hen Mr, De Nyse preferred a charge of seduction against White, who immouiately sifowed a disposition to compromise, Miss De Nyse, Mr, White and bis counsel were allowed to retire into tne private room of the Judge, and after an apparently long consultation Judge Ruey was sent for, In a short time the Judge re- quested that Mr. aod Mrs, De Nyse be admitted to the room, and he then informed the anxious parents that he bud married Mr. White and their daughter, and showed them the entry in the records of the court, Mr. and Mrs. De Nyse expressed themselves satisfied, And, wituout any ‘ender greotings on either side, the Tespective parties immediatley went tueir several ways, parting outside ‘the court without even the courtesy of a ‘good evening.” Mr. De Nyse is of an opinion that they may all be happy yet, and that time ‘will work wonders, MARRIED OR NOT MARRIED?" A SINGUL4B DIVORCE CAaSE—THE INFORMAL MARRIAGE OF A FRENCH SHOEMAKER'S DI- VORCED WIFE TO A PHILADELPHIA LAWYER, PuitapeLvuia, Nov, 14, 1877. In the Court of Common Picas to-day, betore Judge Biddle, an action was begun ‘or divorce by Angelique Brinckle irom 1. Gorden Brinckle, whom she alleges to be her husband, The cage is a very siuguiar one and resembles in the legal points raised a case that “recently attracted considerable interest in the New York courts. In opening this cage the counsel said that under the laws of Pennsylvania to constitute a valid marriage no prescribed ceremony was necessary; but it was suflicient the parties mutually accepted each other as busband and wile, if their subsequent acts and de- clurauions confirmed that ‘mlention, and the purty who so agreed or acted soas to induce a belie! upon the other party that the intenvion was sincere that party was bound shereby as fully as though no decep- tion bad been practised, Ag to the tacts of the case ho said that In 1806 Mr, Frangois Quine kept a boot and shoe store near Seveuth and Sausom streets; that Store Was burned down, aud Mr, Quinne was arrested, charged with having set fire to it, Mrs. Quinne called from three editions of au nglish paper, évery- | yyon Mr. Briuckie to detvad ber busband, and he ap- thing vie in London was not im the | peared for tim bvelore an Alderman, Quinue Kast’ Bud or the Seven Dials, but was also found in | \us commitied tor trial, and when bis case the West End. It would be better if the minisiers ot | was ted Mr Brinckie retused to deleod him, aud advised Mrs, Quinne to get other counsel, He did go and Quinne was tried, convicted and se enced. Mr. Briuekle wound up the aduirs of Quinue, anu in the course thereo! he was brought trequenuiy ih contact with Mrs, Quinne, aud Gnally proposed that she should become bis wie, He advised her to ov- tain «divorce irom her husband, Lo whicu che was | entutied, her tusvand having been convicted “ol a felony. Sue consented to Luat pare of We arrauge- Micul, and od (he GLb Of December, 1500, » divorce was Uecrecd 0 ber favor, Brinckie uereupun re- newed bis proposal of marriage, aad tour weeks thereaiter, 1 tue presence of a Mrs. Fredericks, he placed a ring Upon ber Anger, saying, “1 now wake you tw Le my Wile,” eXplumiog Lo her ab the same Ume that that was suilicient to Constiiute a marriage accoruing 0 the laws of this State, Tuerealter lucy liveu a8 busband und wife, but apart, sue occupying the roums she hag former lived in ‘and he living at his office, ‘This was done at his request, by saying that hig business Would Dot Warraut Lim tien 1m tuking ® wile, aod Uhat bis fawily would be angry at bis marrying a Woman who Bad just been ui- vorced {row her husoaud, Sabsequentiy he rented and furnisued a bouso ou Pruue street, now Locust, where they lived Wogether as man and wile, she as- religion of acouvtry js the country itself, He stated | guiming, at bis request, the u: of Mrs Gordon, tat 1,600 years before Christ a certain tribe cume | wyich is bis middly nuine, but she and be were kuown from the great plains of Asia and drove out the Inos | /y ine servauis in ihe Lousoas Mr. aud Mrs. Brinckie. or natives, founding the city which is now known us | tyey ived inere in that way for two and a hall " Tokio, The Mikado was tue chieftain of the invaders, | guq’ jnully kept hor ot Filteentn atu Loinourd and he was looked upon as a god, the Tycoon Iu the sanimer of 1861, owing to her iit being the representative of the old wative | pealth, she woul, at ihe suggestion of Ler husband, to | Faces, was pluced at the head of a people | Purope, He tock passage tor hor oa a steamer from | that” had flourished for 2,600 centaries. lu | Now York as Wis wile, sutroduced her to the captain 1868 a great revolution tok place, and the Tyeoou | as nis wite, and procured a seat for ber at ihe table next to tbe cuptain, Upon renching Paris she visited her family, (old them ot her marrige, aud what her name was Gordon, The wext year she was jolued ceeded in establishing the Christian religion | t puriy b: . y Mr Brinckle, whom sive imtroduerd ail over Japan, bat | Jor tee epee ues | to wer family as Mr, Gordon, er husvand, In ot the priests, who bol oat to alter ine August, 1862, on account of the iiluess of his Mikado and establish Catholiotty. se father, Mr, Brinckle returned to this city, 16 being ar- ranged that she should follow him in september. She did 60, ana be, meeting Ler in New York, brought her to this city aud procured apartments ior her ut we Su | Louis Hotel, he living in the meanwhile at nis office, Becoming tired of tite Ue sue insisted upon being rece ognized as his wile, and Mr, Brivekle tucreupoa wok rooms at the Mount Vernon dsotel Jor himselt and is wife, and tuey lived there as Mr. and Mrs, Brinckle, Subsequontiy Mr. Brinckle bought a Louse on Ritien- house screet, furnished it and moved there with his Mrs, Beinckle in the spring of 1868 they went to Europe, Mr. Brinekle securing from jhe State Department 4 pass: port for himself and wite, They visited Frauce, Lily und Switzerland, travelling all the time as Mr. aud Mrs, Briuckie, and returned to Paris, While there he ‘persuaded her to remain, while be would roturn to this country, oil his business if possible, wind up bis affairs and return to her to itve permanently in Burope. ie ieft her in Paris, aud ior two years they corresponded together. About 1870 a sister of Mrs, Brinckie died in Paris, aud sue, 10 order to substantiate ber right vo her pro- pyrtiou Of her sister's estate, was compelled to go vo- jure & notary, © whom sbe told that she was Mrs, Brinckle, He required a power of attorney trom her | husband to be given to him and be wrote to Mr. Sriuckle thereior, In reply be received a letter in which Brinckle denicd ever having been married to Mrs. Brinckis, and she also writing to hin upon the subject, he wrote buck that she knew they bad nev beon married, She returned to this country aud we to bis house, but be refused to receive ber, aud that in hus Foasonunany J /4W amounted to a desertion, Wite, and Ubey occupied it for five years as Mr, and | THE JAMIESON DIVORCE SUIT. MEDLEY OF CURIOUSLY CONFLICTING STATE MENTS—MARBYING FOR MONEY—A SCANDAL OUS LETTER, The trial of the suit brought by Mrs, Mary 1. Jamic- son for limited divorce against her husband, David F. Jamieson, on the ground of cruel and inhuman treat- ment, was resumed yesterday before Judge Van Brunt, in the Supreme Court, Special Term. Mrs, Jamieson was represented by Messrs. Ransom and Hawkeworth, while Mr. Athony R, Dyett attended to her husbana’s interests. ‘The first witneas called was Mrs. Mary Warren, the plaintif’s aunt, who testified that Jamieson told her what he never would have married the plaintiff if ho had not expected to get $10,000 with ber; that she told him that he ought to have settled this before the marriage, and that bis reply was ‘‘he had acted very foolishly.”? She atated also shat she chided him for his cruel treatment of his wife. TURNING MOTHER AXD BABE INTO THE STREET, Mrs, Anna Seaman, the next witness, testified that upon one occasion she heard a loud altercation in the Jamiesons’ room, when Mrs. Jamieson called out ta her; seeing that Mr, Jamieson was intent on driving his wife into the street she remonstrated and told him it was a cruel thing to turn a mother and her babe into the street omisuch a dark and stormy night; when she remonstrated with Jamieson he retorted, “ll attend to my own business ;” she then told him that be would regrot it on his dying day; he said h would die gamo; on a prior occasion she told him his wile was vory sick, and ho said “st was a pity she don’t die,” MR. JAMIKSON’S STORY, The above testimony having closed the evidence for the plaintiff the case Was opened for the defence and Mr. Jamieson asked to take the witness stand, He fairly bounded to the witness chair, planked him‘ down heavily and began his story by stating the n' ber of purchases he had made trom time to time tn the way of clothing aad jewelry for his wife. Ho stated most positively that he never struck her head against t wall, and, in fact, never struck her at all, He maintained that the cuuse of his trouble with his wiie was the fact that she was @ religious fanatic and would pray about bal! the timo; I told ber at oue timo she must say half of her prayers in the afternoon and not keep me awake all night; she walked around the room praying while [ was holding the baby; | remember being in Scotland at my brotner’s house, but I was not alove in the house with her; my brotner’s children were there, and as it was New Yoar’s aoight—the greatest night ip the yoar to a Scotchman-—nobody could sleep, and was dealing out Scotch whiskey to my brot! ployés; they di verul gallons, “That seems to be a great place tor whiskey,” im terrupted Judge Van Vorst. “Yes, sir, a great place for drinking whiskey; every. body drinks whiskey New Year's there,” continued Jamieson, In answer to further questions he denied that he ever threatened tothrow the buby out ol the window, or to take bis wife's life with a shoemaker’s knite, “You think s great deal of your child, don’syou ?”? continued Mr. Dyett. “1 would give @ million of dollars, it I had it, rather than not nave my child.’” THE SCARLET LETTER. Mr. Dyett produced what he said was claimed to be a pope pha letter written by Jamieson to his wile, He guid he desired to read this letier, but its charactur was such thut he should huve to ask the Court to re- quest the ladies present to leave the room, “41 don’t think it necessary to request the ladies to leave after what you have said; I will leave it to their own judgment,’? said Judge Van Vorst. “This is whats we call the scariet letter,” said Mr. Ransom, “and a worse letter was fever penned py mortal.”? Alter this last observation, the ladies, who seemed evidently vo doubt tor a moment what course to take, at obce arose aud precipitately retired, Tho letter was given to the witness, and he was asked if be wrote it, He confessed to a portion, but denied other pares, which parts he was asked to underscore, Judgo ‘an Vorat stating he would not allow al itor to be read in Court that would shock any one’s propriety. 4 TRIP AROUND THE WORLD, In further detailing bis matrimonial experionces Mr. Jamieson stated ihat going over in the steamer with him was @ party of Cook’s excursioniste bound on atrip around the world, It was a jolly party was the reusou thoy had so much fun, such as hug- ging and kissing the women im the companion way; there was au old maid among them about forty years of age; he took no umbrage when apprised of the fact that purser was hugging his wife. There were thirteen or four- teen of them, all having a good tin “and we bad lots of fun.” (Laughter.) He referras to the allegation that be kept a stick for the ‘old man.’? He admitted that he had a big stick, which he would lay the old man out with if be got hol of him, He never told avyvody be would rather see his wife singing streot ballads Jamieson Was cross-examined at great length by Mr. Ransom. About the only additional facts elicited was that be and bis brother’s wife drank avout twenty-five glasses of beer between them; that at the time bis wito said he threw a coal scutuio at her im their boarding house in thi city be was im lowa; that he never drove h out of tho house, but told her to go and get Ler jewelry, which he missed, and whicn she said her vrovber bad, but which she had taken to a pawnshop, and on account of which she was afraid to come back, No other witnesses were called for the defence, Comm estons of var.ous parties taken ta England were alt ‘hich Mr. Dyett commenced to sum up for the defendant, He bad not concluded his summing uy when the Court adjourued. THE ROB KIS DIVORCE ‘svIT. The referee appointed to take testimony in the suit brought by Isubel M. Roberts against Isaac K, Rob- erts, her husband, for absolute divorce, submitted nig report, in the Supreme Court, before Justico Pratt, Brooklyn, yesterday, iu favor of the plaintif. The parties to the action re married August 19, 1808, and separated in the month of December of the sume year. Ho w residing at the Clarendon House, this city, and the plaintiff! lives with ber mother at No. 61 West Forty-eighth street, The groand of the com- plaint was adultery, On motion of the referee the Court granted an order confriming the report and giv- ing a decree of divorce in favor of the plaintd, A MISSING GIRL, Mrs. Goodnough, residing in the town of New Utrecht, Kings county, culled at the Brookiyn Police Central Office yesterday morning, and reported that hor daughter, Mary Jane Goodnough, had been missing from ber home since Wednesday night last, Great anxiety 13 felt by her parents ior ber safety, as they say she bas always been with them and never before absented herself from home, Mary Jane, who bag a dificulty in her hearing, is of media hotght, fair complexion, bas brown Lair wad dark eyes. She wore a blue clot waterproof cloak, brown dress and black straw bat, A geners! alarm was sent from beadquar- ters to ail the Brooklyn station houses, giving a doe scription of the girl, THE KIVNAPPING CASE. . The Brooklyn police, who succeeded in recovering little Arthur Leman, the kidnapped child, on Wednes- day alternoon, have since been actively engaged in searching for the man who so unaccountably detained the boy for the space of twenty hours, The author- ities are ata loss to account for a motive which could prompt such @ dilapldated and Wretched specimen of humanity as the abductor of the boy 18 described to be to attempt the act, unless tue fellow was prompted by the hope of a reward being oflercd for the rewurn of Arthur, Yesterday morning a man named Martin O’Keele was arrested by Detective Rall, of the Central Office squad, as corresponding with the de- scription given by the colored woman, Rachel John- s0u, Who saw the abductor of the child on Tuesday ecused, Who was interrogated sharply by Superintendent Campbell, took his arrest good bumoredly and asgured his captors that he was a very poor man, and, having four coildron of his own to provide for, he was not desirous of adding to the ni ber of his domestic responsibilities in such @ mann He was released from custody. LIBLL suIT AGAINST THE SUN, Same time since, as alroady published in the Herawp, Alouzo Bell, Assistant Secretary of the Inte rior, commenced in the Superior Court of this city @ suit against the Sun Printing and Publishing Associa. tion to recover $100,000 damages for au alleged libel: published in the New York Sun, The alleged libetlous matter Was lo suvstaneé a charge that the wile of Mr. Boll had been accustomed, under an assumed name, to receive pay lor doing tracing ia the Patent Ofice, an ale Jeged irregularity for the permission of whicu the for- mer Commissioner 01 Patents, Mr. Duell, was said to have lost his office, A demurrer was interposed in t | euse ou the part of defendants to Lhe complaint on the grounds that it did not state facts sufficient to cunsti- tute a cause of action and that there nad been @ mis- joinder of parties plant Argument on this demur- Tur Was heard yesterday betore Judge Speir in Supes rior Court, Special Term, Mr. Willard Burtlett repre- souting the defendant and KE, Y. Beil the plaintil. vir, Bartlett’s pomts were that the alieged libellous charges were not actionable in thomseives withoat alleging inuendoes; that if actionable in them. selves aM action would not fio without joining the plainuifl’s wife, and that if not actionable in them ecives an action would not lie, because no special aam- ages bad been alleged. Mr. Beil contended, in a long argument, that a substantial cause of action had beea forth im the complaint and that the demurrer thereto was not sustainable, At the conclusion of the argument Judge Speir took the papers, reserving hia decision, SAVING A CHARTER, A uumber of prominent citizens are trying to pro- ‘Vent the Japse of the charter of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company, of Paterson, which confers some valuabio franchises that cannot be obtained under the pew State banking law. Ovor $40,000 of depos represented in the signers to the documents so reiia- [ES their claims against the bank for this purpose, Lis intended to remove the receiver and put the asset invo trustees’ bands, The charter will expire to-day, s ii a a Modal ena coe