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4 THEOLOGY OF DISASTERS The English Clergy on the Recent Calamities. GOD OR MANP Presumptuous Interpreters of the Ways of Providence. A TALE OF THE ARGYLL. Lonpos, 3 iM, 187) “Moro ’orrors! Isn't it hawful?’? That is what I ‘heard one citizen remark to another just outside the Hxexacp office the morning after the news of tho col- liery explosion, ana that, with and without h’s, is sull the cry of England, A thousand violent deaths in ten days—seven hundred in tne Thames, just whero the main drainage enters the river; three bua dred down in the bowels of tho earth, three hundred yards from the light and air of beaven—our “silly jeason”’ has become a son of sorrow for mavy. “Do such accidents,” asks one of the weekiies, “or Gisasters of such striking magnitude really occur m other countries? ‘There are railways in France, there ure steamboats in Amorica, there are coal mines 1p Westphalia, and we do not hear of similur disasters. Are we to believe the Anglophubists who ineist that other countries are comparatvely free while we sui- fer?’ probably net. We io England tell our disasters to the world, while clsewhero governmental power and a gugged press conceal accilents and systemati- cally gloss over defects in the existing system. ”? We are sick of the details of the Drincess Alice catastrophe. Bodies swollen like eggs; skins pooling ‘off decomposed when touched and all the rest of it; sud now Woare told that it will be a month bolore tho remaius of the poor fellows dead underground can be hoisted out of the pit, We have to open our windows when the morning journals are delivered, The disaster on the Thames has given rige to a con- troversy carried on in one of the evening papers, which is as offensive in its way as the dotails of the hunt for the bodies, Mr, Spurgeon’s effusion pn the subject you bave already heard of, Forthwith came a stream of correspondence, which is printed under thefheadings of a ‘Theological View of the Catastrophe” and “The Act of God versus the Carelessnesa of Man.’’ Ono of the survivors of the accident attributed his rescue toa special intervoation of Providence—a modest ussumptiou—and the gep- eraltone of the preachers on the Sunday foliowing was what I may perhaps, without irreveronce, call the God-ol-the-Old-Testament tone, the God of ven- geance, buttie, murder and sudden death, And 1 be- lieve that the great majority of English clergymen are, from choice, believers in that God. I was ata country town the other day and 1 mota minor canon of one of the greatest of English cathedrals. Perceiving him to be a strong Turcophile, I told bim of a few perspnal experiences of the massacre of wounded men alter one of the battles on the Lom in Bulgaria jast @ year ago, “Oh, ab, weally,” bo said, “tewwible, no doubt; but was it not alter all better that they should be thus pat out of tbeir misewy.’’? I don’t think he understood me when I dropped the subject with the remark that he was evidently a worshipper of tne God of the Testament and thet we should not agree, Bat, to return to the disaster, I must send you a tew extracts from the correspondence, which show that there are those who will speak boldly against the “preachers of that class who interpret the ways of Providence to suit their own theological dogma.”’ Gop's JUDGES, Qne man says:—“The idea of attributing to the Great Judge of Futurity the accident that sent, with- uta momont’s warning, 80 many Lundreds of our fellow creatures to their Jast account is a libel that will suroly have to be unswered foron the last day; morcover, in my humble opinion, % is rank blasphemy. To excuse man’s inability in a moment of danger upon the ploa that God was so pleased to bestow bis visitations upon his subjects is liable to shake the faith of mankind in the blessed fruits of Christianity, and should be strongly pro- tested ngainst, whether the individual tn question, whose iunocence 18 eetablished pro fem. at tho ex pense of bis Creator, be among the saved or lost, be be commander of a man-ot-war or captain of # mon- key-boat.” CAN GOD RESORT TO BRUTALITY. Another ;—1! God is the all powersul being He is rep- resented tu be by these expoundere—it He 16 the Just and merciful God they wou Id have us believe—surely He cau fod a mode ot cxercising Hia power, even in punishment, tuat would be more im conformity with His sapposed merciful inclinations thun that of sending hundreds of inoocent children und ‘women to their death, at. a moments notice, and loaving thousaods of hearis and Lomes sorrowtul aud desolate. When [read the accounts of the paintul aod Heartrending scenes Which occur hourly at Wool Wieb, und contrast them with tbo theories expounded by the parsons in the pulpits, it wakes me disgusted With everytuing in connection with such theories, 1s there no other moans for their God by which Ho can effect His suppored necessary purposes without re- borting to brutality? SPURGEON’S THEORIES, Recreation is vot a sin, and the premature death of a large number of persons by drowning while return- jug bome, afior spending a cheertul, sunny day in the CoUDITY, 18 an eveNL to Le traced not to God (us afr. Spurgeos declared), but to either mismanagement or Miseonception of signals on the part ol one or oth of (be captains. Predestination would imply that the Celastrople Was au inevitable necessity—and this is Mr. Spurgeon’s tenching—thus exonerating the cap- tains from any viame, \nasmuch as they could Dot bO deemed to he reeponsibie tor what beloreiana a. Such a theory 16 ail very well in the Was deer pulpit; but the stern realities of lito prove onty too pl that (he greater the precaution the less proba. v accident, Following Mr. Spurgeon’s theor: id be wstam for the Coroner's Jury to blame elther one or vther of the captains. Cuilisions are the upsbot of carviossness of incompetency, watch may be termed ‘4 suspension of the laws of Nature,” ee laws being in harmony with “peace, bappiuess prosperity. WHY Nor THR pevIL? J read with considerable indignation the Rev, Mr. Spargeou's remarks us to the cause Of the terrible ae- siuet to the Princess Alice. He puts it down as an ovidence to eflect Some good purpose. Are id ow good authority tbat we ure hot “to do tbat may come?” How can Mr, act of ry wv Spurgeon reconcile bis theory with such a com- mand? Mr. Spurgeou when be chooses can fad Pleviy of dre od brimstone at command—wuy dia he Hot say plainly ou this oecasion that the fearful © the act of the devil’ While Mr. Spur- his belief that it Was the act of Provi- piess Women and child ould be dove to death in this awful wauner he does nov negieet to write \o ihe papers tbat this sane Provi- deooe put a rope within reach of @ certain lady belonging to tis congregation! Has Me. Spurgeon, Wooo tous dragging Providence into the borrid affair, » lack that over jority members of a jonging to Auother denomination lost And He hot, does it hotseem tmoious he should beso carefal to tell us toat Provi. deuce Ved one Of Lis lock, Whale so may other re- were nent to ibe bottom ? ks the theologies! expouaders whether, the calamity of the Princess Alice od and deter evildoers trom angering Him, 1 would vet | been more effectual if He (vo ‘Whom ali (hings are poesia) bad Wreekod a sMipload ©! piskpeckets, thieves, burglars, wie-veater Greokerds, swiadiors wud Villaius of all kinds, | Py ot large number of human berg most of whom pever warmed a fly in their lives, capecaity the innocent httie cbtidrev.” The theologion! reply will prooably Ho is in woratebie,”’ or ‘lis Ways are vot our ways,” and go on “Do bot pretend te explain the profess to know the auknowabie.”? ow (bat the fithy flood bas yielded up @)) 08 dead, and ther clothes und the blankets tbey Were wrapped i have beea burwed, the excitement Created by the horror is o@ (he wane, and the lawyers Of the respective companies bave the pext ture. ‘There's money in it, oo doudt. ChALY THBOLOGY. logieai topies | am reminded to mon- few by the Beamer, under the tite of a vook by W. N. Haggard “Creates, a a Divine Synthesis: A cou feomplative Treaise conceroing the Luter-ite bevween Deity and Hiv Creation, @ed to the Human Understanding, from woven th tue ond author dates b direst supervision of tho the purpose whieh he bas y cared trough such an Biebougn the OF one With poricct method in b. Could be expected bo iraverse witvoul getting natray. Mr, lagyerdg proposes to throw light on dark pas mages of Whe Live by rewriting them tn hw own pecutiar isnguage § This ly how tho Nieeve creed is absolute Coneviver of the Universes, and of ue is Ge tase does “aed te one Lord Jesus Chrint tho only eogoized the aiviae absoluw mind, coguizea of bia oo | Fitwer vevore ai) GBiVores Were conceived, Goa of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1878.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. God, light of light, very God of very God; cognized, Ot synthetically concetved; being of one self. hood with the aivine immutable ‘evs, bY whom all things were sypthesitised anu legally es! jabed, who for us offspring Of the wov-ego, and ‘or our immortali- zaion, came forth from the inmost of tbe divine cognitions, Was imearnate by divine conce) Von, of the Virgia Mary, and was legally and actually sovested with wan bature, and rucibed also, | mentalized offepr: ot Ego, unde bis physical boay, was buried; rose agai with @ giorified body, according to tho Scriptures, sud entered ito the Stative-spiritual costues, apd eth im the fell plenitude of Divine er; aud He shall be manifested tn glory to eflect pon ike tually quick and dead—whose sovereignty shall bave no cud. believe in the Holy Ghoet—the Divive indwelling reflect abd cowcepi—the cause wnd inducer of spirit. wal lite, Who proceedeth mine Divine Hsse and the Devine Sub-ease, who with the Divine Esse and the ts worshipped and giorified, ‘spake by ihe prophets," Ke. MAKING A NIGH OF IT. AS ail the “respectable comment freely © L meyer ty enlighiened jury and au upright judge ub the Middlesex Session®. A gentieman uamed Jame- 0 to the Argyle Rooms with ny y £100 tn his pocket, Asis Bot unusual im that piace, I be- at Chelsea. ne of what tollowed. According to one a riog Worth $100 was stolea from Mr, Jameson; tho lot who cumpleed the robbery pot her back inst a door and said in effect. “Give me £6 and I ” Mr. Jameson, imstead of roaa out of the window or é to atwract the police, agreed to sign agrooment for £10 on the delivery of the jewelry. Having, under compaision, Mr. Jamesoo—whom we car- erable knowledge of the nearest — office. bles proceeded to the hous Phe prostitutes were arr ¢ when brought be- fore the magtstrate were comraitied for trial. ‘The other way of telling it is that baying deen ea- 4 the whole evening at the expense of the maa WIth tbe loose cash there came a question further payment. This was diately the Luis of the occasion bee: door was closed, exit was refused, coais were torn, wateb chains were smashed and the greenhorn was only permitted to leave when be had signed a document promising to pay a certaiv amount whea bis property could be redeemed. A more impudent extortion could scarcely be eonccived, and, it the prosecutor under the circumstances was foolish euough to cousult the police, a common sense view of the watter would assurediy lead to the conviction of such women and to the destruction of their abode as a suare, Weil, dir, Jameson did ‘call the police”? aed the ladies were tried belore Mr, Edlin, Queeu’s Counsel. According \o him the coutract between “hady”’ ana the greentorn was a valid one, and the Court bad bo sympathy with persous who go to the Argyle Rooms to select companions. The lady was acqaitted with flying honors Sue was made the heroine of the out of the dock without «stun Lo And so proud were Judge and jury of h hievement that she was allowed to keep the property she tad detained, much to the chagrin of the prosecuter, Who can say, alter this, that justice is pot meted out to “the uulortanate 2?” The greenborn, io fi did vot have any show at all, and Mr. Edlin, to quote one of the weekly papers, bas been the tumble means in the lands of Providence of effecting a depiorabie miscarriage of justice, Nowe ye not shy # prettic tale ? T think yt y» byo Jyngo. THE VALUE OF SWIMMING. (From the Lowdou Standara.) Among the jow survivors from the terriblo wreck of the Princess Alice are three members of the same family—Mr. Thorpe, of the old Keat Road, a young man seventeen years of age; nis Mias Thorpe, who is a year older than himself, and his brother, a mere boy of nine, All three owe their Itves to the fact that they wore able to swim, When tno terribie crast was heard uod tho doomed vessel began to eottle down, these three childre tor children they almost are in years, if not in courago and presence of mind—found themselves struggiiag im the water. The boys, it would seem, wore somehow separated from their sister, Tney were both picked up by tho same boat, and were, when it helpea them from tueir perilous position, swimming de by side, The sister, who was older than either, achieved ner owa safety. 3: struck boldly out, and—in spite of the encumbrance of her garments, the forco of the tide, tue darkness ef the night and the dapger to which she cannot but have been subjected by the {rantic efforts of those who wore struggling areuad ber ju the water to cateb and Cling to any object within their grasp—succeeded in reaching the bank. Itseams litle short of a miracle that, under such ctreumstances, a mere girl, bot tweniy yeara of age, Weighted wiih ber heavy woman’s dress, Dewilderea by tie suddenness of the catastrophe, irightened—as she must Lave been—vy the terrible Dature of the scone, and helpless tor want of hor Hutural protectors, should have been able, sing handed, to save her life. Ihe feat is the more markabla when we bear in mind the fact that Alias Thorpo is not—as are some youug Women of her ago— a swimmer ef eminence. ‘That she can bold ber owa gallantiy in the water the result has sufficiently shown, Bat sho 1s merely an English girl who, like her brothers, has pecu taught to swim, She has never attempted the distance from Loudon Bridge to Gree: wich; she has never, so far us appears, competed for any prize; and, wore it not for the {uct thar she owes her lie to hor own skill wud presence ef mind, ber abiluy to defy a sbarp curreat on cold, chill, dark ight would be no matter of public record; abd yot the exploit she accompiished js, if we confider it, almost marvelious. ‘The tive was rushing swiltly down; the water must have been cold and benombing; tho night, ax we know, was durk and foggy ; thoro were round about ber all the horrors of the scene; the ‘ast iureweil’? was rising trom river tosky; in tho water the struggiers were grap- Pliog, in their last agony, cach with eacb—and yet through all these borrors she lougbt her way with a calm, quiet confidence whicu men who bave stood under fire and confronted death in other and even more sudden shapes might well envy hor. A GEORGIA TRAGEDY, AN OLD LADY MURDEKED IN COLD BLOOD AND HER DAUGHTER FATALLY WOUNDED, [From the Atianta (Ge.) Constitution, Sept. 20.) Another dastardly aud perhaps double murder bas been added to thé aunals of Clayton county, It bas been only about ten days since the Superior Court Was (a eession in that county, when two murder cases were called fortrul, In fact, at nearly every term of Court in Ciayton for several years past some person charged with this high crime has been brought to ber bar. The county is one of the best in the State, with ab rotelligent and law loving population and viessed with exceptional prospority. Still the lawtess spirits in ber midst, few as they are, have couspired ail too frequently to stain her good name with the blood of deudly crimes, A floadish affair is this latest murder, which occurred on Wednesday afternoon, about one wile wost of Morrow's station, at the farm house of A aged and defenceless lady. A quiet and indus- teious ludy pamed Farmer lived upou her tar, wih ber two daughters, Mrs. Farmer was eighty-six yours of uge, but pousessed energy and spright- Iineas beyond her years. One of her daugu was about #ixty years vid and ie other of somewhat less age. These three lived here in peaceful and ugal contentment, aud [rom the proceeds of their farming aod domestic management uave always lived well and, it 18 said, hud saved cousiderable money. They were not kuowa to bi had an euemy any- where in the world and were much cetecmed vy their nemubors, Weduesday aliernoon the youngest of the daughters went oul to a eld at some distance to rf some of the farin work, be soft her and sister at the house, in health aud ¢ uneynscious of the presence of aange spirits, Shoruy betore the Une Wheu the crime should have deca commiited some men passing saw the oid laay Bituog In her dourway qaictly pursuing some do- mesuc tusk. Later on, al about three o’ciock, a Mr, house to return 4 borrowed mule, aud Upon upprouching was surprised to seo smoke pouriug through Lhe cracks of Lue Louse; he rushed to the door and burst it in, woen, through tue voinmo of smoke he discovered the bed on fire. It had been sot on fire by pouring 4 shovel of live coals from tue fireplace into the covtre of the bed. Air. Dailey at- tempted Lo save the Louse {rom buruing by tucking up the bedding to turow it out of the house Iu ture. ing, the opening of the door baving allowed tue smoke to oscape, Lis eyes were fixed upon the ghust- Hest spectacies the wind cau timegine, Prove upon the floor lay the body of the ocvogenarian matron with her torebead crushed through us with an axe, Sue lay de blood, Murder 10 its most horrivie Dailey rau at once and Kroused (he neighbors, Who camo to the rescue, ‘The flames wore extinguisued and tue body of the murdered laay saved from destruction. Some one called the younger sister from her work \. (be felas and told ber of tue awit death of her mother, Luis Jnay ran to the house calling and screw pilwourly for ber mother aud sister. The scene wien sue hor batevered Mer calls for Teached the spot aud saw tho body ul mother is described us heurtrending. her sister brought to notice the jact of the elders a and immeaiaie search was mave tor ner, After a rt bunt ber body was found some two huwured yaras from the house in the euge ot @ corn patch, She had ber bead terribly wounded and Was lusensible, Ste bad evidently been pursued to this poiut, attacked and felt for wead by the brutes who committed the double crime, she «til remains losensible and in a Critical condition aud can give b account of the awiui affair, The mouve ol the crime 18 Supposed to have Leen robbery, It is believed there were some $200 or $300 in the house, carefully put away by the family, und the old lady bad some mouey, 4 lew dollars, paid her shortly beiore ut murder, 11 19 also gaid that the truvk of the old lady had beea broken open and riflud. There are po sigus of any Violence agaiues the persons of Lhe (wo ladies, other than (he fatal biowe deult out to euch, A Core oner's jury was In session yesterday, and the whole case will bo fully and thoroughly investigated. No Clow has been secured as to tue identity of the mur- derer: Iv 14 Buppowed they Were Wandering u who Were Vent upon pluidor, Great indignation Oxists in Lhe Deighboriood, and it the scoanurols are Jound they Will find short sbriftin Clayton Atlanta devectives will aid iu Working up the diseuvory of the criminals, aud Wo (rust they inay speedily succeed In delivertng tuum inty the hands of vue law, ‘ CENTRAL AFRICA. {From the London Times, Sept. 14.) Tbe foliowing interesting letter, showing the progress mage by Coleone! Gordun in bis mission, bas been received by Sir Samuel Buker from a geotieman ap the Knedi Kuarroum, August 4, 1878. Duak Sik SAMUEL—1 received your kind letter of the 20th 1 April, and it gave me much ploasure, as indeed all your letters do, to see how great up interest you still take in rytbing connected with the Seu- dan and the Equatorial provinces, Sance I iast wrote to you Cojovel Gordon arrived here, and with him lite came into everything and everybody at this otherwise dull place, Ho is still here, and if nothing serious bappen in other parts of the Soudan requiring his presence I bolieve he will main here bow, You will be glad to hear that all the st you brought out, and which, through y gence, bad nearly become useless, have pow under- gone thorough repair and are iu a8 guod a condition as when they were new. ‘he new arsenal, which 13 ut the place where you had two storehouses built, is really 4 fine establishment, where they turn out work that some years one would have believed it would Khartoum Gtty years more to accormplish. You remember your having brought out two sets of eu- gives and boilers, which, 1f | am right, you intended to be fitted into Sund-wood nuggers. I believe Colonel Gordon will now have two boats built of the same size $s Bordain, the bull of iron plates, Plenty of mute- d better workmen than the Arabs and Toes, the best of whom have been trained bv your men at Gondokoro, could not be found for the work. Tho Kbedive you put together at Gondokoro was Jast your taken to pieces again, transported upto Dofli, put together aguin, and is now at the Albert Lake, The ittle steamer Nyanza has not proved eili- cient enough, though it is very useful for the commp- nication between Dull and Magaugo. ‘The most interesting picce of uews since I lust wrote to you 1s the safe arrival of six elephants uc Doili. Some years ago the Khedive had becn made a present of five olephints trom Indiu, and, as they Were nourly eating their heads off 1n idieneas at Cairo, THE AMAZON SURYEY. Voyage of a Steam Launch on the Upper Madeira, DIFFICULTIES OF THE RUBBER TRADE. Position of the Railroad Enterprise at San Antonio. SUFFERING AMONG THE LABORERS. Mayaos, Rio Negro, August 2, 1573. Tho steam launch Fawn, to which was intrusied the duty of completing the survey of the Rio Madeira from the rocks in the stroam abreast the Island of Urua, departed ou her mission, tt will be remembered, oo the 25:h of June, She returned to the corveti which had been at anchor off the Parana Narim, sur- rounding the Island of Araras, during her absence, on the 20th of July, having accomplished all of ber task with the ption of thirty miles, This remaining distabes was surveyed by Commander Solfridge and Lieutenant Perkine, owing to un accident to the Colonel Gordon suggested having them taken up to the Kquator, together with one smaller Alrican elephant, trom the Gizeroh Gardens, They went in charge of some Indias up to Assuan, whore Mr, Rosset took them ow to Khartoum, via Halfa Dougola avd tne Bayada desert. At Mudurman they swam across the White Nile, and have there been employed tur some months in amusing the people of Khartoum, When Golonel Gordon was here lust time he commissioned Mr. Marco, « Dalmatian, who bad already proved bimsolt a very activo und useful man at the So- bat, where was stationed for some time, to ta tham to Lago, Mr. Marco returaed here a few days ago and gave a very interesting descrip- tion of bik expeditivn, He left Khartoum with a few ludians and some negro soldiers, who had aircady been trained here to attend to the elephants, in tue middle of February, fhe expediion went along the eustern banks of the White Nile until tuey came op- posite Heliet Kuk», where they swam across the river without more trouble than it would lake to row a Doat xeross, the men being on top of the elephants. isuuck which prevented hor trom preceeding to thr head of navigation. The voyage of the Fawn from Urua to Rezenda, the point where udforunately her machinery became disabled, was interesting ag an excarsion acd valuable in its roguity, As she was permitred by her orders to make not wore than twenty-five miles a day her progross was necossarily slow, butto com- peusate for the delay her officers and men enjoyed a certain amount of reposo, and her astronomer was | given an opportunity to determine and locate the Position of a great many points along the coast. The Same system and the same precautions were observed on board the Fawn, af experience bad proven to be the beston the corvette, and hence her work cor- responds to thatdone by the larger vessels, ts ac- From Heliet Kaka they went on to Fashoda, where they remained for twenty-seven days, us the kndians had bad eoougn of the White Nile. When the negro soldiers had recerved thoir finishigg touches in at- tending to their charges, the expedition went along the western bapks through the Sbillock couutry uoul they were opposite the Sobat, There they swam the river once more, landing a little to the south of the Junction of the Sobat with the White Nie, : Now the great marci across the country from the Sobat to Bahr commenced, a piece of ground not yet traversed by anybody, Arab or European. It took them thirty-one days to reaeb Bahr, and they suftered much on this route, They only took provis- jons tor twenty days, depending on the natives on the way. This was, however, a mistake, as the people all ran away when they saw men riding on elephants, believing, 1 suppose, the devil himeolt had eppeared in their country. ‘I'ney swam maay chors and lukes, and reached at last Babr, where they got jes. From Bahr to Lado they took ten where they remainod ou the casiern hey Wentaitersome tine to Dufit, where lephants aro pow employed iu carrying all kinds of heavy goude. Yhe whole aifair is really, besides very interesting, also very important, and ought to find duc apprecia~ tion in African geographical circies; and pray make any use of this letter you think proper, ‘Three points are certain now—the lodian elephant cun hve io Africa; it need not be fed in the juxurious manner thatis thought todispensabie in india, and Indian atvendants are not required, ‘Tne chief obstacte to Airican explorers ia procuring porters, but who would require these if he had fitteen or twonty elephants? I may be « little 100 enthusi~ astic about the matter, but from all 1 hewr from Mr. Marco | reaily think Alrica might have been explored a hundred years ago with the ald of Indian elephanis. At least one ean go so tar ns to say that 1D expeditions where money 18 not so mach the object—for instance, expeaitions like Lucas’, Stauley’s, &c.—elepbants ought in future to be employod. ismir Effoud! (Dr. Schwitaer) hes boon appointed by Colonel Gorton Governor of the Equatorial provinces, This is one of the best moves of Colovel Gordon, 18 Xmir Etfendt is now thoroughly acquainted with the country he bas togovern, and is inevery respect ile ted for bis position. Some of M’tessi’s people aro hore at present to see Colonel Gordon, and i am sure when they return again to their country, M’tessi ought to be convinced of the friendly digpositien of the Eyyptian government to ard him. Some mischievous people seem to na’ put all kinds of nonsense into M’tessi’s bead about the designs of Egypt. The missionaries now on their way to Uganda via the Nilo will arrive here from Babr in a day or two. They will be joined by Mr. Buchter, a German photographer, and all of them will leave witn M’tessi’s people in about 4 week ior Lado. Gessi’s and Malienci’s expedition to discover the Marquis Antivor! at Keffa nag miserably tailed, as, nybody mgbt have predicted, are ui preaout four young bippopotaml hero; they were caught together with four others in the Bahr at Gazal.” Four have died op the way down for Waut Of miik, but the osmers aro qaite wellana jolly NEW BOY, STANLEY EMPEROR M1ESA’S PaGE JOINS STANLEY IN PARIS. {Edward King in the Boston Journal, Sept. 24.] A youyg savage bas arrived in Paris to-night trom Africa, to join Mr. Stanley, aad | have had the pleas- ure of presentation to the swarihy youth, who is a noble tn far Ugauda, whence he came, Koda was a page of the Emperor Altesa, and was allowed to ac- company Mr, Stanley on the adventurous journey across Africa, Miesa conseused with much alacrity to the request that Kadu might go because be unde: stood thas the lad would be a kind of diplomatic agent who could tell bim what this straoze white man was upto, Tho African is thoroughly devoted to Stanie; and any one Who doubts the explorer’s knowledge of the language tn use in Uganda should hear bim conversing with Kedu for hours together. The langtago is Sofi, musical, filled with vowels, When Master Kiau is excited in covvursauon be opensa wide mouth, which is flilea with beautiful whito ceeth, and lets the words flow out as if it were le for bim to check them, He te more intol- Kalulu, the boy wuom stanley rescued @ drover and vrought to Kugland and America with him some years since, Kodu bas been @ month coming 1row Zavzibur to London by steamer, aud during that time he bas learued « great deal of English, ‘The sutlors and cabin boys pronounced the Words for bin aod He Wrote them down phovebieatly iu Aravic, which he kaowe bow ty write, It t# inex pressibiy comical to hear lim ying Lo urine Out these words and re-cstablisu (heir ect prowuncinuen from Lis phoneuc notes, tie dvow i ia should he remain some tine in /urope will prove an apt scholar, We were compelioa w laugh When we found that he bad taken deowa sack Words a ‘high’ ‘horse’? and “naire” without their preiimianry napie Tato, because be lad jearved their sound trom sailors who disuain the “h."? Kad i, | bedews, tue frst native of Uganda who bas ever set four apon Buco. pean soll, “Wallab!”? be said the other wight to Me. Stapley, ‘Wallab! master, but these white people are always preparing for war."’ Then be described tue fortificuttuns of *Moo-alia,”? ax be calls Malta, te agsured Stanley, alter he bad caught « gumpsc of London and had been 10 Poris for a day, vb eon- sidered the wuite in WH RDG BOL MOD, "AT louml, aster,’ he said, ‘they muss ve epirita,” The young Ile = oot ro coutrary, ow: man has singulatly pioasaut features auy sense a repulsive type, but n would smagine that vib ene io contact With CivitZition Unless He Wore asbared of the contrury, Hie eyes astonisn ingly noft und expressive, avd bia face hights up eo thas i® QUIte deiightiul to obscr¥o When be if ple: He is plack as biack can be. 4 1 8 Moewal having become one curing his waves, and te q enthusiastic over and religion, Stantey asked hin quietly th day Whar he would ue iT Emperor Misa, who is not a Mussdiman, should nek him to give up his retigion, He answered that he could not do it. “Well, but suppose Mican stould Kill you?’ “Bash,” enough, auewered Kade, mean ing, lot bn Kill, then, There is mo danger that Miesa will do any such thing, luckily, Kaow will back to Uganda « tale woich Will make (he Alrican Km- peror open bis eyes wider thay ever beiore, Whou the youth saw the balloon hovering wbove toe Lurie ries @day altur his arrival he refused Lo believe that there were mon init, He was assured Of tue fact that forty or Hity persons were then in the ballon > ket, when te broke out with his usual exclamation « surprise, “lame, mame, What people!’ Ibe tum: which chiefly conioauded id was Stanley's ane swer when ho asked tim, “Is this your eouatry, then?” “No,” was the couniry i sull far away, across anou “Meme Mama!" said Kadu agai, with @ certain aeoeut o« despair, p14 adi tS ll “THE CHINESE MUST GO,” [From the Gold Hill News, Sept, 144 There is a copper-colored, almond-eyed son of Tar- tary in Gold Hill who must obey Kearney’s injuse tion, About six months ego he bough: 500 shares of Modie stock at forty cents a share, and when itieached 3 be soid out, paiting the entire carital in Sierra ada at $0 asuare, When this favorite was boo ing the other day he gold his stock ou ihe sirees $100 a share, The cotp thus obtained was immediately converted into United States bonus, the Mow golian 1s DOW 80 Fieh that Lo hae qui sawing wood Aud Will not Accopt aay Kitd Of a siluation leet dige nifed than that of a dishwasher in a reataurans, 1 Very the agitator is right, ‘ine Chinese muss xa,"? time, ana | curacy is assured from the fact that Mir. Sparrow had charge of the charting and Lieutenant Porkins that of tho determination of latitudes and longitades. tsoth of these gontiemen are exverts, aud as they were furnished with the latest iostraments and ap- pliances before starting their observations must naturally be more correct than tose made under more aayorse circumstances. ON THY UPPER MaDsiRa, Tho navigation of the Upper Madeira presents no difficultios for a vessel drawing so little water as the steam launch, She could take advautage of the ed- dies and shoals, und hence her trip was devoid of thrilling ineldect or of accident. In fact, it was monotovous in tho extreme, Vegetation, the same as that which bad covered the banks from tho moath, still extended itself further to the soutbward, the same bluffs of reddish clay bound the stream, and the water presented no chavge io color, Hadit not been for the nightly observations and the occasional lundmarks of a but the people of the little steamor might easily have imagined them- selves at anchor, 80 mueb docs one part of the river resemble avosher. ‘The daily routine was simple ip the extreme, Ail hands were op and had partaken of coffee and quinine before the sun bad heated the morning. A short respite at noon gave opportunity tor the midday meal of ship’s rations cooked on a port. able galloy in the dingy alongside, and, when night came on, the@rat but or cloaring that presented a hospitable look or that gave a plaza sufficiently large for the stars was made the resting place till morning. At times the night scene was desolate and depressing. No but nor cluster of palm thatched sheds would greet the eye as the sun went down, and when the darkness closed around the litt launch, with its brave band of explorers, it seomed as though they were desoried by ali save solitude, Good fortune, bowever, gonerally favored them, The Upper Madeira, although not by any meuns thickly settled, is dott ty few wiles of its course either by the single hut of the poor rubber gatherer or by tho villago-like groups of sheds and houses o1 the richer seringucrso, When one of theso lattor happened to be noar the end of the day’s work it w indeed a baven of refuge, for, poor as its accommoda- tions might be and rough as was the welcome, it was abuman habitation, andthe boings who occupied it were of like nature to those who wero wandering. A MADRIRA VILLAGE. The launch was fortunate in making several of these agrecablo stoppages, but oa the third day out She bad the tremendous luck to reach the village of Municoré just at nightfall ‘This village, witn that of Humital, are tho only two spots along the river that have uny claim whatever to the proud distinction of being called towns. From Borba up, with tho ex- cepuon of the bulf ruined town of Sepacayuruca, tue river does not pass a village worthy of the name until it reaches Manicoré, ihis pride ot the Upper Madeira ig in Jatatude & deg. 48 min. 40 sec, seuth, and im tongitude 6lueg. 16 inia, 50 sec. west, It has a popuintion of ever four hundred people, and has en- lerprise suilicient to support a school’ and several shops. ‘Tho schoolmaster was more than delighted to welcome tne vilicers of the Jaunch, He embraced them wil most cordially aud gave a general holiday tue uext day to bis scholars in howor vl the arrival of the disunguished strangers, ‘The towm 1% supporied by tho rubber trade, principal mon ute traders ip tbis and other products, aud have numbers of lavorers omployed 10 tue work of collecung up tue Maaicoré River, wach empties iuto the Madeira at this point., These traders claim to sbip over 1,000 arrobes (32,000 pounds) of rubber annually, besides immense quautities cf co- paiba, sitsapaciiia, copul aud cbouta, a vlack, odorit- erous guin used us w cement; but yet they say they fre Ol prospering and that they can never bope to be our of debt = At Custantia, avotuer stopping place, the Padroa, who was & man much @yove the average, and whose house was quito &® maugion Loh internally aud exteruuily, declared (uat he was being slowly ruined. This siae- mout was at first considered meroly as amid exag- Kerauen similar ww those generally indulged tn by gevtiomen engaged wm ugriculvural pursue. the Paurou empivyed over threes buudred inaians aud hatives coliechug 1Qb0er, and bud io siore a great auutily vf Lue article, besides numerous demijotos oil Of copaiba aud a inaguzine fui Of misceliauevus prouuets of Lue forest It aid pot seem posmble that amid such wealib he could be embarrassed Unauciliy, but when be expiaiued (he sysiow oa whicu he worked it be- amid abuuaance a maa ight become bankrupt, A pernicious plau of credit practised vy the mercbaats Of Para bau undermined tue Wuole rubber business, it bas guined such Load Way thas it 19 wiusoxt impossible for 4 Padron to operave Without having recourse Lo it, aud has boca AiMOst OS luial 1 ks fesulLs Lere as 1 bas boon 1D me habit of ad- this system the by weorehant wavau goods to the rubber vw bo pad jer in rabver when the crop M4 evilected, fhe Vadroa 16 compelled to advance te tue Inaiany, Whe Collect for oi, ods he Bas Fecerved irom Vara, whey promiming Ww pay e rabber, In case the Padroo witl not con- seat ly eroul Mem this *Hanigeuce” oF advance they desert iw some ope woo will, Tho mauia ior Fobber sso groat that they Gnd no difficulty iu fou- 6 Woe will supply tuew even uta risk, Lhe Lux —tle advances to the tained end for which he is ible; the A f returns, ava the eovecied vy bis Houest hands ts all Used Lo poy the losses jwcurred trough the fhgut of the dishon- ja tow way the Padrons are kept in debt, but fohawis prosper. ibey bave a lien oa tue rub- vhed ame they have charged exorbitant per. gvods turowhed, [hey iaitea at the the poor devils WO speua tueir days wil. Jug 4 Lhe depils oF kue surest, mi 18 greatly needed, tor not only are the employ we ladiaus becoming disgusted, oe be bas luemerives veiwg fuloed by over thew Ve wiready gone to de. ud Boabe drains cay, And Move ihe Upper Madeira will follow tho tare of the ower river aud (be seri ihe Amazons, is proans Dearing districts of 1. 4 @ pleusure to pote that leaisistion thin Mew product deserves protectiva, RUBBER FABRE Casianhe i8@ type ot most of tHe rabber fyzendas on the bawks of the Upper Maueira, ‘The liuncl stopped 4t Wany of (bom, ior enen is LD® probavic uUcicus of aiutare town, fu view of this possibility their tie de abd longitude, as Well As Kuoir Larume.riv eleva. nod. At all of (hese pu people was great. fheir iy genutey fhe vatives of these Woods dv net bore one with questions. Lt nee to thom from going of bow long welcome wid is & mnatter of absolate judul wuenee oue com. » Whikber be is | be intends to may. They ere emurcly devoid of curiosity, dewming it tunworthy of a true bivy. th nity of Inainn. whey give go i 10 4 Bhe ow themeel shelter or of food, This, to be & eller is BO INOTe (hy a bammeock 4 Of oh ora stew ¥ allow themesives to sousud trogal diet is pot from necessity, bat f Tey have domestic avimals, chickens, sheep, pigs, euuea But wey ewer kul apathy bey watt traveller, jor sell them, Ther seve for these house- hold friends surpasses that for their ehildren, This Strange louduess exists everywhere east of tho Andes jy South America. Herndon was compelled to shoot a turkey by uccident iu order to get food to satiwly the cravings of wunger, apd Bates, the Luturelit, Was oblized 10 guaw the arm ol 4 balf cooked monkey, while u tock of chickens cacklod in poace belore bis very eyes. Ever siuce the eorvette bas been tu the river there has boen the zreatest diffi culty in obtuluing fresh provisions, Offers of su Which must seem immeuse to these impecunious people are treated with disdain, and it bas only been through appeals to the appetite for rum aod tobacco that an occasional sheep or chicken bas found its way to the mess Ladie, The furthest point.reacbed by the launch was a little beyond the wooding station called Rezende. While at Rezende the steamer Cannman, with Captain Selfridge ca voura, vound tor San Antonio, passed up the river. Ag San Autooio was Low within seriking distance the Captain, accompanied by Lieutenant Perkins and his secretary, passed on, le 1g the launch to follow. ‘bis sbort wip would have bi accomplished in ope day had wu cident happened to the launch, but the little steamer, as though fatigued by ber lovug voyage, succumbed alter steam- ing a few miles, This disaster was discouraging, the more 60 as the trouble was irremediaole. ‘The tubes of the boil had given out aod consequently it wus impossibio to get up steam. Nothing was leit tor eubevant Blockluyer todo but to resura to Kezeode, whieh, by means of the current apd tue use of the dinghy, was uccomplished the next day. For turee days ulter tis every eflort was nude to repair damages, but, in spite gf ihe ingenuity of both officers und crow, Sloum, could uot be raised. A CHURLISH BRAZILIAN. The steamer Javury now Love iu sight, and Lien- tenans Biockloger, in pursuauce uf bis icstrucuons to reach Sun Antonio ut all hazards, eudouvorod to negotiate With the commander of the Bradiliun fora tow, His request was made in the most puiite man uer and Was accompanied by av offer of mouey tor tbe work, bui, to tue surprise of overy one, the Brazilian = commauuer —_courtisnly Teiuzed. After much protesting, however, he Jnally consented, bUL in urder Lo Cubarrass as mucK us possible tue Amorican oficer be demanded a sum far above the usual rates, aud ove whiza he supposed Lisutenaut Biockliuger could not possibly bave wath wim, * Lu this, however, be was grievoualy mistaken ; for Aweticau naval cflicers, though vet usually revelling tw Wealth, do uot ge ou lar Voyages upprovided win unas, Lt algo buypened mos. Jortuuatey that u Intend of the fig Was on bourd toe Javary. this ineud ewptied Lis pockets, wud the sum added to the Uniied uuds of every one ou the luuned sufficed to sauisly ibe avarice of tue Braziliay., As be could nor object iurther tae launch was made fast, and tbe Javary proceeded on ber Way toward Sau Antoui. ifs” Upkind ucuon of tue Bragian = was auticuit o wodersiand, Tue lauuca had met, up to luis sue, Witu votbing but kimuness Lhe cause, bowever, Was Wade appareut When 1b Wus ascertained suns sue Jevliug wXisied wi Manuos apropos of tue Uuaulhveized survey Ul Lhe Fiver, uud tual Loe work wow being Goue by the launch Would take away many Of the prerogatives Oi (he sieamor captains, rucy have how ihe mouupuly of the Fiver MaViganue, aud, baturally, Wey reseut any exploration tending toward ab exposé of Lue myswries uf the Atudeira, = Lue Captain of the Javary decimred tnat his pay would be reuuced uearly oue-hail Waen & proper chur of tue river cuuid ve procured by avy one Who was dis- poses Lo trade va tuo sirean, Aller proceeding about twenty-five miles in tow of the Javary the stosmer Canuauy, owaed aud operated by Sener Captain divras, bore in sight Shu was Coming GoW bee Fiver liom 540 Antonie anu bad on board Captain Seitridge aud Lieutenant Perkins, who were revuroing Irom buat lows, 4s these oillcers bud surmised that un accivent uad bappened to wu juuuch suey Gad taken the precaution 10 survey tue river trom she Canuwan, wud beuce, us 1 was no jouger necessary lor tae iauueh (0 proceed, sue was oruered to make last tv the trading Vessel. | 1'uo cap- tain of (he Cauuman, being bis OWN waster, treated all (he Mewvers Of Lue eXpeuition With tue Uimost courtesy. He ued ulreudy extended to Capiaiu sell- riuge und Lieutenant Perkins the use of nis vessel for surveyiug purposes, ubd bad sburply reouked a Broguma oficial wi ju bis zeal, bad objected te the quarier deck being used lor souuUiugs wud other pur- poses Coanected with the survey, telling bun piuinly hat toe Cauuman was a private und uot 4 ,overu- meus steamer, wud tbat be would permit no interier- ence with a work buat Was of So manilost impori- auce nol only bo him, but 0 the whole commerce of river. REFLECT OF THS CLIMATE During the days tue laucen was iu Low repairs were Co.upleted, it having been tound that by expauding ibe tubes they could be made Light, und on sue 20L0 ut July the iittle cruit steamed away ler the curvoue, ur- Tiving, a8 hay been belors stated, oa the eveulng of the same duy. Her ollicers aud meu returaed 10 good con- diivn, comsidetiug the exposure te whlch they bad been ‘subjecied, Several of whem were saferiug slightly trom the lever vi toe country, but oven those uppearauce tuan their ibe crew ol the En: terprise, altuough 1M g00d Beaty, are DOs 1oOkINg sO rugged us When they leit the States. Tbe tnsiuida chime bas yradusily weakened them, Lack of thusimsm, malaise aud general eonul ure generully whe result Of @ protracted aucherage vebeuth «» burning Suu Wuere nu oppu: ay reise OL sLOTO oF suip 18 offered, ‘Lhe diet, too, bas been alino: clusively coauned to the suip’s ration, 1t hus been Impossible except at loug intervals Wo procure irenh beet—iruit is wore plentiful ia New York than pere— and (he LUrtie season 18 Bot iar enevga advanced Lo Jurnish food for lorge Bumbers of men. AFVAIRS AT SAN ANT0310, From tho officers who ave relurued from San An- tonto your correspoudent has been able to oviatn full inlurmution respecting the condition Of afars there. Lue reports vl deserters aad reiuxees, WhO as uifferent times have come ov board of tue Enterprive, buve been so givom, ¢ have piciured ine distress of ihe employés 0. tue Couiracior iu such dark colors that it 1s 4 pleusure to be able to state tual their sures ate groably exazgerated. San Antowio ts mut the most gloriously gay spot io the worlu at Lue preseut tie, 16 18 true, lor sicnuess has browen the spirits of nearly ail who ure employed there; Dut the tales of extortion, cruciy oppres- B100 Aro, Lo Say Lie seMst, auch OVerdrawo. ‘The siuce of uflairs there is precisely that waieb Would paturally be expected wuen tue aifllculues of the tusk are taken Into coosiderativs, Tue taying of a TailWay tarough nearly bWo bundred miles of trepical Jorest 1 a labor thal cannys be agcump.iated save at the expense of strength, healtu and ite, and whew 1 is remembered thar the laborers now employed there Were recruited from a class unused to this cind Of toil it 14 surprising What more have But beeu fa- tally stricken, That many should succumb tempo- ly Was 10 Lavo Deeu eXpocted. A process O! ac- climation must always Le guue turough vy Luowe who Change their cuVironmens, and the laverers of San Antonlv have merely lollowed a pavural jaw 1M taluog Bick. ibe position Of the starting polat of the rail- Way rouders it pocuuarty Hable ty diseases Of a ma- Jariul pature, 1018 SurruWoded by colleciwos Ol stag. bunt water, and ts backed by a 4nd poods Which are Dut propagators of Air by COULBUALY Mls, DOL OUIY iru natural Cudses, but mecuavicully sv Irom the mist Whicn Fees from tue Julis avove. During tne day tue thermometer ranges wlboug We ciguiies, DUL ab night It nks so low that the air is covl, almost coid, Ali of tueso physical causes operate in tuvor of dwease aud agulust Lbose who are employed. There bas been, im wediien all this, a lack of care on tho purt of tue Couitacera Koou of & proper quality and medicines for tus eure of those sullering irom malarial lever Lave But been supplied, uuu, Cousequeatly, Luose Who have suceumbed ts sullered ucuiely, 1b1s hardly tu ve expected that the Messrs. Coins sould have lureseeu ail the mupedi- ments in their way, Or that they should have ku At the outset all oi Lue couditivus Lu be fulfilled thore Las Loew umple time since tHe zat case v1 ness Tor them to have ouill wtomporary bospit for Lie arrival irom the United states ut « supply Of dehcucies wud medicines in cousequi of this begleet tue jorce of working mew is much Gimiuishes, A few Weeks since mois than lity por cent were on the sick list, and even vow, When Whose fest atwcked Lave couvaleseed sullicieutiy work, vot moro ton @ third of tho orginal uumber engaged muster the cal of tue sul, Desertiou aud disease have quencued the rest, DickNers Mas b.vu u great ViOW agaust the success of the Work, bUs OLber Causes Dave vperuted 10 produce the discontent that exists. Ihe mouey lor tue pay- met of the laborers Las Bot been torshcoming, aod beuee a Strong feeling Ol dissutisiactiou, amounting almost to opel mutiny, has wrt Jn contracting to build the rutiway ihe Messrs, Collins expected to recelye a large stm os svou as four iniles of the jor road Were compieted, two quite gous This bas pot veen par eusune, Four iniies of the ri not compl wba ihe Moaey 1s locked up in Baok of England uouer we care of two irustees, who are enjoined iru paying any of it oul. The money irom which tuo payment for tour miles 0 the road, aud im fact for the coustruction of the whole ruad 15 to be drawa, amounts tv $4,000,000, wud is umpiy sutiicient to build the raiiway,' Lt, however; 1814 HUgatioa, being remunded by no less than jour parties—the origiaal — bondholders, the secuud vondboidore, the government of Bolivia and the Madeira’ ana Mamoré iailwoy Company. Tho orginal bonduoiders pressed their case 80 Strongly, uileging tuat the ruad was im. practicable, aud buat the mouey would be wasted ja jutile altempis, that the Kuglisu judge before wuom it Was argued placed (he treasure 14 the hands ol two trostees, Who Were ultimately to Dave divided it amoug those who had subseribed tor tue bon: Tow operation, however, aid nut t Inve, Owing to the Mjunciion Of the Madeira aud Mawore itallway Com Pauy, The jastice of this measure will bo argued, 16 is sid, in Uutober nex. Of course it 1s impossibie to voll how the Court will decide. If the report ot the Eoglish Construction Company, wulch ator speading 4 muliou Of Hovey deciurod (hs Work tnpractiouble, by takeu it ds possible Wat the money will be returned to those Who own it, aud if this deaizion obtains toe Messrs. Collins oud their backers, presumably the Veansylvania Rautiway Company, will be minus tno amount aiready expenled, Lis chance of loss bai hampered the coulruciurs aud embarrassed ult th operations. To 1 tay ve ascribed the many econo- mies tue Messrs. Colling have practised to tue prejus dice of their employe. ub WORK ACCOMPLISHED, A grout devi of pluck, nowever, ins beon shown. Despite vl sick oess, Uiseulistaction, Want uf ;ood aud otuer depressing causes Lue labor goes on. Four miles Of aiflewit work are completed aud over two miles Of rads jaid, Beyond tho graded porvion # serevch Of seventy miles 1s mapped out, and beyond this, still, a wuimber of Indians, cinpioyed by Bolivius officials, are Lard at work cutting Uunber wad propar- ing (he way tor the track layers. ‘Tuis shows (bat (ho contractors are im oaraest. They my well be so, lor Mt they guio at all they gam enormously, it | the money Is Untied to (hem, und if Bregil taraishe 000,000, a8 it Is suid S00 Das promised to do, 1b Profit will bo immense, for the road, despite the ws- ons Of the Kagish engin 1s Ah easy Un to baila, PROCLIARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO. ‘Tho (own vi Sau Antonio bas Fi iu importance CCHS" At docs not difer ta since the beginning of the works. i appoarance trom oluer villages of this part ul U world tor the reason that the newcomers have wisely adopte the lasbions of the old residents. A fow irame buildings remiad oue of home, but they appoar out of place. The pluce is quiet and orderly. Wwhetner this ig occusioned by the haudlut of Brazilian guards, by the suppression of rum, or by an ubter inability raise a disturbance on the part of the workmen It lf impossible to determine. The forbidding appearance of the two jails with which sao Antonio is furnished may Lave something to do with tbe general quiey ‘Those prisons are novelties, They are built of iron rails, alter the manner of a Western Jog hut, andare rooted in with the same rigid material. They are, iD interstices o! ‘Yoey arc of necessity admirably ventilated, They ‘are clean, tor the ft They possess so many advantages that they particularly recommend wemscives to ine consideration of those towns in our country whicd are infested with tramps, They aro neat, ol construction, airy und besides possess the advantage of ullowing themselves to be piled away when thé tramp season is over, The store belonging to the Messrs, Col:tus is moder- ately well 1urnisbed with all articles except edibies. The order system prevails, and is, is is needless to Say, One of the great causes of dissatisiactiou. The prices are fair, but, as the goods are received tree of Guty, they should be much lower, A store ut a place like this is an absolute necessity, but because the contractors have a monopoly they should not misuse their advantage. The recent mining troubles in Pennsylvania show tne folly of paying men in of ders, 1tis useless to disguise the fact that the people at San Antonio ure suffering. Dejection is every where resent, Patlid faces mect one at each turn, aod the joriny of men, weakened by fever, totter ubout the roads. Collins bimeeif j# sick; many of his eugineera are sick, 40d mostof the men are oither down with fever or convalescent irom it, Many have already doserted, while tboso who remain wish to leave, The doctors are overworked; nota grain of quinine 1s 10 Store; provisions are scarce and bud; delicacies are not to bo had; poisonous gnats render the day of the luborera continual struggle and that of the sick @ protracted misery. Tucre 18 no fruit aod ve monoy to buy it were it plentiful. The ice machine roken, aod, in fact, natu und the cupidisy of map seem to have couspired ayainst the comlort and lives of the men who leit the United States to seek fortune amia the fulls of the Madeira, NAVIGATION OF TRE MADEIRA, The voyage of the luurch and the survey made by her officers bas proved that a navigable chaunel for ships drawing up to sixteen feet of water exists trom the mouth of the Madeira to San Antonio. Tbis chan. nel is passable during bine monins of the year, but during the timo of iow wacer—vamely August, Sep- tember and Octover--the river is se low thut ia many places not more than six or eight feet can be carried, ‘This practically closes the river excopt for lignt araught vessels for these months, The work of the lauach and of the ship inthe Madeira 1s now being pat into shape, und tu alew months will ve ready for the guidance of those wuo propose to navigate tht wators of this great uflluent of the Amazon, AN AWFUL PUNISHMENT. A CALIFORNIA MAN AWAITS HIS WIFE'S PARA MOUR AND CUTS RIS THROAT FROM EAR TO EAR. (From the San Francisco Call, Sept. 14.) } Visauia, Sept. 13, 1878, The usually quiet town of Visalia was last night the scone of a droadiul tragedy, tho facis of which are as follows:—William J, Wutto haa for some time sus- pected bis wifo of infdelity, and yesterday (Thura- day) at dioner be told her that he was going to Tipten, But be stayed iu town, and about eight o'clock last night quietly entered the house and secreted him. selt undor the bed of two little girla who were atay_ ing at his house, Alter dinner Mrs. White saw De, Menring, tho County Physician, in town, and asked him to come and see bor, Mr, W. B. Cul, lom, who bas been stopping at Mr, Whise’s, went bome about nine o’clock last night, About halt an hour afterward, as is supposed, Dr. Mebring came in, There wasgno light io the house. ‘he Doctor entered Mre. Wuite’s room and « fow minates alter Mr. White went into the room and asked who was twere. There was ov reply. Ho usked again and stl Tecoived no auswer. Dr. Mebring triea to dodgo by him and get out of the room, but the men mut wad a terrible struggie onsued. Mr. Waite yelled out, as be closca in with Mehring, “Now, you s—of u VPve got you!” Severai fauuhes in the neighbor. hood were awakened by the noise and Marshal Williams and wight watchman George Brown hastened 19 the scone, Iu the scallle White Kol Ub, of his pocket a 5 pocket kuilu and.cus. De. hring im several piaces, ail the.time -saying, Now I've. got you! You’lt never outrage another man’s tamily!’? Wheo Dr. Mebring Joune that White was getttog away with bim, be bos gan tocry out, “On, vous! ob, don’t! don’t kill we!" White bad bim by the collar by oue band, aud with the other cut his throat trow var to ear wita the stwoall kniio, making three frigntiul gashes. Mr. Cale Jom, awakened by the noise, rushed out of doors, where he thought tho row wus. Then heuriug the noise inside more distinctly, he rushed buck into the house aod into the sitiiug room, whore (he scaille wag goug on. Lhe tray begun iu the bedroom, but ter iniuated in th ing room. Ax he ente: heswaw Mrs, White ia hor night clothes and asked what was the matier, She made no reply. White ‘hen rose up trom where he had just killod the Doctor. and said:—“lt is Dr. Mohring, Ho ha outraged my Jamily,uad I bxve finished bi, Where ia my.wite? Iwill kul ner too.’ Me, Cuilom sprang bowmeon them, threw up bis arms, and sad, “Me Waite, -do notdo that!” White thea desisted, Man ebat Williams and George Brown thea coming up, be said, *Come ou, | am willing to surrender.” fhe light of tho domestic lamp rarely falls on a more ghastly sigut thao that which the room presented, where Dr, Sebring was Jound dead on the floor waere be had struggled 10 bia own gore. No weapons wore found oo tne person of esthor, aud even the litle knife with which the wounds were joilicted was miss- jug. Wuite broke nis kniio in the struggle, wed ibe poiat was fougd oa the floor, Dr, Menring had bo weapon. Bosides the irightlul cat on the ‘hroat, iis body presented several cuts and stave, none of which would have been fatal. He was found iying on his face. The carpet around him was saturated with bigod. fo all appearances Mr, aod Mra, White have ulways been happy in their marital relatious, Dr. Mouring was County Phy: cian and member of the Bourd ul Heali, Aa inquest was lmmediately held, and tho verdict of the jury wus that Dr, Mebring came to bis death by wounds mflteted witha koite iu the hands of W. J. White, anu taut the killiog was done intentionally aad wile fulty. In an interv! with Waite this morning he di clared to & reporter tuut be aid bo was going away to find out if uis wile Was true to bim; that he went inte the room and jvund B18 wile in her night clothes with Ur, Mebriug. Mra. White denies this, A CHARMED LIFE, A MURDERER THREL T/MES CONVICTED ESCAPE GALLOWS AND BULLETS. [Prom the Houstoa (Toxas) Telegram, Sept. 10.) At Clear Creek, in Galveston county, on May 19, 1812, Greea Butier was murdered at bis own door by mea who claimed Lis bospitalty, Butier was a well koowo sock mav, and his death creatod much sur- prive and regeot, A. J, Walker was arrested as the murderer and Jo Black asun accessory. Tho evr dences of their gutlt began to accumulate, and as time wore oo the meshes vl tho law wore drawn tmbter and tighter arowod them. The men Lad two trials ia Galveston county and were convicted of murder ta the Uirst degree, vat the Court ot Appeals cach time reversed the decision of the lower court. 4 oly o of vVeouwe was then had to Cham- bers county, sod both meu were n¥ro found KuIKy add VuoIshinent fixed at hanging tor Wutker and a lifetime torm ta wwe Peotentury for Bick, Various coouinuances were had uatil the chiel wituces Jor ihe prosecution baa deed, in ihe course of six years. Al tie Last teri of the Disirict Court the Stase had soother continuance, Whereapon the delence made application for vail, Which was rotused by the District Juuge. fhe deionce appealed trom this opinion aud the Coart of Appeais at tue spring term io Galves vod tuem vatl ip $10,000 execu. Walker tailed meu, bu. Black suceeded and bas Leen tor the p few mouths & comparatively free wau. Oa Wednesday last the secoud triat of Jel Hick, belore the Cauambers couuty District Court, was begun at Walievilie, Tho trial cousumed all the Lime of the Court trom that time Gui Saturaay at four Y. M., Woor & verdietol “aut gailty’ was revurned uy and the pravser, bewg a prisoner ne lett the court bouse ta Triuiy Rive county, od, taking & horse, teit for Harris Alter throw convictions of murder tn the first degree and ® four days’ trial at tue fourto it seemed as though fate was agaiwet the mao. lus time works wonders, aad jy became evident to those who were closely observing the course of tho trial that an uittal wo roba vl BecineG Lo eurage Foe peopio and trouble was immi~ nent. The Court avjouroed tor dinuer, and whea re- turning at two P, M., us tno Sheri! was entering the 80 door with Biuck 1 castody, a spot war was roimed by ty shot was frod by one Sam Wright, who, horse, waved his pistol over ule head, and, detyiag Lhe crowd to arrest nim, rude of The bali wok u¢ (1M aby One, but passed harmiessiy torough the thouse Allor sume time, and during we prop we Foss of (he trial, it 8 subd, the p nea court house, and, sitting Oo his horse, lovked im att window vo see Low Lnings lookea No attemp Was Made (0 arrest the teaD. Alter the suooting, au bolure tue trim was over with, Mr. A. L, Autrey, this ctty, Walked up to Mr. George W, Burior, browuet of the murdered map, and Mr. Jo wie, tit brothor-tu-iaw, aad asked them the meaning of the shooting, He asked thom it 1s was intended to give he nau NO SHOW at Ali—if It Was Intended to assueat. nate bim, ‘Ihie seemed (0 anger tue men spokeu to, and one of them declared that he “could whip Uib weigot iu wildeats,”* mols were drawa and levelled at Auirey 10 a most irightemig way. Autrey threw avd declared bimeelf w whe peace Was restored. Mr, Autrey deserives his feet Jogs in a Most Inoghable manu ying that Koop. jug on bis bat cvcupied most of bis Ume, bie baie being ra:her long aud hoving @ tendency about that Utne to “stand oo end cupine, Bick is said to Ve at Sam Aliou's house, in the low: arto is county, and the house is com stantly guarded by armed men, Ao attack ou Walker, inthe Chambers County Jati, is expected, but us is hoped bo more trouble will arise,