The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1878, Page 2

CONGRESSMAN ACKIEN. | Scandal About Louisiana's Young Representative, ET REPORT OF THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE. Contradictory Testimony Produced During the Investigation. + GUILT OF MIE ACCUSED INDICATED. A Woman's Degradation, Suffer- ing and Death. [BY TELEGRAPH 10 THE HERALD.) New Orntans, La., Dec. 27, 1878. During the recent political canvass in this State, which resulted in the re-election of Mr. Acklen from the Third Congressional district, some grave charges were made public affecting the moral character of thet gentleman. It was asserted that improper rela” tions had grown up between Mr. Acklen and a girl whose father had been engaged to manage his planta- tion; that subsequently a marriage had been brought about between the girl and a man named Wright, who had been a hostler in Mr. Acklon's employ. These constituted the main facts of the scandal, counected with which were nameronus incidents highly detrimental to the character of the accused Congressmen. A committee of prominent democrats consisting of Duncan J. Kenner, D. B. Penn, Albert Voorhes, Paul E. Theard, J, BR. Aleee-Gautheaux and H. J. Hersey were appointed to imvesti- gate the facts. The conciusion which the committee arrived at was adverse to Mr. Acklen’s innocence, of whieh that gentleman was duly notified, at the same time being informed that the conclusion would be made public. According to the statement of the com- mittee the publication was, at the request of Mr. Acklen, postponed for a time im order that he might determine after more calm reflection whether he would withdraw from the canvass or not. , Pending this delay Mr. Acklen secured fayorable opinion trom a second committee composed of prominent republicans, beaded by ex-Governor Hahn, who published a card giving it as their opinion that (he charges against him had been ine spired by malice, This seems to bave effectually neutralized any bad effects the scandal, as Mr. Acklen was returned by a largely increased majority. As the result, however, the democratic commitiee, in justification of their action, publish to-day a statement giving the facts upon which their con- clusions were based. REPORT OF THE DEMOGRATIC COMMITTER. _ The report, after reviewing the general testimony, #eays:—Mr. Acklen produced an affidavit, which he says was made by the girl, Mr. Acklen’s relations with whom formed the base of the scandal, signed with her full name, “Mattie P. Wright,” and sworn to before Mr. Alfred Ingraham, @ notary public in this city. ‘This affidavit was in the form of ques- tions and answers. Mr. Acklen called our attention to that fact and that fhe language of the affidavit was the language of the girl herself when she answered the questions as propounded by the notary, who took her very words, as he stated. STATEMENTS IN THE AFFIDAVIT. ‘This affidavit denied that there had ever been any criminal intercourse between Mr. .Acklen and herself, but stated that there had been between Wright and herself previous to her marriage with Wright. Mr. Acklen, on being asked what was his motive for tho extrwordinary interest manifested by him in this matter and for his great zeal and activity im bringing about the marriage, replied he @id so because of his regard and kind feelings for the family of the girl. All the above fi were learned from Mr. Acklen him- self whea he made his first statement to us. From others we learned that Wright deserted his wife and went to Texas a few days after his marriage. The girl became a mother in February, 1878, and after that sant lower and lower in th social scale. She died of yellow fever in September, 1878. We learned from highly respectable wituesses, to whom the girl at the time of her marriage made the statement, that when she was carried to the physician’s office on Rampart street it was for the purpose of producing premature birth. Mr. Acklen gave us the name of a | highly respectable physician on Rampart strect as the one who had been seen by him and the ladies. We called on this physician,and he said he could recollect nothiny of the matter; if such parties had ever called on him the cireumstance had entirely ¢s- saped his memory. "§ CIRCUMSTANCES. from very respectable witnesses, that on the eve of the marriage of the girl with Wright Mr. Aekleu came to the house where the mother sud daughter were stopping; that Mr. Ack- len, sitting in a corner of large parlor, had a long conversation with the mother; that several papers passed between the two, and that they (the witnesses) Were asked to witness the signature of the mother; that they consented to do so. When they were signing the paper Mr. Ackien bent it down so that they could uot see the contents of the paper and held his thumb the paper. This excited their curiosity and induced them to dsk what it was about, and either Mr. Acklen or the mother replied it was only a money transaction, the two aequiescing in the assertion. This paper subsequently proved to be an application, signed by the mother, for a mar- riage license for the deughter. We received no ex- planation why this mystery aud this deceit were prac- tisod ou these witnesses, We also learned from respectable witnesses that Mr. Agklen on the morning of the marriage called at | the same boarding house, and invited the daughter to walk out with him. She did so, and he conducted | her to # carriege stationed in across street, ont of sight of the boarding house. In this carriage were seated Wright, the intended husband, and W. W. Wharton. on THE TWO AFFIDAVITS. We will now call attention to two affidavits pro- fessedly made by the unfortunate young woman. One of thers affidavits was p Ac We will call that affidavit No. 1. ‘The other eifidavit was found among the effects of Mr. H. L Smith after Lis death; We call this affidavit No. 2. AMidavit No.) ix very important and very favoratile @ Mv. Ackien, as the girl testifies in it to bis entire unocence of soy criminal intercourse at any time with ber. Th afidevit (No. 1) was signed Matic PB. Wright, the girl's name in full. Tho signature was evidently thet of a person teeustomed to writing, that the name Was written in a reoning hal; oo hesitation mani- tested to the formation of the letvers. The namo wee not written in Ube handwriting of @ beginner or of & person unaectxtomed to writing her name. ‘This affidavit was sworn to before Mr. Alfred Ingra- | ytary public, du Angust, 1874, who attested nature, and it was in the form and pature of on, is, tions and answers, and when Mr. Ackion pre- | sented it (o ue he called ourattention to the fact, and | we were told by bina that the questions were pro- | pounded by the notary and the answers were written down by the notary ae spokem by the yitl, and that | she signed it in the notary’s prawn, | Gbicials have implicit confidence in bis honesty, and mented to us by Mr. | a0, THY NORARY'S TeeTIMONY. } Ww vested Mr. Ingraham to yive his testimony | in this inatrer. He mot our committee and toxtiped | orning Mr. Ackion came ite his offic an eMdavit with the qnestions and answers all writ ten out and already signed, and that be only fead the caption to learn if the Mant was the pefrou mentioned in the affidayit, | Mr. Ingrakem avked the young women if that was ber cignator:, and that wos all Mr, Ingra- Jotng women and presented hin | eee Gil in the meatier. fic woe asked specially if he hed propounded avy of te que afidevit aud had taken the enewers down. He said be bed sot, and thet he know nothing of the a «sot forth inthe | other contents of the affidavit” et very grave reasons to doubt the genuineness of this effidavit No. 1) We had the most positive proof that the girl could not write; we had evidence that peneil was placed in her hand and she was requested to write her name aud she could not make the fret stroke of the letter “M." Moreover, Mr. Acklen admits and states in his card, published on Sunday, October 13, that the girl could neither read nor write. She certainly did not sign the affidavit bearing tho signature of Mattie P. Wright, becouse she could not write. Now this question presented itself to the consideration of our committee—Who did sign this aitidavit? We could only conjecture, but had no evi- dence to determine the question satisfactorily to our- selves. Mr, Acklen based his claim to innocence in® great measure on this affidait No. 1. A CONDEMNATORY AFFIDAVIT, Aftidavit No. 2, also made by the girl, is as damag- ing to Mr. Acklen as aitidavit No. 1 was favorable to him. The history of affidavit No. 2 is this, The girl made the acquaintance of Mr, H. L, Smith and told him her tale. He reduced the statement to writing, induced her to come to his house, when she appeareg before Judge O'Rourke, justice of the peace. Sno stated that she knew the coutests, which were not read to her; swore to the truth of the conients; made her mark, which was attested to by the Judge in Angust, 1878, This affidavit No, 2 gives a full and de- tailed statement of the whole matter between Mr. Acklen and herself; alleges the seduction and the man- ner thereof, the pregnancy, which she attributes to Mr. Acklen; her visit to the New Orleans physician; what took place there; attempts on her part by tak- ing medicines and by the use of instruments; her marriage with Wright; his subsequent desertion; the part Mr. Acklen took in arranging the marriage and his meeting her subsequently. This affidavit NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, We have | DISSECTING AN ELEPHANT. A CURIOUS POST-MORTEM AT THE COLUMBIA VETERINARY ¢COLLEGE—POOR MIMt's VISIT, TO CONEY ISLAND AND ITS AWFUL CON- SEQUENCES. “Mimi, sir, was a Nubian,” seid Mr. Reiche to s Huan reporter afternoon, “and had a history. Sho was captured in her infancy on the banks of the White Nile, and from her frat view of the sea evinced a strong dislike to it. Her conduct on the Snez Canal and down the Mediterranean to Marseilles was outrageous and strangely in contrast with her docility on the road through France and Germany to Bremen. During that portion of her journey she scemed to enjoy the excite- ment of travel, but the moment she sniffed the sea air at Bremerhaven she again commenced her tan- trums and gave excessive trouble all the way to this Western World. She landed here early last spring, and was at once taken to Coney Island, where, in the aquariam, she frequently expressed her dislike to ‘the salt sea air of that popular resort, until, in Sep- tember, she exhibited such syhptoms of its effects on her lungs that she was sent to Central Park. Here, under the genial influence of hor surroundings and the care of the keeper, Mr. Field, she rallied and seemed entirely recovered. At times, however, and especially during inelement weather, she found difficuty in breathing that excited the anxiety of her attendants and the greatest care was taken of her. The recent cold spell proved too much for her. On Christmas Eve she was taken witha congestive chill that settled on ner lunges, and sho lingered in great pain till the afternoon, when she breathed her last; She was tenderly conveyed in an ambulance of the Health Board to the Columbia No. 2 relates all the facts with so much minutencss of detail that it carries much weight with it. Al- though we did not rely on its statements as ma- terially influencing our judgments we believe much of it to be true, particularly where there was cor- roborative testimony to sustain what she alleges. CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE} The question of H.L. Smith's motive, whether it was revenge or blackmailing, did not interest us. Highly respectable witnesses testified that the girl related to them the facts mentioned in the affida- vit No. 2, at the time of her. marriage, when she did not know of the existence of Smith; but what was of interest to us to know was that Smith had not con- cocted the statements. Of this we were fully satistied. To the affidavits furnished by Mr. Acklen, which he procured on his visit to his plantation in the last few days, we attach but little or no eredit. They are ail in the hand- writing of Mr, Acklen and made by his negro carriage driver and wife, by his negro black- smith and wife and other negroes, all of whom are now or have been employed on his plantation, most of them afixing their marks, not knowing how to write, and sworn to before a negro justice of the peace. All of this batch of affidavits, even had they not been made by illiterate plantation negroes, alleged nothing more than instances of the vice and corrup- tion of the poor girl, THE POLITCAL ASPECT. ‘Mr. Acklen, after our decision was known, objected to our regarding the matter from @ political stand- point, We can only reiterate what we said on this subject in our first statement, dated October 9. There wos an express understanding with Mr. Acklen that if we did not oxculpate him from all blame of a crimi- nal character he pledged himself to withdraw from the canvass as a candidate for Congress. Without this understanding the committee would not have entered into this examination at all. LOST OR STOLEN? A MESSENGER OF THE IMPORTERS AND TRADERS’ BANK MISSES A POCKETBOOK CONTAINING $209,722 38—neanty $50,000 in GoLD cER- TIFICATES AND CURRENCY. At @ quarter-past twelve o'clock yesterday Hoffman Beach, a trusted clerk of the Importers and Traders’ Bank, le‘t that place having in his possession $209,722 33 with which to pay to the Clearing House the debtor balance of the bank on its gold and currency exchanges. This money, which was carried in # large pocketbook, consisted of $160,000 in Clearing House certificates, $42,900 in gold certifi- cates, $6,755 38 in currency and $467 in gold. Mr- Beach was not accustomed to act as messenger be” tween the Clearing House and the bank, but the reguiar man, Mr. Turner, was off duty yeeterday at- tending the funeral of his son. As is always the cus- tom, the bank's detective, Daniel Young, accompanied the messenger, and they started down Broadway together to their de=tination—the Clearing House. THE Loss DIRCOVERED. On their arrival at that building Mr. Beach unbuat- toned his ulster with the intontion of paying bis bank's balance, and to his surprise end also that of the detective who was’ in his company, the pocket- book was missing. They immediately retraced their steps to the Importers and ‘Tralera’ Hank, thinking that they might have forgotten the package, but no. tidings of it could be obtained there. They then re- membered distinctly that the messenger hod it with bim after leaving the bank, berause the pocketbook was #0 large that he could not possibly get it in is pocket, so that he opened his ulster and placed it between that and his inner coat and kept bis arm around it. He it ined that it would be sate ii at place, and the detective says that Beach certainly felt it in his possession when crossing Broadway at Pino strest on the way to the Clearing House. The vanced by the detective and messeuger was pocketbook slipped between the coats to the was picked np by some parser by. As the officials of the Importers and rn Bank learned of their lw they made up another amount to settle at the Clearing House and sent it to | that institution. | Whether lost or stolen, if the pocketbook sebould not be returned, the bank will lowe $49,722 #%—viz., the gold certiticates, amounting to $44, jot numbered and easily negotiabie; ti arrency and the $67 gold. The Clearing tificates are all numbered, and ft would be lipossible to re: coer them, a# they are payable only to a bank member of the New York Cleari PPICIERT If Beach, the messenger, hod taken the menal pre- cautions in carrying Inge amounts of money this loss, it is said, would not have occurred, Mis the | cnstom for messengers to have chains attached from, | ir wrists to the pocketbooks, and it is almost inP | ible to lose money carried in this way upless yee! by bighwaymenu. Mr. Beach has been ia the employ of the bank for more than ten years, md bis character is above reproach. The benk are positive that the money was lost, not stolen. ‘They have oftered the following:— $5000 Pine Seepeciers an tradore Nation ARR th Hank, pocket it to the i ‘ int of balanes due tro lenri the above doseribed proj Decenmen 27, 1975, ty. Bo if. PERKINS, Jr. Cashier, Superintendent Walling was notified of the bank's Joss, and put in an appswrance st that institution. He was reported to have been of the opinion that the money had been lost in the way described by th messenger. id IRVING HALL DEMOCRACY. ‘Lhe General Committee of the Irving Hall democ- recy met last night in fnil force at Irving Hull, nearly every seat on the floor being occupied. The meeting was called to order by James &. Morrison, who an- nonnced that the report of the Executive Committee was in order, whercupon ex-Sonator John Fox, porary chairman of said committee, presented the fol- | owing resolutions aa the result of the Executive Committee 4 deliberations :— Uhonht, word and aetion shall be Wre wrand democratic orgunization of this hereby anthort regre it gt the late orge B. Brulley, The democratiddenndidate, stiew of the Cow Appeals. and depre whieh, tompurnrily in eontr tee, by wi deporte power. Rufus F. Andrews moved the adoption of the reso lutions in a brief «perch, in which he referred to the canvass, ng thé vlection of Mr. Cooper the efforts of Irving Hull, amsisted by the tw bramehes of the demoeracy, Assemblyme | congested, a0 | purposes ‘of preservation the work of cutting was Veterinary College as a Christmas present to its Faculty.” us A PONDBROUS SUBJECT! The gentlemen of the College, im the interest of science, determined to make an autopsy of the body, and as such an oceurrence as a post-mortem examin. ation of the body of an elephant was an unusual event, a Hxnanp reporter wended his way to the in- stitution on Thirty-fourth street near Third avenue. In the dissecting room on the second floor of the rear building uttdthed to the College he found the carcass, already deprived of its skin, om the table awaiting the keen kuives of the operators. The group sround were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Edward C. Spitzka, who was to superintend the autopsy, as- sisted by the Demonstrator of Aratomy, Mr. Richard A. Finley. On his arrival Professor Spitzka, a jovial practitioner, responded to # request for information ‘on the case by saying, “On Thui afternoon, en- tering the court yard, [found there the body of an ele- phant, and for the moment was nonplugsed as to what to do with it, The ingenuity of the students came quickly to my aid, however, and with the rapidity of experts they quickly robbed the carcass of its epi- dermis, and w! thus relieved of at least 100 pounds of extraneous weight by the Archimedean device of an incline plane they drew the other 900 pounds to the dissecting room. Then by the aid of ropes and levers, sixteen pairs of hands at the former and four at the latter they raised it on the table as you Tow see it, ready for operation.” KNIFE AND SAW. ‘The arrangements for the operation were made at once. Two advanced students, with the Professor, stood at the head and four with the Demonstrator at the body of the animal, and after some preliminary sharpening of knives the word was given and the Brihary incisiois made. As each organ was laid bare jue comparisons were drawn aud much vyain- able information conveyed to the students. For @ few moments nothing was heard save tho rasping of the saw or the cutting of the knives, inter- rupted at intervals by achecry laugh or smothered exclamation from the floor above, where the female, students of anatomy from the Wemen’s Medical Cul-' lege had been furnished with a dissecting room for human remains. Occasionally a carmine drop of fluid would drop from the ceiling #@ close proximity to the reporter, which, catching the Professor’x eye as he rested from his work, he remarked:—‘‘Step a little nearer this way if you please, Those are the first dropa from the subject up stairs, and might not be pleasenton yourclothes:” The advice gladly obeyed ‘and a better opportunity was afforded to view the autopsy of poor Mimi, whose aspiration for a return to the tropics and its’ more genial atmosphere had been so summarily checked. The Professor had sawed off a section of the skull horizontally, reveal- ing the brain, nestled in its inner skull, and almost surrounded by a series of air cells or tubes, connect- ing directly with the uasal cavity, which, in counec- tion with the ‘very thick outer skull, formed an almost impenctrable protection to the-seat of life and intelligence, A WELL FORTIFIED BRAIN. ‘The operation then stopped to admit of a brief lec- ture on the skull, the Profeseor deftly removing the brain as he telke: His language, robbed of its ni exsary technicality, was to the following effec: ‘This outer case oF skull furnishes the massive ap- vance 60 familiar to the eye, while the inner cas- , containing the brain, is of a more delicate texture and is casily, penetrated. Tho air vells be- tween are evidently for the purpose of greater protection. He instanced here the case of an imsane elephant at the Zoological Gardens, London, where over ove hundred bullets were fired into the animal's skull, only one of which penetrated with fatal effect. Most of those which had penetrated the outer case hud been lost in the air cells, their effect not injuring the recipient in the least. He also shdwed the fallacy of the idea of a tender or weak spot between the eyes. that bein tected with the top and back of al, therefore are the best and only direct of the brain. He then attenti immense complexus muscles by which the head was supported, and slowed the addi- tional protection they aiforded the brain from the obtrusive bullet; adding dryly, ‘nothing can save an elephant from the explosive bullet now used in their destraction; if they burst at all in the body, no matter where, om d have @ fatal result.” He next lifted the brain, which weighed five pounds, calling attention to its intensely congested condi: tion, suggesting death by asphyxia ‘The was then removed and proved not laryer than thut of a horse, the spinal cord also comparing with that of an eqnine so far as size was concerned. Descending next to the trunk, that organ was found to be richly supplied with nerves, veins and muscles. There were eight teeth to cach jaw, two of which were mo- Jars, and {t is said that a tall sized elephant is entitled to six sets of molars following each other in rota- tion, one growing underneath the other and pushing the former growth out. With the sixth get of molars the «pan of the clephant’s life is ran. AN UNDOUBTED CON#UMPTIVE, Meanwhile, and not losing an iota of the lesson derived from the head, the knives of tie operators, under Demonstrator Finlay, had lod open the body, exposing the viscera, The heart wes shown to be pertectly hewlthy, and when raised «showed »# marked viturcated structure iu the lower end, resembling in, | this respect the heart of the dngon, a'singulac mam- maifish, whieh gave rise to the table of the mermaid. | The other organs aud the abdowinal viscera were all hoalthy save the lungs, and here was found the im- inediiate cause of Mimi's death. They were intensely much #0 a8 to sink in water. For the continued until, in about two hours, the carcass of Mimi, in sections, was laid on shelves around the room for future treatment. ‘The lessons to be derived from tie post-mortem were daly appreciated by those who wituessed it. As the reporter was getting his notes together a horse which had been operated on for diphtheria by trachy- nometry was brought in and placed under the influ. ence of chloroform preparatory to killing it for the dissecting table. A DETECTIVE’S PRIZE PACKAGE. me “pal” OF AN UNKNOWN TAIEY MAKES RESTITUTION OF A ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR BOND. An official-looking envelope was received by De- tective Charlies Frost, of the brooklyn Police Centrel Office squad, yerterday morning, which, on being opened, was found to contain a one thousand | dolisr bond on the New Jersey Central Ratl- roud, The bond, which was registered, had aftached thereto several conpons, the payment of six of which were over duc, showing thoreby that it had been in the hands of some person who dered not offer the coupons. There was also a letter secompanying the bond, which latter is nua. Dered 4,021. Tho bond is registered in the name of John W, Watson. The letter, which was written in a good, round, business hand, reats as follows:— New Youn, Deo 26, 1878, king for some bo vat 8 "pal fot away with at ver on your eile ie. You pot me waen't your fault, Tf twas i | know aie well, In haste, 1 remain, pares truly Venitas. The letter was written on common note paper and enclosed in an enveiope bearing the postmark of ste this eit; ive Frost hounded the bond to Superintendent tion 1 Campbell, who gave it over to the care of the Police Proporty Clerk, and at onee wrote to the office of the New Jersey Central Mailroad Company, notifying that company of the fact aud 6 intol tion as to the manner in whieh it stolen. | Au inspection of ‘the — lint stolen bonds at the Brooklyn Central failed to show that any such bond as the one above referred to had ever been fe saya that he has not the slightest id may lave hed the fellow “sett! #ix yeute ago, but he caunot ) Detective Frost is working on the caso, however, aud Filygoraid followed in 9 vimilar view, and the resolu- tone wore then unanimously adopted. ‘ ‘The comumiittee adjourned until Vanuary 18, May succeed in moking something out of it before [he gots through, | | hue f IN A RUBBER SUI Captain Boytou's heeseiitis on the Voyage to Lisbon, THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR *Rossed, The Moorish Soldiers Frightened by a Strange Apparition. “At Caceres I was tendered a banquet, which waa at- tended by the Governor and his staf. The whole train had come across the mountains, and the Goy- ernor had brought with him his engineer, who de- ascribed the river as best he could, He said there was one place most terrible where I would arrive that evening. by this time my hands were gctting very bad. The joints were swollen and the nails blaek, andI sometimes had great difficulty in opening my hand, “It may seem strange,” explained the Captain here, “why I should run aiong three days and three nights without getting out, but Thad good reason for re- maining in, for if you get out in that eountry you are exposed to the danger of being attacked by wolves. But there is a still greater danger in lying on the rocks and falling asleep, from the chill which would ensue after the exertion of the day. You must keep working until you get warmth and comfort. ‘The only slecp I took was when I was stretched on the water, but then I was nervous and received but little benefit from my slumbers. “From Cavaras the river runs dashing and foaming down for perhaps » league, aud then drops into 9 kind of lake, smooth and slow. For three leagues or so it has hardly a current. Then there is another narrow and swift place. The Governor spoke Freuch and was a splendid man. He bade me goodby from the mountain side. For miles down the people followed me along the banks, cheering and encourag- ing me. It wasa picturesque sight to see them with their colored garments up above me. I now madé a run for this Salto del Gitano, about which I had been warned. I went rapidly along and hardly saw any one. After leaving the Governor—and before arriving at the Salto—I saw a hunter. He stood on a ledge of rock above me, and I did not like to see the fellow with @ gun. I thought I should get. past without his secing me. At last, however, he saw me and immediately his gun went down. Ishouted out and then he thought Iwas adrowning man. He did not fire. He came down the rocks, but I passed him and kept running along until Ieame into peculiar part of the river. It was broken into a thousand little cur- rents. There were rocks all about, and the water was swirling in between them. I thought this was the Salto del Gitano. I camo out of this danger ull right and then passed a mill. I then made a rush, ranning alof>st down hill, and came upon a big table land of rock. The sun was then going down. After running before the rock the current stops and you feel almost like going back. It was perfectly deai—smooth. Suddenly I saw an eddy as big as the top of a glass. In an instant I was caught in it and doubled up. I felt myself being whirled round and sucked down, but I chanced inadvertently to cut the whirl of the water with my paddle and immediately I shot over it and was out of danger. The next moment was in the mouth of,the. canyon, The riv@r danced along and, went flying be- tween the rocks. I imew it was about fifteen leagues run, The first fall I went over all right. Then the! stream commenced running down in the most pect- liar currents, by which Iwas tossed repeatedly from one side of the river to the other by some unsecn action aud thrown against the rocks. T kept on, going through one or two more Le) I came to one fal! that quite deatened me with its roar. I saw the waters in it of me rushing together in big waves and then jump- ing.. There was nothing bat white foam, I iost courage and grasped at a rock to save inyself, but lost hold. Iwas drawn down and whirl and thrown about, and howl came out I don’t know. I came out puiling and trying to Vreathe, Again for a short time it was straight sailing, then there was another waterfall, and in a few minutes I wae in a canyon. Soon afterward I passed the Bridge of Alcanta. It is formed of a single arch, which spans the riyer 200 feet above the surface of the water, From there I ran for some time with Spain on oue bank and Por- tugal on the other. ‘The country. is perfectly wild, and [ conld see hundreds of wild boars on the moun- tain side. One would see now and agayn a round. house on the mountaids, wh the Spanish sentinels are stationed. It is a niost bleak country. I was hungry and weak, and quite wora out, but1 braced myself up. RECEIVED BY THE PORTUGUES:, Ikept running down, when suddenly looking over int of a rock I saw the Portuguese flag. Tbere the little “Terribile."” Then a young fellow, tain in the Portnguese navy, had been sent by the Portuguese government to recetye me. A minute afterward I wes in the boat having a drink.. They turned and went down with ine. all right now that I got somo one to talk with. kept on with him until night. ‘Then we clambered up the side of a hil!, took possessionof an old tower and lit a fire, which nearly smoked us blind, We started again ‘with curly daylight. ‘The second day with the boat I came to the frontier of Portugal. ‘There we shook hauds with a number of the Spanish ardia civil, who wished us a “good yoyage.” We sturted away amid hedrty” “virus” on both sides, The next night we had to lic alongside the river. TI siopt in the cabin und the men on the shore. 'The next day we got om smoothly. There were no more falls or rapids. Then we came to the first town in Portugal—Villa Velha. There I receiv a welcome for the first time, hearty one it was. They fired off no end of detonating rockets. Then we sed one town after another. At one the American flag was seen for the first time. T was now wetting pertectly worn out and was dead beat betore I got to Lisbon. The doctor said I must get ont of the river. My pulse was at twenty-eight, but { hung on to the end. It took me eightecn days and nine nights to come down from ‘foledo; nine nights I did not stop inthe water, It brought me down terribly; my bones were pretty nearly coming out through my overcoat. The reception 1 got in Lisbon was something wonderful. I reccived noth- ing like it anywhere cise. , CROMING THE STRAITS OF GIURALTAR. On March 20, 1578, Captain Boyton crossed the Straits of Gibraitar. This was, perhaps, the most dangerous of his ventures, and was accomplished un- der circumstances whieh added greatly to the culty of undertaking. The vtratts, abont twenty- five miles in width at their narrowest part, ary ut times boisterous and unsettled passage, a prey to contrary winds and enrrents which battle the skill of the most experienced wavigators, ‘There are seamen in Gibraltar who have for more than ara crossed the straits from the rock to three or four times a weck, and who yet acknowledge their utter ignorance ot the probable n Of currents at mund great diffic Ho nevertheless decided to attempt at, and eudeavored to reach the Afrigan coast, neighborhood of the old Spanish stronyhoid, Conta, As usual, a soon as hia determination was made known, eb Ti information ot all kinds cane flowing in on every side; the nudertaking was suid by all te be an meibility, an attempt to be made by none bUt® madiwen. Shacks were plantitul, whirlpools abundant, the tides treacherous, and, even were all those obstacles to be snecesstully conqnored, there remained the chance of talling into the hands of the piltering Moorish tribes ou the opposite coust. Nothing daunted Boyton wade all the necessary preparations, in which he received valuable assist ence from the United States Consent in Gibraltar, Mr. H. J. Sprague. A felnebo was chartered, manned by three of the most daring seamen of the port, arms aul ammunition were emberked, repared for the start. Especially in view of a powmi- bis cucounter with sharks, several of “whom bad been sightel a few days previously in the iminediate vicinity, the Captain had two lary sword blades rivetted on the extremities of Rix paddle, which thus presented # most formidable appearance. Tt tormed an efficient offevsive aud defensive arm, easily handled and Nhely to repel any attempts at nndie fanuilarity from the ungainly monsters whose neighborhood, the Captain was charitably informed, f proved fatel some time before to ohe-of the exew of the Kearsarge On the ist, an howr or two before down, Boyton sterted for Corti, the sonthermmost point on the Sponish coast, aud the place he hal chosen for the eominencement of bis trap. He was accompanied by two friends from Gibraltar; so provisions had been taken on board, as it wae caleniated tat the whole execution would not ovenpy more than tote or five hours, even under very tufivorable clreumalances, Chis wos agrievous mistake, ae the party afterward ascortamen to their cost. A‘ter considerable deiny, caused by the vexations formalities enforced by the Spanish antherities, a landing was effected, Boyton having drexsed on bo: end being now prepared to enter the water, A In sinatic crowd accompansed hi was pointed out to hin as of the European Continent, A p! nil he was off. age commenced under favorable as) ic y was clear, the winds light and th thay in rapiglly owned the Moreeeo heudiahds vom. ing Wp in the distance. For an hour or two nothing of iuiterest occurred. Buta change room veeauiw op parent which wrought sad havoc with all previews calculations, A strong current began to set in front the, , and everything | d before theCaptain was woll aware of the straits. For hours and hours he strugyled vicorousiy the rush of the water, without ¢ in the direction of Ceuta; but to no apes A turrets of the fortuess ms te stance gradually disappeare: ‘from view. At the eud of this time another el ia the current became evident, most luckily, too, for, according “to a8 \accurate mas could be Boyton was then being great rapidity into the open Atlantic. Cape Spartel, the western extremity of Africa, was bearing due sout the crew of the felucca, seeing no prospect of a successful continuation of the trip, were ning to grow mntrinous and to talk of a return to Gibraltar, The fortunate turn in the tide, however, put 4 more cheerful appearance on the tace of affairs and the grumblings ceased, Night sow fal vas Nae aniie which was now fulling rapidly sea, had been smooth all day, commenced pg ia an alarming manner. As there was uo imi pros- pect of approuching the coast the Captain's guests added their entreaties to the demands of the erew and endcavored to persuade him of the useloss- ness of further efforts, Nothing could induce him however, to give in, ant # fresh start was made, when, Jee a alarin, @ large rolling wave suc carried Boyton out of sight, A heavy storm im, the little vessel was almost unmanageable and the anxiety of his friends can be easily imagined. Fully an hour elapsed before a cheerful “AN right!” in Boyton’s ringing voice: was heard in reply to the signals of the erew, who bad almost given | him up, for lost. Ho bad been caus in 6 spec: whirlpool, well, known jectiter: nean sailors, in which the sea seems to be ins ope. ual state of ebullition, and from which i is a wonder how tho fellucca escaped. When he 4 roached the boat the crew, worn it the ‘unceasts exertions of an entire day and decided on giving up the undertaking, attempted to lay hands on him and draw bodily outof the water, It was only by dint of throats and by mense- ing thom with the keen-odged blades of his paddle he succeeded in beating them of Things Ware patina Be foci bad rank, 90h the Lau creda v fused to accom: ton any further in his pe bias tongs they tetaained ‘Neat to hil en treaties, and already turned the head of the felucca toward Gibraltar Bay,.when several lights were suddenly porceiyed peering out in the gloom and denoted the close vicinity of the coast. Those afterward turned out to have large fires lighted along the clifis of Morocco by the Moorish tribes, in accordance with instructions received from Colonel Matthews, the United. States Consul General in Tan- gier, in expectation of Boyton’s landing at any in- termediate point between Ceute and Tangicr. The sight of these beacons gleaming inthe dark- ness infused uew courage in the disheartened sailors, and another efiort was made to —. the land, whieh at last proved successful. point reached by Boyton was the Bay of Tangier, full thirty miles west of Ceuta Castle, whero he originall; intended to terminate his _ trip. He had seventeen hours in the water, lad pad- died the whole time withont taking one minute’s rest, and had moreover not eaten a morsel since the early moruing, for, as was mentioned above, it had been thought unnecessary to lay in # stovk of pro- visions, and a solitary flask of brandy brought by one of the passengers had unfortunately been lost over- board in the earlier part of the voyage. It was one o'clock iu the mor when, Boyton at lag: stepped out of the water end touched the shore of Morvcco, He was not expected there, and was only received by the Moorish sentinels, who bravely fled at in utter dismay and rushed off “to raise an Boyton was considerably amused at learning afterward that his arrival been announced to the good citizens of the town in the following flattering terms:— “Ariso! arise! ‘tis better to watch and to pray than to sleep, for the devil has just landed in Tangier!” Acrowd soon collected, and a few minutes Iater Boyton was recelved by Colonel Matthews and several other members of the American colony, at whose hands he met with the most ¢ordial and hospitable treatment. ‘Thus was concluded @ voyage which is considered by Boyton himself as the most difficult task he has ever undertaken, with the exception, perhaps, of his dexcent of the Vagus. ‘The uews of ‘bis success was received with much pleasure in Gibraltar, whore reat anxiety had been felt on his account; “for a steamer, the Lion Belze, with a numerous party on board, had cruised about the straits all day in search of him, but had fuifed to see any signs of either the Captain or his felucca. His return to the Hock on the following day was the occasion of a most enthusiastic reception trom the entire population. CAPTAIN BOYTON'S MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA— VOYAGES IN PROSPECT ON THE MISSOURI AND THE sussIssIPPt. ‘The nsrrative of Captain Boyton's adventures in Enropean waters has resulted in his being beset, since his arrival in this city, with importanate recog- nition ou sll sides. Many offers have been made to induce him to give exhibitions of his life-saving suit and! his skill in’ wearing! it at the prin- cipal Amorican towns and cities; but is plaus are such that he will be able to spend only a very short time here ere He shall again cross the ocean. Among the enterprises which he contem- plates is the delivery of a lecture on his natatorial feats before a metropolitan audience. He is as yet undecided, however, as to whether he will do so. He will leave New York in a day or two for Newport, where he will visit some friends. About the 10th of January he will give 4 priyate exhibition to the mem- bers of Congress in the Potomac River, near Wash- ington, Soon after ho will start for the West, where others of his friends reside. Te intends to make sev- eral short voyages on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. “My mother,” said he to a Henatp reporter last evening, “desires me to get married and settle down at hone, but I want to go to Europe again to finish up the work which I have begun. If it were not for that 1 wouid like to nndertake some trials of each of the great American rivers. There are the Coloradoand | the Columbia and the St. Lawrence. Voyaging in any of them would be adventurous and exviting. I would like, too, to.cxtend my experience in the Old World. There are rivers there about which there is very little known. The Volga, you know, goes through the greater part of Russia, ‘The Yenesen, in Siberia, aud the Yang-tse-kiang, in China, drain im- h.ense countries.” NOT AFRAID OF CROCODILES. “Tt would not be a bad idea,” said the reporter, “to test Pr suit in the waves of the Ganges.” “That is so, I should like to do it.” “Do ay think you could safely encounter the crotodiles ¢”* “Oh, yes. T would carry dynamite in my hand, and whenever they approached it would only be noces- sary to cause a detonation in order to keep them at a distance. Ihave already tried its effect upon ani- mals in the water.” “Are you going to give an exhibition at New York betare you depart again?” “[ do not think that I shall give any public ones. If Lshouid do so, it would be for the benefit of the charitable institutions.”’ “You are much interested in the efforts of Nan, the newsbuy, to save lives ?"’ “Yes, and Lexpect him and his colaborers to dine with me to-morrow evening. I have given them a pocket life-saving a] tus—a mere trifle, which I never sell, but otten give away, It consists of a bob- bin and forty fect of line, with a hook or drag ut the end. It ca be of great use in preventing suicides, as the hook may be fastened in a person’s clothing while the person throwing it stends on the shore. Ifthe Mayor of New York will take the matter up I will give to the city the right to make this thing, and every policeman whose pdést is in the vicinity of the ‘water may etry it at his belt. The weigut is nothing. If itis thus distributed there will be # great many Jess lives lost, I assure you, PRINCESS ALICE'S DEATH. DEAN STANLEY SPRAKS OF THE DEPTH OF AMER- ICAN SYMPATHY. {From the London Daily News, Dec, 17.) Dean Stanley, the President of the Midlend Tnsti- tute, Birmingham, delivered his address last evening atthe Town Hail to the members of the thstitute and subsequently distributed the prizes to the sue- constul students, His address was entitled “Amerigan History. He confined bimeelf to that sidé of American life which yas more interesting to him than most trayellers—its purely histor. ical aspect—that aspect presented by the Eastern States, to which his journcy was contined. in conclnsion he said;—"When speaking of the conumon sent ments which animate the nation in the prosence of higher characters and decper thoughts, 4 sould not be doing justice to your feelings, nor, I may add, to the teclings of the Great Kepublie whieh we have boon considering, it I did not touch on the haluiched ef and respect which will ever pervade all true Eng! hearts on the other side of the ocean when they hear of the #troke of sorrow with which the royal fly of this country has been visited on @ day air Bignalized as the most mournful im the anna of its hotise. She who js goue from us becaine fret known to the public through her nobieconduet by the deathbed of her father, 60 well known in this city, and she has now fallen # sacrifice to the devoted care with Which #he nursed her husband and her childyen; but sho also belonged to the higher order of intelligence and goodness of whieh Lhave been speaking. She cared for all that could clevate jer fellow creatures, and it her exalted i gf ¢ her Naser means of making her beneficent influence felt, it will not be wl to her in auy home or in any imatitntion of the Old or New World. Her life will not have been spent in vain if it has shown what an Engiiehwomaen can de by the wneselfieh dis- charg the dutics of her stal Fier death will wot have born in vain if it has caused many hearts to beat in closesympathy with aroyal homeand withthe sorrows of a family which the whole Anglo-Saxon race throughout the world claims as our peeulfar property. In that banquet at salem to which I have already referred there wae one moment, and one oy when the whole assembly rose to their feet and stood iu respectful reve jax when, after proposing our old homes, the: tig the natio: anthem het same sentiment will, I am Ma inspire thoussnds of American hearts to re- | ee u ® deeper and more solemn sense to the f Cod Baye the Qnee proyer in which we all join—God save and bless the Queen,” ‘ tho he was drifting swiftly toward the mouth H WARD SCHOOLS. Exhaustive Remarks of a Trusteo on Their Condition THE QUESTION OF VENTILATION. Where Geneial Intelligence and Handiness Are Most Needed. “Of the other schools in the city I know nothing,” said Mr. Eugene I. Pomeroy, sehvol trustee, yester- day; ‘but with all those in the Nineteenth werd I presume to be intimately acquainted. There are seven school buildings in the ward, containing fifteen departments, of which seven fre mixed primaries and the remainder.are male and female grammar schools, No. 21, in Forty-second street, is an old building, with two adjoining buildings, rented for primary purposes. ‘The janitor of that school, named Keelan, died last spring, and Mrs. Keolan, the widow, was ap- ‘pointed ity hfs ‘place against the strenuous objections of some of the trustees.’ “What were the strenuous objections?” asked the reporter. “Why, any individual objection,” continued Mr Pomeroy, “was that women are not fitted to be Jani” tors of schools, here are # hundred things bappen- ing about a school house which they cannot properly handle,”” “What class of persons would you approve of for Janitors 7" “I think a jenitor should be an intelligent man and a mechanic. “He is a very important factor in the economy of a school. When a pane of glasa is blown out and the wind is blowing in upan the children he should be handy enough to take a glue pot and a sheet of paper and cover it up at once, If steam pipo bursts he ought to be skilful enongh to'fix it on thamoment. If spanic takes placo among the chil- dren he should be foremost in aiding the principals to allay the excitement. If a child fall and hurts it- self he should be on the spot to attendtoit. In short, a janitor, to, my mind,ought to bea man of all work and ready with resources of his own, in place of contenting' himself with lighting fires, sweeping a yard'and dusting desks and windows. It we had janjtors of the kind I desire an expense of at leat $500 a year might be saved to the ward; but now whenever anything is knocked out of repair a me- chantio has to be sent for and paid for his services.’” “As it is how does the jauitress perform her dutics?” “Since her appointment I must say the janitress: has kept the echool scrupulously clean; but it ison principle I object to-women filling the position,” “How about the other schools?” AN UNHEALTHY SCHOOL. “Primary No. 35, on First avenue, between Fifty- second and Fifty-third streets, is a building rented, but originally built for school purposes. There is too much up and down stairs work about it. It is heated with stoves, ‘This school is full, but can hardly be called overcrowded. ‘Tho janitress, Mrs, Holly, keeps the rooms in elvan condition. “Primary No. 21 was originally a lager beer garden, ‘There was considerable objection to retaining it last July, both by the Board of Trustees and the Board of Education, but the actual necessity of accommodat- ing the seven hundred children that go there induced the retaining of it for one year more. The water closets arc situated in the cellar and are at times very offensive, especially in the summer. tags 4 efforts have been msde to remedy this evil, but they hava not proved entirely successful.” THE BOARD OF EDUCATION ‘TO “What is the cause of the delay in the school accommodation which appears so ly joa “Well, that is rather a long story, andmight becon- densed by saying that after several yoars’ agitation of the subject the Logisiature finally passed an act giving the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund power to set aside certain of the city lots in the Nineteenth ward for school purposes. The commissioners did wet axide lots 100x100 at the corner of Sixty-eighth street and Lexington avenue, the exact location where B school is specially needed, That fall, through tho efforts of the trustees, the Board of Apportionment, ‘upon petition of citizens of the Nineteenth ward, in- berry the catimate for the Board of Education $50,000, which, it was understood, would be used for the erection of @ school building in the Nineteenth ward, That money was never used for its original intention. From that time downto the present numerous applications have been made by the Board of Trustees for schools, and the; have been invariably denied on the grounds of lac! of means, while other wards have Lecu pecuniarily favored with sites and mew buildings. Within a month past the Bonrd of Education appropriate a aumicient sum of money to buy a site and erect building in East Forty-sixth street, but unfortu- nately the owner of the Jand ww uuable to make title and the whole thing fell th: hh. At its moet- ing yesterday the Board appropriated $65,000 of the tu of 1878 for the purposes of a site and new building, and there are some assurances that unless the friends of the Normal College interfere we may have relict in the Nineteenth ward next year, When we haye more schools there will be no complaints about overcrowding or ill ventilation.” HOW THE VENTILATION COULD BY IMPROVED. Mr. John C. Donneily, another trustee, advance@ an idea on the ventilation of school buildings whicm may be worthy of attention. He said that if two fines separated by an iron partition were built in the pier walls of each school building, one set at cither end, and projected from the cellar to the roof, with astove or furnace in the basement whose oko would through one flue while creating a vol- ume of heated air in the other, the draught upward would c:rry with it all the impure air of the school rooms and do away with the ages 4 of having to open the windows in the mi of winter, On cach floor a ventilator regulated by a cord might be fixed and opened whenever the occasion required, of, in fact, be kept open all the time, so that the purity of the atmus- ere should be kept uniform. The science of ven- Hatton, accord Mr. Donnelly—who has mado several successful experiments with his plan—is to keep a constant current of lighter air ascending to the roof, aud as this current creates more or less of & vacuum the heavier air rushes in and is dri a.ong-up the flue and dissipated on the outside of building. Mr. Donnelly’s = porta ge Ne or original, a8 an J replace w: a fire in it illustrates bis, idea exactly, but he contends that when there is fire iff a grate the cold air comes down the flue or thechim- ney and disperses itself arodnd the room, Accord- ing to his lesa an ascending volume of air is con- stuntly required, and this is only secured iu the mat- ter of ventilating » large building and accrtain num- ber of floors by the process already mentioned. Mr. Donnelly was asked, “What class of meu, in your opinion, should perform the work of janitors?” “It is my conviction,” he replied, “thatthe men onght to mechanics, who do the hundred odd jobs there are to be done around a big school house, in place of sending for outside help on every oc: casion when a nail has to be driven or a pane of glase putin.” laining about the lack of ac- BLAME. furni “Iethere much com; commodation in the schools?” “Very much, indeed, right here, in this ward. ‘The worst Of it is that the pri nets insist upon taking in well dressed pnpils, aven though they come frou ub far away as Hariom, and torning away thove living right in the neighborliood if they don’t happen to be up to the mark in point of apparel.” . SICKNESS IN THE SCHOOLNOOM. san eh oft Harlem, who happened to be in Mr. relly 's ed Do office when the reporter was there, ree that he had occasion to notice a number of among the children attending up in his neighborhood, caused by the draughts to which they are subjected in’ the class rooms. The result, on the other hand, when there is little or no ventilation and conse- quent vitiation the atmosphere, is & low state of fever, which makes oe thiews ok jess aud averse to study. He related the of a school in 128th street, between Sixth and Seventh aventies, whore there wi fireplace in the schoolroom which carried off all the impurities of the atmosphere in the ruom, where pupils and teachers never suf- fered. About eightecn montha ago so-called ine provements were jade and the freplaces were closed tip, and, ay @ consequcnce, several of the teachers had since been suffering from chronie headache and in- ertia, a feeling of aversion to stady and » general prostration of the system, “RED” LEARY. In the United States District Court yesterday Judge Choate gave a degiston in the case of Joha Leary, wlio ive prisoner in Ludlow Street Jail awaiting oxtradi« tion to Maswachtisvt'#, Me refused the application for thé discharye of Leary made by Mr. Algernon #8. Sulliven, and said counsel's point of «ufMficiency of identity was not well taken, Mr. Sullivan then ap- ree for an extension of time to enable hiin to obtain 6 necessary papers from Massachusetts to show that the identification was ngt perfect. An adjourn- ment was theretore granted until Tuesday; ond, the . Sullivan to be in readiness thon fo arte Whether there was any power im the court to compel the production of the paper on which the ‘warrant was tneaed and whether the Govertor of this State has evidence that an indictment is found and whether such evidence would be admissible, .