The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1879, Page 5

SITTING BULL. His Manifesto to “All Just and Sensible Citizens.” THE RED MAN’S WRONGS. Another Detail of the Battle of the Rosebud. ‘A few days sinco there came to New York a bearded priest, who for more than ten years has labored among the various tribes composing the great Sioux Nation in the Northwest. Many of his thrilling ex- ploits have ‘been familiarized to the people of the East by the faithful “scissors” of several journals which have from time to time reproduced accounts publiehed in the papers of the Far West. As many of these stories were brought to the civilized centres by half breeds and ._ white men of indifferent education the identity of the brave priest has been somewhat obscured by the typographical contortions through which his mame has passed. Properly announced the mame of the missionary is J. B. M. Genin; but he has generally figured in print as the hero of various thrilling enterprises, as ‘Father Jenning” aud “Father Jennings.” Being a modest man, whose life energy is devoted to the conversion of this great nation of Indians, he did not know nor did he care for the fame ne had made in the East. His ambition tended his mind to other things than liter- ary heroics, and he worked on among the people with whom his lot was cast. "To the readers of the strange story obtained from him by « Heavp reporter some brief description of the man is duc. It is only just to state at this time also that he does not seem to recognize that his story has any sensational elements in it. He telis it in a matter of fact, commonplace way, just as & city bred man might detail the particulars of an experience at the club or narrate the doings at a dinner party. It is an old story to him, and, having been familiar with it for years, all that is striking in it seems to have lost force. He gives it as a plain, unvarnished tale, Having sought him ut the house of a relative, residing in East Fifty-fourth strect, the reporter found a man, apparently about thirty-five years of age, with rather long hair and a full flowing beard. His salutation was accompanied with a genial smile and a sparkle of the eye at once sincere ‘nd captivating. He readily expressed his willing- gess to give the Henacp any information in his pos- session concerning the Sioux people, and after dis- missing some other callers with whom he had spent some time, he submitted himself, with a resignation truly priest like, to the ordeal of an interview. THE INTERVIEW. ‘The first part of the interview, which more partic- ularly concerned himself, was rather slow, -as the reverend gentleman seemed to find no particular interest in the topic. It was learned, however, that the first missionary work done on the American Con- tinent by Cina Sopa Pothinkin Hanska, as hevis called in Sioux, was at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, in British America, within the Arctic jon. From this mission he was reculled to France at about the close of the American rebellion, and in 1865 he found himselt back agam on lis way to nis Esqui- maux iriends. He went west through the States as for as Wisconsin, where he tound the people greatly excited over recent Indian raids. While sympathiz- ing with the whites in their advanced settlements his own horses were stolen, aud in a few days he went ous to seek the marauding savages in the com- pany of an Indian an. a halt breed, preceded by a Inission flag. He finally found -the raiders, who re- ceived him and returned to him the stock that been stolen in order that he might return it to its owners. ‘he chiefs asked him to Temain with them, and as he had no horses to go North with he was compeiled to accept the invitation. Inthe meantime he wrote to his superiors concerning his experiences, and re- ceived word to remain with the Indians with whom he had fallen in. Thus began his long and success- tul mission with the Indians of the Northwest. In the ten years ot his residence there he has become acquainted with the people of the various tribes in the Sioux Nation, and knows all the great warriors intimately. Tx the course of the interview various easy digre: sions from the main topic were made, during which it was learned that on the Northwestern hills the priest often meets men with whom he has been lumiliar within the Arctic circle. This bit of intor- ation puts to blush the wildest faucy of the penny- dreadiul novelist concerning the romadic tendencies of the red man, In the easy stages df conversation Futher Genin assured the reporter that the revolu- tion im the public estimate of the Indian was unjust and prejudiced. To his thinking, and trom bis observation of more than ten years, there was more ot the Cooper ideal in the red man than the present generation is inclined to admit. Amorg the Indians this missionary has found many developments of character thai wouid do honor to the white man. THE WARRIOR CHIRY. As Sitting Bull has tor years past claimed much attention, and is now again in tue toreground, the missionary was questioned particularly concerning him. Sitting Bull, he says, is the warrior chief of the Sioux, and ‘not a mere medicine mai as has been so often asserted. This chi is a great man, @ thinker, aud one whose life is devoted to his people. He believes himselt deeply wronged, «nd has eloquence equal to that of the old chiets of the Soutn and East to explain his wrongs. shortly after the conference with General Terry's commission at Fort Waish, in British America, he, at the foot of Cypress Hill, dictated to Father Geain the following manilesto to the children of the Great Father. This docu- ment, in which the several specifications of the ‘treaty of 1368 are identified by Father Genin in the text, is of rare: interest, as contains two new items—to wit, the shooting by General Custer’s men ot the bearer of a fl.g of truce and the interposition of an Indian squaw at Fort Waish to treat with General Terry. The keen satire ot this last freak of Sitting Bull will be appreciated when his own explanation of why it was done is fread. The address of the manifesto is also sigmfi- San This is the manifesto as taken down by Father iD :— SITTING BULL'S MANIFESTO. To ALL Just AND SENSINLE CrrizeNs or THE UNITED STaArks— the undersigned, chiefs of the present Seven Natious, beg to bring to your consideration the tol- lowing points of no smali import to the interests of both whites and Indiaus:— =~ #irst—In the year 1565, ten years ago, @ treaty was made aud executed at Fort Laramie, then in the ter- ritory of Dakota, by the principal men of our inter- ested tribes and by diflerent commissioners on the part of the United Stater, prominent among whom ‘were Generals W. F. Sherman and A. H. Terry. Second—In article 1 of said treaty it was that all war between the parties to the treaty should forever cease. Tue government ot the United States Per its honor to keep the pence which wi being made aud agreed that if any men among the whites should commit any wrong upon the person or property of the Indians the United States government would proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States and also reim- burse the injured person for the loss sus- tained. (See urticle 1 of Sherman treaty of 1868, &c.) In article 2 of said treaty limits were assigned to our reservation and agreed to by the commissioners of the government of the United States. Ihe said reservation was set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians, and the United States solomuly agreed that no person except those designated and author- ized so to do, and except such officers, ay ployés of the government in actual discharge of juties enjoined by law, should ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon or reside in the territory de- scribed in that treaty as the Indien reservation. Third—The United States agreed, in article 4 of said treaty, to construct, at its own Brae. on the Missouri River, near the centre of said reservation, some certain buildings—viz., a warehouse or agency, tesidences for physician, carpenter, blacksmith, tarmer, miller, schoolhous.s and mission how a saw and grist mill, &o, i—Article 10 provides that each year for thirty years on the first day of August goods will be dis- tributed—viz,, for cach mule person over fourteen Yearsa suit of good substantial woollen clothing, consisting of coat, pantaioons, flannel shirt, hat aud pair of homemade socks. For each female over twelve years of age a flan- nel skirt ov the goods necessary to make it, ® pair of woollen hose, tweive yards of calico and tweive yards ot cotton tor the boys and girls under the ages named; such cotton and flannei goods as may be needed to make hose for each, and, in adui- tion to the clothing herein named, the sum ot $10 for each person holding treaty titles was to be annualiy appropriated for a period of thirty ears While such persons roam and hunt, and $20 ayments to be made anuually for thirty years, and in no event to be discontinued or withdrawn for that period. Fifth—Article 11 and article 15 provide for our hunting rights; and in re ‘the peaceful con- struction of ratiroads, &., provides that if any such railroads, wayon rouds cr hail stations will have to be constructed on our reservation the government will have to pay the Indians wi ver amount of damage may be assessed by three disinterested commission- ers to be appointed by the President, one of the three to be one of ours. Sizth—Article 12 suys:—“No troaty for the cession of auy portion or part ot the reservation herein de- scribed shall bes of any validity or force against the jiane Unless sigur and exe. it) he for each person who engages in farming, all these | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. cuted by at least three-fourths of all the | aduit male Indians interested in the same, | and no cession by the tribe shall be understood or | construed in such manner as to deprive, without | his consent, any individual member of the’ tribe of | his rights to any tract of land selected by him as mentioned in other parts of thjs treaty.” article 6.) Seventh—Article 16 says:—*The United States aov- ernment hereby agrees and stipulates that the coun- ty north of the North Platte River and eust of the summit of the Big Horn Mountaius shall be held and considered to be uuceded Indian territory, and also stipulates and agrees that no white per- son or persons shall be permitted to settle | Upon or occupy any portion of the same, or without the consent of the Indians first had and ‘obtained to pass through the same, and tt is further agreed that | within ninety days after the conclusion of peace with all the bands of the Seven Nations the military posts | now established in the territory named in this | article shall be abandoned, and thut the road leading | to them and by them to the settlements in the Ter- | ritory of Montana shall be closed."” Now, to you, | just and sensible citizens of the United States, wo | ‘uy :—Because the honor of a great and powerful | nation was pledged to keep all the obligations | toas above represented; because expecially | the honor of that great nation was pledged thus | toward us ‘by the chief of the urmy and | some of his closest foliowers, we had en. | tertained the firm hope that all trouble | was forever ended. We thought tho treaty | referred to was the fullest and best manifesta- tion of the good will of the Groat Father for his Indian subjects, and as executed by Akitchita Nanean, the general of his army, | would command the respect of ail the people aud | no white man would ever molest us, or that if eventually some restless young men among the whites should ever disturb our peaceable relations the Great Father and his chiet soldier would at once see to it and protect the Indians. It was not so, | however. The moneys, the goods, the build- ings, everything was apparently neglected or | such little attention given to the mat- | ter as would have made us__ believe | we did not have to deal with the sacred word of a | overnment. It is hard tor us to think that the hited States government aud ite army had intended the destruction ot our property and of our lives. Yet, with all the beautitul expressions of the vari- | ous articles of the Sherman treaty in our favor, left unprovided and unprotected from the attacks of restless whites, because we did not be silent un- der their blows, but tried, at least some of us, to | repel the same as best we could for self-protection, we were considered as open enemies of the | white people. How hungry would our people | have e been, how cold our children, had | it not been that God provided tor us an abundance of buitalo! No treaty ever -made on earth received so little attention ax the one we were | got to sign at Fort Laramic. here are differ- ent things, however, of which we have reaped | an abundant harvest. It is the hatred of white people prejudiced inst us, | of threats, of soldiers and arms. We thought at | times the Great Father was trying the hearts and bravery of his young men by sending them | to fight us. No sooner was it known | that there was gold found in our lands than the white people came in crowds, in clear violation of our treaty with the United States gov- ernment, and settled upon and took possession of | the same. We might then have silenced the lavt of the intruders, but’ remembering | our treaty, and having yet faith and conti- | dence in the government’ and the urmy, we | preferred waiting to sce justice? done and our rights | secured by solemn agreement protected. From time | to time some of our bands visiting the whites would immediately be shot by them, as if we had been nothing else but savage and dangerous beasts, ull this on our own lands, the peaceable possession of which had been assured to usin so solemn a manner, Was it possible the United States government or the army was powerless in repress- ing the wrongs they must surely have known were thus done us? If so, what was | to be expected by ux? Why should we not | do our best for our own protection? For not only | did we lose a number of our people, assassinated, | ay it were, by intruders of all sorts, but when some of their own numbers would fall victims to the ra- pacity of their associates, often disguised as Indians, the deed was credited to us, and the whole caused | necessarily great alarm. If the United States, we | said," mean to keep their pledges to us why don’t the head soldier and his young men come out and re- | store order and peace? When, in these circumstances, as we, many of us, had assembled together to deliberate what to do the news came to us that a great army was coming uron us, not for our libera- | tion or protection but for our entire extermination. For eight duys we retreated toward the hills trom the approach of that army. We were not there for war, we did not want to fight. We had enough trouble already and had a good right accord- | iny to our treaty to expect that army was coming in | due fulfilment of the obligations contracted toward | us by the United States government. Upon close examination we saw the long-haired soldier (Custer), followed by a large detachment, coming straigut to us in our retreat. What should we do? One of ours was immediately sent to meet him with a white flag to demand peace. | man fall. He had got & x. Decidedly all white men were | against us, They had forgotten all their promises to us, and the chiet of the army, who professed to | be such a strong triend at the time of the treaty, | must have sent the long-haired soldier and all his bands to kill the last of us. \ Such a faithless act provoked us greatly, aud of all our men made lions who would not die without | dealing a fatal blow to their enemies. Since then, | bape the cry of “death to the red devils” has filled the land, and the wrongs done to white people, | whether by Indians or others, are all credited to Sit- ting Bull and Black Moon and their bands. Just aad seusible citizens, the white people weep their dead, d the orphans and widows are saddened for fathers | and husbands who never returned trom that battle: field. Will the government of the United States | and the army and people look upon the hills where we are exiled aud see without compassion the | tears and sufferings of our own orphans and widows? | Will they without emotion as the nights return hear the wailings of the lonely, fatherless exiled? | Mater Oble, the Bear’s Coat (General Mites), | has taken the place of the long-haired soldier, and poe with many others of the Unit States Army, the — slaugh- | ter of the poor, forsuken Western Indians for imaginary wrongs, and through his voice and that of other chief soldiers great odium is thrown | upon everything Indian. Our only hope is in your just and sensible citizens. It was quite enough for the Indians to have been submatted to receive | our annuities (when they were received at all, or some part or parcel thereot) under the inspiration of officers and soldiers who stood by, sword in hand, in ® threatening manner, as if to Bay “You filthy Indian, if you dare to utter a word of complaint see what you will get.” Generally, commanding cflicers, sgents aud traders are all oue for everything and every pur- pose, and if they disagree for a while it is to plunge deeper in the Indian goods box at the first chance when they are all again one, with a determination stronger than fire to devour the Indians. May the Great Sp!rit save the whites and their children trom the distribution of : annuities to be made under the sword of officers aad soldiers! | Last fall one of the United States officers, the one who commanded the expedition when the long-haired soldier was kiiled, cauie to speak to us, We had lost ali faith in them, and it was on ac- count of it that wo took up & xquaw to answer to him in our place at our meeting at Wazi-bi or Cypress Hills. We thought when such » solemn treaty as that which was couciuded at Fort Laramie in 1868 could not be kept, aud that although the soldiers of the United States knew well how wrongfully we were accused amd treated, ti had come upon us, on our own jands, to extermi: us. We thought their word, which ought to be ac- cording to us the most strict and honorable, was not now worth more, in our estimution, than that of a squaw, and that there must be some other way to settle our difficulties. We therefore now appeal to you, leaving to a good friend of ours and of yours who came here to ask us to surronder andi yive satisfaction to the govern- meut and people of the United, States to publish these our words, so they may come before the eyes of your “wise men” in Congress. We desire peace, but we cannot have peace so long as we are pursued by army men who seem to be bound to drive us into fight when we desire anything but fighting. We desire to seo ourselves and our children educated in the medicine of | lite—religion—ot the biack gown. It will take some time before all our people can become farmers. Give us back, — therefore, | our hunting grounds or such part thereot as will not interfere with the settlements and pursuits of the whit Give us that and give us your protec- tion. TATANKA YOTANKE (Sitting Bull), Chief Soldier, WI SAPA, High Chiet of ali the Bi: Per CINA SUPA PATTENHIN LANSKA. HOW CUSTER FELL. Father Genin gives the tollowing account of the battle of the Rosebud, at which the gallant Custer fell, as it was given to him by Sitting Bull, | | | | As’ will have been seen by the manifesto Sitting Bull imagined that the force of which the Custer command was part had been sent out to exterminate his people, For cight days he retrosted from the advancing white men, aud then, being wearied, he set up a mock village, lett his fires lighted and arranged a number o: effigy Indians #0 a8 to deceive the whites, He then gath- ered his braves, and, wu cover of the hills to t south of the Rosebud, marched to intercept Custer’s | advance. He did not wish to fight, and so seut out a Messenger with a flag of truce, who was shot down. Atter seviug this man fall from his horse he called | God to witness that he was not responsible for the blood that was to be shed. Custer giienee on towards the empty village and Sitting ail closed in behind him and to the right and lett, What then happened is an ou story now. Father Genin has with him the tomahawk with which () ter Was finally despatched, When Sitting Bull re- treated to British territory Father Genin wrote to | General Gibbon and offered his services at the co ference. To this letter he never recvived a respons After the conference with General Terry, Father | Genin wrote again to the government and | sgid. that if he was properly authorized he would bring Sitting “Buil back again to | the reservation, Mr. Medill, of Chicago, | who took adeep interest in this proposition, au oflered to bear half the expense if the authority sotght were given, wrote the followiug note con- corning the action taken by the powers: ‘The authorities at Chicago and Washington say they don’t want to see Situng bull. It he comes over the line they will ight him, 8. T. MEDILL, Another letter trom Lieutenant Liges was also re- ceived, in which the offer was respectfully declined, Father Genin goes to France on to-day, but will return to the Sioux in about four months, sd | never before heard of in politics, MEXICAN POLITICS. ALLEGED FAILURE OF NEGRETE’S REVOLUTION- ABY MOVE—THE DIAZ ADMINISTRATION STILL SECURE. A prominent Mexican gentleman resident in this | city, and who holds considerable commercial inter- course with his mother country, gave an interesting sketch of the present state of politics there to a Herap reporter yesterday. He said the present revolt was really of noimportance whatever and was already dead. Negrete, he said, was not a man of any great ability or influence, and he had not succeeded in carrying with him any party worth speaking of. Nevertheless he belicved a revolution of greater magnitude to be imminent. The military, he ex- plained, have no patriotism, so far as the internal administration of the country is concerned, and no special devotion to any chief, “If,” he said, “a foreign invasion were to take place I have no doubt they would show great devotion im resisting it; but in these domestic wars they are indifferent. They | will tight for that party which ean pay them, and they will desert any other. Now the Diaz adminis- | tration has not funds enough to buy postage stamps, and so it is inevitable that the army will fall away and become available to some revolutionary party that will oppose a chance of pay to the certain impecuniosity of the party in power.” LERDO'S CHANCES. “What would then be Lerdo’s chance of coming to the head of affairs ?” * «fe would have a good opportunity then. He is thought very highly of in Mexico by large numbers of the people. Diaz is an Indian, and, though con- sidered honest, is not as liberal or enlightened as Lerdo, who is a pure white man and favors the foreign and comimercial interest, and is in turn highly thought of by them.” “Is Lerdo at the back of Negrete’s movement?” “Ido not think so. This movement has no strength and no money. In the article in yester- day’s Heratp the Ztesiauracionistos are described as having agents in the United States forthe purpose of purchasing stores to a very large extent. ‘This can- not be trne; they have no means of paying for them. Politics in Mexico are in the main controlled by w special class. possess all the wealth and most of the respectabihty of the country, take little or no part in the frequent revolutions. They would not’ lend any aid to this emeute, and consequently it can haye no resources to rely upon.” THE ‘‘PROTECTORATE” NOTION. “What chance of success would it afford any party to seek the aid of the United States in bringing about a revolution and afterward in effecting retorms?” “Tt would utterly kill any hopes that # revolution- ary party might have. The Mexicans are a very proud people. They are proud of their nationality, and they bitterly resent any foreign interference. One of the things that tended most to strengthen Diaz was the opposition that the government of this country made to him and the favoritism it showed to Lerdo. The placing ot General Ord on the fron- tier with the instructions that he had was*a course more favorable to Diaz than if the United States had shown partiality, or perhaps I ought to say impar- tiality, to him.” “What is the meaning of the mention of Ben Butler’s name in connection with this protectorate matter?’ “I think that is a mistake. I thin it was sug- gested by the rumored purchase of arms. Butler Dougat a great quantity of rifles and carbines trom the United States Navy Department some time ago. Ho sold part to Bolivia, and it seems as if some notion of his disposing of the rest to: Mexican in- surgents was at the bottom of the remark in the Chronicle's article reprinted in the HEBALD.”” ‘A VOICE FROM MEXICO, Among those whose opinions on the Negrete pro- nunciamento were gleaned was an American gentle- man who has within a few days reached this city from Mexico, where he resided for a considerable time. He smiied when the reporter asked him what party in the sister Republic was atthe back of the new movement. ‘‘Well, you know,” said he, “there’s fo movement at all justat present. Ne- grete tried to get up a revolution, but so far the attempt has proved an utter failure. Negrete is supposed to be hiding just now in the city of Mexico, and there is no insurgent body of umy account in the field.”” . tas not Negrete 3 000 men, at his back?" ‘Not at ail. T’ll give ‘you # history of the whole affair. About June 8 Negrete circulated a manifesto attacking the administration and calling on the citi- zens to revolt in the cause of reform. Diaz had all the copies seized, imprixoned those who circulated the manifesto, contiscated tneir property and took other bigh-handed measures for two or three days. ‘Then he relaxed and the document was freely pub- lished, Negrete signified that he could be found just outside the city by.all who wished to join his | standard. When the troops searched for him, how- ever, he could not be tound, and now he is supposed to be hiding in the city of Mexico.”* ‘THE WOULD-BE REVOLUTIONISTS. “Who is Negrete?” “He began life as a tinsmith, and ho used to ad- dress the workingmen’s clubs in Mexico, and gained | a good deal of popularity among them by setting He was one | of the ‘heroes of the 5th of May’—that is to say, ho | himself up as the champion of labor. was a general of division in a victory gained by the | national troops on May 5, 1862, which is celebrated by the people with more éelat than their Indepen- dence Day. He has now, however, no influence | either with the army or the more respectable classes. As a proof of which { may mention that he was uot invited to take part im the last Sth of May com- memoration.” “Several others are mentioned as being prominent in the few rebellion. What is their status?” “That is @ very amusing matter. Most of the names mentioned represent either fictitious persons or else persons of so little account that they were There are no such enerals as Rincon, Francisco Castaneda, Cipriano Rulz or Estevan Garcia. The rich Carillo de bornoz is also a purely imaginary character. For the rest, Juan Lerma was really at the head of a rising in Tepic before June 1, but he submitted about that date. ‘Chere are still insurgent bands of Indians there, but the movement is in no sense a national one and has no connection with that of Negrete, It never had any strength, and the cities of Tepic and Guadalajara were never in the hanas of the rebels. Gengral Garcia de la Cadena, who is the last mentioned, is Governor of the State of Zacatecas, But he is one of the most poweriul candidates for the Pre cy in the next election, and it is very unlikely that Le would imperil his chances by taking part in any wild scheme now.” “What truth is there in the rumor that Generals Trevino and Naranjo have been removed from their commands ?"” “None whatever. Diaz.” They are both close friends of LERDO AND DIAZ, “Has Lerdo anything to do with this affair?" ido not think so, I am intormed that he is at nt at Niigara.”” hat are hix prospects of coming to nower?”” “His friends say thore will be eertain y a u sal revolt in his favor at the end of tius year or the ning of next. But lus enent Dh, they say he's played out.” “How strong is Diaz “He nas effected nous of the reforms he promised, The people are waiting and watening. Le is gc erally regurded as 4 man of honesty, but no ability a “What about the alleged union of parties against im?" “Lt think the politicians would Liye very well a union with the Church party, for the latter includes all the wealth and respectability of tho couatry~ The organ of that party, however, constantly de- nounces the hberal constitution,” “What strength has tue Church party as « political organization me. It was almost annihilated when Maxi- milian fell. Its members are all ri¢h men and can- not afford to take part in politics.” “What effect would American aid Have on any party that might secure it?” “Lt woula kiil it. re GERMAN MASONIC TEMPLE. THE CORNER STONE TO BE LAID TO-DAY WITH APPROPRIATE CRREMONIES. The corner stone of the new German Masonic Temple, to be erected by the German Misonic Asso- ciation at No. 220 East Fifteenth street, will be laid with appropriate ceremonies this afternoon under | the auspices of the Grand Lodge of the State ot New York. All the German Jodges in the city will take — part in the ceremonies, The line of procession will be formed Ieving pi right resting on Sixteenth str and the column will move at three o'clock, the Junior lodges taking first place, followed by the older lodges, and the Grand Lodge Vringing up the rear, The marshal of the day is Mr, John Keim, Past Master of Zchoke Lodye, No. 202. The route of the procession will be through Irv- ing place to ‘Twentieth «treet, through Twentieth street to Fourth avenue, down rourth ave- ie, around the Washington Mouument, and down Broadway to th street, through Tenth street to Second avenue; up Second aven to Fitte street and through Fitteenth street to the site the Temple. Ou arriving there the exere commence. The dispensation for the laying of the corner stone will be read and w list of the articles de- posited therein. There will bo numerous other ceremonies gone through with, such as the prayer of the chapiain, the tormal introduction of the architect to the lodges, the proclamation of the Grand Master, and the whole will conclude with # soug composed by Heimrich Beyer. EX-INSPECTOR GRACE KEAPPOINTED. Doputy Collector Baleh, of the Custom House, was greatly astonished yesterday morning by the ap- pearance of ex-Inspector William II. Grace bearing papers of reappointment as Inspector of Customs. Grace, it will be remembered, was removed from the Custom House for allegod misconduct and thereupon assaulted General George H. Sharpe, who was the Surveyor at that time, The commercial people, who | Al- | For this assault , Grace was tried, convicted and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. In the absence of Collector Merritt, Deputy Collector Balch refused to ad- minister the ‘oath of office to Grace, upon the ground that bis appointment was in di- | rect contravention of the civil service rules, he tion. How Grace secured a reappointment was a matter of wonderment in the Custom House yester- day. Many were of the opinion that he obtained it during the absence of Secretary Sherman, the Secre- tary having, it is said, repeatedly declared that Grace | Should not under any circumstances receive @ posi- tion in the Customs service, THE BROOKLY MEETING OF THE TRUSTEFS—OVER TEN MILLION DOLLARS SPENT ON THE BRIDGE SINCE ITS COMMENCEMENT—A CONFLICT EXPECTED OVER THE AWABDING OF A CONTRACT For WIRE. ‘Lhere was a meeting of the trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Company yesterday after- noon in the office of the company, and, in unticipa- tion of a lively time over the award of the contract for wire, there was present not only an unusual number of members of the Board, but a small army of reporters. President Henry C. Murphy occupied the chair, the trustees present being James S. T, | Stranahan, William C, Kingsley, William Taylor, W. Humphreys, Henry W. Slocum, William Marshall, Mayor Howell, Comptroller Steinmetz, of Brook- lyn, and John G, Davis, Jameg M. Motley, | Herman Uhl, Robert B. Roosevelt, Isaac Newton, J. Adriance Bush and Mayor Cooper, of New York. The cash receipts from all sources for the month ending May 31 were $504,182 86; casn ex- penditures, $330,497 01. A loan of $40,191 98 was paid tothe Atlantic Bank. A general statement of the financial condition of the company showed the entire receipts since the commencement of the enterprise to the 31st of May to be $10,621,674 52; expenditures, $10,487,747 87; liabilities, $97,547 91. President Murphy appointed Messrs. Agnew, Davis, Newton, Smith, Stranahan, Muirshall, Slocum, Steinmetz and Motley an executive committee, and Messrs. Uhl, Roosevelt, Bush, Kelly, Taylor, Barnes and Hum- phrey u finance committee. When the minutes of the last meeting of the Ex- ecutive Committee were read Mr. Stranahan objected to the speech of Comptroller Steinmetz, in which was charged insecurity of the wires, becoming apart of the record. He thonght it an injustice that the speech, which was carefully prepared beforehand, should be made public, while the remarks of the other members of the committee on the subject were withheld. President Murphy explained that the speech had ereptin as part of the proceedings of the Executive Committee on the minutes inadvert- ently, and on motion of Mr. Kingsley they were ordered to be stricken out. The following letter from Comptroller Kelly was then read by Mr. Murphy :— BRIDGE. Financk DEPARTMENT, Co: Suly 1,1879. § Hon. Hxxnry 0. Munrny, President, & Dxax Six—[ ain informod that at a meeting of the trus tees, to take place this afternoon at three o'clock, it is in- tended to make the award of the contract for furnishing the wire for the bridge. I have a business ongaxement at the same hour which will prevent my attendance at the meoting. As this matter is of grout importance I would respctiully ask that the award of contract may be de- ferred until_the next rogular meoting, to bo held in a tew days, when shall be ploased to uttond. Very reapectfully yours, JOHN KELLY. On motion of Mayor Cooper the awarding of the contract was deferred until the next regular meet- ing, which will be held on Monday next. A signifi- caut and interesting part of the report of the Ex- ecutive Committee, which was adopted, was the in- crease in the pay of bricklayers from twenty-five to thirty cents per hour, and of their “assistants, or hod carriers,” trom fifteen to seventeen and a half cents per hour, making respectively $3 and $1 75. per day for ten hours work. The pay of the carpen- tera was left untouched. There was a little war of words betweon Messrs. Marshall and Steinmetz—a mere foretaste ot what is expected next Monday, during which Mr. Marshall said that the statement of Comptroller Steinmetz as to the present condition of the bridge, and that ropes had broken, was un- true, but Mr. Murphy ruled the debate out of order, and after passing upon several unimportant con- tracts the Board adjourned. BROOKLYN'S * ROADS. PROGRESS OF WORK ON PRESIDENT BRUFI'S ROAD—INDIGNATION AGAINST THE ALDER- MEN—-THE KINGS COUNTY ROAD. Work was continued in an active manner by the Brooklyn “L" Railroad Company along their route yesterday. They devoted special attention to the streets in the vicinity of Fulton Ferry, the main ob- ject being to take possession of them before the rival company, the Kings County “L” Rosd Com- pany, could get to work. Excavations for the foun- dation stones were dug on Water street and at the corner of Sands and Washington streets. At the in- tersection of the latter two streets the bridge | branch of tho road will be erected. The working force numbers 500 men, but this force will be considerably increased on Monday next. The work on Grand avenue, from Park to Lexington avenue, is advancing rapidly, and the excavations will be extended to Broadway. Much indignation was felt by property owners on the line, three or tour of whom threatened to shoot any one who should tear up the streets im front of their residences. No actual conflict occurred, however, und the foremen and workmen were civil an con- | siderate in their manner when address Excava- tions are now ready for the foundaticn stones from Broadway to Lewis avenue. One of the officials of the Brooklyn “‘L”’ road said | yesterday that “possession was nine points of the jaw,” and their charter from the Legislature was the tenth point. Their company had the right of way, and they regarded the action of the Common Coun- cil in giving the privilege to the Kings county road to run through Water and Washington streets as illegal. President Bruif says the company is in a sound financial condition. They wonld probably lay the granite blocks on Water strect at night, in order to avoid obstructing public travel. The iron work will arrive next week. Lenjamin Bryer, of No. 98 Lexington avenue, and five other property junctions against President Brufl’s road trom Judge Barnard, Supreme Court, Kings county, yesterday, restraining the company from excavating the street in front of their property. ‘The plaintiffs claim that they own tho ground in front of their houses to the middle of the street. The injunctions only apply to the immediate front of the property claimed to be damayed, aud does not affect any other portion of the route. Bitter feeling is expressed against the Aldermen y property owners on the route of the Kings county L” road for their action in overriding the veto of the Mayor and thereby permitting the value of their property to be impairea. They hint freely that bribery was resorted to in order to bring about the result, and suits wre threatened against the company upon all sides by irate land owners. Work will be conumenced by the latter company as soon as the Supreme Court shall have decided upon the question of the confirmation of the report of the Kapid ‘Tran- sit Commission now pending, PILOT COMME ‘The Board of Pilot Commissioners met yesterday, | President Ambrose Snow in the chair, A communi- ation was received from Christian K. Ross, Master Warden of Philadelphia, asking whether an appren- tice who had served under a regular pilot on a tow- boat could receive # license, the same as if he had served on a pilot boat; and also whether a pilot should go on tho vessel being towed or on a vessel towing. The Board replied that apprentices must serve a term on pilot bouts, as well ax towboats, and that sae should always go on the vessel beng towed, A communication was received from Mr. John Van Boskirk, a property owner at Bayonne, N. J., caliing the attention of the Commissioners to the dumping of mud near the Kills, there being no bulkhead to provent it from destroying the channel. Inspector Conway investigated the Sen aaa and reported that Lombard & Ayers, oil refiners, on the Jersey shore in the Kills, were dredging out their dock that the Hazard Powder Contpany permitted thet dump on their land, having driven piles to pri at it yoing into the channel. Mr. Conway thought that as the dumping was near the entrance to the Kills it ONED prevent the spread of the mud into the channel. se iissioners, | Poliee Commissioner Maclean notified the Board | that ccows had been placed in the North aud Kast tor the reception of ashes trom tugs and boats. The Board rendered their decision in the case of the collision between the Rio Jauewo and the OLb Dominion, whieh occurred on May 6. Captain Weir, of the Rio Jaueiro, made the complaint, aud trom the evidence taken the Commissioners decided that the Rio Janeiro was so close to the shoal on Gov- ernot’s Island that sie couid not give way any | more without going ashore. She subsequently went / on shore, and the Board censured Pilot Nelson te not availing himselt of the advice of the muster of the vessel, who wanted him to stop. ‘The Board then adjourned. MONEY ORDER ~ Postmaster James’ report for the quarter ended June 30 shows an increase in the domestic money or der business of $570,000 over the corresponding quarter of last year. The total transactions, dor tic and international, amount to $10,490,029 ‘There wore 29,029 money orders certified for payment in Europe, amounting to $470,852 08, and 10,608 r ceived, aggrogating $263,508 13. There were 173,320 domontic orders paid—au increase of 10,044 orders over the same quarter of last year—whose total valu represented $1,707,717 52. Surplus money order funds to the amount of $3,877,797 were received from postmasters, and postmasters’ dratts on letters of credit account, representing $2,197,984, were paid, RANSACTIONS. not having appeared before any board of examina- | holders, obtained temporary in- | was very important that means should be adopted to | joard referred the matter to the New Jersey Com- | RUSSIAN NIHILISM. Is Russia Happy and Contented Under the Czar? A NIWILIST’S VIEW ae Mr. Stoughton’s Assertions Taken Under Consideration. To THE Epiror or THE HERALD:— In his interviews with the representatives of the press Mr. Stoughton, the United States Minister at the Court of St. Petersburg, hus denied all the facts He asserts that the reports published about con- spiracies, disturbances, assassinations and police terrorism in Russia are either inventions or exag- gerations, and finally comes to the conclusion that the Russian people are thoroughly coctented with their government and devoted to their Emperor. of the great American Republic in the Russian for seeing, hearing, reading, studying and thinking about the true state of things in the Empire to which he has been appointed, Therefore the state- ments of Mr. Stoughton as # statesmian bave a par- amount importance and fully deserve to be atten- tively investigated. Admitiing Mr. Stoughton’s thorough knowledge of the Russian affairs, as well as his impartiality, I take herewith the liberty of ‘THE CONDITION OF 8T, PETERSBURG, Mr. Stoughton says when he left St. Petersburg the city was as tranquil as New York, and it was not then different from what it usually was. Well, this is cer- tainly true, but how was this tranquillity brought avout? ‘Che answer to this question can be given in two words—the state of siege. The city is governed according to martial law by a Governor General, “‘au- | thorized to summarily remove from their respective | districts all persons whose continued residence may be considered dangerous; to order the arrest of any persons whatsoever on their own judgment and responsibility; to suppross temporarily or perma- nently any newspapers or periodicals, should they appear to follow subversive tendencies.” That the population of such a city should be as tranquil, not as New York, but asa sepulchre, is not more than taken into consideration that since the attempt on the Czar’s life two companies in every regiment are kept day and night under arms, in marching order, equipped with ball cartridges and all accessories re- | quisite for active service. Batteries stand ready | mounted, and day and night divisions of Cossacks | patrol the streets, It is clearly evident that the | statement of Mr. Stoughton about the tranquillity in St. Petersburg is perfectly true; under similar cir- cumstances the most turbulent and tumultuous people certainly ought to be very tranquil. ARRESTS AND EXILE TO SIBERIA. Mr. Stoughton further says:—“It is not true that whole troops of students have been arrested by the police and sent off to Siberia or tortured in dun- geons.”” Unfortunately this is perfectly true, Dur- ing the last fifteen years the persecutions of the students were permanent; our universities and col- leges in different parts of the Empire were many times closed by order of the government and students were arrested, imprisoned and transferred either to the distant towns of the Empire or to Siberia. These persecutions became more acute during the last two years, Aato tortures in the prisons, we think Mr. Stoughton has but little foundation for either assert- ing or contradicting the facts relating to these tor- tures, there being only two ways of learning the truth in this matter—either to be acriminal or a member of the Third Section, and, as Mr. Stoughton has been neither, of course he could not know the truth, There are now in New York some Russiaus who have been imprisoned for political offences tor many years; they can give accurate information on this point. The public trial of Vera Saysoultch, who shot General Trepo%, gave ample opportunity to learn all over the world to what kind of tortures prisoners in Russia ate subjected, and barely two months ago the Kussian government itself appointed acommittes to investigate the causes of the death that had taken place within four months of 200 out of the 500 inmates of the Charkoff Central Prison, ‘THE ST, PETERSBURG STUDENTS. The reporter who interviewed Mr. Stoughton men- tioned the case of the students in the St. Petersburg University, and the emeute in the streets, where the Cossacks were said to have charged into the crowd | ond killed several. “Mr. Stoughton laughed heartily, and said the whole affair took place within view of | the windows of his house, that some twenty were arrested, and if the same sort ot thing had happened | in a town here the students would probably have | been arrested some time before."” It is obvious that in this passage Mr. Stoughton refers to the cold blooded butchery to which the students of St. Petersburg have been subjected tor presenting a col- lective petition to the Czarevitch, an account of which has been already published. It was stated by the unfortunate students’ parents themselves that, during the carnage in the yard and library of the Medico-Surgical Academy, about two hundred and fiity students were crowded and locked up in a mangye, about three hun- dlred were imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress and some two hundred and fifty were taken to the Muitary Hospital. Two hundred students were pierced through the shoulder, breast or abdomen; many of then: had their noses’ and eare cut off by swords, &c. This batebery was done in broad day and was witnessed by many hundreds of ny and indirectly acknowledged by the government | itself in an official communication addressed to the Government Messenger of December 12, 1878, in which the yovernment admits, first, the fact of the stu- dents’ riot having assumed #0 serious proporti that a squadron of Cossacks had to be sent out just them; second, the rumors spread in the cit: at the atrocities committed by the Cossacks. Mr. Stoughton had read this communication he might have known that the Russian goverament did uot “‘iaugh heartily” at the disturbance. WOMEN AND NIHILISM. Mr. Stoughton further states that it is not true that any women of respectability had been found amoug the nihilists, and declared the statements | made to this effect to be entirely false, Miss Herz- teld, recently sentenced to death by the Military Court at Kieff for armed resistance against the bru- | tality of police officials, the daughter of # Kussian and @ member of the Imperial Couuell, is surely a | respectavie young lady? The young Coun! | Panin, née Maitzon, the daughter of one of tue favor- ite ladies of honor of the Empress, who was com | promised in the assassination of Prince Krapotkin, is surely @ respectable lady ? The wife of tive Mili- | tary Procureur General, Mrs, Philosofoff, | not long ago, is a respectable lady? The wife of His Majesty's private physician, Botkin, recently ar- rested, is a respectable laiy? Miss Netalie Aymfeld, | daughter of w Privy Councillor, is ® respectable lady? (Sho was sentenced in Kiel, alter being de- | prived of all rights and privileges, to hard — jabor in Siberia for fourteen years and ten months.) Catherine Sarandoviteh, daugh- ter of a coliegiate assessor, Alexandra Potalizi daughter or 4 capt ovalik, daughter of » nobieman; Catharine Nilotchaiet!, widow of « phy- siciau; Vera Vassilietl, daughter of an officer—all these ladies were surely respectable? They have just now veen all sentenceu in Kieff, after being deprived of all rights aud privileges, to hard labor in Siberia sor four, five, eight or ten years. Many other niet tor political offences in 1873, Isi7, 1878 to hard labor in Siberia | ‘elve yours, were all respectable per- sons? ‘The only charge that can be brought against these ladies is their love for their people and their | desire tu seoure I wu “Do you think r are brought about by the knife?” asks Mr, Stoughton, and aaswering his own | question he says tuat “Le these people rewily had wny aims beyond those ot murder and destruction | they would not have — attempted re- | generation of the country by assassination.” | Tu the first place, how” many axa sinations have been commitied by the revolutionists? Ten or fitteen, not more, ana those have been done dur- | ing the last two years; eight or ten members ut the ‘Third Section, inciudjng Megentzott and Krapotkin, and five or seven of its spies; that is all, No eivil or military officer or any private person hes been eituer killed or inj) Why were these assassina- tions carried out? For ernelty and tortures to which | political offenders were subjected. How Were these | assacsiuations made? Always after many warnings | sont by the Executive Committee to the persons | guilty of eruelty, Now remember how many per- sons bot guilty tonly suspected of being guiity, have been, wiring these last five month: Cstested, | imprisoned, tortured, ki!!od, hanged and transported: to Siberia by the goverament! It is an undeniable tact that at the present time 12,000 prisoners are on the road to Siberia without trial, only by order of the new “View Emperors” of Russiat In the second place, is it true that retorms are not brought avout by the kuife? Remember the history id, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy Sweden aud the United States of America lect by What means, in what manner, all these countries became indevendent, sel ring a coustitutional States. Mave, in all bove named countries, the constitutional rights and prin- ciples of selt-government fallen from heaven without | murder, | these countries, the autoerats angels of peace, who concerning the revolutiouary movement in Itussia. | Mr. Stoughton’s high position as the representative _ Empire nas, doubtless, afforded him all the facilities correcting some of his statements and affirmations. | 5 Were, in all bloo Ished? assassination, voluntarily gave up their absulute power? AME THE RUSSIANS CONTENTED. In conclusion Mr. Stoughton, after speaking warmly iu praise ot the singular gentleness and hu- manity of temper which the ussian people display in their everyday lite, repeated with emphasis that they were thoroughly coutented with and happy un- der their government and devoted to their Emperor, who, on his side, wus worthy of the affection his people had for him. ‘his is perfectly true. The Aussian people asa whole are, indeed, gentle, humane, honest, industr.ous, aud by their natural qualities * capable of the highest civilization, But what is per- fectly taise 18 the assertion that the Russian people are thoroughly contented with and happy (is it irony or sarcasm ?) Under their goverument and devoted to their Emperor. Bear in mind these tacts:— 1, The State Treasury yearly yields 11,000,000 rubles to the imperial family for their ordin:ry expenses; | the private imperial peasantry, domains and gold and | silver mines in Siberia, yield to His Majesty an anuual revenue of about 30,000,000 rubles, By | virtue of the autocratic power His Majesty has fur- | ther the right to spend the public money as he pleases, without account or responsibility, z.In order to maintain his autocratic power agaiust his ‘loyal and devoted” people it is neces sary to spend many hundreds of millions of rubles; (a/ tor the secret police, or the Third Sec tion; (b) tor the army of tchinovniks; (c) tor tha large standing army (over one million) which must be so equipped and drilled as to be ready at any | moment to fight the people and to quench prompily the perpetual riots of the peasantry, the Cossacks, the Poles, the native revolutionists and other num- | berless foes of the Czardom. 3. At the same time the essentially dynastical, cbn- quering external policy constantly “requires the Tuising of more aud more millions by means of for- eign loans, which add new charges on the people, already overburdened with taxes of every descrip- | tion. that the ruble is now worth scarcely the half of its standard value, that gold and silver are known only by hearsay, and that the people are thus in a certain sense converted into involuntary ‘‘greenbackers.”” | 4. All these enormous and for the most part en- tirely useless expenses are covered by taxes levied from the people, aud almost exclusively from the peasant class. Thus, by the budget of 1875, from | the whole income of the Empire, representing a total ‘of 550,000,000 rubles, 110,000,000 were yielded y the capitation tax, lying exclusively on working class, and 300,000,000 by the | indirect taxes, foremost of which stands the liquor | law, yielding alone 200,000,000, Thus a total of 440,000,000 out of 550,000,000 rublee has been | drawn from those miserable, overworked, ignorant wretches—the pea:ants—whom the Czar has the impudence to call ‘his children.” In this sum the exorbitant land taxes already mentioned, as well as the local taxes, are not included. Neither do we | mention the ruinous personal charges imposed on the peasants, such as the mending of country roads, mulitary service, rural police, &e. 5. Having reduced his people to a state of brutal the ‘The financial condition of the country is such . and slavish misery our “‘little father, the Czar,” + naturally keeps them in a most profound aud hope- less ignorance, For the institution of village schools and tor primary instruction the Russian government has done nothing; not one copeck ot all the millions extorted from the people has been spent for their primary instruction, ‘This is a fact corroborated. by | official statistical data, | STATISTICS OF EDUCATION. | The official returus for 1877 show that among the | recruits only 10 per cent could read and only 4 per might have been expegted. The fact must be further | cent could write; the rest (90 per cent) were per- fectly ignorant. “But the peasantry at large ure more ignorant. Among them at least 95 per cent are illiterate, 5 per cent being scarcely capable of read- ing and writing. The peusaut women are ull illiter- ate, as a rule; even our official statistics admit that mong them only one-hait per cent are capable of read- ing the Scriptures. Being overcharged, overworked, governed by violence, deprived of all instruction, our peasantry are reduced to the position of domes- tic animals. Living, as they do, in the utmost pov- erty and in a state of semi-starvation, they are kept quiet only by means of a perpetual state of siege. Li this state of siege be removed for one week the whole world would soon see their true feelings of “loyalty and devotion to the Czar.” They gave an exampie of their attachment to the Czar in 1770, during the weil kuown Puzatchoff insurrection, Small insurrections and riots have since gone on uninterruptedly until the present time, but they have been always partial, unorganized and without able leaders. ‘The present revolutionary party is dealing now mainly with these peasants or moujiks, promising to return to them “land and liberty” and the priu- ciples of self-government, which they are fully ace customed to from time immemorial. "This self-goy- ernment exists even now, but it is parglyzed by the bureaucracy and milttary force in the interest of the land owners and other parasites. ‘hat 18 the reason why the government became so uneasy when it had learned about the propaganda among the peasants, because it is very clear that if the 80,000,000 peasants shuuld rise they would crush in one day the gmail body of their tyrants and oppressors. One word more. The Russian revolution possesses its devoted agents and allies in every country, who are at all times capable of und ready to defend the honor of their cause against base and ridiculons slander, as well as to expose its true principles. ‘The Russian government in its turn possesses too its official representatives in every country, to whom the duty of defending the power they repre- sent is intrusted, Why, in the face of our (the revo- lutionists’) accusations, in the face of the public | epmion in all civilized countries, justly turning aguinst the atrocious system now still subsisting ia—why, in the face of all this,do those representatives of the Russian government | keep a profound silence? Is it from indifference to forcign opinion? Certainly not. It is trom a feel- ing of shame. These gentlemen kvow very well that to our accu-ations, to an indictment pro- | nounced by a whole people against a dastardly gov- | ernment, no honest answer can be given. and they | are silent. What Kussian officials have not dared to undertake. a representative of the great, free Ameri~ can nation has attempted to accomplish. He may rest aksured of the profound gratitude of the Kus- jan Minister in this country for taking from his | hands this despicable duty. A RUSSIAN NIHILIST. New York, June 30, 1879. THE POLICE AND PASSPORT REGULATIONS AP ST, PETERSBURG—TRANSPORTATION TO Sie BERIA—LETTER FROM COLONEL GOWAN. To Trax Epiror or tat HERaLp:— On my arrival here from St. Petersburg, where I have been residing for the past two years, I find such erroneous statements in the newspapers respecting the position of affairs at that place that I beg to con- tradict some of them. A statement appeared in the columns of the leading London journal that over 2,000 prisoners were waiting transportation to Siberia, and intimated that they were political prison- ers, All criminals are banished to Siberia; there have never been but three persons hanged in St. Peters burg, two of them for attempting to shoot the Em. ror, Early in the spring the prisoners that are to ‘transported to Siberia are collected from the varie ous parts of the empire and transported in one squad; they usually number about 2,000. These are the prisoners that the London journal erroneously calls political. THE POLICE REGULATIONS, The only perceptible change in the regulation of dwelling Louses 1s simply that the dvornick or son in charge of the doors of houses is competion 45 remain on the outside instead of inside the door; but he never questions any person; every one passes in and out as freely as ever. A person may remain out all night without the police or any one else question- ing them. A paragraph inthe same journal mene tioned that no one could attend @ theatre or walk in the streets without having their passports demanded. lean simply add that during the past two years [ never shown or even seen my passport. Tho dastardly acts of the ninilists are abhorred by all Classes of the people, Still, Russia is an secure a piace of residence as any other. Travellers will find no annoyance of a different character than during the past twenty years. Yours respectfully, f Panis, June 12, 1879. JOHN E. GOWAY BOY BUCCANEERS, In the inspired pages of dime literature George and William Krouse had read of the exploits of buccancers—knights of the black flag who foraged with a vengeance ashore and held high carnival on the seas—and both the boys longed to emulate the bright examples set them. On Sunday afternoon they launched « “pig boat” they had borrowed some> where and made straightway for the Weehawken shore, which made the nearest spproach to a hostile coast of anything to be found im these waters. Their purpose was pillage, and to work the small marauders went with @ will, Poultry was their “loot,” and such a stripping of hen roosts was begun as would do honor to trampdom in its palmiest days. It a that Mrs. Mary Beunernalte was the thief au » Her farmhouse was infested by the freebooting youths, Bud as many as ten yeose were bagged before they turned thetr faces riverward, Then came discovery, and there was a hue and cry in Weehawken, but the Krouse boy: at in their “pig boat laughed st pursait and Log right wayiy for the New ‘ork shore, ‘he Bendervackics, though, are not # race to be imposed on, one of the tamily went haste to the fwen- tieth precinct, where he told all about the “rovers of the sea’ and the abducted fowl. Officer | Fredericks was directed to investigate, and he did » with such effect that be captured the Krouse broth- ers before nightfall. Their text books on piracy had given no directions about how to act in such cases, #o they did what seemed most prudent, if lews valor | ons, and made a clean breast of the whole adventure, They had sold five of the geese to George Scheft, of No. 503 Eleventh avenue, and in tat gone tleman’s cellar, concealed in a dark corner, the officer found them. Five more had been dis- osed of to Mra. Morrison, of No. 558 yoxt Thirty-uinth streot, and Fredericks went in | quest of them, In the ceai bin he found a couple of quaking and thoroughiy demorahzed birds. Of the other three no trace could be had + but on making the search with « light a | or bones aud feathers was discovered, all the rate had lett of the stolen geese, Krouses, the birds ana the je with whom were found, were Sroughs to the Jefferson seek police | Court, ‘The boys were committed, Hy ee a