New York Times, The (Newspaper) - September 15, 1883, New York, New York VOL 9933 NEW-YORK SATURDAY SEPTEMBER Iff 1883 PRICE FOUR CENTS LOSS OF THE PROTEUS LIEUT CENSURED FOR OF ORDERS THE FINAL INSTRUCTIONS WniCH WE RE IS TO ON THE EVE OF PAUTURE No additions reports haro received to-day cither at the War Department or tho Navy ment from the officers of tho returned relief expedition at St John It seems to be by who hava given most attention to tho subject that the com- plete and disastrous of the relief ex- wru mainly due to the omission of Garlington to land his stores anJ house nt Littleton Inland or sorue point near the mouth of Smith's Sound before attempting the hazardous navigation beyond If ho had dono his the loss of the Proteus would beon a comparatively trifling nnd would not necessarily nave imperiled thu cither of hor crow or of tho party they were sent north to aud his men could thon tho destruction of their ship re- to the baso of supplies thus established nnd could havo carried out tho remainder of their plan for the of tha Lady Franklin Hay by meaus of a up the const of Land As it is now thoTH is no party ut the mouth of Sound to with ami no of food there lor him to retreat upon Tho fatal mistake it is Raid which Lieut mado was in into tho dangerous ico of bound without having established at mouth of tho sound a depot of provisions and a house upon which no could fall back in of disaster would seem however to bo some for tho course pursued by him in the 01 dors to him by Gen Hazen on Jane 7 just before ho sailed from New-York Thoso orders wore in part as If it should become that the vessel cannot be through you will retreat Irom your advanced on and land your party and stores nt or near These clearly a direction not to land hla house and until be should havo run all tlie of Smith Hound aud havo fc impossible to Ret through They virtually di- him to bind hia stores late in the season on retreat and not in the season on his way up as would to hava boon tho moro prudent course Tho of tho Acting Chief Signal was called to-day to this part of Jen Union's original orders to Lieut Garlington ami he wai whether tho particular in- struction in had over been revoked or modified Ho replied that it bad by mental orders sent to ust before tho departure of the relief expedition fiom St John last Summer Those orders which Lavo naver been made public were ta The naval Is to jola the Proteus at St John Newfoundland and to proceed with hor to the neighborhood of Littleton Island Tho Proteus is to land her stores except supplies for more northerly stations at Littleton Island on her way north If she succeeds in reaching Franklin Bay shn is to pick stores excepting the house and if on her return Tho naval tender will await return of tho Proteus at tho neighborhood of Island and on hor return steam to thy south in her company until sho roaches tho southern limits of tho when t lie may Should tho Proteus in tho ico ber crew will on Littleton Island and tho tender wdl brine to St John Newfoundland tho officers and crew ol the Proteus tho of the party to remain ar Island But should tho Ico render it dangerous for the tender to remain in the of Littleton Island until tho Protein or her crow and tho forco in tii tho may go to tho south leaving full particulars at Littleton Signals find should be and communication by this means should between the two vessels no lung as are separated by the north of tho Proteus Nothing iu tl i northward movement must be allowed to progress of tho It is of utmost importance that hue tako ta o of lead to get up to Lady all tho information thus far received It would appear that Lieut either or found it i in practicable to supplemental orders with ro- f ind to tho landing of tho house and stores on his way north since tho Proteus was crushed with all her stores on board after Ind tho point where the stores havo been landed and she in tho extra-hazardous navigation of Smith Sound In the of any definite Information from Lieut us to tho T for tho adoption ot the courso which nnd which to tho f plans for relief officers of signal Service horo declino to express nm opinion or mako any for all on nt present i ho ol tho Service hero freely admit tbat present situation of affairs Is a one but they do not regard It in any In tho first place thoy nay party had originally a supply of wulch was to lost or until tho Summer of This ly tUey think must havo boon very ily augmented by tho in the vicinity of tho Lady station bo that if tho party remains there it will not bo in cancer of starvation before next Summer ULII orders to Lieut it is stated that the food supply of party would nil bo exhausted during U i nt but it ia said at tho i- tint this wis an statement ii the moit supposition as to tli ot consumption waste loss itc caro or economy In tho of food or for any of ly by limiting and ll a of worse of tur intended to tho Limit ut once s positively by tho A that tin contrary m ion to l.ieut hub at tho Lady Hay station to lost mm until of it lio tharo until If however ns moro to tin hure hu have hij on 1 and retreated c uLst of to mouth Smith Sound expecting to find tliun-l a and o depot of stores hla shortly critical a of provisions ho ind nt I- is not known but it is feared Hint tho last year and tho from tLo wreck of the nut and his it of Smith's Hound through 11 coming Winter if tha party had tcr ind I Homo help bo obtained tho KJ of tbo Greenland roam Lieut Greoly Hud open but ihn is admitted to bo nil un- Tt tlt bus that ship bo from St John to tho ot Smith Sound onto and it from up const but no course of future net Ion as yut decided upon iii nt authorities say they can form no plans they fuller from Li nt who baa been for I i ion horo who are not connected with tho ur w but who long -i in arctic and aro ar the history of exploration in S ti Mi I as to ul il ty 01 Lieut party to retreat of Land on sledges S M t 1 alone th t win tho ol bi of 18 tn On Sept 8 H pai ty from tho undor to with which wni m on the north side of Lady ent position The party succeeded in only three miles from the ship and then the attempt On Oct 3 a second sled go party was scut down tho coast for tno same purpose but it ro tur nod at tho end of 10 days ing been unable to gat moro than nine miles from tho ship The attempt waa then abandoned for that Benson About tha same time Capt Stephonson of the started from Lady Franklin Hay with a party up the coast In the direction of the Alert lio could got only sbc miles from tho shin and returned with both sledges broken at the end of tha second day As hfe conclusion from these Capt Noras reported that the coast of Land between Beach nnd Lady Franklin Bay was practically impossible Tho two ships of the expedition lay only 70 miles apart on the sarno coast from Aup 20 1875 to March 20 nearly seven months possibility of tion This fact alone it Is said shows that Lieut with 25 men some of them possibly in ill health could hardly make an Autumn sledge journey of moro than miles along the coast of Laud to Littleton Island If therefore he waited at his station until Sept 1 for the arrival of the relief steamer bo is probably still thore and will ro- maJn there until next Spring It is thought however by those who prosa those opinions that Lieut Greoly fore- seeing the impracticability of making his escape on in tho Foil and desiring to obey bis peremptory orders to start down tho coast not later than Sept 1 would perhaps abandon his station as early In the Bummer aa open water should appear in Robinson tho last week in and attempt to reach Littleton Island In boats Escape ia this way might bo effected under average conditions of Ice and weather because small boats could bo dragged across intervening barriers of Ice be- tween Lanea or pools of open water where a ship would be stopped If Greoly and his men loft Lady Franklin Bay in boats lato in July or early in Augutt they might bapi reach the mouth of Smith Sound by Aug or 20 two or after tho de- parture of the Yantic Upon tho record at Littleton Island of the loss of the Proteus they would have before two possible courses of action if tho season was not too far advanced they might provision their boats from the caches at Capo Sabine and Littleton Island and make a desperate attempt to reach the Danish settlement of Northern Greenland or second If it was too lato for such an attempt they might try to led and distribute themselves among tbo who tho Greenland coast Littleton Island and Capo York These Esquimaux aro few in or 200 In generally short of provisions aut they might bo ablo to carry a fow of Lieut party through the Winter At any rate this would be tLo party's only hope Nothing it is thought can be dono to rescue tho unfortunate men thus Fall lives aro now in their own hands acd their future de- pends almost entirely upon their skill nnd judgment and upon the chances of wind and cc The next information with to thorn U likely to come either from Upernavik or from tho Esquimaux of tho Greenland coast between the mouth of Smith Sound and Cape York Secretary Lincoln said to-night thao the question how best to get relief to tho party bad been discussed at tho department to-day He had little hope that anything could ba dono this yoar Ho thought t would be useless to soud a party up this Kali with the certainty of their to Winter several hundred miles from station without means of traversing that intervening distance whoa by waiting until next Bummer a could bo sent that would moke just as progress He said however that if It wero shown that relief could bo sect to the party no expense nor pains would be pared to relieve them Acting Signal Officer Caziarc said to-night hat nothing had hoard from Lieut Gftr- ington in response to tho inquiries mudo by tho To-night further wero sent categorically what werp tho possibilities with regard to getting n vessel at St John aud fitting her out her to or as uruch further as practicable so as to reach Island at tho earliest moment Nothing has hoard as yot in these dispatches Lieut formerly of the notto and Mr Tyson formerly of tho Polaris jave expressed their willingness to take part n another Arctic expedition for tho relief of DUNDEE Kept Captain of an arc- tic which bos Just a In Davis's Straits reports that m ado searching inquiries of the natives along be coast but learned nothing relating to the expedition MASS FOB OF TUB TRIUMPH OF IN NEW NEW-ORLEANS Sept the ninth Ime was celebrated to-day the affair of Sept II when Leaguers commanded by Gen F N Ogden firing from tho cover of freight piles 011 il windows of attached and defeated Metropolitan policeman In tho open street under command ef Gen A S Badger in the affair 10 White wore killed and 8 Tali lots of life waa tho price of the ambition of John MoEuerv to by force tbo office of Governor for he was a defeated candidate at tbe polls Tbo police wore enforcing the orders or GOT when the battle Tbo White took of the but wore by the on the day and the ment was restored Tbe con- of a military mats at bt LouM Cathedral at- by tho Louisiana Field Artillery A lotty catafalque covered with a velvet pall em- In a groat cross u Ita centre and tho emblems of death around Its broadly frigged margin hud been eroded In mala and by burning On each Hide of I lie troops drawn DP In two lines Inward Tho WAS said hr the Very Rev U C by tbe Very M the Key J M Father road tbo of tba nnd musical volco In- toning U much pathos and Gen ugden and staff and of tho feats In tha channel wan a full aud the muelo waa Impressively At ibo Dies Iru the drums hent Uio lone roll tno of tbe military drooped and tho sank upon their knees presenting arms In tho afternoon Clou aud his party took aad mode a tour of the cltr placing upon the tomb of each of bis dead ers tho ribbon of the League aod a of ers Tbo craves of tbo policemen killed on that day aro not cared for wore brave men and of cood repute ODD of John Camp bud buen a Iu a k durine tho war and nerved In tbe war with Uon Ogden by the fortune of IB uow tho principal for of the by tbe present Governor of tbu In whose behalf tho mou of ago were killed LAUD IA OF TUE TO THE OK THE RESULT do Sept was a now to-day In ibo lard Fowler havo bcon lug before Hoard of Trade A few days aao Mr William It one of for Fowler u ou the of tho board that they to tho Hoard of any further of tht In tbo lard Tne Hoard of now In a full and ruport of tho and to U to olva a wldo Thu tho of adulteration but of machinery which uso aa calculated to fraud by Counsel claim that no wero mails as to the that machinery only and that had no under thu and to If tho board on 111 at on their they will for damages nnd claim that tho board will bo liable Tnu fact that tbe finding has boun In tho will cut they bay shield tho board In forth tha In an official report Tho Hoard ot torn held at notice to tho Secretary WHS ot nnd the conclusion reached waa that rupurt of the evidence and tbo should aud would bo published and credited all tbo THE BLACK FLAGS WORSTED THE FRENCH VICTORIOUS AFTER THRKE DA HARD TSENG'S TO THE FOR TOE SETTLEMENT OF THE DIFFICULTY LONDON Sept dispatch lo Telegram Company from Hong Kong dated to-day states that a battle bos taken place between tho French forces and tho Black Flags lasting eight hours engagement took place between Hanoi and Sontay near tho Red Rivor Tho French forces aro reported as having lost two officers and CO men Tho loss of tbo Black Flags is estimated at between 500 and COO men Hanoi Is the town the French have been holding their garrison since tha previous engagements at Sontay awaiting It Is probable from the tenor of the above dispatch that the Black Flags whoso are at to the oast of Hanoi determined to recapture tay from tho French who havo kept boats there tho last fortnight and while en route from across the delta mot by a French force sent from Hanoi to intercept them tho above battle being tLo result French accounts of the battlo with tho Black Flags state that ou Saturday Sept 1 the French forces from Hanoi advanced to within 13 miles of Sontay where tho enemy was found in casemate forts upon which tho fire of tho French had no effect After three days hard fighting the French troops under Gon carried the enemy's works at tho point of tho bayonet capturing two towns and two Dlack Flag standards Tho French loss was two officers nnd fourteen men killed and officers and forty men wounded After tho victory Gen withdrew hla forces to to await reinforcements leaving 300 men to hold tho captured towns The French naval force at com- prises tho Bovard of 4 cuns tho At- of 12 guns the of 8 guns the cruisers and Chateau Renaud the transports Annamito and each guns tho and poro each 4 guns and tho Fanfare the Leopard and tho Surprise each carrying 2 guns There aro 4 sloops carrying nn of 7 guns and 4 dispatch bouts ing an aggregate of 14 runs Two launches aro also attached to the floot Sopt Cabinet hold a council to dav M was present and stated negotiations with tho Chinese Ambassador were progressing favorably The forwarding of reinforcements to Tonquin was and was approved by tba council It was also agreed that Franco in its tions with China should adopt a conciliatory policy It is announced that tho Government has at present no intention to convene the Chamber of Deputies tho of October The to clvo tho following as tho heads of the proposals by tno Marquis Tseng Chinese Ambassador to M That Franco shall sending forcements to that China will mzo the treaty of but will retain thu right of investiture of tho thai tho French protectorate shall be under control ana under tho direction of military mandarins that China shall be reimbursed for all expenses incurred in the repression of the Black Flags The in nn article upon tbo Tonquin question takes the ground Franco cannot accept the proposed of a neutral zone but will bo satisfied if is withdrawn entirely from Chinese It says that if England can tbe agreement of China to those tho whole trouble will be speedily VA Sept London ent of tho Free says he has nn authentic source that China and have accepted in principle the Llon of England for tho settlement of thu Tonquin question Tbo Jimes in a leading editorial this Incr Why does not the French summon tho Chambers to loam what France wishes If tho people decide upon war tho sooner they prepare an adequate army fleet better it will be If for tbo Government could ly fulfill tho wishes of tho country At ent notwithstanding tho talk about tion all its actions tend toward war yet It Is without courage to prepare for war on a scale equal to tho occasion LONDON Sopt Hong says that the rides captured from tho Black Flags In tho engagement of Sept 1 aro reported to bear tho arsenal mark Tho dispatch further states that the pross lias adopted a belligerent tone toward the French and declares that tho treaty ia contrary to international law A Hong Kong dispatch to the Standard gives tho details of tho battle between tbo French forces aud the Black on Sopt 1 The French dispatch says took SO prisoners who wore ed forthwith Although tho movement French troops was a success yet the result shows that vory largo reinforcements will be to clear of Black Flugs aa an earthwork of no great strength kept tbo French supported by days at bay Sixty men of an available Force of moans a largo French loss while black Flacs killed aro as nothing aro again suspended I THE RIOTING IN CANTON ALMOST OPEN BETWEEN THE AND LONDON Sept dispatch from Hong to tbo Standard gives additional details of the rioting on Monday last The riot began at 8 o'clock in tho morning As previously stated the trouble was caused by a and a guese watchman on tho quay During tho latter part of thu riot some of tbo merchants armed themselves to defend property Tho party consisted of nino Germans nud three Englishmen Thoy fired into tho mob killing live nnd wounding many Tho arrival of Chinese troops finally chocked tho mob There aro now two ono French and five Chinese moored in tho rivor abreast of tho foreign ment Tho Chinese hove posted placards ou thu walls of tbo city applauding thu action of the and calling upon to kill tho Europeans at tho opportunity which presents itself Tho different Consuls at ton admit thut tbo situation Is vory serious and that the futuro ot tho European colony la gloomy in tho There is almost open war between tho native and foreign elements und it will bt to bave war In harbor for a long to como us a of protection Tho Louses burned by tho mob Include 10 English ono American two Gorman and one Fronch Tho Consuls to tho Viceroy an identical note holding him for tho destruction of tho property be- cause ho failed to promptly solid when of tho disorders Throe Chinamen who were caught in tho act of plundering property and tho who was tho im- mediate cause of tho outbreak aro now im- prisoned at tho consulate Kept reported that troubles in on tho River beon by members of u secret which is opposed to tho present dynasty M Tricon thu Minister to China accompanied by hiir George Bowon tho British Governor of Hone Koug has gone lo fekin HONO Sept American Con- sul at Canton thinks ueed bo no further anxiety for tho safety of tho foreign residents of EUROPE A N DISA LONDON Sept Paris ent of tho Standard telegraphs that there is reason to that tho recent accessions to tbo shortly re- mit in Germany issuing a proposal for a gon eral con press of all the European powers with a view of determining upon a general mament Tho correspondent states that he a assured that tho Governments of Austria Spain and Italy have already signified willingness to participate in such a congress CURRENT FOREIGN NEWS LONDON Sept is announced that tbo yachting cruise of Mr Gladstone bo extended from tho coast of Scotland to way I A telegram from Zanzibar reports that tbe envoys Madagascar at a port 100 miles south Tamatave M tip French Ambassador to Great Britain arrived at Dover on Friday and immediately paid a visit to Earl ville tho British Foreign Secretary Castle nour Forfar Scotland owned by the Earl of boa beon burnod loss Is Mr has paid off a mortage on bis estate amounting to from tho of the testimonial fund BIRMINGHAM Sopt the unions to-day tho original resolution of Joseph Arch was adopted It declares that considering tbo large amount of waste land in tho kingdom which is capable of cultivation radical changes in the land system of tho country aro required m order tbat tbo land may be out under productive cultivation for the benefit of tho community thereby offering a check to emigration The ment calling upon tho Government to declare such lands Government property waa finally rejected Tho congress also adopted B tion favoring paid labor representatives in Parliament Sept obsequies of Admiral were celebrated here day Admiral Krautz pronounced the fun oral oration paying a high tribute to the ism and ability ot tho dead man Tho of the American Consulate was at half-mast a ine the ceremonies ROME Sept von Schloezer who recently visited Prince Bismarck nt has returned to Rome had au audience with Cardinal tho Papal Secretary of State The bases of the tions between tho Vatican and Prussia wore agreed upon yesterday Their nature has not yet been divulged Sept account printed in arc- cent of tbe Figaro of an interview be- tween M and Lord Lyons the British Ambassador proves to bo untrue Lord Lyons is still absent on furlough In addition to tho game of billiards of 3.000 points balk-lino which has been arranged to Do played hero in October next between rice this city and Jacob of Chicago Vignoux to-day sent another lenge to the J M Brunswick Balko Com- pany of New-York the of tbo emblem offering to play a game for tho championship of the world according to tho rules Tho rules provide for the game to be 800 points and a side A judgment has beon rendered by the Tri- bunal of Commerce in with tho case of tho Union annulling the last Issues of shares of tbat concern for in- creasing its capital stock condemning tbe Di- rectors to pay 20 commission agents and declare tho company legally Capt a French infantry officer predicted four years ago that there would be an earthquake In Java ing tho date two days within its actual occurrence Ho a worse disaster In 1886 Tbo Academy of Science discussing the prediction decided that it was merely an extraordinary coincidence BERLIN report that Prince Bismarck had been taken ill and tbat physicians had been suddenly summoned to his aid is denied There was a general illumination of tenberg evening Donso crowds thronged the national and religious songs especially Luther's hymn EIne Festo Burg Tha Cabinet order of Emperor William and tho speech of Crown Prince Frederick William have created a profound throughout Protestant Germany emphatic avowal of Protestant convictions and earnest faith in tbe lasting benefits of tbo Reformation baa been received with sincere sympathy by the entire Protestant world Sept Congress of and Industry began its annual sion hero to-day A resolution was adopted declaring that the principal cause of tbe of sliver results from tho decrease of iu coinage in Europe Tho resolution also ex- presses a wish for tho adoption of a common double standard throughout and MADRID Sept Cabinet Council day resolved to accept tho resignation of de Kuto y Under of tho of tho Interior who was the author of tho newspaper article which led the Duke de to tender his resignation as ish Ambassador at Paris The Cabinet re- fused to accept the Ambassador's resignation LONDON Sept Madrid dent ot the Daily Tho Spanish Legation at Washington has Informed the that is a Spanish exile in Cuba making preparations for a rising of the colored people who aro reported to be tented The plot is destined to fall A CHIMNEY'S BIDDEN TREASURE TIUS A REFORMED THIEF HAD CONCEALED IN A N Y Sept the Summer of a stranger appeared at toe farm of Solon near this place for work Ilia hair was cropped close and bis face was forbidding He cavo Ms name to the farmer ana told him plainly tnat ho Had been from Sinn Slag only a short time ho bad been a of two years for burglary lie said be was desirous of loading an life and referred the farmer to prison authorities Mr was with tho apparent true repent an oa and told him ho remain at tho until iho prison officers wore board from that if report waa pood bo would bo en work The rupurt was cood and tlie man was put to work on tbo farm lie remained In the ot Mr until Kail luc been during all that u faithful ami employe Ho wont by tbo narao ol Wilson ami Bald that ho bad buon up as a pocket and thief from childhood Last Fall ha mudo np his mind South WAR beard from him until a fow ago Mr re- a letter from him Ho was la Texan Ho In his letter us ho never como If tic would make a search In bU oh IB y ho would Und hundred lars of writer had taken from hi tho pan ami ho could not aa thu of thu could not be known lid told Mr to poto of It 19 best The f armor In thu found at worth of Bold pine and other jewelry Not to anything to do Elm ho It by to What to know where aud when his Into employe obtained tho jewelry its It ID tint likely that hu could havo como Irom tba prison with It ou hla U looks us If thief hud plying former trade which be in fulo Luck port other towns and liu wan working on tbo SENATOR SUA RON'S A UK CHICAGO Sept of evada li In thU city In rotation to bid In Sun just as ho about starting Hast at tho Instance of a woman wbo claims that ho owed hor be said that It was a of blackmail by an convict who for a law In Hun out of ba thin woman to ho ejected from tho Hotel avow that bo borrowed from hor und Gays that hu will the to tbe end TO DEATH N Ga Sept negro dwelling on the plantation of U M near Dyron was burned thla morning and two perished ia thn WASTING THE REMARKABLE WORK IN THE OFFICE HOW MB IB LAW TO THE OF FRIENDS AND PERHAPS OF Ono of the laws passed last the political of which wore criticised at the time involving a riotous waste of tbo publio fands Is already bearing fruit The act for tbe preservation of records maps and papers now proves an ex collent loyor with which to operate In the local politics of this City and Its execution pears to be meeting with remarkable success from a political point of view It that whenever any of tbo public records In tho of either tho Register Surrogate County Clerk or other county officer had be- come so mutilated 03 to be rendered unfit for public service the work ot thorn should be dono at public expense The com- allowed should bo just but in no case should exceed a aum to bo certified bv a Justice of tbo Supremo Court for tho First Judicial District to bo reasonable for the rendered The law la ted that no payment should be made until tho had beon examined and approved by a Justice of tha Court and that tho work should not oven be begun until its had been vouched for by same bleb authority To meet tbe expenses of tho work tho Board of Estimate and Apportionment ordered to the necessary appropria after the foregoing conditions had been with In tho application of tho law there are eome tempting political plums which certain politicians have determined to pluck In short a Democratic Legislature was readily persuaded to pass and a Democratic Governor to sign a measure embodying a scheme for politically plundering an already City and tho good work Is now going on One of tbe Brat County officers to movo for the enforcement of tho new law was Mr Docharty the Register Mr Docharty is a member of tho Tammany Hall organization and a of Edward its sachems Register arty felt much Interest in tho measure pending its final passage ana bo was greatly pleased when It received tho Governor's signature Early in tho Summer bo made application to tho Board of Estimate and ment for an appropriation to covor tho of 105 libers in his office liber being the term by which Is designated each of tbo Jarco leather-bound volumes ia hie in which nro recorded transfers of real estate mortgages He estimated Ibo cost of tho libers at each the number of that would be required for the work at 16 aud their salaries at IK each It waa finally that ho should undertake tho work of ro- copying and an appropriation of was sot apart for- tho purpose Of this amount was to be devoted to the payment of salaries Tho appropriation was mado on Juno 10 tho Corporation Counsel having given an opinion to tho effect that the law was eo far as the Board of Estimate and Apportionment was concerned It is Mr method of spending this money which now subjects him to cism A portion of tho office was reserved for the clerks who wero to bo employed and was furnished with now oak furniture and fixings the expense of charged to tbo credit of the newly acquired appropriation Tbo Register then appointed 11 copyists and two of the old em- ployes who were favorites wore selected as of tho work to bo dono Tho vices dated from July 1 Tho salaries of tho copyists were fixed at par month each and that of the examiners at each The hours of labor wore from 0 o'clock in tho morning until 4 o'clock in tho afternoon As soon as the wero made il libers were condemned and placed before tho now employes There would probably be a doubt in the minds of a jury of as to tho necessity of going vory extensively Into this of preserving tbo records for although some of them havo an ancient and careworn appearance they doubtless could bo used longer and still boln a able condition have not themselves to any great extent In their tasks la tolerably evident from a recapitulation of the results of their laborn It is even declared that somu of them havo been from their desks for hours at a time In fact the allegation baa been mado that on some days not a soul has boon visible in tho apartment reserved for tho copyists Tho inference is plain enough that politics has had a great denl to do with their appointment and a groal deal more with their absence and with tbe slow accumulation of re- sults of legitimate toil over tho libers Takon in connection with tho fact that Register Docharty Is a candidate for to this very very lucrative office tho Inference is neither a labored one nor entirely unjust toward the Bogister The following table gives tho names of the 11 copyists tho bers of the libers on which they are at work tbe numbers of tbe pages in their tbo number of pages thov bad copied up to Aug 1 the number they baa copied up to Sept 1 and the average number of pages each man has copied a week Lynch Farley Foely Kelly Duncan Hanbrouck M 40 100 210 210 232 233 aro 293 1194 717 000 672 672 662 600 662 Old 650 672 100 78 105 118 114 74 88 102 k rl 180 203 177 833 231 sos ICO 217 lei 10 23 SO IU 29 CO 21 27 17 A summary of tho figures gives tbo following Eleven libers ing pages of which wore completed on the 1st of August and a total of on the 1st of September At this ruto of progression six and one-third months will bo required to complete tho 11 The of the 11 slothful copyists for that period will amount to aud the salaries of tbo examiners to making a total of The cost of liber would thus bo about It ia in comparison with work of i similar nature performed by tbo old em- ployed in tbo thoso figures for and arc recognized as extravagant If not absolutely extortionate Tho old copyists wbo record tho deeds and mortgages that aro daily lu tho and whose pay corned out of Mr own ora paid by him 6 cents a lolio for their The average number of folios to a is live a total of about folios in tho 11 libres Paid for at Mr rates work would cost him Deducting this sum from tho cost of tbo whole work at tho present of progress thoro appears to bo from the Treasury for no other purpose apparently than to lino the ots ot n lot of favorites some of whom may sibly bo classified by tho of heelers It is even suggested that political exigencies luny demand the condemnation of other libers tho employment of moio and tbo ex- of moro Ibo foes of tbe least 1100.000 ally for ft of years Yet out of tin accumulations of years the It to defray the of preferring that that burdon be tho City This it may bo fully in a typical Hall method of reaching tho public Treasury For a little further light upon to bo a moat extraordinary method of me tlie City's funds the of tho Register of Kings County was visited The plan ed is to each a liber anil of deeds or mortgages which thov estimate will till it No matter what tho number or may be turned to lio is expected to have nil contained in particular liber The Kincs copyist receives cents a pace for a liber of 550 pagos it takes him from five to seven weeks to Unish a liber The old copyists In this City copy on tho avenge 15 a day Exports admit that It is somewhat more difficult and laborious to copy from one into another as the 11 new copyists of Mr Docharty are doing bul concur in the opinion that 10 pages to be a fair day's labor even at this kind of work It is quite possible that if tbe was paid for at the rate of so much a folio somewhat better results would be reached Assuming of course that the 11 men devote themselves to copying and nol to politics there Is certainly a broad gin between a possible 60 pages a week asd tho 29 pages which as shown by the fore- going table is the highest average of any one man It ia patent from these figures that the whole scheme la for no purpose than to create soft places for political favorites I Register was as anxious to save the City as be has beon to Have money for his own pocket tho details o his plan for preserving the public records would be of a somewhat different nature 1 Mayor is not too greatly Interested in L variety of political schemes among them of making his brother-in-law Corporation Counsel he might find some of cor reeling the neglect into which Register Doch arty has fallen Applications for appropriations fora similar purpose were granted by tho Board of mato and Apportionment to County Clerk Koenan and Surrogate Rollins Mr Keenan that three clerks would be requires for 18 months to do bin work at salaries o month making a total of Tbi binding of tho books he estimated would cos and tbo paper making a gram total of Of this amount he de- would be required this year of would ba paid for salaries The granted to the Surrogate is o will bo paid for 62 libers and for tbo salaries of six clerks from July 1 1883 to Jan 1 1684 Register Docharty np pen re to possess no definite idea when the work In his office can be completed Ho yesterday that it was going on but that ne did not know how long tho copyists would bo in finishing it MR IN PARIS MIM AND JNO A EUROPEAN REFUTATION Sept nnd English residents of tha French capital take the same languid sort of interest iu Mrs Lily Langtry and her wealthy New-York admirer as tbe newspaper readers on tho opposite side of the ocean Through tbo industry of tho awake correspondents of tho newspapers th doings of Mrs Langtry up to tho time of hor departure from tho United States wero mad known here and t me it was announce by that Mr Gobhard had not on the same ship with tno lady to whom his attentions had been so marked and moro over tbat tho had announces deter tain ation to remain in Amer ica during tho temporary absence of tbo Lily from that hospitable land But thore were many persons hero and in who fully expected that Mr Gebhard turn up suddenly in the wake of tbe Lily some surprise was expressed tbat no tidings were heard of him during Mrs In England or she was making her tour of Scotland The other Mrs Langtry arrived at the French capital along with her retinue with tbe Intention herself iu tho dramatic art under tbo guidance of the veteran Professor of Ing M Hor retinue was smaller when she first came than it was during her American tour but it has nt length been in creased to Its normal size by tho appearance of tho Mr Frederick Gebhard wbo has suddenly but aa Intimated above not arrived in Paris Whether he too intends to study for the stage undor M Reg is not yot known but tho newspaper writers have already begun to evince graat interest In the English beauty and tha million airo American and it is likely thab young Mr Gobhard will succeed in his evident attempt to acquire a European reputation When Mrs returned home it was laid ilr Frederick Gobbard would soon fol low her For throo weeks Mr Das been loat to sight He was yesterday reported to bavo KODO to Europe Tho story was that ho had passage on one of tbe ocean bis name appear In Hit and quietly slipped away with tbe o no one except a fow friends Tbe conclusion jumped at was that he bad left this conn try to Jola Ilrs wbo It studying Ia Farts Mr was Bald to bare purchased Hr ticket that be not bo known Mr said yesterday thai hu would not toll If he did know tbat Ur bad none Mr wight have purchased a ticket for himself but concluding not to go Mr have taken It Ur attain might bare gone on board sod secured just before the of tbe vessel In tbat erect hla name would not be In tbe printed of and ho would buy bis of tbe parser Instead of at the A-s for taking un- der ao uame as Mr Gebhard wax laid to have done Ur knew that to be hod too much seme for that Air bad not seen Mr Gobhard In some time Mr Frederic Mr law said Mr had been travel Ing for about two weeks De could not nay Mr was The man be In Maine ilr was asked If be know It to be true that Mr Infatuation for Mrs try had caused blm lo follow ber the water Tbat Is replied Mr do not know tbat be has of her once since sho went away A servant ilr rotl denea aid she did not think he had gono to rope but aho had not Been blm la a time An attendant at tbe Union of Mr bard tsa said ba bad not -re la weeki At Ii wu sold that he bad not been In weeks A facetious of said young San ford bad nol been there glace Winter and that the two had cone off lo debt the duul It wits expected would follow A member of tbe Union Club said Mr Job nard was not averse to prominence rola lions with Mrs him On the contrary be liked tno talk that cad benn created and It was understood bad gone 10 Europe to a reputation While he would not travel around tbe country with Mrs an be did here because of the presence of Air tha papers would write blm up and extend bit fame Mr tbu speaker added was not a bad fellow at all but needed aro to brine him to fila Bonies ANOTHER TREASURER DEFAULTS MILTON C OF JACKSON OBIO IK CINCINNATI dispatch from Jackson Ohio says that Milton C Koenan County has disappeared and an shows to be about hurl lie left laal week for a aud ins not rein mod It U pretty definitely this city be mot ibo daughter of respectable parents living t Jackson County Tbe girl waa at ono a of family It IB believed mel hero by appointment nd the two find lo Canada Keenan loaves family ut Jackaon Il Is not thought that carried with ilm Ibu amount by his le bad aud much of tbe snm be la hurl wax probably lout lu that way some ago lla accounts and tbo funds In the safe wero examined a few days before bis and were found to be all right bat It an hoen learned that the money which the ID Ibe safe bad beea borrowed by from tba bunks on bis own As oon us Ibe Ibis money was returned lo Ibo banks TBS TREASURY Sept question of bo tbe courts day for Ibo first time Judge the police to be withdrawn from Ibe Treasurer's and ruled the Mayor and Chief f Police before blm for contempt of court la Uio Treasurer of bU Upon Walthe took possession of lie a Later In thu day somo of tho Council used u compromise of too case tbe City all milts to be withdrawn and ba to re- ume but the declined lo do what ho bad already declared lobe Illegal unless by tbe court to do so In Ibe final suit and bus tbo war Us on and It lo bo war to be end PORTLAND Me Sept old firm of Co now styled Stover Bolster Mi TRYING TO CONVICT LEWIS SOBS AMBLER'S LOVER AGAIN OF KILLING HER tN UP nia TO ov are still busily engaged la eg op the record of William Lewis Rose Ambler's lover and they intimate to-night tbat evidence to his discredit is rapidly accumulating To-day the search bos been in and about Birmingham Derby and tbe Naugatuck Valley villages to which Lewis makes daily business trips from Stratford It is now stated that evidence will be produced showing that Lewis gossiped about his betrothed and chafed undor tba social restraint that she Imposed Near Birmingham lives another young woman who Las been inclined to smile upon him She is quito as comely as was Roso and her fortune is greater than Capt bavo settled as a marriage tion upon hla daughter The detectives hava caught hold of this story and are convinced that they can now attribute to Lewis a motive for putting Rose out of tho way not at first discernible It is further alleged that illicit relations certainly existed between Lewis and Row and Lewis so witnesses will testify has confessed these relations Four affidavits havo been obtained from citizens of ham and Shelton to-day in which aro re- statements damaging to Lewis Tba muttering crank who was sheltered by Night Watchman Coffee at hut wook will not be bunted up tbe detectives be- ing now firmly convinced that they are on pursuing William Lewis A dozen tramp stories moro or loss ridiculous in their bearings which havo come to tbe front during the week havo alno been dis- missed as unworthy of attention Dr Moses White of this city who testified Defers tbe jury at Stratford has to-day been engaged in Investigating tain stains found on the mentioned lu THE TIMES days ago ns having been found in tho Lewis If thesa stains are reported by Or White to bo human blood spots Coroner Holt will at once direct the arrest of Lewis Dr White's tions are not expected to bo finished before Monday nnd meanwhile Lewis will en- joy bis liberty unless some startling ments should como from another direction Lewis has become much excited and is now threatening to assail newspaper men who hava referred to him In an uncomplimentary fashion He is olio very much incensed at tho conduct of tho detectives aud denounces them as and numbskulls Gov Waller says tbat he will materially in- the reward of offered by the town of Stratford for tbo apprehension of the murderer Ho will probably add making tho total This course will suggested by State Attorney in 4 letter to bo mailed to tho Governor to-night A REUNION AT BULL RUK WASHINGTON Sept hundred and sixty soldiers of tho First Corps and ers met at tho residence of J H tho torian of the First Corps and adopted tbe lowing call to visit tho Bull Run Them has been a great desire repeatedly ex- pressed by the wbo defended tho capital IB the perilous times of to again visit Ibe 23 ago met tho enemy at Bull Hun U historic for two great battles To thti and us to moro Hx where each command waa so that the historian of onr corps may the fit we have united with him In ibis call to onr comrades wbo served under Ibe brave and venerable and tbo lamented Reynolds Time Is swiftly and each year death sad In oar ranks On Get 15 we will start from Washington lo visit Ibe scenes of two great battles where many of onr comrades wero slain and when tbe aslant Phil Kearney sacrificed his Let na go and their heroic deeds and mark tba spot where they fell we are especially lo tbat part of tbe fields where tha First Corps was wo earnestly of other commands to to with us We will be no less Interested or Reno lod his coys ate was our and hove an equal Interest commands were on- to go with ns should re- port to J II No 323 Washington on or before Oct V so that can mako all and ample arrangements to ditte thoso to KO It U also the Intention to visit If possible Gon W S Kosecrnns Gen John C Robinson Gen Ocn W W Dudley Gen Joseph Col J O Johannes CoL L S Major II L Cranford Lieut J It son Capi J W Col John J Cspt W Col Harrison Adreon Thomas M C H K J Gon B J II Historian Major E E Dais lead EVIL Of Sept evil of ab- in tho continues to grow undor the liberal construction by Secretary Folgor of tho law regulating annual vacations and sick for Government employes teg on tbo advice of subordinates who assured tho Secretary tbat it Imd always been tba practice to allow pay in case of sickness be- sides giving days annual leave Mr Folgor directed accordingly Tho result of this ia seen in tho largo number of employes who re- port themselves sick on tho slightest tion or Undor tho old system every day's irns against tho an- and in rases such occurred after tho employes bna obtained regular month's leavo it was charged to tho next year's vacation Tho that account was being kept and that everyday away from tho would shorten their tion made employes more attentive to duties except where attendance an It bas bwu tnat in view of tho with which it is to obtain a physician's certificate to provo sickness a departmental doctor would to be em- ployed to protect tho service A letter edy however is at band and it will have to be speedily applied nnd is n return to thr old practice of charging up tho time lost Sept Standard Cabin Company of New-York Is to bo ted to lay au experimental lino of cobles by underground system connecting the departments with tho Capitol L this works well tbo system may bo ed ns tho DUO to bo throughout tba District Tbu Commissioners will not adopt any plan however until tuo teo of uow examining plans of underground at come ion and adopt some tem this decision experiments aro to bo Tho Commissioners fully in- end to put nil tho wires underground as soon as any scheme bo found to bo The telephone havo beon permitted o erect a fow now poles lately but with tho understanding that they uro to bo token on a 00 days notice A N NORTH N C Sept Monday last Buff aid to bo a moonshiner and at M Doputy Sheriff to the of lu County to ummon him tu at County to lu soma one as a witness After charged with au and that had the with tho to prove thai Daff had been en- Sired In blockading Aflur a and on tbe part of tin against other madi went Into tho nud shook ands urer K Duff then started 311 and WM walking behind who Intended a distance with him liad not Bone far when Duff drew a nnd snot the body a which be died tbe neit day Duff fled 10 the Sopth Mountains In Barko County and ban not been ar- ustod the war when was only 4 old lie a man Brine his falters ouse and sbot and him Tte father of Ramsay killed a of a taw by him on tba ad a Jag with
