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2 der-in-Chief, The Abazekhes have been for some years funder the guidance of Mahom ct Ameer, one of the ablest nd most successful emiasaries of Shamyl, but who | Beoms to have been completely discouraged by the Intelligence of the disastrous fate that had overtaken his Prophet and master. He was probably improssed with the idoa that kisme (destiny) had declared in favor of tho Gisours, and that it was useless to strug: glo with it; at any rate, it is certain that the submission of the Abazokhes is mainly duo to his | counsels, Several other tribes, such as tho Tuapyes, | ‘whose territory stretehes westward to the shores of the | Barine, and the Abadzines, the southeastern neighbors of | the Abazekhis, have followed the example of the latter, | nad of all the numerous races of Circassia the only con- | gidorablo ones that ali! bold out are the Natukhal, on the eastern banks of the river Adagoom, and the Shapsoogs, ament and people of the mother countay, [From the London News, Jaa. 27.) ‘The march of events in the United is mee aa keep up wi and imaginations who inhabit the country bordering on the pasturages of | Leni the Tuspzis, between the Black Mountains and the sea, | down to the Russian fortress of Gagry. Even these, itis | stated, have called a great meeting of their principal chicftains and warriors to deliberate upon the steps that | should be taken in the present emergency, which, from the moral effeot that must hare been produced upon their minds by the gencral defection around them, there is every reason to believe will end in their declaring their ortant services rendered by Prinoe Bariatinsky @ war that has ate for mae — have rewarded with the baton Sure i He 1s now the only officer in the Russian army who holds that supreme military rank, the last field mar- | shal, Princo Vorontzoff, having died several years ago. He | ia a lucky man to have risen..so high at his age, for he is | not muoh over forty. 8 are one of those i present field marshal was that Prince Bariatinsky, who made bimaself infamous by the part he took in the ascassination of the unfortunate Peter Til. His father was some time Russian Minister in London, where he married the daughter of an English nobleman, Lord Sherbourn, by whom he had no male issue; his second wife, a Countess Keller, neice of the celebrated General Prince Wittgenstein, bore him a numerous f of sons and daugaters. The eldest, Alexander, was brought up with the present Emperor, entered the Gurrds at an early age, and made his first appearance in the Caucasus in the year 1845, where he greatly distinguish- ed ‘himself at the storming, of Dargo, and (was badly wounded. He was then only a Colonel, but from that period his promotion was exceedingly rapid. He first be- came Major General and commander of the regiment of Kabarda, then Chief of the Caucasian Grenadiers, Lieute- nant General, commander of the left wing of the Cau- * casian line, Aide-de-Camp General of tae Emperor, Chef d’Ftat Major of the Army of the Caucasus, and finally, in 1856, a {ull General and Commander-in-Chief. It must be acknowledged that he displayed great courage and con- duct, not only in mountain warfare, but in the campaign of 1364 against the Turks, where be had a principal share in the brilliant victory of Kurreck-dereh, but in the crop of honors now showered upon him he is merely reap- | ing the fruits of which the germ was laid by his prede- cessor, ially by the late Marshal Vorontzoi!, whose | military te and vigorous administration established | the domininion of Russia in the Caucasus on a firm basis, and who was only prevented by the Oriental war from | accomplishing the task which has now devolved upon his | ‘Successor. Tt is settled at last that Prince Gortschakoff will go to Paris as first Plenipotentiary of Russia at the Congress. Emperor Napoleon wished particularly for the foreign Ministers of the great Powers to be present; and as the Cabinet of Berlin, after the refusal of England, had made its assent dependcut upon that of our court, it’ could not be withheld without unnecesearily offending our powerful ex-enomy and actual ally. Prince Gortschakoff himself was nothing loath; in fact, it would have been quite cruel to exclude him from attending personally at a di- plomatic gathering which he had a principal hand in ringing about, and as Count Kisselef, who is a sensible man, and not too punctilious in matters of etiquette, was found willing to forego his prior claims, the affair has been arranged to the satisfaction of both the French Emperor and our own Minister. Whether the Oriental question will be brought on the tapis, aeceniatads aa but it is Priecerenr 8 note that the chances ¢ Duke of Leuchtenberg for the throne Gel ier pacar Be ree ior Proposed by France, agreed to by Prussia, and not by yn condition that Russia d, he asked, who wili take these rampant fellows py the throat? Silence. He proceeded to pame them; and at a burst of vehement and long continued cheering—tho Balaam curse invoked by those who had sent for it. This isa significant sign of the times 4a the ieading State oot oink a, = sending Btate of the eed section, Vir wever, showing si no im- portant. Several of the chief citizen are preparing to leave—not only the State, but the country altogether. For two years past, Virginia bas been rapidiy emptied of slaves, through ia growing foeeanety. of ph cin oe property, and yet more througl spreading desire free labor among the residents ia the ultaral dis- tricts. At present, when mysterious lights go up every night from the mountains about "s Ferry, and are apswered from various of » While nei- ther police nor mili can detect their origin: now when incendiary fires take of the negroes; ilabilities of a frontier State, the more timid or wealthy of her citizens see no prospect of pease and quiet fora ong time to come, and propose to realize their property an over to Europe for the rest of their lives. We may bone they will think better of it, and see their duty more been but we are concerned with it only asa sign of e times. Another sign approaches us more nearly. We have bad too good reason to know that the of the South derive their notion of the Irish from John Mitchell, anda fearful evidence of this has come to light in the shape of a circular widely transmitted by a committee in Alabama tothe Irish in New York. This circular, which we reprintfrom the New York Jorunal of Commerce, invites the Irish, as the friends of the South, to act in its interest, and gain thanks and rewards by acts of incen- diarism which are minutely described; by burning fac- tories and granaries belonging to abolitionists. This fact will a) r incredible only to those who know what the barbarism of the extreme South is, and who bear in mind He dy — re oa does not ist upon introducing 1! wuasion of any topics con. nected with the Turkish empire, which the Court of St. James is excessively averse to have touched upon. AS the ‘‘sick man’’ is now in such a state that he cannot be left to himself much longer, our government will, per- haps, not object to humor England for a while, it by so a the crown of Etruria can be secured for a Prince 80 nearly related to the imperial family. The Duke of Leuchtenberg, Prince Nicholas Romanoff- aky, eldest son of the lato Duke Maximilian, by the Grand Duchess Mary, daughter of the late Emperor Nichelas, and grandson ‘of Eugene Beaharnais, Viceroy of Tair, brother of Queen Hortense, the mother of Napoleon Ll., was born 4th August, 1843, and is therefore in his seven- teenth year. To reconcile Sardinia to his election, it is re- ported that he would be offered to Maria Pia, the second daughter of Victor Emanuel, who was born 18th Octo- ber, 1847. The young Duke’s mother, who, since the death of her husband, is privately married to Count Gregory Strogavetf, and is now residing at Nice, is said to be at the bottom of these mes; but it remains to be seen whether the Italians, who have pro- nounced so upmistakeably in favor of the King of Sardinia, will relish being handed over to a prince who is quite a stranger to them, and who even professes & diffecent religion (the Greek Catholic). I must add that Russia has not taken any official step in furtherance of this project; on the contrary, I am assured that personally the Emperor would prefer the restoration of the dispos- sessed dukes, or, if this could not be effected, the annexa- ton of Tuscany to Piedmont. It shoula be mentioned, too, that the latter alternative is recommended by the most prominent organs of the Russian press. ‘The French and English journals seem to have made it their business to spread alarming reports concerning our relations with China. Last year they sent an army of Chinamen to burn our forts on the Amoor and lay siege to Nikolayeffsk, and now they inform us that the Brother of the Sun and Moon has summoned Russia to evacuate the territory ceded to ber in Manchooria, and detained our Am! lor kin as a hostage for the fulfilment of this demand. We have just received advices from General Ignatieff, however, which are as late as the 17th October, and from which it'appears that he continues on the very best of terms with the Celestial Court, and that there is not the slightest evidence of an imtention on their part to evade or retract the supulations entered into with Count Putiatin at Tien-tsin, and with Count Mouravie(f-Amoursky at Arjona, From Jeddo, Captain Nakoffaky, of the Ascold, anpounces that the Japanese authorities have made ample reparation for the outrage committed on our seamen at Kanagawa, and exprees the deepest regret at the friendly connections between the two nations being interrupted by this untoward occurrence, Soon after the conclusion of the Crimean war it was ‘whispered that great frauds had been discovered in the Commissariat, and after a preliminary investiga- by Prince Vasiltehikoff, in which the facts of the case were ascertained, a military tribunal was installed at Moscow, over by Gen. Mouravietf presided Got Kars), for the trialof the individuals impiggated in it. | ¢ principal offender was Major General Satler, chief in tendant of the Crimean army, who, however, carried mat- ters with a very high band and published a series of arti- cles in the Rusky Incaléd, ¢3; laining aud justifying his conduct, and attributing the charges against him to pure malevolence or ignorance. Unforwunately for him, he has not succeeded in convincing the courtmartial, which has found him guilty of negligence and inattention to his du- ties, connivance at frayds practised by the army pur- veyors, &c., and passed sentence upon him, depriving him of his military station, his orders and titles of nobility, and degrading him to the ranks. Similar punishments bave been meted out to some er officials of lower degree, from colonel downwards; but in consideration of their former services the Emperor has been pleased to commute the penalty in most cases, that the filibusterism of the United States is supported by the barbaric element there, the poor and uneducated ‘This leads us on to the consideration of our own oon- cern in the great conflict now going forward. It is inte- Testing to.us that the great republic should be a success | and nota failure; a genuine republic, and not a polity compounded of despotism and slavery. It is interesting | to us that the Union should endure, and not fall to pieces | through an explosion which may be averted, It is inte- resting to us that filibustering practices and indefensible | wars should cease; and it is slavery which breeds such crimes. It is interesting to us that the African slave trade should eg and it et cere. Mike ae ees very comes to an end. It is to us that a understanding should es ee ie and Sox rican governments and people; it is perfectly under- stood that the interruptions of cordiality, which have ‘become more and more frequent as the domestic conflict became increasingly embarrassing to the Washington Cabinet, are yes SY the prevalence of a turbulent spirit in the officers of the State. American Abolitionist Exile in England. {From the London Anti-Slavery Advocate, Jan. 2.; Biack American exiles are far from uncommon amongst us im Liverpool and London; and other parts of England are full enovgh of black men and women to comfort.the heart of Two-years-before-the mast Dana, who, in bis new book, “Cuba and Back,’’ speaks of Dr. 8. G. Howe, of Boston, as ‘‘one of the few heroes we have had since we Jost Kane”’—the illustrious Arctic explorer. These emi- grants are heroes all, and have proved their title to the name, by daring efforts for liberty such as the most illustrious Greeks and Romans of old fame would have Deen proud to own. But we are now beginning to | witnees an exodus from the land of stripes snd stars, | of white exiles, who find their native soil too hot to hold them. Bering oie themselves with noble old John Brown in his bold effort to wipe away the stain of | chattel slavery from the United: States, they haye been forced to fly for their lives. It has been our good fortune | te meet me Linge for whom ere our | readers would fee respect and sympathy, ‘The man is just whet might be expected from ne antece- dents. Ina letter from an eminent American abolitionist introducing him to a friend of ours, he is well described as “evident; man of Brown’s stamp—firm, and God fearing, inthe Puritan and Cromwellian sense.” He is religious without cant, modest, cautious in his use of words, stron; infiuenced by principle, and, though littie acquainted with the technical abolitionists‘ is filled with \whorrence of slavery, having witnessed its inhuman, im- oerishing and demoralizing influences throughout the Slave States, even as far south ag its chosen home in South Carolina, which he has traversed from end to end. | Having bad to run for his life, he suffered exceedingly in his | flight through the mountains of Virginia, Philadelphia and | New York, amidst many afflicting circumstances of danger | and destitution, until he found bimself safe on board the British vessel which conveyed him to our shores. ‘When we add that this worthy friend and confederate of Captain Brown is well stricken in years, that he has | been obliged to leave a wife and a large family in narrow circumstances, and that, owing to fatigue, hardship and | anxiety of mind, he was struck during his voyage across | the Adantic with paralysis of the right arm, which, for | the present at least, renders him helpless and’ dependent | on the sympathy and assistance of others, wo have said | enough to ensure for him the kind interest of abolitionists | wherever he may go. We are informed that his resources | and consequent ability to earn a livelihood, which he is | most anxious to do, or oem chiefly on his obtaining the | rest and tranquillity of mind which nothing could secure to him 60 soon as a position of comparative independence. i The Pope in His Present Difficulties. | ‘The Dublin Naos gives a Latin copy of the letter from beats | that of Satier, to a simple dismissal. Every | the Pope. It is a reply to the address of sympathy now and then such judgments are passed on unfaithful | adopted by the Roman Catholic prelates at their meeting Servants of the State, but the evil is too in- | jn Dublin on the 3d November iast. veterate to admit of speedy cure. Bribery and corrup- The following is a travsiation:— 'y tion is a legacy transmitted to us by the Tartar yoke, and considering what happens in countries that Yoast of a more ancient and advanced civilization than ours, it is no. wonder we find the disease so difficult to eradicate. The Hopes of E: jand on the Dissolution of the American Union. (From the London Post (Government organ) Jan. 3.) . * . . *. * . - Within the last month the Victoria Bridge, the greatest triumph of ineering science, has been opened, and the wealt! of the Western and of Canada will be carried alovg the Grand Trunk Railway to the Atlantic terminus 4 Portland. capital and enterprise—posseases the longest separate iine Of railway in the world. It is, however, groatly to be regret ted that this line was not continued exclusively through British territory to Halifax; but this object we have.a san. guine hope wili be accomplished whenever that general | of the States of British North America comes to take place—a matter which has long engaged ‘the attention of the people of Canada, and must at no d tant day engage the attention of the British Parliany: If a war should unfortunately occur between England aad the United States, the former would be ex cluded during one half of the year from alf direct access to Canada. Again, if tie Northern S'ates should separate from the Southern on the question e’ which now 80 fiercely agitaies tne iblic mind in America —that portion of tue Graud Trunk Railway which traverses Maine, might at any day be closed against England, unless, indecd, the We of that State, ‘with an eye to commercial sdives to Canada. of the year—a port which, w! communication which is destiaed to do so much fore it and consolidation of the wealth aad Prosperity of peace and war independent uf the Uuited states. We tava that the question of confederation wili be speedi the of her Majesty most North America, will make Eogland | i i i E; $ ks to British and provincial | | cow to Deacon John W. Brigham, of that town, was deli of five perfect calves one day last week. ‘The smallest ove weighed 32 pounds, aad they would ave- | To Our VanxRanis Broraxe Paci, Axounsnor of Dus- UN, FTC.— To our venerable brother and dearly beloyed sons health and our ees benediction! Ne could be more agreeable, nothing more lovely, than your letters bearing date the 3d of November last, and lately delivered to us, which brought to us very great consolation amid the deep sorrows with which we were borne down. For every- where throughout these letters there shine forth wonderfully your singular faith, piety, jove and reverence | towards ourselves and the chair of Peter; everywhsre | your bitter grief displays itself at the tribulations into which we are plunged by the wicked designs and enden- | vors of those men who wage most fierce war agaiast the | Catholic church, the throne, and the patrimony of St. ; and who are endeavoring to destroy the } foundations of all divine and human right. We could not but be greatly delightea by these exceilent’sentiments of yours, which, worthy of all praise | Taizea to the highest point our paternal love towards thee, venerable father, and you, beloved sons. Do not cease to | pray and begeech the Father of ail Mercies with stili more earpest supplication that He will gaatch His hoiy church from so many calamities, and daily magnify acorn it with more splendid triumphs, and assist and coneole us in all our tribulations ; and tbat He wili deign, of bis omnipotent goodness, to lead back all the enemies of His church and of this apos- tolic throne, to the paths of trath, justice amd salvation. We coubt ogt, veneradle brother and belored sous, but ihe aid of the Almighty, desire nothing mor? id earnestness , Wisely and fence of the saivation of all those duties which, fuititied ¢ may to greaity conduoe to and of His holy churen,to te @ errors of wicked men im this time of special iniquity. Be aesured that the tecling of ofr paternal | mind towards yourselves is equally warm and devoted. Spot certain pledge whereof receive our apastolic bene , Which from our tamost heart, full of love, ‘We bestow on thee, venerable father, and om you, beiored fons. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, the Ist of December, 1869, in the fourieenth year of our pontificate. PIUS, P. P., IX. A Prourc Cow.—The Marlboro’ (Mass ) Gazette says a rage at least 35 pounds cach, making their vaited weights about 175 pounds. EBxromon at max Newarx Gas Worxs.—Ou Tuesday wags ay tem gee neat gay A Newark Gas Laat Goovenr The portion of the build! Place was cntireiy demolished, and Mr. Hook, the foreman, buried in the ruins. fs w. found to be severely injured {t is fe STATE RIGHTS AND THE UNION. Important Letter From Senator Clay of 3 g Al f i ii ef BS Fgh iH i | Ak I F E z . a i Ely fi i ii i ‘ i mm i LB : | i it fr BE i E f [ E B f i 3 ! F E 3 ite uf iH 2! property. On the contrary, most of them have nullified the fugitive slave laws passed by Congress, and some of them have declared the slave free whenever carried into States, or pursue y stolen slave there, it is at the peril of your life or your liberty. And yet, all these hostile acts of our Northern brethren are not only violative of the purposes of the Union—the justice, domestic tranquility, common defence and general welfare, to which we are entitled equally with them—but of the letter, as well as the spirit of the constitution, compact or bargain, by which they bound themselves to deliver up the slave on claim of his mas- ter; and algo, of the comity and custom of friendly foreign ‘States. The South is at peace with all the world except her sister Northern States, with whom she is, and has been, living, {or many years, ina state of war, the most us, unjust and upnatural that evel (—an e@ parte war—carried on by them against her without just cause or reasonable excuse, and endured without re- taliation, and with patience, meekness and forbearance, worthy of the highest praise or deepest scorn, according to the motive which has actuated her. ‘The dominant party of the North denounce us as ene- mies of mankind, deserving the treatinent of the worst of criminals. They treat us as such by their acts of Jegislation, and by their continual harassment, ‘robbery and murder of our people, and incitement of others to do 80, not only in their States, but in ours and in the com- mon Territories of the Union. The murderers of Gor- such, Kennedy and Bacheldor, while trying to reclaim 8, go unpunished. The leaders of and ‘bis expiation of his crimes upon the gallows. They instigated and ,encouraged slayes, free negroes and non-slaveholders in our midet,to murder, arson, robbery and other crimes too horrible to mention, and, as a last resort, to civil and servile war, vd publishing and circu- lating papers, tracts and books, which teach that negro slavery is “the sum of all villanies,”’ the crime of-crimes and curse of curses, and should be immediately abolished, even at the cost of deluging the South in the blood of her ettizens. “The Impending Crisis of the South,” a book of this character (which I have read), written by a thief and @ renegade from North Carolina, is endorsed by Senator Seward and by sixty-eight black republican representa- ves in Oongrees, including Sherman, their candidate for Speaker. I bave reason to believe that plans for exciting insurrection and forcing abolition upon the South have been matured and agreed on by Northern abolitionists, ‘md have been steaithily circulated in the South for more than a year nearly every day since I reached here baving disclosed some evidence of that fact. ‘The course of this party in both houses of Congress in- dicates their purpose to suljugate the South, and to de- . y have ti “five out of one hundred and tir thirteen id. thirty one representatives from those States who call themselves democrats; and of those, eight democrats do not vote with the South, and by putting in the Speaker's chair an endorser of South, by Helper’s or Helfer’s book, thereby evincing their approval of oar der, arson, servile or civil iar, saya abolish an institution which ts not only the basis of her wealth, but the condition of her social and silence, when charged and to deny their ultimate purpose is to abolish negro slavery, and to raise the negro to social and political equality with the white man, and, to that end, to continue to nu! slave laws, to encourage negro stealing, and to deny us all protection of slave property, either in State or Territory, or this District, or on sea—wherever federal prevails over State jurisdiction-vand to subject us to the shame and suf- fering of outlawry if we go beyond the prison bounds of the South. In both Houses they frequently remind us of the North. ern numerical majority of two to one over the South, and menace us with ccercion by arms, and the punishment of traitors, if we dare seek gafety ani independence by se. cession from the Union. Thus the Union ist» be made the shield for the defence of the North, and the sword for the destruction of the South, if that party prevail. Men of all parties in the North (with but few ex- ceptions) concur in pronouncing stavery an evil—morai, social or political, one or ail. Mr. Fillmore, ia his letter to the New York Union meeting, speaking ‘of the North, says “we are all against slavery.” Our friends there dare not justify it, but for their own sakes and ours, can- not do more than excuseit. Gar enemies have, at Jength, brought it under the ban of public opinion. ‘The Northern democrats are, unbappily, divided as to our political rights touching slavery; one branch would accord us the full measure of our rights to its protection; the other refuse any help to hold it, byond our present Umits beside the Fugitive Slave law. These iusist that the South shal! accept that, as the only aud best com- Promise the North will give or take, and as all we need or shoule demaud of Covgress, smce there is no territory out of which we can make a rol beget ~ State. Some, too, who admit oor right to full protection jave property by Con- gress in the Territories, say mere abstract right, of No yalue, that should be aband least, iguored for the pregent, tor the sake of t era democracy acd the Union. Others (who are sustained by afew Southern men) assert that the ocraey are pleuged by the Gincipnati platform to non.interyention by Congres to protectslavery, in State, Territory, or this District, and that ir we get or claim it, it will defeat the Northern democra- cy and elevate black ropublicans to power. Now, gente, I will not combat these views by argu- ments I have already used, bi. will suggest a few facts for your reflection.’ The slave property of the South, worth near $4,000,000,000, is denied protection, and Ubreatened with destruction by a majority of the North. ‘The annual loss of that pro) , by theft and robbery of Northern men, is not leas than 000. It has been seized ‘and conflecated on the bigh seas by English war vessels with impunity—it has been driven out of ‘by force— & bill to expe! it from Nebraska has passed oue Branch of her Legislature and fatied in the other by but one vote— it has been aseatled by armed invasion of Virginia, at- tended with slaughther of ber ciuzens—it is menaced with like invasions of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Mis- souri. The power of Congress to provide laws to prevent those invasions is g00n to be argued in the Senate. The friends and foes of slavery agrve that the @: territorial limits fs its life and their contract Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, Utah, New Nexico and the Indian country, will form a dogen large States. Arizona, Dacota and Jefferson are asking separate Territorial ganization. The President proposes to pounce upon Mexico, for past grievances and future security; which, whether ontended oF not, would result in annexing all of it to the United States, and Gen. Lane (the noble Senator Oregon, who is faithful among the faithless to our , Shall we prepare for the ignominious fate of felons by yielding the black Tepubiican demand, aud never get or ask any of slay and ture slave’ Keene. stage of the ‘Varieties,’ and that Mr. Lutz accused him of breaking his engagement in refusing to play the part of existence. In the Senate, that party unanimously edmit by thelr q NEW YORK HERALD. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1660. we meet them everywhere in “ le ined are now struggling with us, hand to hand, in the Capitol, for the control of the Treasury, the Army, the Navy, the Post Office—all the materials for war upon the \e ‘They hang in embattled array upon our lorthern 'y. Their emiseariecs are in our preparing torches for the incendiary and daggers for assassin. ‘We cannot, if we would, avoid the “conflict” they threat- en. We have been and harrassed by them for ty. entreaty, but in vain. Why, then, defer preparation for last argument of nations?’ ‘It’ is too late to whet the sword when the trumpet rma nage he ahaa the honor to be, most respectful our ol servant, vg vie” me ©. C. CLAY, Ja. Theatrical Difficulties=Another Suit Against Laura Keene. MARINE OOUBT. Before Hon. Judge Maynard and a Jury. Jax. 20.—George C. Jordan vs. Laura Keene.—The plaintiff in this case claims $200 salary alleged to be due him for two weeks as a leading actor in the. defendant's theatre. Mr. Jordan recovered $100 in a similar action for one week's pay. The plaintiff was examined as a wit- ness, and proved the contract between himself and Miss. He stated that he was refused admittance to the ‘Harry Arncilif in the play of the “Unequal Match.” rs On cross-examination, Mr. Jordan said that up to the commencement of this suit he had not obtained a similar ‘but he had since. He had since asked the prompter if he that he had not. by, an comedy character; was a waikiog gentleman's part. Mr. Jordan stated that Arncliff was not a loading ‘The circum- stances under which he had perf that character be- fore were at that time the business after the panic was bad, salaries bad been reduced one-third and Mr. Lutz, Miss Keene’s agent, d that he had been connected with the theatre six years, and had seen the play of “An Unequal Match” a dozen times; Jordan refused to play the character of ; a8 the most judicious se- ‘been sustained by Miss Keene fugitive | took off only three nights, and then it was to have been followed by a new play; witness is not concerned in the profits or losses of the theatre. Leon Vincent, prompter of the defendant’s theatre, deposed to his baving notified Mr. Jordan that he ‘was cast for the of plaintiff sont “Unequal Match;’? under the contract, witness dii not think there was ‘any part proper for the leading man; witnets, in casting the play, would assign the character of Harry Arncliff to the light comedian or leading yogng msn. Dion Bourcicautt, dramatist, author and stage manager, | deposed that he had been connected with theatres for twenty-one years in London, and was familiar with thea- tres in France; leading business had no significance exce| for standard dramas, and where precedent had estal - ed by long ngage; the standard drama was those plays which bad been long which, by usage, there could be no doubt; leading busi- negs under this contact had no significance, but the actor’ characters - would bave to play in new plays those which most nearly assimilated to the characters in the ttandard dramas: under this contract the business would be the petactiar tregee a new piece, and the manager, if he had the respect of the company, would have a discretion in the wiatter, with certain limits; witnees never had seen or read the ee eae en at that Mr. Jordan aid not against of the character of Arncliff until after he had played it ‘once; leading business is understood to be leading tragedy mtn nr ; it includes the hero or heroine. shad joee| 160n (our American Cousin), deposed he was coanested wih the D feasion since chiidhood; the character of Harry Arncliff, in the “Unequal not such a part as should be given to a leadi Hamlet, » Othello, an engaged to perform 7 iid be cast for; considers the part of Evelyn, in the of “Money,” a 5 if an ar. List I engaged for Yeading, Dusiness he Trpedel wo te cowpetent Hrry Pearson deposed that the part of Harry Arncliff was decidedly not a character whigh, should. be 1, profeseion; the ‘walking gentleman,”’ ‘not to a leading man. Adjourned to Monday morning at ten o'clock. The President the Constitution, Jan. 20.) * large ald trost worthy pera of the ‘wort! ge vite hy portion sua ae se bee sss a8it is é ie been shortened by collusion Company. & TON w0ded, that it was ties imterfere when the Comp ew York would sit down with the n f the Ferry Company and draw up a re avd tLe Common Council pass it, and the Comptroller, i advertizing, pat in a conaition which was not in the lution—that the party purchasing should advance t per cevt of the first year’s rent, and it it six mentbs ahead of the commencement of the ), and uot lees than the present rents should be taken. things were not in the resolution—-it merely ordered leases to be sold in one lot to the highest bidder. If ties were licensed to indirectly tax our citizens, as ferry compapy syeeret, to be—to take from the sewing girl and hard working laborer a cent ferries. to the decreased apeieod aot ld take into consideration these admissions of the of the company, and see that the ferri pany that they could run at one cent and a half, and pay a fair dividend on $800,000, But $600,000 capital only was needed to carry on the ferries, and one cent would pay an ample ‘dividend on that amount, They’ also Btated that tne last year thirty-three millions of pergons had crossed the ferries. Of the gross receipts from the ferries, 81 per cent were from foot passengers. $660,- 000 per annum were therefore the receipts of the from foot. Torun the ferries at a cent anda. 4 the Union Company should obtain the leases for ten years more under the sale now enjoined, it would give the Company (aver and above the dividend of eight per cent on ,000 more capital than was actually en; in the business) a profit of $165,000 650,000 during the term of the lease. performed, and about a cast of but this would not be obligatory on jure were willing to be satisfied with that could not be enforced it accept this one. What the citizens of Brooklyn wanted was pro- tection against imposition for the benetit of a en ay of itself against Pablie Policy, and only to be tolerated be- y; inthe hands of men who had agement, for the par; of monopoly. - This bit! proposed wo Reduce It was of expediency as ing the oe interest by the inter the Legislature. The bill did not provide for the mode of accommodation—it did not confine them to steamboats or row boats; and it would be very easy for a company to run the ferry at one cent if they could reduce the accommodation so as to bring the thing within the amount. He did not know but that the bil! would require amendment in that regard. The Legislature in 1885, at the instance of the Attorney General, tock action on this subject, and by a vote of 126 out of 123 passed a bill pro- vidiwg for the reduction of ferringe, and for the ap- pointment of ré. That dill was withdrawn, on the assurance of the Corposation of New York that they would it what was asked. In 1845 the question came up , & Dill of this kind was reported favorably by the Judiciary Committee, who took the position that the franchises were veated in New York, yet they ‘were public trusts, for the benefit of the public at 5 ana that interest would be subserved by reduction to the lowest rates of {are which could be profitably combined with the necessary ac- commodations. The present accommodations of these ferries, it was conceded by overy one, were far si- perior to any other ferry acoomi in any part of ibe world. veriheloss, the ferries could be ran at one cent, evidently, Ay C4 the lowest ters lh if street. Charles Johnson, a gentleman of exceedingly ny hue, curly hair, profuse lip, and, for aught @ to be getting the best of it. was at its sable ‘What duatincty, but it is said that office ie etroled toto one of Another Fugitive Slave Excitement, EXHIBITION OF THE JOHNSON FAMILY IN and the While height, Johnson mored on a mission to lage, the officers @ car, on which th ete pinaster parts of them after ea ene were ‘to th the agent of the Canada’ Une, sud Deoked “the land of Canaan.” The whole aflair bore a resemblance a Johnson with his _wiff tremendous “hoax,” an family are said to belong to this city instead of where, it is y Philantropic against ap} A nigger dodge” has become quite common within few months. A FUGITIVE SLAVE FROM HARPER'S FERRY AT Al alleged, Sait cies, tent aaa pe therefore be on their gut this kind, as it is well known nave BURN—NARROW ESCAPE FROM A UNITED STAT! A itive slave ‘s wo