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“ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. WASHINGTON. SECRETARY FISH'S STATE DINNER, The Cuban Question Not To Be Settled by a Post Prandial Discussion, THE SPECIE PAYMENT QUESTION. Western Congressmen Agitating for Resumption. s WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 1869, Resumption of Specie Payments, Some of the Western Congressmen who have been ere announced themselves boldly in favor of resum- img specie payments. General Garfield, of Ohio, ‘who is chairman of the Committee on Banking ‘and @urrency, says if the present Congress had any @punk they would say, “Well, we are in power for et least a yoar anda half. During that time we will provide for resuming specie payments, and thus put the business of the country on a stable basis. We may not be sent back—probably we will not—but we ‘will immolate ourselves for the country’s good.” Garfield seems to have been studying the subject ‘and to be familiar with it in all its aspects. It is probable that he will make some movement at an early day in the House to open discussion on the sub- Ject of resumption. Another First Class Senention Spoiled. The story of a diplomatic dinoer having been given here last week by the Secretary of State at which the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House Were present, and when the Cuban question was the almost exclusive topic of conversation, turns out to be a first class cunard. It appears that only three of the members of the House Forelgn Affairs Com- mittee are in the city or have been here for some months, None of these gentlemen have had any mvitations to dine with the Hon. Secretary of Steve, at least if they were issued they were not received. Instead of direct- ing their attention to Cuba and the other West India Islands the gentlemen of the Foreign Affairs Committee have been trying to unravel the mystery of tne Paraguayan-Washburn-Lopez mud- die, Mr. Fish is famous for his dinners, but the @uban question is one of too grave importance to be settled at a dinner, especially when only three mem- bers of one of the House committees are present. Ht ts known that the Attorney General is the most obstinate opponent of the Cubans in the Cabinet, and it is hardly probable that he would be invited to @ dinner at which the question was to be definitely settled, especially if the Cubans were to have any show. Inasmuch as no such meeting took place, however, the Attorney General's opinion will proba- bly be reserved for a future occasion. a The Ss Domingo Question—The Destination of the Albany. ‘The report now is that the Albany, which left New York Jast week, and whose departure created such sensation, will be ordered to St. Domingo as soon as she reports to Admiral Poor, who is in command of the West India squadron. There ts nothing specially significant in this, however, as I hear she is merely to.be sent there to look after the interests of Ameri- can citizens, It may be stated again, on the author- ty of the Navy Department, that the Albany carried Out neither stores, arms nor ammunition more than she was entitied to as aregniar man-of-war. That me is to co-operate in any manner with President Baez, either in putting his government on a stabie ‘basis or in fulfilling any alleged conditions agreed upon by Baez and President Grant, seems to be ‘without foundation. There is nothing new in the supposed negotiations between our government and that of St. Domingo beyond what has alreaay been statea in these despatches. Que Cause of Mr. Washburn’s ness”? with Lopez. , Jn 1863 Minister Washburn, learning that Lopez, - @f Paraguay, desired to obtain arms from some foreign country, told Lopez that in the United States the best rifles, cannon and other warlike weapons Were manufactured; that nothing equal to them could be found in the whole world; and at the same time he volunteered to procure specimens of the different fabrics in this country. President Lopez gladly accepted the offer and handed to Mr. Wash- burn au amount of money which by some is stated to haye been $3,600, and by others $10,000, With this amount Washburn, on coming or sending to the United States, was to obtain specimens of the differ- ent kinds of arms manufactured in this country, and to have them forwarded to Lopez. This was about a year before the war between Brazil and Paraguay. Lopez waited and waited, but nothing ‘was heard of the warlike specimens from the United States. Washburn informed Lopez that he had purchased the required specimens, but on learning Of their non-arrival wrote to his agent in New York, and was informed, as he stated in his testimony before the committee, that the export of the arms ‘was prevented by our government under a law which prohibited the exporting of warlike arms during our Gomestic war. Washburn, therefore, wrote to the State Department here, asking that the prohibition be removed as to the arms intended for President Lopez. According to Washburn the exportation was finally allowed, but when the arms reached Buenos Ayres they were seized by the authorities there. This is Mr. Washburn’s explanation, which, however, is doubted by some people. Lopez is re- ported to have told Minister McMahon that hus cause suffered incalculable injury by reason of the | failure of these arms to reach Paraguay before the commencement of the Brazilian hostilities. Had they arrived in time Lopez would not have been compelled to depend upon filnt lock muskets, and the condition of existing affairs might be very differ- ent. Lopez, therefore, regards the blundering or neglect of Washburn ak.one of the principal causes .of the protracted hostilities and has, naturally, no very friendly disposition towards the author of hie @ embarraesments. Reparts of Heuse Committees. The members of the House Sub-Committee of Foreign Atairs are busily engaged in preparing their report on the recent investigations into the Paraguayan controversy. ‘ne committee will meet on Monday next to complete the report. Tho Censue Committee reaymed its session to-day. My. Garfield presented a bili for taking the census, ‘Whick will be discussed by sections until completed. No new members have as yet appeared, Mr. Gar- field lathe permanent chairmaa of the sub-com- mittee, having active charge of the matter under consideration, and will ve assisted by Messrs. Wilk- ingon and Haldeman, Cornell Zewett’e Transadiautic Cable Scheme. Willtam Cornell Jewett to-day vad an tuterview with the Presideat ou the subject of his franchise from the Netherian<s government for a cabie trom ‘New York to the Fagus, the object being to give our government an opportunity, if it so deswes, to wnite Ip the establishment of tne line on the bests of etrict reciprocity. From what took place to-day it 1s probable tuat.a definite answer will be soon made to iis proposition. The Farragyt Prize Case. In the matter of the Farvagut-Porter prize and bounty cases R, M, Corinne, special counsel for the government, fled this moraine a general demurrer, which raises tue question of the right of the navy te claim any prize or bounty for captures made at New Oreans, and also the question whether the Court can entertain Juriadiction in these cases So far as the government ts concerned, They will eome up tor argument next week. Consul fer the Grand Duchy of Hesse. ‘The President has recoguized Carl Augusta Chrta fan Dulsenbderg as Consyl for the Grand Dachy of Hesse at San Francisco. Collecting the Tax on Distilled Spirits. Hon. Leonard Myers, or Peonsylvania, intends at an early day at the next session of Congress to intro- a @ bili changing the present system of collect Ing the tax on distilled spirits and levying it en- lrely upon the capacity of the distillery. He was the Grst Yo present this plan several years ago, when on the Darling investigating committee, and atill insists that the groas demoralization of the present systern shows that some such chango 1n the Jaw ts needed, He contends not only that it will increase the reve- Dues from this source, but will remove the temp'ta- partial trial. The evidence seemed to leave no doubt tion to fraud presented by the law as it now stands; font abolish the mamy regulations of the department on the subject; do away with stamps and meters, and Teduce the force now employed to carry out the law. ‘Mr. Myers will urge these views upon Congress, believing there will be @ general approval of the principles embodied in his bill, Bank Note Compantes and the Treasury. Acoording to the statements of the Acting Secre- tary of the Treasury, Judge Richardson, the accounts which have been published about the counting of the bank note papet at the establishments of the National Bank Note Companies are all wrong. The department te not yet in receipt of the reports of the oMicials sent to superintend the counting, and of course nothing’ definite is known of the reault. It may be stated that the counting was not ordered for the purpose of with the expectation of discover- ing frauds, but merely to verify the Treasury’s account with the dank note companies. Raid Upon litt Distillers in Virginia and Tennessee. Advices received by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue show that the squad of cavalry which has been aiding the revenue officials in breaking up illicit distilleries {2 Virginia 18 doing good service. In Botetourt and Craig counties, in the Sixth district, several stills werefound, the diatillers were arrestea and held for defrauding the government, and about 800 gallons of branty were seized. The Eighth dis- trict was also visited, and alarge number Of stills dis- covered and parties arrested, in Montgomery, Pu- 1aski, Bland and Tezewell counties. On Rich Moun- tam, two miles away from any road or path, a num- ber of stills were seized, and large quantiues of whiskey, beer and brandy conflecated, Supervisor Emery, of Tennessee, also reports, under date of the 14th inst., successful operations against distillers ts the First and Second districts of that State, In Anderson county, in the Second dis- trict, Deputy Marshal Edmundson, who had been left in charge of some stills and a quantity of whiskey seized, was attacked and overpowered by a crowd of men, a dozen or more In number, and, in spite of a most determined resistance, the property ' Was taken away from him. The Proposed Iaternational Exposition—Un- paralleled Liberality of Washingtonians. After two months’ hard labor the citizens of ‘Washington have given us the magnitude of their public spirit by subscribing the enormous sum of $150,000 for the proposed International Exposition. The individual who was going to give his whole fortune, valugd at $200,000, rather than not have the Exposition here, nas illustraved his sincerity by subscribing $5,000, When it is considered that at least $3,000,000 will be required to put the enterprise securely on 1t8 feet, the amount subscribed will appear in its proper light. Claim to the Town Site of Dayton, Nevada. The Commissioner General of the Land Office has recently approved for patenting Carson City, cash entry No. 454, embracing 840 acres of land included within the town site of Dayton, Nevada. This town contains 1,500 inhabitants, and has been occupied for the purpose of trade for more than eight years. Municipal governments have been placed on each forty acre sub-division embraced In the town site. Weekly Customs Receipts. The receipts from customs at the principal ports of the United States from November 8 to 13 were as fol- lows:— rief period which, under the law, can be allowed to you to prepare for death. The sentence of the Court is that you, Damiel Walsh, be tax hence to the county jail of this county, and you be there confmed until the time of your execution on Friday, the 10th day of December, A, D, 1869, and that on that day, between the hours of ten o'clock in the ope ‘and five o’clock in the itlan ‘a yard of enclosure eajoluing she s4s06, 70M wi a or enclosure adjo! @ Dehanged by the neck until you are dead. THE GATES WILL CASE. How Deceased Obtained Funds from His Father—Farther Evidences of the Testa- tor’s Sanky—The Case Again Adjourned. Additional testimony for the defence, touching the validity of the will of Qarleton Gates, late of Yonkers, waa developed before Surrogate Mills, at White Plains, Westchester county, yesterday. Dr. Amos W. Gates, father of the deceased, was re called and cross-examined by counsel for the lega- tees. By the testimony of this witness it was shown that harmony and affectionate feelings had not been characteristics of his domestic circle; that his son, during life, had, by adroit management, made use of his mother in order to accomplish his ends in securing the property mentioned in the will, Through her he managed to obtain a trust deed of the estate at Yonkers from the witness to Mrs, Nesbit, and this was done by a system of “‘wor- rying” which lasied through months, In 1860 Mrs, Nesbit transferred the trust named to the deceased and the latter became the trustee. To a question put by counsel witness said that he consented to the transfer, Mrs, Gates, mother of deceased, was to have the benefit of the trust while living, and at her death it was to revert to the heirs of the deceased. It appears the witness did not take any steps to have the trust removed from the testator, who retained the same up to the time of his death. The property alluded to was af this time worth about $70,000. In addition her life interest in the trust witness gave Mrs. Gates 8,000 per annum, which annuity was regularly paid. jubsequently the witness gave her $20,000 in bank stock, m lieu of the yearly stipend, said stock yield- ing an income of about ten per cent, For the past two years witness had not pald an extrasum of $1,000 per annum to Mrs. Gates, as nis s0n was in the habit of spending it. Besides the sums men- tioned above Mrs. Gates had an interest m nearly $80,000 in stock. Witness, in answer to counsel, thought he had given his son more money than was for his benefit, and when he did not see fit to give deceased money Mra. Gates would, This state of things, it was evident, caused an estrange- ment between the witness and Mrs. Gates, as he acknowledged the same as @ reason why he broke up his establishment some years since. As a further instance of this he states that on subsequent visits to his family after this period (1855) he occu- pled the position of a boarder, always paying his board pill to Mrs, Gates. It further appeared that his son had threatened frequently to shoot him if the demands of the deceased for mouey were not com- plied with by the witness. On one occasion, when the witness was reluctant that deocased should take the trusteeshtp from Mrs. Nesbit, he said he had a rigat to it, being the natural guardian of his mother, and she should have it. Mrs. Gates u} that de- ceased shoul® become the trustee of the property already alluded to, Witness would not swear Boston.. $397,414 | Whether or not he had applied an opprobrious New York 1,781,383 | Dame to Mrs. Gates, in presence of the deceased, Philadelphia. 198,807 | When quarrelling about money matters. But Mrs. Baltimore. . 177,810 | Gates had often called the witness a harsn, cruel New Orleans (October 17 to 23)... 160,615 | father for ee to give money to the deceased. San Francisco (October 23 to November 13). 218,214 | When Dr. Hurlbut formed the acquaintance of wit- —_* | ness the former was @ freqnent guest at his house, TOL... .eceeeeeeee. steers eeeees ee + $2,924,243 | ANG the relations between him and the family of the witness Were amiable and pleasant, and this friendly feeling between them had existed until recently. In hus redirect examination the wimess testified that the diMculties between himself ana his wife were all traceable to the deceased, for whose education he had B pee and to whom he also furnished money for incidental expenses during 81s boarding school, col- lege and professional career. The witness, in reply to counsel, stated that Re did not ‘think the de- ceased had ever earned a dollar in his life, Margaret Fitzpatrick, who was also called for the legatees (and being a legatee herself), testified to negiect evinced toward the deceased by his mother, and also to important matters bearing directly on the sanity of the testator. It appeared from her evidence that she had been employed for a month in the capacity of cook by the deceased, some three weeks preceding his death. After nis demise, and on account of some difterence between hersell and Mrs, Gates, it appears that she was paid her full month’s wages by Dr. Huribut. This witness also testified to various eccentricities by Mrs. Gates. On her cross-examination the witness thougut she recollected that Dr. Hurlbut, on paying her, bad [aecier al 'y Of wfty dollars had been left ner yy the . Wiliam Romer, a lawyer, living at Yonkers, and ‘who prepared the wiil of the testator, as dictated b} the latter, was next placed on the witness stand. His evidence was lucid in the extreme, and must be regarded as perhaps the most Important explana- on of the testament at issue. His testimony is in Personal. A recent Jetter from General Banks states that he will leave on his return to the United States on the 2ist of the present month, Vice President Colfax will arrive in this eity early next week, It 18 understood he will visit Erie, Pa., en rouce here, . UMTED STATES SUPREME COURT. Title to Preperty Confiscated and Sold by the Confederate Government—Dauties and Liabil- ities of Factors. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 1869, No, 243 William B, Knox, Platntif in Error, vs. Phebe G, Lee and Husband—Error to the Circuit Court Sor the Western District of Texas.—Prior to the rebellion Mrs. Lee, a resident of Pennsylvania, owned a flock of sheep in Texas, which were under charge of the shepherd and agent, one Elliott, who was in charge of them at the time of tne rebellion. Under the Sequestration act of the Confederate States of August, 1861, the sheep were seized and confiscated as the property of an alien en- emy. At the sult o1 that government and | gypstance as follows:—I pre} the will for Dr, ner mis, ‘ under the decree, Knox, the | Gates; our intecviews regarding thereto commenced AD B73" enon. Oot urchased the flock at | on Tuesday, August 17, and terminated on the fol- ach, Confederate money. After the biowing Friday; Naving been sent for on the first day close of the rebellion, in September, 1868, Mrs. Lee and her husband brought this suit against Knox to recover damages for the alleged unlawful taking of the sheep. The court below instructed the jury that the confiscation and sale conferred no title what- ever on Knox, the purchaser, or upon any one know- mg the source from which the title was derived. Under this instruction the verdict was for the plain- tims, and Knox appeals from the ) Judgment entered thereon, and now claims that the Coniederate States were s de facto government, with acknowledged belligerent rights, ana being such, having seized, ag @ means of war, the property in question and con- fiscated it, the sale under the decree of confiscation passed & valid title to the purchaser. The defend- ants in error maintain the view of the court below, named I proceeded to the house, and on being shown into his room J found him in a partial doze; he awoke, and after I had inquired for bis health ne asked me if I had come on business; I replied in the affirmative; he then tola me to ascertain if there was any person near the door, and on my looking and telling him there was not, he requested me to Jock it; he then said, ‘*You will have to write,” and pointed to.a table on which were pens and paper; I told him I had a pencil in my pocket and produced it; I commenced to write ag he dictated, taking the substance of what he said, and in many instances nis own language; he then gave me the substance of ail clauses found in his will, with one exception; he directed me to go to a bureau and on its top I would find a card; The case was submitted on the print ints. | } did so; it was the card of Dr. Darling; 2 ¥ ig; he then eee WN g Paschal bed Seon Le aera r., for | desired me to give Mra. Darling, wife of the afore- in In error; Jol is for defemMants. mentioned, $10,000; he then detailed to me the No. 251. Ashael Ayisworth, Plaintiff in frror, va, Renslow 8, Parrer et al—Error to the Circuit Court Jor the District af Indiana.—Parrer ana others were.the factors of Aylesworth in divers transactions in wool and pork, they doing business at Chicago and he residing at Attica, Ind. A misunderstanding arising in respect to an alleged claim by the factora lor a balance due them they brought acvion to recover it, The pleas to the complaint were the gen- eral issue anda claim of set o! ‘The trial resulted in favor of the factors, and Ayisworth appeals, alleg- ing that the firm did not do their duty in respect to his orders, and that the Court beiow erred in its rulings on the admission of evidence and in its instructions to the jury; and on these points the case is suomitted on the printed brief of plaintiff in error, filed by Messrs. Buchanan, McDonald and Koch, the defendants in error nos appearing. story Of his suspected poisoning, and when he came to speak of the amount he ought to leave for the prosecution of his supposed poisoner he asked me if $50,000 would be enough; to this I answered that L.did not know; be then suggested $25,000, but as [ did not venture an opinion on this the amount was to that time left undecided; when the tnterview was terminated he told me to call Higgins (his ser- vant); 1 did s0, and on the latter’s entering the /room he instructed him to call Dr.. Hurlbut; on the appearance of the last mentioned person «deceased said ta Dr. Hurlbut, “Bring me bunch of keys,? and when they were handed to him, fe examined them and selected one, which he held between his finger and thumb! calling the attention of Dr. Huribut to this, he directed the Jatter to go to a specified place in his library, where he would find a paper, and bring the same to him; the paper wae brought and handed to deceased, who Jooked at it carefully tor some time, and having read jt handed the document to witnes: saying, ‘his is tue will of my mother,” and aske him to read 1%. The witness prooeeds:—I read it and handed it back to dece: it he then asked me if Thad apencitin mg ket; I gave himfone, ana with it te marked ‘ihe will in .two or three Places; at his time I suggested, on seeing him in an .spparently exhausted condition, tbat perhaps we ought to leave the making of the wil) to anotheg day, ‘The witness continned:—The next interview I had with Dr. Gates was on Wednesday morning, when, on Anquiring for Ris health, he informed me that he was very sick; { asked 1 he desired chat his will should be read in presence of witnesses (whose mamea he had mentioned .and whose attendance [ informed him was necessary), to which he answered ; ene of the witnesses was they sent for, and, on his eutering the room Dr. Gates again cautioned having complied Daniel Walsh to Saffer the Penalty of Death December 10. . (From the Chicago Tribune, Nov. 17.) Judge Porter yesterday took up the motions for new trial in the cases of the convicts of the present term of ihe Superior Court. The first case taken up was of Daniel Walsh, convicted of the murder of his svife, Roge, and, under the conviction, ordered by the jury to be panished by death. He was brought in_by the Sheriif shortiy after tea o'clock. Mr. E. G. Asay made & motion in his behalf ror a new trial, as ties in arrest of judgment, basing his motion upon The admission as evidence of the dying declaration in writing, contending mhat it was inadmissable becanse there Was no opportunity of cross-examination. He also objected to the form of oath used presented to the jurors when they were elected to try the prisoner, contending that the oath should have been, under the statete, the common law oath. As to the dying me about Closing the doors; with ois desire, I said - was ready to read the will drawn; I commenced to read .and during the reading was stopped three. or four tunes by Dr. Gates, who asked me to repeat some of the clauses; I had tnserted $10,000 for she Mp ee geet of the party whom deceased supposed had poisoned him, bat he said, “Make 1 $25,000;" this interview lasted about fifteen mutes, and J left deceased with the witness (Wiiliam Kad- ford); 1 saw him again after dinner, wien J went to read him an engrossed copy of the will; on entering phe room { locked tie door; mm reply to my tuquiry aa to Low he felt he said that he was very sick; he then wold me that | bad omitved an im- portant clause in his will, and remarked about my daring to assume the reaponsibiity of doing so. (This clauge made mention of nis mother as bemg already smnply provided for, also stating a reason why other relations Were not to be benefited by his Will, and giving as an excuse for not mentioning his father that the Jatter was rich.) On offering a sug- gestion deceased informed me that I was thea draw- ing bls will, and Lot my own, this time he also told wie that he had $27,000 in bank swck, $7,000 af which belonged to him, and the remaining $20,000 to hismother, and that dis amount must be trans. ferred to her name; when it came to the Anal settie- ment of he said he would Yonkers, and asked me what 1 thought of st; J then explained to him the difference between boundaries of the town of Yonkers and the vil of thst name, when it was understood that he tended to leave the property to the Vulage, aud said i showia ye cy LJ bio pi or otter through the legacy it should bear his name tn ful. ‘The will was Orally read by the last witness to the testator on ‘Shuradi morning, and in ce of jeceased acknowledging It as 10 way satisfactory. He also signed the doca- Ment in presence of the same parties. Witness tes tifed that to the beat of his belief Dr. Gates was of sound mind when the will was drawn ana signed. A rigid crose-examinacion faiied to shake the tes- timony of the iast witness, and the hour for closing the day’s proceedings hay:ng arrived a further ad- ee Ag the case was agneed upon uatil Friday e phe Mg jg ae motion, leclaration, he thought it was properl mitted; the party who bad received it Dlabedan witier por word the woman said, then repeated it to her word by word and she repeated the words after him. It Was then signed by her and witnessed. On the trial the only objection made to its admission was that the death was at foo remote @ period from the.date a statement, That objection was not well aken. As to the form of the oath the Court held that it is the oue, perheps, Usiversally in uge in tule State—ar jeasi aiways used in this court. If an objection had been made at the time the Court would have admin- istered the oath that he was used to; but.no objec tioh was interpased, The Court did not, personaity, like the form of the oath; it is too much Uke che form of aath administered tm the ease of a pro- missory Dow for ten dollars. Mr. Reed stated that it was expressly decided in Breese that the oath isa mere matter ef form, and that if no exception is taken so itatshe time no error can be aasigued on It. _ the Court had no doubt there waa no error i it, a@though be did not think it was the appropriate form, because the statute saga that the wial shall proceed according to the course of the cominot wr, unless changed. Hetheught the common law was that Lhere oughs to be triers of the jury. a Walah, ere now stood up, ‘The Court—Have you anything to say, Daniel Walsh, why sentence should not now be passed upon your Walsh—I would like to bave a hew trial on It, ‘The Court—Well, yous counsel have that matter in charge. They have made @ motion, which hxs been overruled. They may intend to do something further in the matter. You were indicted for the crime of murder in taking the life of Rose Walsh, on the 7th day of September last, in this city, The Jury by whom you were tried were very ‘caret elected by’ your counsel, and f am satistied that aii the facts of ows case Which could tend to your Leta nf Fay laid before them. In every respect, as far as I ain pergiitied to judge, you have had @ faly eng im- THE DRAWBACK FRAUDS. Continuation of the Proceedings Before Com- missioner Osborn—The United States vs, R. Mulligan—Same vs, F. A, How- ard—Same vs, James Caldwell— Interesting avd Important Rev- elations — Indictments. Yesterday the examination of thé persons charged with conspiring and confederating together to Gefraud the goverament out of vast sums of money, Dy means of false and fraudulent vouchers, was resumed before Commissioner Osborn, The first case called was that of FRANCIS A, HOWARD. It will be remembered that the examination in this cage opened on Mouday last, a full report of which appeared in the Hsraip of Tuesday. The principal witness for the prosecution was William 1. Korn, who was a clerk for R. B, Caldwell & Qo., In- vernal Revenue Custom House brokers, and who are alleged to have been the originators of the con- spiracy. Mr.’Korn is himself indicted and under $10,000 bail to answer the charge of defrauding the government and has, only within the last six or seven weeks, concluded to revoal all he knew of these dark transactions and his knowledge is made use of by the authorities to convict the guilty parties. On Monday an adjournment took place to one o'clock yesterday alternoon, before the counsel for Mr. Howard had concluded the cross.examination of the wityess, At this stage she proceedings were re- sumed yesteraay, When the case was called, Mr. Korn took his place on the witness stand. The defendants’ counsel, Mr. Jerome Buck, rose and said that pre- vious to proceeding with the cross-examination of the witness he would call the attention of the Com- missioner to certain statements in the press, and also in the stenographer’s notes, of certain testimony, to the reception of whicn strenuous objection was made at the time by the defence, yet of this objection No notice seems to have been taken. The portion of the testimony referred to was that Howard, when told of the fraudulent nature of one of the claims, “He sbook his head knowingly, as if he meant he understood it.’’ That this was not legal evidence; it mparted an opinion of the witness and 1s not a statement of a fact, and, hence, is inadmissible, for which reason it was objected’ to. The Comuussioner remarked that he recollected the words of the witness and he would note the objection 01 counsel on the minutes, Mr. Buck then continued, and said that defence de- manded the production by the District Attorney of the papers upon which the charge against Mr. Howard is based, meaumg the several certificates ofexport. If these papers came, as it is said they they did, into the hands of whe defendant, with the the signatures and seals from the Custom House and with all the evidence of authority required by law, they are entitled to have them produced, The District Attorney—I don’t exactly understand what the gentleman means. Mr. Buck—We mean the papers which are under the control of the District Attorney in the cases which it is charged the defendent conspired with others to pass through the department at Washington. ‘This is a charge of conspiracy, and all the papers on which the charge is made should be produced, The District Attorney—I don’t understand the gentleman. The papers are in evidence, The Commissioner—Only those produced in Mr. Mulligan’s case, Mr. District Attorney, but not the papers in the Fischer case, which te witmess swore were made out by himsell. Some further sparring between the legal gentle- men followed, at the end of which Mr. Buck gave verbal notice to the District Attorney that at the next hearing he would cal! upon the latter w produce all the papers. Oross-examination of William I. Korn was then resumed. He testified substantially as follows: Was now clerk for Mr. Wallack, at 87 Nassau street, who ig a retatl and wholesale liquor dealer; {s post- tng books and collecting rents for him; gave Howard claims of J, A. Fischer and of others, some tobacco drawback claims; they were all made up in the omMce of Wellwood & Co.; they were all certified in the Custom House; the Fischer claim by Therriot, and had the signature of a deputy collector attixea; ‘Therriot was a clerk in the Custom House; the papers were sealed wich the Custom House seal. The District Attorney—Il it be your object to prove that ihese papers passed through the Custom House in vhe regular way, that they have all the signatures, seals, and “‘checks’’ necessary to make them certifi- cates, we shall admit that they had all these signa- tures, superscriptions, seals and checks required; that on their face they were regular papers, though fraudulent. Mr. Jerome Buck desired this liberal admission to be distinctly noted, and proceeded to cross-examine Korn:—Howard once asked the witness who the exporter was, Witness said he was @ myth; this was sald while Howard was looking over the papers; witness Goes not remember the nusber of claims he gave Howard; 11 may have been fonr or five; whey were all regularly executed; it was only once the witness told Howard the exporter was a myth; the question was asked only once. To the Commissioner—This was on the occasion of tne Fischer claim, which the witness believed was the first one given by him to Mr. Howard. By Mr. Buck—his claim was collected early in March, 1867; others were collected suortly after that; they came from witness’ office; no inducements have been held out to him to testify; no promises of a nolle prosequi in his case were made to him, and he has no reason to believe that prosecution against him will be discontinued; he was indicted in the Jatter part of June, 1869; at one time he was em- ployed oy Mr. Warner, a8 assistant assessor of rey- enue, and afterwards Lnternal Revenue broker, and before that he worked for a jeweller in Maiden lane; he was twenty-one years old last February; he was never arrested before this nor indicted, Tne District Attorney stated that he had received a number of other drawback claims from the depart- ment at Washington, of earlier date than those pre- viously offered, which he would submit. Mr. Buck considered this proceeding irregular, and ae oy what these papers were ¥ udge Plerrepont repiied that they were fraudulent papers, on which drawback claims were aliowed in the summer of 1666, and om Which the name of Mr. Howard appears. He handed some of these papers to the witness and asked bim whether he knew or recollected them. The witness said “Yes.” He knew they were made up at Caldwell’s office. The District Attorney—Give the dates. ‘Mr. Buck did not wish to be over-technical, put the District Attorney had made certain charges, brought the witness on the stand and closed the direct examination, during which he introduced cer- tain documents. He (Mr. Buck) would object to reopen the direct examination and produce these papers at this time. The Commissioner—The District Attorney had not these papers in his hands at the last session. if he had, and had closed the direct examination without producing them, he would not admit them now, but under the circumstances he would aliow thei to be offered. ‘The witness tnen described three of the claims Placed in his hands py the District Attorney, the latter calitng.twe attention of the Court to certain discrepancies. The papers are of the same nature ag those copied in the HeraLp of Sunday last, that is, a certificate from a collector of internal revenue, that the tax on certain describea manufactured Articles bad been paid; the aMidavit of the shipper or his agence that these same identical goods were sipped toa foreign port, giving the pame oi the veasel and her date of sailing, and a certificate from the New York Custom House that these articles are entered on the outward bound inanifest oj the vessei, as ascertained by actual examination, These latter certificates had all the initials “Ss, T. B.—~ Samuel T, Blatchford—upon them, ‘The three claims were ali passed by Francis A. Howard, at the Internal Revenue Department at Wasuing- ton, in June, 1866, while he was chief clerk of te | drawback bureau, and bore his initials, “PF. A. H.”” One Was in fayor of A. K. Willian, for $2,031 60; | one in javor of H. C. Holman, favor of R. A, Caldwell & Co., for 81,881. The dis- crepancies reterred to Were, that in the case of Wil- Mams, whue he was named in the affidavit as the shipper of the “refined petroleum,’ mm the Custom Honse certificate one G. K 18 80 Damed; and in the last cage, one A. H. Butterfeld makes the afida- vit that KR, 6. Caldwell & Co. were the stippers, and Ube amidavit purports to have been sworn before R. B, Caldwell as notary public. Judge Pierrepont stated that the signature of A. H. Butterfleld was written by R. B. Caldwell himself, and hence he represented the shipper and claimant, personated tug witness Buttertield and swore to 1 before him- i 4 fect nals e Witness Korn stated that all these claims were fraudulevt, Mr. Byck objected $0 this sort of evi- denee, aa that was o legal concluaion, but not the statement of s fact. The witness was inatrncted by the Commissioner to give no opinions of his own, bag facts within his Knowledge. Korn then said, in ausaver to farther questions by the District Attor- ney, that the claims were made up in the office of R. B, Caldwell & Co.; that the writing in the certificate ofexport was K. B, Caldwell’s, bus in the affidavit was that of some other person, who he did not know, They hed no memorandum of the ship- ments, but omiy gos the name of a vessel and the day her leaving port. In the Holman claim Cnaries juires brought the internal revenue collector's certificate; the certificate of export wea written by Caldwell, the aMdavit by somebody the witness does for $4,120, and one in 3 reat. There was.no ench shipper as HH. C. Holman. ‘The aMdavits of ae were all signed in blank— they were printed blanks—and when a claim was to be made out R. B. Caldwell took any blank aMcavit to which a signature was appended out of the drawer and filled it up to sult the case. Judge Pierrepont remarked that the three cases now presented gave a true insight into the nature of | ‘these claims ‘and there was no need of presenting | any more, He had seventy-elght in all sent him from Washington, ali of @ similar character, bnt they would only be cumulative to the evidence now in, and he would stop with those he had already submitted, He repeated the admission he bad pre- viously made, that these papers bad on their face all the evidences of regularity in #0 far as the sigaa- tutes, superscriptions, seals and certifications by revenue officers were concerned, and he would say that if it can be shown that Mr, Howard in his oMicial capacity did honestly pass them, he would be exculpated. Judge Pierrepont here resumed the examination of tne witness Korn. His claims were assed and paid in the summer of 1866. He recol- lected that on one occasion R. B. Caldwell had a number of similar drawback claims, with which he went to Washington one evening. R. B. Caldwell told witness that Howard had written he (Caldwell) sbould present these claims personally to the Com- missioner, who would refer them at once to Howard. Upen his cross-examination oy Mr. Buck the wit- ness repeated hig assertion that there was no such shipper as H. C, Holman; Charies R. Squires brought whole bundie of blank affidavits, signed in blank, and this—signed H. ©. Hoiman—was one of them; R- B. Caldwell & Co. were collecting honest as well as dis- honest claims, but very few of the former; Howard received ten B yd cent on these clatms; the witness checked it off on the book as paid him; did so by order of R. B. Caldwell; witness made, probably, over one hundred such entries. The name of A. H. that these were not written by him, that is proper, but aot such conversations. The Commissioner believed it but fatr to let it in, and the proferred testimony was admitted. Mr. Johnaon continued. He heard that conversation about September, 1866, at the office, 130 Pearl street. Caldwell ald that an order was issued by the de- artment that all drawback claims must be filed fore November 1, and would like to pass them through their firm name to accommodate him; there were returns made. Judge Quackenboss—What did Mulligan say to you was to be done with the papers received from Washington? Judge Pierrepont—Is this to be admitted? ‘The Commissioner—What Mulligan said to Cald- Well or Caldwell to Mulligan ta admissible, but not What either of them said to third parties. Mr. Jolnson—Caldwell came to the office aud con- versed with Mulligan about clalms; they sat on one side of a double desk; Caldwell dictated to Mulligan and the latter was writing from Caldwell’s dicte- ion; witness gaw Mulligan write about 1,000 times, and is familiar with bis handwriting; the signature “W, Richards,’ to the afidavt showo—(the one pub- lished in the HexaLp last Sunday)—is not Mulli- gan’s; one evening Mulligan said to witness; In case any envelopes came from Washington band them to Caidwell, as they belang to him. On cross-examinatidn, by Mr, Pierrepont, the wit- ness identified the endorsements on the Treasury draft for $5,385 to be in Mulligan’s handwriting, a3 also the filling of the blanks in the body of the “fchards” afidavit; that witness had no share in the money, and didn’t know where it went, Judge Quackenboss then said that they had nume- rous affidavits as to Mulligan’s handwriting and as to character and reputation for integrity, and asked for an adjournment, which was granted and the case also set down for next Wedoesday. When the Butterfield to the afMidayit is in Caldweli’s hand- ‘writing. ‘The next witness for the prosecution was John 0. R, Wilson—Knows R, B, Caldwell, Join 8, Caldwell, James Caldwell and the firm of R. B, Caldwell & Co.; knows Wiiliam H. Whimster and William J. Korn; is personally acquainted with the combination of these parties to get money out of the government; was in the combination himself. Here Judge om Lae submitted to the witness the following check:— , DQOOOIEIELODE AE TOTEIE TELE TELETETL TEETER EEL N . J ‘0. 18, 3 3 DENONATED DePostrony oF THe UxrrEen 3 NEw Yorm, Dec. 3 OCEAN NATIONAL BANK. Pay to F. A, HOWARD on order, 3 $ One thousand three hundred aud nineteen 76-100 dollars. $ 3 81,519 76-100, J.O. 8, WILSON, 3 ‘Agt. een ne ee st ne tb teLt DELETE TELE NETO TETELOLE PEELE ETE) Endorsed, F. A. Howard. For deposits account of Dibblee & Howard. This check, said the witness, was made out by myself, in room No. 4, in house 18 Cedar street; William H. Whimster was present; it was made pay- able to the order of F. A. Howard at the special re- quest of Whimster, who sald that Howard should be made to endorse the check, so that if any trouble should come he could be held; the check was for ten per cent to Howard op biter 1 Foyguue arawback claims; witness talked with Howard at Whimster's oftice, No. 1 Barciay street, when Howard asked Whimster to send on the balance of (he ten per cent due on claims collected; knows Howard's signature; the endorsement on the check is F, A. Howard's, Cross-examined by Mr, BuckK—These claims were bogus; knows not personally that Howard was inter- ested in passing bogus claims, but only trom what Whimster told witness. To the Commissioner—This was in the fall of 1866, By Mr. BuckK—There were concerned tn it Wm, H. Whimster, Wim. J. Korn, the Caidwells, and after- wards Julius H, Mott, Alexander Grant, Jr., George W. Green, Reisenberger, Therriot and Mr. F. A, Howard and Mr. ©, K. Young, at Washington; does not know about Blatchford, Upon the mention of the name of Alexander Grant, Jr., the District Attorney was surprised, and began further to inquire into tue extent of this person’s compilcity in these systematic frauds, wien Mr. Phelps, the Assistant District Attorney stepped up and whis- pered to Judge Pierrepont tvat it was all right, as Grant had been indicied by the Grand Jury that very morning, whereupon Judge Pierrepont desisted from this line of pursuit, ‘Yo the Commussioner—Witness opened a bank ac- count with Howard’s firm of Dibbiee & Howard, under a@ false name, by advice of Whimster; the mame he assumed was A. D. Walton; this was for the purpose of depositing with Howard the govern- ment warrants received on drawback claims; How- ard knew that witness had assumed a false name, because witness had also dealings in bis real name with Howard, who knew witness as Wilson. By Mr. Buck—Witness was never introduced to Howard as Wilson, vut had business transactions With him; nota bank account, but gave him checks to buy government oonds for witness; he does not know of Howard’s iterest in the claims except through Whimster; Witness can’t positively swear, but can come very near that Howard knew that Walton was a false name; when witness called at the banking house of Dibblee & Howard Dibbiee spoke to him a8 Mr. Walton; he didn’t like to be called Walton in the preseuce of friends, and he asked Howard to post Dibblee in the matter and that he should not call him Walton. Judge Pierrepont then asked tbe witness for some conversation between him and Whimster, and the witness was about answering:—-Whimster,” satd he, *Howard——” when Mr. Buck oujected to the question and the answer. The Commissioner—On What ground ? Mr. Buck—ihis 18 @ conversation between parties not in the presence of the defendant, and, therefore, mere hearsay. The Commissioner—This is @ case of conspiracy, and the acts aud declarations of one of tue partes lo it are evklence against ali conspirators, The witness then contnued:—He understood from Whimster that Howard was to have ten per cent on all claims collected and to keep a correct record of the amount; the acconnt was opened wits Howard, in the name of Walton, for tne deposit of the war- rants received from the Treasury; Whimster said Howard was very smart; that he would never take a check, but ready money; he (Whimster) wanted Howard to endorse a check aad bind himself. Judge Pierrepont here rested the case for the gov- ernment, as all the other evidence in his possession worid only be cumulative. Mr. Buck desired an adjournment, as he expected some documentury evidence from Washington, to which Judge Pierrepont replied that he had ail the papers from Washington, and Mr. Buck could have any he wanted to use in the case for the defence. Mr. Buck—Have you Mr, Howard’s letter of resig- nation? Judge Pierrepont—No, sir; but I will admit the date of Mr. Howard’s resignation of his office as the counsel may state it. Mr. Buck—Mr. Howard resigned on the 3ist day of December, 1866. Judge Pierrepout—Very well, let it be so ad- mitted, ‘The further bearing was then postponed to next Wednesday. The case of ROMEYN MULLIGAN was then called, having been adjourned over from Saturday tll yesterday. Judge Quaccendoss re- marked that it would hardly be convenient or neces- sary to enter into the case at so late an hour, it being past three o'clock, but the Commissioner con- cluded to proceed. The government having rested their case on Saturday, Judge (uackenboss, on behalf of the defence, proposed to place Mr. Mulll- wan on the stand as a witness for himself, and in order to have a thorough examination of tue whole matter. He claimed it as @ right of the prisoner, though he knew that there were gome decisions against it. He japed, however, that the istrict Attorney would not hold to technical rules, but would be found as luberal in this court as the practice now ts in the State courte. He (Judge Quackenboss) had made application to Mr. Pierrepont to bring Mr. R. B. Caid- weil here from Canada and place him on the stand as 4 witness if the District Attorney would grant & safeguard and immunity from arrest; but Mr. Pierrepont refused. He then asked the District Attorney’s consent to unite tn a commis- sion to take the testimony of R. B, Calaweli, in Can- ada, to contradict Korn, but this waa also refused. He believed that with Mr. Mulligan’s testimony everything would be fully explained, and what now appeared suspicious would no longer be so. Judge Quackenboss then made asevere onslaught on the testimony of Korn, and said that if anytuing could convert him to the doctrine of “total depravity” tt ‘was this man’s testimony, Whose very manuer ou the stand proves him to be a periurer. Judge Pierrepoint, in reply, said that the District Attorney did not refuse to have Mr. it. B, Caldwell brought into court to testify, nor did Le object to the defence bringing him here from Canada; but the Lis- trict Attorney could not promise that, if o! here, Mr. Caldwell would get away again, In regard to euch @ proceeding. He tad exerted himseif and did his best to get such & law passed in the State Legislature as to civil cases. He looked with favor upon the extension of this reform to criminal pro- ceedings, and his inMuence would be with those who might ask Congress to pass a similar provision for proceedings in the federal courts. yet it is not {| law. in che case of Mctienry, tn the District Court, | this point was decided agaiust the appilcauon, and the Judge followed the authority of a similar decision rendered by Mr. Justice Neison. Tue Commissioner stated that under the authority Of these decisions he covla not admit Mr. M } to testify, but at the close of the exw: } Mulligan might make a statement of t: sideration. Judge Pierrepont—But then I hope I will be allowed to crossexamiae Mr. Mulligan, Judge Quackendoss—Certainly; we consent to that. Mr, Barton M. Johnson was then sworn on bebaif was in business in this city in 1866; was ia the oil | commission business at No, 130 Pearl street; tho | tirm was B. M. Jonnson & Co,; his partner was Romeyn Mailigan; saw Korn at their oMce from thity to forty times; bad specimens of oil in the store; One Who Came to the store could kuow their business from the samples of oll, their busiesa cards, billheads and envelopes; their business for eight months exceeded $10,000; heard a conversa- tion of Caldwell with Mulltgan, the former asklo permission to use the frm name of B. M. Jobson Go, 1n collecting drawback ciatma. ge Pierrepont objected to such conversations being Introduced, as no such conversations were put ‘tn evidence by we prosecution, and as it would not ewen be a defence and is not legal evidence. eure Quackenboss replied that Caidwell, to facill- tate the collection of claims, asked to be allowed to the name of the firm, and that Mulligan or bis firpt Were Dot interested in those claims, Judge Pierrepont rebuited by saying that It was not legal evideuce. Here waa a draft aud au almda- vit, with endorsementa and the signature in Mulil- not kyow, This claim is of the same pature as ali the gan’s Wandwriting; if te defence have evidepce the offer of piacing Mr. Mulligan upon the stand a3 @ witness in his own behalf, he, himself, persoualiy, was in favor of | | Case hot under Oath, and that wiil be taken into con- | of the defenve ana testifed—Kesides in Brookirn; | case 01 JAMES CALDWELL was called by Commissioner Osborn, General Wil- lam Anthon, the attorney of the defendant, sald that they preferred this case to stand over until all the other drawback cases should have been con- cluded, since it Is believed that the evidence to be brought out tn these will show that Mr. James Cald- well had retired from the firm of R. B, Caldwell & Go. before the inception of these alleged fraudulent Practices. Judge Pierrepont thought the counsel nustaken, since, although it be true that his client retired from the firm, yet for some months he acted with them while these frauds were going on. The case was, however, postponed. NEW INDICTMENTS. ‘rhe United States Grand Jury yeaterday agreed on several true bills, and indicted a number of persons charged with complicity to defraud the government, These indictments will be brought into court at its next session, either this morning or Monday. Among the indicted parties, it 15 said, occurs also rominently the name of Mr. Samuel T. Blatchford. nregard to this gentleman @ rumor was current yesterday forenoon, around the United States Court House butlding, that be had been arrested in the morning. No confirmation of the report was had, bowever, laver In the day, and it was disbelieved 1p the oiliee of the District Attorney. * WHITED SEPULCHRES.” Lecture by Miss Anne E, Dickinson. A lecture was delivered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last night by Miss Anna E. Dickmson. The audience was not large, and consisted tor the most part of Methodists and the friends of Methodism, the profits of the lecture being tn aid of the Green- point Methodist Society. ‘The lecture, though it bore the entgmatical title of “Whited Sepuichres,"’ was only a lecture about Miss Dickinson’s recent experiences in Utah, used ag an illustrative wall about women’s degradation and blinded condition as to their rignts and possi- buities, and a recapitulation of the stock arguments as to the claims of women for social, political and domestic advancement, put into the glowing, earnest, feverish, pathetic, soul-inspiring eloquence of which Miss Dickinson 18 so great a mistress. At the outset of her lecture Miss Dickinson refer- red to the teachings of nature asto work in the world and to the lessons it so eloquently gave that bud and fruttage did not come from virgin soil, but from properly directed effort, and that the word was not what Charles the monarch thought Flor- ence—too pleasanyto look upon. As she trod the city ef the plains and saw the people there, pon- dered upon the soctety and its government and remembered that the days were going on and on ana that the measure of the condemnation of each was more and more, and that shortly thas measure would be filled she felt compelled to cry to her God to let her die; but then a better spirit rose within her and she remembered that it was her duty to do all that in her was to aid in the reformation and the ennobling of the mind of that people. It was near the close of a day in June that she first saw the city of the plains, in the mids¢ of which wag this whited sepulchre. There were pleasant, wide streets, with running brooks to fertilize, refreshing and fragrant, and used for the enrichment of the alpine soil, and there were wilderneases of trees and bushes burdened with a wild and luxuriant fruitage. There were no drinking saloons there, no gambling saloons, and an undefended woman might walk through the streets there at night, wie no more likelihood of msult than at the noon-day, which was more than could be said of more reputable citiesnearer home. At that city there was greater despotism than im any other place on which the sun shone. That despottsm was the despotism of Brigham Young, who was the seer, the prophet and the inspired head of the Church, Utah was not under the porernmans of the United States, it was Brigham Young’s special property aud domain. Men voted there with the ballot, but with the worst features of open voting. Brigham Young had used tis power for his own personal ends; he went to that country a poor man, he is now the second largest depositor in the Bank of England. Of the 120,000 people there there were very ew Americans by birth;that number was made up of Danes, Germans, Swedes and the most igno- rant of the Welsn and English; the most degraded people in Europe. There was nothing com- parable to them in America. lt was @ mistake to suppose that the women outnumbered the men; the sexes were pretty equal iu number, if anything tn favor of the men. Some men had ten, tiiteen, twenty and twenty-five wives; in one instance there was a@ man with 200 wives. If they judged of this system py its fruits they would find in the country no sehool system, no free public schools, no free brary, no reading room, no mental life. The soul must have no place to develop in the system of Brigham Young. There were no home either, How could there be homes where in the family @ child scarcely knew its own father? The man spent bis tune among half a dozen women, each one of them trying to supplant the other in his affections, and the means used resulting in the ruin of body and soul. She saw tne house: in which these women tlvea; heard the man, t- ing with an impudent gesture, style them as “my women,” these women having sunk to be simply the siaves of their master. One woman said she bad had twelve children, buried ten; another ten chil- dren, buried eight, and the two that remained were poor, weak, miserable creatares, She went into their temples, and she heard such men as Bishop Johnson, who had four sisters and his own niece for his wives. There was another great light of the Church who had his mother and daughter for his wives. Now for this there was not one word of con- demnation; neither were the men ostracised. Miss Dickinson then referred to the fact that similar vice in another form was found elsewhei and in European cities. She did nol say that aduitery and polygamy were found there as in Utah, but the spirit that provoked and underlay all this was found in these cities, Rever- end aivines jike Horace Bushnell said that women Were subordinate to somebody else and that she | was created for putting goodness into man; that her destiny was to be a wife and mother, and if she cid not fuifil her daty here in that respect she would have a bad time of it in the world to come. Accord- ing to that, fone womaa put a@ certain amount of codness INLO a Man twenty would certainly make him @ saint. (Cheers.) There was, however, the argument that Women were contented with their con- ction, That was the resubt of woman's ignorance. The women of Persia, of ‘Turkey, of Germany (where many of them were harnessed to a cart with @ dog,) of China were contented, } In the afternoon of this nineteanth century women were found everywhere to be content with this degradation. 38 Dickinson then gave an account of her conversations with many of the women of Utah, who on a searching conversation admitted they Were not content. Tacit belief, however, was 3 tuat by some means they were to save their souls this degrading obedience and contentment, } ing from this to inquire what was the sptrit | and tendency ot the age in ¢ re to young women tue expectations for the fature of their womanly life, Miss Dic { she was (old it Was to be @ wife r then gave @ Succession of sketcies of the hum- and mot | ve fanciful drum, di wife and mother, whom this imaginary saw, and she (Miss Dickin- | sou) proceeded to say that when men get into the prime of t life, about forty years of age, they learn to lave anotier love, & brilliant being who was ali soul, Who looked with level front into their own eyes aud for whom they negiected their own commonplace wife, That was what the youn; | giel saw tn actual life, and sue reflected and ‘acted | upon what she saw. | Miss Dickinson concluded by a résumé of the argu- nents for the greater freedom and development of man, and contended in glowing, eloquent language that this Want on the part of woman was not 10 sep- grate Lerself from man, but was the prompting of a women to see desire to get nearer to him, and ur to 1¢ Uhat no one took frem them thet which wee thelr crown. DESTRUCTION OF THE SKATING RINK AT CHICAGO, CHICAGO, Noy. 19, 1869, The Wabash Avenue Ring, on the corner of Wabash avenue and Jackson street, was crushed to the earth to-night, About eight inches of snow waa on the roof, The walls were built of brick, at twenty feet high, with an arcted roof. The bung. ing Was 100 feet front on Wabash avenue and 108 feet on Jackson street, The rink wag destroyed three years ago and immediately revuilt,