The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1870, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heznacp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Volume XXXV....... cs .eeee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARD: Lirrie Ew'iy. , Broadway.—Tun Dama OF WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MBNAGERIE, Broadway, cor- ‘Ber Thirtieth st.—Matines daily, Performance every evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—BRivom OF NOTES DaME—Coppien anv TarLon—Naw York Finsman. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— ‘WILp Oats. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tax BuaLesqus ov Bap Dioxgy, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Kighth avenue and S8d streot.—LINGARD'S BURLESQUE COMBINATION. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28d ut,, botwoen Sth and 6th avs.— Gur MANNEBING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Tuk WRitIN@ on THR WALL. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Tnx Busrsopy. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRI, Brooklya.— MocH Apo AbouT 4 MEROMANT OF VENICE, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 91 Bowery.—Com1o Vooa.ism, NEGRO MUNSTERLBY, 40. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comro Vocal ism, Nraxo Acts, do. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Bullding, Mth st —BRYAN1's MINSTRELS. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 586 Broatway.—ETu10- Pian MINSTRELSY, NeGuo Aots, &0.—“Hasu.” WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 220 Broadway.—ETuio- PIAN MINSTRELSY, NEGRO ACTS, 40. ACKDENY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—HeeeMaNn, Toe Gaear PREsTIpiGITATECR. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuesraran AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMANOES, 40. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hooury's MINGTRELS—Tus PETRIFIED GIANT, &0. APOLLO HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.—Tue CAanpiry Giant. : NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENOE AND Aut. LADIES' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 61854 Broadway.—FRMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANOR. se RE New York, Monday, January 3, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pagn. 1—Advertisements, Q—Advertisements. S—Australasia : Extension of Electric Vommunica- tion at the Antipoaes; Territorial Explorations in New Zealand—The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem—The Persian Gulf: [he Quarrel Between Muscat and the British Adjusted— Public Lands in the South— Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. 4—Eaitoriais: Leading Articie on Mexico During Grant's Administration—An Alleged Burglar in Custoay—Amusement Announcements, S—Telegraphic News—Personal Intelligence—The Sleepy Hollow Tragedy; The Stock of a Gun Smashed on the Head of a Wife—George Francis Train’s Sunday Sermon at Tam- many Hall—Robbery of a Faro Bank in Broadway—The War of the Masked Bouffers—Riot im the Eighteenth Ward—Court Calendars—The Opening Hurricane of 1870— Musical and Theatrical Notes—Business No- tices, G—Europe: Correspondence from Paris, Rome, Berlin, Dublin and Constantinople—Reviews of New Books—Musical Review—Horrible Deatn of a Little Girl by Hydrophobia— Charity and Mercy: How the Destitute Are Oared For in Our Charitable Institutions— The Money Order Department in the New York Post Ofice. ‘¥—Mormonism: How the Elders Denounce Apos- tates from the Faith; Brigham Young’s Infal- Iibility—New York City ana Police News— Brooklyn City Inteiligence—Suburban News— The Iowa Safe Robbery—Singuiar Case of Klopemania in San Franciaco, 8—Religious: Sermons by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Dra. Hepworth, Uhapin, Corbit, MeGlynn and Others—The Latest Domestic Tragedy: A Beautiful Female Shot by her Lover, who then Kills Himself—Sbipping News— Advertisements, Tne Sates or Goutp.—The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the usual sale of gold to the amount of four millions to be con- tinued during the present month, and the pur- chase of six millions of bonds. One YEAR has passed away since Mr. Rogers was murdered just at daylight ina thoroughfaro but a few hundred feet from Broadway, and the murderer is not cap- tured yet, though we are all the time assured he is well known to the police. Tue First SunpAY oF THRE YzEAR.—The services in the churches yesterday were of the usual interest, but the unpleasantness of the weather kept the congregations small. Wegive our usual extended report of the services st the more prominent churches on another page. Tue Gate.—A heavy gale sprang up yes- terday, and, from our despatches, seems to have extended as far west as the lakes. The barometer was at an extraordinary low point in this city, and at Buffalo it was lower than at any other time within the last fifteen years, The telegraph wires between here and Washington were down, and evidently the Newfoundland lines also, os we have no cable despatches whatever. Several houses were blown down in New Jersey and Brooklyn. The Jersey flats were fnundated and the Hudson River and Harlem Railroadtracks were washed away in places. The ferryboats rocked and pitched like vessels at sea, We shall soon hear, probably, of a long list of disasters on the ocean and the lakes, Reten or Terror in Cuna.—In Havana a court martial sentenced a young man to six years’ imprisonment for shouting ‘‘Viva Cuba.” This, to the outside world, might seem a suffi- ciently severe punishment for the offence, especially as Spain has just gone through a revolution in favor of free speech, &c. But it did not seem so to the government officials, end the members of the court martial have in turn been’ themselves imprisoned for their lenity to the offender. ‘his is the use that was mainly made of the guillotine in Paris ence upon atime. It was not so terrible to seseeeee Noe S NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1870. ‘Mexico During Grant’s Administration. In reviewing the history of Mexico since the restoration of Prosident Juares to power, and more especially the history of her finances, it cannot fail to be observed that notwithstand, {ng the labored and unsuccessful effort of Mr. Payno, her eminent statisitcian and ex-Secre- tary of the Treasury, to prove, in an immense volume published by the republican authorities in 1868, that Maximilian had left on unfortu- nate and disastrous financial record ; still the present administration in that bedridden coun- try Is doing sadly worse than the executed Emperor—apparently oblivious of the fact that there is a condition which a people may reach more destructive than bankraptcy. With reference to the policy of President Juarez or Mr. Romero in failing to pay for the arms and munitions furnished to the republic of Mexico in her late struggle against imperial intervention, it may at least be gaid in its favor that while it strikes a blow at the national credit it yet has the single redeeming feature of rendering it dificult for any revolutionary Party to purchase material of war with which to overthrow the government. The revenues which have accrued to the nation, as shown by the reports of Mr. Romero for the fiscal yoars ending June 30, 1868, and June 30, 1869, have furnished barely sufficient funds for the meagre support of the civil employés of the nation and of a standing army of twenty-five thousand men—the latter being absolutely necessary for the existence of any semblance of a govern- ment in Mexico for a single hour. Native and foreign creditors of the nation see no prospect of a speedy or distant payment of principal or interest, and foreign capital has been leaving the country for investment within more hos- pitable shores. With such a condition of com- merce and public credit, the revenues, which in 1868reached only about twenty millions of dollars and in 1869 eleven millions of dollars, promise in the year ending June 30, 1870, not to exceed eight or ten millions—scarcely suf- ficient to sustain the government, and with the English and Spanish creditors ‘clamorous for their interest money, now unpaid for about three years, to say nothing of the holders of the American loan of three millions of dollars, and a further obligation of magnitude which promises to become a national debt, with the United States as the creditor, resulting from tbe labors of the Mexican commission now in session at Washington, While these complications are accumulating and becoming more or less aggregated the in- dications are that the internal and political disease of the country is becoming most alarm- ing and perhaps fatal. The desperation of that portion of the liberal party which is not in accord with President Juarez is becoming marked, ond there are rumors that it threat- ens a fusion with the old Church party, with the view of overturning the government be- fore the end of this Presidential term. Pre- texts for such measure will be abundant, The ambition of Mr. Lerdo, President Juarez’s Secretary of State, it is believed, is driving the former to grasp after the Presidency, and, although professedly less talented than his brother Miguel, he desires to hand his name down to posterity by having his portrait hung among those of the Presidents of Mexico. The positiveness with which this Mexican statesman assumed the front on the occasion of the recent banquets given to Mr. Seward in the halls of the Montezumas, thus sparing Mr. Romero from the attacks of his enemies and the vituperations of an opposition press, is characteristic of the man; and that act and the comparative quietness of Mr. Romero con- firmed the fact that Mr. Seward was a guest of the nation, and not of Mr. Romero. Mr. Lerdo is fearless as well as ambitious. He will most likely find pitted against him for the Presi- dency General Porfirio Diaz and should the contest wage too warmly, itis not unlikely that President Juarez may consent to be nominated as a third candidate, and possibly may be elected. This election is to be held about the time of the rising from its session of the “Mexican Commission,” and bids fair to be the signal for the sword and the firebrand. Should such a condition of things ensue, then, orearlier, as is most probable, the administra- tion of General Grant, representing a nation which has already assumed responsibilities in the affairs of Mexico, may have it in its power, and may feel it toboits duty, to invite México to “have peace,” through the medium of a loan properly secured to our Treasury, by which the government ‘‘on the throne” in Mexico may at least subdue its restive people for a while, or, if refused, through the me- dium of ‘‘moral suasion” vigorously applied. The recent action of the Congress of Mexico refusing to abolish the ‘‘free zone” is decidedly unfriendly to the United Siates, against the interest of whose Treasury it has been operat- ing some time. The protest of the United States against its continuahce, like the request for the life of Maximilian, has been insultingly disregarded, and it is not impossible that the same public sentiment and regard for national honor which occasioned our late interference in the attempted establishment of imperial- ism in Mexico may in turn impel us to require a due respect for our just demands. There can be no doubt that the ‘free zone” results in great benefit to Mexico, the free importation of goods along that belt being an inducement for people to reside there, thus constituting a sort of frontier army without expense to the Mexican nation; but the losses to the Treasury of the United States resulting from the smug- gling of goods across the river into Texas and the effect of the same upon legitimate merchandising cannot be quietly acquiesced in by our government. No other view can be taken of this subject except that an army is being maintained thereby upon our border which is constantly waging war upon our reve- nues, and capitalists established on the Rio Grande and in Southern Texas have the right to require of the government a speedy and just settlement of this question. Reviewing, then, the political war now as ever revolutionizing that country, her present bankruptcy, her prospective financial misery andthe maddened hatred of political parties for each other which threatens to arrive at its acme at the next Presidential election, and considering the incubus of foreign debt, already reaching hundreds of millions, and soon to be increased by the ‘‘Mexican Commis- offenders as to those who did not regard every trivial offence worthy of death. The height of forocity that France reached in that great paroxysm is the natural tone of the Spanish semper. sion” in all probability, and not unmindful of the international questions which may at any | moment assume unexpected proportions, as the of nations and the obligations due from one to the othor—reviewing all these, thero is sufli- cient ground for believing that before the end of the term of General Grant's administration the ‘Mexican question” may force itself into importance, and, if its settlement should be deferred, may form a prominent plank in the =— of the successful political party of 1872, The New State Legislaturo-The Prospect. The State Legislature of 1870 will assemble at Albany to-morrow. The) responsibilities resting upon that body are not unknown nor uninteresting to the public. |These responsi- bilities lie this year exclusively with the demo- cratle party, who have a handsome majority in both houses, and will necessarily, to start with, control the election of presiding officers and the patronage which belpngs to them, as well as the appointment of all the committees, to whom every important measure {s to be referred. Whatever radical changes in the State government, or modifications or reforms shall form a part of this winter's legislation, the democratic party must answer for, The representative power of the party being deposited in the Tammany Regency, the heaviest burden of duty, of course, rests with them. Their task is not an easy one. Although the surface of the stream may be bright and sparkling enough, there are rocks and shoals and dark places at the bottom, eddies at the margin and whirlpools in the channel. It may be that more is expected of the leaders by their own followers than they can accomplish consistently with the preser- vation of harmony in the ranks, while it is exceedingly doubtful whether, in the exercise of a suddenly acquired and almost despotic power, they can satisfy the expectations of the people throughout the State in the matter of those organic changes in State and local government which they must propose in order to be consistent with the antecedent history of the party and the opposition in which it has placed itself to the Albany commissions, the management of the canals and the other alleged grievous and expensive machinery of government established by the republican party, Upon all these points it is probable that the policy of the majority is not yet clearly definod. There is more counsel needed before the pro- gramme can be announced, if it is to be announced at all; for, although we believe the Governor has so far progressed with his mes- sage as to have placed it in the hands of the printers, the consultation with the leaders of the party may result in some modification. We have no doubt, however, that the Governor's document embodies the policy of the legis- lative session conclusively upon all the impor- tant questions which may come up for action, not only as far as they concern State affairs, but with a view of shaping the policy of the democratic party throughout the country for the probabilities of future success, especially in the Presidential contest of 1872. The coming session of the Legislature will be an exciting one in many ways. Tho first excitement will be upon the election of Speaker of the House. Tammany has its man scored for this place, and, with&ts twenty votes to start on in the caucus, may be said to have @ good foundation, Fractious Kings county, which is in rebellion against Tammany upon this point, claims some rights for the active young debater who represents the vitality of the Brooklyn delegation on the floor. The country democratic members, so far as we know, make no claim for the Speakership, and will probably content themselves with secur- ing the minor offices of clerks, sergeants-at- arms, and so forth, As for the republicans, they may take advantage of the little trouble in the democratic camp to coalesce with the anti-Tammany candidate ; but as that would be very damaging to the prospects of the shrewd politician from Kings county, who is seeking the nomination, it is hardly likely that such a compromise would be accepted. The republi- cans will, therefore, probably nominate for- mally Mr. Selkreg, of Tompkins, the defeated candidate of last session, and will give a com- plimentary nomination also to all the republi- can officials of that session. There does not appear to be any contest in prospect for the clerkship of the House. Arm- strong, the clerk of 1868, and an Albany man, is reported to have the course open to him. But itis said that the country districts will make a fierce fight for the clerkship of the Senate. Buffalo, Lockport, Troy and Schoha- rie have candidates in the field against the New York city aspirant, and if the country members work the game well they may throw New York out of the ring after all. The ‘‘business season” will no doubt fairly open to-day, as far as the preliminaries of election for office are concerned. While the public have little interest in this portion of the democratic family affairs, they will doubtless look with considerable anxiety to the legisla- tive proceedings, which are to decide the future of our State and city governments, the reduction or increaso of taxation, the better security of peace and order, the just pun- ishment of criminals and the economi- cal management of our munivipal affairs. All these things come within the province of the democratic Legislature to whom the people have entrusted the guardianship of their rights. Let them see that the trust be honestly ful- filled. ISABELLA AND THE Jxwets.—Isabella has been charged by the slippery fellows who have succeeded her in Madrid with running away with the jewels of the Spanish crown; but according to the latest story on the subject, so far from Isabella having stolen the crown jewels, there were no crown jewels to steal, and all the gems that shone on her royal pergon on grand occasions were personal gifts toher during her reign. When we consider throngh how many plundering hands Spain has passed since Napoleon upset her we can understand that it would be strange if there were any crown jewels, A New Degat.—The political machine is refreshed all around, and we havea new Legis- lature and new municipal organizations of almost every stripe, and doubtless we shajl soon have many more novelties early in the new year, Very well. We can hardly hope that the new ones will be any better than their predecessors, and certainly we need not fear that they will be «ny worse. Thus we are result of an illiberal appreciation of the rights { comparatively out of fortune’s power. Tho Spaniards Delighted with the United | From the Persian Gulf and the Anttpodes. States Government. We learn, both from Havana and Spain, that the Spaniards are delighted with the United States government for the course it has taken with regard to Cuba. This shows that the Spaniards have gratitude if they have no other virtue, The trite old saying that ‘“‘a friend in need is a friend indeed” has been ex- emplified fully in the cruel persecution of the brave Cubans and in the support given to Spain by the administration at Washington. Under the specious plea of neutrality or friendly obligations to Spain our government has prevented the Cubans from getting any ald from this country, while the Spaniards have been furnished freely with nearly all the arms and munitions of war they havo used against the Cubans, besides the thirty gunboats that were built here. Well may the Spaniards be grateful. If the same privileges had been allowed the Cubans—if only even-handed justice had been extended to them—we have no doubt Cuba would have attained its free- dom, or have been well nigh free by this time. Yes, this free and mighty republic has been the efficient ally of the most atro- cfous despotism in the world, and has strained its efforts to crush a people struggling for republican liberty. Whether these efforts have been made out of a pretended regard for the neutrality laws or from political motives the fact is the same and the shame none the less, Had this government been disposed to favor the Cubans, to aid an American people right on our border to acquire freedom, and to promote the cause of repub- lican liberty in America, as it ought to have done, there are many ways in which it might have helped the Cubans, directly or Indirectly, without violating its obligations to Spain. Every one knows how great governments act in all similar oases when their sympathies or policy prompt them to do anything. Spain, France, England, or any other European Power, has no difficulty in making black ap- pear white or white black whenever national policy, interest or aggrandizement is in ques- tion, Governments can always strain a point, and that a long way, on the side of their sym- pathies or interests. And on all American questions the United States government ought to be potential and American to the core ; but, alas! this great country has abdicated its power at the very time when no nation on the earth would presume to interfere with it. In the day of our might the government has become the enemy of liberty and republican freedom on American soil and the friend of the worst and most cruel despotism. Its conduct in the case of Cuba will be an indelible blot upon our history and the administration in power. Our Letters from Europe. Our special European correspondence to-day is diversified in topic and interest, and elegant in point of narrative and detail. It presents the governments, the contition of society, the state of morals, with the advance and reclassi- fication of crime at many of the maip cen- tres, or Old World standpoints, in such light as will attract the attention of statesmen and politicians, humanitarians and ecclesiastics, Parliamentary management, as it is termed, was found to be a troublesome matter in France, where the people are, with characteristic volatility, still more disposed towards a return to the ready governmental plan of '48 than the awaiting of the more enduring conatitu- tional fruits which must eventually ensue from the perfection of what Kossuth in his day called the ‘‘solidarities.” Science has come out to assure us by physiological verification that Traupmann was born a murderer, and must have walked in the world a destructive, whether he willed it or not, even before the perpetra- tion of the Kinck tragedy. If this discovery had been made and promulgated some years since it might have been of much thore ben- efit to humanity, as affording some chance for an attempt at the correction of his brutal instincts before the intervention of the guillotine which will soon cut off his head, and with it the hopes of the reformists. In juxtaposition with the Traupmann case we have a most exciting account of a deadly struggle which took place between a traveller in a French railway carriage and his would-be murderer; the brave resistance of the former and arrest of the latter. Rome remained consoled by the fact that the grand cross which heralded the Council procession in the Vatican was aspecial gift of the Marquis of Bute, a convert to the faith of her Church. The Church of the Twelve Apostles in the Holy City was temporarily changed into « hall for the performance of a sacred concert. The bishops lost a great many gold chains and valuables on the day of congregation in the Church of St. Peter, and—‘‘oh, shame, oh, sorrow !”—Judas was fully represented on the floor in the persons of several lay thieves from abroad, who could not neglect the opportunity. We have special particulars of the recent re- conciliation of Turkey and Egypt, effected mainly, as is said, through British mediation. Ireland maintained her agitation for land tenure reform. Germany sends a pleasing sub- stantial in the assertion that peace will be maintained in Europe; so that from the be- ginning to the end our letters are not only entertaining but hopefully reassuring. Tue IrnerressiBLe Nearo.—Verily the world moves fast and the greatest changes take place within a very short time. Less than ten years ago the negroes had no social or political rights with the white men. They are now equals with the whites, and in the South superior, as far as our radical govern- ment can make them so. An event occurred at the White House on New Year's day which shows how far this extraordinary revolution has gone, The “‘colored folks,” understanding that an order had been given that they were not to have the honor of a reception by the President until after the ‘“‘white folks” had been received, rebelled at this invidious dis- tinction and made a great noise at such a vio- lation of the Chicago platform and the princi- ples of the party in power. Sambo is right. The party in power owes its existence to him, and it was an unkind cut to place him in the background. We know not the ground of this exclusion ; but if it was on account of the odor that might have troubled the crowds of white Indies and gentlemen present on that occasion we recommend Congress to make an appropriation fora large quantity of eau de cologne for the negroes in time for the next New Year's reception. From the shore of the Persian Gulf comos the special correspondence, dated at Muscat, on the 13th of November last, which appears {n our columns to-day. It details the cause and particulars of the quarrel which recently existed between the Sultan of Muscat and the British government authorities, besides ex- plaining the means of its adjustment. It will be observed that England strictly adhered to her traditional practice of upholding the honor of her flag, and was, as she generally has been, olene volens, in such cases successful. The Sultan lived in hourly dread of a revolution and the country generally was agitated by dynastic intrigues. A new sub-marine telegraph cable, connecting India and the Gulf of Persia, had been suc~- cessfully laid from Kunachee to Bushire, 80 that Bombay now has two different lines to the head of the gulf, and from thence there are two alternative lines—one through Persia and Rusgla, and the other through Turkey in Asia. It is to be hoped that the new agency may produce soothing consequences in the land, as it has elsewhere. Australasia is actively engaged in extending and ‘perfecting its telegraphic communication, the keen, young and unbiassed mind of the sntipodal settlers having apparently formed an accurate and anticipating estimate of its great value to the populations in that quarter of the world, not only in the present but for the future, New Zealand supplies accounts of the continued march northward from Wellington, in the shape of a highly interesting report of the progress of the exploring expedition which set out some time since from Waikaremoana, and what its members discovered by the way, woods, promontories, and a lake in the moun- tains. It is science, progress and the conse- quences; new facts concerning the globe and its peoples. Fine Arts—Picture Snies. The rapidly growing taste for the fine arts has occasioned a great extension of the picture trade in New York. Vast sums have been invested in it by dealers who make this city a central point for the distribution throughout the country of a multitude of works by native and foreign artists. A few years ago, when a market for productions of this kind could hardly be said to exist here, lumber rooms, inconvenient halls and even old churches used to be temporarily hired for occasional picture sales. But now there are at least throe spacious, elegant, well ventilated and well lighted galleries specially and permanently devoted to exhibitions and auction sales. In addition to numerous picture stores of an infe- rior class, several ‘‘Art Buildings” have arisen on Broadway and Fifth avenue, equalling if not surpassing some of the finost similiar estab- lishments in London and Paris. Most of the picture sales, however, which have taken place during the present season have been characterized by discouragingly low prices and by an unusual lack of eagerness on the part of buyers. We are convinced that this is owing less to scarcity of money than to the fact that so many picture dealers, under- rating the improved standard of public taste and overrating public gullibility, have not hesitated, in their haste to get rich, to glut the market with trash from the workshops of wretchedly paid foreign copyists. At all the great art centres of Europe, and particularly, it is said, at Dusseldorf, their agents have even suc- ceeded in inducing certain artists of high repu- tation to connive at schemes for swindling the American public, and“ to place, or permit to be placed, their names on copies of really valuable pictures, These copies are brought over here and, encased in gaudy frames, are foisted as originals on inexperienced and credulous buyers. This has become a wholesale and retail swindling business. It costs the dealers so little to obtain and import these bogus productions that their profits are enormous. Many of the copies are mere daubs; but some of the counterfeiting copyists regu- larly employed by the dealers have sufficient technical skill to make passable pictures at a rate of remuneration which would be utterly inadequate, even for them, if they were living here instead of abroad. No American artist would wish or could afford to do the same work at the same price. Consequently the greater the demand which can be artificially stimulated for foreign copies the less encour- agement is given to native artists to make either copies or original paintings. Thus fraudulent picture dealers get rich, while, so far as they are coneerned, the artists’ may starve. Happily this gross injustice needs but to be exposed to be condemned and remedied. Already purchasers are suspiciously avoiding picture sales of the Peter Funk order. They will do wisely if, henceforth, and especially during the holidays, they confine their patron- age to those first class dealers. who merit it by offering, both at private sale and at auction, works of undoubted value by the best Euro- pean and American painters. There must be not a few of such works among the two thou- sand pictures comprised fa the collection of a late eccentric Boston millionnaire, and which are soon to be sold at auction in New York. This will be an extraordinary picture sale, More Spanish Falsehoods. It is hardly necessary for us to say that the telegram from Havana, published yesterday, stating that the Cuban Junta in New York advised their countrymen to lay down their arms, is 2 falschood. Everybody here knows fit to be so. Nor will the American people anywhere believe the statement. It was hardly necessary for the Cuban Junta to con- tradict it. They have done so, however, in a card published elsewhere. They have also sent a despatch to the press of Havana denouncing the circular ascribed to them as a forgery. So far from the Junta ad- vising such a course, the patriots com- posing that body would rather lose all they possess—and they are among the richest men of Cuba—and would rather see their native island utterly desolated, than submit to the frightful despotism of Spain. The die is cast, and the Cubans will fight to the end, whether that be independence or utter ruin of the island. This mendacious despatch shows, in fact, the straits to which the Spaniards are reduced in order to keep up their courage, to mislead the people of Havana and of other parts of the island outside of the patriot lines, and to strengthen the hands of onr government in the fraud it is practising upon the American peo- ple. Indeod, this and the other similar falsc~ hoods that are circulated from Havana and Washington have all the appearance of being concooted through an understanding between the Spanish authorities at Havana and mem- bers of General Grant's administration for the purpose of misleading the public. With all” the reports about the success of the Spanish troops in Cuba, the suppression of the insur- rection, and all such manufactured news, we do not hear of the capture of President Ces- pedes, his Cabinet and Logislature, or of the capture of Generals Quesada, Jordan or any other of the leading patriots. The truth is, nine-tenths or more of the whole population of Cuba, white and colored, are heart and soul with the revolution and for independence, and neither the patriots on the island nor the Junta in New York will give up the cause till they have either obtained thoir freedom or Cuba ia mado valueless to Spain. MormonisM—THE INFALLIBILITY oF Bria- HAM Youna,—Our letter from Salt Lake City discloses the fact that the question of Brigham Young's infallibility is one cause of the schism thet is shaking the Mormon Church to its centre. Many of his elders and apostles believe in and advocate the doctrine of his infallibility, and the “‘apostates” who disbelieve in it are mercilessly excommunicated, without awaiting the decision of any ecumenical council of Mormons which may be convened hereafter to settle the question. Spiritualism, it seems, has received many proselytea among the dissenting Mormons, some of whom hold that Joe Smith, King Solomon and other notables have appeared to them and advised their present course. To this argument, which ought to appear conclusive, Orson Pratt, a stanch adherent of Brigham, replies that devils have taken tho shapes of these good men and misled them, “For,” says he, ‘‘devils can be perfect gentlemen and appear flike angels.” ANOTHER TRAGEDY.—Still another tragedy, replete with the elements of the Richardson- McFarland case, occurred yesterday at an assig~ nation house in Elizabeth street. One Bauman, a public school teacher in Brooklyn, met by appointment a woman whose name is supposed to be Annie McNamara, and who is also: sup- posed to be the wife of a Brooklyn merchant, in a room at this house yesterday after- noon, and soon after pistol shots were heard, and both parties were found in the room mortally wounded. Bauman was discovered with a small four-barrelled pistol in his hand. Both were alive, but they gave no sign that would tell how or why the shooting was done. They were taken to the hospital and died last night. Letters found on them show that they had been carrying on a clandestine correspondence for some time, and the mistress of the house stated that they had been meeting at her house for nine months. A mystery lies in the fact as to why the shooting was done, and the inquest which is to be held to-day will probably serve to clear it up. A Sien or THE TimEs.—In Europe some keen financiers are now engaged in the forma- tion of a joint stock company, with half a mil- lion dollars, which proposes to make the for- tune of all its shareholders by operating on the “dead certainty” of the constant and early appreciation of United States government bonds. These men argue that the United States government will apply every year to the reduction of the debt the excess of its revenue. The excess may be one hundred millions of dollars, or not more than fifty millions of dol- lars, If itis one hundred millions of dollara the debt will be paid in fifteen years; if it is fifty millions of dollars the debt will be paid in twenty-three years. In the period of time, therefore, between now and 1893 it is confi- dently counted that all United States bonds will have risen to full par value, and in the differ- ence between that value and present rates the company sees its Eldorado. Mr. Brrouer's New Year's.—Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, at Plymouth church last night, stated that he had tried making visits on New Year's day instead of receiving, and he rathor liked it as far as he got, but he only got.a few blocks from his house and visited only sixty acquaintances. He proposed, therefore, to adjourn New Year's day until Wednesdey next, when he would visit another fraction of his friends. It must be understood, however, that Wednesday will not on that account be a legal holiday for the public in general—only for Plymouth church. Tue City Institutions or Mzroy.—It is pleasant to read of the boundless charities of New York city. An article in another column gives an account of three notable institutions— the Home for the Friendless in East Thirticth street, the House of Mercy on the corner of Houston and Mulberry streets, andthe Episcopal, House of Mercy in Eighty-sixth street. *The aggregate number of beneficiaries of the three institutions during the past year was 6,023. ‘These institutions are only a few among many like them, but they serve to show that in New York, “the quality of mercy is not strained.” How Tug Cniness Get Here.—The letter of a Chinaman in explanation of the position and character of his countrymen in this city tells us how they get here, which, indeed, might appear no little of a mystery, cousider- ing the length of the trip and the poverty of the traveller, They are mostly ‘‘deserters from Cuba”—that is, they are brought to Cuba in coolie ships as slaves. They hide themselves in other ships, hoping to be carried again to the Middle Kingdom, and are landed hero instead, to the delights of a five story paradise and an Irish Evo in the Fourth ward, AN ALLEGED BUXGLAR IN CUSTODY. An individual who gave his name as John Johnson was arrested on susptcion of burgiary py oficer Sheridan, in the Fiftieth precinct, Brooklyn, on Saturday night last, baving in bis possession at the time a basket containing several articles of plate, which have since been identified as haviog been stolen from the house of Thomas Leavy, corner of Sixth avenue and Wyckoff sireet. Since his arrest it has been ascertained, as alleged, that the prisoncr ‘was implicated in seven or cight burglaries. He bad ona pair of pants stolen from th» residence of ex- Judge Biraseye, in Nevins street, on the 3d of Ovto- ber last, also ashirt stolen from the dwelling of a Mr. Bunce. Johnson is further accused with steal. ing about $150 worth of property from the reside:ce of Mr. Van Lynan, tn Dean street, on the evening of December 30. The accused will be arraigned for examination before Judge Walsh wis morning,