The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1870, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXV- INTS TAS EVENING, Br NIBLO'S , GAKD? way.—GRanp RoMANTIO PLay o Tun Duxe's WOOD'S MUSEIM AND MENAGERIE, Proadway, cor- ner Thirueth st. —Matinee daily. Performance every evening. BOWERY TUKATRE, howery.—BuoKx, MANY HOuNS; OR, GOLD Up 10 188, £0. Buox, Mow THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street—Tum BURLEGQUE ov TRE SkvEN. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th atreet.— Bou0on. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Epwin Booru 43 HAML GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Etghth avenue and 23d 64—TOk TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. ‘t,, between Sth and Oth avs.— FRENCH THEATRE, Itth st. and 6th av.—GENEVIEVR DE BRALANT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bronuway.—SE2i00s FaMiLr— Tue Rrirrize. (OE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—ITALIAN OrzZA— BALLO ty MAGOUEBA. FIFTH AVENUK THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—Suur; On, SUMMER SCENES at Lona BRaxon. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Rrookiya.— ALL HALLOW Eve Latssr FRom Naw Youx. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 21 Bowory.—Coxto Vooacism, NEGRO MUNSTRRLBY, 40. . primate THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Couto Vocat- 1m, Nrano Acts, &c. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth sL—GRyani's MINSTRELS. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE PIAN Miswrneisy, Nugno 4, 585 Broa tway.—ETtO §, &0.—"Hasm.” KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Etu10- PIAN MINUTAELSLY, NOLO ACTS, £0, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strect.—EQUESTRIAN AND GYNNASTIO PERFORMANCES, 40. . HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brook; MINGTEELG—THe THEATRICAL AGENOY, .—HooLer's APOLLO HALL, corner 2th street and Broadway.— Tox New Hineenioon, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BormNnok AND Ant, Now York, Fridny, February 11, 1870. — CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pack. 1—Advertisements. — Advertisements. B—Advertisemenis. 4—Eotorial: Leading Article on The Republican Party in Congress, Signs of a Break-up, What Thent—The Ways of Wall Street—Personal Inteligence—Fine arts: Sales of Paintings— ‘The Auempted Outrage in the Park—Probable Sutcide—Army {utelligence—Amusement An- nouncements, G—Telegraphic News from Ali Parts of the World; Paris Tranquil, with the Revolutionists Irritable and Sullen; Napoleon in Uniform 3 Head of the Army; the Alabama Claims, the Church Question and Irish Radicalism in the British Parliament; Turkey and Egypt, the Cloud tn the East— Washington: Excitement in the Bear Gar- den; A Revolutionary Soldter on the Floor of the House; Bitter Debate Between Radical Senators—The Rat Pit Sanctuary—Busincss Notices. G—News from Central and South America—Locali- tes of the New Contagion—The Trtuity Caurch Property—More About the Colored Mississippi Senator—Reai Estate Matters—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts Yester- day—The Treasury Cotton Cases in the Unitea States Supreme Court—Musical and Theatrical Notes—The Investigation into the Affairs of the Ipsurance Companies—Marriages and Deaths, ‘y=—Financial and Commercial Reports—Advantages of the Postal Telegraph to the Public and the Press—Advertiseme nts. 8—The Stale Capital: Ne-election of Judge Bos- worth as Police Commissioner; The Metro- politan Excise Bill Under Consideration tn the Senate—The Great Raid on the Brokers—The Newark Murder—New York City + News—Fight Among the Fos- sils—Meeting of the Potroiecum Board of Trade—The New Suspenston Bridge at St. Louis—Fires Last Night—Shtpping Intell1- gence—Adgertisements. Joun Kirts, an old soldier of the Revolu- tion, was admitted as o special honor to the floor of the House of Representatives yester- day. He must have sadly missed the glowing eloquence of those ‘grand old statesmen who were members during his younger days. Sreerr CLeaninc.—Fifth avenue is being dug up from its tarry depths, and people will soon be able to take a tolerably clear mouthful of air in its neighborhood. It isto be hoped that it will not again be improved with a pavement that the people pay for putting down and must also pay for taking up. That is, however, the best piece of street cleaning that has been done in the city this great while. A PraotioaL Inpian Pottoy.—It is pro- posed to pension two little girls just rescued from Indian captivity, and to charge this pen- sion against the annuity of the tribe that stole the children. This idea might becarried fur- ther. Why not charge against the Indians, in the naturs of damages, a certain sum for every white man they kill, and reserve that sum from the annuity of the tribe to which the murderer belonged ? ReMovED For Cavusz.—The Governor has “removed for cause” Messrs. Green, Shaw and Buell, Commissioners of the Niagara Frontier Police. The cause was that they taxed pa- trolmen for political purposes and deducted the money from the men’s pay. The reason is good and szfficient. Jt was unfortunate for these commissioners that their places were made for them bya republican State government, and were wanted for democrats. Jury Dvury.—There is no doubt much iruth in the Mayor's reflection that the people are in great part themselves to blame for the failure to punish crime. The jury box is opened to the friends of the criminal. Citizens properly fit toactas jurors shirk the duty, and thus afford a field for the operations of sharpers, who make merchandise of the Opportunity and sell their verdict in the criminal’s interest, The cheapest thing to buy is a jury, Over CeNtraL AND SovTH American Cor- RESPONDENCE.—We publish this moruing o Dudget of communications from our corre- spondents in the Central and South American republics, The news contained therein is favorable, indicates prosperity and makes a smaller exhibit of those revolutionary ten- Cencies which people are wont to consider as inseparable with the existence of the Spanish- American countries, It is noticeable that as commercial and agricultural enterprises ad- vance the revolutionary and disorderly ele- ments retreat before their influences. The prospects, taxcn altogether, are cheering, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY UJ, 1870. Rt eT Tho Republican Party in Congress—Signs of a Breakeup-What Thon? Thero are signs of coming’ discords and divisions among tho republicans in Congress. ‘Thero is a division of the party on tho tariff question, which, with » few more votes, will give the House to tho advocates of a strictly revenue policy of taxing imports. Trouble ts foreshadowed in the camp between the East and the West on the late logal tendor decision of the Supreme Court, and upon the money question in all its phases, while quite as sug- gestive of party demoralization as anything elso is the conflict for the position of the recog- nized leader of the House, 9 position which, in a party view, is somewhat analogous to that of the Prime Minister of England, espe- cially when held by a man of the sagacious, tenacious, resolute and decisive character of the late *‘Old Thad Stevens.” A grand, simple, comprehensive and popu- lar idea, however, is necessary to the success of the political parly aspiring to power, and to the success of tho party in power, The republican party, for instance, was successful in supplanting the democratic party on the grand idea of the extinction of African slavery. After thirty years of a sectional agitation of tho slavery question the offensive exactions and demands of the dominant and -domineering Southern pro-slavery oligarchy had created 6 revolution in the Northern public mind against negro slavery which brought the republican party into power, Its strength was next increased and established on the grand idea of the war for the Union against the slavehold- ers’ rebellion, and with the collapse of the rebellion, involving tho abolition of slavery, the republicans found a new bond of cohesion in reconstructing the Southern States, the con- stitution and the Union on the grand idea of equal rights, civil and political, regardless of race or color. The stupendous work of revo- lution thus embodied in that initiative republi- can idea, the extinction of slavery, is now completed, In the brief historical period of ten years of this party in power this great work is accomplished in the thirteenth, four- teenth and fifteenth articles of ameadment to the national constitution. Some new leading idea, therefore, is wanted by the dominant party. What shall it be? We hear the cry of “Specie payments ;” but there aro so many theories upon this idea that it involves both parties in confusion. “‘Retrenchment and reform?” General Jack- son was first elected upon this idea against the awful extravagances involved in the expenditures of President John Quincy Adams—expenditures amounting to thirteen millions a year, all toid, But this is an old hobby, and General Grant is doing as well with it as could be expected. Upon the money question there is no simple and compreben- sive idea upon which the republicans can hold together and hold the field. We know that taxes must be lightened and equalized; that the debt must be settled; that the national currency must be brought to the specie stan- dard; that the jobbers and schemers, ‘and speculators and gambling rings, resulting from the war, whereby thousands have been enriched and hundreds of thousands have been impoverished, have had their high carnival of revelry and spoils, and we feel that the day for honest work and legitimate business is at hand; but the transition must still be subject as much to circumstances as to the leading ideas of grasping politicians, The republican party, then, cannot do much onthe money question, and it must look to something else for a new leading idea. Gen- eral Grant might give them the winning war cry on the Alabama claims, or on the Cuban question, or on the Mexican question; but General Grant seems to have settled down to the inglorions policy of masterly inactivity, the policy of taking things quietly and trusting to luck. He seems to forget that, though elected for his first term on his great and glorious achieve- ments asa soldier, he will be judged as a can- didate for a second term upon his merits and achievements as o statesman. He seems to depend upon his party, while his party depend upon him to clear the way for the succession, and this is the road to defeat. Indeed, it appears to us that the only alternative to the administration and the party behind it to avoid discords, divisions and defeat is the popular idea of annexation, in the settlement of the Alabama claims, the Cuban or the Mexican question. On the idea of the annexation of Texas comparatively obscure Tennessee poli- tician defeated the great statesman of Ken- tucky, and personally the most popular man of that day. So now even the popularity of General Grant will not eave him and his party if they fail to take a new departure, The American people are like the old Romans when Rome was extending her boun- daries in view of her manifest destiny as mistress of the world—they believe their government equal to any extent of territorial expansion. We say, then, tiat “the almighty nigger,” with whom in slavery the old South- ern democratic party flourished, collapsed and died, and with whom, ia the name of liberty and equal rights, the repub! party has fulfilled iis mission, is an ensign which must now give way to some new idea in order to hold this republican party together orin order to build around the administration the ruling party of the future, This necessity comes more distinctly in relief in view of the probability that in the elections of next fall for Congress the opposition in the Southern States in a general compact with the blacks will regain the Southern balance of power. Under the present condition and tendencies of things the administration is drifting with Congress to demoralization, failure and defeat, An Ice Inza.—When the coal companies want to prepara the public mind for an enor- mous increase in the price of coal they begin about the middle of summer to tell ug what a terribly severe winter is coming. Apparently the ice companies have taken a hint of that plan; and now they are telling us little stories all intended to prepare the way for charging for ice two or three times what it is worth, ‘That is the meaning of all the gabble about the scarcity of ice. Asovr Two Huxprep Broxers of Wall street were fined yesterday in sums of two hun- dred or four hundred dollars each for non- payment of the tax on their business capital. The aggregate will mako a fino little haul for Uncle Sam. The Cuban Quostion—Iutormation Wanted frem Goneral Banks, Thero have beon several resolutions sub- mitted to the House of Representatives for the recognition of beligerent rights or the inde- pendence of Cuba. There have boon sevoral of » similar character also offered in tho Senate, Tho sesolutions in both houses havo been geferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Knowing the implacable hostility to Cuba and pro-Spanish feeling of Mr, Sumner, the chairman of tho Senate committee, thero is little hope of the Senate resolutions being acted upon, unless Mr. Sumner’s colleagues should insist that a report be mado, But we did expect General Banks, tho chairman of the House committees, would act differently, and that he would promptly report in favor of the-Cubans. When Mr. Fitch, of Novada, offered o resolution ten days ago ‘‘to grant belligerent rights to the repablio of Cuba,” and moved its reference to a select committee of sevén, Goneral Banks had it referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which he is chairman, Looking at the very docided courso General Banks took in favor of the Cubans before he went to Europe, and at his expres- sions of sympathy for them and confidence of their success immediately after he roturned, we had no doubt that his motion to have Mr. Fitch's resolution referred to his own commit- tee was for the purpose of reporting back promptly and favorably that resolution to the House. We believed he wished it to take that course in order that greater weight might be given to it, that he might take the lead in o question ho had at heart, and that the Cuban cause might be better promoted. Tt is a matter of surprise, therofore, that no action has boon taken by General Banks and that he remains silent dbout Cuba. Did his trip to Europe have the effect of weakening his love of re- publican liberty in America? Tas he becomo enamored with monarchica) institutions and despotism? Or has he, since his return to Washington, fallen in with that little clique of Spanish admirers and enemies of Cuba, of which Mr. Sumner, Secretary Fish and Attor- ney General Moar are the head and front? Has Massachusetts become such an enemy to freedom and to a people heroically struggling for self-government that General Banks dare not follow the generous impulses of his nature? We should like to know the cause of his present apathy or indifference. Perhaps the ad- ministration, being deluded itself by the false hope held out by Spain of selling Cuba, has deceived General Banks and induced him to check any expression by Congress. Is the grave of Cuban liberty and hopes to be in the Congress of the United States, so far as the power of that body goes? And are Mr. Fish, with Mr. Sumner and his Massachusetts con- Sreres in Congress and the Cabinet to be the gravedigzers? If so we may well mourn over the humiliation that has come to this mighty republic—to this republic which through all its history has been tho friend and champion of people everywhere struggling for freedom and republican independence. We advise General Banks to cut loose from that clique of enemies of liberty and Cuba, to return to his first love, and to take a bold and independent course on this Cuban question. He will gain much more by that. If he makes himself the champion of Cubaa independence he will touch the popular heart and become more prominent by that than by anything else he could do. Nowis the time to act, and we hope he will not lose the opportunity, Paris Last Night. Paris remained tranquil at cight o'clock last night. A strong fecling of popular excite- ment still prevailed under the surface. The government precaution against a renewal of the disorder was not abated, and the military force of the executive was maintained in effective strength and readiness. Such is the tenor of the latest telegrams from the French capital yesterday. The radical ‘‘reds’” spark has been quenched, but its momentary glow behind the barricades evolved an amount of hitherto latent heat which remains. The revolutionists, having delivered their sting, retired before the army to their garrets to watch the ulceration of the vesicle which it produced. A ball which had been announced for Wednesday at the Tuileries was post- poned. Napoleon was, as we are told, fully prepared to appear in a character quite different from that of o genial royal host, for {ft is said that at the commencement of the trouble he donned his uniform as head of the army, and stood, sur- rounded by his staff, ready to lead the troops against aninsurrection, His Majesty has read all about the attack on the Bastile at the com- mencement of the great French Revolution. Ho also recollects the coup @étut of the Prince President of the late republic of France. On that eventful moraing St. Arnaud reported to the President, ‘‘The poople fire on the troops.” The reply was embraced in the order, ‘Let the troops fire om the people.” The order was obeyed and the purple of imperialism restored. The Paris democracy has been festering since; for democracy, although rotten new and then, never dies. The French barricades ot yester- day attest the truth. Tur CANAL Boaxp sent a commanteation to the Assembly yesterday stating that there was no appropriation necessary for deficiences ia the canal revenues. We venture to say that there are no other departments of the State that decline an appropriation when they can get it. Sano To BE CHEATED ArTEn ALL.— It evems that, after all, Sambo is to be cheated in his aspirations for representation in the United States Senate. Revels, the colored Senator from the State of Mississippi, turns out to ba neither a black, a quadroon, a mulatto nor a nigger. He has more Indian blood in his veins than African, Hence he can be hailed as one of the purest native Americans now in the Senate, and the coequal of any ‘‘big Indian” that even the old Tam- many Wigwam ever cradled. All this may be bad for poor Sambo, but it is glorious for Choctaw. Somebody wanted to keep Revels out of the Senatorial body on account of his African extraction. Will they’ now attempt to do the same thing by alleging that he is entitled to no political privileges which the whito man is bound to respect, because he is an “Indian, not taxed?” Go ahead, Choctaw ¢ Postul Tolegraph—Ramsey’s Bil a Flank Movoment of tho Wostern Union Telegraph Company. The bill to establish o postal telegraph system reported to tho Senate by Mr. Ram- sey, of Minnesota, docs not reach the standard of public expectation. It provides for tho organization of a tolograph company inde- pendent of tho governmont Post Offico Department, and makes that department subordinate to and amenable to the regulations of the company. This is the old Western Union monopoly in 9 new, and, if possible, moro odious form than it even now presents, Thero is nothing in Ramsey's bill to prevent the directors of tho Wostern Union Company from becoming tho solo managers of the proposed new postal telegraph system established upon tho appa- rent authority and sanction of the government. This is not what tho public demand. It is o disgraceful attempt to hoodwink the people, by proposing to execute their wishes and at the same moment betraying their interests. There is no reason why the governmont of the United States should not assumo the absolute control of the telegraph postal system proposed to be established. Thero is no reason why the government should not buy up the entire stock of the Western Union Tele- graph Company, and the stock of all other telegraph companies, at market rates, and fase them all into ono grand plan of postal telegraphy, which will benefit our people everywhere, Itis folly to say that the govern- ment cannot manage this undertaking. It can do it as well as to run the Post Office Depart- mont, to manage post roads or postal com- munications to foreign parts. Since the American post office system was established an entirely new order of things in the way of intercommunication between people of a com- mon country and peoples of distant nations has been established. When the United States mails were forwarded from Washlogton to New York and from New York to Boston by lumbering stage coaches, occupying weeks in their transmission, it was never dreamed that the pith of the matter they contained would be flashed, as it were, in an instapt, from tho most distint parts of the country. The idea of an Atlantic cable never entered the imagination even of the American lightning calculator, Benjamin Franklin. The necessity of the government assuming tho control of this speedy mode of intercommunication and of fixing the rate by which messages sball be transmitted cannot be disputed. It thus becomes a corporation of the people themselves and not a monopoly in the hands of million- naires who essay to manage the lobbies of Congress and boast that they can twirl mem~ bers around their fingers. The postal telegraph system has worked to admiration in European countries where it has been tried. In England it is no longer an experiment, It is a success upon which the people have stamped their seal. In Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, it has become a fixed institution. Why, then, should progressive America be behindhand in adapting to our commercial, domestic and social requirements this great engine and agent of modern civiliza- tion? We trust Congress will look carefully into this bill of Senator Ramsey’s, and if they see the job or a little speckled Western Union nigger in it squelch it at once and proceed to pass upon the more sensible postal tele- gtaph measure introduced in the House by Mr. Washburn. Cardinal Antonelli’s Instructions, The following letter from Cardinal Anto- nelli, the Prime Minister of the Pope of Rome, is taken from the Nicaragua Gazette of Janu- ary 1, 1870, _The Cardinal thus writes to the Bishop of Nicaragua:— We have lien dei informed here that an hanged has been made to change the order of things hit! erto existing in that republic, by publishing a pro- gramme in which are enunciated “freedom of educa- tion’ and of worship. Both these principies are not only contrary to the laws of God and of the Church, but are in contradiction with the Concordat estab- lished between the Holy See and that repubitc. Al- thougo we doubt not that your most illuscrious and reverend lordatip will do all in your power against Maxims so destruetive to the Church and to society, still we deem it by no means superfluous to stima- late your well known zeal to see that the clergy, and above all the curates, do their duty. G, CARDINAL ANTONELLL Freedom of education and of worship ‘‘con- trary to the laws of God and of the Church !” And this from the headquarters of ‘Mother Church” in the nineteenth century! Free edu- cation and worship in violation of the Con- cordat between the Holy See and Nicaragua, and destructive to the Church and to society! We may guess, then, that something is likely to come from the Ecumenical Council that-will make a stir in the world. Murpuy’s View.—There is a little point in the reports from Albany which shows how the governing classes regard our correctional in- stitutions. Mr. Murphy, a member from this city, looks upon the Juvenile House of Refuge as “a machine for stealing children from their parents when temporarily afflicted with poverty.” How nicely the crime or other offence against good order is left out of this! How lightly it views the little deliquency that leads to the House of Refuge, and how prettily it sympathizes with everything but law and honesty! The State Prison is also a machine for a similar purpose, and the gallows goes a little further in the same direction, Is that why they are used so little ? A Soup NEGATIVE TO THE Paris ‘‘Reps.”— The official return of the condition of the Bank of France for the week which ended yester- day—a financial week—shows that the amount of bullion held in the vaults of the institution increased one million six hundred thousand francs within the time. As the days so enumerated embrace the period of the Roche- fort excitement the bank return supplies a very solid popular argument against the policy of the ‘‘Reds.” It may be, however, that the flourishing condition of the bank exercised some influence in the promotion of the barri- cades riots, A very ancient ballad saye:— “The old woman had moncy, I had none, and that’s the way the quarrel begun.” DIsPROPORTIONATE PunisumENnt.—For steal- ing a portrait of the Sheriff a man gets four years and a half in the State Prison. Is a man’s picture, then, worth so much more than a man’s life that our courts punish with such severity the taking of one and do not punish at all the taking of the other? Nearly five years for petty larceny and nothing for murder! This is now the glorious certainty of the law. ‘ The Clond in tho East. Tho actual state of tho relations existing betwoon Turkey and Egypt, as regards im- perial authority on the ono side and vice- regal duty and claims of tho right of independent action on the othor, are still considerably complicated and _ ill-defiacd, notwithstanding the apparent concession of the Viceroy as set forth in his late missivo to Constantinople. The Viceroy has furnished the Porto with the bill of costs of the iron-ciad ships which he has had built in Europe, but still holds the vessels, This action seema to imply somo litle doubt either in the ability or inclination of the Sultan to pay for them. It is, indeed, as much as to say, “If I part with my material guarantecs I may go whistle for the cash.” We aro told, however, from London, by cable telegram, that the Vice- roy has just concluded to surrender his fron-clads to the Turks in tho Bosphorun3, but that he ‘‘will withhold the rifles manufactured for him in Europe.” This is, after all, only o sort of ‘half and half” measure of submission or conciliation. The Viceroy is still looking hack to Europe. The Sultan watches the Danube and the Pruth. The Viceroy submits. He is a vassal again. His vassalage appears, howover, very like the state of poverty and mendicancy which was assumed by the Spanish beggarman whom Gil Blas met on the road to Madrid during his first trip to that city. He was “‘slightly lame, and begzed with his loaded musket rested on two cross-sticks.” It is well to look to the East now and thon. Rare Ben Butler. The Essex statesman achieved tho grontest victory of his career in the House yesterday. Nothing that he has ever done before, whether in the military, the forensic, or the administra- tive line, has equalled it, He whipped out two enemies, and although he did not secure the results of his victory he withdrew from the field with all his colors flying, his drums beat- ing and the banners of his enemies trailing in the dust. First, rare Ben attacked his old enemy Dawes on economy, and this time with eminent strategy he chose the eco- nomical side himself. He proposed that the appropriation of half a million dollars usually devoted to paying the mileage of members be virtually stricken’ out, Thia terrific blow for economy demo- ralized nearly all the members present, even including Dawes. Rare Ben followed it up with a speech, and drove it home with some astonishing statements, and most of the mem- bers were kept silent by their inward reflec- tions, the nature of which is obvious. One or two finally ventured to reply in opposition, and then the reaction set in, and nearly every one gave Butler a scathing, among them, unfortunately, Cox, of New York. Cox is a very small man in stature. Butler is nearly as big as the Cardiff giant. When the outcry against him was over Butler rose and made a good defence against all his enemies until ho came to Cox, who had been so good-naturedly satirical that it required genius of an extra- ordinary nature to make the fitting answer. Ben had the genius and made the answer. He waved his hand at Mr. Cox and said, “Shoo, fly; don’t bodder me.” The effect was electrical. Tho House broke into o roar of laughter, but Cox, flushed with anger, ven- tured a reply, which exceeded parliamentary decorum. In the confusion that ensued the mileage motion was lost, but rare Ben walked about the hero of the field. Toe Exo RepgaL Bit was discussed and amended in Committee of the Whole in the State Senate yesterday. A motion to con- tinue the clause making intoxication punish- able was lost. Tar Proposzp Necro JuBILEE.—Downing, the oysterman, proposes a universal negro jubilee with the proclamation of the fifteenth amendment, which we proncunce a very happy conceit. By all means let the jubilee be proclaimed, and let Downing put up a coliseum at Washington, and gather into it gay fifteen thousand colored musicians and minstrels, and let him have outside a hundred pieces of heavy artillery, and a grand display of fireworks and balloons to magnify the chorus, and our word for it he will totally eclipse Gilmore’s Boston Panjandrem, while making at the same time a splendid fortune from his oysters. What says the old war song of the Mississippi river darkies, speaking of the tebel master and his slaves, looking “away up de river where de Lincum gunboats lay?” It says:— De massa run, ha! hal De darkies stay, ho! hol It must be now de kingdom am a comin’, And ae year ob jubilo. FINE ARTS. The latest chromo publication 1s one by G. L. Weismann, of this city, ana is from A. J. H. Way’a little picture, “A Chnstmas Memory.’? The fruits, decanter, giass of wine, and, in fact, the chromo, as @ whole, is well executed and will doubtless be popular. The Thompson CollectionThird Day’s Sale. ‘The auction sale of the paintings belonging to the late Thomas Thompson was continued yesterday at Leeds’ Art Gallery. ‘The attendance was even larger than Wednesday, 9 good portion of those present being ladies. There were & large number of minor pictures disposed of at smail sums. The principal Paintings, some of which were eagerly contested, brought a8 follows:—Leda and the Swan, by Fra- gouard, $50; Triumph of Galatea, by Bart. Schidone, $175; Venus and Cupid, painter unknown, $57 50; portrait of Mrs. Jordan, the aciress, by Leminoire, $177 50; Lot and His Daughters, by Luca Giordana, $60; Sheep and Landscape, by Robbe, of Brussels, $210; The Ascension (Flemish school), £55; A Sleep- ing Venus, by Sir Josnua Reynolds, $80; portrait of Sir Thomas Wentworth, $100; Interior of French Cabin, by G. Earl, of London, $650; portrait of Cnris- topher Glock, vy J. 8. Duplessis, $140; portrait of Mrs. Foote, afterwards the Countess of Harrington, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, $165; The Coquette, by Jean Raoux, $55; Landscape, by F. Turner, $126; Monarcu Muli, Scotiaud, by Hawksett, $75; Cleopatra, copy from Guido, $67; Landscape, Scotland, Hawk- Seti, $¢5; Early Morning, by A. bierstadt, $165; Sun- ket, Brighton, Mass, $76. The Sale at Burker’s Gallery. Barker's Gallery of Art, No, 845 Broadway, was last evening filled to overflowing with jadies and gentlemen, among Whom were noticed many of the “upper-tendom,”? the occasion being the sale of a large lot of paintings, many of them by celebrated arusts, Nearly all that were sold were of rather ginall side. A Market Scene in Holland, by Van Haanan, brought $145; Norwegian Landscape, by Herzog, $150; Hunting Party, by KR. »cnulze, $122 60; Harbor of Flushing, by T. A. Rust, $206; Flower Piece, by Anua Peters, $102; the Rhine, by Count A. De Bylandt, $170; Lake of Tegern, by ©. Triebel, $145; Family Discord and Matrimonial Comfort, companion pictures, wy HR. Schacfels, $200 each; the Gipsy Camp, by W. Verschnur, $310; Grace Before Meat, by James Miller, $270; The Sieeping Babe, a beautiful paint- ing by Thomas Gerard, brought $725; Paim Sunday in’ Paris, by Burgoin, $386, and Pastoral Scene, by L. Robbe, $425, ~ ARMY INTELLIGENCE, First Lieutenant Charles Garrettson, United States Army, having reported to Brevet Major General Howard, Commissioner Freedmen’s Bureau, bas been ordered to relieve Brevet Captain T. @ Yon Schirack at Charioston. 5, | through, owing to THE WAYS OF WALL STREET Van Saun & Co.'s Tronsactions—Another Affida- vit Corroborating the Story of Samuel C. Barr—Aotion of the Gold Board. ‘There was considoravlo excitemont in Wall strect yesterday in consequence of the article in the HgnaLD, founded on aMdavits, showing up tho firm of Van Saun & Co., brokers, in Broad gtreet. With the view of giving botn sides of tho story, aud leaving nothing unsaid that might assis: the com- mittee appointed by the Gold Board yesterday to arrive at & proper understanding of the facts of the caso, a few more facts are here men- tioned, and also o further aflidavit vy one of the parties interested in the transaction bo- tween Van Saun & Co, and the “detective” Randlo, which 1s now the subject of 1itigauon. With refer- ence to the former and to the statement of outside pariica, we are givon to undorstand on roliable au- tuority that Mr. Barr 1s about to commence suits BR rer several individuals for libel and defamation character. Aud concerning the aitidavit, the nice nutle plan tor the capture of the wool $1,000,000 was well organized by jea whose names are now be- fore the writer. “The traud was to have been perpe- trated by Van Saun & Co, through the connivance of the clorks ia @ certain tional bank, Who were to stonl checks as ordered by their employers. ‘he checks to be stolea to make up tne sum of $100,- wo were those of Jay, Cooke & Co,, the Fourth Na- oust Bank, & bank, Fisk & Hatch, Ver- amiiye & Uo., and oth Vao Saun were to be tho chavnel for thetr negotiation and were to receive twenty per cent of tae proceeds, The bogus bonas were to b¢ obtained through Randle and others. ia the check business @ mythical house or Fatrcnid & Uo., were to be the dealers with Vaa Saun & Co. ‘fhe scheme for the canemae Of the $100,000" fell e44 in refusing to have anyching to do with the matter. Van Sauna r Co., enieg wo avalos & oe Cenatergatd in case Of @ roverse, a being 8 pose. friends would ‘‘pay up" sooner thao have bis name mixed up wito aay scandalous transaction. City and County of New York, ss.—Joseph Dows, of said city, being auly phe sere Tat he prey personally, Aivert Van Saua and Augustus M. Whesior, composing tho firm of Van Saun & Co., 26 Broad street, Harr that be has {requentiy held conversations wish the sald Van baun and said Wheeler at tho oaice of said Van Sann ¢ relating to transactions in bogus bonds and stolem chooks; that said Van Saun and sald Wheeler proposed aud Agreed ‘to wegotiate any amount of said atulon checks up to the sum of one million of doilars, provided that they should receive twenty per cent on the gross amount negotiated, which this ueponent could put them ia tho way of getting, and that they did not care whether said checks were stoion or not, 80 long as they could make twen! per cent on the amount nezotlated. That said Van Saun an: aia jer also pro; aud agreed to ne,otiate ur amount of said bogus bonds up to the sim of oue miliion dol- lare which thisdeponent could put them in the way of get ting, provided th{s deponent would so arrange it that the said bogus bon ts should come to them through the sald Barr, whom they could hold for them provided there was avy trouvie aud provided they could make a large sum out of tas transaction, to wit: two or three hundred thousand dollars, ‘That said Harr knew nothing about said conversations be- tween said Van Haun and Wheeler and tuts de- pouent, as far as this deponent {s informed and verily believes. ‘That sald Van Saun and said Wheoler reiterated at various times to this deponent that they did nos care whether the said checks or bonds were stolen or bogus Or not, s0 lang a4 they akould make # lary 5 By the tse ead negotiating of sein. ee ad. DOWS. ‘Sworn t@ bofore me this —— cay of February, 1g0—Joun iH. ‘Swantz, ‘ommii of Deeus ia and for the elty and county of New York, A special session of the Gold Board was hold yes- terday aiternuon at three o’cluck to take into con- Bideration the allegations witu reference to Messrs. Van Saun & Co., the senior partuer of the rm being & member of the board. Mr. Van Saun made an ex- planation of the circumstances mentioned in these Charges and protested his innocence, The man who figured so prominently in we work of alteriog checks gud bonds was a casual operator in his office, who deposited a margiu of four or five hundred dollars, lost it and gotin debt. To get outof the latter he proposed raising money on bonds which he owned, and to release which he borrowed mouey. A special committee was appointed, with instructions to in- vestigate the charges fully and report ata future day. and Samuel C. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. mB Prominent Arrivals in This City Yostorday. Dr. J. P. Walcott, of Boston; Judge J. W. Mercur, of Georgia; Rev. C. A. Knox, of Pennsylvania; Golo. nel G@. Van Slyke, of Albany; Colonel M. Buchard, of St. Louis; Colonel J. P. McMahan, of San Fran- cisco; Judgo Keith, of Kansas, and Judge 5. Brown, of l'linois, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Don Antonio Flores, Ecuadorian Minister to the United States; Lieutenant Commander F. E. Chad- wick, of the United States Navy, and B. F. Bowles, of Massachusetts, are at tne Brevoort House. J.D. Peabody, the only brother of the late George Peabody, is now the guest of his two sons, George H. Peaboay, of the Gramercy Park House, and A. J. Peabody, of the Brevoort House. General H. Walbridge, of New York; Commander W. F. Spicer, of the United States Navy; 8. L. John- son, of Calitornia, and J. W. Le Barnes, of Washing- ton, are at the Astor House, Bishop George D. Cummings, of Louisville, Ky.; Ex-Congressman Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota; J. F. Joy, of vetroit; C. Ames, of Oswego, and H. B. Norton, of Norwich, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Major A. HI. Jackson, Captain Le Morris, Captain L. Hamniond and Lieutenant Armstrong, of the United States army; C. M. Yond, of Hartford; Charles Hidden, of Providence, and Daniel New- hall, of Milwaukee, are at the Hoffman House. 8. Hobbard Clark, of China; N. P. Muirhead, of Philadeiphia; John P. Adriance, of Poughkeepsie; A.N. Ramadell and Ben Starx, of New London, are at the Albemarle Hote'. Dr. M. H. Utely, of Montreal; Willis Russell, of Quebec; J. R. Hitchcock, of New Hampshire; J. A. Frazer, of Cincinnati, and W. McKim, of Balumore, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain T. Price, of the United Statés Army; J. H. Buiger, of Denver, and W. H. Wilkinson, of Massa- chusetts, are at the St, Charles Hotel. Prominent Departures. Sir Alexander McKenzie, for Montreal; Colonel L. H. Humphreys and Volonel H. Allen, for New Haven; D. Thomas Vail, for Troy; General Sheridan aud General Forsyun, for Washington; General G. W. Cass and J, E. Dawson, for Pittsburg; Frank King, for Virginia; M. P.. Kennard, for Washington, and C. H. Mills, for Boston. THE ATTEMPiED OUTRAGE IN THE PARK. The Complainant Refases to. Appear. The examination in the case of Wiliam Frazer and Peter Fitzimmons, the two men arrested om Monday morning for an attempted outrage on a wo- man named Sybil Campbell, in the Central Park, came up for @ hearing yesterday afternoon, at the Fifth District Police Court (Harlem), before Judge McQuade. As might be expected from @ womaa riding out in @ carriage at four o'clock in tue morning through the Central Park, as the com- plainant in this case did, facts have. como “to ight since the day of the arrest con- cerning her previous career, which, to suy the least, reflect rather to her disadvantage. Si refused to appear agamst the prisoners yesterda; but requested that her watch and chain (golu) wou! be returned to her. This watch and chain, she sai sie had taken from a gentleman {mend ot hers, im whose company she was on the day she took tne Tide to the Park, to take caro of them for him, aud she now wanted them back in order to return them to him. Fitzsimmons proved to the satisiaction of the Court that instead of stealing the watch from her the woman had given it to dim as security that mis jarc would be paid on their retarn to the city. It was 9is0 shown that Frazer was only a friend of Fitzsim- mons, and occupied the box with him when they started out, while she occupted the inside vy her- self. It was not, however, shown why it was that he took a seat on the ingideon entering the Park, but itis presumed he did so because it was more comfortable there than on the outside, He denies having attempted an outrage upon her, and she re- fusing to swear that he did, the case was dismissed. ‘The watch will be retained until Miss Campbeil pays for the use of the carriage, when they will be re- turned to her. ~~ PROBABLE SUIC.DE. Abont & quarter past nine o'clock last evening, as the ferryboat Chancellor Livingston was making her trip from Hoboken to the foot of Barciay streot, and when about the middie of the river, @ wowan, ‘whose name could not be ascertained, was observed to leave the ladies’ cabin, which was soffocatingiy hot, and walk deliberately to thd bow OF the boat and jump overboard, She must have sunk tintac- diately (probably having been struck by tue whee of the ferryboat), as there was a made to the stern of the boat to der assistance to the unfortunate, bi signs of her reappearance could be obser the boat continued on her course. The Livi isthe only bout on this line that is not provided with gates for preventing passeugers troui faiting overboard, and the only protection im front or astern is @ chain run across the boat avout a foot above the deck. This unfortunate woman might have ieft the suffocating cabin to ovtain a vreain of * fregn air, and unknowingly Walked over the chain, and thus met an untimely death through the negit- gence or parsimony of the ferry company. We trust. our Legtsiature will soon compel tue ferry compa-~ nies running to this city to have proper sateguaris to the lives of passengers Constructed ou gi! weir boats and (erry housed,