The New York Herald Newspaper, March 16, 1870, Page 4

4 “THE VICTOR NOIR HOWICIDE, Prince Pierre Bonaparte as a Prisoner. History of La Conciorgorio, His Place of Con- finement-Special Visit of a Herald Corre- spondent—An Iatarview—What the Cousin of the Emperor Says—Reminiscoaces of America—The Trial and Its Probable Issue, A HERALD special correspondent m Paris supplies: the following repor, of @ wait to the famous prison of La Conciergerie, the place of confinement of Prince Pierro Bonaparte, He nad a special inter. view with the distingu 1 petsuner, whoae basty action against the Jaie Vicior Noir produced such & world-wide seusauon at the time and bas brought #0 much troubdie to tae Prince. 1870, LDS OF Panis, March PLEASANT WEATUSR AND HS CcrY—H8? SPRING. Three days since we wore shivering. | am now writing with my window wide open, Lloary-headed ‘Winter has given piace co genial Spring, Yesteraay the sun svone vrizniiy; tae boulevards aud streets Were crowded witn people bent on enjoying them- selves. ‘ho Bai{s Gras made their triumphal march through tae city lor Uis last time and must have been salisied with the curiosity they excited, Paris had turned out en masse to grect them, By the blessing of Providence this 14 Asi Wednesday and our ears are sp4ged further annoyance from those horrid eartueuware horns, tue braying of which for tne last few days has distracted us, What earthly amusement children (some of them of large growsb) cau find in making discordant noises with these curnes & bouquin is beyond my compre henston, These detestanie articies of torture are made in the potteries at Savignies, near Keauvais. ‘There are not inore than Ofteen retail dealers in Paris who keep them, bat they contrive to sell annually during tue jowis grus nearly 6,000, We have to thank antiquity for their invention and human idiots of the nineteenth century tor their continuance. The an- cients were accustomed tw call thelr flocks with abeils. ‘ey were bad enough ia all conscience. Shells were not to be found everywhere, and so human ingebuity replaced them with earvhen tn- struments, Whicad were still worse. These in their turn gave way to trou and horv, used by the old Barons, and tue world has since been free from the musical instrumens of tne potter's craft except when annually people go mad during the carnival. Headaches have oven plentifal during the past three day I, was wita diMculty that I made my way through the denso crowd along the live of boule- vards yesterday aiveruoon. ‘There were some masks, but none worth noticing. There was pleuty of noise and considerable drunkenness. A Frencn crowd, however, is iuvariably good-natured, and you are not suvjecied to the brutulity, the ¢oarse jokes and skylarking waich but too often are met With tn other couutries. I turned down the Rue Montmartre, passed turough the Halles Centraies, those splendid markets, and reached the Place du Chatelet, The crowd ut this polns was more dense than ever. Where all the people come from is a mystery; possiviy they change from one point to another, and keep perpetually passing, like a crowd on a stage. ‘The procession of the Boouls Gras was then halting before the Palais de Justice, but I managed to make my way across the Pout au Change, LA OONCIBRGERIN—ITS HISTORY AND USES. Facing the river, on the opposite side, is La Con- clergerte, the only prison. of bistorical interest Which stil! exists in Paris. When the kings of France iuhabited the Palais de la Cité the Concier- gcrie was the dwelling of the concierge. For centu- ries it has beeu used as @ prison and has figured much in history, The treason of Périnet Leclerc in- troduced into Paria the partisans of the Duke of Bur- gundy, who broke tuto tue prisons (among others the Conclergerie) and assassinated the prisoners of the Armagnac party on the 12th of June, 1418. Ravall- Jac, Damiens, Montgomery, the myoluntary mur- derer of Henry IL, and other ceiebrities, have been incarcerated within the wails of the Conciergerie. On the 2d of September, 1792, the massacre of 1418 ‘was renewed. The gates of the prison rolled back to give entrance to, thowe who never left the Concier- gerie until en roule for the scaffold, Marie Antol- nette and her sister-in-law, Eilzabeth, Madame Ro- Tand, the Girondins, Danton, the Duke of Orleans, Cawille Desmoulins and their friends, Robespierre, St. Just aud @ host of others, and at a more recent date many political writers, bave been inmates of the prison, a3 bave also criminals who have at- tempted to assassinate the Chief of the State— among others, Piagori and Orsini AT THR PRISON GATB—BNTER. To the gate of this prison I directed my steps. A g@Tay-beaded turnkey opened the iron-barred gate and told me to traverse the yard. A second guichetier gave me entrance to the prison, and, descending a few steps, I found myself in @spacious gothic Rall, the roof of which is sup- ported by colu:nns, A turnkey was directed to accompany me, and I proceeded to an inspection of the prison. Leaving the sale des pas perdus we entered a dimly lighted corridor. On the lefs are a row of boxes like sentry boxes, with doors to them. Into toege the prisoners, When brought frum Mazas, are separately placed until each iu turu 18 calied te go tarough tile for- malities required on being admitted guest to the Conciergerie. We turued down @ corridor to tne right, ab tue end of which, on the left, 18 a low, heavy door, with ponderous bolts. It is the en- trance to the duugeon of the uniortunate MARIE ANTOINRITE. toop you head, sir,’ said tue turnkey, “the Queen was proud, she wouid not lower her's and struck ner foreiiead badiy.”? 1 ducked mine accordingiy aud in an instant Was Blanding in the dungeon of fallen majesty. A dreary, miserable hole, with s stone floor, stone walls, ligiited by & small, Closely grated window. There is a small table, achair and aliar, with crucl- Ox. Tuere was formerly a wretcoed bed and screen, benind which a jailer watched the poor, unappy, falien Queen. A similar cell, entered by an opening Which did not formerly exist, had once for tepant the terrible Kobespierre, Adjoining ia the chapel, beiter known during the revoiuuion as the sale des Girondins, that Chawber where the unhappy victims waited with breatniess anxiety tutir turn Lo be sum- moued for the scaffold. One in every twenty formed the beadsman’s daily tribuve. At the further end of the chapel 1s a gallery, en- closed with iron gratings, in wuich those condemned to death attended mugs, belore public executions Ceased to Dave effect on the piace de la Greve, We retraced our steps ana enterea that portion of the Couciergerie which has been adapted on the cel- dwar priaciple for prisoners of the present day, THE CELLS. ‘There are seventy-six celis. I'he average number of priscners is seventy, consisting of those sent from Mazas ov the ivth and zovh of each month for trial aod others who may have been condemned by the Police Correctioneile to sentences of a few days only. With this latter exception the Concigerie is simply @ prisou jur the Assizes, After condemna- tion & prisoner 16 retained therein for three days only, to give him time to appeal against his sentence, ‘The prison is suMficientiy clean. ‘Ine celia nave pol- ished Wooden floors und contain a bed, @ tavle, a wooden stool chained to the Noor, 8 gas burner and & smail stove with ventilating pipe above. The bed- a 1s g WOOLeD Watiress, & Straw paillasse, &@ plow and two viankets, ‘She cells are \ell ven- tilated., In the English prisons, the turnkeys having bad at inpumerab.e nuinber o: sheir eyes poked out when looking at toeir prisoners tnrough tne small holes 1n the doors made for that purpose, fine ‘wire neswork has been auapted to prevent simiiar accidehts, In the Conci rgerie instead of network there 13 thick giass, 1 visited the punishment cells, ‘Ihey are nearly dark. Prisoners placed therein are Kept on bread and water and are deprived of bed- ding. ‘They sleep on # wooden guard bed. THE PRISON FOOD, ‘This is the same as that supplied in the Prison ae Ja Roquette—a ladle tuli of vegetable soup at seven A. M., @ ladle fuli of beans, rice, potatves, lentils or peas at three P. M., and one and @ half pounds of Bread per day. Meat wwice per week. The liquor is not of wo invoxicaung nature. It 18 uvaduiterated ‘Adam's ale. The prisoners at ihe Dépds des Con- damnés fe tue advantage. The water in that temple of happivess is colored with licorice and the prisouers can purcoase one-tfth of a litre of wine per day, The exercising grouud, in which each pri- soner enjoys the fresu air of heaven for one hour per day, 19 divided Into strips by brick wails, one end of which ig closed by aD iron railing, the other by door. They walk ap and down like bears in @ cage. THR PRISONERS AND DISCIPLINE. ‘The prisoners never see each other. Pallandre, the Zouave, who ated @ Wonan On tue Bouie- vard Kochechouart, was condemned the day veioe «glerday to hard labor for twenty years. He is stil NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. cheerfn! to be heavily sentenced. Paliandre, with two other prisoners—ous of them, liko atnseif, s9a- tenced Lo twenty years—are in a cellof doub'e size, ‘The ex-zouave t# a large wan dark, common lace beard, There 18 voWng about bis appear oh denotes fin Capanie of commiting the Ly Which has sent bun to wie Bogue He character, ‘TYranpmann was confined bore and enjoyed all the Juxunes ol wien sue house Was capable There is ho i iyavUry MM Lhe prison. 1! & plisoner 1s sick he 18 pursed in bis cell; shoud he become dangerously 1 he 18 reaoved to & hos. pitii. piling entrance to the governor's apartments 15 near the second gale, through which | passed ou my arrival A104 PIERRE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, In this put Of Che prison 1s Contained the objeot the turnkey w convey my card to Mon- : Merre Napoieon Bonaparte, at preseat ai Lor thé wilful murder ol Victor Noir. sud the turaxey; “un wiew mnlnules you wal uave an auswer,”” . So much has been said about the overbearing bru- taiity of the Vriece that d Was auxious to june of tits monster in tuman form tor mysell. Lf you want fo Sve a Wild beast in asavage state be 1s much more likely to be so when deprives of ttverty, ‘Taus “Cou rea,” Wao bas shOL down One Of the people | * ne would & dug, Was, WibuoUul doubt, growilug 1a bia dea. CUSVINBMENT DORS NOT IMPROVE THH TEMPER. ‘Lhere was 4 compassionate tone in the turokey's voice, He evidenuly addcessed me av he would & man aboul tv asceud tue seaifold, Lconsoled my sell With the idea tuat the Prince mightsend out word w Wwe ellecs Luss your special Could take Ins uepart- Ure ior & Warmer place than this world, 1 suouid have Leen off in & twinkitng. I shouid have preler- Ted to bearding the vn in ils dea, My suspense Was only of a jew mowents’ duration. A servans 1 shirt gloeves mudo bis ap) noo and requested me to follow bm. f summoned up courage wud did so, We mounted two or turee sleps, Adoor was opened and [ entered a circular tov. 1 Wasim presence of the Prince, Itis in oue o1 tuose rouul Wwwers whiot ali visitors to Pans Must have remarked when Crossing the Pont au Change. ‘The governor resides therelu, Toe room 1s Lighted by two windows, heavily graied; the root Is Vaulted, tne floor of polished oak, With no carpet. ‘Yo the jot, ou entering, 18 a bed withous curiais; the Walis are ciMamented With a few colored prints Ol LO arise merit yud some pholographs. Avove tue, un oraccels, are plaster of Paris casts of the fairer sex, nov overourdened with clothing. The governor, Wo Has given up vais room bo the Prince, a3 @Viueully Of opinion that beauty unadorned is adorned the most, Between the windows 13 a fre piace, There are asvula gud half a dozen chaus covered wisi velvet, TAK PHINCE—INTRODUUTIONS, On enteri # 1 founa tue Prince sitting near the farchest Window coaversing with six gentlemen. ie rose aud sivanced to mest me. He cordially suook my band and said, “Mousieur, | thank you for your sympathy.” ‘Luruing to @ lady dressed mourning, who was sealed on the sofa, ne lutro- GNocd me—t Wits the Vrincess. ‘The Prince offered me a chair and the conversa‘ion 1 had luterrupted wus resumed, Wituout gouot you will imagine taas the SIX genilemea wud Occupied the SIX veivel cuairs were walking revolvers and swordsucks, O the contrary, Wey Were of appearance suiliciently sedate Lo change The crime wiih Waich the Priuce 1s cuarged trou wiltul murder to justidubie homiciue, Moss OL thea, af not all, were decorated with tie rosetie ol the Legion of Honor. The Prince was dressed 1a a biue cloth jacket, bustioned to the throat, aud voluminous trousers of a ligater color, He wore gioves and spurs, fur nei- ther of waich could I discover lmmediate necessity. Jn tue @ourse Of conversation the cumog trial was but jittie relerred to, aud never with apprehension as 00 its resuit, The only one of the party ou whose brow couid be occasionally detected the signtest anxiety was the Princess. The trank, Open bear- ing ol the Prince at once euiisted my sympathy. ‘Toe mauver of bis {ricnds Impressed me with the idea that oe Was nore sinned against than singing. Tis Lupression was svon changed to certainty. The door of the ruom opened. A LADY VISITOR ENTERED, @ tall, handsome woman, of noble appearance, dressed eutirely in black velvet. She went direct to tae Prince, Whom sue saluted on both cueeks. 1 re- gretied not being the Prince. 1 would risk the trial, ‘ue terrors of tue Haute Cour, the growlings of “ureconcilavies” and te rest of tue miseries with Which the Prince 1s threacened for those two tokens Of friendship. ‘The lady 18 one of those whose mis- sion in Lis world appears to be to bring sunsnine with their presence lato the most dreary dungeon. ‘Lust sue Would kisd @ murderer 1s an lua possibility. THE ORIME, The Prince is no assassin. Goaded beyond endur- ance by repeated insults offered to his family aud tae Empiess, ue wished to meet in tair tight their calum- niators, Is it probable that a man of courage would assaasinate in cold blood a gentieman who called on bit with a hostile message irow anotier? No, He Was tureateued and insulted in his own house by two armed men. Wdo siruck the first biow and fired the first shot the High Court of Justice will decide. See the Princeas I saw nun yesterday, in private life, placed, as he 18 now, in a most painiul position, aud you would cease to believe the stories which have beew circulated to his detriment, He may oe impul- Bive, hot-headed, if you will, but I wiil stake my ex- isvence tuat he is@ “good fellow,” and would never be gulity of committing & cowardly murder. AMBRICA AND AMERICAN SYMPATHY. He spoke to me of having been in America, of New York ana Puiladelphia, of recent ariillery expert- ments, and he evidently appreciates deeply Amert- ct sympathy. He spoke in terms of high praise about the rifle which he has recetved from the United states, I tod hum that 16 had been men- tioned in the French press, but I was not sure of the report being true. “Yes, it is quive true,’ replied tue Prince; “the rifle was sent trom Springield, from one of the first makers in the world.’? TAKING LBAVE—WORDS AT PARTING. After a lengthened visit I rose to take my leave, The Prince took off his glove, crossed tue room, shook hands with me more Ubun once and thanked me for having visited hin. We conversed togetner apart for alew minutes. What then was said 1 do not write for obvious reasons. But uM the Higa Court of Justice does not acquit Prince Pierre, and the evidence ou the trial throw adiiferent light on the sad occurrence for which he 1s to be tried, no one Will be more astonished than your Paris corre- spondent. [leit the prison with the conviction that the Prince 1s more deserving of pity for the distressing position 1m which he now 1s placed, through force of circum- stances, thao of the vituperation and abuse which have been so unmercifully beaped upon a man awaiting trial for @ crime the punishment of which eat. THE CARDIFF GIANT. Tho Froud Exposed—Story of the Gypsum Statue as Told by Its Originator—What tie Giant Ci Where It Came From and How It Got to Cardiff. (From the Buffalo Courter, March 14.) On the isu of October, 1869, the Cardiif Giant was discovered on the farm of Wm. U. Newell, at Car- dif, Onondaga county, in this State, and since that time the ‘gianv’’ has filled a large space in the puv- lic eye and elicited more elaborate sclenti.c com- mentary than anything Which had ever been un- eartued, at least In the vicinity of Syracuse. ‘Tue descriptions, the scientific opinions, the minute analyses devoted to it are attll fresh in the minds of our readers, Geneis! Leavenworth said of it:—*it bas tue marks of the ages stamped upon every limp -4ud feature in & manner which no art can imitate.” Professors Wooiworth and Hall decided in iavor of 1s antiquity. Prolessor Ward, of Kocuester Univer- sity, Was bewildered by the spectacle it per- sented, and suggested that “ali one’s feelings persuade to accept 10 as @ real human being, once instinct with life and activi Double corpse.” Professor Olmsted said:—**As @ work of art the Cardiff statue is periiaps @ better embodi- ment of the intellectual and puysical power of a rock-hurling Titan than any italy posses-es.” Rev. Mr. Calthrop said that in the ancient world only the Greek School of Art was capable of such a periect reproduction of the human iorm. Dr, Boynton did not thiuk the statue was 800 years old, but did think it was the work of the carly Jesuit Fathers of this country, wno are koown to have frequented te Onondaga valley from 220 to 260 years ago. Subse. quent to tue time when our scientific savaos had ex. hausted themselves on the subject came suggestive hints of fraud and humbug, und the “iron-bound box” has come to form animportant element in tue nistory of the giant, This much by way of prefacefiand now for the his- tory of the Cardiit giant as toidPus by 1ts originator, the prime author of the most consummate fraud of tue age. H, B. Morton arrived tn the city Sunday morning, at naif-past two o’ciock, from Boston via the Eric Railway, and put up at the Continental Hotel and was quartered In room No. 6, He asked the clerk ff he could see & newspaper man, as he had some- thing of importance to communicate. Tne writer of this, Who 1s not suspected of doing much inthe ping line, was iniormed of tne wisn of tne ger, and accompanied by @ friend visited room No. 6 Mr. Morton bud retired, bus begged us to take at, and belug informed that we were a ‘‘news- er man,” ne said that he wished to tell us all about the Cardiff Giant We intimated that coa- siderable had already been said on the subject; but he replied that although some true things had been guid about it and @ good many hints going to slow ib uD a8 @ fraud, @ correct statement of tne facts bad never been made. He gave us a rea- gon lor maxing the reveiauion that the “giau? had With him veeu @ faliure, and Chat his partner, George Hull, bad not deals fairly with him. We give the language of H. B. Morton, altaough not siwuys in tue precise manner in which ib was spoken, MORTON'S STATEMENT. I got up that giant and worked on the tdea for a year aud atiatl, I found diMiculty in geting the proper inateriai and travelled thousands of ipiles. dinade knowa my plan to George Hull, who was re- commended to me for his shrewdness aud enter- prise. 1 knew the American peopie liked to be hum- bugged aud would pay weil for it, 1 wanted to beat Barnum, and sie tung was played as well us it could Until Laat cuss (Hull) spoiled the matier, 1 could have stuckeu tie “gine? in New York or bos tou for bull luiliion dollars, Out 1 bave Mave noth- Ing out v1 1% AT FORT DODGE. I weni in with George Lull to Fort Dodge, lowa, on the 6th of June, ists, and bought @ quarry of @ypsuld in section No. i, and builé @ snauty, Re- mained there six or elgat Weeks, and finally found that in oraer to move the bluck for transporuon | suouiu have to bulld three-quarters of a mile of cor- the Concergerie ana has the advantage Of a larger oom and society. Prisouers senvencey to death and Deavy punwhments are never leit eloue, 1b la wore duroy road, which would cost too much money. I sbanuoued that quarry aud weut over to section No. 3, where the raliroad was getting out stone for its culvert and bridge wouimens. 1 hired ao Irishman named Mike Folvy to get out the blovk, and paid bim fifteen doliars for it, I then wanted to gee it wo Montana, 1n Boone county, a raiiroad Btauion, about Jorly-ve mies distant, and let out the Job for seven- t-ilve dollars, ‘ihe rough block must have weiued over Un Lous, Tlis wan Who took (a Jod coula ony web together twelve yoke of cate, aud hua to give Up the work, ‘Lue Job was let tbree tines oefore ihe biovk could ve taoved, and the second day out tue block bad Lo be cut down to between seven apd ergnt cons, We broke through bridges several Wines and had consuleravie trouble, Dub On Lhe twellta day We got vie biock to Montana siatiou, tere ib was loaded on @ fiat-vottemed Car, shipped to Ed- ward Burkhardt, Chicago. Kurkuardt 14a marble Caiber, doimyg vusiuess BL NO. 197 Wastiagion sires, in Chicago. IN THE WORKSHOP, The block was taken from the Chicago depot at Night aua was carccied to Mr. Burkhardi’s barn, 940 Cisrk street, aud there deposited. After 1 got into the baru we hung Up quills and carpets inside go as tu deaden the sound and keep spectators from jook- jug in upon us. A man named Sale one of the best souiptors in the country and who drinks like & sack, Was eimpioved to carve the glaul. We were hearly tWO MOnLLS Bb Lt, Dart OF the Hime nights on the rougu of it, THE GIANT FINISHED. The giant ts ten feet four and a half inches long, turty-taree tocues across tue shoulders, avout tweaty-two inches deep ad weighs 2,990 pounds. ‘The Vanous marks upon tt Co indicate tne action of Waler and tid, Were Chiselied out, aud 16 Look ninety dovars’ worth of acids and 10K to give it its preseus color. Alter tire work was gone we had & box made into which it dtted, the iron-pound box about wuica so much has been said. THES GIANT SUIPEED TU IPs DESTINATION. ‘Tue giant was then shipped from Chivago, but I Was Wes at that tu it was shipped to Union, Broome couaty, in this Stave, and at Union was taken vy israei D. Armavy and John Hull, @ vrother of George, and carried to Wiliam U, Nowell’s far: in Cardul, taken from the wagon aud laid at the Blue of the barn, where is Was covered up with slraw. Next migit the pit was dug and the gins put into it, where It remained Ul the Len of October. PREY10US PROJECTS. I had intended originaily to have the giant dis- covered right in the quarry ab Fort Dodge, but vhis would require (oo much labor and cost too much. Tthen thought of taking it out to Smoky Hill, ve- youd the Missvuri, pul tic transportation would Cost ® good deal Hull baving lived iu Broome cuunly, having relatives there and knowing tae locality, and that tt was & groat place for relics, 1 followed his advice and slipped ib lo Broome county. NEWELL, Newell knew oothing avout it til Hull went up from Binghamton, let him into the secret and oufered bi # quarter to Dave the giaut buried and discovered on hisfarm. lwas not there when tuo giant was dug up and was not to ve there Gil after- wards; then | was to appear anu bia for an interest An it, 80 that others migns be Induced to bid. Neweit was to do tue selling, 1 read tue account oi the dis- covery iu tie Calcago papers and came on iimue- diately. 1 found tue giaut in the pit. FINANCIALLY TREATED, Newell bad sold three-quarters of 16 for $30,000, retaming ene-fourth. Lhe company whioh pur- Cllased tue [arec~qUarters was Composed of Haman, tt, Spencer, Gillett, Higgins and Hankin. ‘hey paid $10,000 cash and gave their notes for Wwe balance, payable in ninety days. George Hull drew She $10,000 out of Lhe savings bauk aud this excited their suspicions, ‘‘hey then 600k Newell to Syracusé nd mado pin take the nutes out of thy baak, piace them tn the hands of Mr. Noxon, their atior- bey, aud sign @ Contracs toat if 16 Was made to ap- pear within ninety days that tnis was @ work of act placed on 01s farm to defraud the people then these noves should be gull ana yotd. During the ninety days they never proved thut it had veen placed there to defraud the people. Aiter he signea the contract Newell ran away, and | lave not seen him since. When the notes did come due the company refused to pay, because the drait for $10,000 was made fayavie to George Huil at une request of New- eil. Since they have given their notes for $4,300 to George Mull, in payment of all demands for the giant Mr, Burkhards was to have one-fourth interest in the giant, but bas never received avyimiuy. dSaley, ‘ue Bculptor, Was bo bave received $400, bui he bas not been paid. 1 have received a@-little less than $1,00u, and Neweil received about $2,000. 1 do not think the money has done Hull much good. REVELATIONS. The first thing ever publisued about the giant that was anywhere hear true was pubiisued by Goveraor Gue, editor of the North West, at Fort Douge. He was right about the block of gypsum, but that was all, Saley came out and told a Chicago reporter about it, but ne did not ge. any where near correct, THE IRON-BOUND BOX. The aMdavits showing the movements of the my: terious iron-bound box irom Union as tar as Syra- cuse, on tue Black Kiver Canal, and up into the Biack river country, were all wumped up by Hull for the beneflt of the company owning tne giant, They had to ges that box oy Neweil’s larm, or tue humbug would be exploded. The iron-vound box had only to be accounted for from Union north to Syracuse, or from Curduf to Syracuse, bat tat box never coptained tobacco macuinery, as has been slaved; it contained the gypsum slatue und stopped at Newell's iarin, FRAUD AND DISAPPOINTMENT. Omitting Martin’s tribute to the honesty of nis partuer, which was anything but flattering, and tie caarges of perjury and trickery Which surround the giant, according to his statement, in reply to some questions he said:—‘l knew if I could get the giant Tigut pefore the public {| would have gos a fortune out of it, There was a fortune in 1s for # dozen men, if 1¢ had been managed rightly. 1 will humbug cue American people wituin two years, and the Cardiff giant will be a wooden nutmeg affair. If Hull hadn’s made a @ —d fool of himself 1 suould have had the mother of the giant dug up near the same spot soon after the first discovery. ‘ihere are people in Onon- daga to-day who believe that carved viock of gyp- sum lived and walked where they now sive and walk, J intended to have the mother made of plaster of paris, Iron and bone, and to have it ap- pear that sne had killed herself waile defending herself against a large serpent.” HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH HULL fn reply to a question, he said hia acquaintance with Huil commenced at araboo, Ili., where he, Hull, had been @ vobacconist; but we scarcely feel at liberty bo give nis history of his relationship with or abi What pertains directiy to the gypsum rau CONCLUSION. It will be seen that Marun’s account of the Cardiff swindle 18 circumstantial, and we have no douot of Its truth, Some details that reflect severely upon parties concerned are omitted, else the story would be more tellingiy emphasized than it ia, And this 1s what Mr. Martin iniorms us 1s toe first full and cor- Tect statement that has been made in regard to the Cardi Giant. The Jorsey City Charter—The Lust ot tho Railroad War for this Session—Lhe Income Tax—Bevans fetaliates on Essex and Mid- dlosex—Overcharges on the New Jerse: Railroad. 4 In the New Jersey Senate yesterday morning the charter of Jersey City a3 amended was passed by a vote or 15 to 1, The amendments legislating into office men who would stand buta poor chance at the hands of the peopie have raised such a cry of Opposition throughout Jersey City that they will cer- tainly be rejected in the Assembly, Tue other amendments, with few exceptions, will pro bably be concurred in. The Joint Com- mittee on Consolidation from the new city aro so indignant that the bill which they had frained to their own satisfaction was so altered and amended that they appeared in both Houses yes- terday and presented a petition praying for the post- ponement of the measure for another year. This re- quest, coming from men who were not appointed by the people, Was so preposterous that it met with lit- tie countenance in either House. Mr. Bevaus in- formed the members of the committee who waited on him that the people of Jersey City sent members to the Legislature, who were fully competent to at- tend to their business wituous the interierence of parties not responsibie to the people. ‘The bill to incorporate the Mercer and Somerset Railroad Company (in the interest of Camden and Amboy) was passed to a third reading, the opposi- tion being so weakened from recent defeats that they retreated from the ficld. The National Kailway bill introduced bi the rivais of the monopoly was withdrawn. The Camden and Amboy men haa tueir sleeves tucked up for the dual engagement when this an- nouncement was made. The National Company will ow appeai to the people, and will make the ques- tion Of Opposition to Camden and Amboy an issue tn the nextelection. That is the only course beiore them, and the people already ure holding meetings in different parts of Mercer county agaust tue monopoly. In the Assembly a joins resolution was introduced, asking the members of Congress irom New Jersey to vote for @ discontinuance of the income tax, on the ground that it was no longer necessary. A joint re- solution was also introduced, calling for the appoint- ment of @ committee, to consist of two Senators and tree members of the Assembly, to inquire into the auieged overcharges for freight and passage by tae New Jersey Katicoad Company, and to compare theif charges with that of otner roads in other States. Among the biils passed was that granting tne right of New Jersey im the Gettysvurg Cemetery to tae United States. In the fight agamst the Erie Railway Company all the members from Essex and Middlesex counties voted for the Erie and agalnss Bevans’ amendment, and when toe Driggs drainage bill came up they were anxious to have tne bill killed, but they had raised a host against them im Bevans, and te was passed in spite of their opposition. i thus the sauisiaction of seeing a bill passed which Was most oonoxious to them, Mr. ABBETT (the Speaker) mage a speech in favor of the Riparian bill, saying that the individual own- ers though they thought the bili establishing a com- Mission was Wrong stil they Were Willlug to pay tue same rate as the corporations had paid. Mr. BROWN, of Monmouth, spoke tn reply. Mr. ABBETT Buld that If it was rignt to tax the shore front of Hudson county, it was rightto tax every foot of shore front throughout the State. ‘tue bul Was then ordered to 8 reading. A CHRONIC LITIGATION. ‘The Royal Railroad Ducl—King Vanderbilt and the Blonde Prince Erie in the Field, Hostilities Ronewed—Five Million Dollars tho Bone of Contention—What Bismarck Gould Had to Say About the Pools—“A Plague on Both Your Houses,” A surfeit of anytning which, taken in moderation, might tickle the palate, becomes nauseous and dis- agreeable. Doctors, ough difiering in many points, agree upon this subject, The rule 1s a8 applicahie to law as tt is to cranberry sauce, puadings or confec- tionery. Now the effects of the legal dose adminis- tered in the Brie suits have scarcely been removed when up start# the tron patient once more, ctamor- ing for mince pies and chumpagne., Contemplating this request @ strange vision fits before the fancy. A sea of tncongruities is turbu- lent because of winds that biow from all directions, and peering through tho mist tat over- hange the waves there seem to rise in ludicrous con- fusion biondes waltzing through the air, injunctions restraining them from exceeding their proper lim! trains running at a me a minute, orashes, coroner: inquests, theatrical performances, bushes of goid, lawyers at loggerheada, bonds and mortgages, round and jovial faces, sinister looks, judicial in- vestigations and @ series of spectacles thar bewllder the imagtnation, The Erte Ratiroad litigation fs an old story, with which oven the harples of Wak street are not unfamiliar, Millions are talked of in legal circles a3 if each one hundred thousand represeated a raggedy five cent stamp. Shares are discussed as 80 many pocket pieces, While the legal documents employed would maxe a for tune for any paper dealer in the couptry. Platnly, the Erte Railroad litigation generally has assumed a@very consumptive phase, having long since been overdosed, A littlo rest will be profitably enjoyed, while the public would nos be dissatistted to learn if even the steam engines enjoyed a healthy slumpor, But of the case yesterday. The details nave al- ready appeared; but, like the burlesques of tne pro- sent day, a rehash may prove acceptabie. To vegin, then, 1b may be stated that, as this complaint seta forth, 1n February and March, 1363, several actions were commenced agalnst the company, that in July following a compromise was effected between John 8. Eldridge, the then president of the road, and Daniel Drew on the one part, and Rionard Schell and Frank Work on the other part, by which it was agreed that Schell should receive $429,260 from the company; that the defendant should be reiieved of 59,000 shares of the capital stock of the company and should receive $1,000,000, and that the directors of the company should purchase for its account bonds of the Boston. Hartford and Erie Ratiroad Company lor $6,000,000, at eighty per cent, and that this company should pay the interest thereon and endorse the same, hatin pursuauce of the agree- ment 00,000 in Cash were paid to the deiendant aud 0 «6Ccbonds «of §6the )~§=6 Boston, §=Haruord and Erie Railroad Company to the amount ot = $1,250,000, in consideration of 60,000 shares of the company’s own capital stock, which were transferred by the piaintiff to the company, and that the officers thereof, in obedience to tne order of the directors, paid to tue defendant the ad- ditional sum o1 $1,000,000 without sufficient consid- eration. Afier alleging @ series of selfish motives to Eldridge, Drew, Scacil and Worsh, the compiains avers that the defendant at the tine of the transac- tions above mentioned claimed to have controi over Schell and Work, and that he induced Kidriaze and Drew to use their influence with suo other directors of the company to complete the purchase of the stock by promising that the iltigation sbould oe discon. tinued. 1t was further complained that the com- pany haa no authority under its charter to buy the shares of its own stock, and thas it had no occasion Tor them, while tue price paid to the deiendans was at least $500,000 more than he could have obtained im the market. Under all the circumstances te comp: prays that the defendant be restrained trom selling the bonds of the Bosvon, Hartiord and Erie Katirvad Company, and that they be delivered to the company, and that he pay to tne company the sum of $4,000,000, On the otner hand the defenaant denies all knowl- edge of the terms of the compromise, nut baving been a party to it, bul admits having received trom Jay Gonid $1,000,000 and also bouds of the Boston, Hartiord and Erie Raliroad Company to the amount of $1,250,000, and that on the 13th July’ defendant's brothers received for his account trom Gould the further sum of $2,500,000; but he denies that the bonds or money Were received In pursuance of any agreement or by virtue of any compromise what- ever, as in the complaint alleged, and refutes tho asseriioa that he transierred any shares of stock to this compuny, the bonds and money having been delivered and paid to him for valuable considera- tion, All the subsequent allegatious contained in the voluminous compiaint are substantially deuled, Here lay the issue. The battle ground was the sombre-lookiug apartment, at present known to the legal profession ay the Supreme Court, Special Term. Tue case was on the calendar, and as a great many lawyers have nothing else to do than peruse the document at their ease, they were not slow to perceive that @ treat was in store. About ten o'clock tie gloomy iron stairway leading to the court Was crowded by @ motley group, some rush- ing for injunctions and others aallying to lounge. A variety of sioulder hitters, with shaggy eyebrows, who seem to have an atlectou for tue pillars on the floor, now and then looked up in @ sulky mood, but ag nobody was on triai for murder they continued to crunch their weed in silence, The attendants tu tue court, aroused to the importance of the coming trial by seeing an unusual pile of documents on the Laie, ruboed their eyes, tuen hauled up the window binds, distributed pens and paper, and finaly stood like sentinels watching with 1ludifference the increasing throng, Suddenly all eyes were di- rected towards the door, and in the saadow of his able advocate stepped the warlike Prince, plump, glossy, self-satisiied, with the irresistible diamond in 1g usual spot aud a theatrical coat, which ever distinguishes Lhe proprietor of a@ well-to-do concern from which ‘“‘deadheads” areexcluded. He had the same look that characterized his expression when standing at the door of the Opera House on successtul nights, apparenuy unconscious shat anybody was looking at him, though he well knew that he was a temptation for every éye in court. Behina him toliowed Gouid, whom nobody seemed to Know, Hils person was unadorned; Lis raiment supple. By and by the lume ol jegai talent was drawn up in baile order. Forsi- Gcations in the shape of documents were built up with surprising rapidity, while ink botties, like so many skirmisuers, were placed in good positions. The adversaries smiied good morning. lt was a grim look, that whitened into @ scowl, and lawyers unmediately made a dive at their papers, Presently there arrlved one of the chief contestants, Whose approach to bis seat caused ag much surprise a3 if the bronze stasue at the Hudson depot had taken @ holiday to itselt to listen to the legal enter- talument. The auditors respectfully cleared out of his way as if he had been a steam engine going at full speed. At half-past ten o'clock Judge Barnard twok his seat on the peal, and, the triampet nay- ing jbeen sounded aunouncing the approac ing combat, the tournament was commenced with due jormality. Tne auditors settled them- seives into convenicut positions, and all eyes were conired on the legal warriors, who, now as- suming serious looks, compressed thelr lips aad only awaited the signal to begin, Aside from the principals there were marshulied for the aggrieved Messrs, i'1eld, und for the alleged aggressor sessrs. Rupailo, Beach, Davisand Metcalf. A wearying and Irultiess discussion took place ag to the production ofthe books of the Ente Company, Judge Barnard Dnady stating that if there was any special doc.- ment required he would direct that it be brought inso court. The counsel for the deiendant were wary and seemed now and then to make an-investi- gating thrust which was quickly parried by their wily and majestic looking opponent. At length Jay Gould was culied to the stand. He gave his evidence almost soilo voce, owing bo an in- disposition, In reply to Mr. Field le said he was now Presidtnt of the Erle Raliway Company, being only & director in 1568; at that timo, at an interview had by himself and Fisk, in Jone, 1663, witn Mr, Vanderbilt, Mr. Vanderbilt saia if he was settled with the then pending suits would fall through; ® lew days later there was a meeting at Mr. Pierrepont’s house, at which Messrs. Drew, Schell, Work, Eaton, Pierrepont, Flaridge and others were present; Mr. Pierrepont represented Kidridge and tae Koston, Haruord and Erie Koad; Mr. Rapailo represented Mr. Vanderbilt; Mr. Smith, of Martin & Sumuith, represented dir. Drew; he (Gould) aud Mr. Fisk had an appoint- ment with Mr, Eldridge at his rooms, and alter waiting for some time went to Mr. Merrepont's; then they were introduced to the council; le and Fisk were opposed to the settlement; Eldridge took Fisk and witness aside and urged the importance of @ seltiement, as did the counsel ana the directors present; finaliy he and Fisk conciuded the sette- mens might go On; witness saw Mr. Vanderbis a day or two alter; told him of tne arrangement; he seemed to think they Ougnt not to have paid Scnet! Ul he Was settied with; he did not think Mr. Scheli’s 1088 Was 80 large; the $429,000 paid was for Scheil’s losses; tue $25,000 lor Mr. Rapailo; Mr. Vander- bis seemed co think the otaers ih the pool he mentioned (Schell and Werk) had cheated olin; they had induced him to give an uulimited order to sus- tain the market, and then the 1s: af the five mil- lion stock alarming vem, had soid over on his or- der; they asked Mr. Vanderbilt want stock he had, and he at first clatined $10,000,000 of stock, wailed they beat down bo $5,000,000; they agreed to take the $5,000,000 at 7; at @ meeting with hun the next day they completed the arrangement to take of bim five milions stock at jv, aad pay hin @ milion tor 418 losses; they talked of tie litigations, and he spoke of the inportance of tue arrangement, aud tuat if the matter was carried through there would be tarimony between the coi. panies; Us Arrangement was sudsequenuy gone over by htridge biself aud Vandervilt in yan- dorbilt's oltice; the suis were seti.cd, the board passed the settlement; the checks were paid to Mr. Vanderbilt for $460,000 aud g5t0.00. and the stock was purchased of ir. bilf; when the second series of sulla was commencea the Belmont series roay brougut in the interest of Schell & Work; ne supposed Van- derolit was i is, and asked him if it was nol & breach of the understanding; Mr, Vanderbiit denied any connection with them, but sald, on figuring Up, he found ail bis losses bad not been eovered; auring the negotiations Mr, Vanderbilt had told him he controled che Bivodgood suit, ang the suit did not amount to much until be put Clark aud O’Vonor ih 16; he had opposed the settiement for ewo reasons: rst, that the compacy, if any one should recover In the suits; and, second, that the magnitude of the Diavter would swap Lae Company, At this stage of the proceedings counsel for the defendant desired an adjoarnment of the oross- examination of the witness and that the other testi- mony be proceeded with, Alter suine discussion We Ouse Was adjourned und! eleven o'ctock tls morn: ing. A bystander, on leaving the court, was heard to murmur “A plague on both your houses.” THE GALLOWS. Execution of a Negro in Georgia for the Murder of His Employer. The Crime, Trial and Conviction—Particulars of the Criminal’s Punishment. Wayrnrszono, Ga., March 12, 1870, On yesterday the usual quiet of this town wus dis- turbved by the excitement incident to the execution of @ criminal for the murder of a fellow being. Early last summer Ben Goaby, a negro of indifferent character and noted as a desperado since the eman- olpation of bis race, brutally murdered his em- ployer, @ man of standing, named Adkin Lewis. The manner of the deed was such as to shock and horrify any civilizea community, and it has since beon characterized as ono of the moat cold-blooded butoheries ever recorded. With @ consciousness of his terrible guilt and the awful doom such a orime merited as the hands of his fel- 1ow citizens, the murderer fled the vicinity, taking with him his wife, Finding it impossibie to escape, go great was the hue and cry raised agatnst him, uodby surrendered himself to @ radical magistrate in Augasta, where ho had arrived, in the hope of mercy from that source owing to political friend- ship, But the blood of the murdered man cried for vengeance, and in due time it was meted out, CONVIOTION AND SENTENCE. Godby was at once lodged in jail in Augusta, Where the mopotony of,nis ymprisopment was re- levéd by the symipaihlzing vislis of a largo number of bis sable brethren, who made every exertion for his release. Even the radical authorities in that city buoyed him up with the bope that he would be pardoned by Governor Bullock if convicted, as it was nothing im their estimation for a@ loyal nezro to kill ‘an unreconstructed rebel. ‘Tlie winter term of the cours arrived at last, and, notwithstanding the assurances of his friends that be would come out with tying colors by evasion of a trial in some manuer, the oiicers from this town went there, demanded him and brought bim here, where he was put on bis trial. Whiie this was in progress the greatest excitement prevaile! among the poopie, and the court room was crowded to iis utmost Capacity each day. ‘I'he evi- dence was clear, polnted und convincing in @ strik- ing degree. It established beyond the shavow of a doubt the guilt of the accused in having premeditated the murder of Mr. Lewis, and alverwards carrying it into execution in the most brusal and cold-blooded manuer, After a short absence the jury brought ina verdict in ac- cordance with the evidence—‘Guiliy of murder iu the first degree.” ‘The doomed man received the t announcement with tne callous demeanor, obaracteristic of the hardened criminal, and amid & solemn silence among the crowd of eager spectators the pn i a very impressive manner, pronounced the terrible flat of the law—-"That you be hanged by the neok until dead on the 12tn day of Junuary, 1370, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul.” A RESPITE. The condemned man was then returned to the jail at Augusta, where he had been imprisoned, and there confined until the day prior to that set for his execution here, At that time—the appointed hour— the Sherif of this county sgain made his appear- ance and demanded the scaifold’s victim; but, through the exertions of Godby's {nends, a resvite for sixvy days had beea grauted by Goveruor Bul- jock, In addition to this the strongest hopes were held out to the condemued of an wilmate and final pardon irom the Executive of the State. At length, however, the murderer met HIS JUST DOOM. On Thursday last the Sheriff of tne county aggin repaired to Augusta, and this time ne did not claim his Victim in vain, for there was no respite, Gov- ernor Bullock being absent i Wasiingtou atsend- ing to political affairs, in conformity with the law the jailer delivered up the condemned, and he ar- rived here yesterday, the last day of iis earthly ex- lstence, Manacied and diosely guarded. A rude gallows had been erected, around which @ large crowd of the curious had as- sembled to witness the dying agonies of the condemned wretch. Between tne hours of eleven and tweive A. M. Godby was led to the scaffoid, at- tended by the Sherut, his deputies and a guara suil- cient to enforce the decree of the law. He ascended the struciure to the plasform, and without any con- fession of his crime awaited calmly and stolidly the last moment. A prayer was ofered, in which he seemed to join, and all now being ready the fatal rope was adjusted, and im anosier instant the murderer was ushered into eternity ‘Tue entire alfair passed off quietly, ana alter iife was extinct sue crowd dispersed. THE CUBANS IN NASSAU. Chequered Career of the Annu—The Fate of the Lillian—The Case oi the Salvador—The Dif ference Between Fighting for a Republic and Roebelling Against One. Nassau, N. P., March 1, 1870. The cause of the Cabans doves nos seem to prosper here in consequence of the action of the home go- vernment, which directa that no encouragement shall be given them. The steamer Anna, which leit New York tn January last, putin here, atter landing large quantity of arms on the Eastern coast of Cuba, for the purpose of coaling. She was towea in by her Majeaty’s siip the Dart, Captain Carnegie. Her clearance was made out, when two of her crew received $100 each for betraying her. Ste was condemned in the Cours of Admuraity, no de- fence being offered 10 her behalf, and sold to Mr. Dumaresque, the Receiver General, wao bought her in on behaif of the government for £1,050. How uhe 18 to be pard for no one can tell, as there 1s not $500 in the ‘Treasury, and officials here have received no salary for the last four months. A project 18 now on hana to establish @ company to run the Apna bouween Nassau and the out islands, The steamer Lillian has ocen condemned in the Admiraity Court, but an appeal bas been lodged against the decision to the Privy Council ln kug- TY ‘The sentence against the steamer Salvador, which ‘was in favor of the Cubaus, bas been appealed against by the Attoruey General Andersou, aud will prova- biy be reversed. John Bull prociaims war to the Knife against the Cubans. Judge Rothery, in this case, decided for the Cubans, as there was no proof that there wasa rebeliion in Cuba, Juuge Doyie condemned the Lillian, a8 the proof of these facts Was supplied vy the afiidavits of her captain (ilarris) and General Guercurio, tue comimander of the expo- dition, In the American war suMctent proof was given of the Southern rebellion, and yet the Alabama and Fiortda received al! possible aid from the colonial government in these islands. So much in favor of the Alabama cial ma. ‘foe Cubans purpose leaving this place in April and shifting their quarters to einer Key West or some Southern port. They consider they have not been fairly dealt with by Engiand. All the Cuban expeditions whica have fated have done 80 on ac- count of want of proper organizauon or treachery among the oiicers, lilearn that the Anna bas again changed hands, The government has sold her to the Cubans for 2100, having lost by their purchase £400, and no funds in the treasury. The new jail and the hotel are monu- meats of Bahama misraie. The former 1s generally Tull, the latier generally empty. Tne high cuarges for poor accommodations and the want of direct communication between this and New York will always prove @ drawback, Letters are received omy every four weeks. SAB AFFAIR IN PUTNAM COUNTS. On Thnrsday night last a log hut occupied by a man named Russel Knapp, in a locality known as “Dick Hill,” town of Kent, Purnam county, was burned to the ground, and in it a little child, a giri five years of age, was literally burned to cinders, It is stated that the unfeeling parents had beer in the habit of leaving te hie one locked up in the house alone to suder the pangs of hunger and cold. {tis supposed that the ciiid ad attempted 1o make itself comfortable by buildiag a tire, and had while thus engaged set fre to the hovel. the charred remaing were taken in a baskev co the parents while they were enjoying themseives ay. parently unconcerned as to its fate. Great Indigaa- tion exists against them inthe nelghooriood, but tous lar no Steps Lave becn takea to oring tue to punisoment. Deara or Jor Brown Intelligence Feached this cliy this moraing of the death of Joua Brown nes, Of Warwick. Ile died in Rowe, Italy, on the 240 of February, of typhoid He was tae only son Of the late Govergor erat and had been Wravetiug In Karope wita two of bis Bis: voi. —sovtdee Journdi, March 1b BRAZIL. Diplomatic Amenities—Discontent Among Mer. chants—Trade Passing by Rio Janeiro—The American Immigrants—Prosidontial Pow- . ez3—Tho Approaching Elections — Sanitary Affairs--Visit of Lady Franklin—Miscellancous, Rio JANEIRO, Feb, 5, 1870, The yawning resident diplomats of Rio and Pe- tropolls have had their weariness agreeably dis- peiled by a slight out titillating grievance cast upon @ memver of their illustrious and hard-working corps, by an awkward expression in the Emperor's reply to the addreas of Count Rudolth, the Austrian resident Minister, wio received audience to an- nounce that bo had peen raised to the diplomauc rank of Eavoy Bxtraordinary and Minister Plentpe- tentiary. Tie offending expression was, “I hope you wiil continue co mers my good will and that of the Brazilian government.’? As the Emperor is sup- posed mercly to read froma paper bauded to bin by nls Ministry, the aroused dipiomais declare thas the government has been guilty of unparalleled dis- courtesy; thatit 1s @ direct insult, not only to Count Rudoifh, but to all the corps, and it is reported they have coucocted a diplomatic round-robin, demaud- ing a catezorioal apology. Douotless, as in the case of General Webb, about thé Canada claim, this Min- istry bas shown # contemptuous disregard of dipio- matic amenities, and the liveral press has comment ed severely on the maiter, but the diplomats them- selves must secretly feel deeply grateful to the gov- ernment for giving them a topic to keep them awake during this oppressively hot weather. We hear chat the American Minister has got in- structions to press the Canada claim and require an Immediate settiement by payment of » much larger sum than Lis predecessor offered to take. ‘The merchants of Rio have also their little griey- ances to grumb.e over, Besides the pluudering by their king stork of the Qustom House Dock Company, the French Bordeaux Packet Company has given even shorter measure than last Monta; aud, tastead sailing ou the 7th or 8tl—lorty-e1ght hours, aa an- uuced, alter arrival—arrived a day belore her time, and leaves in forty-two hours, upon the 6th. Tais is hard upon the merchants, nut to say upon your correspondent, and 13 aiso, no doubt, very disparag- ing to the city of Kio and Brazil, the Southampton Company has done better, agit has fixed days for leaving; sit tue Kio people feel very mortified at the fact thai now, Of the twenty-thige or tweuty- jour steamers @ month coming tv, all, éxddpi tue United States mati steamers—und these are said vo be on tue point of extension to the River Plate— make of Kio only a port of call, proceeding on, wita the exception of one or two, which stop at Santos, to the Kiver Plate or the Pacilic, As Kio Janetro has some 490,000 black and white souls io lt, aud Buenos Ayres has only some 120,000, io bas cause for vexation at the secouuary place she occupies in the eyes of steamboat proprietors. Sut what can be doue? The present government bas kicked aguinss immigration; unmigration 13 rashing to the River Viace, aud steamboubs must float wil toe current of mmunigrants or be lett dry vl the souls Of bunk- ruptey. A lgavy War is golng on between the liberal press and tie new allutster ut Agriculture over Ins Son ing away Ube American immigrants and un the gen- ecal question of the goverument policy, or want of policy, in regard bo Colonizauion and tmuugraion, Ali the array ol reports, oiiclal docuwenuts, &c, uave veen ransacked by both parties for Weapons to Bulb tuelr purpose, aud the degree Of acrimony in- fused ito thelr respective articles is invigoraung. Curiously enough, tue organ of the goverumens in Brazil not te oficial gazetie nor aay of its sup- porters, bub Blunost wiWays Lhe UON-Duiliical paper, (ue Jornal do Coinmercw, in which ibe governineu’ publisbes unsigned “communicasions,”” spaced out, whose cost Comes ous Of the secres service muucy of sue police. As all byt government communicaions are placed uoder the nead of “publications ab re quest,” a communication im the Journal uf Come merce MWays EXciLes Liuch Interest. The Presiveut vi Miuas Geraes bas been stirring up Lornets Very briskly, aud Lhe president of @ mu- nicipal Caamoer of Nis province Is here tw cail Dim to the bur of tae Supreme ‘srivunal of Justice tor sux penuiug the chamber, brazii has wwenty presi- dents of proviuces, a@ou each of them lb & vice king, doing pretty muci what he pieases, appomung ulmost uli the Site — olncials, wud keeping up @ Teunue of Siate and wat tuiniuy & State theatre jor bis amusement, wole every piace he goes to within bis dumuions he 1s bowed vo ana crouched te. UT late, however, one presiaent mor a stidnecked subject, Wuo, Daving & goliwary pacguto in {font of his cain, wuicn the Lia- Veillug president ordered tw be cut down tu give us mule, refused W allow his saade tree to be cut, and on the surprised and earaged presiuent reiterating wis orders (0 his escort, seized iis UiibOOK ald imauluiy defended lus dryad’s Gweiling place. But the prost- dent bad bis ceveuge, as he Aferwards seat @ party to seize hum jor the army. ‘The preseut Minister of the empire, conservative thouga he be, hus piaced on record bis opiniva of presiuential powers iv Braz. Ia fis report to wae Legisiabure ie said:— ‘Tho provinces are delivered over to governors armed with the utuost powers, WiuouL any external correcti.e out tue firmness ond rectitude of the ministers, So the President of Minas, naving fallen out with a fellow couservative, @ deputy tu tue imperial Legis dature, disinissed Nim trom uls oillce and ordered Wis prosecution for misinterpreting sowe law, has fauen iuto tue bUOTDS ANG gets it heavy. Says toe uitaied deputy: - His Excellency tried to give me a furious kick; but, miss ing bis aim, struck against public opinion and feil fu the cute ter. Tuere he Las muddied bis coat, dirtied bis face aud cou pletely skinned his head. His Laceilency hay sudden rag. but he 19 as cowardly as 8 whipped madinan, After commit ting avy supremely mad act Le doubies the guard ut his pal- aco, aud dou't veuture to go to bed uutil he has goue iio every room for fear of belug a victim of m dagger or anocnor Brasas, Tne maktng out of lists of voters 1s going on gen- eraily iu the empire, Bud every effort is muking by the justices @f tue peace and over ollicials to #rve tueir parsy. One of the tricks reported 13 nut uniu- genious; the justice organized an excelent lust, vy Clapping in all and every one of bis pariy, and ex- cluding wil of the other side, and then placed tae list, a8 proviued vy iaw, outsiae the parisi cuurea, but fixed it so lign up that it could be read ouly vy mouuting @ ladder, 80 that uone wigut read it. Lady Frauktiu arrived bere on the 4in from Eng- Jand. She is BOW upon & trip round to the Pacis sige of Norta America, sie gaving heard that some one living in Vancouver's Island ts 1 possession of @ letter iro, or regarding, dir Joun frauxin, wWhicu he Wii not deliver lo any one but Lo hersef in person. -It is to be feared ivat the poor old lady, how eighty, | believe, Is Zolng OD a Wild goose Cliasd;, Dut sie baw baa Do oLber Ovject in view for the loug years s10ce Su’ Join Was lost among Arctic Wias Uhan vo fod him or ae least traces of Blu, ior ever yet she dues not doubt us exisience. Yeuow fever continues rather ou tue increase, the deaths during some very Ciose hot Weatuer, avvut tue vbegiuning of kebruary, having reacued tweive to eighteen dally, with sWo or tiree cases of biack Vomit. Besides yeilow lever, @ great many cases of other fevers have occurred, and we doctors ace alt busy. As yet almost every death from yellow lever has been ‘of foreigners, @ Brazilian rarely veg auected by that 10ra of disease, aud a negro, 11s suid, never. Plenty of negroes die, buc usualy Lom digestive diseases arising irom weir bad Loud, Some rains are reported to have talien in parts of the drougat-plagued regions to the north, but o.ner parts had yes received by reuel, and some districis Had been almost entirely avandvned, tue peopic migrating to the river sides aud living cliedy on tas charity of ube setters. Among tue appointments just made of Vice Presidents of Amaaonas, 18 that of an almost unedu- cated man WhO Was prosecuted in 1836 for carrying on a regular trade 1 inaians, WHO were collected along We upper rivers aud then “given” (sold) to Jamies Wo be educaved and Curisianized, as de- nounced by Professor Agassiz. ‘The Ming 18 notori- ousiy carried on in dedance of the law, fur it 8 Ma- bos#ibie to secure & conviclion, however clear Lue provls. No less than 120 emancipations occurred in the proyince of Ceara in January, whica, considering that 118 One O1 Lhe provinces Laving che fewestsiaves, speaks niguly for tue emaucipation fleeing existing ainong Its people, And itis @lact tast the lewess emancipatious are in the provinces possessing hun- dreds Of thousands OF saves. CANING AFFAIR IN BROADWAY. ter Between Two Promivent Journalists. Yesterday afternoon Major W. W. Leland and Mr. George Wiikes, proprietor of the Spirit af the Tunes, were on Broadway. ir. Wilkes was going dowa and Mr. Leland was going up that thoroughiare. ‘The Major, feeling aggrieved at some expressions in reference to limself that appeared in am article ea ltled “Self-Branded Miscreants,” m Saturday's Spirit of the Times, stopped Mr, Wilkes when oppo- site No. 325 and asked fim what he meant by cailing him (the Major) a coward, Ar. Wilkes told Leiand, a¥ he assumed a menacing attitude, not to interlere with him, and stepped vack and wubule toned ms coat. Leiaud then strack Wilkes. A rough and tumble fight ensued, which did not last many minutes. Major Lelana tuea struck Mr, Wilkes with his caue very severely, aud to prevent a snail riot cansed by the gathering of & mov Mr. Wiikes Went juto a store, No, 325. The Major followed Mr, Wilkes in and struck fim again on the hat and breaking it, Police oficer Boutty, of tic Twenty~ Qita preciney, came up, bus Mr, Wilkes refused to give (ie major lute charge or to preter aay com. piaine agaist hun, ‘The story of this assault ex- cited cun-iderabie alveutiod Up Lowa last uigoe as eVG.y Lule wud sestaurade Exciting Ene