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WASHINGTON. Another Currency Inflation Scheme. General Garfield’s Bill for Redistribut- ing Bank Issues. THE TARIFF WAR IN THE HOUSE. A Huge Land Grab Con- summated. WASHINGTON, April 29, 1870, General Garfield’s Bill for Inflating the Cure rency and Redistributing Bank Issues. General Gariield, chairman of the Commitiee on Banking and Currency, reported (o ihe House to-day @oebill to inercage banking facilities. It contains twelve sections and provides for the issue of $96,000,000 of national curreucy to the States having Jess than thetr proportion and fur the redemption and Circulation 0° $45,000,000 0 the three per cent certit- cates and for the cancella'lon of $40,000,000 of legal tenders; also that the additional currency shall be secured by the deposit of four and one-half per cent boudss, exemp! from taxation, and that when $50,000,000 of the mew is+uc nave been taken up all the banks sha‘l receive the same four and one-half Per cent bond asa security for their circulation, It provides for free banking on vhe gold basis and for the re liatribution of $25,000,000 of national bank notes, taking that amouat from the States having an ex- cess and distributing it to Sta’es being deficient. But this red st:ilution shall not take place until the $96,000,000 provided for shail hae beer tssued. It reduces the taxes on circulation one half on all the Davks that secure all their circulation by the new bonds, Tne bill was ordered to be printed and re- commitiedl, The Tariff Bill in Danger. The Ways and Means Committee held another session to-day with a view to making some turther amendments to the Tait bil, The Fanding bill was d'8us ed, | utnoaciion taken, It 1s understood that the commit ce will suymit a number of further amendments ‘o tie Tariff bill, in the shape of strik- ing out several paracraphs that do not stand much chance of success, Tie propriety of making a mo- tion to lay the bill on the tabie was discussed by the committee, but no action was taken looking to that end. Expediting Business in the Senate. ‘The Senate tas been at work, ihis week on the bills on its calendar under the ruie adgpted last week on motion of Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, by which each bill on the caendar is taken up and considered unless ovjection is mate by a Senator, in which case itis passed over. This not only gives each bil! on the calendar a chance to come before the Senate, but it bas don» away with a great waste of time previously consumed every morning in d'scussng what bills should be taken up. The practical results of the working of thig “Anthony rule,” as it 1 called, for the past tive days of this Week, are the passage of n'nety-three of the 293 bills and joint resolutions on the calendar, while avout half as many have been indefy tely postponed. Nominations Confirmed. ‘The Senate tiis afternoon confirmed the folowing nominations : Mrs, A. M. Brigham, to be Postmistress at Natick, Maas. ; Fenjamin J. Waters, (o be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico; John F, Nixon, to be Judge of the United States District Court for New Jersey, Luteresting Developments of the Howard In- vestigation. 1 J. M. Brown, the witness who was on the stand in the Howard investigation yesterday when the com- mittee adjourned was examined again to-day. He testified that the Banding Block Company, of which Gcneral Howard wa? president, was u:ing the lum- ber contracted for by General Howard's brother tor the creetton of tenemen's on the Barry Farm. The fact was reported to Howard, who ordered that the lumber taken be paid for cut of the Bureau funds. Itcamie out in evid_ ne it both the Hospital and University here were built out of the Bureau funds, and that ihe Bureau now pays the trustecs of the University $3,000 per annuum rent for the use of a part of the buliding as a headquarters, The examination of J. W. Vanden- berg of New York, was commencst, but not con- eluded. He testified to having sold t making the building block to General Howard and his associates of the Frecdmen'’s Bureau for $10,000, The Southern Transcontinental Railroad. The Sevate Committee on Pacific Railroads held a meeting this morning. The report and accompany- ing dccuments in rgard to the Southern Transcon- tinental Radroad Company were presented to the committee, and it was determined next Friday to take some action in the case, This will settle, one way or the other, the question of @ Southern Pacific Railroad. The Decimal System of Weights and Mea- - sures. ‘The sixth decennial convention to revise the phar- maceepe'a, to mest here on May 3, whl take up, among other questions eniering into its deltherations, the di-cvssion of the decimal system of weights and measures, with @ view to its adoption in medica} sei- ence and practice, Medicai Teachers’ Convention. The Medical Teachers’ Convention met here to- ay anil organized itself mto a Teachers’ Assoviation. Fiteon medical schools are represented. The asso- ciation clecied tie following permanent officer Professor 8. D. Gross, of Philadeiphia, President; Professor D. W. Zandell, of Louisville, Vice Presi- dent; Dr. N.S. Davis, of Chicago, Secretary. This js regarded as the most important meeting of medi- | teachers which has yet occurred in this country. is Personal. Senator Abbott and Representative Dockery left here this evening to attend a great fifteenth amend- ment meeting at Wilmington, N.C. Senator Abbott will preside. The Senator will also speak at the State Mass Convention at Raleigh on the 11th inst. Mr. J. H. Saville, Chief of the Warrant Division, has been appointed Chief Clerk of the Treasury De- partient. . Com and Currency Balances in the Treasury. At the close of bus'ness in the Treasury to-day the coin ba'ance on hand was $115,863, 652 60, of which $34,135,600 represents gold certificates outstanding. ‘The currency balance was $8,627,897 42. Condition of National Banks. The abstract of the reports showing the circulation of the national banks of the United States at the” close of business on tne 24th of March has just been completed at the office of the Comptroller of the Cur- Tency and makes the following showiag of the prin- cipal items :— Loans and discounts United States tons. . iver bouds, Due from redeeming agents. D.ef om banks...... Checks and ovher fiems. ¥#xchangze for clearing house RESOURCES, $710,308, 465 382,029,250 Tova termer notes. Clearing house certiticates. ‘Three per cent certificates. LIABILITIES. iding notes. Div.deuds unpatd. Dep. sits... Due to banks. Noves and bills Bilis ; ayable. Aggresatc of + 1,527,310,809 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Second Session, SENATE. WASHINGTON, April 29, 1870, PORTRAIT OF GENERAL THOMAS, The Vick PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the House concurrent resolution providing for @ painting of the late Major General Thomas, Mr. Hows, (rep.) of Wis., eulogized the personal ‘worth and important services of the deceased, but was avcre to the resolution as e-tablishing a gen- eral precedent jor ai) like cases, Mr, Davis. em.) of Ky., tarde some remarks of & NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1870—TRIPLE SHEET, simflar tenor, He thought if General Thomas were B@iVe he would be the first to remonstrate aguinst the rope. Won. ‘ Mr. HOWARD, (Tep.) of Mick., sald that General Thomas and bis @nievements wouid be recoraed on ‘the dost Waportant paae ol the country’s history, und no pi ture would add a ything to bs great foe, | While Finks tai mack A bel aif 0: General Dot, nor coai'l o her Senators, \or- Shere were Ober digitigun ned generale who had rendered ine-t mable service In tie same Cause, He wo ld not. by skating cu evea General ‘Thomas, turnish the slighvest occasivn fur rivalry or ene be Ween We great men w whom the cuwutry owed 9 muc. Mr. MORRILL, (rep,) of Me., moved to refer the Tgoluuon to the Gommitt.e on tue Liprary. Agrecd to, Mr. POMEROY, (rep.) of from the Commitice on Pubhe eae So an aincndaen Diul.or the rclief of pre empuon settlers in Nebrask.., Mr. WILLIAMS, (rep) or bre.on, trom the Comm t- teeon Paciic Kuliouds, repétved,, with an anend- ment, a dil to authorize te Boubierm Minvesta Rairoad Company to connect ate line with tie Novus eru Pacific Raoad. — + B TY for Maan, roviding a mode re |, (¢@, .) 0 pan for thaseieccen ol eudens to uke Miltary aud Naval Acad. Imes. Mr. Wison’s bill provides that whenever an ap- Pointment oO. a cadet Lo Lie Miltary or Naval Acade my 18 Wo oe made trom any district the Repre-cntasive Of Buch dist-10t 6uall appms a Commitee of three competent persons resident therein to examine ap- licants, ‘Tue committee shail give tice Lo the tn- hapitauts of said districs ol ihe time and place of such exammation.:. They shail carefuliv examine all applicants and deciwe report to suc Repie- Senta ive the 1. 8U.b0f such ex@smation, and from tie persous possersing the hgh st order ot merit said Repregentath,e § wll seiect acand date and re- turn the same to the Secre ary oi War or oi the Navy as the case may be, By Mr. MCVONALD, (t p.) Of Ark.—For the settie- ment of accounts between the Souchern ratiroad cor- porations aid the United Stites governinent; aiso to. Allow S¢h001 trustees in Arkauses to enter lauds for School purposes Mader the Homnestea tia B; MORRILL, of Mawnie—Ke Tadian loners, ‘orize 1he eof rhe c aims of Kans is for ihe services of troops unde: @ requ B.tlon Oo. General Price, VENTILATING THE HALLS OF THE CAPITOL. The House jont reso uto. appropriating $3,000 to pay ior exper ments in (ie Venue on of the halls of the Cap.o was tik n up. Mr. TRUMBULL, (rep.) of Li, said that the ventilas ton of th: Capiiol Was a periect failure, Members were shut up in the interior of the great builling without the benetit of fresn air, or any otuer ar, except such as was forced in. He wou'd be gid une in @ propos tion for a rearrangement of t hats, wth & view to extending them to the ex rior, He though: no zoo! wou d come of the reso- luton, 18 inore Tailea! mvasuies were ncelet to remedy evil. Mr. Ny#, (rep) of Nev., said the present purpose Was to ascertain by experiment whether proper Ventilation could be secured without very large ex- penditure, ‘The resolution then passed, TRADE WITH CANADA, Mr. FENTON, (rep.) of N. Y., called up the bill au- thorizing the appoin ment of au agent to inquire relaie lo the sta oi trade between the United ‘States and British North Americi, which, afier dis- Cugsion, Was re. red to the Comm ttee on Finance. RESINING BULLION AT BRANCH MINTS. Mr. WILLIAMS gave Dut e@ wat he would offer the bill relating to refining of gold and silver bullion at the aint of the United Sites end branches, a3 an aunendinent to the Legisiative, Exccutive and Ju- dicial Appropriation bill, on the ground that it tended 10 reauce t.e expenses of the government in tie comage of money. Upon bia motion the bill was taken irom the calendar and referred to the Com- mittee on Appropriations. BILLS PASSED. The calendar was then proceeded with, and the following House bills were passea ‘Yo providewor the creation of corporations in the District of Columbia by general law. To jncorpopate tue Wasidagton and Boston Steam- ship Company. ig Authorizing @ supply of arms for instruction and practice to certain colieges and unty nee ~ Fe ¢ discharge retura of evideuce of honors ore bi! to amend an act fo carry into effect provi- SLONS Of trealies between the United States and Unina and Japan and other countries, givlug ceriaya judr cial powers (0 ministers aud conshig. o'hér tunc- tionaries Of the United States ip thes: comhtries. Tae bill to pay the claiits of Mr. Cowan and Mr. Dickinson, of Kugxville, Teun, was objectad to by Mr. TRO MBULE,on te ground that it involved the prin- ciple whe her the government should pay for corton a by our army In @.ecting fortiflcations. He could see no move reason for this than tor paying dor the rth used in such Work. iumber and ea LEY, (rep.) of West Va., said Mr. Wi half an hour had not elapsed sinco the Senate passed an exachy similar clam, and that the only reason for its assent in one case and rernsal in the other Was tuat one claimant lived in Missouri and the other in Tennessee, He thought the government could nob much longer atfori to leny justice to loyal men simply because they lived in the South. A few paltry dollars might be saved, but the credit and honor of the nation Was threat ‘istence fa Re ye ui ae rep.) of - 0 expport of the "nat he MPmison, Aye of the claim. to fawe the sah of allegiance to the Confederate government, Mr. TRUMBULL Said If the bill which bad passed Javolved the principle presented by the one now pending, 16 Was equally objectionable. He there- upoa asked unanimous consent to enter a movon for 18 F Li from the House. Mr. Davis urged the selection of a testcase and discussion of the gencial questiun, as @ Means of de- termming the future policy of the Senate, with a view to the guidance of meinbers, Mr. ‘Truimi-uil § oon was then entered, ‘rhe bill providing Lor @ post oitice and other pub- le buildings i Montgo:nery, Ala., Was passed; as aiso various pension and other private bills, At half-past four, after a snort executive session, he Senate adjoumed unuul Monday. that HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, April 20, 1870. REPORTS PROM THE MILITARY COMMITTER. Mr. LOGAN, (rep.) of Ii, from the Commuttee on Military Affairs, made various reporis of a private character, Including the following:— Adversely on the bill permitting retired army and Navy oilicers to hold elyii offices, Aiversely on the petit.on of ciiizens of New York for the relief of Major General Robert Anderson. The Senate joint resolution authorizing the issue of att ng certain eulisted men of the Fourteenth ; Passe) ‘fhe Senate joint resolution auihorizing the Presi- dent to drop from the rolis of ine army Lieutenant first Heutenant of the Fourch cayairy, and J. Patterson, lirst Leutenaut of the Fuh artil- lery. Pasved. The bill making appropria.ton to sats'y a judy. ment obiained against Greenville M. Dodge and others. Passed, The UI for the relief of oiicers assigned to Genera | Daniel Ulman’s brigade, but not imusiere in. Passe. The bill donating condemned cannon to the McPherson Monuinent Assoc Passed. The bill authorwzing the Treas ecounting offl- cers to allow to army disbursing: ‘8 fromm the commencement of the rebellion to the 20th of August, 1866, credit for over-payments and losses of funds, vouchers and property, as they may deem just and reasonable, Wien recommended under authority of the Secretary of War by the head of the Military Bureau, to which such accounts pertain, Pas-ea, ‘rhe bill for the reliel of Colonel Wuham A, How- ard, formerly of the New York Marine Artillery. Passed. Various private biils were also reported from the aay committee by Mr. Packard, and were «disposed of, THE CHINESE INDEMNITY FUND. Mr. ORTH, (rep.) of Ind., presente t resolutions of & meeting of ciuzens of New York city in favor of urning to China the so-called China Indemnity Fund, and if refused by that goverament, that tne fund be used for founding @ liierary institution for the mutual benefit of Chinese and Americans. BUSINESS ON THE SPEAKER'S TABLE. The House at vaif-past one proceeded to the busi- yee on the Speaker's table, and disposed thereof as follows:— The Senate substitute for the House bill for the reiiet of Helen and Heloise Lincoln, white children, recovered from the Kiowa Indians. Concurred in. ‘The act in relation to the Hot Springs rese: vation of Arkansas. A conference committee ordered, The Senate amendment to the House bill extend- Ing tume for revising and consolidating the United State Statutes, Concurred in, The Senate amendment to the House joint resoin- tion to enable the Court of Claims to heir aud deter- mine the claim of E. Dinkleman, a subject of the King of Prussia. Concurred in, ‘The Senate amendment to the House pill amenda- tory of the organa: law of Colorado Territory. Non. concurred i, Tne Senate bill to authorize the officers of the ‘Treasury to enter a credit upon the account of Henry Etting, paymaster in the navy. Passed. Tae Senate joint resolution to_ provide for the sur- vey and estimates of the cost of removing obstruc- tious irom the Bayou Teche, La, Passed. ‘THE PORTLAND AND ASTORIA RAILROAD. The Senate bill granting lands{ to aid in the con- struction of & railroad and telograpi line from Porte land to Astoria and McMinnville, in Oregon, ir. HOLMAN, (‘lem.) of Ind., said tiat fits bill ap- propriated nine hapai and forty thousand acres of the public land. He had stated on a former occasion that there were ninety bills pendiag appropriating over one hundred muallions of acres, bat ne bad since learned that that estimate was far below tue reality, aud that the number of bills peudmg was over one hundred and seventy, appropriating over two hundred and fifty mtilions of acres, Mr. VAN WYCK, (rep.) of N. ¥., suggested that as this was an important bill, and would give rise 10 cunaiderable discussion, K be allowed to so over, 80. tha: the House should procced with oth-r busine-s. Mr. HOLMAN proceeaed wih his argument agaiust the bill, and reminded the House of the resolution adopted by it on the 2ist of March last, on hia OWn motion, dec aring that the system of granting public Jands to ratiroads and omer cor- Ppo.ations should be discouunued. Was the House to “go back” on that solemn resolution at the arro- gant demand of lobbyists and monopolisis and speculators? Was tie country to imiiaw the feudal as. of medieval Europe by bestowing vast tracts jJand on individuals. instead of keeping te public Jand for how's eas for indus rious poor men? He ho et the House would nos any on.er encourage that policy, Sine ihe establmsiment of ihe yovern- meni there hat | een ,4\ en away for pur; ozes of e iu- cation 18,000,000 acres of land, ant 186 040,000 to bord uo the jortunes of craity and unserupulous men. No less than 160,000 000 acres had heen ge. to corporat ons witiin the lus ten years, if hat policy were con mued ib Would not bi long Ull there Would be no puy i> tert for home. stad and preemption purposes, (or which oer ten mition oO: acres had been tacen last year. He Bent io bie Clerk's desk and iad read a remon- strance Irom the worstgmen of New York aga nst a fursher absorption of te public lands by raliroad corporations, T. HOLMAN had reat by the Cerk a letter from Amos Sanio a, present of the Siae Labor Un on, of Kansas, inankior him or hs acion im behail of the settlers; and a jout resolution of ihe Olite Leis jabure, instructing tis Senators and Represeaiatives 10 vote agaist further corporatlous, ir. Koons, (rep) of Ark., rema ked that that was the Legisiature which had rejected the titvents amendmen. Mr. HOLMAN retorted that the gentleman fron Arkansas was intere wd in the bil and w. ever thing free except the lands aud tie people of the United Sta es, Mr. Woop, (dem.) of N. Y., corroborated the statement of Mr. Holman, and said tia: when in Burope last year he found, in Frankfort, Pare and London, representatives of American railroad ¢o°- porous borrowing money on the security of the ands granted to them by Congress, showing © n- ciusive y that those lands formed iheir only capital. Mr. HOLMAN con inued hits argument, and quoted artic.es from repubiiean newspapers in condemn fon of Jan! grants, His polo. against this particul: Dil was thi tt was the first bl of a series, which proposed to gran: hindreds of millions of acres. 1: was sournt bo be forced upon the house by a combi- nation, 10% in the pubile :nterest, but In the interest 0: privates, He p.otes ed azainst it in the mime of every American, in ihe name of every lavoring man who came here from abroad, in the name of the future, in the name of the common Father of aii, Whose Justice and merey are outraged in giving to those already r' millons of ares of th® public Jands, and In condemn n@ countless thousands to poverty, wret-hednes:, and misery. He protested against it in the name of humanly and of the rigut of man to labor. At the conciuston of Mr. Holman’s speech Mr. Schenck rose to move to go into commitice on the ‘Tarif’ bill, * Mr. Frrem hoped that the Ohal in of the Com- mittee on Ways and Means would permit the spe-ch of the gentleman from Indiona, twice made, to be replied to by Wester men, that they might give to the couniry an exposition of their fleas in regard to that policy, which was now for the first time in ten years seriously at'acked by @ ther party. Mr. SCHENCK agreed to Witiihol | his motton with the understanding that there would be an evening session for the tirit, Mr. SARGENT, (rep.) of Cal., replied for five minutes to Mr. Huiman’s argument, stating that opposition to railroad land grants should not have come from representatives of States that had nad their internal Lnprovemeits hudt Up by such mM . ". Five also repited toMr. Holman. He de- clired that the policy of the railroad land grants had heen prolific of great national benefits and of but few abuses, Ii was not the homestead seeker nor the man who proposed in geod Jaith to become a pre-emption settler who helped to swell te new- born climor agaist rathoad land grants, The farmer who erected his household gods in the wil- derness -would never compliin if Congress gave adjacent lan’s to a coinpany that built a road to his door, The man who proposed to obtaina hom:- stead would never built his cabin oaistie the limits of rathoad grants if be could find lands within those imiis, The yoice that made itself heard now crying a ainst the development of the country by of rl grants Was not the voice of the pioneer. It was the voice of poliu.cal partisans who Saw gigas of the tempest on the hortzon,@nd were casting aout tor planks With Which to strengthen their rival cockleshcls Alt-r a glowing descrip. ton of tHe region to be ceyelopeu by the proposed Failroad, he said that if thege iandd were to ve settlod Hers Inust be fur- meshed whh rapid é2mmunicaiidn with tid Ht + Mf they woul geil the fuibile Tafida Wey’ must make a market for them by making them accessible, If they would have railroads, either the govcrament must bulla them or offer indugemen!s to private capital Lf by #lVing up half the land Mey could se. the other haif ani settle commun. ties on all, 16 seemed to him that they wou'd benelit the Treasury, benefit ihe peopie and benefit the sewers, As to inierfering with the Indians, he thought tiat if ine expe: ience of centuries had shown that the Indians could not be domesti- cated, it was time to demon trate te idea ay t was necessary to continue their nsvleas exfsiened any Jonger. “He was in'favor of let ing tie dirty Indian— the human wild beasi—ve banished from Easier liierature and Western frontier, and having order and peace and Lede pect a land of homes wna harves s in his plice. The monopoly of the ra‘lroad was betier than the monopoly of the Indian. It would be to the interest of the railroad conipany to sell the lands to actual settlers at two dollars aud fifty cents an acre rather than to tie specu- lators at ten dollars an acre. He had no doubt that the passage of the bill would be advantaceous to persons around the lobby who would invesai no money in the enterprise. But there were beasts o: burden as well ag beasts of prey, aud it would be Smatt statesmenship that would refuse proper leg- is'ation because some Dugald Da getty of the lobby might thereby secur: some ducats. They could not rejuse @ just claum because some brazen rascal might swindle the claimant, and they suou!d not re- fuse @ railroad land grant becau-e ti mignt be sus- pected that some persons had an tn.erest in (he iranchise who desired to sell (hat interest. If tie land grant policy were continued the pioneer would rect his cablu and construct his fences; civilization woul! advauce in force; deslation would be con- quered; the Indians would vanish; property would be created; the wilderness would blossom; vowns would spring ap: cittes would arise, and ‘agricul- ture, manufactures and commerce would thrive. But It they assumed the other course, if they refused Lo grant jands jor these purposes; if, like the gioth- ful servant, they wrapped ‘heir talent in @ napkin; if they adopted a policy of inerita and retrogression; if they bwit a breakwater aganst the tide of pro- gress, they would build im vain, for the tide would nol be stayed. ‘fhe people would vacate thetr seais and fll them with o.hers who would have wisdom enough to comprehend the true policy of develop- ment and courags enough to follow (beir conscien- tious convic tons. Mr. McConmicx, (dem.) of Mc., spoke briefly ta favor of the po'icy of railroad land grants. Mr. Smiru, (dem. of Oregon, argued in support of the billas being in the interest of setilers or pros. pective settlers. The roa! would be one hundred aad thirty wiles long. For five mules of that chtance the country was seitled, For the rest of the distance the country was not settied and could not be settled without the ald of railroads. ‘The question was, Whether the country should be open to settlements under the bill or whether it would con(inue to be the home of the elk and the bear. No settlers went there. Fven the Indians had never occupied it. 1c Was @ forest—an Oregon forest. The grant was a limited one, barely sufficient for the purpose. Alter further (it-cussion Mr. HOLMAN moved to re. fer the bill to the Committee on Puvlic Lands. tived-—yeas 7h, nay: The bUL was then pas-ed—yeas 97, nays 49—as fol- lows: Yeas—97. Allison, mt. McCarthy. Sheldon (La.), Ames, MeCormick., — Sharrod, Arnsirong. — Degener. McCrary. Smith (Or.). Asper. Dox. McKee. Smith (Tenn), Atwood. Eldridge. MeKenzle. smyth (lowai. Axtell. Farnawortb. Milnes. Starkweather. Ferriss. Stokes. Fisher. Stoughton, ch. Btrader. Gib Strickland. Hai Strom: a Ha Tann Booker. i ti. Brooks (Mass), H ‘Townsend, ¥ Hour. Voorhees. Hooper. Waahburne hikise, Pomeroy, reo. Porter. ke Prowrer. Johnson, Kogers, Kelley. Kellogg. Oiiten, McGrew, Stevenson, Grinwold. = McNeely. Stiles. Archer. Hale. Mercur, Swann. Arnel. Gambieton, MdMoore (N. J.) Sweensy, Benton. Hawley. Morgan. Taylor. Rriggs. Hay. Nibinok. ner. i Upson. Holinan, Van Auken, Jones (Ky.) Van Trump, ‘Jund, Van Wyck, ind. —-Kelavy, ard, Cobb (Wis) Kerr, Villard, wies. Keichatn, Williams. Cox. Shanks. Wilson (Ohio), Dickinson. Shoher. Winans. Finkianburg. I Smith (Ohio). Winchester, fox re Stepheas, Wood, jetz. Alarge number of senate bills were taken from the Speaker's table aud referred to appropriate com- mitiees, INCREASING BANKING FACILITIRS. Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) of Olio, frpm the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported @ bill wo increase banking facilities, Recommitted, The House then, at haif-past five, took a recesa until eight o'clock for the Tarif bill, Evening Session. CONSIDERATION OF THE TARIFF BILL, The House met in Committee of the Whole at eight o’ciock, Mr. WHRELER in the chair, on the Tariff bill, the pending paragraph being that im reference to iron Wire, Mr. GARFIELD offered an amendment making the duty on round iron and squares between three- quarters of an inch and two inches in diameter $20 per ton, and on round irom and squares less than PS arn | of an inch, $23 40 per ton, Rejected— 0 OY : Mr. HoAR, (rep,) of Mass, offered an amendment providing that railroad iron in colls not more than three #ixteenths of an inch in diameter or square shall be subject to the same duty as wire, Agreed to. ‘rhe paragraph, as amended, reads:—On ali iron wire or twisted ties, oF wire of which iron shail be a component part of chief valine, whether rolled or drawn, inc.uiing annealed, bright, coppered, gal- vanizoy, tinned or coated with zine, or any other Materiel not less than No. 16 wire gauge, two cents per pound, and in addit.on thereto f teen per cent ad veioren; less than No. 16 and not less than No. 26 Wire gauye, tree and haf cents per pound, and 1p addivion thereto Hieen per cont ad valorem: leas grants of laud to raviroad than No. 25 wire four cena per pound, and in aduttion thereto titesn per ceut ad valorem; p o- videt thus at 10a wire co 1 with Aik, cotton or other textile material, Day hive cenis per pound m addition to he rates of duty impased on iron wire not su @ vered; and, proviled fur er, that railroad iron im colls not mo.e than tiree-six: teen hs of an inch in diameter or square sual Le sud ect to the same duty as wire, ‘The next paragraph was that taxtog all iron or siecl wive, rope or twiste.! ties, On motion of Mr. SCHENCK, (vep.) of Ohio, the words “or twisted ties?’ were st uck out, those woids having been insert dD t.e prece.iing paragraph, Mr. Gris wonp, dem.) of N.Y. movel to reiace the duty irom tive to turee cents per pound. Ke. jected, ‘ On motion of Mr, ALLISON, (rep.) of lowa, the rates O duly were reduced so as WO Inake bie para graph read “ov all iron or steel wire rope made of wire not less than No. 16 wire gauge, two ani a ball vents per pound and twenty per ceat ad valorem; made of W.re less than No. 16, ane not less tian No. 2) Wire gau-e, \i.ree aad @ hall cenis per poand and tweniy per cet ad valorem; made or wire less tian No. 25 wire gau.e, four cents ,er pound and iwealy per cent ad cawrem, Mr. KELLEY, (rep.) of Pa,, moved to strike out the paragraph. Negutived, Phe WEXt Pardg.aph was that taxing iron wire cloth tWo ceuts per square foot, and thirty-five per cent ad valorem, and i: patuted or print d with figures four ceuis per square loot, and thi. ty-tive per cent ad valorem, Mr, Cox move. to strike out the paragraph, argu. ing that tat it would 1aise the present duty on pa nLed Wire cloth 135 per cent ad valorem. It was making Mt pioutoiory, He would not call this ropbery, but as it ‘was the might session be would denounce it as burglary. (Lauzhter). Mr. SCHENCK Opposed tie motion, expuining that this wire ©.0.h Was now adinit ess duty iban at the were of which it was made, This material was used to keep out Mies, a sort of * ter.) He wanted to have tne dut 4 litle higher thon that on tie wir Mr. Hoag wlso opposed the motion. After considerable discussion negatived by 38 yeas to 19 nays. ir, COX Moved to reduce the duty of four cents to two cents. Rejec ed. The next paragraph was on “iron spiral furniture Springs, tures Cons per pound,” Mr, ALLISON Moved 10 make the duty two cents per pound anil tliteen per cent ad valorem, Mfr. McCoRMICK moved to strike out the fifteen per cent ad valorem and declared 1¢ monsirous to pul a duty of sixty-sevea dollars a ton on suca springs. Rej-cied. Mr. BROOKS, (dem.) of N. Y., argued that the present cinty of two cents per pound and fficen per cent ad valorem Was practicaily prohibitory, the amount of revenue received from it last year being only $313 against $758 the preceding year. Mr. Allisou’s amendinent was rejected. The commetice then rose, having disposed of four parazraphs. ‘The House then, at ten minutes past ten ‘oclock, adjourned watil to-mor . the motion was We CHESS MATTERS. a Gume of the Period=Four Noble Women of France Play Against De Riviere and Win. Chess playing among tates is rather the exception than the rule, and be it said, with all due deference to the fair sex, it is rare to see a fine game played by one of their number, although we have occa- sionally met with a few who were very hard to beat. Amoug the Parisian ladies are several who have atiained a high rank as chess players, and an example of whose play we propose to give below. The following game was played by Madame la Princesse Murat, Madame la Duchesse de la Tre- mouille, Madame ia Marechal Reynault de St. Jean a’ Angeley and Madame de Colbert Chabannals, con- sulting together against the ce: ted player Mr. de Riviere, Without sight of the board or tie piect 8:— (Evans’ Gambit.) white, De Riviere, black, 1—PioK4 2-Q Kt to BS 3-BwQBa 4—B tks Kt P 5—BtoR4 6—P tks P 1—B to Kts 8-Pt0Q3 9—KttoQRe 10—Kt to K2 11—Cas' les 12—Ki to Kt 3 (a) 13—B to K Kt (b) 14—PIOQB4 15—B tks Ke lon 19 B 2 8—BtoQB 4 i- are 6—P to BS 18—KE to BS (e) 19—K to K Kt sq 2 20—Tkio Kt 3 20—K to Raq 21—Q Rtv K Kt sq 21—Q to K Kt aq 22--K to R3 a) 22—hi to B sq (a) —Kt to 86 and win, COMMENTS ON TIP GAME. (a) Up to this point all the moves are secundum artem. (}) This move has been discarded of late, and justly #0, as it aids the attack. (o) ‘The besi tnove, as tt gives white the control of the boar * (1) The winning move. The ladies are deserving of much praise for the soundness and brilliancy which hey exhibited through the entire gan } LOCAL POLITICS, Independent Citizens Union. ‘his association held # meeting at thetr rooms, No, 23 Union square, yesterday afternoon, and adopted @ series of resolutions defining their action tn the coming campaign, in which they believe they can be serviceable in Keeping the reguiar political hacks out of office, The gentlemen who took part in the proceedings remarked that it was too late tu the day to put forward candidates of their own, and they would therelore content themsetves with acting ac- cording lo \he split of the resolutions onered by Mi. Deutsch, The import of the reso- lutions was tat the as-octation agreed as # body to support such candi only as they 1 find worthy und well qualified to Gl such positi as they may be NOWinatel to Mil by other Organiza- tions, Mr. Deutsch contended that as the Union was “neutral in its principles,” its sole aim being the ob- taining of a good city government, it would support candidates without partisan prejudice, as long as they were deemed worthy men. It is the intention of the Union, say, Wo inquire into tie p date who may be put np ft. if th be fou the resolutions t career ef every canti- the people's votes, and & bad one the entire vote of the 2as0- ¢ \urowh against Jum. ‘outeaded that the association numbers 18,000 Votes. ‘The Colored Republican Association. Last evening &@ meeting of the colored republican assoctadon of the Seventeentn and Nineteenth As. sembly disiricts was held at No, 150 West Fifty. vhird stree!, The gathering numbered about a score of inteliigent looking colored men, who assembled In @ smal) room m the rear of Mr. Wil- son’s carpet-thrashing establishment, near Sixth avenue, r. Ehas B, Conover prysided and Mr. Samuel W. Clay actel as secretary. The chairman made @ statement explanatory of his non-appear- ance at Roch the orgar afraid been and jon that he ras @ delezate, to the effect that yn betug new and informal he was that his recognized. ca eredentiais would fe not have Spencer, his opin’ ed Charley gave it as 0 no’ be recognized, and thatit would be useless to present him-elf; but he wou'd mak» a proposition to have nim enrolled san honorary member of the Convention, He (the chairman) paid his own expenses and drew nothing from the republican party. ever, were very light, as he drank nothing stronger than water. Though not realizing the hopes of those who sent him he had no doubt that finally the co.ored organizations of New York ciiy would be fuliy recognized by the white republicans, They had an impo! tant duty to perform in their new si uation, and they should seek by ali means to identify themselves with their white republican brethren. Several members were enrolled , ana the basiness of the imeeting was conducted with con- aiderayie decorum, The taiking was of a free and easy character, and had for its principal topic tie fifteenth amendment. A call was read for a special meeting of the Grant Colored Club, to be held av Mr. ‘Titus’ house, corner of Fourth street and Thompson, at which Mr. Samue! Wilson waa requested to pre- gent bimse!f Wednesday next. His expenses, how- FUNERAL OF EX-JUOE RUSSEL. bd The funeral of ex-Judge Russel took place yes- terday afternoon in Grace charch, which was com- fortably filled wits distinguished people, many of them being members of old Knickerbocker familles, assembled to do honor to the memory of deceased, Among those present were Judges Charles P. Daly, George G. Barnard, Gupning 8, Bedford, Jr., Recorder Hackett, ates ©. Cowdin, Mra. Joi? Hoey, Colonel B.A. Li A. ©. Kingsland, J. P. Solomon, John . McLean, Mr, Rutherford Siuyvegant, Wolt, and others, Precisely at the appointed hour the coMn was borne into the church, It was a handsome, dark rose- wood casket, and was covered with wreaths of im- mortelles and other delicate white howers. Rey. William F. Morgan, D. D., officiaied as cler- gyman, conducting the Episcopailan funeral service, and relerring to the deceased in the highest terms as a Christian, scholar, gentioman and judge. ‘The fi nerai chant, “Lord, let me know mine end’? (War- ren), ve, sung, succeeding ihe prayer; the hymn 125th, “When ‘those We have are snatciied away,” after the remarks; the funeral anthem, from Morgan, came next, and Handel's “Dead March from Saul’! was played as the solemn procession emerged irom the gray portals of the church. The vod, Greenwoc was taken to the family burtal p'ace in Cemetery, accompanied by the vied frends, The following gentlemen acted #8 pall bes General Graham, James J. Roosevelt, Samucl G, Courtney, Robert R, Stuyvesant, DeGi asse ets Bagene Thora, Judge Barvour and John R Reid, CUBA. THE SITUATION IN PUERTO PRINCIPE. Effert to Close the Struggle—Conciliatory Poli- ey—Address of Cubans to Their Brothers in the Field—Tho Campaign—No Fighting— Arrests—Retrograde Movements by Valmaseda~Insurgents All Moved to the Eastern Department. Puerro Principe, April 21, 1870. A great change has been wrought in this (the Cen- tral) department and city since the arrival of Captain General de Rodas, From the breaking out of the tosarrection here ia November, 1863, both bave suf fered comparatively inore thau any others. Before the Cptain Genera! reached hore this once flourish- ing anil lively town had the appearance of a ceme- tery. The streets were deserted, entire quarters of the city were abandoned, sickness in all its phases, Want with all 1t8 horrors, desolation aud mutuil dls trust affected in one way or anotier the whole popas lation, Great and noteworthy has been the chanze. The conciliatory measures adopied are gradually restoring coufldence, aud the many and ne es ary reforms, supplanting the fl advised measures of previous goversors, give faith and hope to those who doubted the neir approash of peace. Hundreds who had shut tie@uselves upin thetr houses now venture forth, and the grand plaza of an evening is gay witn the crowils of people listen ing to the music, Many of those who had come in from the insurgents and ac fed pardon, and did not venture to show themselves fearing iusult, now go freely about anil no one offends them, Por all this the policy of the Captain General is enittod to the credit. There has come to be @ strong desire for peace on all sides, and efforts ave being made by those Cubans who remain in the city to briug the struggle to a close at an early date, They have issued an address to their compatriots and (riends in the insurrection, a translation of which 1 appeud. It is signed by some of the few Cubans of distinction who still remain in the city, among them the father and father-in-law of Augel and Nazario Casullo, who have both lost thetr lives m this rebellion, Angel, who made himself most conspicuous in the beginuing of the insuarrec- tion, was killed in an attack near Maori, I may remark en passant that lis wile died on the 8th inst., a victim to grief, She took to her bed from the moment she beard of her husband’s death, and Lins gered along, failing daily until she dicd. se leaves behind her five young cliildren. As to the campaign, columns are opera!ing In every direction, though as yet without any palpabl results. ‘The country is betug miitiarily occupied, garrisons being established at all the promtueut points, trom which the troops in small deiachwents persecute the insurgents, Columns leave and retura to this city, scarcely ever exchanging more than afew shots with the rebels, who are divided into smal parties in this jurisdiction and do not seem tachinel to fight at present. In reference io the insurgents @ Spanish officer recenily remarked, ‘It 1s strange with What valor ani enthusiaam these people dio when caught and executed, and how cowardly they are to fighting.” It is rumored that negotiations of importance are about to take place, and undoubtedly efforts are being made to thatend., Strong hopes are enter- tamed by the knowing ones tnat these negotiations ‘will prove successful, If not, and the Captam Gen- eral’s conciilatory policy brings forth no good re- suits, We are promised war and coercion, though it is hard to teil how these to 06 increas From Nuevitas 1 hear fiat out of the twenty-one lately tried by court marcial there, 81x have ‘been condemned to death. tis, however, ramored that Napoleon Arango is using his infueuce with tne Captain General to have them more iemently dealt with, and, Lo douvt, he will succeed, as his Excel- Jeno, Very benignantly inciiued. More arrests Hava dateds een made city, among them Don ij B\ tin, he [egret to Juan Ba; es and Don nit Sina 3 gos to announce the murder by the § Pablo Villegas, tormerly & mercvant at San Miguel and doing business with some New York houses, He Was at his plantation, “Santa Marguerita,” yr nading on the portico of his house, with two ou when a detachment of the Contra G maseda role up. He showed them his safe conduct from (he Captain General, notwithstanding whieh he was bound and taken about hail a league Mou the esiate and then cul to pieccs with bayones. His wife and childrea were stripped and their clotitag burned. The house, too, was fired. ‘The Spausia story is that Villegas made use of lis safe conduct to serve the insurgents, furnishing them with clothtag and powder, instead of working in the interest of the government, a8 he agreed to do on bein tat liberty by the Capiain General when imprisoue! at Havana. * As I close this letter L learn through a trustworthy source that Valmaseda has again made a retrogade movement toward Bayamo. It secs that two Linge parties of insurgents got in his rear ana compcllod Bin to change front, Lt is NoW Bluled baal the great mass of the Cubans in the Camaguey have gone to the Eastern Departunent, which accounis for the quiet here. ACuban, by name Varela, sul-prefect of the juris- diction of Sibanicu, has boen captured by one ot the columns, tried by court martial and conaemne | to be shot. The colmun which brought h.m in saw several small insurgent parties, out they did not show tight. It executed five persons picked up whe on the march, ADDRESS OF THR CUBANS. The following 1s the address of the Cubins in Puerto Principe to their brotuers in the tleld:— ComPaTRioTs AND FRIENDS—It is now eighteen months since we have been contemplating, with an anxiety more ot the heart than the head,the revolutionary movement of this de- partment, Strangers to all sectional or p ei Writs no passions oF hatreds to gratity, interest than that of peace, and as’ ‘far from sym- Fathizing with tho tneurrection. as" trom applauding, without reserve, the action of the government, we have remained until to-day patient and mute spectators of the terrible struggle whose scenes of destruction and blood hold the country fn consternation, But the revolution has continued, naturally bringing about a situation whicu in- voives the total ruia of the gull. The bloody drama of the Insurrection of Camaguay {a approacilag ite solution, aud our love of country, the interest of all, together. with the ties of friendship aiid blood, impose upon ‘na the daty of speaking to you In the supreme hour of danger. ft {s not the time t» review actions, of which history wili judge later. In ns which will serve to give resolution and determination to your conduct {n the present crinis. Excepting « few biind fanatics, your wish on the breaking out of the revolution was to obtala from Spain some enfran: chisements and liberties which would make labor more pro- ductive and give more finportance to the citizen, The rising peti tC breaking tarough secular traditions creatin new political era in Spain, made ticable what before was impoasibi nm to Cuba more liberties than many of y Daet sons would have asked from her. The majority of the country was overjoyed with tho event, and seemed to have no other desire than to see the reforms putin practice; but the few and badly disposed overcame the many and well-in- tentioned, as happens in revolutionary times, waen the latter hesitate 1 thelr Jetermination for want of union and clar- acter, Presumption and malice instilied words of Jn the ears of the innocent, c1 prove changed the situation You were told that Spain was tinpotent to maintain her domina tion, that the United States, natural protectors of all op: Pressed people, and particularly interested in ours, would give you her aid. ‘Yo be free tt was only necessary that you should want to be xo, ws the sympathizers of the civilized world would be on your side. You fell into the temptation, and not listening to the advice of more than one of us, you launched into the atrugyle and lost yourselves, compromisiug the fature of the count Impotent Spain has se: send ay many mor than 80,000 men hav national integrity. f to mere complaisance in badly disguised plans to try fortune atthe coat of others, Then hundreds of thonsaniis of dol- Jara have been consumed, taken away from our industry, and with the disappearance ‘thereof also disappears the ayimpa thies which were—like the American chicle—bought with gold, and the Cuba of the patriot, the new political and social order, which shouid appear at ibe iret blow of the awurd from the firat soldier of liberty, has become converted into chaos. Seduced by the startling vision of live yourselves after her without rei Wanted to be (ree, and you commenced by callin, # foreign country, which is an abdication of all & compromise of ind republican faith the most absolat roe! rights, and circumstances have obliged you to respect none You fnvoked material and moral progress in all its. furn and by an inconcelvable mirtake in aentiment aud idea you have burned towns, desolated (he country, caused a cessation of labor. stoppeli religious culture, reinxed obedience and at- tacked the family circle. You rose in arms againas tiie gov ernment to make the happiness of thegc eaused her only misfortune, as it combated. Great, imme: done, but atill greater is t all is not lust yet, and ag anime and disusters, the means of desteuction are multiplied and rendered more ive. Believe us on our lips, thi cannot be @ threat. The government is getting ready to give tue blow Of grace in this department, ater annihilating the insurroce ou threw at you raid , bi eases with strife tion in the Oriental Department and the Cinco Villas. An active and vigorous prosecution whl ur rest impoa. Eleven thousan: to termi nate the factions, wi overrun ces from you; @obain of ly, and will deprive you of joo, Ad honorable re than justifie stances, Give up, then, aod say, inmitaty ne who seut the *Invinctbies,” “We bave a Ampossibiifties.” ‘Two things make men morally great—constancy in all good ni iron will tighten your pe all exterior help and all hop treat is your oaly ebance, now re purposes and the recognition and retraction of errors. Do not loxe the oc make yourselves admired by all aensible men, lay down ‘the arts wh never have grasped, Vropertiea still re ies, @ tt there are enounce the ireattonat notver and to abandon both tire to your hor 0 that joy in seo the lance in all patria still remains to be purpose to neal one error wilt with the ruin of the country. may again light up amone ¥% green of our heida, peace in ths Daria, Pour brothers, ridned. by the war, call with their poverty, aad the government which you, have. of- fended and combate extends a generous hand and offers you -forgetfu ness of the past aad prospects in the fature. God ha wished that ia Cuba there should be misery without Come and make peace and join the goverte aut in the reconairoation of ous common conutry, ‘Vedar ‘ou to participate Principe is a ot circumstance, o we. He has guaranteed Hie. you We you lay down your aria, and we respon | that there is ho grace which doew bein the nobleness of his character and the elevation of bis CARLOS VARONA ¥ DE LA TORRE. MELCHIOR BATISTA ¥ CABALLERO, PEDKO DE AGARRO, MARIIN CASE! 1LLO. FRANCIS: O Di QUESADA GUERRA, Purnto Puinoirr, April Ww, iti AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF Music—Favs?,"—Mtiss Pauline Ca- made her debut lost night ta the rdle of Mar- veriti—a severe test of her abilities on the lyric maze, it is $0 intimately associated with the name of every prima donna of note both here and in Bu- rope. The circumstances were not favorable to Miss Cantssa's success, AS there Was a small house, the opera belug given in German (she hav- jpg always sung it im Italian), the re- Keirsals having been limited to one, and the’audience not being overburdened with enthusi- asm. In face of alt these disadvantages the fair young artist made a genuine success, and upheld her high reputation bo'n tn acting and singing. The nervousness Which marred hey 10. t# in (ie earher senes of the opera wore olf, and she sang the “King of Thule,” the great duet, and the trying finale wb much fervor and expre sion, When she ac\uires @ kde more repose in sip ing and com- mand OF sit ations, sich as time sloue bring, will have attained c\er)thipg necessary for prima donna of the tist wat r. It was a pity that the best seone in the opera (tie church seene) Was curout. Herrna@uns a Meph stopheles has no supe- rioron the stage, aud Ha elmann, Ey | in good voice, made an excellen! Faust, The Siebel was very ind ferent, and the la ly who andertook the rdle failel to make any Ning out ofit. The opera was handson iy placed on tne stage, and Signor Bosont, the conduc | erformed bis portion of the labor im the most satisfactory manner, This gentioman was formerly conducior in Les Itaiens, Paris, and en- joys @ bigh rej utatton in Europe. Mile.’ Carlotte, Patt) appears tor the last ume tis afternoon im “The Magie Fiute,’? Bowery THRATRE—BENEFIT OF Mr, PRELIGH.— ‘The popular manager of this theatre took annua: beneft last night, There was a host of performers and volunteers from other establisiments, and the Dil was varied and leng! in (ho extreme, Mr. Freligh has labored long and conscien tousty to ele- vate is theatre above (he levet of medio rity tn Witt he jound tt, and under his «ire tion the most objectionalie featues of the east side dramati temple were removea, ani it became more of the Broadway style of the t e than eve: wis dreamed of iu (he days 01 the **hi-hieis” aud peanut masticators. Masical and Theatrient Notes. Joe Jetverson’s “Rip Van Winkle” is at the Boston Theatre, My, and Mrs, Howard Paul are also in the Hub. Madame Parepa-Rosa and her company appear in Buffalo on May 5 and 6 and later in New York, when “Don Giovanni” and “Oberon” will be given, Dominic Murray and Mias Fidds appear in “Arran na Pogue” at the Newark Opera House next week, Cariotia Pattt will astonish the Philadelphians with the “Magic Flute” next week. Mr. and Mrs, Barney Williauts’ engagement at the Wainut, Philadeiphia, has been remarkably suc- cess.ul. ‘The Holmans are giving “Lost at Sea” iu Toronto. Mr. Oates’ bunesque company nave repeated last season's success for some week + past ta Philadelphia. On cit (nat they will shortly visit New York, possibly the Olympic. W. Roteh starts next week on a concert tour with Miss Kellogg, Mulls, Loiti, Randolfl, Werner Pee se ly. The company appear at Poughkeepsie ou Tuesd Mrs, Em ne Reet, who gave her farewell con- cert at Stetnway Hallion Taursday night 1s a young lady of Bvoklym, of grea! promise as an artist. She gves (0 Italy to complete her -tud es in music. At the last matinée conce/t at the A sociation Hall Madame Anna Bishop created a :ensation by singing “Twenty Years Ago,” by Mas tu “Froa-Frou” is being played with great success in onisy Goorge Clarke has & beneft at the Fifth Avenue theatre on Monday. Lester Wallick will bo engaged at “Trying It On” at “Home? this afternoon, Miss Pauline Cantssa is the youngest prima donna on the American siage. HAMMER AXD BUSKIY. Y erday about eleven o'clock a few unhappy Jookig gentlemen assembled in front of the French theatre in Fourteenth strect. Among them were Mr. William Butler Duncan, Mr. S, Salomon and Mr. Frederick Puliman, the first principal stock. holder of the French theatre, the second chargé d'affaires fur Mr. Grau and the last present lessee of the theatre, Mr. Grau being in Europe of course he was physically incapacitated from attending. To give the reason of this meeting it ts necessary go some Way back in the history of the theatre. In Ule spring of 1869 the French theatre was without a lessee, Mr. Baieman and Mr. Grau both endeavored to getit, Mr. Gran offered the most, and the theatre was handed over to lim for five years ata yearly rent of $20,000, compristug the house on Pifteeati stieet, At that time Mr. Grau was quite weal hy, lasing made some $135,000 on the Ristori engage- ment. Mr. Grau paid down $10,000 deposit, and commenced immeélistely to improve and ep large the — theat at a wt of = some $30,000 to himself. Tits was at his own risk, and he was supposed to get the besefit of the enlargem ne. Tinmeliatety after this Mr. Graus opéra btouffe company came over frou France, and is generatly very well Known to have lost a greatdeal of money for its manazer, In. faci, so much that bttle by lite he lo-tail he had, and gradually got behind hond in his rent. When the opéra ~ bouge broke up Mr, Gran was some $10,000 belint hand, and during the summer, the theatre being untenanted, the maiter got worse and wore, until Mr. Grau in despair vouchssfed some property he possessed to met the demands of the s'ockholders, who were rather hard on him, considering that he had made such notable improvements aad been to such ex- pense lor their theatre, Again, lately, Mr. Grau got in debt for rent, and, when owing some $12,000 here, he suddenly leit for Euroye, leaving his affairs inavery bad state of collapse. Immediately Mr. Duncan, the banker, commenced a suit in the Supreme Court against Grau to dispossess bim on account of non-payment of rent. Jt was on this decision tiat Wie sale ook piace yer terjay, The lease was Or-t put up forsile tor ti three years and a half unexpiret term, and after some de-ultory bidding was knocked down to Maurice Friend for $300, It was announced then tha’ anybody who sought Grau’s unexpired lease woul’! Nave (o pay Grau’s arre wage of rent, amount ing to $12,000, Lesites the $20,000 @ year. But Mr. Friend oaid his deposit like ja man. Then the costumes, scenery anc properties of Mr. Grau Were jut up, As they were notexhiiitel, though, the list seemed very long, no one knew what they were. The highest bit was James H, Taylor's, star manicer of the Grand Opera House, to whom they were knocke! down for $200, It seems douhtiul wiether he will yet tem, however, as Mr. Duncan, in ieaving, enoine | that no hing be allowed to leave the theatre without hls permission, STILL ANOTHER NEWARK SENSATION. A Frenchman Elopes With a Female Boarder= A Very Distressing Case. One more elopement from the Jersey “City on Churches” has w be recorded, the particulars of Which are equally novel as distressing. Until within @ few days there resided at No. 63 Mechanmie street, Newark, a well to do Frenchman, named Paul Joubert, a decorative painter by trade, and his Wife and child, the jatter being a bright eight year old boy. The couile had been married about nme years, Pan! being about chirty years of age, aud his Hor cose, @ year or two younger. Accordtn “who ought io know tt i# no mere figure o! h to say thal she Was not only Charming in per. son, Hut cultivat d and inteligent beyond the com- mon run of women,in her station, in tne Jou- bert domestic circle, it appears everything went along s@oo'h aud pleas intiy until about six montis ago, at which period there came to board with them another Frenchwoman, @ Mrs. Chise, who, for reasons not explained, had separated from her hus- inl, WhO is @ Newark jeweler. Since then divers and sundry ripples appeare | on the theretofore calm pellucid steam ot Mr. and Mrs. Joubert’s married life, but nothing serious ovcurred, so far as the.latter knew, uniil last Wednesday, when sie recelyed a note in her husbani’s hadt@riting wfating that she. must forget hin, as they should meet no more. Tha” poor woman then discovered ihat her hushand had and clearod out wih the Dhis, taken. p Ny woman = Chis*, L together on board the ‘st er Sile-ia, which lett New York for mapy on the © day she received heariless note. Th wiie knew no bounds. Yulsions, @ud was in charge of physictans until Thursiay night, when she had so far recovered aa to be able to proceed to New York, preparawry to Sailing for Frinoe, where she bas relatives quite Welloil, Her husband carried of everything availa- ble, and it ts af Jihat the woman Elise had some $600 of herown. The Krench Consul in New York is bal to have leut the deserted wife all the ald in big ower, the row and grief of the deserted and finally she sink into con~ THE TOUHEY-KERRIGAN PRIZE FIGHT FIZZLE, Yesterday afternoon at five o'clock Mike Henry paid $1,000 to Jim Kerrigan, the stakes in the Toy: hey and Kerrigan prize fit. Mike stated very pro- peily that Kerrigan jad won, a8 by the articles of ba he wason ure ground at the appointed 1, aR