The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1871, Page 10

- a da a wens + avai 16 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1871-QUADRUPLE SHEET, GERMANY AND AMERICA| Washington's Birthday and American Gossip in the German Capital. The Marriages of Army Officers—Mesalliance— The Heir of a Noble Family Weds an Ac- ‘tress—Increase of the German Army. BER, Feb. 23, 1871. For reasons best known to himsel!, if not on ac- eountof Ash Wednesday, Mr. Bancroft saw fit to boner Washington’s Birthday by a soirée on Tues- ay evening, at which gathered not only all the resident Americans, but also a number of diplo- matists, distinguished savans and artists. Of the former we mention Mr. Von Thile, the righthand man of Bismarck; Messrs. Hana and Kroger, the Tepresentatives of Switzerland and the Hause Towns; Directors Von Philipsborn and Von Stephen, of the Department of Commerce; Rector Bruns and nearly ail the professors of the University; Richter, the celebrated painter, and a number of prominent siatesmen and citizens. Of Americans of note who were present may be mentioned ex-Mintster Bigelow and family; Professor Harkness, of Brown University, and family; Mra Consul Kreissman, whose husband its at Paris, a guest of his friend Mr. Washburne; Colonel Biss, &c, It was certainly the most brilliant recep- tion ever given by the American Embassy here, and though no efforts of any kind to amuse the com- pany had been made by the venerable hosts, stl the conversation was lively and animated, and the good humor culminated in the singing of national airs proposed by Mr, Wiliam Allen Smith, the young and genial private secretary of Mr. Bancroft. AN AMERICAN WEDDING. Another affair of Interest to Americans occurred on the day previous. {t was the marriage, under the égide of the Legation—which has acted of late several times im this capacity—of Mr. Giraud Grabam, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to Miss Elise Roth, a cultivated and beautiful young lady of thiscity, The religious rites were celebrated in the Cathedral by the Rev. Mr. Lisco, and in presence of a fair attend- ance of Americans, headed Dy Mr. Bancroft. The unmense edifice Was on this occasion brilliantly lit up and the altar decked out in all the floral beauty of the finest greenhouses—a Juxury which can only be afforded here by the <lize of society. The bride, attired in a chaste white satin robe, long train, trimmed with finest Brussels lace, wore a veil cov- ering the Mowing outlines of her tall and graceful person, and surmounted by the customary wreath of blooming myrtle. The bridegroom appeared in all the manly vigor of a young American, happiness in hts handsome features, and the evident deter- mination to make her happy whom he had selected as his partner. After the ceremony, which was both preceded and concluded by the singing of beautiful anthems, the coupie and their gaests proceeded to the Grand Hotel de Rome. The most hearty congratulations having been offered here from every member of the party the marriage feast began in excellent spirit. This was followed py dancing, and, to say the trath, by a return ever and anon to the liberally provided pleasures of the table. Though the newly married pair took leave at about ten P. M., the company at their earnest re- quest continued the festivitics until the wee, small hours of the morning. A few hours afterward the young husband and his pride set out for Dresden And an extensive tour throughout the Continent. Speaking of honeymoons gtves us an occasion to refer once more to the MARRIAGES OF ARMY OFFICERS, for the jon of which in.cases where, owing wo the m ion, the royal consent had not been obtained, @ bill has been framed by the Prassian Diet and has obtained the consent of the Emperor. The insuMiciency of this bill consists in the fact that 4 leaves still Open to the royal pleasure a refusal to ratify in any given case, and it now becomes ob- vious that the only thorough remedy wouid have been an abolition of the whole statute as far as it conflicts the general law of the land. If de- termined to adhere to exclusive laws for the mili- tary caste, les the government visit those who tres pass them with the heaviest penalties, or rule them out from the army; but t will ever be incompatible with the pub- ic irit to see it arrogate to iiself sp’ the right to disrupt the marriage tie consecrated by ahe lawful authorities. As to the origin of that famous decree of Versailles, January 9, it is rumored ‘hat the heir of a noble family which has lately been raised to the ducal rank took advantage of ule con- fusion aliendant upon the mobilization at whe out- break of the war to WED HIS LADY LOVE AND MISTRESS, an inferior danseuse at a still more inferior theatre. This is said to have stirred up the ire of ali the new edged dukes and duchesses, and a great wail was raised over it in court circles. The case was felt to be a still more vous one, as tle escutcheon of the same family had suffered a stain a few genera- tions ago by another mésatliunce ‘way down With the lowest bourgeois. Its well, however, for your readers to Know that military agairs in ‘this couutry have been at all umes, aud are now more than ever, the noli me tangere ol Legisiaures, cis no mean part assigned to the oficial organs to raise to the skies everything belonging to militar. sia and to daily instil into the minus of the people that their welfare is altogetter commensurate with Une eficiency and strength of the army organiza- tion. Thus it will appear quite natural that they brag on what Germany could yet furnish of live m: terial to oppose France if the war should be con- tuoued. Putting down the new recruits for 1870 at 100,000, the levies of the oldest landwebr and garrison battalions at 440,000 men, and 100,000 men for the tresh recruits of 1871, they figure up 640,000 meu as 4 reinforcement “of the $00,000 now in France, exultingly showing that the coming summer Germany might have the field 1,440,000 men, Though this may make the hearts of royalists and imperialists leap for joy and pride, it has ceased to have such an effect upen the people at large, who mourn the loss of so many out of thew midst, and who earnestly ask whether their growing offspring 1s to be reared only as the future food of canuon. Tms feeling must not be supposed, however, strong enough to dampen the prestige just now [eis by the army and its chieitains, as is evinced y the large Lumber of commanding generals desig- nated as candidates for the Parliament. Not only has General Werder beep proposed as the represen- tative for Stettm, Generui Von Moitke fer Madebury General Von Manteuffel for Konigsverg, Gener Kirchback tor Kosten, &c., but the whole bevy of peuly princes and uobies ‘throughout the country are anxiously crowding to tne foreground. Ail aristocratic reserve seems to be silent, undoubdt- edly on the pretext of the love of fatuerland, which is threatened by a growing democratic spirit. ‘The national liberals, who have now accomplished their great aum of a uattea Germany, have no time as yet to Bay mnuch Of liberty, that correlative of union which they have always maintained as their shiboolew. They dwell upon the necessity of keep- i B THE SWORD OF GERMANY bright and polished, and lint only faintly at the Utopia of a people in arms, because they know that the government reckons ouly with standing arinies, ud with these exclusively asa state within a state. How mortilying t1.must be to the leading spirits in Versailles ulter the ratification of peace to render back to France almost hall a million men of the regu- jar army, knowing beforehana that ey will be dis- ded and that the depleted treasury of the future French repubiic wil) not sustain their bean idea) of @ large standing army. being the situation tt ‘Wil not be diMcult te explain that PROFOUND GRIEY IN MILITARY CIRCLES bere prevails at the idea tnat atthe peturn of Em- peror William from Versailles to thus city there will ot be a suilicient number of weli-dniied troops to be paraded before his Majesty. Well knowing how mach the monarch doats upon and relishes that kind of sport, their faces grow long whep they see new levies of recruits, valunteers and resery also fresh supplies of horses for the cayalry, nd equipments constantly sent on to the front, leaving barely a regiment or two asa garrison for Berlin, and just suiicient to form a guard of honor at the station on the arrival of lis Majesty. Indee Most exiraordinaly characierisuc of the pre: ‘war has been the ulter disregard on both sides.ef ail Bate and iilitary interests for the sole and only purpose of concentrating a! their available strength towards effecting a decisive e. Thug it was always calculated that France required from 40,000 to 60,000 men of is ac force to watch Algiers, just as Russia is exp dt em oy not less than 160,000 for the same purpose ip olaud and Ceucasia. But France withdrew all its troops, with the exception of two battalions of te Foreign Legion (mostly Germans) and three regi- ments of Spahis, in all about 10,000, from Algiers, while the German coast on the North and Haitic Seas, about 400 miles in length, was watened bya mere handful Three Prussian army corps were sent to France from Prussia’s eastern boundaries at a time when Austria's neutrality had not been se- cured, and Fragce likewise withdrew as early as im Augast ics garrison in Rome, which was the only rovechion against Htaly’s pian of aggrandizement, he resuit of this Mmovation has been quite enfavor- able to the jatter Power oniy, as shown by the up- rising in Copsiantine and the treuble in Nice, with- out counting the supremacy gained by the Italians am Rome, is THS A “KiDD.” Discovery of Buried Treasure on Long Island. While some laborers were yesterday unearthing roots of trees in a plece of wood south of the village of Jamaica they exhumed severa) gold doubloons, Astonisied at their discovery they continued to dig and at dark had found a peck of the treasure, Tye SOMES! CACIWINCU DIC VAUE Uy COMBEIUGAO, -avenne, gave the required security for Bannon’s THE SCOUNDRELLY SCALDER. Offcial Investigation in the Case of Martin Powers, Scalded to Death by Frank Ban- non—The Brute Bailed Out. Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest on the body of Martin Powers, the child three years of age, who ated at the residence of his parents, 228 East Forty-first street, from the effects of scalds received on the evening of the 4th instant by a pot of hot tea falang on him, Frank Bannon, @ young man twenty-one years of age, and Mary Aun Ruby, a ‘woman whose character 1s not above reproach, had @ quarrel in the house of deceased’s parents, when Frank, losing control of his temper, hurled a pot of hot teaat Mary Ann’s head. The child being in her lap at the time caught what was intended for the woman, and was so terribly scalaed that death ensued the following day. Below will be found a copy of the testimony taken before the Cor- oner and the verdict of the jury:— Anastatia Powers, mother of deceased, living at 223 Kast Forty-first street, deposed that on the even> ing of the 4th insiant Frank Bannon, the prisoner, entered her house to see Mrs. Ruby, who was there before him; after some words between them Mrs. Ruby commenced singing, when Frank said, “You are a tantalizing b——h;’ Mrs. Ruby then took deceased in her lap to sing for alm; wien she commenced to sing he used the offensive ianguage; she said to him, “You had better follow. up your sisters,”’ Whereupon he seized A POD OF HOT TRA and hurled it at her, but the tea tell upon the face, side and apdomen of the child; Frank and Mrs, Ruby then ran out; Frank had been drinking some; 1 calied a doctor to see the child, who died on Sun- day evening following; Bannon threw the pot and all out of his hand. Mary Ann Ruby, of No. 219 East Thirty-eighth street, deposed that prisoner and she had a quarrel on that evening, during which prisoner took hold of a kettle of tea om the stove and upset 16, the tea fall- ing on the child, who was by the stove; before tbat Frank bad calied the witness a tantalizing b——h; 1b Was a tin tea pot and when Frank took nold of It Mrs, Powers jumped up and tried to prevent Frank from throwing tt, when the pot fell from his hand on the stove, upset and the contents fell over the calid; don’t think Fraff& intended to throw the tea pot. Robert Powers, father of deceased, testified that Frank Bannon and Mary Ann Ruby were in his place; she stripped deceased for bed and com- menced singing, When Frank said she was a tanta- lizing b—h; she replied, “Go and iollow up your own sisters"? Whereupon he jumped from his chatr, caught the teapot in both hands and then threw it at Mary Ann, who was three or four feet aistant, the pot touching the boy’s forehead and {ell in tne woman’s lap; THE TEA FELL OVER THE CHILD which Mary Ann had in her lap; I had been drink- ing some, but remember distinctly what happened on that occasion; had drank gin, beer and Bour- bon; Mrs, Ruby did not live In my house, James Smith, of 231 East Forty-fifth street, testified that he was in Mr, Powers’ house on Saturday even- ing and there met Mrs, Ruby and Frank Banno: she satd that Bannon had been licking her; she took the baby up in her lap to sing tor him; Frank became much excited and made two or three at- tempts to strike her, but was held back by me; Frank said to me, ‘ls she not a tantalizing b—h;” he jumped up suddenly, took the teapot m both hands and pitcned it at Mrs. Ruby and struck either her or the child; the mother ran for the baby and I noticed that pe child who was in Mrs, Ruby’s lap was scalded. Wooster Beach, M. D., testified that he had made an examination of the body of deceased and that he had been scalded on the legs, chest and abdo- men. In the doctor’s opinion the scaids were the cause of death, ‘The testimony being closed, Coroner Keenan submitted the case to the jury, who rendered the following VERDICT: “That the deceasea, Martin Powers, came to his death from scaids by a pot of hot tea being thrown over him at the hands of Frank Bannon, on the 4th day of March, 1871, at the house 223 East Forty-first street,” Coroner Keenan here announced that he would aamit Bannon to bail in $2,000 to await the action of the grand jury. Joan McGivean, of 686 Secona future appearaace. WH:TE AND BLACK TROUBLES IN MISSISS/PPI. The Riot in Meridian—Shooting of Judge Bromlette by a Negre—The Murderer Killed in the Street—A Number of the Rioters Killed and Wounded. ‘The Meridian (Miss,) Gazette of Tuesday, March 7, gives the following details of the violent scenes ab that place, heretofore noticed in our despatches:— TURBULENCE AND ARSON. Saturday afternoon Billy Clopton had his thin dri- gade of negro militia in arins, and paraded the streets asusual Billy was extremely abusive towards the close of the militia exercises, and declared that with one hundred men he could annihilate a thousand white men—that the whites were afraid of the negroes, and he would have his way in Meridian. He was hot interfered with or molested. When the fire broke out the same scoundrel was on hand thanking God the rebels’ property was burning, and praying that the flames would consume every build- ing in the city. He drew a pistol on a man Who re- monsirated, and would have Killed him but for the interference of a inendly negro. While marching up the street in front of the fire with pistol in hand, cursing rebels and gloating over their misfortunes, he was suddenly and very wnexpectediy knocked down, disarmed, and left to colored comrades, who carried him out of the crowd, when he beat a hasty retreat for home. About this tume, while the fire was raging amd our citizens struggling to arrest it and save a little of their property, the bell of the African church pealed Jorth the usual signal for the negroes to repatr there. This was more than our people could stand, and & company Was at once formed and marched to the residence of the sheriff, where a tender was made of the posse and a request made for the arrest of Billy Clopton. The sheriff sent his deputy, Mr. Belk, in charge of the posse, and arrested Clopton and placed htm under guard in the Court House. The turbuient threats of the negroes and their white allies called the citizens together again Sunday afternoon and evening, when one hundred men volunteered to vindicate the majesty of the law and crush lawlessness, nO matter whence it might come. The town Was well policed on Sunday night and a strong guard of citizens kept over Ciopton to see that he Was neither rescued nor motested. Tae hegroes did net carry out their threats; the fire feud no longer darted athwart the sky amd the con- start and promtscuous shooting which has alarmed women and children for months ceased. One squad of armed negroes was dispersed and sent home, and the night passed in moonshine, balm and peace. Yesterday morning there was an im- mense mass meeting at the Court House to devise Ways and means for keeping peace and giving re- pose to the community. The mecting was large and enthusiastic, the largest probably ever held in Meri- dian. Over five hundred persons were present. Al classes were represented there and all climes, Northern aud Seuthern men clasped hands in the deliberations, The speeches were pacific and pointed, and showed that the white peo- ple of Meridian have at last determined to check the mad and destructive career of the bad negroes and their white confederates. in the alternoon the case of Billy Clopton, Aaron Moore and Warren Tyler came before Justice Bramlette, Captains Evans and Ford Sie terg Sr State and Mayor Stu) nis black friends. The testimony shows that these negroes in their meeting on Satur- day made very infammatory speeches. Wa! ren Tyler, in stepping the rostrum, placea his pistol on the Aaron re- Minded nis hearers of the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, and spoke of what might be the fate of Meridian. Other negroes spoke of the possi- bility of the town being reduced to ashes. That very night the hand of the incendiary reduced to ashes $75,000 werth o1 property in Meridian. THE COURT HOUSE TRAGEDY. Meridian has been the scene of one of the most horrible tragedies that ever occurred in a civilized community. While the examina- tion of the witnesses in the case of the State vs, William Clopton and other negroes, charged with riotous conduct on Saturday night at the time of the fire, was progressing, Mr. Branticy deposed as to some remarks Warren Tyler had made about the white people. He was 1a- terrupted in a very rude and angry manner by Ty- ler, who, it appeers, was armed With two pistols, and who was one of the defendants in the case. Ty- ler stated that he would impeach Brantley’s testi- mouy, for which Brantley ratsedacane and ad- { vanced to within ejght or ten feet of him. At this juncture General Patten, City ‘Marshal, caught Brantley and held him. Whie he was thus held ,Tyler drew a__ repeater and commenced firing at Brantley, AU the first fre Judge Bramlette was shot through the head and instanuy killed. The room Was crowded with white and biack, who were at- tending the trial, and, ae great excitement was pre- vailing, an indiscrimingte firing commencea, in which William Clopton end a negro named Gas Ford were killed ana several persons, white and black, were wounded. Alter firing several shots Tyler jumped out of the window of the court room. which was in the second story of the Sheehan Building, and ran up Sydney street. AS Soon as it was known that he had killed Judge Brainlette he was pursued, and, on refusing to surrender, was instantly gilied. Tyler fred a nutuber of shots af the parties in pursuit of bim, @ui resistea his capture until the very last. Judge Bramiette was aman universally loved and respected, He had been Judge of Probate, and was at the tine of his death Justice of the Peace and a member of the Board of Aldermen. Clopton and Tyler were turbulent and disorderly negroes, Who have been 81 up strife in this community for the last two years, shheir west desire seemed to ve vo sur uf eumity between the two races and do all the mischief im U power, AN INCENDIARY IN QUOD, In the HERALD Of Monday last was reported the destruction of four barns, together with tueir ¢on- tents, belonging to Jacques Bennett, of East Marion, Long Isiand. One barn escaped destruction and a THE ENGLISH STAGE. Latest Productions and Failures in the London Theatres, “‘Yesta””—The New Burlesque at the 8t James—A Silly Affair—Mrs, John Wood and Mr. A. W. Young in the Cast—Utter Failure of Robert- son’s “‘War’”’—‘‘Deadman’s Point” Another Trashy Production—Julia Daly’s ‘‘Fe- male American Cousin’’ the Sensation at the Amphitheatre — Schneider Still Lives—Gossip in General. Lonpox, Feb, 25, 1871. “Happy month of February, in which fewer tears are shed, fewer sighs heaved than in any other month of the year.” So spake Emanuel Kant, a great philosopher in his day; a little drowsy, to be sure, but no less divine. Yes, February, ‘Le Général ¥évrier,” as the French are wont to style him, has his disadvantages, but he has nis compensating ad- vantages. His reign is brief, and less of human anguish 1s consequently compressed within it than within the stay of longer months, Fewer ‘sensa- tional” plays for example, are produced, and thus one fertile source of sorrow and suffering is restrained. Yet even Feb- ruary is not without tts plagues and pests in the shape of trashy melodramas, for at all periods of the year those who have no talent tor writing will write all the same, though ‘Minerva’? should be ever 60 “invited.” The famous monk, John of Salisbury, ridicules the dramas of Plautus, Menander and Ter- ence as ‘Spectacula et tmfinita tiroctnia vanitatts Quibus qui otis omnino non possunt Srui pernici occupantur.” The judgment was rash and ‘unjust in its application to the particular plays in qvestion, but It might be applied with perfect justice to such pieces as too eften disgrace the British stage in these degenerate times. What, for example, can be said severe enough for “ Vesta,’ or works of a like description. Never was classical myth sub- Titted to a more nonsensical process of perversion than that to which the story of ‘Vesta’? has been subjected in a burlesque of the same name by Mr. H. B. Farnie, now in course of representation at St. James’ theatre. It is not that the legend has been turned the “seaney side without,” like Roderigo’s wits, but it has been rent into pieces and reduced to rags without any acquisition of fun to compensate for the profanity. There is nothing to laugh at, after all is said and done. A vein of idiocy pervades the pro- duction from first to last. The author never ‘‘de- viates into sense,” much less into wit or humor. By a preposterous freak of fancy, which is extravagant without being in the least laughable, the city water- works are brought into imaginary play in every Scene and incident of the piece, and Mr. Lillyvick’s awful threat to “‘cut them off at the main” is dinned micessantly in the ears of all the dramatic person- ages. Mrs. John Wood does all that sprigntly acting, sweet singing and graceful dancing can effect to give some semblance of interest to this dreary, dis- mal stuff; but it is not in the power of any actress, however gifted, to make that attractive which is intrinsically worthless. If any proof were needed to show to what a depth of degradation the British stage lias fallen in these degenerate days it would be furnished by the fact that authors could be found to write, managers to produce and actors to perform such abominable trash. To see an actress like Mrs. Wood doomed to give utterance and action to such twaddle, anda really good come- dian like Mr. Lionel Breughton compelled to ride a hobby-horse up and down the stage and to tumble upon the boards lke a street acrobat—these are sights which, while they make the jndictous grieve, fail to afford the slightest gratification even to the injudicious, for no men out of Bedlam or Hanwell could derive the least enjoyment from the contemplation of tom-foolery so ponderous and pointless, ‘The only occasion in ‘which the audience manifest any enthusiasm is at the singing of a comic song, in which Mr. A. W. Young, the hero of “The Littie Wee, Dug,” indulges in some political allusions apropos of the war, expressing a hope that France will emerge glorious and triumphant from her troubles, and that the day will never come when Prussia will cut off he main, This aspiration finds immense favor with the “gods,” who, at tne out- break of the campaign, were heart and soul with the Germans; but no other allusion in the piece ex- cites even a transient sense of satisfaction. The production of so wretched a piece as “Vesta,” which 18 played nightly” to very poor houses, is the more to be regretted ‘that something was sadly wanted to retrieve the fortunes of St, James’ theatre, depressed and shat- tered as they have been by the atter failure of the Kebertson’s last piay, entiled ‘War.’ Whatever may be the fate of that drama on the other side ef the AUantic, there can be no doubt that here in London it was @ ludicrous flasco, Reeeived on the first night with shouts of derison, it met with no better luck during the few subsequent evenings that it lingered upon the stage, the few spectators who dotted the bencnes here and were laughing where they had been expected to cry, and hissing like ser- ents where it was hoped that they would cheer justily. To thrust such a play as that down the ‘throat of the public was more than the most intrepid of managers could accomplish, So “War’? was withdrawn, at a cost, 1t is said, to the management of no less than £500. “Deadman’s Point” ts the horrid title of a no less horrid play, by Mr. F. ©. Barnard, with which Messrs. Webster & Chatterton are making mad the guilty and appalling the Iree at the Adelphi theatre. The story of this terrific (rama may be likened to a ball of threads which @ kittep has been gambolling wath upon the floor, To unravel it would drive a Man out of hus wits; therefore, let us not attempt it, Suffice tt to say that the characters are improbable, the incidents impossible and the outcome of the Whole performance nonsense—sheer, unadulterated nonsense. The “Deadman’s Point? (How cana dead man make a point 4) is a reef of rocks, with a lighthouse at its furthest extremity, and in this lighthouse is located a young woman whom & smuggler, or some such disreputable person, has been persecuting for years in retaliation for some real or imaginary wrong.. While the young woman is enjoying a ish of chat with a female friend, in waiks our friend the smuggier, who incontinent); twists a rope around the neck of his victim, ‘and, leaving her nalf-throttied, proceeds torummage the lower story of the building, in company with a “pal,” in search of plunder. The women manage to escape, and soon find themselves locked in the embrace of their respective sweethearts, who, whether they drop out of the sky or rise out of the sea no one knows, find themselves upon the reef in the very nick of time. It is to be hoped that the smuggler is drowned. Anyhow, down comes the curtain, and there is an end te the sufferings of the audience. A great deal of finery, in the shape of gay dresses and splendid scenery, has been lavished to very little purpose on the adorn- ment Of this tin-pot production, Plays of this tras! class, thus gorgeously clad, re- mind me ever of a Lord Mayor's feotman. He glitters with lace, and 1s effuigent with finery, but look in his face. From the “Dan” of his fore- head to the “Beersheba”? of his chin “all is barren- ness.’ The afterpiece at the Adelphi is a comedy, or, rather, a three act farce, enucied “Our Female American Cousin”—a rubbishy play enough in all conscience, yet not without an adventitious atuac- tion in the bright, quaint, hilarious acting of Miss Juiia Daly, who lnpersonates with very comic effect the conventional Yankee girl, whose ideal absurai- tles and wiaginary outrages upon common sense and good manners she paints in ludicrous colors, ‘The purpose bot of author and actress is satirical, being that of ridiculing the unlettered classes among Britishers for their nonsensical notions on the subject of American character. At the Royal Amphitheatre sensational calisthen- ics have reached their climax in the astounding performances of a fair-haired litte girl, answering to the name of Lulu, who, night after night, goes within a lair’s breadth of breaking her neck, If there is anybody in New York who, being in quest of a new sensation, would like to feel his blood run- ning cold, his hair standing upon end, his flesh creeping and his marrow curdiing let him by all means take the next boat for London and repair Without delay to Mr. Charman’s ctreus, in Holborn. ‘There may be scen Lulu, the incomparable, ra- diantly arrayed tn gold lace, green satin and flesh- colored silk; and her achievements are marvellous to behold. She swings from the flying trapeze; takes the most terrific leaps; pitches backward end forward somersets, deseribing three distinct evo- lutions in the air before alignting; springs from the ground to an alntdde of some twenty. five or thirty feet, being shot upwards by some invisible agency, so that you might snppose she was flying; finally she is seen to fall headiong from a lofty platform into a net beneath. Then she founders about effuigently, looking like a mermaid ora dolphin or @ goldfish, or whatever else the poetical spectator may please to imagine. Women scream, children shriek, and of men “the boldest holds his breath for a while,” for everybody sup- poses that it 1s all over with the fatr gymnast “Heaven comfort your capacity!” She Is ag sound asa bell. The plunge from the platform ts only part of the performance. Thus tt 1s that the noblest feelings of our nature are trified with i these pro- fane days. The whole = prow is to tho fall as con- ducive to the dignity of womanheod as it is hon- orable to the refinement and good feeling of the pair of herses were rescued. On Thursday night this solitary structure was fired and consumed, to- gether with tue horses. Two colored men were de tected in the act of Oring the building. One of them, named John Willett, was arrested. He hails | Srow Biatyusll The oiber man capagt be found, audience, who clap their bands frantically and cheer Ull they are black in the face. A cause célébre, ii which the interests of the ‘Terpsichorean sisterhood are concerned, has just Seen decided at the Brighton County Court. The waUT Was Mue, La Feri, & French wi ‘the defendant was Mr. Botlaw, the proprietor of the Oxford Music Hall. It was an action for the recov- ery of salary alleged to be due to the plaintiff and ber troupe, who were summarily dismissed because they aid not dance the cancan “In a style sufficiently Parisian.” According to the evidence o1 the plain- tuff, the complaint of the defendant was that both her dress and her performance left off too soon, The judge had, fortunately for himself, the assistance of a jury. and upon them he devolved the duty of de- termining whether the plaintiff was dismissed because her dancing was too decent, or ‘whether it was because she and her tronpe were incompetent to perform ther duty, He told the jury that if they found a verdict for the plaintiff’ she would be entitled to the salar’ upon for the Ume of her cngagement, and it would be for the Jury to say, whether they thought her entitled to anything iurther “in consequence of damage to her reputation as a dancer.” ‘The jury found a verdict for the plaintif! for the agreed amount of hore and they discreetly avoided entering upon a difficult inquiry as to fucther damage. In convincing twelve men of average intelligence that she danced an im- pee dance with perfect propriety Mile, La Ferté has certainly succeeded in establishing a curious aradox, as Well as in achieving a most remarkable feat In calisthenics. Another trial, which will probably excite no little interest, will soon be ‘on the tapis,” as the liners say. It is the case of a young man who, not con- tent with setting up fora dramatte reader, clalms to be no less a personage than Mr. Bellew himself, In the assumed character of Us skilful and popular rhetorician the adventurer has been travelling from. one town to another of Bucks, Herts aud Berks, giving readings at each and traficking—so it 18 said—upon another man’s name and fame to bring rist to his own mill, He has been lying in Ayles- ury jail since November last, and his trial will come on next week or the week after. In England a man is presumed to be innocent tll he 1s proved gailty, and that he may enjoy the presumption of innocence as long as possible care ts taken to he iim in prison for months before bringing him to tri This unfortunate youth, being as yet unconvicted of crime, has been detained in prison for. twelve or fourteen weeks at the public expense, enduring the companionship of felons and all the misery and ignominy atiaching to such society. What if it should turn out, after all, that there are more Bel- Jews than one in the world? Is a man to be written down a felon because his patronymic happens to be identical with that of a more celebrated person? If so Mr, Moses, the highly respectable tailor of Whitechapel, muy have reason to regret that he 18 styled by the same appellation as the Scriptural leader of the Jews. A statement of the death in London of the cele- brated Mile. Schneider originated, a few days ago, with a French journal, La Patrie, and has been going the round of the English journals. it proves tobeacanard, The Grande Duchesse is at Pau, singing and dancing away as cheerily as ever. Miss Dove Dolby, the new English prima donna, is likely to achieve a higher position in her profes: sion than any countrywoman of her's since the days of Mrs. Wood, Mis’ Dolby is now singing at La Scala in Milan, where her performance of Sievel ta the opera of “Faust? 1s the theme of enthusiastic encomium with the Milanese critics, who are quite in a furore about her. A new theatre ts about to be erected in Hammer- smith. A firm of solicitors are to be the lessees, ‘The project for buiidimg yet another playhouse at Hyde Park corner has been abandoned in conse- quence of the opposition of the leaseholders. At the Holborn theatre Mr, Sefton Parry has been doing very poor business of late with ‘The Ticket of Leave Man,” a piece which has had its day and does not seem toned to have another. It is believed in theatrical circles that Mr, J. S. Cla the American comedian, will soon become the lessee of the house. Mr. Alberry’s new comedy “Two Thorns” ts to be prodaced at St, James theatre on Saturday. It was originally Intended to call the play “The Coquette,” and under that title it has been already performed at Liverpool. A new comedy by Mr. Byron, to be called ‘Wait and Hope,” will be brought out at the Gaiety on Wednesuay. JUDICIAL PECCADILLOES. A Radical Judge Delicate Fix. in a Raxeieg, N, C., March 4, 1871, There was more than an orainary sensation created here to-day 1n legislative and judicial circles, which will no doubt result in another impeachment trial before the Senate. During the proceedings in the House a member arose with a newspaper in his hand and stated that it contained a report of a magis- trate’s.conrt which attributed the grossest miscon- duct to ene of the Superior Court judges, and which demanded immediate investigation. In the course of his remarks the member, who was a republican, sald that, according to the published statement, Judge E. W. Jones, of the Second Judicial district, had been guilty of the vilest immorality, the details of which were shocking to contemplate, casting a foul stain upon the judicial ermine, and, in short, bringing the entire republican judiciary of the Staté ime disrepute. He asked that a committee be appointed t investigate the matter, and then, amid the most marked attention of the members and the galleries, proceeded to read the following:— NOVEL PROCEEDINGS. The report was duly and legally attested, and be- gan with the usual index heading, as follows:— The State of North Carolina, Washington County, 88.—Justice’s Court.—Before M. C. McNamara, J, P.— The State, Upon the Relation of Sarah Tilghman (Colored) vs, BE, W. Jones, Judge Second vudicial District of North Carolina, It 1s proper to state here that his Honor Justice M. C. McNamara is a republican, as well as the judicial culprit Who was arraigned before him on the charges preferred by the SABLE DAMSEL, The complaint in the case states that the sable Sarah Tilghman, who resided at the town of Ply- mouth, in Washington county, was sent for by the defendant, also a resident of said town, on the even- ing of Friday, the 17th of February last, about the hour of eight o’clock. Having been on the most in- Umate and familiar terms with the Judge, to whom she admitted she had irequently dispensed her fa- vors, she at once complied with the message, and repaired to his residence. When she arrived, how- ever, much to her surprise and disappointment, she found the defendant at home, butin a fearful STATE OF INTOXICATION, which, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, she did not much relish, The judicial defendant asked her to spend the night there, and at first she objected, owing to his ineoriate condition, but at length yielding to bis importunities she consented, and, 1m her own language, AN ARRANGEMENT ‘was effected between them, After a siderable period, says the sabie Sarah, too drunk, and annoying, and I refused to stay any jonger. I then attempted to leave the room and go home, whereupon the ged threw me upon his bed and struck me several blows upon the head and erson, and 80 choked me, though I struggled vio- ntiy, that I soon lost all consciousness. AS 800n as lrevived1 again endeavored to resist his importu- nities with ail the strength I was capable of, when he drew a pistol and presented it, threatening my life. To aid my escape I cried ont that THE SHERIFF was at the door, which so alarmed the Judge that it half sobered him, and in his frigat he opened the door, through which Sarah then fled his premises. This dia not end the scene, fer the Judge pursued her to the gate, and in her hasty fight Sarah left upon the railings portions of her dress, which she stated freely to Justice McNamara was a present from his Judgeship fer former LIKE SERVICES. The complainant was examined and subjected to a strict cross-examinatioa, and the facts above stated were distinctly repeated by her. The defendant, Judge Jones, conducted his defence in person, an notwithstanding all Is judicial tact and the con- tinua! shaking his forensic finger at the witness, she did not vary an fota nor contradict the testi- mony that was given. As a@ last resort, and while driven to his wits’ end to save himself from ETERNAL DISGRACE the Judge finally asked Sarah these questions:— “Were you at a ball on Thursday night last, given at the residence of Mrs. —, colored. Sarah—I was, Q. Were you escorted home from the ball arm in arm by Mr. Justice McNamara, and did you spend the night with him? To the latter question Sarah was about to reply, but before the afirmative, which seemed to be coming, escaped her lips, the Justice ruled that the sow Was irrelevant and could not be ad- mitted. Judge Jones, the defendant, contended that the question Was pertinent as tending to show the cha- racter of the witness, and urged that tt be pul. The Justice ruled otherwise, and accordingly ex- cluded the testimony, With a grave aud dignified aspect Justice McNa- mara then rendered judgment im the case, which was that the defendant give bouds in the penaity of $000 for his appearance at the next term of his, THE DEFENDANT'S, OWN COURT, to be held at Plymonth on Monday the 20th inst., and, in consideration of his tigh judictal position, and his exceedingly thebriate condition, that he have ag tep o’cluck on Munday to fina the required security. This was the docnment read by the member in the House, Wich created such a sensation. Never was there such depravity and immorality heard of before on the bench in North Carolina, and 1 is to be regretted that there are many such specimens both of magistrates and judges now exercising judicial functions m this State. The committce asked for was appointed, and the matter will now Undergo investigation and the probable tmpeach- ment of Judge Jones, JUDGE BEDFORD'S INFLUENCE IN BROOKLYN, Justice Evans, of Williamsburg, issucd a warrant yesterday for the argest of John Raesch, actytibaed rRCU i ho is charged with “shya- of seventeen doliara. Seitz vas Raesch’s client in a case in Jusiice Evans’ gpurts AD examination will take Dine t-morrow, NEW YORK CITY. Tne following record will show the changes In the temperature for the past twenty-four hours In com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, a3 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, heapree snag corner of Ann street:— 1870, 1871. 64 8P. M. 43 (60 49 «OP. M..... 43 (56 62 OP. M. 85 58 63 12P.M, 35 (8 Average temperature yesterday. secesene OAM arouee, temperature for corresponding date The Board of Aldermen yesterday afternoon took suitable action on the death of the late ex-Alderman Thomas Connor. The Thomas J. Creamer Association meets tuis afternoon at the Tammany Association Rooms, No. 4 St. Mark’s place. Fire Marshal McSpedon reports twenty-three fires for the week ending March 11, causing a loss of pro- perty to the extent of $106,580, which is covered by insurance to the amount of $227,100. Mr. Henry J. Raymond, Jr., will lecture on “Popn- lar Superstitions,” at the rooms of the Eastern Branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association, 473 Grand street, to-morrow (Monday) evening. * Arrests for the past week by the police were as follows,—Saturday, March 4, 264; Sunday, 6th, 203; Monday, 6th, 206; Tuesday, 7th, 234; Wednesday, sth, Fa Thursday, 9th, 224; Friday, 10th, 165, Total, 2,51 Marshal Hart, of the License Bureau, granted tne following licenses last week:—Pubilic carts, 62; ex- press wagons, 16; boarding houses, 4; venders, 6; coaches, 4; second hand dealer, 1; porters, 4; drivers, 53, Total, 198. Amount received, $334. The Department of Puplic Works yesterday after- noon awarded a contract for paving Twenty-second street from Broadway to Fourth avenue with Bel- gian pavement to James Everard. The price is $8,187, and the work is to be done in twenty days. Mr. G. D. Cardozo, Chief of the Ordinance Bureau, received during the week ending yesterday 143 com- plaints of violations of Corporation ordinances— | th of which twenty-two have been satisfactorily set- led and the remainder referred to the proper de- partments. The receipts from Mr. Wendell Phillips’ lecture, under the auspices of the Mercantile Library Asso- clation, amounting to $1,427, have becn handed over by Mr. Allen, President of the association, suitably acknowledged by Mr. Marshall, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Committee, Mr. James Donahue, Superintendent of the Free Labor Bureau, Nos. 8 and 10 Clinton place, makes the following report of business for the week end- ing Marcb 11:—Applications for employment, 912; of these there were 1. males and %57 females; male help required, 76; cured for, 72 males and 7 ger procured for the week ending Marc 7 67. ‘The Old Guard, composed of the veteran members of the Light Guard and City Guard, will to-day parade in full uniform, under the command of Major George W. McLean, to bury their late comraae, Mr. John Archibald Kyle, a well known citizen of our metropolis, The Old Guard thus nouor their former associate at his particular and earnest desire. They will leave tae Seventy-first Reguuent Armory, ‘Thirty-second street, near sroadway, at one P. M. Mr. Bernard Smyth, the Tax Receiver, has col- lected the following amounts for taxes during the past week :— + aioe 695 females, whole number March. 2044 9. 10,919 10... PRUUMIpoacon snceaasone A committee, consisting of Messrs. Cohen, Un- gerer, Leonard and Schushler, appointed by the Ger- mans of the Nineteenth ward, waited upon Coroner Schirmer yesterday morning for the purpose of ur him to thoroughly and impartially investi- gate the case of Israel Schmidt, and aiso to use ls induence with the Mayor und District Atvorney to offer a reward for the apprehension of the man who shot deceased, as he has not yet been arrested, The body of an unknown woman, supposed to be Margaret Walsh, was sent from the Twenty-first precinct station house yesterday to bellevue Hospi- tal. The woman was aged about forty-five years, five feet six inches high, brown hair, Wearing a brown merino dress, gray petticoat, white petticoat, hoop- skirt, gray shawl, black veivet hat, blue veil, white chemise, canton flannel drawers, white cotton stockings ana laced boots. The body has been placed in the Morgue and the photograph taken. Mr. C. Kinney Smitn was yesterday appointed Su- perintendent of the Fire Alarm Telegraph ot ) York city by the Board of Fire Commissioners, Mr. Smith formerly occupied the position of night man- ager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and more recently that of manager of the Atlantic’ and Pacific Company’s lines in this city, He is exten- sively and lavorabiy Known throughout the Union ag an enicient and practical teiegrapher, apbomtment to the above responsibie position will be hailed with satisfaction by the profession and nls friends generally. Coronor Keenan yesterday afternoon received in- formation from the Board of Health’of the death, at No, 778 seventh avenue, of John Robinson Rose, a lad nine years of age. On Tuesday last physicians were summoned to see deceased, and found Dim sul- fering trom an incised wound over the left tbi three or four inches in length; also a puncture wound on the calf of the same leg. The wounds Were said to have been received by falling or being pushed from a Tenth avenue car. Deceased did well ull Friday, when he was seized with an attack of scarlatina, which soon resulted in death. ‘The Coroner will give the mater a thorough investi- gation. Coroner Keenan yesterday afternoon was notifieu to hold an inquest on the body of Michael Lyman, au Irish laborer, thirty-eight years of age, who met with an accident which sesulted in his death. De- ceased was employed as fireman at the residence of Mr. A. T, Stewart, Thirty-fourth strest and Fifth ave nue, and at hall-past eleven o'clock in the morning Lyman, with two others, was lowering a large stone roller-down the front steps tp the sidewalk, when ‘they lost control of it, and Lyman was caught and so terribly crushed tuat he died in a few moments afterwards, The body was removed to the I'wenty-' ninth precinct police station, and trom thence to the late residence of deceased, 115 West Forty-sixth street, Where the imquest will be held. Deceased has left a widow, but no children. Mr, Stewart will de- fray all tae necessary funeral expenses, EXTENSIVE FIRE. Two Large Buildings in Murray Street To- tally Destroyed—Loss One Hundred sand Dollars. About half-past two o'clock yesterday morning an officer, in passing down threugh College place on hus beat, saw a lightin the second story of No. 65 Murray street, which he took to be some light paper or other combustible material burning. He at once sounded the alarm from box 62, which brought the Gre department quickly to the scene, but before the various engines could be got to work the whole upper portion of both Nos. 63 and 65 were @ mass of flames. So intense was the fire that it was an utter impossibility for any one to enter the building, con- sequently nothing in the way of stock or turniture could be saved. Messrs. Slauson & Co., manufac- turers of confectionery, who occupied the third and fourth doors of the entire bullaing, lost their entire stock, valned at $40,000, and tusured for $52,500, Mr. H. H. Rogers, who occupied a portion of No. 65 as storage lor paper, was damaged to the extent of $8,000; insured for $17,500, ‘he first floor of No. 63 was used by Howards & Quackenbush, dealers m hardware, whose stock suffered to the extent of $13,000, and was insured for $16,000. ‘The first floor of No. 14 College place, occupied by the New York Enamelled Paper Collar Company, was damaged considerably, but to what exient is not known: Both Nos, 63 and 65 were totally destroyed, the loss upon them being about $25,000, and it is not known whether they are insured or not. "BROOKLYN'S BULLY BOYS. The Stabbing Affray in the Montauk Hote!l— ‘The Wowen in the Case Traced to Balti- more. One night last week two girls, named Maggie ‘Tuttle and Isabella Grogan, were taken to the Mon- tauk Hotel, in Fulton street, after atvending a ball at Gothic Hall, thelr companion engaging a room for them. They had only been in their room a short ume when Frederick Robinson and another young man entered. The girls made ood use of their iungs, and the noise attracted the attention of a lodger in an adjoining room named John T, Kerr, When he appeared on the scene a knife was thrust into his back, and Rovinson and his companion leit. Robinson was arrested the foliowing day; but by that time thé girls had disappeared, and the examination of n made for the ; but it was not ul day’ ‘that their “whereabouts. was discovered, a8 ‘Through a letter sent by Maggie it was found the in | were in Baltimore. aug so oueokR Wore 1 and | female, 754; situations pro- | ow | and his | one man, French, English, Dntca, _ Oma All i wNoaD dioa BRICKS. CONTINUATION OF THE STRIKE. No Surrender—The Famine in the City—Righta and Wrongs—Life, Labor and Capital— Both Sides of the Story-Stagnation in the Trade— The Public Purse—Boatmen, Dealers, Builders and the People. Immense quantities of bricks are lying in barges all round the island in consequence of the strike by’ the carrying boatmen, Millions of these necessary’ cubes are pilea upon the decks of sloops, barges and. schooners, waiting the adjustment of the existing aufferences. Both parties, however, forthe moment,, seem determined to hold out. They are standing at bay, watching each othcr’s movements narrowly, and neither will yield to the other, The boatmen contena they are FIGHTING FOR A PRINCIPLE, and that arms them for the battle against fraud and trickery. On their side it Is a grievance of lon; standing, and all the wrath that has been bottied up' for years at the injustice they have suffered 18 now finding vent, to the dismay of their oppressors. ‘That they have been obliged for a number of years! to discharge their cargoes and “pile” the brick caree fully on the docks without remuneration does not make it right; on the contrary, they hold, it only aggravates the injustice, } The price they ask for this extra labor—which: ought to be no part of their duty—is so small, ini comparison with the interests at stake, that the boatmen are astonished at the stand taken by the other party—twenty cents a thousand, and tt takes about 150,000 to build a goodly sized house and about 450,000 a large store, occupying half a blocks. ‘Whether the price of *‘piling”’ is divided beiween THE DEALER, THE BUILDER AND THE PUBLIC, seems to the boatmen to be ®inatter of indiference, In fact they would jump atany such easy solution of the difficulty. They are shrewd enough, how- ever, ~— that if any one pays It must be public, ‘he “strikers” say they have only just formed this “association,” and almost the iirst official act of the young society was to inaugurate a “lockout,’? A captain of one of the boats who was questioned | on the subject yesterday replied, ‘*We are contend- | ing for our fights: ihe twenty cents a thou- sand may seem a small matter to those gentlemen who live in New York in “brick’’? houses, and keep herses worth thousands of dollars and elezant car- | Tiages: but it is a very dierent matter with us, We live on these boats, Now, look at them. Are they comfortable homes? WE RISK OUR LIVES im carrying these things down the river. We are there is the labor of working the vessel on the way, und now, when we arrive at the wharf with the cargo in goed condition and all safe and sound the dealers come to us and say they. Will buy that lot, but they want them ‘piled’ on the | | lable to fity accidents. Lesides the risks we rua | | nh | dock, 150 deep.’ So you see when our work is done on the water we have to come ashore and set to again, We have sutfered injustice atthe hands of these men that would make one’s blood botl.’”? “Can you mention one of these, Captain?” “1 can, sir, They will frequently come dowm here and buy a@ lot of bricks from the agent, and when they are half discharged they wil | suddenly remember they must have them piled | five feet 1urther out the road, and if we object | to this extra work they’ll tell us lo xeon, our bricks, they don’t want them. You see how they fix us.” “You intend to fight this ont, then?” “To the very last. If we beat them now we cam always ci our point.” “This strike 1s causing a goed deal of depression in the trade?’ “Well, that’s ourgatn. We are losing, too, Lying bere doing nothing is rf VERY EXPENSIVE on us. We are some of us eating up halfourfreight.’? “What does it cost to bring a load of bricks from Haverstraw here?” “That boat you see going there makes seventy-five, doliars a trip; then she’ll go two voyages a week.” “Thats pretty good pay.” there are four men in the boat, and when we wet | down here we are obliged to hire four longshor | maa ;% help to ‘pile? the brick, at tour doulars @ jay.” ‘Four dollars a day !”” “That's the price their association sets down.” “Have they a society, too ¥” “Certainly.” “Well, Captain, you make a clear case.” i “It is @ just cause and we mean to stand by ity ‘The HeRa.p did us good service m putting the mat4 ter so ably before the public."* “The HERALD is generally the first, Captain.” “Always, sir, always.”? A number of the most prominent builders werd afterwards called upou, some of whom looked upon, | this action of the boatmen as i , A SERIOUS MATTER, and the thineage of the wedge, as one termed ir. Others regard it a8 a simple question of supply and demand, and were satisfied it would regulate itself, The principal builders say 1f the difficulty continues and the demand for bricks increases they | will charter their own boats to bring the material to | where it 1s required, and in ths way checkmate the | strikers, One gentleman characterized it as a ‘‘tem- { pest in a teapot,” sure to end in the DISCOMFITURE OF THE INSURRECTIONARV PARTY, Some of the manufactuigrs have come forward | and offered to raise the freixht rather than cause a longer depression in the business, ‘his matter, it is understood, was under consideration at the last meeung of the boatmen on Friday. There is to be another meeting on Monday, when it is expected some satisfactory arrangement will be arrived at. BASE BALL NOTES, A meeting of the secretaries of the various profes- sional clubs throughout the country will be held on the evening of Friday, the 17th instant, at 840 Broad- way, for the purpose of arranging the time for tourg East, West and South, and when the various seriea of match games shall be played. The following questions will also be considered and acted upon:. “The championship—how shall it be decided in} the future?” “How many games shall be considered a match) series?” Umpires—Ought not a visiting club to be allowed! some preference in the choice? Now, this is certainly a step in the right direction,| for each of these three questions have long beer subject for bitter disputes. With regard to the frst. one, nothing could be more absurd than the way the thing exists at present, for wa now have two first class clubs flying tha championship pennant, and each claiming that they, and they alone, are entitled to it, in the minds of all sensible, fair-dealing men, however,. there has never been any question raised in the: matter, they all knowing ‘ull well that the Mutuals, alone have the right to the championship, In this: connecuon the following letter from Mr, Alexande: V. Davidson, secretary of the Mutual Club, addresse toa sporting paper of this city, will fully explain, the whole matter, to the entire satisfaction of every-; one, save, perhaps, the Chicago Club themselves andi their admirers. Nw York, March 3, 1871. In a inte edition of your paper the bise ball items cone tain a statement that the Chicago Club will fly the “whip: pennant” the coming season, und the Mutuals will go for} them early. We are going for them, but with the whip nen. nant fiying where it rightrully belongs—viz., with the Mutu Glut, of this city. Notwithstanding the claim of the right tly, &c., repeatediy made by the Chicago Club, through ite secretary, none whatever exists, as I wili prove to the satis faction of every one except the Chicago Club and its few: After winning the empty honor from the Atlantic Club the, Mutual Club published a challenge to all the first class clubs: in the country, giving them an opportunity to play for the, same and win it if they could, The terms offered were con- sidered by the press of the country to be entirely fair and’ equitable. After a reasouable time had expired, and the challenge was not accepted, the Mutual Club published a no= tice to the ball fraternity and the public that nl games played after that date would be exhibition games and lave no elfect: whatever upon the championship, a8, in consequence of the chailenge issued not being accepted, the Mutual lab cone sidered theirs the right to claim and hold until deprived of. Sh 1d durin: the coming season, therefore_consldered the championship ended tor 1870, and, in order not to deceive the public, called the games to be played after that date by their right name. ‘The second game of the second series between the Mutual and Chicago ciuba hadto be played in Chicago after nfore- said date, “Rumors having been circulated that, should the Chicago Club win the game. to be played, they intended to. claim the champlonabip, the Mutual Chib, ta order to have a fuir and explicit understanding before going to- Chicago, wrote to Mr. Foley, who wus the sole manager of the Chicago Club at that time, asking for @ direct rently to the following question—viz., “Do you, as manager of the Chieago Clue, consider the championship matter determined for the present season?” The fi 13 the answer, contained. in a. question virtually foil meaunication addressed to me as secretary of the Mutual, to the championship business, you know my views: already; for my part, shon'd we have’ beaten the Atlantics: before you did, I shouid not have claimed it; my uoderstand- ing was, and yet is, that tue first series is the one for the: championship.” Not being as conversant with Chicago Club tactics thon as; we are present, we reied on Mr. Foley's angwer, and went: to Chicago. They claim to have won the game in question; howover, the less they urge that claim the better for the fu- ture reputation of the Chicago Club and its tool, “the um- pire.” Naturally envugh, one bogus claim begets another ; ‘after the game comes the claiin for the championship. We deny thelr right to either, and offer this atatement of the facts to the publie and the fraternity, willing to abide by thelr ‘The Chieago Club can have ali the opportunity they desire uring the coming season to win from ‘ts, In a fait aad bone orable manner, what wo claim to have’ at present an un- doubted right ‘to bold. | Thelr actions toward the Mutual Club, on the occasion of Inat to Chicago, have opencd the eyes ef the fraternity and satisfied all that Yor ways that are dark and the Ohleago Clubs as ‘suudueted he 160, ¢ Chicago Club, as conducted in 1870, could take t Respectfully vours, ‘4 siete ALEXANDER V, DAVIDSON, Secretary 41. B, B,C. presi ceatenatntitah Ate THE WHOLE BOUNDLESS CoNTINENT.—In Mobile, Ala., & man married, recently, his seventh wire, @ Mexican, baving been united previously to a Ger- Irish and’ American