The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1871, Page 5

WASHINGTON SOCIETY, A Graphic Pen Picture of the Social Session at the Capital. The Hale-Chandler and Miller- Stocking Weddings. Jolly Robeson About to Enter the 82a of Matrimony. Cundurango, Pro and Con—A Great Row Over a Great Nostrum. The Circles of the Supreme Court—Chit- Chat, Gossip and Anecdotes—Schenck and Little Emma—A True His- tory of the Speculation, WASHINGTON, D. C., Deo. 16, 1871. ‘Washington society during the session of Oon- 1g at once the most democratic, the most in- fellectuai and the most fascinating in the country. The manners and courtesies of the Executive Man- mon set the example, and these were derived from the State of Virginia and the city of New York, at the ume Washington brought the Virginian Court with nim to Bowling Green and re- ceived the calls of our New York ele- ment, in the days when George Clinion was Governor—and that big wedding came of when his daugnter espoused the citizen Genet—and when Jay and the Huguenots, Burr and the Connecticut Puritaus and Adams and the Boston saints in light poured in to express their congratulations. Every year the New Year’s festivities at Washington are exactly like those of New York, and the same is true of no other two large cities in the country. CAPITOLINE ETIQUEITE. In Washington there are few set ceremonial days, because nearly every day, Saturday and Sunday excepted, in Washington official life, is cere- monial day. Punciualiy on tne first day Con- greas mects the Judges of the Supreme Court walk all together to the Waite House to pay their rospecté & the chief Magisirate, and 1t has been, many years sinco this ceremonial has gone by default, Even when Johnson was being impeached by Von- gress the Judges made it a unanimous point of onor to go the whole length of the capital city, clad 4m their silken robes, to shake him by the band, THE BORE OF CALL Days. At this time we will not particularize about re- eepuons and cal days, save simply to relate that one of the growing nuisances of Washington soci- ety lies in every lady, However humble or obscure, @r who bas any pretentions to be considered a part of society, xing a certain day in the week to be called upon. Hence, if one starts out in a carriage to pay day calls, the chances are ten to one that only a few houses will receive him, the servanc responding at the portal that “Mra. ——— receives on Tuesdays.”’ Of course where so many idle people Feside, and where so many go visiting merely for the sake of airing the horses or showing off the car- mage, 16.18 impossible for a lady to sit m full dress expecting to receive people day after day. If there were less dressing about it Washington life woud ‘be more open; 1t would cost less to live there ana sustain @ family, and the people would know each other better by-character than they can do at pre- sent under all the disguises of dressing, THE CHANDLER-HALE WEDDING. The great social subject or the hour is the wedding of Senator Cnandler’s daugter, Minnie, with Repree sentative Eugene Hale, of Maige. Hale 1s a chila of food luck. He is only thirty-five years old, and Was admitted to the bar fourteen years ago, He went to the Legislature of Maine only four years ago, and now he has the texpressibie good luck to marry the only daughter of one of the richest, 1f not the very richest, Senators in Congress, Miss Minnie Chaudier 1s a blonde—large, good- matured and good-humored—but not generally vanked among the leading beauties of tne capital. Bhe dresses in exquisite taste, and 1s the pride of Yachariah, her father, and of hes good mother, who have made it a part of the marriage agreement that the groom shall come with bis wile to live under their own roof, and not be setting up a lodge of his ow. Hale nas always been tne protégé of Speaker Biaine, an@ it has been said that Blaine luves him Uke a son. He is a thoughtful, modest, student-like young man, with light hair and dark eyes, square head, yefined features and in stature he is not above Sve feet four or five toches, He belongs in esa to the of re- publican conservatives, ad ts as mach unlike his future father-in-law in temper and opinion as it is possible tor @ weil-educated, discreet, logical young an of modern training to be unilke a tall, queer, positive, hale-fellow-well-met Western politician, who goi bis educ mn in & Vetroit dry goods store, and @ knows about politics sitting on the back counter, denouncing the Kngilsh on the other aide of ye Detroit kiver, Baa meee Chendiet liad cauy strong elements of char. Zack us MALY Sto! te acter and many god ones. He is the most Moeral man iu the denate in tne sense of speuding his Money upon his iriends. Now and then some comes to Washington lor whum Zack has a ft ion, and he instantly flies off to Weicker’s, or ormly’s, ur Gray’s or some of the big Caterers end has a party prepared whicn costs him $2,010 in a wight. Chandier 13 one of the most convivial men in Congress and if it were not for fis powerful sique he woulda have shown the ravages of d hving before this, He lives tu a handsome brown stone residence, wiicn cost hin $40,”0s—a coonsiderabie sum of money jor a house in Washing- fon, His immediate neignbors are Dr. Jolnsun, under whose oversight tne children of several ‘tnvusand Congressmen have been brought into the world; Freeman Clarke, the Rochester telegraph Capitalist; Charles Astor Briste! ‘thompson, one of the few Wealthy natives o: Wasnington; Calep Cushing and several others, Senator Cuandier ts certainly worth nos less than one intluon, and he 1s umedly wortu not less than two millious uf dol- ROBRSON AND THE WIDOW AULICK, Society has also been busied with the story that Secretary Robeson is to warry the widow of Come modore Aulick, of the Navy. Kobeson is a large, thick-vlooded, heavy walking, red-faced, gray- faired village lawyer, who originated in Upper New Jersey. Kobesun has sumptuous apartments near the Arlington Hotel, and is very parucuiar to Bave his own cooking Gone forhim. He buys at the Cottage Market the most ponderous capons, and i i6 @ superstition among tne butchers that if comes tO dine with him he cau eat @ wholecapon alone. A Chester county capon is as big as a turkey, and requires at leat two bottles of Claret and a pint of Champague to assist it to degiu- Ution. ‘The widow Aulick dresses in black, aud she & aw tidy and rather dasning widow, stout, red- faced. with fron-gray hair, and with a young voy who can aiways be seen with his mother whether Robeson be aloug or not. Many peopie allege that jovial good humor and a _ desire to befriend a spirited widow and her gon are ail that animate the Secretary Of the Navy. Nobody ever says anything ili avout tum; for he 18 frank, cordial snd boisterous with everybody. When Roveson got to Washington te started in all simplicity to decorate his tavie with the contents of a large sideboard and showered geu- @ral hospitalliy; but tue prudery of Washington society was at once manifested, and the amiabie Secretary nad to put his botues back mto the cup- board and content himseil with giving a drink only to such persons as he kuew might be benefited. CUNDURANGO LN SOCIETY. To turn from these topics of le to tne matter of death, 1 may teil you the great question of the hour is cundurango. Al the commencemenc of the war ® tail, dark complexioned and dasiing piysician appeared in Wasfiugtou with the voiunteer aimy, and Le was putin charge ot the largest Lospita: in tue city, During the whole time of the war ho ‘thus served as Surgeon, making plenty of irienus as ‘Well as some enemies by b.8 Luscellancous Blyle of dashing now into surgery and now into politics. BLISS THE SPLENDID. This was Dr. Bites, the introducer, through the assistance of the State Department, of Sunduraugo, which 18 claimed to be the only cure extant for cancer, but which one of your South American correspondents s ry humbug. A society sketch af the pres ent time would not be complete without some record of Bliss and his nostrum. He 19 fully six feet high, with black eyes, jet biack hair aud a goatee worn in the fasion ot ‘kdwin Forrest. He drives @ pair of stylish, lightning horses down the wood peremees of whe avense every alternoon, and for cancer—that = uaitling and ternbie disease, uman LJ government. Among these are Ol lathews, the aged mother of the Vice President, om eat natured, white-haired old lady. Her a 7 the son. of the commander of Wustingrou's ie iy guard r8- v4 body at. Ls New Jersey, Alter Uoliax’s birth inf ihe cil York she marriey @ mechanic nau NEW YORK. HERALD, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1871.—TRIPLE who is at present a clerk of the printing de mt of the Mouse of Representatives. Old Matnews is a. dul, non-communicative Uninteriering old man, and he has haa several oni!- dren, etepsi-ters to the Vice President, Several years ‘his wife developed a cancer, and she has sutle much agony ever since, although she man- aged, for her son’s sake, to stand iT} hours at a time daring his receptions. It was to refieve the old lady from this burden that Colfax marmed. Mrs. Mathews’ cancer 18 aggravated by erysipelas. Biise’ enemies rely upon her exweme age to msure her decease, in which ¢ase they willall rise up @n0 exciaim that cundurango kills instea’ of curing. Coliax himself, however, thinks itin test biood purifier of the time, and the of tne Senate, George Gorham, alegos that his wile, who has had a caucer for more than two yeurs, 18 in a iair way of recovery through this means, Ter contra, the widow of Commo- dore Almy has just died of cancer alter using cundurango for some time, Wash- ington society may, therefore, be said to be in a svate of civil war over the ition of cundurango, When any patient of BI dies Dr, Garnett and the rebel (so-called) dociors—who some time ago turned him out of their society—Iut u their hands and give joy. Bliss, who & Bi dea! of nerve, altnougn somewhat of an adventurer, relies upon the State Deyartment toturnish him the root, and he claims that vefore iong he will get the thanks and the sympainy of civilization, while the chaps who are now trying to rulm him will be on their marrow-bones, JUSTICE MILLER'S DAUGHTER WEDDED. We have already nada wedding in the Supreme Court circle. Tne supreme Court circle 1s distri- buted between Capitol lil and the Natio Hotel, At the National Hotel—that celebraied old inn where Buchanan got the autel discase—the biggest, most robus¢ and culossal judges o: the Suprewe Court keep their abode, There is old Justice Cuftord, of Maime, who weighs above tree huudred pounds;' there is Justice Davis, of illinois, & man worth hig million, who weighs bard upon three hunured pounds; tuere also abides Justice Nelson, of New York, the Nestor of the bench, who cannot weigh mucu less than two hundred pounds and 19 4 remarkably, hand~ some specimen of a fine oid Irish-American jurist, euve over wit white nair like a wise goat. Chief Justice Chase bought a country box outgide of Wushington last year, but his paralysis has in compelled tum to return to tne home of his daughter, Afrs. Sprague, where he is Kindly cared ior, and already looks like bis former self, with the exception of his hair, which 18 eu- tirely gone. Two o1 the Jusuces—M jler and Field— occupy roomy and agreeaoie houses im the lost waste of Capitol till. ‘Inere oiso lives the voluptue ary, Middleton, Clerk of the Court, who 413 said to be quite rich, and who can tell you pieuty of stories, about Wires, Pinkney, Ruus Choate and Chancellor Kent Justice Fiela’s nouse is said to ave been resented to him by his brother, Cyrus W. Field. ext door tO him Wiilam MM. LEvarts, of New York, Owns a nouse, which is now occupied by @ Nevada lawyer, ‘These two houses form a part of what used to be the Old Capitol Prisou, where Mrs. burratt and belle Boyd Were conlined anu Captain wirz Was nanged, Jusuice Swayne oceupies a quiet house near the ‘West kind, aud Justice -trong boards at tie bbbitt House, while Justice Bradiey 18 the immediate neighbor of General Sherman, in the ola Grant- Dougiag mansion. xichard Parsops, the Marsal Of tle Court, who 1s one ot the wealthiest men in Cleveland, Unio, boards at the Arlingioa Hotel. ‘The richest. mau on the Supreme Kenca is Davis, sometimes spoken of a; an anti-Grant candidate tor the Presidency; he owns most o: the valuabie property in Bloomington, L1.; Well olf are Bradley, ong and Miler, * WHO WERE OUR GREAT JUSTICES? ‘The following Justices of the supreme Court have pager, vevun @lected 10. Conyress:—bradiey, Davi: jelsum, Field, Milier aud Swayne. Chuse, Cliffor and Stroug have been in Congress. Of these men te poorest, 1a Chilord—not worth above filteen \nousand dollara, yeu happy as a wood sawyer, He is sixty-eight years old, was Polk's Attorney Gen- eral and Minister to Mexico, anit’ Was put on the Supreme Benco by Buchanan. field 1 also inditier- ently well of—worsh, perhaps, $60,0v0. Stront, although nominally from Peunsyivania, 1s @ native oi Couneciicut, and @ represeniative Yankee in sagacity anu force. He lett ¥ ale Voliege and wok to schoul teachtug, like Onie: Justice Chase, and this brought him to Pallageipna, where he entered tne bar in 1832, and ‘UP ig Anode In the Old Dutch county of Berks, tHe served many years as a Juuge of the State Supreme Court, He 1s married to & second wite and:has acrop of young children. Justice Samuel ge auter 1s@ native of Kentucky, ablest man on the oench. He has been. twice,married, aud the daughier just wed to Col Stocking 1s the offspring of his first wife, He n lile @ physician, expressed himself too ireely on slavery, aud in 150 he settled in lowa, He was counsel to a rich widow there, hia present wie, anu they Dave sev- eral children. She is a spirited, able Woman, and Muller ranks with Chase as @ nian of original though1, bold mind, large learning wud candid, charitaole spirit, HM Cnase shouid die now Miller would get his place and deserve it whe dauguter just wedded is @ fine, robust woman, dark in compiexion and sughtly burned or scarred upon the face. Mes. Rulers Jather 1s suid to have been an innkeeper in pit Judge Swayne ig rich, made #o by judicious in- Vestments in Western real es:aie. He put $10,000 in Toiedo property, ‘Which yleided him, aiter several Years, $80),0v0, @ Has several Capadie sous, Justice Nelson has gone home to New York State, gud some think he will never retura here, peing now very.old—on the verge of ciguty. He is very ‘Well oif and is married to a second wiie, bleacaed and beautiful in welt preserved years a3 hims3-if. These Justices are uoW & harmonious, ¢»ncordant boay, having gotover flerce quarreia aovul the greeaback-gold contracts, They have just ren- dered a new decisivd on tls subject, and novody Knows what it meuns, so wat they are all writing individual opinious apun is The Judges ivel tat they occupy a@ relatton of unpopularity with the politicians, and yet one of Lacey poet co-ordinate power, 80 they are eyuit- ably indivereat and avgoiulely happy. Four men onthe beach would make good Presidents—Cnase, Miller, Davis and Siroug. All the Justices speak highly of Lyman Trumoull, Judge Chase said, some time ago, that Trumvull’s opinion in the case OL the impeachment of Andrew Jonnson was Wortiy ol ine best exemp.ificativas of tne Koman Sena’ There was a luity scorn. in his opening paragraph:— To do Impartial justice to all things appertaining to the present trial, eotuing ta the eonstiudae and laws ie the duty imposed on each ator the position he holds and the oath he has texen, and he who falters in the discharge of that duty, either rom personal or party considerations, te tie fhe soorn aad contempt unwortily of bis position and 10 of all just men. * * Till er timed shall do justice to my motives, no alteruative is left me pul the andenibie dis charge of duty. THE NUPTIALS OF JUSTICE. . Instice Miiier’s aauguter marned ona of fe Mow jooking Aud most prosperous young men ta polite omee, ee proprietor of the general order bonded Warenouse ia New York, ki served mi tue war haudsomely and became a protége of senator Morton, of Iudiana, tarough whose good offices he was transplanted to New York, and wita Colonel Leet, of Chicaxzo, formerly on Grant's staf, be re- ceived the big thing of the general order bonded warehouse on the North kaver side, It 1s sup- yosed that the profits of this warehouse have b be divided up among & great many persons who «do not appear on the suriace. Tne svore Oupht not to produce jess than $6,000, and it may jleld $100,000 @ year. Justice Miller would robably be made Supreme Justice of the United states in cage Cinef Jus'ice Chase should die trom his paralysis or other cause. Miller is an agree- able man, considerable of a politician, and the enemies of the Supreme Courl—those who think the Court ought to an en- tirely subservient concern and take its cue from tne party in power—these like muller. He lives in @ $20,000 house, bull from an old one tor the use of Delegate Chipman, of the District of Col- umbia. Soule of the finest presents seen at any wedding in Washington were snowered on this young couple, and the groom Mimyelt decorated the bride with gorgeous diamonds. The presents of the old couple tu their daughter were very quiet, @ pocket handkercmet and some gloves, and they contrasted simpiy and elfectively wita the rich outit given by strangers. LADI:S OF THR SUPREME COURT. There. is little to say about the ladies of the Su- Preme Court, Justice field 1s immensely in love ‘with nis wife, whom he married in vaiiormia while @ judge there, The Marshal oi the Court marriea the most beautiful girl In Cleveiand, and he has just returned irom Europe with @ handsome grown-up daughter. Justice rielu is, in some respects, the most remataabie physical character oa the Bench, Within a few months he has hed a tumor cut out of mis vack. Within three years he has been the recipient of an tufernal machine which, had it been Opened in his preseuce, would have viown nim to atoms. Judge @, Of San Francisco, suspecting the contents Of the box to Contain, explosives had a Jaborer carry 11 in the basewent of the Vapitol and throw ib repeatedly agatast a marvie column. Tne botiom of the box drupped off vefore the top, and then there were revealed two or three dozea muske cartridges pointing in every direction and pre,.ared for ignition by tulminating powder and @ box of matcnes, with @ fold of saudpaper inge- niously prepared Lo be pulled across tne top of tae matches waen the hid should be opened. Field, when in the Legislature of California, was once menaced by instant death I Ne arose w make a cor- tain speech, He persisted, neverineless, aithough the man who threatened him was a coul desperado; but David Broderick, who was then tu tne Leg sla- ture, aud who was secretly aware of Fieid’s peril, Kept Field’s enemy coverea with @ pistol all the Ume he was speaking. STEWART ON SHENCK, The beautiful women in Washington this year are not numerous. Senator Stewart’s wile, the daugh- ter of ex-senator Koote, Of Mississtpl, remains 10 Europe, where she has been for two years, superin- tending the education of her children, among the m @ very handsome daugnter, whu will be out next year and in society here. Stewart owns » house next door to Miniswer Schenck’s. He relates, directly from Loudon. the circumstances under which Shenck permitted his uame to be used wita the Emma mine. Stowart says thatthe English directors and cntef capitalists of the mine on that side of the water were aware that scheuck had some interest tn It, and they asked him to let his nume be put the head, Schenck read his instructions carefwily over and came to the conclusion that there was no law or usage against his consenting. Alter the frat dis- charge of light weapons f the London “con. omisxt and otmer publications there, and said if. he had made @ mist not back out at @ time when firing at him. Stewart reports 1 more than three times the stock offerea im London was applied for by oapitalists there. ile says that the Engiisn are periectly iutormed about the Emma mine aod all other good mines in this courttry, and that the stock Which has been sold was 1D part alto- her for cash, and the rest subject to asseasment ‘om time Ww time, Scheuck’s daugiters, who are not very handsome, bat very sprightly and intelligent, and not iikely rie “ be embar- rasset by foreign society much, are hav- ing @ first rate time im London; but t General himseif complains that his salary does n¢ begin to pay his pznyeee. ‘The valuaole archives of our legation in London are stored over a stable, and are In of destruction any day oF ni Stewart, the reciter of all these facts, is a man of consideraole adventurous and versatile suécess in public itfe. It is reiated of him that in a singie mining operation, the Gould and Curry mine, he made $280,000, of which $75,000 was cash and the remainder accrued upon a specified number of inane were given to the attorney of that rich THE MEXICAN PIRACIES. The Lower California Land Company and the Late Mexican Filibustering Out- rage—Interesting Letter from Mr. George Wilkes. New York, Dec. 10, 1871. To THB EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Dear Sin—Your article of Monday on the recent Piratical events in Lower Cattfornia reached me while on the road from Washington, on the same day, but at too late an hour to respond in Tuesday's HERALD 10 the invitation given me, as one of the Directors of the Lower California Company, w state their views upon the subject of tne late Mexican outrage upon the company’s works and upon the American colonies at and near Magdalena Bay. I gladly avail myself of your permission, however, as the political coudition of those celonies ana of the Lower Caiitoraia Comoany 13 but little understood, and ag your opinion, that in this raid upon the colo- nies fostered by the Company “we are going to have @ case Oi great Importance on the part of the United Btutes against Mexico,” 1s enurely correct, And now, without desiring to encumber this state- Ment with unnecessary details of title aud acquisi- tion, it 18 enough to say, at the outset, that the Lower Caliornia Company is the legal assignee and owner, in possession, of a grant made iy the repub- Mc of Mexico, under President Juarez, in 1861, tor colonizing purposes, the rigats, privileges and Irancnises of which exteud over the xreaier portion of the peniusula of Lower Caliiornia, covering @buut Jorty-seven thousand square miles, or say, avout thirty millioas of acres; and to add at this point that the cumpany bought this grant uader an examimation of is title first by Mr. Robert J. Walker, aud supsequentiy oy Hon. Caleb Cushing, Hon, 8. #. Buticr and samuel L. M. Bariow, Esq, the two latter of whom are now couusel for the company. ‘sne whole of the land comprised within tms g@ranc lies within the lautades and under tne tem. pelature of souwern italy, und 18 bounded on the eust aud west by two rauges of sea coast, each over 1our hunured mulles Im iengta, indented by deep bays aud capacious harvors, ali filed with an abua- dunt variety of fish, ‘the Mexican government were moved to make this gran. under a variety of motives, all of which Were sensivie, siatesimanlike and proper, in tue first place tue ’euinsula of Lower Caliiornia, though rating Nsell a8 a aieXican province, said 80. lar remote from the ceatral government— nay, 80 lar away at sea—tnat it always muintained a posit.on of arrogant independence, contributing to tue nation no suldicrs or supplies, and only acknowledging 1t3 supreimacy and emi- bent domaio iu Order tu preven stronger Powers from pickiug It Up us @ possession, I has, there- lore, ulways been pracucally under the sy mpatietic Tepubicau protection OL the goverament of the United siates, Geographically neariy tue whole of AC Wag & Vast desert, nine-Lentus 01 Which had never been expiored, the only population of tue verritury belag grouped at the extreme point of the southern or lower end, and which population were as likely to reject as .o accept the Governors sent them from the capitai—in Keeping with the aabit of conducting ail their revolutions witnout centrai interference, tue condition of things im Lower Cali- fornia, and these veing the loose Felations between. the cian and SAE un Se tuacioiane It Was @ Koper and @ prudegy tung 1 9 lormer te furn fiw desert. tu uocoant by flig te wusls . pOruol. 1 Wita Industrions coioniste, dad in recraiting its eX..austed nances by charging @ round sum of money ior the priviiege. Taese were (he motives Wuicn luduceu the government of Beuito Juarez, the present rresideut of Mexico, to reitnquisn tue. dumsin wition 1 have above descrived, and which took it distinct provincial form in the grant now ued by the Lower © Califoruia Company, Unuer the verms of this grant, the wain oviigations of which against ine purchasers were “pay 100,000 and Place 40 fauies (he legal Measure of whicu is ‘Guu persons) within Lae area witnin a given period. We paluto ait, nomery, tue Minister of ihe wexi- can goverament, tue resident at Washington, tne whole of the above sum, in incee severa: Durts, abd foo. ns recelwts thereor, 1 subsequeauly hego- tated with Mr. Romero w special condiuon by which it was agrved on tne part of Mexicu. toat men-of every rave and culor, Calnes@ Not exceptea, shoud be regarded us eligime colonists, These receipts @ud aygreeweuis were (len uled in tue archives oi the governimeny at Wasuington. under the endorse- Meu of Mr, Romero, iu order that Our Own govern. ment wignt have official cognizance of the proper apa lawial manner in whicn we, a3 @ portion oi its citizens, Were endeavoring to It a conugaous ‘por- tou of the western coast ito a vainavle netzabor, ‘These axreemens, receipis and ratuications hay- ing been excliungeu and ied, tie Lower California Cowpauy tuen ovuilued @ charter trom tne state oL New York, Wil @ nominal Capital Of $55,0v0,000, and suvsequeutly organized tteed, With-Mr, Kicn- pcneli as vresideut, Win. R. Travers, Treasurer, d Colone: Drake venxay as Secreary. "Prominent amoung the MeMvers OF «he company are the Lollow- ing Weli-nuoWu American CiUiZeils Bnd Capalists:— U.K, Garrison, August Belmont, 5. L. M. Barlow, General b, #, Buuer, WilliamG. Fargo, Kdwaras 5, Samord, Levaard Jerome, David Crawiord, Joho A. Griswoid, Marshal UV. RKoverts, John Andersun, Fraucis Morris, General Jona A, Logan, Joun Hun- ter, George Usguod, Robert McLane, George Wilkes, Beaauin tlaliaday, Jacoo r. Leese, vaptuin J. 3. Jyuaum, A, Yeh, ¥onn &. Garlaud, Levi A. Dowley, Wii UY. Trapidgen and opners, who, taken o- gether, represen: a persoual responsivility tv the eEXtent Oi $luv, v0); Immediately aiter thelr organization the company Loox the next proper step, Of uaving the territory, the control of whica they had thus lawfally ac- quired, surveyed. ‘1hi8 18 an act always recoz- nized by nations as one of the most meritorious character, ior the survey and recovery of wale lands is always done in ihe common interest of ‘the — world. Tue survey .0r this purpose was organized, under tne command ot J. Koss Browne, subsequently Minister to uMiua, and Proiessor Gabv, wel known to the sclenuic world, st 1s suficieat for the purpose of this etier tu say that It was very eXpensive co the compauy, having occupied several months and hay- ing covered several degrees of latitude and lougi- tude. ahe company, having thus regularly informed tt- self 0. tae eligiviuty of their acquisicion, and 1cs adapiapility, not only to mining aad Osaiug, but @grioulvura: developwent, next took measures Lo pro- vide lor the establishment 01 colonies. Tuey bougnt Venseis; they sent down from san Francisco pioneer expeultious of engineers, agricuiturists und weil borers, with Colonel Drake De Kay, to company’s secietary, a8 their superintend- ent. Severai locations for scttlemenis were jJormed, but the main one was located at Magda. lena Bay, Where wharves and warehouses were built aud extensive agriculural estaousaments formes, Arruugements were made vy tae company by which tne Pacific Mail steamers were luduced to stop at Magaulena Bay on their up and down trips between Panama and San Francisco; aud, following this prosperity, a newspaper Apyeured, and gave its evidence of @ suvsiantial civiizauou,. All (nis neariy two years ago. ‘Lhe prosperity of tne company was greatly en- hanced avout a year and @ nal ago, however, by the discovery vat @ vatuabie moss calicd ‘orcnilla,” that ee @ purple dye which is probably the ancient ‘yrian purple that disappeared tron ase in tne earlier ages on the appearance ol cuchineal, grew in the greatest profusion in Lower Caluornia, and covered every sirud, stick aud stone with two crops @ year. There Was one conunuous natural jantation of it stretching Dorth and soutn fron dulena Bay of ninety miles long by twelve miles broad, tue orchiila capable of bemg gathered, acked and shipped at Magdalena at sd tue ie and sold in Liverpool for $250 the bale. dere was a source of wealth to the company almost without limit—a source more valuapie than a discovery of gold; ana they consequeutly Went into extensive expenditures io import laoorers to gainer It and expurt 1 avroad. In oarrying out this 1atier purpose they entered into artangements with a firm of South Americans, irom teuador, named Cobos & Co., Who took charge, in sarge part, for the company, of the introduction and direction of the laborers so employed. Under these operations and under the influence of au extending agriculture the Amoevican seitie- ment at Magdalena was made a port of encry by the Mexican government and a Custom House estab- lished there; while, on the other hand, the interests of the American colonies, which had grown w under the protecting snadow of the company, Nai become 80. important that Congress extab- lisned @ Consuate at Magdaiens, and the President appoite! Colonel vrake De Kay to fill the post, Here was a state of prosperity which exempted the company froin tne necessity of going Upon the market with thelr stock and which enabled them to keep within themselves the entire roperty which ier: had = tuus acquired and laboriously utilized, The company did not jutend, however, to their = pos- sessiona& in guy narrow split, and 1 only mention this circumstance to show thatthey were not in any sense @ mere specuiating OF jobbing eampite mii quae’ poutical powers equal fo those empire, with q of the Hudson Bay or East Tndia companies, aud that upor its proper aevel ment Aopendod much of the tuture of the jc cous, among one of incidents of ih was the i eatablishment of valaapie markets to our own wariving communities in Upper Galuoraia. The land owners and citizens of Upper California not un- derstanding there our views and motives have con- stantly endeavored to uudervalus our possessions ana urage eigration to Magdalena Bay; but, knowing that aiter a wnile they would see. the mat- ter in @diticrent lignt, we did not direct much of our attention to correcting these in} ‘The company, on the coatrary, beut upon large projects, sent me direction to Burope, early last svriag, to ope Begotiauious with prominent bankers and emigration agents in Holland, for the acquisition o! two Or three handred Dutch colonists, in a of distribution Of stock, which was thought rt) avaitable, and at @ later date in the summer directed me to also & pro beiore the French government to accept the y unist prisoners 38 colonists, Who then Lum. bered thirty-live thousand men and Women, many or the former being skilied workmen, who would have aasumilaed weil with our Duteb agricuiturists. The graduai development of these broad plans of ours through the news| and the too obvious Prosperity which we were enjoying w.th our Or- ‘Cnili®, excited the jealousy of the Mexican authol tes, @nd in the midst of our progress and our plans we were astonished to learn eariy last fall thatthe Juarez goverameat on some pretence or other naa revoked our charter and closed jaleng as 68 )~— port oof entry. We na po omicial notice of these acts, but, with the view of making proper inquiry and protest, we deapaicbed an envoy in Uctover to the City of Mexico, und directed two of our jocal superintendents at Magdalens wo go there also, to co-operate with him in his efforts and r-presente- tions. All tne conditions of our grant had been rigoronsly fuitilled, and we had complete couudence thal the Mexican government would ultimately do us justice, hile thus depenaing upon its sense of equity, Ovlos & Co., who had charge of our laborers, and who had the advantage of being of the Spanish Tace, entered upon a conspiracy with certaio of the natives to dispossess us and the American colonies which had grown up under us, and, taking advantage of the avsence Ot certain of our leaders, went soutir to La Paz, formed a cabal, came to Magdalena at the head oi a large body of armed men, who fell upon the settiemeuts unawares aud succecded in Taking tuem ito their possession. We huve details of tis Oulrage from our secretary, but tne lollowing 13 a summary of the alfair as taken iroin an exira of the daily Union of Sacramento. “varing date November 25:— On the 28h of October a detachment of territorial troops came to Mugdalens from La uz to dispossess the Mexican gana Hes aud seize the funds and arcuives in the Custom louse, ‘rhe {federal olicers placed themselves under the protection of tue American Conuul, bat his di not respected, ana he was obliged. to tlee with the ollicers 1or his life, They took reiuge on board the Britisn slip Coma- are, anid were thus enabled to escape from the por: ina small schooner under convoy ot the Pacilic Mail Steamsiin Company's steamer Constttution, ‘The con- sular flags of Ce was & 1 De Kay and Vice Cousu Van Winkie were brought off 14 sa(ety, as also the archives aud papers of the federal Custom House, Ail tue port oii and their families were brought away and are now bere. ‘The American schoouer sireenwood, of New York, which was lying in port, was fired into by the revolutioulste and eapwired, and 1s now held by the Mexicans, sloop Allen, of New iork, was aso captured, having been sent with a Consular despaich to the United siutes Con sul at La'Paz. A courier to Cave San Lucas, with # peuuion of the American citizens to the upward bougd steamer, was Tkewiae taken prisoner, The goidters pursued the Consuls and American aitizens on 4 boaru tre b ship Comadi ut were driven off by the determined action of Captain Paarice. Coostant theese of capturing the ship were inade, and the eaptare and shogiing Of the refugees, but no furtuer atiempt was wade. You are now possessed of the hy feat of the case of the late “Revolution in Lower Cali- fornia” and the piracy upon tue Lower California Company, aud i tamk you wili feel coutirmed in the “Justice of your impression that these outrages and incidents go Lo lorm # case Ol great importance onthe part of the United States ugainst Mexico, Very respectfully, your ovedient servant, GEORGE WILKES. RUN iG NOTZS—POLITIOAL AND GEVERAL. The Cheyenne Leader givea arumor that John M, Thayer, late United States Senator {rom Nebraska, will probably accept the Goveraorship of Wyoming ‘Territory. The St. Joseph (Mo.) Heratd thinks the best way to “beat Grant” would’be for the democrats to keep: quiet muti election day andihen vote to make his election unanimous, ., ~ Good Hop Merchants—Fashionable dancing mas. ters. A Western paper says the Grant wings of the re Puplican party very justly have faith in the integrity of President Grant, But swong as he ws, it thinks, in the regard or the country, he caunvt afford to be de- fended by such questionable fellows as Senators Conkling, Chandler, Harlan and Cole. In otter words, General Grant should cry out, “Save mo from my friends.’? PILTH OP THE STREETS, The subjec: of street cleaning has been causing considerable annoyance to the Board of Health for the Jast two or three weeks, and numerous com- plaints have been received by the Board o: the filthy condition of the public highways. ‘The police have reported at the bureau that some of the streets on the Cast side were in A DEPLORABLE CONDITION. 101 has commenced before Jidge fore- cou- afiairs, The cleaning had been done according to the levter, of the contract; but & number of policemen contradicted this by swearing that they bad not been cleaned. The oifivers called the attention of Judge Busworth to Catharine street, which 1s in a most offensive state. ‘They also said that a number of streets in the Hieventh ward, and many of the piers, had not been touched An investigati Bosworth, who yesterday examined the wan of Mr. Browa, the street lg any cleans! apparatus from the day of last election up to Novemver 1% The investigation is still n pr no decision will be given vy ‘ogress, and the Judge until alter the examluativn of a number of other witnesses, “HIGHWAYMEN AT WORK." To THE EDITOR OF THE H#kALD:— Str—The above is the heading of an article ta your issue of last Monday, and we, the parties men- tioned in said article, would respectiuliy claim, as an act of justice on your part, that you publish the fuct that the Couniry nas decideu that we were Dot “highwaymenat work.” THOMAS HIGGINS, 287 West SE COaY. Ge street, hts E, 237 West Twenly-seventh street. MICH: ALL CURLEY, 241 Weat Twenty-seventh sireet, FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC NOTES. ‘The sculptor Eisel, of Milan, has completed tne model of @ monument in brunze, gilt and silvered, which is to be erected in Rome in comemoration of the Pontifical Juonee, Dr. Demarquay has discovered a cure for lockjaw ; he puts patients in a room heated to from sixty-four vo seventy-two degrees Fahrenheit, and relieves une spas.us acd muscular contractions by 1tra-Liuscu- lar injections of morphine. The latest report from Tasmania tu regard to the experiments for introduciug salmon and trout mto that country shows that while the success of tue cultivation of both 13 extremely probaule, the exist- ence of trout of large size is Unmisiakable. Captain Bufton, the great and accomplished Afri. can traveller, is bringing home irom Palmyra a most interesting collection of skulis, and, more interest- ing still, the skeleton of a man ejeven feet high, Which 18 supposed to be oud tae giants of Bashan, Sergeant Vox writes that a careful and patient invesugation of the phenomena oi psychic force has satusiied nim that tuey are purely physical, wholly a property within the domain of science, und that all the conditions of their production negative the theory of spiritualisin, Sir hoderick Murchison has appointed Professor Arcuibaid Geikie, of Edinburg, Mis literary execu- tor, aud has left hima legacy of £1,000, The Profes+ sor Will, itis understood, write Sir Roderick’s life, He Will have @ superabundance of materials, tor he has leit a large number of boxes filled witn papers, ‘The new mechanicat agent, the ‘yet of sand,” has as yet only exhibited a fraction of its possibie plications, The latest adaptation ity inventor has succeeued ta aoe into practical eificieacy is to @ peculiar process of replacing the art of wood- cutting. The few experiments conducted in this direction in America have promise oi success. ‘Tne process consists of bringing upoa a suitable matrix & photograptng copy of the drawing or engraving which i; 18 desired to reproduce, This is then passed beneath the sand-biast, and the cutting thus obtained, This is fipally subjected tothe electro- typing process, and any desirable number of copies thts produced. (‘he sume invention has been suc- cessfully applied to the decoration of marbies and other stones for mental purposes, For this purpose the bioc! protected with an open ue- sign Of sheet iron, or of sheet rubber, aud the steam sand-jet directed upon them froma conventent dis tance, The cultivation of the Eucalyptus globulus is making great progress in the south of France, Spain, Algiers aud Uorsica; nor 18 this to be wondered at, if an account lately given of its virtues by Professor Gumer, in the Bulietin de Théray ique, la even partially true. It 18 @ native of Tasmania, Where it was of old known to the natives and settlers as a remedy for fever. lt preters a marsny soil, la which 1t grows to a gigantio height with great rapidity. It dries the soil by the evaporation from its leaves, and shelters it irom the sun, thus preventing the genera- tion of marsh miasm. — Its wood is as Hard as teak. Every part of it is impregnated with a balsamio, oll- of-camphor-ltke odor; and, besides @ notable quan- uty of waneas it matter, it contains a pec ex. tractive, which 13 supposed to contain an alkaloid allied to quinin eificacy in oe ey A e name ta erful tonic and diffusable stimulant, does is an ex- in chronic catarrh and dy: Pinan saa SRS abate March masuan leather. can vouch from personal ob- servation for the flourishing condition of tne planta- tiona at Hieres and Nice, where trees from seeds #0WD In 1859 are sajd to be BOW sixty metres Digh, SHEET. LECTURES LAST NIGHT. ROBERT BURNS, Lecture by Rev. Rebert Collye! Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather @large audience assembled in the Brooklyn Acad- emy of Music last evening to hear @ lecture de- livered by Rev. Robert Coliyer, of Chicago, on “Rovert Burns.” Since the great fire Mr. Collyer has come on a _ iecturing tour East, and 80 successful has he been in his efforts to raise @ fund for the rebuilding of bis church that a sum of fom thirty to forty thou- sand dollars is now at his disposal for the above object. The heroic part he played during and subsequent to the great disaster, and the manly patience and perseverance he dis- played im the alleviation of the awful distress that has prevailed in the burned city ,znave made nis name almost a housenold word all over the land, ;The lecture delivered last even- ing was in behalf of the @nristian Union. Before commencing the subject proper he said he was de- lighted to have the opportunity to make @ small return for the kindness and liber- ality dispiayed by the people of Brook: jyn im 80 ~~= nobly succoring the poor burned-out city of the West, Tits was not his own individual expression of gratitude, The same feel- ings were participated in by @ vast muititude, who had been relieved by their liberality, who were grateful not only for pecuniaiy succor, but aiso for the confidence reposed in them by the United States and the old motuer country of their arising from this momentary depression, ‘The lollowing is an abstract of the matu poimts in hts lecture:—A great many years ago, im Dumfries, Scotland, im the old churchyard of St. Michaelis a spot could be observed overgrown with weeds aud thisiles—it was the grave of Rovert Burns, In the prime of his manhood he had passed away from earth, dying in the MOST ABJROT POVERTY, leaving @ wife, “Bonnie Jean,’ aud ilve small chil- dren to mourn his jogs, At the time of his death the british Parliament was voting large sums of money to maintain the descendants of the bastards of Charies the Second ta ease and opuience. Lhe royat pbiackguard who afterwards was George the Fourth—a profligate of the worst kind, meauer and stupider than his father, and that is saying wu good deal—was dvawing an Iminense revenue from # hall starving population; but yet witn all this waste, had it not veen fur the charity of # triend, ue greatest genius of ius age, would not have tad nourish- ment enougt tn his jast hours to enable him to die im peace. He died aud was buried, and It seemed as if the world had forgotten gym, but there wus something in Burns tiac could nob be buried away irom tue memory of mankind, Tae great ones who had petted him in te day of his popalapisy dismissed, his memory With a sueer; bus among the people of Scotand were those who learned to love what he had written, and treasure it im their bearts, and ap aad up the Works of Burns went wherever tne Bivie or the Pilgrim’s Progress went, winning ail hearts by the SWEET CHARM OF THEIR GENIUS. When the syroa controversy was raging three Years since @ leading bookseller in New ork was asked of wnat poet he sold the most, and the repiy was, ‘Beyond all comparisva Burns—more than double a3 many of him as oO! any other poet.” The explunation of this popatarity is easy. Burns was the chronicler of the humbier feeliugs, (he homely affecuons of mankind, THE PUET O¥ THB_RANK AND FILE. He was emphatically @ Mau of the peopie, _sharer of thei joys and parcaker of tueir sorrows. He wept wiih them that wept and rejoiced with them that rejoiced. Wonder has been expressed that he could. be so great, born as he was in such humble circumstances; but his lowly birth was the ‘secret of nis success, The @teatest prouucuons that the world has ever seen have veen given to the world in the exer- tions called forth in @ hard struggle with poverty, A list of royal and noble authors has been published Trecedtiy, and among them names tnat would be nobie 10 any stutiou; put where is the name im the Mist that can compare with the immortal bard of Avon, the son of @ poor man, himself the 2h ot hjs jie in destituve circum- stances. The a of sacred singers was tne Abd Of farmer. When our own gonaies was in ‘the tliroes of the most awiul crisis she nad ever ex- perienced where was tae man found io accomplish ber deliverauce? Notumong the nigh ones of the earth, but out on the Western prairies, 10 @ vi lage almost as Thay as Nazareth, in the person of un Individual who piayed checkers on the top of a barrel aud told droll stores to while away his idle time, @ long, lauky man—a' im Lincoin, So M always la; irom the rauk and tle spring those Who make the world Jamous. It is better to be @ BLACKSMITH, MAKING 4 GOOD HORSESHOR, than @ minister, dawdiing away his time through the week and preach: t seimon on Sanday— ‘and, suid the fecturer, 1 speak trom experience, for i know tiem both. When we look ac the life of Burus it is sad to contemplate a career at once so noble and so base. ‘The earlier part of his tite had been pure and bit 5 hint dying of ariak at the age yot Wiin ail his fauits, and they were many, there 1s No poet who has ever done 80 much to elévate tne poorer classes to influence and power, ‘The grand songs, poured forth from iis great heart often under the influence of sorrows and trial, remain as monuments of his genius, and will endure so long as the Anglo-Saxon race is found on the earth. Following the plough upon the mountain side the poetic spictt first seized him, and soon the fame of the farmer poet penetrated to the CITY OF EDINBUKG, ‘whither in an evil hour for him he was invited, Beloce he went to we city there was MORE OF FOLLY THAN OF SIN in what he had done, but. after this fatal period the Sin Wes greater than the folly. The age was un- propitious tor a nature lixe his and nis tall was sad sudden, Tne society of the period was depraved and Vicious, and, plungea into its intoxication, thé enthusiastic youth soon forge the teachings uf his childhood and the lessons of bis youth. From this period unul his death it is fearful to contemplate his career. Desperate drink- Ing bouts and wild burts of ungovernable passion constitute the main features of it, varied by an occasional return of the old ieeling of the happier days, And yet with all lis failings he was @ grand, true man, raised up by God to SING THE SONG OF SUFFERING HUMANITY, and ruise nis fellow creatures to a nobier sense of ‘the duties of life. His great brotuer poet has said that the evil that men do frequently lives after them, and the good ts oft interred wisn their bones, But it was nob so with Burns, The dark stains that threw ‘@ foul jamour over bis life are almost forgotten, ut the sweet songs he has left are daily becoming more deeply woven into the hearts of the people. He nas lefta fame waich will widen as ihe days Toll on, and @ memory dear to all who appreciate true genius. Toward the close of his life he wrote that greatest of his lyrics, “A man’s @ man for a that,’ and the ideas contained in that nobie song are now becoming discussed by earnest thinkers the wide world over; and when tiie. period of UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD of which he wrote sha'l have come, and the dignity of labor, the Worth of the Working classes, be pro- perly recognized, there 1s no nawe will be held in greater reverence ‘ian that of Kobert Burns, and We vless God that he has lived to iake the world wiser and happier. The lectare was listened to with rapt attention, and at the cloge the reverend gentleman was entuusiastically applauded, PROGRESS OF THE NINETBENTH OBNTURY. Lecture by Dr. Marshall at the Cooper Insti- tute Last Evening. Dr. T. W. M. Marshall lectured last evening at the Cooper Institute under the auspices of the Catholic Union, There was an immense audience present, which seemed to take deep interest in all the speaker bad to say. The subject of Mr. Marshall's lecture was ‘‘Progress of the Nineteentia Century,” although if he bad entitled it “Deterioration of the Nineteenth Century” it would have been far more in keeping with the general tenor of what he said and what he tried to make his hearers ve- lieve. He asserted that we are drifting into a state of barbarism and savagery as fast as, it is pos- sible for us to go, and all because many nations of the world have discarded Catholicism and adopted Protestantism. Indeed, a more gloomy picture than that drawn by Mr. Marshall ofthe nineteenta century in every particular, cannot be imagined. AS for religious progress, the present century knew no such thing, he asserted. Iu wnat awed to term “our progress” we nave ight of all that is dear to mankind—hope, faith and charity. In tis connection he calied the attention to what he styled tue depraved and barbaric condition of Valvinistic Scotland as compared with the glorious condition of thas country in the Middle Ages, wien tt embraced Catholicism, The squalior, degredation aad pre- emuaent misery of certain — classes of the English, the Scotch and the Germans ae oor pagan’ lauds. In regard to moral prog: tor, no lands, rf . be wey, aera the height vf ignorance and insolence (o mention such a Lain; 3 The nineteenth century had fallen considerably beiow anything herevoiore known in any age. Political progress ‘Was not to be tnought of, Were not the statesmen of the medieval age incomparably su; to the Hamilton Fishes, the Gladstones and the Bismarcks of the present day? “Why, ours was an age of cala- mities hn ps Statesmen of the nineteenth cen- me tury bi ignorant of the ciples of common law.” Our boasted tual Bere Mr. Marshall assured his hearers, was the veriest bosh. Some nad claimed that this branch of the Reformation, but he would assure toe The Steal progrne foe agua i aad rk of the Reiormation was diametrically rene to ana erinteal base this very ex traopainay iecture 6 AROUND THE CITY HALL. Everything Quiet All ‘ateun Gen Lisieedao “Thick as Blackberries,” but “Nothing Definite’—The Inspectors of Elec. tion and Their Pay. —— ae THE VAN ISHING VOUCHER THIEVES. There was no excitement in or about the public offices yesterday. The fact that the staring rumors of the day before had not turned out to be of much account in the long run evidently did mucn to make people tess credulous about everything that was told them as gospel, and consequently less excitable, The Board of Aldermen Was to have inet yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, but there not being a qnorum present wien Presi- dent Coman took the chair, oo MeeLng was held, The Department of /ubli- Parks. Jt was given out some time ago that when the new régime inthe Park Department once got control the meetings of the Board would be made pubile, #o that the reporter could be preseat and give the public the next (lay the juli veaedc of ine proceed- ings. AS Was stated in Lie ile vol Wedaesday last the vce tray uave altered their minds on Tuey the suodject, heid # wmeeung yesterday afternoon, at. which all tie Coumiurmsoners were present, but no persons other i nan Lie Commissioners and the s-cretaries were alluwed m the room. A messenger stood guard at the vuter door aud exe. cuted his orders fartniully oy preveuting any one from venturing into the apartinent wuere the meet. ing was to be heid, Waal Was doue atthe meeting conse juentiy 13 as yet & mymery Lo VOLsIdera, ‘rhe Departme »i aote Works wore an extremely gloomy appearance all day yes. terday. The hallways were deserted and the vis.tors consisted only of stra.giers who took shelter from the storm im tue corridor, thank- ful to encounter no one who uemauded to know who they were and why ihey were there, Several of the clerks iovked a litue more joy- Jul than they have looked in some ume beiore, siiply on account of the facet iat Lacy had managed to Obtain their salaries .or last september, thus leaving ouly two months to near iro. The Mayor's Ome. The Mayor came down to his office rather early and remained but a short time. It was understood that he bas already appomted all the schoo! trus- tees and inspectors, but reirains from publishing the list as yet until he ascertains wheiner or bot ihe appomntments are satisiactury to the various —_scnoul —_astricts— coucerued. _ Sev- eral excitet parties called at tue ofice during the afternoon, under the impress n that the Mayor nad been arrestea, aud worried the clerks hai to death with their queries as to, that particular disasier — It 13 needless .o state that they ad put faith in a rumor tha Was set on foot over a week ago aud wuicn seems desticed to float around the city for weeks to come without ever becoming a Positive fact, The Comptroile:’s OM-e, All was quiet at the Comptroller's oMce and nothing exciting occurred to wisturb the even tenor of the way of Mr. Green’s business hours but the frequent visits of inspectors of Eleciion who had learned that they were to be paid of, They were imiormed that a cer- tain appropriation had beea made for their paymeat, but until all the bila were in and the Comptrolier could be certain that the appropria- tion covered the full amount required for the pay- ment of all the inspecurs no money could be patd out to them. Several of the clerks belonging t)» the Department of Public Works succeeied in getting during the day their salary ivr last September. None were paid but those who could show induvitable evidence Of naving really worked, The Sherift’s OM e. ‘was, a8 usual, all bustle and confusion, ana the Sherif and bis depaty, Jarvis, had to put up with the usual ordeal of being “pumped” by tue report- ers and the friends of those who “waated to know, you know,” if anybody had been indicted by the Grund Jury daring the day, or if there were to be aay addiuonal arrests, There was nothing of importance transacted at the office in the arrest business, and, althougn rumors were ripe ag toa great number of arrests that were “certain” to ve made, Mr. Jarvis assured all cailers that he had no iaformation as vo the correctnyss of the rumors, an, Of course, NO Warrants to serve OD the great unknown. ‘The Board of Supervisors held a special meeting yesterday atternoon, the President, Thomas Coman, in the chair, There was no business of any importance whatever transacted. ‘The bill for meats, &c., of the bose id regi. Meut on election day, amounung to $1,250, was referred to the appropriate committee. Requisitions Were received from the keeper of ine County Jail for a new boiler ana heating apparatus, and from te Coroners for fuel and stationery. Tue Board then adjourned to meet next ‘'uursday week, THE VOUCHER TH-EVES, The Disappearance of John C. Heenan, W. H. Cook and Edward Dunphy—Doubts and Misgivinge=What the District Attorney Says About it—Startliag Revelations in a Few Days. Following in the wake of previous sensations, which during these exciting times fall upon the public ear as fast ag snowflakes, comes the inteili- gence of the alsappearance of John ©, Heenan, the ex-pugilist; William H, Cook and Edward Dunphy, said to be implicated m the robbery of the far-famed vouchers, Rumor had it that the three persons mentiuned, Jearaing that warrants had been Appnea tor their Sorry yensica , had fled w Europe. it was also reporied that the warrants ad been forwarded to Europe, so that the supposed culprits would be Captured before they haa seenthe sights of Liverpool, or, should they stop on the Way at Quee nstown, (heir arrest would surely be effected be.ore they saw the Blarney Stone. Such CONFLICTING AND COMPLICATED STATEMENTS got under way that the affair became so surrounded With an air of mystery that some inierest was lent to the many investigauons set on foul, nat Heenan, the ex-pugiist, should be connected with the bold scheme of abstracting the ducumenw irom the Comptroller's ofce was in 1telt @ fact suffi- ciently startling to create, at Jeast among his friends, the greatest wonderment. ‘Then there was Cook, who, Wuul recently, was employed inthe Department of Public Works, and woo, by the way, had expressed wis invention of going to Europe before the vouchers were stoien. Of Dunphy very little was said; but ne was in- cluded among tne fugitives, and, altogether, the Bory that the three had fled “to save aterm” as- sumed a very plausible shape, Indeed, it was gene- rally conceded that the trio had uisappeared from the city; and, of course, the very ‘act ol their ab- sence tended in some measure to cuntirm the re- ris actively put io circulation as to tueu assocla- jon with THE VOUCHER DIFFICULTY. But a thorough inquiry made yes‘erday at various resorts at Whicn Heenau es) lly was weil Known to be a frequent visitor rather contributed to tone down the scrimontous reports. First ot all it was stated that Cook, owing to some matrimonial en- gagements, was obliged to gu to London; that Heenan was 4 very intimate friend of his, and had doubtiess goue across ‘for the good of the trip.” Very litte itaformation could be gleaned in refereace to Dunphy, but that the two former were connected with tue voucher theft was sirenuously denied. That Heenan as disappeared there appears to ve no doubt. He cer- tainly has not gone ms rounds for some days past, A HERALD representative, while in conversation with Police Justice Suanuley, on Sunday last, was informed that :teenan had SALLED FOR EUROPR on Saturday last, but in what steamer he was unable to state, Judge Shandiey further remarked that he had seen Heenan several times during Friday aiter- hoon, and had made au engagement to meet hin on Saturuay morning, buc Heenan tail! to keep his a@ppoinunent, inquiries made resuited in the infor- mation that the ex-pugtitst fad taken his de- parture for England. hat bis mutives were are, of course, to some extent, @ mat- ter’ of speculation. To be sure, suspicion may be attached to his sudden exit, The District Attorney, however, in answer to some interroga- tories yesterday, stated that so far as he knew no warrants Dad been Issued fur the parties named; that for the present he deemed it unwise, im the in- terests of justice, to make any statemeats regard- lng the matter, out that in a iew days some very STARTLING BRVELATIONS would be made, It is by no means improbable that Warrants may have been issued, but the fact can ve known only to the Graud Jury, as the District Attor- ney intimated that he was not aware of any such roceedings having been instituted against lleeuan, or RennAy, ‘Aitogether tue rumor furnished a fertile topic for conversation during the day in the localities the alleged fugitives are said to have ire- quented, Winter Tour in Canada, Among those said to be well posted it was gen. erally “given out,” since the fact was well kuowa ks S60, that James M, Sweeny and Tage Smith were navi @ good time im Genede, bar ay seems the iavored os joned are making rox oes the gentlemen menti are Seovision fo keep out the cold, Aithonga the Com- mittee of Seventy might not, if pressed, be tnduced ld an extended interview With Messrs, Sweeny fend Bin the altractions 0: Toronto are said wo 08 altogeiher too enticing to aduit of conterenve between the parties, The skating im Canadiaa city is sald (0 be Very fine this seasop.