The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 7, 1869, Page 2

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Itt +4 most valunote med ut for every kind of advertising which 14 dosigne! to be tord by the great masses of the people, Our rates are tito lower, cireu 1, than thove ot any other journal, — The Federal and Democratic Parties A Parallel and a Warning. Whe old Federal party dinplay pares, eminent talon! aboundin, ved renowned rare respectability, wealth, and some valuable ideas, sourh it lost the confidence of young and preewasive politicians through ite timidity conser: ism, and repelled the intelli Nddle class of society by its aristocratic and bearing, it would have made head tuch longer period against the Demo- Republicans, led by JEFFERSON, CLIN: tos, Tomrxins, and CLAY, except for two fate etakes, Its Eastern leadera were sus- a a ie iH my less ree Union, and | tnstructors, Hach professor would pass on rs ® fea te F 4 bees “i Abadi Roown | different eveningrs from one lecture room to | " hive with England in ite many ce y ae 7a nd | we think of the te ak os unother in various parts of the city, and mantry. The Hartford Convention afforded the New Hagtond Foderatiste a consptenows occasion fox aibiting their rooted sectional prejn. diwes while the war of 1812-'15 gave the party ample opnortanitios for mani fering Ite warm but wary affection for Great Bris The popolar beliof that the Con voution was the initial wep toward an ulti- Vo withdrawal af the Kastor States Crom die oton, and that (ts mombers were quart apd lL choate traitors, threw a ftigema upon Bie politics of that part of the country which Aid woe wholly disappear till the generation Wret Baw the downfall of Federalism had de- weended to the grave. Ba, too, the fact that the entire Poderal party opposed JeVraisON and MADISON, and vidal with Bayland, on the cognate anbjects of the embargo and the war, while its more smbittered members openly exulted over our Gisosters in the conflict, and covertly buent blno Lights as friendly signals te wie enemy's blockading squadrons, and supplied troops apd chips with provisions and infor imation, blighted the reputation of a once | patriotic organization, and hustenod its doom, | This revulsion of fecling toward the eraliets was natural and em nently Amc his | oan, t majority of our people have always manifested an iutense love for the | Union, aud an implacacle host lity for ite | enemies, whether domestic or foreign, This | fentiment carried us through the late civil | war, and las ever kept us, whether nyht or wrong, the foe of Eugland, which, in th days of Nowrit, of the younger Perv, and of CasTLEnnact, was regarded a8 an oppressor, and in those of Livenroor, of Past, and of | Pataensros, as a jealous rival Because it ren counter to this inborn foel 1 nationality, the Feloral party, though lod and led by such illustrious and pa Wiotie Men Ae ADAMS, Hasiiures Jay, Mansuart, 1 pwent int ‘ “ whether there is not a ed Jdeutity in its opinions, aympathies, vonduct in regard to national dismem- ferment end partiality for Great Britein dur Ing (ae pust dozen years, with the principles re sures of the Federal party on kin @ood wubjects throughout the eight or ten yoors that preceded iw overthrow in 1816 he opponents of the Detaocracy may well bay . wat the mere statement of the question ts the inevitable answer. will be wise for the Democracy to con sult the charts, take an observation, and ser whether it must not change its course if it woul 1 avoid shipwreck on the rocks whereon Foderalism foundered. Party chief* cannot hope w rule an aspiring, intelligent, progres pive people through a political organization Mimi lives on a sounding name and the good deeds of its dead founders. —- A Workingman’s University. Acity university, at which both the young: fend the old might attend and acquire kuow lodge, and which would especially draw within its influence the working clusses, and enable every person engaged in labor to im himself mentally, and advance each year In culture and intelligence, ean be provided only by thy coviperation and union of working men. Endowed institutions have every where failed to reach the people. Oxford and Can bridge Universities in England, which were founded for the benefit of poor scholars, have been appropriated to the use of the wealthy and the powerful, Columbia College, whose farge endowment was designed w educate the poople of New York, has but few @tudents aod » narrow influence, Harvard god Yale are more successful, tut ean scarcely be aid to affect directly the working classes : mal nent intellects of every ago, and prove a ise fal guide to n course of roading. Another | 4 upon ygoncral history would give the student acloar outline of the course of human events, $a) | and direot hit to the best anthoritien. 10 | thea! economy might be treated of in a eimi- lar way. Chemistry, engineering, surveying, physics, and other branchos of soienes might be added, and also the modorn Jangungren, should be admitted to the classes, and the period of study shonld be as long as the etn. deut may desire. in our prosent aystom of education that it confines study to a brief period of youth. in the evening, ns this fs the only time at! yy, which workingmen could attend thom thus, instead of instructing: only a «mall class in one locality, as is the case in other large number of students join the classes, the cost becomes amall to earls, and as the | o W v Vee wanall, bat it would inereawe with th and the excellent inetitation of Mr. Peres Cooren no doubt owes much of tte valne to the fnet that it is ander the immediate caro of ite founder ‘ If the workingmen of New York desire to have their own university, they must found it for themselves, and this might be done at a felieve them from the throng of rich men's chiltron who now cep ont those who really Fe acpasiap tien ore need their benesite bi Paint odd ogg partment is“ elear SUN, —a The Revolution states that its finance de ited by a most cultivated and We have h often of ighted woman.”* ladion among the speculators of Wall atrect, and moderate expense. ‘The commencement of ay tex cohen Gas at aan tl fieh an institution might be made by 4 eas with which they have foilowed the | vidinge a courw of lectures in each thiekly | gate of that dangerous loeality. But we have inhabited part of the eity, within reoch of | nover heard before of a woman undeHaking to thom who are to be benefited by ther, | expound the rapid and mysterious fluctuations of "Those lectures should embrace all the various | the Stock Exetange and the money market, and elements of education, literary and seicntific. |! lay down the philosophical principles whiols ‘hoy should Uring Lofven the different elanscs | Cro! thelr often inexplicable phenomens. We oach subject in @ cloar and thorough man. | COm#Tstulate our contemporary on having — ner. Forexample: one lecture a week upon | the history of literature during: eight or ten | 4, months of the year would be sufliciout to a fin year Lestimony to thes in whieh she deals with her subjeots. o rewarkable cial writer, and we gladly and relentions style All parts of the Aevolution are readable, but nove wore 60 make every student, whether old or young, | then the reports from Wall atreet, or female, familiar with the most emi Poli- It has been a gront error ‘s University. It would oly ho « This, indeed, is @ most important nentin the scheme, It has been shown » th To carry out the design, it Is necessary to of the institution, and a suitable number of | houses, where he is put to sleep in unaired ver of the Atlantic Monthly, we wast be collegem, they might lecture to all who ara | Yi," Me Atanis em ie tt comes willng to attend, On this would depend | yi for tho drecdfal relf-sacritice wud the alarm the cheapness of this plan of education. Hf | jo. jaborsby which itis amassed, nbor increases the cost diminishes, At first » compensation paid to the profcasors mast | 1 e. | bh coms of the institution. A feo of §5 yoarly from 1,000 students would be sufficient to found a Workingman’s University ; bat it in not unlikely that there are at least 10,000 persous in the city of New York who would prefer this mode of edueation Cooperatic remarkable results, and demonstrate among the people that love | Mighty proportions, So was the scheme on for knowlwlge which hss heretofore been | Stich the moncy wes to be spent. Mr, Srrno’s | suppdeed to cxist only among the wealthy, | Pla was to dig » tunel through the mountain | and aa it was to pi t veins of gold, | Shall Poor Men Say Rich Mew’s School ver, and every ions metal, it was | Riltst | plain that it mast 1 The public seh of this city cost #9.. | Nasny from the Confed town yesterday, on bis way from Pennsylvania to New Englai He ip perhaps the mont popular lecturer of the travel, hotels where he is to lodge. The rulo is not | and intolerant feeling, and when such men axpire to make appointments for more than a month ahead, though the season is not expected to clone until the middle of June next. No | to the magnitude of places and audiences. costly buildings would be required for the | bis average compensation will not be lesa than Workingm be necessary to provide enitable lecture rooms in different parts of the city. rooms could be hired at aemall expense ; they need only to be comfortable and neat, As the institution increased in strength, the number of lecture rooma would be increased, | 4) and thus the means of an enlarged educ would be brought within the reach of every | ing him the handsome sum of forty family. a in Ls he by ‘Vhong | With he exception of one we formed ninety-three nights, and if ty bo inte Ailivered two hundred dollars, gross receipts, or say forty U Jara with alt ndon that workingmen can only be in. | for one journalist to earn in @ year, even if he duced to attend lectures when they aro | brought near to them ; for after a long day's labor they cannot be expected to go in search of knowlodyre. cakes that th owful haste, wh have an active pr neipal to control the aifuirs | 4 Le tries to wash bis face in the morning; when interrogate him about theology, or the last num forward to a lecture from this strictly orthodox tolls of the perfect ance: gion, , indesd, when applied to edu- | he cation, seems destined to produce the most | Tt may serve to excite | would both the —- Mr. D. R. Locke, of the Toledo Blade, more opularly known as the Rev. Pernoteom V. rate Cross Roads, was in to fulfil lecturing engagements, y, having received eight hundred applications for his serviees since the beginning of the pro- sent season, He omploys as his agent Mr, B. "1 Axpnnwa, of Rochester, N. Y., who answers all No limit of age or time neod be fixed for | ji, lwoturing lettera, makes bin engage. the course of education. Persone of all ages | inenis, Inys down fur him his routes of trains he is to take, and the is charger vary somewhat, we believeacoording Wut Oa night. Si the td of September, when he has lectured aix nights every week, whon he went ‘oLFAx, and one So far he has now per- should not upted by sickness or aceident before c close of the season, he will at the end have ud thirty lectures, yield. x thousand wand dole inn good deal yme to vote for Gnaxt and wok at the holidays, xpenses paid. Thi part as Mr yd itmay exe Looe, and as good a fellow, the envy of the inexperienced. ut whoa we reflect upon the tough beefsteaks, ye corn . and the leathery buckwheat devoted Jectorer moat ewatlow in nthe imogination conjures up 4 epare roome at deacona’ ne cold and ¢ ets, and where the water is frozen solid when Is Honized by rhood, who stables where hi neight he old maids of the whe We add for the comfort of people in all parts f the os who may be anxic sly lookin ro-nlavery proacher, that he is apparently in erculoan health, and bide fair to go through the eat with unbroken endurance and One Jonn A, SoTno, of Nevada, arked ess lust winter to lend the aid of the Go 4 great wining praiect ip that re- We don't remember how mary iillions wontod, nor what amount of gain he proved voly come from the investment; but qrant and ite promised return wore of | Now everybody would be gh wunels, | 000,000 and upward, annually, Every dollar | put throng y part of the great range of of thie mouey ia salacd by taxation, ancdof this | hills which makes, 90 to aay, the backbone of the i continent, and to & all th hidden treasures taxation, every citizen who has anything to | een ete and ‘i ip pay with pays his ehare, His name may mot | oF has no concern with auch undertakings ; | be down on the tax books, but his landlord's | is, ard Lis landlord sticks his tax on to tho | ¢ they must be don y private enterpr, al, oF not at all; and when Mr, Se rent. His procer, in the sxine way, paye the | parted from Washington there was a geueral landlord of his shop the tax on that ehop, | fecling of — nutiefaetion at bin failure, and saddles it in turn on hin customers. Bo | It eceme, however, that te will not it is with tho butcher, the milkman, the ba. | teke no for an enswer, He is there azain beg- ker, the tailor, and all th men who live by supplying people's daily wants, ‘They all add whatever tases are | Jaid on then to the price of the commodities they #ell, aud make those who pay for them bear the burden, Some ho and ey helt : he to eta’! mor wv uung about what shall parting of necessary and useful knowledjre which they were Jntended to he, and or nally were, elaborate and costly academies in which are taught al! the sciences and aceon plishments of moder civilization, A plain sul stantial education, such as {# needed for the falfilment of the practical dutica of lifo, | is no longer given in them, bus the scholars receive in its place a multitudinous variety of teachings on all gorts of subjects, whieh re. quire many years of exhausting intellectual toll, ‘The consequence is, that the schools are becoming every day more and more crowded by the children of the rich, while those of the poor are excluded, Tt is @ mat ter of complaint about several of our “crack” ward ech that unless pupils can go dressed in a certain etyle, and move ina cor tuin rank im society, no vacancics can be found tor tiem. Indeed, were it not for the etlirte of the much abased Catholics, the really poor of the city would not be able to have their chiltren tau at all he remedy for the evil is to Lring tek our schools to their origiual plan. Make them what they used to be, places for the in- struction of those who cannot afford to em- ploy private teachers, and cut off all the branches which are not of direct practical utility, This course would not only reduce their enormous cost, and proportionately lighten the burden of taxation, but it would 4 rest of the trades: | & | aw : A correspondent done with it, [tis a fundamental pring reports (rom New ¥ of American Democracy that the tax-payers | Pesos ls mancavring for Dem y i shall be the tax.ependers, All the citizensof | the Lovisluture,”” in order to get himself elected this city who contribute directly or indirectly | to the United States Senate, Thin report prow tothe oxponse of public education are enti: | ceeds upon a misunderstanding of the method by dled to a voice in deciding what that oduca. | Which candidates for the office In question are | ; ; | 4, The members of the two political pur- | tion shall be, and to protest against any | | A | ties in the Logiclature nvet in caucus at times | beelloss extravagance la furnishing it, | ahaa Ge Rae fiers ag | Tho public schools of this city Lave bo | ee ie cucous chooses ftom among the come, instead of the institutions for the im } prominent Democrats of the Suite one to be the the orantee bonds to the unt of five mullious of 4 is that the Committe a the wtutives wall report i favor of uhis ma st, This winy be true, but we don't he! it; Mud i tif om ov Mines Lepr Phat body wall newes tar a wouner, | + eapense of a winter's lobby img ot Waoli De determines ir cratic condidate, and the Republican caucus ec manner, voting either by ae by ballot, who shall be the Republi candidate, These nominations settle the question, If We Democrats bave the mujority of the Legislature, the nominee of the Democratic caucus is sure to be chosen Senator; and if the power is with the Republicans, their nominee is equally certain of election, hem party are sure to abide by the decisic thelr caucus, It is only in times of extreme party disorganization that # rebellion againet it ‘The last instance of this kind which we remember in this State was tu 1950-61, when the election of Hamitvon Fist was resisted and delayed for a considerable tine by the insubordi nation of « portion of the Whig party, by whose caucus he bad been nominated. clumation can nbers of of Iu the present case, however, no split ie poeri- \ ag the Republicaus, No of them would uoperi! his share in the approaohing grand distribution of patronage by voting aguinst the candidate of the eaueus. Accordingly, itis absurd that Goy, Fawtow or any other Republi- can is manauvring for Democratic votes in the Logislature. If he gets the nomination of his | thet he was | wthont foundation, But he | that Koker bad beaten bit. A squsd of men, THURGDAY. TP TRUIN ADOUT TEXAS. —— @O0UTH AMERIOA. Caled Oasbing’s Misston—More Rarthawakes in Pera—A Batti with the Aragcanian Ia~ diane in Chill, From oor Special Corrernot tent. Panama, Dec, 29, 1868, —Nothing bas been heard from the Hon. Caleb Cushing since he went to Bogota. ‘The unsettled condition of the country har, ina measure, killed the public interest im his mis- , je no doubt that the objcet of his visit “The to which you al | is closely aliied to the construction of a ship canut coe A lattanted te A A TOrRS | aeroms the Iethmns, though some of the natives aver killing of Beith’ T admit, waa an outrage for | ‘wat be le clothed with eathority to purchase the which there iano excuse. Yet ench things have 0 State of Panama, ocensionally taken place in the North, and es ‘The premises of the Panama, New Zealand, and ally inthe Western States. Tmake noapolory | Aastralan Royal Mail Company were seined ow the S " Med men wh There fl no exe ‘sg cowpluint of certain persons, to recover the payment ror them, as y any for any mob. | of protested bills of exehange amounting to £15,000. id for them js, that it wax done wi community felt outraged at what he bad | led on the arrival of the next Southampton steamer. done and said, ‘The steamer Rasdive, for Australis, sae detained e But what yon gay about Caldwell being in- | several days In consequence, sulted and run off, is not trae, Caldwell is per. | The wife of the American Consn! was grovsly In- haps as much to blame for the excitement newinat | patted by @ Government sentry recently, who, after pd Aw pan age Lhe ne a had Ne | driving her off the sidewalk nto the middle of the Ait Smith, ehiok resulted in the mob, | *Fect, ased most tnaolent lanzange to tier, pointing Tle denounced Smith but a day or two before— | bie masket of her ne if with the intunt to sLoot her, refused to apeak from the same stand with him, | Farther outrage waa prevonted bya third person ‘of in any manner countenance him. This con- | taking the musket from the soldier. feb nicet ede oes tong with the reck- | General Buenaventura Corrcoso hne been elected ne ’ Heder all the ctrogmotanses, Calawell annsi | irises? of tie Bite of Paapma fer the eateiog have grounds for saying much’ wnon this point, | four years by the Legislatare, Ite wddrossed the people at Jifferson, and was | Mr. Charles Wertmoreland, #to came passenger on treated with aa much respect and attention as he | the Inst steaner from Ban Frincisco, en routs for could claimed, Personally, be is very an- | New York, carrying with him the electoral votes of malar. snail: PORWES veahiathond aguteas Ginith het fs ovata | Cuur’'ne’ cc sca easter ay Anion earubqutns Ore in his marrying, or having ax his wife, » necro A woman, and being @ white man, and vet associa. | covstantly felt, sevompenied by the cartuqueke ting with negroes exalusively, Ac. Toward mon | Waves. On the Oth instant the motion was almost ne who thus act there Ina very bittor, vindictive, | severe ws on the discstrows 19th of Beptember, 16 pen rone and fell in rupld auccesston about two fect during the night, Smallpox wae raging at Arc: ipa, and was extending tn Lima, thouch not 60 bad In Calino, Tae yellow fever ts till on te ooant, ‘and is committing terrible ravages in Piaogus, ‘The Araucanian Indians are committing serous depredations In the lower part of Chi, and rovers Dattles have taken place between them and the Gov. eromant troops. Collpulll was stronzly besleged by 2,000 Inaiana, where a fight took place, In which the Government troops eaffered a om of eight killed and ninctoen wounded, Tho fight began with a straggio worthy of both combatants. ‘The fort was under the command of Sccond Lieut, Pinas, of the Third of tho line, with whose mou te Indians fought band to hand. ‘The savages who fell were carried away by thelr omponions, except five who were strnek down at the very door of the cuartel, At leat, weary of the herole and stubborn reristanoe opposed by the gallant Plaza, they retreated. ‘Those of the tena of thonsande of neaceabie eitiseue | who were beslegiag the other forte have withdrawn Le aia de a cleus neon E exeggerated, | 1,8 short distance and rallied seth of Malleeo, In regard to the dilficultice in which they are | Whence they will, it ts presumed, attermpe © stilt there are two sides, but only one goca | More determined attnek, An expreen has been de- The names of those wen are Baker, | patched to Commandant Lagos ordering him to re- and Lee, Many of the | treat with ali expedition. During the winter the Disapproved by the People— fog Narrative, The following letter, recently received from an old and distinguished Unionist resident of Texas, throws so much new light upon the recent lawless outrages in that State, that we feel our- solves justified in making it public: Interest Lwar raging here to office, and appeal alone to the prejadices of the negroes against the whites, there are found here reckless inen who ato pot too good to do anything. S But, my dear it, if you were to 001 though vou may not believe to Jeffer on and announce a purpore to make a xpeceh iu favor of the Re- licans, you would have @ large audience, ald be Natoned to with reapeet, and treated kindly, Bat suppose, instead of going toa hotel and putting up on your arrival there, you should sap me negro's but and board i the negroes, the people would fivistor purpose, and you w r multed by some of the’ reckless and tnwh doubt whether the people here are as inte in My with you, but we cannot restrain the lawless ax you om “There aro only about half a dozen men in the State who are giving cbarnoter to the State for lawlessness. You hear of these, but not of the tens of thousands of poncenble citix military posts are men | gavoges have made frightCul havo along the frontier, wholly incompetent for the Mamet ee ee Cae Folve upan them and they have provoked not is lace ; A fow of the diftculties, In ot > , Have pasted through the country eT eee Ne bdo tind be officers and raldiers of the’ U AD, urresting aud robbing, under the > Senator Morton tn Reply to Mr. Greeley, Wasuinerom, Jan, 4 1900. property. vThe they were yathering op eonfeca ‘This first produced the intense bitterness, people do uot distinguish between the And the real soldiers and officers of the United always been averse to versice, and this is the fire e been begaited, Your er 1, proceeds upon the axsa ¢ declaration of rsumptlun the eurreney «ould ch declaration st ould sanmption i, MuRMp mcut Tt is Comtex cial experianoe, Whether in coanee- nents oF bank. *. “AL tho risk of being tedions, I will mention one or two instances, For exwinple: Take the case of Lee, who is denounced in the prosa ax ‘one of the bloodiest deaperadoes in the West, He isa young isn, about 28 years old, with a wife wo children, “His parents are quiet | feted by al able people, and nothing was ever | tion wiih gov Lee unis these difficulties ; aod an be broaght to par, and teat be made without delay. ‘Ts ported by a slogle tnet oF alleged’ nga U oder to prove Wat resumption shontd take they bad their origin in this + Some dis- | place at once, by exyine that the way for a drunkard charged United States soldiers (one of whom had | t@refurm in te refurin at once, aud tur 4 ginmer to re, Pent is to repent at ouce, and not at the end 0: two Fears aud a Wulf. Pardon me for saying T cannot see ihe analogy. ‘There would be quite ax tuo wisom In wiyine that the child suoult be born a man to wave Hime, beraune Wie way to relorm a drunkard is to re- Joined the United States army during the war, ‘and went from Lee's neighborhood, and kuew him well) arrested Lee, under the pretext that they had orders to do 0, and took hin off some twenty miles under the further pretext that they | form atm e, were a ig to enrry him to Misinsippt but ual Ae 8 mulisry commande, You eats atest erat. e oft en to iin released = sofinvesting and battering down i's walls, be- 500 is 0 £2,000, Lee p: we the Wuy loraainner to repent le to repent ut the €400; and gave bia note $2,000, Policy once, Sue is your loc When you pravoly tell the country that reeumption riod In the future, giving tine to the Govera- je to prepare for it, would cause mh hamediate roxnmption, the pro Mion scome t require Bo answer, It'asuld be quite ay to say that [t would be rater to jump dowa Niazara, ke Sam Patel, than to go down by Lig ihehived aber ‘You sj that questions of finanoe receive practi- lations in New York whieh are wot tumbtiar in win “Phas te most key true, and Yul Were are hings very weil understood eyes in Indian cmd that @ know Hdge of etock end Ss HOt NEceMMAry to a COrTedt UNE or, and that t New York t nt Wie bet that thee mon were in the service of the Unite States, and that it was the only way he could procure his release, He then returned home, find ina few days he loarned the truth ot the matter, and undertook to recover his money, This led to an encounter; but sbody was, Yar Bot wome of these par- tues reported Lee’ to the United States off- cor commanding the ne aud charged to kill further these hii. He resisted the arrest, and killed the but did not try (o kill any soldiers, He has now, it is believed, killed every one of the party ti originally arrested him, but has not hurt a sir . " ‘kor dior of the United States, Thave rece ty s i “ the eur, «4 month would paymente if $e bad been ‘ i wit the curvency had been tken }u io ining but gold andaitver be, You lorcet Cat while that contraction was going on the our red J grew Worme, avd ReeM Hot To comprehend tie which you evidently use ty no: ’ that Ue Way fur the Government to bru nd #0 far successfully, All abe | currency up te par lv to prepare to pay it inc anywhere ni Upromise, Yon believe resamption eun be beo n of the best hoot by contracti ut without f You trent depreciated cur m agvod resolauon with hin ts aby Line and the 4 some post You beheve tu resuuption by farts Prencier once, sihietr sting vatiom vy sabi, raid: U4 tue Lord and d “The bistory of Boker is the most uote the men named ; but the bi rwiant him are here rege et Hou as Pestsied arr roure laid to informed | by traction, A hey ported con me nt and brutal ¢ by some igno’ RACGe SI lis, bee beene Bide p08 jump throngh @ stone wall, you mut juinp. Paar a eacorcliel lispreniises end gran, | ZOmRINE Ie, your pusiness, ead golig through 4 ly insulted his’ wife, When be eam pity wh vb oh cherd A dcolarat Ht ina di currency ina mach I it were BuccER immediate resumption would re- jenn would Teuve (he ‘condition thi would produce &: . Jc officer in charge of the squad arte Mi teste Maury tO dustvers, If the Government and having the offcer fn charge of aeee ok 1 in the Arvarury gok! dubiar for dolor with Ge i ve done it. | ercenback eur it should not rerwine at once 4 Rane 6 is blame fnae heed soon soldéerts | Podo vo would be & crime wnt the country, | bus wi stenies ebout ¢ wud Mippiag WYOUr fowl letter, Whiew i too wld up wom are ws. He as a | qnete, sou Biwily im TeNtRPLOM IApO nan ’ ‘ vauce md ad. | Milking it dependent upon a bond drawing four or Interest, wiich would +0 d, whielt ule holder # oF cl the for ud resolved Wickerstall, T thiuk, iss com sobber, Me has plundered the ‘Cpited stv ator: | of things, in advames of master’s department, He i ihe vucleus sound ry furtier to di r the career. 66 H thier eault from contrectio spend wpow A meth Util your phim shill be made com who gat esp His ty witha d with son he grow who ted to the Fre * r" ‘ol Burean for protection, or rather to have him | yin OE alah rd punished, Bagtioh Dis ae ociate, We oan | eifect upon the country, and 1 have discussed it only never have peace while wen rem Ail of the any Obecurities eust 100 ue publ goud mon want them to be captured, or to leave. ‘cnlowlated to prowent ite cl erperceptiom ul Uae by pathize with ile first two bare fon anc ov the true mensures tor relief, pa they believe vw fir os eleve that piel weap i) Pry ger by the best bie y " te of 3 at ne CF cn \ U'the Hresicitiat election ty | Witte serous Niry to aay clans o€ to becumast ‘ e public mind will quiet down, and not | that at must proceed by a distiact reeocmition of the 40 ready to believe marvellous sta put | prneiple tint the currency in be paid secordin to afloat often mercly to gray o tiste for the | pomlre at a time far payment must be fixed tar horr: r Prolga of (2 enavié the Gu¥ernment to provule for ish you could come among us; you will | it {he poopie te preeare for it, sed as uF before | find uso dierent pooplo from whut’ you sup: | Ryiek the motes wid reach par by gradual appre: Not doubting that io all your suggestions you are imepired by the #amne patriove wotiven which T elite for bayrelt, Lam, very xempeotialiy, yours, = . ‘OP, MORTON. — Addvens of the Colored M Couveution. The Committee of the Colored Men's Border Siute Convention have tesued an address, ty whieh we find the following interesting ticte ‘To-day colored mon are voting on equal terme with white men in Maine, New Aemivehire, Vermont, Marsachusette, and Rhody Inia Engiand States; in low * Border Siate Ac Coroner Flynn aud the police feel eontident that before resaming the inquest, om the 19th lnst,, in the Rogers marder case, they ean find tho assassin ‘Their clue is an envelope wddressed to one of the . of the New A Miinesota of the Sen Me 4 in Tennesnco, Vueiuin, North | wogt twoorrigsblo raflane of te Sixtecath Ward. da, Miss! St el During the struggte Mr. Rogers tore away the breast the Boutie Bates. T ‘of his assatlant’s coat, and (ius tell-tale enyclope wos found in the breast-pocket, The person whose name {tbeare hae disappeared wince the murder, James ‘Tallent, who ev:rendered soon after Mr, Rogers's death, and who professce that be knew pothing of the mrsuer, says that, having learned that the police pected him, be gave himself up with a view of es: tablishing his fonocence. But a colored boy, William Gloucester, of Wood's Theatre, who witnessed the encounter, identifies Tallent as one of the assassins, and the Coroner bas therefore committed the man to the Tombs, Capt, Oallry, mean time, will take charge of the colored boy, and keep him from the murder- . Obin, of the Western Staite er Visible Admiscure bill 0 having filty-one ene b hite biood " in thelr ¥. bale whit ptwithstand: vote to in New Jersey, Pennaylva Middle States!’ fn. Mary ond Wert Virginia, of the Southern Stat and fy Olio, Indinna, Miehigen, Tiinois, Mirsou Wisconsin, Kauaos, and other tates of the West, colored ‘men, a# etch are uot bs law permitted 16 vote at ail, By the census of 190, the colored population of | cre friends, ‘The prisoner Tallent te about 27 yeare the Whole country Ww Tepresenied to be 4,441,800, | of age, and ie note siranger io Aubura prison, ‘They aro now "yao ‘The evlored ‘popu eer and Territories which are Just, in a 1 3 ‘The colored population in the Who Wear Buths where righte were withheld was 1,962,200, porty, that will elect him ang if be fuils to get it, Democratic votes cannot do him any good, fen - Tun Anion Cansivsts—The first carnival of the Arion Bocicty Is to take place In the Germania Asvembiy Koome on the 16h inst, Three carnival sessions are scheduled during the scasue, wate will de closed with & grand "‘etag blow-out" after the grand ball, ‘The Arion reunions are among the moot pleasant of the vear Prom the Albany Kn cherbocker, All New York is now excited over the ques- tion, * Do gentlemen wear corsets 1” Certain of the newspapers give up much of thelr space to the dis- cussion of tho matter. Letters are written by pro- ple which bring oat replice from other people ‘After acareful reading on both sides we have eome to the conclusion that some gentlemen do wear cor seta, and thet others do not, Those who do ray they ‘Tike 18, and ae they have only themeclves to plosee, it to 0M) ries. : So that by sie just acion of Congress and of ual St tow three-fourths of the colored people of the nial! 0 are represented, ‘The € ommiiiee asks Congress to immediately pass © law making sufrage univernal without regard to color, a © Work and Workers" 1 the subject of a lecture the eighth im the courve, in the Chapel ot the Crown of Life, Eleventh evenus, near Filly-sccond street, |. ¥. Randolph, also on Teceday evening, 18h | Unings considered, than mtoel, {HR COMM ENOTAL TRAVELLERS. —- ive Men Demanding a Modifica oad of the Laws-New Question of State tye This Association mot yesterday in the Astor House, Mr. Stephens in the chair. The minutes having boca approved, the delexates recortod their euecoss oF failure respectively in collecting (ands for the objects of the Association, namel, : tho abolition of modification of those State laws which Impone license fore of from §%5 to $900 apon commercial travellers, Tho stim eofieeted (9 $5,000, us follows: Paper hangings, $00, fey goods, $10, stutlonery, 8°00; hardware, $2,179; jewelry, blank books, 9320; hoop skirts, €20; cloth, F100; leather, $10; $100, Mr. 8. A. Hulnes reported that many are under arrest in Balti nore, Mr. Dreschor Fe, and (a4 bean avandyned by a ease of hardship nid be taken befire called for the reading phia Ledger tavori intercourse betwoen the Mr. Hord, of the @rm of I Hishers, presented a res priety ‘or presenting Quaint It wit the natnye of the business of commer. cial rs, their trials, and porplexities, Mr. ii Mr. Henry Levy, and thers advocated the measure heartily, and the resolution wus adopted, Mesers. Henry Levy, LH. Day, Hard, and the President were appointed a Comarlttee to prepare the address. ‘The President and Vice-Presidents wore consti- tated an Executive Committos to look after the inte. ronis of the Association, and to call meetings at their discretion, anid meetings tw be advertised in We edly newspapers. ‘A case of arrent in Piattevitic, Wis., which was be foe the Courts in Milwaukes, and againet State laws on the cround 0: anconsUtn tonality, was read frou Milwaukee Journal, and the ewe Was received with aupiause, ‘The Seereiry sus instructed to send the Associa tion's eirentars to th ie and merchants of the 1 eltier of the Union, upponedt by Mr 1 greater obligatio to any other cites of bourders, Nearly are travelling the it they sould with- eliers nine thouxawl commorctal country, and he belloved ty draw their rapport, mary of the hotels would have 40 clove thelr Gourw su less thin a yeur, The amend- ment was lost, and te original motion was carti a. Alter a litde unimportant basiness, tue mocting ad- Journed, ‘Vie Anpoelation hae retained Mr. Choate, ta artuer of Wm, M, Ewarta, with a retaining fee of 2, to detend the: aver and t carry uem before tie United Btates bupreme Court, — SUGGESTIONS FROM THE PROPLD, Bteol Rails ve. Iron Ratts. To 'he Fetitor of The Bun. Sin: I noticed in to-day's Sex» paragraph on the usc of atocl for rails, on wiich satyect, with | Tpropeme to eubuit a few romurk that ste! bas mot the tough Ab. iron, end iu frosty weather It ease.” IF U wtatomont it war intended convey the id deney Ws breakage than Iron, it was evidently a nik take on thy par of the writer, the experience of last winter tect rails to be only about {itt ire expanse te the allege that old evel ruils gell for litte or nothing,” T woud remark the Now Yorw and New Havun Toad have made rome careful and dednite experiinenis on elect ray terms tron, by lasing ane side of the truck «th Btoel and the other wit iron, Pending tis tral taey have niremdy renewed the iron wie more than twenty Hues, while the steel i# yet Im awe; hence the value fof oil steel yailk ie not w nubjock whieh demands The writer therefore comes * tha of nt, of that of aumediave sain. w the conclusion Maatere, of 60 po ‘the cowmon T rail will coat about y Th twent) times ihe 1 ora to experiments be! Ruppowod tow ly to a rail with cap of steel lapp ng over the iron bead, aud hel in phice by gravitate n and an ielpa - Went, | This lew iniglit juetsy bop» Of succes, were it not for tie fick elavorate and eon! UnvOUs exporiinonts Haye been made dusime wey. eral years attue [ron Milla ut Troy; ia ail of Lione experimenia the steel facing, ‘some half inch tn talekness, was welded” with great cart to the fron hood, motwithetanding which « Moderate ainvunt of Wear was foGnd suflicrent to Part toe weld in places, and pit sud break We cap Sr facing 10 Ruch UN extout ax to compel the reyee- Hon ama removed is clase of stucbfaoed fi\8. view of all these Worth! sce to require, jetached piece of sieel, autor pe bead us wn anvil ana ee rea oe 8 Mears rome ve x stroyed th epliiting and transverse age. Pen CIAL ENGIN Bb ‘The above ina fair illustration of how often theo- lets and mon of books full bellimd practical men in the knowledge even of their own peculiar professions. © Civil Engineer evidently te not aware of ull the facta which experiance hos demon: werated In relation to the wae of stool rails, The Prosdont of the New York and New Huvow Tiutlrond Company, mentioned by him, is owe of our authorities for msserting the fullure of #tecl raiie im the matter of toazi m reir resistanee te | with canping eer os wen “ od by the a Trenton trem Worke. 3 Abwam S. Mewilty ist ® method has ree Macuvered of aurmountins all the difficulties ly fore experienced, deriug them pietically That i will break ae row ily as & stvel one, and tint most of our railroads do use poor iron we de not deny; but we repewt Cut at present good frou rails are more economical, ull cers Imprisoument for Debt. To the Kiditon uf Tie Sun, Sin: ‘The article in your paper ef the 24, headed,“ ‘The Poor in Prtsou," contains a ead truth. Men ure urposted in this city daily, in the ne ae ber, and on ho more jost churge, than that of Mr, Fowles, and thrown in prison; and there outrageous arrests on civil process will contingg 80 long as the law remains on the staiute book of this State, To prevent this cru strike at the 9 tke of merc tinne to agiite « refer tube by our wi tire. Uarbarity in the Horiues alent Ow tian charity anlvead with prom to uy to cry down the umd tnearceral months of men poor for apie or malice, on the mere aft Wit uf avy one man Abolis!: this kaw tuat pr raiita vil arveet this Christin Jand's bout of freedow au y of the citizon Will be no Wager a mockery, vt iz T. carran, Late of 84 Broud strect, New Yor. Jan. 4, 160. - Americun afiee My. Train. To the Bader of The Bua. tw: fn this ‘morning's i the an«were of George Fraret thove who have writen to tu die Ballmore Fenions by yet damn us, ond kick w*, and tee a ae fplyine tat Aswerican® are out ely op Trish and he liberty of thew lund * Awerics is the land of the oo fuiviying that the citizens of this glorious Rey are cowards, aud any Using bat honest a nd Wo- jen, Now, sir, Jaman Amer can, whowe ancéstors fouzht un gion and Jackron, and as such I do brand the abuve olurs cast Upon Aluerica and Awmercens as falee, unjust, and ‘icailed for, and tending to cause anol) fel.ngs to caubitier the Drcarts of (ve sons aod dan htere of the Green Isle toward this country and fis citizens, Now, sir, al true Americans earncetly proy and watch for the hberiy of Hrciind and the frish, wd thousaude are ready to ofr up their lives in its cause, 1 Lave given my mite—a sabre aud accoutre: mepts—to Is cause, and when the strugsle begive, ad opportunity x given, then will the Irish eee tat Americans ¢ Amrricans-—will stand shouider to shoulder with them we they stood by us im our great pational struggle. Comes With my earncet wirh of tue green above the red, AMEKICAN, Bavox.yN, Jun, 5, 196¥, pies Punishment of Children, To the Ration of The Sun. Sim: I am_ extremely obliged to you for the remarks that TI suw in your paper the other morning in reference to the correction of children, Binee my wile has been sick and unable to attend to her Tousehold duiies, ‘my unruly boy of sixteen has given me a great deal of trouble, tried my best to pees, him to do otherwise, bat tt was of no avail, was determined to staid his imsolence no louger ; #0 taking Lim one might to his room, I administered fo. bim @ good sountt thrashing with @ cat-o'-nine- Lilla, and Since that time he has uot given me the Teast Dit of trouble, 1 ihink if othe to follow Ae George Francis ty example and remember children ‘would not be th ben grown tiiey were to cross these parenin’ knees s lithe when youn, is goud Idea, A Fatusn oy Tunes CuiLparN, New Yous, Jan, 4, 1500, 2 iat Locowortys Wiruour Breau. —Mr, Molts, afer ei rere labor, vas produced « |ocomutive wie) be vee will supersede the uso of sieam on railroads, and relteve the pubile of (he apprelension of plusions. "The machine Js set in tmotion by levers keting on an cecentric, which moves ; aSicoells’ welekis ond ‘tbe motive power. Tiet at OO Bresdway, oust SUNORAMS. Isa man who reads a book bound in sheep tn danger of getting on the ram-page ? —The young ladies of Staunton, Va, are to have a rifle match on the @th of this month, Boud robbery—Stealing a marriage cortifi- cate. The mnsical influence of water ia shows by the fact that drowning men eatels at Strauss, The damage do cerops in France Inst year by inscots is cattruated at more than @100,000,000, No Smoking” is inseribed upoo a siga in charehes of Loninville. w discussing the n the clrewiation.”” some of our contemporaries slioull begin to row. =The Nova Scotians think that their coal flelds and gold flelds are going to prove tie mont productive continent, ¢ Kinperor of Russia forbids the announce mont hereafter by ho newspapers of attowpts upon his tio. —A young lady in New Albany, Ind., revived sixty calis on New Year's Day, and eang “ Coptala ka" Bity-five times, —The most bashful girl we ever know was one who blushed when she was asked If she ind not bow courting sleep. —There are two periods in the life of man, ab which be Is too wise to toll woman the exaot (rath s ‘when he is in lovo—and when be isn't. If secret voting be adopted, and epinsters get votes, how will they lke to be callod ballot. girls? —Newport, R. 1, during the year 1868, has lowt by death ffty-eigtt perrons over seventy years of xo As an evidence of the cosmopolitan character of oar popula correspondent mentions that be recently beard nine different Ianenages spoken at ‘the saine time on one of the Hoboken ferries. ~The Cleveland (Ohio) Superintendent of Cemeteries publishes 9 card stitiag that the recent reports of body «natehing in that elty are fables of ‘the newspaper reporters, —A Nashville mechanic is said to have in- venwd n shooting machine, which he calls the « Polyfer,” which will destroy a regiment of rob icra, dixtant « mile and a half, I four minutes. ‘The inadvertence of a clerk in recording @ derd, years ago, at Quincy, IIL, sberoby “nine-ain- tie was made to read “ nino-siateeuths,” Las led. ton lawsuit Involving $10,000, —Galignani’s Messenger (Waris) announces that “MO ' Joy Holl has been eiected Mayor of New York,’ cot that * Gen, Costan lias seized on the vik lage of Cheyenne. Buch 1 fame? ‘\ Comstock, of Gen, Grant's etal, is to de married daring the present month to Miss Betty, ter of Montgomery Blur, The wodaing ynabie onc, and will be @ matter of much interest to a very large circle, —The last mushroom city created by the Pas cifte Raitrond ts called Ox 1s situated about forty roiles north of Salt Lake City, Many prophesy that this new ¢ity will be‘ore long be the largest im the Territory, and be also its commercial centre, It is proposed in Mexico to abandon the port of Vera Cruz, which is exceedin:ly unhealthy and dangerous, and to transfer the commeres of the city to Anton Lizurdo, some fitty miles further south, Jere there Is excellent suchorage and a ralabrious vaatage of rowing _A noted politician was once asserting his en- tire Indifference to the opinions of his opponents, and to thelr personal abuse, Why," eaid be, a mam Wkened me the other diy to Judas Iscariot, bat I don't care.” “Yes, sald a bystander, “but how doen Judas fool about it —The Christian Register truly observes that the deadening ot the moral nense at the sight of ja- @icial corruption is far worse than the ravages of the cholera, or « wide cad finavcial disaster. It ‘our courte are for rate, then wicked men will run riot in fraud and crimes, An exhibitor of wild beasts in Paris has adopted a plan for securing his money which i® re apectfally wubmnitted to bankers and blowed bond- hoiders genorally, Every night he deposit the datiy receipts of his exhitition in the cago of the most ferocious of luis animals, aud he has never lost #0 much af @ sou, —During the pastorate of the Rev. 1, M. Tillote fon, of the Kim street Universaliet society of Man- cheater, No H. (years on Sanday last). he haw Joined seventeen hundred and Arty in morringe, we tended nearly fourteen hundred faverals, and preached twenty-six hundred sermons, beektes fuver ®Y eermona and lectures through the week. " dary question beiween Mary * Hh actiled, the % Ls Moilce of the Beate ‘ norwilly ss reed om tent « cr Wop oye An intoxicated man rece the railroad track near the Co and (ellusicen, A Little dog belonzing to a house close by, teeing a train approge’ , ran and jumped ad scritebed him until he ly layed down om neton, Ky., depot, upc ac A barked awoke, j ne to get out of the way of the cars, The mon, bel this tobe a divine warning te abstain from drink’ng, took the pledge forthwith, —According to a writer in Figara, the fianows prayer tn Rossini's * Moses in Bgyyt" ts nothing wore than on alr well known in the departments along the Pyrenees, “Our forefathers,” he saya, wade the mountains resound with the echoos of that melody; we sing it from luswney; and the old plonghinan never guided the slow steps of hie cattle othiorwise than with that national song.” Victor Hugo has written the following letter to M, Alfred Sirven, who Wad asked Itt ter Wan really golng fostart a paper: “A false report, my dear friend, Tha as you know, pledgod my: self never to cosperate with any French polities paper util American, or at least English liberty prevails in France, ‘The word * Bi exctudes inet ip ire* 4 cordia Vieton Hueo Jules Junin, the famous feuilleton writer of the Journal dee Dibate,\e known In Povie as the Ist who writes (he most allegible hand. Only Md composiiors at the office of the Jourmal det Dédais are abie to decipher bis bieroul)ploe, and often even they have to send sheets of the mane script whie it yead beck to the author, words to them, Ales anut! sheet, ree Sand vom Janin a letter, of wiie® d Wer acquaintances, despite their must #tren- uous efforts, never were able to veepher nore thap two wor A curions will ease lias just boen decided im © London Court ef Probuic, The testator, Mr, Anderson, # retired merchant, died at Torquay jovember, 1867, He was upwardsof 90 years of e,and very infirm, For @ year or two before he died Lis orticulation was eo indistinct that even thore constantly with him eould hardly waderstand what he weanteacept by signs, In 1963 be gave £9,000 by deed of gift to bis only surviving som, William, t whorr he also bequeathed the bulk of is property by a will made in the following year, Mr, Hunt, the testator’s former partngr, aud Ar, Gotbed, a gontieman of indepcudent means at Tor quay, were named execntors acong with the sou, with a legacy of £100 each, another of £150 being left te. Miss Clarke, the teatator’s nurve, Toward the end of 1965 the testator became very weak in bis mind, Proposing marriage not only to hie neree, but to seve eral other ladioy, notwithstanding bis infirm and ale most imbecile condition, A consultation was held, at which Mr, Gotbed, esteemed a very pious man, “laid the matter before the Lord” "Tho son sug gosted that he should havea power of attorney to manage his father’s a‘uirs, and left oue with Mr, Gothed to be flied up, but this was never done, In the beginning of 1867 Wie son was induced to depostt all bis father's papers and securities with Uquilig™ yt solicitor, Mr, Gotbed continued prayerfully ative to the testator and his aftairy; Mr, Hunt te re , peated visits to Torquay, and Miss Clarke as nurse, When tho old man died the Astounded by the production of a will dated roh, * 1807, of which he had never before heard, Tiett hin only £10,000, the property being mainly deg between Huntand Gothed, Miss Clarke's shany. ing grown since the former will frow £150 ligg annuity of £1008 year, Mr. Hunt and Mr. Geg declared in Court that they had done all they coxa persuade the testator to make the will in his tg favor, The jury seem to have thonght that ‘would therefore not besorry to see thair own wih fuldlied. and caneciled the will of 1907, \ t wri ma, as thy shake-band. Junin, th but quickly vaye e oa x, eee, Ae on 6 eee oe Pn ee ee a ee otiindtnensneaecn- PEEING. a ° ' t 1 r 1 ’ ’ } ‘ ? e r ¢