The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 16, 1869, Page 2

AmUSs wre. Pesonnmnna WALLACK 8-8 peed the Plough BOWERY THEATRE—Bisck seep, | Matinés Saturday. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—La Perichole, Matinée 09 \ Setarday. THE TAMMANT—Light Burtesqne, Comedy, and Ex: Travaganss, Matinde on Saturday. YWENTYARCORD RRGIMENT ARMORY, 14h (490, 19—Crand Reception. COOKER UNION, Jan. 16-Free Lecture for the Ad. Pancement ef Beisnce and Art. ATRE FRANC AIS—L hu Creve unt OLYMPIC THEATRE- Humpty Dom Vig O'GhOek, Wedar tare aed Matern) WOOD'S MUSEUM —Froao), ot, The ly me. Living and 1 Animals. BNFOROCORS ART GALL HIN "Yosemite Va KEW YORK Bene—Biue Bean books of reference contains the namer of One | ahowr by Commissioner Watts in his elabo- hundred and nine volumes, and as they ate | rate report, that while prices have increased tupplied at the public expense, the amount | some cighty or ninety por cont. since 1860, of money required for them is no inconeider. | the caruingn of laboring people have tn- able Stem, creased only some sixty per cont. He illus Of course, auch an elaborate education ae | trates this by eaying that @ laboring man the College offera i# not calealated to turn | who used to buy « barrel and a half of four out plain mechanice and workingmen ; and | with the proceeds of a Woelg's work can now decontingly we find that of the twenty-nine | on)y buy @ barrel and a quarter, This evil a@rnduates of last year's claee two have be | would be aggravated by a further intlat | ¢ome merchants, ono an oditor, four clerks, | of the currency, and andor Gon, Rerien Mounder Ot! one a civil engiuect, three students of mn | Of nncial sehome would be intensifed beyond ing. four stadents of modicine, eight students | endurance, of Taw, and four are gentlemen of leteure These things ongnt te oe porne In mind hg nothing. Of the class of 1267 allare | hy the people when they are asked to give of aither Ailers, oF teachers, or wtatylng law | (heir anuction to projects oxtonsibly intended Mat | or thoology or scmething of that gort. f{ to benefit poor debtors, but really do 3 the class of 1864 neven ont of the forty are | “ined to help rich mea Locome richer at the : | lawyers, two phy 4 and fourteen clerks | oxpense of ‘he great army of laborers and SS Sun. | And bookkeeper. Among the graduates of | consumers of goods. 1s Shines Cor ATL Varieties, ae. Matiaéeon Sat a of a Diters TH Proadway-Thoe | tein | 1861 twelve are lawyers, And 80 througi the —_—- | # toon classos of which statistics aro given | Not one among the whole number is a me. | & Tf the news from Parayany by the tele. phic cable enn be at all cepended upon, the AT, JANUARY 16 1800. | chante, bat all ate clorks, merchaate, artista, | Mies heve achieved an substantial @ vietory ax profestional men, or do-nothinges. wedid whon we captured Richmond, ‘The strong. Te Advertisers: The extreme unsu'tability of the course of | hl of Viletta teken, Loran « wanderer like Tas Ses far etcecis every ouner date paper in 1 | inetenction given in the College to the wante | the Braailian fron-clads before peken, To create ac parts of tbe countey bo | Of the ‘masece ie further demonetrated by | ee te boten. Tir ta tne » A ihe mar Ue Wile et | on the best attainable terms, In all probability, , y that while the introductory class | however, withing will content the victors but the . » Dumbers 428, the eucceeding closs nambers | absorption of Paraguay aud the exile or death of our IS4, the next one 88, and the lat two 44 and | its late ruler, than thove of | 42 respectively, Out of the whole nu | —— ae | Nhoattompt the course, twothirds give it up | The Directors of the New York City Un. The Senatorial Contest, fat the end of the first year, and co fiih | derereond Raiiway Company have memorialized ‘ Ay | at the end of the second year, Vinetiontiy, | We Legistat re of the State for an amendment to OMe. Ma only one out of ten finds in the inst tution | Ma dened led ean «ihe fild to the two | what he needs, ok: i the §800,000 with the Comptroller, nor need the con The Colle e railway, nor ances favoring the | conte the elty $100.00 a vear | | : #1 “ 009,000 subscription to their nocash, and about $50,000 in interest lest | U re January 1, 1 red by the i F f have | upon the grounds and buildings it cceupies, | nd consequently have entirely forfeited all tudes ¢ a , For this outlay it turns out freon thirty to | the privileges it conferred, They alle n | With the eupporters of M t forty lawyers, G ctors, clerks, ané n | excuse that they could not determine the prac. | prefers will habty rn anally, As thelr eduestion consi » | Goability of the scheme in the short time alc eaticuis le to tet { yoarw thine, it mekes fs total cost $750,000, | fr securing eubser! t people would not All this | Lecome hound to take shares until the matter was more fully explained to them, But they do not toll why they fonytt so hard to obtain the charter Mesh cu to prevent the success of rival enterpris or from $20,000 to $25,000 each Money comes ont of tho taxpa. the poor as well aa the rich, and thonyl it ia barely possible that they The Rogers Murd Marvellous Sirates gy of the Police, As we nunilerstand it, the police are now may Re rnc tte even have the coolness to propose @ series arorking a res pe the Soh amusement of manufacturing Iawyore nd | of questions, which they say ars not lightly or ay ung fellow wise rr . Y | loafers at $25,000 apiece, itis hardiy probable, usily disposed of, and apou which intelligent escaped frum Sing § and who, while | Let the College be abolishod by all means, | non still entertain diffsre #8 of opinion : there, was the associate of JamEs Loan, once and farever. | n underground raticd Practicabte in Pine are i. ¢ w York, and is it ihe best metho 01 and n his pocket at the timo of the — a ing the objects desired by the Legisiature murder envelope addressed to Debtors and Creditors. pgp citi A) bolt fn 1 i saconi—Ts \c practicable to eons sd Leoan To hear the tall of such men as Botirn, | andere imitations ‘of chatter inns opatare the prescribed methods of construc: Vhen, on Wednesday morning last, we few these facts aprond ont in detail in all the journals of this ety, necompanied by a vivid sketch of this pcraon’s antecedents for the past three or four years, and a minute de. teription of the mode of his escape from Sing Bing, we confess that we regarded it aga Prxp.eron, and the whole school of inthe tiontste of the currency, one would think that there was no class of our citizen® worth tn king eare of by financial menenrea but thowe who owe, or want to borrow money. Tho wrongs of debtors and tho exactions of creditore and money lenders aro deseanted (Company (o eerta Tird—WMN the underground raitrond, {foonstruct- ed ke prescribed by thin charter, solve sntiefe- © best way the p of rapid and vortation of passengers and goods within t# 6 toe elty of New York? roy th ven what amendments to the charter are esmential Lo Insure the construction of @ rot on the heat plan? Pin 1 the road and its appointments be Himit- ©1100 pemve that will accor @ local transit alone, Blind thrown out by the police to cover the | upon untiringly, Gen, Borner, in his | mieeived and ¢ runk | Teal track they were pursuing. But wo have | lost specch in Congress, denounced with | vier? orang | twit be inevitably Civin work is ucoersful, without altering ample reason for believing that the oilivers who imparted this information to the report. ers, and caused ‘t to b> printed in all the newspapers under startling head lines, with the name also of the detective who was em- ployed to hunt down the assassin, were really sincere in their belief that the person whom _#ep had thas notified to quit the city was the very man who killed Roars, The strategy which devised this mode of ftatching a fugitive murderer is too deep for this metropolis, though floating in slash, te stupidity draws nincty fect of water, It ts hunting wild ducks with a dram corps—rnis- Ing a hue and ery whoue ouly effect could be to warn the assoxsin to floo the country. The simplicity of thoso engaged in work: fg up this caso was Iudicrously reflected in great warmth the mischiefs produced by a searcity of currency, real or artificial, and ns ® remedy proposed that the Government should always stand ready to eecommodate needy borrowers with all the fonds they | want ata low rato of Intervet, Ili ideal of | fnancial prosperity would seem to be a con. dition of things in which money siiould never be worth moro than four or five per peranuom, and be plenty at that, ‘There iv great deal which apparently j tifles this feeling, Men who have bad avo to lend havo usually been rich, and have | shown themselvow more or lea hart aud ex acting; while those who had to borrow. of them were neody perwons, to whom deli was Acurse, and (he paymunt of interest an intol | erable burden, For this reason there are in | nm tiat not only p Hi bo teelltiated, t ‘and country, will heart ot the elty stop to the eum le methods tual are now e1n- It seems to os that itis rather late in the day ty raise these questions now, and that the goutle- men cngaved in the concern had better atep out of the field altogechor, y t know as much as they pretended they did when they got dheir el A Firstelaes Nowa Tae'te, by far the ablest jour J, aay York Sus is not aolarge busin every ot yan ntaost favorably w a tie not only there country, Toler some of those roporta of Weduestay, After | all the States of tho Union usury Inws re dios avety day so camabi telling the murderer that tho police knew | stricting the rate of st to a cerinin ibd any suppor lee ta him, and were ecquainted with all iis haunts | moderate annual percentage, and making Hee ve sana uie, | vely, keen, «unirably writ fod assoclatos, and had specially detniled | ilegal all ayreements to pay more. ‘Those ies lawn aro ns yet anstained by a majority of | | the people, aud there Beems no Hkelihood of fa change in tholr opinion, Everything ta done to protect debtors, while ere left, and for tho most part with at priety, to take caro of themselves, Of Iato years, however, a large portion of the debtor and borrowing class among us Jases Invina to hant him down, they do clared, in a buret of enthusiasin at the exquisite texture of the net sprond in the eight of this State Prison bird, that it would be impossible for him to escapo the cordon of detectives fast closing around him! The police, though evidently aching with the woeret, claimed great credit for withholding Mt. Var Suy chan vem Vt ls always the hagewnent, Ty term, and ts rapully estenatng ta mn aud influence, rs are | ae To which we can ouly add, with entire sineority, “That's ac - ——— The employers of labo: ng men, especially i ay ser eal the heads of large establishments, cannot do a f#om the reportors tho uame of the assassin. see spon pc a Lad Hi "| better deed than to advise and encourage their The donkeys! If they Aad given bis naine | aud, 90 far from deserving eympathy and as | oo ito cos to cpen savings bank accounts, and to the preas, it amight Lave afforded somo | sistance, need to be dealt with as we havo »-eans of catching Lim, Itcertainly would | been in the habit of dealing with usurers, we imparted no additional information to | We bave among us an iinmense number of Lim and his “pals,” while {t would have | people who run in debt, not through misfor- ‘forded the public another elue to his iden- | tuno, or for any legitimate purpose, but for tisy, no other reason than that they may make The theory of tho police goes on tho as. | moncy themselves out of the rest of the com- ramption that Jastms Loan, now in cus. | munity, The whole tribe of speculators who ‘ody, is intimately acquainted with the man | combine to raise prices, either of stocks or who they insist killed Roorns, and has | merchandise, are of this class; and loudly as econ him ginee he escaped from the Peniten. | they may lament when a tight money mar- sry. Ig there not temptation enough in | ket interferes with their operations, deposit every week as much as possible of their ning, Mapy a young man apends what comes, in the » to a considerable sum in the course of a year, for cigars, drinks, theatre tickets, and similur unnecessary indulgences, which, if the subject were forcibly brought to his attention, he would willingly save, and thus per. haps lay the foundation of a fortune, Under aay circumstances, ® anug balance in bank is a com. fortable thing to have; butt tof economy produced by the process of acquiring it fe still more useful, As an illustration of what may be dove in the way we speak of, we learn that the +e rewards offered by tho Mayor to induce | should not receive the compassion they und superintendent of the Great American Tea Com- bom to “peach? or, cannot « searching | servedly obtain, pany, hav! become impressed with a seuse of weexamination by the District Attorney In fact, the scarcity of money and the high | the good which he might accomplish, took the matter in hand, ” of the clerks in the eon fozce him to “squeal”? Of course, the eul prit has fled ; but Looan ean give a shrowd rates of interest which prevail in speculative times are the only safeguards the community ceded in persuading fity nto march up inn body to the Mutual Benefit Savings Bank in Tn guess about the course of his flight, or, at | have against extortions in the very necessa- eer ov ‘ all events, he can refer the offc'als to those | ries of life, Every year, almost, when the feta a 3 vie drone By i nt who can. If he rofus s lo ths, ie will be | wheat crop comes to market, some man or act show his own fuith in tho doctrine be prvac proof that far mica deeply implicated | of men attempts to monopolize it, and foreo | ¢ others in siilar positions will imitate his in this hom’ buyers to pay him a great price for it. Nothing example, We shall be glad to announce the tact, prevents those who need the grain from be. ~ — “whole, has nothing to surpass it in New | pieawnt gather ‘Welsh Musto. A grand vocal and instramenta! concert of un- asus) attractiveness will be given at @teluway Hall on Monday evening next, the 18th inst., Im ald of the St. David's Benevolent Boctety. Among the novel features of the entertainment wil! be some of the Klorions national melodion of Wales, filustrated by two frst-ciass artists from the Principality, one of whom was selected by the great Fnglish tenor, Sims Heeves, to accompany him im his tours. Mr. J. R ‘Thomas will alto aid his countryinen, besides other celebrated singers, This will be an unique enter- ainment, and no doubt the hall will be crowded, a9 Mt shonld be, “Speed the Plough" will be played for the last time this season at Walla: thls evening. Matiners TosDay. A “La Per is tobe given at the Grand Opera House (late Pik ay. Irma and Mr Ad The aciection naw *) rt Po Mt Anjac ne the bright, partteniar © manager. old not well be one, am any matindes hav Become nnasnally Over 8,00) Intion have waited the ‘Tame ming daring the present week. To those who en- Joys vorlety of omasemonts the Temmany offers every attraction, Wine Bear" feloerod at the New York Ctreas 16, 1869. TH BRICKLAYERS' OONVENTION. Wasmrotow, Jon. 15.—During the afternoon sesafon yesterday a motion to suspend the rales for the purpose of offering a resolution to allow brick- Tayers, not members of the Convention, now in the city, to enter the meetings of the Convention except when In execative session, was lost. Mr. George 0. Cook, of Washington, wished to know why they were opposed to atmitting thelr eo-laborers, when the members of the press were allowed to report and publish their proceedi Mr. John B Froat, of your elty, would like the doors thrown open and all she bows bricklayere admitted, that they might see And know whot war golag on, and not only here bat in nil cities, The motion wae then pat and carried, with bat two dissenting voicer Mr. Thoma Maxweil, of No. 10, New York, offered a resolntion giving ench lornl Union the power to grant totis members the privilere of working with Are brick lagers who ita wot belong to any U bat not allow them to work with Union men at red-Driek work, Paswed On motion subordinate Uni rer lgn fa moing to quit the hn 4K, Kirby, Seerevar Chion No. 1 of New hour strike, whieh wer tal Gord Mr. Browning. It was nereed that no ne would 10 allowed to act on the was ad a communtention from dent, inquired whe: to obtain achurter for i" in tho negative, whereupon that ittee of five be caring a charter a0 were appolnied the W Baashe, of Pa 4 of Mesers npaen, Of Mil, pa wteraoon, All the tilemted equostriennes, athe Jeter, ver'ters, and dancers will appoar, Just the place for ubiitren “Hampty Dompty sth (ime at the Olympte this aMerncc e introduced ® chirming variety ef new noveltion, whieh canuot | fail to attract ard please the pub't At Wood'@ ang little theatre we have an pani matinée, fu whieh the Lydis ‘Th deluding the gollen-halved enchantre felt nppours The mysterious fish til attracts crow de Of Visitors | Gran gives amotinge at the Frene e. The | = parting, airs of © Liat Gr FPS T dive tn aeleeting @city (or fie next aunual some Mh af An, J Phe resmt on the test ballot moods Cine ; Mowery Theatre gives a maiinge t 1} Donte Oh 1) be va | ected 78 to ' fe pertorns will be varied and eyed, suausit ls On Tae city, | ‘of No. - be stricken from th We National Union: Cansty au’ at cm Saatixo Rive.—On Thurs. | Aver erable deuate pro and en, 6b LUhos ; he | Of Mr of New York, tie Whoie suject wae 1 & “Carnival” ae they siyie it, eniivened te ) Pf Mr Miles of Rkating Kink in Sixty-sccond atreet, The buildir A reaslution that the national tax of ii(ty cents per Was decorated with flags and conte of arms of wll the | year be sucre n cach tember of the iste. hase ek ta rie ftions buy | euugruinat . Was referred 10 he Conanities ate jee was not in prin "i Cr ware ead aie the rumerons skaters seemed to enjoy the snort Mr, Maxwell odered a reso'ution jastructing the "Invantarw Haven.” —On this sabject, ao deep. | ¢ texates pre oat uivm Civ avo. 2 ut New ¥ ly interesting to ali parents who have ort HMM ebtle | (6 siete fetlon, which tnay lead to the tn dren by death, the Rev, Chey ccy Olles ia to lecture | lute expulsion of Mr, Joka Kettc aan, « member of . 7 that Union, W-morrow evening In the Sweleaborgias howe or | A siember denied thet the Convention had the worship, Thirty between Fourth Tight wo dhetate to runite Unions what course Lexington arc 6 ‘The views presented will, of | they shonld pursue vith t gard to their members course, be those of Emanuel Swedenburg, which are certainly very beautiful and ee ing, whatever opinion may be entertained of (heir alaviute correct- news ‘Tre Coxstiretionat Usiow Gexenan Comer Tee of the City of Now York met inst evening and oreeulmed for 1869 by the ananimour election of John RK. Voorhis, President, Ninth Word; J. 8, Veacoek, First Vice-Presiaent, Nineteenth Ward; A. IL p, Second Vico. Prenid Eighth Wart; JR. | , Recording Secrotary, Thirteenth Wart; (. | | ©. Newman, Treasurer, Twelfth Ward; H. Liebo- hav, Corresponding Secrotary, Twenty-eecond Ward, A Tavern ov Agt.—The Murray Hill Baptist Chureb, Madison avenne, will he reopened to-more row Morning for divine worship under the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. Corey, ‘The edifien, thoveh one of the smattest fo the ety, is one of the handsomert and most attractive, During the tow months the ehapel has been clos d @ignor Totfacte Molni has Ween tn: duxtri At work on ite wats and ite domes. ‘The | frescoes wiv of the most exqu'sile and einhorate de | scription, and set frit to great sdvantage ihe bea ties of the purest Hallaa school, Tho jntertor, York, A Gataxy of Maonate Among other st tractions with whieh the manazers of the Burne din- ner, to come off at Metropolitan Hotel on the ins coeded in iventifying that ever the feast, hy any means, will be fona Jn one gle J beanty no many powerful he speakers and a + have: of as of counisting of shi recitations, 9 Assistant Sapernt ndent Kaddle pre to the graduates M. Cro) Nary F, Uansctt, Isabella Joye MeGrath, Jy Fa Lydia A,” iteynold oud Mk , Fen a the first and fourth pr Dickens's works and po works, 19 three h my and othe ie Kelly, A VOIUIDES 0: € clus to M teacher, Addresses were ‘Thos, Hastings and the nee of Belt Railro: n ‘ses broke loowe evening In Grund sirect, acer Cannon, and knocked down Mary Bush, v1 44 Gonverncur sieet, Avoruen Watxist,—John Ewald proposes to ven. by the Diew, their d by the Rev, ubowt B, Kittredge. walk fron the jnters of Tweifta atrect and Av- cute Ato the City Hal, on Suuduy after ad V. M., in fifteen Minutes, Heavy dets are peuding ‘04 the venult, A Max-Trap.—The fing stones on the ¢1 of Warren strect at Brovtway have been dangerous coutition. It covered with 7 In their present state they would make a pit-tall where pedestrians might be severely injured, Lecrore ny Cart, MoCirtiax.—-A small au dience assembled mt Anunia Hull, In Bank street lust evening, to hear Capt, McCt linn anenk on The f Unity among Lristuven,” Mevoted principally to ravers, I wdo! cut'of shi His re logy. of Trinh + and Value as ouniry Were ry counized and apprec vover th y were to be found, Curpren.—This was the subject of a le by W. L. Orinby, dr., be imgdta le coum, list event, The te dette: pring ont liberty for « \ eam rather than touched u € pron The College of the City of New Yorks | coming the victims of the attempt bat the | Jot no ono be decetyed by tho mild weather This pretentious and vxtravagantly expen: | diffleulty in the way of borrowing money | of the past fortnight into aupposing that the wine sive institution has just issued what it calls | enough to coutrol the entire crop. As 000 | tor is over. We are only half throug nuary, ite *'Iwentioth Annual Register.” It isin tho | as the conspirators go to a cortain point, they | and Februaey is yet to ‘There is plenty of form of a luxuriously printed pamphlet of | find that they have made monvy no rearce | tine for frost and snow yot, Aswe write, a storm over a hundred pages. As tho readers of | that they must stop; and often, we are glad | is brening which may end off with a cold snap, ‘Tur BuN have to help pay the cost of the | to say, they aro forced to sell out and Jo: Prue's Macauneene Pliny Fir document, and will probably never see it, we | where they had hoped to gain, So it ia with | contains ariicis from the pons of K, € Agee extract from it, for their ben some choice | sugar, tea, hops, and other products, ‘The | 'P. Tucks ruion, 1. M. Bteddurd, on, RR, bite of information. effort to “ corner” them is often made, and as | B. Kiinbal!, Sin date Tou x, Bayard DM) lor, Clarenee After enumerating a list of twenty-one | often comes to an end through the very | (Wok md ®t Cont. The number thavsh rather Trustees, who, we sincerely hope, get no eal- | scarcity of money of which men like BUTLER | gine bas boou eularged by the addition of sjstcen artes, aud a clork, Mr. Tomas Borst, who, | complain, Let him have his way, and as | pages of readable matter, —— though receiving $6,000 a year os Clerk to the Board of Education, draws $1,500 a year more from the said Trustees for ervices not specified, the “Register” proceeds to give the names and titles of thirty-one professors and tutors, whose aggregate pay-roll cannot soon as these speculators got ito atight place and saw ruin before them, he would hhy the Government step in and help them through. ‘The folly of such conduct is ap parent, Again, we have grov Tue Wonto Aruaxac.—We have received # copy of this valuable political annual, We unbeal. taiingly commend it to those of our readers interest. od in watronouteal and political statistics, ax complete and accurate. In addition to the usual tables, it gives: the vote in thin Stite by clvction distriets, and adds ng up among usa ihe eo icte vote for the members of both branches be far from $90,000 a year, As the number | creditor class who are the very opposite of | of te Legisintwre, Mr. Henry K. Sweetecr iv its in the graduating class for this year is set | the rich usurers whom wo have usually iu | compticr, He has done his work well, ote ous mind when we ialb of Enanooh AMLOUT | ma icy Nein toonecTole werk io. the savings bank depositors, and the widows and down at forty-two, this makes nearly a pro- fessor or tutor to each graduate, and the an n 5 most complete atatistieal annual yos publ It nual cost of each graduate, for tuition | orphans whose little fortunes are lent out on | ig from the y of 0, D, Case ® Co, Bart. only, over $2,200, bond and mortgage, are creditora to the ex: | ford, Conn, end ts sold only throngh travelll acente, ‘The hook contains a large fund of tnform tion respecting the United Stites, and the affairs of the General and State Governments, and public insti- tions; the fuances, iidustrial interost, and re- sources of the country ; the political, financial, and commercial condition of this and foreign couatries, It alto contains @ list of colleges, assessor, collee- tors, &c,, In addition to complete county votes for Vreeltent back (0 1855, Asa book of reference it ts invaluabe, tent of the sums belonging to them. Now, just 60 far asthe currency is inflated and tho rato of interest reduced, just £0 far these per- sons have their incomes diminished, We are next treated toa detailed account ‘ot the course of studies pursued in the insti- tution, Among them we find Latin, Greek, 8 , German, rhetoric, logic, intellectual ow, moral philosophy, metaphysics, | ‘The whole of the great mas of persons political economy, law, politics, &c., algebra, | receiving sularies and wages, too, have in- geometry, trigonometry, differential and in- | terosts opposed to those of money borrowers, gral calculus, ecoustics, optics, spherical | The more money thero is afloat, the higher » botany, zoology, geology, and a | prices of all commodities rise, It istrae that of other equally dificult branches, ‘The | wages and salaries rise too, but they cannot Met of booka roaulred as text books and | keep up with prices, 1t 18 a matter of fact, ar Heanra axp How . 5 of this weekly is, now ready, It t# spley and entertaining, For con- tents, see adv a physical, A hewlte of the odspring, matutainine 4 diapositios snd capeoies of eatitrcn hep io Wanid by those who have « Ts Satur C4 niversory of this te® ion’ Bteinway Lal, Vhs WOR Very i orations nid re © pitt ing to those who were 1 terance wat ne heard at theturt peace ov the que more in tie It, Clegg necod as chuiriave carton’ was furnihed chestra, Wis iu the ere recogni iw New Yors, Hiesour, and W cousin, one ceota. Grants of bouks were im Assuciatior of Friends; to the American Seamen's Piicud Society; can and Voreign Christan Union tort tribution in ‘the army of the Southwest, . West, and in the island of Curncont with grout ar considerible amount to poor auailiarien, Chief ny nt Yearly Mectiog t bociety; to the £10, the Amencan Missio rih Carol the Bouth; with sixtecn volumes tu raisud led num a ney wero'in various lana alia for the bund, ranted was 1 Gheluding Frene Creolese for () Tue entire M10, sicansath Me Admin jen HB, ome Bale Whiting may be good for our house front not for out pavements, The publishers of Junius Henri © Great Metropolis” are run, wud day, About thirty delegates from the Eastern and Brow: DK three presses | Lazear, of Jersey ©: f, Connell ehomed that the Convention hid jartte diction over every Viton which bad representatives ou this Noor Mr. Cook, of W, ter over wil! the « Dineton, did not think Ita mat enti should take cogil: zanee, ‘The Bricklayers’ Union of Washington had mifbated itberalig for the late strike in New York, fut aull he did not think it conc: red th. Washine- { ton Union what dispoxi of tue money contributed, Af Mr, Ketteinan had made way wit ony Mande, It was e mattir which shonid be lett in the hands of the Union of witeh he wae a mem- ber, Me. Nilew, of New Yors, moved that the resolntion of Mr. Maxwell be laid On the tale, ‘Th: motion Was agreed to, Mr. From moved that Unione @ 4, and 18 Heth ms of ud) les of Now York to sopelntec to > consternation the aitieul ng to the tace mikes, Adopted. by Of Wael uhtitted a reqnent! Bepotore htallves in Congres In view of tho tn: W PUL Upon the LMht-lour law parsed ut pened t Forthth Congress, by the etme’ Government, to past an fet explanatory of now pening tn Reuate, misoduced by Mr, Coaness, of Cailioru pl Mr. Swayne, from the comt boty coneiderntio Ww York, suln tee appointed to take buf the lute wrt recom upport Valens No. rts te ovtain ‘On motion, th Mien tuercon to lose at 12 o'e0ck, ‘The Conveation thes adjourned until to-morrow, —— THE BLOCKS PEAUDS, then and t Tho plilove Congressiounl Tnvestlunting © ive Minister te and, Horace « Accised-An AUdavit: wh ut t Bryant, the fervid ator | ows SOrye wit Hirody, und e host of such We print the following without ¢ ent keep thy at vast throng of Inu os Aid on if ragty people in a perpetual glow of enthuriasm an | Donokee, of 4 Thit spelin of their eloquence, wit, and pocey, | or Thirty & Preatic Senoon Keene On Thursday Grame | M. O'Connell, Prineipal, to the scene ¢ ent bet tive th * nthe Twenty fire 1 testify to nx What he ty, he would pay the sum j he further sald that hi ed depo: nent lo teetly. before eid Commitee Liat Supervisor ‘fweed wa pleated in causing fraudulent york co Ne polled lls ol ject, we avowed birneutf, being to Infore the cnaracter of pablic eiig to the Demoer deponents _ wt they eneh re to nceept tue said tating to ita that, aittiough tl © NVW"Y, they Could coutit porury to accomplieh trey then fmpressed upon t cossity of keeping anid interview secret, ax ® pull pownre of the kame Would be ruinows to him. T, y were anxious to mr not « interview them terminated, and depar moving of the Ath January a ald ry presented themsel co where t mraittee was In wes the parpe ‘Vida to the matter stated In ths affidavit, but were reused adinies on by the Sergeintat-Arms, Who iafornied them that if they were wanted they vould be sent for, Deponents Martie r tay that other persons, to taeum known, were Rdunitted to the presence of Waid Comuittes while they were in waltins, Nicioras Moone, Micnarn Grooutoan, dames Dononox,’ Kuvos Dopar. Rour SMITH, Sworn to before me this 19th day of January, 1989, LDW. J. KNIGHT, Commirnioner of Deeds, MASONIC, - jstera of the Rastern Star—Tustitutton of a New Chapter, Anew Chapter of the Sisters of tho Kastern Star war loa ever ing inetitnted at S19 Greenwich Areet, ander the Ue of Greenwich Chapier No. 3. Te. W. Robert Macoy, Grind Patron, pre Ried av ine dnatitution, election, and installation of the ofieers of the new Chepter. ‘th ng t# the result of theeection: Matra Lazear, wife of HY, Stra, 1 Master of Groonwie Letherts, wise of Ib Greenwich Loave; tov of tho, W. It Miye; Cont Award Lavgticld, « Conduct Ite polnted reayurer Mrs. CL Kernan, Joho D. Witlard feld, wile of Bro. mem wien Dlg nd Associate Rogere, wie of Bro. Thon w," ‘The following were Aviat Mrs. Reyne wife of Te . Reynolds, Green wie Tath, Mrs, Ostrduder, wit Ostrander, Groen) savife of Bro, Chas, For i Martha, Mrs. Ferris, wile of Brothe ‘eri, Port Royal dlectn, Mre. Si of Bro, » Bee, Mrs. W Lush, wrer, Paterson Lodge, N! ecied Bro, W. H. Laileria, of Greenwich Loder, 08 Patron of the Chapter fur 1060. ee : Weann's “ Appen, little machine is now used by pumbers of brokers, bankers, aud commer: cial fring, It fs morestple, and easier to tearu than any other adding machine which we have seen, It carries its own unite tens, which is done by no other machine. ‘The Webb ‘ader” can be worked dozen persons ave engezed tn conversation, operator bimscif can talk wad yoke durin Ly rocess without fear of blunders, it requires not the least mental exertion # os fresh after as it was before ea itn othe Orrice or Brxapict, Haun & Co, 970 aud Wi Broadway, Jun. 12, 1860, Dean Gin: Some tine suce l saw un advertise: Triune of wn adding machin ing it the only one extant, purchased & cline," hoping to make It Of use to mein the iuventions, Middle States, of business inen Interested in Mes rving Wood, met fn the ‘ay, Mi. A, 8. Diven in the chair, pollited to'report a aniform rate to be pald by al! companies wor! this proccss, pa hing under Prosident Bishop, of the Now Haven Railway, Was made arrangements, which are perfect) sfc tory to the rows commuters, under whlch fraud Will be neat to impossible, and on Increased number. of fray and increased speed are guaranteed to. the ublic, After Feb. 1, all couuputers ae to show ls Uckets or pay full fare. footings of long columns of figures which I period cally Baye to cucounter, After fuithtully practising or It for two or three weeks, I was reluctantly obliged to giveit up ae of no service, ae L could not orslbly foot up a colamn with It md depend upon Ke'aceurney, nor tm half the’ time T coal mentaiiy, Chave now one of your “adders,” parcuased a few dayw since, and after thoroughly testing it do not hea- itate to say that for me it is a great desideratum both tm say as Fa! tn the certainty of ite ab- bolute correctiess, wil SW BUNKER, For further information we By td the reader to the sdvortivement elaowhere prio * | that bis sire was a Vir SPORTING. pitta Phe Terf-Racing and Trotting. The Ameriean Jockey Club announce the pro- ETRmMe Of sport for their spring meeting, to be held at Jerome Park next Juno, ‘There will be foar day racing, commencing on Saturday, June 5, and con- tinuing over the ensuing Tuerday, Thareday, and Satarday; the meeting being held on alternate, and not consecctive day, as hitherto. There wiil be nineteen races In the four days, and the Jockey C1 contributes the liberal eum of $12,760 to the various purses and Atakes, The majority of the races ary rt dashes, varying In distance from five furlongs to a mile and three quarters; there being only (wo heat facen tn the programme, aud these are at one naile and two moiles, These kind of races are ex- tremely popular with the American public, espe: clally those of four-mile heats, for they tent in the nioat a! */aetory manner alike the speed ond stam ina of (10 race horse, Bot they do not fnd much favor with the American Jockey Club, and the own: ers of horses, who malatain that jong distances and races oF heats soon use horses up, and they there. fore prefer the system of dash races, Whether the Aine eplrit of oxelusirenens which has of late char- acterived the management aod polley of the Ap jean Jockey Clab at tho Jerome Park meetivgs, is to be continued this weason, we are unabie to aay ; surely the apathetic indifference and tack of Potrownge manifested by the public at last meetings, In consequence of the exclusive alluded to, ought to teach the maua, and indi them to adopt a diferent 4 more lib. eral policy toward the race-going community, The Jockey Club have appointed Mr, Chor Wheatley, of For Who bas offici:ted ae ti Clerk of the the organization of the Jerome Park Association, to the office of Secretary, rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. John B. | Irving, Me. Wheatley is @ gentioman of extensive sperience and ereat executive ability in raring mat: | tere He has filed the porition of Serretary to the 8 Wh , | Saratoga Turf Association since its establishment, | is universally popuinr among owners and tralners of | race horsew, and i admirably adapted for hin present | appoiutment as Sceretary Amertean docks y | Clob, ‘Phe resignation of Dr, Lrving Is much regret ted In turf circles, but bis retirement ts only partial 2 us Secretary to will stil continue his se the Commitee of the Subscription Rooms, at 920 ¢ of the fnmous trotting hors Dutch- mnan, Whowe threemile time record of TR ell re J reins without paratfel in the snunls of American ing, be just come to light. For many yew it was thonglt this great horse had re pedigree, and his late celebs | trotner, impresston. am Woodraf, always labored onde this Tis original owner wae o Mr, Jolin Vaudever, a farmer in Delaware, who now dectares ® horse numed Nebuelad- nezzor, and hie dam by an inported horse belonging | to Ges. Ha of Maryland, ‘The Dutchm form, temper, and general characteristi him to be a horse of very considerable breeding, but nothing defivite respecting his pedigree was cver known nntit {ts prbliention recently, rm {oblishments a good many changes have coutly taken place, We have siready mertioned thrt Mr, A.J. Minor will, fn future, trata for Mr, Honter, on the Centreville Course, L. 1. Jacob Pin- cus Nas given up his pablic training stable dere Park, baviog been engaged by Mr. Bel- mont as private trainer for his raclig eaiabiishment ar Babylon, L, 1. Although the youngest in his profermon, Jocvd Pincus bas been one of the mort for‘anate aad successful, With Kiehmond and Bal- tumore, when trainer for Messer, Bowte and Hiatl, he won the Jersey Dorby and Bt, Leger in 1865; wud ‘With Merrill ond Bayswater, he wom the same two events for Mr, R.A. Alexander the yeur followtng. David MeCoun, who, for many yeare, war tramer for Mr, Gibons, of New Jersey, has removed his public sinble from Madison to Jerome Park, where he w''l fh foinre train, Charics Tittiefield has commenced as pubtte trainer At ihe Paterson race course, and bas vircady a fine string of horves in his ehatge, J. Waicron, the ron Of the veteran George’ (wha for so tony has traived for Messrs, Jerome and’ Forbes), ty been engsged ax private trainer for Mr. J. Kekers: stable, Mr, Benford has engaged wew treiner from Kenincky, but Mr. Cameron has not encotod t wtidl early, In the ep oveniug & public tram ae heretofure. at | Moore ard Kph Suediker in fon couren their traning stroun d trainers are winte rin milder Bouthern eluate of ale, where Cie Work | of training can go. on entnterruptediy throushout the winter, thus giving their stablos & great advan ti pone Of coudinen, Over thus of ther ern rials A new cluly trotiing track Jn the vielulty of New conten pation LF a mumber of wea ty owl KeULemeN, OWaeTs Of fet hh location Ip Isiance beyond Met in W cote <1 A haw boon a Ort dod, aut estimates formed of tue total cost of wteryrise. Ab is culewlated that fve hunde wombers, st an aniual subscription ox $109 each, Would be anyly suiicivat to insure success, At ti Ly #0 easily access ie woula bo nit cilvert al Isiund courses tie best tratting from t to Westchester county, aa Pigeon Shooting, In responso to the challenge of John Taylor, of Jersey Cily, 0 shoot the Canadian champion, James Ward, a mateh at pigeons for $500 or §1,000 a aide, at one hundred single birds each, the latter states ‘that he will shoot Mr, Taylor for @00 w side, charge not to exceed 1 on, of shot, each party Muding half the bisde, whieh are to be inixed on the morving of shooting, and @ disinterested person to trap for oth, To thie latter clause Taylor demure, ‘stating that the aimost luvariable rule ts for shooters to trap end handle for each other, and this condition Ward has inserted tn his great muteh for §,000 with Mr, Bogurdus, of Chicago, which comes off in M Peak Aube ike cake reseed ee Wied (4909 tlde) is tue fous than Taylor propose’, and euvugh to pay expensen to travel Baflulo, yet T lor Will agree to it if Ward will make the condit Of each to trap and handle for the other, or emp) fn substitute, Tt remains to be seen wheth the Os Jian shooter will agree Lo this reasonable pro- position, John Taylor, of Jersey City, of Providence, It, 1, shoot a viateh at pigeons, chtyetive single binls euch, 1J6 oz. shot, fur §300 ride, on Monday, the ith ina, tmaich comes off on the Nurrage t park, Providence, KR. 1. Janos Ward, of To. to, and A. H. Bogarde Chicago, hot two matob reorutly, wt the D Pork, he latter ei 1,000 mate, at one and twenty-five double ri Bogardas won the frst, kiting 86 to Ward's #2. won the second, killing 89 out of 50, white Boos only brought duwn 37 out of the sane number. Beet having Won @ maten,a third and ceca proposed and agreed (9, viz, to ehoct at Fingle rites eae from groand traps, and Hises each from piunge traps, twet trap and handle, against exe! the match to come off, May 5, for cago. A tna t twenty-four sinle birds, came of at L h the Oa Inst, between Jam Dragiman a y Lawler, ‘Thy’ former won, jug 17 to Lawler’e 15, ‘The latter was the favorite the Letting. meas The Prize Ri William Davis by Tom Allen in t for $1,000 aside, neur St, Lous, took few sporting mea by surprise, as the forne agh a game, is avery unscientific boxer, Le teon besten by Dunn, ElMoit, and MeCoole, and at the Lands of such a skiiful and expe rienced fighter a8 ‘Yom Allen was generally antici- pated, Inmedintely after the figlt, Allen was chal lenged by Charles Gallagher (who was recently 4 by Etiiott) to fight in tive weeks for $1,000 8 and this was accepted by Allen, aud the 1 Rooke, who is now ip this city, ex his readiness to make @ match with Pat jor $1,000 wide, provided be cau find any back hun, The Indiana Legislatare ie recommended by the Governor, im bis lat esage, tO Pass, Without de- Jay, am act (o punish or prevent priae Mghting (a thas feardon loads to ee #8 Tournament, ‘The second grand handicap chess tournament began yesterday at the Europa Chess Rooms, 12 Division street, Forty players entered the lists, and Anished about thirty-five games up to midnight, The tournament will iast fourteen days, and some two thousand games are to be played, The prizes ure six in number, Among the players yesterday, E, Delmar won 8 games, all he played; Dr, Barnett wou 4, and LR, Diel4, The games continue this alter- noon, ‘The Fruit Growers’ Club chose ofc day an follows: Dr, Snodgrass red. Corresponding Baenotary | Ste) 2 ding Becre ecutive D. fohn Crain, ra on Thurs- ed President eae) SUNREAMS. peilior-coteaa — Widows’ weeds—Cigars «moked by women to console themselves for the loss of their husbands. —A wildcat, five feet in length, was killed near North Adamt, Mans, « few days ago, —The Hartford Courant says Mr. Fred. @. Gedney te the Tyibune correspondent at Albany. —Kossuth bas published a letter to the Spa biards, begging them to establish » republic, —The recent mild weather has caused the cherry trees to biossom in Missourt. —A Vermont editor saya he hada present on Christmas morning, which “wae not a piano, bat it could yell." Salt Lake City contains « population of 44, 000, of whom 98,000 are Mormons and remainder Gentitey Cooper, R. A., an eminent English painter died recently atthe age of, He cian of Mity years’ standing. —The Emperor Napoleon is building # yacht vis is expected to beat every vessel of Ita vines afloat. An Obio philanthropist offered to give every poor widow in his town a wiuter supply of wood, if bis towusmen would turn out and cut it, whieh they did, —The newsboys of Houston, Texas, having re- faved to sell the Vintonye Republican paper publisned in Chat, city, the editors acil it om ghe streets thom. aelves, <The Philadelphia North American announces that Commodore Hichard W. Meade has suifored e stroke of paralysis, and that bis family lave beep sent for in haste with the gravest anticipatic A maiden lady, alluding to her youthful ace complishmenta, suid that at ne mothe of age she went alone. A malicious individual present remurlke and you have beew going alone ever At Bath, N. ¥., recenti, cousting could not stop hia sled naa train of care come slong, and shot hike an urtow across the rail vad track between the wheels of @ cur, and escaped @ boy who waa out the slightest fnury. —Ata Neosho (Kansas) dancing party, the other night, the highly periumed bead of a young man ran tuto the gas ght, whereupon ie huly blazed up two fect, enuring &e an awful emell of ot, wir, for 9 few minutes aterwor ‘The Emperor Napoleon, before leaving Com= me for Puris, gave orders to constrnet n new the otrt in the ehiteau, which is estimated to cost some two miltions of francs, and must be finisied before next autumn, —The annonneeront that the Rev, Miss Olym+ Dia Brown, pastor of the Universuliet Church tn Weymouth, Mnss., fe about to be married, i« sup: posed to have resulted from the recent remark of Goorze Francis Train, that “ we nocd more Olympia Brow =A Philadelphia surgeon, who wee on his way to perform an operation on a Ment, bad his car- Hage robbet and lort his surgical instruments while making a temporary atop, whereny,” adde the re- “tho operation was prevented and the pie fe saved.” rant was met coming out of his head. quarters looking as Indifferent ax if le were not op- Prossed with the cares of anation, A friend saluted him, * Good morning, General.” “ Good mornin.” * General, you don’t look as it you wore President of the United Staten.” “1am not.” —The new spectacular drama at the Thédire da Chateiet, Paris, founded on the history of the inte Emperor Theodorus of Abyrsinta, Insts precisely ate hours, and fs sald to be dull, ‘The only exciting passage ocears in the ballet, when Mile. Montero dances the Charmeuse with a tive serpent around hor ‘The failnres during 1868, in ‘five of the prin- cipal cities of the Untted States, are reported to amount to 18%, distributed as follows: New York, 295; Philatetphia, 43; Boston, 59; Baltimore, a7; and Chicago, 2% The number of inrge failnres dur- Ing the last two months of 1.68 exceeded by @ per cent. the number during the same period Ie the crisie of 1807, —Gen, Sherman fs said to detest “ new" ant. forms, and never appears in new clothes if ho ean help It, ‘The reoson {9 said to be that, when a lew tenant, he was one day at Washington, sunniog Mine reifin a bran new outftat the door of hie hotel, where a crowd of boys gathered, one of whom ine auied: “Mister, where's your engine golug to equirt™ —Tauchniiz, the famous Lerpsic publisher, who ‘as given the world so many cheap, handy, and pocks> etadle editions of good books, wax mule Baron for Ids services to Lierature when he had [ssued lis ve hundredth volume. Eis one thoussndth volume fe about & appear (Tisehendorf'* edition of the New Testament), aud the event may be rigualized by his becoming a Count, —The Rev. Dr. Doane will be conscerated hop of Aibany on Feb, % the Feast of the Purill- cation, The refusal of the Standing Commitee of euusylvauia to ansent to Lis convecration dors vot affect the general result, as Dr. Doane's nomination dy received the cousent of a majority of the this country, —The Bank of California, in San Francisoq, employs Chinamen, in half-dozen gangs, to count silver coins, ‘They work under the lendersiiip of @ seventh Chinaman, and work with wonderful rapidl- ty. A hirge number of the coins are taken in one hand and passed to the other so skilfully that any fullure In weight, ring, or surface is detected, Chi- namen can never be cheated by Californians, it te ‘ald, with epurions money, —Lomps of silver ore are now used as currens cy at While Pine, Nevada, the seat of the last rilvers discovery sensation, It passes even at the gaming table, ‘The Kind of ore used ie the pare ebloride, which Is #0 rich aa to be quite malienble, A miner with @ sack of this kind of currency under his arm, marches up to @ faro tuble, takes out achunk and planta ft on a card, calling its value a# he puteit down, The banker picks It up, examines {t, and If satisfied, replaccs it on the card, In another motent he wins the lump, and throws it {ato a wnek belind him, —A very unusual occurrence took place at the parish church of Stradbroke, England, a few Bundaye 40. As soon as the officiating clergyman bogan to publich the banns of marriage for the second time between two persons, @ man who ant close to the rooting-dosk said, “I forbid them.” ‘The reverend ae n kept on reading, and the man replied, *# f em!) Btill the reverend gentleman kept om to the end, when the man again sald, “1 forbid them ‘Phe objector proved to be the son of the Woman Whose banus had been published, He thousht his mother too olf to be marsted aguin, bat the elors gyinen woe of a different opinion, and the nuptiale have douttiers already taken place. —Some of the islonds on the coast of Alaska, near the Aleutin Islew, are. great resorts for scale scals begla to arrive in April or May, and com fo come and go during the summer, oct es, often coming up the blaffs to a cor eiderable height, ‘Thelr umber as legion, ‘The young are brought forth during the months of June and July, the mothers suckling them for nearfy tye wonths, when tey can provide for neeotee ter in the reason all the old seals shed their coats Of hair; as toon as this Is renewed they begin to migrate, and before winter ects in the whole herd paddle off on their mnnusl voyage to The Ruse slang have monopolized these seal fisheries hereto- fore, but are now giving way to the Yankees, —The composer of * William Tell” and “Semi. ramide” devoted the inglorious ease of his latter years to such compositions as the following letter to s celebrated sausage maker of Bologma: * Tho Swan of Pesaro to the Bugle of Lullan sausage makers. You have raised yourself to the very pinnacle of your art by the 2¢n pond and cappetetti you prepared exe pressly forme; itis but just, therefore, that, from among the wild marshes of old Ondusa, my native country, T should elevate my harsh voice in gratitude to you, Iappreciated fully the complete collection of your works that you sent me; my guests, aleo, id fall Justice to them, I will not attempt to seb Your Draisesto music; for, nef told you in a pre vious letter, Luin an ex-composer lost in the din of the modern mosical world—happily for mo, and alse happily for you, You know how to vibrate certaim tes that please the palate—s more infallible Judge than the ear, for it 1# the most delicate and lasting of the senses, Only one note will I touch, that of my profound gratitude, I hope it will ald you to sont higher than over in the regions of glory, 80 that you May deserve & crown of laurels, with which I should like to ornament your brow, Your obliged servant, Joacurm Rossin.”