The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 28, 1869, Page 2

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 38, 199% Cameron sivitld Gut tw schemes ution works which its a thonty is not cieariy duiined [2 hae appro Lions apon millions of acres of the and in some fr a the plalyes of Governmunt ‘ir millions of dollars ia money. Rimaiaced by these examples, the doors of the Federal Capitol are besieged by hangry @ormornn's f As Among tlw mow «pecivas pr just now put forth ie ie plun fur chartering, by act | of Congress, a new railroad between Wash. | ington and Ww of the fact railway accom: ever the prevent route aro not inviting, and that 6 of transit \. enormously high; bar this iwne reason why the Gove t abould exercise doubtful powers in chartering &sew road, Ono of the Inevitable effects of this polley would bo to intl the lobly with hopes of inducing Congress to enter boon the task of passing elm!lar acts in re epost to rallway and telegraph lines Letween mil the groat cities of the Union, We trust cnn srying Iustity ject ity are not unmnindful dations | difficulty in keeping the Indians nt pesct. But while we believe that no other ect of Persons is 80 sure to act with honesty, kind. ness, and firmness toward the Indiangaa the officers of the army, it is on them alone that we must rely to represe the wild whites of the Plains and Rocky Mountains, and to pro- teot the Indians against their outrayes, Avother reason for the transfer, which ought not to be neglected, in ite economy. Troops must be kept in that country to pre serve onter, Their officers can attend to the Vusinoes of the Indians without additional expense, Why, then, should we pay another eet of men to attend to it? ones semitone The Reform of Drea. ‘The vlews which the tadioa of the Soros's a respecting dress aM contained in Howing resolutions adopted at a ro cont meeting of that society : Heectood, "That the tine ts past for laring down . Ditrary slandards of dress the raph Interchanges of thonght Seremt parts of the world, no rales have the ehect of preventing tie nd meriturions fsuton, n of excluston te as nee: liberal 1 dress should not wonder to pro- Wid develop orlele therefor y seed fe aud fit ‘HE moot of the country by the country—a government componed of @ Governor a) pointed by the peaple, and a Legislature with all ite members, absolutely all, elected by the country, Cuba must be treated the same as y other provinee, and be taxed in the just proportion of ite wealth for the support of the general Goveramont, Add to these pro- positions that for free trade between Cuba ond Spain, and we have the principles now insisted apon by at leamt one third of the en- tire population of the tsland. “It ie not enough,” enys La Verdad, “to proclaim to the conntry forgetfalners of the past. Itia not the Government which has injuries to forgive—tt isthe country. It doce not ask for pardon—let this be distinetly tn. dorstood—but for justice; and asks it not hambdy, but demande it.” —— - A journal of Mississippi, the Viek@urg Herald, \a very much troubled at Gen, Pun, Sum man's phr about “taking the starch out of the Indians”? It doesn't regard such language as sufficiently dignified fura General, ‘The truth is That Siearpaw is not as remarkable for formal ity as he is for Aighting, There fs no military man of bis yours who can beat him in managing | ten thousond, fifty thousand, or a hundred tho sand men on a field of battle, or in puttin through an n war; but there may bo those who would beat him in making 9 bow, or dancing the potka—thongh we dare say he would b ut we eondtomn eadtone that exe : i Fase or eood taste . . ry womAa ° dress, ard ake tt w iu w the en of ber own sentiwen mater, Che : ae thet , er of . : 8 ont ie uve ‘ acted by ens te what ib means What, for in- | are t a we and arbitrary | * * really tasteful and meritorious | wowen's clothing which they pro- pose to tatmalace? In what reepect doos it liter f he antiquated and Mliberal “eye on tly 2 On “o erestiog polots the resolutions afford go distinct vrmation whatever, There are, however, oue or two hinte lurking in m which may perhaps be taken as inter: preding, though somewhat vaguely, the re form which the Sorosis has in view, If we understand them correctly, their purport {a substantially as follows I. Every woman ought to array herself t as she pleases, without regard to tho modes of dress adopted by others. If it is her sense of taste and fitness to wear Bloom. | ers, or a short tunic and tights, or the cont and trousers of a man, no arbitrary decroe of fashion @hould prevent her developing her own original idens by arranging her attire as she thinks best, ‘This, we supporto, 9 what is meant by encouraging individuality in dr Il, While the Sororis will not offlelally ap. prove of dresses cut too low in the neck or tvo short in the skirt for good sense and good tasio—both of which are very indetorminate and variable things—it will nevertheless sion” which noun fh will refrain from opening this wide door for cho Sntroduction of projects which would Biimate in demands for aid ia the shape of Pals of land or money to carry through the works ft had initieted, Lf Congress should charter a rond from Washington to Now York, it would become ® model dead-hond route, The mass of those who would pass over this new road, between the commercial metropo- | Me and the national capital, would be Benators and Re) ntatives, who ree noun salary of $5,000 and a travelli re ive an essert the right of every woman to clothe herself in accordance with Ler own sentiment | pretty good at that, too, But what the Missise writer dislikes fh him is one of his merit 8 a pictureaquoness of phrase that is some. wonderful, Everybody remembers his report of the battle in which he smashed Joan Fanuy, describing it as “sending Eanuy whirling p tho valley." That was tho some sort of rhetoric as “taking the starch out of the Ine dinns,"' and we think it very good rhetoric Indeed, Any way, the people like it, and like Siramvax; aud if Gen, Geant should put bin in command over Mississippi as well as Louisiana, a few weeks hence, everybody whose opinion is worth more than n copper would be glad of it, —— Yostorlay ‘Tir SUN gave an exclusive re- port of the ngs in an interesting will case now peniling before Surrogate Tecker, A colored walter died recently im Poughkeepsie leaving property in this city, worth @40,000, te Inia wife and children. The name of this lucky (or, being dead, unfortunate) negro was Watson, He wan onco @ slave in Virginia, and then in Georgia, whence he excaped to New York, where he morried ; and it is this widow and her children who now claim this handsome property under the bequest by Watson to Aie wife and her children, This, of course, raises the question, who é this wife, and who ere these children ? While all was going on awimmingly in favor of tho New York widow and ebildren, lo! an ante- cedent wife of Virginia extraction, with offaprir to match, enters the Court of the Surrogate, armed cap a pis, to contest the rights of the New York claimants, and to insist that the venerable Warsow had thom fa his eye when be executed his fast will and testament! ‘This case raises questions that will severely t the well-known acumen of Surrogate Tucxm for example, whether the marriage of a Virginia slave was valid; whether Warsow, when he ran away ‘Yom Virginia, via Georgia, became £0 fara freo man that be could contract @ lawful mar. in New York; whether, in fact, a negro who ond individuality, ‘That is to say agein, Just exnetly as she pleases, IU, No member of the Sorosis will suffer herself to be swayed from hor great design | by the condemnation of poudery or the | mneers of lity; Wut after the ra. | fa joo bere ney Will all yo on in | their individuality of dress without regard to | Unintedligont and prejudiced public opin | Buch is on reading of these resolutions ; onvention ia ¢ fee | but though it hae been arrived at by pationt | of $8 for overy twouty in'les; offices ra, | And impartial study, we are not sure that it who had better stay at h members af | 18 corr In truth, tho resolves are too the whiskey ring, and their agente and abet. | Orphie, Delphic, and perplexin any de tors, who ought to be in the penitentiary ; | Matic conclasion respecting their pury and jobbers aud lobbyists, whem the public | We rel , however, upon the good will of t could well and to support if they would | Isidies to ret us rigbt if we have fallen into only agroe to keop nway from Washington, | & aud meanwhile wo offer them our Of course, newspaper reporters and other | congratulations upon the noble—we had gentlemen would occasionally be found upon the train ; but they can contrive to get With the prosont ra'lway facilities. Upon calin consideration we 1 (ress wil! Ignore all (hese te flue itself wo legitimate legi. — Affairs. Tho Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends have senta delogation to Washington to re Monstrate against the transfer of Indian aduire to the War Department. The Friends have always been the bene actors of the Indians. ‘They ars entitled to offer their adview upon any question In which the interests of the red men are in- volved. If the proposed transfer to the War De- partment would lead to more war and more ornelty toward the Indians, ev Con. es, and con- Neve ation, Todi honest and Ong | almost #aid the manly—stand they have taken, W frreat believers in the ex lence of Noneonformity in general; and we shall bail with del ght a serious relellion against the deepotism of Fashion, It is the most brainieas and stupid tyranny which has ever besotted mankind, and we truet that the ladies of the Sorosia will bravely persevere until it is overthrown. ‘There may be sume detaila in their project which are not quite perfect; but the project itself is full of promise, and we welcome it with sympathy and hope. Besides, how mnch more pictaresque end Interesting the world will be after the wni- formity of fashion is done away with, and the dress of every Woman, and every man, too, we trust, becomes an artistic development of his own sentiment and individuality t gentle man would be obliged to take the | The Demands of the Coben Tasurgents. fame view of the sulject with the Baltimore | ‘The sudden emancipation of the press in Friends. But we have adopted an oppos te | Havana, after the strict rule of former times, tonelnsion, for reasons which we trust | has invested the popular party with a power they will carefully consider Lefore they | more tremendous and effective than the ean. reject them. non of an army Jn position, Until within In the management of an business | the ast fortnight nobody tn Cuba could utter Phrongh civilians and politicians, the Indians | This | We do not | t under that If the wholo daty of dealing with the Indians could be put into the bands of ends, we know that It would be wall and that there would be no war; but If it is tobe loft to clviliana are robbed, maltreated, and debauched ia the result of many years’ trial fee any prospect of iinproveme system, the F ot be. at all, the poli cians will control it; and whether it be intrneted to Republicans or nocrats, the Indians will be plundered defrauded alike. end prefer that it should go to military men, who are honest by habit and caprif de corps, and who will not only not steal themselves, bul Boing 60. ‘The objection to the proposed transfer in the minds of the Friends is, doubtless, that the profession of military men is war, and that they will not only rule the Indians with barsh and truculent spirit, but will regard way as a remody for overy difficulty that may srise, The error in this reasoning is in suy Pring that tho officers of the army will be mute likely to produce war than other ofll Gals, or that they are moro inclined to mak f ‘This opinion is, we think, entirely mis- taken, The first condition of permanent peace With tho Indians is to treat them honestly, Bindly, and firmly. If thot is fulfillod, and For this reason we exert themseldes to prevent others from his opinion upon the political afairs of island without subjecting himself to arrest and imprisoument, as if ho had committed a With the press fa the'r own great crime, hands, the ruling powers took caro to mis lead the world, not only with respect to the character of the Insurrcetion then and now raging in that country, but also with regard to the popnlar fecling concerning it. We wero tokt that it wasa mere rising of tho loweert classes in the Island, who would Le disaffected toward any government, and that it was unaccompanied by aay great patriotic enthusiasm or earnestuess ; how that tho pross is free, the leaders of the popu Jar movemont are proving both their earnest. ness and sincerity in words whieh eannot be m'staken A host of new papers has sprung into ex. istence, and the old ones bave changed their former tono of timorous request into what might be called an andacious demand for redress of ancient grievances, We now find out what thelr real sentiments are, for they speak without evasion or subterfuge, The platform of the Cubans, and what they do- claru to be the only possible settlement of the national tronviles, is stated by La Verdad with euflicient courage and clearness. 8 journal declares that nothing can induce the Insurgents to place themselves again under the despotiom of Bpain, They roquire d whereas, A t t ry a 1. e if © fe addition the violent white men on the | a government like that which is now being «Lema held in reetraipt. there can be no | founded im the mother copntry—the govern. nothing less than the establishment of fore whether, in default of wife wad children, the will does not become void ; and in that event, to whom this lapsed legaey of the lapsed Warsox will co, whether to the State of New York or to tho State of Virginia, which latter State itself is perhaps i nized a condition that it ts Lnnapaliannd.tateieg—pewponty-tp-—eltbeteseieesbb haw no will of its own, being still under military * SON, perplexity we would suggest to the Sur rogate that he refer this ease to the Freedm Bureau, of to a mixed commission, to be mad | in equal parts «and New York | negroes, with pow cilizen” ay umpire, for which tat ne Mr, Reveapy Jouxwox, whose tation on nogra skull proves his | cations for the pooiti —— nator Kruroca, of Alsbama, has pro- ! tas ‘outhern railroad to the | lic, with whieh he would also have # connees tiow by sail between the elties of New Orleans and | Mexteo, The line fy to start from New Orleans, to | poss through the tidewater country of Texas to a point near Laredo on the Rio Grande, There it is to connect with a Mexican line to San Blas | on the Pacific, with a branch to the city of Mex- ico, Tho whole distance from New Orleans to San Blas will be some sixteen hundred miles, and | to the city of Mexico about fourteen hundred, Mr. Kettoce wants Government aid for his pro- ject in the shape of bonds and land grants, Of course he won't get it; but yet @ railroad to Mexico will some day be @ matter of necessity, and even now it makes @trong appeal to the imagination, —— The condition of the English poor, which makes even life in & prison preferable to the misery they endure when left to themselves, is forcibly shown by the following scene in a polie court, which we Gud rvported in an Engli P heme for a 0 istrato's Clerk Well, what do you say to the charge, ch? “Pris wurzy; th er—Oh, T say the same as you says, ure nu bie—The prisoner was mortal drank any- how, and making @ great 1ow, which © Priconer—No, 1 wnen't ; Lonly bail two el Twas wen of ale, (Addressing the Bench) —I shall be ver you wiilgive me three months, Mr, Whitwell, (Ls ter} You'll do me & great kindness, and if you will } Tshall be very much oblised, [Lond taughter.} Moxistrale—Well, we must drstece whether you deserve three months, “Prissuer—-Oh, there's no doot o° that, (Laugh. ter.) Twart to be locked op anyhow, for Tam thred | o* wandering aboot, living on kicks and curses, and | wleeplog of night® on doorsteps and fa plgstics, (treat ) *Moxistrate— am yon ask too much, 2 cannot give You more than two months Clerk~You can't give 89 much, ae not charged with being rotons, Prisoner—Oh, yee, you eon, Mr, Whitwell, Do ive Me three months; I want three months Heular, (Laugitor,) Dm vara near siarved and hungeved to death, They won't ha’ me i’ the work+ house; they won't ha! me anywaere, (Much laugh ter.) Magistrate—No, Teannot send you to Jatt for se Jong n time as that; the Iaw will not allow me, “Prixoner—Oh, never mind the law, You can Just make alittle one ax'Ndo for meselt (Great laughter.) If you don't PM go and do something which’ maze you send me for six montha, and then TN de happler nor I've been for many & Aa, (Much langhter,) “Mngistrate—No, I cannot commit yow for more thon seven days, and that only eabject to your not paying a flue of Sm, Prisoner—Can't pay, #o IN have to go, Tenpporo T'm of, Good bye, sir, and God bless you, Only seven days t* In this case, the prisoner said he could not Y AY, JANUAK ore-A Curt: ‘The Metropoliten Potice Commissioners met in thetr council ehamber yerterday. Prevent, Jule Borworth and Commissioners Brennan and Ma nierre, and Chief Clerk Seth C. Hawley, President Acton was absent at his country seat In Baybroo Conn, Mr. Hawley having read the minutes of t lant mecting, routine business was taken up, and at Jongtl: the appointment of Captain to fill the place Of the lamented Inspector James Leonard was intro- duced. No conclusion was reached, aud It tw etl!) understood that the Commissioners will not formals Jy announce the appointment anti! dome time in February, ‘The police Capteien, Bergennta, and Foundamen, Whore business took them to the Cen- tral office yesterday morning, were ina flutter; bat thelr excitement, mow seems, wae premature, Certain of the wikeneres assign ressons why Capt, Jamieran should not be appointed; others wnnert that he would not asset the Inepectorsbip if offered, a8 an accoptanes would take him from the Wall street neighborhood, where vast same of money are to be every day. Capt. De Camp i a good off cer, and aftr Judge of horse flexi; but this letter qualification would be found of little valne while pre= riding in the sehool of in#trnciion, Capt, Wilson ie Jooking after Yonkers, and may te considered out of the race, as ramot has it that thera ts more money to be made by euporintending rallroxd busin hon Y 2%, 2869. WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT OUR PUD- LIC SCHOOER oe To the Battor af The Sun. Bin: The strictures in your poper of this on Mr. HB, Ciafin seem tome well Trerted. Now i you wil examine the. Reyer of the same institution of sew rears since, then the “ New York Bree Academy,” you will find the name of Aaron Daniele, or Aaron C. Donicle, This same Daniels is a nephew of Mr, Claffin, whose parents resided in Brovklyn af the time ter son was a et dent at the Aendemy, and #til reside tn Brooklyn. Doniols, Sr, wae wealthy then, and ie now only ® little more eo; he then ram Mr, Clattia’s shoe depart ment, and dors now, but aniike Cian, did not then and does not now pay taxce om real estate val- Ned at $000,000, oF any other anm, for the reason Unat hepaidino tance neat In hie re then, Fou have a cleat case of eponcing, pure ands ple. To the Fatltor of THE Sun. TAXPAYER, Sin: You ailht as well Reop shady about the City College. Althongh everyting you hare anid about fhe (nsiitetion te true, the President, Pro fessors, &e., make ont quite another story to the in flential men who are interested In this concern. Ae cording to their ucrount the Colleee im the greatcet in America, and they are in favor of heaping more Sophomores, &e,, thas making fewer students and leaving twelr oWn position al aaiaccare, AB there Is now no prospect of un abolishment of the Gollege (ihe der ar which makes (he President, Prow feasors, &6,, laugh In their wl@eves) we could wish for soma reforms whieh the si really nerd. All the sthdenté should Fave their marke read to twem at stated intervals: ail should have the use of the | library the year round, and ster text books should cad fee whose authors are professors by boing Inspector. The former yleids abont $5,010 | be, wee than thong CHZEN fa year, while tio latter fe worth only $3,200, Capt, | tnd totors In din Hedden does not want the porition at any price, and | Zv rhe Blilor of The bun. Capt, Bogart prefers the pure air of Harlem to the mephitic atmosphere of Mulberry street. Capt, Steors ment bring rome wetght to bear, were It W for the strong feeliogs of afte tween Commissioner Brennan a therefore, while consalting on Monday with Capt. Young, he expressed no bope whatever of tlevation to the position, Gx J, the drill oMeer, ie Sin: Noticing your remarks in your ralnable | paper in relation to our public actools not providing | for the poorer class, «low m attention | to another fact which bn Wit Your at ‘The thon to the evening acho 1B Thirteenth wirect haw ir, while the otler © ne Tt is in re fald to be looking ont tion of diseipiin $ rinn, providing it #honld be separated from other | : Are, have bil tot, apd duties; but if no ehango Is made im the duttes ht now be allowed to continue tor of the office, he prefers to remain Drill Captain. | We ope you ean do something Ex-Volice Justice and Capt, Baoch Jacobs, of Brook+ | O71 Taaimente ot learning, ail the time tt ean tO lyn, & painstaking, conselentions officer, Is named repare us for useiuiness, Y very tr bat pe eh ally hee making no effort, all the work : ENING SCILOOL, being done by hie friends, almost withont HI8) pie pnuopae The Bune knowledge, ‘The Captain Is an ardent Republicwn, In to-days's edition T notice an article and the late Inspector was a staunch but not demon ‘A School for Men,” In whieh yon state | strative Democrat, and If the mantle should fall om eo hours during the day are em his shoulders the public would repard It as an np pointment for merit without regard to political con siderations, As we have sald befora, the Co tioners would give the office to either Capt. Jourdan or Capt. Moant; but neltuer will accent; while reven ‘or elabt Captains—who shall be nameless—that aro secretly working like beavers, are not wanted by the Commssslonera, Capt. Allaire, Capt, Speight, Capt, om, and Capte, Petty and Thorne, are not among the Inter ela a FTUE EXPRESSES, > Argament of Judge Strong Against the Ex« Press Consolidatl In the Supreme Court Chambers yesterday the hearing tn the cane of Blatchford ogt, Rows anit othe ern was continued. The action {#Inetituted by the plainti’, @ stoekholler im the Mere! Union BATTLE O 5 Express Company, to set aside an agreement made between the Trasters of that Company and the American Express Company, whereby the two cone panies were consolidated and a new compuny formed called the American Merchants’ Union Rx- It appears by the eomplaint that an ment of $5 per share was levied on the stork holders of the Merchants’ Union Express Company, nd that plaintiff has not patd his assessment oF cone sented to the consolidation, Tt i# not charged that too Trustees did not have authority to levy the assessment, but they Nad no authority to make t consolidation, ExJudge Strong, for the plainti | would like to improve mise the ve no such place io do | I world recommend to all such, throuzh yoar | jumns, the New York Evening High School, #itu- Thirteenth street, near Sixth evenuc, sud ated in which has all the advariages which a young. man at wish to Pnjo} tik is in your columi™, OUR STUDENT OF ABOVE SCHOOL, ——— The Now Jersey Roveone Defalcation, of The Sin vention has been called toa short peared tn your paper of yeeterday, follow ing ange Is Hoping that you may publish which # wm whieh the pene sald to have counta of the oftice during t Collectgrand’c. MK. Bos iw wail” ie er in the pub- He tind, through the agency of a public newspaper, Awuspicion that somebody Las been ademulter to tt Goveramant, was one of four Deputy Colle tors under tho late Mr. Ayers, and each had an office, itis dificnit to know Whatothee Is alluded to when a deficiency is alleged ip accounts of the omce.” But as my name with Mr, Ayres, Tfoel it my duty to stato that any intimation that there bas beeme deficiency discovered in my se courts with the late Mr. Ayers, jurmer Collector of the Fourth Distriet of New Jersey, te a vile slander, not having least foundstion jn trath, Yoors re #pecttully, ©. M. K. PAULISON, Passaic, B,J, Jan. &, 1900, A der ick Deputy. ® brief inter. view with Senator Roscoe Conkling, We gave lim tition eigned by four hundred ladies o ad angel (hm to mak setae se f Jeet of wom 6 when We find ali the York women yestentay areved in favor of continuing th rf Aineae to Lanne Pees fe mento plage A alg Rnmanesl fy! nd bo Iminenacly popular jase now. We this teavets our Senators need some education In this dircecion, Tne drove It would be well for the petitions of the several 8! tok at g W,.bG, Rinced mie bande wf their respective 84 tone ire, that thus the ot tome shareholders on son of ail Of (uem might Le i h led to this i@portant eu! moment here, w here plun to tee that Conkling ts revolviug Pesan Geer Macon Whole question im bis winds rratest tone into the i : meee Tae NE Elta fk | er wena il fuse powcr to amend. ail’ net Santas Rey Te e| amport oF, if to destroy and bad tos Ry wd Property or educatioval qualification just as we have ”. It wne claimed that the & pla ove Yor an | Tikit bin cou artes ; ; Jojanotion and reeeiver, ‘The defendants will reply | Yemen of New . i Rallresd A gentle sdiary of his wifo's ton ben em tribes SOA the Chive and Raltrose™ | | Mandar—a thick fons na, cectn throngh it FINE COMMISSIONERS’ MPETING, adopted ado. day—Gloomy and very chilly; unsensunable wea a A lamp the Biate ov abion | Wdaceday—Frosty, at tues sharp, Thareday— Bite ¢ ola rges of Extravagauce and Corruption— te of Edwerd Ning of te | #F cold In tho morning, red sunset, with fying Selzure of a Glycerine Sleop— Liquid Guu- . 3-P, Comegys & Com | clouds, portending hart weather, Friday—@toru im vowder for Sale Everywhere, ane ge neumig, Srpant. lash evening, on the | savie company. Notice | the morning, with pals of thunder; alr elear afters Jour o ety OCC Oren OV a bul to : At yesterday's meeting the Committes on Com- | f'Uon. importers of coves. Bamaze to stock §10), iyata, Wilatiangton and Bel- ward, Saturday—Gleams of wanshins, with partiad Dustibles reported tht the sloop Southport, from | and to building #10; fully tusuve:t. tumore Kailua Coupany, thaw; frost again at night, Sunday—A slight south. Connecticut, whieh arrived here a few days ago with | Iw Wonra Stuer,—Yesterlay morning, at 108 - —_—---— wostir io the morning; exlm and pleasant ab dinner twenty-one cases of nitroglycerine on board, bad | Work piroct, @ @ building, vecupied and owned Vale Alw time: hurricane and carthqnaie at ntyht, been seised by their orders and sent beyond all pos | Ey hace GHW: motinntred, NEST MWC] Bogrox, Jan, B.. AL the Yale —The onoe flourishing stations on the overland wibility of danger. ‘They alto reported that, having Jane night,'the Rev. Dr, Blagten, made an examination of a number of samples of kerosene oll exposed for sale or on stornge in dif- ferent parts of the city, they had found in simort every instance that it is ad explosive, A Net of 159 persons was given In «hon premises kero= scue oll of a quality bel w the fire test had veen found, and the Commitice recommend that these Persons be prosecuted under the act of May 4, 1906, me brioeing tie Lasness of ther tate ack (orn cola bass. | #bow that there really was no joke about she matter, Col remarked upon a report that Commis: Sottings About Town A joint resolution passed the South Careline Logi im war had pied two human skulls upon the Nee rere Demammin, Rad charactorsed the | The etothing cutters contemplate to increase | iniise scaiordsy. auilirldlig tie vo euipioy 1Way Of # Acnerted hotel, New York Fire Departiucut ot an extravagant and Ba a Gu AFMOATOLGE LUE LN@ prover sd nds ee cormapt organization t and Ted aresor | Well. Wages whieh are $80 per week, Pibesh haa ec at manlcor of buildings in Chicago in bert de: Jntion that the sioner ber ted to giv At pol Arial yosterday, Patrolmen Acker gad * staselena Gomntyr L . Times of tunt city: “There are not such particulars of extravagaace and corruption as | James W. Martell were trie: ogiect of | Tp ider'vs hoe Macdle Ranchi Be ‘ have come to bis knua ied.-e mURE inelr duties as officers of the sanitary police. ee te vetwcen the Peruvian ana | (8, omens vuliiage ty Chicago vbat are net — ae An explosion in tho oyster saloon at 214 Rows | american off-ors of tia Peruvian Loclads, requisiag | Patlesqaes upon wiht whould be, and the sluht of Meeting of Bauk Clerks. on sterday afternoon, imjured several cooks, | the intervention of Miaistor Garcia, will teause the architects of the Anus Abont 200 gentlemen connected” with the | Wilters and oyster dealers. 0,8, Co ky & merchent of Minnsapotts, Mir | tan era to tara in thelr codiua, could they be pere qerious banking ihe elty aveembled yestere | Another of those © féa dozer,’ containing stock | Ressts, has, failed, Linbiiltien $04. Other 14s | mitte8 to ook mpon them, We are as far from day in the Cleoring House to mike the certifies cheeks, &e., has peen stolea from the om Siiceh taal ceiiak | what we should be mote In qaahity ess eho Seenatis Commi nator Siockton’s reerption to the members of Aerancecienth for feraiing 4M So Bn Tsien FSS Enenig Deaeny, we'New gerey Leaisatire was large) siteuded tw | trom a perfvet dinner, In fact, hash is a term wile Me tel a eel fi eveontug. best describes eleven-tweitths of our butidings, the deconse oF auy one belo c xp Meerinas,—" Dickens” is the | ““pye p, badly aéthete dings. {he sum Ho calle lel to he Presb eae iio be given tovnlgbt at Trenor Hall, | wight Raramuayan rey thoust Lady actuated 86 | hey conslat of the odds, ends, and remnante of Parsour, of ¢ aT f ¥ was ele ie of eeture bo be giv nial enor Li jel, atl oceu he sob, Ly 3 as fs mon, and Mr, Dummer, of the Mérchants* Bizth avenue, between Forty-frst and Forty #econd | ‘The damage by the burning of tne Custow-llousa | What was werved up by the artistic caterors of an Bank, Secretary, ‘thers are 40 gent aircets, by the Hon, George W. Curtis, being tho | ® Bio Janiero was Inrgely overessiuated carter day. nected with te vartons banks who hive slready ox. mi oe ‘4 aay The Levart Tynes, of Constantinopte, publishes a —A letier, signed by promine bels 0} Pressed thelr fntention of jolring the Asmociition, | Isat Of * Evening Up Town.” The grest Kngtith | somce chat seoator Nye, of Nevada, Will eaccsed Mr, A letter, signed by prominent ex-rebels of A Commlites of nine, in nition to the Charman And Secretary, Was eppoluted to draw up byl ws and regumtioi ———— n Sale of Cont, Delaware, Lackaw Company ‘sold Auctio Yesterday the We Railros thousand tong ). There w of buyers, aud g prices w Was a deciine of about &) cen coal ve the last sal Th day's prices: Six thonsand ton Mowing are yester+ of lump coal were : largely illustrated by specimens of ving plants and Governor of Dakota urges upon the Secretary : . Tih Shen'at teasttons tte, of martina Grawings, The students of the Colicge, | of tne inveripe ioenraent Digoemity dr prowupt ree ur | lag at the tame end as tat proposed by the Virginia tons grate elze, BAT $4.00; 6, hecaries, druggleta, and physicians are invited | (he,warviog Hndiaus on Wie Upper Alavour!,and asu'8 for | Conservaiive Committee in Washington, Among the 4. 558$4.70; BOW tone of apothecaries, : 1880. ine Agricultural Bociety hn elected Prosi: | Slgners are ex-Gove, Neil 8, Brown, Henry €, Foote, y ; and 7,000 tons of chesinut size, $4eq Ueaud, | 1 attend, oe eee eer etl veretars, Bb Boaren the Hon, A. 8, Colyar. For comparison, we append (he list cfprices obtained | Mr. George Franclé Train will open » battery of Morley ram 6, W ue ee ere ee at the last three monshily sales gebageh anes os Corer tasttbate ible ovtaiee, corge W. Kiower, Seward Duly —This is the way they opened the Bosnian Dee, %. Det. Ecuirss ov tie Moox,—Pale Luna’s fa Rodney ged 5 Raren Dit Parlioment the other doy. The Pasha of the prove rence basta ty have lt,wae veiled last evening, The firet that we Jnetite one! Convention ta. 1 hee arowe and said, May the Lord, the Lord of the Grate... Che feo, fy by hie promriy ce eticanas | & Convention ne prop ‘a letter, 19 | Worlds, for ever sustain and keep the life-giving pra Tok Ld | seve of te actiee was as a himanae | fini coloren citizens to tho Fiche oY sulla shadow of his Majesty the Sultan over hie peoples, Chota BBS Sy GBS LB | ime, and the show wos als ovor at tie The mew | ty ahe Morita Teeialature, » resolution passed the | 4 Whereapom ihe hassle iaaehaencae % joure yeetorday dee ty he ev er D} a l- ——-= garement Of the edetaretion was O.G80 Of the Gleme- | Howe yrutcriay desley ne Ine SACs, Ine | enteen Turks, thice Orthodox and three Oathelle Kwtours ov Prruras—The Grand Lodge for | ter, or 5.496 digits on the northera mb, ‘Tho mocn Gov. Heed oF ile the State of New York will assemble this morn get into the workhouse, but we understand that the pri ‘wu is preferred even by many who are eligible to the former institution, - — Youno Men's Cunrettan Assoctarion.—A read- ing will be given to the members of this organize on op February ® For Uckets, &e., ace adyertive ment, (Tharsday) in annual eesinn, for the first time since , 'F |] arbany yesterday, and elected President) Dr: Alexauile awfol panee, After a white the Pasha aguin Its organigition (Oct, 39, 1863), at St, John's Hall, | of @ well-known alo ee pitelg We iy eae Wroder, of New vork,, Vige Ure ident, Dot Fimiads | took up the parable and spoke: “If we shall aet ac- corner of Bowery and Delancey street, at 9 o'clock, | 411 striking printers and gilda Of New York | Corresponding Beorctary, Dr. A.#-Pae! | eording to the will of the Bulten, ali oar eine will be We,ure taformed that the number of Tadges hap | Rotierd taking observations bbb Ronovior Felted | come, of Cosniongee| Sreaearer, Ur. 0s a Gini ol | oseiven uate on tn thle world une te tee pachi” Gad doubled in this city sin thee : roof of nine-story buildin; 5 Ne Grand Linde, ‘Toese ‘ure’ nety ERY tinea. e | Hie.teleseone to A sscretely walches every variation s The fra exhibition of | {hee more "Amens" revounded throug’ the honey Bupreme, and over two hundred subordinate Lodges | ot the siadow crawling over the fice of the moon, | | Grunastic Exnrpirron. irat exhibition of | vhen followed communications about roads, schools, in ‘bie Oritery ‘with a rapidly Increasing membershir, | The atmosphere von. on, a 4 ee io the saat we ven ide t oo) of ron Gy 1. | barracks, &e., and the Dusiness of the sem luck ia now over teveniy thousand, objects | which was very wilavorable geignst et, Soa mesg ening, Grsfuda Fee ean Be remit done with male voters in taoet of the Stater, and as Engiand 18 dolog to-day, though we think we could eS ee shine all previous efforte, The Kiciner Rath will | at Cambridge, Mags, became a boy again anong the awing Wo taolr positions at 8 o'clock proc vos®, renewed his youth of body and mind, and prow art Masemtat Ladin badly made far more profelency tan he would when Vigilance Committees and sec URC seers Vemnee - are spriogtig up all over the chy, ‘Their objects cre | _—Cen. Kavlings recently dined with « mem | with any powert SMR GAYETING OF THD SEASON. ———— The feo Match on the Capitoline Lake, Brooklyn. The tee sports ore at their height. All the rinke end ponds arc thronged by day and by night, and nobody thinks of anything but funcy dress mas- queradcs vnd skating watcice. The principal event of yesterday wan amatch for agold modal in the arter- noon and a “carnival at night on the Capitoline Jake, Bedfors, L. 1. Thie popuiar resort of the in- Dabiteants of the Western District is culled "Jake" to distinguish it from the “ponds.” It i one of the largert skating resorts tm the country, being eight sores in roa, The skating match yerterday was for s bandsome gold medal, given by the proprictors, Mesere, Weed & Decker. Five members of the Brooklyn Club entered their names, bat only to of them skated through the entire twenty.aix mover mente, Morera. Boody and Dolinrd went through the programme, and a the couelusion the score stood 68 (0 68 tn fivor of the former, Messrs, Meado and Martin, of the New York Club, were the judges. After dork the Jake was brilliantly {lum nated, and abeut 1,409 couples participated, A lar number were in fancy costume, aud the festivities were kept ap anti iste nour, BUNBEA haste seta —The second son of Rachel, the celebrated ao tress, is clerk at the Dijon Gas Works, —Seals have recently been shot in the Thames river, Connecticat, —The Empress Engénic still looks handsome At distance, bat when you come near you discowed that her tice is thickly powdered, and painted andeq the eyes, and her eye-brows penciled. —Deacon Andrews, the Kingstom murderer, te emploged in the polishing shop at the Ptate Priva, ae enjoying good health, amd quite reoumeilad to his lot, —A Berkshire girl, says the Boston Post, walle 64 14 milew throngh the anuw the other day to mar Ty # young man who eouldn't come to her hovse for fear of a six-shooter which the stern parent carried, —The report of the Oneida Community showe S constant Inerease Of the cont of Uving tor severad Years, antil it avernzed $1.45 per week to each pere fon in 1868, A French chemist has invented @ new way a» Preparing ¢laes for mirrors, [t fa couted with at coedingly thin layer of platinam, and becomes, mys terlously, wot only a perfect mirror, but alee romaine +0 transparont that It may atill be used for wlodowe, —Two thousand women, wives, &e., of the Rajah of Jeypore, lately set upon their guardian, whe ema Batta.—The great bad maryud of the Tentonta MAnnerehor takes plice at the Aeademy of Music this evening. The event bas ot been heralded by @ | was keeping them too strictly, and beat him moat flourish of trampete, but we onderstand ‘hat the | unimercifuily, He barely escaped with his life and @ carnival and procession will be accompanied by | broken arm. socnes of starting magnificence. It is safe to pre- —A terrible warning to bacholors ie the experi« diet that ft will surpass anytuing thus far preeented | enoo of Henry Kincaid, of Stafford, who, baving lived daring the present season, Singlo to bis Sith your, married a girl of 17 laet (wll, Among tho choiee balis announced for this evening | and last weck Was consigned to the insane wayluin af fre the reunion of the Colambis Yaoht Club at I, Hal); the reception of the XXX Bockal Cab at Ap danse of the Amicas Club at Thompson Academy ; the reception of Company B, Amer Gourd, at Irving Hail; and the bawi of Gorge Fran- cls Trata at Cooper lostivate The seoond Arion Carnival tak: mania Assembly Room this ¢ '@ | Concord, N, I. —A married wan in Now Hampshire has adopt ed an origival method of cconomy, One morning recentiy, when he knew his wife would sce him kissed the servane cil, The household expenses were justantiy reduced §300 per year, Prof, Maroh says: “1 kuow @ man who, at the are «#40, entered the Lawrence Scientific Sehood place at the Ge wing, It will ou . | Who partook of wine rather freely, and beenme talkie ‘vo, Finely the latter sald, speaking of somebody: “Oh, that mine enciny woula write @ book I “Your enemy,” sald Kawlings, pointing to the bot Ue, * don't write books, —A fellow went into a one-dollar store in Porte land to maken porchase, The clerk aseared him that fi conld take anything in the store for that sam, undthe man made choice of the stove, ond insisted on the genaincness of the trade, but compromised and took foar dollars Inst. Sharp prasitee taat, nt de Nieuwerkerke, one of Napoleon’ favorites, who was recently reported to be hopelessly peralyzed, is belfeved to have been clandestinely married in 1963 to the Prinecas Mathilde, the Bure ror's cousin, and whom Napoleon, in 189 inteuded to make lils wife. —Col. Forney says in the Preae that on the boulevards of Paris lia hee seen men and women, too, driving velocipedes at rates of speed that would put the Hanlons to shame, ‘That is the Colonel's tte pression, but he is doubtless mistaken, Our veloc podisia drive as fast oud a8 well as any, —The present Grand Vizier is one of the mowt majestic looking Turks in Constantinople, bat » man of little ability, Ho has but one wife, but Keeps at his own palase an English covcubine, whore beauty is said to Le so great that when she visite the woinen of the Sultan's Larew, none of them oan be compared with her. A buge chignon saved « woman's Ife, ‘« Pitteborgh, on W Some careless boy@ hooting pigeons, when a Dall from thelr gum ginnced through the window of un adjacent boards ing house on Fourth avenue, and loged im the cli gon Worn by a indy iu the room, the unusual vize of which prevented the axull bef cracked, —The Choe (N. H.) Republican says that Riche ard P, Kent's mare recently getting 1oove tu her sta dle, tue door of which was open, trotted out turoagh the street to a Diockemtth's shop, entering which she trotted up to the anvil block, ut which a man waa at a8 varied as tho circumstances of the men who pore them, ‘The Caben expedition a few weeks ago; bat it has been anpers moversent on Turkey, A socrct organizution come posed of Grecks, Rawstans, Germina, Frenchmen, and others, including Mobrews, has teeently been formed in thin city, whose avowed object Is to anite at may make war upon Turkey to drive her back to her Mohammedsa home, “The Grand Army of Palestine,” as the organization is | pleaved to call itself, will Ineist upon clesriug Avia Minor aa well as Southern Karope of the hated Turk. We are not at Liberty to disclose mames nor the places of meeting of this mititary asociation, but it je @ fact tuateuch aa orgunization is In active ex: intence, | | | ee Dead Man Ative and on Trial. Rocuesten, Jan, 27.—This afternoon Albert Hente, otherwise namuel R, Allen, was examined on charge of defrauding the Union Mutant Life ine surance Company of Maine, In dnly Inst Hyntt, aliar Allen, obtained from the agonts of tho In- surance Company, Norcross & Bailey, in this city, a policy of insurance fur §5,000 op Lis life ty the name f Samuel R. Allon, which, in the month of August following, he assigned to J. G, Garlock, a Inwyer of this ety, for tue consideration of $10. On Thanks giving day Allen was reported to have been drowned jn Irondequoit bay while hanting, Two men, George Hart and doin Holliday, alleged that they faw him fall from the boat, Cuicf of Police Sher- man wulmequently ascertained that ya Allon, was not drowned, and therefore he arrested all coucerned im tho attempt to defraud the Insurance Company, Allen conferses that he did not fall out of the boas, — New Jersey Legisiature, Tnextow, Jan. 27.—In the Senate the bill con. firming the lease of the Morris and Kesex Kaliroad to the Delaware, Lackawanna aud Western Kal road dered to a third reading, Sen uy wa ented a Mill Incorporating the Liorary Aw 000, © with A eapital of A bill Sas Introduced im the house by Nir. it and held up her fore foot, Examinatioa @ portion of East Orange to be tue the | auowed that the nats were loon, and they were tity ot Newark as the Fourte: ath Ward, o properiy fixe hiladelphia has a police Heutenant of ro @ personal magnetiaia, According to # re porter of that eclty, witha #ingie look of sorrow Over Lis white neck tle he can as casily diepornc @ (of wreling, Caring som uit) on the grass ia thorize 8 eee Of UO t twe amount of in Newark, to 6 Newark, ot morka! nee water into tue elty, dioune. Mr, Stockton Dectared U on Senators manage the degraded oF'our sex as sci as men do | Tuexrox, Jan, 27.—At rion both Honses met | tO" PAK, a8 an musters ian cowl anoomptirh the the fograded of thelr sex. One thing; we should | yy force. avsemtly Noha fy Bleckion wee fame with actod in each hand and a poeket full of hut up all the dram shos a few days before election | 1* JONt assnmbly, and dorm leva tioaaait and get the women tn their normal condition, We | Qare ee sld poate trom te F - agin | fused tite seuiptor. Vinnle Resin, relusteted in | yy Seceritan’ dienliea An Exetor, NH, Ind and tasste, ned re Ne alone Ler new tution the Capitol, as sweet'and beautuul | PM) fee \oint an elected W | wpeotively 14 ond 15 years, tried ope. Ia lg bad tose oF wot | Mecver, Ab 1 said we, In meeting her, what wicked | Stic wince dren yr lees Ae 2 ROPE: SERS Re SDE: LOA seen ‘ae tateatond mice mm was that, who, In 4 St. Louls letter, ranked me | } be j Sac: Put on Am immense supply of elotbor, and Wp se fpee rotten) | women Wio have persecuted you? No | © : Prowily footed ft to Newmarket Junetion, whera $2.00 ray undet the pretence vf pr cok. ng | ver rejoiced 9 over & new amin ot | Went Virginia, | they were recepta gnuwiniously seperated, and behalr of riy mpanies, and soon after another ad- | Naat toler ae fat oe ablican canons | bronght home, ‘The boy pives os a renson fur elepiog vanee of $10,000. ‘They appropriated to each rct Brgy (THe Gov, Borewen fur | that bs" loves the 1 peal der uf ti mittee And the attorney 0.000 to y | Firt, and wanted to see ber oftence « i @ attor r stand how any one who has watehod thon his wot ° time, | dd expense prior to the legal organ lea nore of that young gitl om her motel a eile aber agiteedysti thc thon of th anyeand for the Fisk tie had in the charm of ter studio, the power End of the Indian Ware —‘The yearly cost for singing and organ play. cach member inveat thesmonnt'in stocks This was Fs, of ized into her pert Sr. Lovis, Jun. 27.—Uon, Sheridan ix daily | ing im sowe of the eiurchaw of Boston te aa fellows; tn November, 1 jm 4 in May thereutter the reso: any other feeling bat love and expe veyed retarn f Vthe | The Rev, Mr. Ul Nureh, #5000; the Rey. W, tition was repealed. What did the several members eae wee we, = R, Alger's, 87,000; Ol South, §2,800; Park street, place it? In Nov,, 1863, x at : ; Baex atroc : Mount Vernon, $2 tors of the Company, In addition. to compensation oe ee of the Convention this Bioeng. J }, $00; Elot (Moxhury), theretofore, The pay’ 000 to Fudge Cums | of the Temperance party ur rury) 8900; tho Rev Dr, stock and other tra adver a Ix Doss Karly yesterday morning, At 104 Duane street, ortatnating In enpied by Faeob Iirach & Co, cotton Dating ialling on the stove, ineured In Curcaao.—51 South State street, occupied by Childs Brothers, eomnilssion we rebs the third and fourth floors by H, Pui Daw & Coy was buracd oo M $50,000, hips an story-tollor can Lave uo more congenial or able com- pror to draw his portrait than his American cou ond the admirers of both should avail themselves of this opportunity, Dr, Thurber will deliver the first of a course of Jeetures on Botany before tho Colleee of Pharmiey, at the chapel of the University, Waskington square, this evening, These lectures are supplementary to the regular course of the institution, sud will be was obseared most of the evening. Bootblacks ar Fifth avenue belles witnested ft, and in the vicinity the Imprisonment penalty and clare Pouce, route between Stiilwater and Fort Chi tor, and Ana if chil, New Association at the festival of the 3 Yada, are now closed and anmhabited, On the door to bo acld on the 20th inst, of every deserted house along the whole ronte ome a #oarks trom the Teleart torsof the bank of Overend, O 0 Weld for Gaal goods of £0, cana, | Legisiature Is discuss pel iwilronds to adayt wa.toras freaght Ca: The Legtelarnre of Nevata hus enacted a law wag has written in hure letters: “Charley Crocker Killed this man dead as h—t" Mr, Crocker'a prominent connection with the Coutral Paete Hall- Fond Comprvy Is suppored to have Ineited him ta this wholraate slaughter, At ono tation, a if to ite com: | Morris us Amer ean Minister to Turkey A meeting of influential eftizeny was held in Dut Mn on Tuceday might, aud résoiviiows Ware adopted tlie Whe Goversi.ent to paruou the Fema vou Noshvillv, has heen sent to the Hon, Horace Greeley. It ts In response toa late erlitortol in the Twine advocating untyersal amnesty and impartial sudrage, ‘The signers heurtily indorse the platform laid down in the Tribune arilele, and guarantee that Tenmessea will promptly respond t it, agreeing not to inter. frre with (le political rights of her blnek eitixems {4 her disfrapehised whites lave equal privileges exe tended to them, The leiter fayors the Coustita- tional amendment embodying impartial suffrage, aim- theta ‘On Moaday two horse thieves, John Fox and Sam, W. Taylor, were taken frou. the Custody of the pags trate, near Poplar Corucs, PCOR, aud shot to death by @ party of hashed men, 2 Of 3 10D tate Kelectle Association met in Chrsans, and one Jew—rose, and at a given sign thriee ssid “Amen.” This was followed by & long The New York