The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 5, 1869, Page 2

| mena se that the manner in which he ha * b AMUSEMENTS. 7 — > BROUGHAM'S THEATRE, 24th streot, adjoining Fit , Avenue Hotel—Retter Late than Never, nod Dre matic Review for 1808. BIBLO'S GARDEN-Forty Theives; or, Ol" in Family Jars.” BOOTH'S THEATRE, 24 st. between oth aod Oto ave, Roineo and Juiter, WALLACK'S—Mron Ado About Nothing. THE TAMMANY—The Ristey Japanese Trovpe, Matt née on Saturday. Striking GRAND OPERA HOUVSE-La Perichoin, Matinée on Beturday. OLYMPIC TIEATRE—Humpty Dempty, Matinéct at 1s o'clock, Weday nd Saturdays. TARATRE FRANCAIS—Fiews de Th), Meio Sat. wrday. BOWERY TNEATRE-The Mes fo the &e. Math on Saturday, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Biene. Woop's MUERCM—Field of the Cio! of C and Wild Animate, BRW YORK CIRCUS, 14th Ft. epnoeite Academy of Mosie—The Brothers Jarareli, Matinie Wedber day and Saturday at 2) P.M BXEDECOR'S ART GALLERY, 7 Proatwar—Thos, Wil “Yosemite Vaitey" and other Paintings. Fed. =Barda 1d, Liviog il Th Biines for All. FRIDAY, FRARUARY 6, State Righte—The Senate. A certain clas of Democratic journala aro Pentending that it isan outrage that emall Btates like Connecticut and Now Jersey should be allowed two Senators in the United Btates Senate while large States ke Now York and Penneylvania have only tro, Tho provision of the Constitution under which Bach State has an equal representation wit t Houss of mises, with: lo at this pro ct, whatever other hones its Overy other 3: r have The provision just quoted is one of tho most import the doctrine of the oq and te dinal points Jur mon of that and JAckso: BERsox, } UILes, y period tween the upper and lower parts of the sity, and not a Inw which will bo a dead letter from the start ——— The Nincteenth Street Gang. In the reports of nearly all the arrests for murder and other Ligh crimes in this city during a month past, the phrase," lo was a member of the Nineteenth street gang,” has conspicuously figured. Theso reports, mado up of materials furnished by the station houses, give us a minute history of this Gang, its field of operations, its central rendezvous, its marvellous achievements, Accompanied by the names and biographies of its leading members. From these recitals we learn that though a fow of tho lesser lightein this galaxy of eut-purses and cut. throats have now and then been temporarily obscured, and one ‘or two have been wholly pat out, the constellation still ehincs, though ite lustre ia not quite #o concentrated ns of yore, because, being “ well known to the po- lice," its members have been genttered over arather wider field. Wo venture to suggest that if this Nine- teenth etreet gang is not a myth, it is high time it was so thoroughly broken in pieces that its momters as well as its achievements should pass Into history In the many accounts of criminal proceed. inge that have characterized the period under review, it will have been noticed that tho authorities usnelly classify the culprits Vas belonging to varions “gangs” which in- fest certain localitios in the city, Nor ean it have esceped general obaervation that not a | few of those felons have recently escaped or been discharged from Bing Sing, whenco they have returned here to retumo the ¢ genial occupations of robbing on tho streets, Liowing open safes, Droaking into shops, aud | ripping up the abdomens of aged citizens, Now, if there is not force enough at tho disposal of the legally constituted authorities to drive this fraternity of freebooters from the metropolis, would it not he well to placa them under the immediate supervision of the law? Paris regulates by law vices which it cannot destroy by law. to exist and carry on operations among. us, wo might apply the Parisian prin e to them For example, let them bo incorporated, either by special nets of the Legirlaturo or under the general laws now in fores, There is the manufacturing and mining act, for in stance, under which all the petroleum, gold, n. If these “ gangs” aro a later da ‘were their able a pent advocates, } Now it o 1 0 mn recent Statesmen acd journals which are contending that the equal of the States in the Beaate ovght w » longer maintained, god that representation in that body should Be based on population, as is the case in the Tower House of Congress, claim in the same breath to be the special champions of Stato Severe! gnty aud State Rights, as eld by the thers of the Democratic party. "Ve ara not arguing this question, but @umply stating it. We insist that there fs a @reas inconsistency and a palpable anta- in the two positions of orators and .eurvals that clamor for Staw Rights while Aemanding the abolition of tho egual suf. Gage of the States in the Sonate, a ———— Mir. Evarts for Secretary of States Wis alleged inthe Borton Journal thatthe Bon. W. M. Evans has informed bis friends Aa Washingson that he would not accept the | Stice of Attorney-General inthe next Admia- istration, if it should be tendered to him While it will not be disputed in any quar. fer that Mr, Evants has added immensely to the character, dignity, and ability of the Cab- inet now on the eveof ning power, of performed the functions of Attorney-General has in- creased his own professional renown, no ne of hi's friends could desire him to con- inne In that post. In a professional and pe @uniary sense it costs him a consiierable sac- Fifice to hold it ; aud the public reasons which made it a duty thet he ehould accept it lust year no longer exist. There is, however, ‘one place in i14 Cabinet for which his staties and experienco have p¢ ulierly fitted him, in which he might render services of such value to thecountry that wetrust ho would not decline, should he be asked to take it. ‘We mean the place of Secretary of State. We do not know to which of our prominent states: men it is Gen, Gnant’s intention to assign the important duties of that office, but there $6 no man in the country who would bring to them a greater familiarity with the law of mations, ora greater power forthe discussion ‘andeettlement of diplomatic questions, than Mr. Evarrs. In cass Gen GRANT should conclude to appoint MY. GUEKLEY a8 Minister to Eng. Yous, it would ben eingular coincidence if ‘Dis credentin!s and his instructions should be pigned by Mr. Evanrs as Socretary of Btate. Bn the memorable struggle for the Senator ship in 1861, these two distinguished gentle men literally defeated oach other, so that neither of thom frained that great object of ambition, Po! , however, often recone les Yougher antagonisms than theirs; and this maxitn could not have a more striking illus tration than in their co‘peration in finally ‘and forever dieporing of the grave difficulties ‘that still exist between the Uni aces and Gzoat Britain. ——e Crue'ty to Animals, ‘The humane and enthusiastic Brnom is Jaboring at Albany to secure the passage of the following law: “That every stage or vehicle ured for carrying Possengers, and drawn by two horses, shall ae So nee a Ad Farsi Pgh wesengert, and ralload core 1 ¢@hero t8 a man in Rhode Istand, named TI patecnger siall’ b¢ provides with a comturtabio | C: Dorsey, 9 m who toila hard with bis peat.” “ Mr. Beno really means to enforce this Baw, should it be enacted, he will have to add to it another clause, to this effect: “No man, women, or eliild shall get foto a wtage Which already contains twelve passengert, or Into a War which containe twenty-four passengers, under penulty of fine and imprisonment, we for a misde meaner,” This amendment being made, the title ¢ the act should then be changed so as to read : “ An act to prevent on plo of New York from riding in cary an omnibuse For it is notorious that at cer hours of the day, unless the cars on the city railroads carried forty and fifty passen. gore cach, one-half of the people who desire to ride in them would have to walk, On ‘gome railroads, even, it would not be possi _ Blo to put enough cars to carry all the pa wengers at twenty-four to @ car, What is weeded is the arcade steam railroad be- half the peo and peat companies have been formed, It would searcely put a greater strain vpon its provisions for the “ Nincteenth street gan, the * Second avenue gang,” and the * Water street gang” to incorporate themselves under itthan it has been subjected to in spreading its wgis over enterprises in whose presence the South Sca bubble sinks out of sight. Under the general corporation act, the members would have to file with the County Clerk and the Sccrotary of Stato certificates setting forth the specific objects they intend- ed to pursue, their prescribed ficld of opera tions, their principal places of business, the names of their officers, and the period during which they were to exist. There would be a limit to their operations, for they could not take, hold, or convey any more property than the amount of the capital stock fixed by their charters, The public would know something about their operations, becauss their officers would be obliged to make an annual exhibit of their affairs in two newspny in this city, thus attowing the community whom they robbed, and tho legal representatiy those whom they murdered, to enjoy a modi- cum of the infonuation now monopolized by the police, Under this plan, the diMeulty of getting them into the courts, which now seems to be insuperable, would to removed, for by the terms of their charters they could sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, They could be proceeded against according to the usual formula, as forexample: “ The defendants, a Dody corporate, created under the laws of the State of New York, and doing business in the city of New York by the corporate name of ‘ThamWineteenth Street Gang.” An ag grieved party could drag them into Cham- Leraany day on an order to show cause why i Jon, or @ man ua, OF Agro war rato should not iesuc; or, worse than all, why a Roceiver Fhould not be appointed to take charge of their effects and run their ma- chino, ‘hese corporate Tabilities would hav, thar corresponding Denelits. With free, access to the judicial tribunals, if, when the “Gang” demanded from a citizen Luts watch, he refused to deliver, they noed not stad him te get the prize, Lut could summon Lim to Court in an action of repleyin ¢ trover, On demanding from « policeman, for instance, Lin purse or hts iife, and he declined to yield either the ono or the other, it would subject him toe suit for damages, the meas uro of which would be the value of the thing demanded, which, in many cases, would perhape be too little to carry costs, If one of these corporations refused to yleld to judicial process, it would only be necessary, a6 a last resort, to let loove upon them the Erio Railway lawyers, who in a very short time would worry them out of (he State, or drive them to cominit puicide with in it. Of cow other cognate combinations might desire to incorporate themselves on this plan, as for instance, the Whiskey Ring, the Albany Lobby, or the Straw Bail Fra ternity; but for the present ite benign pro- visions should be confined to the industrial classes we have designated, hands, and spends a good deal of the mon earns in conferring a little extraordinary com upon people confined i Iwi once the inmate of a8 Rhe prison, J fe Ista them that are in bonds as bound with them, day by # rare and unique act of generosity. he rt nia ho was a, having been convicted of some offence ; and now thut he is prosperous in business, he remembers His kindly furnished you w strawberry festival luet June, colebratcs the forty -fifth anniversary of his birth to- Me bas furnished a roust \urkey dinner to all the convicts tn the State prisons of Maine, New Hatnpshire, Ver THE SUN, ERLDAY FEBRUARY “THE MAVANA RIOTS. a First Complete Account of the Collisions, And leo $0 thote of the Albany Penitentiary, He rent me @200, with which T hove purchased ninety turkeys, weighing In the aggregate 46 pounds, and giving to each Of you & full quarter of a turkey, witeh will be nerved to you at the usual dinner hour, ‘This may be called not only an extra, Ainary priton dinner; and, that there may be noth- Ing of the priton abont If, 1 have added, from my own funds, a loaf of biker's Uread to exch inmate. ‘There is something very touching in this kind- neva to those whom the justice of society is com. pelled to trent as outcasts and to punish as erimis nals. Tt reealls thone blessed words whose diving eae iad ue aty nothing can diminish: ‘ Forasmuch ag American Cidzen Killed. ye hiave done it unto the least of my disciples, @ | eneeiat Correspondence of The Brin. have done it unto me.” Havana, Jan. %%.—The city haa witnessed r, or eorats arta maats daring the let weolt two bloody riots, One took We notice with satisfnetion that when tho whee tthe Theatro of Villanueva on Friday night, question of reducing the satories paid to judges | 994 inst., and the other on the Sanday evening fol- und arbitrators uader the slave trade treaty with | towtng, at the Louvre, Aa it generally the cave with England was acted u a the Senate on Tuess | rivts, if not always, bo'h parties were more or tera day last, Senator Conkuina of Now York voted | in fault, In the first affair an insait to loyal Spaniards n favor of the reduction, Other Senators | Was given from the riage \iself, Tt ts sald by an eyes voted differently; but Mr, Coxctano held that, ag | Witness that # short time before the play should have during six ot wsingle case has | €" Inded this sentence was utiered by one of thé layers boon bronght befora these courts, we ought not | eve anon atl who do ngt desiee the indepesdence to continue to pay their members largely for | of the lond of (sugary cane doing nothing. We have no doubt thet Mr. | _ btzate trom the Hoses and all parte of the ballding Monaax would have taken the same couree, but | Went 4p for Cespedes and free Cabal in harmony ho was not present in the enate on that day, | Sih thsepeech. A man, dressed as n woman, hal coteeiniellatate coats a Cespedes flag between bis legs, and, immediately i a drawing it forth, waved It on high. ‘This was euc- “A Mechanic” writes to ua, asking where, | ceeded by astorm of applause, ‘There happened to if the City College were abolished, he would be | he in the building, at the morent when these manl- able to get an education for bia son, too feeble | fertations were first made, bnt two volunteers, But and delicate for manual labor, which would ens | a large number ¢amo ranning toward the door of the able bins to earn a Hving in a calling suited to his | theatre from diferent directions, and the fring soon abilities, We answer, that there ure plenty of | Smmenced. Perhaps not more than ten Creoles cant acholarships both at the University and at | W*Te “ried, get the méiée continued a8 least fihoen Columbia College, whore the lad would be mach | mauler, during which tima about 20) #hots were fired, Your correspondent was at the time near better taught than at the City College; and even | if there were not, it would cost the city only 1 $15,000 © yeur, or one-tenth of what it now neeng of the Oghi, and ft seemed as thou battle was being fought. From the best accounts to pay the full tuition foes for all the t the Colleg THE DESTRUCTION OF BAYAMO, ne and Thirtyetwo Wounded in obiainable, It appears that eight were killed and thirty-two wounded, It would be hardly fair to rnpoose that the Creole - a - expected to provoke ot the theatre, for One of the most eurprising things about | many were there with the: and children; and that grave body, the ol States Senate, i itis quite probable that the Spaniards were prof ard {la members cherish for fi near by, expecting that night an opportunily to re vidual persona, and the comparative indiffe venge themselves upon any merciless Creole wie . might © to offer imeulte to nieh notionslity ot they feel the inte: ¢ public, hus, thay Keel forthe Interest of the public, Thus, in | io spanish Honor. A food oF lt> periodicals any of them not larger then © pocket hendkerehief, and full of aluse—one portion vindicating the of the insurgents, and the others holding out for the e and arbitra with England, Senator Witsow of Massachuset declared his opposition to any amendment that } integrity Zepanot, be . from one side and would affect Mr. Teowan Swrrm, He would not | the other, the Villanous expressions i for the world have Mr, Sait cut off from his | tetpectively, the Cabane and the Spantards—lad in salury of $2,600 for doing noth’ frome measure prepared the publle mind for Ti coctas to us, on the other band, that the con. { ©Pullittons of popular fooling, Aud more than this: pry veuicnee of an individual ie not | Ot stimerent occasions plato shots bd, according to trustworthy romers, been fired from windows, et other times from the tops of houses, and sometiines even from cerringes passing along the streets, at the Spanish volunteers; and more, some of these had been killed and wounded, Naturally, thts added fuel to the flame, and the feelings of the volunteers were accordingly intensified, The morning of the 9th found ell the city gre egitated. At about iL fighting was reported going on in the street called Joes Mara, and Mkew!so at a little place adjoining Jesus del Monte, eallod Caragua, At the latter point tho disturbance was slight, having been quickly quelled by the appearance on the ground of some Fix battalions of voluntecrs, The other affair was of w more serious import, Tt appears that alot of arms had been found Ja a house on the first named street. ‘The police came forward to seize them, At this juncture a man, re- volver fm hand, rushed forward and attempted to what Senators ought to think about, The ques- tion for them to e Mr, Baarn's 6 requisite for the public welfare ; whether esalary is not too large for tho services he has to perform, and whether it is necessary that those services should be prolonged, Mr, Surrm is a most excellent man, but if he is paid for work that is not needed, or paid too much, his private virtues or morits cannot justify the fact. Don't spend a cont of the people's money unnecessari- ly! That is @ principle which Senators and other public servants cannot ponder too deeply or ob: with too great stornnes acelin meiey The Trenton State Gazette dentes that the Camden and Amboy Railroad, and the other Com- panies associated therewith, possess any mono- ? poly of freight and travel hotwoen this ety and Wits cies badineas Kirtan ea othr: Philadelphia, It is true, as the Gazette says, that | posed) at this moment sailicd forth and wided in the formal agreement by which the State of New | making anaffray. ‘The man who firat sbowod dght Jersoy granted this monopoly expired on the tirst | was shot down by one of the officers, and soon the of last month, but itis equally true that, as the | news flew, and volunteers came pouring tu. Two or laws of the State now stand, no other companies, | three only were killed, and ® few wounded. or combinations of companies, have the right to | Saturday night parsed of tranguilly. But on Sine carry passengers or freight between Now York | “0%! wos generally beileved there wonld be other Jota, A fight or two happened during the day out and Philadelphia, The Roritan and Delaware | | ; ue flay Raltrosd itied leat summer to establish alls | Cais eutitgerie main cote che inan to dic, was tn popular opinion to be wfter nightfall, between Brooklyn and Philadelphia, but were | At avout tye minutes to 0m pistol shot was hear stopped by am injunction from the Court of | fromon top the Louvre building, and Ul* was neery, Issued at the instigation ef the Cam. | ceeded rapitty by two other dtichorges. ‘The frat and Amboy Companies, and the injunction fs OF was aimed at Cwe Foluntcers, who were Imme- still iu force, If New Jeracy {5 really dosirous of | ately In freat of the great café just mentioned. throwing open the transit across her territory, let |, Ther@ were tn th Louvre some 35 persons at tho her enact a genera railrond act tike that of thia | Hime and the volunteers, coming tn from all quar, State, and let as many lines be built as people | weretmnonte evermindy without question. Killing art : . wounding @ considerable nawber, A Spanish Cap- want. At present, the Camden and Amboy | tain (sald to have been the Captain of the company monopoly is virtually in full force, ‘on duty) was killed by a Creole as he was takin = - — - rofresco, ‘Three Germans were at a table, taklrg re For some time prst certain wine merchants | frestiments, and the volunteers rashed an sy them, in New Orleans have been importing French | shooting ono tn the arm, who fell Psy the floor consider is wheth clarets, which, though Inbelled with the names of ding and @uffering great pain. Ty,6 of the vol the most celebrated vintages, were invoiced at a | Wnteets pointed hie gun at bim. snd was about to price loss than one-half what such wine should | MAKS pune work oF the Joby Y4¢ was prevented by cll for In Bordeaux, Accordingly, tho wine has | che. %f his comrades, Thre.s votanieds pro Buns atone time at anot’ jor poor feliow, but Vielr fellow Aier# th ought they were a lite slow, 80 he pluoged, pia payonet throagh the bowels of the unoffending: man; while ansiler of his com panions sinek % knife up to th. nit tn the Germen's thigh. ‘The other one ¢7 the three frtends recelved two severe wound, near the kidneys and the other near ye grotu, 7 e6 young men wound: 0 "To still alive, and hopes are entertained of thelr recovery, In the mean time two men had been killed In front of the Louvre, and one other in that bulld ing. The crowd scattered in every direction, the volunteers firing incessantly withla the Louse, and above, Whither many of the patrons of the eafé vad Vetaken Uhenselves. Some of these went from housetop to houretop, until they got down into the potice, oF eourtyords, of other honses, and so manuzed to excapo in rome measure the fary of the volunteers, These latter, however, monuted the tteps, and quickly were on the housetops: ‘court. yards, firing here and there, and ready to ran every Vody through with a bayonet. One man, claiming to bean American, declare? that a woman saved his life by putting herself between the polat of that in- strument and his boay, Not 60 fortunate was another one of our conntry- mea, and a man much or ped, Mr, 8. A, Cohner, Me had left his how Amistad street, when he first heard the Oring, and wos hastening tosee if the famtly of one of his friends, Mr, Cardenas and the doors and wiadows were all fistened, this he had boon specially requested to do, tn ease of ariot, before Mr, C. hud left for the country, Mr. Cohner had touched the corner of Consul Miguel streets, when a 4 ball, coming fom behind, pierced bis skull near the right ear, and pass ing throagh rain, ¢ J instant death, Mr, ©. was an estitnable man, and his death is sincerely re- grettod, He wos not hailed, but sot dowa in the fury of the moment, Another American was fired wpon at the same time, and near the seme spot, but escaped unhurt, There must have been 900 shots tn ally and some of the discharges seemed ty have been given in reply to huzaas for Cespodes and (ree Caba, Th rresponde been seized by our Government as fraudulently undervalued, but the owners claimed that it costs them no more than the invoices show, it being, in truth, not really of the quality it pretends %o be, ‘The witnesses they introduced deseziyed the whole process of manufacturing the article in ques After the gropes Of the genuine wine ave been pressed, COMM A white wine is poured on the mara, or cake. and by ranning thesugh it acyutres its Mover, ‘Then, alittle dark red wine is added, to ire color, and Burgundy to produce ate Louguet, or perfume, The result ia a ch is a pure wine indeed, possessing superficially the churacteristics of that whic! but which ean be sold for half price. inkers in New York may Gud it worth their while to take note of this, ee “The Prophecy ; or, the Bride of Fate,” on our fourth page, fs to be continned in Mr. {Box- xeu's New York Ledger, thefbest family weekly journal in the country, EEE W YORK ELECTION FRAUDS, ane N Henry Johnson Ioaxed on ¥ Keene in the House of Representatives. In the House, yesterday, after the reading of the journal, tho Sergoant-at-Arms appeared at the bar with Henry Joboron, the recusant witness com> initted yesterday to Lis keeping, Mr. Lawrence (Rep,, Olio) sald that the witness had appeared before the Committes and testified, and that there seemed to be a misunderstanding ; therefore he offered a revolution that Henry Joba son be discharged from custody, Mr, Brooks (Dem, N. ¥,) asked, “Why not say ‘ably discharged t* awrence~"T'bat {8 annecessary, Brooks—It ly necessary, after casting contempt man, ond bringing him to Washington Mr. Mr. upon th or areal, ends you this heard all 1 shoot a leceale presentod at the bar the | ent WHY sends you thls ened all the fring ant shoot other reeus nee Seannel. fog. iy Mr, Lawre red # resolution for the diss Heannel (rom eusiody on payment of the Ponty At certain tlmes the bugler wonld give out his note, and ther would arise upon the alr huzzas for Cospedes; Immodiately the volunteers discharged thelr pleces; and then again soon the bugle note charge « costal Mr. Ross (Dem,, Committee whether he was not will! Cus ol WiOUL paymentor costs. He understood wtthe reason Why the Witness had refused to an- was because hit answer would eriminate @ Tepubiicn in tho. city of New York, } IC that was tue ease he hoped the wits be let off, Dem,, Ind.) thought that the witness " De discharged Without payment of costs, He was 4 poor mon, und he would have to get home the Bess way he could, a4 he would wot be paid for his attendance as a withers, He would, therefore, be suMcentiy punished without being es airman of the to let the wit IN.) asked the greeted the ear, other cries for Cespedes burst out upon the air, and then followed the heavy fring of Minté guns. No one could tell exactly where these crics fy . but the volees did not ws the soldiers fired up at the top of th © as much ns inte It, or along Han Ravel street, A few ed other ho Two or turee ng-glasses W n the Louvre, and his Jog, The Cubons could have fire Miley had only pistols, and Ww " | custom és, om the anniversary of his birthday, to J the cost of bis arrest, Mo moved to amend the re80- to get out of the way, Ata short dis ull the convicts in the State prisons of New Ariking gut the worde “on payment of the tance the fring gave the Impression of @ rogutar Dut pene Mey SUSE praiatiey i. mated some twenty minutes, Fiteen are £] Bugland @ good dinner, and he also includes tho | “Mr. Wend (Deni. N.Y) tnqntped of the Sneaker | Kuinnered mueng the kiied ond. wortally wounded, » | penitentiary at Albany in his benefwetion, The | diioto pay the costs of hus aivest; was be to remain yd consi erable numer eee Wwod me wounds i A ye KANE Hight a party went to use of Mrs circumstances of this remarkable entertainment | Incustgdy ee MileaTs VOR HORNS Citeik Gah ee ak } | were stated by Gen, Puzsorny, tho Warden of r. Furusworth (itep., Hit, proposed that the meme | eudeavoring (0 ge tuto bis house broke open the 1. | that prison, Iu the following little speceh which coustituent the iwtues was should pay | Sten ‘adjoms Aliamate: Tease, Sie De ie ie te he addressed on the day of the feast, in January | "Sgr Wood was not the witness's representatives | Mf Mein were desctovel, inside the Wen. Seon last, to the three hundred and Hity convicts u ory yw what would be done the | Bio paintings wore literally cut to pieces, the tape * | der his charge: Ohio) eneneated that tt would | Ux menmernedsand 1 fe sald that some things of “Mr, IL ©, Domsy, of Rhode Istand, who row cn some rich Democrat Like the shamelessly outraged. The ds felt confident Mr, Wool). rks desired to nupwer Mr, Baragworth'e 1; Dut the question was jakep on Mr, Fre cmcndment, which was reected—yeas, 8, 190, tion wns then adopted by 194 to 96, an eoukat- ARMA wired with s prissuer She ! that Aldama had given lurge eums of money w te ‘cause, TUM DESTRUCTION OF DAYAMO. Tt seems that Bayamo was fired by Aguilera three Goya’ before the entry of Valinaicda. “The. foriner chieftain ts second ouly in command to Cartos Mon. Coapedes. Whea the Busnih General entered 5, the 1869, f 1 mont of thém, ae the ai ta en peed Pe to tne |) x IK tobte of exactions had been pract rel Gatea’ foand “oyun ge naked and hy hunger, and who di not know where their ‘were, Valinaseda gave ordera that the re- Quisito nnmber of soldiers shonld shift the ¢ the arm, and carry on the shoulder, exch one # ¢ Hl théy got to» place witere charity and compas, Glon would take them tn charge, Mé 100 Deraons Dads. on, the ariival of Valmascds at {nis Place, presented themselves to the commanalng Gen eral nd claimed the benefit of Duice's amiesty. Aecording to the bess eniinmaice, bet wcen 2000 anil 4,000 snsorgents In La Torre's district have asked tia: the provisions of the pardon dreree be granted And this since the fail of Bayamo, There appears to be no rebel moverient In the West, nor fo the Central Department. ‘The Jotast Intelligence Wa that peace megutiations are pending intween Il. maseda, Cesperdes, and Aguilera; aud the rumor is rinning throagh the city that very probably the Whole matter will be esedily settled, Some per- sone are loth to Velieve this, but what can bo donot Within ten days, or thereabouts, there will have arrived 8,000 to 40,00) additional troops from Bpain, What prospects are there aliead for the Cu- Vans? There is always roucthing that gives tidion- lone a8 bo thi urse that things a ie ay f the more prominent men of the Coban pai end nent Havana are preparing to leave here, these arc among tho recognised leaders, THR GOVERNOR-GRNRPAL’A PROCLAMATION, LT have foen with the greatrat divest the ntincks qrnieh som direc hates evotutlon tf hat it wii htaotn fens ck the free eis wr that a handel 6 F Teht so sacred ‘ the The penalty marked by the decree of the Govern ieut Abst of the Code, wkd, 1h deca thetot tie iawe of Pare da. Every word Augoity of the nation, every phrase W v‘ntisexe tne 1a Uethy of tere h tits ta tavor the en x 2 and whic it ebhigattone, to. F a tethe author oF dirvetor or Har ' Inthe t thes, Leharge n dopiay he greatont ous, eho jour func Goa euard you many years 4 guard You many AxGO DULCE. Havawa, Janmary 29, 1909 a SECRET ASSASSINATIONS a ‘The Mysterious AiroC “Are the Secret Muntacs? n-The Silent Ballet Assonsius Thieves or Over @ year ago, at 1 o'clock in the morn! & Brooklyn police oMcer was ecarclessly eauntering dovn his usual beat, when Na observed a man partly hiddeu behind a treo on the opposite side of the oMeer stopp y man's movements, In a few moments © man was observed coming np the sdewalk opposite. ‘The man bebind the tree stepped from his place of con- cealment, and walked down tho strect to meet the stranger, the police officer stilt closely watching him, When the suspicions person was within twenty feet of tho #trunger, und near a gas Hight barning brightly the stranger suddenly stopped his forehead with Lis right band, and (ell to the pay ment—a dead man, His murderer began to rifte bi pockets, Tho officer hastenod to the spot, bat the arsassin saw him and fled. ‘The ofcer pursued him, The chase wae hot. Around corners, across half paved street throngh Alums and alleys, over high board fences, and be neath Mickering gas lights, the murderer fled, but « keen-cyed hunter wax on his track. He was cap- tured. On his line of flightan sir-gun of a peeniiar constenction was found, Tt had done Its deadly work silently and eifectually, It wos of simple mechanism, and copld hardly be considered a mar- vol of mechanical skill, The assavsin turned out to be one Skidmore, a di charged policoman, Ju bis house evidence was found Which proved that he bad deen engaged for several years Ju nefarious schemes of burglary and murder, Brookiyn was thrown into a stale of nervous exette- ment. Every und2seovered murder was thrown ou the shoulders of Skidmore, He was even ac cused of being responsible for the profoundly mys- torlous “ Bost River mystery,” where a man's head, plerced With two bullets and wrapped tn a piece of oll silk, was found floating Ia a Brooklyn dock, the thighs end legs, similarly wrapped, being afterwards ptoned ap neat Gowanus. ‘On jis arrest Skidmore became as silent as a Jnn- ded tiger. Crowds of citizens swarmed to look at him, aud lond wolspers of lynch law floated about Ms ears, Ilo kept up abold front, bat occasionally a twinge was visible on his countenaned as lie listened to the positive evidence before the Coroner, The crowd surged sbont hin, aud gaged at Nim aa at | ono of the trapped aaturopoohagt, The airesu was regarded with the gt t curiosity, aud thore Inspecting it bandied {t with elrenmspection, fearful that a silent ballet was only swatting @ signal to add another to tte roll of * ,ct ‘The Coroues's$ary found Skidmore guilty of tho murder, aed the Grand Jury brought in @ true bill of dn "oment agoinst him, Back to bis ceil we beneath the t the murderer, with scarcely aray of hope in his heart, ‘The popular exeltoment Aid not abate, His speedy trial was demancled, My lawyers could not obtain a postponement, The trial came on; the evidence was oferwhelming; the peo ple thronged th mrt room, defant We do not know what be we do know that for weeks afterward many of the citizens of Brootlyn never dared go from their houses at nigut for nt strogeling ballet, Again wo have acounts of 5 th the alee gon—this time in New York, A week or two ogo we had to announce the serious injury by a pistol shot of a young man walking at midday on the corner of Broadway aud Canal irect, ‘The cause was a mystery which has never been explained, On Tues day afternoon, In two diverse localities, there occa: red circumstances fortunately less injurions tn their effect, but hardly less mysterious fn their nature, which seem to point with equal assurance to that Aiabolicnl agent, an alr-zun, Two bullets tn quick succession crashed through the windows of a grocery at the Jatersection of the Rowery and Bond stroct With as little warning pistol ball en tered through the plate-glass doorway of 810 Broadway, with ngerous — fore A young man employed Im Chittenden's dry goods store was walking down Broadway Wednes- day afternoon, and felt something hit hte arm, On erained that he had been shot throngh the arm by a ballet, which had lodged aud remalved In his side, Where the bullet came from, who fired It, or for what—all these points re- main a secret, On Monday an sir-gun bullet wos firod through a pawnbroker's window In Centie street, On the samo evening one of theae silent mes- ngors of desth came through a window in 4 Sun's editorial rooms, and ene tvenin) two bullet holes were found in the panos in Mr. ‘Thomas Hitcheock's restdence, at 8 East Twenty ninth street, ‘To this list we add the followings To tho Baitor of The Sun, Si; Seeing an account, in your issue of this aay, about “hallers fying’ Inte store windows.” I wish tate that at about dotclock yesterday ner. noon the eame thing vecurred at my place of busi hess, breaking & large pane of glass In my door, Tnoked for the missile, and founda builet floor, partly fattened, From the fact of no ret being heard except the smush f the window, and the great force with whi ein, Pam ine your opinion that air-cuns are being used; stonpod by the poilee, the consequences ome Aeros, _ JAMES TI, TON’ Truly yours, 215 Gnanp srneet, N , Feb, 8, 1809, — ‘Tho New Church of the Heavenly Rest, The mew Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, on Fifth avenue and Forty-AMh streci, is to be opened next Sunday morning. It will have two rece tors, the Rov. Ss. Howland and the Bey, Dr, K, Conrad, long by 75 wid neat year will be front ie & for of the ry and is without the Windows o1 aro ot Trish of whi ston’ by ent adorned by a Gothic baldacching of black wahuut, hn Hmitation of those used in the cathedrals of Kurope, supported by columns of capitals, ‘The centyo ane sd reecive & painting of Clrist in Glory, and@ series of Pra Angelco angels. The chancel furnt ture, including the altar, bait, railing, and choir ne eof black walont. ‘The organ is also of tat material, with pipes of blue, red, and gold. pews are of buiternut, ‘The apholstering and car- Petlog.are ertamon, 4 Sunday senoe! room 16 tu the re Mr. Act and No Helect! with the Police Made-A Little Chat Lo At the formal meeting of the Police Commis sioners yesterday morning, Messrs. Toswo Manierre, and Brennan resolved to delay the selee- tion of & Captain to fi the vucant Polico Inspector: Whip Until the return Of President Acton from iis country seat at Saybrook, Conn, Mr. Aeton is said to be Improving; but it is hardly probable that he Will Feturn bofore the fret of March. So the Police Captains and Sergeants whose cards linve not been properly etocked or played may shnte again, and perhaps get 4 new deat. Capt, William Jamoson, who stands numerics!ly first on the list of Capta fs betfeved to hold the best hand, tespite the Hll-eon conied hostility of tue Superintendent of Police, ‘The Superintendent me no voice in the Board ; but tn the event of deadivek fe oan detail @ Captain a* In: spetor ad interim, and if he fo) the illustrious author of od will select either the sturdy old Capt, John Came the lithe Capt. Theron R. Benuett, o the precise and thougttful Copt, Henry Hatchings. But to euppose any cu interim appointment by the Superintendent to be indicative of tho Commissioners’ ultlmate choice would be to presuine that the Commissioners are a unit in conceding to the Superintendent dignity and influenee which Recorder Hackett would hardly recommond, The festive Capt, Irs 8. Garland, of Spring street, authorizes our reporter to #ny that he will accnpt, If the Cowmissioners offer him the porl- tion, Ibis, therefore, a fair saference that the Cap taincy of the Fourteenth, held by an officer who does his work Without fear or favor among the thieves that intiabit that region of edamantine wickednens, {9 not worth more than @2,40ayear, OC Jourdan, Commissioner Brennan's Fidus Achator, hopes that nona of his frien ts will imagine him #0 verdant os to fing away $6,000 a year by accepting the Inepectorship ; and Copt. John J. Mount is will wlitical friends shall use iis In the next Police Justiceship primaries, I> don't want ea we the example of erin appointments ho Inspectorahip. Capt, Anthony Alla ds are workin, beavers, and his neigh! apt. Fran- cle C, Bp at, is very busily keeping bis own eoun- sel, Commodore Jedidiah W, Hurct don't want it— won't have it, He projera a “life on the ocean wave.” ‘The brief summary of all this unending spccntstion is, that no Captain who wants the Li torship iy willing to say #9, and thors Captains whora the Commissioners Waut can't aiford to work for $3,500 a year, -—— FORTIETY CONGRESS. —o SENAT Wasnixetot Tho joint resolution for the sale « Atlantic woe pamed, The credeotiolsof T Tipton, Seuntor elect from Ne M, Stewart, Benator elect from sented, Mr, Evmuxps (Rep. to provide better security for engraving and printing of tho #ccurities of the United States, and for other ORM (Itepy Fla.) Introduced & bill to provide for nn Amertean line of steamers bi tween certain Atlan ports in the United States and one or more European ports, Mr, Sue Df the Colored Connell Fob, 4, 1900 e stent raska, and of Wm, Nevaila, were pre- Vt. intre an uced purposes, Mr. 0: Mass.) presented resclutio of the: Union League of Winchester, protestit Agninat the romoval of the political disabilities «! Judge F, of Virginis, Als, a petition of Cyrus Anwn, © vw York, asking that 500,000 be re- talned'ont of the price’ of the Island of St. Thomas, tg reimbarse him for ce oraen, growing cut t a contract to make n ehilp conal across the fsthin Of Holstein, to open communication between t North Sea nnd Baitie. Mr, Monoan (iep., N.Y.) presented a petition of the Western Union sgravh Company, pray the remission of one hundred ard dollars duties on the suirmarino the Asiatic Telegraphic cnterpri TUG CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. The pending amendment was that moved yester- aay by Mr. Stewart (Rep., Nev.) to substitute for en th (© purchased for the joint resolution, a9 it passed the House, the re- port of the Judiclacy Committee of the Senate: Ki right of cit the United States to vote and be denied or al d iol Omics ited Bt y inte on account of a ¥ for the expenses of the Paieat Office for end Febru: Mr. Witt ing ** Congress shall have power to abolish or modify any restriction th ht to vole oF to bh by the Constiiution.or laws of ouy Slate. ‘The Senate took up and recommitted the Dill to amend an act grating lands to. ton of a railroad ant talograph Ui Pacific Railroad in Caitioruia to Portland, Oregon, ¢ bil amendatory of the act to provide for the sale of the arsenal grounds at St, Louis was takeu up und passed, 1860. ive, paescribed id in the constrno. the Central 8 {Fc ———. Houre of teprenentatives. Afte: disposing of the New York election fraud se, reported elsewhere, the Hou 0 of Wyom! Tutlon changing the n that of Unadilla, M ‘a bill repealing the act of Jnty 90, 1891, and the first, second, and fourth sections of the act of July 13, concerning tonnage duties on Spanish vessels those of her colonies, where no discriminating U sel* shall be ox tonnage er PTION IN THR INDIAN ROPEAU. Mr. Ganriety (Tep., Oho) took oceas': nonnce the Indian Bureat ut one mor corrupt than any other b hadever heard of, He nev @ vote for appro priations of money that were to ‘Mow through the unclean channels of the Indian Bateau, ‘The henate joint resolution relating io the mileage of Charles Westinoreland, tessenger to Washington ty carry the cleetoral vote of Callti@@ia, and Who died on his way at Panama, wns pursed, ‘The Senate Joint reso! ing the Seeretary of the Interio? to annul the stationery contract. with v ¥ & O'Toole wus paved, with an amendment tri i the direction to give the coulract to Mears, Moliun & Blauchard, enate Joint resolotion anth wipropriations he ie. binaing, and en, tion ructed States the benwtit loge bills Was referred, ‘The Senate Will to amend the act of 19th Febs 1863, to prohibit the Coolly trade im America Was parsed. The evening session was spent in debate, — Mit. GREELBY AS MINISTER 10 ENG- LAND, ——- That Wretch, Donn Piatt, Takes @ Ridteue lous View of the Sabject From the Cinctnnatt Commercial, The New Yon Sex, you observe, keeps ap a territle pother about making Unele Horses our di plomatic agemt near the Court of St. James's, sce great propriety in the selection, Uncle Horace would make ® superb diplomatic agent In Buglind, to dee 100 iy of administratia for the res Agricultural ary, ips He Vin that capacity wimost any wives t gland, The control he has of bi countenaned brings Lim nearer to whit was relat of vrand’s than any man we wotof, Tw said of the French diplou Lif anyone were Kick him b front could not tell from the express: that anything unusital was ocenrring. And 1am assured that whem iit irate Con ssaulted Mr, Greeley in the r quite a number of discriminating friends fooking Ris face could not realize that a terrible battery on his editorial bebind was in progress, And when, at last, the trath dawned mpon them, and they rushed inwnd took off the ferocious M. 1, Mr, Greeley re: inarked that his @yeailant wan 8 Jackass; and that if they Would give Klin bis hat he woud proceed to t House and J to that Mitte question of mile Certainly « man who could thus retain his coo! sel: possession under such trying conditions, would be tnvaluable ws a aiplomate, ‘Then his negotiations ut N! and evinced that grasp of ra were wonderfn), and knowledge of wothing to do, C secretary, Then jor and Jour 1c would ve of more despatches, book», n of the Fort in the necoseary would wake a uy take that cminent aut as an att world, 7 i, again, we conld get clear of the vexatious clothes’ question, Unele Horace don't wear auy clothes to speak of—at least, nothing that comes under that head. ‘The diplomate is called on to don the coart suit when be coes to court entertainments, But Unete Horace never goes to entertainments He remains at ome @ud eats brad bread, and dnuks water with ice in it, Dv, ——- ‘Tne Vigilance Commitioe, To the Bititor of The Sw ‘ Bre: You had t paper, tout Vial he thing for which L have by altiig fora while alrenay, you would oblige ine in giviug me tie formation to Whom @ mah Who la willlng to serve on it Would have to apply, Our reporters have not learned that any branch of the Committee has been orgonized in your ward Where these organizations exivt—and they do exit only known and trusted citizens of the want are admitted, We dare fay that you will got a bint when the faitistory steps are taken Ip the nelgibor- hand whare ven Nee ticles in y. wee, Aw this is SUNBEAMS. — Excellent chalk deposits have been found be Fasette, county, Ind, Shad have appoared in Goldsborough, N. Gg where they sell for a dollar a pair, —The description of the dresses worn by ladiew nt church fs condemned te the lowest depth of Gankyism. —One firm tn Cincinnati is said to be making 1,000 velociprdes a week. They scll for $25 apiece, and are dear at that, —Mrs, Jonnie June states in the Chicago Rex im that eho hea always belleved in modes ne bereelf, J under the Chicago river is no@ rw reseed Cricacoans, on accoua® constant dripping of dirty water from above, —A writer says that nvoleon lost Waterlo. because he was slccpys” We always thought that 1 was Weilington who took a "jitile nap” about that me. We learn from the Judependent that Mies Sa- fan B. Anthony i¢a moreuline women, tall, musets Jor, With © strong jaw, @ #hurp tongue, and o kindigy mile, —The Revolution proclaims that both its editor And podlither are ta the sere and yellow leaf, Henew itconeludes thas the compliments paid then are aD tincera. —Among the solid men of Pennsylvania ara Asa Packer, @ prominent Demoeratic politician, worth 0,000,000, and A, Pardee, of Hazletoway whore property 1s catinated at $25,000. —"‘You speak French wonderfully,” said « Frenchman to a young snob who was airing Lie nes complishments before him, “ You have not xe leart accent; I mean 20 least French aecent."* --A young gymnast in Boston boasts that after practicing throc years, bo can raise himeolf with fituer arm from the “dead hang’ six times im succession, with a fifty pound weight In the other hand, —There is a large colony of beavers on the Aps pommattox river, Virginia, just above Battersea dam. ¢ cut dowa great quantities of shrabbery ng trecs and eaten off the skin and tender burg, She haw ety to establisi places in the poorer parts of the elty where tea and colce cam bo bad af cost price, Highway robbery it a popular but not alwayg Profltable sport in Texas, Pivo or six men lately waylaid a Mexican near Sim Antonio, and aftor @ hard stragzlo rifled his pockets, which contained nok ‘8 cont of money. —The members of the Rhode Island Legistes ture ore petd one dollar per day, The State in amall,, and nearly all of them live at their homer daring the session, golng to tho capiiol in the morning and re turning im the evening. —The Brprece of last evoning is very severe upon the elty oMcials in tho following paragraphe. “Borzlars, footpads, and thieves of every degree thonld take warning from the fate meted out by Judge Barnard and Recorder Mackctt to several of their aysoctates to-day,” —Au English paper professes to have kept record of those who wound the Church of Fagland for the Ch emo duriag the pas year, Jt uikes the nu voen %100 ead 9,200, Including nineteen elerg ron of e@lght Unie versity graduates, and two peers, Since her return from Ameriea, Madamo Olympe Andouard Las been lecturing at the Lectura Mal, Boulevard des Capuctnes, Paris, on the follows ing subjects; * The Mormons, the Pecific Raiiway, and the Rocky Mountains ;" “The Indians , * America, New York, and the Yankee —Western notions of fun are re ent from our own. In other dny, Moll Greer mortally wounded with a pite tol one Maguire, She was merely shooting for fan, she explaiaed, when the nufortunate man put bis head round the coruer just in Ume to stop the bullet, —The Duchess of R., one of the most scagmp- Nished ladies of the Court of Napoleon, returned ne 3A. M, from the recent ball atthe ‘Talleries, Upon reaching her house she received a despatch Informing hor that her futher had died very suddenly, Fora moinent the beautiful Duchess was thunderstrack > but then she enid, throwing herself on tue bed with- outundressing, Ob, I ain too tired now; I ebuil Weep to-morrow, —It is not likely that the regatta between Her- ‘vard and Yale wit take place at Lake Qninsigamand4, Mass,, this year, The Yalo College term ends soma weeks Inter than that of Harvard, and ft iedoabiiut {¢ the New Haven erew would be permitted to go *0 far for racing purposes before ite co " possible, they Will proposa to meot crew ut Springtield, Mass, Failing in thts, they will challenge Harvard to 9 contest on Lake Saltonstall, near Now Haven, which {sa fine sheet of water, well adapted for racing, —The Rev. Dr, McCosh, the new President, of Princeton College, is exceedingly eueeceatul in Faining the attention and confldence of the young men under bis charge, He iy not only one of tha profoundest scholars aud abiest theologians of tha Presbyterian Church, bat he atso retains the hearty, toolal usages of the Scottish clergy, among whom he grew ap. Te plays 4 capital came of whist, and doom not think @ cood glass of wing on proper occastons ia any more & violation of the \ law of temperance than eating 1 g004 beetsteak, --Mary Clemmes Ames soys that Blizabeth, Cady Stanton embodles in her person the noblest typo of the American matron, Hor white hatr eurts closely about her flue forchoad; her dark eyet quick ond earnest, flush under Its widearches, olear reflectors of every fecling and thought witht, Her features are noble, the lines of the moath na sweet as they are strony, her dress rich and quiet, She, Lins powerful magnetism as a public speaker. for all the forces of her rich personality seem fused {uto her words, She !9 logical, earnest, and cloqucnt, nd never mannish tn manner, —Theodore Tilton appeared at Bay City, Mich.” the other day, wearing a broad-brimmed black fete hat, a very short sack coat of rongh black material, just a fair hybrid between a blouse and a rounde about; very coarse, light-colored pantaloons, with bot litte nap inthe region of the knees; low too dilapniated shoes, revealing a pair Of butvernat-co ored stockings, enormous shirt collar, and @ crav: that pate description in shae store to right his understand for wlumberman, and the ele should buy a palr of moccas 0 into the woods with, —A western engineer tells the following story About himself: One nigt the train stopped to wood and water atn small station in Indiana, Waile th was mistaken Ik proposed thathe a the best thing to operation wan going on T observed two green-look! countrymen, In “hamspun,” euriowsly iaxpecting the locomotive and occasionally giving vem to ex pre of aston t. Finally oma ef them looked up at me and said locomotivet' "Certainly, Didu't you ever nee o before! “No, haven't nover suwone atore, Me'a Bill come down to the station to-night purpose vo s one, 'Them's the biler, ain't it?" * Yes, certainly. What yer eall that you're in ‘e call this the * Stranger, are this cab." And this big wheel?” “'That'a the driving wheel.” I }at big black thing on top is the ehimbly, T suppose "© Precisely Be you the cngincer Wot runs the machine?” 1 am tho engincer.'* © BML,” enid the fellow to bis mate, after eyelug me closely for a fow minutes, “{t dou't take much of @ man to be engineer, do ust” “ Ali abourd !* THR HAIN DRESSHR'S REMONSTRANCE, Sulphur and lead ther eplendor shed On snowy eraniume, old and hoary ‘Phe mixture takes "a brace of shaki And chignots gleam with borrowed glory, Pooh! Poison? Who set these wild echoes fying? ' Pooh! Poison? What's the harm in dyeing, dycings dyeing? ©, hark | fyour sent ehevetune Be thin, and thinner, daily growing, The stuff we sell is free from smell, Hoth quantity and thot bestowing t Pool! let us hear the purple tiacs replyl Poobt Volsout Ik must auswer—dyeing, dye’ dyetng t ri Our shilling dye! ©, come, apply ‘To all pour leads the misture clever s ¥ Wash once the whole from erown to gr And you are beautiful for ever? aq, Pooh! Poison? Who set these wii 3, Pooh! Answer? Tt must ans dyeing, \ |