The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 9, 1869, Page 2

_THE SON, TUKSDAY, FEMRUAKY 9, 1869 AMUSEMENTS, agricultural uetey, But Dominica i all amos OARDEN-—Forty Theives; Or, “striking | ROOd land. The crops of coffee, of cotton, of en tn Family Ca — " gar, of luscious tropical fruits which it would Mente wee suBen, » detween Sih and Mh avs. | vield if it were ours, would make the mar WALLACK'S—Mach Ado About Nothing. GAYMPIC THEATRE—Hampty Dompt 1M o'clock, Wednesdars and Raturdays. PHKATRE FRANCAIS—Fleurde Thé, Matinée on Sat- kets of our Northern cities langh with delight We have not enough such land as that, and cannot have too much, especially if it costs nothing to keep, Then, again, we are told that we have onough of mixed and troublesome popula tions; enough of free negroes claiming the right to vote ; cnongh of reconstruction not yet accomplished. But the people of Dominica are not many—only a hun. dred thourand—and they have always been free aud always voters. There would be no need of reconstruction in their case. ‘The national Government would appoint « territorial Governor and Judges, and the peo. ple would choose a territorial Legislature. All wonld go easily afi@ emoothly. The na- tional authorities would have less trouble from the Dominicans than from the wayward and boisterous inhabitants of Montana or Wyoming. They would add nothing to our public burdens ; in fact, those burdens would ‘be lightened by their sharing them, Let our statesmon then take counsel of courage and faith. Let them be bold to ex- tend the area of freedom. Let them not repel those whom the influence of a great natural Jaw brings to our door knocking for admis- sion. Once such questions were complicated with slavery ; but now that slavery is wiped away forever, let us open wide the gates of our political household, and grant to all contiguous peoples that ask it of the Priceless benefits of the American Constitu- tion and the Ameriean Union Matinges at urday. WOOD'S MCSEUM—Fiel of the Cloth of Gold, Living + end Wid Animale EW YORK CIRCUS, Mth &t., opposite Academy of Moric—The Rrothers Kizareli, Matinée Wednes day and Saturday at 24 P.M THE TAMMANY tel Pantomime, Kim Ra. Math ede on Ratarday. GRANT OPERA HOUSE—Orphee Aux Enfers—fpec F Opera Bo POWAY THRATRE™Laseuiire Law, Ao. M: FEW YORK THEATRE —Richard It TABERNACLE, Jersey C TUBSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1669. — = To Advertisers, Bince the first of last January the daily cir. evlation of Tun Svx, which is principally in the form of mice through the newemen of New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, has steadily increased. On Saturday last our eales were 8,000 copies more than at the beyinning of January. Aathisincrease We mot the consequence of any general excitement of the public mind, acting alike upon the circulation of ali newspapers, but of the growing favor in which ‘Tun Sex te held by readers of every elas and con- dition of life, there ia no doubt that it will continue through many months to come. From the first our purpote has been to acquire for our journal acirewlction euperior in numbers and in influence to that of any other paper in this country. Owe plan ia not alone to defend the intercats of the preat masses of the people, to promote the cause of public enlightenment and public morality, and to encourage univerial kindness, good faith, and yood temper, but aborg all to furnish a better newspaper for tio cente than other people wt for four. This #4 our programine, and the public are beginning to appreciate it and reepond to it. Uf, ina dull time, fn @ vingle month, our daily circulation ia om larged to the extent of 8,000 copica of our paper, we may calculite ona Hill greater progrom when the spring business sets in, We ace no reason why we should not soon reach the figueca of the London Great Railroad Combinations. The aptnoss of mankind to receive new ideas, and to expand their application far be. yond the limite assigned to them when they are firt introduced, is strikingly displayed in the present condition of our railroad com- panics. Sixteen years ago, when the New York Central Railroad Company was formed ont of a dozen or eo of little concerns, having each thirty or forty miles of track, into one Telegraph, whove daily valee are said to amount to | Co*POration of $24,000,000 of capital and 300 200,000 empice miles of road, the old-fashioned stock opera- Meanwhile, the public wi do well to notice the } tora in Wall street were appalled at the co- fact that Tux Sex ia already officially proved to | lossal magnitude of the operation. When have in the city of New York a larger circulation | the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, Van any other journal, Thie ie demonstrated by | about the same time, struck hands with tho the publication, toice a week, in our columna of | New Jersoy Railroad Company for a mono: pty Wet rb ibagedinetlpelard bedi the choy baal poly of railroad travel between New York recep ec ey hate fo te inverted in the V god Philadelphia, everybody wondered at ely inte provision, i the shrowdness of the bargain. Whon tho Ilinols Central Railroad Company got a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land from the United States and the State of Mlinois to help build ite road, it was considered a ha- vardous experiment and nearly ruined its projectors. Now we have combinations and monopolies all over the country, embracing reds of millions of capital, aud land t railroads which get not only land but money from the Government, to ten times the value of all that the Illinois Central ever recoived; and the ery is still for vaster and vaster combinations and larger and larger grants If thie sort of thing keeps on, there is no telling but that some day the whole country will be enveloped im one monstrous con- glomerato railroad combination, Vieror Hveo's hare in bie dew gover wan by (hw devil fish, Mr. Gour's testimony before the Legislature, on Friday last, shows how near Commodore VANDERBILT came to grasping the Erie Railroad, as he has the New York Central, the Hudson River, and the Harlem Companica, If he had succeeded, the compe. titors for the traflle between this city and the Went would have been practically redaced to nd when 0} quered the other, or foreed the other into an alliance, we should have had the supply of our food and the outlet of our merchandise placed at the merey of asingle man, We have escaped for the present, but how long will our safety continue? The only guarantee we have against op- pression in thie matter is the multiplication of routes. When a man’s hands are full, if he attempts to grasp more, he must drop something which he has already. If wo make a8 many pew roads as are possible along the great lino of eastward and west: ward travel, it will eventually render it im- possible for them to be all combined under a single head. We hear already of a new air- line road from New York to Chicago; the wanna, and Western Rail- road, with its lease of the Morris and Essex road, is reaching out westward, and will one day form part of a new line; and various roads projected across the unoccupied part of the State will, in like manner, eventually rive us new highways to the Weet. Let the monopolists not rejoice too soon, tan =e Mb Avery American ob yoy Aud believes that the douay of this whole big Continent and the islands appertaining te to be aggregated together under the go- vernment of the United States Tho natu ral law of attraction and gravitation will bring about this result. It has operated from the beginning of our career. We first annexed Louisiana, then Florida, then Texas, then California, then Alaska, ‘Tho United States to-day include vast extents of land that our fathers of 1776 knew not of; and if any body suppores the process of aasimilation has got to its end, he is much mistaken. For many years we have been trying to buy of the Republic of Dominica the bay of Ramana. iat is @ great bay with deep waters and fine shores, Its anchorage is good, sheltered from all winds; ite situation healthy. We want it for a station for our vessels in the West Indies; and we have been ready to pay for it a round and hand pome sam, But we re had no thought of acquiring anything more than the right to anchor our ships there, to repair them, and furnish them with necessary supplice, And yet it ie a fair land which stretches around this bay of Samana. Its soil is rich and un txbausted, its sconery beautiful ; its products tnelude every kind of tropical wealth ; its mines of the precious metals are rich and antouched. It is a glorious country by na buro—such as any people might well delight to possess and develop. In all our broad domain there is nothing to compare with that country, which, for ite wondrous natural beauty, is appropriately named Dominica, the Sabbath Land, or the Land of the Lord. Now, instead of the bay of Samana, to be ‘paid for with our money, we are offered the whole of the country without money and without price. All that we aro asked to rive in exchange for it is that we should ex- tend over it our Constitution and laws, set ap the star-epangled banner over it, organize it as a territory of the Union, and ty time, when its population is large enough, admit it ae a State, Ite debt of five hundrod thousand dollars we should have to assuine ; but a6 that is leas than we should probably bave had to pay for the right to use the bay of Bamana alone, it is not worth while to con vider it ae of any account, Certainly it is not half ore fourth part asmuch as we should derive from the sale of the public lands that wo should acquire by the anncxation of the republic. ‘This would seem to be an opportunity that ¢hould not be rejected. Let us see if there @re any good reasons against accepting the offer of the Government and people of Do tuinica at on The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern portion of the inland of Mayti, Its area is not quite so large as New Hamp shire and Vermont taken together. Its popu lation is about 125,000, of which ove tenth is white. The prevailing religion is Roman Catholic; the language spoken is Spanish The people would be peaceful and easy to govern when once brought under our laws, The country is one of the richest and most attractive in the world, and if annexed to the United States would at once draw from every part of the world an energetic and valuable population. Within two yeara it would doubtless have inhabitants enough to beadmitted ase Bato of the Union, Itwould | mye bankers and stock operators of Paris a@d to the wealth, commerce, and power | have just combined to start a uew morning jour of the United States. It would cost us | yal of their own, ander thy title of tue Magdonad a es Homes in the West for @: The agent of the Children’s Aid Society, who has superintended for @ number of years the forwarding of children and youths from this city to homes in the West, states that he has had numerous applications from eeponsible persons in that region for girls and young women for adoption or as com. panions. Domestic are also in great de- mand, wud receive higher pay and better treatment than here, Tho Sveciety is pro pared to furnish homes to any number of the fe claws, ond if a suilleient company of adults could he collected, it would not be very diflicult to provide traumportation for them algo. Hundreds of young women who are carn ing a bare subsistence here might thus ob: tain comfortable homes, with every guarantee for good treatment, and a much better pros. peet of bettering their condition than they have now. A party of boys will start for the Wost to day from the rooms of the Chiktren's Aid Society, 8 East Fourth street, whore further information on the subject will be suppliod —— nothing to defend and govern it, in | of 1869, It is of the samme sice and style as the proportion to the profit we should derive } large papers of that city, Their regular price is from ite possesaion, We have thought of | three cents a copy, but the Nufivnd/ is sold at one giving several millions for the amall islands cont, although the stamp tax isa cont upon each of ®t, Thomas and Santa Cruz, Dominica | number. The purchaser, therefore, pays nothing worth . for the paper, printing, or couteuts, all of which * 6 e hen bined a much, and we are given away by the proprietors, Their only 98 Sere 1 he the taking nource of income is the advertisements, and if the But we are told that wehave land enough } crouiation should rise to 10,000 copivs daily, us Already, and #0 we have, if we mean bad land. | (ney unticipate, these will bring very high prices, A great deal of the region about the Rocky | Gut the owners expect (heir enterprise to cost them Mountaine is worthless for cultivation, | 100,000 france # month, or about $610 a day, Thoir Alaska will never prove of much value ap an § calculation ia however that by owning Oe paver they willbe tbe to save the greater part of the large sums they have hitherto had to spend in advertising im the other journals. These snme amount in the aggregate to 260,000 francs @ month, of about $1,000 a d ing in the new journal really anawers their pur- pose as well, they will save a good deal of money ‘The old papers are much disturbed by the appearance of this new and dangerous competi- It is well edited, and is liberal in polities, 4 80 that if advertis- —_— On Thuraday Inst a Celestial sailed from China, with €18,000 worth of goods stolen from California merchants. The victims at once sent a despatch describing the whence it was forwarded to London via the Atlantic cable, and from there telegraphed by the Persian Gulf in time to cateh the Hong Kong steamer, the Celestial reaches Hong Kon there will have been fully a week on the lookout for him, and of course they will recover the goods ler baek to San Francisco. ‘This incident marks a wonderful progress in tel- egraphing during the past five years, The time cannot be far distant when offenders will be tripped by lightning in the most remote corners Ban Francisco fe thief to this city, ble to Ceylon, and send the ewit The inhabitants of the apper and western Portion of the city will be glad to learn that the Board of Health is about to commence a deter. mined war for the suppression of the foul smell produced by the Metropolitan Gas Company's works. The Board notified the Company some time ago that the nuisance must be abated, at the solicitation of the Company, gave them time to make the necessary changes in their , however, the Company have the orders of the impending. The works do no’ cre- and second, that if they do, the odor is not a bad one, nor injurious to health, stion of fact ever comer ht abont the verdict; and mean- while we hope the Board of Health will show, in coercing this rich corporation into doing ite duty, rgy that it displayed against the come to the conclusion to resi Hoard, and a legal conflict Company claim, first, that thei ate any amell at 0 there is little ¢ While Mr. Sreruen Pea. ANpnrws is percerving and demonstrating the Hasic Princi- ples of Universology,with the laws of Alwato, the we learn from Missouri that Mr, James A. Spentocn, of Versailles, a member of the bar of that State, has also made an impor. tant scientific discovery of another kind revelations are perhaps best set forth in his own language as follows: “1 claim the honor of discoverin powers of nature. that Starry heavens, and cau d the centrifugal spread out the to revolve ground @ book thin coming spring aven, Karth, wud th entitled ‘A Vuslonn. n a Oather the whole of roup, aud they will resamettheir if possible the whole cre. together, and when relensed they will 4 stand and revolve in system: will ahow What caures Lie moc presesl postion: r Mr. Sevncvock requests the editors pets pubile journals to call attention to his discovery, aud we He says that he would done it accordingly not ask this favor if that this fact mak: he rather disseminate such news without price thav — ‘The friends of the French ‘Transatlantic ‘Tolourarh Company comybain bitterly of the de lay in Congress in granting to that Company the ble upon our shores, delay is just and legitimate, and we trust will be i The Company is made up of noto. pies of the U and Scunoxner, ulmost during our civil war to help the re- bels and break us down, pudence to come here asking for favors, trust they will get no right to land ite We owe them nothing but that sort of justioe which @ man owes to an assassin who bas tried in vain to kill b As many of our readers are probably aware, na, ina mild form, has been quite prev: Jent among children in this city for the past fow From the last monthly report of the Su- perintendent of Health in Providence, R. I., appears that the disease bas shown itself there also, to a rather alarming extent. The Superin- ndays of the month there were 7 a; 8th to 14th days, 9 deaths 2A to With, Tdeatho; andy 1th to Bist, 10 a deaths in the last three days of the month. We are in the midst of an epidemic of the disease, After An almoat*pntire absence of mortality from wea for two years, 1t began to be prevalent carly in 1808, ‘There were one or two deaths Iu each month of that year until Augast, There were 4 deaths in each of the monthe of Auguat, September, in November, 14 tm December, and 85 in January, ‘The epidemic will undoubtedly epread through city, and will continue through the present year, growing less severe in warm weather,” “The best authorities do not con- sider alee to be contagious, ly spreads through some epidemic influence in- dependent of contagion.” But he recommends the use of carbotic acid by way of precaution as & preventive, if not as @ dininfectant, —————_—_ — KBAL ESTATE and October; Tdeathe We call attention to the advertisement of houses ud lots for sale Io Jerecy Cty by Dudley 8. Gimgo- ry. Buch chances for investment are rare Jersey City {9 the real terminus of the Pacific Railroad, and this property must rise enormously in value within xt few yoars, Workingmen can find no better tosecure a homestead. Mr. Gregory is an old aud well-known eltisen of Jersey City, aud his statements may be implicitly relied upon, ‘The Loriliard estate, comprising seventeen acres of land, eligibly situated between 186th and‘180th ortly to be placed in the market for sale, ‘he attendance at the auction sales of real es- tate hold yesterday was uot very large, Monday gen- ly belug @ dull day in real estate circles, James M, Miller offered the very va perty known 9s the * Hunt Farm, town of Wert Chester, N. ¥, ‘The property is fluely situated, and i# on the easterly side of the Broux ‘sined in the hands of On account of the recent improvements in the neighborhood of the entate, the owners had it put up at auction yesterday, expecting, no donbt, to ‘The bidding was not very spirited, and consequenuy the sum realized wan not as high as anticipated, being only $40,810. ‘Tux realize a high gure, sales, both in ite advertising columns and in ite reports. A number of sales will take place this iller, of good cla Wor particulars sce Be report : BY JAMES M, AULLAR, in the town of Went Chester, N. Y., containing 7) 2100 acres of land, a good, substiitial two-story building, stabl and barns, all in good order, Wright Gilles for $575 per acre, The © Hont Farm,” New Turnovawan Association. —A number of among whou are Mowers, » ind: Prof, George Batchelor, have Association ab Tolleavilie, Aba Biied tora oven, tk was decided Eh oy tas ——— How not to be Sick in & sequel “Philosophy of Eating,” by Aussar = M OD. «(Hurd & Houghton.) ries out the doctrines contained treatise, and offers the observations of the au- thor on the practical uses of different diets, and the importance of regulating the quality of the food according to the circumstances of the con- sumer, ‘Thus, wo are told, a workingman should take for the staple articles of his diet substan- cea, such aa cheeso, which aro caleulated to supp! great proportion of materials to the muscalar Aystem, Those whose labor is mainly intellectnal should inerease the proportion of food which con- tains phosphatic elements, and is thus adapted to supply the demands of the brain and nerves. As ® geveral thing, the Amount of phosphatic food contained in the flesh of any animal is im proportion to its activity, so that sctive fish furnish @ greater relative quantity of phosphorus than those which are sluggish, and wild beasts and birda more than tame, A table is given of the proportion of dif. ferent elements to be found in the most impor. tant articles of food, from which it would be enay to gain sufficient knowledge of the comparative quantities of nitrates, carbonates, and phosphorus in such substances to regulate a simple billof fare. Dr. Bellows enters into a crosade against many of the articles of modern diet, expecially batte sugar, and fine flour, to whieh threo ingredients he almost scems to attribute the alleged physical degeneracy of modern races, To diet, ax a mea of cure from almost every disease, Dr. Bellows is also inclined to attribute unlimited power. For heart disease, consumption, apoplexy, neural- gia, and a host of otber ills, he in firmly con- vinced that it is often a sovereign remedy, and more particularly an almost anre mode of preven. tion, While what he has to aay is often stated in & dogmatic and perhaps exaggerated man. ner, yet there can be no doubt that there is the cloarest good sense at the bottom of it, and that Dr, Bellows lays down many hygienic laws which are incontrovertibly true, and which many people would be much the better for knowing. The lat- ter half of the volume is ocoupied with a defence of homncopathy,of which Dr. Hellows is a devoted adherent, and with an explanation of the simplest practical rules of that aystem of treatment A handsome book is Life Lyrica, by Fi wano Buows, (William Wood & Co.) These poems, althongh they contain nothing of great novelty or force, are nevertheless sweet, and show poetical feeling and good The bterature of the English language has formed the groundwork for any number of dix cussions and treatises, yet the subject apparently Tome Lrete tacks, An excellent work of the kind is Hexay Introduction to thd Study of Bnglich TAterature, which combines the study of the language itself with that of the works written in it, and shows the development of the national taste and literary character, at the same time (hat itexhibits the growth and changes of the tongue in which they found expression. The plan is one whieh could only be thoronghly carried ont in an tended work; but Mr. Day's purpose has been to bring it within auch limits as to give a fuir notion of the general progress of the two branches ofthe subject in a space which will make it eany to read, comprohend, and study, Within these bounds Mr. Day hus fulfilled hi mirably. Th in and affinities of language, according ainonly received views of linguistic clence, This is followed by such selections from the works of the most prominent poets and prose writers as give a Just illustration of the rise of literary art, In order to do this and exhibit the characteristic points of each author, Mr. Day has chosen, instead of the usual course of extracts, to xive one ningle work by each; if possible, an tire poem or © or if not, to take from some special production w passage which is as fir as possible complete in itself, Hoth to aid in the study of the langmage preserve intact the spirit of the writer, the original orthography Ih been carefully followed, Only one author, and he the most celebrated of the time, has been selected to represent each marked stage of pro- gress. It is, consequently, only an outline of the subject which the pupil will receive, but « sharp and distinct outline, which will be apt to remaia in bis memory, The reader has also an op- portunity for noticing immediately the character. istics of cach writer, without receiving them at second hand in the shape of a criticism, as is more frequently the case in similar works, At the same time, the scholar has unusual facilities for @ eviti- cal study of the English tongue itself in the copious notes which follow each seleotion, a lyzing every unusual word, giving its meaning, derivation, aud connections, The whole is com- pleted by an abstract of the principles of the lan- guage, arranged in order, which forms a cloar and intelligible exposition of the most interesting fucts connected with it. Little original research is involved, but the work shows that its author possesses a clear comprehension of the topics dis- oussed, and has spared no paing to elaborate his work for the use of the student, Another book which treats of much the same topics, although in a very different style, is the Home Hctures of Bnylish Foes. (D, Appleton &o.) Hore the author presents short biogra- phies of the pocts and @ description of their writings, embellished by numerous small ex- tracts, with the addition of such anecdotes as she thinks will best serve to illustrate their individu. al characters and the manners of their times, ‘The accounts embrace all poets of any great celeb. rity, from Chaucer to Rurns, and are largely filled with opinions upon their works drawn from the writings of various critics, ‘There is no particu- lar worth in the book ; but while any one already acquainted with the literary history of England would find nothing in it to repay perusal, it ful- fils reasonably well the purpose fur which it was intended—to give a kind of general information to those who as yet know nothing of the sub- joot. Outlines of Composition, by H. J. Zan. pau and T. BE, Howano (Davis & Co.), is intended to simplify the tasks of young scholars, by pre- senting them with an extended set of examples for tho prosecution of that line of study, While we approve highly of any attempt to lighten « burden which is always #0 heavy, we must nover- theless remark that anything written in imita- tion of the examples given would by no means illustrate @ very bigh style of art, still it may prove practically much better than nothing. Messrs, Fields, Osgood & Co. are publish ing # neat and cheap edition of Cuanies Rea works, each novel complete in one volume. “Foul Hard Cash," “Griffith Gaunt, »”’ “Never Too Late to nd,” and Me Little, Love Me Long, already ap- peared, The two others necessary to complete the set will be issued in the course of a fow days, canal ieee ‘The Police Courts. > THR TOMBS—JUSTICR DOWLING, Tux Watt Sraser Orguatons.—Justice Dow- mination |e the case of Goodall, Wolf who are agcused of con. cheat’ the Pacihe Haliroad Co. out of ‘in ‘ret mortgage bonds. Goodall was ex- amined a6 a witness, Wits a view of showing What “| Mhuge they had 19 the transaction, but nothing came of the ex: ite Sigh LY Can Prexrocent,— Thomas Burns was locked up fo anawer the churge of picking the pockets of Wun F. Walker while riding on Bunday dowa town on the rear platiorm o ind avenue car, The devs snngal invitation ws erate coterie of we Club will be given at Irving ae the peveving at ot THR VIGILANCE. COMMITTERS. -_—_— BURGLARS TO BE Si0T LIKE RABID DOGS, — big yg Pom ong roy rey ad the Dagger We are surrounded, enveloped, gay, immersed in crime, and in the dark, mysterious agencies of erie, In the eryptic places, and dungeon holes of the thieves’ quarters in New York, the lowest and mont degraded wretches who are lost to councience, to hope, and to mercy assemble nightly to concoct crimes against person and estate. Murders are a daily crop. Dear friends, well in the morning, go out to business, ani! are brought home mutilated corpses, Old men go out to aweep the sidewalk, and he cut to pleces with knives, Gentlemen sitting quietly in their own rooms, awaiting company, are seized, bound, gigard, robbed, and threatened with # bullet if they resist, Robberies are committed in the pub: lie streets, as a sort of make-np farce to the heavy tragedy of the murders, Slungshots, the dendtiest of murder weapons, are ased with deadly frequency And freedom, Said a venerable, well-informed stran- Ker to 8 citizen, the other day, No man is safe, wor woman, either; for by your defective detective ar- Tangements you seem to aay so." Nay more, we have every reason to believe that some recreant members of the pollee organization itself are in Jongae with the thieves, murderers, assnenine, and house-breakers, ‘There war Skidmore, who, when arrested © year ago, turned out to have been the chief villian of @ gang of such for # lone time, who, before his discharge from the service, took ad- vantage of his position to screen himself aud his asso- ciates, His house was full of burglars’ woke, implementa of violence. He was a caoning, merci lege wroteh,who took delight In murder as an amuse- ment, and in robbery as a means of living and airs pation, He uved the must cowardly of ail weapons ever invented for the perpetracion of crime the sneaking, white-livered air guu!—that does its Husiness without noise, and takes life in open day, in the midst of erowded streets, We regan the Introduction of this new w secret murder an the most dreadiul omen of danger, It has filled the air with terrors aud incon coivable Areata, It Isae if a conspiracy of the most deadly and determined character had been ontered into, by # secret and mysterious gang of ubiquitous fiends to human shape, for the destruction of the human race, Vigilance Committoos are being formed in town and eonntry, and it # thie alaruing riot of crime thy bax driven good citizens to this last re- tort of desperation, The Vigilunes Committes of pod to have been formed to Support an extraordinary secret police force, ia addi tion to the ordinary foree, and to set iu conjunction with the uniformed polleemen that are to be seen in the wtreets; but the pecret force Ix so to be miaiaged as to defy the most sourcing scrutiny of the thieves. We may add that the Westchester side of the Marlen River i soon to be wade a very unsafe place for thieves organization of the New York Vigilance Com mittee is progressing; but wo have already made known as much as our reporters know of ite plans, Westelenter is un the we Staten Island, are Counnttiees on th We do not und Propored to resort to the San Francisco Vigilance Committee's extremition ; bat it will not astonish us ifs nomber of burglars are shot within the next furt- night, nor need the community think It remarkable at Coroners’ juries justify the Vigilantes that do At about one o'clock yeeter ay My . Ancustis Meshere was found on the widewal vision street with his head severcty cut, seemingly by abullet. He could give no account of the occurrence, further than that be felt a sudden blow at the back of his head, and Ve then became Te was taken to tle Madison street uneonse Poles Biation, a THE CITY GOVERNMENTS - New York Board of Aldermen. A Squixt Towann rus Parvare Manwers.—Mr. ble reciting that the eorporate to ereet, supery wba if Ne cate cia KJon of @ market on Brosdway tral Mark! Tt was, . resolved to et to the Committee on Markets ort, A Dasu av rie Peioran Pavawenns.—A res tion was adopted that all resolutions and ordi heretotore y the Conimon Counell, and ap proved by the Mayor, authorising the laying of Heb kian oF trap-biock pavement, in any strcet, lane, filley, poblic place, or highway within the corp Tim{ts of this efty, under which eontrac ready boon wiade, be and the sae are hereby re- seinded, annull 1d repesle Arraveniationa.—The /risa amervoan and Bening Telegram were declared Corporation papers ; the Comptrolicr was directed to give $312.18 to the Roy, Father Gurran, and $463.12 10 the Kev. Father Brennau, ureh Of the Holy Nawe; tension of Park place to Weet two additional elsta to the Of $2.40) and $2,000 each pe 10,000 was given to the Si of of St, Dominic. Gifts were also voted Bt. Francts'# Hospital, in Fitth stre By Bt phan spl treet und Avenue A; St. Michael Becond street, nesr Avenue A: Bt, Bridged’s ch rch, in Eighth’ street, corner of Avenue BH; and the Hebrow Benevolent Society hau Asy~ Tain, Beveuty-soveuth strect aud Third avcnuc, cach Sok! Board of A not Alderme: President Monaghan was in the chair yosterday afternoon, A resulntion was adopted directing th Corporation Counsel to car an ey for Mr. Culkin, in the suit of Me’ agt. Culkin, in whieh Claims the scat of the latter in this Board. T ution from the Board of Alders re scinding all reeolutions far the laying of Hilgfan pavement, under which contracts have not been ede, was referred to, the Committed on Helgian Pa ‘he Hoard laid over street, Resolutions were adopted as fol- To pave with Belgian pavement ify -Arth between Ninth and Tenth avenues : Twenty street, from Lexington avenue to Second ay Forty alah street, frou Bisth avenue to adway ; and Hleventh reah from, Avenue A to a Bernard's burch, and A Piiood wo to pay as Nassau Waren Wonxs.—Preaident Bergen wan tn the chair yestertay aflornoon. A communication from the Nassau Water De arent ‘Was submitted, showing that in December, tue Board author ied the ‘of Sri Water Bond: ree wood Reservoir, woth ail th J, will cost $190,000, For the © vation ta Year, $Ai0,000 ls required-—20 ‘tulles of distributing pipe being required, New Hare Towen.—The Committee on Pablic 1d Bulldings reported in f contract for revuilding the tower, to Bernard Gallagher At, Boanp ov Boucarion.—The Mayor submitted a communication with the foliowiag names for ap- pointment as members of tho Board of Kelucation, to serve for three years, Iu place of thove Whose terms lave expired: a Waite Br igog Bi Kroad, J. Dreyer, jee Opes’ {ours lames Ml. Hi Johan Eso ON ket Ley PFO James ett Mf gains rn One ‘si hivan Col uring hy Man ordered bis son to go up the mount et On 8 day when the thermometer ow nero. The brave boy Went but when le returned in the evenlog he wa on, aud attempted 10 go to the tire tow: the Inbuman mother this time dri ay, and turned him gut of doors, ‘The boy went to tlie barn and picked Hp friendly ereatare 9 worm be bande. His father, who had followed nim ip\e Webern, see that ue was borrowing the heat of the ve dog's bod keep his hands irom freezing, an, vied his inte the 9utd- kicking und beets break’ every bone in his pri rt house, When the boy hed compassion, He hed ¢ cowed look, fied to. his gentle topect, helghicoed the Heounness of Bis appearance. or body was iterully clothed in the bare shoulders lookis throngh the loops. a iodo thereof, and plead ing as no Raauexe eoul ve r leaded. “Tie father was sentenced to sx mouthe’ Imprisuument Iu the County J ‘The General Committee of Soldiers ana Sailors for this county will meet tonight in the Republican Heudquarters, Broadway, corner of MMcnty-secoud street, lo make arranacuents to sttcud the ipaugure Hoe of Gen. Grant, ROBERT LEE'# VISIT TO ARLINOTON — Hie O14 Home a Sort of a Man he From the Cincinnats Commercial Waemxorox, Feb. 6.—Of all the prominent men engaged in'the late war on the Confederate side, Lee i te most disagreeable, cold-blooded, relfish, ‘nd unaympathotic ; hen mins cur fore, wor challenges our admiration. That he was snecessful, later, le owing more to the fa That We had an Unak wi than any super ities aeaGencral. it wae the potey ot the. Confederacy seehese tecemn nek Our vast resources made us h delay, while the poverty of the necessity, The only hope nie while the Confed- — What bagees ety Yet this man, slow, method. ira}, and stupid, not only failed to realize thia great fet, but convinced ‘himself of the contrary. Nut only this, bat he falled to eg was 4 the tumitics that of our of Po (on ce pe Vailey to have oontinnes jecletian hud there was noth- er ah et ar ona ae ates b it le phot ve Po ents Wantiaglan ater Aho ‘second Ball Ran. not have given pepe! time to reorganize the shaue “i and de yae ced army. htt bs olne 8, Lae Nietne, waked jim down. labored jnring the war a now, ander the belief that he was somehexty, from the accident of hint A man to be any tim, under tuck clreamstances, lo this part of ‘Gide creation, must be a great man. Lee fs (ar from great, In any sense ofthe term. Even admitting Pass jority ae a military man, he falls far short of the ot L.) by his admirers, Uieaseatine the man, with all hie Nttleness of Pride, it most have been hard for him to have kiven up thie old ancestral home,with ite wide acres, and tis pleasant view of the broad Potor wy | by, gnd yet heloneing to It, like the wo Wandington, that seems ite Ly and the capital of bis country, that appeared to look upon and approve of ite cith to arintoerney. That ‘eftnn yet turns longingly to his old home, we bave the best of proot One dreary, foggy morning, late last actumn, 9 gentioman, unattended, rode D nd emounted near the house. military appear. ‘ance, although me ihe army cloak led at hit heels. oy which w remark: dignified. isitors to thia noted place are ao frequeut that ile pearance attracte! no attention, He walle through the dreney hall, and looked ta on the wide, nd passing to the front, stood for out over the beantiful: panorama. w dome of the old vacaut room some thine @ with Its one ed ‘s the garde A that bonnd its sides, saw the dying flowere, and wilted borders, and Veatstiown walks, and continuing after a slight «, he stopped on the edge of the felde, where he sixteen thousand Union soldiers ile buried in Tinos, aw if they had lain down, alter « interred in thelr places, Some ing up the fallen leaves, nly and stared at the visite a h astouishment, He coatinued to antilthe stranger, walking slowly y, when be dropped work her man ate struck mute fire He #tood ther Lionalty 40 Bereely atta t Confederacy @ dreain, hls ipraveyard Capitol he sought to dee grown ian te nize, Wilh the bronze gud des gazing calmly to th can almoat faney he of retreating artillery, tht Hiteraily djing out ip the inst ditch, ‘Ono can Imagine this, and pata rout under the ribs of death, for, in all human probability, this cold: loaded mun’ wat looking to wee wh te perty | when o imare treudly parly servation his ing St some Tiad'a @ bong {aim with the old man who claimed to aye recogni ce Wen Testd, Marv you sorry, after all, som haven't the otf dimen with the Lee anally buck A nguint” “No, sah,” he responded; “ can't say at, Tre very curafatable; got my own home, Gol reas de Prenident Lankuu "tyou bave @ comfortable time with Theumatie, dare Ain't any ciinkod oberseer a comin’ round wid whip to lusty de ale than Up, salt” No, sib. ber ai JO you mean to may Chere Was any whip placer” pint Does yor whip yer hoes, wah? De beat man in de world whips hig Hows Weil aah, we was de earn de win an’ de oh en @ howlin® unde horses den, Thank God we’ m, Wid dcr Fight to vote, good as any whip. We men and we one.” * But voting wont put food in your mouth and oH Your back, nor Uke care oF you Wuen old en by the old man of tne wnipring % ; of just puch ae this that the tower of Virginin chivalry Brown Db. ¥, - —— THE COURTS. - Court Calendars thin Day. urneme Count, Cieurt.—Part L—Oscr and er. NO Cirealt, calendar N 1, Gad, 607, 140i, Sa, "si 302,‘ dR, 18, 185, M4, 94, 9, Corr, ‘KRM. — Demarrer, tis, teeth, a Laat porpnan OMiee. yaliatt a Witunay Cave. Ex Alderman Wil who is indicted with Beruard Kup: others, for conspiring ta de pid the Gov y Pa! runnl wiley fy Tote and gave bail a Bios wo aves? for tal Court of Over and Termiuer, Tum Saevick Howrcime.—John Real was a raigued for trial yesterday for the murder of Pol man Johu Smedek in Ji we alleged, from behind stanily. A pancl of two hundred and fity mnoned, and ® large proportion attended, ‘The al didiculty of npen Mog o jury was found, not- pretandiag ‘that Judge Barnard held tho mere fact of a man's having read the newspapers and formed an linpression at the time, since forgotte My did not reudet him incompetent to'sit a6 a juror. ‘Me panel was exhaust und only (leven jurors were obtained, the det ndaut baving used but fourtes if hiv peremp- tory challenges, The Court order Ww panel of oue Kundied jurors for the morniy Kesex (N. J.) Court of Over aud Termiuer, ‘Taiator Thomas Lavow, Ja., at Newaw vanran.—The tral’ of ‘Thomas or liter, was begun yesterday {ndieted Pr iling Joseph Hebveing os the Ste of Der cewber last, in front of the remdaeee of Wis futher, Dr. Lafon, in Cedar street, Newark, Heuring, the 1 wlio lost his iite, was ed ployed in driving a iveat for Mr. Wiillam B. Hathgite, who keops « ths Oautre Market: “On tha eteiag of the December be was driving through Cedar street, when Joseph Lafon, « young brotier of the risoner, threw enow-Dalls at bim, and his wisebievous conduct Mebriog had Lim to stop, After driviug his horse some distance away Hebring Jumped oUt of his wagon aud went back to punish tho ofleuder. They engaged in struggleduring which young Lason fell to the round beneath Hebiing, who siruck bin ouce or” twice while he was down, It w thea that Thames Lafon, the prisou ® yeara of au ot of fief Wook part in the edd a shovel, er brother had been cleaning ing surce blows, one of them Isase Dunn, of Trenton, was last seen alive on the new Delaware bridge, at about 9 o'clock ow ‘Vhuraday wight. As bis relatives had mora thaw doubted bie sanity, it was feared that he Lad com- mitted suicide, and afer unremittlog search clee- where, the water was drawn from the Water Power canul, and on Sunday morning Mr. Dann's body was found, Mr, Dunn's wateh (@ gold open face) tn Lis pocket was found stopped at dve minutes before tev, and bad been stopped by the action of the water, The following described articles were fo iw Lie pocket: $1.60 ln paper money, $1 in silver, 78 cents in nickels, two pocket knives, pencil, bunch of oys, Wothplck, epecticles, memorandum book, and 8 plece of ap okt envelope with his name on it. In tue pocket of his coat wore found o bandkerchiof and six feet of cotton rope with a slip-noose attached, ‘The jury rendered a verdict of suleide, Mr. Dann began active life as @ biindmaker bad accumu Noted » baudeone competeucd SUNREAMS. piader~tentaan —The season is so mild io Maryland that the commenced plonghing. ber of Sue Murphy Claims’ on file in Washington, {8 90,170, amounting to $1,029,000. —A Mississippi catfish has been caught with @ cannon ball in his stomach, He evidently swallowed it during “the late diMenity. —It is estimated that there are nearly thirty thousand young men in Boston under marriage en rer mente, waiting for better times. =A correspondent wants to know why peripa: tetle fruit, vegetable, and other merchants cannot cry thetr articles ins known language. —A public dinner is to be given to Charlee Dickens in Liverpool this month, on the occasion of his paying ols last professional visit to that city. —The English are just learning to play bézique 4 drink lager, and some years hence they will probably discover that the velocipede is an agreeable promoter of health and recreation. —Edwin Booth has sold the Salt Pond Moun- tain, in Giles county, Va., containing 12,000 acres, we Accompany of Tenneescans, for $100,000. They tm tend Lo found @ watering place there. —It is rumored that the French bishops are go ing to bring the question of Gallicanism before the Geumenieal Council, which will be pretty sarc te Talae a breeze in that respectable body. —The elopemeut of Henry C. Pike, a nephew of Samuel N. Pike, of Opera House and whiskey fame im Cimeimnati, with a fisliogable dressmaker, leaving his wife destitute, is exciting the gorsipe of Chicago, —The question now agitating Massachusetts ie whether the school children are in the habit of im tonleating themselves with elder, The Rev. Mr, ‘Thayer says they are, but the Soston Post is inclined to doubt the statement. —An man relates that he recently dined in Nevada with an editor of that Commouw who Ingnired after the health of ‘Tennysom and “Thos, T. Carlyle,” remarking, * Them wen ken sling ink, they ken." —Aluminiam bronze is used in France for sawa and other mechanism requiring great etrength an@ hardness, in pluce of stecl. It has been proposed te cover the steps ot the column in the Place Vendome with the eame material —There are no fewer than seven candidates for the Republican noml) n to Congress In place of Mr. Pratt, elected Senator from Indians, The Com vention ts to be held on the 11th Inet, and the ele@ tion has been ordered for the ath. —Mr, Sadford, American Minister at Brassela, recently gave an elegant dinner im that etty, the viaods discussed at which were exclusively of Amer- jean produetion, Kven the wines were American, oF had crossed the ocean and returned to Europe. —The Richmond Despatch says: “ Those wha cannot see ero sulla settled question are like a stage-driver who exclaimed to bis eo leagues the other day: “ Boys, Confederick money will be good yew—Aridby Smith is still wfitin’ beyond: the Missisnippt, and he'll bring it up!" —A Maine paper relates that a country member of the Legislature, seeing ® quantity of boxes in the rotunda of the Btate House at Augurta, (0 be ared in rending away documents, atked an old slager what they were, Bhoe boxes, I presume,” " What," said the member from Crauberry Conte, “ we do draw shoes, do wet” —The Philadelphia Presa thus describes a quiet Sunday in the City of Brotherly Love: A hose com pany was christened yesterday (Sunday), plo was fet on Bre, a ght ensued, «man was nearly killed, a poor old woman was robbed, almost suffocated to death, and turned series of attempts at Incendiuriem followed.” —Olive Logan has been lecturing to vast au- dlenees in Michigan, At Ann Arbor phe announced that she wore a pannier becnuse her d pelled her to do it, A noticeable feature of the lee ture was the illustration by Miss Logan upon the platforin of the * Grecien Bend." While expressing enpt for this much abused movement, #he ex ecnted it with practised rkill and with unmistakable rolls, —The last number of Harper's Bazar bas thi © Whitelaw Reid, author of *Ohto During the War, has accepted a prominent porition on the etuif of the New York 2rtnne, vit., that of chief editorial writer after Mr, Greeley. Mr. Reid is a young man, tall, dark, and slender, witha refined face, bright keen eye and gentlemanly presence, and evidently may be called a rising man. Mr. Reid Is the well-knowe “Agate” of the Clacinnatt Gazette. —Arsine Houssuye's new work on female Beauty will be appreciated by Am ladies, e8 the most beautiful in the world, wllwt feature of tho Wook is the sketches im which 1y4 the appearances of the Ameri 4k Met iu the course of Lis hfe, Next to the Ame: Houssaye overfows with aduiration of the fair eut the Rus#ian Einperor, who, he says, n matcher, aud are the qucens of the circles in which they move. —A correspondent of & German agricultural paper who has been travelling through Turkey and Greece, gives ® melancholy accouut of the siate of agriculture in Greece, Hw ways; The Grecks have not the smallest ineliation for agricultural pursuits; all they think ofis commerce and speculation. The Government, "too, leaves country without the necersiyy means of communication, and the destrues tion of foreeia ts carried (0 such wn extent that the want of water Is every year greater, aud cultivation becomes more and more dificult. —The Kitualists and Anti-Ritualists are at it ia England hammer and tongs, Mr. Mackonociite have ing published a letter arraiquing he decison of the Privy Couneil inthe St, Aiban’s case, the Dean of Carliele pronounces the letter a “erininal docu ment,” * couched in language of intolerable arrogance aud indecency,” and asks if there is no remedy against such a libel upou her Majesty, tue archbishopa of the Church, and the chief judges of the land, He also stiguatizes bis reverend brother asa "convict ed offender” sud "seditious lanterer —A Rangoon journal reparts the crucifixion at Monchobo, the capital of Burmah, ofa learned mam for his religious tenets, A Burman of great respects ability, and, ia hie own way, a highly educated nap, Began to denounce te worship of the Poongees aa being not ouly Wrong inatwet, but contrary to the true spirit of pure Buddhism, He, in fact, preachod a reformed Buddlism, aud did his utmost to rid that religion of many of its Worst features, A few fok lowers adopted the reformed religion, and wentaboat endeavoring to wid in the good cause, For thiq heinous crime the leader of (his hittle band was cru cified, some of his dixciples were thrown into prisom, and all were more or teas persecuted, —An indiscreet compiler of the statistics of social life im Paris has calculated that the number of children in the hight rauks of the aristocracy of Paris (to every family) in only two, while in the bourgeoisie every family has on au average five children, and the proportion of children In the laweat clasoes of society is still greater, But he says shad while the aristocratic fumiiies generally succeed im preserving Wie lives of their two children, the bours lore on an average three of the five before six years old, and the lower classes bring wm only one child out of five. He infers from these star Ustics that the aristocracy fs both vicious and exe Wausied, while the bourgeoisie ia virtuous and iguo- rant, and the lower classes are too wreiched aad stupid to take proper care of their ghildren, —HMullius of Tennessee is the newest style ob orator at Washington, Dona Piatt describes him ag something wonderful, He epoke last week on “Lo, the Poor Indian,’ and never before was there evel & volcanic eruption of tropes, “Agures, metaphors, poetry, statistical facts, and insane muddle of ideas. Hie voice is clear and plercing—bis flow of words perfeetly incomprehensible, No mill race, full to overflowing from the ruptured dam, ever poured sloug such @ Correat as this orator of Tennessee, Almost every member lef his seat, and, crowding about bim, they laughed and applauded as be swung on, picturing the Woes of the ved map, and tumbling im the continent of America, upon Asia, Africa, Arabia, snd the Holy Land, with passing glange af the starry heavens, the terrestrial glove, hell and the iin which last named he located rebele and Copperbeads, leaving them taking the oath of alle glance, amid Shrieks of Gends and yoare of laughter from the House, Imagine » man of medium aise, thin, angular, grizzly st Jobm Brown, some aixty years of age, ewinging his arma like windmilla, with face aflame, veins om his forchead swelled to whip and a yoleg pouring out this torrent of comirer dictory ond impossible things, and you have mp Mullins,