The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 27, 1869, Page 2

oy AMUSEMENTS, aes wn’ GARDEN—Forty Thieves: or, “Striking Of” In“ Pamtly Jars." Matinge on Satnrday. QOOTH'S THEATRE, 284 et. Deiween Sth and 6th ave, Romeo and Jultet. Matinée on Saturday, WALLACK’S—Mueh Ado Aboat Nothing. TUE TAMMANY—The oree Marines, The Young Re erait, Matinge on Satnrte: WOOD'S MUEEUM--Fra Diavolo and the Field of the Cloth of Gold, Living and Wiia Animals, OLYMPIC THEATRE —Hiopty Dimpty, Matintes at 14 o'clock, Wertnewtars and Katurdays, THRATRE FRANCAIS—Genevieve de Brabant, née on Satnraay WAVERLEY THEATRE, 3% Prondwar—Lnorotia Rorgia M.1)., of La Grand Doctress, Matinse on Raturday. ACADEMY OF MUSIC North. DOWKNY THEATRE—Mog of the Pirate Matinée on Saturday. NEW FORK CIRCUS, 1th et, opposite Academy of Mosic—The Brothers Kizarel, Matinée to-day Ttatian Opera. Star of the Bhip, ae. 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The proposed amendment of the Constitu ton on the subject of euffrage, having been adopted by Congress, ig now ready to be submitted to the Legislatures of the States for their ratification or rejection, All ob theable features have been expunged, and the new article only provides that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servi tude. It does not touch the question of the right to held office, nor prevent the impoai Hon of such teste in regard to age, sex, resi- tence, alucation, property, taxation, and the bke, ae the States shall see fit to adopt, It te simply closing out, to use a mercantile phrase, the lnst remnants of a controversy over the subject of slavery, which has dis- turbed the country and controlled ite politica, to the exclusion of almost every other tople, for a whole generation, If we count Georgia within the Union, the ratification of the amendment will require the assent of the Legislatures of twenty-six Mates, We presume thatthe Legislaturcs wherein the Republicans have a majority of members will promptly ratify it. If the De. mocrats are wise, and dosire to be forever rid of a contest in which they have been invaria- bly defeated for the last ten years, and ‘hrongh which they lost the recent Presiden- tial election, they will let this measure go by default, Every principle for which the Demoeratle party had wo long. contended in regard to ne- GPO BUITMgS Wao Kechter agatuoe fun ie adoption of the reconstruction policy of Con gress, which was triumphantly approved by the election of GuantT and CoLFax. ‘To con: tinue this fight over a handful of negroes in the North, and thus aid in diverting the public mind from great questions of financial reform, will show an infatuation on the part of the Democracy, whose only parallel would be their wild folly in attempting to carry the country in November on the issue of overthrowing the plan of reconstruction by revolutionary measures, Let the negro slide, yo that the land may have peace. — - Advice to our New Foreign Mivisters, Mr. Grecley Excepted. The difficult problem of diplomatic dress has been #o much perplexed since the law of Congress limiting our Ministers abroad to the costume of an Aierican gentleman, that poople ought to be grateful for any new light shat can clear up the embarrassments of the mubject. In this situation, we aro very happy to state that our distinguished coun. bryman, Mr. Burirncamn, who has done bo much to illuminate other strange topics, as illustrated the way out of this clothing: romplication in a very satisfactory manner. Everybody knows that Mr, Bunningame mm now at the head of an extraordinary mis wion from the Emperor of the Chinese to all the great Western Powers. In this capacity he was lately presented to tho Emperor of the French, Of course, he was attended by Yhe two mandarins who are associated with him in the mission, and the two European Secretaries who are attached to it, As Mr. BURLINGAME is himself, for the time being, a mandarin of the highest class, it would ve been perfectly proper for him to appear before his Majesty NaroLKon in the Chinese pourt dress proper to his rank ; but instead of this, remembering, as we are sure he al ways will, that he is an American, ho fell back upon the regulations of our diplomatic anifonn, and went to the Napoleonic Court fu the costume of an American gentleman The Monde IMustré has a picture of the pre h Mr. BURLINGAME is Boon In a plain dark dress coat, with black kr breeches, Llack silk stockings, and pumps. The two Secretaries are similarly apparelled, except that they wear trousers, while the mandarins are in their full glory according to their country fashion. A letterpress de scription in the same journal informs us that the coat of the Ambassador was of black vel. vet, with steel buttons, and that he wo: vest of the same material, The vest, however, is got seen in the picture, We sujgest that this convenient and ele- gant style of making up the costume of an American gentleman might well be adopted by all our Ministers in foreign parts, doubt, some of them, like the Hon, Honace Gneviey at London, will be 60 warmly wel- comed at the Courts to which they are ac eredited, and will bear with them so much | same party. No and we respectfully advise them to follow the example of the Minister of China. They can't imitate a better fellow or a shrewder or more sensible diplomatiet — Light on Dark Subjects. We may console ourselves on the whole with the reflection that the financial sky cleare a little, The aggregate common rense of the nation is etrong, and after cogitation it is very apt to discriminate justly between trath and error. 11 tends in this direction on financial topics, w that the Supreme Court of the t 1 States has decided that contracts to pay coin can be enforced, the House of Representatives have found dif. ficulty in passing a bill to legalize them Tho House has also been educated up to tho point of apprehending that the easiest way to lighten the bunten of our national debt i to iinprove the national credit, It has accord. ingly taken the forward step of declaring our Vonds payable in coin. In ite slow pneanyre to these really good thongh insufficient men- sures, it has hesitated and stumbled and got much encumbered, It has first befogged it self with one view, and then with another, and groped so hopelessly at times that it has often appeared ns if it never would get right on any branch of the subject. But it has at | Inst done something, and wo will therefore indulge the hope that it will one day something more, There ie a fog settling down over Congress at this mome n one of the namerous ques tions it loves to bother its brains over, which we muet in pure charity toward the financial mind of Congress endeavor to dispel. The opinion has been over and over again ad- vaneed by some of the able men of both | Honses, who give os endless homilies on ro | fumption made eany, that if we can bring our bonds to par in Europe wo shall in so doing bring our greenbacks to par in specie in the United States, Governor Montox,who ia unqnestionably an able man, whatever we may think of him as a finance’ is big with this idea, Now, the truth is, that the two subjects have nothing todo with one another, Our bonded debt is one thing ; our greenback debt is anoth The value of each depends on the treatment of each, Onco make the world fully believe that we are able to pay our bonded debt in coin, and aro willing to pny it, and fully di termined to pny It at all hazards and at what- over cost, and it will at once take rank with other first-class securities of the same sort in the foreign market. In a word, it will ap- preeiate till it reaches a rato which will be invariable, or subject only to the fluctuations of the rate of interest. Everybody, we think, ean understand this. It is a plain proposi- tion adapted to the simplest understanding. Now supposes that while, by one acts and words, we have furnished impregnable grounds for the spread of this conviction, and while it has been taking firm root in tho public mind, we likewise make it equally apparent by our conduct and declarations that we have determined not to lessen the volume of greenback currency, but, in the discretion of Congress, have concluded to hold it where it is, or perhaps to swell it a little from time to time as the demands of business may scem to require. Does any- body fail to seo that in such « case the green- back currency would remain stationary in epects rebws, or deprecrcy UL Turther, tor the plain reason that we propose a different treatment for it to what we propose for the Donded debt? The one we say we will pay ;the other we say we will not pay. There would seem to be a difference in these two diverse attitudes, which it does not require a volume of commentary to explain, Now this is growing to be hourly more and more our precise attitude. It is pro posal to say, and it seems likely we shall say, legislatively, that we will issue no more coin-paying bonded debt. ‘This means for certain that we will not fund our greenbacks in coin bonds, Those who are anticipating, therefore, to see greenbacks apprecinte unt this policy equally with the bonded debt are doomed to disappointment, We trust our legislators may gathor from this brief exposition that they confuse their minds by connecting those two subjects to: gether in treating the financial question. They are really quite separate and distinct. We appreciate the forward movement in the minds of the Western men who have been studying these topics for two or three years, ‘and who, by dint of their position, essay to lead, Messrs, SERMAN and ScuENCK have got to be quite sound, and Goy, Mowron haa made most praiseworthy advances, Still they all, as well as others, have yet much to learn, — Why not Tell the Whole Truth? The Hon, J, F. Bancock, of New Have formerly a Republican, 16 now a Demoerat, and # candidate for Congress. He has just been making a political speech, In this discourse he defends himself from the chargo of having turned his coat by saying that “the Republican party with which he acted never lived but about three years, and never had but one principle, namely, opposition to the extension of slayer; Mr. Baucock takes a narrow view of par ties and politics, Ho reminds us of what the Whifts used to say about their opp: They urgued that the Democratic party was dead, because the Democrats did not hold the opinions of Thomas Jerrenson about th equality of rights of niggers and white men They ignored the fuet that parties always outlive the issues on which they are started, and may n contend for doctrines the oppo: site of those they once cherished without thereby losing their identity, Mr. Bancock talks after the fashion of the anciont Whigs, and poor talk it is, If parties are worth any thing, they will be progressive. ‘The Repub lican party began with resistance to slavery extension as its exclusive policy, and a very strong tendency to the doctrine of Statue rights and nullification as one of is characteristic feature It has got very far beyond all that now, and yet it ie the Repub. lican party all the same, A year or two hence it will very likely be fighting for new ideas and new measures, But it will be the ‘This is equally true of the De- a, of the prestige of genius and of exalted re- | mocracy. That great party has lived through putation at home, that it will be @ matter of | @ pretty complicated round of experience. very little consequence whether they wear In the course of fifty years it has boon both oats of velvet and case their shapely legs | for and against the same principles, and has in silk stockings and knee brecehes or not. But for the common run of those who now been modified according to the interests, pas. sions, and convictions of ita members, and go to waste their time abroad at the public | the exigencies of political warfare, But it ent, the oucetion is onc of absorbing interest. has been the only Democratic party all the while, and such, we presume, it will remain throughout its future transformations. A candidate for Congress like Mr. Ban. cock onght to be more frank and manly. He ought to say, like man, that he has changed his opinions and his associations, What is the nse of secking an excuse for being a Democrat, and pretending that it 1s beenuse the Republican party is dead? Everybody knows that is not ao, and that Mr. Bancock does not give the true reason. Let us all eschew humbug, even in politics. aan The Toledo Blade, one of the mont influen- tial Republican papers in the West, says that in the policy of selecting men for office on account of their fitness alone, instead of taking mere politicians and dead beats for places of public trust, Gen, Gant is doing just what the voters approve, —— . The Trial Term of the Supreme Court Witnessed Ascene yextorday which strongly re. minds the classical stadent of the manners and customs of old Athens, Mr. Cranurs Rrane’s suit against the editors of the Round Table for libel, in misrepresenting bis novel of “ Griffith Gaunt," coming up before = jury, his counsel, Mr. Exonipor T. Gaune, angaciously emplo: that admirable elocutionist, Mr. Geonar Vaxnrx- Norv, to read to them the greater part of the work which forms the subject of the controversy, The result remains to be ween; but certainly no modern conrt room was ever before enlivened by such an entertaining piece of evidence, and ifadmi- ration for the author's genius can avail anything with the jury, he may count upon getting a ver- dict. It was thus that the Athenian orators were 1 to work upon the feelings of their m trates, one of them not hesitating, in an emergen- cy, where the beautiful Paerwe was in peril, to unveil all the womanly charms of his tair client to the admiration of her judges. And #0, on other occasions, the tribnnals were softened by the recital of the culprit's poetry, the exhibition of his artistic achievements, or the narrative of his heroic deeds, Should Mr, Genay win his he may congratulate himself on having ens turned his e rning to good account, — = Governor RANpoLrn of New Jersey recommends to the Legislature of that State to ish the transit duties upon passengers and ht now collected from the railn their jurisdiction, and the eubstitution fi of @ just and uniform rate of taxation upon the property of the companies owning the re The recommendation ia wise and timely. The whole Union resents the present policy of New Jersey in levying tolls upon goods and pr Passing over he sertion of a right whi and its relinquishment wou'd be hailed asa grace ful concession to public opinion, — A bill is pending at Albany which dircets the Superintendent of Public Instruction to purchase for each distriet school in this State, one copy of Brown's “Grammar of English Grammars,” and one copy of Wedgwood's “Government aud Laws of the United State The ostensible object of the measure is to aid the school teachers “in acquiring and imparting to their pupils a more complete knowledge of our language, and the common rules of law governing ordinary busivess trans actions.” There are, as near as we crn find out, something over 12,000 schools inthe State, aud the two books mentioned arc to cost together 45 per copy, so that the total expense proposed is about $60,000, This shows how extrava- gance in the management of the public schools in this city is corrupting the rural districts, See- ing we spend over $150,000 9 year in a useless Cite Callan and 02-000 000 ae an an mucia French, and other accomplishments, our country friends think they may as well go in for the lux. ury ofa little legal instruction to help their ehil- dron quarrel with each other when they grow up. MY what a capital thing it is for the pub- Nishers of the works in question! It is not every day, we will be bound, that the; editions of 12,000 copies for cash to s0 good a customer fas the State of New York, — There is an old tradition that such os the weather ison th jaxt three dayn of any auch will it be during jh respectively of the weason following. According to this rul we are to have @ wet and stormy March, for yes: terday snowy, sloppy, and aday ws we have had all wintor. It is to be hoped that to-day and to-morrow may prove so warn and pleasant as to insure us a genial April and a aunshiny May Gon. Kimearnien seems to have a peculiar the’ people of Massachusetts, He has just charmed the roughest and toughest of them ail, old Gen, Burtex, and now we have the pub- lished testimony of « woman of Westfield, who has been to hear the gallant General lecture, “He in certainly the dearest, the charmingest, the do- lightfullest, the mogniticentest man L over listen. * exclaims this susceptible Yankee. He is small, light-complexioned, with his hair brush. ed very smoothly back of his ears, a very becom. ing cut to his whiskers, his chin quite long and sincothly shaven; the most fuultless teeth; n ly dressed in black, with dress coat, and the most ting little foot, in w boot of w perfect fit, are small and light, but at tines they th the light like diamonds, and again perfect Larmony with his fucc ed all over with merry langhter, this we trust that Congress will peri abolition of the Chilisn mission, so that Kinpat- nick can settle in Massachusetts, expecially if he is not married, It would ve too bad tw force him away from a community where his beauty and genius alike meet with euch delicious appreeia- tion, ony ach mo was about as blow In his remarks in the Court of Seesions on ‘Thursday, at the close of the February term, Dis- triet Attorney Ganwen paid a well merited tribute to the faithfulness and ability of his assistants in that Court, Messrs, Roment B, Horcumas and Wiis M. Tween, Jr. They are,” said Mr. Ganvix, “entitled to the consideration of the pub- lic for the ich they have discharged The District Attorney also stated that during February over one hundred convic- tions of erime took place in that Court and in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, The effects of thus administering the law will doubtless soon be per: ceived in a diminution in the number of criminal offences, panner in W their duties.” —— That was a fanny specch which President Jonnson made the other day to a party of copper smelters from Baltimore. "To me,’? said he, vilhonors are fur more agreeable than the that ascends to heaven from fields of carnage, 1 would to-day rethor wear ou my face the furrows of care and responsibility marked by arduous serviee in the paths of peace, than wear the glittering epaulets on my shoulders, oF thu ging sword hangim® by my side, as the insignia of ruthless war.” Ife forgets the days when he was borne on the rolls of the army as a brigadicr-gencral of volunteers, But it is trac that he wasn’t much of a hero, eventhen, His military exploits were pretty much confined to keeping worthless officers in command of the regiments that had been raised by the loyal peo- ple of Tennessee, thus making the war as little ruthless as possible, In fuct, his carcer as a brigadier-general was not much better than his | itine.” career a# Presidents sho cannot justly chim, | THE SCN, SATURDAY, FEBRUAKY 27 A GREAT POISONING CASE. Intense Excitement in the French Capital. —_——— Refinement in Murder’ Short Way to Dine f ivalsThe OM Style of Annan Revivi From Our special Co ondont, Panis, Feb. 19,1 Paris has heen enjoying a sensation which re- calls the ancien régime, and the age of the Borgias and Brinviliiers, when poisoning was a One art prac. tised by people of the first fashion, In those days a person would sometimes inhale tho fragrance of @ Douquet, or the fumes of a pastille, oF pines an inno- cent-iooking lozenge or bonbon to bis month, and ina few minutes fali dead, To puts rival out of the ‘way In as delicate nnd cons!derute a manner ag wool nceord with his complete extinction, waa a favorite study with certaln prominent members of woctety, and they used to accomplish thelr oljeot with neat. ness and dexterity, Nowadeys we do oar murder- ing ina more brutal and positive manner, and the | picturesque accesrories of intrigning gallants, flerce- ly lowing and flercely lating ladies, villanoas old alchemista, marked dominoes, te rendezvous, the laboratory, the dacito, are wanting, We must seek for them In the pages of Dumas, tn the thrill Ing romances of Mr. Sylvanas Cobb, Jr., or upou the stage devoted to the production of the sensational dram: ‘They are so foreign to the thme that a par. tial revival of them (restorations being the prevatl- ing rage) bas proved an ansooakable boon to the gowsipa and weandal mongers of this city, who are discussing with infinite relieh @ polsoning case, or rather un attempt at one, which would have done credit to theexperts of the sixtee th of seventeenth century, ‘The pleasure of the MP ne over this event Is considerably enlianced by the tact that the parties are connected, directly or indirectly, with the most fostionoble cirelos of the metropolis The tn tended victim wae the Due de Panffremont, & woll preserved gentleman of fifty, ricl Ritshed-looking, and a favorite in woe ety Would-be potsoner was a bandeome young Pollaly Count, Kzidniakoweki by name, who had ¢ ved Nonate admiration for the Duchease de Bauf mt, Of a wealthy and a family he himself almost penniter scoms to have lived on his good looks and hi tation ax a rich young man about town, Of the Jody who tuepired bis « and th rie atic love wo have no particular deserip- von, but that ehe ie no longer In the first Must of youth may be inferred from the fet that for the tant fiteen years aho han lived apart fom her husband, Her dtai on with the Conut has been for some years notor in Paris, and wae regarded with complacency by the Dake, who doubtless found compensation for the Infldclity bis wif Bat th Count eeems to have desired that the ties whieh bound hit to the Duchess should be of amore per mane) t character than mere mutual a tion, He wiehed to be married to her, and te 4 that ob. Jeet It was uecessary to put the Duke out ofthe way. The Due {f reports ure to be believed, cordially sympathized with him inthis desire, and may possi Diy bave suggested the means for ite fullilment, As the Dake had for #0 many years winked at hie consort's Improprieties, there weemed no hope of drawing bim into a duel, Me must therefore be us- ted, aud fn such a manner ay to baille the efforts of he police to discover the murd r. The Count determined to poison him, and chove for the ecene of his operations the ball of the Grand Ooe where he wuppored the deed could be mont performed. Acompatriot named Masson, a studen of medicine, and an amateur cunfectioner, was pre- Yulled upon to manufacture some bonbous contain: ing & subtlc and deadly polnor, ‘These it wus pro- posed to have offered to the Duke at the ball by some fascinating but unknown young woman, whore invitation he could not notretuse. A few mo- ments after tasting them le would fall, writhing With palo, upon the floor and expire, In the confu- tion of the moment it would be Impossible for bim to identify his murderer; be could only say that had partaken of a poisoned boubon offered to him by an unknown woman in » domino, and as there would probably be thousands of perso: criminal would be very sligit. ‘The plan was on adroit one, but depended for its success mialuly upou the Woman select d to carry it into operation, Fortunately, the Connt supposed he knew just the person for that purpose. This was a Madame Belval, familiarly known to @ large and wis- eclianeous cirele of acquaintances as Anna de Nar bonne. She is deseribed asa tall, haudsome blonde of twenty-four, with One dark eyes, a slender dgure, anda delicate physique. She is of humble origin; but her tntercourse with the gay world has given ler un external polish which efectually conceals her de- fects of education, Her carriage is flue, ments full of grace, and ber wit sprightly, possesmed the depraved heart for which the Count gave her credit, she was perhaps the woman of ull others best suited to tuke the leading partin th) dismal tragedy. He visited Madame Beival at her apartments inthe Rue d’Enthidvee, and asked ber codyeration, He proposed to accompany her to the Opera ball, and there point out a man whom she should try her best to fascinate, Ifyou will Induce Lam,” he added, *\0 cat some boubons trom a box which Iwill give you, twenty thousand francs are yours.” * But what are these bonbons?” asked Madame, “ Nothing at all,” replied the Count; carnival trick, The bonbons contain some pothes cary’s stuff which will compel the Duke suddenly to leave the ball, You shail have two dominoes, and can exchange one for the other ina twinkling after the Duke bas caten the bonbous, There is uothing to fear, ‘Think of it twenty thousand france are not made every day 60 easily.” But Madame Belval was too quick-witted not to know that so large a sum ts not often earned for so trifllng @ service as giving an elderly gentleman a bonbon, But she kept her own counsel, and con- tented herself with extracting from the ‘ount the name of the individual upon whom this innocent trick was to be played, To bis request that se would write to him, ap pointing & rendezvous at the Opera, she returned a flat denial, for the reagon, certain Whmaturcd persone aasert, that her kuow- ledge of writing oF spelling was dnadequate to the tuk, re move- ‘The Count returned to Madame Belyal's the next diy, and told ber that he had written in ner name to the Duke to out her at the ball, and would accom: Duny her thitver. A day or two late upon being Privsed by her, ho confessed that he Intended to poison the Duke. But you have nothing to. fe death will be witributed to among the crowd of muske in the world,” she said; * the xy, and to escape Will be the easiest thing By He again reminded Her of the twonty france which Would be hers, m ousand nd making an appoiat- ments ab midnight of thas evening, when the Opera ball was to take place, he Jeft her, In the firm Welief that she would prove a ready instrument in his hinds. It may be observed here that the Court possessed no such sum as twonty thousund francs, and that Madame Belvat never received s0 much ay @ single irane from bim for her services in this matter, Searcely hud tho Count taken hfs departure when Madame Beival jumped into acab, and drove to the police headquarters, Her story seemed #0 improba- ble that at firet twas not believed, but 90 earnestly Gid she reiterate its main fucts that two Commits suries of Pohce—MM, Bellunger aud Cropy—were induced to promise to ¥ sit her apartments that same evening. They were admitted by Madame herself, aud came suddenly upon the Count in full ball dress, seated In the boudoir, Explaining their offeial char. acter, they asked him if he had any bon dons about him, He handed them 4 small package containing perhaps a dozen, Very we aro the others!" fald the Commissary, “but where “I dou't know what you mes Then we must search you, Do 90,” was the reply, Upon bis person were found « few franca and some trivial witicles, but no more boubona, Oh, forgot to say,” eried Madame Belval, * that he haa @ friend waiting outside tn a cab," The d—— you did, * exclaimed the Commissary ; “why didn’t you tellus that before? ‘The fellow bas seen us go into the house and is probably off by this Ascertaining the name of this nanfederate, M. ) | The Twentysseoon 1869, Crépy quickly descended the stairs and opening the door, called ont, * Monsieur Masson.” Well?" replied a domina, appronehing. “1 orrest you,” raid the Commissary, “ follow me.” Masson literally lost Ne flead and followed M. Crépy without the slightest resistance, The two men were then confronted In Madame Belval's bondotr, ‘Ieit trie, eald one of the Commissaries slowly to the Connt, “that you Intended to powon any oney* The Count Lesitated a moment, and then replied In 8 low voice, “ It ts true.” The prisoners were conveyed to headquarters In two cate, Upon entering the building the Connt expied ome swords beionging to the police force placed In a rack against the wall, “Ave these blades weil tempered ¢* be asked the officer accompanying hi They are,’ was the reply. * Will you pertnit me to examine one of them?” “ By no means,” retarned the officer, The privonees have tince been kept tn lowe con finement, and the authorities have been busily en- aged in collecting evidence against them. In the apartments of the Connt was found a telegram from the Dochesse deo Banffremont, the contents of which have not been made public, but which, It is romored, will have avery important bearing on the ease. In Masson's room some vil were discovered, rnp. posed to contain vartons kinds of poltons. Musson declares that he is innocent of any eriminal intent. He entered Into the plot, he eald, simply to quiet tho excitement of the Count, and with no intention of polsoning the Doke or any other person, He also deni that he put polson Into the bonbo: bot ays that he only colored them after a peculiar man ner, He warned M. Crépy to keep a strict watch over the Coant, av he had reakon to believe the Int- ter would endeavor to make away with himeelt, Both prisoners are now closely confined In separate pritons, and have never Been allowed to confer with cach other sinee their arrest, Meanwhile, the Duc do Bauffremont, the innocent object of thie dark plot, hat, by the adviee of the police authorities, left Paris und gone to Geneva, thonch why he should e this step one is at a loss to conjectare, Madam: Helval is of course the town talk, m hae become one of the celebrities of the dey. The Duchess ‘as not yet appeared npon the scene, The pubic trial of the prisoners is awaited with great impatience, and bids fale to become one of the causes céldbres of modern ties, — NATIONAL GO - Regiment Company Iter ption Elections Coming Drills 4 Com= petitive Drill. On Monday evening lnat the officers of the Twonty-second Regiment had thefr annaal dinner at Coret’a saloon, in Broadway, Bestdes the offiecrs of Brig.-Gen. Aspinwall and and sever] other of the ex seond, The newal nomber ivea, Col. ftermmey In RD NOTES, stall, ex Maj. T ofienrs of tho Ty Of tonete and apoeetos we tends to keep np the eharp discip!ine that haw made this among the best of the organizations In the First Divicton, Sergt. fa), Anderson, Commissary Sergt. nM. Tompkins, Cob G.V. W. Honse,and nber of non-commissioned oMeera and pri: Yates from the varv have received Lonorable discharg piration of term of servic nm nounced: Major to be Licutenant« pt. John ft. Camp, to be Najues iN, Franktin, to be Prrst Lientenant: Se word H, Cunninghat to be Second Firat Sergt, Wm, C, Boswn, to be Adjutant; Taout Win. C, Rogers, to Ve Quartermaster, re ppointed sient, Robert. Pardoe, dr., to be Commissary, reap: pointed; tho Rev, Dr. Rt. Booth, to be Chaplain, re- Appointed; Dr, Charles Robert, to be Assistant Sar. ancy Kerge. Edw inl, Ale Private Pierre E. Rone Quartermaster Serceant : @ Comminnary Sergent oapteal ‘Atarocent election of Company G, Elgth Reg. ment, ut.-Col, Seott presiding, Sergeant Joha P. Lelie was elected Second Lientanant, vice Wu, J. Morrison, deceaned ; Fourth Sergeant 8, Omeli to be Second Sergeant; Fifth Sergeant James Martin to be Fourth Se 3 Corporal W. J, Newman to be Sergoaut; and private Max Ebler to be « Cor- oral, i Company Bofthe Thirtv-seventh iment, one Of the best company organizations in the Firat Di- vis! on Thursday eve i last enjoyed their an- ual reanien ISU Fee ORME 7 by one of th largest and vantly dressed any of the Pn aler aud ® por and his stam Col. ‘¥, Maj, Froeborn, any other of ‘the officers of t besides representatives from Twenty second, Seventy-tiret, a ; of the mab iivay Orgunizalons tn this yn, Thirty-seven Seventh, Kight very mary othe city and Brow At an cleetion of the First Regiment on Tuend: i pane oceasioned by Mawkins, Lieut Mo. ACP. OW }, bath oMerrs 1 the position of | Perley was chosen afte est, |. Remmey an vty-sceond Regi Yn faticue ts follows a oftierts Will asmemble fi we univorm, on Moudays, March 1 a o'clock FM, Itt announced that the competitive drill of Com- panies Gand K will come of atthe regimental ar ytre. Market, ou the eveniug of re seems to be considerable leeli the competing companies with referen to tho rules that shall govern the contest. Comp K announces jn 9 comme pany G does not put in ag appearance ing in question, it will elatin the vie-ury. Company I, of the Ninth Reziment,give # compll- rr cepitio ng of March & wt the Twentyslatu wtrest Y c trial of Let, Col. John dD) ofthe Hirst Keciinent artillery, Col. Jolin I. Wilco: President, mecta this moruing at 10 o'clock, at the arwory oF the Ninth Kegimcnt, in West "twenty- sixth at, Capt, ©. D, Reiss, commanding Company G of the ity Hegiment, waa presented with avery’ han il medal by te members of bis command. A new cou sisting of sixty men, was, on mustered Into the Fitty-#ixth ny caton to Tre Sow that the pany. ant, James Scoretary Seward'y Retirement from Odeiut Lite, ‘The following letter, addressed by Secretary Seward to the President of the Albany Burgesses Corps, declining to receive them in an ofiei it eapa- city, contains the announcement that he will retire from public service on the 3d of March next : Deranraent ov State | Wasuixctos, Keb. 1, 1d0, f S. H.W, Parsona, Pq ibany, y. My Deak Stn: I ‘have received yo in whieh you inform me th ‘Corps propose to pay me a ie dd of Mareh next, and req point an hour for their s Folure from public servics indicated. Was tay purpose to weck and ony thei aiter so much of rest aud freedom from pollth Studies and Inborw as Is compatible with the sibilities whic low citizens, that, und T share in common with all Phe Bu ses Corps will nstanees {could not, without inconsistency, receive such a public reception as tuey propose, Nevertheless, f cherish for at its members the sme sincere re nd cord ig exenttat years, r place during the b veh; butit will give n 4 of the co and lors formally ail suit their convenience to call upon me at the Departinent A LITERARY EXPLOSION. —— George Vandenhoff Reading a Novel to a Jury. —s The “Griffith Gann” Libel Salt An English Anthor reninat an American Publisher & Part of Mr. Chartes Ronde's Antoblogras Fortunes me Court yesterday 1 Charten Reade's auit against Messrs, Charles 1. Swoetaer and Dorsey Gardner was called on, The plainti® claims $25,000 damagos for an alleged tibet contained fn eriticiems in the Round Table apon the story of * Gritith Gaunt,” while that novel wan be- Ing published werlally In the Aftantle Monthly ond the Argory, in the snmmer of 1886, The plaintiff enys that he fs a resident of London And an author by profession ; that the novels writt by him have acquired great popularity, #0 that he hi Decome well kown as an anthor, derives vreat profit and emotument from his works, and depends apon such income for his Tvefthood; that the de fendan proprietors and conductors of the Round Table, pub lished in that journal, on the Oth of June and the 2th of July, the two artictes complained of; the first of these articles characterizes the story of “ Grimtth Gaunt” as “one of the worst stories that haw been printed #lace Sterne and Fi the literature of the already foul eighteenth centary that ft Is “grossly Impore and essentially Dad and in- decent; “it wa thonght that respectable writers were approaching too near (he verge of impropriety when unmarried mothers were chosen for heroines in the ‘Heart of Midlothian,’ and Adam Bede, Her penchant for apologistte delinen: tons of fallen women would have heen euffetent had ull elxe been wanting, to stamp the position of Mre, Henry Wood. It was reserved for Mr. Reade, however, If we except a samewhat similar episode in Rogene Soe's ‘Doctor Basins,’ not oniy to elaborate with maateriy skill the Insidions erowth of a guilty passion, and to detail the art by which dimmolute servant woman seduced the husband of her mistress.” “Not merely tainted with this one font spot, it ia reblete with impurity; It reeks with all sions that the most prurient scandal monger would Wexitate to make." * Only Bt for the columns of the Polica Gazetie, @ pages of the avowed organ of the Partsinn dened monde.” The second article te of similar parport, and alleges that the additional ia. stalments of the story published since the frat no- tee were, “if possible, more impure than ite prod censors.” Another item of the alleged libel is a commanteation pablished in tho Rownd Tat 1, 1806, tuted at Piitefield, Maw G. 8. HL," whileh arpucd that Gaunt was uot written by Mr. Reade, WHO OWNS THR ROUND TAREE? ‘The defendante admit that Charles Rende ix an anthor, and that be pnblished, or enused Vehed, * Grimth Gannt,” bat whether he or wrote it they don’t know, and therefore deny the same. They also deny that they were the publica! ers or proprivtors of tho Round Table, bat that tt was owned and poblisned by a corporation eniled the Round Table Association. ‘They deny that there was any maliee in the puoliention of these articles, and deny that they were pabliahed of Mr. Reade as an author, but of the book, *GriMth Gaant.” They claim that the Rownd Table being a critical ana lite Tory paper, and the macwines having been sent to them for a notice, the conductors of the Rownd Table Honestly criticised “Grimth Gannt,” a8 was their duty and privilece, They alo claim in raltigation of damages in reference to the allegations that the | story was not written by Mr. Reade; that it ts {denticnl in all prominent featnres, and ite plot and Aistinguishing Ineldents, with other stories written and published by other pervons prior to the publica: ton of “ GriMth Gaunt.” ENTER GEORGR VANDENTIOFP, ‘Mr. Gallatin opened for the plaintiff, reciting the facts of the case to the Jury. Mr, Gerry then read the alleged libelous articlen complained of, after which Mr. George Vandenhoff, the distinguished actor and Shakesperian reader was called to the stand to read the novel of Grimith Gaunt to the jary. Before Mr. Vandenhoff begun rending, Mr. Whitney sald he suppored the story might be epitomized to a considerable extent aa the reading of the whole book 0 ore the tw they should apprehend, they wonld ask leave to object, Mr. Vandenhoff did not understand that he was to epitomise at all, and he had mado no preparation to do #0, The b ‘was put Into his hands at 10 o'clock the night previ with Instructions to read it, Still he mteNt omit soiue of the deveriptive writing ax he went along. JUDGE CLARKE ANUDDERS AT THE PEOSPRET, Tuslge Clerke thought {t would be desirable to shorten it as much ax posslbi A DEAR MAN ON THK JURY. Mr, Vandenhoit rapidly read the dest page. be was | Then parion, bat Pean’t unde Mr. Vandenhof—Your Ho reaain. 1 see before me thirty-six chapters, and it I don't hurry it will take a very | Judge € Hut it is Pighly necessary you should. read tthe jury sould understand you Mr. Vandenhoff—That ts clear, RVENYNODY BECOMES INTRRESTED, Mr, Vardenhoff then went on with his reading more slowly, and soon secured the undivided at y of the jury, but of the counsel und In sugwented that the ng all the objectionable portions 66 of the Nook, where Gridith eyton bein thetr rarried life, Mr, Gorry insisted Gat the jury Impressions from the read! and not from detached portio Court said it Was unnecessary to argue, a9 plaintitt was entitled to Lave the whole story TO Be CONTINUED, Mr. Vandenhow resumed, giving fitting r the graphic delineations of the story, He c reading from 11 o'clock antil nearly 3 o'clock, when the Court adjourned until 10 o'clock ou Moudiy a “OLD UNCLE D Additional Facts Re t Common Council's Nesta We have a number of interesting facts relative to tho venerable cx-clerk of the Common Counell, in addition to those which were published in yesterday morning's SUN. “Unele David,” who had become almost ae much @ part of the City Hall the old statue of Justice which the Common Council pulled down two or three years ago, had hecome so closely. wedded to Lis antiquarian researches that he wus nevor seen ont of the clerk's fice in, City Hall, or of his own well-thombed antig@rian Nbrary. Even in bis earlier life he caved so little for the fol es which ordinarily engross the youthfnl mind, that e Was never enticed into « theatre—finding his recreation in searching the old records of New York, of which he has left top rity somany and such interesting pages, He was a devoted Christian, hav ine joined the Malberry-street Baptist Chureh at the age of 16, and afterwards connecting bims if with what ts now Dr. Ken'r.ek's chareh, on Se nno and Tenth street, where he war d years, As an author, or rather histor! entine was best known to the public vip. Life of the In 1540, pur- vant to a resolotion of the Scnate aud Assembly, tw begun the annual publication of a Manual oftihe poration of New York, ‘These Manuals, twenty-tive ip noluber, as containing many of the antiquiies of this city, are highly valuable and interesting... fu 1858, he published a work, styled the History of New York, which traced the progress of the metropolis, from ity earliest development, through the various of State, Very truly yours, Wituiaa H. Swann, — More Suus Wanted, To tha Editor af ihe Sun. Sin; Can you explain how it is that I hed so much trouble in procuring © copy of your valuable paper this morning, Thad to go to no less than six news stands be‘ore Leould get a paper, ‘Pho first three that I went to had every other paper on hand but ‘Tux Sux, I asked them how it was; they an- swered that ‘Tum SUN was late—that the prosa had broken down, and that they expected them up every minute—this was near ¢ © cloc! going to three or four mora places, ing with the ame tuck, I was about giving tt up as a bad job,when Imet a man with a bundle of Sus, who kindly stopped in the Arenching rain and gave me apcopy, I bave been taking Tine SUN for the last flite@e years, About one year ago I stopped it on account of the trregnlarity ing it, and I would be loth to have to give it My business calls me from home before 6 c! ery morn do not care, when T ask for Tus ‘su 0 tare ae under my a vurd, mos! etful 7 ‘AN RARLY’ New Yous, Web, % 16 t, village, and cll: nthe sernes and terized New York in the olden. time, and often woald he recount them to friends who visited bim at the Clerk's ofice in the City Hall. He was regarded as an authentic referee on all matters concerning the history of this City, many are the points of difference arising from their disenssion he h settled with regard to it, His love of research and accuracy of details gave to hin writings on these topics a well-deserved suthority, He was a quiet, unobtrasive cit rarely ming ing pablicly to any extent im the olitieal or other excitementa that arose dari ing bis long residence here, but invariably ex Pressing his sentinenta onenly d boldly, among lis friends on all matters that were topics of the tines, Tt is said that he never crossed any of the ferries connecting New York with its surround ings since the boats plying thereon first driven by steam power. So greatly was attached to his home and to the duties of his office, that he never manifested a desire to leave the city, even for the purpose of satisfying his curiosity concerning places in the immediate vielnity of New York, Mr. V: tine was twice marricd. His first wile wana Mise Karns, who died about seventven years ago. widow is the ter of the tate Francis Spice Kisq., and to her he Was married thirteen sears agi By hie first wife he had fve children, ail yet_ living ‘wo of whom are married daughters, Mrs, Smith id Mrs. Owens, the remains are to be taken morrow mornii from the Peptier vnuele in Beeond avenue to crropted by & jnror, who said: *Lbeg | ting and Smottett deftted | | following the example of John Quiney Adama, who SUNBEAMS. . —>— —Over ninety “Lives of Christ” bave been written during the past thirty years, ~ATwo acres will be planted in cotton thie year, In Middle Tennessee, for one last year, ays the Memphis Sun, —The Italian army on Jan, 1, 1869, numbered 179,900 offleer# and men, & decrease of 68,097 frott the previous January. —Fiches’ eves have heen ottlizea. They mate ription of ginten, and attention tas beep tion. <e has seized acane ing Oe, under- al custom he ent trom 3 neath whieh were Orsini bombs ‘The American artists Church, Coleman, and | Yewell are experimenting in fresco at Rome, under the direction of the Pope's fresou painter at the Var tican, —Hrom 18 04 to 1897 North Carolina furnished alt the gold produced in the United States. ‘The ng- | gtogate of all her gold yield ap to 1808 i about £9.200,000. —There is aramorin Rertin that the Crown Princess Victoria hos the consumption, and that her physicians have urgently advised her to take ap her residence fn a eonthern city, or ¢o to Madeira, —George Sand hea written @ long letter in fe vor of tomate eutvage, female physicians, and female Preachers, Tt is addrenved to Mile. Reynonard, « French Indy, who is now leetaring in the provinees on woman's righ —A fog whistle, to be worked by a ten-horse power engine, Is being constrncted for Thatchere Intarid, off Salem, Mase, Tt will be ready by the tat of Jun, ‘This will be the Ingest and most power. ful fog whistle in the world. —A mathematical Blind Tom has made his ap. pearanee in Richmond. He ie but 17 years ob Dilnd, ond entirely anedueated, yet, by come mental precees, he wolves the most difflcult problems in figures with rapidity and precision. Aman has jnet been condemned at Vienna three months’ imprieonment for offensive fan- ¢ against the Empress Marts Theresa, who died 2, A journal august decearedt can have received from the panieh- ment —M. Jules Claretie, of Paris, has exhumed ¢ mot by Voltaire, Helvéting afew days after he had Dutiished his hook on wit recived ® note from Voltaire whiten read as follows: “Your book bears the inarhs of a sonnd mind, You must leave Fronea at onen,” —Gon. Grant, in declining to dent Johnson during the inangaral aples, ostensibly ¢ le with Presi- mn ceremonten, te 1 to ride with his successor, Andrew Jack of the Mist Haton scandal, Jackson rode to the Capitol alone, —In pegging boots by steam, twenty casos, or a usnel day's work, One man zed elgaty-thre cases, . He once pegged fortyi-eght in fourteen minutes; and did trial of speed, fy thirteen acconds! —For speaking to the poiut, commend us ta the Weetern press. Here is what a Tively Missourt paper saya: The poor, old, dilapidated piece of flesh and bones who h ut every weeks In the Jackson Stand y common com. an eon Union, has rattled his old skelet —The Wi one boot, ta tie in existence, it is reporied, has already cleared $1,000, hav. Ing about $4,000 In stock on bi ‘The labor of tha ‘women is directed to sewing and flue neodle work and they have received three diplomas for thelr wot from ugricaltural and mechanical State fairs, —Naturalists axsort that nearly all marine anis mals die if placed in fresh water, Indeed, {t appearn to act upon them Ikea specific poison, ‘Tinie fact gives rise to the proposition that every ship with» foul bottom should be berthed for a brief period In @ fresh water dock after coming into port. Thongh mussels, barnacles, &€c., should not be disengaged by the ebange, they would, in all probability, die, and their increase, cither by growth or reproduction— both of which processes go on with extraordinary ropidity—would at all events be completely checked. —A woman, acting as midwife at Houghton, Mictinun, SHEOTIA TROL On recent oeeaston when she was holding a child two weeks old in her arm, and a physician wos preparing a prescription for tte mother, the child raised np and uttered “in « pleads tng tone” the word “mother,” twice, She (the m wife) recognized this asa warning, and urged that the medicine should not be taken, but her sueges: tions were not heeded. Again, when the medieina was being taken by the mother, the ehild repeated its warning,” and before a day had passed the wor man was dead, —Wolfe, Opthelmic Surgeon for the Royal In. firiary, Seotlond, reports curing several cases of er by applying eamstle arrows, which he insert- in deep, broad punctures into the deceased part. Asinany ax five arrows were used at one time, 1 neid destroyed the vitalliy of the morbid growth im three days, when it camo away wound should be treated by water dressing reports that this treatment gave no paim, whieh, if true, is a most remarkable clreamstance, Cancers, dmast be Killed, not eus roy Petersburg has the follows that, on the proposition of inister of Public Works, the Emperor has ac corded to MM, Koul, Lazarei, and Miller tho neces- fary authorization to proceod with the levelling and other works required for a railway between the 0% pian Seaand Loke Aral, This Imperial decision ha been communieated to the Governors of Orenburg and Turkestan, The projected I'ne, in uniting twa of the largest rivers, the Volga and the Sir-Daria Gaxartes), will serve a® a bond of union between Russia and Central Asin from a commercial, strate gical, {and political point of view. —A bet of €25, made at Pittsborg Landis ‘Tenn.,1n May, 1808, between Thomas W. Knox Albert D. Richardson was paid recently, Knox at that time offered to Det that no robel leader would be tried for treason by any high civil or military anthority and excented, snd Richardson took the Tf no prominent rebel twero canght, the bet wus to he drawn, and likewise $f one shoald ba caught and escape by any otler means than formal Hberation, ‘The recent amnesty and the nolle prose qué in the case of Jefferson Duvis were seknowledg> edas deciding the bet against Richardson, and be hus given his check for $25 to the winner nearly seven years after laying the wager, —Robert Simson, the Scottish mathematician, ‘Was noted for his absentmindedness, He used to elt at his open window on the ground floor, deep in ge ometry, and when accosted by a beegar would rouse himself, hear a few words of the story, make hin do Rome nation, and dive. wage one day stopped @ mendicant on his o the window with * Nowt do as we tell you and you will get something from that gentleman, anda shilling from us beshtes, He will ask who you are, and you will #1 son of John Sinton of Kirktonli ‘The man did as he was told; Simson gave him a coin and dropped Off, He soon roused himself and said, * Robert Sim son! gon of Jonn Simson of Kirktonbill! why, that fo myself! thot man must be an Imposto: MADRORO, Captaln of the Wostern wood, ‘Thou that apest Robin Hood ! Green abuve thy scarlet hose, How thy velvet manile shows ; Never tree like thee arrayed, O thon gallant of the glade t When the fervid Angust aun Scorches all it looks upon, Anil the balsam of the pine Drips from stem to needle fine, Round thy compact shade arr Not a leaf of thee is changed} When the yellow autumn eun Saddens all it looks upon, Spreads its sackcloth on the hills, Strews its ashes in the rills, ‘Thou thy scarlet hose dost dom, And in inde of purest butt Challengest the sombre glade For a sylvan masquerade, Whe: hall he begin Who would paint thee~Harlequin ? With thy waxen burnished le With thy branches’ red relief, With thy poly-tinted fruit, In thy spring or autumn suit; ad oh, where end, ‘Thou whose charms al! art transcend!