The Sun (New York) Newspaper, May 24, 1869, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS, ——o— CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, tth ov. between fh aod fh st8.—Garden Concerts. WALLACK'S—Rodertaon’s beantifial comedy =" Caste." Matinge Satara THE TAMMANY—Ciorinda, the Giri of {the Period. Matince on Satnmtay. BOWERY THEATRE—Maréppa, Poor Dog Trav, de. PITH AVENUR THEATRE —th ae, avd oe Lee Dragons Vitiare. (The Hermit's Bet!) M Sarure: DOOTH'S THEATRES et. detwees MD ant GR ave, Othello. Matinée on Saturda . OLYMPIC THEATRE, May 18—Hiccory Diceorr Dock. Matinses at 14 o'cloek, Weanestare and Satumtave NIRLOS GARDEN —Porte tking Nh have been tod tn the Conatituti pluck out. Where are the Loyal Leagars—dumb dogs —that they take no notice of this important event? Where is the Republican press? Where is the r ous presa?) Where is the conselontions 77 ? Where is the sneak. ing Independent? Whore is the eloquent Bencter, that his voice is not yet raised in Plymouth Church to denounce this first bold but ins'dious and dangerous thrust of the great aportate to Inw and to liberty ? ——— Gov. Hoffman and the Railrond Dittn. of the partisan newspapers aro so- ing Gov, HorrMan for having ain, a. art the, on Satartar Matinée every day, WAVERLEY THRATAR. 9 evutifal 8tatze adwar— of the Deertes and Haale fanaa ng ala nator of Mille aMeting the inter CanWieatenon, z railronts tn thie State, OF he New York Central pany to increaso its nominal ee oat capiial eighty per cent; another makes it The rap ee pesr ee Fs lawtal to consolidate railronds connecting in Te Shtmes for Att & continuous lines another eubstitutes for = h pres practice of electing the entire Board of Directors in certain leading railway corporat every yoar, one by which only one fiith ach Board is to be elected annunl- ly; while a fourth gives to the Matlem Rail- road Company the right to take, on paying f © tract of land, including portions of ie streots, in the neighborhood of Forty- sccond street and Fourth avenue, for the pose of erecting thereon a grand depot. cept so far as they at stock, schemes, we can see no valid objections to any one of these bills becoming a law. Tho increase of capital authorized to be made by the New York Central Railroad clearly a matter which concerns Jers of that cory It v NDAY, MAT The Weekly Sea pub ration, them, and we presume they can be ly left to manage their own affairs. If ¥ will be better off by calling just named ; whether it is not often uscd as porters of high standing, who, to avoid con. dle With the consent of two- | credit when in fact they ought to pay nothing; whether which, THE 1's Department in whether the Naval OM eannot he entirely abolished. this department at the various ports receive fat salaries, get one-sixth of all face and selzuroe, ond employ a Drigado of subordi. nates, It was once proven that at this port, in four years, the Naval Officer's salary and far bottor disposition could be made of this sum by nsing it to stimulate, in the way of commissions upon lawfully condemned joo!) lerye number of minor officers, who do the ard work for rather small pay. And when looking into the question of seizures it will behoove the Committee to in- quire whether tho existing modo of settling fome of this class of casos doos not tend to fil the pockets of Ovllectors, Naval OMecera, andl Surveyors at the expense of the Treasury, For examy . thousand dotlare, aro seized, ho ia allowed to reevive them on paying a ponalty equal in amount to what the dutics would be, and one-half of this penalty goos into the pockets of the threo officers just named, and the Government gets the other half, which, of course, 1s just one Lalfthe amount of the duty! ‘Tho Government has lost millions of money Ly this shrewdly devised scheme for filling the pockets of these three officers, Again, it will be well for the Committes to overhaul the entire subject of fines, penal tier, and forfe'turoa, and seo whether the Goverument docs not get the worst of the Vargain in other particulars besides the one an engine of oppression whereby Custom Tlouse officers extort money from timid im- sts in the courts which might affect their ond standing, pay heavy sums, not the the laws or as largo amounts now stand, é Sagos §150 each instead of $100, it is | into the purses of three officers, do not tempt pa rr loss amusement which they may as | them to descend to the low arts of mere de- ity rade well be allowed to indulge in at their plea. | tectives, when they onght to act as hich: sure. At all events, no such welghty quos- | minded umpires between the Government The Fourteenth Amendment the Onty | tion of State policy is involved in the bill as | and the mporters; and whether a largo re- Se ee to make it imperative on the Governor to | duction in the sum total of their perquisites, As we bay he nen en Tranneg | OveFtale the julgment of the majority of the | and its diffusion among a number of subord Po lp bitom Legislature in Its favor. nate officers, would not abate the cupldity of - - . The Consolidation Lill is liable to the ol | the former, increase tl of the lat. it of slave- i er tia jection that it tends to create mammoth c te and bring more money into the Fe , ral cae of slavery by | Poretlons, which will exercise an overshadow: | ‘Treasury, Under the present aystem, a single - + 44) De political power In the State, But, | officer at this port has received in one y alle y njo ' | i tus VANDERDILY Will The Committee have entered upoa a tok broke it up, be the hether he remains the head of three railrond companies or be he head of one, aud ii will be the sa success re, The bill reyalating the election of railroad Directorsin the New York Ccatral, the Huteon River, the Harlem, and the T wilroad Companies, sa far from requ ¢ defence, us on careful examination to be culeulated rather for the safety of stockhold ers in those corporations, As the law stood, a combination of stock speculators could any year get control of the direction of those valuable railroad properties without the per- sons really interested having any noti s much more freedom th. Its mes with Persons born or n: at inthe Tuited seems to equal protection of the aceordir Chief Justice Cur any St this gloric: jon of the authorities of neonvenient to regard # provieion asa part of the Con- ye deem it Stitution, they are at perfect liberty to eet it | of their purpose. Now they cannot aside. He holds that it possess noinhe | consummate such a scheme In less ng force of its own, because the } than threo years, if at all, Tho mo- tion of the article provides | mont, too, that they begin by electing one- fifth of the Board, they will expose them telves to the other stockholders, and enable them to rally and defoat thei, the saine Lill forbids dire Wave pow , tbe provision: have had the same It Congress would have section had been omitted, Moreover, tors or stockhold. ors in the roads constituting the New York was a superfu provision, But to hold ; that it nullifics all the sections which pre | Central line from being directors in the tede it is ridiculous. and vice versa; so that It affords a certain safogriard ogainst combination between these two great highways of travel to the detri- ment of the publi Of the Harlem Depot bill, it is only ne- cessary to say that by it the city will be paid for portions of the streets near the proposed improvement which are now worthless to it, and the property in the neighborhood is not only not injured, but has been rising in value ever since there Was a prospect that the bill would become alaw. ‘he proposed depot will Le a great convenience to the public, and as it could not Le built without legisla- tion such as has Leen obtained, the Governor has done right to give that legislation his sanction, Looking at these four Dills, then, from a common-sense poiut of view, we perceive no reason to find fault with Governor Horrman for signing them, He is evidently a prac. tical man, looking to practical results rather than sentimental theories, and knows how to {t used to exist inthe Southern States! =| use without aousing it the power with which Woeall the attention of the country to th's | iy ¢uluweitizons have invested Lim, decision. We call the attention of all thos: > ie ts who intend to stand unalterably by ther The Custom Tlouse and the Congres- of man, to an assault upon the Constitution sional Committee. of the country, as destructive in spirit and A Committee of the House of Representa purpose, as unpatriotic, as treasonable in de | tives is in session in this city to obtain in ign as the firing of the first yun upon Fort | formation preparatory to proposing plans for ECumter. the moro economical, faithful, and honest Itmay be said that this was a mere nisi | collvction of the customs revenue, Though priva decision, Let it not bo overlooked that | there is great need of reform in these par the wily Chicf Justieo undertook to give it | ticulars, we do not fecl very confident that Bll the moral force of a unanimous decision | remarkable Lenefita will flow from this in- of the full bench of the Supreme Court of | vestivation, for the reason that 80 many the United States, for he made a studiod, | previous Cong ional investigations of the though we think a dishonest, attempt to | same sort were so Larren of good fruits, create the imp m that every one of the | However, we hope for the best, and will take Judges concurred with him in opinion, leave to give a few hints to the Committee, If this nisi prius decision Is permitted to | In the first place, they should repudiate as pass unheeded by the people, it is possi their guiding star the Fentiment that every we fear it is probablo—that a majority of the | amporter of merchandise Is a fool or a knave, Judges of the Supreme Court may ere long | and every Custom House officer is a Solon Le found on the side of the Chicf Justice, da enint. They will doubtless find that Tt wos a stupid nist prive dce'sion, fol | these four sorts of people arc distributed in lowed up by a careless ratification of the | about average proportions through these two Bupreme Court, which fastened upon the | classes of men, tountry the unconstitutional, odious, iu Nor shoul. the Committee assume that The Thirteenth Amendment contains the following almost identical provisi *% Congress shall have p article by appropriate legislation If the one renders the Fourteenth Amend mont inoperative and void execpt by the aid of Congressional leg'slation, the other, being precisely the same in substance, and very nearly in words, mast render the other articl« also inoperative and void without the aid of Congressions! legislation. Of course, what ever Congress can enact it may also repeal ; 0 that, according to the dee'sion of Chief Jus. tice Cuasr, the constitutional prohibition of slavery, even directly and in name, as pro- vided by the Thirteenth Amendment, is en- tirely dependent upon the shifting majorities in Congress! And, according to that de- cision, there is really nothing, whatever yet engrafted upon the Constitution whieh stands, necessarily and permanently, in the way of the revstablishment of slavery, just as wer to enforce quisitorial income tax. The timo to] the prevailing planof collecting the custouis meet and oppose successfully uncon | is the perfection of reason, a8 some of those stitutional and tyrannical principles and | who administer it eecm to suppose, when in Measures {8 in their infancy. Every en | truth It is rather a network of contradiction, eroachment upon our rights should be met ‘and resisted on the threshold, ‘I'hose are not trae friends of the people who try to post pono the day of ‘alarm when the enemy ar -_--—~epproaching. Mr. Sewanp told us in the Devinning of the rebellion that nobody was hurt and it would all blow over in a fort: | numerous political deadhea In truth, ft night. He strutted in the impotent conceit } can hardly be doulted that a thorough re- of his own greatness and swelled a8 @ pro-| vision and reform of this system would enn- phet, all the while blind to the great eloud | blo the Government to dispense with at least war and death which was already darken. | one third of tho officers now on duty in all ag the horizon. '| the large collection districts of the country, ‘recont decision of Chicf Justice Cnaee | While examining into th's branch of the tb inst 20 important as thie: If i sande ae | subjoct, we Loyo the Committgo will ascer- confusion, and eireumloeution, as every sen. sible man who las fathomed it knows, It is largely made up of laws which are out of date, and preeedents which ought to be for- gotten, and which afford some employment for many useless officers, and quiet nooks for which will tax their skill, boldness, and im- partiality, We trust they will prosecute it intelligently and thoroughly, not in the spirit of portivans, but ag upright citizens, who will not turn a deaf to the demand for econo- my, retrenchment, and integrity in the col- lection and disLursement of the public money, which comes up from a people burdened with debt and scourged Ly taxation, ——— Mr. Fistren, tho new Commissioner of Patents at Washington, has erdered that every person appointed to office under him mast pass fan examination to determine bis qualifications Lefure he can receive Lis commission, This is the right way to secure capable men, and it should be adopted in every sphere of the public service, Have Mr, Gruxxent and Gen. Joxes ever thought of applying this method in their appointinents ? F sade 1, Youna has not only d thousand dollars, and us, but he seems to have a chronic incapacity for speaking the truth, of his letters, d weeks after b gins thus: “Dran Chanter: T have been allin the dumps thess few days about our poor lit Such a healthy child, if we only had more OF course this refors to his sick newspaper, but he has had the impudence to affirm that it meant areal suffering child, and his paper has assailed us for republishing a lotter with #0 sad a subject. ‘The fact is, however, that at the time Ay Aad no child at all. We bad had one, but it had died three months before the letter was written, as appears by the advertisement of the event, which was published in the Zhidune of August Mr, Jonn 1 sued us for a hund Keops on suir USSE A started the Philad ‘one from the other, Says the Sou' The heads of | addressing Bishops Janes and Snarsox, through Bishop Parn: “We cannot think you mean to of You speak of our having scparsted from you, and Put ae in the same caterory with ae Acliismaticn who were alweys an neknowledged se- \iness, brethren, to re Perquisites amonnted to about $150,000, A | Mind you, and to keep the tmportwat fuct of history Prominent, that we peparated from you In no rense cession. Allow usin oll in which you did not reparate from tion was by compact and matus!, Proaches to cach other ena he conduet of a successful issue only on this be This does not wear « harmonio: ever, if the two Presbyterian Aasen union, they will give a lead which the Methodists may soon follow, —— What are the Commissioners to site of the new 1% Messrs. A. T. Stewart, Honace Gi When A's goods, worth a fow | Winttaw Onrow; and tho duty for which they Were appointed is to choose a place pored edifice a little higher in the Ci than that previously designated fur the purpose. Congress has appropriated two hundred thourand dollars to begin the building; the has authorized the ehangs in the Iv now it is time for the Commissioner their work, so that the architects and by can begin theirs, Not a day should be lost in ptshing forward an underteking wh needs $0 much aud hus w oe About two months ago a Jorseyman was inveigled into the den of “Reddy smith,” on Chathun —equere. siranger was there the dvors w and several hundred dollars, “dead men tell no tale about to murder their victim outri pleaded so hard for his life that they r under the promise that he would keep @ secret, The Jorseyman, t! break a promise extorted wi made his case known to On the rosw flow | 88 arrested, and, efter a short impri That seems to have Sinee the name bas been before the public as con- released on $2,000 bail, been the end of the matter, y's!” nested with alike felonious trans near his den, Last week he packed a Convention with thieves and fighte one enrolled himself as a Repub “ Reddy” himeelf swore th Graxt and Grisworn, Ho room, with his band on his bi staneh Republicans who were endo unmask his villany tion and maki: against those who atteinpted to interfere wit! SUN, MONDAY, MAY aspect. How. wt Ollice doing? They are 1 for #0 long. the gang deliberately robbei hoo gang y Y the thievery the had atrociou 2 thern branch, fend us when body of . The separa. 1 nearer ap- ted with Lope mblies form @ 9 select the never, and for the pro- ty Hall Parke Logistature yeation; and 8 to pert lors ich the city the Black Int one of the Washin “We are aatiefed from what we can Joarn that the in the Go NEWS F BURL jon Pacific Katlrow Vico The Views of ex-lresident Fravktio Pierce. Kpecial Deepatehes to The Sun, Wasutwatox, May 23 the appenrance of a son of “the colored Dous! crnment printing office nt the cage had not sabsided before the youngbe brother, Fred De ee ead m4 CALDRON, - The Texas Election = The <The Indian Sere he commotion over lane, Jr., ovpeared in pursult of a clerksinp, and besieged the City Recorder, with Both Doughsses a aro bound to make dies his own canoe, and relies on his own exe: The third Douglas i fate chances of anecess. well educated and smart, and noise in 1. Esch pad a fon of * “ Little Giant of the Presidential campaign of 1390, and is snugly esconced ia a clerkship in the Pr dential mansion, Whore he draws a salary of €1.500 ver annam for seting as veeretary to Gen, Dent. Young Douglas has charge of the President's ante- room, Where those secking a word with the Chict Magistrate aro halted and mado to deliver thelr names and business, There Is eo able interest manifested to see which of the three youths will do printers ber be Gov ost for Muy 1. D nt at he will remain uti! removed, and jougtaes snnoun at printing off Jon Jonranls 8a; fh Aorable anime Douglass on PURCTION DAY IN TRXAR. » Paschal called apon th President yester- blog oe day, in behalf of Gov. Pease, of Texas, The Presi: ere Koched, | dent anid that the th Maing the election tn TT that Stat wonld not be decided plow that 7 ontt after the election in Virginia. Ie thonght the . he the retbe it host to h a threat © Re amet, “Red. nin a saloon I bie and ted for the the to avorit would b Tule Pesehal suse Angust ti Prealdent said he sh coed with the work that he had mention to Mijor Moor: talw self by eugyesting an Raliroad, wri their road t reports that jaw enough to move double th passenger trafle co ways, and far ex: nefitome work | Ts (his man ever to be ght wo 1 we ’ ho robbed: at hy ord ve 4. TRE Setsoyn Fs | scons tt ‘ x, demanded ju een would get it in his own Democratic te. | coattto Shall he have it in this great Democratic city, or | tion has * Reddy" paralyzed a Judge or a Disiriet d threats of retribu. Attorney by his eold-b tion? P pe A correspondent of the erat say “1 was talking, the ottier event ance of m) in the house who takes doesn’t need to go to work until halfp the morning, and hie lias time to read bet He says he gets alt the news tn 1 get in any of the four-cent papers, and ai rial he bas time to read before le goes taking tha Demoerit, he saya he ‘eels a day with evcrything pot erisp and rea: ithe took all hia tine ov they made Phila: learned to press. This is all tras, phia brick in Egypt isa cheap pocket mirror of tho new Itcan be read at the breakfust tab! horse cars, while tho patrons of sheets ere unfolding their eight or and vainly searching their pages eight mocrat is really an evening Sox, “red hot’? polities. Any person r Tuk Sox and Denocrat gets for f bering blanket sheets, AMUSEM. @ musical @ ¥eek will be the return of Mr, 21, 1867, Perhaps Mr, Yousa will commence a libel suit against the Zribune for having furnished so ¢ clusive @ contradiction of his statements, Perhaps, on the other hand, it would be better for him to abandon the practice of libel suits, and devote himself zealously to the endeavor to avoid deceit, falsehood and dishonesty, — Wo learn that Miss ANNA E. Dickinson Will deliver an address on Woman Suffrage at the Cooper Institate on Friday evening next, This will be the first public effort of this popuular or- ator on that subject, and will doubtless attract « large audience. The entire proceeds will be for tho benefit of the National Woman Suffrage As- sociation, of which Mrs, Euizanerm Capy Stax- Tow is the President, EE The Albany Lvening Journal thinks that no vessels with arms or materials of war on board intended for the Cuban revolutionists should be allowed to leave our ports, But how are we to find out that they are for the use of the Cubans? Suppose a vessel clears for Nassau or St, Thomas, with muskets, cannon and powder, some person at her place of destination, ought she to be stop- ped becanse we suspect the eargo may be subse- quently traushipped and seat to Cuba? It strikes us that this is none of opr business; and that while arms and ammunition are freely exported y week fur the Spaniards to kill the we need not prevent the sending of e articles to the 9 if those ports should happen to be somewhere in the West Indies, More than this, let us say that we have no more right to provent such shipments nin the other, —— is The Albany Argus las been considerably enlarged in size in order to meet the requirements of its i We congratulate our consigned to hence evel ris of other nations, even iu the one case th creasing business. prosperty, ‘The Argus is the leading organ of the Denveracy of this State, Its editor, Mr. Wiruian Cassiny, is a writer of remarkable strength and pungency, and a politician of great judyivent and steadiness, The Democratic mem- bers of the Logislatury did no more than right when they gave their emphutic endorsement to (his faithful aud able party journal, ——- - Tho Mothodist Episcopal Church North, through Bishops Janes and Snevson, during the present month, has mede a proposition to the Methodist Episcopal Chureb South for a reunion of thoseg influential bodies, But, though the proposal was warnily urged, the Southern wing of the Chureh, through Bishop Pains, declined it, ‘on the technical ground that the Northern wing treated thefr old-time Southern anseciates as bav- ing separated from the Church, rathér than as parties to a'comman and mutual seperation the which occasion we are to have that vivacious, and Frenehy of ail the Frene Vie Parisienne,” Hervé's ** Chilper! peotant, and of wh ‘Tuesday. ‘The Western trip of Mr, Gran's cot to have been exevestin ful. The coming season is to be of bat two weeks’ duration, Fiera Avexcve Treat Maillard’s pretty opera, “The Hermit’s Bell," has met favor at the Fifth Avenue Thi The criti upon its meriis by sustaining it thro: sentations, Itisas brieht in plot as in {ts music, — Dramatic. At Wallack’s the scason is drawing to a close, Caste.” and with it the repr seutations of The “Lauro Troupe” have arrive mime will Foon succeed comedy, ‘Tho * teresting plays that Lave of late public, Tho Tammany bes withdrawn Crusoe,” and introduces Mr. Guaking Clerinda, or the Girl of Nie Pe Wood's Museum ts quite competent Robinson oud nis man Fridey, bay: Durlsque a splendid setting presented th ru) Niblo’s Garden continnes the Fi until Saturday evening, w of “Sinbad” will be p n the gorg uted, At the Olympic, Mr, Fox is making the evenings Pleasant with "Tliccory Diccory Dock. At Booth’s, “ Othello’ is in its ta also Mr, Booth's ow afernoon the readin engagement. of Byron's * Ma contemporary on this evidence of well merited | B8¥e *0 reat pleasure at the Last Philharmonte con- ted, that Society showh sense of the Ooligation to My, Booth by this reelpro- cert, iwto be rep cul compliment, ‘The Waverley continues the new burlesque of “ Pypmalion,” while the Bowery presents a new and attractive bill, and the Japanese eontia derful exploits at the Circus, It only remains to refer to Mr, Theodore ‘Thomas's concerts, as to the merits of Mr, Levy, the corues player, the publ fully alive. A very curious inveution is the sponge, It has all the quaiition of n and ie @ gros! sides being free from grit, It Is made in this city, Whitelaw Tela, t —— hold his commission less thay two years, - *, with an nequaint. he would be epending witions about the way ‘The Demoorat is really the st of our evening journals, and we are glad ro that its circulation is rapidly increasing ur dry columns for the news, nows twice a day, hot from the press, trouble of fishing it from the depths of the lun- Grau’s admirable company tolts Fourteenth street home, not take plice until Saturday evening, however, on " for which the public 1s ex- se merits tere is the greate promise, 8 to be brought out on the succeeding sly remuncrative and succes: tre, und deservedly, 1 Paris public passed a decided Judgment Juste” will have missed one of th LeMingwell as The It will continue to be e during the present week, aud, if It meets ts deserts, will have a long aud successful On Wednesiay ——_——~ deal tougher and more duruble, be- Brigadior-Genoral in the New York Tribune office, is @ graduate of the Miamt, Ohio, Universtiy, not much over thirty years orage, New Fork Demo: past © fore he ne, We SUN that he can I the edit out. By my posted’ twiee dable, where, before they of t le, or on the tho bl twelve bul fifty-six. The Dr. except in its eading both our cents the without the vent of the This will most bright, ‘h operas, * La mpany is with pecuhar ugh 350 repre- it fs charmlog nd panto- ose Who fail to most in- glven to the “ Robinson riod, Indeed, to take care of ing given that ‘orty Thieves cous spectacle st week, as is nfred,” which their aue their Won which, and of lie are already India-robber atural sponge, by @ coinpany will and'wo put the! , oithe pwever, have been o cept the sltnation, at leas ntge, # from Oiaha tha romoutory T between the time of storing eraing neoment of the cotton-picking season that the first Monday in n election day in Texas, The ald direet Gen, Reynolds to pro- of registration, and remarked 1 the first Monday in November At had Immediately eorrected hiin- ariier day, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. ginver of the Union Pacific they are running a tine table that ¢ same length east promptness of «i eating-hows by any line ri ollene ume \n . He Company have freight cars and en- fr Aght that Is offer- tuues heavy both Js thoir auticipitions, Tut they ome cuts and replacing with #to Wot tren, and w Will Rot ' s tenteand | neans bas the prospect of ivil capacities, and such of them Court are endeavoring to obtain other department, No resigna- rod, and most of them for the present, OPN, DUTLER'S WAR WITH RNOLAND, Gen, Butler looks upon war with Rngland as a of n turther Importations, whic rons drain t the war would be a rival wor, It contd be cheaply conducted, and the beet commerce under the flag would enable the U: expenses from captures. tonal ceonc as it would prevent Just now are aw has to endur the cou tod States to pay its war AECKETAKY BOUTWELL AND HIS GOLD SURPLUS, Secretary Boutwell has not yet determi ed what todo with the proceeds of tho extra millon of gold which he will sell tuis week, He has, how- ever, determined that he will not bay more than one million of bonds this week, Ho is pr wed to buy up three per cents. with his surplus, but this he does not weet, to look upon with tn eh favor, and it isnot mnlikely that there may be warvants enough drawn this month for lezitimate purposes to use up nearly all Lis surplus in currency. THE RUSH YOR OFFICE. The total number of applications for office up to ate 1» 99,998, divided among the Departments os follows iy ne Interior, Dopartment of | Stutey 1, ter puntr asury Departmen: 8,170 8.01); Department ce’ Department, Navy, Depart his f Agriculture, 359, pplicatic 18 of Congress, ‘sani internal revenue off y. These, it ts estimated, will » h ell the number about 66,000, exer Ex-President more und Washington, and left On Fritay for Ne Hampshire, warding f He appo iat “GERMANS eM gH complica sintment of Mr. Motley and. expressed the opinion that it was no time for thought! IDENT PIRRCR ON TIE SITATION, jerce paid _n flying trip to Balti ely Of public matters, spoke we favorabiy or loose tate Th of issues, pon forer on the whole he regarded as delicate and TING TO NEBRASKA, The Land Office to-day received an apphica. tion from to nd o representatives of over one hundred every trade and profession, in Alle: Who desire information preparatory to Nebraska, ey, Propose to purchase Acres between ie tine of the Union Pacific Ralirood and the Platte Kiver, with the view of forming a colony, ‘VaRrETi Gen, Butler left to-night for New York, having bod dispensed wi and othe Mr. Sam Ward is buying ships. chased tha rons und Is ate: Treasury antvorition have very uy: surveillance w be kept on the Florida, on the unjust spicion that ghe is intended for the Cubar reported that Mr. W f other interview yesterday with the President. nce with the request of a number of Postm as: ‘dbo order the SAM WARD BUYING VassiLs, He has pur- Adunta and Hot, at League the Alleghany, at Norfolk} also, the r Florida, now lying at Chest The ily ordered a tis rd has penceful missions for his fleet; that he intends to load thein with four, wheat, aud pork, In legitimate trace to Live gold Raving so far advanced as to re again powsivie; and that in the fall fru {sacrificing patriotism, he ges the fond hone that he may contribute hie share toward reduchng the national debt and checking tw disastrous over flow of unnecessary importations, iy path for dinner, on su To clear the patriotic endeavors, ho entertained at day evening last, Mr. Evarts, Attorn General Hour, and oue oF two other members of the Cabinet. Zimes, — A Card, To the Faitor of The Sun. Sim; entitled Ww of the ‘Tax Levy contest on bebuif of the Citizens’ Association during the whole svast Logtsiature ; that our instructions { tion were Co oppose ste the levies, nnd yield noth 4 that we fought ide by id eh the Committecs of You ap) desire to say that we had ebai ur editorial in Tue Suw of Saturday, he New ‘Tax Commissioners,” con: ment that there isa rumor about 10 Sands owes bis app loner to a bargain with Hall the Tax Levies at of the kite the Associa by atop every increase of © the New York of with Mr, Sands in M) Axtombly and in the Seni bot Houses during the whole siruggle over thn Jovies, and know tat no compromise nor at ment Was entered into of the kind you describ any kind with the enomies of good govern nent, ti ve prejudice Of the taxpaylrs the injury presente ry for saved in lars to the treasury, hi » thi or of OUF city, Hor he Citizens’ As-ociusion whic dd that we Bally won a comple u Pst #.A8.01 Over five milous of dol Very resvect lly JOSEPH B, DALY, TWCUD. M HENRY, Citizens’ Assocration or Nuw Yorn, ! Br Sun cheerfully gives place to the above eard, way, Now York, May 22, 169, but cannot regard it as proving anything. Gf conree. {1 Mr,Sands made the bargains hich has been axeribed he did not inelude Mr, Daly or Mr, Henry oither im its negotiation or Its benefits, but kept them ull for bimsel ment clear Mr, Ban Appotutme We do not thint their state: of suspicion by any means, ———— by Collector Grinnell, Wasuixatox, May 23,—Collector Grinnell bas mace the following appointments in the Now York Custom House: Weighers at $2,500 i. Wheeler rotiaven Me We burn 9 ‘annum—Wilton Davis, vico N. TW. Egan, Fomor! . Voorices, Fomoted far #Uiab por spomine Wwons, vice K. A. edlow, removed; at $1 400 at pectoral Wk per day'=u0. te Blas, Vico ©. iid aaa a8 “A. Gomes, vio and the Printers The Other SPSS SER RA ee 18 cant av. wha Treat their New York Subjects Millions Only Worth Stoopying For-Paitry Hundreds of Thousauds Not Notierd=Who ts to Blamet To the It noratte the Mayor, Aldermen, @nd Cowncit men af the Onty of New York : Gaxtimuns: The Pocific Railroad, extending Ov'r ahout two thoneand five hundred miles of ale most unbroken willersess, through eanps of hostile Indians and herds of bounding buffaloes, was begun in Id and flaished ear'y im 1569, Honor to the proe jectors of the noble work, to the hardy men who iron muscles graded, laid, and finished it in so marl velously short ® time—marveilous, indeed, when we think how long it bas takea to gr: Bighth eveuue, and what ages, at the same rate of progress, may stil be requl plete Haat work, obstruct 1 ty is by the railroad kings of Manhattan, ANIEDILOVIAN ORIGIN OF THR GRADM, In 1850 of 1858 the grading of the avenue bevan, and yot at thia remote day, in 1:69, as 9 business thoronclifare the avenue is almort entiroly naeiees from Fifty ninth street to 120h, and even to the Harlem river, In the mean time, Central Park has been reclaimed from the wild condition in whiet: the cow boys left it, and beca made a delightful re- sort for all, and a favorite ride for the gay and wealthy classes, ‘The Boulevard, but recently pro- pored, is pushed forward with great cverey, aud is making rapid progress toward the condition of magn ifeent dri Bat Eygbth avenue remains neg: tected, and 14 sloW%ed to drift into rain by the Mighth Avenue Railroad potentates, who ignore the very class from which they draw their immense dividend#—the working olvas, that most need the Deveflts that the grading of the avenue would eonter, THUR MILLIONS BACRIFICRD TO THE Few, Shou'd not the hard working people and taxpayers he treated as eltigena, and their interests be respect- ed, us weil af thote of the millionaires of New York, for whom pleasore drives are so liberally prepared! From the densely populated seetions of the eity there are but two avennes to the Harlem river of service to those wlio cannot ride in carriages—Third avenue and Broadway, ‘The most beantitul avenue, ii com pleted as it shoald be—the is ne. elected and rescrved for the cxclusive use of the railroad magne WHEN SHALL THe END BAP Tlow long shall it rems We shall « the working classe a the Wes of New York hu being require perform the dutics way be permit: ted to claim the rigi ns; aad as your hi orable body regard t tacng In at toast maiter of paying taxos, tt isto be hoped that after eighteen yeurs’ delay ‘s Hing energets done. Or is another eig'steon yours to coil uve before they “come to thuir rights #” DON'T THE TAX PAYERS “Com Down ?”” Another aspect of this agzravuting caso is the tn terest of property ow the ay and of the Yust population Inthe over-erowded wards of the city, “Che grading of Turd ave vue, itis well kBown, is the cause of the rapid progress Of that thorough: fare, where thirty-six years aro scarce two dozen houses were visible above Fourteenth street, Wuy iw Ht that (he West eide 14 not alo advanced? Js it the fault of th ji Twelth Ward How Railroad Ki r to 120 Bighth Avenue Ra the Commoy Whyst re least able to” ailoril it, be taxed thus heavily to pay the d sie of tho raliroad Y This inj ven tora remedy, and if the State Goverament Was governed by the’ principles of right and justice, this robbery of the Working cliss would Unue a day beyond the next session of the Leg ture, CUSIIONED CARRIAGES FoR STOCKHOL by the luxurious stockholders, wi velvet cushioned carriages, aad are pover pac Like eardines, with seventy ‘others ta a ear, If our legisiators would but look into one of these cars, a new hight would dawn upon ther mind: THR KINGS ONLY STOOP TO PICK UP MILLIONS. ‘The railroad kinge are too basy making nullions down town to be bothored picking up trifling lune dreds of thousands by a little accommodation to the multitude who are compelled to contribure to Wealth, Justice to Humanity ts not to be ted auung their motives ONE OF HE VICTIMIZED. —— - y of Deugelsts, Theompeti To the Eatitor of The Sun. z the melancholy results which follow the freqnent mistakes tn the preparation and sale of articles of medicine, are atteivutable to the Inco cy and culpable enrclessness of rks, none who lave examined aod iu ted the subject will deny, A few weeks sin sented myselfata drag store situat don on I pre- of the 1 was immediately supplied with a huge pack: the “sulphate of magnesia” instead! The mistake was at once mentioned to the clerk, but he faile “woe it.” At his request I wrote the names of the two substances on a slip of paper, and explained the difference; still he was blind. ‘The proprietor was then called, and exhibited Lis ignorance by aesert- ing that the two substances were identical | At an- other drug store ‘upying @ conspicuous site ona street much frequented for business and pleasure, 1 recently applied for m small quantity of * formic acid." Twas not a hte astonished on being 1) formed by the attendant that “he knew of no such an 4; T might mention a dozen or more exses equally ile Jnstrutive of ignorance ; but the above will sufflce sample, How long will it be, sir, before an out- raged and suffering pablic shall demand the removal of such unqualified assistants? How long before such positions of trust shall bo occupied by those whose proficiency and experience preclude the possi bility of a mistake? ‘Tae confidence placed in the drnggist by the commanity is second only to that secorued to the physician, When the authoritios shall frame a law strictly prohibiting e sule of drugs ex by duly qualided drags: then, and not til then, will the public expericace a fecling ot wocurity. E ¥. B. — What Sort of Malls Mr, Burlingame Gives in Paris. From the Parts Amertcan Register, Aprit %, 2 Burlingame was at home on Wednes- Bo was Mi Burlingw ond we er tiie’, both are new When they ate together. str: y kuch u biiilaut gathering as were at tie yon Wed esday right, Dr. John ve today, butit he were iving. he have drawn'yp his imazin ition to writs sneha work us * Rasae Vail In tie ple alvzati y is vereatile Laney piciure, Instead of the floors belo inlaid with ru wd precious stones at Mr, Burlinza ruch €¢ ly things nowsnday’s were to be fo Gems and triple Uarus of the ed with their presence the ma mbusway. Li that gathering ¢ and Jewels did not an Ete night, With its quota of distinguished Visitors. from the Celestia! Einire, we stall uuve to loom for one iu some ouver hemivphere than thls, Everytting connected with Mr. and Mrs, Bi rtin- game being “at home,” gives a Weivomne Variety to the ordi wening parties, and tends to promote sof aileciionale rezurd for the great mitry the Ambassador so ably represents. To speak af thy seate of regal we mist say Orientnn maxuifleence in whieh « verything to Mr, Ky * at Lome" i8 conducted, detrie ling from the faint idea'we give, To attompt to describe ir costumes would be a work of supe Leth: be sumelont that they represented an'array of beauty eharncteriaing diverse nationalities, all adoraed and bedizoned Wish dhe best nd the most profuse and valuabic display that Baits Bat we must uot tail to sav that our n indice, in Whom we take an espe «re In every respect equal t i Suanclst, politesl, umd artistic world wire represcr forcin ambaysa lors, whose sts were ed) with orien cious stones, and dukes, prince ceases, with all the Adorutments suit Lstition, Flowers were everywhere a tanto and aymmetry, upon the delicious. ¥ Which the rirens weemed to live, be when not engaged th the d Justice to the delicacies provided ty the baflet, could give, Ameri au); galy The tonnage to and from San Francisco and the Atlantic ports (or 1503 gis estimated at OO)(M0, "Tis cludes There MO ton» by the overland route, were over 150.000 passengers earned in 1867, and now the Pueitl MC ts Nok at all unlikely the nunber will increase three-fold, If the roail gots ball of this freight nnd three-fourths of the neome would be large indest, Tre 50 each Wontd return over $50,000,- dw eight of & ton would rh bor 007,000 M01 Mf total or about 5 : to which aust be added the way business. ig if alge) wnother eller the Roads ally guder way. OM WASHINGTON. "8 AND ROTI Fro} POLITICAL SUNDEAMS, inaeilificcnns The Staunton (Va.) Spectator complains thal there are too many newspapers in that State, Hay is $50 a ton in the northern part of Vor mont, and in some sections the cattle are sald to be starving Eleven hundred persons in England pay @ tax for keeping to their households more than tea nale servants, Senator Sprague was in Memphis last week, addressiug the working men and the Southern Com merefal Convention, —The two hundredth anniversary of the founds ing cf the “Old South Churel'* im Boston will b¢ celelreted this week, ~The Shakers bold a convention in Boston thie Week, at which their religious ductrine and social be advoeated, —The citizens of Newport, R. 1., are building splendid row boat for Miss 14a Lewla, the heroine Of Lime Rock lighthouse, —A gun ts exhibi in Son Francisco which fir minnte, onda Portuguese hus just tuvented one that will fire 8) shots, —The freshots in the New England rivers that in ihe wonntain districts, have been of longes “on Nis spring than for the past forty years, ~The pig-iron product of Great Britain iw 1898 was 4,500,000 tone ; Of the Cited States, 1,608, 00), Pennsylvania furnishing 625,695 of this amount ‘The fortune of the Hon, Sheridan Shook, ree ecatly Coliector of Internal Revenue for the Tiirty: second District a this elty, le extinated at cree nailllons, Affirm in Dalton, Mase, have made three thousant reams of Uank note payer for the Itallag rh Government, wther lorge order from the Benzilio —On a gre pears the fols low!ng Inesription: Our little Jacob hes beew taken ay superior There i only the last two ye matrimonial engar A lunatic ia of Shakesp tastes, Imagined himself Shylock, and ran al swith a pole of scales and a huge curving. fancied debtors, solitude of Thi 's Walden ord Is cach year more profuned, ‘This Year 60,00 visitors are expreted, and among ihe tee congrnitics a velocipede rink is to be built, Martha's Vin rs were favored by the fortnue of the * With @ profitable jetsam and mon Mone 0 y berrines being cast ashore and thence cheaply caught and from this thly garden, to bloow ina ower : wot above pend ta Co reporter ny may eu Ver made the speceh read, “B Major ¥ cuss Socrates, sald A tirm in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, has contract 64 to me ke 3,009,000 feet of wowlen tn lay iw that city tor gas pipes yare aac of timber «Ix inches square, bared In yas barrels eu fy, while oo man whon in Th he mistoox for a decr, Phe King was «mont pair when he found ont what he had done, family of the man was liberally provided for, 1 matior was hushed up. —Of the two thousand and more varieties of pears deserived apd known to those who make pomology a study, only about seventy or eighty are counted a4 truly vaitable and proviable to grow, when season, sige, productivences, end hardincss of the tree ure ail tuken futo account, —Girardin said recently at a meeting of the Vorislan journalitts, that be heped to ree the day the newspapers would be furnished to subs ers at a mercly nominal price, and the pro- coeds of the advertising patronage alone would be relled upon to pay the exponsrs of the paper. —Prison reform is said to be carried to great length in the Indiana State Penitentiary, Murder ers are allowed t O fishing, COuvicts take tea with the Worden in bir house, and when a guard “«peake horshiy" toaeriminal tue oifending officer is dis- cd. Cannot the fcoundrels in this neighbor hood be prevaile! upon to go to Indiana In tho 7 “General Orders Le fesned by Gi esitro I. Greet Cain O'Donnell was directed to take charge of ihe fordga news department, vice Shem removed, ‘This ie clearly contrary to Seripture, In Genesis it is said that Japheth shail dwell in the tents of Shem, while Mr. Greeiey ways that Cain soull occupy them, —During a storm on the Pacilic coast recently, thousands of nautili, or "Portuguse men-of-war” which a pleasant fetion represents as sailing on the top of the water, were driven upon the beach at Crescent City, Callfornia, Several tons of them went ashore, and, decayiug oa the beach, rendered a reat dence in the town for a time almost intolerable, — White Pine adds to its other attractions that of a natural eave, of indefinite size. ‘Throw opening about six feet tu diameter one enters a large room, from which there are passages in different directions, The walls of 80 mnch as hue becn ex plored are composed of limestone, intermixed with spar and metil-bearing quartz, from which gress things are hoped, —In order to vex their Russian oppressora, the Poles of Wareaw have suddenly taken a great liking to the German Isvgnage, They cause their ehth dren to study German instead of Russian, and the German language Js spokem at all piaces of amase- ment, while th tongue is not used there af all, The Pole who speaks Russizn is at ouce shunned in conscqueuce by is countrywen as @ renegade and traitor. ~Madame Adelaide Ristori is now studying a Rome the ré/é of * Leak, the Forsaken,” by Dr, Mosenthal, which has been translated for her inte Itallan, ‘The following is her programme for the coming season, Having recruited her health Ia Rowe und on Lerestate at the foot of the Aponuines, she will make a pr al tour through Holland and Belgiuin, and after a brief engagement in Paria wil sail for Brazil and the La Plata States, —As arate, food which is best enjoyed is best digested, Just 80 exercise which is most agroeable is usually the most beneficial, Iu selecting methods of exercise, every individual should be guided by hue own individual tastes, Ib iv better to change fre quently from one exercise to another. It ts well even to consult our whims and our varying moods, Avove all things we thould strive to prevent our ex ercise from becoming adr), hard, meeiauical row Une, Tne heart should go with the muscles, —Some little time since # young gentleman ot serious turn, but scoreely au ful i the mutter ot Hiterature, exiled at a book store iu the elty of Syra We LO make 4 purchise, After tukinga deliberate and wn ory suvrey of the Well stocked shelves, he beckoned to a clerk, avd pointing to a volame before them, remarked: “I've looked over all your books but don't see anything Teare to buy unless tt be that book on holy gamcs, which Ithink woulé suit,” The volume proved to be * Hoyle on Gurmes.* —Fauny Fern says, “Men will uot sit long enough to hear Women throush when they talk cout mon scnse.” Mon must be in a burry, then, Assia, Fanny says, * The silliest wan who ever lived has always known enoach, when he says his prayers, to thank God that be wasn't born 4 woman,” Panny docs vot hke the restraint custom places upon fe male locomotion, and offers a way to avoid the incon- venience: “A woman, by lasing a big basket tm her hand, and leaving her hoop at Lome, and pinning an old shaw! over her head, and tying a calico apron round her waist, may walk unuolested. T know, because Ihave tried it when I felt like havin ‘prow!’ all alone, and @ good ‘think,’ witiout any Puppy saying, at every step, *A plessant evening, Miss,’ —The following Fenian outh was recently fund in the pocket of 4 tevant farmer of county Bisa Irclana: “Tu the presence of the Almighty God 1 solemnly awear the oath of allestawee to ve true and Joyal to the Irish Republic, ond on one inoinent's no- Uce to be ready to (ike up arms and to yield 10 the *aimplicity’ of superior officers and kings." ‘Then followed a mysterious cajechism: “Are you un suman? Ay, by birth, and a lover of freedom, an enemy to those who hold my native land ia the bonds of tyranny, What isa Penian eommant ? Nine more and myself, Where are you gong? Ta Erris (the name of a barony tn the county of Mayo)+ Way to Errist To meet b—. It would bea dark night? I would not know. Do you carr) your steel tye? If your knife has an edge, ‘The Irish cotton ta very uo? ‘The Buglish ts ou the decline,” S