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

= ——_acter he cherished aw THE SUN, MONDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1869, us, to the reading of the despatch, and (Wen re | vite Mod by Menara. Fowrny and Evanrs on M4 plied to it. “Thank the Seeretary in my be | the 1th of December, to establish the exiwt The ee Sun. half,” said he," for hie flattering and éneour. | enee of a state of war and an independent _ | aging communication, and say to him that I) government in Cuba, eame in too late to be mci Arden ln === | shall continue to do to the best of my ability | taken into gecount in the message; and “MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 186°, | every duty that may be assigned tome, Ae | we ennnot regard aa Information the cor. eos = for an independent command, tell him | reapeadence about the deeroe of the Captal tiniinn:. | sue T should certainly be glad to have | Genernt nnthorizing captures on the high Rovth's Theatre Gey Mee one, bat T should prefer one that T eould | seas, or the’ remonetrances of Seior Ronmrrs Towery bSoias yng Weeks take from the foundation and organ. | against the publie meetings in New York ; Srretony— Te ize and discipline myself, Above alf, 1 | much less Minister S1cKLNs's reports of his Fiuh Avenue Theatre 1 1 m should not wish to accept the command of | conversations with a Spaniah Cabinet officer, F an army which another Generel had formed | on professed intentions to govern Cuba in a Rew York Cirens Som Troyes and directed, ‘That was my sentiment when | liberal way, . Bae Pract Mimereta We Bestouys the pine of Gen. Boris, was to bo filled, | Now, whoever may bo in fnult for the Gov. The Tammany Me! (ber, dw and it ismy sentiment still, I hope there | eroment’s not being possessed of more fucts Qecte Mecceeto will never bo a possibility for any one to say | regarding thin vory hinportant foreign quce. that I have sought to supplant a superior | tion, we ark, Isthe paltry summary given Sharp Practice by Mayor Hall. When Arnanaw O. Hann was elected city, a year ago, to fill the va ted by the jon of Jons T. HorrMax, the question was raised whether he would hold office for the full term of two forthe one unexpired year of AN’s term, An examination nal and etatute bearing upon the subject led to the pretty nstitut provisions well settied conclusion that Mr. Hari’s elation was gool two year | quently no nomivation forthe Moy taado by either party nor w tabjec tioned i hi vase been inclined to run any risk whieh contd be avoided, or to forego any advantage which could be gained by having himself duly elected Mayor over again, as if he had been ehosen last year mercly to serve out the 1 mainder of Maror Horrman’s te It happens thot it is not n of office essential to the va lidity of an election that pablic notice shall be given of it beforehand. On the ever Ing before th other char which had wer name,and d City of New cured and « sioners, (li te provide boxes for the re ballote; the faithtul ion of officer, Please any thie to the Secretary, #0. that he will understand it aa well as he under stands how deeply I feel his kindness, A few days afterward Mr, STANTON showed that he understood it perfectly by sending Gen, THOMAS @ peremptory order to assume command of the Army of the Camberland, without first inquiring, as was usual in such casos, whether or not it would be agreeable to him to undertake the duties of that posi- tion, A-yearlater, when Hoop was marching northward throngh Tennessee, and lind his army in order of battle before Nashville, it was propoted to relieve THOMAS, on the ground that he was too slow. Mr. Stanton could not forbid the exceution of this propo- eal, but he did not conceal hia opinion that t would be a great and dangerous mistake Tt was not executed; Tomas remained in command, and the battle of Nashville, which he planned and conducted, was one of the most brilliont and effective of the war. ‘The funeral to-day will be incomplet cause this noble-hearted gentleman, great soldier, and modest, disinterested citizen can. rot be present, But, on the other hand, if ere present wha have public and private reasons for doing honor to the memo. ry of the departed, not only would GronuE. he- all those above a sufficient ground for the statements embodied in the meneage, or for any othor stavementa? And would not a masterly silence, ora candid avowal of ignorance, have been a more dignified position to assume than the bold, unqualified affirmations which fell like a wet blanket on the hopes of the country, and chilled the generous resolves which Con. gresemen were disposed to bring into their legielative action? Congress will now be able to jullge how much weight Is to be attacked to the conela- sions drawn by the President and the Secre- tary of State, under the superintendence of Mr. Sipney Wrueten, They noed have no fear of coming into collision with what iv called official Information, but may boldly proclaim of thelr own motion, the exfstence of what has becn made evident to the public for the last fourteen months, aud at ones grant bel ligerent rights te the infant Caban Repnblie, or better yet, direet the proper recogr of its independe tion ce —_— " We learn from the Western journals that an old trapper of Arizona, who has just sealped his fifteenth Ini “It is good slaying out here this This is a very natural ob. | servation to he made by a wild ran of that wild country, who has personally'hud better luck im killing Indians thon the Indians have had in kill n, soy I. TitoMAs stand beside the grave, but how many mn/itions of grateful people would well the sad procession, and bow in gratitude to Ciod that in our time of exceeding necessity there was such aman as STANTON to live and die for our country! Independence and Annexation in the Northwest. The Winntpeg troubles have taken on the led form of @ movement for independ ‘The insurgents bave issued a procia de mation declaring that they have organized a provisional: governm and refusing r nt for Rupert's Land, ngnition of the ai rity of ‘They claim that, the Hudson's Bay Company, Ly whose officers they were former ruled, hin g abandoned all its rights, the to establish themselves on republics among the Democracy were notifed of what was int 1; and the result is, that in the Official canvass it appears that Aumarast O, Hart received for the office of Mayor 6 out of 66,619 vores, The possible etter the ope Vis not, as might be supposed, to insure Mr. 1 i's continuance in office for another year, but to give him an add) tional full term of two years, making him Mayor for thie years in all, We say this Is @ possible thing, but it is clgo possible that next fall some other ambitious Democrat May dispute the sceptrs widk Mr. Want, and contend that, there having really been no vacancy at this clection, the 65,563 ballots cast for him shall go for nothing. It Js possible, too, that he may after all con clude not to take anew the oath of office re quired of bim by the Charter on or before the firet of Jenuary next. If he fails to take it, he conecdes that his recent election war fraudulent end void; but if he does take it he will acknowledge thereby that he has practised a trck upon the public. However this us he, there can he bat one opinion entertained of Mr, Hans conduct smong all but demoralized politi ns, It isu bit of sharp practice well suited to # Tombs shyster, but unworthy of aman in Mr, Hart's position. We know it will be preten? cd that he neither knew of it it; but ned muh d nor ean this statement ip volves too espect for him as a leader of the Democracy to be for a moment mtertained. It is impossible that he should not have been consulted by the other ebiets of the party aboat the matter, and sented toit. At any rate, the public cannot have in Mr. HALT and his associates that con fidence they would have had if they had an nounced beforehand their purpose, and given all parties an equ in the ennvass and at the polla, Svereey and trickery in politics are repucnant to the gennine Demo © cor 1 chance eratic Teprobat iment, end will mect with general , a Mr. Stanton end Gen. Ge ore IT, Choma. ‘The funeral of the late Secretary of War Will take place in Washington today. It the Cabi 0 Honses of nt men of every profes But there is one man, to whom the dead Statesman we will be attended by the Presiden the Supreme Court, the t Congres, and emi sion wont to g-ve the highest re there now Fpect and adwiration, who cannot be We mean Gen, Gronon MW. Tiros commanding ou the Pacific coast, Of all Jeading: Generals ofthe war, there was no one for whon: the Secretury unqualified adr whose ta ts, wisd entertained a amore und sympathy, for , and greatness ofc © perfect confidence iration prine ples, and intend to do go, News also comes from Vancouver's Island that the iniabitants of that colon stiy under their subjection to the British Crown, particularly in view of a threatened attempt to make them part of the Dominion of Can als. An address from a number of them to Pre been received at Washin ton, enruesily recommending the aequisiticn of ‘hecolony by the United States, amuing other things that they eannot receive They tay tng him. But the troch with regard to Arizona ia, that the Indians there are immensely more numer. ona than the whites and exceed them in fighting faculty ; and that the number of whites alain is out of all proportion to the number of Indians But this is not the worst. What we most co plain of in Arizona is, that the Government has to spend there millions on millions every year to afford insufficient military protection to the handful of white people who live there ; and that the Indians get the better of us after att, It wonld, in our judgme ments of these people, and move theta away to , be cheaper to buy the improve. some betier region, than to continue to squander money wpen them rome years past of the United person in Arizona, swe have been doing for robably it costs the Treasury every white © whats ody but ayour fe nd all to no to er. The Territory is of now from Canada the protection against fore! encmies which they desire; that they want a inarket fur the produce of ehetr tands, forests, waters, and mines; that their population will not increase; that the tariff of the Do minion will rnin their commerce ; and gen erally, that confederation will be ruinous to their prosperity. How great a portion of the peuple aro of this way of thinking docs not appear, but it must be considerable, ‘ho tendency of events on this North American Continent is plainly toward the consolidation of all the people dwelling upon it into one great nation, around the present ted Slates asa nucleus, From the Polar Sea tothe Isthmus of Derien there will in time be but one government and one national power, Canada, Rupert's Land, Victoria, Mexico, will have but one flag, and eventual ly Cuba and her sister islands will also join us, ‘Thus united, we can defy the world and offer a boundless asylum to the oppressed of ery cliggsand country. Who anrong us en can say that ours is not a glorious destiny, or re(leet without exultation that he is an Ani can etiven ? — Ovicial Information about Cuba, Wh the ent is read in the Presi oe mereoge that the contest now pend ing in Cuba has at no time assumed the conditions which amount to a war in the sense of international law, or Wich would show the existence of a de facto political or uf the insurgents sufficient to justi- jon of belligerency, the impres sion made is that information had been laid before the Government, more or less partial in its nature, more or less incorrect, but still information which our Secretary of State might e¢ rtrustworthy, ‘Tho President has sent to the Senate, in reply to a resolu of that body calling for it,» voluminous cumen taining the desi: informa. ». Locking over the abstract of this docu. ment furnished us by the Associated Press, rand pondering its contents, t out of it ecarcely anything show that there is or is nota warin Cuba in the sense of inter: stat and analyzir we ean ext tending to ate of national law, or whether there is or is not a nization among the political He fully appreciated ways stood us his ideal o: trict. After the fects ad become fully known at Washington respecting the ¢ f Chick amauga and the success of Tuomas in arrest ing the defeat of that calamitous day, Mr BrANTON sent by the hand of one of his Ax sistants a special message to Gon, Titus expressing the gratitude of the War Deport ment for the incomparable eerviie he had rendered on that occasion, as well ay in other battles bardly less noteworthy, “As ure Gen, THomAs also,” #aid the Seeretory in Lis despatch, “ that it is rot my fault that he lune not long since held an independent com mand, worthy of his abilities and hie achieve ments; and say to him that 1 hope the day is not distant when his merits will receive from the Government the recoguition that is their just due.” Some other words were added, of which we only remember Lat they were instinct with that earnes!ness which eften made Mr. BrANTON eloquent even in the briefest utterances, Gun. Tuomas Metered with manly feeling hers; but Tosias a oldier and o px asler ¢ rv neurgrents. f aside the corss ndence between AICKLES and Beeretary Fist, and be: evetary Fist nud Minister Rouenrs, 10 part of which is of the slightest ntility toward enlightening us as to what is going on in Cuba, we have a considerable pumber f lotters addressed to the State Department by our Consuls ia Cuba, frou which we ean gather the following item: In December, 1868, the insurrection was guluing strength, The insurgents’ Assenably passod a deerve in or about March, 1869, abolishing slave Count VALMASEDA issued his celebrated proclamation, which is lnserte Vico Conrul-General Haw un account of militury Nuevitas, Sibanicu, a hamlet, and Gusimaro, a vil lage of 500 inhabitants, ere the only places cecuplod by the insurgents, aud both these places have leon destroyed, Buch, it appears, was the mengre um of Ine formation held by the Government the Cuban revolution when the President's mes faye was submitted io Congres, The allide Muy 1 operations gives near despatched home with furs made thelr w: passod in canoe of some Indians hostile to La Salle, several of th men be built on th warded, ‘They did not arrive, and La Suite det mined to teave the greater number of his men on the Limmois, near an Indian villuge, aud return bimaclf to Conada for the necessary rigring and iron, he did In the face of x the gettlemeato to tind that his agente bad robbed him and his creditors had «eized hia property much trouble he raised snMei the neees mnined true to him, wer: SOME NW BOOKS, —- Praxis Pantwys, tho author of “France in the New World” and * ‘Tho Jesnite in North Ameri- en," has added a third volume to his series of Ameri- can histories, Like ira two predecessors, The Dis covery Of the Grent West (Lite, Brown & Co.) Mt in- troduces ae to the carly ages of European cxplora tiom tit this content, and ives wm ® vivid protare of the wild, adventurous lie of the ploncers of civi- Niszadon, In the present volume there it one flanro which ftands preCminent ax that of the mun who first reveaied the Mivassippi (o the ne of fature genera Tho river had already been discovered by the Spaniards, but the discovers had elmost passed into oblivion, More than a century after the death of De Soto a French exploror and far trader pene trated to the great streun. Mut the Siomr de Ja Salle was the first to exptore It thoroughly, to elai it for the French King, and to make apparent its mense commeretal capacities, La Salle waa born at Konen, of a welthy bateher family, and at an early aye was connected with the Jomnts, Bat his intractable will, strong ambl- tian, and constant eraving for action and nebievement mace the life of a relizious order intolerable to him. He tinally parted from the Jesuits, remaining till ‘on good terma with them, and sailed for Canada, ‘where his elder brother, a priest, was living, Here several years were spent in exploring, im found: ing seigniories, and tn furtrading. Interested tn the accoente given by Indians of a great river to the weet, whieh rin mine months’ Journey to the sea, La Balle determined to explore it, At first he Mncled it must flow mto the Vermilion Sea or Galf of Coll fornia, and that by following It ho should flud a meune ofeommuntcation wilh the Rust Indiew and Catna, He soon however became convinced that it emptied into the Quit of Mexico, and two projects sprang upin his mind. Dy means of the Masiesippt he wonld orenpy and develop the reeonrees of the West, thus antie Encleh and Spaniard and he world establish at ite mouth » fortified pe #0 seenring an outtet for the cking the Spaniards, aod forming a valuable military base for future operons againat t For these parposes, with the ald of his frrends’and tue Governor of Canada, be made extensive prepara Hons for the journey, and porting the fors which were to he collected onthe way aud to help de fray the expense, With! fr ho started nt law intment, and failnre, wh the same patience av ome time he was de the lakes, while the verso! orytray sdeterminauon, F a the neighborhood of vwhteh he had watiedt was and wrecked on the way. throngh treachery. But the party finally 1 the Tiinols river, ¢own whieh they Disheurteued by the false rep probably leserted, ‘The materials fur a second vess Mississippl, were to have been ior- This t Aieultios, and reached With t money to procure Fy sappliee and started to retorn, bmi was et at the outset by messengers with news (lit early all the men whom ie had left on the Illinois deserted nine plundered the magnaine, His fi friend, Monrt de Tonty, who lind been let fn ebarge, and the few men who bad re tii on the pot. ‘Thus ors ro fie was utterly de the result of ell bis I the contractors; ity mines produce nothing, be. | #Oved. Yet urdiscouraged, be started without cause the Indians will not let them be worked; | “lay to eneccr Tonty. Atter the dificult Journey banitin kee MeenlPadierins down the Titinofs, he at last reached the site of the i Redes dee elevate: Tittle fort to tind that the great Lidhan town which tuble way, tho people that carry iton; and the | nag sormeriy stood near by was utterly destroved, und Whole concern ought to be ved until It | nota trace of the white men was to be found, Me can be made of some advantae to somebody to | followed down the river tothe Mississippi, but wet occupy the Territory ho sins of the missing people ——— Phe exploring party returned to winter tn the We dd th her day a letter from | North, La 6 now decided hat the only way President Jnerenson insisting upon paying the | to act $9 safety was to imske allies of ail the tribes dut ome Wine Which he might have got free, | Of tac Wort ag ¢ Teoqucls, who had ao vtterly In connection with that letter the St. Louis Je- | destroyed the Tilia village, He succeeded tn publican revives the following reply which one of | ning the confldener anit good will of the Indians, ; Va @ returned once more to Canada to collect his Jervenson's successors sent to somne gentlemen of b scattered resources und ain tue support of the Now York who desired ta peeseae num with a cor elage and forse While 1 fully appreeiete the purity of your mo. tives thus tendering to me such substantial evi dence of your regarit and estoem, 1am compel, solely irom t nus of duty Taave ever hild in re ¢ Wu the neceplance of resents Ly those oreupying high official positions, to decline the offer ings of kind and loyal inends. ‘The retention of the parehinent conveying your sertimenta, and the Lographs of hoe who were pleased to unite in this nilvatetlon of regard. is a favor T would ask; and Tvasnre you, gentlemen, E hall regard it oot the lag Tien. erityour conf my marks of respect trom ony por ‘Trusting that € pball ed to nd ex eer ba th of the Izh and Haportant duties upon which Phave but Just entered, ond wit ies (OF your health, &e,, individually, Fam, gent ‘ours truly ANDEW JOUNSON This is@ model of composition; and if A. J had kept all his conversation, writing, and ac tion up to the level at which he began as Presi dent, he would have gone out of office amid uni- versal respect or rather, he would not have goue out of ofiice at all before March 4, 1873, —— In 1861 « law Hed at the War De- partment to transact some official business with the lute Mr, Stantox, After they were thro they began to talk about theircomn in which the Seceetary had won som “Nb,” said Staxtox, “how I long to return to bor! But dam bi the Confedera final jadgme and adimiration ; »n profession, Y vielorics, ro trying this eau against and must stay (ill we cuter up 1. Then TE shall gladly retire and look after the affairs of John Doo,” ie Tt ia said that on immense dent of emigra tion to the Weat is going on from the northern part of Georgian and from portions of Virginia, | to Arkansas, ° Tho aver Athan wre mostly what "who are divin clined to come into competition with the freed nogroes as laborers, and unable to make a living where ‘hey are as planters, Itwould be a curious thing if the departure of these people, and th supplying of their ph North, should result ina total change of | ucter of thi Texas, and Missouri, number of emigrants passing throngl They daily is estimated at 250, are known as poor white folks,” e by new-vomers from th: Southera population —— In Lord Chanr N's recent Lotter to Mr, Tuorwtow he ptates that he expressed a to Mr, Morurr “that his silence in re t to the despatch the latter read to. hin vould not construed to indicate that the despateh did not admit of a complete | reply.” Mr. Mortar in his version of the inter. | view suppresses this essential part of Lord Gia uNpon's remarks, the pluin meaning of whicb is that the arguments on our side will be fully net in due tine, Mr. Morury concludes his beter | with an scknowledyment of Lont Cramespoy's frankness, but be would have dono better to hay imitated thet frankness, aud faithf to bis own Government the the British Minister's re -———-—-- Marriage of the Hon. John J. Cinco and the Father ot Bis! OX. Drom the Newark Advertiser, y reported | precise terms of Mr, Ciseo, for so muny years Assistant United Ktates ‘Tre in Now York, was married ut eantty Cha Wednesday, by the Rev. Dr. Dix, He has he vestrymon there this quarter of a century Care Ine Rev, Dr, Cox, the f as everybody knows, is hyine wa Hig te not od, but a ge leman of mature her of the Bishop, w vonerable Presb yteriau short tine wines, Tie the thir wer im (hit Chute who acted tn tecordonce with the spirit of mon" an veeeutly got married, —— How ¢o Prevent Keroscur Oil Explosions. To the Bittor of the Sun, Bim: For tee Lenetit of (he burnaw family, 1 euy en So Quinine Government, fa th acceded, Vhun on and teething he way, they started ace to tho Miseiseippl, 3 Touty, © again La Salle 1 ¥ once 1, efor along Jc , he and bis comredes at lust reachod the mouth of the river, Here he took poskonsion of the conn try in the mame of Loals XIV., and, after o rt delay, went back wp tt he fonnd that the flendly Regent of Canada had been withdrawn ant replaced by a man hostile to Lis taterosts, AM Lie plana were opposed and nea tralized hy bis enemies, who were always namerons nd vindictive, He Muaily found it necessary to re. turn to Franee, where he presented uta claims be fore the King, and berced assistinee inghis projee ‘This was granted, Me raised money among bis weal(hy relatives, ant Mually set eail from France With fonr vessels, ‘The object of the expedition was to gala the mouth of tho Mississippi, and there es tablisin a fort and colony, ‘wo hundred and eighty men wud women, all tld, wore in the four vessels stream, Oo lie return, Bat La Baile was etl purracd by his neeustomed fil forvane, ‘The navol command was given to Beaujeu—s man who did all in his power to frustrate the plane of the leater. When the Gulf of Mexico was reached, sey saited along th coast in seareh of the mouths of the Mivsive(ppl, but passing them, weat ‘on to the whore of ‘exas. Here, aecetved by the eppearnnes of an river, the colonists were Linded, und Beanjeu railed for France immediately even refusing to give thom the stores which were stowed In bis verel. ‘Lhe rogular ptorehip also was wrecked, and file conld be waved, The a tion of the colonists soon became desperate, and La Salle Gually eet out with the intention of Anding the Mississippl, nscending {t to Canada, and. thence procuring relief for the sutering colony, But on the way he was treocherouly shot dead by three of bis followers, Litie was beard aftcrwart of tae luekt was visited, ‘Whe characier of La 8 of wl! theve Wid wiventures interesiing one, Bond, vesoved, and eold, but With uneouqnerable ‘nergy and persistence, he cons ceived plans of bewilleringsvastiocs, and saw thom overtinown before his ¢ 4 colony, and whens white intiath ve time later the «pot © tobe seen oped tn the is 9 singularly le, ws ity cours es only to return to them with unwavering leo Web kis courage amt perseverance he taiizit even have muccowded ty exe> ccuting his elgantic projects, had it not been sor one characteristic. which ¥ ® perpetual stambiug bioek in bie way. He hart little enpactty for attack ing to Minrelf thoae uuler Mis eomtuand, or for pre stant quarreling Wucer is rule ; he auifere } parpot tally from M-wiil and ieeschery on all sides, and from the latter he rx hs slow at the ear'y ase of forty-tiree, Yor ne had some few friends who were devotedly alizehod to hi, and although ho was almert Snvoriably untovtonate in his rela: tonr with white me 5 always vemarnably snoecestnt in his tn ree with the Indians, Tey rehed upon his. power, red and obeyed him, <1 he conid always convinee and govern with Out difliculiy, There were two 6 Tadians wh 1 tum nin ovine through bis on ® dvr His faithias oftect, doutel, says of him His Hrmmenmy bis coucne, lis great knowlerge of tie ortsatal rclenges, via undertaking, and his unttr mi equal t vergy, whieh er ery in bin MANE EYEE vosk cin, Would have Won at las # sucer's fr his crand enterprize, rt ¢ quaitiics been counterbalanced byw ha ese of Manner Which often mado him lve portibie byw herat commnanit which nd wae at Inet th Te noed hardly be ratd that Mr. Parkman has pro daced a wt valdatic work. Mia clear, concise, yet often picinrerque et,te ix masatrably fitted (0 depict the stronge and eventful life of that time end esion, Toxeihor, the three volumes ot Mie series give a vivid Picton ofa jon of American history which has Withers been much neglected, yet Which Is perhays even Move Ineremtng than Une oF a liter date In Wild Sports of the Worlds a Book of Na tural Nistory and Aa James Guxer wooo (Harpers), the wathor bat made» most thorough isfactory study ot his subject. Of every large animal humted by tman he gives w full account oward those ander iis hin finplecable hatred, thik death.” ndereb; and ic ate to euplost Third. lien common practices In cigar aud pier facto. rine 1 have their lamps hans on wite rea the eelings they should be removed when MOL Mn Ubey wa the Hens the hover necends toward tne celling, the elfect being the faze aaa the acenud suggestion, “ 1) + HOt a LOW tue Wits by web baked OF @rasty | who Wireaweulye dereribing ite haunts ond habits, relatin Aucedotes of Mt, and taally coliccting out It frow the byoks of different tives ire judiciously selected, and the whole work is weil executed, Here may be nid all the informacion bout many wild beasts, tnd all the exeiting tiles of the ehase, fur whieh & vender would otherwise have to weareh through « countios# number of books, ‘The profuse Muctra- tons with whieh the volutac lv Milled are a gueas uc dition to We bealy The trade of the interior, ¢ | tor over @ few in STANTON'S RELATIONS TO LANCOLN, mt on Heginning his Stmaton’s Kesignn= The Tnatenetions to G Campeian Mt From the Philadelphia Te On the night of March a 184 vegraph while the Tast Dilla of the #estion. were under ‘examination for slening, and wivle ihe President and all wile bim were enjoying tha expects tion of to-morrow's mau fon, a derpitea came in from Grant, which stated ul confilence that a few dave must now end the busmess with Lee and Richmond, and spoke of an application made bs? ee for an interview to argo. ite about peace, Mr, Lincoln intimated pretty rly an intention to permit extren ely favorsble terms, and to ict bis Generalin-Chief negotiate he ven to on extent that overpowered the reti+ cent bie of bie Seeretary of War, who, aller hold- ing his tonene as long a8 he could, broke ont «tern ly * Mr. Prosident, to-morrow ts iuaugaration day. If yor are not to be the President of belient ond ited pe ‘ov had better not be inaugurated, ontr work is steeady done, if oy other anthority than yunre ie for one moment to be recogniaed, of any terms made that do not sixvtfy that you are the Preme head of the mation. If generals in the feld negotiate peace, of any other chief ma is to be acknowledged on the continent, thr Yon arv not needed, and you bad Vetter not take Ue ‘ol of Stunton, you are right,” eatd the President, his whole tone changing. * Let me have a pen.” Mr. Liucoin sat down at we table, aud wrote follow “<The President dirrets me to say to yon that he wishes you to have no conference with Gen. Lee, an Joss it be for the capitulation of Lee's army, or on some minor of purely military matter, He inatracts me th ary thot you are not to deetde, disenes, or con- fer on an; tra question; each questions the President holde in his‘own, hands, and will sabinit them to no military conference or ‘conventions, In the meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantage The Presteat t en etd: aw. Stanton, date and sign thie paper and HU Grant, ‘We'll see about this penee bust ness,” MF. Lincoln understood Min thoronghly, and re- posed the moat mnatinted confidence ia integrit, Ability and statesnansiip. The following anecd gives astriking ilustraiion of the relations which existed between the Chief Magistrate and wie Minis tor of War: On one o read over what le had written on, during the latter period of the struggle, a certain dispatch of instructions was shown the President, ‘The latter thooght the mat nutes, and then eud to Who had pre ant It ia to him tthe ary of War, Major?” The of the S 7 at. the Miportant moment then related to Lincolt), with the sw dtoutem Mat he thonent the ven, bat that himself would ability. story, rose, crossed by the hand, thank of Mr. Stanton as ir hin vunk te Lim Whig the roam, and taking tlie office ed tim cordiatly, and then « follows “Hereatter, Major, when yon have Mr, Stam ton's sanetion In uny matter you for 4 great is my confidence in bia jadem ind patrio’- fom, that T never wish to take any tant step mysel without frat consulting tim, Only a fow dave befure his death, Mr. Lincaln g Aatul more etriking testimony of the aneétions| regard for Mr, Stanton. Tore was when tendered bhi Lis resignation of the War non the gronud that the Work for whose sake he hat taken it was now doae, “Mr, Lincoln,” ways a witiess, “was greatly moved by the Secretary's words, and tearing i pleecs the paper containing the | resignation, an throwing his arms about the Seerctary, he eald, * Stanton, you have been a good friend @ fait fol public servant, audit is net for you t you will no longer be neeaed here,’ | Se Ol both partic’ were present on this there was not a dry eye that witnessed th oe ——— jlow Abraham neoln Koger A. Pryor—One Stores. Prom the Phtiadetphla Pr most characteristic incident ith Mr. Lincoln was the 6 Kelensed of ¢ wring my ine Mowang, tae Mr cinlly his generosity to an auversary utd his pesctieal Jokes upon his friends Aiternoon, in Febroary or March of 1885, Iwas byw vielt from my old friend, Washington Ohio, Enquirer, who ta est tellows alive, but one of the He War Ins state of iutense worst © Copper head excitement. “LE have eallod, favor Esball ney not take wo for *hesald, to ask you nid you must You, ‘0 do me n wo it, Twill wa you alone, ea you Lnow J will serve you if] tin it? Jou't bo alarmed whe Now, that Toger A! Pryor is In. Fort Lay il you red within our lines, ent. Rover A. Pryor, of fA. Pryor, who fred on Dauber 5 How pur Yesyand yonr old co-editor of Ws injrton Thion, when yon were both Demorrat r. te Went sito the rebellion, 18 now a prisoner, and Tap. oa wate TORRENS Hes sn nse tee Pan A refer no denying my impetnous friend, I carte, and we Word won at the Tucre was @ creat crowd, but we tity, Tiutrotuced Mr, MeLean, t Mr. Lineoln knew all about told his story, which was ed Wilh a statement of iny to Mr. Pryor, and with the ns- chit an act of hberality to wach a man, and on a request from a frank political yousnt like Wasiagton MeLeau, would be worthy of the head of a great nation, “Let me see," said Uncle Abe, as he fixed his former relations surunce that Tt apectoeies and turned his back. to ah the desk behind him; think The a randum here that reiers to some good thing by Gen. Pryor to a party of our Pe iy boys wore taken yr overs im an attack upd “And with that he A statement #igned by je hospitality of Gen, wreierred to. te hut, ib ap: from his larcer at'a tine Mmily Were Ih & MO¥t desnerate con. isions, can do suck kindness to an ene- resident, “cannot bo ervel and re n he wrote some lines on a eard Wh he handed to MeLean, with the remark: "i that will do; at ony rate 1 is all T can give And then we look our leave, Going down oked with atmagemont ab the Writing ou ‘men who bi Pryor on the oceasi dition for jr The mw you. eure we I the card, wach read Une vke, Commantiug at Fort Lafayette, New To Cy ¥: Viease release Gen. Roger A. Pryor, who will renort to Col. Forucy.on Cap) ot Mill A. But there was po eh cashed off in the next ( piest Deinoerat in the country, he watked into my quarters wi Gen, Pryor oceapied the upper tome of my ies, and was my quest for more than a week, ging the orde w York, the i wot lol dur tng Which Gime le Was visited by all, the chivalry, male and female, of the vicmage. ‘The Presitent enjoyed wt that uad such Kood company, ‘Tiandens Stevens, my neiubor, habitually aec me in Ue hog with the erm sulute: “How ta your | Democratic inend wad brother this “morning?” But a more cour teous and pleasant “gentle 1. never met vid T must do Gen. Pryor the justice tot that Le expressed the most Lincoln to mantully | aunong th Vent gra ws. Whit he pro Vas never sin triictiontsts of the G ude to Mi sed hee bas been tow Wook no part In the lous poley Johnson. He bas w amon ihe of down in New Yori giul w hear sucee Of the ew, | Thave nov mer W aht Pryor to my hington Moke 1 wince he by 7 hal Low Miia hanks for a barrel of Gancinnats band which & chime, us if to prove that when be tskes up the cause of & triead Je an it of the homely Wertora axiou—he goes * the ¥lule sw oe AMUSEM as. Tammany this week offers a mammoth bill, COMprisingiihe great success, © fwd Dickey.” a new und Inughable taree, “tell Mangers.” velocipede riding, and Punch and Judy, with the entire “ix theatres open. ‘The largest ausionce that has bee in Tammany wae thers on Chrintinas night. ‘The house Wis packed to is ulmont capacity, und over HOO people Wore Wunned away, Tleanvanx.——This skilful mogician remains at the Academy of Muste Gareo more nrgite during the present week Oxaso Ovens Horse. —Mr, Lingard, Mios Dun. 4g and Mr, tad Mrs, Howard with thei as #, lUrbish pigwauily the curortaniments at Ovyaric.—" Under the Gastight’? will con. @ to bo represented at the Olympte until next Monday, ven Mr Fox intkes his te -pocurunse & romantic ma cautled * Tuc Writing om the Wall.” Wartacn’s.—Mr, Wallick brings out to-night, for the firvt time jo six years I comie drama entitled ' ( Jotrerque military cou reproduced, Ninvo’s,—Halliday * Little Em'ly" t success at Nibla's, and will de abel m prosperoudly wit the appear i, Which willtske piace at this theatre, in tue ter of uy Blaa, on she 10th of dawuary, Fiera Avexox Taaatan,—Mr. Daly has brought Out with great care the "Duke's Mollo"—the play in which Fechier bas had such a large measure of success, Itis excellently cast in all the lesser ts wellas the more knportant r¢ repeated the present week, Tue Crncos.—No pleasanter place of amuse. pect for the elitidreo can be found than the elreus. hat story of uafading beauty, ever dear aud lovey to the juvenile mind, Ciaderelia, 18 this week being represented there by sixty little ones, Pu hax deserted all our theatres, and Laas’ Ite culy do. main now at the amplatheatre, Booru’s.-~The event that is looked forward to ‘With (he greatest impatience in the dramatic worki the reappecranes (of Mtr, “Booth in ‘Tins will Occur ou Wednesday of next week, when we may look to see the great tragedy with & setting auch ue It never before recelyed, Tee night the accomplished Mra, Waller makes her a pearance as Meg Mervilies in “Guy Munuering.”* 4 The play has been carefully prepared y very enterta ‘ Dias ark Robertson's Je soon to He fs a dis: continue eof Mr, | METROPOLITAN PUNORAL - Mn © elle Statement Concerning the Barint of Mr. dames W. Barker, To the Buon of The sun Sin: In your paper of this morning, under the above Lending, and ney to the tomb," you have done ti great injustice, and have evidently oa by some malicious miscreant Now for the frets, James W. Barker died In the month of dane, 1909, nt Rahway, Nut, and Me Marsh & Ryno, undertakers at that place, were em- ployed to furnish te@ and properly preserve tha body, and the uodersigned was employed not as Sex- © Chorch of 8, Barthotomew, bat ae generat ne undertaker, vt 407 Fourth avenne. tour Nother matters, and uperintend at the func: rai, and provide a suitable bueial ease. Having procured a sutible burial case, T proreed- 4. to Rahway to pace the corpse in the same, wien some of the retuti insisted upon having « pair of thick woled shoes pat upon the feet of the corps, Those shoes took op considerable room, and made the eatket rather smali. Nothing was said about Providing ome laree enoweh for the shoce ull after fhe tame ‘had reached Raliway. 1 deny that any force was eed to crowd (he remains Into the casket, or that there was the slightest mutilation of thi corpse, The statement that I was ordered from thi house, and directed to take the ease away, 1s falee in every particular, T lave not the slightest knowledge that Marsh & Ryno were requested to take charze of the body. Ove thing I do koow, that they aid not take charge of it, but that That the ole charge of all matters conneciet with the burial, even to the Arpostting of the remains in the tomb, If any arrangement was made with Morsh & Ryno for an “Stocking seen Provide for a hearse and carriages tobe at the depot in Jersey City, and wien the coffin arrived, it was taken immediately to the office of Mr. Speer, undertaker, ut that plac, where a new and Iarger casket had Deen provides, and while the mourners were taking their seats in the carriages, the corpse was changed and aid not canse a delay o more than ten or fifteen minntes, and on the return of te hearse to the ferry Mr, Stephen Barker ond a fon of the deceased, both ed ut the casket and said they were satisfled and tt was all right. The corpee did not, as hefore stated, go to St Turtholo mew's Chnreh, but went to St, Paul M. B, Chareh, Fonrth avevur, Tdeny, in the most positive terms, that at any time, either at t! did the famiy fortad oF ments, or object tot Tf Moreh & Ryno had pure! und I do not believe A. Tein prove by Mr. Hennesey, that Stephen Barker, Esq, the brother was without my knowledge thoy did amything of the ki of the sed, while in the chiveh and after the services were over, and betore the friends imd been Invited to view the remains, placed one hind upon said Hennesey, ard the other the head of the corpse, aid It wae’ ht und satisfactory, and [heard no word of complaint during the whe time, I paid all expenses of the funeral, and bave not as yet recetvert one cent im return, though Thave Presented ce bill ‘The direction subsequently elven to Mr. Patterson was without my knowledge, unt there was not tive shehest cause for any exchange of the casket at the tomb after the burial, a# ean be abai ly proved As to that p of the article about Rahway ken out a Warrant against me € no knowledge of the fact, afuil aud fair eatement of the 1 controverted all the material allegations in the article to which thet is @ reply, and leave the community to judge for themeelves ‘ns to the tajus tice that bas beeu uttempted in the pubsicauion of tive original arti JOUN CANTRE) Naw Youn, Dee, 23, 1560, oe SWUGGLING FROM CURA, petiet> Seth Statement of the Attorneys of the Mail Steommbip Company. of The Sun. ti yon allow ne to correct some erroneous impressions which might be created by an article in Your paper, headed * The Spanish Smaggiers Again"? In January, 1954, the United States District Attorney. 8. G, Courtney, Eeq., Med libeis of information against the» ners Morro Castle and Columbia, claiming that the United States hala ‘upon the vetels for clears imported aud not entered on the manifost. In the case of the Morro Castic a default was taken, In the care of the Colnmbia the action was brought against Raward Van Bice, who Was not master of the vessel at the Mime of the allexed offence, aad therefore the United Hates could not recover on that libel. A few mouths ago Were suvetituted as atiorneys for the Atlantic Mail Steamsiiip Company, owners of the atenuash We thon stipulated with the District Attorney that ne fhonld amoud tho libel ta the easo of the Columbia, and set mide the detanit in the «x of the Morro Cottle. The case will he heand by Jnteo Riatehtord When it shail os reached, Upon exceptions fie | ty tee no deerce vet up by the Aciantie Muti Sveam L, 407 Fourth avenue, om w reel) ‘The amount or the daves paid to the Uniced gold un the dive smiported by . eh geeees on Conacno, in Baten, 009 5 Sn cigars,’ #Y,009.000-"a total of 4,000,000 an: nuaby. During the last Years the who'e amowut clauned by the United St Drought Im, uot gatcrod 0 9. The United Staios e1¥O More than amount f we Imporved by these steamers, Teinurt be borne ty mind that these penaltios are for elzure Droagit in by the crews and possencors.and whi the owncr® aud officers of the Verscls cannot prevent 100, uaa been taken by theownert to pre They have estaolished stringent rales od iave the Government to 2a, ON cach vessel, les fOr penalties for cigure he niMaifest. te les than $20,- rdulies on ine carrying ms and ammunition, otifed DY the Spanish Govormnent FUDAN Were LAFFIOD O1 Its Vow ithe order of the spanth Com: wid be seized mod contested Its vowels fractions. red by these that ay res to Mayan Sul here: As the Belge im ita We would #towuie athe oF with: the virweln we Ompany is Got desirous of havi ithas complied with the fay the » have been ren i Attorney) for the Atauth Our Sip To the Eititor of The Sun. Why have our ships nearly left the ocean + taken weir place ? ause iron is 80 dear; others say be- cause labor is 8o dear, timber Is so dear, copper ts so dear, &e., &e., & Bat Lean tel you; Sin the real reason is, English pirates eaptured and Gurnt our ships, and compelled owners to sell our ships to the Bnglish for « song. I know of ship owners that have applied to onr Gow ernment (or pay for said ships and have got uothin, hey-have also sent (heir bill to the English Gov ment, and nonotice taken of it, Five years hw + and this wrong is umredressed, Why dou't our Government pay there owners for their ships und cargoes, and then look to the English Govern ment for their pay What motive have our ship owners (o build more and sail theta when at any thoe English or mo other pirates may capture und thea grin? Is this the protection t? tour Gove, ament extends over the persons and proverty of its eitizeas us a retur all sorte of taxce lap: must Weak twoak, WRAK—cowarily, cowardly, COwAMLEY- lis il, dlagracefud, DINGHACRPUL, hus Deon the way our chains on Rugloud for the Alabama piractes have doen dealt with by our Government. Taere te no truehearted American who does vot feel huaviliated hy {t, and who does not ery out, * How tong is this state of things to last Y 8. BU. rw Yorn, Doe, 16, 1850, —— he and Judve Bar From the oaton Trare te A fow years since Judge Barnard Mid Mr w favor.” Mr, Kivi, Mis wou Open-leartednees, purchased a « Hares In a vorporation that be np, and placed the pnrehase in toime, Asew monihsa'terwards t toa Agure that netted the bayer over $70) Fisk went to dudce Bur ard and taformed him ti there was deny: tet to bis xecount £100 in Byeondwey Munk said he, * take the whole or take cheeks wnount’ fn fiscal mens dodge Bernard miu ke itten Umer that anount do} lirofit,” Phe eorresn ta that he was presene at the Gilne, and thereiore dave s bis ware, live to Le true damien Fb avd. Tisk vevali'y ams saber of tain WoW Jude rok went up : ——— CHESS. Peseta A sory intersting smu was played at the New York Chess Club tournament between Dr, Jones, formerly of Washington, D.C., and Capt, Muckea: zie, the latter giving the ‘odes of pawn aid move. ‘This game, whieh is given below, ts the tirst lost by Capt. Mackeualc in fhe tourney from a score of fieeu gam (Remove K. B. P, from the board.) JONWA, — MACKENZIR, JON Wawte: Buick Wat PuKd Bike Kreg Pugs Hh Ree Weds nung 40 od 1 i ik i“ 1» it i} ts iD) The capture of P., followed by 1. F &c. would have und yailiog, ¢ White Would Lay’ Gucened bie, —Gen. Spinner’s autograph 4 Chineee prescription for chitls, —One of the convicts in the Auburn State Pri« fon has Just received a legacy of $32,000, ville now claims a population of 150,000 And 9 wonderful crowth In the past ten years. A Pittsburgh man looked at a( bieago wemerr With bis opers glass, aud Ras been sued for breach of promise, —A tradesman in Portsmouth, N. H., hay ad- Yertived in every ieaue of n paper of that city for the lart twenty-two years —“Sugar weddings,” four weeks after mar- riage, aFe the latest device of married Vermonters to keep themeclves happy. —Daring her career as 9 painter of animals, Rosa Donheur nus received for her paintings apward of (Wo hundred (honsand dollars It is said there ere no leas than 1,800 bore And girls fron the United States in the varions amiversi« thes and sehoois of (orm —There are 1% vies in the United States, where men live under vows of celibacy and poverty, and 900 nunoeries of varions grades. —A resident of New Albany, Ind., who has lovt three wives ny death and two by clopement, hae just entered a pon hie eixth attempt at wedded bliss, —Couldeck, the Parisian artist, who is 105 Years old, ts painting « picta tied © Abeinthe,” im ated with askeletoa said to look lke —One hundred thousand dollars wold ia the Price eked for # genuine painting by Kaphael, now on by & Neapolitan gentleman, and i* cousiderc ¢ by European cone —In the new Lutheran Church at Hagerstown, M4., @ large hana ts painted on the well in the vost bule, pointing down to aspittoon with the inseripion, " Please leave your tobaceo there." for —A young lady at Sioux City, Towa, whos father was acctlentally hot zit Was premer i. tated, dipped her Angers in her father's ble Rot to wash It off till she had avenged b —A Cinecinnatian who re had a stone foundation Iald for @ hour refused to pay his worknuetis A few nichts since they assembled aud «ilently (oul down the walls, leaving not one stons upon another. —The Trinity Church, at Fredonia, N. Y., of whieh the eloqnent Rev, Charles Arey Is Hector, was tho most elaborately decorated for Christmas of any eourch in Western New York. Fr uraily ambitions, —It is said that Bjornstjerne Biornson, the well known Norwegian novettst, w miner, golng to the Sea I visit America next avian sett {4 in the West, and reading fit own compositions in tue princi: pal cities throughout the country —A Good Templar in California has satictie Fily explained to his lodge bow he ened to inden ina four days’ epree. He hat ordered adoren Lottiew Of mineral epring water, which his playfnl wife quietiy emptied aad refilled with whiskey —The lady Principal of a school, in her adver Aisement, mentioned her lady asistant, and whe *cepo: tation for teachtyg which she bears; but (he printer Jeft out the“ waich.”"so the adverditemeut went forte commending the lady's “reputation for teaching #he boars.” —At Cincinoati, 42,000 barrels of Washings” are redistilled every ye two abd a half gallons new epirite each. T bring about two dollars per parrel, and whiske * ers awallow the stud distilled from them without Neri+ tation. —Francis Jo: saloon yielding about urned in very poor health f the Suer Cena! Persone familiar with the hablis of the Kinperor of Ansirta ne rt that he ix much foo fond of Tokay wine, and they even intimate that bis Imperial Maje \y intoxicated —The Galveston (Texns) Nace is indy canse the President used the term “r elilon” 19 hit message, and asks If "civil war," oF ‘the late bostilie thes,” wo tha 1d not have done as well, Lae {iva!ore of little unpleasantness " are nawilling Uiings suould be called by their right nanos —The wedding Is of Robert Mollie Morran, colore!, weve distiinuced to ther friende and acqnaiatances In Nashyiile che olen day. A hack, with @ hveried footmen deariug a sliver walter, drove about town and distributed the ptedowd, Tho cards were gotten Mp In the hight of fyenlon, the groap of fonr thet with waite ribbon =A man can give his noighbor note, motetened by a Mula fast invented and in am orward tis ng to show (ow mes generally Know, Tule-tn order that the borrower may bo © come down with the dust before his uo'e doe The Paris Figaro publishes the following item: “In one of the cemeteries ot Swen a tombstone with tue inscription : * Here tl 8., who killed himself with a Col! revolver of the anctent pattern, the best instrament for this purpose.” ‘It said that the firm engaged |) the mannfactureot there weapons pays a large suim arnunily to the wiaow for this epitaph.” —The Lynchbury Virgin within the jast few weeks, Ianas to the amount of « muiijion aod @ halfof \lollars have boon roid to Northern capitalists along the line of Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- road. It is the purpose of these gentiewen to bulld ab Jenat three large iro turnaces, one of which is to ba Jocated at Clifton Forgo—the point at which it ie pros posed to intersect the great trunk line road. t Watertown, N. Y., jury was recently willed to try Mnportaat murder ease, One of the men selected was nearly # your: of age, had lived within thirty mtlos of Watertown nearly alt his life, bat was never in the phice until sumioned a8 & Jnror More than that, he had not had a newspaper in hts Honee for the pas. eight yea and two of hie co: Joagues had not taken a newspaper for many yea —There ism station on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad eailet Hanna, in honor of a deceased citizen ot Fort Wayne, A train stopped ore the other day,and the Wiakeuan, after the man- ner of his class, thrust his head fnsite the door and eatled ont “Hanna” tout and long, A young tady, probably endowed with the poette appellation of hah, supporing he was addressing her, and shocked at his familiarity on so short an aequaintance, frowned like @ thunder cloud, aad retorted, “Shut yoar month!" ‘He shyt it t the Sultan's new opera house the chief at issotion was nol tke opere, bul, boxes assignea (o the occupancy of the ladies of the harem, These wera promissory bye French da wil nave Te mule fact be become the npelled to is informed that fasulowed so that the Ladies could see out, Dut the out Mere could notsesin. Yet,as a crowd will stand for hours and kaze upon the walls of ab fo whiten sone real tragedy has occurred, fo the autitors gazed care nestly and devotedly upontthe barriers placed to pre« Veut them from ocular roof of the attractions sald ta coucentrate among tt A Tork's wives, —Mr. BE. 8, Woodford, of West Winsted, Conn, has atocked Matne wiu red 6: thane Bt Durnber next season. the Wilds of a. the most maiy Wack base taken with the ton, a8 a eam ~Zadock Pr had a heart lenp people Learuluy one evening that foie young men im hte r ploy were excluded from a bathroom hocanse of thei pecupation, Ke Fopaired forthwith Lo the hotel ¥ li out twenty ponds In Conneetiont and Kk bass, for the Coynmnlasioners on Fish has Coutracted to stock a Like Lowman, in his * Adventures in toys: "Tue best, and one of eal Oh of the up They vary from ow y, the fish, ure only , the millionaire tanner of Pratt contempt for stu ie the 0 ROY nnoW, oF frog 1 to then tho bali was 11 progress, procured an ays, and with ti) own hands cut down the stairwa, ing to the bal Telling the dancers to stay the cand enjoy their exe sivenens as low they chose, he turned to the hinds ra and told hum to ein) a carp ator the bald HON robntid the stairway, and a bill ofthe expense co bin M. de Lessops, Canal, at ap of the Sucz mi y the constructor ty ong evening presented t rico, which poseerses the pecu when dry wad rhrivelled with of expanding ie Jeaves and etait, if placed in water, The ladies begw experimentiog W th the Bowers, all of which unfolded except ¢ 4 the possession of @ pre compl de Losseps, ** Mademoisel'e, th pot in my power to make your flower ox pand, hut sk tor anythtoy alse Lean give you, ani itis youre.” Very well. ‘Then L want,” here t y bee tated ard blushed, and then added, 111 avearcely audit Voice, * whatever you want" " Then L want you lo be my wile,’ Waa tke reply, Abd they were maitled afew ayaa, Some Fr farnlously low price, plate of meat Aud vegetables, d Wine, and bread af Wottum, ali for « the keepers of these eating houses mystery Winch those who patronize them do about solving, Tk appears that thore are who get their living hy golag round (o the ewell man sions and buying up tho leavines. ‘Thies gentlemen a called “Jewellers,” and the teavings go by the general nawe of “Jewals-a pi of fow) being “a pearl,” a plate of dame a diamond,” boo “araby,” and so on. I Viujus gives w bauguet towlgut, the "jeweller Comes dows (o-morvow MOrNINK, Aust Carts Off Lhe leay Jugs from lay iordshlp's plate to youe chew restaura where they are speedily transformed into moet Compt. Ing looking dith with buzhrounding nauee. The Hiebost © Jewell ris he who possomes the monopoly ot tue ‘Lalleries, from whenen, It 13 €aid, # Yeu lout of odue oud @uds it packed every Gay, h restaurants offer meals ato For instance, a how! of rnp, ert, half @ bottle of out 13ceal:, How 0 them pay iy = (care if men