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found her at the close of Jonxson’s Adminis- tration. There were good grounds for this, for Georgia, ere ehe was fully restored to the Uuion, had, by a gross violation of the Four- teenth Amendment, repudiated one of the 1h Bhimes for All. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, fundamental conditions of her readmission i = om <== | to representation in Congress, But it is now 4 proposed (o send Virginia after Georgia, and | Pinas ate compel her to perform a good deal of her ro- Hey ho» Fly construction a second time, Then, hero aro Fifth Avenue Theatre~ The Mississippi and Texas, Just launched on Grand Opera Howse - Ungar, ac Niblo's Garden Yo htr the nncertain sea of restoration, are they to New York €irewe Non York Chow t be kept weather-bound as long as Georg TaN eFeintoes MIMAVEIA 08 beeciner and Virginia have boon, ere they reach th ‘The Tarmmnny Wor be 8 haven of the Union? SG eter We are not inquiring whether the meas. :- ures now pursued by Congress and the Pres. A Bad Beginning—Lawlesenesa ident in regard to those partially restored in the Legislatures States are necessary, just, or politic; but i A Vill has been introduced into the Lea | we think the country would like to know ly lature to declare Hosa t loally | whoro, and more especially when, this matter q elected Supervisor in this city at the last elec: | jg going toond. The great body of the poo- ? ion, Huxny Ssrrit was not legally elected, | pte, probably, care more about seeing it fine \q Docause, according to the law of the State at | ished in some wey than about the particular the time of the election, all votes cast for | methods by which it is brought to a conclu. Henny Sarrir wero absolutely void. Mr} gioy, And if it bo true that Congress and Barri was a Police Commissioner when he was voted for na candidate for Sapervisor; und the act of April 27, 1869, provides that i * all votes 4 a for any pereon the President aro going to neglect every: thing else at the present session, then let them save a little of th by al dree 8 in rood ae reputatic a themselves te this bus! earnest, and pleting it withou atany Po ice Commissione unneces. within thirty days after he shall have re- | gary delay, It will bo quite as unwiso for “my Bigned such ¢ the Republicans to try to retain power by Now, the protracting the work of reconstruc ion, as it ‘4 mined, abs will be for the Democrats to hopo to achieve no effect ¢ power by endeavoring to overiirow it, ne i conling to the explod scheme of Frank tae hk tgood, This is an old, | Brain, afterit iy finally consunmated. : well id ur principle of law. | the Republicans we say, then, Fintsl Thing tare void are as if they were not. | work! and tothe Democrats, Let it alone ! i Void votes are precisely ke blank vot ae f Could the Legislature constitutionally de: | Mre Wish Destroying his Own A : clare # man lt who halro {| | ,, monte “ they might ns well 3 as clare | Hon, Masinrox ¥ctes and void votes are one. , Or take another illustration, Suppe t Suara had r ‘ed a large ny ho a tos over in New y for Superviaor of | 8! foe datlll ef New York, and had received no votes here, | Sele of Fave +f would not a proposition that the Legis! daties of ci don of New York should declare Lim le Mr. Fish, with an ‘ elected on the strength of the votes cast for | 1nd will not fail to appre sa him in New Jersey Le regarded as preposter s charge oyainst her, but et / ous? And yet those votes would heve been supplies her with the weapons i simply void; and all these votes cast in N | Will not Lord CLARENDON be Y York for Huxny Saati are absolutely void, | Justified in declaring that England hind the } and vitality can no more be given to the | me Fight to sympathize with the pro H one by a subsequent slative laration slavery crusade of Jt Davis as the than st could be to the oilicr, Vaiied States have to labor for the pro. r Tech y we lieve the Wl d og ) Slavery crasade of Prim and Serrano ? i! dia Ro palitiene Gb Hisehy BAER to 480 Alas for the degradation of the United ‘ office of Supervisor Ly Mayor Harr, Je. | States, when, barely five years after we have vu gal; but that is in effect declaring the | COMPleted tho abolition of slavery at home, ) votes cast for Swit to be legal; | We ate used to fasten slavery and the elavi for if the votes sre void, the appoint. | de auew upon the people of Cul ment cannot possibly be valid. The Mayor Spain ava Republic. i obliged to nppoint the person having tl n will doubtless soon be a rey next to the h st number of votes. That, No other out t is practicable from the diff however, cannot mean void votes, Think, | euities in which her rulers and people are in- for a moment, of the absurdity of a law re | yolyed. ‘There f rekon tag quiring that the candidate bs nest | e 2 be appointed Supe 1 D . Li 1 nomen a pt to override and set at def 4 of the Stat: not only unp power, ay & tl When Spain is a republic, will she allow Sarr the § Or will she continue the bloody effort to foree bad 1 tl anew up hey ‘ of the , if persevered in, and Jand ¢} a the ¢ Je, and the , Factorize thelr n lominati ign cour ree thou ‘ lengthen their pow sand mile# away beyond the At t Ve know thet Hiwny Satrvit is nominelly | We judge that, with the aid a ur oRepultican, ¢ at a Republican, Joun H. | ment of Gen. Grant, Mr. Fist, and has been found fool enough to intro. | Seysen, she will continue the atrocions duce th sembly; but | civil war which she has so long maintained on the measur Fit passes at all, | in Cuba, Without such encouragement, the by Demoeratie votes, and the Democratic policy of Spain as a republic would be in ‘ warty will be held responsible for it. favor of freedom ; but with it, there is no b There is not any difierence in contempla- | reason for expecting any change. Gen i tion of law between void no votes | Grant, Mr. Fist, Mr. ScmNen, and the at all; and the Legislature has just as much | Republican majority in our Congress are re- authority to declare that any other man, who | spons'ble for the continuance of blcodshed received no votes whatever, was cleeted Sa: | and devastation in Cuba, pervisor, as it has to declare that Hanny = he Hon. Andrew J, G New Yorkers know that this Bantu, all the votes fe was elected, > ——— n rvey’s Big Bell. at every election a largo fourwheeled truck, whom were ve am! What is Concress Going to Dot drawn by gaily caparisoned horses, is seen . Congress reassem)les thig morning after its | moving throagh the strc bearing a mon. a holiday vacation, We presume St will now | strous bell, that frights the isle from its. pro: s begin the real work of the eession, It has | priety, and splits te ears of the unterritied a been given out, though we do not know | Democracy rs whether upon any sufflelent authority, that his truck is placarded with invitations “y It docs not propose to enter upon any general | to Vote for Joy 'T, HorrMan,” “ Voto for , ond thorough revision of the tariffand in Wt. M, Tween,” * Vote for McSwaTraan,” m ternal revenue systems, ner upon any funda. | and a general request to voto early aud mental changes in our financial policy, but | often, and be sure to register in favor of th Intends to postpone final aetion on these sub- | Ring. Our oppressed and overtaxed work Rs, Jects unti ext se ingmen pay $100 for every stroke of this big wh if Cong 1 t« bell, which is supplied by the Hon, ANprew ry Uhing effectual, for tl J. Ganvey tor elections, in return for the plas ‘ ward compelling the tering jobs given him by his friends SWEENy , knowl the nd and ITWeb, even to recognize the Mr, Ganvey fsa politician, and a fev betw sland aud their | avenae, and did a moderate amount of on oppr work at his trade, In person at that What, then, does Congress intend to br time he pr ated to the world a tall, thin itself about on r Does it pro- | fran, a six-foot skeleton, that needed filling pose to apply itself in up, But a few rs of court-honse and r tion of the work of reconstruc armory plastering jobs have made him as if now nearly fiveyears since Gen, Ler surren- {and assleck asa prize pig, or as WILLIAM dered at country Appomattox Court House, The | M snot unmindful of the fact that du TWEED Limself, and as oily as the Apnanam O. Hat who #0 neatly uses his ring the Adiinistration of Mr, JouNson he | office of Mayor to assist Lia practice aaa throw great olst in tho way of any | lawyer, and to give receiverships to hie part peaceful consum of the Congressional | ners in business. \ Plan, or plans rather—for it often changed | An examination of what was requisite in its plan—of restoring: the I nt States to | the way of supplies for the armories in the Union, ful of the But the people are not unmind her important facia, that th this elty was made last year, by competent * ugh | judges, and $25,000 was considered ample out the whole of Mr, Jonson's Administ>.. | The Board of Supervieors—that is, the Hon M, tion Congress was able to thwart all his | P,B, Sweeny and WiLLIAM M Twrep— cg schemes, and that by a series of extraordinary | have just passed appropriations for these af enactments it rendered him quite powerless | armorics of one million and four hundred thou : during thel vet year of his term; while Presi | sand dollars, Mr, Ganvey has already re 1 dont Grant, with a Congress to back him, | ecived one million dollars for work purporting 3 has now been in office ten months, and all | to have been done on the new Court House, through this period both the President and | armories, and other elty and county build. 1 Congress have claimed to be engaged in | ings. For armories, $200,000 ; for plastering ri putting the final touches to their reconstrue- the Court House, $200,000; for plastering He ‘don policy. county buildings, $200,000; for plastering Ky ‘ When, we ask, do Congress and the Presi- | city buildings, $400,000, 2. dent intend to finish this work? ‘They have | Mr. Joun H Keyser keopsa plumbing shop Qust placed Georgia back again into very | near Mr. Ganvey’s establishment. A knowl oR kadbe, pyie sondition jo which they odge of Sweeny and his Ring in politics se- ~~, cares Kevemn the job of supplying the heat- ing apparatus for city buildings that G@anveY Plasters for us, Keysmn receives $150,000 for keeping these same at a comfortable temperature, and $300,000 for performing the same service for the inhabitants of the county buildings; and this while thousands of poor workmen are out of work, and are suffering with their families from cold. Citizens, when you see a track with a big boll, and placards requesting yon to vote for Horr an for Governor, or Twren for Sena- tor, recollect that it is the Garvey plastering truck, and that every stroke costs you $100! anne It begins to look as though the drawback fraud prosecutions were to end in smoke after all, Under one pretext or another the majority of the culprits have been perinitted to become witnesses in the case, and have thus probably escaped all danger of prosecution, Duatenrony seems to have placed himscIf in this comfortable category. CaLpwent was selected as the scapegoat of the gang, and as such made off to the wilderness of Canora, where he still remains, The public have been amused from time to time with accounts of the extradition proceedings eet on foot to bring him here for trial; but as they were carried on before tho notorious Covrser, who prostituted his office during the rebellion to serve the secos- sionists, there was not much room to doubt what his decision would be, Sure enough, on Satur. day he discharged Caupwett, on account of the insufliciency of the evidence.” Caupweit and his counsel w roin-arm out of the Court House, So npathizing friend locked the door behind them, and then the “ High Consta- ble,” who had looked calmly on up to this time, started in a leisurely way to arrest Lim on one of the hun 1 a jonal warrants which he had for him, 1 e the hey co be found and the oor opened, the fugitive had got out of sight, climax of absurdity, the magnific $100 has been offered by the Gover r re. It been thought along any that the parties to these f 1 conneeted and had too much in fl e with the C tor of this Port and othor —— . To those who des're to become masters of the art of epistolary ¢ €, We propose a model of its following let ter, which bas j 1 by the editor of Dran Sim: Tt Hiscovered that your Sux ays more in Inlt ds and ball the space and ‘oF tulf the money than any other dadiy paper of New York I enclose herewith $9 for that amount of deftv sun- shine re, &e, 4.0, SAVERY, It is evident that Mr. Saveny endowed with a sound mind, a is a gentleman, nerous heart, and a sincere love of what is nc sive. Let every other American ¢ foreigner who has declared his in his example ‘ tel icienae » restless condition of France has the oftvct of drawing the sovereigns of Europe nearer to each other. Whatever may be their umtual jealousies, they are all banded together against revolutions and repubites, ‘They are well aware that what is going on now in Paris is only the prelude toa revolution and to the inauguration of republican institutions, Lovrs Naroueon thes tolerated and even supported as long as he seenied to have the power to gag the people and to crush the republie, But now that his power is waning, the old legitimate sovercigns of Burope have no longer any reason to stand by him, and ar tering into new combinetions against the republicanization of Europe, They may be less successful in this matter than they expect, but this 4 8s not prevent them from putting thelr heads together in solemn consultati The time seers for Iussion progress in Fastert f t hobnobbing t t Czar and King W A paragraph is f in the newspapers to the effect that the Winnipeg insurgents latel forced a loan of £850 sterling from the Hudson's Bay Company. Other accounts add with mor particularity that the loan’? was effected by the insurgents breaking into the Company's offic St. Boniface and carrying off the safe containing the £850 aforesaid, We have no doubt that these foot to injure the me of r Paart of of the Senate the th mbe ort the and ¢ “unmitiguted Wesvern papers report Indiana, the greatest m » When at home in be ‘ed the Ger Senat out sia bi new reconstruct as son the Constitution and the people on they are inflicted.” If this be true, does Mr. Puatt expect to vote for those bills whou they come yin the Senute ¢ nm measures outrag: whow p for final acti _ —— In the present issue of Tie Sux found abstracts of the bills which hb lature for se in the & who is t will most important series « ve heen introduecd in our Lexis ral years. introduced Hien, Henay C, Moneur, to be Chairman of the that body, and their ob. They were ate by the oubtediy Judiciary Cominitiee of je j to reorgenige our Courts of Judicature so as to make them conform to the new Judiciary article just incorporated into ow State Con- titution, The changes proposed are less sweeping than those effected by the Judiciary uct of 1847, which for the first time blended the two systems of Equity and Common Law, yet they are broad aud deep, From the position of the gentleman who introduced them we presume they will pass without substantial change, especially as we w derstand they have be ned and approved by leading jurists in various parts of stat —— Mr, Baveman’s letter resigning his mem. bership in the Manhattan Club is marked with ref candor and simplicity, H “I Trankly adinit that, im administe personal lorstood comities of t he adds that he “resorted to that se most unwilling and not until I had been fully convinced that Mr, Craxston would not make me, nor afford from the apology due to to me an oppo unity to coerce it wrong in Mr anly. If he did fight a ducl with Mr, Bateman, he hi at leust have given the offended gentlemon an opp punch his head outside of the Manhattan Club, and thus have saved the Club the mortification of members 4” This was certainly Cranstox, Tt was ungentle not choose t public comments on its its practiceser In tendering his resignation to the Hon, Moses M. Manuiy, the Seevetary of the Club, Mr Bateman uses the following remarkable expres sions “You will doubtless be able to under- stand, however, how @ man could, without under- valuing the benefits of your association, be in duced to sacrifice them when he rowly to sacrifice life itself had Mr, Craxston been a man of coura We are afraid that Mr, Bare. Man has overestimated the Hon, Moses M Mannin’s power of comprehension, but we are glad to learn that the assertion made in a morn- ing paper of bad character that Mr, Bateman has been expelled from the Club is untrue, The resignation of Mr, Baremsn, ax well as that of the withdrawal of the gallunt Gen, Wiruiam Brac Lawnexce, Jr, is @ sure indication of the gradual dectine of the My hattan Club, The working mumbers of the De ecratic party despise it, and dhe secession of such was quit wn chivalrons men ag Moesars. Bateman and Law- naxon shows that the finest of the party are leaving it. As the Club aow stands, it seems to be entirely under the personal control of the Hon. Moses M. Marexe and the Hon. Avoostos Sonsit, We doubt whether there isa member HE SUN, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1870, THE RIVAL OF THE MANHAITAN, |. Bare low is Called a Coward and Poltraon—He Apeloaizes—Apolozy not Accepted. The Union Clab, whose palatial mansion stands of the Club left who is gentlemanly enough to | tho corner of Twenty-first street and Fifth send a challenge to Mr. BareMay, let alone receir- ing one, We congratulate Mr. Batewas on tho fearless courage shown in his letter of resigna- tion, We learn that immediately after sending in tho letter, he left for Philadelphia aud New Orleang, to be absent for # long time, eee ea The aristocratic Democratic organ of Mr. Siosey Wester blackgnards the Hon, Taom C. Frevos for the resglutions in favor of Cuba which he nas introduced in the Assembly, We presume this will not injure Mr. Fienns or frighten the Democratic party. ‘The feeling of that party upon the Cuban qnestion is decided and ardent, and we have no doubt the Legislature of New York will give it expression, however disagree. able it may be to the renegade Republicans who contro! the World, selena Mr. Joseru Jerrenson has sucd ont an injunction in the United States Court at Chi- cago, to prevent the managers of Crosby's Opera House from eontinuing their piratical perform. ance of his version of the play of “Rip Van Winkle.” In bis Lill of complaint he alleges that for nearly twenty yéers there bas been in print ® play known as “Rip Van Winkle,” found- ed upon Wasinxaton Irvina’s well known sketch, said play baving become public proper- ty, and sometimes known as Hackert’s and some- times as Buaxe's version, In 1860 he deter- mined to play the part of Lip Van Winkle, when, not liking the character as it was repre- sented in the old play, be wrote for himself a now version, difering widely from the one then 1, his own manuscript, played the part in varions parts of the U States until 1965, without, bowever, avai himself of the benefit of the copyright act. During all this time be devoted himself to the close study of the character, which he had almost created, and as improvements suggested them- selves to his mind, he from time to tine changed and altered his manuscript, In 1805 lieved he had made his impersonation of Jip Van Winkle attractive and successful, having perfected it to his own partial satisfaction, and, ho had reason to believe, to that of the public He therefore determined to embody all the ideas that his study and expericnce had taught him in a new play, and, being in Lon- don at the time, engaged Diow L, Bovcroacur to assist him in embodying into language the dia- logues, incidents, ideas, scenes, and sentiments devised by him. The result of this contract was the present play of “Rip Van Winkle,” which it is claimed differs materially from all others of ,the same name, and, indeed, from the original sketch of Wasmorox Iavixa, The bill further alleges that on the 26th of Angust, 1895, before any public representation of the piece had been given, Mr. Jerrensox copyrighted the play in the Southern District of New York, where he then resided, as co-author and proprietor. Ho further says that Mr. Bovctcavur was paid 15,000 for his services in rewriting the play that no complete copy of it bas ever been fur- nished to any person, the separate parts of it hav- ing been written on separate slips, which were only lent to the actors for the purpose of stady. Under the recent ruling of Judge Duvwwoxp in the “Mary Warner’ case, Mr. Jerrensox will proba- bly gain bis Besides his injunction he de- mands that defendants be required to account for the proceeds of their illegal representations, or that at least they may be decreed to pay the statutory penalty of $100 for the first, and $50 for each of th surrender up in existence, a om also. ag well ns they su 4 representations es of the p ——— The De'stieal Conyress that has just ad. journed in N Was in no Way more success I than any pre Tt began with der the delegate vast stores of original them lest the winter should puss away, and th summer come and go, befure they could al find utteran The whole Congress, therefore, began to speak at the same moment, each in bis ative lunguage, much to the edification of the spectators, who thus beheld the best possible representation of the Confusion of Tongues, free of expense. The American delegate subsided nd wus followed by the representatives of Germany, two Frenchmen remaining masters of the situation, and discoursing at each other until their powers of speech had lft them. It is not probable that, so long as the present state of religious toleration throughout the civil- ized world exists, there will ever be a successful deistical or atheistical congress, No powerful tie of common danger wil! hold together the pro- fessors of such opinions, and in: harmony into their as any acknowledged auth among them, Religious solemnity at such con gress is of course neither desired nor possible ; all that can be impressive there is vigorous denun- ciation, keen satire, and brilliont wit, Butt that fs just what is lacking, for the reason that real! great skeptics avoid such meetings where they are not absolutely necessary, afraid that they will be made ridiculous by contact with the irre- pressible small men, the fire-spiiters and biather- skites, who be or next to nothing, not beeause they have that amount of philosophy of which Lord Bacow y from rel really have none at all 18 assemblage of the kind. on, and ended of them, having such uproar, use a spirit of mblage; nor is there ity to restore’ order ieve in nothing, oaks as lead ing men aw but because they TWEED'S LRG PR DEM ALIN Appointments of Harbovnian and + Wardens —Qunrreliing over the Rpoils—Mr. Tweed ax Olly Gammute Aunaxy, Jun, 8.—An amusing story is going tlous of Marbormasters and Vort Wardens, ‘Ihave that each of the New York Democratic Senators w to be allowed to select one min for each of these offices, Bat at one of their informal eaneuses Mr, Tweed, who can at times a he réve of Ouly Gammon with the greatest success, represented t0 his e¢ 8 that they ongat to be generous to Hoftnan, there were so mar mand for his par candidates pre- he (Tweed) willing to be satisfied with one appointment, and he therefore proposed that they shonld Inform the Governor that they would cach take one Harborniaster « Port Warden, as the case wilght be, and tus the rest over to him, ‘There were some moments of blank silence, whi as the story goes, an ulsive young Senator rose, and Gercely denounced the propos tion asa trick ond a scheme to throw additional patronage Into the hand# of Sweeny and Tweed, under the preteat of corplimenting the Governor er he for one would a t to it evident that others were about to follow in saine vein, Tweed hastily withdrew the propositi and introduced another to The Democraiic Programme in Indiana, Ixpranavouis, Jan, 8.—The India Convention this morning nominated Judge Ju L Worden for Justice of the First Supreme District, and Boyler W. Hanna for Attorney-General. Resor lutions were adopted denounsing the reconstrection measures of Congress; declaring that the United States Supreme Court should be independent; tavor- ing equol toxation and the abolition of the tari laws; declaring that the Ove-twenty bonds are paya- blo ingreeubacks or their equivalent; asking for the abolition of the national banking system, and for an Increased volume of currency ; tavoring the taxation of the issues of national banks and United States bonds; denouneing the Fifteenth Amendment and excise inwy j and opposing more stringent naturaliaa- tion laws. hree cheers were given for the State of New York for rejeuling the Voto approving the Iit- went Amondment 6 et uJ Democratic | avenue, has long been regarded as one of the clubs par excellence of the metropolis. Its rooms were the fcene, a few evenings since, of arather unfortunate occurrence, Before proceeding .to narrate the par- ticulars of the affair, it may not be out of place to mention that the Union is composed of gentlemen who belong to the creme de la creme of New York society. ‘They may be seen at the windows of their luxurious reading room on every fine day, dressed in the height of fashion, looking languidly at the passing objects on our fashionable thorouglfares, and oven- Monally bowing and taking off the tiles that cover their {ntellectual heads to such of thelr acquaint Ancea as drive tn stylish equipages. As at least one-fourth of the members cross the feas every gear, the latest importation of English sentiments ‘and’ tdeas are always to be found in the Union Club, ‘They spend their time in aris- tocrutic loafing and tn mutually admiring exch other. Some aro bachviors, and some are marricd men, They leave at an ‘early hour in the morning, sometimes sober, aud sometimes otherwise, On the night in question, three gentlemen were Seated uround a card table, One was Mr, James Parker, the other wns young Mr nthan, and the tLird a somebody whose name our Informant was ua- ablotoascertain, Mr.Parker, beside being thorough gentleman, is said to be on ent card player. ‘ney were playing doubie-dumuny, whieh Isa sort of ‘three-nanded whist, for small wagers. Mr. ‘ker had @ fresh dea game about te umed, when Mi. Bar low, the distinguished lawyer, who was in th players, a held in hands, “4 something in the cur of o rs Parker on # this jumped to his fe aly by an aristovrat Fetiued denounced Mr. Barlow ker,” replied Me. Barlow, * yon would not denounce me ti you knew what I have this gentlemen, I merely whispered that jt was impos sible for him to win the aud that be wmisht is well throw ap his hand.” “I don't eare,” aukwered tho gentlemanly. Mr Parker, * You ate a cowerd and a pollroon, aiid you have done tuch things repeatedly before.” Mr. Barlow in vain endeavored to allay the ruffed foelings of w je Parker the aggressor, w the apology tendered. n waited upon nt to ‘accept Mr, Barlow's apoio, Ker was immovable and said that be b to take back The aifiir has remained in statu Bot so far, there is no talk of expul and no trip to Car The prevailing ever since, in, no duel, Fi pression, however, {n the avenite Clubs scoms to be that the Univ Cl tain the aristocratic porition it aesames, must pel Parker for raManly conduct, or Barlow to wend hint a challenge, a TNE bIGuTn Ww THUNDERBOLT, piano Presentation of a Gold Watch and Chatn to the Hou, Micuacl Norton—Bows Tweed Present. The friends and admirers of the Hon. Michaol Norton presented him, yesterday afternoon, with o valuable gold watch and chain, The presentation took place at 235 Hudson strect. ‘The leading Demo- crats of the Fifth Senatorial District were proeent on the occasion, Among the invited guests wore the Hon, Jobn Fox, and Justice Cox, Justice Hogan, the Hon. Peter Mitchell, Aldermen Moore, Healy, Murray, Barker, and Cuddy, Wm. 1. Starkey, ex-Justice Wm. Dodge, Justice Dowlins, Judge” Cardozo, Comptroller Connolly, Wim. AL, Tweed, Wm. G. Borgen, Judge McCunn, and others, ‘The presentation speech was made by Mr. Bergen, who praised Michael to the skies, und ald that the boys of the Bighth, Ninth, Fifteenth, and. Sixteenth Wards would follow him to the end of the earth, if necessary, ‘The leader of the Young Democracy re- plied (by thanking his friends for the git. He fur- her stated that he woukl always be true to the Democratic party, but would not promise to be true to the Teaders uniess they In turn were faithful to the people. ‘The Hon. Peter Mitchel! followed, He sald that the Independent course pursued by Mir. Norton in the State Senate would not fall to meet the bearty con. currence of the Young Democracy. He (Mitchel) bad no doubt that Mr. Norton's acrvices would be appreciated and rewarde the Democrats of t] ah Senatoria! District. " 2 va Justice Cox having been torsted, Mr. Mitchel! was called;upon to respond. He said ‘that Justice Cox's first oMeial act was FaMicient to eonvince him that he too would be an honest an¢ independent public servant. Mr. Cox, 9 they all knew, bud becn re- quested by the seif'styted leaders of the Democracy to sign a paper by which be would agree to conspire against the people of the Sixteenth ant Twentieth Wards and rob them of the Police Justices of their choice, Mr. Cox had refused so to do, as the act Was repugnant to his manhood and sense of d LApplaase.) ‘The leaders, however, had secon. re hed ther object and removed Justice Ledwith ym the tdistrict which elect done with the vote of dohu Cox, Other speeches supporting Senator for fail fol. lowed, and the meeting adjourned at dusk. fe en - KATING. ——— Resumption of the Sport—The Rowke. tne Cevtval Park. and Private Ponds ona After an intertum of over two weeks skating was resuined yestert: The cold wi of the last few duys had the effect of closing all the ponds, but the ice did not become suficiently strong tii! yesterday to admit of a resumption of the popn- lar winter amusement, At the oid Filth avenue pond at Fifty-ninth street, there wasa large gather ing of skaters, mostly boys, with here and there a ““erack" whose gyrations riveted the gaze of the spectators. On the open ponds, however, by the sunken lots between Madison, Lexington, ana Fourth avennes, there wasa motely gathering inthe after. jee was rather rough, but tms did not } thousand persons from enjoying them- selves to thelr hearts’ eontent, Great disappointment was manifested neeause the Park ponds were not open, When it is recoilected tint. the tee is only anont two inches thick on the ponds ontelde the Po: of Superintendent Itran in dele unattbe Park will be that would flock her up "t Fitth avenne open rink 1s covered with a ful sheet of clear block tee, but was not onen To-day tt will afford a fine chance’ for tho experts to glide over its virgin Kurtuee Atthe Third avenue rink they geste rap Tt will be hardly. thiek however, but by to-morrow, those indoors will undoubtediy have s were making ice ine Ponds, Brooklyn, will morning. ‘The Clermont aveu tw ‘The members of the New York Skating Club have received an Invitation to take part in the opening of both be on n thie rink will be ready inn day the Jersey City rink, which 18 expected to take place on this evenin Miss Corrie Augusta Moore, the noted skater, At present in town, Sve will make the F venu rink her houdquarters this wee ——— EXPLOITS OF A CONPIDENCE WOMAN, Curtostiy in Law-The ginary Cotebritt nota Cr The Remarkabye Interest Arrant Impostor. Florence N, Kelly, who pretended to ;. defrauding the Rev. Mr, Bynnot of Pouglikeens|e of #25, Tas heen discharged by Judge Joseph F nard on a writ of Aadeas conpue because she lind | Sonated only an imaginary porsen, Im after Her discharge on this coumplalit, Be was r arrested on a charge of obtaining $9 from Mr. Ve der, of Hyde Park, Miss Kelly obtat money Just pretence tint she was the daehter of a her merchant, Who, while returning from i visit to St, An Blorida, was robbed at dersey City. Mey Vedder Was casily dupe). when Mass Kelly mentioned the nam friends resiting in St, Aug held that the evidence was woman therefore was again release: incarceration she lay which she rose w formed of the judie Key, M. Cady accompanied ti Way station, aud Kuve Ler money to take her out of Poughbecpale, ——— THE WAR OF THE when in: ORM, lers Take thelr Many of our readers may remomber that the Kteat Locb whiskey fraud case was by the confiscation of the distillery at Thirty-third street and Tenth ayenue, ‘The distillery was ran in the name of Thomas F. Ray, now a fugitive from jus tice in Europe, but was really owned by Charles, Augustus, and Mason Loeb, three wealthy brothers, me i t oMecers, lg before the seizure, ker, storekeeper of the distillery, On three dif- occasions Ray attempted. to bribe ‘Tucker, twice with $200, and once with $300, and twice the ney Was Dinced in bis pocket without his know!- xe. ‘The last tims, however, Tucker caught Ray the net, and reported the ‘ease to the United States Disiriet Attorney, who advised him to prose- cute Ray, He was abont to prosecute accordingly when Ray got wind of it, and bad Tucker wr rested on a charge of blackmail, ‘Two employees of the distillery swore that they looked through a small hole #eratched on a painted glass door, and w Farnam receive money from Ray; but ‘they reot their cues in several important points, and Were proved to be willful perjurers. ‘The complaint wns dismissed, and under a counter suit on Tucker's ulleealious the distillery was confiscated, THE WEDDING IN THE ALPS, heer America A by New Ties —An American Belle and a French Noble- mte Arthur de Po tierand Miss Jenny L., Dan ui day, Eva, of New York—The in Gorgier. A correspondent of the Home Journal, after giv- ing an acconnt of her trip across tle water, siys she found the following cards awaiting ber at Par M. Monslour to Come et Madame ta Comtosse de Ponr- faite-Gorgier ont I'nonneur de vous faire part dy iar foment le Comte Ariine de Ponttalts-Gor lenr fils. avec Mademoiselle Jennie Holladay. CHATEAU De GoRnotER, le 6 Decombre, 1808, M. Monstonr et Madame Calvert, Monsieur et Madame Nolladay, ont Nneur de vous faire part dn mariage de Madeinoiselie Jennie Holiday, leur petite-Alle et Nile, avee Monsienr le Comte Arthur de Pour tal s-Gor- é Attaché d'Ambaseate. Panis, le 6 Dicembre, led, ‘Then was proposed to me the important question of “something to wear ;” for «woman can no more be without di man without dinner. After a review of m: ‘obe. and eoMe sieges. word! tions, which took me ont shopping, 1 succeeded in improvising what wns pronounced a Mt preparation for the coming event; and at 8 o'clock—cven- ing—we took the train’ for Neuehatel, in Switzer- land. At 10 o'clock we renched Neuchatel, and soon found ourselves comfortably quartered at the Hotel Bellevue, which fs a marvel of nea ness and good cheer, An hour after our ar- rival Mra.” Holladay was waited upon by the Comtes De Ponrtalés, futher and son, who mac thelr eompliments ulations’ upon. the #afety and good he une, the young bride clect, and thelr atter ds, ur party consisted of Mrs, Holladay and her two daughters, Mrs, General N. P. Banks, Misa Badger, Rev. athor Rogerson, 1 Miss Brock, of sary legal form, the presence of the American Minister to Switzerland. an attachd of the legation, W's required, to n © a betrotial of the parties, Tn reply to the tele- to the Minfeter, Mr. Radolph Rhyner, nn at- ’, formerly an attaché of Tue 8 was des. |, and. in presence of witnesses, in the private 8, Holladay, the betrothal vow r de Ponrtalés-Gorgier and Mi jay were administered and regist he was dressed in a co bh, chiy trimmed with fa aret-colored 6ilk CEREMONY AT THE MAK the noxt day, whieh was Saturday, the foar of December, the ¢ was perf the m hev r, near the e bearing the youthful and beautiful «\ from the railroad station to the chateatt, thevvillagers turnod out en masse to grect her Each one wore the d xinile, They erevted an of flowers over the om the 7 boom dere and t convent the terraces, ‘The boys of tie holiday attire, with sprigs o” holly in thelr uate, throrged the ‘route, testifying their interest in the appy occasion, and, With shouts, receiving the sliver enei ously thrown out to them, At the chateau, beside the Comtesse mere and the sister of the Comte, we were presented to the Comte nud Countess de Chiernay, the uncle and aunt of the bridegroom, vil tharriage was performed at the wairie, by tue magistrate of the Vill THe CHATEAY GoRarER is charminely eitaated at the head of a romantic gorge or gulch, (irom which it takes its name,) and overlooks 4 wide expanse of lake view,Doyonil Wl isa splendid streteh of mountain scenery, extendin from Mont Blane to the Jungfrau. Comioriaby ttle villages dot the landscope ; bordering the La and higher up, nestling amid ‘the rocks, are th chalets aud neighboring casties, THe PETE AT THE CMATRAY honor of the oceaston came off on Sunday even: To attend this we lett Newehatel at balf-past ze, in their b in) twelve o'clock, and as we left the station a salute of three guns was fired, and again from the terraces, fas the carriages wound up the hill tothe chatean, After our arrival, the front terrace was. thronged with the peasantry and villagers, one of whom, young girl was depated, In the name of her sisters, to prosent a Leautifally arranged bonquet to. the bride. Wine was served to. them in profusion ty the young Comte, while the young Comtense, witli tie igi of eratiied happiness beaming from eyes, Went (out among ler future neighbors tenantry, and dispensed small pieces of silver to the admiring tittle pessant children. A band of musicians, from the village of Gorgier, volunteere their services, and discoursed their best tanes for the enlivening’of the scene. I was agreeably disap- pointed In these people, they are by uo means the Stolld, cold race ‘I had reason to expect; but, while y contributed their mite to the. entertainment, F rollxh counteniecs glowed with advetion aud admiration, When the tollettes for the eventn; made, we assembled in the drawing-room, and were presented to severst of the neizhboring nobility, Who were the only guest Invited, ‘These distin: guished people were most remarkable for thelr aim: pileity of manner, and entire absence of osteutatton Bnd affectation, ‘The dinner, to which we sat down at the early Lourof7 1’. M.. was a sup finely served; und, wiih the" feast u and “wine on the lees,” there was n gc of reason and flow of soul,” to. which wes contributed by our genial ‘and friend, L'AbUG Rogerson, who, in the father of the bride, did ber the Lou had een Lis stead, ELPOANT TOILLETTES me ofthe Indies were very elegantly, put not andily dressed, ‘The young bride wore a eériee Fpe chine overapetticont cfefrize eatin, with Muted files, and a frill of the finest lace around the throut ail Wrists, With @ necklace and earring and diamonds, Mrs, Ho her mot in pearcolored si tema ad We nhires an 3. 1 ery sim! wore Lovise Dine Diack ae Miss Holl was with a wile sash of rose-colored velvet rib: bon crossed over Ht shoulder, and passe around the wai ned at the back an side by a large bow. Her only ornmament was a xoid necklace, Mile, die Pourta és, the sister of the bridegroom, wore a grenadine of white und. bluo, with a deileate pearl necklace, Mrs. N. P, Bai Was dressed in gray silk, with trimmings’ of purple satin and rich Jace, and an clogant gold necklace bracelets, Miss ‘Brock wore mourning, slighty lightened with ornaments of black onyx and peach, and x simple eviffure. Miss Bad delicate pink silk, with a Bonks, in whit dressed pearl necklace: Miss muslin over blue; and Miss Maud Nanks' in a simple child's drees of crimson silk The Princess S—— was dressed in pearl-eolored moire antique, with superb pearls and din: mond r mother, i d moire, with diomons and the Cor nay, in black, with handsome pearls aud diamonds, Nextus. at the tabie, sat the Marquis de Roug We dis assed America very freely, in ite climate, geogra phy, politics, #6, He evinced much interest tnour countr is possessed of no very sirong adinieu Hien for republicanism, It was approaching inldntght when wo left th WEDDING AT THE CHAPEL ckinext morning, the Oth lyst., the reli nd the marta the Comte Ar és and Jenny Holladay confirmed en away by the Rev. Pather Royer his mother it Holluda, Wore a Magnificent whit n dress, ; ne r ated, i DRIDAL TROUESEAUT AND PRESENTS, T brid wos ve y , the toinafaeture athed by Comte Portales than convenience, ae The Case ot ul Schoeppe in Germany— Charges against him trom t Country. From a Letter by Prof. Gneist, of Bertin Public opinion forms its judgment of guilt or innocence from goneral unpressions. But this ely. urstance is niso unfavorable for Pant Schooppe, should he week the axsistince of bis countrymen, b= pecia'ly hore in Kerlin, Our court of jurors, six or seven made the aequal an aber assort that thi this convieted at Beri etary to Count Blunkense obbed him of $7,060 thalers.) Christian name, surnauie, awe, aud personal description saree fully with tis t of your Panl Schoeppe, Hix father was a country parson, enjoying the reputation af great piety, whe In the same case, Was convicted Of recoiVving soln goods, ‘This statement seems again to aeree. with the deseription of your Pant Sch: anit bis fa ther. In our poltee’ reeords it 18 found that tater and son bad emigrated to America, The State's Attorney, Who proseeuted the ease of 0 r Paul Schoeppe, inakes special mention of the f that the forgery of documents charged tn your coun try agrees with the method which onr Paul Senoepne Wis habitually employing. Our records here eos tin a series of such documents wath well execute 1 in tations of the handwriting of 4. You will not blame public opinion the identity of the two persons with tol waninty, Twill send youn few of our lveal papers, from whieh you will perceive that tingh people have taken an in terest in Schoeppe, public opinion very 800m tirned away frow him, —The Massachusetts savings banks gained 17,000,000 in deposits Inst year. —lIowa thinks it remarkable that the State has . 4 Legisiatore withont a 81 —Mme. Ristori has returned from South Ame~ rea to Kurope, and is again playing in Italy. —Alm pictare, but very few like to be drawn as Jorors. the printing trade, wiv will wear pants and sow wood." —Game principal varleties are seven-np, poker, for prairie cluckens. =The logging teams in the woods in the i cinity of Machins, Me, are having a hard tim Bo snow, ont of hay, lakes and streams all open. =—Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker ways she objoets to the prerent style of iadies? dr all idea of (he form betow th —A son of the late Charles Swain, founder of the Prtiadetphta Ledger, will start anew daily morning paper in Philadetphia about the Ist of Aprile —A minister at Winterset, lowa, stated in his fermon that “the Bille was the most important works that had yet been published in the United state Aman in Trempealeaa county, Wis., in cate ing “cold slaw" last week, #wallowed ancedic. 1k wae pulied out at the back of Lis neck Uiree or four days after, —T ‘employm' retug —Minnie Hauck sang in “ Faust” at Moscow, nnd was called ont ten ti fourteen times afver the church eceue, the end of the opera —Two little Milwaukee boy throughout the day and cleared enoygh uring the past season to purchase « $1,200) homestead for thelr parents, —The peasant girls of France arc no adle to meet the grent demand fi oft their beards to make up th —A vender of nitro-glycerine scattered the phils and ott ‘Temper Inst week, erally. —Owing to the unusually mild winter, @ heavy California th vines will bo planted this eeacon than in any previous three yea —One French newspaper gives the man who sends | another gives a revolver; a third promises agold wate to the man who rends its columns through every day, but has had no candidates yet. —The investigation into the charges made by Senator Sprague of fraud and mismanagement in the sale of the tands of Brown University, has begun a& Providence, but thus far not the sustain his indictment has been found. —A fat French lady desp #0 fat that I pray for @ disappotutment to make me thin then Joy that I become fatter than © cessive in the importanate beggar, she renewed her application with Now, me lord, if ye’d Just give me one lit Teould trent every friend ye have in the town.” —The Hon. The to withdraw his r vard L more than twenty years, and that, even if he might hope his eervices wontd continne to b short time longer, —The Saco ( Me.) Independent says a tin box, timilur to a common blucking box, filled with powder And percussion caps and fastened together with a lead band, was fonud one day last week ina cargo of coms which was sent to a firmin that city, Has way to @ stove, 16 would undoubtedly have caused s lively commotion, —Emigration to this country is coming from @ new q of Jews from tee of the Al arrangements hy which several hundred famitiee thus elected from their homes will be sent to the U States in the spring. Judge Grier, late of the U. S. Supreme Court, was once trying fa cause in Peoneyivania. A well be nnderstood that iu t —Private Malloy (goaded to madness by the goose av Twa, wontd 1 mit > dozer Priv —The conv paper nsed in dress, has boen strongly recommended, and, splration, as well be ap tt, which hit the man on the in the skull, gets no mercy at the hands of British erittes, Bsterday Review cays: for fro noonday eun {8 one of the most i patnralist can witness, —Every law, Orte 1800; SUNBEAMS, ' —_>— th in it. any good-looking man will sit for hip An Towa paper advertises for “a girl to learn Jant im Nevada. The keno, and is very abi wen, because It destroys ‘ waist, here are great numbers of people out of tat Montroal. ‘The houses of industry aud are full, and there are nuverous applicants for rity. 8 after the garden scene, Q six times at s who black boots ei! papers in the evening, ger r false hair by the sale taken to cultivating deficiency, olt tresses, and the men hay er# 1 an cngine room fn Titusville by calmty set ¢ down a cau near the fire and remarking: “ I want to leave this glyectine here a while until it thaws out. —Miss Marshall, who hi # been lecturing in Meme cities upon Woman's Righty, in Brownsvill ug a$'* dead beat r Souther: &c., Was arr nil Sent to Jail, for er grape crop rs anticipated for next n has ever before been kno combined, 1c best list of subscribers a case of champagnes hadow Of & fact to ingly. says : No sooner does the disappointment come then re expectation of growing thinuer gives me such A ord C—, whose popularity was not ex coteh town of A—, having refused an 1 xpency, philus Parsons has declines gation as Professor in the Han school, saying that he has held the ome welcome for a. short time. t could only be for it found ite rier The Crar having ordered the expuleion uselan Provinces, the Centra! Commit ce Ieraclite at Kinigsberg has made Diandering fury returned an nnjmst verdict. Ax the k turned totrecord it, Jadge Grier said: “Mr. Clerk, that verdict us sot aside by the Court. It mavas js State it takes ti \een step): 11 Yee dirty spalycen ¢' misery, what Corporat—" Faith, it Mt be a ronnd Private Malloy—" An’ av I ght 2 Divil ahar as ye don't spake it” “Thin Lon'y thing it, Corpril.” rsion into parchment paper of the aking ¢ ff, and other arireles of inet as imparting wneh me ater power of resistance to the ner. § permitting colors and patterns to ed With Increased fac Lars, ¢ wih 1 Hility anda gr h ences Mr. D, Melatt, » Frenchman, was killed @ fow days *inee at Pownal, Vt with tree, and told him to get ont of the way of | Frenchman replied that it would not reach He was chopping wood rs, one of whom was felling » but tho Tho el against another, breaking @ small limb from dack of Lis head, breaking number of ott “Medora Leigh,” by Dr. Charles Mackay, The “As @ literary work It is con- ble in exeention; as a controversial work it 1s valuclers, and almost entirely beside the point really at inane, ‘ets to meet ; a8 A moral Ww ant whieh it a rie it tirely pie, and iumoral aud olfensive ia —A philanthropic naturalist, Mr, Tigford Durr, who revides in a beaetiful park at Aldermaston, Enge iu any quantity. He says that a snake huntie along the margin of a still yond in tne hot g sights thats citizen France 1 1 21 years tty of are grotesque. ‘There was onc Inet yeas in favor ofA tax on bachelors, and another praying that all the new-bora children might be tattoed atthe { naserial number, 9 ae to facilitate their yn in the event of thelr turning outer, — | of Sycamore, TM, riding in tha = t nntry one day, saw 1 Upon a gate poRE reading This farm for eutl.” Stopping his hor , Taliitie old w who stood on uUp-toe, har > oral? “Just as soon, sir," re " r than ty P new ng who ean ralsy wind!” 4 ctor dro} wife, complained + a miper 1 sition of his danchier, At last, npon one O¢e% gentioman e y 4 an impertinent Jad 60: aints of her I will disinherit hwy.” The husband mada —Mr, Holbrook, surviving partner in business of the late George W, Kendall, publishers of tho New ns Picayune, has erevied Amonument In memory late associate bearing this tneeription s Kendall, born tn New Hampebire, Avy at Post Onk Spring, Texas, Octo fer, Journalist, author, farmer-—emincnt in ® fear head; Bont heart; strong hand ; a Bost loved by those who hiew ANE XMAKSEE RAL TADE, ate, methyn yuhe thatte I wolde drynke Here ae Granmerete, pntte ye Yule lowge onne Venyehts ve colde wythont Duite fyrste mylvpoe would sothely sypye Veo Browne, hys jollye saute. Tiys tavle Ttelte yy Ande newe to carleor Buin test my pewter Ful ys ply nai Deve worke viteys toe telle ane tayle, Wrihon ne ore tt Butte fvrs EWEEES NOTLE ANC YBMYy bys fy ppe Ye Sinythe hve neerw they Lroughten bym, Yo Rrowne h Yeo nore he +! seo he Knew ed, Of whatte he waste aboule, Yoouge hy