The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 14, 1870, Page 2

i The MONDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1970 Ariiaomeuie TOmday, Rendemy of Musto Rinyoiet Apollo Mall Stores f Themtre- testh as Hanae Hirsute Minetrete ste Fie Tith Avenue Theatre—The Bary body. Cramd Overs Hh Kenly & Leow we ae Tt si me SP La Sun. Minstrels, 12 Hroadway. dem Pechtor a8 Mar iot New Yort Circus Troupes Nase let a, 58) Broadway, i rt Fret er thy hor 9d page, eccupied yah Ween, cents per aes i tents por Na, ine of wld Renta apace On and after Tuesday, Murch 1, the price of adver- teing in Tue DatLy SON will be €0 cents per line. ‘The WeRKLY DOLLAR SUN has ow attained # lib: eral circulation, which justifies an increase in the ad- vertising rates, On and alter Mares 1, the price will be 50 cents per line ‘he daily circulation of Tne 8 during the laat week, which ended on Saturday, Feb 12, wee as follow Hon ay B7.ROO Thoreday,...... MT. 000 Vedic oday 220 RO, DOD Eaton ay. (305 ednesday. Hi Average dai'y circulation during the week, 67,283. Arcrage circulation during the previous week, ending Feb, 6, 87,760 daily On Some Uses of Men. Somebody has said that the worst possible use to which aman can be put isto hang him. So faras the man ts concerned, thi may be 60; but, regarding the lutcrests of the public, a man right much better be Langed than used to advance the dishonest purposes of schemers who prey upon the substance of their fellow men. The clique of conspirators known as the Tammany King aro not wanting in shrewd. ness, and occasionally they like to put for ward aman fora prominent place who has some claims to character, If the officials elected in this city were entirely composed of shoulder-hitters, rog-shop keepers, pick- pockets, and the like, it would create a preju- dice in the minds of the community which no amount of repeating, ballot-box stuffing, or fraudulent coxnting would be entirely able to overcome, ‘Therefore reputable men are sometimes nominated for offices within the gift of Tammany. While it is not at all strange that the Tammany conspirators should endeavor to avail themselves of the respectability attach ing to certain names, it is indeed both strange aud lamentable that men of good standing in the community, with reputations —to suy nothing of souls—to be saved or lost#should, by the cravings of avarice or m slirected ambition, Le led to sacrifice all that manhood holds dear—name, and the estvem of their fellow men-—and, fore paltry coneideration of dollars or temporary political , submit to present themselves to the eyes of an netonished world in the humiliating position of 1 r Funks to a mock Those who permit thems vver, nree advancem Democracy ttos itled Lo aome € bey } Ives omni ser ation ; for no man who fliciated in suck an ignoble capacity ean ever expect, under te in the good opinion of his fi llow eltizena It igo source of profound grief to the ain core friends of Horeaan that a man of tueh any c reomstar , to fally rein pimseli fov. manners ar 1 Tespect able antee ous future before him but a tew years s fhould, by his unfortunate ita, ant who had such » glor aff ations with Tammauy—not to mention his blundering and tyrannical course in the admin stration pre further of criminal justice—have as complete eluded himself from all possibility of political ment as did the m guided Joy C. Buccnniver when he donned the gray uniform of a rebel General, divar The Iloe-Doo Legistature of Montana, “HooDoo" ia that solected by the newspapers of Monti asd scr the Inte Lay of that Torritory. worl be fiud tn thes ; but the probabil ty is Vory strony t © term tive of The n unable to ety whieh we hw etionary at it is xl Lo bo expres Bye of dsupprobation rather than of ple pure recent acts of the body to whieh it J ied could not properly be mentioned with mach fav r. An acount of its pro ccedings att’ @ late session ho just reached vs; and thelr nature is so extr ordinary as to lead to the eone if the Monta usion that Legislature is rigut in its ideas of free gow ermuent, the rest of the nation must be ce ly in the wrong, Many citizens of ts critictay the no little of a loug session, involving an expense to the people of over forty thousand dollars, convenad and held illegally, and contrary to tho provisions of the Constitution? ‘hat is Just what the citzens of Montana lave had toeubmit to. Although the organic law for bade it, and although the authorities at Washington refnsed to recognize it as 1 ‘a wossion of the Territorial Leislature was held; and not ouly was it Mega) in itself Dut the principal purpose for whieh the mem bors were called State are disposed to rity; but what would be said together was to further violate or evade the laws under which th Ter nt is constituted. The Chief Justice of Montana had declared that the Iheumbents of two important Terri torinl offices had usurped their places, and jioral Govern hold then unlovtully, ‘Phe session wae in reality convened to secure the retention of theme two persone; and this was done by the paneay iver Gov. ASULEY’Ss veto—of & Bort of ‘Ve Ty viol ites, Aet, which direct in many partic Congress whieh ere ara, the law of Verritory and preter bed ite manner of government. The e did not stop hers, It doubled the pay of ius own members; ap Propriated over eight thousand dollars for the codification of the laws of the Terntory, where a tew dollars ought to sutfee, since Shy goverumeut there hus pot beea iv exint. the Tayrishatu ence long enough for the statutes to be-very numerous; direeted the expenditugs of fifteen thonsand dollars for the benefit of the insane of the Territory, entirely according to the discretion of three persone chosen by the Lo- wislature itself for the purpose ; increased the fees of sheriffs; and finally proceeded to elect its own nominces to offices to which the Governor of the Territory, aceording to the organic law, has the sole and exclus.ve right of appointment. Now, all this, and much more of like char. acter, Was done at one ecssion of the Mon- tana Legislature ; and wo think it murt be admitted thyt, though the people of this State complain of their representatives at Albany, they aro not so badly off as the ce tizens of Montana. It is true that Le- gislative appropriations here exceed in amonnt those mentioned there; but in that sparsely settled Western country a tax of a thousand dollars is as much in proportion as a million in New York, We must remember that we Jack all those much lauded bless ings of primitive civilization which are to be found in Montaua; as vigilance committces, frequent and summary hangings of alleged murderers to the nearest tree,—It sometimes happens that the wrong man is hung, and then it has to be done over again,—and other improving and pleasant things. There are certain peopls who talk na if they wished we could have some of theso things here; but we aro amply satisfied with our resemblance to Montana in the matter of legislatures, and we prefor to leave the vigilance committecs out for the present. a The Methodist Book Concern Mystery. ‘The more we ponder over and compare the majority and miuority reports of the Method. ist Book Committee, respecting the frauds alleged to have been coinmitted tn the Book Concern in this city, the more mysterious does the affair become. Charges of misman- agement and peeulation against certaln ema. ployees of the Concern have been pending before the pubiic for some months past. They have becn onco examined into by the Rook Committee, and declared to be in part well founded. But oo a socond investigation the majority of tae samo Committee have reported that “the careful sifting of the evidence ro- voaled not only the perfect innocence of the acensod, but showed that the management of the Concern had been most praiseworthy.” This ie as complete en acquittal as any man could desire; but unfortunately a mi- nority of the Committee make @ report of a very different character, and one which in. volves the subject ina maze of contradic: tions, difficult if not impossible to anravel. For example, while the majority say that the “ perfect innocence” of the accused agents las been established, the minority produce documentary evidence to the etfvet that both Gooprxovon and Portrn, the men who were intrusted with the daty of purchasing paper for the Concern, male @ very consi able profit by charging the Concern a higher price than they paid. In the binding de partment, $20,000 worth of leather was paid for, but not accounted for, in the short space of twenty-one mouths, while $800 worth of giuo shared the same fato within nine These et ents are certainly in consistent with “tho perfect innocence of the oa.” Again, the majority report that the testi- mony “ not only failod to establish tho exist nee of fraud, defaleation, or corruption, but » failud to sustain the allegation of 'he minority, on the other hand, y that “nothing has come before us during likewh losses.” F presont 8 » to relieve our convictions of losses and mismanagement in the Book oucern.” ‘This assertion they back up by the facts already mentioned, proving that Concern bas defran! di during the past few yoars of wwany thousands of dol- lars, whch aro certainly losses, and by the further fact that the hoad of the bindery has be year the been allowed to appropriate as a perquisite, after year, gold eweepings to th $1,200 annually The majority add that the “under such a system of checks and eafe guards ay guarantee security.” But if the minority are to Le believed, there is no secu. rity whatever in the Concern’s method of doing businces, If an agent can buy paper at twenty seven cents a pound and make the Concern thirty-four cents a pound for it, and be lield funocent of all blame, rit, inst fraud and loss is certa illusory one. amount ¢ “oneern is he secu y an The yentlem » who have made the majori tyr rt doubtless flatter themselves that wl rit tells the truth or not, it will quiet the fears of the great Lody of Method ists in the country, and restore their confi Jence in the soundness of the Concern, It may be, too, that they hold it to he thelr duty to sereen their offeading brethren from even at the expense of the truth But in either cass they are grievously mis taken, ‘Ihese are no days for covering up } and hiding erime, by whomsoever committed If tho investigation into the affhirs of the Book Conceru slopa bere, the publie will ineviinbly take the view of the minority of | the Committ 80 that considerations Loth of policy justice demand that the in- tinued till @ satisfactory couclu. 8100 is arrived at and quiry be co - cds Hamilton Fish should not Remain in Oflice. The attitude of Senators Canpenten, Montos, Howr, and SHERMAN op the Cuban question is full of hope for the cause of free- dom and justice, that has been outraged so pereistenily by the Secretary of State with the connivance of CHARLES SUMNER and Sip ary Wenster, Ever since the death of Gen, Raw1rs the Administration has uctod as an ally of 8pain, and not as the representative of American principles or institutions, The argument that the Cubans had not reached a condition that entitled them to bell gerent ri; tae argament of Spain. In the last century similar argaments were put forth agaluet the reeagnition of the American Colonies; but their independence was acknowledged by Holland and France, although the British were still powerfal on thie wide of the Atlantic, Similar arguments ite was have been over and again arged by tyrants against the establishment of free jastitutions everywhere; but in the mouth of the Ameri: can Government they deal « powerful blow at the progrees of demucratic principles, and mako the world believe that the Republ ¢ is M@ebam, aud thet tho United States ean by THE ee Ohe metus oF another always Le controlled by Spain or any other European power. . The hearflessness evinced by Mr. Frett and Mr. Suan in this Cuban conflict finds no parallel in all the annals of political mean- ness and ernelty. Engeged in @ Quixotic crusade agaist Great Britain, which eovers them and this country with perennial ridi cnle, they sacrifice the Cubans to their vanity of opinion, while John Bull, withont spend: ing one cent, has the grim entiefaction of seeing Cuba kept in the elutehes of Spain Ly the set of the United Btates, Not on] is the question of the Alabama claims more remote than ever from settlement, but Great Britain achieves a new sat'efaction In seeing American influence neutralized, and Ameri- can prestige in this hemisphere destroyed. Tf any European Government had heen guilty of such proceedings, it would have been instantly hurled from power amidst the jeers and hisses of an indignant nation. Bat in this happy land we have to train our souls to pationce. Congress, with all its fancied power, locks the spirit to pass an emphatic vote of censure apon the foreign policy of the President, and to demand the removal of Hainton Fiett from the State Department. ‘The atrocious course, however, which he bi pursned toward Cuba, calls aloud for signal retribution, and the sooncr itis inflicted the better for the honor and the dignity of the American people. ——___— Dr. Draren lately delivered an excellent address in Washington city on the intellectual elevation of the poople, but he mado a mistake in proposing the Secretary of the Interior as the official head of the new Augustan era. With the Land Offve, the Indiau Bureau, the Patent Office,-tho Consus, the Lying-in Hospital, the prisons, and the lunatic asylum on his hands, Mr. Cox is already sufficiently occupied. Tt by no means follows, either, that because a man is for @ short time invested with official honors as a member of the Cabinet, he is conse quently the fittest intellectual leader of America, The Administration bas already succeeded in tmuking the confusion of politics worse than con- founded, Should it be further invested with an telieetual mentorship, the darkness would be- come dreadful indeed, Literary institutions under Government pat age are so many schemes for absorbing large appropriations. Could there be @ wore con. spicuous failure than the Smithsonian Institution? Whoet bas it ever done or what willit ever do to further the intellectual progress of the people? We don't want any more costly experiments of the kind. Even the bureaus established for cial purposes, Tike the agricultural, educa tional, and statistical departments, make culy 8 show upon paper, and absorb large sums with out any adequate returns. We honor Prof. Drapen’s enthusi he says is exceedingly fing, es re “y m. Atl jally when he compares the American Republic with ancient Rowe. But, while on this subject, why did he not caution Gen, Gnaxt and his Cabinet not to imita the the example of Pagan Romo and sacrifice aterests of the masses of humanity to im- perial aubitions and personal vanities and ag- grundizement? We don’t want any splendid capitals in the Old World ava Pagan eonse of the word. Atl we wish is to see the public busi- ness so performed as to diffuse greater bappi- the masses of the hard-workiug peo- ple, and that duty faithfully performed is splen- dor enough for the Republic, a tahcehec ene Senator Morton deserves credit for his dis- position to save the country from the disgrace Administration. The distinetion made by the distinguished Sen- r of the West between an Americ: ow plunged by our Spaniels n poopie struguling for independence at our very doors, and some remote European or Asiatic natiouality in a state of revolt, is too obvious not to roccive the sanction of Americans Hut to read international le . as Mr. Fism docs, hpointof view when the liberty of an American State is at atake—thts e flor » the inistration will n er oven if it were to anoex tweaty Sb. Domingos. Aud yet Gon. Gasst lays the uno thon to bis soul that he ean atone for hie betrayal of Cuba, and of the cause of abolition, by d. rling the American imagination with the annexa- tion of other West India islands. He will Bod fas much mistaken on this subject as on s others. exclusive is @ crus w ree! es The Sinday Mereury yesterday publ'shed an attack upon the ladies who manage the Union Home for the Children of Volunteer Soldiers and 4. It is enough to say that this attuck pro- cveds frome person who had been deprived of the oflice of Treasurer of the Home, and of a place im the Board of Managers, for the reason that she could not be brought to furnish vouchers for the money thet had been put in her bauds The charges which she bas now instigated agaiust the Managers are all false. They are ladies of the Lighest character and social position, and ave devoted themselves to their duties from motives of pure benevolence, Their manag ment of the institution bas wet only been per feetly honor ble, but has been marked by «de pacity and practical success that is partment of public affairs, — Anomber of Mormon em issaries are act! vo. ly at work on I * than would be ex} gree of ¢ rare in muy nd, and are me eted ting with more suce ‘They have alioody organized two churches, end are abont to organize seven more, Atnong their converts are five young and beantfal girls, who are enthusi ustic in their devotion to their new faith, and in- tond emigrating to Utab in the spring, who are engaged in the enterprise are plausible tnd agreeable spenl koowledye of human nature licly adyovate poly men , and possessed of much They do not pub- samy, but in private are frank in their defence of it, as a practice at once Serip- tural and proper. The audiences who assemble to listen to thom are composed of highly rexpect- able people, and the collections they take up much more than pay their expenses, They suy that their object is not only to obtain recruits of a better class than those which come from Europe, Dut to influence public opinion in favor of their religions views. Here is @ chance for preachers of other denominations to show their ability in meeting and overcoming error, - ai The relapsing fever has appeared in this city, It has for some time raged in London. It is a very fatal disease, beginning in pov. erty ond starvation, and extending among people in every class of life, Jt i¢ contagious, aud the cushions of the horse cura are especially tiable imp dwith its virus, All those cushions ought at once to be removed, They are exceedingly dang to be us, — The latest case of cruelty in public sel in Brooklyn, Some weeks ago a ols has occurred false alarm of fire was raised in Public School No. 13, The children ron outto the sidewalk in ter- ror, A little daughter of Mr, Henry Riewanp was taken from the Primary Department by her sister, ‘The child’s mother, intending to remove her to @ private school, sent her back for ber wrappings, Miss Nicuous, the teacher, paid no atiention to the mother’s request, but ordered the child, which ate knew to be very delicate and nervous, to stand up in # corner before the whole *schoul. The litie girl obeyed, aud sobbed bite UN. MONDAY, FEBRUARY _ 14, ) térly, The mother, becoming alarmed, sent o friend to look after her daughter. When the lady entered the school room, the little pupil fainted away in her arms, Sinee then the little git] bas been taken down with erysipelas and brain fever, and at one time her recovery was doubtfnl, Two eminent physicians declare that hor filneds is golely owing to her eruel treatment in the sebool room, ‘These facts were L.ougt to the knowledge of the Brooklyn Ring through its Board of Rau tion, The father was prepared to prove that Mr. Retn, the Prineinal of the school, had told him that ho had endeavored to have Miss Nrenons removed in consequence of complaints of her harshness toward other children, and of her rude mapuers to their parents; but the Committes would not listen to the testimony, When Mi: Miewors was asked what motive she bad in ponishing the child, sho replied, “A mixed motive.” She gave no other excus ‘Tho ense was closed, The teooher, having polit. feal influence, was retained; the father, having no political influence, was lampooned by the Ring’s Zugle because he expressed his dissatls- faction with the verdict, Truly the Brooklyn Ring is winning an enviable reputation, First, Fisuen, the scoundrelly fraudulent divorce law- Yer, is released ; then the trial of notorious ballot- box stuffers is smothered; next a villanous river thief, whom nearly everybody believes to be guilty of murder, is admitted to bail; and now a teacher, who has placed the life of an innocent little girl in jeopardy, through “a mixed motivo,” is al- towed to resume her auties with flying colors. ——————— The Cincinnati Commercial has disgraced itself by an outrageous attack upon the members of the Mutual Base Bal! Club of this city. Itcalls them ‘dance-house pimps, skin-gamblers, and gin-mill hangers on." This language ts used toward a club which counts among its members an ex-Dresident of the United States, an ex- Mayor of New York, « doren Judges and Justices, ‘oroner, three State Senators, and many Astemblymen, Its membersinp alone is « gnar- antee of the honorable standing of the Mutual Club, Nearly @ yeor ego the Cincinnaty Red Stockings visited this city, Thongh they eae from a land of swine, they were treated as the Mutuals would have treated gentlemen. The trial of eki!! between the two clubs was the most bril- liant page in the annals of base-ball playing. The score stood four to two, The Mutuals took their defeat pleasontly, and afterward visited Cincin- uati, where the Red Stockings wore again vic- torious, Recognizing the fuct thet the majority of the Cincinnati first nine were old New York players, who had been paid large salaries to migrate to a land of swine, the Mutuals bave offered one of them & greater sum to return to the scene of bis youth- ful triumphs. Hence the despicable assault of the Commercial. The Red Stockings may be a credit to Cincinnati, but Cincinnati is no credit to the Red Stockings. Let no jackdaw wear « peacock’s feather. —————— Tn a speech in the Senate on Thursday, the 10th inst,, the Hon. Cartes Scuwer said: “Sir, itis notin my nature to take from any one cred- it, character, fame to which he is justly entitled, The world is wide enough for all, Let each en- joy what be has earned. I ask nothing for my- eel Has Mr, Sumven forgotten bis false charges inst the Cuban patriots? Has he forgotten his attempt to take from them credit, character, and fume towhich they are justly eutitled, by ax serting that they had net, as they bad given out, proclaimed the abolition of slavery? Does he remember having accused them of forming two constitutions, one for home use with slavery pre- and one for fo » slavery hypo- criticaily prohibited? Aud does be not know thet ample evidence of the antruth of these dis: bie imputations has again and again been urged upon bis attention, and that be bas gone on repeating the disproved falsehoods? The facts show that not only Mr, Sumwer’s na ture but his “habit of mind’? will not justify lis pretensions to truth, candor, and honesty. served cn use hon A perfect proof of the broken rule of Spain in Cuba is given in the route taken by Gen, Vau- waskpa from Santiago de Cubs to Bayaino, The latter city is distant by land from Santingo some seventeen miles, but Vatwaseva strangely prefers to proceed by sea to: Manzan ing thence, at some stil! for V The route selected is a little more than twice the length of the discarded one, but it enjoys the great advantage of being mosily by the sea, which Is uot held by the patriots, while the land route is, intend. undetermined date, to take up his marc —_— AMUSEMENTS, — Morrexnaven’s Concurts.—On Saturday even- ing Mr, Molen? auer brought out at Steinway Hall, his music to Collins's celebrated “Ode to the pas sions." Mtr. Edwin Booth read the pocm, and Lent to the rhyme of the poet ‘The tusie OF Wis Yoloe.” As the reaver will donitiess remember Colline in ‘ned the parsons, excited by the tunposing in- Nucnees of music, a8 seizing the instrumemis of the goddess, and trying each ral cmotions, Fear Qrst strikes the chords and surinks buck In alright ; Anger rudely clashes the Iyre; then follows » Despair with woeful wen uct; Hove, Jowousy, Melanc o'y, Cheerfull: hens, and lastly Joy. There never was a poem that lent Itwelf mere readily to musical purposes than this. Indeed Coll ns calls it * An Ode for Musi.” Some of the passiou> i Course are less detiuite than oth ers, and lees enslly reflected In music, as for insiance Jovlousy snd hope, but tho others affurd the most to expres their seve: Hitting and enial themes for the mustctan. Of these Mr, Mollenbaver bas avaued bimeel! with great tulent, Ris work ts such ax to enuitie ite an- thor toa most honorable place among composers. In every respect itis of a bigh order of merit. The suiior bat avatied Limselt of his very extended krowledge of the methods of orchestrial treatment bot he has not borrowed Of the great compor’ from them, Lis work’ is his own ic forn.s are clear, sminic, and extremely pleasing, and they ure worked out ‘turough the orcuestra wiih visor, variety, and iuiluess. Mr AMullec B-er Las sown bimecf pot lacks either in imagininon or th the knowlecge of orcurstral detail necess.ry to give ha. ima; nation form and. expression, oT chor) parts were very well sng by the society un der Mr WE Berge's ble direction, and the orchestra war poned of the ot reliable of our Fesislent musicare, and admirabiy interpreted Sr Molle haucr's work, At the opera we are to have evening, With Kellogg, Lefranc, cast, There are to-night three Hamlets’ “ a-field’” uy Feehter, and Fox, Denmark shoul tect bonoved’at Ue attention hor ancient priuces ure re- celving from the young Republic Rigoletto” this 1d Koncont tn the Vollack’s, School" is given every evens | vt Saturday, and them iso Schdol—but Mr. Daly brings out his long-promised Paris nea'ion, ™ Frou-Frou,” to-morr To- night, Mrs, Ceptivre'’s © Busyoody At Wood's Museum, the Blondes continue fn “Puust™ every evening, and the Rand sisters La © Lalla Rook” every yeruoon. ‘The elaborate and maguificeut spectacle, the “Twelve Vemnptutions,” of course remains, and will romain the stiracton “ub tie Grand Opera House for weeks to come At the New York Circus, where Mr, Lent is an Uring in his etloris to turuish ine patrons with novelty and variety, a general eLange of programme is announced tor ton ght, introducing” nun erous Lew perormners of celebrity Amon: the chief of tiese wll be font the namee ofthe Goldie brothers, mnasts of high reputation; and Mr. dames Madigan, t loss rider snd double somersauit perioruicr, Who Wes ® decided favor te wit the tre quonters of this establishment ® few years since Xo attractive t ertunments will bi meravuiting ove horses by the corps of voltigears, Whiev has been larzely increused for the Occasion, Those popular Ethiopian minstrels, favorably known as the Kelly € Leon troupe, are back tu their ol quarters, 720 Broadway, ‘Their present bill of (ure ih peculinrly attractive, If we may Judge from the crowded how which they draw every evening. jo one who ener ce Wealthy digestive machinery should nezleet to attend the rib-searching persor # bisnees Dy this troupe, | my, Stare, Lack you to publish, thie, ot 1870. THE SALE OF CADUTSULPS. es An Explanation by One whe Oaght to Keow, To the Bititor of The Sin Sm: Thave just received w note from a friend enclosing an artic e wusicl he states was lipped fom the editorial columns of your paner O° the ab inst Tiasintica ae no ayy cific charce i mad tain purticalnr representanve from my re. the fnnite Griwe of corrapiion being leit to co jector who the eu lty party may be, and sa Lam tie person Who reeoinmended ti @ cadet Lor appormbarents i dum tee to the other members and to the foir fav cement of the article referred to, which 19 fueta, together wit! as follows, ¥iz.t + We are glad to see @ ati made about the sate of cadeish pa Bot His po novelty, Aix. years neo Mr. Bo itwell, tien amember of Cogeress rom Mice: Department a cer ne oo arn a gintnvent. to West Deine then mn hy gilt. Atte: ward Rien heliscortiereem azemen wha ha bae™ minitved to the Miiinty Academy was rent to the War Depart ent, (he name of the person who had made toe of F to Mr. Tanta goths HL: hat hy pointed fv ow House of Revresen trom Michigan. Inquiry Was made, atl il w that the entet was the anthor of the hi i Bianton peremp! Jed avon H i eplanarion. Of Houtwoit offerine the, Tre ventieman fom Ahehtcn contee, ho attiemed tha ex stderadion for th evidence that he ba pumse It f¢ true that a letter was written by the cadet to Mr Boutwell, and that in consequence the young man wae required to resen hts end But the implied elvarge that the person who «lid nopoint him received the thousand dollars wlieh Mr, Boutwell rejected, or any pectintary consideration te niterly false, as are all the other insinoat ons reficeting npon twe Integrity of mysel ana fellow members, “OF course, ne aMymed that he hud received no prea. miary consi ration ior the anpointment, and as there was no evidence ihat he had, the young mun alone Was pinizhed,” Saeh mainaations ae this, with no responsiole name to buck them up, make {t difficult for the ane asantied to decide as to the best more of defending himself, T therefore, tor the present and first time in my live, vand it enwary tr ie~ fend niyself agrinet soch an assanit, and svall be con- tent it the facts wre made pubite through the sar channel that the charges were made. In 1868 [nominated a young man to West Point trom district, the Sixth Wiehizan, on very nanierousand strung recommendations from many ef the best crizens of my State, He received his Apooiniment and entered upon his atadies, Some ax mor the after this, ant alter he had passed one or two creditable examnutions, rreatly to my surprise he w1ved, off born 1 there wat tid aud the young man alone was called upon me tere and ead he had res.cned his bree detship, stating chat some two or three ¥ vious, in his great anxiety to secure th had written the letter at the instance o fo Nr, Boutwell to seenre the spysintiment from hisihetrict; that Mr. Boutwell had Aled that letter in the Engweers’ DP portment; that the Chief En. ginver, Gen, Delnfeld. hid torworded the «ame to Gen, Culiom at West Point, directing im to reqnire his immediate resignation, wit) which request. in the moment of excitement and withont rfl ction, be hid complied, Tasked him why he bad not informed me of this letter before, as by Inference ft wus a reflec tion upon ine, He stated that tt was several years previous, that te wos then very rx oua, quite young, did not invend it a a bribe, of think it would ever be brought up againat him, was told that it wes etal. nd that he pad always rerretted It, &e, He Peewed we to go with him co Gen, De! fleld and Mr. Bontwotl, and urge them to forgive bim and store him to hie place. He ecomed almost wild with exe.tement and anxiety, Tid as he requested, Ve Jum to have been unjasily treated My said it was # long tine since le received ter and after talkiag with the young ma Hy feu ws Eid about tie matter, «ald that he regretted that he hed lost his pine, aud ehowld Bout that offer no olyection to | ranstutement.’ Gen, Dela- Old wus unreens. critary Stante upon Wearing the facts, ok the boy's fro ke state ment, not only reemed ‘silling to have him restored Wat wade tae request that Gen. Del felt sooud reinstate bin; anid (hat be would tnake (he orler himset, but did not Nke peremptorily to taterfer with the deeiion of the Chiet Enaineer, and hoped that without his Interference Gen, Velafeld would be judteed to reinstate the young man, A few weeks rubs appointment from Mr. St to Wrat Point, L6n) might be ni and state bis ene ating in t offered or given fart) ine to » tsince that time, Atier a tuil hearing of the tneis tae Board. of Vise tors unanimously signed a strong request to the President uring hin) to reinstate the younz man, This paper set fovth the fuet that a cadet abo thd Leon admit d, passed two ex ons. and whose conduct bad Deen unexceptionab'e whilst In (he in stiiuton, could not be held responsible or re: moved for indiscretions eommitied yeurs before his admission, and ecu-ured in {he #troncest manner the course taken by Gen, Delutield to trighten the boy fg without “heariz facia, preferring eving him an opportunits to detend paper was officially sigved by Ge as President, by all the wombers of 1 ») n laze nuuber of the ca and foward In the excitement incide the war, and subsequent death ot | Lincoln. Unk comparatively unimportant Lon Was lost sight oF 4s (ve young man had he meau Uwe parsed the age of twenty-one, t id aot thereat F be restored, and L nominated auother in his stead. [have not the papers belore me lo give exact dates, but the above statements are aslo every Inportant f While the stat nt that “Seerctary Stanton calied pon the Ander OF an exp )ady je utterly untrue, wsure all the otter intimat aatio} ed to the President the close ¢ dent io not know w oy the 2 Man selected Mr. Beyiwell to Lave writen him as he did, bot itis eviient that he made a mistake; and I beheve, not withstanding ai! that Is ead as to the corruption ot members in this respret, that the but few where Nis jroposition would Lave mvt with better If there t an U just bi been ¢ rraption, sume better worked up. to prove the fact, peel uly yours, J. F, DRIGGS. Wasinvorox, D. C., Feb. 11, 1570. We ac pt Mr. Drigzs's correction of the state- ment that Mr, Stanton called on We mer © for an explanation.” We kuew that the mem- ber offered one, the same substantially as that he has furnished ab tion of his own innocence at that time could uot blot ont the proffer of a bribe made by his young friend to Mr, Boutwell, aud the cadet Was never restored. In his anxiety toexcuse the first proposal of jeans of accesa to West Point which was ever exposed and punished as it de- served, Mr, Driggs has into the misstate ment of a fact. He says that the bribe was of- fered to Mr. Boutwell “two or three years pre- vious ” to the appointment of the cadet by him- self, The truth is that when the appointinent was made, which was in 1804, Mr. Bout well bad been @ member of Congress only one year, so that the bribe not have been offered to him more than « before the brib pointment from however, that the bribe was off red in 1864, the t, for Mr. Bout. waited @ year betore War Departmont The public W'll give to Mr, Driggs's protesta. the w fe; but, headiits, as bis asser. bribery as a could year r succeeded in getting the ir, Driggs. It is probub same year with the appointm hardly ha letter to th would bave ng 8 tion of bis own purity ghtit deserves; nor will we attempt to decide whether bi Ss present inability to understand that there is enything very wrong in buying a cadetship of a member of Congress, increases or thar the vinishes the probability who was foo to offer Houtwell a bribe, got what he wanted from J. F, Driggs for nothin; we es is THIS? follow enough WHOSE Do Cohabie ment © ad Ver Acknowledge- Hiiute Marriage (nder w York Law -Can Dry budd Collect bin Lite Hine Dr. Caries H, Budd, & well-known physician of ‘Twenty-third street, bis aued M8, Curry, « livery atable keeper, for professional services rendered to Mra. Lizzie Ackerinan, who bad been Hving with Curry as his wife, The defence ts bused on the pleas that Carry was not married to Liazie Acker man, and tlata District Court lias wot Jurisdict to give Judgment aguinat him, Both sides enbmit the case on the sworn testimony of L ‘Ackerman, now of No, Sl Porter atrcey, Boston Her testiavony 1s substantially as follows : L first necamie nequainted with the defendant tn Fen toary, 10) L Wan then living on Lexineron avean New Vouk! 1 went to live with the datuniaut on, fui aay_ ot MT) We Went to Dour in Vest tT think ata? Teceajded & room Cant alway poawed ne hie wife, we there two Weeks; the board wus §2) weekly the det there we streets y and Ponid ity unk th avenue and Twenty nities Kat 1 Mar Tad, Le ax alwaye ca led Mrs. Cury and Introduce! the ‘defeadant to oi triend® as hie wile went shopping, all” my purchases were Mrs. Cary: defendint somethves patd Jofendane ‘paid D Hiedlevl services ay introduce used to ta on eeveral Kenny, of Greenwieu aver dered ‘ko ey dein lant boun an Metropol tan Hotel a ws Is defendant and wal alw aresred meas Sire Cur detenaant, when TE eepar 1h the #iN of Slareh, 1908, he zave me $49) Ving Video, ANd THOM there FeIOVd LO. {us T have brew auirtied tom years, Vat se: arated from my lusvand, Whom 1 have aot heard frou lo several vents, ‘Case #ull on, Beaten to Death by West mide John Merkle, a German, avenue, died on Sat 4 gang Of reveators p is residence, On Lhe Ist or Feoru: ¢ lett nix honed Mat evening to visita friend, and was met by the gang, who knocked Bim dows aud kicked Liu ip the side aud AbduMey H tietans, ing been assnmlt $$ are ee RECENT EVENTS IN PRANCE > Gets Claserev’® Views on the Pr sent wttony Lo the Eattor of The 8 Sin: At lnst the French people have protested nst Napoleon HI Tie Imrerial Government, which boasted of beinz | the Prat since the beginuing of this century to gov. | ern France without rots, has aren, lilee its predeces: . the people responding to monarehical advances by a eal) to nema, Scarcely was the gag removed when they protested throngh presa und speech, Searecly were the hand- enifs cat when they ran to. arms What doce this mena? Ttmeans that the French people Want no more monarchy whatever, neither constitutional nor personal They aro rey ahiican, and want nothing but the rennblic T must say that the clorions example of the United States has something to do with this Now what do thee Inst events prove: 1. They reveal an amount of hatred among t working ciasecs against the Emperor really aneus- peetot 2 The reawakening of the of! French popalar energy, 9. Amonifert apprehension on the part of the Gov- ernment of dencer In engaging the army against the per ple. 4. A very dangerous ond situation, ‘Throngh the chronic aritation, now certain, atran- ye and merevants will be frightened, Conreqaent ly there will be dimiuution of consumption, produc- tion, and exchance. The regule increase of the boltion tn the enuits of the Bank of France is an evident proof of whut I fay. Diesatiefretion among the working classes and Atorekeepers, increuse of agitation, obligine an ty crease of militury effective force and military influ- ence, and of course of expenditures, wil! follow ‘Thence will follow this economical contradic: tion: Increase of expenses, proportioned to the de- crease of rrsoure’s, Fatal conclusion : Tho end of the tmperiul system ata very neor moment, almost easy to fx mathe matically And a) itis is jnet and equitable, The eternal law of morals owed such a leveon to the perjurer of De+ cember, and Ns accomplices, Najoleon had, in the eyes of his supporters, no other reeson of being, while he trampled npon prin ciples, raised prijury om # pedestal, aud violentiy overthrew the legui form of government for the sake of material interests, except to sccare those tnter- cota, Security and stability formed his platform. But now that in name becomes eynonyimous with per- man nt agitation, and that his future ts uncertainty, he will he disposed of by the very classes which surporved lain Astor a new eovp d'éfat, the recent events have forever nade it impossible, . the peopic were with Lon's Napotron, the author of “extinction du pavpréiems en France,” A doet the House of Representatives. The events of the Inst few days orove tuat they are Mow agai tue Ainperor and his house Gen, G, CLUSERET. 1870 ——— The Defence of VeFariand, From the Cliemnatt Bnguirer. New Your, Feb, 10.—1t is announced to-day that the theory ot the defence ty the MeFariand trial, to commence March 7, will be to prove that a far tinck a8 1868 Mr, Kichardson avd bie friends be can their fuuily successtul work of impressing fim: fell aud their Jolt principles apon Mrs. MeFariond: 40, thatin the practical alliance Mrs McFurland ied to those Hr fluences, Many Incidents hither: to unknown, except (0 a few, ave tor the first une ty be brought wo light im tlus investigation, and will be soughi to be esiablisaed. go'az to. slow er lo time azo estrangement from bim, and her stutions misreprerentavions of (heir circumstances and tueir mutuul relations. To this cnd inqniry 18 Wey to be instituted tn ree end to Mrs, MeFariavd’s firet pubhe a arealer und deciaimer in Treutom, New ders y 0 186064. “The di bie Lo prove At at that per the quiet eanite normal economical New Youn, Feb, 12. Gov, Olden, Ch ineetlor dot ers, and that ows and ol lucted « ser wding® in the Middee Seuous Hail, uid) Temperance Hall, respectively, Moreover, (hit the reor.»: atauons then supmitted were that ter husband, who was stated to be au educated and elegunt trish I was a wholly helpless paral f formeriy pt Out now re- duced cheumst sind tat her inends aud ber nrcessities liad tnne her to apyar as a public reader, The refercncc# used by the tady will, ste ahd, comp Ve names of the Soucl S ucior, Me. Albert D. Kicuurdson, obser persons Of Like pu suits aud siaular not. y. Hon. Horse defence wil! not carry ont all there pnrnoses Unions they succeed, as ther propose, In sbow ng hat thowe readiozs of Mray MeVurand tu Troutou ser Without the know ledge and cons: nt of her husband ; alto, that her ba-band's means were at that ume myly suf™eient to provide tor berseif and the chil A comiort; that her nd was po jara.viie, f was; hor ever hus been; thar Mra. Mc 4 use Of Messta. Richardson's, Sinclair's and 4 Maes we loug back Me the i sorprise owas Gnaware Gar they Kune and that such use tive Of an nam rho been maintal ve of being establish a 1 thei, ¥ tor a long ed, OF Mhougut A'venton emenie will te tnt in efens it it nout w i iene gap ot time lett unaecocnted for, and the presence oO. lvenardson oe ay end 6 1 Mrs, M | Furiaid will be traced week by week and mouth by month and frow tae Wine wien Kiet ardsun eae fate eupuvity down to the event wren he Was mortally sheein tue Th | cme, “A gent deal of the t have bern’ sirendy pubiisaes liuwever, w be @ Wt ol er erial ystematic extrapzement of Mrs, MeFurland by Hievardson, —————___— Nowe Revadi td by tho Kepublicnus of Conucetiout, Battin 4 of the New tisven Rectater The Radicals of this town have been a good drat excited the 7 The quosticn have th t week about thetr Co ems ty endorse mentor by ave bern, tyr ailed tow Venton, and Mr 5's ey 2A Aiuus, In View OF the recent artic Wing: Liv appeared im she Hew spaperss youtas wend the repre rebtiy lutormed, a intrigue Was resorted (0 4 push tat end. Tug evening, and the W Ridieal re coulldence i hie as oO: the jars. MT ain good deal Of | Radical the attempt t secuu: evucus Wis held da turbury American ey ever bold in the tows which ts it was the prepared to otter. eadus. Ing his course as a Congressuin, but wisely com: cluded Liat it vas Hor best, under the ei cumstances, tals out, tury seem content Lo loom on wud emiile LB Warznavuny, Fe ing. nm Bechange Rertoe Wittiest, raciest, most in. twe Cuited save. Lis Journal and ¢ HK SUN is the bee and se ei) oF tuechiet ea tty abies “promising, true to Lis tirudsanda fried (wo the triggatons, Tae srhcles ae CL WFiiLen, etatesmnd lak and ori, 1 Brevity in he wou lw icy scoms to be his moto, and is curtied cut by hin be thu iudonc extent, 4% SUN Dus done more during h ‘orship in cl caaue criue, expose to the reprovvion of Movest winded men. humbug thieves, aad pelit.cane Who wre cither Incapable u uotathiul to Wher dust, wad an American princsples generally, that dhe ently combiued, It)» us Cireulation, and is rapidly incres lig Indepenvedty A shows up Hoan ay well as the Det, 2 party, aud in one oF two cusem succeed £0 fur ue to force, ly ite expe. Ure, # few INCOMO Wnt, UAE IunCtiOMAriCN \O F Sich tu Gisguek, Wo read Tie SUN every day, and Buvise Olle Te Li do tus sun : —s Nomiuatiog his Pathe Vowtmusters From the Crucinnut: Colmereiad, The President could oot have done aoything in x Varie Chan Wo Lom bate bie fiber ior Ph 6b thaster of Covingion ‘ihe od gentleman Was up. pointed to tats Mice by Andrew dchuson, ay ue e seemed to bea dithemty in foding eood material, The Presid for and Wh of General Grant bocane Presiden. the gracciul thing would have been the resicout ou of tie peity oftice by the futher, Ineted wi that, be Vthe place, and now is reappolnt-d, Tt the Seite Wil Consult the Wisace Of the Leop Co crests ol tne service, or the require A iweb, Uilé appoinubent will be re- he Almanach & Directoriun Frangais for 1870 voarol its ¢ cc. Ht is published by J. L. D. Zevdler, of Nis cliy, and ts intended more particu Frevell pupniation of tae Uuion. At the n he referred (0 Witt great profit by ations who may read tie Preueb tag eu Wee the Hames or all Freneiaumen in burt hess, bere ant in the subarbe; iors the read Where any description of oo"s ean be hong! givos medsores, weights, twetruction upon Un! Dhites awe, and hkewise a variely Of suugestive |v cubrations Upon Amcricun politics, ane ‘ “on ATELUGRADUIG LING TO HEAL Hat Petegram co a Pomele Visitor of the Joho Street Me Be. Chare— er tne tations Nettatiow the cone Amor mited yearend ete the Jon . A. Ciuttroty ant @ Worn whogg fonda seemed to tremile with nervens ex Hor lips were teri fiy ehurt. ae af ahe hind amet her month which wae tretre to get cats ond ie sently did get ont, ‘The Rew, Dr, Corbitt rors, aw nil, to deliver his Sw WOrAMe Kern, And ap he did ao, the nerwo one 100, Slic| formed the conerexation that #he liad received w spre 4) tele gram from heaven, im whieh the Lond Jeus Chines Hal commietionod ter to WoEM Lie people of a com ing Ja’grent, and to preach to them, 0 did Paul of old to King Felix, 09 ris h’coneness, temperance, ap the jnd-ment to enme, The Rew, Dr. Co. hist inter rupted hor with a rebuke for thus tre kine in epen Wisccrmon with her news from heaven. She porarily subsided, and the Rev, Dr, fnisived his er mon, ‘Al Ita close he palied oat a pate bed ovilt trom Wehind the polvit. spread itover !s dewk so chat the concreention migit snfficiently sditie t's «hiteand Vellow dewens, and reninrked that it had been made ant presented to the M sionury Sor rty by an old and who hee road ber vy of the eonerr gutlom wished to poreliase (t, ther micht do a elorious oppor’ anity, he eal. tor show ttude to Go: An office besrer in th kented hiracifae the prre’aeer, ard the quilt wae knocked down to Lim, The money la to ta tothe Missionary Boeiery, sud the quilt to the Sundap “Dnt no sooner bad the auitt been diennerd of, than the women with tle nervous excitement rose wean, She wanted to know, «ne anid, if she hatn'tthe Fielit to say n word tor Jeena and Mis cance, She Wanted to know If ane couldn't act In acecrtanee with the telegram whien she Wad recived from Neaven? Dr. Corlitt sternly expostn ated with ler. but ele refused to hirten, Brother Bently off red tg show her the door. and then her wrath. broke ont, She bad becn denied standing room on holy cround, and she would now go; but tlie woula Or-t strike the dust from her feet. Phe shock evry pirticie ot duet off aecordinel; , nnd ehnreh, cursing he quilt. A NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC ,CHURCH, plat otateohs The Dedtention of the Church of the Moly Innacents— Priestly Kobes Valned at £6.00 The new Romen Catholic Church of the Holy Innocent was dedicated yesterday. Thee! nreh ip situated In Thirty-reventl street, mear Lrowdway, An Immense audience witnessed the dedicntory cere. tronics, The fneade of the chareh ts a mix ore of Gothic ond Bozontine aveviteeture, It t and imposing. ‘The leneth of the barlding bs 125 fort, width 70 feet, height 60 ‘est. Larce ar odious galleries and pews siford seats for Oteen hou trad people, Over the orenn rallery 1 a #:neulorly nde some rose window. Altogether, no ics than 9% sinined windows reflect both light and heanty tm mellowed mara, The doors are npreasonobly small, and, in ease of m panic, dangerous. A tires fresco, by the Ftalian artists Promedio and Gorylall, repre con eenting the erueifixton fr aches from the alrerto the roof, und strikes the Heholier very fore! Ly ae he enters, The woolework 1 eb ost 1 Wave Wal rot, The walls are tt of brick,and the rout of Petowitt: ant Ohio et Fone years ara Protestant Epis oo! chnreh oe cupied the site of thie new bu! of the new edifice ti sively by volontery stone wns hid en the 9) h of J The dedcatory wervice was Very Rev Dr. 8 arrs, Geneats xxviii. 1th ant assisted by the Rev T. Mooney, of St. ! who wore the richest clerical ves! try. They are 6! ine Vuval desten 96,000, The Rev. Pather Kirwan of Newor Dr. Bovle of Washington, were the Deve 1 Rev, J. Fitzsimmons wos Master of Uy The postor of the church is the Res The we The t von. th wereee IT ttre dante’ Migs, 3 given by a elintrof forty singers, prominent am whom were Motame Salvotii, © Wanne ke, baritone; and Mr. G. J. Ge Grv'altats hand al-a font tts alt Th the evening a leetire wus delivered hy the Rew, Dr. Bove ot Woalineton, D.C. who c for nis #uljecs * the Geum nl-al Couneid tn Rowe, * peeeiaiaaiere stata SUNKEAMS, ei —The family of the lute Gen, Som Hovston iy iving In Texas in grea’ poverty =A railroad is proposed to be built through the Notch of the Whtie Monntaine —Grand Junction, Towa, has present first native citizen. «ctrl, nator Sprague has been in bis seat fu the Sernte but once daring the oresent arssion. Auerbach Is willing to dispose of the copy. Fight of his Intest nowe) for he trifling sm of $77.00 —They are cutting en inches thick and cloar as crystal on che B river to Mine —When you feave a church after a wedding ceremony, you may be ead to be gc with wo ude. —Massachneetts has 2.235 miles of + ned io onaration, which are represented by a capiial srk of 4128.1597,08, —Mra. Amelia Hobba has just been «lected Anstice of the Feace 19 Jersey county, Lil., by a wajork ty of 6 vot —A Lewistown (Me.) man says that if ahonse he will have folding deors—"t ’ {9 case of a taneral.” —The circulation of the Brov more than donbled in the fortnight that it sas been conducted by Gen, Woodfor t. —A reporter who did not wish to woul a lady speaker, aad et did not with to intimnet “wee lacking in good taste, saa a lias eome ab ever. —Oregon has three soda springs, one of which hae been analyzed by an exycricnced miners Propeunced equal, Uf but suprdor, to the Paretogs Sputnge — Gone where the woodbine twvine'l"” is the “ rer in Washington to inqaires a: what MO comes of monevs allezed to have been used ying by Jobs —At Brady's Bend, Pa., in a violent quarrel between a father and mother, @ Little etrl, fourteen Sears old, in treing to part them, beanie +) exesed that ane ts now hopelessly insane —A few days since a man died in Neshville, Tenn, worth a million dollars, Ale nker to pe ie td throngh oh s. but, hy # sober Industry 20 ty.” he manaved to Increase Nis riches. —One of the Governors of New | ro made ft a mite to coneider no petition for n wconvict in the State Pie 1 he ¢ Dalf the term for whte ood Ata Teachers’ Inatitate in Ohio, r . Lady wacker was given the word harard aud GeMue, wnt did tty this st t ‘ haya 2, ess, haz . —Some rash fellow s ° of them woult adnnt thet they w to vote unl they were Wo old to tare « " polities, A couple were about to be marrio! in the Catholic Chured at Seyinour Connecticnt wreo at the proper piave. fora te ‘he Wa oer HView With the piiest, War bere f ‘ bridegroom. —A man in Leavenworth went ont to drowe et another who called nimatar Tast #aved hie Life. for the thrashiua he #et, ¥ 9 coriect the fale impression, pat a oor geatt ont of hia mind —A California paper rejoices that new connty of Donner ie eet ny, Neva t ” tain Hambug, Red Dog, You Ret, ante other uniquely * God's Country." Madrid” writes a ongh mueh more tively than th wis @ court to*heeD It of tie Regent's wife are ot ' revolution, who, though (ley may h 3 country's eratiiade, 4 ir Vhere the oll aooility use bo F monarch, Madame serrano, the 8 + Vath, mort unaniad ey 6 A to witen y h roe ‘ hoy TWO LITTLY & Two Vitle i tens, ane ih , Liisi Hat Was he way Li 42 pave tant mons © Vor Wave tleet tet ° You whew’ he ¥ [told vou v fire 4 Ain ieascwo Ties id wom ta setved joes . And wept tie twoF u The ground wits envy) Ava tietwo ite! fete y tad tlic While tne nid we The ey erest hi a . Al wet wun | forties er