The Sun (New York) Newspaper, March 1, 1870, Page 2

eT nae a, DAY, 1870. MARCH 1, Anawomon's Toedny, Nrontrny, arity W fr New Vork Cleews Sew ¥ Dlymple Theatre Fox as Hanete Fan Francisco Minstrela, Walinel ele Wood's Musenw nich Marray —— Terms of vie San. Dane, per voar, te mall aberibery ee ew oe 6 OF OO Poot, Ae, Matinee Pees st 8008 samy Anvemnas we Hines (10 wore ‘alee Mi wot Death wi after it, ok feck Xow. afer I Tie daily civewation of Tus SuN during the last week, which ended on Saturday, Leb. nee: 20.690 Tharetay NO. 299 S108 Fri lay so S&S, S00) Satirday, Sih, Average dai'y cirewlation during the week, 89,300. Avcrage circvlation during the previous week, ending Fub. 19, 89,533 daily. _——— The Democratic Reformers—Will Conquer ¢ It is tho misfortune of tho R ty, at this critical stage of its carcer, that it hag at the head of the Administration a man without a Ropublican record to inspire eon. fidence in tho honest massos of the part and utterly destitute of that political experi ence and those statesmanlike qualities wh ch would command the respect of its ambitious leaders, Hence, in the sovere trials through which the party must soon pass, neither its chieftains nor its ravk and file will pay the tl ghtest regard to the opinions or the aspi- rations of Gen. Grant; and the inevitable result must be, that while he will not have sufficient power to keep the party together, he will exhibit just senndor, But ft docs not necessarily those who leave the Republic toin the Democratic part, Distinguished Republicans have from time to time within Ue last six: years gone over to the Demo. trats—such men as Senators Cowan, Non tox, DoonrrtL®, and Dixox—but they took wareely a Lodypnard with the and why Evidently becwuxe they left the Republic rather from personal motives than to pro- | mote cardinal principles; because they de scrted their colors before the rest camp In which the and becanse the I bold out very strong they »publican par- nough to rend it low that n ranks will ie party did not ducements for netive Republicans to join it. Some of its most worthy and high-minded leaders wer» timid, and dared not utter their patriotic thoughts : some of its most conspicuous champ! 60 words of denunciation for armed tr i but bristled all over with sharp criticiems of the means used to crush the rebellion; and too many of its most in‘uential manayers were notorions corruptionists, who, in leagae with rotten Republicans, were growing rich by prostituting Democratic victories to the promotion of schemes of plunder; while some of its weightiest advisers were more fcasils of the old Federal epoch, as much out | of place in a progressive party as would be the Cardiff giant in the Wall strect Stock Exchange, The Republican party may go to piece, and is certain, now thgt its mission is com. pleted, to lose a large body of ita ablest and | Leat members, especially its espiring young | men, upon whose limbs party shackles hang | loosely, and its doctrinaires, who are ger Ino Democrats of the advanced school, ifthe Democratic party hopes to attract such Repatiic to its ranks, it must institute a thorough reform inthe measures it is to pro- mote, and the men who are to m affairs. The conflicts of the past fifteen years have made this class of Republicans not only cour. aeous, but eminently practical. They know when to begin, and they know where to stop. Satisfied that the cause in which they enlisted jn 1555 has triumphed, they will not | retulist for the purpose of fighting the Ground over again with blank cartridges; ns had Pur and they certainly will not join. the Democratic party for the uke of wailing over the Dattles it has lost. Aceustomed to do their own thinking, bo utter the r convictions frecly, and tocarry them to logical conclusions without fear, they do not cower before sonorous names, though chiselled on monumental brass, nor do they believe that the Hional improvement must stop at the proves | of the departed authors of the Federalist. march of ¢ Very likely the present leaders of the | Democracy in New York and the two or | threo adjoining States may not covet an alll ance with th the Republican party, fuse into it some fresh blood, give it several pew Ideas, and terch it he disintezrating ¢ ¥ to gain vietoric novelty which the Democracy | have not enjoyed Buc anan, with the aid of Finimoun, sueceeded in beating Fiasont prine of the pos some of i tha? Republicans Lave a bad school, the school of sreat civil wulsions, and severe strains upon the Con stitution, ‘Their reactionary leaders have Leon wont to regard Lincony aa a usury who crushed the rebellion by violating the Constitut 8, radical reform, om; and SEWARD as a tyrant, who haled men to prison at the stroke of his le Me bell; and Svan ron asthe embodiment of all thatis crafty in politics and erucl in adinin: istration, who, us War Minister, wielded vast armies to oppress the ruling classes of the wuth, cauglt,in a moment of hallucinat ‘on, with trensonabloarms in theirhands, These di theorste may think, too, that men who have acted prominent parte in. an organization crowned with many vietorl May not take kindly to inferior rétesin a Party prootraied by along aeries of defeats Well, for the argument’s sake. let us ad. scofited mit all this; and then it perhaps may logi- cally follow that Republicans, trained if such a bold, vigorous, progressive school, aiid ts in the eo- lossal events of the past fifteen years, solving fone of the nost difficult problems which have ayitated the political world since the Cromwrit, the rs and winning one of the grand est triamplis in history—we say it may well be that euch men, though they may leave the Republican party, will not be attracted to the Democracy, Cortatnly they will not if it is bent upon fighting the reconstruction con troversies over again, allows its policy in Congress to be dictated by garrulous fools like Davis and Savreneny, and in the fore. most city and State of the Union prefers to be ruled by a small knot of shysters and etr’kers, who are distinguished for nothing except skill in stuffing ballot-boxes with frandulent votes, and filling their pockets by plundering the people. If the Democrats embrace this anspicions hour to reform their party and bring in allies who will more than make up for the expur gation of reactionary and venal members, they will eave the country from a repetition of the political distractions that marked the Moxnor epoch, when four candidates ran for the Presidency. Let the reform Democrats persevere, and they will surely rescue the name of Democracy from being the synonyme of defeat, or, whenever victorious in its stronghold, from being a mere cover for fraud and corruption, At the samo time they will save the country from being distrneted by the wrangles of three or four, or it may be half a dozen, sectional partics or personal factions. who have Lorie conspicuous waging one of Another Cashiered Army Officer to be Restored. The Aesociated Press telogram of Inst Thursday morning announced the nomina tions sent into the Senate that day by the President, Sinuggled in at the tail end of a | fession he honors to giy list of Surveyors, Collectors, and Assessors, appeared the namo of Trrowas Cuxetrxes ate Captain Nineteenth U. 8. Infant Captain of Infantry. Weinvite the attention of the honoreble Senators to this nomination, and refer them to Gencral Conrt Martial Orders No. 78, dated at the Adjutant.General’s office, Wash. ington, Dec, 81, 1869. By this order Brevet Major Tomas Cumminos, Captain in the Nineteenth U. 8. Infantry, was eashicred and directed “to be held in custody at Fort Jackson, Loutsiana, until he refunds the sums of $172.10, post fund, and $172.15, company fund, embezzled by him. To the uninitiated, we would say t the company fund of a military organization fcernes from the savings ion of the soldicr, and is de pended in directly pre ft e menyre ra- gued to be ex- ing his comfort by and table furniture ee allowed by law. licions dis > first cares of ticle of ho z articles of dict e safety of this fund is who ursement every eapta or or self-respect ; and a ndeed in the IM tamper with Y¥ 80 acquired aud go intrusted to his ist be sunk vory e of horesty who wo Commies was found guiliy of having made a“ false statement with regard to the ny fund” confided to his charge by virtue of his office, Of this finding of tho Court President GRANT approved. He was likewise foand “ guilty of embezzling fands for which be was respons'ble ;” i" and of this finding the President also approved. The Court tried CumMINGs besides for ordering his quartermaster sergeant to destroy cer- tain documentary evidence of his (Cu MINGs's) money responsibility, but of this chorge the Court acquitted him. It appears, however, that the President was satisfied of CumatinGs's guilt even on t laet charge, for of this fluding of the Court ho disap- proved. The President approved the other of the Cou ond the sentence, and latter to be car eral commanding Louisiana ; and now he nes before the country with the name of a convicted thicfon his lips asking that the man who bears it Ball be permitted again to wear a uuifor ), and thet he shall be thrust back among the members of an honorable profeseion We ask the Senate to show some decent regard for pu He opinion by refusing to con- such nomination, If the prac tice of restoring dismissed and cashiered army officers to the service whenee, after a fair trial, they Lave been expelled, is ine julged In much lonyer, it will not be long before the uniform of an officer will be but the livery that covers clther a drunkard, a Vackleg, or a thief; and the shoulder.strap thot once stamped the gentleman will burn the flesh of the honest veteran whose neces. s'ties compel him to wear it Nor is this all. Congress proposes to mus- ter out and to firm every service over four luundred officers; modate Mr, Cesrrxas, this pumber is to be increased by some worthy man who has never Leen guilty of any offence, but who will be banished from a pro- acco place toa man who oe The Grounds of Spain’s Insolence. The vacillating conduct of Lord Anun DEEN, conjoined with the efforts of the proce at any-price party in England in 1852, resulted in the Crimean war, Mr, Kina- he mey be on LAKE, questionalle though t Jy proves this, other historical poin! He gives in t of that w 5, clea introduction to his history vertible evidence that Nicnonas was, before isvuing his ultimatum, thoroughly convinced that England could not Le kicked into a war, Spain appears tod lar opinion of the United States, sults often. rep to entertain a simi. The in ated, and for which no kind of apology has Leen offered, could Lave pro- eceded but from one souree—the conviction that we dare not demand satiefaction, We have Lorne in silence taunts and outrages, and as good Christians we have rendered good for evil, We have supplied hor with arms with which to exterminate her Cuban enemies, and gunboats by which her navy may be released from the blockade of that island, and thus be enabled to overawe us in our own ports. We do not hesitate to say that Spain would never have dared to put any one of the insults which she has heaped npon us on any other nation on earth, Governments ip international matters are the same as THE SUN, TUESDAY, MAKC 1, 1870. ~ mon in persounl ones, Bullics aro noto. Honsly arrogant t ah exposed white feather, and Spain seems to know whose faco she ip slapping. Now tho question of the propriety or im- propriety of recognizing the belligerency of the Cubans isa matter for the decision of ; but to the Executive of this coun- try oro intrusted both the charge of our national honor and the means of forcing redress if such honor be outraged. That Spain has outraged us because she thinks we fear her, is proved by her every netion, Our Consul in Tavana lately had to repair on Doard a British man-of-war in order to confer with an American citizen, against whom no shadow of a charge existed, Tho same British man-of war escorts the inoffensive but persecuted American out of Havana. A Spanish vessel of war is de- spatched to Key West to enforce any de- mands she may chooge to mako on our Fed- eral authoritics, The Madrid papers openly assert it, and the Spanish Ambassador in Ber- lin loudly boasted that “by means of threats Spain had been able to obtain in Washington the diplomatic success which the Cabinet of President Grant had conecded.” History has ever repeated iteclf, and will probably continue to do eo until the end of time. It may be as well, before it is too late, for President Gnanr to remember the congequences of the misconstrued apathy of the English Cabinet in 1853, and for Mr. 1 to take warning by tho fate of Lord PRDEEN and the oblivion to which his pu sillanimous conduct consigned him, ‘naseaieilliiiconiemne Paving the Fitth Avenue. The property owners on the Fifth avenno are fearfully perplexed by the patent pave. ment proprietors. After paying we don't know how many thousand dollars in taxes, and suffering untold tortures from the tar and horsedung poultieo, besides ruining their houechold genr in the experiment, they have just got back to the old Belgian bottom. No sooner, however, lad the late tar torment been torn up than the Board of Al- dermen resolve to take up the Belgian blocks below, to muke way for the patent Stafford wooden pavement, This latter is a modifica- tion of the Nicolson, and much less valu- able. After a few months, when its grooves are worn down, it will become more slippery than the old Rues pavement of Broadway. Morcover, it can only be taken up and put down for repairs to Croton and gas pipes or sewers by the patenteos, at whatever price thoy please to name. It is emphatically a swindle; its consummation would blockade the avenue for a year; and at the best, the concern must soon beeome a nuisance, It is ordored to be laid at $6. square yard, from Washington equare to Fifty-ninth street, which will foot up the modest sum of $528,000, The contractors are to take up and remove the present Belgian blocks and granite crosswalks, which are in good order, and keep the material for their pa of course there will be contifruons streets to be paved with Belgian blocks, which will moke the stone removed worth at least $150,000 for that purpose. If this arrangement is consummated, the contractors will have a very good thing indeed; but the property owners protest that the avenue is already one of the best paved in tho city, aud with a little repairing will need no new pavement We eubmit that the I formers of the Young Demicracy, a8 an earnest of their good intentions, will do well to squelch this enormity in its in ception, Congre for many years, The Cincinnati Engvirer insults the mem: ory of a gallunt gentleman and a irenerous enemy p it says that Mr, Bortineame, in his quarrel with Prestox Brooxs at Washington some sixteen years ago, acted in am man, It was Brooxs who showed the white feather, as was admitted even by his friends at the time, and the prestige which the doughty fire- eater gained by his assault on Mr, Sumyen was considerably shaken by the affair with Mr, Bur Lixcame, The latter gentleman, it will be remem- 1, was for words spoken in debate challenged by Brooxs, who evidently supposed that the therner would shrink from a ducl. But he Was mistaken, Mr, Burtaxcame promptly accept. ed the challenge, named rites as the weapons for the encounter, and Canada as the place of meet ing. Of pistol-shooting he knew nothing, ‘but his early life on the Western frontiers had fatviliar- ized him with the use of the rifle; and if Brooxs bad come to the scratch, it is not improbable\that here might have been a vacaney in the South Carolina delegation, But this Mr, Brooxs had no intention of doing, He pretended to fear per- sonal violence in passing through the Northern States to meet his opponent in Canada, and after considerable discussion backed squarely out of the fight, This pretence of personal danger will strike the unprejudiced reader as a shallow device to If Mr, Buoons meeting with Mr, pher unbecoming a brave get out of at unpleasant scrape, Lad really wished a hostile Bontixaame, nothing would have been easier than to quietly leave Washington, travel under an assumed name, and proceed at once to the place of meeting, which was not at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, as the Zuguirer says, but on Navy Island, an uninhabited and thickly wooded island in the Niagara river, where he would have been free Had he killed his antagonist, he could have tuken refuge in Canada, tly and he left it, When the challenging party s to such a pretext to e fron interruption, e returned to Washington aa se pe the conse- quences of his aet, the presumption is that he dues not mean bu 8s, or in other words, is a cowart! That such was the opinion of Mr, Buniaxoawme himself is evident from the manner in which he referred to the affair in a statement p + some weeks afterward, Dlishe elf-respeet,’? he said, requires me to say that I can never again recog. nize, save to do him a kindness if it should be in my power, Preston 8, Brooks, I band him over to that pul orth and South, which is ever scornful of those who boast much and perform hint ‘The newspapers are giving place toa trayel- ling paragraph, whieh reports that the family. of en, Sam Houston of Texas, deceased, are left in great destitution, so that they require charita ble aid, The paragraph professes to give a history of the widow's life, and the ages and number of the orphans. But the fact is, that Mrs, Hovsron died of fever some two years since, and that Gen, Hovsrow left his family in comfortable circumstances. His estate was inventoried at $100,000, His son Sam went into the Confed rato army, was tuken prisoner, aud probubly sur- vived the rebellion, One if not two of the daughters are married, and the single ones live with the marricd sisters, in affluence. Since Conmin’s successful appeal to Hawizrow Fis, Moses H. Gnixwent, and others, for aid to pur chase a house for Gon, Grant, the thing has become both popular and profitable, But Gen, Honston was not one of these men, He would have scorned to make such an appeal, or to yellow accept a house from sny sharp set of politi cians, who expecied to be remembered for it in spoils, Why make mansloughter of Warrretonn’s sale of a cadetship, when Cabinet appointments and collectorships are held so cheap in the markethy the highest authority? oe The first Republican Convention of colored men in Kentucky wos held at Lontevitto Inet week, and, in poiut of numbers, reepectability, and ability, did credit to the population whon it Fepresented. Ro decided was its approval of the poli¢y of the Republicans thet there seems little reason to doubt that that party may depend, in Kentucky at least, upon the support of their colored fellow-citizenes A trifling inconsistency marked the proceedings of the Convention; for while in one resolution the members deciare their “sincere sympathy with the oppressed of every land,’ in another they “heartily endorse” the Administration of President Graxt, which leaves the oppressed Cubans to be butchered by Spain. With the exception of this oversight, the pro- ceedings of the Convention were decorous, and showed no little aptitude for parliamentary business, cena A letter has been mado public purporting to have beou written by President Gant to § retary Bourwen, twelve days before the cul nation of the Septeinber gold panic, It is as follow; Now Yorn Crrv, Sept. 19, 1869, Tron. Ceorge 8. Rowtweit, Secretary of the Treasury. AN Bm: I leave here to-morrow morning for ‘Western Pennsylvania, and will not reach Washing. ton belore the middio ‘or last of nest week, Had T Kuown before making wy arranemor ts for starting it ‘nin i on world be j« elty early this week Would have remained to meet you. Tam satisti that on your arrival yon Will be met by the bulls and bears of Wall strect, and probaoly by movcbaite, too, to induce you to oll gold or pay the November interest in advance on the one side, and to hold fast on the otuer, Tne fuct is how making, and each pe nt to help them out, 1 wri of What] think you tm: to put you on youreaard, I think, from the ‘Nehte bevore mo, 7 would move on without change until Ce present struggle is over. Mf you want to write to me this week, my address will be Washington, Pa, T would Nike to hear your experience wich the factions, at ail events, it they give you tue to w No doubt you wil have better chance to jad: have avoided general disenssion of tie s Yours truly, U, &. GRANT. If this letter is genuine, and there is no reason at present to doubt fts genuineness, the & tors for a rise in gold, at thy time it was writte were quite justified in expevting that the Presi- dent would not interfere to heir disadvantage. All that Mr, Consrw promised vas that he should “move on without change,” and if he had only continued in this course the cor tbination of Con- ntx, Goutn, Sweeny, Frex, Twern, and Berre rretp would have succeeded. However, in the face of his positive denial of all participation in their schemes, no one believes im his complicity; but without such denial, it would be difficult not to regard this letter as written for their especial benefit, Mr. Aurrep Crook was a member of tho Broadway Police Squad. Roundsman approached hi Wh r, CRoox rep to my business. Why dou't you attend to yours Such was the testimony of the Roundsman who made a complaint before the Pi Mr. Croox testified that he attending to my business.” Roundsman was very While on his post a arbitrarily o t og him thus you w nd to your business?” attoud! ce Commission ly replied, He says tt insolent and treated him like a dog. The Commissioners, Judge Bos- wont alone diseenting, dismissed Mr. Crook from the force for wounding the dignity of the Rounds. man, Mr, Croox had no political infacnes, Last spring ahard-working citizen was on his way to Lis home, He was beset by hi but he drove them off, He called on the to arrest his assailants, They refus: n the citizen remonstrated the policomen elubbed him vigorot t the Lwaymen, police and dragged him toa police sta- ti Police C missioners, They decided that the police oflivers were right, and rebuked the workingman, In The citizen appealed to th | of necessity other words, they complimented the officers fur arresting an innocent cititen and for suifering the robbers to escape. The officers had political influence, Will Senator Nortox, without delay, put through the Legislature his Dill abolishing the Police Commission? Set Sree The plot is thickening in Germany, Ba varia, Saxony, and Wartemberg are opposed to the annexation schemes of Prussia, France sides With the former powers, and is trying to get up 8 coalition of Rassia and Austria against North Germony, Bexevert: and Furvey, the French Ministers at Berlin and St. Petersta ve, have re- ceived definitive instructions to that\Mect ; and although the Oxzavren Cabinet may be bblized to resign, it is believed that Count Danv \will cone tinue to be Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to hold Prassia to the faithful execution of the treaty of Prague. Loris Narouros evilently dee sires « European war, as the best means of prop ping up his waning power, But itis not likely that Russia will move against Prussia at the bid- | ding of a Boxaranre, pisiscadd . The chances In 1872 of a ticket bearing tl: nanies of Bexsau F. Boruwe of Massachusetts for President, and B, FP, Witrewone of South Carolina for Vice-President, are discussed with genial sarcasm in the Staate-Zeitung. That able Democrasic journal, however, does not appear t conceive the idea that Gen, Burra may befor: that time withdraw from his Republican connee- tions, and become @ member of the Democracy once more, Ia that event, would the Stuals-Zed- tung support him for the Presidency, if be should reecive the nomination of the Democratic National Convention ? —— A Tammanyist proposes an amendment to the Constitution of New York in these words No person who denies the supremacy of Perr 1. Sweeny, or a present state of rewards ishments, sl J pun. civil or "hold ay office in th other department of this State,” — WAnT of Nevada wants Congross ha free ny Mr. toe chool of min: of €50,000, with a comptroller ex ate and two professors at 4,000 a year 0 a year, ch, We erely hepe that Congress will do nothing of the sort, The scheme is a pure job, with no sort If any of Mr, Srewanr’s constiiuents want to learn the science \of mining, there are plenty of institutions where {hey cun go aud pay for their tuition, just as stu } te of law aud medicine do, and that is all they hyve aright to ask, The United States Goverur nhent was not established for the pury ose of aiding ifdigent young meu in getting a professional ede Hes for nothing. \ —— Hymn for Young Tammasy. | How doth the little Peter B. Improve eveh shining hour, | And gather money all the day! \ "From every “plant”? and flow * How skilfully he hides bis “sell,” How rich the swag he takes, nd how his teeming pockets swell } With the sweet sums he makes ! pin to recommend it, mn Ain acts of cunning and of skill, I would be at it too, Yor Tammany finds some mischief still For idle bunds to do, Th useful work or healthful play iat not my youth Ia passed, ‘That I may have, on some fine day, A bank account to last, Warns Isaac. KMALING THE PILGANS. 8 RLOODY RAD. > Or, BAKE A Wersilers Pan! Outrages ofthe went—A Wha nd Exrevuniotteds Correspondence of The un Bozeman, M. 7, Ved. 13,—91 Inte the Montanian Tinve Leen Fejoieng over the diserveries of goltt Miseoota Cottnty, the northwoxtern portion of the Territory. For snen a fast people however ae this, the news of fabulous hidden riches couring to wht within theif very borders soon heed ani toresting, and they long for other eveuts of a mer starting eharacter, This desire bas beon fully gra ifled by the brilliant reception given by Brev, Col the Second U. 8..Cavairy, to two tatives of the Blood and k hundred copperisl represe Viegan tribes of Indians. M. Baker, of e MEGANS A PART OF ThE BLAcKPrRT NATION Of all the Tudians within our borders, or on ow confines, it {4 well known that the Blackoot nation is the most troublesome, ‘Tuis nation is composed of the tribes known as Ilowls, Piegane, and Binekfect. Wheu tne term Blackfoot is meet, it is generally understood as re- ferring to the nation, and not to the particular tribe of that name. They receive annuities from the Government, and in return ran off with Uncle Sam's horses and shoot Kis elders, They obtain food from a citizen, and repay his act of kindness by riding to their camp with his horves, and lewiag, porlape, an arrow in. his body. y dave almost every chance of escaping with their plander aud fear no detection a ‘They porsess the bolaness to came to a Post wi their hands scarcely dry from enine white vietm blood, and stoutly asvert their innocence of any vet of eruelty towards, or robbery of their white brothers? and with wa gentle a voice ax thoes red dev sane, they insist that they are * Heap THEIR RECENT OUTRAGE: For some time past they have been more imn dentin their encroachments than formerly. Buta short tine fince they murdered in the pre his fomtiy Malenim Clark, an old and. much esteem- ed resident of the monntains: formerly an amy of fleer, and a wan por Family eseeped tte sen! Jumping thronch the window and secreting he the brush, and his two sone by entting their way through these incarnate fiends, though one w verely wound parely escaped his futl La adians teok from a train on vind the Jomeing to it—sixty i murders they ha fresh in ce inemory of our ¢ tails of the sane Would tend to make my letter too long, and Yerides 1 opine that what 1 have «i above, will leat ‘Tue Su: 419 form the sine Opieion of thix Indian nation’s hel ish deeds, A Thad freely narrated all their evil doings for past (our years Gor, Alfred Sully, the Superintendent of Indian afte tor Momtana, called upon the Blacktoct to do- liver up to the owners vil stock stolen from tiem, am to the United states anthorities the murcerers of Nialeolm Clark. Ido not know that they reiused todo this in dofo, but eufive it to state that th did not comnly ‘with the demands of Ger. Sully. ‘Tie wyshot of the matter Was on order issued by commanding the District of eting Col. Baker, commandaut of Fort Nis. to proceed with all thé cavalry of his com- mand to Fort Bhaw, COL, BAKER'S WINTER MARCH, Tarly on the morning of the 6th of Jaauary, companies (F, G,H, and 1) of the Second U Stutes Cavalry andet ‘ancl of Col, Baker, passed turoush the main saltey-port of Port Bilis, and tooic up their line of moreh for Fort Shaw, distant bout two hundred mise, The command éxoceded . They arrived t Fort Shaw on the 14to alt,, at midday, having m | cizit exmys on the march,” ‘Phe thermometer jndfe c 1 z Pesites a iow frost ed at Fort Sih vy mpany A oft! Ix monnred infintry men, deiniled from diferent companies of Kesame reriment, On the morning of tue 10th, they moved out in quest of the Tediane toby eventy The command was officered ae folgws Mal P.M. Bake . Cavalry, Brevet Col- one U.S, Al. th cot com Cart. Ed, a). L. Thompron, comma alr ce numbered abent three hundred ant ty men. Company A, Thirtecuth Tafanity, acted fuard for the train, whic the wounted lif Bhaw It wae currently reported | cumped on the Morias river. ‘The divection taken by | tne bro sterly ote, Alter, proceed | yout fy Baker very wisely left his wagons with their gamnts and ousfied ahead with All tne rapidity, possible, From now on night marches were male, and the con nd moved a! | silently, though by no means \ motaeter still indicate? severe saticipadug a brush with the Indi cited that “if the mercury had been ‘frosen they Would uot have heeded the cold. ‘THE INDIANS Discoveren, on the 23d, atepee, or lodge, was dis. 4 wiles om the Marias river, Lhe braves" and three squaws, of the ere taken prisoners, From them the nee Was gleaned that a large bund of Weir tribe was encamped about ten miles distant on the | Big Bend of the Marias. This news was hailed with satisfaction by the men, who now saw an end to thelr dreary winter mare!! through a storile waste od aisg felt eangnine that at last they could meet their wily foes in a body a 0 Tie word forward was give were put in sand away sped the ¢ er Wilh Lis coms river, a large he dby fu J ponies soon v tian herd At daybr covered about inmates, two all the I THE ATTACK AND THE SLAvanTER. Relow where tue aerd was coptured, though not the polit. lay the Piogan of fortv-four lodges in ail, the right bank of + comprehended th ¢ commund.he Oraered a de‘our | Villaxe to be made by one porto re Upon te tain Village with troops, “The Colones in We command commenced’ the fight, aud with terride yells the Foudiers dashed npen theenom’, Company Fy Second Caviiry, opened & galling fire, followed by Comp: on, Dividii © the rear of the while ke was to e remainder of 1, of the same regiment, Phe attack Was so su Con und vigorous Uiat the Indians were fom) letely | taken by rise, dhe tisjority of them hid not even time fo edect their escabe from the lod The scene wo frightful reality, r with knives byt Parsing through the oy luid bow tio Iwaver Within, ‘The uproar wos deatening. The rounds oF firearms; yells of the tufuriuted soldiers ; of et yells and death-eries of the red#kins; the barking and howling of tie Indian dogs, ait mingling, m the scene one of terriule interest, Anon, powder earetully stowed sway in several Iodges would explode and kill the favace Would spring out with rile In band, but only to full in his treks. There, resistance ‘would. be made, but the Wellulirected Bhote soon caused the Hort to cease, Several attemp side of the river to the bat circles red, with indians in the centre, told but too weil How vain Was the at Though all was in ap. t confusion, sti troops kept in such order that not one of their shots hurt a coinrade REMARK AVLE INCIDENTS OF TIE FIOHT. Brovot-Mojor 1 gallantly febting, was attcexed by an Indian whou be did not per ccive iy Hine to prevent him from holding # ride to lie breast, ‘The tawmmer fell the gun wise ; uid, with the deatt-cry on Nis lips, the savaze's vit, alled by the Majvr's batlet, dowd Is way to the Indian's spirit land r p Was conquered, ‘The resul: wiped their ' “es Ut Compietel ni] eneamped for tne night on The folowing worntug at eariy dawn t were constod, nd it was ascertained t Gimms had beed thovonghly quiicted, yt McKay of 1, Coupuny, Second Cusairy, Wouaded One Spaniard, er perhaps a Mexican, wha was Aung the 4 chivis #iain were Bad Bear, Woit h Heavy dumery Rea Li Dutnes [cannot now 1eeall to mind. One Piecan Indian, thinking that bis chanee living @ time were tow, wad eazor to hw diya’ pi d to an indednite peric desperation killed Lis two equaws, corpnes over his cowardly form, He But itavatted hi rol the ava ok of the river, und command; but their evil uied them to a poins Where a few suidicrs narding the eaptared bord, and soon these Indians iso lay stiffon the grown 4 The boldest Might was that of & pris Watching his chance captors, and, luc Sng gooil hiy'eseap doubtless some of er 8 eaped from the main or chie’ Ho sprang out from among his oe Himself, succceded in tuk: Had the seldiers tired at hit thelr comrades would have suil td. for the reason that the command at duut die Was seattered, the fight having ended Private Mullis of the cavalry fought in such a des- Perate Maauuer as not only to attract. tho attentic Of his ofiicers bul aleo that of nearly tho entire coms mand, He killed alone, aud unaided by bis com> Fades, twenty Indians. TUL DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, This wasa very rich camp, A large number of skins, furs, aud ‘robes were stored in the different lodges; but smallpox having been kuown to pro- vail in the village at this’ time, {tC was therefore deomed wlvisable to give everything up to the toreh, 'Phis Piegan villoge has vanished with its {ninates, Nothing \Ow remains to show its existence save binekened spots where the lodges and stores were 2 destroyed by Ore, ghastly corpses etrewa around, irdly wolves re @ ting to and fro, and ¢ t ing ea evap ping overt feast col, BAKER BATS WITH ANOTHER BAND OF BLACK reer. On the evening of Tonuory UM thee ma a Fe tPaee@ Their ereoa to Port finw i n the sth They compli ith Ps request, and also. detiver of oll the Anerienn eto their possession, tal i «turn, The 1 nd be friendly notilan opportunity presents tte olf ane 0 at s ke WHAT WHEL DR THODGUT Av «AID, Marias fight ix pow a thing of the ps What will t term {it who have been made orphans, poor, by those once ment? ’’ A terrib.e though just widows, fa herle “pets of the Gove vengeance, Stich it ie. and it is my belief that those who en- tercnin a different opinion, are either mating money from fat I or holong to that class of ) ure totally iehorant of the characier and dojugs of an unfriendly tribe of Ifdions, In conclusion, the people of Montana are almost Rnantmous (excepting, perhaps a few in the Indian Ring), in expressing their feelings of gratitude to Col. Baker tor eweeptig from existence so many murderers of the whites. At the same time they feat that his acting according to orders, will be but the signal for his removal, In otaer words, Indian traders and contractors for the greater part. are ignorant. and uneroprious men, Wo would shield the murdering redsking and misropresent tae doings my officer who hs Iv done his duty that Gen, Grant's administrotion will t Indion murderers as such. And iso, that the tin the future, ax they fave, In Ito play second fide" We a H.R. trea military will p the past, be ov! Indian iting. —— POWDEL EXPLOSION LN A MINE, In South Wates—Twens Persons TKilled=A Shock Like Eartiannt the Lonton Datty Neves powder expl thatofa Fro The shocking ¢ on at Morfa Colliery, in Bout) Wales, the property of Messrs, Vivian & Sons, of whied ‘we gave a brief teleztapnic report yesterday, has unhappily recultcd—aecording to tho Intest ailvicos {in London—in ten more deaths, macing the tot number np to the Present time twenty-three, Thirty othe onsare and four of r recovery duabuin inju 189 Seve as (0 render u Tbe following aceount of the melancholy ocenr- rence {4 given by Messrs, Vivion & Sum Wax written on Monday, the tuil extent lamity was unknown They siy ponrs thy WA. M,, as tho mea were procecding to their work, un explosion of a vory violent charne- ter oceuried at the prinetpal drawing shaft. ‘The natural coneiasion come to. that this explosion Was caused by five-damp, Te manager, Mr. Grey, at once descended the pil, and after a careful exam! nation of tie Workings, he lias reported to as that @ Hore of gunpowder, more ot less largo, but suppored tozbe trom a quirter to half a cask, keot by the men ongaged in sinking the pit (0 a deeper level, had ex- Ploded, and caused the loss of life which we have to deplor#, No evidence of an explosion of fire-damp be found: Dut everything tends to prove that the aeeident is solely to be attributed to the cause above described. Woe regret to state that can be ascertained, thirteen men and boys their lives, while Gpward of twenty other m boys are more or less seriously injure. No such qnantity of powder was allowed to be left in the pit” Anothe leaving th count states that the ni¢ht men were work, aud the day men toking their 8 when the explosion secnrred, Like one long peal of thunder it awoke the echoes of te und. ine hills, and atrnee eonsternation into. the hearts of all wilo oard it, very far from the v felt like an eartiquake in the ny euides of ‘arriages were all bio atoms. ail the romors at the pit's mouth, it was n bo ty kno precise number of the killed and injured. S« re taken up. Of these, a ng, and others They were raised’ in bucket, or two at a time. Tt is quite imnos- dio as yet to give the correct number of the Killed ai Wounded, but it {s feared that they are very Ln. merous. It is beloved nlso that @ great number of horses lave been Killed, as the stables are in the inimeatate neighborhoud of the scene of the explo- jon. It ie eusicr to imagine thun to describe the seene around the pit fathers, bre Users, and sisters wer ting the arrival of euch bucket caped from the wives when ogtize weir husbands Obout bre heartrending. This the tiret ¢ Movin, but it is ve Lieved that it is b i pst terri Stare Ald for tke Midleud Railroad, To the Editor of The Sun. Sin: The people of the midland counties of this State ask that an oppropriation may be made in aid of the New York and Oswego M nd Ri ‘This road passes t! rough a section of the State that has for many years paid taxes to benefit otter locali- ties, while they have received nothing in retarn. Indeed, the very moneys thus raised to opea avenu of communication further west have injured eoun- Mes like Delawure ond Snilivan, which are now pictically turther off and more’ difficnit of access from tis etty Wan Erie or Chautanqua, The appropriation avked for is not to be civen away or lost, ‘Tne road, or some other throug line to the north and West, Is fast hecoming a necostity to N York city. From lack of adequate means for tr portation through our State, the carrying trade of ne West is belng diverted from our borders by the ison the worth und so of us, as well as by the rs of the Mississip nd st. Lawrence rivers. No throngh line to the Wes? has been coustructed fron the Athgt for the last ten or t years, while. Wihin the twelve year preceding, lines we The West 1 ave move railroad ca and If our Site docs not buiit nr htates Wil by meinis of this communication with the North wit he ec forty mile 1 with the tae over his now by its short with our own roads West. Lu t Ivanta € ade and tr Will follow its constraction, the ceive back in taxes tron the enhanced value of prot erty an amount equal or greater than the appropiia. tion asked for, ‘Tho State tax for years to eon Sikery to be sil five mills on thedollar, Tule and computing the taxation for one year npon rity mi lions ¢ 8 thun one-third of the fnerease in ty property whieh tis © yon hy f two hundred Cousand do! nthe short space of years wil 2¢ appropriution, leaving reaved property to continue to pay las been completed from Oswore to Si- ney Mains—a distance of one tiundrod and twenty- five miles—aad much work has been done in Orange nad Sullivan, His in Sullivan and Delaware where ' dis neoded, where the work is lienvy, and where the one-third of the agse-sed valuo Of t Property along the line already contributed. coos bit tle toward comploting the road. New York y las a heavy interest tn this matter, more at stake than many of her eitizons imagine. A MERCHANT, ee Good Od Bhp ‘Thing. To the Eaditor of The Sia Sim: Teut the fol jorning’s Sux: Hoes the Collector of the Port of New York neh , 1 volieve Tean answer tt. Mr. Grinnell did cot Jeet a largo part of the £100,000 subrcrtntion for th purchase of Gen, Giant's Washi Ne also collected a large port tion for the purchase of the house How thy Man gota Good wing conundrum from this ect Gen, Sherman Pow lives in, the major part of whieh went into Gon. Grant's pock by Mr Gecasions ® enred Min the import Whois, Had other aspi- ranted ability, they have se cused equ ©, Opinion of Consorvacive Repnblioan From the Newark Daily Adgevtiser an does not now live to whom the coun. nto Willian Li, Sowa TUL CREAM OF GUL COUR 4, ‘The trial of the Fullerton ease ha nti next Monday, on account Charles O'C been postponed dur, One OF the cyanssl for th Judge Spencer yesterday warat. Issue F against the property oF tt Ont of the trausactious of the Back F Juige Barnard ypsterday discharged Price,” a member Mf the” Prat G.. Who had’ Leva arrested and e in" fa fof non-mament of ating Of. 890 hnposed by a cout marual, “He hal heen taken betore the conte Ons WEILOL HAbeae cornne, hit Cot ot bs abolished Ue law Ol I nrtson delinanent miiitamen, lie. wis Haut was derogutas. tn ihat it wa k Devoy," without stating Wavther s Wabebal, eberid Or Constaule shia the case of Smith agt. Wheeler, a motion was biade before Judge Marnatdy ye Datyts te Suother Foleres hu place of Judze GM. Curtis Ot. tue Court. the Juuietary article pissed since hls ap red him ineliciole as it pros 4 nusdl oF fi HU Me Fetvrece, The Cai ett, but retnsed to put lu De Paid hs tees, as reter mi Ue wot Lhe Atlantic and Pacifle. Telegraph Company en- ed iBto aD avroement with the Franklin Telegraph NY ID ISBi. Whetehy Mipanivs occupied @ offen th V'the moneys, tog oFee ih fh pr T COMPAY o Were to divide equally (he Western business to The Atlsatic and Paciic Company now sue Vorestrain the Fraaklin froin violating the contract, And ask Lora receiver of the proceeds uf the Di Cluimiig that ie uther company du bot pay wecording oA re nt, a now owe Ul an over $4.0 The ranklin Company, on the other bane, chain hat the bed to tah bo Jan. 1, that the amount since dae is 4 ai bat wile security Ie given Lor it pending Judge Daruard reserves tls decitiou, provuston that Judee Curtis for vittings before tie pus. THE LAW OF PARTNERSHIP, AN ADLE OPINION BY BUDGE pH NARD, Ne Appo Brewing of n Row tna the Parinersiip Books n ers Seeceme Coonr.— IF —Barwann, J The 1 eno of mutual trust end cer fidence 1d wonton breach of dmiy ty any mer ning HERE Oty Zlace ogt. Fi ion betwee firm entitles the party Injured tot He ot Lewd ness cont 1 one who, sonal arivantare, violates the fandatental cement between the esrocia In this cago the surviving vapors etow that thee fendants songht to deprive the UM OF the been fits for which each of the portion eipntatod im the written erticles of copurtnership. By ¢ © artieles the defendant Howard wos eharced with supers tending the brewing department, the otter branches of the busines were committed to the em, trol of Wallace end Fl kept showing all the transoctions of Ue fim ite varlons deyartments; and each of the partoey reserved to himeel’, by express stirulation, ie right of inspecting the entries In all the hooks pep taining to the common business, OF tleve Looky one of the most imperingt was that contalning thy entrics of the manuficinre of ale, whicl was keyp by the defendant Howard, or unler his dircetia, It contained the record of tho materials belonging i, the firm witteh entered into every bre sine, and the processes employed in 1m lo of the aaaliy and standard which had soenred for tic fem fy Musinese reputation and ances, The favortince p inferrable from the tact that ono of tle defendaye tin compensation of $19.00 a yea F devoting his enocial attention to tli branche the Iinginess, the entries of which Were recorded 4 this partnership b ol It is allezed in the Books were to by corning papers cone In the answerfig aMdavite, that the richt of ty plointi, ax one of te part Inspect this bong was for the first time sliortly Velore the mencement of this Uiat the ¢ Howard subsequently tools the book away from the brewery, and that he afterward Drow) t it had anil deliberately direc'ed one of th mploye irm to throw it inthe brewory fMarunce te nts Howard A wrong to the plaintiffon the groano th thus dostraved was ken by Howard, It te edly troe that the book was private pro was the private property of tie firm, on! fondant Howard, w made or dict lea in the conree of t partnorehitr who recolved a lar Be nari tention to that particular donartment, boo question wae the record of (ho. tenusacti ne ett firm in the conrse of tte daily of irs, and the rieit neces and inspection was seonre’l to eich of the portnera by the specific terms of tie articles ¢ acreoment —(4 Taintor, 779.) It te difientt to eq. ve a inotive for the Intentional destruction @ this book, unless it ts to he fonnd in the provision of the contract, ander wlielr the devenianta secured vomeclves ‘the right. by a enmmary notice te fe the existing partnership tn Octoner next and to become tie pureharers of the plaintiff's inter ext at a sale, when Le would be ot a material dy advantage. if he entered into a compe'ition with them as a bidder for the property, For the purposs of this motion, it is enificient to say that the act a the defendant Howard, which the devendant Plan, gan sanetions and rocks to jnstity, was a Qegrme breach of the articles of c ipsam that ite manifest from the aff lvl shies hata pre rer cise ts presented for jution of the fins, In euch a ense the anpoir a receiver Mab most a matter of eae: for it would he vlainty ie nltahle te permit t ho have deliberately vie dd the par nereement to deal at nlessers Veh che pro ats of thelr associeters 810, 4 Bearman, Gud.) le tntoubted!y force in the enw nts that the interests of all y jaticed by brine) termination ; bat atl diton'ty on this nvnited by prov receiver ander saita! until a enle.ein be ¢ tion. for a of the or ties foil to agre Order to Ve sett M. Blank to be left 190.090 John K, Porter, for motion; Burrell & Flomagas, Oppoved. ‘erduay ines and or bie ae $m rapt score can fe 1 hy the est etions me tom or receiver's mare, tk. Bond ML. ROBESON STRIKING OFL Thirtyefive Thonannd Dollnre Tost to the Vverument throuch » Dinner to the See retary of the Novy—Uuited States Stenm ers us d to P ¢ Speculn try. hoves a octal glass, anil n social talk with Ho loves to do them services, and since he bas bee in the Department he has steudily advanced the is torests of bis hoon companions Allmen have thetrit le faflings, Robesou's falling Is a good dinner, plea of clarct to follow, and a sufficioney of walnuts, mi rather broad stories, Shortly after his elevation ® the Sceretaryship he came up to New York, ad some irionds who knew the man invited him to om of Delmonico’s dinners. Mobeson accepted, ate set drank to his heart's content, told stories and crack Jokes, and was duly applauded and flaticrod by the company, At the same table sat somo gentlemen who wr in the ofl and tallow be They totked to the Vooming Cabinet offer, and persnaded kim tw Vuying oil for the Naval Department here in Ameria was a blunder; that if the United States wonted dl {t could he got from their ageats in Oporto at som titera and that the store Lome would mive the freizhtuce, Robeson sw the point, and the thing was agree} to, So. when the nite! States storestilsy Gard satied from New York With stores for the Moditerranesn, on, the 10th ol December, to supply the squadron which ws not Any particular need, she tanded three-fourtos of bet €argo at Oporto, an took ou board 04,09) callous ol le saving Olive ol ; aia he piice pata was 10% per eillon, tanks. "Tehad there ke, weighed, and taken in High commissions dove etic) Ingold, Now, if to tht expe 1 by importers, neresssrily by the Gover trent, we shall f the ditferer exehane Blone smounted to $5,590.54 on the sim Uotal of te . $6 tat the interest om the + Sy MW), Would amount to g6.00 5 and th fins Ht shia wed Ye duty wie tcl bt Fam. If to this we old the duty whieh =! ould bave Hoon paid, but which the Rew Tost, we find 2 total in gold of $54,000, ‘To. this has to be added the amount of oi} lost by leakaze, wh ch Cy cording to the bestautiorities from. t eat Taking an per cent, of leakaze, te tad that of the of oil tak bond st Oporto, only 50,400 were landed in New York. Tht Would hake the oll cost 296 B40 cents ver gall Now, the Manbatton Oil Company and ‘€113t Co. had previonaly offered to supply the Noval De partment with Malaga olive oil. considers te tem in tho market, end fetching the hicl 4 $1.25 per gailon tn casks, and to be de yo) ante ] Naval ak Brook! Hi, G, has experienced a change of hist —Colorado bas as many daily poprrs us Noh Hainpshire, —Mr, P, Gilmore is writin great Boston Jupiles. —Down in Conn: “consistency is a Jew ‘ ctiont they don't believe thi ~The Llossoms «re look for “a lodge # some vust witornes: A single Paris firm sold : —Drunkenness is called “of r ' — Th eof Man in I $ Uitte of a loctnre by a ¢ } The French Prince I teont 7 ' through Germany ond I " tl | tutor. A Te eo dist ! haritg four barre of wh y . 4 val! " There ie thin 1) b nf Nghters, that they are Figid sid main law —Whiy is this the most eheerfi 1 ‘| P r in New Ye a | tt 3 —There is no death penalty in M a! ut itentiary now bh eighty my J Tho strongest nows apt ‘ nd Avalos the woman #uflease W the pens of svonver ; The assassin Payne's corpses bi from the Washington A ' wi aud taken to parte ; It is proposed in London + A cereals shat) be sold b i " What the heavy monthlle. will ¢ If the expenses of the (Be Cow ih Rome are, as repurtes, $1,000 » day Ume (iat they held au Keonowieal ¢ A vew and or weekly pul | nannounced tn Lond at ¢ ® high class, to b ‘ A drunken official | ton op An afterdinner eneech the iter . * Whit iy (lie) ( mba to me. or me to (ie) &