The Sun (New York) Newspaper, March 9, 1870, Page 2

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1670. Toedays. 4. Matinee. Errand Opera Mouse-—Twelve Temptations, Dromiveays Brower atury Wiis, Circus Troupe, Mablnee, Olymple Theateo- lox a lawiet, Mace @ Minatreta, 845 Reomiways uanatte Tunnel Opes for vilters ‘Terms of the Sum sees ibe ry ae di per Vine Of solid Aente apace tw Seat Waaeey, TU o The daily circulation of Tun Sun during che last week, which ended on Saturday, March 5, was aa follows: Monday OO | Tharsday,....... 908 ‘Tpesday.. i ) Priday. # ednesday Us 5 Atcrage daily circulation during the week, 90,417. Average circulation during the previous week, ending Fib. 26, 89,300 daily. The totat number of copics of Tun Sux published Quring the week ending March & Nous ; Daily, 542,500 5 Semi- Week- ly, 81805 Weekly, 26,500. Total number of copics published during the weck, 574,180. —— Is Giant Trying to Form a Personal Party? It has been cautiously but eignificantly given out that Gen, Grant intends in every event to be a candidate for reélection, This being €0, it seems impossible to accoant for Lis persistent pursuit of a policy which di- rectly tends to the destruction of the Repub- lican party, except upon the hypothesis that he is resorting to the desperate expedient of trying to form a personal party, and run as its nominee in 1872 over the ruins of the organization that in 1868 placed him in the White House. fhough the attempt to organize a personal political party is hostile to the genius of our institutions, it is not beneath the ambition of a really great man, The atempt to form such a party in this country has been made in two conspicuous Instances. De Wirr Ciinvon tried it in the State of New York, and Gen. Jackson on the wider theatre of the Union. Each pos reseed mental and personal qualities admira bly adapt e the experiment the best possible how for success, and both made the endeavor at periods in our political history when, if ever, the attempt might have been srowned with triumph. CLINTON was a statesman of the broadest the h of intellect, askil fal and suc AD, us) will indomitable courage, 1 the ate of New York, to which he and his family had rendered distingulshed rervices. He made the effort to form a per. tonal party during the war with England, when the Federal party was going to pieces. But, when he ran for the Presidency in opposition to MAp1soN, a very unpopular views and manof vigor and whe candidate, thongh he was able to carry his own State by a peculiar combination of cir camstanees, he failed to obtain the vote of any other Republican State, and was inglori onsly beaten. With political prospects seemingly blasted forever, CLINTON soon promulgated the pol- icy af constructing our present canals. The war was over, old issues had passed’ away, party lines were partially obliterated, and the public mind of New York was prepared to appreciate the bold conception of connect ing the western and northern lakes with the Hudson river by means of the Erle and Champlain canals, There was a strong Clintonian party in existence; but through- cut the dozen years that intervened between the bright day when CirinToy, spade in hand, amid the booming of cannon and the acclamations of thousands of spectators, broke ground for the Erie Canal, down to the wintry night when, in the quiet of his library, while preparing @ message to the Legislature, the pen dropped from his hand and his heart ceased to beat, it was not the Clintonian party that gave him vietory in his memorable contests with Tompkins, TALL MADGE, Roor, and Van Buen, but it was the canals that always tided him over all obstacles, and bore him in triumph to the State Capitol. But Goy. C1inton’s partially successful effort to form a personal party in New York deprived him of a political following in the other portions of the Union, and neither of the great parties of the country would accept him as their lead Though one of the ablest statesmen in the republic, he attained and kept power in this State by modes which rendered his election to the Presidency an impossibility Gen, JACKSON'S attempt to form a personal potty was a more signal failure than that of Gov. CLINTON, ‘The victory of New Orleans had given him a wide popularity. Amid the dissolution of parties inthe Monnon era, he wrote a series of letters clearly indicating that he was in favor of forming a polit ical combination out of the dissolving fac tions, of which he was to be the central figure. His bold ideas, his military fame, his lofty courage, bis inflexible will, the irresiat ible magnetism which he shed al! around him, his political catholicity, the chaotic con- dition of old organizations, and his position as the representative man of the Mississippi Valley, all seemed to indicate that JAcKsoN’s efforts to found a personal party might be crowned with success, He tried the eyperi Ment a8 a Presidential candidate in 1824, backed by @ numerous and powerful body of nds, and he failed, He then fell into wiser hands. ‘The Democratic Republican party made him their eandidate against Mr. Abas, and he was elected. Since that event nobody has tried to organize a personal party on any considerable geale, unless we include in this category the ridiculous failures of Jonn TyLun and ANDREW JouNsoNn. To compare Gen, QnanT asa statesman of ideas, as a politician capable of drawing around him and binding to his standard in- congruous cloments, a8 a civil loader in dif- ficult times, whose words and example can electrify the masses of the people—we say, to attempt to compare him with De Wirt CLINTON or ANDREW JACKSON, borders on the absurd. And yet, ft looks as if ho ‘was going to try the experiment of forming & persoyal party to perpotuate his feeble hold upon the Presidency. That he will fail in afield where Criyton and Jack. SON did not succeed! is a foregone conclu. sion. The wonder is that he should be so foolish as to make the attempt. Gen. Guant’s attachment to the Republi- can party is very weak, Indeed, ho never belonged to it, nor even claimed to belong to it until it had become necessary to his cleva- tion. Previous to his inauguration he in- formed Mr. McCiun# of Pennsylvania that he had not been a Republican, His selec- tion of a Cabinet verifies this declaration. Not a member of it was the choice for that position of the Republican party of the State whence he came. With perhaps one exception they are men of very mode: rato attainments, sinking into dwarfs by the side of the distinguished leaders of the party, and therefore owing their cleva- tion solely to him, and likely to wield the great influence of their positions for the pro- motion of his ambitious schemes and the gratification of his personal aspirations. The many strange appointments he has made, and indecd the general distribution of his patronage, sccm to spring from the same motive as that which controlled the selection of his Cabinet. He likes to be surrounded by small men in the White House and the de- partments, who will owe their advancement solely to him. He desires to be followed by o train of beneficiaries throughout the country, many of them incompetent and ex- tremely unpopular, some of them dishonest, and the great body of them without any claims upon the Republican party ; but, like the Swiss guards ot Lovie, they will fight for the chieftain who discovered their merits and pays their wages. Upon what other principle than the hy pothesis we have suggested can we account for Gon. GRANT’s appointing so many of his relations to office? How otherwise can we ex- plain his readiness to confer high and lucra- tive places upon those who have given him valuable presenta, thus suggesting unfavora. Dle comparisons between bimself and A DREW JouNsON, whom he was so eager to drive from the White House by an impeach- ment? How else can we account for his ala rity to acce;t gifts from anybody, and of any kind, from houses and lands dowa to horses and dogs, thus sinking his great office into contempt before all the people? Knowing that this disgraceful practice will of itecf so Lring him into reproach a8 to render it ia possible for the Republican party to renomi. nate Lim, that it tends directly to the destrue- tion of the confiding organization ch made him President, he must look upon the prostra tion of the party with cool indifl though determined ¢ 2a good thing out of it while it laste,” and resolved, thy agency of a pa on in 187 il be ute poluted in his persoual aspirati no prophet to predict. ‘That he may succeed in ruining the party which trusted him is quite possible. That he will be able to advance even in sight of the point where CLinron and Jackson failed, is to the last degree im- probable, That he will be dismissed from the White House on the 4th of March, 1873, with the same indifference, not to say con- tempt, that followed the departure of Joun TYLER and ANDREW JouNSON, history will doubtless record. ieee The Fullerton Case. Judge Wooprerr and Judge Biaten- Fond are both on the bench, in the United States Cirenit Court, during the trial of WiutiaM FUuLLerton, Besides the distin. guished counsel engaged in the case, many members of the bar are in attendance, and the court room is continually crowded with spectators, Yesterday the case proceeded very slowly. At the opening of the Court, Judge Woon- norr remarked that only one counsel on a side would be heard on any question which might arise during the trial. This rule is a novel one in this circuit; and Mr, Stoucu- TON pressed with a good deal of earnestness for a relaxation of the rule, inasmuch as some points to be made on the admiasion of evidence were very important, and went to al t the whole substance of the indic But Judge Woopnvrr was immova ble, He gave os a reason a wishto guard against the annecessary consumption of the time of the Court. The time of the Court may be very valuable; but if thero is any. thing more important for it to be devoted to than the fair and thorough trial of a case, we do not know what itcan be, That was & pretty sound dectrive of Lord Expoy, that whatever is well done is done quickly enough, ‘The commission and oath of office of Mr. BELKNAP, who is jointly indicted with Mr. FULLEnron, were offered in evidence by District Attorney PreRREPONT, Objections were made to their admissibility ; and the argument of these objections, which was elaborate and clear, by CLanENcE A, Srw- Anp, Esq, consumed most of the day, The Court ruled in favor of the Government on Doth of these points, We have seldom known public sentiment more unanimous—and it has rarely found more unreserved expression—than in regard to the unfairness in the selection of the jury for the trial of Judge FuLLEnton. The fore- man of the jury was likewise foreman of the jury which tried and convicted Jacop Durvy ; and there Is another man on the jury who was on that jury also, Durvy is one of the defendants in the same indictment with Mr, FuLLEnToNn; but he has already been tried for perjury, com- mitted with reference to the very transac- tions charged in this indictment, found guilty, and is now undergoing punishment. ‘That two of the jurymen who convicted him, should be permitted to sit in Mr, Fur LENTON’s case is rot éonsidered fair, How- ever unexceptionable the charactors of theso men may be, it is ‘not be lieved to he ent. } | forms of fever, bring to the trial of Mr. Forirnton’s case perfectly impartial minds. Strong as the sentiment of the community is in favor of the punishment ~ of crime, ft is etill stronger in favor of impartial trials. Such a trial every man charged with the commission of an offence is abso lutely entitled to, In the event of a con- viction of a man of Judge FUuLLEenton’s previously fair and unsullied fame, we ap- prehend the public diseatisfaction and indig- nation with the manner in which the jury has been constituted would become still stronger and more outspoken, pereniaiateen es A Groat Man Spending Public Moncy Contrary to Law. Tho present Superintendent of the Uni- ted States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, is before Congress to secure an extraordinary appropriation to make good deficiencies inthe funds of the Academy ille- gally expended by Vice-Admiral Porrer during his control of that institution, It appears that the dashing Vice-Admiral, hay- ing a desire to alter and enlarge the buildings occupied by the cadets in the Academy grounds, and otherwise to adorn and embel- lich the establishment, applied the funds ap- propriated for the payment of the Professors from civil life, and other civil employees, to that purpose, In this way, and in the princely entertainments for which he has enjoyed a delightful reputation throughout the land, he has happily managed to expend $42,000 while Superintendent of the Acade- my, and has left his successor, the gallant Commodore WoxpEn, a legacy of the most elephantine and unpleasant proportions, Commodore WonrpeN thus finds himself minus $42,000, and with not enough money on hand to pay the wages of the various pro- fessors and civil employees of the Govern- ment under his charge after the 1st of April. Unless Congress makes up Admiral Por- TEn's deficiencies, the accomplished teachers and the needy workmen of Annapolis must go without their pay until midsummer, sim- ply because Vice-Admiral Porter has placed himself above and beyond the law, and misapplied public fands. ‘This utter disregard of law seems to be chronic with the dashing Admiral ; and, unfortunate- ly, he appears to have tn his illegal course the steady support of the salty Admiral Ronson and of President Grant. At all events the Navy Department should be thor- oughly overhauled at once, and put in good sailing order again, —— A paper on Relapsing Fever, by Dr. AusTIN Frist, published in the Now York Medical Journal for March, will tend to lessen very considerably the alarm eaused by reports of the wide pr ofthe disease in this city. It is by no fatal or dangerous type. Out of 103 cases treated at the Bellevue Hospital previous to Feb. 10, two only proved fatal, and one of these was from auxiliary cuses, This is as low a rate of mor- one could reasonably expect from a con- tagious disease of rapid didtus The chatac- istics of the fever are abruptaess of attack, a Primary parorysin lasting from five to seven on of ab and a re second pa it deriy me, ognally sudd lasting from three to five days, aller which; un der ordinarily favorable circumstances, the pa tient recovers in ten or twelve days, Few of the more atte n other eh as delirium or char tions, are noticeable, The disease is prevalent chiefly among those living in overcrowded and badly venulated tene- ment houses, and is not even then highly con- tagious. Dr. Furst thinks it will not become a manent visitor on this side of the Atlantic, w ritwas brought from Europe, and that after it ceases to prevail as an epidemic, it will disappear, ‘The effective means for arresting the spread of the disease,” he says, “ are thin. ning the population of overcrowded tenement houses, dispersing the ocewpants of insalubriows dwellings, relieving destitution, especially as re- gards food, and promptly removing patients to hospitals devoted to cases of relapsing fever.”” pintbiadlesiasoy “Petites cy Gen, B. F. BorLer has written a letter to say that in his reeent disparaging remark about Dewspaper men no reference was intended to the respectable members of the profession, but only to ‘those who get a precarious living by hang- ing about Washington and writing lies to their newspapers.” He also states that the person who seduced Wurrremore into selling a cadet- ship was ® correspondent of the disreputable New York Times; and that it was the same de- clining newspaper which advertised the cadet- ship for sale. ‘And I stand ready to prove,” says Gen. Burien, ‘that the correspondent of that same New York Times was using his position to speculate in gold and stocks, and using the tele- graph for that purpose as @ deadbead,” Our readers will also remember that among the pre- parations of the great gold conspiracy of la September, a very important item was the inser- tion in the Zimes of an editorial article written by A. R. Conary in the interest of the conspira- to No wonder that the Zimes is called dis- reputable, days, ay jute ite n aw stressing symptoms te on is v —<—$——____ Isn't our Legislature rather slow in getting its work done? The hundred days of the session are now two-thirds gone, and not a single mea- ture of great importance has been passed. —— What has become of the movement to run the lion, Hamitton Fisu for Governor of New York? The Conservative Republicans should not let so excellent an idea perish for wont of effort and attention. They will be in want of an available candidate next fall; and as Mr. Fisw is the leading Republican mind of the State, and enjoys the greatest popularity among the masses of the party—if you doubt it, ask Gen, Groxt—it follows that no other candidate can be so available as he, It is time that his friends were taking measures to secure the nomination for him, as otherwise some man of inferior quality, such as Horace Queexey, for instance, who not fit to be Secretary of State nor even Minister to England, may be taken up and run in his place. By all means let Mr. Fisa be brought out, and let the sentiment of the great body of the earnest Republicans toward him have » chance to express itself, Gen, Guawr may find it difficult to get another Secretary of equal powers ; but he should sacrifice something of nis private comfort to the ; good of the party. Se Has any one at Albany proposed to fix the salary of the Chamberlain of this city at a reasona- ble figure, say $25,000 or $50,000 a year, and to cut off all his perquisites and commissions? No re- form will be complete without some such change, Ss arts vackbar ntl It has been the custom for the Comm's- sioner of Patents to publish annually a bulky re- port, containing abstracts of all the specifi¢etions of patents issued during the year, with photo- graphs or engravings of (te accompanying draw- ings. Of this report in 1859, 16,550 copies were souued at acost of $212,010, The estimate for the drawings aloue for the coming year is $50,000. With a view of reducing this great expense, a possible that they can | joint resolution has been introduced into Con- THE SUN, WEDNESDAY, | aid in erecting a w MAROH ffress limiting the number of copies to be printed of the sprcifications and drawings for each patent to one hundred. Of these, one copy is to be placed for free public use in the capitol ofench State or Territory, one in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of cach judicial district, and one inthe library of Congress. In addition, as many more copies may be printed as anybody is wilting to pay for. It is further provided that the work shall be done by contract, An Albany correspondent sends us the fol lowing + ‘There has been n grent deal of fuss made abont the Fitth o Pavement swindle, and the World and Tribune bave oiten cailed for the names of the par- ties who #9 outragcously swindled the people of your eity. T wrote both of those papers, giving them the namics of the principal swindiers, but they did hot publish them, and therefore I conclude ey, a 1 not desire to give tne facts to the public. Your Poros ie bold, cule: ken, and enterprising, und Fapidly gaining in popular esteem, 1 tucrevory ben You the fics ee ¢ Company was originally formed by the two Ww Dre. Ranney, Ranney of 440 Wort Twenty. third streot, wad. J. W. Htanney of Weat Twenty. Dinth street. ‘They tried hard to get contracts, but failing to do #0, made a combination with Aleck Frear, Brown, and overs, by which they doabled the capital stock of the Company and gave {hese gen tlemen $200,000. of the §900,W0 capital, The Han: heys furnished the money and managed the work. ‘The others got the contracts. You will see that the nneys kept the lion's hare, « the patentee, isa brother-in-law of the Ran- ‘Was put in as saperintendent of the Com- Dany, at a salary of $19,000 per year. Two brothers of tho Rannoys were also employed division superintendents at 7,500 per year, Ranney was and is now the treasurer, and although the Company must have made over lialf a million of dollars proft from their contracts, they have only been able to pay one dividend of teh per Cents, which was paid on the 2th ot February, The ope, family are the ones who have pocket- ed the Its of the gigantic swindle, and who were shrewd enough to use tho politiclaus for thelr own benefit and to enable them to steal a balf million from the cit) ‘You now have the fucts; let the public have them, The Whole thing was in fuct a Raney family job, This is different from any information upop this subject that we have received before. It would appear that the truth upon this subject can only be discovered by a legislative inquiry. Will not Lawaexce Krerxax or Peren Mircuenn get a resolution through the Assembly that will bring out the facts—that is to if Joux H. Waite and Tuomas G. Atvonp will allow? preeszmnapetiorroh tain We learn from Albany that the new char- ter will not be introduced in the Legislature for several days yet. It does not give satisfaction to those who have examined it. If enacted as it ‘now stands, it will continue the present Mayor in office until November, and will thus give to the Ring the power of appointing the Fire Commis- sion, the Health Board, and the Commission of Charities and Correction, Our correspondent saya that it does not give them the Po- lice and Excise Commissions. But if they are to have so much, there is no reason why they should not have all. We cannot believe that such a charter as this has been produced by the Hon. Gronow H. Pursue. It looks as though some illegitimate influence had been exerted upon it after it left his hands, converting it the bastard thing which it would now appear to be. to aie The bodics of four thousand soldiers whe died in the service of their country during the late war lic in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, Two housand of these bra f this As yet their graves remain 1 by stone or mouument, Is it not ti is de. fect was supplied? A number of New York ladies, headed by Mrs, Jouy A, Kexepy, hove taken the matter in hand, but they not be left to act alone, The city and the to come to their assistance patriotic cit Me omen Ww ate. a shor aro " mblyman from that Lawyer Waite was supportin s of the Ring because the Ring had given him a $20,000 refer. ence case, This was a very large price for a very poor article, Has the Ring given Lieut.- Gov, Atvon» anything for his effort toward smothering Owen Muxrmr’s poultice pavement investigation? Can it be possible that the great Tribune Republican bas entered the service of the Ring on a mere speculation ? patent centes teenie a It is understood that the new charter for this city, which is about to be presented in the Legislature, is the work mainly of the Hon, Geonow H. Punsem, who has for some time past been engaged in its preparation. Mr, Punsen is an experienced lawyer and politician, and a man of much intellectual culture, He holds a very high place in the councils of the Young Demoe- racy, fect ie Eight gentlemen have been appointed to visit the Nayal Academy at Annapolis and con- duct the usual yearly examination of midship- men, We hope they will prove less expensive to the Government than the Board of Examiners of last year. They were the most costly luxury that the country bas yet indulged in. According to Vice-Admiral Porrten’s accounts, the cost to the Treasury for the subsistence of those gentlemen was a trifle more than two thousand dollars. As their sojourn in the festive Annapolis was less than two weeks, the allowance to each visitor must he considered tolerably liberal, if not prince- ly. In these days of Congressional investiga- tions, would it not be well fur the House to call for the accounts of the 1 Academy under Porren’s administration, to ascertain where the money credited to the expenses of the Visiting Board really went? — Trworny J. Camrorts’s bill providing for the appointment of a clerk to the Board of Police Justices of this city at a salary of twenty- five dollars a minute has passed the Assembly. The bill sanctions a barefaced robbery, When it comes up in the Senate, let Senator Noxrow and other honest Democrats kill it. The people will bear thein in grateful remembrance. - —— On motion of Jus! Hoan, the Board of Police Justices yesterday passed a resolution ad mitting reporters to all the mectings of the Board, Judge Hooan is right, as he usually is, Now, let the Supervisors, Police Commission and the Hon. Tuowas C, Fiets's Insu vestigation Commiitce adopt a simi if they dare. sioners, ce In. r resolution — Let everybody go and see the Pneumatic Tunnel under Broadway, It is exhibited for the benefit of the Union Home and School for Sol diers’ and Sailors’ Orphans, The entran the corner of Broadway and Warren street, one The New York Natioual E: New Quarters, ‘The old passenger elation of the Hudson River Ratlroed, at the corner of Chambers struct and Cok ewe place, was ubandoued about ayear ago to the ‘encroachments of other business, and todny the old site would scarcely be recognized by the travel- ling pablic, An elegant structure of Ohio stone, re splendent with plato gliss windows, and faished with arebitectural taste of the highest order, bas sprung up almost like magic on the spot where so recently stood the old ricketty sheds. ‘This is the ‘new ,building of the Now York National Exchange ‘Bank, which was yesterday thrown open to the iu spection of the public, ‘The new banking house js fitted Gp with every convenience and comfort one scale commensurate with the growing business of the instisution, A wammoth Terwilliger safe, ten feet square and ten feet high, costing £7,000, promise? ample security for the money and valuables intrasted to the bank, ‘The building cost exclusive of the land, and rentals are provided ‘in {l that more than pay the interest on the investment; so that the bank has its Own rent free. An elegant collation was served yesterday to the customers of the Institution, in the hew building, whigh on Friday neat will be perma- heauy occupied foy busiuess, ¢ is on anve Bank iu 9, 1870, a THE SAN DOMINGO SWINDLE THE OLD STORY OF THE MONKEY AND TUL CHESTNUTS. nti America’s Paw to bo Put in the Fire~Who are Interested in the Annexation Scheme Dut for No. 1-A Whole Correspondence of The Sun. Saxto Dowco, Feb. 20, 1€70.—From the moment {n ‘which Baez conceived’ the ides of telling his country, in easy and sure method by whieh to realize a fortine, and at the same time take vengeance on Lis enemies, the news papers of your city have occupied themeely considerably with this matter, and trath compels us to admit that the one which you direct has treated the question with more {mpartiality and better judg- ment than others published there, It affords us #incere pleasure to know, that whether your sympathies are in faver of or opposed to new territorial acquisitions, you are anxious that legal means alone be exercised, and that you entirely dis- approve of making an abuse of superior foree for the consommation of an act which wonld entail the misery of a whole people, and would cast @ foul blot ‘on the eventcheon of a nation which has been hith- erto a model of equity and Justice. ‘These considerations indace us to address you in the hope that you will kindly admit into your valua- ble columns the following sketeh, Which may serve to give the Ameriean people a correct idea of Bae of his party, and of the actual condition of the Re- public, Gen. Baer, althongh born on Dominican soll, is the renegade son of a country which, in his endeay- ors to carry out his system of sacrificing everything for his own personal benefit, and to give more free scope to lis bloody Instincts, he has completely de- vostated, Baez, everything except » patriot, op- pored when he was Mayor of Azua the reactionary movement set on foot to shake off the yoke of Hayt! ; ineonjuction with Mons. Levasseur, the then agent of France, he conspired in favor of annexation to that country; he trnckled to Spain and obtained the sash of Marshal at the very time when the ery of in- dependence was raised in Capotillo: he assisted the Spaniards by his information and his knowledee of the country in suppressing the insurrection; in 1867 he for the second time opposed the annexation of the Repnblic to Isabella Segunda; and finding no one {n Europe with whom be could trade, he a dressed himself to the Government at Washington, whom he has sueceeding in enjoling, receiving from them both arms and money, and with whom he has negotiations pending. Oppressed a8 the Dominican people are at this moment, threatened and fearing to be ordered at any instant to exenange their peacefol homes for some hold of some vessel which should dare not openly, clearly express their opinions; they dread a government em- issary in every person who accosts ; and on this account afew strangers who have visited interior rthe dominion of Ba that everybody hailed him with entbus Al the time of the a from all the towns was stated how ai faith, &¢.. to form exation to Spain, manifests e sent to Madrid’; in them us everybody was, in good tof the Spanish monareb; Tt should be borne in mind that at that date there was no civil war, that the whole Republic was under the control of the then President Santana ; at there was no apparent de and then look at the consequences—eightorn or twenty thousand Spaniards kiile y-five 10 thirty miluons of Hiary squandered, and eternal opprobriam aud heaped upd an Tn order to g) how of le templated ity to the con- ites, Lace is the capi cousins, oF int toolt, ‘He nd. bon gré Lisious ones be con he mid are ! He, und the bal a know me er low to more ‘han elebt months Cab rm Province, W inhabited by some thirty-five and very inany towns, wom, ere legal Mf the wish 0; tuese people is uot con- ted? ‘The greater portion of longing to the © pas: nds (Bxex Of e0 d into privat e 3 taken the lion's re O'Sullivan, Caguea Dut the apparent owners abens, Hartinont, &e., &c. 2 aud Hatch, of their grants, of the former to ex!ract petroleam in Aza, and that of the Jaster to work the rock sult mines in Nevba. ‘These grants have been turned over to Damian Baez, the present Governor of this city, and the favorite bro- ther of the President. The coal mines and the ma- hogeny forests of Samana sre mortgaged to an Eng- lish Company; the euano on the island of Alta Vela is in good liar rante of mines, railroads, cauali- zations of rivers, &c., &c., are distributed’ mong the intimate friends of the ex-Marsbal. Of course, nobody risks a cent, and ery body is waiting tor the completion of t xution im orcer to sell thelr grants and proy ¢ The debt debtedne ies. nereates daily, and certife re issued With @ perfect looseness, merelinnt will touch them at 2 cents on the dollar. Misery is universal and fearfl. ‘There is no money in clreniation, and all business iS ata stondstlil, In fine, the country is not disposed, or more correct of in- 0 speaking, uot prepared for annexation, and if {t should tske place now, the most disustrous results will follow. ‘We think that questions of #0 important a nature should be treated with great Judgment and prudence, Let time be given, and every Dominican be able to express his will freely, not as now, wheu the country is divided by civil ‘war, and then "the Ameri- cans will learn whether we With annexation or not, oes made & Journey to some of the interior towns ® few days fince, for the purpose of calming the Pyltation consequent upon we rumor of annexation 5 speeches and arrumen ‘not produce the de- tired eflect, although the dread of consequences sup- essed any open oppositien, Whire in Agua, where he spent two or taree days, he endeavored to hold Communication with Cabral, in order to induce the latter to agree to some arrunigement ; for Baez knows that as long as the coantry is not quiet, nothing can legally be effected. But his plans fell through, tor te Committee which he seut to Cabral was not received, We send you at foot alist of officers who have #0 far Deen shot by the preseut Admimetration, and the names of the places where they were executed ; VARIOUS PATRIOTS Compostela de Azna, by Valentin ah houpproval of We. Saperior rtment:— iearlo Cased Francisco, Xavier aged 20), Juan Es. wejildo Fella, aud deserters and prisoners. del Seybo~—Gens. Juan Kota Herren we. Marcos Evangelista, Capte, José reeden Cok Ju apeo, Ac los Linnos—Col, Ignacio Aquino, Lieut, In Shistingo—Col, José Ma. @omer Hi Santo Domlogo~Gen. Rasebio Evangelista, v ene in Lost at Sea, at Wale Inch's. The startling and vivid effect of the fumous fire scone, in Bouclcault's new drama, nas led some foolish alarwists to ralte a cry of dan There are soMe timid and rabbit-like natures, always on the alert for an opportunity to be frightened, and these have been dismaye:! by some brilliant colored lights and #kilifully painted canvases Mr, Wailack and those in control of his the and experienced managers, aud far too wise men to run the slightest risk for the sake of a paltry sensation, ‘They would have every- thing to lose and nothing to gain by steh # folly, ‘The secue in question ix certainly a graphie one, are old, sag and trom the front lias a really terrifying effeet; bub the vividness of the scene should be a matter of praise to thoee who devisea ther than of alarm for those who for ite in onsity of affert is euly by the stm. tiie of sue meane by which it 4s produced. Wistireet te so managed a8 Lo deceive und wstonieh even 4 practised eye Wwe epeuk from persoual knowk the apparatus used tn producing it | th such abundant caution ‘as to render any r simply impossible, and to w the terror that has inspired rome jourpaliste abkurd. ‘The aeciient that befel Nre, Sedley at Springfield only serves to show how much more careful we are at metropolitan theatres than they gre in the proving Hla The Avion Opera, The Arion Vocal Society will give their last performance of the opera of * Der Freisehtz” at the Academy of Musi¢ on Friday evening next we Phi ‘ys The last case of ‘Shoo Fly” occ n Cor ington, Kentucky, last Thursday, Mr fudiey merchant there, bad, with others, wed th Senate not to confirm old Jesse Grant, hy (9 a the Administration, o# Postinaster of thal places Jeose heard of it dud meeting Dudley upon ‘the Pireet advaueed upon him with oplifted cane, when Dudiey gave bin a push with the exc "Get ¥ ways you oid Ulue butulcs dou's bedder mel” THAT LETTER TO THE ¥ _ The Gold Pante tnvestigaiton—What Ohlo People Think. Oorverpondence of the Cincinnati Commerctal. ‘Tnx Antixotox, March 2, 1870.—You will recol- leet that some four months since I called attent to the beltef, in certain quarters, that hieh officia of the Administration were implicated in the in famous Gould Fisk-Corbin conspiracy, through whieh #0 many thousands were rulned and onr tire Tustnews thrown tate a state of pattal certainty and confusion, I said then that the evidence impleating Pr dont Grant, turned on the eontents of the te SIDENT, i. sent by sperinl messenger from the brotherin law Cor- big to the President at Washington, Pa. My letter setting forth these tacts gave rise, Tam aesnred, to the investigation since niate by the Com- mittee on Banks and Banking In the House, ‘This worning the report of the majority Hehed, and ite searching inquiry Ie only equ the dexterity with which all Is omitted that the peo- ple most desired to know. It admits the {mportanco of the Corbin letter to which T referred, bat Gen. Gorfiel on all other points, koon_ and shrewd a8 a lean advo- cate alter a contingent foo, Walks aronnd this letter with the cautious gentleness of a crow about a stecl trap with an eeg fn it, He eyes the exe longinely, ut dreads to spring the trap. ‘The questions pnt to tor aro neat epecimens of the question sug- We must remember that tho report admits the importance of this letter, and yet here is the harp lawser proceciis to discover its content o you know whether the letter adressed (0 dent Is In existence of not? A.—My under wan doatroye able of the Pre resserl to him or uot? A—He dastroye ® great nm hat are pot of Importance for the hies. Koop the fick? A.~Yes, sr. ietence would ha wind Aocit would be is my custody 1h ai ‘Opa PFNote the artistic delicecy and beauty of that exa- sin The sweet suggestiveness of the first juestion is beond all prai *Do you know whe- ther the letter is im existence or not?" And so the scholarly Garfleld might have gone, aud conjugated the vorb “to know’ — “Do we know,” &e, Andjeo through ail the modes and tenses. And the learned Porter could respond “ understanding- ly." ‘There is much comfort and great significance in your * understan And then how delicate the proposition that this letter, if in existence, would he on the flies, It would be such a wise, prudent And ‘then it is the habit of bis Excellency to destroy letiers, ‘That question, too, isso tuegestive. Not a leading ques. tion altogethor, but a pretty good imitation. * btate habit of the President in that respect— he is in the habit of destroying letters ad- dressed to bim or uot.” Anew destroys a great wany—all that not of importance for the is One Wes not important for the file it was destroyed. And this is the unde ofthe confidential quill-driver of his Ex- celleney, the President, Tho shrewd Garfield had said to himself that it was better to have this aly letter destroyed. He therefore its destrue- tion, and forthwith Porter * tands' that i was destroyed, But the contents were not destrored. Certainly Corbin could bave given us acopy. ‘The President, who has hurried belore the committee and the coun- tty every other letter, every other scrap of his, bearing On this business, is strangely reticent when it comes to this tos important mission of them all. Any man is a stuffed fool who depouncos this re- Portas 4 Whitewashing report. Lt is the most deli- cate and artistic pieow of painting ever turned out. And, $0 far as Grant is concernes, the finding of the committee counts like a verdict from « coe ez: “not proven.” The foul odor yet remains. What with the open worship of rich men, the ready necep- tance of rich gifts, thet ugly sale of the patronage of the District here sor & brought out in the sale Of the gitt house, thouzhtinl people say, “ Well, Would have been better to have given as that letter. Corbin, Gould, Fisk, Butterfield, and ali concur in asserting that no high oficial had anything to do with the conspiracy. Poor devils, they stand with ropes about (heir necks, and are glud to escape on ny terms. ‘They micht implicate the President, but in so doing they would swing themselves, As the s Willtng to drop the aflair as Dis are, the general impulee on to let it go, t part of the affair, and the one Indl. cative of the spirit that aptmated the investigation, * to be found in tho nse of the President's letter to Boutwell, written when about taking the train for ington. Pa., where Corbin's mysterious letter ration engage the inwooei.t « Be oehin with: was H-known ac of all conce y advil by ¢ ove d, in feet, more Mig- ied wpon ali partie Tt would have b had the commit Vto come forward a ly wll thac to us. The Wonders of Natnve—Tae Death Wed of ung Eivh. THE GARDINER MYSTERY. —_—— : NEXPECTED DISCLOSURE Ky ray SERVANT, ROSE KIN - Capt. Alexander's Body Exinmod oy eqp after Denthy but no Traees of Poise Found—The Gardiner Family Avpiving for Ketense under Habeas Corpus ie auest by Coroner Flynn. Yesterday afternoon Coroner Flynn cont the Investigation concerning the mysterious yeah of Capt. John Alexander, who died under very wigriee rious clrcamsteaces In March, 1869, at the ros enen of Mr, and Mrs. Gardiner, in Hoviow, cist, Alexandor was reputed ta be wealthy oth ing foul play, bad carried suspenited to lis neck g large sum in bonds and money, enclose in leather bags. These bage, according to the teimony of numerous witnosses, who examined them just prlog to the death of Capt. Alexander, cont opwann oF $60,000, When examined, immediately ater Gardiners’ afirmed that the Captata postosed only £2,000, Mrs, Virginia C, Burke, the sole loguteg, who resided in New Orleans, after the aecosse of her father came here, and her own investizations aronsed her suspicions, which led to legal vroceete Ings against the Gardiners. Under the cirearistances, Coroner Flynn was requeted to fnvestizate the case, and some weeks ago the body was exlumed and the heart, liver, stomach, and large and «mall intestines were given by Deputy Coroner Shine to Prof. Dore mus for chemical analysis, ‘The Professor having completed his work, the investigation was resumeg yestorday. Tho affidavits of Mrs. Burke. the sole logatee, and daughter of Capt. Alexander, with those of Henry Leeds, Jas, 1. Winchester, W Charlotte Ann Morgan, Dr. Brockaway, Michael Crigior, Isaue Lockwood, Geo, W and Mr, Frothingham, President of the Merchants’ Usiog Expross Company, were read by Deputy Coroner Shino. Mrs, Burke's testimony was in effect that her father was in good health a fow days bef re big death, that he had a larze amount in bonds aid MONEY ON MIS PERSON, and that he had frequently expressed bis jatestion of leaving all his property to his daugliter. Some time before his death he had spoken of bis suse picions of the Gardiner fimily, and desire: to remove to Mrs, Morgan's, in Brooklya, In the testiniony of other witnesses the fuet was elicited that Mra, Gardiner had said that all she found on De der's body was $100, and that the amount was used to bury him, Sho afterward admitted that ¢ Alexander had presented to Mrs. Gardine remuneration for her kind attention. farthermore disclosed the tact that defi of Capt, Alexander the Gardiner family wore in REDUCED CIRCUMSTAXCHS ; that afterward they were in comparative sfiinon spending considerable amount of tone; (or aoe clos of luxury. At this point Gardiner, a pltifil paralytic, arose and made un effort to xpeak, but being avercomey tank back in his ehair, apparently exhaus' ed Dr. Broekaway, attented De, Al his Lilness, lestified on the other hand tha SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN, At the request of Provessor Doremus, Dr. Shine's reconnt of Bis post moi fern examination Wi read, vor, hearty thow ing the condition of the intestine and stomach, as delivered to the Prot ir Dr. R. Ogden Dorewus testified substa that there was no indleation of trritation, or oie ned th, the BESCSSSFSTEErsseseor22e A. Dewey, Alexane ler be died or organ| ing the tenet of thue since the ¢ Alexander, it Imest tmr Miscover tures of ¥ on, Thex« Vy ever found after t ig mont Tn conela a, Dr. Dore with the employme: the best seients sod knowl had diseovered NO RVIDENCES OF PorsoN, seor Doremus ba ' ort jJarainer, overcome by hee wep nurt room asked th to disenver in th oe wh possibl Wea ad eWoORK to & Coroner Flynn 1 the diseussic further fnv until Sa Writ Of habeas cor has been sued o Supreme Court for tie RELEASE OF it. AND wns. OAND i thing that way be new in Dig lite or matt For many years M loss to aceonnt for the e und gives to the public, for. the pub! covery. He says in regard to the matter: sama worm which is a favorite food of trou many other kinds of fish. ‘This worm ts 0 the greatest enemies which the y Tt spins a web in th #3 6 spider docs on ke the web uity {9 displ quickly and in the same way a by fastening the threads at different poin biek and forth until the weo is A are vot strong enough toh young trout after the umbilica) ene is nbeorbed, but the web Will stick to the fins and get around the head and nd soon kills the fish. Ihave otten secn it on Gag trout, and it has been a grest mystery 1 me’ many hours, days and weeks of study to find out what was wound around the heads and fins of my young trout and killed them, I id not find out until lately while watching re- tched whiteflb, ‘These sre much smaller trout when they Best to swim, and they git and beid by the web, I found ten small ught in one web inoue night. This unin & little whitellsh preserve, into Which I had put one hundred young fish.’ The threads spun by this worm seem to be much faer than the common spider's web, and they are not visible in the T until the’ sediment collects goon them. ‘They ean then be seen very plainly hese webs cannot be spun where there is much eurrent, and can be easily seen in still water by a close observer, —_ The Man that Wouldn't be Hanged, From Le Nord of Brussets, The Sowing incident has happened at Fles fingne, in Holland: A wife, exasperated by the continual drunkenness of ber husband, threatened him with death, Some Sago Ble npted to pat this threat into execution. There was Dnt an Attic above the sitting room, To this she asceaded, made a holo inthe floor, and passed a rope through it, one end of whieh fell into (ie room below, while the other rematned fastened In the attic, She then descended, made a slip-knot in the rope, and awaited her hurbaucds return, He at last arrived, and was much surprised to receive no reproaches oa his bad conduct, “There is something underhand here,” thought * TL must wee.” ‘© must premise that this scene took place in complete darkness. ‘The husband, whose suspicions were roused, let himself full tuto a chair wid ap- peared to sleep profoundly, After some svoriug, he # rope passed round his neck. He then under- stood the little trick that was to be played bim, but did wot move, His wife weatup to tu te, and taking advantage of this moment's respite, the drunkard. relieved himself of his rope and fisiened {tothe foot of the stove, Which soon went up to the ceiling with a frightful noise, cuused by the full of some crockery Whileh Was standing upon it, Lhe wife, Uiuking the noise was caused by the fruitless struggles OF her husband, ran to. the poli Office to declare. thnt Yad found ber hush buns, The police arrived in hot haste, and a candle was lichted, When a ted back at the *pectaele which presented itse!% The stove was swineing in space. add the Vushand sat gravely is pipe, Instead of a suletde, an attempt townraer Was esablished against the wite, who Was arrested, —_ Engagement witha Mantae, Or Sunday morning Victor Pope, who is in- vane, armed with a repeating rifle, attacked Camp- bell Howard, while the latter was on his way to chureh, newr Ripley, Olio, Pope fired three shots, one of which took effect in Howard's right arm. A vonstable and two other wen started to capture ti manna, and found biw imtreuched ina log how arined With a rifle and two revolvers. Pope ope tire upon them, when they Were compelled to 1 Vigorous retreat. ‘The party begun firing through the door, When le appeared ut the window apd fired several shots, wounding F. Courtney and Denton Howard. Subsequently Pope's mother came ap, when he quietly surrendered to ber. It was then nscertaiued that he way severely wounded ueur the epine und ander the left lower rib, a The St. Patrick's Day Pracesst Messrs, James Reilly, Grand Marghal of the forthcoming St, Patrick's Day procession; Thoma» Kerrigan, President; B. L, Casey, Secretary; and Timothy Darey, Treasurer of the Convention of Irish Societies, with Messrs, Lawrence Lan Hugh Murray, and Peter Daly, a Committee fro. f Nvention, walted on Comuissioncr Brennan ry ‘enural Oitce yesterday, and o5 lwhait Of nil the Societies, Iavitud hin 4h appeur iw the Procespionsin. 8 one Mee Be tepied: AOL Ww VW fees, aleu beow inv te —— Whe Bast River Bridve. 4, Roebling, J. R, Husted, and John Prev. of this city, are in St, Louls examining the con- ion of the bridge across the Mississippi, with the object of profiting from any hints avuilable in the building of the bridge over the Bast River, ls to bo decided t " bee dorker i are eulurly when the foet b the adjournment of the Conrtyest King the tervant of the Gardi jad told Dr. Sve Uae Sometime after the Capt. +. Mee Giver had hurriedly entered h 1 hyiteh exe eited, aud thrust into her land a pocaetho.k cow taining SUVENTREN Of RIGHTEEN noNDS Nd take care of th day. Rose King’ tomorrow, She ts to be Put on th aay. This fret, and that of the Gariive tempt to bribe the Coroner, make the cise ladeed mysterious, —— SUNDE AMS. ——-- —This has been the dullest carnival ev in Paris, —A revival is going on at the Davicl Drew Methodist Eptseopal Church in Carmel, Putnarr countyy 3.Y. —There bave been a good many dead beats in the musical world, but we hear of but oxe dead Beethoven —Swedish and Norwegian emigrants in conside Grable numbers are coming to Feitle in AroustooR county, Maine, next summer. —Forty years ago there was such ano about a New Hampshire member of Conzre bomea package of garden seeds wuder his ti the offender failed of revicetion, —There was a lively little breach of premise y knows made ok, that case in Kentucky Inst week, with damages lsd $10,000, whien tho fair platuuds father t we brought because the defeudant “had been that g0) long enough.” —In Vermont, recently, a little gir! trll inte the water, was carried down the Jee tor spent five rods, went over a seven-foot dam, ni rasted through an undercround raceway for a oe of fifteen rods to another gam, and was a the hat repiled, for one of the nat At the Bridgewater fore sald to be #0 Food nadp when they leave at tie end of one, tw are too plnmnp to wear the clothing w! and they depart tn larcer —School boys in Nev play, and Miteen feet deep, hy Ww ve on ot their father strnok a ledee of ¢ a thousand fect of the Fehoo! he —A Minnesota paper has intr feature, It belug a re claus of its town of tho contit\on their names, diseases, &e, All are rep proving,” * convaltsct cony ales doing well,” or“ getting better —A nice young man in New Orle With and married the s»pposed danzhte speotable lady, and t Which was freely gly that the air! was not hy Mi Vant gil, He said it was a swindle, Mass.) alinstonse the t from tw a unknown, Z Red Hand, a prophet of the Hit in has lifted the veil, and gazed tuto futurity | fied from what he saw We shail soon have o ago, when {trainet forty days and f the people got into the v! The rights of Woman who wo! bat few HI greater par stand NiCHY as (hey uty bas clams, for which she AL ease, witht wi The women wio want Want, mostly, W the author of the bat Lace 1 ike the Gelayepgre, nas r at Hawker to pains t 4 <~ aghon! | : visit kw Pieces of the wort evlebraced ui mene Covot Bismarek has had a cpus he DIN Of Lue doctor who attended his ™ Coe | wounded In students’ duct The physiciny | wade $60 visite, some of thei Insting several Lou ) fois rather aggrieved wilcn Madame Bismarc "4 x gold frederies—about twenty Aye dutinrs f+ Dil Was 160 thalers—about three Ki glish ill we tee #oOU Shing tod ick 1n Germany.