The Sun (New York) Newspaper, March 19, 1870, Page 2

—— * Sun. Jem itwes for AN, But this is no ¢ Coe * #tcomers on the ocean. in the ieast. sured the destruction of the Bombay herself, if her captain at the last moment had not saved his ship by changing his own helm to avert the rain threatened by the improper steering of the Oneida. most critical emergeney for the Bombay, and her own escape was the narroweet possible, Knowing this in {ts fall force at the instant, it was uo wonder her captain eried out to tho Oncida ne the ships collided, the Bomba: heatre Pou tna Kelly & Leon's Sostr Plymple Theatre Franctioa Minatrets, Gen, Grant in the Lobby of the Senate. The Dominican tr prospectively in on lobby Lave taken it in hand. to the ante nate, to intluenee ite action favor of this treaty, eetabliches a dangerow “What do people the steering of the other ship Inoked almost like a deliberate ty isa mere job, and At beat, it oppeared a most reprehen siile departure from the well-known law of an inexenéabl and most dangerous of a rule on which all steamers r their daily safety, We are no apologist for He did what n objectionable treaty the master of the mian should have But he did precisely what that well known and accomplished seaman, Capt. Dv (tke #, did when he ran down the Aretic in the fog off Newfoundland headed instantly for the nearest port, with- out stopping to see what mischief he had To be sure, his ship was more injured But in oll euch cases, in the confusion and apprehension that arise, the first instinct of ¢ hie own ship and ite company. We throw out these brief suggestions to show to the world that the American press is not #0 totally blinded by patriotic ardor as to deserve the aspersion of being able to see but one side of a case that har two sides to St. It is almost ineredible that an American ship of war should be intrusted to hands #0 incompetent ae to commit the blunder that hae resulted in thie frightful disaster. alpina The State of Morals in Congress. Mr. R. R. Burirr of Tennessee is proved to have taken money for the appointment of a cadet at West Point. it, but pleads by way of excuse that he used the money to help the Republican cause in the i to expel him from the Houee of Representa. One hundred and one members vote for bis expulsion, but sixty: it; and as a Representative cannot be expelled from the House without the vote of two ¢ sixty-eight suffice to keep Mr, Among them it is but just to state that sixty-six were Republicans, and two Democrats, The fuct that so large a proportion of of Representatives in cadetships cause for the ex: the confirmation nominees for office, and hy and by it will be rerorted to to pervert the or ary legislation Three centuries ago the Kings of Ki to take a side seat in the House of Com nions to overlook and influence ite proceed. Inge by their presence that eturdy body recorded a vote to the effect that these royal visits were a violation of its ‘They were then diseon tinued for two or three reigns Coan.es 1, after protracted quarrels with Parliament, finally resorted to the desperate expedient of going: in person to the hall of 18, and arresting Py membera of he spirit of Capt. Dremrsne Th process of tim than the Bombay, Ty master is to save Bis refractory Comm: and four other eminent Uibers! party rose up against this unusual attempt to ‘dominate and obsiruct its xetion in an un- The progressive and independent sentiment of the nation eupport- ed the Commons, snd wit the bead of CuAnLLs rolled from the seaffuld into the basket of the ex guilty of many crimes, the turning point in the career of the unfortunate Canis was Die visit to the halle of Parliament, iv order to coerce it# action or unduly control its de- eisions by his royal presene ce, but he had not carefully stu died the times in which he lived. Dominican treaty ie a cor Topt, end to the nation an uprofitable and Wisereditable job, By ratifying it we shall eertaiply anvex to this repablie an uncon senting people, and incur Jarge pecuniary Aiabilities, and purchase a erest in the civil convulsions now smoulder- fog in that island. The rulers of the United Stotes carrpoout their plavs, and the people execute th will, by methods different from those em. nd during the rule of the Stv- # went down tothe Commons. Went up to the Senate. arreeted five commoners with his own hand beceie they would not yield to his arbitrary i RANT, with hie hands full of favors, ovly sent for balf a dozen Senators in order to persuade them to ’ Warranted manner. 8 brief period In fact, he admits Hereupon it cight vote againet Bet en in his plac Unpropitious in ployed in Enyls o suffle'ent puleion of Mr. state of morality in that body than it has generally had credit fi sell a cadetehip and still be worthy to sit in the Honse and legislate for the peaple of the Uusted States, why may he not sell hie own vote? There ie a difference between the two, it is true; but this difference is not eo great as that between selling eadetships and hon. estly distributing thein in compliance with the spirit of the law. Let us hope, however, that even the sixty- eight gentlemen who have now voted that a member may make his official duty a mat ter of bargain ond sale withont tmeurring the stigma of expulsion, may still be brought to support such legislation as will prevent oevedings hereafter. If a member may Lis pleasure by ug # treety re-king with corruption, and which, at that siage of the proccedings, wae solely within their jurisdiction, might have sent o message to the Senate, Vike his predecessors expressing his views on the pending treaty ; but he chore to go CHAKLES mig Bave caused hie royal will to be announced Commons by of the Court; thetr hall in pers fo the Capitol but he preferred to repair to euch disgraceful pr is no danger of the hea@: ; Why the Dominican ‘Creaty should be Hing by and by trom a+ owever distingulsl 4, however distinguish: | aye treaty for the annexation of the Do win'ean Republic, now pending before the ed for the following nd persistent nity hiflicted upon the President for his unpre Senate, should be ented mode of mixing in this nly businogs will be pushed off the pla! 1. It would at once involve us ina civil One third of the territory and more than one third of the population of that republic have revolted against ite Govern ment,,and have virtually suceecded in estab- own indepen of this revolt is Canna, a clever and ener getic native of the country, well trained in ite civil contests, and trusted hy his followers. We might possibly be able to conquer him and his people, but the expense of such a war would be enormous. ‘The assent to annexation even of that port of the Dominican people who are under the rule of Bxz hae not been fe It i# true that the forme of a pretended elec- tion have been gone through with ; but there is nothing to guarantee that the votes have been honestly received and counted, or even that the votere bad any notion of what they were called to vote upon. our undertaking to force annexation upon them, it ie not probable that they would re- gard themselves as bound in the least de by the ceremony of thie pretended torm of the next Republican party—not, as was also the case with Ciortes, for act alone, but for his: ineapaci keep up with the spirit of the times. Gen. GHANT's fate, in respect t ation, is fixed to catch and honor of the party that clected him, let him keep out of the lobby of Congress But for the The Bombay and Oneida. The public mind, having given vent to its indiguation over the disaster to the Oneida, fe perhops now euttic view the cnse more uitly composed to re mpartially than hitherto What was the primary cause of the col Jigion which resulted in the thie ship ot warand the loss of the brave men who weut down with her? tion does not involve that of the subsequent eonduct of the captain of the Bomba: quit himself of the er! failing to ascertain what damage had been , and to render suceor to the perishing crew of the Onvida But who was to blame for the collision the firet instance? rly obtained, destruction of an never 4 The terms of the treaty give us no i of the amount of money that we hall be It is true that the treaty million and a half in gold as om; batit is aleo stated that f the debt of the Domintean Republic should Vaited States the clreunstan viewed under the lights we think it the fault of the Oneida that now hetore we called upon to pay: the ships car thie country, that #tew proaching: one anoter, head on must be put to the in of the Domin. he title to the publlie dor jean Republic thing, that the Bombay, on sighting 1) Oneida so 0 the republie were granted away to the speculators concerned in getting rly dead aliead ae to show th: Odvivla’s lights om both ides th the right by pattin well known in the lobby at Washington— 60 that while the her helm a-port before it had been sign United States remaine bound to pay the surplus debt of St. sideration bas all Oneida het dor » the kame thing, elewsly their duty to do, there could have Domingo, the con. been no collin The ships would have been conveyed away Surely passed each other at an abundantly signing of Dominican Government has been running inw debt with all its might g it purchases, not in money, but ot, relying upon the Tifieates as Why then did not the Oneida follow the tuly applicable to her posi Ationg seamen Wo given to thin q steered right, here if no answer to The Bombay The Oneida wtoered wrong. We nceno reply possible that ean ity of the collision from » of the Ameriean ship Excuses may be offered, Defective jig Ment may be pleaded, in certitivates of United States to pay off these port of the publi tifleates are now sold in the rate of from five to fifteen cents on the do} lar, although in the event of annexation the United Stotes will have 1 mi to redeem them i shift the responsi’ jndebtinent the offleers in char, ‘ouniry at the Tt may be said the THE SUN, SATURDAY, MARCH he had time and room to crore the track of | loan hae been contracted with Hantont & MK, BERGWS LIBEL SUIT, the Bombay, and that he thus tock the rick of attempting it. from the ebarge of a palpab ly applies to all does not shift or pene he Secret of the Piilanthropiai's Uncome Won Sensiiiveners Mes ‘s Relations ‘0, ® concer in London, for an elastic amount, ranging from helf # million to several inillions of dollars, For this Harr. with Mr James Lb. smith~ An Open Most & Co, pay the Government a nominal Qa ation. ‘ ) Mr. Henry B o President of the & nice of 20 to 80 cents on the 2 Mee te Reg ta MPa achat sd tes) neg Sof Crotty t9 Animale, apd Mesere, James L, fwith avd Spencer W. Cons, elf tors of the New York Courter, oppesred in the Tombs, before Judge Dowling, yesterday, Mr. Bergh was cou for himself, and for the de- fendunts Mr. fiery Bisbow appeared. After Mr. Bergh's affidavits had been réad, charging that the Courter had Welled him, Mr. Bergh was crortex- Amined by My, Bishop, who moved for a dietni-ul of the complaint, on the ground that the offensive article was merely a piece of pleasantry, published without insii¢ious intent, and withoat any purpore Of injuring or defuming Mr. Bervh, But the Court denied the motion, and the defence called Spencer W. Cone, who testified that there was no fecling of hostility or revenge on bie part in the publication of the article to whieh Mr. Pergh had taken excep: tion. Justice Dowling asked whether the Courier pnb- lish an apology for the article. Mr. Cone replied in the affirmative, and said he would be willing to write a panegyric upon Mr. Berg whenever he desired it Mr. Rorgh excitedly «aid ke desired nothing of the fort, All he wished woe to be let alone, He did hot eeek any panegyrice, AS h bad been deeply woun he would not object to an Apology. Mr. Dergh, becoming warm, said that ho had been wronged, grievously wronged, for he had been singled out by the New York Courter for abuse in ite columns, The article ned by calling bim “an ase, a remark whic ertairly calculated tocreate a brench of the peare, If he hud been a Aghiing man he wonld have taken it ont by going to the office of the editors und chastising them there; when the country is annexed, the United States will have to take up this debt at the rate of 100 cents on the dollar. It is also negertained that all the mines and water privileges have been conv the Government to the gang of speculators under whose auspices the treaty has been made, An exclusive privilege of banking has likewieo been conferred upon them, as has tho right of importing merchandise into the republic at nominal rates of duty, much lowcr than those prescribed by the regular tariff. In all there grants and monopolies it well understood that President Bat whom the treoty fs syrned, is limeelf a partner, ae he is in the money to be made by the repayment of the public debt at ten times its actual value The question for Congress to decide—and it is @ question in which the House should have a voice as well as tho Senate—is, wheth- er the United States should become a party to all the swiudles we have indicated. oo Mr. Frothingham’s Misfortunes. ‘The Rev, Octavius B, Frormixouam ts a man sincerely to be pitied. He is a preacher and a public speaker, but somehow every | but bis was a peace'ul mission, The article described little while he has the bad luck to be egro. | Mim as very tail and very thin, He did not have any " choice in the making of himeell, else he might have giously misreported by the press, His been ‘aebioned an handsomely as the magistrate who was misfortune of this kind was on occasion of | presided over that Court. He war accused of the recent Harvard Club dinner. He mado | drunkenness by implication, tbat is, he wus de- forme remarke at that dinner which he in. | Serie m having red nose, and e red ose 1s en siovate toward the Indiane, but which one | that—but it could, by ridicaling him, wrong hia of the editors of the College Review, who was | cause, “And,” added the distinguished zodphist, present, took in adirectly opposite sense, and | With energy, “by wronging that cause they commit commented on in his paper accordingly. | §ien thousand times more erlevor ‘Thia drew from Mr. FROTUINGHAM @ note they can inflict on mo.” At this point Mr. Bergh turned to Mr. Con tothe following purport : “ That the speech was uttorly misconceived and Mr. Beron- Are you in business? A.—I am a misrepretented 1 count at of swall importance, wrong than any lawyer in this city, and a farmer on Long Island. Q —Have you a race of business bere? A.—Yes ; 1 have learne: am entirely reeiened to tt. Even so ridiculous at ¥ Seruce street and 8 Chambers street. SxRe, you know Mr. Smith? A—Very well. epresentation.es yours only provoked a smile. rieves me is that « magazine that elaime to .—What are your relations with him? A.—I ob- speak In the interest of culture should echo the vile deck to answer that question, as to a! With hit in business, but will astersions of the lowest representatives of the dally Press,” connections with bim, in th counee!, Tur Corat—Then yon wil! bh : erets of that purines connection. Tn reply to this commnonication the editgr bj a your name Spencer W. Cone? Aft 1, —Te that name at the head of the New reiterated that he certainly did understand | yorg Courier PA, that ts the composition of soy Mr. Frormixcuam to make the remarks | name. ‘ i . —In it your name? A.—T decline to answer, which were attributed to him, and listened 8 xHow’ Jong bas that name been there? A.—For +i sa sr gen: | *Ome tine, to them with pain; that several other gew Q--With your knowledge? A.—Yes. tlemen who were present construed his re- + Bishop read several editorial articles from the : daily press touching Mr, Hergl's sensitivenoss tn merkes in the same way; but that, desiring tabing offence at such on orticle a8 bad appeared in never to do intentional injustice to any one, he cheerfully offered him the uso of his columns, in which either to correct or vindi- cate his remarks. This elicited another and longer epistle, ia which, in addition to setting himself right on the Indian question, Mr. Frormixouam refers to certain allusions in the Review to his connection with the Rien. ler, He added that if the piece of piaasantry A libel, the articles writer ‘ory O'Lenus, ARDKON- MCFARLAND marriage, after this manper: ¥ Petroleam V. Nasby, Artomut rd, and others 1 At any tate, to my fuulte of logic, great or small, is a mere matter of course, y relations y T have business ‘ase Tam one of his to keep the ee. monkeys, and eald he had given no such mecieine nor practised euch treatmént, Neither dit sueb a notebook. The interview betwee and Mr. Gould about thy prowising to keep plainer ry over tt fo ward off the sun's rays, be said Was false Ile was not brought into contact with the intelligent and. Wealthy, but with tie bumble and illiterate, and from (iat clase the danget of this article would arise. Decision reserved, ——————— 2HE BOY MURDERE Aisle ae Last Day on Earth-The the Scaffeld—Tue Bi, t Scene ot AM, Littte Vatier, } larch 18,.—Theodore Nicklas was banged in this place to-day for the mur- der of Dr. Andrew Mead t» Allegany, N. ¥., in After luis arrest, Nicklas made a shh confession, {detailing the manner in which the erime here again complains of the press for miste- | was committed, He assaulted his victim with a fre- presenting him, but mentions no paper by | shoved, and killed him in the most shocking man- hawever, that he had | ser, He then fled, taking with him the wateh and raw Vb je : mouey of the mardered maa, the New York Trivune tn his mind, It was Nicklas was arrested in Bafulo, and through the the Tribune which first puliished his cele- medinm of the stolen watch was convicted and sen- brated prayer in which he thanked the Al- | tenced to be hanged to-day. Me showed great ine mighty for what two adulterers had heen to | difterence to Me fu: to the time of his execution each other, and what they might be yet; The saline wis sre cted in the jall yard. ‘The con- and it was the Z'ridine which published a | gommet Jone, 1h tue Jal in shares of Sherif report of his no less prated sermon On | coded by Futhers Sorg and Bloomer, and followed clective affinities, which gave everybody who | by some of the county officers, He ascended the read it the impression that Mr. Provuixe. | Platiorm with a firm step, MAM favored the doctrines of Free Love, not |, The death warrant was then rend, and the rites of ss the Catholic Church performed, He was over- in their coarsest, but still in a very danger: | wretmed atthe last moments, and wished Father ous form, This wae the construction put | Sorg to say for him ih’t he was sorry for all the upon the sermon by Mr. FRovminaian’s | sins he had ever committed, and that he hoped for co-religionists of the Liberal Christian ; and | *!vation, and trasted that his fate would be a warn- . sey to all young people, when he wrote to them that the Tribune had | E10 sil young peow! “ Ane He dropped eight feet, and died without a strug. misreported him, the Zribune indignantly Hie body was delivered to his friends, ually libeliods. He also revd from Mr. And canmal reference to history was alt tha Jast annual reports how he (Mr. Bergh) had Hewed the “arbitrary procentinzs © of Justice Dow: c the alightest bearing on tle Indians, either a fellow-students or fellow-men, The * ef catera ‘that Hing for three montne, in the summery disposal of followed may bave been - ad navecam,” but thi cases brought hefore bim Nr, Bergh objected to the reading of the papers uot the remotest copneetion with the Aborial © Aw little. Tenoald imagine, had my other ' yee ang report, but was overruled, The philinthropist insisted Uvst if there ever was liar Views On ‘certain soctal tovics * to which you mysteriously allate, You probably feel quite com: a libel this was one. He reed portions of the article whieh alluded to his keeping ® notebook, in which Was deseribed his medical treatment ef’ dogs and ively what these views are. Edi- torial omnivelence lias revealed & good many secrete respecting tet, of late. Bat ‘or my own purt. T ain not conscious of entertaining, on any rocial topics, Views that deserve (0 by cuned "pecwlar’ in snevil sense. Por purposes of (heir own, which they byst anderstond tried to fasten on me obnoxlons opinion don we if Jrese cmazement at Freeing the fame thing coun Banced by 2 journal like yours It will be observed that Mr. Proriiomast petent to state p dN PTERNITY. eo Dying vnemt You met ps December Ins name. It is ovéds denied the aspersion upon its accuracy, and —— insisted that it had printed exactly what he THE PERILS or THE OCEA said. ‘The Disabled Samaria Pat Bach Cértainly Mr. Frotmrmonam has been © Normandy ‘Thirty Lives Loa very unfortunate in his experience ; but his <Bemsible datiy etthe conclusion that the press has any animosity | The ship Madge Wildfire, Capt, Barclay, from against him is altogether illogical. It would | Savannah, Feb. 6, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, be far more reaeonable in him to conclude | Oo the 12th instant she signalled a disabled Cunard that {t is the uncertainty and incoherency of | DT#-Tieeet steamer steering east, She wanted no asnistance This wae unquestionably the missing hie opinions, and his own imperfect method | qtoamer Samaria, Capt, Martyn, from Liverpool for of expressing himself, which cause him to | New York, which bas put back to @ British port, be misunderstood. The press 1. no interest | She wes expected to arrive off Cape Clear, Ireland, in telling anything but the truth, and, we | 19st BieMt. ‘The Samaria is w Srateeinns screw steamer, oF wbont 2,400 tons register, aud is only may add, rarely faile of doing #0. two years old, Capt, Harrison i# in command, and ——— es ‘ ape «_ | she has on board about two hundred passengers and Secretary Fret can’t talk Spanish, but it 18 | | eneral cargo of assorted merchandise, She bas hoped that he will soon have to walk Spauieh, never been considered u fast steamer, and on pre- . —— vious trips has been out as long as fourteen day While the Young Democracy are re- | propabiy little alarm would have been felt for her modelling the police, wouldn't it be well for | safety bad It not been for the long absence of the them to think of cutting down the salaries of the | City of Boston, which gave rise to the feur that the muria might have been damaged in the gale about of that which it 1@ #upposed the City of ‘ : neountered. ‘The rews ol ihe the es of the Commissioners have | Samaria svread with city. created the livell Jeature, ‘The fact that she was wvfe wd Democratic udninistration ought to tolerate, | Roces that the City of Boston inh Besides, what is the uae of five Commissioners? | fron. When the district included Brooklyn, Westehes ter, and Ri r Normandy in the Channel ary; and now that all the outside counties | te) cous, Phe Normandy wont down with ler ep ys and now that all the outside counties | ter ed Ghivty verscne., he Normany won m screw We cominend | steamer, of 204 tons recister, ad gaging of 2 horse tfal consideration | pewer, LUIIC Ii Southiupton in 188, She wae une ful consideration | pry s nail bate ruuning between Foust ampton and racy, Cheap and honest | the Chanre: Islands, beloncing to the Southwestern Hallway Company, ‘The Marv i¥ a yerew steauer, Commissioners a peg or two? Under the despotic Republi so loug, the wa y system which has existed here been raised fur above anything that an economical THE NORMANDY KUN DOWN, Loxpox, Morch 18.—The steamer mond, five were more than was | guests are cut off, three will be ainple these suggestions to the thou of the Young Demo government is their motto, and three nani Of OVE Cans reatetor, with engines of SO horse power, sioners with a walary of five thousand dollars a | She was built in Dundee iy 1887, and at the tine of year apiece is what they ought to strike for, the accident wae laden with a cargo of gral ——— THE LOSS OF TH VENUS, It Ie quite generally be Jurges of the United Stu curred in the r jeved that but four Loxpon, Mareh 18 A despateh from Avtwerp. 4 w# the rumor of the los of the ship Venus, upreme Court cous | ( Vesper, from Callao, November J, with ent decision on the tion | guano tor Antwerp, Fre wae an Annerioon slap, of ne burdeo, and belo 4 at Thomaston, Me, of the Legal-Tender act, while three dissented from | ARE fms urueu aud belonged at Thomaston, Me it, This, we have the best authority for saying, ————— is vot the fact, The decision was agreed upon as | A movement is making to connect St, Louis Jong ago as last November, before Judge Guren’s | with some point on the Union Pacite Railroud cart resignation, and he, with Chief Justice Crass and | of the 100th paraliel of longitude, Fort Kearny bas Justices Nexsow, CLirvonn, avd Fixup, made ave | bern telected ae that point, A rule laid on a map of Judges who concurred in the decision, We are | the (nites States, with one end upon St, Louis and a neges Wad conenrted 10 i obs a © F€ |) the other upon Fort Kearny, passes throngh St, alto informed that the newly appointed Justice, | Jovepn, ‘This then is the proper line of the proposed Judge Strona, has given no pledges whatever a8 | connection, Betwoon thesn two extren es are some to what his opinion will be when the same ques- tion comes up aguin for determination, 400 miles of railroad completed, and a ttle over 200 tore remain to build, ‘The St, Louis and St, Josoph — Kaiiroud, which 18 almoet finished, i an important Mok in this chain, It rons throagh one of Me most The Deputy City Chamberlain is eaid to be worth a million dollars, Huout populous and richest districte tn agricultural and a mineral wealth In the West, When thie and the The skating atthe Empire City Rink, Third | road to Fort Keaiuy from Bt Joseph are completed, svenue and Blaty-third street, le excelent, and bas | the distancerom Bt. Louis to the Pacific Railroad 19, 1870, THE FIGHT FOR $5,000,000, THE UN AMINATION OF JAMES FISK, CONCLUDED, | Renting of the Case for the Erte Roitw Company Racy Testimony of Admivat Kisk- fe Kees the Spectators tn Roars of Lawghtor—The Roabers and Conspiras tors in Mis Bigrecpous'e He We! Themacty # to the Devily The Supreme Court Room was crowded yester day with people why had come toheur the bumnor sas testimony of the witty Jamos Fisk, Jr, Mr. Fisk was soated In @ chair at ine Jefe hand of Jado Bar- ward, He looked very cool, aud his bearing Was r¢. markably easy. # twiokled at times vith fan, His ¥ av und nnnesitating, Ex.Judge Davis continued his erow-examination of Mr. Fick in reference to the interview with Mr. Van- derbilt in the latter's bedroom. The exarsination was to this effec At the close of our conversation, Mr, Vanderbilt rose from the hed on the site of which he had been itting, went into the next roow, and eat down there: T noticed particularly tis shocs and the buckles (Iauchter}—there were four buckles; T had nover seen #hoes with buckles in that manner be- fore, and T thought thot if thie sort of men wore those shooe, T might perhaps want a pair, [Laughter] At flashed throngh my mind then, and Ihave thought of itagreat many times since then, Iwas in the room from twenty to thirty minutes, We then went out where Mr, Gould wae sitting by the fire, and T told him ina few words what we had been talking aboot. Teould not teli just when it without pondering over the events of my life about that tim Q. What particntar events of your life won'd enable you ts x the time? A.—The most mupressive thing fipon my mind at that time was THE ALMIGHTY nomBERY thte man Vanderbilt was attempting on the Erie Rail way Company: that has always been on juy mind, hut Teontd not cive Ue mouth, the day, nor the year With- ont reference. Q—What references do you want? A.—You confine me to tiriet language and dates and [anewer accord iely; We are all very well nware that it was in 180, Dnt you want me to swear poritively ; When aman puts questions ns you put them 1 WANT TO Look OUT. Q.-When wae the Interview at Mr. Pierrepont hotkey A-—It was about or half-past#, Lehould eay ; that, A.—-Lam quite willing to ont: well, we stenped into the hall of Pierre. ned the servant it MF. Plerropont ie Would see; Gould Was Tight be- hat he isnot far behind; when {ho servant opeved the door to zo 1a the reception room J uya® very carernt to bein the line of the door (iangh- er), 80 THAT I COULD LOOK IN. Mr. 13errepont at that moment stepped Into the hall: 1 asked him if Kidridge wns there; he eaid he (houht he was, and said he wonld step in and, Tatepped im too leaghter) It was in that room that T found the re, 4 1 fe conspirators, ae T called them: T found Eidridi ere ot (be went in with me), T ichard Schell, Frank ‘ork and Raneilo; I said to Elaridy re," you are not ar. ranging with these people are you 1d. vor, thi Were About copeummatiog @ trade; 1 replied could not if] could atop It; T sald that from wi Commodore had they had concinded to force a settiement thiongh, wi out regard to the wishes of mvrelf and Goulr tad them they could not make @ seulement without taking lore amount of the Corporation's money, and that I didn't belteve they couldy CARRY OUT ANY SUCH RONBERY; Eldridge then sald he didn't want to go jnto it, bat he had tried to do the beet be could with Gould ‘any my gelf and could do vothing; he had got a price Fol by Vanderbilt and intended to sotile in that way; at this point Drew took a hand in; the old gentleman's voice wasn little weak; be went on to tell what he had enf- fered during nis pilgrimage in Jersey; he said that our Telations hart heen very pleasant fowether ; that they were older in these matters than I was: I was very glad to hear him say he was older im that matter; ne went On to say that settiements of this kind were nothing un- usual in large corporations; I told him if that was #o we ought to have LARGER STATE PRISONS, for that was the worst cinse of robbery acoing; he suid the Commodore Would not settle without, ani would “uever pe witvdrawn xt 7 oo anie 4 Taff they haa i nt because they dant bine in, and that ft do po good: Eldridge then broke in that the trade was pouna to ao through that night, at which I made no further reply, and they went ow with the wn Hegotiatio: ‘The thing was fusebed at t 4 few minute told me he bad m: Tainan ead T sont | was passed acount wiiel the contents, rast ed, took my hat, and left. = d'eleek : T cone Gould consenting fret his mind to Jet it go through if Gia, of courte. A Fdon' ren cH BUS: J wae dis. olf Touts wat we SOLD OURSELVES TO THE DFVIL; 1 did; Teald t J iat was the end of it; Ttnld him Lthoneht the thing was not legal; he anewrred that ring to Eldriave, pyar Fidiidge had arranged 3 #0000) for his opinion, and with Faton to poy hin $18000 for hie; these two opinions would make the thing all rivbt; the cashier of the Erie Tui way was at Mr, Pierrepont’s that night aud carried with bia THE REMAINS OF THR CORPORATION to be put in Vanderbjit's tomb ferent laughter}; be had a iarze check book: L eaw White writing in ft, but I took | came away before the checks were dclivc fant yew say ‘that von didnt reat wnytiana you signed? A.—That Is what IL told y Thave al: ware bee) clad of It wince T signed anvthiog that was Jaid before me, after signing the fire: paper: after that half my dartte Was fouctt, nnd L had submitted ; I went with the robbers from the’ out, LOTS OF FUN. How long did you renain after your conversa. toh? A—Teot out ae quiexiy ast conid, my inpres sion is that Tt my hat ond wen = fois fant yon uditwent rent my idea ts ‘Der Dida" Sit down a’ter the transaction? A. —Tdoo't ind’t have anything | (Laugh: ter) After these papers were suzned didn't you talk the matter over? A.—-Ldov't remeber Do you renicmber having & gins of wine; wouldn't that make aa limproeeion on you? AI" vey er drink ¥ =Do yon remember —= A-—No. sir, =What? A—What you Were going to tay, proba: div. (Lanehter!, Vou are quite mnre of that, are you? A.—No, sry nol antl you put the question Were you fworn Wheui you took the stand? A.— Q- Will you tell whether you did or did not, after the paper was execnted ani delivered, ett down in Mr. Pierrepor oom and Rave a conversation on the sub: Joct? (A--I don't remember. Q.—You would not Hideriabe not? A~1 don't remember, and have #aid so fiftern thues Caugnte preston ie that T went tmuuve: diately ont; L WAS not Mh A Very Amiexble mood after WAVING FOUGHT sKVEN MONTIG ‘against these people; Gould and I went Avenue Hotel meeryiew wil Gould was present; we firet day in the front room: he said he kuow and spoke about my filling hi eT had ola 16,0 shar out tut (me, ater lic had giveo his Himited order. ey Was that the Orst you knew abont that order? A i much, (Laughter) That was the day was wait.ns for, waite Uli they put that sock np so thet Teould let them bave it. When a stock is gh enough. ‘that ie the time f L have anything to Fell. Field-—1h pation murt be Foy) yo't like this, Mr. Fisk. jLaushter.) At the next interviow, Vanderbilt's house, he said he desired thestrate should. be closed We told him we had made arrangements with Mr, Eldridgo abont the bonds ithe payment of the two and a half millions. We tola bim we were ready lo carry out our arrange: ments. The capital stock of the compeny was at that He thirty wiilions, What Ie ithow? ttwled out. Je not the present amount of the common stock eikse0.018? | Htuled onr.y 3 What was the amount oo the 10th of December, 1B? (Ruled out.) Judge Davie then offered to ehow that by various ctions of the Erle Company the value of its stock to say that you did the Fifth pd theo Gould went Away; at the next Vanderbit, which war at his oilee, W ‘ble Moan Fri REDUCED FROM 70 TOA from the aate of the settlrment to the tn the juter resent 10 t ExJudge Davis of the Bxecative which auth to cont original minutes Company, cenit. bat In reply to questions put, Mr to eAV! | OF he night of the meeting at Plerreponts how A HUDDEN AND ENTINE CHANGE Gonld and myer caine over the posit Voto that paint the Fouters--sehell, Werk. Vandernity atapatte arte ¢ ever euuimelled with hthew piisc Of a Corpor: robbers. Fer wieht ond day, and w Veo months Din DL sigied (hat paper, Whatever T did sign, Pwas weil awerethat T bad fulted=tad done whath ougit todo, sud that trom thatmomentt Dade sokt wy fash ont ts that t haa gives uf all righis of the poston TE had takeu, and had gone upon Q.-You al niew then In any scheme ¥ A.—No, ety Dhave bh eXeopt bo wet tie a with Vander tistent In ba t yon were engaged sine No rob t HeEeHOn WI Ast in TUE chat he would ouly take twelve hundred thousand; he spoke of Hapaljo as his counsel Work wae bly broker and his representative In thie Hoard: Le satc be controlled the Schell sult, aud. tthe Drought In his interest, Mr F Stewart were elected to our Hoard aw presentetives of Vanderbilt, Dav never tock thelr Tish. Mr F tein The cases oF hewn Sete against whieh had peew wiih the Bloodgood #uit Noncker and the This coneinded the teeth then offered in evidence Work, Mondyoud, aud the p the way Company, al niaintif then rested, Teach thereupon renewed the MOTION FOR A DISMISSAL of the eomplaint, on the Fame grounds as before, wiv tng acted of the fo it08 of Lie partiem and He Upon which be thought it the duty of the Court v the motion. In the course of (he (ial his. tH id, hind repwuted!y recognized the Une character and nnirtanee of the tra) One ot the Ost prom! a rettlenn by the i nil to recover irom prominent that ho hat bee: ‘of the Company (0 p le mieht venture fo FAY that t the defendant in the ease, up pencement of the action, had borne an ied reputation for integrity and frobity in bis bu transactions. He was how drawing bear to the uuuort eof buinan life, aud they aid knew that be was in hie clrenmstonces,’ character, and position, placed Above all Lemptation to ditnonor and Fully hie part live by fraud apd conspiracy. He had also some knowledue of Whe charactor of those thie litigation proceeds. he { of Gould and Piek, for the purpose age agatust te Auten * tock of the Erie Kallwa THE ROUTE TO THe ORIENT OF vaAKtEN, pany. Mul wliy was it—and it wae an lnqubry ho Overland Konts is Doin splat Guat prompted the belngtt War it it tere dovlingd ty tarnish thy their course of ac Wy were Ue books consealed and suppressed ¢ Mr groundencon Which and Mienanrgemen ot the corp aint The developrient of a tra 41ND MARKET. trane- Continental rai have awakened 9 short, eho, betweon rival enrrytie interos Joast temporary, advantages to sbioers of in Repecially t: this 9: trade to and from th haw heretofore Pacific Mail Ste a temporary rival via the a this single route ty the G subject to the oftenttr monopolizing Comp’ {9 the Pacite coaat, nd Joseph Durand Huse not, what are they ¢— erning the Marriage Are Mary Durand bant and W New Theory Cow ion veneticiat to the Cowmt wnt Cativo wholly at the me ‘The case of Mary Durand against Joseph Da rond was Vefore the Superior Court, General Term, yesterday, on on appeel from t Fithian vacating av The decision wus made on th Vit, and was on the ground (hat the paruss were, Jer the laws of this State withstanding there ha tion of marri fixtoen years with an ocension dev of arrest of tl tonal Hon Sinte, were shippers bat the time was usnally fom tiict ing dotained ot the longer thon pas THE OVERLAND RO ompletion of the Pacifl opened’ up a daily and continaons rout from ocean to ocean, Ato one-half the time reanite and offering a consetitio oe of froigint about one-half, bevifes avolding all the dangers of aoa transoortat ions of comperature | Froighters for Cu! is in cars in this city Ly 0, whore the: xe, into care running (tou Francisco, the whole transportation by 8 single bill of California Fant Freight shipped now make the jouraey f ocean ln from fifteen to twenty dey for first-class freight of but $8 per 1% por great revolution effected by this arta all who recall the 100 days was cons porsage, and when later, by the I Jed in San Pranisen in thi New York, at # cust (0 having Nved together Diting and passing os hneband leged breach of pr Hvel, and the ints counsel, on the the plainti@'s counsel argued that davit alleged first lustance «ul of arrest, and reduced the pi sband and wife, because that we m the merits of the vetion, and would proeti atity that a cont futuro, though folie make a inarriege, and that thou . and resresental “y per venta de now joad their goo leading to Chi by ihe porti¢s, rringe, they did not necessarily «formal ceremony ding furnished oF was impoten not of logal age. Decision reserved, THE LOST WYNOCKIE CHILDREN, be appreciated by Caiitornia, when Mr. Joseph Wible, the unhappy futher of the children who perished in the woods of Wynockic this winter, called yesterday at THE SUN office, in company with his friend, Mr. Aaron O. Garrison, of Bergen county, N. J, to receive the contri. ent iu by readers of this paper. looks broken spirited from affiction, but he is by no the illiterate person that he is eommonly rep- resented. We liad the pleasure of handing him $20), for which he gave us the following receipt Received, New York. Marcb 18, from the Tar &eN Gorlaton, LwWo Bundied and of at this offer for freight war lai forty daye from from 10 to $2) per 100 pounds. FROM OCEAN TO OCKAN When the railroad across the Piair ed completion the varions connecting the Missouri rive negotiating for throawh arrangements For a Jong time rival intervats aud the contide owners of the Central Pacifie Railroads by the brilliant pro je ness before them delayed thi coment was eft and the Atlantic 28-100 dollars, subterip'! Mr, Wible expressed the utmost grati'cte—in words that choked his atteraiee— been shown him In his afttictic tem exends from Chi uncil Blaff on the Missou Damiles, by Whhieis Uh line weat to sired ns to say that the reports of inrge sums of All he hae had is Money sent him Were erroneous. Bergen county, se connections wi thence tothe Aciintic coast ed arrangement was brought into « California Fast Mew results of whieh are partially otic: Per 7,N.R. Welt # Yerhie: ‘ame forgotten. The Se oilce n his family eloshing ory that the Paterson peo fo loaded his wagon with food sud goods war ui All he took howe on retar amount of $20 ng from (he Jas. Will be readily comprebionded, Prosperity tris Company despat Ww paid for himvelt, In the geuith of can eave, will be w ‘stead for bis family. in that undertaking, offerings to Mr. A. gon county, N. J, OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS ACKNOWLEDGED, Received, New York, Mare Printing aid Publishing Association, Ave dollars, for becrIptions received at SUN office froin news be MES, TOW Nok S 1870, from Tue Sc 3, Garrison, at Ramsey's, Be the trips to two o this port on the Gth and dst ‘The last steamer that cleared from thi+ 1870, from TAR SUN cey wad aunounced to ail On the Bur inst # previously the tae was ebanzel tw th Handening one trip, wad on the Yet, but one @ month indicate w ost startling decline in business awers find it imy ines, a¥en at the owing to the a reduced to the Recotved, New York, March Printing atid Publishing Association, thirteen fey rebecriptions received wt Bex a Thoee circumstances Se Ori tit ble to compete with ——<————_ O'HALL'S SUCCESSOR. ernative Of Wire sels ullogether or ranning them empiy. THE DIFFICULTIES James O'Brien for Mayor, To the Faitor of The Su Sin: gl noticed am article in your paper thie morning from a Mr. Fox, of Forts-ninth street, stating that no man can or shall be Mayor execpting Judge, Vecause he i# w kind-hearted man, Now I want to atk yon a question: Don't you think our Sheriff, the Hon, James O'Brien, ts just as good a man, and better than the big Judge t not kind-hearted f every respect? Is be not as apy man could or w T know, is yes; and so {» everybody's th Now I want to know why he can’t be 4 ty of New York for every honest man will {ug this in your Valnable paper, you will 1 OF THE PAci¥IC Th (s true that {f the Pacifo Mail Como Ag, which is now th ean out ball, the But this they con Their dependence wbon the Paname etstamus is plesded as the grest obstecle tn the way of their @ tariff to the requirements of the time. Rullroad Company exacts # toll of & 6:1 all freight 1¢ tranaporta, ‘This leaves the Blea their freight t share of the busi inability to do. umodating thee not ® gentleman tn HAN iog bis office as good Your answer, # fatlinas und thence to Sen Praneiaeo, rate that {8 barely snMciumt to defray rauning Indeod, it is not auMelent, singe itis eported that they were bebin: when ther deelared their fast per cent, in Sopt , 1890, and fad t thetr capital to @ wed two dividends, March, without decliriag any en meantime their stock has stewiily market until now it is quoted at BEOOING FOR TENN About two months his disastrous resu!t ¢ dineo that re those for De ‘Twenty-yinst Warp Naw York, Merch 17, 1870, RADEN OF THE SUN. Reectve the Blagest Majors ity Ever Given in this City, To the Editor af The Sun. There seems to be considerable diseus- sion about who will receive the regular nomination ing to the abandonment of th: * 0 concentrate provided tha fatter ugh business bet Proposition, mo the Central Pacific that Indeed, the raiirood ¢ at prevent to heave the upper band, un haste In making emtanghog el tan Sula aut Osiental Steam m Navigation Cs tous directions from I. Ue Atiantic, are alrowdy Ourly upon thix growing China tr line to contend Mail for a show of that railroud companies wi me Wey can, and not be the losing steatnship company on BAIDY WANtY But the Pucifle Mail Company « Why will not Sherif! O'Brien enter the field and give upall idea for the Street Com: Should he run for Mayor, being as he fs the leader of the Young Democracy! he would Fr orities ever known iu thts « ‘oure very truly, New York, Moreh 17, 1870. with them ou the biggest may the Pueifte inv How Abel .R. © $75,000 for His To the Edttor of The Sun. m: In reply to the note of A. R. Corbin, in ‘e Sun, Iwill say that the house was and deed recorded sold to Mr. George P, How Jan, 81, 1870. House and furniture, 72,500; Bret mortgage on louse, $30,00 furniture, €20.000, $21,600 was taken in Wild Jersey | Dublic see how he obt i second mortgage on and “the rematning China wai tripe per year, so we to give thew | On their success seems to depend the future pany, and hence the strenuous putting forth to obtain it COMPRTEINNS 1 OW BOON) per {17 Price of $70.0, New Youk, Mareh 17, 1570, ban Patriots are not listauty ompanias, howrver character of From an intercepted and General Lorda, Cuban Villa Clara, itis known that the insurgents of tt and of Cirnfue particularly caps, 1 favelty Tron W provements int 1 are oblized to avoid engug: ‘o1n another {ntereepte is the Cuban c should have the Generals Cavadaand Le New York Deputy mh VMs Ourwitred, David Joseph { Audeas corpus wan taken eded (uy oulwitung New York at the inst) the Sherit's officers, i te was tnally re Aw he was walk Jeased, and returned fo. this enty ing along “Ixth etre he was again reized b and Isaiah Gregor: Not relishing the iden of go on from bad named John Bola i t : her journey to New requested (he Didding his wife ‘rood-by, whieh wax is te ader teartedt eaptore, to bis house which led past ihe ) When they urrived in front of t the outery of ph selectod a re remedy for caleulus, woether 1B ey relewned wim from the grasp of officers, and granted b protection the siation bie Liwvers, Long ir. aud Mr K teuee of Probate Judy s Corvus, BOON Wh anal irom captivity. ore the Probate Court next Tharssday, id that the New York gentieme, exhibit any warrant for bis arrest, heme to take bim to New hin to make a settoment with hia eredivors, —— ith js now *alled ihe nou-condustos of portion of the bs Hjeet, printeL on our water and ite ettect® Tamer, heard ot the hastened to thi £lavulids, euflering from 1d that the pro- towards economy or the + of a workingn ny atvuitages lo perso ‘pew feature of combmeuciig Iabar