The Sun (New York) Newspaper, April 6, 1870, Page 2

Wh, The ee Sun Tt Bhines for All WEDNESDAY, APLIL 6. « —= = Aniusoments Costay. Apollo Mall-Maclvoy's New Hibernicom Hooth’s Theatre tooth a: Macbeihs Hryant's Minatrele—shoo Fiy. Pxourstone—Hro Hallway, Filth Avenwve Theatre—Frou Pros Grand Opera House Tere Tempe & Leon's Minstreta-Chlog Chow Ie dom Lydia Thompson Trompe. New York Cireus Tropes 1870. Maticem, Adaitiveat copies, ely Ww advawon rea Rat Daryeany Anyanrnnena, par tin ‘Toe lines la words) v “The daily circulation of Tum SUN during the last week, which ended on Saturday, April 2, was ae follows : e ce |Thoredey . ad PRS ona ; Aggregate daity ctreulation last week, $65,450. Average daily circulation dur- ing Me week, O4RA2. Daily average dur ing the previous week, ending March 2, 02,550. Only Two of Them! Honor to brave Hanny Gexet! Of all the Democrats in the Senate, he alone voted against the Tweep charter, Honor to Francis 8S. Toayer of Troy! Of all the Republicans, ho alone did not bow down aud worship the Golden Calf, (ona tite slate The Republican Party Betrayed. The Republican party of this State has Jnst cast aside one of those great opportuni- ties which seldom occur, and which, when lost, are never retrieved. Taken in connce- tion with the failure of Grant's administra- tion and the utter waste of the national pa- tronage is not tco much to say ‘Sesu-W avi y, 10 cents par 1 oge in the State, it! that the rejection of this opportunity dooms the party in New York to permanent aud hopeless im) rimany years the Democracy tn this city has been ruled by a small number of per- sons, known as the Tammany Ring. Yor peeun‘ary purposes this Ring has not includ ed more than eight or ten men; for politien] purposes it has been limited to two—Wn- Liam Marcy Twrerp end Perer Barr enee, Sweeny. They and their aseociates havo got Imm rip; and their exercise of political power Las grown more and more corr , despotic, and dictatorial. At last a revolt sprang up against this dictatorship. It was an honest revolt in behalf of liberty for tLo Democracy and good government for tho people. This revolt changed the centre of power in the Legislature, Previous to it the Democracy had been in the mojority, and the Republicans were help- less; Lut after it neither Lvarch of the Domociacy could carry through the legis lation it desired without Republican aid. ‘This crea licans to o! Jan opportunity for the Repub- harter for New York that would insure bonest administration of the local government, and destroy and dissolve the despotism and the robbery of the Ring. ght also have obtained an electior law that would render fraudulent voting and fraudulent counting impossible; and this would have left the Democratic party divid- ed and broken Ly a bitter feud which would bave required years to heal. ‘This, we say, was a matchless opportunity for the Republicons, All that was necessary for them wos to support the revolting por- tion of the Democracy, und to pass into laws such measures as they desired and tho Ring deprecated, These measures were aple, aud there need have been no difli- culty about the details, A good democratic charter for w York, taking the govern- ment of the city from the Ring and commit- tng itto the people; and an efficient law securing fair elections and just counting of the votes—this was all that was necessary. But the Republicans of the Legislature could not see it Lat they saw was the hand of Twerep full of greenbacks. hoy preferred corruption and personal plunder for them. selves to good laws and the success of Re- publicanism, They were willing to take WEED’ money and cut t ty’sthroot The result is that the Ring is more power «ul than ever, Mr, Tweep is now the mas- tor of the Empire State. he can pull down whomsoever he The Democracy, instead of being divided, are moro united tl. Tho Republi cans have hastened to cateh ‘weer mice, and have slain them | those t ihia 1 ain a ir pa: He ean set up and will, an ov 8 ene- re him, and at are not killed aro. #¢ ed go that they ean fh ved and chless e'ty, instead of 1b f the under the diet AVInge @ prov. ple, is more than ever stead of an election law wh \ & fair blow to all citivens shall have a law uncer wh he Rong will doultless repeat th » ied our history for ‘li wh is the con ion to ¥ licau organization in New York is now r duced by the yenality and blinduces of it represontative mon in th Le stead of strengthening their party, they have Inmensely stronrthened its enemy, Instead of opening for ‘hemp-lves a rersonable chance of carrying the State at future clections, they have rendered it impossible to shake the Domocratle ascendancy, Tustead of self. government for the people of this elty, they have perpotunted the robbery of the Ring. Instead of checking and preventing cheating in our elections, they lave fortified it and given it a prolonged lease of life, We trust for the sake of justice that the great body of the Republican party will not remain in ignorance of these facts, It would Lea pity that such political folly and raseali- ty should go unpunished, But if the guilty should now escape retribution, let them Know that they cannot escape always. They may triumph for the hour in thelr iniquity ; but they and their masters of the Ring, will yet receive their deserts, They may outwit the people, break down the Republican organ. ization, and trample democratic petneiples under foot fora time; but justice and the people, and the Independent Press, will beat them in the end. — - The Connectient Election, The result of the Connecticut election is sign ficant and instructive, It was a square, fair fight, and the Demoerats have carried their Governor and the rest of their State ticket by about 1,000 majority. Through the inexcusable delays and general stupidity of Gen. Grant's Administration the Republi- cans were unable to set the Fifteenth Amend- ment in operation, and thus obtain negro votes enough to have turned the scale, This unfortunate result was, however, fully coun- terbalanced by the discouragement diffused through the ranks of the Democracy by the New Hampehiro election. By means of tho Labor Reform defection in that State, the Democratic candidate for Governor received about 7,000 less votes than the Republican candidate. We repeat, then, that the con- test in Connecticut was a fair trial of strength between the two parties. Monday was a stormy day, and the Republicans tell us that this was the cause of their defeat, But the samo heavens that lowered on the Republi- cans frowned on the Democrats; and the for- mer cannot escape from the legitimate de- ductions flowing from their overthrow by dodging behind a snow-storm, Gov. ENGLIsH was astrong candidate. Ho ig rich and respectable. When in Congress he supported all the war measures of Presi- dent Lrxcony, and he voted for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. And though the Convention which nominated him passed a stupid resolution about Cuben independence, and sharply criticised the mode by which tho ratification of the Fif- teenth Amendment had been secured, Gov. EnGuisi, in his carefally prepared response to the nomination, took a step in advance of the Convention on the Cuban question, and never alluded to its foolish utterances about the Amendment. In so doing, he showed hie good sense, and, with a fair war record be- hind him, by this sign he conquered. This is the first real victory which the Democrats have achieved since Gen. GRant assumed the Presidential office. Connecti- cut, though not invariably, has generally been a Republican State from the time whea the party was organized. But if the Democ- racy hope, even hope, to carry the next Presi- dcntial election, they must not merely win over Rcpubliean States like Connecticut, but must 89 use their triumphs as to hold them by a tenacious grasp. And this is tho task now committed to the hands of Gov. Exa- List. Gov, Seyvovn carried New York in 1862, beating so strong a candidate as Gen, Wanswonti; but he so conducted his ad ministration as to be defeated when presented for reélection in 1864. He allowed tho Copperheads to lead him, and the peo ple seized the firet opportunity to pronouace judgment against Lim. His defeat for Governor in 1864 largely contributed to bis nal overthrow as a Presidential candidate in 1803. Let Gov. Exorisix take warning from the lessons of history; and let him be assured thot if he allows Copperheadiem to thrust out its horns, or hands his State over to the corruptionicts during bis brief term, Connecticut will enter up a verdict ag him in April, 1871; unless, like tho great ‘Twerp in the recent Tammany contest, he shows the white feather, and, running away from the fight, buys up a sufficient number of his opponents afterward. As tho uverage of Presidents now run, Gov, Exauisn, if he will follow the advice of Tux Sun, and hold lis own, and get re- elected in 1871, will become @ formidable De ratic competitor forthe Presidential nomination in 1572, PENDLETON, PackEn, nad HOrrmMan are already counted out of the canvass, Gov, Exoiisn’s most danger ous rival, as the case now stands, is Senator Hixpricks, He made a happy hit in bis New Orleans speech, wherein he counselled the Democracy to accept all the results of the war and the policy of reconstruction, in- cluding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. Let ENGuisit coun- tercheck him in his message to the Legisla- ture by covering all of Henpnicxs's ground on these subjects, by marking Out a bold policy in regard to Cuba, and by some sen: sible utterances on finance, taxation, and economy in national affairs, He will then prove himself to be a statesman, and will become the leader of his party in the North- ‘eastern States, The defeat of so wo: man as Goy. JEWEL is @ severe rebuke to Gon, Grant's Administration, It indicates aturn inthe drift of the tide. The sensible Republicans should now demand a change of the Cabinet, and inform Gen, Grant that unless he conducts affairs on a more liberal and enlightened scale, many other Republi- eau States will follow the example set by Connec thy and popular a Hamilton Pish’s Bugbear. ‘The real condition of Spain, notwitlstand- ing the imposing demonstrations of troops, vessels of war, and what to sane minds must appear a perfectly reckless expenditure of noncy in this hemisphere, is unquestionably rotten in the extreme, The appearances are indeed impressive, and Kiet at least they seem to have ful- {Nod their objert, ‘To those, however, who, not blinded by nature or by prejudice, dare to lock behind the scenes and draw the inev- deductions from what meets their Viction is irresistible that Spain etill pursues the fool'sh poliey, thre Luncved years old, of enfocbling herself for the prospective wealth which she hopes to dcrive from her colonies, Wo yesterday published, view, tho co: 4 letter from Madrid, # true but perfectly lamentable pic- ture of tho straits to which Spain has been reduced by her ineane attem) ts to reconquer Cu Hospitals closed because tho Govern ment had confiscated their funds and is un- alle to furnish money to support tho sick ; foundlings left to dio of starvation in the streets from the samo cause ; nuns, driven from their retreats, houseless and penniless in the streets of the cities; the palaces of the lead ing movers of the revolution besieged daily by crowds of hungry supplicants for bread ; indignant clamors from fathers, mothers, brothers, and wives of men who were driven in sheer distress to volunteer for the war in THE aieemeitaiees Guba, on the pledged faith of the Govern- mont that their wages should bo punctually paid to the starving relatives they left be- hind them, and for whore benefit they in- curred tho risks of Cuban fevers and Cuban bullets; the Government badgercd on the one hand by the Reyublican party, who clamor for justice to Cuba, and on the other by the Cuban slave-traders, who daro it to lay its sacrilegious hands on their sacrod property, Such is Madrid of today—the people with. out leaders, without food, without resources, ‘This is the nation for fear of which a See Tetary of State, who does not hesitate to talk with bis friend Mr. Sownmn of dictating terms to a first-rate power, is prevented from assuminge an attitude worthy of the people under whore authority he was placed in office, Of the indignities, ontrages, and insults by which this bombastic pauper, anarchical Spain, has imposed upon Mr. Fist, it is not now necessary to spenk. The American poo- ple would, to a mau, havo preferred that not one dollar should ever be collected on the Alabama claims, provided that their renun ciation Lad kept our national honor untar- nished. ence The Nova Scotia Annexation League have issued a manifesto, in which they briefly but for- cibly set forth the advantages likely to result to Nova Scotia from annexation to the United States, and the means they intend to adopt to seeure it, They say: * The Leacne proposes to orgnaize the Annexation Party as far as possivie throughout the province, 0 that its strength may Le iuirly tested at all coming elections; and, in furiheranes of this object, cons Selous that the action of any one county ean do lit: Mio to bring this grave question, to a epeedy aud Prosperous issue, would, in couelnsion, Beartily r commend that each connty establish branches of the League, similar to that now formed at Hali« fox, and maintain eoustant coumanication thero- with, in order that the progres# of annexation #en- timent may be made known to ail inclined to favor them, that united political action may be se- cured. This is setting to work in the right way, and, if the plan is well carried out, must greatly hasten @ result which all clear-tighted mon re- cognize as inevitabl oe Mr. T'wrep offered Sheriff O'Brien $200,- 000 to carry the Huckleberry Charter through the Assembly, How much has it cost to get the Twaen charter through the Senate? — Mr. Freit seems to be carrying on a paper worfare with Lord Cusrexpon about the Alabama claims, of which little is known, excepting what may be inferred from President Grani’s mysic- rious hints about the probability of a foreign war, and the necessity of securing a Nassau in the Autilles. Why should the country be kept in ignorance about these complications? Has not Gen. Gnraxt learned by the failure of his Dominican treaty that secret negotiations with foreign powers are not congenial to the taste of tho American people? Do he and My. Fism need other lessons on that subject? - i Tho Nev. George IT. Wepworth,wl f rather conspicuous in th the secterian school question, does not scem to be as good a schclar nor as conscientious a di« vine as he would like to be thought. In a sere mon against the Catholics, recently delivered by him in his church, rof Fourth ay nue and T t, he read what he sold w 1 Diownson's Reciae, as has made con roversy on on the ec th stre $a quotation follows “The Church fe a kin Fach must have a sup thority to to be emert MU the Le yt tY of te country dependent province to Napule Woult be bound ty ober Subsequently, Mr. Herwonrm mad to Brownson's Reciew. By longed to if om and a powsr, and as dividuals, and annex it as a the Lithe, they the same it again however, chal- e the volu and page of the Ste. ciew where the passage may be found, he has been forced to acknowledge that he never saw it in the Repicto at all, but took it at second hand from a catchpenny publication called “Pope or President.” The extreme carlessness, not to ca it by a worse name, of this proceeding merits the reprobation of all fair-minded mev. If the old Protestant and Cath fight must be contin. ued in these enlightened days, let it at least be conducted in a scholarly and dignified manner, Tt has been said of Mayor O'HArt, as it quotation used to be of another distinguished personage, that he is “a man of brilliant inenpacity, vast aud varied misinformation, aud prodigious moral requirements,” pS Whether the T weep charter is better than it would have been if the Young Democracy had never revolted, is a question we will not un- dertake to answer, But however that may be, the revolt does honor to the Democratic party, and should secure for those engaged in it the admi- ration of all who regard politics as a matter of principle, aud know how (o appreciate manly conduct, Those gallant rebels, Micuart Nor- tox, James O’Baisy, Joux Monnissey, Hanay Gever, and Tuomas J. Creamer, though unsuc- cessful, have rendered a memorablo service to the community, The Ting dooms them to pun- ishiment, but the people will not forget their deeds— And tho tear that we shed, thouch In seeret tt ro} Hong keep their memory green in Our souls, aaaeieeaaneiliaemeae Within the past two months, Judges Mackert and Bepronn have senta host of thieves and burglars to Sing Sing, The most notorious of these was McDonaxn, the ticket swindler, who was sent up for five years, despite his great polit. ical tnfluenc Voliticians dread the General ssions, ItsJudges are known to be upright aud unapproachable, — Do honest Micuacn Nonton and gifted Thomas J, Creaven expect to save their seulps by voting for Twexn's charter? Let them be- ware! The kuifo of Big S1x is sharp, and before they know it their hair will be gone. Poor fil- lows! Their fate is sad indeod, ——_-—_ Beforo the revolt of the Young Democracy Bia Six held seven different offices, Now that he has conquered and cleared out ali bis enewies, Le ought to hold at least seventeon, Some of the Republican journals are dis. cussing the question who shall be the eandi- date of their party for Governor, This is a superfluous discussion, Since the whole Republican party in the Legislature haus been delivered ‘over to the Tame many Ring, it makes no difference who is the Republican candidate for avy State office, Con- ventions may be held and tickets nominated, but it will be an empty carcmony, Tho power of electing any candidates but those of the Ring exist, The Republican party of Now York has gone where the woodbino twineth, What opinion does the Manhattan Club now entertain about Boss Tween? If he should ‘gain be proposed for membership im that ele- fant association, would he be blackballed? And when ho is the Democratic candidate for Gov- eruor, will the Club voto against bim ? wilted a A lively little Italian weekly newspaper, called Z'Untone det Popolt, bas Just been started in this city under the direction of Signor Cesare Orsial, ‘The first number is sparkling and energetic, and, ap tay be supposed , is thoroughly Mberal and republican fo Its tone, Oftice, 11 An street, Will no longe SUN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL WHAT IS GOING ONT —— ‘The Prosident nnd Secretary of the Taterlor Tired of Oflce—The President “Sick of Boing Bored by Office-Sockers siecing the Execntive or De Nobody to be Allowed Counsel Correspondence of The Sun. Wasittvoron, April 4.—It transpires daily that tho sovereign people who* appear,in propria pertona or by counsel at the White Mouse or tho Executive Departments aro made to fee! that they have no rights a Government officer 1s bound to respect. There is an old song that contains this counlet : “On. Af Twas the President of theee United tat ‘(Nick molasses all Lue day and #wing upon the 1 This sentiment appears to have an impression on the present Exccutive, and as example goes further than precept,Seerctary Cox, of the Interior Department, takes on imperious airs and “wants to be rid "’ of busine: So flegrant has grown the impatience of certain public functionaries in Washington to perform their simple duty that ‘8 bill has been prepared to regulate business in tho Executive Departments, providing among other things that the President and bis Cabinet Ministers shall reside the seat of Government, aud not leave the sme for more than two weeks at a time without the consent of Congress; that the Departments shall be kept open from 9 A, M. till 3 P. M., and during all this time shall be ac. cessible to the people in person or by attorney, who shall be entitled to courteous treatment, and to have their statements considered ; and that & complaint book shall be kept in a conspicuous position near the door of every Departinent, wherein any person aggrieved may enter any matter of complaint, An view of the acephalous Government of last summer, and the prospect of an early flitting of the President and his Cabinet this summer, some such legislation appears to be necessary. There is no clause of the Constitution which prohibits an excursion of the whole Government to Europe; and if no law is passed, it may ail go in one of Admiral Robeson’s steam yachts, The correspondence of this morning’s papers the following item of Presidential dis. gust, to wit: “The President has at length got sek of being bored by office-seckers for positions, and hos ordered that no more applications for office in any of the departments be received at the White WASHINGTON. a He is very much to be pitied, and it isto be hoped may not be bored hereafter, But as a specimen of bad tezaper upon a ques- tion on which action bas been assiduously asked for three years past, the fullowing letter of Sec- retary Cox to Senator Harlan “takes the rag off the bush.” It gives a new example of what Hamlet cails ‘the insoleace of office, and the spurns which patient merit of the unworthy takes,’ Tov THe DeTRRIOR, ington, D.C. March 2, 1870, frm: General Parker aiid f have wis ‘morn hada con‘erence with the Preadent in regard to Cherokee treaty ponding vefore the Senate, and, wl out kaowing what aniendn ESmmittee mipht have determined anon, Lbee ten nt briefly the view taxeu by the F 0 it y Han ot fongitnds, ant fi pion and that of Gen, OUNANION for t Any (eRritory west Of the 0 inks, iso, that the nod vot INA, In segard . Kees" chat dredth meridian, eatioa of the provis ns of be paid for i whatever pur} ose. Of thon, #0 that tier fe ritare, ‘whatever tone. > oreasion for the Breecnt ae) ‘s heveatu were de a proner artic Of ti aunendatory treaty, we shoud not be dispoas he aiount named tn ihe treaty under con: .towit: Three milion flve hundred thou W0A0), DUL RHOUI riljured Tees for way powed 4¢:¢ Whole sam, aynenrly ae possible, miade an ed fand for! tripe wo long. 8 ‘oreasion forit. Whhout neh w Joment, the Amodit to be paid for the land Would .eem unreasona Diy errat “¢ Prisideot Nas desired me to communteate to you. these suzge tows, and toway that bo preven tus (reatysnoud not be Fatised. inte pre Sa Wontd, ho great plearare with your puiticg tts provie thoroughly satisiactory ford ty effet Wie purposes Ine Uinated woove. Vernitive to express my own sattafaction with tne vis recenty introduced by vou, that ie n@mey paid ye ust fund of toese Tadlank shouud ip cide a ried leds an their Jacor on the ‘Treubery’ books put (nto bon by thelt or tecident. ily be applied to th Ve ho WOUbE YUE OF sary ity to the Of tna depuramers, T shall be elat tons you should think st orth wot It more fuily in reference to this very happy to receive your eug- 6° ery Feepectiully, your obed vant, J.D, COX: Secretary, a fton, Jomes Harlan, Chairman of Comuittiee oa Ludan You will observe by the foregoing that your exposition of Harlan’s little games has made it cessary for him to draw out, His $2,000,000 bill can now be let down easy; but it is evident that he and Cox have had a full understanding, and have jointly agreed that the attorneys of the Cherokees shail have nothing for driving them to the performance of duty. If the Government had done its duty toward the Cherokees, it might have been “rid of them’? long ago, and neither they nor their attorneys would have been at the besieging the Executive or depart. Besiege is a good military word, and necessity of ments." suits the situation exactly, How Secretary Cox knows that the counsel for the Cherokees are going tocharge ‘exorbitant foes” is a question for Lim to answer; perhaps he judges by Har- lan’s measurement in the neutral land or the “loyal Choctaw” job, As every Administration toa two or three Cabinet Ministers in Wash- ington to attend to this kind of business, per- haps Mr, Cox may reconsider this proposition, lest he should waut counsel fees himself inside of a year or 80, He wishes to treat the enlight- ened Cherokee Nation as children, and deprive them of the right of employing counsel, or make ing any contract whatever; aud he does not ap- pear to know that it is ont of his power to credit their money on the books of the Treasury, The ratified aud proclaimed treaty of 1866 fixed it to be paid in registered bond: - a Amasements. A very pleasant concert was given last evening &t Apollo Hall, py the pupils of Mr. E, Millet, for miny Years ono of the most successful music teachers in the city, ‘The best evidence of the Pro fossor's skill as an Instructor way found in the play- ing of his daugtter, whose clear and brilliant exe- cution entities her to high urtistierank, Among tho pupils who took part were several whose voices Were fresh and pure, and who showed a proficiency that will meke them valuable additions to the excellent amateurs of whom New York societ, proud Next Monday evening, April 11, the great Du- Topean Circus, with its eplendid horses, equestrians And equestrionnes, and its excellent clowns, will give Mts frst periormance in the Empire Rink, in ‘Third avenne, near Sixty-fourth street. ‘The com: pany of 8 very large and good. It in- tho Italian vareback rider; ampion somersault eq irque Napoleon, Paris ; Pierce Misa Jonnetto Watson, and Atile, Zeriina Lor Astreot pirate Will bd mace on Monday, the weather permitting. Tn compliance with the Sonera wish, Mr, Fawin Booth will play Claude Mednot/e at bis theatre On Saturday next, when a matings ofj bulwer's 19. mantic * Lady of Lyons will be given, with * Mac in the evening. A matinée will also be elver the following week ¢ favorite play, 1a whicn Mr, Booth will appeur, conclading bis engugenent the same evening, April 16, pe RES The Hon, William E, Robinson will lecture this evening in Washington Hall, Walliamburgh, at 8 o'clock, on * American Cit\zeuship and the Fortieth Congress," for tho beneft of Daniel Corcoran, at the Fequést of the Rey. Dr. Bacon, Father Malone, aud other clergymen and’ isymen. Corcoran wad Grresiod in’ 1843 with ‘Terence Bellew. McManus, from an Amorican vessel weather bound off Cork: He was afterward imprisoned in {reland, and {s now living iu Williamsvurgh sufering from paralysis, poverty, and want, with a wife ‘nnd ve children. We hope every one’ who reade this will attend the lecture to-night, i TONTIN Df ASSOCIATION, An O14 Kotckerbocker Tastitution Verging * Extinction—Kight Seveaty-ftc Yenrs out of Tee lluadred Pheee Original Lives. The recent death of the Hon, Gulian C. Ver- planek hae brought toa termination one of the oldest fnstitutions in this city, ‘The Tontine Association, founded seventy-five years ago, is pow ready to be wonnd up, and soon will be counted among the things of the past, ‘The principle of tho ‘Tontine, which tekes Ste amo from its inventor, Tonti, an Ttaltan, who lived in the seventeenth century, is this: Any number of persons Join in making an investment of money, each putting in an equal share, and each naming him- self or some other pereon, during whose life his in- terest in the Investment fs to endure, The income of the investment is divided annually, but as fart as each life enda, the intercet of the owner of the share deponding on that life expires, 80 that in the course of time the dividends of the remaining mem- bors greatly increaro, and at some period agreed on the whole investment becomes the proverty of those who then romain, ‘Thun each member of the Association gets his share of the income of the fund as long as the if Insts on which lis share deponds, and if that life outh reat, he gets back his original investment, with a large addition, Of course care is taken to select the Dost possible lives, and such as Lave the greatest chance of being longer than the rest, On this principle there was formed in this city in 1795, 9 Tontine of 903 shares, of §200 ench, divided among prominent citizens of that period, who named as the persons on whom the shares were to depend thelr infant children or relatives, so a8 to secure the longest possible continuance of their respective in- terests, With the capital of $40,000 thus raisod was purchasod the property on the cornor of Wall and Pear! streets, now known a8 the Tontine Build- ing, ‘The name of the concern was at first * Tho Tontine Cofee House,” but subsequently it was changed to that of the ‘ontine Association A few soars ago the property was leased to Wiliam I, Aspinwall, Esq at an annual ront of $6,500 48 long a8 the Association Instod, the building to Delong to the Avscciation when its affairs were wound up, The original basis of the Association was, that when only seven out of tho 208 lives re- mained, the owners of those sevon lives were to divide the yroperty among them, OF these 203 lives, only eight now romain, but by ® rocent agreement between their owners, they a not to walt till the number ts reduced to seven, originally intended, but divide the property at once. As the property is now worth ubout $25),000,the Valu Of euch of the oight shares is xbout. $30,00. roll of lives named at tho formation of the Association is one exceedingly inieresting to. the an- tiquarian and Wo ave said, the wore nearly all the children or relatives of men’ well i ate or pablic life at the time they were perusal of the Hist call old citizen thany iong (orgotten reminisceuees, Amoug tl find suet names as Arden, Bayard, Buchane nman, Do Wint, Hoffman, Kembie, King, Law- rence, Lenox, Livingston, Kogers, Seton, Stoveus, and Verplanck, with others whose progeniiors at one eee re ells bigh social and political sta- ons, As each shareholder had the right to nominate any life he chose, he could ais sell the share and trans. fer it without consulting the nominee, The result is, that most of the shares are held by other persons than those on whose lives they rest. One was. is: sued to a fea captain Who died somo years ago, but it cannot now be as ned who is entitled to it; for sev | years past, paid w York Trust Company. Whoever th lucky owner ot itis, he will svoner or later me accumulated interest into possersion of $50,000, th and vrineipal, eee. WHOSE HUSBAND ALE YOU? pessorudes Where is Mr. Simpson's Husband @—A Woe minn Claiming a Respectable Single Man # Hor Mirsing Spouse—Couscauent Row oon Hunter's Point Kerry Boat—Very ad for Sinit'y Edmund Smith, of Smithtown, 1. 1., while crossing yesterday afternoon on the Hunter's Point ferry bont to the foot of James strect, was accosted by ry Simpson, who el: ed bim as her husband, mith said ehe was mistaken; and to got out of trouble went to another part of the boat, But the woman followed him, and at length he pushed her away. on there wasascene. On arriving at the ferry house Mrs. Simpson resumed ber abusive lan- gunge, and an officer was called upon to arrest the two tor croating a bresch of the peace. They wore then tiken © Justice Hogan at the ‘Tombs w the won insisted ber claim to the man as Joe Simpso her migratory bosband. Having been asked wh the ina any marke on his person by whieh she could identify bim, she replied u he had a Scotchman imprinted on one of bis arins, My, Suiih was examiged; butuo marke of kind could be found, 4. Simp id she bad lived with her hushaad ¥ 4 week," and then he went to sea, Sie added that she could prove that he was the man by the keeper of the boarding house Ia Front sueet: bat when Smith was, py direction of the Mogistrate, taken there, Le wis not recognized, and the party returned (0 the court, Meanwhile, Mr. Saunders of Poarl street visited the court, and’ told the Tustics that there uust bo some. mistake, as Mr. Smith wes formerly bis partner, and Js an ‘innocent bachelor. Still Mrs, Simpson insisted that Mr, “Joe,” that he was a sailor, that he to Cauitorr mith said t bora in Smithtown, Mrs, Simpson, turn swear you are not my husband? he liad never seen her betore in Lis life. Mogan dismissed. the complaint; an said she would make Lin Scotchman, bat he was @ 18 well known, id WH yon Justice whereupon the “walk the plank yet’ —<———____ MANAGER GRAU'S PERPLENITIES, pee day The $52,000 which Mr. Gr Scenery and in Beautifyin French Theatre. Mr. Jacob Grau, lessee of the French Theatre, recently obtained an injunction in the Common Pleas restraining Wm, B, Duncan from prosecuting Summary proceedings 1n a Justice's Court, to dis- possess him for alleged non-payment of rent. He al loged that he had given Duncan a bill of sale of the scenery, Worth $12,000, whereby it was agreed that ho rent was to become Ane nntil November Inst. Mr, Grau then went to Europe to engage artiste for tho theatricnl season, but on his departure Duncan sued to papenssee, hotwithstauding Mr, Grau had expended $40,000 in beautitying and improving the theatre, the decorations to become the property of the owner at the expiration of the lease, A motion was mude yesterday to distolve the injunction, which was granted, Judge Van Brunt liolaiig that as no rent Was due'up to tho beginning of the dis: in defence possession proceedings, there was a Dl to those proceedings d there was no the Court shovtd tnter! by injunction their proseention, especially as that those proceeaings der of any Court FRENCH PRE MEN SHOUL FOR CURA, Resolutions ef the Breach Reprblicans of the Went—Cuba Must be Kree~let Amerie cans Kemember their St in 76, The following resolutions in favor of the inde pendence of Cuba pissed by a meeting of Freuc! Citlzeus of the West, eid in St, Louis, have been re celved by the Cuban Junta of this eit}, accompanied by a Valid proot of their earnesiness When the ancestors of the inhabitan land ianded on diay otisin inthe pnesu Whenthe King of Fngiaud ¢ ey bevolted in the wane of ine po of New Fng- re Moving from the ooo: © aud of nerated by means of the literary Of yeve Of Hor grail revolutio: ober ous ofan ity to the aid of here with the ¥ hiner ty Cuba to-day holds the ea 6 pos that the thitteen Aniericat Jon toward Spain Hae, Me Cubang™ also ate ah and fort beriy. the Cuan ‘Hepntiic & Niloto grat vert econ tion Woul ables in favor oft \inerican Governnir ts hii sling Copansa sympathy, which may be qui Gonbtedly is useles Foriunately, rutile feeling tn the Untted States ts in fF of the Independence of Cua, ‘Toe attiiude oF Ainerican Govusinient the wil Ho peon!e; the F hy and In this case our duty 1 this eubject of tie W lesotred, That wo disapprove of the action of the Auorieau Governuveut ik tho tuatier of the Cabana durrection, Kerolvet, Thst in every place where tt '# practteabte, tue seetioie ni ve teeunbtican Calon, nad Rue picate et tie Graud Army will Have petisious sigued a favur of accorded lonal elec: ed Tavorubie Lo ab the next Con reuce for candid ugh recor ust vont, ‘That a permanent andserintion be one: tn St. Louis in favor of the Cuban patriots, and {tai tho sectious of the Republican Union are invited to Open others in (heir respective localities, by aciamation by the French Republica Jn extraordinary eeation assembled at this 2uth day of Febrnary, 1579 ‘The Presivent, V. CORFFR, ‘The Secretary, certityinuy confor i MaKCADIER, ot Meir canary bird @ singular accom: ditors with wonder. beveral nice ran across the carpet, and as soon an they lind fed the canary intthe sweet- eve of the music which they mingled with the notes of the feathered songeier, PRE, Mt COURT INTRIGUE. condemn Napetcoms Dentint's Jentousy of bis Ne~ pPhew-What Little Things are the Matu Sprives of Erench Polities—An Iuterior View of the Tus eries. Correspondence of The Sin. Yants, March 25.—The American residents in Paris have been much excited during the last fow days by an act of tyranny directed against ono of the best known and most respectable among them, by his uncle, Who fea man eminent in his profession, but not overscrapulous as to the means Ire emplove to vent bis epite and get rid of a formidable compotl- tor. Happily the attempt to rain the repotation and to destroy the brilliant prospects of a gentleman of tho highest sanding by driving him from French territory has atterly failed, thanks to Dr, John D'Oytey Evans, and to hosts of powerful friends, felt even in the highest quarters, Thus a precedent which might have cansed, for the fature, every American residing in Puris to fear for his individual liberty, has been fortunately averted. T quote from a Paris journal of Mareh 29: notify, 10 police, apy forclener reridhig in France to leave the Fronch territory without delay, and to have sald forelmucr escorted to {he frontier, ft was on the strength of this law that lately one ‘of the most determined partisans of the rritory,” and this was done from but the econ; of which we are golng 0 speak is eeAlmost alt conversations turn on the exoniaion of an most all conversations q who has rosided fa bot #0 years of ts American, Dr. John position at Conrt, ‘The mete has decoratior rowates to himeeif talents which he says nophew does but the ever incresaing number of the Jealou nid Hot end he has ich Court gives him. Thomas W. Evans hos two nephews if weare not mirtaken, and he has made them rin an Agreement never to catablish their residences in Parts, or witl 90) miles of ft! city. A of that agree- ment was to be the signal of war. The forecoing is erroneous in the followihg pnr- ticulare: Dr. John D'Osley Evans has never signed any such convention: {t was lis brother, now resid- ing ju Baltimore. ‘Thomas W. Evans shys that his nephew is not a’ doctor, and that consequently he neorps that ttle, The plain troth js, thet John D'Oyley Evans is a graduate of tho Britimore Uni- versity, and wae warded his diploma in 1867, while the uncle has never graduated in any college or ani- Yersily Amertorn or Ruropern, | As we have alread stated, Dr. John D'Oyley Evans hes triumplied. Al- though the order of expnlaion, signed by the Minin« ter of the Interior, was served upon him by a police agent, the Administration have let tne whole thing drop, x. ecianlRaiectim A VREACH OF TRUST. pao Detail Hon, Horace Greeley Accused of Be= traying the U League Club. Prom the Frening Post. At the Union League meeting on Saturday night, to consider the Tweed ebarter, resolations ‘Were passed showing up the essential mischievous natore of that cbar' was appointed to go to Albany to protest against ite adoption. Horace Greeley, it turns out, became the spokesman of this committee, and ho 1s reported to have snid* “T appear on behalf of a meeting of citizens convened at the rooms of the Union Leaune (inh, ant repre Jbg ® large amount of tax-payimg Interest, and ear ly devoted to good go speak the mings of & i say they do not wish to be egarded by your Commitice aa ether advocates or « .onents of the document nov before you. They ask mo to offer, ne of thelr num. Set forth certain ainendments they wish to be that charccr, bat they do bot offer. them In Hous epirit. Nor do they desire to be ut evetmies of the charter Felorm, ‘They ask me to fe you that reform is an eepecial necessity of the city. and as they regard Ute document as embodulng many excellent advances to reform, we are hat here to Ask you to reject it; we ask you tO improve It.” h this wes not enongh to show thnt his were with Tweed rather than with the nore, spokeaman be twas, Mr. Gresley went on to say that the League's resotutions (whic! he was supposed to be presenting) hud been adopted bs ewlint hastily." Now the fact is that the feoling of the members of the Union League Ciab on Saturday night was not only decidedly but enthusiastically against the ‘Tweed charter, and those who spoke tm condemna- tlon of its eunninsly devised provisions, the object of which is to continue the present system of pina der and take from the pervie the power of putting an end to it, were warmly anpinuded. It was a great mistake fo place on the Committes, anpuinted to go to Albany, so wavering and uncer- tein a representative of the Union League aa Mr. Greele: He once called the members of that body rrow-minded set of blockueads, and now goes to Albany as tioir mouthpiece to say that they huve passedta set of resolutions which they had not properly covsidored. ‘This is not true; the resolu- Hons were not passed without due reflection. ‘They were pessed by men who bad thought over the matter of a change in the city charter cas iv, tad w knew vrecisely what they wanted. They were passed with the warm approbation of tho mem- bors who the meeting, approved them then, and approve them yet, and stand by them firmly. We were presentat the mecting, and cid not so@ Mr. Greeiey there, Te has no authority to y hat they were adopted by men who cid not ‘tly what sort of citv government they desire to scbstitute for the present one. He has no right to speak of them in this contemptuous man- ner, aud to wisdom, foresight, and cireum c ‘hb he deries to others ‘The grovad twken by the Union Loagne 1s clear and explicit. They are agsinst the Dweed charter at any all events. ‘They ask for its rejection, and they ask "Pais was the ecting beld on they ask that {U with the Dost decided empha foolii d determination of the daturday evening, But if it t# to pas: it be amended in certain points solutions them passed, on whic! deavors to fasten the stigma of naste and ineo ey hold tat the Tweed charter cisiature, if adoptes zn of corruption, and they and vehemently hostile to its passace, ey dit not agree with the League, he to apvear as its spokeeman,- If he Part of Tweed, be should bave Felused the responsibility whieh the League desired Hin to wesume, He does uot agree with the League; yet he pre- tends to represent {t; he takes their resolutions: he apologizes for them: he endeavors to bring them into discrodit; he jretends that the League is not hostile to the Tweed charter, when. if he nad boon Present at the mecting, he would have seen with his own eyes, and heard’ with his own ears, that the Pretonce of its being neutral in regard to he Tweed charter ts Suey false, ‘© cannot call this otherwise than simply a frand, 4 dishonorable desertion of a clearly implied duty ; 3 cross breach of trust, wyer had #0 behaved toward a client in whose c J been re- tained, he would have been, to use the exvressive Phrase of the profeseion, thrown over the bar. Ww ill perpetuate deliberately Seneca eats 84D ENDING OF A ROMANCE, A Private Soldier Condemned to D Falling in Love. From the New Orteans Picayune, To-day, just as the sun is at meridian, just as with solomi sound the great bell of tac old Bt, Louis Catvedral tolls forth tne hour of noog, a soldier wilt pay the penalty of a crime for which military jnstice Knows but one explation. Tho United Staten bar- racks, below the city, has been the place selected where the execution is to take place, and the green sward of the parade ground will ere many hours be stained with the crimson life-blood of the uafurtu- wate man, He wae a member of one of the United States troons stationed near ay of the Inierior parishes of Loulsiua camp of tLe company was the plantatic gentleman who ® mpathized with there ath for cause during the und who, olject of special attention on the part « of the conibad then perfor ter had « large family, among ughter Who possessed in a'remurkablo degree that rare iype of benuty for which the women of the South aro noted. She had imbibed the sentimen's of her tuther, and, theretore, took groat pleasure in entertaining the officers who frequently visited the house, ‘The First Lieutenant of the company, Ambroso Maca, wt once conceived a warm attachment for the utifal yo Way to induce ay, however, the pollte but for co toward bin, vanity Ly Mg creole, and ¢ pavored in every rto share Lis teelings, Strange to lady treated him in’ a peculiarly manner, that proved her heart was ‘This Was a great shock to his Was ut loss w unde i. Tinully the explanation caine, when ye of “his compan fully raiving him Ipon his iil Kuccess, stated that he had discovered Whi the lady refused to sinile upon him, He had aceidensally wi W betwoen Lersclf wid Private A dier who had been detailed: to an interview wirich that the heart of tue young , Was irrevocably the privute's und not the . ‘ntelligence was too much for Lieut, Black, Tis pride was Wounded fn ids most vital point. He Hud been forestulied where his heart was moat en. listed, and by one of his own subordinates. Sock. tng Private Biake at once, he pourest out the vials of his wrath upon him, taonied him with his position wud declared he would send him where he should have mo more opportunities of daliying with: a shameless girl while on duty, Allred Blake bad horns much, but this coarse alinsion to the Ww he loved betver than life fred heart and brain With one biow be struck his oficer prostrate upon the ground in the presence of his company Ther followed the trial—which was rendered tn- expressibly touching by the prosence of he wont who had dared to love a private soldier —the tence of death, to be preceded by tuprisonment ab Ship isiand, ‘To-day the sentence t# to be enforced and the ma- Jesty Of the law sustained, ——— Severo Muess of the Unfortunate Carlotta, From Le Guulots The latest accounts of the Prinecss Charlotte, widow of the Archduke Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, are very discouraging, The heuill of this untortunate Princess has gradually bocome worse, aud for some Ume she bas Bot been perinitied, us before, to visit Laeken, She is strictly watebed at the Palnce of Tervueren, where her sister-in-law, the Queen of the Leigians, frequently visite Ler: ‘To the mental alienation #0 long existing there ts how added intense lever, which coutlues the pulieut (0 bar bed, and he BUNDRAM =The working upbolsterers will continue to be upheld. —The new motto in English sporting circles Ie: | May the hest Bgilehman win!” There i9 4 page wine ring to that One of our religions popers has fc Job's woalth (who was sald to be ¢ of all the earth”) to have born $370,000, <The Centrat Pacific Railroad Company offep roward of #2400 for the apprehension of the Incene diary who fired the American river bridge. ‘Ihe beage Cost 875,000, and Is totally destroved, “Pa,” said @ tad to his fathor, “Ihave often read of people poor Buf honest: why don't they eomen times shy Foh But honest 9” “Tat, tat, my Kon, HO body would believe them," answeret the fathor —The woman's rights movement hos found an tnexnected champion in the Emoto Knrfnte, whe advocates tho election of Indies to tho French Aoade. my, and partiontariy that of Mr¢. Gores Sand, —Mr. Thornton was closeted last Thursday fow three hours with Mr. Fish at tho State Departin which makes the quidnunes delleve that the Alahang, claims bustnoss i* not altozether amonth salting. —Engénie, having given to Metternich, the Austrian Minister, the nse of her hotel, the latter sg Knowledges the courtesy by makiog @ donation of 99,000 francs to the Prince Tmneriat’s Orphan Asylam, —The estimates for the Dominion of Canada fog tho ensnine year make the total expenditures $2.9iRy MTA, Of which 0.498,76.16 fe authorized by existing statutes, leaving €14,417.121.28 to be voted by Varliae ment. —To learn who really needed work, the San Francisco Park Commisstoners recently offered to ema ploy men ata price lower than the market rate, andoves 1,000 men at once applied for work at the rate named 2 per day. —Mise Minto Hauck seornfally rejectd a braces Jet presented to her by the most exclusive cinh of Mose cow, before which she was singing. It was worth only #15, and the died resented the shabbiness of the Masco vite nobles. —Senator Winans, of Obfo, in an anti-teriff speoch, lately Aetivered, gravely assorted that m prow tective tarlif discourages marriages, and stimnlates and promotes sneculation, gambling, viee, and innumerable other evils —A wealthy Englishman, generally known as Lord Smith, recently died In Paris, who was sald to bee Jong to an {iuetrious family, tat had chosen for him wifes young working woman, He was noted for bie extensive charities, Hooper, the Mormon delegate to Congress, ‘thet the reason our first parents did not practisg polygamy was “that their marriage was oxhauste ive:"in othor words, that Adam marricd “ail the Wo ‘men tn the world.” —The Hotel Lambert, the fashionable resort of the Poitsh society of Paris, and of the friends of Poland, has again become the seone of hrilliant entertalamonts under the anspices of tho Conntess Drialynska, elater —When you find that a particular table at any reatanrant t#‘ocenpled every day by ® private party, go there In advance of time and take asoatatit. Tho restaurant keeper will not like to object, and people of your own eallbre will think you smart, —The French Government has officially fore Widdon the negotiation of a new Turkish lonnin Franca, from # feeling of deheate reeard for the French people, whom it does not wish to ee anv longer risk thelr fore tunes tn the bankrupt Muancos of Turkey. Of the illustrious Prince Czartory+kt. —Mr. Odo Russell, the son-in-law of Lord Clarendon, ts at dagors drawn with tho French Minist at Rome, who excited him from the diplomatic g lery on the opening of the Connell, upoo the eroand that ho was only an oMclous aad not an oficial repre sentative of Enrland, —The Puritans of Parisinn society, not « rameroas hoy, condemn the late M. Sainte-fenve for tng, a few years before his denth, maintained inthe Felations with & young and handsome woman, avo's friends defend his moral right to act as ho aia —Frire Arban, tho Belgian Prime Minister eater of the Libera! party im that ktue fom, ts eaid ‘A ereater orator than elther Tilers or Ju! t, to be the best Ho ts now 53 years ol, but looks considerably toh and, next to Jotn Reig Frrope. younger, —The Hon. Cha Phya Thrpakon, Siamose Fore eign Minister from 1858 to 186, and the Rmorson of Bankok, has expresso? tis opinion on Budsthism othor religions in a work recentlypublivhed by Trébner tn London, and edited by Haury Alabuster, under the ttle of "The Modern Bad ihist."* —T terrible fire which commenced burning in the Yellow Jacket, Keatnek, and Crown Polutinines Dearly @ Year ago, with such fatal and disastrous effectay atill smoulders in the mining depths among the tatricate mass of timbers 709 fect from the surface, thowing that It has worked downward ere are at present 0 ladies in the Sul. rem. His favorite wives are: Dourne! (the new. pearl), Hatrant Dil (excellent heart), and Fda Di clogance of ihe henr!), ‘Thostaff of the harem Includes 2,900 persons, and 800 tables aro set to feed them twiee a day, with abont 6.000 different dishes. —Mr, Hammond, tho Hunter” of the Eng: lish Foreign Office, has made himself the loushing ttock of Europe, by declaring before the Diplomatia Service Committee that a mission shonid be sustained at Dantale, becanse this was a stronzly fortified citys and an English Legation won'd ald to its atreacth, —A Western paper prints this neat epigram upon Revels: Revel, bnt intely horn to fume, He 18 bis race's @ oat retriever; Reverse the letters of bis name, ‘And 'galust oppression lie's the lever, —Westerly, R. 1, bas “two Sundays coma together.” Neariy half the popniation are Seventh Day Baptists, and on Saturdays half of the milis, hope and! other places of business are closed, and half of the churches are filled with worshippers, who on Sunday resume their secalar occupations, while thelr nelgte bors take religion and rest, —A Norwegian lnborer on the St, Pant and Pacific Ratlroad recently sont an order to friend ta Minneapolis fora pair of boots, The measure rent wae 15 iuches in length by 12 tnches around the ball of the foot, which, when made up, world be about No. 22. The shoemaker had no last that was large cuough, and #@ the order was not filed, Mile. de Champagny, a fashionable deaf mute and the wife of a fellow-rnfforer, Connt do la Forest, cently ave & Dilliart soirée attended only hy the upper ten deaf mutes of Parts, the only outsider having been a reporter, who gives a glowlng account of the ene tertainment, particulary of ue Girtations carried on by expressive signs. —The English and Fre Sent mowent tnclude several enihusiasiie musicad amateurs. Foremost among those of Enzland i4 the Mr. Giatstove, white In Parle M. Maurice V's taste for the ort ts well Leowa.and M. Emile Ollivier not only p!ays with good success upon the ¥io- for his favorita h Cabinets at the pre- Hin, Dnt vias welctew wey oral eougers \neteument. —A very curious correspondence was recently read {9 the Missouri 1 lature. One Dr, Lowan sent to Protessor Swallow, of the Mining Harcau, soneth ng Feone tnfa. The eollntar sti uetura. wdeul th. Pros fessor, "Is proaneed by the water {and com Whereupon the wag of: Doctor responds that the fsa Js 9 pleee of maple sugar, to which the ants iit found access." — The health of the Popo fails doily. ‘Tho Paria Figaro says: * Pine IX. pow rhes with dificulty; hie Jook has not the vivacity whieh £ riya hed Its hls votce, low and Weak, no longer josciaim tha tonority of formertimes Thi iuore angecansed great anxlety among wie ofr sl © rele at the Vatieayy although they endeavor te ecm a! tue fact, Ibis. never: Rome, Our corren; dent more ta Hoiy 8 —A Richmond rep: tor thus begins a local hotices * In the spring of tes, when {he polit fever wae AL Ate highest porsiiy iat pisat in Catlfarnia, And the ylelding earth wore are) Cirvet of geen vors dure, wavirg Iuxuria horn clime, 99 Lew-eprinkled p rowtly kissed the funbewne, tuere lived 1 the State of Virginia, on the hanks of the flowing York river, @ few milen below the historieal town of Yorktown, @ geutlenian of cas —Recently Capt, Mason, of Way Kev, F Wes standing an the pore! of tile hotel, wher ay) elder! lady ame out of the what ath aud « etree! was wot Tshoul acrows tite stroot with nk my feet," rwid the Iadv. Lean helm you to era," the Captetn resvonded, “On doar! Lehald fool se vu: obliged to you," the lady ead ; *iny fort ' been wet in twenty years." of Heave ive Madame," said the Captain, "don't show ther ~-A couple in Somers, Conn., who # ca that they were married some years azo, ha tt Into their heads 10 suppose the marriage vou! me the woman was formerly the wife of the bn +08 by a former marria) The connle contin et the save house, but @ ado. 4 Suran Avthong’® theory of single bods, The woman prona-es to vol ee bay (OF her services, which will be perhapa egal te he dower. Herdaarhter by her fret nu hae NOU tavghe to call her present epoute ber * papa t vulpes? They are in ap unnecessary fret; if the uy wee Mawel. it must be by a soectsl CouMecticut law. <_< ~sm