The Sun (New York) Newspaper, April 11, 1870, Page 2

the very unlikely event ocour of Spain's re conquering the island, the necessities of the mother country will be far too urgont to permit for a long while any Cuban revenue to be appropriated for the payment of the doot duo to the Spanish Bank of Havana. ‘hemtreBooth a+ Macbeih, Minatrete—shoo My. ohy commer 84 a, wad O41 rhe trele—Chine Chow HM, yia Thompaoe Troape New Yor Circus Troupe Diympte Theatre Pox a Hamlet Rat Franctaon Winstrets, ts) lostwor The Beach Pucumatte Tunnel—Open fer vitor Tammany—Grand Combination. W allaek’e— Mo and Acres. Wood's Museum The White Car, Blondes, Ae, Matton ‘Termes ot tac Ban. pperen nut ees ee belie to one sadn eevaeee ei adr ot open, tm Club packages ai Club rai! Pagmin uly te savas i sere snares a crn ene meant wie oe ene oy ioe feet line of wold Ate epace 10 canta per line, Aovanruanenre we Baer ® The daily circulation of Tux Sun during the last week, which ended on Saturday, Apri 9, wasae ees t jondiay | Thnreday 9 CR ee At Aggregate daily circulation last week, 570,000. Arcrage daily circulation dur ing the week, 98,058. Daily average dur- ing the previous week, ending Aprit 2, 04,212. Mr. O’Eall’s Appointmen' The Ring is ip fall possession of the city. The Mayor will to-day announce the appo nt- ment of eight Republicans upon the city Commissions authorized by the new charter. Among these Republicans are Henny Sait and BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MANIBRRE of the Police, ALEXANDER SuateR of the Fire Department, and Jawes Bowen and Owen W. Brennan of the Department of Charities and Correction. ‘'werp and SWERNY have sold ont the Democratic party. The price of their treason was the aid of the Republican Btate Benators and Assemblymen in cutting the throats of the Young Democracy. The bargain is clear. Not satisfied with the passage of the Tween charter, the Repub- lican members of the Legislature, by the passage of the election law, turned the Young Democracy, bound hand and foot, over to the tender mercies of their enemies, The new electon law really means that the new Board of Alder- men shall be elected by canvassers and in- spectors appointed by Hexny Surry and B. FRrankuin Manternne. The above appoint- ments on the Commissions hold good from four to eight years. Even if the true Demo- crate of the city should be allowed to elect their Mayor next fall, he would be power- loss, The Ring is triumphant! Democratic toters of New York city, how do you like the situation t The Spanish Bank of Havana. We have received the statement of this institution for the last month, and it fully proves that the concern is rotten, It is now eagy to understand why no one in Cuba will kecept the notes of this Bank unless absolute- ly forced to do so. The total obligations of the Bank foot up some $52,000,000. In this amount aro set down some six millions of dollars which ap- pear to be due to the Government on account of colleetions of taxes. The fiscal year of Cuba commences on the first of Jane; and of these six millions two appear to the credit of the Government for the year ending June 1, 1869, and four millions for the year ending June 1, 1870. The real truth is that these respective amounts are the sums for which orders to collect taxes have been handed by the Government to the Bank, but which have not hitherto been collected, and in all probability never will be. This is shown by the sums which figure on the asset sheet a8 collected, and which aro respectively $1,687,000 for 1869, and nearly one million for the current year. Against this pretended debt of six millions, which, of course, exists only on paper, and owes its shadowy existence to a peculiar talent for making figures prove anything, the Bank ia about to emit a new issue of notes to the tune of six millions of dollars. Tne capital of the Bank is $5,000,000, aud ite present cireulation $29,000,000. For a concern whose shares Mr. PceNTE, the manager, says sell at a premium, the assets of the Bank are extraordinary. The cash in hand amounts to four and a half millions, and th’s balance is maintained by a resolution of the Directors passed some time since not to cash the notes of the Bank to any amount over ten dollars to any one person, Among other assets, we notice three millions in bank notes; four millions in bills payable; seven millions in Cuban Treasury Londs ; and a heterogeneous mass of loans on mortguge, bills collectable for foreign account, of the ‘Treasury Department, Dills overdue with two or moro signatures, the same with mortgage, the same with guaranteo of shares, amounting to some five millions, The Captain-General’s private ac: count appears inoderate ; he owes the Bank only @ quarter of a million, Tho Collector. General is in far worse plight; his indebt ment ia nearly a million and a half. Tho branches of the Bank are set down as debtors to the tune of over three and a half mil- lions. ‘The Bank is alao supposed to have in the shape of taxcs collected, part of which it soenis is stil! inthe hande of collectors, a trifle over four millions of dollars; and then com ble sum of eiyhten mitions of dotiara due from the Crban Trea eury Department, to which it has been ad. vanced by the Bank without interest, Tn fact, with a very careful exami the balance-shect of the Bank, wo ash apart, not five millions of do emeta whieh any imp 4 the v respwet ation of find, ara in tial expert examining ® bankrupt's books would set down as any Using bat bad, Alwost every dollar except (ie eth is to Le collected from ovo branch or other of the Colonial Government, and of couray If the revolution suvcecds the Bank is w J Out, assois, debts, aud all, But should —— Independent White-Satin Journalism. Last December tho Independent was twenty-one years old. It celebrated ite ar. rival at this halting-place on the road of cant and neighborly malignity by printing an extra edition In vile colored inks, as unpleasant to the eye as the contents of the paper often are to the mind. What made this extra issue especially dis agreeable was the prominence in it of two droadful woodcuts, One of these represented the editor of that journal disguised os the Angel of Truth, and almost unrecognizable in that unaccustomed dress, blowing twisted and ugly ram’s horn at « building labelled “(Ecumenical Council,” and in- tended, without doubt, to represent the Ro- man Catholic Chureh. In the foreground were the ruins of the structures that had already fallen before this windy angel, and ‘on the stones were printed the names of the abuses they represented. Among them were “ Slavery,” “ Sectarianism,” and “ Big- otry.” Close by this picture, in the adjoining column, was a historical eketch of the Jnde- pendent, stating that the paper was estab- lished to promote two ideas, “one of which was the Congregational as against the Pres- byterian church polity.” On the whole, the picture was a pretty good representation of the practice of the paper as opposed to its prenching—among the things blown down by the mighty horn of the editor being sectarinn- ism, while one of the two purposes for which the paper was established was to war against Presbyterianism on behalf of Congregation- alism. In due time this “extra iesue in colored inks” passed, as every one supposed, Into the waste basket, and we had hoped that tho in- fliction had come to anend. But unhappily this is not so, The Rev. Treopone Tr.T0N has fallen in love with his own picture. The pair of sweet angelic wings, cropping out from his shoulders, which the engraving gives him, have proved too much for his modesty ; and he, or rather his publisher, has concluded to send it to various emperors and kings, that it may be known in the different court circles. The publisher has accordingly favored us with a circular tosay that he has the honor to inform us that he has had ten copies of this issue of the Independent printed on fine white eatin, and elegantly bound, which copies are to be sent to nine illustrious personages as follows : Fier Majesty Victonta I., Queen of Great Britain and Ireland Tis Tecerial Majesty Naronzon IIL, Emperor of the French, His Imperial Majesty Francis Joszrn 1., Emperor of Austria nnd King of unen Hits Mojosty Wrtttam L., King of Prassta, & His Imperial Majesty ALExaNDER LL, Emperor of ns ha. pili, Imperial Majesty Ampet-Aztz, rk His imperial Majesty Prono IL, Emperor of POlis’ Tmperisl Majesty Ki-tetaxe, Buperer of tant of aM, tagged on to. the tall end of thie imperial and royal procession, one to “His Excel lency U. 8. Onawr, Brenideat ef the United Staten There are several points about this pro posed gift that are especially curious. The first ie the silly snobbishness of the affair. This declaimer against monarchies, like most demagogues, ecizes the first opportunity to fling himself at the foct of royalty with his white-satin offering. In the next place, he is so anxious to put himself in some sort of communication with the kings, that he dovs not stop to consider whether his gift is not rather more of au insult than a compli- ment. Hs picture represents, as we have said, the Angel TruTox blowing fierce tram. pet blasts against slavery and the Roman Catholic Church; and he has the exquisite good taste to send the paper as a present to two monarchs who are slavebolders and three who are devout members of the Roman Catholic Church! They doubtless will duly appreciate the attention, While he was truckling, however, why did he truckle especially to slavebolding and Catholic Kings? There are several Protestant mon- arches, Why were they snubbed? What will the Emperor of Japan say when he hears that the Emperor of China has got a copy of this samptuous gift and that there is none for him? He will be tempted to put his postmaster-general to death and commit harikari on himself. What will Victron EmAnvet, King of froe Italy, say when he knows that the Emperor of Austria has been preferred to him? Then, there’s none for the Pope and none for the King of the Sandwich Islands, and Sweden and Norway have been slighted and Denmark left out in the cold. ‘There will certainly be trouble among the crowned heads when this business comes to be known. Perhaps the gifted editor expects some ackunowledgment—graceful autograph letters from the several po- tentates, that can be published in the Independent, signed “ Pedro Imperator,” or “Victoria Regina,” accompanied with ele gant gold snuff boxes with the Tiltonie ini- tials set in blazing diamonds, Or perhaps the editor and publisher aspire to higher things, and expect titles in return, We may, for aught we know, soon have a paper published in this city by the Chevalier Bowsnt, and ed- ited by the Count Teoporo TrLToNo. Let the Count Joannes look out for rivals. Meantime let us sce what other absurd thing the con- ductors of this Puritan-Republican sheet will be at. This certainly is the furthest possible flight of the snobbish imagination as yet attained, and the most ridiculous thing of which American journalism has thus far been guilty. Saitan of — Te Won’t Get It. It is currently reported that Mr. Hamtt- TON Fisit will soon leave the office he bas filled for a year, and that Gen, B, F, Bur.en of Massachusetts will be Secretary of State in his place. We don't believe it, It is likely enough that Mr. Frem will ro. sign, and that Gen, Guant will let him down easy by making bim Minister to England But Bex, Bur_en will not suceced bim in the Cabinet, He is too smart, too pushing, too restless, too full of notions, of fights, and of ambitiqis, to serve the purpose of Pres. ident Guan?, BoTLer is aman of genius, and if he were also a man of principle and of judpment, he would be @ great man, What Gen, Grant requires is a Secretary of State who will not bother him with unneces- rary business, who will not wish te manage any department but his own. aud above all. s history of the Rowrd of Suvervisora will be writ- who will-not think of ranning for President in 1872. Gon. Burien does not posscas either of these requisitea, Bes.dea, Massachusetts already has two mien in the Cabinet. Mr. Hoan ie likely enough to go any day, but Mr. Boutwett will not; and a small State like Massachusetts cannot have both the State Department and Treasury, while o great State like New York has nothing. But there is another reason that is still more conclusive. Gen, GRANT has said about Burien the hardest thing ever said by any one. He has described him as bottled up. This is a sort of thing that BuTLER may forget, but Grant cannot, He may shake hands with the member for the Esecx dis trict, and treat him with outward politeness, but he bears him a grudge all the time, He will never select him for his Secretary of State, that is certain. peter Presidential Deadheading. President GRant, it seems, not content with his salary of $25,000 a yoar, froe house- rent, garden stuff, and perquisites innume- table, to say nothing of the liberal “ pres- ents” he has received from office-seckers, claims the privilege of free transportation over the railroads ot the country, whether their officers concede It or not. At least we find in the Poughkeepsie News the fol- lowing account of what occurred on the Hudson River Railroad last Thursday, when the President and his party were on their way toattend the funeral of Gen, Tomas at Troy: “President Grant, and Brxxxar, and Cox, and Postmaster-Geperal C writ, took the midnight train from New York, Shortly after leaving the city they were called avon, {n common with other passengers, for their Ucketn. ‘They stated they iad none. They’ were thon usked to pey their ' ‘This they peremrtorit; do, riving t) e conductor, Hanny b: stand that thelr exuited positions free conveyance. ‘The conductor told them Instructions were to pass no *denthente’ over the rond,and that if they did not comply with the rates be she uid be obliged to stop the train ard put toem off, Thus things remained until the arrival of the train at Poughkeepsie, when the conductor threnten- fc to diveonnect, tne, Car which contained the distin- +9 bed party. But before proceeding any aoorintan tent Tovcey was acqualnte! with tHe exe, and that gentleman took the responsibility to “trust! them for their fare as far ax Albany,” Avother Poughkeepsie paper, the Press, tells substantially the same story; and it is 80 in accordance with the President's alleged practi ces, that there will be among the people & strong disposition to believe that it is true, We trust, however, for the sake of public de- cency, that it will Le promptly and perfectly disproved. The country sternly condemus much that Gon, Grant has done since he be- came President; but it does not wish to be- come utterly ashamed of him. Berretaries Rommaon, ———______ The Legislature is drawing toward the end of its career, but we trust it will not ad- journ without doing something to secure to this city the benefits of rapid communication from one end of Manhattan island to the other. The ouly available means appears to be an under. ground railroad, with cars driven either by steam or pneumatic pressure, It is true that the so- called Central Company bas bad for two years or more a charter to build a tunnel on the east side of the city; but capitalists do not put up the money, and it does not seem probable that the work will ever really be attempted; and besides, the route of that Company is inconvenient and imperfect, There are, however, two plans now before the Legislature, the Arcade and the Pneumatic Tunnel, both of which propose to fol- low the best possible line, that of Broadway. Of the two, the Arcade appears to us much the more desirable, It provides « light, airy, agreeable avenue, with ample room for trains enough to ae- commodate the enormous travel of the city. Its construction would be an invalnable boon to our people ; and we trust the Legislature will not ad- journ without fully examining and weighing the merits of the plan, If it is found to be as good as we suppose, it should certainly receive the charter that sked fur ————— A speech of the Rev. 0. B. Frormrcram’s has again been unfortunately misreported, In ono of yesterday's city newspapers thé reverend gentleman is represented as having said, at the meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society at Apollo Nall on Saturday, that “the only God be knew was the God that lives iu human hearts, and makes his manifestations through buman actions in the history of the world.” Of course he does not roally hold to any such disguised atheisin as this, and it is too bad to have him charged with it, — The Germans say thet the next Mayor of New York should be the Hon, Hanny Gener, for the reason that he had the courage to vote alone for liberty, Inger, and law. a ER One of the smartest fellows going is Mr. Roserrs, the Spenish Minister at Washingten, He is altogether two smort for poor Mr, Haxs- tow Fism, and with the help of Mr. Siowex Wan- sven, Mr. Fisn’s son-in-law, makes bim believe tho most preposterous stories about Cuba, One of these is that the revolution is actually on its last legs, when in truth 4 tas never 20 atrong ae at this moment, and never made such head against the volunteers who control the so-called Spanish aathorities of the island, If Gen, Geant shoula send Mr, Fisu to England, and appoint Gon, Bax, Borver a8 Secretary of State, he would have a Secretary that even Mr. Ropenrs could not hum- bug. But is such an appointment probable ? No, not a bit of it! <<< Harry Gener is following in the footsteps of Hany Crar, who said, on a memorable ocea- sion, that he would rather be right than Presi- dent, pce ks Mr. Jom B. Hasxry, a short time ago, sued out a writ of certioraré and stay of process in the matter of the opening ot Berrian and Madison avenues in the town of West Farms, which was granted by Justice Tarren. In the month of February last, Justice Joseren F, Barxanp was applied to at Poughkeepsie, and be rendered a decision setting aside the writ issued by Justice Tarr on the ground that Mr, Haskiw bad po standing in the Court. Mr, Hasxim appealed from the decision of Justice Bannanp, and brought the matter be- fore the new trio of Judges, consisting of Justices Givens, Tarren, and Part, on Friday, when they rendered an opinion #eversing the order of Justice Banyanp. This last decision, of course, will stand untiiin its turn it is reversed by the Court of Appeals, There is no Judge in this State who has # higher reputation as a lawyer and a fair-minded man than Judge Josern F. Baaxarp; and with the profession everywhere his opinion will have more weight than that of the trio of Judges opposed to him, a eee ‘The Albany Argua gives us tho cheering assurance that the Democracy are really deter- mined to absolutely suppress the Board of Super- visors; but it makes the strange assertion that * the political press of New York, in the hands of the Radicals, has always dealt out vague de- hunciations against this Board, taking eare to hold the Democrats responsible for its evil do- ings.” ‘This is @ great mistake, ‘The sharp. est denunciation of the Supervisors that we remember, was uttered on Friday last by that truly indepeudent paper the Journal of Com. merce, and there was nothing vague about it ei- ther, We advise the Argus to study it, “The Journal, rots bared to the light, end the infamy of the inside ring ita outalde who have enriched themselves by plundering the peo- ple, indelibly burnt in upon them.” “This ts the Board,” continued the Jowraal, “ that lays out nearly three-quarters of @ million @ year for county printing—one of the greatest and most in- famous swindles that the turpitade of man ever conceived. When we say that the Board met but four or five times in 1869, and could not have bad much real official printing to do, some faint idea may be had of the enormity of the frauds un- der that head.” As for the responsibilty for the doings of this Board, it cortainly belongs to the Democratic party. The Board has from the first been engineered by Democrats; the great fortunes accumulated from its plunder have chiefly enriched Democrats; and the Republi- cans admitted to share ia its products have sim- ply been used to convert the Republican party in thie city intos mere appendage to the Tammany Ring. Nor would the Democratic now abolish the Supervieors had they not been forced to do #0 by the gallant revolt of the Young Democracy and the outcry of the independent press, To the Republican party the Supervisors have never been anything but # curse and a disgrace. To the Democracy they bave been source of vast individual wealth and @ means of unfailing control over the Republicans. No wonder there was in the minds of the Democratic managers such @ strong desire to retain this Board. No wonder, either, that in abolishing it they have provided for electing its successor by repeating and fraudulent counting. So big «thing could not be resigned without an effort. palais retest There is one SUN that can never be eclipsed. ‘The astronomers will please take observation of the fact. —————— A year ago Inst fall TRuMAN H. Hoag, a Democrat, was elected to Congress from the Tenth Ohio District by 912 majority. After serving one session Mr. Hoao died. Last week Mr. Peck, a Republican, was elected to fill the vacan- cy, receiving 2,797 majority over Mr. Hitt, an able and popular Democrat, The cause of Mr. Hitw’s defeat was the secession from the Demo- cratic Congressional Convention of the Williams county delegates, who were mad because the Convention would not pass a resolution declaring directly for @ repudiation of the bonded debt. When Ohio is redistrictod by a Democratic Legis- lature, Willigms county should be thrown into Moxoen’s dist ——___ The Atiaa ia delighted with the Tween charter. ‘The Mayor,” it tells us, ‘is at last at the head of # homogeneous and consistent ad- ministrative system, end the present incumbent, with the accession of great powers and great ro- sponsibilities, obtalos an opportunity of showing what stuff he is made of.” What nonsense! Under the Tween charter the Mayor has the power to appoint the members of most of the Com- missions, but after that he has no control over them. The Police Commissioners hold office eight years; and of the four gentlemen whom Mayor O'Hatt now designates for that Commission, the one drawing the shortest term will not go out of office until 1875. The Commissioner of Public Works bolds office four years; the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction five years cach; the Fire Commissioners five years; the Health Commissioners five years; the Park Com- missioners years; the Superintendent of Buildings five years; and tle Dock Commissioners five years, When Mayor O’Hiut bas named these officials, he will hare nothing more to do wih them than has any other citizen, Nor will the Mayor who succeeds O’ Hatt, on Jan, 1, 1871, have any power over them whatever, nor the Mayor who on Jan. 1, 1873, succeeds O'Hatt’s successor, The next Mayor after that, however, will have @ lot of them to appoint, and th.a the business will be done for four or five years more. A more ridiculous and clumsy con- trivance than this charter of Mr. Tween’s was never invented. It is not any better than the present charter, except in electing the Board of Aldermen by general ticket; and even that benefit is nullified in the case of the first Board—which will bold office for two years and a half—by providing for their elec tion by repeating and fraudulent canvassing, ac- cording to the good old plan, Considering what & monstrosity this charter is, we are not surprised at being told that several of the many Republi- can votes in the Legislature cast in favor of it cost as much as one hundred thousand dollars apiece. a AMUSEMENTS. the Olympic _Thesire trarenty on “ Sfhe. will next week succeed miet bur- Bibernicon, at Apollo Hall, still attracts This panorama of ireland is well worth At the Tammany the great §) appear all the week. ‘They ure to Saturday. At Wood's Museum the blondes are still the attraction, A burlesque of the Bohemian grea Girl ie announced. The Lydia Thompson troupe have been unusu- any succeesfal at Niolo's. They wil continue thetr performances indeduitely. Those who enjoy negro minstrelsy can be de- Uighed by Mind Bry w.F I y feaions Frou-Frow” holds the beanie s at Daly's Fifth 0, It is @ play th theatre-goers than * ish dancers vo ® matinée om o “Twelve Temptations” still nightly fill the ped4 theatre in the city. Many new costames aad ve been introduced. It is said that Mr. Fini bos already ch 150,000, _ Tho great Europes eiag Riok this DI eatest eireus company vio the Company will Parade to-day, when @ live lion ‘etl | 4 allowed to ran loose tn the streets, Lent, meaumhile, bas been burniehtng ap his. ctr cus tronpe. KR, Stickney promises to rij buck lorses at one time every e' at the Hippotheatron, Mr. Booth's enga Saturday ev: ‘his week, ement comes to a close on ing. ‘The first three nights of tie e appears as Macbeth, the laat tirve as Claude Metnotte, and in the tormer éursetei the eminent comedian J. 8. Mujor Wellington de Boole and \n * At Wallack’s Tom Taylor’s new play has met with great favor, While eonfessodly the plot shows no orizinality, still the characters are so Fkilfully drawn and tie dialogue is so bright and natural, and the contrast between the rich parvenus ana the poor nd proud arisiocrate so admirably presented, that the draina ts full of entertainment, A concert of unusual excellence is to be given thin oveving mt tie Acadomy of Music, tn nid of that most praiseworthy eharity, the * Bheltering Arms," an asylum for crivoled, incurable, und dosti- tate children, Soy strongly to the sel com! jonate, it is such hollow", iss Bterling, Le das, Werner, and Berg Ord \ 1 take are and insure @ more than the Saturda ‘On next y “Mr. Juli Schaberth gathered about him « band of arrists on Sa'urda ing, at Stelnway's smaller hall, to Fruna Lisat. TI Unusual variety, bart II, was devoted to ihe works of the composer in whee honor the aflair was given. ‘Truth, how: ever, comeis ua to say that Lisrt's oart of the pro- erawme was decidedly the weake: id Chat bis commositions suffered decidedly with Mozart, Chopin, Beet an Behn hab bad preced Schuberth. hinieelt took part In the ance, plaving, with on Breuning, Grate by Rubens piiitouation, and in ing, thal showed true artistic fire, Clara, Perl, and Messrs, Mills, Mra, Davidson, Otto, Singer,’ Kowalski, Von In Rommortz, Busameyer, and Werner all lent their aid) Sucu an 1,00 talent is sollom gatticrad, After the co ert the invited guests al & pleasant social entertaiument ut ‘Mr, Schubertu's rooms on Broads way Ir. Whittemore’s Modesty. Wasmnatow, April 10,-—-Letters from Colume bla, §.C., say that Mr. Whittemore tw written to the Governor, and asked lim to call uu election, and announciog blmwall os» candidate The Re 1870, THE: MACFARLAND, TRIAL. —_———_ A PLOT TO DRIVE MACFARLAND £0 INSANITY OR DBATH, ham ard Mr. Davia. The sixth day of this trial opens this morning ; and that the readers of T ‘um may be «ble to comprebend the complicated and exciting scenes Which are to follow, we will give a résumé of the facis of the care us thay have been thus tar present- ed, and also the theory uf the defence as far ae it has been developed on the trial, The CENTRAL POINT on which the defence turns is, that McFarland was not s responribie being when he shot Richardson ; ‘nd surrounding this central point ie the theory that there was a pteconcerted scheme on the part of the friends of Richardson, first to alienate the affections of Mrs, McFarland from her haeband, and then, by Persistent persecution, to drive McFarland to @ Ia- natic asylum or the grave, in order that Richardson might poseess Mrs, MeFarland in safety. To sustain this theory, the defence bave alieced ‘and already partially proved, claim tbat they ‘will fally prove, that ae early ae the summer of 1806, Mrs. Calhoun, while with Mrs, MeFarland at the ine, began to implant in her mind alienation from her hasband, and tn- duced her to lend « hospitable ear to tue doctrine of the that Mrs, Calboun Farland with a hunger for social distinction enjovment beyond w it Mr. McFarland in hie then impoverished condition could gratify; that this led to Mrs, McFarland’s becoming disentisfied with her humble home ; that she became intimate with Rich- ardson, Who sympathized with ber social ambition ¢ that Mra, Calloun and Zichordson got an er gace- ment for her at the Winter Garden Theatre, where poeared under the name of Mins Cushing; that fled from her home to the l of Bamnel 61 clair, 8 Weslington place, where she and Richard- son OCCUPIED ADJOINING ROOMS withont any door between them ; that the conspira- tors spirited awey McFarland’ ulidren, and that Richardson suppited the funds to contest the lezal pioceedings which McFarland brought to recover them ; that Richardeon INSURED RIS LIFR for the benefit of Mrs. McFurland; that McParland became unsettled in mind, was stricken down by fever, and came #0 near death that the conspirators supposed they had got rid of him, but that le finally stagnerod back upon the scene, a hopeless-hearted men, with ruined constitution and shattered mind; that while in that stare lie, on the 10th day of March, 1987, intercepted the letter from Richardson to bis wife which was read to the jury on Priday last and appeared in Tue SUN on Saturday morning; that that letter sti!) further unsettled bie mind; that his subsequent strug les to regiin bis children, the snoors and taunts of Richardson, the Indiana divorce of Mrs, McFarland, and the common report that the was soon to marry Richardson, deepened bis malady, DROVE WIM TO DisTRACTION, and finally resvited in the homicide on the 25th day of ber, 1809, As acoliateral reinforcement of this theory, 18 has already been shown that insanity is hereditary im McFurland’s family, and thut his first cousin died in the Lunatic Asylum on Black- ‘well's Isiand in 1847. Another, and in some respects the most interesting point in the defence is, that Richardson's death w hastened by what is kiownas the Astor House mi rivge and other Astor House excitements, and that, as a legal consequence, M'FARLAND 19 NOT RESPONSIBLE for bie dying at that time, as charged in the Indictment, | Under thie poles the whole course of 0 cor it louse, Will be pat in evidence, This wil of course lead to exei!ing scenes and bitter fights be- {ween onposing counsel, ‘The detence claim to be exceedingly strong in the Bpeteor ‘Of their Mossrs. Graham and case. enger any that in the whole rave of their profes ‘and it is claimed that he it out to perfection. He bas not ried! for money, vat. frome sense of aoty, He bes gnoogh. There are probably lew law) ers In ‘who, all things considered, are as well off ts Mr Gerry. His library slone is worth OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, The prosecution are also strong in professional nowle ral ability. ‘The District Attor- ney isa veteran, dudee Davis bi nm retain satisty the friends of Richardson, and he Of creat lecal powers, The contest between him and Mr, Gravam waxes hotter every day, aod it bids fair to become & lure.eic conflict of exampled bit- wit, the wife and drive aod the claim by what took 4 ctroum- urrounding the ning to end deployed in evidence Out of the ‘copious which he bas gathered, Mr. Gerry las tirown up a sort of legal Olympus whereon lis asso- clate, Mr, Grabain, can alt like & foreasie Jupiter, conspiracy to ailenate MeFi \ tuo to ia erave oF a tunati LL m18 THONDI LTS at © has assumed, or even been In- VolantaFily pmced in. an attitude’ of eitvar. real ‘or ™ ing bostiiy to his client; and the proctical re suit bids fuir to be to put free love and free lovers on trial, with Daniel Mcsarland as ebiet spectator of the scene, ——————— LOVE AND MADNESS. The Freaks ot On Beturdey evening, Constable Charles H. Ferris, of Weet Hoboken, arrested Pan! Boland, a lawatic, whe bad atvempted to take the hfe of s Mra. Lianen, of Hadson City, Boland bad threatened to marder the whole family, He Mves tu the apper part of West Hoboken. He had fallen in love with @ young wowan who had repulsed him, and this led to insanity, The family with which he boarded be- came alarmed, and at one time a Mrs. Finen, of Hodson City, attempted to quiet him, when he kicked ber in the stomach, tnjuring her severely, On several oeensions he rove in the aight, let bis bed out of the window, and cerried it a mile or two off, and dropped it on the ground to sleep, some: Umes in a severe storm, On Saturday last be seized a knise and threatened to cut the throats of all to the house; were compelled to fly before him Boland then seized a chicken, cut ite head off, put the neck in his mouth. and drank the blood,” Ae then filled his hands with the blood and washed his face, Alter whic! ee 'ook the fe and mMarted off, detying any one to approach him, Con.t die Ferrla lound hitn wandering ap near Onton Hilla desperate maniac, He was lodged in the county jail, ee FINE ARTS IN THE CITY HALL, Carted Ont of the City Trewsary, The Chamber in the old City Hall known as the old tea room has been adorned with a prod. fous portratt of Gen, Washington, abont 19 feet by 6, Many inquiries have been mado of various oM cinls where the lumbering mass camo from, aud who was the proprietor, but the unewers have been invariably evasive or downright falsehoods, real facts,as gleaned by Tae SUN, tend to show t the picture was formerly to be seen on the walls of & famous gambling saloon at 64 Broadway, Some of the frequenters of the asloon thongnt tt brought t thelr request it was taken up rret, One cvening « frequenier of the establishment who bad jost his money and was rather drunk, inquired after old George. as the sports ured to call the picture, * We've put him away in the gerret for bad behavior, Larry,” eaid the box manipulator, * where yoo'll go some day,” “Say, Judze,” said Larry, “I've lost a deal of money at your game; you might give me that old picture.” “What do you want of it, Larry 1 eliimed in the man who kept the case; “you aint no auctioneer, nor set you uint got no gallery as I knows op.” Never you mind what I want of it me, Judze, if sou fee! like It. epley for my girl perhaps, or soinet The picture was You give tt T want # nt Aldermen to & valuale work of orce Washington, pal that funows ican artist, Rembromit } te rate of § Tt passed. Tk went b Aldermen, where {t passed without discursion, and With but one dissentiont voiee, that o! Alderman Long, whose integrity of soul silines out on every eccusion, Aftor the passage, the picture Wan re: me quarters oF Larry into the lice purciase for the Solossal picture of vd from where it hangs to From an artistic point of view the pleture te a vile daub, not worth £3, STATO! @n4anT’) UN ERECTED BR. : —— Gold Baninese—The Fick and Goold Did. Washington Correspondence of tha Cinctnnart Inquirer. The “ gold investigation” is over, and has left the conntry Just about m1 it was bo’ore tt com. mencet, #0 tar #8 Grant's participa'ion in it war concerned, Ite object never was anv other than to ¢reate a sort of cuttle-fish mist andor cover of which the Presitent con'd retreat; and so we have a forry wernt hundred pages. the lenvth of whic Iipreet rah rye. Bat tt ocenrs to me a a tit tin the evnrse of the inves flention no hint was elven of the Imnort int facts 1 am rm abant to relat ich came to me from one who wan directly interested In the transaction Foon after Grant's inancaration, Mr. Mullett. the arehiveet of the Trenenry Derartment, conceive the iden of an eqnostrion atytne of Ulysses. to on the south periiee, of the White Hoa: This pariotic tmpulee for the most Dart a burnt Barorine to avert the Ne wrath of the new Adminterra- fom from the berd of Mallett, #' who ¥ wea known as ‘Chase man, and threntened with official death. It was to be '« reat work of art, crefitable alt to th ‘subscribers. Its cost w: i Fed oo. and the Ve was to raise this the friends of the Gen. reoalved. oF expected witch he per kice to really, an and ‘he gonatrned the Neation [4 forvher fg betaine wo the Gift En- A few ower inaivitane 0 wealth 04 note were gic t, bat ther oe Ih cheerful rte oF Kenerous ti vey resol to Geni those who woo'd furnish the rennired wmeant Back Again to New York went the gealons Dutchman, and ca.led on Butterfield This ian ane narra with fit pentenees of percention witen } him fo meny good tarna, imme ty tay in behalf of Montes pick ani Gould, a a ‘and. Gund he felt interned » ger tlemen for this amoun' y owever, ft was ack '10'fe, ontored on tre Poners in thelr names, but to be Jutielously dtstrib- uted among a number of friends, Jnat about this time the gold excitement woe apnrovehing. That Fisk and Gomid know what was coming 20 Sne who ins read the Congressional report of the matter can Grant and Fisk were enjoying each other's and unlimtt Corbin and wore secretly devisl P #tratavems whi ni .olin the “ bine Friday of Sevtember. And among the end results of that “bine Friday,” and Its euheeq Hons—the criminations "and reeriminations aan called forth—I count nove more sad then the failare of the eqnestriin project whereof I now sneak. The “unplensantnese” betwoen Fisk and Grant, of Fisk ard Corbin, whieh t# the some thine, resniting from that gold corner. led to the repudiation of the liberal sabsertotion for the great work of art, which was to commemoraie at nce privaio gratitude and public worth. Notulag remains now to mark th FO0d lutentions of tie suthor of the oroject, exce A few architectural alterations which Mr. Mullett eansed to be mide last aummer on the south portl-o 01 the White House tor the receotion of Grant on a bronze horse, Tt loo%e like a eat failure all round, and I write this artie’e in hones that some generous friends of our {ilustrinus Prost lent will take the enb- ject in hand and comnlete the do It is too vad that the ching should have heen ntoped in the had by the untimely frost of Fis inafnation. Mallett hee done his share in shovelline @ place for and he deserves eredit for hie patriotic services, They will all eo for naueht, however, miles rein- foreed by the $85,000 and the bronze horse, Lot the hat be passed. MACK, “ee GLORIA BT LAUS, Holy Week! began yesterday with Palm Sunday, Our Roman Catholic churches were decorated with palms upon their purple-draperied altars, and large quantities of everzreens.ito represent that tropical plant, wero laid n piles within the altar rails, ready for the biessing and distribution, ‘This ceremony was performed at Bt. Sto- phen'’s at low mats in the morning. Asolenm high mass was celebrated at half-past 10, bat no proceseton with palms gave effect to the tervice, ‘The muste was, as usual, very fine, But Coletti's fine bass voice fs missed from the ehotr, M. Wein- Vol’s seareely anpplying it, Morgan's voluntary tone, from Kinkel, thowvh fine, lacked the usual accompaniment of Toalvin's harp. ‘THE SERVICES IN BT. ANN’S were beautiful and very imposing. A procession of thirty young eiris, drevsed in white. with floatine white veils, and crowns of white roses on thelr heads, entered the charch from the vestry-room door ‘precisely at half-past 10, ‘They fled, two and two, down the side alsle. through the churcli-door into the vestinule, and retntered the eharch by the central portal. The curling white line flosted 0 the aisle, and, parting tm dront of the altnr rail, formed & semicircle round the sanctuary, where seate had been prepared for them, An exquisite orean voluntary thned their measured steps and movements, The entrance of the acolytes and cloray in the pur- 1 gold vestments of the Lent season was most tie and imposive. The Rev Father Preston, ier of the archdiocese, was the officiant of , and also celebrant of the SOLEMN HIOM MASS which followed, ‘The Rev, Father Pool devcon, and the Rev. Father De Chard The o biesting (he palms followed ion, symbolic of Christ's entry into jem proviony to bis crusifixion, ‘The thorifer with smoking colden censer passed fret down the central aisle, followed by the acolytes and subdencons bearing the process! ynal cross drap- ed in gorple; then followed the other eleree and Js all bearing alm branches time were distributed by congregation while the procession made t of the euurch, to elreult SOLEMN MCN MASS was then celebrated by the Rey. Puther Preston, who, atthe conclusion of the eorvice, earnestly recom: Jed his hearers to discharge the duty of an- Provehing the ancramente during the season of Lout formed by Dacham and the chotr was sch, At the o ssi i's Stabat Mater, was fine'y ren- A fine orchestra as been engaged for this church for Easter Snoday, and the ceremonies dar- ing the rest of Holy Week! bezinning on Holy Thurs. day, wi!! probably be very impressive and beautiful at this chureb, $$ BROOKLYN'S LATEST TRAGEDY, —— Sleahing Open a Ma's Face and O'lppl pg drg 344 o'clock on Sunday morning James Grogan and Michael Dowd got tnto an alter. cation at Hicks and Laqueer streets, South Brook- lyn, and the former, drawing @ huge knifo, cut the Watter about the face and month in shocking manner. Grogan thrust the lao of the knife into Dowd's mouth and cut throngh one of bis jaws to the ear, after which he carved the e ber of officers arrived i and bore Dow and t police station, Glu prepared the exploit, Dowd lies In a critical en Torace Grecley—fle ere ‘From the Bren ing Post. The folowing letter from Mr. Horace Greelay to a Senator in Western New York, it is said at Aloany, had a powerful influeuee upon the Republicans in the Senate, in the vote upon a New Yonre Tamumi New Youn, March 26, 170, Im; Ite indispensadle that out of thé pre ent he Legisiature we getan honest @ on IAW, nt we must not fai! to mecure It. hf @ Democrat of the ileate the re a OO Jou tohear andre dondor Uk Dear fena in Taat i The ant: are eed i Pmiapeieia, April 10,—The second ri banquet of the Soctoty of the Army of the Py Was the event Inst eventig tn the Cont About two hundred sat down toa splendid re Meade presided. sl dan sat at bis let and President Grant at the right, Ania Unguls ied soidiers it the hinanat were Ge Burnside, Sebotield, Mi Dowell alle, Hoxer, Paterson, Poa Mader, “Van Vliet, Markland, Cobb, Beer y of the Taterior Cox, and ¥ Borie, - —— We have received the first issue of a new weekly paper, published in this elty ander the tile of La Estrella de Cuba (the Stur of Cua), tesned of course in the fartherance of Cuban tod logical, und © Tt ts replete with ens written articles, which eannot fall to be duly appre: clated by ali lovers of (ree institutions, Tho Fifteenth Amendment has bad {ts effect even on the theatrical Blondes, who now provose to dye their bair buck to tts original paler, NR AM! —Beven citios in Germany have 1, streets. 4 ore =A publishor of @ juvenile maziine come PIAIDA that he hae AN “over KUYPIY OF KitLe \ poetry —Figaro says that a legal peculiarity of the West 1 that all (ne lawyers are Judges, and cone of the Jnd6e are awyers —The oumber of surplus books advertised for ante br Mnidie, the ere + cireniating liorary manager of London, exceeds 2,9 0 voinn —Gen. Win, 8. Hillver, a former member of Gen. Orant’y ata, ts eaid to engaved in writing thy Ifo of tho Inte Secretary Rawilne —The Commissioner of Patents says that all qnarrels abont rolormpes nts have ceased. They made his Nnsinors qui'e lively at ove time. —A Boston lady was recently observed trying to rerulate her timepiece oy & marine compass tn the Window of w nantioal instrament store. —A pamphlet published at Florence traces the ont of the Holy Father to a Jew of the oane ot Mastat, and his marriage with the Countess Ferettt —AtWisconsin farmer sues for a divorce on the ground that his wifo ean's chop the amount af ‘Wood that ahe boastod abont previous to mari —The members of the Mississippi Legislature re economical In ono respect, at toast. Thoy have ‘Voted themselves one dollar « year eact for posta: —Aherd of 26,000 buffaloes are now only » hort distance wert of Laramio City, and stray animals are frequently eeen by passengers oa the Union Pacite Railway. —The Belgians are held up to ridicule in France because thov wish to reform tho French lane fuage. They propose, among other things, to drop the letter A. An Irishman sent to the Wisoonsin State Prison was asked what trade he preferred to lown, Ife ‘enid that if 1% was all the same vo them, be preferred to be a ealtor, According to the Registrar-General’s returm for 1809, the etty of London ocenpies 77.997 actos, or 12a fquare miles, and has @ popalation of 8170.51. The number of houses {+ 406.507. —The grandson of Gon. Berthier, who arrested the Holy Father under tho first Napolcon, bas ontistoa tm the army of the prosent Pong, to make up for the anti-Papal delinquency of his sire —The town of Lyndon, Washtenaw county, Michigan. has been eettied for more than thirty..wo Years. and yet {thas neither church, hotel, store, poss office, erocery, nor mall of wny kind. — Most of the buildings erected on the burnt istrict in Portiond, Mo..dn't begin to pay a falr inters ‘est on the ontiay. and the city must be tn @ bad coud ton financially for years to come. =The Rev. Wm. R. Huntington, rector of All Sainte Church in Worrester, Mase. has recelved « call from St. Mark's Chorch tn this olty, at @ salary of $10,000, 10 succeed the Rev. A. H. Vinton, —To whistle in a public place is to insult all the people there and to diserace yourself. It is bad enough to keep your hat on and pat vour feet upon the table. Young Amertea will please remembar this, —Lonisa Muahlbach is highly incensed at the rapid dectine of her popularity as a n voliet inthe United States, Im he- salon she always xpenke of the feading public in America tn daparactig terms. —The British Government has purchased for Gistribution, naying the author £100. @ novel. called * The Bride's Mission," written in Hisdostanes, and ont eniated to promote the cause of female eiucation im Inais, —Miss Shirk, of Dayton, Ohio, who in the good 014 times once rod in a waron Im a Vallandigham pro- eession under an inseription, “ White husbands oy none.” has marriod an unadulterated African named Lee Kelly. —A Frenchman once bired a room in Paris on Condition that the servant won'd woke him ap every morning at daybreak, and tell him the day of the week, the state of the weather, and under what form of gov erament he was living. —Thomas Henry Nicholson, an English seulp. tor and draftsman. who died recently, was the actnad modeller of @ series of statuettes for which that Im- mense hum'ntg, Count D'Oreay, claimed the entire cre alt and rot no little repntation. —A Boston lady complains that a swect-tem- pored dyepeptio a I1"tle too apiritnar for thie wor'd,and, alittle too material for the nex', and who thorefore teem always hovering between the two, is Consiiered the highest type of femnals loveliness, —A San Prancisean, speaking of the orehestre In the Chinese Theatre there, says: “1 tell you that you can go your bottom dollar that you mever heard any: why, when that band trikes nn. I de wasb-bilers tambling off a five-story brick sidewalk.” n woman his recovered by law all the money that ber hnaband had spent in aliquor ew loon for six years, Tho Prohthitory Liquor liw of that State does not regard liqaor as “ proverty.” and the woman recovered the money on t eronod thal it had been to the liquor vendor without orn \dervtion. —The people living on the Kenreboo river, in Maine, are sinentariy anfortunate, They wore obliged toabandon ship-hatidine, which was once thetr most prosperous business, and took up cotton manufsctar- tne, Failing tm that. they went with great enthuriaen Into the teo-entting business thie whiter, and have a entirely overdone it, they are certain to be heavy lovers tn the end —A Fifeshire man recently took his ehild ‘0 the miniater to be baptized, who arked him: “ Are yon pre- ared for #o important and aslemn an occasion?” Prepared" he echoe4, somewhat indignently; “I hae Arlot o' bannocks bain’ twa hame, ax’ a ca‘lon of the best Hieland whiskey, an’ l wad Just like t) ken what better prenaration ye could expeck free a man fa my conditton of Ife 9” —Three brothers, bearing « remai Diance to each other, recently went Into ene same ban der shop, and on the same day, to de shaves; one proton 1n the morning. the other at noon, and the third af night. When the last one appearnd, the barber, whe ‘war a German, dropped his razor tm aston! hme’ nd exclaimed: “ Vell, dat man has dé fastest bevrd In him dis morning, shaves him at dinnes comes back now mit his beard so long e reseme never vash,’ —The United States Treasurer, a few days ago, received a ietter from 8. L. Carpenter, of Kansas (i'y, Mo., enclosing @ dreadfully battered twenty-five cont note for exchange. But having some consctentinne sernples as to the genuineness of the rag, the writer begged the Treasurer not to brand tt He said he was poor boy. to whom ‘wae @ mattor of great importance, ant if. shonid prove to be bous, he won! tke & turned, as he knew # piace where he cou!) lager beer. —If there does not soon ensue a general emi- eration of the from Foopeto th Uni States, ft wilt he fantt of the Lrdénendery Belge. Speaking of the influence exerted by women [9 Ameries, that Journal asin Wash employed as clerks, heads of a: ww York # banking house has b which nll the dopartmenta nre fiilod hy the bevy sxe. On the day of opening they recetved 4.00 clivnls i which number the crace and beauty of these iadies bal since added an enormous increase.” OWL AND RAGLE, The Facile thoneh The Ow! vouch to exntore the sk! fod his Wir dorn W # Give up this nrofty Btay clove by mig: A} creatn ‘i knew of foolhardy, or Which flew away np anit was | éhao! hoot ho. wTpTcan't £0 ap any hicher thn Tt jothing to roost ont. Foal to try ‘ou'd Dump your head against the + Te-hoo! boo! hoo-o done! on @ a san. 1 hoo-oo! the dange-ons elroy ‘mouse, 1A ad “1 told him better! the rattle brane Wil hod hat heres ende yeh Had he sence enous f He might have we oe Tete hear him seven’ "Pie an °