The Sun (New York) Newspaper, May 12, 1870, Page 2

THURSDAY, MAY 19, Awinsements To-day, Booth's Theatre The Mehan! of Refer, Tiryant’s Minstrels—siwo Fly, seursions. Keir Ral’ reach Theatre I! nue Theat re=Prov- Fron Erand Opera Mouse Twelve Temp iaiion. Kelly & Leon's Mi New Vork Swimming Aeademy—Sirih ay. snd Pible’s Garden Lyte Thompeon Trevpe Ban Francisco Minstreln, $8) Srniway. Wood's Museu Fell of the Chub of Goll, Ma The daily cire he last week, which May 7, was as follows : 900 Thiredoy ulation of Tis SUN during ended on Saturday, circulation last 611,800. Average daily ctreulation ing the werk, 101,967. Daily average previous week, ending April 30, The St. Domingo Meeting. A number of wealthy merchants and ang of thie city have called a public meeting for to-night at the Cooper Institute, “to promote the interests and safety of American commerce by providing necessary Means of protection for public and private veesels navigating the waters of the Mexican @ulf and the Caribbean Sex.” rentlemen propose to attain “ratifying at an early day the pending treaty for acquiring the right to oe. eupy and hold the Bay ivland of St. Domingo, with the adj by which the wana in the Thia meeting or in Washington. It forms a part of the machinery which the President hax for some time past been v Ing with a view to secure the cousummation of the mighty job of annexing St. Domingo. It is said that he he bringing over to his views, and those of bis in St. Domingo who have ot last succeeded in friends here and large stakes in the project of sufficient number of Senators to authors y may at last be ratified hope that the trea changed their minds require some sort of ifestation in favor of as an excuse for proclaiming their con- For this purpose the venerable Collector of been directed to make o demonstration of ths even’ The objcctions to anuexing St. Domingo are plain and unanswerable. that the illegal vote of the people of the Island in favor of the measure was froudw lent, and does not represent the sentiment ot A large portion of St Mr. Grinnent, angements for the Itis notorious the whole couat Domingo was even then in oy against the treacherous and oppressive Gov Great progress tant town of Azur mittees are active and enterprising in the It has captured the Its revolutions notwithstanding: Btatex, the revolt will soon Lave possession of the entire republic. bellion does not #uc seems probable, it will certainly be continued ed 80 8000 simply requ’r ivil wer in the the men and materials for carrying diers, aud mili Was forved to abundon the Dominicans to f this might not be the result if we should attempt to annes and conquer the island Dut what save man wishes to be compelled fo wend there an army of fifty thousand m and a ftivet of fifty men-of-war? benefits to be gained justif 18 upon millions of money, coutest and leave such an under. We do not accuse the gentlemen who call this meeting of any intention to deceive the public; Lut the language they employ is ealculated to give a false impression of their They propose only to ratify the treaty for the Bay of Samana as s naval sta. ‘They say nothing about the annexa tion treaty, which ie the real object of Gen GRan1's negotiation with the Senators at Washington, and of this movement here. ‘endorsing the little swindle the big swindle may, after all, be accomplished? ‘The rent proposed to be paid for Samana is $150,000 year; but it is believed by the public that a considerable part of t the pockets of speculators who have az- fanged the terms of the treaty, and but a very small part into the Dominican treasury. sum will go into all the rights and priv® ges conv tho proposed sale of Samana could have Deen obtaincd o year ago for $100,000 a May we Lope thats explanation upon this delicate point WI be given in the course of the pre edings of this The gentlemen who address the mecti would also do well to cons Detter meave than the bo discovered tor and private vessels in those regions for them, instead of advocat fing the purchase of @ Darbarous and unm d island, to call upon President Gis to change his Secretary of State, and appoint fo that office some man who will not truckle from sheer poltroouery toa weak and sink Spain, and who will not allow the American flag to be outraged on the high sens Ly Spanish cruisers, with er whether some rehase of Samana ‘otecting public would be wi ing power lke They would also do the duty of at once removing Geonok M RoveEson from the office of nominal Seeretary of the Navy, and Davip D. Powrun frou the real control of that Department, hin put in the placo of Mr. Roneson some wan of energy and intelligence, who will send Admiral Powrks about his business, and the useless end costly squadrons which we are now maintaining in distant ports—such as the equadron in the Medi- terranean—n7Lanuly all. the shires navy to real and not fancy work, When that is done, no further protection will be re- quired for public or private vessels navicn- ting the Mevican Gute. 6 a wud Carvbean Bea, pagel other waters, — The Osage Swindle in the Senate. The thanks of the country are due to Mr. Monni.t of Maine for expoving, in a recent debate in the Senate, a gigantic land job in Kansas, for which Senators Ross and PoMEKOY stood sponsors, and by which the Osage Indias were to be bled for the bene fit of six railroad companies, only one of which he 4 any existence except on paper. By the solemn treaty of the Goverument, entero’ into long ago, the Great and Little Osage Indians were sasigned to a reser vation of lande, located in and conti- gious to what was subsequently erected into the State of Kansas, amount ing to eight millions of acres. Recently, and in violation of law, several thousands of adventurers have squatted upon those Jands, and have fomented quarrels with the owners by taking possession of their farms, their cabins, their cattle, and their crops. Under the pressure of the circum- stances the Indians were, a year or two ago, induced to enter into a sort of treaty or agreement by which they were to yield up the Jands, with all the improvements thereon, for $1,600,000, or at the rate of 20 conts per cere. But this treaty or arrangement, on being presented in Washington, was not rati fied or approved, probably because the Iudian Bureau regarded it a8 a swindl Just at this juncture these six railroad prations, five of which, according to the admission of sator Pomenoy, nly “proposed roads "—that is to @ay, mere paper rouds— turned up in Washington, and procured a Dill to Le reported from the convenient In dian Committee of the Souate, of which Mr, VWAKLAN is Chairman, transferring to them these 8,000,000 acres of valuable land for the sun of $1,600,000, At the very lowest estate these lands must be worth $1 peracre. Hence, if this Vill could be passed, these six railroace would make the enag jittle sum of 6,400, 000, or « milion ench, with a margin of $100,000 to spare, The chicanery of this tieaaure was thoroughly exposed in the very able specch of Mr. Mornin of Maine, of whom it is not too much to aay that be is one of the furemost statesmen of the couatry, Of course, nobody will believe that aay body outside of these railroads was to make vut of this gigantic job, and ver- tainly no Seuator! We confess, however, it any money would throw some valuable light on the sub ject if the public could know the names of the persons who own the stock or franchises of the one road which seems to have rickety existence, and the five “proposed roads" which have no existence at all, We trust the Senate will Kill this bill very dead. : ici Do the People Gain or Lose by the New Charter? It would Le extremely interesting, if it were postille, to sum up accurately the profit and Joss account Letween the people of New York and the City Government, aud ascertain how the account stands since the acquisition of ose TWELD's new charter. An approxima: tion may, however, be arrived at by a com: ariaon of the degree of power possessed by the people under the old el the rer and under new ‘Vhe great demand of our citizens has been r joel #elfgoveriia nt, and the elaim is advanced by the sponsors of the new harter that, under its provisions, this is s:cured. ‘That wonderful or- xanivation, the Citizens’ Assoc'ation, tells us that the usurpations of the State Govern. ment placed the power to remove incom stor wasieful officials in so remote and Jidfuss hands as to entirely free it from re aponrib ty for prompt or conscientious ac. tion; and for the remedy for this evil afford ed by the new charter th: that every citizen should be 1! But pray tell ushow the evil is remedied? Gov, Horr. MAN ise citizen of New York ax well as A O'HALL, Esq. ‘The new charter takes the ap- pointing power from him and confers it upou the Mayor. ‘The Governor was, in some seuse, clected to exercise that power ; the present Mayornot atall. ‘Irae, the former was voted for throughout the State, the latter only in the city of New York ; but Mr. Horr. MAN recvived $7,443 more votes in the city than Mr. Hae, ‘Therefore, we contend that, in this particular respect, the people are losers by the removal of this power from an officer who was elected to exercise it, and con- ferring it upon a lesé popular official who was not, Besides, under the old system the Governor lad the power to remove at will most of the officials he wag authorized to ap- po'nt, Under the new charter the offi- cer once appointed is practically fixed for the full lait of his term, The appointing officer, in licu of the powcr of removal for cause, is only clothed with authority to im pouch heads of departments before the Court of Consmon Pleas, and a conyietion by that tri- bunal is neceseary to removal, ‘Thus it be- vexatious, and roundabout proceeding to get rid of an incompetent, cor nite! comes a slow, ruptyer otherwise undesirable official ; where os under the old systam he could be deposed hy amere strok then is another feature is which the people «losers, by Laving the reuiedy for malad- ninistration of office removed further than ever fre sof the Governor's pen, Here their reach, The executive power of the city was for- merly lodged in a Mayor elected for two years, and sundry Commissions and heads of departwents, partly clected by the people, partly appointed by the Governor, with oth- ers of a mongrel nature, springing jointly from State ond municipal authority. ‘This power now vested in a Mayor to be elected a8 formerly, with ~— sundry heads of departments and Commis. sions appointed by A. O'lfar1, Esq, in anticipation of the election of the new Mayor. St is claimed that, under this arrangement, the Mayor, being responsible for the eflicien cy of his appointees, selects practical men for heads of departments, Thies might be the came wore each Mayor, on entering upon of fice, clothed with authority to fill the depart. ments with men of bis own gelection, But, unfortunately, the first Mayor to be elected will fipdall the devarimente filled by men not of his selection, and in no manner responsible to him, any more than the old Albany Com- miaaiona were responsible to Mayor O'HALs. He can neither make removals nor appoint: ments, Hisreaponsibility therefore is a cheat and adel M weve £00 TW STICCORBOT,WW Ue exourou two years from next November, is equally shorn of power, his functions being antici: pated under this charter by A. O'HALL, Esq. Even the appointments hitherto always with: in the control of the Mayor, and never usurped by the State Government, are now taken from the two succeeding Mayors, In all thie the people are losers. The old and new departments compare as follows : a jew. pieiue Finance. Law. Law. Police. Folice. Croton Board. Street Department. Charities aad Correction, Public Worke Charities and Correction. Pi Heaith Health, Health, Central Park, Satter Bujidings. Docks. ‘The number of these departments remains the same, though two old ones are consoli- dated, and one entirely new one created. But the popular gain or loss is to be deter. mined hy a more detailed examination, as follows: Department of Finance. Under the old charter,! ler the new charter, the Comptrotier, as enief,'as amended by the t ‘woe elected by the people|ievy, the Comptroller for aterm of four years, appointed absolutely by and removable by the|A. O'Hall, for tour Governor for cause, the| years, and'can ouly be re- same as Sheritis, Imoved by impeachment. Law Department. Chief, Counsel to the! Chief, called Counsel to Corporation, elected forthe Corporation, to be three yeare. Appointed|clected every four yours. Corporution Attorney and Appoints Corporation At- Public Administrator. |torney and Pabite Admin- Counsel to the Corpors:listrator. In respect of this tion removable by the officer no change is made, Governor for cause, the exeeot that the term of salve ws Saori. joftice is extended, Police Department. LY Four Commissione Four Commtsstoners, appointed with cdvi appotited absolutely by the Senate, and re 4. O'Hall, Beq., for eight, ble by the Governo d tive yeurs cause, Department of Public Works Three Cowmistioners) William M, of the Croton Aqu A apsoiuiely whated by the years by and Cotton Cowell for: # five year Street Conn appottitedt ov Uh mon Pies with approval of Bo cles #xelusive ¢ ‘ ot Aldermen, for twotrcets and Croton Water years, a removable by Works, with immense Sune Authority patronize. Lepertinent of Charities and Correctton ir Conmin! ners tt Five Commissioners,alr ointes by the Comptr.d-(not AO Holl, Beg, jer tor five seuss eae. rth ire Deportment. Five Cotomisste pointed absolutely years each by A, O'Hail, cignt yeurs; removabie by brq.. and removable by the Governor for eause, itn at. Health Deparinent, PID ssion: The Po Oficer 0) four Sanita. t oa, wil ap \sotu ‘O'all, pointed ana removabe by Esq, ond the Health OM we Governor, erof the Port et oficto. Deportment of Public Parks, fye Commis | Board of ave members, Wor (em five years by A. O'all otrei Keq., and having coutro! ¥ 4 wil public parks and L)diaces throageout — the with pow: city, an ail street vacancies. Jurix-jnuder eontrot jon extended to ali Board. Aut packs ond pabiie places|hy charter to above Fourteenth street, Canal street, } street# above cd to eniire et, evy Department of Buitalags Foor Commies) peinted by the. € ind Senate for terns ver The Poticw € the He the’ Port, any ry Commissto: nted abe y by A Orig! sioners appointed by the anpomted absolutely Supri ne Court, yout C city by lox Superintendent of buiid- ent of Battle ings, appointed by. the absolntely Mayor, with concurrence years by A. of Bouid of Bupervivors,/O'TLiil, Keg. Removable for term of four years./only b¥ impeactment De Removable by thority. me au-jfore linon Pte Department of Docks. nctions exercised to) Board of five a limited oxtent by dire! lappointed avsolutely fo Comm ver, Commis itive yess by A. O'llall, siners of tie Sinking|Esq. Kemoval by Fund, and Conmissioners|tupeacament beture. a of the Central Park, jvourt of Common The direet power of the people in the elec tion of public officers under the new charter and as formerly exerc ised compares as fol lows : Under New Charter, Uncer the Ad Sytem. The people elect— he teu— Mayor Mevor Corporation Counsel Corporation Couurel Aldermen, Who are also] Comp tro ler. Supervisors, Aldernon and Assist's. Assiviant Aldermen, Supervisors Behivol Ofticers, Sudiera! wud County OF cers, | behoul Oftivers, Judicial aud County OF ficers, It will be seen that the sum of these changes shows @ very considerable loss of power in the people, even if the various Com. missioners and other oilicers were appointed by a Mayor elected for that purjose. But when it is remembered that the appoint ments are all made by an official about retiring from office, to be succeeded by a Mayor who can exercise no control what- ever over any of these executive depart ments, it will be apparent that the City Gov- croment, instead of being more democratic than under the old system, is in reality a great deal less so; Instead of recovering our municipal rights under Democratic su- premacy in the State, we are worse off in that respect than we were before, i Turkey, fearing complications with foreign Governments, consents to Egypt's judicial inde- pendence. This concession serves to encourage the Viceroy in bis struggle for complete inde- pendence, and tively times are expected in the East. The contest will really be between France and England, the former country Lacking, and the latter couniry opposing the designs of Egypt. Russ looks on, intending to pounce upon ¢ Piitain ip the event of an actual eontict, ——— The Marquis of Burr isto be added to the long list of celebrities who grace (he annals of journalism, ‘The intelligence that he is about to start the London Evening Sun as an organ of th Church of Rome is highly complimentary to newspaper men all over the world, and estab lishes a new tink between the spiritual interest of mankind and daily secular events as they are recorded by the press. Journalism and advertising sre the great levers of progress and industry; aud the pious Marquis deserves credit for having so well caught up with the spirit of the age by appealing to the in- tluence of the secular press for the support of in- terests relating to the progress of the Chuveh and kivdred topics of universal unportance. pe The largest mecting ever held in the First Assembly District was held last evening to pro- test against Tammany’s proposed vowination of Nicuotas Mouiee. — In our edition of the 9th inst, appeared a card from Lieut. Ropixson’s counsel, endeavoring to show that his client had been hardly dealt with by the Court that sentenced him to be cashiered for presenting a fraudulent claim against the Gov- ernment, But to prove, on the other hand, that our strictures on Lieut, Rossxson’s conduct were well founded, we bave but to quote the leading paragraph of the counsel's card, as follows: * Lieut, RoINson was charged with having pre sented a ‘alse and fraudulent claim to the Govern: iment, well knowing the same to be iaise and (raudu- jent. Pb lyevidence relied upon to prove the charge Was, that Having, on September 1, 1869, at Kichinond, Va., eokd to a bank In advanes his ‘pay for the month of September, and which Was not Pizeble until October 1, he subscquently, om Qeto- 1. brewented a claim '@ the Paymaster at Now York for the enme period. All this Besmaateai iret mitted by Lien, ior NOO™. Riebmond testified that he pa ste iiiere yes 88 the bank ou the 30th September, be nea of Boy Ind 2 ate r 10 ahem, % bh . Lient’ Remrason until nearly three weeks later. It here appears that Lieut. Romrson received {rom A HARE INPRIMMANA A Monay ConAKTerAtON for his pay account for the month of September, 1869, From that time forth, Lieut, Rosivsox had no claiw on the Government for his pay fo that month. Nor had be any intetest in the pa account, nor anything whatever to do with it, Neither was it in secomance with custom for the bank to advise him of the fact of its payment, The bavk would never have bought the account had it not fully expected to have it cashed by the Paymaster the day it was du Sept. 90, 1869. Lieut. Romsox could bave ox pected to hear fromthe bank only in case 11 was not paid by the Paymaster, There ean be no ex- cuse for such paltering with money papers, nor can any orgument or sophistry convince ue that such conduct is proper and officer-like, ‘The counsel assvines that we know nothing of this case wave whut we bave gleaned from the official announcement of the result, Taking the ‘atcmunt of the counsel as perfectly accurate, it is sufficiently damaging to his client to convict him before any court mortial inthe army. Be- ides, if he proves anything, he shows conclu- vely that both the counsel and the officer are most grossly ignorant of what is meant by au officer’s “certificate on honor.” They view @ pay account in about the same light as notes of band that cou be thrown on the market at the will of the drawer, at whatever price they will bring, Fortunately this idea doce not prevail in the army, ond it did not govern the Court that cash- iered Mr. Romygox. A list of the members of that Court is now before us, It embraces officers of character and experience, whose nes are red among men, They bave decided that ut, Romssox is unworthy to hold a commis sion; and if we had doubted befure respecting the justice of that sentence, the question would have been entirely set at rest by the apparently very truthful statement of the counsel. ——— Mr. Nutson W. Youna, the President of the Workiagmen’s has declined the m ination of the Democratic Union organization for Alderman, in the hope of scouring Tammat support for the same offi His name wou weaken the 7 yany ticket, and he aesuredly be defeated if he should accept powinatio wou such o ——— The people have stood a great deal from Tarmmany Hail, but they will never slaud Nicuo: bas Meuian, FS eve ceueateneey Mr. Doras B. Evros, of this city, aail ed for Europe yesterday, His departure was sudden, and, to most of bis vequaintances, un ex presume that the period of his ubscuce is uncertain, His health, we are in- formed, is still feeble, his nervous system being quite prostrated, He has been confined to room since the night of the 12th of February, when be wes found upon the sidewalk near his house in Twenty-ninth street, suffering, as was reported at the time, from the effects of a blow on the head received ne person unknown, A reward of et once offered for the de- tection of thi son; but this large sum has not sufficed to cause tbe discovery of any guilty party. The reporters of the press also eamestly endeavored to usce u the facts in this park. able case; but they were met at the outset by contradietion stencies of statement, and refvsale to afford information on the part of persons who must have possessed is. These circumstances gradually avd irresistibly Jed to the impression in many quarters that Mr, Earvoy bad not been assaulted at all, and that the whole nflair was but # strange delusion, ‘This impression was, however, metat a late day by the statement of Dr. Groce A. Perens, a dis- tinguished surgeon, who attended Mr. Eatox at the nd was convinced that be had really ved a blow upon the back of the head, thas olso since been explained by Mr. Eaton and his contidential frien@s that the con- tradictions, incon: ted; and w 00 w mysterious time, tencies, and refusals to state the facts to which we have referred, were the re- sult of coupliance with the advice of Mr. Kew Nepy, thea Superintendent of the Police, who, they say, thought that by such means the assail ant would be thrown off bis gu ly detected, his be d and the more en 1 yy the case, Mr. Eaton would app as the victim of a double misfortune: first, int ing hurt; and second, in being made to seem un- willing to have the truth known respecting it. Thus it is manifest that it was through the fault of his confidential advisers that the evidence which has ultimately been adduced that he was really jurt did not appear at an earlier day in the papers, We must add that the reasons assigned by them for withholding or disguising the facts are. still unsatisfactory and insuificient, And we are also sorry to say that the question, who was his as- suilant and what was the reason of the assault, still remains «8 much involved in mystery as ever. ise ee Nienonas Moen been proved o @ ticket-swindler, Ie has served his time as such in the penitentisry, Messrs, Tweso and Sweexy cannot afford to insult such men as Moses Tavion and Rorat Paeurs by placing Monven at their side on the ticket for Aldermen, ScnnnEnnesnennEREn Justice Cox yesterday sentenced Bully Nexson, the Man-Eater of the Eighth Ward, to six months on Blackwell's Island. This won't do, Neison boasts of his influence with New York Judges. If there is any truth in his professions, he will be out on a writ of Aabeas conpue before Monday next, Ie has bitten off the nose of one pole officer and taken a piece out of the leg of another, He has twiee been convicted in a l’olice Court, and his case has been sent to the General Sessions, Will District Attorney Ganvin see thot his assistants, Buon, Ferrows, and Twer, give this cannibal the justice he so riebly inerits ? emcee If Tammany wants an honest man from the lower wards of the city, let Teuwxox Durry be nominated on the ticket for Aldermen, as he is the choice of nine-tenths of the Democracy in the First Assembly Distric ee Tiemann L. Laniemone, Esq. one of the Democratic candidates for the Court of Com mon Pleas, will make an excellent Judge, Me mber of the New York bar for eighteen years, and bis experince as coun- sel for large corporations—in which has Leen obliged to make the most thorough studies— has been such as particularly to qualify him for the judicial office, He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention which pre pared the judiciary article under which the ap- proaching cleotion of Judges is to be held; and he was ove of its most earnest advocates, He deserves the yotes of men, irrespectiveof party, who desire to see qualified lawyers fill the new plac Pleas bench; and if Tammany always made such men its candidates, it would be well, has Da mn he —— We think that Tommany Hall showed sense in preferring Gxonar Suwa, Esq., to Mr, Hexny Nico. as a candidate for Judge of the Marine Court, Mr, S#8a hag much the advan- tage ip point of ug het esos The Long bland’ Weston, T, Treiney atarted fom Hunter's Point yoater day for Sag Harbor, 100miles divtant, ding to vee o a route HW} out ais hours 01 F wie Ua #620. "He marted \ehd reaebed Jaa ten miles distany ut 8, ML ™ they could obtain the passage ofa bill to give them the gontrol of te refining business, S OF all the Represent tives from this coast, only Senator Cole of California is really decided and earnest againes this scheme. Our Kepresentatives, and. the Senators snd Represeutatives of Oregon 'aad Ne- Yade ary pledged to ni in tue passger of encir a bill, Because Mr. Cole opposes it be Mas been scan onsly shased and misrenresented dy all the pap hove in the servies o: sh, : facts will enable the people of the whole country to understand “what is tue matter with Cwlifornia.” IS CALIFORNIA BANKRUPT? —— WHAT HAN HAV PENED TO THE GOL- emai EN STATER 4 Bank of Ca ce of w Metallic Saevct & Standetill-23,000 Laboring of Employment—Mr. Colfax ents ing hie own Words—Projects of the Bank, ew, Correspondence of The Bin. SUAWEFUL GRASPING. Sax Francisco, April 26,—It has become so Rye eo Anot Exposure of the Mysteries of the Late Metropolitan Police Commiasion, «From the rookivn Eagle, ‘The late Legislature passed an act abolishing the Metropolitan Police District and Commission so far as Brooklyn i# concerned, nud restoring the Brooklyn Department and City Bow wf Voliee. It tiso pasted a law abolishing the Metropolitan Health Distriet and Commi sion, in respect to Brookiyn, and restoring the Brooklyn City Health office. Tt also passed a enarter for the city of New York, in which & eity Police Department and a city Health Depart- ment for that city were provired. Upon the passage of these inwe the’ persons who had heen Metropolitan Potiee Commissioners made interest with the Mayor of New York to have hi appoint them ae the Clty Police Board, and he polnted them, They reorganized their force a City Pollce, ‘dismissed their Met tendent, ond appointed Supesintendent, At this time the Legisiature was still in session, Had there been snyjdoubt felt about the combined effect of the Brooklyn and New York nets being to disselve the Metropolitan Police sys tom, with its district apd its Commissioner, a word from any doubler would have. sufficed to olitain the Wrente ‘of A sapplementary sect declaring it to ho the intent of the Legislature whoily to abolish tie met- ropoUtun system, Not ontil the Logtelature adjourned was any such doubt expressed. ‘Then Police Comminsioner B. F. faslionable to pail nd to exaggerate everything that relates to Callfornta, ite people and tts products, Uhat one runs some risk of being charged with eyn felaiu if he attompts to tell the truth about them, My lust letter, publistied in the Suwon 11th Feb roury, appears to have astonished the natives who reside on the Atiantic slope, as well as those who dwell here, The latter have not heard as much trnih aout their Mnancial affsire us wae contained in that letter since that excentrte individaal, GEORGE FRANCI® TRAIN was hore on aleeturing tour, With all his faults, ‘Train's bitterest enemies give bin credit for being shrewd reader of man and @ profound fluancier. ‘That his tneoberent discourses on the matter of fiuange interested the people, ts proven by the fact that for nearly six weeks he drew immense crowds every night—sueb crowds as no other man witl any otver tople could atiract within the walls ot @ io the »poittan Superin- other man as City Police ‘The applause of these large audiences, their vans Of the nutional curreney, and gi wes Wien (he policy of the Bank of Cal! plained, proved that the statewents made the representatives of the Pacific coast to Congres that “they objected to the national currency,” we *e . Manierre, Kepublican and Young Men's Chrivtian false. The press never dared to report ‘Train's | Aeociation petiticnm of New York. and Dr. Crane sporchos, shough they uttracted mnore atteutivu than | Renubhean fealtaCommresioner, of Nrocklyr, ead Sustinng that laa occurred bere for years. denly bethonght them that the’ county towns of OW THE BANK CONTROLS THE PRESS, Kings county were not iu many words taken oat of the police and health districts we tie two ei poe \ . It tn necessary, tn order to explain the rervility Of | ero, aTterefore thelr tenaer eonstience. ant the local prove (o the Bank Ring, to state that, hot oir withstanding the price of daily pupers here is fully | Keen sense of public duty, forbid them to pay over To per cent’ higher. than in aay other State in the | ie health fand of Ue metropoliian system to the Union, there { not one among them that could exist | city oMicers. | They clatm that there is still a Metro politan District, and they are ite Commbvsioners, and {tconsists of tle county towns of Kings. and,’ per- haps, Richinond county, bie §8,000 4 your as sioner, wants also bi politat Police Comm for #i¥ inonths if dependent on 1 all depend on nd No merehant pat wdoption of tie national eurreney could expect ac- commodations at the bank, As that tastitution ln a regular army of spies in’ ile employ, every man's Dustnessis known to its Executive Committee, whi contro! the monoy, the politics, and trade of the const, uid Which few business men care to offend, THE PROPLE MADE TO SUFFER. ‘The profits to the bauk, through the exclusion of reenbac':s, hare heen enormous, with a correspond. hig loss to the peonie of the Sinte, Yo Miustrat To ibid there were in this State fully @25,000.00 » At that tine green ba at ight centeon lar, and Government bonds at fifty per ceat. vir troe In this depr reney. Had th Rank Ring permitted the introduction of gr backs et that time, California would bave been one of the wealthiest States in the U, people would have obtained $100,000 and eurrenes for their gold. ‘Tae Lunds would hare doubled in fatve ana patd a liberal tnterest in the s cireulation, They Manierre, besides drawing w York city Police Commis id $12,500 2 year ax Metro: joner; and Crane, who drew $5.00 a year for doing nothing as Health Comunis sioner of Kings county, wants to deaw it still as Health Commissioner of {he county towns alone The Bugle has don those Metropolitan Commissioners, denouncing then, And the people have been h rder on thom, repudiating them, And the Leyisiature has been stilt harder on them, alvol- ishing them. But hardest and worst of all—Jamac- ing them more than the loss of oMlcc —is the reputa- tou Mr. Manierre and Dr. Crane will incur if they attempt to hold on to tue emoluments of offices witch the Legistature virtually abolished, and the daties of wiich, easy at the bestiu comparison with the pay, are now transferred to the eity officers, Tt is impossible tuat such a trick should succeed, for new officials can by injancsion prevent Manicr: aud Crane frow appropriating the woney in tueir hands, und by man‘tamus compel tuom to pay it over to their successor man tiie, while the cnrrency would be worst near- |. ag Te ly 150 per Cent. more than st Tre seiasn | Voleo of the Press on Judge Ingrohan's ness of the Bank Ring blinded th Faux Pas. resily golden opportunity, and Honaires they are all broke, 00 in cots inh the Federal Tr owe tent Brom the inibune Judge Ingraham yesterday decided the manda- mus cose of Jobn Foley vs, Henry Sivith in a aan. ber whieh seems to us novel, Back vou eke to save tt ee fron ake rt ite Dot to he had. ws it | Ret to become fasitionable, Subst: ntinlly, he holds takes al ach gold, to buy greenbacks new | that, though Foley is entitled to the office of Super AS their iuee Cal's for. ‘The chesp aud ubundant or, yet, as it is #001 e any how, 8 lioney ut New York, and low rates of freight bi Visors rely ee lee eene tol enpiey aby news Binith road nod atoamers, ure rao Ta the bank. | May as well heep it—so the Court refuses the manda: Jag business | Tue hint can well | mwe. His gourds bere at a handsome profit, when bs sivess of Cour talus Eastern ercenback prices in gold; witle the | , Acconting toour view, the business of Courts is to Joes) trader, bus ine his goods for gold worth tweive | decile according to law und equity cases properly tothiriy-ale per cut, interest, cant cover bis ex- | before them, If a wateh had been stolen, the tact ee ee eee ere ie arama’ trelity ber | that its owner was at the point of death, and there witn our trade. Te Bink, by monopoliing the | fore unable to enjoy the watch if It were restored (o inowey supply, ins rvined the whole Bta him, would hardly be belt to justify 9 Court in MONEY WORTH TWO TO AVR PRR CENT, A MONTID ‘Vhere evn be no business man #0 iznorant of the laws of trade ut not tomave noted thot there mast be something radies!ly Wrong in the aMutrs of any State In which the interest on money is five to, s't States, Tread in THE SUN that money is at tae 6 per cent. on eal. Tn this State it ined At less than 12 from that tof) per cent, ‘Toere tuet he a eanse for'sneii # wide difference im the val of money in the twa leading civies of OMe Wation, 1K ine stant communication by telegraph, and only a few apare by rail, The fund etple si ne this c. or, be itn governinent, a eorpo or an indivi, the curren munity, alo ee he Bavk Ring here ey by rejec ry Merest 80 igh’ that every ralyzed, except that of the arer, Who ts literally eucking tue life-blood ont of People of thie Bitte,” There “are at this time 5,000 isboring mon out of employment tn Calitornts, a State in which labor is more valushle than any Wiiery else, simply becanse the Bank of Caltfornia directing that the thief should ke any Court but Judge Ine a's, which it may not be sule to exp: From the W In the matter of the application of John Foley for mandamus on the Mayor to appoint him a Super- visor, elkewhere reported in this issuc, Judze Ine ra bam renders a remarkable decision—the point being that, while Mr, Foiey is properly entitled to what writ of mandamus would give him, the Court does not deem it expedicnt to grant him such writ. He onght to have the thing, but ought not to have the means of getting the thing. All this comes of mud- dling up law and equity, wheresy your modern Judge is more a Roman praetor than a declarer of the common law, w mean d to $ our opinion. on —_ The Case of Lieut, Robins To the Euiior of The Sun. 8 onday’s paper appeared cts to greenbacks, and cannot oLtain sufficient Btn i To rome Mouesy a Seber spreared 6 cord gold to keep the wheels of trave in wotion, from J. T. Kilbreth, Lieut. Robinson's cou THE PROPLE DO NOT ONJRCE TO GREENRS ip his recent trial, This officer ¥as convicted of It iva slander upon the peop preventing a false claim for pay for a month tor Carer ‘With objec whieh he bad already been paid. Although it was Logistatur trem. [| Prove that Lieut. Robineon only placed his pay r W. Stowe | uccount tn the bank to secure it for a sum of money $ ige C. Gere | advanced 10 him, and that the bank, unexpectedly to i)" throaza the Legisiature : at drew the money on the cecount, Even if th Mire had be the Robi that ver 1 Ste of thi out re it to drive g the Shite, and prevent groeuback® eomiug tn, vrely aniinadverted The lite geld) we have érowing emailer by de- eral cou tie army, a con grees unt beautifully lees. Tne exports of that ation never before foumd necessary inti men Tuetal bave ex 1 the receipts uearly $4,000,000 Mr joined the service. Tam since Ist January, 197), Tn face of such tacts, whic must be known to every representative from the Pacitle coist in the nathonal councils, We see Senators Stewart, Nvey Let, aud Wisdising sagerti coast oiject to tie Ratios ood of such assertions is d w logic of events, It is a pain: corrupting influence of gol to see Sen gracing t Mice by this misreprese ple who elected them to power. It wor Kot 1s ommpotent here, for when Congre: Comuittees, prominent Federal oficials, even the sure t th's statement will be sufficient to convince army officer that Lieut, Rob: inson wis most justly dismisse Again, courte martial never do convict on mere tecinieaiiies, The names of the Court that cash. ut Robinson are as follows, aud they are nt cuaruntees that not the slightest Injustice 1 First Artiliery; Gen. Wat in First Artiliery 5 t Artillery; Co yt. Wileoa, U, 8. at Artillery j ane «tier, Captain y. one aiu First Artiliery; € A.; Capt, Wheeler, First Lieuten: Vice-President of the Union comes and’ visite t) Capt, Coster, US. An; Capt, Bryant, Lieut, Gar palace of the golden autocrat, Ralston, be mover fails, | BEF, Kirst Artillery, Judge Advocate to convert them to his unholy creed, aud they ail | If Mr. Kiltreth's views of the sacredness of fall down aud worstip the filthy image he has set u MR, COLFAX reD. Mr. Colfax, on Lis Grst visit to this city in 1964, made & public speceh in ileveuce oF the national enr- rency, and predicted the ¥ ry results that now afll.ct the Biate through rejecting that currency, — Tiis specced gave great offeiise to the bank King, and the id not notice him on lis arrival tn 1969.” To minke ds for baving spoken thus in 1Si4, in 186% he telegraphed to the Secretary of te ‘Treasury to officer's certificate, wx Illustrated by Lieut, Robin son's conduct, wre allowed to prevail, it will not be long before te War Departinent will issue orders compelling officers in the line to be paid on the p: rolls of the regiuents with which they may be serv ing, us, though not for the same reason, were the volunteers during the war. In closing, allow me to tha friendship shown by Tux SUN tess, manly tone, ite hi: officers should be, and tt kK you for the real ythe army, Its feit> h standard of what our old deuuneia f wronj grant (avors to the very wen who refused Uy ses | in high and low places, cause it to be eagerly read, im till he promised to perioria this degrading ser- | Itis true there are those of us who think you strack vice, Gen, Grant * below the belt," but much may be tor- THe UNIVERSITY FOND, To Miinetrate how the Bank Ring operat in this Btate, 1 will call your nm to the airs of the State’ Universtiy, T! a and State Govern moute have been extremely liberal ia granting ants for the support of wis institution, ‘Phe sale of por- tions of these lands pincet neariy #KOKN in ite treasury, This money wae placed in te custody of the State Comptroller, The trusvees of the Univer. fity inclide some of me extensive and Une scrapniogs lant ant sbuce syoculy They up- winbed ton, of the Bink of Californla, and 5. see nen 0 Mintted powers, Thi comiunittee took tie funds of | Sry, everywhere, should know that America sy mn pa, the U fromm the custouy of Rie State where | thiges with her, As the Cuben fevolutian eather iven the man who pricked the Butterflold bladder, Your criticisms on military matters do more good, becuse more widely Known, than all the courte ware tial in the service, Publicity is Wiat bad men dread; and to you we Jook as our strongest ally in. the work of * weeding out the army.” AN ARMY OFFICER weil Our Duty Towards Cuba, Prom the Albany Boening Journal Would we have had Cuba free? Then we should Nero it ix by wo menne ae sate, “Atior | tied pin should have Hever misuiiderston oie ered ind oe rattan: Halston and | position, nor profited by any relation with us, Cuba iar a asttiie ene te on hover #houll have doubted ovr frlendstip, nor heen pat back by any act ofour nationaiity true to international ob Ween Every benevolent or other have Vas an agent of the bank w we 18 0 fee ane f smote e cause We SHORT OF BULLION, to the strict letter of the » of a Prior to the eb nthe mint effected by Mr, | tinal law-and have ate Witon that Cole, when the steers used to carry away tho | iit we comid have homua a ant. Byte wlwaye to be hort © mrs and coin Oo ae an ha tna i Teas rN Phi ferent Gonoetare ae com OH T thet oncaniastion, and ine thea by our idle who were compelled to remit Pike mints | hopes that some day thes will nave succeeded in doing Data Albecaat when’ the Ie) betier, When we may condescerd to recoguiee the netantl — f the Gen, Jordan Declines a Serennde hy ut steamer day, and Money be Sp rar e Seller of old and é New Youk, May 10, 1870. Dep ah its sarong’ to sitia nlareaia of Gill Dean Sin: Understanding that a movement is on fot an ong he Cu ans in this city to give m ferenude, aX AY expression of their FenKe Of my con rection With tue de ence of their country, I beg to Aen hose ged in maki g arrangements for th iment, that while I appreciate projoundly the sentiments whieh inspire then, 1 Would. greatly preter that they nnd their assortates should dedicate the money whieh would necessarily be expended to the purchase of arms and emuunition Wo be used against our enemy. Retyectfuiy, your obedient servant, Verio OMAS JORDAN, ee” Sa Mr, Hugh J. Hastings, of the Commercial Ad- werfiser, informs us that that journal is prosperous voder its present management, and that its circula: tiom aud advertising are twice as large an ever be fore, No assessment bas recently been levied on its stockholders; and if any of those gentlemen devire to sell their stock, they ean flad @ purchaser in Mr, Harting: | SSeS At the Olympic Theatre on Monday eveuing, we fre promised the great Bovelty of a troupe of native artistes, It is known as the Mra, James Oates bur eque company, and has been performing With sig nal throughout oll (ie prominent cities of the West, It is mow completing its sixth week at the Chestnut Street Thestre in Philudelphia, Toe bright particular star is 0° course Mrs. Qutes hervel!, Of Whom renort snaake in the hiehast prkina y the country, HeekH tO perpetuate Itsell by corruvling the representatives of the people Finding iis control over the Paciuic coast through gold to be slipping trom its fingers, It proposes tw obiain 8 new lease of Iie by establishing & bank to issue paper BASED ON PACIFIC as security! Sneha bank would utterly destroy this people, ‘These railroad bonds, if accepted. would exempt the bank from the provisions of (he Nutional Hank act, and free it from oiictal examination, There ix no vower in this State to examine the con dition of any bank, ‘The statements about them published in the papers are uot supervised by any public officer. ‘They may be insolvent, bat so long ax they make ® good showing iv their’ statements, ts aware of the fact. As Train saya,” the on of wealth is almost equal to ity ‘actual sion," in this State ANOTHER BAD PROJECT, Another of the bank's schemes is to obtain con- trol of the refining business on this coast, When it ia stated hal seven-eizhts of the coin of the Whole nation is made in this city. the imnortance of this matter becomes evident, Were the refiuing to be plced in the hands of the bank, or auy vilier private Dartiew, in the event of a scureity of money, wien the Government might be c:!led upon to pay its iv. terest (0 bondholders, it would be within Lie power of such parties to prevent colping by withholding ply Of bare from the miut. The gold schemes of last beptember in New York would siuk into in. significance when compared with what would be possible for the Bunk Ring bere to accvmphab if RAILROAD BONDS SUNBRAMS, —— —A duty of fifty per cent. ad valorem is to be Tevied npon hair-pins. Bret Harte’ is Chief Clerk in the U ited Mint nt San Francisco, @ Hoosne tunnel is getting ahead at the lively tate of ten feet per day. —The Minois Legislature spent $185 last seg Hon for carte de visite portraits, —Rather more than a mile of the Mount Comg tunnel remuins to be completed. —Lord Penzance lately divorced 26 couples iv two Gays, Yet the Fngiteh papere tatk of Indiana, —Washington has a sign bearing the words, *Drosamaker to Her Honor the Pi —A volume of Mr, Dickens's speccties, mostly thowe made On festive Ovcasions, is in preparation. —A man in Rhode’ Island has been seat te Jail for ten days for siceping in chureb. Nowing wag done to the clergyn Passengers by stage from Bath to Wiscasset, have to walk the whole distance to relieve the vorees, (he road is 80 bad. —Some one remarks that if the best man‘ faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pnti his hat over his eyes, —A native of South Africa has transluted the “ Pilgrim's Progress” into the Caffre tongue, (is being the début of old Bunyan omong the Hottentots fhe population of Berlin has risen from 200,000 fm 1882 to 400,000 in 1870, and the elty i* now the most popttious in Europe atter London and Paris, —Mrs. Alberti of Kentucky has, by her own effor's, cetablished twenty-two Babbath schools for destitute people among the mountains of that State, =A young lady in town who was boasting ot hor teeth, was asked if they were nataral or artificial “ Neither,” was the reply they are gutta percha.” —In Alleghany county, N. Y., @ man whe recently left his wife one cent, his brother afew s, and €5,00) for the erection of ® monnment to Nimeelf. —A Western paper implores two gentlemen to Etve up their projected duel, as the coroner is ji, and it would be unfeeling to impose the duty ol an inquest upon bli, lexander H. Stephens, who has been re ported #0 tuany times within the last two years on tha bik of the grave, writes that he never ex; sw leave home again, —Mr. Gladstone will preside at the annual dinner of the Cobden Clad, which will be hel! toward the end of the Pariiamentary session, A speech i pected from Mr. Motley. —Diamond mining is on ate y tolerably successful tn Australia, The last steamer fom Mulbourne bronght 88 ai *, Weighing 57 carats, shipp: Num tralian Diamoud Conipany, —A clerk in the Portsmouth (N. I.) Navy Yard, who lost both liane several yours ag ery food penman, He holis the pen between Lis wrist, fecuring the paper with a weight. —A Danbury wife cured her busband of sing. Stoo Fly" w ¢ was lecturing Lim for being out lute nights by letting her shoe Ay at his hoad with such force as to give hin a headache, —There over five thousand papers in the United states, Bp are persons living Woo have fern Penjamin f the founder of the fourte ing aa ther whit bews;aper stable in this country. —The famous service of Sévres china, made for Cardinal Rohan, who was #0 notoriously mixed up fo the do Ftory of the diamond mecklace, wae Knocked At Lue Bus Donato sale in Paris for ten thousand pounds. —Dr. Schenk, Profe+sor of Botany at the Uni. ver y of Leipsic, and « Havarinn Roman Catholic, one faced Protestants athe WHI not sabserive to the doings of the Ccamenica) Coune 1 —Ju the Idaho penitentiary the prisoners occu py their time with Bible classes, whereapon a local newspaper énys that toe “moral atmosphere insite the walls te of a far higher tune than that of the rest o: the Territory." —Mr. Frank Buckland, Inspector of Ficherkot, announess the capture of @ salmon in the Thames, which he regards as @ good omen for the #tocking of what he facetiously calls that noble river with salmon, —At Melbourne, the 15th of February was the hottest day of the season, ‘Lhe thermometer reached 109 degrees in the #hade, and there was an overpower: ing hot wind bowing. Len’, uader such c.reumstances fs tiviy a penitenttal season, —On the last day of the meeting of the Na tional Academy of Sciences in Wa-hington, Profesor Peirce coolly announced, when asked for a paper, that he had prepared a mathetatieal ensay, bat ther were Salmon only three men in the Acatemy who could understand it, and thoke were not present. —"Mamma,”” said a litile fellow, whose mother had forivdden him to draw horses and ships on tie me ny sidebourd with a sharp nail, * Mara, thie ain" Anice house, At Sam Rackett's we can cnt the rol and putt outthe hair,and ride the towel and tongs oves the carpet; but here we exn't have any fan at ail” —Quoen Victoria has lost another of Ler moat sonal friends ta the perron of the dowages the late Lon, and Rey, George Spencer, the Father Ime nat { the Passionist Order in the Roman Catbolie Cure —Tre Vicksburg 7imes declares that the Mie seippl Capitol 1 in a dangerous condition, and thal the roof i# likely to fil at any inoment, owicg to spreading of the walls, It says that €100,000, Lat ® $20,009, would be required to put it 1 dition, sad tt calis upon the Legisiatun once, —It is said that Sam Hildebrand has gone te the Rea River country, He passed throug Sioux City Afow days since, anda iocal editor who interviewed him counted 446 wotches oa his rifle stock, exc! uoteld Indicating one sou! lets in the world. His vast will mest tu the Red River comatry, where they pare pose JoIniug AFins Against the red Coase, —Palestine has bee visited by a terrible storm, In Jerusalem there was alternate rain And snow for three days, Travellers were pie ty « ually blocked in, or went on with great difficulty Pilgrims crowding the city wad started tn large num bers for the Jordan, snd were caught on the roa! 19 the wilderbess. Several are reported to have peristied, —The Courier-Journal finds great fault with Olive Logan, When she lectured in Louisville, “her collet was execrable—absolutely shocking to the least refined taste—her frightinlly reaundant overrkirt iro sistibly reminding one of the broken wings of a ravea trailing upon the ground—the whole form ng 9 tout ene semble of which & servant of tle eoullery Would Lave been ashamed. —The ladies of White Pine have adopted the fashion of fainting at balls, and the News says Whey, ne pen arate com to move ou Manage to be caugMt in the nick of time and by we right person, Colowne hae been fund sume nt tore store them. Dan Morgan, while acting tne taty ete We genuing article being short, tainted also, aud wae aid outon abench, Cologue did no wood in his case however, and they bad to have recourme to whiskey, whieh ivtehed lim at one: the moat —One « gular sights growing oat of the war fs a continions line of weweh tr vy ity males in lengte, around Petorad ang, and exten 10M toward Kichmoud, ‘They are gsowing from tne weike thrown up by the rehol army, and ar ’ leguey poor 1 ftiws who were ons ob vanee Ine within one huudved yards of our torent ten te fruit while oa pickut duty, they cart ey AD}ear In one Co ’ line of tortyetive miles of beautitul trees, wh ted Ab adDUndant crop the Last yeu ebody recently asked a 1 genweman how inany Place. "Let me see nee Kenticman, slowly, "Oh, give wie W FOUN estion 1 the inquirer; “is i twelve, lfteen y ithone ne? Oh, fiddle-stieks | AS ying to get within u xe Pirvewiminute in thie ¢ % Mere {8 one esta iol Tu working days 0s, eA IaNIULe, ten hour ritol A contributor to the Harvard Aleovit: save he has earned as much of German in thity wrose at be has of Latin in six yours. He aiticue that u studied Latin carevuily, and that after eix years of atant application he is kcarcely better able to reat a! everyday Latin author thav he was four year ¥% whereas With only Udity weeks etudy of Geran 0 cant today read, without translating, forty past of & popular German wovel, aud understand enony enjoy 1" He proposes that Latin be taught §y & 0 conversation method, as i how the pract wo modero languages, =the work of reconstructing Fort Sumtet has already commence 1. [is erombling wall 0 restored, emubearure, a gh pe tobe re % and an ariniany " hereon, [tie conte wed ke ita heaey Gomporary battery, “a ti rteen heavy Calibre guns ~cleven Mikernl ¢ a bore, and two twelvedineh rift The 0! " ed rebu it ata height ra f p thar’ Lad fix feet above low water mark, Above Uh y earthen parapet will bea Constructed “4 proots and ci yet visile 4 new dock and sulyport to be eon bd ° w moved, side, and thy vieseutdoek aud etalre 8 o