The Sun (New York) Newspaper, May 20, 1870, Page 2

— =a at bi hi Amusements To-day, Aendemy of Mente —Locla di Lammermoor, Rrle Hallway, stre—Piot ant Fashion, Grand Opera Monse~Treive T Kelly & Leon's MI nN Cromdet uightly. mel—Opan to Visitor 10, Matinee Wood's Museum. Pek! of the Cloth of Ps soenearspeneeenie The daily circulation of ‘un SUN during the last week, which ended on Saturday, May 14, was as follows : Aggregate daily cirevlation last week, 620,100. Average daily circulation dur ing the weck, 103,350, Daily averaye dur ing the previous week, ending May 7, 101,967. The Evidence against Bancroft Davis. We copy elsewhere, from a volume pub- lished by the Legislature of Massachusetts, the evidence given by Mr. Joun 8, Ex- pDripor, the former President of both the Erie Railway Company and the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company, touch- ing the bribes which Mr. J.C. BaNcrorT Davis, now Assistant Secretary of State at Washington, accepted, while he wasa Di- rector in the Erie Company, to promote the interests of the Boston, Hartford and Erie road. This evidence was given Inst winter by Mr. E.pnipce under oata, and Mr. Davis has never yet disputed its truth, Mr. E.pripor’s statements respecting the $60,000 in Boston, Hartford apd Erie bonds paid to Mr. Davis are explicit, and require no comment. Mr. Davis received $10,000 for services as trustee of the mortgage securing the bonds, and $50,000 for drawing and carry- ing through contracts between his Company and the Boston, Hartford and Erie, As to the other transaction, involving the 537 bonds of the Boston, Hartford and Erie, ex- changed for Buffalo and Bradford bonds, it may be necessary to explain, as we have once before done, that Mr. Davrs held $30,000 of these Buffalo and Bradford bonds ; that some time previous to his barguin with Mr. Ex- DRIDGE he and his associates had induced the Erie Company to take a lease of the Buffalo and Bradford road aod assume the payment of its bonds, amounting to $2,000,000, thoagh it was then not earning its running expenses, @ad was not worth one cent; that it was known that this lease could not be sustained, and in consequence the bonds were unsala- ble if not valueless ; ang that, therefore, the arrangement for exchanging them, first for Erie stock and then for Boston, Hartford and Eric bonds, guaranteed by the Erie Com- pany, was only putting them off upon the Eric in a shape where payment of them could hot easily be avoided. As a matter of fact, Mr. Davis, we are informed, eventually received eighty cents on the dollar for his bonds, all of which was clear profit to him, end clear loss to the Company of which ho was a Director. We have taken pains to placo these facts defore the public, that it may be seen what kind of a man Gen. Grant and Mr. Fisu think worthy of being honored with a high place in the Government. $< A Clerical Breach of Promts: Case. ‘The United Presbyterian Church seems to be unlucky in its ministers, ‘he Presby. tery of this city has recently had to censure the Rev. Cuantes B. Suyrn for drink- ing gin and milk on Sune with: out asking a blessing on fresliment, and now the Allegheny has found the Rev. J. B. Can, D. D., guilty of breaking off a marriage en- agement for no Letter cause than that he fancied the young lady to whom he had pliglted his faith to be of unsound mind. Of the two, we think Mr, Satyri was the lesser offeuder, Omitting grace before gin and milk was certainly highly improper in a clergy- man ; but deceiving the hopes of an inno- cent damscl, as Dr. CLAnk did, is a much worse sin, The evidence taken in Dr. CLARK’s case shows that he docs not pretend that his quondam sweetheart was really demented. All he maintains is that #0 many people had told Lim she was liable to become in- sano as to cause him great distress and agony of mind. She had, besides, on one occasion, in her joy at the prospect of her spocdy marriago, behaved in such an excited manner as to alarm him; and, like Othello, he was led to build upon this little basis of fact a towering fabric of suspicion and dis trust, In a fortnight or so, however, his fears had been dispelled, and he renewed Lis vows of love and constancy, But again tho mischiefmakers got hold of him, and this time suceveded in bringing about a final rupture. Tho Presbytery very properly de- cided that this sort of thing would never do, and they have come down upon the Doctor accordingly, The trath i the re Presbytery of , that if the conduct of women engaged to be married is to be tried by any rigorous test, few of them would pass mus. ter as sound in the head, Is there a man liv: ing #0 conceited as to suppose that any woman would marry him if she had all her senses shout her? If it were not for the Inancy of the dear creatures, would they ever think of entangling themaclves in the matrimonial noose? A sort of delusion comes over them that the men they accept are heroce, or when they are clergymen, that thoy are saints, though their friends seo very plainly that they are only very common kind of fellows, Then, too, they are happy tn a very silly way over their approach ing sacrifice, whereas if they knew what was before them they would rather betake themselves to weeping. If, now, every lucky dog who has profited by this temporary in. Banity is to be allowed to back out of the scrape at his pleasure, Heaven knows what will Lecome of eociety. Besides, clergymen owe it to themaclyes, the community, the church at large, and their own particular flocks, to imarry as promptly as possible, and not go round philandering with al! the fluttering maidens they may chance to fall in with. Marry a handsome, if 4 atl accomplished woman if possible ; but marry somebody, and pus the rest of your single admirers out of suspense, It is hard, to be sure, to cease to be that ob- ject of supreme interest to the fair sex—an eligible clerical bachelor ; but the pill must ‘be swallowed. Better have only one woman crazy about you than a dozen ; but after you have made her crazy, then to cast her off !— fie! for shame, Dr. CLank! If you cannot trump up any better excuse than that, you do not deserve to be a minister. At all events, stay out in the black coal emoke of Pittsburgh. No other atmos. phere in this world can be so congenial to your nature, $$$ A Good in Excused. Judge Boswonrti, the President of the Board of Police Commistioners, has ever borne a high character in this city, and has deserved it, No blot ever approached his honorable reputation until Jast fall's elec. tion. Then the inspectors and canvassers were many of them thieves, receivers of stolen goods, State Prison convictsa—men, in short, who would commit for money any crime that was not followed by an inevitable prnishment. These men were appointed to this most responsible and important office by the Police Commissioners. The result of their appointment was that frauds never be- fore equalled were committed in the election of November, and that in the municipal elec- tion of December a very large proportion of our citizens abstained from voting alto. gether, considering it useless ceremony. Their places, however, were more than filled by the repeaters who drove their trade through the day, and, in collusion with the inspectors, filled the ballot boxes quite as full as if the whole city had gone to the polls. The work was finally completed by the canvassers, likewise appointed by the Police Commissioners, who made up by false counting for what had not been done by the repeaters; and thus the will of the people was wholly nullified and set aside, That Judge Bosworti was a party to these crimes—for crimes they were—and that he knowingly consented to them or took any part in organizing the machinery for their perpetration, we do not believe. He is an honest, upright, worthy man; and would as soon burn off his right hand as himself select thieves, pickpockets, and burglars to receive the votes of his fellow citizens, and to count them falsely and make @ false return of the counting. But the mis- fortune is that he was ina position to be used as a mask for the villains by whom this nefarious business was planned and carried out. Indeed, we suppose that the great pur- pose for which he was put in that place was to afford the cover of a respectable namo and blameless character to such atrocious acts. The wickedness was committed by his colleagues; the disguise behind which they worked was afforded by bis honored reputation and his transparent life. ‘The election of last Tuesday was worse in all its features, bolder in its repeating, more audacious in its false counting, more defiant of law, public opinion, decency, than any that was ever witncesed before. It was not &n election; it was a farce, or rather a tra- gedy, for it struck a blow at our republican institutions from which they cannot recover except by some great and resistless uprising of the people. In this proceeding the in- 8pectors appointed by Judge Boswortu’s Commission were again the principal agents. The Commissioners chose their men for this work ; they must have given them their in- structions; and they are responsible for what their tools have done. But now, 2s before, we are convinced that the President of the Commission was not in any way consciously @ party to the frauds. He was put forth, now as before, to conceal them; but we are sure he did not know that they were to be consummated, and he ought to be held guilt- less of their criminality, We have hitherto called upon him to prevent them, but it is now apparent that he could not believe they were intended. When the people come to allot the proper punishment to the authors and actors of this great conspiracy, Joseru §. Boswonri will be held excused. able See Will the District Attorney do his Daty? The thirty fourth section of the new elee- tion law, to secure the passage of which, as they say, the Republicans in the last Legis: Inture sold themselves out to the ‘Tammany Ring, reads as follows: “Tt is hereby made the eapecial duty of the Dis- trict Attorney of the county of New York to imme. diately prosecute ail eoupiaints whieh may bo made of a violation of any of the provisions of this act to fins) judgment, and all indietments found for of- fences committed under this uct shall be tried in the Court of Oyer aad ‘Vorminer, and the Court before whom any conviction for a Violation of any of the Provisions of this act shall be had shall not in any case euxpend sentence or judement, Here is a chance to seo what sort of stuff our present District Attorney, the Hon. Samver B, Garvin, is made of. In times past, offenders against the law who happened to be politically useful to the Democratic party have usually escaped punishment, and the public want to know whether it is to be so now, More than a dozen men have already been formally complained of for fraudulent voting on ‘Tuesday, and the complaints be: been sent down to Mz. ARVIN, Will he stand up to his official oath and have these men indicted and tried, or will he quietly pigeon-hole the papers ? Is there any remedy eyralnst fraudulent voting? Will Judge Ganven kindly let the public know? Under the able and efficient administration of the new Park Commissioners, tae improvenient of the City Hall Park is going on astonishingly More than a dozen men were at work yesterday and the day before, and in the course of the two days had dug up at least two square rods of grass plot, They are alxo judiciously raising the level of the soil @ foot and a half above that of the walks, so that the soil may be as dry and the walks as wet as possible, thereby contributing both to the growth ofthe grass and the comfort of those who have occasion to use the walks ia rainy weather, Should a like evergy and brilliancy of judgment be displayed in embellishing all our public places, New York will be @ wonderful city indeed, a ; The World yesterday commented upon a late proclamation of Captain-General De Ronas, in which he revokes # previous one which re- quired al! Cubans leaving the island to give secu- rity to the extent of $5,000 for their loyalty while abroad, and argues that Dx Ronas must be con- vinced that all the better classes of Cubans have ceased to aid the cause of Cuban independence, ‘That the Cuban revolution is the very oppo- site of crushed, and that De Ropas knows such to bo the cas proved by bis continued so- fourn in Pherta Prineina di- In the normal ent tion of the teland Mavens is the residence of the Captaic General, No Cubans, however, bave ever given any garantes under the now revoked edict, because to offer any such security would be considered by the Spaniards perfectly vatid proof that the offerer had been a patriot. Such an avowal would more than suffice for bis death warrant, But the following decree of this same Capat- xeno De Ropas, dated in Puerto Principe on the %Wth ult., fully proves bis conviction, not ovly that the war is not over, but that it can be ended only by the extermination of every Cubam, male and female, It revokes bis decree of the 25th of March, in which be granted permission to Cus bans to return to their country places, as follows : 1. All, permissions to reside in the country are annalted, 2 Property of all who shall not before the 1st of dune hove presented themselves in some towa or to some boy of trouyay sal pe neguestared. Ereny pervon foumd ‘ " try without express authority, sball be treated ae aa enomy. ‘As Spaniards shoot all enemies, Gen, De Ro- As has in thin edict fully asserted his claim to the proud title of Butcher of Malaga, and it will probably tend to restore him to the good graces of the Havana volunteers. a ‘The revenue cutters of the United States are, according to a statement recently made by the Secretary of the Treasury, thirty-five in nam- ber, twenty-four being steamers, and eleven sail- ing vessels, The first cost of the steamers varied from $1,500 to $165,000, and of the sailing ves- sels from §9,000 to $20,000, The monthly ox- pense of each steamer is from $791 to $3,507, and of the sailing vessels from §1,243 to $1,964. The pay of the captains is $2,600 « year ; of the first Heutonants, $1,800; of the second lieutenants, €1,500 ; of the third ficutemants, $1,900 ; of the chief engineers, 1,800; of the first assistant engineers, £1,500; and of the second assistant en- gincers, $1,900, <<< The practice of paying commissions to life insurance agents scems to have become more of a nuisance, if possible, in England than even in this country. A writer in the London Times says that almost all offices now pay such commis- sions, and all sorts of persons demand and re- ceive them. Au accountant or @ broker, or any one, indeed, who can inflaence a friend to insure his life in @ particular office, is apt to inquiro why he should not receive remuneration for that service rendered to the office in the same way as & solicitor would, It sometimes happens, too, that after a solicitor has received his commission his managing clerk also expects a douceur, hint- ing, and probably with truth, tbat his influence goes for something in his employer's chambers ; that his employer does not care which of many offices bis business is taken to, as they will all equally remunerate him; and that the business will practically go to the office which the clerk favors, A still worse tendency is toward an in- crease inthe rate of commiasion, Persons not very scrupulous are apt to think that one office is as good as afother for their friends, and that the office they ought to recommend is the one that Pays themselves best. Of course all these pay- ments como mainly, if not entirely, out of the pockets of the assured. ‘They increase the cost of business and lessen the profite which would be divisible among the holders of policies, Nor does there seem to be any possible rem- edy for the evil. The companies can do nothing. Competition between them is so great, that if they refuse to pay, they may as well close their doors, The insured cannot prevent it, since they know nothing about it. The probability is that the whole business of insuring lives will ulti mately give way to the slower but surer prac- tice of putting by savings in savings bauks, sedlnitei st - English influence in the w World, if measured by trade, is more stupendous at (he present day than it ever was before, upward of one-third of the whole English trade boing car- ried on with North and South America and the West Indies. The total aggregate amount of British imports and exports in 1869, exclusive of bullion and specie, and of forvign and colonial produce re&xported,was £367,000,000, comprising £67,000,000 with the United States, £37,000,000 with South America, £13,000,000 with British North America, £7,000,000 with the British West £7,000,000 with Cuba and other West In- dian possessions, England's whole commerce may be stated as follows : -£130,000,000)Raynt £23 099.000 nts, ana Hirkey 18 107.000 Ceylon, 80,000,010) Luro’a Couniries 90,000,000 Australia’ (010,000 fPeesscouh 000,000 The trade wit nited States e con- stitutes nearly one-sixth of the whole of English commeree ; yet the New World, whieh con- tributes as much as Asia, Australia, and Egypt together, and one-third more than all Europe, to- ward British enterprise and prosperity, has found at all times, and especially duriag our civil war, its most insidious ewemy in Great Britain, England would be reduced to beggary were it not for the immense outlet offered by Ameriva tober industry and commerce, NS ee A patent compound for sprinkling streets, pyented by Mr. Mowirz Mancus, has been sub- mitted for approval to the Board of Health. It consists of chloride of catcium and common salt dissolved in water, The theory of the inventor is, that the galts employed being what is called deliquescent, or absorbents of moisture, a solu- tion of them in water will dry up so much less rapidly than pure water, that it need be applied much less frequently, and thus the saving in labor will more than compensate for the cost of tho materials, Unfortunately, Prof. Cuanpiea, the chemist of the Board of Health, has made a report on the subject, which shows incontestubly the practical worthlessness of the invention. Experiments with a much lesg S:pensive com- pound of the same nature have repeatedly been tried in Europe, which resulted to proving that sprinkling with pure wacer was in every way Preferable, It “wax cheaper in the first place, an ‘Yestdes, it tamed out that the deliquescent sults relied on produced a very nasty, sticky mud, which alone was a sufficient objection to their use, In regard to a further idea put forth by Mr, Manccs, that his mixture will remove con- tagion from the air, Prof, Cuanoven says it is probably founded upon the supposition that chloride of calcium is identical with bleaching powder, commonly called chloride of lime, which is not the case, They are entirely different sub- stances, Chioride of calcium is not a tant, and does not possess any properties which would warrant its use for sanitary purposes. Tord Dery objects to the American system of diplomacy because of the incompetency of the persons whose appointment ft permits The noble lord, from his connection with the Foreign Office and general experience and states manship, is a high authority on this subject, whilo bis well-known regard for tho United States exonerates his opinion from the charge of prejudice against this country, ‘The best thing Congress could do would be to abolish foreign missions altogether; but if we have not yet reached » suiliciently high siate of civilization to do away with these relics of red tape and aristocracy, the missions in the secondary capitals of Europe might at any rate be sup- pressed, Not only do they entail cruel and useless taxes apon thé people, but the persons appointed under our rough-and-tumble system of political patronage are generally go ill fitted for their posts as to lower instead of elevating tho Prestige of our country abroad, sinfec- ¢ printed on the enrds not only No Spe. hut No Preven." instead of tlle * KuCKLA With fancy Wites Which they can't even ‘610 nd wma” THE SUN, FRIDAY A Lunatics Atrompt te Bars her own Chil dren—A Hideons Bpectacte in the Four- teenth Ward—An Awfal Death. At Orosby and Rast Houston streets, in a tene- ment house, on the third floor, John Gorting, his ‘wife, and their three little children have tived peace- ably amd in good repute fora tong time, Recently Mrs. Gosling has conducted herself in a manner which has excited earprise among her neighbors. At times abe soomed demented, but harmiessly #0, Yesterday morning the neighborhood was stirred by the appearance of a woman at the window on the third floor, who was clothed in flames, and who shricked fn wild and fearful tones, In torturing agony she rushed back and forth, kindling the flames at tol » She jamped op and down, trade tenting Wer fea ivory ery she mvered wad Htifled by tho fire that rushed down her throat, The neighboring tenants at length and by throwing buckets of water on the burning woman, extinanished t Tt was then ascer- tained (hat the woman w She bad torn off bits of flesh from her erm plucked Neces from her fice, The #kin rolled in folds from Ihe bones, and sloughed off on the lightost pressure, Her dress was utterly destroyed, and the body pre- fented the appearance of tanned leather, ‘Whe spec- table was horribl Dr, Donor, having been ealled in, pronounced her vinjaries moral, and he wae taken io Bellevue Hos. pital. The poor lunatic had attempted to set fire to the clothing of une of her little chikiren before un- dortaking r own shocking destruction. —— TURNED OUT OF THEIR HOMES. Bat Made Gi The Little ¢ Colossal Railway Station~Vanderbilt Toonoctast. Tho consolidation of the three great New York Tattroads, the Central, the Harlem, and the Hudson River, all under the control of Commodore Vander. bilt, has mecessitated aamerous improvements as well as changes, (0 secommodare the increasing Duriness of the roads, Among other innovations, the squatter sovereignty of the Nineteenth Ward las been disturbed. ‘The old settlers, who have for a quarter of a centary oc- cupied whole and balf sections of valuable land lying slong the line of the Commodore's roads, have deen warned off, and yesterday the signs of broak- ing up were uncomfortably prominont. Between Forty-seventh and Porty-cighth streets and Fourth and Madison avenues there has been for more than twenty years 4 colony of people occupying Uttle wooden shantios, more remarkable for their sameness and their smaliness than for their archi- tectural beauty. They were queer little homesteads, fn whien there was doubilase as much of domestic nappiness as of filth. Around the doors played bareloeged babies in bakers’ dozens, and rious gonts gamboiled gaily within eusy reach. Stout dames made their toflets there in full view of the ers by, and at times administered motherly re- make to the playful p'edaes of their affection, |The Hege lords who paid the bills of these happy homes were for the most part surdy laborers, Who reached their domiciies only niall, except on Bunday, when they were wont to embellish thelr doorways ‘with & wealth of shirt collar abolutely astounding Aweek ago came notice to quit, The owner of the gr Mr. Winthrop, went to ech of bis ve ite call, wees od with # pecuniary consolation, To the witow he sent a $10 note, and to the householder biessed with wife and babes a sete of belt that value, Co aid in paying the expeuses: ov ing. ‘The block, it is understood, will be occupied by the Vanderbilt Railrond Companies, who will erect thereou spacious ouildings for the sheltering of their Yeaterday the scene was very lively. Within sound of the bells of the little Ritualist chapel, St, Albans, forty fumilies were hard at work tewring down the houses in which they had passed man hapoy years. Bustling cartmen. were there with their veliicles, and at intervals appeared a policeman siring bis laziness in the spring sauehine, bis bine cont Gud brass butions muking & pleasing contrast ‘With the sombre brown c! the tenanta’ garb, and the dirty wiite of their tat disappearing dwellings, ALG o'clock there were bat two houses left stand. iug in the block, and these were being torn to Pitces, To-day, tlle colony of kquatters, will have n seattered to the four winds, and the pleasant laces that knew Wem shall kouw them no more forever. ee Se See A GREAT BAR SPLITTING FESTIVAL. New York's Effort to Outdo Patrick Gil- more—Over 5,000 Thronts to be Opencd at Once—A B Holding 25,000 Per- to be Filled with Quavers emiquavers. The great Beethoven Festival which is to come eff in the middle of Jane is to be held in the build- ing once known a the Eiptre Skutlog Rink, and more receutly occupied by the American institute Fair, Contracts have deen entered into by the pro- Jectors of the festival for some additional width to be given to the buikting, whieh at present may be Teckoned as one of the largest in America, ‘The ox. tent of the aduition ts to be eigity-two feet, and arenes are to cover the space thus added on. This will give the mommoth building » clear longth of four hundred and wWirty feet, aod a width of two hundred unobstructod in any Way by pillars or ob- ftacles such as impeded the sight aud hearing in the Boston Colissioum. ‘Tbe rool makes ® clear span from wall to wall, ud is supported by immense iro arches, whic} converge and join together at a height of 100 foet trom the gronnd. Tne building itself is of corruca. ted irom, and possesses xreat durability, and ac the sume time resonance, £ivine acoustic properties that may be reckoned as aimost wonderiul in such a space. The area of the siructure is $6,000 square feet, and giving 435 feet to each person, which Is much more than the averaze accorded in oUF plec of amusement, the building will with ease aceom dato 9,000 persons ritting, and what with extra staxe room and vateaade ii may be saiely calcula tod that fully 25,000 peopie will Le at ease during the performance. ‘he stage will be 115 by 180 feet, and will seat an orcheatra of eight huudred musicians for the great Rumbers of the festival, and a ouorus of three tow saud five hundred persons, wile wil! be recruiied from all the operatic organizations in this city, and Sieotbe amateur choirs. In the space allotted vo chorus and orchestra, the seats will be #0 construct- ‘ed a8 to give & periect view boul to tle persons en- gaged and wo every one of the audilors. The entire between the slaze aud the entrance is to be Hiled in with chairs and Fofas, white the area be tween them is to be broad and free, Altogether, the building, whieh in itself is pecuilarly titted the use for Which it is now destined, will be so di- rected ne to render it periect in every way fur this Beethoven Festival ‘The Leight and width of the structure insure a Food peutliation to the thousands will cougr 1 to Hiscen to the tmp has never been given In Julien and Musard. very Way, it bs ex} that this festival, which is upheld and favored p of some of our m ed citizens, Will rival, and indeed surpass, the Boston Jubiiee, of whic been sald. ‘Tue artists engaged in musieally notable in the count companies are under contract | the festival promises to pass anything we baye ever bad in (his' country of the kind, ‘eompleiely so much bas ude ail that is ae aan THE POLITICIANS’ SUGAR PLUMS deere Found in the ‘Tax Levy-And who Gets tho Plumes, ,000 to be paid for fitting up the Comp: troller’s office, that 18, to pay for the desk, counters, rail and screens for the windows, %. €40,000 for a@ like purpose for the Regis office, including a large arm chair for Justice ne nolly, ‘These two sume are fo be audited and pait by the Comptroller. 8. $40,000 for fttin; 1. #4 up the often, of the Receiver the Receiver's certificate alone. of Taxes, to be patd 4. #40,00 to be paid for a few desks and a litte other furniture for the ofice of the District Auornoy, and to be paid for on his certificate alone, That's Samuel G.'s plas, 5. The next is a litte item of $70,000 for the County Clerk, for repairing records and for the duplication of ls penden: 6. Next comes our friend Justice Connolly, to re- cetve £00,000 for duplicating ® few old maps in his office, AY 20, 1870 7. A plece of property at Fourth avenue and 120th Street Was purchased fast eo by the Hon, William M, Tweed, wH® has since leased a smal! vortion to the city and county of New York for a term of years a a District Court, at the mover rental of $10,500, An appropriation in the tux levy of the court room with the the The Burial of Gen, Farnum, Kebert Farnun was buried yeste: from 38 Stuyvesant str The street was lined with Hawkins Zounves (Firet Regiment, N. G., 8, ee ¥ 200 men, unter the com. ‘KK. Perley, all standing with arms xe number of represeutatives of Posts 8 and wy we G, A. R. attended the (uaeral, The pall bearers were Gens. J. Pieasopton, «, K. Graham Yk. Pinto, J, D. MeGregor, G. W. De I ‘arnsworth, and Cols, M. Barns, N, Pob. otter, The faveral service was per formed by ‘the Rey. W. H. Boole, late Chaplain of Sicklew's brigade, ait wt its epuclusion a delegation he Grant Army paid its Fesp to Furnua's ‘Yhe body was taken to Greenwoo!, ——— La Ketrella de Cuba uppeared yesterday in a bew shape, some four of its columns belug printed in English, It bas been since its birth the organ of the Cuban League of the United States, and is an admirably conducted paper. AS the object of the League is to give practical consolidation to the sen \iment of American citizens, and the moral support Of the same In securing to Cuba, by all loyal means, the inalienable right of seif-government, the * Star of Caba” will probably be more certa! 0 effect ite object by thus devoting & portion of its space lo arti cles in our OWL language, remains, LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS. —— DASHES MERE AND THERE BY TUR SUN'S REPORTERS. ners and Dentists Little Game of Emptying our Pockets. A brilliant fashion which has just been in- vented in this progressive city bids fair to outshine Paris in {ts lustre and extravagance, Recently, an Uup-town gentleman of wealth and fashion conceived the dazzling idea of having bis front teeth sot with diamonds, He conferred on the subject with two of his friends, one of whom is a lady of Mterary celebrity, and all were so well phensed with the eparkiing novelty that they had Inrge and valuable first vater dismonds set into their front teeth, and ‘on Sunday atternoon they attended one of our most fashionable churches on Fifth avenue, attracting considerable attention, and diverting the attention of a large number of the congregation from their devotions by the lustrous rays of their teeth. On their return home they were followed by « titade, whose carjosity had been excited by the di zling radiance of the brilliant circle, Shonld this fashion be adopted, jewellers, lapidaries, and den- tists will reap @ harvest, and it will tend to 1 and cleanliness, as the queen thus fixed, will bo no other porpore than to their diamonds Oh! ye gods and little Ashes, will ft vot be a cure for sore eye and pockets to sit in front of em| fuch an audience i hres, theatre, or opera, and gaze with delight apon the mtiling circle, and mate the cat, color, weight, and value of their spark ling gems the New The office of Gon, Sharp, the United States Marshal, is bestoged daily by applicants for positions a8 census takers, bat the Marshal has generally beet “out.” In this dilemma they have called upon the leaders of the Republican General Committee to in+ tercede in their behalf, and Collector White has been felected to olicit places for them, His negotiations, and those of other leaders, have resulted in securing 100 positions trom Mr. Bharp, to be distribated pro- The Rep antzusions in the river counties had vroviot ined their allotted number of places, —en A Broken-Down Millionaire a Necro Mine strel. Mr. Jobn Hart, who is creating such «great Strore in Kelly & Leon's Minstrels by his perfect deliveations of nogro character, was once @ million aire, Whea the ofl fever broke out in Pennsylvania, ‘Mr. Hart owned » hundred acres of wild Innd near Tideoute, Pa., worth about sixteen cents an acro, He was then running canal boat on the Delaware and Hudson Canal. In the full of 1864, several im- mense of] wells were discovered on Mr. Hart's land, Stock companies were formed in which be was a Prominent sharcholder, and at one timo he wn: offered $5,000 for his interest, ‘This waa rofuee He loft the canal, built a most magnificent priva Tesidence, wore ‘omonds of almost fabulous value, d_seeined made of money. At one time he was & Prominent candidate for Congress, bat failed to se: cure a nomination throngh the inertness of a trasted friend. Fortune's wheot suddenly turned backward, Mr. Hart was inveigled into more oll speculation within three years was without a penny, turned his attention to negro minstrel to be superior to either Dan Bryant, 7,’ D, Rice, or Dan Emmett in his delineations of necro charggier. He speaks four different lancunges, and has traveled in Europe und Australia, He wav once wrecked tn the Straits of Magelian, and spent two months in destivution on the island of Terra del Fuego. He is now playing an engacement at Kelly & Leon's Minstrels, ata salary of €100 a week, eis A Finny from the Hadson, The attention of passengers to and from the Barclay street ferry yesterday, was alumeted by a hideous sea monstor suspended in front of BE. A. Ba- ker's fish stand. It was labelled tn large letters, “ Devil Fish, cangbt by Capt. Sam. Ludlow.” The fish is over three feet in length, and with the wings At its sides, just back of the head, moasares fuli three feet in breadth, ‘The Jaws are extended, and the mouth is armed with double rows of teeth. Tho monster was capable of swallowing a two-year-old cbild with ease. A small bony rod, with a filmy end, runs out from the head just above the eyes, for about ‘This appendage was waved in the water for one of luring fisn within reach of the capa ‘At the sides of the belly, back of the by paws split in’ two rections bifureated. The vead und bat are of 8 durk smud color, while the belly in white, Uineed with red, like that of a skate, Cupt. Ladiow says he has captured many queer fish. bat that this heats tkem all Hoboxen seste certainly a d seen ‘The Exploits of Blue Beard Livingstone, It now turns out gbat, in addition to G. How- ard Livingstone’s innumerable marriages, he com. mitted forgery whenever he found it available. Mr. Laugtree, a most respectable and able lawyer of this city, in his professional eapactty, obtamed a de. cree of divorce against Livingstone in favor of an le young lady named Hayward, one of Bi ex matrimonial viekiins, After th e robbed him of a westion, whieh he or, Justice Ledwith, at the art. At th It was taken in ashad net opposite If it ie not a devil Gish, itis fsb, and well worth a visit. coat, and forged the check in adn d before ‘son Mark: Quest of his client, the young lady. re ‘clined to press the charges against him, heartless and cold-blooded villain for the ed ll-merited panixhment, e BCON drel, when arrested, bad the impudeuce 10 sese that he elved the forged check frow Mr. L: tree, who is above suspicion, Tommy Hndden's Housefal of Thieves, Janes Gill, @ sailor, became infatuated with Ansstasin Mansfeld while at Tommy Hadden's boarding-house, 874 Water street, He proposed Tle gave the girl $200 to fit up house, but not content with this, and on the 24th ult, ttole $25 from his pockets. Soon after this event, Tommy Hadden was vrrested for stealing a hows fal of furniture trom New Jersey, and James Gill and Allred Evatt, having been ‘witacsses, were locked up in the Honse of Detention, Yesterday, while Hadden was on trial, Gill and Evans recog: niged Anastasia in the eonrt room, and sie was ar resicd, She was taken to th ly eom- mitted for trial; but Gill and Evans, being still want- ed in the Hadden case, were sent,back to the House of Detention. The Seizure of a Spanish Arsenal The steamer Colambia, of the Havana line, which hss been used to carry arms to the Spal butchers of Cuba, was seized yesterday for s:nug- elingr The complaint against tho vessel was ma. by the ubiquitous Col, Whitley, und the libel of in formation {s to be filed to-day in the District Court, ‘This is the third or of smuguling which has | Presented against tl Vesseis of this line during the past few years, of the steamers is under bonds, awaiting « diey tion of the procesdings taken against the oa ners pmuciling @ your or two ago, Dut the trial, for som Feasou not Dublicly known, has never Leow ieacle aos The Excise Fa: Two gentlewomen appeared | Superinten dent Jourdan yesterday, and informed him hat ali quor dealer bad been selling liquor on Sunday. * Has he doors open, madam} He bad his hall door open,” was the reply, “ Madam," replied the cir intendent, * I cannot fs private door, If li ve to apply to the cou there,” said th is even’ arrested you ¥ suid Mr. Jourdan, * for people are nv aeons The Action auninst Trinity Church, The capias ordering the wardens of Trinity Church, or their representatives, to appear in the United States Circuit Court and answer the eom plaint of a number of the heirs of Anncke Jans, whose property is in the posession of the church, was yesterday. ‘The service of the writ created considerable excitement among the Trinity, for they do not like the pr by the Rederat. Judges, ‘The Kay by Mr, Reymond Van Guissen in belalf of bin clates, ‘The complaint in all its details is to be in u few days. The Fruit of the Garroting of Gotcourta, About 16,000 American officers, non-commis- tioned officers, und privates of our late volunteer yrmies Lave enrolled themselves in the Golcouria Monument Association, The Spanish Legation in Warhington were so badly frightened by the publi cation of the society's card that a secretary wus font on here to learn tue facts, He met Col, McKay, an officer of the Association, Who. told him that they wanted 60,000 men, a8 they designed to build the monument of Spaniards, eemeut it with mpanish plood, and crown tt wich the bodies of Capiain General De Rodas and Valmaseda, gti nnnss, Departure of the Hon, Horace Gaceley. The Hon. Horace Greeley sailed in the steamer Columbia for Nassau yesterday afternoon, Mr, Greoley went to the vessel alone, not a solitary to bid him good by, ‘The nsopher carried in bis hand his usual ather vulise, He was attired in a suit hat and a clean standing collar, wpPed Up the gang plank half an hour beforo the vessel sailed, id nat on deck in @ large easy at the peovle on the wharg BRIBERY OF AN ASSISTANT SECRE- TARY OF STATE, polliet Cnty Bancroft Davis's Sixty 7 Bribe. From Senate Document No. 1%, Published by the Legisiawure of Massachurelis, March %, 1810, Puge 182. TRETIMONY OF JOHN 8. RLDRIDOR. Question.—Then there is an item of $56,992, paid to Mr. F. A. Lane? A.—Yes, sir. Q.— What was that? A.—The fret arrangement with Mr, Lane was mad@ in the spring of 1967, by which we agreed, if we coula secure & certain ‘frrancement With parties who hod contracts with the rie Raflroad, of which he was one. and Mr. Ran- Aolph snother party, who would pay him so much money. The jt wns to pay tim fifty Ddonds of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railrond, which were then selling at about $40, and I recured him as attorney, and paid Wim the balance for bis services for the year. Q.—-I see it states the amount, “for contract with ponte entre aad on he onic en the contract, advt upon the con 4 the Boston, Hartford and the Brie and the Brie Kail- road. Q.—Was he one of the directors of the ric Rail- road? A.—He wan ono of the directors at that time, Q.—How was that precise #0 982.81,"" got att A.—Got at by drafts that were paid Mr. Lane, Q—When was that inimade? A.—In 1867, In the spring of 1867, there were fifty bonds agreed upon, aad then im the fall of 1867, there was an agreo- ment'to pay him a certain amount for salary, &c., and the Ente Raiirond Company was not willing that those bonds should be pat upon the market, and the whole thing was computed ; he drew bis drafts, and the whole div was settled, Q.—I see that Mr. J. C. B. Davie $60,000 : what was that for? A.—That was in the sameman- ner. He gotit at the same time with Mr. Lane, —What service was he to render? A.—J/e wae in carrying them to draw the contracts and to aid wa through ; wd im getting rid of certain contracts Which had been with the Wilkesbarre Coal and Patrons Company, which be and Mr. Lane succeeded in dot ‘ae it before the election? A.—Oh. ves, sir months before that. It had no relation to the ‘erwc- Mion at all. It had nothing at all to do with the Erie ‘Servyin that election, and in getting th 6 the Drie Ratiroad, there was r to Mr. Davie? A.—1 wan going wo re- mark with regard to Mr. Davis, that Ae was paid Sifty bonds for serevces. nnd then the balance which ‘was paid him, war paid for services while he was frusteo, As dieing trustee of the road we paid him 80 much. Q.—-(By Mr. Morton.) Trusteo of what? A— ‘Trustee under the Berdell morwnge, Q.—4By Mr. Allon.) How mach Remet ee for his services as trustee youremember? A.— I think the difference between the Afty bonds ‘and the whole amount, Bancroft Davis's Swindie in Bradford Bonds, From the same Document, page 186, same Winess. Q.—How were they to pay the four m'llions of dollaret A.—They were to pay the far millions of doilars in this way: ‘Two millions in eash: $1.5%5,- 000-—if that is the amount, I don't pretend to give the exact Heures—in dratie ; and those drafts, [think, payable in monthly payments ; and for’ the bal: ance there wore 537 bonis of the Bostom, Harttord and Krie Railroad, which formed a part of the sale Of the five millions. ‘Those bonds, as I mated to the committee, in the first instance here, were placed in the hands Of cortain parties for a loan of Kile stock, A certain number of the bondholders of the ana Bradford road, owe of the leased roads of the Erie Railroad, held 4 certain amoaut of these bonds, ‘They avreed to exchange those bonds, or convert them, ua they had a right to, into Erie stock. ‘They oitered to lend ine upon them. and take Boston, Hartford and Erie bonds as collatoral, by the Evie Raliroad. 1 gave them the bonds, and they £ave ie the Erie stock. 1 became responsible per- fonally, by my own obligagtions, of which I bave taken up all but one, ‘They took my oblivutiows, and that was to run for eighteen months, ‘The Erie Railroad was to ax- sure these, and that was to complete the sale and purchase of the five million bonds, ‘The fist of the owners of the 587 Buffuio, Bradford and Pittsburgh R. BR. bonds referred to by Mr. Eldridge, appears as follows in the records of the Erie Railroad Company : Daniel McFarland and Heury Ward Beecher, the Seunatioual Minister, To the Bustor of The Sun. Sin: “The fact has not escaped notice,” as stated in your paper of yesterday, that on the trial of Danicl McFarland no evidence was offered to sus- tain the charge of aduitery which the Rev, Henry Ward Beecher made against him “ ¢o publicly and impressively” in December last, when the already teiitbly wronand man was iu prigan On a charge ine volving his life, or that the charge was not even re- ferred to by the prosecution, baeked by his host of Persecutors, who, to save their own disreputable ebaracters, did all in their power to blacken Iiis, and to bring him to the gallows. Nor bas it es- caped public notice, notwithstanding all the Wholesale. charges "made ast McParland ofdrinking ana ofernelty to his wife, that after having gone throuch an ordeal of examination to which few men buve ever been subjected, not s single net of unkinduess toward his wife was proven acsinst him, and only on two occasions during bis whole marriage life, as testified to by bis enemies, was he the worse for Hquor. When, on the other hand, it was faily establts! by a large number of the most reliable witnesses, who had every oppor- sanity of knowing, that he was ever a most devoted and kind husband, and uniformly # sober man, Henry Ward Beecher, without delay, owes Daniel McFarland an unqualified pabiie apology for #0 eruel, unjust and unehristinn a libel, and the publie seati- ment demands it of him, ‘The public are fully satisfed, and Mr, Beecher cannot shnt his eyes to the fact, that the fraudulent divorce surreptitiously obtained in Indiana was car- ried, even as to facts warranting a divorce io that Stata, by absolute perjury. Mrs. Calhoun's testi- mony out there made out ‘the case for Mrs, McFar- land, Her testimony on that occasion hus already been given to the public, Why did. not this wooan fwear to thoee facts on McFarland's trial, when be ‘Won present to confront ber? She had full oppor- tunity on tue stand, ard she could say nothing st him, ‘Tho public have a deep interest in this matter, and will not feel eatistied watil the whole exposure is brought to lieht, ‘The prosecution itself has given MeFarland a character which few men would be ashamed of, ONE OF THE PUBLIC, ceaiiaincemeiaee An Opiuion of Mrs, McFarland's Confonal From the St. Paul Pionee Itis full of the slang phrases of the free-lovers, id abou in such terms a8 “ inner life, soulfal &e., and it reads like a cheap sensation lof the “jerky” ordes In addition to this artificial sentiment, it is full of womanish GRAY, PRATT &CO.,BROKERS A WASHINGION POLITICIANS Ap, VENTURES IN WALL STREET, Gaining the Confidence of the Street, and Flooding it with Altered Securition—a Flight which was Piped by the Detective Police—Arrest and Committ In December last « full history of the financial ‘operations and disappearance of the frm of Wm, R, Gray & Co., 44 Broad streot, was given to the pb: lic in the columns of Tue Sux. Wm. E. Gray came to thin city im 1867, with letters from inflaontiat offce-holders in Washington, whien secured tlm the Position of cashier in the office of Mesers, A.W, Dimock & Co., % Pine street, Wearying of being A eubordinate, he branched out for bimeell, ana erred desk room at 20 street, Te soon won, the confidence of the strest, and recurved the sere vices of a conspicuous broker of the Gol! Board His operations were large, but carefully manace and the bulls and bears marked him as a promising ‘operator. Gaining prestige by his snccess, he took an offee at 96 New street. Soon afterward the report wae spread that he had fost heavily by the failare of Messrs, Moss & Co., of Broad strect, but that i{ would not seriously embarrass him, as in a few dayn he wonld receive a large sum from his friends—a Teast $100,000, Soon after this he moved from % New street to one of tho finest offices on Broxd street, and displayed the shingle of W. B. Gray & Co. The new firm dealt largely with the best firma on the street, and enjoyed the confidence of the bankers generally ; but AcmaANoR caw! Mosers. Jay Cooke & Co. discovered amone the fecuritios apon which they had made loans to Gray & Co., same bonds which had been traised from lower to higher denominations. and on apprising the" Young America” firm of the tact, the diler: ence in value Was nade good, and the raised bonds were redeemed. The explanation was made smil. inely with well-etmulated surprive, ant Mr. Gray said that the bonis had oven Kleposited with them by one of the best firme on the street. in Friday, Dec. 10, the Bank of the Common. wealth detected » similar error amone xome of the bonds deposited with that tnstitatton as rocarities for loans made, and wished them to close their ue connt there. ‘On Saterday, ae usual, Mr. Grav appeared in the street, and negotiated largely. Some brokers maid ‘hat he conveyed to a womun in a carriage, at an arly hour in the day, a large parcel of secufities; bat this may be merely a etory without foundation, At all events, during that day Mr. Gray and his omp posed partner, Thomas Hi, Pratt, defrauded the Ktrect tothe amount of nearly $850,000. This em does not cover the stolen bonds nor the alterations of bonds and other securities which were disposed of or deposited a# securities, On that day the firm digappeared, entire lose will reach a half million dollars, The names and kinds of seouritios are withiield, order that Gray & Pratt's confreres way be secured by the authorities, PRATY'S Annest, Since the disuppenrance oY Gray & Pratt, Cipt (now Superintendent) Jourdan and Seret. (now cap tain) Kelso secured. indictments against the faub tives, under six counts, and got bench warrants trom Recorder Hackett for’ their arrest, and thus armed, the detective police went to work. Pratt it wat said, bad fled to Mexico; but from the hour of hit Glaappearance the detectives had their eyes on him, and lis return to the city was so well anticipate that on Wednesday night, at about 11 o'clock, De- tectives Wooldridge and MeCord saunteret up Seo ond avenne, and at Thirteenth sireet nabbed him, After some ‘attompt upon his part to deny his Iden: ity, he accomnanted tho officers to the Police Cen: tral ‘OMice. He war taken before the Court of Geus eral Seesions yesterday morning, avd committed for tri 1 without bail, His partner, Gray, is yet af ge. SUNBEAM! ——— —A Texas boy shot his futher fatally a few das ago, “from mere cuprice.” and the termagant, snappish temper that will the last word, washing the family dirty bile, jost shameful production » lity Ttis a shocking exalbi tly of wantonniess, partly of depravity, and partly of ‘an ttehing for notoriety, Iv is doudUess mach of it false, much of ft exac- gerated, and it is all disgracetul, It was evideutly 4nd published under the vi res Who bave led Ler to ruin —— A Literary Club in the Rey, 0, B, eham’s Church, From the Springfeld Kepubiican. Since lust September a new club called th Fraternity, and somewhat eiinilar to the Bost Radical Club, has been meeting in New York. has become very popular, Tt was begun amon meinbers of the Rev, O. B. Frothingham’s society, but it is not distinetively a church organization, and it us ady i 8h of Froth- inclades many outsiders of both sexes and all ages, They meet glternately at the houses of some of the members, and maiuisin @ sucial as weil as w literary spirit at Cueir gatherings, Among the prominent mem ers are the following persons: Mr, Calvert Vaux, the ar t, WhO Was associated with Frederick Law Olinaieal in design ing the Central Park, and who is President; Mr. Cranch, the urtist poet, who te well known both by his pictures at the Notional Academy and by his con- tributions to the ution and other periodicals; Mrs, 1G. Calloun, tho brillant correspondent ‘of the une ; Oliver Johnson, of the Independent; Mr. Robort Carter, editor of Aypleton's Journal; Robert Dale Owen, Prot, Kunkle, Mr, Puumsn, Jr. one of the famous puviisbing rm ; Drs, Coan and Emer- son, both promising maguainisis. who have lately written for the Gulagy, Harper's and Patnam's monthlies; Mr. Frothingham himself, who ito rogular attendant of the mectings; Mrv. Tolle, one of our lady ertiste; Mra Dr. Edward Warner, a musical amateur; Mr. C,H, Farnham, ton of Mrs, Farnham, the celebraied prison reformer and authoress, whe tp en, 1 im introducing the Gailin fyetem of musica! Instruction into this country ; Mr. Morse, a grittuate of| rVerd, and au ao. complished stodent and writer Hudson and Sewell; Mr. Hrownel!, » young aud able lawyer, \d other persons of both wexes to the number uf aboot sixty. ‘The exercises consist Of an eseay, @ paper odited by two of the members who are appointed trom week to week, and a debate, All classes of subjects are discussed, incladi literature, art, science, mu. tic, poetry, and politioal economy ; ‘and the questions of woman suftrage, Chinese immigration, American Iterature, poetry and prose, have been considered She last meeting but one, Col, T. mt, and shared in the debate upon the iast mentioned topic, The meetings ter- mi od a fortnight since, for the season, with an ad. cy by the Kev. Mr. Brothingham upoa the history ucves® of the club, Tt will be Kept ao peat Wioter, and will doubtless be as pleasant aud iu DrOvINg as in Che pas x ——— Stand om, Domino ifexinson wae ‘The steamer Chicora arrived at Collingwood on Weanesday evening. Col. Bolton, commanding the British troops, was informed by Gon, Cooke, in command‘of the District, that nothing having any connection with the Red River expedition could pass the Sault Ste, Mario Canal, and passage wus thorefure ied the Chicora, Toe Toronto press advocates the construction of acanal on British ground round Sault Ste, Marie, and Fecomaonds that the Driviloge enjoyed by American vessels in Canadian capalé whi couse uulil the Gvoatin at issue is adiusted. —Anson Burlingame is said to bave left prop erty in.Ban Francisco valued at $900,000, —Quaker mectings have boon reéstablished in Borton after a ceasacion for many years, —A ballet blonde has been fined at St. Peters. burg for gestures “ out of all bounds.” —The Philadelphians are fretting over the spread of the relapsing fever in thetr city. —It is said that 105 rich persons in England hold $1.745.000,000 worth of the British consols. —The Pope has apologized to the British Mim ister at Rome for the recent existon of English ladie from the Eternal City. —A Utica lady. enthusiastically praising her pony, exclaimod that he was real sweet—as beautiful as an opium reverie. —A Massachusetts paper tells how a once pop ular bat now declining periodical has “lapsed teto tht Qutescence of nomenizomy.” —An international Maritime Exhibition is to by held in Naples next fall. Sir William Armstrong & arog its English Commissioners, —An Indiana editor advises a correspondent Bot in future “ to snatch up his pen and go rlosaorting sion g fn the style of an unconscionable ase. —Itis reported that Mr. Motley’s daughter fl abont to marry the second son of the late Earl Cowper, ‘and grandson of Lady Palmerston, in London. —A Memphis reporter, describing a recent ba by show, tells how one of the tnfants wore “a Man tcilles dress about two and a half yeqgp old.” —The proprietor of a Chattanooga hotel ex pelled a couple of young iadies from his parior becansa they didn’t take supper while waiting for a train, —Lord Lyons recently gave a grand dinner to Bari Russell, at which, however, Mr. Washburne wat not Invited, probably to avoid unpleasant explanations, “ Don’t beat your carpets,” says a huma tarian ; * try kindness and firmness, and if twat don't keep them down, send for # policeman and haye them taken up.” —A would-be suicide at Cincinnati was pulled off the track before coming train by a ra\\road who warned him against trying to “ ninss up tho enj any such as that.” —A Virginia 'ady playfally told her husband, 8 Fhe started on a visit to her sister, that pr ray shoulda’t return, and kept her word by el with her sister's husband, —A thief in Indiana, who stole the regulator from a watchmaker's establ'shment, was kind enongh to ret another clock with the correct \¢, aud to leave @ note to that effect, —Prévost-Parad M. Mare Girardin, and the Bishop of Orleans are mentioned among the new Senators to be nominated by Louis Napoleon, iu re ward for Piéhiseta favors. —A lady recently sent a fur cape to a fur es tablishment for reval the following note: "1 want mi hape mendid whar the mices nored it in gud shatp.” ne of the thirty oldest baronies i nthe English poet Beaumont, Vaux, Camoye, Stourton, 1 Dormer, Stafford, and C!ifford. —Lord Derby, engaged matrimonis!ly to t Marehioness of y, 1944 yours oldt—inis iiitonds bride, 46. She ts adanghter of Earl De La Warr, and has five children, the youngest 22 yenrs old. —Mrs, Julia Ward prefers Booth’s “ lam ohier's, Bhe eaye: “Mr, Feohter's performnonet may have been nearer to Denmark, but our ryt * Liam Jet’ at the Boston was nearer to heaven.” —The rector, wardens, vestry, and parish of Bt. And Hanover, Mass., haye voted unanimonsly to lay ade the white eurplice, and to use culy th black gown in the services of thatchurch, The reas assigned for this action are briefly: Is', That the t of the surplice ts not in unison with th 1 ni Kospel dispensation, being a continuation of th prio’ ly ephod of the Jewish Church, 2d, ‘That thers \» 0 Ht Med purpose among some of the clergy anc !)() 0f tht Episcopal Church to multiply priestly rot OWA Ceremoninis not required or anthoriz< canons of the church, and oppored to the geuius Topublican inetitatious—against which they fl l to protest. 8d, They adopt the gown as an apnioprialé ministerfal garment for @ Protestant minister !eram it has been used as such ever: avion and Amparts a gravity avd decorumsto th ett dove not sanction tue idea of priathood in tle ChAe an ministry, FIRST AND LAST. t together, hand in hand, He sang a song, a litte song No other poet ki And ahe looked up Looked down aud draawed hi ‘The Newie sea crept up the st an, ‘And Inughod «wanton baigh pk up the song the pact planned. ‘na thug the otter alt, Ae i api Was cry eee Tr the two wens diverse ways The eventhe shares increa On Wim, Krown old in fuie mud praise, ‘And live iv houseliold iwc The echo of the false sweet wort Ile spoke so tong axo Has pained aa park thie aammer birds Before the winter suow. Bat as to-night the angei'e hand Da the siiver cota And enile her to that other land Of Love's supreme rev nth Bhe Hears but one sounds softand low the filse #4700 Mau #0 lon 1450+