The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 5, 1871, Page 2

, , iar 3 ; Ww } b } ty ' LN | i s i » i | ip } * } ' ' e , e 1} an Li: + oth Amusements To-dny. Jo Wall Dr. Corny s Inorama of Hralawd, 9 Trout aye Tunmel—opes wo Vitter sila Thompren Trompe, Maton Terms of The #an, en Finy copies to tt pet pen Teeedty cpoes Wo ope wldrosiy Fifty copied to one nirews Adattlon al copie, ly ia ndvacon, Clad pack Te Wowk and Semi Hostility to the renomination of Gon. Grant permeates the Republican party to @ far greater extent than is dreamed of by wome of its leaders. His administration hav. pag Comonstrated thet he is neither a states: ‘man of boa’ views nor a politician of even ordinary shrewdnees, the rank and file of the ‘party, who do not seck office and have no corrupt jobs to promote, are earnest in the eonviction that the campaign of 1872 ought Renomination of Grant ¢ | of Gen. GRANT's blunders aud imbecilities. In 1868 hundreds of thousands of men roted for Gen. GRANT simply to close up the work of reconstruction. They did not ex peet much from him beyond this, and they fare not seriously disappointed at finding him ‘on the completion of this work calamitous failure. They are not oxactly dissatisfied with his course on (he measures growing oui ‘of the war, but they have no confidence ic his ability to mark out a policy for the future ; and, in plain English, they wish to get ridof him at tho close of his present term. It is alsurd to say that the Republi cannot easily find an acceptable candidat for 1872. The great events of the last ten years, in which their organization has born @ leading part, have brought into the for. ground many able and ambitious men, none of whom would decline to carry the Republi ean standard in the campaign upoa whies She country is now entering, while some o thei ake ciready grasping to get hold of i: Conspictons among the possible eanditn: ene othe Tei aden My Suomen and Mi these, we discover Mr. Banks and Mr. Fr TON on this sido of the Alleghanics, and over the Mr. Logan and Mr CoLFax rise to view; and Gen, BUTLER is eagerly pushing, and ig quietly waitin, entirely willing Outside of strict party lines, and occupy Ing independent grounds, but still claiming to rank as Republicans, we may Gratz Brown Crantes Abas; and, even in spite of his precarious health, we presume Chief Justice Ciasn’s friends do not abandon all ho ing the Presidency. We might swell this list by the addition of many names; for the late Tiukoponr PAKKER once said that the number of per @onn in the United States who regarded themselves as present, prospective, or poss ble candidates for the Presidency, was alway one hundred at the vory lowest estimate At all events, it is a consolation to know tha‘ the country has not yet ran out of able men ; the Republican party may well elaim that it porresscs a fair share of such, and therefore need not be driven to the necessity of renom Snating Geo. Granr, —— Subsidies to Ocean Steamers. On the question of subsidies to American seamship lines, the proposals for which in ‘Congress are 80 nurerous and vast as to op. press and cuibarrass that bo word to ray. In our situation this question must be viewed under two aspects, ‘Ihe first is that under which, and under which alone, Eng Jaud and other powers have established this systein, Bubsidies in’ I lave the double object of evi! 1 shine mail and transporiatio: Uines in the interest of British merchants and menufacturers ; and of creating a fleet useful to the Government in any sndden mountains SuEnMan and poor Mr. GREELEY ix and of his reach: A we have a yeland na tional emergency, such as that, for ex ample, when the lealing ship of th: Cunard line was instantly appropriated to bring troops to Canada on the occasion of the Trent difficulty during the slaveholders’ rv bellion, ‘The advantages of having uch « large flect as that of all the steamship lines mow running to various quarters of the world from Britich commercial ports, under Government subsidies, are very great, and must not be undervalued, They compose a complete transport flect, always ready and fully equipped ond manned for wervice. ‘I'o # country like Englund, with her posseesious fo every quarter of the globe, and always exposed, such @ flect is invaluable, A dis tant post can be succored, or a distant for. tress supplied with troops and munitions of war, by such an agency, quicker than any naval enemy can reach the samo point, ‘I’ @ great colony supporting empire like Eng Inad, such an auxiliary in these days of eteam is almost indispensable, Thess mer cantile fleets are the light horse of her nayal power, the flying artillery of her maritime forecs, But they are mainly useful because of her distant and numerous eolonial pox soagions, which cannot be as complutel kept in hand, for the same cost, in any ot way, But, in addition to this prime considera tion, which in @ military point of view in of sufficient weight to Le regarded as a con trolling motive, there is this further object which England has, namely, to open and control channels of trade, to obtain new and secure old outlets for the constantly pressing acenmulations of British manufectntes. Tt is part of the English system of supplying the world with Britieh goods, It is by not to be embarrassed with the dead weight An outlet and a market for what we delivering these goods at the door of every foreign nation and people under the sun, civilized and savage, that England finds willing customers, and keeps her millions Of artisans employed. But tlits ein be effte- wally done only by her being the carrier as well as fabrieant of the goods, It is enough that they be made; placed in the hands of the coneumer. We need ottly present these two motives of action, even thus briefly, to find ample Trenton and fall justification for the poliey of subsidizing ateam mail Hines by a power rita ated da Enpland is extent that pawer has gone, has been governed by Ike motives, not France, to th ‘Tho question now arises: Are these con: siderations sufficient to warrant the United States in pursuing a similar policy? We have no distant colonies to protect or succor, and wo have no overcrowded manufacturing population that we are compelled to ketp from starvation by acts of Congress, or any kind of exceptional legislation, For these oljects then we have no occasion to pay large annual subsidies to steamship lines. So long as our jnriedietion is confined to eo: terminous territory, the rail is our substitute for ships, eo far as the military sitaation de mands the use of either the one or the other. And certainly no one will think it necessary to kcep up at great expense a large fleet of transport ships during a time of peace, merely for the sake of being able to Jand troops in some possible emergency apon the soil of an enemy, cither near or rem“te. And for an indefinite time to come, it ought to com{eut us thoroughly to be able to supply the wants of our own population, great and growing as it ie, with our own manufactured goods, Insteal of produce, it is production itself that rather needs the stimulus of legislation, Lustead of our domestic manufactures prossing upon the home market and requiring foreign pur chasers, they are quite inadequate to the home demand. To insist on finding new customers abroad for them, is to seek buyers for goods we lave not to sell It seems to us very plain, therefore, that the reasous which have actuated England and Frauce in subsidizing their steam mail and passenger skips do not apply to this na tion, Our circumstances are go different that they really have no weight whatever in in ducing similar action here, But there is a second aspect in which it is necessary to view this subject; that is, the effect of this polley in restoriog the lost prosperity of our wereantile marine, Will enbsiaizing steam. thip lines do anything toward this? Wehave already given our views pos he ssential conditions necessary to this restora tion, have seen that in order to get this interest on a stable foandation, we musi build and equ as well as navigate the shipe Lat corry our flog; and that to do this, it is MH este i eat ly in Boglau an rebuild our mereantile navy, aud 1 ossess ourselves of the carrying ti ply by having the raw material of ich modern ships are built admiticd of duty when huported for this purpose d we have sven that this is demanded by high national considerations. ia fore 1 couatries, espeel If this proposition be true, we do not need to adopt the policy of subsidies to effect this Lject. And if it be trne that we cannot Build aud maintain our mercantile navy oxcey by subsidies, or specific grants to specitic steamship compentes, then it is as plainly me that we caunot do it at all, and we juust retire from the ccean ingloriously van We may create great pernianent anal industry by genoral protective legis lation, takin; the trials of tnfancy and adolescence till it is matured and per fected; Lut industry that alter ths help necds to Le maintained by special legis lation, {9 a eekly industry that is @ bur den, and not @ benefit. Our shipping inter- est is no infant crying for sustenance ; it has the virile power of age and experience. But (is crashed by weight. All it wants, and all it need ask, isthat it ehould not be op yressed aud borne down by the burdens of on overwhelining taxation, It only needs to te put on the same footing that it stands on in other countrios, ‘The subsidy policy is not necessary to sus iain the shipping interest of Great Britain It is not necessary to builder or navigator Knglish ships and Scotch ships cover the seas today. Not one in a hundred is the re cipient of a subsidy; and those which are, are sulsidized, not on account of the shipping terest itself, but for the purely military and umercial reasons which we have alr ady xph ll. So far as the general navigation interest is concerned, subsidies to specie companivs are an injury, since on any tine of trade and travel they oceupy they have the advantage of every competitor to the extent of the suly sidy. Now, it Is a well-known maxim that competition is the life of trade. It is equally true that whatever destroys that competition is Injurious to it, As a general proposition, no one can question that all donations, gifts, bonuses, Dounties, or subsidies given by leg. islation to individuals or companies to sup. port a tottering industry constitute a miser. able and ruinous policy, even from the pro tectionist point of view. But we do not stop to argue this question, What we set forth is selfevident: that a special subsidy creates a monopoly which is fatal to competition, and is thus injurious instead of being beneficial to the general interests with which it interferes, There can be no pretense, therefore, that the sub: sidizing of specific steamship lines cap be of any benoflt to, or aid in creating those which are not subsidized, or that it will atford any relief to the existing depression of our mercantile marine And if it will not do this, the only re ing consideration which over any a pan be brought into the case pronounces against it, and the of subsidies is left without whatever. ‘To the obvious sugyestion that we muat mect subsidy by subsidy, or be driven from our own carrying trade, it {s sufficient to answer that there is no difleulty in meet ng this point, when It becomes « practical one, by discriminating legislation, The vital in- terents of the country demand a vigorous, ny support THE SUN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1871. SY J and nota sickly or fitfal growth of our ship- ping intercst from the root. It must be a8 free and ag lightly loade1 ne its rivale, It ought not to be broken down by taxation, a8 it cannot and ought not to be built up by subsidies, Tt only wants liberty to grow Will Congress afford that liberty? and if it will not, why not? — Unjustifiable Generosity. The most dangerous, hecause the most plansible and apparently deserving schemes for depleting the public treasury, are those which profess to have benevolent objects in view. Somebody conceives the idea of doing this, that, or the other thing for the good of hiv fellow-mon, and straightway Congross or the State Legislature is besought to make grant of money or property to aid in carry ing out the project. The members, not re cting that they were elected to administer the public business, and not to dispense the public funds in private charity, are easily persuaded into compliance with the solicita tion, and the grant is made. In this way thousands on thousands of dollara are an. nually voted away, Without a sladow of rea. son for doing it For example, there las been incorporated in the District of Columbia an institution called the American Printing House for the Blind and the American University for the Blind, the object of which is to provide for that unfortunate class of persons facilitics for instruction, such as text books, works of general literature, and other means of educa- tion. As an object of private benevolence, such an institution, if well administered, may rightly appeal to individuals for support ; but now comes Mr. Hannis and proposes to the House of Representatives to give it $500, 000 out of the pockets of the whole people of vue United States] That this is a wrong, both to the taxpayer and the public credit- ors, is too plain to need demonstration. Again, there is a project before the Senate to incorporate a magnificent Free University in tho District of Colambia, and give to it the free use of certain public buildings and lands in Washingion and land scrip repro- sonting $1,000,000. Such an institution is utterly unnecessary except to provide berths for a lot of professors and tutors who would have no chance to carn their salaries; and if it were necessary, itis no part of the busi ness of Congress to establish it at the public expense. There are now more colleges in tho y than are required, and in the neighborhood of Washington itself there is no lack of educational facilities for all who desire them, To give $1,000,000 to estab lish @ competi ng Free University is just throwing the moucy awa he public debt of the country is now $2,400,000,000, and we all know hy sore ex perience how heavy a burden it is pon Honest industry. Until this debt is pate, every dollar diverted to ptrposes not abeo: Intely essential to the national welfare is 4 robbery of the taxpayers, If any of them ly appealed to choose to give when persor f their own accord toward supporting ben by toxath on mdoubted jo outrage, It n is an indefensi members of Congress want to Le generons let them be so at their own expense, but let them spare the pockets of Judge Hivtos’s fountain, on the ne west corner of the Park, was model! told, by an ingonions artist who has a profound admiration of the pre the city a their virtues ont political magnates of desired to perpetuate the memory of The female gracefully holds figure on the top What appears te , ik the eame — poddes the old City who #0 be whose statue on Uindfolded, but who, on the fountain at went of the Court House, has a sword only The pitcher is the famous old Pewter Mug. through which the water—typical of th paid by the taxpayers—tlows into th sury, represented unde: suggestive of supposed to rep in the act of money time, helping to fill it the neath all is the inn up all the overflowin: a The higher classes of Englishmen p-em te be specially fasvinated by the light, graces) geranium style of beauty of our young Amen: cun belles, But recently Miss Kitty McVicker, the bright and lively daughter of Commodore MeVicxar, was married ty Major Nowtox of t British Army, as f the Hon, Mr Tor and ephew of Lord Guante wowe find Miss Mover, hit late Minister Mr, Riemann of the iebrated wit, ovat that name, pitche Hall was mon y trea. th by a huge shell Tne four geese arc nt four distinguised taxpayers ig their voices against. the nto the treasury, but, at the selves, Under Ring, whieh swallows ne out, sum the faseino er of our tr, Moriny, wedded to a son of Duinsier Siteuivan and grandson and d ‘The present My, I wKivAN has but few of the graces of mind and person which all the other members of the faruily {uherited from its founder, He in easly life eloped With the deughter of Sir Couguuoun Guany, un heiress of large fortune, and has recently figured to considerable dissdyw matist of DARD BRINSLEY e in some heavy in surance frauds, The other two brothers, Fray cis and Canis, were of remarkable beauty of person and charm of manner, They both died youug, the former as Treasurer of the Mauriuus. and the latter as Secretary of the English bussy at Paris, atte mn ded to the lust by Mile ebrated actress, ‘The th ters, the Duchess of Somumser, Queen of B at the Eglinton ! ‘onto the Hen, Mra, Biackwoov, have a historic repu tation for unrivalled beauty and attraction, Let us hope that the newly wedded Mr, and Mrs, Suunivan may keep alive the family fume : ——— One of a gang of robbers recently broken up in Nevada, among other eurious confession hos said that in 1867 the gong purchased a quartz mill, for the purpose of breuking up and working over the silver bricks which they expected to steal, in order to avoid detection in dieposing of their booty, A member of the party who en gaged in this novel milling operation filed his pe- tition in bankruptey prev Docue, the eo eis. auty and urnament, Mrs, 8 to the purchase, in order to secure his prospective profits from tl &rasp of bis creditors, — Tho book and music publishers of this coun try who supply their customers through the 1. .! have experienced great loss on aecount of t negligence of the Post Oilice oflicials in reyurst | forwarding their goods, The Board of \v Trade of the United States, consisting of tv two of tho leading inusie-publishin their last annual meeting instructed ( dent to examine the subject, and if possible pose a remed It has been suggested that by extending the letter registry system to printed mail matter a reform may be accomplished ‘The Chicago Tribune says that the express com panies of that city pell lo large book houses pri Paid book stamps under which packages of book, regularly receipted for like other packages, are tent through the express at less than the proven | Post Office ratén on books, where #0 recefpte arc given and vo fesponsibility $8 aestmed by any body; and thinks it is difficult to se why the Post Office Deparinent, which permentes the whole country, cannot make money by carrying registered printed matter as cheaply, if the ox press compar ite: This is subject of some importance, as there are publishing houses fhat pay as much as $12,000 a year cach for postage on printed matter. ean. — A little dificulty which occurred at Smyr. na, Tenn., on the 2th ult. between Major Me: Lavantix, the editor of the Murfreesboro Mont tor, and a Mr. Cartuns, iMustre some of the social peculiarities of that region, On the day previous Major MeLavantix bad, without any ou Carries, warning, commenced firin dvo bails through the latter's hat. Cartuns nat urally asked the cause of the shooting, and pra- dently got outof the way. Afterward the two met and enjoyed a eovial glass togother ; but when, on the @1th, Mr. Oxrrews happened to pass within range of McLavauttn’s pistol, the latter drew and again commenced firing. Cartuns returned the fire, and at ‘his third shot succeeded in fatally wounding his assailant. No one is able to giv the cause of the quarrel, Carriers professing en tire ignorance upon the subject; but it is sur- mired that the fact that Carrins had criticised McLavanuix’s course, when the latter was run- ning for ollice two ar three years previously, was the occasion of the assault, The Nashville B ner says that Major McLacamusy had “a high strung nature,” which is pro)ably the most sat isfuctory explanation of the affair that can be given. The Fur 9 Tribune, in iis article upon the Governor's message, enumerates the «Erie Directors’ bill,” so called, among the ob jectionable laws passed by the Democratic I lature of 1870, The facts of the ese, which the Tribune is naturally anxious to conceal, are, that tho bill was passed by the Legislature of 1989, in both Houses of which its Republican friends had a clear majority, and in neither of which are more than one or two of their votes to be found record ed against it, The Zribune was once above such attempis at deceptior sending a a Gov, HorrMan cites the great name and declarations of De Wirt Cursfox to show that Federal officers ought not to interfere in the ele tions, Gov. Cuivtox, who was a firm advocate of the rights of the States ia the true sense of the term, uttered these sentiments nearly fifty years ago. But the sate complaint of the ac- tive interference of Federal officers in State elections, under the Democratic Administration and Wee of Gen. Jrexsox, was made by Cray wren fifieen years later, ‘This interference is doubtless a great evil; bu it has got to be so thoroughly chronic wi Nt parties that it is generally regarded as one of the chief duties of a Federal officeholder to help Lis party in local elections, Indeed, it is sard that the chief reason why Gen. Gaawt appointed the Hon. Tuomas Meneny Colicetor ot this port was (he promise of the latter to so distribute his patronage and manipulate the political wires of this State as to restore the supremacy of the Re publican party As affairs are now conducted, the ouly ap: prorch to a reforin th t we can conceive of is for ty upon sveh terms that they some if suce realize a band. rum their novel whiskey sful in The New England poy rs devote roo. n of lough Company, aud from the various ents put forth it would seein that the fuil ure wes undoubtedly brought about through embarrassments caused by Mr, Oages Ames’ extensive operations as a promoter of railroud Still the crisis was hastened by th. of Mr. Trrapwent of San Francisco, great dealer in agricultural implements, owing the Auxsrs, as reported, hundreds of thon sands of doftars, Mr, Oaxes Aure and his part ners eabibit » total of fourteen millions of asset of debts, It ix said that their shovel factory makes about a thonsand dollars a day, and that the manufacture of ploughs and other agricultural implements is large and highly profitable, But Mr. Awes has vast amounts of money locked up in railroads and real estate in. tments in all y the not readily be made availabl that, after allowing for the largest possible depre ciation of his assets, be will he able not ouly te pay ever ent rises against six milli rte ol country, which ean though it is believed dollar of his debts, but to come out of his difficulties with a surplus of six or eight mil lion At leosi frie uch is the confident expeotuiio ee Aucthor poor family, this time in Keyies Ville, Mo,, have fallen heir to the sum of #40,000, 000 in gold. 7 property of a gre is fortune was tormer!: futher in Cerma is said to have been waiting for the the t-gra and the mo: heirs nine s. There are two very singular things wbout these fortunes leit to Ainerieans by rope. The first is that they sel dom amount to less than a score of millions or so, and the other is that the inhevitor relatives in E never get any of the money i stkd The loose way in w body politic enters upon the construction of expeasive works is shown in Gov, Horrman’s me a The Stute desired to ervet a pew ¢ wpitotat Albany, Three MBs ago ov uct was passed creating a Commine jon to look after the matter, end specially pro viding that the Commissioners should not com. mence the construction of the building uniil they were satisfied that the work could be fully com: pleted for £4,000,000, Now it turns out that abont €2,500,000 have been expended, and only the foundations of the building are lald, It will be well if the Slate gets through with the job short of an outlay of $10,000, 200, The ouly sensible and sule mode for a Goverp ment to follow iu such cases, is that practised by individuals, Make out the plans and specifica tions, and enter into an agrcement with respon sible persons, backed by ample security, to come e the work fur a specific sum, and then hold the contractors to their bargain, ‘Till this method pursued, governments and niunicipal corpora (ins must expect to be gouged, us wituess our new Court Hoase. — ‘The Circumstances Attending the Juwes iatloy Janes Hallowell died in a cell in the Tombs on ‘Tuesday night, Kor some time’ he had i sleeping under the boxes and on the street corners and in the doorways vbout Fulton Market, Some 8 ago the ugeut of Mr. Francis Butior, the well-known dealor in doge, whose books on the hime Of that animal hiv Death of 1 an equal de. Of popularity with Ky esters Bicld iborts,” employed Moilowell {0 sweep Mut his extn, AMM every Horning, Naliowel ia titer Bim. At dust he wus arrested died in the ‘Vombe, He au iusane man, anit Was Wot an aamoctale with OLD HIRAM BACON’S WIVES. nila AvoTHEnR cAtcn YOR Tm WIDOWS OF MARION COUNTY, IND. pectin Aer Three Wives and Rendy for a Pourth—The 6 Girl with the Auburn Treasen « Widow from Mary- Diverce—Next ¢ Iyptanavonis, Deo. 81.—The divorce ense of Tirhm Bacon agt, Carissa L. Bacon, recently do cided here, developed a history of more than usnal interest, ‘The plaintiff is an old resident of Marion connty, Indiana, Hoe Was married tn early life to worthy and intelligent woman, who shared with him the Lardebips incidental to backwoods life, and, sesieted by her untiring industry, he acenmulated a large estate, Like the generality of such expert ences in a new country, the wiie's health sucel to the incesaent toil end eltmatical inflaen at middle iife she was stricken down by de ‘Then for the fret time it wan discovered that the Vuesband wae a rich man, In fact, he was avery rich mon, counting houses, and lands, and cattle in Arcore of pastures, In the ebureh he began to pick up somewhat in his apparel, and it was obeerved that he contributed to the benevolent find. From belag called * stingy old Hiram’? and “old Bacon the neighbors came to dubbing him “ Mr, Bacon,” mony a longing glance was cast at his brow reres by the neighboring epinsters and widows as they took occasion to pass bis house, It was amus- ing to hear them declare he “wasn't so 01d,” and “how flrm a step he ling, to be sure," when he was bordering on 70, nnd a weak, trembling old man into the bargain, Tt was more than funny to ee the palsied ancient fairly coqnetting with his chancos to obtain a successor to the dear departed. High old hospitality was held in bis domicile, the majority of guests being the spiusters and widows aforesaid Mr. Bacon, however, Was @ man of prudanee Well as attrnetions, and he kept a etill tongue in li head. Mis mind was made up to espouse A RED-HEADED REFUGER from Tennessce (Carolina Penix), who, with her parents, lived in a small house ow his place, The mily Were excensively poor, and he was excced ingly kind, It does not oppear how he first brosch- ed ‘he sabject of matrimony to the young and beau- tifol daughter, but marry her he cid, on a very short sequainiance, She was a Lirge, graceful girl, with a Doautifnily formed head, lovely teeth, dark eyes, fair complexion, and a marvellous wealth of auburn hair, 1t was no long that it reached neariy to the floor, and of snch thickness that, kowing, it envel- oped her like a cloud. It js sold that the old man’s fagcingtion dated from seeing her li a flouting finass of golden meshes tanzied oro beart—pootieslly speaking, ‘There was nothing very poetical, however, in TIM ANTR-NOPTIAL CONTRACT. ‘This contract was siqued ou Sept. 98,1860, end by it Mise Penix relinquished all eluim apon the prop- erty of bor intended husbond Im case she shonld furvive him, but agreed that 1t should descend to his childyen by the former marriage. She was to be provided with sli the necessaries and comforts of Hive suitable to the means and station of her lies Hand, andi she survived him she was to roceive tie sum of $100 per year for the period they lived togetuer as Tan and wife, counting trom the date of Uheir marriage to the date of his death, which sum it wus agreed should bo paid out of the frst moneys available from his estate, Ii subeequent to thelr marriage the basband shonia acquire avy new real not purebased by the proce of the sale of te owned previously, and should own tie ime of his death, then the widow, in. said money provision, mighf tare and enjoy, for the term of her widowhood only, one. Hrd part in je of such aiter-sequired real estate, which third part should immediately upon lor marrige revert to the heire at inw. It was ex. prevaly agreed that the wife should be entitled Ww and receive only the one or the other of the pro- Vielons above made for her, as #he might oiect. This eeu figned by Hiram Bacon (his mark) nd Cornea A, Pewix, acd Was recorded Feb, 22, A. he happy peir made a bridal tour and retarned the “*oute” to so effectually interfere in the elec- | to thelr home, where, to sil sppecrance, they lived tions as to displace the 5” in the enjoyment of wore than ordinary felicity. HAS abito dlaplane th a coil was bora to them, shortly afer the birth o! ——— ¢ | Suich the mother sickened and aled. ‘The A atenvfhoat loaded with 800 barrels of | fon sollowed her to 4 mb, and Mr. Bacom was whiskey and 500 barrels of highwines was sunk 1a popular Widower. Meadwhile, the Missouri river, near Parkville, some fifteen | 4 MARYLAND WIDOW NAMED CLARIS3A 1, HURD, ett , nized in St, | Of emltivated mind and commanding presence, vears ago; and a mpany Of; 1 etruggiing with “ lile’s impatient needs,” ny k round iderably on toe sanuuar” wydrertive | feo an he puee, She . i Wroeren ne) 92, %, pay sae \ er OLS AS, steamer went down, have succeeded in striking | iced’ aitcrverd: bY wreck ‘Of a inrge the wreck of the boat, buried about fifteen fect in | a te el bathe ce faved @ coufortable ‘i fh weiuom, and, fulling 0 support herwolt.y the the sand. There is little doubt thet the corgo | of teaching, she ook a few bourders She citrecte vill be bronght up, and the company have the notice vf soine Episcopstinits, who took a lively fuega thc ile uhies oa ’ Interest in her, apd secured ber services as superite cured the title of the underwriters to the pro (uf the Bungay Suhool, tend AN! nt once her frie bi ick eyes and majostic form wore minted from the apostolic sanctuary, and upon inquiry it was takl, joroscly, that ahe bad. "gone over to the Presby tarla The next hoard of her Wr thet #he was married to the wealthy farmer of he porcine cognomen, Diilerent pes w her mh COUMpAy Wie end, theegh somewhat struck With the Contrast of debtity and Gne womunhood, olserved that their devotion and t lerness wer congratnl iced bere mutual, aud, in thelr own iinda, her up’n Letierig her condition 4a tt a lite goreip avout the marriage xettlement which Home few Wok the tronble to examine and it wre further said that tue children, who were disgusted With the former marriage, exceedinnly d hebted with this, wore Diained that al was wot 4s lovely as u sun day in the Bacou how od Weipat iudoed mK INTER-PORCINE WAR m high, and all about the marriage settlement tunes of the asreeient Leiween be nd widow, made June 18, 187, @ Jump thelr estaces together and. iat ih Uiited cetates should be under the nbsolule control and ownership of * Hira gendeman,” who in cons dervtion of the euid covenant, nzreed that Af Lis whe su. vived him the third part of the united esta for her own nse and be tural iiYe, this belne in Fs Weil us tee simple (hat Ler corns lete comfort, care, th hould require more than the :mount above then such other sum oF sams aa migit be y should be paid to her, even, It necessary, to The entire eahaustion of te two estates, PETITION FOR A pivonce, in the Bacon honseliold «id ‘on the 10 The n and the * that they not long of November, 1870, a little Jess Cun tive mNOMthe aller the sicning'of te aly ngteoment, * Hirau Bacon, gentieman,’ ¢ for divorce in the Murion eon: ve 4 this petition ke alleged that he hy Ways Leen a kind and provident husband ; that ie } « most hberul provision for Lis wile | so of ify death; that soon atter hi warntace hor sho most unjustly chareed that she w to cuter iuto the above, agreens lent representations, and employed counsel disturb the same, and has repeatedly li abure of hit in the presence of atiangers Ny Regivcted ail household cuties rly to “pervorm tre & abandoned him and month and her intention never to return Stunily tiie deckarati towurd him, Ae 1 and feelings are § Prowpeet of 9 1 ely hopeless. r 1 that he wigl ivorced from the defendant and thatthe meee ron ett € zintlog between them might be dis- Wiereto Olnrives L. Bacon, on the san attorneys, filed « denial to cach wun The petitioner is 69 yours nid to others nying con M Wil opprobrious epithets alleged that her temper atible with hie thut the b ‘a them is defendant 59, +. it te dectared, hal it in her power ‘ove the allegations above aliuded ton °° SUCH A CHAPTER OF MBANNRAS and litrleness ns she contd have a ‘ded would ha: given Dickens a revention, but ale contented hay? fell with the feminine malice of saylug that “never youd have leiloved Mr. hs feeble aa he wee, end let bim have his abont the nbase. Tels true that the! gemelonan Js olten unable €o Hit his coftes to bie lips, aad he ie At all tines as shaky ws withered loaf, Upon hearlng the evidence, the Conrt it decreed that the plaintiff’ be and th ‘SWvoreed trum ti of wate hereby Judge ndged defendant, and th: ony existing betwee Lie ed Ie is further that the ante-nuptisl contract and seteleme, rds dey 2 Fare ke Sorever aunalled a cinved, Lis turther order that the costs o: this sul pli Mingne J ‘nth Was not all, On the enme day Mr. Baco ’ n sienna velinguishment of Clarissa Li'y Which ends the vexatious suit, TEN BACON AGAIN IN THR Manmer, ner discourized, * Hiram Bacon, ren. lus about with him his freedour pane ve CANIDILE OM OVOLY Luvoruble oppor fo uu tueaement is reported, but an surely ai he lives, if the pruning kelfe of Dme does not ent hun down, be will find another wite, Woedher | Suvsis another ue obliging a8 the "Tennessee re «) Maryland widow remains to be seen, aud it te rderd and ad- Penuayly Hsnnisnena, Jan, 4.—Goy. the Legislature Proval Of the y's message to-Gay expressed unquuliied dlp employbiont of Governiuent troops Congicwsional clections as an iuterierence with the soverelgn rivlts of « St not contemplated Ws the Guintesn ot Lie Nu'ioual Governtaeahe aed Which migut lead to cisustrous reeutia, Ie op froe trade Mf ond denounced the Intro. + the aryatert evils that i Miiione# of the country Muine Legintature Was organized yesterday by aries Buu (Rep) of Orono, duction ¢ can beadl ue Mr. Bath nor Was he a do der At ie proper to state that Mr. Duiler tian Hever atte ated detec Ment oor a rat-balt, He is pavoniaed mon UxclY Svely by the Bost respectabh peure the We are person eequainied with My yt know that the report Uat he was at the iu oF Dick Vie Druiser fe cnuue, # Oho Benate, and Rdwin B. Gmbh (vey) nyeiker “ef the Wouse, he Goverior je ee a a BOGART, TUE DEFAULIER. - Rained in Wall Street—Eacaping State Pridon—Sait to Get Money with which to Quit the Country, ‘ Robert W. Bogart, the defaulting paymaster’s clerk of the receiving ship Vermont at the Navy Yar, appeared in the United States Distriet Court, Brooklyn, yesterday, Ho made a metion, through nis counsel, Mr. Henry ©. Place, for anew trial ina civil action which bas been instituted against him by the Governinént to recover nearly 290,000, the amount in which he is a defaniter, Boeart ab teonded in Deconiter, 1868, and wan afterward ar rested in Galveston, where he was doing business in the name of W. P. Bogart. A civil netion agninat him was tried before Jude Benedict in April, 1809, and a vordict was rendered for the Government for $54,000, double the amount which the law pre «, The Court, however, subsequently reduced nun to $27.216, ‘Alter, tit Bogart was tried by court martial for thett, convicted, and sentenced to imorjvonment for three yoars, to forfeit all pay and emoluments, ond be dishonérubly diainiaged from the service, ‘The Secretary of the Navy afterward decided that the of fence of theft had not been proved, but that embez ziemont had; and whereas Bogert had not been charged with embezzlement, he was not lezally con victed. After this blunder the defnier was tarned over to the United States Court and indicted. Bogart’s aGidavit wos read yesiorday. In it he charged (hat it wax shown on the trial by court amr- til that the paymaster, A. J. Clark, had failed to sc. count for some $20,000 lutrasted to iilin by the Gov ernment, bad miade alterations in books, and operated in Wail street, with Swan & Payson, bro: kers, Of course Bogart dented that he himsoif had stolen any money. Tivo aniaavit ot Charles B. Pearson, bookkeeper for Swan & Payson, showed an account on their books with A Clark, covering some | othe The account showed about $800 dne Swan & Pay Assistant District Attorney Allen gave Bogart « tockdolager in the shupe of an eMldavit from W. I Alexander, a momber of the frm In question, who swears that Bogart opened an account with his own cheeks in the name of Clark. The firm never had any transactions with Clark, and never *aw or knew any #ueh person Paymaster Clerk also deniod that he had operated with Swan & Payson, or had failed to account for fonds intrusted to him. When Bogart absconded, he took with him $9,785, and alterations were foand in his hooks covering an additional $18,000. Clork'» amdavit or eet ‘orth that Bogart bad made a eleun breast of the whole story to him, vad told him how le had equandered the money to Wall street Mr, Allen submitted the aMdavit of J. M. Bagtey, to whom Bocart meade a similsr confession. Bo- eart stated (urther to deponent that bis only object tn getting a new trial was to reeover from the Conrt the €2,000 realized by the pale of his horse, &c., which were attached when this eult was com- menced, He wants this money to take himeelf and family out of the country. Judge Benedict yeste ray reserved his decision. — i WHY TILTON WAS SUPERSEDED. —ee ‘Truc Words from a Fearless Mav, Prom the Inderendtent, The body politic is corrupt from one end to the other, Public offices are practically bought sold at pubite avetion, Pohtical parties aro supported by ‘an open and shameless tax-levy on the salaries of OMcials, Influence, patronnge, and a friend at court —these are the pillars on which our politics now Tost. The glory which attached to the public rer- Ties in the days of itaniion and Jeflerson han do- parted. A pubic ofttco Is now considered ebiefy in the lizht of furnishing its oecrpant with an_evpor- tunity to eura his living or to make his fortune, rather than as a place in which he ts to serve his country and beneft mankind. ‘The nation asks for a thorough, cogent, terrible reform in the civil ad- ministration of the Government, There must be no half-way amendment, Nothing short of @ rad al change wyil answer the national expectation, or will save the Kepublican party. We trust that President Grant will open bis ee to this fact. And when we speak of opening them, itin vecnuse we think they been jut, One evidence of this fuet it the ki table fluence whiel the Federal Administrati har exerted on the politics of New York and Brooxlyn. Such a fuetKiution as the Custom House in New York, ot the Navy Yerd in Brooklyn, but particularly we former, becomes by its management (or miymanage- ment) a quick and sure test of the parposes of an ‘Administration, We are constrained to ey thy Custom Houve, from the begining of the P dent's term, has steatily kept his Aaministratio: under the saxpicion of employing the imme: patronage of this zigtwiie {reYtution for the pur pores of amore tan warrantable murtisauship, ‘* wh rome civil fervice reform woall make such a revolution in the Custom House ag could be compared to nothing less than an eart!iquake. But, ever shi: sliaken by it, let the reform co ji the President hi fhe i devote the remaim-ler of bis form to the great Kk of purifying the civil list; i? he would evers~ where take care that none but able and honest men wore occnpy ing responsible stations under the Government; i be wonld light bis clear, and self contd imitiace t problem; if be could be jarred” or SthASeesAry, realizing how important sueh a revorm is to the Welfire of the conntry and to the success of his Administration, he might yet rotriove twe glory q! his term, and besprinkle bis fuding laurels Jato a reviving green, Otuerwise the people will call @ new man to be ueat Presiden — The Ritualistic Nonsense of the Chinese. Hom the Puritand (Oregon) tter ata. Chinese have erected anew lamp in the use On Second street, between Stark (0 coumetmorde tho arrival of age of a yo We calied there Nerday to lew the si tion of the chicnmatauces, but we cold find Wo who would be kind enongh to exptain tho for. mality, Vheentrance to the temple ts Up au old rickety stairs; turn to the right, and we ascend au other pair, the banister being k clother-line attcetiod to a sing in through & rear entrance, we find ourselves in a ul inative room, in Which are two dilapidated chairs and 4 bed formed of old boaras covered with matting, ‘This is com in which the candles are ared for lighting ard the papers for the d Ms into the main room, we find our. facing the altar, which 18 profusely coverc With tinsel- work, bella which Josh, with is long, dark board, ond queen ure seited, serrounded by all the gods and guidesses in Chinese theology. In 4 cone In front was an ilostration of the Colon tici's * Pilgrim's Progress,” in witch the troubles ol the pilerim were expressed by his opposition to amuate, whiet, he finally overcomes and reaches the Chinese parndixo, the arms of bis love, In the first scene, demons teinpt the mule to act, as usaal with moles, stubbornly; the be Yerance torces him, by hurd ther on his journey Here he is h to persey half-lost t by coo 1 spirite In the third animal to the ele and in tie feorth and dual ae the mule ris seen with bis love on his knee, while good spirils fatter him aud ladies wave their bandkerchie’s ia his honor, The scene would Dring tears to of a stole, The youn feliow in whose h lamp was erected 6 in ® pivce of leather, fore Lim to wet his whistle, and a basin filed with Juveniic candies to light him on bis way lo the abode of Contucius This youngsier bas been made w god by Josh, be Vation of his bee! th a tiny cup of ea cause When his mother died he eried antl he shed tears of blood, ‘The red globules were coursin down the cheeks of this paragon of filial love Above lim was w grimiooking fellow seated om pedestal, with his rauons in front, All the deiti Were coveres by a red piece of clotu, while tions extolling tielr virtues Were suspended the room, The lamp was dedicated by wh of a few candies and pieces of paper with pray inscriptions and petitions fur the pro the \earfui god, To all questions ritual the high ‘pric | retur ry pl anawer of * No sw +0 our knowledge of Ual ritualisi Was 1 ‘wereased, inserip easing Coles: ky Tuvestusout Prom the Sioux City Journat, About six years ago one Leo, then a resident of the city of New York, come Wost and remained here 4 few mouths und then returned to his home. On bis arrival there he pretended that he had pur- chased @ tract of land embracing between four five thousand aeres, in Hucna Vista eon ty, lowa, for whieh be exhibited a deed, This entire tract of land was shortly afterward transferred by Lee to Mr, Meileo, of the firm of Clatliu, Meilon & o., of New York tity, anu Lee soon alterward left the gicy and hav not been seen there since, Mr Metlen, be ing a wealthy man, paid but litte attention to his ands way out bere,furtler tuan to seud out the taxes due on it, to nt Whose name We Were un- able to learn, ‘agent, whoever he was, pocketed the money, as Mr. M 1 out bere on which FO pay taxes, re county has be. nd which w: deeded to Mr. Mas the Dubuque und ‘Slowe Coy Failroud runs through it. Mr, Mellen, in view of Wiese facts, doomed It judicious to send'a represen iw ive out to look alter the condition of his vast land possessions. "Mr. Madgett h sont out with a deseription of the property. key 4 he arrived a Storm Lake, ond on Inventt gation found Unat this flourishing town was locate ‘On tiie Ind described in the deed held by Mr Mel lon. He left by the yosterday atternoon ttahniey Now York to tnform hie eniployer thet hia invent ment tn Towa land would have boen a Profitable oup if Mr. Lae had onty been the lawful F of it, but juder existing eirchunatiicen ho as the viet oth jand whurk, «nd did not own Ieud enough iu ta cover hinwelf with after deat DD —— Vinnie Ream’s Su © of Lincetn, Wasuinaron, Jan. 4,—Miss Vinnie Ke: n'a sta, tne 0 In, on Leing privately exiuiued in its cake Us morning, found to be wntujured by th voyage i nly Miss Roan und several at. Crowds of persons watened t this Afternoon to arrangements la Of tho Capitol for pliciiy the statue etal — How It was that the Fi A Despatch in Yesterday's Kutse- Reporting Tribune Gen. Trou says that Fort Avron was ated eolunéarity, to eseupe the Prussiin. she uns being of longer range than those at t Tie sligint Joes ts explainod by the uct Tioon was protected by eusemates, ‘ yep ‘The Glode 8 now one of the best evening journ in the city, Mr, Ackerman, formerly of Now N.J., 1s one of ite editors, ch Evacuated Bs vaca » (hede © French, hat the gar SUNREAMS =The Lovisiana planters are importing Ca diane as laborer Another volume of poems by Swinburne wiik Appear this month. —One thousand five hundred and seventy fouy registered letters were rtoion last year. —Count von Moltke, the great head of th Gorman aruies, 18 no German at all, but a Dane. —Thus far this year there has been no hozingy Of the Freshmen by the Sophomores at Dartinouth. There is a bill before the Virginia Legislatura to change the name (of the State to ihe” Old Domi! fon Troy claims to have the most fertile soil im the whole country- treet with welform tn eintenny Inebes deep. ~Kar! Blind bas issued a protest, from a cratic point of view, against the revival of the ¢ —An Ohio woman bas sued her husband for divorce becarise ho refused to bellove in the damnaciony Of stil!-born infants. —Somo English correspondents in Paris give an account of a nl of rate” served to them io @ Arst-cluse rostadrant —Seodling oysters from the East grow to a Wordrons size and obesity in fan Fravened Bay, tough the natives are srunil and tnfertor. —There isa township in Madison county, Obio,, which does not contain a ingle church, temper ancy, society, store, grocery, Justice of the Pence, constevie, oF talon, —A gentleman at Fremont, Ohio, had a recep. tion at hia house the other evening, and when ta +18 went away, It took the hont ail nigh to with te 4 pick the feathers off nis person. The Chicago women find @ mild form of dige fipation tn chewing spruce gam. A pious lady of fa ion has annouaced to ber friends her tutenticn of keeping Lent wis year by giving up ber gam aout Faster—if she can. —A scarcity of con! prevails in Germany, and Is seriously on the increase, It arises fromthe want of Jabor in the mines caused by the war levies, The x. pedieney of employing some of the French prisoners, Colliore is being discussed, =A Quaker Indian Agent, who has reoeutly, visited tho Cherokees, Choctawa, and other «rie gives it as his opinion that the ledian funaler cavte, elevated, faud adds that” boop-skirts are more onda in @ family than war-whoops.” —The 108 years old Obio farmer utterly repm, diates the story it he shelled 0 Dushels of corn tb @ day. He ays it was an invention of “one of Wom ‘cussed lyin’ newspaper men,” and that (he day's work actually measured only 89 bushels. —An individual who played the confidenoe game in a Massachasotts town by assuming to be a a Franctreo phveteian of extensive practior, when calio@ a Lo present his creientials, indignantly prodecod ‘ letter which recommended the “barrer” 10 bigo ‘terms, and ended with © Yours in Kriet.’ —During « marriage ceremony in @ churob in Indianapolis one evening inst week, the gas tnddemiy went out, leaving all the interested persons #tat ray dusmal darkness. Candies were procured, ant tae ecre~ mony was completed amia the whispered croakiug om few spectators, who predicted all sorts of direful evils to follow the bad omen. —The Russian correspondent of the Jndé. pendance Belge, who ent that paper a sammary dle letter purporting to be from President Grant to the Crar, and offering the American feet to Rnstia in care of war with England, ts eld to have been bantehw the banlehinent, however, is mot for publishing t4)6@ news, but becante the letter being private * ite publica ton Is regarded as constituung au offence agalurt WO person of the Empe: or —The danger of an outbreak of scurvy within the walls of Paris bas been forescen by M. Decawue, Profossor of Agriculture at the Musou, whose schenio. ‘cems to Le nothing elso than @ very rapid production of vegetables by artificial means, so that stem, leaver, and root shail be all equally tender and equafly avai). able for food. Pieces of waste land clot to the wi t deen richly mannred and appropriated to thu novel kind of gardening, and yegetables thus reth a must be pow on sale in Paris. According to a Frevch statistician, tah ing, the mean of maay accounts, a man fity years of ara has slept 6,009 days, worked 6.500 days, wol\ed 50 days, mused himself 4,000 days, was eating 1,000 days, waa, sick 5900 *, &c. He ate (9,00 pounls of bread, 160) pounds of meat, 4,00 pounds of vegetables, eg fish, and drank ® gallons of liquid. Thi» 1c reepeciable lake of £0) feet surfuce and 3 deen, om dems, tar wcbld e bowler, ly imz appa. Fently on the surface, on the top of which Is a sphericad excavation consiantly Mlled with water, even in tle dryest time this summer, with no visible inlet, Whatt makes it more curious is the fact that it never wan known to run over, but is always full. Mr. Gray seym that the water has been dipped ont, and it immediate regained itsfusual fullaess, without any rain —Sceretary Boutwell received the other day, from the West, @ eurious letter, ‘Tho writer said Le Was the father of triplets, and somebody had told nine tere was a fund set apart out of which wae g.von «, Dounty to parents haying such a ran of Inck. Ine ead be had two children besides, and as bjs means wero Bot arse, it there was sucli a fund he hoped th» Sec tary would pa: bim in the way of receiving the benene of it, To confirm and estabiisa the trn'h of the etot ph TAphs 4 three born at & birth were aiiached to the letter, —Justice Thompson, who was the immediate Predecessor of Judge N Ison of New York on the So Preme Beuch, was proue to excessive Hbations, ue MORnIng, after a carcuse, he was promptly at court, and betore taking his seat entered into lively eonver- sation with soine of the gucets of tho previous even ug One of nese, fearing that the guod Judge might have juffered from the accident of hospitality,” said to hun “Well, Jadge, 1 hope you are fecling wert to “Yes, sir, thank you; quite well, sir, I ha A gin coektall, sir, and tt has It has revived my judgment! —Mr. John B. Walter, son of the principal owner of the London Times, whose death by drow. tug was reported by the cablo a few days ago, would, & tio had lived, have been the fourth of his name bY direct dh scent im the ownership aad control ot the xreat dou newspaper. The Palladelphia Le iver sailed frow New York 0: from his second visit to the Lort Anticipated enjoyment of the Christunas holidays at hes father's conntry seat in Merksire. Ito was an elttvet fon, and had been trained for journatiem with every GAvantage Of education which home instruction, eo! lee: nd extensive travel coaid afford, His Inst viet to this er ry Was ade at the Conclusion of @ wur around the world. An account of a party given by a lady st 7 Just taken joted Like @ acire farctas ; Aye that a 0 10LN Inst,, on his rotara 1 Statos, £ Groen Bay, Wisconsin, at which there wore prevoub eighteen babies, whilo no less then sixteen baby car ry were standing tn the yard at one time, moves » fornian to regret the scarcity of woinen in Southern California, and to tell how he had, iu the neighvorhnou! of Low Angeles, seen fourteen horses tled to tue bors Tack before tne door of one marriageable maiden. Hie fret impression was Ut there was @ funeral 10 pro eres: bubaamall brother of the besieged young lair coufdentiilly informed him, with much gigyliog s0ik docking of his head into bis sboulders, tual the crowd were all courting alsier. Ansioun fo we the damsel who possessed sac Dowers of attraction, he was about entering the house When he was warned off with the admonition Uhat af ie had not taken op any land thereabouts tt wodid be well for itm not to Luteriere with the rights of ae! ouP settlers, —John Owens opened the Terre Haute Oper House on the 9th ult, with © Bycrybody'y Frio and “ Bolop Shingle,” being a1 peorted by part of wa stock company of Wood's Theatre of Cincinnat, There hat been m great rush for seats, and at a public tale rome of the beat had bioughs 625 each, An BBAvoidadle delay ocenrred, however, and Mr. Owens covid vot reach Terre Haute before 11 o'clock that evening. The ‘Was communicated to the auaience, with the offe return the price of admission if it was desired. The audience took @ vote whether they should stay of have thelr m iney bi rosulting lu favor of remaining. The Actors prosent amused hem subsequently by ree'tine bassages froin dramatic works, and showing them (he scenery and the whole arrangemont of the wage. A Little after 11 e'ejock Mr. O: arrived, aud went Work @t once, and the pervormavce insted ti) after o'clock ta the morning THR TRADE TO LEARN, AIR—" The Wearing of the Cireen Bild Tom to me one summer's day, reporing in the © Old tellow, as my funds are low, I'm wig to start Tie nd ei and plunder, too, for monvy at “Why. Tom," cried 1, * you want to bo a city pe Theve's Many ® one, ten yeare ago, who was not ® Couid senedely get enough to ent aud pay bis mouruy ous, Keeps Lis coach, his servants And fates Whirw he pleases tm his splendid steams With vv Jmuense ad vail you're bound t uako Aud Iii iitng'® ewct Company to flourish a!) sour Give One Wock'e Lacklige Wo tho poor woinp of faine