The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 19, 1871, Page 2

om TT aa = nine ~~ ac me ee er ee me, oO iad at idl ‘ A NOE NA RTS NE LT EATER RE TR I ene to which it king, i they shall not attempt to arrest the progress M\i/ y i ' pe of the party from its doctrinaire into what = ‘ be termed iis adminietrative ate | Dye SRE Toya, | mes rete inisrive eon at ft thine fee All, hich it is passing, or, perhaps more pToy THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1871. It is vot striking schemes, it is Dot sliory edged radical policies, that are now ce manded. It is, on the contrary, wise, « tous, conservative measures, that will | comport with the tone of put bay The country is wearied of its high exeit ments, ewlminating in the hig fla Bloody and intoxteating w After in won ing upon @ seitioment on right principles, the people are content, Seeing this ealetan vat of fi, de. tally achieved mand repore. they now, ¥ Having had f st-class results, Paeamatte Tunnet— co Heart Neve Won Pair lady, Matlow they do not now want those of a second class, Wrtes Fenepsen Ma such ae in coraparicon all agitation mast nocresatily be, and sich as all faetitiows litical issues, uiade up for dhe oceasion, musi necessirily produce Wherefore, we beaveeh the Republican party todrop their foolish lead various rank sclomes, and come plainly out upon the brow! plattorm of moderate and jadicions measures. Let us have a financial policy looking to an abatement of the pres ent excessive taxation, and tending directly toward the resumption of specie payments. me : im "| Let us restore our maritime interests and de Fieri Ra TD vines velop out naval capacities upon sound, practi Ee : sfraiccteianiehhdrarekodaon cal principles. Let us have the excrescences of our tariff praned by the application of a little vigorous common sense, and rates of duty adopted which, if not perfect, will at Advice to the Republicans. The Republican party being destit fmonious and intelligent leador he 1 ms ‘ lenst not be so absurd, 80 oppressive, or 80 foe) it 1 Le one daty to eome to ite aid A partial as to excite derision and animosity. @anget bear to sco a great organizution, go | Py ; "here are other things to do in the same di- eon t t for ite many nobl: a Gita tie Stato rection, which it would earry us very much ; into detail to enniuerate ; bat thoso we have in its valiant aseanlt upon the named are substantive, initial measures of vital consequcnce, whieh challenge universal consideration nd scandal of ow — African « to pieces among the breakers without throw od selfishness, It ie not external but internal inter ‘ aunehing © life-boat for its este—and those ef vast momont—which . demaud the attention of oar legis. t does not seem to be understood thet | 15. The colonial meddlers to the north 8 is no time for # party o! oectri res, 1 bel 2 party of doctrinsires, of us, who seem anxious to have their knuckles rapped for their oxasperatiag interference with our fishermen, may be casily disposed of. The Alabama question, poe as the Republican party was at the period of its formation, and x Gnued to | easarily con- until ite groat objects were at t Bont eve nizing re seid ant on Tevolutionizing « socitl | now removed, we hope, from the domed r owen wale Was the out | of a sentimental stuteamanship by the growth ond feuit of centuries, that party had »pointment of a sensible envoy to Englaod, Saal re cate dans ae Hl to Be J veill, we have fittlo doubt, soon be quictad ied on WHI wan a and dispoasd of ns an international grievanes Ghe oct tacos wore tHe all ty lk O™ | We lave no ether forviga qacutions, unless : Ye we make them, as we have made the San strigede, Without them, the Grat effort | Domingo question aaavetian cee peat, Tut forth. But their | Ai the nolgo and fury of the » has { bs 7 : far have arisen upon subjects that do not ; agit sptinm tte. | (24H the vital concorms ef the country a ae hing is more cortain than that the Re Le ot Dehctitge dice nan, | publican party can thew away ite valua pce cat wus heritage ; and it seems Likely to do it, Ts trie tas it cetiee be Angela the pat | petwonal quarrels encouraging the absurd a clip contemtice Hiatt augt ays { Ptetensions of Gu:ANT to a renomination, and dite ations sition 10 line aneernnllehed all its want of intelligent leadership indie te its orsinal pucnosea The tepwclienne | 2S Tsult. We have done our duty when ee ty reenugaizo the atime hog, | Ne #a¥ there is no need of this, and. polnt Ree Leech naan aga nat the way of avoidiug the entastrophe, Lee eal sihesgedlle, If any one doubts the soundness of this pl! exposition, let him reflect upon the history acid of the old Democratic ps That orgaai Lid zation came into power as a party of doe Hie trines ; but these once established, it flour ished on the strongth of its measures for Ma Ms many long years, the professed doctrines unlerlay them acting as the sot, th tun of rich resources which eustaln: em to the last, It is so with the Reput aie ane he con: | jican party. It has imbedded its dootrines : sl aol La dom Tin the Constitution, and now it must stand vl ! wes of the Republican | op f1), not on the merits of these doctrines, Ps Apnea ites " | put on the wisdom of its following measuros uy ution to the steck of novdons of | o¢ gdministrution. ‘The doctrines afford a a rile:a enof the | cotid foundation, a secure holding-ground, Py ‘ t f & claim to the | and a valuable point of support; but they Whole of British North America, by way of | atone are insufficient to uphold weakness, or ec lon for the Alabama cliinis—th y, or charlutanism in the Government. gar ! to cover a} Prank Blair's Pintform. tracte A thisd notable scheme iv | Gen. Grant's plundering interferenes in that of Mr Guint ny, who desires to convert | the local polities of Missouri enables Gen the It n perty into a igh Tarif iANK P, Bram to go to the United Btates part the has writen a beok to lay the | Senate. Gen, BLarn is a snan of courage foun" rot the tranefer; and a fourth is | and independen but his courage mounts Hhet of Lie opposite clars of theorists who | ap to audacity, and his independence over. Propose to make it a party of Free Trade | leaps the bonndaries of discretion, His fa On Nemes and suggestions tending to | mous letter to Col. BroaDHkaD, within four thes nd are floating: on the currents of | days provious to the assem bling of the ‘am: pullic discussion; but t examples arc ny Convention of 1868, secured him the mination for the Vice-Presidency, but it dered the eleetion of the Democratic ticket of that year ir Gon, BLatn, with his characteristic daring, and while his election to the n areal] quite t re fart. Their ¥ take the method of reviving dating the Republican pariy sare unsound, The amd conseli Their tlagrant nate was error consisis in believing that because that | pending before the Missouri Legislature, peity hes been a party of doctrinaires, it | made a specch to that body, wherein he dv- Must co to to be Bo; th muse thas | clay that there is no item in the Broap- trinmphed by bearing aloft the flag ef a] mean letter which he takes back; but, on cause whose strength consisted in the radieal | the contrary, he seems to affirm it in vehe- nature of its ideas, therefore nothing short | ment terms, It would look, however, as if of the same positive tone and equally posi. | Gen, BLAm now put a new gloss upon one fuas on other issues can insure Bu of the main propositions in that famous and cers to the party in the future Jiswstrous production, He now says that if ‘This st Weoneeption finds voice ev the military are withdrawn from the South, where iu the parrot declaration that, the « all that Le propoved in that letter will be ae- ca | complelod, ‘his will hardly be accepted as the true interpretation of the letter; for he therein said that there was but one way to re store the Government and the Constitution, and that was forthe President ¢ jects of the Republican party having be attained, it must now go to pieces; for it is impossible to discover any new ixeues upon wh it cn with Now, what we have to agree any unanin y~and this is the ect to declare tine we throw to the Republican party in its | the recanstruction acts null and yoid, and ttraits, thir is the lifeboat we launch among | compel the army to undo its usurpatious at the break " 4 encompassed— uth, disperse the carpet-bag govern to guide the party, whelly mistake the | tieirewa governments and elcct Senators eltuation, Not only thy sno x and Representatives in Congroes that the Republican party should eo Surely, this advised something very dif- tinue to a perty of doctrinaires, but | ferent from the mere withdrawal of the ther ced that it should not be ral troops from the South, On the con party, In the nature of things it cannot | trary, it eounsolled the new President to louger be such rly. In ite rise, progr es, | compel the army to undo Ita alloged usurpa wad dec " case with all parties, it | thons and disperse the so-called carpet-bag must pans thr various historic phases, | governments by foree, Nor does it quite ap- moving by slow but evr gradations from | pear, from the report of Gon, BLai’s one napect to another, 1 anngt hold the | speech, whether or not he now repudiates doctrinaire form any longer than It is got. | this doctrine, ‘The resolutions on which he ting its doctrines into law, fundamental and | addressed the Mouseendorsed the Thirteenth, other, Passing from ono stage to another does not necorsitate dissolution by any mas. ner of means; but it is very evsential that the leaders should anderstand not only that Ki t nececssary te prod Pourwenth, and Viftceth Amendments, and the reconstruction policy of the Govern mont, and they were intended to elie: views on those measures. his Yho report of the % those various | dilate informs us that be proclaimed wee, but that itv unwise auf dangaroas | wolf in favor of the ‘Nhirtecuth Amondment, ut said wothing of the Fourteenth and Fif- “who sre eyibi woonth, and declared the reconstrnotion poliey wnconstitatiowal; and he then wont on to donou. the Biate governments orgauized what ls wanting now to the salvation of the | in parsmance of that policy ka even stronger Ropublican purty is that they shall no longer | terme than he employed in the BhoapAKAD uy to frustrate the natural operaion of | letter, evils by thelr frivolous abeurdives: that | Do the Democnua of the Northern States dows of the merit of saving the party by Huch endeavors as we have referred to, that ——— and do acce)t the doeirines of Gon. Bust ; they intend toincorporate them into (heir plat fort for 1872, a8 they imserited the sent ments of the Buoawnean letter upon their plauorm in ist We rather think not! | But what do they propose to do with PRANK Busi Hu ie at t givon to backing | Qyear past Hixpnicns, § Roriaan, and oid Dence Varying dead issues; when, lo, here come the late Democratic eandidate for the View leclaring that the issies ia ques. tien are not desd at all, but are alive and kicking! We repeat, what do che Northern and Kastern Democrats propore to do with Geo, Frask Bram? And what excuse can Gon, Geax’ give for his stupid interference polities, whoee logieal sequence Bian’ ——— Another Auger Bore into the National ‘Treasury. There spemns to be no bound to the impu dence and audacity of the leeches who aro trying to suck money out of the United States Treasury. Instead of asking for thou sands of dollars, they coolly demand millions ; and where they used to tap the money chest as it were with a little gimlet, they now bore into it with « big auger. A copy of a bill lies before ns, which has just been introduced into the Senate, purport- ing to be » Dill “for encouraging the do- Velopment of the mineral wealth of the United States, and incorporating the United States Mining School and Metallurgtesl Com pany.” Messrs, ALonzo Haywanp, 8. LinpEnManN, Cannes N, FeLtows, and W. PC. Srsenins are named asthe incorpora- tors, They are to be authorized to establish & free school of miners, for instruction in geology, mineralogy, chemistry, metallurgy, and mining engineering, and, ia addition, works for extracting the precious metals from the ores containing the same. So far, the Will is at least harmless, if not commendaliv But here comes in the swindle meditatud on the public. The number of metallurgical works which the Company may erect is fixed at five, and for the first of theso works the sum of one million dollars, is to be issued to them by the President, in five per cent, bonds of the United States ; and for each of the re maining four works fire hundred thousand dollars, making three millions of dollars ia all which they are to receive out of the publi treasury to aid them in their speculation ! Besides this, they are to have five hundred acres of public land for each establishment, with permission to locate any water privilege not otherwise appropriated. Senator Coie stands godfather to this pre- posterous bill, but we charitably hope b. docs not mean toadvocate it. If he doce, } brother Sevators should see that hie bantling is put out of existence as soon aa decency will permit —— have been grieved nt the st a cousin of the President hed been ed for through the sud contingency 1 the diccharge of Dr. Lawrvran, or Lawrenn—the is variously apelled— from his Chic quence of circumstances not altogetber uncon nected with a five-gallon can which sometimes suntained whiskey, ray rest their soals in peace and be comforted, A place has been found for Those who thought ¢ Jet unprovi which re name rth as a gauge , in vowse- thet impecunious relative of the Administration as Register of Lands in Washington Territory, it is This is right. A mon who does not provide for his own household is worse than aa infidel anaes After all that has been said of the sape rior safety of the English railroads, with their elaborate systems of guards and signals, over those of America, it is somewhat astonishing to meet the statement that during the bast three months more people were killed by rxilroad acci- dents in Great Britain than were killed in the United States by the same canse during the whote of the year 1870, although we bave built in the yeur than Engtand now operates, Hf this is true, one explanation may be that the English railroad operatives rely too much upon the supposed safety of their aystem, and do not keep #o vigilant a watch for causes of accident as the same olass practise here, An- other probabilityis that our locomotive engineers sod other train men, having the apprehension of danger always in their winds, are prepared to act with greater coolness, promptness, and effect upon its oppronch than is usually the case on the other side of the Atlantic, But if we do oot kill s0 many people on our railroads as the English, we kill a great many more than we ought, pote The census returns from Utah show the population of the Territory to be 5,730, Gre Balt Lake county contains 18,387 inhabitants, and Utah county 12,243, Salt Lake City has population of 17,282, of whom 10,214 were born in the United States, and 7,008 in foreign coun- trios; but among the former are included, of course, ® great number of cbitdren born in this country of foreign parents, Piute county is re- turned as having ne population, its inbabitants having been driven out by Indians, . sti atc A fool fishery has been established in Bos ton, but, with the modesty characteristic of that city, only bait for minnows was uscd, A flood of printed circutars informed their recipients that millions of people thoughtlessly expended ton cvnts inthougauds of ways every day, which is n exaggeration ; for there are not one million of people who spend one thousand dimes thought- lessly even every other day, They also stated that one million of ten-cent pieces would make £100,000, which is quite correct, Persous reeeiv- ed to send one ten: more milles of roa ing the clreulars were reque 4 1 bury strect, who proposed to collect $200,000 in this manner, end then give ove half of the amount, " unprejadiced,” to one of the contrib- utors. One of those circulars falling into the hands of a momber of the Mavsachusetts Legisla- eure, who muy possibly have had unpleasant expericnces with some of the more ambitio: pincatorial enterprises of New York, the honor able gentleman denounced Miss Jessmm to the police, who succeeded in finding only a large box in which the postman had been accustomed to arop the answers to the circulars, As strange as it may appear, these responses came in large nowbers from all parts of the country, showing that the ocean of Life is still swarming with fools, ond f but some gudg- con will be found to give it a nibble, cemieneeeeranee Dr. Naruan R. Seirus, of Baltimore, says that be has in the course of Ofty years’ prectice treated many cases of bites by rabid doge, and always with success if culled upon within three days attor tho bile, Lis method of traatnent is to instantly wash the wound again and again with soap aud water, aud then apply to it a cylin. Arica! pivce of emustic potash cut in the shape of poneil point, This should be held in the wound firmly Gor fiftcen minutos, After the application of the euustio the wound should be poultlocd with hood pid mille fo favo days, and the it no bait can be go clums, THE SUN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1871 Uiressed with «simple salve, A mere scratch is more dangerous than a deep wound, as in the Intter ense the flow of blood is apt to carry ont the poison with it. Dr, Sarr thinks the poison exists in the seliva of the rabid animal, and, like the virus of the smallpox, has a certain period of incubstion before the system becomes affected “The probability of a wholesome reform in of Indiana is encouraging. It is proposed to amend them so that no divoree shall be granted for enuses originating out of the uulese the same causes would have en titled the parties to divorce under the laws of the Suite where they originated, Five years’ resi- denee is also to be required, inatead of one as now; and the party must be o resident at the time of the trial, It is also to be made necessary that the defoudant, when a resident of the State, shall be sued in the county where he reside: With these changes, Indiana will eseape tho di since rhe now suffers of being a eonvenience for those who wish to obtain fraudulent and unjust fhable divorces. ee the divoree ta w tute. Perhaps the existence of the Ka-Klux in Keatucky will now be adinitted, as they have one 16 Seott county with a ballet hole in him, put there by a negro whom he bad endeavored! to drive away from the home te better had bought and pai for. A gang of these feHows from Henry county were on the 11th inst, riding through the country, their faces blackened and also wearing mask: frightening and maltroating negrocs wherever they found them. An old gegro shoemaker, sit- ting quietly at his work in his cabin, was shot dead without the slightest provocation. Near Stamping Ground three or four negro families were setued upoo farms which they had bought of awhite man, ‘That the darkies should presume to own farms was altogether too much for the Ken tecky Ku-Kinx to tolerate. So they made a raid upon those unoffending people to drive them off their property, and were rery eoonliguominiously whipped by the despised negroes and forced to retreat, leaving one ef their band dead ov the ground. But the megroos had to leave their homes all the same, for there was no safety for them after having killed ose of the Ko-Klux Kian. About ton miles from Freakfort, on the Tih inst., @ poor megro family who had been threatened with death bed gethered ail their Hite property, amounting to some five hundred dol- lors’ worth, amd put it io their cabin, intending to move to a sefer place the next day. Thet night they were afraid to stay at home and camped in the woods: before morning the Ku- Klux hed burned their cabin and all it contained. The wsual mode of Ku-Kiux operations is to whip ome black unmereifully sud then scud word to othors to leave the country. But they vary this method by hanging or shooting when they decom it bettor, and freqaeut cases have occurred where they have rebbed their victims of money, The cages detailed above occarred almost within right of Frankfort, the capital of the Stato, and are describod at length in Kentucky papers, Tho government of that State is now in the hands of the Democrats; and so long as these outrages arc permitted to continue, ao long may the Demo- cratic party eolleetively expect to suiler the op. probriam consequent apon them. ee : Henny Sara is the chief Kiewtenant of the Republican anti-Grayt army of which the Hoa, Horace Queruey is captain, He received a grand testimonial of silver plate ata gorgeous banquet oo Monday evening last, and among the ugreewble features of the ovcasion was the following letter ; hone J. OWeer. Me Daan Sam; Herewith enclosed please find my cheek for fifty dollars, which Permission to contribute award the tertlubuisl to the Hon. Ii ny Surmt. who bas been for wany years iny personal fricud; and Whatever differences of oyinivn as to party poliey may have existed, or do now exist bo- (wees as, Iwhadl net fill to romember the services fhas readered to the porty, mer the kindness he has mown to me, I rogrot. that absence from the city will prevemt me froin paricipasing tu the pre som tation caremontes on Monday evrnin Reapeettatiy yonrs, WILLLAM ORTON Wasruey Uxiox Tarronarn Co, New Your, Sag. M4, te It Is pleasing to see a leading @aaxr man Mr. Onrow paying such a handsome tribute to the worth of an opponent, Dut @ shart time since be was doing his best to overthrow Mr. Saira’s Republican General Committes, and to prevent Mr, Garerer from taking the pleco he now eccu- pies st its bead; ond yet, motwithstanting this potttieat antegonism, ho comes forward in this bberwl spirit to coutwibete toward Mr. Surtu's service of plate an@- banquet, This is right, Let us fight owt our battles In the political arena, and st be brothers and friends omfestive occasions aml! around the convivial board. > ‘There is so little enterprise ta Canada that a wedding came near being prevented there tho other day throagh thedifticutty of finding » mar- ringe ticonee, A resident of Windsor was to bo morvied, avd on tho morning of the appointed duy he applied for the necessary document, but there was not ono of the parchments to be hed ia the village, A telegraphic message to Chatham revested « similar scarcity In that place, At last twas foumd that there was jast one to be had at Amborstburg; aml by sending messengers from both Wmdsor end Amherstburg, so as to meet half way, the indispensable instrument was pro- cored some six hours after the time set for the coremony, The young folks of Canada have sequired such a habit of emigrating to the United States, that the proper authorities bardly deem it worth their while to keep a supply of marriage licenses on bend. like ee The Worth German Correspondent coutra- dicts offieiatty the report that by the advico of Prussin Prince Cuamms of Ronmania has ro- nounced the allegiance of his principality to the Porto, It says that Prussia has not given tho Prinee the absurd advice with whieh she is crodit. ed; and that the Prince has not taken the step in qnestion, aud doos not intend to do so, The whole sory is declared to be a pure fabrication, peels Wo owe an apology to Gon. Gran, Wo wero lately led to state that in refusing to con- solidate the various internal revenue districts of this eity'into ene, be had boon actuated not by re- gard for the public interest, but by « desire to dud places for relations, favorites, and politicians, Yu this we did him wrong. He took no thought about poli His mind was concentrated upon favorites and relations alone, This is proved by the names of the men selected to hold oflice in the new districts, There is not s politician among them. Every man of any political influ- ence ia lef out in the cold, Only relations and the favorites of the Military Ring have been con- sidered worth attending to, We apologize ac- cordingly, At the same timo we advise our Repnblican friewds not to be divcouraged, It in a hard time for them, but they can live through it; sad two years homes they can elect a Pre who will not be destitute of political sun will not be ran by @ Military Ring e snc A In one of the oflidavits in yesterday murn- ing’s Sca, exposing the Aulw-Raporting Tri- bunds unneeoswary amd outrageous falschoods, Mr. MR. Samows is crromecusiy made to soy that “James Fiex, Je., wae mover conaceted with the Rarragaasott Steamship Cermpeny from ils in- fancy.” Phe text of Mr, Bawon’s affidavit read “Janae Fink, Jey wes connected with the Cox Pany trou itsdnfeney. a Vice-Admiral Rowan Golng to Europe. Th is rumored in naval circles that Vice-Admirul Stophen ©. Rowan isto do sent out to Europe eurly tm tho epring to teka epmmand of she Buropoan squadron, which w te be largely augmented in o month or two. lent » ond THE PANOCHE GRANDE PATENT, -—.— n O14 Poblic Functionary.in m Tight Pince =Comminsioner Wi inet Wire Keeps the Records of the Land Office t Correspondence of Lhe San. Waemmeatoy, D. C., Jan, 16, 1871,—A melan- choly epectacie was presented in the dudieiary Com mittee of the House this morning. ‘The “old public Joseph 8, Wilson, was there, He ap Ped before the Committee to tell how he came to mutilate the r sof his oMlce, and to commit Aspoliation by expan the venerated name of Abraham Lircoln from the patent to the Panoche Grande Rone! O11 Joe, the old" Tite Barnacle,” looked 98 If he bail been carried off and drugged by his tribe He took occasion to state to the Committee thet, man and boy, or boy and man, he had been in the Land Oftice ever since the days of President Adams ; but twat he expected tho Senate would relieve him by confirming Gen, Drammond to-day, He looked ncholy nvon making this statement, and he s@emed to (cel keenly the fact that his offteint Hife was Voing terminated because of a quarrel over a quick sliver mine, Indeed, the old pnb. fane. seemed to be dying precisely as died old Major Boges down i Tennessee, who had been butted in the stomach by bbs own male mottbn “Ldon't mind dying, #0 much, Bot to think that 1, who swam the river and led the charge at Horse. shoe, und who was m the front at the battle of New Urieans, should come to this—to be kitted by a ram.” Old Joe's countenance seemed to say: * Under the great men, Adams, Jackson, Van Baren, Har. ricon, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Bachasan, Lin- coin, and Andrew Johnson, I have always eo trim- mod my sall# as to be politically tovel and morally Hight; Ihave helped to make and to keep moro records than any man now living; 1 have figured in the newspapers more than all the Napoleons; bat now here J am being batted to death, not by a ram, but by ad—d Irishman! And for what? Only for trying to destroy @ single record of a patent lo a quickstiver mine!” But the bear the by Old Joe prod always w ong, and have to nad to hate Seeretary, ‘and he swore that tho record with th ei Hines, not like Benton's around the resolution, bit the record of the patent, wae brought to With the writen order ot Seeretary Cox, and that nuder that order ne, Joo, #aned the cancella tion ; that he never counselled oF advised it, but ouly obeyed orders, Wm. H. Lowry, an ex-clerk of the Land Office, was bold enougli to wwear that he gave the reourd the first hick, He said that ho wrote the words “Not signed "\ against the sicnatures, but just whem ho wrote them ho could not tell.’ Mr. Bingham called the attenttom of this witness to certain rec: ‘ords in the General Land Office, from whieh it ap- peared that he (Lowry) bed signed himeet( as ~ Attorney of the New Ldrin Company,”’ wrereupon Lowry said he had to confess that (or some thane that hud boon bis “small game.” And when he was shown the word ' Ex'd'" in the record book In red luk, Lowry had to confers that ordinarty this moast that the record book had oven compared with the Qocament recorded, and that (he Origvaal aad tho record ygreed. | This’ rule of com- won sense was sustaimed by ail the witnesses, On witness. however, did state that thore custom in the Land OMee to record the tires, ang souls befero these things were attache! 10 ¢ originals, But the very rocord bowk showed at no BuON dangerous custom ever existed. No other testence could be fonnd where » patent had beon recorded ws dated, sealed, ana signed when Ureso things wore wanting. Nor was there any case where the Word “Examined” bad been wet ten agstnst an oufiniahea record, Therevore tue record Look sustained the theory of Mr. Btoddard, seeretary to en lund patents; viz.: That ou the 1th day of Mareu, 1963, ne sigued naine of Abravain Liucolu to’ tio patent for We Fauoehe Grande Kancao, ‘The spectacle uf trying to prove by is makers and Keepers, seven yeurs after It was made, a solomnn record of the Government to be Lulse, Wes & melan. choly one tod charity the workd will believe tin obabitity that the record fuse, Ba coald be be fuch an Aiteration of a public ree cally suggostive, And if tuere Were no obser reason for doing #0, the Presidout bos acted wisely in removing tose who Wore (us recklews of eriminal law, om. TAYLOR'S CONTESTED WILL, Resting the Cnse for Kate Mowtaud, the Contentant—Ofering the Inventory ot Mr. Taylor's Miects in Kvidence—Witherell the Witne In the Taylor will case yesterday Mr, Clinton commenced the proceedings with an offer to put in evidence the inventory of Mr. Taylor's effets fonnd and accouated far since his death, Mr, Anton, counsel for George H. Duryea, objected to the in troduction of the inventory as irrelevant. Mr. Clinton argued that it certainly was material to know the amoant of Mr. Taylor's property wheo the amonnt (£5,000 » year) bequeathed by him tothe tants wes taken into cousideration, It lad also been shown by the testimony of one witness that ehortly previous to pis death, Mr. Teytor bad been possessed ot four New York city bonds, while the inventory showed that only one of these had beou found after bis death. Mr. George Duryea bad been in eburge of Mr, Paytor's office during the Aitter’s illness, and naturatly under the ereumstan cox Nis counsel Would not find the introdacuon of the inventory in evidence azroeable, Mr, Siqnghwo, in roply, seid sueh an tnsinnati agsinet George ' Duryea ‘wa ince. the bonds wore not payable to bearer ; avit Mr, Anihon showed that the witness who testified concerning the bonds ld, on cross-examination, admitted that he had seen the face of ouly one, aud comvequentiy could be postive concerning only. one. MF. Anthon, moreover, olyected strongly to incumber: img the’ record with the invoutory, sayimg Wual (he City Directory might ws well be offered i evidence, The Surrogate sustained the objection. Mr, Clinton theu called Mrs. Kate Howland, the contestaus, to the wituess stand, aud asked her one question, fo winch the reviy ‘was that Adeline Western, whose namo appears a8 a legutce in the contested will, was no relation of the Taylor fam. iy, and that She ((he Witness) had nover ueard of name before her graudfatuer’s death. Witherell, one of the witnesses to the contested Will, Was Text called to the stand, Mr. Clinton Wished to ask bit 8 rather iinportant question, but since he was anwillin call him as bis Own Wit- ness, the Surrogate refused him the permission, On Witheretl’s withdrawal, Mr. Clinton ealled for Dr, Barker, and, not fuding bit present, was com polled to Fest his ease, according to ‘the stipu- ation previously made by bim, Me said however, that ho reserved the right to oftur in evidence horeafter certain letters written by Kate Howland and Mrs, ‘Taylor to Mr. Taylor uring the travels of the former in Europe, & number of witnesses, too, who live out of the city, had not made their appearance in time; their. int troduction hereafter, said Mr, Clintion, would de pend’entirely upon the discretion of the Court, Ad- journment was then made to next Weduesday morn: ing at 11 o'elock, The close of the ease for the contest: markod by a cousiant exet tween Mr, Stonghton and Clinton Wonderful how well these lawyers agree, SUILIS'S ASTONISUMENT, . ey Search for an Absconding Emplayer-How Mr. Leonard Got $150, and How His Jerk did not Get bis Salary, Tho subjoined history i» taken from the loral documents in the possession of Mesan, Merchant & ELiott, lawyers, Warren street: In December, 1969, one Petor J, Shirts was in want of @ eltuation, and reading an advertisement clork he applied to the advertiser, William E, Le ard, by whom ho was informed that his duties would bo responsible, and that he could havo the eltuation {fhe would doposit with him €150 as security for his honesty, &c., pay to be $12.8 week Mr, Shirts deposited the $150 and received from Leonard a re JAS. B. conte ceipt and an agreement, Wen his pay became duo it was not forthcoming, and Shirts importunt Leonard at the end of the second ik for it, ¥ sont to the back port of Wiillamsburgh to collect a bil which Leonard proterdod was due to hin, and informed thaf on his return he would him, Sidrte was nnable to Gud the person called for in the bill, being informed there wus had been any such person there. nod 40 New York to flad that Leonard bed departed, and left word if he (Suiris) made inquiry for ulm, to that he bad taken the train out of towa ata And that ho (ouiris) might got b——. Leonard's ofice furniture Was ou a truck and being taken away, An order of arrest tn the Sopremo Court w January, 1870, obtained, but for a long time was unable to fud Leonard, November | Arrasted, an nied that he settio Wi re rus and tt Was not un rested. When fires od with Shirts, he de suid Leonard was out of town, aud lad gone West,’ Ho induced the De, uty to devoie the day to going around the city te ob. {ain the money to settie with,and not being suc covsiul, and having a dresd of Ludiow stret, be managed Lo get away from the Dopaty about everitng by a dodge, Ho took t.8 Deputy Wo & atablo, sai the bore and Wagon in it were bie, wud Wid the Deputy to remain there afew minut be wonld be boek with the wouey, Mr. Deputy dit remain tndil ao Was thed, and sir, Leonard Hot putting in an appearance. be harnessed the Lurse the warua and drove ii off, ‘Tie nextday Leonard gave ball, aud afterward ying each ahd every aliegs: 11's complaimt, ‘This answor was of Merchant Killott, Attornoys for icken out by order of Judge Sutherland oud JUdgwMeUt Was entered on the L1Uh inet, io favor of shirts for the amount of his cluiu and conta, Leonnrd, at the time of his arrest, was engaged the real esinto business at No, 60. Woe Thirty tire streot,and Mr, Shirte alleges makes nie fiving by euch operstionsas the feregoing, DD Ul ae [10 De scou M Shirts eal gee hin money backs Shirts, et THe DEATH OF G, W. —+ Specutates, Loses, and froma Steam Cara Reason Kestored—A Additional facts have come to light the mysterious death, near Savannal, of George W. Bartlett, of the house of Breitiaupt & Wilsow of this city. A Sun reporter lias learned the early history of Mr. Bartlett, and the tacts gathered only go to prove the correctness of the opinion of the firm in whore employ he was, that Mr, Bartlett was not the victim of fou! play. Fight years agot Mr, Bartlett was a prosperous young morehant in Chicago, and was estimated to ‘be worth $150,000, He was then married, and living happily with bis family in that city, Faneying, how- ever, that che was not growing rich reply enough, he embarked in certain BARTLETT. in Crazed—Leap WALL STRHET SPECULATIONS. Fortune favored btm at first, but Mnatty the inev- itable end came, and one morning afer one of old Daniel Drew's fanous corners he awoke to reads telogram eoushed in the lear cold” sang of the ftreot : More margin, or we'll throw you over!" ‘Phere was no more margin; he was a begeur. Ktripped of everything, he lost his mental poise, For more thaw a year he sat in lis clisir, grving tana- winary orders for the parohase ana sale of Erie, old Southern, and Pacific Mail, and during that time hie mind never wandered fram the street. “A bandred Hrie at a hall, buyer 10," he weed to exclaim, whem- ever a stranger entered his house, and a THE POOR MAN'S HODRY was goneratly known, his stocks were usnalty bought up at his own price. His wife used to say that she thought e wust have rehased from “poor Veorge " more thai millions worth of stocks, every transaction in which he ‘entered in his note ook. At Inst hia condition was deomed hopeless, and his (rienda prepared to sed iim to an im. While on the ears for Spriogield, Iil., and vhis attendant, anticipating no diticulty, nad ceased to watch him closely, he suddenly sprang from his eeat, made a rash for the door, and leaped from the platform, with the THAIN RUNNING AT FULL €PreD. Of course the train was stopped, backed down, and the body of poor Barulett was picked up for dead But life was not extinct, ‘Two fearful gashex on ¢ head, however, told with what terrific force he had struck tue earth, He was taken buek to Chieaco, and for weeks and weeks hung between life and death ; bat geadaally he improved, nnd a momtal im: Provuinent kept pace with bis pky'sical recovery, His (riends hailed wita joy the rst signs of re turning reason, and, as hit. miad grew stronger, they did eversthing Iu their power to hasten the good work, ‘Ther efforta wore successful, for When be arose from his bed his mind was believed to be ms clear as over it was, Brom that tae for- ward he coneod to brood ever bis misfortunes, but WENT MANPULLY TO WORK. He % once came to New York, and outered into sivens with a mereantilo house on Broadway, Pith that Louse be remained several years, when finally he bocame subject to epiteptic Ms, whieh for atime Ureatened to impair bis reason again, and he }eR the Grm's cimoloy. Boon afer that wo en fored the bovee of Bretthanpe & Wilson, He did his work well, was quick, Intoilicomt, and. a8 bust- nom men say, Samart.” “True, he acted kingalarly + a6 times, bat the firm never dreamed of thinking it more than the natural Habit of the man, © Bartlett was eccentric at ail times," gaid one of the firm: “but we uevor dreamed ‘of his bang Hight-headed." The firm Shink that he had one of THESE FITS OF PPILEPSY just before he Jef their store to Ro, as he said, to Waterbury, and witdo sti!l under the influence of It Wancered off South without purpose of aim, without money and without friends. Having reacted 8) Vannah, be may have had another atiack and wan. dered Of to the ontekirts, und in bis frenzy have either commitid suicide or diet inafit. From the faet Uist the body bore evidences of strangulation, the latter would sooin the most plaasible theory, : —————— ‘The Derby Collection, In this carefully selected gallery of paintings We have an opportunity, not often attonlod the een eral pablic, of judging at one glance of the prosent state of art in Franee and Boiginm, The sehools, as well a8 the tondencies represented, are various, though there ts naturally © marked preponderance im the direction ef iandseape and genre, In all howeve caredit training, the indnite and wn wearying pationce, the delteate taste, and, with fow exceptions, the healthy simplelty of the best Euro- poan mastersare finely Musbrated, It would be aiff caltto find im any gallery, except that tempie of moderu art, the Luxembourg, apiece more direct yet imaginative én tendency aud touchtug tn feeling than Merlo's **Iinliaa Girl; and Breton’s group of * Peasant Women,” with its vigorous drawing nad tweatment, and exquisite tenderness of light, te a ole poem in fteelf, the very consecration of labor. Jacquer and Verbockhoven give us bite of striking roaiism in Ue paiuting of sheep and cattle; Plasean, Cravet, Fichel, and others of the Meissonier schol ure nonly represented in the microscopie delicacy of their pretty cabinet gems; and Oswald Achenbach Us the opportunity of comparing rman fchools of kindseane, We Fronch and ( The collection is now on view at Leavitt & Strebeiwh's auction rooms, in Clinton Hall, und will be offered at auction e-Mih anit Wot iuet, Onr pietare fanciers will not fail to profle by de Gnuenel opportauity to euriee welr already eboice coheotions. i $e A Water Famine in Boston. Frou the Bosion Heratd. The Cochituate Water Board having mined to cut off the water supply from variow tablishinonts, 1 at once becomes a matter Of int eat to katow bo wh rietion will apply. We are informed that tu the eity about two handred snd Ofty manufretories of difle: nds Witeb use water in lavage quantities and have the seme cauged by moter. These, we learn, will be the first to suffer deprivation, If, after these, it be comes necessary still (weiter to restrict the tke of water, lar buildings not used for domestic pur- Poses, «uch ae thowe containing numerous affices, ter choses, pudhe bath hoates, steam enziner, steamboats, rattroads, buildings m' procoss of ere tion where mortar is made on he prunivoa, &e., wil have to saffer, The water now on laud will ast, at the resent rate of consnmotion, abomt « fortnight, every one Will exerelse economy in ftw ase, 1 may be meade to last double that length of Vime, aud perhaps rain will come wean tnoe, $< ‘The Presidential Fight in Mexico, City ov Maxioa, Jan. 11.—The election feuds ter- are becoming intensified. A large majority of the Journals and namerous political clubs favor te re. election of Juarez. It is expgotod that the adbe- rents of Pordrio Diag will fuse wita Juarez's part sane. Provident Jaares is denounced by some of iruals. It is alleged that he holds Maxteo American influence, and the roopening of | in- arse with European mations is urged {p order to counteract this Yankee influence, aia HOURS OF LEISURE, eee Tne Jerome Club dance in Germania Assembly Roouis, Monday evening, Jan, Thowns #. Daly's Coterie have their aunual ball tu Irving Hail on the 27th of January, Tho Calico Club of Morrisanta have engaged the Seventh Kegiment Band for their Dal on the 2th inst Monitor Social Club give a surprive party to Com: pany ALy-Hourth Kegiment, on the 3 of Jauwary Judged, W. Kune, of Tenneson, will lecture be- fore cue Fifte 8 Jordan shter of Gen, Jordun of Cutan celebrity, recotved ler trignda at Abd Week Forty-second nod Very yengorable bal maequé took plica at tho pouse of JohnJ. Burchell, ia Kaot Fuitysiach street, ‘on Tucaday evoulig, A complimentary ball ts to be given by the at- tachés of the Arovklyn Dutly Bugis iu te Acadeiny of Music, Hrovkiyn,on dna, a The fonrteenth anuval bail of the Ro in Catholic Ocphau Acyium takes [lace iM the Ac of Music Orns fh ey be Academy of Mu LASHION NOTES, chai Tad 1 boas of ian eablo are the mous Tho jong opera chain, with lasselled poudant, to je to be worn at night’®: hould alway was light, be selected Tho ball season is at tts height, Lent 'tis fastionabie Swiss over dresses, with t ders. From now til etelles over the shout Fe still Worn OVOF black aud colured bike for i 8, Vuded aud rufled tartatan dresses ry s of color aro worn, but W servedly popular, The removable or Beagon for cerenor toll Hackes 1 jengsh in bhe wack. urt trutn te the foatare of thie i fom Ww oe ‘The latest style of neckiace is two inches broad. gotipuded of gold nk, united bo farm w gompac band rounded To M4 the truat, A Louis XUL vest and jacket of black of colored volvet, trlintied wild greve, ie Ue Balsa of divesy wollwis tor young mare ta los Cheap and pretty evouing droawes are, rore-colored, blue, pearlcolure), and Witte triniuaed wich eitudr White or Diack Ihew, OF bath Ganthor & Sons bave inwodueed —real-skin Buc Bes Of @ LeRUEiLaL Fw BEOWwN ILD ue Atmerloaa od by Bugle dyvrs, who rs drow! worn at the tte Charity Ball wae mato 06 @ Ou. for Mr Burrogate Huwhings. Ve was c ed of white wu Fore 1 anit, Pint Lace aud wuetow, and looped 10s aiid ruses. ta of The handsomens ball k and sattn, tamie and under ting colors, wro th vogue. Mra. Wi PR a eA ell, ry Dutt ane trluiined' with Duchesse ince,” MA Madame Demorest's handsomost evening tollets Sais season ts Of rore-colored poult de wie, proiti Fpendicular” pur of rose-e. loved ), COVErtD| 1 ent! kit, Bach pull ie berdcred Tianrow bisak'and whiae ieoe. th Waid W, ad, Tweed Association to SUNBEAMS. —Pittsburgh at night reminds a stranger @ * hell with the lid off." ers will visit the United Sta has not been home for thirty-thrag this summer, I years —The first daily newspaper printed in Virgin, Was printed in 17%, amd ihe subscription price was Any dollars per annum =A New Hampshire paper, announcing death of aman, seys he “leaves a wife aud child by former husband." i Sixty-six per cent, of the population of Cty cago have no religious belief, necording to ® religto paper published there —Bishop Coxe, of Weetern New York, bow, Joined pon the clergy of his diocese the anc of; Own Mevond of the sarpiiee when preaching. —In Napoloon, Ark., & man who had guitty of not less than nine homteides wae fr clooted constabieby an overwhelming majortes, —A very particular swain in an Eastern fent his marriage to the paper with the atdition, “ Bo cardamoms.” He faid he despised abbreviation —A carriage was upsot in Auburn, N. ¥., the by an infuriated animal that was atterwasd referred to by @ modest isdy as "e —At Ypsitunti, Mich, there is a sottier wlte tind hie rite arm shot off at the battle of Gold Harbom, ‘This winter he Wns Deen mt work cutting cord woo? with hie tert hand, —Mr. G. F. Train is nid to be indifferent as to who leaves the halt while he is epeokimy. Like Penge son's " Brook,” mem may come and men may Ko, bat te foes on forever. -In @ recent divorce snit in Chicago, the plaintif, who was the wife, laid special stress on te fact that during seven years of married life her husoamd had not once kissed her. —'Tis sweet to court; But, oh! how bier To court a gal nd then wot git her. —A Chicago reporter excuses himself for nob menuoning the names of sundry Poles engaged ty laweuit there, beca names defied orthourephgy * were without a vowel, and were nive-folated.”” —The ice crop is splendid throughout the Forth and Wert, The Erte tee Company of Bafta © siready packed ted thousand tons, from mise inches to foot Im thickness, of crystal elearnoes, —An English weekly mentions among the prominem literary men whe are of have been Apirttea® ins, Dickens, Thackeray, Browning, Disracil, Caciyiey Malthew Arnold, ands soote of the best kuowu vamer fu Grose Brita, —Miss Belle Smitn of Indiana has jost com pleted for the Washington Common Commet) lifn-aimm, fullteagih porceass of Becretacy Btanton, chat is pro nounced by may Wp be tho bos lkencas of the gremt War Minisver yet painted. —An accommodating conductor on the Mik Waukee and St, Paul Ratlroad backed his train a thing of amile to piek up @ purse, which «fond mother bag confided to her imnocent pabe for # playthiug, an@ which the latter threw out of the window. lone one speaking probably by authority {the women ta Detroit have fect Mke raisin boxes, aud are ashamed to buy shoes at home, order> ing thom wsun/ly from the prairiosof the West, where leather is cheap aud whore thore 1h pleaty of room wo auanofaeture them, —It was a voty bard-shell Baptiat of Tennessee who sugeested, when he heard of tue reformation of am Ungodly neigubor, that Ro Ordinary Daptiam would do for that can—the omty eure way would be to tic ® GTindstoue to bis fect, and “ auchor hin over uight ta the midale of tho river." —A Judge of the Indiana Supreme Court was accosted by the hotel boowlack the otuer day with demand for a quarter, sir.” He turned upon te sablehned Amorican, aud Mwitgaautly asked hime * What oo you take me for, sie?” “Oh, I khow yor you're one ot them Cau-Cam tellers,” potating (o the Vastety Theatre, —There is a little railroad at Bayon Sura, La., thatrans 10 Woodville on a very uacertat A ftranger came in the otber day and inquires iow often that sieam car made Grips to the country, Trt weekly," Was the reply, © What do you micas by trie weekly?" “It goes up one Week nnd tries (0 come down the next —Thore was «large amount of valuable prac- teal pirlosopay in tie remark of 1 called his companions’ attention hand, whenever they full to discussing what might e beow if ceriain e#rds had bora Vidoreutly wme@, with tie remark, " Look here, ceu"iemen, ter aloe me ase a-playin’ poet mortem hands.” Scene at a meeting in Preston, Euytand: Take thy bes Off," saki one fellow in the crowd te apotuer ia troat ot btm. What for? ¥ cannot seu." Wall," replied the other, if Iny nat off thow' be worse off than ever (hatr) Uurtecn laches Jong an’ Ht eons straight ope L've put my hat on itco keep tt down.” —An Enghsh writer who advocates the drops ping Of the Weiter w from the termination omr, os 19 the unIVersAl practice iu the United States, says that the heediess reteution of thts fecter tm & single copy of the London Times cots £0, and shat in Engiis books wad periodicsls sloue K tucresses the cost of pavlication fully £10,000 year, without yielding any practieal kod. —They complain in Cincinnati of the chureb expenses at fasiionable weddings, The newest and wost beautifal chaven in the cliy makes ous He BUR says U veduie, ambler who re the ere uy. Dy bare Chua: Lieto Oest, the gas bi; Item second, the mtn ter, organist, sexton, and usher foes ; Hom third, cover fog Carpete; item fourth, warming charoh; tota!, $308, Aswell bridegroom ta New York would be glad to compromise (or douple that awonat of chureh (eos. —A correspondent of the London Tin from Versallics, says that a Gertuan Privce, geaueman, tho alministeator of w great etuy's army Who WiKht be Iu bis hospitals, petuiantly Be quite trouble enough ws 1 in L wie tncy wore MP dead 1" Political offices in Delaware have been largely n ized by certain leading families. Here aro some of ber former United States Senators: George Road and Gvorge Read Riddlo; Richard M1, Bayard, James A, Bayard, Sr. Jaweo A. Bayard, 1 Thomas Francis Bayard, tne preseut Senator; Cursar A, Rodney and Daniel Kodneyy Josue Clayton, Ahowe. Claytom, and Jon M, Clay tou; and now, Willard Sauisbary and Ei Sau.svary, who has just been elected to tue Senate. —A young gentleman of thirteen, the son of @ Well:known citizen of Louiexille, was caugis on Thart day Jast by hie storn Ipareut just as he bad mule the purchase of {railroad tleket to New York, whica he bad shrewdly Dargained for at balf price, as he wae Under fourteen Years Of age. An elopement was spoilo® by ths parental interference, for the youth had made arrapgements to be accompanied by # young lady o@ his contemplated excursion, The precocity of the gutirely admirapia self and Mr, Chocney rogariiug the use of the ( Pheacre hearsal, ta wt Wake part,1O gracefully a6 bas een represent . the contrary, i Was mos Bt the latervoutieu of we poilce was Ghreatened that Mr, Fechier gays way rar Mr, Wallney was to This wea on Batarday, aud as the pert a ight Were to be for Mr. . odie repeat his threat of wot ZAC Uy Feohter ba #19,000 by tae ta het uy to this p ¥ , The Two He th Wy of ’ Mt hie representations of two of t « thom Ethiopian, and the other ancient ‘ pile, Wave Deen recesved in that emty, ‘ AtgUes Ghat iho Mexican wal wie A ‘ a er povwied by tw and ¢ ho Two Raputicn 9 yous tab the Egyptian Tae theory w (pw ‘ ar J the ear or Gull const, w “ originally eontined to the wert; er Wore overwielined py the tribes , whieh pr 1 the tmperial and civiliz bos hat race ta tte ualy * from the w ‘ parted that thoeo ie ¢ athe & pled two oF three « 8 im tack mice . ward boiore reach! pes 1 axEW yuppie At" Tknew by the ae grief iy cones! B eney a r And I sal 4 pidieed Phe sad ait Wy eve. OL Het ents w ' oor ! arace w an Oru vi ‘ aga dyOuued dad tovavcd gua eet And thts, Loxolatmedt, te ths tand an the me Wile Ladhoe ate banding ws (ull Liberty Ob U8 HOOF 4 by salod as KOOL Me Lag plo O.my country! ts That onee of thy Ir geront beliny tho old oourteey tend ns Wat the wlory aud pride? ore vir has ed t a ee ee