The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 30, 1871, Page 2

PES. peg EE SEES ca ; ’ i 1 MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1871. Amuncments To-day. Theutre Michele 2 Oper Lotro Ob and 10h am ony et Fitth Avenwe Thentre “ Grand Wouse--La Perichole Lina Rawin’s Theatre—llovtet Downs The Black Crook e140 et, opp, Academy of Mtley @lymple Thentre- Wer W ile Winkie, Btudt Theatre—Jow of fan Francisco Minatrels a 58) Mroadtvay, oe Star © ybination. Tunnel—Opee to Yvon eum. Met Hoole, Matinee. ‘The Sun. wa dinylay | " ioe Wok Abvunneesvers i Wave y, bee o°, fT ap The Surrender of Parts. The city of Paris has at Inst capitulated to the Germans, the whole army withio the walls becoming prisoners of war. This Jong-expreted event was brought about by famine. Aa long as they had food, the Parisians held out bravely; but when pro Visions Lecame scarce and poor, they yielded, Their heroism has been considerable ; but other cities besieged and starved have shown more of it. ‘They give in withont having felt the extremest pangs of hunger, and above all, without any great fighting. The bombariment which the Germans had been earrying on for the last three weeks has contrivuted nothing toward bringing about the surrender. This remarkable siege has lasted more then four months. Other places have held out longer, but there is ne other instance in history of so large a town invested for such a length of timo. Nor ie there any caso on record in which 80 pow: erful an army as that which has now laid down its arms hag been surrounded and forced to capitulate. The surrender of Metz with a force of ene hundred thousand men was regarded throughout the world as an evidence of trea fon on the part of Bazaint, No one will now accuse THocIU and his colleagues of having failed to do everything iu their power since the Germans drew their Lines of investment around Paris; but they have been brought to the same catastrophe as was the man whom they accused. not clear BAzANe from the suspicion of sacr. ficing hie country to her enemy; but in the magnitude of their failure that of Ba ZAINK ia at Jeast palliated It is now that TRocnv committed uAroel ur rand, 1 1 tee tat he had there an excellent school in which to discipline and or army; but hie experiment was at the outect exposed to the fate which hae now overtaken it. It 1 only be made snecessful b; of other armies in the field whose Birength was not yet developed when th siege began. If, instead of collecting half o million of fighting men within the walls Trocuv had limited his force to what was absolutely necessary to hold the defences of Paris, and Lad sent the rest out to strengthen the troops operating in the field, the condi tion of France would not today be as des perate as itis. This conclusion settles the rank of ‘Thocitu as a military man, He may be a good artillery officer, and possibly be might be useful as the chief of staff ina Jarge army ; but he is an inferior goueral— as all the Freich gencrals have so far proved themselves to be. But this could not well be otherwise. For twenty years the only standard of mezit in the French army hos been personal devotion tothe unequalled frand at the head of the Government. Military talent, uprightness of character, scientific learning, patriotism, have been pushed aside, and devied all re cognition, to make room for the raseally and the incepavie who were roady to bow down before VenuvrL-NavoLEon and connive in the degradation and the robbery of France. The fruit of all thie is the total defeat of the Beton, the capture of its armies, and now at last ths capitulation of its capital, ‘The most melancholy fact of this tragive] history is, that iu th and of preparation which the siege of Paris has secured for the rest of Their capitulation may plain are an 20 AL e the success French use four mouths of respite Frauce, nothing Leen accomphished— nota tingle man of genius and power lies risen up to suye his country. ‘The old dem critic loaders of 1848, proved incapable then, took of the g tember, because t effectnal hing anywhere PORHOSH nment in § re Was no one else to take it; but they have only demonstrated that in these twenty years they had learned nothing The only new man who has appeared is Gasmer7a, # young lawyer of Marseilles, of considerable talking faculty, but of very Umited practical resource, He has rushed about the country making speeches and fuse protestations, but it al amounts to nothing He has summoned armios together, but has not known how to find commanders who could lead them to victory, While Paris was negotiating with BisManck, one of tho generals whom he had foolishly put at the head of en army, BOURBAKI, a noted Arunkard and an inpocria!ist to boot, was trying to kill bin na fi liriam tremons, So it has ben ¢ In stead of culling out the living tor e nation and giving them free 1 has bh lay, Gamburra » weak enongh to keep in office the pretecta, mayors, and magistrates ap pointed by the Imperial Government. Thus tho patriotism of the people has everywhere been smothered, and their efforts for the pab. Ne defouce interfered with and checked. With any other race than the Fr would be neh it that the war is sow virtually over, and that peace will be ac tepted with all the humiliations it acknowl edges avd confirms, But there fe a wonder ful vitality in that people, and it may even yet break forth in some unoxpeeted way to Astonish and confound the world, Tt is possi ble thut the war may still be eontinued by rate tow the mass of the French with the eame tenacity and bitterness as the Vendeans die played in fighting against the Convention eighty years ago, But thisis not to be count- ed on with any great confidence. It is rather more probable that the whole nation will imitate the example of Paria, and make peace on such terms as the conquerors may ex- act, But if Franee now succumbs alto. getner, and settles down submissively into her present place as a broken power, it will be only another proof of the utter exhaustion and debility into which she hes been sunk by the rule of the bastard adventurer who governed her from the beginning of 1819 until the surrender of Sedan. cocseamncetiillaipitacintic An Important College Retorm—Har vard Takes the Le In the annua report of the President af Harvard College, just published, we fiad the following statement : “ After commencement, 1978, the University will give no ordivuy degree, whether in arts, kaw, divinity, medicine, OF sotwnoe. WILKONL an exam: tion, “he Presiden: and Fetlows, acting tiroagh & ‘omm provessors and jectarers appointed b¥ hem for this Apecial purpose have taken measures to institute mation for the masier’s degree 5 but the plan matured.” Heretofore at Harvard—and the -aystem still prevails, we believe, at ail other coileyos in this country—the degree of Masterof Arts has beon conferred aa a matter of course upon all Bachelors of Arts or graduates of the acadeniic department of three years’ sand. ing, on the payment of a small fee. The degree, bestowed in this manrer, amounus to nothing aa an evidence of scholarship ; it is merely @ cortificate that the recipient graduated thre years before its date, Hea it hae failon into disrepute with trac students, who think it about as well to com pute for thenselves the number of years whichshave elapsed since their graduation, an to pay a colloge faculty five or ten dollars for making the computation and certifying to it ow parchment and in Latin. Woe learn, therefore, with great pleasure, that our oldest college bas aboliehed this sengeloss practice of conferring the master’s degree in course, and has decided to establish an examination for it. A wise selection of subjecte for this examination is exceedingly important ; but as to the wisdom of requir. ing it there cannot be the slightest doubt. ‘This action on the part of Harvard will exert a marked effect upon other collegial institutiona, When the proposed chauge is actually carried out, that is, after commence: ment in 1872, the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard will be worth something to the possessor ; for it will then be evidence of lis scholarly attainments, and those of no inconsiderable merit. At the same time tl degree coming from other institutions will be not only as insignificant and truly worth leas as it ia now, but will subject those on whom it is conferred to ridicule, on account of the comparisons which will inevitably be made, This, of course, ison the hypothcss that other colleges will not have then fol 1 in the steps of Harvard; out we think that a wise consideration of the proba ble results which mast follow a neglect to do so, will induce them soon to adopt a similar plan. sake Of the Taxe The Chairman of the Committee on Fi nance in the Senate made a spocch of uu. questionable intelligence and ability on Wednesday, opposing the repeal of the in some tax. Mr, SURRMAN took the ground hat we cannot afford any further abate ment of the taxes and still be secure of an adequate revenue, Yet at the same time he declared the purpose of his Committoc and his own individual willingness to rise our entire system of taxation, with a view to sweep away all its moro obnoxious fea tures, but he objected to eutering on the subject till next session, Mr. SmEenMAn exhibite great inconsistency in occupying these two positions. He de. clared, in the first place, that we have no more revenue than we need, and in the next he wes willing to consent to a redue tion of taxes, only that he wished to postpone this reduction till next year. The real truth is, that he wishes to hold on to the surplus which existing taxation gives to the ‘Treasury as long as be can, This surplas, according to the Secretary of the Treasury, in his last annual report, will be seventy millions on the 1st of July next, from the revenue of the year ending that day, and will be forty millions more on the Ist of Jaly, 1872. Now, Mr. SiEnMAN offers in his speech no new fact to controvert these statements. ‘They are the deliberate calculations of the ‘Treasury, and rest on as stable foundations as any such calculations can, Why then, pray let us ask, shall we not throw off not only the iucome tax, but other oppressive and vexatious internal revenue taxes, till we shall cease to accumulate those large annual balances in tho ‘Treasury? We do not want them. Wo have no use for them. They aro a stand. ing invitation and incitement to prodi gs] appropriations by Congress, So far as they have not been hitherto ebsorbed in this way, they have been fooled away in pay ments of the principal of the public debt not yet due, or to become due for a long time low to come. What is Mr, SHERMAN’S answer to th's | pertinent question ? | \Shy, he asserts that we are bound in good aii to pay about thirty milfons per annum to the sinking fond for the reduction of the debt, and that this absorbs just 6o much of the surplus, Well, passing over the fact that we did not for years pay any attention to this claim, and giving every significance to the obligation demanded by the highest sense of honorable responsibility, we yet de. ny his assertion altogether. ‘Yhe law exacts an annual payment of one per cent, on the principal of the debt to the sink. ing fund. Now we hold that, instead of the thirty millions claimed by Mr. Surman to be due annually on the debt, the sum of sixteen millions per annum fully discharges the national obligation on this score, The existing public debt is in round num bers $2,100,000,000. Deduct grecnbacks, 400,000,000, leaving $2,000,000,000, Of this sum the banks hold to secure circulation 100,000,000; and as the banks are not allowed to diminish the sum they hold, and as there can be no pretence that the sinking fund has any application to the, greenback cireulation, we contend ‘that the sum of $1,600,000,000 fs the entire aggregate, in round numbers, to which the spirit of the THE SUN, MONDAY, JANUABY 30, 1871. law requiring one per cent. annual payment is applicable. So that $16,000,000 a year, in- stoad of tho $80,000,000 argued for by Mr. Siren, is all of the public debt that has any elaim to be annually provided for. But we further contend that this obliga tion has been discharged, and that no claim whatever now exists, or will attach for many years to come for any appropriation of this fort. The present Administration has paid on the national debt since May, 1869, the sum of $191,000,000. This sum is sufficient to discharge the obligation to the sinking fund for twelve years; #0 that for ten years to come at least we have no provision what- ever to make, #0 far as exacted by law, for the redemption of a single dollar of the public debt, We say, therefore, that taking the figures of the Treasury Department for our guide, there will be an absolute surplus of seventy millions in the Treasury for the year ending July 1, 1871, and a further surplus of forty millions for the year ending July 1, 1872, at the abso lute disposal of Congress in the way of a reduction of taxes; and we eay fur ther, that instead of haggling and hesitating over the abolition of the income tax, it is the duty of Congress not only to repeal that, but to teke of $20,000,000 of other taxes, and to do it without delay, The income tax as it now stands, it is understood, will yield but $12,000,000 per annum. Wo can thus not only afford to loge thi, but $28,000,000 ad and at the end of the fise: balance in ditional rey | yc 1 1872 show the tho Treasury, dollar for dollar, that is there to-day. In the erolury appear in going be Committee of Ways and Means beguing for the retention of all the existing taxes 7 and Armed with two Re- volvers. Is it true that the editor of the Times, whom Mr. Davip Dopiey Firtp describes asa renegade Englishman, is such a cow- ard that he wears a coat of mail under his same vast i, how does the ore the House light of this expe Clad im Ma shirt and carries a six-shooter in each pocket ? ‘This is the question of the day, and we are afr sid the answer must be that it is true. It seems the little fellow has written some. thing against Tammany Hall, and he is silly enough to suppose that he is going to be assaulted. Let him compose what he calls his mind. He is in no danger of being shot at; but he is in great danger of making 4 greater fool of himself. ‘The best thing for the frightened English- man to do is to leave off his coat of mail, and put his revolvers in his trunk at home. Nobody is going to shoot him. News- paper writers are not fired at hero, even if they are Englishmen and take delight in abusing thie country. The people of New York believe in the freedom of the press, and no man needs to wear mail and carry revolvers becauees he denounces ‘'ammany Hall. Pat the vanity of the Times is as great as its terror, It fancies the politicel world ia agitated beceuse its little piping voice is raised against TWEED and SWEE screaming and screeching in the world can. not shake it, A year ago there was a chance of destroy ng the Tammany Ring. Led by Tur Sus, the Young Democracy had revolted. The revolt was powerful, and ite success seemed certain ‘That was a war worth waging, because victo- ry was possible and probable. ‘Then it was of some use to aseail Tammany and exposo her corruption and her misdeeds, But the 7imes was not anxious to overthrow Tammany then ; the city advertising satisfied ite appe- tito; and when with cash and promises Twrry bought the Republican party in the Legislature, crushing the Young Demoe. racy with their help, and planting Tammany on firmer foundations than ever, the dall and feeble voice of the Times condoned the trans- action as the paper went on with the eorpora- tion advertising. But now this rich boon is taken from it, and it launches out in a noisy hubbub against Tammany, which, if it had any effect at all, would only confirm the power of the Ring. It is like Chinese warriors at a safe distance beating their gongs in the hope of capturing forts armed with cannon by the noise. It is worthy of a fellow who wears mail under his clothes and carries two revolvers because he thinks somebody must hold him of sutlicient impor. tance to attack bim, Tavnmany will doubtless be overthrown some day; but that day will not be expo- dited by the silly clamor of all the fools in the world. —— - English aud Jewell—The Great Fight in Prospect. The Republicans of Connecticut having nominated Mr, Mansnatn Jnwrtr for Gov- ernor, and the Democrats having renominat ed Mr. Jaws B. Exavisn, the campaign is sure to be conducted with spirit, They are both popular and rich, and each has hereto- fore heaton the other, Gov, Exauian has rather the most at stake, for he is # prospec- tive candidate for the Presidency ; while Gov JEWELL las nat yet announced himeclf as an aspirant for that station, though ho is quite as much of a statesman as GRANT, and « good deal ehrewder politician, Last spring Exouisn beat Jewry. by a handful of votes, just an JeWELL beat him the spring before by anotherhandful, Theve is one element now coming into the canvass which would seem to give JEWELL a better chance in a race which is sure to be a close one, Tho 1,500 negroes of the State, more or less, are to vote for the first time next April, and they might naturally be expected to incline toward JeweLt, But Exouisn has a good war record, and may point with pride to the fact that while in Congress he voted for the abolition of slavery in the Dis. tricy of Columbia, which JewEL. never did, for the obvious reason tbat he was not tn Congress. The margin between tho two parties in Connecticut is very narrow, and the colored electors may determine the result; and there- fore we advise ENo1isn to make the most of Lis abolition vote in Congress. Ho must not be beaten if he intends to enter the lists for the Presidential nomination next year. JEW. ELL, who has great influence with his party, will flood the State with first-class stump speakers from abroad. ENGLisn must coun- tereheck this by a move in tho same direc- tion, Let him summon to his aid Apame, Srywoun, Horwman, and Henpnicks, who will tell the colored elewent how dead the old inencs are, and how Exarist helped to Kill them by his abolition vote in Congress. But don’t let himeend for Gen. BLam, unless that distinguished statesman will agree to leave the Broaprran letter at home; for should Frank enter the Land of Steady Habits waving that missive, he will give the dry bones of dead issues such @ shaking aso frighten every negro away from Exo List, and thus seriously darken his prospects for the Presidency. ‘The Spaniards in Cuba are making a great ado about the surrender of Corweiso Porro, a Cuban obief, who, with thirty armed men, cave himself up to the Spanish forces at Puerto Prin- cipe on the 19th inst, The Spaniards have beon 8 long time engaged in the attempt to sedues Ponxo. More than s year ago an American Con- sul, who is connected with him by marriage, was employed by Gen, De Ronas in this base business, Since the intrigue began we have had two or three reports of his surrender before the present one. They cvidently think a great deal of him, or they would not have made snch exertions to bay him. Bat now that they have got their traitor, they will probably find that ho is of no to them than Bunnnict Auxoup was two more value to the British during our Revolution, The cases are very similar, Senator Revers has introduced in United States Senate a bill to incorporate t rand Tabernacle of Galilean Fishermen, The bill authorizes the Galileo Fishermen to teke and hold per ten thousand dollars in value, but does not spe cify whom the property shall be taken from, nor how itis the estat al and re: not exceeding Bat who iu the wor , and where do they go to taken, the Galilean fishers tish ? - —— public libraries and res ing rooms on Sunday is @ victory over Puvitun- ical prejudice sure to be achieved sooner or later, The Young Men's Mercantile Library Association of Cmeinnati has yielded to. public and yesterday ite mombers wero to its rooms as on week days, If the The opening ¢ sentiment, admitte Rey. Rowent Coutren, in the lecture on “ Clear Grit” which he ito deliver at Steinway Hall to-morrow evening, before the Mercantile Library Association of this city, will only encourage that Association to follow the exampie of the Cincin- nati folks, the next election of Directors may sult more favorably to the liberal party than the last ove di — ——— In a recently publisiied correspondence Mr. Davin Duty Fiaup expresses @ true apprec tion of the Diereputable Times, ‘It is,” he nays, “nothing but the weak and wicked ‘sound and fury, signifying nothing,’ of three or four rene- gade Euglishmen.” That is so. a ‘The sentiments of the Bourbon Democracy of Keatucky may be weil estimated by an dent which occurred the other day in the Legis ature of that State, The bill to grant a charter to the Southern Rail bis designed to connect Cincinnati with the Souther system, was under discussion, when a Mr. Mc Creany, in the course of a bitter speech in of position to the application fi i in support of his views that Cincinnati deserved vo favor at the hands of the Legislature, beeaus the press of that city had failed to publish eulc gistic obituary notices of Korat B. Lew. It ix only fair, however, to state that prominent Dem ocrats in Central Kentueky, among them Gon Joux ©. Bueexixnivor, are Queer—the efforts now making by the special friends of Gon. Gast to diminish the number of Republicans in this city, and to bre the party in the State into two irreconcilable f tions, It reminds us of the care taken by the Democrats of Massachusetts, thirty years ago, t keep their party so small in number that ther would be a Federal office for every mem It is reported of a Freneh painter nam Yvox, who has lately been doing some work for A. T. Stewan’ job, but has irretrievably damaged his reputa- ad, wh railroad # charter, arg! that he has made money by the tion, The same thing Las happened before to a more remarkable man, For instance, Gen. Gnant got money and other presents from Stewart, but when in return he appointed bim Secretary of the Treasury, in detiauce of the law, he irretrievably damaged his own reputa- tion, Both Yvow and Gaaxy woald now stand a great deal better among men if they had never dealt with Srewanr at all, The best thing for them both to do under the present circumstances would be to write letters to Mr. Stewanr urging him to abandon his welfish and mistaken oppos: tion to a steam railroad under Broadway. It they can convert him from that error, they will do a good thing both for their own injured repu- tations and for his, ———- r. DupLEY FieLp has recently bad a correspondence with Samvet Bowzrs of the Springfield Republican, Iv his first letter Mr Fiery says that the friendly relations which have always subsisted between himself and Rowtes lead to the belief that Bowres would no. willingly abuse him, Evidently Mr. Fret doos not know Bowxes, The men thet he is quick est to abuse are those who have been his frients when he most needed friends; and the greater the services they have rendered him, the more ready and more malignunt the abuse, Doubtless the world at large ought to be very much interested in the success of the Atlantic and Great Western Csual, which is intended “ to connect the Tennessee and Coosa rivers by eanal, and thence down the Alnbama river on the one band throngn the State of Alabama to the Gulf of Mexico, and by the Coosa and Etowah rivers on the other band to the nearest point of contact of the latter river with the Chattalioocl and thenoe by canal to the navigable waters o the Ocmulgee, and theuce to the Aantic ocean. This is the bewildering account given in @ bill in the United States Senne. The bill proposes to givo ten million acres of the public iands in aid of the confounded scheme, 0 river, Another circular by the grent bear philoro- pher Rurcs Harcu is published on onr third pogo this morning, It will be read with atten, tion, especially by those interested in the Chicago and Northwestera Railroad, and in the wate of its stock, Read! Read! 8 locomotive. ng Rerus writes like ee YAEL IND ELLIGENCR, Tt 1s said that Nttle Jiomy Wenn has Kaged at the Bowery Theatre, to walk off ‘The Hon, H.C, Dayie of Minorol county, has boon nominated for Vhited Biates Senator by the Demo West Virginia, ‘Ene election takes place to ay. He will pe elocced, Mr. F. H. Underhill of this city has been employed tomienogiagh tho proceedincn in tye tral ot Oey Tol Jeu, who has beon tmpeachel by the North Catohos egislawure. The trinl comeno™ on Monday, Tho Globe says thar the great and good Horace Greeley attended the ball of (hy Lneoln Union Club at Apollo Hail on Thareday evening Ore A peu {aiied coat, and created Krens commotion among the PERSO} hod bis farewell sermon +10 the Souch, been IF of the pasion on cars wakes the editorial el few Yor’ Inuependen Mile. Nilsson has written from Cincinnatt a very Complimentary letter to Mise Vieoua Demores., con Fatuiatine that young ledy- upon her late @ ccesatul DUL ag wVOCaII:L “AT Nileson's tequcats Strakoseh Hae gIgOL Mite Demorost to sing Im concert with tu Swedish Nighviagato stan carly fate, . Boveral nas oMcers who ha Poe eee cae der m thi: nev} ix to tho wants ao here 4 the con jore Be 90 pl Rot reduoe returned strongly in favor of SEMENTS. _— Watlnck?’a. The younger Coleman's comedy ‘The Poor Gontleman” was presented om Saturday evening at this theatre for the first time the presemt searon The attractions of the play were greater than the terrors of the storm, for In epite of the blinding #now and impeded travel the theatre was fliled Coleman's comedy lias kept the stage these many years by Virtuo of its admirable presentation of f cbarwlert—tho areumentative, choleri hearted Sir Rotert Bramble; his obstinate, con tradicting, provoking, but faithial servant Hnm- phrey; Worthington, © hulfray — Weutenant, fallon into distress, and boaring it with chivalrous fortitude ; and Dr. Olayod, apothecary and cor net in the Home Guard ‘These ionr characters wore presented with admira ble distinetness by Messrs, Gilbert, Wiilia.ns Bisher, and Stoddart It is almost anncessary to say that a charnctor compounded of noble qualities of heart, wet off with Just nuMecient nervournens of temperamont to bring Kindly qusliti wer relief, would Jy laterpreted by Mr. Gildert, The'p ct of the taciturn, crabbed, eontradietln: telling Od BeFViLOT, Was also given by M turaily, and with uu a. Yt was an admirably drawn and artis suige character painting, excellent alike in make-up, 1 conception, and in executio AML truu Williamson quietly and dry Dir, Bloddart gave, of course, 9 apie sketch of the vain am ale dd brome he ome With proper unction th one” with whieh Next Saturday © Clin The prepara Money” ar wank you, kind air; Lo of Glen makes his points nother of Coleman's works ine | Marriaze,” will be revivea. for tie production of Bulwer's also ving pusavd forward, Lavra Keene tn “ Hunted Down. The return ot Miss Laura Keene to the «tage ort tveis a dramatic event of peewitir inverest Jnas serve! to draw a lure attendance to Lina Edwin's cheer ‘ul little theatr The drama in which she has appeared belongs to the better class of the one hundred and odd piv Nat Poveicault has given to the c, Ite merite utnamte lofeets, ‘The fooling i healthy, watu ral, and patactic, the winatically strik ioe, and the dialogno in most instances realistic and cus,ously true to natare, without rinking to the trivial or the vulgar, The lesson of the play, it central Ite Hu itlees and unwavering faith of a sur tender, manly wature io nis wile"s OneiLy ts ko radics y good, 80 moraily ant wat. tically bew: thu), that #0 © ve even ereator tng> in the drama whien enforces it, Mise Ki tie waffering wife, gives & Very Mm delineation, lacking @ trifle in dre an os at Intervals, vnly gaining in What the dist aneho terror ani 1100 a} abe ob itd the rufianly claius them, and ip the fasie, w sue Onde voieo and courage to call ber harvand to ber de fevce, Mr. Mordawnt, ta the character of John Leiyh, approves himself an exceliont and cultivated mete Vie pa men dearee dignity, simpli city, feeling, nud tate, ir, Moraaunt Riiows thou ail, His fatherly tendersess and blu! Luc playful indulgence in the @arher seenes were as good < sneha little home picture could be; and the sad earneetnoss and Hupressive firmness ot affection the tae of (rial aud suspicion to the women he love as ule own #ou!, couhl hardly have been better done Tho atwence of anything hae Marie oF exagecrn. thon, the perfect calm, the exquisite moderation wd deep feeling oF Mr, Mordaunt’s acung in this be are qualicies as refronhiug aud delightinl as rare Pho presiding inthience of Miss Keeue's own clowr sense and good taste are evident in the manuer in winch the play hus been put upon the stage, -—- Dramoce and Musical Teme Miss Nilsson bas been go ill at Cincinnati ged wi 4 wr concerts. Miss Lucy Rusiton appears to-might for a shor tat Wood's Moseum, *Rieneliou," tn Ate as to be o en a ariesque dress, wall be brought out at the Olympic a fortuigit from to night The © Hlsely Crook pate on frosi attractions Dight in the sha eo! new balets, dresses, aud ots « efiects. The Rizareti! brothers,” wel-known asta, apoear for tho frat time am also do tue oeridia This i= the bast Week of the Wouverful Arab (um Diers ab the Cireu —— 1 NEW JERSEY Q@UDGKON Me. Vaight’s Fricad trom Texas NIM bar Gold—Mre Voleus Friend, oud that Little Bill. Among the passengers on the dean: Galveston, which wailed for Texas from Pier Q. East River, yesterday mort were Atbert G 1, from Morristown, N. J. Mr Voteht ten respectable young man, who had taken Caner Whe hed Friend's Voight, wife and en » contract to build @ portion af a new railroad tran Honston, Pexas, to 4 point in the Indtan Territory, and was emigrating with Buoyant hopes to the Lone Star State. Coming from Morristown on an (rain om Bate y, Mr. Voight and family wont « erand were con for, During the day Mr. Voight made the (ance Of a stranger .who told him that he ‘oc was ou to Texas, where be hud resided for tl last ten years, and had been engaged in t which since the war had proved prof Gaining the conflaevee of the derseym bowrd the ste jortabiy provided stranger described the ellmate, the resources oF country. the peculiarities of we people, and the suc variab-y attending e1 rants, and wonud up issertation on Texas by inviting Mf a the Astor House, he wis called) wns accosted by anuiher pe Presenies a bill of goods delivered amounting to §) Th ptain wt once di ta well filed pocketbook nh Uwenty-do lar gold pice: Whe would OuNE is two sDa Ih low the difference | Dut sou ean give mo yo By Usin time they liad erossed Broadway, and were At the main entrance w the Gilsey Building, when the Caplin, turning around carelessly vo My Voight, said, “Have you any money about you?" "Yer nad Mr. Voight, taking oat his money 1 nave $105 here, + Let me bave it until we get back to the ship, and I will return it; meanwaile keeo this check security,” said the plausible confidence man, Voight 4 check, of which the follow ing n Bueraro,N. Y.1 ber Min, 1 TONAL BANK, 30. OF bearer th JAMES L. ROD EA Ty Pay George & drod and tity. 952.09, han nut of N& cv, Per Samuel M, Anderber, Agt ‘The money wax immediately paid over to the F with fone $0 gold pieces irom the Cu Ioaving the’ Crvtain an at tie foot of the stairs to talk about the inclemeney of tho westn- or. Aller an tem the ptnin heear thonght he would eo up Ataire and see whut dotained the clerk, wh war making outgibe recat, Mtr, V awaited then he Toot of the stairs for minutes, iid , g Uneasy in turn, went Up staire niew ore mt by a third ‘party, who told iim tac ven “those men” any mony he had bee made @ Vietim Of notorious confleonce op God Tm rnined !* exclaimed Mr. “Hewos every dollar T bad in the world. He notined the police, and returned to th at Janient his loss, ‘Tho men of course escaped, and ws there 4 no one to identify and. pros eats 4 partios, even if arrested, they will. probably eseap punishment The Death of Thomas O'Conner-Did he Biced to Death ¢ To the Bulitor of The Sun Sin: The statement of an “Bye V Published in your paper to-day, in relation to tie young man run over by ® Broadway Railroad car fou.o days (or rather weck#) ago, and who was brought into our store dangerously hurt, is false iu @ very essential particular, The young man did not * bleed to death from th inhumanity of tie person in char store and the ignorance of the police » of the di peo,” wa th writer of the communication to your paper stat On the contrary, he biod very litle alter being brougut to the Kore, We did everything cireuny Alunces permitted for his comfort; and his arrival, two well-known and able physicians of thts etty came in, to Whose orders we properly dee ferred in our subsequent attentions to the suilering mun. Ho was (rightfully hurt, but remained sensibio Guring the whole time be’ was at our store, and W Wero wold that after lis removal to Bollevac Hos pital, sevoral of lis friends visited and spoke with him ontil he died. which event occurred at 2 2 o'elock A. M. ac that instiiation, And we infer from what wo alter ward heard this death resultes! from the Nervous shock gud prostration to his system conse quent upoa the very serions injury ho first received So m our vinvication, Your correspondent ptaies that the injured wy y at our store *fifly Anntes” (he in very exuct), and iy A to death,” &e, y nd actually bled Daring the time he i n after ourstore the place was flea with crowds of people Wio Were Uuerly incu Pable Of giving any amMinGance I (ho oAse, Tet seve Tal of them Were Very oMcions in their suggestions und © rections {o thy proprietors of the sore, Two or threo of thesw gentlemen were proverly rebuked by us tor thor pragmaticand eenseless interlereuec s and if your correspondent bas (ie maniivess to fend us his naine, We #ball probably Hud he was one oF whem, Very reapecttully, J. & 1 CODDINGTON Moner-deponited now in Whe Mutual Benefit Sv- dng Laue Wiil drow Wblercet fom Fed, ade, ANOTILER MISSISSIPPI NORKOR. = Explosion of the Rteamer W. R. Arthur Memphia—Thirty Persons Killed « Fatally Wounded~the 4 Hank, Meme 28,—The steamer W. R. Arthur, from New Orteans for Louisville, with 45 catin and 40 deek pr 14 miles above this city at 1:30 o'clock this morning After the explosion the boat took fire, bat throneh the exertions of the crow and passengers the flames were extingnished, The vessel floated down the river on the bar and unk, The night was very dork, and after the explosion most of the passen fers rushed down tothe lower deck, many in thelr confusion jumping into tho river, When the bow sank, the waves «wept from the lower deck all who had gathered there. ‘Phe tags Little Grant and Report and the ferry boat Excelsior were sent to the scene of the die aster, and recurned with sixty of the passencers, most of whom wero wounded, Several persons were pleked ap from cottos bales ant planks on tha Way. Iwo bodies, of & negro and » German, te latter about twenty-five years old, dressed in gray jean pants, wero Drought down on the Nxcelsior, Tho oficers of the Excelsior s1w several bydios on the wreck under tie déiris, bat the woan tel wera fuflcring #0 wel from tue cold that they did not wait to eqt them ont, Capi, Denry Brolaski hat retived a half an hot fel himself htt engers on board, exploded her boiler the comminder, A before the oxntosion up and koocke! down by the avairs of the texus, which fell upon him. Ho extri cuted himwel! got an axe aod cut his way oul, wav 2 himself, wile, and elild. Had the cabin pissen ined in the catia all would have heen ng ty the fright, nearly ali eushed wn'etal ptatn’s leg waa neverely gwin'ed Tie had several contusions on the aeud ; his wite and ber en rusty injured. ‘The Cap xin {rinks that the first clerk, Bowman, wae kili tantly. Among ‘tho lost are J. Alten, wife and hid eM oy, Sieve Malton, avd Heury Mines, f Cinteinnatl ; and ' two daagiters 0 A. Kranier, of nat, was a ps. ive he wid hie were’ in ded, but not fut on the euard the stat Hastened to the ea L that allt the ladies aived (hit tie life boat bad been taken away antthen taroed hie atiention to putting out the fire His fuet were badly (roaon, bul beyond that be aud bit wife were ustujured ive of the paswongers took a life boat immediate ly after the ex n, Went ashore, and Cen Larned tho boat adrift. ‘They were ailerward picked up by the #t-amer Excelsior, bnt were str jenounced by the remaining survivors, who talked of lyacling them: Nothing was sived from the boat, the passongers barely escaping in the clothes they hod on, From present information, it is almoxt eertain that thirty wore lost, while opward of seventy have bean any of whom are burned #0 badly that F eaunot ree r 140 hogshends of enear, 600 bar. ¢ Louie v w outfit ana ly ood, a fuinis hall the re red appliances for #afety of lite und property. i — é A HORROR IN THE BAY. pedeosir lene Kaplosion of a Tui Roiler—The Crew Blown into the Air One Man Killed Mtatement of the Captain, On Saturday uoraing while the tugboat Phoe- nix was steaming through the Nurrows, near Sandy Hook, ber boit saddenly exploded with terrific ettering the bull to fragments aud causing inafew moments, She had tn jon packet Hudson, just arrived 4 Jones of the exolosion overturned the 4 demolished the upper deck of the foree te vosmel to tow the Lot port, Th pilot how Viwoix, There were seven persons on board of the tug. James McDermid, the fireman, was blown he ae and fell among & larce muss of fuating wh closed over hit He was sean no wore. Lhe ng KIX mea werd hurled in Various directions, and lay helpless auoar the dé brie until they were rescued rew of the teawtug Baxter The wounded taken to # Retreat i wore re 1 ap to the 1 auibalaaces he Had t vue Hospit Moves had an! inure ived severul Was budly id and Gad several rs cove, bad but lege a hiving st) Was! ington reot me of the exstosion ie Wa. outside of Sandy Hook bar with the Loudon bu ke Hudson in tow, He was standing iv the pilot Louse ) allof wandden be was pitched into tue air and me Mneonsetous, When he Fecove: o. F ucuse had brew blown ove be mace by Neate & Leary, of b It wae only twé year lt. The tug nada low acad of steam on, and had og eerted froin the 1 minutes, ‘The vost, vaued #6 $1/,00), w a by Capt M . Chapwan, and MeV She w y. the enineor, says thot he er LO fire up, Wwheit be anne biown a Haxter, afd all in ferings of the woande the Pursuit, and Rogue Caught. nthe Kansas City Buuatin, dan. 24 med Denuis liarrisvn was arrested before ye y by United State i rge ateon ol at Cleyeun Detective 'T of counterfeiting, tmacniniss living in © AL an early the boy developed nh. mad way ected ih an attempt to rob the Uniied Suites nail car on the Pan-Handle road. For Wis offeueo sent to che House of Keluge. nding the accom uodations of tis estabtishan nnsuicible to Lis fastidions taste, he oarnest Drotestitions of piety ud repeniunes that he way allowed to return Wo bis pareuts ot Colum ue Here he again develovea his vicions tystiocts by Levene ine mother, seuing Ore to the he anid rupning away, The next board of him be i* enlisted ay a bucler in a cavalry regiment, en route to tho Rocky Mouutains, Hera he proved himself auch au incorrigible young thief. thet after ove year's ser Viee in the guard Louse, lie was drummed out of army at Port Laramie’ He was soon alterw tiken, diaguised aa an IW an attack pon supply tran, Logewer with another white repeyss who Was forthwith bung w @ tree. Harrison wa. spared op account of his’ youth, and taken to Fort Halicek, whenee be soon alterward excupe: He became acqa:tnted in Denver with a desperate fang of stage robbers, and took part tu their attacks Upen the wverland mailé in 184-6. He soon ater Jef ioe West aud retarned home to Ohio, ana joined t made #ual the Mothoaist Churea, He became acq| id wits & you (iy girl and married her, Lut deserved her soon a became a brakeman on the Cot trai Ohio Railroad, bat was discharged for laziness He was mariied ‘again in Zinesviile, and wus & ‘0 in Newark for seauction, but managed to escape the celuded victim, WILL some 8400 In money Ho cane to Kansas City | Winter of S07, aad assume Cae enarActer of a Way Waid sun Ol a Wealthy banker Ka ade hit way into Rood Rociety, DoW bere und at Wyandott Being ood looking and + took well,” anit beeaune enw Oiy's fare daughters. He ret © with money, he ed 10 two of Kiln ined here a bel period, and left tue city acd a respectable family tt Wyandotte carsing him und his deception. His next foue of rascality was at a countorieiiers den in Houston street, New York, td quanied with the thieves ee, anil belie on became a | he becaw natnrally smart aiid Aer OF Lis Which beca’ tors and su due me 1 e50 T fellow-eriwinals, Hl headquarters of thi a became an expert in asury notes first hoved soventoen of then suficient atnoant of cloth Nd mistress for over two F this be became one of the load st gangs of counterfeiters {n the *. and wan connected with the stealing Feortain plaies from the United States reususy ry of the Wo Jn 1866 tho gang to which ho belonged went nto the fractional Curvency business, and to. thom the country Is indebted for the innunwrable ify and twent:-five cent notes with wien every communi both East ana West, were flooded it was whiiv in this buriness that he. w In Novern ber, 1904, bie gang bad 9 ts Of the country, to who eney for circulation, His bold bester of bis discretion, he was deiwct Wood. Chiet Detective of the f the Ni \d arrested by Col astiry Department, w York and Albany best of bin time and started some 1 rin ¢ and St. Jobepi And Was traced vp und arrosted days ago upon 4 train between Cheyenne any a sreputable New York The Trath abouct Times. From Dari Dudley Beld’s Leer to Cyrus W. Field The New York Tine, under its present inan dgeuent, isa paper of no authority, Mis, in faci, w worthless and insten| iWeant newspaper, Wh Kay'nond bad charge of it there Was (ores tu its OL w Alter hiv death Mr, Bigelow touk chorge tur & while, but he #eems to Dave left tt in diseuste Aud now itis trying lo wave ite declining tortanes by Mr. sensational personal abase ts diily Obed with attacks mpon the best men We have, devonneing Mr, Astor, Mr, Taylor, Mr. Roberts, and others in tie ago. Thee gentlemen take no notice and nob Winks any the worse of anyining that tv published. When 1 was sitarkod, Fusked two gentlemen in thy front 1 Journalisie Whether 1 should take any novice ‘ies, and they anewered no, Every friend who has been spoken wit) on the audject has given tho same advice, kugliab gentiowen do not uo. leratand the difference between Jourualiom bere oud de Bagloug, cm SUNPR EAM. —The Berlin Royal Library is the only one t= Rarope possessing ali the works of Mowart, —There 18 a horse in Mount Vernon, Ill, news ly fifty years old, that did farm work ees than a your neo. —A Richmond woman asks for a divores, sny- tne that ho has not seen ber husband since he mare dered her father. —The passengers in a snow-bownd train in Wieconsin bind to tunnel through the snow in ordar to reach tho nearest village. —M. Meissonier, who {sin Paris, has just sold to an amateur of that city his great tpictnre ot 1907, for 200,000 france (840-000). Hb la we yet anfinist —Fanny Eillster, the once famous dancer, is not only titi alive, but quite vigorous In health, and enjoys the toxuries her larite fortune yields =A Leavenworth paper tells how a bloody domestic tragedy would have occurred a4 not row idence stayed the arimning ede of the hungry axe." —Herr Bacdeker, the compilor of the welle known pulde-books fo travellers, 1s at present serving before Paris ae a lentenant 1m tho Prnostaa Latdwelir, ble falling off in the tra. thward this fakon compared with previous Many persons are doterred from golug turougtn ere is a consid years fear of contracting yellow tever. —In the winter of 1741, Francis Lewrs, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, from New York to Barustaple, More., the whole leagt of Long Island Sound, ow the tee. Apropos of the effects of a tiet of horseflesh exeuse is being fouod for the Pare National Guarda wh rah away at Croteit on the plea that wey had Inte ly teen fod exclurivesy off race hors Mrs. Polly Molntyre, aged 115, was burned to death the oumer day at Canoe Wisneshick Comuty, lowe, How mneh longer she mixht have tived but for this ontowared accident 1t 18 linpossibts to say —A Michigan p return of prominent uatlve oft no !astanee of an intelil end not revarnt bring nim vac per, alludi at State, says; " Ilistory records nt man leaving Minverots ¢—providing he hod money enousn co —A countryman stopped ata telegraph window, where a young indy was receiving dos (or look ng On @ moment, called Lo bis cou anic Say, Bill, Jast you come and see ‘em make paper cole know her bia, eh, Bull 2” sh constable arresied three mem, he inferred the Jae! Don't at An Eng! thivking they were deserters. Mo said fact from thelr “martial bearing,” amd when asked “ whint he meant by that ? replied. “Thoy were very free with thet monoy, were deank, swore 4 great deai, aod wanted to fight.” —The Congressional Library now comprivea jets. OF james belong to the Iaw dopar ines & deposit of ail publicatiors claiming a copyright in the library te rap. diy increasing the extent of the collection —London ia well provided for amusements, supporting thirty-eight theatres, and twenty-six music halle or variety she ‘ they are called in this cour. ‘uy, besides the opera, Cremorne Garden, and une or ses, Over keveptoen hundred pertormers gain the'r Lving trom the music hats alone, —The New Orleans papers have a great deal to say about ahe slowness o1 the horse cars on the ai ent routes in that city, Ove of them breaks out as fole lows: * About a year ago the St. Charles Btrect Rail road Compan) lust a mule vy deerepltude and old age. Since that time Pil their cars have been going to tue wneral." —Some Kansas boys thonght to have a litle un on Chrismas . 80" the Fret took remge bet Aisioded them by burping the stack. The quesvion which agitates the little community now 19 whe thers of the Prussiaus oF those of the Fren pay for te stack Puli Mall Gazette, noticing the fact that marriages are somet ea An railway traiee in the United St * Lt becomes a question whether in this country thy faneral service mglit ot With propriety be performea over the passoagers in {9 ng-rooma of the stations betore the departure of (ralus on some of our principal railways.” —Dr. Antonio Prietto thus advertises in the St. Louts Times; * Fitty dollars reward w wivea to anyone who will come and take my tormenting Foe eu HOM and leave UuIN Cou try forever, for Fean't stand ber. Will no one come and (nk Ker? Sie interferes with my business and poils my little girl, 90 thai I have wo contro! over Almost every specimen from the Jardin dos Plantes and (he Jurdia d'Acelimatisation In Paris, a at ove Line OF auotler made iis appearance at tue +p oF M Debous, a well know buccher uf the Boulevard Haussmann, According to the proprietor of tie extavitshiment, camel is @ superior Kind of veal, weal surpasses lamb, aud bear excels the most deiicnis ark; Dut wita rexard to the kiug of animale the wild beast Dencher preserves a aiscrect aileuce. —The census Teturns show that no other city in the Country Of ® population exeéeding 2.0m tus srown.as rapidly within the last decade ne Mo, bn Ini ite population was only 4/ it was $2,284, the ratio of 11 Kansas City owos her prosperity to energy and enter. prise in the wanagement and completion of railroat connections. Five and a-half years ago she had not a #ingte Fond ; now ahe has eight prosperous railroads -New Engiand manufacturers turn out ann. Ally about 10,000 dozen or 120,000 sleds. Although are sold for use in the cities, the great bnlk are di pored of t the country dealery, Maine and New Hawprhire are the banuw a.es In (ho manutacture of these eoodr. ‘The steds are nowadays nearly ail named for Generals and fast horses, 00 that the natural de: of the children ¥ tested, whether it be for 1 tary of Aporting. Statisues show a balance in furor Of the Generals —An inquiring widow, who appealed to her Aeparted husband to advise her whether #he had bet Wake a purchase she was contemplating (or, at le is said Wo have appealed), thas docu answered, ¥ communication” being published tm the Banner of ‘Light, and being wi etteot a6 folio’ “My aaswer u, 40 just as you please, because I know you will any way. I don't forget people's disporitions, even ic I Dave been tirvugh death. Bo, Nancy, do just as you please, Ifyou want to buy, buy, and if you get int by Ht, got out of ft, You are smart enous ~—May, aged 9, afler reading the many versions of the story of “Mary and her littie lamb,” appea: ing Jn ‘Pre Sew, sends the following: ly, tod to a little scring, at Mary pulled, ry hool one day, ike 19 he And Wed upou the for A magistrate of Waukesha, Wis,, who wae cailet upon to performthe marriage eeremony, founa, On arriving @t the honse, that It way situated I) the Adjoining county, and consequently beyond hia jure a. The Jidates for matrimouy were, how eqnal to the © Wansesha count They crossed the road \oto sloshed around in the snow, a4 forvid sapeuage of the loo: tarlight, and im the sblut vere jotved in marriage Char only 7 yours of age, to the aprightly Mra. De Van Nortrick, who hag jast turued the blooms £69. —Senator Johnson, of the Committee on | luttopary Claims, has reporied a bill ta : States Senate author Of tue Treasury to set ng the proper accou: ‘ Je with (he heirss Col, Uriah Forrest for halfpay due t interest at 6 per cent., from the end of tie ary war, By how many sete of b doe sin At into the Revoluou" b many dozens of lawyers and lobbytsts hay on it, amd what she grand total of princt es{ AINONDES to, are Interest the bill gives no baw oF 1 Mee , tevod ire this claiu iad Handed down from geueration to genorativas 7 4 thote ancestor details reepe formatic —Dr. F, was the President of a Southern cob lege, who professed to be very grammatios! in he use Of bis language, and therefore expected hie pupils t wite, Playing cards was strietly forbidden on DOL Premines ; UL, AS Is ALWAYS the case, {his law wat often violated by the students without being det A nninber of freshmen collected together in one of umbor’s room, and were enjoying ® Kooi game ot euchre When a knock was heard at the door, * Wis there? one exclaimed, Me!" was the laconic “Who'sme?” "Professor ¥,” “Youhel Ma, ha, nat Pr festor Fw tsayme! He'd Uber The old Protessor turned bis back and went of, kuow ing (hat they had bln there, A seedy but jovial middle-age! gonth Who annnunods himscifas Gen. Chittenden, Pre Of he Kalamazoo and White Pigeon railroad, ava Ward of Keutneky, reeontiy imunanoed hin YOURE geutivinan of Boston as the uncle of is hor's wife, (he partoer just thon belug anse Weer on his bridal tour, It was not until the Bost 9 entlowan had tntroduced the General to bis treated bim to wnlimited champagne, and oan’ money, that he learned Unt his partaer’s wile be such military uncle, and bad never even heard of Hie existence of the tndiyiounl ww had fraudulep: Joyed his hospitality, ‘The vietim did not reprow General for bie deception ; he could not under th cumetances, for the shrewd fellow bad disappeared Just im time to ayold ine consequ of the ex euro, Mut be had @ Jolly good Muu as long ws eer . in — a i