The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 3, 1871, Page 2

i es — i} iq a oe oe Ms SRST SG settee ies f oe 5 = ae =e a Sao alate = i | en ae kt “ar iat a woe = a =~ The =e Sun. eo FRIDAY, FRARUARY & 1875, Weeth's Fienive Ww Bry fe the Cabinet to be Changed t Rumors of approaching changes in the Cabinet come thick and fast. It is said that enly Mr. DeLano, who has some sort of family relation to the President, is to be retained, and that all the others are to go. We do not credit this report, because such sudden and sweeping changes are contrary to Gon, Gnanr’s style; but many people be- lieve that such things are to happen, and accordingly we chroniclo their expectation, They say that oven Gen, BELKNAP is to be turned out, although he has exhibited ca- pacity, courage, and good judgment in the adininistration of his office, Mr. BouTWELL, whose payment of the national debt is the only thing the admirers of Gen. Grant have had to Loast of, is to go also, Mr. Fist, ac- cording to these accounts, is to be succeeded by Gov. Monton of Indiana, and Mr. Bout WELL by Gov. Monoan of New York, while the jolly Ronrson te to give placo to some unnamed gentleman from Pennsylvania. When the Cabinet was appointed, now nearly two years ago, it was held up by some philosophers as an illustration of the wisdom of Gen. GRANT and his superiority im judgment over mere politicians, Since then he has got a now Secretary of the Treasury, a new Secretary of War, and has changed his Secretary of the Navy, bis At. torney-General, and his Secretary of the In- terior, In all these changes, excopt in the casos of Mr. Boutwert and Mr. Detano, he followed his original plan of acting inde- pendently of the politicians, and appointing men to these high places who were not re- commenced by any person of common sense and experienee; and now he is going to overset the whole machine again, His roason js aid to be that he desires to strengthen himsclf among the politicians jo those States without whose votes he can not be ronominated or retlected, Let us hope that if this great change takes place we may at lerst have an Ad ministration we need not blush for, and that the country may gain something by the event, As for President Guan personally. he has nothing to gain and nothing to lose. —— Insurance—An Hint to Travellers, In the second volume of Supreme Court reporte, just issued by Mr. LANsina, the new official reporter, is a very intercating case which materially tn the rights, under the laws of thie State, of such travellers as are the holders of accident insurance policies. The questions at issue between the parties were submitted by them to the General Term of the Seventh Judicial District, without trial, under a provision of the Code of Pro- cedure, which permits the submission of causes in this manner, The proceeding was brought by an admin istrator to recover for the death of a Mrs. Nonrnucp, against the Railway Passengers Assurance Company, & Connecticut corpora tion, whose policy for the sum of five thou gand dullars she held at the time of her dcath. This policy provided thet the Com. pany would pay five thousand dollars to the Jegal representitives of the person insured “in the event of death from personal injury ensuing within three monthe from the hap: pening thereof, whon caused by any accident while travelling by public or privats eon ve Accidcat Impo: co secs provided for the transportation of pas sengers in the United Stater or British North American possessions.” Mra, Nonruner, on the dey she procured the policy and during its validity, left Rath, Done, Steulen county, intending to travel by pul lic conveyance to the county of Madison Ble went by the Erle Railway to Elmira and thence to Watkins, a town on Seneca Lake, by the Canandaigua ard Elmira Rail way, She thon crossed the lake to Geneva, where she proposed to ow York Ce he care of thy trel tu her destination, Th: railway depot at Geneva is about seventy rods from the steamboat landing; and although there were public carriages at the wharf, Mra, Nonruncy concluded to walk the d'stance, On her however, sh: slipped and fell on the sidewalk, reeviving injuries so serious that they caused her death several deye afterward. The Comp contended that this was not anacedent wiihin the terms of the policy inasmich a» it did not occur while the « ceased lady was “travelling by public or private conveyauce provided for the trans portation of pauses gers,” as specified in the contract of insurance, There were hacks close at band, which she could have pro cured to carry her ifshe had desired; the act of walking from the steamboat to the train was pot an act necossary to be done in order to Proseente the journey, as getting out of on« car and in‘o ancther might be; and the in Surance was only against casualties while travelling inconveyances, Tho Court sustaining these views gave Jadginent for the defendant. A knowledge of the fact that these accidvnt insurance poll dies have beon thus consirued under the laws of Now York furnichea a valuable sugges. tion to all travellers who are in the habit of fasuring thong view against accident, If way, n; they wish to preserve their rights againet the insurers, they will find # to their advar- tage to ride instead of walking. We have no doubt that hundreds of persone thus in- sired walk across this city from one depot to another every day, and imagine that they ared by the insurance tickets which hold against any secident that might oecuron the way, It seema, however, that security under such elrewmstances is purely imaginary ; it has no foundation in law. eo Scnator Hill of Georgia, Mr. Josiva Hint, the new Senater from Georgia, was for foar years immedi ly pre. vious to the rebellion a member.of Con- gress from thet Stato, He was chosen as an American, and throughont the Kansas and Lecompton etrupgle, which raged furtonsly while he wae in the House, his feelings in- clined to the Free State side of the question, thongh his votes did not always aceord with hia sympathies, In the ‘Thirty-ffth Con. grees, of which Mr. Onn was Speaker, Mr. Hint, followed the lead ef Mr. Hannis, a Democrat, of Illinois, who reflected the views of Srerien A. Doveras in his opposition to the attempt of the Bucttanan Adminis tration to force slavery upon the people of Kaneas. Thie, o# all remember, was a turbulent era in Congress, when members of both Houses were walking arsenals, ready to draw and fire at a moment's notice. In the midst of a violent debate on the Kansas subject, the uproar in the hall rising high above the Speaker's calls to order, one of Mr. Hin1’s colleagues denounced him as basely re- ereant to his section of the Union, Hirt, who is tall, broad-ehouldered, and muscular, and was then in the vigor of middle age, strode across the chamber to his colleague's seat, and though it was impossible to hear the conversation between them, it was plain from H1n1's manner that he was demand. ing ® retraction, and was preparing to en- force one if it was not voluntarily given. Though at fever heat, the House imme diately beeamo as silent as the grave, and Onn turned as pale as a ghost, while with quivering lips he directed the gentleman from Georgia to return to his seat. Hiwt, towering above his quailing colleague, was enforcing his demand for a retraction with arm defiantly stretched out. Members be- gan to cluster around the spot where Hitt stood, and Onn, fearing a bloody collision, gathered courage from the pressing nature of the exigency, and in lond tonca directed the Sergeant.at-Arms to “ conduct Mr. Hin. of Georgia to his seat.” Hi, having, as it noon after appeared, extorted the pledge of an exjlanation, slowly returned to h side of the chamber, and the House came to order. Hri1’s colleague then arose, and in a brief speech retracted his charge, and the storm blew over. Mr. Hint was in Congress during the eventful winter of 1861. He resigned his seat in February and returned home. He took no part in public affairs during the war, but his convictions and sympathies were strongly on the sido of the Union. He now returns to the capital, where he is wel comed as ove who, though born and bred in the extreme South, was faithful to the country in its most trying epoch, Gen. Fuank P, Buarn was in Congress with Mr. Hint during the turbulent era to which we have referred. He was then the ardent advocate of priuciples which, though secretly cherished by Hri1, the latter did not openly avow. They now meet in the Senate as representatives of two of the old slaveholding States. It will be interesting to watch and see whether they concur in sentiment today as nearly as they did when they sat in the other wing of the Capitol a dozon years ago. aesinbaie z Mr. Sumner is Right. The debato in the Senate on Wednesday upon the appointment of the Rev. M. J CRAMER 98 Minister to Denmark, is most creditable to Mr. SumNeEn, and most discred. itable to Senator CHANDLER and President Gant, CRAMER has been nominated as Minister to Denmark, and, a8 Mr. SuMNEK says, after two months’ inquiry into this nomination, all that the Committee on For- eign Relations ean find is that “this nomi. nee is the brother-in-law of the President and entirely unfit for the office.” This is perfectly truv, and ts as notorious as it is true, It is perhaps too much to expect that the Senate should manfully take up this case and treat it as its merits require. Too many Senators are yet looking for the loaves and fishes of Executive patronage; too many are foolishly trembling lest such Justice to Gen. Gnaxt and his brother-in-law might work some injury to the Republican party, It is therefore perhaps as much as can be expected that the nomination should be allowed to dic n the hands of Mr. Sumnen’s Committee ; but it would be a great deal better for the morals of the country and for the prosperity of the Republican party if the Senate wer to face the musie and put upon this improper nomination the unanimous which it deserves. — The Job of Widening Brondway. Mr. TWEED is entitled to public thanks for the bill he has introduced in the Senate at Albany to repeal the act of May 17, 1869, hh tho widening of Broadway be- tween Thirty-fourth and Fifty-ninth streets was authorized. We trust that he will resolutely press this bill and secure ite passage at an early day. If he does this, it will be impossible henceforth in this city to mention his name without an expression of public gratitude, No worse job than that at which Mr, ‘TwkkD has now struck @ blow was ever do vised and put in operation in this city, It is enough to sey that the awards of the Com: mission for lands amount to more than six millions of dollars, of which over four mil. Hons are levied on individual property holders, and about two millions on the city at large. Many of the lots taken and esti mated at this great value belonged to parties prominent on one side or the other in our local politics, Many of them bought the land after the Commission had begun its work, and in many cages the amount of dam ages awarded to them considerably excoeds the whole sum they paid for their lots; and yot of these lots ouly a part is taken for the proposed widening, In other words, the Commission give them for a portion of thelr land more thay they have wald for the condemnation whole, alttiough they Bought it, as it were, only the day wefore the award was made. This shows that, as it now stands, the whole tramsaction ie « vaet swindle; and there can be no doult that if a new Commission were now appointed to assess the value of the same land, the entire estimate would not exceed four and a half or five millions, in- stead of the six millions which Mr. Twero proposes to wipe out, We say again that Mr. Twerep’s bill is a measure in the public interest, and against speculators who are seeking to enrich them- selves by extorting money from the peoplo of this city. By all means let the bill be passed as 00a as porsible, : —— - ‘The decline of the New York Times in everything that entitles a newspaper to respect and confidence has been rapid and complete, Its present editor—who was dismissed from the Times of London for improper conduct and un truthful writing—bas sunk it into a tedious mo- noteny of slander, utter disregard of truth, and biackguard vituperation, This man’s gratuitous violence and falsehood are relieved by extreme silliness. His calumnies are rounded with absurdit From an insane crusade of defamation against citizens like Pxren Coort Manswait 0. Rosenrs, Moses Tatton, and Joun Jacon Aston, this unaccountable adventurer seems to have entered upon a career of general billingsgate which fills the reader with disgust, while it moves him to contempt and pity, How the gentlemanly instincts of Hexny J. Ratwoxy would revolt if he could wituess the degradation that has been brought upon the Journal he found. ed; and how quickly the proprietors of the un- fortunate Timer, if wisdom ix left among them, will put an end to these senseloss vagaries of one to whom for a time the covtrol of their paper has been confided. —— . People aro being tried in various places for violating<the Internal Revenue laws of the United States, It is lucky that all persons who break these laws are not held to trial, If they were, President Grant would haye to be indicted and arraigned. He has violated the Internal Revenue laws by appointing men to office as sessore and collectors of the revenue whom the law excludes from such appointments, ecbdeaietiul <neeenetsans Gen. Caunat and his party in San Do- mingo say that they have procured supplies and raised additional forces sufficient to bring their war against Bars to speedy conclusion. For some time past Barz has been maintained in power only by the moral support of United States gunboats acting under the illegal orders of Presi dent Guaxt. Now, however, the revolutionists Propose to test the question whether the com. manders of these gunboats will venture to engage in actual hostilities on the side of Baez, Gen. Capnat can try this with safety, The navy of the United States hos no authority to take part in the Domiuican civil war, either for one party or the other; and if the officers of our squadron in these waters should, with or without directions from President Gant, actual'y dire upon the op- ponents of Barz, they will be held to a rigorous account, The President who hes issued such orders to them will also find himself in that event in more trouble than be probably has any idea of, = a We learn that the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company have determined to ol their gauge from six feet to four feet eight inches andabalf. This is # wise resolution, That road has been in operation some fifteen years, and under all changes of administration it bas lost money. Its expericuce establishes the principle that no broad gauge railroad can compete with one of a narrow gauge and pay dividends to its stockholders. The result with the Atlantic and Great Western, and the Erie, the only other six-fect railroads in tho United States, is equally con They must sooner or later follow the exataple of the Ohio and Mis sissippi, and come down to the gan in use, Until this is done, they cannot hope te make dividends, no matter how the traf that is carried on over their lines. — The effort m:king In Congress to take the contro! of foreign imn thorities of the respective ports and transfer it to Federal officials, meets with the determined op- position of the German Society of this city. They have petitioned against the change, as not only not desirnble, bvt likely to be detrimental to the interest of the immigr a well as of the United States, The Presidentjof the Suciety being by Jaw a member of the State Board of Emigration, and familiar with its operations, this opinion is entitled to respectful consideration. sildebenab ats fs The report of the Surveyor-General of Wyoming Territory, which was recently laid be- fore Congress, contains some interesting facts, The report covers the twelve months extending from October, 1869, to September, 1870, The lusive, © generally ation from the State au lowest temperature of that period was 33 deg. 85 min, This was in December, 1889. In July, 1870, the thermometer rose to 88 deg, 83 min. which was the highest point reached, This From twenty. shows an unusually equable climate, January to October, 1870, there were two days when it snowed, aud forty when it rained and hailed, The report states that the alkalies, which ure such great bnybesrs to travellers across the con tinent, ore really great fertilizers, which enabl the gardeners of Wyoming to raise larger vegeta bles than are ever seen east of that Territory Cabbages, hard and solid, of the best quality, and weighing from 25 to 50 pounds, and tur nips weighing from 10 to wounds, are com. mon out there, because alkalies, The potatoes also are very fin ing large and nu merous in the hill, and averaging 409 bushels to the acre; and the Surveyor-General has scen fine oats growing near Laramie City at an alti tude of 7 » the level of the sew, eee : We regret to hear that Mr, Tuomas Kin SELLA proposes to leave the Brooklyn Ey which be bas long beep the editor and princips proprictor,in order to engage in other occupations, It is not surprising that one who has done so much hard work and fought s» many stirring fights as Mr. Kixsktza shoul® be willing to seek some less exacting arena; but in bis case the public will be the loser, He is an able and most successful journalist, with ® broad and ac- complished mind, In bis bands the Zagle hus become one of the foremost Demooratio news pspers in this State, and his successor will tind it no casy matter to muaintuin the reputation he has given it - — Allowing defendants to testify in their own behalf in criminal cases, is an iunovation in legal proceedings which experience has shown the lawyers of Ohio to be 50 useful that they have petitioned Congress to legislate for its ex- tension to the Federal courts of that Stato, They say that it tends to advance the ends of justi without endangering the rights of the accused, It is only recently that the practice hax been in- troduced in this State, but thus fir, we believe, it has been found to work well. pili Mr. William ©, Prime is to lecture this evening upon Bgypt and the Nile at Association Hall, On Briday evening of next week le will lecture at the same place on Syria und Palestine, Few if any liv- ing scholars are more competent to treat these sub- jects than Mr, Prime, and we commend his lectures to all who desire to understand them, UN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY DOWN AMONG THE BLIND. LIVING AND WORKING IN THE MOPE- 1058 DARKNESS OF A CELLAR, _— A New Phase of Metropotti ored—lew Some Biind Peopte Live—low * ‘Tweed's Father— they Work ta the Da: Remintacences of 1! Bvile of Lenisiative Aid. A committee of the blind A Blisd Ma divers grievancoa, tho writer hereof cation, Spraga, the chairman of German grocer pervading the first floor of the prem- ion, we addressed bim ip this wise: “In there one Peter Spragg in this building, sir 1” “Shprage! queried the honest-foced Teuton. “Shorage? Ob, you means der plind man ta der ‘Zhuni down anter here." pited. “Vell, you ahaat go down pelow, outside dere, 14 you'll ud Bhpragg and @ lot of uder pind m ‘ts all litte down dere.”* DOWN AMONG THR BLIND MEM, ‘Thus directed, wo went outside and took survey Of the basement, It was utterly onpromising, The window and door blinds were all up, and it looked as though the place had been closed and deserted for indefluite period, However, we descended the stone steps and knocked at the door. There was no response. We tried the door-knob, and ft yielded to our persuasive twist, We opened the door, Darkness was the only thing that was visible. Wo stepped in and peered about, but our efforts were aurewarded with discoveries. “ Halloo we eried, at the sane tire th {Le floor with our ambrelia, ‘Ifalloo! Is tert anyboay heret Is Peter Spragg hero?" ‘This led to resalis, We heard a door open, Voice came out of the darknor ing: © Yes, this in the place waere Mr, Spragg works." We advanced toward the voles, came to the door, ram against somebody standing in it, and said: Are you Peter Spragg 1” “No, Pim not Mr, Spragg; he's ap stulrs,” was the reply. What do you want? “Mr, Dana of Tum Som sent re to wee Mr. Spragg snd a committee of blind men, to hear what they had to say, and report to lim," we aaswered. This announcement seemed to occasion » cou motion, and tome one hastencd scross the room, opened a door into the ball, and called oui “Peter! Peter! Come down here! air, Dana's man bas come, and wants to talk with you. ‘The buck basement in which we were was dimly lighted at the rear end by o dirty window, the murky light from which, however, did not pene- trte intotbe room more than four or five feet. We Went over to that illuminated epot and looked sronnd, but could see nothing except the dirty win- dow itself and the floor within a few feet of it. Beyond that everything was dim and vague and dare. IN HOPELESS DARKNESS, * How many are there of you bere 1" we asked, Yor, thore'r a Wan Working over Lere,” Was the Tean't sen him,” we said, od you'll Bod bim wor ul the Voice, We went “ over there, and conld see nobody, but Uiougnt we heard some one at work. “ Bring mo a lamp," we said. “J can't stand this darkness. T want to sce whut Is goiug on here.” “Get the gentleman a ligot,” said some one, © There's a lamp on tke deek there, Light it so the gentleman can see,"* A kerosene lamp was lighted, which enadled us to see tive men In the room, One of them was at work in a corner; and taking the lamp tn oor hand, We Went over to Lis side to soe what he was dolug. He was making a scrabbiog brash; that is he patting ebro part info the wooden b He wor! with a rapidity and dexterity w hed us. Until we took the lamp to bie bench bad been WOKKING IN TOTAL DARKNE of course, wade no diff ic was totally blind, |: ea (which is brouglt from 8 the brush, Was lying in @ heap on the W betore him, The teeth of the brush rm size, and muss At the boles in ace, nto Which they are thre ne amount of Tampico grays nece 2 of them was judged of by t nse of touep. He took bis fingers; and it was interests What uccuracy be did it, som Prjecting a few Wirends ovly of Whe arass, in order to make bis Work uniform, you would like to see how we comb this grass.’ *aid one of tae bu. d men. We told Wim we Would, and on going over to the bench whers he was standing, be called our atten Hon to @ jomg-toothed steel comb, fastened back down to the benel, wish the teeth sticking up. ‘Then taking a hai.dtal of the Tamsico grass, which was exceadingly mixod und gparled, We combed it Out so that every Lbre lay straight alongside o1 all its fellows, “How do yon know when you get that properly combed out "we aske “iy the feeling of i ho replied. “Tean tell when it is straight pfogers jusi us well as you can wita your eyes,” he added, SIONTLESS PETER SPRAGG. ‘age had come down, full in iits tee, nu elderly man with sightiess eyes, but a on every lineament of which honesty se weemed to be stamped, His son, « Hold. young mon apparantly adout eighteen, was with him. Youog Spragg 18 blessed with eyesight, and attend atters for his father a8 require the fi The biind old man sat down att ave usa specimen of bis bra makin, t, working with marvellous dexteri We then adjourned up staire to Mr. Sprazg’s Kitchen, where a table was pulied out for us to write at wh ko seat, and said: Now. emen, what do you want tf" want to let the public know just how woare situated,” said one of the blind men, “Tn the first place, let me know Who you are.tMr, Spragg, I will begin with you, Whon aad where were you born ?" +1 was born in Flushing, L. I., to the year 1815," » Were ) 0a born blind f” © No, sir, Tlost my sight in 1990, T had inflam mation’ in my eyes; and_ the doctors was a fool, and he puta bread and milk poultice ‘on my eyes and destroyed my eight entirely, Tbave never seon a ray of light since “Hud-you learned your trade of brashwaker at that timer san aporentice tnen with Daniel Berrien & arletreet, Lafierward worked for Ber- weed & Scaden.” Waist Tweed was that! ILL TWERO'S FATHER, and Scaden ts his father-in-law. Old Mr. Tweed of the nicest men that ‘ever lived—a real fr thought Bill was golug to be min he ts now. ‘The old gentieman was ubled abont Bill, according to all accounts Afraid be wouldn't get on very well. It ue as aliye now, Fquvss he'd be raiber attonished at The next blind man to whom we tnrned our at owas Myer Vau Cott, who was born in Klis Neighborhood, N. J., tm 181, lost his sight by imiammation in the eves When ‘he was % years old, and learned brashmaking of Mr, Spragg iliteen years ago, W iii Gardner was born in Broome street, Now Youk, in 1348; lost his sebt whea 7 years old by in. flsniuiation in tho eyem caused by a cold; learned busvmaking at the Blind Mechanica’ Association five Nicuolus Kennedy was born at St Fulton stroet, in Indl; lost his wight when 10 years old by inflam: mation in the eyes, caused by Water on the brain; learned to make brushes in 1863, at the Blind Me> chapics’ Association, and 0 wake brooms wt te La #titudon for the Bund ‘Thowss Buskin was born tn Ir to America when a ebild; was thrown fom « Wagon when he was 18, whlch injured hia brain so fs \o paralyze the optic nerve and destroy his sight; learned broom-making at the Tustitution for the Blind, wad beushivaking at the Biiud Mechanics’ As sociation, Alva Condeld (not present) was born in New Yor! in 1S44, loot bis sicbt when a child, and graduated at the Lustitution for the Biiu All these persons had gradaated at the Institution for tho Blind in buia eity, WHAT TUM BLIND MEN WANTED, Flavine got the foreguing iact# out of the blind men, we said: “Now, gentlemen, what do you want to say to through Tie Sun? + We want,” said Mr, Van Cott, lie know just how wo are situated, + Sitmated as to wit! wo aske *Well, ae to everything. Wo have to earn our aud it is hard work, and the public don't 41%, Ttis supposed that we can, any of and in 1890; came let the pub us, go 0 the Blind Asylum when we are in want and Ket bh ‘That isn't 60, Then the Blind Mechantes’ Association, It is thought that we can go there at any tine and get work. another mistake, “They ne thirty or forty at the ontatd five liundred and ¢ix bund York,” Bhat Bit and there are between blind people in New Mochantos’ Assooiatton hurts us in ere broke in old Pever Spraga, 2 we asl get help from the State— soveral thoasand dollars every year; aud as they a backed up ta iuat way’ they vl their brushes tur Jess than the cost of tho materiil, and that kills the of ue who are outelde, Ana then they bave persons there to superintend things who are Lot Dil and @ part of the money apy) opriated f New York having appealed to the editor of Tum Sun for ait, and having alleged that they were suffering from tent to in- Vestigate their ease and report the ¢ame for pabit- In pursusnes of our mission, we went a Girected to 488 Ninth avenve im quost of Peter committer, Finding o It isa blind man tuat Iam in search of," we re- te help the blind eves to them, wio might be getline their beige sumewiere cls, A@d 3 we are hurt ol Decanse the owblle Winks we fet tue money, whe? is civen to people Whe have two good eyes tu thelr hewis.” STARTLING PACTS. “ Yes," anid Mr. Van Cott, when wo £9 out to ae'l our brasues or to ‘ped to knock around in any way we can to earn onr living, people ack as why wo don't co to tne Asylum in order fo make them Guderstand way we can’t go Ut for su; port, ater wo have ve must viain the whole aystom on which ried and then they won't w we are lying to them, We ¢ from any of these inst No, sir,” eatd several of the blicd 0 surprive me, been # beneilt to you VA said kr, Gu Why do you soy It has not 3 nor, ** boeanse It has eA ented us ‘so that we 1 i aituation ail the m keenly, and law not given us the avtiity to earn ving, be We supposed, oud ae It pretended, Wt would 0." “ The simple fuct of the matter is," anid Mr. Van Cott, © that a blind man, unless he happens to have musical talent, however well educated he may be, cannot compete with Aman who has his ment, and in the battle of Jife he mast go to the wall, We would hot complain if people would only give us w fair chunce 48 bind mon, and not all the tise treat us A+ though we neod only ko to some aryium, oF home, OF association, to get all we require. 1 tave over hoard them talk walle T have stood on their dvorste:s waiting (0 sell thom some article; for people that can se vecin to think that blind people must be deaf, and nlwayn talk $0 load, rtelit before us, that we can't help hearing them, I haye hoard thom ta lu T must ve an (inpostor becuse y living the best way I could £10 an axyiam to be take ‘That notion very blind person han open for him if he would only @> the very fact that he ooes not go there stamps bim ts one of the hardest thinus we to got over.’ It moots us avevery tura, and w vou to set ihat right. NE-LEGGRD MEN DON'T HAVE ONR-LEGGRD CmIL- DREN. Are vou murried 1" we usked. Bind Man—Yes, sir, Reporter—How long lave rou been married ? Bind Man—Seventeen years. Reporter—Where did you fad your wife ? Bind Man—In the Institution tor the Bind, Reporter—Have you any cuildrea? Hiind Man—Yos, sir; two, Reporter—How bid ure thoy ? Blind Man—One is five, and the other is fourteen. Reporter—Are they 00)#, OF are they girls? Blind Man—Both boy' Reporter—Cun they fee ? Blind Man—Seot 1 gu T was try | ind th + they can, Seot Fes, tir j you bet they can, ‘That is another loollal no: lion that people have, ‘They think that bilnd peo. ple’ children must of necessity ail be born blind, Which is Just am foolish as tv #uppose that a one: Tegged man's ebildren must ali bo bore wish only one ly children can see as weil as any y of the rest of you marrted t Man—Yee; Canfield is married ; been mar. out fonr yoars, and has one boy two years 4 It ean noe. Heporter—In hie wile blind? Bind Man—Yes, THe GREAT EVIL OF THR INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND. Reporter—Where did he make her ueguaintance ? Blind Man—At the Inatitntion Th tnd ete themselves We of course love one another just as much as hus: bands und wives do who cam sve one another, an: perlapy a great deal betier, But sober reasen tells Afler all, that it I# indisereet for poor blind oeo. to got niarried, and have children toat they can- hot support, but’ wlom they love none the less because they'are forever shot out from their sight. Reporter—You bliad people talk ro well, it je di: cult to feol any sympathy lor you as helpless per- sons, It seome all the time as though you are per- fectly able to take care of yoursely cs, Blind Men—We don't want any sympathy, We only want atair show, a3 Leaid befor havo it supposed tbat we are tmpostors simply be cause we try 10 earn our Itving, We also want all legislative aid fairly distribuved in such e manner that it shall wot work bardehip to banudreds of blind people while it helps only a few, and a lot of other rans who are not blind are al nwed to sharo nit; We sluply want these tuings fairly ander- stood. Reporter—Very well, Ihave written down your gletements, and will let you veil your own story in ‘Tur BUN ‘We then took our leave of the blind men, much impressed wiih the hopelessness of their case. As they say, a blind man, however educated he may be, cannot competo with one who t# blessed with right, and must go to tho wail, A friendly visit to 488 Ninth avenue would repay any kind- hearted person who may feel interested in these poor, hosest, industrious, aMicted people. pesca Bsa Fos antes iis TNE KNIONTS OF TRE CUR, —o— Radolphe and Dion Again—Joe Di lenge-Frank Parker and Thin Flynn aner Daniels The Coming Tournament Yesterday morning, Rudotphe and Cyrille Dion bad another bout at billiards, to ny: ment th contest of last week. The game wus American curoms, 260 poits up, for $50 a side, Ten games were played, each player winning five, At this point Dion proposed to continue the piay at doable tue stakes, or $100 @ side; but Redolphe re'used, apd the two creat billiardists separated, neither richer nor pocror than when they met, Joseph Dion writes from Sam Francisco, under date of the th vlt., challenging the wivaer of the next maten for the championship to defend the em Diem aguinst Lis aklil and prowess, Edward Daniels, the Masrachusetts expert, 18 now the happy bolder of two cartels from as. many Win some players. First, Frank Parker, the present champion of the Umled Btaier, evallenges tin to ¢ French or the A nerican game Mors to play in Boston, Daniels's uw cower Tim Fiysa of New 19 meet Daniele in pi ile ancl Froaeu gam) for a puree of ot more succensful with the with the Canadian, Gailiette, « few nights ago, w jose bal! that purse without the shadow of adouot, He attempted to discount Guillette at the three-ball game, and when he locked up bis cue ae COMparing notes with the Canadian, and Wis (WO oF three Limos, that £500 of is b: wealtn Lad been trans foriod to tue w i* opponent. Rudolphe starts for dan Franc inst. Ou the 21st inst. a grand tournament wil! be open own abiding pluce. Fork, whe tan ed at Ch the play to continue for eight days. miler contest of kill between promi- nent local playors will begin at Hartford, Conn, —— Fenians, Have You a Piaco for Colored Ct izeust Sun, Jo the Kuitor of T Sin: As the representatives of five thousand colored citizens of this cily, we desire to know through your valuable paper if the Marshal of the procession of the Fenian reception will graot us a porition in the line of march on that occasion t Yours most respectfully, AnpREW W. Jackson, Watter H, Emznson, Jackson C, Scott, Baxent D, Witsox, Henny W. Jounsrox, Committee New Yous, Feb. 1, a The Kentucky Court of Appeals, From the Courter: It is not generally known beyond the confines of the State that onr Court of Appenis bas b n Gansiormed inve an asylom the dotards and imbecile, and # wurses ines of the profes sion, We have grow: ed ty seeing our Court of Appeals oa! Pluinost dictates of common sense, id do violence to principles whici: are the foundath and support of the law, if any loncer to exist as a reience, ant whieh the tyto, on the very thres: A of bi wt, Ought tO have grap: ered, that it requires & tore than Grate A decision to merit or attract utien- tion, oo Every one who holds @ policy of insurance on his own oF anybody else's life, or who is a any way interested in life insurance, should subscribe so the Protector, & wew journal just ostublished by Mr Bidney Ashmore, and published at 3) Park row, Mr. Asbmore is a gentiemar who bas hed slarge ox in mercantile and Qnancial adfire on both ithe Atlantic, and he proposes im the Pro. tector to inform people in & plain, business-like, and intelligible way just what life iusuranee amonate to, and how fur it is desirable, Me will, moreover, give such explanations of the principles according to Which the solvency of life insurance companies is to be estimated, as will onable persons of ordinary cn. pocity to Judge for thomactves of the merits of tho Vuriovs inetitations which compete for the patron age. Tire undertaking is @ most ase fui and cannot fail to receive general public support, —— Mr. James Parton, whose very roadwble and ia- structive essaya und biographical eketclon in the New York Ledger and othor publications huveeiven dim slmost « world wide reput on, has entered the field as lecturer, In tie Kast and in the Wost he has met with marked success, Ho is to appear for the frst time iu this city on Thursday of next week, at Association Hall, and wo bespoak for dim a full house, ———__- The New York Life Insuraneo Coinpany ix one Of the oldest aud most respectable in tue city, Its wnonal statement, published ta another part of this paper, shows upop what ground thia favorable @pivion is based, We commend it to the sttention Of all who are interested iu the »ubjoct, Many AND OCR LAMB. - fa boodred mannsenpte sent to the onice of select the following ¥ of tle prow room whieh relates the at ties of Mary aol tor lomh, ae apecbnens of From upward £ public opinion o vulyect eonveved fa metrical form. ‘The variety and surprising natare of the ac voulures in whieh Mary ant the lamb—and partica- larly he lamb=are involved, indieate a coneideradle development of the hnaginative facaley amont the NEVO, “Lbese productions are im the sirietest pular poems, Chey emanate from a part o the creat conatinence who fead Tire SUN, and are . Antitore f utterances of tho people, As y Wil bestire to be appreciated, In most anihore modestly withhold their such t instances the wanes: but the verses whieh We print firet, i point of style and Boise amd in Imaginative power, singularly resemble those ebolce mor- ceawe by tho Hon, Von O'Tal with which oar metropolitan weeklies aro oceastonal.y enriched. The envelope enclosing them bore the monosram of the Lotas Clab, of which the Hon. Von O'H. je President, Dare wo surmise that the poem is frum his polished pen? Mere it i Mary had a tittle tani t comtdn't react oF write 5 Whon Mary offered him nis hasty Her hand he'd always bite, Mary took her little lamb Round to the butcher's shop; ‘Then Mary's fatuer gave a food With lois of mutton enop. Mary had a little lamb, It Jumped down in the wel), And after Mary pulled it wp Tt ran and Jamped down again, And was drowned, wb» Mary had a little Jam Lis eyes were heavenly bine, And Mf you toned that litte fap “1 pat a bead on you."* And #0 the teacher turned him outy But 11:1 he lingerod nicar, And waited patiently about, “Then walked off on his ear.* She put him in his Little bea, And bade him go to rest “You bot," the little Iamvkin sat@y “1'll do my level bort.”* Mary bad a littie lamb, Bhe gave that !smp Tue Som, And woe”, it read the nows, it eal "That's how the vhole thi iJ aone.” A Supscnie: Mary had a tittle lamb, “Twas the very picture of Joility, Bat it never amounted to mach, ‘Ap it had no ancillary quality. Marie hat vou I1ddie scheep, Hish voot vas plack as tox + Bhe dook him out to echkate yon tay, Unt tround him ta der Idiot, Tat ven she go mit ped dat night, be tream ahe hear blu pleating s But ven she vake, ehe vas misdaka, He only vas a skeeding. ‘Witasie 111, ‘EW YORK, feb. 1st, 1870, mr. editor dear air ascept this fom @ Uttle gir 6 years old mary hada tittle lama with her it would nov sbe thronghed It down a fight of etatre nd how is that for low, Mary had a littie lamb, And snow white was {ts skin, But when it followed her to school, The boys said, * That's too thin.” ‘Bho missed him from her side; * Alaa” ‘She sa14, "my tamb's a goner.” Bat he was only nibbiing grass By the Littie Church round the Corner. Mary had a itttle lamb, That followed her with fear; When Mary stopped to get a Bom, He" walxed off on bis oar.” Mary bad aititie tamo, That acted very queer, For every time she told it to, “Dwould ** walk off on its ear.” By this, at last, tt broke {ts meck, ‘Then ap at Mary looked, And murmured, as {t closed each eye © Dear Moll, my niurtoa’s cooked.” Mary had a little jamb 1's tall went with a Jerk Bo she cut it off behind the eare To “toe tue old thing work.'* nae Mary had a littie lamb, Its flecee was white as mow, ‘And every time It hoard a BaaeBy It bieated " Not for Joe.” Mary had a iittie lamb, + woo! was black a4 ink, Aud everywhere that Mary want The amd weat tvo, I think. He followed her down town one day Which made Mise Mary ewear 5 Bho caught bic by his hitle neck, ‘Aud pulled him by the hair, ‘She made him “ walk upon his ear,* nd used him like @ brave ; ‘Then * put a hend” upon the dear, ‘And “bust bin ia the snoot.”* Mary Dad a little lamh, All covered o'er with woot He wandered to th ik Bxohange Ant tried to be a Bui ‘The brokers greeted him with Joy, Approxched bin with aquery, And offered to give him a certain potne On a few hundred shares of Erie. The Boars embraccd him with shag, And urged him to take @ risks But he vowed and swore ne wouldn't go ia Untit be couid see Jim Fisk For Jim he went to the Opera Ronee, And wagging hii (an with » Jerk. Tola him about the brokers, and asked, “How does the old thing work ?” Bat Jiin replied tn his choicest Franot Prener qirde you don’s ot fooludy Jene parte pas Anata Altes vous trouver ay Govla, The last that as seen of the Little lamp Wav at the eoraor of Broad and Wall, He was «ding toward the Stock Exchange, And never came back at ail, ALEXr®. Mary vad a Hitlo Jomd As round ay any gherkin, Be took to Kchoo! the old thing once-= ~Tuat's how it was & workin’.” It wade the children Inugh and play fo #00 a sight so now A little voy (o Mary ori “Tit put a head on you ‘The teacher unto Mary saids * You cunning tittle elf, Why did you thus?” ana Mary aatds You know how ‘tis youreoif,” ‘When Mary had to loave the schook She cried in a sad, sad nianver, And went to bed, and softly sald, * That's what's tho matter with Hannah.” Mary hat yon leetle Jame, Dat vas ite mishitress’ br He belt, oond Hitft, oond kept on liMhagy Oon i ond die Haxe Demrracys, fm Mary had a Mttle tanih, Ho died end war A gover Bhe (00 '; bil to sabia And v: told hor ty go to the Lite Cavreb round ibe Corner, Mary tort her littnel tam, Ite fat was friod © tin lard Its Beece made bully bouibad’ Five quarters tothe yard. Mary nad alittle tani Tt pleatoa Dtysire 85 Bhe Kent it on to Washington, And now ehy's Postmistress, Mary had a tittle lund, It drank cold water feely, Abd looked so innoeently wise, he called it Horace Gr © Mary nad a tittle Lan, Tye heard ¥o often wai ‘That all L anow avout it ie, 1 wieh tuat Lamb wae dead, ear EERE keraiiiiiies 1 UNMASKING A GREAT JOB, WUE THE MARKITMEN CANT Hoe WASHTTINGLION ARMTS, ait The Straightforward Statement of @ fiom Deal Whe ore Loterested iu the Hon moval of the Markets Why the Kight= ccoth Ward Market is Uetouche: Che excitewont over the proposed wile of the nrorket proserty was unabated tn Washinctom Mag. ket yesterday, ‘The apoorition tothe measure te not contined to the market t, but extenas to all the own and lessees of proverty from Reade to Cedar street, ant from We:t street to Broadway, Shond Woshington Market be vroken Wp and removed to some other portion of the city, the trade, it is sid, @ Targe proportion of the Present occupants of tueve mores would be Jost, Most of thom depend entirely for their trade ayou retail grocers, wao are oblized to visit Washington Market for their mouts and vegetabies, and while tore purchase their teas, coffees, fruit, wooden ware, brooms, at tie neighboring stores, This cles of trade, it is claimed, is centred almost entirely in the vicinity of Wushington Market, and to brewk thie up would greatly affect ine price of property tn alt the adjoining stroei4, anu entail @ great low of Money and trade on the oceuvante of the storen ‘Ihe feeling among the market mon seems to be ‘that the enle of thi« property is nothing more nor lean than a huge job, concoeted by parties behind the scenes to pnt money in thelr own pockets, ‘The market men claim that, under the ples of improving the inarkets of New York, and of puving money tm the Sinking Fund to help to pay off (he dvbt et the city, thas gaining the popular ear, tt iy voting more wor loss than a A Pew Who are in the 1 LTD WIRE PeLLERe 0 Ket possession uf the pro perty for money-uaking purposes, or cise to compel the Was ople to remove ty the pro posed new marke! on Tairty-tourth stveot and the rth River, which is already in the hands of these thes. Who sre parties most Intereste in bm rd ap thie Thie ria etteot markot 1 inguired w teporter of the Sux of oue of the leading market Wiyt int Alex, B. Peear Chair. on Cities in the Legoslat one of \ pul owners of thie iy fi street market, and ain't voung Gen, Win. M. Tweed another ?t Don't you suppose these men kuow whas thoy ure doing? We don't claim that Ge Cominie. sioners of the Siking Fant are interested ekher dix reetly or indirectly im the sale of this property, bat we do think taal they are influenced un their adtion by men who are directly Interested in the sale of tis property, ‘These men bon’T COME TO THE FRONT and snow their bande, but stand on one side un@ pull the wires, and when the thm cones pop in ana. carry off the spoils. Whv is ittaas th high teen tte, Ward Morket wos not ineladed in le? lwilt tell yon why it wis, There isa market that hea cost more money than any market in the city, It te Uuilt up there between two gas houses, mens, unfavorable locality that could have heen selected, and dop't bring in more than §2,000 revenue to the city. Why was it vuiit the J why ts it not ine claded in the salu? Does the city want to retain ie for a market? Not atall; but it ts on the line of the Avenue © Railroad, of whieh Hank Smith is President, and it is just what they want for a depot. Hank Smith, you know, ts Ting, but be it not ist yet to bay th i pon As ho ir pot of he Avenue whole thing is all cut and dri WHY THEY DON'T BUY WASMIXGFON winmnr, Reporter—If Washington Market is to be why don't your moneyed men in ti together buy it in, aud ows, conu age it to suit yourselves ? ‘Market Man. hat is just what we would do te we had the enance, hut that ts Just what thee men don't intend we stall do. ‘The property wilt doubt. less be cut ap into lots and sold by auetion, aud if these purlies secure Only one OF two Of these Jote it spoile it for market purposes. They ean allord to fay almost any price ior a let. by 80 doing they drive us to their TLirty-fourth stroet market, We could perhaps rise money enough to bay the whole roperty and put up 8 market here that would be aa Honor to the city, if they would allow ua to do it: but that is wot thelr game. They dou't care wi kind of a market we have here, if they cau only FEATHER THEIR OWN NRSTS, They talk about economy and raising money to pay off the debt of the city. Why, that vom bog. If that nject, I tell we will gludiy do. L y leaso the property to ws for the term of twenty-Ove years, and we will bind og solves to pay to the cily ten per cent, oer anna upon the sane Droperty and erees handsome iron bui market, only stipa ting that nt the expiration of that thie we shall be dwe would make you, sir, Id you belcre—a job, and a iis onr intention ‘to 4 uur power to d eat it, There are from 15,090 to 8,00) men directly or indirectly Market, and the am enormous, We ean Lusiness rulued wit it, and we sb of the Commis able to eouvine Of Wil tO resch ailord to eit sult our t making an edor: to prevent all We ean, Of course the ne ners is final; Due we hope to bir (hem (hat Lt will be for she Iptorese dit ———____ and Opera Alouse—Len Silly aw Boulott: Barbe Bleue” is one of the two or three of Offendach'’s operas which leave the pleasantest memory in the of the hearer, The muste ia particularly woll orenostrated, and is throaghout, sparkling and melodious, Of the opera, or of the singing of it at the representation of Wednonday evening, there is nothing spectally to be said, MMe, Silly is toxdequate to the requirements of the opera in this respect ; bat if she doew not sing weil, sho doos with spirit, and ber acting im the character of the peasant girl turm.d Aae Indy was curiously good. There is, rynning through all the best timper sonatio of this clever actress, a vein of bread humor, and something which certainly borders on ling of hidden force an} bur Bre her delineation interesting 40 thy dramatic taste, quite apart from any merit a# mule. Her acting in the court scone, where sho energet: cally hugs ber former friend and idob the youn want, now the Count, and finally drags him witht e spit Of all the opposition of the 5 turd, Was as Vigorous 494 ‘0K of low comedy as oho is apt Shall Rail Govern the From Senainr & Thave allnded her ning frou the growing pow great mo corporations how that powor {s already felt in and polities, and ty ir to exerei#e a cont fluence, dangerous even to our tree Con we'all dard that danger? time to Consider What Wii become of our He when auch 4 power Likes pe Wot palin s, Whvay vely discipline is enforced by cou LAppouls to toereonary ives, and. by prac tices In. thelr very’ natnre corrupting? Ty it not time to consider wnat, under tie infucnoe of « ‘power, a Government will become, whieh we » rounded by demoralizing temptations on all mers, ud which hoids ia Us Hands means of corraplon penetrating wil enheres of suclety ? And consider ing this, in the face of sneh dangers. # at not beh time Unt those temptations should ber hat the meang of corrnotion. slonid be enrtatl And that amoral spirit should he infused ste our boay politic capable of resieting suc ter fluencns ? —_ Mr. David Dudley Victd and the Bric ¢ the & rom the Natio We have ourselves tal » the trouble to muka some inquiry, and are nesnred that Mr, Piekd han hod ouly one argument in the Era cases before Tadge Cordon in that the went eminist Wtin Barnard be has had three mo t Of the motions, two were ther site, and the third wis ® mowon aniey for w contempt in vial one of injunction the threo Wrials, One wae against Vanderbilt ta in a sett! dge or consent. I appeared neuins cover ‘tne ¢ der witha Whe sven), Ramsey aod Raton, sud got jodgmont aguinst Romsey. but war beaten wt agoinst Haton. “Lo the third, judgwent woe tabea by deruit, Thi hot include, of courte, mf, wients before the ral Term, ———— Another Candidate-Judge Ranvey of Obice From the Wayhington Sunday Mer eat beautiful ity of Cleveland, Odio, hives 9 the Oulo Supresuy Cour by Ranney, & patriot jurist and uly the’ clearest, fuliest iota I Btate, but the tioneh niwaye wortInest « Heat tew hay Anu WU, Mais bat and barter tor oflic and was b rimin thon Judge Thurman, saggesty nor OF the political #lyness uf 'Tbome dono venincer bey ston. No ring cou trots n't Hott ehia Joli: Quine: of Krank Bhar. Wit th which Impre that J) vext President of the United St, tare to subinis his wame to the the only min whe hay both a and a really national record i tee anit ' Hin tne ano eunaite y npbiewl v dhe ' ' ew fod Mat atl cow only by