The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 2, 1872, Page 2

~~ Jt Kutuen for AIL TUESDAY, JANUARY 9 1879 ¢ Amoavmente Poatay Marnum's Cront Museum, Le ro D eoth's Theatre Julius Cesar Lewery Thentre Pole # Theatre Cues 8 Gorden the ilar Cred Hew Vork Otros 4th et. onoett Minon's Oirew. 774 and 1% frends Dipmple Theatre Homoty I Fan Froneisee Minstrels To Overa Howse Theatre Comlauo Gran Siar Conpany Unt Tul Castes of Avtreetier W alinen Weeds Museu 0 Mann For the arcommosation ot persons resting a9 OWN. Advertisements for THe £UN wil) be Focelved at eur regular rales at the ap-town ment office, GA 162 West Thirty-ecoond street, at toe Junction of Broadway aod Sixth avenue. from & A.M. to Pak. — - MEVORM TICKET, » NATIONAL Lor President: LYMAN TRUMBULL, oF minor, Aor Vice President: SAMUEL J. TILDEN, OF KRW TORK. ———___ Ineace for the Campaign. 1. One term of office for the Pr More; the Constitution to be hie reform, M1. Both Grantism and Tweedism to bo ado'ishod WH notional sMaire by laws for the sammary panish- ment of present taking and bribe-taking as well as of pat tie roobery, IN, Universal amnesty and restoration of politi es! rights to all persons concerned in the late rebel hon. AV. Reform in the Civil Servier, #0 that eproin- ment to office will ro longer depend on par Patronage, and eannot be ofed asa means of cor Fapting the politics of the coantry and pervetnati Baworthy wen in high places; and so that the P deat cannot apcojut his own relations or tose of Ala wile to ony office whetever. ¥. Reform of the revenue; reduction in the num: oer of reverue officers and the expenses of collect tng doties and taxes; fixed salaries fof all revence @Mecers; the abolition of import duties on all the cessaries of life, and the reduction of other duties to a eonsistent, rational, and moderate aystem; the abolition of unccnetitutional and snperflucus inter. H taxes, leaving only stamps, tobseco, and distil spirits as the subjects of such taxation, VI. Lecistation to prevent the levy of blackmail epon clerks an! other public oMfcers for party politi: eal purposes, and for the summary panistatent alike of those who demand and those who pay suea fontributions. ——$$$—=—— is President Grant Interfering at Albany. One of the principles any complete re- form of the civil service must establish is that Federal officeholders shall abstain from all interference in State politics, Here, for instance, are Mr, Surveyor Con. RELL, Mr. Naval Officer Lariin, Mr. Dis. trict Attorney CrowLty, Mr. Pension Agent Dory, Mr. Collector Da: , and how many more we know not, all at Albany to attend bo the organization of the Legislature of this Btate. This is none of their business, nor their master’s either. They are paid out of the national Treasury for performing duties which require their attention clsewhere. [et them stay at ther proper posts, and leave the people and the Legislature of New York to manage their own affuirs. Things have indced come to a pretty pass when a Bpeaker of the Assembly and two clerks ean- not be chosen in this State w intervention of agents, The Legislature should take an early op. portunity to rebuke such unseemly conduct on the part of these Federal officeholders. ————— The One-Term Principle. There appears to bea general acquiescence: throughout the country in tho wislom of tonfining the Presidential office hereafter to oneterm, Mr, SUMNEK’s recent movement in the Senate is therefore timely, De TOCQUEVILLE in one of Lis most elaborate passages depicts forcibly the evil and danger of our present system; and it cannot have faded from the recollection of the Democratic party that this idea was strongly put forward by Gen, Jackson in some of bis earlier an- ual messages to Congress, It was as favor- ably received by his party at tho timo as it was honestly entertained by the author of the Suggestion itself; though the state of things arose afterward which exhibited a practical refutation of the doctrine, in the high polit ical necessity and duty imposed on Gen JaCKEON himself of becoming a candidate for asecond term,andin the enthusiastic sup port which his reélection received from a vast majority of the people. There is one thing very certain, that the hope of securing a second term of office en- genders a pernicious practice that is at war with the best interests of the republic, It leads to corrupt cabals, and a continued Teaort to the patronage of the office to strengthen and advance the aspirations of the iucumbent, It surrounds the Presideut with a class of wire-pullers and scheming politicians, whose only aim is to stand weil out the in a sore of tho President's with their chief by advancing his ambitiov schemes, and a perfe reliance upon “the end justifies the m Gen, Jackson in his second annual mes who soon acquire the maxim that ge uttered these sign ant words; he appointment of be placed beyond © peopl “Tn order particularly Sropident may, ws far fhe rench o Auiproper be way approach the Richest ofice in the gift ¢ Wutional duty; and that thy Penden © may ve Fr: strong ag Of the poser apa tne 5 pduit, Lcaunot too et you bo the'propriety of pro: 1 y Ou tormn of pervice At the time Bcitler the patronage nor the corruption of She Government had reached anything like the magnitule they have since attained Honce this recommendation has tenfold the ghificance and force that it had then, The office is considercd by its present Incumbent as a species of property, out pf whose opportunities he has the right the uncou wil these words were written m to realize argest pecuniary returos Government, he regards rather a8 o means of promoting individual interest than as op instrument created selely forthe inter est of tle people, And now, when wo read tna leading Republican journal that the President y to visit Phi pia to consult with tho members of the Union Leagne of that city as to the best , rea ann nna hie renomination, we can understand to what extremities he is willing to go, One thing is very certain; that, whether th's igacation of the motive of the vieit be trae se, the fact that euch a publication is nermittca to pasa in eilence is at least signi. ficant. Imayine, if ft be posable, such a statement as this to have been bandied alont among the Administration journals during without ike and ¢ If it nothing else, GRANt’s administra: tion has“ made assurance doubly auro” of tho neecesity of an amendment to the Conetitn. tion #0 as to hereafler confine the Presiden tial office within the limits of a single term. ——— The Great Controversy in Missouri. An interesting correspondence between Mr. C, ALLEN, @ State Senator of Missouri, and Mr. A. Ray, the Chairman of a Liberal Republican County Convention, has beon pallished which gives an inside view of the political condition in that State. Mr. AL- LEN very pathetically pleads that there is no reasou why any differences should exist be- tween the GRANT wing and the Liberal wing of the Republican party, as the prin- ciples contended for by the Liberals have been recognized by all. Therefore, the GRANT men acknowledge that they were in the wrong, and have accepted the doctrines of the Liberals, it is urged that the latter should disband and submit themselves to the rule of the faction who have been waging such bitter warfare upon them. To this appeal Mr. Ray, who is evidently unable to see the matter in the rosy light in which Mr, ALLEN has sought to put it, responds that though one of the caus:s for division in 1870—enfranchisement—was set- tled by means of that division, and hi passed as an issue from the field of polities in Missouri, there were other issues quite ag vital which the Liberal Republicans still think are worth maintaining, The Liberal Republicans demanded the honest collection and expenditure of the revenues, a reform in the civil service of the country, and that the people should bo free to express their principles or their preference as to candidates by their ballots without Presidential inter. ference either by military force or official patronage. These principles, Mr. Ray says, the President thought hostile to his hopes of renomination, and lence he threw the whole weight of his Adminstration against the Liberals. Federal officeholders in the State who had the manhood to take sides as their conscience dictated were immediately turned out of office to make room for the tools of the President. In this insult tho people of Mis- souri sawn thrust at eelf.government, and rising in their might, with an emphas's of nearly 42,000 majority rebuked the insolence of GRANT. Mr. Ray believes that it is highly desirable that both wings of the Republican party should be united in complete harmony and accord, and is certain that this can only Le accomplished under Liberal leadership, which is a very sensible view of the subject. — Ontrages on Emigrants. Lanop, the first mato of the steamer Hansa, has been charged with a grave as sault on a steerage passenger named Wap. bet. The officer got off the vessel at Staten Island, and has not yet been arrested, Whether this particular complaint be well founded or not, the treatmeat of stecrae passengers on some European steamers is a disgrace to the civilization of the nineteenth century, Penned up lke cattle, they are Ujected to every species of abuse from the officers in charge, Outrages are committed of which nothing is afterward heard by the public, the unfortunate emigrants being only too happy on their arrival to remember and complain of what they may have suffered. Through neglect of sanitary precautions, diseases of a permanent nature are often contracted by unfortunate passengers; but even these are in many cases more tolerable than the persoual wrongs they have to en dure, It is high time that foreign steamship companies should be taught that our future citizens are not to be treated like a gang of convicts destined for Botany Bay. Tue price charged for passage ought to secure com- fortable accommodation and a plentiful sup- ply of nourishing food. ae Eire Eg A Dispute Soon Ended, The dispute respecting the Board of Alder. men seems to have been brought toa speedy teriniuation, The old Board had determined to hold over, But in order that they should be able to do this it was necessary that they should be appointed by the Mayor, They claimed their offices by virtue of an act of the Legis- lature extending their term, This act the Court of Appeals decided to be invalid; and in accordance with this decision the new Board was clected in November by the people. But on the other hand, the old Board have contended that this election was of no effect, beeause not held by any special order of the Legislature, But they knew that the expir. ation of their term would leave their places vacant; and as under the charter the Mayor had the powerto fill vacancies in all branches rlier Presidents the terms of our ea astern, indignant m i Lae done of the city government, they desired that he should appoint them, so that they could remain in office, leaving the new Board to take legal proceedings to test the question of right But instead of appol Mayor has elected by the people in ting the old Board, the new one November, He administered the oath of office to its mem hers yesterday, They are in possession of the hall, the archives, and the authori and any proceedings against their title, if brought at all, must be brought by men who will have to confess at the start that their term cf office has expired, and that they have no longer any ground whatever for pretending that they are Aldermen, The whole dispute appears to be ended before it had seriously begun, recognized The proposed new charter for the city of Brooklyn, which is under discussion in the form Committee, if adopted, would hand over bound and gagged to the party that hap al pened to carry the first election under it, It abolishes nearly ail the elective offices and places the government of the city in the bands of missions to be appointed by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Th it consolidates rew 3 is done under the plea that onsibility in the Mayor, and fora he will be pareful to annoint wood men to all places of trast, The Re‘ormers seem to lose sight of the fact that it also consolidates power in the Mayor, by which, if he is #0 di posed, he may perpetuate his mite and that of hia porty as long as the charter is in cxistence ‘Tbe proposition ia anti-republican, and wholly at variance with the spirit of ourinstitutions, It seems to be formed on the principle that the people are dishonest or aro not oxpable of self government. Its onty redeeming feature is the proposition to consolidate the city and county h the Poard of Supervisors. Tt is understood that the Hon. Hewat ©. rriy bas en amended charter to offer for the ap proval of the Legislatare, which cannot tail to be favorably spokon of if not adopted. What are ita provisions is a profound seeret to any but the author or authors, Meantime some of the know ing politicions about the City Mall profess to and ab Nor know that the dleoussion of any other oburter or proposed charter is only meant to divert public attention the veal one - — s ‘The idea that because after oie great battles heavy rains have fallen, therefore the cannonading of the opposing forces eansed the rain, has ao taken hold of the imagination of « man in Chicago that he has petitioned Congress for the use of three hundred pieces of ordnance, twenty thousand blank cartridges, and a number of other appliances, wherewith to make experi- ments to demonstrate the possibility of produc ing rain at will. It is unnecessary for him to put himself to the trouble and the country to the ex- pense he contemplates, The whole subject was long ago scientifically investigated in Europe, and it was found that rain quite as often failed to fall after heavy cannonading as the reverse, Under favorable conditions, such as an atmos- phere saturated with moisture, and not agitated by wind, the concussion of artillery may preeipt- tate showers, but that it produces rain at other times there is no reasou to beheve, neem The annual report of the Chief of the Burea of Statistics on Commerce and Navigation gives the total value of te foreign merchandise imported aud ‘entering into consumption in the United States ‘or the fiseal year ending Jaoe 3), 1871, at $518, 759,518.93, noon which the agcregate duties amoanted to $2)2,- 446,673.83. Of these importations merchandise to t © value of $349,995,607 was received at New York, paying $199,927,209.17 in duties, Amorg the priu- cipal a of foreign production entering into corsumption in this country are manu/acta: of cotton to the value $26,587,904.T1, paying duties to the smount of $10,773.692.43; silk, mapefactured and factured, $31,096,259.02, paving $17,065, £19.85; wool aad manufactures of wool and worst. ed, $52 704,068.97, paying $38,529,475.99: fax, &e., $19,235 ,950.55, paving 86,475.053 72; lid kine, $15,491,781.27, paying §1,943.179.14; leather, @Manulectured and anmanafactared, $10 592,155 34, paying $3 £39,679 60; tea, $14,274,488 07, pay ine $s, 822,904 07; coffee, $29,425,008. paying $10,462, 098.71: pacar, confectionery, eanejuice, and mo: lasses. §$70.802.998.69, paying $32,555.120.16; acirite and wines, $7,931,272. 96, paying $9,432,078 2 8 anounting to $600,905.31 more than ¢! eft value £0008; Iron and steel, manufactured and on Manafactared, $43,256,119.68, paying §15 659,693.65 to the revenue of the United Btutes, It will prob- ably surprise 8 good many veople in this country, and would astonish more in Eorope, to learn that plank, and scantiing to the value of $6,555, imported into the United States dur year, to eiy nothing of several hondred thousand do'lars worth of rough timber, snd over $200,000 worth of fire wood. ——————_ Krapp’s great tron works at Essen, Germany, over nevrly eight eqaare miles, and one anda half alles are under cover. They furnmb empioyment 0.000 men, who do their work under adiscip!ino Mrict as that of the military service. Castin=e Weighing forty tone have boen wade several times Ju these Works, and ten and tweive-ton blocks are every-day sights. ‘There are forty-nine hammers in tue works, of which tour or five are twenty-five ons, three or four @fieen tons, and a large num ber fiveand ton Long ‘The greatest of all the bain mers 18 ® wonder, and coat $500,000, Its fe lions sre one huvdred feet deep, consisting of three tere—the fires constructed of solid masonry, t st and tontest oaks to bé found in all Germany, and the third of cylindrical mente of cast iron upon which the aevil block rests, The head of the hammer weikhs Afty tons Ite face is of stool, and in making it, a’ter tue aeot had been cast, aud while {t was molten, cist tron Was poured into it from the duck. Everything that Delonge to it, and tothe engine that operates it, is duplicate and triplicate, Four steam cranes serve it, and these are eacl: tested to bear two hun trod tons, and are intended to bear forty-ton ingots, whica are the largest cast, In 1968 sixty-one thoa- second of the beay fand tons of steel were turned out from these works, ———. Olive L Disctaime all Sympathy with Free Love, To the Fatior of The dun. Sin; So many journals have copied your state. ment tuat both my Lusband and myself the front line of the wltra-progressionists of in regard to marriage, and the relizious ceremony of Tuesday they reearded a8 a concession to tie prejudices of the unenlightened majority,” that I Will ask you to pi print my denial, Under standing the statement to imply that an ultra-pro- cressionist iu this matter 1s one who hoide the mar. riage bond lightly, ana would break it easily, I aeny that we are eituer of as auch; and the religious cer- emony which juloed us was a “concession to no- body, it was a free-will offering of love to and coa- Adence in each other, and a practiral protest against crowing license of opinion regarding the Chris tian Institution of wedlock, I liitle dreamed, when I attended the Women’s Convention at Sieinway Hall in the spring of 1369 (she only one 1 ever attendes), that the judictoos utterances of that respectable body would ever Jead up to such monstrous doctrines as are now put forth by some advocates of women's enfranchise- ment. In the short speech I made on that occasion, I conjured my bearers to believe that we sought to Wace no war of extermination on the gentle house- hold gods; and] have “progressed” not one inch in this matter since, I still think a happy home the best thing there is on this earth, and I still believe that the old fashioned marriage is thie basis of it, An for my husband, thougn he has loog been Known a8 @ patient investigator into the wronzs and sufferings of the lowly, and as an earnest pleader for charity toward the poor working girls ot New York, be has never once, with pen or tonene, advocated suffrage for women; so that even by implication lie can not be included in the etigma which the enemies of that cause would attach to ail its advocates, Nor is it any sign of ‘ procressivencss” in me hat while Tam Mrs. Wirt Sikes in private life, I am etill professionally Yours uly OLIVE LOGA ‘OM tHe Wing, Dec. $0, 1871. — More of Grant's Relations who are tn Of- flee. To the Editor of The Sun Sin: Your list of the Grant and Dent families who are in office is very instructive eit of cou rom complete, you are aware, Lot me add to ita little, William Sweitzer, brother of Gen. J. B. Sweitzer cousin of the father-in-law of the President's cousin, holds am appointment in the Internal Rev Pa, Very likely inform you pre department in Pittsburg! your Pittsburgh correspondent ca cisely what Js the office of this cousin of a cousin Robert Sbaroe, brother of Alexandir Suarpe enue President's brother-in-law, holds a Gow rnment ap po tin New Orieaus.’ The tiie of fi an ry you can lara from your corre in. New Orleans Tie only curiosity now would be to find a rela tive of Gon, Granc's who does wot Lold any ofice or enjoy a divvy” in the profs of any Yours respectialy, AntiNevorisw. —— The West Side Sayings Bank, 154 Sixth ave nue, has declared {ts usual sewi-aonual dividend of t to depositors, as will bo seen by ite adver tin another column, This Bank js ande 4.0 management of rome of the most bighly re- spected mea of our community, and has jast passed through @ searching examination by the Bank De- hartuent Of this Stale. THE SUN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1872 TOW GRANT EMPLOYS SPIES, PERSONAL GOVERNMENT AND TAPE WAY IT WORKS. cennenes Grant aod hin Uspoputarity-The Oftor~ holders alove Support Him—the Ca cary Affsir-strauee Featare of tho President's Mesmae thick In Waat= fastou The necret Fund- Tho United Staton Botra © Waebing- ton Treaty. Onrresponaence of The San, Wasitxctox, Dec. 81.—The political world here bas quieted down since the beginning of the holidays, ‘The mombers of Congress, being liberally supptiod with doad-bead passe: have run home to look after their private affairs and rejoice quietly in the bosoms of their sere- ral families. The Departments are indalging the appy clerks wita balf holidays, and from to time the Adninistration may be met upon the streets indulging in tie mild dissipa- tion of a walk. It is one of the curious features this of Washington, GRANT IN PUBLIC, Gen, Grant paces along in his slow and awk ward way, with face reddenod by good living, staring vagucly at the world with his odd, lack- lustre eyes, that have less speculation in them than any eycs I have ever encountered, without excit- ing the slightest attention on the part of the crowds be mingles with, Sometimes a stranger turns and gives bim a prolonged stare, but gene- rally be goos on without remark; and this pecu- Narity, Tam told, acoompanies bim in all place Even when crowds are advertised for and every effort made to get up o show of enthusiasm, he is left with @ vacant space about him, as if the air even chilled by his presence and froze people with @ sort of fear or shyness, I have seen litle Stephen A. Douglas fairty lifted off his feet by the enthusiastic crowds that seemed bent upon embracing him; and Mr, Lincoln could not ap- pear without his hand being heartily shaken— even to annoyance at ines. If ever aman lived who had po personal pop- ularity whatever, that man is Gen, Grant; and one is driven to the naked fact of bis eandidacy, and that is the necessity of Lis organization. No other man can be selected who will consent to keep such a horde of foliowers together, aud the followers have therefore Hobson's choice, They will not select any other candidate, for no other candidate would select them. No other promi- nent man would tolerate them foraday. So to give up Grant means political death to the thou. sands oo thousands of officeholders woo now so seriously impose upon the people and make a civil service reform anecessity. You have heard of the farmer who burned his barn to get olear of the rats. We must run out the vermin or the destruction of th Government is inevitable, THE CATACARY AFFAIR, One of the most shocking affairs ina stnall way ) comes to our knowledge uuder the above head. That a President of the United States in so grave a State paper asa message should make an assault, @ personal assault, on the accredited agent of @ great and friendly power, is something new in our diplomatic an- To justify such a! course, to give it even semblance of dignity, it is nocessary that the agent thus treated should have been guilty of somo unheard-of outrage that could not be reached by remonstrance turough ordinary diplo- matic channels. Thave been at some pains to investigate the effair, aud am sorry to say on aco unt of ourown Government, whose digaity is dear to us ail, that the President caunot be sustained. I bad my suspicious aroused before the message was de- livered, I know that agents of the State Depart. ment were offering handsome sums of money to any one who could fasten upon Mr, Catacazy ex- pressions of personal dislike to the President, or who could show that the Russian Minister wrote, dictated, iw letters in Tue Sow, red, of even approved of the Tinon This was done at the very time the Adiinistration organs claimed to have proof positive of the Miuister’s bad conduct. nts have offered # journal weil the reading pubtic @ manuscript tissue of scandalous 6 Mr, aud Madame Catacazy, The editor yet holds this little fie- dis well acquainted with all the parties concerned in the transaction, THA SECRET BERVICH FUND—BPIES, There is s corruption fund, known under the name of the Secret Service Fuud, that ought at an early day to be reformed out of existence. It was an ugly feature in our Goverament pre- vious to the late war; but sinee, with the army of pumps and spies which that extraordinary ex- perience fastened upon us, it has come to be the source of infamous oppression and abuse that ought at once to be corrected, Our personal Government, with its intrigues, hates, and secret contracts, is getting to be alittle too near the despotisms of Europe to be comfortable for the free, pure air of our contivent. If we must have a court, with its little army of dependents—some fifty in nuwber—let us at least shut off the money that under the above name makes ite nuisance, THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SUSTAINS CATACAET, To return, however, to the Catacuzy affuir, The Government at St, Petersburg shows are luctance to following the attack of our Adminis- tration that is very significant, Mr, Catacazy, it is true, has been recalled, but no successor has been designated; and his recall, or rather his return, depends upon his own volition. He left the porty about the Grand Duke for the purpose of arranging his affairs, and is in receipt of tele grams and despatches from both his home Gov- mevt and the Duke so full of sssuranc of kind feeling and distinguished consideration that one is forced to believe that personally the much abused Minister retains the confidence of his superiors, This would scarcely bo the case were he guilty of the grave offences with which the Administration bas stooped to charge bim, hese same og kaowa te res about tion, GRANT'S CASE CANNOT STAND, Noris he guilty, The case will not beara nation; and in stating this Iam not actuated by any personal feeling. it were possivle to sustain our Secretary of State and President in what they have done, I have no liking whatever for Mr, Catscazy, Ile isa coarse, vulgar man, and second only to our own President al detestation, But this is no reason we are not bound to do him justice even when the President is plaintiff in the case, It will be recollected that the charges prefer red were that he spoke in an unbecoming and disrespectful manner of our Chief Magistrate careful ex in gen Sevondly, that he procured certain articles to be published in our journals of @ sort unbecoming the d atic representative of a friendly pow er, Thirdly, that he approached members of Congress and sought to influence them in busi ness not his, or hiy Government's, uor in apy way concerning either. As to the first charge there is no proof oftered of any sort; and at the very time the State De- partnent claimed to have the evidence, its paid spies were busy at work trying to fasten some- thing upon the Russian Minister that would sup- port and justity the allegation, But since when hes it become the practice with our Government to listen at key holes end gather through cracks the idle talk of ny man to justify official abuse of the gravest sort? The personal government s developing with groat rapidity when it comes tobe the fact that one in private conversation cannot speak with disapproval of His Sacred esty without being called to account and dis- graced before the world, The Chargé d’AMuires of the Cannibal Islands says to the Minister Resi- dent of the Guano Groupe that be fears Ulysses 1. is a foot, This being overboard is carried to Ilis Majesty, who waxes wroth and refuses not only to receive the sud Chargd, butdemands bis reeall, and before this can be effected goes to Congress in a mossage in which the scandalous Chargé is gravely rebuked. We aro really coming to a pretty pass, As for the seoond accusa that it anounts to anything, it rests lke the others, upon the slightest fouadation, You will remomber that it tarns npon a statement made in writing by Mr, Adams of the New York Word. Now Mr, Adains is 4 gentleman whose word car. ries conviction, He stands at the hoad of tue profession here, and by his fairness, caution, and abifityhas won the confidence of all who have the good forvane to come in contact with him, And did this evidence turn on bis personal knowledge not a word mare could be said, But it does not. Mr, Adams gives us hearsay testimony only. ‘That he believed it himeelf T have no question, but the fact is he has been imposed on; and the Secretary of State knew as well as he can know anythiog that bis real testimony was too slight to bear exposure, and so he hides it bebind Mr. Adams. The fuct is Mr. Adams held no inter. course whatever with Mr, Catacazy, He never saw the Rossian Minister to speak with him. He sent a Mr, Bd, Harrington, and on Mr. Ed. far- rington’s statement he bases his information. And if Mr, Adams's attention were called to the case, ana lawyer accustomed to weigh evidence would look at it, he would himself hasten to say that it was too slight for belief, o That is all, and it disposes of the entire case. As to the loose talk gathered up and repeated by other witnesses, it 18 not worth even a montion taken in itself, and it ceases to be of moment the instant it ceases to be corroborative, Mr. Cate- cazy solemnly avers he did not write or dictate or inspire the article in question, and to the peo- ple of Washington his denial is good as ogainst young Harrington. ( TUR ALABAMA TREATY—THH ONITED STATES SOLD, As for the remaining count in the Executive Indictment, it is scarcely worth attention, The Atnbama treaty, in which England bought her way into our favor, was a political event directly in the way of the diplomatic business Mr. Cata- cazy was sent here to transact. As the treaty. making power is lodged in a great measure in Congress, the Senate approving, aad the House being called on to make the necessary appropria- tions to carry every treaty into effect, it is proper for foreign diplomatic agents to discuss with members of Congress the treaty under considera. n, just as it is the correct thing to cauvsss such treaty with the Secretary of State or the President In this is the real offence of poor Catacazy, He with Gerolt opposed that infamous transaction that made England through ber gold our ally in- stead of Germany or Russia; and while all our journals were pouring out blind praises and ful- some eulogies, those two able diplomatists were busy uncovering the fraud. That is all, and the whole story. on, even auppostag A GLIMPSE INSIDE, There is a feature in this transaction that car- ries us back to earlicr days of diplomacy in rope when the metter was more ove of in trigue than State negotiation. There is a littie French woman here, young, handsome, sprightly. and accomplished, who won her way into th Catacazy household — through the sympathies of the Minister and bis kind-hearted wife. She was made a companion of, advised with, aod eotrusted with all either the house or Legation eontained, confidential or otherwise. And now it tarns out, or at least is charged by the Catacazys, that she was a spy of the State Department, insinuated into the confidence of these European diplomatists, who ought to have known better, by that dexterous fellow, Bancroft Davis, the bribe-taker. Now only think of it; all the private and public letters, papers, and despatches passed under the eyes of this beauti fuland bright little woman, All that was said went into her sharp little ears, and of course be- cume the property of the State Department And yet with this immense sdvantage, what a beggarly show of evidence on the part of our Jovernment ! @. —— MURDER ON THE NORTH RIVER. aos er's Mate ina Straggle with Rebel- Senmen—One Man Almost Inatantly Killedand A her Meverely W uded. ue schooner Gamage from Portland, Me, Capt, Piteser commanding, recently arrived ip the North River, ana acchored off Twenty-foorth street. Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock the captain started down town, and left the schooner in charze of the mate, Win, H. Harris, with directions to put two men, Samuel Haston and Thomas Anderson, to work cleaping tine deck and scouring the masts Hesson and Anderson retusod to ovey the mat nd becoming ‘involved tn a quarrel, finally came to biows, the cook, K. &, Burley, ao taking a band in imself overoow come back wail quarreiting, to take tie (iio relused, and Harris erawing a stabbed Husson ie the leit bre: yack-«n! wounding pin mortal'y, then makiog a pass at Burley seriously wounded him. A policem soon on tue schooner, and arrosie! Harris. and tue otnere aud took then to the Twentieth street polic tation, boty was rent to the Morgue,sad Burley AMUSEMENTS, Brookiyo Puill The Brooklyn Philharmonic Society gave their fecoudconcert of the seasoa oa Saturday evening at the Academy, before @ large and very enthusi: tic audience. Spour's fue symphony, eration of Ton the beautifal second movement—the andantino— was, by an uousual innovation in the practice of He Cecasions, repeated in deference to universal Dr. Damronch executed the Concerto iu D Major with li conscientious thoroughness and artistic fi L Wid and Incoherent tone p al bits erratic melancholy, its ft ions, was tuonebtfully incerpreved by toe orchestra, and Webel's fresh and ringivg * Jubail” overture cloved the evening. ‘Tne vocal portion of the entertainment was sup: plied by Miss Annie Louise Cary, who is a great favorite iv Brook!\n, ana was nore tin wermiy received. Her selections, " Or la’ suil’ Onda," 11 Meroadante's * Ginramento,” and qual gior no,” from “Semiramide,” were chosen with ad mirable discretion, aud executed with equaily ad mirable taste and accuracy. Tn reply to tie enthus! artic recalls sne rang " Kathleen Mavonrneen " With a feeling Which put new power into tihis fami! ar song, and Auther Suiivan's plaintive * Lui Birds Night," wit spprovriate grace and ten Tue whole concert was thoroughly enjoyable, and tesiided that our Broogl,n frien are resvlved not to fail bevind tne metropolis in tue Boule compet tion uf artistic excelien ——— ; Murder in Wilitamsburgh on New Year's Mornin At 8:80 yesterday morning Mr, Henry Busch, on returning to his home, 237 Scioles street, W 1 scurgh, Was met within 4 few doors of bis resi ¢ by three drunken men, As Mr, Busch pissot them, he was felled with tho bust of m musact The men then jumped upon him and kicked ang beat him in @ fearful manner, Mr, Buschs's cries larmed them and ther ran away, When Busch reacted bis home, he openca his wind and culled to his wie to’ come and #es the me who had assaulted him, Th Fide walk, Ashe lnoked out ono of them said, * There he ts now; give it to iim!” Four anots were then fired at Mr. Busch, Two of the shuis suuck tim, one in the head and the other in tie lef, bound The others shattered a glass avove nis head Capt, Mullen was summoned, and with.n half an hour he bad the outiawa arrested They gave their as John Korr, Francia Kettleberger, and tmann, ‘They reside at 2i7 Scholes street Yesteraay morning they were tasen to the re! ce of Bu ded thei and vetuted out Korr as the Buscha's wonn t WonO reason uuwilng to say ap ick hie, Mr 8! He can ons We Pris ers ore The Double Murder at Nurbor Grace, Havirax, J 1,—In the doubl at Hirbor Grace, N.F, the girl Hamilton confessce Mat Geehan mardered'bis Wile by Kavcking Ler dovo any emotuering her witha featuer ved. Le Wien shot her brother, Savers Hxmiliou, Bie soe tue velped to disvode Of the bodive murder caso UPROARIN THE CHY TALE, IMPRACHMENT OF THUR MAVOR BY THE OLD COMMON COUNCIL Detachments of Police Sent Down to the Parks buty of Course, Aiter AM was Ov =The Stupendous Joke that the AL men Played apon ‘themselves. At 10 o'clock yesterlay morning the Re. form Board of Aldermen assembled in the office of the Commissione: of Jurors in the City Hall ‘They met under their temporary organization, Mr. Vance inthe chair, At9 o'clock the Ring Board bad gathered together in the hall of the Board of Aldermen. The Iteformers bad deter. mined, and were prepared to have served by their counsel, Messrs, Clinton aud Lawrence, on each member of the Ring Board, a writ prohibiting bim from taking his seat ae an Alderman after 12 1.; but the Ring Board bad gone into session at 9 o'clock, and locked themselves in, and there- fore it was impossible to serve the writ of pr hibition upon them, It was soon ascertained that the Ring Board had passed @ resolution im- peaching the Mayor, This transparent folly Astonished the Reform Aldermen, as the impeach- ment of the Mayor, according to the charter, must be by @ resolution of both Boards, and the two Boards could not legally pass a resolu- tion on the same day, While the news of this stupidity of the Ring Board was received with langhter by the Re formers, it produced the opposite effect in the Mayor's office. The Mayor evidently was under an obligation to the old Board to hold them in office under a supposed appointment to a vacan- cy, and therefore was prepared when the hour of noon arrived to proceed to their chamber and swear them in as Aldermen for the coming yea But the news of their attempt to impeach him evideutly was accepted as a discharge on their part to bim of any obligation to appoint them. Immediately he devised measures of defence. Io the meaa time, the Ring Board having passed its resolution of impeachment, and having opened its doors, the counsel of the Reform Board, standing ready with their writs of prohibition, plastered the back of each Alderman with them as he stepped forch from bis den. As this wa: not exactly the whitewashing process of which they were so much in need, each retired with » how! to his original | Here Mr. Roome, the keener of the City Hall, found them, and read to them an order from Mr. Van Nort, the Commissioner of Public Works, requiring that the Reform Board should be admitted to the Aldermen's chamber, They gnasaed their teeth, and swore an Aldermante b that they would © put ahead’ on any man who might attempt to distarb them ia their official duties, Then followed a row, Some bandied fisticuffs ; some shifted their quids of tobaceo; others cursed the Ring that bad brougnt them to this trouble ; and a fow of weak lungs sought the windows for a breath of fresh air. Rowdy hate went down over Aldermanic eyes, Coman for- got his Presidential dignity, and the whole con- cern was swept out of the chamber asthe Re- form Board advanced to the seats prepared for them, Gen, Cochrane then called the Board to order and moved that they go into « temporary orgonization with Alderman Vance in the chair. The Mayor, having been informed of the tem. porary organization of the Board, appeared in thar presence aud explained bis position of de- enee against the hostile Ring Board. He pro. ceeded to swear the Reform Board into office, This having been done, the Board of Aldermen resolved itself into # Board of Supervisors, and having informed the Mayor of the fact, he en tered the room and took his seat as President of the Board, with Mr. Young, the Secretary of the old Board, acting as Secretary. Its business completed, the Board of Aldermen aguin went nto session, finished its business, and adjourned, Its temporary Clerk, Mr. Schafer, subscquently had delivered to him the room of the Clerk of the Board of Aldermen, with all its papers. Thus the Reform Board of Aldermen and Super. visors, recognized and supported by the Mayor f the city, fully and ix are in possession of their seats under authority of Iaw, and in possession of all the rooms, pa. pers, and appliances requisite to their action, The Ring Board is dead and buried, How it was Ail Done. The old Board of Aldermen met yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, The old well-known patri archs of the city were all there; James Irving, with his big diamond stud and his big, jovial face; Tos Coman, with his Oery moustache and his expressive green eyes; and Woltman, with a face a mile aud « half long, Alderman Coman presited, ‘The first business of importance wae a resolution to give the city printing to Frank McMuilea & Co in lien of the New York Printing Company Adopted, Woltman moved to pass the resolution in refer- ence to the Fourth avenue, the objections of ‘Mayor motwithssinding. Adopted. Coman (xoing down the steps from tie President's chair and handing the clerk a paper) ~I beg leave to offer this, ‘The clerk read the following: ‘1 herewith tender my rosignation as President of the Board of Alde men for the year 1871, Thomas Coman, This was rather sadden, but it created no sur outestibly inaugurated, prise, Woltman biinked with bis big eyes—that was all, Alderman Plunkitt—I move that tne resignation be accepteJ, Alderman Caddy, who had taken the chair, put the motion to ® vote, and it was passed. Alderman Plunkitt—I move that we proceed to elect anotner Chairman, Adopted, Alderman Plonkitt—I move that Alderman Wolt- man be elected President of this Board. Adopted Aldermen Pianaitt and Mizchell conducted Wolt- maa, who locked very nervous during the periorm. ance, to the chair, PUESIDENT FOR THE BRIRVEST OF TERMS, Alderman Woltman—Gentiomen, I am obliged te you for the honor youliaveconierred upon me, The time during which I shall have to act as Chairman mey be very brief, peraape it is; but whatever busi pees will come before me will be disposed of with fairness and en, once more I ncerely thang ¥ Aljerman Coman—I'm ready to be sworn in now Presitent Woltman administered the oath of office to him (Coman being member of the new Board of AlJermen). Alderman Cc faltacwily dish man of (ae my ability, President Woltman—I resign, Alderman Plun Kitt, will yoo please take the C inir? Alderman Plunkitt too« the chair Al erman Woltmun at AlJerman Tom Coman be elected to Oi! the vacancy, ‘The motion was adopted, and AlJermen Plunkitt and Woitman were appointed ® committee to con duct tie new President to tne canir Prosigent Uo I sincerely than yeu, gentle men ‘The following report was read by the Clerk, M Mardy: I move t Articles of Lm, Tho Special Committee appoint exawine tie Anancial cond city and county in conjun Appointed oy the Bourd af Suvervi hmeat, by this Board to Fespectiu iy report, that your committee desiring to make « hand nation of ail the city and county accounss, selected the following gentle men, a1 of whom were citizens of wel known cuaracter and irreproachaole integrity, (0 act with them in conducting therexam nation ahd investigas tioo, vizg Wa. A. Booth, Royal Phelps, Paul N docfird, Loos, W. Veares * Jeremiah, B. L Solomon, Robt. L. ¢ t. Lenox Ke nedy, H. B, Coattin, Janes oosevest, Wan. HT Osborne, Sami, Willetts, Jona Do i I son, Joun K. Porte as n,” That ee of c Lizens ap this committee int hereto annen That the sao Coumuitiee report that ROSS PRAUDS NAVE BEEN PUACTI in the Wanagement o! our city and county aMire but dy wot vavlica particular vubiic OM ae of recommen t that any aoec the eitv. and connty anthorities, otver t a copy ot ine recor and ments therein telenen to he transmittod to | } 1 Yocr Committee hav reports of (ier Fevort 1¢ bse § derstoped stunted by in Your co a1 honed thot ‘ reanit, vy 1 tor t pore of ex ematy eatin tes in order dave Leon guuiy of triad, and it RECOVER DACK THR MONEY frandulently ovtained from the eity and t a * fing, and aciion as sh city, your Committee his never received tron any Qusfter guy intimation baat tae od eration oF ase fistance of Common Codgcil was desirable oF requis quisite, of could be mie benedcrl to the. taverests of the city oF the cause of jastice or reform: A Liou your Committee ave Saown Cusir earnestarss und sincerity to laving called to thelr assistance a nu ver of (he ablest snd best ciizens in our city, and Bae thereby caused the waole mac uinery Of frand te eity afd CounIy government .o de thoroash exposed, in a manner that ,eft no doubt whatever in the minds of the citizens of Luis city thet the inves. Uigation tuoroughiy and impartially cons ucted. Your Cominittse are, vowever, of cae opin. ion that te Common Ceun il's!,ould nut be entirely silent or Inactive under the circwnstances, but shub tiey should reco umend Goat such acion be tiken ss the law permits, and te circumstinene of the ca! require, Avd in this connection it ie proper to state Counci were ia vo manner ri bie, either directiy or tudirecity, y Of th rands suown by the Coumit e* en bo nor were ( t by [nw « of knowing OF Loeir exinen lene of preveniing ther being Cmsam usted. THE PRESENT CHARTER ives the Common Conncl! ne control whatever over the departments of tue cy coverement, and dooe aut even require any reoorts bo be mide o ti the Common Council, wor doce it avtborizn we Common Counc! :o ¢4'! for any reports or in omnes Hoa trom the diferent depit This po of controling aad supervising ments of the city governinent meu oy the Common toune:l, Was b reson: chorter Mayor, # one has tae power te appois eads of ‘and control aud wuperyise toe various Deparimenis. The quarterly repo of the warrsats from the city treasury, Wich Were tormeriy tranemitted to the Common Couucli, ere now farnisied to th Mayor, ana tous tue Co.omn Courell nad no me of knowine in w expended, The evident intention of the present charter wae to concentrate power in tae 1a enim specially, if vot ‘or tu® good order and eMcient govern- ment of thecily. Section #7 of the charter of sO Drovides it sual! be duty ot the Mayor to commani- este witb the Common Council at \east once a yoar; to recommend measures counsciea with the sceure Swauwer tie puolie money wa’ Hy Of the city, protecuon and inprovement of is overnment afd Gninves, to be vigilant in eaanng the laws to be executed, and generally to erorm ai euc) dutios as may Le proscribed (or aim by the swe and ordinances. Seccion 31 provides taat the Jopartments spall, when reqacsted by the Mayor, report to him their operations aud actions. Section 3 provides that tie Comptro ler snail renort Ww the May ur once in nivety aays the name of every cersog n Whose favor an acruunt has veen auuited, &e &e. Le tous will be sean tat ‘THe MATOR IS VESTED WIT POLL PowEn re ressonsivilitv in ai) mat relating ta ernment of the city, and is vested with ab authority mecessary to exercise all that powe discharge tat responsioility.. The ouly powe ted iv the Common Council is the power of im. veaching tae Mayor, wnich power a by resviation of two-thirds of a meinbere elected in each Bonrd. A'ier mature and deberae consideration, your Committee aave come w the conclusion tuat the facts Drougat to tae knowedge of your Committee, and which are set fort in tue report of the Comuiittee of Citizens lereto anuexed~ emaud that the Mayor should be i@percaed by tt Common Council, ~ T Mavor being vested by law with the sion of all the various ceparto with perio statements ounts, an) hay eng wagons crosment vers! ol thew, your (ue Mayor should ve frauds of U nm vractised in Ait pioper t beid respuusiv.e aud decwod LIADLE FOR THE FRAUDS that have been conf™itted Your Commities, therefore, recommend that the Mayor be impeacved for auifeasince and inis 4gce in office, in not vavins vropeily discuarged Wwe duties imposed upon ain The charver of 1570 mekes it the Cuty of the Conry of Common Pleas tv aedae by rule whe mods of went and trial of charges fh rt, 10 same heiore the Co ance with any rue that may auoptea by the Court of Common Meas, ‘The report couciudes with a recommendation tha 8 vote of thangs be accorded to the Committee of Citizens who acted with the Committee of the Com+ mon Council in investigating the city and county accounts, The report is signed by Jumee G. Di- , Elward sBctiichtiag, O. W. Plankitt, and Henry Woiltmsn, Commitiee. A resoiution in acoord~ ance with the Committee's report was unanimouslp adopted, ‘The Impeachment of the Mayor. Alderman Woltman—I offer the following resotus tion, ‘The Clerk read the following : Resolved, Lhat A. Oakey Hall, Mayor of the city of New York, lavirg been guilty 0: malleassnce and misieasace tn office, ia having failed to com- Mnaieate to the Common Couaril & ceueral state- ment of the finances of the ctr, and la having 4 tobe vigilant aud active in causing the ordi es 0! the city and laws of the State to bo e: ted aod enforced, and in having ‘ailed to perio: duties prescrived tur uim by city ordinances and f the ntite as required by law, and in Bled to properly discharge ant {wifi th ty imposed upon bim oy law for the leat government of the city, refused to direct tiat no} oneit good order and sn in baving neglected an: Oroper reporis of the operations apd act.una of the Various depattmeuts of the city covernmens be made to bim, and to require that ail such information’ neo mizht have ens bled him to properly discharge tae duties of hia office might be furnished to bim, ae he wa suthorized and empowered oy law to direct and re ¢, an. altnouga furnisped by the Comptrotier, required by law, with & report once in W) dais, snoWivg the name’ of every person in whose tavor a accourt bad audited, with the decision of t with the ual action in baving failed to ¢ enneo wtich said reports must bave made maniions £00 in having recklessly and waatonly sicned the pubic treasury which gacler the law be was hound (o investigute, ander the provision of law conferriug Upon him ite power to require apy inforwation which he might demaad, By AND UE BY 18 IMPEACHED ‘or the maliessance and misfeasance iu oMfice afore noid aired, That the Coun to the Corporation, Cnaries O'Conor aud Jona ty aud ihey ard be eby appolutea to prepare articios of iin ven iosecute tag same by ore tue piuper tribunal The resoiution was unanimous'y adopied Aldermao Piunkiti—I move that a recess be taker fl 10y o'clock, The motion was agr dito, and the Board at ten minutes past 10 toox a rac The room wae cleared, and orders were given to ad.nit no one. Enter the New Bourd of Alder Meanwhile the Reiorim Alaermeu bad n the Governor's room, and Mr. HM, L. Chuton al counsel of the new Board, made nis apposr ance, A grest crowd gutuered tround him, “E have writs of the Supreme Court,” be told the Sep orter, prohibiting the Allermen ana Aesistant Aldermen from even fitting after 12 o'clock as Al fermen, ‘They aro trying to evade tue service; but I will get at then." Nv, Clinton sent bis clerk, Mr. Andrew Shielda, servo the writs on the Alvermen, who were locked up in their chamber, d ing the nouoe by Which they could continne in office tor anotner year, ‘The young man was denied admission; bat Sually he slipped in, and, seelag Allerwaa Milclilt at bis desk, wanted to go inside the lo give him the writ, He was pot allowed, however, to ge de the railicg, oo he threw tied cunent om he Geek, saying : “Alderman, here'a a writ of (ie Supreme Court for you; here's (ue orig Alderman Mitchell , that he had pot heard a word, and let th the floor, I's oll the wan , young tan at the writ is ery ) ie serve We MeN s K aso ner y \ n AAwiseion, DU aw doormeever Wien Le saw tied 2 a ttn déwaéindé ave