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hope of keeping them in offic the single year 1x72 than it will cost Great Britain to eupport the Queen and all her numerous princely relations for five years a Suw. APRIL 27, 1872. Ile is a son of The > Land Reform in Great Britains The agricultural interests of Great Britain hak nett Bdge ‘ory condition, not. | mark that he Academy of M Tit Foals Revenge withstanding sin scientit speaking in Norfolk last October after careful consideration come to the conelu soil of the than half what {t ought to be. opinion has more rec rd Denny, who says that ealeula- ully made con- loss to the Cooper Institute Fitth Avenue Theatre Arve Grand Opera Houre that the product country Was not more et, Brook- | ing in the woodshed. [named Ricnano Cneistie came to the | shed and asked to be allowed | in Weiss, aged 10, refused | vung Cristie | James Theatre Mi! mntly been expressed | Thirty fourth sirect T aire Comtyue vinced him country from doficicnt cultivation was no Jess than £200,000,000, a sum equal to three nof the kingdom. | It is not believed that farmers make great | profits, notwithstanding that the agricul tural laborers of England receive but the work. The de- | plorable condition of this class of the pe lation, as shown by the tondmit him, whereupon y drew a pistol, pointed it through a knot. | le, and shot Wrotre in the fi died in three days. fracas among the Tammany | monitors—the Mahopac, the battle ery was, Five or six shots striking MeNanuy d Fortunately for his 4 it was a cd ight one, Tho testimony of | the affair went t show that It was their constant habit to go | abe armed with pistols, and fire away at tho | the whole matter was settled so far as the Navy Speaking of MeN anu Wood's Mune whole taxati “Give it to him good were fired, 01 over the heart. cal aspirations, stead of a st all the men enge reports of Parlin | y commissions, and brought just | zh the agita- now into spe tion of the subject caused by the We shire strike, is exciting gen nd is ascribed primarily to | lack of capital at the command of | “¢ who cultivate the soil. inion is expressed in influential dis constantly gaining ground, est drawback to the agricul- “at Britain consists in the cumbersome and antiquated system ef ate to keep the greater nds in the hands of a of families. inhabitants of Prussia, not less than five millions are di- rectly interested in the soil as small pro- prietors; while in G equal population, there are not more than four hundred thousand persons who own cause of this state ot so much the poverty of the farmers as the fact that the purchase of Mt Britain is attended with such expenses in r, lawyers’ fees, search extending back an indefinite number of vars, and the like, that a man of small means finds it far cheaper to rent his farm than to buy it, even if he has the money in It follows that persons en- gnged in the cultivation of ground whi does not belong to them will not be likely to expend thuir money in such at as to insure its permane: thus bring it to the hig ductivencss, Another ser yal attention ust provocatic Hon, James Invine Iways carry etion day th narked. that | 4ad other clat ved at our rc about with were hanging out of eve Other deplorable shooting aifrays, » Innet be fresh | tion. As thisis a new epidemic of crime, decisive action to that the gr Avenue, and BOS West Twenty-third street, # House, from S A.M. bo onfined to no class or land laws, which o tion of arable 1 comparatively small numb twenty-five Pretences. The Administration party of this coun. ced, is emphatically quire sharp and meet and counteract it. penance Dr. Greeley’s Prospects. neewey is steadily gaining try, as now party of false pretences. be Republican, party sense nor in th neither in a rimeaning of aikes the only test of fide! Dlind and upreasoning n individual who was nev Republican until he was taken up by the organization as a candidate for offi rectly to the subversion of and the adoption obedience to the man, Who is alike regardless of the obligations of the Constitution and the laws, when the atabitious designs or c¢ Dr. Horace with the Democracy. The Southern Stat Cincinnati if they are truly represented. Col. F, A. Conkiine, chairman of the delegation appointed at the Cooper Insti- tute meeting, being prevented from at- tending the Convent ter to Mr. T. G, GLACRENSKLER, the vice- chairman, urging the delegation of New nit for Dr, GREELEY, —.-—_ ts lawyers find ample Ingenuity in try- it Britain, with an will be for him at the soil they till. of things is policy tends di n principles the way of es for titles has written a let- ork to vote asa viiet with his preju- Massachuse scope for the exercise of thelr ing to ald their clieats to evade the provisions fome very curious points been made in cases of this character, ne Court in Boston, the other day, the | exe came up of two men w the House of Correcti na writ of error. f the men in seem to thin! flatly told his Ht his pocket. But of all the false pretences under which the people Adininistration a new lease of pe ds more elariugly absurd persistently ur remarkable pr In the first plice, the finances of the | ¢, country, except to oppose ecouomi Vhat matte Beeretary of Who levy tases and dispose of the p dy that Grant eres in paying were taken out of | Congress that there we ‘The Judge required the urt, but their counsel essary, and Hnally hat they wer 1 of the Court, since all that firm or reverse vus obstruction to the high- t development of agriculture in G iu the laws of entail and liese discourage th jeultural opera. 1 | tires of the Litton Sune Mt had power to udgment of the vestment of cupital in ag entenced fort y had served two days They were let out by the Court. vemse and deliv of renl estate, ter portion of the real estate by persons who in ty are only teunnts for life, and who, therefore, Will not spend money on their land as freely as if they owned it is often out of their property is all me embarrassed, they cannot sell it or borrow money on it at | reasonable terms, but have to stru ife the nominal owners of large mnot make properly Tomnts cannot be exp in schemes for depleting the Pr elit of bis eroul to the trans laws the gre wid his swarm of wortble Dewepaper organs sperk as if he was paying off the debt out fn fact he does not even BUI, it is ured that obsequious | 48 1 EW sentenc Fhe Judge gently in whether, haying had power to the Court could not vacat d let the sentence ¢ the counsel promptly respon performing a miracle, ich the men were nis own pocket, when na income tax, 1” Not without ‘The three months for They | contra power to do so, for if th Al policy of the € nd they bec RANT all the credit, if | ut before the people muke up their miuds ty reviect him on the grou porters insist upon it, them run on again.” the Judge ns a point requiring examination, and of his prud which they examine into the What that nmnag era diffieult th n in Spain is ex- ent really amounts to. ug to do, as the figures presented by the Treasury Depart ment reveal some astounding diserepan- cies, suggestive of gross carclussness, if not utation; but, taking figures us they are given to us, what id that Grasxr has paid $29,000,000 of the public debt in three land which they culti existing laws they ha claim for unexhausted improvements, ex- cept in Ireland, and it would be foolish in n to spend their own means for th of landlords who m adrift at the expiration of their leases, with out any compe psiderable anxtety n to the consti tuted author » attached tolt, crowned heads on the the feeble tenure of th pected hy shrewd European statesmen to have thrown by Queen Cristina, the grand- Her plan {s sup tional misrepy y turn them ince ALFONSO, to be to set t (the supporters of King AMADEUS) by the ears for which purpose she Is stated to have liberally | in the expectation two contending parties shall decimated each other, thero will be less fective opposition for her to overcome in her wt of restoring the Spant ation for what o the permanent value * | Mr. Robeson, in 1, directed a reinvestization loosened her 5 that after th A significant indication of the drift of ion in Pngland fact Chat on th ninons, Mr. W. Pow ry moved a vesolution condemning the pres- ent state of the how of entail and strict set- | Zement to the apital in age resolution was negatived by a introduction served t fu anitaated discussion weug Which Mr, Ler’s motion received the curne prominent House, who gave free expression to their views in favor of sweeping reforms in the Tt nlso had the effect of draw- ing from Mr, Guaper ire subject of the laws of entail, set- ud limited ownership demands ration of Pars equaliy true, on the sai 1 this subject Pitid $1,066,000,000 9h inst., in Hid $1,066,000," 1 crown to her merit, ANDY Was nearly mmissioners have Beviture a large investinent of Principals are hereafter to recety and the wages sexes have be mous taxes from ( vers of both n ralsed from 18 to% por cent, Op investigation the Commissio rs of the sche elving more for thelr services th The action of the Commission- ool tax ubout $900,000 a jew of the salaries of Court and Com- | neil oflvers, no one Ject to the increased salartes of the tea The Commissioners have Melent teachers. a Board of Exam men of the k a ia RE EE t the finances nomicatly managed, Administrati thatthe Jan 1 buildings were Leaving out of the the stupendous subsidies which have becn granted to corporat Administration majority in ¢ »propriated. b ere will increase the sc npress, the taken steps to . consisting of th ding committees of the Board of Education, Gen, Webb of the Colle: of New York, Mr. Hunter of the Normal Col and Prof, David B. Seott. M before them from tim all teachers in the Department, for the purp. ut those who are incompetent and | * of Govert- | the early and seric cornet Various circunnstinces have combined to ul promincuee in in at this thin " f civil service rv the tsent year | ditures une * tation will be Taam where a few lored women w tip in unexhausted i Ww of entail is cone | ae vor is that it tends to ' H ! = Epidemic. Litle her to practise rs HI believe that the sheddit taking of hu Abinet attempts to make support comes f ne in mind that the Bourwrts Voases where p years, Which was nd loss of life only by the | gessor of Tut supervisors A brief narrative of the cases th | may furnish fo tionandawaken | | | the disponsers of law aad justice toa 1 Inthe business, and Ghousands are depend for subsistence Isierous, untavorable ¥ Ht March his awake apprehensions, prevail among busine On Wednesday night, April 1, uh an altercation ed the gloom id the Linpression ts # men of the ythe public servicer, by a reors of the Second Mie ofices; and the s not done is that the are wanted to wor tion lu opposition to the menat the men who fii tt for GRANT'® Ve desire of the majority CianLes Diner has made loud eomy n Victoria and the the imporiug sum of Guant and his relations Will cost the people of the United States, expenditures incurred in the Lt was a good shot, mid Davin Banry, aged The bullet had gone through his brain It is feared that at the land that th + and are either wight in the or fo have been unusually tseason, and has ef ly Interfored with the operations of the fishers while the heavy snow-storms have ren ver its surface very dangerous The young mien | on account of the mumerous crevices, closely Jammod a (penetrate the pi Deset and drifte down your MINGS, A proprietor of a dance house in Houston street, Informed a polic onng men were con His place that night with the avowed in- tention of killing him, abundant duying 2707, 000 a your, dored travelling THE SUN, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1872 called ns promised, An indiscriminate shooting took place; Comaixos was shot in ind Ayoung man named CHARLES LEM ENS was shot in the abdomen, evs will probably die, wealthy and respectable parents, rough, who was charged with being @ participant in the melée, made the re- vd nothing to do with that continued, “nothing but a lot of little snips who | run around with pop-guns strapped to | hips, and blaze away at nothing. They don't know what real bus! A few days ago some boys who lived in the same hous lyn, were pl ROBESON’S MIGHTY FRAUDS. —— THE LAW BROKEN FVIDENCE AC- CUMULATED. —> The First of retary Robeson Proved and Hee Him wo that It can Never be Ei From the Nation. led upon needs Since we made list week the charge | against Secretary Robeson of having legally | paid $90,000 on the Secor claim, Senator Wilson has appeared at the Cooper Institute and assert- | ed that this charge was unfounded, and that Mr. ‘Trumbull’e account of it, In his #peceh at the Liberal Republican meeting, was ini urate, Mr. Wilson, at the same time, read a written state- ment of the case, doubtle ton, as the (rue vers! prepared at Washing . We shall now show that Senator Wilson's own story is « misrepresenta tion, and that the written statement whieh he read was another; itis charitable but dificult to suppose that both he and the writer of the statement were ignorant of the facts. During the war in 1862, the Secors contracted to build forthe Government three fron-clad ‘ecumseh, and Man- hattan-for $1,380,000. ‘The vessels were com= pleted in 1864, AIl bills and elaims of the cons | tractors were presented, while the vessels wei Deing built and after their completion, to a Board of which Admiral Gregory, and atterward Adwiral Ringgold, was the head, On the report of these Boards the contractors were paid the | contract price, and for extra work over and the contract price, $121,196.15 ; and in 1807, | Department was concern The contractors 8 which the Department refured | to allow. They then appealed to Conyress, which passed the following law Char. CXLVIL—An act for the Relief of certain Cons tractors for the Coustruction of Verscls of War and Machinery enacted. by the Sonat OF the United ‘That the Seer A Hove of Renre Amerie i cangress y of the Navy 1° hereby est gute the victims af mit Coutrnctore for bailing resvete of ear and. arene rae chinery for the came under eontractemade after the fret fay of May, eighteen hundred and siaty-one, end prior the D, handred and xy the - baste : be etal! cost which h ‘the coin: mF Alter nor hie in the plane oF fons Feauired, and dels paccution Of the “work occarioned yt whieh Provided. for ° Ho tot giant tilowance "for dvance tn the price of iabor or matertal hail be considered, unless such advance occurred dur- Tne the prolonged Gime. for completing the work Fen- dered necessary by th Lae / resultlog: wn the activ of the Govern foreseld, and then only when auch voided by th advance could eben reine of ne exe ordinary prudenc illgence on the pa of the con t aud from auch additioual cost, to be aacertalu- Ld, the Ii be deducted such #uul as Thay have becn paldeach coutractor for any reason hereto fore over sndabire the coutract price ; aud shall report to Congress tabular ‘of bach case, which shall contain the paw of the contractor, a description of the. work, the contract price Wliole increased th he coutra aused by the de! aforesaid, and the aud above the o paid the Approved M The concluding section, which we omit, re~ lated solely to the Dunderberg. Under the above act a board was organized to examine the claims of Secor & C prine, Se~ | cor& Co., and other contractors, and on their port the Secretary of the Navy reported to due to Secor & Co, and Perine, Secor & Co, $115,600.01, and thereupon Congress, in 1868, passed the following act: (Private—No. 76.) Ay Act for the Koliet Uf certain Government Con tractors. Hei enacted by the nate and House of Kepreventa: a Amerie 4 and Porn dred and fidte tit tyentne dalle thtrty-ciuie thous to Hie Acantie f far © @UE Luudred aad DEY-(Wo Wollare abd Hity-eght to Aguila Adaiis, the sum of f fed wad Aity-two doNare and Afty-elehtecute Tit the wim oF f i \ ‘ « the sui of Minty eh d thirteen ‘aud 10 we WioKKand m red Khty-one € of the parties herein respectively bamed by the under an act Of Congress or the relief of — certain ole of wor ana funder th Approved July 13, 185, ‘Tho $115,539.01 was paid to the Secors and thelr receipt given in iM, v rding to the act of Congress, was “in full discharge of all claims agalust the United States on account of the vessels upon which th Board made the allowance.” Notwithstanding the payment of the contract price, $1,380,000 and $021,105.15 for extra work, and afterward of $115,509.01 tn full of all claims on account of tiie vessels constructed by Secor & Co. and Perine | Secor & Co., the present Secretary of the of the claims of these contractors by a Board of cers in Lis Department, and on their report paid the contractcrs, in 1870, 8,000 more. In doing this Mr. Robeson, we repent, violated (1) the settled rule of the Department not to open accounts settled by a previous Administration, except possibly inthe case of newly discovered evidence; (2) a positive act of Congress, which Airccted that the $115,590.01 should be tn full dis- charge of all claims against the United States on recount of the veaels upon whieh it was paid; and (0) another statute by taking money appro- priated forthe fiscal year ending June 90, 1810, to pay a claim which arose six years before, Mr. Wilson, in his New York speech, in reply- ing to Mr. Trumbull, who had fon with paying money out of the ‘Creasury illegally, and on a claim that had once been settied, said: A Board was appointed under the of 1907, to examine into damages, not into work done, not Into material furnished, ‘The law directed the Secretary of the Navy "t¢ investigate the claims (not damag tr for building veesels of war,” &e. part of Mr, Wilson; but he made another, for he further said this claim of $3,000 * was never | ferred to a Board at all,” and in the written statement he furnished, the source of which cannot be mistak issaid to be * for work ly done”—" a debt ;" but the fact ts, the whole contract pric lion besides for extra work, had been pald by Mr, Welles, the former § ary of the Navy, on the report of Boards who passed on the bills of the contractors at the time, and refused Lo allow the ¢64 Mr, Wilton § Written statoment further alleges that the f Isis did not provide that the Of G15,507.01 should bo ‘in full for all elaty hich the Board made thetr alloy rt) Why, then, were the Account of the vessels" inserted In th wi Th th upon which the Board made (heir r nd fo say that i did not embrace all int of those vessels is a plain pe the very letter, as well as the whole ft. Worse remains to be told le, May Lay 1st hey port paid under the law of Ie, and after enamerat fng them, Including Secor, and mentioning the amoun: paid to each of them, including the $115,009.01 to Secor, Ht say the | noon t rath v 1¥ in tut ed tthe Cute trek acou t eupen ® e Board Wave the Cowes PER Looe Peport, wncer the act of Mareh i t Of an ovrpoue censity, ae ' ‘ parties receive / ‘ but r et just for the Gaverninent Atier that tte woes ra ( t Bol, pou y Fou i rece A f ry Teihee to Thus we | the act @ completo prohibition of any further payments, and thotin deflance of this declaras | Hon Mr. Hobeson did make further payment, as Wo sald last week, “without an: warrant of lan | Whitewash for Robeson, Secretary Robeson filed his counter case with the House Investigating (& ¢, whitewash The) Committee, yesterday, Lt will! be rememe ed that the Prosecuting Attorney withdrew BOIe Lime AKOUr Fuller lok d chidnue Uf venue ular court belong oonvineed of the do- termination of Mr. Sargent to evade all unfavorable y Secretary does not adopt ument most obviously auited to his case, hat all laws restricting the action of heuda of departinents are to be taken in a Pickwickian LYDIA SUERMAN FOUND GUILTY. partisan commit Statutes which Forbade a Verdict in the First Degree—Tmprisoament for Life to bi the Sentence-A Warrant Ready on Aus other Charge of Poisoning, New Havey, April 26.—The trial of Lydia Sherman fa ended. The court opened this mot Jarger attendance t Park arose and charged the jury, taking fifty- to doit. MMe carefully reviewed the for the defence, exact position of Sun's Charges Against Roce Brom the Howon Pom, n claims “as complete a vin: anges against “and it is reporte ashington that the committee has it asaurance that he will receive for the Sere every Congressional vestigate the Secretary Robes ication ax the ¢ ‘oss and. erron that such good gre evidence for the State showing the the stetute, which re jommmittee, appe ot Of the Administration, is ly and simply to. white mmittee gives him a there are r the public will regard it as nto the wencral rule, the mass of ace on the other, prowrees of this Lavestigation well inary render, the uM Vent to dis {for an acquittal, i he Sectetary eoount, $10,000 of the tires two witnesses, oF what {8 equivalent, to convict of murder in the ee, and showed that they could find murder in the se ‘The charge was strong for the Btate, but I have been otherwise. own at the lat moment, conclusion of the charge the jury retired. The f conversed with whole time it was out, and showed Little oner than Was expected th js but ie was only, py of the statu omplete vindieation,’ Without considering | Rates from at p on the one side and ex. | could not we Mr, Robeson Nas paid out, on this or people's money wit he of the Jury Fe the foreman asking for « It wae itty minutes af that it reap I argument iumittee Mr. oes Not suce t ome durin his term of mvelf with paying thing to the po "vom the Clereland Plaindea What of the Secor sw Jation here, in view y, have you agreed upon replied the foreman, and | “We find tt murder in th rikoner pressed full and final 1s aus though ut by Jailor Webster, fol- Mocked the str Tinto an opon buggy and was drawn to Jowed by a crowd thi 9. te be pated $98),000 aed ith an appropriation fund every dollar of which had been dedivaied by act o sof which they approved, and totally ‘Therefore, this tion of funds entrosted to bim under instru tions which he grossly violated was entirely The sentence probably will not be given until some Gays hence. Had Mrs. Sherman aoquitted it is said a bench warrant, which was in the court room, would have taken herto Fairs answer the charge of pots On this charg the end of the tern ent for life. former husband. fs a clear eas: From the Chicago Tribune. | for Congress to add nd other acts hereafter paase hoof the. pre in. 4 med Clark, Ww tence for vagrancy nd from which he dled tw B.Ax. Foster and Win. L the State, and James 1. nbergh for the Will not last, It fs thought, more than two days, The negro admits that he struck Warner, but nt only to stun him, so that he It is thought by many that the justly contined tn the aluishouse, ordinate officers of that Departinent? ter appear fe AMUSEMENTS, Pinnoforte Matinee. Alfredo Barili gives his se forte matinge at Chickering’s Hall this afterr He is a younger member of # family that has tifled with the cause musical art in this country, and bas in large usical ability that belongs to his artist fsa Ron oF Antonio Barili, one distinguished and successful teachers. The other have been singers, but uself to another branch His first matinés was given last Sat- urday, and he then showed that although so young he has already con of the mechanical dific says he me nd pinno- for many years A WARNING TO SPAIN, Congress Taking w urd—The Administration Instracted to Des race. The yo! the Ouse of Dr. members of his famil for Justice. Alfredo has devoted hi ‘The House re- consideration of fe Dr. Houard Wasnnarox, Ap! uered the greater part ies of the planoforte . A METHODIST ECUMENICAT, MIE QUADRENNIAL CONE RENCE OF WESLE DISCIPLES, Av Imposing Assemblage ia the Brookivn Academy of Bitinent Clergy from Baw rope, Asia, Atrio, Ameri The Ge al Conference of the Methee } dist Episcopal Church, which will bezia its seme sions in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, om Wednesday next, is an Beumenioal Council ao far us that denomination is concerned, and equally so with the famous Roman Counell of two years It will be composed of deloe rts of the world where this pare cular form of ehureh organization bas obtal 8 foothold. It is the highest tribunal « Methodtat scopal Church, and exer world-wide jurisdiction ever that denomina tion, with the single exception of that branch in this country known as the Church South, which separated from the main fold a number of years ago on the slavery issue THE GENERAL CONFERENCE every four years, and has ‘etofore heen ved exclusively of clerical delegates from the Annual Conferences, Bach Atinual Conference ts entitled to one delegate for every thirty menbers of which it Is com- and one for a fraction of thirty exceed ne onthirds, The approaching Conference wht are now but five bish «Powis A, Morris te will participate in. thie ope, Aging and A sof the United States, eof Liberia, in Atriew, Will be the Rev, Me. Pitinan, @ native African, who is already here,” The Annual Cot ferenve of Germany and Switzerland will be rep resented by the Mey. 1 obs; that of Inde by Henry Mansell; white the churcte fn Chinn send th endent of Missivns 10 that country, the Rey. Dr. Maclay, PREPARATIONS IN BROOKLYN, The Brooklyn Academy of Muste, which hae been engaged for this asser Ig now belie put in re for its occupancy, ‘Tho parquet Beats AL first two blocks of seats. In the baleony will be resery chestra space ta tion of ti yt the house, with stage, will be t others take turn: - ope, of whoa Ul the se Conference Te for delegate apart for the acc ere of Uh Heyates it Is probable that the Conference, seasions daily, beginning at 9 A.M. and journing about ne The afternoons ands eninge will be given up to work in committees. THE QUESTION OF LAY DBLNGATES, As soon as the organization Is effected It is ble that the question of the admisston of, legates will be taken up. ‘The last Genoral Conference proposed a modification of the Aix Mr. Banks (Rep., Mass,), Chairvian of the Com- preign Affairs, supported the r ech, in whic He could not fol of the gentleman from Vermont (Willard), be« like a crab, move backs It was their duty to progress and to de fine anew in the light of reas right the conditions and privileges and responsl« bilities of citizens of one State while resident uralized fn another State, and In the end, world on that question its character from the Government a from the prin ples it factiity, a bright, clear What cemains » the subtier gra ‘These seldur unl later 4 4 Baril has an admirable fou nwhich to build, At the present and ng two matinées Mr. Iarily will be as ¥ Mins Eliza Mooney, 7 and admirable executic for hity to attain he went over the me in thelr whole question, fullest expre ly also take: matinée is w t P ® the direction Mr. Antonio the whole law of th at the Brooklyn Ly pera which is of The libretto is from the se, the musi evidence to show k the oath of alle Spanish Governn JobnM, Loret way. Mr. Luger Frank Dalion. art of Bada lark, Mr. Jobo Ciark i that would be title of Ut 1 rtuinly Is to be an t of what can be in the Way of opcratle cou ion and representation, Housrd had no right vo ernment for protection, come to this A FERMENT IN NEWRURGH, Referring to th (ined three misstatements aid upon the Tavern Keep= acacterize & absolute false= Reviving aa Obsolete statue No Cigars, No Soda Wim No Root Weer. pondence of The Sun Newnenan, April 26.—The prosecution liquor sellers and violators of other jaws in this city has made the 4 Mayor Shutes is a radical temperance ining to this city to reside, and while aresident of Cornwall, he was a strong nadvocate of the © nagitated that towr ted Mayor of this elty by 1i0 majority, recetving the support of all the tem- aseof Dr, Howard, as an American piysi- practising his professio Gian ia Cuba, to the Innumerat als where Ame: rica cotntry ten, twenty, Hft ) wing his nationality on t tu be punished particle, while sib. J of the country w he must be tried the forms of law, was not @ legally and that a court: martial cognized tribunal, THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING AN AMERICAN. Dr. Houard, he said, had one misfortu of being an Americ March he Was ele he pledged himself to ald with the if elected, the prose full power of his position cation of the seventy pe ran African, 01 him; but he was only an American, and what from an American Gov- It would seem from the argume against the resolutiot eoute those wh rights had an Americ: n of liquor sellers ishman, not one hair been touched by the ‘These facts ¢ d with reference or Frenebuen, or Germans. 1 ted by him if chosen ceived the su of dealers 8 or in-eloven days after his eloe- tion, the following proclamation was seat from on Chinese, and. on dapanes« The United States the massacre of hundreds cruel and relentle responsible for 1 PROMADITION=MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION, s volunteers in ¢ sponsible for the death of th were shot on th ave of Castafior SIMILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT. eight boys who city oF New apighed ks Charge of having violated the James T. Chase, City Mi ention ix particul ly called to geetion cipline of the Church 0 as to adintt tay dele gates to the Conferences. ‘The proposition a to the General Conference is as follows : ‘ ‘The lay delegates shall consist of two laymen for each Animal Couference, except such { oy have but © ministerial delegate, which Conference shall be entitled to che lay delegate act, A majority of the membership of the Church, d three-fourths of all U the A nices hus been chosen, and will be eat the opening of Wie G ready to take their seats, They whet admitted will sw * unber by, and the membership. to the Gene ference to 421, exciusive of the Vishops. jay delegates, if admitted, are to. sit ia th body aid exercise Ube sate powers, r at privileges as the clerical dele kates. But one-third of eith romay de thand ase, question, wate ne by orders On aby ponding GENERAL BUSINESS, Conference will be in seastos y ire month, If pet lous Drow. at aMONs the topies awit Its con will be the vexed state of the vak Cone cern in this city; the condition of the eplaco- pate, and the necessity of creating more blsuoy and probably six preachers ast Will be rabsed to that dignity; the general interests of Ub Chureh; Church extension; the caus sions, &e. This Conferen also elec officers of the Chureh for the next juchading book agents, editors, se+ all others excepting only bishops. THE BOOK CONCERN ThOUE The Book Committee of the Methodist Eptseo- pal Chureh, having in charge the affairs of the Book Concern, are preparing their quadrennint report for submission to the reral ( next week, Their proc dings are conducted in secresy, with closed doors, It may be ree membered that at the close of the Lanahan trial, to June b pittee p head fh ough the Concerns under the lowing resolutions : THE APPOINTMENT OF AN EXAMINER, Resotve! er to Keoure a proper In n DP, Kilbreth, of Cin fo make sue Inspection, And tat ne be! wut Pmeloet Stauty he ho Tay find uecessur, Hesoired, That 8e refer to Mr Killyreth all the vart ous allegations oud charces of fraud wii wi from tine te Umne by the a Conecrn; and we sf At Cention Heh books tnd wee a mil trstis OF Whatey F date oF ol What Ment of the Concer gations wr o Auvolve fraud, Hang He Le I cas ' slowed euch. avcess to the recur pers of tie » Comite itt ty destry d Thot he be 1 also to examine the meth 1 bs KCC pL, Abad FO of hustuess port on th ’ DI, LANAHAN'S CHARGES DISPROVED, of the City of Newb iy You ure promptly to report to thie ‘The island of Cuda was of such importar this country that we had Sires. Mayor, wotion above referred to re ¢ ollicers must { Lippling houses: was done with the h of the United would have ngs if it were pharged Mr. Robe | iro kept tur tale, open wach houw between Great in and Cuba, That was a question + but in regard Rell euch drink, tocloe’ | other men and for anotives tha to this question of the protection of an Auer. | » had been thus foully wrong ntravention of the and nian, but in violation of every compact bes iniries, this ve a kind word frou an American Under the above law scores ha prietors of some nt i ind hotels in the ‘The city treasury of all cons | 6 heen prosecuted being impoverisied, it is thought this isa capl- Way to rebill it | mittee to the Ger This, we eee, was @ plain misstatement on the | ; plain siibsintens | MISGHAM'S AMENDMENT ADC Ranks wither yple wilder still, Mayor Shutes OPSERVANCE CLAMATION, NO. CIry OF NEWKUKG, MAvon's OFFICR, } ad to lay the re . and more than half amil- | . Hpen the matt tis Just Outside metropolis flocked ty Huboken aud ewhere by the tl iclary Committee of the House na of tnproper United Stites fet Court of Kan that this committee pronounced | the Warden was a good fell aul would write to Win in the Warden woull treat the et gentleman perfect geutlewen are treated teresting to know how © ju the Alton Peuiteutiary, fatty, Upson, Wheeler, Vilar, abd Wilaop (Obiv) ae . Mr, Kilbreth has t rently employed with ompetent corps of uxsist Vat time ta present raking the investugation as ordered erday submitted to the committee a full {his labors. ‘his is a very long aid Comprehensive document, and was considerce b committe closed doors. It tutly exonerates the Kev, Dr, Carleton, the Senior Avent, from all suspicion of wrongdoine or irregularity in Cae conduet of 1 Mars of tie Concern; exeulpates oodenough from the charges of fraud Hazainst | y Ure Lanalan; and is, it b CoMple le Viustirwe | tion by the 4 ni oul Coramite The report w bodily intl be incorporated THE COLORED METHODISTS the Conterence to the North Adjourned A an Lndivom. cnn MOE. Zien Conference ade rhed_ yesterday to mect in Jersey City on the third Wednesday ti May, ded The follow ApHointments were made for the ensuing cle ul yea ion and Clty d Now v1 Marler 1 ‘ A y ! i 1 k Dewy 1 1 i jhiaea } & ‘ ) | Hacislty tu pace 1 Seranrox, Pa. April 7 ' miners Uy th t | requieite la Wirwinws