The Sun (New York) Newspaper, May 30, 1872, Page 2

<r oe a neers = ae cha SAW The ee Sun, It Shines for AIL. THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1872. ents To-Day, =Kooch Anten Fifth Avenue Theatre Arle © Olympte Theatre Hom pty Dumpty. ples 's Minatrela 6s Brostway, Matic pe -M.Evey'e New Iibersteom House Yanko Girne. ‘Tomy Unton Square Theatre—Tie Vokes Fanily, k's Theatre! The Cr "a Mu » Matinee Wood! sewn o ph. For the accommodation of up town readenta, adver+ theem i be received at our regular Fates at the uptown advertisement offices 6434 West Thirty second street, Junction of Hroadway and Sixth Twenty-third atroot, opposite WS ALSLtOS PM. ——— Dr. Greeley and the Democratic Nomi« nation. From the days of Jacksox, when the Democratic party first began to hold Na- tional Conventions, many of its distinguish- ed statesmen have aspired to Presidential honors. Previousto the assembling of its Conventions the claims to a nomination have been vigorously advocated by their respective adherents, and when the Con- ventions met numerous ballotings have istor THe SUN W been necessary ere a result could be reach Nevertholess, for no one thing has the purty been more remarkable than for the good faith with which its votershaye y ed to the final decisions of its Conventions in the matter of candidates, Seeming to the superficial eye to be again and again onthe verge of going to pieces over these sharp conflicts between ri candidates, it has | always come to pass that the contestants and their heated supporters have gone home and, after a little grumbling, rallied as one man for the Presidential ticket, This exhibition of discipline, the wonder and envy of its opponents, preserved the Democratic organization and won all its victories since the advent of JEFFERSON, In the present peculiar emergency three things strike the most superficial ob- gwerver: With exceptions so trivial that they de- serve no notice, the whole party now, as of yore. agrees to abide by the aetion of its forthcoming National Convention in the | selection of a candidate for President. Not a name is brought forward in any quarter as a probable straight-out Demo- cratic nominee at Baltimore. Nay more, | the name of no Democrat is mentioned as teoking such a nomination, The have declared their entire willingness to support him if he is nominated or recom- mended at Baltimore. From these premises three conclusions logically flow. First, that Dr. Greeter Will be nominated at Baltimore, Secondly, that throughout the causpaign he will be as cordially supported by the Democratic | party as any candidate ever presented by | one of its National Conventions, Thirdly that his triumph in November will be an absolute certainty. aeons ‘ Are the Government Archives the P jent’s Private Property? great body of those influences which are wont to control Democratic | National Conventions have either openly | pronounced in favor of Dr. Guexuny, or | | ADAM Baprav, who is President Grant's Consul-Generul in London, has for some time been engaged in writing a military history of the President, and it has been proved before the Military Committee of the Louse of Representatives that he has obiained authority remove from the War Department a great mass of most im- | to portant records, letters and documents, These papers he first took to the White House, where he was employed as one of | the legal military Secretaries, and after- ward, when he set out for London, he had them packed, and carried tueu there, | It is said that the quantity of pr which | fe Cook witiodia tu "Lucerne five or six chests, aud that he afterward wrote for more, aud Qnother chest was seut to him from the Department. The entire rece of the court which investigated th Gen, Burit, with all the headquarters re- ports of Bue.'s operations, and six hun- dred original letters, are dt to have been carried away by Baprav. It is more than two years since he took away the last of these papers, and although he pretends, as it is reported, to have sent them back, they have uot yet been restored to the War Department; and if they are ever recoy ed, who will vouch that they have not been mutilated while in his hands? The discovery of these facts followed upon a call made by the House of Represen- tatives for the record of the Beet court, The Secretary of War answered that this | record was so Very extensive that he had not clerical force sufficient to copy it and send it to the House within any reasonable time, The House, however, persisted in its demand; and then it was ascertained that the record could no longer be found inthe War Department, but had myste- riously disappeared! Since then the Mili- tary Committe e deen engaged in a secret investigation into the affair; aud although they have made no report, there is no longer any doubt that the papers were taken by Bapeau on President Guanv's authority. The jealous care with which such docu- ments ave guarded by the officers of the Department is well known, In many cnses this care has appeared excessive, Thus, whon Honack Grerney applied for permission to examine and take copies of certain records which he desired In the preparation of his laborious and valuable “History of th American Contlict,” it was denied him, It is clear, then, that in ¢ important documents from Great removing the Departnent, and in carrying them away to Europe, BADRAU must haye pro eeeded onan order from the President, fox in no other way could he ever have ob- tained possession of them, he archives of the Government belong to the mation wey are not Gon, GRANT'S, He has no more right to take public docu. tients from the War Department, or to direct thom to be sent to London for b own beuctit ov gratification, than he has in over to the Treasury Department and tvke a trankful of venbacks or Goverment bonds and appropriate them tohisowniwe, Hehas no more right to carry ofl hives than Cresweit had tosicn his fraudulent x for $445,000 for the Chotwes Nixa claim, or than ho that Your's morn- flys, to take £93,000 out of the Treasury and juisition ON had, on Now hound ibover to the B8cons, He has mo Pieht Co carry away these records than he has to wppoint Cabinet ministers in return for prosents made to himself, or to appuint to plives of emolument and power a sco of his own worthle dhe wot at carrvinw aff the pub!lo re s4 relations cords is the same in its nature as the thou- sands of other acts which characterize the whole of Grant's administration. The question is whether the people approve of such things, whether they like to have the Government, its offices and its dignity, Its records and its public money, used as the private property of one man and his sub- ‘dinates, If t like this, and if they wish to have it continued, they will have n opportunity of saying so in the election vember in a manner about which an be no misunderstanding. —— Seymour—Pendleton—Wendricks. Among the old-line Democrats of the orthern and Western States there are no three statesmen so influential as Horatio Seymour, Gronce Hf. Pexpietoy, and Tuomas A. Hexpnicks. The public already know on the very best evidence how Gov, Seymour and Mr, Pexpurron stand in regard to the accept- ance of Greecey and Brown by the Bal+ timore ¢ ition. We have very excellent authority for saying that Mr. Hexpricks has recently expressed opinions dn that subject in clos accord with those entertained by the two gentlemen first named — Progress in Cuba. Recent Spanish telegrams, although Vague and contradictory as usual, show that the final triumph of the much-endur ing Cuban patriots is not far off. Count VALMASEDA officiously telegraphs from Santiago to the volunteers of Havana that the Edgar Stuart was at Kingston, Jamaica, discharging her cargo of arms and ammu- nition intended for the patriots. A few days later she sails with her cargo for Cuba, Then VALMASEDA issues a proclama- tion to the effect that the Villas district is pacified. In the same week comes the in- telligence that the Cuban Gen, VitLamiL has invaded that district, which is devoid of Spanish regulars, at the head of six hun- dred armed and disciplined men. Of the death and subsequent denial of the death of such Cuban chiefs as IgNacto AGRA. MONTE, Vicente GARcIA, and a score of others, it is needless to speak. They and their prominent colleagues are killed and resurrected frequently and regularly. Yesterday came a despateh that the most cruel and most mercenary of all the Span- ish butchers in Cuba, Gen, GonzaLez Bort, had discovered a conspiracy among the Cuban prisoners in his hands, The Span- iards do not muke, and never have made prisoners, But as the despateh states that the discovered conspiracy extended from Cascorro and Guiamaro to Sabanicu, L Tunas, Manzanillo and other places, it is evident that Bort is about to inaugurate another general massacre of in nt and wealthy persons, similar to those in Jigna- niand Manzanillo, for which he was tried, and was acquitted solely because his attor- ney, 1n case of his client's coudemnation, threatened to inculpate the highest au- thority in the land, ‘ That the patriots should be able to spare detachments to harass Spanish gunboats when entering the ports of the coast, as in the case of the Cauto at Banes, is a satis- factory proof of their growing relative and positive strength, The Edgar Stuart was probably discharging her cargo in the harbor of Bunes, when the Cuuto so rash- ly put in her appearance. Meanwhile, in Havana th ore price of gold | isdaily advancing, and sterling exchange, | altho: hi the sugar crop is ond ped, has risen about one per cent, per day for the past week, until it stands to-day at the unprecedented quotation of 27), to 28 per cent. From Spain the Spaniards in Cuba can t no further assistane In fact, the slave traders of the island are grievously responsible for the chaos which at present half ship- ex rules in the Peninsula, Poor Don Hawinron Fist! Even he must see at last that honesty would have Deew his Vest polley Woll Done, Mayor Wallt Col. H. G. StenmiNs has resigned his ¢ | flee as President of the Department of Parks, and Mayor Han. has appointed Mr, Fae. .AWw Oumstep to fill the va- cancy. The Mayor has made a wise appointment. Otaetrep is the right man in the right M pli eC. —— The Way to Do It, The Committee of Seventy haye issued a report in which the following just senti- ment is expressed : otwithstanding all the delay ent, the people have It in their power utterly to overthrow the bydra-headed mousver of iniquity and corruption and disap- Yes, and the at way to do this is tode- feat Gen, Grant next fall, If you set out to killa hydra, don't waste your time in lopping off here and there one of his innu- merable heads, but strike at the heart! ——— It is Better to Keep Within the Laws. It is posible that President Grant one of these days may learn that his method disregarding laws when they interfer the ated to lead him into grave dificul- The entanglement which bas from his illegal course in the Mor. osecutions affords an example ¢ with exeoution of his designs enler is one on p the results which may be expected from usurping powers not authorized by law, The crusade against Briouam Youns and his disciples originated with the Rey, Mr. NewMn of Washington, the spiritual ad- viser of the Pre . tnd Senator Han- LAN, But the Rey. Mr, Newaay, although he may be a safe guide to the President in ligious matters, and an earnest election ring agent for the pious Lowa Senator, is notan authority in legal questions, But between the ¢ yman and the President the warfare was determined on, and Ju Me Kean was selected to conduct the erations. As it would have been impossible to se- cure @ conviction of the offending Mor- mons according to law, Judge McKean concluded to waive formalities and try the accused parties ina Pederal court for offences sinst the Territorial The United States Prosecuting Attorney declined to take part in these ill¢ ccedings aud resigned; whereupon Judge Mc Keay, without any authority of law, man named BaskEn al pro- appointed his suc This spurion fal thereupon began the proceedings, which Mr, Bares, afterward legally appoints stopped, he deemed the whole thing unlawful, The matter was then referred to Washington, and the Su- preme Court sustained (he views of Mr, res, So after all these illegal and ar- bitrary which have cost a great amount of money which the Govern- ment will ultimately have to pay, Baiaitast Youno and bis fodowers come out triam- who was arily sun proceedings, bhant and more defiant (hau ever, as might THE have been expected from the bungling and iNegal manner in which Grant direct- ed his crusade against them, na On Monday President Grant nominated to the Senate Paymaster ALRXANDER W. Rvs- SLL to be promoted three numbers in the list of paymasters. RuSSEL1’s naval record contains no act which entitles him to such acompliment. During the war he was once thanked by his commander, Admiral Rowan, “for neal and ability In command of the powder and shell division,” consisting of cabin- waiters on board the New Ironsides, all being employed below decks, ‘This 5 fon, if con- firined by the Senate, will lift RusseLt over the heads of three officers, namely master James Fu thronghout ar and distinguished le Buy; now Ps the E Hila from 186s to 1s65, during ctivity ; now orn t flatilia was in constant Paymaster of the Asiatic Squadron. JAMES D. MURRAY, io Was With PaniAgnT at Fort Jackson and Fort St. Phillip, and at the taxing of New Orleans, and was in all the operations of the North At- Tantie Syidron during 1963 aud isod; now Payinaster ab uve Naval Academy, ‘The foundation of Russert's distinction ap- pears to have been laid at Philadelphia, where he has been paymaster since October, 1870, and his createst achievement was his testimony in favor f Kourson and CaTreL. before Gov. BLain's ‘ommittee. It Is doubtless for this that he ts now to be promot ——— - Fully nine-tenths of the Democratic news- papers in the United States are favorable to the n of the Cincinnati nominations at Balt very GRANT paper inthe country, without desirous that the Democrats should he signifl- more exception, ts nominate a straight Democratic ticket. cance of these facts is too obvious to require comment. They tell the whole story in afew words, and so plainly that no one can mistake its meaning. ne A novel question of copyright has been taken into the courts for decision, Mr. An- THUR PARTON, an artist of this city, sold some years ago a small painting to « gentleman in Connecticut, who afterward sold it to @ Boston picture dealer, from whom it was purchased by Mr. Lovis PRANG, who reproduced it in chromo, No stipulation in regard to any use of the ple= ture was attached to these sales, On the publi- cation of the chromo Mr. PARTON entered a claim for copyright, based on that provision of the law of 1811 giving an author the sole rl to his manuscript, and prohibiting Its publica- tion unless his authority, duly attested, had been given. Mr. PAwTON insists that this law covers his case, and that a painting is, to all in tents and purposes, a manuscript, so far as re lates to publication. ‘The defence is that a man. uscript is intended solely for publication, and fs only valuable when it is published ; whereas a painting is a completed work in itself. If Mr. Pantos’s claim should be sustained, it is argued that the rule would be established that the pur- chaser of a painting, in point of fact, would purchase merely the canvas and the pig need in producing it—while the design would remain the property of the artist, who could rder or prevent its reproducti graying, or by copying at will i The Guaxt men don't boast much of late about Grant's prodigtous yenius and success in ectiling (he Alebama claims. —— Among the comprehensive improvements made by Grant's Board of Public Works in Washington, which elicited such warm approval from the Tresident, was the construction of a road to the gateway of a farm situated six miles from the centre of the city, at a cost of $40,000 per mile. r expensive for a country road ; but its great cost isaecounted for when we learn that hills have been cut down and valleys filled up so as to make ft an excellent road,bed fora horse railway, When it is further understood that the farm to which this costly road leads is the property of the Vice-President of Guast's Board of Public Works, the public will more clearly see ject of so enormous an expenditure, and also why the tax-payers are indignant in consequence thereof. —— z For reasons best known to Senator Perry 1 in chromo, en- ‘This seems r: the Brooklyn Pire Commission was not dis turbed by the Reform Legislature. The Board consists of Toxy CAMpueLL, Republican, F. B. Massy, Hucm MCLAUGHLIN (cousin of the Boss), and WM. A. Brows, Democrats. A bill was passed by the Assembly legislating these Commissioners out of offive, and giving the ap- pointment of their successors to the Mayor, Auditor, and Comptrotior, ‘This bill never saw daylight in the Senate, for reasons which Sena- tor Penny can now rise and explain, It was rumored around the City Mallat the time that ho Senator t bargain with the Ring Demo- crats that he woud p et the vill, provided they would secure the resignation of one of the Democratic Commissioners and give him the naming of his successor, It is now given out positively that Commissioner Bhown ts about to tender his resignation, and that Ronent Manw PHRANER, who distin ished himself in the apacity of bill poster for Senator Perry tn the last campaign, is to be appointed his successor. Brows fs to be rewarded for his self-sacritice by the Secretaryship of the Board, ‘The Republi- cansat large are disgusted with this act of their Senator, and are quoting Bass Haure’s lin slightly altered For ways that aro dark ‘Aud tricks that are vain Our Ketorm Chtave ts peeutiar, = a Mr. Joun H. Crane of Washington, in a pamphlet on the Washington Ring, says that when the Tammany King were endeavoring to Introduce the water meter Job in this city they gotabill through the Washington Council, at great expense, adopting the meter ‘here, which ved by Mayor Emery, But ‘Tammany acertified copy of the Dill to use as a ent in New York, and the Secretary of minon Council, at the thme, so Mr, CRANE says, forged M sor EMeny’s name, and delivered an attested copy to the lobby agent to carry to Tween. The cautious lobby agent, to ascertain if all was right, took the bill to Mayor EaEny, who at once pr wit a forgery, and ln Me. Cnane's presence seized the forged copy. This forger is Khe managing editor of a paper of ine significant circ generally ul his ation, Which President Grant personal organ and for other disreputable purposes, The managing editor Is well adapted for such a paper, and the paper ix well adapted for the purposes of such an Aduinistration. ——— t the It is asserted th Hon, CHARLES A. Bauvwiea in ? Conareecoman from Wisconsin, who labored so. strenuously to screen the District of Columbia Ring from expo- sure, has a sou in Goy. CooKn's bank, aud a friend” on the pay rolls of one of the Govern- mont departments, put there by the Influence of the Ring, ‘Phe aunosphere of Washington has # most demoralizing effect on rural innocence. The Supervising Architect of the T ury Department hos issued a clreular to the superintendents of work on public buildings, instructing them that eight hours will be con- sidered a day’s work on all Government build- ings under the contro! of the office of the Sup after the Ist of This te date of the Philadelphia Conven- Government's workinginen will be ite June also ubout t tion, and th expected iv nutice tho culneldence and vote 1 cordingly. Nothing goes moro strongly to prove that trepidation has seized Gast and bis Military Ring than the sudden respect forthe legal rights of the woikingman developed at Washlugton within the last few days, To use a vulyar but c ve phrase, "its too thins” and any hon cot worhinguian inthe land can see through it Ifthe mucic on the publie parks down town 18 furnished Workingmen, the © to fix the hours between Gand Ss P.M done last summer, ‘Thon laboring men and their farilies can listen to th \feor supper, Ae itis now, workingmon goto the parks just in time to hear tho last straias of * Liome, Sweet Home,” for the entertainment of missioners would do well Aa Was SUN, THE UPRISING OF LABOR. THE STEINWAYS’ OFFER OF COM- PROMISE REJECTED. _ ‘The Wheels of Labor Blocked In the Plana- forte Manutactories- The Pinnof ers Waiting—The Success! of Several Strikes. Progress was meade tu une eight-hour movement yesterday. With the various or- ganizatinns on strike, and those who have de- clared one to begin on Monday next, the great- est activity prevails. The men are working with a quiet determination which seems to fore- shadow victory, while one after another the cmnployers are granting the asked-for reform, Since the beginning of the movement not less than 40,000 men bave asked for the enforcement of the Bight-Hour law, and to a majority it has been granted. THE CLOTHING CUTTERS TO STIKE ON MONDAY. One of the most important eight-hour move- monts Is that of tho clothing cutters, A rousing meeting on Monday declared that the elght- hour law must be enforced in the clothing shops, Another, in Williamsburgh, on Tuesday evening enlisted the cutters of that city and Trooklyn, The Clothing Cutters’ Union met last evening inthe New York Assembly Hoot, Second ay and First street, art decided that should the demand not bo complied with they will strike on Monday next. Scme of the men having already intimated to employers that such would be the action of the Agsovia- elation, twenty-two employing firns directly © ded the point, and Instructed men to work but eight hours after Mondaynext, ‘There tters in the city, 1400 0f whom be- long to the Codperative Union, af which Mr. ort Lowensteln is president. The following ico will be presented to the head of each shop this morning. tO Make cigh fe the request with, f the workingmen We will expect an answer from your days from service of oti By order of the General Committee U. 0.8. of A. CELEDRAT! While the holding aq yesterday ext, several iP) # the nation, and em within thre IT WITH LAGER. fa and lounge upholsterers were t meeting at 1 Eldridge street ussing the best move to make rs marched into the room, bringing his fist down on the table, said, * Boys, we give Inj you are a plucky set of fellows, and have worked like heroes, We will give you the eight b Landlord (to the keeper of the house in joining room), bring In three kegs of lager.” The lager was soon disposed of, and three fines three were the cheers given to the employers, Other reporta of concessions coming in, it was found the following med employers would give thelr men eight hours: Urhan, Pell street; Denzer & Medizns, New Howery Oliver street; Brada & Hunning, Cai Fredrick, Orchard atreet; Alton, ‘Third avenue; Herman & Fisher, Keich- ert, Hoosevelt street; Schultz & Fleggheimer, Jerrey City. ‘These, with those previously re- ported. ise the shops of the city doing sofa a great enthusi- aam the strike was The em- plyers formed a union among themselves, and Pledge to a uniform ecalo of prices. . W. Ham- burger refusing to join the Employers’ Union, the men ip turn sustained the new union by Yoting that no upholsterer siould) work for | Hamburg: The upholsterers battle has not | been a Week in duration, THE ROOFERS’ STH John ‘Timmons presided over a meeting of the slate and tin roofers and cornice makers, at 18 Third avenue, In opening the meeting yiubers upon the favorable rep elved from many shops. Alt not Lo strik until Monday next, he had assurances from many employers that their men would be allow. ed to resume Work under ¢he eight-hour systen on and after that day, These embraced the principal employing firms. He was dent the battle would be a short one, as there was every indication of complete success, A lange number of new names were then enrolled upon the society's books. ‘The men are thorouchly organized, and are prepared to make a gallant fizht for the eight-hour system, Their mem bership has increased to 1,400, RIGHT-HOUR LEAGUE. | THe UPHOSsTERERs’ | The upholsterers filed the large nd street | evening. from several firms who had ace Ationg them, A. Soevenbein, Hudson strect, Willmore, Fifty-second street’ and Broadway, and Schrenkaisen, Elizabeth street. The object of the meeting Was to form a United Upholster- ers’ bight-Hour L . Charles Marx was made President, Charles € eser, Secretary. he Sc clety numbers HO nen. It was reported that none of the larger firms now withheld the eight hours from workmen, and ar early termination of the strike was predicted, THE SHIP JO1D In Military Hall lost formed a Codperativ | were e atha man are mb who thus unite as a pi ing the enfureementof the Eight-bour law. TL will not, howev ke action in this dir until thoroughly nized, TUE PIANO MAKERS DEMANDING A REOUCTION OF HOUKS AND AN INCKE ASE OF PAY, ‘The piano makers working in Steinway's fac- tory, at Fourth avenue and Fifty-third stre on | Tuesday morning struck for a reduction In tine there 90u left their work, acd appointed ¢ fees from each branch of the. trade to wait wh dexaarad sn adantion ight-hour system, with an increase of 2 t, in wages. teinway, senior member of the firm, nee with the men yesterday said: the nd celved ded the demand. “OPERATIVE UMION. evening the ship Joiners Union, Permanent oficers 1 Betts being « ait it a IW of the ship joiners ararory step to demai dew “third and put ans of howe who wre c would be a decrease tn Business wid Ulf of you Would, we couscqucmce. Ue wueuiplyy cd, He offered, as a trial, ten per cent. advance in wages, or nine hours’ work and the present wages, and asked if they would treat with bin to effect a compromise, or be controlled by the trade unlons, ‘The committees, by a two-third voto, consented to his proposition looking for a compromise, and retired to confer with the main body assembled at the Geriiania Assem- aly He Mr. Steinway offered them a room in his build ing Inwhich they might meet to consider his proposition, At 12 o'clock his employ ac- } companied by 500 men from other organizations, m from the to the factory In F of the Niupteenth \ asection Of p required, The men ove first tloor mania Assembiy Kooms th avenue, Capt. Gunner, ard, Was in attendance with but their services Were not pied a large workroom on the ’ ek Henry Heiling, in a brief spec meeting t Fr, and soseph K. Rivers acted as Vice-President’ and torpreter, Several addresses in Koglish and German were delivered, but only one sf Mr. Gordon, advocated ‘the compromise me | ure. His rei s were received with emphatic disapprobatic It was una demand for eight hours, and inercara, and comune branches of trade wer | the Messrs, Steinway and report Uh After passing a vote of thanks: f the room, the meetin the Germania 4 morning TANO MANUFAC a imously agreed to Insist upon the twenty per cent, 1 the several Appolated to walt upon se of y Htooms at P o'clock this RERS YIELDING, dresses were delivered, asking the men to take nor but awful steps, and to re. fran entirely. from ait’ violence, One fim, Calenberg — & Vanpel, Thirty-fourth street, between Eighth nd Ninth avenues, consented to eight hours under the conditions that if Staenway k, Weber, and Decker Bros. did not give their consent within weeks, they, too would w nd the men were to. wor spatem, ‘The strike bas L he plano manufacturing come to a standstill, In way's slop not one i; aN Was Working after THE STRIKES OF THE OTHER TRADES, The cabinet makers met as usual in Teutonic Tall, ‘he Chairman announced that. almoy J gone to. work und ystem, ‘The only difficulty was ‘aller shops in Attorney st t, Cline sand in that neighborhood, ing of the Bxecutive Committee of two-thirds of the men h the eight hour with the tion | adjourned to convene in | At the ting of the plano makers in the Gern mbly Rooms it Was reported that five shops bad consented t ight hours Dunham & Son's factory in| Morrisania, the | Arion Pianof: Company, &e, Sev ad~ night, addressed the following note to all em be LS q eymen pen an ; taimens Wert lig anscmbied, do mpat Feapret fully at you will, reduce our howre of labor from ten t in conformity with the laws of tho bation and of Slate, deeming this to be our rig! There are several hundred pencil case makers in thia clty, who will all strike if their emplors do not give @ favorable answer to-day. Com nittess will call at every shop ane demand eight ours, The marble cutters rece!ved an additian of 20 1 their number last evening. Reports from shops were Hlstoned to, and the progress of the canipalan was discussed. Ir was Found. that over one-halPof the employers, had “\nocked and the prediction was freely made that ike would not last beyond this week. Edward Quinn presided. SUGGESTIONS FROM WORKINGMEN. A communteatton from a workingman says It Is impossible for a laborer to live on less than pitting a ¢ f the He fully for th man. When it was prop salaries of the clerks In the City John Cochrane, then Acting Maj fund sald that a inan could not support a family with a less sum than $1,500, for which words he deserves the thanks of all men; but the poor laboring men hove no one to speak for them, A working man suggests that the 45,000 labor. ers of the city contribute a day's waves each to ward the rection of a workingmen's union bulld= Ing, where a school for inechanics be Instituted, and where an assembly composed of representa: tives from each trade, meeting twive a yent. should deter the standard of wages. He thinks the Institution would be. self-sustaining. A. B. Eekerson, President of Brooklyn Marble Cutters’ Lodge, No. 1, writes to THe SUN that the use of their name in connection with the New York marble cutters’ strike fs unauthor- ized. ‘The Wrooklyn men are heart and soul with their New York brethren, but have not de- clared strike, iham & Son declare that they have not ed to eight hours, rene! case make calls upc of, stood up cons The Strikers in Brooklyn. Yesterday morning over two hundred cabinet makers assembled in Gri street, near Union avenue, Williamaburgh, They were most- ly Germans, employed in the large factori Butehtown: Forming tn line. thoy mak the different shops and sen mite erview the employers. The committee were rally well received and the question ar- ued, Some fear that this strike may cause the re- where these moval of this trade down East, goods, tt is claimed, can be m and shipped to New York with greater prolit to the bosses than accrues to them now by manu- facturing them at home, where rent and every- thing i#so high. In th 4 alone itis estimated that there are over 5,000 people earning a livelihood from this business, engne. ht-Hour League held its Convention to-day, in the Metog neon. George E. MeNiel of Cambridge was chosen President, with along listof Vice-Presi- dents and five Secretaries. About two hundred persons were present at the opening. Ira Stewart of Charlestown presented resolu- tions declaring that poverty {# the great fact with which the labor movement deals, and that codperation in labor is the final result to be ob- tained; that a reduction of the hours of labo: | Is the first step toward labor reform, and that | the emancipation of Inbor from the slavery and ignorance of poverty solves all the problems that now most disturb and perplex mankind, and de- manding legislation regulating the hours of lax bor, by which the patent on an article shall be forfeited if labor Is emplozed in its manuface ture more than elght hours a day ; and that eight rs be mado a legal day's work throughout tments. ry by legislative en: The resofutions further affir notthe natural sequence of of Labo They also claim that the issues. parties are not laborers’ questions, and whether the masses have anyth! hoc between President Grant and ace Greeley turns entirely on the question which one of the two will be thost likely to secure the legislation demanded. lutions condemned the factory system an islative aetion on the Bureau of Statistics of Labor, and extended the greetings of the League to trades unions through- out the world, Rey orge Trask, the ant aid his peculiar veform ba hours a day or die. Many nics were slaves to op! tobacco, strong drink, aud if they could’ be f this incubus it would be the rst step in the ro~ or The Chairman reminded the speaker that tt was an Eight-hours Convention and not an antl tobacco convention, on which Mr, Trask sat down, J. H. Cocker, a colored man, wanted to know whether they invited him to come there and ex- cluded him from thelr secret leagues? ‘The col- ored people were ready to aid inthe fight if they could be admitted to the societies, It was easier for an unelean man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than for a black man to gain admis sion to a trades union in New York. N. E. Chase explained that they stood on a free platform, and that he did not believe in th | exclusiveness of trades unions, Mr. Chase th ussed the general labor question at some He was ready to codperate with the mechantes of Boston in a strike for eight hours, ‘The President said they had received several letters, and read one from Hon. H.S. Daw endorsing the movement. Gen. Hutler, Senator Wilson, Mrs, Livermore, and others also sent letters. Strikes in Cincinnath, Crxcrxyati, O., May 29,—Th members of the German Tailors’ Union, of this city, are on a strike to the number of about six hundred, The Jougnevmen, shoemakors employed upon fine work in the leading shops struck yesterday, demanding fifty nts advance on shoe. ‘he shoe manufacturers say they are determined to resist the strike, and that they will be able to hold out. ——— ° Robeson and Creswell —Chorpenning aud Secor, From the Chicuyo Tribune, Congress is still so conscious of the un- scrupulous and powerful nature of the cont Nation waiting for the payment of the Chor claluy that it adixes a standing provi ed that ne of 1 80 appropriated shall be applied to the pay- uning ment of the Chorp alin This claim was up paid, through the direct influer whoin Creswell, Karle, and Sinit ing members, and the President himself w | thwarted in his scheme when ( soy by Lh omnipotent fat, shut down on the ten times cone demned fraud, 'The Secor fraud was of exactly | the same character, and would have been stop= verge of being t « Ww Saved, Boston, Mass., steamer Finpe- ror, Capt. W.E, Sulls, fre th, Nu, for Porte Jand, with 80 passengers and ¢ small freight, strack on Kastern Potut Ledge, Seal Island, at 190 last night | Thore wae w deme fog at the thee, ont the steamer | etruck heavily and began to make water rapully, The skongers were all embarked tn boats at 2.9) this morn ing, at which time the water had drowned the fires, and at daylight the p On Mathicus: Hes eilge to-day and deck was (orn oll w loss The Emperor was of 6%) tons burd mand was owned by the Variouth aud Hostou steam Navi mh Dany. She was insured for &S 00 in Yarmouth con | banks, and $5.00) In st. dunn companies. The passe: | fore Draught hotning from the mrvca Nit the eh i chartersd ora to this ode wid He Gear powk strongly ii bis (ay neLaw Cai Sul Drawing bis Salary. WAsninaton, May 2. The President's letter to Collector Casey, r wan dated the written on Y lust, Tent ot hie successor, Tt | iy In svcuriug oue likely bob cerned jucsting Minto resign that o rth of May, Casey's resignation was take ple om tie appout ears there iw suine uliticule Ucveptably Lo Lives cou AnA NASHVILLE, attached t th Last Ascension, "Prof, Atkins, who was ) exhibited at Deeatur, Ala, actreus wh RCL GiGtattEN VaR SRO | on Monday, ascended with a Not ale balloon during the mon, Meyer and Techneyer, wivosit was cht afternayn, The becamo detached from the hid betrayed the Union and gone to work. tea | windlass Oxtng ite altitude, ant ascended to the height hours. The Chairan said’ the nas of these | of halt a nite, and then raj diy deacewted into the Heprosentatives of 0 plinbers who were on | thesopes wuts ‘ Y Freee last wook—they are ull gone buck to Work | Meu ila! ¢ AN Hehe hours—inet Maat ME xed Toembed A | hee be hi wut : \s an organization which will be entirely | dowueds tis ba distinct from the Vumbers’ Union, Mr. A. | Quniraeganeds 0 ‘ # was clectod Pyesident, and. Str. dames | (u\uens wat Middl, View President. of uy, wal | hundred signatures were obtained tar the ti Hoe iede Sor the Uist of A clever and timely little ¥« the “God Lhe pattern makers, at thelr meeting last } lection of Horace Greeley's Joises brought out ta AlEHE AN the now Gecmanla Hall, rosulved to tes | this cay by Dr, J.B, Wood. ‘Those whe have at bith guest the rire Commbcioners bo gives ordens | orto regurded tne grout journatiet ved ve forthe ringineof the alarm belly ats Band 5 ; IPRs SONA LAY aveninag An a PM. Vest srositis were favorable to the | Nite May learn from the pernsal of Gala paupitee how strikers. Paes workmen” in the Atnw. Tron | Fill ttesh, aud racy his is Works und thoso of Messrs, Hoach & Low 20.to —— Work tomorrow under the eighthour tule, | ‘Tho Mosara, Appleton have saued their A While the mon working for Hoe & Con and {oF | qual cyclone t t R the Continental fron Works, will Join the strike | Sta! Cyclopedia for the Yes ine ina day or two, ‘There are about aw pattern | U4al mass of vilushte tuformation, eoa akors in the city, half of Whou baye resumed | S8€8UY arranged nod ts arnaiented with ak tralte of Mr. Seward, Mr, Cburlee Francie Adis, aud ho pencil case mamers, tm (heir meeting last L President Thivis, | ped in the same manner by the fat of Congres | composed of the different posts, tho Memorial \t folng faithful clerk in the Navy Pepartinent | Committee, and the orphans of the Union Home | nad informed Congress of the affair before it Ranon he ST AUARRCEED had been paid, Both were old, shameless awin. | 4nd School, will form in the square. ihe dles—the Chorpenning claim the oldest and | eer’ Comite My eh oy Most unprincipled of the tvo. Creawell is the | ff Washington and Lincoln with wreaths and | hero of the one and Robeson of the other, and | Or Mirevet Drinadionteneral dos. C. Pinkney, | | the President shares the glory of both. and headed by the had Lroun Guyer Esai | = re will move down Broadway t inity Chureh a A Steamer Wrecked in a Fog-The Passene | Comittee will decorate the grave of Gon. Pill, IN PROSPECT PARK. — ‘Two Magnificent Contests Yesterday—Large ray Eddy, the Winner of the 2:34 Porse, and Wm. HL, Allen the Win- nor of the 2:31 Purse. Yesterday was the second day of the spring ‘Trotting Meeting on the Prospect Park Vair Grounds, ‘The weather was all that could he desired. At one o'clock P. M. the road was lined with veiiicles from the drives of Prospect Park, New York, and all parts of Long Island. Until the beginning of the sport « continuous stream of carriages passed through the gates of the course. The balcony of the Club House, the grand stand, and the fleld were thronged to their utmost capacity with the elite of New York and Brooklyn, On the quarter stretch were many cefebrated turfmen of Hart- ford, Providence, Boston, and Philadelphia. On the lawn in front of the Club Ho Robert, Bonner, Bey. James D. Me Flora Temple fame, J. Hendricks, of California, Jornoll, ex-Sehator Genet, Chief Campbell of Hrooklyn, Mr. L. Martin, Mr. Bellinger, T. B. Wallace, owner of the celegrated trotting horse , ox-Alderman Hughes, Lon Mo Merrill, owner of Sea F Win. A Providence, Mr. Da 1 of Boston, Robt, Furey, ex-street Commissioner of Brook: a "Ks tho time approached the horses were brought upon the track for the first race. | ‘This was for horses that had never beaten 24. There and all started, Connors was nthe pools, Grace Tertramn sec- nd. prought $40, Bertram $10), nd the fleld £20. Gray Eddy, driven by the Red Prince, Jon Murphy, won the race [in great style in three straight heats, greatly to the surprise of the backers of tho favorites, ‘The elders won eavily. ‘The second event of the day was a purse of 5), for horses that had never beaten 2:25. It a’ capital race. seven entries, put In an appeara It was obstinately hout. William H. Allen bad the md ehoice. bel packed confidently n turfmen: others were sold in the fleld, As the race pro- essed the betting the knowing ones hedging in all dire the hors evenly matched they wero sorely puzzl selecting the winner. Wn. H. Allen proved the victor after seven sharply-contested heats, The owner and driver of Sea Foam, conplained seri- ously to the Judges of the conduct of the driver of Huntress during the race, and attributed their defeat to the fact that Huntress was run- ning throughout the race, which accounted for Sea Foam breaking so badly. Messrs Van Wyck, liy.and Moad were the Judges,and dis- charged thelr perplexing duties with’ satlsfuc- on, TROTTING br. w ight entrie the first choice SUMMARY. Durse No. 3-$1,200, beet 5, in, harness, tnile heata, tor he rees that hive hever by #10) to tiret, ta #27) to third, Eddy. tid trait.» nga Draper 235 ‘Conuors 168 i “867 164 4 wn, TIME. juarter. Hatt. Mite, Firat heat oss alt an fecond heat...) At 225 Third sesgous Lisa Bas Second trot, purse No. 4, $2,500, heat 3 tn.5, In harn 3, for horses that have never beaten 2.25; §1,aN to firs $60) Lo second, $400 bo third. P. Mance’s bs. W.H, Alle 4.4, Bowen's g. 1. Sea oat 4 ‘Alden Goldatnltn'e bs F. 8, Carpenter's «mi. N D.Vatcr'ss.s, Byron 33 First heat Becond heat Third beat Fourth heat. Fifth heat Sixth heat Beventh heat, ‘ Finer Heat—A very ev the turn, Byroa second, Alien third, Sea onesuch ftth, Huntress gained the ‘onde, and held it to the half-mile the othe: three-quarter po. ck, and came down score eqnal, Nonesuch, ft Huntress fading vat quarter ‘S the word was | given. Hyro passed him on Mionte Li's seconds, Huntress the air, Sea F i ain ffth. Huntress er ore Wiuker O ter pou pole in 1 Buch third, n bone such too: teh, wus proached the distance stand, Sea Foam let loose aud Poeskig the score Winner of Gaslied rapidly Lu % Alien third, Byron fourth, the heat, Mantreas fifth, Fouxtu Heat Huntre: {0 quarter pole tn 87 sec minute 12}, seconds, Bea Nonesuch fourth, Byron Nfth Foain broke up badly, wt vance Time, 2:20 opt the pole ip jenn this reteh Sew | tress, and as they tured aud it proudly, ¢ eecure wit heat, Huntress second, Nonesuch wird, Sea Foam | fourth, Byrou fifth, Time, 2 x. Avery cvin rturt. Allen had the pole, | Fier Hear rter stretch, and scoured the and led around the qu quarter pole iu 86) tress third, Nonesuch fou ea Foain second, Huns bait ‘Allen gain tai hile. pote. lui minute onda: aie lenges iu ade | Funcerot bea hig upon hun rapidly. | Ae they roan Mi'mas excitement: | Bea lost her feet. A gain bot the heat amid great pla ress Uurd, i jourth, Auxticliket= Allen hed the poly, and ted around the | | turn. Sea Foam paserd tun wad’ waned the yuatice | cae sit Beebysnne Yoo hie te ihute and is seconds, At the uly foore winger b third. Time, 2 ext the x & week, Alled second, te Fearhe came down the bi fhe heat and race, Huntre Tine—22i4. ind minute (3 sec dtrotch nepleudid, et) ey WHT ay Skcoud, Bew Fain uileds | ——— DECORATIO DAY. The Progra for To 5 Me Rervic our Thoussnd Soldiers’ Graves strewn with Flowers, The various Posts of the G. A. R., eom- prising the New York Division, will assemble in Unie at 8 o'clock, ‘The members will wear dark clotbing, with white gloves and badges, At9 o'clock the pr nequare this mornin salony Kearny Minute guns on Governor's Tsland will be fired as the procession erosses the ferry and until it reaches the cemotery at Cypress Hills, The pro- gexsion will match to Bast New York, where the Williamsburg York will join the xervic Fort vilton b Wolls Division aud Posts of East New | pd With music by the ver by Samuel 1, @. An ode will Ha Chaplain of then be sung by the Geruan Veteran Singing Society, ‘The oratlon will bo delivered by the | Kev. Noah Hunt Sehonok,, to be followed. by singing by the orphans, "The four. thousand | graves will then be decorated with wreaths of flowors, the Ge joty singing a dirge | during’ the ceremony. A recitation of “Our Dead Heroos,” by W. HL. Pope, and the benedic= tion will closd the ceremonies, ‘The exercise: in the evening in the Academy of Music will consist of an address by the Ray De Witt Talinaze and an ovat { PoNeWwinitr.” Misti tiyetie: tte wvernor's Island band ww various Government off to bo closed, also the United ints Tho police captains are instructed by su tendent Kelso Lo man the streets along t oF jnareh, —— The Suit agninat Ge The suit by Henry A F, Butler to recover the ty rice Gov, Hofman will in the clty are 2 tine + Butler. ‘Vilden against 1 fy Fonjamnin value steam JOHN VISITS PITTSBURGH, CITIZENS WHO TALLY MILK RIDES ON THEIR SUIRT PRONTS, —— Mistory of the Smoky City tis © What John Knows About Honthee ne stinct In Pittsburgh Chickens Ineean of a Boston Drummer’ Prairie Correspondence of Th Bun. Prrrsnuron, Spring, 1872—The weathor Is auspicious, "T havo Just swallowed thren speckled trout [bought with some shiners, amt F foot lke a twelve-hundred-horse derrick ing down bean poles. Grass 1s coming cocktails are going dow me of what Tread in the New York Heratt the other day, A fellow was writing about a visit te Central Park, and he wrot : “Across the Mall lay dappled shadows, and whos the branchoa of the treos did_ nut int yeno, slant Javelin shafts of sunlight ple Pholr way and fell upon fairy” f Hi co for description.” ‘That fellow must have been eating soup made of six parts dictionaries and eight parts strickene deer novels, He can find lots of dappled shad(ohs) down at Fulton Market nowaday HISTORY OF PETTSHE GH Pittsburgh is hemmed in by hills, These billy are full of bituminous coal. Bituminous coal ie sold by the bushel, instead of by the ton. Pitts burgh was hemmed in before sewing machines were invented. It is on a triangular plain, @ point formod by the confluence of the Monon. gahela and Allegheny rivers, and these two rivers form the Ohi Fort Duquesne, cel brated in the old French and colonial wars, stood here, It is decayed to pieces now. The Ore leans, the first steamboat that ever plied, sailed alided, cleaved, or cloved the Western waters, was built hore in ISL. Pittsburgh was a village at the close of the Revolution, and some of the people look as If they had worn thelr clothes ever since the Revolution. On the 13th of Jane uary, 1785, the first catfish was discovered in the Ohio, and the inhabitants to this day think them aspecies of whale. ‘The only ship that Ihave seen here that resembles New York shipping was alugger. It was a woman lugging a pile of kindling wood home. In 4796 Pittsburgh had 1,395 inhabitants. One of ‘em died. ‘Then {t had only 1,394 Inhabitants, He died Sunday. They arrested a man once for dying Sunday. By natural increase and several families moving in here, Pittsburgh has now nore people than it had in 1796. It has a dingy drive as and The weather reminds too be appearance, and its citizens are likewise, After 10 A. M. the people are awful dingy. A stranger would think from the looks of those people that he was in an African village. white shirt half the morning before it is halt mourning, and before noon it will be so smoked that a piece of it answers in the place of smoked glass to luok at eclipses with, The smoke settles su thick on the shirt bosous that the citizens ke account of their milk bills on ‘em, using a wooden toothpick for apen, Hence the term Pennsylvania. CURIOSITIES OF One can't wear a Monongahela whiskey ts grown here. Large nutubers of the inbabliants are sald to be abstemlous—that Is, when folks aro looking at ‘em Pittsburgh has schools. actually held spellbound in one of ‘em the other day. He couldn't spell spool, The master kicked him down stairs, and then told the boy's father that he was initiating his son Into the mysteries of the solar system, He did it with the sole of his boot. There issome complaint about this school, Last week a pious lad ran a brad awl into another lad about a yard, and when called to account about it laughed, and called It awl-spice. ‘That boy will never be a selioole marm. New York city has 2,072 lager beer shops and 3,136 groceries, by which you will see . are too many groceries, Pittsburgh ts full of ‘om, both kinds. To-day I met the man who built the gates, on Gates avenue, Brooklyn, We held sweet converse on WHAT 1 Says he, eal T hear that a boy was 1, “1 came by rail." dhe, “Tsee by thé paper Atalanta boat erew haye gone to Bure, hey have, sir,” say's I. “ Did they take a shell with ‘em What in thunder would they w says I. “To row In,” says he. “You old pudding-head,” says T row ina shell. they r nt “Sir,” says he, a stiell is a boat Stranger,” J replied, * L lave travelled ex sively, but Pmust say that you ar dividual Dhave ever met so cussed green that he couldn't tell a boat from a eli le looked amazed and se did L. Then ally, What kind of scull “Darn it,” says 1 ekwlls. * Do they dip tem t Here be ed him what did they t “they f the fellow. and vi he had to st pep diy Ng Ute Whyvte row withe sant hy Hari it! says fy they d skulls, they row wilt ours.” Tiny says he, you Beulls are oars.” ad him did he really think he could! eve any such Nonsense ws Chal, and him that oars were made of woods and until had the pleasure meeting him Tf hadt r before seen a skull made of the same mar Vt row with tetr ow a pile about boating. y insisted that he was continued to elucidate nautical matt got things mixed enough to kill three ordinary seamen and astoker. He accused the Atalanta’ best man * of pulling steadily ay port,” when he doesn t drink anything stronger than eoifee, aid he said thatacrew would be more likely to crow with aeock-swain than without one. lis dusted and told him be was a bigger fool than a man L¢ heard of who was sulling ter tour, when the lust lily waten ovarboan darned fool a noteh in th te tty tell where it on and get it. This fr Jo bur nau sation. PUPPSBURGH ITEMS. Fathers are called heads of familiesin P burgh ‘There was once xo much small-pox here, {6 why this place ts called Pictsburgh H.W. Cakes has left town for gone wit aw There i@ corn 1 of Pop asel, t Instinct 18 encroaching upon the sacred di in of reason in Pittsburgh, A man ie other day cut the right whig off a ¢ and the left wing off that ehicken’s sto) i roosted on @ step) to keep t f if tnaklog one ly f themsely Hew ’ and T have just eaten th ond jolt f 1 ‘em, which is the cause of my belts st INGENUITY OF A BOSTON DKUMME Merchants in Pittsburgh keep eannor NS of their doors to keep the Moston drummers away. But Yankee Ingenui w bi 3 almost every ¢ ulty. One dark 6 toon f those drummers erawlod dovwn, and loa of those cannon with his goods. The nex stood oppe rwhed the store, t cannon mers samples inte astare opposite. his Tule ganie, “TL aty ou the ground (hat she Was needed for the service of the United States, Was Called yesterday Ju the United States Clromt Conrt Mr Tilden was preactit, ant apecrted, 10 the strongest Win the Lads of her OWuce eto sinall cost bGen, Butler yet about Slavaud fron tae cs be pat an danazes: for ire, Bis, hwas given by tin to te br Andrew Jack ' Bid about g2oi0 Gee Het The stu tu Breollyns Early yesterda as M Corcoran i naway. found by Bergen, s anf ¢ dy aud Was aac | Hobokents Donut tity Cle: Tho Hudson county Grand Jury ro ad sf n tudictment against Frederick F muerly City Clerk of Hoboken, Ou the f bered a vice of bol aula sas A WESTERN PILATE T append the only real plet fa ver taken; it Was + | . . . . . . | | | ‘ ’ . . . A | ’ i | 4) Huston e blank part ‘ f} | — - A Murphy was tue ‘ vt Itty ead that 1 4 i eed Lf arene ' aa wil draw doteveaet m