The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 3, 1872, Page 2

1 hin ae 3 TURSDAY, DEC RM » Ua vdechatisy BER Theatre Mery Wivevel Wcauty Brand Opera Monse-Fely. Niblo's Garden Leo sna Lev tee—Lydis Theinpeen Trenpe. serbeck in ax, Matinee Wallaek’s— Our Awer ean Con yum —Or Hand, Matinee, nev yon tommal) wodseribery, Ac rani, per per hing velit AGAIY apy For the accommodation of up-town residents, adver: Ysemente for Tak SN will be received at our regular rates at the up-town advertisement offices 04 Weat ‘Thirty-second street, junction of Broadway and Sixth avenue, and 3OS West Twenty-third street, opposite Grand Opera House, and on the east side at S11 Grand street, wear East Proadwaygigom $ A. M. to $130 P.M. The Message. The message submitted to Congress yess terday by the President ts a very common- place document, with very few features that will attract attention or excite dis- russion, Perhaps it is not strange that it is wo. If the theory of the President and his supporters is entirely true that everything is going along as smoothly as could be ex- pected or hoped in the affairs of the Government, there is certainly no neces- sity for anything more than a business like statement of the condition of the departments in the President's com- munication to Cong It seems to have been for the most part prepared by the heads of the several departments whose accompanying reports are epito- mized init. Its most noticeable feature is the constancy and consistency with which the President approves and urges every measure that looks toward con of power in the central Government, such ns the granting of subsidies, the adoption of the postal telegraph system, the inter- ference with State Governments in en- Torcement acts, Ke, » The message opens with an expression of thankfulness for peace and prosperity at home and abroad, the only exception to which, the recent devastating fire In Bos- ton, receives a passing allusion, with a rv mark upon the gratifying fact that the citizens of Boston are rallying under their misfortunes in a manner similar to their fellow citizens of Chicago under ® like calamity, The President then enters upon the proper business of the message, beginning with the Geneva tribunal of arbitration and the settle- ment of the Alabama claims and the San Juan boundary question. The devi- tion of these two points of dispute be- tween this country and Great Britain removes all causes of difference between the two ceuntries, and leaves us for the first time in the history of the United Atgtye gz g nation without a question of disputed hotndary beisezk gyy territory and the possessions of Great Britain of this continent, The services of Mr. ApaMs at the Geneva tribunal, and of Minister BAN- crort ip the San Juan negotiations, are gratefully appreciated, and the prompt action of her Majesty's Government in re- moving her troops from the disputed ter- ritory is acknowledged. The appointment by Congress of a board of commissioners to distribute the Alabama award among the claimants is recommended, as is also the appointment of a commission to act jointly with one to be named by her Majesty Queen VicToRIA to designate by suitable monuments the boundaries fixed in the San Juan settlement. urther legislation to bring into operas tion the articles of the Treaty of Washing- ton of May, 1871, relating to the fisheries and to other matters touching the rela- tions of the United States toward the British North American possessious is recommended, Having so disposed of our relations with Great Britain, the President says: * With arlivst ally, Russia, the « ly friend of the Uuited States, Germany, with whose Goyernment and people we have so many causes of friendship aud so many common sympa- thies, and the other po of Europe, our vlations are maintained on the most yiendly terms.” ‘o aid American exhibitors at the Inter- national Exposition, to be held at Vienna next year, au appropriation is recommend- ed, and that the Secretary of the Nav. authoriged to it up two naval vessels to transport articles for exhibition from this eouutry. The propricty of inviting the In- ternational Statistical Congress to meet in this country Ln 1876 is likewise suggested, The death of President Juanes, of the Mexican Republic, ts appropriately an- nounced, and an additional appropriation recommended to enable the commission appointed by this Government to investi- be gate the outrages on the Texan border to pursue their rescarches. Considerable apace is given to the con- fideration of affairs in Cuba, and the sit Hon is said to be unchanged from a ago, the insurgents having gainedyno ad- vantages, and having no greater Prospects pf ultimate success, while Spain, on th ether hand, has not succecded in repres ing the insurrection, The continuance of Ihe strife is attributed to the institution of dlavery, and it is mentioned with regret that many eltizens of the United States hold slaves in Cuba “in deflance of the spirit of our own laws.’ Such legislation Bs wiay be proper to denounce, and if not prevent, at least discourage American citi- wens from holding property in slaves, is recommended, Our relations with the Central and South Amvrican Republics are represented to be friendly, although Venezuela bas made no further paymeuts onaccountof the awards wnder the convention of April, 1866, and the attention of Congress is called to the Fubject. An appropriation Is recommended for the support of four American youths in the official families of our Ministers to China aud Japan to loawm the language wod act aa interpreters, Tt \s recommended that the isi provision ‘which is ngde by law for the relieg Of dp- ~ tressed seamen in forcign countries be em tended in behalf of all American citizens in distress abroad. Th mdition of the Treasury is set forth at length, showing a total reduction of the debt since March 1, 1860, of B963,606,990.87, ‘The President doubts the practicability of any further reduction in taxation, At all events, hi ommends as a measure of justice to the matlon’s creditors that no more legislation be bad upon the subject until sufficient time has elapsed to prove that it can be done and still leaye enough revenue to meet current expenses, pay in- terest, ke. Upon the important subject of specie payments he only says: “The preserva- tion of our national credit is of the highest importance; next io importance to this comes a solemn duty to provide a national currency of fixed, unvarying value as com- pared with gold, and as soon as practicable, having due regard for the interests of the debtor class and the vicissitudes of trade and commerce, convertible Into gold at par.” This is as round and as smooth as the utterance of the Philadelphia platform on the same subject. And means as much. The operations of the War Department, the improvements in rivers and harbors, the reports of the signal corps, &e., are re- ferred to at length, and favorable atten- tion is invited to the recommendations of the Secretary of War ona variety of sub- jects, from the adoption of a specific code of penalties to the increase of the Academy fund. On the matter of internal improvements the President comes out strong. In view of the fact that production increases more rapidly than the means of transportation, he conceives it to be the duty of Government to provide carriage, todig canals, subsidize railroads, &e., and discharge other fune- tions of a paternal Government. Among the enterprises to which he invites the attention of Congress are one to connect the Mississippi Valley with the Atlantic at Charleston, 8. C., and Savannah, Ga., by water by the way of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, and canals and slack water navigation to the Savannah and Ocmulgee rivers; and one for an extension of the Kanawha and James River Canal to the Obio, and by ex- tension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. He 4s not prepared, he says, to reeommend Government aid to these enterprises, “ until it is cle sbown that they are not only of national interest, but that when com- pleted they will be of a value commen- surate with their cost." While ou this sub- ject he refers to the importance of a ship canal ground Niagara Falls on the Ameri- can side, and to the feasibility not only of connecting the Mississippi with tide water on the Atlantic, but “of an almost con- tinuous land-locked navigation from Mame to Mexico.” The message urges the modification of the franking privilege, to “correct its glaring and costly abuses,"’ and recom- mends the appointment of a commission to consider the best method of acquiring title to all the telegraph lines in the coun- try with a view to the adoption of the post- al telegraph, although he thinks it is not probable that the subject can be disposed of at this session, Only three lines of ocean steamers, he says, with a tinge of melancholy, are subsidized now at the mere trifle of $725,000 per annurn, and he thinks they should be treated more liberally, and a new subsidy be granted for aline be- tween Panama and the western South American ports. This is his method for recovering the carrying trade, which has fallen off even during the last year, and ho believes an “expenditure of 85,000,000 per annuum for the next five years, if it would restore to us our proportion of the carry- ing trade gf the world, would be profita- bly expended.” ST 3 Oud paragraph is devoted to the “reck> less and lawless men” against whom the Ku-Klux laws were aimed. He has hopes for a cessation of these troubles, and pro- poses to pardon the Ku-Klux prisoners whenever good reasous for clemency are shown. The Indian policy has been successful and will be continued. In all the Terri- tories, except Utah, aflairs are satistacte Congress is urged to pass a law to secure peace and extinguish polygamy. Liberal appropriations are recommended for the District of Columbia—a brief recommen- dation, but there's @ great deal of money in it, ‘The message closes with a paragraph on the civil serv! So far as he is conc ed he believes the country is safe in that re- gard. During his term he proposes to ‘‘so apply the rules as to secure the greatest possible reform in the civil service of the Government,” but he adds—and it is the only huinorous passage in the document— “it will require the direct action of © gress to render the enforcement of the sys- tem binding upon my suce I. isalong message, Outside of the ordi nary routine its features are subsidies, postage telegraph, ship canals, no reduction of taxation, and in all directions increased appropriations, Nonsense and Nense. The Tribune of yesterday argues in fav: of the absurd proposition that the Pr dential electors who have i been chosen to vote for Horace Gnreevey should give their votes to U. 8. Grant, “© Por the sake of the South,” says the Tribune, “for the sake of the whole country, in the hope of the reforms which Cincinnati demanded, and of the non-partisan Administration which the support of all the electors would de » and impose, We suggest what we believe to be the legitimate deduction from Mr. GReeLBY's Own latest teachings—the sting of his electoral votes for Grant. It is evident that the author of this silly counsel never understood that any principles were at issue in the recent can- vase, and has not believed the spasmodic denunciations of Republican corruption and misgovernment which have from time to time flowed from his pen, This writer has the presumption to affirm that Mr. GREELey would have given the same advice, The enemies of that great man in his lifetime have never said any- thing more injurious to his good name or more outrageous to the respect cherished for him by his true friends, Some of the principles laid down in the Cineinnati platform were afterward re- affirmed hy the Republican Convention at Philadelphia; but the most important of them were not, First of these was the assertion of the ancient and honored Demo- eratic doctrine of local self-government, the independence of the States within their proper sphere, the preservation of the habeas corpus, and the observance of the constitutional limitations of Federal power, This was ove of the great ideas re- presented by Horace Gree.ey in the cans vass, Opposed to it was the principle of ceptrajization and of the overtayow and \ ar absorption of nll Btate powers and State rights Into the hands of Congress and the President. Can any man who sincerely Delieves in local self-government vote for the representative of the opposite iden ? Another doctrine of the Cincinnati plat- form is that 0 President shall be a ean- didate for relection,” This was a favorite proposition with Mr. Greenery, For years he has maintained and advocated it, Can any man who holds to this doctrine, as he did, seriously propose to give his suffrages to revlect President Graver? ‘The cammot gerive Of this whole question is simply,that the electors chosen to Vote for Horace Gneeney for President ouglit now to vote for the man nominated by both Conventions to take his place in cave of his death after bis inauguration. ‘This man is B. Guatz Brown of Missouri. To find the right candidate for Vive- President in his place let them go to the records of the Convention by which Gree- Ley and Brown were first nominated. ‘They will find that on the second ballot in that Convention the candidate who re- ceived the greatest number of votes after Mr. Brown was the Hon. Gzornor W. JuLian of Indiava, The electors should accordingly vote for B. Gratz Brown for President, and for Gronce W. Juan for Vice-President. ——— Robeson After More Millions. The Secretary of the Navy is very anxious to build ten or twelve experi mental ships, and to destroy those upon which tens of millions have been already expended, on the pretext that the repairs have cost as much as would be needed for afresh outfit. This is an old job in a new form, and is backed by a well-drilled lob- by, who have long feasted on the good things of that department. Ournavy, like our commerce, has gone to the dogs. It is utterly demoralized by the favoritism, flunkeyism, and corruption which have sig- ized Mr. Rowes administration, Twenty millions a year are literally squan- dered to keep up a sham which is the laughing-stock of all maritime nations. We support expensive squadrons afloat for no other object than to air the newly acquired grandeur of a stock of Admirals, which increases rapidly every year with- out the'least utility. Even when we had a commerce to protect, no such force as is now maintained was ever employed, The old system is entirely changed in this re- spect, and it isa glaring absurdity to say that ships of war are necessary to defend the rights of peaceful trade, which are regu- lated by treaty and protected by courts and consuls, Besides, the ocean telegraph now plays an important part in all disputed questions, so that governments separated by sea and distance may be said to con- frontand converse with each other in case of sudden and grave difficulty, ‘The great powers of Europe are obliged to keep up navies as a partof that military armament which is indispensable under the monarchical system as now consti- tuted, No such reason exists in the United States; and ten millions a year might eusily and at the least be saved by with- drawing the useless parade which is thus made, Take the case of Admiral ALDEN, now commanding the European squadron of seven oreightships. He bas been flit- ting about from court to court, obtruding himself at royal ceremonies and seeking notoriety, merely to satisfy a craving of personal vanity, Ove day at Berlin, an- other at Vieana, then at Madrid and other places which have no ports, putting on diplomatic airs and ventilating bosh about the relations of the United States and Europe, with which be has no concern whatever, No English, French, Russian, or other Admiral properly trained in the ways of his profession would dare to leave his command except upon urgent and special couiialon, Ais with previous permissjon too, to thrust his presence where he did not belong. The plain truth is, our squadron in iN rope isa mike yacbUny and pleasure-sevking expedition, aud the ships are used to maguify the importance of the Admiral, That is all about for this husiness the people are taxed twenty millions per annum, at the smallest figure. taeaaminldl aah lnieonsite The Christian Advocate, & Methodist or- gan of this clty, laments that “nothing assur- ing" can be said of the religious character of the late Secretary SLWAND, Whosa death, moreover, it asserts, * was, so far as is ascertained, abso- lutely destitute of faith or hope as t3 that great hereafter into which he was entering.” It may comfort the Arvocate to learn that at his de- cease Mr, Sewanp had been for nearly half « century a regular worshipper and communicant ju the Protestant Episcopal Chureb ; that during much of this time he had been a parish officer; that he had repeatedly acted as delegate to the general and diocesan conventions of his Church ; and that he finally died, according to the testi mony of those who attended his death-bed, full of faith and hope in the great hereafter.” Mr, SeWAkD was uot a“ professor of religion” inthe sense in which many persona w tand that phrase, He was not an emotional or demon- strative Christian, We never heard of his ad- sing # missionary convention or taking part inapublic prayer meeting; nor was he known tobe active at the May anniversaries. But he bas left oral and written evidence of the depth and sincerity of his retigious convictions which the writer in the Christitn A/lvocate might bet- ter have consulted before attempting to cast stikma on the fair fame of the departed nan —— The World wants the Scottieh system of Juries introduced into America, ‘The Scotch are @ very conservative and respectable people, ub their jury system has not prevented the country from boing the svene of some of the most terrible crimes ever perpetrated, nor has it prevented very curious results to very interest iny criminal trials, such as the FLPMING trial in Glasgow, sume ten or twelve years ago. ccammet The Emperor of Germ have issued a decree creating twenty-flye new Prussian peers, ‘The persons thus ennobled have been taken from the ranks of the Govern- ment officials, generals of the army, and land- holders. ‘This creation of new pects is a meas- ure adopted by the Emperor in consequence of the obstinacy of the Prussian House of Lords In refusing il¥ assent to the new County Reform bi, which has passed the Lower House. ‘The Berlin correspondent of the London Times says that the true proportion of Tories to Ministerial- ists in the Upper House is about 145 to 60, and the small vote for the County bill at the last division in that House ts accounted for on the supposition that numbers of Liberals stayed away on that oceaston, knowing defeat to be certain. ‘The total number of peers is 315, but many of these seldom attend, and the working number does not often exceed 200. It would require, therefore, a creatic of more than twenty-five new peers to give the Government a maJbrity, unless changes havo taken place In the attitude assumed by some ef the nobility since the defeat of the billin question, It is probable that such a ghange has taken p under the apprebension of an entire reconstruc- tion of the Upper House. It is understood that Prince BisMARCK has recommended @ plan by which the present House of Lords shall be abolished and its place supplied by a “Second Chamber,” one-third of the members to be ap- pointed by the Monarch, one-third by the Municipal Councils, and oye-thigg by the new ny is reported to THE SUN, TUESDAY, Aeteadalized Provincial Assemofies. It ts te- pase that Chis plan, which would virtually ex- inguish the hereditary principle in Prussian Jegistation, has the support of the Crown Prince, who ts ® pronounced Liberal in his political views, and the fear of such a change would be likely to have a decided effect upon the impend- Ing action of the Prussian nobles. ——_—_ ‘The deadlock in the North Carolina Le- gislature on the etection of United States Sena- tor continues, and there ts a possibility that no conclusion will be reached before an adjourn- mant, The ptuctice in that Stave is to adjourn over the holidays and reassemble in January, when the now State officers—in this case the old ones, Who Were retlected—are sworn in. A attong effort fs In progress on the part of the friends of Soaix Poor. to keep the conservative strength divided betweee VANCE afd Menni- MON, in the hope that Poor himself may ring in by hook or by crook, The law of Congress of 1880, which regulates the election of United States Senators, provides that if no election is had upon a concurrent vote of the two branches of Assembly they shall meet in joint convention every day of the session, and take at least one ballot for Benator untila choice is effected or an adjournment is bad, ‘The North Carolina Legislature is engaged tn this cheerful pursuit &t present, and there is no telling how long it will last. VANOE started out ahead, with Man- RIMON holding # balance of power of some sev- enteen votes, and Poor receiving the whole Re- publican vote. VANoE holds his own #0 far, about seventy-two; but the Republicans are Voting for MERRIMON, sending the latter up among the thirties, and reducing Poor to ffty- elght. — A Sinte Temperatice Convention which mot at Syracuse a few days ago proposed to pe- titton the Legisiature for the repeal of the Li conse laws, the apparent objects being to con- vert otfe-fourth of the lowest class of dwelling houses in villages and cities into illicit rum and to make a large proportion of the cltizen¥ of the State sneaking accessories to yio- lation of law. At least, that is the way prohibl- tion works In Puritan New England. It Is not likely that it would work any better here. ———— After an eminently successful experience of thirty years, and with an accumulated capital of fifty-six millions of dollars, the old Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has re- solved to reduce its rates of life insurance twenty percent. The reasons for this decision may be found in the correspondence published in another column. The expediency and propri- ety of such areduction have long been canvassed by the managers and the public; and while slow to make innovations upon long-established usage, it is pleasant to note that the company and its customers are at length in substantial accord. Of course, when so substantial and conservative a corporation as the Mutual Life decides upon so radical a change, the other com- panies must reduce their tariffs in the same proportion. ‘The effect will be beneficial in a twofold sense. It will place the advantages of life insurance within the reach of the humblest, while it will enhance {ts security; for only those companies which can afford to safely take this step will follow the example of the Mutual, while the speculative and unsubstantial con- cerns which exist mainly that they may afford profitable employment to their officers will have to go to the wall for want of support. pital ~~~ Relist 4 sey The Turkish Government has determined that all (nstruction in the national schools shall be given in the national language, aud this has caused an ovtery among the professors who have been accustomed to teach the Turkish idea how to shoot In French. The Turks con- tend very properly that national schools are not foreign schools, and that the puplis receive in- adequate Instr jon from the fact of ite being conyeyed in an alien tongue. The authorities have therefore resolved that books and teach- ing in all the schools, both higher and lower, shall bein the vernacular. Meantime the pr censorship Is as rigid ae ever. and the Levant Heruld has been suspended another two months for comusenting on the Inadequate water supply of Constantinople. In anadd ress before the State Teachers Institute at SuMicld, Conn., Secretary NonTHROP compared the American system of education with these of Burope. He said that our com- mon schools are much supertor to the popular schools of Europe in architecture and arithme- tic, but that there ts in Burope a greater inde- pendence of text books, a more thor: teaching of history, of modern languages, of drawing. Wit! res} ‘8 Opluiod, is 6 Ue thal school education there is nothing more neces- sary than a thorough knowledge of English, and it is wonaerful how few teachers possess that. Other languages can very well be dispensed with Mf English is properly taught. It is strange to hear graduates of Brown and other universities quoting Latin and Freneh, and evineing at the same time very Inferior knowledge of plain Anglo-Saxon, But the American method of teaching his- tory might well be improved. What could be more appropriate in our schools than Asimple, well-written history of the respective States? As the twig is bent the tree is inclined, and nothing would serve mo to eheck the dency toward centralization than the im- Jing upon the minds of children the glorious and tmportant events in the history of their native Commonwealth, Every State has events 1 itsannals which deserve to be kept alive in school books and the memories of its peo- ple, but which may not be sufficiently important to be mentioned at length in a school history of the United States, No doubt many chtldren are better acquainted with the history of Englaud than with that of the State of New York. —— ms that Paraguay, which for the last fe yoars haa been under the military protection of Brazil, Is in future to be under the joint pro- ft Brazil and the Argentines, and the ‘hablo destiny of the plucky little republic is vexation to the Argentine Confede » terrible war with the allies Paraguay was too much prostrated to be able to resist any dispos!- tion of her which the victors may choose to make; and annexation to the Confederation may prove the best thing for a country too weak to protect itself, ‘Phe South Americans evident- ly believe, with Mr, FROUDE, that no nation de- serves liberty that it is unable to maintain, — In some of the English schools the system of fgging, by which the junior pupils are com- polled to perform menial offices for their seniors, is still kept up, and the smaller boys are obliged to submit to all sorts of tyrannical Impositions from the larger ones, But this 1s a trif_ing abuse compared with the brutality practised in school discipline, For instance, a correspondent of the London Telegraph says that in Winchester Col- lege the prefects—senior pupils to whom are delegated certain disciplinary powers—are per- mitted to flog the pupils coming under ther authority to any extent and upon the most trifling provocation, Each prefect has a ground wat ash in bis possession, and uses It and abuses itp whenever he pleases, These foggings are no child's play, either, ‘The coats of the victims are frequently cut Into ribbons by the blows from the ash, which often draw the blood freely. ‘Twenty blows are given at a time, and the pun- Ishmont is sometimes even more severe, ax the caprice or malevolence of the prefect suggests. ited aa Ee ed Tt issaid that the officers of the signal service on Mount Washington are trying to teach a dog to carry the mailto and from that station, A correspondent of the Roston Adver tler suggests that this is an inappropriate sea son for s@ch instruction, there being four or five feet of snow on the ground, but that with a dog of good Intellect, quick perceptions, and ordinary docility, success may be easily secured, In support of this oplnion he says there 1s a tra~ dition, comingghrough such worthy sources as tu authorize belief, that previous to the year 1760 the mail between Portsmouth, N. H., and Wells, Me., for seven years was regularly carried by adog. The mail was carefully made up, tiod to the animal's neck, and carried vafely through, watil at last, on one of his Journeys, the faithful creature Was killed by the Indians, ation, In | If Maretzek had a tenor im his company he might last evening have given a very excel- lent representation of “Mignon.” As it was, he gave aa good a one as could have been antici- pated in the absence of that very important ele- ment in an opera troupe. It may be interesting to note the difference tn the cast of the principal characters of the opera between Inst winter and this, The following will give the two distributions : 1872. rio. Janet. {ait Men Both Madame Lucca and Miss Kellogg were excellently fitted with their parts, the musfe be- ing such as peculiarly to exhibit thelr respective strong potnts. ‘That which Mignon sings is for meio soprano and does hut call but Madame Luoea’s sharp and harsh high notes. That of Fiona is full of passages for vocalization, and neither requires that dramatic power which Mias Kellogg could not supply, nor that intensity of expression the absence of which is s0 conspicuous an element in her singing. During the first tevo acts Miss Kellogg was listless and sang with shat insquciance on which she seems to haye taken her artistic stand, In the famous polonaise Io son Titania she consented, how- ever, to throw aside a little of her well-bred quiet, and the result was an almost faultless plece of vocalizationgattended with the most liberal applause of the evening, foran audience is always more quick to appreciate well sung rapid passages and trills and roulades than the Onest efforts of catabile singing. Madame Lucca, we believe, surprised even her admirers by the manner in which she rendered the role of Mignon. All her faults were noticea- ble in the performance, and so were all her points of excellence. She cannot sing a scale with Onish; her trill 1s as bad as a schoolgirls, and her phrasing seldom of the best. Her voice also has been so constantly forced to great et- forts and to the cultivation of broad effects that she has lost in @ great measure the power of singing with the half volce which was so de- lightful a trait in Miss Nilsson. But thep on the other hand one cannot help feeling, when she is on the stage, the presence of agreat artist, pos- aving ‘a strong, earnest conception of the character she undertakes, and representing It in glowing sessed of the highest dramatic instincts, colors. There are artists who paint with fine, delicate touch broad, strong hand, and pat the colors masses, and both ‘may be equally gre: Madame Lucca Is like the latte: » bub Signor Jamet was, as he was last winter. the fine embodiment of the character of Lotariyy and Signor Vagzani greatly increased our re- spect for the departed Capoul. " — MURDER AT A RAP. pettecte Sania sciving Eve In Barroom Providence, Kt. LE, A Drunken ‘Tha io Nort Correspondence of The Sup. Provipence, Noy, 40.—The northern suburbs of our city was the scene of brutal murder on early Thanksgiving morning. These suburbs are noted for the lawless character of thelr inhqbitants, and the ineMctency of the fine politicians whom the taxpayers of North Providence grudgingly support as policeman, and though the streets of Providence run con- tinuously into North Providence, the excellent olive Juriadiction of this city extends no fur- Ther than the city line, and the consequence ia that the inhabitants of this equally compact ortion of North Providence adjoining are most without protection. Martia street has the worst reputation of any thoroughfare in its neighborhood, m Thanksgiving eve a parts of nine or ten ersons assembied in Ann i's bar-room on his street, to rae for turkeys. Aron them ero Patk. Gorman, an employee ofthe highway epartmment, James Gannon, and Harney Gallt- gan, Bight’ of the nine men put down thirty Senta each 0 the turkey, but Patrick Gorman, although he had been paid a month's wages the e avening (Wednesday), appears, according the persons who were In the house, to have de- clined ko put down anything. The taMlling waa eaun, and the first turkey was won by Thomas rreti. The winner treated all round, sold the turkey tothe woman of the house, ‘and they played for it again. ‘The rafting And drinking were continued in this way until past midnight. Gorman mean- time had fallen asleep on the floor. He was aroused by James Gannon and Barney Galligan, and the three started from the barrooin. Onthe sidewalk, in front of the place, they began quar- Ming. Gannon handed a turkey to Galilgan, nocked Gorman down, and struck and bruised him until life was extinct. Gorman was carried to his home on North Davis street. He leaves a wife and child. Gan- non has fled, and Galligan has been arrested as an accessory to the murder. eta A Gould on Vanderbi It has not heretofore been popularly puppoeed thst the ex; President Erie was poeti- cally Ticlined. Perhaps the following verses, whicn dropped from the wild Exile of Erie's" pocket book as he got into bis coupé In Broad Street yesterday may modify that opinion. ‘They were written on a blank certificate af Brie issued to the Commodore some years since. It fs supposed that there are more where these came from—verses, We MCAD, Not “ certificates.” ‘This from the “ Northwest corne: It was unkind of the Commodore to declare that he did: keopipy our readers from GOULD's REPLY. ‘The Commodore likes not my ot face by the yet Candee are wh That Pike the old g he ca af arece van’ “cheek.” in Kentucky. y.) Press, A Celeatial Phenome: From the Leaingo Last Thursday night there was ® marked reduction tn the temperature he le who had been sweltering eneath the intense heat breath ‘and the peo- nd sweatin, d freer and offered up an involuntary expression of thanks for the grateful reliof. Day dawned on Frida: bright aud clear; not a cloud dimmed and, apparently, the cool spell promise but of brief duration, But, as the day wore on, the temperature it was uncomfortably cool to man Shortly after the sun a.dim, hazy halo gath pout thi however, the inist or halo increased in ‘density end assuined a yellowish glare, The outer edge of the mist separated from. the formed a well-defined ein of the rainbow were visible. A seec third, and a fourth ring formed in quick suc heavens were the ce 4 people collected in the streets their necks and eyes to get a the wondr covered an the partl-c small beliig # «strained jored circles, From the it mist and then sailed slowly and gracefully to the carth in a direct line, Others were pro- pelled in different directions with greater force and rapidity, As they suiled earthward the glittering globules grew less brillant, and at the (apparently) height of half a mile they disap- peared entirely from view. This wondrous display of colestlal p nics continued for several hours, and was wits nessed by nearly every man, woman, and child ty. The emotions excited by the mag- nificont spectacle, more grand than any earthly Pageant, Were various, Among the Ignorant in th and superstitious the wildest alarm was created ; the day of Judgment had surely arrived, and many were lifetime of misdeeds by an hour's repentane Various theories were offered in explanation of ie, but none of them were the strange spect satisfactory. aoe Cavelina Senatorship. RALgBian, Dec. 2.-In joint session of the Le- ay the Conservatives made no nomination ty different wislature for Unt 1Staten Senator, and about se fh Joint vai yo nomi Beales re lay from the coutest, Jenne Unpereue’s Print. Barrons, ‘The trial of Jesse V perene, n young man indicted forthe murder of hie aunt, Mrs. Amelia Wheat, tp August last, com inthe Crigtinal Court tocdny.” Ok being area Percue Plonded. not guilty. when a fury was tna And furlucr proceedfoge postponed dail to-morrow. —— Tunneling Our of Prrrsnuncn, Dec, 2. from the Western Penit aud outer Wall, (o the etreet sistance of forty — 4 The Canals Closed, Rocursten, Dec. the weather, Nay ww boats OR@ANIGED AGAINST CORRUPTION. Sorwey Otey's Taxpayers in Armes A Board of Public Works, Greenville’s war against the oppression of corrupt officials has a newly developed parallel Both had their inception in un- heeded complaints against exorbitant taxation, and when the tax bills for the coming year were Presented to the property holders 4 how! of in- dignation went up agal Works, forcing that body to make a show of reform. A meeting of citizens was called, but. ead of trying to reduce taxation the ‘Plans for future ‘tink, zens honest in their demand for reform, and utterly disgusted with the erasions of ‘the business into their own hands. and ciroulars were sent to the leading property holders of the city, as follows: Jensey City, Nov in Jersey City. t the Board of Public evening, Dec. 24, 182 and endeavor (0 have it ‘eitizens by competent au Helleving you to have the Interest of Jend your gid-an 10 be present on the even\ty ented at the doo! ee ee 18 se eee pe Ati ht the hall was crowded by tax- pages teprevene savers wniiiions of dollars, the meeting was or- Aty—for, Las sulresee of present meeti lon for muni! ive measures Were neces: J that fmpera~ the present was concelve: overning its ac ho party of reforn mnlocFate, BE AY ab aud corruptible wi ere delivered bj others, of the Messrs. Bevans, ame general tenor draft a constitution Hevahs Introduced the subject of the ex- tion from taxation of city limits belonging to the and in a short speech rel cal members of the Legislat made no efforts to ‘The Hon. James wted sharply on and others who draw with a on in inber of the pealer of the, oduced into the Ho inter, but it was mption law was hered in the committee. It was resolved that the name proposed for pad, and that the asso- on of the coi the association be adoj atfon attend the sess! lature and demand a recognition o| eople of the county. to meet again next week. Pending the organization of the Legislature measures will be taken to restrict the expendi- ublic moneys, and the Sight prom- The meeting ad- — INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW Reduction of Rates. Tue More aL Lire Lxsunance Co. or 14 and Mé Broadwa: New YORK, Noy. #0, 172.) To the Euitor of The Sun Sin: From the facts set forth by the ac- tuary in the following letter, which have been carefully considered by the truategs in commit- tee, and by the bogrd collectively, they have de- cided that the rates of premium for assurance Il be reduced in conto tons of this let with the recow na as the necessary preparations are mi rs of your paper are inter life assurance, the letter if published, not only apprise them of the fact of reduction, but also explain tl which have led to the adoption of thi ant measure, Heapes fully 2 THe Mutua Lire Insurance € NeW YORK, N Dean Sim: ‘The Mutual Li pany has now been in operation well nigh the period aliotted to a human generation, and the exhibit of its affairs, strates, in my opinion, itsjability, and urges upon it the duty, to revise its rates and widen the range of its usefulness hy diminishing the prive of its assurance, ‘The true mlasion of life assurance is to give to persons of slender means, aud especially the la- boring classes, the opportunity port for those whom sudden death may reduce to helpless depondence, re are indigent wit Insurance Come just published, provide a sup ‘The special objects of nwa and orphans, n are often. pai ly-earned and scanty means, the lowest consistent with et cHfilly asic your early and serious fect; and that you may have T submit herewith new scale of Feduced rates and certain sug- stions with regard to the future practice of company should they meet your approval our future businoss, nd should be attention to tl the matter ful become the basts o he old net prices, thoney ald the mortuary rates of the American are retained: and the alterations arive change ip the perceutage addition for or xpenses, which Is reduced from 40 to 10. early dividends under the uew system course, be greatly reduced, aud I estly recom mend— 1, ‘That the reversionary oredits for these divi- dends be given, as Leretofore, but that ui eof Lueid THD every itstanee (heir | b value, on the polley anniversary, shall amount to more than one abqual premiun, When the excess above one premium may be at the expressed Wish of the the premium then due, hat these credits be held to be assessable ineet ang deficit that may arise from any clr ange from bad to verse " suggests ablow tlike Jay's physiognomy. But meanwhile we are available to pay, c 8. That im case of death hy the whole of the re= versionary credit be pai do to the heirs, as at ‘hat existing policy holders may have the option elther to leave thelr policies undisturbed and pay their old rates, receiving, their proportional dividends and’ reversionary credits, or to take out new policies, with thelr existing credits added, and pay the new rates to their then present age, pro- nselves to a new medical ‘onounced assurable will, by this moat desirable plan, within its control a large fund to which it may resort in time of trouble, should trouble fle {t will avold the objectionable on hand a large ui surplus, in which those who die cannot fail to Whose precise value It would iy id not Increase, and, indeed, fa passed the meridian 1 sun. This henomenon of frequent oecur- J but tittle attention, Soon, cormespondin vided they su main body and which the tints a, and a variegated colons . By this time the tre of attraction. All eyes Were turned upward.and all over the city crowds come to It, w have an’ interest, prely add that the acondsion of ul Tt has had lar, and atrained | neered Its way t Close observers soon dis- ve wonderful phenomenon than r circles eres of a brilliant white color were forth In counties uumbers. Some of them struggled slowly to the surface of the yond the true pri returned at the a hardship to which, I think, they ought not to be subjected, Kospect{ully submitted, Wa. H.C, Barterr, Actuary. Highly Important CINCINNATI, Doo. 2. vom Cincinnati. @ office of the Cincin- evcial was the scene of @ rather significaut yrotech- LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS. DASHES HERE AND THERE BY THR SUN'S REPORTERS, setae The Division Strect Murder-Smith a Avquited, John Smith and James ‘Tully, who were ine a d for the killing of Augustas Brown on the th of June last at Division and Attorney streets, were tried in the Oyer and Termiwer yesterday. Mrs. Brown, th wife of the deceased, testified the d her hush were returning from the Bowery Theatre, and when nese Attorney street in Division they passed & crowd on @ ‘whe that atter they had Bae cd ROUE Que rolled Tully tone after t Her buabs ecame excl shi few moments. ‘Then she say turued, Ww Stnith fell her husband to the g an featided Let he gem the blow UrUcky row appeared sett drunk Aeatifed “yd Browo was strikiag out bv rr wae siruek, aud tbat Brith after the r= Felaaid he struck tlm dmeavipx Brown) a pretty good rack to settle htm atoms, © Oe np hice 10g Boe nad Ha ped Evecare Mrowthome, the, Court directed him to ce a one de re anes tt vag | pt ‘Tally on the aingdae & witness, qe denied tat finith war cx. tansd'lh the guatfel ‘the tt mony of otter witheasce aUESEE bas p sesso & Me Une be fo se ih muerte ptt we Joho Fon yh inane aa ; Phe Whow Ihe Devar Kept. couse Aeon hty Levene that Wikvon a ie but of What be aad. Ypth Aides puuntied fhe base without sunning y under the charge of the Judge. ‘the jury withou leaving Uiclr seats Logod South vot guilty, The Broaklyn Syckel Arraigned tp the Over ond Tormiucr. Yesterday jnorning John Van Syckel of 156 Hepry street, Brooklyn, Was arraigned In the Courtof Oyer and Terminer, and pleaded not guilty to the ine dictment charging hin with having caused th “ yoy! ea"! Spencer, awed that ‘be fixed for the trial. as the prisoner Was Fen cf Attoruey Britton regiled that week of the term, and the ‘Apderson was get down for KY way ip tt'would haraly. be pc ppolntment. to. tf thee {rw bub he wou! eudeavor to MX a4 early 0 day ble neat mouth, Pte pencet replied mrouan mega egth tie. ten sould sun kina, edt TRE the Poult room with ght, witb Gork bale and widakers, talnit i . ek alr and wi atly ( uged witht BAM CN west Features, Mevaprenred periciy cele Potrbeacd aud under no special Hixicty ws to Lue Feeule Of the proceedings taxen agalist hun. 2 day A Decision Against the Contestants tn the Fudge MeCunn Wilt Cases Surrogate Huteh oision in the Judge MeCuan will cose, The Notes had demauded & recognition ia the Surrogate'd Court to oppoas the Will's probate, aud had presentea@ testimony to ertablish kinabip, Counsel asked for a ruling upoo the conatructiva of the will. The motion was opposed by Mr. Kibridge T. Gerry, and bis Houop deterred, readoring. @ declalop untiiah ; ty ed man of ave law Dearing upon the case. The de Ly One, Cover iD er the coutes rabain, Gorry. Jacques, and Fine made ex auative argumente for aut axvigst the deciaiva. The) e Ahhounced that the wiil wo ve weltntttedt tte. Ale. Gerry asked frtied, and. Chae det ranted ca then, Copapel Fie-"Gerey's motion, aud be heard tomorrow f administration b vatestants Op at upon the p posi it will the exceutors a The Corp Exchange Insurance Company ta be Wound Up A friendly action has been brought, at the re» quest of the Directors of the Corn Exchange Ineuranca Company, in the uae of, Win. ©. Dewey, to wind up ite affairs. The complaint seta out that its capital tock te $201400, god ics gurplun over, $140 Dut chat ite lee eine, Ruston ate were $4400) aud upward, aud tl other Mabhit! 0 y ara red peemisee, are Sora wore. eimade wcll Ob (tay Sioeenbtden, SHV up the « but. this hae not beet Beceraliy feaponded fo, aud 4u thalt capital will Ue ue Paired over tty er cent. ‘On this coupralct Mr. William R, Poster was appolute ed receiver wind up its aga —— Three Men Kil in 4 Braekiyn Sewer, Yesterday a{ternoop a portion of the sewer im course of construction by York & Mulvey, in Toinpking venue, near Quingey street, Brooklyn, caved in, ine stantly killing John Rudzsoa, Frank Montivedi, and) Jobn Sayay, Rudzsow was completely buried, aud the other two buried up to thelr necks. Savay waa e dirt crushing gue to protrude. | N before belug extricate foreway, walt that tiey’ never; acca tu tuege gemere Gncil they Wave dug te & seven fect. The moleture, iu his op ant f the dirt ou the gireel wi tae side of the dit to cave in, cepa The Jumet Case Again On the opening of the equity branch of the United States Circuit Court, yesterday, the Clerk called ‘the ejectment sult against Nelson Chase, Ue allege @ heir to the vast estate heft by the late Mue, Jumel. Judge Shipman presided. Charics O'Coovr, Chauncey, Shaffer, and a host of other Nehte were preseute Washington Bowen, the aged r also ip al ‘Owing t { Alforney-Gent lealiug ¢ Ud who le chiisetts, the d Mouday,” The ttpane also put over uatil thea, ——. Arvest of a Prowineat Banker. Yesterday afternoon, Deputy Sheriff Gale ars rested Heury M. Boody,a banker dotag busiavss at 12 Wall atrect, on an order granted by Juige Leonard of the Supreme Court. A civil uit wus instituted saint hum by the Rockford, Ruode Island, aul St, Louis baile Company, to recover moueye of which be ie frauded them, Ball was Axed at $100. Jake hour Nr. Buody had wot succeuded peas IRs and King Indicted. ‘The Grand Jury investigated the cases of Jobm Scannell and James C. King yesterday, exaniuing ail he withenses who appeared before the Coruuer's Jury. A bill of iuactuseat for uurder {i frst deg nd agaiust each, but Das mot yet boew Y will probably be hed Ina few day be Hanged. In the case of Henry Rogers, tried in Kinga county, and sentenced to be haned ueat Friday, Judge Fancher, following the decision of Judge Gtibert, has denied a stay - A Challenge to the Pigeon Sh Paiue. Jo the Lalitor of The Sun. Sin: Seeing a challenge from Mr. Bogardus \w 1 beg to make the following proposltions Iwill shoot My, Boganius a match at 10) virus, 0 yards rise, 102, OF 1i¢ 08 to ud, rap, and baud for each other im person, for Hut less than 92,50 a To shoot in New York, any Une from four to six y after signing articles, A deposit left at the o Marit oF the Tunes will be cavered tuimestiat If thie tere from Ira Dot will Mr. Bogardus, 1 wil man 1h Aumericn an the aie te Or Pw nan in Atueriea, at 100 birds, from Ave da rine, according 60 the Kiglisit rules, Hye Taa'A. P kw York, Dee. 2,197 — : natic's Suicides Conconn, N, Hy Deo. 2A young m, Horace B, Pa pposed to be fro a hace self through the head to-day in the readiag re Bagle Hotel, where he had asked permission ( dome letters. One of the letters he had Just Have directions about the disposal of his busy, « that his Drother at Lacoula suguld be notited, aud other Was as follows Al CONCORD, N. IL, Deg ‘The time comes whon L contesplated th, wy hand Wembles wot, Strangers, (you hy quest on wy body dou't render a’ verdiet of Say rather that L wish to Live no longer Hitreated, aud it ls tore (hau Fean bear, 1 whatt Ores ‘On thy Wak written Fre pe you recelved the letter L wrote sunday, iskrown ofhim here, An in ane Rumored Arrest of a Bunk Presitent: NeWHURGH, Deo, 2.—It ts rumored that ex Senator Wa, M, Graham, President of the Wallhll! Yt nd remarkable event this moruing, being vo other Visit from the Lou, Jesse R. Grant, the venerable postmaster of Covington, to his old and tried friend, Florus B, Fiimpton, Esq., associate editor of the Com: d in on his crutch, apd after ® cordial greeting from his friend was closete him for over an how unknown, but Ith the Covington he hearty attempts to atone for ® Mr. Grand hobb) Grant, with @ view of haviug the properly presented to tie public The Giass Wedding of On Monday, Noy, 18, a glass wedding was ce! brated in the handsome drew Weinberger, both inutes, at 283 E: A large number of mutes of both sexes attended, idence of Mr. t number of votes, ead Merrion were withdrawn by their friends mute, made an appropriate speech, gave the couple a splendid French the end of which h for their magnificent present, aud bountiful cofiation, they aat down usfield a Beggar, A gentleman recently arrived from Paris says that the notortous Josephine Manstiold appeared tn that . She had about $37,000 in money. ary in Allegheny City thie morning. by tunneling under the ceil of the building fect, he decree of the Canal Commissioners has been anticipated in this vicinity by on is Closed, and it onl, vs ihe Outekite'g! the city to the In France, is the ¥ Hroadway, burned on eter Hynca of 878 Seve eVLeHAth tree’ Mr. Lesseur, now resid owner of the property 718 and tional Bank of Middictown, Was arrest day a place, and taken to New York on tb re train in-charge of @ United States Marshal, on 1 @ charge of wieappropriating Che bans’s fu An wae funtion o1 ‘hetaitdtra of ive baad shy. natn oe ition ts growing worse, A ban : and thousands of dollars worth of a lave bose discov Lonvon, Dec, 2. ab four or hye of the largest Lad have struck work, ostepsibly Noe aiee tw pte were unjustly « H nel panies warn th Hie tise as Little gas at poaee je UBL the trouble 18 The Sen Session. ALBANY, Deo. he Senate wet tonlay to take up the case of Justice Curtiss, but ther bei We quorum present the Senate adjourned nntil 1) A. Mt te inorrow. ry Binith, ex Jadge Coclirane, Ch ries P Crosby, and Hz C. Deanison appeared is i Justicd Curtiss, . ee Buustead Pardoued, TreNtON, Dev he Court of Pardons have granted a pardon to Bumstead of Jurney Cily.t the e day before of the tern of ie Which will b DL lmutiary Bedte ‘eflvet of the ¢ iw to eltizenaht) of tue eourk will De to Te We call attention to the opening of M. Favats ger's course for beginuers in French, Lt thor Pe this evening at the place mentioned in fils ale rises meat, He undertakes to teach uovices to speak Preble tu tree month, $$$ Mrs, Stenhouse's book upen Utah and the Mormons is now in the press, and will be Iseucd by t Mesers, Appleton ina few days. It i#anclaborste exhaustive Work, ans furuiebes interesting |Ui) 1