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of these uninformed Presidential electors beams, and gleams, and glitters, and glows Doubts flee away before hit, hesitation vanishes. them on flying wings; the lightning is bis errand bearer; his message leaps upon a epark and flits from pole to pole. youth! Happy clectors! Fortunate party! And then the advice! Could anything Could the three millions and more of Amertean citizens who went up to tho polls last month and registered thetr Protest against the migcoverpment and maladministration of Gen. Grant and the growing corruptions of the Republican party wish for any more satiefactory ox- sentiments than ALLEN points out? What could be more ratifying to them, under the cireum- stances, than to have the votes they gave— not so much for GREELEY as against GRANT counted for Grant? There isa kind of ring sublimity in the conception that almost takes away the brenth. truthfal an expres*ton of the popular will, so faithful a discharge of the important tted to these electors, in short, so grand and glorious and em- lump" as this would be—words fre unequal to it, It is unique, original, The hari-kari of the Japanese unsentiniental compared ‘This only one Of his three great princ- ples; but perhaps the busitiers was too striall for TRIAL OF JUDGE CURTIS. —_—- THR ARNATN AGAIN SITTING AB A COURT OF IMP BACUMENT. yn pavement 6 application cannot ray seeauh when | phen roposed the partuership. Can't ncaa Juatice to Hornes Greeley, Prom the Phiiadetpata Aye. Among the moet important vindleations of the fame of Honacr Greener is the it he had little or ney thing fo do with the coun of the New York Trine since the election, important; for his enrd resuming control of that Journal misled us and others on the 4 ie. Lean’ tell w eagreed pon at 2 nedermrandtag ao tthe tell when or where this anderstanding woe ha Tome tnber dieet raiture. There had heen discussions In the conversation with Curtis ‘& copartnersnip. There werr Unne Amuscments To-Day, ddendemy of Musto -M goon. S85 Broadway, Matinee, Tosth’s Theatre—Roweo and Joliet. ste Laery ih, the Mitnatrete~Tievty thiad sre Theatre M Hy Wives of Wissen Tho Objection Overruled, he ownereh publithed proof ww the owne: ALnany, Dee, 3.—The Benate met at 10 A.M. The Chair announced that the first bual- ness in order would be the reading of the charges againat George M. Curtis, a Justice of the Marine Court In New York. ‘Tho Clerk road them. They are tn substance that tie sald Justice was in copartnersuip with Oushing, Pitman & Gardiner, attorneys aod counsellors at law, the firm practising in tho court over which Curtis presided; that sald Curtis made allowances to this frm, amd particl- pated In the profits of said allowances; also that ho corruptly referred causes to Pitman, of said firm, and received a portion of the fees obtained by Pitman; also, that in the oase of Boao amt. Clark sald Justice dented a trial by Jury w the plaintif after granting a new trial to defendant; also other irregularities In this case, also that sald Justice was wailty of improper and di ful conduct on the bench, ‘The Clerk then called Goonre M. Curtis, and his counsel answored for him, Chough he was present. ‘The following counsel app M. 1. Townsend, We discussed the advantay idea, the | recet uy the parti mao Hage” A correspondent of the Chicago Times, writing from the Indian Territory, elves an Ine t iustrating the shrewdness dlaplayed by the pious Senator HAnnan's friend, Judge Wrtart, {n improving the opportunities: alford- ed him, through his Influence with the Tatertor Department, for making money out of the In- iNT, a9 will be remembered, ob- tained a monopoty of settling the claims against tho Government of certain soldiers belonging to Indian regiments who served during the re- in duties an wpecial agent of the Government ho drew about €404,000 from the public fands, some of which he paid to the Indinne. Dut although he is eredited with having retained in his own pomsérsion a large portion of the meney intrusted to him.he was not satiated withont squeezing tho Indians whose claims he really settled. In Fort Gibson lived @ bankrupt merchant named Naam, who in New York and 8t. Louis for goods. Wrucit saw fo this man a useful instrument, and having an abundance of Government money at his disposal he discharged Nasu’s indobt- ment, and procuring him a fresh stock uf goods startod him anew in business, Then tn settling with the Indian ¢latmanta, many of whom had walked long distances in order to receive what ‘was due them, he would induco them to trade out half the money coming to them im goods at prices from Nasn's atore, of else get nothing at all, receiving a percemtage on all Mr. Nast is now a sleek and wealthy individaal, for which he may thank Judge Waiaut and his friend and patron Han- LAN. Major Cnaso, lately United States agent for the Cherokees, is in tho Indian ‘Territory taking new evidence in Wiiamt's case, which hes already Veen somewhat fully explained tn these Harnam's Great Bow Day ah! Evinte . Samen'e Theatre Gan Francie Mivtirehy Bteinway Mall Stanley's Lectores, inndt ‘tell when he coneed Union Aquare Theatre Ont Amerienn Coot { never been in our new 1 he wa is now Geodhart Tete, cont wow with Judge ‘Curtis, welt, Jaquith In the exercise of iM ‘Xe woald gains shat Pratihad There was iors than one Iigated cave tried befor {Thnk there were hore; the firma receiv public trust com vreat deal of money whem we Lremember two. moneys, When: ‘There wee net @ re the proeecuttot and Peter B. Olney, AN AMENDED ¢ Mr. ‘Townsend asked that the amended eharee h had reference to respondent ap- riintextcat ed Ex-Judge Cochrane aren theno amended charges, upor they were not eomprehended tn the to an examination this trial ts based. Mr, Townsend inpieted that the prosecution the Constitution strietly I the charwes sh: or; it was suflicte them before the Judiciary Committee Henator Murphy Were these additional charges cerved upon the accused by order of the Mr. Townsend sak the Senate bad not ordered rphy—That then settles the whole eno Fight to serve ever any mernbur 0 cot ‘Tho Benate then adjourned until 19 o'clock A. M. to-morrow. onevennssiiiae TUB LAND GRABDERS AP WORK. coarse and pearing tn Cor ngalnat read Ah, well; let ua te thankful for youth originality —nnd for and beauty and the Governor, au Secaring a Kal will Give m =A Notewert Waasuryaton, Dec. &—The railread lobby is actively engaged buttonholing members, and endeavoring to have the important biils which were pot acted on at last session brought up at an early day. They so far succeeded to-day as to get @ favorable ruling from the Speaker, which will give many of their Jobs precedence. Among the noteworthy schemes being urged by a powerful backing \a that embodied in Benate bill 1,015, now pending in the House. This bill provides that all lands within the limite of rail- road grants upon which settlement had been made under the Homestead act at the time of it shall inure to the railroad abandoned by Companies on being su thodetors. great part out of thie question as to th abandoned tracts that ¢ wice-epread dissatisfaction of the settlers hi grown both againet the raiiroa the Administrat from the Kpeaker whieh of their Jobe Precedence Regulating Raiironds. A cave of great importance to the whole community has just been tried at Bloom- ington, Til. The suit was brought in the it Court of that State against the Alton and St, Louis Railroad Company to forfeit its charter for violat- aot of the Legislature prohibiting discriminating rates in the matter of local freights, in defence the railroad company pleaded the Inviclability of its charter, and also that the act of the Legislature, 1.t- tempting to regulate its charges for freight, Was unconstitutional. ded that the law was constitutional, hold- that the people in creating corpora- tions had uot parted with the sovereign right, inherent in all governments, to pro- tect themselves from abuses, extortions, or unjust discriminations on the part of cor- porations of their own creation. ‘The case will ultimately be carried to the Supreme Court of the Unitec round assumed by the company, that the charter granted by the State for the rail- road is a contract between the State and that nnder that contract ompany is authorized to fix ite own ht and passenger fare, and tate cannot by subsequent | to prescribe the rates to be charged by the company, the Federal Constitution prohibiting the States from passing any laws impairing the obliga- ‘The question !m- volved {s a most important one, ing, in fact, whether a railroad company once incorporated is to be forever after independent of all legielative control, ex- cept in relation to such powers as may have been expressly reeerved by the body granting its charter under the terms of that Instrument. What ie Ahead ‘The schemes proposed by Presitent Cxaxr to bis message, and which may bo taker a Indicative of h's programme for fhe next term, are excocdingly magnificent. He recommends the adoption of the postal telegraph system at an expenditure of from twelve to twenty millions and an Racrease of officeholders by come sixty or @ghty thousand persons; the building of @ ship canal aronhd Niagara Falls at the expense of fifteen to twenty millions more; canals to connect the Mississippi Vuiley with the Atlantic at a cost of “continuous Innd-locked mavigntion from Maine to the Gulf of and the expenditure of twenty- five millions in mail subsidies “during the ext five years.” All these involve centralizntion, corrup- fion, lobby legislation, swindles, and a general bedevilment of everybody in Con- gress and out. not necessary that before the Gover Ber ue. Outside partie decided that the aroused could 6 tried upon the charves sent to the Senate ty the Governor; that nettner the Dar Associa. jes not within the control of ‘any authority to serve charges. QUESTIONING THE JURIEDICTION OF THE SENATE. Smith. of counsel for the respondent, diemige thiy complaint on the eroun Juriediotion; that the these forced sales. thon nor other the Sevate ha Judge Trerow de Benate bad mv ‘ctton of the Se courts of Fe respondent. waa not therefore did not com ‘of this Senate, Counsel tion with some embarrassment, bec chent was under the {imprescion that motion would look as if 7 disposition of the fifty miftions Tfere's statesmanship for you. GRANT thinks that companies and the unjust pol- rior Department. ‘That policy is d in aeireuiar letter issued in August last, addressed by Commissioner Drummor registers and receivers, and bearing the endorse- tary Delano, in which rules are ribed for the guidanee @f these oflivers In These rules are re- led us unjust in the extreme toward the set- ation is not generall: but itm kuown thorough! who are frieadJy to the sottlers that this particular bill with m mined opposition when it comes before t House next week, “an expenditure of five per annum would be profitably ex- this ts his own language restore to us our proportion of the carrying trade of the world.” ‘This asa inatter of subsid . ‘To this we venture to say two things: Pirst, that the suggestion itself Is ona par with the idea of annexing San Domingo for the purpose of paying the national debt in tropical products; and secondly, that the distribution of twenty-five bsidies in the next five years would do more mischief in the way of corrupting Con- gress und the people und making all oor cats depend on logis! 4 than could be healed in a hundred court of record, end ¢ shrank from a full ct. Sul he made the motion because he believed tt the ‘At this stage of the proceeding, 80 as to ‘ounsel cited a large nuinber of decistons, all to one effect, that the Marine Court kept norecord, and wos not, of course, @ court ates on the by a few members nd it is hoped with a deter- Who Should Be Chosen President if » Grant were to Diet A correspondent writes to inquire whether n, Grant's death before the 4th of March next another election and if not, would be President or would legally act of counsel for the court aol be and 3 that the said act did not for the first time m: He called attention te pertance of this court ferior court as counsel sought to make res Involving & sum as high ws $20,000 tried In it; three times as many cases brought before It as are brought before any Supreme Court, and If [tis a very in It pays the handsome salary of 810, He (nerefore subtnitted that thre 6 question as to the jurisdiction of the Senate, THE SENATE'S DECISION. Aftor further argument the Ch. tlan, "Has tho Senate J nversaiion between Senator ith, on motion of Senator M: he Senate went into private session o the company pord, and eal on and Govern- THE ALABAMA TROUBLES, fh the event of rates of fr paces coat KE. Spencer Elected U: itere—No Quoram Mayor Hans. yesterday made some note- worthy nominations to fill vacancies in offices pal administration. LATORPORD was nominated to be Commissioner of Pablic Parks In the place of the late Mr. Ditton; Faq., to be Commisstoner of Public Instruction in place of the Hon, Hoorsn C. Van Vonsr, bis law partner, now one of the Justices Superior Court; and B. DE Larrenn Swrri, Req. Counsel to the Corporation in place of RICHARD, O'GorMAN, resigned. These new ofictals are ali supporters of Gen. Grant. It has been quite generally supoosed that Mr. P. DeLAFiELD SMITH might be appointed by the President to be United States District Attorney here In the place of the Hon, NoAMt Davis; but bis friends will congratulate him on having re- cetved an office of equal dlenity and larger emol- Mr, Sutra Js one of the and popular membors of the New ean be relied upon (o dircharge his new offichal ability and Integrity; Mayor HALL bas done a very judicious thing tn appointing him, Mr, O'GoRMAN, we presume, will devote him- self henceforth to the pr comery, Dec, 3,—At 12 M. to-day the body at the United States Court room roted for George B. Spencer, by unantinous vote in the branches, for United Btates Senator. were present In one branch nineteen men claim- ing to be Senators, and In the other branch fifty- two claiming to be mem +s, one over @ quorum, In the fenate there were four persons seated hout cortificates of election, with a certificate issued on the supplemental re- turns from Barbour county. Senators not holding certificates the Senate ve lacked two of a quorum. se there wore thrve delegates with- election, and ihree others th certiicates on supplemental returns, issued baequently Co the certiticates first given to the ne candidates, not holding uorum in the House, In the General Assembly at the Capitol there were cighteen Senators present, wuo divided thelr yotos anong several candidates. the death of Mr. Whitfield and the’ temporary absence, on Account of sickness, of th e only fifty members in the House, an refore no qi quorum tommy ected with the ‘The Hon. R. M. If Gen. Graxt should gotion of the electoral colleges—that is # say, before he Is ele: ted President—it would be proper for the electors to give their votes for Hewry WrLson as President, Decause he has been chosen to be Vice- President, and if Grant should die or be Aisabled, must succeed to his place. Would then also be necessary to find a new eandidate for Vice-President in Witsen’s and Scuvytea Conrax should un- be voted for for Vi dent, as he was the second lending eandi- date before the Repub! Yention when WILs0N was selected for that before the rus G. BREARDSLER, There was one Tin reapentne the oor ft wax announced by nate had decided against . that the Senate had no the Cbalr that the the objection ral Without these four ‘of counsel. for the respondent, at- ALS Wore issued for the following witaes! y Pitunan, A, Loving Cushing, ames M. Siaith, Chartes W. "Brook: nard, Miles Leach, Acker, haward Hoily, Philip Casgrit. u of counsel for the The Retirement of Judge Nelson. it of Samuen Netson from ne Courtof the questionably n National Con- the bench of the Supre United States carries one’s memory back UCuder what was then the new Constitution of this State Judge LSON Was appointed on the 2istof April, 23, to be Circuit Judge of the Sixth Dis- The duties of this office, which was a creation of the Constitution just then going into effect, were almost identical with those discharged b present Supreme Court. of these Circuit Judg Court proper, over which JoHN BavaGE was called to preside, three members, and w certificates there was t q jompson, Charles David D. Field, U for half a century en Grant should die after he has deen declared elected, and before he is inaugurated, there would be no occasion for a new election; Vice-President Wits0n would at once take his p gurated as President. should then dic at any time before the ex- piration of his term on March 4, 1877, he would be temporarily succeeded by the President of the Senate; or if that office should happen to be vacant, by the Speak- er of the House; and under the law a new ‘at once be ordered upon a -saed by the Secretary of otification must be sent forth If there should be aspace of between its date and the first Wednesday in December next ensuing, the election which it calls for must be he! within thirty-four days preceding the said first Wednesday; but if there is not such a apace of two months between the notitica- tion and this first Wednesday, the election will take place at the same period in the following year. The President so elected enters upon his office on March 4 next fol- Jowing, and holds it for a full term of four fobert W. Androws. OPENING THE CASE, Mr. Oiney of counsel for the proceeded to 0} vust amount oF obligations with He spoke of the business done Ly this Marine Court, and the lante sums of money which are sometimes involved in the causes brought before © history of the orl which was In the publicity administration of J this court. The Chief Justice of the Court in- vited the Tiar Ansociation to make an inveatiza- which was done, brought before’ th sanded the case over tothe then paasod In review the charg: the Justioe was Using in his court, and how hi their ewnings. n connection with his salary « a comfortable sum. of the frat charge. The Senate here took & recess until 3:30 o'clock ace and be in tice of his profession His distinction in it ts already #0 well assured that to wish him success ts neediens. His ripe and fertile powers as vooate, and his diligent attention to his duties, set an example to all who may follow him tn the office from which he iu Of this case, ven to certain a Judge of the There were eight , and the Supreme Effect of M. Thiera’e Determination to the Governmen Pans, Dec. 3.—The determination on Sunday of M. Thiers and bis Cabinet to remaia jovernment bas served to dispel th grave fecling of uncertalaty which followed tie ion of the Assembly on Saturday last. De- spatches from all parte of France represent the country as calm, election on Thursday next of the Committee of Thirty by the Assembly, to draw up a law regu- lating public powers and prescribing the condi- bility, as provided itaure adop'- pounsel and ad- nats, Counsel abowing how member of a law firm prno- participated in ve much; but, consisted of only rely appellate dection w. A brief paragraph recently appeared in THE SUN on the folly of the antiquated of our colored population rfu.k Virginian has since o arrival there of twenty-ive col- n their way back from Liberia to ‘These poople are the remains of a company of nearly two hundred who went to Liberia from North Carolina about a year ago. ‘The other hundred and seventy-five havo died in Africa, and the wretched remnantare now seek- Ing to get back to the Old North State. This warning to co'ored people who are tempted to leavo their hames by benevolent golden-spoctacied old gentlomen from the Colo nization Boclety. Africa is as much a foreign country to the American black man as it {# to American white man. There are plonty of room and plenty of work here for Americans of eleven Supreme and Circuit Judges who took office at the same time he alone survives. all of his associates died long ago. mained a Circuit Judge till February, 1831, when he was appointed an Associate Jus- Court of this State in the room of Wint1am L. Mancy, who had resigned on being chosen a Senator in Con- In September, 1836, Judge Nx.son ame Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and held the position until March, 1845, when he resigned on being appointed of the Supreme Court riont for the transfer All parties are waiting for the ‘This was the sub- immediate, with Newso: ‘On the reassembling of the Senate, Mr. Olney dwelt at some length on the charge that Justice Curtis directly violated the law law firm of Pitman and who practised in his court, and one of whom was appointed refe accruing therefr North Carolina, otroealution of raise ise (newspaper) says top the organization Pe rs ze tice of the Sup: that In the event of 4 OF the Committee on Thursday, itis passtole . M. Thiers and bis supporters’ on the Left will withdraw from the Aksembly. ‘Lhe Assembly will divide into two tes, the Left and the Right, for the election on 1 ‘of the Committed © ce participatii should prove THR TESTIMONY, The proseeution then Q'Brien testified to. witnessing the art of the frm of Cushi pdbart, but kuew nothing of the Thirty proposed alled its witnesses. J. as Vondered b: faure, but be de The toube of Gen. Cavalgnac and the Montmartre Cometery, w terday, ID the presence of three hundred pei sons, Tho domonatration was quietly conduc there was no interference on the part of an Associate Justic of the United Stat ¢ NELSON Was on the Supreme bench of this State fourteen years. occupied seats by his side during that When he first took his place upon the Supreme bench of the United States, that Court consisted of nine members, All whom ho bench are gone, many years ago. were ov the bench with him so late as the outbreak of the rebellion are dead except ‘im sworn, and produced ti d detailed the suite bro booxs of the drm larine Court, together with A Brilliant Young Leader. “Tho Chairman of the Lib fu National from the Tribune, telegraphed on Monday “to the various Greenery mournful and stances which attend their meeting their Yotes should be cast for Gen, Gkant and Gov. Gratz Brown,” Upon inquiry we learn that the Chair- man of the Liberal Republic: Committee is a young man named ALLEN. Doubtless * the various GREELEY electors” viate his kindness, We under- stand it to be the duty of the Chairman of the National Committee to stand by and give instructions to the Prosidential elect- ers in emergencies like the present, @ratifying to know that the Chairman of the Liberal Republican National Com- mittee, who was appointed in a somewhat informal way for a temporary purpose b sion informally assembled, repr senting a party that had yet to be born, though he was not specially active during the campaign, does not hesitate in this crisis to throw himself luto the breach and toll the ignorant and unlettered F ial electors for whom to cast th Doubtless these g All those who ciieeitecanammarant A curious case involving the legality of nial brokerage haa lately een decided tn the Vice-Chancellor JAM IRELAND of ‘Tuam, in 1868, Was introduced by his brother-in-law, named CRUICE, toa Mrs, O' BRE twenty, who possessed a considerable fortun CRUICE, [iBLAND'S sister, Proposed to make & match betwoen IRELAND and the wealthy widow for a consideration, and this proposition was eagerly accepted, Inthe end O'BRIEN married IRKLAND, and he gave a rot Mrs. Cnuice for £150 and the principal to be paya- ble in six months after the death of Mra, Jaw, at whose death she would beeome entitled to some property. nuary, 186, Judginent was marked on this bond, and a demand mado for two-and-half years’ interest; when IRELAND, after rome pre- brought sult to recover nd, declaring it fraudulent, inasmuch as Mr, and Mrs, Crvice had taken advantage of his youth and inexperience in order to induce him to sign it. the Vice-Chancellor was that the bond was fraudulent and void as being against public policy, and that IteLAND was not linble in re- After this decision Irish match- makers need not expect any further reward for thelr services than the approval of theirown and allowances. Was a partner in th actions in the Saperic tostified that Judge So ee as we learn odd are dead, bh and he detailed J. The charge of Mr. Patrick Devine of 65 De- graw street, Brooklyn, egatnet Denis Sullivan of the New street police was Lovestigated yes missioners Bosworth and I he and Mr. Robinson were going peaceably through the street on tte night of the Mth of October, and that he was suddenly knocked down by a man whom he cannot Nv unconscious, 4 bis skull fractured, H, Robinson deposed that as colne out of & selon ou C azie eiroum~ read entries of vari s suns of woney peld Lo Judge Curtis in amounts ranging from §1 to ‘The groater part of them ablooming widow of Indeed, all who . Mr, Devine wor clerk of the Court, was sworn form and contents of the The witness waa Subsequently Mrs books used fn the courts. and jdlentia xd noveral by Justice Cure 30 o'clock P. M, tis, which were put iu x ‘The Senate took a recess till 7 EVENING ERSSION. The Senate re-assembied at 7:30 P.M. Michael J. Cody was shown several papers purpor-ing to be records of judgments awarded by Justice ; asked to state the amount of fees These simple facts show that Judge Netson’s judicial career has been a very remarkable one, We have no recollection of another justance either in this country or in England where a man held such high Judicial positions for half a century with- out the interregnum of SFIFLD and MARSHALL, their long tenure on t short of NELSON. N has just entered upon his Never pret'minent on the bench, he was always able, learned, in- dustrious, and safe, Only a lawyer of first- class attainments can fill the place he has honored 60 long. drank, knocked Mim di je Inight be served 10 ‘and theo Sullivan, who waa O'BRIER'S father. Mr. Smith, of counsel for the respondent, ob- He clained that if it Was the object of counsel to show what Judi ments and fees were rendered and allowed, could not be done by these payers, J to such evidence, slip ‘awore Ui at w! single day. famous for bench, fell far yuee, and knocked Mr, ‘Bullivan—Did you not T told you it woul ear aguinst an oil Devine down with bis club, Ido not tke to © only way Lo prove these judg possession of the b and feos was to puton the stand the parti Ned that this was the only Tt was contained in the judgment book of the Court and the written orders of the Judge. was put in in a body, and he thought it perfectly cighty-firat y he decision of " 5 evidence 0 All this ovid that he had not bee: He was Kong along aud found the mau lylag wacnalble, to bis assistance, agi Sullivan in bia. getence 4a bor was he ip (heal Smith sald he objected to tt, not only as Incompetent but us trre ing in it which bad r againat Judge Curtis of participating in the ‘There was noth~ erence to the charge Vearce came along, ‘took him to the Eustera Silence—Where are Addition and Di- ntlemen were groping in the dark till they heard from ALLEN. The Hon. Avaustus Scre.t, who ix Chairman of the National Committee of the party whieh gave these electors seven out of every eight votes they reveived, has failed the country in this emergency. fs not so young as Mr. ALLEN; his party is not so young -as Mr. ALLEN’s party; he does not feel that degree of responsibility that Mr, Aten feels; he bas an absurd notion that his functions as C the Democratic National Committee do tend to enlightening Presidential ‘kness; and so he i ‘Offer Stiles called attention to the discrepanc Mr. Townsend said it was not iu tween the testimony of Bf now that Judge Curtis juduments or fees, 1 such judgments were ren Au investigation has recently been un- dertaken in Philadelphia into an attempt by the so-called Wooden Pavement Ring to bribe the Common Council of that city. The notorious WinL1AM H, KEMBLE WAS summoned as a Witness to testify in respect to the bribery, but he refused to appear. This is the same KEMBLE who took 60 deep an interest in Groror O. Evans, who was Latrusted by the authorities of Penn- sylvania with the collection of a large sum of money claimed from the Federal Gov- ernment in connection with the expendi- during the war, and who defrauded the treasury of the Common- wealth out of betwee volnson and that ol Fh Liat he ae. at It was with the clal Sullivan was in th partivipated in these ly to show that ed and fees allowed We have already shown that ho Gen, Banks is @ wary politician, knowing ople in Congress: mean when they talk about generous impulses and the era of good feeling. portunity offered by th tively awore (hat neither be wi vou b xt to Mr, ‘Judge Boswort Just how much thos saloon and all {iro Ma Met on the cae tum ove) There is erjuring somewhere, ead i must probe it to (he bottom, sind ou nt allowed the testimony for the He embraced the op- first day's flood tide of gush to hand in bis rerignation of the Chairman- ship of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Mr. BROOKS very opportunely interrupted the Speaker as he was putting the question, express- Ing the repe that the resignation would not be ancepted, as There ouEht not to be any partisan- ship in the organization. of that committee, Mr, KELLOGG of Connecticut, MREpUblican, affected by “generous Impulse,” seconded the remarks sald he did nod-belior Republicans desired Gen, Banks to take that n, the vote being taken, the resignation was not acccepted. This 1s equiva- lent to a vote of confidence, and saves FAUNS- Bia, and other Liberal Kepublicans bf tendering thelr resignation KeLLoca and bis freely abused Bolomon Rawitach was sworn note for $155 he gave the firm others for services, also a chec ‘p payment of A Now City Rattread Opened, The new railroad in Twenty-third street, run- ning between the Rast and rday with twenty-six ears, which ‘The witness sald that the note was of Goodbart, for the servics ih rivers, was opened ler Was Kettiod befor into Court for ‘Khe check was read, and bad on the back two endorsements, one of which was the name of Judge Curtia, Isadora Suckervelerk of Rawitsch, identity wid and took up, He pald ‘the check to one Hartnett, who had the note. Geo. L. Gardiner was recalled and cash book of the dra, and was ask amount of mone: business fp she f how tat he could exactl: Mr, Sinith objected, as tea mado the eni knew anything about th e Curtis knew anything ‘The President sald as th count book It was com, Witness then explained tries, and went on to polut out the recelpts for ‘The cars, which were Duilt at a cost of $1,856 each, ‘and peat axtecn ‘by au horee, au thelr fare into an tron. @ectors groping in dy tures of the Sts lets everything ~o in the most reckless, irresponsible, and unsatisfactory mauner. He gues to far as to any that his committes @oes not consider it within the scope of its authority to give advice in the matter; @nd there he and his committee leave it. Ah, what a blessed thing is youth! of Mr. Brooxs, a spect, the amount. 1d nto & wale below. ver from another Iron box, of which he has tm which Various small suis a} Mtalned by thy n $300,000 and $400,000, To this Evans, when he was going to Washington, Kumpie gave the following letter in his own handwriting: “TMMABURY DEPARTMENT OF PeNNsy Ey awta,? Hanwisnona, March 2) My Desw Terma: Allow me to'introduce y lecular friend, Mr. GRkonG e magnltade that he deposived tu envelopes a ut he did not Amounts from N amounts have been paid by Comptroiier Gen for legal services ia the trial of Mayor Rall, &.: in Administration pang whether of thom. J was the office ac- lent evidenc Who. tude thé en. Wrinks away, and age is silent, the vigor ad verdancy of youth spring up in waste Mt places, supplying all things Upon the darkened minds In Ne Hurry for Rofo Deo. 4 -Cominissioner De “To Teriam J. Correy, Eaq,, Washington, D.C. In regard to this bribery Kewnie prac- tices silence when he is called upon to testify. wory where, JUDG CURTIS’ jortas 10 be bill warougu very fast.) use Lo not Growd oun 2 of wunse) jase county. weal vo Mh p dae me OF ANOTUBR OF THD NAVY RING'S TOLS of Tobcson's Schemes that Defented Last Winttr—An At« Open the Doors of to the Roaches nnd the Secors Wasttoton, Dec, 3.—The jolly Robeson and the irrepressible John Roach, taking It for granted that the recent election was a triumph- ant endorsement of thelr many little schemes on tho public Treasury, are determined to make hay while thesun shines. One of the first things to come up during the morning hour to-day was a bill to authorize the Beeretary of the Navy to construct ten team sloops-of-war, and appro- priate therefor §3,000,000. This bil! was reported from the Naval Committee by the Chairinan, Mr. Beofteld, and the moment It was read Mr. Hale of Maine promptly offered an amendment allow- ing five of the vereols to be built in private ahip- ard, This is one of the schemes which Jobo ouch zealously logrolied for all last winter, but to hiw great chagrin the Investigation, into No- beson’s dealings with him, started by Tite Sus, Gofeated it, Lil fares any better this session it Will not be for want of oppoxition on the part of the Conservative members of the House, ‘Ene dobate on twas quite spirited to-day, the majority of thore who spoke ex- pitinble want of Information on the sub: Jeet of shipbuttding. ‘The following Is a fair pls of the degree of intelligence with which the average Mewber of Congress discusses ai important bill : jew York Reviving On: ig, Mr, Semoniald, Chateman omaniti if the geutieman inform urden it i proposed to build these Mr. Beofleld—About three, four, or five bundred toma, oertainiy not wore then five hundred, ‘This wan Vecleel:f antisfactory to the member from New York, and he subsided. In the course of ap hour Mr. Banks of Maseachusetts, who wos pot altogether eatiafed with this answer, succeeded tn Loge | among bis papers some memoranda which he bed made last seasion when this bill was before the House, and at the conclusion of the debate be arose and informed the House that the veasols proposed to be bullt under this act were to be not loss than eighteen vote tons burden ir. Randall objected to the loose manner In ich the bill was drawn, and said that with the Mr. Hale o fi it would be aforded contractors to steal tres as mi os it was to appropri. ate. He instanced the Cimvat the Besors nd other iron-clad coutractors, whe had besieged Congress for years, and Anally obtained fot times the pmoant they had contracted to bulld the ships for. If the Pata wos going to sanction a job of this kind for the behest of contractors, he hoped it would attempt to throw some sali js around the act to protect the ‘Treasury against the de assaults of these cormorant contractors. In this he was ably sec- g yes Mesgra. Holman and Kerr of Indiana. Mr reher of Mi ing with bis record last winter, job, and wanted the Secretary to hav jargest discretionary powers {n having the ships constructed, ee THE CREDIT MOBILIER BRIBERY, ——- Judge Black om the Floor of the House—A Long Conference with Mr. Dawes-Ku- mors of a Compromise with McComb. Wasntxoton, Dec, 3.—Considerable ex- cltement wes created to-day by the appearance of the Hon. Jere. Black, the counsel of McComb in his sult against the Credit Mobiller, on the floor of the House just after adjournment. Te was met by Gen. Garfleld, and introduced by that gentleman to Mr. Dawes, who immediately conducted him to the Ways and Means Com- mittee room, where they held a long confer- ence. As it is known that Judge Binck ts thor- oughly conversant with all the details of the Credit Mobiller bribery, great signific tached to his appearance here so soon after the inyeatigation was ordered. There is a rumor to-night that Oakes Ames and his guilty uw ates have proposed a com- romise with McComb, and that the Judge is [Gre to-day entirely in the interest of his client. I, however, do not credit this story, I have the very best of reasons for stating that Judge Black came here in response to the frantic appeals of one of more of the accused members, who hope that the friendship which he has always mani- fested toward them will prompt him to step in and save them from the inev.table ruin that ‘awaits them If this Investization is thorough and impartial ; but they are leaning on a broken reed if they think that a noble oid Roman like Judge Black can be swerved for one moment from his line of duty by appeals of this kind. He will not relish the position in whieh he will Be placed if he Js summoned as 4 witness before the in vest! gating comurittee, but he cannot and will not irk any responsibility which may be forced upon bin, ——— BOSS SHEPPARD'S FI NCIERING. One of the Re the President Aska the Favorable Action of Comyress— A Mistake of Only $14,000,000. Wasnrxcton, Dec. 3,—Among the other reports with which the Public Printer ts just now deluged is the new and novel one presented by the District Board of Public Works, It Is ad- dressed to the President, and the attention of Congress is directed to It, and favorable action is solicited by the Chief Executive in his mes- sage. There are many very reckless and some atroctously false representations made In this report which deserve attentic received the sanction and appr dent ‘The most noteworthy one {s that which refers to the amount of work completed during the present year. ‘The board sets forth that lew of Improved carriageway pavements, of an aver- ze width of thirty-two feet, have been com- Peted., The object of this Is to lmpress Congress with the magnitude of the work already done by the District Government, Ite entire, falsity Pill be clearly demonstrated by the following cures : ‘There are 6,28 feet in 8 mile, and 115 times this number {8 007,20) feet. A low average price per foot, running theasure, for pavements thirty-two foet wide. Is 35. If, therefore, 115 miles of pave- ment have been completed, the Board must have expended the nice litle sum of $21,257.00 during the present year, Put the report of Boss Shepard and his Ring claims that they baye ouly expended $7,086 If this be true, It is cer- tainly an unparalleled piece of financ ————__- MENRY PORTER TENISON. ince they have ‘al of the Presi- Counsel Moving to Quash the Tadletm ‘The Letter to Mr. Cook, Povonkerrste, Deo. 3—The case Henry Porter Tenison, who claims to be a de- ecendant of the Archbishop of Canterbury, charged with bigamy, came up before Justice Joseph F, Barnard in the Oyer and Terminer to- day, District Attorney Tristam Coffin appearing for the people, and William I. Thorne for the prisoner. Mr, Thorno moved upon his aM@davit that there was no proof before the Grand Jury sufficient to indict his ellent for bigamy, and that the minutes of the Grand Jury be produced, and in support of his motion cited several cases. The Court denied the application, holding that whether the Grand Jury bad suficient proof or not was not the Sub ISOF of review before the Oyer and miner, . Thorne then moved to quash the indictment, for the reason that the ume and place of the Orat marriage was not alleged therein, District Attorney Coffin re- sponded at length, Judge Barnard reserved his decision on this point. Dui the argument Tenison was not brought out. Charles Daniela who mi up with Tent- son onthe occasion of hts Pougnkeepsle om riage, interviewed the prisoner in his cell last evening. Ever since bis marriage, ‘Tenison has considered Daniels @ friend, and io the course of conversation in the celshe asked Daniels if his wife actually left the Detavan House and ck to Poughkeepsie of her own will rd. Up niels assuring t Uvely that she did. nison exclaimed, * Woll, that settles | will never claim her: tell Mapes Twill do anything he wants me to, Among his references, ‘Tenison ga’ the firm of Tiffany & Co., jewellers, in New York city. Mr. Cook, a leading man in that establianment, was Interviewed In relation to the matter. He says Tenison camo there an utter stranger to them, and left a lot of old-fashi silver and plated ware, and got some money on it, with the understanding that it was to be kept in trust, to be called for. In bis conversation with Mr. Cook he acted more like an tnane man than anything else, and so deported himself that Mr, Cook was obliged to tell him that he could tril with him no longer, as other custon were waiting, He told Mr. Cook he would no anything for him, Said he, "I'll stand on my hei right on this floor for you if you say 60." After he left ‘Tifany & Co.) (this was last October) he went to a Bleecker street pawnbroker's shop and pawned arti for about $70, When he reached Detrot in Poughkeepsie, bo addressed Mr, Cc following letter; Howaap Hover, Dernorr, Mich, Nov. 18, Cook, Bq., New York, Dean Sin: Your very kind letter (Mr, Cook hi a in Pa raiser: “ies gol, frat to hand, Rope to he pleasure of shaking yo t a iteltteh f king you in person th « few 7 of Of your abroker ‘ you would. coh LLe, As a Valuable ribg Want bone peat'e put nto lt. You’ eun wend some ne, aud Prey wilt tell you the pin ty valued i the plited ware doue ove ver cleaned up, sod Ifyou havea lock and Yok wey wot regret it. Running er und en elrees eokt Money, or You would your mnouey ere thi ain vending you, 8 he gents you Atrected ine to inorder Co get money on those things pawued would not advance, "aud directed tue to # broker, Yours, most gratefully, Exay Pokien Taxison, It tn said that a ntleman who knew Tenison many yearn ago ‘ara lie. migrate "uine ei islands ‘Hie commerctat operations there its . ope are, sald, werevory wild, Was b noted horse jokey.” Naa JERSEYS RAILROAD WANG HONEST REN. WILLIAMSON cavonr IN AN AVALANCHE, pent Racy Toteresting Developments tn the Court of cery~sudden anes if Ben, Williamao: nteresting Provee@s ings—The Court Rashes tor a Train. Correspondence of The Sun. ‘Trexton, Dec, 8.—Your correspondent has not been here since the last time you heard from him. Having read. in his early youth, of what a dreadful thing Chancery te, be was glut to keep away. He metan ota apple women on the etairway, Sho anid she was not Miw Filte; she bad no canaries at home, but ew had four children, and would he, fur the love of HTeavs ing, buy two or throe morning papers of her? She knew no one by the name of Jarndyes ang Jarndyce. Such a party was here last v inter. She knew 80 from the fact that he wore two overcoats and a mufiler when the wind was in the east. The wind was tu the vast all the thine ho was here, and she was sorry to say he «wore dreadfully at tho wind. He was arallrond many At least he said he was. Had stock tn Ponnsyte vania Central, stock in Camden and Amboy, stock in New Jerssy Transportation Sameer, stock in the Stanhope Company, stock m the National Railway Company, and it was his fn dividual opinion that all of them were (hore be swore) frauds! BUT CHANCERY IN New gEnsey ig afoot. You have alig-wit who calls himself Chancellor, and anothergbig-wis who calls him= self Vive-Chancelior, and a litile fellow who calls himself Glerk fo tuo Court of Ohaneery, and another litde fellow who goes by the nam of Guppy, who soenus to be here for no other purpose than that of tusulting the men of the Press, as he did some of my Puiludelphia brete ren the other di the Court of Chancery. His To-day we ar Honor, Zabriskie, was not here. His Honor has unless these ‘Trenton people Ne-—much stools 9 Kronen yania, Jentral. aod fe} Spa 4 ol ir Matthew an Nnot Bl in any Care wherein Interested. VYioe-Ohancelior Dodd ane: Stock unywhere, and of course ie qualified to sit on anything. He has corrected ht ‘pros nunclation of the word “ perositions,” and now itlike @ man and a Christian. At lock the Hon. Mr, Dodd. calls thne on the parties beliigerent. He knows that New York, New Jersey, and Philadeiphia have their telegraphic eyes on him, and with becom ing dignity he takes bis seat and the mill openg in good earnest. DEN WITAIAMBON AGATN, Tam porry, for Ben Williamson; sorry foe Chancellor Williamson: sgrry for Lawyer Wile a; sorry for vege Mr. Wii sorry for everybody by tho name of Willlamsong i ‘This's why, Senator Seoctkon opened the case by abe rea Dill which hy and pis rs inst Stanhope. | Gite! farkor had a eopy,and both th cop! Greens hud a copy, and my friend Shipman his two Arcus ‘cyew on woopy, and V. C. Dod: lad acopy all to bimself. But here was some< thing else. Where was lieny He had no Me# Willams case in Jersey City to keep him aways and Le is no counsel for any Patenburg murs derer, Where is he? Guppy don't know, and the old apple woman has gone, Pussy Dean off on business for Mr. Vroom, or he could tel Dut here comes Ben in et 4, and Its wel known that Court adjoyens at 445. Why l-thie is the why, anda fool may see the wheres 1m wir. 8 ago this same court adjourned ta allow the taking of additional testimony. | Here had summoned one Henry M. Hamilton, Viees Presi of this National Kailway, and Ben had felt sure of making something out of View-Prests dent Hamilton.” Your cofreapondent found himseté In adingy roou near the City Hall, unt Basrersinshancery Lanning grinding away at smnili; with Hamilton us @rist and Williams asthe dusty uillier, ‘This grind!ne procews lh heen going on befure, but Newspaper men ha been Kept in the dark ubvut [t., No ono was present but the SOW representative, and be kept Wide awake, Here te what he gets from Iie Hotes in the way of question and answer: Wiestion by Ren, Willtamaon—In_ reply €0 096 of ON qutatigun yesterday In eefereice to the ® or rat F traste of the stock, you mentioned the name of By Williamson. Will you etaie, If auy, what connection he had with the sod F ewer by Hainiltog—Some time 1967 or 1968, fhamson cate to eco me xc the oifice of J.B, culver tn Jersey City, {9 relaitou 10 ¢ controled by ind hich were hoped to be used he constraction of @ Ime of railroad Between Philaderphia aud Lh York, He sated that he wauied to be interes therein ; wanted tom tome money out of 1, rete ring to ihe pi new liue be.ween New York and rtlade!pt At was one of the best things ip the country ; that the jocal busin ss woul pay 2 cent.on the cost of the road. Afterward 4 uumber meelings took plice becwecn hun agd Mr. Culver au myself. 1 woderstood from Culver that BE HAD ARRANGED WITIL WILLIAMSON that he—Ben—should yun #1ock of the National @ PFO. way Jd ude his beet exertioi legally ugh the Coutemup ale new line of ria afver inforuied by Mn Cuiver that Wil to see me at Cpivere anti oftice in Jersey an tb Kk ceruieates 108 SLM w the’ transfer of the common stuck of the Na onal Compaay. 77 ho arradi OF Propose CI nterprise. {rom fling into Whe d+ of the Caindem and Amboy Kallroad Company said to bin that What Caiver had agroed to woud arried Ont. He expressd to me then chat he, Beu, ‘woo. d do what he comin to oash through the constrac: herve r Mr. W illia 4 promote, ie bullilog of Wc ard ut Directors of the Na Ra lway Corny Hy, He did wect thea Wt thelr ofice 13 Vo tladeiph a,and they, epposing bin tu Ve acting oped these repressntations, met tain {a thelr office and treely Contiged the secrets of the corporacion to kim, #appok hima to bo acting iM ood faith as thor counsel, for some reason unknown to soy ef thd aved to manifest tho sain intercat, to the contrary, A SECRET WOUTN KNOWING, If there be any tmpeountous reader of Tae SUN Who passes over these words, " 2,000 shares of the common stock,” as though they were of small account, he witl be ewhat ust onist to know that the aforesaid 3000 shares mean when brought down to, bard fpan and © out in guld or greenbacks, the saug !ittle 10,00)! And this was me Tre question which the erage ‘Tre Did Benny hed; outed the ny way Fe road, or the Stanhope road, or ah ther road that was calculated tn a three-bald ; J billiards to carom on bis bes t. As said before, Lam sorry f med Williamson, for here is what ba his own sign :nantal ; Kuiraterm, Deo. 20, 180, Dea Sim: Yours of 13th tua’, was duly recelved, buy is /aluwas hot prouipily answered. | aceep t,and hope wy counsel may ald in th joo of tbe Work, Mr. \\ feon waa in: oI, ad ‘Gur frioaiahip bas Bever eed interrupted, oon to have the pleasure of & soul a-quaintance with Mr. Givbu Very respectfully, C.M, De Puy, Esq, In this way did Ben come to write his ectox brated letter: OFFice oF THe NationaL RarLway Co, Ata meeting of Directors of the oma Hallwan Compa 4, 1800, at their oMce in Philadel phi f Mr. Livingston, Gi * ‘A prineipad sousael Of tila compecy erlleanpon | f Elizabeth, N.J., aud Jag fenton, N. dy iclate coun: renner, To the minutes, to the letter, to all the fact which they assort, that Quaker genticman, Ky K. Corson, now solemnly affirms Do Puy was af the time’ Secretary of the company, Corsag took De Puy’s place as Secretary in Januaryy 1870, and, belng somewhat of a mouser, cae Up w.th the record which I bave given you Senator Stockton has bedn going on for a good hour, reading, {u an eminently respectable styler the bill of complaint preferred by Mr. ‘Vor Scott, and when the Senatorial voloe grew weary of jolnders, rejotnders and misjoinders, of Davids original, and After Davids by proxy, Mr. Theo, Cuyler took up tho tale balf told, an gave the Jersey nodilor a fine specimen off Philadelphia efocution, ter In the day, Mr. @t.christ had his put to the way of reading “tho answer of the Naw tional.” Some eatlod his attention (0 ti¢ fact that the Court did not reside in Trentons \t Must away to Newark on the 4:18 trains Mr. Glichrist gracefully subsided, wi om the Vice-Chancellor named tay hours of meet ing and adjournment, and the Qourt rose will re haste than dignity #0 catoh the 4:15 tralu And now the bail is at lastopencd. Lot us pray that the musio may not give out, nor avy other accident prevent-us from spein the dane through, though 1 should take us a woek oF ® winter of this glorious Jersey weather. es ‘The Grant Senatorial Canvans Wasninatox, Deo. 3.—A caucus of Repubheas Senators was held this momung, ana a comuuttre of five was appointed to report a revised list of co!nial™ to an adjourned mooting of thi up tn FFOWy Of enacors Fre ge the party did say ov (Sigued 7 $. Watas08 1 - Ben, w ison of Jersey, huyeen, 7 None ct the Liberal Kapailieay oc ust eacicus, although all had-wotices uwriving of It Gos Was oye sayings that Kopur> rege (he Philadelphia "owls Pauous count fol as Deauycrate 11 wake the bottom of said not Loans were those Who The cumpoattion of ( he Liboruls will be te: fog up the commiiees, ts ees ‘The Erie Ratiway Station Robbers: For some time past there have boen and robberios at tho stations along thu Ine of the Erie Halk Charles MeKeivey, Johw MoKeivey ge oi Mody La Haters dur (eolored) in Hyboken, a mitted to tue Beryen county Jail: T gu from 10 to A youre irpetrators of the Fobberles fe prisoners” age ay are supposed ty vee Paterso: ‘The Paterson Aldermen have resolved 1) am ply to the Legisiatare to authorize the {eeue of $2000 he funding of the Moatip ey hOerelbe het would ave w go mule D rupicy,