The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 31, 1872, Page 2

{ Amusements Te Day. ‘Mooth's Theatro= liichart Ill Mowery T Swamp Angels. Dan Heryant's Minstrels Toeaty Whird strech, La e TheatreNew Yours Operm Mouse —Rouri ibe Clock, ‘Mirren, ab per line tinements fi Twx Sox Ww: rates at the up-town advertisement offices Thirty-second street, junction of Broadway wrenue, and JOS West Twenty-third street, opposite Grand Opera House, and on the east side at S11 Grand Mreet, near East Brosdway, from 8 A. M. to 8:30 P.M. << The 8 Conceded Always Right—A Grant Organ on the Credit Mobilier Investigation, From te Cincinnati Gazette, re Leading Grant Organ in Ohio. , It is not pleasant to write about the Credit Mobilier. After taking an active part during the campaign in circulating all the denials that were made of what was then believed here to be slander un- diluted aud without even the foundation vf distorted truth to rest upon; after ran- sacking the Globe for evidence that charges ‘of even the slightest complicity could not be true; after writing, by direct authority ©f those interested, two of the denials so widely published; after a full belief, Younded upon such information as could be obtained here, that the denials were all true in the unqualified sense in which the Public received them, it was very far from pleasant to kuow that the Committce of In- vestigation had scarcely touched the matter dn hand before the whole fabric of dental Yell, and every one whose name appeared the OaKEs Ames list was found to be tn ‘eater or less degree involved, There is no intention of asserting here that all were Gisreputably involved; but in the very mildest form in which the matter can be stated, all are in a very embarrassing posi- tion. —— Dangerous Ships. There has of late years been a steady change in the models of sea-going steam- ers, till we have at length arrived at h stage when a large and growing class of them may be styled dangerous ships, — :« Formerly, every increase in the size ‘vessels was looked upon as an increase df their safety at sea, The larger the ship the Ereater her power of resistance to the ele- ments, the less her liability to danger from the shocks of the winds and the waves. Now, however, it is quite otherwise. Owing to the vhange of model, the increased size and tonnage of a modern ship are obtained al- most wholly by an increase of her length. The great ships are getting to be of about the proportions demanded by the rules of architecture for the construction of a symmetrical column, That is to may, the length is ten to eleven diame- ters. The largest and newest of these steamships are ten or eleven times as jong as they are vruad. Think of the absurdity of such proportions for a craft built to encounter the stormy seas of the North Atlantic. The ancient regulation for vessels, which yet prevails in many cases, was to make their length about three times their Dreadth in small vessels, and four or five times their breadth in those of a larger size. The first deviation from these safe proportions was made some years ago when clipper ships came into Vogue, These vessels were made long and harp in order to obtain specd. But the xperiment proved disastrous, Though nothing like our modern steamships in disproportion, their great length was found an clement of such weakness and danger that their construetion was soon abandoned and the ships themselves have worn out and disappeared, ‘The use of iron instead of wood brought out new theories of construction, It was found that a ship of increased length could be built of iron so as to be as safe as a shorter one, In steamers this was just what was wanted. Although the machinery took up much room, a great space for car- go would still be left ina long ship. An- other thing was discovered. To the knowl- edge that an engine of given power would propel a steamer of a certain width and depth and moderate proportionate length atagiven rate of speed, was added the fact that additional length made little comparative difference in the speed, Here was a most important fact, the discovery of which has gradually led constructors into building the present dangerous class of ships, - Sea-going steamers have been little by little experimented upon till their length has grown from 250 to 300 and 350, and at last to 400 and 450 feet, while their breadth has remained about the same. So that a modern iron steamer is fast approximating the dimensions of @ cigar or a boa-con- strictor, The discovery referred to, and the use of the screw as the propelling power, have thus brought about “a revolution in the business of steamers. Whereas they were formerly constracted almost exclusively Yor the conveyance of passengers, they are now made to a great extent to carry freight also, When a narrow vessel can be drawn out under the hammer to be 400 or 450 feet long, and yet require no percepti- ble increase of propelling power, she is at once converted into a profitable freighting »hip, capable of carrying immense cargoes. And this is the temptation to which the tupidity of builders and proprietors has Yielde We say it is a self-evident proposition That A steam er 450 fect longand only 40 wide, Which is about the proportions employec, W an unsafe vessel to traverse the ocean in stormy weather. There is naturally and necessarily & limit ig the proportions which mist He Observed im the construcs Won of such vessels, ‘Theory may gon good way In determining what those propor. ons may be, but common sense will de, bide the question in the long run, But we are not let to the reason of the thing only; we are supported in ott opinion by the facts of experience. e arrived at is porta few days ago, aftera long voysre which had occasioned much solicitude. She reported tempestuous weather and de- structive seas, which had struck her sides and had broken her propeller. The great stfffin In all these excessively long steam- ers comes especially upon the propeller in other words, upon those parte which cannot give way without bringing all the other It isthe enormous lev- erage ina long ship which works the mis- The propeller is @ little wheel fine steamer Adriatic and the steering apparatu parts into danger. chief. on # handle, as it were, four hundred feet long. to the length and movements of the handle.” The longer the handle, the thore rapid and violent the motion, and conse- quently the greater the strain. 4 In a seq- way the propeller is alternately immersed and thrown outof the water with such pro- digtous violence that the wonder is how it can be made to stand atall. , In the Adriat- io’s case, as in other cases we are constantly hearing of, it did not stand,{Wedo not suppose it cau be made to stand in these inordinately long shipa.’ Whenever they en- counter such tempests as often sweep the Atlantic it must break, 7As it is with the propeller, so ts it more emphatically with the steering ap- paratus. Conceive of the’ strain put on the small, perpendicular plank which is relied on to guide the motion of a narrow oraft 400 or 450 feet long, wildly pluyging amid gigantic seas,Y And yet on this rud- der, in moments of imminent peril, solely depends the safety of the ship.¥ WHat is it but’ pfovoking {disaster to stretchY the length of these" vessels UU tla 7 Mes comes so excessive that no ¢: resist it? 2 Yet this is exactly an ls ery And it is the ope great and constant peril on board enorfgous modern elonga- tions of nautical architecturé, a We think it was this very steamer Adri- atic-lt was certainly ship of the same sdduats came into this port on her first yage from Europe last winter with her steering apparatus choy ah Fae away by ay severe storms she encoun fered. a moét dangerous circumstance and it waa not reported, Everything was then new, and everything was presumably in the best order; aud yet the steering gear, the chief reliance of a ship in a storm at sea, was torn to pieces on the first real test of its sum- ciency. “ We refer to the steamer Adriatic and the line to which she belongs because the ships of it are among the fluest and largest of their class, and because it happeys to be the vessels of that line that just now fur- nish the experience which sustains our judgment in regard to all such vessels. > An Endless Dra: President Grant, in proposing the con- struction of 4 gigantio system of internal improvements by the Government, directs the attention of Congress to five special pro- jects, namely: a water route from Charles- ton to the Mississippi; the Kanawha and Janes River Canal; the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; the Niagara Falls Ship Canal, and an “ almost continu- ous land-locked navigation from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico.” . These proposed im- provemehts might possibly be carried into effect with strict economy by the expendi- ture of three or four hundred millions of dollars; and this the President probably considers as large an outlay of the public funds as it is prudent to suggest for such purposes at present. But it isnot to be sup- posed that Gey. Granr is so blind as not to see that the appFgpriation of public moneys for the projects he bas named must inevi- tably involve the expenditure of enor- mous additional sums for similar works in other parts of the country. sLet it once be> established as the poliey of the national » Government that it is the duty of Congress to provide water communteation between sections of the country deprived of natural navigable streams suited to the requirements of commerce, and drain is opened from the Treasury of a capacity which will find its only limits in the ex- tremest possibilities of tdxation. From Maine to Mexico, all the ingenions gentle- men who are gifted, or fancy they are gifted, with large ideas in régard to develop- ing the resources of thef¥ respective neigh- borhoods will turn their attention to the concoction of magnificent schemes of in- teryal improvement to be effected at the national expense. And every one of these schemes they will be able to prove, by figures which cannot lie, as indispensable to the prosperity of the country as any of the plausible projects which President Grast is now urging upon the national legislature, Already the plans of this character which have been assiduously pressed upon the attention of Congress, with strong hopes on the part of their promoters of securing appropriations from the ‘Treasury for their realization, are so numerous that it would be difficult to recall them all without a thorough search of Congressional proceedings during the past four years.“ Among tho most prom- inent of these schemes are several for the improvement of the Mississippi river, in- volving an expenditure of $30,000,000 or more; one or more for the construction of a ship canal below New Orleans to avoid the bar at the mouth of the same river, which would cost $15,000,000; and one for the purchase and reconstruction of the Erie Canal at a cost of $75,000,000, Then there is the great Fox and Wisconsin Rivers Canal job, which has already been com- menced by the Government, and will cost the taxpayers millions of dollars; there is the scheme for removing the Red river raft, and mnumerable plans for improving ie navigation” of shatiow Western rivers, involving the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars more, Even the Con- necticut river, Which has been drying up for years, and was never a navigable stream above Hartford, has its friends urging appropriations to make it @ great channel of commeree, What makes this matter the more serious is the fact that the very multiplicity of these jobs ts the most potent reason why they are likely to receive favorable con- vation m Congress, Nowhere ts the nve of log-rolling better understood than in the Capitol at Washington. This has been shown in the means adopted for securing the lavish appropriations for un- necessary public bulldings in every part of the country, Which have been an astonish- ing feature of Cc’ gressional legislation during the past few years. And the hints thrown out by President Grawr in his late message will fill the heart of every log- rollef in both Honses ‘With the liveliest emotions of joy, There is scarcely a State ig the Union which has not some project In ® heavy sea this wheel is obliged to resist a force proportionate — THE ~ ‘which is deemed ‘os inte intemal imp’ Dy ite advocates essentially deserving of Government aid, and Senators and Rep- resentatives having special projects in view will hasten to vote for other pro- jects which may serve as @ precedent in favor of their own, «=. = The result of all this will be, if Gaant's suggestions are carried out, the most stu- pendous drain upon the Treasury ever known in the history of the country, and the undertaking of numerous needless and costly works, many of which will never be completed, and scarcely one of which can ever be anything but a constant drain upon the Treasury, even if it should be finished. But » vast army of contractors and jobbers will be put in the possession of enormous sums of money; ten times as many more, seeing the good fortune of the favored ones, will strive to render them- selves worthy of similar benefits by a most active and unscrupulous support of the powers that be; and an influence will be brought to bear for the renomination and re#lection of GRANT compared with which the ruling influences which effected the same results Inst fall’ were almost as nothing. The last year has shown, the power of money, judiciously, used in a Presidential election, Gen. Grant does not intend to be at @ loss for the sinews of war when his next contest with the people takes place. This is shrewd calculation on his part, but it will be very bard on the taxpayers. a A Gross Wrong. ® While in Great Britain the injustice of the unequal td i ts of political power arising from theexisting system of parlia- mentary repr ntation, is , generally ac- knowledged asa glaring ‘ahiise, which it is believed wil) be shortly rectified by a new distribution of seats, in Indiana, under the dictation of Sevugtor Mdrfoy, the Adminis- tration. majority in the Legislature has been ing an apportionment bill for the Borns i giving a minority of voters dhe chgice of a majority of the State Sena- by and Representatives. f course the object of this measure is to perpetuate the ascendency of the domi- nant party, and to effect this partisan end the ordinary, {prms of legislation were per- verted in order to gain an unfair adyan- tage over the mjnorjty, while the bill pro- viding for the new apportionment is in plain and palpable violation of the State Cotistitution.* The new bill gives to 184,000 voters who, it is thought, can be depended on to return Administration candidates, thirty members of the Senate, while 185,000 voters who cannot be so trusted are only permitted to have twenty, In the House fifty-nine members are assigned to the first-named 184,000 voters, while the re- maining 185,000 voters are allowed only forty-one representatives. This has been done in direct violation of an article in the Constitation of Indiana, which requires that Senators and Repre- sentatives ip the General Assembly ae be proportioned among the several cd! ties according to the number of inhabitants under the enumeration made by law. \To push this iniquitous bill throngh it was kept back until almost the close of the ses- sion, although agreed upon by the party leaders as long ago as October, and then passed with indecent haste under the pres- sure of the previous question, so that de- bate was prevented and no opportunity given to expose its atrocious character. Thus it is that while in Great Britain, Ger- many, and other monarchical count new concessions of the right of the people to regulate their own affairs are constant- ly making, here in the United States, un@er inspiration from Washington, we see con- tinual aggressions on the rights of citizens, and a steadily increasing corfeentration of power, meatless Henry Clews for Secretary of ‘Treasury. We have the following despatch from Washington. It is sent not by one of our regular correspondents, but by an occa- sional: “ Wasinotow, Dec. %—Seeretary Roctwrr. h Prepared his resignation, to take effect on Feb. 15. 1 office of Secretary of the Treasury wil! probably offered to the Hom, Haxxy Ciews, banker to street ; but it is expected that be will deeline . In that event the Hon, WILLIAM A. Ricnaxpsox, Mr. BouT+ ‘WHLL's Asetstant Secretary, will be finally appointed to fill the vacancy until the incoming of the pew Cabinet.”* Well, Hewnr Cumws ts a lucky fellow. Ho has got rich here and had the satisfaction of turning the Banrtnes out of their long- held office as bankers of the United States in London; and now 7 Gen, Grant is going to offer him the port- folio of Secretary of the Treasury. His claims to such distinction are good. We believe that, in a pecuniary way, to pro- mote the suc of Grant in the last virtuous election, Mr. CLews did more, a great deal more, than any Republican mil- lionaire of the Uni League Club, Ac- cordingly the principles of civil service re+ form require that Grant should make him Secretary of the Treasury. But Mr. CLews does right to decline the honor. The tender of the office is compli- ment enough; and why should he take the trouble of abandoning his profitable busivess and sacrificing the sybaritio lux- ury in which he delights to live, in order to sign his name as Secretary of the 'Treas- ury for a brief fortnight? It looks rather plucky in Bourwrut to send in his resignation before he is posi- tively sure of his election as Senator from Massachusetts; but probably he knows what he is about. snemennsieatteatatecntttininnn It has appeared strange to many persons that detailed information regarding the slightest changes in the condition of the Czarowitz, who is prostrated with typhus fever in his palace in St. Petersburg, should be considered of su™- cient importance to be telegraphed to America; but the truth is that events of the utmost gravi- ty, Involving the peace of Europe or terrible wars, and the sacrifice of thousands of lives, may be determined by the recdvery or the death of the heir to the Russian throne, Hence the most trivial clreumstances of his iliness become of world-wide interest, as they afford indications, however slight, of the probable termination of . The of Russia is peaceful in tions, and although he Is to some ex- tent engaged in schemes for the extension of Russian authority in the East, he pursues his designs with great caution and with ‘6 to avold occasion for interfere: any of the Western powers, Moreover, he ap- parently entertains a very friendly feeling to- ward the Germans, which ts not generally shared by his subjects, especially those of the higher classes, who indulge thete prejudices against everything German to such an extent as to render it anpleasant for even an opera singer bearing a German name to pre sent herself on the St, Petersburg stage. The cordial understanding at present maintained be- tween the Czar and the Emperor of Germany ex- erts an influence for peace on the whole of Bu- rope, and any rupture between these powers might lead to complications which would serl- oasly affect the affairs'of « continent. Now, it 1s well understood that the sympathies of the Cusrewits are very differently placed from SUN, TU SBAY. 1 those of his fethér,, TE; thap he the Germans Sa Se ERE SS oasee evicsagentelen to ecrty $04 schemes of conquest projected by Pern the Great, the accomplishment of which has alwayé been deemed the manifest destiny of Russia by a Jarge and most influential party in that Empire. The members of this party, which ia known as the Old Russian party, have looked forward to the accession of the Czarowitz to the throne for a realization of their hopes of a bold, aggres- alive and warlike policy, and apparently not without cause. But if his illness should end fatally there Jano reason to suppose that the present cautious policy of Russia would be ma- terially changed in the event of a change of rulers, By the last number of El Mundo Nuevo, ‘an illustrated paper published in this city in the Spanish language, we are pleased to Jearn that the celebrated Cuben lawyer and orator, Don J, M. Mest, late Commissioner to this country of the Republic of Cuba, has associated himself with this interesting publication, * El Mundo Nuevo has already secured to itself, under the able management of its editor, Don Ewnique Prferno, alarae circulation in Mextoo and in all the Republics of Central and South America; and, publisted as it {s in our metropo~ Ms, ite success is @ convincing proof alike of the importance of the city and of the intimate commercial relations which might be establish- ed between ourselves and our sister Republica of this continent. We heartily wish Mr. Mastas and his able colleague all success in their new enterpriss ro The Providence Journal is a very staid and respectable newspaper, meaning to do as near right as it can, consistently with its rela~ tions to the great and patriotic party which Just now governs the country, and, being in power in Rhode Island, has the election of United States Senator from that extentive landed property. But wo beg to suggest to the conductors of the Journal that as Senator AwTHONY has not yet been brought into the Credit Mobilier business, and no suspicion of his having been soiled with it has yet been bruited, it need not feel itself called upon to defend the secret sittings of the investigating committee. We suggest further that the Journal wanders when it talks about the great damage suffered by honest men whose names may jin the testimony be connected with the Credit Mobiller transaction, and it turns out afterward that they are entirely innocent of blame. Noone willbe damaged by this investiga- tion who does not deserve to be. The danger is that reputations which ought to be demolished will be whitewashed by it, The idea that the in- vestigation must be carried on with closed doors, so that If any honest man's good name Is attacked it will not come before the public till the refuta- tion comes with it, is altogether too childish. Does the Journal remember any such sufferer from any public Investigation heretofore had ? ‘The simple fact is that this Inquiry was set on foot because the public demanded it. Pursuing it with closed dorm is no sufficient answer to the demand. It is unjust to the public and stilt more uajust to the parties criminated, since, if the committee exculpate them, it will be gener- ally received as a mere whitewashing inquiry made with closed doors, and designed, as Sena- tor HARLAN naively confessed in the Washington Chrontele, “to clear the skirts of members of Congress.” This excuse for the closed doors Is of a plece with the sweeping denunciation of the whole story before election, There was “nothing In it” before election, Now that tune is ehanged. There may be something in it, but the public Is asked to suspend judgment until @ secret inves- tigation shall make as little of it as possible, and that little eptirely harmless. ‘The Journal exouses itself for calling the in- Yesticating committee Democratic by saying : ee oes fora food tithe fn Rhode Island. They are very severe down that way when they fet out to be, ccimantihbillitiescensesnass Tt has been ascertained that one of the most fertile caumer of the excessive infant mor- tality prevatting tm the manufacturing districts | of Bugland is the extensive practice of narcotlz- ing young ebildren, that they may be o: veniently Intd aside while their mothers are gaged in work, Varions preparations of opium are in general use for this purpose, aud Immen: numbers of children are slowty but surely polsoned to death by their use. In this country the same horrible practice prevails to a greater extent than would readily be betleved, and nos- trums prepared oxpressly for this work find a ready sale among heediess mothers who, uncon- sclously perhaps, but none the less effectually, deliberately polson thelr helpless infants by di grees until death ensues, merely to save them- selves from care, oo Messrs. Jonny Mermand GALes CLARK, who have recently explored the great Puciumne river cafion im the Slorra Nevada range, which has hitherto been considered inaccessible, give glowing accounts of the grandear of its walls and woterfalis. This cafion lies about eighteen miles north of Yosemite Valley, and the main Tuoc- lumne river runs through {t in an unbroken curved line of over forty miles, ending in the very heart of the summits of the Upper Sierra Nevada, Yosemite Valley has an average width of half a mile, and Is in one place a mile wide; but the Tuolumne cafion has nowhere a width exceeding a quarter of a mile, and is insome places much narrower than that. ‘The river is twice the width of the Merced. The falls of the Merced- Yosemite surpass those of the Tuolumne cafion in unbroken volumes of descending water, but in the varlety of cascades and water shoots the Tuolumne cafon is sald to be far superior, its great walls being seamed by water-worn fissures, down which rivers feap, churn, thunder, brawl, and sing with all possible varieties and expressions of sound. There {s one water-leap of 1,800 feet in the Tuolumne cafon, but it is not unbroken, like the Upper Yosemite, and is in that respect inferior to the latter well-known cataract. There are many falls, like the famous Bridal Veil of the Yosemite, which the wind shapes in falling folds and silver throads, giving them the appearance of a marks of glacial action are much fresher on the walls of Tuolumne than in Yosemite, where rain, snow, wind, sand, and earthquake have all combined to blur the indteations which are of thelgreatest Interest to geologists. From the dif- culty experienced by the explorers of Tuolumne in gaining access to Its wonders, It Is to be feared that its attractions must remain unseen by the vast majority of travellers. We bave a volume published in Albahy containing the messages of Goy. Horrmam, and especially his veto mossages, with a full list of tho pardons, commutations, and reprieves granted by him during his four years of service, It isa very creditable yolume, and any public man might be proud to have been its author, Gov, HOFFMAN returns to private Iife after a most trying poriod of service with an enhanced reputation and with the respect of the best men of all parti a Woll-k Ex-Aw semblyman of New Jersey. Yesterday ¢x-Assemblyman Charles Hem- ingway of Paterson appronehed the Eric allway eross- ing at Market street, im that city, in fast horwe, and relying om the flagman's signal th started across, Just then he discov freight train decking wp the track. He attemet the aalimal oceine frightalltd fF. Hemingway on wo Waa run, OYEE ly the knee, i} 8 ir Henin “Watch Night,” the great festival of the Methodist Ohureh, which ushers in New Year's Day, te to be observed in al) the meeting houses in (his ey ot aati aca Taree ea Sadvehite et hia Tes Sites oe ae yer Entent Chere pan raion asta recat friends ou New Year's, EMBER 31, 1872. . TRAIN'S CREDIP FONCIER. ———- LESSONS FOR WALL STREBT FROM TUE CITY PRISON, —— Correspondence with Distinguished Finan- ctere—A Meeting which the Next Prest- dent of Amerien Did Not At Unavoidably Detained—A Rap ai Governor of New York, Reporter—Mr. Train, when speaking of the Credit Mobilier yesterday, you referred to another institution, What was that? Mr. Train~The Credit Foncler of America, capital one milton, originally intended to work in unison with the Credit Mobiller and the Union Pacific, but these financial machines wore too big for the pot-house, red-tropby brains of Wall street. Reporter—Are you not the President, having he largest interest In the company, and owning the charter? Mr. Train—Yes, and the charter {s the most valuable ever passed by Legislature or signed by Governor, Thave waited seven years to see the rich men organtze the specte payment torpedo that would blow them Into bankruptcy. The fuse is nearly burnt out. ‘Then after the panto I may show Wall street how to benefit the whole country an entlr. Amaioe slvent trou for of making an entire, peopte tneolvent thro Woche shgre- a renee oe tons. ‘Time ae r—Have not the C Be fers, Soren, peat AY eatled jogether by Gen, ix and John Mr, Traln~-Voa, but betng in the Tombs, I was “unavoidably detained from being present.” As so many lending capltaliets are partners of mine, you are welcome to ‘extract from letters that have pened between, my private counsel aud mysel THE FIRST PRESIDENT AND TREASURER OF THR UNION PACIFIC AND MR. TRAIN. lreutar sent by this committe to one: tiundred original ode thousand-dollar subscribers. jon 98 for Ghe interes oF the ‘Should you otek 0 Jease authorize ome Feprewentaylve to tet ee frst sala moet Ure, ‘ome J. Ctecos yen A Dix, ELiaw Ht dvrox, anny M. Taner, THE PRESIDENT OF “CREDIT FONCIER DRESSES HIS COPARTNERS FROM TOMBS ”—HW SEEMS HAND AND GLOVE WITH THE LEADING FINANCIERS OF AMERICA, (Bxtract Letter to} Clark Beli, Beq., Aliorney at Law, 0 Nassau at, Clty: * * What the douce Is this clroular that reach- game in the bantilo? Why suike @ wae 's down / pay does Dix mean? him in ‘64 agal A abe and still hold i handwriting. 1 eb @ small centage on the salai charged on the Ohio ‘and Mississippi, and the Union Pacific, he would ever again inguire for his investments in m hands. ‘oll Cisco I saved tet AS with, U4 Turkish bath, and put half a million hands of Pacific commissions. xysand the first an Had I not penernted reat meeting of direc have gone down, and the Ogden, Tom Scott, would have won. gaunt Guion he ought to be satisfied with the $250, ecru ‘on the $60,000 In~ iim in the Credit Mobiller. Were bins, Jerome, Low, Wim. Ht. Macy, Mot sorimlsh, Obes, tvacy. of Dus rant at the meeting? Forney, Ben ‘Holiday, Lambord; Bushnell, Oakes Ames. Cameron, Brooks, Pomeroy, roperty ‘galieg ts thin meeting they mus Yided against the Dam. eee tora, ox wmnieh ¢ Hoston and the New York jackasses misman- peed the Credit Mobilicr and. the tnion, Pacite by taking at the time of each thousand dollar subscription an irrevocable proxy, giving me supreme power. ‘TRAIN BELIEVES IN THE hagatgrelte wala ta This Mttle precaution you see trouble with, stockholders. ‘rhe ‘credit. Fonclot et awallow the Credit Mobitier and Pacide,and become the great financial institu. tion in'the reguntey. Talwavs secompilsh what I * Have you my million-dollar claim ncific found by Tweed tm Mobiter safe? What have you done about the £400,000 due me from the Kansas Pacifo? * * NCIS PRA President of thetredl tf Foncler of Ai P. 8.—Darant, by publishing Credit M bier share list and original Union Pacific contracts in Heratd, completely checkmates Oakes Ames. (ogress will demand epen doors after boll- ays. ue thieves fan oat, ‘men will be proved “ty = whole Investigation grows out, of the 100 subscription I gave Fant at the Fifth venue Hotel, Fvhteh McComb is interested in is footin it. That Neilson pleal magtne, for Durant to, swallow ly as they are very fond of each Tto {troduce them 1 would say, e make you acquainted with Mr: B. You have only to know each other as well ast toe youto ve mutually disgusted. Ce. %, Tae Towns, Dec. 21, 1878, MK. BELL'S REPLY. DRAR Gronae PRANCTS TRAL inquiries Kean only say 1. That the first paper Tweed, Jr, Receiver, found in Pacific Ralliowa ate when he brok r cent. on st if not retarned. I'do not find a copy among my papers. $ cute your claim for $0.00 against. hansad Pacific Railway Company when you are making 4 Presidential race, speaking in every chiet clty from ocean to ocean, and attempting what one of our elder statesmen said said was imporaible— Braces?” onover fou get ready te move on in that case, How can you have sii me to ry faithfully yours, CLane Bena, New ” Yons, Dee a ere, -——— ‘The Credit Mobjlier Swindle—A Voice from Tombs. To the Bitter of The Sun. Sin: [find the following in your paper: Another wituesr unom the vabject le Mr. George Finals Tvaia, whe was m, Waphioaton tn iis 60 official tative of the Colon Pacite Company, and wh she J has made Whe following statement in regard (0 fem to dig aut throu Washburn and further ‘Train. iy th re gmvened By vated by George Tho Invostigation ts on the act of "6, where Ames distributed @ milion, You call for particulars of the act of "4, where Du- ant charges half a@ million for Congressional expenses. Why not go them one better? The original act of '@, where Stone, Isaacs, Ewing and MacDowell of Kansas, owning the Leaven- worth and Pawnee charter, bought by Samuel Hallett and Jobn ©, Fremont (in which I have three hundred Qhowsand dollars interest still un- settled), and afterward hought of Hallett by Durant, who saki to Credit Mobilier, whers (10 millions were distributed among members of Congress and the press, the New York Herald receiving large share of fully pald up stock unbeknown to James Gordon Bennett. While there is an epidemic of Congresstona investigating virtue, why not go down to the! hase, and reach also the Pomeroy-Atchinson Branch of the U.P. R, Three of a kind are bettor than two pair, Gno. Francis TRAIN (who first placed the Union Pacific in Durant’s hands and founded the Credit Mobilier of America). EPIGRAM ON THE CREDIT MODILIER. CHERAINLE WROTHERS. (Vlear of Wakeneld style.) When Onkes and Alley stoop to folly And U elutes betray. Congress uiust think It awful jolly To hear these Christians groan and pray. The on}, their steal to cover And hh elr theft from every eve, and burst MeComb-tvelr aaiuely brother ‘And ring his pocket, 4s 40 He / Gro. Cregit Mobitter and ANOS TRAIN (founder of ¢t The Men Gov, Dix Will Ha From the New York Times, There is in the Republican pa: there has always been in all parties, a few men who imagine themselves to be the entire or ganization, and itis these men who are danger ousat such atime asthis, Some of them may not be corrupt, but they are the victims of cor- rupt m and are deluded with the idea that the way to party success in the future is to seize every possible office for the present beneft of party hacks, This was the creed of the Tam- many Ring, and any party which adopts it must certainly soon resort to practices as corrupt, and in the end meet with a fate as ignominious, Peay tetera ccenetiatat Noak Davis's Successor. Wasninaton, Dec. 90.-The commission of George Ailes, Jr’, ad United AU tor the Bou thera District of New. York was forw to bin to-day by the Attorney Generak AITEMPT TO UNSEAT DEWITT, Correspondence of The Sun. Krxoston, N. Y., Deo, 2%4.—Yesterday John Maxwell, Republican candidate for Oon- gress, commenced proceedings to unseat David M. Dewitt, who was declared elected to Congress ih this (Fourteenth) district by the State Uan- vaasing Board by seventeen majority. The move- ment was a total surprise to Dewitt, notwith- standing the certainty of this action had been foretold by Tue Sun months ago. Maxwell's main reliance for success is upon the throwing out of the yotes cast at the poll in Eleation Dis- trict No. 2in the town of Rosendale, as well aa those initial anne whieh were counted for Dewitt, Bi rape a that bbls election district was not ley there were noin- Wy ele poll, the assessors of 0 nf aedaegtt at capacity. MAXWELL'S TWRLVE REASONS. ‘The following is ® copy of the notice served upon Dewitt on Monday? TO DAVID M. DEWrTT. hat f intend to, Y cr to, Coatest your ete it peta oe ies cher count eaibet gee aera foal tot recuye rely nar rou did ‘major nl votes cont | election und Hee you claim it palo ae ia ot Ne Ls woneral election ot ‘Second That 8M Bean, and quan Forme cast at och tie jon for sais ition were eagiiGtThas rote wore opunted for you which were gust for D. M. Dewitt, oF for otuer names than your Metin That votes which were intended and) desig Giro auk and uot counted forme, for ‘en! Bawe Was not written or Peer on Ino bao otes were a Rog my 3 i me by igiven name, an i Jeimen,) abd for oF a to me. ber of votes. cast ‘by net. ined to vote were received at to me. votes in excess af thowe which were cast ted for you were counted and sllowed to 2 hiccemth That raise, whieh were cnet forme were counted nd allow Push mst hat the ofeini re in your favor was in a allowing to “alg rts Cat at He er county eh tio dat friet ‘i sata electto ie rt e votes given ‘ad Fecalved thereat Tehould not oF such vo jolie MAX WLLL: majority of severe tie up as ZanvAstinig for you at an nh es town of, Rosendale ‘ection rherens thee wee a9 ch one TB wo. DEWIT!'S COUNTER C, Mr. Dewitt will, it is sald, my forth in his counter case 3 fe e charges and irregulari- tes. In answ et e charge that he received corrupt. of legal votes, he that Maxwell was ‘onl enables the extravagant and corrupt use of money. He will also show that in an overwhelm- ingly Republican district in the town of Marble- town the inspectors were not sworn in, and that hence ifthe jogendale oll is to be thrown out on tho ground of f farity, the Marbletown poll should be se: in the same way., Hf both polls are thrown out, Dewitt will be elected by an Increased majority. NOW Tite SPORTING MEN ANE AYWECT ane betting toen ato wat bing the proceed ngs with lively interest. As their ts were made with a proviso looking to a contest by Maxwell, tho unseating of Dewitt will make then largé Winnors instend of losers, as at present. Dewitt has thirty days in which to prepare and serve an answer: Sinty days are then allowed each party in which to summon witnesse: tikes Ueeriniony betaro.w Judge After this the case will be sent to Congress for determination. THE OLDEST INHABITANT. —— Mra. © atthe Age of 105, Mrs. Catharine Cahtll of % Greenwich street, aged 106, died on ‘Thursday last, and was buried on Saturday in Calvary Cemetery. Her Jong life was one full of vicissitudes and mem- orable events, She was born in 1707,in Castle- bar, county Mayo. Connaught, Ireland. Living there until she was married, sho removed to Liv- erpool with her husband, She became the mother of eight sons and two daughters, all of whom but one son died while she resided in Liverpool. Her husband dying, she continued to dwell in that city until she was 8% years old, when, with her only living son, she emigrated to America, landing in New York in 1852, She is said to havo been at that time remarkably hale and well pre= gerved,lively in disposition and hopeful of the jutare. 3 M ef Greeswich past fourteen years she lived at 95 h street, and was Known to the neigh+ nny Cahill.” Every one was kind to her, and she’was wondrously cheerful and stout until within the past year, when sho began to fall, and to grow fast into {he ineyita- ble dotage of extreme old age. Hor sight grew her memory end hearing ue failed. ‘Whe’ latter sense rem: joessively acuta tothe last moment, while. her retentive memory was shown by her singing many old Irish ballads relating to the scenes of her native place, Castle! Her lungs were said to have exceeding! an yolce clear. Lo frame bi stowt and ré dare. tp the lage seven onthss “uring waste Soar although she could not ens dure strong f She craved only cake and other light eatabies. Her teeth were entirely gon For a Jong time past hor neighbors supported her, and paid her rent. She left no property, and no relatives in this country but two granc danghtors. She had always possessed « good charneter, and is remembered with aifection, Neither her friends nor grandchildren know what her maiden name was. Dr. Walket was lately called in to attend her, but he found ‘no evidence of disease, and could administer only stimulants, to preserve short time the lengthened but weakened thread Ifo, He pronouneed her ailment the general denility attendant upon & worn-out system and old age. ee Herace Greeley's Tribute to Senator Samuer, Perley in the Boston Journal. Wasntveton, Dec Returning to the Arlington we saw that Mr. Sumner's library lights were burning, and went to wish him @ Worry Christinas,” as one of the champions of pence on earth and toward all men. We found him ak time when there was rejoteing in almost other house, and with little to mak “merry,” except a proud conselousness that his well-founded convictions of right have alway been the established laws by which his life been governed. He had just beea looking over ceived by him during the past eof them, with his permission, ~Horace Fr motives in the ave been willing Lo summer, and 0 L will copy, as recent cainpaign thai admit: many Naw Yorn, Joly , 1972. Dear Srm: You know why I have hot written you since I last saw you in tins city. It did aot become me to urge or eptrest you, and { could not o gounsel you. All the facts known to 1 you know that | thank you for your no I Axes the Democrats hedges to treat the colored LC have sald what I id_ more and to beter Tams this end, b purpose. "With gra Hon. CuAnLne Svamnan, Weshington, DC. We assured the Senator that this high tribute veuhave Lory OF OF mronwoalth a revised verdict « demned and much misunde for the men who fought that L were brave, are as just and as generous as th —— A Burying Ground of Giants, From the Gav lisle (Kv.) Mercury. On the farm of Mr. Harrison Whaley, near Moorfield, in this county, is a skirt of woos which possesses About three ineh entire tract may be found dently the remains of an extinot spe Sevoral mounds are also In the which has been rath ro und skulls and bones which from Eheireize must haye belonged to a rac he- ings far more gigantle than the race whic ee inbablis the earth, In this mound were also found many clay utensils; alse arrow heads cut out of the solid rock, and pipes of the same ma- terial. Such a memorial of the past starts man inquiries. Was the place once a battle ground, where the aborig! fought to maintain the glory of thelr respective tribes? Or was ft a common burlal ground? The frat seems to be the most plausible theory, Inasmuch as the whole tract, covering at least fifteen acres, has multitudes of human bones but a few inches betteas it is evident they were if burted. nally lay 05 voaed to view, unui the aceui tine formed the black, rich soll ma covers them. But nasever theory may be adopted, it ia certain a these seh materials ante-date biatory anni bt apoth, root sew little be enown of the races an ae ate ee jurighed, it may be, centuries ago, a REMARKABLE I INQUE ST, MANY Pacts supr SUPPRESSED, BUS NOT ONE ELICITED, ——_ Hattie Adams Con Coroner who snys that he was ma Verdict in Keeping with Tighe on—Names Still Kept Secret, as inquest was held yesterday by Cors oner Jones of Brooklyn over the body of the woman, Hattie Adams, who was drowned in hee carriage at the foot of Washington street on tha night of the 24d inst. The inquest was remarks able for what it failed to develop rather thag for any facts it elicted. The real name of the woman was not ascertained, nor the circume stances by which she happened to be thrown into such & perilous situation alone. No wits nesses were summoned who ever knew hy It was shown that immediately previous to the woman's death she was riding in the same coacty in which she met her death with another pere son, & man; but who this wan was seems to have been a fa@ carefully avoided by the Coroner. These circumstances haye a strange look, and go far to justify the prevalent rumos that the man was @ high functionary of Brooke lyn, and that his influence is sufficient to proe vent any closer investigation. ‘THR CORONER'S JURY. The jury impanelled by Coroner Jones was composed aa follows: Henry B. Whitty, ears riage manufacturer, 101 Elliott place ; George Ay fou’ painter, 63 Willoughby street; Thomas hy ad nine Thomas Marting in tha Brooks Directory--the curlous may take theie soloed Charles H. Carmwell, uaknown, to the Directory ; John n_Sitltwell, policeman, 176 Eck« ford street ; Charles Quinn, either an ice agent, of ot aldo street, or wlaborer, of 8lv Hergen Fin Ge Patsy PL La taken had seats the addressed the: follows A REMAREADLS eranca. Guwrimcen oF tw tigate) eee ime oF contradiotory '@ been Tthereforg approach the case ag youd, do. and | cs aa siinply teeth ‘aunty t the ves of our el tizene on Just the coramuntt Kon tes ee ee f the deces eased, and) e inqul am cause of of the deceased, Senos the cause “Niiese Funiors which heve been circulated have eves, reached ‘THE CHURCH CIRCLE, ean eh stra i e mm jon and goand bide inyse Tins to-do with the bel ‘my er take the case as 1 wo! ‘otlier perwor inquire into the cause of. Creat Stokely: I shail bow pros with the investigation THE STABLE eixran' 's STORY. Albert B. Jennison, one of the proprietors af the livery stable at which the carriage was pro+ cured, was then sworn, id: t 119 Leroy street, Kew, Fork Am 4 livery Keeper, f rene out carr ve no rule aM Iie character of the persone w to racier persone wo h ie a temp 4 trust myo able twain and carriage t of, Mave furnished deecased wit come to Brooklyn. I do not attaon t fo'the driver tor the lose of wy property: 1a my 108s at §2,50. ‘THE DRIVER'S EVIDENCE. ' Wittem Gallagher sworn, ald: I live at 190 Wes nee, New York. Amn & coachinan. Wo veut to 6 W cow's Bxpi out Ww o'el a Fhe parting of the parties wig pants of the carri Felling tu the caring FRIENDLY AND SOCIABLE. Ttorgot to Klyn before th doy in the afterno Seay seine ge otto the euruer oF Myrt ard che “ita eh L got to the coruer of Myr a" Washington ‘street, the heel of ¢ ot in of, carriage Jolted in i Th m0 ft 0 ot very badiy., Never had an aeciaent thet tiad belore: ie is. not my business to kuow Wa character of the persons in the carriage. A WITNESS OF THR START. George MeBiride sworn: {reside at 1.708 Fulton street, m & coachinan, I ore eh atthe city t where the acch Ag Water treet I met a watchman, ty ie told’ me tues suer come or tm DOCK. At tat times pottesman exme and T told him was somebody inthe coach, I got a row bo Test rong the front ig Sock anf the pm under the tm aoe ae ‘sna to the dort then he do fo the beat of ing opinion wae the awitenew at the corners of Myrtle avenu ton street ae being Hable ie upsct « rons. They are liable to thro ching the team atthe tine ald was eve that was TRE CAUSE OF THE Avctnent, a string piece at the eda at toprerent a carriage frou golhg Over, protection ‘The Coroner said that It was useless (if the Tuere ie a Jury wore satisfied with the above evidence) go on with the case further, as it would merely repetition, ‘The Jury said it was un sary to goon further. ‘The jury then consulted together and rendered the following verdict; THE VERDICT. We find that the sald Hattie Adama came to her driver frou ‘of the # frat of tne dock foor of Washington street, there being no protectiaa rezone horven or rebicies trou yoinwtod the cua of ia — om THE VATHERLESS INNOCENTS, Merrymaking at the Foundling Asylnm—Tha Little embered by Manta Clams, The Feast of the Holy Innocents wad celebrated at the Poundling Asylum, 3 Nort Washington square, on Saturday afternoon and evening. A Christmas tree ten feet high, heayi« Hedin” oneks he followiug, was the. pros gramme : Merry Christmas {tle Feet (song) Little Cocttia. Late Mar Hany Ovwe Raby Cire Haby An Raly Oxwa Tithe Marie The exercises were remarkable, considertng that all the children were under three years his institution has existed three years, ar has had nearly four thousand children In during that time, There are now In the directors nearly 1200 children, Us of them being in the building, farmed out, the rest having died claimed, ‘Those taken care of by side are required to be taken to the twice a month, ao that thane wh: asylum may know that they re ' 07 A" policeman ts detailed to sce that t rule Is enforc The ladies who direct this institution are Mr Paul Tabour, Mrs, Jamex Devlin, Mrs. deremtols wintan, Mrs. Prank Otle, Mra John Oulstous Mrs. Jotin B, Devil yen, Mrs. Hylere Mrs. Maitland, M O'Reilly and Gross. day were: Cash, Known business A tributlons 0} from a wells check fro! The ov 100; n for Master Sebalos and sister Minnie for $10)» Ailtho children were beautifully dr d, ane i that there was not a homely o! All looked well ondition certainly refle: itor in ebarge of then - — Death of Sister Mary Louise: i RicnMonn, Va., Deo. Bister Mary Louls* one of the Nuns of the Visitation, died last ev4! ng ah 1a a credit Ane ver iMlimimeon, of the convent foi