The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1870.

own showing that nothing is more likely to defeat
the above desirable end than the very chicle fur which
he se inetinsid -r teyclaitiours on behalf of his clien s
tep--al of. the Ciassiticatioii ; sh mid this
wise ant betteficial law be annulled the trials and
troulaica of Erio will continence anew, the
power of the inajoi sty would he vi wed sit the haudi
of the three uuseriipulous spe tivor.l who are be-
hind Mr. Bu t, and the I ernianeoce of such a
management as woul i be formed by 'nt hat-
pha 1, Com tro ler Ile Alt, an I their EnJish asso-
cia'es, with t•ieir 1 g tl agent asTreasorer, co J t only
result in the utter rain of the v s avid magnificent
. pro erty t ley are so utterly incap trtle of control in:;."
shortly after these addres es Judge Ha nard hear I
the eonclu ling arguments in the suit of the Erie
against Coritelius Vanderbilt fur ih. recovery of
$1,500,000 in cash aid stock. When we say heat d
we siy too much, as the rs dc shows. Mr. Beach,
one of the defendants' cowls 1, ha I deliveral a
glowing eulog-un oo the coaracter of his client.,
Vande bilt, but Mr. Dudley Field, in reply, de-
e) (red these laudato sto be misplaced. lie w-.ts
rich, for he hid stretnied oat his arm over
tzigantiic corooratious, and grasped tiieir money;
bit, who kai t e ever done f r mankind ? He hid
erected no Coooer lostitute, or Gir trd Codege, or
mian lustitu,e. A MOUUM nt did ems
erected iii St. John's Park, very likely with the
money th tt he had wrung from this corporation,
ider the roof of which might be written—he
would not say "To the great robber," but " To toe
great appropriator of other men's goods." He was
Ihe tempter, not the tempted. lle was he bottom,
the foundation of this great conspeaey, which has
bee I discl, set' hefore the Court ; and when the
counsel on the othe r s,de has finished his plea4ng
i,u 1 in ciestiog remarks abut his client, he goes
further, acid states tha, Aiessts. Fisk aid Gould are
uns.Topillotts adventurers, who have in ode the Erie
itoa, I a scoro anti by—wor I in ohe m ars of the
world. \Ve knave no such thing. t doly him any-
wti-re pi° 'uce lirciuf ; ante Ib g your honour to
b erve that. f;r as the testino ,y g es, ;It c ot-
rawer of these parties stands thus : Vasideroilt, an
oust uou oils operator, having been defeat d to an
at'einpt to make mon-•y in the ma,ket on Erie
ttailroa i stock, cas•ing a tout for softie me ins to
repl &cc thl mon tv which iie ; list, and o mike
.s Ai. srs S;nell ad B 1 (it, go-).t an I Work
to tiring li ig t, this in this Court, has tig tor a pre-
tended o 'jest tie 000 I of th stockholders of the
Corp tt atioa, having foe their real objet the extrac-
tion of $5,000,000 from its coffers, a id he brngs,
by means of thee suits, such a pressure to b ar
upon the indivi tual members of this ho trd of diree
tors (hat they di l ransfer this $4,500,000, rec--iving
in e..chAnge this stock. Now, is this, the high-
min led, public-spirited citizen of unsullied reputa-
tion? Th characters of risk ant G ul.l s:aud out
in a different light. Men who, in a mioority of two
in a board of seventeen, stoo t out, at great risk
and tiers mal disaclvantaze for a period of seven
months to prevent a tobbet y, ac the last mo:oe it
for settlement, fiu ling that they were tractically
overthrown by their e,).npeers, fi ~ling th tt a
settl.imaitt was agree I upon and would be ear-
red torotign, At the las man nt wi hdrew that
0. postion, aid put the only stall upon their
ch tracle,-s that they bear before your Honour in
this Corm and in this caose, and -hit stain they
to 4t paies immediately by this action to wipe out.
After a few more reatarks, to the intense astomso-
ment of the Court, who had prepare t elabitrate
arguments iutendoig to keep uo the talk for at
least a week lo g tr, Judge Barnard sai 1, "
motion to dis-niss the c m..laiut ni tile oil Friday
week, and to witich this reply has bee.' made, is
d T ten Mr. Da. is, who for sone tine h d
been soeechless, tecovered, asked, " Ate
we not a-lowe Ito reply e" 'leis right the Jud e
d d not tli pate, hut air. B ach a d that after his
Hon tur h t.i thus a.inoii,leed his ~iews it would be
inju lieio is to p name the i 'ten led coot se, but tha
doom la t's cou'isel ;desired s nits disunite grounds
on w deli his Flom) it ma to that ruling. lie was
t en asked whether the plaintiff kid a right to
et:ov r, and the tie tge ansstered that hay ng care-
fuLy !wilted ;Lao the eomplaiot he was not c.ear
whether they could recover this $3,500.000, kit if
the testimony proved it •ud o t h part of the defen-
dants the plain iffs eat, recoy. r $1,0u0,000. This our
readers will remember is the money pal I, the other
being stock. At the same rime ;he repot of the
Botou, Hartford, and Erie 1C diroad throws some
light on its affairs. The first item w- ich attracts
attest : ion is $150,000 p to the presid lit, J. S.
Eldridg , de itico'd from the money receiv.-(1 from
the Erie Railroad, the next is $lO,OOO to Jury
Gould for commissions, then $54.000' to F. A.
Lane for the conrract with the Erie. But these
amt ifles when c rliptre I with the legal expense,
of $:355,000, and the loss the company has sus a:ned
of $2,000,000 in speculating in i s own s ock. Yet
tois iotert sting offshoot of Etie ring apoears
unolushi igly b fore the Massa,hu etts LegiAtt-
tare for more! being the thi d bowl, while the -
high cre lit that once a tachi d to bias a hust-itts
has been damaged through the connection of its
legisl tore wi h his rai road. Contrasting, how-
ever, Air. Eidi Lige with the extraordinary style of
test mchiy given by Me<srs. Pisk, t rouch, and
ild, tie .Npriugfield Republican, a h c i east beett
elan ing in its tneteavonts protect the Sta e from
trit says :—" Air. Ebb idge h-is much to
answ,r or a tie bar or p iblic °I:JOAO tor his
gros ly specul t,ive awl corrup• m n tgemeitt of
this enterpi i e, in -which the state embarked its
mon y and credit with him i t good ; posts bly
the judgment of h-s old c ,n:rere, JAitit s Fisk, jut..,
exote s d in the New York courts last week, that
he and ks associates in the Er e .aiid Vai.dei bd.
settletne, t were a nest c f t °libels,' will he finally
upheld, and transferred as wt I; to ti e Massacl. tt-
setts Erie ring ; but t! is is surely to be said for
him, that he does not forgt t to lie a getitlrmait in
his personal anti othe-al inttrc urste; arid that if
we ale to be swindled and deceived, it is somt thsug
to have it (-Woe in a high-toned acid getteel man-
ia r.r It- is cert nily irovoking to be- vililir d and
ridiculed a- a gat g tf ittio s by the %ery rig
which is mil till swy robbing you, yet that is the
p- sition of tie Anglo-Athet kit!, tont eholders. Air.
Raiiisay is aro jog on the star (4 ail st the Erie
clique. 'I he Suot me Court of New York havii,g
deided the app-al of the Erie ditectors to stay Mr.
iatigtariutetsLt
jtntlietemd. assttiititeswacsircom-
menced Y 18a1 tro
vtio
art on behalf of the E iOsh wia-eholders
..ieo edatinagys

against thus directors of the —Eria ItaimAv. It
is hase.l on the ch that tie dtreeto .3 have
Mega ly o!).ained I ho• control over tt,e conip.tuy's
affairs, and have uawarraqtahly i•tvolved them in
disastrous ohligatio,is. The complainants apply for
au injunction against t tl directors until ihe snit
shall be decide I. Iha &fondants 11144 file their
answer by the 21 of May next.

ANIERICAN AF'FAiRS.

(From the Anglc -American Times)

We ;Ire I,ot surprsed that Colonel Bake, should
hate replied iu tt., measured ti-rms of indignation, when
called on ~y General Sheridan, to what lie calls the mali-
ciously false rep,..r.s circulated iu the Eastern papersabuut
his cteelirated Piegan expedition. His le.ter, which' is as
follows, is dated Fort Ellis, Montana, March 23,1870:
"in
answer to your telegram, receivA on the 22d inst.,
I report that, alter having amide i very effort to get the
jud4ment of the officers of the command, I was satisfied
that the following cumber approximates as nearly to the
exact truth as possible :—The number kill .d at the Plegan
village was 173, of when' 120 were able-bodied men, and
:53 women and children; 140 women and children 'were
afterward captured and released. I believe that every
effort was made by the ifficers and men to save the non-
con•bittants, and that such women and children that were
kilted were actidehtall) killed. The report pub.ished iu
the EziStern papers is w hoily and muliciou.ly false. It
s.ettis incredible that the false tostetiehe of two persons,
neither of whom has made any efforts to inform himself
in the matter, should outweigh the eports of those en-
gaged in the fight, and who feel that they have nothing to
palliate or conceal in their conduct. All that the officers
&timid of the authorities is a full and complete investi-
gation of the campaign, and less than this cannot be con-
ceded them. " C. L. BAKER.
"Brevet Colonel U. S. Army, Major 2d Cavalry."

A goo i migration scheme is thus alluded to in
a New S prk paper:—" The Northern Pacific Railroad is
about to become au immense immigration bureau.an d in this
csp•tcity proposes to send Senator Schurz, ex-Secretary
and ex-Governor Marshall to Europe as drum-
mers. Immigrants will work on the road a year or two,
and then receive farms of froni 40 to 100 acres, with cot-
tag's, the surplus wages being sufficient to stock the
f inns. Horrible to relate, 'the company manufac-
ture the houses, exactly alike, by the thousand.' Houses
in morocco cases mailed free on receipt of stamp !" The
best means of promoting emigration is to have the work
performed through the agency and instrumentality of the
poet, railroad oorpontiono of th 9 Wivt. tla tho 6rtit p 14007

they own the best land; next, they control the tiausport;
thirdly, they are very powerful, commanding vast re-
sources; and, finally, because successful se tlemen* for-
wards their interest only in a lesser degree than that of
the settlers. Therefore we always welcome and strenu-
ously t dvocate any steps towards what we believe to be
a system calculated to produce so much benefit to all.
BUDGET OF MIsCELLANEOUS.—Four statues are
to he placed upon ihe New ity Hall of Detroit, repre-
senting Justice, Industry, the Arts, and Commerce.— Ile
New Euglauders are puzz;ed over a new edible dish pre-
sented to them meter the title o " Baked Shed and 8h io
Fie ." " shoo fly" part of it cousis,s of small strips
of potetoe, cut thin and frit) t herd and crisp. -A man at
Massachuset a, says in his wed that tie desires to
be buried is a burglar-proof safe. —lt is calculated that a
railroad trait consisting of all the locomotives and rail-
roed cars in Europe would reach from St.Petersberg to Paris.
There would be iu this train tone hundred thousand pas-
song.r wageons a d live hundred thousand freight cars.
The European raiir ails go over sixty-two thousaue
bridges, great and small, and pass through more titan a
hundred and fifty intles of tunnels. Eighteen thou-
baud locomotives are continually running on these lines.
—The process of "caunmg" eggs in their own shells was
recently explained at a meeting of the New 1 ork Farmers'
Club. When two Or three dozen eggs are obtained from
the nests, plitee them in a dish and pour scalding water
over them, and immedattely turn it off. This process is
repeated three Hines, by wheel means the elburnan is
fixed or coageleted, the pores of the shell closed, :Led the
age, as it were, canued in its own covering. The eggs
time prepared are teen packed iu salt, with the apex down -
ward, and they are said to keep perfectly fresh for many
moat ha.—T he Apaches i u Arizona are plundering and mur-
dering the demuceless whites in eveey direction. The ship
C. a Horton, Captain Taylor, from London, Feb. 11, for
Reston, was abaudoued at sea in a sinking condition on
the 12th of March.-- An American paper says the Sand=
wich Islanders, after having killed Captain ('ook and
eatea his body, tire about erecting a monument to the
memory of the great navigator.—Chicago has this season
packed 690,t1U0 hogs, t incinnati 337.3:10, a d St. Louis
61i,316, and Milwetikee 172,626. -The monitor Terror,
accompanied by the U. S. stettwee Frolic, arrived at For-
tress Mimeo° March 25. Among the stud nts at New
York Medical College for Women is a young coloured
woman 23 years of age, who has just completed her
cou se mini is about to graduate with honour. California
pipers report that much more lent) in that State will be
dew); ea to 111, Chlttlie of tue Vine this year than ever be-
fere. In a case recently on trial before a Court at Larit-
ity, Wyo • leg Terri ore, ail the male Series were
cleillenged off the Joy, lietvieg ir entirety to the women.
- The emtro Tun el lets beeu exeitvitied 8;4 feet. A bed
of r clt has lei ea struck _which req tires blasting. There
has beau no increase of • water in the, tuneei. - In the
Legi,uttiire of Unite di Columbia e motion wes adepte t that
Ca ada perches,. Alaska aed the State of Maine. It is
ear i t b tt rat. Celiaelau Rift at are to be immieliately dis-
banded, and the officers retire on half pay.—Receut rape,-
rations iu the Rocky Mountains have determined that the
tl gliest neiut in the mega yet unieetireil is Mount Har-
vard, fourteen thousand two h ndred and seventy feet.
RAILWAY Nt. Ws.—The Central P4cifie Rai!road
has purchased the San Jo:4 Railroad. The first payment
of $..,500,000 was to be made in New York on the Ist of
April. i lie Wall-street Journal informs us that the South
Pacific Railroad of Missouri is making rapi I headway.
Th. •track now laid 20 miles beyond Lebanon and
will reach Sprine field (211 from St Louis) by the 20th ot
hprd next, and Neosho, fifty miles runner, by the first of
July. One regular daily passenger and two freight trains
now run to Lebanon, there connected by stage tu all
south-western points. The traffic is good, and returns for
the past fiscal year indicate a pron. of 5U per cent.
Though the setual terminus of this road is Springfield, it
is de tined to be an integral portion of the great through
liue of the Atlantic and Pacific, via San Diego and Aleu-
querciee to San Francisco. The following new lines are
contemplated and being built, which will intersect this
liar and add to its revenue. Front Keussts City to Leba-
non and thence to Memphis—already being surveyed, to
the construction of which liberal county subscriptions are
pl Aged. From St. James (a station ou the line) to Little
Rick, Arkansas, forming the most direct route from St.
Louis to that point. The prospects of securing a liberal
laud grant to this line are flaunting. From Fort Scott to
Lebanon (eventually to Cape Girardien, on the Mississippi),
20 miles of which are graded, and the remaining distance
assumed by county subscriptions.—During its seven open
mouths, last year, the Erie Canal's freights exceeded by
700,i,00 tons the joint transportation of the Erie and New
York. Central flailroecle.—One thousand Chinese labourers
are to be imported from China by the Suez Canal, to work
on the Midland Railway, New Y ork. They are to get
$lO is mouth and ratethe
OBITUARY.--Alatthe w D. Field, an elder brother
of the Hon. David Dudley Field and M. Cyrus W. Field,
of New York City, died in Southwark, Mass., ou rues-
day, March 22. He was born at Haddam, Conn., iu 18 il.
Hes taste led him to engieleering and inec ittuisd pursuits,
and he was at one time a railroad contractor iu the -own.
He ale., built wire cusp nsior, bridges at Nashville, Tenn.,
and Featikloit, Ky. It was during a subsequent associa-
tion with hint as engineer and builder of a telegraph int)
to and ecroes Newfoundland that Cyrus W. Field became
int ee3sted in au Atlantic ocean cable. In 1856 he Was
engaged in polities, amid served one year as Reputilican
State Senator of Massachusetts. The remarkable family
to vileice he belonged has now lost father, mother, three
brothers, and two sisters. There are four brothers left—
Stephen (Judge of the U. S. Supra ee Court), Cyrus W.,
David Dudley, and the Rev. Henry M., all ot New York.--
Mr. G. Burnett died at Chicago ou Saturday, March 19, at
the ago of 51. lie was born at Ediubureli in 1819, but
was brought to America at the age ot 15, and iu New York
was apprenticed to a printer. Removing to Boston at a
later period, he went on the stage at the H ward
Athenmum, and subsequently acted in New York at the
Bowery, at Laura Keene's Theatre, at Niblo's, anti other
theatres. The remains, in charge of an escort of brother
Masons, arrived in New York city from Chicago on the
24th March, and the futierel, with Masonic honours, was
to take place on the following Sunday. Colonel John
Goduitt d, the great lumber dealer, of Maine, died at his re-
sidence. in Cape E izabeth, ou Sunday, March 27, aged
27.—General Waiter Metehell, a prominent citizen of
Maryland, and several tunes Presidential Elector of that
State, died Match 19, aged 67 years.—Tne Rev. Tobias H.
Miller, a Univerealist clergymen and one of the editors of
The Portsmouth Chronicle, AeW Hampshire, died March 31,
aged 68.

LITERARY.— A German-American Cyclopedia
has Fist been rotnoled by Professor Al. x slider J. Semen,
in which 1,300 Articles are meutioned not to he feund in
the Lexicons of Iheckliauss, Meyer, and others. A de-
railed ac,ouut is given of every State and Territory, and
twenty pages are devoted to Alabama, Alaska, Alkalises,
and Anzoutt, in which great pains have been taken to
obtain correct statistics of the German inhabitants. Care
has also been bestowed on American h story and politics,
with definitions of legal terms and those tewures of juris-
prudence peculiar ,o the United States. Article,: have been
eoutribitted by the following welt-knowu G, rman-Ameri-
cans: --Dr. Douai, Kapp, Meech, Gen. Sigel, Prof. Ktiortz,
Seidensticker, Goepp, Recker, Dr. Tiodernann, tied
many others. The following interesting statistics tend
greatly to disprove the charge of irreligion often brought
against Germans in •Aine,•ica : The city of Albany has
14.0011 inhabitants of G. rman birth, who support right
churches, two newspapers, several scheols, and Li lodges
and bent-ve!eut societies. Allegheny City, iu Pettusyl-
vania, has 35,000 Germans, with 10 churche4, 11 so .00ls,
and 4u societies of various kinds. Alleutowe,. iu
Peutis 'vaunt, possesses 18,000 inhabitants, but few of
w Minim Ithough native- born,habitual iy speak English. 'l' he
town has 7 G-rman churches aced 9 Get man newspapers.
The Cyclopedia has already attracted attearion in the
Fatherland, where a recent numtkir ef the Magazinfur die
Literatur des Auslands says: " Coneerniug American An-
tiquities, conditions of language and law, the History and
Geography both of the North and Southern hemispheres,
the Cyclopedia gives the most valuable informatiou, such
as hitherto has never yet been furnished in the same com-
pleteness. We have only the warmest praise to offer to
this undertakitig."—The American Engineer, a weekly sci-
eetitic journal of practical information, mechanics, eh -Dais-
try, arts„and manufactures, has recently been established
iu Philadelphia.—The Scientific American predicts that, in
less than twenty years, illestrations witl be as common a
feature of daily newspapers as marker reports are now.—
Lydia Thompson has published a pamphlrt describing her
argument with the Chicago, editor, entitled the "Literature
of the Lash."

JOURNALTSW.—John J. Doran, late of the Cin-
cinnati Enquirer, has puechased the inte.e:t of Mr. Vallan-
dighani ai.d Juno Dwyer iu the Dayton Ledger, and will
become the leading editor of that paper. That j .urtuthsts
d tier as wed as doctors ti.a) be gathered from tlie,temaras
we reproduce, brat from the Standard's New York corre-
apt nadent. who, after sneering at the earn- of Punchinello,
the n,wly-ittunched corn c pap-r, as showing poverty of
iuveutiou, says "it does not argue much for the wit ot the
tie ich s. and the first number of Punchinello seemed in-
spired by the very genius of oul.noss. The drawiues ere
as feeble as the puns are bad, an i the satire pointless.
The experiment is likely to be carried further than any
previous one, for the capital behin.! the paper is said to be
unlimited. Indeed, the on dit is that Mr. A. T. Stewart sup-
plies the money for Punchinello, ~nd th:tt if artists and wits
are not forthcoming to make it clever with peu and pencil,
this will not be for the want of a pecuniary stimulus. If it be
true that Mr. Stewart is the (ninths and controls the
satirical contents ref the publication, then, indeed we must
suppose that his relations with President Grant have un•

de'rg.one a ch:►uge since this time a year ago. The cartoon
represents the President in two phases - in 1869 a.. a giant
among the p;gmies, and in 1870 as a pigmy among the
gian.s. If this depreciation of his Excellency is in accord
wi• h Mr. Bt.-wart'm own feelings, ri►e President has lost

one of his most, powerful triendSand one of the most active
promoters of his ` Gift Enterprises.'" The Round Table
is considered goon critic, and hero are its comments: -
"Punchinello, the new satirical paper, has reached its
second number. It is a model of typ•graphic.il beitu,j, its
Cartoons and smaller cut.-4 are excellent, and its reading
matter quite up to the average of Punch. It is couiuctt-d
by Messrs. Stephens and toih of whom were con-
nected with Vanity Fair in its li,at days, mid who are
abundantly able to manage the new paper as it should be
managed.' —Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, has
sued the Chicago Republican for $20,000 salary due for
editorial services in 12565 and stock remised. He was to
receive $7,500 salary and $lOO,OOO in stook. Th. follow-
g editorial announcement appeared in the li'hite Pine
Daily News, a Nevada paper, of March 14:—"Ap.logetic.
- At the present writing we are in the midst of the most
terrific storm we ever experien. ed any where. The attuo-
sphere is not intensely cold, but it curls about with a ra-
pidity, variety, and industry not at all charming. The.
tin roof of the office has gone off entire, and all hands are
at work without shelter. The gale is ,•-ao terrific that re-
pairs cannot be mare, and we are compeded to hoaxe it
our, praying for an early subsidence of the storm. Under
the circumstances. it is 11.3.435.ary t., crave indolg-itce
of our friends with the delicieumei of this issue of the

Daily News. Every man is in his place, all industriously
working in the cold, labouring to bring out some sort of
pa11:449n, to imp up tho proper daily apparitw."