The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, May 7.

The President with his family passed through
this city last week on his•way to NI eat Point, run
after by a crowd, mostly composed of reporters.
Before returningto Washington he paid hii brother-
in-law, Mr. Corbin, a visit; and last Sunday he
attended the Methodist Epiecopalian Church at
Elizabeth with Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Corbin, and leis
daughters. Next day he was visited by the pro-
minent citizens of Elizabeth, and drove round the
town with Dr. Carlton, his departure for Washing-
ton being witnessed by quite a number of l ersons.
Our wharves are growing more busy each day with
our own citizens leaving, either on business or plea-
sure for Europe, and immigrants, who now literally
arrive by the thousand. Mr. Ruggles left for
Havre in the St. Laurent with many men of mark,
among whew.. was Augustus Maverick of the Even-
ing Post. Mr. Otis, ofa Messrs. Wells, Fargo, and
Co.'s Express, took his passage in the City of Brook-
lyn, as did 'l'. I'. Grinnell and family. The New
York Standard made its apecarance according to
notice last Saturday, and immediately dropped into
a row with the Sun, which set to work to abuse
Mr. Russell Young, Who *retorted on the personal
character of the editor of the Sun. • As the sheets
resemble each other closely:, and the abase is very
much the same, unless you look at the headiii g you are
unconscious whether it is the editor of the Standard
or the editor of the Sun whO is being complimented.
As was expected, General Butler is the Standard's
model. Philip Cooney, who killed David O'Day, has
been liberated, as it appears he not only acted in self-
defence, but wrought a good work, for which this city
ought to be grateful, but the Eighth Ward roughs
are not, as' they threaten to blow Cooney up. Jim
Kerrigan gave bail $l,OOO to keep the peace, Jim
being a pugilist under engagements to fight. The
moving was commenced last Saturday, and was
continued , on Monday ; but on the whole there
have been fewer changes this year than formerly,
many landlords having reduced the rent; few or
none being able to increaseit, while a great number
of houses remain unlet. Efforts are being made by
the property holders, especially along Broadway, to
defeat the Arcade Railroad Bill, and 'a
meeting was
held in the lower store of Mr. Stewart for this
object. Although it was private it is known to be
the impression that the Governor will veto the bill,
but no one can tell what the Governor will do,
considering what he has done. The way in which
the Stock Exchange was treated shows what can
be accomplished at Albany. A bill was introduced in
the interest of the brokers, pass'ed, but the names all
changed during the process which conferred the char-
. terrequired on men whoonly wanted itas a means of
'extorting money fr,in those in whose name it was
originally asked. There was a: sensation in \'v all-
street,on learning that the Treasury had secretly sold
$1,090,000, the interest due on the Sinking Fund
Bonds, and turned the proceeds into Five-Twenties,
the bonds being purchased in small lots throughout
the day to. the great disgust of the speculators.
But many doubt the propriety of • the course, as it
opens the door wider for jobbery. The frightful
accident at Richmond has been discussed in many
pulpits, debated in many meetings, and has called
forth general sympathy. The Chamber of Commerce
assembled in the underwriters' building ou Monday,
and it was resolved that a committee be appointed
to receive subscriptions for the widows and children,
and that resolutions of condolence be sent to the
Mayor of Richmond: The caisson for the East
River bridge has been sunk on the Brooklyn side.
It was towed from Green Point by the Titan and five
other steamers. An English burglar, named John
Willams, was arrested by a Custom-house officer for
. having in his possession $15,000 worth of diamonds,
and the property was confiscated, but Williams
was re-arrested by the police • and searched, when
Ruseian and French Bonds, amounting to 60,000
francs, stolen in Paris were found on his person,
and in default of bail he was sent to gaol. On
the• 19th day of M'Farland's tiresome affair
Mrs. Calhoun Runkle was examined, and this
imparted to it an interest which crowded the
court. " Brick " Pomeroy was also examined, and
afforded no little amusement. He said that M'Far-
land called at the office of the Daily Democrat in
1868, and offered to sell certain letterS containing
full particulars of the debauchery of his wife by
Richardson, who was connected with the Tribune,
where Greeley and others were milting a free love
establishrm nt. They would create a sensation, and
place Pomeroy even with Greeley, who had abused
him politically, and he offered the letters for $lOO.
iNfr:Totneroy did not care to publish such letters,
and remarked that his quarrel with Mr. Greeley
did not extend to reporters, for whose acts
neither were responsible, nor did he care to pur-
chase letters from a man who, they said, re-
flected on his wife's character. INl‘Farland returued
the letters to his pocket, while Mr. Pomeroy told
him that it was the most singular offer Inehad
ever had in his newspaper-experience. When cross-
examined the witness raid that he had, with his
usual modesty, omitted to make a sensation in the
newspapers, and he had mentioned this about five
weeks before to Mr. Whittaker. On being asked if
such communications were not shielded, as in con-
fidence, he answered they were, when concealment
was requested. The witness observed that there
was notmore ill feeling between Mr. Greeley and him-
self in 1868 than usually exists between Democrats
ar:dßepublicans,for which he was censured for levity
by the prisoner's counsel. " I don't call that wit,"
said Mr. Pomeroy. "Nor I either," retorted the
counsel. Mr. Greeley had during the war called for
his incarceration, and had published a bitter article
against him in the Tribune. Mrs. Calhoun Runkle
was examined at very great length, more espe-
cially as to her letters, and the Recorder ruled
that she should state what certain words were.
Mr. Graham bad objected, saying they were there
to
,explain themselves, and it was not what the lady
said she meant, but what the prisoner thought they
meant, and the effect on his mind ; that were the
points in question. The Recorder considered that
no person was so well able to say what the words
wereas the writer. The defence contended thatthree
letters gave the initials of a gentleman inNew York ;
while the prosecution maintained that they sig-
nified " you," which Mrs. Calhoun confirmed when
questioned.. .When asked for the particulars of
any -.lel,:avlierein she bad seen the prisoner
belia;Z= to his wife, she
.stated on one occa-
sion a inary, 1867, she took an article she hade
written hastily to read to Mrs. M'Farland, and'
finding her with her children in a small close
room had got through fifty pages, when Mr.
M'Farland came in unexpectedly, and she stopped.
Ile spoke harshly, rudely, and thickly,• being the
worse for liquor, and made the already stifling
room still • more disagreeable, so she gathered up
her MSS. and left, but she heard him turn vio-
lently on his wife, accusing her of having received
a letter from her lover through that woman. Judge
Davis desired to tender as evidence a letter from
Mrs. M'Farland, ta which the celebrated one from
Mrs. Calhoun was a reply; but the original had been
lost, and the Recorder wouldnotpermit the contents,
according to the memory of the lady, to he re-
ceived as evidence. The counsel said the letter
had stated that Mrs. M•Farland lad been living
in a state of torture with her husband, who had
been intoxicated for several days. She maintains
that Mr. M'Farland approved of his wife going on
the st rge. In reply to a rigid cross-questioning
she asserted th rt her motives for interference simply
were to enable Mrs. M'Farland to earn a liv-
ing for herself and her children. Mr. Graham
read portions of the intercepted letter,, on which
Mrs.Rittikle observed that "it sounds so unlike Mr.
Richardson thht, except on your authority, I would
not helicon that he had written it." Mrs. Sage, ex-
amined iinkt4ty, called herself the mother of Mrs.
Richardson,, Lao-Mts. M'Farland, to which the pri-
soner's counsel objeeted. She testified to the quar-
rels, and the prisoner's neglect of his wife. She
believed her daughter's conduct to be perfectly
good up to this hour, and saw nothing wrong in
her going te Indiana for a divorce, that sbe might
marry Mr. Richardson. Miss Lizzie Sage had fre-
quently eeen the prisoner intoxicated. On Wednes-
day the prosecution closed, and some rebutting
evidence was offered by the defence on that and
the following; day, while yesterday Mr., Graham
summed up in a long and able speech, after which
the Court adjourned till Monday. We are 'arriv-
ing at a fine state of reporting. Reporters now
go to church in hat chts, and on Monday the most
sensational of the Sunday sermons appear in the
columns of the dailies. 1 he San brought the Rev. C.
B. Smyth to grief, by an article which appeared
April 11, wherein that pastor of the Eleventh-street
United Presbyterian Chtirch was alleged to have
taken hiS six reporters after the sermon to a well-
known refreshment saloon, wheite they had beef
steak and oysters, which he washed down with five
fingers of gin and as much milk, with evident re-
lish, recommending the reporters to . take some