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some time ago about being turned out of the cars OIL
the Washington and Alexandria Railroad Com
pany. 1t appears that the Serseant-at-Arms Oh
the Senate, ]. r. French, was directed oy
Senator Cragin, chairman OF the Committee on
Contingent Expenses Of the Senate, 10 reduce the
force of employees during the recess. Caroline was
among the unfortunates. She resolved, however,
not to submit. She appealed 10 several Senators
and senator's wives. Among the senators i'm
portuned is Mr.. Sumner, who championed her case
in the Senate when she had the difficulty with the
railroad company. Since that time Caroline has
been apparently very lame, especially when about
the Senate. On the street, however, IL has been
remarked that she walks remarkably Drisk. Mr..
French Is unrelentng and refuses to reinstate Caro-
line. Caroline threatens to have French removed,
and 80 the war goes on What will be the end OF 1t
remains to be seen.
Personal.
The Hon. George Villiers, son Of Lord Clarendon,
arrived to-day. He paid his respects during the
day to Mr.. Thornton, the British Minister. and TO-
morrow he will call upon the President and the Sec
retary of State. He visits this country private
business.
Among the arrivals tonight is Ruslem Bey, gen :
eral In the army OF the Sultan He visits Washing
ton on business connected with the Turkish Legation
here.
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more witnesses or an further evidence have to
commit tins case TO your deliberations; and in ook-
ing through this case, think you must agree with
me that II Is one OF those which requires the
most cool delberaton. AS for the death
to bring them TO life, and according the testimony
offered before you Is for you to look into how and
and into ali the circumstances attending the case.
1t should not be your duty TO any person or
party; but II should appear to you gentlemen that
that could not be helped why 1t will be your duty TO
find o verdict to that effect. II not it will be your
duty to fnd verdict against those partles as far
as you can ascertain who has been guilty OF this
crime. Under these considerations l submit the
case to you.
The room was then cleared and the jury proceeded
to deliberate on their verdict at quarter 10 nine
O'Clock. About halfpast eleven O'Clock the jury re-
turned to the court room, having agreed upon the
following
VERDICT
We, as jurors empannelled to investigate into the
cause OF the death of william g. Rushmore, Matilda
NJ Pray, Orestes G. Pray, Patrick Shannahan George
G. Van Nostrand and Jane Adams, find that they iey
occurred on the Lcng Island Railroad, near
the Willow Tree sao IN nene tine thrown rown
from the track by defective rail, and hold that the
Long Island Railroad Company are responsible for
said accident by negeeting their duty In keeping
JOHN O'DoNNELL, JR. WRIGHT P. HIGBIE.
CHARLES LEWRY. DANIEL MURRAY.
ALEX. WAGNER. MARTIN vANDEGRAW.
WM. E. SMART DANIEL BAYLIS.
ABB. A. HENDRICkSON.
Howard Pearsall, after the rendition OF the ABOVE
verdict by M. O'Donnel, read the following as his
positive belief in the matter, as one or the jurors
sworn to inquire into all the facts and clrcuIn-
stances attending the deaths OF william Y.
Rushmore, Matilda NJ Pray, Orestes NJ Pray,
Patrick C. Shamaher, Jennie Adams and George h.
Van Nostrand, which took place upon the Long
Island Railroad in the town OF Jamaica, near the
Willow Tree station, on the morning OF the 23d or
April last, do find that the said persons came to
their deaths from an accident to the Car In which
they passengers, the car being thrown from the
track. and from all the testimony in the case am
unable to arrive at the cause of the accident.
HOWARD PEARSALL.
Concurred in by George N Codwise, Edward II.
Slney.
Furthermore after patient ana careful invesE-
cation OF all the the facts introduced III the eXam
nation OF causes by which the said persons came
to their deaths, the conflicting testimony
to me to be free from bias. and from my own
knowledge, having before and since the accident
travelled over the road the condition of which Will
bear favorably with Other roads, l can
not, in arriving at all the circumstances
attending the deaths Of the unfortunate individuals
attach wifu or culpable carelessness Or neglect
the part OF the managers or the railroad.
The cause Of the accident has not been made
satisfactory to my mind, and In my opinion was
produced from some unavoidable and unforeseen
circumstance HOWARD PEARSALL.
G. W. CoDwIsE.
E. G. SINEY.
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the $4,000 BOND ROBBERY IN TRENTON, RL
Arrest In this City Of Two Parties by the De-
tectfyes.


tectives.
tober eleven 900 bonds of the Central Pacific Rail
road and nine 81, 900 bonds OF the Union Pacific Rail
road were stolen from the residence OF DR.. Nickel
vey, OF Trenton n. J. As soon as the robbery was
discovered circulars descriptive OF the bonds were
sent to the various cities OF the United States and
the Canadas. The detectives Of this city, under the
direction of Chief Kelso, Immediately went to work
TO ferret out the whereabouts of the thieves and the
bonds, but, notwithstanding oil their efforts, they
were unsuccessful In their search until yesterday
when certain Wall street broker offered three OF
the bonds for sale to Fisk 4 Hatch. This firm, on
were OF the number that had been stolen from DR..
McKelvey, and thereupon sent for Detectives Coyle
and Irving, OF the Central Police once. ON
the arrival OF the detectives the broker
that he had received the bonds from another broker
named John Herrick, and that the latter was pa
tienty awaiting his return to his Office In order to
receive the proceeds of the sale The detectives at
once proceeded to Mr.. Herrick's ONCE, when they
introduced themselves In the usual fashion. That
gentleman seemed somewhat surprised ut the visit
OF the duo but asserted that he was not aware a the
time the bonds came into his possession that they had
been stolen from any person. doctor or otherwise.
He stated that four or i've days ago man named
William Meyer called upon him and asked him II he
could not dispose Of some bonds for him, and yes
terday three $1,000 bonds enclosed IN an envelope
were left addressed to him at 20 Cedar street. The
detectives without more ado arrested Mr. Herrick,
Meyer, whom they locked up at Police Headquar-
terD Whether or not Mr.. Herrick is guilty OF re-
ceiving the bonds and attempting to dispose OF
them, knowing that tney were OF the number adj
Il question which Will be decided In police court
to-day.
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YACHTING.
Proposed Match for the Cup Won by th'
Yacht America in 1851.
G.. W. CODWISE.
f. G. SINEY.

Proposed Match for the Cup Won by the
Yacht America in 1851.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
Mr.. Ashbury, the owner Of the Cambria, promi
nent as the first English yachtman who has offered
to question the supremacy which the New York To-
cation Of "the cupn signifies, by proposing match
therefor seems unaccOuntaDy misinformed as to
the mode of placing himself In right position for
settling preiminaries. From remarks recently made
on board the Cambria 1t might be supposed that the
talked Of match for "the cup" had Deen accepted
and the Dauntless selected by the New York Yacht
Club as the competitor OF the Cambria and
the only question left open for settlement that
of the "ROyal Thames rule Of measurement" where
as nothing is more remote than such state of
things. Dispensing with all circumlocution the fol-
lowing seems to be q true estimate or "the sltua-
tion:"-
Mr.. Ashbury, in order to be regarded as in posi-
ton to compete for ''the cup" must authoritatvey
represent or be represented by some organized
This has not yet been done by or in behalf of the
The TONNAGE OF his vessel must be tested according
to the Custom House or national measurement Of
England.
This dsposes Of any necessity for considering the
"Royal Thames rule OF measurement" lin private
match this rule may be a matter OF adIustment.l
The notice on behalf OF Mr.. Ashbury must contain,
among other things, the length and Custom House
or national measurement Of the Cambria, and be
given six months before the time desired to come or.
The New York Yacht Club at its January meeting,
carefully distinguished between the match proposed
by Mr.. Ashbury for ''the cup" stating that they
could only deal with that subject leaving the other
matches around the Isle Of Wight, across the ocean,
&C., to Individual arrangement.
The offers TO sail the Cambria made by Commo-
dore Stebbins, Vice Commodore Bennett and Rear
Commodore Douglas seem to have complicated In
the mind OF Mr. Ashbury those affairs with the con-
templated match for the cup won by the America,
with which they are wholly distinct.
No progress can well be made as to a race for the
"Amercans Cup'' until Mr.. Ashbury has Initiated
right beginning, which not to nave done seems
strange In view that the conditions upon which 1t
could only be competed for we're published in Hunts
Yachting Magazine for June 1865, No. IA, p. 265,
and m the New YORK HERALD as early as 1858.
DEC ATITp
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wounds was possible, all the medical witnesses
answered yes; but on being asked whether in
view of the wounds themselves they thought
them self-inhcted, they all agreed that such a
thing was "most improbable" Under none OF
these circumstances could the Government have
made out it's case but Major Lobbia was con-
victed and sentenced to years imprisonment
The case, as it thus stands, Will pair Gu
riously with that other freak OF inventive
justice, known in Mexico as the Canto case.
In the one instance the conviction due TO
numbering General is postponed from year TO
year in the other legislator who charges the
agents of Government with having tried to
slay is accused of 'self-immoation and
punished for it, There is, OF course,
a Government side to both cases, but
the law of circumstantial evidence is
strongly against either of these powers that be,
but which, at present showing, are calculated
not to be. Apparently the judge in the Lobbla
case ought to be tried and convicted and
transported for the sentence he gave the Italian
deputy. The Government that approves such
debased administration of the law is already
sentenced in the opinion of mankind.
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Tile LOBBId CdSR.

The strange, dark contest which has been
going on between the Government and Oppo-
sition of Italy. has borne bitter fruit in case
which ought to rank among the phenomena of
law and justice. Viewed in any way, the Lob
amazing than shocking. Not many months
ago, Major Lobba, veteran in the war
against Austria. and deputy in Parliament.
brought charge of bribery and corruption
against the Government and some of
his Neutrality-suspicious.. He offered to pro-
duce letter committing tho distin-
guished Senior Crispi and Others in the
award by the Government of the notorious
tobacco monopoly. Soon Major Lobbia was, a.
he and his friends charge, waylaid and wounded
with intent to kill. One Scott, relied upon as
a witness to prove the assassin, who, 1t was
alleged, was q policeman or soldier, was sub
sequently poisoned. Nelli, the fiscal advocate
of Florence was removed when ho was about
to detect the would-be murderer Thereupon,
the Florentines, already suspicious and scan
dalzed, were still more startled by the
announcement that the Government intended to
prosecute Major Lobbia for having inflicted
wounds upon himself in order to bring shame
upon the Government. Actually. this was the
charge brought against the deputy, soldier,
patriot and supposed self-immolatOr, in con-
nection with certain accomplices, also we'll
known men, among them Prof. Martinati. But
the process and circumstances of the trial were
not whit less singular than the charge.
The trial was before police magistrate and
without q jury. On tho specific but almost
incredible charge of stimulation. of crime, the
prosecution endeavored to maintain the theory
that Lobbia had stabbed himself. and then
fired two pistol-shots to make likely the story
that he had been attacked by an assassin
The Government called 1870 witnesses, three of
whom declared that agents of police had
been to their houses to promise them
money for false swearing and that the
Judge, who Intercepted them beforehand,
menaced them with Imprisonment. "HOw can
II say that l saw these things" asked one
witness, "when / was in bedp "In bed ~
cried Judge Londi; I'll send you to bed
with a mess of broth, the whole of you"
The evasions by the Crown witnesses are de-
scribed by our informant as shameful.
From other sources we have information that
the main evidence for the prosecution was
that of some girls in house of ILL
fame, who deposed that they saw man
firing pistol. and nobody else in the
street. But other witnesses swore that they
saw man running away. and others.
Fastening TO tho scene, met a man coming
from where Major Lobbia was lying. TO the
question whether tho selt-inaiction oil his
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LILLE INCOME Tx.

Tie N. Y. Times is moved to say. in discussing
this tax, that
1--WE regret 10 SEQ that THE TRIBUNE has Joined hands
with those who clamorng for the repeal OF the law
Always urging the prompt payment OF the public debt as
act OF duty and safety 1t has heretofore srenuousy
insisted upon maintaining the highest rate OF taxation,
and persisteny resisted every effort at reduction
Suddenly however, as II light had dawned upon 1t from
some and unexpected quarter 1t calls loudly for the
repeal Of the equitable tax law upon the statute
book and that from which the nation receives the
revenue"
The Times is in error. We are opposed to all
tinkering of our tax-laws for the present.
Hitherto our revenue officers have not been
allowed to get tax-law authOritatively ex-
pounded and its meaning judicially settled be-
fore it is upset by Congress, and new law
enacted, under which the work has to be all
done over again. We wish Congress would
Just let the tax-laws alone for the next two
years. The Secretary of the Treasury and
Commissioner of Internal Revenue are just
getting the hang of them, 80 that rogues pay
more and honest men relatively less taxes than
they formerly did. If they require any amend
ments to insure the perfect working of their
machinery, we favor such amendments, but
ne'er another.
By the law rs it stands, the Income-Tax is
payable in 1870, and then it expires by limita-
ton. We believe that is just as it should be.
Collect the Whisky and Tobacco taxes hon
estly, and the Treasury can well spare the In
come-Tax after next'year. And we shall rejoice
to see the end of it. In practice, it is the most
unfair and unequal tax ever imposed, and in
cites an amount of perjury to which the false
swearing at our custom-houses is as mOle-hills
to mountains. A hard working bank clerk
or mercantile book-keeper who earns $4,000 a
year will pay more Incomc-Tax than dozen
farmers who own good homesteads and live
generously from their proceeds without doing
three.hours' work per day. This City pays moro
Income-Tax per annum than is paid in one
third (twelve) Of our States alto gether. Away
with it
Even here, the exactOns of this law are most
UNEQUAL, While tue writer hereof has paid
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coasts. Then, again, the cost of transportation
between here and San Francisco, by railroad
is higher than the cost from China itself oy
other routes. Time and the progress OF events
will doubtless effect advantageous changes IN
tho means of our commercial intercourse "ith
Asia, but we must exercise patience and energy
to bring them about In the mean tme' IL
cannot be denied that the Suez Canal gives
Europe great advantages over us in this matter
of Asiatic commerce, and the Pacific Railroad
will not afford us much help in the way OIL
rivalry with the Canal. The main benefit we
have thus far derived from the Pacific hal-
road is in the way of internal development
1t has made us acquainted with the region
west of tho Mississippi; it has opened up vast
domains for settlement and emigration; 1t mas
enlarged the Importance and strength OF Cali
fornia; and it has increased the volume OF
trade and business between the Atlantic ana
Pacific States. In the same way, the Kansas
Pacific Railroad has been helping forward our
internal development; and so also. in course OF
time, will it be helped by the more southerly
line through Texas.
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Netu'Qork Daily GribmarE.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1869.

Four hundred bishops have arrived in Rome. -
The Cubans have woD victory San JOSE and reports
have been current Of another landing at Mayar. Gems
Lesca and Pueblo alike complain Of the situation, the lat
ter asking to be allowed evacuate Puerto Principe
.- salnaye's proclamation describes the par.
tcular character OF Gen. Chevaer's defee-
ton and declares him outlaw; bnt 1t appears
that salnave himself is In desperate straits = Gov
McTavish has called upon the Winnipeg insurgents to
seek redress by constitutional but they remain
unsubmissive. == NJ. Olivier has again urged his
friends TO support the Napoleonc dynasty. == The
vceroys present Empress Is diadem Of diamonds
worth six millions OF francs. - The scheswg HOlstein
question has been reopened.
Returns from Msssppi indicate the election Of Acorn
by 10000 majority; the Legislature conceded to the Re
pubhcans == Hamilton has probably been been elect
ed ia Texas by large majority. = There was an ex
ploaon OF fire damp coal mine at Wilkesbarre. Pa
yesterday which seriously injured five persons. ==
The Sioux and Crow Indians have formed an alliance and
threaten the settlers Montana with extermina
ton. After the 1st Of January, the rate OF letter
postage between the United States and Great Britain win
be reduced 10 cents Reports 10 the Agrcutu-
Bureau indicate Southern cotton crop viii be
yearly 100000 bales An elevator and 10000 bushels
Of grain partially burned Cleveland involving
loss Of $4,000 - The travelling agent OF New.York
manufacturing house has been robbed Of 1905 worth Of
loweIry at st. LOUIS.
AT the dedication Of the building OF the Young Mems
Christian Association, YcePrOsident COax made an ex
tellen speech aud there other Interesting cere
monies. == The Chamber Of Commerce had an i'm
portant discussion upon the causes Of the decline Of
American commerce. === The investigation into the
alleged frauds In Custom-House weighing Is stil pro-
crossing == Dir. Richardson died at o'clock yester
day morning == The schooner Saxon, from Savannah
was ron down by apropellero the SOth u Crew saved
- An attempt was made to burn a tenement house In
Third-ave == Gold, l22l 1921, 1879 Temperature, 80
"a, %, &c.
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LICENSE TO MURDER.
can spare

We have chosen not to discuss the grounds
ON which the assassin of Albert ID. Richardson
seeks to Justify his deed. They will doubtless
be put forward on that assassns trial, where
thew can be scrutinized and sifted; as yet
we do not know all the facts, with regard to
which the parties so widely differ, and prefer
10 await their development Meantime-wlth-
out assuming that it has or has not any peril
nence to the case in hand-we propose to deal
with some of the false doctrines which that
case has been made the excuse for propounding
The World says:
"a man who deliberately maneuyers to entrap the
faithful and conented wife OF another from her allegiance
IA On utter scoundrcl for whom DEATH by lawful MEANS
would not bo too severe punishment"
If this be true, why has The World never
urged that the crime of such seduction be
punished with death2 Are such Oi1cnses so
rare that no preventive legislation Is neces-
sary9
death by lawful means" The World COM
mends and approves But every ono knows
that there are no lawful means Of furnishing a
seducer with death. How natural, then. for an
outraged husband-who will naturally believe
that his wife was faithful and contented"
till "entrapped should say, "Since the law
VIII not punish tne bCOunuIcl 40 Hc ucSclHCo,
al must do it myself" We defy any fair mind
to say that, on The Worlds platform, Sickles
and Cole did not righteously supplement the
laws weakness by their own prompt stein
justice.
We protest against all such vengeful, san
culinary inculCations. They carry US back to
the ages when Force was law. They smack OF
the savage condition-Of the Corsican vendetta.
If the laws are lax, strengthen them; you can
not enact any legal penalties for Seduction and
Adultery which we will not uphold, provided
they be not so fearful that juries will refuse
to find verdicts which involve their infection
But to impose one penalty by law, and far
sterner as that which should be tho law-what
is this but to incite every drunken, cOwardly
runian to wayay and murder those who they
suppose, or affect to suppose, have done them
grevous wrongH If one may be tried, con-
yicted, sentenced, and executed as Richardson
was, no mans life can be safe, for innocence
is no shield, and Inconsistencies of wrong only
proilers the assassin a safer opportunity, n
nearer mark, a surer aim. Once establish tho
substantial justice of thanksgiving for seduction.
and the whole land may run red with inno-
cent blood.
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Smustmrnts, ct.


ACADEMY OF MUsIC-Ths Evening Mt 8.-ltalian
Opera; LBcrea BorgA' Nine Bo Miss JeaBJ Laudsmanu
BOOTH's THEATER. Twentv-thrd-st.. between Fifth
and Sixth aVeN-Ths BveBnE-" PalstaG" Haekett
DoRE ART UNION. No. 5S7 Broadway.-Exhibition
ofPsiutings By Gustaye bore.
EMPIRE RINK, Sixty-third-st. and Third-ave.-
Tbs DAY aud kvening-Stste Pou,iry Society Exhibition -
FITTH-AvE THEATER. Twenty fourth st. anq Filth
ave.This Evening at g." Daddy Graz" and "Checkma'e
FRENCH THEATER, FOurteChh-st.-Ihls EveDlhg
Evening at SBnEiSh Drama: LONDON" Miss cara jennings
GRAND OPERA House. cor. Eighth-ave; anu wen
tv4bTdst-Tms Evening &-EBglsh Opera; Faus" ""S
Caroline Riehiugs- Bernard
NEw-YoRK CRCUs.-This Evening at Strand
Progrsmme Ali Abaab Troupe Of Bedouu Arabs
NIBIo's GARDEN-This Evening at s." The Fire
Fly" Lolita
OLYMPIC THEATER--Ths Evening at S.-fankee
Robinson.
SAN FRANCISCO M1NsrRE1s.-This Evening.-Mis-
oellaneOus performances
SOMERvILE ART GALLERY, No. - Fltth-ave.-
Ills Dsy and B,eung-EIhibiuon OF The Niue Muses."
THE TAMMANY.-This Evening at S-The Han
Iona
WAIIACK's TIIFATER-This Evening OF s.
Hone" aud Regular Fix" Lester WalAek
WoOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway and Thirteth-st;--
Orep daily 10 10 Two Performances; At and AZ
a." HeHlWOrtb"
Senator SUMNER: Stenway Hall" Caste"
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NJ. Olivier has emphatically avowed himself
in favor of "rallying round the dynasty"
Not only the report of this utterance by cable,
but his support of NJ Pouyer-Q uertier a Gov
ernment candidate of anti-lbcral antecedents
advertise the probability of NJ. Ollivier's call
to a Cabinet place. "The only means of de-
"featlng the party which desires revolution"
says the Minister in prospect is, even If 1t
"costs us our liberty, to rally round those
"who desire liberty without revolution" 1t is
to be seen with what ability and with what
proft France can endure a flexible usurper
rather than shed blood vainly.