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The Alabama Claims and Cuban Inde-
pendcnce.

Inc AtaDama Claims and Cuban Inde-
pendence.
We have repeatedly shown that one of the
main grounds on which the Administration
seeks to justify its cowardly conduct toward
Cuba is the fear that IL it pursues q genuine
American policy ON this subject, it may es
tablish precedents which the British Minis
try will try to twist to their advantage in
tho negotiations over the Alabama claims
How little we are to gain by this line Of
diplomacy Is seen in the tone of public
opinion in England, as exemrli6ed in the
comments of its leading journals upon the
despatch of Mr. FISH TO Mr., MOTLEY pro-
posing to reopen those negotiations.
Never, at any period since the Alabama
question has been under consideration, has
British sentiment been more hostile to our
demands than at the present hour. The
summary rejection Of the RRvERDY JOHNSON
convention, and the extravagant speech of
Mr.. SUMNER accompanying that act, have
exasperatcd all classes of Englishmop, and
we seem to have lost the few advocates
Of our side of the case that we once had In
that kingdom. 1t is now plain that whether
DIsRAELI and STANLEY or GLADSTONE and
CLARENDON are at the head of affairs, our
cause occupies the same humiliatiug position
In Downing street. Tory and Liberal treat
us alike superciliously, and each scouts our
demands with equal arrogance. We over.
look the fact, proven by her history for the
last hundred and fifty years, that England
never pays any debt TO foreign power ex.
cept by set-off against the demand of the
claimant, unless payment is enforced at the
carnon's mouth.
Now, England knows that we do not pro
pose to fight, and therefore she refuses to
pay. How absurd, then, is ii in us, while
shaping our policy in regard to the exclu-
sively American subject of Cuban indepen-
dencc, to have the slightest regard to what
England thinks or may hereafter think, says
or may hereafter say, about the Alabama
business, matter which cannot be so dis
torted as to bear any analogy to that Of Cuba.
And yet our amiable and ancient Secretary
Of State, and our literary and loquacious
Chairman of the Senate Committee on For
cign Relations. force the country into the
position of n supple supporter of the crum.
bling throne of Spain, lest, forsooth, Eng
land should find one more pretext for evad-
ing the payment Of debt which she has
already refused TO pay hundred times.
II the Administration has any regard for
character or consistency, it will place each
Of these two subjects on its own proper and
independent basis aud care no moro about
England in deciding upon the propriety OF
recognizing the independence of Cuba, than
about Spain in exacting compensation for
the piracies of the Alabama.
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THE WIDOW VAN BRUNT,s $4,000

A Husbands VIII on n Piece of his wife's
Note Pnper-Tcn Children Disinhcrited-
The Document Nulli6ed and the Widow
busted.
Mary ]. Van Brunt, the second wife and widow
OF Tunis Van Brunt, deceased, presented to surro.
gate Tucker for probate in January, 1865. what sue
claimed to be the Will OF her late husband, giving TO
her whatever he possessed OF, to the exclusion
of every one Of his ten children His property
amounted TO $4,000. The instrument was written
on piece of her own private note paper, aud was
drawn by Mr. Earl, without any instructions nom
Mr. Van Brunt He died In December, 1867, In this
city, though the paper purporng TO be his will was
written in Philadelphia in tho spring OF 1864, while
he was temporarily there, and dangerously sick Of
inflammation OF the liver. lie was attended by
Drs Meigs and Wilson, who signed the paper as
witnesses. and to whom Mr. Van Brunt acknow-
lodged his signature. One OF them had no renIcm-
brance whether the word "Nil" was used, while
Tie other could not recall any OF the circumstances
The Surrogate decided that the will not properly
executed, and the appeal by Mrs. Van BIunt was
yesterday argued before the Supreme Court, General
Term. That tribunal AHMED the decision OF the
kQrrOaato
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Slender bonds.

Lord GRANVILLE declared 10 deputation
which recently called upon him ON the sub
ject of the relations existing between Great
Britain and her colonial dependencies, that
he should be exceedingly sorry to see Eng
land deprived of all her colonies, but that no
attempt will ever be made TO retain them by
force. He believes, however, that the
bonds which unite them to the mother coun-
try though slender, are elastic and much
stronger than some suppose. This is an i'm.
portant admission on the part Of Her Males
ty's Secretary for Colonial Affairs and still
more so from the fact that the chairman of
the deputation was Viscount BURY, 80 well
known in Canada, and that ii included among
its members the Duke of MANCHESTER,
Viscount MILTON, who was on this side Of
the water three years ago, Mr.. KINNAuD,
NJ, p, and other influential public men.
Great Britain is crowded by Russia in Asia
and by the United States In the American
hemisphere, while Australia grayitates rap
idly toward national independence. Under
such circumstances Her Majesty's Minister
displays a commendable sagacity in refrain,
ing from exasperating and coercive language
toward the colonists, and in trusting to their
affectionate feeling toward the mother coun
try. But Lord GRANVILLE is no doubt well
aware that sentimcntality has little to do with
the march Of events. and whenever the time
shall come that the interests Of British
colonies require their separation from the
parent country. no sentimental oonsidera
ton, however touching, will be likely tc
deter them from their purpose.
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A Curious Feature OF the new Judiciary
Article.


At the General Term of the Supreme
Court now being held in this city by JUS
tees INGRAuAM, BARNARD, and BRADY,
several cases which were called on Monday
were said TO have been heard previously by
one or another Of these three Judges when
sitting in other branches of the Court. Their
attentio., being thus called to the fact, they
declined to hear any appeals from orders
(which bad been made by any one Of them !;
and this refusal was based upon the pro
vision contained in the new Judiciary article
of the Constitution, which forbids any Judge
20 sit in review Of his own decisions
The Constitutional prohibition, which the
General Term Of this district is the first to
recognize, is generally regarded as a very
proper one. There can be no doubt that the
powers of original jurisdiction and the ap-
pellate functions of Judge should never be
applied to the same case. Unless, however,
q change is made in the organization Of
General Terms, some curious results will
proceed from the adoption Of the new judi.
ciary article.
Suppose, for example, that an application
Ia made to Judge at chambers for an mi unc-
ton. OF course he will not grant It without
an examination of the grounds on which it
is applied for. 1.-The finds that there is such
prima faeie case as will justify an injunc-
ton, he grants it, Soon afterward, the at
torney for the parties who are enjoined makes
a motion at Special Term for the dissolution
of tho injunction. This is upon previous
notice to the opposite party, and before q
Judge other than him who granted the injunc-
ton. After hearing argument by the coun-
sci on each side, 1t is decided that the injunc-
ton must be continued. Two Judges have
already pronounced in its favor and an ap
peal from tho last decision is now made to
the General Term.
The General Term for each district is held
by three Judges Of the Supreme Court, fol
the hearing and decision of appeals only
The opiniops .ne majority is the opinion o.
the Court. Our injunction comes before II
on an appeal from the order made at Special
Term, by which 1t was sustained. Two o
the Justices Of the General Term pronounce
in favor OF its dissolution the third dis
sents, and thinks 1t ought TO remain in force
but, nevertheless, under this decision 1t mus
be dissolved. Although it has been sus
tained by three Judges-frst by the Judg'
who granted II. then by the Judge holding
Special Term, and fually by one OF tn
Judges at General Term-yet the decision o
the two who sit with the last prevails
Three Judges are controlled by two.
Such an occurrence as this which we J.. y
supposed Ia possible. though not ,,ohanl
under the old system. It nv =, ,rnon 6,
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ALOsS OF $4,000, 900 Il YEAR.

The Loosencss with which our Tradcsmrn
Fling their Goods AbOut tho Country
Credit for Anybody who Chooses TO Lie.
An application was made yesterday before
Judge Cardozo, on behalf OF David Joseph, the Gin
cinnati merchant, who obtained over tG8,OoO worth
of goods from merchants In this city by false repre-
sentatona, and then failed TO have hrsyadntted to
bail District Attorney Garyin opposed the motion,
remarking that the case should be tried without
delay rpoh the three indictments found against Jo-
seph II had become common. he said, for men who
had become desperate In their AFFAIRS, 70 get goods
from merchants here upon fraudulent representa-
TONS and then 20 make au assignment OF their pro-
our merchants in that way TO admit this man to
bail would be to encourage such practices. Decis-
ion reserved.
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TINS MORNINGS NEWS.

Gov McDougall started from St. Paul Yesterday
for the Canadian Dominion.
Yesterday afternoon John Moxson & Sons mill in,
ManyuuS was burned. Loss, ESQ .00c. Insured
Last evening Charles w. Nolan g. Co = sterc at
1913 south Front street, Philadelphia. burned
In the Ohio Senate yesterday Lewis D. Campbell
INTRODUCED bill for the submission the pcopc AT the
next octobe- election, the question tho raincaon
Of the Fifteenth Anne ndment.
Mrs. Atwood who shot In Bangor, Me-. on
Sunday, died last night. The murderer. Lawrence lies
iin ial IN a state approaching delrium trcmens, Ho
suffers much rom the wound In his throat.
4 match game of billiards in New Haven last
n-ht be ween Matt llevins OF Hartford, and George
Stone, of Norwich. French corners three hundred
points $50 SIDE stone giving nfwins sixty POINTS re-
|, sailed n favor OF stone by thirty.ihree points.
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BROOKLYN.


Aury Sncdicker has been reappontcd Deputy
Sheriff In the city Court.
WIN. d, Murray was fined $50 by Judge Benedict
yesterday for stealing bnnting from the Navy Yard
GEORGE Gersclen, Of Partition street, near Como
ver, was Utmost instantly killed In the machinery In a
wooden mill IN william street. yesterday. His body
terribly mansled.
Tie hody OF John Ho-an, who died several days
ago In the tenement house nc Dupont AMI Franklin
streets, Grccnplnt hes unburcd In luence OF tho
pc, ertY OF the family.
Benjamin Smith took advantage Of a funeral IN the
Meth dist church. corner q Jay aud johnson streets.
TO ric the pockets OF Mrs McCOonc, De Kalh cyenuc,
q fiis. Mrs, Oliver, IS Fulton avenue, fllDi Mrs.
Hoagland, Adams street, ti.50i Mrs Allen. 1F Jay
street, ~ Mrs Ruth Hickman ii9 High street ~ Mir,
Warren 20 Myrtle avenue, ~ COS and several others,
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MURDER THIS MORNING.

n BoustOu-street Lounger Shot through
the Heart by one Of tue Eighth Ward
GnnR-Thc Escnpe OF the Murderer.
At about 10 minutes past o'clock this morn
ing, James Logan was shot though the neart, on the
sidewalk In front Of the House Of Commons, Greene
and Houston streets. He had been In the coffee
and cake saloon under the House OF Com
mons, with girl. and Jerry Dunn and
another person had some words with aim. Dunn
and his companion went to tho street, and when
Logan stepped out he was shot, lie was taken to
the Wooster street Police Station, where he died
at abont O'Clock. The murderer escaped.
One Of the assassios Tin his fight, dropped
slungshot, which taken 10 the police station.
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The Democratic Repcaters In the Repub-
Iican Camp-Fun Ahead.

2 The industrious wirepuliers Of the Republican
party OF this city, who displayed their enterprise by
hiring Tsmmany rspeaters at the recent election,
are about to reap the fuit of their labors. All the
genuine Republican candidates who were couhted
out or whose votes were swamped by the ballots or
preparations to contest the right OF their opponents
10 take seats IN the meetings q the new general
Committee on Thursday next The leaders Of the
Twenty second street wing OF DE perty have been
busy since Monday IN striving 70 reconcile the DIFF
fel epces OF the rival claimants for representation
In the new General Committee, bat have signaly
failed They had n star.chamber session yesterday
In the hall In broadway and Twenty second street,
and sssisted by the joint committee OF twelve,
indignation which was raised, and which Ia 10 be re-
psaied next Thursday night, In the event OF the
| Committee falling 70 harnonize these hostile ele-
ments they propose 70 adj ourn the meeting for the
| organization OF the General Committee.
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An INDIGNANT Husband attcpipts TO Poison
his Wtfc-uis WIG the Informer.

noon Charles Weisching German, residing al
the Turnout, west Of Port Jervs, was taken before
Justice James W. Quick on complaint of Frank
Hadrich who accused Wcisching Of trying TO poison
hin, on Sunday night.
Wesching's wife observed him put something In
the teapot, and throwing II away informed Hadrich
what had been done, telling him he mad better look
ont for himself. On appearing before the Justice.
Weisclng confessed the crime, adding that lie had
procured the poison at Cooks drug store in Port
Jeryis. on the previous Saturday evening Jealousy
on tho part Of WeischinR prompted him 10 the crime
e was sent to the Milford, Pa, jail in default Of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-01-05
A Grand Chess Tournament.

A general meeting of the Brooklyn Chess Club
was convened on Monday. The rules and regulations
drafted by Messrs. Munoz A. W. King, and +. Perrin
were unanimously adopted II was resolved that
q grand tournament be begun the 9th January, to
which all players In the United States shall be in
vted the list to close on the 18th inst and the entry
fee 10 be q. Each player must play two games with
every other player provided less than thirty players
join the tournament but Ia case thirty play ers or
more join, only one game shall be played,
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The Mikado of japan has pardoned sToTs.
BAsHI. " 10 filed the office Of Tycoon previous to
the recent civil war, and who had incurred the
EXTREMIST penalties by engaging in that contest
against the successful potentate. 1t is supposed
that srorsDAsui will once more occupy some high
place in the administration Of the government
under the Mikadoj and this view is confirmed by
the fact that Prince AIDzu, one of the strongest
supporters of srorsDAsHI, has been released and
pardoned along with him.
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LONG ISLAND.

j. f. IIarton's store in Matchbox was entered ~
burglars on Thursday evening
One Anncrs was found dead yesterday morning
in a shoe store in Baskerville.
In West Hampton. L. l., Mr.. Jessup recently shot
n fox on the beach which had around lis neck ealoB
strap 80 tight that In short time he muit have ded "a
suAngulniOn.
d. r. Story proprietor OF Story's Hotel, HopNng-i
ton with his father md Hoyt carpenle l, were In
iurrd by The lrrRkng Of staging on whsh lhgl N'rS
Standing Hoyts hand, law, and two OF hls rut were
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-01-05
The amount Of English trade with Turkc

The amount of English trade with Turkey
does not exceed ten millions sterling, while that
with Egypt is nearly twice as much, owing to tue
transit from India and China. Thus, in the event
of war between the Sultan and the Khedive,
Great Britain win be hurt much more grieyously
if Egypt is worsted than if Turkey should be the
losing party.
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tnarhen. That young woman BY her own free
will abstsined for protracted period from taking
food, and died without making any confession
ofdeccit Up to the last moment such confess
sion was expected, and the news of her bona Jids
starvation spread like wildfre among the chop
and steak houses and butcher stalls Of the city of
London, and made the loyal subjects Of Her Ma
icsty the Queen thank Heaven that they are not
like SARAH JACOBS
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Inc excitement create! "a IN the gluttonous
ana pathological circles Of England by the Welsh
fasting girl has been brought to an end by the
death ofthst abstemious creature. II John Bull
and me ladies Of his family are remarkable for
anything, it is for their fanatca devotion To good
eating aud neither earthquakes nor dslpges,
nor wars, nor pestilences could ever have pro-
duced such widespread sensation at British di..-
ner tables % the story Of SARAH JACOBS Of Car
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Considerable political excitement is said to
prevail In the Sandwich Islands, consequent upon
the resignation Of the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
and the revival of the movement in favor of an
nexaiion to the United States.
The non-ratihcation by our Senate of the re-
cprocity treaty leaves TO the Hawaiians no other
alternative than TO become either Australianizcd
or Americanizcd. England and France arc indie
fatigablc in their exertions against annexation TO
the United States, as The Sandwich Islands are
Of as great strategetcal importance in the con-
troll over the Australian and Asiatic trade, as st.
Thomas is over that of the West Indies. A criti-
cal period is at hand for King KANEuAMEHA and
Queen EMMA, his accomplished sistcr-in-law. and
II is not at all improbable that Senators from the
Sandwich Islands may discuss the progress Of
West Indian, Pacific, md Asiatic trade in the
United States Senate within the next ten years.
But unfortunately we have bungers instead Of
statesmen in the Executive Department, and the
United States are likely TO be outwitted at Hon
olulu by The English and French diplomatists.
Our representative there is only retired Boston
merchant altogether inadequate to cope with his
antagonists.
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NEW JFRSEY.

Mr.W p. Alderman Of Paterson, gave cech Of
his chllarel's families sl.OpI as New Years giiL
The gale OF SUNDAY blew OF the roof Of Bruent
oil cloth factory in Elizabeth loss S3,OVO
The track Of the West Jersey railroad across ths
meadow near Gloucester Cill was wSshed aNay sun
day ulsht, by the high tides WHOA nooded Nhe roam
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Penp.y,ynp,a Legislature.

10 o'clock. In the Senate, eleven Democrats and
eleven Republicans hold over. The Speaker IL a
Republican, that the Democrats will at FIRST have
majority on the floor. If they resist tho swear
ing IN O. pew members, II may make dead lock in
the Senat9 tor some time
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o Little CnIT has given up his paper in
Brooklyn. This is well. twas one Of the most
disreputable sheets in the United States. Little
Chit might better have burned it than to have con-
,inued II as IL was. lie announced some time ago
that the greatest villains were not inside the State
prison. Had he said the littest villain, he would
have hit the nail on the head. We are surprised
to see that there were several respectable and
sponsibe gentlemen among the stockholders. II
this had been known some time since, they might
have had a libel suit TO defend Little Cur was
too dminutive TO whip--uness man bent him
over his knee and spanked him; and he was too
contemplate to prosecute. Poor little Cur,
quit
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Massachusetts LEGISLATURE.

posroS, Jan. 4.-The Legislature meets here
tomorrow The senators elect this evening nom
mated Horace H. Coolidge, OF Boston, for the Pres
idency Of tho Senate stephen ". Clifford, OF Dux-
bury, for the Clerkship, and John Morrissey to be
SeIgeant-at. Arms.
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qucntly, however, when the Judiciary shall
be rcorganizod according to the amended
Constitution
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-01-05

Mr. SwEENY has given the Board of Po-
lice Justices their orders. Justice LKDwirH
must be removed from the jefferson Market Po-
lice Court at all hazards. The Board viii meet
on Friday, and then Mr. SwEESr's orders are TO
be executed. II would seem that the Hon. JouS
Fox is coming too prominently into the foreground
as candidate for the Shrievalty. Mr. SwrgSY
objects to this, aud thus early he is planting his
batteries to defeat Mr. Fox's nomination. As
Justice STANDBY has a clean record and is de-
cidcdly favoritc with the Tammany Democracy
on the East side, il has been determined TO place
him in Justice LEDwIrn's seat with the view Of
building him up with the West side sup
portcrs of Tammany. Through their influence
1t is thought that Justice SHASDLEr can succeed
Sheriff o'BEiES. The scheme seems worthy of
Mr.. SwEESY's brains. Whether il win succeed
or not will depend upon the astuteness Of Mr..
Fox's friends. We are assured that Justices
HoGAS, Cox COULTER, aud LEDwIrH will sustain
Mr.. Fox, and that Justices DowLrSG, BIxBY, Nc
ouADE, SHASDLEY, and Scorr will strike Mr.
Fox by voting for the removal of Justice LID
WITH in accordance with Mr. SwRESY's orders.
, 1870-03-18
THE cpBpr HOUSE.
A Few Facts About the Old BuIlding-Result
Of CAREFUL Survey By Civil
Engineer.

~ :. T.,
10 Me EuiscT ef 1ht Chicago Tribune:
Amid all the rurnoA copieetures and Eucssea
,hs, mr. r,nv ahout In relation to the Court House.
:. e. =. -, .",s. 49,, ,s~ hsr.. NAV ~
acceptalle- This morning, for our oEn Informs
ttou We icos aouc careful ieyels In and about the
,'.t,s,,,, .,,,t ~. ,,nov1r, rasn,ta.
"u.n'aa' s'ln tn' .e'o" 4e |N sss
Taxing the Top OF tne 1o"e1 "a3el-sAolt, ~ tne
nprtl, end Of the old building, neat tho tai1 en-
ttanrr for = starting point the eamc at the inter-
..7 r.s,s 1.s hnns-.. :, =, ,..n..
serAou oI toe Gu aan nr" punotuSo - - aneues
lower, and at the extreme west end Of the new
building, * Inches hover; going east, the cor
Icslnudlng points arc inches and ~ inches lower.
Al the so1th end OF the building, the correspond
Ing points are: At east junction Of the building,
az inches, and eass extremity OF new building
~ Inches, and west extremity Of building, sI
, 1870-03-18

Wheat dull; winter red. sl.oa3t.1o. CON dn1
and lover; white, sa3Gc; E1ix2st, 118.ac-R--
harley ID moderate demand, and tac marfef r
Tim: choice ian held At sLt3;L 10: No 1dos it.oo
Ce1TcS~Flrn. holders asking higher tstes:
middlinR at s1@s1i1c- =.
TorACco-ln Erod demand and market 1suer
under Light EeeelEts; sales OF s. hhts, It A19
WHskxT-Held 1t Sic 1sr woaden-boand, md
:sS Ior lron-lsrnt Light demand.
with sales Of choice cit! brands q the tat-
Basen-shoalac1s. ID iose; .laes, .ss IA isxcsia;e for
s. 7'siss Ca e sss L ias: We
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nrra Wheat drut Pcunsyiv3Eta Et.i, 5LeaaLs7-
com, qcIst: whlte, 9,ssss: yslloE, 9s'2e. Soaz.
TRoy1s1cSs-Qu and unchanged.
WEIsYErF1Fu at SIC.
PHILADELPHIA
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unS ekas gssssS asssssS wi %Wheas.re1y quiet; nd Ha
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81, Oats, faE demand 1t S5955c.
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