Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1879, Page 4

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"AMUSEMENTS, | McVickor's Theatre. Madien street, between Dearbora and Ftate, &sgement of Miss Ada Cavendish. **Jane Shore." Ea. THinverly’s Thentre, TDearborn street, corner of Monroe. znnnrxmt ©f Oates’ Comic Upera Company, **La Petit Due, 1looley’s Theatre. Tan€olph street, between Clark and LaSalls, Fn- 4grgemant of the Criterion Comedy Company, **Caste.” i —_— B Academy of dtasic, Talsted street. between Madison and Monroe, Va- ‘Flety entertaioment. Hamlin's Theatre. Clark atreet, opposite the Court-Houss, Variety en- Rertaloment. Hershoy Muale-Hall, Madison street, oppoite McVicker's Thestre. Balae “brogs the Wizard, Metropolitan Thentre. Clark street, opporite Sherman Jlouse, formaoce. Variety pere It SOCIETY MEETINGS, ILLINOI3 BT, ANDREW'S ROCIETY,—Memhers attending the funera] of the Iste John Mucksy will as- senible at Huss & Co.'s iment, #73 Wabssh-av., 2 0't Monday. Carria) will proceed dircet to Dakwoods Cemetery. Bervice the Chapel, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1870. M. Duravze is not to bo shaken in his de< termination to rotire from the Cabinet, nrg- ing hia advanced age and his variance of ‘political views ns the grounds of his with- drawal. M. WappmaTon has boeen intrust- + ed with the formation of a new Cabinet. The Rov. Mr. Tazatiar isabout to bo iaken 4n hand ‘by the Brooklyn Presbytory upon the charge of preaching unorthodox doctrine and condacting himself gonerally in un- Preabyterinn fashion, In his sormon yvestor- day ho annonnced that he should next Sun. dny preach a sermon clearly defining his doctrinsl views, and making it easy for the Presbytory to deal with his caso. Poots of tho present day are, na a rule, & dong-lived class, and American poets are notably 5o, Wirirax Corren Brranr died &t tho ago of 84; Loxaerrrrow, Warrrisn, and Euxxnson bave passed three-score and ten, with no signs of bLresking down; and now the elder of them'all, Ricuann Ilenny Dana, bao just passod away at the ripe ngo of 91, Ho leaves a famous son, RicHARD Hexnx Dana, Jr., who is 64, We print this morning the text of two ordinances, about to ba acted upon by the Common Council, which aro of immediate concern to all the people of Chicago, since 4t ia proposed by their provisions to arrange & new rchedule of water-rates and to erect @ new Dopartment in the Municipal Govern. auent to be known as tho Water Department, over which the Common Council shall exer- cise a diroct control. Theso ordinances shonld ba carefully road nnd digested by the citizans before final action is taken by the Coupcll. Prof. Bwixa'’s sermon of yesterday, print- ed in snother part of this issue, denls with the present nge in its relation to and in- fluonce upon tho Church, Tho other local seligious ovents chronisled includo the stren. uous efforts making to raise tho funds nec. ossary to save the First Baptist Church from sule under foreclosure; the positive resigna- tion of the Rov. J. W. CusTia ns pastor of the Michigan Avenuo Baptist Ohurch ; aser. nion by the Rev. Mr, PeNTrcosT at the First Congregutional Chorch; and a memorial sorvico ot the Westminster Presbyterisn Church, Further examination into the entangled finances of Archbishop and Bishop Poxozs, at Cincinnati, roveals a most unfortunate and doplorable prospect for the croditors, mafnly persons whose hard savings from meagre wages were dopositod with the {wo prolates. Claims to the amount of over $1,000,000 have already beon presented, and the liabili- ties of the Archbishop will nggrogato not loss 4bau $1,250,000, The property in the hands of the Trustees to meet thess demands has +a market valno of not more than $800,000, other means will have to be forthcoming ~with which to liquidate all claims. Whilo there {4 no hint of any refloction upon the integrity of the vonorable Catholio dignitary, thers is manifested among the creditors con. siderable impatisnco at the delay to which they aro subjected, and threats of suits aro +Dbegioning to bo hoard. The Arrcars-of-Pensions bill has been “passod by both Houses of Congress, signed “by the President, and become a law, and yot "0 {Wo persous agreo ad to the sum of money Toquired to carry out ite provisions, The Jowest eatinato is that of Benator INaaris, of Kansas, who puts it down at $19,000,000; xext comes Represontativo llice, of Ohlo, the suthor of the kall, who thinks £29,000,000 sbout the figure; Mr. Brntrey, Cowmis- moner of Pensions, says $52,000,000; Senator Mounitr, of Yermoot, Chairman of tho Bouata Finance Committeo, goes as highns £83,000,000; “and the Secretary of the Troas. ury, who has to, look alead and sse whero the money is to como from, sees §150,000,000 23 the flual outgo in consequouce of this ill. considerod legislation. It yet remsinsg for Couvgress to make provision for tho enor nious expenditure, and it is to be presumed that bard facts and common-sonse will have zother more besrlug than they did when the bill itself was goted upon, R ———— The greater portion of Baturdsy's pro- cecdings in the Bropaerr fuvestigation re. L.ted to the case of Register Hinparp, whoso suports of feos and einoluments were mads tiie basis of the attempt to havehim ipdicted Ly the Grand Jury of tho October term of tiw District Coust, Tho iutercst wainly contered in the examination of District-At. tornoy Baxas, who testified that the indiet- mont was suppressed at the instigation of Jndge Broparrt, because the latter had given the advice upon which the ncensed had act. ed in the matter of mnking up his reports. He nlso stated that the Judge had informed him that Judgo Dnusonp had concurred in the opinion, and that he (Banos) had so res marked to the jury. Judge DrumsoND was called, and said that e bad nevor told Judge Bronoerr what his construction of the ** ambigunua ” seotion was, and had never been askod for it by him or anybody elso; . bnt be did remark that if Afr. Hissanp had acted on tho advico of Judge Brooarrr, it would be an outrage to indict him, ——e The departure of tho Bub-Committas to New York to take up the ciphor invoatiga- tion in that city i delayed by the diffienity inobtaining a Chairman satisfactory to all concerned. There is no groat hanforing after the position, for to the Democrats this cipher Lusiness is a leap in the dark; they don’t know whera thoy will land. Thoy fecl, morcovor, that thers is not now that prospect of compensation in the discovory of Ropublican riscality that was held out to them when thoy first consented to go into this branch of the inquiry. It was thought that they struck a rich load when the Brapr-Trxer telegraphto correspondence camo to light, but the promptness and con- vinolug elearness with which all suspicion of corrnpt bargain or purchase wna cleared away has scomed to augur badly for any compsusating discoveries in that diraction. The cnthusinsm ot fivat felt regarding the tronsfer of the investigation to New York appoars to have cozed away altogether, and the Domocrats on the Committee would gladly bo excused from furthor service if such a thing was possiblo A DIRECT ISSUE ON OFFICIAL RESPONSI- BILITY, : The iseue ponding in tho United States Bonate ovor the appointment of the Oollect. orof the Customs at Now York City is one of national interest. 'The Custom-Honse at Now York is not a local offico; at that point nre introdnced three-fonrths of the imports, and at that point s collected an equal pro- portion of the duties on imports, Through that offico are collooted the national revanues, In that office nro the great opportanitios to defraud tho ravenue by falso swearing, by frauds and connivauca on the part of the officors; aud there aro the opportanitios for the levy of blackmail and plunder. The President is charged with the duty of oxe- cuting the laws, and with the protection of the publio intorests, It is as criminal for him to nssent to and permit an officer of tha revenno to dofraud the Governmont ss it would be for the Prosidont to do the same not. Thae Beerotary of the Troasury isin an es. pecial manner madoresponsible for thehonest oxecution of the rovenuo laws. The pro- tection of the customs servico against offlcial fraud is ns ossontial as it is ngainst smug- gling, and it has often happenod that the sorvice ot Now York has sanctioned and por- mitted both smuggling andothor frauds upon tho revonno, The President and Becretary of the Treas. ury, after yonrs of labor to correct frauds and abuses in the New York Custom-Honss, roached the concluslon that every sonso of public law, justics, and morality demanded that the Colloctor of the port of New York shonld bo removed and some other “person appointed, It so happoned that the Colledt- or of tho port of Now York is a personnl friend of Bonator Conxrana. Sonator Conrx. Linag olalms that, because the Custom-Houso at Now York Ié within tho State ho repre. sonts, therefore no porson shall be removed from or appointed to tho office of Collestor without his personal ap. proval and consent. Mo objects to the removal of Collector Antmum, and apponls to the Sennte to sustain » Sen- ator in tho right to control the nppointments to Federal officos within his State. In the firat placo, tho right of Benators to dictate or control the appointments to offlcs by the President is wholly extra-constitutional, and oxists only by the force of unwritten law, the growth of custom, and of the corrup- tions of the machino politics. Bonatora corfibine to protact cach other in the nsser- tion of s right, which right is of itsclf a por- vorsion of tho Constitntion. In this coss, howover, thero is somathing moro than the denial of the authority of the President to make appointmonts, The New York Qustom.House {s not a local office, It is tho Custom.Houso of the country, The morchanta of tho wholo land do busi- ness at that office. The whola country is intorestod in the integrity of the offi. cers and the fidelity with which they adhero to the law, Dishonesty in that office affocts the revenue of the whole coun- try, and corruption roaches tho trade of evory morchant, 'The office iy thorefors not in any wonse o local one, auy more than is the Becretary of the Treasnry, and on no claim, even of the machine, has Mr, Coxx. tixa the nuthority that to Lim personally belongs the privilego of saying who ghall bold tho office of Collector of Customs in New York. ‘Tho frauds of the Custom. Houso io that city have beon notorious for years, Emlnent merchanta as long as soven yoars ago declared itto be but littla bettorthan wdon of thioves, aud others on oath do. clared that no merchant in that clty would take into his employment in his own busi. ness tho class of men who £l the various oficea in tho Oustom-House. For ten years the smuggling of silk was carned on in the Castom.Houso, and is perhaps to somo ex. tent yot, while tho frauds in the office fn tho woighing and appralssl of sugars and other goods have been wholcsale and habitual, At last tho facts of this offictal awindling wero hunted dowa ; the record, unquestionod and uudoniable, was exhibited to the Col. loctor. 'The ovidonce of the dirsct personal guilt of his principal deputy was placed beforo him, a3 was also the record of the genoral corruption in the office, 'The Col. lector rgfused to dismiss his guilty doputy,— rofused to do anything becoming an honust ofticer anxious for the public interest. ITe became fnsolent and defiant. Ho avowed allegiance to Sanator Coxxurxa, and bid the Presldont and the 'remsury Dopartment defianco, ' ko donlod their power to remove bim, Tho Presldent suspended tho Collsctor and bhas nominated his successor, Tue fssue bofore tho Senate is, whethor the whola custoins service of the United Btatos shall bo sdministered by men convicted of long, por- sistont, and notorious frauds, under the pro- teotion of a single Benator, and whether the President shall be campelled to hand over the customs service to tho corrupt and dis- honest hands who have plunderod the rov- euuo for 30 many years. The Presidant, upon bis respousibility as the National Exeoutive charged with the en- forcement of the revenue laws, has informed the Bonats ofticially that tho business of the THE CHICAGO fully performed without n chaugo in the of- ficoof Collector, Ife states thal fnct ofii- cinlly to the Senate. ‘Tho SHeerotary of the Trensury has laid bLefore the HSennta the evie dence upon which the Dresidont mnkes his statement, and the issue thua nresented to tho Benate is clear and direot, Euch Benator must declare on his responsibility to his onth and to hin constituents, * Shall I compel the President and the Trensury Dopartmont to carry on the onstoms narvies of the United States, when the Presidont, on his responsi- bility, officially informs tho Sonale that the revenues cannot be honestly col- leoted nor the business performed unless tho prosont Collector bo removed and somo othor person eppointed?” That Is the question which each Senator must answer by lis vote. It is no longer a ques- tion betweon Honstor Conxina nud the President 08 to which of two men shall bo Colloctor that is no longer the issus, The Preaidont declares that the collection of the rovenus cannot bo performed honestly nnd [ faithfully ro long as the present Collector is in office, and who {s the Senator who is pro- pared to assume the responsibility of keep- ing that man in office, in deflanco of the Prosident's official protest and official accusa. tion? It is the public servico that demands the chango. The removal js. domanded for am- ple cause, and what Sonator is prepared to insist that an officer clinrged with dishonesty sball be retained in office against the protest of the Lxcoutive? Lot each Bonator sk himsalf that question, and answer it by his vote ns bio is prepared to answer it boforo hia constituon! A MEAN BUBTERFUGE. The Porrzr Committeo {s backin® water, It has rn among anags so thick and so ugly that thoy threaten to knock a hole in tho in. vestigation, and it is now secking a place of rafoty. The ciphor dispatches are coming in thick and fast, not only thoso which the New York Tribune unearthed, but numerous others not yot deoipherod, whose contents may plungo those alrendy caught still deopar in the mud, aod bring now reformers to the surfaco, Tho woods nppear to bo full of thom, and the keys are known. The Com- mitteo is in a quandary, To throw up tho investigation wonld be to ackrowledge such a burden of rascality as has nover yet como to light 1n tho history of American pol- itles. To coutinue tho investigntion in the publicity of Washington, whero thoroare no opportunitios for covering up their tracks, will be equally fatal, As a Inst resort thoy have, in the face of the Ropublican protost, decided to go to New York and continuo the investigation in Tiubex's back parlor, evi- dontly with tho hopo that No. 15 Gramercy Park will provo to bo tho ark that will tide them over the deluge of seandal and shamo, and land them on some Ararat of safety. It is a rotreat whose mean and cowardly pur. pose is transparent, If these' cipher dis- patohies cannot ba explained away in thoput. lic ntmosphere of Washington, they cannot bo explained satisfactorily at Gramercy Park, They mny doviso the most cunning schemos in Mr, Ticoxx's parlors to hood. wink the public. They may decline to call tho copartners in the cipher conspiracy to buy the Prosidency. They may sook to stifle investigation, butit will bo all in vain, Thoso fata! hieroglyphics must boexplained. The conapirators raust be summoned. Thera mustboafros nnd open examination, or no ro. port that this Committeo can frame will oarry conviction with it. Thoy inny oxten. unte, oxplain, and whitowash, bt they will not bo ablo to convinco the American people that tho lenders of tho Democratic party, with Mr, 8. J. Tizorx at tho hend of Lhom, woro not engaged in a colossal schemng to swindle them out of their cholco, nud to woize the Prosidency by the corrupt uso of money, Tho most cowanlly part of the whole procoeding, however, ia the new dodge to throw the whole blamo upon Nephaw Prr~ ToN, No ono doubts Nophew Perron's gullt in tho premisos, but no one balleves that Nephow Prrrox was tho hond and front of tlus offending, and tho effort to throw tho responsibility upon him ia altogether too thin. It would argue s degroo of ignorance on Tiomx's part of what was going on, a confidonco so childishi, a character so guile- less, sn innocence so pure, a naivete so charming, that he would long ago have had o guardian to, protect him from tho snares of this wicked world, The public will never libol Mr. Tiuozn's intelligonco in such o gratuitous manner as to supposo thnt the man who so cleverly beat the United Btates out of his income-tax, and who nided Boss Tween and Ljs manipulations of Tawm- mady and his theft of the voto of the groat State of New York, could go in and out of his own house aod not be aware that the ciphor dispatohes ware pouring in through his front door almost hourly, and that the conspirators wero freely using his name and iils credit In the offort to purchase the Prosldonoy for him, Even wero such a thing a possibility, it belongs to that class of poustbilities no one will over ho. leve, bocause no one can cowmprobend the colossal Ignorance and Cimmorian blindneas necessary to the existonce of such n possibil. ity. PeuroN was not only TiLpen's nophew, but ho was his ngent and confidentinl secro- tary, aud the dispenser of the ducats in the barrol, Ho oceupled a room in Tmoen's house. Ile ncted upon TiLoen's orders, He angwerad lottors aud dwpatclies upon Tioen's diotation, Ho never drow a dollarout of tho barrel that he did not ac- count for to Tivdx, Tives's greed for money is $00 strong and overpowering to al. low ono of his dollars to go unboknown to him. Docs auy one suppose that Perron would plot to buy au Electoral vote in Ore- gon withont TrLon's knowledge ? ‘That ho would consider a proposition to buy the whole Florida Board for $200,000 without Tieoex's knowledge ? 'Iliat he would offer to give $30,000 for the Returning Board of Bouth Oarolina ? That all this plotting aud socheming, this briblug aud buying, this con. stant stronm of dispatches to and from his own house, and that this plotting of his own pephow in his own apartments, could go on without bis being aware of it? It msy be, but peoplae will beliave it when butter can be oxtracted from parunips and roast ducks can fly (o the moon, und ot beforo that time, It nay bo unjust to T pex, but people would profer iu justice to his intellectual roputation to beliove that he i% 0 koavo rather thun a colousal ignoramus, We have no moro faith in Prrroxn's honesty than wo havo in ‘T1LoxN's ignorance ; but the conspiracy to make Prrros the scapegoat for his uncle's iniquity Is infamous, Lot Prrzoy have Mis share of the wfamy, but let no guilty man escape. I'hw whols gaug, Tworx, Pruton, **Moszs” Mavron Maz- ‘bLe, “Fox" Woorrxy, * Denmark” Wxxp, Parnicx, Keewr, and the others, big and little, should be brought to the rack and wade to bear their part of the infamous New York Custom-Honse cannot be faith- TRID MONDAY. UNT ¢ hut too muok of it for dens to enrry. ————— JUDGE BANGS' MEMORY, The examination of Jadge Iiavus before the Broporrr Investigation Committes on Baturday developed n painful intolleotunt do- feot on the part of the District Attorney, and one which disquelifles hint from longer hold- ing such an important office. If any quality in cuaontial to the matisfactory performance of tha duties of District Attornoy, it is mem- ory. Without it, a man may have rend ever 80 much faw, and Lo thoronglily dotermined 1o do his duty courngeously and honestly, but noither his reading of Inw nor his con= sciantious purposo will ba of much avail, be- cnuso tho one will be constantly nullified and tho other ns constantly hindered ft ho have no memory. Judge Bavas' tosti. mony in every part indicatos not that he hns a poor momory, but that hio has scarcely any namory at all, which goes to show that ho is lacking in ono of tho most essential qualifications for his * office, becnuse withont this quality all his other gifts, whatevor they may be, ara of Yjttls ‘account. A look at hlgtcmimouy will show how com- pletely he is eatitute of this qualification. At the very ontset he could not distinely ro- momber whother charges were in circulation affecting the character of tho Registor in Bankruptey prior to the assemlling of the Grand Jury. Having summoned tho wit. neases to thero cliarges, ho conld not remem- ber whether ha dirocted their attention to them. e could not remember how Col, Coorn came to appear bofore the Grand Jury, nor whether ho asked Judge Truanues any questions with referenco to the mnking of falsa retnrns of fecs, or anything that the Judgo said in reply to such n question. Ifo could not remember that legnl opinions hind Leon asked of any of tho lawyer wituosses with referonco to the construction of the ninoteonth section of the amendinent to tho Bankrupt Iaw of 1874, Whon ashed whother he had himself any opinion nbout the am. biguity in the section, ho wns protty certain thero was one, but he conld not remomber what it was, Upon this point he says: ** I wish to say, now, that Tam atill in donbt about the conatruction of that taw. Iam tryingto stato why I thought there was ambiguity in it." ** The Chalrman—*Does the ambiguity arise on the face of tha law itself, or because thera had al- ready been two conatrnctlons given? *¢ *1 neverhave analyzed the sourca of my judg- ment about that,*™ e could not recollect whethor ke had seon Judge BrobaeTT onco or twice ; whether ho went in to sce him casually, or whother ho was invited in {o recoive inatructions ; and the two converantions were so confused in his mind that he could not romember either distinetly. Upon this point tho lack of memory is very painful, as will bo soen by tho following oxtract from the testimony : ***Do yon mean to say that It you have any {m- presalon, itis that yoa did want to sco the Jnilgs betore you got word that he wanted to sce yout* ‘¢ *No, Ididn‘t say that, 1saddif 1 had anyim- resston aliout it, 1t would be that the busiuess was respecting this Indictmont,’ ** *Wo know what the bnsiness was, What I want to know ls, 1 your desire was with reforence to sceing and consulting Judge Bronuxtr in tho casol” don't remember that T had any dealro,’ 't It your best recollection that you dian't have any desire on the subjecty’ e have no recollection one way or the other, ' Ho couldn’t remember whother hoe in- formed Judge Brovaerr that the jnry had _passed the perjnry indictment or that Judgo Bropaerr declared Judgoe Davsnrosn agreed with him in tho conatrnotion of tho law, and “to this day I don't know wherein tho agreement was,” Being nncortain on theso important points, of conrso lio was uncertain ng to what ho said to the jury obout it. Having forgotten so many other things, it is not remarkablo ha should fail to remember whether a stonographer was prosent in the QGrand Jury room, and whon (I{o short-hand man testified ho had given his notes ta the District Attornoy, that ho should forget whero ho had put them. Without going furthor into dotails, it is apparont that thero is an uttor void in the Distriot Attorney's mind na to whnt transpired in that Grand Jury room owing to his defect of memory. 1t is not a crimo, nor porhapa is it a foult, of Judgo Banas that ho is so remarkably de- flelent in tho possession of this most esson. tial qualification of hia office. While we may sympathizo with him and his frionds at this paluful exposition of n mental defoct, sympathy should not bo nllowed to override duty to the public. Whntover issuc the BrobozrT case may have, thore s no doubi of Judge Bavos' duty, Ifo must fool that bia longer. continuance in office fs fraught with dangor to the public nterosts, und ought at onco to recoguize his duty to give up Lis offico to some compotent lawyer who hos o momory. e should rosign, and do it at ouoe, lost Lo forgot it. ————— THE S0UTHERN OLAIMS DEBATE. ‘Tlie Bouthern Brigadiars have commenced their forward mmovement agaiust Gen, Braco, They havo not proceeded a groat distance or made mueh headway, becauss their Northern confreres, fenrful of results, ure still vigor. ously tugging ot their coattails and trying to bold thom back. Through the bLelp of the Republicans, howevor, Gons, Bixtoetox, Hooxer, and Ouanxess got in their work and assaulted the plucky Wisconuin General of thaaldIron Brigado with characteristic South- e bluster aud braggadocio. SiNateToy eulo. glzod Bouthorn Dumocracy at the oxpunse of tho Northern wing, Hooxzn lamentod that tho Southern claims wore opposed, and declared himsel! inflexibly fn favor of main. taluiug the Constitution and sattling the clalmy; while Quaryess, ons of Fonuesr's cavalry* raiders, who rocently proposed to votodown all the Northorn approprintions until the Bouthern claims were allowed, vonted his apito upon the Northorn Demo- crats in tho purson of Gou, Braca, and im. periously and suggestively notifled them of the duties the South expocted them to per. forwm, The most valuible result of the debate, though it has handly yot commonosd, was tho Lold and shameless manner in which tho Southern Brigadiors announced the detail of the Bouthern polioy in this watter of claims, It more thau confirms what Tux Outoaco ‘T'arnuns 80 long ogo predicted, that the timoe would come whon tho Bouth would demand paymoot in full for all the losses it incurred iu its effort to break down tho Governmont and socede from the Unlon, This rosult is clearly enough foreshadowed in tho various specchies of the Brigadiers. 1Iu the hoat and excitemont of debate cautlon was thrown aside, and the Bouthern programme was boldly exposed. ‘The country was coolly in. formed that the South bad lost four hundred millions of dollars, which doos nol bogin to cover tho loss, by the liboration of the ‘slaves, and the hint was freely thrown out that the timo would come when the South would demand compensation for thew. ‘The Houss was also ruminded that the Governmont still holds fourteon willion dollars’ worth of cap- DRUARY 3, 1570, tured and abandoned property which it will have to give back to the Honth, HReveral other hinta wers thrown out of probable de- mands that the Houth will mnnke befare it cousidors itself fully compeneated for its trouble and expense in trying lo overthrow the Government, 'L'o clinch the mattor, tho Houso was notifiod that tho War dobt 18 not yot paid, and the kint was thrown out in an unmistakable way that, unless thoso claims are allowed, the Soulh may refuse to pay s aharo of this debt. ‘Wo trust that the Confedorate Drigndiers will bo allowed the widest Iatitnde in this debato, and that the Ropublican membera will see to it that the Northern Democrats no longer iuterfere with their freedom of specch. I they are allowed to have free courso and enn got sufliciently warmod np, they will expose the entire Houthern pro- grammo, If the Repnblicans only give thom the opportunity to get mad, they wilt tall the truth, and then the ocountry will be ablo to get at the Southorn claim policy to ita fullest cxtont. —— HONOR TO GEN. ARTHUR 13 DISHONOR TO SBENATORS, There is no evidence in the .publisbed report of tho Senato oxeentive session pro- ceedings in rogard to tho New York appoint- monts that Senators realize tho supremo importance of the subject they raro dis- cussing. To be sure, Benator ConxuiNe tried to forco n vota on the mnin question aud failed. DBut of tha thirty.five votes in favor of Benator Marriews' motion to post- pono till Monday next, only eight were given by Republicana—Marrnrws, Iloar, Dawrs, Bunxsinz, Winpod, Wapreran, Mrrenety, and Fennr. And of the twonty-six votes agninst postponement only five ware given by Democrats—Estox, Banvvy, Voonneres, Davia (1IL.), and McPuenson. Thus it ap- pears that, notwithstanding the powerful arrnigriment of Gon, Artiun contained in tho letter of Beorotary Bmenxan and secom- panying reports of his subordinatos, twonty- ona Ropublicans desirad to proceed to an immodiate volo upon the mnin question, and preatmodly stood ready to sustain Sonator Coxxrine by voting for rojection; and this sommary nction was only defeatod by tho twonty-saven Demoocrats who voted iu {avor of postponement. Bince twenty-one Ropublicans voted to choke off disous- slon and rofuse time to comsider (the now oaso presonted by Secoretary Baeryan's lottor nud nccompanying reports, it is fair to presumo that n large proporiion of the twonty-soven Democrats who voted for poat- ponement did g0 in the Nopo of provoking an angry dobato, which might result in widoning the breach between the Adminis- tration and anti-Administration factions of tho Republican party. Tho oight Ropublic- ans who voted in favor of postponement niny probably be relied npon s in favor of confirmation,—Marraews, Hoar, Dawes, and Bounyaiog, on theground of friendahip to the Administration, aud Wixnox, Wabpream, Mrrenenn, and Ferny on the morits, Con. necticut {8 o more subnrb of Now York City, and Eatox and Banyuy may be presumed to hiave voted against postponement to help the ring of corrupt importersio rotain con- trol of the importing business for the bonefit of the East motropolis. Judgo Davis probably voted in the negative merely be- couso hio ik apt to be on tho wrongalde, This nnalysia of tha voto shows, if it shows any- thing, that tho United Btates Senato lias not yot touched the merits of tho caso in- volved in the controversy botwoon tho Administration aud Benator Covxrive, Son- ators are still grqping nbout in the dark look- ing for some unassigned motivo of the Presi- dent's notion. Mnssen of papers have been Iaid bofora them contalning nbundant evi. dence of the inefiicioncy of Gen, Arritun'a ndministration and of the corruption of his subordinates,—cvidence of all-pervading crookednoss in every branch of tho Now York Custom.Houso servico. But they ro. fuse to seo it. Somo Repnblican Bonators say: ‘‘Bonator CoNkriNG objeots; he was not consulted ; the patronage of the Stato bolongs to him ; if wa rofuse to help him, ho will rofuse to help us under similar circum. stances.” Theso aro ropresontatives of the machino spoils systom. We fenr that tho Prosident’s message will strongthon this clnag in their opposition to confirmation, While we oagreo with the Presldent that Federal officoholders should not conduct partisan politics, we submit that fncfficiency, ecorruption, and gon. eml maladminiutrationr coustituto oven stronger gronuds for the removal of on ofticial than his active connection with partisan politieal manipulation, It an official ia Inefflclont, ho should be remaved at once, whether ho is or i not active in parti- ean politics, nud go if ho is corrupt. In cithor case going behind the main faot to in- quiro whether tho official guilty of inef. clency or corruption is nlso guilty of violat- ing tho Oivil-Bervico rules, is manifestly utterly unuecessary. If, by direot tosti- mony, it ba proven that the prisoner in the dock was caught in the act of stealing, tho. Court doos not inquire as to his provions roputation ns a man of truth and veracity, Corlain Benators do not ngreo with the Presl. dont on tho subjoct of his Civil-Servico thoory, Why, then, whon Scerotary Suen. s had made a complote case against Gen, Astiun on totally different grounds, shonld the Prosldent, in n apocial mossago, placa the act of romoval solely on the gronnd of a technioal violation of the Olvil.Sorvicorules? It looks, so to spenk, like flying in the face of Providence, But ns wo have boforoe ro- mnrkod, orrora of judgment on the part of tho Adminlstration, shown in the conduaot of the cose against Gou, Antuue, cannot be urged by Bonators in exouse of a failure to do their duty. During his seven or eight years of incumbonoey of one of the moat fm-. portaut offices in the gift of tho President and the Scnats, Gen, Arrynua failed, from firut to last, to perform the dutics of his po- sition according to law, Ho failed to collect tho roveuue. He failed to present to the Courts for punishment conspicuons offenders against the laws,—offandera found in his dis- trict, both within aud without the Custom House. Ho failed to institute reforms urged upou bim by bis superior oflicer, Sccrotary Buzsxax. e failod to suppress and puuish groas and notorious frauds upon the revenue by undervaluation; and be pormitted o vast system of robbery of the veveuuo to grow aud solidify under his very cyes without so much s a protest, or the least effort to cure tho evil. Theso are tho delinquencies with which Gen, Aurgus stauds charged. He iy befora the bar of the Banate, and Seuators, whether Republican or Democratio, cannot vola to reimstate himin an office which under his administration hes brought ro- proach upon the Goverument sad the coun- try without covering thewsclves with dis- lomor, » W. F. Brouky usually reserves his Suuday issuo for the utterunce of Lis bigyost false- hoods and most walicious perversions of the truth. Thus ho asserts that Messrs. Mrvur and Tinoas appenred befors the Kxorr In tigation Uommittee to *‘ corroborate or b ster up Hratxa's testimony " in regard to the walno of Staate.Zritunyg stock In 1874, They wera summoned on Wednesday, Jan, 29, to apponr forthwith befora the Investigating Committes. 'They appesred and nnswerod the qneations propounded to them, Thoy were not called to corroborate or contradict Heaiva'a testimony, for the good and sufil- cient roason that Ilestxa had not testi- flel to onything. e was not on the witness stand that day, which was the first one of the investigation. As hedid not testify on Wednesdny, Menirr and Bross conld not hava *bolstered up” or “cor roborated " his* teatimony, for hie had sworn to nothing. W. F. Srosey wna well aware of this fact when he ponned hia dirty din- tribe, ns his own paper gives him the lie. It ha will turn his spectacles to tho second col- umn of the tenth pago of Thursday's Z'imes, Lo will discover that he himself testified, hy proxy, to the valua of the WNtaals.Zci- tung stock. Every scurrilons opithot ho flings at the pnblishers of .Tne Tninune panses over their heads nud hits hisown con. fidgntinl agont and publisher. Wae' mnke an extrnot from the Chicago Zimes' report of Wedvesday’s proceedinga : M. A, L. Parrensox, busincss manager of the Chicago Zimes, was then called to the stand wnd testificd as follows: **Q,—Do you knaw the manner In which to es- timate oF to arrivo at the valno of the stock af corporation owning and engaged fn publiabing a newspaper? A.—I snppose thu valuation would depend on the net earnings, **Q.~In eado where n corporation engaged in publishing a daily newspaper In Chicago, —1 will take this case, the Staals.Zeltung, tbhe bnllding and improvements costing $200, 000, a corporation owning a franchled {n the Asaoclated Prees, an in- cumbrance of $100,000 on the whole property, and for the year onding Dec. 31, 1872, the net earnings of the corporation were $80,000; for the year ending Dec. 31, 187, tho net earnings wora $010,000, and for tho flzat quarter of the yonr 1874 about the snmo as for the year 1871, and the whole caplta) stock {s $179,000, what wonld be the whole of that stock; that Is, of any namber of shares with reference {o fis being worth par, or lesa than par, or more than par? A,—! should conslder it would be worth par." Thot was the opinion under oath of tha buslnoss mannger of the Chicago Zimies. Ho aworo the stock of the Staats-Zetung in tho spring of 1874 was worth par. For giving the same opinion on the same day, to tho samo Investigating Committoe, Messrs, MepiLt and Bross nre treated to n column of foul cructations; but poor Parrenson, being right in front of the em!ssion of the billings. gato, is necesaarily the chief sufferer, 'PERSONALS, Jay Gould is o biggor bear than tho Rus. alan bear. The Iion. J. D. Campbell, Davenport, is at the Paclfic. Clara Louiso Kellogg is fair, fat, and— **Police! polica!™ . The Hon, George O, Bruce, 8an Francisco, 11 ot the Tremont, All is not Gould that glitters. All is not dead that seoma 0, ‘The Hon, James Woodrnff, Quincy, is a gacet of the Tromont. G. O'Harn, Beorotary of the Wabash Rail. road, 1s at the Palmor, 3 In tho strides of civilization the Indian is bound to be stepped on, Jndge James Urant, Davenport, is amoug the gueats at tbe Pacifie, ‘Tho Hon, B, F. Thompson, Aledo, Ill,, is registered at tho Bherman, "I'he man who goes. often to his anto even- tunily (nds his wa to his unclo. Father Hyacinthe is about to open a Qallican Catholle church in Parls, . Montgomory Blair i3 n grave-robber in keeping himvel? out of it too lon g, W'he Ameor ean't rend, and we feel snfe to say it ho's a cowardly, treacherous old fraud. G. F, Tavernor, Gonoral Manager of tho el Hallrond, Indis, fs ntopping at the Psimer. A soclety hins boon formed in France for the parposo of tinding situstions for retarned Com- munlsty, Brigham Young's widow has married off so cxpoditioualy that there aro scarcely a dozen of her left now. * Tho Boaton Plost nsks, ** How will Tilden and Hondricke sound?** Poople who hear it must have very long eary. Two won still keop a ateady gnard day and night over tho grave of Drigham Young iu & small building um:lu:l near it Tho Pousion bill unjustly excludes from Its boneflts the prima dounas: who have sustalned wounds ju operatic wars, There are 8 good mnny worse men than Zuch Chandler, and we stata this confidently, for wo bave his own word for it, ‘Wa hope, for the pence and comfort of the aduinietration of M. (rovy, that there 18 no New York Custom-1llouse In France. A roconcilintion botwoen Mr, Tilden and his glddy nophew is Impoasible. Mr. Tilden re- aflirnia that he cannot condone o fraud, A son was born to Yung Wing, the Chinese Commisaloner at Washington, recently, which, wo anppose, will be called Yungest Wing, Bomo of the papers aro mgking sad blun. dera in the Initialv of the Rev. Jockey Marray's name, Wa belteve thay ato W, If, 0. A, Prof, Hnx ley saya there is no resson why twina should 1 ook altke; and twine must at once stop this stupld and unreasonable practice. A Wisconsin farmer has cored a case of <cold feet by putting whisky 1ubis boots, Thiscer- talnly Is cacrying the use of whisky 10 extremos, ‘Tha duty of tho honr, acoinling to Ruth- erford 13, liayos, a to hava ollicials in the New York Custom-Ilouss who will honeatly collect it. Carver anud Bogardus are going to shoot o match, but unfortunatoly the tesms of the contost do not provide that cach man shall be the other's target. It ian't rn tho natnral order of things that the Indian should survive his struggle with clvil. fzation, espcclally as civilization makes tho gune vowder, Gen, Sherman, who ‘s attending balls, re. ceptions, and all that sort of thing. in Atlants, @8, must bewere tho round dance, or we shall feel compelled to tell his wife. Iy the afildavit mado by George Eliot, as exccatrixof the will of the late (eorga MNenry Leves, wears that sho is plaster; and the afidarit is signed Marlon Evans, It uot provented by thae intervention of tho London Soclety for the Prevontion of Cruelty to Havages, Mr,Stanley will stact on his new oxplora. tioun of Africa In s very fow days, Br, Talmoge describes the variety shows of New Yorkas piifalls ot vice and sink-holes of the profoundest lofamy. Perhaps this hostility to variety shows, however, Is prodaced by the fact that they aro rival establishiments of his own. Achey, the man- execated at Indianapolis for the morder of Legyett. committed the deed becauso ha had lost woversl hundred dollars v cassino, His fate fs a solemn warning 10 the young men of our day who are not expert at that gamo, It soems imposaible for the Adainistration 1o pledss anybody. It has sdopled & policy of con- clilation for the South ana & paticy of extermiva. tlou for the Iudians, yet neither v sstisfactory, Now wiy not adopt the last policy for the Squlh aud the dret for tho ludians, by way of an expori- weat, aad sco how it wlil work? . A man who died in Utica, N. Y., the other day, bad spoken but twica {p neagly fopty yesss. . 0On vue occasion, when ho bit nis Auger with bammer, b elacalaied "0t .und ou .soother, When be yaw o wuako creeping over the body of & siceplug cbild, he cried out, ‘‘Sesl™ And, WMrange se it way appear, tods elugular mau was oot 8 baruer Rowan Housu of Gad. . — Talmage Getting R a Tussle wity Fresbytery. —_— A Discourse. by Prof, “The Signs of Timds.”" —_— The Demand of the A 0 fo Practieal Uhrls(lnuuy. . —_— Efforts to Clear tho Indeh First Baptist Chu!re:l:.u’ oty —_— The Rev. Ur. Pentecost on the Rewy Tgnatlon of (ke Rer, Hr, t*:::.‘.lmh —_— Reminiscances of tho Lambeth Oonfy by tho Bishop of Wisconsly, " TALMAGHE, MOKE TRounLE, Apsctal Dispalch to The Tyipyn NEW Yonk, Feb. %—Refore bLegian scrmon this morning, Mr. Talmage nhr:eqh tho meoting of the Brooklyn Preshyy i which takes place to-morrow, anq which, i g rumored, may decido upon Talmagey " eady f the Swing the * | pulston for alleged departyre Prestyterian doctrine=in the follow words: “All the o pancrs sy gy g am to boarraizned and tried for belng LT in doctrine and unPresbyterian, [smmhl wm;z all the papers ray must bo true, \ ter.] I am told I nm to bo arralene row. Well, T am ready. (Appitie] o Baboath 1 will preach on Orthodozyan] raes doxy, in reply to my asanilants, and ive my vlow In regurd to God und the ible o] way that there will be no misunderstandioy, ; am found foult with by ono or two relleiegy papers—but by none of the Beeular papery o they have common-scnse enough tg uzde stand— CONOERNING A TELEGRAW Isent last spring to Baltimore, We wen 53 fous to rafse our church debt, and the Prise dent of the Roard with a.tnember of the By was In Ballimore. [ felt that if ho g, laroo subscription [t woutd fnuire ™ whole congregatlon. I telegraphed o I asking Wim to subscribo g500 p, telegraphea . that hio could oot afford it gr 4, that effect. Then I telegraphed him;» i you aud Mr. Hobbs allow e to pledze oo excy for #5000, provided I make upto yon prirugy the difference botween your subseriptiony 0l 43,0001 Telegraph smmedialely.! Anyma o COMMON KeNse CAN 80 IV meanlng, whichwy, if these mon could not make up 85.00,1 wocle, out of my awn pocket, make it up ta them, . deed, that was the narount { finally subseribed, Let mo say, in passlog, thataman xhoesy twlst any other mesnings out of that telegram iy ather s viilaln or o fool.” {Applause.) T PRESENT, AND WIAT 1T SAYS TO 7Tilll CHURCH, Prof. Bwing preachad. yesterday mornicg ¢ tho Central Church, taking as his text: Can ye not discern the signs of the timea?-Nr,, Our carth has heen #o uniform In its b that it has alwaya been possibio for man tolan what to do with the ground, or the water, ¢t the rock, or thu frou. lron hos veverexchazmg any of its virtues to water, nmd thus betrayel the expectation of tha worker in metaly Equally uniforin has the Luman world bees, and thus it has bean posstble for tho ctizend cach perlod to know the habits of thelren, wl to adapt themaelves to the mental ond wpirital climate around them. ‘The speaker fo thl fat Rospel nske almost impatiently of themultiedy whetlier they vannot discoru the signol te tmes. Whether they did not mark that jute the ground, und the water, and the skypresat | lessous to bo reud and obeyed, sothe g moral surroundings have thelr evideot ul valuable lessons for human fustructiou, Thita voleo of cach passing ago ta a very sloglit something, but it Is a greas renlity, Noooeea ace the actual creation of this large tone, sowa can tell what Hps first began to utter i, bat b the'end of a certaln Indefinite but alwapslon perlod, it begins to articulato its powedisl words. ‘The thines ot Alred, the thnes of Ly XIV.,, the times of Luthee, the tines of Clris cach ong, became voeal In o manuer not wholy known but very real and powerful, Thissks of au cra ls much lke thut din of acly stkd you have ell beard. lu days, fo monuog el ovenings, when the ufr has becomo perfectlt quict, uyd fs donse with the molsture of awa Ing storm, all the nolscs of a hundredatrcett and of many machines and engines, and of it und boats, are pleked up by this heavy medie, and are all blended together in ity great orgas: plpe into one low diu 1 the sound of maf waters, or like the tumult of a distant battle fleld, By a similar melting of many thiss into one, the volcs of a century fs.wade. Tl utterances of plltosoplicrs aud private citlsesty of men, snd women, umd children, of poty and politiclans, and preachers, of the bigh wl the Jow, In a atrange fashion combined {22 one nnl:mnnan which comes from po oot tongcug, but from all mouths, and which gor! roaring ot as the * vaiee of the tines,” Totth (umult Christ alludes, und says: * Doyouss henr this] You wbio can ano the sigosofanit or of & lair day, can ve not ace these sigusle o mental ad splritual storm or calini” Some of the most powerful ogencies In bo- man lifo are fashioned outside the (slindsl consclousnces, \Vo nover cau sce men at wor makivit Ianguago, and those who have tolledst 1t have nuver kuown thut they were tolling 8 any such grand results, When Dante washy ng the foundations, as it 13 sald, o speech, he thought he was only slnglug omea- ory of o sainted girl, und when Chaucer "; busy with the construction of the Eogh tongue, Lo thought ho was telling some (M stories for the delizht of thu few around bl feol, At the time of its constructionnydie can see that & languace Is being butl, s be builder is nover ’mluu-d out uptil lung sfier e 19 dead. Dittleult ftds, therefure, to get # D'M word futo language, becauss no oue 'mmim 1s owner or guardlan of the hiuse, who n‘:clxdrllum lm adumit or shut out upplicauts &2 ace, . Au:‘r:xna thews powerful agencies which 000t manufactures or clalins iy to be ragked i fact called the “splrit of anage”” i “'m" wradually slong; powerfully oa L'l“““‘”’:x pushes alonis all "that occupfes the space e sires; it removes old men, and old yhlw-anm‘fl; und old religions, but does this so qul:ll{' e most part, that the chiidren do wot K59 the .w‘m Lias come, and the fathers du uot koo? what bas yone, ‘Thess Lands of the guum:\,:"-: quictly cisnge our clothtug, giviug ey o black Who oncs word red sud wold, Takis 54! from the loots, uud the sword from lht‘l"!- and the plume frow the hat, and |.\1.Il:‘i A qveu the meuiory that man ever uppeared 0BE wiso than to-day o appears. Lenss 1t was thy faucy of Hobbes that the S s one big man made uy of all men,—a mmhhr‘ il other persons and all their senses uvd :ohfi- carried together Into biy larga Lody 004, 0 Bome such great person there is who n.rt‘n“ cu: each czun';}l‘ry,—-lor unlmplc, ‘Iht; ::::““ oot century,—to dispuse our lives, to sucs thouglits and conduct, to cut our slutlich ! wmake our furoiture. P But we who gather hore assemble fn the n‘ b af religion, and, therefore, our nguiry mus‘ I!I What {s this great voice wolch h.uuuc;w b volces m[lnu to the Churchi For It “lam”: apeak only of raiment, und languace, un oy tovture, 1t must buvo also soine turge w0 religion. il Regarding the very definition of the o Church, the spirit of the sge comus :rrla o] with new Instructious. Once that word mum the Roman Catbolic gervice of Christ. i came the Lutherau ern uud broke tht v;a) Sout 1wo, and euve the North one-ball aud the {re, one-half, ynd the North called Ler part =i ¢an aud the Soutls called her part Rowad. plan Uf we can read aright our thucs, they ar¢ :fl Injz the word Church, just as the prodiefl ‘merchaot enlarzes Wia warcroows and bld » toritd, und by slow degrees the church wsld R -pflggmz up around a bundred du'uum’ll!‘l?“:) which coutd not flud a pllare dn ""',,‘?fi[h el ‘Lbat’ spiri calied tho Methodist or Preav, terlan P, worship a “meeting-house,” e s word *ehurch' for Episcopattan aind Kot use. bus almost wholly passed away at the