Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1879, Page 4

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EAN FILANCISCO, Cal.~Palace Hotel, WASHINGTON, 1 No. 1310 F street. e TAMUSEMENTS, MoVicker's Theatre. adieon trect, between Dearborn and Fiate. Ka- gagement of Miss Ada Cavendish, *'Jane Shore.” Af: ternoon and sventiok, Tlaverly’s Thentre, % i Desrborn_street, corner of Monroe. Fognzemen! of Uater' Comlo Upers Company. **Le Petit Duc.” Afternoon and evening. Ilaoley’s Thentre. Tandolph strcet, between Ciark an gagement of the Criterfon Cc ¥ novn, **Caste.” Evening, TaRslle, Fne pany, After- Academy of ffusle. Fialited street. between Madison and Monroe, Va- ‘Tety entertatnment. Afternoon and cvening. Iiamila’s Theatra, Clark street, opposita (he Conrt-flouse. Varfety en- tertslnment. Afiernoon and evening. Tierahey Musie:tnll. Madison street, opposite McVicker's Thestrs, Balac brega the Wizsrd, Afterncon snd eventig. DMetropelltan Theatre. Clark strect, opposito Bhierman fouse. **Tias, the Allikvender of Gerninatown.” Afternoon and evenlag. MeCormick 5inlls North Clark atrect, cornet Kinzle. Remenyi and Tive-King Coneerts, Afternoon ani eventng. SATURDAY, FEDRUARY 8, 1879, Tho bill to allow women to practico in the Bupremo Court of tho United States was yesterday passod iu the Sonale, aud with the Prosident’s signoture, which it ia cerlain to receive, will bocome a law. Mra. Tock- woop, the womsn-lawyer- who bas in the’ foce of formidable difticulties fought thiy 1mneasure through Congress, i the hervino of the Lour, A very emphatic denial {s made by the Bouthern Pacific Itmilroad people of the report that they have effected m compro- mise and joimed imwue with the 'I'ex- as & Pacific Company. It is nswert- ¢l that no compromisa {8 possible, becauso there 18 nothing to compromiss, s 1lie Southern Pacific asks for no subsidy, and only wonts to bo let nlone and nllowed to complete its rond, inTeturn guaranteelny to pro-rato with every road that kas an eastorn connectipn with its line. Bomo 30,000 sallors and dock-laborors are now on a strike ot Liverpool. ‘I wtrikers havo indulged in mavy riotous demonstra- tions, in which considorable danago to property hos resulted. Beversl collisions with the polico have oc. curred, but so far no sncrifico of life jarocorded, 'T'ho toctics of tho strikers are of an entirely discrotionnry character, the anobs changing their base ab every appear- ouco of tho oflicors, aml transferring their intimidating or destructive operations to Bsomo other quarier, Tho presentment of the claung of Illinols o a first-clasa foreign mission ought to linve cousiderablo weight with the President in the selection of a suitable successor to flav- aup 'Taxron at Borlin, und if thesn claims are recoguized o8 valid and binding it would Lo ditficult to suggost un appointmont in every way wore fitting and satisfactory than that of tho Hon, L'uwostas 18, Buvan, whoso name was yesterday urged ¢with much foree by sovoral members of the INlinois delegation. Mr. DBuyaw, although for wome timo pnst rosident Iu Wauhington, still cloims to ** hnil from Tilinois"; at all events, Illinols wonld be quite willing to be acorodited with Lis sppointment to tho Bor- lin mission, Among the wokt nduired and noted mon of the Democratic party just at this time is Gen, E. 8. Buago, Hepresentative in Con. gress of the Fifth Wisconsin Distriet, who owea his flattering prominence o the cournge and wmanhood displayed in resisting and do- nouucing the entire system of Southern elnim sgency work which a majority of Lis party associates in the Iouse are engeged in as n special mission. Ilis roturn to his home in Foud du oo upou o flylng visit afforded n ‘Tmipuse correspondont nn opportunity to put Gen, Braae on paper fn a most nterestmg iulerview which 18 printed in auolher part of thiy fuane. It will be noticed thut ho tuiks neither anore nor less plainly and to the polut than be did when giving the Confederate Nriga. diers o plego of his mind in the Hense; bo has sald wiat he menus in both instuncos. The appearance yosterduy of Manton Maxsre bofore the ciphor scction of the Porrer Committes was productive of no now light on the finaucial dickerings which in- yolved the possible purchase of oue or more Electoral votes fn Bouth Caroliua, Florida, end Oregon. It wus not to Lo ex- pocted that this partioular witness would greatly illuminate the dark subject THe is 8 mnan of greutor resources than Iui- 7oy, and better able to keup his fuet away from pitfulls, aud provent bimself from being mnde to appenr as ridiculous as Peurox Aid. Mamwee had loid the fouu. dation for his appearance before an ITuves- tigating Cowmittea by the labored doenisl which he wrote something over a week after tha publication in the New York Z'ribune of tho translations which identificd bim as the # Nosks " of the ciplors: 1faving this devinl as o toxt, his discourse before the Committes could bo easily titted to it, but it was not 80 easy to uvold the appearauce of o witness who rimembers ounly what hio way sufely acknowledge, and forgets what Le @dure not aquarely demy. Maunex's policy apparently is to assert his junocenco of sy councction with the 1uatters comcerning which ke wag in constant secret comunusication with Pruron. *‘ None of thess peconiary propositions were mige; I mwply telegmpbed thom ar mattors of news,’ in th way he auswera qnestions oteutated to identify him with the Florida and South Caroliun dickers. 3o knew all that way going on, and kept ’ertox closely posted, leaving nothing undone that ho could do to holp nalong the negotintions, but he nmever told ‘Tipex ablont it, and the Intter nover suspected that his confidential agents wera banking on his capital in their deals with partics who hnd a Rotarning Board or an Flector to sell for futnre delivery, Mr. Mannte has proved to Lo o harder witness to handle than Prt. 7oy was, but he has not sucoeeded any better in convincing peopla that bo tella the trnth. e — The Congressional investigntion of the Dropaerr case has terminnted and the Com. mittee has ndjourned, snd will return fw- medintely {o Washington to make their report, Just what that will be, of course, nobody can tell ; but we foel safe in predict. ing that the Committeo will not advise the commencement of impeachment proceed- ings. We suspoct their nnimadversions wiit fall moro soveraly upon subordinate officialy than upon the chief subject of the investi- gation. We will vontura another opinion: that if the **three yonng men® could havo forenean the reply to ench accusation,nndtho testimony which bas been developed in the courso of tho investigation, they would not Lava deemed it their duty to have jnstituted nnd carried on the prosecution; but, whila they have proved far less sgainst him than they undonbiedly expeoted, they have made a showing of the manner in which inferior officers have managed bankruptcy business that has nstonished the eity. If they have failed to captura the lion, they have trapped and eaught a pack of wolves with the mut- ton iu their teoth, Judge Brovoerr hes gono through the trying ordeal manfully, and, ay his friends claim, trdumphantly, Io cortainly stands in better light before tho community than hio did whilo his ovor-zealous friecnds wero fran. tically trying to suppresa an luvestigation of charges that had not been made public, whereby they crented and aroused a goneral suspiclon that they wero secking to conceal sometbing that could vot bear the light, and 1his intonsified the public demand that there should Le an investigation and the thing probed to the bottomn, 1t enn now ba seen whint really cansed the polition to Congress. 'The prosecution con- nected tho nets of cormorant subordinate officials with the Court itsclf, supposing thoae ncts to be **{uspired,” dircoted, or in. teutionally permitted, smd therefore corrupt, On tls theory the '‘three young men” framod thelr chargos and spocifications nud songht to establish them by proof, It s clear thoy wero sincero in their bolief that the Judge was corruptly connectod with ovils nud sbusos in the ad- ministration .of bankruptey bLusluess which wero knoten Lo scores of the mombera of the Bar and felt by thousands of the vietimizod commumty, Iut wo opino that the goneral verdict of the public who havo followed the charges, answers, and testimony from first to lost will be *not guilty”; but that o chiango should ba niude of the wurroundings of the Court, aud that the **close corpora. tion"” of blood-suckurs sliould bLa broken up and dispersed. Taken in alt its bearings, it hins been the most exciting and importaut investigation into judicisl conduet that has aver occurred intho West. 'The Committoo was s falr aud ablo one, nud allowed enough latitude to the seope of vxamination to loave notbing in the dazk or to let any guilty man eseape, ITHE NEPHEW OF HIS UNCLE, “Col” I'eutox's appearanca Loforo tho Torren Comumitteo in regard to the cipher dispatclics waa ou amusing, if not very in- structive, opisods in the struggle to flx the responmbilily for this digraceful corre. spondanco where it properly bolongs, Mr, PruroN’s notion of honor secms to havo Leen modeled aftor tho TiLoex income-tax pattern, nnd tho uncle's influeuce has evie dently shaped tho nepheow's thoughts aud actious woro than all other [ufluonces com- bined. 1t was worthy of the avuncular in- telloct when the nopotic sprig discovered a wubtla distinetion butween purchasing an Elector aud bribing o Neturning 1Soard, which rendored the lalter a commeundablo procoeding nnd tha Intter a disreputable project which he wonld scorn, ‘I'io nephow could barely stato the propasition, while the old unele, wo do notdoubt, conld havo traced out the diffarences, and could have justified the practice of one kind of bribery while condemning the other just as eusily as ko could vindleate tho wrecking of a railvond corporation or the swindling of » Governe ment out of an Income tax, TLike muitor, lika man; liko uncle, like nephow; ouly the man sud nephew, with all the cool impu- dence, has not tho brains of the muster and unele, aud wan evidontly used to putl the chostnuts ont of the fire and save his in. apiring relative from being burned, "Theimportauos of PerTos'’s tostimony con. winta chietly in Wis admiasion of the substan. tinl neenraey of the New York 'ribune'strane. Iation of thu cipher disputelhies; of tho fact that such dispntehesfor the purehase of Elect. oral votes passod betwesn himself and eortain ngents in SBouth Carolina, Loulsluna, sud Vloridn, ns well as Oregon; of the ptrpocy 1o scenrs by purclinge some one @f the Re. turning Bourds necumaary 1o givo ‘Truoen a wajority of Eleclors; and, indeed, of the ontive movement ns exposed by the publica. tion of the cipher dispatehes, His admi stons are vastly more important than his niatw, for it is evidout that ho admits what. ever iw susceptible of proof, nud deuivs only thosa things which are still in the dark and caunot he »o clenrly traced to lim, Hoad. 1wits, for instance, that he was in possession of the cipher aud key through whieh tho correspondence was conducted, and that Mansry and Weoontry in Florida, Suiru Weeo 1 North Caroling, abd sotucbody clso in Louisisna whom le wouldn't ex- pose, wore sent off “to their reapeotive designatious with tho xume cipher and ey, for the purpose of communicatiug the prog- ross nude in thy purchuse of lNeturning Boards, e deuies, however, that ho was the inventor of the cipher and key, though ho refuses to tell who gave them to him. Ho adwits tlat ho recvived from Woorrry und MansrLe the two propositions for the purchase of the Florida Returning lioard, reduced flually to 250,00, und from ST Wern the propusition for the purcluss of the Bouth Caroliva Moard for $80,000, sud that ke tulugraphed the sccoptance of thess propositions ; but he refuses to give any sutisfuctory sccount of where aud from whow be expected to obtain theso large sums of woney. Ho had already admitted that ho Las procured und caused to be furwarded to Oregon the %8,000 which did the busiuess in tbat State, but foils to coufess that the con- suwwstion of thia trausaction and the bulief that suceess in Oregon would render the oth- er purchuscs usolods was the truo reason why THE CHICAGO TRIDUNE: BATURDAY. the money was not d aud & ther to Florida or Houth Usrolinn. Mr. Vruron's high sense of persanal honor, notwithatanding ho was actively engaged in the cffort to cor- rupt Returning Bonrds by the uso of money, revolted at tha suggestion of his personal {mpecuniosity aod depondonce op Lia uncle, and he was so much insnlted at tie questiona leading up to the source of the vast suus of money ho proposed to nso that te rofused to suswer thom, Prrron's ovidence, in fpite of his horoio effort to requit his unclo of all complicity in this hribery business, leaves the inferenco stronger than it waa beforo that it was tho unelo upon whom the nephew retied to fre nish all the funda that might bo necessary to earry ont the proposed purchosed. 1o was then living with his nnclo at Gramercy Park, waoa serving that unclo s private socrotary, and received his dispatchies at that nnele’s house. Tho ngents in Florlda and Houth Carolina—)axnTox AlaroLs and Ssrri Ween —wero the uncle's confidential frionds and political managers, nnd would scarcely have kept np this ecipher correapondence with an impecunions’ and dependent nephew except with the understanding that tho rich and ruling uncle was back of bam, inspiring and conirolling all his actions. It is all vory well for the de- voted nephow to nrge thiat he is now in din- graca with his nncle, that ha no longor lives nt Gramercy Park but is au outcast, that his unclo repudiated his condnct and rebmked him when the matter como out; but caleu- lating and auspeoting people will continne to believe that the impecunious nephow is still carning bia living Ly screening the unclo from all reaponsibility for the dicty work in which he formerly ongaged on that uncle’s belalf, In confessing that the cipher dis- patohes were actnslly sent, that the persons to whom they have been aceredited actunlly sent them, that the translations aro eub- stoulially correct, and that the purpose wos the purchase of Returning Boards, PerroN has admitted all that is necessary to identify Sasure J, TiLoex with the scheme, At the samo tima the implication of Trepey does not disoharge tho Democratio party from its roaponsibility, for Tertox insiats that tho ngents engaged in this scandalous Lusiness were ** o4 prominont and reputable men as any in the party.” SUPPRESAING THE TRUTH. The New York Herald and Harper's Week- ly devote each a colun and a balf to the subjoct of the late Nuw York Custom.House controversy, Neither touchos upon the morits of tho onsa excopt incidentally, and* Loth carefully rofrain from exprossing an opinion as to whether tho good of the public servico required the removal of Gon, Anraun. "The Jerald nndortakes to show that th) con- test was n mera political wrangle, aud that the ontcome of it doea not deprive Scnatar Conxkrina of his old aseendency in Now York State politics, The Weekly labora to show that the position of Mr, Coxzring through- ont the entiro controversy was utterly incon- wistent with his former record; that the President ought not to have consented to the Hounte’s domnnd for reasons; sand that *‘all these proceeding tends to show the couniry mora plainly that this is becoming n CGovermment not so mmch of tho preople as of the officcholders.” The position of theso two fournals reminds us of the man who, staring stupidly at the charred remaiug of his waler-flooded, Lalf-burned house, carefully avoided admitting that there hod beenu a fire, but strove to invent some other cause for tho disaster, Socrotury BrenmaN's chargo ngninst Gon, Antaun comprised ob least s seoro of spacifi- cations, Involving as many doflnite delin. quencics and positive offenses ngainst the law. 'Theso specifications were supported by evidanco of numerous instancos of gross fn- efliciency on the part of Gen, Anraus, nnd of tha exlstouce of abuses and frands in overy broneh of tho seffico undor kis administra- tion, The charge, specifications, and evi- dence were published in full in the daily papers of Now York, Itis to bo presmmod .that the cditor of the Herald and tho editor of tho Weekly rend tho publication from the first to tho last line. Doos tho editor of the Ilerald beliove tho atatement of Becrotary Surnuan? It yen, how enn ho concludo that Honalor Conzring's chnmpionship of Gen. AnTuun's cause will have no ill.cffect upon his (Conxrina's) future political prospects? Ara the poople of Now York dead to nll scuse of moral turpitude? Will they appland their ropre. nentativa In- the United States Sunate who stands forth conspicuously aa the defonder of o public ofticial whoso iuefilcioncy was so pronounced ns to render eusy the perpetra. tion of frands in every branch of his office? ‘'ho editor of Hurper's Weekly i n friend of Prosident Haves' Administeation, 1ie be. tieves b to be jospired by high oims, 1Mo deolares that ** §ts perdonnl chovactor is spot- lesn,” that it is chiaracterized by ** total free. dom frotm scandals of every kind,” und by “n trady patriotio spirit.” It i3 this Admin. istration which boldly pronounced Gen. Awruvn groxsly ineflicient, and characterizod his administration of the Naw York Custom- Housu as diztinguishod for fraud and corrup. tion of the most disgraceful charactor, Ifaw My, Cusris any renson to doult the absolute good faith of the Administration iu its offorts o rid thoe Civil Service of tho’ mun whose adimlufstration, more thau that of nny other, tonded to bring the Governe ment into disrepute? Do not you beteve, Mr. Curmis, that the goneral charge pre. ferred by Becretary Siensiay aguinst Gen, Auruu, und the specifications thereof, were and uwre substautinlly true? Aud it yes, how do you vxeuse yourself for maiutdining ou attitnde of reticuuce on the subject so sbrolute nsto foree the couviction in the pablic mind that, for prudential rensons, Harper's Weekly declives to denounce the greutest abuse of civil administration exists ing in this conutry bocauso it hus its seat in the City of Nuw York? Other jouruals in New York City have not hesitated to defeud the alleged kid-glovo ring, the silkk ring, and the dmpage-ullowancs ring, all sus. peeted of having agents within snd without the Custom-louse. Nut it i a notable foct that Jlarger's Weekly has studi- ously avoided publishing a lino in their defenso. A strong presumption is thus raised that the cditor of the Weekly belicves in the existence of thoso rings, be- lievos that they aro guilty of the frawds charged, and that therefore he declines to ataiuthe reputation of bis jourusl by espouse ing their cause. But, i they are not worthy of dufuuse, uro they not proper subjuctd of eriticism, aud even of assault? Wo write in no unfricudly spirit. We recognizo the great power of Harper's Weekly. 1t gocs all over the land. Its cxpressed opin- ious are generally regarded au the fruit of Louest conviction, As such they have force oud offect. Why, thon, bas the ** journal of civilization ” uo opinlon to express on & sub- joct which hay sgitated tho country con- stautly during the lust twelve months ¢ Wy FEBRUARY 1870—SIN'T LN PAGER dnes Mr, Conrrs mnintain n sifenco so easily susceptibla of being construed as A suppros- sion of the timth ? ————— WHAT THE BLODOETT INVESTIGATION HA8S BDROUGHT T0 LIOHT. Wa havo alrendy commented upon certain developnionts made during the Congressional investigation of the Broporrr caso which, indepondent of all reforencs to that cnse, linve been of sorvies to the publie. Wo have pointed ont the thorough cxposure of the maonver in which business was done in the offlcs of the Tegiator of Bankruptey in this district, Mr, Minnann was tho Reglstor for a territory including threo Congressional Districts, embracing all of Chicago, and Cuok, Lake, and DnPago Counttes, The business of tho Reglster was immenso, whether consid- ered s to the number of cnses, the amount of tho estates, or the multitnde of credit- ors, 'Tho fees wero greatly in excess of any fair compensation for tha survices rondored, nud 5o enormons weroe thoso fecs in tho ag- grogate that the Liegister, toavoid attracting publie attention to their magnitnde, resorted to the practics of suppressing n large part of them from Lis reports, satisfying his con- sclence by an “ambiguous” interprolation of the law to the effect that it required him only to report fees in the now bLusiness of ench yoar, and not the fees in all his bnai- noss, as Congress wundoubtedly intonded. Appenling to tho Jundge privately, nnd in his chamber and nnofficially, ho got him to say this might bo the law, and then, when bold to cxaminntion by the Graud Jury, sought to nvold responsibility, indictment, and pnn- fshmont by insisting that the Judge was guilty and not himself. 8o with the District Attorney; he, too, nvoided rosponsibility, avolded his duty, nod neglected his obligationsundor irrespousible, unoflicial, and private conversations with the Judge. The Register, the Altorney, the Re- ceivers, Assignees, the Clerk, and all hands connactod with the administration aud oxe- cution of the Bankrupt law, seem to have run tho bnsiness ns n closo corporation, in which they wero ontitled to Inrge portions of the proceeds of tho estates, and with which the outsido and unofficial world hiad no concorn. From tho disclosures it would appear that nbout ail the business was done privately ; everybody concerned had tho right of entry to the Judgo's chambor, 08 if there was no such institution as an open conrt in oxistence, Ench mnan seemed to run his own branch of tho business to suit himself; ench of tho favored fow charged and rotained all tho fees and porquisites ho thought proper; and the Court-Houso building wns o sort of bee-hive in which the busy little iunsccts laid up the Iargoeat possible storo of Louoy and wax,—especially lioney. Tho Bankrupt Dopartmaent wos so liboral in helpiag the members of the close corporation to liberal fees, percentages, commissions, expenses, Lookkeeping, ronts, clork-hire, and otler costs, a4 to provoke a universnl demand for the ropeal of the Inw naud suppression of the vampiros. To clhango tlio figuro : Wheu the fox ealled attention to tho fact that all tha tracks leading to tho lafr of the lion, who "‘ was playing physician, poluted fnward and nono outward, the sil- ing animals stopped their visits. Bo, when men discoversd that all eatates that entored Bankrupt Conrts romained thero and nover eamo ont, creditors found that they conld, by accopting whatover the dubtors choso to offer, got moro monoy than by taking what the Baokrupt brotherlivod left from their repast, It appears (and wo speak entively without reforonco to Judge Boportr) that the bauk- ruptoy skinning busincss was pushed to its oxtrems in this district. Tho persons tak- ing toll were numcrous,—Register, *DIro. visional " Assignee, Rogular Assigneo, Attor- ney, Custodinng, Clerks, Marshals—each took liberally, and what ho pleased, and without nny accounting to court. ‘I'he purposo and intention of the Jaw seom to have beon un- derstood to bo tho distribution of bankrupt cstatoa among the membors of thae close cor- poration, nud they appear to have left noth. ing undono to carry out that liberal con- struction of the law to the fulloat extont, It seems that the Asaigneo buainess was nn object of wpecial patronnge. JrNEINg, Haxcocx, and CamrpeLn hisve had aubstan. tlally a mouopoly of tho business for several years, ‘Fhey aro nscertained to have beon Assignees in about 1,200 enses, and * Pro- visional Assiguces” in about 240 cases, Dur- ing their five yoars' service thoy had, on an avurago, deposits of 300,000 to £500,000 in somo bank, without intorost to the cred- itors, What their avernge fecs in onch case may have boen wb can ouly judge from tha following item of tostimony by an expert scoountant who looked at a fow of thom 4*In some cases their chargee a2 Provisional Ase signees were larges than their chargos as regular Asslguess, Thero werw charges fur commissions und for clork ire, cuntodians, ete. In ono case, the wxitute of "Coan & TN BRoRKE, JXNRING wad appoiuted Provisional Assignee Juna 22, 1874, and regular Assignes Oct, 10, 1874, 1le charged $500 for Wile servicod as Provistonal Asslgneo and $48% as regular Aselgnee, IIaNcock was appointed Pro- vinfonal Amslzuce In the catato of Dxros 8, Minea March 1%, 1870, nnd was &ppointed Assignes May 26, 1876, In one place ho charged $48,13 for attorney's fees, anl iu anather S446; for ront, SINT.50; appralslng stock, §20; .tltrk hire, unce, were 84743 attol tent, clerky, and custudiany, the smaller \tems of ex: printing, ete., Tha amount nvolved in tha culate wie 89, and the total cost of adiinlatese g 46 wad 10304 per cent, One of the * happy family " thus devoured 16} per ccut of the estute, and that was ecomnparatively a light cose. Tho Assiguees do not seet to hava acted oy thdir own at- tornoys; aud to this fuct muy bo attributed tho other fact, that the numncrical proportion of the Bar appointed attorneys for tho As- wigneos, aud paid so liberally out of the es tates, was as limited os the number of As.” sigueey, 5o tho binitess was coufined to as fow pernous us possiblo, and thee few seem to have corricd it on in profonmd ignorance or coutempt of the law, iu disregard of what was just and fair, aud with the boldness and contewpt for thy outside world which pro. ceeds from o perfect confldence that there is to be no supervision, no responsibility, uo accountability, All thuso fuvorites of fortune operated in tho sawe building. "They did what they ploased. Luey earefully shut out all iuquiry or research, 1unsip wever wade out au itemized LI of Lis costs; be charged it iu luwp., Tuey swurmed rvound the Judge Whenever they consulted with Lim they weunt 1o his chamber, or thoy talkod to L ou the stairs, or in the hall, or ou the streot, ‘Lbey constituted a sort of court, aud were a law unto themsddves. No wouder that Judge Brovurrr, who bas been gotting his oyes opened of late, fccds Liusalf embarrassed and worlitied at the woy bis coufidence hns been aluscd and bis friendsbip tuken ad. vautsge of Ly the scts of tLo greedy, .56, exclusive of sach as pustage, overreaching members corporation of £ ho wera as puvo s an angel and his robes of this as white ns snow, the avarleions, loose, and frreaponsible way in which they id husiness, and patehed np records, aud eal wp estates could not have failed to have subjected him, s tho judicial hend of the eslablishment, to criticism and complainta, Thero is not tho slightost evillenco that Judge Brovozrr shared to the extentof a penny in the plaudering porpetrated in the Bankenpt Court. But until these rovelations a4 to the manner in which thoso underlings abused their opportnnitien wore inade publio tho people sygrieved laid the bulk of tho blame on Judge Bronorrr. Judge, they will always have canse to thank nn 1nvesligation that did uncover gross offi- cial abuses, and placed the responsibility on those who abused their trusts and robbed the public. “THANKFULNESS WITH SURPRIBE. ‘Wensten givea the following ns the deri- vation of the word gramercy: *‘ French, grand' merei, gront thanks,” and the defi- nition: *“ A word formerly used to express thankfulness with surprise.” Tho samo anthor given tho following illustration of tho nko of tho word : **The gain, the lucre, the revenues we get mast not be imputed {o our labor; wo may not say, ¢ Gramercy, labor,* '~ Latimer, ** Gramercy, Mammon, aald the gentle Knight." —BSpenser. 1t will bo observed that theso illustrations of tho use of the word ** grawerey " conncct it with the subject of monoy. ** Gain, lucre, revennes, Mammon,”—thess are mnde the sublects of **thankfuluness with surprise,” LaTidzr says: ** We may not say, Gra- morcy, labor,” ovidently for the reason that gain, Iucro, and revenues, nc- crulng a8 rowards of laber, ara mnot causes of *‘surprise.” Tinoex, doubtless, chose his residonco in Gramercy Park for a renson. flo expected to be surprised into thankfulness on nnmerous occasions, in which ovent ho foresnw that an efaculation of thanksgiving might bo uttered in o single word which would convey no information of bhis real feolings to bystanders. Thns when first informed nt the Democratic National Committes hendquartors that his nephew, PertoN, Lind been guilty’ of an indiscretion, presumably involving his honor, he bad only to utter tho magic word * Gramercy," which would bo assumed to moan: * Is it possible that this misgmided youug man, flesh of my flesh, and blood of my blood, nnrtnred in my own bosom and into whoso hesrt I have in. stilled the precopts of virtno—is it posesiblo that he conld, in tho sacred precincts of my own domicile at Gramorcy Park, havo com- promised my good name by proposing to buy an Electoral vole?” Dut in faot the cjaculation—** Gramercy”—meant an ardent expression of thankfnlness with surprise that the secrot of tho negotin- tion of bis ungodly nophow still remained locked in Prrrow's bireast. It was this sud. denly-gaincd assurance that enabled him to reproach Weep flvmly for his part in Prr~ Ton's indisoretion. Wexp says the good mnn from Gramercy Tark *' broughthim to order in very forciblo terms for having at- tempted to make a trade with the Returning Board, and repeated his positive abhorronce of any such schome.” Of courso he did, and then ho drove howmo to Gramercy Park and told his nephow, Pzuron, that, asho had gufllored considerably from excitemont and incidontal troubles attending tho eleotion,” ho might go to Caundn for his health, and stay there, Nothing in the history of the Incidontal troubles attending the olootion” of 1876 moro forcibly lllustrates the gentlo, forgiving nature of Mr, TiLoex's disposition than his treatinont of Lis erring nephow. Mr, Pertow, o penniless dopendant upon the bonnty of his uncle, had, in n spirit of devo. tion to tho intercstas of tho country, offcred to buy, in behalf of his uncle, tho Esctoral voto of n wovereign Blate for the sum of 380,000, Lut had failed! It was his failure that saved Pzuton from tho wrath of Tir- pey, Ilow often, as Lo paced tho floor of his study, before seuding tho nauglty boy, his nephew, to Canada for his health, Mr. ‘I'roeN must havo utterod the word * Gra- mercy ”in fervont thankfulness for the failure of PrrroN to obtain tho sum of §80,000 with wlich to consummate a corrupt bargnin for his (‘I'oex's) elevation to tho Presidency. But, it Troex s o favorite of Fortune, as much cannot he said in belalf of Ween, Iow unfortunate that distinguished Domo- crat waos in falling to seo Trvex beforo he wont to Bouth Carolina! The expenses of the trip might havo been gaved ; the cost of tho elaborate ciphor dispatches relnting to tho proposed bribery, which Lo admits woro sont and received, wmight have been saved; Lis time might have beqn devoted to more worthy objocts. But Wexn is evidently an idiot. ~ 1lo admits that ho has long been very iutimato with Mr, Tizpen, Judging tho Sage of Grameracy Park by thia long and intimate acquaintanco, he ought to have known that ho (TiLven) would trent with lofty seorn such o base negotintion, and rofuse to nccept office at tho cost of bribery, But Weep, idiot that he was, sssumed from his futimate knowledge of the man Trben that Prrron furnished him with a cipbor to carry an a corrupt correspondence by the direction of the mien to be beuefited by it—TiLoxy, tho virtuous proprictor of Gramercy Fark oud of Prrron! Censorious perdons thero are who will de- clare that it was quite natural for TiLney, aftor tho schemo had utterly failed, to ex- pross abliorrenco of it, to profesa ignoranco of it, ood to denounce the men who at- tempted to carry tho negotiation to a suce cesuful issue, These will say that Mr. Tir- e bas dragoonad the Democratio party into giviug him a clean bill of henlth by making o seapeguat of FPeutown, and that the young man has been sont out of tha country by his uuclo to aave him from cross-exawinntion by tho Nepublican members of the Porren Committeo, But Ar, Titoey need not foor the eritlclsing of his political cuemies. What he requires is the support of the Denocracy in 1850, And if he cun compel the Porten Committes to 1eport to tho country thut Le (TiLpex) not ouly remained in utier Iguorance of the ex- istence of the PrrroN-Weep scheme to seat Lim in the Presidential chuir by bribing the Relurning Board of a State, but that ke would buve scorned the high uflceat tho prico.of such & stain upoy Lis honor,—if e can acoomplish thiv, ho ouco more stands be- fore thy musses of tho Democratic party s a wurtyr, defrauded of tho Presidoucy, What, thon, {4 to preveut hun from grasping the uomination of 18302 Wo waru the Porten Committce that in rescuing ‘IrLuex from complicity in the st- tewpted frauds of Ween, Pxutoy, Mansie, and thoe rust of the oconspirators, thoy are vlevating himnto the front runk of Democratio Presidouttal candidates for tho noxt race, The purp;:fled wfimh—a‘hwem the advocates of the Mississippi loveo scheme olasa the Dankruptey Comrt, 1 and thoke who favor tha C 0 While the pub- lie may have no difficulty in acquitting the DEN ¢ ontlo! system in nol runoh of a compromiso, nnd tests pa come within thut amonnt, tho whole length of the river, ion, The legislative jwiketing hns commenced. Forty-eight members went off to Lincoln Tharsdny to inspect the feeble-mindod in- maten, and on their retarn some of them, it is said, showed thoy nceded *‘cinchona rubra.” Tho trip was not of tha slightest valae to tho Stato, ms no usefu! Information Theo A committee of threo or five membexs might hiave seon some- thing to report, and obtnined a conception of the needs and managemont of the insti- bLut o ccanmittoo of forty-cight tho State in TPullmen For a month the General Assembly will be beoken up into junkoting gangs, sprecing about the State and neglecting tha Luainess they 'ho managora of tho varfous inatitutions favor and encourage this sort of mob.inspection, woll knowing that such committeos will see nothing they wish to concenl, and find out nothing nn- desirable to havo exposed; and that when those wined aund dined bummer battalions roturn to their chnmnbers they will be in a condition of mind to voto whatever sums of I'his sort of legislative inspoction is demoralizing and corrupting, and dotrimental to the public in- Tho taxpayers are made to suffer and Lleed a8 the result of those ** bums,” and the moral integrity of the members ia could bo obtained by such a crowd. thing waa simply n spree, tutions eavorting around pnlaco cars is ridientous and shameful, wero eleoted to nttend to. mouey the tax-eaters demand, torests. not improved by the businoss. Moro than thirteen months ago Mr. CONK- LINaG succeeded In defeating the nominations of RRogseveLT and PriNca by the following vote: Year. Nuy: Tepuolicant Democrats, Total vota. .. vote, ans — Bonwetoe, CHRISTIANCY, day on the confirmution of MenuiTr wa Yeas, Nays, Repnblican Democrats Totaluseiane. FUTTITTTTT PSRN 1] publican. voted for Meumirr. RILL, OoLzsny, PLrums, und SiuNDERs. gains wero mado In the Weat | umd they were all due, we belleve, to the cvidence of undervalua- tion frauds In the New York Custom-llouse, the cifect of which, if permitted, would e to make Now York the sole port of entry lu this coun- try, — Not a dollar can be paid out of the Treasuey under the Arrcura-of-Penaton bill untll muney has been appropriuted for the purpose. The Southern Dewocrats thereforo have an oppor- tunity to show low thoroughly thuy have re- pented of thelr former gencrosity, An analysis of the vote on Buncnann's bill made by the Boston ddvertiser glvea the following results: Republican o ... Northern Democrat Boutberu Democrats... Totaleerevirssre o vee Onoof the three negative Republican votes was that of Mr. Broapen, of North Carollos, so that 70 of the Bl ou that side came from the Bouth. —— 1d value of the leyal-tende; 0 York Press Disputen, news know of auybody who bas legal-tender sliver dollars for sale at that price, as he van #ind & purchaser by upplying at this otfico for o few millions of them! After all that are fur Bsale at that prive are disposcd uf, we will engage td flud a purchaser forall the rest of the siver Tegal-teuder dollars at 94 cents fu gold, Feteh Tew on. Modest littls Pittsburir has filed o bIl {n the Peunsylvania Lexistature for 34,000,000 damures to recoup the Josses sustatned in the July riols ol 1577, Since the treachery and cowardlee of thé Pittsburg authorities were the principal causes of the loss, the claln 1a extracrainary, to suy the lcast. ‘The proper thing wuul d be for all the citles that sufered througn the dangerous example sct fn Pittsburg to aug that ¢ty for dumages, e ‘The esteemed Uncle of the Scnate, sir. Hax- LIN, rossto a personat explaoatiou the other nixht and sulds * I kad yone bome Jast evenlvg, umd, happening to go to the door, Isaw the 1zt fu the Copttol-deme, when It Bashed across my mind that I ought to. vo thers to vote agalust the conflrmation of cus of the New York uppointments.” o they put the game of thls vouscientivus old geutleman down oo the wrong side, the day alter the vote was taken, . e —— The Sun has printed a cnallenge of the Chiam- plon Ple-Eater of the United Statds to eas apple plea for the champloushlp, sud has secelved Tesponses from the Champlon Plum-Pudding Fater, the Champlon Doughuut Eater, snd the Champlon Barutoga Pie-Ester. It is evident Lhos¢ contests cauuot g0 ob tuless itisstipalated that the uusuccessful eater sball pay for his pies. i — The sction of ‘some of the country mewmbers of the Legivlature fu kitug the Skxrox Lill for the reform of abuses lo civil actious, provid- Jug that .mnn sball be sued i Lhe place whers . The sum of K230, {3 appropriated for the “expenses of a Commission” empowaered to invostigate tho pulative merits of tho varions 1gojects for imyroving the navigntion of the river, and, expending such sun in surveys The plan, as already foreshindowed by the Army Engineers, is to seleot somo point Lelow Chiro, and thoru etonstrnet for a cortaln dis- tanca a system of dykes from brush and rmb- Lish of all kinds, aud resort to drodgling, as a moana for comtraclting the channel, and thns tosting tho jotty system as applied to If this bo en. tored wpon it will probably be found that £250,000 will bo muoch too little even for this preliminary test of the dyke system, and still further approprintions will bo nsked for tho preiminary test alone. In the menntime, tho common.sense ** ontlet” plan will be ignored nltogether. Yet it was shown that witlf this $250,000 alone the prdposed outlot a fow iuilas Lolow Now Orleaus into “Take " Borgno could bo constiructed, and that such oullet would not meroly bo a thorongh test of tho outlet rystom, but, in caso of success, would of {tself furnish a Inrgge measure of tho desired roliof from the overflow in flood-time, and nlso increaso the volocity of the cwrrent in the chnunel along the mver as far upnt least as Memphis, This rationnl experimeut has been rojocted, and & Commission empowered to {fritter nwny §250,000 ns prelininary to the squandoring of untold millions of monoy for tho benefit of political constraotion rings, and with the purposo of giving tha **South” a chance to “got oven” on tho subsidy business and maoke up for the timo it lost while i rebell- 1, e R k! On this oceasion cigiteen Benators did not Three—CocknaLy, Joxes. of . Florida, und TuursAN-—were present, but declined to be counted, ' Five Republicans and ton Deirocrats were absent and nopaired. Only six Repubife- Coxoven, Dsz? 0AR, und MATTHEWsS—supported the Presidént with their voton, The voto last Mou- i s Only five Senators unpaired refused to vote, ond of these unly one—WaDLEIGH—was & “[le- The Administration recelved the support of nine more Repablicans uid flye more Democrata than on the pravious occasion, Elghy Republicany, who voled against RouseveLt Tese wern UaMERON (Win.), Fenny, Kinkwoow, McMiLrax, Mon- The uinth vote guined waa that of WiNvod, who befors was abaunt. It will Lo observod that with one exceptivn—that uf MorniLL—all theso oes the bumpkiu who sent forth that ftem of hellves inatend of exposin yroaceutlons In any focaiity o iy clect, {a anly anothee imstanee of :hn Gl profudice of some country memtrs g e measura that in fntroduced by 1y, o0 s tivos from this county, 4 up i which this county s name try membars areay ll:’nnunlv’f-l:x:;::lln'::;"m““' ently without reference to its meriys, g Rl sityy or Jta bonrine wpon the rosy, n(,n:’ g ‘Iie same hiostillty in unifested 1n 1y, aim,. made by such men s Toueane, w:x.l ] whoto Klea of service 1o the Stage o o T fs Chieago und Cook Connty e of casfons, ¥ U000 any aud ) gp, The New York J ‘ th he New York Hera'd applies 1 now comie opera 13, M, 8, l‘lxnrl'::;:':h e situation fn France, thus: kit Marshat Maedtahon—+ 3+, T Rals, 'y regy, } i, Dieto Tutick, 1 never * backed lawa M. Gambetia—t4 Why Marskal MacMaho. rry 1 ardly ever,n Y hy ——e— It 18 ro Tone sinco Mr, Pexn, to the Scnato that some w:oal: rl?:::nr:flm'd heis going to cut o great fgzure iy A\::;?““ politicn alter the $th ol March negy, o THURMAN WHI not throw bim into the sy i I8 odd that the two ablest Demuerats Iml' Souale should come from a Republicay Su&“ TleEuulhe’m Demozrats w i il oerats who vot, naseage of tho Peusion bill mlcratee o0 would be defeated fu the Sente, Ther i willing to glve thelr Northern Degre™ brethren soma eapital, but they pe v Ver el tended to give any more money to o Lm];{_:?' irelitigs.” 2 —— All the fmportant chatftable socleties fn Bow ton have jolned fu anew oreanizativn kao, as “The Assoclated Churltles the ubjey i which {8 to establish & system of repty, ‘:[ prevent fraud and make the work of gl lr;’m: und mora effectunl, This ! a good moye, i e Attentlon Is catled to the singular 1he Demnocratle Senator from New \x‘r’::}(:‘:fi:‘ the cbate on the Custom-House appointmey, He dodeed, and apparently the only rawgy la had for g0 dolng was thut the New Yorx Sun okl hitn he must, —————— ‘TheBoston Advertisereriticlsea § ecretary Sy, NAN sharply for the chunie In tho form uf y, nubllc debt statemonts, **discontinutng the gis. tinetion botween money, that 1, coln, mnd uy. issued evidences of debt, that 1, papec-anoney, ——— JdxAs, the new Senator from Loulstam, Inet Jewish descent, amd the only persan of tha faith, with tho cxceotion of Juvan 1), Bpgy. Mix, ulso from Loufsiana, lected to the United States Seuate, s Luck wants to know what will te dono withy Cnincse baby horn on board slip, it the fuy complement of flftcen Is already o the g, ‘[he Captain might marry the glrl, ———— Ah! The Atlanta Constitulion suzacsts that Deacon McKer fs an enthuslastic GraNt mn hieeautse, unee on & thne, (ANT showed Deseoy McKes Execativo clemeney. — In the face of the revelations, Judeo Broo. GETT can well exelain when looking at his twese mates and olficial famity: * Save me from iy friends!® ¥ ‘Toy EwiNg 'snys the Republicans may bave thelr choles among Braine, Sueusay, o UnaxT, but he will not *go them oue better,” v e —ma—— No Republican journal of consequence out. slle of New Yorle falls to congratulate the Prestdont on his triumph over CoNkrixg, e ‘The army ought not to Lie revrranized, if at all, by n sueak-umendment to an Appropristicn bill. That's nltogether too Democratie, ——— No roro without Its thorns. of Assignee hoa {is disadvantages, pespeiuniSune iy PERSONAL, Wil thae cipher hunt go for naught? Joln 1. Gough is lecturing ot tho Crylal Palace, Lundon, Alr, Vandorbilt has named his now hors ssgtraight Flual, ™ because nothing cau beatbs. The importunions tailor may now be pat off with the remark, **Walt ti} Iget my pension.” ‘Wo urgently ndvise Sitting Bull to cons to this country at ouce, aund dle of the et plague, A new Grant movement! Ocville Grant says lio I8 golnit to atart o restanantat San Pz clico, ‘ftie Rev, Jo Cook is lecturing in Boslon. Mr. Cook's leciures are princlpally sywporiums of uther wen's fdeus, “I'ho French poople have taken Grovy from the Nepubilcans, but they will taka no sauce fna tho hinpurlalivts, A goud many impecnnlous patriots in ths Demncratle party atill regard Mr, Tliden us 8 power behind tho barrol, A oross-eyed man in New York recently was entlrely cured by reading one of ex-Tresaunt Spluner's lotters, Bayurd ‘Laylor's lottors from distingnisted men till fiftcen packing-boxes, which are stowel away at Ledarcroft. - Ttobert Bonuer hias a horuo that can goia 2:003;, or 3:003;—we dou't rowewber the tne withln 8 minute or two, When in Roino don't do ad the Romans do. Alarge share of the native population of that €4 ura professlona) Leggars. Wa beliove that Mr, Morritt will make s good Collector. The **duties® of bis place thouh, are very numerous, Gawbetta i3 reported to bo soriously il ia Paris, suffering from faity degoueration of 1be heart. a1k the resalt of Grevy? 3Mr. Conkling has boou called the Prsie dent of New York, but New York, wo Uellere, 4 not Ligger than the United Statee, Inthiscra of changew, disturbances, aad nncertaluties, wo ara glad t learn that the dato ol Washingtou's birthday rentains the same. M., Tilden, to the Inves.igating Conunlt teo, soys: **Iadmit that 1 the uncle of Wy nephow, but L ahall naver be his uncle agmn.” v, Conkling, Lolug tho nuder d)g, would perliapalike 1o (ry a Iitde of Yr. Hayes' celebeated and truly vficucious bolley of grace, tuercy, sed eace, Nophew Pelton attampls to exenlpate bLine self by sayink thers was nothing fn the duber dit patehes which all tho world meght not read, —if contd, Tho prica of ermnting sorvant-girla by Highttne Bres with koroseno oil has materislly sd- vanced, o8 une uf W depressiug resulis of 130 caud ofl munopoly, Tonueswes is o ropadistor, Wo refur © Teonia C, Claly, who repadiates this countrfs and declares an iutention uf_ spending the rest of Lier days lu England, P'ho stewneben is Qaiighting the visitors s the rursl poultry sbuw. When chickeus 10a7 b hatchod by steara, wa may say Lhat {t's s wise chicks ou that kuow Jte own mother, b Jato Prince Henry, of Hollund, lsft a8 estata of $11,000,000, and wu hereby give uolic® lwtund our rights agalast ail coutest will to the bitter ena, * Br, Murpby geuerously snnaunces that b sbull devote hinkelf 1o tho causs of temjsraoct Tur $150 8 week until the red nose yiclds compleit” 1y to the pupularity of the ved sibbun, We hope Mr ‘Falmage will be mhls o prove hie iunocence, though clrcnmatances 8¢ somewhat azalnst b, Me Yus o bareel to 1Y for whitswash sul no nephew to lusd tha guilt upon. ‘Pbe Tndian chews tobacoo, bnt the iufe rority of ile naturo s Qlsplayed fu (oo fact that B bas never squaled the waits man eithur 1o beastd of dellvery or 11 dizecinesd of alu In squirsng W bacco julce sicough Lus fronk teeinic 2 Mr. ‘Talmage is endeavoring to maks Lis* el s greater sensationsl preacucr than Beechels and perhapa bs way succeed. 4 devends vutitcl ou the amouut of eycoursgement by ceceided 1V the female portlon Of Lis congregaiivu. 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