The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1858, Page 4

THE PUBLIC PRINTING. Report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives—Profits Made Under the Contract System—Wasteful Expenditure of the Public Money—Fat Sinceuré and Snag Per coutages, dc, The select committee appointed under the resolu- tions of the House, of December 9, 1857, to examine into the lawsin relation to the printing for the ‘House of Representatives—the prices paid therefor, and the duties of the public printer; and who was further directed by resolution of December 18, 1857, to inquire into the prices paid for the binding of Congress, and the laws regulating the same, and iato the prices paid for engraving, and for the paper used for the printing of Congress, and for the publi- cation and binding of the Congressional Globe, and who was further instructed, by resolution of January 19, 1858, toexamine into and report to the House what change, if any, is required in the existing laws providing for and governing the public print- ing connected with the executive departments or bureaus—beg leave to make the following report:— It became necessary to the committee, in order Properly to discharge the duty assigned them, criti- cally to examine, in connection with ‘the laws in relation to the printing of the House,” the manner in which the printing, binding and engraving of Congress is at present done, and ascertain its cha- racter, whether efficiefit and economical or the re- verse, with the general management of those great interests; and, if possible, to devise a system by which the public work in thase several departments can be done in a way to obviate any defects which might be found at present to exist. Under the existing laws the Senate and House of Representatives for each Congress elects each re- Bpectively a public printer, to do the printing of each, at certain established rates of compen- pation. Each house has its binding executed under the direction of a Committee on Print- ing; and for each Congress there is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a “Superintendent of Public Printing,” who, very much in the capacity of a steward of Congress, acts on its behalf in purchasing paper, delivering the same to the perio printer, and keeping an ac- count thereof—in receiving from Congress the ma- nuscripts and other matter ordered to be printed— delivering the same to the printer or engraver—in receiving the same when executed from those par- ties and from the public binders, inspecting it, and in certifying the accounts therefor. How, under these arrangements, have the printing, binding, en- graying, &c., of Congress and the Executive de- partment been done? Have they been done well and with a just economy? and are the established rates for printing and binding either higher or lower than the public interests require? These questions will be best answered by a statement of facts. THE FUBLIC PRINTER. The public printer elected by the Thirty-third Con- | ned and the public printer of the Senate for the ‘hirty-fourth Congress, contracted respectively with a third party to do the required work, reserving to themselves a large per centage, which was as a net reward or profit for simply taking, under the name of public printer, the printing of Congress, and sub- letting it to another, who did, and is still doing, the work for them. The public printer elected by the House for the Thirty-fourth Congress did the re- quired House printing himself; and in addition, as sub-contractor under the Senate printer, did the work of the Senate for that Congress, as he did all of the printing for the public printer of the Thirty- third Congress, and he is now doing the work for the public printers of the Senate and House of the resent Congress. The same party is printing the ost Office blanks as a sub-contractor under the gentleman having that work to do. The per centage paid by the sub-contractor referred to to the various public printers designated, emolu- ments of their mere sinecure officers, amounted to more than $21,000 during the month of January last, and will average nearly $20,000 per month.” This includes no allowance of per centage upon the House printing for the Thirty-fourth Congress—the sub- contractor mentioned as public printer of that body did the work himself, and thus was saved payment for privilege, The grows amount thus paid as a per eeontage or bonus for the privilege of doing the work by the sub-contractors to the government offi- cials, varies but little from $240,000 per year: at the same time he realizes over and above that large profit a handsome reserve profit for himself. The printing for neither the Thirty-third nor the Thirty-fourth Congress is yet completed, but is still in the course of execution; therefore the aggregate of percentage named as being paid by the sub-con- tractor to the officials is the per centage on that printing, on the printing for the present Congress, and for the printing of Post Office blanks, which is separate from the Congressional printing, and amounts to nearly $50,000 per annum. THE LIC BINDING. In the matter of the binding of Congress and of the departwents a similar state of facts has been found to exist. The House binding for the Thirty- fourth Congress may be en as a fair illustration | of the manner in which that work has generally been | done. That binding was contracted to be done at 22 per cent less than former prices. The gentlemen who secured that contract from the House Committee on Printing sold the contract, | or re-let the work to be done, to a gentleman in this city, for the consideration of twenty per cent a the gross amount of binding done, and this subcontractor again sublet his con- tract to another or third Party in this city for the consideration of one-half ot the profits on the work done after the deduction of the twenty per cent which was reserved to the public binder or original contractor. Upon information which your committee are not disposed to question, it is believed that the twenty per cent reserved to the public binder has already amounted to $33,000, and that the second or sub-contractor has re considerable sum out of the profits which have been made on the work, after the payment of the twenty per cent to the original contractor. simple justice to the third party or second sub-con- tractor, wh i the work, to add that he has been #0 well satisfied with the residium of the profits, the one half remaining after the payment of the twenty per cent, that he has felt it his duty to do the work in a better manner than much of that heretofore done for Congrees. ‘This particular illustration has been selected, not with a view to find fault with the first contracting party, but as aptly showing the general practice of parties assuming to do the public work, who obtain contracts and then use mechanics to execute them under a reserve from the actual operatives of a large per centage as profit to the The binding of the Se the Thirty-fourth Congress was given to a of this city at rates ten per cent higher than the prices allowed for the House binding tor that Congress. Under the cir- cumstances, and after what has been said relative to the profits made by the various parties interested in the House binding, it would be useless to inquire into the exact gross profits of the Senate binder, who, your committee believe, is not a practical me- gg in the business into which his contract led im. bg binding of the Senate for that Congress, al ready paid , Amounts to about $150,000, and much yet remains to be done. The gross amonnt of binding for the Thirty-third Congrens is $538.4 —that for the Thirty-fourth Congress, $365 03) In addition to Congressional work there is a large amount of binding annually done for the different executive departments and bureaus. The prices paid in the departments and bureaus are much high- er im comparison than those established by Con. jepartments and and it is done without any contract and with little or no regard for omer The cost of the blank hooks used annually in the departments is large, and in almost every instance the prices paid for them are fre thirty to fifty per cent more than such books ca: procured for. There is no competition for this work and no general contract is made for its execution. Itisa grand monopoly for a few individuals, who reap therefrom enormous profits. ¢ following letter, which your committee re teived from Mr, Hein, Disbursing Agent in the Coast Burvey Office, bears directly on this point: Coast Seavey Orrice, Feb. 2, 1858 Srn—I enclose copies of the accounts paid by me dur! the year 1857 for biank books, binding, printiag lan! formule, &o., amounting to $1,006 10. The work was done by Mr. HP. Lewis and Mr. George 8. Gideon Washi and given to those gentlemen by direc from Treasury Department to that effect. Finding that some Kinds of biank books could be procured from Baltimore of much better quality and lower prices than hore, L ordered some from Mesars. Murphy & Co. Their ‘acoounta ehow that their prices for better work are from 26 to 60 per cent lower than similar is paid for here; bat on com made by the bookbinders in Washing. on, bo further re have been given in Baltimore. No contract has been entered into for the blank books and printing of formule. They are frequently changed, and ‘only puch spans are ordered from time to time aa are pecessari| |. The expense for binding, , bas ip oan capentaesy for that work. voor’. ours, Seapeuntally, - SAMUEL HEIN, Maburwing it, Const Sarvey. Professor AD. sacen aperenateat of Ooast Sarvey. ‘Washington, D.C. ‘The manner in which the binding is done for the Department of the Interior furnishes a fair illustra- tion of the general plan adopted by the depart yoenta—with the exception of She Treasnry Denart peut whieh @ priv ved avery | And it is but | SEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1858.—TRIPLE SHEET. r week, assisted by a boy at $15 per week. Much tr the binding of that Aeccenaah te done in this way, at a saving of from 30 to 50 per cent on the en- tire amount. ‘The binding in the Department of the Interior is very fully described is a letter received by the committee from the Secretary, the Hon. Jaco! Thompson, from which liberty is taken to extract the following:— No contract or agreement has been made or en- tered into by this department, on account of binding or printing for the present year. Such. work is ordered time to time as required, and is paid for according to rates estab- lished by the Superintendent of Printing during the few months the sul was placed under his supervision by the act of March 3, 1855, (Laws U.S8., vol. 10, page 652). Much of it is of sucha character that it must be done in the building of the more a since & room was to and fitted up by the proprietor of the Union, for that class of work. Under the circum- stances and because the work has been done to our satisfaction, and at prices certified to us to be rea- sonable by the Superintendent of Printing. 1 have not been satisfied that the public good would be sub- served by giving it to other parties, althougn they hare proposed to undertake it for less. Propositions to i ef apare been submitted by the following ntlemen, viz:— oT By C. Alexander, under date of July 15, 1857, who offered to de wo pi for 33 per cent less than the rates then allowed. 2. By C. Alexander, under date of September 15, 1857, renewing his previous offer, or if the deparment would enter into contract with him to do its bind- ing, &c.,to 4th March, 1861, at the rates then allow- ed, offe: to pay into the treasury of the United States for its use ten thousand dollars. z 3. By Wm. Pettibone, under date of the 15th inst., proposing to undertake the work at 20 per cent less than that heretofore established and now paid. I enclose copies of these propositions.” The binding done for the executive departments and bureaus, including the printed heads in some in- stances, for the year 1857 amounted in gross to the sum of $77,500." This does not include the work done by the private binders in the Treasury Depart- ment. Owing to the change in our consular system, by which the amount in State Department was greatly increased, the gross amount above stated is robably more than a fair average. The average would not fall below $60,000 per year. THE ENGRAVING. The engraving for Congress and the departments is done in a manner not dissimilar to that of the printing and binding. It has been satisfactorily as- certained by the committee that it can be done fally thirty-three and one-third per cent less than it is done for at present. = The engravings or cuts for the mechanical part of the Patent Office reports for 1856 may be taken in illustration of a general manner. Those engra cost the government per page of 334 inches $26 50 for the work alone—the drawing being $5 per page wood $1, and the electrotyping $2 per page additional. The original contractor had a nae part of the work done in New York. He sold his contract to a second party at very fair per centage for his services as broker; and the second contrac- tor sub-contracted with a third party—the unfor- tunate artisan, who did the work at $16 per page. The engraving, wood, drawing and electrotyping cost the government $33 50 per page; but in making up the 513 pages paid for, they extended to 534 pages, which reduced the average cost to $32 10 per age as made up. The whole amount ought not to fave cost more tl $22 to $25 per page. ‘The cost of the Arden horses in the Agricultural Report for 1856, was $5 per hundred plates, which, for the 211,530 copies cost the government $10,576 50. This, your committee are advised, was from twenty-five to thirty per cent more than a most libe- ral — for the plates. The same remarks may be made respecting the South Down sheep and the strawberry plates, each of which cost the same amount. The largest size rood cuts in the fifth volume of | the Pacific Railroad Reports of Surveys cost the go- vernment $45 each, but your committee are informed by responsible and reliable parties that they ought to have been done for from $20 to $25 each. The investigations which your committee have made authorizes them to say that a deduction equal to that so shown to have been possible might and should have been made upon the engravings gene- rally, with the single exception of that done on the report of the Coast Survey office, which is at pre- sent executed in that office, under the direction and supervision of the head of that bureau. At first Professor Bache, in conformity with the mg practice, gave out the work by contract, ut finding it done so badly and at such high rates, he abandoned the contract system and commenced having it done under his own immediate supervision by artisans employed by himself. The results have fully justified the experiment. This work is much better done and at fur less expense, The whole amount of the cost of the engravings, lithographing and electrotyping for the Thirty third Congress is $829,858 25; for the Thirty-fourth Con- gress it is $351,824 62. ‘The saving of but twenty per cent om these large amounts, more than which it was possible to have mace, would have left with the government an ag- gregate of $237,342 57, which sum could have been used much more profitably in promoting the in- terest of the meritorious artizan. As it was, this class was undoubtedly compelled to do the work at the smallest price, while the “espe and specula tor were paid a premium for their suspicious connec- tion with the work. In order to arrive at the most certain information upon this subject, a member of your committee for- warded to the firm of W.H. Arthur & Co., one of the most promising and res business, in connection with t stationery, in the works containing samples of the engravings, lithograpbing and electrotyping referred to, with a request to have the same examinated by artists, to ascertain what similar work could be done for, and communicate the results to the committee. Fro their letter in reply the following extract is made:— We regret exoceding!y that we were not in won of the precise points upon which you desire information, but we presumed your investigation thus far has elicited facts which cannot well fail to satisfy you that a change ip the goverument method of having ite work doue is im peratively demanded. Weare satistied from our own knowledge, that under the present system government has paid for some works issued by it prices abundantly sufficient to have had the work executed ina manner tar superior to what it has been, and yet the artizan doing the work (being the third or fourth remove from the real contractor) is generally 89 poorly compensated for his labor that he has no incentive to do his work well. ‘With scarcely an exception the works now exhibited bave been condemned by many artists, who have ex- amined them, as being unfit to be issued by the govern- ment, and they account for this by averring that very fre- quently the coptracts pass through a number of hands before they reach the party who finally does the work, ‘and who receives a price #o diluted from the original cou- tract price that it is not possible for them to furnish cre- table work for the compensation given. It is further alleged that in many cases contracts are awarded to par- tier who, aX rh engaged in the business, bave really t of blank books and very li knowledge of the work which they undertake w , bat who under force of whet appears to & natural desire to prefer government to other work, at prices which not ouly do not com them, but je and demoralize the trace or asion to they belong, and the irst Class artists de- entertainment of this view by our ters them from entering into competition with a class who have much to gain and littie, if anything, to loose, Ali the points contained in your communication have been fully laid before all es desiring information, as also every facility ‘to those desiring to make es- timates, even in one or two cases of allowing them to bo taken away from the store. But there was evidently no disposition on the part of any ed ne pom On my gd the work to disciose the prices had recei jor it, except in one or two , Maree or instances, and in those cases wo ascertained the fact that the work had reached them after passing through four hands, at & price at least one hundred per cent less than the work was known to ha it. This etate of facts had besome a few months since a body of cost the government notorious that but ives of this city held a public meeting, first to pe- tion the government to change its of having the work done, and next wo refuse to allow men to work with them who euflered themselves 1» be employed en govern ment work taken by their employers at such ruinously low prices; anda house ia this city, heretofore largely en- enced tn government work. have resolved to do no more unless ax the original and not a sub contractors. We can readily coveeive how the committee can arrive at the absolute cost of the work 69 government, but to ar rive at the prices paid to the various parties fer doing the work or furnishing the materials is not so easily ob tained, from the fact of their unwillingnoas to diecloas the manner of their obtaining the work, and the terms on which they perform it The final point contaiaed in your letter. desire to arrive at the best mode of doi work, so aa to secure justice beth to the government and to the engaged im the various branches of busicess.” With these {sete wd information of the same tenor which you bave probably elicited from other sources before you, tbe necessity of an utter abandonment of the t system, and a resort to some better mole would seem to be necessary. Government does nov require, does pot sak for cheap work. What it requires, and what it should insist upon having, ts good work, and this only can be obtained by dealing with the producers directly, and without the intervention of otver Parties. Government has its bureau for the regulation and disposition of affairs of no greater importance than this subject of the public printing has become. Remove the diaposition of this description of patronage from the contro! of Senate and House committees, an charge of a competent person, who shal! be responsible to Congress for quality anc cost of the work and who eball be restrained by etatute from receiving vida for any description of work from persons not actualiy engaged in the business for which they present thomselves in compe. tition. If we have indulged in a tine of remark which you may deem uncalled for, we beg you to ascribe it to our earbest denire to do ail in our power to serve you in iz: “that you piace it in your very praiseworthy undertaking of reforming what we believe to be one of the greatest abuses existing under our government. PAVBR FOR THR PURLIC PRINTING. The paper used by the government is now pro- enred by the Superintendent of Public Print ing lr the provieion of the low of 18%9 nsible houses in that | city New York, copies of | | | | | eunpluyed at $ig ‘A faisful observamce of that law woud ‘ secure the government from imposition; but your committee have reason to believe that it is not sufficiently guarded in its provisions, An ex- amination of the paper in the public store hasshown that little attention had been given to the weight and color of the paper furnished under some of the contracts. When the samples, which the law re- quires the Superintendent to keep, were demanded, it was found that "hey had been used as waste pa- per or for some other the clerks informed your committee that the sam- ples were in the office until about the time of the appointment of your committee, and were then wn aside ,as the contracts had been filled. In that particular your committee are unanimous- ly of the opinion that further checks and safe gaards ure required, both in the purchase and in the use of the paper for pomtic priab 4 The Reagan nde of sup open to great abuses, and there are few or nom cient checks ie ye them. ee gross amount of paper purchased for the printing of the Thirty-third C was $500,456 21; for the Thirty-fourth $510,163 64. In addition, the paper for the departmental printing amounted to a considere ble sum, about $161,209 05, during the period of the Thirty-fourth Congress. REPORTING CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Your committee was also instructed by the reso- lution of December 18, to fagaies into the “ Publication of the ie del of Congress, the roceedings and as pubis in the Congressional Globe by Mr. Rives. He gets $750 per column for the re- ports, which are published in the form of a daily pope snd ieldca desks of the members on the lowing day. ‘These BecheoRings are afterwards made up in quarto form, of ich Hg A ogy 11,768 copies tor the use of members. was formerly paid sixty cents per volume for binding the same, but now seventy-five cents are = for binding per vo- lume. There are usually six volumes to éach Con- gress—four for the long and two for the short ses- sion. In addition to the amount paid percolumn for reporting the proceedings, Cs 3 has usually made an allowance to the reporters; and as further evi- dence of their great liberality they resolved on the 18th day of August, 1856, to give Mr. Rives one cent for excess for every five papers of the Congressional Globe and appendix over t thousand pages for the long session, and the same for all over fifteen hundred for the short session. This goa aamnied to $12,655 39 for the Thirty-fourth Con- The proprietor of the Congressional Globe has a further benefit at the public expense. He is permit- ted to send his paper, whether in single sheet or in bound volumes, by mail without charge. In this singular mail facility there seems to be no intrinsic Propriety. The sum paid for the Con- | poner for the Thirty-second Congress was 176,462 08; for the Thirty-third Congress it was $186,601 94, to $204,965 28 for the Thirty-fourth Congress. This is exclusive of the binding, which amounted to $32,805 28 for the Thirty-second Con- gress, to $52,939 for the Thirty-third Congress, and to $52,939 for the Thirty-fourth Cor I. Mr. Rives now hasthe contract for binding, and therefore receives annually for the Globe about $257,904 28, which is the gross amount paid for the Thirty-fourth Congress. A responsible party in this a offered to sup- py the Globe in the same style in which it is now urnished at a reduction of $35,000 per annum, and to give ample security for the fulfilment of his con- tract. The attention of your committee has been called to the ne ene of Sat Ene mail let- tings in the pers in this city. ey pro} to limit the peRen ment to ons paper in this city, whereby from thirty to thirty-five thousand dollars can be annually saved. Your committee beg leave to submit the following tabular statement of the cost of the printing, bind- ing, paper and engraving of Congress and of the departments, and of the amount paid for the 6on- ressional Globe. Table “ A” shows the costs of the fhirty-third Congress: that of the Thirty- fourth Congress, and the amount paid for the Congressional Globe :-— TABLE A. ‘TUK TOTAL COST OF PRINTING, BINMING AND ENGRAVING FOR Tim 381 — 716,760 08 Add Japan, ordered second session, 334 Con- gresé, not included in the annual report of Superintendent ...........seeseseseees-> 239,841 30 Cort of Pacific Railroad . including en- —_ exeouted outside of the control of the direction of the 1,100,000 00 65,771 G4 186,001 94 62,989 00 «83,025,837 92 TABLE B. | Cost OF PRINTING, FNORAVING AWD BINDING TOR THE THTRTY- POURTH CONGRESS | Senate, Ist and 24 sessions, . $248,169 40 House, ae 435,130 82 Departments, for the year. 175/354 16 $856,634 58 $249,793 56 404,514 12 162,965 26 817,072 93 + 200, 00 Third session, Senate, “ Houre ents, for the To finteh Emory and Com. 91,878,707 31 $536,186 39 671,372 69 336,402 16 331,747 17 Add amount paid for Congressiona’ reporting 204,965 28 Ada amount paid for binding Globe and ap- PONGIX .,.ccceeeeveeseneeeees ones eeeeee 52,939 00 Total amount paid TABLE C. AMOUNT PAID FOR THM CONGRRSSONAL GLOME. 24 copies’ of Congres rional Globe and ap pendix for mem each the] 51,396 00] 51,624 09) 1,000 00] 1,260 00) 62,066 00 1,481 60 five pages of Con gressional Globe and appendix, for all ‘over 3,000 pages for the seeeion and 1,800 for the short SORRION Additional ‘compensa tion to reporters... » |8176,462 08] 186,001 94) 204,965 28 2} 82/348 20} 62,009 00] 62/939 00 Total paid for the Globe! cae eae and apperdix...... $208,505 28] 239,540 04] 267,008 28 To these amounts there must be added an annual sum of about $100,000, paid by the Cleak of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, for stationery, twine and otherymaterials used in the folding rooms of Congress 'imfolding and sending away the public documents The following statement will give some idea of the work done in the folding room of the House:— There were 837, volumes of public document folded and sent to members during the Thirty-foart! Congress. During the same period there were 5 594,95 neg folded and sent ont. About the same number of cach was folded in the folding room of the Senate. Under the foregoing exhibits your committee deem it pertinent to state that the result of their inquiries in relation thereto h n that a saving for each Congress re a half million of dollars might have be ed by @ proper system. committee feel an- ge amount of money is annually paid to p and speculators through contracts for printing. ling, engraving, &c., and that the mode by which the public work is now done not only presents opportunities for frands upon the treasury, but invites and stimulates an unnatural competition among parties who are willing to risk their reputation in a business promising sach large gains. The injurious effects of the present plan are two- fold. It injures the private business of the country, as stated in the letter of Mosers. Arthar & Co.; it offers a premium for dishonest speculators, and enables them to oppress the honest and hard work- ing artizan. It contributes very largely to lower Congress in the estimation of the public, and thus it inflicts a serious wound upon our institutions. The printing, binding, &c., in connection with everything else, except the legitimate legislation of the country, should be removed from Congress, and be Congressional inflnence. The great objects of legislation, involving the prosperity and dignity of the nation, are neglected or overlooked in the reswure of details, or in races after Sonal stnatihs, Coons ve of precedent trade them beyond the line of public economy, and sometimes that of penpricty. Lo remove these difficulties, aud to avoid the large perpen. This, doubtless, was | an oversight in the lat uperintendent, as one of | expense of the present mode of doing the public printing, your committee recommend the establish- ment of a bureau for the public printing, connected with and under the direction of the Department of the Interior. In this way your committee believe that a large amount of money can be annually saved. Taking the Congressional and departmental print- ing and binding, and the publication of tue pro- ceedings ard debates, together, we think that forty per centum en the gross amount, at least , can be saved. ‘This amount for oue year on the cost of the d necsssary work would more than pay the entire expenses of establishing the bureau. Bui your committee consider this annual saving, however important to the Treasury, to be of minor conside- ration when compared with the many advan! and benefits to be gained by the establishment of a printing bureau. ‘The demoralizing effecta of the prasent system of public plundering would be removed, while it would relieve Con; m the imputations, just or unjust, which grow out of the electi of its printers and binders. It would also relieve individual members from the importunities of friends ‘interested in the lication of books by‘ Congress. It is a well Brows fact that many of the expensive, but al- , Were forced most useless works recent! upon Congress by parties Bones inting. Prthe Stem committee recommend has been tried and adopted by almost every European nation. ‘Their experience has given entire satisfaction. In England the work is done by public prin- ters under the Royal Charter, and as the parties are paid by Parliament for the work at certain established rates, their system re- sembles our present plan, but it has never given sat- isfaction. In 1831 Lord Nugent and J. Vernon Smith were appointed a select committee to investi- gate the subject. Mr. Parks, then the sole manager of Mr. Clover's great printing establishment, gave it as his opinion that a saving of one-half might be made in the expenses by the establishment ofa public rinting office. The committee reported the facts, but su; ed no remedy. From that time to the present re has been constant complaints, and a regular succession of select committees; but they have gained nothing but a reduction in the profits of the public printer, which was effected by a resolution re- some yy the select committee on the 13th of June, Trusting in better fruits from the labor of your committee, they heg to report for adoption the ac- COS bill creating a bureau in the Depart- ment of the Interior for the execution of the public printing, binding, engraving, lithographing and or ie All of which is respectfully submit- in the public The Last Moments of Rev. Dudley A. Tyng. {From the Philadelphia Press, April 22. The shadow which the death of the Rey. Dudley A. Tyng has thrown over this community seems to have deepened from the hour of its first’ announce- ment. Stricken down in the very flower of man- hood, when, to all appearances, the field of his use- fulness was daily wit and under circumstances so painful, the effect has been like a marvellous dis- pensation of Providence. Atthe noonday meetings for public worshi with which Mr. Tyng’s presence was peculiarly iden: tified prior to the fatal accident—his death has be- comethe absorbing theme. The closing scenes of his life, as described Hs ae of his brethren in the ministry at the Jayne's Hall meeting yesterday was a most thrilling narrative, and seemed tomove every heart present. Indeed, as the minister—who was an eyewitness to the scene—proceeded with his simple statement of the last words addressed by the dying man to those around him all eyes were suffus- ed with tears, and an uninformed stranger, entering the room, might have thought himself in a vast con- gregation of mourners. From the time of the fatal accident to one hour shag to his death Mr. Tyng had an unfaltering con- idence in his recovery, and even conversed freely and hopefully upon what, as he believed, Previdence had designed to teach him in the dispensation to which he was being subjected. He believed it was intended to promote his greater efliciency as a min- ister of the gospel, and he looked forward with ties hopes when he should again be able to preach, and to preach as he had never done before. About one hour before his dissolution his family, fearing that his hopes of recovery were groundless, ap- proached him with the solemn intimation that in all probability he was soon to leave them. His physi- cian entering the chamber at the instant, Mr. Tyog spoke to him of these fears. The doctor's reply was it they were only too true—that his time was fast drawing to a close. The dying man, with the same heroic spirit, which never forsook him through all his su! , received the solemn announcement with the utmost resignation, answering only, “Then it is well—it is very well; Ged’s will be done.” After a few moments of composure he called his friends present and the members of his family to his bed side to bid them @ last farewell. He thanked his gusces. who is not a professing Christian, for his kind attention, warning him with great tender- ness to lose no time in giving himself to that Saviour who was now sustaining him in the hour of trial. To each of his children he gave an affectionate fare well, hoping that, by the grace of God, and the care of a devoted mother, they might be early brought “to know their Saviour.” To wife, who has mi- nistered to him with so much affection and fidelity, allthrough his illness, he ineluded in his ing words the request that she would use her endeavors to —_ their boys up to the ministry. He was now : say ag tg hag ~ ae pron Rev. — 5 i, D. D. Taking parent by the ioe said, with much earnestness’ “Stand a for Jesus, father; stand up for Jesus, and tell mg brethren in the ministry, wherever you meet them, to stand up for Jesus.” At the close of this solemn ceremony, feeling that he was approaching his end, he requested those around him to ee a hymn. After a moment of si lence, his own wife, notwithstanding the solemn cir- cumstances under which this request was made, commenced singing the beautiful hymn—made dou- bly so by its appropriateness to the occasion—be- ginning, Rock of Ages, cleft fer mo, Let me hide myself in Thee. The hymn was sung, and even while the echoes of that mournful strain yet floated in the air the spirit of Dudley A. Tyng took its flight to other and, as we have reason to believe, more blissful realms. At the meeting in Jayne's Hall on Tuesday, a very singular fact was referred to in connection with Mr. Tyng’s recent sermon in that hali, to an immense audience, from the text of Scripture, “Ye that are men, go and serve the Lord.” Toward the close of his eloquent discourse on that occasion he ask- ed pardon if he had said anything to offend his congregation, but adding, “I must tell my Master's errand, and I would rather that this right arm (plac- ing his left hand upon it where it has since been am- putated) were amputated at the trunk than that I should come shortof my duty to you in delivering God's message.” The bold antisectarian principles of Mr. Tyng, and the cordialit; his brethren of all denominations, endeared him to the hearts of thousands. His funeral wiil take place this afternoon. It is understood that the body will be taken to Concert Hall prior to interment. “Naval Intelligence, Rrooxtysy Nayy Yaxp.—The opening of spring bas given a now impuleé Jo the different mechanical and la- boring departments in the Navy Yard. There are now over one thousand mechanics ad laborers employed, with = of work and a fair of its continuance ghout the summer months. All the necessary repairs on the United States steam frigate Wabash are completed, with the exception of tautening up her standing rigging, which wi'l not oceaoy more than three or four days at the farthest. nis, bowever, does not prevent ber going in commission as the presence of ber crew on board would not in the least ro- tard the movements of the riggers. Her offivers—a list of the Hrnatn of the 18th inst — the yard who have bad in charge the work deserve much credit for the taste and comfort dispiayed in the re- construction of the different parts of her jaternal arrange. ments. The Wabash will carry a crew of 400 picked men, ‘and fifty marines, rank ana fle. She will go in commis rion on or about the lat. prox. and proceed to her station as per order, flag ship of the Mediteranean squatron. Workmen are atili busy on the United States (razoe) sloop of war Savannah. She will soon be ready to recetve her masts. Ax there haa been no orders respecting the immediate completion of her the work hae not been prose cuted with the same vigor as it might have been done had the exigencies of the case required it. The Savannah will carry the usuml armament of a firet class sloop of war. Tho United States rloop-of-war St. Louis ie still in dry dock undergoing repairs. The United States frigater Sabine and Potomac are in ordinary, waiting for something to turn ap. The formor has never peen toate. The latter made her inst cruise on the hori station in "Sh and "66 The weather beaten little Arctic lays astern of the re ceiving ship North Carolion, lookieg vory ead and forlorn indeed, She hae been out of commiasion about ex months. The United States surveying steamer Water Witch, which arrived a few days since from a short cruise, sailed yesterday for boston. A reservoir, to be built near the main este and rowping paraile! with the marine barracks, has been commenced — the water to be supplied from an artesian well immedi ately in the rear, which was completed last fall, and ca- pable of furnishing 130 gallons of water per minute. This reservoir is being constructed by private contract, and will be completed in lese than three months. The water will be conducted through cast iron pipes into the different bufldings in the yard, and fire plugs arranged at sta‘ed intervals, which, in cane of fires, will boa valuable ac- ee © ee eee ls sam corinne No work will be commenced this spring apon the new marine barracks, 10 be loceted on the newly filed in ground on Flushing ‘avenue, for want of money to carry on the work. Tt in rumored that Commodore Hiram Paulding {s to su. Commodore Lawrence Kearney in command of Brooklyn Navy Yard. ‘Tre Last or tie Ware Party —A firm .in Chicago shipped Ieot week direct to London eighteen thousend coon skms. The Herald and be Panie--A Very Funny a [From the 8. Paul (Minnesota) Advertiser, Oct. 3, 1857.) ORIGIN OF THR PANIC. The New York Heraxp is in its glory. In the midst of a ‘ter degree of general prosperity than has been known for years,a wide spread panic coming, no one knows whence: 3, golng.no one knows whither—has spread ruin and ion along the seaboard. Fearful suspicions, born no one knows how, have taken hold of men’s minds, and a deep-rooted distrust, for which noone can e ow of a cause, has disorganized the whole commercial fabric of the country. No one can imagine a cause, and yet there is a cause—a cause potential from its very 78 that men despise, and when capacity for mischief is proportional to the very qualities which make it univer detested. t which cost ages of patient in gods and men to rear and generations of ts to fect may be destroyed by a single fien le fool in a single night. An army which all the treasures of an empire have been lavished to equip, and all the re- sources of skill and genius exha' to make invin- cible,an army di lined to mathematical accu- racy of movement it triumphant through a hundred glorious battle fields, may be disorganized at a word, annihilated by one false craven cry in the very acme of ita triumph, and the fruits of a hua- dred victories lost rly by a single miscreant, whose recreant sauve qui peut should fire the fearful panic that slumbers like a mine under the firmest mien and the most matchless discipline, Confidence is to the commercial classes what cou- rage is to armies, and lies at the mercy of any vil- whose caprice or interest may dictate its des- truction. What the midnight incendiary is to the glory and pride of cities, what Iago was to the do- ic peers of the Venetian Moor, what the devil in hell is to human hg mare all this, and more, if more were possible, the New York HeraLp been to the business and social interests of the coun- try. Battening like an unclean bird only upon car- rion and garbage, this infernal sheet lives solely by wild excitements of its own creating, and like an obscene picture monger trades upon the passions it inflames. Peace, plenty, calm, prosperity are death to such journals as the Heratp. Its throne is tempest, and its state convulsions. It luxuriates in the morbid and unnatural excesses of society. It advocates no system and adheres to no line of policy. Its cry is ie cry of the Jacobins—destroy, overturn, demolish, Kill, stab, burn. No private reputation is safe from its pestiferous calumnies; no interest of society is secure Lien eis Cd yrsers Six months ago it foun country pros; 18, happy beyond parallel—our whole nioaacisl and commercial system resting by its own con- fession on a better basis than ever before. Its daily circulation began to diminish in conse- quence of this state of things. The temple of Janus was shut, Othello’s occupation gone. The devil never plotted against the millenium more deter- minedly than the Hera.p against a prosperity so fatal to its interests. With nothing else on which to base the prediction than a fanciful theory of periodi- cal revulsions, which made 1867 an ominous number in the commercial calendar, this incendiary journal sounded an alarm of danger to the financial world. Every individual defalcation or fraud or failure was thenceforth linked to a chain of impending disasters. Ap opportune case of railroad mismanagement was dexterously converted into a rule of universal cor- ruption. One failure was interpreted as the signal of a national bankruptcy. The plausible calumny was at least worth precaution. Men got suspicious. The stock of a particular railroad fell. The depreciation of one class of stocks was used to cast suspicion on every other, except Potosi and Parker vein. The malignant poison was “neley out day by day, and drop by Cg persistently and untiringly, in the car of society. The fearful infection took slowly. Meu became at length bewildered in half-formed sus- with which he fraternized with | picions. From the first idea of danger to the universal madness of ‘ic is but a step. From the flickering ignition of the incendiary match to the conflagration that preps ie heavens in havoc is butan hour's space. is is the history of the present panic. e defy any one to give any other. m the mo- ment the fearful insanity of mutual distrust took root in men’s minds the Hexaup was in its glory. Its circulation increased daily. A hundred thousand men are ruined by the false distrust created by this wicked monger of lies. What matterfor that! The Hrxa.p’s circulation rises daily. The commercial credit of the country is destroyed at a blow—our manufactories are epee On schemes of internal improvement arrested,and hundreds of thousands of honest men reduced to hopeless beggary. But what matter for that, so the Heap bet its glory? Ten thousand new readers a week! Why, Murat drew not such crowds under the reeking guillotine. Ten thousand new readers—ah! ha! Bring fuel to feed the flames. Calm reasoning, and wise philosophy and rudent advice will not sell in the market now. The ost and the “Times are too tame for the times. The Henavp’s drugged cup is the madman’s drink. The Heravp’s ge scinte conjectures, and dark hints, and fearful forebodings—the Hxra.p, the Hexap forme. Ten thousand new readers a week —ah! ha! The Hexaxp is in its glory. The Religious Revival_The Churches Com- ing to the Point at Last. {From the New York Observer, April 22, 1858.} WHAT FRUITS THR REVIVAL SHOULD YIELD. We are apt to estimate the power and value of a revival of religion merely by the number of sinners converted to Christ. This is the great first fruit. The soul is above all price. It profiteth nothing to in the whole world and lose it. There is joy in eaven over one repenting sinner, and greater joy when thousands turn to God. Who can count the value of the souls that this revival has brought into the kingdom? Who can estimate the woe escaped, the glory won, the saved soul's good, the Saviour’s praise. ‘This is the first great fruit. But there are other fruits which the revival ought to yield, less noticed by the world, and perhaps less appreciated by the church itself, but of infinite value | to the people of God. If the revival is a genuine | work ot grace in the soul, quickening the faith and | subduing the pride and increasing the zeal of the Christian in the service of his Lord and Master, | there will speedily appear marked and precious fruits. Great and extensive as thia revival has been, and though in this city alone we may num- ber the converts by thousands, and in the coun- try by tens of thousands, we know that the numbers are so small compared with the vast multitudes remaining unchanged, that we have no right to expect any perceptible improve- ment inthe masses of the community. What are these among so many? Crime is not likely to be cheeked because here and there a criminal has be- come an honest man. The rest are hardened. Per- haps they will be bolder and more reckless than ever. Men will pursne the world in haste to be rich, and fall into snares of the devil. Wall street will be as rife with fraud, and the stock board as full of gam- bling as it has been, and the whole world around us | will move on as if the Providence and Spirit of God had not combined to arrest men in their mad career, and by convincing them of the vanity of all earthly | things, had not turned their thoughts by force for a | time heavenward. | _Yetif the world is to move on as if nothing new or e: had occurred, the church wil dis- cover by her fraits the depth and strength of the work of grace she has experienced. The church will be more humble, spiritual and prayerful than before. Brought down into the dust of repentance, chastened on account of past world- liness, and lead to earnest and believing prayer, she will not immediately relapse into her former state and sudden! Tose all the high vant ground she gained. We may expect to see her persistent in prayer for yet greater ne than these. We may believe that she will be dis- posed to live above world, to renounce the things of dishonesty, to keep clean the beautiful garments in which she has been clothed, and live in close communion with her glorious Head. The church will be more united than ever in her works of love. The Spirit has brought Christians ot different names into sweet accord in this revival, 0 that the spectacle has been more impressive to the ontside beholder than anything previously seen in these awakenings. And if the conversion of sin- ners does not go on from year to year as it has done for a few months past, we may hope that the anion of hearts will be continued and increased till the end of time, when the union is consummated of all who love Christ in the church above. They will be more charitable, loving and forbear- ing; lees disposed to magnify the points on which they differ, and more the things in which they agree. Drawn more closely to Christ, they will all be more closely drawn to each other, and thus fulfil the pray- er of the Saviour that they may all be one. If such fruits are not borne, the revival is not as deep and wide and pure as we have represented it to the world. And the church onght to be more zealous than ever in every good work. She has come up the help of the Lord against the mighty; she has been ronsed by a mighty impulse t ge actively im the work of saving souls. If n she falls back agg becomes cold and lifeless, when so many are yet ishing and so much remains to be done, we may well suspect her sincerity. The quickening impulse of this revival ought to be felt and seen for many years in the incre energy with which ourschemes of benevolence are pushed onward, by the vastly enlarged benefactions that will flow into the trea- sury of the Lord from a church that has made a new dedication of itself and all its resources to the ser. vice of God. Prayer and alma will go together and secure the blessing promised, as the sails of our be nevolent institutions are filled with the gales of grace and borne along to the salvation of a world in sin, Hundreds of young men converted in this revival will devote themselves to the holy ministry, thus fresh forces will be brought into the fleld Prayer, veal, faith, money and men—more of all the means, with the Spirit to crown them with the di vine bicrsing, will disclose fruits worthy of the work we are enjoying, and friite that will honor Him who i enutied Wo ail tue glory ut the work, ‘The Wonderful of Edward Eve rett In teston. {From the Charleston Courier, April 12.) THE ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION OF HON. BDWARD opal spirit and wisdom of its immortal founder; and while doing homage and fea'ty at the shrine of minister, also, at the altar of benevolence, and teach like our great Exempier, “to visit the widow and the fe. therless in their affliction,” and like yourself, his disciple, to practice, the poor out of his poverty aud the rich out of his abundance, that heaven born and ‘twice biessed’* virtue, which biesses as well him that gives as him that receives, and enabies the faithful followers of our common Lord and Master “to lay up for themselves (reaeures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth Corrupt, and where thieves do not break TF} , the Pinckneys, rion, Moultrie, Pickens—bids you welcome, thrice welcome, to her commercial emporium, now prepar- ing, we fondly believe, for ber —o Coronation as Queen of the South. Here, in the b.3 the evergreen palmetto, rival of the laurel aa an emblem of victory, im sight and in ear shot of the cannon of Fort Moultrie, pub- lic honors awaited you, haa you been willing to receive them; but such ceremoniais having been forborne, in de- the bana Cd Sige ele op et you, ane Mr. Y. ana » @xt ni ‘asp, vate I~ tality affectionately folds ph hy \. ‘si bide The applause with which this address was attended ving ceased, Mr. Evxrxgrr, in an earnest manner, ox with most musical and winning toxfes, replied 1s ane bape aioe Or THE CoMMITTEE, AND FRuiow ZENS O¥ CHARLESTON—I pray you to accept my acknowledgments for the honor of this pit on however une: ted, is nevertheless but s new manifesta- tion of the kins which has attended me since I first set foot upon the soil of the hospitable South. Wheal left my Northern home, a week ago yesterday, to resume my interrupted Southern teur, the approaches of 8; were hardly discernible; scarce a spire of green grass in the fields; not a leaf bud haa trees; patches of snow might still occasionally be deep places or on the side of the atone walls. bo forec a tac wit the pompous drapery of spring; we st is hung 1¢ pom} of apring; thickets and the feds gay with dogwood and and the gardens fragrant with the full blown rose. The rapid change is almost bewildering to the eye; but I pray i you to believe, sir, that the impression produced upon the senses by this of nature’s scenery is far Jess deep than that luced upon my seelings by the kindness and ity with which Thave eveeywhere been welcomed, and of which you are pleased to tender ‘me, in such flattering terms, this renewed and emphatic . If 1 came to you straight from “the land papain tno ed ofp gorge .) Lam greatly indebted to terms in fete pm are pleased tw the more immediate objects of my tour. 1 esteom it’ chief happiness of my life that | have the privilege, in my declining years, and in my re! ecm ony egress fens of pei apy , the exponent of that veneration for ihe charactor of the Father of bi which is the most widely provailing and deeply cherished sentiment of the American 5 still gratulate myself that I have had the ce a in the accomplishing of the nobi of purchase of Mount Vernon, which has Se ee ae ee ee nanan © heroic the untiring perseverance, matchiess: Poo of a daughter or Carolina; who, modestly, but unavailingly, seeks to hide herself from the gratitude of the country under tho unpretending de- signation of ‘‘a Southern matron.’ (Great applause.) Nor am [ less sensibie to the favorable estimate you are pleased to place on my labors the past season in pevane My discourse on that subject, prompled last autuma by the menaced suffer! the ¥a- ter, bas ceased to have any ‘icalar appropriateness to the times; but the general maintained ia it are limited in their application to neither seagoos nor The interest of the discuselon is ax widespread and perma- ent as human suffering and the duty of relieving it; and I must own that no intellectual effort which I have ever made bas afforded me greater pleasure than that by which {have been enabled, by the kind co-operation of favoring &udiences, to contribute no inconsiderable sum in aid of the various charities for whose benefit my diecourse has beer delivered. But you will not expect me, sir, surprise, to engage in any formal cou! beg you to accept this unpremediiated acknowledgment of your most unexpected kindness, and my cordfal reciproca- on of the friendly sentiments of which, on bebalf of your follow citizens, you have been pleased ‘in so ry manner to tender me the aesurance. (Long continued ap- plause.) This beautiful and touching address of the gifted sceeeer, was bean én by frequent bursts of ap- plause, indicating a highly wrought effect on and en- husiasm in the bosoms of his auditory. At its close Mr. Everett, escorted b Mr. Petigru and the com- mittee, was conveyed to the residence of Richard Yeadon, Esq., where he passed the night, and was visited and greeted by a number of gentlemen dar- ing the is. Yesterday morning he became the guest of Mr. Peti , with whom he will continue until Tuesday afternoon next, when he will return to Mr. Y.’s, and be entertained as the guest of that ntleman until he (Mr. E.) shall leave the = Mr. 2. attended morning service ye: at St. Mi- chael’s church, with Mr. Petigru, and noon ser- vice, with Dr... Hi Dickson, at the Unitarian church. Mr. Everett, as advertised, will deliver his Wash- ington to-morrow ne, and his Charity, on Wednesday evening, at the spacions hall of the South Carolina Institute, where preparations will be made for the comfortable accomodation of 2,500 persons, and where ope ag crowds may be ex- ea comprising the worth, intelligence and beau- y of the 4 Mr. Everett has acce an invitation from all Jolumbia, the political me- jis of the State, to deliver his Washington at place on Friday evening next, doubtless in the most capacious building which that city can furnish; and he will leave this city for Columbia on Thurs- day next, by the South Carolina Railroad; bat whether b: morni or evening train it yet re- mains to be determined, but more pochabiy Sy Be former. Our Columbia friends, however, be duly advised of the precise time ultimately fixed. A Land Swindle. THR AMERICAN HOMRSTRAD LAND COMPANY. The following letter from Governor Randall, of Wiscom- sin, waa written in reply to one from a private individual information in Obio, _ RCUTIVE Orrick, Mapiso, April 13, 1868. 1am in receipt of your letter ot April 7, inquiring in re~ gard tothe “American Homestead Land Company.” It ‘each seem to be located in some of t of this State, I know nothing about the matter at all, out have no doubt there ia some awindie connected with the operation, in some way, but how I cannot toll. There are large quantities of good’ lanaa for saic in thoxe couation, end thers ‘also somo email tracts which are good for nothieg, opt an 90 mach raw material. Steal federal government, from States, from corporations individuals, is being elevated into @ science in tain ‘speedily cbecked, it wil become s a country, and unless time booored custom: having ali the force of oymmon law. My advice to you and to all others ia to have nothing to do with the achome, The men who would concoct it, and, to give it credit, make sucn references as have been made, without authority, would have no besitation in plander- ‘lic if they find opportunity. oe : A.W. RANDALIL Supertor Court Part Four Before Hon. Judge Sioason ACTION POR SERVICES AS NURSR-—NEAVY VERDICT. ‘Avnit 21.— Bmma Landen we, Charles O. Marsh, Admin- istrator of Benjamin F. Marsh, deceased.—This waa aa action brought by the plaint to recover the value of ser- vices rendered by her as nurse to one Renjamin F. Marsh during bie lite tims. Tt appeared that the deceased om- ployed the plainti to attend tim as nurse during the I~ neas which preceded hin death. that she continued in at tendance, as Hurts, npon hit fer the period of Afty.oos months and upwards. ano that the deceased bad often promined the piainti that he would pay her well for nursing bin. The plaintiff claimed in her complaint S126 por month, ‘atthongh there waa no agreoment ever mate As to the compeusation abe aho Th also ap- that her dutios were yor: requiring her and not unfrequantiy ance on ths park sont ha sTAlNty, wndent damages 0 08/0