The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1872, Page 4

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Tacs. 1— Advertisements, Ses, bishop Spalding: Grand and Imposin, Funeral Corstnonien in Baltimore; the'Great Prelate Consigned to the Tomb Amid the ‘Tears of His People; Oration by Archbishop McCloskey in Praise of the Dead Prelate— News from Washington. 4@=—Proceedings in Congress—Amusements—Ly- ceum of Natural History—Arrival of the Re- mains of the:Late General Anderson—A Terrie bie Crime: Three Irish Ku Klux Roast a Negro Boy with Kerosene Oil—The Jersey City Homt- cide—The Richmond Horror: Death of a Vir- ‘inja County Belle and Her Child—The Medico- gal Society—Triblations of the Excise Law—The Standard of the Cross in China— John Foley and His Reform Frienus—A mapeee Street Scene—New Railroad to Phila- S—Oity Affairs: Meetings of the Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen; Important Action as to the Letting of Concracts; A Card trom Tax Commissioner Sands—Ferry Reform—Political Movements and Views—The New York Pres- bytery—The Methodist Preachers— Another Amendment: The Constitution To Be Chris- Uanized—Opposition to “Local Option” in Jer- sey—Arson Again: Narrow Escape of a Tene- ment House from Destruction—Capture of Mighwaymen—Phiiadelpnia Reform—Death of Joln Glass—Fire in West Thirtieth Street— ‘The Death of Mr. Kiump—The Sixth Avenue Shooting affray. G—Edivorials: Leauing Article, “The Heraup’s Expedition to Africa; ‘The Newspaper the Pioneer of Ctvihzation; The Rumored Death of Mr, Stanley”’—Amusement Announcements, W—Editoriais (Continued from Sixth Page)--The Search for Livingstone : Merald Special Report from London; Interesting News trom the Herald Special Corps of Exploration; Its Travel aud Movements to September ¥0,'1871; ‘The Commander at Ogara, in the Dominion of the Chief Targa; Well in Health at the Mo- ment; Subsequent Rumor of tne Death of the Herald Correspondent—The Nile Expedition : Progress of the Herald Explorers in Search of Sir Samuel Baker—India: Assas- sination of Earl Mayo, the Governor General— Miscellaneous Cable Telegrams—The Wash- ington Treaty: The Tone of Britain Moderating Towards Indirect Damages; Premier Glad- Stone's Position Endangered by a Parila- mentary Party of Adjustment; Bismarck’s Tender of Mediation Dented; American Coun- sel in Consultation in Paris—Business Notices, G—The Stokes-Fisk Tragedy: Another Exciting Day of Legal Skirmishing; Empanelling a Petit any, to Pass Upon the Legality of the Action of a Grand Jury; Increased Public Ex- citement; Appearance of the Prisoner—Pro- ceedings in the Courts—The Market savings Bank—The Guardian Savings Bank—Trottiug on the Ice—tiorse Notes—The Naval Acad- emy—A Jersey Raliroad Mystery—The Pough- keepsie Bridge—Wholesale Burglaries—Mu- nicipal Affairs in Paterson—A Drunken Disas- ter—Marriages and Deaths, ®—Financial and Commercial Reports—vomestic Markets—Indignant Jewellers in Council— The Fifteenth Ward Nuisance—The Pacific Mall Investigation—The Chamber of Com- merce—Smalipox in a Street Var—Advertlse- ments, 40—_The State Capitai: Two Charters Before tne Legislature; Another Veto by the Governor; The Erie King and the Hudson River Ralt- road; Tiemann’s Savings Bank Bill Keported— The Army: Overhauling the Roster in the Quartermaster’s Department—The Land of Saints: Disgraceful and Fraudulent Voting at the Polls; The Japanese Banquet; Mean Trick- ery to Insure @ Visit to Brigham Young— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements. V1— Advertisements. §2—Advertisements. Tuk REMAINS oF ArciBIsHop SPALDING were interred in the crypt of the Catholic Cathedral at Baltimore yesterday with a pomp and ceremony befitting the exalted position he held in this life asa cleric, a citizen and a man. The funeral sermog was preached by Archbishop McCloskey, 4 tee York, and as a pious, heartfelt tribute toa fellow laborer in the vineyard will be read for its generous, beautiful sentiments and admired for its ele- Gant eloquence. A full and interesting report of the deeply impressive ceremonies which closed the ététy of the ‘great deceased churche man will be found in to-day’s HeRALp., Toe Next Presiency—Cnase Orr Fintp ihe Cooperstown (N. ¥.) remens Journal—home organ oF J udge Nelson, of the United States Supreme Coliri—annoandes that Whief Justice Chase has dismissed all thought pf being a candidate for President this year, Wnd ig in favor of the Domination of Senator Trumbull as the opposition candidate, The Journal also asserts that most of the leading democrats in this State are at present inclined to accept Senator Trumbull as the “coming man,” but oppose any precipitate action. But all speculations on this subject are at this time idle. The real ‘coming man” may not yet be dreamed of in the philosophy of the most far-seeing politician, ReprpiaTion oN THE HawF-Snert.—The Richmond Hnguirer says that “‘if the repudia- ion of one-half of the debt (the Virginia State debt) would do any good there would be some sort of incentive to acquiesce in the thing,” but that, “when nothing appreciable is gained by it, it is hard to see the taint of repudiation imposed upon our community.” So it is, And ‘we would say, furthermore, to the honest men of the “Old Dominion,” of ali things beware of every jack-o’-lantern that leads Anto the “Dismal Swamp” of repudiation. LWho enters here leaves bope behind.” NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1872.—rKlPLEK SHEET, fhe Heraid’s Expedition to Africa—The Newspaper the Pioneer ef Civilization— The Rumored Death of Mr. Stanley. The modern newspaper marks the progress of civilization, ‘Let me write the songs of a people,” says a writer, ‘‘and I care little who makes their laws.” Well, we have changed that in a fashion, Ballads and edicts are good in their way, and go far towards im- pressing the ideas of a nation, but the press surpasses them in its modern growth and as a necessity of our riper life, The work of a representative journal that keeps pace with the march of the age, and represents its thought and enterprise, has so much power that it becomes a part of the na- tion itself, In England the law recognized three great estates as embracing the whole fabric of government and society. We have added another in this nineteenth century, and already it is the custom to speak of the press as the ‘Fourth Estate.” There are no periods in history more ro- mantic than those which record the adven- tures and achievements of the explorer. When God wished to show His chosen people a mark of His beneficence he bade them go forth and seek the Promised Land. No chapter in the sacred record is more interesting than that which tells of the forty years’ journeying in the wilderness, the miracu- lous passage of the Red Sea, the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, the manna which fell from the sky and the water that came from the rock. The legend of Janus and his journey in search of the Golden Fleece belongs to this fascinating literature. Every nation has its legends of adventure and dis- covery. We read. of the shepherds who wandered with their flocks, of apostles who fled from persecution, of tribes of warlike barbarians who founded empires upon the wreck of enervated nationalities; of armies who conquered with the sword. Coming into modern days, we have the achieve- ments of the Portuguese under such men as Albuquerque; of the Italians under Columbus and Vespucius; of the Spaniards under Pizarro and Cortez and De Soto; of the English under Cabot and Bradford and Penn and Raleigh; of the Danes in the Arctic seas; the Dutch in the East Indies and America; the Swedes upon our own shores, Even now Russia shows her young and growing strength in her advance upon Persia and China. England made her position in the ranks of the first empire of the world when she colonized and conquered India, And America never more thoroughly compels the admiration and respect of the world than when she builds railroads and founds cities and establishes Common- wealths in the country of the Seminole and the Sioux. The history of civilization is never more graphically written than in the history of exploration and adventure. Heretofore the efforts of the bold and far- seeing men to plant civilization in the unknown and savage countries of the world have been little more than personal achievements and experiences. When Francis Xavier traversed Japan and the Abbé Huc penetrated China they were missionaries, bound by solemn vows in the service of religion, inspired by the enthusiasm of Chris- tianity and impelled by the discipline of a mighty Church. When Columbus discovered America he was simply a zealous adventurer, burning with a passion for discovery, carrying a flag which was given him with reluctance and commanding men who followed him with ap- prehension and dread. He gave Spain an empire, which, had she been wise, would have made her the mistress of two continents; and his reward was to be carried home in chains. The settlement of New England arose from the persecutions of a bigoted king, while the wild and reckless men who founded the Old Dominion of Virginia were seeking a career which they had thrown away in England. The story of individual travellers ; of Marco Polo and Vambéry and Humboldt; of Dr. Kane and Sir John Franklin; of Sir Samuel Baker and Du Chaillu and Livingstone—are stories of personal enterprise and daring, sometimes attended with hardship and death. These men have contributed to science and know- ledge at the expense of their lives, and their careers never cease to beread with a fascinating interest. When the Hzraxp equipped an expedition to explore Africa, and find traces of the famous Dr. Livingstone, it marked a new era in journalism as the ripest phase of modern civilization. It recognized the duty of the press tobe something more than merely to stand still and print the news that came to it. The nations were watching with interest and sympathy the movements of this world- renowned explorer. He had charged him- gelf with the duty of solving the problems involved in the mysterious and, so far as we know, the marvellous countries of interior Africa. Was it possible that a country blessed by God with abundant ad- vantages, with a mild climate, fruitful soil, streams and lakes and valleys and mountains, should be abandoned to the wild beast and the still wilder savage? Was there no way of making Africas blessing anda comfort to mankind even as we have made America and Europe ? And when @ bold and gifted man set forth to pe. trate these forbidding wildernesses and dese. ® parc we awaited his return with rakes for the story of his journeyings won. Pree contribution to our modern thought. When the rumor of his death came to us the im- pulse of nations as great as England and of Journals as great as the Heranp was to trace him into his recesses and find whether he was alive or dead—whether his discoveries were in any way an addition to our sum of human knowledge and discovery, and to give to the world what he had lost his life, perhaps, in the effort to give. The man selected by the HERAtp for this work was no ordinary man, If Mr. Stanley—the rumor of whose death comes to us by cable—has fallen in this duty we mourn his fate, at the same time remem- bering that the fate of all must come at last— that in the service of a journal like the Haratp men must give their lives, as they have, time and again, serving the great newspaper in scenes of war and discovery and disaster, The man who falls by the wayside deserves as much honor as he who wins the goal and carries his flag to victory. This honor must be given to Mr. Stanley, He was no ordinary man, nor was this his first dangerous adventure, When Sheridan made his marvellous campaign against the Indians in midwinter Mr. Stanley went with him, and in company with two soldiers rode alone through hundreds of miles of bleak and snow-clad prairie to send us the tidings. When the English made war upon Abyssinia he joined Lord Napier, went through the cam- paigno and sent us the first news of the fall of Magdala, He visited Persia and the sites of Ninevah and Babylon for the Heraxp, and his success, his zeal, his genius, his courage, fitted him for the mission in search of Livingstone. Whether he is alive or dead we point to his work with pride. The representative journal of America does what only great nations have hitherto done. We are in hopes the work Mr. Stanley set out to do will be done by him and that he is alive to report it. But if he has fallen we shall pay his memory all honor and send others to carry the flag which Death has taken from his hands, The New York Charter—The Muddle at Albany. The charter prepared by the Committee of Seventy is to be discussed in the Assembly to- day, and ex-Mayor Havemeyer has called upon every member of the committee to hurry up to Albany to be present at the debate. Mr. Havemeyer evidently imagines that the pres- ence of seventy highly respectable citizens in the lobby will have such an overwhelming in- fluence upon the members as to induce them to pass the charter in its original shape without delay. We fear that such arguments as he and his friends will be prepared to use will not be found effective at the State Capitol. The reformers with whom the famous Seventy—or as many of them as are still unprovided with office—will come in contact up the river are accustomed to seek more solid reasons for thelr votes than the eloquence of those gentlemen can supply. But, whatever may be the effect of the outward pressure sought to be applied to the Legislature by ex-Mayor Havemeyer, we should like that gentleman to inform us whether he regards the appearance of the Committee of Seventy in the character of Albany lobbyists as calculated to have a beneficial influence upon the Legislature and the public. Of course he will urge that the intentions of these highly respectable theorists are pure, that they are working for what they believe to be the public good, that they use only legitimate means—that is to say, reason- ing and argument—to carry their point. This, however, is the plea advanced by all the no- torious lobby hacks at the State capital. The Father of the Lobby, the venerable Thurlow Weed, used to cloak his operations years ago under a similar pretence; and he and his partners in the printing jobbery to-day assert the purity of their motives when they pay out ten thousand dollars to a notorious lobbyist to get a haul of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars or thereabouts out of the Supply bill, and bribe Clerks of the Sen- ate and Assembly with a percentage on all the work they can crowd into their hands. Tweed had the same excuse when he bought up re- publican members to vote for his own charter, and Mr. Havemeyer will not find a fellow lobbyist in Albany to-day who will not assure him that he also is working for the public good, The Committee of Seventy have been heard before the legislative committees, and their work is now before the House for its action. If we had any faith in the honesty and integ- rity of the present Legislature, which we have not, we should advise them to deal with the Septuagent charter just the same as they ‘would with suggestions coming from any other respectable citizens—to adopt what may be found good and practical in its provisions and to reject all that is bad. It is their duty to give New York a fundamental law under which the city government can be honestly and efficiently administered for the next fifteen or twenty years, and if there were seventy hundred high'y respectable lobbyists at their heels they should not suffer themselves to be coerced or cajoled into making any now experiments on a city containing over a million of people. Rip Van Winkle, just awaking from his sleep, would scarcely have been looked upon by his fellow townsmen as a good authority in draft- ing village ordinances, and the yisionary schemes of German dreamers might more safely be put to a practical test in some little settlement on the Wisconsin prairies than in the metropolis of the United States. The minority representation theory that underlies the charter of the Seventy has, it is true, been experimented on before; but it is not the less an experiment now, and the only one practi- cal fact which appears undeniable is that, as arranged by the committee’s charter, it would offer a more efficient and liberal aid to corrupt bargains and combinations than could ‘be found in all the laws ever concoeted by the Tammany Ring. It does not seem probable at this time that any charter, framed with a single regard to the public good, will be enacted by the present Legislature, but New York should at least be protected against this cumbrous experiment. If a job isto be made out of our new charter let it be as simple and direct a one as possible. A few amendments to the present law, legislating out such men as are not to be included in the arrangement, and legislating in all who are to take a hand in the new deal, would be far preferable to such a “arter as ex-Mayor Havemeyer is now at- ‘outils in lobby through the Assembly, -_ “vtvina CoMMERCE.—The Mn. Dawzs on Kay. ‘ced in Congress bill Mr. Dawes has introw ba under the attractive pretence OF Sea commerce, which provides for the construc- tion of ten iron steamships by government money for commercial purposes, is another of those jobs and expedients of which this Con- gress is so prolific. It is mot commerce that needs reviving so much as American shipping interests; but Mr, Dawes and other members who would do this directly through the United States Treasury begin at the wrong end and upon @ wrong principle. What we want is an increase of steamship tonnage for foreign trade, and the only and propor way to get this now is to let our capitalists bay ships abroad at the cheapest rate and then admit these ves- sels to American registry. Nothing short of this will accomplish - the object, and all such expedients as this of Mr. Dawes and that of Mr. Boutwell must prove both ineffectual and an ueingt burden upon the taxpaying peovle. The Revolt of the Politiclans—The Money Changers Out of the Temple. The politicians seem to have revolted against General Grant, and there is much ex- citement in the taverns and legislative lobbies. Some weeks since a politician named McClure, who had been a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and possesses a local fame as the friend of Governor Curtin, the present Minister to Russia, made a sensation in Penn- sylvania by running for the Senate as a coall- tion conservative candidate in opposition to the regularly nominated candidate of the ad- ministration. He was beaten, and, although shia vote was not as large as the democratic vote cast in the district at the last election, the fact that the successful republican had a smaller majority than was given at the previous election made a panic. So the anti-Grant organs are in anuproar. The politicians begin to fear there will be an ‘overthrow of Grant.” And, as if to add fuel to the flame, Colonel Forney has suddenly resigned his position as Collector of the Port in Philadelphia, This act has made a good deal of ex- citement in the country; but, upon analyzing it, there is no new feature to change the situa- tion, Colonel Forney says, in fact, that his principal reason for resigning the place is that he is sorry to have taken it at the outset. The office, we are told, is an insignificant one, as may be imagined when we remember that it is the collection of customs at a port where there is very little impor- tation of merchandise. A politician as ex- perienced as Colonel Forney might well turn away in contempt from an office which did not pay more than his election as- sessments, An editor as brave as Colonel Forney might be glad to retire from a position that compelled him to sacrifice his independ- ence asa journalist while it gave him no ade- quate compensation—moral, pecuniary or political. He deserves great honor for having taken this step. No editor should sacrifice his “independence” for any office, And no partisan editor—not even as untiring and sincere a partisan as Forney— is justified in sacrificing his ‘‘journalistic independence” for five or six thousand dollars a year and the kicks and cuffs of party leaders, and the slanders of what he calls “guperserviceable knaves” iu the bargain. But Colonel Forney makes a merit of @ natural and praiseworthy proceeding» He means to put himself into the po- sition of leading General Grant out of the wilderness, and showing him the way to vic- tory. He desires to support the politician, McClure, whom, with charming irony, he calls ‘a statesman;” he means to restore friendly relations between the President and Sumner, Greeley and Fenton; and there are desperate men who are striv- ing to sway the President, to whom he must cry ‘‘Halt!” All of which we admit he could not very well do from the steps of the Phila- delphia Custom House. If he does not suc- ceed in these elaborate enterprises the infer- ence is that he will oppose Grant. The fact that the politicians are in revolt against Grant, and that as shrewd and expe- rienced a politician as Colonel Forney leads them, does not change the situation, If the politicians elected a President, or if even they made a Presidential candidate, we might be anxious. They are men who trade for power and place. They follow any flag that wins. And their senses become so blunted that in time they mistake their own loudly expressed dis- appointment for the anger of the people and frequently are led by their own noise to abandon the winning side. Presi- dent Jackson had a revolt of a more serious character than any that has menaced Grant. Calhoun and Duff Green and Samuel D. Ingham and Duane and hundreds of other democrats fiercely opposed him ; and with them was the stupendous power of the United States Bank. But the people saw Jackson’s merits with that clearness of vision which the people always re- tain, and which no political mists can dim, and they elected him again. In 1864 there was arevolt against Lincoln. As great a man as Chase was at the head of it, Fremont and Wendell Phillips and Greeley and hundreds of others took part. But the people saw that Lincoln was honest and patient and true, and that it was no cause for his displacement that he had not appointed every politician to office, We believe Colonel Forney took no part in that movement, although he is about the only conspicuous follower of the present anti-Grant party that did not. He knows what came of it! He will surely not imitate the example of the foolish men who went to Cleveland to nominate Fremont and Cochrane by going with Schurz and Trumbull and Cox and ‘the statesman” McClure to Cincinnati to nominate some General like Hancock or politician like Gratz Brown, We can well understand why even the Phila- delphia Custom House would be an indignity to Colonel Forney, and that he should in time throw the office back at Grant and publish to the world that he had left Washington without accepting his invitation to call at the White House, at the very time when it would do the President the greatest injury. But what griev- ance has Mr, Sumger? That Senator has ad- mitted publicly that he treated Grant in a disdainfal and insulting way. What grievance has Mr. Greeley? The record showed the other day that this great philanthropist, who despises office-holding and strives td send all men to the West, has really more appointments in the Custom House than any other politician in the State. What grievance has Governor Fenton? He recommended men to office who did not satisfy the President, The President removed them and found better servants. Then ad w. Mr. Wilkes—tho real head of this move- saith t the Murat of the column—is he not to s °? Why does Colonel Forney be reconcilée. ’ tor from his list of omit this great cat0T Jom his list of pros posed reconciliations Jt there to be 8 peace which leaves ov this gat po litical warrior? Is Senator Schurz td pe forgotten? Certainly Mr. Schurz needs thé President's aid, for he is a necessitoud soliciting politician. And Mr. Scovel, of New Jersey! He went all the way to Missouri to denounce General Grant, and the all-em- bracing mercy and charity which is to enfold Sumner and Greeley and Fenton must not omit Scovel. Likewise, according to the HeRatp despatches, there is “one Benjamin F. Camp,” now in Philadelphia, taking part in the anti-Grant deliberations. We have no knowledge of this gentleman, bat he is called into counsel by Mr. Greeley and ‘“‘the statesman McClure,” and Colonel Forney must see that he also is folded into the Presidential bosom. Well, gentlemen, this is all a merry comedy, but it makes no impression upon the country. If the money changers in the Temple had ‘been asked to go into caucus and express their opinions of Christ they would have evolved a series of indig- nant resolutions. So, when the politicians, hungry, half-fed and disappointed, set up their despairing howls about reform, we re- member the money changers, Ahove all we honor the President for going his way and doing his duty to the country, careless of the praise or censure of mere politicians and confident that a just people will, when the time comes, give him his sure reward. Assassination of the Governor General of Iodia. His Excellency Earl Mayo, Governor Gene- ral of British India, was assassinated on the 8th inst. He was stabbed by a Mohammedan convict, and expired within a brief period after receiving the wound. The scene of the terrible event is located by our cable tele- gram news from India, through London, at Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands. We were already aware that the Governor General intended to make a tour of inspection of the neighborhood in that direction, where some of the most hardened and desperate felons in the Anglo-Asiatic territory suffer under sentences of penal punishment for crime. His Grace the Duke of Argyll communicated the news of the Earl’s decease to the House of Lords, and the intelligence was reiterated by Mr. Glad- stone in the House of Commons yesterday evening. Parliamentary tribates to the char- acter and public services of the murdered no- bleman were offered and recorded in both branches ofthe Legislature, They were amply earned, and well merited officially. The British Crown has not been, perhaps, ever served by a more zealous, animated and effi- cient ruler in India, at least when we take into consideration her present policy in that part of the world, and the new ideas which are now floating over the empires of the far East, as, contrasted with her disciplinary code, it was executed under Warren Hastings, Lord Mayo met many of the native chiefs in magnificent Durbar, or council, some short time since, and with his own hand, by order of Queen Victoria, decorated a few of them with the brilliant insignia of the newly instituted Order of the Star of India. It was searcely sufficient, however. The Asiatics feel that they are men, Education, with the enlightenment of the electric spark, is warm- ing their mind and prompting their hearts to inquire— How long shall militons still kneel down Ana ask of thousands whav’s their own? Lord Mayo was compelled to enforce many severe sentences against native disaffection just lately. Men were again blown from the mouths of cannon for the crime of mutiny. The Looshais are in arms in their mountain fastnesses, and the entire territory of North- western India remains agitated: by the knowledge of the fact. Religious fanaticism is neutralizing British Christian missionary effort at different points. It is alleged, indeed, that the native traditionary reports of the efforts of Francis Xavier's system of propa- gandism in former years find more favor among the tribes of India to-day than the best directed work of the Bible Society of London. Be these things as they may, it is easy to see that the deed of assassination of a great officer of British state in India by a Mohammedan con- vict, just at present, fs not an occurrence cal- culated to evoke special wonder, however it may be deplored. Lord Mayo was not be- loved by his tenantry in Ireland. It has been charged against him that he wasa cruel and exacting landlord. A Heratp special writer visited his estates some short time since and found the tenantry in a miserable condition in many of the districts, He may not have been a humane ruler in the foreign possession in which he has just died. His actual public antecedents at home or his inferential mode of government abroad, however, present no justification for the act of his murder. This must be sought for in the spirit of Mohamme- danism and the revengeful motive which im- pelsa convict criminal heart. ‘Change was moved sensibly by the first news of the assault, and Indian securities depreciated universally. The Progress of Corruption at Albany—Is the Present Legisinture for Sale to the Erie Ring @ It is not encouraging to those of our citizens who voted last fall without regard to party in the’cause of reform to know that the State Legislature, now in session at Albany, prom- ises to leave behind it a record more in- famous than that which has blackened its notorious predecessors of the last three years, Yet there are now indications that the lobby are to have things all their own way this ses- sion, and that the members of both houses are as ready to sell themselves like cattle as were the meg whq Jagh year apd the year before hung about the rooms of the Erie Ring and the Tammany Ring, and received their bribes almost without an attempt at concealment. Early in the session Senator O’Brien introduced a bill to repeal one of the most rascally of the many rascally laws passed for the special benefit of Gould, Lane and thetr associates of the Erie Railroad Ring—the Classification act. This act, which was notoriously carried through the Senate wod Assembly by bribery and corruptlon, gav@ perpetuity to the rule of the men who had sefzed upon and held the property of the Erie stockholders in deflance of Jaw. With- out it, in spite of the convenient friendship of Judges and the purchased aid of the Legisla- ture, the rule of ti'e Gould and Fisk combina- tion would have been of short duration. Yet Senator O'Brien's bil] @ills hangs in com- mittee, and it is now opevUy boasted that it Cait Héver pass the Senate. ‘“ i From thé commencement of thi®session the Erie lobby has been busily at wo’ with the members, and, there is too much r‘9800 he fear, has succeeded in buying up enough" yotes to defeat any bill that seeks to interfere with the rule of the present Ring. ‘The Sagi Legislature, with a republican majority of three-fourths in both houses, was elected especially to overthrow this Ring as Tammany was overthrowa courts, Before election the pledges organs of the majority were freely made on behalf of the republican candi- dates that if successful one of their first acta would be to repeal the scandalous special legislation of the past three years, and to break the power of the men who hold the Erie Railroad in their grasp. These pledges can- not be broken witbout destroying the party that made them. The reform Legislature is bound to the people to end the reign of the Erie Ring; and yet, with over three-fourths majority, they hesitate to repeal the law that alone gives it life and power. There is but one explanation of this conduct—and the peo- the the ple will hold it to be proven with- out the aid of investigating commite tees—the reform legislators who were elected to overthrow the Erie Ring have been bought up with money to betray their trust, Let Senator O’Brien insist upon bringing his bill to a vote in the Senate when every seat is full, and the yeas and nays can be put om record. Weshall then see what Senators have been purchased by this powerful and unscru- pulous combination, for it is certain that no reform member will vote at the bidding of Gould and Lane unless they have been fur- nished with very substantial reasons for be traying their constituents. Congress Yesterday—Legisiation in Embryo—= The Women Suffragists—The Chicage Rew Mef Bill Reconsidered. As usual on Mondays, ao large mass of embryonic legislative matter was deposited yesterday in the House and distributed among the various committees, where but a very small percentage of it will ever be hatched and vivified. A couple of propositions so disposed of had reference to our prostrate commerce. One was a bill introduced by Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, professing in its title to be for the revival of commerce, but pro- viding merely for the construction of ten first class iron steamships, and the use of the same by the aid of government bounties aud subsi- dies, Evidently that bill falls very short of the mark. Another bill for the same general object ‘was ‘Introduced by Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts; but that was understood to be the project prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury and submitted to the House Committee on Com- merce last week, proposing a bounty on wooden and iron steam and sailing vessels and the renewal of the fishery bounties. That, as we endeavored to show atthe time, will also fail to reach the end proposed. Our com- merce is not to be revived and stimulated by any such half-way contrivances. Let the fishermen of Maine and Massachusetts bé at liberty to buy their boats and their nets and tackle and salt, and all the appurtenances of their calling, wherever they can get them cheapest, and free from tariff exactions, and they will ask no other favor from the govern- ment to enable them to compete successfully with the fishermen of the British Provinces. If, after they are placed upon that footing of equality, they will still be unable to hold their own, it will be time enough to con- sider the question of boosting them up with bounties. And so it is, too, with our merchants and shipbuilders. Give the former the same rights which the merchants of all other maritime nations have, to buy their ships in the best and cheapest market, and give to the latter the materials for their business free from taxation, and neither the one class nor the other will ask or need bounty from the government. But anything short of this as a mode of relief will prove utterly ineffectual in promoting any general and permanent im- provement in our shipping and commercial interests. The Chamber of Commerce of this city gives expression to the same opinion, in a memorial presented to the House yesterday by Mr. James Brooks, The chances of ob- taining such legislative relief from this Con- gress are, we are aware, very slight; but still itis as well to keep the public attention di- rected to the subject, in the hope that popular sentiment may make itself felt sooner or later. The women suffragists made yesterday an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a footing on the floor of the House. Mr. Kelley, of Penn- sylvania, the champion of the pig-iron inter- ests of his State, and the opponent of all tariff reform that might injure those interests, could not resist the seductive influences of the women who want to be politicians, and he consented to offer a resolution that three of the petticoated agitators should be heard at the bar of the House next Saturday in an argument for the right of the sex to attend ay ‘and run for Congress. The resolu- tion actually got the affirmative vote of eighty- seven members, comprising many prominent men of both political parties; but the unim- pressionables were in a majority of nine, and the resolution was rejected. Of course the women will not stay beaten. They will insist atleast on their primitive prerogative of being heard, and we may regard itas a foregone conclusion that some Saturday's session will be snatched from buncombe and consecrated to feminine oratory. ‘ Among the other matters of public interest that came before the House jcacruay was a that come sls oF Billo, of Mr. Banks,” of Massachusetts, for an investigation into the affairs of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- pany; aresolation, offered by Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, but defeated, calling on the President for information as to the position of the English government in regard to the Washington Treaty; a resolution, offered by Mr. Mercur, of Pennsylvania, and adopted by a vote of 140 to 37, instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to report a bill for the re- peal of all daties on tea and coffee; anda resolution, offered by Mr. Kelley, of Pennsyl- vania, instructing the Committee on the Li- brary to examine the international copyright proposition, in a sense favorable to literary piracy. w In the Senate, after a discussion lasting the whole day, the vote by which the Chicago Re- lief bill making house-building materials free of duty was passed several weeks ago was reconsidered, and the bill is now at sea, If ever picked up again, which is doubtful, the chances of its passage are so slight that we would not advise anybody in Chicago to defer rebullding his dwelling or warehouse in the expectation of that measure becoming a law. Senator Sumnér has been making another flank movement against President Grant, un- der the mask of a resolution of inquiry into by the people aud } facts and circumstances of the Preach having