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ago, when he renounced a negative faith and embraced a positivé one. Ton thousand men do the same thing every week in this country, and yet there is not the least stir created by it. But let George H. Hep- worth renounce Unitarianism and embrace Congregationalism, and the whole country is apprised of the fact. The press heralds it fur and wide, and the event is talked of in the | pulpits and around the Christian firesides of | the land. Sublimity of conception, boldness | of expression and simplicity of style, are the pecullar characteristics of this preacher. The people flock to hear him, noi because he tells them anything different from what they could hear elsewhere, but he tells “the old, old story” more sweetly and pleasantly and beau- tifully than others teil it. It is clothed with a fresh charm from his lips and inspires new hopes in hearts that were void of hope, and revives the expiring hopes of others. Though it is but a few weeks since he cut loose from the denomination in which he had beea born and maintained and the church with | ‘whom he labored, he has found friends ready to subsoribo more than a third of a million dollars to enable him to erect a chureh edifice which shall be to him a habitation anda name, Thus we see that greatness does not go unrequited. “The Overthrow of the Lobby—Let us Have an End of Land Grants. The exposures and admonitions of the HERALD were manifeat in the action of the House on Friday, on the proposal to renew the land graot to the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad. The contest was closely fought by the friends of reform and retrench- ‘ment, headed by Mr. Cox, Mr. Holman, Mr. Stevenson and General Ketchum, members of different parties. It is with regret that we find men like Dawes, Farnsworth, Hooper, Lynch, Slocum, Wheeler and Poland voting in favor of a measure which was a flagrant outrage upon the public credit. But at the same time the public sense of the House was strong enough to overbear this array of dis- tinguished names. They must answer to thelr constituents, We have examined this bill carefully, and we do not see that it has one redeeming qual- ity. The franchise contemplated by the bill was granted many years ago. The owners made no effort to build the road, When the grant was made it would have been of great advantage to Wisconsin. Tie State was young, undeveloped, with an overplus of public lands, andcould have given of its superabundant acres to build a railway. But the men who owned the franchise had no sach intention, They cared nothing for the enterprise or the growth of Wisconsin. They simply yearned for money. They held the grant for ten years, It was renewed for five years. Nota dollar was spent in the development of the road. Money was made in an effor: to found tho new town of Superior City, and it seems like tecalling a chapter of the history of the Inst generation when we learn that the enterprise enured to the benefit of such men as Stephen A. Douglas, John ©. Breckinridge, Robort Toombs and John Slidell. It was in some reapects a venerable job. Every year added to the value of the lands. A franchise, with two dollars an acre, increased in value to ten -and twelve dollars an acre. An easy Con- gress had on two occasions confirmed the grant, and there was no doubt similar influences would still control. Congress had been lavish in giving away the lands. It had given sixty millions of dollars to build a road to the Pacific, which might as well have been built for twenty millions. It had given the Northern Pacific as much land as is included in the European area of France, and no better lands remain. There was no room to doubt that there would be the same spirit of legislative complaisance. Men of national repute—eminent for their ‘‘hon- esty” and ‘‘integrity,” like Dawes and Hooper—were induced to support it. The lobby was rallied in force. As we have said, the vermin of legislation seemed to swarm and crawl over the House. Combinations were made with the Yerba Buena people, behind whom was the great Central Pa- cific Railway. All the delicacies and com- forts and luxuries of modern civilization were devoted to the work. Money was spent iv “retaining counsel,” in paying “gambling debts.” There were dinners, receptions, as- semblies, and everything was on the flood tide to success. Then came the HeRratp exposure of the lobby. We have read of the bombardment of the calico forts with which the Chinese at- tempted to guard their coasts when menaced by the English navy, In a figurative sense, it seemed as if a columbiad had sent its round shot ripping, tearing, destroying. The lobby forts were found to bo calico—the turrets and bastions ingeniously painted fictions, The lobby was shattered, aod all that was seen were fragments of wine glasses, viands, playing carde, faro ‘‘chips,” cigars and flowers, with the masters in ignominious retreat. The surrender of Erie, complete and prompt as it ‘was, was only rivalled by tie downfall of the lobby. The most perfect combination ever formed against the Treasury was routed. When the vote came many members ran away and would not vote. They had fragrant re- mains of “Dick” Franchot’s champagne and “*Sam” Ward’s cigars, and had not the heart to disappoint the luxurious and hospitable cx- pectations of their saintly hosis. So they left the field, Farnsworth and Dawes held their ground with their followers. Mr. Dawes is leader of the House, He has made many blatant speeches in favor of rc trenchment. He gives us every yeara dia- tribe upon corruption and extravagance. His reputation as an honest man has been care~ fully nursed by his friends and followers. Yet he did not disdain to unite himself with o shameless lobby and to lead in a wanton at- tack upon the Treasury which he has so meri- toriously ‘‘defended.” -But allin vain! Mr, Dawes could not save the scheme, and he retreats out of the contest with a sorely Wounded reputation. When the leader of the Houge makes himself the leader of the lobby we may well mourn for the absence of public virtue ia public men, ‘The defeat of this measure is full of instruc- tion, It means that the subsidy business is wrong. Congress has no more right to alienate the public domain for private gain than to uso the money of the Treasury a8 en- dowments to individual members, These NEW YORK JERALD, MONDAY, lands are a sacred trust, They belong to the people. We invite the citizens of other lands to accept our citizenship. We send our young men out into the world to make their way. We are impelled ourselves to abandon the sorely burdened and heavily-crowded East, and find homes in these fresh and inviting countries, Every year, with the increase of wealth and enterprise, adds to the value of these possessions, To sqnander these lands upon railways, which simply use them for their own gain, like the directors of the Pacific Railway, or which lock them up for twenty years against emisration, like the owners of this Lake Superior and St. Croix scheme, is in every sense a crime. We can see no intelligent motive for legislation of this kind. In saying so we are not arguing against giving land subsidies to railways. There are regions in the West—say in countries like Arizona, Nevada and Mon- tana—where a judicious endowment of lands will be of great advantage to the community and materially assist in the development of the national wealth. But this must be done under the operation of a general law, framed by wise men with care and thought. Congress should not permit itself to wantonly pass bills which lead to corruption as wide- spread and appalling as was seen in the build- ing of the Pacific Railway. If sixty millions of dollars are given for a national purpuse we must see that they are honestly expended and invested. No such care has been shown. This Pacific Road bas had an immunity which disgraces Qongress. Its agents have been appointed by Speakers of the House, by Colfax and Blaine, on commit- tees where they could seize it and more effectually pluader the Treasury. They have been appointed commissioners to report upon the condition of the road, when every one was morally certain that their re- ports were made in the interest of the Rail- road Ring, and were paid for in money and bonds. They have overwhelmed the press with their ‘‘business,” and virtually hushed every spirit of oriticiam and inquiry, They have gone on from victory to victory, until an angry public sentiment, directed by an inde- pendent press, has at last compelled the House to pause and consider, We say to the republicans that if they mean to select General Grant they can do his can. vass no greater harm than to burden him with this infamous land grant subsidy legislation. The people despise the French arms intrigue, They rate at its true valuation the clamor about the Custom House, They contemn the tavera gossip about relatives in office and presents; but when they see gangs of speculators and adventurers conspiring to enrich themselves at the expense of the Treasury, when they see principalities given to irresponsible private corporations, acting without government con- trol, and are told that these acts are approved by the President without a veto or a protest, they will naturally feel angry and rise in political rebellion. Upon no subject are they more justly sensitive. For this reason we entreat the President, in the spirit of the most sincere friendship, to put his veto upon the first measure that comes to him proposing to endow irresponsible corporations with the public domain, Let him say that he will sign no bill that does not guard the vested rights of the people in the most careful manner; that does not hold the directors of the pro- posed enterprise to the strictest scrutiny and accountability; that gives one acre more than is necessary to aid the enterprise, not completely build it, and that does not provide that in the event of the lands not being sold to actual settlers within a certain time they shall revert to the government. An effort will be made to resuscitate this bill upon the report of a conference committee. We are confident that men as gallant as Ketcham, Holman, Stevenson and Cox will continue their war and defeat it. But whether or not, our last reliance is in the President, and if he would stand well with the people he must not disappoint us, The conqueror of the rebellion must not surrender to the lobby Admiral Iuglefleld’s Movements=Shall Prepare for War with England? Our Washington despatches this morning reveal a startling state of facts not only in re- gard to the defenceless condition of our coast aud of our principal cities, but also in respect to Lhe movements of Rear Admiral Inglefield, the naval attaché of the British Legation at Washington. It seems to us that the facilities which wera afforded to this officer to inquire into our defensive strength and weakness at the moment when England is about to vio- late her treaty obligations have been too liberal to be justified on the ground of inter- national courtesy. England adopted the same system of spying out the land during the Trent controversy, and was ready to bear down with a strong fleet upon our unprotected harbors in case we refused to surrender the captured rebels. She is apparently preparing for some- thing of the same kind now, should war grow out of the disputed Alabama claims, A short, sharp aod decisive blow would be her aim. If she could batter down New York and seize the command of the Mississippi in a week it would be worth a hundred victories in the field, and she could titen offer us the olive branch, in the hour of our humiliation, to save her commerce. In all this England sadly mistakes our temper, as she can find abundant evidences in our civil war; for we would not only drive her fleets of merchantmen from the ocean, but her flag from the Western hemisphere, But some sort of preparation on our part seems to be necessary. We cannot look upon even a bully stripping for the fight without some concern lest he should have the hardihood to strike in hope of an easy victory, It is well to be on the alert and to save ourselves from disaster and disgrace by guarding against the possibility of a war, which, if it comes at all, will begin with a stunning, staggering blow. We are, perhaps, too busy negotiating new loans and thinking of the payment of the na- tional debt to prepare for war in time of peace. We hear that some measures are to be taken by the government for putting our defences in better condition, by arming our foris and refitting our iron-clads, if Congress will make the necessary appropriations. It is understood that three millions of dollars will be asked for this purpose, and {f the appro- priation is made and judiciously expended the money will not be thrown away, Even Spaio, much a8 we ara accustamed to deride We | we cannot, her arrogance ana decay, might overcome us fora time if the two countries should go to war. This is a state of 0g which should not. be permitted long to continc’® aad which il becomes a great nation, We ptust take lessons from our enemles as well as from our own experience. We cannot afford to regerd lightly the investigations of Admiral Ingle- field or to wait until a hostile fleet is steaming into our harbors, England will not recede from the postion she has taken on the Ala- bama claims and the Geneva Conference, and War is not probable, but it is possible with England at any moment, and with Spain sooner or later. We can afford to make such preparations as will secure us against war by the strength of our defences and defensive appliances, These cannot ba made in a day, and it would be well to do now what, inthe judgment of the President, ought to be done for safety and security in any event. a Eyeuisn Poritioa, SYMPATHY WITH THE Pari ‘“Reps,”—The radicals of England are to commemorate the anniversary of the ‘‘up- rising” of the Paris “Reds” of the Commune by assemblage in St. George's Hall, London, this evening. The French “uprising” was in itself a most decisive affair, and resulted in producing the most decided consequences to the administration of government in France. The unpleasant part of it is narrated in our cable telegrams from Paris, which tell almost daily of the executions which now take place in the criminals’ field at Sartory. The London reformers can afford to overlook such ‘‘infer- ential damage” incidents, however, as they are at a good and safe distance from Sartory. Personal Intelligence. General Clinton B, Fisk, of St, Lonis, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Francis B, Haynes, of Boston, ex-President of the Unton Pacific Railroad, 1s sojourning at the Hote man House, General R, Randson, of North Carolina, is at the Grand Central Hotel. James Austin, member of Parilament, Canada, is & guest of the Sturtevant House, General R. P. Buckland, of Onio, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Homer Ramsdell, of Newburg, is at the West minister Hotel. Colonel ©. T. Pollard, of Alabama, ts sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Count Arnini, of the German Legation, Is stopping at the Brevoort House. Judge Tremain, of Albany, is registered at the GuUsey House. Governor John T. Hoffman left this city for Albany yesterday, Judge James Grant, of Iowa, is at the Grand Centrat Hotel. FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP. —Pra Bat Somdetch Prabaramin Taramain Taramaha Chulalonkorn Kiao Pra Chao Pen Din Stam 1s the name of the King of Siam. —The Sultan has received a large gift of birds and beasts from the Khedive, among them some Cuban bloodnounds, with heen noses for a negro, —the Rev. Mr. John Purchas, the minis‘er of St. James’ Chapel, Brighton, was recently served with the order of suspension. made by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. =—Some tattling memver of the Assembly openly informed M. Gambetta tuat the President still speaks of him as un jou furieux, wheroupon the ex- ictator did become furious and declared that unt versal suifrage had condoned his policy of realst- ance @ outrance. —Lieutenint Colonel Charles Wyadham, for Many years Keeper of the Regalia at the Tower of London, disd recently at his resiuence 12 that for- tress, Colonel Wyndham served with the Second regiment of Dragoons at Waterloo, where he received two severe wounds, ——A member of the Upper House of the Austrian Parliament has presented a plan for laying a cabie between Trieste and Alexandria. The Austrian government has already made preparations for con- Becting by cable the fortified seaport of Ragusa, in Dalmatia, with Malta and Vortu. —~Lord Charles Hamilton, adjudicated a bank- upt in December last, but who has pertinaclously refused to appear, again falied to answer to his name, and was believed to be out of England. Mr, Registrar Spring-Rice ordered the usual memoran- dum of non- appearance to be entered, THE HERALD AND DR, LIVINGSTONE. (From the Datly News, Brighton, England.) The New YorRK HRRALD boasts of a new enter. prise. It celebrated Christmas by publishing a long report from its commissioner in Southern Africa, who had organized an expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone. The accounts, which were dated from Unyambyembe, have been reprinted in the English journals, but the comments of the HERALD are not without interest. Itis very proud of its enterprise, aud claims the credit of the first bold adventure of modern journulism “in the cause of humanity, civilization and science.” For a considerable period there has been great uncertainty as to the where- abcuts of the commissioner, Lincoln said of Ser. man in his famous march, “We know where he went in, but we don’t know where he will come out,’’ and the Henaup shared this perplexity. Now, however, it rejotces in his progress into the interior, It says, “ioldi to the idea that Lake Tanganyika 1s discharged into the Nile, we have a theory that both Dr. Liv- inne and our explorer will come back into the civilized world by the same vutiet irom the heart of savage Africa. Our theory ts that when our traveller reaches Ujtjt ne will learn that pr. Livingstone has gone northward to join Sir Samuel Baker's expedi- ton.” there isa report that Sir Samuel was snot 1n a mutiny of his troops on the Cpper Nile, but this 1a probably a fiction of the Arabs, The British gov- ernment, says the HERALD, ts far too slow and too penurious in its attempis on behalf of Dr. Living- stone, A properly equtnped. exploring expedition of 500 men from the British government could traverse without dificulty the whole breadtn of equatorial Alrica from sea to sea. To do the Americans justice, they are never tardy in their efforts to assist. our explorers, having been most pg tu thelr exertions to discover Sir John ran! In the Engiish papers of the 28th ult., which have Just come to hand, we flad the following interesting news from Africa:— A private letter from Zanzibar of the 7th of Jana- ary describes an interview which the American Consul and several American merchants resident there had had on the previous night with the Sultan ‘sjeet Bonyoush). His Royal Highness was about 0 start on a pilgrimage for Mecca, and he assured his visitors that the Messengers sent by him some time ago on the track of Mr. Stanley, the New Yor HERALD correspondent, would back within twenty days at farthest. They are expected to bring news from mr. Btantey, and possibly some definite intelligence about Dr. Livingstone, OPENING OF THE HUDSON. POUGHKEEPSIE, March 17, 1872, The propeller John L. Hasbrouck reachea this city from New York this noon, From New Hamburg here she crushea through nine inches of solid ice, At times men and boys skated on the 1ce alongside of her, only five feet away, and opposite this city an ice boat darted across her bow. All along the river for a distance of twenty miles she was greeted with cheers, waving of flags and shrieks from steam whisties. She was nos damaged io the least. Navigation between here and New York is now permanently opened for the season. YACHTING. A meeting of the Yacht Regatta Association of the Lakes was held lately at Toledo, and the attendance Was much larger than had previously been ex. pected, The Committee on Constitution and By- laws bot being prepared to report they asked and received an extension of time until the next meet- ing. ‘The sailing rules were changed tn some essen- tial particulars, and made to conform more strictiy vo those governing eastern regattas, ‘The name of the association was changed to that of tne “inter. national Yacht Association of Lake Erie,” and 1 was decided vo hold two regattas the coming sca son, of two owe Kant) at Putin-Bay, the tO vednesday, June 19, and the other on. Tucseay,, Se emver M0 the anniversary of Perry's victory on Lake Erie, ‘The number, kind and value of the prizes will be determined upon hereafter. The following gentiemen were appointed Finance Committee :—Messrs, Merit Sweny and Jay Wooke, Pat-in-Bay; J. M. Ashley, Detroit; Captain G. W. Orr, Sandusky; W. Andrew Worley, middie Bass island.—Cleveland Herald, Maroh & THE SWAMP ANGELS. Latest Intelligence Respecting the Cap- tured Herald Correspondent. HIS PERILOUS POSITION. Determined to Succeed, Rely- ing on the Herald. A Prisoner in the Heart of Scuffietown. Flight or Death of Henry Berry Lowery. THE GANG REDUCED T) THREE. Witmiaton, N. C., March 17, 1872. To-day being Sunday there was no train on the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford road, and consequently there is no later intel- ligence from your correspondent, who is re- ported to be a prisoner in the hands of the Lowery outlaws. The latest intelligence from him prior to his capture is best related by a gentleman with whom he had A CONVERSATION ON THE TRAIN just before leaving it for the rendezvous of the brigands, In substance it is as follows :— “I came down the road on Thursday last. The correspondent got on at Shoe Heel depot. I thought he was a trader or merchant, but was introduced to him as a Heraxp corre- spondent, He told me thathe had been spe- clally despatched by the Herap from New York with instructions to effect AN INTERVIEW WITH THE LOWERYS, and was determined to accomplish the obj ect of his mission or peris in the attempt. He went up the roud on Wednesday and had stopped at Shoe Heel that night, where he had been busy prosecuting inquiries in regard to the outlaws. Hoe had earnestly endeavored to find some one who would carry a letter from him to Henry Berry Lowery, but no one could be induced to take the message for any amount of money. He said he was DETERMINED TO SEE LOWERY if it took him a month to accomplish that ob- ject. He had no fear of the consequences to himself, as he would announce himself a spe. cial commissioner of the Hzratp and rely upon the prestige of that great journal to carry him safely through, I advised him to give up the rash attempt, which was looked upon by everybody on the train as foolhardy and dangerous in the extreme. I recalled the terrible FATE OF THE DETECTIVE, SAUNDERS, so graphically reported in tho Hmratp by another correspondent of that paper, and told him that these outlaws were very suspicious as well as vindictive; but it had no effect upon him, He was determined to persevere in the duty for which he had been detailed. He got off the train alone at Eureka, eight miles from Shoe Heel, and three miles above Moss Neck, right in THE HEARY OF SOUFFLETOWN. He got on the train about forty-five minutes past nine o'clock, and it was fifteen minutes past ten when he left it and started off a foot on his perilous mission.” This was all this gentleman knew or could tell about him. His safety is considered very doubtful here, and along the line of the rail- road, where the desperate and cruel character of the outlaw is well known. A false step or the slightest inadvertence, it is feared, WILL ©OST HIM HIS LIFR. The merest suggestion from any source that he was playing them false or would betray them would be fatal to him. The tortures and cruel death of Saunders, the detective, would be repeated in his case, and nothing would save him. FLIGHT OR DEATH OF THE LEADER, Henry Berry*Lowery is either dead or has fled the country. One opinion is that he has taken advantage of the money obtained in the late large robbery at Lumberton and gone abroad, The latest report, said to be a state- ment made by his brother, Sinclair Lowery, is, that one day last week Henry Berry was engaged in cleaning out a double-barreled gun, one barrel of which was loaded. While in the act the hammer of the loaded barrel caught in bis clothing, and the barrel was discharged, the load entering under his chin and passing through his brain, PRODUCING INSTANT DEATH. This is only o vague and vory untrast- worthy rumor, however, If Henry Berry Lowery is dead or has left the country, and if Boss Strong has in reality been sent to the happy hunting grounds of his fathers, the number of this notorious gang of desperadoes will have been reduced to three, viz.:— Stephen Lowery, Tom Lowery and Andrew Strong. George Applewhite, reported to have been killed some time during the early part of last year, but who subsequently madg his appearance among the gang, afterwards disappeared again, and his whereabouts or probable fate has ever since been CLOUDED IN MYSTERY. Some think that he left the county as Henry Berry Lowery is now reported to have done, while others entertain the opinion that he was killed in some brawl among the members of the gangs : MARCH 18, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, - —a THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. Secretary Fish's Note Debated in a British Cabi- net Council—The Impression Pleasing, but the Prospect Ons of Delay. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, March 17, 1872, The London Observer, a journal which is safd to be influenced by ministerial inspiration, states in ite issue this morning, that at the meeting of tne Cabinet yesterday the American reply to Lord Granville’s note was read and discussed. It pro- duced a favorable impression, and was regarded as furnishing an opening for further negotiations on the busis of the arrangements provided by the Treaty of Waslington, ENGLAND. Radical Revolutionist Demonstration in Sympa- thy with the Paris “Reds.” TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YOR{ HEALD. LonDoN, March 17, 1872, A meeting will be held to-morrow might in this city, at St. George’s Hall, to commemorate the an> alversary of the Commanist uprising in Parls, A TRAIN OFF THE TRAOK. Acoal train ran off the ratiroad track yesterday, near Cardi A railway guard was killed, thirty cara were wrecked and a cottage near the track demolished, IRELAND. National Celebration of St. Patrick’s Day—Peace, Patriotism and Charity. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALG Dusiin, March 17—P. M, ‘The national anniversary of St. Patrick was ob- served throughout Ireland to-day. No disturbances are reported. At Drogheda there was @ great open-air cclebra- tion, at which speeches were made upholding “home rule” and denouncing the English govern- ment for refusing pardon to the Fentan prisoners. FRANCE, — Progress of the Priestly Revolution Against Papal Infallibility—Legislative Economy in Triumph Over the War Principle. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK WERALO. PARIS, March 117, 1873, Pore Jungns, a priest of Bordeaux, having been prosecuted for writings pronounced by his superiors to be against religion, has addressed a letter to Monseigneur Donnet, the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux, in defence of his orttodoxy. He de- clares that “those who accept tho doctrine of Papal infalitbility no longer belong to the true Church,” and maintains that he and other priests who reject that doctrine are “the depositories of the traditions of the primitive uaiversal Church,” Pére Jungna 1s organizing a committee of action, corresponding with similar committees in France and foreign countries, and intends to make a direct appeal to the people of Bordeaux. THE ARMY ESTIMATES REDUCED, A compromise has been effected between Preat- dent Thiers and the Budget Committee of the Assembly on the war estimates, which are reduced 19,000, 000f. ITALY, Mazsini’s Memoriam by Public Procession in Rome. TELECRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. Lonpon, March 11, 1872. The demonstration in honor of the memory of Joseph Mazzini took place to-day and was a great success, An immense procession, including ali the workingmen’s societies, with banners, fags and bands of music, carried the bust of the deceased patriot through the principal streets to the capital, where it was deposited with imposiug ceremonies and eulogistic speeches. Good order was maintained throughout the pro- ceeding. UTAH, Gentile Meeting to Protest Against the State ®cheme, WASHINGTON, March 17, 1872, The Gentile opponents to the Mormon State scheme held a mass meeting last night, Judge Hay- den presiding. The audience was large and enthu- Slastic, Addresses were given by Judge Hayden, Gilcnrist, Dr. Conger and others, Judge Hayden predicted the admission of the State woula be FOLLOWED IN SIX MONTHS BY BLOODSHED in the streets of Salt Lake City. The Mormon the- ocracy could not remiin in supreme power without collision with the Gentiles, who must fight or fee, Gilchrist analyzed the State constitution and showed it was an instrument to perpetuate the power of Brigham Young and the priesthood criminals, the foes to republican Institutions and to the peace and welfare of the Gentile citizens, Tom Fitch’s name was received with manifestations of popular disapproval. The meeting appointed a com- mittee of THIRTEEN PROMINENT CITIZENS to draw up a protest to Congress against the admis- sion as a State, and resolved to send it on by a com- mittee of two ladies, the wives of apostate Mormons, One Gentile was sent to Washington to work against the insidious scheme of Young, Hooper, the Can- non Mormons and the Fitch-Fuller clique—paid Jack Mormons to put the Territory under tne heel of the priesthood. TAXES COLLECTED AND UNACCOUNTED FOR, Merchants and business men are leaguing to- gether to resist a further collection of taxes until some avcountis rendered by the Church officiais, ‘Vast sums of money already collected are past all trace. Governor Wood has appointed Jonn Chisiet Territorial Treasurer, Myron Hawley Librarian, both Gentiles. The bonds are filed. The Mormons will decline to give up the offices, and the courts will be asked to intervene to compel them to follow the law. An animated and exciting legel contest Is anticipated. THE PACIFIC TRAINS RUNNING. The Union Pactitc Katlroad trains are running again with considerable regularity. VIRGINIA'S PRINTING FRAUDS, WHBELING, Va., March 17, 1872, The Jntelligencer, noticing the charges made by Mr. Walker, the State Printer, that the former printer, @ proprietor of that paper, had collectea fraudulent bills from the State, says that the charges are wholly groundless, false and malicious; that the former proprietor never drew a dollar from the State Treasuty except upon bills properly ren- dered for work honestly done and lawfully charged for, and that vouchers on file will show i; that there had been no suggestion of wrong on his past tli Walker himself was arraigned by bis own party friends and charged in the House of Delegates by a member of that body, on the authority of bis own official vouchers, with having coliected @ trauduient overch on two eee on Of $4,341; that his motion for manu- jacturing counter charges 1s therefore apparent; that theexposure of Walker’s peculations resuited ——— in the appointment of a commission with Governor Jacob at its head to investigate his accounts and those of the former printer, and that though tis commission ts composed of four aomocrats to one republican, the qntsiigenotr has no doubt they will impartially determine who it is that has read at frauding the State, and osks that they proceed at once With the investigation. : ——— TH4 DEATH PENALTY, gn. Louis, Mo., Maren 17, 1872 ‘day A bill was introduced in the Senate yester which practically abolishes the death penalty, by the mode of punishment to the jury so far leavi to decide whether the pr ae ir tee tutsomed'o 3 e TRE COAT ISLAND STEAL A Mass Meeting in San Francisco Condemns the Job—Denunciation of Their Representa. tives—The President Called On to Voto It if It 2°aser SAN Francisco, M.¥fch 16, 1812, A mass meeting of citizens was hed in Platte Hail this evening, at which there was a@ immense attendance, Resoluttons strougly conde wing the cession of Goat Island to the Central Rallroad Company were unanimously adopted and Wil be telegraphed to Wasuington. General B, F, Ailexan- der, of the United States Enginvers, and Mr, Wateb T. Fay were appointed a committee to procee.@ to Washington to present the views of the peoplexet San Francisco against the cession of sald island we the railroad company. ey The meeting, although called with only tem hours Notice, represented the bulk of the captial.and bust. ness enterpriseof San Francisco. James Otis pre- sided, with 160 vice presidents, compris ing the leading bankers, merchanta, snip- pers, business men and taxpayers of the city, regardless of politics, The preamble was adopted with great applause: It approves the reao- lutions on the subject adepted by the Chamber of Commerce at San Francisco, and by the Board of Supervisors. It sets forth the REAL SENTIMENTS OF THE PROPLB of San Francisco, that the conclusions set forth i= such resolutions are endorsed by the best civil am® military engineera of vbis coast, and were pro- c'aimed by the late Generali Thomas. It also declares the isiand to be the Gibraltar ofthe bay of San Francisco; that the pro- posed grant would enable the company to uid up a city equal to San Francisco in importance and wholly independent of it, to the ruin of the cig already containing 160,000 people and $300, of property, Further, the reports of the pro! i of the grunt being eilected already depr estate to such an extent that it can only be sold at a Tutuous sacrifice, ana that what has been done im Congress already 1s through the perversion of facts and TREACHERY ON THE PART OF THR CALIFORNIA DELEGATION in the House. The resolutions declare that all Tepregentations to Congress that accommodavions have not been offered in the city of San Franctsoo for convenience of railroads are fabrications, ans a8 evidence of this, state that sixty acres of tue m valuable part of the water iront and aastrip of land 1,000 feet wide and tour or five miles leng to the southern boundary of our county line have veem conceded for an entrance to the city and for terml- nal grounds; and that any and all other just aud Teasonable concessions asked for to render prac- ticable and convenient the said terminal grounds, and not Inconsistent with private rights), tor the purpose of extending communication and com~ mercial communticauion, we not only interpose: Objections to, but we will heartily endorse assist, if assurcd that the actual terminus will positively be fixed at this point ana the Goat Island scheme be abandoned, Me the location of the terminus on the WOULD NOT SECURE INCREASKD CONVBNIENOB to the travelling public nor decrease the time | transit from the eastern to the westera shore of bay that the provisions of secitou two of the bill granting the Central Pacific Railroad power te estabiish their western terminus ou Goat Island, in- stead of the city of San Francisco, according to the terms of their original charter, is @ fraud upon the people of the United States, and that the sentence in said section 2 which declares ‘that no suosidy of any nature whatsoever 18 hereby ite tended to be given to the Central road,’ {s false in‘ lact, lor there are capitalists in San Francisco that would gladly purchase said island upon the conditions named in the oill, which is @ perpetual grant, and pay for the same millions of dollars into the United Stat treasury, and if 1t is worth millions of dollars private capitalists it ts wortn tens of millions of dollars to this great corporation that has absolute power to coucentrate there the commercial com: vol of the State by building docks, wharv aud warenouses, and conneoling, coltateral lin of railroads with this terminus in the center of our, harbor; tnat we look with confidence and pride our Senators Cole and Casseri anne to ward off tne calamity thay has startled us with iu audacious and . RECKLESS DISREGARD OF OUR RIGHTS ld and interests, aud we bow our heads in sname a8 vhe action of our members of Congress so recent loadet with honor by a confiding conatituency. TI officers of the mecti yee gssved vo forward & copy of the proceedings 6! 6 meeting to every member sts both at of Con iit a ro a we Phe Captain ated, We eae R ae ¥ ‘H, Bears and others, A final resolution was adopted as follows: Resolved, That ifthe Senate should pass the bit! for tl cession of’ any portion of Goat Island to the rail company we earnestly request the Frestdent of the United veto ' THE INTERNATIONALS IN THE WEST. Mooting at St. Louis. Sr. Louis, Mo., March 17, 1872, The first public meeting of the Internationals waa held at Turnor Hall, in this city, today, Three tofour hundred persons were present, Speeches were made by Warren Chase ‘and iners. Commemora: in Chicago. CHIcAgo, March 17, 1872, * About five hundred persons were present to-day at the meeting of the Internationals to commemo- rate the foundation of the Paris Commune. Ad- dresses were made in four languages. No Amert- Caus Of any standing were present, TELEGRAPHIO ITEMS, John 8. Washington, for tairty-five years marine reporter of the New Orleans Pirwyun-, is dead. Mrs. Weberly, residing corner Forty-second and Ludlow sirects, Fulladephia, committed suicide yos.erday by hang ing. Caleb Gordon, who was accidentally shot, at Providence, R. 1, by bis grandson on Saturday, died the succeeding evening. ‘The Hidernians celebrated St, Patrick's Day loans by a grand procession, ‘They got day New York A. 0. H. Owing to the advance in the price of soda ash the Pitts burg Association will meet on Tuesday to consider the me ceasity of an advance in ylass. Harry T. Jones, a pioneer merchant of Novoto, Marie county, California, was found dead in s horse trough near his store, on Friday. 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