The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1872, Page 6

GRANT Enthusiastic Administration Meeting at the Cooper Institute Last Night. “THE FAITHFUL AMONG THE FAITHLESS.” Conkling’s Reasons Why Democrats Should Not Vote for Greeley. GRANT AND HIS GIFT TAKING. The St. Domingo Treaty in Its Re- lation to the Guilt and In- nocence of Grant. THE LE GIVEN TO SENATOR SCHURZ. The Liberal Republicans and | the Greedy Office-Takers. Governor Hoffman and His Relatives. The Administration and Its Foreign Policy Reviewed and Commended. Mr. Greeley and His Claims Considered. ‘The meeting at the Cooper Institute last night, galled for the purpose of listening to Senator Conk- ling, was very largely attended. It was designated the “Union republican mass meeting; but it differed from gatherings of a kindred eharacter held on behalf of each of the Presidential candidates, inasmuch as the crowd was not so numerous and the enthusiasm was of a more quiet character. There was a band of music that played patrivtic melodiese until the hour of eight arrived, At that time Mr. Jackson &%. Schultz came upon the platform, with Mr. Conkling, and was voted to the chair. A list of Vice Presidents was then read, including ‘the names of over two hundred prominent republi- cansin the State, among whom was Commisioner Van Nort. Mr. Conkling was introfuced to the meeting by Mr. Schultz in a few brief words, and as the “faithful among the faithless.” The first mention of the President's name brought out three rounds of cheers, but it came from the fringe of the audience rather than from the body of it, and lacked all the excitement ond undisguised ardor that was so unmistakably manifest at the previous political meetings held since this cam- paign commenced in behalf either of Grant or ef Greeley. It was cicar, however, that the audience was for the most part on the side of President Grant, and ‘the case with the few ladies present, who occupied reserved seats in front of the platform. In the first half hour of Mr. Conkling’s address the andience was in very good humor, and a few individuals were disposed to be witty. Mr. Conkling’s referencs to the remark of Sumner, that “Grant had tanned hides at Galena for afew hundred dollars a year,” brought out t! quick response from one of the audience, “Yes and down South, too.” This was received with a chorus of iaughter, that was renewed when some- body said, ‘Yes, and he will tan Greeley’s hide too.” Then there was more laughter. Just as the audience had got over this amusement an en- thusiastic individual proposed three cheers for the next President. Mr. Conkling evidently saw that that would do for either candidate, and when the cheers were over said, “Why, that’s the man we have been talking @bout all the time.” Considerable enthusiasm was shown at the close of the reading of an extract from a letter written by Grant from West Point, when he was seventeen years of age, to his mother, in which he said that he had noticed “how greatly the soldiers were benefited by the prayers of their mothers,” and that “the noble struggle of our fathers for national independence, was,” in his opinion, “greatly strengthened by the moral influ- ence of the women of the revolution.” Later on in the speech, however, when the St. Domingo business and the appointment of Grant's relatives to office was somewhat Jengthily descanted upon, the audience grew weary and many left the hall. Mr. Conkling was allowed to close his speech with but slight iuterrup- tions of signa of approval. A little langh- ter was provoked now and then by @ reference to ‘the Tammany thieves” and to “Governor Hoffman's recent conversion to re- form” and tne “snug and close place of the late Collectorship of Assessments for the city of New York.” The greatest burst of enthusiasm, was shown towards the close of the address, when Mr. Conkling said, in ref- erence to the passage in the speech of Carl Sehurz, that he had been by President Grant, directly or indirectly, as a compensation for his vote, ‘That,’ said Mr. Conkling, “and I will take the responsibil- ity of the statement, that man who says that, lies.* Shouts of “bravo,” cheering by the men and wav. ing of handkerchiefs by the ladies, followed that | direct and bold statement, SFEECH OF SENATOR CONELING. Mi. PRESIDENT, *Lapies AND GENTLEMEN—For twenty years it has been my privilege to address my neighbors upon political issues, and too mueh ardor has, perhaps, been among my faults, Yet, no can vase has ever stirred me so deeply as this, No election has ever appealed so strongly to my sense of fair play. No canvass within my memory has ever been so full of foul play, injustice and maiie none has ever more strongly tested the conunon fense and generosity of the American Eleven years’ service in Congress me a close observer of four and of many public men; and them all there is one, living or who never Knowingly fatied in his that one is Ulysses Sydney Grant. There was fore cast in giving him the name of Sydney, wor his greatest aad gentlest quality is his magnanimity, people, has made Presidents if among dead, this was evidently | offered patronage | | i: i | to prove this now, I will recur to it horeatter, If there has been a high official, ever ready to ad- | mit and correct an ertor; fi there bas been one Who dul wisely, firmly aud well the things given him in charge, that ove is the soldier in war an the quiet patriot in pace who has been named again by every township in forty-six States and Territoites for the great trust he now holds, Yet this wan, hovest, brave and modest—and proved by his transcendant deeds to be endowed with genius, common sense and moral qualities, ade- nate to the grestest afairs—this nan, who saved is country, Who snatched our nationality and our cause from despair, and bore them on his shield through the fame of battle, in which bat for him they would have perished; this man, under whoxe administration eur country has flourished as no one dared ; man, to whom @ nation’s grati- tode and benedi>tion are due, is made the mark (or rinald jibes and odious groundless slander, 4s all this? because he stands | the greed and ition of politicians and schemers, Many honest men join in the cry or hear tt without indignation; they are deccived by the cloud of calumny which darkens the sky, but the inventors are men distempe: and the vile who follow poilitios as ‘THE SHARK FOLLOWS THE SHIP. A war of nud and missiles has been waged for months, The President, his family, and ail nearly red with griefs or eise the sordid | stron, dragged before & national as: maiefactor, In the Senate THE DEMOCRATS PROPER kept silent or taiked about business; { give them | credit for wasti A > but hail the jast Session, elgut mo 8 worn out and wasted’ by slande ng harangues aimed at the administration and ils friends, by | and neither of the: associated with him, have been bespattered, and truth and Pn have been driven far away. Every thief and comorant and drone who has been put out; every battled mouser for place or plunder; every man with a grievance or a grudge; all who have something to make by a Loy seem to wag an unbridled tongue or to drive a foul pen. The President cannot enter the lists of controversy and defend himseif; the proprieties of his station forbid it; his chief competitor, managing be- hind the curtain a newspaper from which he pre- tends to have retired, is free to defend and puff himself, and feels free to fill his paper with base and | scurrilous falsehood in the hope of blackening a name which is Oue of the treasures of the nation, and which wiil be the pride of posterity, All this ollution will, in the end, disgrace only its authors, it will not disgrace Grant or the nation, because the nation will spurn and resent it. The disgusting personalities emptied upon General Jackson se- cured his re-election; an offended people struck back, and they will strike back again. The American people may misjudge & litical qnestion, they may be = deceive: but, with the truth before them, they will never be unjust and never untrue upon a question of right and wrong. Ingratitude has been charged upon repablics, and re there is the point where the angry enemies of the President have blundered, Had the cool veterans of the democracy formed or selected the issues to be P nnneg oes they would have been wise enough to so frame them that the people could decide in their favor without fixing a stigma upon General ut, and without blasting his name or doing’ him wrong. But the democratic statesmen, the leaders in a hundred fights, have been mere lookers-on; leadership has been assumed by republican renegades and “outs; men so eaten up with envy, or so maddened with the loss or refusal of place and patronage that nothing would satisfy tiem short of @ rancorous, revengeful personal raid, When a man turns Turk he spits on tie Cross, and when wide-throated ultra republicans clandestinely trade with the enemy, and then turn open traitors to their party, they become the meanest and fiercest of opponents, just us a Yankee slave Overseer. from New. England was’ always more brutal than those born im the South. When men who: nity was hurt, and others gnawed by ambition and cupidity, wont out to rum / the party which they could not rule madness | drove ihem on. They had no Polar 5\ hatred of Grant and tis supporters, ‘a atriots, who modestly assumed the formers would not have an_ordinary Pt canvass for the fab tious. Such a p tame and insipid for them. stomachs c! er, me game-favored at; hard names st be! called; vengeance must be satistied; the dent must’ be politically conrt-martialled or e to be tried as a n badly in need of being revormed themseives, These self-righteu nd noisy oracles pitched the key in which the anti-Grant clorus was to be sung, and hence comes the absence of political questior and the presence of personal and scandalous sucs. ‘The public jourmais and newspaper corre- spondence from Washington, controled by these “liberals"—liberal in “nothing 80 much as | in defaming honest’ men, and praising | and — helping themselves—took hue irom the heart-burnings, distempers and ambit which set them on. “Anything to beat Grant” was the moto, and it gratified their heat and spite to | assail the President personally and to heap malig- nant charges upon bin; thus ls character, his in- | tegrity, his standing asa@man, have been put in ue, aud the people are compelled to pass upon guilt or innocence. The case has been so put | question is not merely whether Grant shall be President, but whether Grant shall be pro- nounced by the nation a fool, a knave, anenemy of his country. Had issue n taken upon public measures, lad public questions been raised—whether new questions or those which have divided parties heretofore—a popular verdict would have been a verdict only between par. ties and policies and principles, Such a verdict would have rested upon public grounds, personal | and disparaging to noone, In that case General Grant could not complain, If the political views he represeuts are not those of a majority, there is no jajustice and no reflection upon any one in so say- ing aud so voting. But, when the President. is ar- raigned for ignorance, dishonesty and vice, and for nothing else, the cage is diferent, What is the ar- raigument ¢ What political position held by the republican party or its candidates does the “any- thing to beat Grant” coalition deny?’ will any one tell me? Read the manifesto put forth at Cincinnatl, which Mr. Greeley did over in im- proved words as he thonght in his letter of accept- ance. Read the add oss lately publisied by Mr. ommittee, soliciting the votes of people of tis State. These papers, in so far as they refer to the administration, are a gross per- sonal libel upon the President, and they are nothing more. Hear the words of the seli-constituted crowd | at Cincinnati—that motley group, made up of a iew respectable men who have since repudiated it, and of the most piebald, disreputable collection to be scraped from the gutters and sewers of politics, These political lazzaroni, pretending to represent ? States, laid down the platiorm on which Mr. Greeley thinks he is running. See how it reads The President of the United States has openly used the powers and opportunities of his high oullce for the promo- tion of personal ends. He has kept notoriously corrupt and unworthy men in places oi power and responsibility, to, the detrimen: of | the public interest. | He lias used the public service of the goverment as a | machinery of corraption and personal im e, and has | interiered, w ain the’ political U municipal States ai " He has rewarded with influential and lucrative offices men who have acquired his favor by valuable prevents, thus stim the demoralization of our poiltical Lis by his ¢ uons exam te. He has shown himselt deplorably unequal to the tasks imposed upon him by the necessities of the country, aud Culpably carcless of the responsibilities of his high alice. Mr. Greeley’s personal backers and trainers re- | cently delighted the public with an address, em broidered with the rhetoric and signature of Mr. | John Cochrane. This paper, gorgeous in composi- | | yrannical arrogance, tion, speaks of the Cincinnati flasco as “one of the most stately and brilliant parliaments ever assem- bled in this countr, These ralnbow-dyed words show on what sky-scraping pinions the “liberal’’ eagle soars, See how this gloomy and pecullar 0 rch of the clonds swoops down on the poor pig and tyrant of Appomattox. Observe the awful obscurity, grand even in parenthesis, with which he “goes for’ his prey as another reformer “went for that heathen Chinee:"— The history of the administration is a shadowy r of discreditable, sometines disgraceful acts; them blunders, dthers crimes. ‘ord, yor | Ho has repeatedly shown himself,on the one hand, ignorant of the laws, and, on the oth at them, H he has rend: emoluments on These are but three of the seventeen personal crimes of which the bright particular Cochrane ap- pears a8 the avenging angel. Do such despicable assertions and tmputations raise any political or | party issue? The tarif resolution at Cincinnati is a mere juggle—a shallow evasion, by which no one of common intelligence has a right to be cheated, The resolution about Congress and “centralisin,” if they mean anything, refer to the | exercise of powers by Congress, every one of which Mr. Greeley approved and dema) in his usuat violent and unmeasured language. The amnesty resolution is ep , because a general amnesty bill | ed weeks ago. Every rebel votes, and ‘ebel may hold ofice no vy except Jefferson who still ‘There js nothing left of the am- | one wants to mount a | m behalf of Jefferson Davis and hts | handfi of cronies, who say that their per- | Jury needs no forgiveness and seeks none, and that the: the other chores, by’ bestowing public rs spurn forgiveness, nesty question, unless som dead horse y have no use just now in that way for those | Keep to sign tieit bail bonds, and do their | este Where, then, is the’ political for impostor, | * after thet being to which Mr, ‘tands fully committed, the candidate Platform together leave not a shred of anything democratic. As if to abjure the last vestige of demoo and wipe out its very memory, these vaulting managers have selected as their ‘tigure-head @ professed ultra-republican, formerly an ultra-whig, and theyask honest demo- crats to vote for him against a man born and bred a democrat, who never acted with the republican party Ul after the war had raised new issues, which democrats divided. Democrats are asked to vote for that republican who “out-Heroded Herod” always, in politics and abuse, and who did more than any other man in the North to encourage secession and bring on the war, A republican coming the whig party with such a record, now asks the votes of demociate. The anti-Grant managers are daring, if they are not silly, They attempt to crowd down the throats of democrats who fought the Maine law the man who drowned all pence waioes in Wie carotes. re. penal statutes and Sunday laws to 8 force the drinking even of lager beer, ssagtid WHY SHOULD DEMOCRATS VOTE FOR GREELEY ? Ifa democrat was running, or if the democratic principles were in the fleld, democrats might be expected to vote the ticket; but when the choice is between republicans, and no democratic principle is at stake, democrats will be apt to pick and choose tor themselves which republican they wi'l vote for, of they vote at all. Upon what gout will patsiotic democrats prefer paeley to rant? They must prefer Greeley, because they disapprove Grant pesnaly. or else because they disapprove some political doetrine he represents. Are democrats for repudiating the dept? Are ay for agitating or annulling the thirteenth, fourteent! and fifteenth amendments of the constitution? Would they re-establish ery? Would they pay the rebel war debt or pensions to rebel soldiers or rebel war claims? Would they inflate the currency again and flood the country with paper money? Are democrats against reducing taxes and expenses? Are democrats oP sel to peace with ai nations and stable government at home? These questions are not asked to impugn the position of any man, but for the oppo- site reason. General Grant being tried and true in all these things, why should any Unton man, or con- servative or bush man, or patviot, vote against him, even if lis competitor was a safe and fit man Plainly there can be no reason, un- unworthy of confidence or respect, es to be found guilty of the ertmes and Neged against him. To judge this question we must examine his history and tay bare his Lie, “The tree is Known by its ful carpenter by ; the man by Gt KING, But lef us go back # moment to Grant before he serlously thought of being President and when he was only the idol of the ‘nation. Keturning from the fled covered with glory, but poor in money, the amuent, whose forties ‘he had saved, met him W.th munificont offerings. In this they followed the customs Ot ancient and Inedern times. The austere republics of antiquity eniiched and ennobled tueir heroes returning fiom victory. England, with an Unwritten constifution and an omnipotent Parlia- ment, which @ lawyer once said “could do anything but t make & man a woman,” has enriched her Generals both by acts of Parlian and by voluntary subscriptions, Jn the Unit fates the constitution does uot per- mit Congress to act in such mutters, Here they rest wholly in the voluntary action of individuals, and that pul presentations to beroes involved turpitude im givers or rcciplents has been tirst found out by the spurtous reiormers and libellers now clamoring for notice, Wellington received | from his government and his neighbors more than three million dollars. British citizens of Caleutta made him presents, the otlicers of the army gave him $10,000, the House of Commons voted him $1,000,000, and a mansion and estate were pur- chased for him by subscription, at a cost of $1,300,000, Besides this he was three times enno- bled, twice by England and once by Spain. Oliver Cromweil for deeds done in civil war received 32,500 a year in gilts, Marlborough was given a Stately palace and a splendid fortune. Nelson and his family were ennobled and received $70,000, Jewels and money were given to Fairfax for ser- vices in civil w The generals and admirals of ingland and France have generally been ipients of great pecuniary benelits. In sland and elsewhere the custom of presents public men has gone beyond the army and the navy. Richard Cobden, @ civilian, in token of political service only, was given by subscription $550,000, John right has just received costly | gifts. America, younger and poorer, with tew | wars to breed heroes, has been less lavish than older nations; but Americans have not been stingy. General Me lellan, Desbanes begins tie list of largely rewarded generals, His active service ended betore the war was over, and his democratic ad- mirers, prior to nominating him for the Presidency, presented him a costly house and a large purse, amounting in all to $100,000, To Sherman, Sheri- dan, Farragut and Grant large sums were given. To Stanton’s family and to Rawlius were given more than a hundred thovu- sandeach, Were these things dishonorable? Was iv wrong for General Grant to accept such gilts ? ‘rhe charge is aa insult to the pation who wit- nessed and applauded the proceeding; 1 is an imputation upon those who gave, as much as upon him who re ed. It can not have been dis- honorable or improper for him to accept a gift without being dishonorable and improper to offer it. How must the cant and snivel we hear seem to the people of Germany just now, — bismarek, though Chancellor and Prinie. Minister, “hag just received as a giit, in token of his services in the recent war, & mayniiicent landed estate; worth more than was given to all our generals; and Kiamarek, in like token, has been made a Prince. General Von Moltke, for his services in the German: Franco war, has been given $900,000; and Germany has set apart from the French bac rng fund $4,000,000 to be distributed in gifts to her heroes, Do you believe any German, or any man with a German heart in his bosom, will ever be mean enough to throw these gifts in the face of those who earned and accepted them’ If there isa man ugh to do it he will be safer in the Gree- ley menagerie than he would be in any hiding place inGermany, Yet gift-taking, forsooth, is paraded by political Pharisees. One thing is noticeab) ‘The men who sere who hever gave & offered a cent—certainly not for any honorable ser- vice rendered to their country. The charge that Grant accepted any gift alter he became President, or after he was nominated, is wholly false. He has accepted nothing of value since his first nomina- tion—not even a carriage and horses—although Lincoln, and Buchanan, and Pierce, and Taylor, and other Progidents, did accept carriages and horses ection. What political policy of Grant or his a nistration does the opposition assaily What part of the present policy do they pro- pose to reverse or alter? What part dare they avow or admit they mean ange? Lay your finger on itifyoucan, Hard Is you can find—vague, cloudy, sweeping de- nunciations—but. take up, one by one, the impor- tant positions and measures of ttre administration, and, except the St. Domingo Treaty, ifthat be an exception, Where Is the specifie thing upon which issue is made? Let me state the case in another form. Suppose all the sinrs and flings and vile gosalp against Grant are Ant gmap incr you admit the who.e of them—what do they signify * Suppose he has appointed a dozen relatives to office; sup- pose he has failed to appreciate the claima of cer- tain polticians ; ppoces presents had been given him after he was President; suppose the idea of making A. 'T. Stewart Secretary of the Treasury, was as foolish as every reformer says It Was now; suppose there was no express Jaw authorizing two young military friends to write in his odice and carry his messages. Put it all together, and what of ity If you want a man to pilot @ ship, or lead an army, or try acause, or build a house, or set a broken arm, or run a locomotive, what do you care, se long as he does his work well, whether he is too fond of his rela- . or doesn’t like certain politicians, or has sub- i himself to envious sneer ving presents given to him? All th aside Irom the parpose, “They are tithin: nhise and com. min.’ Has he made a good President? That is the question. the people are ws upony Tt cannot bi service reform,” dishonesty is imp the President.” He is for civil service rejor: recommended it and ina ted it, and the Ipliia Convention special for it. n be no issue of that kind, e y pretendin, that Grant is a hypoerite and that Greeley is not things would be easy to prove, Mr. Greeley has plainly and repeate wed in | public and in private that ral action Ringes on patronage and spoils, stopping The coalition presents nothiag of substance on which | parties or individnals are divided in principle, but | only assaults upon the President. This is nothing | more or jess than achailenge of comparison be- | tween the candidates, The issue is narrowed to a | single inquiry—Which is personally the safest, | fitrest man for tte Presidency ? That is the ques- tion, and the whole Some things, however, ure ‘said and done é! ally by the platform and | nomination of our opponents. blot out and renounce the time-honored creed of THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. laid aside, and its vital points repu- itis fairly admitted that democratic doe- sot democratic candidates connet stand | he judgment of the country. The democracy | That creed is diated, trines before coniesses tts defeat upon the great issues of the | and century yifesses Its error also. Equality of pation of siaves; tne ballot tor the tive tarift; exemption of govern- taxation: paying bonds in coin. Upon th aud other things the democracy at last confesses t'self not only beaten but wrong, and repubtic party Victorious and right. | 1e homage = paid_—sto party would be great in- ieed, but we fad greater’ tribate and homage still- Not only are the old grounds of difference given up, but no new ones can be found. What measure or doctrine of the republican party, again 1 ask, have our opponents ventnred to attack? The re: publican party has heen in power for years, respon- | sible for ail legislation in the greatest era of the | nation and now itslife-long rival aud adversary at last throws Mp the sponge, not daring to jom issue | upon one political question. Even the Ku Klux and election bills are not matters in difference, for Mr, Greeley supported them both, with all his’ virulent vocabulary. My own part in preparing and pressing the election Jaw, was, [ remem. ber, the occasion of my being praised in the Pri- bune, This puzzled me at the time, and suggested that I ust have been doing somethtug wrotg, be- cause the Prijune marked ine for destruction after its editor was not elected to the Senate, Mr, Greeley must have been elated indeed over the Congressional election jaw, when his exuberance became so great that he could write a kind, or even 4 justor true word of me, The ynly instances of bl ment be | these statements, with glowing a | his house, instead of set ST. DOMID Let us examine the evidene ns ty , and first of all let pup the charges and evidence againat him. St. Domingo ‘Treaty, unlike going to Long neh or smoking @ cigar, or riding in a palace Was a matter of public business, and is, there- fore, a topie not despicable or nnwoi thy, His galt and his innocence in this respect can ail be brief stated, The Monroe doctrine is one of the tradi- tions of the country and of hoth political parties. The Monroe docirine means opposition to squisitions on this Continent by European Powers. When President Grant came in no such question was pending, but such a question soon aro: An agent from the Dominican republic presen hiteel to the President, saying that the people of Dominica, few in numbers, but rich in one of the ost fertile isies of any sea, lying close to our shores, waited to come under the American flag, and that failing to do so they would look to & European alliance. The President made no reply, and aiterward a second envoy appeared repeating ‘counts of the St. Domingo. Jertility and resources of the Isiand General MeClellan, Admiral PB sormis- | sioner Homan and others hal — previously amived and reported upon island, and had strongly stated its advay ing sta- tion, & naval statior the Guif of Mexico, and as ana sigur cane, dye stuts, mahogany and other valuable woods, andin other products of the tropics, beside tron, copper, gold and sait, With this information before | him, the President could not torn a deaf ear and a closed eye to sograve amaiter, He ew or three diseret persons to go, unexpec observed, to St. Domingo, learn all they make repo This being done: dent was vinced that the be — entertained, in tie — fe treaty, and st to the judg Senai¢ and the country. A treaiy was proposed and reduced to writing, and the Presidcnt, with none of the “pretension” which Mr, Sumner ine agures, paid Mr. Sauiner the deference of going to to confer of Foreign ether he favored the sed two and un- with bim as chaivman of the Relations, and to ascertain wi treaty and wonld support it. place in the presence of two Witnesses, Babcock aud Colonel John W. Korn meral exe LWO th aty, and stated that he should support it. Colonel Forney testifies as follows : I was present at Mr, Sumner’s residence when Presi- LGrant called and explained the Dominican treaty Sent [cannot rei fully sit jained wo ort the treaty. lent’s request The interview took | i to heas his explanation, aud am tree to add, | such Le regard for Mr. Bumner, bis en- ator Stae ty went very to ina me ia if thy oth bs He ner, whe, ho . false This statement is true, or else wilfully A cause although Forney might have misunderstood Mr, Sumner at the time, he can not be mistaken in fact that Mr. Sumner afterwards admitted that cha his mind. General Babcock certi- fles writing that after the interview with the President, he and Mr. Sumner read and examined the treaty careful together: and that at the close of the interview, Mr. Sumner said, “That he could not think of soing. otherwise than sepporeing, the administration the matter; » further, “that there was no objection to the instrament as a whole.” Yet Mr. Sum- ner, Saving. meanwhile. taken pennce Denenas ae lews and 8 in other matters were n ferred to, became incensed at the President and Mr. Fish, denounced them, and among other things the St. ningo ‘Treaty, and, raising an issue of veracity with three witnesses, denied that he ever iutimated that he would give the ty his sup- port. In consequence of these and er like oc- currences it was Broposed to send three commis- sioners to St. Domingo, at no cost beyond their expenses, to investigate and clear up the whole mutter, and to ascertain whether, as Mr. Sumner had charged, lots in St. Domingo had been staked of and marked with the names of the President and others. This inquiry seemed fair to most of those who opposed and to those who favored the treaty, but Mr. Sumner re- sisted the inquiry inch by inch, and after a major- ity of the Fore! gn Relations Committee had joined bim in denouncing tt he insisted that it should be referred to that committee. The.same familiar par- liamentary maxim about pres @ “child to nurse with those who care not for it,” upon which he rung the changes so often in THE FRENCH ARMS APFATR, was qnoted to him in vain, When the sale of arms was to be inquired into Mr, Sumner slanderéd te Senate for appointing @ committee all in favor of investigating, because the committee was not biased in favor of convicting somebody ; but the St. Domingo inquiry he insisted should go to a commit- tee, of which 4 majority had declared in advance against any inquiry atall. At the end of a pro- tracted an‘l stubborn contest Congress authorized a commission to be sent, not, however, till Mr. Sumner had denounced the President for not tak- ing it upon himseif, of his own authority, to send a commission without asking permission of Con- gress. Now we hear from Mr Sumner, not that the President shrinks from his prerogatives, but that lie arrogantly overstepa them. Mr, Wade, Dr. Howe, of Boston, and President Andrew 1. White were selected a8 commissioners; they visited St. Domino and made a report which few of the American people have read, but which will be read When the din and passion of to-day are orgotten, The report explodes utterly every calumnious pretence, and presents a statement which lei no room to doubt the duty of the Presi- dent to consider as he did the acquisi- tion of St. Domingo, and to wy it upon the ‘attention of the Senate and the country. It may not be amiss here to allude to the effort to rouse indignation over the so-called “removal” of Mr. Sumner from the Committee of Foreign Rela- tions, Mr. Summer was never “removed at all. All Senate committees dle at the ena of each ses- sion, All Senate comm:tte°s ure created anew at the beginning of each session. Mr. Sumner had been selected repeatedly for the chairmanship of the committee referred to, and the question was always, looking over the whole Senate, who would be the most useful, and, all thinga con- sidered, the best man for the place, At the time in question, and for yeasons easily stated, ihe Senate thought it would not be wise to select Mr. Sumner again for that committee, and he was selected for another, This was not done because Suniner opposed St. Domingo, nor because te red sides upon that question, nor because the ident or the Secretary of State wanted or did not want Mr. Sumner on this committee or on that. ‘The reasons were wholly different—they were rea- sons of the Senate alone, and reasons which have governed the formation of parliamentary coim- mittees everywhere since such committees were known, The Committee on Foreign Attairs, in either House of Congress, ones not oniy, like other com- mittees, to represent the majority of the body, but, for peculiar reasons, it must be composed of men who can and will c it freely with the President, the esate ef ate and their assistants, This is especially true of the chairman, he being the organ ‘of the committee. Mr. Sumner not only wielded his position as chairman, in opposition to the majority of the Senate upon several important. questions, and boasted tn the Senate that the com- mittee could not be changed, but his conduct and language eo dito and in private had rendered it impossible for him to hold communication with those whom it was indispensible to conier with freely, and impossible for them to confer with him. Men cannot do business con- venientiy with those whom they denounce and in- sult continually, nor with those toward whom they assume oitensive superiority, and the time came with Mr, Sumner, as chairman, when the Senate was left in ignorance and business delayed for weeks for lack of information from the State De- partment merely because Mr. Sumner did not hold communication with it. The simple, indecd, the only cure for all this was to select another chair- man, This was done, and nothing more, and it turned out that treaties, six or seven in number, having long lain onried in the committee, after ths change of chairman, were at once brought up and raided. Yet this action of the Senate, in managing and expediting its own business, has been made a grave matter for public consideration, and thrust af the President, wno had no more to do with it than the Senate has to do with deciding how many vegetables the President has on his table. f leave this matter after asking one ques- tion, Is there one man on this Continent, except Mr. Sumner, who could with propriety have clang toa position alter his associates who conf rred it were unwilling he should retain it; 4s there one other man who would his being on this committee or on that would “jar the harmony of the universe ¥’ NEPOTISM. Let me go on with the charges against the Presi- dent. Few of them figure more largely than ap- pointing relatives to office. Mr. Sumuer has stag- gered the nation by the weight of the dictionaries, pe iia 9 ted and other big books which he has dumped upon us, to show what “nenotism” is. He finds it charged that Popes had children, and called them nephews, and lavished upon them the moneys of the Charch; and he thinks that where a public office is to be filled and a good man is appointed at the same pay any other man wonid receive, a case has occurred like that of the Popes, provided the man who makes the appointment and the man who gets it aro related to each other. This, if not a use- ful, is a wonderful discovery. From the morning 0 time common sense has di tinguished between creating @ useless and b tive sinecure and bestowing iton arclative, and selecting a reiative to do a services required to be done. When Hannibal and Frederick the Great and Napoleon and Emperor William put a brother ora son at the head of an army, with rank and titles, or even placed -him on @ throne, the world never thought it was like @ sinecure for a Papal nephew. On tie contrary, in public and private business, nothing has seemed more natural than for those entrusted with affairs to employ and Associate with themselves persons in whom they most confided, whether relatives or not. In all sach cases, ifthe person be fit, little harm can be done; but if he is unfit, a great wrong is done, whether he be relative or not. If the appoint- ment of relatives be a crime, a great many men, including the busiest and most biatant “liberals,” must be great criminals, Andrew Johnson, his Catinet and chief officers must have been huge offenders, for reasons which no one thought of at. the time, though every one knew of them. President Johnson's son was his chief Private Secretary. Gov- ernor Scwara’s son was Assistant Secretary of State. Edwin M. Stanton’s son was a clerk in the War Departmen Clerk of the Department; and when viddeon Welles employed a relitive at a great remunoration to buy ships the scandal wag not that he paid just sums to a relative, but thathe paid such sums at all, Reverdy Johnson, Minister to England, made his son Assistant Penny, of Legation, John A. , Minister to France, did the same thing with sson, All this was under Andrew Johnson, but when a drag net of criticism and impeachment was cast over hit these things Were not caught up. “LIBERAL RELATIVES. ‘The rueful “reformers” themselves will not bear examination on tnis point. Mr. Schurz pressed his brother-in-law upon the President and obtained for him @ lucrative office, and when Mr. Trumbull caused his removal upon statements impeachiig his fitness Mr. Schura raged against the President for removing his brother-in-law. Mr. Trambull seems to have procured appointments for his brother-in. his sons and his nephe»s, and he broke, it is with the President because he re- to appoint Mr. Trumbuils son to ome: That shrill and frisky “re- former’ Mr. Tipton, although not colossal him- self, would need a hay scales to be weighed along with all his relatives he has helped to get office, Three brothers-in-law, a nephew and @ son inortice, with other things for other relatives, did not satisfy his “liberal” inclinations, but he vigorously pled the President and the Secretary of State to give a Valuable consulship to another son, and after they declined he {requenty avowed—ouce pipingly to Presiden th Dimsel.—that the refusal was the ¢ ¢ of bis opposition, Mr, Fenton saw no objec- tion to giving to his adopted son his influence for an oulos, nor to obtaining it from Tammany Hall, and kecping it through ali the exposuces of Tweed and the rest, although mo gervice was attached to it equivalent.to the pay. Mr. Sumner, with a brother- in-law in office under Andrew Johnson, was in- flamed by his removal, and did not hesitate to make known his displeasure. Even Mr, Greeley did not seruple to countenance his brother-in-law in obtaining the most lucrative collector ship of in- ternal revenue in the United States, Nor has he hesitated to urge appointments, clearly unfit, on the ground of the intimate terms between himself and those he urged. DEMOCRATIC RELATIVES, Old line democrats are as weak as the new and bozzing converts in regard to relatives. Kentucky is the best example of A democratic State govern- ment, pure and simpic, She has a democratic jovernor, Treasurer, Adjutant General, Attorney General, Clerk of the Court of Appe: Auditor and keeper of the Penitentiary, and of these there is not one free from appointing relatives to office, and the same thing is true in numerous instances of members of the Kentucky Legisla- ture, The elty of New York, with its un- mitigated democratic eer ereaerah is prolific beyond measire in similar things, The Governor w York, having turned “reformer,” must be dered high authority. When Governor Hoif- mao was Mayor his father-in-law, Henry Stark- have supposed that. Giddeon Welles’ son was Chict | or a Commission : but MeLoan made by Street er but was appotneet by Hoffman. tweed sneceedeed McLean, but Starkweather was continued by ‘Tweed, and never relinquished nis place till the spring of 1872. Up to July, 1871, being four years and two months, \Starkweath Teceived in this office $860;804 10, as 4 peared on te: books’ of the adsoe, “Febras A 872, This great eum was received, under in- fluence of Hoffman, by his father-in-law, and Hoff- man’s wife is his father-in-law’s only child. This makes the arrangement a closer and shugger thing than can be found even in Sumner's history of the ais Mt nat Popes. How far such a sum could fitly be taken by Starkweather ara from @ report made on the 4th of March, to the Board of Assistant Alder- men, by its committee of finance, The report is signed by Charles P, Hartt and Charles ©. Pinck- ney, and relates to the Coll of Assessments ang his, fem, I xead from the report these words :— Your committee find that the entire duties of the Bu- Teau are periormed by the Collector of Assessments and four or tive employes, that theas employes 1: COM pensation out of the fees of the eto stent of about eleven thousand dollars per annum and that i remainder of said fees is divided between the Collect ‘and such Deputy Collectors ak are trom time to time ap- pointed. These Deputy Collectors, however, pertorm no work and render no assistance Whatever to Collector in the duties of the Bureau, Again the report says:— If the Colleetor can, with credit to himself, manage the pffaire of hie Buresa ‘of $11,000, ere heceasity whatever for its maintenance under its present management at an annual cost of more than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Its office accommodation, books, stationery, sales, furniture, &c., de., are all borne Dy the city. Among the worthy and needy provided for by Mr. Starkweather was William M. Tweed, who re- ceived for nothing $101,978, Did you ever hear this reeking and feste ing job talked about by the men or the papers now shrieking about “ne; ” While Governor Hoffman was Mayor his chief clerk was his brother-in-law, Who at the same time was also clerk of the Street Cleaning Commission, of which Hoifnan was chairman, thus holding two oMices under his brother-in-law, and at the same time another relative of the Governor's held office at his hands, When the member of Congress from o district certifies the character of an applicant for a post ofice, or any other oMice local in bis district, and recommends his selection, the practice of the government has always been to rely and act upon such representations; holding the member of ngress responsible to the government and to his constituents if he oltains unfit appointments, It was In this bated that the four persons just named were selected; the President having no part in the matter, if he believed the applicants fit and worthy, except to consult the wishes of the people, made known through their representatives, or else to overrule their wishes, upon the ground that it might be better for himself not to run the risk of having the matter some time or other flung in his face, Two appointments remain, and upon these the President did undoubtedly exercise his own choice and his own judement. The first is Alexan- der vee ® connection of Mra. Grant, who was appointed Marshal of the District of Columbia. This ofMicer is virtually a member of the Presi- dent’s household. He receives company with the family, introduces visitors and gen- erally helps along. For these reasons some relative, or near friend of the President's family, has always been found for this position, The remaining relative js Silas Hudson, Minister to Guatemala. He 1s cousin to the Presilent. Iowa, the State in which he lives, had the mission to Guatemala before President Grant came in; Fitz Henry Warren held it, and on his retirement lowa claimed it still, and presented Mr. Hudson, who is described as an able and accomplished man, The President mignt have refused to appoint him, with- out giving just offence to the republicans of Iowa, because he might have taken a man from some other State; but he did appoint him, and thus he Rane the needy “liberals” with one awful ex- ample. The course of Mr. Grecley and its reference to patronage and spoils is visible in a letter he wrote to Mr. Cornell aiter ne made up bis mind to defeat, af possible, the weeding out of Tammauy men from the republican organization. Here is his letter, putting his action squavely on the ground of dis- Satisiaction with the “appointing power” :— * New Yorx, April 9, 1871. Drank Str—-It gives me no pleasure to ndviee you ai the committe of which you are the head that Cam obliged to deetine the part assigned me by the State Comiittee in. the proposed reorganisation of the republican party o sind a little forbearanee and_ conciliation teen evinced by the appomting power at Washington J thin this might have been difterent ours, cue HORACE GREELEY, The sapping and mining, begun in 1870 and secretly continued ever since, has culminated in the bolt, no longer covered up, which has recently occurred; its strength was in its secrecy and in its denied existence; its weakness 1s in its bein; known of all men, It has been said that the Pre: dent removed friends of Mr. Fenton. If this were t when made an explanation of the betrayal or desertion of the party, it sinks those who resort. to it to the. lowest depth of sordid hypoc- risy. But it is not true. One friend of Mr. Fenton was removed to gratify Mr. Moses H. Grin- nell, and in no other instance to my knowledge was a friend of Mr. Fenton displaced, except for cause, while to this day the great body of those he recommend?d to office remain in office still. To illustrate this, since President Grant came in not six postmastors in the entire State have been ap- Pte at my instance: more than two hundred have been appointed at Senator Fenton’s instance, and not one has been disturbed unless for oft delinquency. FOREIGN AFFAIRS, What has the administration done in three years? First, it has maintained our rights with every for- eign Power and kept the peace with all the word. Governor Seward said to me last year, after he had girdled the earth with his travels, “How remarka- ble is our success in toreign affairs. But two years ago Russia was our only friend in Christendom, and. now America has not an enemy in the world.” He proceeded to oe) that this good result came from the temperate and just course of our govern- ment. Mr. Sumner has lately told us that we are in “a muddle with everybory.” Can any of you tell with whom we are in a “muddle?” Can any of you name a sea, @ continent or an island where our flag is not respected? Can any of you name a com- mercial centre in which our securities are not souzht? Can any of you name a Power which de- nies a right to one American citizen? Spain’s re- Jease of Dr. Houard, whose American citizenship is very doubtful, leaves no controversy, no contested matter with avy Power on earth, save England. With Envland preceding administrations failed to settle — seve! large and dangerous questions. This administration has compose: them all in one treaty, applauded by the country and the world as one 0} the best products of states- manship and civilization. Recently a difference arose as to the construction of the treaty, and Eng- Jand was unwilling and afraid to submit the ques- tion to the tribunal to which it plainly nelonged. ‘The British government took the ground that they had agreed to a treaty which did not contain what they intended; that their meaning was not set down in fanguage so plain that they were willing to trust it to the arbitration at Genev: and they insisted that shoul withdraw part of our astvange mission; it was saying virtually nts had not been able to cope with ours. Indeed this was said without disguise and with taunts in the British Parliament. There is nothing here surely to wound American pride. England, with a Parlia- ment eight hundred years old, renowned for centu- ries in exploits of dipiomacy, sent five of her trained mon to bargain with an infant nation scarce Out of its swaddling clothes. An agree- ment was made, written and signed, and aiter- wards England discovered that it did not read as she says she thought it did, and so she threw up the sponge, and cried out that she had been outfought und outwitted in her own tleld oO. law and diplomacy, Nobiemen and University men were England's Commissione hey sealed the treaty with signet rings bearing ancient coats ofarms, but the gossips said that one of our an titled and gelf-educated Commuasioners had nothing to seal with except a button. This seems the story over again of the poor boy with a pinhook and twine, who caught more fish than the rich boy with ae — the reel, the line of silk and the best of fish- Oks, MR. GREELEY AND HIS “OLAIMS."? An examination of the fitness of Mr. Grecley and his claims to pubile contidence is the duty of every citizen, That he has shown great talent as an editor and writer all admit, but nearly all else claimed for him now Ideny. The very talents he has shown unfit him for the Presidency. It is said that a great debt is due and unpaid by the republican pares, to Mr. Greeley. Tne account stands very differently, as most persons understand it. Does not Mr. Greeley owe mnuch to the republican party? That party gave him wealth, fame and influence. His talent and industry were his own; but the Tribune was sustained as @ party organ and was made a mine of wealth by the republican party. Who does not know that republicans, whether pri- vate citizens or postmasters or other “office-hold- era’’ or country editors or committeemen, have made common cause for years for the Tribune, have organized clubs, pushed and begged for sub- acriptions and made the Tridune what lt was? Who does not know that this year tens of thousands of republicans paid their money in advance for the Tribune, while yet ita claws were half concealed, holding itself out as a republican aper, and that the money thus obtainéd by taise pretence is kept to sustain the r in ita present gross and knavish course. Whodoes not know that the position given Mr. Greeley by the wey party did more than all else to make sale of his book called the “American Confict,” which is said to have paid him more than $100,000, He sent canvassers to solicit subscribers for this book; and who subscribed, who paid him @ fortune for his kK? Was it the democrats or the no party men, or was it those to whom he says now “he owes nothing?” It is true that Mr. Grecley has seldom been intrusted with oMice— though he has long sought office from the whig and republican parties, This, however, is simply from want of confidence in his practical judgment and consistency. Prior to 1964 Mr, Greeley’s extreme craving for office was not unders' and his letter to Governor Seward, November 11, 1864, dissolving the “politica firm of Seward, Weed and Greele because office had not heen given him, amazed the public. In this letter, aiter referring to some of the omces he wanted from the whig'party and upbraid- ing Governor Seward for not appointing him to some office in 1837, he say#:— Now came the creat scramble of the swell mob of minstrels and cider-suckers at Washington,—I not bein; counted ip, Several regunen' ent on from i | shibition of their wares in the East, . he bee u id have Ly Beate ere thjewhich could and would bave elected ire any without injuring myself or endangering your It was in vain that I, urged thatI had in no asked a nomination. ‘At length I was nettled by his fuave—well intended, but very cutting, as addremed im to me—to say, in substance,.“Well, then, make Pate! son Governor, and try my name for Lieutenant. T this place is a matter of ‘no importance, and we can whether I am really so odious.” * MR. GREELEY AS A POLITICIAN, Eccentricity, and fickleness are Mr. Greeley’ traits; asa he has bolted and advise bolting; he has opposed the nomination or electio of every President who has been chosen for corruption to otheis mere! ing ashe did; he sought Mr. Lincoin after he was nominated secon time, and as late as September 2, 1864, wro! letters, which have since com to light, to ‘concoct measures to preven Lincoln's election; he strove to poison Presiden: Grant against capable and honest republicans, an advised him to exclude from his councils me! trained in public affairs; he has recommended un. fit men for office, and insisted on their appoint. ment; after endorsing and applauding everythings involving principle, or relating to the public’ inter= est done by the administration, he has struck alt the President on account of “patronage,” an: bolted the party, after maneuvring more than Sa to get its nomination, Cn the4th of May, 1871, e wrete William Larmore, who hi in. peg whether he would be a candidate for Presi- lent before the Republican Convention this year, “I fully propose also never to decline any ard 01 responsibility which my Political friends gee ft devolve npon me,” and having thus put bimeelt it the field, he started for the South to make speeches in one of whic he asserted over again the right ol secession, and in another hoped jor the time whe! his countrymen would fee! pride in Lee and Stone wall Jackson, He apologized for }ammany robbers, enjoying from them at the same time an’ immens adveitising patronage, and blocking the wheols, of reform after the Tammany trauds were know: to the whole nation; he colladed with men know) to be in the interest of Tammany Hall, and who he had previously so branded himself, to preven' the republican party being purged of Tammany ii fluence; for two years belore hs open desertion hi secret sought to divide and destroy the republican party of New York, and traduced many upright me because of thelr resistance to the domination of corruptionists, and finally in signing the call for the Cincinnati Convention, which adopte the free trade Missouri plitiorm, he turn his back on the only pollbical Brinclple on idea prominent for the last ten years, of which het had not before been on both sides. Yet im thet bina staggers of faction the American people Bre} challenged to scan and decide upon this record. Such a coalition and such @ nomination mean chaog and disorder, You see this already in North Caro-! lina, where the American flag is showered with stale e; nd where the mob refuses to allow honored citizens born there to speak; and you will see it at every step, until the curtall fas in November. ‘Liberal republican’ movements have been tried in other Stat and until the results were felt they snoceed ‘They tried in Virginia nominating a republican Governor, on @ bargain with the democrats, Many‘ republicans were entrapped, and Virginia is with a rule which the best democrats are ashamed’ of, They tried in West Virginia a fusion betweem “outs” and democrats, and now West Virginiac holds debate in her Constitutional Convention. o! the question of nullifying the constitution of t) United States and depriving the blacks of the right to vote. They tried in Tennessee @ move+ ment of bolters and democrats, and the result i thet destruction of common schools, in which 190,000 thousand children were cultured. They tried the experiment in Missouri, and the fruit it bore is a democratic State government and Frank. Blair, in the Senate. In all these caves one side or the other was cheated and the public interest was harmed, and now it is sgeopoped to attempt the same thing on a national scale. No wonder that leading democratic journals and a large body of, democrats refuse to be parties to such chicanery,’ and no wonder that it draws to itself aw no other movement ever did, the very worst, elements, North and South. The issue stands be- fore you. On the one side is sale, tried and stable; government, peace with all nations and prosperity: at home, with business thriving and debt and taxes melting away; on the other side is ah id con~ glomeration made up of the crotchet tempers) and persoual aims of restless and disappointed: men. What ills might cone of committing to them, the affairs of the nation no judgment can fathom, no prophecy can foretell. The result is very sale, because it rests with the same generation whicly was given by Providence to see through the dark- ness of the rebellion, and that generation cannot be blind now. The proceedings were brought to a close shortly: after eleven o'clock. . THE NEXT GREAT EXPOSITION. PE NDTIS: The World’s Fair at Vienna in 1873—- Information for Amerfcan Exhibitors— Will American Arts and Industries be Fally Represented? The Austrian government, with commendable enterprise, has resolved upon having in the city of Vienna, next spring, a grand Exposition, which promises to eclipse all previous attempts to bring together under one roof specimens of the genius and productions of the various civilized nations of the world. The space to be occupied by the building. is nearly double that of the Paris Exposition, and the government are anxious that the whole of it shall be occupied on the 1st of May next, when the edifice will be thrown open to the admiring gaze of the thousands who will throng there. They are especially desirous that the United States, whose fame for its mechanism is so world wide, shall oo- cupy no mean place in the Exposition, and conse- quently have earnestly called upon the United States Commissioner, General T. B. Van Buren, to impress upon the inventors and manufacturers of this country the advantages to be derived by oc- cupying space for the exhibition of their machinery and productions. Unfortunately, Con; has made no provision for defraying the expenses at- tending the collection of American manufactures or for the commissioners; but General Van Buren will have associated with him as assistant commis- sioners @ number of intelligent gentlemen who wil! ante represent our country at Vienna. The commissioner reports that all the Eastern nations have already applied for large space, and that he éarnestly hopes that American arts and in- dustriés will not be wanting when the public under- stand the advantages likely to accrue from the ex- jot only in a pe- cuntary point of view, but as exhibiting the inge- nuity and energy of Americans. The Exposition ‘Will open on the ist of May next and close on the Dist of October. The time intervening is 80 sh that in order to secure the proper space for arti- cles to be exhibited inventors and manufacturers should apply at once to General Van Buren, at No. 61 Chambers street, who will assign them the space necessary and give them exhibition permits. An assistant commissioner will be at Vienna con- atantly to receive, unpack and locate ail articles forwarded from the United States, the expenses of which must be borne by the exhibitor. Articles must be addressed “To Director General of the World's Fair at Vienna, 1873.” The commissioner is compelled to forward to the Direct or General, on or beiore the Ist of October next, a complete list od all the articles to be exhibited; and those who in tend to contribute towards elling the lst of American productions should apply to him at once. The cost of transportation must be liquidated by the exhibitor, but the Austrian government have made arrangéments with steamship companies for large rebates of freight rates, and it is expected that the railroad companies will also consent to a reduction on their regular rates. From the efforts put fortn by the Austrian government it is bee fi evident that this Exposition will be the finest ever held, and it is to be earnestly hoped that American exhibitors will endeavor to make the American department worthy of the United States, MRS, CONGDON V8, MRS, HATCH, A Fight for a Husband. The great fight between Mrs, Annie EB. Congdon~ afwidow, of 243 East Fifty-fourth street, and Mrs, An- nie Hatch, of Yonkers, for the possession of the lat~ ter’s husband, came up again at the Yorkville Po- lice Court yesterday. The cause of the trouble has been already published in the HERALD. It appears now that the man Hatch has disappeared, so that both ladies find it impossible to obtain an interview. Any person knowing of his present whereabouts will receive the thanks of two heart-broken women by leaving word at the Yorkville Police Court, with their counsel, Mesars. Nesbit (for Mrs. Hatch) and Lombard (for Mrs. Congdon), The examination was postponed until next Saturday, when it is Sapectes some informu- tion of the ing Hatch will be had, Thomas Kell, twenty-three years of age, and born in Ireland, was yesterday morning found dead in the rear of premises 90 Allen street. De- ceased ts supposed to have fallen from a fourth story window of the house while asleep, and was killed. An inquest will be held by Coroner Schirmer, a