The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1873, Page 6

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A LECTURER IN SALT LAKE CITY GIVES ADDITIONAL AND FULL PARTICULARS OF THE GREAT SLAUGHTER PERPETRATED BY THE MORMONS! ATROCITIES THAT SAVAGES WO BE ASHAMED OF—EIGHTH Pace. MURDER MADNESS! A SHOEMAKER BUTCHERED ON LONG ISLAND BY A MAN TO WHOM HE WAS SELLING A PAIR OF BOOTS! ANOTHER TERRIBLE MYSTERY—FirTa Pace.’ A CURE FOR MURDER MADNESS! A CALIFOR- NIA FIEND EXECUTED FOR MAKING AWAY WITH A FELLOW MURDERER! NA- TURE FROWNS UPON THE DYING CRIMI- NAL—EIGHTH PaGE. FOLEY THE REFORMER! HIS VIEWS UPON THE CHARTER, MAYOR HAVEMEYER AND THE CUSTOM HOUSE RING! THOMAS MURPHY TO REPLACE GREEN IN THE COMPTROLLERSHIP! CITY PATRONAGE— Firta Paap. GAFFNEY’S SANITY! BUFFALO HIGHLY EX- CITED ! THE USUAL DISAGREEMENT OF THE DOCTORS! THE RESPITE NOT KNOWN TO GAFFNEY—EIcnTs Pace. ‘HOBOKEN’S CAR-HOOK MYSTERY—THE ROYAL STUART—COURTS—ElcuTn Pace. EEUROPEAN CABLE NEWS—PERSONAL PARA- GRAPHS — LATE TELEGRAMS — SEvenTH PaGE. CORA PEARL’S DESPAIR! THE QUEEN OF THE PARISIAN DEMI-MONDE TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE! HER EXTRAORDINARY CA-_ REER—TENTH PaGE. AGUERO WELCOMED! AN OVATION TO THE COMMANDER OF THE EDGAR STUART'S HEROES! A NEW EXPEDITION—Tenta PaGs. FATHER STARS’ REMAINS AT THE CATHEDRAL! AFFECTING TRIBUTES TO THE VENERA- TED DEAD—SEVENTH PAGE. SPECIAL WASHINGTON NEWS! SPECULATIONS UPON THE CREDIT MOBILIER VERDICT! THE POPULAR STIGMA AFFIXED! THE SENATE COMMITTEE—Turmp Page. RESULTS OF SYNDICATE OPERATIONS! WHAT THE CHIEFS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN REFUNDING THE NEW FIVE PER CENTS! GOLD AND STOCK FLUCTUATIONS! WALL STREET BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK—Ninta Page. ROCIAL GAYETY AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL! A BRILLIANT SEASON SO FAR! THE IN- AUGURAL BALL! RECEPTIONS, HOPS AND TEA PARTIES—EicuTn Page. CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY AS EXPOUNDED BY THE REVERENDS, DOCTORS AND FATHERS AT THE SANCTUARIES! A COMPENDIUM OF YESTERDAY'S SERMONS—FourtH Pace. 4 VITIATED ATMOSPHERE! THE NATIONAL “HOUSE” TO BE PURIFIED! BEN BUTLER IN THE LEADING ROLE! THE CHANGES PROPOSED! CLERKING CORRESPOND- ENTS—Firra Pacs. EAST AFRICAN AND POLYNESIAN SLAVE TRADING!—CENTRAL ASIA — ELEVENTH Page. METROPOLITAN MUSEUMS! THE LEGISLATURE OPPOSING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW MUSEUMS OF ART AND NATURAL HISTORY! WHAT THE PARK BOARD AND PRIVATE SOCIETIES PROPOSE—ELEVENTH Page. RECENT PUBLICATIONS—THE AGED HEBREW WOMEN'S WOME—Firm Pagan. 0 Excitement m Panss.—President Thicrs' relations towards the Committee of Thirty of the French National Assembly, and the final action of the members of the Committee for Constitutional Definition in France, have pro- @uced a considerable degree of excitement in Paris. Rentes were flat yesterday. The Boulevards were crowded during the day, de- spite a stormy condition of the weather, with people engaged in enger discussion of the situation. THfere exists, quite apparently, & contest of @ very delicate and critical char- acter between the French President and the majority of the members of the parliamentary committee, but it is probable, or more than probable, that the Assembly as a whole will ultimately support the Chief of State, and also that the cautious old diplomat is already NEW A Call to the Press of the States—Will It Unite Against honesty ¥ Tl fares the land, to maecbaine: (iy aprey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. The state of positive immorality which exists in publio affairs in the United States is as dangerous as it is painful. Tho apathy of the people thereat is an alarming symptom, and the press, which should bo the public sentinel, seems asleep or debauched. Our present object is to call emphatically on the journals of all parties to oast aside all small and blinding issues, and take their proper stand in reviving a lasting and fervent spirit of patriotic watchfulness throughout the land. Time after time tho intelligence has burst upon the public that enormous and glaring frauds had been perpetrated. A temporary ebullition of hot indignation, with much noise and bluster has followed, subsiding rapidly into a low-toned grumble and thon suddenly into silence. ‘It will blow over,’’ say tho criminals, cheered into confidence by past experienco, and the event justifies them. The siroceo lasts only for a day, and thiof, falsifior and oorruptionist come from their caves on the morrow to fan themselves approvingly in the zephyra of forgetfalnoss. But the cause of public morality receives each time a deadly blow, and people do not see it because the injury is internal. The politicians and their allics in the partisan press, outside of the criminals, are the only ones who derive any profit from the villany. They make the most of tho situation for themselves or their party. All that can condemn their political foes is set forth ; all that would implicate their party friends is suppressed. A base selfishness that stops short of no unclean device to gain partisan ends is the mainspring of their action. The spirit of comprehensive honesty and fearless impartiality is not merely absent from them, but in their audacity of successful trickery it is made a byword and reproach. ‘The word independence, which should be a badge of honor, is to their corrupt understandings the choicest label to fix on those they would scoff at. This system of dishonest party journalism has grown with wonderful strength since the war of the rebel- lion. ‘Frauds on the people always existed to some extent, the slipshod apologists will say. It may be admitted that all governments have been more or less the sustenance of corrup- tionists. In former times this dishonesty was jealously screened from the public gaze. Its growth was slow and the cycle of corruption was a limited one. At times it broke forth, and the people saw it, frequently without tho power to arrest it, until the State was involved in the certain rain which follows on such rot- tenness at the core. We had better, however, keep our eyes fixed on tho evils that assail our institutions, because crime cannot long be hidden now; its exist- ence can be instantly communicated to the people, and they always have in their hands the power to reform abuses and to punish those guilty of perpetrating them. In America to-day fraud and corruption are of rapid growth. They are shameless and auda- cious because of the impunity which attends their commission. The oppor- tunity for plunder that grew out of the war generated much of this, and, in making the way of the defrauder rosy with success, reacted nationally in dulling the sensitiveness of the public conscience, This opportunity also made the press, to a very large extent, the slave of the plunderers, o sharer in their spoils, a reckless partisan in pro- viding fresh means of plunder and a defender of their worst actions when a word of reproach was breathed upon their guilt, United Dis- The proud place of public mentor and faith- fal friend to the people was bartered for that of sycophant and panderer to successful fraud, and, like wreckers on rock-bound coasts, this degraded press has since lured unsuspecting honesty to destruction by the exhibition of false lights. It is a sadd but it is true. tate The spectacle which this degradation of the press presents has many points calling for deploring comment. Not the least is that dis- graceful and petty warfare in which all the small spite and pin-pointed malice of narrow minds are poured forth in personal warfare. Its language is that of a graduate of the slums of London. It is the unhappy offspring of a subsidized press. The battle between rival parties, turned from the honorable walk of polemics, centres itself in hand-to- hand conflicts between small politicians and opposition editors. Mud and pitch would seem to be the only weapons of offence, defensive weapons being entirely discarded. To answer an opponent with reason is unheard of in this war. Unless the politician or the partisan editor has verbal filth to throw back he has to subside. The man sought to be blackened descends to the gutter, that his opponent also may be smirched. Thus it is that the par- tisan sheets are covered with pitiful squabbles and personal broils about which the public cares nothing. This mutual abuse is notori- ously the resource of the worst characters in a community, and he who calls ‘‘thief’’ first be- lieves he bas won a moral victory. It has one object, however, which the public cannot mise—namely, to remove attention from the real and deep evils, of which these miserable eruptions are merely the unsightly excres- cences. Several times have we called on our contemporaries to cease this vile war- fare. A citizen of the world, like Goldsmith, viewing such a press, would conclude that ite mission in America was to blacken repute- tions a4 much as possible, to advocate nothing hut jobbery, to garble or suppress evidence of turpitude within ‘the party,’’ and condone any fravd which did not belong to the opposition, We are led to these reflections by & survey of the whole Sejd of politics and public life for a few years pass-It is a retrospect from which we draw the conclusion that, unless the system of viewing and jucng public men and their acta is radically chi0ged, there is danger ahead. This change is thi frst step in the improvement of public mo,"#ls 80 pressingly needed. Men who act by the vote of the people and journals that preach in th.* people’s name must learn that honesty of pur- pose and act is the sine gud non of their exist- ence as leaders or representatives. Look back to the gigantic army frauds, wherein men wrung wealth from the very blood of the Republic. Recall how the red- handed plunderers were able to buy off opposi- aware of the fact. Excitement in Paris is not | tion in one direction and buy support—cheaply, the leas unhealthy, notwithstanding. too—in another. The people, betrayed in their trust by all but the very few, gould scarcely form an opinion on the guilt of the criminals until long after the plunder was secured. The frauds on the internal revenue tell the same sickening story of treachery, triumphant stealing and increased public apathy. A vicarious sacrifice satisfied the little public spirit left. Carpet-baggism, with ita strocious usurpation and spoliation, found its defenders as naturally as the army de- frauders and revenue defaulters. It had its convenient offset in Ku LKluxism, which found its defenders as naturally in the opposition press, To do lasting service to the carpet-baggers it was thought enough to throw mud at the Ku Klux; for the contrary effect the treatment was simply reversed ; but the partisan press never dared to take the just course of condemning both and call- ing on the friends of good government to put astop to both. So with the Louisiana imbroglio. The press of either party con- tents itsolf with championing the Legislature which it believes represents its partisans, careless of the shame which a continuance of the burlesque upon popular government brings to the nation. In our own State, too, did not tho Tammany ‘TRing’’ frauds find their specious defenders in the democratic press, and has not the press of tho dominant party here, since the over- throw of the “‘Ring,’’ labored sedulously to turn what should be the gain of the people into the gain of its associate foliticland of the same stripe, and of the hungriest order? The election frauds of 1868 and 1870 in New York found their democratic press de- fenders ; the election frauds of 1872 in Penn- sylvania and the Southern States found their champions in the republican press. The Crédit Mobilier frauds and perjuries—which brought to the dust men once s0 highly esteemed—are smoothed over as much as possible by the republi- can press, simply because the ma- jority of the slaughtered are republicans. When one democrat was included it can be recalled how fiercely the most virulent among them flew at his throat. View the Caldwell case and the Pomeroy case. These men have their partisans yet. We may step down from politics and see how, even in murder, the partisan press can fight over a corpse. Now, what is the remedy? It is this. Let the press all over the country, North, South, East and West, in this crisis, fling off that yoke which binds it to the sins, the crimes and the frauds of any and all parties. It might be too much at once to ask them to step boldly into the ranks of the indepen- dent press in the high and full sense of the term; but, if it will not stand aside alto- gether from party, it can everywhere take sides against dishonesty . without any sac- rifice that honorable men should regret. We ask the entire press to unite in the de- nunciation of corruption in every rank and circle, political or social, republican or demo- cratic. The Tammany ‘“‘ring’’ should be prosecuted in reality, and the Orédit Mobilier offenders followed to the limits of the law. Offenders of every class should be promptly presented, and the expulsion of the guilty ) Congresgmen demanded. Others who ‘an only be reached by impeachment should be dealt with in that way. It is work in which all journals can unite which have the faintost claim to independence. [If all not tied neck and heels to the Juggernaut of corruption and partisanship would fling small issues and petty personal differences away, and join heartily in the work we propose, the battle for right and honesty could be gained ina day, and every blackmailerand corruptionist, the briber and the bribed, be driven into disgrace and retirement. When the liberty of the citizen was threatened in the Orange procession case, the united voice of the press forced that liberty to be respected at any cost, When Sumter was fired upon the press of the North rallied ina moment of patriotic exaltation to the Stars and Stripes, and the magnificent result is known. The danger now is quife as grave and ten times jnoré subtle. The press by a vigorous, united front can stem it, Will it prove worthy of its great trust, and let honesty, worth and truth be its party now and henceforth? It is a duty and a necessity. Will the press of the country recognize the latter and act up to the former? The Proposed Pacific Cable. The new proposition to unite America and China by telegraphic cable is one which must greatly interest the whole country. As a mighty engine of civilization the telegraph has yet reaped but a small portion of the meed of renown which yet awaits it. It seems but yesterday when the first an- nouncement came of the final triumph and successful working of the Atlantic cable at Heart's Content. But since that time the service of deep-sea telegraphy has much im- proved, and the enterprise of a Pacific cable now would commence its labors with manifold advantages. Although no submarine wire has ever been tested through distances as great as some which a Pacific cable must overstretch, the scientific elements of the question preclude any possibility of failure in the electrical current, The only problems of moment are those which relate to the topography of the ocean bed—whether level, rough, gashed and volcanic—and how far these conditions will aftect the safety and durability of the mystic thread. We know but little as yet concerning the agency of deep-sea phenomena in disturb- ing the repose or frittering and chafing the strands of cables. It was supposed in 1858 that the fracture and loss of the Agamemnon’s cable was only to be accounted for on the supposition that the water in which she was paying it out had suddenly shallowed to a considerable extent and that the vessel was, in fact, passing over the summit of some sub- marine Ben Nevis or Skiddaw. The previous attempt to lay the cable of 1857 had been de- feated by-a strong current taking the wire out of the hold too rapidly and forcing the engi- neers to apply the brakes. It will also be re- membered that when the first cable was effectually laid and became so mysteriously dumb the silence and death of the nerve that had throbbed one message across the Atlantic wat attributed to a defect in its insulation and t” its wearing out its life on the rocks of the sea \ottom. But these’ Suppositions should not be allowed in any way¥to'discoursge new submarine cable enterprises. ' Experiment shows that the rusting and \burniiig of 1 metal are synono- mous terms, pnd Professor Zyndall, in one of his recent lectures, very forcibly argued that the first Atlantic cable, having no means of radiating its heat, probably rusted and was literally burned up. However this may be, the Pacific Ocean is certainly, with the single exception of its volcanic bed, quite as promising a field for telegraphic undertakings asthe stormy Atlantic, whose basin is one of noted and remarkable erosions. Off Newfound- land iccbergs, which may ground and destroy the communication with Europe, are @ constant source of peril at one season of the year. But in the North Pacifio this danger would be wholly unknown, Deop-sea researches have yot to be mado on a scale sufficient to be in- structive in the latter ocean, but no company possessed of ample means and with the expe- rience furnished by the history of the Atlantic telegraph need hesitate to commence tentative operations. By following the rim of the Amori- can and Asiatic Continents from Portland, Oregon, touching at one of the Aleutian Islands, the distance would be as short as from San Francisco direct to Yokohama, and the perils of lnying the cable would be les- sened, while the facilities for recovering it, if lost, would be greater, . ~ Fy art There can be po reasbhable doubt of the snocess of any woll sustained and skilful effort to lay a Pacific cable, and it would redound to the infinite advantage of commerce and civili- zation. The public will watch with keen in- terest this new enterprise to bridle Old Ocean. In view of the prospective action of Congress in authorizing one or more of our national vessels to make the necessary soundings fora Pacific cable, it is not out of place to suggest that the Juniata, now ready and under orders for sea, should be sent for that purpose. She is to be under the command of Commander D. L. Braine, and no officer in the navy is more competent to undertake this important work, The Late Commander Maury. No class of people are better able to appre- ciate the services of the late Commander Mathew Fontaine Maury, both to his own country and to the world, than sea captains and seafaring men. They have been recog- nized not less by foreigners than by Ameri- cans. We published on Friday resolutions passed to that effect by the New York Chamber of Commerce. On that occasion there was only one dissenting voice. Mr. Blunt objected, forsooth, because Commander Maury joined the Confederates, the people of his own sec- tion, in the late civil war. The report of the proceedings says he denounced the course of the deceased during the rebellion. Happily there are not many as illiberal as Mr. Blunt. Scientific and large-minded men bury their political animosities in the grave of those who have done so much to benefit the world as Com- mander Maury did. To show how differently a distinguished British naval officer and ex- perienced captain of the Atlantic steamship service views the deceased, we publish the subjoined letter: — BALTIMORE, Feb. 7, 1873, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Sir—I_ haye noticed in your journal with deep regret the death of Commodore Maury, an officer who spent the best part of his life and all his for- tune in trying to mitigate the hardships of the sea- faring community. gf showing our We have ni Ly ortynit; appféectation SPs aehrices by Tea ising @ substan- tial subscription for the benefit of his family. I would respectfully suggest that the captains of all the Atlantic steamers give an cntertainment on one evening during the voyage, or make a collec- tion of money otherwise, which should be handed rend is you Me os would Kindly en aarreke the . 1 remain, sir, yours respec ATSRITISH. SAILOR, We need only add to this merited testi- monial of Commander Maury’s services and appeal for his family that we shall be happy to receive any contributions for the noble object proposed. The French Cooks’ Ball. Shere are some people who always remind one of pandemonium, they are so full of good intentions, This similitude, however, is scarcely applicable to the members of the Société Culinaire, who last Tuesday night held their annual revelry at Irving Hall. All accounts agree in pronouncing the affair the very triumph of the turnspit. For our part we see no good reason why the Dutch oven should not be apotheosized once in a while. This was an occasion when too many cooks did not spoil the broth. Who was the emperor that offered a reward for the inventor of a new dish? Could his spirit have brooded over the Irving Hall bill of fare last Tuesday even- ing he would have surveyed not one new dish, but twenty, and his spiritual mouth would have watered immitigably, yearning in vain to be materialized, if but for the moment, And why, we should like to know, should not the chief cook of the Parker House, Boston, or of our own es- thetic Delmonico, not receive a salary as large as that of a Harvard Professor? For whether is it better for a man to spend his life in put- ting good things into our mouths, as every first class cook does, or in taking good things out of the mouths of his contemporaries, as Professor Fisk does when he deals out epi- grams on cosmism and anticipates the fine sayings of Lecky and Huxley? Common sense may be termed the thumb of the soul, which enables it to take a good grip of things, and common sense is what the first class cook must possess in abundance, His intellectual thumb must be very big, indeed, in order that his grasp may be lively and unrelaxing. It is the good cooks whom we see rushing to the dance; and we, for one, rejoice that the genii of soups and sauces cross hands cor- dlally once & year with Terpsichore. Damas was not ashamed to proclaim that the last literary act of his life should be to compile a cook book. Do not success- fal poets and novelists sometimes achieve their truest triumphs before the kitchen range? Marian Harland has abandoned romance and addressed herself to chops and steaks, and Sarah J, Hale forsook the Cas- talian dew to revel in gravies. ‘What is home without » mother?” asks the sentimentalist. “ What is home without a good cook?” is the more practical question we propound. We pay © tribute to the sentiment, even in our figures of speech, If a delicate affair is well managed we say that it was nicely ‘‘cooked.”’ As society could not exist without good din- ners, so good dinners would be an impossi- bility without good cooks. Consequently we honor the French Cooks’ Ball, and, in passing, take off our hat and make our little bow to it. We would rather be responsible for the optim- ism that resides in » good dish than preach pessimism from ® professor's chair all life long, and we are sure that last Tuesday night's menu de souper at Irving Hail woultt be more YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. ———— eee ee eee OO OOO ee be rg 552). g i interesting reading even to those who cannot | given in the charter to the Ohurch, ‘to regu- understand a syllable of French than Comte’s “Positive Philosophy" or Spencer's ‘Psy- chology." The Administration and the More mons—-The War Against the “Twin Relic of Barbarism”—Reconstraction Demanded, General Gront has evidently made up his mind against that “twin relic of barbarism,” Mormon polygamy. Our special dospatchos from Washington and Salt Lake City indicate a revival of the “irrepressible conflict,"’ with the fixed resolution on his part of a decisive settlement with Brigham Young and his hior- archy. In a conversation on Saturday last with a republican Senator it appears that the President expressed himself strongly in favor of an enforcement of the laws in Utah if it takes the whole available military force of the country to sustain the civil authorities. It further appears that General Sheridan has been summoned to Washington to give his advice, “from personal observation, touching the best localities within » day's_ailzoad Gistance from Salt Lake City for temporary encampments of troops; from which it is apparent that the existing conflicts of jurisdic- tion between the civil authorities of the United States and of the Territory of Utah are of such a character that in order to enforce the sove- reign authority of the general government in said Territory the President is prepared for that last alternative which he thinks he may be required to adopt—of making war upon the intractable Mormons. At Salt Lake City, meantime, as our special despatches from that quarter inform us, the intelligence indicating a vigorous repressive policy from General Grant against polygamy, connected with the report that troops are to be concentrated in Utah, has caused an intense excitement among the Latter Day Saints. The special organ of Brigham Young, the News, says that ‘the people must look at things in their true light or many of them will go down before the President's aggressive policy;"’ that if the United States are to be employed against the Saints ‘those who are faint-hearted would do well to embrace the present opportunity and get out of the way;”’ that “We want no cowards in our ranks Who will our colors fly ;” that they who stand firm even to death ‘will be sure of a crown of life more glorious than a few short years of existence gained through manifesting the white liver and showing the craven soul of an apostate,” and that “‘if a public spectacle of unfaltering integrity is needed to save the nation, and Utah be the predestined stage, let it be so.’’ The Salt Lake Herald, the Mormon secular organ, com- pares President Grant tothe Duke of Alva, and betrays much bitterness. But while all this excitement prevails in Salt Lake City Brigham Young, as usual at this season of the year, is enjoying the softer atmosphere of the southern part of the Territory, and was prob- ably ignorant on Saturday last of the new danger so imminently threatening him ond his so-called divine institution of polygamy. But, by the Utah Southern Railroad and pony expresses, he is, doubtless, by this time fully informed of the probabilities of another mili- tary occupation of his dominions. But what are the laws which the President proposes to enforce? Some twelve months ago, under processes from the United States Courts, numerous arrests were made by the United States Marshal for Utah of Mormon dignitaries, including Brigham Young, on charges of murderand other high crimes. These men were still held as prisoners when, from a decision of the Supreme Court of the United Sines Se ibe Geaconed oleSlaion Ts volved, they were instantly released and the prosecutions against them were dropped. The judicial authorities of the United States for the Territory claimed the right to arrest these men and to empanel the juries in their cases and to try them, and to decide through these channels upon their guilt or innocence, and to enforce their punishment if adjudged guilty. But the Mormon Territorial govern- ment had given to their Probate Courts a con- current jurisdiction covering all these cases, and the Mormons, adhering to their Terri- torial law, appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States against the proceedings of the United States Territorial Judge, McKean, and his associates. The decision on the ques- tion, delivered by Chief Justice Chase; was to the effect that under the organic law of the Territory the Probate Courts established by the Territorial Legislature were lawful, and that the jurisdiction assumed by the United States aut horities in the premises involved an unlawful aggression upon the vested rights of the Territory. Hence the immediate release of the aforesaid Mormon dignitaries who had been held as prisoners by the United States authorities; and hence from that day to this, from the continuance of the conflict between the national and the local authorities in Utah, there has been, practically, in many cases, no enforcement therein of the criminai laws of the general or local government. The decision of Chief Justice Chase was a heavy disappointment to the Gentiles of Utah, and a source of great rejoicings among the Mormons ; and it was, moreover, a complete reversal of what to that day had been gener- ally understood and accepted as the sovereign jurisdiction of the United States Courts in the Territory. Nevertheless, that decision is the supremé law on the subject, and go the ques- tion still recurs, What arc the Isws which President Grant is seeking to enforcé against the Mormons? Clearly a law of Territorial reconstruction from Congress is the only rem- edy for Utah. From the disclosures made in the recent speeches in the House of Mr. Claggett, the Delegate from Montana, the pres- ent Territorial government of the Mormons is the closest politieal corporation and the most rigid.exzd comprehensive religious depotism tolerated by any civilized people. The worst of it is, this fact appears to be established from the Territorial statutes of Utah, recited and ex- plained by Mr. Clagett, and of the character of which, before he produced them on the floor of the House, perhaps not twenty mem- bers of that body had had any conception. ‘They do, indeed, make the Territorial laws of Utah the completest chain of a comprehensive despotism to be found in any civilized com- munity, and, in the language of the learned gentleman from Montana, these Mormon stat- utes in their operation ‘regulate everything above the earth, and on the earth, and under the carth, under that broad grant of power late the duty of man to his Maker.’ "’ It is folly, then, on the part of the Presi- dent to talk of enforcing tho laws against the Mormons, whon, under the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, the only laws which he can enforce in Utah are the Territorial laws of Brigham Young. The trouble began with the organic law of Con- gress establishing the Territory, and in this organic law it still exists. Reconstruction is the only remedy, we repeat, which will meet the necessities of the case—a new law from Congress, strictly defining and limiting the power of the Territorial government, and broadly and clearly affirming the equal rights of citizens, the method of conducting elec- tions, including the arrangement of the elec- tion districts, the jurisdiction of the national and local Courts, the drawing of jurors, and the pains and penalties attached to crimes, including polygamy, &c. We are glad to hear that Senator Frelinghuysen is engaged in the preparation of a bill of this character, and that he is assisted in it by the Delegate from Mon- tana, who ay from his valuable knowl- Sad teccdn & bs haces ao fied for the work. It is to be hoped that Con- gress will no longer trifle or temporize with this important subject, but that the two houses will speedily agree upon an act of re- constructiou which will enable the Prosident to enforce the laws in Utah af in the other Territories; and whick, while establishing justice, equal rights and a republican govern- ment over the Territory, will make it the duty and the interest of the Mormons to proceed to the abolition of that abominable ‘twin relic of barbarism," their ‘beastly institution of polygamy,’’ as a condition precedent to the promotion of their Territory to the dignity of a State. The Credit Mobilier Innocents—General Butler to the Rescue. From the tenor of our Washington doe- spatches on the Crédit Mobilier investigations and their probable result, it is evident that the Senators and members of Congress are unwill- ing to make an example of their delinquent confreres. At least it appears they are disposed to make a scapegoat of one or two in order to save the rest and their own credit. The victim marked for sac- rifice seems to be Oakes Ames, and per- haps Brooks may be another; the former not only because he is guilty as the heaviest plun- derer of the Pacific Railroad and the public and as the arch tempter of Congressmen, but especially because he has exposed the rascality of his colleagues and seriously damaged the republican party, and the latter because he is a democrat, and by punishing him the moral delinquency would appear to be equal- ized between the two political parties, The offering up of one or both of these honorables as a propitiation to an outraged public and to cover up the sins of others seems to be the disposition of the investigating committees and of Congress. It may be, however, that only one will have to suffer forall, and that one be Oakes Ames. His punishment may be expulsion from Congress ; but for the rest, except Brooks, perhaps, a moderate dose of censure, which would hurt no one, appears to be the remedy designated. It is possible, however, that a report of the investigations may be laid before Congress without any expression of opinion or censure, leaving that body to take what course it may please. In that case and in view of the early termination of this Congress, very little, probably, if any- thing, will be done. There are so many prominent and leading republicans involved that Congress, to save the party from odium, is likely to use the whitewash brush as far as But that would be s serious mistake and would disappoint the country. Nothing short of cutting out this great national ulcer and disgrace by punishing all the guilty parties, no matter how high they may stand, will satisfy the people. And here, looking at the timidityand hesitation of Con- gress, is a fine opportunity for some bold, talented and patriotic member to insist upon the fullest investigation and the signal punish- ment of every ono that is tainted. We know of no man in Congress that combines in him- self these necessary qualities for such action more than General Butler. He has shown himself to be fearless and patriotic on many occasions, and here is one on which he can render great service to the country. There is no question as to his ability for the work. No one is more capable. We call upon General Butler, then, to lead off in purging Congress and the Republic of this great disgrace, and upon the patriotic members of both parties to a A Respite for Port Deposit. The weather indications for falling tem- perature over the Middle States are so strong that for the present we may dismiss appre- hension of the breaking up of the Susquehanna and other ice gorges. From the lower lakes the cold northwesterly winds were all day yesterday pouring & steady current of freezing air over these States, and once more re-estab- lishing the iron grip of the Frost King. It is highly probable that this morning all the tributaries of the Susquehanna and those of other seaboard streams finding an outlet in the Atlantic are greatly reduced in volume, so that the ice gorges will be for the next day or two subjected to no extraordinary pressure. Tosuch endangered places as Port Deposit this breathing time may be very short, as thero is no telling how soon another February thaw may develop; indeed the river at that point rose mpi_ly yesterday, filling the streets of the town and compelling the inhabitants to seek for places of safety. The dissolation of the ices may be so gradual that the danger may finally pass away, but this result cannot be assured. These monster ice gorges frequently occur in the rivers of Russia, and their dreadful con- sequences have been occasionally averted by blowing them to pieces with gunpowder. Why cannot good engineers be found to remove the ioé dam in the Susquehanna and our other rivers before it is too late? A little pluck and alittle powder will doubtless do the work, Forty.Two M™ Profit on Cons structing the Union Pacific Railroad. ~ It has come out in evidence before the Wil« son Investigating Committee of Congress, on examining the books of the Union Pacific Rail- road, that the profit to the contractors for constructing the road, who were the railroad company, amounted to the enormous sum of $42,825,327. The cost set down os charged