The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1874, Page 3

rn) WASHINGTON. General Butler and the Morey ~~ Louisiana. Bill, WILLIAMS’ RANKLING DISAPPOINTMENT, What Might Result from Investigation of the Charges Against Him. The Proposed Correction of Ad- ministration Abuses. WasHInaTon, Feb. 10, 1874, End of the Struggle Over the Bank- raptcy Bill—The Meaamre Passed By the Senate with Amendments. ‘The Senate to-day reached afifial’ vote on the Bankrupt bill, as amended, the vo¢@. on ite adop- tiom being 43 yeas to 11 nays. ate was ‘set tm opinion from the frst, the attempted amendments were in vain, ,Ony, by pro- traction, to lengthen out-the time occupied by the Senate, and justo long helped to Keep om the un+ palatable Louisiana business. Outside-of, the text @1 the bill, as reported, no amendments of im- portance were adopted to-day, Saulsbury and Stevengon making determined attacks on it how- ever, advocating its revamping and abolition: re- spectively. The lstter made & long and well pre- pared specch against any Bankrupt bill, and quoted Tom Benton's speeches mn the Senavg in 184} in sup- Port of his position, maintaining that general bankrupt law was productive of fvandand perjury, and'no benefit to debtor or creditor; Bat) the clerkB ana attachés of the system the only bene: Actaries., He cited statistics of Great Britain exten-. sivély, adversely to the working of the Bankrupt law, and gaid that the abolition of it the:aagi- est\and best way to meet«the case. He that we should have no such law, but let the States’ magage their own internal affairs, and in this con- neotion favored the reference of all bankrupsgy propeedings to the State courts, The- amendihént of Mr. Salisoury was lost. without division. Sen- ator Thurman gave the finishing tou0b-to.she bill by providing that, in the thirty-ninth’ , the @ate “December 1, 1873,” be inserted, 80°88 to ap- Ply to all cases of involuntary and compulsory bankruptcy commenced since that date. After this the tedious and exhaustive discusston was over, The Senate, after a short executive session, ad- journed. Geperal Butler aud Representative 7" Disagree Over Morey’s Louisiana e The hero of Fort Harrison, who achieved his Principal military fame at Big Bethel and Fort | Fisher, yearning for new worlds to conquer, enter-* tained the House this morning with an on- slaught on the correspondence of Saturday im Pegard to the details of the plan of salvation for Judge Durell. After ‘qtoting Whe oGending paragraph, the hero said, “Now, there is not in that paragraph one word of truth.” Repre- sentative Morey, of Louisiana, however, who intro- Guced the bill aad. knows whereot he speaks, says there is. This is narrowing the contest to a ques- tion of veracity between two members of Congress, Di ipectfal Letter of Attormey General | ‘Williams to the Senate Judiciary Com- sear teen a Belief in the Charges Against Him. Aa effort wili be made to have published the let- ter of Attorney General Williams to the Senate Jaditiary Committee when his nomination for the ome of Chief Justice was hefore them for con- Bidegation. Itis known that he complains of the action of the committee ds inquisitorial, and that they listened to charges made against him by Mr. Nesinith, the present representative in Congress and former Senator from Oregon, whom the At- torney General characterizes as his lifelong enemy. The tone of the letter is said to be highly @isrespectful to the committee. One of the charges before the committee is found in the following telegram :. PorTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 18, 1873. Grorcs F. EpMUNDs, Chairman of the Senate Ju- ditiary Committee :— Hon, R. P. Boise, ex-Chief Justice of Oregon, and myself saw a contract made in 1872 between Atterney General Williams ana Surveyor Meldrum, in which Meldrum agreed to pay $2,000 to Wiliams for two United States surveying contracts of $5,000 each. Contracts written and signed by Williams, B. J. PENGRA, Judge Boice is said to be an ardent republican, as also Mr. Pengra, who was at one time United States Surveyor General for Oregon. Oaell, the Pregent incumbent, who secured his place and is retained in office through the influence of Williams, permitted the surveying contracts to be formed in this manner for the benefit of his patron. It is thotght that a full development of the charges agajnat Williams would create so general a demand for bis removal that in case it was not acceded to by his resignation it would be accomplished by impeachment. Tha Investigation of Administration Abuses—The State Department More Expensive than During the War—Need of Reform in the Treasury Department @ad the Indian Bureau. General Garfield, in conversation to-day on the subjtct of the investigations of the House Commtt- tee an Appropriations respecting the expenditures of te government and the practicability of a re- @uction of clerical force and excessive outlays on oth? accounts, remarked that the Navy Depart- ment of all branches of the executive arm of the govemment had been conducted with economy, and since the restoration of peace had shown some Tege@rd for the fact of the reduced amount of busi- mess to be transacted. The department has but aixty-four clerks, which number is as low as before the war. He also alluded to the State Department as Raving @ clerical force on an economical basis. ‘Tne Treasury Department, he said, had not only ignored the fact that business bas diminished since the war, but has annually increased in expensive- nes, end to-day, nine years after the wat, is far more cumbersome and costly than (n 1865, when the business of the depart- ment was at ite maximum. The greatest reduc- tiom, therefore, will be in this department. To- morrow the Interior Department will have an overhauling by the committee. Though there bave not been abuses to the extent of those in the Treasury, it is supposed by the committee that there may be some improvements. The Interior Department has under its direction certain branches of the government business which have Osturally increased with the growth and ex. paasion of population, and therefore will be per- mitted a reasonable increase of force. The Indian Office, however, will be subjeeted to a careful in- vestigation, The committee to-day received a Gelegation of ladies, headed by Mrs. Lippincott, whose object was to gain a government donation of $35,000 for the benefit of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphan Asytum at Gettysburg. The com- mittee will consider this subject some time in the fatare, in connection with a bill presented by Mr. Maynaré, providing for an appropriation in aia of the asylum, Statemene of the Secretary of the Trea- eury as to the System of Collecting U! peid Revenue Through Contract. The Secretary of the Treasury, having been sailed upon by 9 resolution of the House for copies ofall contracts with the Treasury Department, for (isovering and collecting moneys belonging to the United States whenever the same shall be mittheld by any person or corporation, &c., sent to-day the following letter to the House :— TREASURY DeraRraent, Fe! 14 response to the resolution ot the ote of Sees to onoen of the 27th ultimo, I have the. hotr to transmit herewith copies of the contracta made by the Treasury Department, under author- \ty piven to the Secretary of the Treasury in the sct/entitied: “An act, making sppropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government for the year endin, Nn 20, 16%, id other purposes,” approve 8, isr2, inclosed transcripts contain the texiof the contracts made, except the names of [5-3 and co; alleged to be indebted to overnment. I have Dot caused the liste of Quen names tone annexed to tne copies for the Teason that the contracts are upon the Clauh that the parties and rations named have thheld taxes due the government, are supposed to involve B -of it ger and y may oF the iaen 9 ta sabe fastion 60 the e y cnatel erelore. fe! es charge! . -Of Me in the administration of the law is question to avoid any unnecessary publicity in re gard to these allegations before they shall be found pon inves’ jon to be well founded. The names will, of course, be furnished if, under these ircums! othe Bi 48 of gpinton that the; frou be furni net: 1 have ee Boas to be, very respectlully, A. RICHARDSON, vas ws of the Treasury, Hon. James S. BUAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ; Copies of contracts accompany this letter. The first.is between George S. Boutwell, Secretary af the Treasury, and William H. Kelsey, of New York, "The latter was one of the three persons designated to agsist the proper officers of the government ig discovering and collecting moneys belonging to the United States withheld by eertain persons or corporations under the provisions of the act af May, 1872, The amount he proposed to recover or agsist in recovering~ was about’'$100,000, which amount was claimed to be due for jaternal revenue ‘taxes. It wai agreed "to pay Kelsey in full for his sem and for and expenses of spch ‘a sun caadl ob ley Per cent of the. gross ahd fetetred, the balance of. the eg paid into the '¥,. The shove cont was surrendered by y and after ‘renewed with Malcolm delphia. The next cogtract was in August, 1872, between William A. Richardson, Acting Secretary bf the Treasury, and John’ D; Sanborn, of Bostos, who claimed that $600,000 were due upon spirit uous and fermented liquorg, as.well as. in making false returns of the amount ana evading payment of the i Wek ey vii ve wholly due under the several of Congress. He was to receive fifty per cent of the gross sum collected and received payin full for his ser And all costs. ad expenses of collection. Tne coy tract Was revokable at any time by.the Secretary of the‘fedasury. A contract was made in Novem- der, 18%, by George 8. Boutwell with J. Nicho Elbert, of Philadelphia, The amount he propo: Vorecover or aggist. in, recovering was. $100,009, claimed to be due for internal revenue taxes by /certain corperstions. BG wie to’ receive fifty per vhel ) Of Philo Cent.om.she seme gondisions. as other, dontractors. Avcont was mde between Wilham A. Richard- ‘Be ¥ ' Philadelphia, in S@ptember, BT ‘Was to in recovering ‘ve- longing to the United. States withheld by" deceased persons’ estates. The sum he alleged t0 be due was $20,009. He was to. receive fifty per cent in {ull compensation for the gress sum cok lected. Reduction of the Clerical Foree of the : Senate. The House Committee on Appropriations have extended their observations over the Senate and want to know why Secretary Gorham cannot cus. down his clerical force. Like the majority of government officers, Mr. Gorham wrote the com- “mittee a letter, which was read to-day, to the effect that; instead of reducing, it was his desire to in- creage his already overtaxed force, The letter was discussed at length in all its economic bear- ing, and the fruit of this labor, it is umderstood, has been to determine the committee to recom- mend that @ small appropriation be made for that office, to the end that some of the employés may be discharged, Marshal Packard Managing the Kellogg ? Forces in Washington. Marshal Packard, of New Orleans, arrived here to-day and took the field in person, relieving Col- lector Casey, who has returned to his post of duty in that city. For the conventence of the Federal officers in Louisiana, itis understood, a bill will shortly be introduced in the House, changing the Jocation of their offices to Washington, Marahal Packard says he is diagusted with the Louisiana muddle and wants to resign, but dislikes to revite in the midst of battle. Having 164 the Federal forces into ambush he is now seeking a safe road of retreat.- His friends commend him to Genera} Butler for advice, Ms The Unsuccessful Trial of Judge Wright an Evidence of the Attorney Gencral’s Genius. The case of the United States against John W. Wright, on complaint of Lacry Hawkins, closed to-day by a verdict of not guilty under the direc- tion of the Court, The Court to-morrow morning will order a nolle prosequi on the remainder of the twenty-seven indictments. A complete defence in the case on trial was made in the testl- mony, but the question of the utterance or the papers charged as forged was the one upon which the cases all alike turned, the Court having held that, admitting the paper to have been forged, no criminal utterance took place. This case has cost the government over $10,000, and is | another evidence of the genius of Attorney General Williams, through whose pertinacity the suit was pressed. Coinage cf the New Trade Dollars—In- creasing Demand tor Them in the East—The Use of Our Mints Offered to Foreign Governments. So far about 1,500,000 of the new trade dollars have been coined. Tne demand is continually on the increase. The Director of the Mint thought it of vital importance that this dollar, the coinage of which he originally recommended, should corre- spond accurately with the prescribed standard of weight and fineness, and he therefore instructed the officers of the Mint accordingly. This led to some additional expense, which is amply compensated by the introduction of the dollar in the East, where other like forcign coins have lost favor owing to their variation from the standard, letter recently received by | the Director says that the six Commissioners— three Chinese and tnree English—who are on their way to Cuba to examine into the coolie trade, ex- press the opinion that the American trade dollar is gaining on the Mexican dollar and will super- sede the latter. The Director of the Mint will soon issue @ circular containing the law authoriz- ing our mints to coin for foreign couutries, copies of which will be sent, more especially to the governments of the Central and South American States, through our diplomatic Tepresentatives. The cost price only will be charged. Uur government will purchase the bul- lion if requested on condition of being reimbursed by bills of exchange. Applications for coinage at our mints were heretofore made by the govern- ments of Bouador and Hayti, but at that time there was no authority of law to execute the work, There are several bank note companies who print notes for foreign governments, es- pecially in South America. Confirmation of Nominations. The Senate, in executive session, to-day con- firmed the following nominations:—Thomas W. | Osborn, of Mlinois, to be Minister Resident to the Argentine Republic; Albert G. Colwell, of Onio, to be Consul at Ancona; T. B. Searight, to be Sur- veyor General for Colorado; Lieutenant Colonel Z. B. Tower, to be colonel, vice Collum, retired; Major Q. A. Gillmore, to be lieutenant colonel; Captain Jared A. Smith, to be major; First Liea- tenants James F. Gregory and John M. Norwell, to be captains; Second Lieutenants Joseph H. Hurat, Otto W. Budd and Francis V. Green, to be first Neutenants, together with sundry tranefers in the army. Jadge Busteed Witnessing the Investi- gation of His Case. Jadge Busteed, of Alabama, was before the Sub- Committee of the Judiciary Commitfee during the testimony of @ witness in the Busteed impeach- ment case. Distillery Seizures and Popular Violence im Tennessee. Supervisor Cobb reports to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue the seizure of several illicit stills in the Eastern district of Tennessee, together with tubs, beer mash wagons and other property used in the ilicit operation. Several stills were de stroyed, it being impossible to carry them off, At the distillery of a man named Campbell an armed force of citisens attacked the officers and took possession of the property seized. A Sausage-Making Iconoclast. ‘The eccentric German, J. G. Sypher, who a few Gays ago attempted to ride into the Executive mansion on horseback, is a sausage maker, of Cin- cinnati, in good circomstances. To-day his book- Keeper arrived from Cincinnati and will conduct x ey —* his employer back to that city. Mr. Sypher was about being examined preparatory to being sent to the Government Insane Asylum. The Indian Depredations on the Texan Border. No incursions from the Mexican border iato Texas have been reported since November, when a band of Mexicans and Indians made a raid near San Diego, killing twenty-two Americans. With this exception Colonel McKenzie’s pursult of the Indians into Mexico in May last has intimidated them from making unlawful invasions of Texan soll, while the disposition of mounted troops én the border, scouting between Brownsville and |_Fort Clark, has resulted in protecting Texans from Mexican cattle thieves, The posting of troops on Captain Richard Keene's celebrated ranch, be- tween Corpus Christi and Laredo, on the Rio Grande, not far from the principad point of inva- sion, has so far had the moral effect of giving the Texans in that section comparative security. The above information is derived from Colonel Robb, late of the commission to investigate the subject of depredations op the Rio Grande, A Law for the Retirement of Military and Marine O@icers After a Certain” Period of Service. * The Senate Committee on Military Affairs this morning discussed the bill recently introduced by Mr. Logan making it obligatory upon the President to retire oMcers of the army and marine corps ‘when they shall have renaered forty-five years’ service or attained the age of sixty-two, except the General and Lieutenant General of the Army. No vote was taken on the bill, but a disposition was manifested to agree to it with an amendment making sixty-five years the age for retirement, in- Btead of sixty-two. Preparations for Observation of Transit of Venus. The Commission appointed by Congress to make @rrangements for the observation of the transit of Venus held another meeting at the Nava! Observa- tory yesterday, Rear Admiral Sands and Professors ‘Newcomb, Pierce and Henry being present. The session was Occupied in determining upon the ‘hecessary articles to be taken out by the parties of observation and giving requisite orders to have such articles furnished without delay. Plans for ‘portable houses to be used by the observers were agreed upon, and the work of constructing such ‘houses will be commence immediately. The ob- serving parties will leave here early in April. Goverument Possession of the Louisville and Portland Canal. A delegation of Ohio River steamboat men were heard this morning by the House Committee on Commerce on the bill providing for the payment of bonds of the Louisville and Portland Canal Com- pany. An amendment to the original bill was agreed to authorizing the Secretary of War, in- stead of the Secretary of the Treasury, to take pos- session of the property. It was agreed to take final action next Thursday. f Plaint of the Kansas Pacific Against the Union Pacific Railroad, The memorial of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, presented in the Senate to-day by Senator Bogy, is in printed form, and charges that the Union Pacific Railroad oppressively discriminates against that company in its rates of charges on freight and passenger exchanges contrary to acts of Congress. the DISRAELIS ADDRESS. What the Leader of the English Consere vatives Said to His Constituents. The London journals of the 25th ult. publish the following copy of Mr. Disraeh’s address— which was merely summarized by cable—to the electors of the county of Buckingham, asking ®@ re-election to Parliament and indicting the Gladstone Ministry before the nation, The leader ©. the Opposition said :— GENTLEMEN—Mr. Gladstone has informed the electors of Greenwich that Her Majesty has been advised by her Minister to dissolve the present Parhament. Whether this step has been taken as & Means Of avoiding the humbiing confession by the Prime Mintster that he has, in a fresh violation of constitutional ‘Isw, in retaining for several months a seat to which he was no longer entitled, or has been resorted to by his ernment in order to te pone or evade the day of reckoning for @ war carried on without communication with Par- lament, and the expenditure for which Parliament has not sanctioned, it ts unnecessary at present to consider, Itis sufficient to point out that tf, under any circumstances, the course—altogether unpre- cedented—of calling together Parliament by spe- cial summons for the despatch of business and then dissolving it before its meeting, could be jus- tifled, there is in the present case no reason what- ever suggested why this was not done six weeks ago, and why the period of the year usually de- voted to business before Easter, which must now be wasted, should not thus have been saved. Gentlemen, I appeal to you again for the con- tinuance of that confidence which you have ex- tended to me on nine different occasfons, running over a period longer than @ generation of men. The Prime Minister has addressed to his con- stituents a prolix narrative, in which he mentions many of the questions that have nccupied or may occupy public attention, but in which I find noth- ing definite as to the policy he would pursue, ex- cept this, that having the prospect of a large sur- plus ne will, if retained in power, devote that surplus to the remission of taxation which woula be the course of any party or ay Ministry. But what is remarkable in his proposals 1s that on the one hand they are accompanied by the disquieting information that the surplus, in order to make it adequate, must be enlarged by an “adjustment,’? which must mean aX increase of existing taxes, and that, on the other hand, his principal m ures ol relief will be the diminution of local taxa- tion and the abolition of the income tax—measures which the conservative party have always favored and which the Prime Minister and his friends have always opposed. Gentlemen, I have ever endeavored, and if re- turned to Parliament I shall, whether in or out of ofice, continue to endeavor, to propose or support ali measures calculated to improve the condition of the people of this kingdom. But I do not think | this great end is advanced by incessant and har- assing legislation. The English people are gov- erned by their customs as much as by their laws, and there is nothing they more dislike than un- necessary restraint and meddling interference in their affairs. Generally spesking, I should say of the adminis- tration of the last five Hg that It would have been better for us all if there had been a little more energy in our foreign policy and a little less in our domestic legislation. By an act of folly or of ignorance rarely equalled the present Ministry relinquished a treaty which secured us the freedom of the Straits of Malacca for our trade with China and Japan, and they at | the same time entering, on the West Coast of | Alrica, into those “equivocal and entangling en- gagements” which the Prime Minister now depre- cates, involved usin the Ashantee war. The honor of the country now requires that we should prose- cute that war with the vigor necessary to insure success; but when that honor is vindicated tt will be the duty of Parliament to inquire by what means We Were led intc o costly and destructive contest which neither Parliament nor the country have ever sanctioned, and of the necessity or jus- tice of which, in its origin, they have not been made aware. ‘The question ofa further reform of the House of Commons 1s again suggested by the Minister. I think unwisely. The argument for extending to the counties the household franchise of the towns, on the ground of the existing system being anom- alous, is itself fallacious, There has alwaye been @ difference between the franchises of the two divisions of the country, and no one has argued more strongly than the ‘ou Prime Min- ister agatnst the contemplated ae suffrage. ‘The conservative party view this question without prejudice. They have proved that the; afraid of popular rights. But the late Reform act was a large measure, which, in conjunction with the ballot, has scarcely peen tested by experience, and they will hesitate before they sanction further legisiation which will inevitably involve, amo other considerable changes, the disfranchisement Of at jeast all boroughs in the kingdom comprising Jess than 40,000 inhabitants, Gentlemen, the impending general election ts one of no mean importance for the futare charac- ter of this jom. There is reason to hope from the address of the Prime Minister, putting aside are not some ominous si stions which it contains as to the expediency of a local and subordinate legisia- ture, that he certainly at present, 0; an sed to our national institutions, or to the maintenance ef the integrity of the Empire, But untortunately among his adherents some assail the monarchy, others ‘mpage, the independence of the House of Lords, while there are those who would relieve Parliament altogether from any share in the government of one portion of the United Kingdom. Others again Urwe him to pursue his peculiar policy by di eo the Anglican, as he has despoiled the Irish Church; while trusted col- leagues in bis Cabinet openly concur with them in their desire altogether to thrust religion trom the place which it ought to occupy in nutionat educa- tion, These, gentlemen, are solemn issues, and the impending general election must decide them. Their solution must be arrived at when Europe is more deeply stirred tl atany period since the Reformation, and when the cause of civil liberty and religious jom mainly depends upon the ry and stability of England. Iask you to Terurn Foposal wRIGR tay ithpalr’ that serengtty ever W may ir that streng’ and eapport by every means her a iced away. HUGHENDEN MANOR, Jap. 24, 1874, Ohio’s Capital Besieged by the Anti-Whiskeyites. Onward March of the Cohorts 5 in Petticoats. CINCINNATI ALSO DOOMED. Lewis’ Campaign as Sketched Out at Porkopolis. A DOMESTIO MILLENNIUM AT HAND. CoLvmBvs, Ohio, Feb. 10, 1874. The enemy of the dynasties of King Alcohol con- tinue their steady march toward the capital, So. successful, so comparatively easy have been their victories thus far, that they have even dared to name King Gambrinus as their foe, and are in some sections waging war not only against whiskey, but algo against lager beer. Yesterday the HERALD Was informed that the women’s crusade had ap- Proached within twenty miles of the State House, making, as it were, ® tempo- rary stand at London, Madison county. To-day it advanced ten miles further capitalwards, It is now in full ardor in the agricultural region of Jefferson, on the Little Miami Railroad, midway between here and London, and is creating pro- digious excitement in that rural locality. Spring- fleld, Clark county, is also invested by the tri- umphant crusaders, and that prosperous city is expected to surrender in part by to-morrow night. Hence, being fairly surrounded by the women war- rors against whiskey, it is not to be expected that Columbus, even with ita formidable, weird bat- teries of 2,100 blazing grog shops,.¢an hold out/ much longer. GAMBRINUS NOT 80 EASILY PUD DOWN. It is aquestion, however, among the thoughtful and sincere friends of the temperance cause whether the proscription of lager, ag inscribed on the banners of the London phal pursuant to an order in council, is not calculated rather to re- tard than help the movement. Lager beer is to the German what tea and coffee are to the native born; and to judge from the number of German names in Madison county there is guite a large sprinklmg of the old German stock among the population. They may, however, be only what is vulgarly called “Pennsyl- vania Dutch,” and that makes some difference, , So jar as their favorite beverage is concerned, But in the larger cities, like Cincinmatt, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and other places, where there is a mixed resident population, ig may be hazard- ous to a really zood cause to press the crusade too heavily or permit it to take too wide and proscrip- tive a range. It is conceded that if Columbus suc. cumbs to the present women’s pressure Cincinnati and Cleveland, and perhaps Toledo and other large Places, will eventually be obliged to follow. THE SINBWS OF WAR, In the meantime subscriptions are piling in by the tens of thousands of dollars to enabie thé women to prosecute their sublime un- dertaking. Their opponents do not appear to be making any preparations, except in a few law cases, to restrict the encroachments upon and destruction of their property, Even when liquor has been turned back upon the hands of first dealers and manufacturers by converted saloon keepers, who have thrown up their busi- ness in response to the appeals of the women, there hag as yet been heard in this quarter no word of complaint from the owners of the “origi- nal packages.” In London this morning a veteran retail dealer in the ardent closed up his business, having several barrels of whiskey on hand, which he said he would turn over to the parties he nad purchased them from; if they would not receive the whiskey he would dispose of it for the benent of the county poor. GONE INTO THE TEMPERANCE GROCERY LINE. In another case a consignment of whiskey still lies in the Warehouse on the railroad at London, awaiting the orders of the senders, the party to whom it was sent having abandoned the trafic and gone into the temperance grocery and con- fectionery business. Another, who has retailed Mguor for fifteen years in London and other places in the Ohio “Blue Grass’ region, has entirely given up the liquor trade and turned nis barroom into @ grocery, remarking to-day that his ‘“‘con- science was easier, and he was doing as well as when he sold liquid perdition to his tellow beings.” THERE MAY BE SOME HYPOCRISY in some of these repentant confessions, but, as a general thing, they may be set down as sincere, It should be remembered, however, that the panic and hard times have greatly interfered with the retail liquor as well as all other trafics, and the | inference is that there is not the same inducements to continue in the business now as formerly, The temperance elements are quietly at work here, and a few days may produce some remarka- ble events, Dio Lewis? Campaign—How the Baser Spirits are To Be Sung and Prayed Out of Ohio—Recommendation of Fema Martyrdom—Two Hundred Aspiran for Jail Fare. CINCINNATI, Ohto, Feb. 10, 1874, The energetic action of the anti-rum ladies be- gins to alarm Porkopolis. Recently teetotal meet- ings and church gatherings for crushing out the power of the “ardent” from among us have been quite numerous. Even the very air of the city savors of prohibition. Water, it is claimed, will soon recover its primeval position; not even the soothing mixture of hops and mait will be allowed the cohorts that throng our cities from dear Vater- lana, Beer riotsamong the “Dutch” will be ont of the question while the army of total abstinence women retain the reins and the blessing of healthy lungs; for, as the ‘auld canny housewil’? remarked, “Wha will oonderstand the jJabbering bodies.” I don’t imagine the ladies will listen to anything short of absolute surrender. Hans and Theodore will plead in vain for nur dret glass taglich. Draughts from the crystal spring must henceforth meet all the exigencies of thirsty souls, Sermons from the sidewalk will electrify the sot from the gutter and send him home ashamed and astounded at the rapid march of ideas. Protective associa- tions and legal injunctions can make but little headway against ladies who believe their manifest destiny is to pray in tne head of every liquor cask, even if they addie the heads of some of the dealers. ‘The enemy is coming, and at present I see no de- fensive preparations, The war is now going on in the outakirts, and the number of unconditional surrenders reported 1s simply marvellous. AT WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE @ man named Passmore opened a new saloon last week, immediately the whole moral and religious power of the town turned upon him, The ladies prayed before is door all day, and until haltpast ten o'clock at night during @ snow storm. Yesterday, at the business men’s prayer meeting @ message from Passmore announced that he had closed, An immense pro- cession immediately marched to the salcon of Beck, who had enjoined the women from using the tavernacie in front of his place. Those en- joined semained in church to pray. Beck, on seo-- ing the procession, said ne too would stop. Only one saloon Keeper re*,ains, and he asked until to- morrow to consider, At Blanchester au the saloons are closed. At Logan the ladies likewise celebrate @ com- plete victory. At Lancaster and Athens work is beginning. At Pomeroy a society has been organized on the principle that there is enough moral and religious power in the city to exterminate the business of the traMc in intoxicating drinks, and that they ‘will resort to Jaw only where other means fail. At Pomeroy nce ings Wednesday the Jadies NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY fl, 187%—TRIPLE SHEMT. THE RUM WAR| have made thetr daily visits to the saloohs, an increase in numbers and determination every day. ‘They have secured pledges from all the druggists and physicians in the place. Thus far they have failed to close up any of the saloons, of which there are about sixty in the city. Mrs, Clouter, the proprietress of one of the largess saloons, has made 4 proposition, which 18 that if the ladieg will buy her fixtures and secure a tenant for her house she will quit the ousiness, The matter is at prea ent under advisement, Two or three other saloon- ists are under conviction and promise to quit. About eighty ladies were out to-day. At_Syrqcuse the ladies were also on tte war path, “Dr. DIO LEWIS, inventor of the new system of gymnastics, editor of To-Day and a popular lecturer on temperance and other topics, reached this city at half-past six o'clock P. M., and is stopping at tne Burnet House. Your reporter on temperance called upon the Doctor last evening and found him busy studying the map of Ohio, laying out a campaign in the in- terests of temperance. He was flanked on one side by the Rev. GB, Beecher, of the First Presbyterian church of this city, and Mr, M. P. Handy, of New York, and on the other by John Calvin Van Pelt, the celebrated young convert to the temperance gospel, @ fine specimen of the natural man, six feet high and broad in proportion, with mobile features and expressive eye. He left Boston last Friday even- ing. Being detained at Cleveland, he delivered a temperance lecture there on Sunday evening. He had afew engagements in Ohio for lectures on Other subjects, but this woman's war on temper- ance having shoved aside ail other interests, he now proposes to devote over two months exclu- sively to the work, 4 COUP D’ETAT PROPOSED. Business being completed at last, and the Doc- tor’s route laid out with tolerable precision, the | Teporter again essayed to apply the gimbiet. REPORTER—What do you think of the legal cases raised ? Dr. Lewis—There uever was @ day since this movement was inaugurated that presented such a | golden opportunity as that now offered to the ladies of Washington and Hillsboro, For years these saloon men have been violating every law of God and man, and the men have treated it lightly. Now, the ladiesin this holiest of causes of mere human interest have violated some technicality of the law. The mighty law is appealed to at once. Now let the iadies prove equal to the occaston. Go 200 strong and kneel and pray belore Dr., Dunn’s store and submit to the law. ‘The blood of the martyr is the seed of the Church.’”’ Is there a judge in Ohio that would consign them to prison or @ constable that Would execute such a decree? Then, should the ladies submit and be taken to Prison, rest assured it will not be for long. Then every man in Ohio who nas a spark of manliness in him would burn with shame and the free men of this State would rise in their might and say, “This traffic in death shall be crushed out.’ REPORTER—I understand you to mean that there 1s astrong temperance sentiment in the State if called out. THE MOVEMENT OVERWHELMING, Dr. Lewis—Overwhelming, sir! Overwhelming! It is safe to say that three-fourths of the men and pineteen-twentieths of the ‘1adies are in favor of strong temperance meas- urea, if they could be got at without entang- ling side issues. But why is not this sentiment put into action? A has business, His eye is on that. B has ashop. His aye ts there, C and D have a farm and merchandise, and they go their ways saying, “It’s a pity, a great pity, that men will debase themselves; bus it always has been go, and always will be so.’? But let them see @ band of women praying, singing and plead- ing with the rumseliers, and all at once this latent sentiment springs into life. The man and the citizen ia shamed and the Christian and patriot alarmed for his country, and every one is impelled to ao his best, and that is why I justify this mode of fighting intemperance. Iknow IP 18 NOT NICE. It would be much pleasanter for those ladies to sit at home and talk about the evils of intemper- ance. But must they sit at nome while brothers perish? No; they must come out and awaken the moral sense of the community. Why, we are not talking to convince the people of the evils of in- temperance, That would be a pure waste of time, We want them to act upon what they already know. Now, let the ladies of Hillsboro meet the issue, It 1s the crisis of the cause. Two hundred women in jail {or the cause of temperance—and it would | be but for a short time—it would raise a moral rev- olution such as this mation has never seen. 140 hope they will live up to the occasion, “MASSACHUSEITS DRAMBHOPS CLOSED IN OHIO.” REPORTER—Where do you go next? Dr. Lewis—To Xenia to-morrow (Tuesday) \ Bignt; to Springfield, next night; the next, to Lebanon; the next to Maysville, and after that | probably to Mount Vernon, Delaware, Washing- | ton, Wilmington and other places, as the good of the cause may dictate. I was urged by a large meeting in Boston to remain and lead in the work there, but I told them that the dramshops of Mas- sachusetts can be closed better in Ohio than at home. The battle has begun nere, and we must follow the leading of Providence, AT THIS JUNCTURE MR, VAN PELT departed, and the Doctor informed me that the young convert intended to travel with him fora few days 1m the interests of temperance. Further conversation showed that the Doctor’s campaign in | Ohio 1s anything but a good financial movement. His terms for lectures on other subjects are $100 a night, but when he lectures on temperance he charges, if at all, only $50 or $25, Victory at Ripley. RIPLEY. Ohto, Feb. 10, 1874. ‘The temperance work in this town is about finished, and the ladies have been visiting sub- | urban saloons with pretty good success, They do | not have fuli confidence in the promises made | to them, but will keep a sharp lookout for liquor selling. Means tor conveying the ladies to the saburbs have been provided, and the saloons will be attended to regularly. Some of the pro- The Doctor is 4 prietors are very obstinate. The ladies have found | gome sad cases of destitution resulting from the | trafic, which have been generously attended to. | A physicians’ pledge, binding them to prescribe | liquors in cases only where there is bond side medi- | cal necessity, has been circulated and signed by | nearly all the physicians here, The mass meetings continue, A Splendid Temperance Text. CINCINNATI, Onio, Feb, 10, 1874. In a whiskey quarrel at Osgood, Ind., last night, Joshua Mitchell killed his stepson, Emmet Vande- ver, striking him on the head with an axe and then shooting him, The People of Xenia in the Fight. XENIA, Ohio, Feb. 10, 1874. Dr. Dio Lewis lectured here on temperance to- night in the City Hall. Nine hundred persons were present. The meeting was enthusiastic and 125 women organized for immediate operations againstsaloons. All the women in Xenta were in- vited to co-operate. They will meet to-morrow, at nine o’clock, to commence work. Ten ministers made minute speeches, all endors- ing the movement but three, who doubted woetner the time had come for it, Mr. J. C. Van Pelt, formerly a New Vicnna saloon keeper, made the opening speech, ALLEGED BEVENUE FRAUDS. Yesterday afternoon United States Marshal Dowley, acting under orders of United States Dis- trict Attorney Bliss, returned a quantity of books and papers to Messrs, Harris Brothers, the kid love importers of Broadway, which had been Sisea ‘a few weeks ago as containing evidence of fraud against the Kevenue laws. Mr. Bliss has caused copies to be taken of the items which are lieged to indicate a fraud on the government by Ineung of undervaiuation on importations. “POUND DROWNED An anknown woman was found drowned last night at the foot of Thirteenth street and East River, Deceased was about thirty-eight years of age, with dress an striped shaw! end re ‘wool! mhood, The pedy wi le! ‘as taken to the Morgue and notice sent to the mek g — BISMARCK, KING OF FRANCE, L’Univers Suppressed at the Instancg of the German Premir. Veuillot, the Vatican Champion, Surtendered. Panis, Jan. 23, 1874, What would have been the feelings of the vaines§ nd most sensative nation ‘in the world if it had been predicted four years ago tnat France would be ruled by @ Minister living at Berlin? It hag come pretty much to that now, and the recent sus- Pension of the greatest of the French Catholio Papers, VUntvers, at the instance of Princd Bismarck, farnishes a striking proof of how com Plete is the subserviency of the French govern= ment to German orders. Yet it is a government of Dukes, presided over by a Field Marshal, and it 1s at least as brave and haughty as any which is likely: to succeed it for a time. THE FRENCH ORGAN OF THE VATICAN. L’Untvers has long been known, not in Pari® alone, but throughout Europe and” the world, ag the accredited organ of the Vatican. Its editor, M. Louis Veuillot, incomparably the first journalis' in France, {s nos only the trusted political confla dant, but he is also the private fend of Cardinall Antonelli; and never were ‘friendship and conf! dence more wisely bestowed. M. Veuillot is amt intellectual giant, towering high ever the heads off his colleagu¢es'in the press, and an article from hig’ pen upon a questisn of religious faith reads like grand hymn, so solemn and beautiful are i thoughts, so stately and magnificert its language. He has long been the first uterary power of Europet in the Church Catholic, one whom even backslid~ ing bishops dread, and from whom the Sacred Cola lego takes advice ng rebukes it would brook frony no other layntan. ... ~ Every French Cabfhet which desired the support of the clergy has isid itself prudently out to con- ciliate M, Veufllot and his paper. He was in no sense to be hoodwinked or deceived; he could af- ford to treat with the strongest Ministry upom equal terms and could impose hts conditions with) the certainty that they would not be refused, be« cause he stood upright and immaculate upon hi@ own ground, with the sword of the Lord and Gideon in his hand—shaped like a pen, as it should! be nowadays—and was desarmined not to yield am inch to Antichrist. Notably the present Cabinet, headed by the Duke de Brogtie, has warmly con- curred in his views, and nothing could have beem more humiliating to the Prime Minister of a nag tion which once called ftself the champion of thq Church than to be forced into injuring a man wha embodies all the religious and monarchical opin< jons of French aristocracy and of French patriot~ ism in its highest form, THE PRUSSIAN PEREMPTORY. But Prince Bismarck spoke in peremptory terms,, and he was obeyed. He isa bold man, this Prus« sian teader; so was Ajax when he defied the lighte ening. The sort of sacrilege he is committing 1s, of course, @ crime, like any other kind of sacrilege; but it does not lower the majesty of God, nor cam it do much harm to His servants, This rude Prug- sian can fine and imprison priests. He can preq vent their voices being heard tn places lest they should raise them against his wickedness and injustice; but out of the very thorns which ha strews in their path he must himself weave them: @martyr’s crown; acrown of another and more glorious material than that which his flerce hand placed all reeking with the blood and spoil of the helpless upon the hoary head of Emperor William, who is dying beneath the unholy weight of It, ALLEGATION OF CAUSE. : The ostensible reason given for the suspension of V Univers was the publication by that paper of a pastoral issued by Mgr. Plautier, Bishop of Nismes. Some weeks ago M. Forton, Mint ter of Public Worship, iasued @ timid cir- cular warning the French prelates that the tone of their pastorals against Victo. Emmanuel gave offence to the Italian gov- ernment. Few of the Bishops pald any attention) to this remonstrance, and Mgr. Plautier in particu< lar not only continued to do his duty, but dew nounced the imptous policy both of the King of Italy and his backer at Berlin. Then Prince Bis« marck, amazed to find that there was some~ thing still upstanding in France and that this something was the Catholic religion, which he had determined to suppress, grew angry, and put aown l’Univers. It is not M. Veuillot who is struck, it is the Papacy again, andi those Frenchmen who had hoped, God willing, to place France at the head of a coalition of Catholica throughout Europe, and thereby to revive her prestige and importance. Many Catholics have been looking toa no dis- tant day when, Protestant Prussia being held im check by the Catholic States of Soathern Germanys and by Catholic Austria, France could march to Rome and restore the Father of the Christian; Church to that independence without which ha might be reduced to the nominal position of am Italian bishop, while he was really the spiritual ruler of Christendom. This may have been a dream; but French politics are much based upom such unreal visions. The French have always been sublime dreamers, and Prince Bismarck, whose whole career has been a dream fulfilled, is not the man to despise dreams. MODERATE IF NOT MERCIFUL, It should here be observed that the conduct of the Prussian Minister, viewed from a merely po- litical point of view, !s not so harsh as it might have been. He has condescended to warn French Christians that he is displeased with them; and ne might have given them no warning. He might nave set a trap for the French people and caught them again, as he did beiore, DIPLOMATIC REASONING, The French frigate Orensque, which has been | anchored these two years in the port of Civita Vecchia, for the avowed purpose of protecting the: Pope, could, by dexterous management, have been: made to afford Italy a casus belt at any moment. At the instigation of Prussia the Italians might have sent France an ultimatum to recall the frigate, and the German Ambassador might have been inatructed to lead the French government to believe that, in a war about the Papacy, Germany, would not interfere. When once the French hadi been begulled into a war Germany could have al- tered her mind about interference, with what consequences to France may perhaps be guessed,, and guessed wrongly; still Prince Bismarck, doubtiess felt confident enough about them. Theres, fore, merely to pounce upon M. Louis Veuillot, shows a leniency which would be almost funny, ig it were not so sad, that he should be able to reasom thus. é The end of it all is at present Prince Bismarck 18 steadfastly resolved that so long ag he isin office France shall play no part a8 a great Powe: in Europe. On several occasions during M, Thiera®, Presidency he evinced a dictatory spirit in matters) retating to the home government of the French people, especially in the measures taken to sup. press political meetings; and now he has said plainly that he has conquered the French nation and intends to rule it, HE MEANS, IN FACT, TO BE KING OF FRANCE, and he is right from his own point of observations for the security of Germany under ‘@ military des~ potism, during some yeata at least, requires that France shall be not only tamed but cowed, WILL HE SUCCRED ? Persons, however, who are not without esteem and even reverence for the great German people, may be permitted to doubt, without offence, whether their real happiness and glory depen@ altogther apon Prince Bismarck, and may some- times ask themselves wonderingiy whether the world has not even yet had enough of military despotism, SOHMIDT’S NECK IN DANGER, QuusEo, Feb. 10, 1876 In the O’Brien shooting case the Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against George Schmidt. The prisoner will be tried at the nex@ ‘verm of the Court of Queen's Bench. m April.