The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1874, Page 3

> ‘ WASHINGTON. Another Inflation Scheme Re- ported to Congress. THE FAMOUS FINANCIAL “COMPROMISE.” Antagonism to the Deelared Policy of the President. JUDIOIAL BEFORM IN ARKANSAS. + Wasuinoron, D. C,, June 9, 1874. The Agreement of the Conference Com- mittee on Finance—An Inflation Meas- ure Reported—Will the President, It? At last the conterence committee on the finances Dave agreed on a measure which is substantislly Just what was stated in these despatches some @ays since. Tne bill completed by them was pre- Gented to the Senate this aiternoon, and will come Bp to-morrow morning ior action, when It will pass the Senate and thence go to the House, where It will also pass.” ‘With the exception of Representative Clymer, of Pennsyivania, the bill was agreed to by all the members of the committee. A leading infationist Senator says that he is confident the Presidggi: ‘will sign the bill, while the contrary opinicy a tertained by a Western % stor, te ® very intimate fricss o we rresideut, but who, nevertheless, disagrees with nm on ‘the financial question, He says that the President bas made up his mina to kill the republican party. Be ts going to bifurcate it and organize a new Party, taking sides with tne hard-money men of the East and the democrats of the South. The latter influence he will secure by alienating from them toacertain degree—in the way he has dove io Arkansas—the negro influence and the political control of the carpet-bagger element; and this he will proceed to do in Louisiana after 4 manner entirely nis own. Senator Ferry, of Michigan, who has labored Untiringly to assist the compromise to a speedy and successial end, is not entirely satisfied with ‘the bill, as Senator Sherman instated upon his original idea of the application of the greenbacks to be retired to the payment of the expenses of the government, &c. Senator Gordon, o! Georgia, wuo, with Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, bas mainly represented the views of the South in the Girection of increased circulation, is not satisfied with the will, and does not yet know whether he ‘will support it, as he has not yet been able to posi- tively make up his mind. Thus there exists the professed bat doubttul fuith and confidence of the Majority of both houses: that the President will Bign the bill, while on the other hand there are frlends of the President who continue to assert that ne will approve nothing which does not come Qp to the standard of bia ietter and veto. The following is tne full text of tne bill: Be it enacted, &c., that the act entitled, “An act to an @ national currency secured by a pleage ‘of United States bonds anu to provide ior tue cir- “culation and redemption thereol,” approved June en Sigs be hereaiter kuown as the National jank act. + x SECTION 2.—That section 31 of the National Bank ct be #0 amended that the several associations Sherein provided for shall not hereaiter ve re- Quired to keep on hand any amount of money whatever by reason of the amount of their re- Spective circulation, but the moneys required by paid section to-be kept at all times on hand shall be determined by the amount of the deposits tn Bil respects as provided ior in said sectivo. Sgc. ‘That section 22 of said act and the sev- oral amendments thereto, so far as they restrict the mount of notes for circuiation under said acts, be and tne same are hereby repealed, and tho proviso tm ihe first section of the act of July 1870, Neer to banks hereatter ormanized a circu- over $500, and the provieu in the tard Section Of said act limiting-the circulation of gold Rote banks to $1,000,000, and segtion 6 of gald act solating to the redistribution of $25,000,000 of circa. tat notes be and are hereby repealed; that every association Deresiter organized sliall be wub- et and goversed by the rules, tons Aad tations, vod —— tne a ea and sguchises now or horeaiter be ‘oy national banking associatiups, With tuo @! aites and }) provided organized, or to eat ead -ae be b amendatory Ghali at all tli and baye on deposit w the Treasury ol te Inited States, io lawiul money of the United States, a sum equal to Sve per centum o1 its cirou- lation, to be neid and used ior the redemption of euch circalation, Wuich 8um spall be counted asa ata its lawiul reserve, aa provided in section Of thie act; and when the circulating notes of any stich associations, assorted or unasgorted, @ball be presented jor redemption in sums of $1,000, or any multiple tuereo!, the same shall be redeemed in United States notes. All Botes so redeemed shall be charged by the Treasurer of tie United States to the respec. tive associations using te same, aud he snall notiiy tuem severally on the Urst day of each month, or oitener at his discretion, of the amount of suck redempuon, and whenever such redemp- tions for any association shall amount to the sum of $500, such association so notitied shall torth- with deposit with the Treasurer of tue United States a sum in United States notes equal to tne amount Of circulating nores so redeemed; and all Rotey Ol national bauks, worn, defaced, mufilatea or otherwise unfit ior circulation shall, when reczived by any assistant treasurer or Bt any desiguated depository of the United States, be lorwarded to the ‘ireasurer of the United States lor redem) tion, as provided herein, and when suct fedemptions have beea gu reimbursed the circu- Jating notes 80 redeemed shail be forwarded to the | respective associations by which they were issued; | butil any of such notes are worn, imutilated, de Jaced Or Otherwise untit Jor use they shall be tor- | warded to the Comptroller of the Currency and destroyed aud replaced, as nuw provided by law; rovided, thut each said association shall reim- urse tO the ‘Treasury the charyes for transportu- ton and tue costs jor assortimg such notes; aud the associations hereatter organized shall ulso severally reimburse to the Treasury tue cost of engraving such plates ag shall be ordered by each association respectively, and the amount so assessed upon eacn association shail be in proportion to the circula tion redeemed, and churged to the fund ou deposit with the ‘ireasuver; and provided further, that so | Much of section 32 of the said National Bank act requiring or permitting the redemp' u by uny bunk of its circulating notes elsewhere than at its own counter, except as provided ivr in this sec- tion, 1s hereby repealed. Ske. 5.—That any association organized under this act, or any of the acts of whicn this 13 an amondment, desiring to Withdraw its circulaung botes in whole or in part, may, upon the deposic of lawsul money witn the Treusurer ui the United Btates, iu sums Of not less than $¥,000, take up the bunds which said assuciation Das On deposit with tue ‘treasurer jor the security of sacn birculating notes, wiich bonds siall be assigned tu the bank in the mauuer specified in the nine- teenth sectioa of the Nawona: Bank act, aod we Outstanding notes Of said agsociation, to an amount equal to the legs! noes deposited, suull be redeenied vy the ‘Ireasury vi the United States aud cestroyed, as now provided vy law, provided that the amount of bunds vn deposit tor circula- tion shail not ve reduced below $00,000, DEC. 6. ‘hat the Comptroller of the Currency shali, under such rules aud regulations as the sec- tetary of the Treasury may prescribe, cause tue Charter unmbers Of the association tu be printed Upon all national bank motes Which may be here- Giver weued Ly him. Sec, 7.—That the entire amouat of United States Roles Outstanding and iu circulation at any one Mme shal noc exceed tie sul Of $882,000,000, all be retired aud reduced in tue foluw- lug manuer only, to wit:—Within thirty duys alter pircwlating Dotes to tue AMOULE Of $1,000,000 slat from time to time be issued ty the watioual band. {hg aswoviatiuns under this act 1n excess o/ the highest outstauding volume thereo! atany time Prior to such issuc, Ib wnau be Lhe duty of the Sec. fetary oO: the Treasury tu retire all umount of United Staves notes equal to turee-eightus oF the Girculatiog notes co issued, which shai Le In re- duction 01 tne maxigium amount of $.92,000,000 fixed by my act, and such reduction shail cou. Mute untl the maximum amount of United Motes ontsranding shall be $800,00),0vv: god United States notes go retired stat be caucelled and carried to the account of the winking subd provided for by the secoud clause of gectiOu 5 Ol the act approved ou the Zot of Keb: ruary, 1862, euticled “an act tu authorize the su? ol United states mutes and wor the reaemptuou und lupdang thereol, aud jor iundiag the fustiug devt or tue United States,” und shai constitute a por- tou of said siustug iund, aod THe iucerest thereou, computed at the rate of ive per cent, shail ve added auvually to the suid sinking imndy bat if the BUIpIUs feVeDUe Le NOT suiticlent tor tuls pur: w the Secretary of tuo Treasury is hereby aw Eormea Ww tesue und Sell At Public Sule, aller ten en ee Treasurer of the United States, or at the office of the Assistant Treasurer, at the city of New oat and thereupon he shall be entitled to receive al his option from the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, who is authorized and required to issue, in exchi for said notes, an equal amount of either cl the coupon or registered bonds o! the United States, provided tor in the firat section of the act approved July 14, 1870, entitied “An act to author- ize the refunding of the national debt and the act amendatory thereol,” approved January 20, 1871, whica bonds shall continue to be exempt from taxation, 8 provided in said act; rovided, however, that the Secretary of the reasury in heuol such bonds may redeem said notes in gold coin of the United States, and the Secretary of the Treasury shail reissue tue Unied tes note# so received, either in exchange tor in at par or with the consent o: tue holder, in the redemption ot bonds then redeemabie at par, or tn the purchase of ponds ac not less than par, to meet the current payments for the public ser- vice, and when used to meet the current payments an equal amount of the gold ip the Treasury shall be applied in redemption of the bopds known as five-tweaty bonds. Suc. %&.—That nothing in this act shall be con- strued to authorize any increase of the principal of the public debt of the United States, The report recommending the passage of the foregoing substitute bill is signed by Messrs. Mor- ton, Sherman aud Merrimon, members of the con- ference on the part ofthe Senate, and by Messrs, Maynard, of Tennessee, and Farwell, of liltnois, on the part of the House of Representatives. The re- port ia not signed by Hester Clymer, of Pensyl- vanis, the remaining member of the Conference committee, Senator Jones on the President’s Memo- randum—Am Effectual Means of Cheek- ing Misreprese@tation—fhe Glory of Bringing About Specie Resumption, Senator sones, 6f Nevada, to whom the President has given fame tn the financial world by reason of | the declaratory letter which he wrote to nim, 0p being asked to-day for his theory or the Presi- dent’s writing te_him, replied, in an unreseérvea, honest 4nd blunt way:— “Why, the fact of the matter is that the Prest- dent saw that both houses of Congress had been unkering away at the finances for more than six months and had come to no conciasion, but were scolding away about them still. First this one came to see him and then that one, and each suc- cessive person, just as his ideas seemed to | atrike him, said that the Presijent’s views were first one thing and then anotner, and aslaup- Pose the President got tired of this sort of thing and made up his mind not to be misrepresented auy more, he went to work, aad, that there might be no mistake, he proceeded at once to write ont bis views. These were the views which I came across when they were submitted to myseif and two | or three other gentiemen who had calied on him lor the purpose of talking over things generally, and mainly the finances. I heard tue views, and liked them eo welt that, nt my own plaiu, matter of fact way, { made up my mind that as gentlemen were talking about the President’s views and | saying all sorts of things about them, they should bave them, and this wus the best Way to getthem and the golden opportunity to have them made public. [ asked accordingly, and think I did the best tning possible. In fact, you | may put @ pin mark there. If certain gentlemen are, agi understand, displeased, { cannot help it, and do Hot much care about it, I am not seeking apy tavors; have mo axes to grind; have not askea for any official patronage and don’t want it, NeitheramI!aca@ndiaate tor the Presidency, aod hence to whom better than me could the Presi- dent have written bis views on the finances. He could not have written to any of the Conference Committee, as that would look hke dictating to Congress. He could. met, with propriety, have written to an Eastern Ror a Southern Senator. Now Lam out of the vortex of excitement, con- fgsion and antagonism which have prevailed. I am e@ new Senator and a far Western represen- tative; have mever been mixed up with any of the discussions nor ml feeling mor strife which have prevailed irom time to time, and. hence it could not have happened better, and if people don’t like it, all shave togay is | do Bot care a farthing and do not ask any favork. Now, I think Ican see that, 1% there was goim to be any specie re- sumption, the glory of it would be made to fil within the present term of General Grant, and hence it was urged SO €8 tO DO Ofected in 1676, wo that the campaign. ere might not mo to tae Country with their decia- Pations,.if the year 1876 was selected, and say that the admisistrasion Bas uot come vack to specie payments and goes out witnout effecting it; and it je leit to ua under the new government coming in, to setele thag under.« new admin- serration. Thus they atroag objection to the third term, aud go before the people with she warning oryaf ‘Third term,” on account of the quarrel select thelr own candidate and elect him against General Grant on the financial issue. But the President simply desires that the giory of the achievement of specie resumption shall crown his administration. The Labors of the Steam Boiler Commie sion—Steam Gauges To He Certified Ac= cording to One Stendard=—The Pre= jected Experiments of This Season. The Board of Commisvioners appointed by the President, under the act of 1878, to inquire into the canses of steam boiler explosions, have com- menced preparations to resume their experiments. ‘The station at Sandy Hook 1s now being placed in Peadiness, and it is expected by Supervising in* spector General Smith toat operations will begin about the ist of July. The experiments upon boilers employed on the Western rivers will also be resumed at Pittsburg about the middie of July. The act creating the commission appropriated $100,000 for the purpose, Of this sum $50,000 have been expetided, Tne Commissioners think that witn the baiance they cau prosecute their experi- ments ior two years longer and thus give a greater thoroughness to their work. Tne burden of ex- pense—that of getting tne stations ready and the purchase of miateriaimwas all gone througn with = jast year, 80 that the addi- tional outlay for the ensuing year will be comparatively small. The commission will not make 8 general report until the experiments are eutirely completed, considering it the wiser policy to withhold their views and deductions until the whole subject is covered, rather thau to treat the matter but partially, and at best imperfectly, in anpual reports, Numerous inguiries concerning Teports aud applications for them are constantly recéived at the ufice of the Supervising Inspector General, sent to him by parties interested. Karly in tne present seasion a report of the work of the preceding year was submitted to Congress, but Notuing was said in it of a scientific character, Kotler makers, engineers and others imrerested will understand by this why their applications have received no reply. The approaching experi- Ments will be conducted on the basis of last year’s experience, The commuston now have under con- sideration the subject of gauges. It was dis- covered under actual test that gauges of diferent manufacture varied greatty, aad even those of the same make registered at a variation Of five to teu pounds. In low pressure boilers this is considered excessive, asthe amount of steam frequently required ta but twenty-five pounds, While the amount actually carried under these cir- cumatances is thirty-five pounds, This decep*ion, it ia belleved, has been the cause of many explo- sions, To remedy this deiect the commission nave now under advisement the establishment of a standard gauge, with which all gvages manulac- Wreu in the United States must accord, Parties re now engaged in making @ model, itis pro- posed to erezt the gauge in oue of tie towera of the Smithsonian Lostitutiou, tue Secretary of tho institution having given his consent, it will con- alist of a column of mercury, one inch in diameter and 150 fees in heignt Under this standard al gauges will be subjected to a mercurial pressure of 800 pounds to the square iuch, An order will be isaned by the Secretary of the Treasary requiring that ail gouges used oy steam Ves-els myst comform to tins standard, Supervising mspeccors Will ve imactructed at times to sud Oa 10K test uuy gauge Liey may wish, and il crue to the standard the act wilt ye recorded; nus, tie wanusacturers will ve fined. rvery gauge wadutfactured Wel also ba required to by furgished with a certilicato, Wor tre inovmation dyys' nouce of time and price of sale, a sunicient AMOUDE ot LONdS Of Tue UOited states or tue Guar. eter und description prescrived in tha acc vor nited States Moles tu be Vhen Felired aud cun- belied, That ou aud aiter the lat day of Jao- ag aie, aay liolder of United tates nots to Baa tha shtah SS a ae O: MBAUAC.UreTS Em De added taat they wit not oe required to seod thely gauges here ior test, out wil be permitted to Wave u standard of their own, maxe to couform to the requirements os the goverouient standard, and may reyutace their Ragu aoture vy ‘hat means, it is omly required that all gauges sHAll tudicace alike, ‘The ,overn- a cabal Whea S06 Up, Will BOVe G0s6 abuas ; bis | Of statesmen and Senators derives hus | Boone - spoke CHARLES SUMNER, The State of Massachusetts Pays Her Final Tribute. An Immense Gathering in Music Hall, Boston. INTERESTING EXERCISES. A Fitting Eulogy by George William Curtis, Boston, June 9, 1874. Immediately aiter Mr. Sumner’s deatn the Legise lature took appropriate action, including the ap- pointment of o committee, who should make arrangemente for a eulogy. The services of Mr. George W, Curtis, of New York, were secured, and to-day was fixed as the time for the formalicies of the State to the dead Senator. In the Music Hall, where the services were held, the decorations were unusually beautiful and most worthy the occasion. The large or- gan was made to look more elegant in its rich dressing, thé platform was most careiuliy beautified with floral designs, the galleries with their fronts of sombre drapery and reliefs of vine flowers, silver trimmed hangings, panels‘and fag shields, together with the pyramid rising from the upper gallery to the hght gallery, and the pendant and set Mower baskets on the three sides, gave to the walls of the Music Hall an appearenos grand, yet chaste and beautiiul, such as never Bad been approached, A PROORSSION PROM THE STATE HOUSE. The procession of the Executive Legisiative departments was formed and mot irom the State House at half-past twelve o'clock, in the order foliowing :— juad of Police. rigade Band. Sergeant-at-Arms Morrisey. The Committee of Arrangements. ‘The Governor and stam The Chancellors, ‘The Secretary. ‘treasurer. Auditor. Attorney General The President of the senate. The Chapiain aud Clerk of the senate, | The Speaker o. the House of Representatives. The Chaplaw and Clerk. Members of the House, ex-Governors and ex: Lieutenant Governors of Massachusetts, Distinguished Guests. Governors of Uther States. ‘ The Sheruf of Sutfoix, Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, Juages of the United States Courts, Members v1 Congress. Collector of the Port of Boston. Invited Guests. The procession marched down Park, Tremont and Winter streets, and entered the hall py the Winter street entrance. The hall was filled with @ great audience. Lieutenant Governor Talbot and the Executive Council, heads of State depart- ments and members or the Legislature and others oceupted seats upon the platform and adjoining it. The audience was one of the most notable which hasever been gathered within the hall, and in- cluded many of our most prominent citizens in every department of life, OPENING EXEROISES. £x-Governor A. H. Bullock presided, and the exercises began at one o'clock with an organ vol- untary by Mr. Dudley Buck, after which the Tem. pile Quartet chanted “Remember Now Thy Creator in the Days of Thy Youth.” Prayer was offered by Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D, D,, aiter which Miss Olara Louise Keb logg sung the aria trom Handel, “I Know that My Redeemer Liveth.”” Miss Adelaide Phillips sung the aria from Mendelssohn, “Ob, Rest in the Lora.” A PORM BY WHITTIER. John G. Whittier wrote an original poem, entitled “@amaner,’ which was prefaced by the iollowing Quotation trom Milton's “Defence of the English People’: am not one who has beauty of sentiment by deformity of conduct, or the maxims of o freeman by the actions of a slave; but, by the grace of God, Ihave kept my life un wed? This wos read by Protessor Churchill The poet contataed forty-seven end closed as follows:— Bigatnncrag rs agate. ge ver threat and ridicule, Ait boned his challenge: “te tt juste 42d when the hour supreme had come, Not for self @ thought he gave; To tat |i mu ‘doi iis care was ter the haitireed dave, Nog vainly dusky hands upbore, 1p prayer, the al to heaven } Passing Whow morcy to the suitering poor Wae service to the Master yiven. onal tells ony bo et ie guarded ren janned nor soug) id calmly in his place ‘The sure remorse which tollows wrong. Forgivon be the State he loved The one brief the single blots Porgotten ve the stain removed: i Her righted record shows it not ‘The lifted sword above her snieid With jeatous care shall guard his tame; ‘The pitie tree on her at ¢ te! ‘To all the winds shall speak his name, The marble image of her son Her loving bands shall yearly crown, And trom her pictured Pantheon His grand, majestic (ace look down Shall longest pause at Sumn. ADDEEsS OF EX-GOVERNOR BULLOCK, Ex-Governor Rallock then addressed the audi- ence as follows :— In the train of those paying mourniul tribute to Charles Sumner most fit is the presence of the Legisiature of Massachusetts, By their act, Twenty-lour years agu, the gate was opened through which he passed to the Senate of tne United States for lite, and now, alter this lapse of \ individual right, aiter loug residence in the land | the Oppressed—snould always have turned with | tne Cot | deuce. Charies Summer had it when, at the close of | constitution which 1 \ palled, it ielt thac 1 ad mec its master, } Sapirit 88 resolute and haughty as its own, with happy. and im Faneuil Hall his eulogy trom lips tbat must always glow when they men- tion niea—ipe that spoke tor the 10st wion ed and most unfortunate in tue land, who never | saw the = iace of Sumue! but whose | children’s children will bien: his name forever. I might well hesitate to stand here if I | aid not know that, enriched by your sympathy | my words telling the same tale, will seem to your generous hearts to prolong jor ‘8 mument the re- quiem that you would not willingly let die. Nor Unink the threefold strain superfiuous, How well this universal eulogy—these mingling voices of Various nativity, but all American—vefits a man | Whose alms and edorts were universal: Whom { neither 4 city hora State, nor a party nor 6 na | -bion, por arace bound with any local imitation. | On a lofty hilil Overlooking the lake of Cayuga, in New York, vlunds a uoble tree in the grounds of | the Cornell University, under wmen an Oxtori | scholar, chogsing Awerica for tus home because | America is the home ot liberty, has placed wo gevt upon wluch he has carved, “Above all ma- tions i# Wumanity.” That is the legend which Charles Summer carved upon lis heart, and soughe to write upon the nearts of fis sellow citizens and of the world. When he returned from Europe he Was thought to have been too much lascinated by Bagends aud turoughout his lie it was sometimes said that he was still enthralled by his admiration for that country. But what ts more natural to au American than love of England? Does not Haw- thorne tosencn say cal it “our old home f” The Piigrims came to plant a purer England, and their children, the Feros > arme to Inaintein a truer Englaud, but an sitll, They became independent, but they did uot renounce thetr race nor their language, and their victory leit them the advanced outpost of ern political progress gnd civilization, Tne principles that we most proudly maintain yy, those to which Sumner’s whole liie Was devoted, are English traditions, The great muniments ‘of individual liberty in every degree descended to us trom our fathers. The Commonwealth, En ape as the political corner stone, the rule of the constitutional majority, the habeas corpus, the trial by Jory, freedom of speech und of the press—these aré Englisb, and they ure ours. Ido not agree with the melancholy Fisher Ames that ‘‘the immortal spirit of tne wood nymph, Liberty, d@welis only in the Engitsh oak;’ but the most patriotic American may well remember that individual ireedom sometimes seems almost sirer and sturdier in England here, and may wisely repair to drink at those elder fountains. No uman in this genera- tom has More influeaced the thought is coun- try than John Stuart Mill, and the truest American will find upon bis uercic pages gleams o! a fairer aud ampier America than ever in vision even Samyel Adams saw. No, no, Piymoutu Rock was but % stepping stone irom one continent to another iM the great march of the same historic development, and to-day, with eleciric touch, we grasp the haud of kngiand uader the sea that the umult of the ocean may not toss us iurther asun- der, Dus throb as the beating of one common heart. 1g it strange, then, that the young lawyer whose | deepest instinct was love o: freedom, and whose | | youth had been devoted to the study of that no- | bie science whose hignest purpose 1s to detend of Joba Selden, of Coke, of Munsiletd, of Black- }wtone, of Komlily, as well as of Shakeapeare and ) Bacon, of Newton and Jeremy ‘aylor—a lund + Whico had appealed 1a every way to his heart, his mand, his imagination, whose history had inspired Whose learning had armed him to be a liberator of admiration ~o the country laureate angs— Where freedom broadens stowly down From precedent tu precudent? Such were the general influences that moulded the young Sumner. But to what a situation in his own country ue returned!—a situation neither ‘understood hor suspected by the fastidious a: elegant circles which received him. The man never lived who enjoyed more or Wus more fitted to enjoy the bigher deiights of human society than Sumner, or who mignt nave seemed to those who scanned his habits and his tastes so little adapted for the heroic part. Could tue scope und progress angt culmimation of the great contest which had already begun have been foreseen and measured, Charies umber would probably have been selected as the type of the cultivated ana scholarly gentleman, wio would recoil irom the conflict as Sir Thomas Browne shunned the stern tumultof the Great Kebellion. DaY3 OF TRIAL—NO COMPROMISE. Ls geept of the attempted siavery “compromise” and the apparent dismay of alr. Seward in his last speech to the Senate on the subject, Mr. Cartis said :—Mr. Sumner was one evening surprised by a visit in Washington irom a large number of the Most conspicuous citizens of Boston, all of whom had been amouy his strongest and most positive Politica! opponents, He welcomed them gravely, seeing that their purpose was very serious, and aster & lew moments the most disunguished mem- ‘ber of the party made au impassioned appeal to the Senator. “You know us all,” he satd, “as iellow cluzens of yours who have always ang most strongly Tegretted aud oppused your political course. Qt tilis awful moment, When tue country han, upon the edge of civil war—and what civil war (oa know —we weve that there is one man only who can avert the threatening calamity, one man whom tne North realty trusts, by whose counsels tt Will Leng @ believe that you ave that man, ‘the Nort wall listen to you and to no other, und we are here in the Name of humanity God civulzation to implore you to save your coun- try.” Ths spraker was greatly affected, and aiter @inoment Mi, Namaer sa! “pix, L au surpried that you attribuce to me such influence. 1 will, wever, audume it. Beit so, Whaz, then, is it that you would have me ao?’ “We implore you, Mr, Sumner, as you ore your country and your to vote jor Cull en .compromiso."’ “mag”? jumner, @ to his Cate t, aad never more Vharies sumner tuac brig “at ene gent say is indeed true, and 3 moment the North trusts me, as you ry t6te because Norta we ti circumstances whatever ‘would I compromuse,” 1,.do not, of vou for that compromise makes covertimeay po ae ana that the Union “where,” as ber upon It “alr Lets en pi YY ‘ig founded upon compromise and barter. Bat,” he ad “ing ull iair dealing the thing bougut must bear so: procortion to the purchase paid. None will barter away the im- mediate jewel of tne soul.” So Sir Jumes Mackin- tosh sald of Lord Somers, whom be dewcribed as the periect model of @ wise statesman ina iree community, that “to be useful he submitted to compromise with the evil that he could uot extir- pate.” But it is the justinct of the highest states- Manship to know wien the jewei of wnich Burke Speaks is demanded, and tu resolve that at any | costic shall not be sold. John Pyin had it woen | he car up to the Lords the impeachmeut of igre Joan Aqams had it wuen ue lifted imental Congress in his arms sand hurled it over the wrevocable line o1 indepen. his iret great speech ia the Senate, he exclaimed, ‘mm the face of slavery in its highest seat, ‘By the ve sworn to support lam Douud to disobey this act.” Unti that moment slavery had not seen in puntic life the man whom it truly feared, but now, amazed, incredulous, ap- Here was yesources indnitely richer, Here at last was the North, the American conscicuce, the American will—the betr of the traditions of tue English Magna Charta, and, lar beyond them, of the old Swiss | cantons tighon the heaven-kissing Al; the spirit that would not Wiuce, hor comprumise, nor bend, but which, like @ of adamant, said to the lurious sea, shall thy proud waves be stayed”? THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, As to bis party leadership Mr, Curtis observed :— “And as the crisis in which Sumuer lived required that in ® leader the qualities or a lawyer should be moditied by those of the patriot and the moral- | ist, so 1b demanded tbat the party man should be more than & partisan. He never jorgot that a party 18 @ means, not anend. He knew the joy and the power of association—no man better. He time aod the close o1 his career, the governmeni and tne people of — thix Commonwealth contemplate with a just and solemn satisiaction the contrioution they have made to the nigh sptiere of statesmauship. They recall bis first appearance there, seemingly lost amid a majority, who were the embodiment ant type of ideals so much less heroic und elevated than his own, With what masterly | unreserve he began and continued Ins great | mussion, abating nothing, disguising uothing, see- ing in the perspective many of the vasc results which have since been attataed, He lived to see | grand central nepiration realized, hig main purposes accomplished, He leaves us -@ truth, never bere so well illus trated at the Capitol, that the character adaed strength and luscre trom the character of the scholar and philanthropist, the liberator and re- former. At tne moment of the greatest triumph of Wilberforce, on the passage of his bill abolishing the slave trade, Sir Samael Romilly, amid the ringing acclamations of the House of Commons, called u pon the younger memoers to observe how superior were tr rewards of virtue to all the vulgar conceptions of uimvition. In the hour of the greatest (riumpn of Suinner, the hour of his death, @ like admonition arose from his vacant choir, calling Upon American pubiic life to mark tne loity exempias by Whom, amlu abdoundln, corsfption, comparative poverty had been he! as honor, to whom artifice and intrigue had been abhorrence, who in the long practice Oi oMeial trausactions and oficial. manners, had never Gt Boa an offi heart; who bad guarded every wit, and always kept tnat vessel pure; upoa wise headstone the Whole republic inscribes ‘incorrupuble and una p- Proachable,” With one mind the senators and Nepresentatives of Massachusetts, successors to those Who. nearly o quarter of @ century since, sent him forth with the seal of Gis great commission, are present by these final Aud augist veremonies to deliver him over to his- tory. $n selecting their orator for this tender oitice they could not tail to catl for him who vest would give voice to theireulogy. As our lamented Sena-or was a inaster in ali the arts o: iiterature, itis fitting that he should be emouimed by the art of anotier and similar master and # personal iniend, { introduce to you Mr. Cartis. THE EULOGY BY G, W. CUKTIS, The h thd point Of interest in the exercises was the eulogy by Mi. George Wilham Curtis. Altuougn vf necessity reiterating many circumstances pre- viously discussed since the death of the lamented bumner, the orator riveved the attention of the Qudieove from the beginning to tue end of the Gisvourse. I KDOW, sOid Mr. Curtis, how amply, | earlier day; and he knew how insensibiy a party | or knew the history of parues every where—in Greece and Rome, in Engiand and Frauce, and jo our own cones to reseuble an army, und au army to stand jor the country and cause Which it has defenued. But he knew above all that parties are Kept pure and useiu: Only by the resolute imdependence o1 their members, and that those leaders whom, from tneir loity principle and un- compromising qualities, parties do not care 1o nominate wre the very leaders who make par- ties aoie to elect their candiautes, The republican party Was organiged to withstand slavery when slavery dared all, It needed, thereiore, one great leader atleast who was uot merely a partisan, who did not work ror party ends, but ior the ends of tue purty. lt needed & man absuibed and mastered by -hostiity to slavery; a man of one idea, like Columbus, with his wuole soui trembling ever to the West, Wearying courts and kings wud councils with his single cessunt and importunute plea, until sailed over the horizon, and gave a new world to tile old; a man of one idea, like Luther, pleadiny his private cvascience against the ancient jerarchy, and giving both worlds religious liberty, ia- ne Yeu,@ man of one idea, hia was what time demanded ip public and party and this it jound in Charlies Samner; but & man the sigh dying words to save the bill that made thus slave uQ equal citizeo, When tne repubiican party came into power it was forced to conduct a war io which the very same qualities were de- manded, The public mind needed constantly to be roused and sustained by the trumpet note o: an ever Mguer endeavor, and trom no leader did it lear thaé tone myre steadily and clearer than irom Sumner, When the most radical, which in such & moment is the wisest, policy came to be discussed in detuiléd measures, he had already robbed it of Us terrors by making it ilar, White Congress deciared by vote almost unanimous that emancipation was not a purpose or uo element | the war, Sumner prociaimed to tie country that slavery was perpetual war, and that emancipation only was peace. Like | Nelson tn the battle of the Balttu—wheu the ad- imiral Siyhalied to stop fighting he put the glass to hia blind eye aud shouted, “Ldon’t see the adini- ral’s signal; uail my own colors to the mast jor closer batue! As betore tie war, so whe it raged, he jelt the imperial necessity of the cou- how eloquentiy, how tenderiy the story of ms iiie told. this as nee vi heard it io oult Gud the oom ‘we ‘the proaperoul aad NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10; 187S—TRIPLE SHEET. the Senator that the war sprang from slavery. He had al said that the house of the Union divided against itself could not stand. He knew as well ag Sumner that slavery must be smitten, But he knew also that in his position be could not spite until public opinion lifted his arm, To stimulate that opinion, therefore, was the most Precious service to the President, to the country aud the world. ‘Thus it was not the appeal to Lincoln, it was the appeal to public opinion, that was demanded. lt was not Summer’s direct, but his reflected, light that was so useful. And when the President at last raised bis arm—for he pulled no unripe iruit, and he did nothing until he thought the time had tully come—he knew that the country was ready, ana that no man mor than Sumner had made it so, When th Assistant Secretary of State carried the engrossed copy of the emancipanon proclama- tion to Mr. Lincoin w sign he had been shaking hands all the morning, #0 that his writing Was un- steady, He looked at it for a moment with ms sadly Lumorous smile, and then said, “When eople see that shaky signature they will say W uncertain he was.’ Kut I was never surer of anything in my itie."” DUTY FIRST AND ALWAYS. This ta the great victory, the great lesson, the great legacy of his iiie, that the fluelity of a public Maan to conscience, uot to party, 18 rewarded with the sincerest popular love and confidence, What an inspiration toevery youth longing with gene- rous ambition to eater the great arena of State, that he must heed first and always tne divine voice 10 bis own soul, it he would be sure of the sweet voices of good fame! Living, how Sumner served us, and dying, at this moment how he serves us atul. Ina time when politics seem peculiarly mean and selfish and corrupt, when there ts a general vague apprehension that the very moral foundations of the natiunal character are loosened, when good men are paintully anxious to know whether the heart of the people is hardened, Charles Sumner dies; and the uni- Veraality and’ sincerity of sorrow, such as the death of no man left living among us could awaken, show how true, how sound, how generous 1s still the heart of tne American people. ‘this is the dying service of Charlies Sumner, a revelation whieh inspires every American to bind his sliuing example as a frontiet between the eyes, and never again to despair of the higuer and more glorious destiny of his coun- try. And of that destiny what a ioreshadowing was he! In that beauttiui hom th nny and leafy corner of the national city, where he lived among books and pictures and noble iriendships and lofty thoughts—the home to which he re- turned at the close of each day in the Senate, and vo which the wise and good irom every land nat- urally came—how the stately and gracious and alr accomplisned man seemed the very persouificution of that new union lor which he had so mantully striven, aad whose coming his dying eyes vehela— the union of ever wider liberty and juster law, the America of comprehensive intelligence and of moral power! For that he stauds; up to that his imperishable memory, like the words of his living lips, lorever litts us—tits us to his own great iaitu in America and in man. Suddenly from ius stron: haud—my father, my lather, the chartot of Israe'! aod the worgemen therof!i—the banner falls, Be it ours to grasp it aud carry it still for- ward, still higher! Our work is Dot his work, but t¢ can pe well done only tn bis spirit. And as in the heroic legend of your Western valley the men of Hadiey, faltering ta the flerce shock of In- dian battie, suddenly guw at weir head the jolty orm of an uvknown captatd, with white hair streaming on the wind, by his triumphant mien strengtuening their hearts and leading them to victory, #0, men and women of Massachusetts, of America, if in that national conflict already be- gin, a8 Vast and vital as the struggle of nis life, the contest which is beyond that of auy party or policy or measure—the contest tor conscieuce, in- telligence and morality us the supreme power in our politics and the sole salvation or America— you should falter or fatl, sudcenly your hearts ‘shall see once more the towering iorm, shall hear again the imspiring votce, siall be exatred witn the moral energy and Jaith of Cuarles Sumner, and the victories o1 his immortal example shall trans- cend the trrumphs of nis iile. At toe close of the eulogy a quartet, comprising Misses Kellogg and Phillips anu Messrs. Fessenden and Ryder, sang Mendelssotn's “Cast Thy Burden Upon The Lord,” and the exercises closed witn the ‘benediction by Rev. Dr. Clarke, BANQUET TO GEORGE WILLIAM OURTIS. Boston, June 9, 1874. The Legislative committee having charge of the Sumner eutogy to-day gave an elegant banquet complimentary to George William Ourtis at the Revere House this evening. Moody Merrill, of the Senate, presided, and members o! the Legislauve committees that have taken any action in regard to Mr. Sumner’a death were present. No speeches were made. A CHURCH ALLIANCE. An Interesting Discussion on the Pro- posed Union of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches—Address of Rev. H. wD. Ganse. POUGHKEEPSIE, June 0, 1874. ‘This was, thus far, the most important day in the sessions of the General Synod of the Reformed Church of Americas. By a previous vote it had been made the special order for the discussion of that all-absorbing topic, the union of the Resormed Church with the Presbyterian, a question agitaung both Churches tron one end o/ the United States to the other. After the reading of the minutes, the clerk read @ paper from the Presbyterian eral Assembly of the United States, in favor of an alliance and real but not organic union. Re- ferred to the Committee on Correspondence. ~ President Talmage stated the special order, which was the consideration of the report of the Commitee of Conserence upon churches. Rev. Hervey D. Ganse, from. the Ciassis of New York, spoke ior the iriends of the majority.report, waying he hoped that the fullest scope woald be given to the discussion, and that strict parliamen- vary Jaw would not be vrought up to intertere, Mr. Ganse offered the lullowing :-— Resolved, That so much of the report of the committee as reiers to conference with the Presbyterian Assembly (south) and with the German Retormed Church He upon the table until action be taken in regard to conference with the Northern Assembly. Adopted. Whereas the synod Is officially informed by the delega- tion from the Presbyterian General Assembly (Nort) that that Assembly probably has unanimously resolved tocontinue tor one year its Committee of Conferenee with this Synod; Resolved, That the conference be continued for one year, aud that———— be the Synod’s committee jor that purpose. MR. GANSE’S ADDRESS. Speaking to the last resolution, Mr. Ganse said the question Was a large and grave one, In the Synod all are Christian brethren and should breathe words of kindness, aud if he saould speak wor of pain he noped all would inquire if he was not honest und sincere. He said the report comes by the unanimous action of two Synoas, He prayed that tne memvers would not take for granted that whatever the committee has done any member of been disloyal to the Church or the constitu. tion, The largest number ever present of the committee to act was fliteen, and when the ma- jority report was made fourteen were present. ‘ne speaker defended the honesty of purpose of those Who signed the majority report, asserting that they were born tn the lap of the Church, and on all other questivus had been looked upon as standard arers. If, satd the speak- er, union is decided upoo, at the most union cannot be obtained snort of three years. Dr. Gause read trom the second paragraph of the minority report, waich states that certain obstacles render Church union impracticable. He sald that tne majority committee had no idea of present union to the destruction of the Keformed church, ‘tne committee ouly asked tor reason, and churged that the Church union had made no attempt to infduence public opinion. The commit- tee, said Mr. Ganse, lad acted out in daylignt, and had given to the Synod arguments which, it not adopted, the committee would still remain loyal. it was asked, why agitate this question? Leave the church tree to do ber own work. Inreply tg this Mr. Gansevaid the Retormed Church cannotdo a complete denominational work. It does tor- eign missions, education, collegiate, thea- logical seminary und other work well; but there 18 ene work the Caurch cannot do well, and that 8 the evangelization of the large new territory of America, ‘The Church has shown large benevolence on the question of Western do- mestic missions, and he had asked Western men of this Synod how mauy strong churches there are West, and had been told two, notwithstanding the tact that jor thirty or forty years the Cnurcn had oeen flooding the West with money—one church alone having received $100,000, Would you praive such a seed and yive oi soul to st an- Other year? The fact i, the Reiormed Church 1s not doing the same Work in the new country West other churches are. A Western man had toid DS er but one Church in the West wus sell- sustainin bd had the Presbyterians are gaining @ foothold. THE QUESTION OF AGREEMENT. He had heard wise iathers ay to thetr children not t live under tae roor with a near relative — ‘appiaase)—but denominations exactly akin have Nt side by side. It 18 common to speak of fed- eral union among churches, aud ther union in politics, but there js much cuatin two railrvads run near each other or across and with each other they wust collide; they will col- lide unless they run upon one time tavie, In the Brooklyn Synod there was @ unanimous vote in jJavor Ol a conlerence with the Cuurch South; and in the New Bronswick Synod there was a upanim- ity of action in favor of @ comierence with the Church North, The speaker was not yet in Javor of a vote to check discussion on the subject. The union woud be an honorable alliance—not exhaustion or absorption. It ts said this continued discussion 18 retarding the progress of the church, If a train is backing slowly up bill and desires to turn ana go in another direction tt always rang still slower just oelore it turns, Dr. Ganse closed & two hours’ address In @ most eloquent manner and was nearuly applauded. federal » When CLUBION BO BIroNsly thac he made all arguments In the aiternoon tne following spoke inst serve and torced all jacts into line, He Was alive | 1t:—Wiliam R. Gordon, William Rieiey, Pulp with the trath that Dryden nothy expresse: Peltz, Joun B, Alliger and William R. Duryee, have heard imdeed of some virtuous persuns who In the evel the quesiion was brought up bave ended unioriunately, but never of any vircu- | again, ti King 10 favor being A. M, Manno, 08 nutioN. Providence is @ngagod too deeply | A. P. @ and Joha B, brary, meral K. Hy When the cause becomes #0 general.” Mr, Lingola, | Proya Parused the reeelaiie ima who Was a pateral fy ee yd ‘wuder- pen Lay ado ue steed Mr, Sumash, i Aeew sa Wed ad | tow | tu January. Li aS een oes SAD DOGS. Bergh’s Dream and What Came of It—Destrue- tion of the Canines—Mass Meeting of Dogs in Tompkins Square—The Muzzle Question in the Board of Health—Jersey and Dogs. Bergh’s Dream and What Came of It Destruction of the Canines—Mass Meet- jug of Dogs in Tompkins Square, The whole canine world of New York was in y condition of terror aud bewilderment yesterday. Dogs on the street were ax scarce as strawberrics Here and there a solitary yelper with 4% wire muzzle on his nose croased the path of tue pedestrian and seemed to appeal to him for reliet from the remorseless ordinance of Alderman Morrig, Mr. Bergh, the supremest humanitariau between the poles, dreamed a dream, like Joseph, night betore last. There was nothing so human im the Apocalypse as his vision. He saw train of dogs. Each dog had a grievance, but as each dog had a muzzle none could communicate [0 Bergh the miseries of his condition. Bergh’s soul ‘was moved. He, however, was no machinist and consequently could furnish no rehef to the dump petitioners, From Skye, from Pomerania, from Newfoundland, ‘from Greeniana‘’s icy mountains to India’s coral strand’’ came the representatives of the great canine race. They called on Bergh muzzled and miserable. Among them was the one remaining black and tan (the last of his race) whose progenitor assisted af Balthazar’s Feast in an humble capacity under the table, And the dog that satisded Darwin as to the theory of evolution was algo there. He had a story. to tell Mr. Bergh about his ancestry, but the io evVitable muzze stood in the way ; and while Bergh 1p the desperation of his dream, sought to demol- ish the Morris gag, “like the baseless fabric of a vision, all dissolved and left not a wreck behind.” A MASS MEETING OF DOGS will be held in Tompkins square next Sunday to denounce Alderman Morris. Mayor Havemeyer wilt preside, Comptroller Green, in the interest of the taxpayers, will appear and enter a -protes®: against the extravagance o! purchasing wire muf- zies when straw is so cheap and abundant. The first resolution will be offered by @ dog from the Sixth ward commonly known in the locality as “Big Six.’ This animal is of powerful build, and will no doubt command, ea aiways has commanded, the obsequious attet of ai) tre other aogs. On this occasion, by order Of Mayo) Havemeyer, he wil be unmwuzzled. Mr. Bergn will not be present. A telegraphic despatch from him will be read expressing tis entire sympathy with the objects uf the meeting, but owing to @ private council of Thiru avenue car horses, to Be held on the same day, be must unavoidabiy be absent, ‘The young curs of the city will occupy the maim stand along with Mayor Havemeyer. All THE COMMUNISTIC DOGS wil be summarily impounded in the Bastile on West Twirty-seyenth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, where tenement houses abound and primary school No. 27 stands up asa con- spicuous landmark. The scene of execution is the rear of the school, and covers what was once @ full sized lot. It was a dreadful ands moving scene there yesterday. The children, indifferent to the misery Of the vagrant victims, supg their cus- tomary songs of joy ana Empat while the air Was penetrated with the dying howls of 1,000 dogs, THE LaTEST NEWS regarding the canine tribe is of a serious char- acter. The “heated term” has had, it appears, 40 alarming effect upon them, * Following the exam- pie of Alderman Morris, quite a number of people ave begun to cry “Mad dog!’ in tones that will Make the adage even better known than it is already. Mayor Havemeyer’s P george = Miran of course, meet the gravity of the case. His wel kpown sympathy with his fellow citizens natu- rally explains his solicitude in this matter. It follows of necessity that @ pe ol Home” will be at once established. It is universally admitted that such an institution would be @ great improve. ment on the “Found,” and however people may differ from the venerable Mayor, they i agree ‘With him in his Battersea idea. “ The Board of Health on Dogs. The Board of Health, at its weekly meeting yesterday afternoon, abolished the foilowing section irom its code relating to dogs:—Section 74, ‘That no person shall take or call a dog into, or allow any dog to go into any street or public place in the city of New York between the 16th day of Jane and the 16th day of September in any year, unless properly muzzled. Protessor Chandler, President of the Board of Health, said there was an entirely erroneous im- pression aproad on the subject of hydrophobia. Dogs, be said, were much more liable to suffer irom attack of it during the wintes months than the summer, and it was no whatever to the public to cause the muszzil! of these unfortunate animals in the hot wea The mouth, he added, was the natural cooler close i of the and it was acruelty to one good was effected by the clos- a cage no ; ing. Peopie were ordered to muzaie the dogs when im the streets, but they were allowed iree un- muzzled range in houses, where there was really most danger. Ii, the President said, the Board Heaith had Known that the city ordinance lately passed on this subject was likely to become so soon a jaw, the Board of ith would have ited out to the authoritice tha measure. The tady, whom Professor Chandler looks upon as thority, was recently asked to pass aa ordinance similar ip spirit to the oue passed by the Board of Aldermen here, and he replied nantiy “I will do nothing of the kind. Such # practice belongs to the Dark Ages.”” Doctors Smith and Vanderpoel are of the same opinion as Presi- Gent Cnandler about the dogs, and Dr. Smith is now preparing an extensive report on the subject Which will be read before the Board at its uext meeting. g In Jersey. The mad dog trouble has commenced in Jersey, In Newark those in dread of hydrophobia have begun to cry out for the establishment o/ a dog pound. In kilizaveth the piavol nas bees brought to bear on the suffering 18. ooo @ixty-One Lovers of Canine Barberity Fined and Imprisoned. . . PHILADELPHI4, June 9, 1874. There ia a noted sporting character in this city named George W. Branson. Jn the course of his history George came across @ very remarkable brute, who vanquished in tair fight all the local champions of his race, who chewed up several fighters ‘from Camden, Trenton snd Burlington, who laid out the most valiant and successiui 10° Baltimore and Wasnington, and who, in a word, was never thrashed in his lite. Finally a letter was sent irom Boston describing another celebrated dog. A match was made, and tue two were to fight for the championship of the United States last night. ‘The scene of the struggle was a third story room in Richmond street, where there were ad sembled before midnight over 100 people. While the fight was going on a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals heard of it, and, going at once to the nearest station house, he secured @ force of thirty-five officers, who set out for the scene with the famed of ar resting all participat . In the it place they surrounded the entire block, in order to prevent any escape; then certain otuers of them entered the house and attempted to ascend to the pit. In thelr way they tounda heavy door fastened by ever so many strong iron bolts. Axes were pro- cured and the officers proceeded to cat their way through. O1 course the parties above, witnessing the fight, soon compreiended what was the matter, ‘The consternation and excitement cannot ve de- sori All tried to escape and made a dash for the loft overhead, which communicated with twe in effecting an exit ia One Ieilow climbed into the loft of adjoiniag house, when the ceiling givit y ly d him upon the bed of a woman and two ale ~ children, who, of course, were terribiy irigbtened, and who cried “Murder!” lustily enough. Other parties climbed into et Win dows, until there was commotiun through the en- Ure square. The men, however, were unsuccess. ful in their efforts, and the entire number, sixty-one, were captured. ‘rhey ali had @ hear- et this morning. Branson was held in $800 bail, while all the others were fined $ldeach. About thirty tailed to pay this sum and were sent to jail. THE BROOKLYN HOMG@OPATHIO MATERRITY. The lady managers o1 the Brooklyn Homeopathie Maternity hela a reception last evening at the Home, Nos. 46 and 48 Concord street, The parlors ‘were handsomely decorated and the atvendance was very large. The great increase in the, num ber of inmates has necessitated an pallding, aad No, 46 Concord street has been up for the accommodation of the watts, Several iadies made addresses ¢: to; the Maternity and fubutions i " of the iutues