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4 Just canse commitred upoa them. sar iran tnese | statements are not true in substance or in fact; If ike whole story 10 all it essential parts is as false as the perjared invoices anaer which Pbelps, Dodge & Co. pieaded gulity that they passed their goods without tax imto the country, (hen the iaw that catches perjured scoundreis and smuggling Villains and punishes them, however severely, ought to be sustained and made more stringent, not iess. The first statement oi Mr, Dodge which challenges attention is whether the house im New York ana Liverpool as, until the latter art of December, 1872, always borne this unbleza- shed reputation wiihout fault or blot, whic he states; and hive the dealings of that house with the government been aiWays just and troe, as Christian “merenaut princes” ought to have dealt With the government’ Hecanse, if that be so, it ean hardiy be believed that for a comparatively Small sum of muney a honse of sach weaith and repute (as suddenly become so vile and so iva! us they coniessed themselves to be in their letcer to the Secretary of the Treasury when they de-ired to “setile’ with the government tor | their crimes. If, on the other hand, it ts found that this firm have been cheating thus goverument ior Tong yeers, theo we shall conclude that they have only been caught at their old uricks. Now, Mr. Speaker, it Is a notorious iact to everybody hay- ing to do With importations in New York officially for many years past that the house of Pheips, Dodge & Co. have been confessed to be guilty of the most petty and outrageous smuggling, taking advantage 0: wil teclimical points to get their goods in without paying duties that could be most in- geniousty conceived, A harsh accusation this, you say. Yes, and one that ought not to be made unless it can be made gocd. Well, then, sir, many years ago, since the forty years that Mr. James has been resident Partner of the house in Liverpool and interested in the house in New York, during waich time Dodge says not @ question fas been raised as to the Vast shipments of tuis house, and since Pie! Dodge & Co, have been one of the largest import- ersinthe country oO! iead, tin ana other wetais, the Congress of the United States passed a law to encourage American art, a law which in various phases you will find on your statute books as the tariff! was revised irom time to time, which was in effect that statuary of Ameri: | can artists should come in iree. Where- | upon this firm, of which Mr. James, this “honest, honored merchant,”’ was resident partner and consiguor, had huudreds and chousands of tons of lead ayy block tin and copper cast inio statuettes Of the Goddess of Liberty and Washington and Jeferson, and myorted them into this country as Works of American art, therebv escaping the duty. But when here they were taken from the hold of the vessel to the warehouse, and from the ware- house went to the melting pot, being sold to their customers lor pig lead and tin, _ _ FORMER ACCUSATIONS IN CONGRESS. Now, right here, 1 challenge any honest, just- TMiuded mau to look me in the face and say that an “honest merchant” or a “Christian gentleman’ ever did such a thing to cheat his government, Whetier aJames of Liverpool or a Dodge of New York. And yet this Dodge tells us that the “irst knowledge or unt, in forty-odd years of business tuai I have had with the goveroment,’ that I was accused Oi any dereliction oi duty,"’ was in Decera- ber, 1872, Was that true? So far from its being true, Mr. Speaker, Congress had to chanze this very law about American statuary on account of thes¢ fraudulent importatious and cheat- ing of the revenue of which | have spoken by ttus very firm; and this firm was accused of this iraud upon the revenue on the Ist day of March, 1565, on this very Noor. I send to the Clerk to be read an extract irom tne Congressional Glove of that date. part second, second session Thirty-eiguth Con- ress, page 1,255. The fifth section o1 the Tarut il Was under discussion, and was as follows And be it further enacted, hat the term “statuary, as used in the laws now in force imposing duties ou foreign importations, shall be understood to tnciude pro- tessional productions’ ot @ statuary or of a scuiptor only. Mr. Kaxxan—I desire some explanation of this sect Tshould like to know what this unprofessional sta as. Has this provision reterence to those people w port leaden statues oi Liberty, ac.? Mr. Mokuti—l may state, ‘in brief, that it has peen found taat parties huve in many cases evaded the pay- ment of duties by importing articles in the form of stut- uary when they could not iegitimately rank as sach. some instances lead has been tnus imported toa large extent. We had a iaw by which statuary was admitted free, and statues of the ‘Father of His Country” and of the ‘Author of the Declaration of Independence” were Droazht over in that way. I believe that the gentleman is answered j Mr. Ei pnepce—I would like to know from the gentle. | man from Vermont whether this does not reter to one particuiar firm. I want to know whether this does not reter to Phelps, Dodge & Co., and Uhat firm alone. Mr. Steykexs—When statuary was admitted free we had statues of Webster and Clay and others in copper and dead, imporied, and so soon as they were landed and | taken out of the Custom House they were melted down. dt was a ‘raud upon the revenue. | ‘Mr, Evpnepox—What firm did that? | Mr. Stevens—Fhelps, Dodge & Co. PATRIOTIC READING OF THE LAW. Now, as Mr. Dodge himself came into Congress 8 a member of this House at the very next ses- s10R, OLe would have supposed that he would have arise to explain if this very grave charge upon the President oi the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation was not true. So far the record. Iam told and | believe that there are men in tus House Who know the fact that Mr. Dodge himself ad- mitted before the Committee of Ways and Means of a former House, wuen questioned, that these Importations were made. ‘The fact nas never been “denied and can ve easily substantiated. Imagine the fine feelings of this oid Mr. James, the “honored merchant” of Liverpool, when he was loading up this iraudulent statuary to cueat the revenue of his country! (Laughter.) “| have nodoubt that it was — true, as Dodge states, raat when James heara that Phelps, Dodie & Co.'s books had been seized in New York in 1873 he nearly fell dead, or tnat it almost killed him, for he kuew how traudulent their S$ were, and always had been, and teared the consequences. There Wasa merchant of higu standing in Boston not many years ago, who, when charged with frauds upon the revenue, made confession by committing suicide. importing of lead and tin and copper in the form 01 statuary was by no means the most serious attack o! this irm upon the revenues or the gov- ernment for their own benetit. ‘ast your mind back, Mr. Speaker, to April, 1504, the very darkest hours o: tue War, When Grant was reorganizing the Army of the Potomac for luis march ou Richmond; when every patriotic man was preparing himself for the final great struggle; when the nation needed every dollar that it could command, and wheu it became necessary to add one-half to our revenues by taxation to Sustain our failing credit, with god at 180. What shall we «ay ofa firm which. im that trying bour of the nation’s peril, exercised its infernal ingenuity in devisin; Ways and means to defraud our impovertshe: Treasury of millions, and succeeded in so doing ? To meet the exigency we Were obilged to pass a joint resotion providing that until the end of Sixty davs fiity per cent of the rates of duties im- posed by law should be addeu to the then present duties and imposts on ail goods, wares and mer- Chandise, so that we might have time in which to adjust the tarit’s; and then, just sixty days from that ume, to wit—on the 20tli ot June—we passed an “Act to increase (he duties on imports.” It covered nearly ali importations, aud, among other | things, it provided— | Or tin plates and iron galvanized or coated with any metal by electric batteries or otherwise, (wo and a half cenis a pound, At thus time, if ever’ Mr. Speaker, it became all Pairiotic men, ali lovers of the country, to do everything that possibly could be done to aid the reventies of the country, to sustain its credit and enable the soldiers to receive their pay and to sup- port the armies in tue fleid, Letns see. then, What the course of this firm of Christian mer- chants (Phelps, Dodge & Co.) was in that crisis of their country’s need. They were the largest im- o; tin plates im the country, and that Is one of the largest of their importations. all seein a moment, it ought to yield a large revenue. The auty upon it at that time was twenty-five per cent, ad valorem, which would be bout one aud one-lourin cents per pound. It was ntention of Congress to imcreage it; therefore sted that “on tin plates, aud iron galvan- ed,” &e., there should be a duty of two nts a pound. But Mr. William E. © the Treasury Department of the ,in bis own person, aa I have the | means of showing, ond there advocated a reading United state of that law Which Was sanctioned neither by the | letier, text, spirit, nor meaning, vor by the true and just thongut of any patriot. He procured an opinion trom the Treasury Departinent by whicn the comma was construed to be removed alter the word “plates” aud inserted after the word “iron,” 80 as to wake it On tin plates and iron, galvan meta! by electric batteries or ot hait cents a pound. £0 that, with that construction, been raised on tin places at 4). vanized” tin pl ‘ vanived tiu plate / venture (6 say, ore Was, that al) the tin pi States, of wich the largest impe percent ad vaie ed or coated with any lerwise, two and one e duty had not “vale duty, [send at how this would oper fr "Dodge & © Whe 7 wit is precisely rr or noe is of go sequence, because it Would nov sunsta the figures, and that shows ti every other year irom tso4 the tari on June 6.1 In favor of PLelps, bo inited States by ‘ii the law at th ge ul per- Bonal solicitation of Will E. Dodge with the Qreasury officers vi the United States of $2,567,000, and over $4,000,000 annually, ‘aking the whole im: portation of the United Siuves during that ew! years. We have heard, in the matier of the duty on fruits, the earnest denunciations of the Committee of Ways and Means of the Treasury Department ‘or not paying attention to the position of a comma, by which »,000 Were refunded, bul the Committee on Ways and Means have told the House nothing of the effect in favor of Phetps, ouge & Co., nut soiely of looking out for @ comma, vUL the deliberate taking o! a comma from one part of 4 law, where it had been placed by Congress, and puting it in an- other place where there was mone, by which quire $4,000,000 of revenue was lost to the government apuvaily during a period of eight years, and that im cavor of the (raudulent importer. In veritica. tion of this, I send to the Clerk @ letter of the sec retary of tie Treasury of Jaly 22, 1864, and IT beg hum to read the portion between the brackets. - iter of the 12th inst. is received, requesting eee tn writing in reiation to the Foon 0 eave Janguage of the second iy tne yrinved tari of ‘June 30, ‘and iron galvanized or costed with an quwtal bY wlectric batteries or otherwise, two and oae-Lalt o per pound.” ww appear that an error of punctuation has been @ade by seute ome, Uayot PEODADLY by We clack Kho ats he | mn By decade 77 9 | iat atl 77 | bse 287 2A | i 1885, fase 310 8 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, groaned. ak part of Wp 90%. If the comma which ts in- gerted after word “plates” be omitted and a coma». placed after the word “iron” the true sense will be bad, which Unquestionably is that the tin plates, as well as the iron, must be galvanized or coated with any metal by electric batteries or otherwise in order to bring them within the provision. And that construction remains even unto this day. For we fud in the authorized tariff of the ‘Treasury Department, published alter the act of June 6, 1872, which took off ten per cent from the duties, the foliowing remarkable announcement :— Tie wise than by electric batteries, two and a half cents per pound. Ordinary tin plates,’ or tins other than ihe above, fifteen per cent ad valorem. And yet, with this vast fraud upon the revenue by this firia staring them in the jace, if they had chosen to examine it, the Committee on Ways and Means have recommended the diminution of duty ou tin plates, upon the petition oj Phelps, Dodge # Co., to one cent per pound, snd passed the bill through under suspension of the rules, THE FALSE INVOICES. Such being the undentaple recorded facts tn re- gard to Phelps, Dodge & Co., what was the special agent of the Treasury to believe when he found | them charged with iraud, especially when ‘aise and double invoices were produced to him in De- cember, 1872? Why, he coula not but beueve that these men were continuing to take all manner of uniair, fraudulent aud swindling advautages of the fovernment, and doubtiess he examined their OokS with that belief, And what did ue find? He | found that they had a corresponding house in Liv- erpool, aud that that house was engaged in con- sicning invoices of tin plates to the house of Phelps, Dodge & Co. in this country daily, and someumes three or four invoices per day; that in every case those invoices were sworn to as a pur- chaser’s invoice—tnat is, that the goods had Leen Purchase i open market by the house o1 Phelps, james & Co., and that the nrices annexed to the articles therein were the true and genuine prices paid jor them. But ne found that in the only kind of tin plates im which they could cheat—because the prices of the ordinary kind of tin plate were as Staple as gold eagles would have been if im- Barred by that firm—in every instance they ad = @ double invoice from the manufac- turer, and that those specially large sizes of tin were not purchased by Pheips, Dodge & Co. or Phelps, James & Co, in open market at al|, but were manufactured for those firms, whic are’ one and the same firm; and that im every instance when they swore they had bought these articies in open market they swore falsely, and Knew it, because | they knew the article was manulacwured to order | for their frm, and they should have sworn to the cost price of the manutactured article, which he found each time had been tn the possession of the firm before the oath was made, and it was a higher cost than the invoice price to which they made outh. So that they and those whom they employed had been guilty of deliberate and corrupt perjary every day in the year aud every year of our Lord for the five during which the law allowed the ofticer to look back, And he tound the evidence of that in this—that every one of these custom house in- voices, of which they had duplicates In the books o! the firm, had a thin paper copy of the true manufacturer's Cost pasted over it, in order that the firm migit Know how to sell at @ proper price the goods which they had undervalued so a3 to smuggle them by false invoices into the country. Uuder these circumstances the special ported to the Secretary of the Treasury the facts. Mr. William E. Dodge employed four lawyers—Mr. Abram Wakeman, a lormer surveyor of the port of New York, and a learned lawyer in revenue law; Mr. Henry &. Knox, candidate for Supreme Judge of New York; Judge Fullerton, the tore- most criminal lawyer in the city ot New York; with agentieman who had been Attorney General of the United States, as consulting counsel; and those lawyers, alter examining his case carefully for six weeks, advised him three times to at once otfer to pay the value of every falsified invoice article, which falsified imvoice articles amounted to more than @ quarter of a million of dollars— $271,000—to_get released from these frauds, and . William E. Dodge and his part- ners, after full consultation, agreed to that HI ye ciara ardently desired it, and made a written statement to the Secretary of the Treasury that on account of “certain irregulari- ties’’ which had been found in their business, they were willing to pay $271,000 to compromise a suit which the District Attorney in the meantime had, at their request, brought against them for $1,000, or less than two-thirds of the whole *amount of their tainted and traudulent invoices, That suit was brougiat in that form at the request of the counsel of Dodge, alter the compromise had been agreed upon, in order that when that com- promise should be accepted it might cover every ciaim for penalties against Phelps, Dodge & Co, THE ADMISSION OF GUILT, When the letter offering to pay that great sam came to the secretary o1 the Treasury, jorge S. Boutwell, he wrote pack in subatance—all of which will be found in tne testimony :—“I cannot accept this compromise. I will not be put in the fern which that offer will put me, of being a lackmailer, Either you have committed frau you have not committed fraud. Lfyou have not com- mitted Iraud you should not pay the government anything. I will consider the question of compro- mise, but I cannot compromise under your state- Ment that you are guilty of irregularities oniy.” ‘Thereupon t_ offer was modified by Phelps, Dodge & © after consultation with their four eminent counsel, who advised their cuents to plead guilty to a suit charging them with impor bs | goods to $1,000,000 in vaine by false invoices and iradulent apphances; and thereupon Phelps, Dodge & Co. sent an offer of cowpromise admit- ting their guilt individually and collectively, and renewing their offer to pay the $271,000; and while the Secretary of the Treasury was consider- ing it they withdrew the over. FAILURE OF SUBTERFUGES, Meantime the matter had got into the newspa- ers, The Christian Association, of which Mr. Wil- 1am E. Dodge was a burning and a shining light, began to mquire, What manner of man is this Who 5 a Wakes jong sermons by day and prayers by night | iu the temples, while bis partners in business are accumating bis profits by daily and hourly perju- Ties and irauds upon the government ? And Wil- liam E, Dodge wrote, as the testimony shows, to George 5. Boutweil, and said to him in substance, “1 withdraw my offer of compromise.” He ex- pected the Secretary to answer that, “I cannot permit the withdrawal, as the matter is closed.”’ ‘Then Dodge would doubtless have gone away and said, “The. compromise was inadvertently made, and when 1 went to withdraw it the Sec- retary took a st ag upon me.” But the Secretary, with hs usual straightforwardness, wrote In sustance ery Weil; ii you think you are not guilty witndraw your compromise and go toa jury.” So the compromise was withdrawn. Thereupon Dodge cousuite again with wis four lawyers, and aiter nearly two weeks’ delay he re- news the offer and the money is paid. In order to break his fali he says to whe Secretary, “The gov- eroment oficers think that [ ought not to withdraw the compromise; they having once aceepted it 1am bound to carry it out.” | What was the manly and honovable and straightiorward answer to that of the Secretary of the Treasury? It was—‘“Mr. Dodge, if your action in renewmg the proposition has been influenced by this representation you will have an opportunity to consider the subject anew and take such course as you may think proper be- lore fina! action by this department.”’ Finding no subterfuge would avail, Mr. Willtam E. Dodge, with nis four lawyers behind him, alter weeks of such conswitation aud such shifts and such attempts at evasion as I have described, deliberately put on file a written statement admitting that his firm were guilty of the cuarges ip suit; that by these fai-e and iraudulent myoices the revenue has been defrauded ; and paid $271,000 iu expiation of that guilt. And yet we are told “ail merchants are honest,” aod Phelps, Dodge & Co. are the very princes of inerchants. Nay, Mr. Willham E, Douge cliims be comes here before your committee, as 1 understand, as Presicent of the Chamber of Com. merce of tue city of New York, as the exemplar of the merchant, as a dealer in hardware, vies up bis goods anu puts a specimen pair of shears on the outside, 30 that we may know the quality of the cutting imstrument inside without opening the | package. THE GROWTH OF REVENUE FRAUDS. To show you that I cannot be mistaken in this | matter, /] have cansed tobe prepared, and will send to the Clerk to be appended to the record, a table showiug how frauds on the revenue lave grown up, and how necessary these penalties are to their detection and punishment. It appears that in 1792 the whole amount ot forfeitures, nines and penaities derived from the frauds of the mer- chants of that period was $118; in 1797, $220; in 1798, $8, and in 1873, it was $1,261,175, STATEMENT OF THE ANNUAL 2ECEIPTS YROM CUSTOMS, AND PROM FINES, PEN AND PORFEITORES, FKOM MALCH 4, , TO JUS Fines, Penal- Per ties and dor. cent Frare Customs. ritures. age Wl 09 ig elas 5 = Lis OO 220 00 Cay 16,421 81 14,019 84 Bi,ows 65 2.402 A 18 igi By decade. 7 26,853,345 49 iates, galvanized or coated with any metal otber- | | ent re- | Years, Customs. 1837 11,19,200 39 93 1s3$.. 1,158,500 361,856 14 04H sd 23,197 924 St 2976 18. OULS 134)... 490,502 17 5,316 76. O09 By dee: seaee 913 92 416 70. WOLT | wae 1216 74 ea 41 ONG Iz WS 76 1502 44.0087 $1 "235 99 “H00HL Hea Pc a 43 za 87 049 13 00076 65 0055, v2. O02 11185 97. 0039 2 922 AG | RS 73 MB 4a 92 0776 9S 7 62 AsiMg 71 53,951,865 52 Gaal U9 64,2 F 5,7U2 4 00K 53. 21 33/815 53. OOS 64.0 BO 19.346 WS On 05 9.169 9. OO1E 96 26,432 Yo | 065 3819468 GT. ON 34,305 69 | W064 > 0182 » Bs . 086 + 05 2 45 | w | 4,219,980 37. O35 i O23,e15 G7. 049 033 007 For three years. Total Norx.—Ihe percentage column shows the fractional part ot one per cent of the amount received from ines, penalties aud forfeitures on the whole amount ot cus toms. Tn the years omitted the percentage is so smail as to be insignificant. Is anything more needed to prove that the dis- honest importer, with his false invoices, nis branch on the other side to undervalue bis goods, his false appliances to decelve the customs olicers, has quive driven the honest merchants out of the business and left it in hands such ag these ? THE EXPERIMENT TO BE TRIED. Men of the House of Representatives, it is to shield such as these that we have voted to take off | the penalties imposed upon detrauders of the rev- | enne by taise invoices and smuggiing importers! Let me not be misunderstood, This experiment must be tried before the people will understand | how greatly they are defrauded and wronged. do not oppose its trial. If I had intended to have done so I should have | begun my opposition earlier. The result will | be that you will find @ great diminution of your | revenues in the coming year. upon to pass laws to raise more revenue at the next session, and I have no doubt that the com- | Inittee wiil recommend to put the tax on tea and coffee and on friction matches, and the comforts and necessities of the people. Instead of that, U1 am here, I shall ask you so to adjust the penalties for defrauding the revenue, and make them so stringent, and so sustain and reward the oflicers who fearlessly do their duty, that upon the siiks, the worsted stufls, the laces, the satius, the jewels and the veivets, and che pias glass aud the luxaries of the rich, such tariff! may ve honestly collected as wiil pay the expenses of the adminis- tration of your government from the coilers of your Treasury. SANBORN’S OPERATIONS. General Butler then proceeded to speak of the collection 0! delinquent taxes by Joan D. Sanborn, and instanced, among other things, that Mr. san- , born collected from the Delaware and Lackawanna Ratiroaa Company the large delinquent tax of years’ standing of $99,685 24; and the Committee | on Ways and Means gravely report collusion with somebody in the Treasury in order to do that. Because the very aay aiter the check from the wrote to the Treasury to announce that fact and to give the number of the check. Mr. Butler con- tinued:—Now your committee ask how could Mr, Sanborn have known that unless he had been in coilusion with somebody in the Treasury? Because Mr. O'Dell, the Treasurer of the railroad swears nobody knew the amount ot that check but the President of the road, himself and his clerks? What a wise and penetrating commit- tee! As only three persons knew of the check aud therefore a fourth person must have told about it! Now, it so Beppens, as Iam informed, that this very clerk was the man who gave San- born the information as to the delinquency of tnis railroad in taxes, and the man, of course, who told him of the check which he, ag @ clerk, had written. Any one who examines the testimony will come to the conclusion that this great amount never would have been collected, some of it having been for nearly four years overdue, if it had not been for the moiety system under which Sanvorn | was operating. THE “HONEST” MERCHANT AGAIN. | But there 1s one very curious ract about this de- | linquent tax of this railroad of nearly $100,000 which shows how the fraud runs ina line through some men. itis said, “If you scratch a Russian ou will find a Tartar underneath,” and it so jappens, if yon scratch one of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. you will always find a detrauder of the revenue, jor it ruros out that the Chairnian of the Finance Committee of this railroad which was delinquent in this $100,000 tax was Mr. William E. | Dodge, of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., the | “Onristian gentleman” and the “honest mer- | chant,” whose firm imports as American works of art, leaden statues of the Goddess of Liverty, even at ihe risk of having her nose bruised when she is ee into the melting pot to come out as lead pipe. THE OFFICERS OF THE LAW THE SCAPEGOATS. But it 18 not my purpose at this hour of the evening, nor would it be of advantage, to go into an examination of this system ot collection of de- linquent taxes. It has been long in practice. It has commended itsell to the administrative oficers here before. It has its uses; 1t has its defects and its disadvantages, and although some four to six Imiilions, whicn, in my belief, never will be got without it, might have been got under it, yet, as the house bas chosen to repeal it and asit only deals with past debts and delinquent taxes, it passes out of the line of my duty as a legislator, especially as the whole internal revenues in future do not depend in any degree upon it, as our customs revenues upon the other part of the moiety system. It is well enough to try the experiment of repealing this Jaw and finding out | Whether the Commissioner of Internal Revenue can make the collections, Nor is it my duty or purpose to defend Mr. Sanborn, whether he did | Well or ill, That is his affair. 1 did not promote his getting the contract, I had nothing to do with its uifiiment by him. If the law is an uuwise one let it be repealed, and in that I have neither more nor less interest or wish than every other member or this House. But I take leave to say tuat it is not brave or manly in those gentiemen who passed the jaw to make scapegoats of the officers | Who execute the law. The Committee on Ways and Mezns have spent several Months and a large amount of money in seeming examination of the question of tbe propriety of the law, and if that time and money were spent in good Iaitn to ascertain whether the law of May 8, 1872, giving the moiety contracts to those who should collect old debts ought to be repealed, it may have been well spent. If, on tne contrary, this apparent purpose of investigation bas only been to cloak another and a different one carried on for political and personal purposes only, then the committee and the House may find that they have been made in this matter simply instruments to pander to the rivalry and hates and ambitions of politicians, in- stead of carrying ob @ great work of necessary Jegislation. Ihave some evidence showing that the whole Sanborn contract investigation was gotten up not exactly for those objects and those designs which wise legisiators aud grave states- men wouid willingly avow. BETRAYAL OF THE ADMINISTRATION BY A REPUB- LICAN OFFICEHOLDER, The first the country heard anything avout these Sanvora contracts was that Mr. Sanborn was being indicted tn Brooklyn by the District Attorney of that district, one Tenney, about the Ist of Feb- ruary last. AS sOOn as that Was done and duly trumpeted in the opposition newspapers, Mr. Tenney, an officeholder ander a republican ad- ministration, and claiming to be a republican bim- self, sent his Assistant District Attorney here toa member of the Committee on Ways and Means, a leading democratic member of the House, to have him bring the Sanborn contract matter “to tne front,” ‘lenney having furnished tim with the Brooklyn democratic papers, which gave flaming and laudatory accounts of Mr. Tenney’s able en- deavors, as they termed them, to jerret out a great irand on the government. One item of evi- dence that [have o! this fact 13 a letter of direc- tion written by Tenney to bis Assistant, which [ send to the Olerk to be read. The Clerk read as jiollows:— Law Ovrices or Texney & Hour. 173 Broarwar, + New Youw. F 874.9 Fries Hocnes—Do not fail to see Ho He is a democratic member from kentucky. memb of the Comunittee on Ways and Means, I have to-day sent him the Caion and the Bagle, He isa jowerlul me. of the democrade party, and will ring (his Sandorn matter to the fromt. 1 think flo bews specially. Yours, &c., TENNEY, THE PERSONAL TACTICS DISCLOSED, | Mr. BoTLER—Now, if republican oiceholders Will pot ammunition into tue hands or democratic members on the Comittee on Ways and Means with which to uttack and break down the repubil- can administration, far be tt from me to say one word in animadversion upon the conduct of that democratic member of the House who should make the pest use he canof that information ior that object. He should “bring it to the trons’ and Cuarge upon the administration and attempt to show ite er corraption and wrongdoings. He ought, if he is permitted go to do, to drive vat of office its Secretary of the Treasury and its Assistant Seoretary of the Treasury ani tis Treasury, and show thal they were ali corrupt together and bad men. He shonid make violent and denunciatury speeches ageinsr the administra- tion, founded on the material that repudican officers and @ republican committee of ‘ie House wiil furnish him for that use. He aoes his duty, his fali duty, 19 80 Cotng, a* an opposiuen mem- ber of the House, and uppiana him for his in+ genuity, his boldness, eMcicncy and perseverance, and | congtatilate him opon the result, 1s not often that @ republican committee of a republican House forces # republican administra- tion to willow a democratic member to carry off at his belt the scalps of three of its principal of- cers, incinding its Secretary of the irecagury, to gratify the ambition of one of its district attor- DgXs Wuo Wania ta rua ior Congress on ihe upped: | at You will be cailed | railroad company’s office was sent Mr. Sanborn | the | Jolcitor of she | | sition ticket, and bas aiready driven his republi- | can opponent irom tne track. RIVAL POLITICAL HATRED. After criticisimg the part taken by Mr. Foster, of the Ways apd Means Committee, which he showed wus a rsonal spite against “Old Cockeye,” as Mr. Foster called him in a letter to Supervisor Lawler, of New York, ne concluded iis remarks as follows:—Iis it wonderful that the interests ot the Fepuvitean party and the interests of the country had been neglected while tue Com- mittee on Ways and Means, under the leadership of the gentieman from Kentucky, endeavor to | break down the admiuistrattos he had a right to do, and under the iead of the gentleman from Ohio, mistakenly thinking he had @ private grie! against me to assuage, have trittered the time of Congress away for more than six months, tn striking atone of their fellow members who had not in- jured them and against whom, although pursued | with the iate of hell, they found nothing and re- | ported bothing alter six Months of investigation, No, thank God; as usual, Old Cockeye” “sloped” | withoutarap. Ido not despise tie House or the country or blame either of the gentlemen of the Committee on Ways and means too much in this matter, because there were those in the House who were egging them on, advising them to do it. There were those of my colleagues Irom Massachu- setta who, in order to strike at me, were willing to strike the republican party. The speech of the gentleman from Kentucky against the administra- tion was founded upon bringing tke Sanborn | matter to the front. A very bitter, denunciatory | arraignment of the udministration, put with all the power he could, and quite wortby of the successor | of Clay, tu the Louisville discrict, was launched at our party like @ thunderbolt. I expected and sup- | posed, and the House expected, that his demo- cratic associates would circulate it everywhere to break down the republican party, even at the cost | of paying the postage on the distribution. But what shall we say of republican Representatives | who subscribed for and circulated such a speech by the thousand, a speech of the leading democratic orator of the other side of the House? Why, Mr. Speaker, the State of Massachusetts has more of | the Kentucky’ speeches circulated in it by one of my colleagues than of any republican speech made in this house during the present session, and why ? | Having circulated everywhere througn their lying | newspapers that I was connected with the San- born contracts, it was thought by some of my col- leagues that the arraignment of the gentleman | from Kentucky of the administration would be an indirect rap at ‘Oid Cockeye,” and 88 my enemies | either could not or dare not make a speech against | that long-suffering tndividuai themselves, they chose to send out this attack upon their adminis- | tration, thus to believe their Secretary of the | Treasury from their own State to be the means of circulating the charges of corruption against their party, in order co get an indirect rap at one | of their colleagues. | THE INSINUATIONS AGAINST BUTLER. | Now, Icall upon the gentleman from Ohio to deny, if he can, that more than one of my col- | leagues have been to him to give nim information | about me and to have questions put about me, | and to advise with him as to the course that might | be taken in his committee to investigate me. Sir, was that soor not? Willthe gentieman answer upon his honor’ Does the House wonder now that almost the only man who was found to object | to my addressing the House at this hour was one | of my colieagues from Massachusetis? Mr. Speaker, I have done my duty to this matter. I have shown by such evidence a3 has come to me and by the facts what was the groundwork, in fact, of tnis investigation and this cry raised against the re- | Publican party because o! the Sanborn contracts, | There is not a man within the sound of my voice that now does not understand it. Mr. Speaker, more than one half at least of all the investigations carried on in Congress are ‘or the purpose oi strik- | ing down some rival or injuring some enemy, or injuring some administrative officer, or gaining | some party end, not for the ec tl of aiding | legisiation, This business of investigation is carried too far. I can speak plainly in the face of | the country; for myself I defy investigation. For | fourteen years, since the commencement of my | public life, [ have lived under the focus of @ micro- | scope, Magnifying and distorting every action of mine a million times, except, perchance, it was a ; good one, which it blurred and covered alto- | gether. Living under such inspection, there- | fore, whether I would or not, I must lead | an honest and upright life or some man would | | in all these years have got a “rap at Old Cockeye,” | and I propose to take very good care oi bim now | and ever. I DESIRE INVESTIGATION. I look forward to the time when the majority of this House will be opposed in politics to mine, and then Ishall ask them to investigate every act of mine and publish the results to the country. TIinvoke the investigation of a gen- tlemanly political opposition and not of a malignant | personal spleen and spite, egged on by political | Tivalry, because I humbly trust that when my | every act is known and understood authorita- | tively and exactly, in tts breadth and in its motives, | the Kindly judgment of my countrymen will be, | after all rivairy and unxindliness of thought have passed away, “He was a man whose virtues over- balanced his faults, who loved his country, his kind, justice and nobleness.”” CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE, THE EUCLEIAN SOCIETY. THE BOND FORGERIES. Ex-Mayor Hall's Address—The District Attorney's Reply. JUDGE BRADY’S CHARGE. The Jury Fail to Agree Up to One o’Clock This Morning. The trial of Andrew L. Roberts for forging Cen- tral Railway bonds was continued yesterday morn- ing before Judge Brady. Ex-Mayor Hail at ten o’clock resumed his address tothe jury. He pointed out the inconsistencies of the testimony for the proseéution, and closely dis- Sected Olmstead’s evidence. He admitted that Olmstead made the seals in question, but denied | that he made them for Robverts. Every wit- ness was really ® mere tool of Spence | Pettus. Pettus was accustomed to concoct | such schemes, He invented schemes for robberies and burglaries; and he was certainly equal to this feat of intellect. The defense had shown that there was @ motive on Mrs, Pettus’ part to wreak her | vengeance on Roberts; then it had also been shown that the Pinkerton gang had a motive in making money out of this persecution of the de- fendant, Mr, Hall showed now improbable it was that Mrs, Roberts, the defendant's sister-in-law, woula keep her bonds at the Safe Deposit Company, if they had been really the Jruits | of this plunder, Why, the Safe Deposit Company | would be the first place the District Attorney and the police would go to if they suspected Rob- erts. This part of Mr. Hall’s speech was enlivened by many bits of humor, which called a smile even to the careworn and haggard face’of the defend- ant, and INTERSPERSED WITH CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS from Dante, Virgil, Shakespeare, Goethe and other authors. Roverts had no particular interests to protect in New York. He could have escaped | easily if he felt himself guilty, but he stayed openly at Wade’s Hotel after the HERALp had pro- claimed him a bond forger. The Pinkertous were ready to ruin Columbine simply because they thought he was going to be a witness for the de- fence. He asked the jury to determine first, whether they believed Smith, and whether they attached credence to the evidence of Olmstead. ‘Those two points would decide the case, “And now, gentlemen,” Mr. Hall concluced, ina voice quivering with emotion, “my responsibility agalawyer is about toend put my feelings as a citizen remain with me. This is not so greata conspiracy as that which enveloped Warren Hast- | ings, who, in his old age, was received by the House of Lords as an honest, innocent man. It is @ conspiracy on @ smaller scale. I pray you to deliberate cogently, calmly over your duty in | this case, and 1 give now in your keeping | the fate, the liberty, the honor of tis man | Jurors have been deceived, district attorneys lave been deceived. See to it, gentiemen, that you do noterr thistime. I have never yet known a jury in this country to convict on the uncorroborated testimony of felons and accomplices, and I ask you to deliberate long and {fearlessly beiore, through him, you GIVE AN UNJUST STAB TO JUSTICE.” District Attorney Phelps, in addressing the jury for the prosecution, suid he was not gifted with the ardent imagination, tne fervent eloquence and the glittering fancy of the learned counsel who had just spoken. [t was not congenial to his | nature to pour out a torrent of abuse against the | defence, nor was it his part to stand here to de- fend any one who might have thought it justi able to prosecute tne defendant for the frauds which he had perpetrated. Nor was it his | part to defend the Pinkertons, who, as the evi- | dence showed, were employed by him to render a | service to the State. heir name had been de- | nounced as a stench in the nostrils of the com- munity, but it was a stench in tne nostrils of only such Criminals as the Gad’s Mills robbers, in Mis- | souri, Who were hunted down by the agency or | these Pinkertons. Mr. Phelps mentioned many | cases in which the Pinkertons had done good ser- | vice, and he insisted that the abuse poured upon | them was not merited. The learued counsel tor | the deience claimed that this innocent man was | the University of tne city of New York, which was founded in 1832 and is entirely devoted to literary pursuits, was celebrated last evening in their rooms in the Universtty building. Among those resent were Professor Doremus, Gouveneur Smith, . D., Professor William R. Martin, Alfred A. Post, President J. Russell, Vice President F. V. Rie Censor Wiliam R, Thompson, | phenson, Treasurer R. G. Wiener, Secretaries J. | Haven and F, Russell, and Editors J. Auerbach | andJ. Kuier, The retiring President, Samuel L. Buckley, delivered an address, which was re- sponded to ou behalf of the alumni by Dr. Alexan- der K. Thompson, of Brooklyn. The remainder of the evening was spent in social conversation, | GRATUITOUS PERFUMES. To Tux Epiror oF THE HERALD:— | For the past week the villanous odors of the fat- | boiling boat (Thirty-seventh street, North River) have given the residents of the upper part of the island who are compelled to patronize the Hudson River Railroad tull ana gratuitous benefit. Board of Health asiecp? Probably a line in your valuable paper may awaken them trom their | | lethargy. ill you kindly give it to them? FORT WASHINGTON. OBITUARY. M. Jules Janin, Author and Critic. A telegram from Paris, under date of June 19, reports as follows :—‘Jules Janin, the author, died to-day, aged seventy years,”’ | An American writer supplied the following brief résumé of M. Janin’s life career to the month of October, 1873:—Born at Condrieu, tne son of an advocate, he studied at the College St. Etienne, where he gave such promise that he was sent to the College of Louis the Great, in Paris, to com- plete his education. After that, resolving to re- | main in the capital, he took up his abode with an old aunt, supporting timself by acting as a private | utor. Feeling, however, that journalism was his forte, he wrote upon the drama in some of the minor newspapers and was afterwards introduced to the Figaro by Nestor Roqueplan, From that bis course was upward. He tounded the eview of Paris and The Children’s Jovrnal (ltransiate titles literally, even though tli¢y convey a very different impression in the vernacular) and about the same | time finished his virgin romance, fantastically christening it “The Deaa Ass and the Beheaded Woman.” Taking an active part in politics, with- out manifesting remarkable steadfastness or con- sistency, he finally became the dramatic critic of the Journal of Debates, enormous influence. He soon grew to be what he modestly called himself, “the prince of criticism,’? | and, without any declaration of principles, by the right of his mind estavlished Janin as ti most arbitrary and absolute of sovereigns. In his thirty-seventh year he married a wealthy hetress, both young and pretty, and had the ill taste to ive soon after, in the place of his regular feuille- n, a rose-colored account of his wedded happi- under the title of “The Marriage of the Critic.” This rendered him ridiculous—it, is a serious thing to be made ridicuious in 18— and, provoking very satirical and cutting com- ments on the part of bis contemporaries, made the | happy bridegroom for a while @ very unhappy critic. Janin’s vanity and egotism have aiways | been unbounded, Among a tiousand other As- sumptions he claims to have made the great tra,é- dienne Rachel, When she had been induced by vast sums of money to visit America on a pro- fessional tour he scolded her through bis columns very much as if she had been a little enild bent on eating iobster salad deiore going to bed. Nov sat- | isfed with this, he abused the American Republic in all the diversities o: Frenca revilement, de- claring us “a set of barbarians, wholly incapable of comprehending Corneille or Racine, and unable to distinguish between Agi non and an Apache Indian.” He never the artiste for coming, and was ungenerous enough to say, privately, that she deserved her death, wnich resulted irom a void cont ed arleston, S. C. In the meaning of the French Janin is # great journaiist; in tue meaning of the Americans he is merely a clever writer and an eminent critic. | R. C. Shiver, of South Carolina, | COLUMBIA, June 19, 1874 R. ©, Shiver, one of the largest merchants in this city, died to-day of cons | Simon Cameron, } June 19, 1874. Mrs. Cameron, wile 0 Simon Cameron, died this morning. The iuneral will take place Monday afternoons | A DIsASTROUS FLOOD. Sr. Joan, N. B., June 19, 1874, The beavy rains reported yesterday still con- | tinue, OVerfowing rivers and streams, which has | caused great damage by carrying away bridges | and (he ijury dope to roads The annual reunion of the Eucleian Society of | Librarian R. Ste: | Is the | nere be has exercised an | the butt of a vast conspiracy, If this was the case | it was for the jury to speak the word which would | bid him GO PORTH TO THE WORLD A FREE MAN. Mr. Phelps claimed that the defendant had all | the qualities Which Were necessary tor the concoc- | tion of such a vast scheme ol lorgery, He was a man of large means, able to commund the services of iriends and accomplices; lhe possessed intelli- | gence and business capacity, and was just the | person to carry out such @ grand scheme ol! fraud. | | Did he know anybody who coulu jurnish him wito | | the tools? Weill, it was undisputed that he knew | Gleason, who was jointly indicted with him tor | forgery; be knew Pettus, who was now serving a | term in State prison, and Smith and Dutch Dan (or Davis), the burgiars, At the out- | get, therefore, they find that he was not an unlikely man to be guilty | of the crime of wuich he was accused. ‘hey found | Roberts so ciosely allied to Pettus that he went to Bostoa with a view to bail him. It was not denied, and could not be denied, that Roberts, for some | purpose or other, Was in Close alance wiih Pettus | and the whole gang of forgers. It was admitted | that Roberts had given Olmstead $100 without re- | | quiring his note tor it. ery one connected with Roberts charged the iorgery upou him. The key | of the cabinet in which United States stamps were found was obtained of Mrs. Roberts, tue dejend- | ant’s sister-in-law, and bouds belonging to Rolston (who was indicted for the forgery of buttalo, New | York and Erie bonds) were found in her box. Mr. Pheips aweit on all these poiuts with great em- phasis, and finally asked why the deience had | not explained : THIS CLOSE ALLIANCE OF ROBERTS | With Pettus and the other forgers. Tne most bril- liant part of the defence was the leugthy argu- ment of the iearned counsel, which, however, | was an airy ‘castle, built in the sunlight of tne learned gentieman’s glittering faucy.* Mr. Phelps | then detailed the testimony lor the prosecution, as published in the HERALD, and declared that the | Gefence had only contradicted the witnesses for the people in the most minor tnatiers, Mr, Pueips dissected the testimony tor the de.ence, claiming that it did not assau oue of the Main points made by the prosecution. The prisoner and his sister- in-law, Airs. Roberts, Who sat beside nim, smiled good humoredly at many of the pots made by the District Attorney. “And now we come to the greatest witness of the dejence, the grand figure,” Mr. Phelps said, | laughing; “Davis, Dutch Dan, The penitent man, | What a good playbul tie det mag nished in tlus case. The penicent, 10) lain to do the Leavy business (Davis), who never fails to attract large audiences, and who 80 delighted the people in Maine tuat they kept him in their importunate embrace jor some time— (lauguter)—ihe general utility man, Mr. Purdy, FROM THE UNITED STATES BOARDS} the leading wan (by Kind permission o! tne Fifth Avepue theatre), Mr. Hail—(laugnter)—generat Stage manager, scene shitter aud prompter, the “Big Indian’ (volonel Wood). “Don’t lorget to mention Koberts as the king gentiemen,’’ ex-Mayor Haii observed, sotto voc District Attoruey Phelps, Who accompanied the foregoing hamorous remarks with proper gestures, then gave an outline of the theory Oo! the pros tion. This scheme was concocted by Pettus, Rob- | erts and Gleason. At first Pettus employed Uim- stead, the engraver; but when Pettus was con- | vieted in Boston, Roberts put himseit directly th connection Will Olinstead and Smith. The learned counsel ior the defeuce said that Roberts must Nave been inuocent vecuuse he did not fly atter ue had put the bouds upon the maraet. But Roberts Jeit confident that Pettus aud Smith, who had to prison, conid not testily against him, | stead was a needy man who could be easily bougit off. Why fligtt would only have veen @ corroborauion of bis guilt, | “Now, gentlemen, | uave briefly discharged my dvty,” ‘Mr. Pheips coucinded, “The scleme of crime plauned by tis prisoner Was Vast, and 1 ts for you to Say whether the evideuce adduced sate isles you of his guit, and whether justice does not | DEMAND IIS CONVICTION OF YOU. This community jook to yon for a righteous ver- dict, and itis tor you to fearlessly and couscien- tiously execute tie great trust wiiich you Loli." Ex-Mayor liall requested His Honor to charge | that there was no evidence showing that Smith and Roberts were connected in any way; that the | defendant was not 1 upon to account for the | ‘absence of testimony or eXplauation; that there | was no corroboration that Olmstead received any money irom Koberts, &c. wi of these requests were In the form of vorrections of statements made by the District Attorney in Speech, Most of the propositions of ex-Mayor | Fe dail Were charged as ue Brady thea, at hall-past three o'clock, charged the jury. ‘the solemn responsibility, he said, of deterinining the guilt or imnmocence oF the | prisoner now rested upon them. The crime with Which the prisoner was charged struck at the very | | foundation of commercial lite, The scheme wit the exccution o: whica Roberts was charged, was t (un Its proportions, It the brisoner talsely Made or uttered the forged bond he was guilty: | Ii, Was in evidence that the voud was forged, and there was no doubt that tt was uttered, ‘The peo- | ple in maintaining tue guilt o: the prisoner relied | mainly on thy KVIDENCE OF SMITH AND OLMSTEAD. He would but briefly allude to it, In regard to | the witness Olmstead it was well to remember | that comparatively insignificant circumstances | frequently became of great importance when con- Rected with other corroborative circumstances, | to be forged he had cailed at their house. Mrs. Olmstead and Mrs. Roberts concurred in some of the statements in re- pe to @ subsequent visit of Roberts to Olmstead’a iouse on Staten Isiand. Olmstead’s statement that he received $20 from the defendant was also corroborated by the defendant, Mra, Pettus’ testimony in regard to her viaté to Olmstead’s house was corroborated by Mrs. Olmstead and the yor r Olmstead, As to Smith, he testified that Roberts employed bim_ to jorge Central bonds tn Williamsburg. Mrs. Wile liams, although she failed to recognize Roverts a8 the mav whom she saw at Will nied ie ane. -npsle AaGry as used. for the jury to dete Weight Was attached to this evidence me, on feuce had stigmatized the prosecution as a con- spiracy, and if any such conclusion Were drawn by the jury IT WAS THEIR DUTY TO ACOUIT HM. Olmstead was a bad man, no doubt. Several wit. nesses had contradicted the statement of Olmstead that Roberts was at his house on tne 2d of Septem- ber. The defence had also offered evidence of Mra. Pettus’ tll feeling ‘ainst Roberts, and contra- dicted Mrs. Pettus (who swore that she had never used any profane language in regard to Roberts) by the witness Hattan, who testified to several profane expressions used by her. The de- fence had offered in evidence the prisoner's affidavit m regard to bis readiness to t any process of writ. All tue contradicuong in the evidence were to be considered im relation to the credibility of the witnesses. They were to determine whether the contradictions de- stroyed the weight of the evidence of those wie nesses. Did they believe Uimstead ? Did they be- heve Smith? It was the practice of juages te charge that an accomplice must ve sustaiued by confirmatory evidence, and he so charged the jury im this vase. ff a witness made a wilfully false statement they had a right to reject fils entire evidence. Contradictions stood upon a diferent footing, and night be owing to iapse ol memory. The record of the prisoner's previous conviction should not be referred to them at ail, and if aay reasonable doubt existed THEY WERE BOUND TO ACQUIT HIM, This reasonable doubt must oot spring rom sym- pathy, but from the caim estimate of the evidence, fhe tact that the prisoner did not appear in his own behalf must not operate to his prejudice. If they believed the evidence of Olmstead and Smith they must convict the prisoner; if a reasonable doubt existed in their minds they must acquit bim. At five minutes past four o’clock tne jury re- tired. The prisQuer chatted good humoredly with his. sister-in-law while the jury were out, and seemed to be confident of a favoravle result. At half-past eight o’clook the jury re- turned, asking several coniused questions, the drift of which seemed to be that they did not know whetner they could convict Roberts if they foufd him merely guilty of complicity. The Judge in- structed them that it was not necessary that he should have forged the bond, but if he caused it was equally gulity. The jury them retired again, and had not agreed upon a verdict up to one o’ciock this morning. PLYMOU’ TH FRIDAY TALK. Mr. Beecher’s Dissertation on the Plan of Salvation. There 18 no falling off in attendance at Plymouth church yet; the prayer mecting last evening was as crowded as usual. After the usual exercises Mr. Beecher said:—I received a note. I meant te have brought it to read, but I forgotit. However, I can state its purport. The man asked me whether it was necessary for faith im the Lord Jesus that we should have @ clear appreliension of His work and of the way in which Heis enabled thus to become the Saviour of thoge who put trustin Him, This ts ® question of a great deal more importance than many are apt to think. I begin by stating that im | His own time the Lord presented Himself to men im His own proper person; He shone out in His radi- ant character, and all those who believed aid not believe because they understood His nature, or because they understood the theory and doctrine of the atonement; and it 1s equally certain that when the Apostles went out to preach, they preached Christ, not in the aspect of MODERN THEOLOGY, and the questions discussed were not the ques- tions we discuss as to law, &c. When Paulspoke of the law you are to bear in mind that he meant adifferent thing, from what modern theologists mean, and when Christ was preaching to the Jews they tended to draw off and say, ‘Nay, we are Moses’ discipies,’’ but Paul argued with them, saying, “CHRIST I8 THE LAW. It 1s through obedience to Him tuat you have what you scek.’’ Paul was not asking them to obey the law, but to trust a being, to trust’ a living person; and when the] went out to preach they preaches Christ, a living person, not a law, but a great, powerful iriend, wio would save every one who puts trustin Him. The theological governmental aspect as to how He was able to forgive sinners ts settied, and yet, to a certain eXtent, it has been the view presented, ‘The philosophical experience of Christ’s conduct has been putin the place of Christ himsell, and tm His time probably uinety- nine out of a hundred loved Him as a person, and did aot have a clear view ot the MODUS OPERANDI by which Christ saved meno. That was not what they thought; they trusted a living person and not a society. I would not be understood to say that it 1s unimportant to inquire What was the re- lation of Christ to the Godhead? to inquire what was the relation of His lite to moral infuences? But this I do attirm, that this 1s second to the maim point, which 1s to gain an understanding of Christ that shali be attractive and produce a power on the soul of man tor salvation. I recoliect hearing @ se-mon preached in which THE CROSS OF CHRIST was the text, and the word “cross” was used altogether, Christ not at all; cross, cross, cross all the time. The atonement of Christ is contituatly presented, almost ue if 1t Were another name for Deity; not that I deny the atonement, but that certainly is not God. ‘The object 14 not to stop at the action, but go back tothe man. If {speak of what & man has | done evincing skill, it 18 not to praise the object, but to raise the idea of the skilfulness of the man. What we want is the sense of # living being, not & legal officer; not what he did, but what he is, So when | hear men talking about the PLAN OF SALVATION | In Jesus I say we are to be saved by Jesus Christ. [don’t object to your talking about the plan of saivation in Jesus Christ; I object to any recapttu-. lation. Our hope is not in what He did, but what He is. We are to put our trust in the nature of God itselt, The thing itsell lives iu the soul ¢ aud, therefore, {| say you don’r need to understan What the suderings of God were; it won't do you any good, He who, tneresore, would be safe, 1 don’t dissnaue bum irom ingniries, but I say let not the fratuework of words, jet no theory, no phrases whatever take tae place in your con- setousn of your love for the all-powerful God; and whoever trusts in God, believing Him all-wise, loving and just, though he may be unperiect in ail human ptilosopay, has the element that saves. itis the power of taith tu Jesus Christ that saves. Ba Beecher gave a space for remarks aad @ her said, “W do we know of Mr. Beecher’ plan, but his preaching. | here read in different: Sof this or that being incompre- hensivle, and { examine the New Testament to find anytuing incomprehensivie, but Lt nave looked in vain to thing that says this or that is Incomprebensibie to the Christian. God put mind in us to look and find out things for our- selves,” Mr. Beecher satd:—‘No, that ts not the end of life. Paul says ‘knowledge paffeth up. bat love buiideth ap.’ A man’s strength does not lie ta what he knows. Knowledge is good for nothing except for character, and God is not God because He can do what He likes; but He is God because His goodness is infinite and just and pure, and 80 ‘Blessed are the pure in heart.’ After the prayer meeting the Examining Com- mittee met to receive applications for membership. . MUSIO IN THE PARK The Department of Parks announce that, if the Weather is ‘ne, there will be music by the Cen- tral Park Bana, ander the direction of Mr. Harvey B. Dodworth, on the Mall, at three o’clock this af- ternodn, The (oilowing 1s the programme:— be part ntion’”... emiramid Atte 6, “Se ar PaRT th. 5. Introduction and Chorus, (rom “Lohengrin 6 rhea, “Vata Morg att’ see 7. seiee Orpheus”. 8 Song, "he Last Greeting PART U1. 9. Promenade, “German”. . 1. “Fantare Militaire” Hi Grand Maroy from * rs A STRANGE SUICIDE. On Wednesday alternoon a body, tn a state ot advanced decomposition, was tound near the top of Dunderberg Mountain, back of Caidweil’s Land- ing. By means of the clothing, as well as other articies founda, the body was identified by George W. Briggs, Of Peekskill, as that of his father, James: v. ct who wandered away from home May 24. Asinail phial, containing 4 few drops of meri | anda small tin box, supposed to have containes poison, Were found near him, which showed evi- dence Of intention of suiciue. Coroner Govan, ot Stony Point, heid an inquest yesterday, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts stated. Mr. Briggs was aixty-vwo years and formerty a resident of New York tty. body Was buried on the mountain, On aecoul decom position. ACOLDENT IN A DBAIN. HaMiuron, Ont, June 19, 1876, By the caving in of @ drain tnis afternoon two men were buried. One of them, named Thomas | ‘The Ulmusteads testiligd tuat Boberts and Pettus Yelimg, was dead when taken out' tle quer will rem