The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1874, Page 4

4 THE BANBARIC REBELS, Surrender of Comanche, Kiowa and Yamperica Lodges. _——— THE WAR NEARLY CRUSHED. me The Fighting Savages Weakened | ji: and Demoralized. aU Tee 8 Evils of the System of In Government. n WASHITA AGENCY, ) AUADARKO, 1. T., Oct. i9, 1874. f 1 came here from Fort Sill to commence proper examination into the rumored mismanagement and unfairness carried on in the distribuuon of government rations to the Indians by those in charge at their agencies, (heir subord: e! the contractors. it is, pernaps, needless to say ‘that frequent and serious clarges are made in- Volving the honesty and fidelity of those to whom is assigned the tecding and clothing of the in- dians, 1 found tne soldiers tn quarters quietly resting for the ay, the lively tones of the ba and Violin mingied with the harmonious voices of the negroes in chorus, and at tne agency asl passed by bended heads of Indian children were fast perceptivle through the windows, engaged in evening prayer at the sc!.oolroom, I proceeded at once the next morning, with the courtesy of Lieutenant Pratt, Tenth United States cavalry (Who javored me with nis escort and that of some scouts a8 Well ag an interpreter) to the camps of the wMliated bands of Indians, composed of the Pawnees, Comanches (Penetetnka), Washitas, Towaconies, Kechies and Wacves, the Delawares, Caddves and t nies not veing far ais- tamtfrom them, Tbe journey was about two | hours’ ride, and We reached their camps ata little | after noonday, passing on tie way sowe nice litte farm patcoes and curs felis, cultivated by the Indians, We also passed through & most admir- ably constructed village of thatched huts or wig- wams, put up by tue wowen of the affiliated bands, and made of prairie grass, tied in banches, and woven in layers, upou lofty lodge poles converging Somewhat in the form of a Sibley tent. They were modeis of completeness and mechanical skill, and an evidence in their peathess, compact- ness and comlortable looks of the natural skill, foresight and thouyhtfuluess of woman and her improving hand, Lodges of the encampment an- nounced that we were to be the spectators of a grand war dance, at which al! the “belles” and yemale Indian celeorities were to Go their Lest to | honor us. THE SUPPLIES GIVEN THE LODGES. After this savage ceremony was over, the basi- ness of the hour which broug)t me here couid be attended to, I wanted to learn exactly what ra- tions the Indians received and whether they were up ty the standard prescribed oy the government fn quantity and quality, Fortunately for me it was “ration” day, aud 1 could meet and examine many of the Indians just as they came into camp from the agency with their rations in parcels, as they received them. The rest of them I visited in their lodges, here and there getting an accurate statement ana seeing (or myself just what was given them. | give the results in detail of anum- ber of the many cases | investigate). A lodge ts supposed to average a representation of five per- gons, aud every one 1s 4 good eater:— Widiehos, a Towaconle, exhibited for 7 lodges about 80 lbs, Of meat, to last one week, tor say 35 persons. Sa-no-ta-bish, a Pawnee, exhioited for 15 people @8 @ week's ratious 3 ibs, sugar, 1) lbs. cofee, a0 four. Waet-na, a Kechi, exhibited for $ people 2 Ibs. of sugar, % lb. coffee, 35 ibs, meat, no four. As-quitz, @ Kechi wouan, exhibited for 4 peo- ple Ib. coffee, % Lb. sugar, nO four and about 35 | ibs. of meat. Nul-la-quitz, a Washita, exhibited for 11 persons 13 tbs. sugar, % |b. coffee, 12 Ibe. meat, no four. Qua-ba-dea, chiei of the Wichitas, says that for nis people he only gets 3 beeves weekly; that the | weekly meat ration only lasts two days. He esti- mates the number of his men, women and children at 300, Chaus, a Washita, exhibited for 12 people 3 lb, | Salt, 2 lbs. sugar, abuut 60 lbs. beef, no dour, no coffee. Spotted Horse. one oi the chiefs of the Pawnces, Im the presence of his brother chief (there being two in the tribe) exhivited for 15 persons as weekly rations 2! sugar, 1 ib. coffee, no flour, 1 2 lbs, 1b, salt and ouly meat enough to last two days, be- | yond which none o! the other rations usually lasted, He bas bad only 3 sacks of Sour for tour weeks, The sack weigns 100 lbs, Wah-a-lupe, one of the chieis of the Caddoes, told me in the presence of Agent Richards that the weekly rations were entirely insufictent, even ‘with Close economy, to last the term for which whey were intended. Comanese Mary, who ts the purveyor of a band acknowledging her a8 thei so-called Queen, says that the ration !s very smail and not euough to go beyond two days. Many more whom I have seeu and whose state- ments I have give like r 8 of Jowances, but these will suiice for the present, When I add that, waking due allowance for the In- dlan’s disposition to growl and find iauit, there Is | Ageneral and strong dissatisiacuon among the tribes, and, indeed, great ground tor it, on account ofthe way in which they are dealt with by the agents. The Indian is no fool, but a very close reasoning, cunning, sensible man, and knows his rights, Who, n, is accountable for this, and is there not a real cause that the Indiaa should be- come insubordinate and disaffected ? SCANTY RATIONS. I proceeded to caii om Mr. Richards, the agent here, whom I found at the cattle pen, overlooking some issues of bi which are given out by weight Bt issue, but estimated according to the number of animais and their size, This will account, in a measure, for the scant weight of the meat in the weekiy rations. From Mr, Richards i jearned and Moted down that the following ts the governinent Bllowance of ra ton, by reierence to which and comparison with wnat Tl gieanea fron the indians themseives at tkeir camps, a great disparity ard insufficiency will be discovered to exist, if the full quantiies are 10 ,e giveu (o the Indians 48 pre- scribed by law. The legal allowances are :— 134 lbs. iresh bee! dai.y, less tour days in each mouth, ior each person, % ib. bacon On those four days or an equivalent in lard (the latter not authorized in mstructions). 34 |v, Nour daly jor each persun. 4 lus, coflee dauy for each 400 rations. daily for each 100 rations. sait daily jor each 100 rations. \, lv. tobacco daily Jor each 100 ratio Wr. Buchards nunself says that he is of the opin- fon that the present full ration 18 Dot enough for the Indian aod that it should be increased. it ap- pears What bo four at al has been issued to the in- Giang Mince the ist o: September, and tuis Mr, Richards acknowledged to me, explaining is in This Wise :—ifat “the contract had been given to & new man in Kansas; that the usual custom of forwarding the Rour ‘right along had Dot been observed by bim, Lut that be awaited the apecial Tequisition oO! the ayent. This Mr, Richards did ia » \. recently, when be r ior the contractor why the flour did not arrive at the agency, when he was | asked \ he hag made any requisition, to Which he replied, ‘No,’ a8 be did not know it Was neces- ary.’ He Says that he proceeded ai once to remedy tne evi. . A SILLY Pourey, fn the meantime the indians nave snffered and had po four. But vo avow such an event tne gov ernment sbould not—nor should its agents (or they are rewliy What coniposes the a nment here) —pursue 6UCN & petty poucy as to have on hana only the supply linmediately wanted, They should always aye a large stock on hand, It nap- ens frequently that on ration day, when the seues. are to be made, the agent is short of thls or that arucle and canoot provide we Ind@an With what he is ied to pect and a8 the jaw requires. & military oMfcers at Fort Sill have comp e, and say it ina great measure is the clase of thar suuen and intractadle disposition of tie Indian Which they have to contend with. They oy that these shortcomings should not happen at ag the agent represcuuida We Zovernment their scanty al- | time, and give Indian no cause for dissatis- Jaction in depriving hii of ois rights. It cannot is not given to the Indian at this agency. The In- be is the aaflerer, primarily, and the government mally. OTHER ABUSES, | Toe four issued vo the lndians is of a very poor uality, much inferior to that issued to the army, though 1 am iniormed by officers who know taat the same price 18 paid, and even a higher one, by the indian Departwwent at Washington. Mr. Richaras showed me his letters, duted Month, 1873, complaining that “there were 50 | Many grades of flour and of such exceedingly | ae quality.” He was forced to protest agaiust . Abd in the twelfth month, 1873, ‘that there were beer rata and worms found in it,” Oo the 7th of the third month he ad- vises that there was some improvement, now says to me “the four should be better for the price, aud Was not good enough last year for the price paid.” DOW costs, uc. cording to his ogures, about §: nished by a conractor trom Kansas, With no | flour issued for over six Weeks, and wien it was | issued proving to be of &@ bad doubted that tais will readily constitute one of the | aggravations and causes Of the dissatisiacuon of | | the ludian? Should vot the indian Department | and the agent at once set this right, ama shouid | not Congress apply sume covrective in legislation, | as a last resort Lo prevent its iurther continuance, | | and the enriching Of the “Indian ring” 30 sound. | aully and unlawluily? An experienced oMcer | remarked to me that the great mistake of tne | Qu.kers consists in cheir losing alter toe immor- | tality Of tue next life wlone, rather than the real practical necessities of vhis, Which are overstau- OWed bY Meetings, scivoi houses &e. Though i do | not proceed to find jauit With or rail at +o estima- bie a body of men as are the Quakers, 1 am voana | tu give the facts ast find them, Fiom their want | trmness, too great bepignity and lack of prac- | tical business qgualifcauons, 1 wust say that they ure shown here to be unfitied | to deal with or manage such @ tempera | men’ ag that oi the Indian, ‘Tne Indlaus utter | tive years of management under the Quaker poicy | are Worse than tuey bave been known to be ior years before, aod durmng that time they Dave in- | auguratea larger War Movements and more de- | preuauions (Uap ever previously im tle same length oc hme, The reasous of this are on account | 1 Lhe cup:dily Of some Of the agents, their inex- | pericuce im business affairs aud their want of | fidelity to tue indians, ettuer directly or turouga their representatives or empioyés, FAILURE OF THE QUAKER MANAGEMENT, | The prospect of a permanent peace with the | Indians and their eurly settling down was bever briguter than in the spring oO! 1869, when Suert- dau’s Vigorous aud (10) ough Campaign Of 1s63 and isé¥ had just closed, The Cueyennes, one of the most warlike Uibes tn the Southwest, togetiner | wth tue Arapanoes of the sume kiduey, usd just | gone Uo their re-ervations at Camp Supply, where they Were ied aud heid under complete subjection | by toe military. fhe Kiowas and Comaccues— | the ‘ormer the most obstreperous and cowardly la the Soutiwest—were for wwe greater purt eu. Fort pul, under the management of ih-se Kiowas and Comanc es | had entirely ceased raiding wto Texas, owing (o | the efforts 6: General Hazen, One great drawback In Keeping the Indian oa is reservativa was vhe insuficieocvy of the — ration, Born Saeridan and Sherman saw this and imainly through toelr cecommendations and | efiorts, the rations were Mereased to weir present | | Standard, which, by tue by, 13 in suficient, aa I | | wave a@ready tally shown vy incontroveruble lacts, Confirmed by the lestimoay oi Mr. Richards, | | the Washita agent, Whose letter to the HERALD L | | forward by Ubis mat Thus Was Che state ol alfairs | when Agent iatem took charge of these people as | the representative 0. tue Quakers and their puncy, | applied a3 an experiment. He cane vere tu! uoder yoe impression tuat tie Cause of ali tie trouple with the Iudians was owing to the bad | laitn of the wiite man. However true tis may have been of the Indians generally, it Was uetori- ously untrue as far as tie Comaucies, Kiowas and | Cheyeuues were concerned, uct to say aus tig | of the Quabadas and Nocouees. Tue promises made tuese tives Wad Deen in every instance complied | with, In less ‘han five years three different | treaties had been made wita tiem, and hud been | suametully Violated by these Indians, Jo almost | eVery Case, beiove leaving the treaty ground, :hey started out at ouce Co raid, kill and Outcher white mea, Women and children, and carry them off into capivity, When the women were not killed they were held tor ransom, ‘se representative of the | United States governinen’ paid as high, in many instances, a8 $1,000 apiece fur the ransom o. the chudren, wishin range of the military and under the guns 0: @ tort. The last instauce of tus kind occurred at Fort Sill, under Agent | Tatem’s administration, when tne prisoners were brought througs the fort riding captive on horses benind their Kiowa capturers. They were taken to ue agency, Wuere Jatem paia $100 apiece for | them. it almost created @ mutiny among the soldiery Who saw this outrage. Some of the | Quaker lodian agents Were and are totaliy unfitted by education or experieave for the managewent of ue Wibes. The, are too unsuspecting and non- est, lor these Indians have constantly outwitced | some of Lue siuartest military men and civil agents | sent out among them, and the simple-minded | Quaker 18 no Match jor them in cunning and | diplomacy. They early took advantaye of his ig- | | norance and simplicity 1D Making him believe that | they were all saints and the most abused of per- | sons. He completely ignored the experience of | reliable old officers aud vthers who had made the Jnuian question a study, rejected their counses | and advice and at once took sides witn the indian. | ‘This atonce renewed the raids into Texas, and | When the Texans and others aggrieved visited the | agency to complain of depredations committed by the indians, the agent plainly told them that | be thought that the Texabe were worse than the Indians, and that if they got out oi the way whea | they saw the Indians coming they Would not get hurt. | SWINDLING CONTRACTORS, | _ After years of persistent effort to solve the In- | dian problem, it was decided to issue the Indians | | rations of beef, four, &c. There was then a class | of meu who would take an Indian like santanta, for | instance, representing @ Dumber o1 lodges and | | prevail upon him to believe that, as they couid | get their subsistence by hunung near tne Teservations, when they got @ beef for rations tn- stead Of drawing It, they could get the agent's | order for it and give it to tuem, in return for wien | toey Would give them ap order upon tue stores, 50 that the india could receive sometning else | instead, which he would prefer. Sometimes green- backs Were given bim. Thas the Indian through | these swindies received a commutation for his | | Tations, but ouly ip the ratio of about $5 Oo: value | fora veef worth $15, and thus the contractors | who were in this ring would recover ior a trifle | the beeves once sold tothe government at full prices and again proceed to seli them again to the | agenr for the second time at the same rates, keed- | jug up tuls system and making & handsome profit, | Ageut Tatem was very easily prevailed on by tue | traders to adopt this system, and the Indians soon jound out that by drawing only asmail share of toeir rations and taking an order for $100 or more tuey could negotiate it with the trader. This would all go tothe chief, as he represented the | band or tribe, and the balance of the uribe wouid | | 01 course get nothing, and tue policy of the gov- | ernment was accordingly defeated. The evil re- | sults that were sure to How irom this system are easily to be seen. ‘he young men and warriors of the trive, becoming dissatisfied, would say that there Was no inducement jor them to stay on the Teaervation; that Washington sent no rations for them; that tney were ali given to Santanta, Lone | Wol!, Kicking Bird and other chieis, woo svid them to the traders and others around the ageuctes. Thus Horseback, Kicking Bird, sunboy, Cheevers and other chiejs have been enabied to dr ve about in Dice ambuiances, and traders, Indian agents, and even their clerks, Dave got rich. The | Judian ring has toriven and tne indians nave been | driven on the plains by the neglect or fliching of their agents. The consequence 18 we have an In- dian War on hand, with nearly 4,009 troops in the field, the frontier pillaged, unsettled and annoyed by rapiue, bloodshed, murder and the grossest bar- barism. ‘Ihe ponies and arms belonging to the Indians should be seized and the Jormer sold i over States. With the proceeds derived from these saies, miich cows and drait and ‘arm horses of a beavy strong build could be issued to the indians, together with pouitry, goats, sheep and otier | domestic animals, in toe raising or breeding of winch they could occapy themse:ves profitably on the magnificent cate ranges and pasturages in which this country abounds. This would be the first stp made in setting them down aud ride them of their present dangerous possessions and practices, Ploughs and other farming utensils could aiso be issued to them in return jor vueir ponies and arms, ‘Then the land should be divided up into jarms and the bucks should be made to work and send their children to school. This should be made @ matter of compuision and, no doubt, Will be to conrse of time. A United States District Court shonid also be at once provided for, to pe tocated at Fort Sil! or such other convenient piace as might in its vicinity be jound necessary ior the trial and punishment of Genera) criminais who now do wrong with impunity and gO UnWhipt Of justice, because It 18 too iar to go to Firt Smith and too expensive to try them. Hence witueases who could convict willnot ap- pear to testily hor be found available to make a Case against & malefactor. Details of Operations=General Demor- aiization of the Indians=General Sheridan on the Results of the Cam- paign—Probabie Disarming of the Savages. Fort Stun, I. T., Oct. 22, 1874. Faving closed my investigations at the Washita agency, aud learning that General Davidson was ordered to leave here for the ficid om yesterday morning, I posted myseli Off at once with a scout and arrived here to find speedy and complete ar- rangements made for twenty-five days’ fall ra‘ions to supply the command, composed pretty much as jt was belore, except with the aduition of Captain Kennedy's company, heretojore jeit benind for much needed recruitment, wiich wll make it about five hundred strong im men fit for service, with an accession of about fifty more volunteer Indian scouts, This movement was accelerated Somewhat by the receipt of a message from Gen- era Miles to the eMect that he was on the trail of @ siroug lorce of fugitive Indians who were mov- jug Mw the direction of the Cheyenne or Washita should oe peeves with a surplus on hand all the | agencies, to gvin admission, be questioned, moreover, that the full legal ration — ninth | 86 to $4.70, fur- | quality, cau it be | Operation and concentration, 60 much needed at | | ports an important achievement by his scouts; | Lhe capture of twenty muies from the Inqians, and | present indications, | heard from McKenzie and Miles with whut we | | Kuow of Davidson's, if they: could, on | hosttle movements are virtually at an end. He | tuinks thatin this department o/ the question the | grostens difficulties may arise, but as to the ace | five troubles they are easy enough of solution. | if Pie cicge or ee iaclar & conaideraplo Bumbee of Indians si ve unished by death in son’s inittal and the subsequent effective and driv | hunt by the soldiers, It Wul render it so mach ing movements Ofgthe columns of McKenzie, | easier to provide some punishment for ghose cap- | Miles and Buell, ich seemed to have come Ete BP Sg Pager of ay bly ave 01 men and made ag across their pathway, no master which way they of trouvie for years, kililug and ropbiug settler would go. Apropos of Buell, who has been pur- shoud be put to oh salutary example an suing the even tenor of his way with industrious | yonte ‘anaeat ri ee soveresens <n ns e Vigilance, be reports by courier that ne is pursu- | 116 feasures to be taken for the punishment of | ing a large force of manceuvring Indians and has | this and a ‘eke crimiaal Class, but aa there are | destroyed some (ew of their lodges, and that mis | 60me things considered and contingences | to be met and provider for, it is not deemen ex- | Scouts had an engagement, killing at least one | pedient at this fime, in the interests of justice, to | Indian, But the air ts fall of these fractional ex- | beer posit Wee ae Lire gi ee i : | eutenant Gene: eridan let ere | ploits, and as bie not amount to much in their morn hg, cacorted by & detachment of cavalry be- | results no parucular note is mave of them, Sul- | jonging to Captain Keyes’ company, Tenth United | fee it to say that Miles and Buell are at work | States Cavalry, accompanicd by bigs brother, tuis side of the Red River and giving good ac- Colonel Michael Sheridan, Generat James For- nd Colonel Farran. The, 0 by militar; counts of themselves by @ kind of fortuitous co- | eeeng’ won this to tie. Wabhiin thence vo the Cheyenne agency, and on to Fort Dodge and Camp Supply, whence General Sheridan will hasten back to Chicago. alter which he may pos- | terms of surrender, or, possibly, to strike either one or both of those places in a spirit of revenge | or retaliation at their being checkmated by David- the siart. Meantime McKenzie is honestly aud arduously pressing his way upon the Staked | sioly visit Wasnington, He will probubiy, later in | the season, when certain matters are prepared for the adjudication of the Indian question, so iar as tae Wild and captive tribes are concerned, make another visit to tae Indian country, Gencral Augur, commanding Department of Plains to the headwaters of the Red River and may—tinding tae enemy falling back beiore him— | come tn this Way and putin his wedge, which, with Davidson going over his old route up to Fort | | Cobb on the Washita, thence to McClellan Crees, | ‘Texas, is expected here next week, aud will take toe Sweetwater aud tue North Fork, will give the | up rhe routine of the management of Indian mat- Indian ters. General Sheridan has told me that several NO GOOD PLACE To GO | Yery important chapters in the Indian olstory will without being clenched between tne iron teeth of | be enacted here during the next seven days. Tue the war-dogs who are aiter tim. General David- | Jndian ring 1s in mortal throes of agony, and son has been instracced also to divide nis column | they are sending for one Indiin agent and aliother Up into rhree or tour small detachments aud send | to come to Luwrence to counse, with them as to them here and there in various directious, conform- whatisto be done, Their heunts in Kansas and ing with nis general line of march, which will be on | their movements are well watched, and will be the divide between the North Fork aud the Wash- | sposen of in due time. ita, a section of country almostevery man io his | rae | command knows perfectly weld now. Buell aas | General Shertdan’s Report to Head- quarters—Indications of an End of tne War—General Miles Chasing the Chey- ennes Toward Their Agency. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 1874 ‘The following telegram was received nere this morning :— here under escort of a detachment of Captain Choisy’s company aod twenty-five head of cattle ander charge of Captain Vodge’s company, yester- aay moraing, and Which wulbe transported by tue freivhuing train ot W. C, Graham. a contractor. Iv was necessary, however, before they could be ob- taiued, that they should be seized by military authority and perempiorily taken charge of by St. Loris, Oct. 29, 1874. General Davidson's orier, \hat transportation | To ADJUTANT GENERAL ‘TOWNSEND, Wasuington, might be bad to supply Buell, which, of course, 1s D.C. a@multary necessity at this time, Geu A jetter irom Davids.n's camp, last night, re- been supplied with of days’ rations, which leit érai Sheridan telegraphs from the Wichita | Agency, Indiaa Territory, as iollows: | GENERAL W, T. SHERMA: There is now every tudication of the close of the bie. speaptian of overtures (rom Capea one | ol the most desperate and intractable of the hostile | qy D nt re “ | The columns of Mies, Price, Davidson and Bueil Indian cole s, toetner with bis band of iollowers. | Grove the Lostile Indians oul on McKenzie’s cul- Ina pleasane couxerusidaremanneaahereh Sheri. | ¥/20, on the heaawaters of tae Red River, where he dan to-day, he expressed the opinion vuat, trom | attacked them and drove them back on Miles aud comparing what we have and tue other columns. lie resuithas been 10 | Opportunity or security to kill game or yet 100d for their families, grazing or thet: stock «Pr suleiy Price ' 4 d States © | tor thetr lives, apd tuey are now vein, captured or Price's Eighth United States cavairy’s gallant and | are surrendering unconditionally, destructive movements, the Indian war is virtue 2 ‘ cot, | Prospect Of w close O our Jubors Leiore long. ally over, and that it has reached @ state of col. | Omcerg and men have ail behaved adiuirably. lapse. iurther says that everything tas been | 7 F “ "i - vye. | Drum can give you particulars, | wil return home dbne about as be wanted, and that all the move. | by camps Supply and voige ments ave deen a part of the plan of campaign, P He was sausiied that when McKenzie was felt in 3 their rear, alter toey had struck Davidson's or The Arapahoes reported on tne evening of the Mies’ columns, the Iudians would feel somewhat | 94th having seen the Kiowa chief, Lone Woif, in stagg: red aud ial\ to believe that as heretofore, | the vicinity of this agency, upon which Agent Miles mide the suggestive comment that he is wuen they had met a lorce, everything in their rear was yet left to them, and ail they would have evidently desirous, as are many of the Cheyenues, ; to get into winter quariers soon, to do wou'd be to go farther West. Then the famie GENERAL MILES DRIVING THE INDIANS. Buell’s and Major W. R. our =. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. . Indian war in tins section belore Winter seta in, | Chere is afar | | SHERIDAN, Lieutenant General, \ ! THE PRESIDENT'S PROMISE, pects ns, aa [From the Evening Post, Oct. 20.) One of the resolutions of the Cincinnati Conven- tion, which was held on May 1-3, 1872, declared | that ‘nt fs imperatively required that no President shall be @ candidate for re-election'’—a declaration which was repeated by the Baltimore Convention, held on July 9-10, 1872, During the interval be- tween these conventions the Philadelphia Conven- tion was held on June 5-6, 1872, and nominated | President Grant for a re-election, having full knowledze of the resolution adopted at Cincinnat, which had been reinforced meanwhile by Mr. Greeley’ letter of acceptance of | the Uinclunati nomination, wherein he had de- | clared that, to the end that tiere should be o real | and not merely a simulated reform in the civil ser- | vice of the Republic, 1 was indispensable that the chef dispenser of its Vast official patronage should be shielded from the main temptation to use 1s power selnshly by a rule mexorably forbidding \ aud preciuding nis re-election, The subject, thereiore, not merely of a third | term, but even of the propriety of a second term, , Was present to the mind of Presideut Grant when, | inacceptiag ms nomination by the Putladelphia Convention for a secund term, he, on June 10, 1872, wrote as ioilows:— It elected in November and protected by a kind Provi- } detice in health and strength to perform the duties of the | high trust conferred, 1 prowtse the same zeal and aevo- tion 0 the good ot tie Whole poopie for the future of my | official ite as shown in the past Past experience may uiie me in Avo! ing mistakes inevitable with uoyi ti ali professions ant in ali occupations. Whea reli |. from the responstlihties of my present trust oy the elécion / a | mucveseon, whether tt -e at the tnd of this term or the nezt, LHODE | to leave'to him, as exec tuve, a country at peace within its own borders, at peace with outside nations, with @ credit at home and abroad, and without embarrassing Questions to threacen lis future prosperity. What tne people of the United States—repre- | Sented faivhinity tn the matter by their press—are how demanding oi President Grant, at some peril ol his good name 1! he persists in reusing, is a TreaMrmation to-day, October 39, lo74, of Wuab he bimseif wrote on June 10, 1872. The sumicient reason for their demand 18 his toleration, without disapproval, of sentiments frequently expressea witnin his Knowledge, and even in his personal presence, by is own office-holders, conficting with his letter of the date last named. His per- sistent refusal ts injuring the republican party; but most of alli injuring hisown reputation. itis the President's own conduct to tolerating “third term taik” on the part of numerous men to | whom he is the dispenser of officiai patronage, which has created a popular distrust of nis inten- nons, His presen’ demeanor Is inconsistent with | his promise expressed two years and four months ago in the letrer which we have quoted. If it had been believed in the summer and autumn of 1872 that in the summer aud autumn Oo; 1874 President Grant would possioly tolerate—as ne has done— the discus-ion of a “third term’ project in bis resence without rebuke, he would probably have been denied by the peonle the opportunity for listening to such & discussion, CRIM: AND RETSIEUTION, Ra Outrage Upon a Litile Drunken Human Brute—He is Lynched by Infurlated Citizens Shortly After the Deed. | Port JeRvis, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1874. | The following are the particulars of a fiendish crime perpetrated near Gibson’s, a small min:ng village in Pennsylvania, and as fiendish, however Girl by a! THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION, The Bishops Want More Ritualism. SUPPORT OF NEW BISHOPS. Reduction in the Size of the Convention. The Convention met yesterday at the usual hour. After it mad been calted to order for busi- ness Mr. Welsh moved that the house go into secret seseion at four o'clock on the confirmation | of Dr. Orrick a8 Missionary Bishop of China. The motion was carried, The Committee on Domestic and Foreign Mission reported an amendment to the constitution permitting the Execu- tive Missionary Committee to appropriate money in oid of missions under the care of other | churches in communion with the Protestant Epis- copai Church, but to employ none but members of | this Church in the mission work of the Church. The reyort also contained a resolution requesting each parish minister to develop, as far as possible tn his diocese, the missionary spirit and to tncul- cate systematic benevolence, These resolutions were adopted. The bishops concurred in the amen’iments of the canon reiating to d ferences between minis- ters and their congregations. ‘hey also an- nounced the appointment of the Bishops of Easton, Vermont and Massachusetts as memberg of the Conterence Committee on Hymnal. THK BISHOPS WANT A LITTLE MORE RITUAL, The House of Bishops sent back the canon on ritual adopted aiter so mucn discussion by the | House of Deputies a few days ago, with their objections, They strike out everything abouts the incense, the postures and cenuflections and the adoration of the eucharistic elements, put leave tn the doubtful and erroneous doctrines and the prying presbyters, They adopt, substantially, the amendments offered by Dr. De Koven in his great speech onthe canon. The deputies were not prepared, however, for such sweeping amend- ments to this compromise pet of theirs, and they appointed their Committee on Canons a commit- tee to confer with the hke committee of the bishops that a better understanding on this mate ter may be arrived at. But the canon is just as barmiess with those objectionatle features retained as withont them, It was remarked to the writer that aster the explanation of the canon given by Mr. Burgwin Ssere couid be very iittie objection to it, He showed rt to be as harmless and mnocentas any docum*nt that has gone | through the Qunyention could be. A critical | writer tn Church and State also analyzes it, and merited, @ retribution following it:—Martin | gemonstrates that with the most super-zealous Groves, an ignorant and dissipa‘ed man about | enforcement of the canon the practices in St. thirty-five years old, had lived jor years on the | Mary tne Virgin’s church, in this city, could not be mountain back of Gibson's, He was in the habit Of | touched, Inaeed, there is room in it, he deciares, | and suspicious persons seen jurking about has , | shoul lies, stock and camps or Villages come in jeopardy, aud as the indiaa is a coward and will not fight, us Eives up pad vel crawl it pare. General | Sheridan is confident that hosuilities onthe part! Indian Agent Jono D, Miles writes to the Ol the Indians wiii be over-in thirty daya, aud alter | this, as Soon as they are surrendered as prisoners, Commissiouer of Indian Allaire, under date be has a broscmee ther bunwptient which of Cheyeune and Arapahoe Agency, 19th tnst., is, a8 @ matter of discrevon, reserved jor the jour a present, but waich will serve as @ iesson, foes yo uriean (mee Just panes: SE THE PERMANENT DISARMAMENT | eral Miles’ command, via Camp supply, with ond the taking Auer ~ all the Indi ape war ponies, | 1:formation that he ts in pursuit of a large body making periodical visits to the village, where he for which latter wil be possibly substituted other , stock. such as farm caitie and horses, to ule care | e2UNaayA, ABDDONET, FO..0P SUerenua, QO. AES ‘of whieh they will have to direct their attention , Moving in the direction of this agency. His in- in futures Wi provably be @ part Of this pro- | structions to General Neiil are to take them pris- gramme. z THE CAPTURED INDIANS | oners and bold them until the arrival of ais com: trom the Cheyeune Agency yet remain In durance | Mand. We suppose this to be the same party atthe ice house under guard and their ieaders, | etruck by Gencral McKenzie on the 27th ult. on Santanta, Woman’s Heart, Bird Medicine and Big | tne Staked Plains, and thas they are now ready to Tree, with a few others in irons, hand and joot, at the guard house, Doubtiess, belore the month 18 out, at ieast 250 surrendered, Hostiles may | have been received at tnis post. { Vavidson, on the Washita, expects-to have work | belore long. it 18 understood that General Neil, at the Cheyenne ageucy, has given orders that the hostile Cheyennes reported “beatiug in’? by Miles, be not receive at the agency, and, possibly, & fight may be gotten out of thei and some arone- ment made jor tie dioody and unequalied bute: eres of which most of them have been gui seek shelter and rations at the agency.” CHEYZNNES SURRENDERING AT THEIR AGENCY. ‘Two otner letters from General Miles, daced the 23d and 24th inst., and also received to-day, con- tain the following news:—On tue 22d inst. four young Cheyennes came into the agency and three of the party decamped before morning, afier stealing several ponies, The next day six Cuey- horrid details of which make the biool rai'cuid | 228 came in and surrendered to Genera! Neill, aud are in che recollection of many persons in this | They reported that the main band of Cheyeunes, country. But about 100 men are now left to guard | under Gray Beard, were encamped on the north this post, and apprehensions are {eit in some quar- " % fers lest advantage be taken 01 1: by the indians, | 2k o! Red River, near the Adove Walls; also that The Quartermaster’s office having been set on fire ; B0out thirty lodges of Cheyeanes “dog soldiers” Were then en roufe to the agency, where taey wouid be received as prisoners o1 war. ANGRY DIPLOMACY. given reasonable ground for fear: and, indeed, so ; much property and the lives of deienceless peopis | not be lert with so little protection; but all the troops are needed for the fleld, and tnis is the Tequirement of the hour. Aba: and Failure of the Policy—The Indians Provoked to Arms by Swindling and Hunger—Poor and Insufficient Food and Lying Con- tractors=The Means of Reform. Fort S14, 1. T., Oct, 24, 1874. Indian | The Protest of the Spanish Government Against the Alleged Partiality of France to the Carlists—The Duc De- cazes Must Answer “Shown Up” in Europe. [From the Journal Des Debats, Oct. 13,] Since my return from the Washita, while Ihave | A new memorandum has Leen addressed to the been awaiting General Sheridan's return from his | French gove:nment by the Spanisn Ambassador. shovting excursion up to Cacné Creek, prior to | 1tis known that at the time a previous list of my joining the columns in the field, eventa have charges had been contradicied, the Spanish gov- been culminating thick and fast in the fndian line, ernment had commenced the coliection of another and threatening doom seems to bes ttling around | batch of grievances tnrough its agents on the him on all sides in bis silly and puny attempts to | frontier. In other words a general inquiry had make war against the white man. The red hand | been opened. During tlis imterval more amica- is before him, and he seems to know it and i ble relations were established between the two tremble. Every despatcn now coming in fromthe governments; the executive power in Madrid, field ig but a confirmation of the other that the In- | sometimes doing good and sometimes doing evil, dians are flying in confusion and precipitate hasie | bas been recoguized simuitaneously by France to find a safe retreat. The reporis received from | and England, and we could noi suppose that this Mackenzie, Miles, Davidson, and Buell confirm ' moment would be chosen by the Spantsh govern- this, The savage cannot go into the reservations ment to present additional grievances im an except with some atonement made and asthe ‘annoying jorm. * * * To deny that a unconditional prisoner of war, All he has will be contraband trade is carried on across the taken from bhim—arms, ammunition, horses, and | Franco-Spanisn irontier would be super. ail the other impiements of war—only that being fluous, ior it exists there as an institu. left him which is absolutely necessary to the sus- tion, accepted by ihe habits of wie’ peopie, tenance of life, Just an hour ago THE LATEST VICTORY ACHIEVED | as it ig favored by the nature of the country, and } te rceery of it has always been ‘capped But e Uy tis su!) more active ou tue Cautaurian cuast; it be sia 160 Pg in Deyieeee pte geen 18 protected there by laws which cause that dis- on Elk Creek in command of Mojor Schofield. The | trct to be more separated from Spain than from capture made by his command amounts to sixty- | France. ae praceris With whom mouey has + BO hationality, Wiil sell arms and ammunitions to nine warriors and all thelr families and outfit | Carisis ag weil as to republicans. ‘The uuty of belonging to the Noconee, Kiowa and Yamperiea = guurding the coast there velongs to the Spauish coman: tribes, with trom 1,500 to 2,000 ponies. — raat b now ney ae Vessels, and not to | France, Bat the Spanish Men-0i-W at appear tobave Their arms were taken from them and, with all | returned to port becuase the Weather Was bud, their property contraband of war, destroyed. The or because their commanders Were passing tueir bucks are held, closely guarded as prisoners, by | tame pMpbyee 4 aire wane the Germans rere a ‘ engaged in being banqueted at >aniancer or Bil our Washita Indian scouts, until instructions sdall | p00 Be rance is hot tobe blamed if the cruisers have been received from General Davidson, who | Which should have guarded the coast quietly has gone up the Washita with the main body of | has become acclimatized in Spain and if tue cus- his column, a courier having been despatched to | toms agents of thut country are: lorced to obtain him. Sig Red Food, the Noconee desperado with | from bribes the salary ineir goverment does nob whom We had the fight at the Washita, and also @ | pay them. We have shown sufficient sympathy son of Tabinanica, ‘are said to be among the More | pignt to say to it that 1. 18 Weakening its position, Important of the prisoners, The total capture of | We bave always demanded tuas the French ali the nostile Indians cut on the plains may be | expected to follow now in rapid succession, a8 th€ put we cannot admit that @ loregn State has bands may be met ope after another. Those cap- the rmgbt to control the interna’ aduinistranion of tured by Major Schofleid’s jorces were surprised * France ee re es poe brefects and commis. and attacked by some of tne scouts and the | S8tes of police. Lhe Spanisn government appeure to be taking up arather mean attitude, like that advance guard; but they immediately notsted the , of a schoolboy Wio becomes aggressive when he white flag and surrendered at the first charge, | 18 backed up by 4 bigger aod stroover companion. Hence it msy saleiy be said that thero will be | Toar the French authority snouid gourd the NO MORE FIGHTING, but that as the captive India h do the work the government of Madrid cannot : ans are brought in Ferigrm, and to put ah end to the civil war. If here they will be immured in the unfinished tce Spain has iound new allies and iresh protectors house, which i @ vast stone buliding and making ready to reaver her that service let Ler accept an excelient Libby Prison or Castie ihunder, or | telf ald, aud mucn good may it do her both combined, It is capabie of holding atleast > AW In@ior? wurai 600 prisoners, and the Indians take up Ittie room, cory egy ting ee aca aiataa Sahn MEE The twenty-nine now there, including Santanta’ Yesterday moruing, at an early and big Tree’s sons, are a sorry looking ‘They, like those at the guard house, are meekly panied by Capains Smith, submissive bow to their fate, even were itaeatn, MecLear, visted the | they say, and one would not think tojook at them , bouse, York street, Brookiyn, and procured an toward a welgnboring and = (rieadly country, jegally demauded of it. But itis pot charved to hour, Super- Whaien, Kyan and | fo their very puerility and cowardice combined, | escort of policemen, The party then proceeded to a8 one vieWs their sciaway |, hands, that they are the jn have proved themselves to 1U3 and skeleton * ‘i ‘a ae ‘ inate fiends they Martin’s dock, and, boarding a revenue cutter, but the lowering | they steamed away w the foot of Guld street, fo ce. oo iota g the visitor be- | Bisth ward, They ianded turriedly and made 1e etnu 2 K 1 tm the tiges, gneatu aig to the | rush for the rectifying estabushiment of Brady & merciless cruelty Of the tiger, These fellows, 18 18 to be hoped, how that they are in the handaot the | Malady, situated near the point of deparkation. nillitary, will be made striking examples ol @ just | The concern Was locuted in ine rums oF the old | ihe coal couutry by the enactment of law: | iu Hiction of just punishment, sugar refinery Which Was destroyed by ire turee icss and bloody deeds) by tne late de-— SHERIDAN ON THE INDIAN WAR. yeurs ago. Tho owners, it is claimed, in order to nouncement ayainst them of the leading I had @ long and pleasent conversation with | conceal their business, had tasen @ liceuse and Cathie clergymen of — Sehnytkith county. General Sheridan, who says that the solution of | were Tegisiered as rectifiers. ‘Ihey re- One statement condemning the order was author tue Indian question, 80 lar as the nostie parties | ceived liquor irom dealers and rectified ized by Rigut Kev. Bishop foo, of the diocese of i the fleld are concerned, will be reacagd within it. The oM-ers were seen = Approach. | Pu pia, and signed by three clergymen, some the next thirty days, and atau events by Onrist- | ing by the man on the lookout, who of whom have experienced the persecuuions of the mas, He does not ta that there are any con- rave the alarm to the workmen, and the latter law breakers, Father Michael Sheridan, of this siderabie hum ero! them bandea together on the | beat ahasty retreat up the street, thereby cs | place, and Father Joseph Bridgeman, Girardvilie; war path. He regards the ludiin war, in view Of cCaping arrest, The jolhowing pioperty Was taken | rdward J. Field, Cencratias Joseph Koch, Shamo- the advices received from Mackenzie ama Mties, possession of by the United states oftciais:— as Virtually atanen!, though some small parties | 15,000 empty barrels, stills with au ty may be met here aud tiere, and they ean be | tions, 30,000 gallons of liqaor, sixty-Ave hogsheads “cleaned out’ easily, He has determined to @s- of molasses, a boiler, engine and other macuinery, tablish @ four-company post west oi the Antelope Two large vats o! fermenting mash were also lound Hills, aud provaviy on or near the McUlellan or | and emptied out in the guiier, The total vaite of | Sweetwater streams, which will, he saya, keep the property seized is estimated at $20,000, A open the cattle trai and ranges from Texas porth | up into Kansas, Which lie regards as of the great- est importance to render them safe under the pro- tection of the military, tramping ground of revenue raiders ou | the Judians, after it has vecn demonstrated thet | the peace, however allowed caanon to be landed, if contravana trade | toward the liberal party in Spain to have tue | goverument should iuifl its international vuties | ' srontler and fultli its obugations ts ali that can be | » visor of Internal Revenue Mr. Hawley, accom, | Secona precinct station r connec- jarge crowd of indignant denizens of toe cla Mlictt BUlis assembled about the ruins wuile the haved He has not decided What officials were at Work and induiged in myee!ves course he will adopt in the farther disposition of | against the Outrage(?) There Was BO bie ck Of | tlary, Phiacelphia, where he ws LOW serving Out invariably became more or less intoxicated. Drunk or sober, he was always considered a man’ of brutish and unbridled passions. On Saturaay last he was in Gibson's, He was not very druuk, and about the middle of the sfiernoon was missed, his custom so continue fis orgics late into the | night before departing for home. As his absence was Of no importance it mereiy excited 4 pass- | ing remark. Abont two o'clock on Saturday afternoon Mrs, Davis, the widow of a miner, had sent ner daugh- ter, about thirteen years ol age, on anerrand avout | @ mile out of the village, Sle hac not returned at jour o’clock and her mother bevan to grow uneasy about her. A few nunutes after iour the gtrl waa carried into the house by two men in ao aimosy insevaible condition, They said tney hey lying near the road, in a piece of woods, about halla mile out of the Village. Her clothing was badly torn and her 1ace was bleeding from a large but not dangerous cut above tne leit wemple. Wen spoken to sie Opened ber eyes and essayed to speak, bur was too weak to articulate. Recog- izing the girl, the men vrought her as quickly as , Possibie to her metuer’s house. It was clear that | she had beea violated by some fiend, who had | evidently knocked ner senseless by the olow on her head. The mine surgeon was summoned, and, unuer bis treament, about nine o'clock | | at might the girl was able to talk. Her story was that she was on her way home alter doing ier errand, and when she reacbed the piece of woods ne r Moun’s creek she saw Martin jroves sitting vy the side of the road, She was alraid of him, and siopped, undecided whether ‘0 , below hiin or pass right on. His head was hang- | Ing down on hia brexstas he were asleep, and | she conclaged to go notseiessiv by lim th the road, When she gut about opposite to where he sat he raised his head and then rose to bis feet. He stepped in front oi ber ana said:— “Yer airaid of me, are ye?” ‘Yes, Marto,” sald the girl, “but please don’t | hurt me.” He made no reply to this, but took hold of ner by bLotu shoulders aud pusued her towards tne woods, She screamed joudly for help, when be struck her a biow with his ist on the side of her head, and she remembers nothing until coming to her seQses some time belore the men Jound her. Sie kuew she was lying !n the woods, and her con- dition, but was too weak to move. When this story wus made known throughout the vulaye the greatest excitement prevailed, A crowd Of tweuly-flve mea gathered and decided King oat Groves and giving him summary justice, They proceeded in a body up the monn. tain aud captured him in the woods, They then took him down toto a deep depression between two 0 the ioitv hills, in that lonely vale, by the ligit o: the moon sirnggling through a heavy Hist, the iusuriate miners executed the sentence they promounced against hin, which was that he should ale. ils eyes were bandaged and bis hands bound bebind him, and then he was hanged to the lib Of a Ches'nut tree aud leit there until he was dead, He was alterwards, buried near the hut were he liad lived tor years, ‘The outrage ov the Davis girl was not Groves’ first crime Oj that nature. the commission of turee simuar outrages was laid at his avor by general bevel, which had mauve him a terror to all women and children, But ali this aoes nut just fy his summary puuishment, aitvough the general feeling m the V.cinity 18 that the lyuching was just as Weil as merited. VIOLENCE AMONG THs MINES, | A Man Stoned to Death Near Fishbach, | Pa., and His Wife Gagged—Mysterious Disappearance and Supposed Murder— Ku Klux Warning and Threats—The | Desperadoes Denounced by the Catho- He Priest i ASHLAND, Pa., Oct. 29, 1874. | Lawlessness stitl prevails in the coal regions. | About a Week ogo James Hirst was stoned to death near Fistibach, ‘the murderers bound and gagged his wile beiore they committed the crime, At last accounts the perpetrators had not been ar- rested. Immediately after this crime the supposed | murder of Elias Fisher, a well known citizen of Frackville, occurred, Although Mrs. Fisher has offered $1,000 reward for the recovery of her hus- band’s body, tt has not been found yet. The greatest excitement continues yetin the veigh- Dornood where Fisher's team anid a bloovy hatchet and revolver were lound. was arrested at Mabonoy on suspicion of being | connec.ed with the mysterious aisappearance, 18 Uli 11 Custody ut Portsville. Recently Ku Kiux notices have been sent to ‘several mine bosses, threatening them with death Unless they jeave the region. The last | nouce wus received by Edward Herbet, mside | boss at the Wadesville shalt of the Hickory Coal Company. The notification was to the ifect that he sbcuid leave his position within a month or death would be the consequence. The norice was decorated with a cottin and pistol, The district branch of the Workingmen's Benevolent Associa- tion Lave passed resviutions condemning the act aud offering & reward tor the devéction of the party or parties wno sent tae note, Cousierable commotion has deen created tn | the ranks 1 the desperate men (wuose secret or- #an Zation creates much terror in some sections of kins ounor, Manonoy Plain Henry F. enandoah; Thomas mn, Hugh J. ‘ottsvilie, and », J. McDermott are uniong the signers, | It was Pather Koch, whom Pat Hester, the so- calied “King of the Molly Mugntres,” tried to coerce tito allowing @ dead member o1 the organi. tion to be received in consecrated ground, con- trary to the rales of the Cathoue Church. Failing to va.n bis ead, ve caused a mot, for which he was | his Coram Of Lmaprisonmente This was something unusual, as it was | had jvand | fhe man Reyfurs, who | arresied and incarcerated in the Kasteru Peniten- for a coach and four to drive through. The Rev. Dr. Fulton, of Alabama, asked leave to ne | submit to the committee on Canons that after | first sentence of the first sub-section of the se! | enth section of canon 13 of title 1. page 61, relat | mg to the nomination and election of missionary bishops that these words be inserted:—‘“Ii the ; Nomination ts made daring or within six months | beiore the meeting of the General Convention the | House of Bishops shall nominate at least two per- | sons for each missionary district tor which @ | bishop ghalt be chosen, and a majority of all the | clerical aud lay votes of the Honse of Deputies | snail be necessary to thetr election.” This was, | on motion, relerred to the Committee on Canons. PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR N&W BISHOPS. The Committee on Amendments to the Constt- | tution reported amendments to article 5, pro- viding that no diocese shall be authorized to set | Off any partoi its territory as a new diocese unless | it shall provide tor the support of the prospective | Disnop, and that there must be not less tuan six | parishes m ,every such new diocesan territory. | AR amendment was Offered to the committee's re- | port striking out the references to the Episcopal | jund and the six parisues, aud suvstituting there- | for ten parishes, Which 1t was deemed woukd be quite able to support @ visuop. Dr. Mead | objected to this amendment, as new busine which could not, under the rules, be introduced at this late day. The Chair ruled the motion in | orcer. Dr. Mead appealed, and after very much | apparently useless discussion bis appeal was sus- | tained by tne house. The vote on the amend- | ment was taken by dioceses and orders and re- | suited in the adoption of the amendmeaot by | clerical vote oO! 35 yeas, 5 nays and 3 dioceses Promptly or Be go tirouh tue wouds and come out in the road | divided. The lay vote was 30 ayes and 3 nays. | The Rev. Dr. Perry, Secretary of the Convention and historiographer of the Church, was author- ized to prepare A sketch oj the Church and Oon- vention for the Centennial archives in 1876. The joint committee on the transiation of the | Prayer Book into French was continued for the ; hext three years, The Committee on Canons re- } ports amendments to canon 6, title 3, giving en- | larged powers to bishops and the Missionary | Board in the organization of missions in foreign | lands, After a message from tne bishops on | church music and another on the trustees’ fund, & report was presented by the Commitcee on Con. stitutional Amendments asking to be discharged | from the further consideration of the subject of | reducing the size of the Convention. The com- mittee don’t think the House too large at all, even with tne new dioceses represented. Dr. Burr spoke in favor of reducing the number of | representatives. Dr. Adams, of Wiscoasin, pro- | Posed to amend article 2 of the constitution, by sab- | stituting the word “three” for “iour” wherever tne latter occurs, 80 that the House would be one-fourt! less than itis. He moved to recommit the report with Instructions to Lue committee to Make this change. Dr. Fulton, of Aiabama, opposed this change because it would make a precedent that | Would result in transiorming the Convention into | an oligarchy. ‘This year three, the next two aud the third one and then there is | | NOTHING LEFY OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION. | He opposed it also because many deputies came here hoping that @ provincial system might be introduced. This Church, be maintained, was too large to be properly ua successfully governed by one legislative body like this. Mr. Ruggles sug- gested that there was an adverse report on the provincial system on the Secretary’s table and that the discussion of that matter was out o/ or- der. Governor Stevenson, Ol Kentucky, favored | thé reduction oi the basis 0! representation in the | Convention in view ot its prospective enlargement, | but ne opposed the provincial system. A lay | depaty trom Alabama calied attenjion to the | point” that with three deputies no dio- | cese could give a divided vote. Dr. Mead | javored @ Teduction, and thought the ques- tion should be settied now ratuer than be left to iuture conventions, which will necessarily be mach larger and cannot act 60 well. Mr. | Mevready, of south Carolina, spoke against tl reduction. Dr. Schenck, of Brooklyn, spoke in javor Of it, and algo in lavor of a provincial ays tem. He argued that the smalier the house is the | more dignified it ia. It ts even now too big to do anything with, Dr. Adams, of Wisconsin, got the ' floor again and perpetrated his stereotyped joke about tais Cliurch being the Church of the nation by and by. He thereiore opposed the provincial system because 1t would divide re DieSoe Abie an ‘five, six or seven cliques, the Gen- erai Couvention would not olteger than once in ten years, have noching to do. It would be notaing more _ than @ cerical mob. Dr. De Koven favored Dr. Adams’ amendment, but was most anxious for the province: | system. Mr. Biair, of Maryland, believed in large bodies, bot in Cuurch and State. He did bot see why 300 or 400 Curistian gentlemen could not a8 easily trangact business for: this Church as 600 or 700 Congressmen can for this na lion, The objections on account of the dificult, Of hearing he considered not well taxen. For | there Were only fiity men in St. John’s church | they could uot hear one auother speaking, The larger ihe bouse 13 the less likely will it be to be | GOVERNED BY INDIVIDUAL INFLUENCES. Dr. Ruader asked three pertment questions touching this matier, Ii tis ts to be the Courch 01 We people Low will tnis any iment, 1 adopted, aclect the interests o: the Courch with the peopl 4 Low comes it that a religious body of 300 or 400 13 riotous mob aad a political body of larger size ia not, and how is it that this idea of the unwieidt- ness of the Convebtion comes simultaneously with the ea ortne provincial system aud was never beard of belorey D>. Minnegervde Wanted a larger | house for social reasons. Me believed in the com- | munion of saints, and the trienmat conventions | are the omy opportunities that mauy of the depu- ties have Ol becoming acquainted one with an- otner. | ‘dne bishops asked for a committee of conference | on the subject Oo} deaconesses. Tuey also asked ior | a jomt committee tu inquir to tue force of & | Joint resolution passed by the Convention, aud at the special request oi the Rev. Mr. Orrick they | withorew Mis uawe as 4 candidate tor the episco- pacy ot Cbina, ‘ints request, together with an able speecn made by Dr. De Koven in his favor, | resulted, after an hour and a hali’s disct | sion in secret session in his confirmation by vote of 41 alirmative Clerical dioceses to | ney Uve and 82 diocesan lay votes in the afiirmative. | 1t was Delteved by some deputies that there was | too much Calvinism in Mr, Orrick to sult the hypo~ critical Ohimese; and as he did not care to be | anatomized and distributed abroad throughout the land as’ was Dr, Seymour, ne preferred to | forego the preferred honor o! @ missionary episco- | pacy. But is would not do to let such a precedent | go out to the Church, for other good men might i Teiuse the office, jeh might have to beg for an incumbent vy and Hence Wis condcmation.