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: GERMANY. $HE CONDEMNED EDITOR IN FLIGHT YROM THE EMPIRE. BERLIN, March 14, 1875, Herr Kostolek, formerly editor of the Germania, bas been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, He bas fled trom Germany. GERMANY AND FRANCE. FRENCH PURCHASES FOR CAVALRY USES STOPPED BY THE PRUSSIANS. Lonpoy, March 15~5:30 A. M. A special despatch to the London 7imes trom | Berlin says @ large consignment of horses put chased by French dealersin East Prussia was re- cently stopped in transitu at the Borlin depot. THE KAISER AND THE POPE. | EMPEBOB WILLIAM NOT ANXIOUS TO STIFLE THE PAPAL UTTERANCES. Rome, Marcn 14, 1875, An official Itallan denial is given to the state- ment contained in a@ special despatch tothe Lony don Times of March 11, that Germany hadsept a Lote to {taly asking whether sne wouid continue to exempt the Pope from the obligations of law while he used che liberty for the purpose of | fomenting a rebellion in Germany, 4 PAPAL BRIEY TO THE GERMAN BISHOPS—THE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO THE STATE. Lonpox, March 15, 1875. A Papal brief in answer to the adaress of ine German episcopate 1s published. It declares that tne Vatican decrees con- tain nothing which alters the relations of the Pope and Roman Catholics, or which can afford a pretext for further oppress. ing the Church and interfering with the election of the next Pope. Itindorses the statement made by the Bishops tbat judgment as to the validity of a Papal election appertains to the Church alone, and concludes by urging the Bishops to continue to resist and expose error. THE MOODY-SANKEY REVI-| VAL. IMMENSE ASSEMBLAGES HEARKENING TO THE VOICE IN ENGLAND. Lonpon, March 14, 1875. Messrs. Moody and Sankey continued their re- vival services at Agricuitural Hall, Islington, to- day. The attendance was immense. It fs estimated tbat 17,000 women were present at the afternoon Meeting, and in the evening 20,000 men were as- sembied. THE AMERICAN CARDINAL. THE ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE TO CONFER THE BERRETTA—<A MISSION FROM THE PROPA- GANDA TO THE UNITED STATES. Rome, March 14, 1875. His Grace the Most Rev. James Roosevelt Bay- ley, D. D., Archbishop of Baltimore, fias been designated by the Vatican co confer the berretta on Archbishop McCloskey, who will receive the other insignia of the Cardinal wheo he visits Rome. A MISSION FROM THE PROPAGANDA. Mar. Roncetu, the delegate sent to notify the Archbishop of New York of bis appointment as Cardinal, is also charged with a mission from tne Propaganda in regard to new dioceses in the United States. BIS RANK AT THE REPUBLICAN COURT YET TO TO BE DEFINED. WASHINGTON, March 14, 1875. Inquiry here iu oficial and dipiomatic circles fails to elicit the information that any provision is made to define the rank and status of the new American Cardinal, or what his relations will be to the United States Government, Familiarity with the detalls of the consideration granted tmvariably to a Cardinal in foreign countries and &t court comprehend all that ts Known, and in this country, the occurrence being without prece- dent, no rule of diplomatic usage has been laid down. Itis acknowledged by the State Depart- ment that the Papal Nuncio takes precedence in tank over all otner court representatives, and that in countries like Austria, for example, the Cardinal is accorded the first rank and highest consideration above ali other Ministers and Envoys. If His Eminence should on New Year's Day. call upon the President to extend the blessing of the Sovereign Pontiff on our Chief Magistrate he will head the foreign Ministers, as is the custom in Other countries, ‘THE NEW EL DORADO. FURTHER NEWS FROM THE BLACK HILLS MINEBS—RICHNESS OF THE SPECIMENS OF GOLD AND SILVER—RAILROAD ENCOURAGE- MENT TO PIONEERS, CHEYENNE, WY. T., March 13, 1875, Four more of the Black Hills pioneers, named Warren, McDonald, Williams ana Thomas. arrived at Fort Laramte to-day, they having walked from tbe stockade, eight miles from Harney’s Peak, in seven days, They bring fine specimens of gold dust with them. Warren has some that he wached out of two pans of dirt lifted just below the surface, and among which there were grass roots. He says they only dug down to the bed of the rock. that part waist deep of in the it. time fle worked thas they thinks with pumps and hydraulic machinery $100 | per day to each man could be made. He also brings with him specimens of silver which old miners state will yield $2,000 to the ton, and say it is the purest they ever saw. He will bring here these speciinens of stiver ore to be assayed, He has also witn him fine specimens oi plumbago, lead und copper, and says there ts more, gypsum lu the Black Hills than ten ratroads could haul away in fifty years, He claims also that there are tin mines there. ‘The party leaves for Cheyenne to-morrow, their obdject being to get provisions, machinery and foois, and recruit their number by as many as pos- midle, alter whicn they will return trom here, the route from this place being, they savy, the only practicai one and = much nearer than Irom Sioux City, with the additional advantage of goud roads. They report no troapie \n crossing the streams or in fuding goo water and campibg ground every nignt. They say the distance can be walked easily i five days. ‘The railroads haye reduced the tare one-third from Chicago to Cheyenne to parties going to the Black Hilla, Many strangers are now here who, It is supposed, are bound lor the new El Dorado, notw thstandiog the orders from the government prohibiting parties irom going. Persons just are rived from tue Indian Agency state that the In- dians are anxious to sell to the government their right to the Black Hills country, but do not pro- vose to give it up Without being paid tor tt. a0) KEY FRAUDS. ULEVELAND, Odio, March 14, 1875, Last week United States detectives from Wash- {ngton arrested the members of the firm of Jacob Laysey & Co., distillers, of thisctty, on a charge of government by ing jalse re- . Thiciens, Storekeeper, was wlsu arrested, it being alleget that he had full Knowledge of the frauds being practised, The parties were examined belore the United State, Commissioner, and held in yoo each to appear betore the ALLEGED EMB PHILADELPMIA, Fi 4. Hays Russell has veen ar: with being a tugitive fro where, it 1s said, he ts cua ment MURDER J ALLEG. ” WAZLEMENT, March 14, 1875, ested here charged Washington, D. ©. a wit’ eaibezzle- “MPTED BY A WOMAN, Reaping, Mareh 14, 1875 Last night ata bali at breneizer's hall, in this city, a young man named Frank was stabbed by a young Married woman named Kline Prank 1s seriously injured, FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. ' PorTSVILLY. Va., March 14, 1875. Last nightaman named Dixon was shot and Killed tn @ quarrel at the Mine Mul Colliery, near ie Va, it is net vet Known who shot In one place the water was so plentiful | ol Saates Districs C ~ | uted Brates District COUTE | Fs oney appropriated NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. WASHINGTON. Hoped-for Settlement of the Pinchback Case. CHANGES IN THE INDIAN POLICY. The Letter of King Alfonso to the President. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, PT ey WASHINGTON, March 14, 1875. THE “COUP DE GRACE” OF POOR PINCHBACK NEAR AT HAND—SENATOR JOHNSON NOT TO SPEAK—PROBABILITIES OF THE DECIDING VOTE. ‘The status of the Pinéhback case is represented to-night to be about to receive the coup de grace on to-morrow by reaching a vote, should Mr, Jonnsou, of Tennessee, maintain his determina- ton not to speak, as there are no other Senators who are known to desire to be heard further on | the subject. The ex-President is suffering from malarial sore viroat, aggravated by dejection on account of the almost hopeless condition of his revered wife, and this will strengthen his purpose to remain silent, though he ts known to have read up extensively on the case, witi a view of taking asimply legal and non-political view of it, The estitaate of republican Senators to-night is that Pincaback will be rejected by amajority of two votes, though others contend that the decision will be even closer, Many among them contend that, on a strictly legal and consistent view ot the jgsue, since the Keliogg government has been recognized, they cannvt consistently throw Pinch- back out, because uf, as Senator Carpenter sald, the Kellogg government is good enough to be recognized asade facto government, its act in Senaing Pinchback to the Senate 1s good enough to be equaily as well recognized by them as on a prima facie case, Any other course 1s stigma- tized as inconsistent and marked with the evi- ences of sheer folly. Senator Morton will close the case for Pinchback, as Chairman of the Com- mittee of Privileges and Elections, and it is whis- pered about that the dectding vote, which 1s to result in the securing of Pinchnack’s seat, willin ali probability be cast by the Vice President. | Pincnback has determined to face the enemy to the last and, asa “standing reproach,” will hold his position as an earnest looker-on from the so!as of the lobby until his fate shail be decided one way or another, CONTRADICTION OF THE REPORT OF BARON SCHWARZ SENBORN’S RESIGNATION. ‘The resignation of Baron Schwarz Senborn, the Austro-Hungarian Minister, reported by cable, is Stated by high oficial authority to be without foundation, and great surprise is manifested how so erroneous a statement could have been pro- mulgated. The Baron is here, and knows nothiag whatever of the alleged Action of the Emperor Francis Joseph. HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT TO RECKIVE THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR ON TUESDAY. The Secretary of State has officially informed Sefior Don Antonio Mantlila de los Rtos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain, that the President will receive from his bands formaily the autograph letter of King Al- fonso on Tuesday next, which will cover the in- formation of his accession to the throne and the usual expressions of diplomatic good wit!, STRENGTH OF THE GRANGER ORGANIZATION, The total number of subordinate granges in the United States Is now reported as 22 547, of which New York has only 300; Iowa, Indiana and Missouri have each over 2,000. Tne New England States have 434, The Order is strong in the Southern States, the subordinate granges there numbering over 8,000. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, riled SOUTER AS “WASHINGTON, March 14, 1876, YELLOW FEVER sTATISTIOs, Dr. Frank W. Reilly, surgeon, United States marine hospital service, has, in accordance with @ resolution of the Senate, through instractions trom the Secretary of the Treasury, prepare’ a report on the yellow fever epidemic of 1873, as it prevailed at the various ports of the United States. It is therein stated that from the montn of Feb- wary, 1973, until the 21st of November of the same year, there occurred 3,769 deaths from malignant or epidemic choiera. During the same perioa each year there occurred in round numbers 21,000 deaths from diarrhea, dysentery and cholera infantum. From tne date of the first case, May 23, to the date of the last case, November 29, 1873, there occurred 4,349 deaths from specific or epidemic yellow fever. During the same period cach year there occurred from the group of malarial fevers an aggregate of 8,500 deaths. The last preceding epidemic ap- pearance of yellow fever was in 1867, and from its subsidence up to the close of 1572 there had been an aggregate of 970 deaths from this cause; but during the same period there had been an aggre- | gate of over 50,000 deaths from the malarial fevers, There had been no epidemic cholera in the country for the six years previous, but during | that period the group of diseases most resembling it carried off not less than 125,000 persens, and year by year, such more or less preventavle disenses a8 sma'ipox, scarlet fever. typhus, enteric fever and consumption, are the causes of ® tolerably constant average of over 100,000 deatns per annum, ‘The report srates that absolutely nothing has been learned of the cause of the disease. The question o! 118 earthly origin or of its importation into the Galf States from adjacent countries in the same latitude and under the same climatic conditions 1s still unsettled. Specific modes of prevention and of limitation remain as vague and inept, medical opinion ts as conlused and conflicting. and medical skiil as baf- fled as before. That yellow fever failed to become epidemic in New York the past season, thatit is not epidemic every season, is due probably, first, to the want of favoring conditions in the season itself, and second, to the efficiency of its Board of | Health, bui certainly not the want of a supply of causes furnished irom other ports, REFORMATORY FEATURES OF THE INDIAN POL- ICY—LABOR TO BE EXACTED FROM THE MALE SAVAGES, Anew feature is added to the Indian policy, namely :—In distributing the supplies and annui- ties the agent 1s directed to require all abie-bodied male Indians between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to perform service upon the reservation | | | | | anu “escaped. for the benent of themselves or of the tribe at a | “ret | reasonable rate to be fixed by the agent in charge and to an amount equal in value to the supphes to | be deliverea. The allowances to be provided for such Indians are to be distributed to them only upon condition of the performance of labor. ‘The object is to make the Indian self/supporting. Congress incorporated in the Indian appropria- | tion vill a section providing toat hereatter no pur- chage of goods, supphes or farming implements or any other artice whatsoever, the cost of which Shall exceed $1,000, shall ne paid for from the tniess the same shailhave previously been advertised and contracted for. THE REC TTON OF ALFONSO. Although the credentials of Minister Cushing to the new government of Spain were sigeed by the President on the 6th of February, they were not presented to King Alfonso as @ formal recognition of Nis accession to the throne until the Lith of Maren. A PROBABLE LABOR COMPROMISE FALL Riven. Masa, Maren 14, 1875. A settlement of the Jong continued strike in this city now seems prohavie, The spinners, | Weavers, card room hands, slashers aud spoolors Mm convention last nivht resoived that they would return to Work Within twWenty-lour hours, provided te mauntacturers Will guarantee that on ie Ist ot Apri they will concede the ten per cent asked jor. This resuiution is sizned by all the unions, and it remains jor tie employers to accept the proposal, which, tt 1s sud, (hey Wwull da | presence of 2,000 people, but tt was at once evi- THE DANGER AT PORT JERVIS, | —_——. FAILURE OF EXPERIMENTS WITH NAPHTHA | MADE IN THE ICE YESTERDAY—DILASTING | WITH NITRO-GLYCERINE TO DE RESUMED. Hl Port Jervis, N. Y., March 14, 1875. | The twenty-five barrels of napntna donated by | Mr, Cheesebrougnh arrived here last night, and that | gentleman came here also to superintend the ex- | periments he had suggested. Jen barrels of the | stuff were fired on the ice this afternoon in the | dent that it would have scarcely @ perceptivie | effect. From the impression made on the ice by | te heat of the naphtha tried it 18 caicuiated that, if the whole gorge were covered with barrels of the finid and fred, the reduction it would make | in its proportions would not be noticed, ‘fne heads | blew out of three of the barrels to-day, and there were several narrow escapes irom serious burning. | To-morrow there are to be further operations by the ni:ro-giycerine corps, A fifty-pound charge 1s to be exploced tn a hule dug yesteraay in the arch of the dam in the gorge, which has been Teached from below. ‘Three charges of thirty pounds each are to be exploded simultaneously, after the grand blast, in parts of the dam (urther up. It 18 expected that these will make an im- mense opening in the blockade, The blasting is then to be suspended untti the water gets to such | aheignt that, by putting matew more charges | at the dam, as the engineers believe, a start: may be effected that will gradually be communicated to the whole body, The weather 1s warm and cloudy, but as yet no rain bas fallen. The trustees of the place will to-morrow tender to Mr. Cheesebrough the thanks of the community for his generous offer and services 1m whe experi- ments made to-day, DAMAGE CAUSED BY ICE. Boston, Mass., March 14, 1875. The wharf and club house of tne Boston Yacht Club, at South Boston, were badly damaged by outgoing ice this afternoon, The whart was almost entirely carried away and the club house will provabiy ge before morning. The loss is above $6,000, THE ICE IN THE CLEVELAND, March 14, 1875. OHIO. The ice in the river broke up and went out to- | day, doing no damage. now entertained, No fears of high water are FIVE MEN DROWNED. CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 14, 1 The Commercials Huntington, West Va., special says at Colton Mill, West Va., this morning, Peter King, Buck McGuire, G. B. Hazlett, Jona Thackery and Hugh Swope were drowned by the upsetting ofaskitl in New River. The bodies have not yeu been recovered, BORDENTOWS, N. J, March 14, 1875. Jerry O’Brien, while engaged fixing his net at Mull Bridge, near Bordentown, feli Into the water | and was drowned before assistance conid be ren- | dered, His body has been recovered, Wile and three children, He leaves a FATAL AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE, BURNING OF A HOTEL AND EGRAPH OF- FICE AT GLOUCESTER, MASS.—FOUR PERSONS CONSUMED BY THE FLAMES, GLOUCESTER, March 14, 1875, The Davis House, @ large three story wooden building, was entirely destroyed by fire early this morning. Most of the furniture and the personal effects of the boarders were burned, So rapid was the spread of the flames that the occupants of the building escaped with great difficulty, Julia Kelley, an employé, was taken from the second story. but was dead when found, or dled soon afterward, The charred bodies of Hector Skiver and C. Smith, boarders, and Margaret Wal- ton, an employé, were found in the ruins this morning. ‘The ollice o1 the Western Union Telegraph Com- cay es also burned uut, the instruments belug saved. ‘The total loss 1s about $15,000, with an insurance oF $9,000, FIRE AT SPRINGFIELD. SPRINGFIELD, Masi., Marcn 14, 1875. A fire which occurred at midnight on Saturday in the Hampden Hall Building, owned by the Five Cent Savings Bank, aamaged tre siock of J. W. Dann, boot and shoe dealer, to the amount of $2,000, L. Gribbie’s stock Of hair goods in the ad- jommg store was badly daimaged by water. Dann 1s insured for $3,5001n the London Gloo Gribote tor $2,000 m the Gioncester and the Cit zens’, of Newark. The insurance on the building, about $2,000 ouly, 18 placed in the Equitable, Frre- man’s Fund, Old Hartford and the Security, ANOTHER FIRE IN MASSACHUSETTS. HIGHLAND Liaut, Cape vod, March 14, 1875. A fire in the ceptral portion of tne town of Well- fleet, Mass., this morning destroyed three build- ings. Loss, $7,000, FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Va., March 14, 175. A fire last might at Williams’ shipchandlery caused a loss of aboat $10,000, whitch is fully cov- ered by insurance, as follows:-—Royal, $10,000; Insurance Company of North Amer 34,0005 Fame, 00; Anthracite, $5,000; Pneenix, $5,000 Sia $2,500; Trade Chamber of New Jersey, 2,500, “OIL FIRE. PrrTsBuRG, Pa., March 14, 1875. During a thunder storm this morning aten thousand barrel tank of ofl at the Riverside Re- finery, owned by Elkins & Flick, was struck vy ligutning and the oll burned, together with twocars on the ‘Aliegheny Vailey Ratiroad track, containing 500 barrels of penzine., Total loss about $20,000, nearly covered by insurance in Wheeling, Pitts- | @ burg and Eastern companies. v Sr. Lovts, March 14, 1875, As the towboat R. A. Babbage was com- ing up the river on Friday night ste struck a snag at Liberty Island, between pere and Cairo, and sank, In sinking she toppled over, and she now les on her sive, only turee feet of her being onto: water, Georg Ables, Chief Engineer, and a tireman and cadin boy (names not given) e drowned. The b owned by J. #. West and Oaptaia Henry Wry, wand was insured for $10,000, bus the names of the offices are not known. ESCAPE OF PRISO ERS IN ST. LOUIS. Sr. Louis, Mo., March 14, 1975. While the prisoners in jail were taking tneir | usual daily exercise in tbe rotunda of that building tnis morning eleven of them climbed over the wire grating, some thirty feet high, which divices the rotunda trom a corridor, Only one of them has been recap- A BUILDING FALLS. ‘DEATH AND INJURY CAUSED. READING, Pa., Maren 14, 1875. This afternoon, shortly aiter four o'clock, the cornice and shedding of the Northeastern Mar- ket House, corner of Ninth and Buttonwood streets, being overweighted with snow and ice, Jel With @ lerrific crash and mortally wounded & MW boy named Frank Apifel. Another poy, named Andrew i. Suuth, Was scriousiy wounded, and his vrother, Wiliam smth, was sightiy me jured. A youny iady named Saylor Was also caught by the failing mass, but escaped injury OBTRUARY. JOHN HOFF, BANKER, John Hof, a prominent banker of Reading, Pa, died in tnat etty yesterday, aged seventy years, FERNAN'. ausyivania oMcial, died ju Reading county m mmd year ou; tis age. COLLECTOR or N-SHEROEE bx-Sherift Gernant, a Pi yesterday at his reside that State, in the ninety-seo MULLEN, TOMS. A telegram from New Orleans, under date of the 144 inst, reports as foliows:—Richard W, Mullen, Collector of Custoras at Brashear, « Knight Temp. lar, ex-officer of & Mare regiment, and said to have been one of the origtual discoverers o1 gold m Australia, died here last mignt trom au over dose of Inucanum, RICHARD W. cus | @musing and instructive to study “what has not FATAL MISHAP ON THE MISSISSIPPr. |! THE STATE CAPITAL! Democratic Legislators Quarrelling About Place and Power. RAPID TRANSIT SCHEMES | New York City Bills To Be Considered | This Week. corencieenentieeeeienee MUCH TALK AND POOR RESULTS. ALBANY, March 14, 1875. | If the business already transacted by the pres- | ent Legislature 1s to be taken into proper cousid- eration as a@ test of ability and character beio'e the peopie, Iam airaid the recora whi be found considerably clouded at the end of the sesston. The first Tuesday in January ushered in the new democratic *‘gime in the Assembly, with a work- | ing majority of some twenty members. A demo- cratic Governor took possession of the seat just vacated by a radical republican, The people of the | State looked for @ millennium tn public affairs. ‘True, the Senate is republican, but that impedi- ment will not overshadow or excuse mistakes tn the Lower House. Both branches are equally ree | sponsible for legislative blundering, WHAT HAS BEEN DONE—GOVERNOR MEASURES, WhenI 100k over the field from the first day of the assembling of the Legislature, t fiud it TILDEN'S been done” and what should have been accom- plished. Thanks to the vigor exhibited by Gov- ervor Tilden, three important bulls have been put through, which may be lovked upon as coming ex: clusively from tbe State Executive. Those are the | bills to whicn Ihave trequently called attention, | anecting the punishment for offtcial corruption | and recovery of moneys stolen trom the coffers of | the people. Attempts were made last year to | place similar measures before the Legistature, but | such efforts met with signal tallure. Now they | have become law, and Governor Tilden’s adminis- | tration must be credited with tne passage of re- form enactments, protecting the people as far as possible irom depredations of dishonest oMciais, Neither in the Senate nor the Assembly has a proper regard been exhibited, so Jar, for tne in. | terests of the people, in framing necessary and | just laws. Valuabie time bas been iritiered away, When a pes measure comes up, bearing palpably upon ifs face the stamp of favoritism and emolu- ments for some political cause or satellite, then intense interest 1s mantfestea among legislators, Open lobbying on the very floor of the House and within a foot of Speaker McGuire's chair has been freely indulged in, while sworn ofMcials have seld | | their consciences and independence fora mess of | pottage. Probably some of them have studied the lines— | ‘The world is wot thy friend, nor the world’slaw; | ‘The world affords tio law to make thee rich. ; Then, be not poor, but break it and take this, RAVID TRANSIT AND THE LEGISLATURE. We have not, as yet, had a single effective movement by the Legislature in the direction of | solving the important problem of rapid transit for | New York city. Some six bills have been intro- duced and referred to the various committees, There they remain. They lle calmly slumbering | in pigeonholes, No magic wand has come to dis- | ! i turb thelr quiet resting place. What ts the rea. son? Lalluae to the following proposed enact- | ments :—In the Senate, biils of Senators Moore and Robertson. in the House, bills of Mr. Leo C. Des. sar, John W. Smith, Mr. L. Bradford Prince and Mr. S. D. Shattuck. In my judgment, the proposi- tions laid down by Mr. L. Bradford Prince are de- serving of immediate attention. They seem to be comprehensive aud feasiwle. Thuis gentieman is a | acnolar and lawyer, and was one of the abiest members of our late Constitutional Commission, | His bill, Wolch 18 & general one, provides that | | the consent of the Mayor, Aldermen or: Common Council ta cities, Supervisors and Commissioners | this State, ana made oc Implied alter Januar, the {ollowing:-—Semator Moore's Rapid Transit bill; Senator Ropertson’s Rapid Transit dill; Senator Fox's bills to elect one Alderman from each Assembiy district in New York city, and also to etect a Comptroiier in place of Andrew H. Green next November, consolidating both the Comptrol- lersnip and City Chamberiainship, These meas- ures will no doubt be vigorously discussed and adroitly pruned before detivite on is taken upon (hem by the committee. Senator Woodin's presence has in:used new life toto republican Denatorial movements on pending New York city measures. An influx of ward statesmen, embryo lobbyists, ambitions politicians and indefatigable place hunters may cousequently ve expected in Albany within t ext iew days, HARD MONEY, To THe Epivor or THR HERALD;— On the 4th of Jannary last ‘‘A Message to the Governor,”’ signed ‘‘A Democrat,” appeared in your columns, Jt contained several suggestions to Governor Tilden, to be incorporated into his Message. Among others, the writer, addressing Dimself to the Governor, sald: You have been presented us the candidate of those who believe in hard money and home rate. You have an opportunity to show your devotion to both these rinciples, ‘lo the general government at Washington greet of action in retation to specie erument. J something in the matier, y is at hi was suiterms ivom a pap urrency. your exemplar, Vresident Van Buren, recommended his pub-T uw seheme that ihe government should ve nothing in payment of ¢ jands but gold and silver, 7 system in one stat Why not requir all the taxes and t aly shali be paid in aad silver? {Lyou are a sincero supporter of th policy you should re C1 uch & mes sto Feason why th government shi iow the general government in this resp tates insist gid and silver at their to! By Why not our tolls and taxes be currency, ot the constitution ¢ such policy will be one step on the return to specie payments, ‘These ideas had not been presented before, The Message Oi Governor Tilden took no notice of the fF clistoins and our pub- hot adope the same | subject; butit appears the attention oi Senator Johnson has been turned to the matter, and with such success that the principle of the above sug- gestion has been adopted by the Legisla- ture. A dill was inttoduced by Senator Jonngon some time since, which provides that all taxes levicd in this State on and aiter January 1, 1879, shall be collected in gold, United States gold ceriificates or national bank notes whieh are redeemabie in gold on de- mand, it further provides that every ¢ obligation made or implied, and pa 1879, and payable in dollars but notin a speciil kind of dors, siall be payable in Vaited States coin of the standard established by law at the time ol making the contract. The bili has passed both houses, It 18 now vefore the Governor, and there can be | Dut little douvt that he will sign it. While the law does nos go us tar as the sugges- | tions of the HERALD’s correspondent, still 1t is & | movement ia the direction of specte payments. | Governor Tilden ought to have nad the glory of | endorsing the HF Pp correspondent, but stitl tt | 18 Well that Senator Jonnson reads the HERALD | and bas the sagaeity to lollow its statesmansntp. Sir Robert Peel, on retiring trom the Prenuersnip, | unanked the Lonaon Times tor its support. Gover: | nor Tilden, im the same way, ought to send his re- | grets that he did nor tollow the suggestions ot the HERALD. BULLION, New York, Maren 13, 181 COLLAPSE OF CIVIL SERVICK REFORM. Nghceeeie rae A LETTER FROM MR. THURLOW WEED. To THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD:— In December, 1872, I wrote a letter, which you ‘kindly published, toresbadowing the “rise, de- | etine and fall” of civil service reform. The letter elicited 2 HERALD editorial courteously dissenting irom my views, In other city journals my letier was sharply criticised. The public sentiment, so far as it found expression, was against me. Needed “reform” was plausibly suggested, and | with an occasional exception the people accepted it. 1ts fallacy, however, was apparent to those who took practical and common sense views of popular questions, I will only ask your permits. sion to recall, through the columns of the HERALD, two extracts from my letter—namely, Its first and conciuding paragraphs: — Civil service reform, as a theory, is suggestive of relief tor ail the evils connected with the ap- pointments to office in all the civil departments of the government. It is the great panacea for ex- isting poittical abuses. Most Presideatial electious have promisea important, reforms. ‘fue last in- vention of politicians was civil service rejorm. It originated with Senators in Congress, who by their diligent efforts im procuring appointments tor relatives and iriends, generally in utter disre- gard ot fitness, did much to render civil service Teiorm necessary and popular. The din raised in Congress and by the ‘‘liberal republican” and ol Highways in towns and Boards o1 frustees in villages shall first be obtained by any company | | duly organized, and sach company sali then be | authorized to maintain and operate a surface, | | elevated, depressed or underground railroad | through such city, town or viliage, aud may ac- | quire necessary property for that purpose i the | usual manner. in granting consent the local au- | Lhorities snall determine as conditions the route | and character of such road, the kina of motor to | be used, the weigut and pattern of rail, the rate | ot speed to be adupted, the rates lor passengers _ and freight, the compensation, if any, to be made | to such authorities for the use of the streets or | | avenues, &c., and the regulations as to crossings, | excavations, Openings and other matiers. The authorities snail also prescrive regulations jor the | construction of the road, &c., Whether the same shail | be elevated, surface, depressed or undergroan | No action shail be taken in the construction such road unul the consent im writing of the | owners Of one-halt of tue property Interest shail be obtained, and, In case such consent cannoy be obtained, application mu ade to the General ; Term of the Suprem hall, alter a | fuil hearing, determine whet! He road OUgHE to be constrneted, when such devermination may be ' taken in Hen Of the consent of the property own- | ers. Tne consent of the local autuories must be obtained within one year and that ol the property owners WIthin two ye; uter filing sriaces of associauon, otherwise the corporate existence of | the company shall ceas ‘Tue local authorities | n r refe 1 to are autnorzed to termine whit ratlroads are needed i cities and and aecice upon their character and , In such causes they shall advertise such rmination, with a iull statement of the loca- | tion and character of the rente, and also that they | Wil consen: to the coustruction and maintenance OF such road or roads by any persons who will con- | | form tg the conditions annexed to the consent, | ‘The priviiege to coustrnet and operate suena ro: shall be sold at pudiie guction to the nignest vids | der, Wino cent of the purehass | “money at tre aad suca bidder may at | proceed to associate Limselt with a satticient of persons to lorm a corporauion, In case rporation thus formed is uoavle to obtain the ASeNE O1 ENE pre or favo ction | the Supreme Court, the purchase money shall be reinnéed and the purchaser released from all | ooligation m toe premises, H Wil not our Legisiature take immediate action on some OL These rapid transit bulls? Are the joos | ‘of corpo nd pouticiuns to take precedéuce | of this yant or the peo ia New York etiy 7 | ; INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES, o study, and d our nights Vesiigating the of their I mine cases out oF ten, to use & ely phrase, “ihe pot cating the Kectle black,’ | might apply micely to some of these investiga. | tions. We have now high courts of linpeachment | ugurated to find out the followin, What | ome of aly the brick apd stone said to W Capito! pulld- L Wood, trom Syracuse, insert in the Supply pul or jas year, without au- | thority, an trem Of £19,000 tor salary of Super. | of the new Captioly’ “Dia the working In the Interest of the Futh | avenue poultice job, resort to forgery so as to en- Nance the profits of tne scheme Is Senator Thompson to be ousted from nis seat and Mr. You- Mans to become his successor tor the balance the term: In my opinion these investigations (yrovably witht te eXception or the Firth avenue matter) Will end in “sound and tary, sigaltving notaing.” There is some tall awearig op both sides Mm the case of The Beecher Jury will have an easier to arrive ata concin- sou [nan too Committees appomwmted trom both huuses in this controve Some of the immacniate judges who ready raise tne | oul’ of “swindle,” geous,”) “infa- m sa borin &e, had better Jook to thelr own conduct first, Peope in gies honses should nov thiow stones, Over £5,000,000 are sald to have xpended in binding the new Capitol — so ontractors swear they would or 10,000, takea if, and then inal estunates Would do not difier very mues, as Jar as tsee, irom New York contra ‘The new Cont House is a glorious monument to the industry and enterprize or the iatter. People not Contract on pubic matters to lose mon ob, ho, Tae dear & : al enart they Dave | coutractors. Te new | re all poor men, and they low. PROGRAMAS. delegation of protinent citl Senate Committee ou Cites, 1 | © Costigan bik the mati VEne oF doctrine, the great pedestal on wien Was rounded Mayor Wiekhan’s urgament im javor ofthe passage ot this vill, seems To have received a sudden shock m thea pomtment oF General ritz Jou Porter, trom tue | Atate of New Jersey. That delicious neeiar + sey lignining’ could not have struck hi nore — torcibly tender our democratic in Aibany, than pecuilar selecttou for ty sioner of Public otaer— itnportant , lore the same ‘inesday t ONS DELO: reument on contention 80 L ne | ot dd this posiuoa of Commir- Works. bills tk committee Among y¥ ww come next week the | be- Sal aemocratic journals bewildered and begutied the peopie so generally that the republican party was | constrained to accept it as an issue in tue recent | Presidential canvass. But now that this theory is about to be tested, however plausibie as a theory, it will be jound utterly impracticable, * * * * ‘The rule laid down by Mr. Jefferson, regulating civil service appointments, was, atter all, the golden one, The question he asked was, “Is he honest, capable and laithiul to the constitution ¥’ Neither time nor experience Jurnishes any better test than this, No system of policy which practi- cally and arbitrarily excludes ntne-tenths or tonr- fifths of American electors from Jair, open and equal competition for the civil service of the gov- ernment can be put into practice. Nor, ifit were possible to do so, would it work weil, for when e: tablished at least two sharpers for one honest man would pass the examinations. The best and | irnest service that the people ean render tne country 13, first, to elect capable and enlightened | “anlers and then require sach ralers to fill the civil service with honest men. Jt 1s not consti- tutions or laws or systems or peltcies or pro- grammes on which the salety of the government and the wellare of the people depend, The gen- eral security and individual prosperity rest upon the men chosen and selected to obey and execute the constitution and laws, These views, iollowing so closely upon the heels ofa Presiuen and prematurely expressed, however received now, will not walt long for general approval. What was prophetic becomes historical. Tne President has announced the abandonment of the civil service reform to his Cabinet, that in- stractions in accordance with this determination may be transmitted to civil service poards, &c., &o, Thus ends a very plausible and, for the time being, a very popular experiment, I made an earnest but ineffectual effort to arrest the progress through Congress of a like plausible and popular, but most pernicious a tempt to constrain “social equality” between two radically and unchangeabiy aistinct and different races. Most of the republican journals admit that the Civil Rights pill, as introduced by the late Senator Sumner, contained this obnoxious feavure, but that it had stricken out, and the bill as it passed the Houggof Representatives was free from such objectio! This is partly true and partly erroneous. hotel, restaurant aud theatre provisions in the Mill, to which I ob- Jected before it passed either house, relate dis- tinctiy to tne social the parties interested, And this will everywhere be the judical construction and the practical effect of the provisions reierred to, Mr, Sumner was a monomaniac on the subjects to which his Ctvil Rights bill referred, if his ex- treme views and measnres on all questions con- nected with slavery before, during and after the revellion had not been met and modified by his calmer colleagues, have been imperilied if not lost, So tar did the ultra teachings of Sepators sumner, Wade, Chandler, &c., alarm the Northern people tn 1862 that the Union party lost the State of New York and was almost deaten in several other States, Nothing then saved Maine but the good | sense of her Republican State Committee in muz- wling radical speakers, But while it 1s true that the worst features of | Mr. Sumner’s Civil Rights bill were stricken out, enough remains to occasion wideapread popular annoyance and mi-chief, And in all the collisions, | » complications and litigations resulting from it those whom the law was designed to benefit wilt be the sufferers. The Civil Rignts law will bring nothing but disappointment and vexation to the colored men, After afew abortive attempts to enforce it things will settle down inthe eld way, Jeaving questions of social equality to regulate themselves. The best that can be noped tor ts tuat the law will become a dead letter. Mean- time, What 18 most to be regretted 1s that tue re- publican party willbe held responsible tor what- ever of obloquy impractical legisiation bas or may provoke. 1 W. FRUITS OF IMMORALITY. Yesterday evening an unmarried woman, a Stranger, totally destituce, made her way into the premises No. 58 Box street, Greenport, and alter receiviug some little assistance was taken so ii that the police were sent ior, .Belore medical aid reached ner, however, she gave birth to @ still | born child, Ambulance Surgeon Lindley eubser quently removed ber to the Hospital, al canvass in which both parties | advocated civil service reform, though crudely | wellas the civil rights of | the Union would | IN MEMORIAM. THE LODGE SORROW OF THE ORDER 08 ELES. the scene of an unusually sol- ive ceremony yesterday aiter- noon, The members and ‘riends of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks assembied together, in a “Lodge of Sorrow,” to pay the last tribute of respect to the dead brothers of the Order. The last ceremony ot this kind followed the death of James W. Lingard in the autumn ot 1870. The services yesterday were in memory ot the following departed brothers :— James A. Oates, who died July 4, 1871; Patrick Maddern, Augnst’ 12, 1871; Ruey Haghes, Novem- ber 10, 1871; Wild: neppard, July 8 1872: Wile jam M. Reeve, August 1i, 18/2; Henry Mason, Fevruary 22, 1 Wiltam P, Kepler, August 4, 573; Jobn Muhigan, July 28, 1873; Jacob Wer- (prolessionally Known as Jaco Carter), Au- Wiliam Sanders. ember 1d Smith, December 10, December 30, 1874; Gee Ko! Campbell), Jan- anderson, ‘(pro- Seymour), Febraary 2 fessionally known as Nelse {| 1875. ‘The hall was very appropriately draped, Loug strips of crape starting trom the corners of the room, above the palcony, were brought together in a festoon tn the centre of uns ceiling. The front | of the entire balcony was covered with a black pall, edged with white, along which, ac regular 1n- tervals. were shields, bearing the names of the departed, Inthe rear of the stage a great mass of Diack drapery was gatnered back from the cen- tre and held on each side by a golden cupid, thus revealing benind, in burning gas jets, the words, “In Memorium.’’ In the centre of the hail, sur- rounded by the members, placed im the form of & hollow square, was @ raised dais, upon which @ eofin, covered with a pall, was placed. At each of the tour corners of the Taised piatiorm huge pots of exotics exhaled their Jragrance. Close to the bier, sat eight xnignis in Juil regaita, The ball was slightly darkened betore the beginning of the ceremoutes; but as the gaa Was graduady turned on the large chandeliers, the departing shadows cast over the large assem- blage of solemn faces a cold, weird glamour. The entire ceremony Was one of unusual solemuity, The iow and*mourniul dirge, which Professor Louis Berge executed oa the organ, floated out dreamily over the heads of the audience and an- nounced that the hour for the solemo service had come, At the close of the airge the presiding of- cer, frank Girard, EF. R., aunounced a prayer by the Key. Dr. Porteous, of Brooklyn, The minister, | robed in deepest black, advanced to the edge of | the rostrum and uttered ashort but impressive | myseation, A hymn, with organ accompaniment, was then sung by Messra, Walz, Kelly, Post and Norrie, of Brywnt's Minstrels, A general eulogy upon the deceased members | of the fraternity, written by A, ‘I, Brown, | Was read” by” Willard Ballard, substan | tially as follows:-—“Wnatever may be the | ‘¢ of sympathy, or however it may ited. nothing is more pleasing than to re- call to mind the virtuous dead, ‘he veneration which we owe those who have by their virtues im lle gained our affections should claim from us some tribute of respect. ‘Co the Iriends and acquaint- ances of onr departed brothers tt must be a grati- fication to be remindea of their truly amiable dise pos tion and uniform exempiary and friendly de- portment, Which bound together im the ties of Irlendship and love hearts whica have only been separated lor a time by the unerrimg hand of Geato, ‘To ther relatives it must be doubly grati- jyiug to Know that they have left their transitory scene of existence in the full enjoyment of Chrise tlan hope. 1 envy not the feelings of the man who Nath no desire thas when he 1s dead tne living Should praise him, for 1 regard it as an evidence of moral depravity when the good die ‘and no man layeth it to his heart,’ ‘The * Rock of Ages ” was then sung by the quar. bette, Messrs. Walz, Kelly, Post and Norrie, Louis C, Waehner pronounced a eulogy on the late Nelse Seymour, and James M, Ward patd a sim- | llar tribute to the memory ot J. C. Campoell. The Roy, Dr. Porteus then made some remarks Upon the scandalous manner in which tne theat+ rical profession bad been treatea by the clergy and pretended Christians. He thanked God thata bevter era ot Caristianity had dawned. He ten- dered the most generous condolence to the iriende ot the departed. He urged that there be no more mourning from the relatives, for death was the portion of every one. The closing exnortation te the audience was deeply affecting. “Ola Hundrea” was then suvg by the entire Gudience, which ended the ceremonies, Among | others present were Frank Girard, E. R.; Charies iT. White, B. L, K.; Claude Goldie, E. L. K.; Coot Waite, G. L. A. Brown, Chaplain; Joseph F. T. Waring, ‘Treasurer; Robert S. Martin, Secretar: Wiliam B. Mackey, Inner Guard: George J, Green, | Henry P, O'Neil, A, E. Georgi, Tony Pastor, John Smith, Charles T. White, George S. Knight, Gus Wiliams, Joon Wid, Ed. Goodiag, Archivalc Hughes, Rooert and William Hart, Fred Walta John Field, Wiliam Gray and W. H. Kice. THE DEATH OF MRS. SCHEIRER. An inquest was held-at the corner of Yates place and Broadway, Williamsburg, by Coroner Noian on the body of Frances Scheirer, aged twenty-four years, who died on Saturaay after. noon sy suddenly that Dr. Rappold, her attending hysiclan, would not give a certificate of death. he post-mortem revealed that the woman died from inflammation of the bowels and starvation, and a verdict to that effect was rendered by the jury. Rumors of ton! play at the nands of the husband had induced Captain Kaiser to place tim under police surveillance, out on the rendition of the verdict he was allowed Ms liberty. THE LUNGS ARE AS TENDER AS LACK, WHY Pr, nit them to be torn to pieces with cougeing when Fs LONRY OF HonenouNn Axv tam Will stop the Paroxysms. 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