The New York Herald Newspaper, July 1, 1876, Page 3

THE CENTENNIAL STATE Colorado to Come In as the Thirty- Eighth in the Union. DISCOVERY OF GOLD. Rush of Adventurers to Pike’s Peak in 1857. THE Wonderful Development of Ter- ritorial Resources, ; After a long struggle to got rid of Territorial leading Strings, the people of Colorado vote to-day on the question of adopting whe recently formed constitution preparatory to ber admission into the Union on equal terms with tne original States, There appcars to have been but litle euthusiasm in favor of the movement, and fears prevailed among the advocates of Statehood that the opposition, though quiet and unorganized, would prove strong at the polls. These apprehensions, however, disappeared, and no doubt is entertained that President Grant will have the satisfaction ata very ear!y day of issuing the proclamation authorized by the Enabling act of February, 1875, proclaiming Colorado « Btate of the Union. It 18 now nearly ten years since any addition wus made to the roll of States. Nebraska came 1p early in 1867, Congress having passed the bill for the purpose over President Jobnson’s veto. The growth and development of Colorado since 1866 have been most remarkable, Twenty years ago there was not a score of white in- habtiants within its boundaries’ and there appeured little prospect of an early settlement of the country. The discovery of extensive gold and silver deposits, extending through a belt fitty miles wide,. strctching north and south across tho central portion of\he Territory, brought to it population and capital, nd has made Colorado wealthier than was lowa, Oregon, Minnesota, Nevada, Kansas or Nebraska when ejimitted into the Union, ita chief towns are substan. hally built with brick structures on broad and welj jocated streets. Denver, the capital, has a population * pf over 20,000 souls, Pueblo and Goorgetown have each 6,000. Centtal city, situated in the gold mining belt, contains 4,000. An excellent school system exists. There are 130 churches in Colorado and seven daily newspapers, over thirty weekly and five ma wines published in the Territory. Colorado is ina good financial condition. No Territorial tax was levied in 1873 and only one mill and a half the yearafier, A Dalanve of $25,000 1s reported in the Treasury. CORONADO'S EXPEDITION. The first well authenticated account of the discovery of what is now Colorado is the record of the expedition Sent out in 1540 by order of the Viceroy Mendoca under Vasquez Coronado, It consisted of 350 Spaniards and 8v0 Indians. Starting from Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, on the borders of the Gulf of California, they reached the sources of the Gila, passed across the mountains to the Rio del Norte, wintered twice in New Mexico and explored it from the north to the south. The expeaition afterward took a northeasterly course and procecded as {ar north as the fortieth parallel, un- der which is the site of the present Boulaer City. Finding no gold Coronado returned to Mexico, The Spaniards did not re-enter the country till 1581, and it Was soon after left in the undisputed possession of the Indians, In our own day the first discovery and exploration of the region wae effected by Zebulon® M. Pike, an officer of the United States Army, ! who in 1806 was placed at the head of a government expedition to examine the distant Rocky Mountain regions, The high and towering peak called after the leader of the party is one of the loftiest in the world. Dr. James, the surgeon of the expedition, was the first white man, as far as is known, whose foot over trod the eammit of ’3 Peak, a name which, twelve or thirteen years ago, it will be remembered, was heard from one end of the country to the other as the centre of anew El Dorado. In 1820 another expedition, under Colonel S. H. Long, visited the country, and in 1842 pecurred Fremont’s overland journey to the Pacific. Rufus B. Sage, with a party of trappers, about this period found a few settlements of whites and half- breeds in the Territory. ‘hore was then a rading post at Pueblo, the site of the present town of that name, occtpied by ten or twelve Americans, who were mar- ried to Mexican women ana carrying on a brivk busi- ness with the Indians By this time the existence of gold and other valuable mincrals was suspected, and Bage’s observations during excursions in the moun- tains confirmed him in this belief, It was THE COMMERCIAL COLLAPSE OF 1857, that set many adventurous spirits in the West peering ° {nto the obscurity beyoud them for a new field of en- terprise. A party of Cherokee Indians travelling west- ward to California in 1852 by some means found gold on the banks of a creek in the region, and each year thereafter parties of Gherokees had gone out and pros- pected the streams in the vicinity of what 16 now Den- ver City. glittering dust, which they carried home in 1857, ex- bibiting it frev'y as they passed through Kansas and Nebracka. The report of a new land of gold spread like an opidemic throughout the Western, Atlantic and Southern States. The Indians seemed to have tarried their story to their old wigwams on the con fines of the Gulf of Mexico, for Georgians were among the first to seck their fortunes at Pike's Peak. W. G. Russell, a citizen of that State, organized @ party and proceeded West. In 1868 he found gold on Dry Creek, about seven miles south of Denver. These discoveries soon became kncwn far and wide, and @ stream of emigration commenced to pour iato an almost upin- habited region that for centuries was nearly entirely unknown to the civilized world, and which in less than twenty years has grown in prosperity, development, Population and influence in commerctal circles 11 ry quarter of the globe to a degree hardly ever paralleled, except in the case of California. EARLY POLITICAL ORGANIZATION, Dr. Bussell had a township surveyed which be christened Aurora, bis party having come trom a yil- lage of that name in Georgia. The region war within the bounvarics of Kansas A county was defined and called Arapabos, after a neighboring tribe of Indians, 4 Delegate at tuis early date was elected to Congress and instructed ‘to get the 's Ponk gold mines set wrt asa new Territory. A Represeataty to the ‘Ansaé Legisiavure was chosen at thesame time. The Delegate set off tor Washington, but ied to accom. plist anything. In September,1859, a convention as- Semblvd which was ationded by 167 delegates, repre- Benuing forty-six precincts. A constitution was pre- pared abd submitter to tho people, but rejected by them, it being considered that the time had not yet rived for Colorado to arsume the dignity of State. hood. Ascheme for a provisional government had been concocted in view of the result first stated. Another convertion met which determined to declare ike’s Peak # Territory, to be known as the Territory of jefferson. Horace Greeley visited Denver in 1560, and ster examining the various miaing operations pre- ficted a vast future for Colorado. He advocated the formation of a new State, and trusted one might be ma and brought into the Union without going through the troublesome and undemocratic form of a Territorial organization. ‘The act of Congress organiz- Colorado as a Territory was approved February 2%, i 1861. THR ENARUL Since that period toere hi {nm javor of admission into the Umon asa Static. tions bi come along to Wastington yearly asking tor the passage of a law looking to that result. In 1864 a enabling act was passed! for Nevada, Nebraska and Cdl- prado, under which th two former became State: Yhough Andy Johnson ifterposed hix veto ot the mea a By lapse of md Colorado failed to be admitted. The bull was again suljmitted to Congress a doth houses twice and was twice v by the Presi- re presented in 1874. and finally clf, 1875, “An act to enable the peo- ple of Lolorado to iprm a constitution and State govern. ment and for the gamission of said State into the Union on an equal footigg with the original States’ was ap- Proved by iGrant. Under its provisions a cou- vention assem at Denver on the 20th of Decomber last and perfe the adopt act oF 1 always Seen a strong party r rejection of the instrument wi y pard thi THE NEW STATR contains 106,000 square miles, and was t of portions of Utah, Kansas and New jatter being to the south and the two pectively to tne westand east. [tis within degrees of latitude ax Virginia and tne part of Pennsylvania. Colorado is intersected nd south near the centre by thi ky Mor ich here attain their greatest elevation. Two indred peaks ate nearly 13,000 ieet bigh, and about bwenty-fh 000 feet. The undulating prairies and valleys are covered with innumerable heads ot caitle horses that grazeon the nutritious bench grasn abounds in the country. The most remarkable okan -tesetic ab-tlolnrnda ie jie nerk eyetem, Ap renee ‘At last they obtained a few ounces of the | Peti- | passed | | recite His history merely, but feel Christ and sce and form the headwasers of all the great rivers that rise within its boundaries. These valleys are clothed, ns stated, with luxuriant grasses and flowers, plants of various species, and possess an extremely fertile soil. The hilis are cove with de forests of pine, in elk deer are very numerous. Medical waters possessing rare wal properties, are ful, woile salt and coal beds seem to underlie the entire surface, Vaet deposits of useful minerals of almost every kind occur in nearly every part of | Colorado, HOW COLORADO STANDS. In 1869 there was not one mile of ratiroad on the eur- face of Colorado. It is now pet ated from east to west by three great lines of railroads—the Union Pa- cific, skirting its northern boundary; the Kansas Pacific, entering it about midway north and south, and the, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé, entering in the great | valley of the Arkansas River in the most scuthern por- tion. Besides, unere are several local roads in opera- tion, making. a total of 660 miles, all centring in | Denver City, Their total cost is about $12,000,000, Emigration, which always foilo Taitroads, has been very large during the it fve years. The Denver and | Rio Grande was the first narrow gauge road built in the United States, The gauge is tnree feet; tho rails weigh thirty pounds to the yard. The production of gold and anpuaily, The amount deposited in the m the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, was—gold $1,429, 986, silver $2,283,155. Since 1859 it 16 estimated that Colo- rado has supplied trom its mines over $70,000,000 of the precious metals to the commerce of the world. There are nearly 2,000 miles of telegraph in whe Terri. | tory; irrigating canals, 850 miles, that cost $500,000; reduction and smelting works valued at $3,000,000. shere 7,000,000 acres of land susceptibie of cu'tt- vation, which would be greatly enlarged by a 8; of irrigation which as a State will be adopted. re are 1,500,000 acres of improved tand, valued at $10,000,c00. The agricultural productions are staicd + $6,750,000 as follows :— Annual sale of cereals. ... Annual sale of live stock. Annual sale of wool, Annual gale of flo ‘Annoal sale of dairy Annual sale of lumber. Value of cattle. Value of horses, Value of sheep.. Mt ‘500,000 | Tho assessed value of the property of the Territory | 1s about $50,000,000; its real value is double that sum. The population is claimed to b: 160,000, based ou the latest election returns; but on this point there is some | room for doubt, There are 248 school districts and an estimated school population of 17,000. The registered vote of Colorado 1s 25,000, and here 1s no question | as to considerable streams of emigrants constantly sct- ting in the country, the figures above given may not | be very mach out of the way. However, it 1s insisted that no Territory when admitted into the Union pre- | sented such favorable statistics of wealth, population and development as does Colorado. OBJECTIONS TO THK CONSTITUTION. | The objections urged by a portion of the people of | Colorado against a-suming the responsibility of State- | bood were that the Territory was nut ready in point of | wealth and population to sustain ¢) ob\igations of | sach a political position; that the constitutton was | foctive in many respects, particularly @& discriminat- | ing in favor of the mining interests as against the | agricultural, and that it was not acceptable to others in | its provisions relative to common schools. Mines are | Bot to be subject to taxation until alter ten years from | the time of the adoption of the constitution, and some | farmers contended that it was designed that the towns | should be benefited by emigration to the exclusion of | the country districts, Again, the law for the registration for voters was suspended by tho Convention, and it was very plainly intimated that this opened the door to fraud at tho ballot box. One good provision ci the constitntion, however, 1s that providing that witnesses in criminal cases shall not be detained in prison in | any caso until the-trial of the offender. A plan is pro- | vided for taking testimony in such casos beiore trial. | ‘The entiro Territorial! press finally came to the support Of the constitution. It was declared the people were impatient of Congressional control; were dissatistied | with thesdea of remaining longer in leading strings, rejected the imputation that Colorado Is | not strong enough and rich enough for self-government and self-eupport. So she comes in as the Centennial State and thirty-eighth of the American Union. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE. | MEETING OF THE NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL OR- GANIZATION—ADDRESSES BY CHANCELLOR CROSBY AXD DA. DURYRA. Sea Grovs, Care May Port, June 30, 1) The National Sunday School Conference reassembled this morning, Mr. J. Bennett Tyler presiding The Rev. Chancellor Howard Crosoy, D. D., of New York, deliverod the first addrosa, a description of Solomon’s temple in the light of tho latest discoveries, by which | many disputed points have been settied and the origin of mauy ecclesiastic usages of the present day, in the way of church architecture, have beon established. The Rev. J. T. Duryea, D. D., of Brooklyn, followed in a very interesting and eloquent disconrse upon tho | “Use of the Imagination in Studying the Bible.” He described imagination as that faculty by which we re- produce all that we bave seen or heard. No history, especially that of the Bible, can be understood or ap- | Preciated without the use of the imagination. It does not create; it only makes use of actnai knowledge. It is not fiction, bat truth and fact. ‘What we receive by it is as trne a what we see. The most beautiful drawing {is only black marks ou white paper without the exercise of the imagination, The whole light of our mind is from the lamp of tho eS. No teacher had a right to teach the Bible without the most thorough knowl- | edge of the times in which it was written, the lives ot the men who wrote it and to whom it was written, | the geography of the countries it described and every | accessible fact helping us to know every circumstance relating thereto, In studying bistory we must know | geography. We must havo amap belore our eyes, and | how can we do that without the help of the | imagination? The only way to understand sacred history is to ve able tw carry our- selves: back among the ople — themselves, | to throw ourselves back into the spirit of the age. You must inspire with lito the people and live with them. Bible history is conceived and written in the imagination and understood through it. Describing the diflerence in histories, be contrasted two ecciesias tieal works, One was a dead, monotonous chronicle a dead body tying under the scalpel of the anatomist ; the other a living. breathing image of the time and the men, their thoughts and hives. Dr. Duryea earnestly ad) ited a more thorough traiming of teachers and | ministers.’ He would not allow any minister to preach Ch ‘who could not close His eyes and foliow Christ from Bethlehem to the crucifixion; not hear him. A man without magnetism could not be a moral being, for man could not be susceptible without | motive, and a motive is only forcibie through the imagination, Dr. Duryea’s address was replete with the most forcible tilustrations. One could not even get the meaving of the Twenty-third Psulm without a knowledge of the physical appearance of the Holy Land. Man must know something of | its terribly dark and awful ravines, through which | David passed, w'th his sheep haddling about bim, | when he was a shepherd, to know what it means when | he says that though he passes through the valley of | the shadow of death he would fear nothing. It was | not physical death he meant, but the vague terrors of tho shadowy valleys. Other clergymen and lay members also delivered ad- dresses upon the best method of conducting Sunday scheol classes. OBITUARY. JUDGE J. F. LYND. Jadge James F. Lyod, of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadeiphia, a well known jurist and estimable citi- zen, died at his residence in Philadelphia yesterday morning. COUNTESS OF BEAUCHAMP. A cable telegram from London, under date of yester- day, announces the occurrenco of the death of the Countess of Beauchamp. The deceased, Lady Mary Catherine Stanhope, was the only daughter of rbilip Henry, filth Ear! of Stanhope. Sho was married to the Karl of Beauchamp on the 18th of February, 1968, and has bed four children, CHARLES A. BABCOCK, UNITED STATES NAVY. A telegram from New Orleans, under date of yester- day, teports:—'‘Commander Charles A. Babcock, commanding the ironclad Canonicus, died sud- deniy yesterday, and was buried to-day with military honors. The escort included, by 1pvi. tation, the Washington Artillery and Conti- nental Guarda” The deceased officer, Charles A, Babcock, Commander im the United States Navy, was ive of the State of New York, but was appointed t service from Michigan, of which State he had become a reskient. His first entry was on the ith of April, e year 1850. His latest commission bears date 28th of October, 11 the period of the termi tion of bis last cruise. je Was esteemed as a faithful officer and a genial companion. SOUTH CAROLINA L FICIENCY IN THE STATE TREASURY TO MEET JULY PAYMENTS. CHaRL aston, J 80, 1876. The State Treasurer announces that, im consequence of the payment of a large proportion of the taxes in bills of the State, made receivable for taxes by a de- creo of the Uniied States Supreme Court, there is but $25,000 in the State Treasury available to pay $73,000 of interest on consolidation bonds due to-morrow, leaving a deficit of $48,000 to be provided for by the Legislature next November, TEREST. A FACTORY BURNED. Fact Rivea, Mass, June 30, 1876, | ments for a grand ratification meeting. Hackers & Watscn's bleaching and dye works at Swanzey, Mase., wero totally dertroyed by firo this | morning. The Joss is estimated at $20,000; insurance 5,000 in @ Pawtucket (R. Lj) company. About $800 worth ot siock belonging to the Catier Manufacturing i wae ne . | that Tilden was a retorm LOCAL POLITICS. MEETINGS IN THE VARIOUS DISTRICTS NIGHT. The anti-Tammany Democratic General Committee of the Sixth Assembly district held a large and enthu- Siastic ratification meeting last evening at the corner of Columbia and Broome streets. The meeting was callod to order by the Hon. Michael Healy, who de- livered an address. After adopting resolutions reaflirming their action of January “1, 1876, at which meeting they nominated Hon. Samuel J, Tilden for President, Mesers. Jobn J. Shevlin, Mhurice S. Debries, RB. J. O'Reilly apd other citizens of the district delivered speeches heartily indorsing Samuel J. Tilden for President and Thomas A. Hendricks for Vice President. During the address delivered by Hon. Michael Healy a large and magopifi- cent banner was raised bearing the names of Samuel J. Tilden for President and Thomas A. Hendricks for Vice President amid the playing of music and setting off of fireworks. The meeting adjourned with hearty cheers for their candidates. The Independent Democratic Association of the Eighth Assembly district held an immenso ratification meeting last evening at their rooms, Nos. 77 and 79 Essex street near Grand. Dr. Brandes, President of the Association, occupied the chair, and specches were delivered by Meners. Nolan, Andrews, ex-Coroner Grover, Simon Stern and others. A ‘set of reso: lutions were adopted, indorsing the nominees of the St. Louis Convention, and eulogizing in strong terms the platform of the party. After the meeting the mem- bers of the association formed themselves in procession, eVery man carrying a torch, and, headed by a band, proceeded through the sircets in the neighborhood, filling the air with sparks from rockets, Roman cauales, As the head of the procession reacted the corner and street, returning, a magnificent banner, bear- ing the names of Samuel J. Tilden for President, and Thomas A. Hendricks for Vice President, was swung across the streot amid the lusty cheers of atleast’ = 8,000 people who had assembled around tho rooma, | of the association. The crowd was so dense and the fiz.and glare of rockets and reports of torpedoes 80 con- tinuous that for a time all travel in the Grand street cars was stopped, and when the excitement had be- come somewhat subdued coven then it was with the greatest dilticulty the drivers could keep from running over persons standing on the track, as the horses had become almoet unmanageable. Taken altogether it Was one of the most successful meetings since the open'ng of the campaign and would remind one of old times in New York, The German democrats of the Twentieth Assembly district held a meetmg last evening at No. 767 Third | avenue, and unanimously indorsed the nominations of Tilden and Hendricks. The attendance was large and resoluttons in favor of the St. Louis candidates were passed, Early next week the club intends to hold a mass ratitication meeting. The independent labor party feel themselves in an awkward position since the St, Louis Convention. They joined in with the greenback party some ume ago, and that party seems to bave utterly ignored them lately. They are pledged to support Mr. Poter Cooper for the Presidency, and up to the present they are completely uninformed as to whether that gentle- man will stand or not At the regular weekiy mecting last evening several members expressed great dissatisiaction at the President, W. A. Carsey, not hav- | ing communicated to the association any information as to what course he had taken at St. Louis, and the gen- eral opinion seemed to be that they would be compelled to indorée the nomination ot Tilden and Hendricks, Ou motion of Thomas F. Tally, a resoluvion was passed directing the Secretary to communicate with the Eastern members of Congress, asking them to co- | operate with those of the Pacific coast to mitigate in some manner the cvils arising from Chinese immigra- | tion, A business meeting of the Hayes and Wheeler Cam- paign Club of the Eighth Assembly di-trict was heid last evening at No. 63 Ludlow street, John N. Lanthier presiding. Kesolutions were adopted indorsing the Tepublican candidates and a committee appointed to conter with the German organizations with regard to working the district uuring the campaign for victory. DEMOCRATIC REJOICING, Last night the Young Me: Democratic Union Ciab celebrated | their twenty-fourth anniversary at the rooms of the, organization in Union square, Mr. Allan McDonald read a ber of letters expressing regret at inability to attend from Samuel H. Randall, Robert E. Withers, Scott Lord, Richard O'Gorman, Elijah Ward and others. Then Menzo Diefendort, in a concwe speech, referred to the organizatioa of the club, the ex:gency that called it into existence, and the course it should pursue in the future in order to secure the attainment of Its legitimate end, Mr. Algernon Sullivan followed him in avery spirited appeal in behalf of anion of effort im the coming cam- paigo. Ho said that Tilden, in assailing the Canai Ring, did precisely what his party propose doing to the cor rupt bureaus and iraudulent monopolies that have grown up and fattened on repubd- Nean patronage. Mr. Delano C. Calvin mace « very stir address, in which he urged his hearers to sacrifice private prejudices and ta join hands in the defence ot democratic principles and for the achievement of democratic prestige. Mr. Christopher Fine, Joun 0, Mott, Hon. John W. Knightly, of Indiana, and Hon. Richard Barrett, of Missouri, made very forcible speeches, in which they promised victory for the patiy by most magnif- | cent majorities. When the cheers which balled the Speakers had subsided the members and quests carried their speeches to the banquet table, where they were resumed and continued far into the night. FOR AND AGAINST TILDEM Philadelphia Times:—‘John Kelly promises to vote | for Tilden, and says he is capable of doing something for him. How much more harmonious the preceed- ings would have been if be had said this at the start!’’ Washington Republican:—'Are the loyal people of this country ready and willing to trust the confederato- copperhead-doughface democracy with the complete control of the government? tssue of the pending campaign.” Pittsburg Gazette:—“We hardly think the democracy, even with their ‘herd money -plank,’ have jast shown us the way out of the woods. The platform in dotail, however, will domand extended analysis again.”’ Cincinnati Commercial: —“It will not be necessary to carry the news to William Allon. a telegraphic operator.’ Springfield (Mass.) Republican:—‘‘One of Boss Kelly's minor mistakes was the summoning on of a gang of his New York shoulder-hitters—Aldermen and such, Sun- day morning and afternoon the St, Louis hotels and | barroums swarmed with them. Several times in the course of the day the police had to interfere, berant were the manifestations of their anti-Tilden zeal. By nightfall nost ot them were fighting drunk. | Naturally all the more decent delegates wero disgusted, By Monday morning Kelly discovered that he had com- mitted a blunder and called off his braisers. But the mischief was done.’? Williamsport (Pa.) Sun (dem.):— “Hurrah for hon- | esty vs. rascality !"” Utica Observer :—“The democracy rises gi from Sts long slumber, to win an aggrossive campaign under a standard bearer who dare to lead where any dare to follow. Samuel J. Tilden was nominated by a majority so overwhelming that the two-thirds rule ap- peared to be an amusing device for measuring the n- significance of the opposition to a man who was raised upin the proviaence of God to rescue the Republic from thieves in the hundredth year of its existeuee.”” Philadelphia Builetin:—‘‘As no real soldier of the Union can forget the insult of the Tilden peace resolu- tion of 1864, so no intelligent lover of his country can be misled by any of the cheap sophistrica of St. Loui Hartford Port:—''lt was a forry day tor Tammany. The suspicion is dawning upon the minds of the Sachems that they overdid the business," GERMAN REPUBLICAN COMMITTER, A special meeting of the German Republican Cen- trai Committee was held last evening at the Germania Assembiy Rooms for the dual object of indorsing the Domination of Hayes and Wheeler and making arrange- Noticos of the meeting had been extensively circulated among the members of the commitiee, but strange to say the at- tendance was by no means large and the proceedings throughout were marked by a lack of ge enthusi. asm rarely seeu in a German political meeting. Alter the ordinary routine business been trans. acted some excitement was created by the announce t ‘ams ware to be read from both Hayes ‘ne foliowing are copies :— Gannison's, New Yorn. bs "9 6 ‘ore marta President German Campaign Club, few Yor Please accept fe ‘ourself and tender to your eommitt my cordial thanks for your congratulatioun. “aang W. A. WHEBLER, Couvsunvs, Ohio. CENTRAL | To. A. Dervesnoxren, Monnis Favpax an OroLD ‘ork: Aceept my hearty thanks for your encouraging eongratu Iations. iB HAYES. A committee of one from each Assembly district in with twelve others outside the organization, pointed by the chairman, was then appointed to be held atan early date, The commist ext that the demeeratic nom: acceptable in form; that he bad tne Me ated ant thee num. | This is the pertinent | He was the guest of | The Departments Authorized to Use the Unexpended Balances. DANGER OF EMBARRASSMENT AVERTED, Anticipated Struggie Over the Transfer of the Indian Bureau. Action of the Senate on the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill. eet Wasntnctoy, June 30, 1876. In the Sevate to-day the Chair appointed as the new Conference Committee on the Post Office Appropria tion bill Messrs, West, Hamlin atte Maxey. , Mr. Monnitt, (rep.) of Me., trom the Conference Com- mittee on the Legislative Judiciary Bill, seported that the committee bad been unable to agree, He moved that the Senate Insist on its amendments to tho bill and ask for a new conference. STATRMBNT OF MR. MORRILI. Mr. Morne spoke of the differences between the two houses, stated at length by him a few days ago when the first report was submitted, and said the con ferees on the part of the Senato held that the at, tempt to check the law affecting salaries by an appro- priation bill was not just aud ought not to be forced on the Senate by the House, The committees had endea- vored to avoid the real difficulty and for that reason the conferees on the part of the Senate proposed to strike out the seoond section of the bill in regard to salaries and insert in New thereof the following ‘That there shall bo m special committee of four, two of he Presiding Officer of each ity it shall be to inyulre into the subject jouse, whore matter of the salaries of the clerks and officers of the Kxecu- tive Department, with aview tu «revision and avjuatment efficiency of the service, and make a teport of their d And provided thas any changes tn ke effeet from Jul, upon by Congross shail tal y 1, 1876, and persons who shall be affected ther nd who shall con- Sinue in thy service shall be deeme: have accopted the med t terms hereof and have acquiesced therein, To this the committec, on the part of the House, dis- sented and submitted the tollowing:— Atrike ont section 2 nnd insert the following :—That the sums herein appropriated as the compensation of the officers the gove fr be in full for tho tise shall otherwi al ys in 90 provide in t SECTION 4.—That a Joint select appointed Ly the presiding officer of each House, duty it shall be to inquire into the requisite number and proper sulnries of the oftice rks and employes in the several executive departments of tho government, with a view to a just and permanent adjustment of the same, having rocard to a Just eco: and efficiency of the ser vice. Bald Joint eommulttes. shall Jongress and shall ¢ their report thereon to the two honses on the first Monday of December next. Ths proposition did not avoid the diMculty, as it still contemplated tho fixing of salaries, Pending discussion the Cuaik laid before the Senate the joint resolution which passed the House this morn Ing in regard to appropriating unexpended balances for & period not to exceed ten days, and it waa reforred to the Committee on Appropriations. Mr, Antuony, of Rhode Islanu, said, as a large pum- ber of Senators were engaged upon conference com- mittees, he thought it would be economizing time to take a short recess, so a3 to allow the conference com- mittees opportunity to perfect the bilis, and not be con- stuntly calling them from their copsultations to vote in the Senate upon questio py. 4se moved for a re- cess till tour P.M. Agro Upon reassembiing Mr. Monit, of Maine, from the Committee Appropriations, reported back the bill | passed by the House this morning. to continue the ua. | expended balances to provide temporarily for the ex- penses of the government for a period not to exceed ten days, with an amendment providing that in cases where no sufficient unexpended balance remains on hand at thoclose of the fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1876, the Lecesary amount be appropriated out of any Money in tho Treasury, and no greater sum shail be expended under the act than — such proportional sum of the appropriation for the fiseul year ending June 30, 1876, as ten ’ time bears to the whole nseal of said year. After some discussion the bill was amended and agreed ti, a8 follows: TEXT OF THK MILL. An act to provide temporarily for tho expenditures of the government. Be {it enacted that for x period "3 ceeding ter days from and aiter the 30th da 1576, unless the regular appropriations shall have fiously made for the service of the, Useal year ending the doth day of June, 1877, ft shall be lawful to se for the necessary service of the government any nnexpenaed balance which may exist of the appropriation made for t of the government for the fiscal yon and in onse n: committee of four shail be yO been pre’ of the appropr out of any money in the Troasury mot othe: Ated, and no greater amount shail be expon nett uch proportional sum of th nding June iO. fl he o . sof the government under existing’ law. Alleums expended under this act shall be chargsd to, and. deducted irom the apvropriatiors for like service for the Bacal year ending Jame 0, 14.7. The Caw announced as the new Conference Com. Mittee on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Ap- propriation bill Messra. Morriil, Windom and Withers, | The amendment of the House to the bill to authorize the Congressional Printer to continue the publie print- ing, tixing the time at ten insteud of sixty days, was agreed wo andthe bill passed, The Senate then took up the Sundry Civil Appropria- tron bill. Mr. Wrxpom, in charge of the bill, said the amoant appropriated by the bill ux it camo {rom the House of | Represontatives was $15,254,731 32; to this the Senate | committee haa added $4,684,003 55; making the total | amount now proposed to be appropriated $19,941,334 The bill for the current fixcat year appropriated $20,459,853, He then explained various items of in- So exu- | crease, among them the following:—Fifty thousand | dollars tor the impeachinent trial of Belkaap, $612,000 | additional for public printing, $500,000 for general ex- penses of the District of Columbia, $70,000 additional | for mints and assay offices, $1,150,000 additional for public buildings throughout the country, $730,000 for | navy yards, £167,000 for tne Rock Island arsenal, $100,000 additional for the signal service; $130,000 tor the Capitol buildings and grounds and $187,500 for sur- veying public !enas, The amendment approprieting $50,000 to defray tho t-like expenses of the Senate tn the Belknap impeachment | was agreed to. ‘The provision of the House bill to pay George W. | Green, contestee in the Forty-first Congress in the con- | tested’ olection case of Green against Van Wyck, from | the Fourteenth district of New York, was, on motion of Me. Davis, stricken out then at fiye o’clock took a recess till half- . M. EVENING SESSION. | Upon renssembling at half-past seven the considera- | tion of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was re- suined, and the amendments proposed by the Commit tee on Appropriations were agreed to as follows:— Striking ont of House bill the eleuge appropriating $40,000 | to pay for reporting testimony before the se ‘commit- teen of the House of Keprosentatives of the present seasion. ing the appropriation for publte printing and bind. the Joint and binding the devates of tract to the lowest responsible beads of she va v8 and sam antl the President to | stead of having him elected by ate; appro ng $20,000 for lithogenaphing, mapping and engraving lor hot! | Houses of Conaress, the Supreme Court and the Court of imme; approprinting 8500,000 to on bebalf of the ited States, m portion of the general expemses of the Dis- | triet gf Columbia. 1 us reported an amend pe / con ry trict of Columbta, pro- ‘ommissioners of the District shall pay con- such service to the Bons dike anonnt out of the treasury of the District of C Mr. Epwenns opposed the amendment, and said this District Board of Health had grown to be an ex. pensive institution. He did not see any necessity for expending such rge amount in a city ike this, well paved and withont epidemic ot any characte’ Mr, Ronertsow, of South Carolina, also opposed the | amendment, and said the Committee on the D'strict currently | of Columbia, of which he was a member, bad mot been | consulted in regard to this amendment, | Mr. Inaatis, of Kansas, spoke of the duties of the Boart of Health, and said the sanitary condition of ptinenk eticat, sala the death rato in Richi of Conne aton ws more than | Charleston, New Haven, Hartford amendment was agreed to— The amendment mereasing the appro | revenue service from $747,647 19 (0 530 59 war explained by Mr. Wixnom, who said, though it looked | ae if there was a large increase, such waa not the case, | aa the House of Representatives had the unexpended balunce of ihe current fiscal year in addition to the | $747,647, which nade the whole amount about $26,000 | less than (he sum now proposed by the Senate Commit- tee on vations, Mr, Eaton, of Connecticut, spoke of the necessity of | making reduction» inthe expenditures forthe public | etvicd, and moved to amend by striking out | $900,550 59 and inserting in lieu thereof $874,500, Mr. Boutweit said for the sy; of the government, | devel mt of its resources and maiptaining of ite | rights he @as prepared © vote money trom che Treas- ury and tax the people, He nappenéd to know some. thing abou th a) bien ote Per Manteca Sey rar we Weohewten, v ne ee of the same, having due regard to & just economy aud the | ait during the recess af | | | | | | © $600,000, and that ior the appra | \ | yeas | Treasury building trom $10,000 to $25,000, and thav for | clauses appropriating $60,000 for a lightship and steam |.of the Committee on Appro) 2," roported a dill to authorize the varius executive departments, for which the regulat appropria- tion bills may mot be passed to-day, to use NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1876.—WITH SUP Ji NT cael THE APPROPRIATIONS pays The amendment of the commitice wasthen agreed to. The next amendment proposed by the committee was te strike out of the House vill, im the section making ap- propriation for the judiciary, the followin The sl'owance ¢ SBS per di ‘bil per year fo at all the provis 5 the United stati {lon of voters and the appa nt of supervisors of elec 8 and tue deputy aud spectsl deputy morsials, and ‘ouchin : the supervision of elcet ms, ar» bereby repealed. Mr. Wisvom said this provision of the House bill pro- Posed to repeal about six pages of a very important statute. The law was desigaed (o preserve the purity of elections, and the Committee on Appropriations thought it was nota proper subject to be considered Upou au appropriation bill, The amendment of the committee was agreed to— | nays 11—a party vote. { Tho other amendments of the committeee were agreed | to #8 follows :— locreasing the appropriation for judiotal purposes tn Utah trom $20,000 to $43,000, Increasing the appropriation for general repairs and | improvements to the Government Hospital for the Ip- | sane trom $5,000 to $15,000. | Various amendments pertaining to institutions in the | District of Culumuia were agreed to as follows ;— | Increasing the appropriation for the Columbia Hos. | Pital from $16,000 to $19,500, and appropriating $8,000 | for « mansard root for the bulluin; | Striking out of the House bill clauses appropriating | $10,000 the Industrial Home School, $10,000 for | Stauu’s Infant Asylum, and $5,000 for the Georgetown | General Hospital. Other amendments were agreed to as follow s:— Appropriating $6,000 to enable the Secretury of the | Treasury to bave the rebel archives and records of cap- | tured property examined and intormatiog furnished therefrom for tho use of the government; appropria- tiny $63,000 for machinery for inints; $60,000 for con- | Uinuation of the work on the Sub-Treasury and Post | Oflice at Boston; $225,000 for continuation of work on | the Custom House apd Sub-Treasury at Chicago; in- creasing the appropriation for continuing the work on | tho Cincinnati Custom House, from $200,000 to $300,000; appropriating $40,000 for completing the | Court House and Post Office at Trenton, N. | J.; increasing the appropriation for the new State, War and Navy departments’ building from $250,000 er's storey at San Francisco from $50,000 to $100,000; increasing the ppropriation for cvntinuing the work on the St. Louis Court House and Post Otfice trem $450,000 to $600,000, and that for completing the Court House and | Post Oflice av New York from $250. 000 to $300, 000, Appropriating $50,000 for the Custom House and | Post Office buijding at Albany, N. Y., and providing | that the cost of said building Sal ROL Exceed $600,000, Increasing the appropriation for repairs to the | | repairs abd proservation ot public buildings under the Treasury Departinent from $100,000 to $250,000, Appropriating $15,000 for the const house and fog signal at ble Me., $15,000 for building a lighthouse and tog bell at Round | Island, Straus of Mackinaw, and $12,000 tor a light- house and fog sigual at Little Traverse, Mich. The amendments of the committee to strike out the fog whietie for au je station and tor shore pur- | 98, and $10,000 for range lights at the mouth of the heboygan River, Michigan, were non-concurred in. <Amendinents appropriating $12,000 fur range lights at Tybec Knoll, Savannah River, $75,000 for an irc working aud finishing snop at Rock Island Arsenal increasing ihe appropriation for a rolliug mit and forging shop at that place, (rom $80.000 to $170,000, | and appropriating $25,000 for removing deposits from | pool of waler power were agreed to, the amenoment appropriating $500,000 for repairs | at the ditlerent nuvy yarus and stations was agreed to alter some digcussion; yeas, 26, ni Other amendments of the comm as foliows :— Appro priating $200,000 for continuing the work on the dry dock at Muro Island, Cal., and $30,000 for the porchane of torpedocs, and various amendments mak- bg appropriations for care of the public buildings aud | grounds aroond Washington, inciuding $143,000 fur the capitol building and grounds. | The House inserted a provision authorizing the sar. vey of tho Mississippi River from Cairo to New | Orleans, together with its various outlets to the Gulf, | Wilh the view of ascertaining the most effectual method of protecting the alluvial lands bordering upon its baoks from overtiow. ‘Yho Senate Committee reported an amenament to strike out this clause and {t was agreed to, The amendments proposed by the committe, in- creasing the appropriation for paper, engraving and printing the national currency from $175,000 to $200,000; for transportation ot United States securities from $25,000 to $50.000; ior furniture for the treasury from $75,000 to $100,000; tor pay of Janitors for public buildings trom $50,000 to $100,000, wero agreed to. The committee reported ab amoudment appropriating in the Treasury Depart. ment and $20,000 for t rary clerks 1 the oflice of the Treasuror of the Ui Mr. Eatox, of Connecticut, opposed the amendment, and argued that there was no necessity tor an extra clorical force-now, as the working hours in the depart. ment, had been increased about « year ago, Mr. Wivvom, in reply, stated it was necessary to employ an extra clerical force some times when thero ‘was an increase in the work. The amendment waa agreed to. Other amendments wore agreed to, as follows :-— Appropriating $40,000 for geographical eurveys of the Territories west ot the 100th meridian and $60,306 9 for continuing experiments in testing iron and stee!; $56,000 for collection and payment of bounty prize money and other claims of colored soldiers; $668,733 tor the support of the National Home for Disabled Volun- teer Soldiers; also a large namber of amendments making appropriations for surveying public lands in various States and Territories, amounting in the aggregate to $387,500, and appropriating $9,900 to ro. trace and conspicuously inark the boundary line be- tween Arkansas and the Indian Territory. The committees reported an amendment increasing the appropriation for expenses of collecting revenue from sales of public lands from $365,483 21 to $531,700, and it was agreed to The committee also reported an additional section to the bill appropriating $325,000 for | the purchase of the Freedinan’s Bank buiiding im | Wasisington, D. C, and it was agreed to. Tho bill having been considered in Committee of the Whole was reported to the Senate, and the amend- Ments made in the Committee of the Whole were con- curred in, Mr. Wixnom, of Minnesota, submitted an amend- ment continuing the unexpired balance of the appro: priation of $5,000 to pay the expenses of the United States Commission to the internationa! Penitentiary Congress which meets this year. Tho ameadment was opposed by Mr, Bogy and favored by Messrs. Hamlin, forrtl! of Maine, and Frelinghuysen, and, the yoas and nays being called for, resulted—yeas 23, nays 12 No quorum voting, the Senate at ten minutes past eleven P. M. adjourned. ACTION OF THE MOUS. In the House Mr. Ranaut, (dem.) of Pa., chairman 4, 11, eo were agreed to the unexpended balances up to the 10th of July. He | | | | | | | mendation had been for the cor | tens on the | year, reminded the Houso that President's Message the subject was without limitas to time, and thatthe joint resolution which passed the Senate yesterday was to extend Jor thirty days, The Commitee on Appro- priations was of the opinion that such legislation should originate in the House, and also that an exten- sion of ten days was all that was nocessary. Ho stated that four of the appropriation bills had both houses ana had become laws; that x of them were in conference com- wo remained unacted on by the Senate, tho Sandry Civil bill which had. been reported to the Senate yesterday, and the River and the ‘bor bill, which had not yet been reported the senate by its committee. The conference on 1 lative Appropriation bill Inst night had fatied and shat fact would be reported to the Senate this morning and afterward to tho House, and he expressed the hope that the Senate confréres would recommend assent to & proposition made by the House confreres, Mr. Honma, ( ) of Ind. (another member of the Appropriation Committee), stated that there wan a bal- ance of over $1,000,000 to the credit of the Pols Office Department, so that no embarrassment would occur in the postal service. Mr. Fowren, (rep.) of Ohio (another member of tho Appropriation Committee), asked Mr. Holman if he was sure of there being the balance of a $1,000,000 to | the credit of the Post Umice Department. | Mr. Hoimas replied that he could state with entire safety that the balance was. considerably over $1,000,000, itr, Witaox, (rep) of lowa, asked Mr. Randall whether there were unexpended balances to the credit of all the departmente. ir. Raxpant replied that the committee nad consid- ered that matter and had presumed that the President, betore he sent bik message on the subject, had con- kafted the Attorney Genera: and had ascertained the | tact of there being tnexpended balancer, Mr. WILson suggested that the Presideat’s recom- inuanee of appropria- same basis asthoseof the present tiscal d not for the use of unexpended balances. Mr. Rawpaus rephed that that was aboat the same th: Ld Mr, Wiisos—Then the question comes up whetner there aro unexpended balances to be applied in the way propored. ir. Raxvatt—We understand that this is the legis | lation which will remove any embarrassment. Mr. Buexsrn, (dem.) ot Mo.—is it the intention of the committee to back down out of ita position as to retrenchment? Mr. Kawpans, of Pennsylvanta—Vory trom it. This dill, to my mind, is just iD an opposite directio but we do not wish to embarrass the government = in My official position here | propose to resist to the end econsary appropriation and any @xtravagant ure. if. Lerreats, (dem.) of Cal.—Do you mean to stand by reduction, retrenchment and reform? Mr. Raxpatr—I ao. Mr Lurtnn.t~ That isthe tnik. Tho bill was then passo4. The Senate amendments to the House bill making temporary provision for tho ordinary expenses of the government for the next ten days were, on motion ot Mr. Kandail, of Pennsylvania, concarred in, and the bill was immediately sent to the President for his aig- nature. The House then, at a quarter past six, took a recess | One Hundred Thotsand Childr |} Mot thought worth while assembling tne chil! | Kennard: Maggie A. Kerr, Mary until eight olciock, ILLEGAL VOTING PUNISHED. ~ Alexawdér Lonin: Who was indicted for (Mega: was brought the Court of Si ne ae ee ae a et Ue hee ae Ter pie Closing the Public Schools City Yesterday. Free for Two, Months. LAST DAY .OF THE* pani Sean Tak Tho public schools of this etty closed yeste the summer vacation. This was by a revlutio by the Board of Education a few weeks ago, uf dismissal on Monday next, the eve of the Four each of the schouls, in accordance with the 1 the Board, the Declaration of Independence \ by the principal, and in some inétaucey the) record was read by the children of the sebook— » tions, Pho reading of the Declaration, which, posed to take place on the eve of the Fourih, only formality necessarily connected with the t up of the classes for the term. i The total numer of children registered as at at the schools on‘June 1 was 108,629. This lary ber of the population forms a little world } Among those who take but a passing interes) Public schoo} ‘life in the erty no idea can be fo the numverlese vexatious, ambitions, joys, defe of the thousand and one troubles and victorie, § b © these schoo! children have to bear or ‘crow’ jedaily, and whicn aro the sum and substance; existence. Now that these 100,000 children are,-#o to sp loose around the wards, without anything to ker minds occupied, they are sure to make ther *\+¢ promptly fel. For the one that may be able the cit} for a vacation, there are, no doubt, mo half a dozen who will have to remain here. I seom to be a matter of very grave considerate these children could best be armused fi ensuing two months, To the philanthropic pe | the city there is here a ctmnce to accomplish thing glorious in providing for thom abundant’ tunity for the healthy enjoyment of their vo time. This cannot be accomplished without org effort, and the subject has been under disc among some persons, who propose enjoying the Vacations in heiping to make the boys and girls schools to share in a few genuine holidays every Excursions, ut the cheapest possible rates, to be & an tif ‘School Children’s Parties,”’ have boo gested. THE YEAR'S LABOR, In reviewing the labor of the year the officials express themselves as satisiled’ wii schools, A good deal has beon done in the ¥ progress, And mach if expected from next year’s Se’ | causes of discontent have beea removed schools stand higher in the public estimation ever before. An especial advantage has been gn the increased interest takeu by the public gener the educational affairs of the city, It w felt that, with the exception of a very few gentiomen, the working of the school dependent upon official care only, without such # interest ip the development of the schoo 's as th cation of the children demanded. Though there ws still barely a marked im prov¢ inthe general anxiety to become familiar wip daily operation of our nage educational establisl sull itis understood that all the indications py the hope that next year there may be devel: sound ond eviar,ed interest im everything pert to the common schools of the city. COMMENCEMENTA. The commencemeats in the various wards bay going on fur the past few weeks, Avy one w attended one or more of thee canuot but have t the remarkable dogree of proticiency extubitet pupils, Most creditable displays wore made, and| ceptions proved in every ease to de entertainm: the pleasaniest characier, It wag a fact wortt tioning that in many of the schools the decorat the rooms were the result of the presents made parents of the children, and the attendance friends of the pupils at the exhibitions was fot larger. A few receptions were held yesterday & ing exercises, among which were the following: At Graminar School No, 24, of which Miss M A. McCosker is privcipal, tho halls wore nea orated, and a programme of exercises was carr both in the higher schoo) and the primary de; The Declaration of Independence was read in by the children. At Grammar School No, 1, in Dear Pearl, there were closing exercises inning at-cleven o'clock A. M., pres! ‘ohn G. McNary, the princi; 2 over ‘A Centennial raisod by the boys. and a patriotic display sw the occasion was induiged in. The commencement of Grammar School Thomnds avenue, Fordham, took place yestord: ing, beginning at nine o'clock. The pring William J, Kennard, presided. An interest | gramme of exercises was carried out, After © Ing chorag, recitations and declamation, chor solos preceded the distribation of semi-annui cates, presentation of diplomas and an addr; graduates. A “Graduates’ Song,” written Br casion, concluded the exercises. The grea Misses Josie A. Cockeron, Fannie Campbeli* . McNamar Whitten, and Masters John Brady, Wiiliam F Thomas F. Ging, Edward B. Keese, James 1 and Jobn ©. Tighe. GRAMMAR BCHOOL NO. 68. THe commencement exercises of G: No. 68 took place yesterday afternoon, be! al udience, The exhibition was a con and reflected much credit on Miss Lizzie son, the principal, and ber efficient staff of | * ants. Tho programme, which was varied chosen, was rendered in a style quite satisia | interested. A novel feature of the exhib concert recitation by twenty-four young > oationary experiments of this kind arev effort was periect rcises, and complimented son on the brilliant success achieved by Indies under her cai The graduating clast but what it lacked in numbers 18 mado _upit) Misses Maude M. Goodale, Louse O. Smut) J. Sturtevant composed the graduating clas FLAG RAISING. The interesting ceremony of a raisiay at Grammar School, No, a7, in 116th street avente, The principal of this is ‘arner, | the oldest under the Boar: tion. At two P. M. erday the ceremo. ++ ing the closing of the above school, their flag raising, Crany, Mr. Hosea Perkins aod others. ‘The exercises were of # very interestine Tho opening prayer being made by the Smith, of the 111th street Methodist Epise At the conclusion of the prayer the childr: in singing the national hy: “Americ: by Mr. Mitthauer on the corn tchum followed in an oxoe + patriotism and the lov the children. The entire school then joined in sing! 2 There.) At an opportune momenta |i \ raised from the roof of tbe rep! Excellent order was maintained by & ¢ ad icemen irom the T'weifth police precine: y Sergeant Armstrong. Many citizens witnessed: the ceremon being entirely filled, and the residents oppo’ school displayed many flags from the ut baleoni The annual reception of Primary Scho» , ee] esterday morning, at ball-past ‘ ‘ost Tenth street. The of Tras! « eral other invited guests, were present. ¥ wero highly tnteresting, and the profiel) © © ofthe school reflect groat credit a ate Pr and teachers. The declamations, singin, |» were excellent, and the recitations of tt rels’’ and the “Dead Dollie” were adm it + ven pupils so young. Addresses were mace }y {br son, Mr. Ely, Mr. Earle, Mr, we here exercises concluded with the song, Gueity,” sung by the whole sc! ST. MARY'S ACADEMY, Iii) m The annual Commencement exercia (/ » Academy of the parish of the Star Min iw held yesterday afternoon in the fae hi ¢ « Ing, which is located on Court stree) 9 j:° The hall was beautifully decorated, Oto audience was a large number of clerg: >». gramme was varied and entertaining (> 6%) ): the costames, dialogue, sor and refining, attesting, as thoronghness of the bestowed upon the children of the noble Sisters of Charity: it would be invidious to to say it wana proud day for the Cassidy; the Sisters, the sebolars friends of the latter. A CHANCE FOR FRI “hal somr The steamer General Sed, fitted and will inwagarate hy cursion to New Haven to-1 iw. Fe has beon made for the a band of masic wat excursionists duying the day. A @oOD 0