The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1877, Page 3

“WASI Severance of the National Admin- istration from Politics, THE POLICY OF ITS APPOINTMENTS Service to the Country in Lieu of Service to the Party. THE NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE. Complaint of a Displaced South- ern Republican. A RETURNING BOARD BETRAYED, . TOT See Te FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Wasuixetoy, Oct. 19, 1877. THE NEW YORE APPOINTMENIS—COURSE OF THE ADMINISTRATION TOWARD MR. CORNELL EX- PLAINED—F£ELINGS AND PURPOSES OF THE PRESIDENT, The New York Custom House appointments will be sent in early next week, The nomination to the Naval Oitice is not yet settled. Those who believe that there has been hesitation or timidity on the part of \the President about making these changes are mistaken, He has been slow because he was deter- mined to make thorough work, and found it dificult to get the right kind of men to serve, but ever since tho report of the Jay Commissivo was made & change has been a fixed fact. Tho President intends to eradicate politics from the New York Custom House, He regards it a3 a vast business estublish- ment which ought to be made as efficient as possi- ble in the collection of the revenue and to further the objects of commerce, Rogarding & reform in Custom House management as of very great importance, tne President has taken time in making the changes, but the rotirement of the present heaas was from the first go fully decided on by the administration that it was not thought proper to interfere with Mr. Corneli’s political man- agement or to insist on his resignation of the chair- mansbip of the State Committee, because, as he was in any case to be dismissed trom his place in the Custom House, to have urged his abandoning party Management would have been to hold out to him false hopes of retention in office, This is one reason why he was not interfered with. But there was another, and, perhaps, more important reason. The administratign does not mean to interfere in po- hitical matters, I 1s believed here by some shrewd and well informed New York friends of tho adminis- tration that if it had chosea to exert avy such influ- ence or pressure as bas been not uncommonly exer- Cised in other days from Washington the course and conduct of the Rochester Convention could easily bave been changed and such men chosen as @ majority of delegates as would have givon a hearty approval of the President's pol- joy, but mo such interierenco or influence was at- tempted, On the contrary, it was carofully avoided, It 18 even believed that friendly offers were declined, At apy rate the administration chose to have no wish whatever in regard to the material or the course of the Coavention, Now,, to remove Mr. Cornell be- fore the Convention met would have been ra- garded as a species of political intimida- tion; hence, friends of the administration say, ho ‘was allowed to work as he chose until a proper man Should be solected as his successor, ‘that is to say, tbe republican party ig hereafter to “go alone,” And bhere are a good mauy people in great distress about this conclusion hero, A Congressman remarked the other day that “this civil service roform business will be tho death of the party, because how can you expect to organize the party in the country districts, get up conventions and appoint delegates without the help ‘and money of the postmaster? 1t 18 impossible,” “But,”? was the objection, “how can the democrats manage? They have no postmasters.”” “Oh!’? rephed the Congressman, ‘these democrats are always ready for an election, but our republican voters will not come out unless the Postmaster heads them and manages for them.” This would seem to be an admission that the public has lost its interest in the republican party. But some people think that when it bas once got used to “going alone’’ it will got on very well without the postmasters. Some Southern republican Congress- men complain bitterly that their people are so poor shat if the postmasters and other federal office holders sre relieved from the duty of not only or- gunizing tho party, but centributing the cumpaign money, there will be general apathy among the voters and consequent defeat, and thore is a general notion that under the President’s orders the iedoral oflice-holders will not contribute worth a cent, and in fact will, in the majority of cases, trouble themselves very little about manipulating primaries ana coo- ations, The President is ligely to have very little, if any, rouble ir baving his pominations confirmed. A good many republican Senators privately acknowledge that they do not care to quarrel with the admimistration so tarly as this, Thoy add that the personal grievances or spites of this or that Senator have no proper pla in the Senate, and that it cannot be yxpected that the whole republican party in the Senate shall kick wp its heels becauso one or two Senators happen to bo displeased with the removal of their Irionds, Thore is a good deal of private growling and groaning over the President, but some of the early boasters are already beginning to took out for a clear line of retreat, and though thero is yet a fatr chance of trouble it would not be surprising if the whole republican side of the Senate suddenly caved in when the question of confirmations comes actually beforo them, just as they swallowed their fury and meekly confirmed tho Cabinet last spring. Alter ono day of mutiny their hearts failed therm, and they sub- Mitted to tne Preaident when they discovored that they could not, either by persuasion or bluster, move him from his fixed purpose. le FROM. OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. ‘Wasixarox, Oct, 19, 1877, THE SOUTHERN POLICY IN LQUVISIANA—HOW XX-MARSHAL PITKIN REGARDS IT—THE DEEADFUL BETRAYAL OF PACKARD AND HIS FLIENDS, bp The antipathy of ox@aréhal Pitxin'to the adminis tration seems to have abated but little since the time © of his faliing out with President Hayes, Ho says ho has not yot been able to comprehend the principle of | mathematics that gave the Stato of Louisiana to Hayes and Wheeler and yot denies to Mr. Packard, whose vote Was considerab! oad on the republican electoral vote, tho jatorial chair of tho State, Nor has he yi been able vo com. prehend upon any hypothesis, except tho ‘outrageous apostacy of Stanley Matthews and the others,” the desertion by the President of the men who “hol the picket line and made the Oght that put him where he 18.” Mattuews and other reprosen- tatives of the Fépublican candidates, he says, stood at tne elbows of eturning Board day after day exhort- ing them to stdnd by tho party and do their duty to ‘the country; that Governor Wells, General Anderson and Mr. Packard had the personal and oft repeated assurances of Judge satthews and the othors that Mr, Hayes would sustaiu them in case they arrived ata Fepublican result, But what were the feelings of the men who, after makwg this perilous cainpaign aud winning a victory that affected tho destinies ot tho nation, were thus betrayed! “Wo elected Hayes to his office,”” continued Mr. Pitkin, “by our sweat and our biood, but had we known that we were to be deseried and betrayed as we havo veon, Lassure you wo certainly would not have held the line aud mage the fight and undergone the perils that we have passed through, evea to pre- serve the republican organization of tho State, an or- INGTON, | | NEW YORK ganization in which we have taken pride and which we bave eudeavored by hard work and untiring activ- ity to preserve ’” “But what do you think of the practical result in Louisiana thus tar?” be was asked. He replied that it was trae a condition of com- ‘parati' quietude. prevailed in the State, as asequonce mainly of the Presiden policy, but it tho quietude of a man who was stunned by a blow upon the head, It was not @ healthy peace, and would in time react iu a manner that might work disaster to the interests of the State, Mr, Pitkin explicitly denies that he entertains a de- sire to defeat the confirmation of his successor, Colo- nel Jack Wharton, and ne characterizes as absurd the report that be had “made terms” with either Wharton or she persons with whom he affiliates for any politi- calends. He.says loftily that bis relations are auch with the administration as to entirely preclude bis acceptance of auy favor at ite hands, It 1s said that the ex-Marshal bas been furnishing General Butler with brick bats, and Mr. Biaine with some new election, facts that will add considerably to the interest of the Congressional role in the near future, ae é THE RIO GRANDE CLTY RAID—WAY THE CRIMI- NALS HAVE NOT BEEN EXTRADITED—PRESI- DENT Dias POWERLESS, The relcase of four of the prisonem arrested orig- inally by the Mexican authoritity at the in- ance of our government for participation m the raid om Rio Grando City is ex- plained at the State Department as tollowa:—Several of the States of Mexico are in a condition of semi-seces- sion and refuse to comply with the demands of the government at the City of Mexico, It will be remein- bered that Sefior Slata, the Mexican representative in Washington, earnestly urged the extradition by the Mexican authorities of the men concerned in this out- rage without regard to their nationality, and that, after some parley, President Diaz gavo instructions for the extradition of seven men who wore then in jail. But General Canales, who was directed to carry out this order, did mot dare to face the storm of local indignation and resigned. It is true that three of the prisoners were surrendered at Brownsville soon after by the judiciary and military of that neighbor- hood, but the remaining four were eventually set at liberty 1m fall deflance of President Diaz, In the course of conversation to-day at the State De- partment the condition of Mexico was illustrated by comparing the country to a puralytic, whose lower members are pa ralyzed while his brain retains all its asoal powers, The head may order tue legs or feet to do something, but is without the power to entorce its Purpose. it is with President Diaz, He is creditea with wisbing to.do right as regards the United States, but fs without tho means to carry out his wishes, THE VACANT CIRCUIT JUDGESHIP—STRONG EF @ort TO PREVENT THE NOMINATION OF MR. BAXTER—THE PRESIDENT DESIROUS OF FA- VORING THE SOUTH. A strong effort is being made by the enemies of John Baxter, of Tennessee, headed by Senator Isham G, Harris and the friends of Judge Cooley, of Michi- gun, to prevent the nomination of Mr, Baxter to tho Judgeship of the Sixth circuit, consisting of the States of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, to suc- ceod Judge Emmons, deceased. A momorandam or brief, said to contain’@ review of Baxter's record and to show that beis a man unit forthe appointment, is understood to bave been propared by his opponents and presented to President Hayes to-day. Governor Harris and two or three others are determined to pre- vent Baxter's confirmation if he is nominated, and they are said to have the co-operation of a portion of the Tennessee House delegation, The President oa Wednesday informed a prominent republican Senator that Judge Cooley, of Michigan, author of a work on constitutional limitations and of geveral other well known legal publ'cations, was more acceptablo to him’ than any other candidate, but that he desired to favor the South as much possible in the way of judicial appointments from the fact that that’ section has little or no representation in the foderal judiciary. He was thus disposed to tavorably consider the candidacy of Mr. Baxter to the exclusion of Judge Cooley's cialms, yet he had not at that time docided the matter and 1s said to still have it undor consideration, THE GKORGIA MARSHALSHIP—APPOINTMENT OF ° COLONEL FITZSIMMONS. The contest for the Georgia Marahalship, which had assumed @xfepsive proportions and become unusually interesting, was to-day decided by the President in fa- vor of O. M. Fitzsimmons, of Augusta, an ex-Confed- erate colonel and a stanch democrat, The race had recently narrowed down between Major Huff, of Macon, the candidate of Senators Ben Hi!l and Gordon, and Colonel Fitzsimmons, who was urged by Alex- ander H. Stephens. PRESIDENT HAYES TO VISIT. THE VIRGINIA STATE FAIR—A DELEGATION AT THE WHITE HOUSE. The President was to-day waited upon by a commit- tee, consisting of Judge John A. Meredith, General Joseph R. Anderson and Mr, Franklin Stearns, all of Richmond, Va., representing the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and tho Virginia State Fair Association. ‘The object of the visit was to formally tender to Presi- dent Hayes the nospitalities of the respective boaios represented by them on the occasion of the approach- ing State Fair, which is oxpected to bring together the greatest throng of people over congregated in the city. Mr, Hayes proufised the committce that he and a party of officials, to be agreed upon hereafter, would attend the fair on the 30th inst. and remain two days, THE FOUNDATION OF THE WASHINGTON MONU- MENT—REPORT OF THE BOARD TO EXAMINE rr, Generals Gillmore and Duane, of the Corps of Ep- gincers, members of the Board to Examine the Found- ation and the Structure of the Washington Monument, havo gone back to New York, whero the final report of the Board will bo prepared and submitted. A draft ofthe report was made and tarned over to Colonel John D, Kurtz, the President of the Board, for his revision, and had been revised by him for adoption at the time of bis sudden deatb, in Georgetown, on Tuesday morning. It will be remomberod that last year the Board conoluded that the present foundation of the monument was insuflicient to bour the weight of the structure when com- pleted. That opinion was based upon certain meas- urements made by Lieutenant Danie! Kingman, of the Engineer corps, who found that the sinking of the shalt was so serious as to endanger its safety if greater weight were added, It:now appears that, through no sault of hia, the measurement was made from tho wrong bonch mark, aad that there has been roally no such settling as was believed, The Board has vow agreed to report that the monument may safely bo completed if a certain addition is made to secure tho foundation. They report that a strong.wail should bo built around tho foundation from the surface to twelve feet below the prosent walls, and at loast six feet dis- tant at the corners of the structure, and curved or bowed so that the centre of the wall on each sido shall be at least tweive or fil ‘The spaco between the wall and the monument they propose to fill in with a strong coverede of rubule and cement, aud belicvo that this will effectually hold the earth directly underneath the shaft so that it will be firm, and will not slide or sink. Tbe report will be submitted exuctly as it was left by the late Colouel Kurtg, Including his alterations and interlineations, GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, Wasnixetox, Oct. 19, 1877. (THE LOUISIANA SENATORIAL QUESTION TO BR ACTED UPON AT ONCK BY THE COMMITTEX, Tue Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections met this morning and unanimously agreed to take up and report upon the Louisiana contests without any unnecessary delay, 1t was accordingly ordered that Messra Kellogg and Spofford should be notified that! the commitico will formally commence the examina- tion of their respective credentials, &c, at the meet ing to be held next Monday, and that they aro invited to appear before the commitioe at half-past ten A, M, of that date, to expross their views aud dosires as to the scope and extent of the invosti- gation which, im their respective judgments, the com- mitice should go int, The motion to this effect was offered by Senator Hoar, and, as abovo intimated, was agreed to unanimously, THE ANNUAL BLPORTS OF THE EXtCUTIVE DE-~ PARTMENTS. Nearly all the Cabinot of@ers havo bogin the con- sideration of subjects to form the basis of the annual en feet from the monument. | HERALD, SATURDAY, OCT reports, The actual preparation of them has in no instance been commenced, THE YORTHCOMING REPORT OF THE COMMIS- SIONER OF INTERNAL BEVENUE. The Commussioner of Internal Revenue will soon commence the preparation of bis annual report. No recommendation whatever concerning any change in the present system of taxation will be made, The report containg a favorable showing of the imternal revenue service, which the Commissioner considers as generally in a very effi- Cient condition. The amount of trauds, particularly in the Northera Siates, is very Mmited. A special feature of the report will consist of recommendations for the enforcement of the laws agatnst illicit distilla- tion vf spirits and manatactures of tobaceo in the Southern States. THE MILEAGE QUESTION--NO PROVISION MADE FOR A CALLED SESSION. An examination of the statutes in force on the sub- ect of the compensation of members of Congress shows that they are allowed mileage for two sessions only in each Congress, and that it cannot be paid to them before the first day of each “reguiar ses gion.’? A decision of the First Comptrolier nas determined thut om called session is not @ “regular session’? within the meaning of tho act of August 16, 1856, and that, therefore, a member 1a not entitled to mileage at such session, whether he be an old ora new member. In the cases of the extra Session of Congress of 1871 and the special session of the Senate to consider the Treaty of Washington, &c., mileage was provided for by special enactment, but unless‘some special provision of iaw be made here- after there-will be no mileage paid to Representatives or Senators for attendance at the present extra ses- sion, 1p this connection it may be stated also that the proviso to the rat section of the act of March 3, 1859, declares that **in no case shall constractive mileage bo computed or paid.” THE INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL RE- PORTS. The Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch navies have signified their intention to co-operate with the Chief Signal Officer im extending bis system of international meteorological reports, and the Portuguese Minister of War has directed that these observations be taken during the government exploration of the Congo in Central Africa, SERIOUS ILLNESS OF CONGRESSMAN HASKELL, OF KANSAS. Congressman Haskell, ot Kansas, is lying very dan- gerously ili im this city of Bright’s disease of the kid- neys, complicated with an affection of the liver, His conditioh has suddenly bocome ¢o critical that his rolutives were to-day telographed for. MR, EUSTIb’ CREDENTIALS. A SHORT DEBATE IN THE SENATE AND A REPIR- ENCE TO THE COMMITTEE—SENATOR DAVIS, OF ILLINOIS, HEARD FROM. Wasurxator, Oct. 19, 1877. After the presentation of a large number of petitions, most of them from letter carriers in various parts of the country, asking an increase o1 compensation, which wore referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, a number of bills were introduced and re.crred, among them the following:— By Mr. Incauts, (rep.) of Kan., authorizing the coin- ing of the stendard silver dollar and restoring ite legal tender character. By Mr. Merximon, (dem,) of N, C.—To amend gpo- Hon 146 of the Revised Statutes relating to vacancies in the offices of President and Vico President ot the United States, Also to alter the times prescribed for holding the election for President and Vice, President und casting the votes in the Electoral Colleges. Also to repeal section 4,716 of the Revised Statutes 50 as to restore to the pension rolls the numes of those stricken therelrom on wccount of distoyalty. Mr. MoUrexky, (dem.) of Ky., submitted an amend- ment to the bili introduced by bim on Wedpesday last to repeal the Bavkrups law as lollows:— Provided, nevertheless, that all cases pending in the District courts o: the Unired ntutes aud docketed on or prick to the 20th day of Uctover, 1877, muy be tried und determined under the law us it wow exists, it was ordered that the amendment be prmted and that the bill bo taken from the table ana rejerred to the Committee on the Judiciary, togewber with the amendment Mr. MokniLL, (rep.) of VL, submitied a resolution lusiructing the Coinmittée on Peusions to report by Dil OF Olberwise redustuy und properly adjusting tue saluries aud 1¢e8 Of pension agents, Mr, INGALLS, (rep. pal Kwa, submitted an amend- ys directing the commitsee to inquire into the jency Of wbolish:ng-all pension agencies and pensions paid directly ‘rou Washington, he ulbehdment Was agreed wo uud the resolution passed. CREDENTIALS OF MK, RUSTIS. Tho mornihy hour bLaving eXpired the Senate re- sumed the Cousiderution of the resojution sudmitied by Mr, Thuruian yesterday to discnarge the Commit veo On Privileges anu Elcetions from tue further con- sideratioga O tue credentials of J.B. Kustis, Unied States Seuator from the State of Louisiaa’ for the term commencig March 4, 1972, Mr, JHURMAN Quoted irom the report of the Com- mittee on Privileges abu Eicctiwns mude in January, 1576, 1n which the commitioe stated there was uo va- cancy 1D the office of Senator from the state of Luuisi- una, ». B. 5. Pinchvack baVing been elected, He ur- ued ibat the Senate, since then, had overruled the committee and decided Pinchbuck was nut elected, Thereiore, re was u Vaouocy, aud Mr, Kustie should Ue seated, as vO One Contested bis claim. He wen quoted trom the remarks ot Bir. Mortou during tue Fiocuback discugsion io tue Sepaie to show that that Senator urgued uf Pincuback was not elecied the Leg- isluture of Louisiane When 1 exisieace Wax entitivd Lo elect a Seu ator to fli the vacancy, That Logisiuture had elected Kustis, aud he (Mr. fourmau) ventured the assertion tuavit tue Seuutur irom indianw (Mr. SMortou) Was Lere to-duy he would vote to seat Mr, Kustis, as be deciared m we Pincbback debate that either Finchback or Eastis uad voen elected, lt was HOt IN Keeping Will Lhe dignity or justice of the Seu- ate to keep Lowsiana ubrep: ewentes longer, Mr. Eomunw ep.) ol Vi, said the credentials of Mr. Busts were erred to the Commitiee on Priviueges aua Elecuons at the last officia session of the Senate, and since then there Lad been no oppor- tunity lor the Commitive to consider them, us tue Senasors had beeu here but a fow days, und ull their time had veeu required in the Senate. Al tue reques of the Vice /resivent Mr. Edmunds suspended fis remarks that order might be restored tn Lhe Cuamber and talking stopped. Mr. KoMuNDS, resuming, said If tho rales respecting the admission of persons to the floor were rigidly ev- furecd Senators WoUId DOL bave A continUOUs couven- tion goibg On IM the rearol their desks while tuey were trying to attond to the public business, he quoted Irom the credentials of Mr. Kustiy and argued that hey wore irregular in form, ‘There-were uouvis surrounding the mutier wud & caruiai examination should be made, Mr. Wapeiait, (rep.) of N. H., @ member of the Com- Heyes und Electivus,.argued that the bot had time to inquire into the claims of Dir, Hustis. Mr, SAULABURY, (dem.) of Del., auother member of the cowtmitiee said, in bis opinion, there had been ample time bo imquire into (he credentials of Mr, Kustis as weil us thoxe uf Mr. Keilogy. Lhe committee could have reported On both at the jast session, He argued tuat no iUurther investigation was uecessary, as every Map ip the country koew all about the Wh prowise Legisiature 1 Louisiana, whieh elected Mr. Eustis, dir, Bayard argued that Mr, Hustia bad a prima fucie cause, and be should be sworn in according to usage Of the Seuate, avy Investigation us to the legality of L168 viection to be made afvorward Mr, Davis, (iNd.) of Ali, said be kuew nothing about the Louisiana controversy. He was a member of uu- other brauch of the public service at the time the case of Piveubuck was belore the Seuate, ana until wie Senator trom Vermont (Mr, Edmunds) read the cre- douuals of Mr, Buctis tu-day be never kuvw anyiuing about the case, He wae nut prepared tw vote to-duy Upon We subject Last Mure it Was reierred to the Committee on Privileges aud Elections, ana bis {rend oO» the left (Mr Hoar) said the committee would report soon, The question ivolved was purely A legal ube, aud he did not want to give an opinion upoo it util 1 ould bo turther investigates voted yesterday against referring the creden Mr, Spofford because he thought the Segaie, in the hight Of recent eveut-, could deciue the question itseit. Mir. THCRAAN, 01 Uuio, disclafmed any intenvion of reflecting upon the Commitioe on Privileges and Hlec- tions by Lis motion Lo Dave that commines discharged Jrom the further cousiderution of Mr, Eustis?’ creaen- tials, Severus Senators had requested him not iw pross the matter to a vow to-day, besides, it bad been sug- gested by one or two members oF We Comuntice on Privileges aud Elections tuat a report in tue case would be made at an curly day. Lo view of all that bad been guia ho wildrew his wotion to discuarge the commit- rf @ Senate then, at five minutes’ to two o'clock P. M, adjourned wutil Monday, PINCHBACK SILL CLAIMING. A LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN OY THE COMMIT+ Tue ON PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS, New Onteans, La., Oot, 19, 1877, Ex-Goveraor Pinghback has written a letter to Lion, Jobo H, Mitcuell, chairman of the Senate Commitics on Privileges and Miections, renewing his claitas to the Senatorship. Referring to the statement of Senator Thurman, that there was no contest in the case of Mr. Kostis, Mr. Piochback says:— I would call your attention to my credentials of Jan- vary 13, 1875, which were daly presented to ihe Senate by Senator West, read and reterrod to the Commities on Priviieges anu Leis and which bave never been acted upon by sald committee, 1 called Somator Mor- ntion to this matter in the Session and be promised to investl; denials present ag valid » of the United States as thos: ry part of last tet, These ere- 1D to & seat in the Senate presented by either Mr, Kellogg or Eustis, and | beg ri eifully vo submit thut they are eutitied to and should receive th ful consideration of the Commitice on Privileges aud Elections. PRESIDENT HAYES INDORSED. HIS CIVIL SERVICE REFORM AND SOUTHERN POLICY THE EXPRESSION or PUBLIC OPINION, Srrivorreip, Masa, Oct, 19, 1877. ‘The Citizens’ Hayes Endorsment meeting at Holyoke to-night was a success. William Whiting, @ prom- inent paper manulacturer, presided, ana a long list of oficers atthe meeting included many leading dem- ocrats. The following resoiutions were passe Resolved, That we rejuice in the success that has attended 90f President Hayes tu promoting aud securing and har: between the people af ort t bury forever all ant ies of the past and extend to our tellow citisens of the ordial “ureetings, congratulating them that now permitted to éxercise thu rights of sovereign States of the Union. Resolved, That we heartily approve the policy and ac tions ot mt HH 0 secure to the people 4 cenuine now and always bonesty and view, shail be the test of fit- .twlly indorsing the motto, Vos the country one.” That the iudustrial and commercial ingereste of the country ars now of the bighost importance und they all the departueuts of the government commerce than cap: o who arty be ded; that Labor not ly I may receive its Just roward, and th Wwaing Upon Us KO Rusp! y id and permancnt prosperity mot be history of tue country. : Resolved, That a copy of these resulutions be sont to Presidont Hayes und to var Senators and Representatives in Congress. The following ts the speech of President J. H. Seelye, of Amherst College;— Our public men are not the leadera of the nation, but areled by acurrent of public opinion mightier than they, This was true in the Revolution aad all thro the history of the nation, ‘'hose have veen our leaders and great. men who, in the real movement of the nation, have been willing to siand in the front rank and be borne along. No part of our history has beon planned by human forethought, but bas come from unexpected and almost unconscious inspiration of the people, What bas been true in this particular hitherto is true still, ‘Tuere ts un underlying torce, sometimes unseen, but always felt, which is like the power O! gravity in public life, = ‘T'uis force has an ebb and flow, The auiministration of Hayes has a pros. perous voyage before it ft moves with the current of ‘this force, and men, great or small, WhO essay ao opposite course will be submerged or tossed aside, What are tho indications of its tendencies? What is the voice of the people respect- ing the two points of civil service reform and the treatment of the South? There are certain tendencivs in public opinion already felt and were to be dominant on both points which wiil receive Hayes’ approvaland the gratitude of the nation, Nothing in puulic ite excites keever or wider reaching qisqust thau tue Way oflices have been soughtand bestowed, We huve been saddled with the doctrine that offices are war spoils and belouged to the victors Offices have been miude & matter of barguin and booty, aud even When filed by wise and honorable men too often regarded as a agignity rather than ay a sacred trast, Oilices have been treated as though earned and deserved, but uo mau ever deserved ollice or bad x clu to olllce, Office is nota reward but a requirement, and in no sense & payment for service, but u demand lor service tobe repdered, Therefore, when office is given irom party exigencies, and not from personal fitness, we Dave falsitied the principles of governmental adminis- tration anu must expect fraud, deceit and corruption, President Hayes bas taken a higher and bewe? stand than any admuivisiration jor tiny yeurs, His letter of Acceptadce awoke hearty and spontaneous applause, It voiced the living, aud svon to vo the cou- trolling sentiment of the nation, ne republican managers had they had the convictions and courage Ol their candidate the election would not huye beey a matier of doubt. President Hayes has kept the pro- mitse of the cunridate Hayes, Not since Jonn Quiucy Adams hos a President spoken so cleurly. Let us bid bim godspeed, and mark men and puta ban on them, whatever their Lame or station, who seek to binder his righteous purpose, I believe President Hayes is right, and will bave the approval of tne pation in the troutineut of the Southern question, On this the re- publican party has made « prodigious mistake from the end ol the war, We carried ou tho war on We ground that the Southern states were an integral part of the Union, When the war closed we avandoned this high plane for exactly the opposite ground. We said these States had comtnitied suicide—the States whose citizens we had beeu fighting to prove the Union indivisible, Li we were right in treating the Southern rebellion as a rebellion, then when’ the rebels were cooquered their Staica bad as much right to representation in the Nationa! Congress and ull the privileges of government us ever, Had this poly been then taken we should bave escaped the blunders and crimes which have mude reconstruction paintul and perilous, We remanded these States to a quasi territorial condition and sent them military gov- ernors, We could bardly bave dovised a” botior way to keep up hatred and increase hostility, Could the horrors of the massacres in Louisiana, Miseissipp! and South Carolina have been exceeded in number or atrocity by any dulereut course * Would a diferent process of reconstraction Lave put a larger number of Coulederate army officers aud chic! mea ta Congress? Broad statosmauship ought to have shown that in the Federal Union a coniral government coud not, without the greatest peril, usurp the judicial, executive, of logisiative junctions Of any State, This cardinal doctrine we Lave too much forgotten wud it was bigh timefor some One of authurity to utter it aguin, a6 President Hayes bas done, He has dove pothing more than to reaffirm the eqaai rights ol all the States, He has put himself im the line of our nis- torical progress and canovl fui Buless history is meaningiess and our institutions a delusion. NAVAL. INTELLIGENCL, Fortress Moxos, Va., Oct. 19, 1877. The United States steamer Frolic, Commander George B, White, from Rio Janeiro, arrived in the Roads this morning and 16 waiting orders from the department. All well. better time now LIKUTENANT VRRY'S NEW PLAN FOR NIGHT SIGNALLING. Wasmixarox, Oct, 19, 18 The Bureau of Navigation will soon put im use on board the naval vosseis the new night signal Invented by Lieutenant Vory, of the navy. This plan is based onthe Roman caudle system, and colored sturs are Projected from @ pistol from two hundred to three bandred teet into tho air, by means of which the commander-in-chief of a fleet can readily communi cate with any or all vessels mm any crowded barbor, notwithstanding intervening vessels, which ts of itself a vuluable improvement, By firing single red or green stars, or a combination of them, the numbers from 1 to 10 can ve made and all the sen- teuces in the Navy Signal Code be readily communi- cated. The stars projected jrom the pistol are brill- jantly red and green, und can be soeu ut a distance of from ten to tweive suiles, a8 has been ascertained by practical testa, his invention of a new means of nocturnal Communication will, it 16 believed 10 high naval circles, be of iwealculable service to the navy, BROOKLYN NAVY YARD NOTES, The Urited S:ates steamers Swatara and Huron have dropped down off the battery, where they will receive their ammunition and depart for a cruise on the home station. ‘Tbe Aloska bas been placed in dock and the number of workmen upon her increased, and it is expected sho will be ready for commission by the 1st of January, ihe Orsipee arrived ‘day from a wip north. Sne aucnored off the yard to receive a supply ef coal, Commander F, M. Ramsay, toapector of ordnance, has been ordered to Washington for examination pre- puratory to promotion, ‘The Guard has hauled off to the stream buoy and wilt drop down to the Battery on Saturday. Iu adui- tion to her usaal outfit she tias beeu furnished with a Kine, in order to provide a supply of all times, and @ steam launch lor the ‘eying officers, The following 18 a list utenant Commanders, Francis M, Davis; Lieutenants, Sam Charles Perkins, James Morris; Mast WwW. Nostrand, C, ©. Colwell; Ensiga, KE. J. Down; Surgeon, J. G Boyd; Avsisiant Paymaster, J. Lewis; Bout swain, William Long; Carpenter, James Burke, WASHINGTON IRVING'S WoRKs, Many people gathered in the ball of the Young Men’s Cbristian Association, Fourth avenue and Twenty-third stroct, lust evening, to hear the address of Mr. Wallace Bruce, of Poughkeepsie, on Washing- ton Irving. The lecture was in many respects out of the ordinary lecture groo being more like a story well told, A brief criticism was givon on the sources of Irving's early literary —_ suppl; and education, The speaker, referring to Irving's muturer works, said that he had invested the banks of the Hudson all the way from the lallisades to tho Catskills with the very spirit of poetry. The power of the old traditions, the enchantment of the “Arabian Nights,’? the Seundinavian mythology, the tales of the old feudal casties aud the entire feudal system—the romance of ai Europe, in tuct, could be had tor the gleawing, bat Irving did original work; he put io form thy ons of America, SHALL WOMEN PREACH? Up to a late hour last night tho Now Jersey Presby- terian Synod was considering the question whothor women should be permitted to preach in the chureh— the question involved in the trialot Rev, Dr, Seo. ‘The general expression of the speakers explaining their Votes was Unfavorabie to the munovatiun, No voto bad been reached up vo huli-pust ten o’ciook, BEATEN BY HER HUSBAND, Mary Ann Ash, of No, 12 West atrect, was found Inst Hight tn front of No. 48 West strect, in au inseusible condition, Sho was suffering from injuries inflicted by fer busband Jobn, who mado good bis escape, mec was taken to tho Champers Strcet Hos piv OBER 20, 1877.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. LOCAL POLITICS, PROGRESS OF THE COMBINATION AGAINST TAM> MANY HALL-—-HARMONIOUS PROCEEDINGS LAST NIGHT. The Conference Committee in charge of the arrange ment of the combination slate against Tammany Hall aawembled last nigut at No. 453 Fourth avenue, the headquarters of the Eighteenth Assembly District Re publican Association, The sub-committees of the re Publicang, independent democracy, Germans and anti-Tammany ites, or New York county dem- Ocracy, were all im attendunce, A good deal Of interest’was manifested in tue proceedings, the sidewalk in front of the meeting room being crowded with politcians anxious to ascertain thé results, The committees did not commence their session uutll shortly betore nine o'clock. The proceedings were conducted with closed doors, Bove being adwised bub members of the Various committe.s. - Considerable epeculution was iuuiged tn as tothe effect of the deliberations on the comiug canvass. 1b was generally conceded tuat the ropu' 8 would be permitted to name the candidate lor iegister, which js the main boue of contention, The meeting did not adjourn anti) near midnight, ‘The result of ibe whole proceedings was as follows:— Republicans to uame the candidite for Register and two Aldermen-ut-Lurge; independent deuocraay, two Aldermed-at Large; ant-Tammany, two Judges of the Marine Court, Mir, Oswald Ottendorler presided at the conference. A resolution wax passed recommending that re- pudlicaus, independont democrats ani anu Temrmane ites unite in ali Senatorial, Alderuauic and Assembly districts pou candidutes, Ln democravie districts the republicaus to indorse representatives of that party, and in republicaa districts tbe sume indorsement to be given to memvers of that organization, The conierence will Invet again Lo-vighs at the same | place. It 8 understood that the full county ticket Will be theu completed. As to cundilates it is under- ‘stood What eltuer ex-Collecior Thowas Murpuy or Jucob Hess will be Bominuted tor Register, A youd deal of opposition Was mauttested to tie selection of tho former, as it ts stated that certain transactions in Ring?’ roal esiate speculations have beew brought up to injure the gentioman’s chances, Documents ou this point were 1a tue pockets of some of whe dele. gales at lust nighi’s gathering. INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS, The tudependent republicans (auti-Custom House met at Lyric Hall, Sixth avenue, between Forty-trs aud Forty-second streets, last nigut, Kx-Councilman Fullman was elected chairman, aud on taking bis seat made a speech, in which be accused tho regular or Custom House republican organisza- ion with beimg a close corporation, and said it did not represent the sentiment of the party in the city. of Now York on the subject of reform and reconciliation. Tbe Inde- pendent organization, he said, would support the Nominations of the Republican Stato Convention at Rochester; it would algo support and aid Prowdent Hayes {u his civil service retorm efforts, aud do ail in its power to iurther aud perpetuate the good feeling which bis admin: ton hud initivted.. Lhe cry was how, “Down with Tammany!” and this seemed to bim to be the only policy or principle in the present movement, On motion of ex-Congressman Thomas E, Stewart, the Convention proceeded to nominate a candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court, Ou motion Judge J. R. Brady was uowinated, Mr, H. C. Rubinson offered @ resolution denouncing Tammany Hail and calling for the appointment of a commitice to couler with all or- Organizations opposed to it. Such a committeo was uppolutes, and Mr, Haw asked tout the committee go to work ut once, He had beet told by Mr, Charles E, Spencer that any proposition to participate in the conference would be opposed by the regular or Castom Houso republicans Tue commiriee called for by Mr. Robinson was appointed, and trom it tho fol- lowing geutlemén were named as a sub-committee :— H. ©, Robinson, Thomus b. Svowart, Charles Voilman, C, H. Polhemus, Goorga P. Bradiord, Michael Neville, KE. H, Ball, J. Bo McLean and C. H. Southworth, mm this committec Mr, Robiosou was appoimted as a committee of one to goto No. 453 Fourth avenue and attend the conlerence there being held, as 23 TNE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES, At republican headquarters business is mow very lively, It 18 confidently asserted by men who ought to know that strong effort 1s being wade to form a coalition with dissausiied democrats and labor or- ganizations. in the event of this being done tho reg- ulur democracy will have hard work before them unul election day if they mean to curry their colors trium- phant. AT DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS, A Well known xentiomun, who was mes yesterday at democratic beudquarters at the St. Nicholas Hotel, ‘suid:—"Several gentlemen on our committee, who are travelling through the Stato, report tbat our pros. pects ure very 4ood; that tho feeling of the people in the interior 0: tbe State who have been Tepubicans for years 1s turning complotely over to our sido, tor tue reason, no doubt, thut they are dissatisted with the course taken by the vew udiministration,” Heavy work i expected at democratic headquarters for the ext two wecks, BROOKLYN REPUBLICANS, Last evening the delegates to tho Bepublican City Convention of Brooklyn, to the number of 15%, as- sombied at their headquarters, on Court asircet, near Montagae, Durwin K. James was elected permanent chairman, Mayor Schroeder moved that the Cou- vention be adjourned to Wednesday evening next, Assemblyman Jucob Worth strenuously opposed any delay 19 Making the nomination. A allot wus, now- ever, takou 0b the motion, which Was adopted by a vote of 77 to 75, WILLIAMSBURG DEMOORATS, The democratic primaries in Williamsburg wero Poaceable in ail the wards save tho Thirteenth. In the lauer the bitter struggle forthe supremacy bewwoen Commissioner John W. Flaherty on the ove bund and Patrick Gleason on the other led to one continuous wrangle during the three hours the poila were open, the victory at the close going to Gleasuu, Amoug the delegates elected are “excise Commissioner Rodney Tuursby, from the ‘Thirveenth waras Alderman Mark Reurdow and ex-supervisur Jobo Carrol, trom the Fourteenth; Assessor Charles Kieu! aud Justice W. A, Guck, from the Sixteenth, and Veter Denver, who was arrested ior complicity with Heury Kogers in the murder of Officer Donohue, trom the Fifteenth. SILVESTER’S SUBSTILUTE. The Republican State Committee have nominated Hon. Clinton V. R. Luddington, of Sullivan county, for Comptrolier, in placo of Hon. Francis Siivestor, who bas dechued. Mr, Luddington bus accepted tho nomination. ASSEMBLY. NOMINATIONS. ‘The First Jcraey City District Convention adjourned until Monday evening without making @ pumiuation, Terence J. McDonald was nominated in the Second dis- trict, Alexander W. Harris was nominated in the Fourth district, James Stevens was nominated tn the Sixth district. The Eighth District Assembly Coaven- tion was bold at Haipic Hal, West Hoboken, and Jus- tice Charies F. Bub, of Union Hili, was gominatod on the third ballot, Tho Jomsuation met with considerabio dissatisiaction, wnd threats were made to turow tho successiul candidate out of the window if ho entered the hail, After the Convention adjourned an indigoa- tion meeting was heid, at which Kul: was denounced as ! atraud and a jailbird. Charges wore made that te had bribed the Harrison and Union Hill delegations, and a petition was drawn up to be presented to the Goueral Committee asking them not to place his namo on the regular democratic ticket. THE MCLELLAN RECEPTION, Great preparations hi been mode for the reception vo be tendered Genoral McClellan at tho Catholic Institute, Jersey City, this evening All the uni formed democratic claba will parade with torches, General McClellan will be the guest of Senator Abbett, from whove residence he will bo driven ip an open carriage to the Lnatitute, escorted by a gaard of honor, The procession will move at hait-past 0 o'clock and the sirvets along the line of mare! be tila. minated. A brilliant pyrotechnic display 18 @ feature Of the programma, YWO DIVORCE SUITS PROBABLE. Officer Schoenborger, of the Second precinct, New- ark, has complied with the request of his superiors and resigned, From statements made by the Chief of Police it appears that Schoenberger has for some time boen a familiar visitor at the rosidenco of Mr. Day, No, 879 Orange streot, Tho neighbors thought that Mrs, Duy was too familiar with the officer, and the matter was brougnt to Mn L ‘3 attention, He found the officer lying asivep on a lounge io lis hoase aud complained avout it, His wile sald, ‘Ub! poor fellow! be tas been up all night; tot him'rest.”" Mr. Day was not satistid, but kept quiot until last Taesday, When be missed bis wile on bis re- turn home in the evening. He called at the Second precinct station Louse, and, on inquiry, Was intorined that Schoenberger bad been excused from duty that night. He prosecuted bis inquiries, and found that Schoenborger was not at home, but bis wife was, 5 had found letters from Mrs. Dey to ber husban pocket. TWO divorce suits are probable, NEGLECT UF DUTY. Custom House inspectors visited the Havana steamer Columbus yesterday, whon they seized 1,400 choice cigars and 3800 bundles of cigarettes, which were about betog einaggicd on shore, Laspectors Hagan ong Mevort also seized 4,000 Havana cigars in Brook yo 3 — GRANT AND SUMNER. Ex-Secretary Fish in Defence of His Late Chief, ANOTHER VERSION OF THE MATYER, The Facts Regarding the Mis. sion to England. WHY MOTLEY WAS REMOVED. (BX TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Boston, Oct, 19, 1877, In view of the recent severe strictures by Wenucll Phillips upon the statement of General Grant, when in Edinvurgh, to a Heraup correspondent, regarding the course of Senator Samaer on the St., Dominga treaty and of the administration in the removal of Mr. Motley from the position of Minister to the’Court of St, James, your representative \o-duy waited upon Mr. Fish, who 1# im attendance here upon the Episcopal Convention, to learn his version of tho matters, Waea informed of the tenor of Mr. Phillips’ remarks the dis- Upguished ex-Seeretary of State said that with regard to the alleged negligence of the late Mr. Sumucr while Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, it was a fact that was susceptible of proof from she Senate records that drafts of treaties, from oight.to cleven In number, remained in the hands of the com- tittee for several montha; some of them, as nearas Mr. Fish could remember, for more than two years, Mr. Fish did not impute this delay of public business to negligence on the part of Mr, Sumner. Tho tact, however, remained that business was delayed, together with unotuer fact, thut after Mr, Samner’a retiracy the entire batch of treaties was disposed of in icsa than four woaths, R&MOVAL OF MR, SUMNER, The reasons for the removal of Mr. Sumner from the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Commitsee were then spoken of. The statement that President Graot Placed the St. Domingo treaty into Mr. Sum: ‘a bands, as related by Mr. Phillips, Mr. Fish characters izod a8 ridiculously untrue. Tho President never bad the treaty papers in his possession, They were in the hands of the Secrewry of State, The facts were these:—The President im conversation with Mr. Sumoper laid before that geotieman the features of the treaty. This information was imparted orally; no written or printed document was read to the Senator, Mr Sumner made uo opposition to ai ot its features, Indeed, so warmly did he express bis approval of it that @ gentle men present at the interview, who prior to that time had placed himself m opposition to the measure, was made friendly to it solely by the argu. ments used by Mr. Sumner, Mr. Fish said that Mr, Sumner continued to favor the treaty until the selec tion of acommissioner to St, Domingo came up for settiomeut, and when be found that J. M. Ashiey, of Obio, was not w be the nomiave be then all at once Jost interest in the treaty, uutil finally he placed him. self in direct opposition to tt. CONVERSATION BETWHEN GRANT AND SUMSER, Tho couversation between President Grant and Mr, Sumner took place ‘owara the last of December, 1869, or the first of January following, and im February, Mr. Fish said, two Senators, Carl Schurz and Mr, Stewart, of Nevada, gentlomen of opposite political views, canvassed the Senate and found the treaty could not puss that body ; that it wasdoad, Mr. Sumuer ‘was not removed from the Foreiga Aflairs Committee at the reassembling of Congress in the fall, but upon the meeting of the now Congress 1n 1871 he was not reap- pointed. His term had expired; ho was not removed, There were good reasons tor his being left off the com- mitice at this time, Mr. Fist thinks, He was not aby that timo on speaking terms with either the Pres- ‘dont or the Secretary of State, a most unpleasant state of things to exist botween the hoider of so im- portant a position as he filled and the frst officers of the administration, MK. SUMNKR AND THE ENGLISH MISSION. Mr. Fish, on beiug asked whetber he hud ever urged the Eugiish mission upon Mr, Sumner, said there was a long story connected with that, which he proceeded to tell as follows:—He called upon Mr, Sumner one day in the spring of 1870, and finding that gentieman in seeming great distress said to him:— “Mr. Sumner, you aré wronging yourself to lot things trouble you as you do, Now that the St Domingo treaty ts dead—the Senate has beon canvassed by meu of both sides, and it cau’t go through—why don’t you report it and have done with it?’ Mr. Sumouer roplied, with mach emotion, “Mr. Fish, you Cao’t understand my situation, Your family re- lationsare all pleasant, Why, many and many a night when I go to bed I almost wish that I may never awake.’ Mr. #ish advised him to seok new scenes, told bim ho was getting morbid over his troubles aud spoke of a visit to Kuropoas a temporary relief, Mr, Sumner suid be could not go, as he had his book to faish, Mr, Fish said that need not interfere, Tho Duke ot Argyll and others in England would be glad to recorve Lit into their houses, where he would have abandant opportunity for study and writing Mr, Sumner then advanced the objection that ho could not weil aflord the expense, Upon this Mr. Fish says he incautjously remarked, ‘Why not go ag Minister?” This was said on the moment, without, previous thought, and was the result of Mr. Fish’s warm friend- ship for and personal interest in Mr, Sumnor, The Secretary for the imatant forgot in bis personal sym- pathy that he Was @goveroment officer. Mr. Sumner, he said, brightened up atonce when this suggestion was dropped, and his eagerness somewhat alarmed Mr. Fish, who then saw that he had said too much, Mr. Sumner sald he did not ike to interfere with his friend Moticy, opon which Mr. Fish, seeing an oppor. tunity to retrace his steps, told him he ht go in hia private capacity ; tbat there would be along recess ot Congress, which would give him ample time to make a visit abroad, Mr. Fish 's this was all the “urging”? he exer. cised upon Mr. Sumner to take the missign to 8h James, REASON POR MOTLREY’S REMOVAL, Tho reason for Mr. Motloy’s removal was found in considerations of state. Ho misrepresented the gov- ernment on the Alabama question, especially in the two speeches made by biin before his arrival at bis post, Mr. Fish said be always enter. tained the highest teclings of friendship and estoenm for Mr. diotiey, and it pained him when he was forced to communicate with Mr, Moran, our Consul at Liver- pool, instead ot Mr, Motley. Mr, Fish dented the con- versation between him and Mr. Sumner, wherein the latter said:— “Sir, you aro the tool of the President for base pur. poses, and this removal is out of spite.” Mr. Phillipa, he saia, quoted this from ® epeeoh pur- Porting to have been delivered by Mr. Sumner in the United States Senate; but that spoech was never de- livered, Three times did the opportunity present itself when it might have been introduced, but upon neither occasion was it heard, About a hundred copies of it were printed for semi-privato circulation, and one gontlomen having a copy of it road it betore an assombly of twenty-five or thirty, among whom ‘was a member of the Washington pross, and through Lim it became known to the administration, CARL SCUUR2'S ATTITUDE Mr. Fish said, in speaking of the attitude of Carl Schurz:—That gentieman was in sympathy with Mr, Sumner in unfriendly feeling toward the Jate adminis- tration, and he thought an examination of the eulogy Pronounced by Mr, Curtis upoa Mr. Sumner in this city would fail to discover any of the assertions ro- flecting upon General Grant’s government found in the speech of Mr. Scharz, A MARINE ROUGHLY HANDLED. Atv ten o'clock last night « marine on duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, named Charles W. Schalo, wae ejected from the lager beer saloon, No. 481 Pearl street, by Poter Schneider, the proprietor, The man was somewhat intexicated at the time and fell on the sidewalk, breaki: ye right leg. No cause has been assigned for the conduct of tho saldon keeper, who fled tne premises when hv discovered that tho man was seriously injui Sebulo Was removed to the Chambers Street trospital,