The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1877, Page 6

6 KRUPP GUNS. The Manufacture of These Famous Pieces at Essen, CASTING AND HOOPING. Description of the Cylindro-Pris- matical Breech Wedge. ——-—— PROJECTILES AND CHARGES. Efficiency of the Guns Against Modern Iron-Ciads. As the artillory duels which are constantly occu ring around Plevna, in the Shipka Pass, and el where in Bulgaria and Armenia are simply be- tweon Krupp guns served by Russians pitted against Krupp guns served by Turks, or Oboukhoft guns of the Krupp system against genuine Krupps and Armstrongs, a deseription of the great works at Essen, in Rhenish Prussia, which have pro- duced the greater part of the heavy armanent of both contending Powers, will be found espocially interests ing. Herr Krupp has for yoars turnished, and is still furnishing, with great impartiality, steel rifled cannon 4o the Russian and Turkish, as well as to other foreign governments, ‘THY GUN MANUFACTURE, Krupp guns are made of solid low cast steel, manu- factured in crucibles, The pig tron used at the works is manufactured from ores notably free from sulphur ana phosphorus and rich tn manganese, ft is manu- factured at the firm’s various blast furnaces from ore taken from mines owned by the firm, so that the manufacture not of the gana alone, but of the crude materials used, is under the same coutrol, in itself a very great advantage. All the metal to be used tn the crucibles undergoes a preparatory puddling One quality of pig iron ts paddled to steel, afterward being placed under the hammer and then passed through the rolls, Wheo taken frown tho last rolling it is cut up into rectangular bars, which are broken into pieces of a size suitable for insertion in the crucibles, Another sort of pig is puddled still longer until ‘Wrought iroa is produced. ‘This, liko the crude ateel, 1g rolled, barred and cut into lengths suitaple for transferral to the crucibles, The mixiure placed in the plumbago clay crucibles consists of the steel and wrought tron iu certain proportions which long prac- tice has shown toe be most advantageous and of several other ingredients not known to tho outside world. In the buildings of the casting department there are asufficient number of furnaces to accommodate the large number of 1,600 crucibles, having an average ca- pacity of seventy pounds of metal oach. The proportions of each ingredient for each crucible ire regulated with great accuracy, and consiant an- alyses are made to sce that the ingredients in all of ‘he crucibles to be used for tho casting of a gun are of ihe same quality, so that the grade of steel poured into the casting pit from the numerous cracibies shall Ml be the same, THE CASTING, Atter the manufacture of the steel in the crucibles they, with their moiten contents, are carried to tho basting pit, The crucibles aro emptied as they arrive into an immense vessel piacod over the would and tapped from the bottom, Thus a continuous stream of molten steel is kept up until the cast iron gun mould Is tull, ‘The @uid steel, rising in the mould, is con- Mantly stirred and agitated to induce homogeuity aud so facilitate the rising of the scoria, until the contents of the last eruciblo have passed in. With such care and rogularity does the work go on that the casting of the ingot tor the tube of a 56-ton 14-inch gun is an \ffair of but comparatively tew minutes, In about iwelve hours the core is taken out and a stream of water let in to cool the cast stool ingot, This treat- ment 18 continued for several days until the mass is somewhat cooled. The ingot isthen hoisted by a Steam crane trom the pit, and taken to the part of the building sect apart for that purpose, where it lays tor months with sister ingots, being kept covered with bot ashes from the furnaces, which are constantly renewed, The metal, from this treatment, undergoes a process ot annealing, which sofiens, toughens aud tempera It This process, 1t 18 claimed, takes the place of and answers better than the tempering by oll practised in England and Russia, Alter this the steel ingot is transported on a car to the smithery, and ruo, car ana all, into the beating furnaces, preparatory to the forg- tog, The heating takes several days, the temperature being kept constant and moderate. On being brought to the required temperature the car and its load are drawn out and on to the hammer, The heating of tuch large masses of steel uniformly throughout with Dut burning the outside is an operation of great delt_ tacy, and which is very successiully performed at the Krupp works, On arriving at the hammer the crane Chains are placed around the ingot and it is hoisted to the anvil, underneath the hammer. For the immen 60-ton steam hammer, which tg the largest in use at the works, the anvil or casting which receives tho transmitted blow weighs 300,000 pounds, anu rests upon a foundation which is built up from an excava- tion 100 feet indepth. After being wrought under the great steam hammers to give the metal the tex- ture required, and the gun ingot the necessary form, the tube ingot is taken to the boring and turning estab- lishments, where the exterior is turned smooth to re ceive the first layor of hoops, tho breech block cut and the interior channel bored out. Inthe operation of turning the ingot loses lult its weight in the lathe, THE HOOPING, The tube is now ready to receive the first layer of hoops. For these large steol ingots are cast and forged into flat lengtns. These aro cut into pieces of the size required for the rings and are forged into « peculiar Shape. These have holes near either end, which are joined by a slot being cut into the ingow Wedges Are driven into the slot and it is gradually widened out and worked under a bammer into @ ring- tke shape. This bas at this stage of the operation About half the diameter and twice the thick- ness of the finished hoop. It is then heated and Dut over the rolls of a machine similar to those used in the manufacture of wueel tires. In revolving the vch euch other gradually, rolling the Loop ed size. By this operation it will be seen te shat an endiess fibre is being developed in the direc- tion of the boop circumierence. A jet of water Is coustantly playing over the steel mass while it i Being developed on the rolls, thus preveating avy distortion, It is stated that in this way buops oF any required diameter can be produced, but not of a width exceeding six inches. These boops so manufactured have, like the lurge tube ingots, uo seains or welds, and are very uniiorm in texture. Everything beiog ready for the hooping the main tube is placed, mazzie end up, in a vertical position, and the hoops slipped mo to their places. The houps are previously heated in botling lead, aod, When the expausion is judged sul- Gicient, are taken ont of the bath, wiped clean, siung to above the muzzle iu a lino wilh toeir intended posi- tion and let go. They full heavily along down the tube until they reach their position, Here they cool slowly, und contracting form a perfect contact with the tube, ihe hoop manutactare aud subsequent adjustinent are Very delicate operations The fuleuiations involved ure very nice, as th of the hoops as first manulactur be vo calculated that afer ine expansion ti nt cooling they will, ou con- meter which will cause them to ire, to be the same in all ol tho tube aud upon each other ary, {oF instance, ond layer should exert a gremer pressure upon the Jirat and loner tube than the rst does on Lhe tube. it will be seen, tuorefore, wat tne sbrinking on Of hoops by what is known as init! pression 1s au Operation requiring much care and skill on the part of Blt concerned. Upon tho successiul periormance of ve depends, to w great degree, the gun's durability. The rst layer ol hoops huv- ing been placed tm pusitivd tho yuu 18 again taken to tho torning establishment, and the suriace of the first layer which 18 (0 receive the second 1s turned dowd to the required diaweter. The second and third iayer being 1 place tne end hoop on the gun again goes to the Luruing ostablisuiment. tho hoops are kept from working by key rings, these be- ing small ball hoops, with rectangular sections let ino res cut to receive them in the tube aud fret id 1p the frat and second layer, the gun is then shaped, the bore Tequired numver Of grooves aud the eccentric chamber formed, The closing Mechanism av the broeeh is adjusted and the gan is Muisted. The mauuiactare of a l4-ipeh gun takes some six- seeu months and they are worth 8 $100,000 apiece, ‘The Krupp atee! contains one-half per cent of car- bow and a considerable amoaut of silicon, and endures | w ring 4 tensile strength of from 70,000 to to the square inch. THE KRUPP OURS. The largost piece of ordaunce yot exhibited by the | der charge tor we fir which and tts trial this time, is the 14- government, an - pe will be especial propria inen, geen tong lack sted \d hooped breech-load- ing cast steal rifled gua, which was tho must promis nont object in Herr Krupp’s display at the Phila- dyiphia Exbivivion. This gun carries a steel shell weighing 1.124% pounds, using a charge of 24544 pounds, The length of tne tube is 26% feet, or 22. calibres, and the length of the bore 2244 feet, or 19.3 The twist bas a length of 523g feet, or 45 nd is uniform, There are 80 rifle grooves, jepth of 1-12th inch each, and bread of lands THK CYLINDRO-PRISMATIOAL WEDGE. The closing of the breech 18 effected b | what is known as @ cylindro-prismatical wedge. This slides into a horizontal mortise of the samo shape, let into the breech piece, The plug is, like the gun, of stool, and the wedge and cylinder form one body. ‘The wedge 1s drawn out on the left side, The rounded part ie ut the rear, that side giving a greater beuring suriace, while the front side ig fat and forms the bottom or end ofthe bore, ‘The breech plug 1s moved in and out by a transporting screw turued by acrauk, it being kept 1 position during the Grier by leading lasts, which work in small ves let into the top and bottom and cut parallel to alter edge. The closivg of the to- terior aperture left by the wedge and the prevention of the escape of gas breechward 1s effected by a piato and circular ring. The ring is a steel circle fitting into A groove, close to the wedge aperture, at tho bottom of the bore. This is supplemented by a plate which i: circular and slightly hollowed out, and which entered on to the wodye, which 18 cut out forth purpose im tront,iu order that when the breech is cloged its slightly projecting rim shall meet the ring which similarly projects over the front side of the wedge hole. The vent is axial, passing through the breech biock, and is fitted with a copper lined, cylin- drical steel vent tube, PROJECTILES AND CUARGE, The projectiles used tor this gun are steel, chilled, and fuse shells, These are guided in the grooves by a ir of copper ring: one at the jrout end of the jectile being used for centering and that at the ‘end for imparting @ rotary motion to the shot he steel shells used weigh, without their burstin; charge, 1,091.27 pounds, the chilled shells 1,140 poaud: and the fuse shells 838 pounds, Tho weight o! burst ing charge for the first 1s 88.07 pounds; for the sec- ond, 17.64 pounds, and finally, for the iuse shell, 66.15. pounds, ‘The powuer used 18 that known as prigmati- cal, baving a specific gravity of trom 1.73 to 1,76, For steel and chilled shots the normal charge is 2425¢ sold to the Russian | pounds, and for the {use shells 275 pounds, These charges are calculated to give the following initial ve- ‘or the chilled shells, 1,541}; feet; for the 568 feet, ud for the fuse shel: At the trial of this gun at the butts the results ob- tained were satisfactory. The proof projectiles used were of cast iron, Matheaded and nearly eylindrical in lorm, having ud average Weight of 1,146.6 pounus, Four kinds of powder were usea: first, that prescribed for service use—namely, prismatical powder, having 1 pertoration of % inch in diameter; second, powder of similar shape, but with 7 pertoratious; third, a coarse grained powder, whose grains measure 3 to 1 inch in diameter, and, fourth, a similar coarse grained powder, in size from 1 to 13-16 inches in dlumeter, All these bad specific gravities of from 1.73 to 1. 76, The prismatic powder, with 7 perforations, was used in the first charge, but it was found that in a gun Of this size it burned too quickly. ‘The weight ot the urge for the lirst round was ouly 8C pounds, On tuo second round, theretore, the prisinatically shaped powder with one pertorution was used, and the results obiained were considered very yutisiactory, the yas pressure remaining below the prescribed limit with charges weighing 286.6 and 207.7 pounds, and iho combustion being equal. A charge of the lurgest size ol courge grained powder was used for the last round, ‘This burned unevenly ana impertectly, much of tho charge being blown out unburned at the muzzle, and gave a very low velocity of projectile. Though ten rounds were tired the base was not sponged. It 18 note in the report that the marks of the rifling wero weil grooved on those projectiles which were picked up after the trial. ‘The velocities were taken at a distance of 116.4 feet from the muzzle. TUX RESULTS OF THE TRIAL, ae = a ? | s3| gF FE | eee 2 } S sy & | $=] oF 33 3 : ® Fe ped 7,157.6] 1,204.74, 12,023.63 20,5] 1,159. 97] 15:180,14 arta 03 1,145. 712 09) 1,143.5) Moan. 1.140 u 19,902.05 1145. ie 1136.6 20,71 1146.6 21,813.05 1145.5 15.720. 26] KPPICIENCY OF THE GUN AGAINST ARMOR PLATES. In the trial of tho 14-tnch gun against armor plates the following resulis were obtained :, Biol at ‘3 |Vis Viva of Pro- 5 2 jectile, 3 5 Fy 3 ee) te 28 es x = :2 r g ee : ee 3 1,312. 275.6) 1,146. 18,348.00) 2,624. - 17,083. 0U] 16,000. 06 15, 1 12,387.06| From these regults the following tavle of the effects of these projectiles op the armor of some of wbe most formidable o! the English monster iron-clads has been calculated by the Krupp artilierists, whey assuming English data, as to the necessary vis viva per cenul- metre of circumference of the proj for penetra tion. ‘The calculations are made under the supposition that the projectile strikes the armor plating ut right angles :— Necessary Vis Viva of Range 0 Projectile per Centi- Penetration metre of Circumference of the for Penetration. ld-inch ‘Type of Vessel. Foot Tons. Krupp Gun. Hercules ie 5.274) ae ay Devastatior 66,.267( Ab all fighting Giatton, Dev: 80,2 FRO Oe Inflexible........ 132.534" At 8,904 teet, AS a result of a comparison between the Eugitsh $1- ton gun and the Krupp l4anch 66%-ton gun, the Kropp tirm claim that in the total vis viva of the pro- jectile their gun bas 234 per cent of advantage over the Engtish gun; that this advantage is 6 per cont )n the vis viva per centimetre of the circumtereuce of the projectile, and nearly 114 per cont for the square centimetre of section of the projectile. The weight of the Krupp gun 1s about 2-8 of that ot the Engnsh prece; and from the above, therefore, the material of the Krupp gun gives 13¢ as much power as that of ite English rival, THE CARRIAGE. ‘The carriage for the Krupp 14-inch gun weighs some 8334 tons. The recoil is checked by hydraulic brakes. ‘The height of the trunnions ts 8%" feet, and the car- Tiage allows 18% degrees of elevation and 7 degrees of di: pression, For tis cannon Mr. Krupp claims the enormous range of fitteon miles—double that of the largest Armstrong gun, NINK AND A TALP INcIT G! The Krupp 9% iuch 15% -ton gun has a total length of 206 inches andalength of bore of 1773¢ inches. The rifling consists of 54 parallel grooves, baving a width of lands of 1-6 inch aud a uuitorm twist, whose Jength is 425 inches, The weight ol the various jro- jectiies used in this gun is us follows:—Weight of charged steel shell, 343 pounds; of chilied shell, 356 pounds; of juse sheil, 276 pounds. The weight of pow two classes of projectiies is $4 pounds; for the last, 73 pounds, The initial velocities are us follows:—For the steol shell, 1,542 leet; tor the chilled iron shell, 1,526 feet, and lor the tuse or com- ell, 1.542 feet. ‘The caibres of Krapp’s navy © as follows :—11, 10, 9, 8, 6.6 and 5.7 inches, FIKLD AND MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY, The fleld artillery of Russia, Prussia and Switzer- Jand and much oF that vt Spain’ is composed ot Krupp guos. The Kropp works wanutacture uy diflerent culibres of these guns wud also some Very excuilent mountain artillery. The tollowing notes ou the 3ig-neh flela gun will give w fair idea of the production in this line:—Lengtn ot piece, 8255 inches; length of bore, 733 inches; weight of gun, witk wedge, 1,072 pounds; preponder- ance on the breech face, 102 pounds. The rifling con- sists of 24 paruilel grooves, buving a width of $10 auch, and a width of lauds of 1-9 inch, The twist has a length of 157 inches, aud isunitorm., Length of the line of sight, 89 1-3 inches; weit of the charged 18% pounds; = weight_— of plodiug ‘pound; Weight vf shrapnel complete,” 15% pounds; weight of ar 1-25 pound; weimnt of pounds; weight of gun charge of course Btuined ovwder, 8% pounds, Tue fuiiul velocity of the shell te 1,558 tect The weight of the simple oar. riage i@ 1,127 pounds ‘Ibe height of the guu ts 433¢ iuches, abd it can be elevated 24 degrees and depressed S degrees. Capacity of limber, 20 shells, 10 shrapnel und 2caniator shot. The weight of the loaded limber 1# 1,334 pounds; of the gun and carriage compete, 4,033 pounds Draugut charge per horse, 67 The 3-1uch fleld gun weighs 065 pounds, caries shel of 9%. 9% and 8% pounds, usesa charge of 21-5 pounds aud gives an initial velocity of 1,600 feet The gun aud carriage complote weigh 3,203 pounds Draught Charge por horse, 548 pounds. MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY. The 3,16 inch 224-pound mountain gon has a length Of 38% inches. Length of bore, 33% iaches, Propou derence on the breech face, 60 pounds. The rifling consists of 18 grooves, with 1-9iuch width of lands, and a length of twist of 118 inches Tho weight of the Charged xbeil is 535 pounds, of exploding charge 4-10 pound; of powder charge for the gan, 7% pound, ihe initial velocity imparted to ths shell is 460 feet, The carriage, with Wheels, Weighs 323 pounus, aud the elevating 5 allowa of '18 degroes of cleva- tion and 10 of depression. The gun's height 18 234% ’ Kuch ammunition box carries 6 shells and 2 fF sot. 1 36 iweb 19%-pouud mountain gun, carrying & shell weighing 4g pounus, uses acharge of 1y pounds and imparts an intial velocity of ¥20 feet ‘Bach um- munition VOX curries 14 shells and 2 canister shot. For transportauion of the gun by horses or mules there are saddles speeinlly adapted for the purpose. The gan saddle weighs compicte 46 poands, and the gun is Instened on it crosswise, ‘The carriage, How= ever, is fastened upon its sudilo, which weighs 49 pounds, in a songitadinal direction,’ The amniusttion saddle weighs 34 poun carries the two aInmuUDI- tion boxes, coutum: Shot iu ail, ‘A PASTORAL LETTER. ELOQUENT APPZAL OF THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS TO THE CLERGY AND LAITY—ABUSES WITHIN THE CHURCH POINTED OUT—A CALL 10 HIGHER, PURER CHRISTIANITY. ‘Tne House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church adopted, at their last meeting in Boston, in October, a pastoral lotter, which was read belore the general convention at Trinity Church, in that city, on October 24. This letter, which 18 @ very important exhortation to Episcopalians, was read yesterday in many of the churches of thiscity and Brooklyn. The letter opens with a benediction and the admouition for all Episcopalians to exercise their personal influeaces in the conversion of souls, and by their example ad- vance the cause of Christ among unbelievera, THY LAW OF HOLINESS, Tho letter declares that it becomes a direct duty of our ministry to proclaim with its utmost energy that the law of holiness in the New Testament isa law of holiness for men under all conditions and under all circumstances of life, Many of the religious guides and teachers of the people address themselves 00 little to the conscience and aim at other ends than the for- mation of character in tho principles of Christian righteousness; therefore the land is daily humiliated by financial crimes, frauds, defaications and betrayals in ite trusted citizens, Patriotism fails to re- strain men from robbing their country or natural Pity {rom ruining the orphaa, the widow, the Indian, Violated contracts, fiduciary perversions, forgery and perjury make up tho alarming records of the public pross. Nothing will prevent these crimes but a less affirmation of the commandments of the Most High, with all their sanctions and penalties, We ai to follow the steps and deliver tho message of the Great Shepherd, us well as to sit at His tect. We aro not to rest until a “holy church” reaps its fruit ina holy nation, whose God is the Lord, doing the things which the Lord says. A HIGH STANDARD OF MORALITY NEEDED, ‘The church of God needs a high standard of morals anda pure pructice ag urgeptly us it needs an increased Episcopate or multiplied missionaries, Wo exhort those of you who preuch Christ to preach right living, wod Lo preach it not in generalities, but in defuite particulars, Mulusudes in ail communities weigh our work apd learn the cluins of our system, not from our literature, but from the lives of those whom we buptize und contirm. We are sent to cali sinners tore- Pent of specitic sus of dishonesty and double dcaliug, of lying aud cugating, of slauder and swearing, of lust and idleness, of excesses in eating und drinking and dregs, of gambling and rioting, of desecration o1 the Lora’s Day, aud of tne beginning! all of these imigui- ties, We are to uncover all their modifications, uis- guises and apologies, We are to rebuke seldisbucss 10 Ull its ungodly shapes, impiety in all its practical prot- anations; und oo ihe other hand we are to instruct in and encourage by precept and vonsecrateu lives all the virtues of a godly character; honesty aad trutniulness, sincerity und constancy, moderation, sobrievy and purity of lile, ge: and cuarity, Brethren of the lait; so distinctly to practise pts of our holy religion that men who see your mauuers muy be avie to give names tothe graces aud virtue wuich you illustrate, Let your boy living be outspoken and never justly liable to misinterpretation, nor marred by inconsistencies, ABUSES IN THE CHURCHES, “There are,” says the letter, “easy opportunitics in our parishes for devices which 1n seculur business are barely tolerable, but which’ in the Church have nothing Whatever tovexcuse their sordiduess or their vulgarity, except that they bring ueeded money to a worthy cause, It is not necessary to specily theso abuses or to characterize them as they deserve. It wough they lie close to the boraer of forbidden ground. If associations with the gaming table, the lottery, the race course, the play buuse, are incon- sistent with Christian character, bow much more for the purpose ol advancing the interests of Cori: kingdom |?” EDUCATION OF CHILDREN. A large space ty devoted to the purental obligations in the education vi children, Muca ol the corruption in social aad public Ile 18 dectured to have its ruot in defective family training, and it is inconsisteat to send your children to scuools admiuisierod im the 1n- terests of Kome, or im sympathy with apy of its dan- gerous errors. Your obiigation 1s to uring them up in tbe nurture and admonition of the Lord, Let no man de- cetve himsel! with the thought that no intluences wiil be exerted by such schools to withdraw our children trom the trath in which they have been nurtured. It would be dishonest in Romish teuchers, who be- lieve that their salvation 18 imperilied vy non-com- muuion with tbe Church o! Rome, uot to influence the children committed to thom, as 1 ig siniul in you and perilous for (nem tu submit their susceptible years to such religious impressions. he perversion of your children is a predetermined end of receiving thom foto Romiwsh schools, Your children will becomo negative Protesiunts, if not positive Romani: ‘THe SACRMDNESS OF MARRIAGE. ‘Thoro is danger to religion and society trom want of fidelity to the sacteducss of marriage. In giving these our counsels to the Church we ieci constrained to advert to a subject which 1s of patntul interest to many persons, aud which, from its very nature, we woud gladly leave untuucbed did our sen: duty permit us to bo silent, ‘That subjoct isthe great aud growing disregard in our country of tue sanctity of marriage, ‘Tbe evil is shown tn the levity with which marriage 18 coutracted, in the unscruputousuess with which 1 is entered upou vy men aud women to whom it is jvrbiuden by tue lawe of the ancient Church of God, by the laws of the an Church, wud in some instances by the laws ure itsel, The same unbappy tendency shown 1p tbe readiness with which divorce: ol tamed on slight una insufliciont grounds, aud subse- quent unions formed wuich are called marriages, but which our Lord bas pronounced to be adulteries, ‘The bunelul aud unchristian stute of public opinion whit tolerates und frequently even lugulizes such acts 18 portentous omen for tho future of religion and society in our country, * * * Meanwhile we urge it upon our brethren in the sacred ministry 10 instruct the families committed to their charge with renewed care and diligence iu those principles of moral purity which give houor and strength to Curistian wealuck, We urge it upon parents to (rain their children to a clear knowledge of whut the law of God requires io the relations of the Sexes, us well us in guarded habits in whatever pei taius to the manners and int and Wo urge 1 upon ail our people to preserve t chastity aud constancy of that divine boud between husband wud wife which our Lord bas chosen as u living image to represeus the mystical union of Him- sell with His bride, the Church. THK RELATIONS BETWKEN CAPITAL AND Laon. Thix subject 18 briefly touched upon as one of the dangers of society, threatening the siubility of tue Commonweulth, *Our duty,” the bishops suy, ‘is to teach the rich and the poor, both the workinan and employer, ir several obligations to bring thi Classes into harmony upon the common plane of a re- deemed humanity.” NECKMSITY FOR MISSIONARY WORK, Much space 18 devoted tu a résumé of the missionary work of the Church 1u the past, and the bishops ue- clure that they rogard tue subject us at this time ae- manding of every member renewed consocratwn and consecrated effurt, Systematic giving und systematized labor are pressiug needs, together witu Ubanimity in Leth, Paroctial systems differ, vat vo pariah ts properly orgapized which nas not some do- Hoed and established system tu charities. It is a critical period in the morai history of the world. At Unis moment commercial activity hus opened avenues tor Christianity tuto every uation, Even the taterior 0. Africa Las vow been traversed by Curistian expiora- ton, Kage of communication and constant intercourse ure rapidly dissolving barriers between heathen and Christianized peoples, The bishops, alter reterring to the fields for this kind of lavor tu joreigh countries, remark :—“by the heip of Almighty God, aud the power of His Spirit, we may present the Church in ber life, ber services aud ber teachings, purely, simply and with effect, Iu every portion of this coutaent Ju our North and Southwesteru states and Territories and in the Dominion of Canade every acre of land 1s now coverod by tne jurisdiction of a bishop of the Anglian communion, Our Episcopal organization afords us great advautages Every movement is guidod by a wise lorec.st, and ex- perichee teaches us that the rough wiuer and the bold buotsman of the West, When aroused to 4 sense Oo! the Value of big soul, easily icarus and soon prefers to worship his reconciled Father in the forms of our livurgy. Up, then, brethren! ‘The jand is jarge, and itis @ goodly land which the Lord hath biessed. Up! enter im aud possess it.’” MRS, MERRILL’s WILL THE OLD LaDY’s MODE OF LIFE AT THE ROSS- MORE HOTEL, For further particulars than those already published tm the Hexaup tn the Merrill will case tne public will have to inquire within the Surrogate’s office at the Proper time, About all bas now beon revealed that May be expected betore the subject becomes ove for Jogal dissection, and enough bas veen told ww warrant the expectation of a well fought and not ultogothor ‘one sided battle in the courts, Mrs, Merrill, with one colored servant, made her home atthe Rossmore Hotel during all of last apring. She was thon tree from any apparent physical trouvle aud was noticeable for an unusually active dispost- tion, When in the early summer she wont to Sara- toga she was accompanied by Mra. Salter, a nmicco of bers by marriage, After her return io the hotel in August Mra Suiter wus ber most constant visitor and companion, Mrs. Merrill’s healtu was then such that she lad to be carried irom her room to her carriage. Excepting her daily drive (wuict bad to be relin- quished three weeks beiore ber death) where was nothing to disturb the monowoay of ber lil hotel, Sho remained tu her room continually and her visitors were few in number, A peraoo who then lived at the Rossmore the writer y: ‘day that Mrs. Merrill did nos appear to relish thy visits of Ler relations, excepting those of her nephew, M er, and his wile, Whea her sick- ness became sovere and dangerous these two persons were in almost constant atteudance upoo her, and Mr, Salter took rooms 1m the hotel tor more than a fortwight preceding her death. There were two priests, 80 said tho intormant, who called d upea the invalid, He did not know thoir names, bub their calls were regularly Umed, and sometimes prolonged. je writer inquired as to the con- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. duct of Mrs, Morrill, whether eccentric or not, aud was assured “She was one of the most eccentric woren 1 ever saw. This must have impressed everybody who conversed with her. was exceedingly fond of conversation and an interes! ipg talker.” io yr to further inquiries he said that he had on several occasions been invited to Mra, room lor up bour’s visit, and on such ber conversation was always upon matters of interest, She in bis prese! re- ferred to family affairs nor to the suvject of religion, THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE. All was quiet along the line of the temperance army in this city yesterday, but here and there the presence of an occasional trusty scout gave evidence that the com- manders were not sleeping. The scouts were engaged in the occupation of drinking whiskey in every saloon where the unwary bartender failed to scent danger, Only three arrests were made, to wit, William Mo- Carthy, of Water street; Joun Koster anu Alvert Bial. The prisoners appeared at the Tombs Police Court and gave buil in $100 each to Justice Duffy. {t is said by the leaders of tue movement that the warrants for fashionable hovels, against whom of the Excise law bus been col- lected, will be served to-day. ENFORCING THE LAWS IN BROOKLYN. ‘The order of the Brooklyn Board of Police and Excise Commissioners, directing the rigid enforcement of the liquor law by the members of the police force, was carried into effect rigidly, The saloon keepers were duly notifedoa Friday and Saturday last that they would be closely watched, and if detected in the act of selling “ale, wine or spirituous liquors’ be- tween twelve o’clock, midnight, on Saturday, and five A. M. om Monday,’ they would be prosecuted as provided py the Exolse law of the State, For the past two or three years, uader the democratic régime, the saloon keepers were rarely interfered with by the police. The chief enemy witb whom they had to coutend was Captuin Oliver Cotter aud wis agents olf the Temperance Brotlrbood of Christian churches, These latter deiectives, though vigilant and active, were not sufficiently numerous to covor the great expango of territory covered vy the three thousand and odd bundred places in the oily whero strong drink 8 dispensed, As a consequence, the side doors were generally kept open, and the alarm was given by the guurd 1 front of the store upon the approach of Captain Cotter or of m But yesterday the holders of licenses felt that there was muck to be feared {rom any open attempt to circumvent the law Under the Board of Commissioners as ut present coa- stituted, und they arrived at this process Of reusoning Irom the advice of the police, ‘Lue order was, of course, bitterly denounced by the Anti-temperance people ou all sides, but more paruc- ularly by toe Germans, who treely usseried that had the excise “brakes’’ been *tput down” by the republican commissioners velore election day they would bave cust a solid vote for the democratic ticket, It is esumated that about ninety per cent of the liquor and lager beer saloons were kept elfvctuully closed during the day, Proprie- lure who violated the law were compelled to exercise extraordinary precaution to guard ugainst detection, aud where \hey were successiul iv doing so their profits were lurge. There was about the usual number of arrests for intoxication during the day and evening, The tollowing are the names of the persous arrested for violating the taw:— Kichard Fox, 627 Fulton sirect; Charles Behber, 236 Graham ayeuue; Charles Nolton, 254 Johnson avenue; Jobn McKatee, bartender for Bernard Levy, of No. 71 Atlantic avenue; James Levey, bartender ior James Pouitte, of No. 204’Fulton street; Henry Greeves, of No, Lil Atlanuc avenue; Vaviel Linagin, corner of Tillary ond Jay streots, and Christian Hauser, bar- tender at the Bedi Brewery, oorner of Franklin avenue and Dean sirect. THE AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION, The American Temperance Union’s meeting was largely attended in the afternoon at Cooper Lustitute, Rev. W. B, Affivek, of England, introduced as a temperance reformer who bad won considerable ro- nown iu the Old Country under the nom de plume of “Benjamin Helpinghand,” was the first speaker, He said he had never got the idea into his own head, nor had anybody elso ever been able to get it there, that be was o man of eloquence. “It is bard to say,’ sald he, ‘what ts true elo- quence, Un a certain occasion, in Kngiand, 4 man Was Called upon to speak at a temperance mecting. He rose, All no could say was ‘l’m a teetoiler,’ and satdown, Atthe uext meeting he was called ‘upon said agai, ‘1’ teetolier, but I’ve got p wi me? Atthe third meeting the man id, ‘l’ve pot only got auither totailer, but he’s got man Who's got another mun, and they're all 3.’ There was more true eloquence in that little speech, ‘i’m a tectolier,’ than could be found in many long orauons. You have thousands of men here in America—men with brilliant minds, lotty in- tellecis and thorough education—who cannot say with tuis humble man in Bagiaod, ‘1’m a teotvlier,’”” ‘Tue speaker amusingly described bis “ining” Various temperance organiwations in England, unul he found one, the Order of Good Templars, which was not ouly total abstinence, but aguinst the maunutac- ture or sale of alcohol ip any shape for human consump- tion, ‘they,’ said the speaker, “take the ticket through ; ney have uo way stations to stop at; they do nol stop and get out at ‘doctors’ station;’ they do not get off at ‘stomach complaint’ station, uor do they, a8 some Kuglish ladies do, get off at a ‘tule Weakuess’ station, (Laughter.) The Good Templars always wok a through ticket and weut straight to the end of their journey.” When be first came to America he lauded ia vanada, ‘That was a sort of consorvativo ball-way ground be- tween English slowness and Yankee goubeuditive- ness, He was glad to find that here, oo this side of the Canada line, prohibition was progressive, The here ta hupetul, He saw it in the households, 0 kingdom of Christ,” be suid, ‘‘will never be tablished uotil you kul the devil” It was the duty of good Christians to Late the hquor traffic as they Would the evemy of maukind, aod ip along tne prohibition, total avstineuce cau tbey might hope to inberit the kingdom of Heaven, Rey. Mr. Bowen, ot Newark, aud the Rey. RB, Huli, of this city, ulso addressed the assemblage. “Auut Sully Winsiow’s’’ singors were well received aud repeatedly encored. MILLIE SEVILLE’S SUICIDE, A SUGGESTIVE LETTER FROM A HEARTBROKEN ACTRESS, [From the Rochester (N. Y.) Expross, Nov. 10.) More than a week ago Frances, or Ida Robinson, otherwise Millie Seville, a member of Emersou’s Min- strel Troupe, suicided at Ingersoll, Ont, Tne police authorities have been making eflorts to solve the mystery surrounding her death, but so far without much success. She was # very beautilul womao— eyes dark blue, wavy brown hair, mouth full and firm; high, intellectual forehead; medium size, It was as- certained that she was a married woman, her husband being a well-to-do man in Mount Clemens, Mich, She abandoned him to join a member of the troupe named Dale, who, however, had left it before their arrival here, Dr. McCausland, of this town, has received a letter from Mr H. Conuvr, proprietor of the Suermen House, Mount Clemens, to the eflect that in May just deceased boarded at bis house lof a day or two and Jett with Dale, She behaved herseit in a most ex- emplary manner while with the troupe, bat after Dale left it became melancholy and sometimes morose. ‘two letters, addressed to -'D, W. Dale, Port Huron,’ were jound in her truik—one w note of no importance and the other as foliow! Darnorr, Mich., Oct, 21, 1877, Darwin Wint—Received vours toils morning; was glad to near trom you ouce more, Ulu mun, ne matter Low broken down you ure, no mbtter low triendless, uo matter whut you do, wl ys rely on me, your own Stim ; she will never change uly knows how willing, to give you my I Evorythin: is Ay secret as the grave about where you wre. J will be in Windsor next Friday morning it Lam alivo-—that iy if it don’t storm perfec eri; af ie di will come 8s eat Kenn: ave wuld 0 many and despatch, Father and mother both mistrast something, [ told them | was going to . aud father said I suould not go that I should take sister or be woud yo himselt. I ster. 1 told her everything aud she says she me. I would rather come alone, but can't. an, You can trust mi now that [ will bet Be sure to m about that lette de He Detroit to do some tradin alon Yes, old never change, tor 1 found when you met me last. son on earth. In fact I am bar wretched sometimes, but I will It el happy. Goodvy and God bless you, Accept lots of big isses from homely, discarded Stim Jinnie. von't worry the old man, for L will come and bring the money. Godby and God bless you again is the wisn of your SLIM. On the day she killed herself she was unusually cheerful and told the members of the troupe that she intended to go home, 1n the afternoon she asked the proprietor of the Daly House, where the troupo was stopping, When sue could get a train for Port Hurou, and shortly alter retired to her room aud shot her through the heart with a revoiver. LITTLE MIss FLITE. [From the San Francisco Examiner, Novembor 3.) A case has been pending in the Supreme Court for a year or more, entitled Frazier vs. Crowol, alias Go« linsky. Now, the defendant isa little old lady of Aity- five or sixty, who would precisely ans ip appearance to one of Dickens’ creations, Miss Flite, For tho past jo has been daily im attendance on ono of Clerk’s office of the Supreme Court inquiring for “news,’? Th @ involved about $30,000 worth of property, and the I womuu had sold ail ber jowelry and spare c.othing to pay iawyers’ fees, &c., und was actually begging lor bread. The case was decided on Weduesday lust, ana the opinion appeared in Thursday’s papers—the decision boing in Mise Go- linsky’s favor. A litle alter four o’ciock Toursaay ning, a8 one of the oificers of the Supreme Court, Mr, ©, A. 8) was passing down Clay street, and when just east of the United States Restaurant, oppo- site Leidesdorif street, he met the little old lady, and, Supposing that she had heard of the decision, gr d ber with, “Woll, you won your ca: Instantly the svecessiul litigant seized the gon jan by the coat aud cried oot, “Hold meup! 1 going to faii.’? And sho fainted away. She was taken to a stairway and properly cared for anil st When thus greeted and informed of her success in court she was on her way to borrow or beg tour bits, with which to buy bread for the next four duys, ‘o- day she 18 worth $50,000. —_—_—+ CENTRAL AFRICA. | The Project for Congressional Aid for Its Development. CAPACITIES OF APRIGAN AGRICULTURE Perennial Sugar, Coffee and Cotton at Cheaper Prices for American Consumption. ENGLISH ENTERPRISE AT WORK. Wasuincron, Nov. 10, 1877. In view of ihe proposition for an appropriation from Congress to aid in the preliminary. survoys for a pro- posed railroad from the St. Paul River, in Liberia, across the Soudan, with the terminus at the Straits of Babelmandob, at the mouth of the Red Sea, to be called the African Continental Railroad, as sug- gested by Mr, Augustus Watson, in his communication to the African Repository, a publication issued semi- monthly by the American Colonization Association, whose central offices aro im this city, the HERALD cor- respondent visited the secretary, Mr. William Coppin- Ger, recenty, at the Colovization Building, to obtain all the information possible, botn in relation to bis views of the project and the present and past status of the association, ‘The association was organized in December, 1816, and alter getting under way by establishing agents in Liberia and other necessury preliminarics, they sent out tho first instalment of emigrants, eighty-six in number, to Liberia, since which tme one or more colonies have becn sent ont every successive year till the total num- ber gent out up to 1876 by the association has reached 15,125, Uf this number 3,137 have been sent since the couciusion of the war. The society has, under the inducement of the government, succeeded in colo- nizing in Africa 5,722 Africans, many of them captured on the high seas when being inducted into slavery. Sierra Leone is built up almost enurely of that class of colonists, the total number thus sent there being 20,847. They have common and mission schools and colleges at Monrovia. The climate at Liberia is not unhealthy for the African race, as there has been but one death there the past year of emigrants from the United States, So far as relates to the salubrity of the climate, Gov- ernor Pinney, who was appointed thero bf the society in 1834, and who has been backward and forward sev- eral times since, reports that the thermometer ranges from sixty to ninety degrees during the whole year. They have but two seasons, the wet and dry -scason; the wet season ig in summer and is cold, the dry sea- son 1s in winter, As an illustration of the wonderlul productiveness of the soil, Mr. Coppinger states thut they invariably havo two crops a year of corn and all other vegetables that grow in the temperate zone, while those valuable staples, sugar, Coffee and cotton, are perennial, This is @ great advantage over the sugar growing districts, not only of the United States but of Cuba and the Sand- wich islands, a3 in the former case—in Louisiana for in- stauce—the sugar cane has to be planted every yeur, and in Cuba, West India and the Suadwich Islaads every four years, The seed of the sugar cane is very expensive, hence the products of Cuba and the Sand- wich Islands can favorably compete with our own pro- ductions, Sugar can be produced of equal quality in Laberia and tn the game latitudes as Liberia at a much less cost than tuat produced in any other country where it isa staple, as there itis perennial Tho lavor of producing it is much cheaper, and this will more than make up for cost of transportation und ireight. 1n other words, he contends that sugar can be grown and shipped to our own markets at a less price Janded, than it can be produced at home or by any other competing sugar growing country in the world, ‘The cotton is a tree in Africa, growing to the hoight of Hiteen fect, and, as it 1s peronnial—lasting tor trom ten to fifteen years—it requires no replanting every year, as it does in our Southern cotton growing States; hence, although not of so tine a staple, it can be produced much more cheaply than bere at home. Iron ig one of the natural products, and, as a general thing, the ore produces some elguty-five or ninety per cent of iron. The coffees, knuwo as by sample ex- hibited by Mr. E, 3. Morris at the Centennial last yeur, as the Liberia Mocha coffee, are pronouncod by 00d judges to be the fipest coifees in the worid, “There are two other staple products that special mention should be made of, ‘as they aro very exten- sively oxporied to the Kughsh und European mur- Rets,” suid Mr. Coppinger. “1 reer to the palm oil und the cam wood. Paim oil is now Lhe main product oi Liberia aud the interior beyoud the Koug Moun- tains, The value of its import to Eugiaud in 1875 Feached $10,000,000 irom the whole coust. It 18 carried to the coast im crocks on the beads of women irom the quterior for hundreds of miles, then put im barrele und shipped. ‘The English havo the monopoly of this it 18 carried by two lines 9! wers from Liy- erpool, allurding weekiy communication, Our own Aluericau matis wre carried by these steamors on this route, and it takes thirty duys to get letters. Tuese ea of steamers, Kuown as the ‘Alrican Stewm- ship Companies,’ uave tourteen steamers ruuning on oue tine and eight on the vtner, muking 4 fect of twenty-two sicawers, ‘Tne profits ier 1X mouths on one Ol these lives amounted to £10,221 over and above all expenses, yielding u good dividend to stockuoluers. The steamers are mostly built of iron, about ope thousand six huadred tous burden, and generally pr pellers. President Koberts, of Liveria, who was bere @ low Years ago, aud is since dead, in speaking ot the great “lurests of camwood, said they extended at st 4 Lundred miles back from LI 18 Very Valuable us’ dye wood, du the Engiish market. ibe exports of tuis wood ure Very large, and 101s shipped mostly to the English market, One great drawback Lo the commerce of the couuiry is, that througu every principality, tribe, ua- vow or kingdom that the native prowucts, such as palm oil and camwood, have to pass, they lave to pay & tribute or tax, thereby enbancing the price, before it Teaches the seaboard, vo almost double, Tuis ot cour would bo obviled were there a railroad to convey these producis down Lo tbe place of suipment. Xhere is wiso anotber very Valuable product, the process tor outaiming whieh 1s yet i its Mmiang) gold oi the Kong ngo that run down the coast vver ove thousand m.les, aud up ba the present time prospects have beeu made only by the naiives, who wash out the sand from tue streams thut run down frow these mountains in their gourds, then put the dust in quills ana seil ii to tho traders. Ever since the Portuguese commenced trad. ing With the vatives, over five hundred years ago, these primitive gold huuters have not advanced auy iM tue meaus Of procuriug this precious metal. From best Information received tuese Koug Mountains cou- tain many very vVaivable deposits of yold-vearing quartz, wilting Obly tue industry, energy and indom- itabiv Courage of the Apgio-Suxou to dictate te best method for the prosecution of sv valuablo a source ot monetary wealth. Ihe Koog Mountains on tue coast of Africa bold the same relative position iu that quar ter of the globe that te sierra Nevada Mouutaius do tw our own gold aud silver bearing Caliiornia and Ure. gon, Waiting only the evergy to develop their vast riches.” dir. Coppinger says that sincethe war thero have becn more applicants among the colored people tor un to Liberia thau the society has bad nd, and Lue desire among them to emigrate y increas: so much so that there are wow tons Of thousands of them asking for and wishing tue means Of transportation ; and be thinks it the xovern- meut would leud @ helping hand, 1m taese hard umes and business depression, it woulu’ be a wise and good project. ‘The association bas iniormation trom reliavte sources from all parts of the country of parties wisu- ing Lo enigrate, the following socien J although in pendent 1 the parent association at Washington, yet in barmony with ites m: objects, are named as proof of this assertion:—ibe Liberia Kxodus Associa- Vou, of Chariestun,5.U., has now 65,000 names enroll Sureveport, La, Association bas 6,000 names ot mea und Women enrolled, Organizations are repurted at Chariowe, Cousord, Rosedale and Raleigh, N. C.; St. Marys and Augusta, Ga.; Archer, Tallahassee, Monticello aud Jacksonville, Fla ;’ Seima and Montgomery, Ala.; Corinth, Aberdeen and Mor- ide Miss; and el Ark, Most of these orgunizatious are 6 to have from 1,000 to 6,000 mombers, anxious, purely Voluntarily and spontunevusly, to emigrate to Liberia, because they think to improve their condition by going there. Tho association at Washington pro- por at the would-be all pay 10 part the ‘expense and cost oi transportation, and hopes the gov- ernment will give @ helping hand, Previous to this the association paid all tue expenses of the colonists, aud subsisted them lor #ix months alter they arrived out, hey donated them, or rather the Repubiic ot Li- beria donated, twenty-nve acres of land w heads of nd ten acres of and to all male adults, io , & gift equivalent to three tim: of public ‘land granted because, ot only does the lund produce two crops a@ yeur, but its fertility and the abandauce of ite crops make it fully equal to threo times the products ordivary iwod ‘Commerce and civilization have for the past thou- Sand years come from caravans from tho Mediteraucan coast countries—frum Itipoli, Morocco, Tunis, Algiers aud otuer Mobammedan countries trom the north ; 80 that Soudan ts one vast concourse of Monammedanism, ‘This portion of Africa is more advanced in civilization than any other for the above reason. This vast tract of country contains over sixt; pilllessp peel le, as estimated by the travellers Lancer and 5 aud tie supplies, Meleding Lowel! cotton, shipped first ta ashipped to the Mediteran thence by caravans over a thousand mites of trav: Boalt tot! th ino the practicabii 7 beg A! fea ity of the great ‘“Atrican ntal Railroad.” This valley ocataiae cities of from two to three hundred thousand inhabitants, many o! them walled in with strong and almost ime pregnable walls of rock and iroustone. in all thest cities civilization has greatly advanced, if we aro t¢ credit the reports of English travellers such as Landet and Barth above named. The Secretary further say that Bibles ure now printed in Syria in the Arabia language, shipped to New York and thence shipped to Liberia; and in this conversation be narrated several very inveresting facts about the natives of the interios living beyond the Kong mountains, showing their ness at the fine arta, As the natives aro mostly Mo hammedan from association with the traders from the Mediterranean, the Koran is the! One of the vi f Koran in the Arabic language and Perley @ very fine specimen of penmanship. Tbe Christian Bible, printed in the Arabic language, as above stated, is now being very erase rely circulated all through the Republic of iberia, ‘The proposed route of the raliroad tor which Con. gress is to be asked to make an appropriation so as te get the preliminary surveys made is, as Mr. Watson describes it, to start at tne St. Paul River, in Liberia, which empties into the Atlantic at the principal port of the Republic, to traverse thence in a northeast. erly direction to a break in the Kong mountains, thence running east about on the tenth parallel of lati. tude, through Soudan, crossing the thence across the Valley of the Nile, thence to the te: minus at Babel Mandob Straits atthe mouth of the Rea Sea, The trafiic of the millions of pilgrims alo; from the birthplace to the tomb of Mobammed from Mecca to Medina would, Mr. Watson says, pay the Joterest on the money invested in this gigantic undertaking. There have veen to survey several of the isthmuses at and po America, with a view to determine the pi of a ship canal, and Mr. Watson thinks Cong Invost profitably a small sum to make preliminary sure veys on tho proposed Alrican railroad. Colonization, he holds, is the regeneration of the earth, of which America, especially the Anglo-Saxon portioa of North America, jg the most conspicuous example, “BLUFF BEN.” THE OLD REPUBLICAN WARRIOR SPEAKS HIg MIND AboUT THE QUESTIONS OF TAH HOUR—HAYES AND HIS POLICY—CHICKENS THAT WILL COME HOME TO ROOST—WASH« INGTON NOT MORE HONEST AND UPRIGHD THAN GRANT. A correspondent of the Chicago Znter-Occan (Novems ber 9) relates tho following interview had with the Hon. Benjamin Wade whilo en route to his home, at Andover, Ohi “I first called the attention of the ex-Senator to the telegram (rom New York, which was published ig your paper of October 30, giving a synopsis of the two-column letter of Mr. William Lloyd Garrison against the Hayes administration. He listened care- fully to some of the more pointed paragraphs, which Ircad aloud, and, when I paused on one or two occa. sions, said:—‘Those are precisely my opinions, and & have frequently assertea them when asked to tell what I thought of the manner in which the governs ment is being carried on.’ Ags Garrison summed up the results of the ‘boasted Southern policy’ the speaker also belicved that it meant simply ‘the vir- tual distranchisemont of the colored race; the conse. quent domination of their enemies, and the disinte. gration and demoralization of the republican party, ‘unless the friends of freedom everywhere raliicd to the rescue.” ince I called on you in the summer President Hayes hus been South, What do you think of the ree sults of that trip?” I inquired. “Well,” Mr. Wade avswered, “he drow crowds around bim, and then be complimented those who had been rebels against the Union, and told them that he believed they had been fighting for what they thought to be right, just as the United States troops had fought tor whut they considered right. Now it stands to reason that if the Southerners did what they thought right they should not be obliged to suffer for it, Why, then, should the rebols net receive remo neration for their losses during the war? Why should not the soldiers recetve pensions at the hands ot the government, just as the injured Union patriots werd granted pensions? or why should Confederates be taxed to help pay the Northern pepsion list? U those remarks do not ‘come home to roost? then I am Al abrief pause Mr. Wade continued:—‘A good share of the Southern States have repudiated theil debts, Now, il they will not settlo their immediate indebtedness, Is it Feasonable to presume that they will be in haste to pay out money toward liquidating ‘he national debt, tuat was mainly incurred 1n coercing them, or that they will present pensions to ex-soldiors wbo were instrumental in defeating their ends, pro- vided they manuge to secure or have placed under their control the power of doing or not doing ?”” “What do you thiuk of the results of the President’s civil service order?” Mr. Wade leaned back in bis seat and laughed heartily as he thought of the flourish of trampets with which the order had been issued, and its unoflicial modification when it was plainly discovered that it would not work. ‘Ihe ex-Scnator’s views agreed exactly with what was recently expressed in an — editorial the Inter-Ocean under the heading “A Change”? Then, too, the Presi- dest hud claimed that he would ‘make no ap- pointments,” that he would not interfere in regard to nominations under the civil service rule, and soon there came & serious mudalo over the Cameron matter. If Cumeron did possess taults, lacking in some of the personal graces, perbaps, he was a shrewd inun and a fibe man in many respects, Old England would gain nothing by having bim, as ho might bold her tauter than she had been held for years. “1 was in the Senate when Johoson went over tothe ’ course appears to me like thal then pursued, But { am opposed to the President't action lor broader reasons tuan have been stated, When we selected Mr. Hayes, we did not choose a dice tutor, His only course should have been to see that the luws of the sonnet, were executed, and the priu- ciples of his party, as laid down 10 {ts platform, wera properiy curried out. The republican party aud noble principles being in the majority ut tho Jast ejection, it was the duty of the executive officer of the country, Who was elevated to his po tion by means of that party, to enforce the tenets of the repubiicuns, ro was uotbing for Hay: but to say, “I think Congress ought to adopt such measure.’ The words ‘‘President’s policy’’ jarred on Mr. Wade’s cars, ag @ President should have no “por icy” save that of the party that elected him. An- drew Johnsou was the iirst President who ever talked ot ‘my policy.’ “1 havo mo idea,” continued the ex-Senutor, “but that the republican party will ulti- mately come forth stronger than ever, It can’t bo ovher wise when necessities of the case fully, realized, If the democratic party ge the auras of the nation better than the republic let it do so, but my experience ts not of th: xactly the reverse. What improvement! dia the democrats accomplish during the many yeu that they were in power? Then, after the republica: succeeded in wiuning a pluce, what did the democrats ‘do in the advocating of measures? During the eigh- teen years that] was in the Senate I cannot recoliect of their advocating a single bill that would be vene- fisial, Che party opposed everything, gooa or bad, gs was Drought up by the republicans, and that was all, “You wore satisfied with Grant’s administration ?”* Tasked “Yes, sir,” with deep emphasis, ‘I don’t beliove George Washington in his time ever bad a more ho: est and aprizht administration than that of Grant, He then relerred in glowing torms to the manner in which ox-President Grant was conducting bimsoif while abroad, and said he considered tuat he was en- titled 0 all oj the honors that had been showered upoo pee in England and were now being bestowed by France, there must be a general ‘right about taco? are GENERAL POLITICS, The Chioago Journal says that if the Communists in thatcity hold together they may obtain the balance of power and become a strong local political element. Lewiston (Mo.) Journal:—“To outsiders it looks very much as though Conkling thought more of hi¢ own prestige than of tho wellare of republicanism.” Donver (Col) News:—'The capitalisis who built bowb the Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific roads aid so with the full knowledge that the act of Congress required a pro-rate on all overland traffic, and no amount of sophistry can cover up or explain away the plain Eaglish and evident intention of the act of Con- gress.” A CORONER'S JURY'S CENSURE. An inquest was held on Saturday night at the Ninth Precinct station house, Brooklyn, over the bodies of Mre. Kate Wiley and her infant child, who were sul- focated at tho fire at No, 721 Gates avenue, on Monday last, The jury returned a vercict to the effect that their death was caused by suffocation. The jury cen- sured Mr, Mullady, the ownor of the house in ques- tion, for not having the habitation provided with ti escapes, and also for allowing a bakery to bo con- ducted in the cellar of the domicile, BURIAL OF AN ACTRESS. ‘The funeral of Mrs, Jui ylvester Posthaucr, who has been more or less intimately connected with the New York stago for the past twenty yoars, took place yesterday alternoon from St, Agnes’ Church on Forty+ third street, The Rev. Honry 0, MacDowaill officiated and sang mass, Tho fact that the lady’s death was not generally known caused only a slight attendance of professionals, but the floral trivates sent by per- sonal friends were both numerous and costly, The body, which was enclosed in a handsome rosewood casket, was taken to Calvary Cemotory for interment