The Sun (New York) Newspaper, February 11, 1871, Page 2

| ot ee a eee ee ee eee: NOS Wh and Tae Fourteenth Street Theatro—The fifi Siar, Matinee Grand Opera H Matiowe Rawin's Thea Matinee rden—T 4. Acatemy of Must, re Ricbelien, Ma! yo Kotehen vor Hellbeenne ‘Terms of The Sun, Darty, por year, to mail sabacribers, wae The Treasury's Coin Reserve. r. Bourwent leaves the Treas ury Department, which it is on all sides de clared he is soon to do, we with to express our approval of a practice of hie which has not met with that support from the leading organ of the Administration to which it is entitled. Wo refer to his resolute holding on to hiscoin reserves, Mr. TRUMPULL in the Senate, and Mr. Gneereyin the Tribune, have never lost a chance of condemning this Practice, and of advocating the emptying of the Treasury of its gold for the useless pur. pose of reducing the funded debt. Their complaint is that the country is losing the interest money on the gold held in reserve by the Treasur, ‘There is no sounder or more self-evident proposition than that in all banking opera tions a certain amount of cash should always be kept in hand. If it be not necessary that it should be in coin, as may be urged is the tase during a suspension of specie pay ments, coin ie nevertheless needed for other purposes. It is necessary at the pres- ent time cepecially to show that beneath the mountain of paper money transactions dis tlosed by the bank and Treasury operations there is something at the bottom which d notes somo degreo of actual solvency and Peal ability to We have at this moment an irredeemable gaper circulation of about seven hundred mil lions. Now, who but the most crazy advocate of paper issues and nomoney banks can say that this gigantic pile of paper money re. quires no cuin basis? Let it be always bor mind that our Government is plying Dusiness of a banker. Ii issucs and keeps out in cireulation four hundred millions in notes payable on de mand, and thise notes form the Lasis of three hundred millions more of Lank notes by being made legal tenders for their x demption, The banks are exempt th necessity of keeping ¢ Dut green Dacks to redeem their bill & they d Without specie almost entirely, The los annual returns show that our sixteen hu: dred and forty eight banks held on the 2s¢ OY December last Lut mill Against an rearegate of circulation ant posite of over eight huuaend millions Ifthe Government isto keep twenty six coin re. serves on hand, what sort of a show Wows the country make in the eye of reasonable yeople ©) crywhere, in respect of ite ability or intention ever to resume coin payments ! The bavks and the Government would be » banking on nothing. ‘Together, they would use seven hundred millions of demand notes and five hundred millions of deposits. And if the Government is to strip itself of gold, o8 Mr. Tremput. and Mr, Greevey recommend, the only solid Lasis of this enor mous aggregate of twelve Lundred millions due on demaad, would be the beggar which might chance to be found Yaults of the Lauks. The current coin balance of the Govern ment only averages between forty and fifiy milli and above its demand gations, and this is all the basis it ho to pay its demand notes of four hundred u lions. Talk about the Government losiny interest on its specie! Doesn't it gain the in terest en four hundred millions of paper mone to ask that ii shull show something in hand toward pay ing this immense amount of ¢ obligations? Suppose the G y sun in th 8 over and is it too much regarded overnment d not intend to pay its notes, doesn’t it owe something to the public sense of propriety romething to the old-fashioned prejudice of honest people, that when paper money i issued there ought at least to be something behind the counter to redeem it? Our paper money fabric has stood for sev eral years with great steadiness, owing to the large and constant annual addition to the public stock of preeious metals, whicl: hos precluded the necessity of any urgent de lon the banks or the Goy at to redeem their circulating notes; and also to the important, perhaps more important fact, that the Gi. ernment bonds, issued enormous amounts to defray rom in sueb nr war ex penses, have Leeome a considerable part not only of our /wu currency, but of the currency of the whole commercial world, They ar: equivalent to money on every exchange in Europe, end answer every purpose of coin in settling our foreign balances, Until those bonds shall have passed into the hands of permancat investors, a8 sooner or later they must, they will contivue to fulfil this function, and continue to check, as they now check, the demand for specie to pay our international trading and interest balances, But when the period arrives: that this fruitful source of means to pay foreign debts is dried up, and bonds wre no longer available in large Smounts a8 remittances, then the natural and Jeyitimate demand for specie will re vive, and we shall sce the paper inoney theorizers put to flight, as they always have deen in past times, Andif, when there shall come a real want and demand for specie in the country, the condition of the banks and he Government should show an indebted Bees due ov demand of twelve hundred mi} lion, and exhibit only the present meagre reserve in the bank vaults of five-and twenty millions of coin, who can fail to see what ruinous results must ensue? The Treasury Department could not then, as by the conservative policy we applaud it has been able to do thus far, steady the vast shaky pile; nor could it, as it did on the famous Black Friday, save the country from the lasting effects of unscrupulous opera- tions in the gold market We repeat that Mr. BoutweEtu’s course in this matter ie deserving of unqualified approval. — 1 The Republican Party in New York May be Revived. The action of the Republican State Com mittce on Thursday evening was most sig: nificant. They refused to comply with the demand of Collector Murray and the Guan faction for the dissolution of the General Committee of the party in this city, of which the Hon. Horace Gnreriry is Chairman, The decisive vote was upon the question of adjourning for four weeks, and the adjournment was a rebuke to th House and to the politic ‘ustom ns who have been office from Gen. Gant by noisy demonstrations in favor of This wise eonclns endeavoring to seenre his renomin on affords an opportu nity to revive the Republican party in this State, and to bring it once more upon the stage with some hope of success. The way to this great result is simple. It is, in the first place, to adopt the programme laid down by the Hon. Honack Greretry. He recommends that the question of nominating Gen. GRAnT should be entirely ignored ; and this is certainly the course which those leaders of the party who are not after offic for themselves should strenuously pursue. At the same time they should remove all causes of dissension in this city by leaving the control of the General Committee here, and the purification of the ward associations, tn the experienced hands of Mr. Gneetey. We dare say he may be relied upon to eccure the opening of these associations to all genuine Republicans, and to exclude from them all Democrats who are registered as members for purposes of mischief only. Thus the party may again become harmonious and efficient ; and if some men who have en- deavored to control it, and have only shown that they do not possess the ability, are by this means left to take back seats, it will be none the worse for the Republican cause. We are sorry to be obliged to say that the result now attained only certifies the fact that Mr. Murry har not been successful as ® party leader, He has bent all the mighty resources under his control to secure the over. throw of Mr. GueEtry and his Committee, and he has failed. We confess that we are much disappointed at the general lack of alility in Mr. Mcuriy's management since he arsumed the reins of power. We had great faith in him asa politician ; but he has not justified it. Itis fair to add, however, that his failure must in a gre: attr: buted to the necessity ur felt himself of securing for Ger GRanv t delegation of this State in the next Repuil an National Co ention. That was some thing beyoud the ability of auy man with whom we are But yet, even tusk before him, 1 ought vken down so signally in the the process, Thus in the there that h nul have crowded out Mr. GREELEY and Mr. Ronents in order to secure the nom for Governor of a man who 1 with the slave trade, Nor was it necessary that he should combine with the Tammany Democrats to defeat the nomina tion of one member of the Young Demoerae for Mayor, and afterwards force upon the Republicans as their candidate another aud less popular somber of the same factior He might have done his best for Guaxt without committing these Dienders, the most remarkable perhaps in all the Ifsiey of New York polities during the last twenty-ice years. ‘anvass last fall was no need tion had been connect : a Rogues in Grain. arly everybody bas heard of “ rogues in grain,” while but few people probably under stand exactly what they are, In Chicago they know precisely. ‘There is a clique of warchousemen and grain speculators in that enterprising city who have organized what is called the Elevator Ring, a highly re spectable asec ciation for swindling the public on an enormous scale; and these are the uine rogues in grain, Not Ling the public and their customers, they #eom tohave lately entered upon the praiseworthy n A with rob. satis occupation of robbing each other; and, if there is any truth in old proverbs, honest men who deal with or in Chicago may now indulge in some hopes of getting their due, ‘To understand the merits of the quarrel among these gentry, it is necessary to know something of the strange and mysterious in which the grain trade is conducted in Chicago. When grain is stored in a ware ‘ator, it is weighed and in spected, and a receipt is given for it which entitles the holder to @ certain quantity of grain of a specified quality upon payment of charges for storage. ‘This receipt is a nego tiable instrument. Now, if the warchouse mau is in want of funds, all he has to do is to isane aa many receipts of this kind thinks he ean take care of, without reg the quantity of grain he Las in store, sell them on the market, and charge the usual rates of storay house on the grain they represent—the receipts carrying storage as due bills carry ntercst, In other words, the warelousoman borrows money on 4g a8 collateral, and then charges the lender of the money storage on as many bushels of nothing ashe puts up for security, He actually accomplishes th often described, but never before realized, ploit of living on the interest of bis own debts, It is peculiar and perplexing ; but this is what it amounts to in the end, and it exhibits a financial genius which could only have originated in a section of the country where an irredeemable paper currency is ed the eurcst foundation of nationnl wealth and prosperity ‘There are many other original and highly | interesting features of the Chicago grain trade. For instance, by @ eombination be tween the warehougemen and the rail road companics in Minois, the owners and consignees of grain shipped to Chicago lose all control over their property as soon ag it ip on board the cars, ‘ha railroad com- este panies deliver the grain to whatever ware- house they please, without regard to the instructions of the owners as to its des tination. The railroads also refuse to give receipts for any particular number of pounds or bushels of grain, but instead give bills of lading for so many “car loads,” the grain to be weighed at the elevator and @ receipt returned for as much as the warchouseman or inspec tor sees fit to acknowledge. When grain is paseed into an elevator, nobody is held re sponsible for its condition. So, between the railroad company and the warehouseman, It may happen that a mantwho has shipped 1,000 bushels of No. 1 spring wheat may, at the end of thirty days, find himself the owner of 950 bushels of “rejected,” the ware. houseman having the power of posting it as “hot” on the Board of Trade bulletin if he chooses to do so, Sometimes grain shipped from St. Louis to the Enst has its grad changed by asimplo transfer at Chicago ; and 4 Massachusetts firm reports a case in which two car londs of dry corn of a high grade in passing through Chicago became transmuted into dirty low mixed grain. ‘The excitement now prevailing among the grain dealers of Chicago has been caused by the alleged issue of fraudulent certificates, and of improper transactions in the inspec. tion of grain, in which the chief inspector, some of the Directors of the Board of Trade, and others are said to be implicated. Unless the present grain warehouse system ally reformed, Chicago is certain to loge its immenee grain trade ; and if the dis graceful irregularities which have recently been exposed have the effvet of leading to such a result, it will be fortunate for that is rad city. — It is said that Mr. Sumnen has lately ex pressed his conviction that “Gray can't be re- nominated.” This is the view of many other in- telligent politictans; but one of the ablest men in the Republican party says in a recent letter My opinion is strong that Gnaxt will be renom- nated, and, ¢o far as T can now judge, will be d feated.”” It is also an interesting fact that the Democratic managers all feel sure that the R publican candidate will be Gnant, and upon this they found their increased confidence of electing their own man. _—$<$<————__—. The Ring in West Meriden, Conn., have overreached themselves, In attempting to blot out @ free press by persecution, violence, and fraud, they have merely fixed the public atten- tion upon their own tergiversations, and strength. ened the free press which they have tried to overthrow. Itisa story which is disgraceful to West Meriden. We tell it briefly as follo’ Some time ago Messrs, Lurnen G. Ricas & Co. established in W ndepen st Meriden @ bright, enterpris- ing, which, wi lent daily newspa ‘ ing the livery of no political party, political frauds wherever discovered, soon found itself in a bitter contest with @ Ring of unsera pulous politicians The first fight of the West Meriden Recorder Journal with the Ring conspirators but exposing to w per- sonal assault, in which the bludg was used, and Mr. Tras was confined to his bed a month On his recovery Mr. Ries renewed the Recorder thet the Ringmaster swore that he Mr. Riaos Then the Ring began a series of malicions vex up the 2 ve pre up may b would drive out of the town ious civil lawsuits, des break Thy the slow and expen Now they followed these following extract fram a adent’s letter ing to nder-Journ s of law seen in w The Rinemaster Mnally trumped np an agreement by which Mr. Riggs liad promised conditionally to give $30 toward Hag 9 us or p. Mr. Rt firs! nto! $50, A the lt we wchanee to strike Mr Riaas's tor to erase Mr. Ri name fram the membership of the chnren ; and this Was dove without Mr, Kigas’s knowledge, or © out preferring charges against him. Of course, Mr Koes declined to pay anything further toward Duilding the new Metnotist meeting house the Rinemaster sued bin for $130, and then bribed Mr Kiaas's attorney to wit draw from the cake, Then false representations were made to the Court, and judgment was tuken ont by defanit, with excen tion, Next, the Sheritt levied 1 Journal's press and took rarily stopping Mer. Rr Happily, Mr. 2 Printing on the Recorde it away, thereby tempo 6 business, f the Meriden mpany were able to print th. Jer-Journal for him, though in form, and the publiestion is continued, Is this the inviolability of the freedom of the press that was contemplated by Rocer Snenwan Whee he signed the Declaration of Independence ? If these ot: qs do not rebound upow the heads of their authors, We are much mistaken, —— The Times yesterday contained « leader denouncing the Bar Association, It is the most masculine article which bas appeared in that reduced journal for some time, which does not appear to possess any longer more than the power of secondary virility, o_o Dr. Hermponp thinks the Little Church Round the Corner should be made the grandest church in the ¢ snd offers to give €5,000 t ward this purpose. This is generous in Dr u butt the Little Chureb should be taken down anda grand edifice 1 in ats place, would it still be the Little Church Round the Corner? Would it still retain the it bas now acquired of being grand in its re MBOLD erect istinction ni tion of man's common spiritual destiny, notwith standing that, who view things only according to outward appear: ances, itis nothing but a little church? We dare hit might be enlarged, it would still retain ng as the Christian Dr. Hovontox remains its rector ; and asthe enlargement of the edifice would admit more persons to enjoy the benefits of his tninis trations, we think the or aged and carried ont, —— When Major Penprnnts, alarmed at the amount of his nephew Anrnvu’s college debts, went in the estimation of thos say that, however m: this distinction so ctought be eneour to consult vai s of his ac ous old fog quaintance, we are informed that he was some what comforted on bearing of young men who owed twice as much—five times as much, So the Rev, Mr, Cuexey, who has just been found guilty by an ecclesiastical court in Ch of persistent omission of an important word m the baptismal oftice for infants of the Epis al Chureb, endeavors to palliate the offence by citing the cases of clergymen who have mutilated the of of th to a fur r extent than sidering that pledged themset Chure he hav. grout thes s upon to conform to a written fiturg receiving order the fact t hare not done so is not creditable to th does not help Mr, Cueney, at they » and The Episcopal Church has formulized its fuith so precively in its liturgy that almost every word may be said to have ity apecial meaning, Bat if the clergy may at theiv discretion omit such words or prayers 4% may seem to them to inculeate erroneous netrines, the prine object of @ liturgy, which js to preserve uniformity of belief, is in danger of being defeated, Episcopal clergymen, incls ning }8 One oF nore respects to the tenets of other denominations, might muke their liturgy teach acceptably the doctrines of the Unitarians, Uni versalists, Baptists, Methodists, or Swedenbor- gians. This certainly was not the intention of the founders of the Episcopal Church ip the SATURDAY, FEBRUARY United States, Whether or not their views were narrow and sectarian, is not to the point in eon- sidering Mr. Cmmnny’s case. He deliberately agreed to conform to certain written formulas of religious worship, and finding himself uneble to do so with a clear conscience, he seeks to adapt those formulas to his own opinions, This is neither open nor honest dealing, and in secular matters would be sharply criticised. The poli- tician who cannot act heartily with his party ally retires from it; and if Mr. Caewer cannot conscientiously adhere to the liturgy of his Chareb, he should enter some other communion, This, however, is certeinly not his present in- tentio The judgment of tne ecclesiastical court sus- pends Mr. Cuexey from the performance of bis ministerial functions until he shall gire proofs, satisfactory to the Bishop, of bis contrition for the past, and of his determination to conform to the Episcopal liturgy in future. From this judgment be has appealed to a higher court, con: sisting of the Bishop himself and other clergy men, whose judgment is not likely to reverse the finding of the late court ——- The glorious heroism of Epowanp How- ano Simmons, who lost his life the other day at New Hamburgh rather than desert his post in the hour of danger, is something so rare in these ys of selfishness that it deserves moro than a mere pas: Who shall say that when the engineer refused to leave his while {t was rushing into the of death, he did pot exhibit m ig notice gine, even very jaws e courage than ever immortalized the bravest soldior on the bloodiest fel? Let the world do honor to the memory of that man, While we give broad acres and much gold to our public men, who have already enongh of the world’s gear, and while we build m who have sacrificed nothing in order to reach the popular heart, let us show in some substan- puments to those nm of Doc Simmons’s tial manner our appreciat worth, His family are not blessed with wealth Their mainstay has been taken from them, leaving nothing behind but @ good name, and a record for bravery that bas been seldom matched, Which of our railroad kings will be first in offering to keep want from the widow and orphan child of brave Doo Simona, whe gave up his life to save the lives of others? poche tessies An acrobat called D'Avarip, “the man with the iron jaw,’? was some time ago arrested in Philadetphia for brutally treating a ehild he had with him. He gave bail and then fled, leav- 1g the child behind him. The little fellow's head and body were completely covered with welts, scars, and cuts inflicted upon him by this D'Atatim and an equally brutal woman who travelled in company with him, The child says he ia seven yours of age, and that he was stolen from bis parents in Lendon by D’AvAuim seven months ago, There is one way of punishing such brutes. They depend upon the public favor for their Jiving, and when a case like this occurs the press should give it such notoriety as to ren- der it unsafe for the cowardly child-torturer to show his face before an American audience. We cheerfully recommend D’Arauie, the ivou jaw, to the attention of our conten po- raries, man with SEER A Me to Congress. Wherens, the Kaiser von Koenig de Pruss Is less of a cuss and more of a fuss Than any remarkable ally of us, And highly successful in his late n And whereas, the comity of events pels us to straddle the dem And get the Duteh vote on any pretence And whereas, In fo Tugalls and Hora out of tune ; le jeune st that my policy’ And whereas, me That the me cover, it seems to me re of Honor is ealary ; T recommend that our man at Berlin From this time forward begin to begin To got as muc ey as lets bim carry A high Lead with the at Pat I think (his imperative policy M ways important to me ; And, as you perceive from the tength of this The theme is unusually grave for Unres. AMUSEMENTS, ‘The Vocal Society's Concert. The second of the very charming series of glee and m given by the Vocal Society took place on Thursday evening at Steinway Hall, One drawbacks very serious one—on the pleasure of the evening was the fimperfect venti'a- tion of the ha!!, It had been previously used @ drigal concer ring the day, and the air was thoroughly exhanstet of {te vitality by thousands of lungs. and yet not a Window Was open, but this fresh audience o: to breathe over again the vitiated atmosp Many felt the oppression severely Th» Voeal Society bas decidedly made progves Mr. Mosenthal’s steady, persistent daill ha Whitoat of ct, With all due ros the former Gtreator and p . Bro ur and 08s of unciation oft that the Society never had perore, Esp i formerly aeeustomed to finish item neces eavh man for b But now every ke clockwork #0 far as the madrigals go. e-voice Hacehus chorus trom Mendelssolin's Av prion MUS.C Wis wid porbly re Twice the nuinber of voices were really needed for the largest effect, but it waea very noble piece of work, ‘The little sugar-and-water plece by Fixe: er, * The Kuse in the Wood,” singu larly enougu, was but indifferently ang, The male vo! rus If not #0 good us that of the mixed Voice The best of the madrigals Wilbye, “Lavy, wh It was composed seltlers Were cutt was pertaps that by T beio'd,” written in six ports the oli dayewhea the Mayflower down the New England lorost trees, and th and bad not a waite man upon it, Wilise eeems to have caacht completely the spirit Of those diy teenth century, who t t the Wen gono ler there never Was 1 Olver as. the gilt balls cerdemainiat tly up into the adil in perivet harmony of nd subi gemuily c expert ¥o follow « is of tue vir, each in its turn motion, ‘The solo singing was not equal In merit to the reat of the performance, if we except that of Mr Baird, who’ sang one of Fesea’s songs with clear enunciation, (ue phrasing, and with a resily nobh mauly quatty of voice, Ais singing lacked only the and a litle more emotions! quatity to avo made it entirely ¢ ‘The four-part song, * Whore the Boe Sucks." was not well given—not so much for lack OF intellleene on the part of the singers as of good quality of tone fortianes the publie had access is doing su higaly artistic and such satisiuctory Work w* thi# one mime . Madame Seebach will appear this even Kitchen in © t* & famous one Seebach's Le n von Heilbroy nd the chia nm? The oler one of Mad Is George Joves a Kufian or Nort rom the Lynchburg Kepublioan. Tue Sen speaks of the gentle idiot who edits the 7unce as & brutal rug This ts too mucn for us, The luminary of the Times, we know, hi pever ye » the dignity rufianism, He is timply an jinbec le with a worl vacumui in the place where h Drains ought lo be, but otborwise per ectly en, The Republican falls into conta that © man cannot be beth imbecile by supposing and a radian. George Jones bas os litte brains as the law ailows; Dut he baw also proved himself to be a ruflun by as foniting with brutal violence in the street one of the most distinguished men of Ue country, There ix nothing incompatible in tue two enaracters, expe clally a8 Jones got damaged in bis rufianly assault Let the Repudlican correct its error. —— The Sunday Courier says that * Juilge Rawat J Bhandiey holds w proud position under the Cll}. Go eroment: and ab) th i) 15 Meowny . Lhe ts he owes 10 tis own Inde evanee. ability and honesty. de ts one of DE MeN OF the way, AB MOFEOVER ROOM look Kf SiebE ereumes Keven Ulance to Gem, Irwin LIFE IN WASHINGTON CITY. ADMIRAL PORTER PORTRAYED A8 JUDAS ISCARIOL, Vindication of One Butler Wants the Adi yet Alone tn bin Grave-The Tennessee Known to be Unscaworthy—Homenteads for Soldiers. Wasuixaton, Feb. 10.—Senator Sounen (Rep., M ) presented a petition from the Reform Leagae of New York for the appointment of ® commission of inquiry @ visit the South, examine witnesses and report on the condition of the freed poopte there, Mr, Cnaotx (Rep., N. 11.), from Committeo on Affairs, reported with amendments the House BILL TO RAGULATR RANK IN THE NAVY, and for other-purposes, ‘The principal changes by the Senate Committee in the House bill reguisting rank fn the navy are the following: ‘The rank of al} staff omMcors te assimilated Instead of poritive, the phrase weed throughont the bill being Bahai! rank with.” The mimber of chief engine te Incrensed to forty-five, Commanding and executive officers Wien on «uty are to take precedence of all Others, "With this excention, precedence I to be In ac Cordanco with rank and leigth of service; bac stat of ficers shall be accredited with six years additional Ume as an equivalent to the term ot the Naval Acade my; and officers who have been advanced or lost nu berd on the reaitter ehall be considered aa hay 0: ed oF lor length of service accordingly. Also fs of bureaus may by apn sons having the Corp, ‘Tne segtion in relation to precedence of command ing and excontive officers is a8 follows : ri of yousels of war and of naval atat er all Fs place: und executive officers. of Vereels of war and Haval atations representing tne com: manding officer ther Rext in rank to + when acting ae uc over all off (shall, as far as practicable, be A comaianding officer. and shall vr Naval en tive duces oud ‘shal f be regarded n said comnian THE BALAMANCA INDIAN FUND. Mr. Fenton (Rop., N. ¥.) eubmitted an amend: ment to the Indian Appropriation bill, making 9 swnall appropriation to pay for an inquiry or investi gation, by one or more commissioners, to be ap: pointed by the President, in regard to the oc ey, by leave or otherwise, of the Indian lands at Salamanca, N. ¥,, and other points on the Allegheny Reservation in New York. Laid on the taple and ordered to be printed. ‘The bill in relation to the ruflroad bridge across the Mississippi river, which was favorably reported on yesterday, was to-day recomumitied to the Com mittee on Commer Mr, Pommnoy (Rep., Kansas) reported with amend ment the House bill to amend section % of act of duly 5, 1870, to provide HOMBSTRADS FOR SOLDINRA, feamen, and innrines of the late war. It allows an quarter Government land. Mr. Taaren (Rep. Ne lution making the pay of the same as that of naval construc sume length of service, Referred to W on Naval Affairs, Without eo ines of the morning hour, the Senate at 12:45 went into executive session, AU&I5 the doors were reopened. Mr. Monton (Kep., Ind.) introduced @ bill to establish A DIPLOMATIC MISSION AT BERLIN, pon the same erade and emoluments with those at Paris and London, xing the salary o; the Minister at $17,600, and of the Secretary of Legation at $2,625 per anvam. Mr. MouToN sleo substituted a ress structing the Jadiciary Committee to 4 further legisiation is necessary, if avy. to secure the colored people of Kentucky and other States the right to testify in State Courts in cases in which Waite persons are partic mige Was received from the Hoare snagunc ing ation in quire what THE DEATH OF REPRESENTATIVE DE, yl when remarks eulogistic of were made by Messrs. Scott, Summer, the customary resolu dece Shermaa, aud Cameron, an tions of respect adopte At 413 tue Se 00 cess until evening for the purpose of ev ng the Appropriate At the evening session the num ~ of Sen, preseut at any one time did not exceed sixiven The Lesislative, Executive, and Judiclil Ab: riation bili was Liken up, and ndavents re ported from the Committee oa Appropriations were Agreed 10. oe — Houne of Kosrenentativer Mr. Van Ware (Rep. N.Y.) presented a peti tlon of citizens of New cily against further donations of public lands for railroad purpe und 0 reserve the lands for acti! eeti nt Mr, Siti (Dem, Oregon) sald that ho voted in the aMirmative on the Income Tax bill yesterday, and prior (Dem. Wis) said he voted im the negative, neiwer vote being recorded The House proceoded to the cousideration of pri vate bib Mr. Sranmwratuen (Itep. Conn.) reported a bill to permit WM. U. TANSCOMN, LATE NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR, to withdraw his resirnation, which was aecepted on the Sth of January, 1360, aud to reiustute him in t ome Messrs, Ancien and Sanazxt oppored the bill on the ground of a corrapt transaction of Hane comb's, in 1866, in connection with his oMeial da and wiliel had led to his resignation STARKWEATUER denied that there was any truth in the charge, and said it wae not that char which led to Mr. Hanscomb's resignation, but on # vice whieh he bad given to the Navy Dopa nt at at time tn reference to the twenty light-drau mopitors whica were then being built, and which had told Secretary Welles would never float. After that advice bis place Was mace so uncomfort ) advocated the said the Secretary of the Navy was anxious to hive the authority to reinstate Mr. Hanscomb, but he Was not satised that ne had that legal authority Mr. Panxswontn (Rep., Til.) remarked that there was bo doupt about the legal authority of Uie See: e tary of the Novy in the premises MR, DANKs'S ESTIMATE OF ADMIRAL PORTER, Mr. Banks revlied that the Secretary had doubt as to bis aushority, and therefore wauted the action of Congress in the matter, As to the chirges aguinst Mr. Hapscomb, that Were trumped ap aud sent to the House by Admiral Porter, he declared that Mr Hinscomb bore ax hovorable a reputation as any Dill, and man in Massachusetts, and that in the opinion of tne people of the conntry, Mr, Hanscom) was as supe Tor in Doints of reputation to Admiral Apostic J traitor Judas, (L Even if ti st Mr. Hanscom w reothe | b for giving men emp Yard sas were fuls 1st than that who bi pounded upunished denounced it ling of hich officia ® in the i say that they Lo come to use evel aman in which should live se o the 4 tiary, and had let him go in order that taey r get his pluce for one of their frien i, Reierring to THE INTIMIDATION OF NAVAL OFFICERS, by the Department, he said that be had hoard with in the last two days of scores of naval. enginvers ha il that the ‘Tennessee, now on her way to San Domingo or some other place, was not sean or thy, and that they were anwilling to risk their iy He did net understand, however, ut any engineer ofthe Navy hind sald to Mr. Wade, or to President White, orto Dr. Hower * If you take voyage on this vessel you do IL at the risk lives,” Why hud they not (old some of tho: hu ls who bad gone—no oue knows where at if they pliced their foot on the Ton. were in danger of being lost forever ? hey Were cowed; because they Were In a siiuation where they eould nol give Uieir houest ounter to the schemes did not refer at wl to bey wou'd lose their place and the So Mr. Hanseomb had bat rum counter their plans in dep ing the twenty light draught monitors, aud he tuereby lost his plage and his standing tu the Devartuient, They rovied Mr. Hanscont out of his lite place im the Charlestown Navy Yatdsand by allowing the commerce of the county. to ve destroyed, they prevented him getting employ iient in his profession im private #hip y Mr. FanNawourn moved to lay the bill on the table nou a division, Mr C4) tude another argument inst ci alluded to Ute ind Ulty maniiesied by former olleors of ty Adwiral Porter. It seemed ADMIRAL PORTER to ig that eai'ing A JUDAS ISCARION coguition for the gentleman's eid Lo the country; As to Hanscomu's challenged expla. Of the fact that the Hotes Which Hanscomb V tor te whiea he bad given ta s were in possession of the Navy Dopart but a po ce which however, Was & nee oft Ware (Rep., Me.) defended the Nayy Depart ‘our the responsibitity for the Tenncsse threw the responsibility on Congres,4 which though notified by Ad ‘al Porter Uhat the navy Was Worn Gut and useless, hod not mode uppropi le tions to renew ond main D the wavy Mr, Se eNGON (Rev., Olio) remmded Mr. Haly that te Tennessee was a vew vessel her wip bo Ran Domingo being her first voyage. Mr. Banka remarked that he propriations sor the navy Mr. Pannswontu was reminded by the att Admiral Porter 0: the truth of the i ‘Justin Dogberry that “comparisons uie odorous, It Was vain tor geutiemen to expect to traduce THE VAMH ADMIRAL POUTER HAD Wox, Mr, Baxxs—Io his correspon ’ Mr. Fanxewoutu—" Comparisons are odorous,’ says Mr, Justice Dogberry, Mr, Banke—Is that ule authority of the gentle. man frow iinois? (Loud tangiter ) Mr, Faunswontu—Admiral Porter has made a Fecord Whieb will Just forever, while the seyurde of sustained ap kon re of My ntlemen who make comparisons they should jot to live ‘orever, BUTLER (Rep., Mane.) closed the discussion fo @AecC! In Wiich'he was very Revere on Admiral Porter, Litule of what he said, however, reached the reporter in an intellizible shape, a8 the mem: bers gathered around Mr. Butier's desk, intercopt- ing signt and sound. He suld he had long since learned the wisdom of the maxim, “Dm MORTOTS NIL NIst BONCM ;"” and if Admiral Porter only Iay still in his grave: If hin friends «id not resurrect him to offend tie nos trils of the House, he (Mr, Butler) would not have fai a word about him. He said that this was no new quarrel between Mr. Hanscom and Admiral Porter. Adiniral Porter had b ng Henenant at the Portsmouth Navy d when Mr. Hanscom was naval constrictor there, ‘The elvilian the martinet had come in contact, and there had reen Jaid the foundation of An enmity that nad lasted a lifetime, Mr. Tanseom believe trom that hour he dad been hunted by Ad: miral Porter in every conceivable way. Speaking of PORTER'S CONNKCTION WITH THE NAVY DEPART MEN, he said that he never was officially Secretary of the Navy. Ho had once been officially Assistant Seere- tary of the Navy, No member of Congress sould have recounized him as Secretary. He bad left « Place ue never onght to have held. Mr. Banke remarked that he once went to the Navy Department to axe a favor (rom (he Becretary. 1 just gone out, and the Secretary ks. why tie devil don't you usk Admirsl Porter?" [Langhter.] @Mr. Expniper—And why whe devil didn't yout Mir, BANKs—Ile had just gone out, It was not the present secretary, Mr. BuTLen, resaining, narrate’ the motives which induces Mr. Hanscom to resign, and wich bad NO reference to. the charge made by Mr. Wig: tins. As to the ald vite, th dangers as such things, and ti he we 4 bundle of aMdavita watch he tad, th Kentlemen who had spoken on this subject who would be maxor re was nothing #0 to or wirttopT [Lanehter.] Who was not the Secretary of tiv separ on sony. opposing Str, Hanscom Nivv. not the Committeo on Naval Affairs; bot Mr, Porter, Admiral Porter by the grace of We Senate, [Ludgiter.) Admiral Porter's services during the war” would live for tome timo; he thoavht they would be indestractin.e. Ail along the Mississippl were guys captured by te ar and marked by Porter, Taken by the navy uider the command of D. D. Purter.” and so Jong as White paist remained, #0 lone would the Porter's deeds remain in the minds of were few, 9a record as wo trumpet elf the great strike down the great and nd send him to the grave with the feeling that his Country bad wronged Aim—then he might get such a reputation, and that Was the sort of servico which Admiral Porter had rendered to nis country, Tn conclaston, he bezged en not t» offend his nostrils ana make him Wish that ive bad a washbow! and tooth brush to clean out his mouth by bringing THAT MAN PORTER defore the House again. Let Porter rest In the eor- ruption whieh be hid made for himself. Mr. StaKKWEATHER ca'led for the vote, Mr. Cox (Dein, N. Y,)—As Jadas Iscariot {s om the Republican side of the House, let him spe! {Laugnter.] ‘The bill was parsod—Yeas, 143: nays, 67. Tein a Senate Lill, and nuw goes to the President for bis approval. Mr. Scorrey (Rev., Pa) re: bil! for the iment of three hundred seamen in for the practive suip at Annapolis, vughter,) that. Tt at I only blow h coud make bin Passed Tue House then, at 240 P.M. went into Com: mittee of the Whole, Mr. Cox in the chair, om THE XAVAL APPROPRIATION DILL. Mr, Wasiuenn (Rep, Wit.) moved to insert an additional section autnorizing the President to ac copt the resigaation of any oflieer of the navy unl the number of oficers In the grade to which such officer shall belong ia reduced to the number wuthorized by law, and whos ellecton cr bere te fi officer #0 resigoing to be e resignation #ball taxe Ol Jauuary next; any tisled to one year's sen in addition to the pay dite enet ofleer at the dace ition takes efeet, ‘The provision is 1 the number of officers shat! have the number allowed by law. Ag H) mov ro shit he Mr. Srevnns (Ren. by providing th N. 1 to amend the o the prade-of Rear Aimiral, Cc ° Captain, or Commandersinethe Line, unit (he nim ber im those grades #iiall bo reduced ty the numbe fixed by the second section of the Act of 16) July to establish and equalize the grades of ine ficers of wie Navy, Ou 4 point of order male by Mr Maynard Reo nn.) tae Chalrn lot Stevens's amendment t 4 by the House from the Conferenc reported the bill, and it was pass Mr. Wiitanp (Rep, Vi), Committee on the bill gral rire Wan or 1 DNS TO SOLDIERS OF Which be explained, aud whi report in wae * 8 to th d dratted men, in Hauing Mita ANd Volunteers, Wie neFVed Bixty aye 1b the army or navy in tw revoludonsry War or in the of 1512, aod were wonorably dis charged, 1) to the aurviving widows of such ¢ cers and diated and euiisted men. be at the rate of §9 per monty ‘The House then at 4:40 adjou Confirmation of the Alabama Comminst —The Strugete over Willia Hensions are to Wasmixetox, Feb, 10.—The Senate at 1:45 went into executive eexsion on tie subject of the Con.missioners to adjust the pending questions be tween the United States and at Britain, The debate involved the f Senator Williams as Commissioner, the Constitution containing a pro- vision that no Senator or Ri tive shall, dur elected, be appointed y of the United created or the emol. for Waich he wa office under all Lave been ing the tim to any civil States, which author Seuatsr W.!ams war Qoally contemed, Secretary Fish, Minister Sevouct jge Nelson, and At torndy Gem been confiimed pre the office to wh was that aoulnated is mot A civil office created by law, {t beiny Held that he was. ap: pointed merely vo represent the Pre in an ox- ecutive capacity, The op Was expressed. 1 debate that nd begin it minirelan coaid deliberations ui Mt got tozethe iter the di of itor Sumner mad opjection to Senator Williams, to show that the ¢uuse of tue gardto the appointinent of a etoan office Pp astituciow wit T or Represen caret. ising the term for whieh as cleeted, did hot apply to a ease like that be hem, Mf. Suter siso epoko ot hie koow! three of the Buitisa Coinwissioncrsy. (hey Ouly slivewd statesinen, but thoronghly te quainted with the questions with Whick. they wil have to deal, He did wotyas lad been stated, op- pose the appomtment of the Co.ambsmioners on tue partof the United stat firmation of allot them, HI voted for however, desired 4 canon Having assented to uve 9p went ob a Joint High Comudesion, ne desired tts labors to t Satisfactory to ouF eonnt-y, a We could Not afford {0 mage another fluro ii tie eflrt to welile Us pendin questions berweon Ue Uoiied States wad Great Britain The Pies was thle evening oMelally informed Of the confirmation of Wie Coma rs —— Donn Pinit Thinks Pleasanton with not Succeed Boutwell. Prom the Cincinid Commer il There is @ yunior afloat at this tine that says Gen, Pleasonton is to vueecd Mr. Boutweil, What foundation there way be for Wiis T know. bard arcely taimk that Gch. Grants kiteun Gubines Well is diMicult to control, but Plessonton would Ve entirely out of their bund a Chonas O'Conner. Tu the 7 Sin; Your correspondent“ Kye-Witnes #aw no pool of blood upon the Moor.us bh rts ‘The bleeding had appare (3 cased ab the thine he speaks of, and the 1) eluted, O'C¢ ad been # long time at hon the etre w Witn ud'in the mean time bad re tention irom two able 4 us, on brought upou which "Ry 3" first san wived proper at of who. is 4 surgeon of very great cxperience, We now lez ty tuke leave of the suigoct, and trast Bye Witness will do (he same, as evidently bis # NOL aveord ing Wo kDOW lex Very reapeattutiy J. & 1. CODDIN New Youx, Fob, 7, 1671 — The United States Analogous to Gerauy. To the Kiditor uf The Sun Sin: President Grant thinks the prescut Gor man Kmpire * analogous! to one | When this idea shal people, will they not of y uvdorstood by our to strengthen the analogy by changing tle of our ruler from America? BRD —- r you Poiehtut Washington ¢ ¢ Chicaya Tribune. ‘The story rus here, that Forney, tinding Himsel! unable, except at etl further wacriee. (for he has lost an the eity f Washington pearly $100, (00 Lo keep Up an adiminietration organ) to continue the CAroulole, was oeved 4 large quantity of prixt ine it he Would attack Saniner; but he preferred pocket his los A relive vather than break ap & Iriendstio of Giieon indiuate years, At any rate, he never has, during tie Wiule of this San Domingo matter, published ope line to Sumper's prejudic — Ben Butler's Reveni Wasmnerow, Feb. 10,—Gen, Butler, finding that Col W. HL, Wiogel was holding & position in the Geyoral Post Ofive Department, had tim r woved yesterday on accoupt uf bis Lesimony against him before Ge military cymmitiee, Seiiieeeenean Wao age «© a ecouowy, r Our ieie'in the stunat event Rov lage Weak? Buu Oppowiie City Mah Adee MR, TWEED'S DENEFACTION, Mr, Tweed's Attention Called to a Recens Letter in The Sun—He Declares bis Gin, be for the Poor, no matter what their Color or Faith—The Boss will See to ii Aunaxy, Feb, 10,—I called on Mr. Twoed last evening in his enmptuons apartments at the Del van, and found him as asoal surroanded by 9 gang of politicians, ail having axes to grind, to get bis endorsement of the mp Mr. Tweed has brought his family here, ants as termined to make himself as comfortable as the jot iticlans will allow him to be, In the course on. versation I called his attention to tlie following ¢ manieation, which appeared in Tax SUN About ¢ week vince: “* ALAS, POR THE VANITY OF CITRISTIAN Cusnity.”? Tothe Editor of The Sun. L regret to see that, the money so cener ed to the poor of New York by Mr. \ D unjustiy distrivted. Av. Kk hnaband and two feeble ‘Of the Fourteeath \\ ar and anxious The an frat asked was wheitir she beion ed to 8c, Patrick te Choreh Ss H fh the negative, when sho was repuimed. avd lore that ho Help would be elven to Protestants, Thy par Unlity # wrone, and L hope that your very lloers Sir Of light and reneon will fathoun this wrovg, Hy allthat Mr, Tweed’s charity Is not so stricted, BAR New York, Feb. 1, 1871. Mr. Tweed assures ne there must be some mistake in this matter, Ho gave the mon 4 benefit of all classes of the poor of the city, w t regard 10 race, color, oF religious belief, anid be could not believe that any one having charge * distribation of any part fund wou'd dare to refuse an applicant for relief woo was aetually ia need and worthy of assia'anc He said t though many applications had been made to hin Personally by parties desiring relief, he had compelled, owing to pr 4 OL biitlnewe » refer’ them to those fisetme chirge of fund in their — respective “war Was the first complaint he seen or heard of that those partie eh rging their trust with strict import) tho entire si'is’action of ail applicants. He tind frequonty heard of parties who relused to acerpl tie Feliet because not wiven thom tn quuntities =\Ah ciently large to #atisty them ral fastances iid occurred where the Reilef Committee ad sent to parties one-fourt!: of aton of 1 been coin Pelied to take it back, becaude they wanted 4nd wonld not necopt of ‘anything less Should Mr, Tweed becone convinced that any parties having charge of tho distribution of any « port of the relict fund are acting in anything hut an impartial manner, I feel assured he Will do is best to rectily —— SUNBEAMS, fabs setany —There are 10,000 attorneys in London. —There is but one Unitarian congregation in ail British America, —Gen, Beauregard it is said intends to reside permanently is Paris. —There is a talk in Utah about making Corinua the capital, instead of Bal! Lake. —A school teacher in Clarke county, Iowa, baw ‘Deen dismissed for kissing the * big cirte.”” Horse stealing is said to be the chief bus nets How purened in some parte of Missoori. —There isa machine in operation in Maine which ¢ nake 18,000 toothpicks in « minate. —Some people in Missouri believe that St, Lonts is to be the "future great city of the world,”* —A doughnut simmering in a kettle of lard r cently exploded ip Chicago, and & man tn the room waa badly injured. —The present winter is the coldest in Franco ince 1890, when claret wud other light wiaee froz0 (n the wine vanite ~An Amsterdam journal says that New Y ie 80 defiant of law, and £0 full of rafMans, that elerey men carry mutkews to eaureh, and that persons wio bear around the contribution box arm themselves with —A Persian manuscript of great be taining sixty full page minature silumination ant orpamented throughout in gold and color highest ela ent art, was recently sold ia London tor $1.02. --Tho situation in South Carolina is deseribed ns follows by a correspondent from the cap martial law bill ws dead; Impeachment ended klux on the rampage; no money in the t capital ts indeed ull.” While Massachusetts is excited about op ing libraries on Sunday, Scotlacd Is deeply mover cerning the insrodnetion of Instromental mune tnta ehure 1». ‘The sain speccnes are maue in oppo | tition to both innovations, —Lrowivent at the last President's reception was a cilizen of Croydon, N. H., who resolutely ker't his hat on, tolling the ushers that he bad heard how follows at Washington stole strangers’ hats, apd ha Aviu't mean (0 have his stolen, ~The California pitcher plant Is sald to resem ple tu ah body of an exe 1k povtesses an extraordinary artraction for in tects, especially Mies, who onter the hollow body, and boleg unadie to extricate themselves, die there. ~It is stated that on Jan. 10 a pigeon arrive at Paris with despaiches whieh, when printed, four columos of the newspapers, together with 15.04 despatehes for private individuals, This extraordinary ¢ sion of mali matter was due to microscopid photosrapiy —A Down-Easter thought he drove a sl + whon he taduced a poor Welsti« for sx acres of worthless stony bill iar tn Manson, Me., but has since regretted Welshman having opencd up a slate quarry wnie sold for $16,000, —The Brooklyn Union publishes the fuilowicg Advortiaoment : PLY Mourn cnencH—« Tuodiviis gallery pew Lor 6: oft Is Uils Theodore Tilton? —In Rochester, Minn., religious flour ix the Intest novelty, An editor Bought asnek of tour tha | other day, aud was afterward shown some cards ‘bat were taken out Of {knot playing cards. but little tae lets directing the altentiou of the Wicked aud thy thoughtless Wo thele spiritual needs, Grant has a dairy farm near St, Lonis, ‘also. ou tho way to the Presiden'ial farm, an soon baye the fluest dairy tn the country, There is a beantitul girl living near M who, notwithatanding the fact that she has lost of marriage during the past y Capt 4 Darga last. suman man to pay # ry desirad'e Address ¥, 7, Union —Gen ar,and refused (! 1 the D) 1 Parke adiicted girl speaks seven lang Joseph Howard Cromwell, whi g*, Unio, & fow days azo, Was alin lant of Ollver Cromwel, He was born in Mary and traces his fw 1 thisconntry, F y Vand y carn Ko, eh the frst settle Jolin W, Butler having been nominated rived ae Major General of the Florida State 4 6 DIN) Was introduced tn the Assembly aud pass: Houses, changing his name to Benjamin B.aud aoe tng bli Ww quality under that Ue, AD amend ot appropriated the eam of twenty-five coule to pury! ow yt Of pvOanE for the Gencral. A will dled in the San Franc 1 @ Court reads: "San Francico, Jan, w, : any property standing ta my oame, real and s tu my wife, Mary Anderson, aud iikew ire xo daughters, Mary end Jennie.-Jonn And . two danghtera anglously tmquire wheter thoy we part of the loacy or " Five momb Kentucky I @ grew very red In no some irr none inthe ¢ ed iy soieuin wgod in sin Cineinys naror Wut whey, aw 4 ened a chur io Franks 4 pus tay What wise th r poo" srmatons 1 ad of the might, a9 the train la: 7 1 pers lay dreaining us of harm They thought not of danger ; they thought not of de . They heard not the signal of danger’s alay rakes! brakes! shir twas too late Tho soopers awakened, surround on ther eyes eluwed si death—th over; The hot, blaziog care were ked the engin . 4 by WF tortures Were noir funeral p Peoring straight eyes, Stood the enginver #haxes AS he seizce the signal rope. Th With the terrible warning, down your brakes through the aarkners, | . mons; and bis neror whistle ree ‘Down you o "We are lost! Jump! For God's sake, dou’! stop! let's Ja * You may Jump, if you ike!" brave Siminuns rye * Ap Lor mig, I Will Stand to my post like wma We are lost! for your Deston ‘Then the flames closed around bim—on his org) * Me stood ; He had faced death 0 often that he now ti “ With one hand on the throttle, aud oae on | Died noble Doe" Simmons, the brave enginer LC. JOUNSLON Naw Vora, Feb, 10 171.