Lancaster 3lntellfgencer.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20,1871
The Arraignment of Grant's Adminls
tration.
In the Senate Messni. Sumner and
Trumbull, two of the recognized Repub.
lican leaders of that body, have taken
ground In favor of retrenchment of ex
penditures and honesty in the conduct
of Federal office-holders. In so doing
they have arrayed themselves upon the
side of the people, and are necessarily
brought into antagonism with the ad
ministration of Grant. Already thig par
tisans of the grasping and avaricious
,creature who makes merchandize of the
Chief Magistracy are bitterly assailing
the tv Senators whom they have here
toforelauded without stint. What have
Sumner and Trumbull done to call down
upon themselves the maledictions of the
whole pack of 'Radical politicians ? Let
its see.'
Following to its legitimate conclusion
a recommendation contained iu Grant's
message to Congress, which advised
that the collection of internal revenue
he confined to three or four articles, Sen
ator
Sumner promptly introduced a bill
providing for Bib abolition of the Bu
reau of Internal Revemlie, with all its
costly machinery and its vast army of
officials. The political effect of Mr.
:iumner's bill is only incidental, but it
Is none the less alarming and dis
tasteful to the administration on that
account. The utmost universal out
cfy of the people in favor of revenue re
(Orin, forced Grant to make some p;on
vessiou to the popular demand. So he
recommended the restriction of internal
revenue to liquors
,and tobacco. In so
doing he met the popular demand, but
he was too obtuse to forsee the legitimate
consequences of his recommendation.
Senator Sunnier's bill providing for the
abolition of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue and the collection of duties
on liquors and tIIbaCCO by stamps is
only a logical .sequence or the Presi
dent's Own proposition. Vet, when it
was introduced into the Senate, it at
once met with bitter opposition from
those,who are regarded as the chosen
champions of I :runt. They did not dare
to assail it directly, and the preliminary
fight was made maul technicalities.
Seeing the consequences sure to How
from the adoption of a reform which
I he people would hail with delight, the
friends of (;rant, with Shernto,
Ohio, in the lead, contended that no
such hill could he originated in the
lit Senate. The champions of an odious
system sought refuge under the Consti
tution they have so often disregarded
and attempted to interpose the clause
whieliprovides that hills for raising reve
nue shall have their origin in the I louse
of Representatives. Wi.th logieas keen as
it Ica, niereile,"; :\ Ir. Sumner pier.
his shield Of false pretense and show)
that his LHI was clearly in play,. and
order. The champions of a syste
which keeps in piece an army of of
vials, who live 111)1(11 the labor of the
toiling 1111IS4eti, who constipte the
power upon which I irant relies for a
renomination and a re-election, are at
their wits ,•uds. By pronouncing
promptly in favor of a most desirable
reform senator Sumner has nevessarily
placed him,elf in direct antagonism to
rant. There It:t him stand and he will
tied the people at Ids bark. The exist
ing machinery of the Ilureau of I titer-
Mil Revenue was adopted ten years ago,
WllOll almost everything was taxed.--
One by one these tax ,, s have been abol
ished, and the whole fabric ought to be
cleared away wiehout delay. Even the \
Republican tax-payers of Lancaster
county, loyal as they are, 111111 readily as
they aro led to indorse wrong acts done
by their party leaders, will grumble
sorely at any further continuance of the
Itureau of Internal Revenue. Senator
Sumner deserves to be universally com
mended for
,what lie has done, and the
champions or Grant have placed him
in a most enviable position.
The day after Senator Sumner intro
duced the bill lo which we have alluded,
Senator Trumbull offered a resolution
calling for information in regard to the
expenditures of the government, the
distribution of the publicpatronage and
the management of the civil service In
I,:eneral. \Vim among the voters of
Pennsylvania will say that there was
anything wrong in the presentation of
such a resolution, or anything properly
calculated to excite the animosity of
Grant and to enlist the active hostility
llf his champions in Congress? Vet it
was bitterly assailed, and Mr. Trumbull
was neellsoli of making ware upon the
President. If Graft's administration
has been an honest one lie has nothing
to feat•, and yet we find that the resolu
tion of Al r. Trumbull led to the meeting
of a caucus of Republican Congressmen,
in w h ich Alessrs. Trumbull and Schurz
were roughly handled by office brbkers
like Cameron of this State and Conklin
q' New York.
State Treasurer
From all that we have seen and heal
we are justified in believing that nu
present State Treasurer, Mr. Robert \\
Mackey., loaned to Mr. Charles 'I
Yokes, a broker in Philadelphia,
least one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars of the State funds entrusted to
his care, in express violation of an ac
of Assembly, Ny.hich declares that " I
any officer of the Commonwealth shill
loan out wille or wilhout interest
turn therefor, any money or valuable
security received by him, or which way
In in:his possession or under his control
by virtue of his office, he shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor in Mike, and 011 con
viction be sentenced to pay a line not
exceeding one thousand dollars, and un
dergo an imprisonment not exceeding
five years ; and, if still in °Moe, be ad_
judged incapable of exercising the sa
and the said Lace shall forthwith be
declared vacated by the Court passing
the sentence."
n the Bankrupt Court on Friday
last, the counsel fur Mr. Robert W: ,
Mackey presented a bill itt equity,
which represents that Mr. Charles T.
Yerkes, is indebted to hint, Mackey,
511;5,840.37, moneys deposited with hint,
Yerkes, the account commencing 01
May 1, 1871. It will be recollected tha
when Mr. Yerkes first toppled over. i
was stated that the money loaned hi❑
by Treasurer Mackey, had been paid
into the Treasury, when in truth Mr.
Yerkes had only substituted obligations
to Mr. Mackey personally, instead of to
the Treasury. And this was done to
hide the transaction and evade the pen
alty provided for a violation of the law,
by loaning out money belonging to the
State. As Mr. Mackey expects to be re
elected State Treasurer, notwithsjaud
ing this misconduct, would it not be
well that our State authorities, the Gov
ernor, Attorney-General and Auditor-
General, should call Mr. Mackey before
the proper officials, put him on trial,
and let him show, if he can, that he is
not guilty of so grave an offence.
Irretrievably Lost
L ,'Phe'Philadelphia Press says that Mis
souri is "irretrievably lost to the Repub
licans," for the next Presidential elec
tion. A good many other State- are in
the same plight—many more than the
Press,and the friends of Grant generally,
are willing to admit.
Just What the People Think.
"I believe," said Mr. Tipton, Rep
Roan Senator from Nebraska, in the
Senate the other day, "that there is cor
ruption, deep,damning and festering all
through this administration." The
country believes so too.
Formidable Opposition.
The anti-female suffrage petition, pre
sented by Senator Buckingham, num
bered 3,600 names, and the Senator said
that over 10,000 names opposed to female
, suffrage had been presented.
THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIG - ENCER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1871.
Didn't Dare Face the Music
Enough truckling partisans of Grant
were found in the Senate to defeat
Trumbull'a fair proposition for the inves
tigation of alleged official frauds, being
fearful of results damaging. to their
chief's Presidential prospects. Several
of the Senators, however, who placed
themseiVes upon the record as against
the imposed inquiry into official short
comings, became alarmed at the out
spoken condemnation of their course by
the honest men of their own party, and
began to devise means of escape from the
dilemma into which they had plunged
themselves, as well as the Administra
tion, and, at the same time, preserve all
the partisan advantage at which they
aimed in the defeat of Mr. Trumbull's
measure. To'this end, some of the timid
as well as wily Senators who voted
against it, intimated that a wrong con- ,
struction had been given to their oppo-;
sition, and that to remedy this, they
were willing to vote for Mr. Trumbull's
amendment as a distinct proposition.
Accordingly, the Repnblicon Senators
met in caucus on Friday, which was far
from harmonious. The object was to
choose a Retrenchment Committee, to
talk over Mr. Trumbull's amendment,
and to decide whether there shall be any
change in the officers of the Senate.
After a somewhat animated debate, In
which some pretty sharp language pass
ed, Mr. Trumbull's proposition was car-
ried. Many of those Senators who voted
against it on Friday In open Senate, see
ingfrom the debate thatachangeof opin
ion in the minds of some had occurred,
and that it would be adopted, the caucus
did not vote against it,•so that, it was
carried by a unanimous vote, after strik
ing out the part relating to Civil Service
Reform. The proposition, in its amend
ed form is as follows :
Roo(veil, That the Committee of Inves
tigation and Retrenchment be instructed
to inquire into the expenditures in a❑
branches of the service of the United States,
and report whether any and what offices
ought to be abolished; whether any and
what salaries ought to be reduced; what
are the methods oittrocuring accountabili
ty in public ollicM. as agents in the care
and disbursetuent of public moneys ;
whether moneys have been paid out ille
gally; whether any officers, or agents, or
other port.ons, have been; or are employed
in the public service without authority of
law, or unnecessarily, and generally how
and to what extent the expense of the ser
vice of the country may and °unlit,. to be
•
!ertilled. •
Driven from their cowardly entrench
ment, in the first instance, and forced
to change front, they put on a seeming
show of virtue, and accede, (nominally,
what the country, through such Re
publicans as Messrs. Trumbull and Wil
son, demand. buts() clogging with their
partisan trammels the wheels of reform
which they affect to put in motion, that
not a single step can be made toward
the accomplishment of the desired end.
After this facing about, with a Peck
snillian air of penitence and virtue, the
caucus proceeded to elect a Committee
nu Itetrenchments, When the following
Senators were chosen : Buckingham,
Chairman, Howe, Pratt, Poole, Stewart,
Harlan, and :Saulsbury, every one of
whom is a trucking adherent of (Irma
except Saulsbury.
This thing of electing a committee in
caucus is an unheard of proceeding, and
it was no doubt resorted to in order that
men opposed to any honest investiga
tion might be selected without having
the responsibility of such action thrust
upon Vice-l'resideut Colfax, who, in
spite of the fact that he has declined
oftener than Ca.sar refused a crown, a
will be glad to accept at last. Not
Senator who voted for Mr. Trumbull's
original resolution Wits elect, d a mem
ber of the committee, except Mr. Sauls
bury, and be would not, have been
chosen but for the fact that it would
have been an unheard of thing to com
pose any committee of either House
wholly of the adherents of either party.
The six members of this elected com
mittee who are opposed to investigation
will see to it that Mr. Saulsbury is pre
vented from making any move which
might lead to impartial examination in
to any of the grave charges which were
made against the administration. This
last state of the .adherents of Grant is
worse than the first. Had they adhered
to their original plan for preVenting in
quiry into the conduct of Grant's admin
istration they could have claimed the
single merit of courage in a had cause:;
as it is they stand convicted of attempt
ing to do iu a covert and cowardly way
what they at first boldly attempted.
The people will look at the whole mat
ter in a proper tight.
Geary Reconciled to Grant.
It is stated, on the very best authority,
that the quarrel between Governor
Geary and Simon Cameron has been
composed. The terms of the compact
are that (Leary is to be allowed to ap
point as Attorney-General, for three
years, a man who will help to cover up
the Evans frauds. Geary is said to have
a stuke•in the moneys stolen sufficiently
large to induce hint to pocket the iusul
which Grant put upon him during t
visit to Harrisburg, and, in considera
lion of the fact that Cameron will in
Iluence the Legislature to further the
wishes of our immaculate Governor, he
pledges himself to work for the re-nom
ination and the election of the bribe
tab iug President. Were Geary as well
known outside orPennsylvania as he is
in it, his opposition or support of limit
would be equally unimportant, but it
would sound badly abroad 'to have it
said that the Republican Governor of
tins State was opposed to Grant. So
Cameron has agreed to make all smooth
n reference to the Evans business, and
;eary has comineneed.to make speeches
favor of Shuon's candidate for the
'll,l ill (3.
Quote It All, Gentlemen
When authority is:quoted in one case,
it is supposed to be good in another, and
a witness introduced upon the stand
must be accepted, however unpalatable
his testimony. The Radical papers are
fond of quoting the London Times'
praises of (Iran t. But they do not copy
what It says of Boutwell. It says he can
claiin no credit for reducing the debt.
" He might as well take to himself the
merit of a good crop of corn in Illinois."
This is plain truth. Boutwell states
that lie has received in the last year in
the shape of taxes the immense sum of
:9353,000,000. With these vast means, is
it any merit that the Administration
has been able to pay $92,000,000 of debt ?
The expenses of the Government, if
they are economically administered,
would not exceed $100,000,000, leaving
$23,000,000 to be applied to the interest
and principal of the debt.
A New Campaign
The,Gatling Gun Company is now
manufacturing at the Colt's Arms
Works, at Hartford, twenty-five guns,
which are to be tested in our service to
ascertain by experiments whether the
endurance and mechanism of the ma
chinery will stand the vicissitudes of a
campaign. This means a warlike dam
paign. Grant's friends tested them thor
oughly in a political campaign in New
Orleans.
It seems Senator Wilson is not so fas
cinated with "that great man," Grant,
but that he can express his opinion that
Grant is not the only person whom the
Republicans. can elect next year. He
thinks there are at least twenty others
in the party who can be elected, and—is
Mr. Wilson one of these?
FORNEY concludes a special telegram
to the Press as follows :
The caucus carefully excluded from the
committee those who had taken part in the
debate on retrenchment and hence Messrs.
Trumbull and Schurz have no place on it.
That story is entirely too thin. Not
only were those who took part in the
debate excluded, but every Republican
who voted for Mr. Trumbull's resolu
tion was carefully and purposely passed
by. Never was there a more transpar
ent effort made to prevent an examina
tion into alleged abuses.
New York and Washington Contrasted.
When the frauds in the municipal
government of New York were discov
ered, the Democratic pressof the State
and of the country denounced the per
petrators without stint or qualification.
Immediately Mr. Tilden and other lead
ing members of the party repudiated all
connection with the thieves and read
them out of the Democratic fold. The
Tammany Ring was overwhelmingly
beaten at the polls and beateb by Dem
ocratic Influence and Democratic votes.
This was done without hesitation,
though it was apparent that such a
course would throw the State tempo
rarily into the hands of the Republi
cans. When party success could no
longer be- secured, except by bolstering
up corruption, the Democracy of New
York voluntarily submitted to defeat
, rather than suffer dishonor.
Bhlo4the determination to punish mal
feasance and corruption iu office did not
stop with the administration of a re
buke at the polls. The Democratic Dis
trict-Attorney of New York at once be
gan a series of prosecutions against those
who were suspected of wrong-doing, and
being assisted by that distinguished
Democratic lawyer, l'harlOs O'Conor,
and sustained by such Democrats upon
the bench as Judge Bedford, he has
broUght one prominent man after an
other to answer before the courts. 'I he
last noted individual arrested was Win.
M. Tweed, a man of immense wealth,
and one who has heretofore wieldedgreat
political power. His committal to a
common jail shows how little sympathy
the real leaders of the Democratic party
have with official corruption, and how
ready they are to mete out stern and
strict justice to all offenders.
What a contrast to this commendable
conduct of the New York Democracy is
offered by Grant and his supporters!—
Tom Murphy. who cheated the tiov
ernment• out of immense sums during
the war, by furnishing shoddy clothing
and villainously-constructed bats to the
soldiers; win, was hand in glove with
Tweed and the rest of the Tammany
!Zing in their robberies, and who made
the Custom-House of New York a den
of thieves, retired from race, not to a
prison, but to his gorgeous mansion,
with the congratulatory letter of S.
Grant in the left breast-pocket of his
fashionably-cut coat. Hundreds of de-
tented defaulters to the general govern
ment are now living at ease upon their
ill-gotten gains, walking the streets of
our cities and towns in perfect peace
and security. No one atterppts to mo
lest them or _make them afraid. And
this while- Tweed, tonnoly A: Co. are
arrested and thrust into prison by Dem
ocratic officials.
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The Radical majority in the United
States Senate refused to Pass Mr. Trum
bull's investigating resole Lion. By their
act they said to the horde of scoundrels
who are plundering the National Treas
ury, "You have nothing to Pea-r!" They
took care to exclude from the Investi
gating:Committee, -which was linally
appointed, every Republican, who had
exhibited the least disposition to deal.
properly with existing abuses. They
drone Buckingham, Howe, Harlan,
Stewart and Poole, to checkmate any .
' action Which might be taken by the
single Democrat they were forced to
place upon the Committee. Howe, of
Wisconsin, was deep in the San Do
mingo job and led in tile movement
which deposed Sumner front the Com
mittee ou Foreign Relations; Harlan,
of lowa, whose corrupt management of
the Interior Department under a former
administration gave hint good cause to
dread an investigation, is another mem
ber of this Committee, which VMS con
stituted to shield rascals of every grade.
Stewart, of Nevada, is well-known us a
notorious broker of legislative jobs of
every description ; and Poole, of North
Carolina, owes his seat in the Senate to
a combination of fraud and violence.—
Buckingham, of Connecticut, who is
Chairman of the Committee, was one of
the boldest and most outspoken 'oppo
nents of any attempt at investigation.
Let the people look at the action of
the Radical majority in the Senate of
the United States, and then at the course
pursued by Democratic officials in New
York City! Let holiest voters make
the contrast for themselves and draw
their own inferences! And, while this
is being done, let it be remembered that
the acts of this Administration cannot
bear the light of day. An honest com
mittee of investigation would be forced
,to make a report which would render
Grant's name more odious than that of
any of the men who have been men
tioned in connection with the Tam
k many frauds.
Grant's Dismissing Salvo.
Our great National li ad, with all his
doltishness as regards the general af
fair's of political life, has picked up a
peculiar shrewdness, which serves him
a purpose, at least in the gracious dis
missal of his unfortunate official ap
pointees. When, in tardy compliance
to the demand from all quarters, he dis
missed his friend Toni Murphy from
the New York Collectorship, he gilded
the pill of removal with the exiiression
of confidence in his honesty, and the
salvo of u continuance of the Presiden
tial esteem. And yet this very Long
Brunch Cottage favorite was suhse
quently shown to have swindled the
Uovernment to a greater extent than at
first charged, and the facts of which
could not have been unknown to Presi
dent Brant at the time of his resigna
tion.
The same mutual-admiration corres
pondence has taken place between the
President and Attorney-General Aker
ma'', upon the occasion of the resigna
tion of that official. ln the letter of ac
ceptance, Uen. Grunt pays a compliment
to Mr. A kerma'', for the ability which
he says he displayed in his office; and
yet it is generally known and conceded
that he was literally forced out of th,
Cabinet. It had transpired that he did
not:know law enough to run his Depart
ment; and it is said that two Supreme
Court Judges had informed the Presi
dent, long since, that Akerman was
incompetent for the position of Attor
ney-General. Verily, Grant is becoming
rapidly and thoroughly versed in "ways
that are dark and tricks that-are vain '
Shirking Local Option
The Harrisburg State Journal, in no
ticing the fact that the Catholics in the
Eastern States are moving as a church
in favor of temperance, declares this
to be "the proper and judicious man•
ner of managing this good cause." Is
this declaration made to pave the way to
a defeat of local option? Last Winter,
when the Radicals had a majority in
only one branch of the Legislature they
passed a local option bill with great
unanimity, and threw upon the Demo
cratic Senate the responsibility of de
feating a crude and illy digested law.
Will they show themselves equally
ready to act now that they are likely to
control both branches? The Governor
is said to be fully committed in favor of
prohibition and the honesty of the Rad
ical members of our Legislature will be
put to the test. They must either legis
late against the liquor traffic or stand
convicted of acting the part of hypocrite.
Which horn of the dilemma will they
take?
Repeal or the Income Tax
An effort has been made to have the
Ways and Means Committee take some
positive action on the repeal of the in
oome tax ; so as not to have it collected
even for the year 1871 ; but the Chair
man says that, owing to the absence of
two members, nothing has been done.
The Committee, however, have two
more than a quorum in daily attendance,
and there seems to be no good reason for
the delay. :Although the tax expires
on the 31st inst., the feeling is generally
onposed to its collection for this year.
Memorials from the anti-income tax as
•sociations formed last year, aredaily be
ing sent into Congress.
A Parallel to the Cataehay Case
The assertiort 'has bean frequently
ventured that the troubles incident to
the. case of the Russian Ambassador,
Catacazy, are Without precedent in di
ploma* circles. It appears, however,
that a parallel case Is presented in the
case of a Minister of our own country,
the events of which Lave never until
recently been made public. The N. Y.
Post says : In 1867, Mr. Cassius M. Clay
was the Minister of the United States
at St. Petersburg, and rumors concern
ing his life reached the Czar's Court, to
the effect that he was reckless and dis
solute. The company in which he was
occasionally seen in public confirmed
the scandal, Mr. Clay being far less
careful of " respectability" than the
Aristocratic Ambassadors of Europe;
and it is understood that other mem
bers of the diplomatic body complained
of his conduct, as bringing discredit on
them. However this may be, Prince
Oortschakoffinstructed Baron Stoeckel,
the Russian Minister in Washington,
to lay the matter unofficially before our
Government, and to ask for the re-call
of Mr. Clay. but without making any
record of the request, so that the Amer
ican people might never know it. The.
Prince's letter was laid before the Sen
ate Committee on Foreign Affitirs, and
by them was privately submitted to
Mr. Seward, who positively refused to
entertain the subject, and sustained Mr.
Clay as a faithful Minister. Baron
Stoeckel then asked that Mr. Clay be
admonished that the Russian Govern-
menr complained of his conduct; but
this, too, was refused, and there the
matter ended. It is fair to add that Mr.
Clay himself always denied the asser-
tions of Prince Gortschakoff's " uuoili
cial" letter; and no proof was ever of
fered to sustain them. Mr. Clay con
tinned to be received by Prince Gorts
chakoll'until his re-call. It seems that
Aussian notions of the courtesy due to
a foreign government, with an objec
tionable Minister, differ from ours ; but
this does not prove that they are better
than ours.
More Ku• Klux legislation
John Scott, the attorney for whom
the Pennsylvania Railroad bought a
seat in the Senate of the United States,
would have made a valuable attache to
the old Spanish inquisition. He would
have busied himself in the invention , of
new methods for extorting confessMns
of guilt from any wretched culprit who
might be brought before hint. In his
conduct as Chairman of the unconsti
tutiolal Ku-Klux Committee, lie has
displayed marked, malignity of nature,
and he takes the earliest occasion after
the meeting of Congress, to devise un
usual methods for making the machin
: ery of his pet institution more severe
in its operation. Though pretending to
some knowledge of law and some ac
quaintance with the principles upon
which the science of jurisprudence is
founded, he has been so completely cars
tied away by passion, and so blinded by
hatred of the Southern people, that he
Introduced a bill providing'that witness
es before Congressional committees and
sub-committees, shall not be excused
from testifying because they might.
criminate themselves. That would be
a most dangerous innovation upon .a,
well-established principle of the corn- .
mon law, which . has stood the test of
centuries, and met the unqual ap
proval of the best judicial lids of
England and of this country. True,
Mr. Scott's bill undertakes to provide
that no such evidence shall be used
against parties compelled to testify, but
the proviso only secures immunity in
Federal courts. Experience has proven
that Congressional investigating com
mittees are proverbially leaky, and that
a witness examined before one of them
might as well tell his story to the pub
lic at once and take his chances. Mr.
Scott's bill would leave witnesses open
to prosecution in the State courts, and
it is virtually a re-enunciation, pure
and simple, of the idea on which the
old torture code proceeded. Ily that a
man was held to lie lawful evidence
against himself, and if he would not
testify voluntarily, was racked until he
did. Not being quite willing to resort
to that instrument of torture, Mr. Scott
compromises on imprisonmentfor the
felonious person who will not.,avouch
himself a felon. la
Business Meeting of the Penas3lvaniu
Editorial Association
The regular annual business meeting
of the Editorial Association of Pennsyl
vania will be held in the State Capitol
at Harrisburg on Thursday, January
2.5 th, 1872, at 11 o'clock A. M. The ex
cursl4 of the Association last June
drew together over a hundred of the ed
itors of this State, many of whom were
accompanied by their wives and daugh
ters, and the occasion was full of pleas
ure. This was the largest gathering of
editors ever had in Pennsylvania, but it
did not embrace one-half the fraternity.
The next Summer excursion will no
doubt be much more largely attended.
The business meetings of the Associa
tion, which have been too much neglect.
ed heretofore, will, wu hope, be much
more largely attended than they have
hitherto been. They can be made oc
casions of decided profit as wk:11 as of
pleasure. , Editors who have not ,'Oll
- themselves with the Association
are cordially invited to be present and
enroll their names at the coming bush
' nest; meeting, and all who favor the pur
poses of the Association will aid it by
[flaking a note of the time and place of
meeting. We hope to see a very full
assemblage of the editors of the State in
Harrisburg at the time appointed.
The l'essitit untested Case
The House Coin in ith, of Vleetior,
took updhe 1,/llteHLed CU', of Cessna vs.
Meyers from the Fifteenth District of
this state, on Thursday, and arguments
were presented on both sides. On
Friday Alr. Coffroth was to argue the
ease against Cessna. This District has
given the; Committee on Elections an
immense amount of Work for the last ten
years, for there has. scarcely been a
Congress in that time that has not wit
nessed a contest. Ten years ago, Mr.
Cessna went to Washington to argue
against Mr. Coifroth's right to a seat, and
now, by a strange coincidence, Mr. Col=
roth goes to the Capitol to argue against
Mr. Cessua's right to a seat. The Wash
ington Patriot says :" What a difference
between the two counsel, however.
There was nothing vile imputed to the
character of Mr. I t_ttfrotii, while Cessna
is covered all over with the sicken
ing garment of the Chorpen ui tog-Cress
well fraud."
Alexis Allots SaWO to the Poor of- Nett
The Grand Duke Alexis has given
$5OOO to the poor of New York. The
gift was accompanied by the following
letter from Admiral Possiet to Wm. H.
Aspinwall, Esq., which explains itself:
BOSTON, Dec. 11, 1871
MY DEAR SIR : His Imperial Highness,
the Urand Duke Alexis has desired me to
enclose you a check for $5OOO for distribu
tion among the poor of New York, wishing
them to feel that a visit which has afforded
so much pleasure to him has been the occa
sion of some slight relief to them.
I am, dear sir,
Yours, most sincerely,
C. Posst ET.
William H. Aspinwall, Esq.
Of this sum Mr. Aspinwall handed
over $lOOO for the relief of orphans of
sailors, and $4OOO to the general fund for
the relief of the poor.
The Prince has also given $.2.000 for a
similar purpose to Boston, and . is to add
$5OOO to the Chicago relief fund.
SOME do not see what Grant and his
friends want to get up Crewmen's big
telegraph job for, when they pull all the
wires in the country already. But they
want to supervise all the pulling of wires
about men's affairs, private and politi
cal. In fact, to establish a compleX sys
tem of espionage that would have shock
ed Fouche.
The Democratic Party Formidable for a
'Campaign.
The New York Suri has an article of
cOmilderable length, upon the rear
strength of the Democratic party, In
Which the Idea entertained by the Ad
ministration is scouted, that the pro
posed "passive policy" of some of the
party is evidence of weakness, and that
Giant has nothing to do but walk over
the course and pocket the stakes. The
article says : " That a coalition among
all the advocates of reform In the corn
ing National contest, with aßepublican
of Democratic antecedents at Its bead,
would be the most certain mode of
fighting the battle for the reform of cor
ruption in the NationalAdminlstratlon,
we have no mannerof doubt ; but waiv
ing this programme, and supposing the
battle to be waged under such a Demo
cratic leader. as William S. (Iroesbeck,
with a candidate for Vice President
like Gratz Brown, those Republicans
who should assume that the Democratic
party was dead, and that the cam
paign was to be merely a funeral page
ant, would be pretty sure to find the
corpse a very troublesome one to bury."
It then asks, what Is the strength of the
Democratic party? and what forces it
can bring into the field in 1872., whether
waging the contest without allies, or as
a member of the coalition? and pro,
ceeds to give the statistical strength of
the Democratic organization, similar to
that furnished by us in our article of
Monday, with evidence of its increasing
vitality, and power. With reference to
the results of the elections of the present
year, which in the estimation of Grant's
1 officeholders, is'to be regarded as a re
versal of the condemnatory verdict of
1870, the article says :
"This is an error. The elections of this
Fall were not national, as were those of
1070; the policy of Grant's Administration
was not now so distinctly in issue as it was
then ; and more than all, only about half
as many States have voted, while those
which have not held elections—we refer to
nearly all the carpet-bag States—are the
very ones where Grant would have been
most signally rebuked.
'the smoke of the recent contests having
lifted Irom the field, we now see that, ex
cepting in New York and Pennsylvania,
the majorities of 1871 do not vary materially
from those of 1870, though the general drift
is rather against the Democracy. This gen
eral tendency, with the special results in
the two States named, is due to the exposure
of the Tammany frauds. But long ere the
Presidential election arrives the Democratic
party will have cleansed its skirts of all taint
of Tammany; and if Grant is in the field
then, even though the Democracy are com
pelled to encounter him single-handed, if
they will present Reform candidates whom
the people can trust, the same popular in
dignation which ,broke i up the den of
thieves in Tammany Hall, will spread over
the country and scatter to the winds the
most selfish, corrupt, money-making, anti
base National Administration that has dis
graced our history.
Amount of the Yerkes Failure.
A list of tue creditors of Charles 'l'.
Yerkes, together with the amount of
his indebtedness, was filed in the °Mee
of the United Slates District Court yes
terday. It. W. Mackey, for the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, loses
8-10.65; the First National Bank of
Philadelphia, ; Fidelity 'ln
surance Trust Co., $113,000; Philadel
phia Warehousing Co., $50,0(5); Clar
ence 11. Clark, banker, $140,000; An
thony J. Drexel, 93,000;$ Drexel & Co.
.$183,00HI; Drexel 1 Co., (again) $39,000•
Drexel, Morgan Co., N. Y., 34;05,590.-
; Joseph F. Marcer, Treasurer of the
City of Philadelphia, S-175,048.:t, and
others, of various amounts, swelling the
aggregate to $2 502,779.9-1.
som E time since one George Fry, a
native of Pennsylvania, who had gone
with his carpet-bag to Georgia, after the
war ended, left the State of his adoption
after defrauding it out of some $50,000.
He was enabled to pocket this sum by
frxmlulent conduct in the furnishing of
railroad supplies. Mr. David S. Gor
don, a well-known detective officer of
Philadelphia, had a long chase after the
scamp, following him to Canada and
tracking him back to New York, where
he was eventually secured. It is to be
hoped the rascal may meet the punish
ment he deserves, and be made a terror
to the horde of similar reprobates who
nave been operating so successfully in
the Southern StateS, under Radical rule.
Compare Notes, Gentlemen
Grant says that more than six years
have elapsed since the last hostile gun
was fired between the armies lately ar
rayed against each other, while the
Secretaryof War has it that an 'armed re
bellion of regular organization and great
strength" exists in many parts of the
South. The "rebellion" that rests upon
its oars anti refuses to tire a gun In six
years must be a very tame sort of a
thing, indeed. And yet they are both
riglft, perhaps, for Grant refers to the
,ctuttl condition of matters in the South,
while the learned Secretary had the
?resident's invisible empire" in his
mind's eye.
Doubts the Announcement
The Lynchburg Republican doubts
t he truth of the announcement that Con
gress has decided to have a " full inves
t igation " of all the embezzlements, dc
.alcations, and other" irregularities " of
the Federal officials, and that all dishon
est officials are to he punished, for the
reason, among. others, that the present
Congress has made no appropriations of
money for the building of new peniten
tiaries. It is most probably an election
eering trick, designed to bolster up the
cause of the President, and should
at least, be received with many grains
of allowance.
Ex pensive I ostitutious
Secretary Boutwell states that the ex
penditures of the War Department for
the last year were over $14,000,000, and
of the navy about; 20,000,090. These in
stitutions are rather expensive for a peo
ple so heavily taxed and a country so
heavily in debt as we are. I 'ilder Dem
ocratic rule, the last years before the
war, these two departments coat only
about $'27,,000,0nn a year. And the same
difference exists between Democratic
and Radical rule in other expenditures.
Don't Like Investigation
They are not partial to star chamber
investigations in South Carolina when
they affect Itadi cal interests. The(iov
eruor awl other State officers have re
fused to appear before Bigamus Bowen's
Legislative Committee which is inves
tigating alleged frauds. If Governor
Scott were only a Democrat now, or if
South Carolina were a Democratic State,
what a flue pretext would be offered to
Grant to issue another proclamation of
martial law because cf a refusal to ap
pear before an inwstigating committee.
Blodgett Cold•shouldered
Foster Blodgett, the Georgia counter
part and friend of Bullock, who claims
to have been elected to the U. S. Senate,
and who held a certificate to that effect
from the Radical Legislature, has been
most summarily and righteously dis
posed of. The Senate Election Com
mittee, on Saturday;decided against his
claims, and in favor of Norwood—there
being only one vote in his favor.
Cash vs. Credit
A remarkable paradox has been de
veloped by the Chicagp fire, which sub
verts all preconceived opinions of pru
dence and policy. - Those firms that sold
for cash only are the heaviest losers,
while those who sold on credit are
quietly collecting their debts, and real
izing their assets elsewhere.
GRANT hates Sumner with an inten
sity of hatred that is unextingulshable.
He heard that Sumner had said that he
was "the lowest man that ever occupied
the Presidential chair." Nothing so
completely angers a low-bred fellow
who has got up in the world, as does the
telling of the plain truth about him.
JOHN SCOTT'S Ku-Klux Committee is
an expensive concern. It turned up
short on the hands of Congress, and the
sum of $2B 000 had. to be appropriated
immediately to pay for extra hotel
bills, &c.
New Cumberland is pestered with
thieves.
Mad dogs Infest portions of Berke
county.
Calico halls are "the go" In the 01l re
gions.
The late cold snap was severe on man
and beast on the shores of Lake Erle.
The small-pox scare is subsiding
everywhere.
Williamsport is troubled with Incen
diaries.
Schuylkill eouuty is troubled with
counterfeiters.
Lebanon Is growling about bad water
pipes and tramps.
Mifflin county Is watching for thieves
and house-breakers.
The small-pox In the Berko county
Poor-House has been checked.
Huntingdon borough has suffered
severely from scarlet fever.
Dr. William Myers died suddenly at
Liverpool, Perry county, last week.
The new poor-house of Perry county
is roofed with Allentown slate.
Immense numbers of vagrants are
begging their way through the State.
A traveler says the City of Erie has
the most talented women in the State.
The people in the oil-region are look
ing for the Grand Duke Alexis.
Good timothy-hay sells in \Vest Ches
ter at from $25 to per ton.
Scarlet fever continues to prevail in a
severe type throughout t /reene county.
An immense revival of religion is in
progrese in Wayne county.
Ex-Judge Graham has resumed the
practice of law• at Carlisle.
John L. Speel, elected Treasurer of
Dauphin county, died at Harrisburg on
Friday night.
The last rail of the Danville, liazelton
and \Vilkesbarre Bailroad was laid on
the nth instant.
A monument, surmounted with a
bronze statue of the late David Reeves,
will be built at Phomixville.
A Downingtown man won a bog
weighing between 5011 and two U. at a
recent raffle in Coatesville.
Apples weighing one pound and ten
ounces were . grown in South I tend town
ship, Lebanon county.
The larger portion of the coal-mines
of Pennsylvania are now owned and
controlled by:Eastern capitalists.
The Oil Creek and Allegheny River
Railroad Machine Shops are to be moved
from Corry to Titusville.
Hydrant water at York has a peeuli
arty offensive odor and tastes whtrh ren
der it unfit for use.
Mr. Crave, of North Middleton town
ahip, Cumberland county, has a penny
of the date of 17:23.
James E. Murdock, the eminent elo
cutionist, is giving . readings in Erie
county.
Morton M'Michael has been elected
President of the Union League of Phil
adelphia.
The ice in Erie harbor is five inches
thick. Lake navigation is ellectually
closed for the season.
The people of Bethlehem were lec
tured recently on the sin of stealing by
the Rev. Court land Whitehead.
Joseph Ham was convicted of mur
der in the first degree, in the heaver
county court last week.
Elk county is becoming famous for
big tanneries. Msterhout's is claimed
to be the finest arranged in the world.
Among the colored population of Phil
adelphia are some of the most accom
plished women and useful men in the
country.
Lena Orth, aged six years, was run
over and killed last evening on the
Reading Railroad at Richmond street,
Philadelphia.
A boy named ltobert Bureaw, resid
ing
iu Allentown, had a leg broken, on
Thursday, the 14th inst., while coasting
on a sled.
Mr. J. A. Langeake, of Muucy, had
his shoulder dislocated by being thrown
from a buggy in that borough a week
ago.
The editor of the Huntingdon (i/obc
boasts of having two turkeys roosting
on his pear tree. The tree needs trans
planting.
People iu the vicinity of Louisville,
Perry county, are excited over the dis
covery of a vein of blawk slate, believed
to be coal.
The Mitllintown hia , penth itt says,.
Dilton, of Fermanaugh township, re
cently encountered ten bears iu one
troop, ou Shade mountain.
Miss (atherine M'Nitt, a maiden lady
residing In Armagh township, Mifflin
county, while eating her dinner, sud
denly fell back a corpse.
It has been decided to make the Le
high and Susquehanna a double track
road, that part from Easton to Allen
town, to be laid this Winter.
A shawl inanufacturer in Philadel
phia, has spun a thread twenty-seven
miles long from one pound of American
wool. It is one of the greatest yarns un
record.
ktev. Win. A. Furguson, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, at Coatesville,
Chester county, has received and ac
cepted a call to a Church at Pittsgrove,
New Jersey.
I=l9
Mr. L. F. Eggers, of Oskaloosa, Ett
has written a letter to a friend in Lanosis
ter in reply to inquiries with regard to that
section, which we should like to publish
entire bad we the space. Mr. Eggers Is a
Pennsylvanian, and the county of JelTer
son is very largely settled by Pennsylva
nians. The soil is described as paid for
wheat, corn, and all small grains—fie bush
els of corn being the average per acre.
Root, plants, anti vegetables grow well, as
do all crops. The land is easily farmed
and kept in order—a hand being able to
cultivate one acre in less tine and with
less labor than one at-re can be in New
York or Pennsylvania. Fruit is abundant
and of good q ualityapples, peaches, pears,
cherries, grapes, strawberries, &c. The
land is well timbered and well watered,
both of which can be obtained in abund
ance. There are indications of minerals
and coal throughout the country. Btone
of excellent quality abounds, among which
is magnesian lime-stone almost ettual
to marble, and which bids fair to
be a source of wealth. 'rho climate
is healthy, with many delightful peculiar
ties. The educational and religious advan
tages are of the first order—there being sit
school districts and 20 church edifices in
the county, which are far short of the re•
quirements of the people. There are 10
towns and villages in the county, flout 50
to 1600 population, all in a thrivum condi
tion. Many farms are in tin ex eel lent state
of cultivation: with excellent buildings,
while thousands of others are rapidly ap
proaching the same state of advanced de
velopment and titanium. There are yet
thousands of acres of inifirliViai land, rang
ing in price from $ to ;3:10 per acre, accord
ing to location and advantage.. Stts•k
raising is profitable. It is, however, a mis
taken idea that the advantages in On, coun
try are so great that nu•.n can mule here
without capital and in a very short time
become independently wealthy.
The writer says: "The chances for the
husbandman are greater here, as I verily I
believe in, that they can purchase lands
much cheaper, and which are far more pro
ductive than many in the East, with a good
market for all they raise, and the value of
their property continually increasing, so
that I feel perfectly sale in asserting, that
to a man of some capital, and who is hon
est, energetic and industrious, ibis country':
will afford a line opportunity for success.
our railroad facilities are good. The Kan
sas Pacific Railroad runs through the
southern part of the county almost the en
tire length from East to West. Grasshop
per Falls is receiving two railroads—one
from Atcbeson to Topeka, running south ;
the other a narrow-guage road which is
now being built from Leavenworth West
on to Denver, which makes Grasshopper
Falls a railroad centre, and a good locality
for investment. Oskaloosa, the county
' seat, is a beautiful and growing town, sit
uated near the centre of the county. The
country around it is rich in mineral and
agricultural resources. A line Court-
House, which cost some twenty thousand
dollars, Is in the centre of the town. There
are school-btiildlngs In good condition and
supplied with good teachers. Said town
numbers about seven or eight hundred
inhabitantsi
The county is to a prosperous condition ;
crops are good; the people are industrious
and generally enterprising, and the tide of
success is flowing steadily on. Now le the
time to secure homes here, and the sooner
you come the better. You will not be able
to buy land at the same price in a few years
from now. Emigration is as strong as
ever, and land is day by day increasing in
price and becoming more valuable.
I do not desire to induce any one to come
here and be dissatisfied, but come and see
for yonrseives, and in coming, visit Jeffer
son county.
GRANT'S ADMINISTRATION NOT TO
BE INVESTIGATED.
EFiItIICRI Senators Combine to Conceal
Corruption.
Trumbull•s Resolution Voted Donn
Eleven Honest Republicans Vote with
the DeMOCiaba.
WAS HI NOTON, Dec. I3.—Repu blican Sen
ators were in caucus for an hour and a half
this morning discussing Mr. Trumbull's
resolution to appoint a committee of re
trenchment. Entire harmony did not pre
vail and some extremely bitter speeches
were made. It was charged that the oppo
sition to the resolution was merely political,
and that those Senators who professed in
open Senate to favor civil service reform,
the stopping all abuses and exposing cor
ruption were secretly opposed to it, and
wished to bind all Republican Senators by
a caucus movement to an opposite course•
After much discussion the caucus voted
down Mr. Trumbull's resolution and
adopted one offered by Mr. Morton, to ap
point ft standiugcommlttee of investigation
and retrenchment, which shall be empow
ered to investigate such matters as the
Senate may refer to it.
This resolution, it was alleged,effectually
stopped the examination which Mr. Trum
bull's resolution proposed to make into all
irregularities occuring in the various de-
partments.
Soon after the Senate met, Mr. Anthony
reported the caucus resolution and, asked
for its adoption. Mr. Trumbull moved as
an amendmenthis original resolution. Mr.
Sherman said he would vote against the
amendment. Mr. Wilson hoped that Mr.
Trumbull's resolution would be adopted,
and said he did not believe it was intend
ed as a war on the administration, as had
been charged
After the speech of Mr. Wilson a general
debate ensued, participated In by Messrs.
Sherman, Thurman, Edmunds, Patterson,
Casserly, Trumbull and:Schur,.
Mr. Trumbull said that the object for
which the committee was required, Was to
seek out abuses in the public service, and
suggest how they might be reformed. The
committee ought to get information Mr the
Senate, but if the Senate was to be requir
ed to get Information for the committee,
why then little would be done. If Sena
tors were earnest In their desire to correct
the abuses In the public service they would
not 'hesitate to create a committee with
sufficient power.
Mr. Thurman said there were many per
sons throughout the country who would
not take the round and white-washing
statement of Mr. Edmunds for the purity
and efficiency of the public service, but
would require further evidence. The Sen
ate might either pass a resolution which
would indicate a real desire to discover
anti expose abuses, ur it inight pass the
pending resolutions t Mr. Anthony's),
which - would shun the people that the
defects and corruptions in the government
service were to be white washed and cov
ered up. The people would hold the party
of the majority responsible.
Mr. Casserly said that the committee
proposed by Mr Anthony having no power
to originate investigations, or to send
for persons and papers, would boa nullity.
It had been suggested that any senator
knowing of an abuse might move to have
it referred to the committee on investiga—
tion ; but in practice that would not gener
ally be done. He (Mr. Casserlyi since
coating to Washington this time had heard
of a transaction connected with one of the
highest departments of the Government
which he thought a very lit subject for in
vestigation, yet he would not take upon
himself to move for such an investigation,
but if there was a Committee like that pro
posed by Mr. Trumbull, having power
to originate such an investigation, he would
not hesitate to suggest the subject to that
Committee as a lit subject for them to deal
With. It was with regret that he had heard
appeals adroitly made to partizan feelings
upon this subject. He believed that the
bulk of the American people of both par
ties were honest. Recent events in New
York had demonstrated that the party to
which he (Mr. Casserly) belonged, had
public virtue enough to do solemn justice
upon its own delinquents. and it would be
very unwise for any party at this dine to
interpose obstacles in the way of the most
thorough investigation of ell branches of
the public service.
Mr. Schurz remarked that this was not
by any means a new proposition. It was
merely a proposition on the part of Mr.
Trumbull to revive the old Committee on
Retrenchment, armed with the powers that
made the old counnittee su useful and effi
cient. That committee had been originally
created as a means of redeeming the civil
service front the demoralized condition
into which it had fallen under a former ad
ministration, and if that was a good Keason
for creating it, surely it was equally good
as a reason for reviving it, unless, indeed,
the civil service bad since become perfeet..—
The Senator from Vonnoutt Mr. Edmunds
had told the Senate that the civil service had
improved greatly under the existing ad
ministration, and undoubtedly it had, yet
in the whole history of the country it
would be difficult or tint possible to Lind
four consecutive months during which so
unmy defalcations and embezzlements
by public servants have been brought to
light, as in the last four months. Most of
these cases had been discovered, too, with
out careful searching or investigation ; had
been almost stumbled upon and, there
fore, It was fair to infer that careful inves
tigation would expose a great many more
that are now hidden. I Chad been suggest
ed that it would be better to create a com
mittee with ordinary powers and reserve
to the Senate the right to suggest sub
jects fur investigation, but the histo
ry of the old conunißee on retrench
ment showed that some of its must
valuable labors were originated by Itself,
as the discovery of the smuggling on the
transit route and of the frauds on the pos.
tal contract in Texas. That committee
had been cut off while engaged in one of
Its most important works, the investiga
tions of the New York Custom-House
management, and, although that inveki
gatiou did not originate with the commit
tee, yet it showed f.oa very necessary it
was that such a committee should have
such powers as that ono had, and as Mr.
Trumbull's proposition would Wye to the
new one. Mr. !Schurz read at, length the
testimony of New York merchants to show
the iniquities of the general order system.
This part of thecustona-house business was
in the bands of two men, Leet and Stocking.
Leet had been one of Gen. Grant's aids dur
ing the war, and, at the end of the war, had
gone to New York with a letter of intro
duction from Gen. Grant to Mr. Grinnell,
and soon after obtained the general order
business, the profits of which were BlM
mated from .16aqvUO to 1100,000 a year, and
was admitted by Leet himself to be ;12.5,000 ;
and not content with his regular inmate,
lie had, by his own confession, farmed out
a portion of the business to a man named
Bixby for ,15,000. These abuses had been
thoroughly exposed by the Committee of
Retrenchment, and also
ofd
a commissioner
sent by the Secretary of the Treasury for
thapurpose; the merchalits of New York
had repeatedly protested against the pres
ent system, and asked for a return to the
system which existed before the present
administration came in. It was intimated
by some ono that Mr. Leet has some con
nection with the White House, but IMneral
Porter was examined on that subject,
anti Lest himself, and they denied it, and
altogether the strength of the testimony
was the contrary. But this system of rob
bery is still maintained against the views
of the New York merchants and the judg
ment of the Secretary of the Treasury.
How is it sustained and where is the
mysterious power that sustained it? What
ever may be said of the improvements that
have taken place the people are startled at
the frequency mud enormity of the
disclosures made trot. day to (lay. Do
not give yourselves up to delusions. Tin,
people :trees the point of demanding lam •
est government imd they want to have all
the means Used for that object that 111,
coin pan ble with the laws of the itountry.
They demand the exposure and )verthr.w
of corruption, regardless of the interests ol
any pasty Or any person. We are stand
ing on the threshhold jot" a moral revolu
tion that bids fair to go beyond the over
throw of Tammany hall, and in that revo
lution the science of" How not to do it"
will lie of very little avail. Neither will
cheap declamation against corruption iu
the abstract, or against the sinfulness til
sin in general and the beauty of virtue
avail much. We have had enough of that.
If we wish to save the country and to
command its confidence we have to make
clear tin the country that we hate no party
no more than we hate corruption, and that
we love no party more than we love good
government.
WesuIVnTON, Dee. 14, 1571.
The debate Upon Senator 'from bull's
investigation residuum' being resumed,
Mr. Wllson, of Massaeliusetts, warned his
Republican friends, that they were placing
their party in a false position before the
country. Already there were millions
throughout the country who believed that
an attempt had been made in the Senate of
the Cnited States to shield the Administra
tion, and the party that has 'control of it.—
He, of course, did not believe it to be true,
but it was very important to appear right.
In 14e41 the Committee on Retrenchment
had been organized, and during the four
years of its existence it had righted a great
many wrongs, but there still remained
work for it to do. The passage of Mr.
Trumbull's resolutihn would let the people
see, that the Republicans were determined
to keep the Administration pure in all its
departments. He had no sympathy with
the plan of covering Our OWn shortcomings,
by talking of the gigantic swindles in New
fork. There were Republican thieves as
well as Democratic thieves, and a Republi
can thief was, to him, far the more hateful
of the two, because he brought disgrace
upon the Republican party; but, notwith
standing-the defects of the present Admin
istration, it was far purer and more effi•
dent than most of its predecessors. No
previous Administration had ever been so
prompt in punishing delinquency among
its officers.
Mr. Blair—The Senator is very boastful
about the purity and vigor of the Adminis
tration. I wish to call his attention to a
mite in Arkansas,where a District-Attorney
and a Marshal were both removed from of
fice for preparing an indictment against a
man for violating a law of the United States.
Mr. Wilson-1 don't know whether that
was so or not.
Mr. Scott said that the preliminary
measures for the removal of the District-
Attorney and the Marshal, were taken be
fore the finding of the indictment referred
to.
-
Mr. Blair—l have equal means of knowl
edge, and I say that the officers were turned
ont of office for „finding an indictment
against a person for violating a law of the
United States.
Mr. Wilson said he was not boastful of
the Administration. He - simply desired to
be Just, and, therefore, he said that the Ad
ministration ;was making progress In the
right direction, although a good deal more
of it was necessary. He was not ono of
those Republicans who thought the Demo
cratic party dead. He expected to have
to encounter it In full force next year, and
he warned his friends against relaxing
their efforts, in any degree, in the vain
hope that they would meet no vigorous op
position in 1572.
Mr. Nye thought that the subject before
the Senate had been greatly magnified.—
Certain gentlemen in the Republican party
thought the President was becoming too
popular, and devised the scheme of civil
service reform, and, under that cry, they
were now attempting to revise the old com
mittee, with all its extraordinary powers
of sending for persons or papers.
Mc. Thurman—The Senator objects to
sending for persons and papers- Where
Was his voice on the memorable occasion
when a Committee of the House of Repre
seutatives was examining into the conduct
and affairs of the Senattirs, to discover
whether they had not been bribed to acquit
Andrew Johnson, and were ransacking the
telegraph offices to get at something that
might compromise those Senators?
Mr. Nye—Just where it is now. Another
such set of circumstances, and 1 will vote
tor it again ; but there is no such occasion
now. There is peace in the ranks now,
save with one here and there, who would
be greater than his Master. I I.aughter l.
The Senator from Missouri f Schurz) would
write a report for the Committee, of porten
tious evils, a❑d it would not be pu dished
until just before the next Presidential nom
ination. f Laughter]. The Senator from
Massachusetts f Witson f had an❑ot u teed
himself to tavor of this Committee, and
had gone into one of his periodical spasms
of affection fur- the laboring :nail. -
Laughter,. But if lie 'Nits really tho
friend of labor, Why did he not stand by
the poor, hard-working servants of the
Government, whose salaries this Cominib
tee proposed in out down. , I.augh ter. ]
Mr. Seim rz —We always listen with
pleasure to the Senator from Nevada, be
cause however disposed we may be here to
earnest disquisition, we all like a little
comedy now and then, and however severe
inity,be some of the things that the Senator
says, we always forgive him, on account of
the exeeetkipgly funny manner in whiph he
says Weill]. To be sure, the legitimate
sphere of the comedian is generally within
the .wall of a theatre, lint it the Senator is
satisfied with the role he plays here, no
. .
body else has rea_sen to bey dissatisfitsl.
Those who defend a bad cause, always re
sort to a I,lflaill line Of defense. They at
tempt to throw the suspicion o❑ the trio
lives of tic's() io n , attack ;se the Senator
front Nevada (Nye,: like other senators
here, makes 00 attempt to disprove an) oi
the facts that I stated yesterday, but simply
throws aspersions On my motives, and ac
cuses me for stating that M r. Leeee services
in the army should prevent him front oh
tiauing employment In the civil Hendee of
the Govern ment,and that the President had
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something to do;with the cartage business in
New York. I wish to say a te.e: words in
reply to the Senator from New York (Conk.
ling). Ile said yesterday that Um investi
gation of the New York Custom-House was
closed up by the Committee on Retrench
ment last year, The Committee did, un
doubtedly, believe that the case was closed,
for it had reason to believe that wgen such
scandals as it exposed were laid hare, the
Administration would jump at the chance
to put an end to the disgrace. But it turns
Out that they were vastly mistaken, for the
same scandalous system of robbery exists
down to this day, , In spite of the exposures
made by the Committee. The Senator
asked, also, why We have proposed no
legislation to remove these abuses? lie
cause no legislation was necessary. The
abuses were created by Executive :lotion,
in the administration ortho Custom-i louse,
and they could he done away with by Ex
ectitire action. The :senator objected to
what 1 said of the power which sustains
this system. I did say, " flaring laid the
evidence before the Senate, that when the
Most respectable merchants of New York
had protested against this system of rob
bery ; when the Secretary of the Treasury
had time and again pronounced against it:
when the l'onini ate° on Retrenchinent had
pronounced against it; and when still it
was sustained and kept alive, down to this
very day, I did say—in view of this eel
denee, that there must be Some mysterious
power sustaining that system N stronger than
a decent regard for public opinion, and
stronger than the Secretary of thin Treasury
himself.
:qr.-Patterson interposed to make all ex
planation, and in reply to a rainark by
r. Trumbull; said: do sarthat there
are Inspectors in the New York Custom-
House who stated before the Committee,
under oath, that in Violation of their oaths
and in violation of the laws of the land,
they had taken bribes, and that they wink
bribeil every time they discharged a ves
sel ; tend I say further, that the agents of
the Steamship Companies told me that they
could 'tot get their vessels discharged with
out bribing the officials.
Mr. Sumner-1 should like to know
whchher those men are eontinued in office.
Mr. Patterson—l have no ktiowledge of
their ever having been removed. I know
nothing about it.
Mr. Schurz— It appearsdo be clear that
there is a monopoly om the North River,
at New York, worth front r,3e,000 to $ lOO , -
000 a year to those who have it. That it is
denounced by the principal merchants of
Nev. , York ay a system of robbery ; that it
has been investigated by a special Com
mission sent there by the Secretary of the
Treasury, and that In the report of that
Commission the system Is designated as a
very great abuse.
Mr. Tipton spoke in support of Mr.
Trumbull's proposition, and cited Mr.
Morton's statement of yesterday, that the
object of those who befriended that propo
sition was to show that great corruption
exists under the present Administration,
and said that that was exactly what he
wished the people to understand. As to the
tither branch of Mr. Morton's charge, that
this movement was an attack on the Re
publican party, it was not true. `
Mr. Trumbull's amendment was rejected
by a vote of 2.1 yeas to 30 nays, the toll.,
Mg Republicans voting for it : Messrs. Al
corn, lentos, Logan, Patterson, Robert
son, Schurz, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull,
West and Wilson.
The original resolution was adopted.
Mr. Trumbull then moved to instruct
the Committee provided for the resolution
just adopted, to inquire Into all the sub
jects enumerated in his rejected amend
ment.
Without realeng a vote on Mr. Triiin-
Mill's inotion,We Senate went into Exee
utive session, and soon after adjourned
until Monday.
Leading Democratic Reformer. In New
York Denounced hy the Ad...Ml.llra-
HMI Ring.
Prom tlo. N. Y. Evonlog Posl
The T. eve to-day declares 131/I`ll ear
against Messrs. Charles O'Connor, Samuel
.1. Tilden, William F. Ilaveineyer, Daniel
Tiedman, John .J.Ciseo, and their fellow-
Democrats who have brought about the
victory of reform In this city. It say,
" Indeed, Mr. Andrew FL Green is the or,
ly one of the' Democratic Reformers' in
whose permanent fidelity to his trusts we
aro disposed to place a grain of confidence.'•
'rids compliment to Ji r. (ireful, at the ex
pense of the men who placed him In office,
and who have ever simile been his trusted
anti confidential friends, cannot be very ac
ceptable to that gentleman, especially when
all the point of the Tinicv' blind and un
reasoning attack upon the Committee of
Seventy anti on the legal agents and advis
ers of the reform movement is directed
against measures which NI r.tlreen has him
self approved, it not devised. But why not
tell the Whole truth I"rhe Times finds its
ettorts to inake a partisan allair of the great
reform movement chit, kismied by the con
spicuous rants that l u Corals buy° been
the leaders, that movement here, anti
Hutt its principles are neglected and tram
pled under tic by the allies in
\Vashington, It is, therefore, naturally our
or temper. ISM we trust it will nee that it
is not wise. nor even faissi hie, Lo "smash
the machine," to break in pieces the city
and State and relorin Moreillent, simply
because it Will not assist the plans of the
erase faction.
MEEMlllitffell=
NE, I'nea, Ore. 17.-9'ho parade of dot
nternationals tame off to-day at noon.--
The gathering commenced in the vicinity
of Cooper Institute, arid soon the thorough
fares on either shim)t it in Third and Fourth
avenues became nearly blocked, there
being besides the intending processionists,
immense crowds of holiday street gazers.
About 2:15 P. M. there was a genera!l stir
among the masses, and soon the solemn
rolls oldie funeral dirge were heard Irons
the band.
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Immediately after came a platoon of
Sk id more's I i mints ;colored; and then
Meserif. Banks and Flueren, Milowed by a
number of ladies on foot. Among them
Miss Tennie Clatlin, carrying a red flag
which bore the following inscription : "J.
A. W. Section 13, Social and political
equality for both sexetr;" and Mrs. Victo
ria NVoodlnill. Then the simieties and
unions in the following order : The Cuban
League. bearing the Cuban flag; another
crowd of females, and some males; Dram
Corps of Hawkins' Zetiaves ; the Cata
falque, upon which were three collitis,
drawn by six horses; Mr. M. Genre and
Megy, late commander of Fort Issy, pall
bearers, and walking with them about a
dozen Parisian refugees; the French Le
gion ; the Painters' Union; the Bricklayers
Union, and the Cabinettnakere—in all
about 2000 people.
In carriages were General Ryan, of Cuban
notoriety, and the Fenian Chief, O'Donovan
Kassa. In another carriage rode the emu
muniste, Mrs. Frances Rose McKinley.—
)
. The cataralaque was draped in black, th
I inscription on the sides being in white let
tere—" To the martyrs or the Univer. I
Republic," and it was decorated with red
flags and streamers, mingled with mourn
ing crape. The processlOribita generally
wore red rosettes and scarfs with black
crape. The banner captured on last Sun
day by the police was the most roticeable.
The line mapped out war, marched over
and no disorder prevailed.
Jurymen In Trouble
The jurymen in the Mrs. Wharton case,
have a bard time. Deaths have occurred
in the families of two of them, and the
United States Marshal is anxiously waiting
for the case to terminate in order to arrest
two others against whom warrants have
been issued for violation of the United
States law in relation to elections. They
are charged wins refusing to receive votes
when offered accondlng to law.
The Wharton Trial
ANNAPoLTH, Dec. 11.—To•day la the sev
enth day of the Wharton trial, and the In
terest still continues . As far•as this evl•
dance of the State has been given in the
last week, the general outside opinion is
that it is not strong enough to warrant
conviction. The character of the evidence
of the State yet to follow is not known.
Dec. 12.—The examination of Prof. Aik ,
en was continued as to his analysis, but the'
testimony elicited was not different from
that given yesterday. This examination
as to the analysis and the modern scientific
tests occupied over two hours.
The examination of several other wit
nesses occupied the balance of the day.
The evidence was principally as to the na
ture of several chemical medicines, and
the practice of apothecaries in putting up
prescriptions.
ANNAPOLIS, December 13 --The exami
nation of Mr. Hutton was resumed, with
reference to his knowledge of the sickness
of General Ketchum.
Jacob Frey, Deputy Marshal of police of
Baltimore, detailed the result of an inter
view With Mrs. Wharton at her house with
reference to the death oftteneral Ketchum.
The interview lasted two hours, during
which Mrs. N% harton detailed the rirclnn
stanctia of Nit'. I:etchnin coming to her
house, of her purchase of tartar emetic
during his sickness, and that there was
some in the house previous to his veining.
She then gave permission fur two of her
servants to be taken to police head-quarters
for examination,and at the sante time men
tioned her intention of visiting Europe at
an early day, to which the officer respond
ed that she ought not to think of doing so
until the matter or 4.:01). Retchum's death
was cleared up; she asked how long duos!
would require; annwered that I could inn
tell ; some clown required many months',
Mrs. Wharton then said witness had been
very kind to her in giving Information, and
she desired to make Mtn a present; she
then offered (0 him a roll or money, which
be declined, saying lie could not take pres
ents; in a subsequent conversation is nit
Mrs. 11'llarton, witnesa questioned her
closely about the purchase of tartar tenet ie,
and whether it Was kept whore the servants
could not get it ; during the conversations.
which occurred four Of live Hines Mrs.
NN'harton soldthat the old gentleman
(Ketchum was peculiar in the habit of
drugging himself, and he :night have
taken tartar emetic hy mistake ; in
conVersation between in iday night and
Sunday she again Insisted nut giving 10(11
money ; at this time the note was spread
out; it was a twenty-dollar bill which this
tittered, telling hint to buy Mansell a pres
ent; wit' ess again declined to recelce
uu
nay or pi n-satins, saying he, was an mike!
Hatt at.l,lltltig prOselltS WWI t
regulation int the Department. She said,
thus being the case, of course he could not
bike it; on Nlonday,July,lo, witness called
intorinen Mrs, 11'hartoti that the Dep
uty state-Attorney or Moir noire city bud
requested loin to say to her that It would
not be advisable Mr her to leave the city at
that time; Mrs Wharton said silo Was
sorry, that she intended leaving at two
o'clock that day for Philadelphia, and ask
ed Witness about the propriety of her call
ing on the Deputy Sutte•Attorney with' a
legal friend relatise to her going to Phila
doiphia; oil the afternoon of the saint, linty
I called twain and informed Mrs NVlaarton
that circumstances had transpired Mel
!mule it neevessitry to 1031.0 a guard tivel
her house to prevent any 1,110 from leaving.
Wlla ; 114 ,noosed hill WWI the
case ended here.
Mrs. Looney testi lied as to the sediment
found in the milk punch. she took it to
Andrews at Theatipm2m, the draggle.,
where Mr, Thomason placed a small quaii-
Lay of the sediment ton u 1•0111.6 f. tl.atett It
With acid annul advised tier to keep the Matt -
['lent. The tumbler and sediment War,
nit out of her sight mini delivered tor
analyzation.
.law es 'Ma,-Evoy, an iteetallitatit in the
Ranking lionise of Alexander Brown ,t
Sous, %Via, assisted In attending . Mr. VIM
Ness, 'luring his illnessat Ni -s. Wharton's,
testined that lie was at her house several
times during the day, on Stinday, dune
and again at It no'clock I'. NI., whist he saw
tien.luteliiiiiimitlliigat the
tea table; NI rs. Wharton canto where the w -
ness was and asked Mtn to get here bottle.
brandy from the next room, which he mil.
She said alto wanted to make a drink fort link
Ketchup; the next mania front which the
brandy {Vas brought was that ...mined by
Mr. Van Ness; a tittla after twelve o'clock
Midnight, while wiliness inns lying nal MO
lounge, lie heard some one coining
clown stairs and unlocking a do o r; this
person Waa KOl,lllllll stun altar
wards NI vs. MI/irk/II eitale Intl rho r,allll
where W itness Was, and said she (Vita
afraid that the I ioneral was sick ; she was
going to give hint suite brandy and ginger;
shortly afterwards 'bitters! Ketchum 1.11.11111
in and went up stairs without saying any
thing.
Nothing further was elicited on cr...
examination. 'l . llO Coll a actitalratql
till 111-111Cirt,,W.
‘1,,t.1-:, U,wen' twr II
Til,ll Wa..l e olv 01111 ivitll,e, 1,141111111 A
yesterday 011 10.1111.110 t. the State, Henry W.
SIIIIWIIOII. Ii is testimony was with rider •
Once to the first sickness of tea,. I:etetiulll
anti the general symptoms, as well as to
the lllNllleille administered by Mrs. NV hat -
ton. The circumstances narrated ern sun •
to those previously giVell by wit 111.1.0.,
and neither the examination-in-chief, is
cross-examinalion. elleited any new Met.
having a direct bearing upon the C 114 1 4.
TIIII principal time of the I 'our! wits taken
up It nu argument es to the ail ntlssib ity
of vermin testimony of Mr. Snowilen, in
answer Lo the question of I . onn.el for the
State, as to how ho came to be at Mrs.
Wharton's house; if lie worn sick or well,
and if sick, what were his symptoms and
feelings. and how ran happened to be taken
sick there.
'rho argument t‘il..4 unt. ecalellatell 111,
thu Court lidjialral , i unlii tub 111 , 1flillig al
10 o'clock.
ANNA Fothm, Doe. 1.,. -The !mint rake,l
and being argued, as In ilio athnimmthility
of certain testimony of Mr. Van NINA, al
the time our report yesterday close!,
WILY decided without further argument in
support of the Ithjections raised by the de
fence.
Charles Ketchum, son of ;en. Ketchum,
'OILS examined 101 Or the monetary tramie
thins of his father with Wharbon, 1.1.1
as to the condition of his father's health
previous to and shout the time of his Visit
to Mrs. Wharton's house. which was good
with the exception of a slight sore throat.
Ills father never used drugs or laudanum.
The examination of this witness oven
pied the greater part 01 the day's tiOnsiori.
'rite prosecution now offered in evidence
the books kept by General Ketchum, to
show the indebtedness of Mrs. W harton
to him.
Ciiiiusel fur the tiofeneli übjetitail, and
Mr. Steele noirgeshid that the jai- 4 y he al
b.% to retire before argument the
quioition of admitting the bunks 1 . 1,111-
ulenved.
• .
Thin was - assented to by tho counsel lid
the prosecution, and the jury retired.
Mr. Hagner then coliTineucod the argu
ment, citing the authorities on which the
objection was based, at the vonelusion
of
which the court adjourned.
A tier, 10 —The twelfth clay of
this ease was consumed almost entirely
in tho argument by ('sansei i.e to
the admissibility of the books and papers
of General Ketchum to 41111 W the Indebted
ness of Mrs. Wharton before and at the
time of his death.
During the argument, the jury were per
mitted to retire, and were seen walking In
company with the bailiff..
Mrs. Chubb was recalled by the State,
and testified that Mrs. NV harton telegraph
ed to her in \Washington to come and al,
her in Baltimore in .July last ; .went up
and met M re. \Vharton ; took her u p stairs
anti asked if . her mind wan clear an to the
person from whom she bought the tartar
emetic, and if she could idwalry tine nom
front whom she purchased the !Arial - mural,:
Mrs. NV harton said that wan not the now
That the malt from whom the bought it
wan the Titan who said he had sold it to her
Mrs. Wharton), and witne-sn must no tea
ly ; witness said if he was the Mann) Haut
lino whom site bought it, she could Wan -
Lifi , him; she then said that Mr. Steele
wished to Mee witness, anti Made an ap
pointment to meet her at 9 Welt telt that eve
ring at her 'tonne; asked her if AM 17011111
go to \1 r. Steele's 1101.1140 instead ; was told
sha coo III; 31r. Neilson went with her;
Mr. Steele did not wish to see her; he odd
her so; Mrs. Wharton's manner when she
went to see her. was very nervous : the
telegram wan signed N. C. NS'. ; that i
M ism Nally. The two hornier colored am
vants of Nirs. 'ltarton, Susan Jacobs and
Ellen Derricks, in Nib daily in attendance,
waiting to he called an witnwes Inc the
State.
The Court inlyrurned until Mondlty
morning.
MS NA rOLIS, Dec. 1!,
The testimony fur the prosecution was
continued. James Ketchum, son of:tho de
ceased, testified to Mrs. Wharton's did!ll
of having paid the noteof $2.5,000, by giving
Gem Ketchum United States bonds to that
amount. .
M re. II e'en Van Ness testified to finding
a sediment of brassy taste lii a tumbler
milk punch, prepared by Atm. Wharton
for her IntiMand when ho was sick.
Benj. W. Brice, Paytmador-General
the Army, testified to the good health' Anil'
regular habitA of Ilerieral Ketchum.
M re. Mary Snowden testified that Mrs.
Wharton said to her, after the (10CCIIM) of
(len. Ketchum, "You know he took lautL'•
Other witnesses testified to the health and
good Latina of lieneral Ketchum.
Municipal Corruption in Chicago.
CH ICACW, Dec. 13.—1 t is asserted by sev•
eral of the city journals that several, if not
all, of the persons appointed to office by the
Common Council on Monday night., w i re
approached by certain Aldermen, and were
required to put up a money consideration
to secure their success, and that only those
persons who did co got places. Sever& on •
successful candidates make a public state
ment, dnclarmg their willingness to make
affidavits of the fact that money was do
mended of them by Aldermen, and on their
declining were emphatically told that they
could not have places. The newspapers
demand an investigation.
Orphan Singing . Too sssss .
An interesting company of butte orphan
tourists and singers are now going through
the Southern 'tutee giving cbncerts for the
benefit of the " Lauderdale Home" for or
phans, in Mississippi, ofNedch establish
ment they form a part. Th'b" Home" now
shelters some two hundred children, who
are nearly all the orphans of ;Confederate
soldiers, and a majority of them children
of Masons and Odd Fellows. The effort by
which these little artists are made to bene
fit themselves and their fellow -orphans
has been attended with much success
wherever they have appeared,