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ffED.\ESDA¥ ETENIXG, MARCH 0, 1878. T i l l s F n p e r h a s th e i.a r i r e s t C l r c u l a * • f - Htna o l a n y ' C v e n l n r F a p e r P u b l i s h e d In (h o C n l t e d s t a t e s . A d v e r t ls ln K a i e d t u m p a r e n t . I t s v a l u e a s a n Is th e r e f o r e a p - jk c t l o a o t th e D e i i i o e r a t l c C o i i i i i i i t t e c , JL a st N i i f b t. The selection of permanent officers, an amendment to the Constitution of the body, the decision of some cases of contested elec tions and the expulsion of Daniel O’Reilly and Patrick J. Shannon comprised what the Committe did last night. The matters oc- cnpied a good deal of time and wore marked by a good deal of debate. The proceedings, as fully reported elsewhere, have a great deal of interest for Brooklyn, ns a city addicted to following closely aiid.with intelligent judg ment the record of its news. It is also quite probable that no news is read with such avidity as that which relates to local politics —especially when it is marked by the col lisions of men who arc popularly held respon- sible for what the dominant party does or fails to do here. Little need be said about the soleetion made for permanent officers of the Commit tee. Messrs. J. B. Craig and Jacob I. Ber gen, as President and Vice President, are the only officials who will in the future sessions of the Committee have anything especial lo do, by which the public will discriminate bc- nnd a recognition of excellent administration. It is that which sends Democratic majorities up. It is the other kind which sends them down. As good homo ad ministration as Mayor Howell, Controller Burrell and Supervisor at Large Guthrie and others are able and minded to give us will establish a parity between the local and State majorities of Kings County and nothing else will. This year by reforming the charter and. reducing the expenses (or by manfully trying to do and failing only on account of Radical opposition at Albany), the Democratic party can, either on the fact or on the record, win by its full majority in the Poll election. The public is indifferent about the Committee. It is “alive” as to the practical results of govern ment. As to the expulsion of O’Reilly and Shan non, it was of course in order. Neither de cency nor discipline meant more than a diction ary expression so long as such ostentatious treachery to the party as they have committed went unnoticed and unbranded. They are too small, and their treachery was too plain, for us to waste words on. We will but add that it is such junkshop business in politics as they have become bankrupts by attempting which has made “Indepinpenoe” and “reform” seem like the last resort of a renegade—just as “patriotism” was hotly defined by Dr. Johnson to be “ the last refuge of a scouu- “ drel.” __________ ___________ A l d e r m a n t c C o iiiiiiU tce* f o r tlie T e a r . The President of tho Board of Aldermen has followed strict political usage in his appoint- ! monts of the members on committees. That I usage is to give the force which elected you preponderating representation ; to give the force which legitimately opposed your repre sentation responsive to the minority position tw^en them“a n r thT b o d ^ '^geT e ir\ Whaf' j ^ H as presiding officers it will devmve on them to do, they will doubtless acceptably perform. They are comiiotent parliamentaiians and courteous men, of good presence, affable ad dress, quick habit, and each has had experi ence in the position of Chairman of the Com mittee before. Their selection has a signifi cance in the fact that they represent the ele ments dominant in the organization, and it is in all respects desirable that those elements should assume control as well as exercise it. The adoption of tho amendment to the Constitution of the body was a matter of more importance and it naturally excited more attention in tho Committee, just as it will outside. The amendment was to this effect: Hereafter the representatives of the wards in the Committee are all to be elected, instead of, as heretofore, a small number of them being in a sense “ appointed,” that is, nominated by the clcoted delegates to the Ex ecutive Committee, reported back by that Ex ecutive Committee to the full General Commit tee and voted upon by that body. Hereafter no members of the Committee will hold by dif ferent tenures or titles. They are to be elected at the primary elections in the wards and country towns. This was the practice up to a few years ago, when the additional method just stated was resorted to, for a pur- poae which cauuot be said to have been realized. The origiual design and the way in which it has not succeeded are not devoid of interest. Briefly stated, the design was to take into the Committee representatives of a class of men whom the methods of primary I no eandidatJ and no party as near to nothing ns possible The force which eleofcod Jlr. Fisher was a composite, comprising eight Democrats and five Ropub.lioans. The force which, under the circumstances, not illegiti mately opposed Mr. Fisher comprised seven Republicans, who, united with five other Al dermen—the five being situated toward politics and toward this matter of the Presi dency in a peculiar way, as follows : Mr. Ray, although a Republioau, labored day and night to effect a deliberate conspiracy against Mr. Fisher after the latter bad been regularly nominated by the Republicans. By this con spiracy Ray hoped to be Chairman again him self. His bad faith and unintelligent selfish ness placed him outside of the pale of either party, and entitled Mr. Fisher to ignore him to any degree he pleased. Mr. Griswold, another Republican, opposed Mr. Fisher first and last and put his opposition on grounds which he declared consoientious, and yet he refused to clothe the soul or the misas ma of his hostility with any bones or flesh of facts whatever. He is not un- liliely conscientious as it is given to him, through the lens of a disordered intollectual and moral liver, to see his oon- ecieuce—for he is a strong willed, positive, ugly honest man. It is entirely futile to tell him that a proolamatiou of the idea that a man is uutrustworthy, without staliug why and be cause of what ho thinks so, is outrageous. He is not made up in a way to realize that it is outrageous, albeit every person of en lightened apprehension and freedom from oloetions had not been addicted to .returning I and self complacency is. As it is as members. It was thought that with tbose who were duly elected, the addition of tin's new element would make the Committee rep resentative of all the party —those who as Democrats had noted with the organization before and those who as DemoerMs had acted either ou their own “ hook” or avith other combinalious of Democrats. What has boon (he effect on the party at large is a matter men dispute about. What has been the effect on and within the Committee itself is some thing nobody seems to dispute about at ail. The appointed members got to consider them selves as a class apart. The elected members got to consider the appointed ones in the same light. Each class, not without reason, felt that it was placed in an awkward position. Each showed a marked talent for disliking the other. It was hard to strike a ratable division of honors and service between the two classes. The entire willingness of each side to absorb more than its share aggravated tho difficulty. Tho men who were elected were wont to regard the appointees as with such .little influence that they could not go to tho people and get an indorsement. The appointees were not averse to thinking of themselves more highly than they ought to think, as men who conferred honor on the party by belonging to it, and as altogether su perior to the riff raff ground out at primary elections, where the side which had the In speotors could not be declared beaten, al though all the Democrats in the ward voted against it. The elected publicans and the ap pointed Pharisees stood over against one an other for two years, and did a great deal of glowering and growling. The publicans did not smito themselves on the breast very often, but they did have a compact and large major ity’s pleas.aut habit of sitting on the Phari sees’ beads, so to speak, as oppor tunity offered, which was not seldom. The Pharisees were suitably thankful that they wore not as other men were. Indeed human nature asserted itself in both against a situation which wrought a maximum of un expected friction and a minimum of the ex pected “harmony.” At the beginning of the year {he notifica tion provided for bj' the Constitution was made, of a proposition so to amend it, in due time and course, as to revert to the old elec tive system in all cases for the future, and to abandon the appointive method as an unsatisfactory failure. The ques tion came up in orderly progress and form, last night, and the amendment was \adopted by a very large majority. Thus as respects its represeutation clauses the oi-ganic law of the Committee dispenses with a novel ty which proved a fallacy. It is in that re spect of representation clauses “ the Consti- “ tution as it was. ” There was uo opposition -o the ptiuo'ple of the change. The necessity of it and the failure of the appointive system were conceded. Hon. S. T. Freeman, a duly elected member, proposed tliat the principle of election be restored in full, and the ap pointive method be abandoned, but with the proviso that the few remaining appointed members be let servo out the terms for which they were appointed, and their successors and all the other members of the Cominilteo, hereafter, to be elected. Be tween this motion of Mr. Freeman and the matter it was sought to amend, there was no difference in principle. But^the Committee thought that if ’twore done, when 'twas done, then 'twere well 'twera done quickly. So they amended the Constitution to take effect immediately. This resulted in the retirement of the men selected by the method which was for the future dispensed with. There was no reflection on the men. There was no feuch ex pulsion of them as the the morning papers, in their affluence of ignorance state. Tbeperson- nel of the Committee was made elective. The non-elected men were retired by that fact. The vacancies their retirement by the fact creotes are to be filled by elections. That is the size and .meaning of the whole matter. The gentlemen who are retired by that course are as eligible to return to the Committee by eleotiou as any other Democrats in Brook lyn. It will be excellent policy for the management to see to it that represen tatives of the eleme.nte takeg into ac count under the appointive system afe re turned by the restored and substituted elective system. We have unaffectedly thought the appointive system a humbug. I'rom this opinion, the authors of that system and those returned undeiT it do not differ. Possibly the elective primary system is as much of a farce as its critics have charged—probably not. Ttvis is certain, that the leaders can secure the retnm of responsible, representative citi zens by seeing that they are put in nomina tion at the primaries. They will be veiy wise, if they do, and very foolish, 'if they do not. Mr, Freeman in proposing his palliative called attention to the fact, that in the year when the appointive system went into effect the party’s majority rose to 18,000 in this county. That is coincidence, not cause. The cause lay in f^ot that the persons for whom that majority was cast had been identified with magnificently good govern ment Mr. Tilden as Executive, Mr. Robin son as Controller, running for promotion be fore the people, for the Presidency and the Governorship. \Wliat the Committee.was or was not, did or did not, had less than little to given him to bo siucere, Mr. Griswold was siiicere in firing a bluuderbua full of wiiid and imul at Mr. Fisher. That the explosion of tho weapon kicked over the Alderman from the Eleventh and didn’t hurl the Alderman from the Twenty-third is another fact not to be wondered at or regretted. Just ns sincerely, perhaps even more so, Mr. Fisbor has put Mr. Griswold on just one committee which meets just once a year. These two ab normal and uuclaHsifiod Republicans, Ray, an eel, and Griswold, a rock, of politics, chal lenged peculiar treatment and have got it. Then there came an unholy trinity of “ Inde- “ pindents” by profession, Shannon, Orms- bee and O’Reilly. The success with which this trio of worthies have sawn the limb off on which tliey were roosting, between them selves and the t^6e, has excited the wonder and admiration of mankind. Their epitaph is, “ Gone to meet Griswold on the Elections “ Committee.’' They wore unlovely and unpleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided. Of course, it is a much more serious matter for them to be reduced to zero than it is for Griswold. He has had his luck solely because he has from first to last opposed Fisher, and he did not vary that role by going into the game Ray set up. The “Indepindonts,” on the other hand, opened a junk shop between both parties and made a winning with neither. It is matter for regret that Ormsbee has dropped to Shannon and O'Reilly. The devil and not the Alderman of the Fifteenth should have been let make a third to the other two, but the presentation of the whitewash ing report on a Republican official last year by Mr. Ormsbee, seems to have been the be ginning of a progressive course toward politi cal suicide. With this explanation of the status in which Mr. Fisher found the Aider- men, his dispositfou of them is made intelli gible. He has preferred the men who preferred him. He has properly treated the men who properly opposed him. Those who disfranchised themselves from oousidoratiou have been left where they placed themselves. The materials at his command were made, in these circumstances, serve as good uses as Mr. Fisher could secure. Tho best men in a board, whose superlative degree of excellence is not extraordinary, have been given the best places, and the com mittees are abler and more representative of the most desirable or least offensive elements in the Board than they have been for several years. The sturdy way in which Mr. Fisher put the “Indepindents” in a collar, and then sealed up the grating, is such a natural and manly piece of healthy resentment, responsive, too, to good public policy, that people are gratified by it, irrespective of party. T h e O t t o m a n a n a ( b e R l u s c o v i t e . There are at least two inc ontestible facts disclosed by the history of nations. One is that the foundations of every empire have been laid in blood ; the other that no empire can endure in which the sword is not made a subordinate influence in the government of the conquered and the conquorers. There is no exception to the rule that the early history of empires is the history of ambition making its way through carnage. The Jew, the As syrian, the Persian, the Macedonian, the Roman, the Saracen, the Ottoman, the Eng lishman, the Spaniard, the Dutchman, the Swede, the Dane, the German, the French man, the Anglo-American, all waded through slaughter to supremacy. Nor does it appear that one has been more sorupulous than the others. The Jew slew the wom en and children of the men who stood between him and the promised land. The Anglo-American has not been more sorupu lous in his treatment of the Red Indians. The Romans repeated the horrors of the Persian conquest, the Ottoman extinguished all that remained of Macedonian nationality, as Alex ander had trampled upon the life of Asia Minor ; the Spaniard proved not less blood thirsty than his old master the Saracen and showed on the American Continent that humanity and justice are not necessarily allied to irrepressible valor. The rise of the Ger manic races is to be sought for in the smoke of battle and amid the horrors of human be ings offered as saoriflees upon the altars of the gods of the successful fighters. Poland, the Crimea, Circassia and Little Russia, 'with Siberia as a minor memorial, remind us how theCzor’B power was established, while the annals of France for over five hundred years are merely records of butchery, executed at the behest of kings or under the impulse of insatiable bigotry. It becomes all men who are horrified by the barbarism of neighboring nations to remember this and temper their in dignation by looking at home. \While how ever, there is no difference in the means used to set up empires, a vast difference is to be found in the means used to maintain them. The German, the Frenchman and the Englishman are typical of the spirit which, despite aU early turmdonce and in the face of innumerable difficulties, resolves, like Richelieu, to “ put away the sword, for “ States can be saved without it.” This does not imply any abandonment of the art of war. It merely implies a settled belief that what the sword has won the content which is born of just admininistration must be invoked to. keep. Tho Assyrian, the Persian and the Egyptian are types of the spirit ■which re do with' (Aai majority. It was a tribute to ! gards all conquest as so srey. and which makes no pretense of putting the sword aside, because the conquered are always regarded as subjects to be plundered for the benefit of the victors. With this distinction between nations clear ly made,' our readers will be in a position to peruse, with interest, Rev. Dr. Storrs’ fine account of “the long duel bet\veen the Otto- “ man and the Muscovite.” The Doctor has divided his statement of the case into two parts. The first part was delivered before a representative Brooklyn audience in the Aca demy, last night, and the second part will be delivered a week hence. By turning to the report of last night’s discourse it will be seen that while the reverend orator did not set out from the bloody premises which have been stated in this article, he directed, byj impUca- cation,the mind of his hearers to the fact that nations are to be judged by the use they make of their conquests, rather than by the barbar ism incidental to the making of them. The Doctor, we believe, sympathises with the Mus covite, and there' are indications in the address before us that while he will not seek in any ■way to gloss over the hidious means by wliich Russian power has often been extended, he wiU argue that the Russian has shown the French, English, German tendency toward civil rather than military means of government, while the Turk has shown no disposition to hold his conquered provinces by any other ten ure than the sword. If this tendency on the part of the Russian, ond the lack of it on the part of the Turk, can be shown, uo matter how much alike they may have been in the beginning or in comparatively modem times, it will be impossibie to deny that the Russiaa is, in the civ ^ e d sense, superior to the Turk, and by the high est right which histpry i?o0gni?e§ M affecting nations is jusBfied in expelling him frp?^ tlje territory into which the sword brought him and still in part hol^ him. Of coarse the friends of the Turk, while admitting the jus tice of the test which the Doctor proposes, will argue that a comparison fairly made would not leave the superiority of the Musco vite clear. T i l e B o a r d o r E t f u e a t i o o a At the meeting of the Board of Education yesterday afternoon, the ohief subject con sidered was a plan for the rearrangement of the salaries of the ladies who are known as first assistants in the sohools. The position of these ladies is somewhat anomalous, and as a result of tho anomaly the rule for the reduc tion of wages, adopted some three months ago, operated upon them with exceptional hardship. This ■wrong was righted by the Board yesterday, and a step was taken to ward placing the ladies in rational re lation to the general corps of teachers. The discussion upon thi's subject brought out the fact that the Board is confronted with a large financial deficiency for the commg year and that there is no defined plan for averting it. The homely maxim that the coat must be cut according to the oloth is not in favor with the members. They cannot be made to understand that they are not warranted in conducting the schools upon a scale involving a larger expenditure than the the taxpayers have declared their willinguess to meet. We notice that a Committee of the Board is to oppose at Albany so much of Senator Pierce’s Charter Amendments as provide for a reorganization of the Board. The gentle men of tho Committee ought, as fair men, to exhibit as an evidence of what the present ar rangement can effect the state of the salary account for the current year. At present the Board is unwieldly, irresponsible and ex travagant. It affords proof at every meeting of the truth of the iwoverb that v/hat is “every “body’s business is nobody's business.” In a Board of over forty members every member feels justified in leaving to* somebody else tho business of saving money, while he devotes himself to tho work of getting money appro priated for tho particular school with which he is identified. T h e B o x m b i l c a n (G e n e r a l O o n iin itto e « The Republican General Committee had quite a little circus of its own last night. The Twelfth Ward supplied the riders, and very lively fellows they proved to be. It ap pears that the Republican Association in the Twelfth Ward is given over to anarchy. The machinery of the ward is in the hands of a few men who do not represent the better men of the ward, and the primaries have recently been very dishonest affairs. All this and more to the same purpose was set forth in the report of the Investigating Committee enbrnitted to the General Committee, coupled with recom mendations for reorganization. The recent meetings of this organization have made noth ing more clear than that the Republicans of Brooklyn are misrepresented by the politicians who act in their name. The Twelfth Ward, the Second Word, the Seventeeth and the Twenty-second, have recently furnished abun dant proof that the party machinery is in the hands of men who have no scruples about stuffing ballot boxes or composing false reg istry lists. To this state of things is doubtless due, in some measure, the fact that at present there is not, properly speaking, any Repub lican party in Brooklyn. There is a Demo cratic party confronted with opposition from many quarters, but in the sense of organized, well defined Republican sentiment, tho Dem ocrats have nothing to fear in this city. This we esteem unfortunate. DEMOCRATS. Shannon and O’Reilly Expelled from the General Committee. One of the Liveliest Meetings in the His« tory of the Party in Brooklyn—Rejec tion of the Shannon and O’Beiliy Dele gates from the First and TTvelfth Wards. Radical Change in the ConstUntlon ot the Committee—All the Appointed Mem bers Eliminated and Henceforth Elected Members Only to Belong to the Organi zation-Speeches of Messrs. Freeman, Rogers, Boss HcLanghlln, Carroll and Others on the Qnestion-Hon Shannon right—sir, I cannot bellara that (bis Committee is pre pared to take any snob course as that. It seem) to me IX I8 A OBEAT INtTUSnOB, a great wrong, an nnoonsUtnUonal sot and ezoeedlng- ly nnwlss. Now, sir. In the flrit place. It seems to mo it la a great Injuatlce to tbose men who are tq be expell ed. Aabaa been already Intimated, their rights to eit as members of this Committee, Hr, Chairman, are un der the eame oonstitution as. yonr right and my right. They have eouei rights with us, and I say it would be a great injustice to them thus to expel them. I do not know who these gentlemen are with one or two oxoep- tlons, nor do 1 care'to know. I do not appear as thedr advooate, I do not nrga this in tbolr bebalf, I do not think the gentlemen wonid tiiank me for appearing in their Dehslf. I do not think they wonid oak to be re tained as members of this Committee. I shonld not it 1 were In their place. It Is not lor their sakes that I plead before you the InJasHoe of the act j bat It is for onr Bakes. A wrong committed, Mr. Chairman, is the greater wrong in the moat casds to the man who oommite it than to the man sgalnst whom it is committed, and while this is an nn- jiistlce to them the reaction of the InJasUca would be the greater, it seemo to me, upon us who commit it. But sir, it seems to me that this action whiob is proposed is unconetitutlonal. I agree with the Chairman that the point of order raleed was not well taken ; bnt I tbink this Committee under this constitution hare no power to legislste ont of offloe a part of tho Committee. Then, sir, 1 say It Is a radical wrong ; it la against every principle of right and Jns- tloe, irreapective of the gnoetlon of injasUca as agaioat these men who are to be expelled, and irreapective of the right under our constitution. Why, sir, to think of a body expelling a part of Itself ! If we can do this, then next year the three years’ men who were elected to this Committee can oamblae with the two years’ men who were elected, and put themselves not only In ma jority, but in unanimous majority, by expelling the Took His MediciDO-Bob Fnrey Charac- . ............... . uu.u.u.uu. torizpH H im A8 A.TndflS nnd is nifisml anil one year men. And then the year foIlowiDg, the one M jriits H im as a ouaas ana is mssea ana j y^,,. y ^ „ ,, ir they ore dissatis- Applaaded—Some of the Inside Facts of . .................... Shannon’s Treachery Exposed — Prim aries for Filling the Vacancies Called. It is customary for a certain class of peo ple to look upon the minister as the dispenser of charity, and to the church as a fpuntain of pecuniary as well as spiritual refreshment for the parish at large, when reduced to the level of poorhouse society. Two gentle men of Jersey. City, who we trust, did not belong to the parish of St. Matthew’s Churoh, seemed to have shared this general view ot the situation, for they made their entry into the sanctuary, despoiled the contribution boxes of their contents, di vested the altar of its rich drapery, and then went through the rectory in a manner at onoe delicate and efficient. Gentlemen who show no compunction on the score of sacrilege would scarcely be suspected of exhibiting reverence for the rector, but the two burglars of Jersey City showed that they at least were respecters of persons. They se lected such overcoats as they needed, care fully folded up the rest, and left them in good order. They ransacked the silver closet, but contented themselves with bnt one old spoon, thus demonstrating the protective influence of unlimited silver against the spoliation of tea services. All that they omitted doing in the way of politeness was the inditing of a polite note to the rector congratuloting him upon the excellence of his taste in dress and the devotion of a congregation which ex pressed its affection in portable church orna ments. Hot Springs, Arkansas, seemed to put in a bid for justification of its name yesterday, for according to the telegraphic reports, adjacent mountains are covered with human evidences that the town was too hot for comfort. A oonfiagration generated, as usual, in a shanty, seems to have wiped out property valued at $800,000, and with it the most substantial portion of the town. The fact that 250 build ings were included in this general loss seems to indicate that the palaces of our modern Bethesda are not. os costly as the ail ments of its visitors should have made it. However, such are the failings of mankind, and' such thj permanent ad vantages of the town which nothing short of an earthquake can destroy that the reconstruction of the city is not likely to be long postponed. \Were Niagai’a—or the towns which, grouped about the falls, bear that generio name—to be destroyed, a subscription by hotel keepers and hackmen would speedily ^restore it without at all inconveniencing them. Perhaps the same is true of Hot Springs. That the Queens County Repeal bill will pass the two Houses is hardly doubtful, but it is very clear that had not the fraud been killed by the decision of the General Term and the Court of Appeals, the combined stu pidity and corruption which flourish ■ at Albany would have'prevented the repeal of the charter. The bill will go through be cause there is nothing to be gained by defeat ing it. ■ ______ __ Rev. Dr. Nye brings, his controversy with Rev, Mr, Chadwick to a close to-day. The Doctor’s letter is published on the first page of this paper. It has been unavoidably de layed in the E aole office for several days. The Long Island Railroad Company has placed a tab car on ibe mall train for the acoommoda- tion of the dibcnncn vrho have had to patronixa the earlier freight, often losing many fiab thereby. The freight la twenty-seven cents per hundred pounds to Aisfit flSBts « k w d fed fw deUTory, A regular monthly meeting of the Demo- ctatto General CommUteo was held last evening at headquarters, comer of Court and Bcmien etreets. There was the usual attendance of membero, and the lobby was crowded. Considerable interest was mani fested in the meeting, as it was known that the Com mittees on Permanent Organization and Contested Seats wore to report, and it was aleo said that resolu- tiona would be introduced expelling Aldermen Shannon and O’Beiliy for their treachery. In the abeenoe of the Chairman pro tern,, General James B. Craig, who was prevented Iw lHuMS from attjoijdinfj Oolonjl Thyaas fi 3 Er 9 !l wiia oa'llod to the chair. Messrs, llerman and Woolley oiBciated as Sec retaries. The calling of the roll was dispensed with. The minutes were read and approved. Mr, Jacob I. Bergen, from the Committee on Con tested Seats, was sbout to present a report, when it was snacested that the Committee on Organization should Brst report, Mr, Bogers claimed that as all members should vote on the report on organization, the' report on oontested BtitB should be arst made. The O t® C»I1|(1 for that report, and Mr. Bergen then read it as follows: THE WABD CONTESTS. The Special Committee, to which was referred the credentials and protests from the Fiftii, TwolttU, Thir teenth and x iltoenth wards and the Town of Flatbusb, rgspeotfully R E P o n r That they hare held several meetings, at which they have given each side an opportunity of presenting their ease, and after haring examined the credentials and protests and heard the atatemems of the several pariiee wuo appeared before them, believe that the best interest of the Democracy of said wards and town will be best subserved by recogaizlng the tickets embodied In the following resolutions, and they therefore leo- ommend for adoption the foUowlng; XIFIH WABir. lieaolved, That the ticket headed by John Pyburu and John AfoCarlhv, as delegates to the General Commit tee, be recognized as the regularly elected ticket from tho Ptfth Ward. TWELrTn WARD. lieaolved. That the following ticket be recognized ae the regularly elected ticket for tho Twelfth Word: President—^Thomas O'Connell. ViOB Presidents—James Kegluey, Hugh MoNiiltr. William Nowsam, Treasurer—Thomas MoGlbney. Secretary—Edward Eoogb, Bcoording Seoretary—Arthur Oounelly. Delegates to General Committee—John Augllm, Jas. Mahoney. Inspectors ot Eleotion—WUliam Beilloy, Daniel Hig gins, Patrick Lyuob.' THIRTEENTH WARD. Reaolved, That tho ticket headed by Rodney Thurs- by for President of the Ward Assooiatloo, and Owen Lynch as minority Supervisor of Election, be recog nized as the regularly elected ticket from Ibe Thirteenth Ward. FIFTEENTH WABD. lieaolved, That the ticket headed by John E. Capet tor President of the Ward Association, and Daniel Cat- roll as minority Supervisor of Eleotiou, be recognized as tho regularly elootort ticket from the Fifteenth Ward. FLATUUSU, Reaolved, That tho tiokot neaded by Frederick J. Bol linger for President at the Town Association, and An drew Kook as minority Supervisor of Klcctlon, bo rec ognized as the regularly elected ticket from the Town of Flatbuah. Rospeotfully submitted, J acob J. B ebgew , \ i G. G. H erman , | D avid 0. A itken , j M iohaei . d ’XEBFFB, |•OommUte^. J ames D hnnk , | T homas A. K errigan , j B. binVEBMAH, J Mr. White moved that the report bo adopted as road, and called for th> previous question. Tho previous question was ordered and the report was adopted, John Connors, of tho Fifth Ward, protested against tho action, and vras about to make a speech whou be was called to order and subsided. The report ot tho Committee on fled with the three years' men, can unite and expel them. And so at any time two-thirds of the members can relieve themselves of annoyance from the minorlly and expel them, But, sir, it is said that perhaps some of THESE MfiN AHE NOT IN PEEFEOT HARMONV with the Committee, Bo much the better. We do not want perfect harmony here, Mr. Chairman, We want perfect harmony at the polls, not here. If we are going to have dissension, if wo aro going to hare two sides, ir we are going to have opposiUon, it seems to me this is the place to have it, and let us settle it here, let us beoome united hero that we may bo united at the polls. But sir, it seems to me, throwing aside this matter of injustice and illegality and nnooustltutloo- ality—It seems to me that it would bo the most unwise thing we could do at this time. It does seem to me that the tljing to dp is not to weaken out to stfengihen or I bold a cepiesentstlve position In this Committee or not. I am opposed to referring for the reason just stated by Oolonel Carroll—that as,«for many years, throe or fonr In his ward have ehosen thoeo who are to represent tbe Demooratio party in this Committee- Colonel Carroll—Don’t misrepresent mo. I mean delegates appointed here. diotation ; Mr. Bogers—I stated my understanding of what the gentleman (Coloocl Carroll) bos said, and X say what alt the Demooratio party through this county, prior to 18T6, understood-that three or four men in OTory ward dictated all the ward affairs. [Applause from the \new element”] . Mr. Bircke arose to a point of ordor—the gentleman was not speaking to tbe question. Tbe Chair—The gentleman, I think, is within the strict rule. Mr. Rogers-Now, sir, this m atter ought not to be referred. 1 have no desire to be considered a member of this Committee by appolntmout. I don't want to stay here one'hour as an appointed mem ber, X made the remark to the gentleman who In formed me that I was to be appointed—and be will verity what I say—that my appointment, or the appoiutment ot the members of tbe General Committee was an anomaly; I did not desire a position under aucb circumstances, and I wonid much rather have been elected. And thera can be very little question that ( could bave been elected soveial times, both before and since. But we bave adopted a law which has been uuauimous- If agreed to. My respected friend. Counselor Eagan, who is, perhaps, as able a lawyer as stands in this Com mittee, hnowB whether he was a member of tbe Com mittee or not at the time of tho adoption nf the amend ment to the ConstUntlon of 1870, whether it was nnani- mouely agreed to. Every member of tbe Democratio party in tbe Committee agreed to it. The Democratic party throughout the county agreed to it. Not only did they acquiesce in it but tbey rolled up 18,000 ma jority in tbe county,' where y.ou had lost everything in tbe year 1875, Now, do not refer this matter to a com mittee. Do not let ue, who have borne some of the brunt ond labor of tho battle during the last two years, be in doubt as to what cue position is . If we must go back to our constituents and ask an election at tb ® hands, let us know it now. This Com mittee has nothing to fear by its action; only I ask it for Its own self respect, its respect for the eonstitu- tlon, for Ue own lews, that U shall not pass a resolution of this character when it is in open violation ol tbo amendment it has adopted. Air. Freeman said—That In o d o r that there shonld ^ > mlsuuderataudlng, ho wished to explain a;; 7 ,joi- ttoa and the substitute whlott be fSered He *had been asked what it meqgt. R merely'provided lor the of faembera of this Ho Mr^rc^rn%^^‘k“e'^?rad‘^ K 5 r.!n7 j*e'?^ -- Induoe leciultB Ws w ^ 1 •'f appolntmeut. saying that they had been In- S E I K S S S i (1 uulte It lu tno State, I most heartily sympa- committee would turn out the men wao had betn In vited into it ? Colonel Carroll made another ezDlaoatlon of his ro- marks in regard to tbe sclootioa of delegates. SaU he : ‘‘I mean that tbe elected and appointed momborB to this General Con}H)iitee from a ward will meet together when the term of oho of the appointed members az- plres, and a ma|orlty r f IbjB^ ffffi rwymqioud thq ap pointment of a man wiibout oinsulting, or ooufertlug in any way wltb tbe electora of the ward. That Is plain, Mr. Bogers. You can understand it. That is wbat I mean. That is 'What f mean now. Another thing : Mr. Freeman said I was on tbe Committee that invited tbe gentlemen in, I did not have tbe honor of belonging lo that Committee. I was opposed to the plan from first to last,” Mr. Rogors—I am very glad that tho explanation is made, but it does not alter tbe queatlon that three or four people in each of the wards controlled it, E I-B E O IS F E B HUGH MO L ID O H L IN SPEAK8. Mr. McLaughlin (Fourth 'Ward) arose to speak and was greeted by a round of applause. He said: The gentleman (Mr, Bngers) is, perhaps, in a position to know whether three pr four men iu each ward of the City of Brooklyn control tbe wards or not. He is a resident or the Eighteenth Ward and very active in the politics of the ward. If hq should confine himself to speaking as to bow tbey do it in bis own ward, I tbink ot fnduoe, leciults, Doi Anil _ _ ______ _____ thize with tbe movement that the E aole I s maktqg and which has been taken up all through tho State, for harmony and union In the patty. And, air. wo do not want to futfi out one single man from this Committee, It has been hinted to me that some of these men have rqsigned^ Various rumors [lave come to iny e ats In regArd to these iae)i wbqni it Is proposed to dismiss. But I d o not oare wbat you may say about them. I do not osre It every one of them had sent in tbetr resignations and there were but one of the fifty men remaining in the Com mittee, and It the fifty men will excuse ma for the remark, if that one man wore the pooreat Demo< o r a t tbe one whom It was most desirable to expel, or if yon pleasA id put It ao. tbe meanest man, I would take just the same position that wo hays no fight, that it would be unwise to pass this resolution, thus without cause, without UUl, without process expelling him Irom the Committee. .Mr, Chairman, let me beg of this Committee) not to take such action' os this to-uight; let mo beg the Committee not to take action that will tend to ■ BBEAK HP THE PABTY, more than it is broken now. They came into this Committee to promote harmony. It was my great de sire that this addition to the Committee, which is des ignated as the “new element” should be made to ____ „ _______ ____ _______ ___________ , ______ thoroughly harmonize tbe OommiUee, We remained ; It would be as much as he is expected to look after. I log to remove all Demooratio offlelali in this oKy from power, I deem it my duty to make a brief sUtement to the Committee. I declare here that tbe statement he made is not true, and I will prove that' It is not true, to tbo membera of ibla organization, and to the Demo- cratlo party genaiolly. Mr. Fatriok Shannon waa eleotsd Alderman of th e ' Fifth Ward and took bis seat In the Common Council. After that time, this General Committee ordered primaries fas the elec tion of delegates from each ward and town. Mr. Patrick Shannon was elected a member of this Committee, and was given tho entiro control of the politics of the F ifth Ward, so far as this General Com mittee, could give It to him, (A voice—Ho never was elected.) That I don’t know anything abont. Every member of the Committee made It os pleasant as pos sible for him while in this Committee. This organl- zatlOQ and tho frlenda of this organization gave him fire times more power and patronage than was given to any other Democratio member of the Common Connell lost year, I state that without fear of success ful contradiction. After that, whou it was generally Buppoeed that there was going to bo a break which would result In tbo removal of some of the Democratio heads of departments, and the appointment ot Repub licans in their places, a number ot gentlemen sssom- bled and asked that all theDcmooratloAldermen might be invited to meet them at a house in the Ninth Ward. This wss done, and Mr. Patrick Shannon was among the number who responded. All of tbose Democratio Aldermen there signed a paper PLEDOING THEMSEIiVEB TO STAND TBUE to the principles of tho Demooratio party. Under no circumstances would they vote to displace any Domo- cratlo official. That pledge made there 1 look upon as aoloinn and as binding an oath as can be administered by tho highest power In this country. Notwithstand ing that pledge, iir. Patrick Shannon, Judas like, be trayed tho Democratio party, and tho Democratic ofllojals were removed. (Applause.) I said Judas like, Judas betrayed for sliver. Mr. Patrick Shannon be trayed the Democratic party for Ibe appointment of his friend, Mr. James Byau, to a political office, I svy here, without fear of oonlradlction, that Mr, Patrick Shannon could have had six Democratio apr QjQtQ,gQti ae heads of departments instead of ‘ it be bad ^ e n them. Now. the public have a'Hgbt’to Indse as to whether tbe only conslderalioP. offered to falni wss the appointment of his frienh, Mr. James ByS.. I State wbat else I know in relatloh to that msttex, Tnero Is a member of this General Committee, pre'aent to-nlgUt, to whom tho Re publican party of thCi city, tho loaders of tho Bepubll- can party, made this offer: If he would consent to the removal of Mr, John Pyburn, Polioa Commlsaionor, 0 U^_ 0 Ubstitum i ^ h ij one Republican, he could bavB a wrUteo promise aiT:; ^odze t£at ao other HemO' cratio offleiai ivould be removed darwg tho year 1877. Tho ftuswor to that waa THE IfEANEST OFTIOlAIx bolding a position under a Demooratio admioi^tratfou never would, by that mau'a consent, bo lomoTOd by any barjijdn or “dicker” wit^ tho RopuDllcan parly. That 1 can prove right here to-ni«hl, if nocegsary. NoWf sir, notwithgtaudinfc all this, Mr. Patrick Sbau- nan statoi here that txo waa driven Into caatlng hla vote betrayiDR tho Demooratio party. I think that the membera of too Qoneral Committee will bear me out when I sty that that etatemeut ig not true. If be had made the deolaralion to the Domocraoy of tbo Fifth Ward that ho Intondod tocaat that vote In tbo Common Council he never would have gat iu the Common Coun- du al & Deulocratic member. I have a risht to speak with some feelinu and warmth, for thla reaaon, Alderman Shannon—Qo ahead 2 Mr. Furor—It wjs in tUe Fifth Ward that I drat saw the tight of day. Twenty-two years a^o I was olcclcd a Democratio member of tho Common Council from that ward, and from that tini» up to tho time that Mr. Patrick Shannon waa elected!, the Demooraoy of the Fifth Ward never seat a man to any legislative body THE CRESCENT. T h e O t t o m a n I ^ o w e r i n E i x v o p e . Rev. Dr. Storrs First Lectnro Upon the Ottoman and the Mnscorite—Their Lone Duel—The Rise and Fall of tbo Turkish Fmpire—I'anses of its Prosperity and Its Decadence—An Ontliuc of Turkish Dig. tory. The Academy 'of Music was crowded last evening, with an audience tUat well roprosented the culture, latctligencs ami wealtn of Brooklyn. It was eminently representative of all that la best in tbo aooial and Intollectual life of the oily, and its members crowded the vast auditorium clear to tbo upiier gallery. The occasion was the first of tho two lectcrea by Rev. Dr. Storrs, upon \The Ottoman and tho Muscovite— Their Long Duel,” which are delivered Under the aua- picoa of the Brooklyn Mercantile Library .Asioclatlon. The fame of the lecturer ami the widespread interest iP. the theme have sooured a large auditory, and as the tlckots sold are nearly all for both lectures, tbe au dience next Tuesday night, March '13, wnou the aecond lecture will be lieUverod, will be equally large. Mr. Van Slnderen, the Prcsldont of the Merc.vntile Library Association presided, and on the stage wero a number of prominent citizens. Among them ware Hon. Henry O. Murphy, Judge Reynolds, ox-Jndge Greenwood, Bor. Dr. Budinglon, Rev. Dr. Cuylcr, Hon. David M. Stone, Rev. Father Frausloll. Rev. Dr. Snlvoly, Rev, Dr. Nyc, Hon. Edwards Plerrepont aud others. It was some minutes alter eight before ibo rush of people at the door had subsided, and then Mr. Van Slnderen introduced the lecturer la a few well chosen words, aa one who to a Bro'jklyn audience Roedod no introduction. Dr. titorrs was received with prolonged applaiise, and whan it had subsided, ho spoko aubstsntlally as fallows: THE LEOXUBE. doubfful wbat to anlmau, but that does not MtabUsh a cfltirloh re to bis kindness to human bslogi. H, i, not fond of ag- rtculture or of the meohamcal art., conoectod with articles of war or luxury. H . u o r o ^ and overbearing to lUosa ho deems hU OhrUtUn Jub- ject., aud is capable of a fleree fanatldsm In rsUgiaua itTairg, but Ig not altogottidr datold of tli$ bgUcr ocDtl- menU tud prompUngg of hum&Dity. Aitbongb th* Korin &Uowi potygimy U Ig not go prevAlont Mmoar thorn u b ii boon gnppoged, and glarory. alihoa^h por- mittou. doea liot ozist toaoj great oxicnt. in other wayg they aro very dlfTereoi from ua, hut tbetr career in hiitory has boon a marked oue, and caotiot be erued. HISE OF THE OTTOMAN POVTEB, Tljpy drat came into rromtoenco iu the Ttifriecnlh Cemury. ami ttielr Aral great loidor and the foDDder of lUo dvniBty Olloiuan, who Aouriibed In tb» litter bvlf of that century. Ue waa u far oigbUd lead er a u l a great mUUiry gentiia. A dream i% rop'.nod of : him wherein be kiw i tree growing out of bla body ' wbic)» «ha JoHpJ over tbo wbofr* earth, wboo ita loivoa turned to Ribrn blaJei. all (lolutiog toward Couitanti- I nopie. lie saw the tmporltnco of tbut Caplut and ; vroold hive turned bln eoergiea toward it had be tired. J Orebun. biii son. g’loco.'ded bitn, and organized tbo i Ural fltandiofj army ov -r «<®cn in Europe, and created tho Cotjtg of J tuU>i«rv.a from a tbouiind Cbriftlan yoiubB, a'jd tbin corp.. bL'CAUJc famoua throughout lb 6 world. It waa rccniiioJ /rom the ron« of CUrt»tlan pateote, who uef!^ utren from ibeir bomee rtud tr&locd to the fiiih oi lilam, aod m all manly exorcises and feats of arm«, They were (bos wicbouc tho tlog of kindred and w«re fauatloi^y devoted to tbetr adopted faith. At time* tb u corpa bOH arnountod to twenty, thirty and forty tbou»- ^ and men. Uruaao waa tho Capital aud from Ita I lofty aud magulAoent gateway came tbe namo of tho Ottoman government—lb© Sublime Porto. BoUmau, tbe Ron of Oreban, crosae-l the Doaphorua with forty nion and landed at Galitpoil. oroaalng oil a raft. That wae tho tirat trickle of the great deluge of ^ 9 n<iuoat that In later yoara ^ e p t over Haatcrn Eurupo. It waa In that tb/a oroaeln# was made. He wan succeeded by Amurath I., who captured Adrianople In IWl and aUo took Philip- popoUa and now began that career of coDQueet. Amurath captured Macedonia aud Thrace ana took flhumla, nevgr aioco wreated from lb« TurkItU band*. In 1350 ho was kiUed by a Sorvian issasRiu after ibo battle of CoAflovt, and was succoeded by Dajiaet In Ibo gororument. There is no throne Jn Turkey, and tbo coronation is the gimple girding of the tword of Olto- man, the founder of tho race. Hajazet bad hit brother ; killed Immodiatcly U)>oo his acce«tloD to ayolJ any dio- pula sa to who ahould succ^d bu father, tud tUoii established a horrid aud bloody custom that hag fre quently b ^ n followed by the KultaoB of Turkey. Ho conquered \VallgchlA, and by the prpwcss of hie arma ladies AND G entzemen - I tcank r<,u sincere,, anfi r g “r“^ ( ‘« ', ^ r o f profoundly for your most cordial greeting, and I wid I against him, bnt they ncr. orerlhrowu at NIoo- do whatever 1 may In tbe discussion this oTenlng not i polU in gepieuiber, 1396, and no.rly all the prisoners to Toward It or to deserve it, but lo aoknowlodgo your l murdeied. He oonquereJ Greece and took Albrns kindness. The subject Isalargeono, and I know that I aud sent an army Into Hungary, Conatautlnonlo was at the end of our discussion I will think of many things I besieged, but at tnis Juncture tiajazst was called awas that 1 wished 1 had said, bu( wblch will be passed over j to fight sgalnst Tiujon, tho Tatttr, who oonquoted In the speed ot thongnt, as we pass from point to i him, osc ----- *-'■ - -------- * ........................ point. Wo have become accustomed during the past ' Iwentv-five yeare to the trequent, simoet constant re- Torberatione of great ware from Europe. T7p t» twen ty-live yoara ago it seemed as though the long era of peace which had lasted ao long might go on coutinu. oualy for many years longer. After the battle of Wa terloo there were almost forty years of profound peace, broken only by the war between itussia in 1873 —which overran bis Asiatic cuiptto aud put him to death. THE OAPTUBB OF CONSTANTINOPLE was made by Mohammed II. on tnc 3tlih of May, U.M, PEBMANENT OnOANIZATION was then read and unanimously adopted. It woe as foilawB : President—James B. Craig, First Ward. First Vice Preuideut—J. I. Bergen, Tenth Ward. Bocond Vice Preeidont-M. O'Keeffe, Fourteenth ■Ward. . Seoretary—G. Q. Herman, Ninth Ward. Assiataut Seotetury—W. T. Woolley, Twenty-third Ward. Treasurer—Thos. Carroll, Fourth Ward. Sorgaauta at Arms-O. Hanulvau and M. Malone. Mr. Bergen, on taking the chair, waa grectsd with applause. Ho addressed the Oommltteee as follows ; SPEECH OF VICE PBESIDENT BEBOEN : G entlemen op the C ommittee - T his honor which you have eonterred upon mo, selecting mo as your seo- oud officer for tho eneumg year, is, I assure you, one which was entirely unexpected to me. I wae not a can didate for the position. I understood that General Craig was .to be elected President of this Committee, and that some gentleman other than myeeif was to be cleoted Vico President. Having been elected to this position, however, I desire to return you my thanks tor this expression of your oonfldenoe and friendship. I regret exceedingly that General Craig is not preaent this evening; but so far as 1 am called upon to dis charge tho duties ot the position, I shall do It to the best of my ability; and if I should moke any error in my ruiinge, I trnat that you will asorihe it to no wrong motive. Gentlemen, what is your further pleasure? Mr. Robert Macoy moved that tbe rules and regula tions of the last year be tbe rules aud regulationa until otherwise ordered, Carr.ed. NO MOBE APPOINTED MEMBEBg. The General Committee then proceeded to oousidei the proposed amendment to the CouBlitution submit ted by OolDuel Thomas Carroll, at a previous meeting. It js os follows ; \Reaolved That eeotion 2 of arliole 1 of the Consti- tutiou be and hereby ie amended eo as to road as fol lows : “ S ection 2. Said Commilioejshall consist of seven delegates from each ward and town, to be elected by the Democratic vaters thereof, Tbe elected delegates now ID office, whose terms are unexpured, and tho dele gates chosen at the annual election in January, 1878, shall hold office until tho expiration of the terms for which they are severally elected. The terms of office of tbe delegates now in office in iho Cominltteo, who bold office under appointments by the Geueral Com mittee, Bhaii expiree on the pduptioQ of this ariicle; and it shall ho the duty of the Clonera) Comiulttoe to provide for the election ot three delegates. In addition to tho seven delegates hereinbefore provided for, from each ward to fill the places of (he three appoint^ delegates from each ward who came In office January 1, 1878.” Mr. Rogcra called fur the reading of the eeotion which it was proposed to amend. Secretary Herman, iu compliance, read as follows i Sec. 2. Said Committee shall consist *of eevon dele- gatos from each ward and town, to be elected by the Demooratio voters thereof, and three delegates from each ward, to be appointed by the General Committee, The present members of this Committee ehall oontinua in office until the expiration of their roipecUve terms : and the term of office of all members hereafter elected or appointed, except when elected or appointed to fill a vacancy, shall be three years. hlembera to be elected shall be elected as hereinafter provided, and members to bs appointed shall be ap pointed at the regular January meeting of the Coui- mittco In each year. Vacancies ocourring during tho year shall be referred to the Executive Commiltee, and, upon their recommendation, shall be fllled by tbs General Committee, until the next regular election, or time of appointment, when, by elcotldh or appomt- ment, as tbo ease may require, such Tacauoles shall he filled for the unexpired terms thereof. Mr, Rogers then called for the reading of the section of tbe cohstltutlou relating to amendments, and Mr, Berman read as follows ; \This constitution may be amended by the veto of two-thirds of alt the members of the Committee pres ent at s regular meeting thereof; provided, that such amendment shall have been proposed in writing at a regular meeting before it ie acted upon, and that it is not within tbe power of this Committee to make any niuendmont, addition, or alteration, or any change whatever inooneietout with tho plan of organization under which this Committee was called,into oxlstenoo,” A PODfT OF OBDEB. Mr, S. T. Fieemau, ex-Chairman of tbs General Committee, when Mr, JRogera oaiicd for the reading of this section, arose to a point of order. He dfd not see tbe iue of ependlog time m reading over section after eeotion of the constitution, >Tbey were diaoussing a prbposecl amendment, notice of which had boea given at a previoug ffieetlifg, but this proposed amendmout was laid ou tbe table, and it must remain there until someone made a motion to take it up and propose Its adoption, .No such motion had been made alid, there fore, there was nothing before the Committee. Mr, McKee, of tbe Fifteenth Ward, moved the adop tion of the amendment proposed by Colonel Carcoll, and that made an opening for the reading of tbe sco- tioD ot tbe oonstitution oalled for by Mr. Bogers. After the reading Mr. Rogers said-1 raise the point of order under this amendment, that the proposed amendment can not be adopted; that the delegates were appointed In pursuance of the plan of organization; that the sec tion which it is proposed to amend is the plan of or ganization under whloh tbe Committee is formed, and no amendmont can be made by this Committee to that plan of organization without unanlmoas consent. That 18 my poiutNit order, I desire to state here that, so lar as I am personally concerned, my term under the oon- slitutioD cannot expire for two yeare; it is of no per- eonal advantage to me, one way ot tbe other, I prefer (he mode of election, eo far as I am ooncecued, but this is a body which holds itself prominently before the people of this eonuty and of the State. It has made a law, it has made a compact, and I think that compact ought to be held aaored. The Chair-The gentleman must state bis point of order briefly, sod not make a speech. Mr. Rogers-1 will state my point of order. It is tbai this amendment ia nnconstitutloiitl and cannot be adopted by this Committee. The Chair—I think the point of order Is not well taken. I think this Committee has a right to pass upon an amendment to the conatithUon proposed at a pre- vions regular msetlng. r MB. freeman ’ s OPPOSITION, idr. Freeman—1 have been a member of this Com- miWea for two years—a httla over—and during that time the action of the Committee baa been eo oompll- mentary to me that they put me In a position where I bad very UlUo opportnnlly of addressing tbe Commit tee, although, perhaps, there are some members of tbs Committee that may think even In the position 1 oeonpled aa Chairman, I said quite enough and perhapk too mnoh. But not having had opportunity to address the Committee,' and this resolntlon, or this amendment, seeming, ae it appeared to me, to be one of great importance, 1 ask tbe indnlgence ol the Com mittee for a few moments, I can say, sir, I have no personal interest in this matter, because my conitltn- ents did me tbe honor of eleotlng ma a member of this Committee, and therefore 1 am not here as an ap pointed member, and have no posalble pereonal inter est in the matter. Bat, sir, as this smandment is worded, it does seem to me it would be a great mistake to adopt it. Now upon the mere question of proTldlng for the future eleotiou of the members of thla Committee entiro—having none eppointed—that, sir, I ehould not disapprove of, and wntn I Iluiab what little I have to sty, Iwlll propose an amendment, or a substitute for this amendment, proriding for such an amendment to tbe Constitution—providing hereafter that all members of tbe Committee—ten from esob ward—shall be elect ed and that upon tbe expiration of ihe'terms of offloe on the Committee one year. Then a number of these gentlemen diasatlsfied with oertain action (hat tho Committee, or that members of the Committee, or that tho party had taken In Kings County, resigned. Now, are you going tj-night. by the adoption ot thla reso lution, to say that the men who reslaned a year ago and went out of this Committee were the wise men, and that the men who wore loyal, who re mained in the Committee, wore not the wise men but the fools 7 Do you propose, gentlemen, to avoid them in this miuner, by expelling them 7 I cannot believe you will do it. If it is yonr desire the members of tbe Committee shall be elected hereafter, thou I say amen to i t ; but If it is your desire to take these new mem bers who were appointed, and oist them ont, I am op posed to it. One of them was a Presidential Elaotor, and cast bla vote for Samuel J. Tilden—for President Tilden, for Mr. Tilden was elected President. [Ap plause,] Another is an Alderman who has been trne to hia party, Mr. Phillips, of the Seventh Ward, and an other was elected Surrogate. I say, geutlomeu, do not do it. With these remarks permit me to offer the fallowing as A SOBSTITOTH for the amendment proposed by Colonel Carroll Seo. 2. Said CommUteo sboll consiKt of te: gates from each ward aud seven from each town, to be elected by the Demouratic voters thereof, as hecemafear provided. The present members of this Committee, oieotbd aud appointed, shall continue in office until the eviration ot their rospeotlve terms; aud the term of office of all members hereafter elected to fill a vacancy shall be three years. Vacancies occurring during tbe year eba'd bo referred to the Executive Committee, and, upon their recommendation, shall be flU .d by tbs Gen- era! Committee, until the next regular cleotinn, when such vaoanol'.s shall be filled lor the unexpired term thereof. Vacancies now existing, by reason of the ex piration (tt the terms of delegates heretofore appointed, shall bp filled by tbe General Committee, for the term of ono'year, and for the term of two years at the pri mary elections iu the year 1879, MB. EAGAN OPPOSES APPOINTING MEMBEBB. Mr, C, 0. Eagan-I bad not the honor of boing a member of this General Committee when that oo isti- tutiOQ was adopted. I have felt as a Democrat that it was a principle belonging to tbe Democratio party was hope there will be no reforenoe to this subject made this evoniug. It is a aubjeot which baa been before the Oommlttee for some time, and I think that action should be taken upon it at once. The geutleman from the Twenty-second Ward (Mr. Freeman) aesfried, in the remarks be mads a few mo ments since, that Mr, Carroll, Mr. MoLaugblln and others bad Invited him and a number of other gentle- men to take seats In this Committee. I was not a mem ber of the Committee at that time, aud therefore bad Dotbiug to do with the invitation, except so far as I oould on the outside promote harmony in the Demo- oratlo party. To that extent, aud only to that extent, did I have anything to do with it- The gentlemen of tho Oommiitoe, with some ten or twelve others, sug gested the admission of sevonty-fivo new members, throe from each ward, for tbo purpose of harmonizing the party. ladvocated, sofarasl could, theadmiselon of that number of delegates; but 1 did not advocate, nor was I in favor ot lengthening the terms from one to three years. I supposed that on tbo admission of tho seventy-five delegates proper proviaiono would be made for au eleotiou tho next year; but I find that oommit- tees were appointed to suit the hour and the times-to make a oonetitutlon anp bylaws to suit certain mem bers of the General Committee. Tbe result was tbut ten dele- these new members claimed tho eame right to remain I— jijjg orgauizstion for three years as men who had been olcoted to it by tbe people at the primaries. There ! is uotbing democratio in that proposition, and It is ! not and bas not been indorsed iu any word of the City ' of Brooklyn. When these gentlemen got Into tho Committee, they DREW A UNE OF DI 8 TINOTION betn'oon themselves and the eleoled membera—they , represented themselves as the bettor element of tho Democratto party. In effect, saying: “You must do so and so” and meaning that those who came direct from tbe people were not ropreaeDtatives of tbe better cle ment. That dislincllon has exietod from that day until this moment, and nudor the circumstancea I do not think It is too much to ask these goutlemen to go before the people of tbelr wards, who it tbey are worthy, will send them back bore on the same fooling with us, [Applause.) I claim to be the peer ot any man who has been admitted to this Committsa by vote of this Committee, and I claim be has no right to stand on this floor and say ho rapro- who betrayed bis party. Now, sir, ho can go through ifUh the nfilTid or IrZltor on his brdw—a brand never to be effaced aa long as ho Uvea. He will carry it with him to the grave. A man who will commit the act of ireasbery wblch Mr, Patrick Bhannon committed, would aUhesitatingly betray the land ot hie birth and the land of his adoption. [Loud and ooutinued ap plause,] Mr. Connors—When yon got too rich in the ward you lett It. You would not recognize ------- Mr. Fnrey—I think I have said safficlent in answer to tbo statement made by Mr, Patrick Shannon that be was driven Into the course he pnrsned. I think that tbe members of this Committee, alter wbat I have said, ought to bo fully satisfied that he was not driven into it, but that he did it of hlz own tree will-he did it because he desired to do it, because he was treacher ous to the people who sent him to tbe Uoavd of Alder men. 1 shall cast my vote in tbe affiimatiTe. [.\p- plause and hisses,] HE DID NOT OBJECT AND STILL HE DID. Air. Freeman in explaining bis vote, said: I do not see any great objection to voting aye, inasiuuoh os we bare already expelled fitly men vriinout a shadow of oauic, or without a cause bomg hlulad or intimated, I do not seo why wo ahould nut add two more against whom reasons hsvo been suggasted. Wlillst I do not sympatbiza with tbe oouduol of Mr, O’ltcllly or Mr. Bbanuon, at It is intimated here—not a particle. Btlll, I am couetraliiod to vole “ no” simply on this one prinolp'e irnioh bas always ooluated me and always I was brought to a dose on August 28, 1829, by the peace . of A irianoplo-and the insurrectionary crackling of •Ti ' and then the dream oi Ottoman wss fulfilled. The dly was eackLd and l' 2 tl,OOJ ntsuuscripte disappeared, ten of tbi;m w,-re offered lor sa.e. lo tbo atreel for a ducat. The betiutiiul Church of Hi'. Bopbis wss tornedl Into a morgue, and tbo Imperial Palace into a seraglio. MuUammed lauded bia troop in Daly and captuied . ___ ______ ______ _ Dirauio and laid atego lo Itbudfis. He proeeouted his 1843-9. I d 1853, ou tbe 3rd of July, tbe Russian army ' conquests in other direocious. and it seemed aa though oroseed tbo Prutb, and then came the war between ; he would fulfil the boast of Bajatet that he would feed Russia on one aide and England, France, Turkey and oala to hia burae upon Ibe high altar at Rome. What Sardinia on tho other, which centred in the Crimes, wastbeesueo of tbii wonderful careerof oooquest T an-1 wbicb come to an end by Ibe peace of Pans m 1 Doubtless tbe division of the oulern and Wsstera March, 1851). It then looked as tbougli there might be ohiirchus bid much lo no with it, and a alfferrnoe of another long Interval of peace, but inatead of thst * creeda caused that divisioo. It will not do to « y that there has been a constant auccesaion of wars ringing ' the Turks met only the effeminate Or.eks. They mot In our cars. Look at tho wars that have occurred slues . the fliroe uod intrepid warriors of weatern Enropa, and Dint dnis. Tiin ivur iciu.—., -nj 11 .» them, ao it Cannot bo said that it was a de based aud uuwarlike poptilation that gave them that dale Tbo war botwseu England and ibe revolted Bepoya tn India, Tbo war of the eame power in Abys sinia. Tbe bloody and apparently fruitless war of Oara- baldi, to Italy, tho war of Frinoe and Sardinia against Austria iu Ihe same country, in 1859 ; tbe Schleswig- Holstein war In 1864. our own great civil conflict, the war between Austria and Prussia In 1866 and tho war of United Germany, under tbe leadership of Pruasla, agamat France, In 1879. And now again, we have reooully been listening for many months to the accounts of tbo groat war betwean Riisala and Tur key, So wo bave bad In Europe an aimoat unmtor- rupted alruggla for over twouty.fiie years, and al though tno treaty which bas just been iransniilted to tbo Czar at St. Petersburg may still the conflict for a time, yet the probabilities are that a permanonl pesua will not bo oatablished, and that it will jot bo a long lime before tbe doors under tbe arob of .Janus will Ito permanently closed. TOasa wars bave been Intently watched In this country to los what would bo Ibo iiiflu- once they would exert upon tbo fortunes of mankind their conquests. One reason was their Immense miU- tary suthuslasm aud tho wonderful compietensia ana efficiency of lUclr armies. Tbey had tho l>esl oommlz- sarlat in Europe, their cavalry was the bsst and thuir artillery the fiuosi In use at that age. 'they invouted the Uowlizcr gun and first used bomba at tbo siege of Rhodes. War was ibeir buaiuese aod their ptsllms, and they come Into tbo couotry as aa armed btlloa. Tbuu thoy wers skillful In tbclr ttsatmeni of a oon- qiteied naiion, ab.sorliing them into tbelr armlet and turning them agalost other foes. Iteoegados from olber poiiple were alwsys received by them and there wua no limit to tbo power and position to which rich adherouta might attain. At lbs siege oi ItboJos th.re were 00,1)00 Bnluulana engaged. Commsndsrg of armies, admirals of fieoU and ptlme minialera, were often renegade Christians. Uarbarosaa, tbo ablost admirol in their aervioe, wae of Christian blrlh, and ao it has gone on through all thoir biatr.ry. En n now tho preaent Turkiah htlnistor at Waeliington, la a Greek by birth aud to Igion. Tbo Suluna were dcapolic lo a degree that we cauuot oom- prebend. There was an old law whloh did nut tDow the groaiest good to the greatest number. I fell, sir. thV W °w tbe nartv while J ana I nave felt ever since I Have been in this Commit- ' do Sot It 5^001 therefore, too *^much \S ask the gentleman from tbe Fifteenth, or Nineteenth, or Tweniy-ssooDd, to agree to oorreot your constitution »f it 18 wrong. If your oonstitution is iJlegal, correct it possible. It is uaoecossacy for geiutlemeu ell upon tho adouBsloa of the eovonty I did as much as Isid in luy tee, disposed to move the very resolution that Colouol OairoU moved the other night»-to have every member of the Oeoeral Committee elected by the people direct. I hold, sir, it is anti Demooratio to appoint thorn, t regret to bear from my disiingiiisbed frieni], Mr. aa soon aa F7eVmfli''that“heV7^flnyau?To^^^^^^^ i *0 DOW dweU upon the admiaalon of’the aoWy-flve of ihoae who are n o i^^m t^rs by.Egpolntment, re s ^ n ^ n ^ f ^ t ^ kind, wb!di la simply an expulsion— nothing more, notbinff leu khan an expulsion—of cer tain membera—some fifty membera of thla Committee— an expulsion wlthont caose, anexpalslon without (rial, aa expuisioB wHbouk arooea^ t a ^itbout tution in tho regular way, if they seo fiv to do so. I know uo objection to tbo amendment of this constitution if it Is dono in the regular wav. Now. sir, if the people can have the power to elect members of the Legis lature. the Executive of the State and tbo Executive of ibe nation, 1 would Lke to know why in this legislative body of the countjr—for this is no other than a legiiilative body, it is tho local legislature of Eluss County—1 ahould like to know wuy there should be an exception bore, an'd especially in the Domocratio local legislature, to eleeclog represeota* tives direct from the people? I cannot understand why my friend who last spoke, wty he ehould call this expulsion. Sir. it is a misnomer; it is nothing of the kjnd. Tho people should ho represented by r^pre- sentatiros caoson direct from them, and I say that tue time has come for it to be dono. I do not wish to say that it Is because of any disaffection or anything wrong with the gonklemen who woro appointed mem bers of this body. Doubtlese there are a great many very worthy members, whom I should regret to lose ; but, sir, they can go back to thoir wards and be sent here by the will, of the people direct. Wnat I contend for is that we have a right, and it is our duty to amend thla constitutioo, and like every other deliberative body having the power to amend the conatitution, that we should so amend it that the members composing tbe Committee should be oleotod by tbe Democrats of the respective wards. Sir, I hope the losuiution of Colouei Carroll will pass, and I hope that there is uo man on this floor who, when his name is called, will record himself agaiust trusting the people with sending representatives to this body. [Applause.] I hope the vote will be unanimous, and I hope that tbose geutiooien—worthy men no doubt, not being expeiiod and uo indignity being offered them —will be sent back here by their coostltuonte. [Ap plause], MB. BTBEETEB AMDSES THE COMMITTEE. Mr. Streeter (a solemn and very eccentric but highly respectable Committeeman, one of the appointed mem bers)—^The gentleman (Mr. Eagan) has stated here, be fore this General CommiCtoo, that this body is the legls- iative body of Kings County. Tnot’a news to me. If this body is tbe legislativd body of this county, 1 want to know what laws they enact. However, that is about as tenable as any of tho rest of his argument. Ue goes on to urge that it is Impolitic and contrary to tbe policy of tho Democratic party to appoint members. [Irooi- cal applause.] Now, If the gentleman—I doa’c see him (and Mr. Streeter looked across the room for Mr. Eagan, who was Hitting almost under him, smiling be nignly and polishing his spectacles)—I don’t see him [laughter], but if he had known that there were [tro- xnoudous applause]— The Chair—Mr. btrooter will euapend for a moment. I truek tho members of tbe Commiitee will give Mr, Streeter an opportumtv to explain himaelf, A voice—Yes, five minutoB. The Chair—I think it is discourteous on the part of the Committee to applaud every little thing that is ■aid. Let the gentleman speak. [Applause and cries of ‘*Y o 8 , lot him speak.\] Mr. Streeter—I was about to say, Mr. President, that [loud applause] it is no [uproarious laughter] that the old Democratic party [renewed applause] from the very commeucemoni [great applause} has been in tbe habit. [Applause, during which the balance of tho eeutonce was toBt.j We need not goauy lurthor back [ureal cheering] than tbe [uproar] legiHlative power, [Applause.] I say the legislative body of Kings County, of which our honored Vice President was once a mem ber. [A voice, “He ought to b V ’ AQii great ooufuslou.] I say that legislative body Of mugs County makes ap pointments. How do the beads of departments, these triple beaded CommisBions-how do they get authority, but by appointment? [Applause.] How do numerous offloers now carrying out thoir functions in Kings County derive their powers but'by appointment? [Loud applause.] How do Judges of— Mr. McKee—Now, Mr, Chairman, 1 rise to a poinUof order. Mr. Streeter is not speaking to the question [signs of disapprobation]. Mr. Streeter—I will subside, and flet the gentleman speak to tbe question when ho gets ready. The Chair—The gentleman (Mr. Strester) is in order. [Enthusiastic applause.] MB. BTBEETEB WILL NETEB BC 8 ION. ^ r . Streeter—Now, I say I am one of those appointed members, [applause] I am a Democrat. From Bu chanan down I have cast my vote for the Democratic party. [Applauae.] I have acted bom fide since I hare neen appointed here. I have voted and done all I oould for the nominees of (he party, never varying a ha\r from what has been directed at beadquartelt. Every nominee put in the field I have worked for as hard as I oould to elect. N jw , I will not resign. I shall never resign from this General Committee, You may put me out as soon as you please, I will be re signed if you expel us. I know all tbe gentlemen here who were appcinled. I believe all of those I have been in (be habit of cohrersing with are true blue Democrats. Tbey won’t say one word in favor of re maining in this General Committee. If it is the desire of the General Committee to put us ont we will I m pat out, but wo ehall continue to be petqoorais noiwUh- Btandiog. [Applausd.] No 'UiAHof ti'hki yon do, we ore true blue Democrats. [Applause.] There u no way of governing this county but upon tbe principles of Democracy, I believe. Those are the best pr-Jndples —tUe true priooiples. They ore the principles that work tha greatest good to the greatest number. Now, Mr. President, I am ready to go out, but I shan’t re sign, I am ready to leave, bat I never ahall resign from tbe General CommUtee. [Applaaae.] Mr. Hugh MoLaugblin (Second ward)—I agree with some of tho remarks of the gentleinen who hare spoken on this question. It is clear to my mind that tho mem bers of this CommUtee iboold be cleoted. On the other band. I (biok that we ought to provide some means for thoir election. I tbink it is bad policy, as the gentleman from the Twenty-second (Mr. Freeman) said, to turn people out, and I move that tbe sabstlcute be referred to a special oommlttee to report—a speoial committee’of nine—one from each Assembly District. A member raised the poiut of order that node? of the aubstiinte should have been given at the prevloui xegulai meeting. Tbe Chair ruled that the point of order was not well taken. COLONEL OABBOLL EXPLAINS. Colonel Carroll—Mr. Cbalrman, I desire to make an explanation. In offering that resolution It was not my desire to have anybody turned out. It came at about the time that there were twenty-five sew membera lo be appointed. This General Committee, of ita own vo lition, without eonsoUing tbe Democratio par^ of Kinga County, choaa to determine that they would ap point one-third of their t>ody. They took ont of the hands of the various wards the right of the Democratio party of tbose wards to elect all the delegates to (bis oommltteoL If this committee have a right to do that, tbey have a right to refer b a ^ that power to the wards and may to tham, **Elect youx diMegates, eo tbeze aball be no mistake aa to the men who represent yon in the Genera) Committee.” It. has been my fortune to be elected a member for eome yean, and geaerallj Yotir or five men in my ward deUrmma who shall be their colleagues In this Oeuerfd Committee, wlthontrefereobe to the electors, whether they are ssUsfaotory to them or not. [Applause.] I do not with to turn any member out. If a better plan can be adopted, whereby the members of this General OosunittM ahall be alMfid, 1 am in favor of,tho better plea. I knovr the membera who are here by appointment are good Democrate and all (hat sort of thing, and can be elected by the Demo- craU of their respective wards to represent them h e re; but this thing ought to etop somewhere. The time to stop it wae when twenty-five additional men were to be appointed for three years. I am perfectly wUIlog to have the matter laid over, or bave Hr. Freeman’a enbatitute adopted; bnt I am not Willing that this General Committee shall perpetuate Itaelf by always keeping three men (rom each ward, Ur. Bogers—1 would like to u j one 'word on tho main question. The Chair—The question ie only on the motion to refer. Mr. Bogore—Then 1 eay tha matter ought not to be referred. I want to know my atandlng in the Com mUteo. I am not 'going to hang, like Uabommod’a coffin^ between hosTen and earth—apt knoviitf vhetb- tho distioct uaderstauding. and wbat 1 supposed would be the resale, that these gentlemen would make provis ions the very next year that tbey ahould go before tbe people aod bo elected. The geutleman from the Twon- ty-soooQd (Mr. Freeman) ia here in full authoettv, ten- resenting hlB ooDstltaenta, and every member of this Committeo shonld bo glad to occupy tbo same posi- tioD, and not have that line of distinction drawn be tween the appointed and elected members. [Applause.] Mr, McKee—X hope this motion to refer ----- Mr. McLaughlin, Second Ward, (Inttrmptlng)—I withdraw it. The Chair-;Thd quertion (• upon the adoption of tbe subatitutd offered by Mr, Freeman, Mr. Hulett raised tbe pomt ol order that under tho rules, the substdata would bave to lay over a month. The Chair—Tbe point of order is not well taken. Tbe subject matcor was presented by Colonel Carroll In the original resolution ; It is amendable. A viva voce voto was taken on tbe substitute, and it was almost unanimously rejected. Tbe ayes and nays were called (or on tb© original re solution, and tbe Secretary proceeded with the call. BOGEBS AND MC LAUOHLIN, Mr. Rogers (arising to explain his vote)—Tbe gentle man (Mr. McLaughlin) bas given me tbo Informatmn that I bad better attend to my own ward. I tblqk It is the duty of every member of this Ganeral Committee from any ward to stand ----- Mr. MoLaugblin (interrupting)—I hope tbe gentle man will allow me to reply to him. Mr. Rogers—I bave not tbo slightest objection. 1 think U is tho duty of every member ----- Tho Chair—1 will state right here that you must only give tbo reason wny you vote no. and not dis- ouas the matter a t all. Mr. Rogers—1 simply wish to say that I do not boUere that any three or four men in aoy ward ought to have tho diotation of the ward and so far as my own is concernod, 1 boUeve that such hgs been the case. I understood Colonel Carroll to say as much of his ward and I have stated that ic was tbe common impression with reference to other wards. Our duty here U to supervise ail tbe wards and to see that tbe Demooratio p a rty bave fair ploy in all the wards. I do not propose to yield my right as a member of this General CommUtee, and if i am— Tbo Chair—Tho gentleman Is traveling outside. Mr. Rogers—Very well; if tho Chairman rules me out uf orde^ I simply eay I voto uo. The result of the vote was announced : Ayes, 104 ,* nays, 6 . The Chair declared that the resolution waa a’lopled. Mr. McKee moved that tbo delegates from each wnrd be instructed to send in the name of one of thoir num ber for member of the Executive Committee. Not soooadoi. EXPELLING A COUPLE OF TBAITOR3. ktr. Timothv Desmond, of tho Twentieth Ward, (hen offered the toUowing : It is a matter of pnblic notoriety that Pat rick tibannon, of tbe Fifth Ward, aod Daniel O’Reilly, of the Twelfth (Vard, delegates to this Oeoeral Com mittee, have refused to act wltb their Democratic col leagues in tbo Board of Aldermen, and have used thoir position and influenoa agaiosc tho best interest of the Democratic party of King# County; Ihereforo. be it lieaolved, Tb&t Rule 15 of the By Laws of this Com mittee be and the same is beroby suspended, and that said Fatriok Shannon and Dauiel O’R iUy be and they aro hereby expelled from this General Committee. Tho reading of tbe resolution elicited applause and a few hissrs, followed by much confusion, caused by the disorderly conduct of the Shannon and O'Reiliy parti sans on the floor and In the lobby. Tbe Chairman pounded the desk with the gavel, but it wae fully a minute before order was reatored. Dur ing the confusion many of (he members, who had been dismissed, left tbe room. The Secretary was proceeding with tbe roll call on the motion to adopt the resolution, when Shannon’s friend Connors, who appeared to be feeilng pretty well from causes evident to ail la the room, brc»kc in and attempted to make a speech. The Chairman called him to order, but he would not down. Said h e : '*Mr. Chairman, I would like to give these men a bearing, to know what they are guilty of.” [Uerl- givo laughter]. The Chair—Tbe gentl-?man will take his seat. Mr. Counors (detlancly)—I will not air. There is men here— The Chair—Tbe gentleman is n o t in order. Mr. Connors (amid great confusion)—Tnere are Demooratio Aldermen In tbe City of Brooklyn, who voted for Republicans. The Chair—The geutleman la not in order. Mr. Connors—Thera are Demooratio Alderman in the City of Brooklyn— Tha Chair (fleroely)—The genUeman is not in order. Mr. Connors—Well, then, I ’ll sit down now. When Alderman Sbaunon *8 namo wag reached in tbe call, he said in bis unique way. WHAT SHANNON SAID. Now, I had my resignation written ont on the 28tb of January. Of course X knew very well that 1 waa going to be expelled, but 1 am satisfied to be expelled. But the msmbars of this Board osn’t expel mo from tbe Fifth Ward on Election day, how much you expel mezue DOW.OW. BoO youu can»u doo justust as youou like.sv. [Applausepj ......................n ..... *etter tter Dem- .. and Shan- ...... ........ ....... . >emoorats; and ShanDOD stood the stralghtest of any Democrat in tho Board. There’s no better Democrat on this floor than I am [renewed laoghter], bnt there are plenty of men here that I know for the last twenty years which has made plenty of money out of tbe city, and 1 never saw none of them in any legitimate business. They made 1200.000 or 1300,000, The Chair—The gentleman must understand that he cannot reflect upon membera of the Committee. Aldennan Shannon—I have nothing more to say. 1 vote *'ayc.” [Loud laughter.] jrOBN OOKKOBS AGAIN. When Connors’ name was called that humorons io- divlduai arose flom his seat beside Shannon, and, steadying hlmieif, announced that he ” wautcd to say a word.” The Chair—Say it briefly. Mr. Oonnora—Well, I’a state it briefly. I am a Demooxal. [Laughter, hisses aud a voice, '*Put him out.”] You come aod put me out. Some of you fel lows oome and put me out. 1 have been A better Demo crat than soma of those a e a who are boUeriug all round here and hliwlng. I am a Democrat to-day. The Chair (mildly)—Mr. Connors, that is not die- pnted. The qoeetion now Is, how do you vote 7 Mr. Connjora—The question la, where—whera—where [laughter, during whloh Connora took wbat the boys cal) a *»tumble”)^ I will vote aye on that motion. [Re newed laughter.] The Sem U rj called the name of Ur. HaletL who was one of those retired by the passage of Colonel Csr- roU’e amendment.' Hr. Hulett, who was in the back part of the hall, ssld : - 4 *T am not a member of this Committee, I object to having my name called.” Secreitry Herman—That’s so. I stand eorreoted. Ur. Courtney said he thought the appointed mem- bera were members unjtU tbelr succesaore had bees elected. The Chair—I shonld hold that the appointed mem- bora wero members until their succeecors were eleeced. Ur. Freeman read from Colonel Carroll’s amend ment showing that tbe terms of tbe appointed mem bers expired immediately upon the adoption of that amendment Tbe Chair—I stand corrected. . . . When Mr. Robert Fnrey’s name was caUed, be said : MB. 7X7BXT SHOWS UP BHANNON. ’M b . O baibmak and OurnJisnm or thb C okhit - TEX —1 bad made up my mind to say nothing on tbe subject; but since Ur. Patrick Bbaunon bis made a itatemcnt to this General Committee, to the effect that he 9 AI drifon into the oo^rie punaed by h i a a vo\- wiil accuato ui 9 ; I care not what the offense may be— I sd van cement of civJiizatloa aud of lib* with one solitary ezodpUon—or who the man may be— aod aDh«ntenod ionucoces among the people of with ono aoUlary exception—I c^uld not vote for his { that, appareutW, has justclosol expulsion withoQt giving him aa opportunity to be has excited a great deal of Intere^it In this country aud . . ,, ------------------------ heard. That one exception aud that one man is i \O^n closely watched with cynsidorabla vaclllatlyu | thu BulUn lo kdl more than fourteen mou s day wilh- Kuthorford B. Hayes. I would not wait a moment lo ' ^«ohn< as U hag progressed. At QrM, no doubt, the out giving a reason tborofor, but to whom suonli be ROhOtal fcellDj! in this country was a^^alnst Turiier, the i Ulve the reason, for he was suproiue above aJL “unsp0akableTurlc,”a8i*arIjlebaBcaJledhiuj,aad'tbere ‘ “ -., •• • • .................... waa a geueral eeutimont that hia expulsion from Europe was a punishment atl too small for bis atrocious ctinr- aoter, as shown forth in tUoblooiy and cruel massacres iu which he has l>e.D conoernud, an I for the barPai uios which he has jiiflioted upon ono of (he fatr<.st portPjuu of the earth. But aa the war ptoareesod aud tiis re sources wore developed, and defeat and suffering awarded all his efforts, there grow up a sort of passive syujpaihy. Ue was shown to be tho weaker party, ami our sympathy naturally wont out toward him bocauno of that fact. Theu bo fought with great bravery not only Jn tho open, but even bettor behind luirearh- ments, and show^ himself to be possessed of tiioso soldierly qualities of bravery and endurance which command tnc respect aud admiration or all, aod now, after all bis terrible struggles ho is forced to hiuuMc himsoif before the couquerer and accept the most tm- mtliailnx conditions of poioe. Wo heard, tUerof.tre, exp^l him, biow him out of existence aud SEE HIM HANGED. But no other man wonid I vote to expel without ai'/mg him a chance to be heard. If thoso gemiemen bavj voted to put Deinoeratf* out of ofljoe, they ought t j be expelled; but tbey have not been heard, aud for that siinplo reason I feel it my duty to vote ”no.” [A|>- plausoj. Mr. liarnum said It bad seemed to him undemocratic to expel men in (hie way, but from what he had iearued of the case be felt that he ahould voto aye, [Ap plause]. Tho Hecretary announced tho result of the vote as: Ayes, 07; noes, 2 ; and tho Ohairmau doclarod tho resolution adopted. At this point. Mr. Connors stepped op lo tbe Chair man’s desk and handsd to Mr. Bergen a paper, which ha requoste 1 should be read. It was hia resignation as a member of the Committeo. The paper was read, and John Connors' resignation was accepted wlih a prompt ness that apparently bovvddored him. It imuioJlately appeared, however, that Connors was one of the a;>- pomted members, and had been legislated out by Colonel Carroii'B amendment. Mr. Furoy moved that primary clectlous to flii vacauoios bo called for two weeks from that night, FLAHEBTY’ s pat HAYES inquired if there were not some other reBlgnatlons to bo read. He said tho Secretary had been handed a couple of resignations a little while a;;o. Secretary Herman—I claim that the Secretary has no with KiadooBi the nows that the Brituh fleet had aallod up the Bosphorus, and although wo had a high regard I for the Uus-lau power, as oxompliflod by Alexander I., I a man worthy of all honor [applause], atiU there was I a feoUnu that perhaps, after all, he was loo Inient on tcrnt.rial aggrandizement and tbe oxtension of hid Amurath I is said to have caused the death of 100,000 persons in eight years to keep tha powev to Uis own UauilB, and suppreSB disobedience to bla authority, Ouo:Balt*n kihud a favorite musieian tot Binging a Feri^Uo song, aud the eame man surprised a cumpatiy i.f yjuug w>^tu<‘n dnuciug in a tuoadow aad cauii'U thorn all to be drowuo i, bdcanae the mirth dU- pIciHod him. With this despotic power over life or death there were uo divided couQoIli, aod bis orders were implicitly (»hcyoJ. Tue HuUaos were nearly ail men o! great ability. The line of Ottoman bis been conlimied down iu direct desoent, aud tho*preeeat .Sultan If a lineal derfceudaut of the founder of tha rnco. They Wi-re orgauis^rs an well aa ojuquuron. Of them It might bo naid that wsa a bribe to him wh <»c jip» nut Dbnoh al ihu touch ot theaabrs.’' MohsiumuJ II, Lillex nlaeteeu brotuers, to avoid any question u tu hu suco<*^9ion, and Solimau the Ulns- tnoUi killed the twj aolu^zt of hu boom (or f 4 .or th*y would ozoite oiNit war lu the empire, belioi 1 . liJUit 10 ,i>D 0 of hm *)ubj'30Ui and bad a plan arranged to a»i> every ChriFtiau, man, woman and child, In his do minions, tut wiB di^uaded from orJering the butch ery. Wumt n had no Influence iu tho affslrt of th« empire. Tno ftroojly of tlin Turk was ludauiod by op- try a revolt against tho horror and disgust which was at first accorded to Turkey lu this country. I AM NOT A PABTI 8 AN OF EITHEB POWER, these resignations. [Applaose.] Ur. Hayes—Mr. Chairman, this being the first regu lar mooting of tho General Committeo this year, I did not know, air, that U became necosBsry to band in your dues with your resignation, if I had known it I would bavq done U, and the duerstary, I think, would have informed me ao when ho received my resignation. Bccreiary Herman—Tbe Secretary did not see yon when you gave Jt in. Mr. Hayes—Would it bo ia order uow to receive my dues? Tbo Chair—There Is another motion before tbe bouse. Mr. Forey—I made a motion that prlmatica for the election of delegates to flU vacancies, caused by tha ao- tioD taken to-night, bd bold on the 19tb lust. The zuoUon waa agreed to, and tbe Secretary an nounced tho placed for holding the primaries. The matter of Pat Hayes’ resignation coming up again It was laid on tbe table for the present. Hayes paid bis dues. The three inspectors of primaries in each ward, who h')U( over, wore authorized to act at the coming p ri maries. On motion of Mr. Herman, tbe power of appointing tbe Executive Committee was restored to the Chair- Committee then, at 10 o’clock, ad- ( owu power at the exponTjc of tho interests of other na- , position and wai brvd deep m tJio temper of in? people, lions, and therefore it was well that the coofliot should ) Thuir religion wn« aUo au unmonro powpr. It taught bo concluded. There was atlcast throughout the coun- } tiiem lo destroy the infidel and gave a proims# of UappluesB to ail thdl followed th« Will of the pr jphet. A H'.'Uitual heavan aw.iUed them, and hcluvtu^ they wore tbo cUjBon peopto of God. they felt to the fuUeal extent that they wero fated to succeed. Their fatalism was a very ftroug inctintive aod gave (item (hb asiur- auca of success in all (hey utidertook, and at the lama time it iDcrosHed with every new succ ^ bs . TI iub . when all Western Burope was Itightonod by a comet, the Turk looked up’jn it as the sword of God. and accepted it as a Riga that ha was fighting their batclos. They came into the oouatnos which they overrun as haughty conquerors, and would accept oo terms ol peace which tbey did not dictate. THE DROLINE OF THE OTTOMAN POWEB. Tbelr power wan at ita zenith during ths tilj)'* il) Soliman. Helim captured Fgyp:. and on August 39. mau. The Genera) journed. CliRREST EVENTS. causes which have produced (he preaent conditiou of affaTs we muet turn to the records of history and see wbat baa gone before and what woro tho ocourrooocs that have produced these results, b’uoh is Che proper methed to study history, and thus can we gather the Inflaences which have led to tbe fruitage of tbo pros- ent. A man standing upon tbe brink of the whirlpool St Nisvara, sod wacoh^OK the whirl snd tumult of the waters might think that ero long thoy would run themselves out, snd that ere long tbe supply would cease or tbe sun dry up tho flood, or that It would run i auu vu jiugu^i Itself sway to the sea. But when he knows tha secrot I Rhodes was Invostod. and captured on Obrietaiaa of the four great lakes that Ue behind tbe whirlpool | Day, l.VTI. lu I5i'.i Vti'ucia vras iuvvstoi wlih a quar- and behiud tho fall, when lie understands Ihe ter of a million of men ann 300 cannon aod aithougb problem of those great bodies of water which com- 1 the cUy was not captured it was laid under tribute, prise fully ODO-bajf the fresh water of the planet, snd i The Admiral Barbsrosss ravaged the oobs I s of tbe Mei- Tho “ Hard Money League” has been formed at Chicago. The New Jersey House has passed a bill repealing the Montclair local option tax. Mr. Samuel L. Clemens ( “ Mark Twain”^, and family, sail for Germany the lltn init., aud will remain abroad two years. The city authorities of Pro-videnoe, R. I., refuoed to grant a license for Count Joannes. Tho Count la getting to be something of a martyr. The Hon. Moses Lowell, Collector of tha Fore of Saco, Me., di|d in that place last night, He waa formerly Mayor of Saco. prise fully ODO-bajf the fresh water of the planet, and knows that they arc puutiDg tbelr united floo:1s through that bell of waters, bs will realize that no matter how swift the ruvb of ibe waters, tbe supply will never run dry, and then the mystery of tho whirlpool snd Us violence li a mystery no longer. I think thst we must read history in tbo flame way. Tho evenU behind the present must bs studied If wo would comprohcod tbe rceults we see be fore us. We must go behind Fievna and Varna snd Bblpka posB ; wo rouBt go bsbind Audrassy note and Berlin memorandum and London protocol; behind the Crimean war and preceding straggles, and thus got at the moaoin.i of the events of to-day. and ascer tain tbut ibiB Is nut a rcoeui atrugglo, and that the slopes of centuries have been tracked with the rushiag currents that hiva gathered iq tbe seething bloody whirlpool that we bave witnessed during tho past few nioutns. We will realize that this Is not a struggle of emperors, nor merely of one nation sgalnat anotliKr, but that It 18 a strugglo of racos and religions. Wo Yilll aee that while the conflict have l^en ataved off fur a time by diplomatic arraugemenis, still It was a struggle that must come, and tnat It wilt not cease until ic is brought to a coucluBlon tbut la satisfactory to Rufluia, and to tbo powera of Central Europe, and thus our lavrstigiitlons will abow us that previous ovents aud loflueucea gathered from many flourcos have boon converging to this p lot, as the Mohawk aud the UudsoQ oonver^o aod flow to the Bca. Wo must take the But)jcct up and omalder It from dlffi.ront suudpoluU, and llrst, therefore, oonui tho consideration of ! THE THEATRE OF THE WAR. Wo svy that It comprises the old Brzantine empire iQ Europe, but wc do nut realize from that itcBcriptiun , what the country really Is, and does not show tnat tbe A great number of peusionora wero paid off i different provinces of the empire are cJspjjio ground, TMtordaT bv Colonel Coslor In New York Amnno i proviucOH at modern Turkey were known In i tlHreler. uulil 1822, wlien the R n .iluu tiumilizlod yestorasy ny coionei coaior in n>.w York. Among c I uhi I c liislory uml. r other imnes. Kouiu«nl» w». tho i them mia aictuud peace »t .Adri.nople. The Admiral Barbarossa ravaged the oossto of tbo Mai Kerraoean and ciptureJ town after town, bollmam called iiiiuBfilf tbo Lord of the Age, and said that as there was only one God in heaven, so cfaera was only one £ nperor oo tha earth. Then came a chauga, sad from ths aummlt of p>wor ths empire began to daot;» and under tbs xclgn of tiehm II., tho drankard, tbs empire went steadly downward.' At the narsl battifl of Lepante the Turkisn fleet was destroyeil by the coio* blued CUrietiau fleet under ibo oommaud of Don Jobo. of Austria. When tbe Fopo board of it bs burst into tears aod exclaimed : *‘Thers was maa sent from God and his 0.1011 was Jobn. lo Turks first mot tho RuJisloDS, nod sn ariDj of 00,000 men waa defeated by tbelr now enemy la Wjt north. Defeat followed doleat in other parts of tnc Empire. Tue Turkish (xiwer was on tue wane, nevec to be strong again. How cumo this? First, thA Bnl- tans had deteriorated. The Hultan bad no res) wife, bol s crowd of tMfontcM filled the hareoi, and etch son waa the son uf a slave, aud ihU was a condition of af fairs not f&voiabis to viitorouB descent Then tbey were traluoj up to manhojd in the narom. surronad- ed by eumichs and concubiace. thu proy of the’most disgusting vlcei. and then were iaunched into power, utterly unprepared, like a man coming suddenly from a dark room Into the sunsliine. llie arn y deteriorated and corruption permeated tho entire adminiitrstloa of olvllaod military affairs. Ignorance and vice ovary- where prevailed, and they would not learn, even from disaster aud defeat There wae ou coherauej. no force lo the govoromont. Then ;their fa talism, which bad helped to make Ihom great, now came in to help defltroy them, nnd wbsa onoe they foil they were decaying, (hey believed it (o be the will uf God, sud mscie no effort against it. la 1(133 a Turkiflh army uf half a million invoatoi Vlonns but wss l>catcn back, foiled and dofoaiod. In 171)6 Is mail was caotured and then came the eucoei»ton of thorn was Thurlow IVeed, who was paid |24. T h e W ays a u d M eans C o m m ittee of Con gress fixed the duty on books and periodicals yesterday at twenty per cent, ad valorem. Diphtheria is raging in Tennessee, aud the State Board of Health hue iasned a circular presorihlng a general mode of treatment. The first fancy dre'ss aud masquerade ball of tne Mardl Gras Association of Now York took place last night and was well attoudod. The Board of Education of Cinciunati has appropriated $2,000 to prepare a full showing of the city school system and stndonts’ work at Paris. Charles S. Whittier, late Town Clerk, Treasurer aud Collector of Methuen, Mass., is a de faulter and has absconded, leaving the city treasury minus of between $12,000 aod $15,000. Mary Reese, a thief, about 40 years of age, was aontenoed to five years in the State Prison, yester day, by Recorder Hackett, In New York. ThH Is her ijx f^t flteatiag. Rev. Dr. John Hall lectured last evening in the First Ward Free Beading Room, No. 135 Greenwich street, New York, before workingmen. The lecture WBB an informs) one. aneieul Dacia which was settled by tue Latins aod Tbraco an J 51acednDia and TUesisly formed parts jf tho Grecian oonfcderatloD. Parts uf tbe country were conquered by tbe Romans before tbo CbriiAliao era, and old Dacia was colonized by Trajan and fortlfloJ, and tbo present inbabltanti aro dcicondants of those old Lstio colonies. After the fail oi the Empire m tbo Fifth Century, these provlucea romained under the dominion ot the Eastern ooiperoni. They wore then small prlucipalitiea and bare so continued under ths Greek empororj. The oouutry covers about CAN THEY BEFOBM ? Sitllxn after Sultan has promlaei reform la Turkey, and a lair cb^uce has been given thorn, but what use have tuev made of It 7 Tbe whole ssutlment of (ha p .ople, the real desire of the Qoverumeut, aod tbsla religious beli-f are againai it. Taxation bas been toms* wbat reduced, but U i*tnl onerous. Tbvy have Iniro- duoerd European mauoers aud cuatoma to some sitsiil. Thera are I 8 .O 0 O milaa of telegraph and 1,U0G miles of rallwaj, and a faw carriage roads. Obrta* TOO,UOU square miles. You see It is uot large; but It la | lUns bold blgb offices aod there is mors (cA- not exloi.t thst makes a province noteworthy. Alaska, ’ srance in religious affairs, but Ml ibis baa with U a 5U0.000 square uiiles, wuKffi we bought a few | beon dona by uuialda preaauia, and not ftooi years ago fur sovGu and a quarter milUons from Russia, | wlcbln, aud U. therefore, half hoarted, and U nob does uul weigh In Unportunco according to its ilze, but i as groat In fact aa lu appsaranoe. Tliey bave aa- ouly as to Its TOBitlou. Turkey is one of the richest 1 joyud 5(K) years of dasputio govoroment, but hara and most fertile portions of Europe. From rich Bul« ....................................... . ..................... garla, with its plenteons wheat fields, to tha vine clad slopes ami olive shaded valleys of tbs South, it blot- sums and buds with tho most oxhuberant far. { tiJity over all Us length aud breadih, save Itt- ^ tie Montenegro, and of that inountaiooas prln- u()Cbiug tu uhow fur ft. th at olvlllzatloa will ao- Copt, Compare them wltb tbe Saracens wbo rolod lu ijpaln for nearly flOO years. Uuder tbelr rolo Spam was tbe homo of every free and liberal la - (lueuoe. Art, lottora. aulence (I i^rlahed and oipality, It la said that, in the general distribution of all things at the creation, the aog«i ws« passing over Montenegro whoa the bag of stones broke, and thoy all came tumbling out in that locality. Tue soil of the country U rich, and ylcUs lu abundance grains and TOifon, silk, Tobacco of flao quality-so (hose say wbo use U—wine and oil, and tho olber fruits of the oartbin abundant measure, and lb» aggregate produc tion, it 18 said, could be increased firciold if the soil was placed under Improved cultivation. The moun tains aro heavily timbered, and tbe mineral wealth is j great, though not well developed. Indeed, Turkey iron i is not easily matched for streugh sod toughnefs- R fostered, and when tbey left Epaio, ahe was poorfix lor their going. At Bagdad, uiid*r Haroua el Raschld, learning and clvitUatlou tloarUbed, and Haroua el Bbed, that TBS Navy Department at Washington in- ' zU D D yo o u .j w y u lA from bis gang i tbe lobby.] There is no b oorat in the ward than Shannon [langbler], and non was drove Into It by tho Democrats very good quality, IQ tho world. It'ls a couotry whose materia) sources only need to be developed by energy and enterprise to make it one of the wealthiest couatrlos on (he glube. It liasaaupuib line of aea coast stretebing out for Kinff Alfonso bos S3nt flattcriiiff toldcrdins I hundreds or miles and indented with bays and har- to Caplalu Oenora. Jovellar .nil Oeoeral _ MarUaez { vUea pTopoeala to remove ibe bodlca of tbo Huron victims from tbe North Carolina coast to Che Naval Cemetery at Annapohs. made great strides forward, while all th a t tbh Ottoman Empire oan show for its 5lX) years ot power Is the bloody sabre of Occoinan. Uemembdr, too, tbat afiur tne Crimea they bad every obanoo* It waa determined that Turkey should have the opportunity to prove herself worthy of a placw among the nations of Che earib. Her debt waa only $10,000.0)0. Now what baaahebui * numbpy of ulsco iteuteJ prcvincee, eager to shake off bar yokef The blttor uprising la Herzegovina two years ago against oppressive tax gatherers bas oulal- listxl ID the ruio that this great war has wrought. I s 1805 the debt wae $367,000,000. In 1874 Ihe dsbl wae $1)25,000,000, and the borrowed money was nearly all squandered and nothing to show for it, a n d a d a ^ to ibis ia $150,000,000 ot iotemat debt. Tne interosipec annum amounts to $55,000,000 and the annua) ezpeueea to |140,0(X),000. Thors can ba no end to this but raiw aud bankruptcy. Tne reforms promised are not made* aud the natioDs that bave baen bsUing 00 that n f e n a Campos, on tho restoration of peace in Cuba, Unnj | brought tbe commerce which made it rich, and its re- j bave ouly lbs worthless oliims against tbe baak- latlon to tho commerce of the world wffl oomo again, = Am» nn#« nr cities of Spain bare sent similar niessages. Mardi Gras was celebrated at Memphis and New Orleans yesterday and last night. Doth dtles were crowded with strangera, and the speotacles were gor geous. Masked balia cloeed the evening’s festivities. The Common Council of New York propose to biTe the balkliezdz of irnzrre,, zt which exoDraioo ateambotU r.celvo anil Iznd paasengtr,, ao guarded that accidauta to poasengors may be prerented, Mary J. Langhom, a girl of sixteen, re- aiding with her father iu TVeat Twonij-aaTentb atroet, and the land will again take Iti plaso among (he coun- tnaa of the earth to wblch It ia ontUled. ilcro Ghrla- tiaalty waa Oral (ireaobed In Europe. Hers Conataa- tino ruled, and elegant aid learned acholara llred and enriched tha world with their geniua. Here also Juatlnlan built and codided tbe laws, Hera reigned Leo, who beat back the Saraoena. Here rupt State. Xhere aro onig two and one qnartac milUona Turks to fourteen mllltons of ChrlsUanau The Euglleh proteoturate terminated at the ConatantW nopla Cunferenca In 1876. She I. onlg imerreled w baring tha Holleapont and tiie Bo^borna a litghwaF (or the oommeroe o( tbe world. 'Tbora haa baew am idea that the Xurklab power might anddtnlj show w>lB, audden and oneipooled reaoureea, bat that idre !■ New York, took Paris green yeaterday for Ihe purpoae j Indebfedaere “ “o ; that anolent and fated land. Tbe gold coin of [ Byzantium wae current all orer Europe, and Jt ' nerer ohanged its atandard llneneae or welgbl. j rorett applauae]. It waa a monument to the honor and thrift of tha Eastern Empire. It waa great ' and rich and olriUzed when Weatern Europe waa atlll ' peopled wllb sarages. Tbe page, ot Qibbon are stiff with tha crlmaan threads of (he wara (hat have drecehed the land with blood. If all of tha blood (bat has been abed over tbe land ware oollaoted the eban- sela of tha Banuba would not hold it, and It would overflow the land knee deep. It la so rich that It haa always been a proy. That ts tbe land, with Constanti nople at Its bead, tbe dty which la nearest the can Ira of tbe moat populona portion of Ihe globe, placed where two teas join and two cootlnonta oome together. ' TBE OTTOMIH TUBES. Chryeoatom preached and taught, aud Jerome ! fallaoioua. It wilt never be reetured, although It m a | studied and Utted himself In a large measure for ................ ‘ ------ . ---------------- this great work ot translating tbe Scriptures. Here met the g reat oounclls of the church, for from Ibo Council uf Kloe In 33.6 to the Council of 787, all but four were held in Oouatautinople, and from that city came ths famous Oreek manu- of ending her life. She waa given an antidote, and will likely recover. The United States sloop of war Portsmouth will sail for France with sxblbite for the Frenoh Expo sition, on the I6th of March. Tho Wyoming will arrive at New York to-day, and will take on board the art exhibits. The Cubans of New York haye issued s pro test against tbo Spaniards, and express tbelr determtn- aUon to oomblr.a speedy and effeotive mereuretfor succoring tbe men who have refused to lay down their arma The protest lx signed by over alz hundred names. Joaquin G. De Angaries, a prominent Cu ban sympathizer, died in New York Uondey, in tb 08th year of hia age. He wax poaiexsed of mneb wealth and was ardently attached to the oauae ot Ooba. Hia funeral oocurred thla mornlog from hia resides ea In Weel Twenty-eighth street. . The funeral of ex-Senator at Jeffer son, Ohio, was largely attended yeatnday. The exer cises were sncpls and snostentatlons, and In direct contrast to tbs Inneral of Hoh. Senator Uorton in In- dtonapoUa, recently. The remiina were Interred In the Tillage oemetery. Hon. Z. Chandler, of Ulcblgas, wkt ana of the pall bearers. Captain Harrison, who was a passenger on ths wrecked steamer Metropolla, and wbo eubee- quently rendered htmaelf c o n a p too^ in rtecnlng and caring for tbe passengere, was arrested lo Philadel phia Tneedsy on the grave charge of appropriating tueb ol the effects of tbe yictlms u were wzzbed ashore. A fire at the Hot Springg, Ark., yesterday dMiroyed 350 bDildlngi togfltlior wKh as tmmeDse amosat of aoodfl, Thero ia but ono ctroet in tho vR- Itgo, and the fU u sor coaid nnder no autiUnoo. Tho lota Is betweoD $350,000 asd $300,000. No Uveo wero lost, Tho moantolni oro covetod with peoplo driven from sheUer. Ths town w u nw r lj dMU07*4< Xho popuUUon w u $bon( a . qqo . lost in its dUmantled condition somo Urns longon WUAt shsU be dooa with har ? Thors U o&s powsk ilk Europe icaaeose, orgamxed, adjacent, whicli haa Torf clear Ideas uf what laould be done wlvh Turker« which has kuowa for 300 years wbat Is to be done wU)> her, and of tba) powBr 1 propoia to ap<ak to you* with your permlasioa, next la«sclay cvenma (Apptansa.| Dr. Htorra spake for nearly two hours, and UM oloss of tbe lecture wss neartily ooDffratulaied XDSoy of the geotlemaD preoeot, apoo tna tacoMS ot hiM addrcaa. Ue held (ha dote sttencton of COa vaal audlenoe throughout, sod was only interrupted iwo or three times by applause. The JoterMi wss toe hi* three times by applause. The JoterMi wss toe tense to be brukcu by demonstrations of pltwsore. Tho second lectUK wiU be glYca next Tucadayeten- Tbe second lecture wUl be glvca next log, tbe 12th instant. Iu New PetitloDB are in circulation urging tb . Aldertn.B to pa«i th. orJInanro whirt failed la.t year, permlKlng tb. uxo of th. M l Lin. Ballroad track, by dominy fr.lght .nginre, Ulwren fl o'clock at night snd 6 IB Ik. morning. Tb. ordtaaiM* la xdvoealoa u a ready mtaox of Improving (h« tiU- road l.nnlnal faollllire at New York by bringing CB« freight car. npon tb* docks lor tbe tranefer of ftnlgM by one procret to the aWpe awaiting It. a n a i f f l E M f t o T i c g f t . How came they to aohlave euch a audden acceaalon or enormous power in Soutbesateni Europe 7 How came they to loie II, and what were the canee* that bronghi them to Utte preaent poeltion 7 Tbeae are the qiieelione which we will attempt to outline with yonr permuiloo. Who are they 7 The Osnunlls, aa they call them- eelven, for they object to tha name of Turk, are ap*o~ pie of tha Turanian race, and are oon.ln. of the Mon gols, Ihe Bonn and tbeTartara, . dieilnoi r-oe »lo,m from the Aryan races. The TuranUna were a P***\™ people In very early Umee, -b i l e Ihe Aryan, wore o ^ lertOTllure toalM men to paUenro, i ------- Wd industry. It leade to eetU^ent and the a^ OTedneaJTlome. « tend, to ' dvlllzailon and to commwro, the medlnm cf exenasge an d to U ^ u iae wllh other peopj\- ^ralldta? So of inxtlmuone, and gives permanency to all thM^a boat and noblest In man a nat uro. Faetornl m e H rd' lo^ nomadic and wandering oondldon of ex- lilSnro Tbe IHe of a .h.pberd, and the coneequent ^ n 7 ‘ Ukre away tne eenae of locality aud the aacred- Staaoi home. It makes men predatory and flmroe aud ireda 10 a derootie government. It tt«nde away from JdrtJlaatloD to eemi-barbarUm and gtnaraUs raoo eharaoterlsllcs that a n naver eradicated. Tbe Aryan hava made hlttory eplendld and tha world while the history of tha Tnranlan raoea THE 8 EA 8 IDB UBRART. i oat W s rt« a .. * r i Th* Criokmt oa Ttl. ttD*tl*jyow; or, 33i T m M b w u x n d * V oti Warr*n Jit Tee Thooxaed'a Viiir''(iiio«id''fiiu'f')!'’ffr'»amay (( srTso ........ d $‘or Mia by iJ) nairiJoslafS. rsoet rich, aboin how little they have don* to make the world better, but rather to caure misery and woe. Tbey must not ba oonfonnded with tha flaraoea, whloh It a BemoUo race, and la only altl-ed to tbe other by th e I Beef n ktndred religion. The aanlUo(iBg zlorKnof FOB LUNG DISEASES. RoA esDdr.dlHolvedla purs hand mads (he eeppnc. WhUkr.dl^U to tUp»r fallen, aceordlog to aga. t U. B. KIBE A Co., C Folloa rt. and 7»Bioadwy. BLAIR’S PILLS. KoglUh rsmedr torOoutaad IthaunmUim. ItoxM rjlIt •l.a ^ y mall. 11. fl.A .fTES « ffll VrUtWK It, K%i» Yuik. Sold hr drugglMe.
