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' §OT%n § m l| ^ s |fe TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 81, 1880. 1 T h i s P a i«or h a s tlie LaT(i;Q8t (lurcula* tlo a o f any- E v e i u u i r . P a p e r P a b l l s b c d in th e V n U c d S t a t e s , l u v a l u e a s a n A d v e r tislu f f R letU u m is th e r e f o r e ep< p a r e n t . A B e p u b lic a n F r i e n d States H is Case. To the Editor o j tlui Erooklun Eagle: Althongh you are an ardent supporter of the Daniooratlo party, I hara always deematl you an uo- uanally lair one, and I thoreloro taka tbo liberty of giving yon a few lines from as sincere a party man aa yourself, on the other side. I wish to express my de cided dlfforonoo wltbyoa as to the true and overshadow ing tsanes of the present campaign. General Hancock may have banged hire. Surratt, Indorsed the Democratlo platform of 18uA and been president of a bogus petro leum company, and Mr. Garflsld may bo almost aa great a o hnaucldr\ as Mr. Tllden la known to be; but the question If not one of personel merits of tbe respective candidates—botb of them are undoubtedly men of brains, competont to preside over the vast interests of tbo Republic. The great question Is whether there shall be a republican form of government in fact, as In name, in every part of this country. You may write artlole after article, such as you did on tbe result of tbe Alabama election, giving plausible and iugenious ex- planatione of the disappearance of the opposition to the Democratic party In that Slate ; still tbe fact remains that theta Is no freedom at opinion allow ed in a majority of the Southern States any more than there was for fifty years or more preceding the war, and until this great wrong is righted the question will not cease to agitato the country ae deeply, and In tho cad as successfully, as did that of alarcry. No government of tho majority by the mlnorit.v, such as to-day exists by virtue of brute force and fraud in South Carolina, can loug exist, and the sooner tho Democratic majority recognizee this truth the better will ultimately be tbolr chance to re gain their anoient ascendency and retain it. Surely, yon who upheld ISucUanan in his horrible outrages on populsr freedom In Kansas in '511, and opposed emanci pation BO bUterly, must ere this have recognized the tally of trying to sustain your part.v by winking at such wholesale frauds as have virtually disfranchised nearly 600,000 legal votsra iu the South, aud brought the African hack to a position but one slight remove from elavery. I know you deny the existence of these facts Just aa you did the Intolerable outrages perpetrated on anepectod Abolitionlats before tbe war iu tbe South, but you know that the apparent order now reigning there is like that in Warsaw, that of suhjugatioa. I speak of what I have seen. Mr. Talmage did not have an opportunity to. He was lu charge of the elect and all was lovely. Read what General Weaver says, and If yon ean controvert hls statement I shall ho pleased to read what you can eay. I hope you will pardon tho length of my communication, but trust you will re member eometbing that I eay, and I bops that the same spirit of fairness that led you to denounce the Maine “eteal\ will prompt you to treat the question mentioned In like manner. J ustice . First of all, let ns see if wo caa get at the issue our correspondeut desires to pro.ssut for the E aole ’ s consideration, aud to determine, if we can, what bearing it has npon the pend ing Presidential oontost. Our con-espondont claims that the overshadowing question in this campaign turns upon the fact, as ho states it, that a republican form of government exists only in name iu the Southern States ; no freedom of opinion is allowed iu a majority of those States ; the majority of the voters i.s kept under by the minority, by force or fraud, and as a result of this condition, the colored people in tho South have been re duced to ft position but little removed from slavery. While this state of thing continues, our correspondent claims, the Demooratio party cannot hope to regain and to retain its ancient ascendency ; agitation against it will go on, and, in the end, the result will be as successful as was the agitation against slavery which began long before two- thirds of those who will vote at the next elec tion were entitled to vote at all. Suppose that oU that is claimed by our correspondent “ Justice” is conceded, how will the election of tho ilepnblioan candidate tor the Presi dency bring about a remedy for what is com plained of ? A day or two after the last Pres idential elccfion, and when it avas knowm by all men that Mr, Tildon had been legally •beted President of tbe United States, Mr. Hayes made a speech of condolence to his friends at his home in Ohio. He was not at the time aware that the leaders of his party in tended to resort to a series of fraudulent de vices, with the view of setting aside the legal r suit of the election. He supposed then that the election had been decided in the old American fashion, and by the recorded judg ment of the voters. Mr. Hayes on that occa sion said he did not care so much personally .bout his defeat, but his \heart bled” for the c jlored people of tho South, who were soon to b- confronted by all the terrors which a Democratic Federal Administration had for them. Well, the rightfully elected President . iw, in one way or another, kept out of tho office, and Mr. Hayes, unexpectedly to him self, obtained the position which did not be long to bim. In pursuance of the bargains made necessary for the execution of the Pre sidential fraud, Mr. Hayes turned the gov ernment of three States whose electoral votes were made to count for him, over to the Dem ocrats, for Mr. Hayes’ heart did not “ bleed” at all in view of tho prospects of the colored race under Democratic State goveruiaanfs. If our correspondent’s description of tho present condition of the colored race at tho South ha correct, it is a description of a state of things which has grown up under a prolonged Be publican administration of Federal affairs. What is termed tho “ better element” of the Kepnblicnn party seems to find great comfort in tho reflection that if Mr. Garfield shouM bo elected, his Administration will be virtually, a continuation of that of Mr. Hayes. What rea son then, is there for supposing that the con dition of the colored people of the South will bo any different from what it is now, if Mr. Hayes’ Administration should be duplicated ? If the colored people of tbo South were m danger of being relegated to servitude un der a Democratio Administration of Federal affairs, or if under Demooratio rule at Wash ington, our republican form of government bid fair to be effaced at the South—for these reasons it might well be argued that tho Dem ocrats ought to bo turned ont of power. But, inasmuch as the Bepublican party is now in power, does tho condition of the South, as described our correspondent, afford a rea son for continuing it there ? In other words, is a condition of affairs wliich would rightfully cost the Democrats a loss of power to be accept ed as adequate reason for keeping the Kepubli- can parly in power indefinitely ? What is Mr. Garfield oxjjected to do that Mr. Hayes has not done, to make the condition of the colored voters of the South auy more accept able to our Kepublicau friends ? If our corres pondent would like to furnish an answer to this question, we will give him an opportunity of doing 60 through the E agle very cheerfully. It seems to us that whatever use may be made of tho present condition of affairs, it cannot be used as an argument for tho prolongation of Bepublican rule in Federal affairs. If it can be, and with success, then the present condition of affairs is the best possible for the interest of tho Bepublican party. It should never bo changed ns a party policy by the Bepublicans, and it never will be. Wo respectfully submit that the utter collapse of tho Bepublican party in South Carolina, for instance, affords no sufficient ground for charg ing the people of that State with intoleronce of political opinion. What went by tho name of Be)m’<'’,lcauism in South Carolina was, in fact, organized robbery. Under the lead of a few score carpetbaggers, aided by the Federal army, tho negroes were banded together in that State, and the combination was called the Bepublican party. All but about twenty mem bers of tho Legislature were negroes, when the Republican party in South Carolina reached tho height of its glory. The State House was turned into an immense hotel for the accommodation of these statesmen. For the “supplies” furnished to the State House at a single session $350,000 was paid, and of this sum $125,000 was for refreshments— “wines, liquors and cigars.” In four years four hundred thousand dollars was paid for “ furniture,” and it was nearly all carried away by tho statesmen for their own use. The \State barroom” was kept open from 8 A. M. to 3 P. M., and tho amount of liquor drank there averaged sev eral gallons per day. Tho consumption of cigars was enormous, and an adequate supply could not be kept on hand, “because it was “ found that the legislators always filled their \pockets when they put their hands in the “ box.” “Insertions,\ “edgings,” “dress “ goods,” “kid gloves,\ “colored hosiery,\ “ ladies’ hoods,” “boulevard skirts,” “bus- \tles “extra long stockings” figured among the items of legislative supplies. Tho gen eral result was that tho total debt of tho State was increased by very nearly nine millions and a half of dollars in the five years between ISOfl and 1871, aud by that time the credit of tho State was ex- . hansted. Tho rate of cun-ent taxation was unpreoodented. When it was complained of, one oratorical carpetbagger took the stump to meet tho charge. He mot it by tolling hls negro constituents that tho tax rate was high, but that it was not so high as they intended to have it. The friends of the colored citizens, he said, intended to moke taxes so high that those who then owned property in tho South would have to abandon it. After that it would come into tho possession of the colored peo ple, to whom, ho said, it rightfully belonged. The Hon. C. P. Leslie was one of the foro- mo.st of the Bepublican statesmen of South Carolina at this period. Leslie was formerly a blatant Democratic member of Assembly from Kings County. Before tho period of “good stealing” came to an end in South Carolina, he was said to have accumulated a million of dollars. 'lo this Mr. Leslie is at tributed the statesmanlike axiom,, that \A “State has no right to bo a.Btate, unless she “can pay and take oare of her statesmen.” Would universal oppo.sition to this state of things bo deemed political intolerance in Ver mont? Would such opposition be deemed extraordinary in that typical Bepublican State, if this sort of robbery and debauchery went by tho name of Eepublicanism there ? If it had been possible to maintain the state of affairs existing under Bepublican rule in South Carolina until this day, could it be said, then, that a republican form of government exist ed in fact, as in name, in South Carolina ? Wo make no doubt but that efforts which w'ould not bo resorted to at the North, and which would not be justified under a nor mal condition of affairs anywhere, were re sorted to iu order to bring the reign of rob bery in tho South to an end. But it is idle to tell a man who is being robliod before his face that because be resists tho robbery he is averse to “ freedom of political opinion,” un der the color of which the robbery is being perpetrated. The present gonoratiou of voters can have no interest in reopening the discussion of tho slavery question. The young men of tlio country may be able to gratify a justifiable curiosity in ascertaining Biiohauan’s responsi bility for the “horrible outrages on our popu- “ lar freedom iu Kansas”—outrages which were in controversy before tho voters who will decide tho approaching election were born—bnt they cauuot afford to shape their political conduct by these old time dis putes. For twenty or thirty years together, sectional contention has been kept up iu this Republic. It is time to end it. It con bo ended with safety now, by the election of General Hancock to the Presidency. The more nearly unanimous this settlement can bo made through his election, the bettor will it be for the Republic, iu our judgment. R i c l i a r d G r a n t W h i t e o u th e P u b l i c ScllOOltte Mr. Richard Grant AVhite, who is better known as a writer on matters of philology than as a student of sooial or political science, has drawn up, in the columns of the JVctc York Times, to which he i.s a weekly contributor, a severe and most sweeping indictment against the common sehooLs aud the common school system of the country. It is reason.ably cer tain that the extreme views entertained by Mr. White will not be indorsed by more than a few dispassionate critics, but it is, iu our jndgment, no less certain that several of his declarations are much nearer to tho truth than the optimistic pioaus that are chanted by tho callow persons who figure at tho annual celebrations iu the various schools, or the typical politicians, who rant about the glory of tho free school system, without oaring a fig whether it is good or bad. Igiiorauco aud flattery have done the schools great injury. Between them it has come to pass that a worthless and vicious veneering of the young mind has largely superceded a plain, useful discipline of the faculties, and those who venture to express disappi-obation of this, in tho hope that improvement may follow without, are assailed as enemie.s of tho sehooLs. Every noisy, pretentious blockhead who declarea himself iu favor of what is called “higher education,” is applauded. The man who does not like shams, and shows that this so called higher education is a sham, with much preliminary thereto, is held to be either that most dangerous of conspirators, a Jesuit in disguise, or a Bourbon of some sort far behind the age. Whatever be thought of Mr. White’s de ductions it is to his credit that he had tho cour age to set them forth in unambiguous Eng lish. After disposing of tbe testimony of the av erage politician, the average teacher and tho average parson, as of little value, because of the self interest or the narrow prejndico which affects them, he says ; The proof of the padding l3 iu the esUng; the proof of the value of our public school eyslem la in tho qual ity of the young meu and the yotiag rromon that it pro duces. What la their actuol worth in practical life 7 How much better are they morally and intellectually chan young men and young women who have never been to public schools? To this question there will be but one answer from those who are quaUded to apeak upon it, unless my observation and tulormatiou are both very erroneous, and tho answer will be against the usefulness of our public schools in fitting their pu pils for the duties and the business of life. Following this up he maintains that the effeef of tho public schools upon girls is to un fit them for many of the duties of womanhood, to indispose them to domestic cares, to beget a slip.shod habit of mind as well as of body, and to substitute for tho honor.ablo spirit of industry, which is needed in every household, a fondness for literature of the dime novel stamp, a flightinoss that leads to evils which need not be minutely described, and a passion for costly attire. As this is a wholesale accu sation, we quote Mr White’s language ; The young women who, after s few years of educa- tion at the publio expense, eeeic sitnatloua, are {with very rare and notable’ exceptions) entirely unfit for thfcir po.iitione, and not only so, bnt incapable of bcin^ fitted for them by constant Instruction given iu the kiude'it manner. They are Ignorant, slovenly, hoed- lass. Ijoadstroug, self conceited, disrespectful and alto- itnaruonsblo to tho discipline of a well ordered bousehoM. Their “ education has simply fitted them to read ditno novels aud cheap newspapers, to covet dress aitogether unsultucl to their position, and to go to the thealro or on oxcuralona with & “young raian.” Tiieir view of the rcQUiremonts of their position i» that they are to do just so mucii work aa will give them tbo right to demand the money that will onablo thorn to compass tbo aforesaid enjoyments, aud Chat they are to do no more. Of notions of duty, of interest lu their work, of a desire to loam it thoroughly, of docility, of Chat respectful hearing tvhich bagets 2 resiyoct, they are as innocent as llutt^ntote or Yahoos. As to Ibeir morals, they nr© generally in every respect B'Omawhat inferior to’ young women who bsvo had no public school education, and who can hardly read and cannot write. No housekeeper of experience (lesirofl to tako a public school pupil into her service In any capacity. Upon this part of Mr. White’s article wo shall not comment, for tho reason that ho is probably charging against the schools an in- fluouco which manifests itself there rather than springs from them. That the school does not tend to subdue the morbid tendencies pointed out is perhaps true; that it is to blame for them, in tbe first piece, is more ques tionable. American society at the present time is very pronouncedly opposed to hard work. The genteel thing to do just now is to live by one’s wits. Girls are trained at homo to look with a certain contempt upon the in dustrious women who do the domestic work of their own households. To bang a piano and make some frightful image with water colors on a shell are held to be pre-emi nently ladylike, while to ho caught washing a husband’s or father’s linen, cooking a beef steak, or washing the dishes, is to be ent off from polite society. For this the schools are not to blame. They but reflect tho evil No doubt they would be influential in subdu ing it, if rightly conducted ; yet it is well to distinguish between what they originate and wliat they borrow from the home life of senseless people. The effect upon the boys, as pictured by Mr. White, is less open to discussion. Tho E agle has long contended, iu common with other careful observers throughout tho city, that tho schools are conducted as if tho great object were not to fit boys for ontoking upon tho practice of trades and tho discharge of tho business duties which are assigned to the young in business houses, but to fit them out as politicians, able to gab eternally about every thing, without understanding the principles of anything. We do not believe this demoraliz ing work is overstated by Mr. White, or can bo overstated by any writer : Nor are the boya -who oooio from our public echools much more admirable products of tho eystem. A small ijiiLuber of them are of that human order which is born for intellectual labor, and la impelled to It by a rs&iatleBB Inwardforco; some, of course many more, aro of moderate mental ability, o sober, reserved and almoet timid dispositions, ami these profit iu a certain degree by their education, although it is doubtful whether the bonoAt resulting to themselves or to society justiflea tbe means and the expenditure by Trhich it is attained. But as to the largofuajorlty of the boys who come from our public echools, aek those who employ them. Ask the master mechanics whoso memory goes back to a time when approuticos came only with tho lustruetion and tho trainlug received at home, or in a dame sciiool. The answer, unless I am much in error, is sure to be that, although the publio school boy may be more glib of touguo, and know Buperflclally a little about geography and history of which his predecessor was ignorant, be is generally inferior In all that makes a good apprentice, a good workman, a thrifty, eubetaulla), rcspectablo man. He is Icsu respectful, less docile, less iu earnest about his work, and, on the whole. Inferior lu principle, in faith- fuluoBS, and even in manners, to the boy who had been taught merely to read aud to write, to fear Clod, and to honor his father aud his mother. This is a kind of truth which there is a natural reiuctaucG to tell. To BUjiproB.'i it, however, is to merely recruit the ranks of gen teel loafers, who, having aa aversion to man ual labor, and being fit for nothing but petty clerkships, are a pest iu our public streets and a burden to their parents. It is useless to point In refutation of this, to tho. graduates of the public schools, who are honorable and valuable members of the eomninnlty. Nobody denies the existence of thousands of such persons. Beference is had to tho thousands who aro neither honorable nor valuable, and who, ns tbo result of an erroneous objective in our system of education, have set their faces to ward living by their wits, with fapoy coats on tbeii bocks, instead of going to the black smith’s shop, tho shoemaker’s stool, the tail or’s board, the carpenter’s bench and tho machine shop, Tbo sons of tbe butcher, the baker and the weaver aro taught to regard the occupations of their honest parents as low, and they live npon them aa idlers rather than assist them by taking up their callings. Into the effect of this upon our politics we shall not follow Mr. White. Suffice it to say that whatever begets a general dislike of plain, honest labor must tend to the corruption of politics. It is impossible to throw discredit upon hard work without stimulating the crop of sinocurista who form the body guard of the corrupt politicians in every city of the Union. Wo believe tho maintenance of the public Bobools to be of tbe first importance, and be cause we do so we are glad to have their defects dwelt upon, to the end that there may be improvement. A n E n g l i s h E n ix - e r s i t y C o i n p l i n i c n t s th e A m e r i c a n P u l p i t . Tho invitation given to Bishop Littlejohn by the University of Cambridge, England, to fill tho office of Select Preacher in tho University Church of Great St. Mary's, which the Bishop has accepted, is an event of much more than personal interest. If is an other step, and a very important one, iu the movement which began with the Pan Angli can Synod of 18G7, convened by Archbishop Longloy, aud again in 1878 by the present Primate, to which the Protestant Episcopal Church of America was invited to representa tion by her bishops. When the original rela tions of this church, before the Revolution, to the State Church of England, as one of its colonial branches, under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, are remembered, as well 03 the difficulty which, after the achieve ment of iudepondenoo, postponed the ob taining of English orders until Dr. Pro- Toost, the first Bishop of New York, was consecrated at Lambeth, it will bo seen that tho communion thus promoted, and called Pan Anglican because it included the Episcopal churches of tho United States, the Dominion of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Africa and Asia, as well as those of Scotland and Ireland, was a new departure for a State Church. It was the beginning of an end which is clearly inevitable in course of time, disestablishment in England, such as has already taken place in Ireland by act of the Imperial, and in Jamaica and other parts of tho British colonies by act of tho local Parliament. The throwing down of the bar riers which have guarded the Church of England, in England, as a department of the State, must necessarily reduce it to the same level as the other denominations. In the opinion of many, even of dissenters and mere secularists, this will be a blow to social order and religious faith iu England—George Dawson, a a free thinker, and Father Sibthorpe, a Roman Catholic, always so believed—but since many of the Auglioan dignitaries, wishing to get credit for their system for a toleration which is inconsistent with its history and doctrines, have declared their ability to flourish as well without State aid as with it, those who aro outsiders can hardly object to their pulling their own house down if they please. The passage of tho Burials Bill was the death knell of Church Establishment in England, and a large movomont is now on foot among the High Church clergy to deprive the bishops of their seats iu the House of Lords. The present Archbishop of Canterbury will have had a great share in future disestablish ment, for it was he who wrote to a promi nent dissenting minister in London : ‘ ‘ You “ must preach in our pulpits and wo in “ yours.” When that day comes tho State Church will exist only as a powerful, eclec tic and liberal sect. Indeed, so eagerly has Archbishop Toit hastened tho inevitable that not content with delivering benediotions iu public in his Inverness cape, while other pre. lates stood beside him iu their robes, he sent his chaplain, Mr. Fremantle, to preach for Jo seph Parker, in the City Temple, and tho Bishop of London, as nn officer of tho crown and the law, felt compelled, though a very hberal minded man, to stop him at tho thresh old by an inhibition. While, therefore, the Ohuroh of England with an amusing recklessness is stripping her self of tho secular garments which have hither, to protected her, she is asserting herself as an institution based in and representative of re vealed truth and on the merits of her case she rashly but courageously prepares for battle with other systems and unbelief. But the new Bible will put the finishing stroke to her athanasian trinitarianism, or trithe ism, as it logically is, and the amendments which will soon be made in her Book of Com mon Prayer will cause her lingering sacerdo talism to evaporate. She will still, however, be tbo most respectable and learned of the free churches in England. Her pulpits will, perhaps, now and then be filled by illiterate and intemperate iuspirationists, but the state of thinge will not bo so bad as in the Eliza bethan and Stuart times, or even the earlier days of the House of Hanover. Politically, tho disestablishment of the church will be an immense relief to the legislation and adminis tration of tho Kingdom, for the ohuroh wiU have to settle its own doctrinal quaiTels, and, in appeal to the secular courts, will stand on the same level as any other corporation. We have thus sketched the progress of the Church of England’s doseoularization. Iu tho Pan Anglican synods she claimed a spiritual au thority contradictory of her political origin and endowments. By the throwing open of her churchyards the way is cleared for the possession by tho dissenters of the parish churches. By waiving the differences as to creeds or ritual which exist between the English, American and Scotch modes of worship, tho Mother Church has stopped down from her throne which many think a usurped oue, aud iu which iu her scant and semi puri tanic dress she has never sat comfortably, and may now bo looked upon as a Presbyterian system, hacked iu its central depot by State connection. An immense mass of antiquated law, incon sistent with this now departure, must be gradually abolished. Such, for instance, is the rule that prohibits an Episcopal minister of the United States from preaching regu larly, or holding a benefice, in England. This restriction only exists as a necessary appen dage to the political office of the church. It does not obtain in those parts of the British Empire where tho church exists as a popular institution, without State authority and en dowment. This change, which is already coming to pass in England, has made it necessary for the Episcopal Church to look for other aUies, and hence the overtures she has made to the Greek Church aud the oxuberaut friendship she has expressed for the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States. Far better thanaskiugour bishops to taka part in the mimic Vaticanism of the Pan Anglican judgments end resolutions, and the solemn force of condemning by tho drill sergeant method of standing in their places tho absent Bishop of Natal, who has more disinterested piety and Biblical learning than all his episcopal backbiters put together, is the graceful and dignified courtesy of invit ing American clergymen to the pulpits of the English State Church. Many of our best Episcopal ministers have preached at West minster Abbey and St. Paul’s, at the chapels Boyal of Whitehall and Savoy and in Canter, bury and other cathedrals. Phillips Brooks was accorded the singular honor of preaching before the Queen and Boyal family in the privote chapel of Windsor Castle. But the State Church University of Cambridge ha.s performed the crowning act of grace toward our Episcopa lians in appointing Bishop Littlejohn Select Preacher before tbo university for the mouth of November next. It is remarkable that the same university should, a few years ago, have refused tho offer of an American to endow a professorship. There is no doubt, however, that good will toward the American people and institutions have had much to do with tile ecclesiastical hospitalities extended to tho Episcopal, clergy. Perhaps some other de nominations, far more largely represented in our population, may tUiuk that the English Crown, Church aud Universities might extend those invitations to them also, but they must remember that the Episcopal Ohuroh, being a department of tho State, und controlling, therefore, tho national universities of Oxford and Cambridge, renders this impossible. It will come, however, as soon as tho Archbishop of Canterbury’s cherished wish is realized, for when the English non Episcopal preachers aro admitted to Episcopal pulpits, there will be no difficulty in inviting those of other nations. Every one must congratulate Bishop Little john, and pray that he may have strength to “boor his blushing honors thick upon him” without fainting. The other bishops need grace of a different kind, for it is hard upon them that all the fat things, beginning with tho Stewart Cathedral and -schools, should fall into the lap of one of tho youngest of their brotherhood, whose diocese is a now one. However, tho University of Cambridge and tho Church of England are both still largely con servative, and tho Bishop of Long Island is felt to be a safe man socially and theologically. He, like the British Empire and church, has always acted on the principle, medius tutCssimus ibis,” Ho will not shook the dons and undergraduates of Cambridge by any monophysite or latitudina- rian heresy. He will magnify his order, for he is every inch a churchman. And when ho stands before the great assembly ofjscholars in the pulpit of Great St. Mary’s, he wifi no doubt “bring forth out his treasures things “ new and old” for it was hero that Melvill made the strong men weep by his splendid imagery, that Ti-ench preached his fomous Hulsean Lectures ou “Christ, the Desire of all Nations, or the Unconscious Prophecies of Heathendom,” and that in a former day Paley preochod on the miracle of tho loaves and fishes, nnconscious of the presence of the Prime Minister William Pitt, then a young man, who ex officio had all the bishoprics and deaneries and many of the richest livings in his gift, from the text: “There is a lad here “ that hath five barley loaves and two small “ fishes, but what are they among so many ?” C a l> lnct O fS icers o u tU e S tum p * Mr. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treas ury, caused it to be aunounced from Washing ton a few days ago that he had prepared a number of essays, which had been put in type by his direction, and that he would deliver them, as political speeches, in various sections of the country during the campaign, aa occa sion served. Mr. Sherman delivered one of his essays as a stump aiieeoh in Cincinnati last night. We can hardly be mistoken in saying that direct aud active interference in party contests by members of the Cabinet is a busi ness which was almost wholly unknown before the organization of tbe Bepublican party in this country. We have no doubt but that in past times the President and the mem bers of his Cabinet desired the continued suo- oesa of the party which sustained them, but they maintained, at all events, a decent appearance of neutrality. Tho President and the Cabinet, for the time being, assumed that they wore tho representatives of the people as a whole, aud not of a political party, and it was, if we mistake not, very unusual for tho members of tbe Federal Govornmont to abandon their posts at the Capital to take part in party contests. The etiquette of our politics still seems to de mand that a candidate for President shall not appear on the stump as the advocate of his own election. The candidate, however, is not hound by any official obligations. The high official, who is in the service aud in the pay of tho people as a whole, would seem to be under far greater obligations to lot the people, whoso agent he is, determine their political contests without his iuterferoace. In the ante war period it was, we believe, the custom important election for a member Cabinet occasionally to deliver a iu the State from which he was appointed. The speeches of the Cabinet offi cers were almost invariably confined to an explanation and a defense of the conduct of the Administration, but wholesale attacks on the party in opposition by high officials of tbe Federal Government were introduced by tbe Republican party in its decadence. We trust it will go out of fashion with it, and that it it . wiU never again be tbe mode. There is nothing in Mr. Sherman’s political essay which justifies bis appearance on tho stump at aU. He has contributed not a single new idea to the oampaign, and tho or dinary political slangwhangers can be trusted to keep up what may be termed the bustle aud commotion of tho contest. Wo have been assured again and again, since the cam paign opened, that every blessing the country has reason to be thankful for has come from the Republican party, and that every evil the patriot has even imaginary reasons for fearing, will be realized through the success of the Democratic party. Says Mr. Sherman: 1 believe that tho cesull of the full aiceudeacy of tho Democrstlc party will bo to ehoek the publlo credit; to opan the treasury wide to rebel elalme ; to wipe out all at an of the speech that wa« ftchiovod by the war; to turn oiir OovornmeDt back from its natlon&I tendencies to wbut it was lu fact bofore the war—a mere confederacy of Statca^and to cripple tho power of tbe Oeneral Qoverumont in the en- focoemoQt and exeeution of Its laws. Now, tho party thus assailed by tho Finance Minister of tho Government was shown only four years ago to embrace a large majority of tbe American people. In oU probability, its adherents are in a greater majority now. What would be thought of a member of tbe British Cabinet who should venture to assail one-half the voters of the British Isles as pronounced enemies of their country? Ho would be Looted off the hustings, and he would deserve to be. Of course, John Sher man does not believe what he says. If Mr. Garfield should be defeated in November, Mr. John Sherman will be able to offer scores of reasons why he should be—and one of tbe principal of his reasons will bo that Jeffin Sherman himself did not happen to be the candidate. A C U a n B o D o H irable W h i l e a C h a n c r e is P o s s i b l e . The Herald published a statement yesterday to tho effect that the Democrats had abandon ed the September contest iu tho State of Maine, and to-day it bases an editorial article on this alleged fact, showing why its statement of yesterday was altogether probable. In brief, the Herald contends that money has come to be a great power in election contests. The Democrats being out of power, have no money, save that which is contributed by private parties. While this resource is also open to the Republicans, being in power, they have a force of one hundred thousand office holders to draw upon, and by exacting ten dollars a piece from each of thorn, the Repub lican parly can raise a million of dollars by a single and very moderate assessment. Is there any man bo blind that be does not see whore the continuance of the policy of centralization will end, if it is not checked ? There is no Democrat who does not believe that Hancock will be elected in November next. Yet, with tho promise of victory secured to them, in their own estimation, the Democrats—if the Herald is to be relied on—have abandoned the con test in a State in which they had a good ohance for sucoess, because, as oom- pqred with the parly In p^S^r, tliey o^- not make anything like an equal contest. If, year by year, more business is concentrated in tbe hands of tbo Federal Government, in a very abort time there will be a fair excuse for doubling the number of Federal stipandiaries. Against a party with such resources political opposition would be useless. The powerful and insolent officeholders would care very little for the rights of self supporting citizens of their own party, for they would have little to fear from their opposition. The rights of the non offlceholding classes of the two parties would be stricken down together. We do not think the country has reached this pass yet, but, unquestionably, the Herald’s article indicates the direction in which tho country ie tending. With one hundred thousandjoffloeholders, it is difficult to maintain ordinary party govern ment in this country, and when we cease to have a government through parties, popular rule itself will be at an end. Give the party in power two hundred thousand officeholders, and nothing short of a revolution could bring about a change in the Administration. While a change is feasible, a common sense people will effect it. We may say, however, that the statement made by the Herald, yesterday, was contra- dieted officially and at once by the Democrats, and the current news of the day proved that tbe Democrats were still sending speak, ers to Maine. The canvass in that State will be actively kept up until the close of tho else, tion. If the self supporting voters of Maine were allowed to decide tho issue, the oppo. nonts of the party which has contrived to en list an army of one hundred thousand office holders in its service, would not require out side help from any quarter. THE CAMPAIGN. . Split u ^ m o n g f i i x tike B l u e . ’ * Llrelf Times Last Night—Eopublican and Democratic Meetings in the Bercnth, Eighth, Ttientleth, Tirenty-llrst, Twen ty-second and Twenty-fifth Wards, An adjourned meeting of the Central Com- miUeo of AJie HepubUoan \Boya iu Blue oX Kluf s Couuty was bold at Sawyor'i Hall, at tUo GOraer of Futtou aud Jay streets, Qeneral £. B. Fowler, tba prealdeut, occu pied tbo obair, and Udossr#. Xsaao Laurence and J. B. JoUuBon Howard acted as aooretarioa. Barly in tbe tseoting encouraging roporU were handed lu from tho warde of the progress of the organizations being formod uuder tho ansplcea of tbe Ooutrol Committee. In some warda, in addition to the oompanles of Boys In Blue, batteries and sqtuads of cavalry are being organized. In tbe Twouty-flret Ward the Oermana, It was reported, are organizing a company of lancers. Tbo largest on* roUment in any one ward waa reported from tbe Six* teentb, of 277 men, out of wUicU number throe com. ponies liave boon miutarad in. Ur. Qeorge W. BtiUwell, of the Committee on Bnl. forms, reported that it ^bad been decided to report In tarot of a prlvaU’a uniform, oonaietlug of a light blue , ooat with a red collar, and a oap of blue with a red band, each private’s uniform to include a pole torch. The offleera' uniform waa to couslet of a double cape, with a gold bronze collar, and a oap of elmllar mate rials. Tna field olQoora wore to have a double cape of like desorlpUon. but wore to wear tho regulation cop. ^oposaU had oeen invited for furnlBhlug such uni. forms, and twelve bids bad boon;rouelved. The com. inlttea proposed to execute a contract with the lowest responsible bidder. On motion it was decided to continue the committee until it should have completed its work. major Weokos, of the Committee on Bylaws, reported progress, aud asked leave to alt again. The permission was granted. TBOUBIiB AHEAD. Mr. McIntyre, iu order to get the sense of tbe meet ing, moved that none but bona fide veterans of the wur and houorabiy discharged soldiers and sailors bo enti- tied to become members of the Boys iu Blue. Mr. O. H. Itogora opposed tbe motion. He believed the object of the orgaulzatlon was to seoura votes for Oarfieid and Arthur, and he favored taking in all wlio were willing to come forward and unite in tbe move ment. Tho veterans of tho war were becoming scarce. Many of them had died, others were crippled, and still others were too old to come out and parade about tho Btreeta. He was a veteran himself, ami did not object to march aud carry a torch. Of iho 277 names reported from the Sixteenth Ward, from which be came, he did not bollovo it would be possible to get 7G veterans. What was to be done with the others that had in good faith signed tho muster rolls 7 Wore they to be turned away ? General Fowler said there was no need of that, for there were other organizations being formed, the Tow Boys’ companies aud others, to which such as were not old soldiers might unite themselves. Many had expressed tbe desire that the Boys in Blue ehodid be made up ezuluslvely of old war veterans. Dr. Leighs said it was an understood thing that none but veterans wore to become members of the compan ies, Ho, for one, was prodd of being a veteran, and when he marched he wished to march as one. He moved ae a further amendment to the pending motion that tho organization be known as the Veteran Boya in Blue of lUngB County. A Fourth Ward delegate said there wore 70 men mus tered in hla ward and he would vouch for it that ©very one of them was au old veteran, soldier or sailor. General DeLacy said although the Hancock men wore TAKING IN BEABDLESa BOYS among their old war veterans, the Republioans should behonestaboutit, and see to Ittbat none but oldsoldiors and sailors united with the Boya iu Blue. They would then be looked upon as old veteraus and received as such. He understood that uniforms were not to be distributed to the Boys iu Blue alone. Mr. Rogers again asserted that he was not ashamed to march beside any young mau who waa goiug to cast his first voto for Garfield. Ex-AIderman Acker said that thero was a number of malUlamon In Ula ward (the Sixteenth), who were de sirous of joining the Boys in Blue, aud ho thought they should he permitted to do so. Mr. Stillwell said he waa cot ashamed to walk beside tho young man who first was goiug to voto for the He- publioan caudidates, in a Boys in Blue procession, but it was tho bad oilect it would have. That was the very reason why many veterans had as yet refruiued from Joining. They said that meu were being mustered in Rs veterans who had cover smolt powdor. Let the Democrats mix up their few veterans with many boys If they cbooso to. The Roiiublicaus could not afford to dolt. Lot it be known that every one in the Boys in Blues ranks were old soldiers or sailors, aud they would be pointed to with pride. Dr. C. li. Doano, of tho Sixteenth Ward, asked tbo floor. Mr. Rogers rose to a point of order. Ho understood that delegates elected to tbe committee wore alone enti tled to the floor. The Chair Btatod that all old veterans had bean In- Ited to be present at tho first meeting arm assist in organizing rhe committee. Dr, Doaue had been one of those who bad responded to that invitation and was entitled to tbe floor. Dr. Doane said he doubted the statement of the gen tleman from the Hixteeuih Ward (Rogers), that all the old vetorans were tlyiug off or were so old that a respect able number of them could not be got together to form a Boys in Blue company. Four years ago, when Dr. Doane said he had the honor of being tho mustering In officer, there wore 300 veioraus organized In compa nies, and he Relieved 800 more might be got together now. Every one of those Boys lu Blue in the last can vass were old veterans, although it had boon nocessary to drop a few names, A body composed wholly of old veterans would carry more weight and exert a better Influence than a mixed corps marching under false colors. There was plenty of room for those who were not votorauB in tbe Tow Boys' Olub and the Garfield and Arthur Volunteers. Mr. Rogers took the floor and declared that Dr. Doane waa TBYINO TO MAKE A PVBAMID for himself on the ehouldera of the old veterans of tho Sixteenth Ward, but that they would have nothiug to do with him. Dr. Doane said ho had no desire to become a pyramid. [Laugiitor.] Mr. Rogers—tVoU, ho wants to ride a horse or do something big. and wo won’t have bim. The Chair ruled that the gentleman was personal in his remarks and that it must coaso. Major Clobrldge, of tUa Twentieth Ward, said the last gentleman who had'spoken from the Sixteenth Ward bad showed about the true situation of affairs. It was a question as to who should ride a horse. They had no right to brinn their ward Jealousies into tbe Central •igh Committee, nor was it right for them to muster Tom, Dick and Barry into the Boys in Blue companies. There C7 men iu tbe Twentieth Ward company, and every mau of them was an honorably discharged vete ran. There were, of course, fuily as good Republicaua outside of tho Boys iu Blue as were lu it, but such as would not vote for Garfield unless permitted to sail under false colors, should be allowed to go over to Han cock if they wanted to. [Applause.] The question was called ou tho pradlog motions, viz., changing tho name of the orgauizution to Veteran Boys in Blue, aud liiuiiiug the meuiborship to old eoldlDrs and sailors, and botb motioua wore adopted, tho Six teenth Ward dclegatlou voting In the negative. Ex-AIdcrmnu Acker said that the Soldiers’ and Sail- ora’ Union of the Sltteonth Ward, 150 etroug, had been mustered in as Boys in Blue, but they would now effect an indopeiident orgsuizatlon. Mr. Rogers demanded the muster rolls of the ward from tbo aeoretary, which were banded him, and the six deiogatoB from tbe Sixteenth Ward maroUed out of tho hall, protesting that they would have nothing to do with Dr. O.oanc. After their exit the committee proceeded to the trans action of further business, and finally adjourned for one week. _____________ _ Sovcntli (%''ard R c p u b licam i—K n rolllno: Ffow ITIcniIiers—Alleged D u iuocrats on cue R o ll Book* A special meeting of the Seventh Ward Re publican Association wka held last evening at the wig wam corner Putnam and ClasBon avenues, Mr. Thomas T. Evans, president, lu the chair, and Mr. Matthew Farrell and Mr. Caleb U. Candy^ secretary and assis tant sooretary, respootively. There was a large attend ance of members and considerable interest was taken in the pruceedings, which consiated exclusively ia the manufacture of new members. Mr, Samuel Corle, on tho part of the Investigating Committee, reported favorably on the names of twenty candidates for membership. The report was adopted and the names placed on the roll book. The names of ten candidates for membership were presented and referred to the Investigating Committee. Mr. Sullivan called the attention of the meeting to the fact that David Nash, whose name was on the roll book, waa not only a Democrat but had frequently re marked that he was proud of the title. Nash, ho charged, had never voted the RepuDlioan tieket, and it woe a disgrace to the association that he should be numbered among Its members. Ho moved that tho bylaws be suspended and the ixamo Of Mr. Kasli stricken from the roll. No opposition was made and tho motion was adopted. The same aotion, on motion of Mr. Walker, was also taken in the oaso of Henry Cammoyer. Mr. Sullivan—There is aucthor name that I would like to bring before tbs meeting. It is that of Michael Wade. No one knows what he is, but 1 believe he is the President of the Hancock dlub of ibis ward, which I think ie a euffloient proof that he is not a good Re publican. 1 move that bis same bo atrluken off the roll book. Ex-Atderman Rowley oppoied the motion. He met Mr. Wade every day, and waa not aware that he was not a good Republican. Whether he was or not the as sociation bad no right to take tho contemplated action, which wae forbiddon by the bylaws of tho General Committee. Tho Chairman declared the point of order well taken, and aoknowledgod that he bad overstepped the bounds in allowlngithlugs to tako the course they had. The three names, to which objectious had been raised, would, he said, be referred to the Registration Com mittee. The namea of George Brown and O. E. Saromis were placed ou tho roll, liaviug bwn racommoudod by the secretaries of the Twentieth and Eleventu wards re spectively. The meeting then adjourneJ. ElffU tU W a r d a n d A r t h u r G ^ r ^ icld Cliit}© A meeting of tho Garfiold Arthur Club of the Eighth Ward was hold last evening at Braun’s ffaifj'fweuly-thlrdatrosTand Fifth avenue, the Presi dent, Wm. H. Cadmus, in the chair. After the trans action of some routine buBlness, tbe club listened to an address by Counselor George F. Elliott. It was reported that on Ssptomber 10 tbe club wiU raise a banner in front of the headquarters ou Fifth avenue. A speoial demonstration wiU be made. The banner wUl be 20 by 30 feet. XivontiotU 'n^ard llcpublicanw —Orffan- izlngr for tUe Caiupalfin* The Twentieth Ward Republican Associa tion held a regular monthly meeting last evening, in the new wigwam on Cumberland street, near Fulton. Captain Lewis A. Meyers, the Vice President, occupied the chair, and Secretary James W, Monk, recorded. The wigwam was crowded with memhera of the organ ization, Tho namos of John F. Bogardus, Jr.. Frank V. Whitney, Henry A. Barrett, Henry F. Williams, Alba Seaman, Theodore Ueitman, Oharlos Tollner, John Jenkins and Francis L, Wrlgiat were proposed for membership, and referred to tho Investigatlog Com mittee, Mr. Robert J. Ross reported fM® the InvostlgatlDg Committee the names of thirty-eight persons who had applied for admission to tho asflcciatlon at the previous meeting. The report was received end the namea were ordered on the roU. THB PBESIDBNTIAIi CAMPAIGN. Mr. M. E. Page asked what toUon had^en taken by tbe association toward conducting an active organized campaign for Oarfleld and Arthur, in the ward. The Chairman replied that tbe members of the asso- olatlon were united and working with a will for the ticket. The association had had their roll book returned to them and tbit was tho reason organized work had not been had at an earlier date. Mr. Page moved that a commlltea of too, comprlalng one from each election district In the ward, be ap pointed to look after the conduct of tho campaign for the National ticket and to confer with the Campaign Committee of tbo Republican General Committee ae to the work on hand. Mr page explained that tbe object of the motion was to btlno out every vote possible for the National nominees knd to roll up in tho banner Re publican ward A GRAND UAJOBITE for Garfield and Arthur The motion waa adopted. On motion of Mr. David Wilson It was resolved that when tbe association adjourned It be to moot thU evening. Dr. Owen O. Honghton called the attention of the _ Chair to the fact tlmt after the re-eurollmout of the < Huntington will give a good acoouni of herself. Republioans of the ward the Enrollment Oommittoe had stricken off forty-two names. He asked why they had been stricken ofl 7 He knew that among them wore some good Ropubllcan'e. The Chairman etid he anpposed the committee liad good reaaone for their aotion. Dr. Ho^hton said some of the names had been stricken off owing to clerical errors. He moved that the gentlemen appear this evening, enroll their namos and that the Goneral ComaJties then bo requested to order that their names be added to-tbe roll. Mr. Thomas I. Hughes moved that the gentlemen who had by reason of olorioal errors been loft off tho roll be notified to appear for rc-enroUmoot this even ing. Mr. R. J. Sporry thought the association could not legally onroU the names to-night, and that the matter should GO TO THE GENERAI. COMMITTEE. Sfr. E. F. Page objected to sending the matter to the Gouoral Committee. He did not see what tho General Committee had to do with It. Mr. Robert Reardon, Jn Illustration of the way in which tbe enrollment had been conducted, said the uamo of Mr. Michael Ham, of 21 Carlton avenue, bad boon entered 21 Clinton avenue. This waa clearly a mistake, for nearly every oue thero know that Mr. Michael Ham lived In the tv'ard and was a good Ropub- Ilcao. Mr. Reardon feared that the fact of hta belug loft off the roll was not due entirely to a olsrica! error. He feared also that a narrow minded policy had b e ^ followed in making up tbo roll. Mr. M. E. Page opposed the motion to send the mat ter to tho General Committee. Tho easloat way out of tbe dilemma, ho said, was tbe best, providing the course pursued was proper and legal. If gantlemon who were well known aa good Hepubllcans had, by the blundering stupidity of tho persona having charge of the re-enrollment been loft off the roll the association should remedy the injustice which bad been done these gentlemen. The speaker did not believe there was a member of tbe organization who wished to keep these men out if they were entitled to come in. AU the association had to do was to notify these gentle- men their attendance was desired this evening, reoeivo their propositions for membership, suspend the by- SEWERAGE. The Defects in the Manhattan Eeach System. at the Fall primaries and tako an active part In the Presidential campaign. The motion of Mr. Hughes to notify the gentlemen to appear BEFORE THE ASSOCIATION this evonlng was adopted. The chairman stated that he would this evening an nounce the names of the oommittoe of ten to look after tho Presidential campaign for the ward association. It was an Important committee, and bo desired some time for consideration before appointing it. Mr. M. E. Page suggested that tbo committee when appointed confer with the Garfield and Arthur Cam paign Club, tho Towboya Club, tho tVashingtoo, Gar field and Arthur Battory, the Boys in Blue, and other campaign orgaulzatlona in the ward, in order that tho canvass might be made as efficient as possible, and that everything might work smoothly. Tbe meeting then adjourned until this evening. T i v c n t r - a o c o n d W a r d R e p u b l i c a n s . R c v iN lnsr xixe R o l l o f tb e W a r d A s s o - c i a t l o n . A meeting of the Twenty-second Ward Re- pubhcftQ AssooiatloQ was held last eveuiug at tho head quarters, Fifth avenue and Seventh street, tho Presi dent, Mr. Israel A. Barker, in the chair, and Charles F« Baldwin recording. The meeting waa called to order at eight o’clock and the minutes of tbs last meeting were read an d approved. Seven names wore proposed for membership, and on motion were referred to the Executive Committee with instructions to report during the evening. Eighteen names reported at the last meeting were also directed to be placed on the roll. Supervisor Egolf, of the Speoial Committee ca Pa tronage, reported that the committoo waited upon tbo CommissloBor of City Works and urged that the names prosented by the Alderman of the ward and indorsed by the members of the General Committee from the ward, bo appointed. Commissionor French promised to consider the matter and said he desired to act lalriy and justly by all the warda. Since that timo tho com- mitteo had not held a meeting. The report waa received and the committee dlsebarged with thanks. Mr. Watt, from the Committee on Revision of the RoU, reported the names of mombers that should bs stricken from tho roll. First, those who had died: second, those who have removed from the ward, and third, those who are charged to bo Democrats. Only four Democrats were found upon the roll. Several names reported under tho head of removals were objected to. and were referred back to the committee for further examination. Upon motion, the report was received and laid over until tbe next meeting to allow for further examination. The roDort of the Executive Committee upon names proposed for membership was received, and the namos ordered to be placed on the roll. Some routine business was transacted and the asso ciation adjourned. lU o e U n u Of t li o T% w cuty«fi£tli W a r d R e p u b l i c a n s —C h a r g r e s A s r a l u s t a iaeiii« b e r o f t h o A s s o c ia t io n * A special meeting of the Twenty-fifth Ward Garfield and Arthur Campaign Olub waa held last even ing at their headquarters, Hancock street aud Reid'ave nue, President Armltage in the chair, and A. D. Falk- ner recording the proceedings. After tho preliminary business the Investigating Committeo reported favor ably on a long list of names for application for mem bership. The names were placed on the roll book. Major C. Blabop, of tho epooial oommittoe ap pointed to Investigate certain ohargoa which were pre ferred against William Cox, made the following report: The oommitteo appointed to investigate certain charges preferred against William Cox, a member of this association, have attended to that duty, and ask leave to report as follows; Your coimnittes has held several meetings and has oxsmined a number of nit- nedaes. At the most of these meetings Mr. Cox has boon present, and has been given the fullest opportun- itytoexplaln aud defend himself. Your coamlttea beg, therefore, to report that they find the said William Cox guilty of the charges preferred against him in this: That ho has mutilated the roll book of this asso ciation, while in hls possession as General Committeo Inspector, by checking overy name in said roll book aa having voted at every primary during that year; and your committee further report that the said Cox has wrongfully and wilfully dropped names from eald roll book and has added others of doubtful character. Section 13, Artiolo 8, of the bylaws of tho General Committee provides: That any member of a ward or town aasoclation who shall wilfully violate any estab lished bylaw of this committee or such association, In respect to call, oustody and disposition of such roll book * * * * or ehoU without due and oompoteut authority wilfully altar or deface the same, shall be Uablo to aeutonce of expulaioo from the msml^rshlp of such association for such offense, whiob sentence may be pronounced after inquiry by i vote ox such associa tion. Your oommittoe therefore reconimond that tho said Cox bo censured for this unrepubllcan aud very reprehensible conduct, and that bis name be dropped from^tha roU book, all of which la respootfuUy sub- After a sharp debate the report of the Investigating Committee wae laid on the table by a large majority. One of the membera In the rear of the room complain ed that there was a large crowd of boys voting. The president deolercd that If ho caught a boy voting in the meeting be would throw him out into the middle of tbe street. When this remark was made i grand rush was made for the door and about twenty-five boys were seen to disappear through a small passageway. The meeting theu adjourned. S e v c n t l i llV a rd Ila n c o c l c a u d CuKlittU C’a i n p a i f f n C lnb* A meeting of tho Hancock and English Club of the Ssvonth Ward, auxiliary to tbe Central Hancock and English Club of Rings County, met last night I t MoKnlght’s Hall, on Glisson avenue near Myr tle. President M. A. Ward was in tho chair and Secre tary Edward Deary recorded. The president said that last Wednesday evening he at- touded tho moctingof the Central Club at Jefferson Hall aud had the pleasuto of hearing Mr. Grady. Tha presi dent of the club told tbe speaker that the organization was intended first of all to help the election of the Dem ocratic National tickot, but that, as tbe campaign ad vanced, they might take a band in local matters. The Central Club had promised to do all they could for tho club and to furnish them 'with speakers. Mr. lil. McKenna said the question was whether the people should have a change of administration. No matter about the Credit Moblller or tho Do Golyer mat- tor, the Republican would poll hls vote. Tbe Dem ocrat had no easy time of it, aud no one knew what the Republicans would do at election or after election. They had immense resources and would fight to the last. There could be no doubt that Tildon was elected in 2876 and waa cheated out of hisposition as Chief Magis trate. Such a thing was never known before. Tho whole bench of the Supreme Court was ready, then, to put a man in the Presidential seat who had never been elected. What they must do waa to work day and night and pile up such a vote for Hancock that not all tho Republican Judges, with Garfield to boot, could count him out. [Applause.] The bloody shirt had been tho cry for sixteen years, and the men who raieed tbe cry were not the meu who fought tho battle, but tbe men who stayed at home and plundered tbe army. The Democrats had fought aud bled for a united people, and it must be so. Tha morohanta of New York told what they knew of the South, and were not they better to be believed than the polUldanB who had been plundering the coanty for so long 7 It was not the politicians who were supporting Hancock. The workmen, tbe mechanics, tha mass were urging on this boom, while the politicians were at watering places. Formerly it was the poUtiolins who rallied the people, but now it waa the people who were ridlyink the poli ticians. [Applause] It would not do to sit down and trust to tbe boom, however, but all must work and do their level bast to elect Hancock and English. Ho did the fighting for five years in the army of the Potomao aud did more than all the other army’corps put together. He was a Btatesmen of the old Democratlo typo, who believed in the will of tbe people. The speaker had no doubt that ho would be the next President of this country. [Applause.] The chairman called on Mr. Mcllvaney, who excused himself, however, for tbe present. MB. J. G. OABYL was called for and said that though an old man he had not been a public speaker, etill be had been a Demoora tio worker for fifty years, >nd waa proud and thankful that at the age of 70 be could stand up and raise his voiod for Hancock and English. [Applauss.] After all that tbe Democratlo party had gone through, they ought to be happy and thankful that they had such a prospect before them. Though so largely in the asosn- dsney In this country, tbe Democrats had boon passive and law abiding under the* mQ|t shameful mlsreprsBsn- tation and ppptieetdfi. If Tlldea had said seven word. In 1876. jKiVUt. beeq^’Itay v Perhaps sisia the^a.u u. Srinj aud the ____ -ilthouBh. the places they ought to heve held under XHden -were occtlpieil by porjured and tblevlog BepubllcdDS, H»n- cock wore the bloody shirt, but he laid It asldo fifteen yesra ego, and the shirt that Garfield woro wss stalgcd with suother stain tbsn blood, [Applauie.j The speaker urged bis audienoe not to let loot] differences Interfere with tbs nstlonal ticket. It wss time thst Ihk hnsiS'SSI? OYSjhsuIed, BO that one might know whether the cnir^i wee true thst the psrty in power had stolen mlUlone of dollars. The expenee of Gov ernment was inoreaslng from year to year;untll tbo Dem- ocraU cams Into power In Congress, and whan Hancock got In the Presidential chair the change would be greater atlll. [Applause.1 The taxes were going Into th. pockete.'of the Kopublloan aristocracy, bnt tbe great masses of this country bad reaolved to stand It no lon ger, and at tbs next election would aee to It that tbo man of their choice was elected Bsveral new members were added to the roll, which contains nearly SOO names. H a u c o c l c In tb e U lR - b teen th W a r d . A Hancock and English Campaign Club has been organized in the Sixth District of the Eighteenth ^Vard, with headquarters at US Central avenue. Tbe officers are, Peter Bcbllg, President; A. Bedlmelr, Vice President; F. Sohen, SscFstary; IV. JBeyar, Treasurer, A committee of three has been appointed to make ar rangements to raise a Usnoook and English campaign banner, and to report at tbe next meeting, on Saturday, September 4, The committee oousista of Auguet Sedl- meir, Philip Sohen, Wm, Boyer. Regular meetings will be held every Saturday evening, at 148 Central ave nue, corner of Myrtlo atroet. The Democrats of tho Eighteenth are very busy, sparing ueither time nor money, ______________ H a n c o c k in tb e T iv o n t r - I i r s t W a rd. A meeting of the Hancock and English Cam paign Club of tbe Twenty-firel Ward wee held last night at OosmopoUtan Hall, corner of DeKalb and Throop avenues. Ur. Benjamin Wood presided, A oommitteo was appointed to secure s more central place of meet ing, several names ware added to the roll, and tbs club adjourned for a week, H a n c o c k B a n n e r R a l a i n g a t Gropn- la v r n . The Democrats of Greenlawn hnl a moss meeting and banner raising on Saturday uight. Fire hundred people wore present. Justice U. O. Plenon presided. Tbe bauiior Is IS by 20 feet, and cost $13S. It bears tbs portraits of Hanoock and Engllsb, Tbe speakers on tho oeoaalou were Congressman Covert and Hon. Henry C. Platt, of Huntington. It was eipoctod that ox-Judgo Reid, Perry Belmont and Henry A. Reevea would be present, but Instead came their letters of regret. Tbe meeting was most enthualsaUo, and What a CommUtcc of tho Board of Su- pervigorg Saw Yesterday Afternoon. Tlie Nuisance in Bheepsliead Bay—The Committee to Recommend a Reference of the Whole Hatter to the Gravesend Supervisor. At a rooet-.t mooting of the Board of Super- visors a oommunicatlon waa received from tho resi dents of Sbeopabead Bay. complaining of tho towerago system In operaUon at ManUalUu Beach, and declanng that tbo rasuUd of its imporfootiona camo to thorn in tho shapo of Intolerable odors. It was referred to a Special committee, oonBlatiog of tho Supervisors from the country totrns, and a mestJng was hold at Hanhat- taa Boach on Thursday evening last, to oonsider tho matter. Mr, Harris, the ocglneor of the Manhattan Beach Improvement Company, placed himself at tho disposal of the oommittoe and explained the plana upon which tho sewer was constructed. The SupervUora gave him a patient and respectful hearing, but tho tes timony of a dolo 3 Btion of tho peoplo of Shoepshoad Bay was so strong that they dotormlnod, for themselves, to make an examination of tho sewer. Acoordingly yot. terday afternoon Supervisors MoKaue, Ryder, WUllam- son and Van SJclen prooeodod to Bheopshoad Bay, where a yaoht was procured. The trip to THB MOUTH OF THE SEIVER was made very expeditiously, and a full opportunity to make a thorough examination of ii was afforded. But one opinion prevailed among tho members of tbo com mitteo. Not tho Bllghtcet doubt of the Justloe of all the complaints that have beon mado waa outortalned. The opoulDg of tho sower Is a very oonsidorable dls- tauco—two hundred feet it la stated—from what ts called tide water, banks running out so os to protect tho locality of tho sewer tonniuus from any active flow, Tho contents of tho sewer aro proveutad by means of a trap from escaping until the flood Is at tho full, whon tho trap obstruction Is ramovod, tho idea being to have tbo hotel ref use go out with tho obb, Eiperlonco has, however, taught tho pooplo of SUoepshead Bay that it doos nothing of tho kind. On leaving tho sower tho refuao Instead of plunging into a strong outward cur rent, floats into an (eddy, tbe bank as already stated preveutlug any couslderabla flow of tldo water, and as the garbage slowly mskes its way out toward the cur rent it Ie caught in tho luxuriant growth of sea gra«s which adorns the bay, and thoro rotalnod until tbs re turning tldo. This carries it with all Its odors In direc tions least desired by tho pooxjlo of tho bay, and they havo only one story to toll of . tho unbearablo odors with which thoy are continually allllctod. Ex-Afisessor Naehor, who had boon given to under stand that tho Supervisors proposed to visit tho plaoo, was there before them. There was no uncertainty whatever about hie version of the troublo. Ho had, ho Bald, seen tho refuse, moat of which had nevor boeu carried off at all, floated up on tbe returning tide, and tho smell hod proved to bo SIMPLY UNENDURABLE to a number of ladies who happened to be in the vi cinity, As the Supocvisois wore sailing down tho bay they caught sight of tUo swill boat from tha hotel, and Us dumping operations attracted tho attention of Su pervisor WilUameon. A proposition to give chaso and arrest tho oebupanta of the boat waa mado, hut as tho afternoon was well advanced, nothing In this direction was dono. Upon disembarking, tho committeo pro ceeded to Juallce McMahon’s hotel, whore a meeting was held, Supervisor McKano occupying tho chair. In calling tho committee to order, Mr. McKano said that ho thought hls oolleages now undor- stood the source of the trouble as well as he did. They had seen tho sewor, thoy undorstood its workings, and they could express tholr own opinions about it. His own Judgment waa simply that it waa a nuisance of tho vileat possiblo character, and that in its present looatitm the highest engineering skill would never mako it anything olso. Under tho existing conditions it was simplyau impossibility that tho refuse should be car ried out. Some time back ho had had a talk with Mr. Sully, one of tho ropresontatives of tho Manhattan Boach Company. That goutloman had coincided with him that if tho sower had boon built along the bulkhead In front of the beach, up to the inlet, thoro would be no troublo, and had assured him that it would bo so coustruoted. Mr. Corbin had subsequently Indorsed the assurances of Mr. Sully, but how thoy had boon carried out tho committee could now eoe. Thera was NOT FLOW ENOUGH In the vicinity of the mouth of the sower to carry off the refuse. It lodged among tho sea grass until tho returning tide, and as the Summer winds were usually southerly, the residents of tho bay got tho full benefit of tho collections. Even if the sower ran out into full tide water tho result would bo largely the same, tho for mation of the bay being such that a large proportion of the refuse would be inevitably caught and retained until tho Incoming tide carried It back. Supervisor Williamson thought it waa pretty hard upon th© people of tho bay. They were there before the Manhattan Beach Hotel was thought of, and their homes werejust as dear to them is any hotel could be to its proprietors. Supervisor McEane called attention to the fact that some time ago in in interview with a reporter Mr. D. 0. Corbin had aiserted that tbe people of tho bay were always looking about for something to complain of. I d answer to that he would simply say that the people referred to asked no more than any reasonable peraons might ask—protootlon for themselves and their fami lies. They had always evinced a friendly dlspoaltlon toward the Miahattan Beach enterprise and, but for tbelr good offlees, that enterprise might not have flourished quite so amazingly as it had done. Supervisor Ryder rather doubted whether the Board of Supervisors had power to take any action in the premises. There coiild be but one opinion as to the oxlateace of a nulsauce, and a very serious one, and he thought It was a mistake to have any trap at all to tho sower. It would, he thought, havo a beneficial effect if the water was allowed to flow into the sewer even when the tide was comiug in. However, he did not think that that would obviate the troublo, and It was a matter in which, In hls opinion, the Board of Health of the Town of Gravesend should TAKE PROMPT MEASURES. Supervisor Van Siclen was of tbe same opinion. He cited tho case of a nulsauce which had attracted con-slderablo attention in Now Lots, and with which the Board of Health of tU&t town found no diiflculty In dealing in a very summary manner. Supervisor WlUlamsou suggested that the oommitteo present to tho Board a report of the condition of affairs, aud that the matter be referred to the oounsol to see What powers they had in the matter. Bupervisor Van Blclen thought that would bo slow work. The Hoard of Health of Gravesend could get at a remedy much quicker. Supervisor MoKaue said that the Gravesend Board of Health had already taken action looking to a prosecu tion of the hotel authorities, but the courts were closed, and iu the meantime the season was waning rapidly. Tho hoto) people bad simply acoompliehod thoir pur pose for tho present year. Thoy never proposed that the refuse should be carried out of tbe bay for fear it should return upon the shores of Manhattan Boach. They were simply proteotiug themselves at the expense of the people of tho bay. On motion of Supervisor Williamson It was agreed that a report should be presented to the Board settin'g forth the facts as they had found them and recommend ing that the whole matter bo referred to tho roprosouto- tivo from Gravesend (Sup. McKano). on Saturday morning * they generally lived together pretty well; ho had erysipelas in hls head; he was not able to attend to hls business, and left it to me ; he got eryelpolaa early in May last: he waa confined to hla bed for a month ; sorer boon able to attend to his business aince tbbo, owing to lack of mental strength ; he was eatiefled with the way I attended to hls business. The Coroner said there were a number of other wit nesses, but ho did not think it necessary to put them on tho stand, as tbev would only corroborate tbe tacts al ready obtained. The jury retired and shortly after returned tho fol lowing oa THE VERDICT : We find that the deceased, Henry Bcinhanor, camo to hls death by Injuries canaed by throwing himself under tho wheels of a Long laland Uailroard car, while the same waa in motion, on tho corner of Atlantic and worgia avenues, while laboring under a fit of insanity, Auguafc 28. 1880 . Gustav Dcttloff, Rudolph Reiner, Joseph .Schuchtner, J. w. Errogcr, Dr. Francla AHllet, A. Wernett, GeoTge Richards, Louis Bledermanu, Elbert TiUotson, jurors. CURRENT EVENTS, at Castle Garden DERANGED. X lie V e r d i c t o f U ic C o r o iaer’sf J i i r v tu tlie C'aso o f X o tFU A u d i t o r B e iJi- lia u c r * Coroner Nolan a n d a ju r y m e t a t tho New Lots Town Hall, yesterday afternoon, to tako the tes timony showing the cauRca which led to the death of Town Auditor Henry Beinhaucr, who was klllod by being decapitated by a trolu of the Loug Island Rail road, on Buturday morning last. The first witness was D, C. CARROLL, who testified; I did not know deceased ; saw him Sat- urday morning last, about six o'clock, at the corner of Georgia and Atlautio avenues; he was running along side one of the rapid transit cars; the train was goiug east; itwaeuot going very fast; cannot eay whether he had hold of tbo car or not; be was on tbo north side of the train and I on the south side; there were three coaches on tha Crain; he dropped down between the middle of the two trucks of the centre oar: hls face was down first, but ho turned It sldeway, and then t4e six wheels passed over bis neck. OAFTAIN EARLY testldcd: Am c&ptolu of the New Lots police; knew dcceaaod twenty years; he was a cabinet maker ; he was a sober, steady man; saw him Saturday morning g);out ten mloutos of s ix; he Was walking toward the Howard^o*US6, between the$rst and second tracks, pa ths north sldo ktiWh©, ^ o u t twenty-five feet from Alabama a v e i!^; t^rg'^lr© at the nme a west bound rapid transit train and an east bound Long Beach train approaching; ho was walk ing leisurely along; I was standing fon the How ard House stoop talking loO l^cr Nteteil^ ; Xsald to him, \ffeo that man S a ftlng^fw ^ h the walked ahead of the rapid transit traiOi and then grossed over the other side of the Long Beach train'; 1 cried ouflo bim, but be paid DO attention to me; I told the flagman wbonevor he saw Beinhaucr on the tracks, not to allow him to stand there ; while I was speaking a west bound rapid transit passed and shut Beinhauer from my view; when the train started again, I saw him running with the oast bound rapid transit train; I and tbe flagman ran after h im ; he had hold of the side of the o ar; the second oar from tbe engine; bo stooped down and rose up several times os though look ing for something under tbo care; I ^halloed to him; ho looked around and saw us; just then he dropped down, shoved himself forward, laid hls head on the rail, and tbe 'Wheels passed over bis nock; after the car passed, I picked him np and laid him alongside the track; tho head was almost off; had the body taken to the station house; the train was going about seven or eight miles an hour; the oonduotor did not see tho deceased till I called to bim; be then rang the boll Just ae the deceased throw himself under the car; it had been said tho deceased was deranged, and that be had at tempted to commit suicide by walking on tho track wheu a train was approaching; never saw him under the influence of liquor; first hoard he was out of hls mind about fourteen days ago; had no personal knowl edge that he woe deranged. MRS. ELIZABETH BEINHAUER, wifo Of tho deceased, testified she ha<l been married fifteou years; her husband left the house about a quarter of six; wo never bad any trouble; always lived happily together: about half-past six I heard he was run over; he had been siok for some time; he had eryBipolas iu the head; tho doctor said he waa a little oat of hls mind. PATRICK DONNELT, tho flagman at the corner of Atlantio and Alabama ave nues, gavo testimony about similar to that given by Captain Early. GEORGE J. JABDIN, the conductor, testified that he^ad known Beinhauer about ci’evou years; that for the past elevon days ho had beard that tue deceased was out of bis mind, and be bad noticed that he acted very strangely; ha did not see doceaaed until after the accident; hla head was than hanging on the inside of the traok, being attached to tho body only by a fow cords, AN AFFIDAVIT was read by tho Coroner, lu which Richard Gregg de posed that on the 2Cth of August ho had, after a hard tussle, succoodod In pulling tbe deceased from the railroad track, near Rockaway avenue; at tho timo the decoased was walking on tho track toward tho city, and A rapid transit train was almost on top of him. ALFRED BFINHAUER, a son of the deceased by hls first wife, testified that hls father was a rabinctmakcr, doing business ut No. 3 Cedar street. Now York City; saw him last alive on Frl- ''day svenlug; his father acted as though out of bis mind for some time previous to hls death ; ho was al ways talking at random ; at times my stepmother and be had trouble; to my knowledge, thoy had uo trouble There were 2,421 arrivals yesterday. Fifty vessels, detained by the storm, were at anchor yesterday off tho east shore of fitaten Island. Tho receipts from mternol revenue at Wash ington yesterday, were $735,400.25. AU the coal mines in the Scranton re;<Iou resumed work to-day. The Ohio State Fair began its tliirty-flrat xnnnal oxhibition yeaterilKy, «t Columbux. Tbo obow Of cattle is very largo. Tho Society of tho Army of tho Ohmber- Und win moot In Toledo, Ohio, on fleptember 23 and 24. Extensive proparabona are being made for It. About ^4,000,000 of foreign gold will arrive In New York oaoh week until tho 1st of No- verciber. H. N. Gambrill. a prominent business man of Baltiznoro, died in that city last night, in his OlHh year. General Grant, it is said, has positively re fused the presidency of the La Vega Mining Company, which was recently offered him. Petectire Shaugnessy ye.sterday recovered In Brucklenuor’s pawn shop a black velvet dross, valued at $100, that was stolen on tho 15th lost from tha reeidenoo of John R. Bartlett, No. C7 St. James place, Mr. J. C. Miller, one of tho proprietors and bUBlnesB manager of tho iraa/iiu'7ten Critic, died yes- tor afternoon from tho offocts of injuries received by falling from a third story window of his residence re cently. A grand council was held yesterday at Los Pinos Agency to decide upon Chief Ouray’s suoccBsor, Chief Saforonari will undoubtedly bo chosen. U© had charge of affairs lost Winter while Ouray was In Wash ington. Tho end of Pier 12, East River, collapsed yesterday, under the weight of fifteen tons of Iron, which Italian laborers had iJlled upon It, Three of tha men wore precipitated Into tho water, but no on© was hurt. A large aerolite passed over Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday raprnlag, at throe o’clock, causing a brilliant illumlnatlou. It exploded over the bike with auch force as to sovorcly jar many buildtnga in tha northern part of the city. Tho fragments shot off In various dlreotlon.. Ilka tho ftrebolls of a rocket. The Board of Directors of the Manhattan Elevated Hallway Company mot In Now York to-day, and acted upon tbe resignation of Mr. Cyrna W. Field. Mr. Biebop, of tbo New York Elevated Itoad will auc- ceod Mr. Field. Tho resignation of Mr. Field ae direc- tor of the Manhattan does not affect bia position aa president of tbe New York Elevated Railroad. Thieves robbed the Tremont House on Broadway, on Sunday night last, aud carried off prop erty belonging to guests to the amount of $1,700 in cash and several costly gold watches. The work was done, undoubtedly, by a dcBperate thief, and the police are socking several men who answer to this description. Mr. T. J. Welsh, of Lancaster, 8. C., waa the principal loser, hls watch and $l,00d in greenbacks and gold having been taken from him. At least a dozen rooms on the second floor were outeved through tho flro escape from the floor above and thonc© through a wmdow which waa left open. The victorious Amerienu Turners, who took part in an international amateur gymnastic tornament at Frankfort on the Main recently, are on the stoamship Herder which ia now duo at New York. There were 400 compeCItore from England, France, Italy and all parts of Germany. The representatives of th© United Statea Turner Bund carried off the lion’a aharc of tha tweuty-two prizes, for ©xcellenco in gymnastics. Tho Turner Bund is an association whoso object is tho mutual development of body and mind, and Jt has a membership of 15,000 in the United States. The mem bers of the Turn V'ereins of New York, Brooklyn and other cities will give th© returning victors a reception. Dr. J. Marion Sims, of New York, returned from Europe on the steamer Republic, on Saturday. Haia reported as saying that Dr. Tanners fast excited intense interest iu England. He sent bim a cablegram from Paris to encourag© him, and believed In him as an honest man, though he subjected himself to unpleasant accusations by the manner in which his fast was con ducted. The first annual session of the Colored Normal Institute of Virginia was closed at Lynchburg last Thursday, and the event marks an epoch la the lilstory of the colored pooplo in tho South. Tho Insti tute owes its existence largely to the efforts of tbe late Dr. Barnes Soars, Superluteodeat of tha Peabody edu cational fund, and very many colored teachers availed themselves of its advantages this Summer. The session lasted six weeks and musical instruction, lectures phonetic spelUiig and addresses on subjects connected with the purposes of the eossion comprised tbo pro gramme. The progress made by tho teachers surprised themselves, and tho Institute ts now one of the perma nent features of education for tha colored people tn the South. Tho steamer Arizona arrived from Liver pool yesterday morning, and from its officers eom© particulars were gathered of tho sulcida of Miss Clarke, of Brooklyn, who w’aa a passenger on it. The snicldo was committed four days after tho Arizona loft this pork. On the evening ol her death she was sitting on deck, and at 8:30 o'clock she asked a gentleman, with whom she had been talking, to bring her a rug, as she felt cold. During his absence she Jumped overboard. The alarm was given too late, even if Uie sea bad boon perfectly calm. A note was found in her room ad dressed to the Purser, In which she gave directions re garding tho disposition of her sachol and the few things she had with her. Tho Purser delivorod the eacheJ to the company’s officers at Liverpool and it will arrive by the next steamer. Miss Clarke, be said, showed no symptoms of insanity, nor any intention of committing suicide. Six members of tho third class at West Poiut wore dlamlasad In 1879 on tko charge of hazing the cadets admitted that year. Two of them wore re stored later, on the recommendation of General Scho field. Upon the cocommondatloa of tbe Secretary of War—Mr. McCrary—the President promised to restore tho four cadets dismissed, if the entire corps at AVest Poiut would, for the following academic year, refrain from acts of violence or annoyance toward one another. They have been ordered to report to Goueral Schofield for duty, tho President being of the opinion from tho report of General Schofield that \ the condition of tho corps in regard to the practice of hazing has proved to be entirely satisfactory, as not a single instance has oc curred during tho year.” From this it would seem that the President does not regard the mutilation of and attack upon Cadet Whittaker as having been done by tho cadets. The cadets restored will accordingly be come members ol the third class, and resume their studies with the academic year, beginning to-morrow,' Eobert MeClellaud, ex-Secretary of the In- terlor and ex-Governor of Mlcnlgan, died at Detroit lost oight. Ho was bora In Franklin County, Ponn,, iu 1807, and on tho first day of August bad reached hU 73rd birthday. Ho was a graduate of Dickinson Col lege, at Carlisle, Penn., and was admitted to the bar in 1831. Governor MoCielland practiced law in Pittsburg, and In 1833 removed to Monroe, Mich., then one of the most flourishing towns in the Northwest. He was ap pointed tbe first Bank Commissioner of tho State, and was offered tlie Attorney Generalship, but declined both offices. He wa< a member of the Bute Legisla- laturo; a member of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses, and was in several na tional conventions. In 1352 ha was in the Dem ocratio National Convention, in which year be, in company with General Cass and Governor Felcb, made a thorough oauvasB of the State. Later he was elected Governor of the State, and at the expiration of his term was re-elected. He resigned in 1853 to ac cept tho position of Secretary of the Interior under President Fierce, a place he filled with ci'edit and ac ceptability. Of late years he has practiced law and lived in partial retirements The steamboat AdelpUi, which left New York for Norwalk Sunday afternoon, met with an acci dent which created a pauio among the passengers, 'numbering 725 persons. The storm on the Sound was 80 boisterous as to arouse tha anxiety of the captain and crew. The sea ran so high that it was im|>oBiilbl© to k ^ p the boat In her course. Finally, a terrlflc sea swept uu3er the starboard guards and fairly lifted tho deck from its supports, beside tearing it away at the forward gangplank. Tho steam pipe was thrown out of position by the violence of tho blow, aud instantly the steam began to escape Into the cabin. The passengora thought that tho boat had blown up, and the wildest excitement prevailed. The captain could searcely quiet their fears, the cowardly aotion of some of tho male passengers locreasing the notion of danger. Oue man pushed women and children aside, and after fastening three life preservers on, fought a roan for a fourth one. The boat waa piloted into Greenwich Harbor, and the passengers were landed and sent to Norwalk by rail. Tho Adeiphi Is owned by R. Cornell White, and is not much injured. The American Science Association is in re ceipt of continued hospitality at Boston, and great interest is mantfestod Chore In the meetings. It will adjourn Wednesday night, to-day and to-morrow being davotod to papers. On Thursday morning 300 mom bers of the association will go to tho White Mountains, and others will attend an arcliery tournament at Rldgo Hill Farms, near tho city. Yesterday the aesociation was In general session; a number of members were elected, aud Oinoinnatl was solsotod tor the next meeting of tbe association, which will begin on August 17, 1881. The committee t^ memorialize Congress and State Legislatures regarding the cultivation of timber reported, aud pressuted a draft of a memorial, which was adopted. The committee recommends a law to protect trees along highways; laws tending to prevent forest fires; penalties against willful or careless setting of such fires and the appointment of a commission cf forestry under State authority. The Committee on Membership made a report in favor of extending the scope of the association, and recommending that the association be divided into eight sections instead of two, viz., physics, aetronomy and pure mathematics, chem- Istcy, moohanlcal science, geology and geography, biol ogy, anthropology aud econoraio soienca and statistics. A paper read by tho Rev. H. O. Hovoy, on ancient quarries of calcareous or orleutal alabaster and flint, describes the discovery of tho quarries in tbe Wyan dotte cave, Indiana. Experiments prove that these works are at least 1,000 years old. The paper was a very iuterosting oue. Professor Garrick Mallory dis cussed the scheme of tho tenth condue for obtaining etatiatica of untaxed Indians, The present census law providea for the ©numeration and aBcertalumont of ato- tlstics of the Indians, and the work will be of great practical value, and it is the first time that this people has been counted. CYPKESS HILLS. Continuation of the Cemetery Investigation. A Short Session in the Court House—Ob« Jection to Kewspaper Interrieirs as Erldenca-The lestimony of John M. Stearns. The Assembly committee appointed to in- vofltlgato the managcinent of tbe Cyproas Hills Cemo- tery met in tho Supecviiora’ room, In the Court H oubo , at two o’clock yesterday afternoon, pursuant to ad journment. Assemblymen Wren and Linda&y were the only members of the committee in attendance, and, owing to this fact, important bnalnesa, which other- wife would have been transacted, did not coma up for consideration. Mr. J. M. Stearns acted aa counsel for tho cemetery, and Mr. W, Cooke acted ae couasel for the oommittoe. In opening tbe proceedings Chairman Wrou sa!(I that at a former meeting of tho committee an affidavit was presented by Mr. John Tregaekls, which was cbjeoted 'O on the part of counsel for tho cemetery. The com- *^“ tee deemed the statemsDl to bo somewhat nartlal and partisan, and determined to reject it. It was'thero- upon resolved that Mr. Trogaakla should be examined at yesterday’s meeting. Mr. S^arns-Tlio only p»rt of the evidence of Mr. Irogxskla tb.t Ie desirable la that relattoK to tho records. “ Mr. ^ r e n —Under the decision of the committee, ao- cording to my understanding, the testimony of Mr Jrc^aakla^waa to cover all poinU he Is aUeged to have . Stearns—The newapapor Interviewa printed by mm will certainly not be acoopted by this committeo aa testimony, but the parties interviewed may be sent for and their sworn siatemente taken. I doubt whether a* newsp^er interview is proper evidence in any case. Mr. Cooke—Of course, I think a groat deal of Mr. Stearns’ judgment in this case. But suppose a news paper reporter goes to a man, talks to him, and obteins certain facts and admlsMoos: cannot the statements, aa then mode, make up part of the record? Mr. Rtearns (hastily)-.You havo to indict our people boioro you ean try them. Alibis stage of the proceedings, It was discovered ™ present, and consequently the con vflfaatlon concerning him was at once dropped. it would be Impossible to pro- bad contemplated, owing to tho H a 4 ^ members of the committee, and Chair, in view of the 8-ate of affairs to pass upou questions of law. How ever, ha desired to hear the teHtimouy of Mr John M Stearns, couasel for th© cemetery. Mr. Stearns wm TESTIMONY OF .lOHN M, RTEARNS. Ho testified that ho Jived *t No. 140 Fourth street In tho Eastern District; he was one of the trustees of Cypreia Hills Cemetery; bo bad been trusteo since the first part of January, 1876 or last part of the year 1874 • be was now and had been counsel for the cemetery since Ws connection with it as trustee, and prior to that time for about sir monthg; he understood that Mr. Drlggs hold certifleatea of plots for resale to tho number of 4C0 lo 470; the general mode of transfer waa to make sole of plot* and obUin deeds from the ceme- teij on the aurreuder of the certificates; deede given by the cemetery osaoclatlon for cerhfleatea of resale, and witness did not know whether Mr. Driggs had issued any deeds: ha did not know exactly what consideration was given ffir the certificates; bo undorstood that the original oonaideration for a portion of those certificates was tho 1430,000 in bonds issued in 1840. On tho can celing of tho bonds, there were some services and some money considerations. The other considerations for the remainder of the certificates was borrowed money loaned or advanced to the cemetery by the trustesa. When witness spoke of borrowed money, he referred to the $4,760 that Drlggs, Mills and Pease lent to the cem etery aom© twenty years ego. This was money advanced previoue to th© leaning of the certifleatoa. He did not understand that Messrs, Driggs. Mills and Pease re ceived plots iu addition to certifleatoa in payment for thoir loans. All the bonds that the trustees could con trol were placed in Mr. Cromwell’s hands as collateral Q. Do yon understand that in addition to these plots* tho gentlemen each received $30,000 In bonds 7 A I de^ Cline to answer that question in that form. Q. What do you understand about tho transfer of these bonds ? A. I undersUnd that Mills. Drlggs and Pease lent |1,.500 each to the cemetery, for which they received certificates. The records show thst Mr. Driggs made a purchase of six five thousand dollar bonds; that all the bonds which the trustees could control went into tbe hands of Mr. Cromwell for tho liquidation of a mortgage. When the certificates were issued, Mr. Driggs received plots at the same rates charged to (ho other bonds. The face value of the bonds was $30,000 for which ho (Briggs) -waa allowed certificates. The bonds were retired in exchange for plots valued at sixty dollars each,without Interest being allowed time were on the bouda. The bondi at that VTW..M w uojuuu rcpreBOuiaiivo scnicea; all th© certifleaUs owned by Mr. Drlggs had been bottghc hack by the cemotery, under act of tho Legislature of 1875, authorizing th© cemetery to buy bacK tho outstandvng certificates of plots for resale at not more than $30 each ; Mr. Drlgga had about 470 car- tifleates which tho corporation paid for in interest [)caring bonds, and the bonds owned by Mr. Driggs amount to about $10,000 on that sale, and Interest on the bonds ho la now being paid. A TICKLISH QUESTION.'^ Q. (Ry Mr. Cooke). Please state how you and the oth er trudteCB reconcile It with your duty to pav interest on these $10,000 worth of bonds, when, according to your own understanding, the whole oonaideration paid by Mr. Driggs was less than half that amount. /. I object to answer this question In that connection, l>e- cau^o there wore several transactioDB in couneoiion with tha transfer of those bonds which have not yet been gone over. Wo paid $31 each for the pJote in 1H70, the plots haviug each cost In prinoipal and (utorest Homothing over $40 each, at least ao far as Ihooe held by Mr. Driggs were concerned. Q. How abvutt Mr. Driggs receiving 317 lots on tho 9tU of July, 1853, In couRlderatiou of th© $4,730 pur chase 7 Question withdrawn. Q. Before the truitees Issued the bonds in 1873. did you go over tho affairs of tho cemetery to find out whether this fsas an honest obligation? A. I did not feel called npon to mako a special examitwtiOD; I be lieve. however, that tho obligation was an houe^t oue, and that the cemetery was honeatly bound to pay it; I thought that tbe tltlo of the certifi ate plots was valid and had a legal consideration so fa aa issued. Q. Did you investigate tho confidoratiou, go far ao Mr. Driggs wos Implicated ? A. I did ; yes, sir. Q. Did you try Co find out whathor or not ho had been paid prior to that time 7 A. I never had a sus picion and do not now think that he was paid prior to that date. Q. Did you tako Into oonsiderailoa at that time tho resolution of July 9, lSo5, which statea that the doode issued to Messrs. Poaao, Mllla and Driggs. in cano^ll- meut of their bonds and cash advanced to eouietery, bo approved by tho board 7 A. No, sir ; I did n o t; no epoctal attention was paid by me to this matter. Q. What book in your posaossloa would show what moneys are received and paid by the cemetery t A. Wo hove a cash account wbioh ought to show this, but tbe records gi-ving a full Btatemsnt havo already been plocdd before tho committee. Q. (By Mr. W'ren) Is there no way by which this com mittee .can find out, without going through all tbo records, what Mr. Drlggs’ interest in tho cemetery coat in cash ? A. (By Mr. Driggs). I can and wBl show thia matter at our next meeting. This closed tho oxamiuatloa of Mr. Stearns, and Mr. Driggs was to have been called upon to testify. That gontleuian requested that hls ciemlnation bo postponed until the next session of tho committee, owing to the fact that hie couusel wag not present. HU roquoBt was granted, and the committeo than ad journed until Monday eveniug of the week after next. Tho books and records of tho cemetery wUJ then bo produced. DEIO AGAWST CHITTESDEJf, 2b Editor of the Brooklyn Eaou: Your interesting report of the enthusinstio Republican meeting in tho Twenty-third Ward, on Thursday evening, and of tho spirited speoch of Mr. Deyo, brought to tho notice of the voters of the district an important foot, bearing upon tho suitable represen tation in Congres** for this district. ] / it be true that Mr. Chitteoden did vote agalust tbo Civil Rights bill, by which it was iutended to protect all oitiaens la their equal rights, is he such a ropreseutativ© as la demaudad by the exigencies of tho times? Can he bo surely trusted to stand firmly by the rights of the poor man as well as of the rich? Let us closely scrutinize the independence of the man, who ©hould stand by tho principles of things, before wo send him to legislate for us in CoagroRS. And it we havo trusted a person who has violated tho trust reposed in him. and tr&mpled npon this Uei)ublican rule, let us place this trust tn the hands of a more thoroughly patriotic man. There la a gentleman who, in a noble self eacrifloo, gave up a UboraJ income of several thousand dollars and promptly obeyed the call of his country In 1861, aud achieved a i*ecord which deserves tho honorable re ward of hls country. Previous to the war he worked iu the Sixth Ward, during the campaigns of 1856 and 1860. After tho war be lived two years In the Tenth Ward, and for the past eight years he has been a resi dent of tho Twouty-third Ward. Ho ia OTory way qualified by intellect and culture and a large heart, by sincerity and frankness and an unswerving integrity. He could not fall to take high rank and make on honor able record. This man is Captain Peter K. Deyo. To see this man elected & RepresentatiT© in our n©xt Congress would bo a satisfaction to a R epoblican of the T enth W abd . CO:aPL.UNTS w h ic h bllOCLD BE MADE TO THE POLICE. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle : WiU you aUow me, through your yalunblo paper, to complain of two very great nuisances in our neighborhood. On© is a liquor saloon kept by an ex- Alderman, on Fifth avenue, ■which is kept open long after midnight and where the worst element of the ward congregate, and keep up their yelling to the annoyance of the neighborhood. The other ia the rooms of a club on the same street where billiard playing and lonngera are to b© seen by persons on their way to oharoh on Sunday eveninge. These two places need looking after by the oolice. By publishing this you will oblige many rcsidonte of the neighborhood. J ustice . “ SHOP GIRLS” VERSUS “ S ALESLADIKS,^* To the Editor o/ Brooklyn Eagle; I see since ‘‘A m e r ieu ? ’ Eas STed to make a dlstioetlOQ between the sofeslady and shop girl she you, air. iSditor, wliioh ie the mow honorable, the ealeelady. who by force of clronmstaaoea and prob ably against her will accepts a situation aa ^leaUdy— mark the term, ^'accepts a situation,” as ^'Amerlous\ mildly phte it—or tho shop girl, who with a warm heart aud willing hands goes ont seeking employment to lighten tho burden of a widowed mother or a sick father, who as workers in a shop are the real producers of our country’s wealth? I would say to “ Americua” : Take a back scat; your cause is not a good one. The honest, industrious shop girl with a character tmsuUied claims the equal of any lady In tho land. S hop Q ihl A dvooatb . UR. OSTRAh'DKR PROPOSED FOR CONGRESS. To the Editor afthe Brooklyn Bagte: I bog leuve to call your attoution to the fact tha; many Democrats are lu favor of Stephen M. 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